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Watch your step as you enter artist Gabriela Ruiz’s mind—a hypnotic hall of mirrors that defies the limits of gallery space and rips you through a labyrinth of neon paths, digital dead ends, and sensory overload. You might accidentally slam into some Plexiglas if you’re not careful. But isn’t art best when it hits you in the face?
“Once in a while you’ll hear a big thump and know someone ran into a wall,” one museum staffer says at the entrance of Stream (mixed media, 2022), Ruiz’s immersive exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum, on view now through January 29. “I’ve come to this museum since I was a child,” another staffer says. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Stream is a deeply layered, life-size maze containing dozens of see-through panels, distorted mirrors, video surveillance, blue sand, found objects, 3D self-portraits, fast-cut micro-montages, spatial audio, and more. It’s a journey through the anxious and thrilling insides of an artist who found comfort as a child in carnivals and haunted houses.
“I would enter these temporary worlds built overnight in empty parking lots and was overcome with the fantasy,” says Ruiz during a walkthrough of her exhibit. “These spaces were scary and disorienting to other kids, but to me, they felt familiar because I could relate to the chaos.”
The mirror maze re-imagines an upbringing and identity caught in-between spaces, as if to say, “try and put me in a box and this is the kind of box you’re going to get.” Her mission is not to solve the maze, but to inhabit it—and take up as much real estate as possible.
“A lot of my work talks about finding a home in things,” she says. “I want to champion the voice of myself and others like me while carving out space in worlds where they are seen as outsiders. Coming from an immigrant household, the search for home is something very personal to me.”
Ruiz was raised by Mexican émigrés in the San Fernando Valley. She clawed her way into the art world without formal education or training only five years ago, and parlayed set design gigs, as well as jobs in the queer nightlife scene, into a reputation for audacious performance-stunts and hyper-surreal installations. In one piece, she's bathing herself in the nude on a bed of laundry soap in Antwerp; in another, she's throwing fluorescent paint and insulation foam all over a multiroom complex.
“Her work speaks to this next generation of artists who are looking for authenticity in their work, who really don't see a distinction between who they are and what their art is,” says Adam Lerner, Palm Springs Art Museum’s executive director and CEO. “It's so clearly coming from deep inside her, that it expresses itself in her clothing, in her performance, in her physical art.”
She’s exhibited at museums and galleries across the globe, but it was her debut solo show at Vincent Price Art Museum that led the L.A. Times to anoint Ruiz "the breakout art star" of 2021.
“She's not making art with an ironic distance, or an intellectual lens on the world,” Lerner says.
Although her work often calls out questions of self and community, Ruiz is weary of labels like “Latinx,” “queer,” “body-positive,” terms she identifies with, but doesn’t want to be defined by, or commodified to fit a certain narrative.
“You can tell from my name that I’m not a white artist,” Ruiz says. “I know who I am, and I want the art to speak for itself. And one thing about me: I’m gonna make it work,” she says. She holds a fierce allegiance to YouTube University and thrifting and credits her parents, who run a handiwork business, with this do-it-yourself tenacity (along with her carpentry and fabrication skills). It’s a work ethic also rooted in Mexican traditions, where art is often made from scavenged and upcycled detritus. Not quite kitsch, assemblage, or arte povera, she says, but more accurately rasquachismo, an underdog mentality and Chicano aesthetic that "makes the most from the least.”
Stream marks an architectural and technological milestone for Ruiz, especially since the set was designed, built, and installed during her month-long stint as the museum’s artist in residency. The program gives her carte blanche to experiment and showcase anything. She also got to choose another artist to show alongside her. Instead of one person, she selected four: Maria Maea, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Karla Ekatherine Canseco, and Clara Nieblas.
Two totems greet you at the entrance of Streams: one is a rendered animation of a Ruiz-like ouroboros revolving in space; the other is a scorpion the artist found in a neighboring desert. Inside, sounds and videos from Ruiz’s phone are transformed into soundscapes by Andrew “011668” Eastman and visuals by Derek Holguin—it becomes her memory palace, media that will outlive her, for posterity or archivists, or aliens. Thanks to spatial audio by Emmett Palaima, the Plexiglas pulsates until you reach the coda to the mirror maze: Ruiz’s decapitated body made of a plastic filament. The artist cast her body neck-down in plaster cloth and traced the mold freehand with a 3D pen. It reminds her of the skinless muscle men from the illustrated “Human Body” books in elementary school.
The sculpture stands in blue sand with arms outstretched, spread eagle, entombed behind Plexiglas., It’s as if she shed her skin, right there in the desert. In fact, Ruiz’s exhibit isn’t a maze at all; it’s a mausoleum. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/artist-gabriela-ruiz-palm-springs-art-museum-stream-interview | 2022-09-13T20:40:05Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/artist-gabriela-ruiz-palm-springs-art-museum-stream-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Margot Robbie Wants “Everyone to Party Forever” in First Babylon Trailer
A sure sign of an entertaining movie is the sound of Margot Robbie’s Brooklyn accent, which is one of the first things you hear in the trailer for Damien Chazelle’s latest film. Surrounded by piles of cocaine, Robbie’s Nellie LaRoy proclaims, “If I had money, I would only spend it on things that were fun, ya know? Not boring things like taxes. I just want everyone to party forever.” And she gets her wish, at least when it comes to the trailer. What follows is about two-minutes of chaos—fast jazz, Brad Pitt tap dancing in his underwear, confetti, paparazzi, and sparklers. Welcome to Chazelle’s Babylon.
The trailer, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, had to be shown twice, according to Indie Wire, so audiences could really take in all the imagery being thrown at them. Written and directed by Chazelle, Babylon is set in 1920s Los Angeles, around the time when silent films began to transition into the talkies. The director described the movie as “the hardest thing” he’s done. “Just the logistics of it, the number of characters, the scale of the set pieces, the span of time that the movie charts—it all conspired to make it particularly challenging, but it was a challenge that was pretty exciting to take on.”
Chazelle explained that his “guiding principle” when it came to making the film was to “demolish all preconceived notions of that era.” He said the Roaring Twenties were “a lot more wild west” than remembered. “There was more excess, more drugs, a more kind of extreme living on all ends of the spectrum than people even realize,” all of which he seemed to have successfully displayed in the film.
Babylon follows Robbie’s Nellie, an aspiring actress, inspired by icons like Clara Bow, Jeanne Eagels, and Alma Rubens. In her journey for stardom, she meets Jack Conrad, portrayed by Brad Pitt, a man akin to John Gilbert, Clark Gable, and Douglas Fairbanks. The official synopsis describes Babylon as “a tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.” Along with Robbie and Pitt, the movie also stars breakout Diego Calva, as well as Tobey Maguire, Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Jean Smart, Max Minghella, Katherine Waterston, and Lukas Haas. The film is not yet finished, but is currently planning for a December 25th release in select theaters, followed by a wider release the following month. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/babylon-trailer-margot-robbie-brad-pitt-damien-chazelle | 2022-09-13T20:40:11Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/babylon-trailer-margot-robbie-brad-pitt-damien-chazelle | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
David LaChapelle on His Fotografiska Retrospective, the AIDS Crisis, and Andy Warhol
There’s no mistaking a photo taken by David LaChapelle. The Connecticut-born photographer has had a distinct vision since even the very start of his career—hence why Andy Warhol recruited him to work at Interview at just 17. If you weren’t familiar with it already, there’s no better place to start than the massive, career-defining retrospective on view at Fotografiska in New York City. Then again, there’s a good chance you’ve known LaChapelle’s work for years: Who could forget, say, his portrait of Tupac Shakur taking a bubble bath or a naked Lil’ Kim covered in Louis Vuitton logos?
But celebrity has long been just a fraction of LaChapelle’s oeuvre. That’s more apparent than ever at Fotografiska (which, coincidentally, is just a block away from the gallery that played host to his first exhibition in 1984). Which brings us to the other key aspect of the exhibition: While LaChapelle is first and foremost associated with his pop culture imagery, there’s always been a political and/or religious bent to LaChapelle’s photography. And how could there not be, seeing as he was pursuing activism as a member of ACT UP at the same time that he was establishing his vision? Here, LaChapelle reflects on his beginnings and how those early ’80s days have shaped his legacy.
Tell me about some of your earliest photographs, when you were coming up in the 1980s.
Those pictures came out of the beginning of the AIDS crisis. I knew about it when there were just 46 cases in the world, and at the time, they didn’t call it AIDS. The very first time I heard about it, it was called the 4H Club: homosexuals, Haitians, hemophiliacs, and heroin users. The invitation to my first show had a photograph of my boyfriend. It opened on March 29 of 1984, and he died [of AIDS] in April. I was 21 and he was 24. People died so fast, and it was really terrorizing—suddenly, everyone was getting it. These pictures were a reaction to that—where does the soul go? I got very close to god, as I think happens when you’re facing death. I thought I had it, because my boyfriend had it, so why would I not? I went to a doctor in the West Village once after my boyfriend died. Her whole clinic—the patients and staff—had been dying. I really wanted to know [if I had AIDS], but it was going to take two weeks. And when I went back, she had lost eight more patients and staff.
The anxiety of not knowing must have been brutal.
I was so completely sure I was positive, so I braced myself for that. She said, “When we find out you’re positive, we’re going to put you on AZT.” I didn’t tell her, but I wasn’t going to take it. I was already vegetarian, since I was 11, and I just started to go running every day. I probably had the healthiest kidneys because I didn’t drink. I didn’t do drugs; I didn’t smoke. It’s so crazy, because I didn’t know how long I had. I had it in my head that I wouldn’t live past 24, because that’s when [his boyfriend] Louis died. You had all this pain, and not only that; you’re fearful that you’re next, so you can’t even properly mourn people. I was even angry. This is my first real boyfriend, first live-in boyfriend—how could you do this? That was before I knew that god wasn’t the harbinger of sickness and death. My faith really grew at that time. I started doing these pictures with angels and wanting to photograph things that were seemingly unphotographable. It took me a year to find a guy who could make wings.
He put metal rods down the back, attached to a leather belt, like the kind you use at the gym, and shoulder straps—but with the wires all covered up. So it looked like [the wearer] had muscles—like they could lift off the ground. He wanted $2,500, but I had $2,000 in the bank when I said I needed four pairs for a triptych. I used every dime I had. Because an angel with wings, a man with wings, a woman with wings? For me, there’s no better visual representation of the soul.
The one you’re showing me [pictured above] almost looks like a painting.
I would paint on the negatives with photographic dye in the darkroom. I spent all night in the darkroom—I call it the Dark Ages. [Laughs.]
You’d known Warhol for about five years before you photographed him in front of a backdrop of books—and, upon closer inspection, sandwiched between two Bibles—in 1986. Since he passed, the extent to which he was also religious has come to light. Did you two ever talk about faith?
We never talked about it. I knew that Alfredo, who was his right hand, and Benjamin Lui, would walk him to church on Sundays, and they told me that nobody knew that at that time. So with [regards to] that photo, I put the two Bibles that were on the shelf in his office framing his head. I didn’t even really tell him what I was doing, but [Warhol’s business manager] Fred Hughes yelled at me for touching his shelf. [Laughs.]
What do you think your work would look like if the AIDS crisis hadn’t happened?
I was very spiritual anyway, so that didn’t push me into being spiritual; I was just more committed and prayed more. And there are so many things that happened at that time that I can’t explain, which were miraculous: premonitions and things that are really difficult to articulate. When you try to explain them to someone, it’s very flat; it always sounds like a coincidence. And that happened to me with AIDS. I went to a Robert Mapplethorpe opening with his brother, Eddie, and the whole day, I felt strange. It was the strangest day walking around New York, where I felt like I was seeing things from a different perspective. It’s hard to explain, but I was seeing stuff. Then someone made a joke about Hitler, and, you know, my mom was in an extermination camp—she was almost killed by the Nazis.
And you really still were sober at the time?
Oh, I didn’t drink or anything until I was 35 years old, when I suddenly decided it would be a good idea to try drugs. I mean, I tried everything. Like I said, I was a straight arrow—straight edge? [Laughs.] Whatever they call it, back then, it was just a rule that I didn’t drink.
Everything about your photos looks so perfect. The early ones look Photoshopped because they’re so pristine. Are there any in particular where it was actually a mess behind the scenes?
There was always chaos. But I actually focus better when there’s a lot of distraction. I used to want to be a painter when I was a kid, and used to draw in the woods, but when I started taking photographs, I became addicted to that adrenaline rush. I took a photography course, dropped out of high school, and got accepted to this art school based on my paintings and drawings. They let me in halfway through the year and my parents didn’t have to pay for it. Photography always scared me because I thought it was going to be about the numbers and mixing chemicals and I’m really bad at math and science. But it’s so simple. I would stay in the darkroom so long that I could taste the chemicals the next day. When I was at Interview, I spent 23 hours straight printing when I was on deadline for photos of the Beastie Boys from the music issue.
No way—didn’t you have to use the bathroom?
Oh yeah, I peed and stuff—I would just pee in the drain. There are a lot of sinks in the darkroom. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/david-lachapelle-fotografiska-interview | 2022-09-13T20:40:17Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/david-lachapelle-fotografiska-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Emmy Awards 2022: See What the Stars Wore to the After Parties
In a rare and shocking turn of events, the 2022 Emmy Awards were actually...enjoyable. For once, an award show felt fun, and celebratory. This was partly thanks to Zedd’s well-picked music cues and Kenan Thompson’s actually funny jokes, but mostly thanks to people like Sheryl Lee Ralph and Jennifer Coolidge, who seemed truly happy and honored to receive their first awards. While usually, the three hour show drags on, on Monday night, it went by in a flash, and before long, the broadcast was over. It was so pleasant, we were only slightly irritated that HBO pretty much swept again, leaving those involved with smaller, but just as brilliant shows to repeat to themselves “it’s an honor just to be nominated” for the rest of the night.
But when the cameras turn off, that’s just the beginning, and following the awards, it was time for the after parties. HBO and Netflix threw bashes to celebrate their big winners of the night, and while some of the stars chose to stay in their gowns from the ceremony, many slipped into something a bit more comfortable. Below, check out what everyone wore to celebrate the evening late into the night.
In Louis Vuitton.
In vintage Versace.
In Vivienne Westwood with Cartier jewels.
In Alexandre Vauthier.
In St. John.
In Dolce & Gabbana with jewels from Grace Lee and Nicole Rose.
Wearing jewels by Delfina Delettrez and Grace Lee. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/emmy-awards-2022-after-party-fashion | 2022-09-13T20:40:23Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/emmy-awards-2022-after-party-fashion | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tributes Pour in For Jean-Luc Godard, Late Director and Pioneer of the French New Wave
Jean-Luc Godard, the highly influential director and pioneer of the French New Wave movement in the 1960s, has died at age 91. “Jean-Luc Godard died peacefully in his home surrounded with his close ones, his family said in a statement, noting that there will not be an official ceremony. “He will be incinerated.” They did not mention a cause of death, though the French publication Libération has reported that he carried out his plans to die of assisted suicide in his home of Switzerland, where it is legal.
Born in Paris, Godard worked as a film critic before making the types of films that would influence and be heralded by film critics for generations to come. That started in 1960 with Breathless, aka À bout de souffle, starring Jean Seberg (and her striped shirt, pixie cut, and copies of the New York Herald Tribune). Godard encouraged Seberg and her costar Jean-Paul Belmondo to improvise and embraced abrupt jump cuts—breaks from the norm that went on to influence heavyweights such as Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. Godard himself was well aware of its impact. “It was a film that took everything that cinema had done—girls, gangsters, cars—exploded all this and put an end, once and for all, to the old style,” he once said of the film.
At that point, Godard was just getting started. Through films such as Pierrot le Fou, Vivre Sa Vie, and Contempt, he exhibited a style so unique that it was key in the creation and legacy of the cinematic movement known as the French New Wave—a riposte to traditional filmmaking whose members included Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, and François Truffaut. From there, Godard became not only influential, but also prolific. By the time his final film, The Image Book, premiered in 2018, he had screened no less than 21 films at the Cannes Film Festival. (Many of which starred his muse and eventually wife Anna Karina.)
In a testament to Godard’s impact, French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the late director immediately after the news of his passing broke. “We have lost a national treasure, a man who had the vision of a genius,” he wrote in French. Lena Dunham, Last Night in Soho director Edgar Wright, and more admirers quickly followed suit. Keep track of the remembrances, here. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/jean-luc-godard-dies-remembrances-tributes | 2022-09-13T20:40:30Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/jean-luc-godard-dies-remembrances-tributes | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Quinta Brunson Reacts to Jimmy Kimmel Stealing Her Moment at the 2022 Emmys
We all expected Quinta Brunson could leave the 2022 Emmys as winner of the award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for her runaway hit ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary. What we didn’t—and never could have—expected was for Jimmy Kimmel to steal her moment by lying prostrate on the stage for the length of her acceptance speech. The late-night host pretended to be a dead body, and if the gag was funny when his co-presenter Will Arnett first dragged him onto the stage, it certainly wasn’t when he refused to get up and leave well after Brunson joined him.
Brunson played along with the bit, saying, “Jimmy, wake up, I won” and asking him to hold her phone. Perhaps that’s because, as she noted to the Los Angeles Times later in the evening, Kimmel gave her her first late-night spot and was early to give Abbott Elementary praise. “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,” she said. “I’m a huge fan of Will Arnett, so I was wrapped up in the moment.” But she also hinted that her feelings about the incident may change. “I don’t know—tomorrow I may be mad at [Kimmel]. I’m gonna be on his show on Wednesday, so I might punch him in the face,” she continued. Overall, though, “I felt like the bit didn’t bother me that much. [But] I don’t know what the internet thinks.”
As she no doubt learned upon checking her phone, the internet had no shortage of thoughts. Many deemed saw the situation as the embodiment of white male privilege.
On the bright side, another Abbott Elementary winner’s acceptance speech couldn’t have gone more smoothly. Sheryl Lee Ralph’s rendition of Dianne Reeves’s “Endangered Species” and reflection on the Academy finally giving her the due she deserved was one for the history books. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/quinta-brunson-jimmy-kimmel-emmys-2022 | 2022-09-13T20:40:36Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/quinta-brunson-jimmy-kimmel-emmys-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nicholas Hoult Broke The Great Emmy Noms News to Elle Fanning
Less than 24 hours before the 74th annual Emmy Awards kicked off in Los Angeles, Nicholas Hoult was behind the wheel of a race car, speeding through the Sonoma Raceway in Northern California during the Ferrari Challenge. But on Monday afternoon, the star of The Great, who was nominated for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for the Hulu show, found himself in an altogether different environment: the basement of L.A.’s Soho Warehouse Hotel, where he was preparing for television’s biggest night. (He didn’t stay on the West Coast for long—the next day, he flew back to London to continue filming season three of The Great.)
Despite all the movement, the British actor had a calm, laid-back outlook about the next few hours, which saw him getting ready to hit the red carpet in a ’70s-inspired Dior suit with a Jaeger Lecoultre watch. “I didn’t even really think about today until yesterday, when I got off the track,” he tells me over the phone, adding that he is an automobile enthusiast. “Then suddenly, I was like, ‘Oh, the Emmys are tomorrow.’ Up until then, I had just been concentrating on the racing and driving.”
As Hoult tells it, finding out the news of his nomination had a similar relaxed vibe—and, incidentally, he was driving at the time, too. “I honestly forgot about it, until my phone started popping off a little bit,” he recalls. “I was like, what’s going on here?” He then called his partner, who revealed to him that he had been nominated. “I was like, ‘Hey! That’s good,’” he says.
After finding out his costar, Elle Fanning, had also snagged a nomination for Lead Actress, he got her on the horn—and ended up breaking the news. “Elle was actually filming that day,” he adds. “Normally, she doesn’t have her phone on her, but for some reason, that day, she did. I was like, A-ha! And I screamed congrats. She was like, ‘Wait, what?’ And I was like, You’re nominated!’ Then we both just screamed down the phone at each other for a second.”
A look at the actor’s Dior suit and the Jaeger-LeCoultre watch selection. Photographs by Julian Ungano.
Although Hoult and Fanning did not go home with trophies on Monday evening, there was still plenty to celebrate—especially the former actor’s look for the evening. To go along with the cropped jacket and flared slacks of his Kim Jones-designed suit, Hoult chose JLG’s Reverso Geo Face timepiece, a “classic, beautiful, elegant watch to wear with a take on the black tuxedo,” he says. As Hoult tells it, his personal style consists of comfortable basics, with a bit of flair (“At the moment, I’ve been wearing cargo pant-type jeans with an old T-shirt and Jordan 3s. I’m a bit of a trainer junkie at times.”)
“I prefer simple and great craftsmanship and beautiful design,” he says, adding, “What’s the old saying? ‘Wear the suit, don't let the suit wear you’? I feel like that applies to watches, too. If something’s too ostentatious, for me, that’s kind of screaming and it becomes a little bit too showy or distracting.”
The actor says it usually takes less than an hour to get ready for an event like the Emmys. But it’s important to keep an honest stylist around while preparing for the red carpet. When asked what his style was like as a teenager, Hoult simply replies, “Terrible. It was just horrendous. There was no style.
“There was definitely a phase where I had a long fringe and baggy jeans, but then bright T-shirts that were just horrible,” he adds. So the styling duo Wendi and Nicole were on hand “to make sure that teenage me isn’t bouncing back and making some stupid decisions.” Another must while getting ready: music, which Hoult played in his hotel room all afternoon. He felt one song in particular matched the old-school vibe of his look: “Be Thankful for What You Got,” by William DeVaughn, a soul track off a playlist he’s had on repeat lately.
“I can take a moment to reflect on that,” he says of the song’s title with a laugh. “It makes me feel content and grateful.” | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/nicholas-hoult-the-great-hulu-emmys-suit-watch | 2022-09-13T20:40:42Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/nicholas-hoult-the-great-hulu-emmys-suit-watch | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Air quality is officially "unhealthy" in Kootenai County, and throughout North Idaho, reports our partners from the Coeur d'Alene Press.
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued an air quality advisory Monday morning to notify residents in the five northern counties of the degraded air quality caused by wildfire smoke.
The current air quality index for the Coeur d'Alene area is especially unhealthy for those with lung sensitivities such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
In a news release late Monday afternoon, the Coeur d'Alene Fire Department announced that no open outdoor burning is allowed at this time because of the unhealthy air quality. This applies to small recreational fires, even in approved fire pits, but propane fire pits are still allowed.
"The problem we’re having is we're surrounded by fires," said Shawn Sweetapple, regional air quality manager for the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality. "We were lucky through the summer. We made it to September. We thought we had it made, but Mother Nature had a different idea."
He said most of the smoke in Kootenai County is coming from fires in Grangeville and central Idaho as south and south-easterly winds blow to the north.
"We’re going to be stuck with the potential for smoke for a little while," Sweetapple said, adding that some of the wildfires raging in the region have the potential to produce smoke until it snows.
Northern Lakes Fire District Public Information Officer Chris Larson said the fire in Salmon–Challis National Forest is the largest wildfire in the lower 48 states.
"You have that area plus Grangeville, so you have all that smoke from that area," Larson said. "The Kootenai River Complex Fire to the north of us by Bonners Ferry has been pretty significant. They still have 0% containment."
Sweetapple said Kootenai County may see clear skies again midweek as a low pressure front arrives tonight.
"It looks like it's going to clear out coming west to east," he said. "Wednesday should be better."
Dr. Anthony Rehil-Crest, chief clinical officer for Heritage Health, said the poor air quality will especially affect those who are sensitive to smoke. He said Heritage Health in the past couple weeks has seen an uptick in patients with respiratory issues.
"People feeling short of breath, wheezing, starting to cough," Rehil-Crest said. "They're the ones coming in with a flare or exacerbation."
He said those who are sensitive to smoke should create action plans to ensure they have a clean-air space and their medications are up to date.
"A lot of people have inhalers they only use when they’re sick. Make sure they're not expired," Rehil-Crest said. "Have a room in your house you can close yourself off from the outside, have an air filter running if you can."
At 2 p.m. Monday, the air quality index was at 189 at the monitoring station on Nursery Road in Coeur d'Alene.
"When it gets about 100, it's unhealthy for sensitive groups," Rehil-Crest said said, continuing that when the air quality index reaches the 170s, it affects more people.
He recommended checking on those sensitive to smoke, helping them with errands so they can stay indoors and ensuring they have enough food so they don't have to create more smoke by cooking.
Now is also not the time to be using outdoor barbecues or grills.
"This level of smoke in the air is not good for anyone," Rehil-Crest said.
Info: www.deq.idaho.gov/air-quality/air-quality-index
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II returned to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, making its way through a drizzly London as crowds lined the route for a glimpse of the hearse and to bid her a final farewell.
People parked their cars along a normally busy road, got out and waved as the hearse, with lights inside illuminating the flag-draped coffin, made its way into London. In the city, people pressed in on the road and held their phones aloft.
Thousands gathered outside the palace cheered and clapped as the hearse swung around a roundabout in front of the queen's official residence and through the wrought iron gates. King Charles III and other royals waited to greet the casket.
The late monarch’s coffin left her beloved Scotland where 33,000 people filed silently past it in the 24 hours after it was brought to Edinburgh’s St. Giles’ Cathedral from her cherished summer retreat, Balmoral. The queen died there Sept. 8 at age 96 after 70 years on the throne.
Charles had returned to London from Northern Ireland, where his visit drew a rare moment of unity from politicians in a region with a contested British and Irish identity that is deeply divided over the monarchy.
The military C-17 Globemaster carrying the monarch’s casket touched down at RAF Northolt, an air force base in the west of the city, about an hour after it left Edinburgh. U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace and a military honor guard were among those greeting the coffin at the base.
One of those who stood in the rain waiting for the hearse to pass, retired bus driver David Stringer, 82, recalled watching the queen’s coronation on a movie newsreel as a boy.
“It’s a great shame,” he said. “I mean, I didn’t think about her every day, but I always knew she was there, and my life’s coming to a close now and her time has finished.”
The coffin will be taken by horse-drawn gun carriage Wednesday to the Houses of Parliament to lie in state for four days before Monday’s funeral at Westminster Abbey.
“Scotland has now bid our Queen of Scots a sad, but fond farewell,” said Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. “We will not see her like again.”
The new king is making his own journey this week, visiting the four nations of the U.K. – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – in his first days on the throne.
Earlier Tuesday, hundreds of people lined the street leading to Hillsborough Castle near Belfast, the royal family’s official residence in Northern Ireland, in the latest outpouring of affection following the queen’s death. The area in front of the gates to the castle was carpeted with hundreds of floral tributes.
Charles and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, got out of their car to wave to the crowd and sometimes used both hands to reach out to villagers, including schoolchildren in bright blue uniforms. Charles even petted a corgi — famously his late mother’s favorite breed of dog — held up by one person, and some chanted “God save the king!”
“Today means so much to me and my family, just to be present in my home village with my children to witness the arrival of the new king is a truly historic moment for us all,” said Hillsborough resident Robin Campbell as he waited for Charles, who is on a tour of the four parts of the United Kingdom.
While there was a warm welcome in Hillsborough, the British monarchy draws mixed emotions in Northern Ireland, where there are two main communities: mostly Protestant unionists who consider themselves British and largely Roman Catholic nationalists who see themselves as Irish.
That split fueled three decades of violence known as “the Troubles” involving paramilitary groups on both sides and U.K. security forces, in which 3,600 people died. The royal family was touched personally by the violence: Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen and a much-loved mentor to Charles, was killed by an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1979.
A deep sectarian divide remains, a quarter century after Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement.
For some Irish nationalists, the British monarch represents an oppressive foreign power. But others acknowledge the queen’s role in forging peace. On a visit to Northern Ireland in 2012, she shook hands with Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander – a once-unthinkable moment of reconciliation. On Tuesday the new king shook hands with Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O’Neill.
In a sign of how far Northern Ireland has come on the road to peace, representatives of Sinn Fein attended commemorative events for the queen and meeting the king on Tuesday.
Alex Maskey, a Sinn Fein politician who is speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, said the queen had “demonstrated how individual acts of positive leadership can help break down barriers and encourage reconciliation.”
Charles responded that his mother had tried to play a role “in bringing together those whom history had separated, and in extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts.”
He said he would draw on his mother’s “shining example” and “seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland.”
