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Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect President Joe Biden’s comments during the ceremony.
President Joe Biden marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, taking part in a somber wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon held under a steady rain and paying tribute to “extraordinary Americans” who gave their lives on one of the nation’s darkest days.
Sunday’s ceremony occurred a little more than a year after Biden ended the long and costly war in Afghanistan that the U.S. and allies launched in response to the terror attacks.
Biden noted that even after the United States left Afghanistan that his administration continues to pursue those responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Last month, Biden announced the U.S. had killed Ayman al-Zawahri, the Al-Qaida leader who helped plot the Sept. 11 attacks, in a clandestine operation.
“We will never forget, we will never give up,” Biden said. “Our commitment to preventing another attack on the United States is without end.”
The president was joined by family members of the fallen, first responders who had been at the Pentagon on the day of the attack, as well as Defense Department leadership for the annual moment of tribute carried out in New York City, the Pentagon and Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
“We owe you an incredible, incredible debt,” Biden said.
In ending the Afghanistan war, the Democratic president followed through on a campaign pledge to bring home U.S. troops from the country’s longest conflict. But the war concluded chaotically in August 2021, when the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed in the face of a countrywide Taliban advance that returned the fundamentalist group to power. A bombing claimed by an Afghanistan-based extremist group killed 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops at Kabul’s airport, where thousands of desperate Afghans gathered in hopes of escape before the final U.S. cargo planes departed over the Hindu Kush.
Biden marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan late last month in low-key fashion. He issued a statement in honor of the 13 U.S. troops killed in the bombing at the Kabul airport and spoke by phone with U.S. veterans assisting ongoing efforts to resettle in the United States Afghans who helped the war effort.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday criticized Biden’s handling of the end of the war and noted that the country has spiraled downward under renewed Taliban rule since the U.S. withdrawal.
“Now, one year on from last August’s disaster, the devastating scale of the fallout from President Biden’s decision has come into sharper focus,” McConnell said. “Afghanistan has become a global pariah. Its economy has shrunk by nearly a third. Half of its population is now suffering critical levels of food insecurity.”
Biden has recently dialed up warnings about what he calls the “extreme ideology” of former President Donald Trump and his “MAGA Republican” adherents as a threat to American democracy. Without naming Trump, Biden again on Sunday raised a call for Americans to safeguard democracy.
“It’s not enough to stand up for democracy once a year or every now and then,” Biden said. “It’s something we have to do every single day. So this is a day not only to remember, but also a day for renewal and resolve for each and every American in our devotion to this country, to the principles it embodies, to our democracy.”
First lady Jill Biden will speak Sunday at the Flight 93 National Memorial Observance in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband attended a commemoration ceremony at the National September 11th Memorial in New York. | https://www.federaltimes.com/news/your-military/2022/09/11/biden-honors-911-victims-as-shadow-of-afghan-war-looms/ | 2022-09-14T01:38:27Z | federaltimes.com | control | https://www.federaltimes.com/news/your-military/2022/09/11/biden-honors-911-victims-as-shadow-of-afghan-war-looms/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WHAT TO KNOW TODAY
Senators to FTC: Investigate gun industry advertising. A group of 12 Democratic senators sent a letter to Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, urging her to “undertake an investigation and consider regulation of the unfair and deceptive advertising practices used by the firearms industry.” The senators cite Daniel Defense, the company that made the rifle used in the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting, as an example of gunmakers touting their ties to the military in an effort to market weapons of war to the general public. “Time and again, these practices have had deadly consequences,” the letter reads. Read the full text here.
San Diego gun shop owner convicted in straw purchase ring involving law enforcement. Giovanni “Gio” Tilotta, the owner of Honey Badger Firearms, was found guilty in federal court of assisting a former San Diego County Sheriff’s captain in a scheme to conduct straw purchases. According to federal prosecutors, Tillota collaborated with Marco Garmo, former captain of the Sheriff’s Rancho San Diego station, to buy and sell guns on the behalf of other people, who often were prohibited from gun ownership. Tilotta also helped Garmo sell “off roster” law enforcement guns to private citizens.
12 days of September. 30 mass shootings. The Gun Violence Archive says it is on track to record more than 60 mass shootings — defined as four or more people shot — in the month of September. Over the weekend alone, there were at least six such incidents, which together left 22 injured and three dead. For a full breakdown, click here.
“It’s the biggest middle finger to the ATF.” Our friends at VICE News spoke to several manufacturers of ghost gun parts about how they’re evading the Biden administration’s new rule to limit the sale of homemade weapons. One, named Ethan Middleton, a Wisconsin-based 3D-printed gun file designer, is distributing blueprints for what are known as jigs, tools that aid in the assembly of homemade guns. “Whatever [the ATF is] going to do, we’re going to try to find a way around it,” he said. VICE’s report backs up Alain Stephen’s story from last week, which highlighted how many dealers are continuing business as usual, despite the new rules.
Gun-rights group challenges post-Sandy Hook laws. The National Association for Gun Rights has sued Connecticut over the state’s ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, arguing the policies employ “politically charged rhetoric” and violate the Second Amendment. State Democrats quickly fired back. “Connecticut cannot and will not allow these weapons of war back into our communities,” Attorney General William Tong said in a news release. ICYMI: Marlene Pratt feared New Haven after her son’s killing. But organizing a memorial garden reestablished her bond with the city.
DATA POINT
57 percent — the proportion of Chinese tourists for whom mass shootings and other violent crime are cause for concern when they consider visiting the U.S. [Axios] | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/lawmakers-call-the-ftc-to-investigate-gunmakers/ | 2022-09-14T01:38:30Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/lawmakers-call-the-ftc-to-investigate-gunmakers/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIRUT (AP) — The outbreak of cholera in Syria presents a serious threat to people in the war-torn country and the region, a U.N. official said Tuesday, adding that urgent action is needed to prevent further cases and deaths.
The statement by the U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, Imran Riza, came after health officials in the country reported at least five deaths and more than two dozen cases in different provinces.
Syria’s infrastructure has suffered severe damage since the country’s conflict began in March 2011 where residents of some areas have no access to clean water. The conflict has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million, many of them living in tent settlements around the country.
Riza said that based on a rapid assessment conducted by health authorities and partners, the source of infection is believed to be linked to people drinking unsafe water from the Euphrates River and using contaminated water to irrigate crops, resulting in food contamination.
“Cholera remains a global threat to public health and an indicator of inequity,” Riza said, adding that the outbreak is an indicator of severe water shortages in Syria.
The statement said chlorination activities to disinfect water are being scaled up and dosing rates are being increased in fragile and highly vulnerable communities to curb the spread of the disease.
On Monday, health officials said hospitals in the Syrian capital have been put on alert after more than two dozen cases of cholera and at least five deaths were reported.
The cases were reported in several provinces including Aleppo in the north, Latakia on the Mediterranean coast and Deir el-Zour along the border with Iraq.
The outbreak was the first since the country’s conflict began 11 years ago.
Riza said the U.N. in Syria calls on donor countries for urgent additional funding to contain the outbreak and prevent it from spreading. | https://www.wspa.com/health-2/ap-health/ap-un-warns-cholera-outbreak-in-syria-is-a-threat-to-the-region/ | 2022-09-14T01:38:30Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/health-2/ap-health/ap-un-warns-cholera-outbreak-in-syria-is-a-threat-to-the-region/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Peiter Zatko, the former Twitter security chief who’s accused the company of negligence with privacy and security in a whistleblower complaint, will testify before Congress on Tuesday.
Zatko is well-respected in the cybersecurity space, which gives his complaints extra weight. But so far he has little documentary support for his claims — unlike the Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, whose complaint last year included troves of internal documents from the company now called Meta.
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company. The Delaware judge overseeing that case has ruled that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
Twitter calls Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
WHO IS PEITER ZATKO?
Better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” Zatko is a highly respected cybersecurity expert who first gained prominence in the 1990s and later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Agency and Google.
He joined Twitter at the urging of then-CEO Jack Dorsey in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach in which hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls — including Musk — in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin. Zatko served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year.
WHAT ARE HIS ACCUSATIONS AGAINST TWITTER?
Zatko’s complaint alleges that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation, according to a whistleblower complaint filed with U.S. officials.
Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users. Zatko also accuses the company of deceptions involving its handling of “spam” or fake accounts, an allegation that is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter takeover.
His 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
WHY IS HE GOING BEFORE CONGRESS?
U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Zatko and his allegations that the influential social network misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control fake accounts. Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing will be the first, but it might not be the last.
The Judiciary Committee’s chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and its senior Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a joint statement last month that if Zatko’s claims are accurate, “they may show dangerous data-privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.”
They said the panel “will investigate this issue further with a full committee hearing … and take further steps as needed to get to the bottom of these alarming allegations.”
WHAT’S EXPECTED FROM THE HEARING?
With the midterm elections looming in early November, many lawmakers may wish to appear before TV cameras expressing concern about online privacy, an issue that resonates with consumers. That means camera lights glaring and outrage thundering from elected representatives as a lone whistleblower stands and takes the oath behind a table ringed with photographers — a scene that would mirror former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen’s testimony late last year.
What’s less clear is whether Congress will take any concrete steps to address Zatko’s allegations. While lawmakers have held numerous hearings questioning Big Tech executives over privacy, security, competition and other matters, efforts to regulate the companies on a federal level have stalled.
WHAT’S NEXT?
The Securities and Exchange Commission is also questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. In June, the securities regulators asked the company about its methodology for calculating the number of false or spam accounts and “the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management.” The numbers are key to Twitter’s business because it uses metrics for real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up a little more than 90% of its revenue.
Twitter, with an estimated 238 million daily active users, said last month that it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Senior members of the Senate Intelligence and Commerce committees, as well as the House Energy and Commerce panel, also have publicly signaled their engagement on the issue. The Senate Intelligence Committee is planning a meeting with Zatko to discuss his allegations, a spokeswoman said, adding, “We take this matter seriously.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, has called on the FTC to investigate. | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-explainer-why-twitters-former-security-head-is-testifying/ | 2022-09-14T01:38:44Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-explainer-why-twitters-former-security-head-is-testifying/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 31 |
Peiter Zatko, the former Twitter security chief who’s accused the company of negligence with privacy and security in a whistleblower complaint, will testify before Congress on Tuesday.
