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Staff Sgt. Logan Parrish, 51st Civil Engineer Squadron fire inspector, rings the fire station bell during a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Sept. 10, 2022. Historically, the ringing of the bells signifies the beginning and end of a firefighter’s shift, every alarm taken during their shift, and the passing of a comrade. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Megan Estrada)
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The everywhere inflation
There's no sugar-coating it: August's inflation numbers were terrible news for everyone rooting for the economy to come in for a soft landing.
The big picture: Yes, the prices of gasoline and other forms of energy fell. But prices of most of the other things people buy — including essentials like food, rent and medical care — are still rapidly rising.
Why it matters: After soft July readings, there was good reason to hope that the U.S. was gliding toward lower inflation without much economic distress. The new numbers undermine that hope.
- It now looks as if July was a head-fake. Underlying inflation remains high and entrenched, and in some sectors still accelerating.
- That probably doesn't change the Federal Reserve's plans to raise interest rates another 0.75 percentage point next week. But it does raise the odds of sustained tightening for the remainder of this year.
- That, in turn, raises the risk the Fed may cause a recession as it attempts to throttle inflation.
By the numbers: The overall Consumer Price Index rose a mild 0.1% in the month, but that was helped by a 10.6% drop in gasoline prices. The underlying details were considerably more alarming.
- Excluding food and energy, prices were up 0.6% in August. Over the last three months, all items except energy rose at a 7.4% annual rate, faster than during the spring.
- Shelter costs rose 0.7%, the highest in a single month since 1991. Medical care costs were also up 0.7%. Both accelerated from earlier in the year.
- Even as prices rose for services, there was no corresponding decline in prices of physical goods. Prices kept rising for new cars and trucks (+0.8%), furniture and bedding (+0.5%) and outdoor equipment (+1.2%).
Between the lines: The sheer breadth of these pressures suggests our inflationary woes are not just isolated to a few sectors hit by the pandemic or the Russia-Ukraine war.
- Rather, it points to an overall economy that is simply too hot, with more money sloshing around than goods and services that are available.
What they're saying: The Conference Board's Alan Cole said on Twitter: "Our inflation reads lately have shown the limitations of micro-based inflation explanations ('X is happening in Y sector') relative to macro-based ones ('nominal incomes are high, and the money will be spent on something.')"
That explains why odds that the Fed's target rate will be ab0ve 4% by the end of the year soared to 80% this morning, up from about 25% yesterday, based on futures prices calculated by the CME Group.
The bottom line: Get ready for tighter money as the central bank reads into this report more urgency to act. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/august-cpi-inflation-report | 2022-09-13T18:57:28Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/august-cpi-inflation-report | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220913-N-JO823-1036 PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 13, 2022) Damage Controlman Fireman Makenzie Aguirre, from Hobbs, New Mexico, left, assists Hull Maintenance Technician Fireman Anthony Caudel, from West Plains, Missouri, during damage control training team drill in the hangar bay aboard the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 13. Ronald Reagan, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the United States, and supports alliances, partnerships and collective maritime interests in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Natasha ChevalierLosada)
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Leon County Sheriff's Office confirmed a gun was found and confiscated at Leon High School Tuesday.
Leon High Principal Michael Bryan sent an email to parents to alert them to the situation and confirmed that "no threats of any kind were involved and the campus is now secure."
Based on LCSO reports, this is the third incident of a gun found on campus.
On Aug. 26, a 14-year-old was in possession of a gun at Gene Cox Stadium.
Another incident was reported Sept. 9 when a 15-year-old student was arrested for possession of a firearm and possession of cannabis. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/gun-found-at-leon-high-school | 2022-09-13T19:03:10Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/gun-found-at-leon-high-school | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — From stair climbs to 5ks, community members in Tallahassee were did part to help honor the first responders and victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks Sunday.
"We had power in the stairwells. There was no smoke filling up the stairwells, the building wasn't coming down around us, people weren't screaming, so it's a very small thing that we can do to honor those who lost their lives," said Alan Hanstein.
Hanstein is describing the two hour stair climb that he and over 30 others did Sunday morning at Florida's Capitol building, climbing from the lobby to the 22nd floor five times and adding more than 40 pounds of weight in ruck sacks to honor the sacrifice the 343 firefighters made on September 11, 2001.
"It's a brutal stair climb, we do it with 40 pound packs, we have firefighters that did it full gear today," Hanstein said.
After Hanstein's morning stair climb, he joined people like Tim Templeton and dozens of others for a 5K ruck around Cascades Park.
The group passed around a flag with the names of each of the 2,977 souls lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
"People become very comfortable in the world today, so we want to get out of our comfort zone and do something that's difficult and what we're doing is no comparison to what our first responders are doing everyday, and what our military is doing every day," Templeton said.
Tallahassee also honored the victims of 9/11 by reading the names of the 343 firefighters lost in New York with a steel beam from the south tower of the World Trade Center in the background.
Michael Terhune of Team Guardian held the special vigil at the Red Cross Building in Tallahassee, the future spot of Tallahassee's 9/11 Memorial.
Terhune said he hopes those here in Tallahassee will remember the victims lost and the sacrifices made on September 11.
"The way we act at the airports, the way we work around, the world has changed because of that. The fire department, some of their tactics have changed as a result of that is real important. We really have to think about that day and where we have come over the past 21 years," Terhune said. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tallahassee-honors-9-11-victims | 2022-09-13T19:03:12Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tallahassee-honors-9-11-victims | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MESA, Ariz. (KNXV) — Connie Wickstrom and her band of divers are using their passion for underwater exploration to return items long thought to be gone for good.
“We’re gonna drop down there, and then coast along the right side there,” said Wickstrom standing at the edge of the Salt River. “It’s really heartwarming. People are so shocked when we call them and say, 'Hey, I found your phone at 26 feet deep,' and they’re so excited.”
For the past year, each and every week, the team combs the floor of the popular tubing route along the Salt River at the request of desperate visitors.
“We are gripping onto boulders and holding on as we scan around. It is an intense body workout for sure,” said Wickstrom. “But at this point, we know quite a few spots where people lose things as they float the river.”
While divers battle currents and murky water below, spotters keep an eye on them from above.
So far, they’ve helped find and return more than 100 still working cellphones as well as keys, wallets, sunglasses, and the list goes on.
Charlette Miller, 16, and her mother reached out to the group.
The teen says she lost her cell phone this past weekend after taking a tumble off her tube.
“We were here for a birthday and a friend of mine got scared by a bug flying by her and I fell off my tube in the commotion,” said Miller with a chuckle. “I tried searching for it but it was just too deep, and the current was too strong. I definitely thought it was gone. My mom's like, "Oh, I found these people on Facebook and we’re gonna see if they can find your phone.'”
“I had come across their Facebook page and decided to reach out,” said Charlotte’s mom, Tracy. “Connie asked a few questions about when she lost it, where she lost it.”
Sure enough, in came a text hours later with a picture of the phone and the phrase, "I found it."
“I was just like no way,” said Charlott.
It’s a reaction the close-knit group divers thrive on.
“You know once something goes into the water people just assume, 'Yup, it’s gone,'” said diver Joe Sheehan.
The group says they've found working phones that had been underwater for a week. In one case, a phone survived a year in the river because it was in a protective waterproof case.
This story was originally reported by Cameron Polom on abc15.com. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/dive-team-searches-river-for-lost-items | 2022-09-13T19:03:16Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/dive-team-searches-river-for-lost-items | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For the 12th time, the man who fatally shot former Beatles star John Lennon has been denied parole.
New York's Department of Corrections told CNN that Mark David Chapman appeared before the parole board on Aug. 31 before being denied.
The Associated Press reported that the 67-year-old prisoner is currently serving 20 years to life at Green Haven Correctional Facility.
Lennon was killed on Dec. 8, 1980, outside his Upper West Side apartment as he and his wife Yoko Ono were walking home, the Associated Press reported.
Chapman has repeatedly expressed remorse for the killing since becoming eligible for parole in 2000, NPR reported.
In 2020, Chapman told the parole board that what he did was "creepy" and "despicable," the Associated Press reported.
According to the Associated Press, Chapman is set to appear before the parole board in February 2024. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/lennons-killer-denied-parole-for-the-12th-time | 2022-09-13T19:03:30Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/lennons-killer-denied-parole-for-the-12th-time | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Twitter is moving forward with a plan to sell the company to Elon Musk for $44 billion.
The company's shareholders voted to approve the buyout on Tuesday, which amounts to $54.20 per share. The stock was trading for just over $42 a share on Tuesday.
Musk is attempting to terminate the deal, claiming the social media platform undercounted its fake and spam accounts.
Twitter claims it has provided Musk with all the necessary information to complete the deal.
The deal will likely be decided in court. A trial is scheduled for October.
Musk reportedly subpoenaed a Twitter whistleblower who testified before Congress on Tuesday. Cyber security expert Peiter Zatko told lawmakers that Twitter leadership is "misleading the public, lawmakers, regulators and even its own board of directors" about how it operates. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/twitter-shareholders-vote-to-approve-elon-musks-44-billion-buyout | 2022-09-13T19:03:49Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/twitter-shareholders-vote-to-approve-elon-musks-44-billion-buyout | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A German man accused last year of fatally shooting a young gas station clerk after being asked to wear a face mask was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.
According to German media outlets, the 50-year-old they identified as Mario N. was also found guilty of illegal weapons possession because the gun he used wasn't licensed, the Associated Press reported.
Authorities said last September, the Associated Press reported that the man was at a gas station in the town of Idar-Oberstein to buy beer when the 20-year-old clerk refused him service for not wearing a mask.
According to the news outlet, wearing a mask inside a store was a requirement in the country at that time to stop the spread of COVID-19.
"Acting out of anger," authorities said the man returned to the store wearing a mask a half-hour later and shot the clerk in the head, the Associated Press reported.
The man then fled the scene but turned himself in to police a day after the killing, the news outlet reported. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/man-convicted-of-murder-after-killing-young-gas-clerk-over-mask-rules | 2022-09-13T19:03:55Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/man-convicted-of-murder-after-killing-young-gas-clerk-over-mask-rules | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Two weeks comprising more than 70 events kicked off Sept. 10, but for participants in the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics, competition is only one part of the story.
Those taking part are doing their best to “live healthy longer,” said Senior Olympics chairman Herb Levitan, presiding over opening ceremonies at Thomas Jefferson Community Center in Arlington.
After being canceled in 2020 and brought back carefully in 2021, there was almost a feeling of normalcy about the start of the 2022 competition, which attracts participants from eight jurisdictions spread across Northern Virginia
“I’m so happy we are getting a chance to be together,” said Arlington County Board member Matt de Ferranti, among those delivering welcoming remarks. “Everyone here is making a choice for health and wellness, and to connect with other people.”
A total of 831 individuals registered for the 40th annual competition, up 20 percent from last year, with participants ranging in age from 50 to more than twice that figure.
Running through Sept. 24, competition will take place at 25 different venues. Pickleball, track, field and table tennis have garnered the most registrants.
The most seasoned of all the 2022 competitors is Vera Punke of Arlington, who has registered to participate in duplicate bridge. She is 107 years young.
Northern Virginia Senior Olympics began in 1982 with 75 Fairfax County participants. Today is spans the counties of Arlington Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier and Prince William and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church.
“They provide excellent facilities and excellent personnel to support us,” Levitan said of the participating jurisdictions.
(While supported by local governments, the initiative is run by a non-profit organization with a volunteer board of directors.)
Planning for the 40th-anniversary celebration had been in the works for more than a year, Levitan said. Supporting the opening ceremonies were the Alexandria City High School Junior ROTC honor guard and, singing the National Anthem, the Arlingtones.
Bringing in the Senior Olympics torch were Thomas and Joyce Tobias of Prince William County. The couple (89 and 85 years young, respectively) are competitors in swimming, cycling and racewalking. They are the parents of seven children – including one who for the past two years has competed in Senior Olympics herself – and 14 grandchildren.
The event also benefits from support of corporate sponsors and by the largesse of the competitors themselves – nearly 160 of those who signed up to take part added an extra contribution above and beyond the $20 participation fee.
Competition got underway immediately after the conclusion of the ceremonies, starting with 1,600-meter men’s and women’s running events.
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For information, including results as they are posted and a schedule, see the Website at www.nvso.us. While registration has closed, events are open to the public who wish to cheer on competitors.
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Starting on September 14 in Shakopee, Minnesota, the tour will stop at 52 CASE Construction Equipment dealer locations across the U.S. and Canada
RACINE, Wis., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fans across North America need not wait any longer. Starting September 14, the industry-first CASE Minotaur DL550 will be making its way across the United States and Canada on The Groundbreaker Roadshow — showcased at more than 50 CASE dealer locations.
"Minotaur has a massive fan following and we're giving it the rock star treatment by sending it on a cross-continent tour into 2023," says Terry Dolan, vice president, North America, CASE Construction Equipment. "It's a machine that people have to see to believe — and the common response from people who see it is that it's even bigger, stronger and more versatile than they imagined it would be. It really has that ability to change the industry and how people work."
The CASE Minotaur DL550 compact dozer loader creates a new equipment category. This industry-exclusive machine holds 29 patents, has pushed through more than 12,000 field test hours, countless customer clinics, and typical lab and engineering testing. Attendees of The Groundbreaker Roadshow will get to experience the Minotaur compact dozer loader firsthand, while enjoying a day on the lot with plenty of chances for prizes and giveaways.
The Groundbreaker Roadshow kicks off on Wednesday, September 14 at Titan Machinery of Shakopee, Minnesota. For the full tour schedule, visit CaseCE.com/Roadshow.
More about The CASE Minotaur DL550 Compact Dozer Loader
Weighing in at more than 18,000 pounds and working with 114 horsepower, the new CASE Minotaur DL550 compact dozer loader delivers true dozing and grading performance, as well as powerful site loading capabilities and compatibility with hundreds of attachments. A single platform has never delivered this level of versatility, power and precision — all culminating in an entirely new product category created by CASE: the compact dozer loader.
The hallmark advancement of the CASE Minotaur DL550 is the chassis-integrated C-frame with six-way dozer blade. The C-frame hydraulically couples into both the chassis of the machine, as well as the attachment coupler. This design provides the stability and smooth operating plane of a small dozer while ensuring that all operating power is channeled through the whole body of the machine. This establishes greater performance and long-term reliability than the simple combination of a dozer blade attachment to a traditional compact track loader.
It also comes standard with CASE Universal Machine Control, which makes the machine ready for any of the three major providers of machine control technology, which are sold separately. It's also available with an optional, industry-exclusive fully integrated ripper for tearing up tough terrain to simplify dozing and earthmoving operations.
The C-frame is then easily detached, within minutes, to allow the operator to use it as a loader with a heavy-duty 1.25-cubic-yard bucket, or with hundreds of common loader attachments many equipment owners already have in their fleet.
"The Minotaur is truly a fleet of one, that is second to none," says Jeff Jacobsmeyer, product manager, CASE. "Business owners and fleet managers looking for a compact solution that delivers countless benefits in a single footprint will immediately see the versatility this exciting new machine brings to their fleets and will quickly understand what a 'compact dozer loader' is capable of accomplishing. We are excited to share it with the world."
For more information on the all-new industry-first, groundbreaking CASE Minotaur DL550 compact dozer loader, contact your local CASE dealer, and learn more at http://casece.com/Roadshow.
CASE Construction Equipment is a global full-line manufacturer of construction equipment that combines generations of manufacturing expertise with practical innovation. CASE is dedicated to improving productivity, simplifying operation and maintenance while achieving lower total cost of ownership for fleets around the world. The CASE dealer network sells and supports this world-class equipment, by offering customized aftermarket support packages, hundreds of attachments, genuine parts and fluids as well as industry-leading warranties and flexible financing. More than a manufacturer, CASE is committed to giving back by dedicating time, resources and equipment to building communities. This includes supporting disaster response, infrastructure investment, and non-profit organizations that provide housing and resources for those in need.
CASE Construction Equipment is a brand of CNH Industrial N.V., a World leader in Capital Goods listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CNHI) and on the Mercato Telematico Azionario of the Borsa Italiana (MI: CNHI). More information about CNH Industrial can be found online at http://www.cnhindustrial.com/.
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LONDON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On 2 August 2022, HSBC Holdings plc (the 'Company,' 'we' or 'us') launched three separate offers to purchase for cash up to a total of U.S.$70,000,000 aggregate principal amount (the 'Maximum Amount') of outstanding notes listed in the table below. We refer to the outstanding notes listed in the table below collectively as the 'Notes' and separately as a 'series' of Notes. We refer to each offer to purchase a series of Notes as a 'Cash Offer', and collectively as the 'Cash Offers.'
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In addition to the Consideration, holders whose Notes of a given series are accepted for purchase will also be paid a cash amount equal to accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes from, and including, the last interest payment date for such Notes to, but not including, the Settlement Date, rounded to the nearest cent (such amount in respect of a series of Notes, 'Accrued Interest'). Accrued Interest will be payable on the Settlement Date. For the avoidance of doubt, interest will cease to accrue on the Settlement Date for all Notes accepted in the Cash Offers. Under no circumstances will any interest be payable to holders because of any delay on the part of Global Bondholder Services Corporation, as depositary, The Depository Trust Company ('DTC') or any other party in the transmission of funds to holders.
Each Cash Offer will expire at 11:59 pm (New York City time) today, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Company in its sole discretion (such date and time with respect to a Cash Offer, as the same may be extended, the 'Expiration Time'). Notes tendered for purchase may be validly withdrawn at any time at or prior to 11:59 pm (New York City time) today (such date and time with respect to a Cash Offer, as the same may be extended, the 'Withdrawal Date'), but not thereafter, unless the relevant Cash Offer is extended or earlier terminated by the Company in its sole discretion. The settlement date is expected to be the third business day after the Expiration Time, or 16 September 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated in respect of a Cash Offer by the Company in its sole discretion (such date with respect to a Cash Offer, as the same may be extended, the 'Settlement Date').
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If the Company terminates a Cash Offer, all Notes tendered pursuant to such Cash Offer will be returned promptly to the tendering holders thereof.
The Company reserves the right to (i) delay accepting any Notes, extend any Cash Offer, or, upon failure of a condition to be satisfied or waived prior to the Expiration Time for a Cash Offer, terminate such Cash Offer and not accept any Notes; and (ii) amend, modify or waive the terms of the Cash Offers in any respect, including waiver of any conditions to consummation of the Cash Offers, at any time or from time to time, in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law. If any of the conditions is not satisfied at the Expiration Time with respect to a Cash Offer, the Company may, in its sole discretion and without giving any notice, subject to applicable law, (a) terminate such Cash Offer, (b) extend such Cash Offer, on the same or amended terms, and thereby delay acceptance of any validly tendered Notes, or (c) continue to accept tenders.
Each Cash Offer is independent of the other Cash Offers, and we may terminate, modify or waive the conditions of any Cash Offer without terminating, modifying or waiving the conditions of any other Cash Offer.
Holders of Notes are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other intermediary through which they hold Notes as to when such intermediary would need to receive instructions from a beneficial owner in order for that beneficial owner to be able to participate in, or withdraw their instruction to participate in, a Cash Offer before the deadline specified herein and in the Offer to Purchase. The deadlines set by any such intermediary and DTC for the submission and withdrawal of tender instructions will be earlier than the relevant deadline specified herein and in the Offer to Purchase.
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Holders should consult their own tax, accounting, financial and legal advisers regarding the suitability to themselves of the tax, accounting, financial or legal consequences of participating in the Cash Offers.
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. is serving as Dealer Manager in connection with the Cash Offers. For additional information regarding the terms of the Cash Offers, please contact: HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. at +1 (888) HSBC-4LM (toll-free) or +1 (212) 525-5552 (collect), Europe: +44 (0)20 7992 6237. Requests for the Offer to Purchase may be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation, which is acting as the Depositary and Information Agent for the Cash Offers, at (212) 430-3774 or (855) 654-2014 (toll-free) or contact@gbsc-usa.com.
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United Kingdom. This announcement and any other documents or materials relating to the Cash Offers are not being made and such documents and/or materials have not been approved by an authorised person for the purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Accordingly, this announcement and such documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, persons in the United Kingdom other than (i) to those persons who are within Article 43 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the 'Financial Promotion Order'), including existing members or creditors of the Company, or (ii) to any other persons to whom it may otherwise lawfully be made (all such persons together being referred to as 'Relevant Persons') and the transactions contemplated by the Offer to Purchase will be available only to, and engaged in only with, Relevant Persons. Any person who is not a Relevant Person should not act on or rely on this announcement or any of its contents.
Belgium. Neither this announcement nor any other documents or materials relating to the Cash Offers have been submitted to or will be notified to, and neither this announcement nor any other documents or materials relating to the Cash Offers have been or will be approved by, the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority ('Autoriteit voor Financiële Diensten en Markten/Autorité des Services et Marchés Financiers'). The Cash Offers may therefore not be made in Belgium by way of a public takeover bid (openbaar overnamebod/offre publique d'acquisition) as defined in Article 3 of the Belgian Law of 1 April 2007 on public takeover bids, as amended (the 'Belgian Takeover Law'), save in those circumstances where a private placement exemption is available.
The Cash Offers are conducted exclusively under applicable private placement exemptions. The Cash Offers may therefore not be advertised and the Cash Offers will not be extended, and neither this announcement nor any other documents or materials relating to the Cash Offers (including any memorandum, information circular, brochure or any similar documents) have been or shall be distributed or made available, directly or indirectly, to any person in Belgium other than (i) to 'qualified investors' within the meaning of Article 2(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended and (ii) in any circumstances set out in Article 6, §4 of the Belgian Takeover Law. The Offer to Purchase will be issued only for the personal use of the above-mentioned qualified investors and exclusively for the purpose of the Cash Offers. Accordingly, the information contained in the Offer to Purchase may not be used for any other purpose or disclosed to any other person in Belgium.
Italy. None of the Cash Offers, this announcement or any other document or materials relating to the Cash Offers have been or will be submitted to the clearance procedures of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa ('CONSOB') pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. The Cash Offers are being carried out in the Republic of Italy as exempted offers pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of the Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the 'Financial Services Act') and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended. Holders or beneficial owners of the Notes that are located in Italy can tender the Notes for purchase in the Cash Offers through authorised persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in the Republic of Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1 September 1993, as amended) and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations or with requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority.
Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and regulations concerning information duties vis-à-vis its clients in connection with the Cash Offers.
Hong Kong. This announcement and any other documents or materials relating to the Cash Offers and/or the Notes is not being made in Hong Kong, by means of any document, other than (i) in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong) (the 'CWUMPO'), or (ii) to 'professional investors' as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) (the 'SFO') and any rules made thereunder, or (iii) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a 'prospectus' as defined in the CWUMPO.
No invitation, advertisement or document relating to the Cash Offers and/or the Notes has been or will be issued, or has been or will be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the securities laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to the Cash Offers and/or the Notes which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to 'professional investors' as defined in the SFO and any rules made thereunder.
Canada
Any offer or solicitation in Canada must be made through a dealer that is appropriately registered under the laws of the applicable province or territory of Canada, or pursuant to an exemption from that requirement. Where the Dealer Manager or any affiliate thereof is a registered dealer or able to rely on an exemption from the requirement to be registered in such jurisdiction, the Cash Offers shall be deemed to be made by such Dealer Manager, or such affiliate, on behalf of the relevant company in that jurisdiction.
France. This announcement and any other offering material relating to the Cash Offers may not be distributed in the Republic of France except to qualified investors as defined in Article 2(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended. Neither this announcement, nor any other such offering material has been or will be submitted for clearance to, nor approved by, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
In this announcement the Company has made forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of terms such as 'believes', 'expects', 'estimate', 'may', 'intends', 'plan', 'will', 'should', 'potential', 'reasonably possible' or 'anticipates' or the negative thereof or similar expressions, or by discussions of strategy. We have based the forward-looking statements on current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us, as described under 'Risk Factors' in the Offer to Purchase. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed herein might not occur. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.
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Report provides recognition and proof point of Schneider Electric as a leader of expert capabilities, highlighting flexible, on-site, smart energy generation and storage in microgrid offers.
BOSTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has been recognized by Verdantix as a leader in microgrid technology to enable advancement in the grid-interactive ecosystem for decarbonization and sustainability in the "Schneider Electric Leads The Charge On The Democratization Of Energy" report.
Increasing the grid interactivity of facilities is becoming a key enabler for decarbonization as more renewables are onboarded, stemming from the grid, on-site generation, and as uptake of electric vehicles becomes more widespread. Verdantix recommends that customers required to adapt to a rapidly changing energy landscape and looking to implement on-site renewable generation and storage as part of wider corporate decarbonization goals should consider Schneider Electric's microgrid offerings.
"Schneider Electric offers a comprehensive suite of hardware, software and services for energy management and automation in infrastructure to enable sustainable, reliable and efficient operations," said Verdantix Analyst Ben Hext. "We think that they are well positioned to provide microgrid offerings that meet a variety of needs, including resilience, on-site renewable energy and energy savings."
"Microgrids are a key enabler in the pursuit of a decarbonized environment and a more sustainable energy future, which is why Schneider Electric has built one of the best microgrid portfolios in the market," said Bala Vinayagam, SVP, Microgrid Line of Business at Schneider Electric. "Rising energy prices, the increasing frequency of grid outages, and the requirement to decarbonize have made energy challenges relevant and universal to all. As one of the most reputable global sustainability companies, Schneider has made it so that the benefits of microgrids can transform the energy profiles of a diverse set of infrastructure."
Schneider Electric helps its customers succeed with its microgrids offerings:
- Flexible energy consumption to reduce power costs: Firms must mitigate exposure to fluctuating energy prices by exploring on-site generation and storage. For example, Citycon, a real estate owner and developer, is developing a microgrid-enabled city center in Espoo, Finland in partnership with Schneider Electric. Schneider Electric and Citycon project the program will save $352,000 in energy costs per year with an ROI of 5 years in conjunction with investment aid for new technologies.
- Increased resilience against grid failures: EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor uses predictive analytics to carefully balance electricity consumption and generation for resilience. The platform can ingest historical data, weather forecasts, energy market pricing and scheduled operations to optimize energy flows in case of grid outages. For example, the US Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego installed a microgrid from Schneider Electric to ensure continued power access during sustained grid outages of up to 14 days.
- On-site renewable generation and storage for corporate decarbonization goals: Many businesses are pursuing net zero goals to align with governmental targets, such as the Paris Agreement. Lidl Finland installed a microgrid from Schneider Electric at a 60,000m2 distribution center. Projections estimate that the facility will reduce energy consumption by 50% and enable 100% renewable energy consumption through on-site generation and clean energy purchase agreements.