Still, not everyone was welcoming the new king.
On the Falls Road in Belfast, a nationalist stronghold, several walls are decorated with murals of Bobby Sands, an IRA member who died while on a hunger strike in prison in 1981, and others killed in the Troubles.
“No, he’s not our king. Bobby Sands was our king here,” said 52-year-old Bobby Jones. “Queen never done nothing for us. Never did. None of the royals do.”
Irish leaders attended a service of reflection at St. Anne's Cathedral in Belfast despite tense relations between Dublin and London over Brexit. Since Britain left the European Union in 2020, the U.K. and the EU have been wrangling over trade rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with a member of the bloc.
Earlier, the flag-draped oak coffin was carried from St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh to the strain of bagpipes. Crowds lining the Royal Mile through the historic heart of Edinburgh broke into applause as the coffin, accompanied by the queen’s daughter, Princess Anne, was driven to Edinburgh Airport.
“I was fortunate to share the last 24 hours of my dearest mother’s life,” Princess Anne said in a statement. “It has been an honour 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.”
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NEW YORK — The stock market fell the most since June 2020 following Wall Street’s humbling realization that inflation is not slowing as much as hoped.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank more than 1,250 points.
The sell-off knocked the benchmark S&P 500 4.3% lower in afternoon trading, threatening to snap a four-day winning streak. Bond prices also fell sharply, sending their yields higher, after a report showed inflation decelerated only to 8.3% in August, instead of the 8.1% economists expected.
The hotter-than-expected reading has traders bracing for the Federal Reserve to ultimately raise interest rates even higher than expected to combat inflation, with all the risks for the economy that entails. Fears about higher rates sent prices dropping for everything from gold to cryptocurrencies to crude oil.
“Right now, it’s not the journey that’s a worry so much as the destination,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. “If the Fed wants to hike and hold, the big question is at what level.”
Big tech stocks swooned more than the rest of the market, as all 11 sectors that make up the S&P 500 sank.
Most of Wall Street came into the day thinking the Fed would hike its key short-term rate by a hefty three-quarters of a percentage point at its meeting next week. But the hope was that inflation was in the midst of quickly falling back to more normal levels after peaking in June at 9.1%.
The thinking was that such a slowdown would let the Fed downshift the size of its rate hikes through the end of this year and then potentially hold steady through early 2023.
Tuesday’s report dashed some of those hopes. Many of the data points within it were worse than economists expected, including some the Fed pays particular attention to, such as inflation outside of food and energy prices.
Markets honed in on a 0.6% rise in such prices during August from July, double what economists expected, said Gargi Chaudhuri, head of investment strategy at iShares.
The inflation figures were so much worse than expected that traders now see a one-in-five chance for a rate hike of a full percentage point by the Fed next week. That would be quadruple the usual move, and no one in the futures market was predicting such a hike a day earlier.
Traders now see a better than 60% likelihood the Fed will pull its federal funds rate all the way up to a range of 4.25% to 4.50% by March. A day earlier, they saw less than a 17% chance of such a high rate, according to CME Group.
The Fed has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point. The federal funds rate is currently in a range of 2.25% to 2.50%.
“The Fed can't let inflation persist. You have to do whatever is necessary to stop prices from going up," said Russell Evans, managing principal at Avitas Wealth Management. “This indicates the Fed still has a lot of work to do to bring inflation down.”
Higher rates hurt the economy by making it more expensive to buy a house, a car or anything else bought on credit. Mortgage rates have already hit their highest level since 2008, creating pain for the housing industry. The hope is that the Fed can pull off the tightrope walk of slowing the economy enough to snuff out high inflation, but not so much that it creates a painful recession.
Tuesday's data puts hopes for such a “soft landing” under more threat. In the meantime, higher rates also push down on prices for stocks, bonds and other investments.
Investments seen as the most expensive or the riskiest are the ones hardest hit by higher rates. Bitcoin tumbled 7.1%.
In the stock market, all but four of the stocks in the S&P 500 fell. Technology and other high-growth companies fell more than the rest of the market because they're seen as most at risk from higher rates.
Apple, Microsoft and Amazon all fell more than 4% and were the heaviest weights on the market. The communication services sector, which includes Google's parent company and other internet and media companies, sank 4.8% for the largest loss out of the 11 sectors that make up the S&P 500 index.
To be sure, the losses only return the S&P 500 close to where it was before its recent winning streak. That run was built on hopes that Tuesday's inflation report would show a more comforting slowdown. The ensuing wipeout fits what's become a pattern on Wall Street this year: Stocks fall on worries about inflation, turn higher on hopes the Fed may ease up on rates and then fall again when data undercuts those hopes.
Tuesday's inflation report arrived before trading began on Wall Street, but it sent a thud through markets worldwide.
Treasury yields leaped immediately on expectations for a more aggressive Fed. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for Fed actions, soared to 3.76% from 3.57% late Monday. The 10-year yield, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, rose to 3.42% from 3.36%.
Stock markets in Europe, meanwhile, shed early gains and closed broadly lower. The German DAX lost 1.6%, and the French CAC 40 fell 1.4%.
Expectations for a more aggressive Fed also helped the dollar add to its already strong gains for this year. The dollar has been surging against the euro, Japanese yen and other currencies in large part because the Fed has been hiking rates faster and by bigger margins than many other central banks.
An index measuring the value of the dollar against several major currencies rose 1.4%.
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The use of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin has been a source of controversy since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when celebrities and popular influencers began touting the effectiveness of using ivermectin to treat the coronavirus, despite a lack of evidence to support the claims.
People on social media are now sharing a screenshot of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website, claiming the medical research agency has listed ivermectin as an antiviral treatment for COVID-19.
One of the Facebook posts with the screenshot of the website says: “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has quietly added ivermectin to their list of antiviral therapies for their COVID-19 treatment guidelines.”
A tweet with more than 17,000 retweets said: “Suddenly Ivermectin shows up on the NIH website for treating Covid. After years of denial, blocking, interference, villification [sic], ruining social media accounts, killing people, etc. they silently add it to their antiviral protocol.”
THE QUESTION
Did the NIH add ivermectin to its list of antiviral therapies used to treat COVID-19?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, the NIH didn’t add ivermectin to its list of antiviral therapies used to treat COVID-19. The federal agency continues to recommend against using the drug to treat COVID-19.
WHAT WE FOUND
The screenshots being shared of the NIH website are real, but they do not show that the NIH approved ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. People on social media are sharing the screen shots out of context.
The screenshots show a list of antiviral medications that have been evaluated by a NIH panel, and when someone clicks on the name of a drug, it redirects to a page that has information on whether they work or not to treat COVID-19.
The NIH panel was formed to answer questions about various treatments of COVID-19 and provide physicians and the public with guidance on what drugs someone should or shouldn’t take to treat the coronavirus.
The NIH told VERIFY ivermectin has been listed on their treatment guidelines page for some time – the site was last updated in April – and the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines panel recommends against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.
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Ivermectin is included in the list so people can easily see the results of studies on the drug’s efficacy, the drug’s side effects and so the NIH can urge people to not take it to treat COVID.
“Although there have been many ivermectin studies, only a few trials have been adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted. More recent clinical trials address the limitations of earlier studies but fail to show clear evidence that ivermectin reduces time to recovery or prevents COVID-19 disease progression,” the NIH says.
“For this reason, and because several medications now have demonstrated clinical benefit for the treatment of COVID-19, the Panel recommends against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19, except in a clinical trial … Additional adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted trials are needed to evaluate the effect of ivermectin on COVID-19,” the NIH says.
Ivermectin is approved by the FDA for human use to treat infections caused by some parasitic worms and head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Some forms of animal ivermectin are approved to prevent heartworm disease and treat certain internal and external parasites.
For a list of approved COVID-19 treatment Q , the Department of Health and Human Services has a list here.
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In January 2021, the Illinois Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act, aimed at reforming many areas of the state’s criminal justice system, was signed into law by Gov. JB Pritzker.
"This legislation marks a substantial step toward dismantling the systemic racism that plagues our communities, our state and our nation and brings us closer to true safety, true fairness and true justice," Pritzker said in a statement when the law was signed.
Many provisions of the law took effect that year, while some others are set to begin in January 2023 and 2025.
Many VERIFY readers, including Richard, Anthony and Katerina, have since reached out to the team to ask if it’s true that the law eliminates cash bail in the state, citing recent viral social media posts that have made these claims.
Some news headlines also suggest removing cash bail means all detained people will be released before trial, and VERIFY readers asked us to clarify whether that’s also the case.
THE QUESTION
Does an Illinois law eliminate cash bail?
THE SOURCES
- SAFE-T Act text
- Institute for Illinois Fiscal Sustainability
- Office of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker
- Illinois State Bar Association’s Steering Committee on Equity and Justice
THE ANSWER
Yes, an Illinois law eliminates cash bail as of January 2023.
However, the law does not mean all detainees are automatically released. Authorities can still detain people who are dangers to public safety, flight risks or repeat offenders.
WHAT WE FOUND
Under the Illinois SAFE-T Act, detainees will not be required to post bail for their pretrial release beginning January 2023. But that doesn’t mean everyone charged with a crime will be automatically released, as prosecutors can still argue someone should remain in jail because they are a danger to public safety, flight risk or repeat offender.
In a summary of the SAFE-T Act, the Institute for Illinois’ Fiscal Sustainability says the law amends a criminal procedure code dating back to 1963 to “abolish the requirement of posting monetary bail on or after January 1, 2023.”
The text of the SAFE-T Act also eliminates multiple references to “cash bail” and “bond,” instead replacing them with “pretrial release” and “conditions of pretrial release.”
Most jurisdictions in the United States operate a cash bail system, where the court determines how much someone has to pay for their release from jail. The cash amount “serves as collateral to ensure that the defendant appears in court for their trial,” the Center for American Progress explains.
But some advocates have voiced opposition to cash bail, arguing that it creates inequities in the criminal justice system.
The Coalition to End Money Bond, an advocacy group in Illinois, explains that “in the current system, the amount of money someone has determines whether they can be released – not where they pose a threat to someone else or are likely to free prosecution.”
Opponents of the law, including an Illinois mayor, argue that the elimination of cash bail poses a safety threat to residents of the state.
While the law does eliminate cash bail, it doesn’t mean the state will release anyone who is charged with a crime and awaiting trial, as some people have claimed on social media.
“There is no such thing as a ‘non-detainable’ offense,” a spokesperson for Gov. JB Pritzker told VERIFY in an email.
Judges can decide whether to deny pretrial release to a defendant when it’s necessary to protect someone’s safety, the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) Steering Committee on Equity and Justice explained. The initial court appearance to make this determination usually occurs within one to two days.
The SAFE-T Act states that a person will only be detained “when it is determined that the defendant poses a specific, real and present threat to a person, or has a high likelihood of willful flight,” and after a hearing is held.
“[The law] specifically ensures that release decisions in domestic violence and sexual violence cases are made by a judge after a careful hearing and goes further in taking victims’ safety into consideration than the current process,” the ISBA committee wrote in a statement. “Under the current system, money bonds frequently allow people to buy their release from jail despite safety concerns.”
The law also says those charged with a “forcible felony offense for which a sentence of imprisonment, without probation, periodic imprisonment or conditional discharge, is required by law upon conviction” can be denied pretrial release.
But both the governor’s office and ISBA committee confirmed pretrial detainment isn’t limited only to these offenses.
For example, a meme that has circulated widely on social media claims someone charged with second-degree murder would be released before trial under the new law. In reality, someone charged with that crime could still be detained for a variety of reasons, such as posing a flight risk, being a repeat offender, or posing a threat to public safety for a variety of reasons.
“The false memes are focusing only on one part of the law, but there are other parts that allow an alleged offender to be held no matter what their crime is because they pose risk,” the governor’s spokesperson said.
If a court does decide to detain a person charged with a crime before trial, it must provide a written finding “as to why less restrictive conditions would not assure safety to the community and assure the defendant’s appearance in court,” the law says.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — It was an exciting Week 1 around the NFL as we saw numerous upsets and surprising outcomes. Those results have led to a massive shake up in the Locked On NFL Power Rankings for Week 2.
This year, the NFL hosts across the Locked On Podcast Network will vote weekly to rank all 32 NFL teams in our Locked On NFL Power Rankings.
Our local Locked On NFL hosts ranked their 1-32 power rankings and the averages created the official power rankings. Check back each Tuesday for the rankings.
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Week 2 Power Rankings
1. Buffalo Bills
Last week result: 31-10 win over LAR
Ranking last week: 1
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 1/2
The Bills are the Super Bowl favorite and they looked that way in Week 1 with a dominant win over the defending champion Rams in L.A. Josh Allen looked elite with 297 yards passing and 3 passing touchdowns as well as a rushing touchdown. He did throw two interceptions but it didn’t phase the Bills defense, which picked off Matthew Stafford three times.
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2. Kansas City Chiefs
Last week result: 44-21 win over ARZ
Ranking last week: 4
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 1/4
Patrick Mahomes didn’t look like he was missing Tyreek Hill on Sunday in the Chiefs’ opener against the Cardinals. Mahomes threw for 360 yards and FIVE touchdowns on Sunday leading to a 44-21 win. Travis Kelce had eight catches for 121 yards, new WR Juju Smith-Schuster was very involved with six catches for 79 yards. And new rookie RB Isaiah Pacheco had 62 yards on the ground with a touchdown. Starting RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire had two receiving TDs of his own.
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3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Last week result: 19-3 win over DAL
Ranking last week: 3
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 2/4
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense throttled Dak Prescott and the Cowboys on Sunday before Prescott left the game with a hand injury in the fourth. The Cowboys drove down the field for a field goal on their first possession but hardly crossed the 50-yard-line after that. The Bucs offense didn’t do anything too special, but Leonard Fournette rushed for 127 yards and new WR Julio Jones was effective with 69 receiving yards including a 48-yard strike from Tom Brady.
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4. Los Angeles Chargers
Last week result: 24-19 win over LV
Ranking last week: 7
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 2/5
The Chargers are up a few spots this week after a strong Week 1 performance agains the Raiders. It was somewhat of a conservative game for the Chargers’ offense but their new-look defense came up big against Derek Carr, sacking him five times and intercepting him three times. These are the defensive performances the Chargers were looking for last season. Now, they have Khalil Mack who had three sacks himself on Sunday.
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5. Baltimore Ravens
Last week result: 24-9 win over NYJ
Ranking last week: 10
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 4/9
The Ravens are up from No. 10 last week, as they benefit from a number of losses in the top 10 of last week’s rankings. The Ravens cruised to a 24-9 win over the Jets as Lamar Jackson threw for three touchdowns.
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6. Los Angeles Rams
Last week result: 31-10 loss to BUF
Ranking last week: 2
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 4/11
The Rams looked real bad on Thursday night in their 31-10 loss to the Bills. Matthew Stafford didn’t look right and he threw three interceptions. Jalen Ramsey was graded as one of the worst cornerbacks in the NFL last week. And new addition Allen Robinson was nearly silent. The Rams still have one of the NFL’s best rosters and they’ll work to bounce back from what seemed like a Week 1 Super Bowl hangover.
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7. Philadelphia Eagles
Last week result: 38-35 win over DET
Ranking last week: 11
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 5/12
The Eagles make a leap from 11 to the 7 to get into the top 10. While their offense looked fantastic on Sunday in Detroit, their defense gave up a shocking 35 points to the Lions in the 38-35 victory. Jalen Hurts completed just 56% of his passes, but was effective on the ground with 90 rushing yards and he showed a lot of chemistry with new WR AJ Brown, who caught 10 passes for 155 yards. They have a big Monday night game against the Vikings this week.
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8. Cincinnati Bengals
Last week result: 23-20 loss to PIT
Ranking last week: 5
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 5/14
Maybe a bit of a Super Bowl runner-up for the Bengals on Sunday as they fell to Pittsburgh in overtime 23-20. This would look a lot different for them if their game-winning extra point attempt in regulation wasn’t blocked. Joe Burrow threw a whopping 4 interceptions in Week 1 along with 338 passing yards. Ja’Marr Chase picked up where he left off with 10 catches for 129 yards. No need to panic at all yet if you’re a Bengals fan.
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9. Minnesota Vikings
Last week result: 23-7 win over GB
Ranking last week: 19
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 4/16
The Vikings looked nearly perfect in their Week 1 win over the Packers 23-7. The Kevin O’Connell era got off to a great start and the defense was fantastic. They sacked Aaron Rodgers four times and forced a fumble along with an interception, albeit with a banged up Packers offensive line. Kirk Cousins was effective and Justin Jefferson picked up where he left off as well with 9 catches for 184 yards and two touchdowns. It’s a big jump but it’s easy to see why they moved up into the top 10 from 19th last week.
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10. Green Bay Packers
Last week result: 23-7 loss to MIN
Ranking last week: 6
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 6/21
The Packers were without starting WR1 Allen Lazard, starting OT David Bakhtiari and starting OT Elgton Jenkins in their Week 1 loss to the Vikings. It was a very bad game for Green Bay, bur we’ve seen them start slow before, like with their 38-3 opening loss to the Saints last year and then they went 13-4. So it’s hard to move them out of the top 10 already, but it’s easy to see how badly they’re going to miss Davante Adams.
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11. New Orleans Saints
Last week result: 27-26 win over ATL
Ranking last week: 14
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 6/21
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12. Miami Dolphins
Last week result: 20-7 win over NE
Ranking last week: 18
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 7/16
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13. Denver Broncos
Last week result: 17-16 loss to SEA
Ranking last week: 9
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 9/27
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14. Las Vegas Raiders
Last week result: 24-19 loss to LAC
Ranking last week: 12
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 7/20
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15. San Francisco 49ers
Last week result: 19-10 loss to CHI
Ranking last week: 8
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 9/25
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16. Indianapolis Colts
Last week result: 20-20 vs. HOU
Ranking last week: 13
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 11/21
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17. Pittsburgh Steelers
Last week result: 23-20 win over CIN
Ranking last week: 21
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 9/25
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18. Cleveland Browns
Last week result: 26-24 win over CAR
Ranking last week: 22
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 15/22
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19. Tennessee Titans
Last week result: 21-20 loss to NYG
Ranking last week: 17
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 16/26
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20. Washington Commanders
Last week result: 28-22 win over JAX
Ranking last week: 25
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 14/24
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21. Arizona Cardinals
Last week result: 44-21 loss to KC
Ranking last week: 15
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 14/28
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22. Seattle Seahawks
Last week result: 17-16 win over DEN
Ranking last week: 27
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 10/27
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23. New York Giants
Last week result: 21-20 win over TEN
Ranking last week: 30
Highest/lowest vote in power rankings poll: 11/29
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MIAMI, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumadi, an artificial intelligence-powered online proctoring business (part of Laureate Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAUR)), today announced it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). The APN is a global community of AWS Partners that leverage programs, expertise, and resources to build, market, and sell customer offerings.
Sumadi's status as an AWS Partner strengthens the business' ability to deploy large-scale, simultaneous proctoring of online tests and assessments for clients around the world, including universities, English language schools, and corporate and government organizations.
"We're pleased to have been able to showcase our capabilities during the review process to become part of the APN. This is an incredible validation of the progress we've made since starting up in 2019, to expand our business while leveraging AWS training, enablement resources, tools and more," said Raúl Rivera, Sumadi Executive Director.
"In addition to helping us better integrate with different Learning Management Systems (LMS) like OpenLMS, Blackboard or Canvas, we expect being part of the global APN will present opportunities that will help further our growth.
"As we expand our proctoring solutions, we look forward to building on our success and our relationship with AWS to benefit our clients in the years ahead."
Working with AWS has allowed Sumadi to provide its clients with cost-effective, scalable proctoring solutions with real-time reporting capabilities. Today, the business uses Amazon Rekognition for face and object detection, AWS Lambda to run code on a serverless event-driven compute service Amazon DynamoDB to store metadata, and Amazon API Gateway to create, maintain and secure application programming interfaces (APIs).
Since migrating to AWS in 2020, Sumadi has been able to scale its online proctoring services to support 50,000 concurrent users, each generating one record every 30 seconds – an increase of 25 times compared to before.
You can read more about Sumadi and its work with AWS here.
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Sumadi provides secure proctoring solutions to clients around the world, powered by the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its solutions are available in seven languages, are and capable of being delivered simultaneously, at scale, anywhere in the world, with real-time reporting capability. Recent accolades are testament to Sumadi's success, including being named in Europe's Top 10 EdTech Start-ups (2020) and Top 10 Biometric Solution Providers (2021) by Enterprise Security magazine.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 8, 2022, the California Supreme Court decided in People v. Christopher Strong that some special circumstance findings in murder cases do not automatically preclude defendants from resentencing relief under SB 1437.
SB 1437 was passed in 2018 to allow individuals convicted of certain murder charges to get a reduced sentence if they were not the actual killer, were not a substantial actor in the murder, and did not "act with reckless indifference to human life." This law is retroactive and applies to felony murder cases and those where a defendant was convicted under the natural and probable consequences doctrine.
Originally, many courts refused to apply SB 1437 to special circumstance felony murder cases. However, with the recent Supreme Court ruling, those cases may be reconsidered. Defendants may be able to vacate a conviction and get resentenced to achieve a reduced sentence.
Special circumstance murder is often called "capital murder" because it can result in the death penalty. A person may also be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP).
Defendants eligible for resentencing under SB 1437 may be released to return to their families, where that was not previously possible. Life sentences disproportionately affect people of color, who represent more than two-thirds (67.5%) of this group, according to The Sentencing Project.
SB 1437 and the recent Supreme Court decision in Strong are working to reduce unnecessary incarceration for people who did not actually commit murder but are serving a sentence as if they did.
Spolin Law P.C. is a criminal appeals law firm fighting for clients in state courts in California, Texas, Michigan, and New York, and in federal courts throughout the nation. We are dedicated to justice for those who have been wrongfully convicted or received overly harsh punishments. Our lead attorney Aaron Spolin, and his award-winning team of post-conviction lawyers is here to answer questions about SB 1437 resentencing and other relief in California.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and JobsOhio, the state's private nonprofit economic development corporation, today announced a $475,000 grant for the Youngstown Business Incubator to attract new businesses and bolster economic development. The grant was awarded through the JobsOhio Vibrant Communities Grant program, which revitalizes downtowns and main streets through targeted investments in distressed, small and medium-sized cities across Ohio.
In addition to the vibrancy grant, the Youngstown Business Incubator received a U.S. EDA Public Works grant for $1.9 million, bringing the project total to nearly $2.4 million. The Youngstown Business Incubator will add additional office, manufacturing, and research space to attract growing companies to the 65,000 square feet facility. The next phase of the project will include the complete overhaul and modernization of 18,000 square feet throughout three floors. This will include interior and exterior refurbishment, which will encompass the construction of office space, a conference room, clean room, and an outdoor mezzanine space to fuel collaboration and innovation.
A portion of the space will be built for Youngstown-based JuggerBot 3D to further increase its production capacity and add additional staff. As a leading manufacturer of large format 3D printers, JuggerBot's continued expansion is key to bringing new additive manufacturing jobs to the Mahoning Valley. The remaining space will be available for companies to lease.
The buildout coincides with JobsOhio's $450,000 grant for the Youngstown Business Incubator's acquisition of the XJet Carmel 1400. The first of its kind in the United States, the XJet Carmel 1400 leverages NanoParticle Jetting technology to 3D print virtually anything out of ceramic. The industry-leading printer enables high quality manufacturing without compromising on material or design.
Additionally, Steelite International, a global manufacturer and supplier of award-winning tabletop and buffet solutions for the hospitality industry, will relocate its headquarters to Youngstown. The company, which previously announced its move from Pennsylvania in June 2022, will occupy 45,000 square feet at the Taft Technology Center and Semple Building in downtown Youngstown.
"This is an historic moment for Youngstown," said Ohio Governor Mike DeWine. "The Youngstown Business Incubator is a catalyst that can attract more advanced manufacturing back to Ohio, and we look forward to partnering with Steelite International as they continue to expand and grow here."
"The Mahoning Valley has a rich manufacturing history, and the YBI is an important part of the infrastructure by advancing extraordinary technology that will change how Youngstown will make essential products for the world," said J.P. Nauseef, JobsOhio president and CEO. "With assistance from a JobsOhio Vibrant Community Grant, we are partnering to re-energize downtown while bolstering additive manufacturing that will increase manufacturing efficiencies, positively impact lives, bring new companies to the region, and grow high-paying jobs."
Previously, in August 2021, JobsOhio announced that the cities of Van Wert, Sandusky, Coshocton and Painesville would receive over $4 million to fuel economic development. JobsOhio also provided a $1.5 million Vibrant Community Grant to the City of Oxford to help fund a $10.4 million development project with Miami University. And in April 2022, JobsOhio awarded a $1.2 million grant to the Central District to assist in the redevelopment of downtown Lima.
JobsOhio is a private nonprofit economic development corporation designed to drive job creation and new capital investment in Ohio through business attraction, retention, and expansion. The organization also works to seed talent production in its targeted industries and to attract talent to Ohio through Find Your Ohio. JobsOhio works with six regional partners across Ohio: Dayton Development Coalition, Ohio Southeast Economic Development, One Columbus, REDI Cincinnati, Regional Growth Partnership and Team NEO. Learn more at www.jobsohio.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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A new report shows that local students' proficiency in several academic subjects have improved.
The Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) has released the outcome of the Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program (ACAP) assessments, which measure students’ academic performance in English Language Arts, Math, and Science.
According to the press release issued by ALSDE, the outcomes statewide during spring 2022 increased in the percentage of students scoring as proficient for all three content areas. For Alexander City Schools in particular, the school district saw an increase in reading, math, and science proficiency for nearly all students.
These increases in the percentage of students that scored proficient were seen in every subject and across all grade levels except 8th grade math. Eighth grade math had a decrease of one percentage point. The percentage of ACS students that scored proficient in English Language Arts, Math and Science was higher than the statewide proficiency rate in all three content areas.
The school district hosted a meeting Thursday, September 8, with parents to review and explain students' ACAP scores. Dubbed the Academic Parent-Teacher Team night, school district leaders organized the meeting in order to educate parents about their students' ACAP data and promote parent engagement in student learning.
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Superintendent Dr. Beverly Price praised the initiative, noting that family engagement was a priority for the school district moving into the new academic year, especially around learning and classroom instruction.
“We are excited about the parent turnout at our Academic Parent Teacher Team (APTT) night,” Price said. “I understand some barriers can make it difficult for parents to attend after-hours events at school, but at ACS we know the importance of family support in the learning process.”
As part of the meeting, educators at Radney Elementary explained their teaching strategies, which included the use of iReady, an online program for reading and mathematics that helps teachers determine students’ needs.
According to the school district, the learning software personalizes their learning and monitors progress throughout the school year. The iReady curriculum aligns closely with ACAP testing. Teachers at Radney Elementary stressed to parents the importance of understanding iReady assessments and how to use that information to identify pathways for student growth.
According to Price, APTT nights are meant to empower family members with strategies they can use at home to supplement the learning that takes place in schools. In the months ahead, the school district hopes to organize additional meetings.
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A memorial service for Christopher Paul McGill, of Buttston AL will be Saturday, September 17th, 2022, at 11:00 am at Alex City Methodist Church.
Mr. McGill passed away on September 8th, 2022, at the Bethany House in Auburn. He was 63 years old.
Chris served in the National Guard (1978 – 1990), retired from Russell Corporation in 1999 where he worked as a maintenance manager in the spinning department. After Russell, he worked at Trutzschler in textile machinery sales/repair and was Owner/Operator of Uneeda Gas Company until 2010. Her served as Secretary and Trustee for the Alex City Elks Lodge, #1878 and President of the Lions Club #12329. For the past 15 years, he worked as the Farm Manager for McGill Timberlands and Rolling Rock Hunting Club.
Chris loved with his whole heart and was loved by many. He gave his all to anyone that needed a helping hand and would remember every special occasion. He created routines with children that became special moments in their lives that they would cherish into their own adulthood. He was a true believer in paying it forward, and never expected anything in return. We will miss his contagious smile and his huge heart for all of us.