Zatko is well-respected in the cybersecurity space, which gives his complaints extra weight. But so far he has little documentary support for his claims — unlike the Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, whose complaint last year included troves of internal documents from the company now called Meta.
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company. The Delaware judge overseeing that case has ruled that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
Twitter calls Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
WHO IS PEITER ZATKO?
Better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” Zatko is a highly respected cybersecurity expert who first gained prominence in the 1990s and later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Agency and Google.
He joined Twitter at the urging of then-CEO Jack Dorsey in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach in which hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls — including Musk — in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin. Zatko served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year.
WHAT ARE HIS ACCUSATIONS AGAINST TWITTER?
Zatko’s complaint alleges that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation, according to a whistleblower complaint filed with U.S. officials.
Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users. Zatko also accuses the company of deceptions involving its handling of “spam” or fake accounts, an allegation that is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter takeover.
His 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
WHY IS HE GOING BEFORE CONGRESS?
U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Zatko and his allegations that the influential social network misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control fake accounts. Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing will be the first, but it might not be the last.
The Judiciary Committee’s chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and its senior Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a joint statement last month that if Zatko’s claims are accurate, “they may show dangerous data-privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.”
They said the panel “will investigate this issue further with a full committee hearing … and take further steps as needed to get to the bottom of these alarming allegations.”
WHAT’S EXPECTED FROM THE HEARING?
With the midterm elections looming in early November, many lawmakers may wish to appear before TV cameras expressing concern about online privacy, an issue that resonates with consumers. That means camera lights glaring and outrage thundering from elected representatives as a lone whistleblower stands and takes the oath behind a table ringed with photographers — a scene that would mirror former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen’s testimony late last year.
What’s less clear is whether Congress will take any concrete steps to address Zatko’s allegations. While lawmakers have held numerous hearings questioning Big Tech executives over privacy, security, competition and other matters, efforts to regulate the companies on a federal level have stalled.
WHAT’S NEXT?
The Securities and Exchange Commission is also questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. In June, the securities regulators asked the company about its methodology for calculating the number of false or spam accounts and “the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management.” The numbers are key to Twitter’s business because it uses metrics for real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up a little more than 90% of its revenue.
Twitter, with an estimated 238 million daily active users, said last month that it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Senior members of the Senate Intelligence and Commerce committees, as well as the House Energy and Commerce panel, also have publicly signaled their engagement on the issue. The Senate Intelligence Committee is planning a meeting with Zatko to discuss his allegations, a spokeswoman said, adding, “We take this matter seriously.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, has called on the FTC to investigate. | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-explainer-why-twitters-former-security-head-is-testifying/ | 2022-09-14T01:38:44Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-explainer-why-twitters-former-security-head-is-testifying/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 31 |
MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — In a universe of cloud computing, northern Virginia might be in a perpetual fog.
More of the data centers that feed the cloud are clustered in the region outside the nation’s capital than anywhere else in the world.
As cloud computing — which enables data storage and other services to be delivered over the internet — continues its exponential increase, the appetite for new data centers continues to grow. And increasingly, communities that abut the centers are complaining about their new neighbors, mostly about the noise from constantly whirring fans needed to cool the computers and servers warehoused within.
“It’s just a constant whir at a frequency that’s obnoxious,” said Dale Browne, president of the Great Oak Homeowners Association. Residents there led a protest recently outside a nearby data center in Prince William County, newly built to support Amazon Web Services.
Browne said he preferred the quarry that used to occupy the land over the data center. And he’s worried that the noise will only get worse in winter, when a line of trees that provides something of a buffer sheds its leaves.
Speakers at the protest said they fear Prince William County is on the verge of joining its neighbor, Loudoun County, which is known as the data center capital of the world.
“We are the canary in the coalmine,” Browne said.
Northern Virginia has been a tech hub since the formation of the internet, and now hosts more data centers than the next five largest U.S. markets combined, according to the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
Collectively, the northern Virginia data centers demand about 1,900 megawatts of power, said Josh Levi, president of the Data Center Coalition, an industry trade group. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire output of Dominion Energy’s nuclear reactors at its North Anna power plant.
Browne and his neighbors say noise from the data center regularly exceeds the local limit of 60 decibels for noise — a study by Amazon disputes this — but it’s largely a moot point because the county noise ordinance exempts air conditioning units. Activists say the ordinance was written more than 30 years ago and never anticipated the massive cooling systems used in data centers.
Amazon Web Services, for its part, said it’s installing acoustical shrouds at the site as part of its noise-reduction efforts.
“Addressing our neighbors’ noise concerns in Prince William County is a priority for us,” a company spokesman said in a statement.
Noise is not the only issue. Spencer Snakard, president of Protect Fauquier, worries that more data centers will require more high-voltage transmission lines to deliver the massive amounts of electricity they require, destroying views and posing their own potential health risks.
“I see these noisy monstrosities much like computers of the 1960s and 70’s: massive, bulky, ugly, and in their infant stage,” she said.
Not all residents are opposed to the data centers. In the Gainesville area, a group of property owners proposed having their land rezoned from agricultural use to allow them. County staff recommended approving this ahead of a Sept. 14 planning commission vote.
Mary Ann Ghadban of Gainesville, 68, is one of the property owners who would sell if the area is rezoned. A lifelong county resident, she built what she called her “dream barn” on her 55-acre horse farm.
“All my neighbors, we were all long-timers. We were going to live here until we died,” she said.
But after the electric company built high-voltage transmission lines through her property in 2008, she said her horses suffered ill health effects, and property values dropped. Housing developers took over nearby tracts, and her rural enclave became something else.
“It breaks our heart, but it’s a fact: It’s not rural anymore,” she said. “We should have had this area open to data centers years ago, because you’ve already ruined the property. You’ve already ruined people’s lives by adding massive transmission towers, so put the data centers where the power is already.”
There’s also opposition from the nearby Manassas National Battlefield Park. Superintendent Brandon Bies likened the threat to Disney’s bid 30 years ago to build a theme park near the battlefield — a proposal environmentalists and other activists famously scuttled — and pushed back against the notion that transmission lines have already destroyed the area’s rural character.
“While indeed unsightly, the agricultural and historic nature of the battlefield’s western edge is still largely intact,” he wrote in a letter to the county board.
Counties that snub data centers would be turning down a lucrative source of tax revenue.
Data centers now provide for more than 30 percent of the general fund budget of Loudoun County, a suburb of the nation’s capital with more than 400,000 residents.
While the windfall has been a boon to Loudoun, Phyllis Randall, chair of the county’s Board of Supervisors, has raised concerns about overreliance on the industry.
“I’m not an economist, but even I know that not diversifying your economy to that degree gets a little dangerous,” she said at a February meeting where a board committee considered plans to manage the data centers’ growth.
Levi, with the Data Center Coalition, said northern Virginia remains a particularly attractive site for a number of reasons. He points to the region’s history as an internet hub for starters — in a business where nanoseconds matter, so does proximity to those hubs, Levi said.
In addition, Virginia was one of the first states to establish tax incentives for data centers.
He acknowledged that community resistance has increased as the industry has expanded. The industry is typically tight-lipped because of its security requirements, and needs to do more to promote its beneficial impacts, along with its advances in designing centers to have less environmental impact, he said.
“I think you’ve seen a lot of continuing innovation and design changes in response to community concerns,” he said. | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-as-data-centers-proliferate-neighbors-knock-the-noise/ | 2022-09-14T01:39:04Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-as-data-centers-proliferate-neighbors-knock-the-noise/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Business and government officials are bracing for the possibility of a nationwide rail strike at the end of this week while talks carry on between the largest U.S. freight railroads and their unions.
The railroads have already started to curtail shipments of hazardous materials and have announced plans to stop hauling refrigerated products ahead of Friday’s strike deadline. Now businesses that rely on Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern and other railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products have started planning for the worst.
Meanwhile, Biden administration officials are scrambling to develop a plan to use trucks, ships and planes to try to keep the most crucial chemicals and other goods moving if the railroads stop rolling. But the White House is also keeping the pressure on the two sides to settle their differences, and a growing number of business groups are lobbying Congress to be prepared to intervene and block a strike if they can’t reach an agreement.
“We have made crystal clear to the interested parties the harm that American families, business and farmers and communities would experience if they were not to reach a resolution,” White House press secretary Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. She said a shutdown is “not acceptable.”
In addition to all the businesses that rely on railroads to deliver their goods, passenger railroads are also affected because many of them operate on tracks owned by one of the freight railroads. Amtrak has already cancelled several of its long-distance trains because there wouldn’t be enough time for them to reach their destinations before a strike or lockout would be allowed to begin at 12:01 a.m. Friday.
Amtrak already suspended its California Zephyr and Empire Builder lines that run from Chicago to the West Coast, and starting Wednesday it will stop running its City of New Orleans, Starlight and Texas Eagle lines along with several others.
Commuter railroads would also be affected. In Chicago, Metra warned its riders that it wouldn’t be able to run most of its trains if there is a strike.
The railroads have reached tentative agreements with most of their unions, including a ninth deal announced Tuesday, based on the recommendations of a Presidential Emergency Board Joe Biden appointed this summer that called for 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses in a five-year deal that’s retroactive to 2020. The deal also includes one additional paid leave day a year and higher health insurance costs.
But all 12 railroad unions must agree to prevent a strike. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union that represents engineers, and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers union that represents conductors want the railroads to address some of their concerns about unpredictable work schedules and strict attendance rules in addition to agreeing to the recommended wage increases.
Ron Kaminkow, general secretary of the Railroad Workers United labor coalition that includes workers from a variety of railroad unions, said he doesn’t think the unions are demanding much at this point — just the kind of things most U.S. workers already enjoy like the ability to take time off without being penalized.