- Smarter use of renewable energy and EV charging to decarbonize operations: Governments worldwide are introducing a shift from fossil fuel vehicles toward EVs. Montgomery County is deploying a microgrid for EV charging at the Brookville Smart Energy Bus Depot through an EaaS agreement with Schneider Electric's AlphaStruxure. The microgrid integration will deliver reliable charging to a fleet of 44 electric buses, cutting carbon emissions by 62% and enabling the county to maintain bus services during power outages.
Having installed over 300 microgrids to date, Schneider Electric provides monitoring and predictive controls, comprehensive building automation, and de-risks the investment into microgrids with Energy as a Service joint ventures GreenStruxure and AlphaStruxure.
Schneider's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.
Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.
We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.
We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.
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Australian Alpaca Breeder Dead After First Fatal Kangaroo Attack in Australia in Over 80 Years
77-year-old Peter Eades was killed by a kangaroo he raised since it was a baby.
An Australian man was killed by his pet kangaroo, the first fatal kangaroo attack in over 80 years in the country.
Peter Eades, 77, died after being attacked by a kangaroo that police say he had as a pet, reported Perth Now.
According to the local news site, the man was reportedly found alive by a family member who called the police. Upon arrival, authorities were unable to get to the badly injured Eades due to the kangaroo blocking access, reports the news outlet.
Police had to shoot the kangaroo in order to allow the ambulance through to provide medical care to Eades, Perth Now reported. Despite best efforts, Eades died due to his injuries on the scene, according to the outlet.
In Australia it is illegal to own native fauna as pets unless you have proper permits, which at this time is unknown whether Eades had or not, NPR reported.
Eades was known for his work in alpaca breeding and being an all around lover of animals, according to ABC News. Nearby residents say Eades had raised the 3-year-old kangaroo since it was a baby, the outlet reported.
Eades owned a cemetery in which he buried his alpacas, he told ABC News in 2017. He wished to be buried there next to his favorite alpaca, Claudia, when he died, reported ABC News.
Local police prepared a report and is awaiting the coroner's word for the official cause of death, according to NPR. This was the first fatal kangaroo attack in the country since 1936, reports the news outlet.
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Mystery of How Man Lost His Foot Lingers as Police Say He Cut It Off, While He Says He Is a Hit-and-Run Victim
“It's going to be a long road forward for him, but he has the strongest drive to live of anyone I've ever met," the cyclist's wife said.
A New Mexico man lost a limb in what he says, a hit-and-run, while police believe the incident did not occur and that the injury was self-inflicted.
Dillen Maurer, ex-professional cyclist and now owner of his own bicycle frame company, is in the hospital after an incident involving the amputation of his foot on Sept. 4, according to a GoFundMe page created by Jenn Maurer, the victim's wife.
According to the Maurers, Dillen was involved in a hit-and-run while out on a routine morning bike ride, where he lost his left foot.
“He remembers immediately before feeling like he's been ‘hit and spun around’ that he heard an ATV or other off-road vehicle behind him. But it happened so fast he didn't see who it was and no one remained at the scene,” according to the GoFundMe.
Dillen then used his knowledge of first-aid to apply a tourniquet, got himself home, called 911, and waited on his porch for emergency services to arrive, described Jenn.
While this is the story initially believed by police, after investigating, they are now saying the wound was possibly self-inflicted involving a chainsaw, Sheriff Jerry L. Hogrefe said, according to Taos News.
Deputies that were on scene noted there were two bicycles in the garage and neither had evidence of damage due to a collision and they were not able to locate collision scene, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
The sheriff also said in the release that deputies found a blood trail near the porch that went out behind the house near tall grass, where they located Dillen's foot.
Jenn spoke with Inside Edition Digital and said that despite the sheriff’s beliefs, the evidence they found still supports Dillen's story of a possible hit-and-run.
Jenn described how close their home is to the trail, so finding the foot near their home doesn’t suggest he lied.
“His full story was that he was coming back to the house and that 600-plus feet [where the foot was found] is actually on the cycling trail. The trail begins directly behind our house. That was not abnormal.”
In regards to the bicycle lacking damage, Jenn says Dillen didn’t think there would be damage, saying that whatever hit him, just hit his foot, not the bike. She also shared photos of blood splatter on his bicycle, supporting Dillen's story that he used it to help him get back home to call 911.
A chainsaw, close to where Dillen was waiting on the porch, was found to have blood, tissue, and bone samples on it, according to the sheriff.
In an update to the GoFundMe page, Jenn wrote there was a witness that saw blood on the chainsaw and Dillen also agrees that it would have blood due to its proximity to where he was sitting on the porch waiting for first responders, but Dillen believes he removed the chain days prior.
The sheriff noted in his statement that they found blood on “chainsaw bar, chain, and inside the sprocket cover,” alluding to the presence of the chain.
Medical opinion agrees that the injury is consistent with a cut but that it is still unknown whether it is consistent with a chainsaw or a vehicle, wrote Jenn. Health professionals also agreed that Dillen seems to have no past of suicidal ideation or risk of self-harm, according to the fundraising page.
“It's going to be a long road forward for him, but he has the strongest drive to live of anyone I've ever met. And Dillen doesn't just want to survive, he will thrive and overcome,” said Jenn.
While Jenn noted in her GoFundMe that Dillen’s memory may be hindered due to prior injuries, she clarified to Inside Edition Digital that when it came to the accident, Dillen’s memory was not an issue. She hopes a witness will come forward or the sheriff will investigate further.
“The memories that he's had throughout this experience are solid. It's what he told the medics immediately and nothing's changed. I don't think there's anything more we can learn from him. It would just be if a witness comes forward or if the sheriff's department actually chooses to investigate,” said Jenn.
Sheriff Hogrefe said the case will remain open but is certain on what caused the incident.
“There is no question some traumatic event took place that caused the amputation of Mr. Maurer’s foot. We are also certain that the bloody chainsaw played a major role in the amputation but without cooperation and additional information we may not get the answers we need,” said the sheriff’s office in the news release.
As of Sept. 12, Dillen has begun using crutches and is physically healing as could be expected, according to Jenn.
“He has such an honest and sweet view of the world and he just wants to move on and focus on being happy and healthy,” Jenn told Inside Edition Digital.
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Queen Elizabeth II Impersonator Retires Out of 'Respect' for Late Monarch
Mary Reynolds has been impersonating Queen Elizabeth of England for more than 30 years.
Mary Reynolds has been impersonating Queen Elizabeth II for more than 30 years, but she has now hung up her faux crown out of respect to the late monarch.
The 89-year-old look-alike was told as a teenager that she resembled the queen, who died last week at age 96. Reynolds began her professional career as a royal imposter in 1988 and has appeared in movies and on television.
“It’s been a great privilege to look like her because I think she’s so incredible,” Reynolds told Britain's PA news agency. “I mean, it’s a change of an era now, it’s all going to be very weird."
The Sussex resident is hanging onto her royal wardrobe, and may still don the coat-and-dress ensembles if she was going "somewhere special," she said.
Her fake royal highness appeared in the 1990 comedy film "Bullseye," alongside the late Sir Roger Moore. She also had a role in an episode of "Doctor Who" in 1988. She even has her own website.
But the time has come to put aside all things related to being a pretend monarch.
After Buckingham Palace announced the death last Thursday of Britain's longest-serving royalty, Reynolds said she was approached by a Russian TV outlet to appear in costume.
“There was something about a Russian television company wanting to do something with me, and they wanted to see me dressed up and I said, 'The only way I would dress up as the Queen would be in a black dress,'" she said.
Reynolds was present at Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 at age 26, following the death of her father, King George VI, from lung cancer. The ceremony was the first live broadcast in British television history.
“I slept overnight in the road with my boyfriend, in tents," Reynolds recalled. "We got very wet and we got very lucky because one of the buildings there had a radio so we actually heard the whole of the service.
“And as they put the crown on her head, the heavens opened,” Reynolds said.
Throughout all of her "royal" appearances, the look-alike tried to impart the real dignity and grace exuded by Queen Elizabeth II.
“She was a person who was so much light, and she was a very well-loved person and friends with everybody,” Reynolds said. “She just felt like part of the family."
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Sole Survivor of DC Lightning Strike Reunites With White House Doctor Who Saved Her
Within a half second, multiple lightning bolts struck a tree where several people had sought refuge from the thunderstorm. "The next thing I remember is waking up in the burn unit," says Amber Escudero-Kontostathis.
Amber Escudero-Kontostathis is the sole survivor of a deadly lightning strike in Washington, D.C., and despite suffering burns and nerve damage, she is expected to make a full recovery.
Last month, Escudero-Konthosthatis, along with an elderly couple and 29-year-old a businessman, sought refuge under a tree in Lafayette Square outside the White House as a thunderstorm tore through the area.
Multiple lightning bolts struck the tree within a half a second, leaving gashes in the bark that are still visible. The powerful strike was also caught on surveillance camera.
“The next thing I remember is waking up in the burn unit. Because of my Apple watch, I have wrist wounds,” said Escudero-Konthostathis, who was on the way to meet her husband for her birthday dinner when the storm hit.
Dr. Alister Martin, an emergency room physician at the White House medical unit, was also in the park when the lightning struck.
“I was leaving work right here from the front of the White House, and I saw and felt the biggest lightning strike I have ever experienced. It was so close that I could almost feel the heat,” Martin said.
Martin joined Secret Service agents and an off-duty nurse as they tended to the victims, including Escudero-Konthosthatis.
“She was dead. She had no pulse, she wasn’t breathing,” Martin said. The first responders managed to get a pulse back after administering CPR and shocking Escuedero with a defibrillator.
Escudero-Konthosthatis was wearing platform sandals with thick rubber soles, which she believes may have helped lessen her injuries. She now uses a walker due to nerve pain and relies on her mother to help care for her second-degree burns.
Martin says Escudero-Konthosthatis is lucky to be alive.
“It’s absolutely amazing. First of all, it’s incredibly rare to be struck by lightning. Second of all, to have survived that struck, is just proof positive that Amber is a walking miracle,” Martin said.
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The Army’s Organic Industrial Base – 23 arsenals, depots and ammunition plants that manufacture, reset and maintain Army equipment – provides critical materiel and sustainment support to warfighters across the Joint Force. Through a 15-year OIB Modernization Implementation Plan nested with the Army’s modernization strategy, Army Materiel Command is modernizing facilities, processes and people to bring the OIB into the 21st century, infuse industry best practices and refine human resource management structure to maximize the skills and capabilities of our workforce.
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Q: Presently, we have two people, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the latter of whom may run again and possibly win. Both are in their 70s; Biden wil lturn 80 in November and Trump, if he were to become president again, would turn 80 during his term. Do we have no age limit for presidents?
D.N., Hawthorne
A: The United States Constitution sets forth that to become president an individual must: (1) be at least 35 years of age, (2) have been a resident for 14 years, and (3) a natural born citizen of the United States. Recent reports indicate, however, that the majority of Americans believe there should be an age limit for elected officials, including president. But what is “too old”?
Perhaps term limits is a solution, although the counter-argument is that it takes time to get one’s footing, to forge relationships and thus become more productive. As to a president’s terms, the 22nd Amendment was enacted to prohibit presidential candidates from serving more than two terms (or 10 years if serving out the remainder of another president’s term) in the years after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to four terms during the Great Depression and World War II.
The 25th Amendment allows an ailing president to step down; if the ailing president is unwilling to do so, there is a process by which the vice president may assume presidential powers and duties.
Bottom line, it will probably take a constitutional amendment to establish an age maximum for any president. Concern about the president’s age is not unwarranted, but we know many people are very productive in their later years, including in their 80s. Thus, the decision whether to set an age maximum is subject to healthy debate.
Q: Supreme Court justices are appointed for life?
J.G., Irvine
A: Members of the Supreme Court are appointed by the president, conditioned upon approval by the U.S. Senate. The justices serve for life during “good Behavior.” You may have noticed that several justices in recent memory have retired (Ruth Bader Ginsberg is an exception, having died while still on the court). To date, only two Supreme Court justices have ever been removed (i.e., impeached) for misconduct. Practically speaking therefore, appointment to the Supreme Court is “for life.”
Ron Sokol has been a practicing attorney for over 35 years, and has also served many times as a judge pro tem, mediator, and arbitrator. It is important to keep in mind that this column presents a summary of the law, and is not to be treated or considered legal advice, let alone a substitute for actual consultation with a qualified professional.
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Local Sports: Milan volleyball sweeps league opener vs. Flat Rock
MILAN − Milan opened its Huron League season with a strong statement.
The Big Reds dispatched Flat Rock in three sets Monday, winning 25-20, 25-17, 25-10.
"I felt very good about how well my girls played," Milan coach Kathy Bradshaw said. "They stayed focused and came out with confidence that they could win if they played well. After this weekend I have seen a lot of growth already in this young team and I’m very excited to see what they will do."
Sylvia Koch led the offense with 12 kills while setter Madison Slack added 24 assists. Defensively, Amanda Gregorio had 16 digs along with 5 aces, and Mariah Stines contributed 2 blocks.
Flat Rock's leaders were Kendall Kuderik (7 digs), Alexis Knight (5 digs, 4 kills, 1 ace, 7 assists) and Maddie Stager (5 digs, 5 kills).
PREP VOLLEYBALL
Turner leads defense
NEW BOSTON – Raelyn Turner rang up 13 digs as St. Mary Catholic Central beat New Boston Huron 25-7, 25-15, 25-19 in its Huron League opener to run its record to 8-3.
Other standouts for the Kestrels were Mackenzie Niedermeyer (18 assists, 3 aces), Jessica Costlow (11 kills, 3 aces), McKenna Payne (6 kills), Jill Anderson (4 kills), Analiese Flint (4 kills. 3 blocks), Lauren Conant (3 aces), Leah DeSarbo (4 assists, 2 aces) and Ashley Ruhlig (6 digs, 3 aces).
Jets drop opener
CARLETON – Joelle Shrewbury and Addison Taylor played well for Airport as the Jets (6-9) dropped their Huron League opener to Grosse Ile 25-23, 17-25, 25-23, 25-18 Monday.
State Line trip worthwhile
ROANOKE, Ind.— Junior Faith Reddick, a newcomer to the team, led in attacks as State Line Christian swept Roanoke Baptist in three sets Monday.
“A win made it worth the two-hour drive on a Monday,” State Line coach Gina Yglesias said.
PREP SOCCER
Milan tops SMCC
Nolan Matley scored two goals and Carter Higgins notched a goal and two assists as Milan earned a 3-1 win over St. Mary Catholic Central Monday.
Jonah Stempien was strong in net for Milan.
Will Schafer scored off a Seth Hendrick assist for SMCC.
Late goal lifts Ida
ONSTED – Cole Angerer scored with 52 seconds remaining to lift Ida over Onsted 3-2 Monday.
Jaxon Bolster started the winning play with a corner kick. Evan Schmidtz got a head on it and hit the post. Angerer scored off the rebound.
David Slater scored his first goal of the season in the first half and Schmidtz netted they second off an assist by Connor Ramsey.
“It was a good team effort but kind of sloppy at times,” Ida coach Tim Allen said after seeing his team move to 7-0.
Freshmen lead Jets
CARLETON – Nolan Sanders scored twice and fellow freshman Nolan Ortega added one as Airport topped Jefferson 4-1 Monday.
Freshmen Jordan Nason and Skyyler Gonzales also played well and Brandon McComas scored his ninth goal of the season for Airport (3-4 overall, 1-3 Huron League).
“Starting so many freshen, it’s always a work in progress but we are making great strides,” Airport coach Goran Cepo said.
Carlson frustrated
GIBRALTAR – Allen Park scored with less than four minutes remaining to snatch a 3-2 win from Gibraltar Carlson Monday.
Luis Jasso and Kyler Ostrowski scored for the 7-2-1 Marauders.
Rams' Smith scores
GROSSE ILE – Mitchell Smith scored on a penalty kick for Flat Rock in a 9-1 loss to Grosse Ile Monday.
PREP GOLF
Lambrix breaks tie
Mariena Lambrix gave Airport a win over New Boston Huron with her fifth-score tiebreaker after the teams were even at 232 through four golfers.
Huron’s Adriana Skene was medalist at Sandy Creek with a 49.
“I was really impressed with her improvement from last year,” Airport coach Casey McDowell said.
Hannah Roof and Ava Giese led Airport (4-7, 2-2 in Huron League).
Rams defeat Milan
NEW BOSTON −Amanda Page shot a 57 to help Flat Rock defeat Milan 246-266.
Sabrina Barrett and Chelsea Rice each had a 62 and Luna Post a 65 for the Rams.
Jules Meads (61) and Julia Hawkins (62) played well for Milan.
Bedford, Jefferson top three
ADRIAN − Bedford was runner-up and Jefferson placed third Monday in the Adrian Invitational at Woodlawn Golf Club.
Ypsilanti Lincoln claimed the title with a 373 team score. Bedford scored 406 and Jefferson 414.
Lauren Werbiansky was third with a 94 to lead the Mules, who also had strong cards from Elaina Smith (101) and Grace Lump (104).
Jefferson's Rylee Dunn and Callie Calvin both shot 98.
Bedford JV placed fifth as a team led by Ashlen Trimmer with a 98.
Noland goes low
ADRIAN − Summerfield senior Ellie Noland carded a career-best 45 in a dual Monday against Sand Creek at Woodlawn Golf Cub. The meet was not scored as the Wildcats had only three golfers.
Delaney Hoffman had a 52 and Cameron Taylor shot 57 for Summerfield.
Riverview nips SMCC
Riverview senior Megan Rogers bested the field by eight strokes Monday to lift Riverview to a narrow 214-218 victory over St. Mary Catholic Central at Monroe Golf & Country Club.
Gracie Gentry led the Kestrels with a 50. Nora Kinsey (56), Madelyn Gessner (56), Emma Gessner (56), and Alaina Willie (57) also shot well for SMCC.
JR. HIGH VOLLEYBALL
Summerfield sweeps
PETERSBURG – Summerfield’s seventh and eighth grade both swept Britton Deerfield Monday.
Abby Raymond set well and Payton Koraleski led the defense for the seventh grade. Elena Miller and Gabi Myshock were strong at the net and Juliet Keane stood out defensively for the eighth grade.
PREP FOOTBALL
SMCC hosts alumni
The annual SMCC Alumni Night Tailgate Party be held Friday at Navarre Field prior to a game against Milan.
Free grilled hot dogs will be available near the west end zone beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the Class of 1972 will celebrate its 50th anniversary. An Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday at the school, 108 W. Elm Ave. More information about alumni weekend is available by calling 241-7622 or visit www.smccmonroe.com.
GOLF
Underwood shoots ace
TEMPERANCE – Earl Underwood used a 6-iron to ace the 148-yard No. 6 hole at Giant Oak Golf Course Sunday.
YOUTH SOCCER
Sweeney, England win
ERIE − David Sweeney and Riley England won upper age divisions during the Knights of Columbus Soccer Shooting Challenge for youths 9-14 held during the St. Joseph Homecoming Picnic Sunday in Erie.
Sweeney took first in the 12-year-old class for boys and England captured first in the 14-year-old class for girls. Other boys winners were Dominic Imbrogno (11), Ethan McLaughlin (10) and Collin Solarik (9). Girls titles went to Lauren Seger (10) and Alli England (9).
AUTO RACING
Glass City 200 Saturday
TOLEDO – Tickets now are available for the two 100-lap feature races as part of the Glass City 200 Saturday at Toledo Speedway.
The action begins with practice at noon. There will be an on-track autograph session at 4 p.m. and racing at 5.
Go to www.toledospeedway.com for more information. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/13/local-sports-milan-volleyball-sweeps-league-opener-vs-flat-rock/69491094007/ | 2022-09-13T19:26:47Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/13/local-sports-milan-volleyball-sweeps-league-opener-vs-flat-rock/69491094007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pro bull rider Ouncie Mitchell killed in Salt Lake City
Published: Sep. 13, 2022 at 2:51 PM EDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A pro bull rider was killed in Utah overnight Monday in what Salt Lake City police are calling a domestic violence homicide.
Police say in a news release that Demetrius Omar Lateef Allen was found shot outside an apartment complex in Salt Lake City after he got into an argument with a woman he had been dating.
Allen died at a hospital. PBR commissioner Sean Gleason says Allen went by the name Ouncie Mitchell as a pro bull rider.
Police arrested LaShawn Denise Bagley, a 21-year-old woman, on suspicion of murder. It’s unknown if Bagley had an attorney.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.witn.com/2022/09/13/pro-bull-rider-ouncie-mitchell-killed-salt-lake-city/ | 2022-09-13T19:26:54Z | witn.com | control | https://www.witn.com/2022/09/13/pro-bull-rider-ouncie-mitchell-killed-salt-lake-city/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Gwennetta Wright and her partner and best friend, Deonta Blount, created a positive entertainment and entrepreneur platform and talk show, “Gwen’s Business Corner with Deonta B.” GBC is a multimedia platform with a focus on educating, entertaining and inspiring viewers with transparent educational interviews. GBC is designed to provide an informative platform consisting of entrepreneurs, business professionals, celebrities and independent artists. Rolling out had the pleasure of interviewing Wright about her success and how she gives back by honoring others.
Please tell our audience how you began GBC Media.
This vision of having a talk show and being on screen was never something I dreamed about. I never even wanted to be on television. However, I am a person that believes in following the voice of God and I have a strong passion of wanting to help entrepreneurs get to their next level. Therefore, about five years ago, God gave me the vision to create a platform for entrepreneurs and business owners that can give them the resources, tools, plus the education that is needed to assist them to elevate in their business. Furthermore, God said to me, you are going to help birth your best friend’s dream. My best friend, Deonta Blount, had been in the entertainment industry and she stepped away from it to help me with my other business, Xpert Tax Service, and I was excited to make one of her dreams come true by giving her a show and the opportunity to be on screen. Deonta represents the entertainment component and I represent the business component of “Gwen’s Business Corner with Deonta B.” We also have our own streaming channel, GBC Media, where other small business owners and entertainers can get their brand out to the masses.
What inspired the gala?
We were coming up on our fifth anniversary of the show and we wanted to do something impactful. As an entrepreneur for over 15 years, I know how much of a milestone it is for any business to make it to the fifth year. We came up with The Met Gala and Icon Awards Dinner to not just celebrate our success but to make it a celebration with those who have also reached milestones in their business, especially since we all just had to face something as big as COVID-19. At the gala, we will be honoring some of our past show guests and other business Icons who we feel has had continued growth in their industry or business.
I have received many awards and recognition over my career. I can honestly say that obtaining those recognitions always came at the right time when I needed a sign that [I was] doing it right and [was] on the right track. Therefore, I want to be that reassurance for someone else, to say, yes you are doing it right and keep going.
The Met Gala and Icon Awards Dinner will take place on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/gbc-media-will-honor-black-excellence-at-met-gala-and-icon-awards-dinner/ | 2022-09-13T19:30:09Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/gbc-media-will-honor-black-excellence-at-met-gala-and-icon-awards-dinner/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sept. 12, Quinta Brunson won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the show “Abbott Elementary.”
Will Arnett and Jimmy Kimmel presented the award to Brunson, and as a joke, Arnett dragged a “passed out” Kimmel on the stage and laid his body next to the microphone.
Quinta Brunson deserved better than giving her acceptance over Jimmy Kimmel’s “dead” body. #Emmys #AbbottElementary pic.twitter.com/ofP5mkXpvy
— Garin Pirnia (@gpirnia) September 13, 2022
After Brunson was announced as the winner, Kimmel stayed on the floor near the microphone and continued to lay there for nearly two minutes as she gave her acceptance speech.
Brunson didn’t let the moment faze her, and throughout her speech, she gave thanks to her “Abbott Elementary” cast, her family, and her husband. She even mentioned Kimmel during the speech saying “Jimmy, wake up. I won.”
She may have taken it as a joke, but others watching were not too fond of Kimmel trying to steal Brunson’s spotlight with his antics.
Jimmy Kimmel should have left the stage during Quinta’s speech. Highly disrespectful #Emmys
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 13, 2022
If #QuintaBrunson stepping over #JimmyKimmel who literally laid in her spotlight on the day she won an Emmy isn’t a metaphor for what it means to be a WOC in a white mans world I don’t know what is.
— Heba Gowayed هبة جويد (@hebagowayed) September 13, 2022
I don’t know of a better example of invasive white male privilege than Jimmy Kimmel laying in the middle of Quinta Brunson’s #Emmys2022 speech. He had no business/right to take up space in the way that he did.
— 𝕮𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖙 𝕶𝖎𝖒 💥 (@TheCourtKim) September 13, 2022
Brunson addressed the moment later backstage, saying that Kimmel’s antics “didn’t bother me that much,” and said that he was an early fan of “Abbott Elementary.”
“Tomorrow maybe I’ll be mad at him,” Brunson said. “I’m going to be on his show on Wednesday, so I might punch him in the face.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/jimmy-kimmel-receives-backlash-for-crashing-quinta-brunsons-emmy-speech/ | 2022-09-13T19:30:15Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/jimmy-kimmel-receives-backlash-for-crashing-quinta-brunsons-emmy-speech/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jordan Peele turned to cutting-edge technology to make Nope more visually spectacular. The 43-year-old director worked with the likes of Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun on his new horror film — but cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema also played an instrumental part in the project.
“I haven’t wanted to ruin the illusion, but I’ll ruin it for you today,” Peele said. “The night shots, for the most part, were shot in the day, which is due to a technological and strategic thing that [Hoyte] brought to the table.”
Van Hoytema visited locations in Agua Dulce, California, before the cameras started rolling, and he concluded that it wasn’t possible to capture the natural beauty of the sky and the stars. Van Hoytema told Variety: “There’s no way to photograph this, this feeling of vastness, and grandeur of the sky, which was such a big part of our story. We kind of immediately started thinking, ‘How can can we portray exactly that feeling that we have when we were out there in the field?’ I started very much exploring the technology, how can we do this? How can we photograph in the way eyes see it or the way that we experience it?”
Peele feels the spectacular nighttime cinematography is “really cool.” He added: “This thing really pushes film forward, and was difficult and it’s something that I’m excited to work with in the future and continue to push.”
Meanwhile, Daniel Kaluuya recently hailed the people who work behind the camera on a film project. The acclaimed actor said: “There are so many people that go into making a film — there’s the grips, there’s the camera department, there’s the sound, there’s so much kind of graft.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/jordan-peele-explains-the-visual-inspiration-for-nope/ | 2022-09-13T19:30:21Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/jordan-peele-explains-the-visual-inspiration-for-nope/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sept. 12, one of the jurors in R. Kelly’s trial in Chicago suffered a panic attack during closing arguments according to TMZ.
U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber said, “I’ve been advised she said she can’t go on one minute more.”
During close arguments, prosecutors cited graphic videos of Kelly abusing his 14-year-old goddaughter, who testified under the pseudonym “Jane” in court.