He is survived by his son, Michael McGill, Sister, Julie McGill (Cindi), Brother, Pat McGill (Brooke) Brother, Barry McCollough (Rachel) Sister, Danie Halcomb (Bobby) Stepmother, Martha McGill, His special princess, Ginger Sexton and 12 nieces and nephews.
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1935 - 2022 - Funeral Service for Mr. Charles Leroy Wilkins, 86, of Alexander City, Alabama, will be Sunday, September 18, 2022, at 3:30 pm at the Chapel of Radney Funeral Home. Bro. Kenneth Wilkins will officiate. Burial will follow in the Hillview Memorial Park. The family will receive friends on Sunday, September 18, 2022, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at Radney Funeral Home.
Mr. Wilkins passed away on Sunday, September 11, 2022, at his residence. He was born on December 23, 1935, in Alexander City, Alabama to Earl Wilkins and Inez Queen Wilkins. Charles served in the United States Army for four years. Upon completing his military service, he began working at Russell Corporation and retired after 42 years. His hobbies included playing rook, dominos, and cards. He was an avid bowler and loved Alabama football.
He is survived by his wife, Jane Marie Wilkins of Alexander City; daughters, Donna Wilkins of Alexander City, Wanda Harper (Billy) of Nederland, TX, Amelia Jordan of Alexander City, Charles Wilkins (Kim) of Valley; grandchildren, Dustin Harper, Trenton Harper (Erin), Dr. Andrew Wilkins (Tayler), Peyton Taylor (Jacob); great-grandchild, River James Wilkins; brother, Rev. Kenneth Wilkins (Elaine) and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; great-granddaughter, Nora Jean Harper; sisters, Pauline Cromer, Gladys Gillum, Doris Tidwell and brothers, James, and Clayton Wilkins.
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1966 - 2022 - Memorial Service for Richard Edward "Ricky" Harris, 55, of Hoover, Alabama will be Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 1:00 pm at the Chapel of Radney Funeral Home. Randy Anderson will officiate. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm at Radney Funeral Home.
Ricky passed away on Friday, September 9, 2022 at Brookwood Medical Center. He was born on September 27, 1966 in Alexander City, Alabama to James Edward "Jimmy" Harris and Jelene Jackson Harris. Ricky loved his family and friends dearly. Ricky was the Plant Manager for Larkin Industries for 32 years. He would help anyone at any time. Ricky loved boating on Lake Martin, going to the beach, watching Alabama and Georgia football, playing golf, going to Singer/Song Writers Festivals, especially at the beach, and was known as “The Mayor of the Pool” where he lived.
He is survived by his mother, Jelene Harris of Alexander City, Alabama; sister, Dana H. Johnson (Tim) of Alexander City, Alabama; brother, Greg Harris (Jessica) of Pelham, Alabama; nieces, Abby Johnson Mann (Hank), Ansley Johnson Chapman (Luke), and Hannah Harris; nephew, Jackson Harris; great nieces, Caroline Mann and Lucy Chapman; great nephew, Henry Mann; and many other relatives.
He was preceded in death by his father.
The family will accept flowers or memorials may be made to, Children’s Harbor, 1 Our Children’s Highway, Alexander City, Alabama 35010 or www.childrensharbor.com.
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On the first leg of the Three River Throwdown, Benjamin Russell’s bass fishing team took home two top-10 finishes along with a second place finish overall.
Benjamin Russell finished the tournament with an individual second place finish, along with an individual seventh place finish. Outside of the top-10, a third Wildcats’ boat finished 11th overall.
The tournament consisted of 12 schools in the Lake Martin area, who sent a total of 89 boats. Benjamin Russell sent 16.
“I think it was a great start to the fall 2022 season,” said head coach Josh Williams. “Any time you can come out and compete and put yourself in a position to be successful and gain a lot of points, you have to be proud of that. We had three boats in the top-11 places and gained a lot of team points that will help us throughout the fall.”
The Wildcats’ best boat of the day was between the angler duo of Slade Davis and Stihl Smith. Davis and Smith placed second in the tournament, with a scoring total of 299 points out of 300.
The pair caught six fish, with the biggest being 2.9 pounds. The team’s total weight was 11.26 pounds, just .52 pounds shy of the first place boat.
In seventh place was the pair of Jackson Fuller and Davis Barnett.
Fuller and Barnett also reeled in six fish, with the biggest being 2.84 pounds. The combined weight of their six fish was 10.19 pounds, good for a final score of 294.
The 11th place boat consisted of Jaxon Bradford and Kam Strickland.
The biggest fish caught between the two was 2.57 pounds. The total weight of their six fish was 9.45, giving them a point total of 290.
Overall, between the three best boats for Benjamin Russell, the school placed second with a score total of 883.
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“I am really excited and looking forward to this season,” Williams said. “We have the largest team that I have ever coached at Benjamin Russell. Currently, we have 32 anglers in grades 6-12. Over the years, we have continued to grow the program and I am excited to see the program grow but also excited to see if we can continue the success that we have had for the past few years.”
Benjamin Russell is no stranger to winning big tournaments, as the Wildcats have won the Three River Throwdown four years running.
To Williams, getting solid experience and winning early, is a sign of potential good things to come.
“I think we have a really good opportunity to win five in a row if we will control what we can control,” Williams said. “Fishing trails are like a marathon and the goal is to be consistent and steady over the course of the season. We had a good start this weekend and got a lot of anglers some experience that have never fished before. If we can continue to build on that over the next few months, we will be in a good position to five-peat come December.”
The Wildcats’ point spread was just five points behind first place overall finisher Elmore County.
The best boat on the day belonged to the pair of Jake Woodward and Lucas Mast, from Evangel Christian Academy. The two had the highest overall weight between their six fish of 11.78 pounds, helping Evangel to a third place finish as a school.
Three other area teams competed in the tournament, including Horseshoe Bend, Reeltown and Dadeville.
Horseshoe Bend finished seventh overall, Dadeville finished 10th and Reeltown finished 11th.
The Generals’ score between their three boats was 804. Dadeville’s score between its two boats was 560 and Reeltown’s score of their single boat was 284.
Reeltown’s single boat of Brody Ledbetter and Lane Burns placed 17th on the day.
The next leg of the Three River Throwdown is on October 8, at Lake Eufaula. | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/benjamin-russell-takes-home-second-in-three-river-throwdown-on-lake-martin/article_cc66b84a-3389-11ed-af02-374137381a0c.html | 2022-09-13T20:50:55Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/benjamin-russell-takes-home-second-in-three-river-throwdown-on-lake-martin/article_cc66b84a-3389-11ed-af02-374137381a0c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
All five area teams are in action this Friday. However, only Reeltown gets to be at home. Some teams need a win to keep a winning streak alive while others need a win to end a losing skid. Here are your five area matchups for Week 5.
Friday, September 16
Benjamin Russell at Homewood
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Waldrop Stadium, Homewood
Series: Homewood leads 6-4
Synopsis:
Benjamin Russell spent the last week on a bye, getting an extra week to prepare for the 3-1 Homewood Patriots. It has been no secret that Benjamin Russell has been on a tear to start its year, winning three straight to open the season. Benjamin Russell’s defense is shutdown and the Wildcats’ offense is extremely explosive. Benjamin Russell’s last win was over Calera, allowing only six points to the Eagles. Homewood also played Calera, and allowed 38 points. Homewood allowed Calera's Braylyn Farrington to score five times, with almost 300 all-purpose yards. If that game is any indication, then this Friday’s matchup should favor Benjamin Russell, even on the road.
Central Coosa at Thorsby
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Susan Bentley Field, Thorsby
Series: Thorsby leads 5-3
Synopsis:
Thorsby is going to be a tough opponent this Friday for Central Coosa. The Rebels average 39 points a game, while Coosa gives up 47 points per game including allowing 65 points in back-to-back outings. Coosa has not defeated Thorsby since 2016, when the Cougars won by 51 points. This will be an all hands on deck type of game for the Cougars, especially on the road, but crazier things have happened. You have to play the game to win.
Dadeville at Walter Wellborn
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When: 7 p.m.
Where: The Hill, Anniston
Series: 0-0
Synopsis:
Dadeville is off to a 3-0 start this season, largely due to the team’s ability to rebound after halftime. Every game this year, Dadeville has used a strong second half to either buttress an explosive first half or to comeback and win a game. The Tigers may need another second half-type game against Welborn, as the Panthers can score in bunches and have not allowed many points. In the last two games, the Panthers have outscored opponents 107-14. Dadeville tends to keep games a little closer, so this matchup should be an incredibly interesting one. The addition of Avontae Wilson to the Dadeville defense certainly helps the Tigers, as Wilson scored a defensive touchdown in his first game this year last week.
Horseshoe Bend at Highland Home
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Clay Stadium, Highland Home
Series: Highland Home leads 5-0
Synopsis:
The road does not get easier for Horseshoe Bend after a gut-wrenching loss to Luverne last Friday. The Generals’ defense shined, but the offense was unable to score a point as Horseshoe Bend dropped its second straight. Highland Home has not lost a game this year, and has not lost to Horseshoe Bend ever. The series between these two schools is fairly lopsided, with Highland Home outscoring Horseshoe Bend 226-91. This is the first meeting since 2007 between the two schools. If the Generals are going to get back in the win column, they are going to have to figure out how to throw the ball more efficiently to be able to supplement their offense.
Barbour County at Reeltown
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Nix Webster O’Neal Stadium
Series: Tied 1-1
Synopsis:
Reeltown drew the best matchup of all this Friday, as the Rebels get to host winless Barbour County. After losing the team’s first game to Tallasee, the Rebels have rebounded mightily. Reeltown has outscored opponents 83-22 in the past two games and have rushed for almost 700 yards combined. Barbour County on the other hand has been outscored 225-14 this season. The most points the Jaguars have put up this year is eight, in Week 2. Reeltown should have no issues picking up a third straight win on Friday. | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/week-5-football-previews/article_c980493c-339a-11ed-bfd1-6b38557d2640.html | 2022-09-13T20:51:01Z | alexcityoutlook.com | control | https://www.alexcityoutlook.com/sports/week-5-football-previews/article_c980493c-339a-11ed-bfd1-6b38557d2640.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Canadian family is planning to travel the world with their children after learning that three of their four children are slowly losing their vision.
According to CNN, the children of Edith Lemay and Sebastien Pelletier were diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. According to the National Institutes of Health, retinitis pigmentos is a genetic disorder that causes most people to eventually go blind. The NIH noted that there is no known cure for the disorder.
Most of the time, the NIH said, the disorder is passed through the genes of the parents.
A specialist recommended to the parents to engross their daughter Mia with as many visual memories as possible.
"I thought, 'I'm not going to show her an elephant in a book, I'm going to take her to see a real elephant," Lemay told CNN. "And I'm going to fill her visual memory with the best, most beautiful images I can."
While Pelletier received good fortune after a company he owned shares in was bought, the pandemic set their travel plans back.
With the world reopening following the pandemic, the family is trying to visit as many places as possible.
"With the diagnosis, we have an urgency," Pelletier told CNN. “There's great things to do at home, but there's nothing better than traveling.”
The family has been documenting their travels on Facebook. Most recently, they wrote about their visit to Mongolia. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/as-children-lose-their-vision-family-embarks-on-tour-of-the-world | 2022-09-13T20:52:09Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/as-children-lose-their-vision-family-embarks-on-tour-of-the-world | 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.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/fatfire-is-the-anti-quiet-quitting-heres-how-it-works/ | 2022-09-13T20:52:16Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/fatfire-is-the-anti-quiet-quitting-heres-how-it-works/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHALMETTE, La. (WGNO) – Fans of the New Orleans Saints are celebrating a big win after defeating the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday afternoon, and an area supermarket is showing its team spirit with something both sweet and a little bit petty.
On Monday, the Chalmette location of local supermarket chain Breaux Mart debuted a “Fail Cake” in honor of the Saints’ 27-26 comeback victory over the Falcons on Sunday. The top of the cake features a design meant to replicate the scoreboard about 11 minutes prior to the end of the game, when the Falcons were up 26-10.
This isn’t the first time Breaux Mart has found success by offering “Fail Cakes” from its bakery department. When the Falcons blew their 28-3 lead over the New England Patriots at Super Bowl LI, Breaux Mart celebrated the Falcons’ loss with similar cakes.
“Hi yes I’d like to place a preorder, thanks @BreauxMart I love you,” wrote one Saints fan on Twitter, in response to this week’s cakes.
“The level of pettiness in this tweet is epic!!!!” another said.
The Breaux Mart location in Chalmette is baking the custom “Fail Cakes” for football fanatics throughout the season. Prices vary based on the size and the flavor, according to the shop. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/louisiana-supermarket-bakes-fail-cakes-in-honor-of-the-saints-comeback-against-the-falcons/ | 2022-09-13T20:52:23Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/louisiana-supermarket-bakes-fail-cakes-in-honor-of-the-saints-comeback-against-the-falcons/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There's a long history of paying for things in installments: There's the way old commercials advertise, there are rent-to-own products, or shoppers can put purchases on a payment layaway plan.
But recently, more options have popped up that give consumers the items right away and take away the threat of repossession.
Companies like Afterpay, Klarna and Affirm have become a more frequent resource for people looking to buy things using a stretched-out payment plan. They have increasingly been showing up as payment options on websites of major retailers, including Target, Bed Bath & Beyond and Amazon.
It's a huge business. A California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation report found that 91% of consumer loans taken out in the state in 2020 were from buy now, pay later lenders.
But unlike leasing a car or taking out a new credit card, there isn't much regulation of this space because of how new it is. Buyers get the instant gratification of getting their purchase right away, which doesn't necessarily affect their credit score.
"A significant portion of people take out multiple buy now, pay later purchases," said Nadine Chabrier, litigation policy counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending. "There's no consideration of the ability to repay, and there's no specific date on which a person can count on their final pay later coming out of their account. So, people tend to take on multiple purchases and get overwhelmed."
Chabrier is concerned that the short-term nature of these loans has helped buy now, pay later providers to avoid existing rules.
"Some of the things that we've advocated for is to regulate buy now, pay later like a credit card," Chabrier said. "There are really important protections there for consumers that you have under credit cards that you don't have when you take out a buy now, pay later."
These types of services often have a younger, more diverse user base. A Morning Consult poll conducted earlier this year found that Gen Z and Black and Hispanic Americans were more likely to use a buy now, pay later service than the average American.
Elyse Hicks, from the consumer advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform, says that lines up with other trends in economic inequality.
"On a basic level, BIPOC communities have less, so they're more inclined to use products like Buy Now, Pay Later, Klarna, in order to get the things that they need or want because it puts those bite-sized pieces or bite-sized installments, something that they feel like they can handle, in front of them," Hicks said.
The same Morning Consult poll found that one in five borrowers using buy now, pay later missed a payment in January, the month they took the survey.
It can spiral into some big fees for consumers.
In August, after President Biden announced his intent to forgive $10,000 or more for Americans with student loan debt, one Twitter user's question about whether President Biden would forgive AfterPay debts too went viral.
For now, consumers like Grace Oppy, who is an Afterpay user currently in debt, and the millions of others who use these services are at the mercy of the companies. Affirm, for example, does pitch consumers on the fact that it has no late fees, but it does note that it would charge up to 36% APR depending on your credit, which is higher than even the highest APR on most credit cards.
But in the moment, the seemingly great deals can be really tempting.
"It started with a lot of strategy," Oppy said. "I was like, 'If I just do this, then I will be glam and perfect. I will definitely get my promotion.' And now... I have $90 earrings. So really, it's a slippery slope in my mind. My dopamine receptors are just, boom, firing away when I use it."
The advocates Newsy talked to said that the dopamine hit Oppy feels — a rush of satisfaction — is exactly what makes it so tempting to use these services when shopping.
"It just feeds on millennials and Gen Z, of how we like to get things very instantly," Hicks said. "We all know we want something, that we can get it at a discounted price and get it to our doorsteps very quickly. It hits that dopamine, and we're onto something else. So, it kind of it puts you in a cycle, and kind of like a debt trap, as well."
Influencers on social media are pitching buy now, pay later as a life hack for those who want something and don't want to worry about the cost today.
"You have people who you admire, who look like they have great lives, who then have this clothing item or this product, and it's just aspirational," Chabrier said. "It's understandable for people to aspire to a particular lifestyle or feeling, and that's what I think this type of marketing plays on."
It's not lost on consumers either.
"They make it seem so frivolous... like a fun app," Oppy said. "They're partnering with influencers. It's really nefarious, and it's subtle. But, making these people that we all try to base our lives on advertise this pretty predatory lending practice that's so unregulated: sneaky. And they got me. They got me there."
But regulation and standards could be on the way soon. Many buy now, pay later loans aren't reported, meaning that while there's no guarantee your credit score takes a hit if you miss payments, you also might not be building credit that can help you get other loans or credit cards in the future.
Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — the three largest credit bureaus —announced plans this year to incorporate buy now, pay later loans into their files, but implementation of that is still to be determined.
Meanwhile, state and federal regulatory authorities are looking at how to account for buy now, pay later services.
A group of 21 state attorneys general wrote a letter calling for federal officials to set standards on this. During last year's holiday season, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that they had started a review of the buy now, pay later industry, with an eye toward federal regulations protecting consumers from debt and ensuring companies tell consumers what fees they could incur.
Advocates are hoping rules will lift the burden from consumers and make the companies themselves have to give more information upfront. But until then, they say to make sure to read the fine print.
"Please look at all of your products or your apps," Hicks said. "See how much you currently owe these buy now, pay later companies, and just be aware of your spending habits. It's so easy to get out of control with this, but just be aware until regulation comes."
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U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin said he wasn't allowed to board a plane because the airline had concerns about his wheelchair.
Langevin, who is a quadriplegic, uses a wheelchair that is powered by lithium-ion batteries.
The representative from Rhode Island told TV station WJAR that Lufthansa Airline employees informed him that the batteries were not allowed on the plane.
He was due to fly from Boston to Italy, where he was going to visit military bases.
Langevin said his wheelchair is approved by the FAA for flying. He said he even showed the airline documentation, but he still wasn't able to board the plane with the wheelchair.
Langevin said he got onto a later flight after changing chairs.
He said he's working to make sure something similar doesn't happen to anyone else.
"In fairness, not everybody is going to be able to have someone, you know, go to their house and get the chair and have staff to bring it up so that the trip can continue," Langevin said.
In a statement to TV station WJAR, Lufthansa apologized for the error, adding that staff will be reviewing the guidelines to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/congressman-stopped-from-boarding-plane-due-to-battery-powered-wheelchair | 2022-09-13T20:52:33Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/congressman-stopped-from-boarding-plane-due-to-battery-powered-wheelchair | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials have granted a South Carolina factory which is just one of three in the country making fuel for nuclear plants a license to keep operating for 40 years.
Environmental groups had fought the new license for Westinghouse Nuclear in Columbia or at least asked federal officials to limit it to 20 years because of more than 40 environmental and safety problems at the facility since 1980.
Those issues included nuclear material leaking through the plant floor, the buildup of uranium in an air pollution control device and groundwater pollution near the factory, The State newspaper reported.
But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday it approved allowing the plant, built more than five decades ago, to keep making atomic fuel rods through 2062.
The agency cited a recent environmental study saying only small to moderate environmental impacts could be expected from the plant over the next 40 years.
Those environmental studies did not leave critics of the plant feeling better about its possible impacts, said Tom Clements, a nuclear safety watchdog.
“It’s no surprise,’’ Clements told the newspaper. “They have totally ignored public concerns about a 40-year operating license and all the events that have taken place over the last years. It makes it look like this was a done deal.’’
Westinghouse has been ordered to pay a number of small fines over the past 40 years including $24,000 after ash in the plant’s incinerator exceeded limits for uranium.
In 2018, an acid solution burned a small hole in the floor of the plant, allowing uranium to contaminate the soil. The company cleaned up the area.
Environmentalists also said Westinghouse has not done enough to make sure dangerous material doesn’t enter groundwater around the plant, but state officials said extensive testing and review by their scientists and three independent firms left them confident the factory was not an environmental threat.
South Carolina’s Westinghouse plant has nearly 1,000 workers and is one of three factories in the U.S. making the fuel to run nuclear power plants. The other facilities are in Wilmington, North Carolina; and Richland, Washington.
Westinghouse promised safety is its top priority as it continues to make the fuel over the next 40 years.
“The Columbia fuel fabrication facility plays a vital role in fueling the global operating nuclear fleet while also assuring United States energy independence,” Patrick Fragman, Westinghouse’s president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/s-carolina-nuclear-fuel-plant-can-keep-running-for-40-years/ | 2022-09-13T20:52:37Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/s-carolina-nuclear-fuel-plant-can-keep-running-for-40-years/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man accused in Midtown Fort Collins shooting found competent to stand trial in murder case
The man accused of fatally shooting another man outside the Midtown Fort Collins McDonald’s last summer has been found mentally competent to proceed toward trial.
Eighth Judicial District Judge Gregory Lammons sided with the prosecution in his ruling last week, which argued that the court should accept the findings from two separate competency evaluations ruling Victor Corwin, 30, legally competent to proceed in his case.
Legally competent means a defendant is able to consult with their attorney with "a reasonable degree of rational understanding" in order to assist with their own defense.
Corwin was arrested in July 2021 on the accusation that he fatally shot 39-year-old Christopher J. Johnson outside of the McDonald’s in Midtown Fort Collins, near the intersection of College Avenue and Drake Road. He has been charged with first-degree murder, a Class 1 felony; identity theft, a Class 4 felony; possession of a weapon by a previous offender, a Class 6 felony; criminal possession of financial devices, a Class 6 felony; aggravated motor vehicle theft, a Class 6 felony; and petty theft.
Two doctors who evaluated Corwin in the year since his arrest — Nicole Mack and Allison Osborn — testified to Lammons that they believe Corwin is competent to proceed toward trial.
In the first part of the competency hearing held Aug. 29, Mack said she supports her opinion from her recent evaluation that Corwin was competent to proceed. She testified that medication combined with no longer abusing illegal substances worked to lessen Corwin's symptoms and made him legally competent to proceed.
Previous competency evaluations Mack said she reviewed from prior unrelated criminal cases described Corwin as having disorganized thoughts or being difficult to understand or follow during a conversation, but Mack testified she didn’t see that during her evaluation. She said Corwin told her that medication helped treat delusional thoughts he had and voices he heard.
Corwin requested to start medication on his own within a month of his arrest, Mack said, and he is likely to remain competent as long as he continues to take prescribed medications and does not use illicit drugs.
Osborn testified in the second part of this hearing Sept. 9 that, during her evaluation of Corwin in June, he exhibited the mental capabilities necessary for him to participate in his own trial. Osborn said she initially diagnosed Corwin with a form of schizophrenia and likely drug-induced psychosis, which likely caused him to have delusions and hallucinations. However, through a combination of medication, inpatient treatment through Colorado's Recovery in a Secure Environment program — also referred to as the RISE program — sobriety and judicial education programs, Corwin's competency had been successfully restored, Osborn said.
Corwin’s defense attempted to cast doubt on the doctors’ findings. Corwin’s attorney asked Mack if Corwin could be hiding or masking symptoms because of his traumatic past that would make him incompetent, but Mack said it would be difficult for Corwin to hide significant symptoms while under constant supervision in the RISE program.
The defense asked Osborn if patients with schizophrenia could still experience delusions, even if they don't openly talk about them or "respond" to delusions as they experience them. Osborn said yes, this is possible, however, if Corwin was having delusions at the time of his evaluations, they did not inhibit his ability to interact with her.
"If (a patient) can interact appropriately to an evaluator, they should be able to interact appropriately with their attorneys," Osborn said.
The defense also argued that Corwin didn't fully understand the judicial process because he told the evaluators he would fire his attorneys if he disagreed with them, but the prosecution said that isn't a sign of incompetency.
Lammons ultimately sided with the prosecution, ruling Corwin competent to proceed.
Corwin will next appear in court for an evidence hearing, but a court date has not been set. He remains in the Larimer County Jail without bond.
All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in court. Arrests and charges are merely accusations by law enforcement until, and unless, a suspect is convicted of a crime. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/13/man-accused-in-fatal-shooting-outside-fort-collins-mcdonalds-competent/68338697007/ | 2022-09-13T20:52:39Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/13/man-accused-in-fatal-shooting-outside-fort-collins-mcdonalds-competent/68338697007/ | 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.wtxl.com/news/national/jury-gets-r-kellys-child-pornography-and-trial-fixing-case | 2022-09-13T20:52:45Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/jury-gets-r-kellys-child-pornography-and-trial-fixing-case | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Justice Department announced that a Minnesota man was sentenced to life in prison for selling fentanyl that resulted in 11 fatal overdoses.
In a press release, the Justice Department said Aaron Broussard, of Hopkins, was convicted in March of 17 counts, including conspiracy and distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.
“Eleven lives lost. Families, friends, and communities [were] forever changed by the devastation brought on by Aaron Broussard’s deadly fentanyl. Although the trauma felt by the victims can never be undone and the true cost can never be calculated, Mr. Broussard will now spend the remainder of his life behind bars,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger in a statement.
During the 31-year-old's trial, federal prosecutors said Broussard's customers believed they were buying Adderall.
As a result, 11 of them died from a fentanyl overdose, federal prosecutors said.
Federal prosecutors said at least four other customers of his suffered serious bodily injury.
During his sentencing hearing, Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson praised the bravery of those who provided impact statements, the Justice Department said.
“Your disregard for human life is terrifying," Nelson told Broussard. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/minnesota-man-gets-life-sentence-for-selling-fentanyl-in-11-fatal-overdoses | 2022-09-13T20:52:52Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/minnesota-man-gets-life-sentence-for-selling-fentanyl-in-11-fatal-overdoses | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NASA science chief Thomas Zurbuchen will step down by the end of the year.
As Reuters reported, Zurbuchen oversaw the successful deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope as well as the deployment of the Perseverance Mars rover.
Zurbuchen said in a statement, "This is a difficult decision for me, but I believe it is time for a new beginning - for the directorate and for me."
Zurbuchen, a Swiss-American astrophysicist, has been NASA's head of science mission directorate since 2016. He has led over 100 of the agency's missions.
Bobby Braun, the head of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab's space exploration sector, said of Zurbuchen, "From the diversity of the team he assembled to delivering countless successful space science missions that have changed our view of the universe, to investing in new and better ways of accomplishing space science goals and growing the overall community, Thomas has been a force for positive change across NASA." | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/nasa-science-chief-to-leave-post-by-end-of-year | 2022-09-13T20:53:04Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/nasa-science-chief-to-leave-post-by-end-of-year | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavy rain Monday unleashed mudslides in a mountain area east of Los Angeles that burned two years ago, sending boulders and other debris across roads and prompting evacuation and shelter-in-place orders for thousands of residents.
Firefighters went street by street in the community of Forest Falls to make sure no residents were trapped. Eric Sherwin, spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said crews hadn’t found anyone who needed to be rescued and no one was reported missing.
Many structures in the area had varying levels of damage, Sherwin said, including a commercial building where the mud was so high it collapsed the roof.
The rains were the remnants of a tropical storm that brought high winds and some badly needed rainfall to drought-stricken Southern California last week, helping firefighters largely corral a wildfire that had been burning out of control about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the mudslides.
The mud flows and flash flooding occurred in parts of the San Bernardino Mountains where there are burn scars — areas where there's little vegetation to hold the soil — from the 2020 wildfires.
“All of that dirt turns to mud and starts slipping down the mountain,” Sherwin said.
One of the wildfires, the El Dorado Fire, was sparked by a smoke device used by a couple to reveal their baby's gender. A firefighter died and the couple was criminally charged in a pending case.
Concerns about additional mud and debris flows Monday night prompted authorities to put 2,000 homes in the San Bernardino Mountain communities of Oak Glen and Forest Falls under evacuation orders after nearly 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain fell on Yucaipa Ridge.
For some homes in Forest Falls it was too late to evacuate and residents were told to shelter in place through the night because it was safer than venturing out.
"The roads are compromised or they’re covered in debris,” Sherwin said, adding that crews planned to work all night using heavy equipment to clear routes.
The mudslides came after a week that saw California endure a record-long heatwave, where temperatures in many parts of the state rocket past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), and pushed the state's electrical grid to the breaking point as air conditioners sucked up power. The Fairview Fire and the Mosquito Fire burning east of Sacramento broke out and raged out of control.