“We have attendance policies that have gotten more and more and more draconian. That offer very, very little leeway for workers who need to take time off for doctor’s appointments, for time with family, to be rested,” Kaminkow said.
Starting Monday, all the major railroads put a hold on shipments of hazardous materials to ensure those dangerous chemicals wouldn’t be stranded along the tracks if there is a strike. Norfolk Southern told its customers that it will also stop accepting shipments of intermodal containers full of goods starting Wednesday evening as it prepares “for a controlled shutdown of the network.”
Some businesses would likely be affected more than others by a rail shutdown. For instance, nearly all ethanol and coal and most grain moves by rail.
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Associated Press Writers Seung Min Kim and Zeke Miller contributed to this report from Washington D.C. | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-businesses-white-house-plan-for-possible-rail-strike-friday/ | 2022-09-14T01:39:25Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-businesses-white-house-plan-for-possible-rail-strike-friday/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lower gas costs slowed U.S. inflation for a second straight month in August, but most other prices across the economy kept rising — evidence that inflation remains a heavy burden for American households.
Consumer prices rose 8.3% from a year earlier and 0.1% from July. But the jump in “core” prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, was especially worrisome. It outpaced expectations and ignited fear that the Federal Reserve will boost interest rates more aggressively and raise the risk of a recession.
Fueled by high rents, medical care and new cars, core prices leaped 6.3% for the year ending in August and 0.6% from July to August, the government said Tuesday. Furniture and sports gear, among many other items, also got costlier, suggesting that businesses are still raising prices in response to robust consumer demand.
The breadth of the price increases dashed hopes, at least for now, that core inflation would moderate. Economists tend to track core prices for a clearer read on where inflation is headed.
Stock prices plunged, with the S&P 500 index suffering its worst day June 2020 — a loss of more than 4% — and bond yields jumped on the worse-than-expected core figures. Many investors are now fearful that the Fed will tighten credit even more vigorously in its drive to curb inflation. Chair Jerome Powell is expected to announce another big increase in the Fed’s key rate next week, which will lead to higher costs for consumer and business loans.
Further aggressive Fed rate hikes could weaken growth so much as to push the economy into a downturn. Some economists now expect the Fed to raise its benchmark short-term rate, currently in a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, to 4.5% or higher by early next year. That would make it even harder for the central bank to meet its goal of achieving a “soft landing,” whereby it would tame inflation without causing a recession.
“This was a disappointing report,” said Laura Rosner-Warburton, senior economist at MacroPolicy Perspectives. “It raises the risk of higher interest rates and a hard landing for the economy.”
Inflation is higher than many Americans have ever experienced, escalating families’ grocery bills, rents and utility costs, among other expenses. It has deepened gloom about the economy despite strong job growth and low unemployment.
Republicans have sought to make inflation a central issue in the midterm congressional elections. They blame President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed last year for much of the increase. Many economists generally agree, though they say that snarled supply chains, sharp pay increases and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have also been key factors in the inflation surge.
At the same time, the drop in gas prices — for consumers, perhaps the most visible barometer of inflation — could bolster Democrats’ prospects in the midterm elections. It may already have contributed to slightly higher public approval ratings for Biden.
In a statement Tuesday, the president said, “Overall, prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months. That is welcome news for American families, with more work still to do.”
In his speeches, Biden has generally stopped referring to the impact of inflation on family budgets. He has instead highlighted his administration’s recent legislative accomplishments, including a law enacted last month that’s intended to reduce pharmaceutical prices and fight climate change.
Nationally, the average cost of a gallon of gas has dropped to $3.71, down from just above $5 in mid-June. But grocery prices have continued to rise rapidly, jumping 0.7% from July to August. In the past year, they have soared 13.5% — the biggest 12-month increase since 1979.
Chicken prices have risen nearly 17% in the past year. And egg prices surged 2.9% just in August from July and are up nearly 40% from a year ago.
Worsening food inflation is a particular strain on lower-income families, more of whom have had to turn to food banks and other aid as inflation has worsened. Mary Jane Crouch, executive director of America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, which works with a network of food banks, said 38% more food was distributed in August compared with July.
Though much of the food is donated, Crouch said her organization buys some of it and has faced sharp increases in meat and dairy prices in the past few months.
And the prices of many other goods are still rising even as supply chain snarls unravel, said Rosner-Warburton, the MacroPolicy economist.
“Companies are still putting through large price increases for those goods, and that’s problematic,” she said. It means the Fed will likely have to work harder to slow consumer spending through higher rates.
Elaine Buckberg, chief economist at General Motors, said Friday that the pandemic disruptions to overseas production of semiconductors, which have slowed auto output, have significantly dissipated and that overall supply chain disruptions have improved about 80% from the worst days of the pandemic.
Yet Americans are still desperate for cars, Buckberg said, which has allowed dealers to keep their markups much higher than pre-pandemic levels. New car prices, which rose 0.8% in August, have climbed nearly 11% in the past year.
“Virtually every vehicle that gets to a dealer has already been sold to someone,” she said.
Ongoing price increases for raw materials — and labor — have left many small businesses struggling. Some are raising their own prices to keep up, only to then lose customers, according to a survey by Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Voices.
Meaghan Thomas, co-owner of Pinch Spice Market in Louisville, Kentucky, an online seller, has avoided raising prices for the past two years but worries that that can’t last if inflation worsens.
The price to ship spices from overseas have quadrupled, she said, and she’s seen little relief so far despite reports that such costs are declining. The cost of spices, which Thomas and her partner grind and blend in a small factory, have jumped by as much as 25% in the past year.
The company’s profit margin has been cut by half, Thomas said, but she and her partner think it’s important to keep their products affordable. She says larger companies have made inflation worse by raising prices unnecessarily.
“We can hang on for a little bit if all these other companies can stop raising their prices,” she said.
Wages are still rising at a strong pace — before adjusting for inflation — which has elevated demand for apartments as more people move out on their own. A shortage of available houses has also forced more people to keep renting, thereby intensifying competition for apartments.
As a result, rental costs jumped 6.7% in August from a year earlier, the most since 1986. Rents change much more slowly than commodity prices like gas. That could mean that apartment prices will keep inflation elevated well into 2023.
Other data from companies like Apartment List, which tracks prices of new apartments and leases, suggests that rental price inflation is starting to decline. But that data takes time to filter into the government’s measure, which tracks all rents.
Rosner-Warburton said it’s not clear if those declines, when they do start to affect the government’s measure, will slow inflation enough for the Fed.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Budget airline Ryanair announced Tuesday that it will cancel several routes through Hungary and cut flights on several more following a months-long dispute with the country’s government over a special windfall tax placed on airlines.
The Ireland-based company’s CEO, Michael O’Leary, said at a press conference in Hungary’s capital that Ryanair had planned to launch 10 new routes through Budapest and base an additional airplane at its airport this winter.
“Sadly, however, those plans have now fallen at the altar of the Hungarian government’s decision to impose a ludicrous and idiotic excess profits tax on the airline sector, which has reported record losses,” O’Leary said.
Instead of expanding its presence in Hungary as planned to more than 5 million passengers next year, Ryanair will eliminate eight of its previously operating 53 routes through Budapest while imposing frequency cuts on seven more, he said.
This will reduce the company’s yearly passenger load in Hungary from 4.5 million to under 4 million, he added.
The decision came in response to Hungary’s government fining the low-cost airline more than 750,000 euros ($753,000) in August for alleged consumer protection violations. The fine came after the company raised ticket prices to cope with a tax on what the government calls “extra profits” of industries ranging from airlines to banks.
The nationalist government argued that such industries have enjoyed windfall profits arising from soaring demand after the COVID-19 pandemic, and should contribute to the country’s economic recovery.
But on Tuesday, O’Leary said Ryanair had posted 1.26 billion euros in losses in the last two years, and that targeting it and other airlines with excess profits taxes was “inexplicable.”
“We cannot get any explanation from the Hungarian government as to why an industry or a sector which is making record losses is being asked to pay excess profits,” O’Leary said.
Ryanair will appeal the “bogus” fine imposed on it by Hungary’s consumer protection authority in Hungarian courts, O’Leary said, adding that “we confidently expect we will lose,” but that the company will then appeal in European Union courts.
He also took a swipe at Hungary’s consumer protection agency, questioning its independence and accusing it of taking political cues from the Minister of Justice in imposing the fine.
“It’s not too late for the Hungarian government to realize the error of their ways,” O’Leary said. “The future of Hungarian tourism and industry lies entirely on making Hungary an attractive destination and a low-cost, competitive destination here in Central Europe.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-ryanair-cancels-hungary-routes-over-windfall-tax-dispute/ | 2022-09-14T01:39:54Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-ryanair-cancels-hungary-routes-over-windfall-tax-dispute/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LYNN, Mass. (AP) — The largest union representing workers for General Electric Co. said Tuesday it’s reached an agreement with the company to speed up raises for workers at a Massachusetts aviation plant.
Under the deal, workers would be eligible for raises sooner and could reach the top pay rate after six years of work, instead of as many as 10 required under the old system.
Some 540 workers will see their pay go up, or become eligible for raises sooner, if the agreement is approved by workers in a vote set for later this month.
GE implemented an accelerated raise schedule this summer at at plants in Rutland, Vermont, and Hooksett, N.H.
“GE pays its employees competitive wages in every community in which we operate,” a company spokesperson said in a statement emailed to the AP.
IUE-CWA Local 201, the union that negotiated the deal, called it a “massive win” for workers, especially as they are dealing with higher living costs brought on by inflation.
“As we prepare to negotiate our national union contract for GE workers across the country, this sends a powerful message to the company that we can organize effectively against stagnating wages and keep good jobs in our community,” union president Adam Kaszynski said in a statement emailed to the AP.
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BOSTON (AP) — A police bomb squad sealed off part of the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday to examine a pair of suspicious packages, and there were unconfirmed reports of an explosion and minor injuries to at least one person.