Kelly is on trial in federal court in Chicago on charges of child pornography and instruction of justice. He is being tried alongside his former business manager, Derrel McDavid, and an associate, Milton “June” Brown, as they are both accused of conspiring with him to intimidate and bribe witnesses and to cover up evidence in a 2008 criminal trial on child pornography charges.
McDavid and Brown have been accused of trying to buy back incriminating sex tapes that had been taken from Kelly’s collection and to hide years of alleged sexual abuse of underage girls. Out of the three, only McDavid testified during the trial.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberating on Sept. 13 after Kelly’s attorney makes her closing arguments and prosecutors deliver a rebuttal.
Kelly is already serving a 30-year prison sentence after being found guilty on charges of federal racketeering and sex trafficking. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/juror-in-r-kelly-trial-suffers-panic-attack-during-graphic-closing-arguments/ | 2022-09-13T19:30:27Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/juror-in-r-kelly-trial-suffers-panic-attack-during-graphic-closing-arguments/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kodak Black and Nicki Minaj are getting blasted by fans for blaming PnB Rock’s girlfriend for his shooting death in Los Angeles on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022.
Even rap queen Cardi B came out and slammed all the people who are pointing the finger at PnB Rock’s girlfriend, Steph, for posting this photo of the two of them eating at Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles shortly before he was gunned down in a robbery attempt.
On Monday evening, Kodak suggested that the girlfriend needed to take her own life for posting where she and PnB were eating prior to the gunfire.
Nicki Minaj also had some strong words for those who orbit the rappers’ worlds and like to flex to their friends the places they are visiting.
After Pop Smoke there’s no way we as rappers or our loved ones are still posting locations to our whereabouts. To show waffles & some fried chicken????! He was such a pleasure to work with. Condolences to his mom & family. This makes me feel so sick. Jesus. #SIP #PnbRock 🕊
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 13, 2022
Fans ripped into Minaj for placing the blame for the murder on the girlfriend who is already traumatized by witnessing the shooting and her boyfriend’s eventual death.
To say this knowing your fan base is going to go after that girl is very irresponsible. It wasn’t smart but I’m sure her intention was not for him to be harmed and she probably feels bad enough as is smh
— It must be Gelli 💋 (@gellibabbii) September 13, 2022
Nicki worked with PnB… we not coming after his girl, come on. Barbz can read a room. This not the time for harassment or bs, period! Stop jumping to ridiculous conclusions.
— Brii 💗😮💨 (@barb_brii) September 13, 2022
So you as a public figure just gone add to the Train of Blame. Like any fan couldn’t of posted him, not knowing for a fact if the killer ever saw her story. That girl is traumatized and going through enough and people with your energy aren’t helping at all
— Hoochiha Uchiha (@SnackOnAPeach) September 13, 2022
After getting so much backlash for her words, Minaj doubled down on her stance about being
The ppl around these rappers gain so much. It’s time to start really reminding them over & over!!! At least TRY to put your foot down if you CARE! Tell them!!! You’re not loved like you think you are!!! You’re prey!!!! In a world full of predators!!!! What’s not clicking???!!! https://t.co/wpfxtnkBU6
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 13, 2022
Yup. Ima say what I want. As a RAPPER & as a MOTHER. I know 1st hand how these guys feel coming from the streets then being able to provide for their moms. My heart is hurting for the MOTHERS OF THESE KIDS that tried to make something better of their lives!!! LETS EDUCATE ASAP!!! https://t.co/9YFjbZfQWx
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 13, 2022
Cardi B countered Nicki and Kodak’s sentiments sharply. Cardi said it is “irresponsible” and “inconsiderate” to make PnB’s girlfriend the target of so much hate when they should be comforting her after her tragic loss.
I highly doubt nikkas was looking at PMB’s babymom IG. He was in a bad location and people stay outside plotting. It’s very irresponsible and inconsiderate to blame her for something so tragic. We should be sending nothing but love to her and his family at this time.
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) September 13, 2022 | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/kodak-black-and-nicki-minaj-blasted-for-blaming-pnbs-girlfriend-for-his-death/ | 2022-09-13T19:30:33Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/kodak-black-and-nicki-minaj-blasted-for-blaming-pnbs-girlfriend-for-his-death/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Perhaps no one, outside of PnB Rock’s family and his close coterie of friends, was more stunned and traumatized by the rapper’s violent death than iconic deejay Akademiks.
DJ Akademiks had not even released the interview where PnB Rock explained how he thwarted a robbery attempt before he was actually shot and killed on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022.
Wow.. this PNB Rock situation crazy.. i just did a interview with him a week ago where he detailed how someone tried to rob him in LA recently while he was out with his girlfriend and daughter. Now.. this.. smh. Pray for PNB Rock.
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) September 12, 2022
Rock and his girlfriend were eating at the world-famous Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles when he was murdered during a robbery in the middle of the day. The Los Angeles Police Department told the media that Rock was targeted because no one else was shot at. Also, the robber reportedly fled through the eaterie’s side door and jumped into a waiting car that immediately sped away.
Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Kelly Muniz said Rock was targeted for his jewelry.
“[The suspect] shot the victim and ran out the side door to a getaway car and then fled the parking lot,” Muniz said, according to the Los Angeles Times.
PnB Rock’s revelation about the previous robbery attempt takes on a much more poignant meaning as his fans lament the killing of yet another popular rapper.
Listen to Rock tell Akademiks how someone tried to stick him up. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/pnb-rocks-unseen-interview-where-he-talked-about-attempted-robbery-video/ | 2022-09-13T19:30:39Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/pnb-rocks-unseen-interview-where-he-talked-about-attempted-robbery-video/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Shavonna Perkins, is the founder of The Bougie Wealth Group™ which helps others succeed financially. With over 15 years of experience in the financial industry, Perkins is passionate about helping women and Christians obtain financial freedom by changing their mindset and creating a plan to create their desired lifestyle. She is a certified Financial Education Instructor who holds a degree in Accounting and she has helped lead people towards homeownership and debt-free living. Her new book, I Am Too Blessed To Be Broke will help even more people change their mindset and financial practices to achieve the wealth they desire.
Tell us a little bit about how you fulfill your purpose and mission.
The Bougie Wealth Group is a formula for wealthy living. This framework extends beyond helping women to achieve success for a moment but to assist them in sustaining those moments to create a lifestyle. My mission is fulfilled by being able to teach and reach as many women as I can. Money and finances are one of the things that affect everyone, no matter where you live, your race, age or location. A change in mindset and actions leads to endless opportunities and growth. Each moment I speak, teach, vend or encourage, my goal is to change the mindset of at least one person, whether it means doing things differently or better.
What drew you to this line of work?
Growing up, my family lived a very “budgeted” lifestyle, sometimes in survival mode. I decided at an early age that I wanted access to more and set out on a personal journey to get my financial business in order. My story is one of triumph and should be that of the next woman, ultimately leading to the demise of financial curses and generational cycles within our bloodline.
In doing this work, I’ve learned that what I perceived as my biggest flaw and weakness was my greatest asset. I realized that I am magical and pretty dope. Just a year ago, I wouldn’t have been able to say that confidently. The main thing I learned is that I have a story that Black women need to hear; that building wealth isn’t as complicated as you think; you do not have to be born into wealth to build wealth.
Tell us about your book.
I Am Too Blessed To Be Broke is for those looking to manage their finances God’s way, break generational curses, and change their mindset about living their best life. Even if you didn’t come from wealth or see wealth growing up, this book is for you if you desire to do better. We don’t hear this often, but there is a way to live wealthy and righteous. This book teaches how to break the cycle of teetering between the promises of God and the limitations we place on ourselves because of our thinking. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/shavonna-perkins-helps-christian-women-achieve-financial-freedom/ | 2022-09-13T19:30:45Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/shavonna-perkins-helps-christian-women-achieve-financial-freedom/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sheryl Lee Ralph recently brought everyone to tears with her acceptance speech and heartfelt song after receiving her first Emmy Award despite being in the industry for 45 years. Watch the speech below.
She began her acceptance speech with a song from the soul titled “Endangered Species” by Dianne Reeves, which is about the struggles of a woman who’s also an artist. The passion in her voice rang through with every note.
“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. This is what striving looks like. Don’t you ever, ever give up on you,” Ralph said. She ended her speech by giving everyone recognition for the support they have shown her including her husband and children.
Ralph is best known for playing the character Deena Jones in the Broadway musical, Dreamgirls, her role as Dee Mitchell in the popular ’90s sitcom, “Moesha,” and her most recent supporting role as Barbara Howard in the comedy series, “Abbott Elementary” landed her the Emmy.
She has also appeared in several movies, including A Piece of the Action, To Sleep with Anger and Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit.
Watch Ralph’s personal thank-you to fans and supporters below.
Thank you!!! pic.twitter.com/9Sc8qC7T9B
— sheryl lee ralph (@thesherylralph) September 13, 2022 | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/sheryl-lee-ralph-wins-1st-emmy-and-gives-a-heartfelt-speech/ | 2022-09-13T19:30:51Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/sheryl-lee-ralph-wins-1st-emmy-and-gives-a-heartfelt-speech/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As director of diversity, inclusion, and engagement at Stellantis, North America, Lottie Holland is making it her daily mission to be a hands-on leader in the development of Black professionals, Black businesses and Black suppliers on a national playing field.
Last month, Holland was joined by her team for the National Black Supplier Development Program Kickoff (NBSDP), an inaugural program designed to develop and support Black-owned supplier companies through education, connections and resources. The event was held at Stellantis’ Conner Event Center in Detroit, and the program’s objective is to develop Black businesses for future contracting and procurement opportunities and success in a post-pandemic economy. Under this year’s program, 15 Black supplier businesses were welcomed into The Collective. At scale, the program will create equity for more than 2.9 million Black businesses in future contracting and procurement opportunities, enabling future success. To view the inaugural Collective class, please see below.
Holland kicked off the ground-breaking event alongside NBSDP co-chairs Marvin Washington, global vice president of Mechatronics and Electronic Modules Purchasing, Stellantis and Dr. Ken L. Harris Ph.D., president and CEO of The National Business League.
“Launching the inaugural collective of the Stellantis-National Business League National Black Supplier Development Program is an important milestone moment on the road to leveling the playing field and achieving economic justice for Black communities and millions of Black businesses,” said Dr. Kenneth L. Harris, president and CEO of the NBL. “The program is expected to realize 20-30 percent of the untapped potential of Black businesses. The goal is to develop sustainable Black businesses that will impact local and global economies, create jobs through entrepreneurship and grow the number of Black businesses of all sizes.”
Holland eloquently welcomed The Collective, their corporate partners and her executive team to the program with the following words.
Holland: We are especially proud to be here with all of you to celebrate the next collective of suppliers to join this inaugural program. Today, we will share with you some of the enhancements and additions to this program to ensure that we continue the success that we’ve experienced thus far.
Myself, along with a few other colleagues from Stellantis, and pilot suppliers from last year’s pilot program, had the opportunity to ring the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange in honor of all of the work that we are doing for this program and in honor of Black Business Month.
We understand the power that this program brings and the power that all of us have in what we do for Black businesses. One of the phrases we’ve heard throughout the course of this morning is “This is history in the making.” We felt the heaviness and the weight of the moment and we still feel it. When this program is fully scaled and developed, it has the potential to provide opportunities for millions of Black owned businesses in the United States and around the world. This program underscores our belief at Stellantis that we are much more than a car company. We are a source of empowerment and economic justice for many underrepresented groups and we do not stand alone.
We believe that amongst all of us, we have the collective power to drive racial equity in the marketplace and positively impact local and global economies to ultimately change lives.
I want to thank Dr. Ken Harris and the NBL for his vision. I called him a couple of years ago to let him know that we wanted to do more, and be more than just a check. We wanted to drive meaningful change, so what solutions could we implement? Within an hour, the vision of this program was born. I thank you for having the ability to assemble a power team with key team members.
I also want to thank Marvin Washington, one of our senior leaders in Stellantis. When I called and asked him “I need someone with the level of influence and expertise that has a great reputation both inside and outside of our company, can you be our chairperson?” He stood up and accepted without hesitation. I am grateful for everything you’ve done to ensure the success of this program.
Gregory Hawkins is the mastermind behind all of this. He continues to champion this effort internally and is constantly meeting with suppliers. He is the greatest connector of people and developer of relationships, and is able to uncover every opportunity that is available.
This program is powered by our Stellantis African Ancestry Network Diaspora (STAAND) team members. They are the arms and the legs of this program. I want people to understand how we are connecting all facets of the business within Stellantis to drive meaningful solutions.
Last, but certainly not least, I want to congratulate all of our new suppliers. We are looking forward to working with you as we continue to advocate for Black businesses.
To find out more information on the National Black Supplier Development Program, visit: www.nationalbusinessleague.org | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/stellantis-executive-lottie-holland-making-intergenerational-change-with-nbsdp/ | 2022-09-13T19:30:58Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/stellantis-executive-lottie-holland-making-intergenerational-change-with-nbsdp/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Drake leads the BET Hip Hop Awards 2022 nominations with 14. The 35-year-old rapper will go up against Ye West, who has 10 nods, in several categories, including the coveted Hip Hop Artist of the Year.
Drake and Kanye will face stiff competition in the category from Cardi B, Doja Cat, Future, Kendrick Lamar, and Megan Thee Stallion. Kanye’s collaboration with Cardi and Lil Durk, ‘Hot S***’, has a nod for Best Hip Hop Video, but Drake has two chances for success in the category.
The video for his song ‘Way 2 Sexy’, featuring Future and Young Thug, has a nod, as does Future’s ‘Wait For U’, which features Drake and Tems.
Elsewhere, Drake and Kanye will do battle in the Best Live Performer and Hustler Of The Year categories, as well as for Hip Hop Album Of The Year. Drake has a nod for “Certified Lover Boy’, while Kanye is up for ‘Donda’, and they will go up against Latto’s ‘777′, Future’s ‘I Never Liked You’, Pusha T record ‘It’s Almost Dry’, Nas album ‘King’s Disease II’, and Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers’.
Aside from Kanye and Drake dominating the nods, the Best Duo or Group category will see 42 Dugg and Est Gee, Big Sean and Hit-Boy, Birdman and Youngboy Never Broke Again, Blxst and Bino Rideaux, DaBaby and Youngboy Never Broke Again, Erthgang, and Styles P and Havoc battle it out.
What’s more, ATL Jacob, Baby Keem, Hit-Boy, Hitmaka, Kanye, Metro Boomin, and Pharrell Williams are up against one another for Producer of The Year.
Fat Joe will host this year’s ceremony on Sept. 30 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and the event will be televised on October 4th.
BET Hip Hop Awards 2022 nominations:
Best Hip Hop Video
A$ap Rocky – ‘D.M.B’
Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar – ‘Family Ties’
City Girls – ‘Good Love (feat. Usher)’
Cardi B, Kanye West and Lil Durk – ‘Hot S***’
Bia and J. Cole – ‘London’
Future – ‘Wait For U (feat. Drake and Tems)’
Drake – ‘Way 2 Sexy (feat. Future and Young Thug)’
Best Collaboration
Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar – ‘Family Ties’
City Girls – ‘Good Love (feat. Usher)’
Cardi B, Kanye West and Lil Durk – ‘Hot S***’
Drake – ’21 (feat. 21 Savage)’
Benny The Buthcher and J. Cole – ‘Johnny P’s Caddy’
Future – ‘Wait For U (feat. Drake and Tems)’
Drake – ‘Way 2 Sexy (feat. Future and Young Thug)’
Best Duo Or Group
42 Dugg and Est Gee
Big Sean and Hit-Boy
Birdman and Youngboy Never Broke Again
Blxst and Bino Rideaux
DaBaby and Youngboy Never Broke Again
Erthgang
Styles P and Havoc
Best Live Performer
Cardi B
Doja Cat
Drake
J. Cole
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Tyler, The Creator
Lyricist Of The Year
Baby Keem
Benny The Butcher
Drake
J. Cole
Jack Harlow
Jay-Z
Kendrick Lamar
Video Director Of The Year
Benny Boom
Burna Boy
Cole Bennett
Colin Tilley
Director X
Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free
Teyana Taylor
Song Of The Year
Latto – ‘Big Energy’
Hitkidd and Glorilla – ‘F.N.F (Let’s Go)’
Jack Harlow – ‘First Class’
Cardi B, Kanye West and Lil Durk – ‘Hot S***’
Kodak Black – ‘Super Gremlin’
Future – ‘Wait For U (feat. Drake and Tems)’
Drake – ‘Way 2 Sexy (feat. Future and Young Thug)’
Hip Hop Album Of The Year
Latto – ‘777’
Drake – ‘Certified Lover Boy’
Kanye West – ‘Donda’
Future – ‘I Never Liked You’
Pusha T – ‘It’s Almost Dry’
Nas – ‘King’s Disease II’
Kendrick Lamar – ‘Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers’ | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/the-bet-hip-hop-awards-nominations-are-in-and-drake-is-leading/ | 2022-09-13T19:31:04Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/the-bet-hip-hop-awards-nominations-are-in-and-drake-is-leading/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jacob Lofland Books a Key Role in Joker: Folie à Deux
Another fresh-faced cast member is joining Todd Phillips’ Joker universe. Over the last few weeks, Phillips and his collaborators have been gearing up for production on Joker: Folie à Deux by filling new roles to be played by Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener. Now, The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Jacob Lofland is the latest addition to the upcoming sequel.
Folie à Deux will feature the return of Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, who was last seen being held in Arkham Asylum following his murderous rampage at the end of the original film. According to rumors, much of the sequel takes place inside Arkham’s walls, and Lofland is reportedly playing another one of the asylum’s inmates. It’s unclear if his character is another twist on a familiar villain from DC lore. But whoever he is, he will “develop a relationship” with Arthur. Although whether this constitutes a friendship or a bitter rivalry remains to be seen.
Lofland previously made his feature debut in 2013’s Mud opposite Matthew McConaughey. He later appeared in two installments of 20th Century Fox’s Maze Runner franchise. On the small screen, Lofland has had recurring roles on FX’s Justified and AMC’s The Son. Some of his other big-screen credits include Free State of Jones and A House on the Bayou.
RELATED: Catherine Keener Cast In Mystery Role In Joker: Folie à Deux
Unfortunately, WB still isn’t disclosing the nature of Gleeson or Keener’s roles in the movie. But the biggest new addition to the cast, Lady Gaga, is confirmed to be starring as Harley Quinn. Zazie Beetz is also coming back to reprise her role as Sophie Dumond from the first film.
Phillips is returning to direct Folie à Deux from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Production is currently scheduled to begin this November in both New York and Los Angeles.
Joker: Folie à Deux will hit theaters on October 4, 2024.
Do you have any theories about Lofland’s character in the film? Tell us what you think in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Joker (DC Black Label Edition)
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Palakkad: A woman was attacked by a stray dog in Palakkad city limits. Sulthana, of Manalancheri, was bitten by the dog while she was on her way back from work.
She suffered injuries on the face, hand, and leg. The incident happened near Sulthana's house.
It is suspected the dog that bit Sulthana was the same one that attacked an eight-year-old in Mepparambu on Tuesday morning.
The stray dog menace has worsened in Kerala leading to seven deaths in four months from May 2022.
The number of dogs infected with the deadly rabies virus has almost doubled in the last five years, test reports of the Kerala Animal Husbandry department have revealed. Out of the 300 samples collected from pet dogs and dead ones, as many as 168 cases turned positive for the disease. In 2016, this was 48 against 150 samples collected.
The cases of the virus in other animals, including cats, also doubled during the last five years.
A chief reason for the substantial rise in rabies cases is the stoppage of vaccinations, which were used to be provided with sterilization activities. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/stray-dog-bites-woman-palakkad.amp.html | 2022-09-13T19:34:02Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/stray-dog-bites-woman-palakkad.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Palakkad: A woman was attacked by a stray dog in Palakkad city limits. Sulthana, of Manalancheri, was bitten by the dog while she was on her way back from work.
She suffered injuries on the face, hand, and leg. The incident happened near Sulthana's house.
It is suspected the dog that bit Sulthana was the same one that attacked an eight-year-old in Mepparambu on Tuesday morning.
The stray dog menace has worsened in Kerala leading to seven deaths in four months from May 2022.
The number of dogs infected with the deadly rabies virus has almost doubled in the last five years, test reports of the Kerala Animal Husbandry department have revealed. Out of the 300 samples collected from pet dogs and dead ones, as many as 168 cases turned positive for the disease. In 2016, this was 48 against 150 samples collected.
The cases of the virus in other animals, including cats, also doubled during the last five years.
A chief reason for the substantial rise in rabies cases is the stoppage of vaccinations, which were used to be provided with sterilization activities. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/stray-dog-bites-woman-palakkad.html | 2022-09-13T19:34:08Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/stray-dog-bites-woman-palakkad.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Member of Parliament, Shashi Tharoor has demolished an American broadcast journalist's claim of the British being a benign empire that gave India more than what it took.
Tharoor who initially reserved his annoyance at the foreign journalist, Tucker Carlson's monologue – that had been tweeted – to a few angry emojis later spoke at length in an interaction with NDTV.
Carlson in his eulogy to British monarch Queen Elizabeth II remarked: “The English took their colonial responsibility seriously. They didn't just take things, they added. When the British pulled out of India they left behind an entire civilisation, a language, a legal system, schools, churches and public buildings all of which are still in use today.”
He claimed that even as India was far more powerful than the UK now, it does not have a “single building as beautiful as the Bombay train station that the British colonials built”.
“Tucker Carlson might want to be nice about a monarch who passed away but to use that as an excuse to extol an empire that was essentially guilty of plunder, loot, pillage and worse is absurd. It is preposterous,” Tharoor said.
“The central question that Mr Tucker Carlson completely evades is whether the British were more benign than the other colonialists,” Tharoor said.
“What the British did was come to a country where they had no business to be. They ruled the country essentially to loot it. So they came into a country that was rich and prosperous and proceeded to drain its wealth. This has been amply documented going back to Dadabhai Naoroji and RC Dutt in the 19th century to my book and after my book Prof Utsa Patnaik did a study estimating 44 trillion the amount of loot and drain that the British took out of India.
“For every single thing the British did in India, whether it was building a railway station of laying a rail line or building a law court, every single thing was done in furtherance of British interests, to enhance British profits and to advance British empire. It had nothing to do with benefit of Indians.
Rail lines were laid at considerable expense paid for by the Indian taxpayer,” Tharoor said.
The Congress leader who authored 'Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India' said there simply was “no question of praising the British for whatever they did to enhance their own rule”. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/13/shashi-tharoor-reply-american-journalist-tucker-carlson-british-rule-india.amp.html | 2022-09-13T19:34:27Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/13/shashi-tharoor-reply-american-journalist-tucker-carlson-british-rule-india.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Insider Wrap is a recap of everything you need to know from the week that was. This week, WTA Insider looks back at the US Open, where Serena Williams bid farewell and Iga Swiatek continues to build her legacy.
Performance of the Tournament: Iga Swiatek
Iga Swiatek admitted she came into New York insecure about her game. Seven matches later, she managed her most arduous road to the title by refusing to let perfection be the enemy of progress. She kept her frustration at bay to find winning solutions. And when she needed it most her game was there. Look no further than the forehand she ripped at 5-4 down in the second-set tiebreak against Ons Jabeur that landed plum on the sideline.
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- Swiatek outlasts Jabeur to win US Open; third career Slam title
- Jabeur embracing Swiatek rivalry after US Open final loss
We have seen Swiatek win tournaments with her A-game, barely dropping games, let alone sets. We have also seen her win when the conditions are comfortable for her, namely slower surfaces. But with the US Open title, the 10th of her career, we've now seen the 21-year-old win when the deck was stacked against her.
It wasn't always the prettiest title run for Swiatek. But that's precisely what made it scary.
Surprise of the Tournament: Ajla Tomljanovic
The narrative around the 29-year-old's career has never been about a lack of talent. Tomljanovic has all the tools to be a world-beater. But her frailty stemmed from nerves and pressure. With a single match, Tomljanovic changed that narrative.
Tomljanovic's 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-1 victory versus Serena Williams in the third round was remarkable. A player who had a history of buckling stood tall and held her nerve as the sold-out crowd on Ashe willed her to fail. In many ways, she was the perfect foil on that emotional night. Close observers knew just how monumental of a performance that was from Tomljanovic. Yet the second match point fell, Tomljanovic held back any celebration, graciously ceding the stage to Williams.
Perhaps even more importantly, Tomljanovic followed up the win with another, snapping Liudmila Samsonova's 13-match win streak to advance to he first US Open quarterfinal.
Honor Roll
Ons Jabeur: She now has made back-to-back Slam finals and a return to World No.2. Jabeur came into Wimbledon on a roll. Leading into the event, she won the title in Berlin. But in New York, Jabeur came in without a notable hard-court result and proceeded to make the US Open final. That has to be a confident-booster, knowing she can step up even when not playing her best tennis.
Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova: The Czechs completed their career Golden Slam by winning the US Open, cementing the duo as the best doubles team of their generation. And they're only 26 years old. They're just the second team to win the career Golden Slam, joining Venus and Serena Williams, and the only team to complete the career Golden Slam and win the WTA Finals.
Serena Williams: The celebratory energy that took over Arthur Ashe Stadium in Week 1 was electric. It transformed the US Open into something special, something more than just a tennis tournament. After setting the tone with her first-round win over Danka Kovinic, Williams showed just how much fight is still inside her in a three-set win against No.2 seed Anett Kontaveit.
Then came the denouement. Playing the final game of her career, Williams saved five match points before succumbing. Williams made no secret that leaving the game was a decision she didn't want to make and it showed. At 3 hours and 5 minutes, her final match was the longest she ever played in New York.
Caroline Garcia: The US Open's first round saw two notable early departures. Toronto champion Simona Halep bowed out to Daria Snigur. San Jose and Granby champion Daria Kasatkina lost to Harriet Dart. Liudmila Samsonova, who also won two titles over the summer, lost to Tomljanovic in the fourth round.
So kudos to Garcia for taking the momentum earned in Cincinnati and taking it straight into New York to make her first major semifinal. She was the most dominant player through the first five rounds of the tournament before coming up flat against Jabeur.
Aryna Sabalenka: In a season that has been derailed by her serving woes, you have to admire Sabalenka's ability to plow forward. She's now made back-to-back US Open semifinals and she did it in dramatic fashion this year. Sabalenka was down a set and 5-1 in the second round to Kaia Kanepi and saved match points to win it. In the semifinals, she was up an early break in the third set on Swiatek before the eventual champion reeled her in.
Alexandra Eala: The 17-year-old became the first Filipino junior champion after taking home the US Open girls' title. She did not drop a set all week.