The tropical storm aided crews battling the Fairview Fire about 75 miles (121 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles. The 44-square-mile (114-square-kilometer) blaze was 56% contained by late Monday. Two people died fleeing the fire, which destroyed at least 30 homes and other structures in Riverside County.
The Mosquito Fire has grown to 76 square miles (197 square kilometers), with 16% containment, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. While crews were able to take advantage of cooler temperatures and higher humidity Monday to strengthen control lines, more than 5,800 structures in Placer and El Dorado counties remained under threat, and some 11,000 residents were under evacuation orders.
Smoky skies from wildfires in many areas of the West caused air quality to deteriorate Monday, with dangerous levels of particulate pollution detected by government and private monitors in portions of eastern Oregon and Washington, Northern California, central Idaho and western Montana. In some areas, people were told to avoid all outdoor activity until the pollution cleared.
In Washington, fire officials scrambled to secure resources for a blaze sparked Saturday in the remote Stevens Pass area that sent hikers fleeing and forced evacuations of mountain communities. As of Monday, the Bolt Creek Fire was 2% contained and had scorched nearly 12 square miles (31 square kilometers) of forestland about 65 miles (104 kilometers) northeast of Seattle. A larger incident management team and additional fire crews were slated to arrive Tuesday, officials said.
In Oregon, utility companies said Monday they restored power to tens of thousands of customers after shutting down service over the weekend to try to prevent wildfires during high winds, low humidity and hot temperatures.
Both Portland General Electric and Pacific Power enacted planned power shutoffs Friday as gusting winds and low humidity moved into Oregon, posing extreme fire danger. The utilities were concerned that the winds would cause power lines to break or sag, making sparks that could ignite tinder-dry vegetation.
South of Portland, evacuation levels were reduced near the 135-square-mile (349-square-kilometer) Cedar Creek Fire, which has burned for over a month across Lane and Deschutes counties. Firefighters were protecting remote homes in Oakridge, Westfir and surrounding mountain communities. Sheriff’s officials warned that people should remain ready to leave at a moment’s notice should conditions change.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in its history. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/rain-mudslides-prompt-southern-california-evacuations | 2022-09-13T20:53:10Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/rain-mudslides-prompt-southern-california-evacuations | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wall Street had its worst day since June 2020 on Tuesday as the inflation reading was hotter than expected.
The Dow dropped more than 1,250 points, the Associated Press reported. According to the New York Times, U.S. government bond yields "soared" on Tuesday after new data showed that bets made by investors on how persistent inflation would be were proven wrong and saw investors be undercut in their predictions.
The S&P 500 was trading higher before the data was released but saw a 4.3 percent slump by the end of Tuesday trading.
Reports of faster-than-expected inflation data showed that investors were caught off guard. There is still lingering uncertainty about how much more the Federal Reserve will need to raise interest rates.
If the Fed raises rates again, it will make borrowing more expensive for consumers and companies.
The Nasdaq Composite stock index saw its worse day since June 2020 as it fell 5.2 percent. The index is loaded with tech stocks which are more sensitive to rising interest rates, the New York Times reported. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/wall-street-stocks-plunge-worst-day-since-june-2020-as-inflation-data-worsens | 2022-09-13T20:53:16Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/wall-street-stocks-plunge-worst-day-since-june-2020-as-inflation-data-worsens | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers said a plan for Disney's special district is likely coming soon.
The entertainment company will lose its privileges through the Reedy Creek Improvement District next year. Since 1967, RCID has allowed Disney World in central Florida to operate the district like a county government.
In April, the governor signed a bill to dissolve Reedy Creek and several districts like it. Republicans pushed through the idea during a special session, believing the company had too much autonomy.
The legislation came after Disney condemned the approval of HB 1557, the Parental Rights in Education bill — what critics call the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Now law, the policy restricts instruction of gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms, or "in a manner not age appropriate."
State Rep. Randy Fine, R-Palm Beach, carried the special districts bill in the House. He said that at the time, "when you kick the hornet's nest, you never know what's going to come up."
"I think that Disney has forgotten that they are a guest in our state," Fine said in April. "A California company needs to respect Florida values if they want to do business there."
Many since expected Disney would hammer out a new agreement with the state before Reedy Creek's expiration on June 1 of next year. Critics note time is of the essence as the district's roughly $1 billion in bond debt could be transferred to central Florida taxpayers without reconstitution.
"The one thing that I can tell the audience is that the conversations of Reedy Creek have always been there, and they're still continuing today," state Rep. Daniel Perez, R-Miami, told us during a recent interview.
Perez is expected to become House Speaker in 2024. During an interview last week, the high-ranking Republican said he expected the public would find out what's next for Disney and its district shortly.
"We'll try to put a bow to that conversation in the near future," he said. "As for the timetable on that, it's still uncertain. But the conversations have continued. There is some progress to be made, but we will definitely, I think, we'll reach a solution sometime soon."
Disney hasn't yet commented on the situation or shared details of what a reworked special district might look like. The governor's office has also stayed quiet.
"We don't have an announcement to make at the moment but stay tuned," governor press secretary Bryan Griffin said.
Democrats, meanwhile, continue to condemn Republicans for taking action in the first place. With a deal nearing, state Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, was hopeful Disney would remain firm on its opposition to HB 1557.
"I know that Disney, as a corporation, is going to pursue whatever avenue will benefit their bottom line," Eskamani said. "But, I hope they continue to hold a line on their values of being an inclusive and welcoming company that has, not only LGBTQ+ cast members and employees but also customers."
Any new deal will still need the Legislature's approval and the governor’s signature to become law. The regular 60-day lawmaking session begins in March and runs until May. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-expect-solution-for-disneys-reedy-creek-district-soon | 2022-09-13T20:53:22Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-expect-solution-for-disneys-reedy-creek-district-soon | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Every two months, Casual Animal Brewing Co. selects a new nonprofit and beer style for its "Local Motive" program, and KCUR/Classical KC is excited to be paired with a Cold IPA - a crisp take on the IPA style that appeals to both beer novices and veterans.
For the months of September and October 2022, $2 from every pour of the "Local Motive" Cold IPA goes directly to support Classical KC and KCUR! We're throwing a "harp-y" hour to celebrate on Thursday, September 29 from 5- 7 p.m. at Casual Animal's brewery and taproom in the Crossroads.
Come by to hear some harp music provided by Classical KC's own Brooke Knoll, make a pop cover song request, and enjoy our Local Motive brew. Cheers!
Classical KC Harp-y Hour
Where: Casual Animal Brewing Co.
1725 McGee Street
Kansas City, MO, 64108
When: September 29 5-7 p.m. | https://www.kcur.org/classical-kc-spotlight/2022-09-13/join-classical-kc-at-casual-animal-brewing-for-a-harp-y-hour | 2022-09-13T20:53:57Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/classical-kc-spotlight/2022-09-13/join-classical-kc-at-casual-animal-brewing-for-a-harp-y-hour | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jackson County has lost its bid to appeal a case in which a Cole County judge struck down COVID-19 restrictions issued by local public health departments.
The Missouri Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that Jackson County should have sought to intervene in the case earlier and not after Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt declined to appeal the Cole County judge’s decision.
Jackson County had argued that it was not until Schmitt declined to appeal that it became aware he was no longer representing the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS).
But the appeals court said the case had been pending for 11 months before Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green issued his ruling and was well publicized. And it noted that Jackson County stated in its own motion to intervene that Schmitt had filed numerous lawsuits against local governments and schools challenging their public health measures before he declined to appeal Green’s ruling.
“It seems disingenuous to argue that intervention must be allowed after judgment because Missouri Attorney General Schmitt unexpectedly declined to appeal the judgment,” the appeals court stated.
Attorneys for Jackson county could not be reached for comment. Doug Moore, a spokesman for St. Louis County, which also sought to intervene in the case, said, "The county is disappointed in the court's ruling and our attorneys are reviewing options to seek further review."
The Cole County case was filed in 2020 by a St. Louis County restaurant owner amid controversial shutdowns of restaurants and other public spaces in St. Louis and Kansas City. The suit alleged that regulations issued by DHSS unconstitutionally authorized local health departments to issue public health orders, such as quarantines and mask mandates, to curb the spread of COVID-19.
In November 2021, Green ruled in favor of the owner of the restaurant, Satchmo’s Bar and Grill, finding that local health departments’ pandemic-related orders violated the Missouri Constitution’s separation of powers provision.
“This case is about whether Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services regulations can abolish representative government in the creation of public health laws, and whether it can authorize closure of a school or assembly based on the unfettered opinion of an unelected official,” Green wrote. “This court finds it cannot.”
After Schmitt declined to appeal Green’s ruling, Jackson County and St. Louis County jointly moved to intervene. They were later followed by the Cooper County Public Health Center, the Livingston County Health Center and the Jefferson County Health Center. All of them argued that Schmitt’s refusal to appeal was contrary to the wishes of DHSS.
Schmitt opposed the intervention motions, arguing that he had the exclusive authority to determine whether to appeal a judgment and that Jackson County and the other parties seeking to intervene were trying to circumvent his authority.
The appeals court’s decision means that Green’s ruling remains the operative case law on the subject, unless the Legislature explicitly empowers DHSS to authorize local health departments to issue pandemic-related restrictions. | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-13/missouri-appeals-court-says-jackson-county-cant-challenge-ruling-banning-local-covid-orders | 2022-09-13T20:54:00Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-13/missouri-appeals-court-says-jackson-county-cant-challenge-ruling-banning-local-covid-orders | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A movement is under way, here in the U.S. and elsewhere, to make the standard work week four days.
A non-profit called 4 Day Week Global is operating trial runs to test how a shift to 32-hour work weeks impacts employers and employees. The organization is finding that not only does the shorter week improve worker's mental health and employee retention, but workers are generally just as productive.
Juliet Schor, who gave a TED talk on the four-day work week in April, is a researcher with 4 Day Week Global and a professor at Boston College. She says workers spend more time actually working while on the clock in a four-day setting.
"There's that old adage, work expands to fill the available time," says Schor. "The other thing is that burned out workers, stressed out workers, are not as productive."
Most companies testing this out have also reduced meetings to avoid inefficient, unproductive working hours.
One local company operating on a four-day week is the clothing brand Charlie Hustle. After trying it out for a few months, the business recently opted to make the shift permanent.
Greg Moore, COO of Charlie Hustle, says his employees were ecstatic with the plan's rollout. Then, the company's leaders had to ask themselves questions about how best to move forward.
"What do we want to be here? Like, what's our company mission? It's to evoke happiness. That doesn't mean just make our customers and our partners happy. It's our internal team," says Moore.
- Juliet Schor, economist and professor of sociology at Boston College
- Greg Moore, COO of Charlie Hustle | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-13/is-the-four-day-week-the-future-of-work | 2022-09-13T20:54:03Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-13/is-the-four-day-week-the-future-of-work | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Daniel Suárez, Driver of the No. 99 Tootsie's Chevrolet
William Byron said you are the most dangerous driver in the playoffs and the driver to watch out for that might win it all. How does that make you feel?
“He said I’m the most dangerous in the playoffs? I get goosebumps by you saying that because I’ve been working really hard to do that. I’m the kind of guy where I like to do it that way. If you think about it – the year I won the (Xfinity) championship – not a lot of people would bet on me. I did and I won it. I like it that way. I like to be under the radar and not to make a lot of noise. Go out there and beat them, but quietly.”
What are the challenges of racing the Next Gen car on the concrete at Bristol for the first time?
“That’s a very good question. The only racetrack that we’ve been that is similar to Bristol – but not the same by any means – is Dover. Nobody really knows what to expect at Bristol. It’s a racetrack that is by itself. It’s completely different than anything else and it’s a tough place. With 20 minutes of practice; if you miss it during the week, you’re going to have a long weekend and a long 500 laps.
"I love Bristol. It’s actually one of my favorite racetracks and I’m really looking forward to the challenge. I’m not really thinking about it too much once I’m in the race. But during the week, there are a lot of conversations about that. I think the preparation we do during the week is going to be important because nobody really knows what is going to work in Bristol, just because it’s so different than everything else that we’ve done.”
Are you satisfied with your season?
“Somebody asked me if I was happy and excited to be in the playoffs, and honestly it feels normal to me. This is not a surprise. I think the fun part is about to begin. The winning was a lot of fun. I proved to myself that I can do it. I knew I could do it, but now everybody knows as well. They do know that I can do it and my team can do it, and we have everything that it takes to get it done. Now we have to do it on a consistent basis. In the last two months, we’ve been extremely consistent."
As a first time playoff driver, are you at a disadvantage going up against drivers who have already one a championship?
“I feel like those guys are already champions, they already know the feeling. So the advantage that they have mostly is mental, not so much physically in the car. But they already know what it feels like. I’ve had this feeling in the Xfinity Series, which is different. But at the same time, it’s the same thing, just multiple it by three or four. I think if we can stay calm, relax and continue to do exactly the same thing that we’ve been doing the last few months, we’re going to be in good shape.”
Justin Marks, Founder and Owner of Trackhouse Racing
"Trackhouse is not Justin Marks. Trackhouse is not a race team. Trackhouse is the aggregate work of a cohesive and talented workforce all doing their part.
"It is a workforce that can win races, compete for Championships, and write a new chapter in the storied history of America’s greatest motorsport."
Follow Daniel Suárez in USA's "Race for the Championship"
Ever wondered what Daniel Suárez's life is like behind the wheel of a race car, at his home, in his race shop, in his car?
Here is the show to find out.
USA Network will air “Race For The Championship,” a new unscripted series about the drivers and teams of the NASCAR Cup Series, on Thursday at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
The series will give a behind-the-scenes look at the elite drivers and teams competing in the NASCAR Cup Series.
Documenting the lives of the sport’s best on and off the track, viewers will get a rare glimpse of what it takes to balance personal relationships with the pressure to perform. Packed with action, heart and drama, this exhilarating series will offer up a taste of what it’s really like to partake in the world’s top level of stock car racing. Watch as the drivers are pushed mentally and physically to their limits, navigating a NASCAR season unlike any other – with a new car, new tracks and new challenges – for their chance to make history.
Over 10 episodes, “Race for the Championship” will tell the story of the 2022 NASCAR Cup season and playoffs.
Suárez and other drivers attended the world premiere of the series on Sept. 1 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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Kyle Busch wanted to drive for a racer’s racer.
Richard Childress saw a gleam in Busch’s eye that reminded him of the late Dale Earnhardt.
At the end of a long exploration process during which Busch weighed his options for 2023 and beyond, the two men put aside past differences and arrived at a multiyear deal that will have Busch driving the No. 8 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, starting next season.
Busch will end his 15-year tenure in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota after competing for a third NASCAR Cup Series championship this season.
In RCR, he sees a team on the upswing. At the exhibition Clash at the Coliseum in early February, he took notice.
“I think it started earlier this year when we were racing at the (Los Angeles) Coliseum when the 8 car blew my doors off and was driving away,” Busch said during Tuesday morning’s announcement at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C. “I certainly knew right then and there at the beginning of the season that those guys definitely had some speed.”
With Busch in a contract year in 2022, Austin Dillon, Childress’ grandson and driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, suggested making a play for the 37-year-old driver, who is tied for ninth on the all-time NASCAR Cup victory list with 60 wins—and tied with Kevin Harvick for most among active drivers.
“It just seemed that their overall culture—being around Richard, talking with Austin and having the chance to just look at the whole picture of what’s going on with RCR of late, and I felt like it was a no-brainer,” Busch added.
“When Richard and I sat down and we first had discussions of this opportunity, it was easy. It was a clear-cut choice that this was a place that you could go win races and win championships right out of the gate.”
Busch will replace fellow 2022 championship contender Tyler Reddick in the No. 8 Camaro. Reddick announced in July that he will leave RCR and drive for 23XI Racing in 2024.
Reddick remains under contract with RCR for the 2023 season. Childress said on Tuesday he plans to run three chartered Cup cars in 2023, but Reddick’s crew chief, Randall Burnett, will serve in that capacity on Busch’s team next year.
“I met with him (Tyler Reddick) about an hour ago, and I explained to him that he wasn’t going to drive the 8 car next year,” Childress said. “We’ve got a contract for him to drive for RCR next year, and I wanted to talk to him before this official announcement.”
In Busch, Childress is hiring an elite driver who has a combined 224 victories across all three NASCAR national series. Busch’s 102 NASCAR Xfinity wins and 62 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series triumphs both are series records.
“When I was up there with Kyle and we first started talking,” Childress said, “and we talked about championships and we talked about winning races, I looked at him in his eye, and I had seen that look in Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s eye that he’s hungry—we’re going to win.
“I’d seen that look before, and watching Kyle, I’ve watched his talent since he started in the Busch (now Xfinity) Series, and just how he handles the car, the car control, the way he drives the car and take-no-prisoners attitude, that’s the Dale Earnhardt style I was accustomed to racing with, and I think Kyle has that modern-day style of racing that Dale Earnhardt had in his time.”
Earnhardt, of course, won six of his seven Cup championships with RCR and was ushered into the NASCAR Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural Class of 2010.
Though the announcement confirmed Busch’s status for next year, it left many questions unanswered, among them the source of a charter for Reddick’s 2023 ride and sponsorship for Busch’s team (though Childress said he already had commitments and would announce sponsors later).
The specifics of the Kyle Busch Motorsports NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team remain unsettled, though Busch said he expects KBM to compete as a Chevrolet team next season, after serving as the flagship truck team for Toyota during his tenure at JGR.
“Obviously, there was an announcement today with RCR and Kyle Busch and KBM has not been a part of that yet,” Busch said, “although we are still working on that sort of stuff with General Motors and Chevrolet.
“Kyle Busch Motorsports intends to compete in the Truck Series as a Chevrolet-branded team next year. Whether that’s two, three, four entries, we’re not quite certain on that yet, but we’re working through those details as we can right now, and hopefully, again, we can have an announcement on that here shortly.”
To make a deal, Busch and Childress had to get past a bit of rocky history. In 2011, after Busch tangled with an RCR truck driven by Joey Coulter, Childress took of his jewelry and punched the KBM driver. The fracas became known as the “Hold My Watch” incident.
When Childress appeared at Tuesday’s press conference, he presented Busch with a “signing bonus” in the form of a new Rolex.
“We both have grown a lot over time,” Childress said. “We talked about it, and all that’s history.” | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72911-kyle-busch-to-drive-no-8-chevrolet-for-richard-childress-racing | 2022-09-13T20:59:52Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/72911-kyle-busch-to-drive-no-8-chevrolet-for-richard-childress-racing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Do you feel like you have to win one of the races in the Round of 8 to advance to the Championship 4?
“There are four drivers that advance, so the obvious answer is that there will be at least one that will advance by points. So, I think it depends on who wins those three races and where they are at in the point standings. Do I feel like we have to win to get in? No, but I want to win to get in. Winning early in the round and punching your ticket to Phoenix early is obviously better, so looking forward to going to Bristol and trying to do that. We have some momentum on our side and a lot of good things aligning for us. I definitely think it is going to be tough to get in if you don’t win, but I think that there is a chance.”
John Hunter Nemechek Career Highlights:
- 13-time winner in Camping World Truck Series action, winning at least one race each season from 2015 to 2018 for his family-owned team, NEMCO Motorsports. Across 142 career starts in NASCAR’s third division, has compiled eight poles, 1,533 laps led, 49 top-five and 80 top-10 finishes resulting in an average finish of 12.3. Registered a career-high and series-leading five victories in 2021, earned the NCWTS Regular Season championship and finished third in the final standings after qualifying for the Championship Four for the first time in his career.
- Produced three top-10 finishes and an average result of 22.4 while competing for rookie of the year honors in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2020. He recorded a career-best eighth-place finish twice, both coming at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
- Across 65 career XFINITY Series starts, has totaled two wins, one pole, 510 laps led, 17 top-five and 37 top-10 finishes resulting in an average finish of 12.3.
John Hunter Nemechek's No. 4 Pye-Barker Tundra TRD Pro:
KBM-58: The No.4 Pye-Barker Fire & Safety team will unload KBM-58 for Thursday night’s race at Bristol. Nemechek has raced this Tundra three times in 2022, picking up two top-five finishes at Martinsville (April) and its most recent outing at Richmond in August. In 2021, Nemechek piloted KBM-58 to three wins, including leading a race-high 114 laps at Richmond en route to his fourth win of the year. Overall, KBM-58 has recorded four wins, three with Nemechek in 2021 and one with owner-driver Kyle Busch in 2019, 475 laps led, nine top-five and 10 top-10 finishes in 17 starts resulting in an average finish of 10.6.
KBM Notes of Interest:
- KBM drivers have collected four wins, five poles, 539 laps led, 11 top-five and 16 top-10 finishes resulting in an average finish of 12.7 across 31 starts at Bristol Motor Speedway.
- Chandler Smith picked up the organizations most recent victory at the half-mile oval in 2021. Owner-driver Kyle Busch earned the other three wins for KBM, winning the Camping World Truck Series race as a part of his historic Bristol sweeps in 2010 and 2017 and he also won the 2013 event.
- KBM holds the Camping World Truck Series records for most career wins (98) and most wins in a single season (14 in 2014). With his victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 19, Corey Heim became the 18th different driver to win a Truck Series event for KBM. In addition to collecting a series-record seven Owner's Championships, the organization has produced two championship-winning drivers: Erik Jones (2015) and Christopher Bell (2017).
- The No. 4 has 18 career victories at KBM and was the number for both of the organization’s driver championships.
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ADVANCE NOTES
Weekend Format
- The traditional weekend schedule returns this weekend with practice and qualifying on deck for Friday in group format, which will determine Saturday’s lineup.
Buescher at Bristol
- Buescher is set for his 13th Cup start at Bristol this weekend. He has two top-10s and a 22.1 average finish with a best of fifth (2016). He also finished eighth in 2020.
- This weekend also marks Buescher’s 250th start in the Cup Series overall, as he’s in his seventh full season and eighth overall.
- He has a career-best starting position of 12th (2016) with a 23.7 average starting spot overall.
- Buescher made five Xfinity Series starts at Bristol with three top-10s and a best finish of third (2015).
Scott Graves at Bristol
- Graves will be on the box for his 12th Cup race from Bristol, and has a career-best finish of ninth with Ryan Newman in 2019.
- He called seven Xfinity races for a combined three drivers, leading Buescher to a third-place finish back in 2015 in his Championship season, one of his three top-10s overall at the track.
QUOTE WORTHY
Buescher on racing at Bristol:
“This is one of, if not my favorite, race track we go to, so I’m pumped up to get to Bristol and race under the lights in what is one of our best events annually. We’ve continued to show improvements week over week, and know that this is one we’ve had circled for months as we work on our short-track program. I’m looking forward to it.”
Last Time Out
Buescher overcame a three-lap deficit after making contact with the wall and pitting under green to finish 15th at Kansas.
On the Car
Fastenal, in its 12th season with RFK in 2022, makes its 15th appearance with the No. 17 this weekend. In its early days with RFK, Fastenal originally was a partner with the No. 99 team before moving over to the No. 17 team since. They were also the primary partner on the No. 60 Xfinity Series entry that captured the owner’s championship in 2011.
For more information on these suppliers, visit Fastenal.com, and stay up-do-date on social @FastenalCompany.
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Zane Smith enters the ‘Round of Eight’ this weekend at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway and looks to clinch his spot in the championship four early with a win.
Smith, who has already captured three wins in 2022 and crowned the Regular Season Champion at the start of the playoffs, is ready to tackle the ‘Last Great Colosseum’ and punch his ticket to Phoenix.
“Bristol is a really fun racetrack but can also be very unforgiving,” Smith stated. “This is where the consistency that our team has shown all year can really pay off. Hopefully, we can win this weekend and solely focus on Phoenix and not worry about Talladega in a few weeks.”
Speedco, an anchor partner for the No. 38 truck team, returns to Bristol to kick off the first of three races where they will be the primary partner for Zane Smith.
“Speedco has been a tremendous partner this year,” said Smith. We’ve been able to deliver them three wins so far this year, and we have three more races to try and deliver them more. I hope we can get that started this weekend at Bristol.”
Smith and the No. 38 Speedco Ford F-150 will race Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. ET on FS1.
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McAnally-Hilgemann Racing will field three Chevy Silverados at Bristol Motor Speedway, known as The Last Great Colosseum, for the UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics on Thursday night under the lights.
The MHR driver lineup includes Derek Kraus, driver of the No.19 NAPA AutoCare Chevrolet Silverado; Colby Howard, in the No.91 Gates Hydraulics Chevrolet Silverado; and Jake Garcia, driver of the No.35 Quanta Services Chevrolet Silverado.
The last time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series raced at Bristol Motor Speedway back in April, the track was covered in dirt. This time around the series will be racing on the historic, high-banked, half-mile concrete surface.
Kraus has two series starts on Bristol’s paved track, with a best finish of 13th in last year’s event. He also competed in two NASCAR K&N Pro Series East races at Bristol, with a best finish of sixth in 2019. Howard registered a 15th-place finish last year, in his only Camping World Truck Series start on the paved Bristol track. Garcia has competed at Bristol in a pro late model race and in a super late model race.
Kraus attended select outreach events held by Bristol Motor Speedway and the University of Northwestern Ohio this week. On Monday, he visited Greene Technology Center in Greenville, Tennessee – which included a meet-and-greet and question-and-answer session with students and teachers, and an autograph session. Then on Tuesday, Kraus visited Tennessee High School and the Unicoi County Career & Technical Education. The MHR team had the No.19 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet show truck at the events.
Practice/Qualifying
The format for practice and qualifying at Bristol will involve a 20-minute warm-up/practice session on Thursday afternoon – followed by qualifying, with a single-truck, two-lap format.
Quote – Derek Kraus
“I am looking forward to Bristol. It’s one of the most fun tracks on the schedule and I always enjoy going there. It will be cool to have Incredible Bank on the truck as well!”
Quote – Colby Howard
“I am excited to return to Bristol. We had a solid run when we competed on dirt back in April. I am hoping to bring it to the race this Thursday!”
Quote – Jake Garcia
“I’m excited to run Bristol in the Camping World Truck Series. It’s a track where I’ve had speed in late models, and I hope that carries over into Thursday night’s race. Running this race is a great opportunity and I hope to make the most out of it.”
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Event:
Race: UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics (200 Laps) (Race 20 of 23) Sept. 15, 2022
Location: Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn. (1/2-mile oval)
Television: FS1 on Sept. 15 at 9 p.m. ET
Derek Kraus
No. 19 NAPA AutoCare Chevrolet Silverado RST
Age: 21
Hometown: Stratford, Wis.
Career series stats: 69 starts, 3 poles, 4 top fives, 25 top 10s
Most recent series finish: 21st – Kansas (9/9/22)
Best career series finish: 2nd – Darlington (9/6/20)
Bristol stats: 2 series starts (Best finish – 13th on 9/16/21)
2022 series stats:
Races: 19 starts, 1 pole, 6 top 10s
Laps completed: 2,535/2,604
Laps led: 15
Series standings: 11th
Colby Howard
No. 91 Gates Hydraulics Chevrolet Silverado RST
Age: 20
Hometown: Simpsonville, S.C.
Career series stats: 24 starts, 2 top 10s
Most recent series finish: 9th – Kansas (9/9/22)
Best career series finish: 9th, twice – Mid-Ohio (7/9/22), Kansas (9/9/22)
Bristol stats: 1 series start (Finish – 15th on 9/16/21)
2022 series stats:
Races: 19 starts, 2 top 10s
Laps completed: 2,458/2,604
Laps led: 10
Series standings: 18th
Jake Garcia
No. 35 Quanta Chevrolet Silverado RST
Age: 17
Hometown: Monroe, Ga.
Career series stats: 3 starts
Most recent series finish: 20th – Richmond (8/13/22)
Best career series finish: 20th – Richmond (8/13/22)
Bristol stats: First series start at this track
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ThorSport Racing is proud to partner with Ohio Logistics as it will serve as the primary partner on the No. 99 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro of Ben Rhodes at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Ohio Logistics provides all of the assets and operational support necessary to meet your most sophisticated logistics requirements.
Working out of a single 40,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Findlay, OH, we began our operations in June of 1988. Today, Ohio Logistics successfully maintains 25 locations serving six states. With over 6 million sq. ft. of state-of-the-art warehouse space, we are one of the largest privately held logistics firms in the Midwest.