Boston police said they were investigating two packages that had been left near the university’s Holmes Hall, which is home to Northeastern’s creative writing program. They declined to elaborate, but WCVB-TV said an individual was taken to a hospital and that firefighters and paramedics were at the scene.
WBZ-AM radio, citing unidentified police officials, said the person suffered minor injuries.
Police responded shortly before 8 p.m., and the university asked students who had gathered for an evening journalism class at the hall to evacuate the building.
Northeastern is a private university in downtown Boston. WCVB said one of its reporters, Mike Beaudet, was teaching a class there at the time. Beaudet told the station his class was moved outside but that neither he nor his students heard an explosion. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/college-evacuated-in-boston-1-reportedly-injured-after-blast/ | 2022-09-14T01:41:14Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/college-evacuated-in-boston-1-reportedly-injured-after-blast/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Income inequality in the U.S. increased last year for the first time in more than a decade, but childhood poverty was cut almost in half due to expansion of the federal government’s child tax credit and stimulus payments made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new survey results released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The income inequality index increased 1.2% from 2020 to 2021, the first time the measurement known as the Gini Index has increased since 2011, according to a report on Current Population Survey results.
Declines in household income among the poorest U.S. residents appears to have driven the widening of the income inequality gap. Households in the 90th percentile of the income distribution, the richest, had income that was 13.5 times higher than households in the 10th percentile, the poorest. That was a 4.9% increase from 2020.
“It is sensitive to extremes at either end,” said Liana Fox, a Census Bureau official. “This suggests that the decline in real income at the bottom drove the increase in the Gini index.”
For the most part, there was little year-to-year change in median household income based on demographic traits like race or ethnic background.
However, people in households headed by someone age 65 or older, those with only some college education and households where family members didn’t live together saw dips in their income from 2020 to 2021. Among the reasons was that the fixed income that many seniors are on didn’t keep pace with rising inflation in 2021, and many of the “nonfamily” households were headed by women whose income lagged those headed by men.
Households headed by people with at least a college degree saw bumps in overall income last year.
Broken down by race and ethnic background, Asian households in 2021 had the highest median income at $101,418, followed by non-Hispanic whites at $77,999 and Hispanics at $57,981. Black households had median income of $48,297.
Median incomes were highest in the West at $79,430 and the Northeast at $77,472, followed by the Midwest $71,129 and the South at $63,368.
The time period in the latest Current Population Survey covered the third round of pandemic-related stimulus payments and expansions to the Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child and Dependent Care Credit. The time period in the survey also saw a 4.7% increase in consumer prices, the largest annual increase in the cost-of-living adjustment since 1990.
The expansion of the Child Tax Credit helped reduce childhood poverty, as measured by the bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% last year. It is the lowest since the new measure was implemented in 2009.
“The new data show the significant impact the expansion of anti-poverty programs during the COVID-19 pandemic had on reducing child poverty,” the Census Bureau said in a report.
The pandemic-related stimulus also helped the overall population.
The Census Bureau calculates poverty in two ways — the “official” poverty rate and the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which incorporates government programs designed to help low-income families. The official poverty rate last year was 11.6%, or 37.9 million people, and it wasn’t statistically different from what it was in 2020. The Supplemental Poverty Measure last year was 7.8%, a drop of 1.4 percentage points from 2020 and the lowest in the dozen years that it has been calculated.
The differences between the two rates is attributable to the pandemic assistance from the federal government, with refundable tax credit expansions keeping 9.6 million people out of poverty and stimulus payments doing the same for 8.9 million people, the Census Bureau report said.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — While the mid-term election is two months away, several Siouxland communities were at the polls Tuesday.
Here are the results of five special elections in Siouxland.
Storm Lake Community School District
Voters in the Storm Lake area voted on the school district’s $9.5 million bond, which would provide funding for the construction of a first-grade wing at the recently constructed early elementary school.
Public Measure CK
Shall the Board of Directors of the Storm Lake Community School District in the Counties of Buena Vista and Sac, State of Iowa, be authorized to contract indebtedness and issue General Obligation Bonds in an amount not to exceed $9,950,000 to provide funds to construct, build, furnish and equip a Grade 1 addition to the early elementary school and to improve the site?
Rock Valley Community School District
In Rock Valley, residents decided on a $21 million school bond. It will include a 2-story addition to the west side of the high school.
Public Measure TO
Shall the Board of Directors of the Rock Valley Community School District in the Counties of Sioux and Lyon, State of Iowa, be authorized to contract indebtedness and issue General Obligation Bonds in an amount not to exceed $25,000,000 to be used together with sales tax revenue to provide funds to build, furnish and equip a high school addition to the existing facility, including a related parking lot and other site improvements; and to remodel, repair, and improve the existing facility and site?
OABCIG Community School District
Voters in the OABCIG Community School District decided on a physical plant equipment levy extension.
Proposition OA
Shall the Board of Directors of the Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Community School District, in the Counties of Crawford, Ida, Sac and Woodbury, State of Iowa, for the purpose of purchasing and improving grounds; constructing schoolhouses or buildings and opening roads to schoolhouses or buildings; purchasing of buildings; purchase, lease or lease-purchase of technology and equipment; paying debts contracted for the erection or construction of schoolhouses or buildings, not including interest on bonds; procuring or acquisition of libraries; repairing, remodeling, reconstruction, improving, or expanding the schoolhouses or buildings and additions to existing schoolhouses; expenditures for energy conservation; renting facilities under Iowa Code Chapter 28E; purchasing transportation equipment for transporting students; lease purchase option agreements for school buildings or equipment; purchasing equipment authorized by law; or for any purpose or purposes now or hereafter authorized by law, be authorized for a period of ten (10) years to levy and impose a voter-approved physical plant and equipment tax of not exceeding One Dollar Thirty-Four Cents ($1.34) per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) of assessed valuation of the taxable property within the school district commencing with the levy for collection in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, or each year thereafter?
Galva–Holstein School District
Voters in the Galva-Holstein Community School District decided on a physical plant equipment levy extension.
Proposition H
Shall the Board of Directors of the Galva-HolsteinCommunity School Ditrict in the Counties of Ida, Cherokee, Buena Vista and Sac, State of for the purpose of purchasing and improving grounds; constructing schoolhouses or buildings and opening roads to schoolhouses of buildings; purchasing of buildings; purchase, lease or lease-purchase of technology and equipment; paying debts contracted for the erection
interest on bonds; procuring or acquisition of libraries; repairing, remodeling, reconstructing, improving, or expanding the schoolhouses or buildings and additions to existing schoolhouses; expenditures for energy conservation; renting facilities under Iowa Code Chapter 28E; purchasing transportation equipment for transporting students; lease purchase option agreements for school buildings or equipment; purchasing equipment authorized by law; or for any purpose or purposes now or hereafter authorized by law, be authorized for a period of ten (10) years to levy and impose a voter-approved physical plant and equipment tax of not exceeding One Dollar Thirty-Four Cents ($1.34 per One Thousand Dollars ($ 1,000) of assessed valuation of the taxable property within the school district, and be authorized annually, in combination, as determined by the board, to levy a physical plant and equipment property tax upon all the taxable property within the school district commencing with the levy of property taxes for collection in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and to impose a physical plant and equipment income surtax upon the state individual income tax of each individual income taxpayer resident in the school district on December 31 for each calendar year commencing with calendar year 2023, or each year thereafter?
City of Odebolt
Voters in Odebolt were asked to approve a $650,000 bond for renovations and furnishings of a new city hall.
Public Measure A
Shall the City of Odebolt, in Sac County, State of Iowa, enter into a loan agreement and issue general obligation bonds in an amount not exceeding $650,000 for the purpose of paying the cost, to that extent, of renovating, furnishing and equipping an existing building for use as City Hall? | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/your-local-election-hq/results-for-siouxland-special-elections/ | 2022-09-14T01:41:20Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/your-local-election-hq/results-for-siouxland-special-elections/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Democratic lawmakers intent on making sure that unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to politicize the 2020 census never happen again are moving forward with plans for safeguards they say will help the U.S. head count stay free of future interference.
Democratic House members are preparing this week to send legislation to the House floor that would put in place roadblocks against political meddling in the U.S. census, which determines political power and federal funding.
The House legislation getting a hearing this week in front of the Committee on Rules would require new questions on a census form to be vetted by Congress and mandate that a U.S. Census Bureau director couldn’t be fired without cause. The proposed legislation vests the Census Bureau director with all technical, operational and statistical decisions and says a deputy director has to be a career staffer with experience in demographics, statistics or related fields. If approved by the committee, it will be sent to the House floor for a vote later this week.
The Biden administration on Tuesday said it supported the legislation but indicated it may want changed provisions in the bill requiring that the Census Bureau’s annual budget include estimated costs over five years. Those provisions were added after preparations for the 2020 census faced budget cuts and funding delays. The Biden administration wants to make sure the bill doesn’t circumvent the Office of Management and Budget’s role in formulating budget requests and avoids “impinging on the President’s authority over Executive Branch agencies,” the office said in a statement.
The legislation’s goals overlap with recommendations made Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice that would limit interference from the executive branch and increase congressional oversight of the census. The think tank, which opposed the Trump administration’s efforts to end the U.S. head count early, recommends making the U.S. Census Bureau more independent.
The once-a-decade census determines how many congressional seats each state gets and the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending each year. Its results are used for redrawing political districts. The 2020 census was one of the most challenging in recent memory not only because of the attempts at political interference but also because of the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters.
In the years leading up to the 2020 census, the Trump administration unsuccessfully tried to add a citizenship question to the census questionnaire, a move that advocates feared would scare off Hispanics and immigrants from participating, whether they were in the country legally or not. The Supreme Court blocked the question.
The Trump administration also unsuccessfully tried to get the Census Bureau to exclude people in the country illegally from population figures used for divvying up congressional seats among the states, also called the apportionment numbers.
Critics claimed the citizenship question was inspired by a Republican redistricting expert who believed using citizen voting-age population instead of the total population for the purpose of redrawing of congressional and legislative districts could be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.