Coco Gauff: The American made her first US Open quarterfinal and handled the spotlight incredibly well. She ran into the Garcia buzzsaw in the quarterfinals, but Gauff finally showed how comfortable she could be on Ashe and the crowd lapped it up. Her run also boosted her into the Top 10 for the first time. She's the youngest American to make a Top 10 debut since Serena Williams.
Jule Niemeier: The German has made back-to-back Slam second weeks, following up her quarterfinal run at Wimbledon with a US Open Round of 16. In New York, she tallied wins over Sofia Kenin, Yulia Putintseva and Zheng Qinwen. And she had Swiatek on the ropes before losing 2-6, 6-4, 6-0.
Jessica Pegula: The top-ranked American made her first US Open quarterfinal and with it, closed out her Slam season by making three quarterfinals this year (also Australian Open and Roland Garros). Who knows what Pegula's season looks like if she doesn't run up against Ashleigh Barty and Iga Swiatek in those three matches.
Notable numbers
3: Slam titles won by 21-year-old Iga Swiatek. She is the youngest three-time major champion since Maria Sharapova, 20, captured her third in 2008.
8: Years since a player won seven titles in a single season on the Hologic WTA Tour. The US Open is Swiatek's seventh of the year. Serena Williams won seven in 2014.
10: Consecutive wins for Iga Swiatek over Top 10 opposition. Her last loss came to then No.1 Ashleigh Barty in January at Adelaide.
2: Times this season Iga Swiatek has won a title by defeating three Top 10 opponents: Doha and US Open.
9: Players who won three major titles before the age of 22 in the Open Era. Swiatek joins Maria Sharapova, Justine Henin, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Martina Hingis, Monica Seles, Stefanie Graf and Chris Evert.
6: Consecutive sets Iga Swiatek has won in her first three Slam finals. She is the second woman in the Open Era to accomplish the feat, joining Lindsay Davenport.
20: Consecutive sets Iga Swiatek has won in WTA finals.
4: Chinese women to advance to the third round of the US Open, Zheng Qinwen, Yuan Yue, Wang Xiyum and Zhang Shuai. This marks the first time this has ever happened at any Slam.
10: Consecutive wins for Serena Williams over Top 2 seeds at the US Open. Her last loss came in 2007 to Justine Henin.
4: Women in the Open Era to have won a match in their teens, 20s, 30s and 40s: Martina Navratilova, Kimiko Date Krumm, Venus Williams and Serena Williams.
43: Years since an Australian woman made the quarterfinals at both Wimbledon and the US Open in a single season. Ajla Tomljanovic became the first since Evonne Goolagong Cawley did so in 1979.
3: Times Petra Kvitova has won from match point down this season, the most of any player on tour. Kvitova saved match points to defeat Garbiñe Muguruza 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(10) in the third round of the US Open.
Photo of the Tournament | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2789236/us-open-in-review-serena-s-farewell-and-swiatek-s-latest-breakthrough | 2022-09-13T19:39:13Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2789236/us-open-in-review-serena-s-farewell-and-swiatek-s-latest-breakthrough | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MEDINA — The Tuesday Club began its 125th year with a catered Calendar Luncheon, "A Nobel Cause," at the historic Walsh Hotel. The caterer was Sourced Market and Eatery. Twenty members and one guest were in attendance.
The planning committee, comprised of Trisha Stacey, Kathy Boice, Catherine Cooper, Bronwyn Green, Didi Martin and Kathie Valley, promised an exciting year for the Tuesday Club, with trips, guest speakers and great reads.
Topics for the year are overviews of the six subjects of the Nobel Peace Prize: Physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace and economics. Trips to the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Historic Site and the Niagara Power Vista are planned. Guest speakers in chemistry and economics are being lined up. There will be readings in medicine, women and the Nobel prize and attention to the youngest winner, Malala Yousafzai. In the literature category, the gorup will watch the Toni Morrison documentary "The Pieces I Am".
Tuesday Club is open to new members. For more information, send an email to medinatuesdayclub@gmail.com. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/tuesday-club-brushing-up-on-a-nobel-cause/article_61029b7a-3305-11ed-a52f-432d2308ebd9.html | 2022-09-13T19:39:28Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/tuesday-club-brushing-up-on-a-nobel-cause/article_61029b7a-3305-11ed-a52f-432d2308ebd9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Sept. 19 will be a holiday so that federal employees can mourn Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her state funeral.
Trudeau also said he's working with the provinces on a possible public holiday for other workers. The provinces have jurisdiction over that.
“Declaring an opportunity for Canadians to mourn on Monday is going to be important," Trudeau said. “For our part we will letting federal employees know that Monday will be a day of mourning where they will not work.”
The late queen was the head of state for 45% of Canada’s existence and visited the country 22 times as monarch.
King Charles III was officially proclaimed Canada’s monarch on Saturday in a ceremony in Ottawa attended by Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon, who is the representative of the British monarch as head of state, a mostly ceremonial and symbolic position.
Both Trudeau and new opposition Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre Canada have expressed support for Charles.
Though Canadians are somewhat indifferent to the monarchy, many had great affection for Elizabeth, whose silhouette marks their coins.
Overall, the antiroyal movement in Canada is minuscule, meaning that Charles will almost certainly remain the country's king. Abolishing the monarchy would mean changing the constitution. That’s an inherently risky undertaking, given how delicately it is engineered to unite a nation of 37 million that embraces English-speakers, French-speakers, Indigenous peoples and a constant flow of new immigrants.
Trudeau said Canadians are preoccupied with big issues like inflation and climate change and not constitutional issues. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/canada-makes-queens-funeral-day-a-holiday-for-fed-employees/article_89c6fd52-338d-11ed-a7ad-67cc867c7b8c.html | 2022-09-13T19:39:29Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/canada-makes-queens-funeral-day-a-holiday-for-fed-employees/article_89c6fd52-338d-11ed-a7ad-67cc867c7b8c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo filed an ethics complaint Tuesday against state Attorney General Letitia James, reiterating his oft-repeated complaint about the way she handled a sexual harassment investigation that led to his resignation last year.
Cuomo questioned the accuracy and credibility of the investigation's findings, alleging James, a fellow Democrat, used the probe to tarnish him and further her own political interests.
James, who briefly ran for governor after Cuomo resigned, "had her own politically motivated and self-interest driven agenda," Cuomo said.
James' office declined comment. In the past, she has dismissed Cuomo's complaints as the sour grapes of a man who "has never taken responsibility for his own conduct."
Cuomo resigned in August 2021 to avoid his likely impeachment by the state Legislature, days after an independent probe found he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and that he and aides worked to retaliate against an accuser. One woman filed a criminal complaint accusing Cuomo of grabbing her breast. The criminal case was later dropped by the Albany District Attorney, citing a lack of proof.
In recent months, Cuomo has continued to insist he was the victim of an overzealous #MeToo persecution. He filed the 48-page ethics complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee of the state trial court's appellate division. He also accused two lawyers James hired to conduct the probe, Joon Kim and Anne Clark, of bias. Messages seeking comment were left with Kim and Clark.
The committee had no obligation to act on Cuomo's complaint, but has the power to discipline lawyers who engage in misconduct. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/cuomo-ethics-complaint-repeats-claims-about-harassment-probe/article_944c313c-338f-11ed-ab94-cff1d97bb84a.html | 2022-09-13T19:39:31Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/cuomo-ethics-complaint-repeats-claims-about-harassment-probe/article_944c313c-338f-11ed-ab94-cff1d97bb84a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo filed an ethics complaint Tuesday against state Attorney General Letitia James, reiterating his oft-repeated complaint about the way she handled a sexual harassment investigation that led to his resignation last year.
Cuomo questioned the accuracy and credibility of the investigation’s findings, alleging James, a fellow Democrat, used the probe to tarnish him and further her own political interests.
James, who briefly ran for governor after Cuomo resigned, “had her own politically motivated and self-interest driven agenda,” Cuomo said.
James’ office declined comment. In the past, she has dismissed Cuomo's complaints as the sour grapes of a man who “has never taken responsibility for his own conduct.”
Cuomo resigned in August 2021 to avoid his likely impeachment by the state Legislature, days after an independent probe found he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and that he and aides worked to retaliate against an accuser. One woman filed a criminal complaint accusing Cuomo of grabbing her breast. The criminal case was later dropped by the Albany District Attorney, citing a lack of proof.
In recent months, Cuomo has continued to insist he was the victim of an overzealous #MeToo persecution. He filed the 48-page ethics complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee of the state trial court’s appellate division. He also accused two lawyers James hired to conduct the probe, Joon Kim and Anne Clark, of bias. Messages seeking comment were left with Kim and Clark.
The committee had no obligation to act on Cuomo's complaint, but has the power to discipline lawyers who engage in misconduct. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/cuomo-ethics-complaint-repeats-claims-about-harassment-probe/article_29ad1b80-338e-11ed-9073-67d06c529dfd.html | 2022-09-13T19:39:31Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/cuomo-ethics-complaint-repeats-claims-about-harassment-probe/article_29ad1b80-338e-11ed-9073-67d06c529dfd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — In a show of support for keeping a Democratic Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is transferring $15 million from his campaign account to his party's candidates, incumbents and political committee for the fall election.
That's according to a Democrat familiar with the situation who insisted on anonymity to discuss it.
Schumer is sending $1 million each to nine candidates — four incumbent Democratic senators and five Democratic challengers in battleground states.
That includes $1 million to the most contested senators — Raphael Warnock in Georgia, Mark Kelly in Arizona, Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada and Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire.
And it includes $1 million to the victory funds of newcomers Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin, John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, Cherie Beasley in North Carolina, Tim Ryan in Ohio and Val Demings in Florida, the Democrat familiar with the situation said.
“Keeping and growing the Democratic majority in the Senate is my top priority," Schumer said in a statement.
Schumer, who is expected to return as majority leader if Democrats keep the Senate, is shoveling the funds to his candidates in a vote of confidence in them as the split 50-50 chamber hangs in the balance this fall.
Republicans are working to wrest control of the chamber in a midterm election that would traditionally favor the party that's not in the White House, but the races have narrowed after a brutal primary season. Schumer's show of support for his party's candidates stands out after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell recently voiced the view that his own party's “candidate quality” could pose challenges.
Notably, Schumer is also giving $500,000 each to incumbent colleagues Michael Bennet in Colorado and Patty Murray in Washington, both seasoned senators, in a sign of how competitive the Senate map is becoming weeks from the November election. The Democrat familiar with the situation said Schumer thinks both those candidates are in great shape for their reelection bids.
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There was a time when bitcoin was touted as an inflation hedge. We can put that to bed as today's high CPI report has led to a 7.5% rout in bitcoin. It has so far left an ugly outside day on the daily chart that's chewing into the big jump on September 9.
The only thing bitcoin has shown a correlation with this year is the Nasdaq. It's proven to be a good forerunner of sentiment but ultimately it's the economy and the Fed in charge. Today's hot CPI report has caused a rout in equities with the Nasdaq down 4% and testing session lows.
The crypto trade lately has been around the ethereum merge on Thursday. Those kinds of trades have been of the sell-the-fact variety frequently in the space. This time it looks like the flush is coming early. | https://www.forexlive.com/Cryptocurrency/bitcoin-extends-loss-to-75-on-the-day-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T19:39:50Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/Cryptocurrency/bitcoin-extends-loss-to-75-on-the-day-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The kneejerk reaction on the CPI report was to buy the US dollar. Now == after careful consideration -- the market reaction is to buy even more US dollars.
USD is at the best levels of the day against the euro, pound and commodity currencies. The only thing capping USD/JPY is the brutal tone in equities as the Nasdaq nears a 5% decline and the S&P 500 hits a session low down 3.7%.
Cable has now broken 1.1500 from a high of 1.1738 earlier. The euro is through parity from a high of 1.0187. The biggest loser in percentage terms in NZD/USD, which is down 2.35% and has just taken out the September low. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/new-highs-the-us-dollar-still-isnt-done-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T19:39:51Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/new-highs-the-us-dollar-still-isnt-done-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PARAMUS, N.J., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hot Chikn Kitchn, the fast-casual restaurant brand that serves up Nashville-style Chicken, kicked up with their signature premium sauces, is opening its first New Jersey location. The Paramus, NJ flagship restaurant, located at 315 NJ-Route 17 South (inside Urban Bricks), will celebrate its grand opening on Saturday, September 17, 2022. On grand opening day, Hot Chikn Kitchn is offering $5 sandwiches all day long when the HCK app shown at check out (up to two $5 sandwiches per guest). The celebration will kick off at 11 a.m. and is open to the public.
"Elias and I set out to find the best of the best, and we're so excited to now bring Hot Chikn Kitchn to our Bergen County customers," said Elizabeth Prozer-Newman, Co-owner of the Paramus Hot Chikn Kitchn and Urban Bricks. "Our team is focused on offering exceptional customer experience while serving the freshest, most crave-able chicken. We're looking forward to bringing a little bit of the South to Jersey with our Nashville-style hot chicken."
The Paramus Hot Chikn Kitchn offers indoor and outdoor seating. The location will also offer online ordering for pickup, delivery through third-party partners, and catering.
The Paramus restaurant will be open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m.-10 p.m., and Sunday from Noon-9 p.m.
"We've lived and worked in Bergen County for many years, so we're familiar with its fast pace and the time demands on residents," said Elias Saban, Co-Owner of the Paramus Hot Chikn Kitchn. "We chose Paramus because of its strong sense of community and the broad range of businesses, schools, and much more."
The restaurant specializes in hot chicken tenders and sandwiches that are prepared with made-to-order spices. Hot Chikn Kitchn lives up to its name with their unique hot sauces that each infuses a different type of pepper.
For more information, visit www.hotchiknkitchn.com.
About Hot Chikn Kitchn
Hot Chikn Kitchn is a Nashville-style food concept born from one of contemporary history's most challenging periods, the global pandemic. Co-founders Mike and Anthony Sarago, along with Founding Chef Freddy Gilmore, decided to meet the moment by creating a restaurant that would unite people from all walks of life, reminding the world that despite adversity, we have the strength to survive and thrive and can do so with great tasting food.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm an experienced nurse in a correctional facility and I thought there should be a way to sanitize handcuffs between inmate patients," said an inventor, from Little Rock, Ark., "so I invented the HANDCUFF AUTO CLAVE. My design would help to maintain cleaner health standards in various facilities that serve and treat inmates/prisoners."
The invention provides an effective way to clean and sterilize handcuffs between uses. In doing so, it helps to reduce the spread of disease or infection between inmates/prisoners. As a result, it saves time and effort and it enhances sanitation. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for correctional facilities, police, etc.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-HTT-7275, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Reyna Mendoza Lopez pushed a stroller packed with bread, watermelon and fresh produce up Euclid Avenue in Grandview. Two women walked beside her. They, too, pushed strollers and they, too, carried groceries.
All three were on their way back to an apartment complex where Mendoza Lopez was visiting her sister. They had come from a free food distribution at Immanuel Lutheran Church.
Mendoza Lopez came from Mexico to help her sister, Jorgina Mendoza Juarez, who is blind and is on dialysis. Mendoza Juarez lives with her husband and cannot work because of her medical conditions.
While her family is visiting, someone can take Mendoza Juarez to dialysis treatment three times a week. It gives her husband a chance to work full time and bring in income. But when it’s just the two of them, he has to come home early. It’s the only way she can get the treatment she needs.
Right now, the small family has enough to buy food and pay rent, but that’s not always the case. Stress and worry lurk. Mendoza Juarez said winter will be harder.
“We have enough because my husband is working right now, but in the winter when the snow falls and no one works, times are more difficult.” Mendoza Juarez said in Spanish. “We have enough right now. Thank God we have enough.”
Rising grocery prices have increased stress for families across the country. While prices for gasoline and some other necessities have fallen in the last month, inflation continues to climb for food, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The price of food at home has risen 13.1% in the last 12 months. Expensive food may be particularly impactful in Yakima County, where more than 1 in 5 households receive food stamps or supplemental nutrition assistance. That’s nearly twice the rate as the rest of the state.
Those prices come with a cost in the Yakima Valley.
Delno Hoptowit walked into the parking lot outside the Big Lots and Dollar Tree in Yakima last week. He and one of his children put plastic grocery bags into the back of his truck.
“Everything is going up,” he said of food prices. “Everything feels like it’s more.”
Hoptowit said he and his family have had a tough summer. He and his wife work in the fast food industry. At times over the last year, it’s felt as if they’ve barely scraped by.
This year has been particularly difficult, he said. There were weeks when they weren’t able to get quite enough food. Meals were getting smaller.
At the end of August, Washington began to process and distribute pandemic-EBT, or P-EBT, benefits for children younger than 6 or to school-age children during the summer.
Hoptowit said the benefits arrived just in time.
“We got that P-EBT, which helped out,” Hoptowit said. “We were close. Our fridge was getting empty. It was stressful.”
Maria Gonzalez and Sandra Valencia work in the fields of the Lower Valley. They spend their days growing food for people across the country. But they say it’s become harder to buy groceries.
Prices are high and it’s becoming difficult to purchase enough nutritious food, said Gonzalez and Valencia as they loaded groceries into a car in Sunnyside. It makes it harder to get through the workday.
“We’re buying less,” Gonzalez said in Spanish. “I’m more weak and more tired.”
For Gonzalez and Valencia, increased food prices are compounded by other increased costs. Gonzalez said her landlord raised the rent by $100. Now, as harvests wind down in the Yakima Valley, they are worried about what the winter may bring.
“Winter is difficult,” Valencia said. “There’s little money and little work.”
Maria Serna shades her eyes from the sun and puts her drink down on the hood of her car outside Fiesta Foods in Yakima, where she just finished shopping with her son. Like Valencia and Gonzalez, she’s facing difficult choices between food and rent. Like Valencia and Gonzalez, she’s had to change what she’s buying.
“It’s all expensive, too expensive,” she said in Spanish. “I buy a few groceries and it’s $100.”
Serna said her family hasn’t missed meals, but it also hasn’t been easy. They have cut things out of their weekly shopping list, looking for the cheaper foods and purchasing less.
For starters, it means buying fewer snacks and comfort food, but it also means she’s picking between vegetables and meat when she would normally buy plenty of both.
Rosa Abundiz also shops at Fiesta Foods in Yakima. Food prices have changed what she buys.
“I always worry,” she said in Spanish. “Before, I would buy more papaya, elote and pepino. Corn was 10 or five for a dollar.”
Now, corn is more than twice that price, Abundiz said. She doesn’t buy most of those fruits and vegetables anymore. Like Serna, she now has to make choices between the fruits, vegetables or meats she can bring home.
Her grocery shopping has become limited to a few items. Abundiz won’t buy beef, which is much more expensive than pork. She’s been able to substitute it so far, but that doesn’t stop her from worrying.
What if prices continue to go up? What if she can buy even less in the future? she asks.
In parking lots outside shopping centers, a current of agreement runs through Yakima County residents. Food is expensive and this year has been particularly difficult. Some people have yet to be seriously impacted by inflation, but many are holding on by choosing to go to cheaper markets, picking lower-priced foods or buying less.
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SEATTLE, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quark Expeditions, the global Leader in Polar Adventures, has introduced The Quark Protection Promise, the most flexible and consumer-friendly booking policy in the expedition industry—and it's permanent!
"The pandemic dramatically impacted the travel industry, ultimately challenging companies to enrich their booking terms with greater flexibility," said Wendy Batchelor, Vice-President of Marketing for Quark Expeditions. "Many travel operators, Quark Expeditions included, have provided guests with that much-needed flexibility over the past two years. Today, we're especially proud to announce we've introduced further enhancements that are now permanently embedded in our new Quark Protection Promise. Those guest benefits are here for good!"
Unpacking The Quark Protection Promise: Our five-fold commitment to our guests:
- 15-Day Free Cancellation Free cancellation if travelers change their mind within 15 days. No questions asked.
- Flexible Cancellation Fees Any cancellation fees incurred up to 60 days prior to the voyage can be applied to the guest's new voyage when booked within 1 year of cancellation.
- No Surcharges Zero surcharges mean the price you book is the price you pay.
- Refund Guarantee Quark Expeditions will refund a guest's trip if Quark Expeditions cancels their voyage.
- Covid Protection Guarantee Travelers can easily rebook if they have to cancel their trip within 1 to 29 days of the voyage due to COVID-19 reasons.
"At the heart of our new Quark Protection Promise," said Batchelor, "is that we always—always—want guests to feel confident when booking with Quark Expeditions!"
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About Quark Expeditions: Specializing exclusively in expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic, Quark Expeditions® has been the leading innovator of polar adventure since the company took the first group of consumer travelers to the North Pole in 1991. Quark Expeditions has been innovating ever since. With a diverse fleet of specially-equipped small expedition vessels and icebreakers—some of them equipped with helicopters—Quark Expeditions delivers deeply immersive polar experiences—and is able to take guests deeper into the Polar Regions than anyone else. Led by passionate and seasoned expedition teams, including scientists, wildlife experts and researchers, Quark Expeditions offers an onboard program that enriches the passenger experience.
About Ultramarine: The technologically-advanced Ultramarine, the newest addition to the Quark Expeditions fleet, is a game-changer in polar exploration. Equipped with two twin-engine Airbus 145 helicopters, 20 quick-launching Zodiacs and the largest portfolio of off-ship adventure options in the industry, Ultramarine changes the way guests explore the Polar Regions. Other features include a spa, sauna with floor-to-ceiling windows, fitness centre, yoga space, spacious rooms and two restaurants plus a lounge and presentation theatre. Ultramarine has been designed with advanced sustainability systems that help preserve the pristine Polar Regions for the next generation of explorers. Ultramarine has an Ice Class rating of 1A+ and Polar Class rating of PC6, which contribute to the vessel's superior standards of safety standard. The ship's innovative sustainability features, which help reduce its environmental footprint, include a micro auto gasification system (MAGS), which is capable of converting onboard waste into energy, eliminating the need for the transportation of waste.
About Travelopia: Travelopia is one of the world's leading specialist travel groups. A pioneer in the experiential travel sector with a portfolio consisting of more than 50 independently operated brands, most of which are leaders in their sector. From sailing adventures, safaris and sports tours, to Arctic expeditions, each brand is diverse and focused on creating unforgettable experiences for customers across the world.
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There are probably two things that visitors to San Francisco associate with the city: the Golden Gate Bridge and Chinatown. And there’s perhaps no one that knows the neighborhood better—or at least the best places to eat—than chef Brandon Jew of Michelin-starred Mister Jiu’s fame. (The restaurant name is his reclamation, a correction to the proper pinyin romanization misspelling of his family’s name upon arrival in America.)
Jew opened his restaurant in 2016, and he’s been serving contemporary Chinese American dishes like “dirty” chicken fried rice (which has the addition of okra and corn) and silken mapo tofu ever since. During Mister Jiu’s six years in business, Jew has racked up a number of awards, including three James Beard Awards and a Michelin star.
Mister Jiu’s is located squarely in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown, and Jew has been in a love affair with the area for most of his life. He was born in the city and frequented the neighborhood with his family during his childhood, which you can read about more in the piece from our Summer 2022 issue, “Something Like Healing, Something Like Hope.”
Whether you’re craving dim sum or are looking to satisfy a sweet tooth, here are Jew’s picks for the best places to eat in San Francisco’s Chinatown:
Good Mong Kok Bakery
Location: 1039 Stockton St.
Hours: 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Good Mong Kok Bakery is a staple of San Francisco’s Chinatown. This no-frills, seatless bakery has always been cash- and take-out-only, even before the pandemic. Good Mong Kok is perhaps best known for its steamed fare, such as baozi (steamed, stuffed buns) and har gow (shrimp dumplings). There’s often a line out the front door of this establishment, so try to hop in the queue close to its opening hour.
Hon’s Wun-Tun House
Location: 648 Kearny St.
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
For authentic Cantonese cuisine and Hong Kong–style noodles served in an unfussy setting, turn to Hon’s Wun-Tun House. Though there are many dishes to choose from, this place is best known (as you might have guessed from its name) for wonton soup—Jew recommends the kind with tendon and fish balls. This place gets busy, so get your party’s name on the sign-in sheet as soon as you can.
The Spicy Shrimp
Location: 150 Waverly Place
Hours: Thursday–Tuesday, 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Spicy Shrimp is well-known for serving up large portions of Cantonese food at affordable prices. One of the most popular dishes is its cheung fun (a steamed rice noodle roll often packed with a protein like shrimp or beef); Jew’s favorites are the egg and shrimp, though there are other options like barbecue pork and bitter melon. Cantonese is the de facto language, so pointing at the menu might be your best bet, though it’s all part of the fun.
Lai Hong Lounge
Location: 1416 Powell St.
Hours: 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.; 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
This Michelin-starred restaurant briefly closed during the pandemic to remodel its space, but it is now back in action with a fresh look and additional dining room areas. Lai Hong Lounge has been a Chinatown staple for nearly 30 years and serves up some of the most popular dim sum in the area, with classics like chicken feet, pork buns, and siu mai. Jew is a fan of its Hong Kong–style crispy noodles, which are first parboiled then stir-fried.
Hing Lung
Location: 1261 Stockton St.
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 10:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
On the hunt for succulent Chinese barbecued pork and duck? Look no further than Hing Lung, a take-out-only restaurant that’s been in the game for 41 years. Although it does serve sides of veggies and noodles, it’s all about the meats here, from honey barbecue pork ribs to crispy duck wings—Jew recommends the roast pork. In October 2021, Hing Lung expanded to a second restaurant, Go Duck Yourself (located at 439 Cortland Ave.), which serves the same fare and has enough in-house seating for 20 people.
Little Swan Bakery
Location: 1249 Stockton St.
Hours: 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Little Swan is located in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown just a few blocks from Portsmouth Square. Jew’s favorite are its pork sung (a sweet, dried, fluffy pork product) and scallion cake rolls, but this bakery also offers contemporary desserts, such as crepe cakes and cream puffs. (Don’t skip its pineapple buns—a sweet bun that doesn’t actually contain pineapple but features a crosshatch topping pattern.) | https://www.afar.com/magazine/brandon-jius-favorite-places-to-eat-in-san-franciscos-chinatown | 2022-09-13T19:58:18Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/brandon-jius-favorite-places-to-eat-in-san-franciscos-chinatown | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New York City actually has nine different Chinatowns scattered throughout its five boroughs, but the most famous one is arguably Manhattan’s Chinatown. Established in the mid-1800s, this Chinatown is home to the largest concentration of ethnically Chinese people outside of Asia, with about 55,000 people of Asian descent living in the area.
Perhaps no one knows Manhattan’s Chinatown better than award-winning cookbook author Grace Young, who published her first collection of recipes, The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen, in 1999. Originally from San Francisco, Young moved to New York City in 1979 and almost immediately fell in love with Manhattan’s Chinatown. “For me, Chinatown represents what’s best about New York,” Young said. “I love that there are moments where Chinatown transports me to another world—and I appreciate being able to eat all my favorite comfort foods.”