“We feel incredibly fortunate and thankful with the opportunities that have been presented to us. This is the reason for our strong belief in ‘giving back’ through programs to benefit not only the communities in which we operate, but to our Veterans that have given us our freedoms,” said Chuck Bills, President and CEO of Ohio Logistics. As a result of Ohio Logistics’ successes, growth, and philanthropy, we proudly accepted the Hancock County 2017 Small Business of the Year Award, as well as receiving the Business Excellence Award presented by the Entrepreneurial & Business Excellence Hall of Fame.
Built on a sound financial base, Ohio Logistics will strive to bring your ideas to reality regarding your supply-chain management needs.
“As you know ThorSport Racing is proud of their Ohio roots, so representing a company with the same attitude for a fun race weekend,” said Rhodes. We have a lot of levels that we connect on. Even though this Bristol race doesn’t have dirt on it, I’m hoping we can give our new partners and race fans quite a show. To sweep Bristol for the year would mean the world to me.
Catch all the racing action from Bristol Motor Speedway Thursday, Sept. 15. Race coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1. Additional coverage can be found via the Motor Racing Network (MRN).
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Doran Racing’s Kody Swanson qualified second, advanced three positions from where he started, came out on top of a rousing battle with Bobby Santos III, and finished fourth in the 500 Sprint Car Tour race Saturday night at Berlin Raceway.
The “Great Lakes Challenge” race presented by Auto Value Bumper to Bumper Part Stores was the track’s 2022 season finale.
Swanson, a native of Kingsburg, Calif., who now lives in Indianapolis, qualified second, just 0.132 off the 15.624-second lap set by Tyler Roahrig, the fastest qualifier and eventual race winner. The invert was an eight, so Swanson started seventh in the 19-car field for the 40-lap test on Berlin’s 7/16-mile asphalt oval.
Swanson was never out of the top five. Driving the Doran Racing No. 44 sponsored by Henry Repeating Arms, Glenn Farms and Duncan Oil and powered by a Binks-prepped Chevy engine, he got off to a great start and passed both Billy Wease, who started sixth, and Tony Main, who started fourth, on the first lap.
On lap three he moved into fourth by passing Taylor Ferns, who had started fifth.
He kept Roahrig behind him for a quarter of the race.
With 15 laps down the race’s only yellow flew after an accident involving Ferns, Wease and the lapped car of Jim Sheets in Turn 3. None of them were hurt but they were all done for the night. Swanson was right in front of the crash, but luckily he avoided involvement and restarted in fifth place, right behind Santos.
The battle between Santos and Swanson was one of the highlights of the event. Swanson passed Santos on lap 33 to regain fourth, but Santos passed him back on the next lap. On lap 37 Swanson once again powered by Santos, and he not only stayed in front of him until the checkered dropped, he was nearly 2 seconds ahead of him at the checkered. Swanson almost got third too, as he was only 0.206 behind Dakoda Armstrong when time ran out.
Roahrig had a 2.260-second lead over runner-up Kyle O’Gara at the finish. Armstrong was third, and Swanson and Santos rounded out the top five.
Swanson was second in the point standings going into Saturday’s event. Coming out of it he is still second to Armstrong, with 1,342 points to Armstrong’s 1,346.
Only two more races remain in the series’ inaugural season: Thursday, Oct. 6 at Anderson Speedway in Anderson, Ind., and Saturday, Oct. 22 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in Brownsburg, Ind.
All of the series’ races are streamed live by MAVTV on Flo Racing.
For more information on Doran Racing see DoranRacing.com and follow the team on Facebook.
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R&S Race Cars announced today that Timothy Peters will return to his Late Model roots with his first crew chief, Marcus Richmond, to compete in the Triple Crown ValleyStar Credit Union 300 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway on September 24. R&S Race Cars will also field entries for Jonathan Shafer and Conner Jones in the prestigious event.
Peters and R&S Race Cars co-owner Richmond go back a long way in their racing history, 22 years to be exact. This month they will reunite for what could be Peter’s final race and another chance at winning a coveted grandfather clock in the Solid Rock/PepperJack Kennels/Dreamworks Toyota Camry.
“I’m excited for the weekend coming up at Martinsville,” Peters said. “Marcus and I started a journey 22 plus years ago and we’ve made a good name for ourselves in that period of time, both together and separately. In what could possibly be my last racing journey I felt that it potentially needed to come to a close with my best friend. It takes a lot of great people to make this happen and I’m looking forward to working with Marcus, the R&S crew and our sponsors. Martinsville is a place we both have had a lot of success.”
“Timothy and I have been talking about him racing this year at Martinsville,” said Richmond. “He always asked me how much money it would take. I told him that if it weren’t for him, I would not be where I am today and would not have had the accomplishments in my career without him. We have won this race twice together (2005 and 2017) and I feel grateful to be his co-owner and crew chief at Martinsville. I never thought I would be able to do something like this to repay my best friend for the journey we have had together racing the last 22 years.
“Of course, we could not have done this without the support of sponsors like Kirk and Lynette Ipock with Solid Rock Carriers, Marty & Misty Melo with PepperJack Kennels and Dreamworks for the beautiful wrap for our Camry. We never take for granted the people who support grassroots racing because this is where dreams begin for many young drivers, and sometimes it’s where a driver comes back to finish out his career.”
Shafer will compete in the No. 91 PepperJack Kennels/Solid Rock/Dreamworks Toyota Camry, while Conner Jones will pilot the No. 44 Jones Utilities Toyota Camry under the lights at the historic half- mile speedway.
R&S Race Cars have built 13 of the cars competing at Martinsville this month, including the team’s three entries with Peters, Shafer and Jones.
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To help race fans enjoy this weekend’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, whether they are enjoying the race at the track or watching from the comfort of their homes, track officials are making the 70-page commemorative souvenir program available for free in both printed and digital formats.
The souvenir program has been reformatted in a Broadway Play "Playbill" style size that is more convenient for fans to carry with them while they are at the track. The printed programs will be available to guests at a variety of locations on property during the event, including the BMS Guest Services locations, BMS souvenir stands, BMS operated camp grounds and BMS ticket booths.
To access the digital version of the program, please click here or visit the Bristol Motor Speedway website. Be on the lookout for email messages from Speedway team members as well as invitations to download the program on any one of the BMS social media channels.
The program cover showcases memorable action shots from last year’s historic Bass Pro Shops Night Race weekend. The main feature story is a countdown of the Top 10 Wildest Finishes in Bristol Motor Speedway history. There’s also a preview story for each of the weekend’s races. The program also includes a weekend schedule, driver rosters and hero pages for the Cup, Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series teams, a Speed Reading section that highlights the many events and happenings going on during the weekend, a list of all of the past NASCAR winners at BMS and a detailed track map.
The 2022 commemorative Bass Pro Shops Night Race souvenir program was designed by Learfield-IMG College Publishing in Lexington, Ky.
The race weekend begins with Zane Smith, John Hunter Nemechek, Ben Rhodes and defending winner Chandler Smith battling for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory Thursday night in the UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics (Sept. 15, 9 p.m., FS1, MRN Radio). The rising stars in the ARCA Menards Series also will take on the challenging half-mile bullring in the Bush’s Beans 200 as part of the Thursday night doubleheader (Sept. 15, 6:30 p.m., FS1, MRN Radio).
On Friday, Sparks are sure to fly in the Food City 300, as NASCAR Xfinity Series favorites A.J. Allmendinger, Noah Gragson, Justin Allgaier, Ty Gibbs and Josh Berry will be trying to lock in their Playoff positions in the season’s final regular season race (Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m., USA Network, PRN Radio). The stars of the NASCAR Cup Series will take to the track on Saturday for the Bass Pro Shops Night Race (Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., USA Network, PRN Radio), where you’ll get to see all your favorite drivers racing hard to advance in the first elimination race of the Playoffs.
To purchase tickets, please visit www.bristolmotorspeedway.com or call the BMS Ticket Sales Center at (866) 415-4158.
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Riley Herbst Notes of Interest • Riley Herbst rolls into the NASCAR Xfinity Series regular-season finale Friday night at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway with a new look to his No. 98 Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR). The Las Vegas native welcomes a new partner from his hometown to his racing machine for the Food City 300 – Resorts World Las Vegas – adding a pop of color for the final race before the Xfinity Series playoffs begins next Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. Resorts World Las Vegas was developed by Genting Berhad, a publicly traded Malaysian corporation registered with the Nevada Gaming Commission. The facility features 3,506 guest rooms and suites, an innovative, next-generation gaming floor, world-class food and beverage options, a 5,000-capacity theatre, distinct nightlife venues, a curated retail collection of designer and boutique shops, and more. The integrated resort weaves time-honored traditions of the international Resorts World brand into the fabric of Las Vegas, introducing a bold, fresh take on hospitality to the city with stunning design, progressive technology and world-class guest service. For more information, visit www.rwlasvegas.com. • While the NASCAR Playoffs are built on a “win-and-you're-in” mentality, Herbst has proven that consistency can also earn a driver a spot in the postseason. The 23-year-old racer arrives at Bristol locked into the Xfinity Series playoffs for the third year in a row. After last Saturday’s penultimate round of the regular season at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Herbst tallied an insurmountable 108-point cushion above the top-12 cutoff. Growth and consistency have been key for Herbst in the first 25 races this season as he’s recorded five top-five finishes and 15 top-10s. He has made the playoffs in each of his fulltime season in the Xfinity Series. • In last year’s regular-season finale at Bristol, Herbst raced to a career-best Bristol finish of third. His tenacity, combined with savvy pit calls from crew chief Richard Boswell, put him in the lead for a lap-180 restart, during which he was shuffled back several spots. But Herbst kept his cool and, on the final restart, cars ahead of him scuffled, leaving gaps for him to advance his way up to third, passing Justin Allgaier off turn four on the final lap. He finished just behind the race’s top protagonists, AJ Allmendinger and Austin Cindric, who made contact coming to the checkered flag and spun across the finish line. • The Food City 300 will mark Herbst’s fourth career Xfinity Series start at Bristol. In his first start at the track in June 2020, Herbst led four laps and appeared headed for a top-10 finish until an accident took him out just 47 laps shy of the checkered flag. He bounced back in his second start at the track in September 2020 with a solid 10th-place effort before returning last September for a season-best third-place run. Herbst also has three Bristol starts outside of the Xfinity Series – two in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and one in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. His best of those outings was 10th, earned in his first K&N Pro Series start in 2016. • In addition to the new partnership with Resorts World Las Vegas this weekend at Bristol, Herbst will also be wearing a pair of Monster Energy green skeleton gloves as part of the Driven to Give Glove Program with the Dale Jr. Foundation. The initiative is back for the first time since 2020 and it supports Nationwide Children’s Hospital and its efforts to help courageous patients and their families in areas of pediatric injury rehabilitation, research and cancer prevention. After being worn in the Xfinity Series regular-season finale, Herbst will autograph his gloves and put them up for auction at www.thedalejrfoundation.org from Friday night through Sept. 23. Riley Herbst, Driver of the No. 98 Resorts World Las Vegas Ford Mustang This is the first weekend that Resorts World Las Vegas will be showcased on your No. 98 Ford Mustang. Talk about what bringing a new partner on board means to you and the team. “I’m pumped to have Resorts World Las Vegas on my No. 98 Ford Mustang this weekend. It’s obviously a hometown company for me, which means the world to have their support. They got connected with us through my partners at Baja Vida Snacks, so you’ll see them this weekend, as well, with Resorts World on my car and Baja Vida Beef Jerky visible through my in-car camera. It’s cool to see these companies work together to support my career. Can’t thank them enough.” You’ve repeatedly talked about Bristol being your favorite track on the Xfinity Series schedule. What is it about this short track that appeals to you? “I think it’s just short-track racing, in general. Most of the guys in the garage will say this, but these types of tracks take us back to our roots. Bristol is obviously unique with its layout, but I think it still has the same elements as other short tracks. That track is hectic. It’s so crazy. It’s so fast. It’s a little half-mile, and it’s high-banked. It’s so much fun to go and battle there and rub some fenders. I’m excited to head back to Bristol after our third-place run last year. To think, if we had just had another corner, we could’ve been the ones in victory lane last September.” This is the final race before the Xfinity Series playoffs begins next weekend at Texas. What is your mindset going into this weekend knowing that you’ve already secured a playoff berth? “There’s nothing to lose. We’re locked in on points, so we can just focus on winning. That’s always been our focus, but ultimately the playoffs is the bigger picture and that’s how you have to race. We wouldn’t come out and race every weekend if I didn’t think we could compete for a championship. We’ve seen consistency win championships before and I feel like we’ve shown that speed and consistency this year. Bristol’s a good track for us, so I think we’ll be a contender at the end.” TSC PR | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/xfinity-series-news/72907-resorts-world-las-vegas-racing-riley-herbst-bristol-nxs-advance | 2022-09-13T21:01:37Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/xfinity-series-news/72907-resorts-world-las-vegas-racing-riley-herbst-bristol-nxs-advance | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Do you know there is land in Wyoming belonging to you that you cannot access? You can be a hunter, a hiker, a trail rider or even a bird watcher and your land is off limits.
Why? Simple. Because there are rich ranchers blocking your access. These guys think your land really belongs to them and it's there to enhance the value of their ranches by having a “private hunting preserve” just for them.
One doesn’t have to go far from Laramie to see this abuse firsthand. Ever try to hunt Elk Mountain? It belongs to you, but good luck!
Now The Iron Bar LCC Ranch at Elk Mountain, owned by North Carolina resident Fredric Eshelman, is claiming damages of $7.75 million for loss to the ranch’s value because he could not win a case keeping hunters off “his” public land.
This is not the only case in Wyoming where landowners are blocking public land. Just look north to Cody and Heart Mountain. It's the same story there.
It's kind of like COVID in Wyoming — it’s everywhere.
It is time for our Republican-controlled Legislature to start representing us all, not just rich ranchers and big money in our state. It is time for you to have a voice in Wyoming. It is time for justice.
Wyoming needs a law requiring private land owners provide “good“ access across theirs to public public lands sitting behind their fences. “Good” doesn’t mean taking some mountain goat trail. "Good” means a trail a child would be safe walking. Or, they should pay the helicopter rental fee needed to get us to our land!
Public land is not there to enhance ranch values. It is for each and every one of us to enjoy.
Don’t let your government keep sticking its head in the sand and ignore us. Make it hear you and take appropriate action, not wait another 10 years. You deserve nothing less.
Remind these elected officials that you vote, and big money shouldn’t have a vote to infringe on your rights. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/letters_to_editor/the-not-so-public-access-to-public-lands/article_00ffc08a-3397-11ed-828e-4fb2d9623cee.html | 2022-09-13T21:02:22Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/letters_to_editor/the-not-so-public-access-to-public-lands/article_00ffc08a-3397-11ed-828e-4fb2d9623cee.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Winston Duke Teases M’Baku’s Role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will reflect Chadwick Boseman’s real-life passing later this year by showing us how the titular nation grapples with the death of its beloved King T’Challa. In other words, the country’s surviving leaders will have to take on all new roles in order to keep their citizens safe. And one of these leaders is none other than M’Baku, with Winston Duke reprising his role from the original film. While speaking with ComicBook.com, Duke explained how M’Baku will adjust to Wakanda’s new status quo. He also teased how the Blip’s aftermath changed the way he sees the world at large.
Duke discussed his role in Wakanda Forever shortly after Marvel screened new footage of the sequel at the D23 Expo. As it turns out, Namor isn’t the only threat the Wakandans will face this fall. As we saw at the end of the first movie, the country’s technological advancements are no longer a secret to the rest of the world. But with T’Challa gone, other nations see this as a chance to steal Wakanda’s vibranium deposits by force. And this forces M’Baku to honor the fallen king’s legacy in ways he never expected.
“I think M’Baku is forced to catch up with the times,” said Duke. “His role has changed. He survived The Snap, he is now a part of the Tribal Council so he’s more forward-facing and less insular. So he’s been forced to really be a part of the collective transparency. I think that’s a really cool thing for him and you get to see a whole new dynamic including him.”
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“[M’Baku] is no longer the insular leader, he’s learning how to move forward,” continued Duke. “So he has a very large, wide, macro lens as to what’s happening and I think we get to see more of that, and see how much that impacts him.”
Clearly, M’Baku has come a long way from leading the Jabari tribe in isolation. But now that his people have formally re-joined Wakanda proper, he has more responsibilities to uphold. Whether that means he’s the one sporting the vibranium suit at the end of the sequel’s first trailer remains to be seen. Regardless, Duke hints that viewers will have plenty of mesmerizing scenery to chew on when the movie finally arrives in theaters.
“What I’m most excited for fans to see is how much more Wakanda there is,” added Duke. “There’s just so much more than the first movie, and that’s exciting.”
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will hit the big screen on November 11.
Are you excited to see Duke return as M’Baku in the sequel? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1
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SWEETWATER COUNTY - On Tuesday, Sept. 13, Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest of Rachelle Morris, the former executive director of the Young at Heart Community Center in Rock Springs, for what investigators describe as the suspected embezzlement of over $2 million from their daycare facility, the Young at Heart Early Learning Center.
In late June of this year, Morris suddenly tendered her resignation from the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees, citing "personal reasons."
Days later, on Friday, July 1, 2022, Morris was terminated for cause from Young at Heart.
On Wednesday, July 6, 2022, Young at Heart filed a formal complaint in the Third District Court against Morris, initiating separate civil and criminal investigations.
Through the course of the months-long criminal investigation, sheriff's detectives discovered that from 2016 to present, during her tenure as Young at Heart's executive director, Morris is believed to have stolen nearly $2.3 million in daycare tuition fees and federal COVID-related grant funds, depositing the embezzled money into a personal bank account registered to a fake shell corporation unaffiliated with Young at Heart, The Early Learning Center LLC, and allegedly using the stolen money to pay for personal expenses that included large home improvements, luxury cars, jewelry and international vacations.
Lead investigator on the case, Detective Sergeant Michelle Hall said, "This is a complicated case that required a painstaking, line-item analysis of years of detailed financial data. It was critically important that we didn't rush to judgment, that we really took our time, and exercised our due diligence in order present prosecutors with the strongest criminal case possible."
Hall added, "It quickly became clear that the sole focus of this investigation was Mrs. Morris, and I want to personally thank the dedicated staff at Young at Heart for their invaluable assistance in helping us to follow the money trail in this case. I hope this case and today's arrest allows their staff to move forward as valued organization in this community."
Sheriff's deputies and detectives arrested Morris this morning without incident, and as of press time, she remains held without bond at the Sweetwater County Detention Center facing multiple counts of felony theft, attempted theft, and forgery, and awaiting her initial appearance before a judge in court. If convicted and sentenced to consecutive terms, Morris could face up to 50 years in state prison.
The sheriff's office credits a cooperative effort among everyone involved with this investigation, and reminds the public that all people are presumed innocent until proven guilty in accordance with law. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/former-young-at-heart-executive-director-arrested-for-allegedly-embezzling-2-million/article_71117de8-338b-11ed-a5a3-8ff0a048cfb9.html | 2022-09-13T21:02:28Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/former-young-at-heart-executive-director-arrested-for-allegedly-embezzling-2-million/article_71117de8-338b-11ed-a5a3-8ff0a048cfb9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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While food attainment is an ever-present pressure for those struggling to make ends meet, this month people across the financial spectrum are shifting their focus to food and how to share one of life’s basic necessities with others.
September is Hunger Action Month, a national initiative to encourage communities to donate, volunteer and learn more about food insecurity and what can be done to stop it.
The month couldn’t come at a better time for Wyoming as demand for services from food banks continues to increase and money for COVID-19 pandemic relief programs dries up.
“The need has significantly increased,” said Rachel Bailey, executive director for Food Bank of Wyoming, about an uptick in demand for services over the past few months. “Some agencies are feeding double the number of households across the state.”
Laramie Interfaith has seen an increase in clientele every month this year, said executive director Josh Watanabe. In August, the organization served people from 512 unique households.
While Laramie Soup Kitchen typically had served an average of 82 people day, over the past few months the numbers have reached triple digits. One day this week, the organization reached its record number of visitors at 173. That eclipses the previous record of about 140 seen on a day in May.
“We haven’t had numbers this high throughout the pandemic,” said Laramie Soup Kitchen Executive Director Ted Cramer.
Typically, the organization serves more people in the summer when they are traveling through the city. Only time will tell whether that will be the same this year, Cramer said.
Cramer said that while he doesn’t know much specific information about Soup Kitchen clients, he’s noticed many new faces are local families that visit regularly rather than people who are just passing through.
In Albany County, 11.1% of people have food insecurity and 70% live below the SNAP threshold of 130% poverty, according to Feeding America. The issue disproportionately affects people of color, LGBTQ people and people with a lower socioeconomic status, said University of Wyoming nutrition professor Jill Keith.
On the UW campus those numbers are even higher, with 45% of the campus community experiencing food insecurity in 2020, according to the UW Food Insecurity Taskforce.
Food and health
The definition of food insecurity expands further than merely referring to missing meals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture outlines food security levels that range from “high,” meaning no alterations to the diet are made, to “low” and “very low” food security, which refer to lack of variety or quality in the diet and disrupted food intake.
Food insecurity can create a host of challenges for the body, especially in areas of immune system function, growth, mental health and performance in school, Keith said.
“The only place we really don’t see any health consequences is where people have high food security,” she said.
While poverty and low wages play a role in food insecurity, other factors such as isolation and lack of transportation or nearby grocery stores also have an impact.
Even when people have enough money to buy food or can access it through a food bank, they may need education on how to prepare a meal, Keith said. Some people, especially college students, may not have the appropriate kitchen appliances to prepare healthy meals, so they rely on faster options.
This convenience comes at a cost, as these foods typically contain higher levels of sodium and saturated fats than a home-cooked meal.
The complexity of the issue presents an opportunity for community food groups to think carefully about how they offer services and how best they can fill gaps.
“I think the biggest thing is trying to connect people with resources,” Keith said. “The amazing resources are here, (so we should) think about how we make sure people can access resources.”
Working together
The recent uptick in demand has caused local food banks to get creative with how they seek donations and offer services.
Laramie Soup Kitchen has been working to educate professional catering companies on how to serve food in a way that allows for leftovers to be donated, Cramer said.
Catered events often see last-minute changes to guest lists that result in extra food. By avoiding a self-serve buffet format or even putting to-go boxes out at the end of events, more food from these events can end up in stomachs rather than garbage cans.
“There’s already a ton of food in this town that’s going to waste,” Cramer said. “Give me that.”
At Laramie Soup Kitchen, people can donate food from their homes. The group accepts nearly everything and distributes resources to other local nonprofits when there is a surplus.
There now is a strong need for food donations, especially meat, Cramer said. In addition to donating store-bought meat, people can donate game meat as long as it’s professionally processed.
Monetary donations are another powerful way to help local nonprofits. Laramie Interfaith uses its nonprofit status to buy food at a highly discounted rate, meaning the money stretches farther than it would if an individual bought food for the group.
Food Bank of Wyoming also accepts donations. Throughout Hunger Action Month Powder River Energy Foundation, CoBank and Basin Electric are providing a match of up to $25,000.
Some organizations provide wraparound services for their clients. Laramie Interfaith is now helping people sign up for the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which helps people pay rent and utilities.
“A lot of times a food pantry is the first place someone does come to seek help,” Bailey said. “In our food pantries or in human services organizations across the state they will also offer other services to help individuals in need.”
She explained that these types of programs help address root causes of food insecurity and could help in efforts to “shorten the line” of people who need food assistance.
Keith said one of the most important things nonprofits and community members can do is foster a culture of sharing and support in these spaces.
“Trying to root it in sharing and dignity (is important).” Keith said. “That’s a lot of the reason people might not use community resources, because of stigma and that lack of dignity.”
Leaders at Food Bank of Wyoming also have talked about broadening advocacy work to address some needs that go beyond filling plates.
“I think advocacy is really important right now to help your local state and national legislatures to understand what the need is in Wyoming and how they can support those in need across the state,” Bailey said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/sharing-and-dignity-albany-county-agencies-report-greater-need-for-food-security/article_5f70fda6-338c-11ed-88a5-63cf81e5fe2d.html | 2022-09-13T21:02:40Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/sharing-and-dignity-albany-county-agencies-report-greater-need-for-food-security/article_5f70fda6-338c-11ed-88a5-63cf81e5fe2d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is to collaborate with State Governments and other Stakeholders towards improving the Agricultural Commodity Value Chain Development in the Sector to enhance the livelihood of the smallholder farmers as well as modify the commodity Value Chain Development processes.
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Ernest Umakhihe, gave this indication at the 45th Regular Meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development (NCARD) which commenced on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, in Jos Plateau State with the theme “Strengthening Agricultural Value Chains Development Process for Food Security and Economic Development.”
Represented by the Director, Department of Agriculture Land and Climate Change Management Services, Engr Shehu Bello, the Permanent Secretary stated that the Agricultural Commodity Value Chain Development as a cornerstone and strategic implementation imperatives for the prevailing sectoral policy framework requires a robust discussion and deliberate decisions on intervention models, the next steps for the major subsectors namely; Crop/Horticulture production, Livestock/ Veterinary Services, Fisheries and Aquaculture as well as Agribusiness undertakings.
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Dr Umakhihe pointed out that “the foundation to achieve the desired success is the commitment to the provision of incentives, increase the output and quality of agricultural commodities to meet and surpass national requirements as well as achieve a diversified economic base with Agriculture leading the way for the non-oil sectors of the economy.”
The Permanent Secretary revealed that the Ministry through the launch of the National Agricultural Technology Innovation Plan 2022 – 2027 (NATIP) has demonstrated the commitment of the sector to address all conceivable challenges besetting the sector with a focus on strengthening and developing the Agricultural Value Chain.
According to him, “the impact has been enormous as it contributes to food security, increases productivity and efficiency, engenders diversification, generates higher incomes and reduces post-harvest losses and above all, generates employment opportunities.
He stated that the ministry would prioritise its efforts of increasing agricultural processing capacity in the country through the establishment of several cottage industries for the production of staple food products in a competitive and comparative advantage manner.
Dr Umakhihe added that it would ensure a steady off-take of produce from out-growers, enhance the income of farmers and entrepreneurs across all commodity value chains.
He further revealed that the Technical Session was the forerunner to the Council Meeting and it was dedicated to exchange of ideas on the agricultural development process in the country with a view to setting the tone of issues for deliberation and discussions at the Council.
The Permanent Secretary urged the stakeholders to approach the deliberations with a broad mind, add value to all the issues for the overall impact of the sector on the economy, proffer concrete and practical suggestions that would assist the Council in reaching meaningful decisions.
In his welcome address, the Plateau State, Commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Hosea Finangwai, appealed that the memorandum for the upgrade of the Potato Station at Karu be given priority on its merit.
He added that “the State accounted for over 90 per cent of the production, livelihood and income of farmers was threatened by the monstrous potato blight.
In his vote of thanks, the Director, Planning and Policy Coordination, Alhaji Ibrahim Bello, stated that the stakeholders would use the opportunity to share experiences and good practices on value chain development in the agricultural sector as it affects food security and economic development for adoption and replication in the sector along various ecological peculiarities.
He thanked the Government of Plateau State for the warm reception and support despite other competing obligations and engagement of the state.