“Existing law leaves too much room for political actors to override the best statistical science and manipulate the census,” the Brennan Center report said.
The Brennan Center was among several groups and local governments that sued in 2020 to prevent the Trump administration from ending door-knocking operations a month earlier than planned under a revised schedule put out by the Census Bureau in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Critics feared the Trump administration wanted to end data collection and processing early to make sure President Donald Trump was still in office during the release of apportionment figures. The apportionment numbers were released in April 2021, four months after President Joe Biden took office and Trump left.
The Brennan Center report recommends making the Census Bureau entirely independent of the Commerce Department and giving the Census Bureau director, rather than political appointees at Commerce, final decision-making power over the census. The current director, Robert Santos, was appointed by Biden.
“Pulling the Census Bureau out from under the Commerce Department would be a major first step toward insulating the bureau against executive interference,” the report said.
The Brennan Center also recommends a change that’s not in the House legislation — creating permanent House and Senate committees or subcommittees dedicated to keeping track of the census. The current congressional committees that provide oversight have broad portfolios and can’t dedicate the time needed on the census, according to the report.
Even though many of the Trump administration’s political efforts ultimately failed, some advocates believe they did have an impact, with significantly larger undercounts of most racial and ethnic minorities in the 2020 census compared to the 2010 census.
The Black population in the 2020 census had a net undercount of 3.3%, while it was almost 5% for Hispanics and 5.6% for American Indians and Native Alaskans living on reservations. Those identifying as some other race had a net undercount of 4.3%.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — An elected official accused of killing a Las Vegas investigative journalist in what authorities allege was retaliation for articles critical of him and his office faced court sanctions two years ago for resisting arrest in a domestic violence case, records show.
Robert Telles, the Clark County public administrator who took office in January 2019, accepted a plea agreement in September 2020 to resolve misdemeanor battery and resisting a public officer charges after his wife called 911, according to Las Vegas Municipal Court and police dispatch records.
The records, first reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, show the case was dismissed and closed in March 2021 after Telles paid a $418 fine, attended counseling and stayed out of trouble.
His attorney in that case, Ross Goodman, did not immediately respond Tuesday to telephone and email messages. Efforts to contact Telles’ wife, Mae Ismael, by telephone and email were not successful.
Telles, now 45, remains jailed without bail on suspicion of murder in the Sept. 2 slaying of veteran Review-Journal staff writer Jeff German (GEHR-man).
Telles’ attorney, Travis Shetler, asked during a brief Tuesday court appearance for additional time to prepare for Telles’ arraignment, and prosecutors did not oppose the delay. A local judge reset the hearing for Sept. 20.
Shetler did not immediately respond later to messages about the 2020 incident, in which Telles was accused of “grabbing” and placing his wife in a “‘bear-hug’ position” and of resisting efforts by two police officers to handcuff him.
Telles stood in shackles Tuesday wearing bandages on his forearms and a wry smile as he faced a courtroom crowded with reporters, photographers and television cameras. He did not speak to the judge or his attorney.
Police and prosecutors say he had superficial self-inflicted wounds when he was arrested Sept. 7 after a brief standoff with police at his home.
A criminal complaint filed Monday accuses Telles of “lying in wait” for German, who was stabbed seven times. His body was found the next morning.
Telles was arrested days later, after police issued a plea for public help to identify a person seen on security video wearing an orange work shirt and a wide-brim straw hat toting a shoulder bag and walking toward German’s home.
Police also released images of a distinctive SUV seen on video near German’s home, driven by a person wearing an orange shirt.
A Review-Journal photographer snapped photos Sept. 6 of Telles washing the same type of vehicle in his driveway.
A prosecutor told a judge last Thursday that Telles left his own cellphone at home and waited in a vehicle outside German’s home until the attack. It was characterized as a planned response to articles that German wrote about “turmoil and internal dissension” in the county office that handles the property of people who die without a will or family contacts.
After articles appeared in May airing claims of administrative bullying, favoritism and Telles’ relationship with a subordinate staffer, Telles lost his bid for reelection in the June primary. County lawmakers also appointed a consultant to address complaints about leadership in the office.
Telles blamed “old-timers” for exaggerating his relationship with the female staffer and falsely claiming that he mistreated them.
German, a 40-year Las Vegas journalist who was widely respected for his tenacity, was working on follow-up reports about Telles and the public administrator’s office when he died, his colleagues said.
“The published articles … ruined (Telles’) political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause,” Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Richard Scow told a judge last week.
That judge, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Elana Lee Graham, called the police report detailing the attack “chilling.” She spoke of apparent defensive wounds on German’s arms and said DNA believed to be from Telles was found under German’s fingernails.
“He was fighting for his life,” Graham said.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has called German’s death “brutal and meaningless” and said a decision whether to seek the death penalty will be made in coming months.
Police said a search warrant turned up items at Telles’ home including blood-stained shoes and a straw hat that had been cut up. Authorities said they did not immediately find the weapon used to kill German.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, a Republican running for governor in November, said investigators were attempting to enhance security video that he described as “distorted” but that might show the attack.
German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter covering courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime.
Telles was a lawyer who practiced probate and estate law before he was elected public administrator in 2018, replacing a three-term predecessor.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — It’s less than ten minutes walk from the Falls Road to the Shankill Road in Northern Ireland’s capital, where Catholics and Protestants still live in segregated enclaves.
But to hear people in these adjoining neighborhoods explain their almost diametrically opposite views of the British monarchy, it might as well be 1,000 miles.
And so as King Charles III arrived in Northern Ireland for the first visit since his mother’s death elevated him to the throne, the voices of Belfast offered a sharp reminder of the country’s persistent, complicated and, at times, bloody political realities.
On the street residents call The Shankill — center of a Protestant neighborhood with a long history of loyalty to the crown — British flags fluttered over shops and from light poles. At the foot of a giant mural of a young Elizabeth II proclaiming her “the people’s monarch,” many proud to be her subjects came bearing flowers and notes of emotional farewell.
“We swore our allegiance to the queen and she stuck by us,” said Jacqueline Humphries, 58, once a soldier in the Ulster Defence Regiment, established by the British Army to police Northern Ireland during the decades of sectarian violence known as The Troubles. “I think Charles will do just as good a job. She trained him well.”
Not half a mile away on the Falls Road — the nationalist stronghold that served as base for the Irish Republican Army and its decades-long guerrilla campaign against British rule — those heading to work Tuesday brushed off any suggestion that Charles’ visit could validate the crown’s claim to Northern Ireland.
“They can believe that, but we still believe we will get a united Ireland,” said Paul Walker, 55, walking past a 3-story-high mural of Bobby Sands, an IRA militant who died while on a hunger strike in prison in 1981.
Charles is “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.”
Walker and others said Queen Elizabeth II had earned a measure of respect, if never affection, for her decision in 2012 to shake hands with Martin McGuinness, the former IRA commander who went on to serve as Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister. But Charles is unwelcome.
“He won’t be up here much. We don’t have a place for Charles,” said a man named Christy, 61, who like others declined to provide his full name, pointing to Belfast’s fading, but brutally memorable, record of retribution on both sides.
The new king walked a delicate line Tuesday, thanking Northern Ireland officials for their condolences and praise of his mother for her efforts to foster reconciliation.
The queen, he said, “felt deeply, I know, the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those whom history had separated, and in extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts.”
It’s not clear, though, if Charles will benefit from goodwill earned by his mother. She had decades to build a reputation as a steadfast leader even in the most difficult of times; not so, her son, who some see as aloof. And nowhere else in the lands that make up this less than United Kingdom is the divide over the crown so fierce.
Most of Ireland gained independence from Britain in 1921 after a guerrilla war. But Northern Ireland, where a Protestant majority favored Britain, remained a part of the United Kingdom.
The shaky peace exploded in August 1969 with sectarian violence after protests by the Catholic minority for civil rights. The British Army sent in forces, ostensibly to contain the violence and protect Catholics.
“Army in Control Here For At Least Four Months,” warned the front page of The Irish News, now displayed in a museum of IRA history just off the Falls Road.
Instead, The Troubles lasted nearly 30 years, resulting in the deaths of more than 3,000 people.
A few minutes in either neighborhood is all it takes to unearth memories of the violence and the gaping divide over the role of the British government.
“Once you saw the Brits, once you saw the police, you went running the other way because you were guilty before you innocent,” said Damian Burns, a postal worker, walking to work past the offices of Sinn Fein, the political party long affiliated with the IRA that is now the largest in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government.
The Sinn Fein bookstore onsite sells posters with a portrait of Sands over the slogan: “England Get Out of Ireland.”
Over on the Shankill, Humphries, now a housing assistance counselor, recalled that when The Troubles started she was living in an area mixed with both Protestants and Catholics. After joining the British-allied military she received death threats from the Irish National Liberation Army, forcing a move to the loyalist neighborhood where she has lived ever since. Others on both sides also moved to be near those like them, and the city became even more divided.
The royal family was not immune to the violence. In 1979, the IRA assassinated Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen and mentor to Charles , detonating a bomb planted aboard his fishing boat. Three others also died.
The Troubles finally ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. But all these years later, the Falls Road and the Shankill remain divided from one another by a “Peace Line” — high walls with steel gates that are still closed each evening.
Charles, unwanted by some here and unproven to others, will have to thread his way carefully through the volatility. But it could offer valuable lessons – at least in what not to do – for the new monarch. In Scotland, where a referendum on independence from Britain was narrowly defeated in 2014, rhetoric remains heated and officials are pushing for a follow-up vote. In Wales, too, some people bridle at being kept under London’s control.
Residents of Belfast will be watching closely, regardless of their allegiances.
On the Falls Road of 25 or 30 years ago, the queen was vilified as a symbol of British oppression, said Walker, who is confident the two Irelands will eventually be united.
He won’t change his mind about that, he said, but even with a bitter past, he’s become more willing to see the queen, who was 96, as more than a foe.
She was, after all, someone’s grandmother.
“It’s always in the back of your mind who these people are,” he said, “and not just that they’re the head of military forces.”