During the peak of the pandemic, when many businesses in the neighborhood were affected by lockdowns and dips in customer traffic, Young documented Chinatown’s tussle with economic hardship with her video series Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories, which was produced in collaboration with videographer Dan Ahn and Poster House Museum. For her efforts of preserving Chinatown, Young was given the James Beard Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2022, received the Chinese American Museum DC Gold Lantern Award, and heralded as one of EatingWell’s American Food Heroes.
Through her work, which is discussed in Bonnie Tsui’s piece “What Chinatown Means to America—and Me,” Young has developed close relationships with many of the businesses throughout Manhattan’s Chinatown. Here are some of her favorite places to visit:
Ting’s Gift Shop
Location: 18 Doyers St.
Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Started in 1958 by matriarch Tam Ting, Ting’s Gift Shop is an old-fashioned souvenir store that sells vintage Asian trinkets and is proudly run by two generations of Ting women. Inside, visitors will find tchotchkes like exquisite porcelain pieces, mahjong sets, hand-painted snuff bottles, paper dragons, Japanese dolls, and more.
Hop Lee
Location: 16 Mott St.
Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Hop Lee, one of Chinatown’s legacy restaurants, is well-known for its old-school Cantonese cooking. Be sure to order its famous Lobster Cantonese (which features stir-fried lobster in a scallion and ginger sauce), Peking Pork Chops (fried pork served with a sweet, savory sauce), and Stir-Fried Clams with Black Bean Sauce. For special occasions, Young recommends celebrating with a whole Peking Duck.
KK Discount Store
Location: 78 Mulberry St.
Hours: Temporarily closed
KK Discount has been in business for more than 30 years and is fondly known as “Chinatown’s Mom and Pop Target store.” It’s where locals shop for woks, traditional Chinese dishware, rice cookers, and basic houseware items. Sadly, there was a fire in April in the building, and the brick-and-mortar store has been indefinitely closed. However, KK Discount also has an online shop. In addition, there is a GoFundMe, which fans of the store are welcome to donate to.
Mee Sum Cafe
Location: 26 Pell St.
Hours: 5:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
In Cantonese, mee sum translates to “beautiful heart” and that’s exactly what this beloved old-fashioned café—which has been serving classic Cantonese fare since 1968—symbolizes to longtime patrons. Some of Young’s favorites at Mee Sum Cafe include the Stir-Fried Flowering Cauliflower with Chinese Bacon, its steamed shrimp rice rolls (cheung fun), ginger lemon tea, and decadent homemade glutinous rice balls (tangyuan) that have been stuffed with roasted peanut or black sesame for dessert. Mee Sum is also famous for its zongzi, a steamed rice dish that’s been stuffed inside bamboo leaves—these are made fresh daily.
47 Division Street Trading Inc.
Location: 47 Division St.
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
47 Division Street Trading Inc. is Chinatown’s oldest butcher shop. Started in 1995 by the Li family, the store offers quality meat at affordable prices and has been an important part of the community since its founding. However, during the pandemic, the shop was forced to shut down for a few months and has struggled to regain its footing. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/grace-youngs-guide-to-manhattans-chinatown | 2022-09-13T19:58:24Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/grace-youngs-guide-to-manhattans-chinatown | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
San Francisco, New York City—some of the world’s most famous Chinatowns reside in the United States. But with approximately 50 million ethnically Chinese people currently living outside of China, these little enclaves aren’t just a U.S. phenomenon; they’re scattered in every major metropolitan area across the world, each with its own unique traditions and history that are inextricably intertwined with the local culture.
During the mid-1800s, a time when thousands of Chinese men emigrated from the country and many Chinatowns around the world were founded, China was experiencing intense political and societal upheaval. The Qing Dynasty (a Manchu-led dynasty that ruled from 1644 to 1911, the last imperial dynasty that China would have) was contending with several internal rebellions within its borders, while recovering from the Opium Wars with Britain. This era was marred by corruption in the government, periods of famine, and economic turmoil.
The vast majority of people who emigrated from China during this time were young men. According to tradition and custom, the first-born son of a family would inherit the lion’s share of his parents’ property holdings, leaving little for his subsequent siblings. Many set out to strange new places to try their luck prospecting for gold near San Francisco or Melbourne or laboring in European colonies all over the globe to make a life for themselves and send money home to their families. These men brought their history, culture, and, of course, food to their new homes and established Chinatowns worldwide.
From the Land Down Under to South America, there’s a red lantern-lit street to get lost in in every city.
Lima, Peru
Though this neighborhood currently spans just two blocks on Jirón Ucayali in downtown Lima, it’s considered one of the oldest Chinatowns in Latin America. After slavery was abolished in Peru in 1854, more than 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers were brought to meet the needs of sugar and cotton industries in the years between 1849 and 1874. More than half would meet untimely deaths due to exhaustion, abuse, or suicide.
After completing their work contracts, many Chinese men (Chinese women made up less than 1 percent of the local population by 1860) immigrated to the Peruvian capital of Lima to settle down, marry local women, and open chifas—a Peruvian word that derives from the Chinese phrase “chī fàn” or “to eat.” Chifa refers to both Chinese restaurants and arguably the most delicious fusion culinary tradition to ever occur: Peruvian and Chinese food. Featured dishes include lomo saltado (stir-fried beef), arroz chaufa (Chinese-style fried rice), and sopa wantán (wonton soup).
Sadly, Lima’s Barrio Chino was heavily damaged in the late 19th-century War of the Pacific by invading Chilean forces, fell into dereliction, and wouldn’t see a full revival until the late 1990s. Today, the Barrio Chino is paved with more than 30,000 red bricks and offers guests an opportunity to taste authentic chifa delicacies as well as traditional Chinese fare.
Paris, France
There’s not just one, but three Quartiers Chinois in Paris. The original, and smallest of the three, is located in the 3rd arrondissement around Rue au Maire. Better known are the other two areas, one of them in the 20th arrondissement and home to a predominantly Chinese population. The other, and best known, is in the 13th arrondissement and is primarily occupied by people of Chinese and Vietnamese descent who fled Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and other Southeast Asian countries during the Vietnam War and in the years that followed.
Unlike other Chinatowns with elaborate gateways, imperial-style embellishments, and hip-and-gable roofs, Paris’s Chinatowns are rather tame in terms of an architectural wow-factor. Rather than constructing their own buildings and community from scratch, the Chinese communities of Paris instead used the European-style structures that were already available to them. However, what the neighborhoods lack in terms of notable buildings, they make up for with Buddhist temples, supermarkets, and delicious pho, stir-fried noodle, and dumpling options.
Yokohama, Japan
In addition to being Japan’s second largest city—with a booming population of nearly 3.8 million—Yokohama is also home to the country’s largest Chinatown. Once the practice of sakoku (a political isolationist policy that included an almost total ban on international trade) ended in Japan in 1859, Yokohama became the first Japanese port to open its doors to foreign traders; enterprising merchants from Hong Kong and Shanghai soon began to build homes and set up shop in the city.
Today, four elaborately decorated paifang (gateways) mark the entrance to Yokohama’s Chinatown. The neighborhood is constantly abuzz with visitors shopping the area’s 250 storefronts, where things like auspicious trinkets, qipao dresses, and earthy herbal remedies as well as chūka, aka Japanese Chinese food, can be bought. Some popular chūka dishes include gyoza, manju (meat-filled steamed buns), and chāshū (honey-slathered barbecue pork). Don’t miss the 160-year-old Kanteibyo Temple, dedicated to Guan Yu, the Chinese god of war, and considered the spiritual center of the neighborhood.
Melbourne, Australia
During the mid-1800s, many Chinese men fled their homelands in the wake of famine and civil war in the hopes of cashing in on the Gold Rush in California—and in Melbourne, Australia, another major boomtown obsessed with the shiny stuff. Officially established in 1854, when the first Chinese-owned houses were completed off of Little Bourke Street, Melbourne’s Chinatown is considered to be not only the oldest Chinese enclave in Australia but also the oldest continuously inhabited Chinatown in the Western world, since San Francisco’s was decimated by the the 1906 earthquake.
There were, however, a few setbacks in Melbourne’s Chinatown history, which included the White Australia Policy of 1901, which effectively forbade people of non-European descent from immigrating to Australia. But after the law was repealed in 1966, the neighborhood made a strong comeback. Today, Melbourne’s Chinatown is a thriving downtown district and a popular destination for tourists and locals alike. It’s also home to popular restaurants like ShanDong MaMa dumpling house and RuYi Modern Chinese, which serves up reimagined Chinese cuisine in a minimalist setting. And if you’d like to brush up on your history, consider stopping by the Museum of Chinese Australian History, which aims to preserve the legacy of Australia’s Chinese community.
Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africa is home to the largest Chinese population on the African continent, so it only follows that Johannesburg, the country’s sprawling metropolis, would be home to two Chinatowns. The original one, located on and around Commissioner Street in the city’s business district, is relatively young as far as Chinatowns go—but that fact merely reflects the age of Johannesburg. The first Chinese immigrants arrived in the late 1880s, following the discovery of gold around the Witwatersrand escarpment in 1886. Then, in the 1970s and ’80s, a large population of Taiwanese immigrants, encouraged by an amicable relationship between the two countries (at the time) and generous government incentives for immigrating Taiwanese investors, moved into the neighborhood around Commissioner Street as well.
The second Chinatown is located in the hip suburb of Cyrildene and is just five miles from the city’s center. Known as “New Chinatown,” the neighborhood was formed during the social upheaval of the 1990s and is home to a booming Chinese community with storefronts including fishmongers, masseuses, and supermarkets. Restaurant options abound, including Delicious Casserole Food, where dishes are cooked and served in clay pots, and Shun De, a local dim sum favorite. Here, diners can enjoy siu mai, egg tarts, and other classic Chinese offerings. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/international-chinatowns-to-visit | 2022-09-13T19:58:30Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/international-chinatowns-to-visit | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Manhattan’s Chinatown is my home Chinatown. Forty-five years ago, I snoozed my way through my own baptism at the venerable Transfiguration Church on Mott Street, where countless Chinese and other immigrant families have celebrated beginnings with showy weddings and honored endings with solemn funerals. Mine is not a religious family, so I’d say the baptism served to bless my introduction more to the neighborhood than to God. Chinatown is where my grandmother worked as a seamstress, my grandfather in a fortune cookie factory. Well into elementary school on Long Island, my brother and I wore clothes she sewed, and cookies he had folded were tucked neatly away in our lunches.
Most Sundays, we’d slip into the riverine press of humanity en route to the small apartment on Madison Street that our grand- parents shared with three other relatives. Things we saw from our vantage point as kids on these family visits included precarious fruit displays, toy bins, and fishy puddles; affectionate hands squeezed our faces and rewarded us with sour fruit candy. Chinatown was where we could be Chinese, outside of a daily existence spent amid mostly white peers. Ours was an intensely bifurcated upbringing. As a young writer in the East Village, I tried to live differently. I circled back to Chinatown in a more routine way, for everyday things—language lessons, fresh vegetables, a good steamed bun—and for loftier reasons, a connection to something bigger than myself. As a Chinese American kid on Long Island, I never quite felt like I fit in. In Chinatown, I didn’t stand out unless I wanted to, and I began to understand that this kind of physical comfort and anonymity in a place is a privilege. Visiting Chinatown made me feel like I maybe could fit in, if only I had a better understanding of how my family got here and what the place meant to them.
Chinatown was born of diaspora but also of the human need to gather and make a home. It’s the most American story there is.
A little more than a decade ago, I wrote a book, American Chinatown (Simon & Schuster), about five of the most significant Chinatowns in the United States—including the oldest, in San Francisco, where I’d recently moved. I spent time with the late historian and architect Phil Choy, who taught me how to read the distinctive, pagoda roofed skyline for the story of Chinese American self-invention and self-preservation after the 1906 earthquake. I hung out with earnest teens who were reclaiming their identity by leading lively lion dance troupes and neighborhood tours. And I met recent arrivals, who came in with hearts and minds open to possibility. As they navigated their new lives, I learned along with them. Across geography and generations, people I spoke to had stories of setbacks and struggle, but there was something to share about the paths that led them there: something that looked and sounded like optimism.
The last few years have left many Americans shocked at the precariousness of our sense of belonging. The surge in anti-Asian hate crimes and harassment across the country means my older relatives fear going out alone, anywhere, even to places where they’d always felt at home. Many of the mom-and-pop shops they used to frequent in Chinatown have shuttered; those that remain close earlier than they used to, so their owners can get home before dark. I never thought that my friends and I would be texting each other about how to defend ourselves on public transit or while walking alone in a city at night. These days, I find myself thinking more about how fear and racism built the very first Chinatowns. It’s the parallel tale we don’t like to tell, the unpleasant companion on the immigrant journey, every bit as American as the dream.
Not long ago, I guest-taught a class of Stanford University medical students on Asian American history, racism, and public health. I was steeped in reminders that the words we use matter: When a cholera epidemic hit New York City in 1832, the Board of Health called it “the Oriental cholera.” Later that century, Chinatown was portrayed as home to “an inferior race” and full of “foul vapors.” Chinese women were not allowed to enter the country because they were deemed “prostitutes,” “filthy,” and “morally corrupt,” and yet were exoticized and exploited by white men.
In this persistent othering is an unbroken line to “the China virus.” Visitors have always sought out Chinatown for the seemingly foreign yet familiar, whether it’s to try dim sum, listen to another language, or admire the pagoda rooflines. That forever foreignness is a problem. Last year, after the Atlanta spa shootings left six Asian women dead, the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote on Twitter that “anti-Asian & anti-Black racism and violence run in tandem,” originating from a society “where nationalism has again been stoked & normalized.” She pointed out that both groups were brought to the United States for labor—but with no intention of ever allowing them full and equal citizenship with whites.
In ways that reflect this reality, Chinatown is a place of contradiction. It serves as scapegoat and sanctuary. The first Chinatowns were ghettos for male Chinese laborers, who were forced to live among, and yet apart from, whites; Chinese women were barred from immigrating to prevent those laborers from starting families. And yet a Chinatown like San Francisco’s is now celebrated as a historic neighborhood, a gateway, an example of the American dream made good. Many Chinatowns have been shrinking for years under pressures of gentrification and remain reliant on a fickle tourism economy. The questions around what Chinatown means—why its existence is important, and how its future should be stewarded —are familiar ones, but they have been made even more acute by the pandemic.
One bright spring afternoon, I went for a walk in San Francisco’s Chinatown. I hadn’t gone to the area much during the last two years—well, I hadn’t gone anywhere much at all—and the familiar kinetic vibration of life in Portsmouth Square, one of my favorite places to people-watch, was comforting: children screaming from the play structures, their minders chatting on benches; elders making their rounds, hands folded behind their backs. A few blocks away on Waverly Place, a narrow lane that’s one of the oldest in the neighborhood, I stopped in to see the chef Brandon Jew. His restaurant, the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu’s, is only the third business to occupy the 10,000-square-foot space at 28 Waverly Place, after the iconic Four Seas restaurant, where he remembers attending his uncle’s wedding banquet in the upstairs hall. (The restaurant name is his reclamation, a correction to the misspelling of his family’s name upon arrival in America.)
Two men stood calmly smoking in the alley as music wafted from under the turned-up eaves of the Eng Family Benevolent Association. Colorful painted goldfish swam on the sidewalk outside the restaurant, which had reopened on a four-day-a-week schedule in January. Jew opened Mister Jiu’s—known for creative, meticulously prepared Chinese American dishes that rely on seasonal local produce—in 2016, after working in the kitchens of such quintessential and respected California establishments as Zuni Café and Quince. At this year’s James Beard Awards, he won best chef in California and best restaurant cookbook for Mister Jiu’s in Chinatown (Ten Speed Press), coauthored with Tienlon Ho. Growing up in San Francisco, Jew has strong connections to Chinatown; as a child, he performed with his kung fu class in the district’s Chinese New Year celebrations.
“The thing that draws Chinese Americans back to this neighborhood is that this was our beginning,” Jew told me, as his six-month-old son, Bo, who had just learned to crawl, scooted toward me. We chatted in the dining room, which looks out across the main thoroughfare of Grant Avenue and toward the sun-bleached point of the iconic Transamerica Pyramid. Directly across Grant is the Wok Shop, a beloved kitchen supply store where proprietor Tane Chan has been selling Chinese cookware since 1972.
Outside, Chinatown still felt quiet. But behind a neighborhood seemingly lying fallow, there was renewal. Jew pointed out the just-remodeled playground that had reopened across the street; the planned $66 million redesign of Portsmouth Square by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department; and the scheduled September opening of the Central Subway underground light rail connecting Chinatown to the neighborhoods south of Market Street. The physical and civic investment in the community, he said, signaled support in a time when it desperately needed something like hope.
For Jew, the assaults on Asians in Chinatown and elsewhere in the Bay Area during the pandemic solidified his commitment to the neighborhood and sharpened his understanding of racial injustice. The resilience of his neighbors helped him to push forward and to keep Mister Jiu’s open. He felt a deep responsibility to the elders who had supported him.
Being reminded of what that older generation went through, in this time of renewed hate, it helps shape your understanding of yourself. And that you deserve a place.
“There is strength in this community,” Jew said. At 42, he is of a generation for which this kind of public vitriol had seemed bygone, not least of all because he lives in the Bay Area, home to a robust Asian American population dating back to the mid-1800s. The violence against Asian seniors stunned him, and he felt an urgency to speak up, on social media and elsewhere, about what Chinatown needed and to make noise against AAPI hate. The restaurant raised funds to support the organizations Cut Fruit Collective and the Chinatown Community Development Center. “Being reminded of what that older generation went through, in this time of renewed hate, it helps shape your understanding of yourself. And that you deserve a place.” He paused. “That matters.”
Talking with Jew made me long for the rhythms of my home Chinatown, so I headed to New York City. For the last few years, I’d been exchanging notes about the state of the neighborhood with Grace Young, the James Beard Award–winning author and culinary historian. She has lived in New York for more than 40 years. In January 2020, she began walking into Chinatown every day to check in on businesses like Hop Lee, a restaurant that has long catered to a working-class clientele of old-timers, postal workers, and local teachers from P.S.1. She hasn’t stopped since. “The immediate shunning of Chinatown just took the life force out of the neighborhood,” she told me. Restaurants and supermarkets emptied; street vendors had no customers. In the first three months of the pan- demic, Chinatown businesses saw their revenues drop by up to 80 percent. By March 2022, nearly a quarter of the ground-floor storefronts in New York’s Chinatown stood empty.
A slight, birdlike woman with glasses and a bright smile, Young, 66, had always seen herself as a quiet person. But watching low-income immigrants, workers, and owners struggle to survive, knowing they could lose their jobs and businesses, turned her into an activist. “I never ever dreamed that you could lose Chinatown,” she said. She couldn’t stand by and let it happen.
Young found her voice as a committed advocate: She began a video series called “Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories,” documenting the economic hardships faced by Chinatown residents; she worked with the nonprofits Asian Americans for Equality and Welcome to Chinatown to raise funds for the community; she launched social media campaigns in partnership with the James Beard Foundation, including #LoveAAPI and #SaveChineseRestaurants. “I want people to show up by showing their love,” Young told me one afternoon as we dodged weekend visitors on Canal Street. The crowds weren’t quite what they were prepandemic, but they were encouraging. “All these people are here because they love the food and the people who carry on those valuable traditions. In a time when people in the community are struggling and afraid, everyone can help by being visible with that love.”
Perhaps better than most, people in Chinatown have always known what it means to care for their neighbors.
Her humanitarian efforts have won her recognition and financial investment from the James Beard and Julia Child foundations; the former lauded Young’s “work to save America’s Chinatowns amid Asian American and Pacific Islander hate” while the latter honored Young’s “important contributions to preserving and sharing Chinese culinary traditions.” The attention from these historically white organizations felt momentous: Chinatown mattered to them, too. “I have no grand plan for the future,” Young said, as we sat on a bench in Columbus Park, watching seniors attend to card games and young people play basketball on the adjacent courts. We shared stories about our families and pointed out places that meant something to each of us: a favorite restaurant here, a beloved shop there. “But I react to what I feel: Chinatown tells the story of America.”
The long history of Chinatown, and of the Asian American resistance movement rooted there, is also a meaningful anchor for Lucy Yu. In December 2021, she opened Yu and Me Books, a cozy, light strung bookshop and café on the east side of Columbus Park, on Chinatown’s funeral parlor row. Six months into what had been a whirlwind time for the business, I sat with Yu, 27, as she chatted with customers and pulled coffee drinks from an espresso machine. Behind her, a vivid aquamarine wall was covered with framed prints and paintings, as well as photographs by the late Corky Lee, an influential photojournalist who began documenting Chinatown and Asian American activism and life in the 1970s.
Before Yu opened the bookstore, she worked as a chemical engineer and, later, as a supply chain manager. “It was my personal dream to do this,” she said. “And it’s been surprising and wonderful that it has resonated with so many people. My neighbor’s grandparents came in. They said, ‘I was born and raised on this block. I’ve never seen anything like this here, and I’m so glad you’re here.’ That means so much.”
Part of her mission is to provide comfort and community. In mid-March, a month after Christina Yuna Lee was murdered in her Chinatown apartment just a half-mile away, the bookstore held an event in which it gave out free pepper spray and personal alarms provided by the nonprofit Soar Over Hate. A thousand people showed up; some waited two hours. Brooklyn artist Leanne Gan made art for those who came in. In a time of trauma and loss, everyone was searching for healing.
“I constantly say that I’m three kids in a trench coat,” Yu said with a laugh. “I have zero percent idea what I’m doing.” But she’s bold enough to ask, What would make me feel better? Pepper spray: OK. The feeling of being in community: Yes. And sharing drinks and dumplings with friends and neighbors in Chinatown? That’s always a good thing.
The writer Charles Yu told me that, when it comes to place, “we all live in some amalgam of emotional feelings, ideas, and mental assumptions,” whether we realize it or not. “That resonates in an especially powerful way with Chinatown.” His novel Interior Chinatown (Vintage), which won the 2020 National Book Award, interrogates the evolving mythology of the neighborhood and the people inside, exposing stereotypes that devalue Asian lives. Yu said that the writing of the book was influenced by his changing perception of his parents’ own immigration story after President Donald Trump’s election. Fifty years into their American lives, the country was back to talking about who gets to be American and who doesn’t. Everything was cast in a new light.
Yu pushes against stereotypes with specificity, by writing about individuals with complex inner lives, fears, regrets, and hopes. In Interior Chinatown, Willis Wu lives in a tiny, one-room apartment in Chinatown; he’s also a bit-part back- ground actor He wants a shot at being Kung Fu Guy—a chance to play the most respected role someone who looks like him can have. This is brilliant, biting satire, but the heartbreak is what he doesn’t yet realize: He can be a leading man, wholly realized, driving the action on his own terms. He can be more.
In some ways, Yu said, imagination is how we hope. The quintessentially American belief that if you work hard enough, you will earn something like success and belonging has always animated Chinatown. Today, the Asian American community inside and outside the neighborhood feels less sure of belonging or even of safety. There’s a brutality to that fact. But the idea of Chinatown as a place rich in possibility is the one I still champion—yes, with fear and hope. It deserves to be seen in its full humanity. And so do we.
What does Chinatown mean to me, years after my introduction? I’m still fiercely compelled to declare solidarity with the community and what it represents: We’re here. We’ve been here. It’s staking a claim on being American, and fighting for that right, however uncomfortable and scary it is to do that now. It’s been a long time since I had a daily relationship with Chinatown, but communing with some of the most vocal, visible champions working in the neighborhood restored in me a kind of faith. Perhaps better than most, people in Chinatown have always known what it means to care for their neighbors. It’s not clear how we’ll all get through this difficult and divisive time. Maybe it helps to know that we’re fumbling our way forward, together. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/writer-bonnie-tsui-on-what-chinatown-means-to-her | 2022-09-13T19:58:36Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/writer-bonnie-tsui-on-what-chinatown-means-to-her | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Software Pricing Partners (SPP) announced today that a judgment has been entered by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against James H. "Jim" Geisman (case number 3:19-cv-00195), awarding SPP a permanent injunction against Geisman along with $779,114.60 and reasonable attorneys' fees and costs (in an amount to be determined later by the Court). As part of the judgment, the Court found Geisman liable for breach of his exit agreement, misappropriation of trade secrets under state and federal law, copyright infringement, violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and unfair and deceptive acts or practices.
"We have invested heavily in the creation of our trade secrets, methodology, processes and software because they deliver real value for the software companies who invest in us," said Chris Mele, Managing Partner of Software Pricing Partners. "This judgment acknowledges that our methods are not public knowledge, and our trade secrets lie at the core of enabling our clients to achieve such significant results."
Over the course of its three-year litigation, SPP presented evidence that Geisman–a former partner in the consulting firm, which develops and implements monetization strategies and models for software companies—downloaded, used and disclosed SPP's files containing trade secrets upon departing the firm in 2018. The Court stated as follows:
Geisman began downloading SPP's files containing trade secrets to his personal computer before exiting SPP. When (SPP) learned about the unauthorized downloads, Geisman assured SPP he would delete all SPP files. (Doc. No. 57 ¶¶ 44-46). Instead, Geisman attempted to download the SPP files containing trade secrets on numerous additional occasions, including after he left SPP. (Id. ¶¶ 47-50). He even used and disclosed SPP's trade secrets during his work with [a customer] for a profit. (Id. ¶¶ 92- 93). All the while he was representing to SPP that he did not take SPP files with him after his exit...Thereafter, he again represented to (SPP's) counsel that he did not take anything from SPP when he left even though he still had, used, and disclosed SPP's files. (Id. ¶ 63). In fact, in 2020, during the course of this litigation, Geisman had over 11,000 SPP files on his personal electronics. (Id. ¶ 51). Based on these facts, Geisman willfully and maliciously misappropriated SPP's trade secrets and SPP is entitled to reasonable attorneys' fees.
"I'm grateful that Judge Conrad held Geisman accountable for his wrongful conduct," said Mele. "I'm also very proud of our legal team. Their arguments in this case were outstanding."
"I strongly encourage all founders and executives to go the distance—to protect their legal rights—so we continue to build strong case law that will eliminate this kind of behavior. I sincerely hope this case helps ensure that those who disregard the law will pay a heavy price," said Mele.
SPP was also awarded a permanent injunction preventing Geisman from:
- Using and/or altering for use SPP's name or any trademarks, logos, or any of its other registered copyrights.
- Disclosing any confidential information that is not otherwise known or available to individuals or companies other than SPP and/or its current and former principals, employees, and agents, including any confidential information in the over 11,000 SPP files on Geisman's personal electronics.