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FG, stakeholders partner to improve commodity value chain in agric sector | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fg-stakeholders-partner-to-improve-commodity-value-chain-in-agric-sector/ | 2022-09-13T21:11:30Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fg-stakeholders-partner-to-improve-commodity-value-chain-in-agric-sector/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Official US government inventory data is due Wednesday morning, US time
In the meantime, info via Twitter from the privately conducted survey:
Expectations I had seen centred on:
headline crude +0.8mn barrels
gasoline -0.9mn bbls
distillates +0.6mn bbls | https://www.forexlive.com/news/oil-private-inventory-survey-shows-larger-headline-build-than-expected-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T21:11:36Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/oil-private-inventory-survey-shows-larger-headline-build-than-expected-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The major indices
Indices
Stock market indices represents an index that measures a particular stock market or a segment of the stock market. These instruments are important investors as they help compare current price levels with past prices to calculate market performance.The main two parameters for indices are that they are both investable and transparent. For example, investors can invest in a stock market index by buying an index fund, which is structured as either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, and track an index. The difference between an index fund's performance and the index, if any, is called tracking error. Most major countries boast multiple indices. Commonly traded indices include the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA), EURO STOXX 50, Hang Seng Index, and many more.Stock market indices can be characterized or segmented by the index coverage set of stocks. The overall coverage of an index constitutes an underlying group of stocks, most commonly grouped together by underlying investor demand.How to Trade IndicesRetail brokers offer indices exposure through the use of contracts-for-difference (CFDs) or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Each are popular ways to trade specific markets and are almost always on offer at most brokers.Investors can choose between multiple types of indices that traditionally fall within several categories. This includes country coverage, regional coverage, global coverage, exchange-based coverage, and sector-based coverage.All indices are ultimately weighted in a number of different ways. The most common mechanisms include market-capitalization weighting, free-float adjusted market capitalization weighting, volatility weighting, price weighting, and others.
Stock market indices represents an index that measures a particular stock market or a segment of the stock market. These instruments are important investors as they help compare current price levels with past prices to calculate market performance.The main two parameters for indices are that they are both investable and transparent. For example, investors can invest in a stock market index by buying an index fund, which is structured as either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, and track an index. The difference between an index fund's performance and the index, if any, is called tracking error. Most major countries boast multiple indices. Commonly traded indices include the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA), EURO STOXX 50, Hang Seng Index, and many more.Stock market indices can be characterized or segmented by the index coverage set of stocks. The overall coverage of an index constitutes an underlying group of stocks, most commonly grouped together by underlying investor demand.How to Trade IndicesRetail brokers offer indices exposure through the use of contracts-for-difference (CFDs) or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Each are popular ways to trade specific markets and are almost always on offer at most brokers.Investors can choose between multiple types of indices that traditionally fall within several categories. This includes country coverage, regional coverage, global coverage, exchange-based coverage, and sector-based coverage.All indices are ultimately weighted in a number of different ways. The most common mechanisms include market-capitalization weighting, free-float adjusted market capitalization weighting, volatility weighting, price weighting, and others.
Read this Term moved sharply lower today after the higher than expected CPI threw a bucket of ice cold water on the market.
- The S&P index had its worst day since June 11.
- Some of the biggest S&P losers were Meta, Nvidia and AMD
- The biggest Dow losers were Boeing, Home Depot and Intel
- The major indices moved lower after 4 days of gains.
The final numbers are showing:
- The Dow fell nearly 1300 points falling by -1278.37 points or -3.94% at 31104.95
- The S&P fell 0177.74 points or -4.32% at 3932.68
- The Nasdaq
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The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading.What Makes Up the NASDAQ?In particular, the exchange also features the NASDAQ Composite, which includes almost all stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock market. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) and S&P 500 Index, this is one of the three most-followed stock market indices in the United States.Overall, the NASDAQ stock market has three different market tiers. This includes the Capital Market, or an equity market for companies that have relatively small levels of market capitalization. The listing requirements for small cap companies are less stringent than for other Nasdaq markets that list larger companies with significantly higher market capitalization.Additionally, the Global Market is made up of stocks that represent the Nasdaq Global Market. The Global Market consists of 1,450 stocks that meet the exchange’s financial and liquidity requirements, and corporate governance standards.Finally, the Global Select Market is a market capitalization-weighted index made up of 1,200 US-based and international stocks that represent the Global Select Market Composite.
The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading.What Makes Up the NASDAQ?In particular, the exchange also features the NASDAQ Composite, which includes almost all stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock market. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) and S&P 500 Index, this is one of the three most-followed stock market indices in the United States.Overall, the NASDAQ stock market has three different market tiers. This includes the Capital Market, or an equity market for companies that have relatively small levels of market capitalization. The listing requirements for small cap companies are less stringent than for other Nasdaq markets that list larger companies with significantly higher market capitalization.Additionally, the Global Market is made up of stocks that represent the Nasdaq Global Market. The Global Market consists of 1,450 stocks that meet the exchange’s financial and liquidity requirements, and corporate governance standards.Finally, the Global Select Market is a market capitalization-weighted index made up of 1,200 US-based and international stocks that represent the Global Select Market Composite.
Read this Term fell -632..83 points or -5.16% at 11633.58
- Russell 2000 fell -74.51 points or -3.91% at 183157
Despite the sharp falls, the broader indices are still above the lows from last week.
- The S&P is 1.18% above the low from last Tuesday's low. The low was at 3886.75.
- The Nasdaq is 1.41% above it's low. The low last week reached 11471.50
- The Dow is near unchanged from the low from last week. The low today did take out the low from last week at 31048.46, but bounced marginally higher closing at 31104.95
Moving below the lows from last week tomorrow, could see more selling.
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The price of Apple was one of the shining big cap tech stocks from the June low. The low reached 129.05 on June 16. By August 17, the price was back up at 176.12. That was just below the end of year level at 177.59. Yes, the price got within $1.43 of the unchanged for 2022 level. Impressive.
Since then, the price has moved lower and last week the price moved back below the 100 day MA (blue line currently at 152.94). However, momentum could not be sustained and there was a rebound on Friday and yesterday.
Today is a different story and the price is back down about 6% on the day at 153.63.
That has the price back toward the key 100 day MA. Just below that is the 50% midpoint of the move up from the June low at $152.59 (which was near the low from last week too). Break below those levels and that opens the door for more selling. Key level for Apple and the market in general. Apple commands a large influence on the indices. If momemtum increases on the back of a further Apple tumble, that will drag down other indices with it.
In other big caps:
- Meta is trading at 2020 lows.
- Amazon is doing relatively well. It trades above the falling 100 day MA at 122.52 (the stock is at 126.87 currently) The 50% of its move higher is at 123.94.
- Alphabet is skimming the bottoms of 2022. The price is at 104.21. That price is between the lows for the year between $101.88 to $105.05. The 50% of the move up from March 2020 comes in at $100.92 | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/apple-moves-toward-the-100-day-ma-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T21:11:54Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/apple-moves-toward-the-100-day-ma-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market fell the most since June 2020 following Wall Street’s humbling realization that inflation is not slowing as much as hoped. The Dow lost more than 1,250 points and the S&P 500 sank 4.3%. A hotter-than-expected report on inflation Tuesday has traders bracing for the Federal Reserve to ultimately raise interest rates even higher than expected, with all the risks for the economy that entails. Bond prices also tumbled, sending yields sharply higher, after the government reported inflation decelerated last month by less than economists forecast. The drop didn’t quite knock out the market’s gains over the past four days.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank more than 1,000 points Tuesday as markets shuddered following Wall Street’s realization that inflation isn’t slowing as much as hoped.
The sell-off knocked the benchmark S&P 500 3.7% lower in afternoon trading, threatening to snap a four-day winning streak. Bond prices also fell sharply, sending their yields higher, after a report showed inflation decelerated only to 8.3% in August, instead of the 8.1% economists expected.
The hotter-than-expected reading has traders bracing for the Federal Reserve to ultimately raise interest rates even higher than expected to combat inflation, with all the risks for the economy that entails. Fears about higher rates sent prices dropping for everything from gold to cryptocurrencies to crude oil.
“Right now, it’s not the journey that’s a worry so much as the destination,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. “If the Fed wants to hike and hold, the big question is at what level.”
The Dow lost 1,105 points, or 3.4%, to 31,274, as of 3:08 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 4.6%. Big tech stocks swooned more than the rest of the market, as all 11 sectors that make up the S&P 500 sank.
Most of Wall Street came into the day thinking the Fed would hike its key short-term rate by a hefty three-quarters of a percentage point at its meeting next week. But the hope was that inflation was in the midst of quickly falling back to more normal levels after peaking in June at 9.1%.
The thinking was that such a slowdown would let the Fed downshift the size of its rate hikes through the end of this year and then potentially hold steady through early 2023.
Tuesday’s report dashed some of those hopes. Many of the data points within it were worse than economists expected, including some the Fed pays particular attention to, such as inflation outside of food and energy prices.
Markets honed in on a 0.6% rise in such prices during August from July, double what economists expected, said Gargi Chaudhuri, head of investment strategy at iShares.
The inflation figures were so much worse than expected that traders now see a one-in-five chance for a rate hike of a full percentage point by the Fed next week. That would be quadruple the usual move, and no one in the futures market was predicting such a hike a day earlier.
Traders now see a better than 60% likelihood the Fed will pull its federal funds rate all the way up to a range of 4.25% to 4.50% by March. A day earlier, they saw less than a 17% chance of such a high rate, according to CME Group.
The Fed has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point. The federal funds rate is currently in a range of 2.25% to 2.50%.
“The Fed can’t let inflation persist. You have to do whatever is necessary to stop prices from going up,” said Russell Evans, managing principal at Avitas Wealth Management. “This indicates the Fed still has a lot of work to do to bring inflation down.”
Higher rates hurt the economy by making it more expensive to buy a house, a car or anything else bought on credit. Mortgage rates have already hit their highest level since 2008, creating pain for the housing industry. The hope is that the Fed can pull off the tightrope walk of slowing the economy enough to snuff out high inflation, but not so much that it creates a painful recession.
Tuesday’s data puts hopes for such a “soft landing” under more threat. In the meantime, higher rates also push down on prices for stocks, bonds and other investments.
Investments seen as the most expensive or the riskiest are the ones hardest hit by higher rates. Bitcoin tumbled 7.1%.
In the stock market, all but four of the stocks in the S&P 500 fell. Technology and other high-growth companies fell more than the rest of the market because they’re seen as most at risk from higher rates.
Apple, Microsoft and Amazon all fell more than 4% and were the heaviest weights on the market. The communication services sector, which includes Google’s parent company and other internet and media companies, sank 4.8% for the largest loss out of the 11 sectors that make up the S&P 500 index.
To be sure, the losses only return the S&P 500 close to where it was before its recent winning streak. That run was built on hopes that Tuesday’s inflation report would show a more comforting slowdown. The ensuing wipeout fits what’s become a pattern on Wall Street this year: Stocks fall on worries about inflation, turn higher on hopes the Fed may ease up on rates and then fall again when data undercuts those hopes.
Tuesday’s inflation report arrived before trading began on Wall Street, but it sent a thud through markets worldwide.
Treasury yields leaped immediately on expectations for a more aggressive Fed. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for Fed actions, soared to 3.76% from 3.57% late Monday. The 10-year yield, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, rose to 3.42% from 3.36%.
Stock markets in Europe, meanwhile, shed early gains and closed broadly lower. The German DAX lost 1.6%, and the French CAC 40 fell 1.4%.
Expectations for a more aggressive Fed also helped the dollar add to its already strong gains for this year. The dollar has been surging against the euro, Japanese yen and other currencies in large part because the Fed has been hiking rates faster and by bigger margins than many other central banks.
An index measuring the value of the dollar against several major currencies rose 1.4%.
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Inflation may be slowing, but food prices are still through the roof.
Food costs spiked 11.4% over the past year, the largest annual increase since May 1979, according to data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Americans browsing the supermarket aisle will notice most food items are far more expensive than they were a year ago. Egg prices soared 39.8%, while flour got 23.3% more expensive. Milk rose 17% and the price of bread jumped 16.2%.
Meat and poultry also grew costlier. Chicken prices jumped 16.6%, while meats rose 6.7% and pork increased 6.8%. Fruits and vegetables together are up 9.4%.
Overall, grocery prices jumped 13.5% and restaurant menu prices increased 8%.
Why there's no relief at the grocery store
The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates in an effort to tame inflation, but the central bank says that food prices are largely out of its control.
That's because food prices are affected by global events, such as the war in Ukraine, which affects the costs of wheat and other commodities. Prices also reflect the impact of natural disasters like crop-killing droughts and diseases such as avian flu, which has constrained the supply of eggs and turkeys.
Plus, it takes time for changes, such as decreases in ingredient prices, to funnel down to consumers. That means that relief from the surge grocery prices could lag declines in other areas.
And demand for food isn't flexible — consumers may be able to skimp on other items, such as clothing or gasoline, but they have to eat. Even so, shoppers are increasingly making changes to their diets and shopping habits to cope with rising costs.
People are pulling back on certain items. Sales of frozen dinners and entrees have fallen about 11% by volume in August compared to the year prior, according to a report this week from IRI, a market research company. Cookie volumes and volumes of refrigerated juices fell nearly 9% and about 8%, respectively, in that period. Lower-income households in particular are skipping items like juice, snacks and candy.
Recently, Applebee's and IHOP have reported an uptick in higher-income customers, who may be trading down from more expensive restaurants. And Tyson has noticed higher demand for chicken as shoppers buy fewer pricey steaks.
What got more expensive
The seasonally adjusted prices of most grocery items ticked up from July to August, but there were some standouts.
Margarine spiked the most, up 7.3%. Eggs were 2.9% more expensive and sugar was 2.4% higher, while flour and bread edged up 2.2%. Canned fruit prices rose 3.4% while fresh vegetables got 1.2% pricier.
Hot dog prices jumped 4.9%, while ham was up 1.3% and turkey rose 2.2%.
Some meat prices fell, however. Bacon was .5% less expensive, while the price of pork roasts, steaks and ribs fell 1.9%.
And some fruit prices moderated as well, with apples getting 2.3% cheaper and citrus fruits falling 1.6%.
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Using DNA found during the investigation, Parabon created trait predictions for a person of interest in the case. Those predictions were used to make a snapshot composite of the suspect.
RENO, Nevada (KITV4) -- A Reno man was arrested on Monday in connection with a 50-year-old cold case murder in Waikiki.
The original crime happened back in January 1971. According to Honolulu Police (HPD), 19-year-old Nancy Anderson was found dead by her roommate in their Waikiki apartment, located at 2222 Aloha Drive, on Jan. 7, 1972.
Investigators say Nancy had been stabbed multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene.
At the time of the incident, HPD homicide detectives could not develop any viable leads and the case went cold. That is until September 2022, when a suspect was finally identified by DNA evidence using the services of Parabon Nanolabs, investigators said.
Using DNA found during the investigation, Parabon created trait predictions for a person of interest in the case. Those predictions were used to make a snapshot composite of the suspect.
On Sept. 12, a no-bail warrant was obtained and the suspect was arrested in Reno on a complaint of second-degree murder. That person has not yet been identified. They are awaiting extradition back to Honolulu.
Parabon Nanolabs is a DNA technology company in Virginia that specializes in advanced DNA analysis services.
This is a developing story. Check back with KITV4 for more information.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Many who know Rudy Puana say his criminal acts that led to a drug trafficking sentence were made under the influence of substance abuse. As for the seven and a half year sentence?
"I think it was excessive. I think the judge didn't really understand addiction and how it warps the mind," a supporter told KITV4.
The judge noted that Puana wasn't motivated by financial gain, but willfully wrote prescriptions primarily for two others who then sold the pills, at times, for cocaine. Prosecutors were looking for a sentence that was twice as harsh, seeking up to 17 years by the sentencing guidelines.
Prosecutors called Puana's actions a "complete breach of everything a doctor should do."
Supporters found the sentencing to be aggressive.
"I was disappointed that the sentence was as long as it was. I had a wonderful relationship with Dr. Puana as a physician and he came and helped us out when we were in severe dire need up in North Hawaii in Waimea," anesthesiologist Ken Ellington said.
The defense presented several testimonials, many attesting to Puana's contributions to the community and dedication to remaining sober.
"I've been doing for 30 years. I've never seen the amount of character letters which was we reached 95 character letters. We probably had about 45 people in court. A lot of people from the Big Island, from Texas, people from North Carolina. It's clear he had a lot of support in this case, which I think is a testament I think to who he can be when he's sober," Attorney Clint Broden said.
The judge also noted that Puana never spoke during the trial or sentencing to accept responsibility for the crimes.
Puana also must pay a $50,000 fine. After his sentence, Puana will undergo three years of supervised release.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced on Tuesday a bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the most significant proposal by Republicans in Congress to curtail the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three months ago.
Senate Democratic candidates immediately tried to link their Republican opponents to Graham's bill, but the South Carolina Republican defended his legislation as a bulwark against late-term abortions.
"I think the Democrats made a huge mistake in introducing legislation in Washington that would basically allow abortion up to the moment of birth," Graham told CNN. "Now we have an alternative to that."
The court's decision in June set off a nationwide scramble to define the legal rights to an abortion, after it found nearly 50 years ago a constitutional right to it.
In May, the Senate failed to advance a Democratic bill establishing a federal right to terminate a pregnancy until fetal viability, or later if there's "a risk to the pregnant patient's life or health." (Fetal viability occurs around 22 to 24 weeks into a pregnancy.) Graham's bill, which has no chance of passing in a Democratic-controlled Senate, provides exceptions for abortions required to protect the life of the mother, and if the woman becomes pregnant through rape or incest.
Senate Republicans were slow on Tuesday to embrace Graham's plan.
"I'll look at it," said Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the Senate GOP campaign committee.
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who is in a tough reelection race, would not directly answer when asked if he backs Graham's bill. Johnson said abortion laws should be decided by "we the people" in the 50 states. The Supreme Court's decision resurrected Wisconsin's abortion ban, which was passed in 1849.
South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the GOP Whip, defended the new legislation, saying it will give GOP candidates a "place to land" as they get hammered by Democrats on the issue. He said most Republicans favor abortion restrictions, not an outright ban. Thune told CNN he supported the 15-week ban.
"I would expect there would be pretty good support for that among, you know, pro-life Republicans and maybe some pro-life Democrats," Thune said.
"I also think that because the Democrats have tried to convert this into a one-sided argument that represents their singular view of the world, which is all Republicans are for an outright ban," Thune added. "I think this changes that narrative and gives candidates a place to be for something that reflects their views and doesn't fit the Democrats' narrative."
But Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a member of GOP leadership, had a different view of Graham's bill.
"I think there are going to be some differences of opinion," said Cornyn. "My preference is to have each state handle those issues."
Asked why he thought Graham put forward the legislation, Cornyn responded, "Ask Sen. Graham."
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, a third GOP member of leadership, said he supported Graham's previous anti-abortion proposals, but would not answer directly when asked if it was politically advantageous for the GOP to be introducing such a bill before the midterm elections.
Senate Democratic candidates immediately seized on Graham's bill. Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who's running against Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz, asked his opponent if he would support the legislation. He and other candidates including Rep. Val Demings in Florida and New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan quickly touted their own pro-abortion rights view.
"Republicans' national abortion ban will be on the ballot, in every Senate race," said Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman. "The GOP has shown, once again, the threat they pose to a woman's right to make her own health care decisions -- and voters will make their voices heard by standing with Senate Democrats in November."
It's unclear if Republicans would put the Graham bill on the Senate floor if they win back the chamber this fall.
"I don't know the answer to that," Thune told CNN. "My expectation, as I said before, is that anything we put on the floor would be at 60 votes, and there aren't 60 votes, probably for anything at the moment on either side."
House Republicans also plan on introducing a 15-week abortion ban bill. House GOP leaders have not committed to putting the measure on the floor if they recapture the majority, but House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has previously told CNN he supports banning abortions at 15 weeks.
McCarthy's "Commitment to America" -- a policy and messaging document that he is formally rolling out next week -- only makes one passing reference to abortion, according to a source familiar with the document.
The document says Republicans will "protect the lives of unborn children and mothers," the source said.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
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The share of children in poverty fell by nearly half last year, thanks mainly to the enhanced child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday.
Some 5.2% of children were in poverty in 2021, down from 9.7% the year before, based on a broader alternative measure developed by the Census Bureau. The Supplemental Poverty Measure, which began in 2009, takes into account certain non-cash government assistance, tax credits and needed expenses -- addressing a major flaw in the official poverty rate, economists say.
The supplemental poverty rate for children was the lowest on record since the measure began. Without the enhanced child tax credit, the rate would have only fallen to 9.2%. Some 5.3 million people were lifted out of poverty because of the credit.
Overall, the supplemental poverty rate was 7.8% for 2021, down from 9.2% a year earlier.
That compares with the official poverty rate, which was 11.6% overall in 2021, not statistically different than a year earlier. The official poverty rate for children was 15.3% -- the widest gap between this rate and the supplemental measure since the latter began in 2009.
However, poverty among the elderly rose to 10.7%, up from 9.5%, according to the supplemental measure. This is likely because a larger share is on fixed incomes that aren't keeping pace with inflation, according to the Census Bureau. Still, Social Security kept 26.3 million people, the majority of them senior citizens, out of poverty.
Also, median household income in 2021 was $70,800, not statistically different than a year earlier, even as inflation started to soar last year. This follows a 2.9% decline in median income in 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first statistically significant drop since 2011.
While the overall number of workers didn't change, the number of full-time, year-round workers increased by 11.1 million. However, the inflation-adjusted median earnings of those workers decreased 4.1%, as higher prices overtook nominal gains in earnings, the Census Bureau said.
And households at the lowest income level -- the bottom tenth of the ladder -- saw their incomes decline 4.4%, even though more lower-wage workers returned to the labor market last year and have generally experienced faster average wage growth.
Federal relief efforts also helped drive down the uninsured rate to 8.3% in 2021, down 0.4 percentage points from a year earlier and among the lowest on record. Some 27.2 million Americans did not have health insurance at any point last year, a reduction of 1.1 million people in 2020.
Federal pandemic relief measures
The supplemental poverty measure has taken on increased importance in recent years, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic when Congress approved multiple relief efforts to help Americans weather the economic storm unleashed by the virus.
As part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act that passed in March 2021, Congress enhanced the child tax credit for one year, beefing up payments to $3,600 for each child up to age 6 and $3,000 for each one ages 6 through 17, for lower- and middle-income families. For the first time, half the credit was paid in monthly installments from July through December, while parents could claim the other half when they filed their 2021 taxes this year.
As part of the credit's enhancement, more low-income parents became eligible for the full amount because lawmakers made it fully refundable.
The payments were sent to between roughly 35 million to more than 36 million families, depending on the month. A total of more than $93 billion was distributed, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
The child tax credit, in particular, had a significant impact on reducing hardship among families with kids, studies found.
"We know how to fight poverty, and it's not super complicated," said Elizabeth Lower-Basch, director of income and work supports at the left-leaning Center for Law and Social Policy, known as CLASP. "It's about giving people the resources that they need to meet their and their families' needs."
Critics of the enhanced child tax credit, as well as other stimulus measures that Democrats approved early last year, argue that they helped spur skyrocketing inflation. That's the main reason why West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat, prevented his party from extending the enhanced credit beyond last year.
In addition to beefing up the child tax credit, lawmakers approved a third round of stimulus payments last year, this one worth up to $1,400 per person. The IRS issued more than 175 million third-round payments totaling more than $400 billion through December 31. Some 8.9 million people avoided poverty because of stimulus payments, according to the Census Bureau.
Also, lawmakers extended a $300 federal boost to weekly jobless payments and two other key pandemic unemployment benefits programs until early September 2021. Most Republican-led states and one governed by a Democrat, however, terminated at least one of the programs earlier in the year.
Also, as part of a 2020 Covid-19 relief measure, states are not disenrolling low-income Americans from Medicaid in exchange for receiving additional federal matching funds during the public health emergency. Nearly 80 million people were enrolled in Medicaid in December 2021, compared with just under 73 million a year prior, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The share of people covered by Medicaid increased 0.9 percentage points, the Census Bureau found.
The American Rescue Plan Act also made the federal Affordable Care Act subsidies more generous and available to more people, particularly those in the middle class. This expanded assistance helped prompt an additional 2.8 million people to sign up for coverage under a special enrollment period last year, though it did not drive a statistically significant change in marketplace coverage.
Gains may not last
The advances in poverty reduction, however, are not expected to last this year since lawmakers did not extend the enhanced child tax credit beyond 2021, and they are not expected to approve any additional stimulus checks or other boosts to the social safety net.
The absence of the monthly child tax credit payment in January led to an estimated 3.7 million more children in poverty that month, according to the Center on Poverty & Social Policy at Columbia University. The child poverty rates rose to an estimated 17% in January, up from 12.1% in December, when the last monthly installment was delivered.
While the job market has remained robust so far in 2022, high inflation has taken a toll on many Americans. For most people, wages are not keeping pace with the increased cost of living.
"Though there were more jobs in 2022, families were certainly more squeezed by rising prices," said Elise Gould, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. "And so the disappearance of this child tax credit would have hurt more."
This story has been updated with additional information.
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It’s becoming a trend.
The California Legislature, at times dominated by progressive Democrats, and Gov. Gavin Newsom enact legislation that targets specific industries and the industries respond with ballot measures to overturn or modify what the politicians have wrought.
It happened twice in 2020.
Legislation was passed in 2018 to eliminate cash bail for criminal defendants. The bail bond industry immediately launched a referendum campaign to put the issue to voters, but it could not go onto the ballot until 2020.
Advocates of the no-bail legislation raised and spent more than $15 million on the campaign, a third of it coming from one man, billionaire businessman and philanthropist John Arnold. It condemned bail as biased against poor and non-white defendants.
The bail bond industry and its insurers countered with a $10 million-plus campaign, arguing that eliminating bail would put more criminals on the street, and scored a win when voters, by a hefty margin, rejected the legislation.
In 2018, the state Supreme Court imposed strict limits on classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than payroll employees, giving unions a huge win. The Legislature took up the issue in 2019, haggling for months over which industries would be exempted from the Supreme Court’s standards. Most notably, legislators refused to exempt drivers for delivery and ride-share companies such as Uber and Lyft.
In response, those and other similar companies qualified a 2020 ballot measureto carve out an exemption for themselves and spent a record $204 million on a successful campaign to pass it, more than 10 times what unions spent to oppose it.
We’re about to see a third ballot clash over progressive legislation and it could be even more expensive.
On Labor Day, Newsom signed California labor unions’ highest priority bill, creating a 10-member Fast Food Council to regulate working conditions in fast food outlets and raise workers’ wages to as high as $22 an hour with cost-of-living adjustments thereafter. Newsom said it “empowers our workers.”
A day after Newsom signed the legislation, Assembly Bill 257, a coalition called Protect Neighborhood Restaurants filed paperwork with the attorney general’s office to place a referendum on the ballot that, if successful, would overturn the law.
Two Washington-based groups, the International Franchise Association and the National Restaurant Association, co-chair the coalition. “It is only right for California’s voters to have a voice before harboring the burden of a bill that has widely been heralded as a massive step in the wrong direction,” the coalition said in a statement.
The battle could begin with a legal clash over the measure’s title that will be written by attorney general’s office because Democratic attorneys general tend to slant ballot titles in favor proposals from unions and other Democrat-friendly groups and negatively toward those from business and/or conservative sponsors.
Whatever the title, proponents will have until Dec. 4 to submit 623,000 signatures of registered voters on petitions and thus place their referendum on the 2024 ballot – a tight time frame but doable if they are willing to spend a few million dollars on professional signature-gathering.
If the measure qualifies, AB 257’s provisions would be suspended until voters determine its fate.
Sponsors will contend that the law undermines local business owners and will ultimately lead to much-higher fast food prices for consumers. Opponents will say that that the law protects low-income workers from exploitation.
The stakes are high. If the law survives the industry challenge, it could have far-reaching effects on other franchised industries by establishing a new assumption that franchises are merely outlets for their parent companies, not stand-alone businesses.
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Kenneth Winston Starr, a former US solicitor general who gained worldwide fame in the 1990s as the independent counsel who doggedly investigated then-President Bill Clinton during a series of political scandals, has died. He was 76.
Starr died of complications from surgery, according to a statement from his family.
“We are deeply saddened with the loss of our dear and loving Father and Grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first. The love, energy, endearing sense of humor, and fun-loving interest Dad exhibited to each of us was truly special, and we cherish the many wonderful memories we were able to experience with him,” Starr’s son, Randall, said in the statement on behalf of his children.
Starr, who was a member of former President Donald Trump’s defense team during Trump’s first impeachment, also served as president of Baylor University from 2010 to 2016.
Baylor President Linda Livingstone said in a statement Tuesday that “Judge Starr was a dedicated public servant and ardent supporter of religious freedom that allows faith-based institutions such as Baylor to flourish.”
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WATERLOO, ON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) will report results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 at 5:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. The conference call can be accessed by dialing +1 (877) 400-4403 or live streamed on the Company's website at BlackBerry.com/Investors.