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Republicans on Tuesday were picking their party’s candidate to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in a key midterm contest the GOP has long seen as winnable and which could ultimately decide control of the chamber after November.
But a strong competitor in the GOP contest, which is capping primary season nationwide, is retired Army Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc, a staunch conservative who Democrats — and even some top Republicans — believe is too far to the right for some swing voters in the general election. President Joe Biden carried New Hampshire by more than 7 percentage points, Bolduc has campaigned on a platform that includes lies that Donald Trump won the 2020 election and conspiracy theories about vaccines.
Hassan clinched her party’s nomination against only token opposition Tuesday, while Gov. Chris Sununu won the Republican party’s nomination for another term. He immediately becomes the favorite against Democrat Tom Sherman, who was unopposed for his party’s governor’s nomination.
“The stakes are too high this November to change direction now,” Sununu said in a statement.
A Bolduc victory might reignite disappointment among some national Republicans that Sununu, a relatively popular moderate who likely could have posed more of a threat to Hassan, chose instead to run for reelection. The GOP is grappling with the possibility of again nominating a candidate who is popular with the party’s base but struggles to broaden support ahead of the November general election.
Republican primary voters have similarly chosen conservative candidates this year in moderate or Democratic-leaning states including Massachusetts and Maryland, potentially putting competitive races out of the party’s reach.
Neil Levesque, director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, said Bolduc is a type of candidate who would have struggled to succeed in GOP politics before Trump’s rise. He’s never held elected office and had just $75,000 in cash on hand last week. Still, Bolduc has been able to make inroads by positioning himself as an ally of Trump and his election falsehoods.
“That is because the theme of his campaign and messaging is very similar to former President Trump,” Levesque said. “If it mirrors the former president, it’s been effective.”
Federal and state officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the election was tainted. The former president’s allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges Trump appointed.
Known for kicking off the primary season during presidential campaigns, New Hampshire is instead concluding the nominating process for this year’s midterms. There are also primaries Tuesday in Rhode Island and Delaware, where President Joe Biden traveled late Tuesday to cast his ballot.
But New Hampshire’s Senate race is perhaps most revealing about the direction of the GOP. Bolduc is competing in a crowded field that includes Chuck Morse, the more moderate president of the New Hampshire state Senate, who has been endorsed by Sununu. The governor called Morse “the candidate to beat Sen. Hassan this November and the candidate Sen. Hassan is most afraid to face.”
Sununu feels differently about Bolduc, whom he’s called a conspiracy theorist while warning that Bolduc could have a harder time winning the general election.
Bolduc doesn’t seem bothered by Sununu’s criticism. He’s called the governor “a Chinese communist sympathizer.” Bolduc hasn’t been formally endorsed by Trump, who propelled many primary candidates to victory in key races throughout the summer. But the former president has called Bolduc a “strong guy.”
The final primary contests are unfolding at a dramatic moment in the midterm campaign. Republicans have spent much of the year building their election-year message around Biden and his management of the economy, particularly soaring prices. But Democrats are now entering the final stretch with a sense of cautious optimism as approval of Biden steadies and inflation has slowed for the second straight month, even as it remains high.
The Supreme Court’s decision overturning a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion may provide Democrats with the energy they need to turn back the defeats that historically accompany a new president’s first midterms.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged the challenge last month, saying his party may be more likely to end Democrats’ narrow control of the House than the Senate. He bemoaned “candidate quality” as a factor that could sway some outcomes in his chamber.
Some Democratic groups, meanwhile, have sponsored primary ads promoting Bolduc, predicting he’ll make an easier November opponent for Hassan. That’s consistent with Democratic-aligned organizations backing pro-Trump candidates in key races around the country — a strategy some have criticized, arguing that it could backfire if those candidates go on to win their general elections.
Republicans in New Hampshire and around the country scoff at the notion that being a Trump loyalist — or not — could be a deciding general election factor, noting that the still unpopular Biden will be a drag on his party regardless.
The New Hampshire Republican Party has tweeted that Hassan “votes with Joe Biden 96.4% of the time.”
Many of the same dynamics swirling around the former president are at work in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District, where pro-Trump candidate Bob Burns is among several Republicans vying for the party’s nomination to face five-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster.
In New Hampshire’s other congressional district, which encompasses Manchester and the southeastern part of the state, several Republicans are vying to challenge Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, who could also face a potentially close general election reelection contest — once he learns who his opponent will be.
The GOP field includes former TV broadcaster Gail Huff Brown, wife of Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand during the Trump administration. Also running is Matt Mowers, who won the district’s congressional 2020 Republican nomination and was a Trump administration State Department adviser.
But the candidate closest to Trump may be Karoline Leavitt, who worked in his White House’s press office and has also campaigned with Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
“Her compass always points to Trump,” said Dante Scala, a University of New Hampshire political science professor. He added, in reference to the former president’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan, “She, in a very kind of crisp, sharp, confident way, will say the most MAGA thing that can be said in any situation.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent commission is recommending that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be dismantled and taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on the renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy.
Panel members on Tuesday rolled out the final list of ships, base roads, buildings and other items that they said should be renamed. But unlike the commission’s recommendations earlier this year laying out new names for nine Army bases, there were no suggested names for the roughly 1,100 assets across the military that bear Confederate names.
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, vice-chair of the commission, said the final cost for all of its renaming recommendations will be $62,450,030. The total for the latest changes announced Tuesday is $40,957,729, and is included in that amount.
The latest group of assets includes everything from the Arlington memorial, two Navy ships and some Army vessels to street signs, water towers, athletic fields, hospital doors and even decals on recycling bins, according to the panel.
The bulk of the remaining costs — or $21,041,301 — would cover the renaming of nine Army bases, and about $450,000 for recommended new names at the U.S. Military at West Point in New York.
Seidule said the panel determined that the memorial at Arlington was “problematic from top to bottom.” He said the panel recommended that it be entirely removed, with only the granite base remaining.
The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a Biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”
The pedestal features 14 shields, engraved with the coats of arms of the 13 Confederate states and Maryland, which didn’t secede or join the Confederacy. Some of the figures also on the statue include a slave woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.
And the Latin inscription translates to: “The victorious cause was pleasing to the gods, but the lost cause to Cato,” and was meant to equate the South’s secession to a noble “lost cause.”
Seidule said the panel decided early on to propose new names only for the nine Army bases. It said that the Navy secretary has the authority to rename the two ships, which are the USS Chancellorsville and USNS Maury. The Chancellorsville was named for the Civil War battle and the Maury was named after a Confederate soldier.
He said the service secretaries can find new names for the handful of Army ships and the Air Force’s Fort Fisher Recreation Area in North Carolina. The panel recommended that the defense secretary rename Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
The panel’s most sweeping recommendations were released in May, and laying out new names for nine U.S. Army bases that commemorated Confederate officers: Fort Bragg in North Carolina; Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia; Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia; Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Polk in Louisiana and Fort Rucker in Alabama.
The recommendations are the latest step in a broader effort by the military to confront racial injustice, most recently in the aftermath of the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
For years, U.S. military officials had defended the naming of bases after Confederate officers. As recently as 2015 the Army argued that the names did not honor the rebel cause but were a gesture of reconciliation with the South.
But in the aftermath of the Floyd killing, and the months of racial unrest that followed, the Pentagon and Congress pushed for a comprehensive plan to rename the military posts and hundreds of other federal assets such as roads, buildings, memorials, signs and landmarks that honored rebel leaders.
The secretary of defense is expected to implement the commission’s plan no later than Jan. 1, 2024.
The panel also is recommending that the department set up a process to try and save money and efficiently change the names. And it said the secretary of defense should authorize the military service secretaries and other leaders to remove smaller items —- such as portraits, plaques and awards — that honor the Confederacy or those who served in it.
Created in 2020, the Naming Commission first met in March 2021 and began taking name recommendations from the public in September. Overall, the commission received more than 34,000 potential names for the nine Army bases.
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OAK GLEN, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers searched for a person missing in a mudslide Tuesday as big yellow tractors plowed through dark, thick sludge and pushed boulders off roads after flash floods swept dirt, rocks and trees down fire-scarred slopes, washed away cars and buried buildings in small mountain communities in Southern California.
With thunderstorms forecast and more mudslides possible into Wednesday, evacuation orders remained in place in parts of the San Bernardino Mountains while a wildfire raging 500 miles (805 kilometers) to the north forced residents to abandon their homes.
The Mosquito Fire burning 110 miles (177 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco erupted in the afternoon just hours after officials had reported making “great strides” in the battle. The blaze was one of three large fires in the state.
East of Los Angeles, crews searched street by street for people who might be trapped by mudflows that washed rocks, trees and other debris with astonishing force the day before into Forest Falls, Oak Glen and Yucaipa and left a muddy mess and untold destruction.
Homes and other buildings were damaged, including a commercial building buried so high its roof collapsed, said Eric Sherwin, spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Fire Department.
“We have boulders that moved through that weigh multiple tons,” Sherwin said. “It could take days just to find all the cars that are missing because they are completely covered by mud.”
A video showed a slow-moving black river of sludge rolling past the sign for the Oak Glen Steakhouse and Saloon followed seconds later by a surging wave of deeper mud carrying logs. The mud appeared to be head-high in places the next day.
Sherwin said crews were searching for one missing person.
Residents who tried to return home found it tough going in the sticky mess.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Perla Halbert, whose feet were caked in mud after trying to walk to her home. “If you try and take two steps, you get submerged. You just get stuck.”
Halbert had been out of town and returned to her Oak Glen home late Monday to find the driveway covered with a few inches of mud. Her family stayed the night with family members and returned after first light to discover several feet of mud and a fence washed away.
Her husband went to buy boots and coveralls before trekking through the muck to assess the damage.
“There’s lots of rocks and so much mud. But hopefully the house itself is OK,” she said.
Officials planned to lift some mandatory evacuation and shelter in place orders Tuesday evening.