- Using, disclosing, or disseminating the 134 specific files enumerated in SPP's Complaint (including any information, formulae, algorithms, etc. contained within those files) and the specific mathematical formula underlying SPP's pricing/discounting curve (including any underlying notes concerning the mathematical formula), even if the information otherwise is known solely by memory or in Geisman's head.
Geisman must also return or destroy files that contain SPP's trade secrets, mathematical formula, and any underlying notes concerning the mathematical formula.
On July 12, 2021, while the case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina was pending, Geisman filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code in the case captioned In re James H. Geisman, Case No. 21-30257, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Software Pricing Partners was represented in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina by Moore & Van Allen of Charlotte, NC.
SPP intends to vigorously protect and enforce its rights and ensure complete compliance with the Court's Order. To that end, we ask that software companies or individuals with information regarding Jim Geisman's use or disclosure of SPP's files or information to please contact J. Mark Wilson, Moore & Van Allen, at 704-331-1000.
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BOONE, N.C., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The well-known western North Carolina town of Boone, in Watauga County, is launching a new tourism development initiative named "Imagine Watauga''. The website, imaginewatauga.com, was developed for promotion locally and to encourage community input. To help accomplish the project, the local Tourism Development Authorities have contracted with Destination by Design, a Boone-based planning and economic development firm.
Mayor of Boone, Tim Futrelle, emphasized the need for widespread community involvement in this effort, "This is an amazing opportunity to showcase the possibilities for Boone and Watauga County. All residents have a stake in this. Everyone's opinion is valued."
According to Eric Woolridge, Destination by Design President, "this project is unique in that Boone's tourism economy is well established. The plan will focus on balancing existing tourism assets with the growing needs of local residents. We must not just grow tourism, but we need to do so responsibly in order to meet a variety of community goals."
Like many destinations, the appeal of the Boone area has generated many challenges for the local community, such as a lack of affordable housing, congestion, and overuse of natural resources. However, tourism is the lifeblood of the local economy, generating more than $6.5 million dollars annually in occupancy taxes. Responsible stewardship of these dollars can help to mitigate some of these challenges.
Billy Kennedy, Vice Chair of the Watauga County Board of Commissioners says, "Imagine Watauga is a great opportunity to bring resources from people who come to our county and put it into infrastructure that benefits both the tourists and the residents."
According to Wright Tilley, Director of the Boone and Watauga County Tourism Development Authorities, the plan is a community-led vision and 15-year roadmap towards enhancing tourism assets. "As the area continues to grow and thrive, there's never been a better opportunity to look to the future than now," says Tilley.
Previously, Destination by Design was instrumental in the development of several beloved local assets such as Rocky Knob Park, Watauga River and New River paddle access points, and area greenway expansions. Destination by Design works with communities across the country to plan, design and promote vibrant mainstreets, parks, trails, and destination-quality recreation areas. For more information, visit www.dbdplanning.com.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VAVA announced its 720P Video Baby Monitor is now available in 1000+ Target and Walmart stores nationwide. It's more convenient than ever for parents to enjoy the award winning VAVA baby monitor.
The VAVA baby monitor was listed as one of the Best Baby Monitors of 2022 on Tech Advisor and Babylist, and is available in four soothing colors – white, pink, blue, and green. Not only do these color options add more personality to a baby nursery, but the baby monitor is designed with multiple convenient features so parents can easily check on their children from anywhere in the house.
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Lawsuits By Workers and Surrounding Residents Continue to Mount as a Result of August 15, 2021 Chemical Release
HOUSTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two delivery drivers, who were on the grounds of the Lubrizol Corporation plant in Deer Park, Harris County, Texas on August 15, 2021, have filed separate lawsuits against the company alleging that negligence and gross negligence by the company caused them permanent respiratory injuries.
According to the lawsuits filed today in the District Court of Harris County, Lubrizol Corporation's workers caused the release of massive amounts of toxic chemicals, hydrogen sulfide and mercaptan, into the air by overheating a railcar, where the chemicals were being stored, on August 15, 2021.
The two lawsuits state that the two independent contractors were working at the Lubrizol Corporation plant in Deer Park at the time of the leak and inhaled high concentrations of chemicals, which caused severe and permanent respiratory and neurological injuries. The lawsuits also state that adequate emergency management measures were not taken by Lubrizol Corporation's workers after the leak occurred.
Multiple lawsuits have already been filed by residents, who surround the Lubrizol Corporation plant in Deer Park, complaining of similar injuries. More than 49,000 people in and around Houston were forced to shelter in place, with people located as far away from the plant as downtown Houston calling Harris County Pollution Control to complain. A subsequent investigation by Harris County Pollution Control resulted in a finding that Lubrizol violated multiple state health and safety laws. It was also determined that the release constituted a nuisance to the public's normal use and enjoyment of its property.
"Unfortunately, out-of-state companies, like Lubrizol Corporation, who profit from having a plant in the Houston metropolitan area, are not as concerned as they need to be about the safety of Harris County's workers and residents," says Derek Potts, representing the two delivery drivers as well as hundreds of residents in Deer Park who were injured by the release. "We are seeking justice and compensation for all of our clients who were injured and terrified due to the negligent conduct of Lubrizol on August 15, 2021."
The lawsuits are Lisa Curry v. The Lubrizol Corporation, et. al., Cause No.: 2022-57957 and Brian Pitts v. The Lubrizol Corporation, et al., Cause No.: 2022-57984, filed in Harris County District Court. Plaintiffs' attorneys are Potts Law Firm out of Houston, Texas.
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$10,000 Donation will provide needed resources to promote academic success
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RHP Properties, the nation's largest private owner and operator of manufactured home communities, has announced a $10,000 donation to support Arturo Cambeiro Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The contribution will be used to purchase educational materials and supplies through AdoptAClassroom.org, a national nonprofit that provides funding for Pre K-12 teachers and schools. It is the seventh school RHP Properties has adopted through the program, with a total of $70,000 of donations to date.
RHP Properties' adoption of the school will enable teachers and school administrators to access AdoptAClassroom.org's private ecommerce marketplace of nearly 30 school supply and school specialty vendors. Educators can use the donation to select specific materials they need for their classrooms, as well as access an online fundraising platform.
"We are so thankful for the generous donation RHP has provided to our school," said Chris Popek, Principal of Arturo Cambeiro Elementary. "Our teachers work extremely hard at making learning enjoyable and engaging and I am excited to see them put extra instructional resources to use that the donation will fund. We appreciate RHP choosing Arturo Cambeiro Elementary to help educate our students!"
Arturo Cambeiro Elementary serves approximately 518 children, grades Pre-K through 5 and about 120 of the students are residents at nearby RHP Properties manufactured home community Millennium Estates.
"Teachers at Arturo Cambeiro Elementary have told us how this donation will make a difference," said Ross Partrich, CEO, RHP Properties. "It will impact the quality of educational tools and books they can provide. It will help create an engaging learning environment. And it will help foster the love of learning that the school prides itself on. Our partnership with AdoptAClassroom.org is one we are proud of, as is giving back to the community to prepare our youth for success."
"As inflation has continued to rise this year, back-to-school supply costs are more expensive than last school year and teachers need help stocking their classrooms more than ever," said Ann Pifer, executive director of AdoptAClassroom.org. "Thanks to RHP Properties' generous donation, we are able to help equip more teachers and classrooms with the tools needed for children to thrive in school, at a time when teachers and students' families need extra support."
Founded in 1988, RHP Properties is the nation's largest privately held owner and operator of manufactured home communities with managed assets of more than $6B, including 318 manufactured home communities nationwide, totaling about 74,353 homes in 30 states. Headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, RHP Properties employs more than 1,000 professionals. For more information visit www.rhp.com.
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...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING
TO 6 AM EDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 20 kt.
* WHERE...Chesapeake Bay north of Pooles Island MD, Chesapeake
Bay from Pooles Island to Sandy Point MD, Chesapeake Bay from
Sandy Point to North Beach MD, Chesapeake Bay from North Beach
to Drum Point MD, Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point MD to Smith
Point VA, Tidal Potomac from Key Bridge to Indian Head MD,
Tidal Potomac from Indian Head to Cobb Island MD, Tidal
Potomac from Cobb Island MD to Smith Point VA, Patapsco River
including Baltimore Harbor, Chester River to Queenstown MD,
Eastern Bay, Choptank River to Cambridge MD and the Little
Choptank River, Patuxent River to Broomes Island MD and
Tangier Sound and the inland waters surrounding Bloodsworth
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* WHEN...From 8 PM this evening to 6 AM EDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
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Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
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* WHERE...Wicomico and Somerset Counties.
* WHEN...Until 5 PM EDT this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Shallow flooding is possible in the most vulnerable
locations near the waterfront and shoreline.
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Do not drive through flooded roadways.
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When can we be confident of the value of AI generated data such as Deep Learning or Autoencoderd models that predict an economic value as of now? Is data driven and digital strategy now fully just another storyline around how marking and corpora functions do their regular job which are to maximze future profits instead focusing first just and sole only to serve a social/econoemical issue and society goals. After doing that we need an economic perspective if this change the corpor Banks are beginning to make an effort to increase homeownership among people of color.
Homeownership rates among people of color are nearly 30 percent lower than among white families.
Bank of America has a new loan program for first-time homebuyers that requires no down payment, no closing costs and no minimum credit score.
“Down payments typically come from intergenerational wealth, and you need good credit or to build credit,” said Miriam Axel-Lute, CEO of Shelterforce. “So our country's legacy of segregation and discrimination means there's the persistent racial gap in those things, so changing the rules of the game to make it more fair on the underwriting side. It's exactly the kind of structural changes that will help.”
Those who lived through the last housing crisis might get nervous at the sound of zero-down mortgages. This program requires both homebuyer education and counseling.
“Back in, say, 2005 or 2007, lenders really didn't pay attention to whether you could actually afford to repay the loan, especially a few years down the line,” said Holden Lewis, a mortgage and housing expert with NerdWallet. “There was this phrase ‘fog of mirror loans,’ you know, like if you were alive, someone could hold a mirror up to your mouth, and it would fog. Then they would give you the loan. Well, that's not the case nowadays. “
For now, Bank of America’s community affordable loan solution is only available in majority Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Miami, Dallas, Charlotte and Los Angeles. Citi is also expanding its "Homerun" program which has similar goals. It has a slightly higher down payment, up to 3 percent in some cases. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/banks-develop-programs-to-improve-access-to-homeownership | 2022-09-13T20:01:53Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/banks-develop-programs-to-improve-access-to-homeownership | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a pair of encephalomyelitis cases associated with monkeypox in previously healthy young men in Colorado and Washington, D.C.
According to the CDC, encephalomyelitis is a brief but widespread attack of inflammation in the brain and spinal cord. The symptoms developed 5-9 days after the onset of monkeypox, the CDC noted.
In most cases, monkeypox is painful but not life-threatening.
Typical symptoms of monkeypox include a rash, fever, malaise, headache, and muscle aches.
While general monkeypox symptoms cleared up in both cases within several weeks, both men suffered neurological problems well after.
The CDC said the patient in Colorado was in his 30s and developed progressive left upper and lower extremity weakness and numbness, urinary retention, and intermittent priapism, and was hospitalized. He was discharged to outpatient rehabilitation therapy and was ambulatory with an assistive walking device at a 1-month follow-up. The man was also referred to outpatient neurosurgery, the CDC said.
The other patient, also in his 30s, developed bowel and bladder incontinence and progressive flaccid weakness of both lower extremities and was hospitalized. He was speaking and following commands and had improvement in his lower extremity weakness after treatment.
On Monday, officials confirmed one of the first monkeypox-related deaths in the U.S. Health officials in California said the person was severely immunocompromised. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/monkeypox-causing-inflammation-of-the-brain-cdc-finds | 2022-09-13T20:02:17Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/monkeypox-causing-inflammation-of-the-brain-cdc-finds | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NewsNation) — More than a third of working Americans don’t have enough money to cover their most basic household needs, including housing, food and childcare, according to a new study.
Researchers at Brandeis University found that 35% of American families do not meet the “basic family needs budget” — the amount needed to afford rent, food, transportation, medical care and minimal household expenses — despite working full-time year-round.
The situation is dire among working Black and Hispanic families, more than 50% of whom cannot afford the basics. A quarter of white families and 23% of Asian and Pacific Islander families are struggling to make rent and buy food, despite holding down full-time jobs.
Abby Walters, a research associate for the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy, is one of three researchers who conducted the study. She said this is a long-standing issue that many working families have known for a long time.
“Our study was conducted using data prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and the historic inflation that we’ve seen. So families were struggling even before this time,” Walters said. “It’s important to note that this basic needs that we consider is higher than the poverty level, but still doesn’t include many things that people consider essential to the American dream, like saving for a house or simpler pleasures, like being able to take your child out for a birthday.”
Walters said many families are now relying on and supplementing their income with government transfers, or facing significant housing and food insecurity while having difficulty making sure that they provide all of the resources needed to support their child’s healthy development.
Walters said resolving this issue is bigger than “just giving people more money.” Here are three things she recommends be done to combat this issue:
- Working families need a raise. This can be done through several mechanisms — employers can start paying their workers more, or Americans can rely on government transfers, like the child tax credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
- Another thing that can be done is to help lower the cost of necessary expenses like housing and food.
- It’s important Americans invest in policies supporting work and families, like paid family and medical leave and an affordable childcare system.
Meanwhile, more Americans are turning to payday loans and “buy now, pay later” plans to afford everyday basics.
In March, Klarna, a buy-now-pay-later company, started rolling out payment plans at gas stations, and that trend has continued to grow.
A study by Harvard University found more Americans are using modern versions of layaway to cover the cost of groceries and meals.
Nearly $46 billion in pay-later transactions were made last year — three times the amount in 2020. Last year, food accounted for just 6% of those purchases.
Fast forward to this year, Zip says its seen a 95% growth in grocery transactions.
Klarna says more than half of the 100 most purchased items are grocery and household staples.
Zilch says groceries and restaurant charges make up nearly 40% of all its transactions.
A July report done by Fitch Ratings found that most buy now, pay later customers are economically vulnerable, and around 40% have a poor credit history.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is … these companies market themselves as basically an interest-free loan, but missed payments and late fees can even go above and beyond what you’d pay in interest on a credit card. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/americans-turning-to-modern-layaway-to-afford-basics/ | 2022-09-13T20:06:58Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/americans-turning-to-modern-layaway-to-afford-basics/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What is a fanfare? A guide to the fanfare and its role in history
This short, impressive flourish for brass instruments is often heard during great state occasions - and may be heard at the Queen's funeral
What is a fanfare?
Essentially, a fanfare means a short, loud piece of music played to introduce the arrival of someone important - or a special event. It consists of a flourish of trumpets, or other brass instruments. Percussion is also often used. Webster's Dictionary defines a fanfare as "a flourish of trumpets, a showy outward display."
As well as that ceremonial meaning, 'fanfare' also has a more figurative meaning. This meaning probably has its roots in the late 15th-century Spanish word fanfa, meaning 'vaunting'. It may also derive from the Arabic word anfar ('trumpets'). Whatever its origins, the word 'fanfare' first occurred in the English language in 1605.
A fanfare should not be confused with The Last Post, a moving tune performed at military funerals and remembrance services. The Last Post is played on the bugle, a simple brass instrument without valves. The Last Post was played at the funeral of Prince Philip, Elizabeth's husband, as the latter had enjoyed a distinguished military career.
What is the herald trumpet, the instrument a fanfare is played on?
A fanfare is often played on a dedicated fanfare trumpet, which may also be referred to as a herald trumpet. This specialised instrument is similar to a normal trumpet, but longer. As well as being able to play specially composed fanfares, the fanfare trumpet's extra length allows for the attachment of ceremonial banners.
Has there been or will there be a fanfare for the Queen?
Fanfares have been a feature of the period of mourning. For example, a trumpet fanfare was played as Queen Elizabeth's coffin was carried into St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh for a 24-hour vigil on Monday 12 September.
What are most well-known fanfares?
Yes, in fact, the fanfare has been given a few different interpretations by classical composers. Undoubtedly the most famous of these is Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. We selected this beautiful piece as one of our best pieces of music for Independence Day. Other composers to try their hand at a fanfare include:
Arthur Bliss, in his role as Master of the Queen's Music, wrote a series of Royal Fanfares for the marriage of HRH Princess Margaret in Westminster Abbey on 6th May 1960. However, these were not the only fanfares composed by Bliss: others included 'Greetings to a City', for three brass choirs.
Paul Dukas, most famous for his orchestral magnum opus The Sorcerer's Apprentice, composed a fanfare for his ballet 'La Péri' in 1912. In fact, Dukas' fanfare proved far more popular than the ballet itself.
Benjamin Britten. In 1959 the great twentieth-century British composer Britten wrote a Fanfare for St Edmundsbury: a flourish for three trumpets, written for a Magna Carta Pageant at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds.
French composer André Jolivet produced many works for trumpet - including the fanfare 'Narcisse', written for a production of Britannicus by Jean Racine at Paris' Comédie Francaise theatre.
In 1942-43, Richard Strauss composed the Festmusik der Stadt Wien - ceremonial music for the city of Vienna. The programme includes an impressive fanfare for the city of Vienna Trumpet Choir.
Sir Harrison Birtwistle composed a fanfare to mark the Royal opening of Tate Modern in 2000. The opening ceremony was attended by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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Barbara Hannigan continues as Gothenburg Symphony’s principal guest conductor
The Canadian conductor and soprano will continue working with the Swedish orchestra until 2025
Conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan has announced that she will be extending her existing contract as the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra’s principal guest conductor until summer 2025.
Hannigan’s Gothenburg connections date back to 2013, when she gave her first concert with the orchestra. That first collaboration featured the Canadian as conductor and soloist in works by Mozart, Rossini and Ligeti.
Later, for Gothenburg’s 2015-2016 season, Hannigan took up the role of artist-in-residence. Standout concerts that season included a performance of Alban Berg's Lulu Suite. Then, in 2019, Hannigan was appointed the orchestra’s principal guest conductor. Her repertoire with Gothenburg since then has included everything from Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht to Gershwin's Girl Crazy Suite.
Hannigan and the GSO’s next performances will be on 28-29 September, when they perform Francis Poulenc’s solo opera La Voix Humaine. The production will feature Hannigan in the double role of singer and conductor.
Aside from her role with Gothenburg, Barbara Hannigan is also an associate artist with London Symphony Orchestra, and première artiste invitée with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
'Barbara has a unique place in the world of music,' says Arna Einarsdóttir, head of planning at the Gothenburg Symphony. 'She is a source of great inspiration for both audiences and orchestras, always exploring new ways of performing classical music. There seem to be no limits to her creativity and amazing artistry.'
'It has been a wonderful experience these past years to work with the Gothenburg Symphony,' says Hannigan. 'We have so many interesting projects and are continuing to explore new possibilities. I am also excited to develop cross-disciplinary ideas which should reach new audiences.
'I would like our GSO concerts to inspire, challenge, and entertain our audiences; to give them pause for reflection; and to make them curious about what we will do next!'
- Alan Davey to step down as controller of BBC Radio 3
- BBC announces cancellation of the Last Night of the Proms 2022
- 24-year-old British tenor Laurence Kilsby wins Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition
- Decca to release new high-definition transfer of George Solti’s ‘Ring Cycle’ recordings
- Scotland’s first ever opera festival to come to Dundee | https://www.classical-music.com/news/barbara-hannigan-continues-as-gothenburg-symphonys-principal-guest-conductor/ | 2022-09-13T20:10:04Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/news/barbara-hannigan-continues-as-gothenburg-symphonys-principal-guest-conductor/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Mire Branch Water Corporation reports that water was shut off today to perform a line repair.
When the water is restored, residents in the Mire area with the following addresses will be under a boil order until water samples have been cleared as safe to drink:
On Meche Rd from addresses 1276-2075
On Welch Rd from addresses 337-501
All of Speech St
"As a precaution, LDH recommends that we notify you of a localized boil advisory until we have cleared samples after the repair. This advisory only applies to the affected roads," a release states. "Customers should bring water to a rolling boil for one minute before using for drinking or cooking. We will notify you once our samples have been cleared by LDH." | https://www.katc.com/news/acadia-parish/water-to-be-off-in-mire-boil-order-follows | 2022-09-13T20:11:17Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/acadia-parish/water-to-be-off-in-mire-boil-order-follows | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Banks are beginning to make an effort to increase homeownership among people of color.
Homeownership rates among people of color are nearly 30 percent lower than among white families.
Bank of America has a new loan program for first-time homebuyers that requires no down payment, no closing costs and no minimum credit score.
“Down payments typically come from intergenerational wealth, and you need good credit or to build credit,” said Miriam Axel-Lute, CEO of Shelterforce. “So our country's legacy of segregation and discrimination means there's the persistent racial gap in those things, so changing the rules of the game to make it more fair on the underwriting side. It's exactly the kind of structural changes that will help.”
Those who lived through the last housing crisis might get nervous at the sound of zero-down mortgages. This program requires both homebuyer education and counseling.
“Back in, say, 2005 or 2007, lenders really didn't pay attention to whether you could actually afford to repay the loan, especially a few years down the line,” said Holden Lewis, a mortgage and housing expert with NerdWallet. “There was this phrase ‘fog of mirror loans,’ you know, like if you were alive, someone could hold a mirror up to your mouth, and it would fog. Then they would give you the loan. Well, that's not the case nowadays. “
For now, Bank of America’s community affordable loan solution is only available in majority Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Miami, Dallas, Charlotte and Los Angeles. Citi is also expanding its "Homerun" program which has similar goals. It has a slightly higher down payment, up to 3 percent in some cases. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/banks-develop-programs-to-improve-access-to-homeownership | 2022-09-13T20:11:29Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/banks-develop-programs-to-improve-access-to-homeownership | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Boston Marathon will welcome nonbinary athletes in 2023.
To enter, nonbinary runners must have completed a marathon as a nonbinary participant during the qualifying window, which ends on Sept. 16, 2022.
The current times for entry mirror those in the women's field.
"With this being our first year, we do not yet have enough data to establish non-binary qualifying times," the Boston Athletic Association says on its entry form.
The Boston Athletic Association says those times could be updated as it gets more data.
Organizers say they are also working with nonbinary athletes to promote inclusion at all events put on by the Boston Athletic Association. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/boston-marathon-creates-category-for-nonbinary-runners | 2022-09-13T20:11:35Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/boston-marathon-creates-category-for-nonbinary-runners | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO (AP) — The jury at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago has gotten the child pornography and trial-fixing case.
The trial went to the jurors on Tuesday after the singer's lead attorney told them that the prosecution's case is largely based on the testimony of perjurers and blackmailers.
Prosecutors have accused Kelly of videotaping himself, having sex with underage girls, using his fame to entice minors for sex, and rigging his 2008 child porn trial.
His lead attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, noted during her closing argument that many key government witnesses, including some of the women who accused Kelly of sexually abusing them, testified with immunity to ensure they wouldn’t be charged with previously lying to authorities.
“They came in here to tell the government's version of the truth," Bonjean said.
Prosecutor Elizabeth Pozolo described the R&B singer as a closeted sexual predator during her closing argument.
Pozolo added that the evidence presented to the jurors showed that Kelly used his fame to sexually abuse minors and recorded video of the abuse.
Kelly has already been sentenced in a separate trial.
In June, he received a 30-year prison for racketeering and sex trafficking. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/jury-gets-r-kellys-child-pornography-and-trial-fixing-case | 2022-09-13T20:11:41Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/jury-gets-r-kellys-child-pornography-and-trial-fixing-case | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A German man accused last year of fatally shooting a young gas station clerk after being asked to wear a face mask was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.
According to German media outlets, the 50-year-old they identified as Mario N. was also found guilty of illegal weapons possession because the gun he used wasn't licensed, the Associated Press reported.
Authorities said last September, the Associated Press reported that the man was at a gas station in the town of Idar-Oberstein to buy beer when the 20-year-old clerk refused him service for not wearing a mask.
According to the news outlet, wearing a mask inside a store was a requirement in the country at that time to stop the spread of COVID-19.
"Acting out of anger," authorities said the man returned to the store wearing a mask a half-hour later and shot the clerk in the head, the Associated Press reported.
The man then fled the scene but turned himself in to police a day after the killing, the news outlet reported. | https://www.katc.com/news/world/man-convicted-of-murder-after-killing-young-gas-clerk-over-mask-rules | 2022-09-13T20:12:12Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/world/man-convicted-of-murder-after-killing-young-gas-clerk-over-mask-rules | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words. Fresh off her Emmys 2022 win for outstanding writing for a comedy series, Quinta Brunson snapped a photo with Jimmy Kimmel, who presented the Abbott Elementary star with her Emmy and proceeded to lie on the ground beneath her while she gave her speech. In the photo taken at Disney's Emmy party, Brunson gets something akin to revenge, prominently displaying her Emmy smack dab in front of Kimmel's face while sporting an accomplished grin.
During her speech, Brunson went along with Kimmel's “over my dead body” bit, saying “Jimmy, wake up, I won,” asking him to hold her phone, and thanking him in her acceptance speech. In the Emmy press room after the ceremony, Brunson said she wasn't bothered by Kimmel's bit in the moment, but insinuated that the internet might not have taken too kindly to Kimmel potentially stealing focus from her big moment. “I know Jimmy Kimmel and I felt like the bit didn't bother me that much,” Brunson said. “I don't know what the internet thinks.”
Brunson went on to detail her relationship with Kimmel. “Jimmy gave me my first big late night spot and was one of the first people to see Abbott and he Instagram messaged me that he saw this comedy and he thought it was one of the greatest comedies of all time and he was so excited that it was going to be on ABC," she said. “So, I think in that moment I was just really happy that it was Jimmy up there. I kind of consider him one of the comedy godfathers.”
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While Brunson didn't have any ire against Kimmel in the moment, she admitted that she wasn't entirely sure how she would feel the next day. “Tomorrow maybe I’ll be mad at him. I’m gonna be on his show on Wednesday, so I might punch him in the face," joked Brunson. “I don’t know. We’ll see what happens.”
Whether Brunson is actually mad at him remains to be seen, but she was correct that large swaths of the internet did appreciate Kimmell committing too hard to the bit. Kimmel is currently trending on Twitter, with fans of Brunson's admonishing the comedian for stealing focus from Brunson's moment in the spotlight. “If #QuintaBrunson stepping over #JimmyKimmel who literally laid in her spotlight on the day she won an Emmy isn't a metaphor for what it means to be a WOC in a white mans world I don't know what is,” reads a viral tweet from @hebagowayed.
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While the internet may be up in arms about one of the memorable moments of the Emmys 2022 ceremony, if the photo is any indication it looks like Brunson got the last laugh.