A replay of the conference call will be available at approximately 8:30 p.m. ET on September 27, 2022, by dialing +1 (800) 770-2030 and entering Conference ID #1566649. It will also be available at the link above.
The following table gives target dates for quarterly earnings announcements for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2023.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including 215M vehicles. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
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The next step in UCLA’s planned move into the Big Ten is officially on the calendar.
The University of California’s Board of Regents will discuss the situation in a closed session on Sept. 22 at 10 a.m., according to the agenda item posted on the regents’ website:
“UCLA Big Ten Membership – Potential Legal Issues and Financial Impacts”
The school’s announced departure from the Pac-12 has been met with resistance from the regents and Gov. Gavin Newsom, who blasted the lack of transparency behind the move and expressed concern about the impact on other UC campuses.
More recently, the regents discussed UCLA’s plans in an open session.
In a crucial exchange, general counsel Charles Robinson made clear that the Regents had the authority to block the move by withdrawing the authority over conference membership delegated to each chancellor.
“For this particular matter, the regents could say ‘We want to act and therefore we do not want the (UC) president or the (campus) chancellors to act in this area,’ and simply assert that,” Robinson said.
Will they?
There are several potential outcomes:
— With power of the purse, the Regents could insist UCLA use its revenue distributions from the Big Ten to reimburse Cal for any losses incurred.
The Bruins are expected to receive about $75 million annually in media revenue in the Big Ten, while Pac-12 schools could be left with just $35 million annually without the Los Angeles market.
— The regents could overturn UCLA’s move unless accommodations are made for Cal to join the Big Ten, as well.
— They could, after a stretch of blustering, allow the Bruins to proceed as planned.
The University of California Office of the President did not immediately respond to a Hotline request to provide details of the agenda item.
The stakes are massive, for UCLA and the Pac-12.
The conference could lose millions of dollars in revenue annually without UCLA as a member — USC is also leaving — because of the value created by having a campus in the massive Los Angeles media market.
The exact value each school brings to the conference is pure conjecture.
USC has the stronger football brand and greater ability to generate ratings, which factors into valuation assessments.
But if UCLA were forced to reverse course, the conference would benefit from direct access to the 5.7 million homes in the Southern California market, thereby increasing revenue to its media partners through retransmission fees, monthly cable subscriptions and advertising.
That would boost the Pac-12’s annual media revenue by several million dollars per school per year.
Put another way: The conference was expected to receive approximately $42 million per school annually in the next media contract cycle if the Trojans and Bruins had remained members.
If USC leaves but UCLA stays, the loss could be only a few million dollars.
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UPS is looking to hire 12,000 Southern California workers as the delivery giant gears up for the 2022 holiday season.
The local hires are part of the company’s plan to bring on more than 100,000 seasonal drivers, package handlers and driver helpers nationwide to support the expected increase in package volume.
Full-time and part-time openings are available on multiple shifts, with wages ranging from $15.50 to $23 an hour, depending on the job.
Seasonal package-car drivers begin at $21 per hour, and tractor-trailer driver positions begin at $23 per hour, plus a $1,000 sign-on bonus in some area locations, UPS said.
The digital-first hiring process takes about 25 minutes from the online application to the job interview and 80% of the positions don’t require an interview.
“We have made our hiring process as easy as possible,” said Nando Cesarone, who heads up the company’s U.S. operations.
UPS said its seasonal jobs are a proven pathway to a career at the company, with nearly 35,000 seasonal employees earning permanent positions in 2021.
UPS said its full-time package drivers average $95,000 a year, plus another $50,000 in health, wellness and pension benefits. After four years, drivers earn about $42 per hour, officials said.
Eligible employees can also earn up to $25,000 for college tuition and expenses through UPS’s Earn and Learn program. Part-time employees are eligible for the reimbursement the day they are hired. UPS invested $30 million in education assistance programs in 2021.
Those who are interested in the various openings can visit UPSjobs.com to search and apply for jobs in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.
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Family Entertainment Destination Partners with Elite NIL Athlete and Syracuse University Field Hockey Player Samantha Swart
WESTFORD, Mass., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Apex Entertainment®, a family entertainment destination for people of all ages, located at Destiny USA in Syracuse, New York, is newly partnered with Syracuse University field hockey player, Samantha Swart. Swart spent the last 5 years on the Syracuse University lacrosse team and this fall she has joined the field hockey team for the first time. The new alliance between Apex Entertainment and Swart, was established thanks to the help of Elite NIL, to raise visibility with and increase community connection to the Syracuse market.
"This is a year for me to embrace new and exciting opportunities," said Samantha Swart. "I'm looking forward to what this season will bring both on and off the field!"
Apex Entertainment partnered with Out2Win Sports, a sports marketing agency, for all photo and video content on Swart partnership. Swart exhausted her eligibility for lacrosse at Syracuse. In her career she posted 147 goals over the last 5 years. She recently represented team USA at the World Games, which brings together the world's best athletes every four years.
"Sam is an amazing athlete with a unique story," said Rob Luzzi, Director of Field Marketing, RAVentures. "We're proud to be partnered with her and eager to share details of our first joint event—stay tuned!"
Apex Entertainment®, which first opened in Destiny USA in December 2018, is a family entertainment destination. It features 24 bowling lanes and attractions such as a large arcade, laser tag, bumper cars, axe throwing and more. Apex also features a full-service restaurant and boasts the largest meeting space in Destiny USA that is ideal for corporate outings and special occasions such as birthday and holiday parties.
About Apex Entertainment®
Apex Entertainment® is a family entertainment destination for people of all ages. With four locations in Massachusetts, New York and Virginia, Apex Entertainment is the largest local space for indoor family fun with world class attractions all under one roof. Headquartered in Westford, MA and established in 2017, Apex Entertainment is part of RAVentures, which owns and operates hospitality brands and real estate and development companies. https://www.apexentertainment.com/.
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IRVING, Texas, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Commercial Metals Company (NYSE: CMC), in conjunction with its fourth quarter earnings release for fiscal 2022, invites you to listen to its conference call that will be broadcast live over the Internet on Thursday, October 13, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Central) with Barbara Smith, Chairman, President & CEO and Paul Lawrence, Senior Vice President & CFO.
The teleconference will also be available via webcast. To access the webcast (in listen-only mode), please visit Commercial Metals Company's Web site at www.cmc.com.
Commercial Metals Company (CMC) and its subsidiaries manufacture, recycle and fabricate steel and metal products and provide related materials and services through a network of facilities that includes seven electric arc furnace ("EAF") mini mills, two EAF micro mills, one rerolling mill, steel fabrication and processing plants, construction-related product warehouses, and metal recycling facilities in the United States and Poland. Through its Tensar division, CMC is a leading global provider of innovative ground and soil stabilization solutions selling into more than 80 national markets through its two major product lines: Tensar® geogrids and Geopier® foundation systems.
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PARIS, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ekinops (Euronext Paris - FR0011466069 – EKI), a leading network access and virtualization specialist, today announced that SixSq, that provides the Nuvla edge-to-cloud management platform, and Kadiska, the SaaS platform for digital experience monitoring, signed a partnership that allows enterprises to instantly gain performance visibility into networks connecting their sites, clouds and business-critical web and SaaS applications.
By integrating Kadiska's Net-Tracer app into the SixSq Nuvla marketplace, organizations can now immediately deploy in-depth network path and performance monitoring across their entire infrastructure.
The Net-Tracer app is a containerized agent that Nuvla can deploy on edge nodes, clouds, white boxes and SD-WAN devices, including any uCPE powered by Ekinops' popular OneOS6 middleware. Once deployed, Net-Tracer continuously maps and monitors all network routes and reports performance degradations, their origin and impact. Users connect to the Kadiska platform to access analytics that correlate network, infrastructure and application performance with users' digital experience.
"Our customers need network performance monitoring, and being able to deploy such capability via an app on the Nuvla marketplace will be be natural for them. This allows users to quickly identify when and how the network impacts application performance. The combination of Kadiska's Net-Tracer app and our zero-touch, container-based orchestration capabilities allow us to offer a convenient solution to solve this critical challenge facing IT operations and network teams," explained Marc-Elian Bégin, CEO and co-founder at SixSq.
"We designed Net-Tracer to fill this specific visibility gap," added Gilles Huguenin, CEO at Kadiska. "Its cloud-native implementation makes it simple to deploy across managed clouds and devices. SixSq's vendor agnostic orchestration capabilities and popular marketplace was a natural fit for our solution. We look forward to helping enterprises gain complete control over their modern nextworks, deliver an amazing digital experience, and fully profit from their digital platform."
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Availability of popular gift cards expands to leading health provider, acknowledging close connection between physical and financial health
PHOENIX, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gift of College, an innovative platform that facilitates crowdfunding for higher education and disability expenses, today announced the launch of its first-of-its kind gift card in select CVS locations across the United States. Available in denominations of $25-$200 and redeemable into most any new or existing 529 (college savings), ABLE (disability savings), or student loan account, Gift of College provides gift givers with a forward-looking gift card option for birthdays, holidays, baby showers, graduations, and other special occasions that can help alleviate the stress associated with higher education expenses and expenses experienced by individuals with disabilities. The gift card is a convenient and thoughtful way to give a contribution toward a loved one's financial wellbeing.
A college education is not only linked to higher pay and upward mobility but to improved overall health, according to The College Board. Given the high cost of many forms of post-secondary education, families need support in preparing for the cost for future students and for those who did not adequately prepare, support in repaying student loan debt. With countless gifting occasions each year, every contribution toward financial well-being can lead to a brighter and less stressful future.
"With millions of Americans weighed down by student loan debt, and with nearly 65% of Americans unfamiliar with 529 plans, one of the most effective ways to prepare for the cost of post-secondary education to avoid or minimize educational debt, a partnership with CVS will bring much needed support for those attempting to save for or repay the cost of higher education," says Wayne Weber, CEO Gift of College, Inc.
"There's clearly a close connection between financial and physical health. We are delighted that this unique collaboration will raise awareness of the usefulness of 529 college savings and ABLE plans and will provide a financial wellness gift card option for families across the U.S."
About Gift of College
Gift of College helps families address one of their most critical concerns: paying for higher education. An innovative platform that enables crowdfunding for college, Gift of College helps friends, family, and employers to contribute to any 529 college savings, student loan or ABLE account. Its suite of products and services includes Gift of College Gift Cards (available online and at thousands of retailer locations across the U.S.) and Gift of College At-Work, an employee benefit platform offering payroll deduction and employer contribution technology for student loan repayment and college and disability savings.
Learn more at http://www.giftofcollege.com. Follow Gift of College on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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WATERTOWN, Mass., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lyra Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LYRA) (the Company, Lyra or Lyra Therapeutics), a clinical-stage therapeutics company leveraging its proprietary XTreo™ platform to enable precise, sustained and local delivery of medications to the ear, nose and throat (ENT) passages and other diseased tissues, today announced that it has issued an equity-based award pursuant to its 2022 Inducement Award Plan to its Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Communications, Ellen Cavaleri, upon the commencement of her employment. The inducement grant was approved by a majority of the Company's independent directors and was made as a material inducement to Ms. Cavaleri's acceptance of employment with Lyra in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4) as a component of her employment compensation. The inducement grant consists of a non-qualified stock option to purchase an aggregate of 110,000 shares of the Company's common stock. The inducement grant is subject to the terms and conditions of the award agreement covering the performance stock option grant and the Company's 2022 Inducement Award Plan, as amended.
Lyra Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage therapeutics company leveraging its proprietary XTreo™ platform to enable precise, sustained, local delivery of medications to diseased tissues not accessible with conventional therapeutic approaches. Lyra's XTreo™ platform is comprised of a biocompatible mesh scaffold, an engineered elastomeric matrix and a versatile polymer-drug complex. The Company's current pipeline of therapeutics target tissues deep in the ear, nose and throat passages and are designed to deliver continuous drug therapy for up to six months following a single non-invasive, in-office administration. Lyra has two product candidates in late-stage development for CRS, a highly prevalent inflammatory disease of the paranasal sinuses which leads to debilitating symptoms and significant morbidities: LYR-210, for surgically naïve patients, is being evaluated in the ENLIGHTEN Phase 3 clinical program, and LYR-220, for patients who have recurrent symptoms despite surgery, is being evaluated in the BEACON Phase 2 clinical trial. These two product candidates are designed to treat the estimated four million CRS patients in the U.S. that fail medical management each year. For more information, please visit lyratherapeutics.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Ellen Cavaleri's role at the Company, the Company's pipeline and development of product candidates, including LYR-210 and LYR-220, the progress and timing of clinical trials, movement toward commercialization, and the anticipated success of leveraging the XTreo™ platform. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: the fact that the Company has incurred significant losses since inception and expects to incur additional losses for the foreseeable future; the Company's need for additional funding, which may not be available; the Company's limited operating history; the fact that the Company has no approved products; the fact that the Company's product candidates are in various stages of development; or the fact that the Company may not be successful in its efforts to identify and successfully commercialize its product candidates; the fact that clinical trials required for the Company's product candidates are expensive and time-consuming, and their outcome is uncertain; the fact that the FDA may not conclude that certain of the Company's product candidates satisfy the requirements for the Section 505(b)(2) regulatory approval pathway; the Company's inability to obtain required regulatory approvals; effects of recently enacted and future legislation; the possibility of system failures or security breaches; effects of significant competition; the fact that the successful commercialization of the Company's product candidates will depend in part on the extent to which governmental authorities and health insurers establish coverage, adequate reimbursement levels and pricing policies; failure to achieve market acceptance; product liability lawsuits; the fact that the Company relies on third parties for the manufacture of materials for its research programs, pre-clinical studies and clinical trials; the Company's reliance on third parties to conduct its preclinical studies and clinical trials; the Company's inability to succeed in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships; the Company's reliance on certain suppliers critical to its production; failure to obtain and maintain or adequately protect the Company's intellectual property rights; failure to retain key personnel or to recruit qualified personnel; difficulties in managing the Company's growth; effects of natural disasters, terrorism and wars (including the developing conflict between Ukraine and Russia); the fact that the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 could adversely impact the Company's business and operations, including the Company's clinical trials; the fact that the price of the Company's common stock may be volatile and fluctuate substantially; significant costs and required management time as a result of operating as a public company and any securities class action litigation. These and other important factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 9, 2022 and its other filings with the SEC could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates as of the date of this press release. While the Company may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it disclaims any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause its views to change.
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The health system said that the reason for the layoffs was due to significant financial pressures. The financial pressures include historic inflation, rising pharmaceutical and labor costs, COVID-19, and the expiration of CARES Act funding.
The layoffs will be in management and non-patient/health plan member-facing roles.
However, Spectrum and Beaumont also said that their merger has put them in a stronger position to face these financial challenges. The full statement can be read below:
"Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health came together as a new health system for Michigan to build a future where health is simple, affordable, equitable, and exceptional. Our health system, like others around the nation, is facing significant financial pressures from historic inflation, rising pharmaceutical and labor costs, COVID-19, expiration of CARES Act funding, and reimbursement not proportional with expenses. Joining together as one health system places us in a stronger position to face these challenges, while ensuring quality care for our communities for generations to come. Since the beginning of the year, we have recruited around 10,000 people, predominately into open roles directly serving our patients and health plan members. We have also made the difficult decision to eliminate about 400 management and non-patient/health plan member-facing roles from our 64,000 team members. We are grateful for the contributions and years of dedicated service provided by our impacted team members and are working to help them find employment within our health system and elsewhere. We remain deeply committed to caring for our team members and our community."
BHSH System | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/spectrum-health-and-beaumont-health-laying-off-400-workers | 2022-09-13T21:33:16Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/spectrum-health-and-beaumont-health-laying-off-400-workers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAGHAL (Hindu text in Prakrat; or Persiak or Zaba- flewan [see Persikean],\nBab ʾAmorita\nGhaz ): Pursue and slay, like the rapii or vair, on the point of the tail 64 , . 2 , Taga ha' al ' is also the proper form\nSas ʾrata, etc.' [and package brsdevopm.drivo.controller.service;\n Ken Starr, who rose to prominence while investigating the Whitewater scandal during the Clinton administration, has died.
Starr's family says he died on Tuesday at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston of complications from surgery.
Prior to investigating Whitewater, Starr served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.
Starr would later serve as the U.S. solicitor general under then-President George H.W. Bush.
Starr was named the president of Baylor University in 2010. He served in the role until 2016.
He would return to Washington to serve as a defense lawyer for former President Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial. This role was completely different than the one he undertook in the '90s, when he was tasked with investigating former President Bill Clinton. The Starr Report is credited with leading to Clinton's impeachment.
Starr is survived by his wife and three children. A memorial service will be held in Waco on Sept. 24. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/ken-starr-whitewater-investigator-dead-at-76 | 2022-09-13T21:33:41Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/ken-starr-whitewater-investigator-dead-at-76 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
George Mason University Athletic Director and former Washington professional football player Brad Edwards has been named CEO of NFL Alumni, an organization of retired players.
Edwards, who played in the NFL for nine years, including a starring role in the Washington team's last championship, succeeds Beasley Reece, who announced his retirement earlier this year. He is expected to begin his new role in early October.
In addition to being athletic director at GMU, Edwards is also an assistant vice president. He has been at GMU since 2014 and during his tenure led a department that secured more than $42 million in revenue contracts and commitments, according to a news release.
Edwards previously served as athletic director at Jacksonville University (Fla.), senior vice president of intercollegiate athletics and institutional advancement at Newberry College (S.C.) and senior associate athletic director at the University of South Carolina.
“It is an honor to be joining NFL Alumni and to serve those retired players and spouses, cheerleaders, and coaches who helped build the NFL into the most successful sports enterprise in this country,” Edwards said. “I look forward to expanding the NFLA’s long tradition of ‘Caring for Kids’ and ‘Caring for Our Own’ while meaningfully contributing to Alumni development programs around the country.”
Edwards, 56, is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, where he majored in business administration, and he has a master of arts in education from Michigan State University.
“We are very pleased to have Brad Edwards join our national office,” said NFL Alumni Chairman Tracy Porter. “He is very familiar with NFLA on both a local and national level. We look forward to continued success under his outstanding leadership.”
Edwards was a defensive standout for three NFL teams from 1988-96. He was a second-round draft choice of the Minnesota Vikings in 1988. He later signed with the Washington Redskins (now Commanders) in 1990 and ended his career with the Falcons from 1994-1996. Edwards was runner-up in the voting for MVP in Super Bowl XXVI, when he made two key interceptions in Washington’s 37-24 win over the Buffalo Bills.
NFL Alumni was founded in 1967 and is based in Mt. Laurel, N.J. It has 42 local chapters around the country. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/george-mason-athletic-director-named-ceo-of-nfl-alumni/article_9a064f56-33a6-11ed-95ba-e7c31db700b3.html | 2022-09-13T21:36:44Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/george-mason-athletic-director-named-ceo-of-nfl-alumni/article_9a064f56-33a6-11ed-95ba-e7c31db700b3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Police have charged two 15-year-old students at Freedom High School in Woodbridge after one brought a gun to school, showed it off in a bathroom and handed it off to a friend.
At 10:10 a.m., staff at the school on Neabsco Mills Road notified the school resource officer that there was a student in the school with a gun. Officers learned the boy showed the gun to fellow students while in a bathroom, Prince William County Police Master Officer Renee Carr said in a news release. At one point, the boy gave the gun to another student and both left the bathroom.
Carr said one of the boys also posted a photo of the gun on social media showing the firearm on school grounds, which was seen by other students.
Police detained the boy who brought the gun to school but found he didn't have it.
The other student who allegedly had the gun left the building and was later located off school grounds, Carr said. He also was not in possession of the firearm, she said.
The school resource officer determined the gun was never brandished at other students or part of any active threat of violence towards the school, staff or other students, Carr said.
A police K-9 searched the area for the gun, which hasn't been found.
Both boys were charged with possession of a firearm on school property and held at the Prince William County Juvenile Detention Center. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/updated-two-students-charged-with-bringing-gun-to-freedom-high-school-in-woodbridge/article_73f49420-32a8-11ed-9276-b3ab13b70e83.html | 2022-09-13T21:36:50Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/updated-two-students-charged-with-bringing-gun-to-freedom-high-school-in-woodbridge/article_73f49420-32a8-11ed-9276-b3ab13b70e83.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Acknowledging that some challenges remain, Arlington’s superintendent of schools reported what he considered “marked improvements” in school-transportation matters at the start of this school year.
Just over 16,000 students are slated to be served by 158 school-bus routes for the new school year, Superintendent Francisco Durán reported to School Board members on Sept. 8. And while there were some driver vacancies and no substitutes to pick up the slack, the start-of-school performance seemed almost tranquil compared to several recent years, where chaos (controlled or uncontrolled) seemed to reign.
Durán said recruitment of bus drivers continues but noted that “it takes quite a while to become [certified as] a driver,” so there may be some teething pains continuing as the school year gets ramped up.
The school system this year has inaugurated a new mobile app that allows parents to track where buses are, and also has worked with the Arlington Transit (ART) bus network in an effort to develop further options for students.
[https://sungazette.news provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.] | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/arlington-school-leaders-upbeat-on-transportation-but-acknowledge-issues/article_d2e90438-339e-11ed-a426-a3f1361fc890.html | 2022-09-13T21:36:56Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/arlington-school-leaders-upbeat-on-transportation-but-acknowledge-issues/article_d2e90438-339e-11ed-a426-a3f1361fc890.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Another round of monthly data confirming signs of cooling but not catastrophe in the regional home-sales environment.
“The Washington area is still a sellers’ market – however, buyers have more leverage on price with less competition in the market,” notes Bright MLS, the region’s multiple-listing service, which on Sept. 12 detailed August’s sales figures.
Those sales totaled 5,323, down more than 25 percent from a year before, with each of the 10 major jurisdictions comprising the region showing double-digit declines.
“As we head into the fall market, buyers should expect to find more options and potentially will have more leverage on price, as sellers are readjusting their expectations,” said Bright MLS chief economist Lisa Sturtevant, who said that after years of sellers calling the shots in the local market, there “are signs of balance inching back in.”
Pending sales for August also were down; those transactions generally translate into competed sales a month or two after posting, confirming that the tend is likely to be downward for several months at least.
Sellers may not be thrilled, but those on the other side of the transaction may be silently cheering.
Buyers this autumn will “find they have more time to make decisions, and will be in the position of asking for home inspections and appraisals, concessions that were virtually unheard of last year,” Sturtevant said.
Despite the sales declines, the median sales price for properties that closed across the region during the month ($555,000) was up 3.4 percent from a year before, led by a 5.8-percent increase in the median sales price of single-family homes. That bump up was higher than the year-over-year percentage increase recorded in July, reversing four months of declining rates of growth.
One reason prices keep rising: An ongoing dearth of inventory. The number of new listings in the region was down 26 percent in August compared to a year before, the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year declines as some potential sellers opt to stay on the sidelines for now.
Take the available inventory and divide it into last month’s sales and you get 1.22 months’ worth of supply currently available. That’s well below the 3-month supply that would be required for most analysts to agree there is a buyer-seller equilibrium.
(Of the jurisdictions making up the Washington region, only the District of Columbia has more than two months’ worth of supply, standing at 2.07. That could be one reason why that locality was one of the few jurisdictions to show a decline in median sales price, though a relatively small one, in August.)
One of the strongest segments of the regional homes market over the past six months of cooling has been the upper-end single-family segment, perhaps because buyers in the economic stratosphere are less impacted by interest-rate hikes. But new figures that measure forward-looking buyer interest report that segment had the biggest decline among all housing types from July to August.
But regardless of the housing type, homeowners who accept the new reality are unlikely to be derailed in their efforts to find a purchaser.
“Sellers who price their properties to reflect today’s market, and not last year’s market, will still find eager buyers,” Bright MLS declared.
Figures represent inventory in the District of Columbia; Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church in Virginia; and Montgomery, Prince George’s and Frederick counties in Maryland. All August 2022 figures are preliminary and are subject to revision.
Another round of monthly data confirming signs of cooling but not catastrophe in the regional home-sales environment.
“The Washington area is still a sellers’ market – however, buyers have more leverage on price with less competition in the market,” notes Bright MLS, the region’s multiple-listing service, which on Sept. 12 detailed August’s sales figures.
Those sales totaled 5,323, down more than 25 percent from a year before, with each of the 10 major jurisdictions comprising the region showing double-digit declines.
“As we head into the fall market, buyers should expect to find more options and potentially will have more leverage on price, as sellers are readjusting their expectations,” said Bright MLS chief economist Lisa Sturtevant, who said that after years of sellers calling the shots in the local market, there “are signs of balance inching back in.”
Pending sales for August also were down; those transactions generally translate into competed sales a month or two after posting, confirming that the tend is likely to be downward for several months at least.
Sellers may not be thrilled, but those on the other side of the transaction may be silently cheering.
Buyers this autumn will “find they have more time to make decisions, and will be in the position of asking for home inspections and appraisals, concessions that were virtually unheard of last year,” Sturtevant said.
Despite the sales declines, the median sales price for properties that closed across the region during the month ($555,000) was up 3.4 percent from a year before, led by a 5.8-percent increase in the median sales price of single-family homes. That bump up was higher than the year-over-year percentage increase recorded in July, reversing four months of declining rates of growth.
One reason prices keep rising: An ongoing dearth of inventory. The number of new listings in the region was down 26 percent in August compared to a year before, the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year declines as some potential sellers opt to stay on the sidelines for now.
Take the available inventory and divide it into last month’s sales and you get 1.22 months’ worth of supply currently available. That’s well below the 3-month supply that would be required for most analysts to agree there is a buyer-seller equilibrium.
(Of the jurisdictions making up the Washington region, only the District of Columbia has more than two months’ worth of supply, standing at 2.07. That could be one reason why that locality was one of the few jurisdictions to show a decline in median sales price, though a relatively small one, in August.)
One of the strongest segments of the regional homes market over the past six months of cooling has been the upper-end single-family segment, perhaps because buyers in the economic stratosphere are less impacted by interest-rate hikes. But new figures that measure forward-looking buyer interest report that segment had the biggest decline among all housing types from July to August.
But regardless of the housing type, homeowners who accept the new reality are unlikely to be derailed in their efforts to find a purchaser.
“Sellers who price their properties to reflect today’s market, and not last year’s market, will still find eager buyers,” Bright MLS declared.
Figures represent inventory in the District of Columbia; Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church in Virginia; and Montgomery, Prince George’s and Frederick counties in Maryland. All August 2022 figures are preliminary and are subject to revision.
[https://sungazette.news provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.] | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/monthly-data-show-ongoing-cooling-in-local-homes-market/article_9e3cf9ce-339e-11ed-b78c-c70e983768d4.html | 2022-09-13T21:37:02Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/monthly-data-show-ongoing-cooling-in-local-homes-market/article_9e3cf9ce-339e-11ed-b78c-c70e983768d4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The start of a new school year has brought a new tool for Arlington secondary-school students in need of academic assistance.
And they can receive it at any time of the day or night.
The county school system has contracted with a firm called Paper to provide 24/7 online support, in English and Spanish, to students.
Tutors will provide assistance in a variety of subject areas, and offer feedback on essays or other writing required of students.
The new service is “really a great opportunity for any student or family member who might need access at any time,” Superintendent Francisco Durán said.
While on-demand service is limited to English and Spanish, students wishing to use other languages can request it and then access it at a mutually convenient time.
[https://sungazette.news provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.] | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/new-24-7-tutoring-available-to-arlington-students/article_f5983b7a-339e-11ed-a697-d3a79bde5833.html | 2022-09-13T21:37:09Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/new-24-7-tutoring-available-to-arlington-students/article_f5983b7a-339e-11ed-a697-d3a79bde5833.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An electronic map in the Yakima County Sheriff’s mobile command post shows how thorough a search for a missing 4-year-old boy has been.
The map shows the area around Sarg Hubbard Park densely covered with tracks from searchers, and markers indicating volunteers and trained searchers were looking as far north as the Naches River and to Union Gap in the south for Lucian James Munguia, who was reported missing Saturday.
Authorities are scaling back the presence of trained search teams after scouring spots he would most likely be found. But those on the search aren’t ready to give up hope that Lucian will be found alive, and are encouraging the public to help.