Workers were able to clear most of Valley of the Falls Drive — the only road to Forests Falls — and teams were assessing damage. Other major roads in the San Bernardino Mountains were reopened.
For some homes in Forest Falls, it was too late to evacuate Monday. Residents were told to shelter in place through the night because it was safer than venturing out.
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 the Fairview Fire 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 2020 blazes, 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 charged with involuntary manslaughter.
The mudslides occurred about 175 miles (280 kilometers) east of Montecito, where enormous debris flows killed more than 20 people and destroyed hundreds of homes in January 2018, a month after a huge wildfire scorched hillsides.
About 40 miles (64 kilometers) west, Cal State San Bernardino reopened Tuesday, a day after the campus was closed when several buildings were flooded during heavy rains.
The powerful thunderstorms came after a week that saw California endure a record-long heatwave. Temperatures in many parts of the state rocketed 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 in Southern California 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 62% contained by Tuesday. Two people died fleeing the fire, which destroyed at least 35 homes and other structures in Riverside County.
The Mosquito Fire has grown to 78 square miles (200 square kilometers), with 18% containment, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. But those numbers were expected to change late Tuesday as the fire flared up.
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.
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Weber contributed to this report from Los Angeles.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Legislature passed a sweeping abortion ban with few exceptions Tuesday, approving a bill that several members of the Republican supermajority said they hope will make it impossible for the state’s only abortion clinic to continue to offer the procedure.
“It is going to shut down that abortion clinic, of that I feel certain,” Republican Sen. Robert Karnes said on the Senate floor, amid shouts from protesters standing outside the chamber doors. “I believe it’s going to save a lot of babies.”
Under the legislation, rape and incest victims would be able to obtain abortions at up to eight weeks of pregnancy, but only if they report to law enforcement first. Such victims who are minors would have until 14 weeks to terminate a pregnancy and must report to either law enforcement or a physician.
Rape and incest victims would have to report the assault within 48 hours of getting an abortion, and a patient must present a copy of a police report or notarized letter to a physician before the procedure can be performed.
Abortions also would be allowed in cases of medical emergencies.
West Virginia joins the ranks of states moving to ban abortion in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year to end the constitutional right to privacy that protected abortion rights nationwide. That left it to states to decide whether abortion should remain legal, which in turn has ignited intense state-level debates, especially in states controlled by Republicans, about when to impose the ban, whether to carve out exceptions in cases involving rape, incest or the health of the woman giving birth, and how those exceptions should be implemented.
The West Virginia bill now heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice, who has signed several anti-abortion bills into law since taking office in 2017. Lawmakers resumed debate on the bill Tuesday after failing to come to an agreement in late July, giving up the chance for the state to become the first to approve new legislation restricting access to abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June removing its protected status as a constitutional right.
Both the Senate and the House of Delegates speedily approved the bill, after several hours of debate. Dozens of protesters wearing pink shirts reading “bans off our bodies” and holding signs reading “abortion is healthcare” staged a rally in the Capitol rotunda while lawmakers were in session.
Some of the group sat in the gallery as legislators discussed the bills, with some shouting down to legislators in frustration as they spoke in support of the bill. Legislative leadership asked that the onlookers remain silent as lawmakers conducted business. At one point, at least one protester was escorted out of the building by police.
Lawmakers inserted several provisions they said were specifically targeted at the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, which was the state’s first abortion clinic when it opened in 1976 following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade case. It has existed as the state’s sole abortion clinic for years, making it the ever-increasing target of anti-abortion lawmakers and protesters.
The bill states that surgical abortions can only be performed at a state-licensed hospital by a physician with hospital privileges. Anybody else who performs an abortion, including nurse practitioners and other medical professionals, could face three to 10 years in prison. A physician who performs an illegal abortion could lose their medical license.
Pregnant people who obtain illegal abortions will not face any form of prosecution under the bill, however.
Kaylen Barker, spokesperson for the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, said the clinic will not be shutting down, even if the staff is no longer able to provide abortions. Like many clinics that perform abortions, the facility did not offer the procedure daily.
Most days are dedicated to services like gender-affirming hormone therapy, HIV prevention and treatment and routine gynecological care — cervical exams, cancer screenings — mostly for low-income patients on Medicaid with nowhere else to go.
Democratic Sen. Owens Brown, West Virginia’s only Black senator, spoke against the bill before it passed the Senate. He said when he looks around at his fellow lawmakers, he sees a body that is overwhelmingly comprised of white, middle-aged to elderly men who are middle-class or above.
Brown compared groups of men passing legislation that overwhelmingly impacts women to laws that were passed by white lawmakers when slavery was legal in the U.S. He said “all laws are not good laws made by men.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With only three months left in the year, the House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection. But the investigation is not over.
The committee has already revealed much of its work at eight hearings over the summer, showing in detail how former President Donald Trump ignored many of his closest advisers and amplified his false claims of election fraud after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. Witnesses interviewed by the panel — some of them Trump’s closest allies — recounted in videotaped testimony how the former president declined to act when hundreds of his supporters violently attacked the Capitol as Congress certified Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021.
Lawmakers say there is more to come. The nine-member panel — seven Democrats and two Republicans — interviewed witnesses through all of August, and they are hoping to have at least one hearing by the end of the month. Members met Tuesday to discuss the panel’s next steps.
Because the Jan. 6 panel is a temporary, or “select,” committee, it expires at the end of the current Congress. If Republicans take the majority in November’s elections, as they are favored to do, they are expected to dissolve the committee in January. So the panel is planning to issue a final report by the end of December.
What’s left for the committee in 2022:
HEARINGS
The panel’s Democratic chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, said after the private members’ meeting Tuesday in the Capitol that the committee’s goal is to hold a hearing Sept. 28, but that members were still discussing whether it would happen at all.
“We’ll we’re still in the process of talking,” Thompson said. “If it happens, it will be that date. We’re not sure at this point.”
Members of the committee had promised more hearings in September as they wrapped up the series of summer hearings. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chairwoman, said the committee “has far more evidence to share with the American people and more to gather.”
“Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued and the dam has begun to break,” Cheney said at a July 21 hearing that was held in prime time and watched by 17.7 million people. “We have considerably more to do.”
It’s unclear if the hearing would provide a general overview of what the panel has learned or if they would be focused on new information and evidence. The committee conducted several interviews at the end of July and into August with Trump’s Cabinet secretaries, some of whom had discussed invoking the constitutional process in the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office after the insurrection.
WITNESSES
The panel has already interviewed more than 1,000 people, but lawmakers and staff are still pursuing new threads. The committee recently spoke to several of the Cabinet secretaries, including former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in July and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao in August.
The committee also wants to get to the bottom of missing Secret Service texts from Jan. 5-6, 2021, which could shed further light on Trump’s actions during the insurrection, particularly after earlier testimony about his confrontation with security as he tried to join supporters at the Capitol. Thompson said Tuesday that the committee has recently obtained “thousands” of documents from the Secret Service.
The committee has also pursued an interview with conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who’s married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Lawmakers want to know more about her role in trying to help Trump overturn the election. She contacted lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin as part of that effort.
TRUMP AND PENCE
Members of the committee are still debating how aggressively to pursue testimony from Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Some have have questioned whether the committee needs to call Pence, who resisted Trump’s pressure to try and block Biden’s certification on Jan. 6. Many of his closest aides have already testified, including Greg Jacob, his top lawyer at the White House who was with him during the insurrection as they hid from rioters who were threatening the vice president’s life. Jacobs characterized much of Pence’s thought process during the time when Trump was pressuring him.
The panel has been in discussions with Pence’s lawyers for months, without any discernible progress. Still, the committee could invite Pence for closed-door testimony or ask him to answer written questions.
The calculation is different for the former president. Members have debated whether they should call Trump, who is the focus of their probe but also a witness who has fought against the investigation in court, denied much of the evidence and floated the idea of presidential pardons for Jan. 6 rioters. Trump is also facing scrutiny in several other investigations, including at the Justice Department and over the classified documents he took to his private club.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS
Another bit of unfinished business is the committee’s subpoenas to five House Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
In May the panel subpoenaed McCarthy, R-Calif., and Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama. The panel has investigated McCarthy’s conversations with Trump the day of the attack and meetings the four other lawmakers had with the White House beforehand as Trump and some of his allies worked to overturn his election defeat.
The five Republicans, all of whom have repeatedly downplayed the investigation’s legitimacy, have simply ignored the request to testify. But the Jan. 6 committee seems unlikely to meet their defiance with contempt charges, as they have with other witnesses, in the weeks before the November elections. Not only would it be a politically risky move, but it is unclear what eventual recourse the panel would have against its own colleagues.
FINAL REPORT
The committee must shut down within a month after issuing a final report, per its rules. But lawmakers could issue some smaller reports before then, perhaps even before the November elections. Thompson said earlier this summer that there may be an interim report in the fall.
The release of the final report will likely come close to the end of the year so the panel can maximize its time. While much of the findings will already be known, the report is expected to thread the story together in a definitive way that lays out the committee’s conclusions for history.
LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS
The committee is expected to weigh in on possible legislative changes to the Electoral Count Act, which governs how a presidential election is certified by Congress.
A bipartisan group of senators released proposed changes over the summer that would clarify the way states submit electors and the vice president tallies the votes. Trump and his allies tried to find loopholes in that law ahead of Jan. 6 as the former president worked to overturn his defeat to Biden and unsuccessfully pressured Pence to go along.
The Jan. 6 panel’s final report is expected to include a larger swath of legislative recommendations.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden has the same authority to impose a COVID-19 vaccine requirement on federal workers that private employers have for their employees, an administration lawyer told a federal appeals court Tuesday.
A lawyer for opponents of the vaccine requirement, which has been blocked nationwide by a federal judge in Texas, said the requirement imposes an “unconstitutionally intolerable choice” for executive branch workers — taking a vaccine they don’t want or losing their jobs.
Judges on the appeals court meanwhile questioned how far the chief executive’s authority goes, asking, theoretically, whether the president could require employees to meet certain healthy body weights or forbid them from smoking at home.