Live Updates From the 2022 Emmys
Succession vs. Squid Game, Ted Lasso vs. Barry, and of course, red-carpet fashion. Follow the updates. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/quinta-brunson-jimmy-kimmel-post-emmys-photo | 2022-09-13T20:22:03Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/quinta-brunson-jimmy-kimmel-post-emmys-photo | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The tabloids have been following a reported rift between Gisele Bündchen, supermodel, and her husband, Tom Brady, big football guy. But here she is now, in her own words for the first time in a long time, gracing the cover of Elle’s October 2022 issue. She’s talking a bit about having it all in a way that sounds familiar: You can have it all—a relationship, a family, a career—but it might not happen all at once. And though it may seem like nobody wants to work anymore, Bündchen does.
“I have a huge list of things that I have to do, that I want to do,” she tells Elle. “At 42, I feel more connected with my purpose.”
Bündchen declines to address the more recent and specific rumors, ones where anonymous sources are citing a rift between her and Brady due to various displays of separation. But the supermodel does agree with the writer that any portrayal of her being “desperate” for Brady to retire reads as sexist. “I think this is the system we’ve been living in,” she says. “That’s what society has accepted and what society hasn’t accepted.”
The way she puts it is more tempered, but she and the anon sources are ultimately saying similar things. “Obviously, I have my concerns,” she says of football generally. “This is a very violent sport, and I have my children and I would like him to be more present. I have definitely had those conversations with him over and over again. But ultimately, I feel that everybody has to make a decision that works for [them]. He needs to follow his joy too.”
The timing of all this—the start of Brady’s 23rd season after a brief flirtation with retirement, plus a magazine cover declaring that Bündchen “rides again”—is still interesting. Brady’s and Bündchen’s professions have historically suffered accelerated expiration dates. It’s helpful to be young for both. The pair are in their 40s now, which is still young enough to enjoy a lengthy second career on the other end. The proverbial iron is hot, and it’s clear Bündchen recognizes that. She sounds ready to strike. “There are so many things I’m working on, I’ll be here the entire day talking about it,” she told Elle.
Their children are currently 12 and nine (and Brady also has a 15-year-old from a previous relationship), and she sounds dedicated to raising them closely the hands-on approach. Of her years as a WAG, Bündchen says:
Bündchen describes her time as a wife and mother as a career valley, one that she’s ready to ascend out of. To what exactly? Much of the profile is dedicated to her desire to use her enduring name-and-face recognition to raise money for ecological causes, especially when it comes to fashion and her home country of Brazil (she’s been an advocate and donor for reforesting the Amazon, among other causes).
“I feel very fulfilled in that way, as a mother and as a wife,” she says. “And now it’s going to be my turn. It’s not like I’m going to be in the valley forever.” It might just take, at minimum, another season of football before she can start climbing in earnest. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/gisele-bundchen-says-shes-ready-to-work | 2022-09-13T20:22:09Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/gisele-bundchen-says-shes-ready-to-work | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thankfully, the impending rain on Monday did receive the memo for Vogue World: This was a night for the stars. Shortly after sunset in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, the fashion show-meets-street fair held in celebration of Vogue’s 130th anniversary kicked off the second half of New York Fashion Week by sending a gaggle of runners in color-blocked marathon gear down West 13th Street, followed by—with a brief pause as the last VIP, Ye, was quickly led to his seat—a processional of young girls in tenniswear led by the magazine’s September cover star, Serena Williams, who was clad in a custom Balenciaga cape and gown. All rise!
For anyone wondering how fashion’s linchpin media brand might style an exhibition of its own, the ensuing half hour resembled less of a routine runway show and more of a joyous parade of roughly 100 industry main characters, including Erykah Badu, Adut Akech, Imaan Hammam, Lila Moss, Irina Shayk, Precious Lee, Paloma Elsesser, Quannah Chasinghorse, Emily Ratajkowski, Karlie Kloss, Hari Nef, Jeremy O. Harris, Joan Smalls, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, plus Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz Beckham, all of whom didn’t so much strut down the cobblestones but rather preened and promenaded, grinned and gamboled, like a flotilla of children gleefully departing their last day of school amongst accompanying cadres of dancers, wheelie-popping bikers, a matching set of dalmatians, and one WALL-E–esque robotic camera grabbing all the action—for the live stream. Bella Hadid took at least two solo laps; sister Gigi provided the penultimate act. As for the closer? You’d be hard-pressed to find a more satisfying nightcap than a surprise performance of “Industry Baby” from Lil Nas X, who was flanked by Williams and the Hadid sisters in matching swaths of silver. Now this was a show for the people!
Did it matter that Vogue World guests were seeing designer clothes that had technically already debuted in the world for the fall/winter 2022 collections? Negative. Then again, the evening’s cumulative wattage was high enough that the clothing itself seemed almost secondary. Spotted in the front row: Travis Barker, fresh from his set at Sunday’s rain-soaked Tommy Hilfiger show, with Kourtney Kardashian; Doja Cat with whorls of white painted all over her face and scalp; K-pop idol and NCT member Jeno, set to open Tuesday’s Peter Do show; Ansel Elgort’s mass of curls in deep conversation with Dove Cameron; Kyle Kuzma and Winnie Harlow; and Jared Leto in a floral Gucci caftan.
Once the runway cleared, Vogue World shifted into phase two: street-fair mode. However, if the idea was to find oneself elbow to elbow with a celeb or two at Fendi’s (literal) baguette stand, you’d have been left in want. It turned out, though, that there were very few dopamine withdrawals that Michael Kors x Katz’s pastrami sandwiches, Magnolia Bakery pudding from the Banana Republic stand, or a tin of Gucci Osteria cookies (in collaboration with Massimo Bottura) couldn’t lift. I personally appreciated the commitment to the street-fair bit, to the extent that a set of smoke machines and artfully arranged wooden crates had been employed to create a kind of edgy night-market vibe—if said night market happened to have a Burberry tea cart and left you with a seriously crazed case of the shoppies after staring full bore into the white-hot sun of sartorial fluorescence for a couple of hours. What can I say? Vogue certainly knows how to put on a show, just as well as it knows how to make the sale. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/its-a-vogue-world-after-all | 2022-09-13T20:22:15Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/its-a-vogue-world-after-all | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sunday afternoon, Melanie Lynskey was still wrapping her head around what was going to happen the next day. It would be the first Emmy Awards Lynskey would attend where she was nominated for best actress, and she was still wondering when she was going to process that fact.
“I think we all were making [Yellowjackets] because we loved it,” Lynskey told Vanity Fair, during this brief quiet moment between pre-Emmys events. “We—none of us—had an expectation. It’s not like the kind of thing you make for like awards bait. You know what I mean? It’s a horror show about teenage cannibals.”
In Yellowjackets, Lynskey plays a suburban mother fighting off midlife disenchantment and her ever-encroaching past, while in flashbacks, her younger self (Sophie Nélisse) fights off the aftershocks of a plane crash, the Canadian wilderness, hunger, spooky things in an abandoned cabin, etc. (Whether her character at any point turns to cannibalism is still to be determined, but season 2 is currently filming in Vancouver.) The Showtime series was nominated for seven Emmy’s total, including Lynskey’s best actress nomination.
Lynskey’s look for Monday night began, like so many good things do, with Sarah Paulson. They were at dinner recently, and the topic of what to wear to the Emmys came up. Lynskey told her the truth, that she and her stylist, her close friend Misha Rudolph, hadn’t yet decided what she was going to do, but they would figure it out.
“[Paulson] just got her phone out and started texting,” Lynskey said. “I was like, ‘Oh, she’s busy, I guess.’ And then she was like, I just texted blah, blah, blah. She texted all these people for me. Fancy people. Like, very fancy people. ”
Christian Siriano was the first to text back. “I felt very supported. Just everyone loves Sarah so much that people responded to her very quickly,” Lynskey explained. “She was saying to me, I hope you understand, like, people are excited for you. People want to dress you.”
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Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, is now largely liberated from Russian control following a stunning counter-offensive by Ukrainian forces. Yet the city continues to face major challenges.
Shelling continued Tuesday, killing at least three people while bombings throughout the region are targeting residential areas and infrastructure, knocking out power, water and public transportation.
Analyst Maria Avdeeva has been in Kharkiv throughout the war. She talks to Here & Now‘s Anthony Brooks about the situation on the ground.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Natasha Rothwell has a little wisdom to offer those in high-spotlight situations: Take “deep breaths and beta blockers!” she told Vanity Fair when asked about any pre-red carpet rituals. “I have anxiety so carpets can be a lot for me if I’m not prepared. I also always make sure to check my teeth and my tits—you don’t want either of them not at their best.”
That final check makes all the more sense, considering her favorite part of her Emmys 2022 look was the Safiyaa dress’s plunge neckline. “I’m taped-in within an inch of my life but it’s worth it,” she added. The brilliant red taffeta gown landed her on Vanity Fair’s best dressed list for the night (and the proverbial red carpet was gold this year, so the gown even went perfectly with her surroundings).
Rothwell was nominated for best supporting actress in a limited series for her role in The White Lotus. This isn’t her first nomination; she was also nominated during the 2020 Emmys for Insecure, in which she acted, was a supervising producer, and was in the writer’s room, so she shares the show’s best comedy nod. The double duty already “feels surreal,” she said. “But this particular acting nomination hits different because it’s for drama—and drama something I’ve always done but rarely get to do.”
In The White Lotus, Rothwell is almost wholly responsible for the aching pathos ones feels for her character Belinda, who runs the titular Hawaiian hotel’s spa. The very rich and very sad Tanya (played by Jennifer Coolidge, who ended up winning the category) dangles her wealth over Belinda to devastating ends.
“Being a part of something that resonated with so many people has been incredible,” Rothwell said. “We filmed it during quarantine, and I had no idea how a vacation dramedy would be received. And I’ve just been blown away by the love. [The White Lotus director] Mike White is effortlessly kind, smart and generous. Truly. Before I was a friend, I was a fan, and it’s so nice in this industry when you meet someone you admire, and they exceed your expectations.”
The drama of it all is a change of pace from Insecure, in which she played Kelli Prenny, a close friend of Issa Dee (Issa Rae). She’s generally the source of the most guttural laughs in the show. Now, she’s proven she can do both comedy and drama (and, well, dramedy). Still she’s never far from the joke. Asked whose wardrobe, living or dead, she would swap with, she said, “Melissa McCarthy. Any woman who wears an Adidas tracksuit to the Vanity Fair party makes me feel seen.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/natasha-rothwell-getting-ready-for-the-emmys-2022-red-carpet-the-white-lotus | 2022-09-13T20:22:27Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/natasha-rothwell-getting-ready-for-the-emmys-2022-red-carpet-the-white-lotus | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Glacier National Park boasts some of the darkest skies in the U.S., so it’s a perfect spot for a stargazing party at the top of 6,000-foot-tall Logan Pass.
Montana Public Radio’s Aaron Bolton reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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It was the saddest of homecomings: Her Majesty the Queen bid a final farewell to Scotland when her coffin was flown from her beloved Scotland back to England. She will lie at rest overnight at Buckingham Palace before she lies in state at Westminster Hall for three days beginning tomorrow.
It was no small matter that her daughter Princess Anne was the senior royal accompanying the Queen on her final journey from Edinburgh to RAF Brize Norton. The Princess Royal was by her mother’s side when the Queen died peacefully at Balmoral and accompanied the royal hearse on Sunday when it left Balmoral for Edinburgh.
On Tuesday evening, the princess shared a statement expressing gratitude for the crowds that have greeted her along the way. “I was fortunate to share the last 24 hours of my dearest Mother’s life,” it reads. “It has been an honor and a privilege to accompany her on her final journeys. Witnessing the love and respect shown by so many on these journeys has been both humbling and uplifting. We will all share unique memories. I offer my thanks to each and every one who share our sense of loss.”
The statement also acknowledges the added burden of the new role her brother King Charles III has taken on. ”We may have been reminded how much of her presence and contribution to our national identity we took for granted. I am also grateful for the support and understanding offered to my dear brother Charles as he accepts the added responsibilities of The Monarch,” it reads. “To my mother, The Queen, thank you.”
On Monday, Princess Anne stood vigil alongside the King and her brothers Prince Andrew and Prince Edward at the Kings Vigil at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh. The vigil is historically attended by male family members, and Anne did not stand vigil for her grandmother the Queen Mother in 2002. The significance of her role cannot be understated and according to sources close to the new King, Charles III intends for his sister to have a “significant role” in his slimmed-down monarchy.
When Vanity Fair sat down with the princess to mark her 70th birthday in 2020 the royal said she had no plans to retire. “I don't think retirement is quite the same [for me],” she said. “Most people would say we're very lucky not to be in that situation because you wouldn't want to just stop. It is, to a large extent, the choice of the organizations you're involved with and whether they feel you're still relevant.”
And true to her word, the hard working princess still clocks up several hundred engagements every year, her tally only falling shy of Charles. Indeed she was in Scotland carrying out official engagements when her mother’s health rapidly declined.
In his new role as King, Charles has said he will have less time to dedicate to some of the causes and charities he has supported in the past and he will be looking to distribute some of the Queen’s 400 plus charities which he has inherited.
According to a source close to King Charles III: "He knows he has a loyal and faithful ally in the Princess Royal. She is committed to supporting the crown and devoting herself to the work of the monarchy. Charles absolutely plans to include her in his new streamlined monarchy."
In her conversation with Vanity Fair, she cited her parents the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen as her inspiration. “It's not just about, Can I get a tick in the box for doing this? No, it's about serving,” she said. “It comes from an example from both my parents' way of working and where they saw their role being. I mean, my father served. It was a more direct form of service, I suppose you could argue. And the queen’s has been a lifelong service in a slightly different way, but they both have that perspective of service which is about working with people.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/princess-anne-will-absolutely-be-a-part-of-king-charles-streamlined-monarchy | 2022-09-13T20:22:33Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/princess-anne-will-absolutely-be-a-part-of-king-charles-streamlined-monarchy | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“I’m not trying to be self-effacing,” J. Smith-Cameron assures me over the phone while literally heading to catch her flight to LA ahead of Monday night’s Emmy Awards. “I’m just saying I was surprised.” Despite her veteran career in theater and three-year turn as fan favorite Gerri Kellman in HBO’s Succession, her nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for this year still caught her off guard, particularly, as she notes, for such a stacked playing field. “Sarah Snook is in my category, and she’s got a much bigger job to do in the show,” Smith-Cameron reminds me. “That made it doubly flattering for me.”
And ironically, she says, it makes the stakes of the night feel a lot more relaxing: “It’s thrilling to have a nomination and be pretty sure you’re not going to win—an odd relief! You can just enjoy everything!” I ask how Smith-Cameron originally found out about the nomination over the summer; apparently, she’d been vacationing on a remote Canadian island bereft of both Wifi and reliable cell service when exactly one call managed to reach her: “All of a sudden, the phone rang, and it was my friend Maria, and she’s like, Congratulations!,” Smith-Cameron laughs. “I said, ‘About what?’ And she says, ‘I can’t be the first person to reach you?’”
But now that the news has sunk in and a near-unmanageable amount of luggage has been packed accordingly—Smith-Cameron tells me she has to jet off to Europe straight after the ceremony—the first-time nominee is going all-out for the night’s fit with a vivid cranberry Carolina Herrera gown, matching clutch (embellished with a golden “Bans off Our Bodies” pin), and David Yurman jewelry. “I feel like it’s a dress that Ingrid Bergman would have worn in the ‘40s or ‘50s” Smith-Cameron says of the gown, though she admits that historically, wrap dresses make her a little nervous. “So I’m putting my husband on alert,” she jokes. “Making sure my dress doesn’t start coming apart, but I don't think it will. It’s very ingeniously designed.” Adds Cat Pope, who’s styling Smith-Cameron’s look, it's able to be “powerful and soft at the same time—a lovely nod to her character, but also the woman I know her to be offscreen.” For the finishing touch: a classic red lip, courtesy of hair and makeup artist Liz Olivier.
Much has been made of the embarrassment of riches in power dressing seen in Succession, so I ask Smith-Cameron if this red carpet attire is her personal equivalent of Gerri rocking those Stuart Weitzman boots in Season 3 (an extra-genius choice, as she remembers, because “It felt like a little echo of the dominatrix relationship with Roman”). “Yeah, this gown does make me feel powerful,” Smith-Cameron agrees, particularly since red is her favorite color. But in her view, the real secret of power dressing is being able to wear something comfortable. “In show business, you know, it’s powerful just to wear something you can feel relaxed and calm in,” she explains. “It’s like the opposite of the corporate world, you know?” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/successions-j-smith-cameron-on-emmy-worthy-power-dressing | 2022-09-13T20:22:39Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/successions-j-smith-cameron-on-emmy-worthy-power-dressing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Updated September 13, 2022 at 8:41 AM ET
Inflation cooled a bit last month, thanks in part to falling gasoline prices, but for many families, there's another major strain on their household budget: soaring electricity bills.
Take Bernice Brown, a retiree in Tuscaloosa, Ala.. In both July and August, her power bill topped a jaw-dropping $400.
"It's been damaging to be honest," she says.
But there's little she can do about it.
"The heat here is horrible," she says, noting her neighborhood near the University of Alabama campus doesn't have many shade trees. "The houses are just sitting, baking."
A report from the Labor Department Tuesday shows the country's annual inflation rate dipped to 8.3% in August, from 8.5% in July. But many families are still struggling with the rising cost of groceries, rent, and other essentials like electricity.
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Electricity prices have jumped 15.8% in the last year, largely as a result of high-priced natural gas, which is used to generate nearly 40% of the nation's power.
The rising price of power has been compounded by soaring temperatures, which have kept air conditioners working overtime.
"It was one heat wave after another," said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association. "Families need to use air conditioning to stay safe."
NEADA estimates the average family's cooling costs rose from $450 last summer to about $600 this year.
Six months of summer
Dale Cooper's power bills in Phoenix are even higher.
"We have six months of summer with over 100-degree heat," says Cooper, who earns $13.50 an hour as a restaurant cashier. "If I didn't have roommates, I wouldn't be able to make it on the salary that I have."
While Cooper, who's 59, will likely get a break on utility costs during the mild Phoenix winter, people in colder parts of the country are likely to face significantly higher heating bills.
NEADA predicts the average family will pay $1,202 to heat their home this winter — 17% more than last year. For the six in 10 families whose heat comes from natural gas, the increase in heating costs could be 34%.
"There's no sign these prices are coming down," Wolfe says. "All the signs point to more expensive costs of home heating, and they could spike if it's cold."
NEADA says more than 20 million families have fallen behind on their utility bills and the average amount they owe has grown to $792 — nearly double what it was before the pandemic.
"It's not a question of are families heating and cooling their homes responsibly," Wolfe says. "Families do this. They turn the heat down as low as they can. They use air conditioning sparingly. It's just that the cost of home heating and home cooling has gone up so much that low-income families are struggling to pay these bills."
Other costs still sting
Heating and cooling bills come on top of rising costs for other essentials such as shelter and food. Housing costs rose 6.2% for the twelve months ending in August, while grocery prices jumped 13.5%.
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"To get decent, healthy food, the prices are extremely high," said Brown, in Tuscaloosa.
That's keeping the Federal Reserve on guard, even as overall inflation was tempered last month by the steep drop in gasoline prices. Gas prices tumbled nearly 40 cents a gallon during August to $3.84, according to the American Automobile Association.
Gasoline prices are among the most visible in the country, and they often carry an outsize psychological impact. As pump prices have declined, Americans' worries about inflation have also eased a bit.
A new NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll finds that inflation is the number one concern for 30% of adults this fall, down from 37% in July.
Despite the drop in gasoline prices, officials at the Fed say they are still not satisfied that overall inflation is moving back towards their target of 2%.
"I got burned last year," Fed governor Christopher Waller said in a speech last week.
He noted that inflation appeared to be falling last summer only to have prices take off again in the fall.
"We're very cautious about getting burned again," Waller said. "So it's got to be a real, permanent longer-term decline than like what happened last year."
The Fed is expected to raise interest rates by another 0.75 percentage points next week, and keep borrowing costs elevated until officials are confident that prices — including for essentials like electricity —are under control.
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Annie Tan was a special education teacher for a decade in public schools in Chicago and in New York City. She knew she wanted to be a teacher when she was 6 years old.
“I had a teacher Mrs. Sheridan who really inspired me because she made it joyous to learn,” Tan says. “I wanted every kid to find themselves and to self-actualize like I did.”
But two years into the pandemic as thousands of students got sick, standardized testing increased, and teachers’ workloads grew, Tan had had enough.
She resigned in August of this year and is now working as an activist and author focused on making schools safer.
The National Education Association estimates there’s a shortage of roughly 300,000 teachers and staff across the U.S. The teacher shortage is particularly pronounced in rural school districts, where the need for special education teachers and STEM teachers is high.
We hear from current and former teachers about the challenges of the profession.
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Car crashes are a part of American life. We’ve all seen the aftermath on a highway or know someone whose life was forever changed by a driver’s split-second decision.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that more than 9,500 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the first quarter of 2022. That puts the United States on track for the highest first quarter fatalities in more than 20 years.Traffic deaths have been on the rise since the onset of the pandemic, partly due to an increase in reckless driving on our roads.
While traffic deaths have spiked, there are still thousands of people who survive. Rebekah Young was walking her dog in 2018 when an SUV ran her over at a crosswalk.
“I remember Sunday and waking up… and I literally had woken up from a dream in which I was dreaming that I had been hit by a vehicle,” Young told WAMU. “And you know, you come out of a dream and you’re kind of groggy, and you realize, ‘oh my God, thank goodness, this was just a dream.’ But it wasn’t. My husband was there and had to tell me five days afterward what had happened to me.”
We talk to Young about what happened to her and we ask the experts how to prevent it from happening to anyone else.
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A group representing justices for all of the states’ highest courts is speaking out against a legal argument at the heart of an upcoming Supreme Court case.
That legal argument is being pushed by Republican state lawmakers, who brought the case. And if the court sides with those Republicans, experts say presidential and congressional elections would be radically reshaped.
Here & Now‘s Anthony Brooks speaks with Rick Hasen, director of the University of California Los Angeles Law School Safeguarding Democracy Project.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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PORTAGE, Mich. — A 90-year-old Lowe’s employee celebrated his 90th birthday in Portage on Tuesday.
Don Stoneburner has been a cashier at the store for 15 years, and he considers his Lowe’s family as dear to him as his own.
“I'm very much surprised,” said Don. “I knew there'd be a lot of fun today but I never expected all this.”
One of his coworkers says they were looking forward to this day for a long time.
“We've been planning the balloon drop and the cake and all that for probably quite a while,” says Nicole Gustavson. “It's been quite an organized affair.”
Don says the secret to his longevity is friendship and a strong immune system.
“God’s been very good to me,” says Don, “and He's given me a great immune system and good health and many friends and it keeps going on getting better.”
Don tells FOX 17 he has no plans to stop working at Lowe’s, adding he intends to become the store’s oldest full-time associate. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/coronavirus/something-good/portage-lowes-employee-celebrates-90th-birthday-with-coworkers | 2022-09-13T20:23:25Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/coronavirus/something-good/portage-lowes-employee-celebrates-90th-birthday-with-coworkers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220910-N-YG104-0004 PEARL HARBOR (September 10, 2022) Spouses greet one another at a Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Selectee Spouse Symposium. This was the first Island-Wide CPO Selectee Spouse Symposium since the onset of the COVID pandemic. Senior Enlisted Leaders, The Navy League, Military Family Support Center, Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, and the Navy Exchange presented information and resources to help prepare spouses as their significant others transition into members of the CPO Mess. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Sarah Villegas)
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220910-N-YG104-0001 PEARL HARBOR (September 10, 2022) Spouses greet one another at a Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Selectee Spouse Symposium. This was the first Island-Wide CPO Selectee Spouse Symposium since the onset of the COVID pandemic. Senior Enlisted Leaders, The Navy League, Military Family Support Center, Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, and the Navy Exchange presented information and resources to help prepare spouses as their significant others transition into members of the CPO Mess. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Sarah Villegas)
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PASCO, Wash.-
The Pasco Fire Department responded to a commercial structure fire in downtown Pasco around 7:15, Tuesday night.
Franklin County Fire District 3 and the Kennewick Fire Department also responded to the fire on the 500 block of Clark Street.
According to the Pasco Fire Department, the fire started inside a clothing and party favors store.
The windows of the store reportedly failed during the fire and crews were able to limit the fire to the contents of the store.
According to Pasco Fire Battalion Chief Tom Tveit, fire crews overhauled the building and ensured that it was structurally sound.
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/fire-burns-clothing-store-in-downtown-pasco/article_5c2001c4-336e-11ed-b4ba-03a5dd21517c.html | 2022-09-13T20:27:49Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/fire-burns-clothing-store-in-downtown-pasco/article_5c2001c4-336e-11ed-b4ba-03a5dd21517c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHLAND, Wash.-
Following a months-long investigation into missing funds from the city of Mesa's operating accounts, the city's former clerk/treasurer was arrested in Richland on Monday, September, 12th.
According to a press release from the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, the former employee was previously advised that she was being investigated.
The investigation reportedly shows that she created checks from the city of Mesa's accounts to herself and other associates. She tried to hide this illegal activity through her position as the person responsible for the city's accounting system.
The former employee was booked into the Franklin County Correction Center on an investigative hold, under suspicion of theft, forgery, and misappropriation of funds.
No bail has been set pending a preliminary court appearance. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/former-mesa-city-clerk-arrested/article_bc2b0a0a-338c-11ed-88d7-7f5555ce0a3a.html | 2022-09-13T20:27:55Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/former-mesa-city-clerk-arrested/article_bc2b0a0a-338c-11ed-88d7-7f5555ce0a3a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When it comes to cereal, everyone has their own preferred way of eating the popular breakfast food. Some like to pour the milk in first (like golfer Collin Morikawa), while others like to eat it dry or with fruit (like Jenna Bush Hager).
Whatever floats your boat, one thing cereal lovers have all been able to agree on over the years is that water has no place in a cereal bowl. But Kellogg's is out to change that with its latest product innovation, Kellogg's Instabowls.
All you have to do is add cold water to the single-serve bowls and the instantized milk turns into real milk after stirring. Whether that sounds genius or gross to you, you have to admit that it's pretty convenient if you're constantly on the go.
Wondering what possessed the cereal giant to add water into the mix? Chris Stolsky, marketing director at Kellogg Company, offered some insight in an official statement.
“In recent years, there has been a huge trend toward portability for food, especially as busy schedules and life’s everyday curve balls prevent traditional sit-down meals,” he said in a press release. “We created Kellogg's Instabowls as an easy solution for the ‘anytime cereal break’ so you can now bring your favorite Kellogg’s cereals with you wherever life takes you and not have to worry about milk, dishes, or clean-up.”
After the news broke, social media users didn't waste any time weighing in on the pros and cons of the new product. Some folks were grossed out by the concept of dried milk altogether.