“There’s always a focus on search and rescue,” said Deputy Kyle Cameron, who coordinates the sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team. The team is leading the search, directing searchers to various areas along the Yakima River and the Greenway.
Statistically, the chances of finding Lucian dropped to 50% after 48 hours, but Cameron said there have been cases of people being found alive after being missing longer than that.
Yakima police Chief Matt Murray and Sheriff Robert Udell, in a joint news release, said members of the public, who were initially discouraged from joining the search in its early stages, should look for Lucian or any clue to his whereabouts.
“We continue to assign personnel to this effort and sincerely pray for a positive outcome,” Murray and Udell said in a statement. “We ask that you continue to keep Lucian’s family in your thoughts. This is an unimaginably painful situation.”
Lucian went missing at the park, near the Yakima River, around 7:15 p.m. Saturday. His family called police after their own 15-minute search proved fruitless, launching a massive search of the park and the surrounding area.
Lucian was last seen heading south and east across the park’s parking lot, in the direction of the river and other bodies of water.
Cameron said YPD quickly cordoned off the park and began a search. More than 150 trained searchers from around the state, including the Moses Lake, Yakima and Gleed fire departments, Pierce, King, Spokane, Kittitas and Klickitat counties and personnel with the U.S. Air Force’s program at Fairchild Air Force Base that trains air crews how to survive and evade capture if they are shot down, have joined the effort.
About 200 non-search-team members have also helped out, Cameron said, with local businesses providing food and drink. He said Camp Hope and Union Gospel Mission’s outreach teams have been involved in the effort.
Searchers have also used aerial and submersible drones to search for Lucian, along with a helicopter equipped with an infrared camera. He said searchers have also used dogs, divers, ATVs, boats and kayaks in the search.
Yakima police detectives have sought video footage from in the park and surrounding areas in hopes of finding any sign of Lucian, according to a police news release. Police have found no sign of foul play in Lucian’s disappearance.
While the initial search area concentrated around Sarg Hubbard Park, Cameron said crews have gone as far south as the area near Valley Mall Boulevard in Union Gap, where they run out of land between the river and the freeway, and were moving north to where railroad tracks cross the Naches River.
One potential complication in the search is Lucian’s autism, Cameron said. Autistic children sometimes will hide or run away from searchers, he said.
“With our specific missing person today, he was drawn to lights and police lights, his parents said,” Cameron said. “It’s hard to say if he would approach us, but that is what we brief the team. We search as if he won’t approach us.”
Another issue is some of the homeless people who camp along the river and the Greenway. Cameron said some of the searchers have had rocks thrown at them and been yelled at by homeless people who told them to leave or gave them false reports of hearing a child crying.
“Homeless (people) has been a big issue for this search alone,” Cameron said. “It scares (the searchers.) It makes them hesitant to go into some areas.” He said Camp Hope and the gospel mission have tried to encourage those people to come to their shelters, but they have refused.
The search teams have sorted through multiple sighting reports of Lucian that turned up fruitless. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/public-asked-to-join-search-for-missing-4-year-old-boy-in-yakima/article_7c557f18-339c-11ed-96d5-3b34733eb790.html | 2022-09-13T21:37:14Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/public-asked-to-join-search-for-missing-4-year-old-boy-in-yakima/article_7c557f18-339c-11ed-96d5-3b34733eb790.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After kicking around in shorts and a T-shirt all summer, I’ve found myself pulling on a sweatshirt the past few mornings as Bailey and I have gone on our morning walk.
The early morning temperatures have called for it for sure. And, next week it is looking like I may have to dig a jacket out, as the lows are predicted to drop into the mid-40’s.
The cooler early morning temperatures are a clear sign that summer is on its way out.
Our late summers and early falls are the best time of the year around here if you ask me. The days are almost always dry and comfortable.
Plus, there is still enough daylight to enjoy a good, long day outdoors. In fact, there have been several years when I’ve been able to go hunting this time of year in the morning and fishing in the afternoon.
While that is technically possible throughout the hunting season, this is when it is actually realistic.
There have been times during the past few years when I was able to get up early, head to the mountains and walk some ridges for blue grouse. Then I still had time to join some friends down at Vernita for some fall salmon fishing.
Grouse hunting season opens on Thursday and even though I have some mid-day commitments, Bailey and I are going to be up in the mountains at first light to walk one of our favorite grouse hangouts. It will be the first real hunting trip of the year for her and for me.
Frankly, getting up into the higher elevations this time of the year, whether we find a grouse or not, is so enjoyable to me. My very first hunting trip with my dad back in 1968 was a grouse hunt on the back side of Cleman Mountain.
So, heading up that way, as I have almost every year since, with friends, and my own sons, always brings back fond memories.
And in the next few weeks, as the leaves start to turn in the mountains, there may be no prettier time or place to enjoy our beautiful Indian summers.
Some people hate the cold weather. I am not one of them. Although I have to admit, as I get older I am less and less fond of it. And the first signs of fall means that the cold is coming.
In the orchards around where we live, the apples are coloring up and almost ready to pick. Some of the leaves on the cherry trees have turned yellow. Fall is on the way.
But until the cold winds of November blow in, we can enjoy what is almost always several weeks of really nice weather. Cool mornings and evenings, and daytimes that are not too hot or not too cold.
Perfect for an afternoon hike on a mountain trail, or wading in one of our local streams.
The shorter days and cooler nights have always triggered something in my dogs, too. After spending a summertime of lazy days sleeping in the air-conditioned house, all of a sudden something has gotten Bailey even more interested in what I am doing each morning.
Yes, she loves our walks and play time, but it is like she senses something more may be at hand. And she is right.
We’ll be hunting grouse for sure this week. On other mornings we will be going down into the Lower Valley to do some running in the fields looking for birds.
We won’t actually be hunting, but it is always a great way to start getting into some kind of hunting shape—for her and me.
If I break out my hunting boots Bailey becomes very interested in what is happening. Then, if I pull a shotgun out of the gun safe, her lazy, don’t-really-care attitude quickly changes into an almost hyper, work-ready demeanor that I haven’t seen in months.
She whines and heads for the back door, ready to load up into the truck.
It’s been nine months since we last hunted, but she remembers it like it was yesterday.
Now, every morning that I click a light on before daylight, Bailey is at full alert in hopes that this will be the day when once again we head to the fields in pursuit of something she can flush or retrieve.
There has been a little bite in the air the last few mornings. It’s time to get ready for hunting season. And Thursday, it will be time to hunt, for Bailey and me.
The occasional rust-colored leaf blowing across the driveway is a sign. It is a reminder that my favorite time of the year is just about here.
Throwing on an old sweatshirt never felt so good. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/outdoors/rob-phillips-signs-of-the-seasons-changing-excite-hunter-and-dog-alike/article_3cad7292-3399-11ed-89e1-1f735c44f3b9.html | 2022-09-13T21:37:21Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/outdoors/rob-phillips-signs-of-the-seasons-changing-excite-hunter-and-dog-alike/article_3cad7292-3399-11ed-89e1-1f735c44f3b9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin said he wasn't allowed to board a plane because the airline had concerns about his wheelchair.
Langevin, who is a quadriplegic, uses a wheelchair that is powered by lithium-ion batteries.
The representative from Rhode Island told TV station WJAR that Lufthansa Airline employees informed him that the batteries were not allowed on the plane.
He was due to fly from Boston to Italy, where he was going to visit military bases.
Langevin said his wheelchair is approved by the FAA for flying. He said he even showed the airline documentation, but he still wasn't able to board the plane with the wheelchair.
Langevin said he got onto a later flight after changing chairs.
He said he's working to make sure something similar doesn't happen to anyone else.
"In fairness, not everybody is going to be able to have someone, you know, go to their house and get the chair and have staff to bring it up so that the trip can continue," Langevin said.
In a statement to TV station WJAR, Lufthansa apologized for the error, adding that staff will be reviewing the guidelines to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/congressman-stopped-from-boarding-plane-due-to-battery-powered-wheelchair | 2022-09-13T21:42:41Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/congressman-stopped-from-boarding-plane-due-to-battery-powered-wheelchair | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We were all born at different times. Two more of us are born almost every second, and immediately and continuously, we start to absorb information from the air, light, color. As we grow, we begin to feel the people, animals, materials, sounds, colors, and smells that later start to have more and more meanings. Then we form ideas, and start attaching larger models of how things work. We keep modifying our ideas— and beliefs about our ideas— because of irritating or pleasing experiences that keep shaping our ideas of the world. All these challenging, confusing, and contradictory patterns become our experiential library, which we constantly add to or edit.
And now, the introduction of digital communication and instantaneous awareness has put us in a world that even people from the past two generations could never have predicted.
This new world is exciting, terrifying, remarkable, and worrisome as we try to remember our memories from even short times ago. For example, since the moment you started reading this, about 1000 more people have joined us, and all of them are affecting all of us. You probably have not realized this in the intense environment of information that is surrounding you, but you need to.
We need to really think about this and talk to others about this. Perhaps compose new ideas about this astonishing world that will help us conserve and preserve all the aspects of life so that we can improve the outcomes for all of us.
Although some of us continue to explore and communicate themes and passions about the world, we need more active support and participation in ways that will help us sustain a creative, productive, just world. This is a call for massive efforts to collaborate and support changes that will enable us all to live more aware of each other and to advance the social, cultural, and environmental outcomes in the process.
We are at the point in time of our presence on earth when we need to coalesce and make strong, serious decisions that will benefit each of us by being effective for all of us. Our path towards 9 billion people will not be strewn with flowers unless we do. Look around you, through the lens of what you have just read. Take ever increasing steps towards a significant effort of participation..
Photo by mauro mora on Unsplash | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/edwin-schlossberg-on-the-demands-of-population-growth/ | 2022-09-13T21:44:30Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/edwin-schlossberg-on-the-demands-of-population-growth/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Posters are often magnets … for defacement. Many such “interventions” are simply benign jokes, but just as frequently they are menacingly hateful racist and sexist responses by modern-day Vandals and Goths.
In Zagreb, Croatia, the “Students for Tolerance” poster exhibition opened last week on the Republic of Croatia Square, directly in front of the School of Applied Arts and Design and the Museum of Arts and Crafts. The posters show a variety of responses from four historically hostile neighboring nations to the unifying theme of tolerance. Not long after they were put on display in Zagreb, they were vandalized.
As reported on the Croat news site IndexHR: “This morning, a citizen reported to the police that one of the posters from the exhibition offended him. … A little later, a group of men scribbled ‘LGBT’ on the poster with a felt-tip pen and … then wrapped [the poster] in a white shroud so passersby could not see it.”
The poster that caused the ruckus has the headline “Disgusting, but I tolerate it,” and the text: “Every Sunday a veteran, a conservative, a liberal, a gay and an atheist sit down at the table and tolerate each other.” The photo shows a family having a meal together; the image is blurred but a cross is visible on the wall.
Although the student designer’s use of the word “disgusting” is arguably a questionable choice, the message is meant to be ironic in tone and acerbically targets overt and covert beliefs. The Zagreb news site explains: “We may have different beliefs, we may not agree on opinions and actions, but within the community, in this case the family, we support and tolerate each other regardless of all our differences and disagreements. And perhaps within such a community is exactly the first lesson we learn about tolerance. To love each other. This poster talks about that love and it is sad that this kind of student work serves to promote hate speech.”
This series of posters has been exhibited without damage or incident in Graz, Austria, at the Design Monat festival; in Berlin, during the Berlin Design Week; and in Ljubljana, Slovena.
In Zagreb, although organizers removed the white cloth cover, by late afternoon the poster was vandalized for a second time.
Meanwhile, in the center of Zagreb, a blitz of homophobic and xenophobic posters with the coat of arms of Zagreb and the inscription “Zagreb for equality” were pasted on lampposts and bus shelters. The poster at right reads: “Support the LGBTQ+ community—children have the right to love adults!” The poster at left reads: “Let’s accept migrants together—welcome new Croats.” It depicts a crossed-out photo of white, blonde (Nazi-era) well-behaved girls and two other contrasting photos, one showing riots involving Black people and the other protests in Asia. In the background is the 1892 painting Antemurale Christianitatis (Antecedents of Christianity) by Ferdinand von Quiquerez-Beaujeu. It is an allegorical depiction of Croatia as the defender of Christian Europe.
The Zagreb city seal at the bottom of the work is a failed attempt to suggest these are official posters. The City of Zagreb began removing them immediately. Nonetheless, the virus spreads. | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-more-intolerance-over-tolerance/ | 2022-09-13T21:44:36Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-more-intolerance-over-tolerance/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PRINTCast: The PRINT Podcast Studio is a curated collection of cutting-edge podcasts we love about design, creativity, branding, books, and further subjects afield. Inside Front Cover is a show hosted by Sam Aquillano about the design process behind creating the cover for his forthcoming book about launching and growing Design Museum Everywhere.
There are 8 new refined concepts for Sam Aquillano’s new book: Adventures in Disruption: How to Start, Survive, and Succeed as a Creative Entrepreneur. Last time, the Proportion Design team presented 12 concept designs for the cover and Sam had some tough decisions to make. The design team was asking him to look at the range of options they shared and choose a few to refine for the next stage.
As you’ll hear in this week’s episode, Sam discusses the options with his wife Nicole, and shares some of the community’s feedback on the original 12— here’s a link to the conversation on LinkedIn to see what everyone thinks of the concepts.
With all the feedback and discussions— Sam shared his feedback with Blake Goodwin, Paul Reiss, and Andrea Cincotta from Proportion Design. The concepts which moved forward are 4, 7, and 1. Proportion Design absorbed Sam’s feedback, and got back to it, designing a next round of 8 refined designs which you see below. You’ll hear Proportion’s presentation and the discussion on which designs are working and which aren’t. Next step is choosing the final! What’s your favorite of the final 8 concepts?
Listen in the player above or check it out on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Catch up with Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, and Episode 6. | https://www.printmag.com/printcast/inside-front-cover-episode-7-refined-cover-designs/ | 2022-09-13T21:44:42Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/printcast/inside-front-cover-episode-7-refined-cover-designs/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The magic of typography is that we, as people who consume it and take it in, rarely know the ins and outs of the behind-the-scenes decisions. For example, we see rebrands like Burger King’s and love the look and feel, but often don’t immediately think to credit the creative, groundbreaking typography for making us instantly feel warm and nostalgic.
In order to dissect this a little more, I recently had the opportunity to speak with Max Ottignon, the co-founder of Ragged Edge in London. Ottignon is the brain behind redesigns for brands such as Papier, Mindful Chef, Laka, and East London Liquor Company, and he’s well-known for constantly challenging the status quo in the typography world.
Ottignon spoke with me about pursuing conflict over convention, designing for a purpose, and transforming design standards. Our conversation was unpretentious and inspiring, and his passion for breaking barriers in typography was palpable. While his views on creativity stem from a type-driven lens, his belief in using visuals to affect change are easily applicable to all realms of design.
Your main goal as a designer is to inspire global brands and consumers to take different approaches. What advice would you give designers if they don’t know how to stand out?
Most categories have a clear set of conventions. That could be overall tone, messaging, or use of similar visual elements, such as color, illustration, and art direction— or, of course, typography. Some of these conventions might be useful to help people understand the product, but the more of them you adopt, the harder it will be to get noticed or remembered.
So the trick is to figure which conventions you need to keep and which you can throw out, but breaking the rules isn’t enough on its own. You need to try to do it in a way that helps you tell the story of why your brand’s special. Can you borrow conventions from other categories? Or even create some that are brand new and unique to your brand?
We live in a crowded world of constant overstimulation. How can modern typographers and designers do something that hasn’t been done before?
Doing something that hasn’t been done before doesn’t have to mean reinventing the wheel. When choosing a typeface, context is everything. A bold, condensed sans serif might be ubiquitous in sport, but it might be much more distinctive in a healthcare brand.
But it’s also about how you use it. Even the most common typefaces can be made to feel distinctive. How can you set the type in an unfamiliar way, or combine it with an unexpected secondary typeface? Type never exists on its own, so how can you combine it with other graphic or motion elements to create something that feels fresh, new, and exciting?
Do you think brand designers can create disruptive design through typography alone? How can designers combine strategy and risk?
Good strategic thinking should help make bold decisions feel less risky, not more risky.
If you’ve got a strategy designed to help a brand stand out, then it follows that the design approach should follow suit. Your challenge as a designer is to find a typographic approach that delivers on the strategy. Bold for bold’s sake is hard to justify, and gets very subjective, but if you can rationalize the bold decisions you’ve made by referring to the strategic requirements, you’re in business.
In your opinion, what brands have successfully created compelling typographic design?
Bespoke typography played a very significant role in Burger King’s drive to a more nostalgic, wholesome era. By rejecting the generic, corporate, shouty type of fast food, they created a warm, custom serif that felt almost hippyish. Combined with the rest of the elements (particularly color and art direction), JKR’s new identity is hugely successful in communicating the new strategy in a way that feels markedly distinctive.
Mucho’s work for Piedmont Art Walk uses a lovely, understated gothic sans as the foundation for its identity (A2-TYPE’s A2 Gothic), but the magic is in how they use it. It’s applied in a highly illustrative way, from the expressive typesetting of headlines through to the wonderfully animated monogram. To me, that’s a great example of using type in a distinctive way, without having to compromise on overall functionality.
Can you describe a few brands you’ve created at Ragged Edge and how the typography was determined?
With East London Liquor Company, we wanted to position the brand as the antithesis of the botanical bathtub bullshit of many craft spirits. That meant rooting the brand firmly in East London, its home. We created a bespoke typeface as the centerpiece for the visual identity, amplifying a tone of voice that wasn’t afraid to speak out against the ridiculous affectations of craft spirit marketing. The type was designed to incorporate letterforms created from elements in and around their distillery. The resulting grungy aesthetic landed the brand’s tone, while the glyphs themselves spoke to provenance in the most un-craft spirit way imaginable.
Our rebrand of Papier, the DTC stationery company, required a softer, but no less distinctive approach. The brand strategy centered around the magical possibilities of the blank page, encapsulated in an evocative icon designed to represent “pages of possibility.”
We wanted to take that idea into the brand’s typographic language— a direct contrast to the elegant, yet unremarkable typography of many of the brand’s competitors. We chose Betagne’s Self Modern as a headline typeface for its idiosyncratic, magical character. And we set it in a combination of italics and caps to give Papier’s voice a wondrous feel. Still elegant, but immediately recognizable, and true to the idea at the heart of the brand. | https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/type-tuesday-max-ottignon-on-why-breaking-the-rules-isnt-enough-on-its-own/ | 2022-09-13T21:44:48Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/type-tuesday-max-ottignon-on-why-breaking-the-rules-isnt-enough-on-its-own/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Debbie Millman has an ongoing project at PRINT titled “What Matters.” This is an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers. This facet of the project is a request of each invited respondent to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph.
Jessica Katona is a Seattle-based Creative Director working at Landscape. She leads teams designing identities, websites, environments, products, printed matter, and visual content for ambitious clients in service of social good.
What is the thing you like doing most in the world?
I find great satisfaction in creating something with my own two hands. It could be a landscaping project in my backyard or experimenting with a new artistic medium. There is joy in getting lost in the physical act of making, and the tangible result at the end of it. I also love being outside, preferably on a sunny day, within proximity of some body of water. And yet I find myself sitting in front of a computer most days! Hmmm…
What is the first memory you have of being creative?
Most of my early memories are of me being creative. Name a craft and I was doing it— painting, sewing, collaging, sculpting, papermaking… the list goes on! My mom ended up having to dedicate a whole room in our house to the endless craft supplies I collected.
What is your biggest regret?
I’m a bit of an introvert and a bit of a perfectionist. When I was younger, there were many times when that translated to me not trying certain things out of fear of failure, especially in front of other people— whether it was playing a sport or speaking a foreign language. I regret not diving in and trying those new things sooner. And that’s a learning that I still have to remind myself of today sometimes.
How have you gotten over heartbreak?
Talking to others. Having a good, long cry. Being in nature.
What makes you cry?
Sometimes I bottle up my emotions, put on a brave face, keep trudging forward— and then it all comes to head in a moment of frustration, and all I can do is cry. It’s a release valve.
How long does the pride and joy of accomplishing something last for you?
By the time I’m completing one thing, I’m often already deep into the next thing. So usually the joy is fleeting! I should work on that.
Do you believe in an afterlife, and if so, what does that look like to you?
Truthfully, I don’t know what happens after we die. And at this moment, I’m okay with not knowing. But I do like the idea that after death, energy is transformed into something new.
What do you hate most about yourself?
I’ll reframe this as the thing I’d like to improve about myself— and that’s spending less time overthinking and worrying, and more time enjoying and doing.
What do you love most about yourself?
I like to think I’m a very compassionate person. I try to treat all living things with kindness and openness.
What is your absolute favorite meal?
It’s too hard to pick just one meal! I love to eat, and I love variety, but something I could eat everyday is soup. Soup is so comforting. Any kind of salty, spicy, tangy, brothy thing makes me happy— ideally paired with something crunchy for dunking. | https://www.printmag.com/what-matters/what-matters-to-jessica-katona/ | 2022-09-13T21:44:54Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/what-matters/what-matters-to-jessica-katona/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forecast updated on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 4:00 PM by WBOC Meteorologist Dan Satterfield (AMS-CBM).
DELMARVA FORECAST
Tonight:Clear and cooler. Low 59-60°. Wind: W 1-6 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny and pleasant with low humidity. High 80° inland with temps. near 80° on the beaches. Wind: W 6-12 mph.
Wednesday Night: Clear and cool. Low 62°. Wind: NW 2-7 mph.
Thursday: Sunny and pleasant with low humidity. High 80° inland with temps. near 77° on the beaches. Wind: N 3-8 mph.
Forecast Discussion:
Look for mostly clear skies tonight with light winds from the NW. It will be cooler with lows around 60° at sunrise.
Look for a NW wind at 6-12 mph and temps. will just nudge 80°. Dew points will drop into the 50's giving a fresh fall feel to the air. Wednesday night will be clear with lows near 62 degrees and some patchy ground fog is possible near sunrise.
The dry air mass will linger into Thursday with a light north wind and afternoon temps. will be around 80°. Dew points will stay in the 50's. We should see mainly clear skies all day.
In the long range, Friday will be cooler with morning lows in the mid 50's and afternoon high temps. just below 80. The air will be dry and Saturday will be much the same. Sunday and Monday will be warmer and more humid.
Unusually warm weather will return from Tuesday into Thursday of next week with temps. in the upper 80's by Wednesday. Much of the eastern half of the U.S. will see unseasonably warm weather next week before the pattern changes to a more fall like pattern by late Friday.
The average high for today is 81 degrees with an average low of 61 degrees. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/sunshine-with-lower-humidity/article_f44a0072-339f-11ed-9e55-eff827c0475e.html | 2022-09-13T21:50:17Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/sunshine-with-lower-humidity/article_f44a0072-339f-11ed-9e55-eff827c0475e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with political adviser Iuliia Mendel about her book, The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy and What it Means for the World.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with political adviser Iuliia Mendel about her book, The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy and What it Means for the World.
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The number of people currently enslaved in the world has grown by 10 million in the last five years, researchers from Geneva reported Monday.
The U.N.'s International Organization for Migration partnered with the International Labor Organization and the Walk Free Foundation, a human rights group, to produce the latest estimates of modern slavery.
That term refers to a spectrum of exploitative practices like forced labor, forced marriage and human trafficking. As of 2021, 50 million people were estimated to endure such conditions. Some form of modern slavery exists in nearly every country in the world, the report found.
Although modern versions of enslavement appear slightly different from historical examples, the two are interconnected, authors of the report said.
"In a number of ways, slavery has adapted and changed and shape shifted, but exploitation is still occurring on an unprecedented scale," Grace Forrest, the founder of Walk Free Foundation, told NPR.
"There is no region of the world that is immune to modern slavery."
The global estimates were the result of surveying tens of thousands of survivors of modern slavery over 68 countries along with research.
Forced labor is the biggest component of modern slavery
Many of the people characterized as modern slaves endure conditions considered "forced labor" — employed but unable to quit because their employer withholds their earnings, they owe debt to their employer or, for migrants, their employer threatens deportation.
In 2021, 28 million people were estimated to be working under forced labor conditions — an eighth of whom were children. According to the report, the majority of cases were found in the private sector, while in about 14% of cases governments imposed work requirements as a form of punishment, among other reasons. The greatest prevalence of forced labor was in Arab countries, followed by Europe and Central Asia.
The report also estimated roughly 22 million people were living in forced marriages in 2021. The number of people involuntarily wedded grew by 6.6 million compared to 2016. Nearly two-thirds of all forced marriages were found to be in Asia and the Pacific, followed by Africa, the survey found.
One of the drivers of forced and child marriages is poverty — oftentimes financially desperate families see marriage as a means to secure a stable future for their children, according to the report.
But once married, women in forced relationships are at higher risk of sexual exploitation, violence and domestic servitude, the report concluded.
A majority of all forced labor cases are in wealthy countries, report found
Researchers suggest that forced labor is as much of an issue in rich countries as in poor ones.
One reason is because wealthier countries participate in and benefit from global supply chains — multinational business operations where forced labor tends to be harder to inspect, Forrest said. Those companies account for 80 percent of forced labor cases, she added.
Richer countries are also more likely to have the demand and resources to enable coercive labor practices, Angela Me, the chief researcher at the U.N.'s office on drugs and crime, told NPR.
"Take for example of a domestic worker," she said. "In richer countries, you have more people that can afford to have a person come from abroad to work in the domestic area."
Me said forced labor in domestic work remains elusive because many work in isolation. That's partly why estimates on forced labor are likely to be an undercount, Me added.
"It is important for people to understand the trafficking of human beings is not something that is only happening in remote areas or countries where there is war," she said. "It happens there too but it can also happen next door."
The pandemic exacerbated modern slavery
The pandemic compounded underlying drivers of forced labor: the economic crisis led more people into debt to an employer while the virus put workers under greater health risks, Forrest said.
At the same time, there was a more urgent demand for COVID protective gear like face masks and gloves, which led some companies to adopt coercive labor practices to rush manufacturing.
"When you have a crisis, the first thing to go is the rights of the people who are most vulnerable in parts of the world where there is the least visibility," Forrest said.
For these reasons, the pandemic stymied some of the progress made in the fight against modern slavery, the report concluded. Forrest added that solutions are "far and few between" but they do exist.
In June, for example, the U.S. passed legislation that will force companies to prove that goods from China's Xinjiang region are not made with forced labor.
"It's shocking that any one person lives in modern slavery in 2022," she said. "It's completely unacceptable because we have every tool in our toolkit to be able to tackle this."
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Chris Rubesch, first vice president of the Minnesota Nurses Association, about why thousands of nurses are on strike for better work conditions.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Chris Rubesch, first vice president of the Minnesota Nurses Association, about why thousands of nurses are on strike for better work conditions.
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A fungal disease that attacks while bats are hibernating has brought the tricolored bat to the brink of extinction. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is recommending that the tricolored bat be added to the list of endangered species in an effort to protect them.
Tricolored bats live in 39 states east of the Rocky Mountains, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Nicaragua.
But white-nose syndrome — caused by a fungus that develops on cave-dwelling bats during hibernation — is decimating the bat's population in North America at "unprecedented rates," Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams said in a news release.
One of the smallest native species in North America, the tricolored bats spend the majority of the year in forest habitats. However, when winter rolls around, they seek shelter in caves and mines to hibernate, which is when they are susceptible to disease, the FWP says.
The fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, can resemble white fuzz on a bat's wings and snout, attacking bare skin while the animal is hibernating. According to the FWP White-nose Syndrome Response Team, the fungus causes the bats to become more active when they should be hibernating, burning off the little energy they have to survive the winter.
White-nose syndrome has killed off millions of bats across the continent, the FWP said, wiping out 90% to 100% of colonies in some sites. Scientists still don't know where the fungus came from, but it has been found in 12 of the 47 species living in North America, including two currently protected by the Endangered Species Act.
The disease is also ravaging the northern long-eared bat population, which FWP recommended reclassifying from threatened to endangered last March. The FWP says bats are critical to the healthy functioning of an ecosystem, and that they contribute at least $3 billion in pest control and pollination every year.
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