Others wondered just how much milk there really is in those little containers.
"Not against powdered milk (use it all the time in the country where I live) but how in the world does Kellogg’s know how much milk a person wants with their cereal. My wife likes to really get her cereal soggy and I prefer less milk," one Twitter user wrote.
Still, some people were intrigued and appreciated the innovative idea.
"This is a great product for shoppers too forgetful to remember milk but mindful enough to have a backup plan, or I guess people who eat cereal while camping," one social media user wrote.
Kellogg’s is hardly the first company to suggest that customers add an unconventional liquid into their cereals. Last March, Tropicana created a cereal that was meant to be eaten with orange juice.
The limited-edition product, called Tropicana Crunch Honey Almond Cereal, was released just in time for National Orange Juice Day on May 4 and even came with a straw.
Our tester thought the cereal tasted a lot like Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds "but with more oat" and left us with the following words of wisdom: "It’s not bad, but I can’t imagine eating a bowl of this every day." | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kelloggs-wants-you-to-add-water-to-your-cereal-yes-really-the-cereal-brands-latest/article_17bbf2a2-337f-11ed-8fd5-93155815d630.html | 2022-09-13T20:27:57Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kelloggs-wants-you-to-add-water-to-your-cereal-yes-really-the-cereal-brands-latest/article_17bbf2a2-337f-11ed-8fd5-93155815d630.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. Senate voted on September 12 to confirm the nomination of Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, reaching a 46-40 decision.
The Yakima Valley native will be the first Hispanic judge from Washington to serve on the Court.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is headquartered in San Francisco and serves nine western states.
“He has been an outstanding judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington where he has served since 2014…” said Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) on the Senate floor before the vote. “I know Judge Mendoza will make an excellent addition to the Ninth Circuit.”
Mendoza was recommended by Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to the Biden administration as a replacement for Judge Margaret McKeown. His nomination by President Biden led to the Senate consideration.
“Judge Mendoza has been a trailblazer, focused on building a more fair and just legal system that works for everyone—not just the wealthy and well-off…” said Senator Murray. “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.”
Judge Mendoza grew up in the Yakima Valley, raised by immigrants. He would work with them in the fields in the mornings before school. Mendoza graduated from Prosser High School in 1990, got his Bachelor’s at the University of Washington, then his law degree from the University of California - Los Angeles.
He received the Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award from Columbia Basin College in 2016.
Judge Mendoza has served as a Judge Pro Tem in Benton and Franklin counties. In 2013, Governor Jay Inslee appointed Mendoza to the Superior Court for Benton and Franklin Counties. The next year, he moved up to a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Washington, making him the first Hispanic federal judge in Eastern Washington.
“I have no doubt—and based on his record I think there can be no doubt—that serving on the Ninth Circuit, Judge Mendoza will carefully review each case as an appellate judge, respect every party that appears before him, and protect the rights of the American people,” said Senator Murray. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-native-to-be-first-hispanic-judge-on-ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals/article_4b8e8b30-3302-11ed-b6b7-9ba3b18a6330.html | 2022-09-13T20:27:58Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-native-to-be-first-hispanic-judge-on-ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals/article_4b8e8b30-3302-11ed-b6b7-9ba3b18a6330.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lots of smoke with unhealthy air quality and a slight chance for a stray shower by late morning-early afternoon. Morning temperatures in the 50s, mid 70s by noon and afternoon highs in the low-mid 80s.
Smoke Air Quality Alert - Eastern WA/OR... Until 1 PM Wednesday
- Unhealthy - Very Unhealthy Air Quality
- Limit time outdoors
- Especially for young, elderly and people with heart or lung disease
Upper level low off the coast of WA is sending a little moisture into the southern Blues this morning with scattered showers and a few stray thunderstorms. This moisture is likely to move north into the Columbia Basin and foothills between 11 AM-2 PM with a slight chance for a stray shower. Showers and a stray thunderstorm look to develop in the Cascades by 2 PM. A few could slide down the east slopes between 4-7 PM and sneak into the upper Yakima and Kittitas Valleys.
Models are showing the upper level low moving onshore overnight and moving northward tomorrow. This will increase our southwesterly flow and hopefully help move some of this smoke out of here tomorrow afternoon and improve our air quality. Except for areas near any wildfire. There also, looks to be enough instability and moisture in the Blues for a few showers or a stray t-storm. A little cooler with highs in the upper 70s-low 80s.
By Thursday a broad upper level trough approaches the Pacific northwest with a slight chance for a few mountain showers and highs in the upper 70s and low 80s. The trough begins to move inland Friday with breezy winds developing and highs in the mid 70s-near 80s. Models are stalling this trough over us all weekend and signaling a fall like pattern change with much cooler temperatures. Highs drop into the upper 60s-low 70s this weekend with a chance for stray to scattered showers on Sunday. A few leftover showers early Monday morning from Hwy 395 and east. Partly to mostly sunny next Tuesday with highs in the low-mid 70s. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/smoke-air-quality-alert/article_a154e1be-338d-11ed-87f8-eb491145b2c9.html | 2022-09-13T20:28:04Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/smoke-air-quality-alert/article_a154e1be-338d-11ed-87f8-eb491145b2c9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – At least 50% of the U.S. workforce is currently made up of “quiet quitters,” according to a recent Gallup data — meaning workers do just enough to keep jobs they’re unsatisfied with. But a new “anti-quiet quitting” workplace trend is now gaining attention online. It’s called “FatFIRE.”
Unlike quiet quitting and its encouragement of disengagement, the concept of FatFIRE (which includes an acronym standing for “Financial Independence, Retire Early”) encourages workers to engage harder with jobs they may not necessarily like, to earn as much money as possible before “retiring” with an investment nest egg. Essentially, just grin and bear the job, stash as much money into stock options (like index funds) as you can, and then live off of the money.
The /FatFIRE subreddit, which currently boasts over 328,000 members, explains that there isn’t a set amount of money one must amass, but members of the group are generally considered “on the path” if they have enough to cover anticipated living expenses of at least $150,000 per year. This is known as the “FIRE number.”
The group’s subreddit even includes the concept’s mantra, “Retire with a fat stash” — hence the “fat” part in the name.
It’s important to note the concept is likely much harder for people in some industries to accomplish than others. Additionally, because FatFIRE aims for retiring “at an overabundant or luxurious level,” nest eggs needed to do it are dependent upon your area and living situations.
According to Forbes, someone pursuing a FatFIRE endeavor would need around $2.5 million in a portfolio to eventually have around $100,000, per year, to live off during retirement. FatFIRE goals may include being able to pay your bills but also having excess money to live in areas with higher costs, or to travel frequently — in addition to eventual costs of aging, as Time reports.
In addition to the challenges of stashing away enough for a nest egg, Forbes senior contributor Jack Kelly explains there are some significant downsides to FatFIREing, including potential major stock market disruptions, expensive personal catastrophes, and the possibility of needing to re-enter the job market after years away.
So even though FatFIRE presents an alternative to quiet quitting — albeit one that only a certain segment of the workforce can hope to achieve — the actual concept doesn’t remedy job satisfaction, which Gallup data shows is steadily declining. Gallup found the percentage of workers under age 35 who felt engaged with their jobs dropped 6 percentage points from 2019 to 2022. Meanwhile, the percentage of remote or hybrid employees (under age 35) who said they felt supported at work dropped 12 percentage points. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/fatfire-is-the-anti-quiet-quitting-heres-how-it-works/ | 2022-09-13T20:28:07Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/fatfire-is-the-anti-quiet-quitting-heres-how-it-works/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The poor air quality around South Central and Southeast Washington is forcing schools to postpone expected outdoor contests.
In a post on the Southridge Athletics' website, it says, "Please recognize that if our AQI reading is over 100 the air is unsafe to compete in a contest outside. We will do our best to reschedule games at convenient times and communicate those times quickly."
Here are the cancellations so far:
Walla Walla @ Moses Lake Slowpitch
Kamiakin @ Walla Walla Girls Soccer
Hermiston @ Pasco Slowpitch
Hermiston's Swim meet
Pasco @ Kennewick JV Girls Soccer
Hanford @ Southridge Girls Soccer | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/air-quality-forces-postponement-of-high-school-contests/article_b9c8f296-3390-11ed-84d8-cb5fb83e25b0.html | 2022-09-13T20:28:09Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/air-quality-forces-postponement-of-high-school-contests/article_b9c8f296-3390-11ed-84d8-cb5fb83e25b0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220913-N-WF272-1013 LAUREL, Md. (Sept. 13, 2022) Cmdr. Todd Winn, a native of Aurora, Colo., commanding officer of Navy Talent Acquisition Group Philadelphia, notifies Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Joshua Blankenship, a native of Roanoke, Va., that he has been meritoriously advanced to the rank of petty officer first class. The Meritorious Advancement Program allows commands to identify and promote the most talented, experienced and proficient Sailors based on demonstrated performance and ability. NTAG Philadelphia encompasses regions of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia, providing recruiting services from more than 30 talent acquisition sites with the overall goal of attracting the highest quality candidates to ensure the ongoing success of America’s Navy. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Diana Quinlan)
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Elizabeth man charged with murder after woman found bludgeoned to death: prosecutor
ELIZABETH – A 33-year-old city man has been charged with murder in the bludgeoning death of a 30-year-old city woman, announced the Union County Prosecutor’s Office.
Victor Rodriguez Gomez also was charged with two related weapons offenses in the death of Carmen Lopez Barahona, the prosecutor’s office said.
City police responded around 2 a.m. Sept. 11 to Lt. Glenn Zamorski Drive and found the victim with fatal injuries as a result of blunt-force trauma to her head, the prosecutor’s office said.
An investigation revealed that after the alleged murder, Gomez fled the scene and was apprehended by the Perth Amboy Police Department, the prosecutor’s office said.
Crime:Man found dead in Pennsylvania could be boyfriend of slain South Jersey woman
Gomez is currently being held in the Union County Jail pending a detention hearing.
Anyone with information should contact the Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force Sgt. Filipe Afonso at 908-965-3807, Detective Kenneth Luongo at 908-527-4643, or Elizabeth Police Detective James Szpond at 908-558-2041. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/13/elizabeth-nj-murder-glenn-zamorski-drive/69492550007/ | 2022-09-13T20:29:44Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/13/elizabeth-nj-murder-glenn-zamorski-drive/69492550007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Brunswick man charged with murder in Edison man’s stabbing
NEW BRUNSWICK – A city man has been arrested and charged with the Monday fatal stabbing of an Edison man in the area of Throop Avenue.
Rahmaad Howard, 34, was charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose in the death of Barry James, 36, announced Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and New Brunswick Police Director Anthony A. Caputo.
Police responded around 6:29 a.m. Monday to the area of Throop Avenue and Townsend Street following the report of a stabbing and located James with multiple stab wounds, according to the prosecutor’s office. James died at a local hospital, the prosecutor's office said.
An investigation by New Brunswick Detective Raymond Quick and Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office Detective Walter Kelley led to Howard being identified as the alleged suspect, according to the prosecutor’s office, and Howard knew James.
Anyone with information or surveillance footage of the area is asked to call New Brunswick Detective Quick at 732-745-5217 or Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office Detective Kelley at 732-745-3330.
Email: srussell@gannettnj.com
Suzanne Russell is a breaking news reporter for MyCentralJersey.com covering crime, courts and other mayhem. To get unlimited access, please subscribe or activate your digital account today. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/13/stabbing-new-brunswick-nj-edison-murder/69492921007/ | 2022-09-13T20:29:55Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/13/stabbing-new-brunswick-nj-edison-murder/69492921007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New York Yankees No. 2 prospect Jasson Dominguez promoted to Somerset Patriots
BRIDGEWATER – Welcome to Somerset, Jasson Dominguez.
With the New York Yankees top prospect, Anthony Volpe, having been recently promoted to Triple-A Scranton, the Patriots roster received a boost with another one of their top position player talents on Tuesday. Dominguez, a 19-year-old outfielder, was somewhat unexpectedly promoted to Double-A prior to Tuesday night’s game at TD Bank Ballpark. against the Portland Sea Dogs.
Nicknamed “The Martian” for his otherworldly tools on the diamond, the 5-foot-10, 190-pound Dominican native is ranked as the No. 42 prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline and No. 2 in the Yankees organization, behind Volpe.
Dominguez has moved quickly through the farm system this year, starting at Low-A Tampa and earning a promotion to High-A Hudson Valley at the All-Star Break, just before he was set to participate in the prestigious Futures Game in Los Angeles. Between the two levels, he hit .280 with 15 home runs and 58 RBI, but had particularly picked up his game with the Renegades, cutting his strikeout rate with only 34 whiffs in 157 at-bats, and hitting .306 in 40 games.
“I think with any guy that comes here with those expectations, the ceiling is so high,” Renegades manager Tyson Blaser said at the time of Dominiguez’s promotion to High-A.
“And, I think everybody looks at that. Sometimes, it’s almost unfair to put these huge expectations on this guy. We all have expectations for him in the Yankees organization, and obviously, you guys in the media have expectations too. He can reach those expectations for sure. But, I think on the other side of that, if he doesn’t, he’s going to be a really, really good ballplayer. The fact that they are that high leaves him plenty of room to still be a very, very good player.”
READ MORE:'The ceiling is so high' for star Yankees prospect Jasson Dominguez
Another outfield prospect, Everson Pereira, was placed on the injured list to accommodate Dominguez, as well as slugging infielder Tyler Hardman, who was also promoted to the Patriots on Tuesday after smashing 22 home runs for Hudson Valley this season.
In addition, rehabbing Yankees outfielder Harrison Bader and reliever Aroldis Chapman were expecting to play for Somerset on Tuesday. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/baseball/patriots/2022/09/13/jasson-dominguez-yankees-no-2-prospect-promoted-to-somerset-patriots/69492626007/ | 2022-09-13T20:29:59Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/baseball/patriots/2022/09/13/jasson-dominguez-yankees-no-2-prospect-promoted-to-somerset-patriots/69492626007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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I don't blame any 49ers fan who doesn't want to rewatch and relive the collapse that was the team's season opener in Chicago. That's what I am here for! After having a chance to review the game tape, I chose four plays that I thought could offer a silver lining of sorts for an otherwise disappointing performance.
Talanoa Hufanga's coming out party
Hufanga had himself a game. The second-year safety has a lot of pressure on his shoulders coming into this season as a first-time starter, but he delivered over and over on an individual level to open the season.
Hufanga had 11 tackles in this game, two of which went for a loss. Hufanga was all over the field and looked like a natural triggering in the run game. The play I want to focus on is the interception he had, the first one of his NFL career.
Throughout his young NFL career, Hufanga has looked very comfortable when he is tasked with playing the "robber" role as the hook defender in a single high look. On this play, DeMeco Ryans dials up "3 Buzz," which is essentially zone robber, and Hufanga is the hook defender on the weak side.
Pre-snap, Hufanga is near the line of scrimmage, which Fields appears to see and take note of, and who can blame him with the way that Hufanga had been wrecking the Bears' offense in the box during this game?
What's important to note in this play is how Hufanga bails pre-snap once Fields takes his eyes off of him.
It appears as if Fields never picks up Hufanga once he does bail, and Hufanga can read Fields' eyes the entire way on this rep.
Fields is looking to hit Darnell Mooney near the boundary hash. Fields gets ready to let this rip once Mooney clears Fred Warner, who is the hook defender on the strong side, most likely not ever seeing Hufanga as the hook defender on the weak side in position to "rob" anything breaking in over the middle.
Hufanga reads this the entire way and then jumps the route to pick Fields off for his first interception since he was patrolling the back end at USC. Here is the full play in video format.
Interception by Talanoa Hufanga on “3 Buzz” which is essentially zone robber
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) September 12, 2022
Looks like Fields never saw Hufanga after he bailed pre snap and Hufanga reads Fields eyes the entire way
Jumps the route after Darnell Mooney clears the hook defender (Warner) and picks this ball off pic.twitter.com/lQOprW9ucL
2. Deep ball
Trey Lance had a handful of really nice throws in this game, and the narrative shifted off of that due to extreme weather at the most inopportune time. Yes, the primary goal for the 49ers this season is going to be winning football games, but beyond that, there is a 1B, which is seeing incremental progress from their young franchise quarterback.
This throw that I want to highlight occurred on 3rd & 6 from the 49ers' 40-yard line. The 49ers will line up in a 3x1 with Ray-Ray McCloud and Jauan Jennings at the bottom of the screen on the trips side.
The concept is "Aggie Now," which will have McCloud running "Now," a quick slant designed to win quickly at the line of scrimmage and take an angle underneath the second level of defenders.
Jennings is going to run a widen go, which is a vertical route with a stem taking him outside the numbers to the field side.
Jennings gets separation against rookie cornerback Kyler Gordon, and Lance fires this ball downfield to hit Jennings for a big gain through the air to move the chains. Here is the full play.
Trey Lance hits Jauan Jennings for a 44 yard gain on 3rd & 6
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) September 13, 2022
49ers are in a 3x1 running “Aggie Now” to the trips side and Lance throws a dot to Jennings on the vertical pic.twitter.com/tVVDUMkALN
This kind of explosive passing play downfield is something that has largely been missing from the 49ers' offense during Shanahan's tenure, and the ability to hit this throw in a high leverage spot on third down is extremely encouraging for the long-term outlook of a quarterback with only three starts under their belt.
3. Javon Kinlaw flashes his potential
Kinlaw is entering his third year in the NFL, but due to the time he has missed in his young NFL career, it's reasonable to expect that it will take some time for him to develop into the high ceiling he has as an exceptionally gifted athlete on the defensive line.
With the growing pains will also come the flashes of brilliance and the potential that led the 49ers to select Kinlaw in the first round back in 2020. Kinlaw wasted no time making his presence felt in week one, recording a pressure on the game's very first play.
Kinlaw has been improving his pad level and hand placement with more reps, which has allowed him to maximize his eye popping athletic traits that he posseses. On the first rep of the game, he can get his right hand on the outside shoulder of the left guard before coming over the top with a swim move before bearing down on Justin Fields and forcing an errant throw that was nearly picked off.
Javon Kinlaw recorded a pressure on the very first snap of the game yesterday
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) September 12, 2022
Great hand placement on the outside shoulder of the LG before coming over the top with a swim move to disrupt this passing attempt by Justin Fields pic.twitter.com/DKdmmv56fj
What made this even more impressive was Kinlaw winning in a very similar way a couple of plays later on the opposite side of the line. This time Kinlaw gets his hands on the outside shoulder with his left hand before coming over the top of Bears right guard Tevin Jenkins with a swim move to help contribute to a sack on Fields on 3rd down.
Kinlaw wins this rep two plays later with a similar move, but this time it’s his hands are flipped because it’s against the right guard
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) September 13, 2022
Once again has great hand placement on the outside shoulder with the left, comes over the top on a swim move with his right pic.twitter.com/zkWmCeNpuH
4. Wideback where we started from
The 49ers' lone touchdown of the day came on a Deebo Samuel rushing attempt from a look that looked eerily similar to "31 WAG ZE BUBBLE" a call from his days in Washington.
The gist of this play is that it's going to be an RPO (run-pass option) which designates half the field for a pass concept and the other half for a rushing attempt based on the look given by the opposing defense.
The pass concept is a bubble screen to the boundary side with Brandon Aiyuk lined up as the "Z."
Because the Bears' defense lines up 2 over 2 with the nickel corner having outside shade over Dwelley, it makes the task of blocking the nickel extremely difficult, even for a generational tackle like Trent Williams'.
This likely eliminates the "pass" being a decision for Lance before the ball is even snapped, which means now his main focus is on reading the back side end on a traditional zone read attempt.
Lance makes the correct call to give to Samuel because the back side edge he is reading steps down.
Samuel is then able to get the edge before steamrolling Bears safety Eddie Jackson as he breaks the plane for a touchdown. Here is the full play in video format.
RPO with a bubble screen to the boundary
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) September 13, 2022
Lance probably eliminated the bubble pre snap because of the look the Bears showed with 2 over 2 & the overhang outside of Dwelley
It then becomes just zone read
Lance reads the backside DE & gives to Samuel due to the DE stepping down pic.twitter.com/w7cUfec7bj
You can check out Kyle Posey's breakdown of Hufanga, Bosa, and Kinlaw below. Those three were the biggest standouts defensively.
Also, props to anyone who picked up on the reference to the Maxine Nightengale classic in the subheading. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/13/23350425/49ers-bears-encouraging-plays | 2022-09-13T20:34:06Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/13/23350425/49ers-bears-encouraging-plays | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Family travels the world after learning children will go blind
BALI, Indonesia - For Edith Lemay and her husband, Sebastien Pelletier, it’s a race against time to see as much of the world before their kids completely lose their vision.
The couple has four children: 11-year-old Mia, 9-year-old Leo, 7-year-old Colin and 5-year-old Laurent. All of them, except for Leo, were diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare eye disease that leads to vision loss and blindness.
Lemay said she got the idea to travel after Mia was diagnosed with the disease four years ago. They took her to a specialist after she kept bumping into items. Lemay told the specialist she wanted her daughter to start learning braille, but the specialist advised against it, saying her daughter’s vision was still good at that point.
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Her two youngest children also developed the same vision symptoms and were diagnosed with the same disease.
Devastated with the diagnosis, Lemay said she had to think about re-building her children’s future.
"My way of coping with challenges is trying to find solutions," she told FOX Television Stations.
The specialist told Lemay to build up her children’s visual memory with books and other resources to develop a frame of reference for when they go blind.
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"And then that’s when it clicked for me," Lemay continued. "I’m not going to do it in a book, I’m going to go see them for real and also show my kids how beautiful the world is."
The family, who lives in Quebec, Canada, started their journey in March 2022 after delaying the trip due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, they have made stops in various countries in Africa and Turkey, and they’re currently in Bali, Indonesia.
Lemay documents the family’s travel on her Facebook page.
She said the best part of the trip is how much the family bonded while experiencing different cultures. She was touched when one of her sons noticed the sunset.
"It was so crazy beautiful, even my son said it looked like a dream because it was so surreal," she continued.
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Lemay said she doesn’t know when the children will completely lose their eyesight but they already have trouble seeing during the night. She said her two youngest sons have yet to comprehend their diagnosis but her daughter seems to accept it.
"She’s really a practical girl," Lemay explained, saying her daughter told her "I’ll deal with the challenges when I face them."
The family said they have no planned route around the globe. They don't stay in luxurious hotels but in more economical settings, living off their savings and shares her husband obtained through his employment.
They plan to return home in March 2023, but Lemay said building her children’s visual memory will continue, even at home.
"Beauty is everywhere around us...just make sure to give it some importance," she said.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/family-travels-the-world-after-learning-children-will-go-blind | 2022-09-13T20:36:37Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/family-travels-the-world-after-learning-children-will-go-blind | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Woman sues SFPD after rape kit DNA was used to ID her as suspect
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman whose rape kit was used by San Francisco police to identify her as suspect in a crime filed a lawsuit against the city and its police department on Monday.
The woman is only identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit and prosecutors have already dropped the charges against her, but her attorneys say the harm has already been done, and there needs to be more safeguards in place to protect sexual assault survivors.
"The last thing a survivor is thinking is that this will one day come back and be used against me," the woman's attorney, Adante Pointer said at a news conference Monday announcing the lawsuit. "Jane Doe came to the police looking for help. She came to the police looking for them to do right by her an instead the police betrayed her."
Police used the DNA collected in a rape kit the woman submitted to in 2016 to identify her as a suspect in a 2021 property crime.
Former district attorney Chesa Boudin exposed the scandal earlier this year.
KTVU spoke to the woman in March. She said she was re-victimized by the whole ordeal.
"They betrayed my trust," she said. "It just made me relive the whole situation."
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said the DNA was stored in a quality control database used by the city crime lab to rule out contamination. But when investigators got a match in the so-called "quality assurance" database, that hold profiles of lab staff and other profiles they work up, they passed the information to investigators.
Scott said he’s made sure no rape kits are ever used again to identify suspects.
The city attorney’s office responded to the lawsuit with this statement.
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"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," city attorney spokeswoman Jen Kwart wrote. "Once we are served, we will review the complaint and respond appropriately."
Earlier in September, the California legislature passed SB 1228 that would prohibit law enforcement from keeping victim DNA in criminal databases.
It's currently on the governor’s desk.
Evan Sernoffsky is an investigative reporter for KTVU. Email Evan at Evan.Sernoffsky@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @evansernoffsky. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/woman-sues-sfpd-after-rape-kit-dna-was-used-to-id-her-as-suspect | 2022-09-13T20:36:55Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/woman-sues-sfpd-after-rape-kit-dna-was-used-to-id-her-as-suspect | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Brownie the Elf: Meet the Cleveland Browns' new old mascot
CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Browns, one of the NFL’s oldest and most storied franchises, are famous for having the only logo-less helmet. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have a mascot.
Brownie the Elf is getting renewed attention this season after fans voted put him front and center on their home field. A giant version of the old mascot has replaced the Browns helmet on the FirstEnergy Stadium midfield turf.
If you don’t live in Northeast Ohio, you may be unfamiliar with Brownie. But the character actually dates back to the team’s debut in 1946; he was used in ads and media guides for years as the Browns won title after title. Legendary coach Paul Brown even toyed with the idea of adding him to the team’s helmets, but never did.
After Art Modell bought the team in 1961, he began to phase out the mascot. When he moved the team to Baltimore in 1995, the team’s legacy – and Brownie – remained in Cleveland, ready for a rebirth.
Brownie has been used more frequently in Browns merchandise and marketing materials in recent years, and has sometimes walked the sideline as a mascot. But this may be the first time a national football audience has seen him in decades.
"Brownie has been around for a long time," offered JW Johnson, Browns executive vice president and partner. "I think people enjoy him, and we haven't really showcased him as much as we'd like to."
The version on the field looks a little tougher and more aggressive than the more familiar smiling version that the team traditionally featured.
The new-look logo and field will debut during this weekend’s home opener. The Browns, who held off a furious comeback by the Panthers in Week 1, will host the Jets at 1 p.m.
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This story was reported from Tampa, Fla. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/meet-the-browns-new-old-mascot-brownie-the-elf | 2022-09-13T20:37:01Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/meet-the-browns-new-old-mascot-brownie-the-elf | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DES MOINES, IOWA — On Tuesday, September 13th, 2022, 17-year-old Pieper Lewis delivered a statement in her own defense as she awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter and Willful Injurty for the death of Zachary Brooks. Lewis was 15 when she stabbed the 37-year-old Brooks to death in 2020 after she says she was repeatedly raped by him.
Here is the full statement Lewis delivered in court. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/iowa-news/watch-pieper-lewis-full-statement-at-her-sentencing-hearing/ | 2022-09-13T20:37:56Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/iowa-news/watch-pieper-lewis-full-statement-at-her-sentencing-hearing/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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