It was the second time arguments on the issue were heard before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel of the same court had upheld the Biden requirement for executive branch workers, overturning the Texas judge.
But the full appeals court, currently with 16 active members, vacated the panel ruling and agreed to rehear the case. There was no indication when the court would rule.
Administration lawyers argue that the employees opposing the mandate should have taken their objections not to federal court but to a federal review board, in accordance with the Civil Service Reform Act. The administration also argues that the president has the same authority, under the Constitution, as the CEO of a private corporation to require that employees be vaccinated.
Arguing for the government, Charles Scarborough of the Department of Justice, said the statute provides employees with “robust” remedies if they successfully challenge the requirement through the review board, including back pay if they are dismissed for not complying.
Addressing whether the president could impose body weight requirements on federal employees, Scarborough said the vaccine requirement is part of a mainstream effort to reduce the incidence of serious COVID-19 cases in the workplace, while a body weight requirement would be among “hypotheticals at the extremes.”
Opponents say the policy is an encroachment on federal workers’ lives that neither the Constitution nor federal statutes authorize. And they argued that a case involving a policy that could cost some workers their jobs if they don’t agree to a medical procedure is not the type of work policy that belongs before a civil service review board.
Biden issued an executive order Sept. 9 ordering vaccinations for all executive branch agency employees, with exceptions for medical and religious reasons. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by then-President Donald Trump, issued a nationwide injunction against the requirement in January.
There came a series of varying rulings at the 5th Circuit.
One three-judge panel refused to immediately block the law.
But, a 2-1 ruling on the merits of the case by a different panel upheld Biden’s position. Judges Carl Stewart and James Dennis, both nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton, were in the majority. Judge Rhesa Barksdale, a senior judge nominated by President George H.W. Bush, dissented, saying the relief the challengers sought does not fall under the Civil Service Reform Act cited by the administration.
A majority of the full court voted to vacate that ruling and reconsider the case, resulting in Tuesday’s hearing.
Twelve of 16 active judges at the 5th Circuit were nominated to the court by Republicans, including six Trump appointees. Senior judges do not routinely take part in full-court hearings but Barksdale participated in the hearing Tuesday because he had been on the earlier panel. | https://www.wspa.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-court-rehears-fight-over-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-workers/ | 2022-09-14T01:43:44Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-court-rehears-fight-over-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-workers/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW DELHI (AP) — Just hours before news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death spread, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a fiery speech urging India to shed its colonial ties in a ceremony to rename a boulevard that once honored King George V.
Rajpath, formerly called Kingsway, was a “symbol of slavery” under the British Raj, he said. Instead, under the newly named Kartavya Path that leads to the iconic India Gate, “a new history has been created,” Modi beamed.
His speech last Thursday was the latest in a concerted drive to purge India of its colonial relics. It was also a clear sign that the country, once the largest of Britain’s colonies that endured two centuries of imperial rule, has moved on.
The renovated avenue now boasts a black granite statue of Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose, in the place where a mold of King George V, Elizabeth’s grandfather, once stood.
The queen’s death provoked sympathies to a deeply respected figure from some while for a few others, it jogged memories of a bloody history under the British crown. But among most regular Indians, the news was met with an indifferent shrug.
The British monarchy “holds precisely zero relevance to Indians today — they are of no importance,” said Kapil Komireddi, author of “Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India.”
British rule shaped the country in significant ways, but India has since overtaken the British economy in size.
“The country has come into its own … As a rising power, India can gain a lot from the U.K. but the U.K. can gain a whole lot more from India,” Komireddi added.
On Thursday, Modi penned a heartfelt note, calling the queen “a stalwart of our times,” while the government declared a day of mourning. But for most Indians born a generation after independence from the British in 1947, there is little attachment to the queen or the royal family.
Sankul Sonawane, 20, was at home when he heard the news, which had “no impact” on him. “We have no sense of emotional connection with the queen. She was a monarch and I don’t believe in the idea of a monarchy.”
Dhiren Singh, a 57-year-old entrepreneur in New Delhi, felt the same way. “I do not think we have any place for kings and queens in today’s world, because we are the world’s largest democratic country,” he said.
Elizabeth visited India three times during her reign and was the first monarch to tour the newly freed country, cementing the start of fresh ties with Britain. After her coronation in 1953, she arrived in the capital New Delhi in 1961, where she addressed a massive crowd and nearly a million people lined up along streets to catch a glimpse of her and her husband, Prince Philip.
Darshan Paul was 10 or 11 years old when she stood along a road in New Delhi and waved an Indian flag at the queen. “I remember her gloved hand waving back at me and was so impressed,” Paul, now 71, said.
There was abundant excitement and curiosity around her visit, Paul recalled, as she and her friends poured over newspaper photos of the queen and were dazzled by the gowns she wore.
But it was a different time then, Paul said, as she acknowledged that the traditional bond some Indians once held with the royal family has morphed dramatically since.
“To young Indians today, they seem like any other high-profile celebrity family – you might follow news of them because you want to know what is happening behind closed doors. But beyond the glamor and celebrity allure, they don’t hold any significance any more.”
If her son, who was formally proclaimed King Charles III over the weekend, were to make an official visit to India, “it will certainly not matter as much,” Paul added.
The queen’s last visit in 1997 was tinged with controversy when she traveled to a memorial dedicated to hundreds of unarmed Indians who were killed by British colonial forces in 1919, amid calls for an apology over the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
For many, the royal family remains a hallmark of a deeply painful history. Colonial rule is still remembered for the extraordinary violence and suffering it spawned, from numerous famines and economic exploitation to ultimately an unprecedented level of bloodshed in the partition of India and Pakistan.
Scrolling through social media after the news, 25-year-old Sumedha Chatterjee said the tweets in support of the queen felt almost like people had forgotten about all the “loot and plunder” the British monarchy oversaw. “They built their empire on the backs of the so-called third world,” she added.
Just hours after her death, Indian social media lit up with renewed calls for the return of the famous Koh-i-Noor, the 106-carat diamond discovered in India that is part of the British crown jewels.
“If the king is not going to wear (the) Koh-i-Noor, give it back,” quipped one user.
Ever since gaining independence, India has moved to shed its colonial ties, including changing back the names of a clutch of cities that were renamed during British rule. In the 1960s, officials removed figures of British officials and royalty from public view — the statue of King George V, which stood tall under the canopy of India Gate, was moved to Coronation Park, a graveyard or final resting place for imperial symbols in the capital.
And under Modi, there has been renewed vigor to reclaim India’s past, which has seen the government scrub away colonial-era street names, some laws and even flag symbols.
Such gestures “represent a new India” which has nothing to do with the monarchy, said Archana Ojha, a professor of history at Delhi University. She added, though, that the country’s imperial history can’t be hidden away.
“We may not need to cherish some of the legacies, but we need to preserve them to teach our future generations. We cannot just erase it completely,” she said.
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YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Fighting on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan killed about 100 troops Tuesday as attacks on both sides fed fears of broader hostilities breaking out between the longtime adversaries.
Armenia said at least 49 of its soldiers were killed; Azerbaijan said it lost 50.
The fighting erupted minutes after midnight with Azerbaijani forces unleashing an artillery barrage and drone attacks in many sections of Armenian territory, according to Armenia’s Defense Ministry. It said shelling grew less intense during the day but Azerbaijani troops were trying to advance into Armenian territory.
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said it was responding to a “large-scale provocation” by Armenia late Monday and early Tuesday. It said Armenian troops planted mines and fired on Azerbaijani military positions.
The two countries have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
Azerbaijan reclaimed broad swaths of Nagorno-Karabakh in a six-week war in 2020 that killed more than 6,600 people and ended with a Russia-brokered peace deal. Moscow deployed about 2,000 troops to the region to serve as peacekeepers under the deal.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday urged both parties “to refrain from further escalation and show restraint.” Moscow has engaged in a delicate balancing act in seeking to maintain friendly ties with both ex-Soviet nations. It has strong economic and security ties with Armenia, which hosts a Russian military base, while also has been developing close cooperation with oil-rich Azerbaijan.
The international community also urged calm.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Armenia and Azerbaijan “to take immediate steps to deescalate tensions, exercise maximum restraint and resolve any outstanding issues through dialogue” and implement previous agreements, his spokesman said.
The U.N. Security Council scheduled closed consultations Wednesday on the renewed fighting.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called Russian President Vladimir Putin and later also had calls with French President Emmanuel Macron, European Council President Charles Michel and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke by phone with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with both Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev. The U.S. has a special envoy in the region, Blinken said, “and my hope is that we can move this from conflict back to the negotiating table and back to trying to build a peace.”
Speaking in parliament early Tuesday, Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan of having had an uncompromising stance at recent European Union-brokered talks in Brussels.
Armenia said the Azerbaijani shelling Tuesday damaged civilian infrastructure and wounded an unspecified number of people.
On Facebook, Aliyev expressed condolences “to the families and relatives of our servicemen who died on September 13 while preventing large-scale provocations committed by the Armenian armed forces in the direction of the Kalbajar, Lachin, Dashkasan and Zangilan regions of Azerbaijan.”
Turkey, an ally of Azerbaijan, also placed the blame for the violence on Armenia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed support for Aliyev and said in a statement that Turkey and Azerbaijan are “brotherly … in all matters.”
The governor of Gegharkunik province, one of the regions that came under Azerbaijani shelling, said there was a 40-minute lull in the fighting, apparently reflecting Moscow’s attempt to negotiate a truce, before it later resumed. The governor, Karen Sarkisyan, said four Armenian troops in his region were killed and another 43 were wounded by the shelling.
The Armenian government said it would officially ask Russia for assistance under a friendship treaty between the countries, and also appeal to the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Moscow-dominated security alliance of ex-Soviet nations.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refrained from comment on Armenia’s request but added during a conference call with reporters that Putin was “taking every effort to help de-escalate tensions.”
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane City Council passed a six month building moratorium for the Latah and Thorpe neighborhoods.
The purpose is to improve more infrastructure before more people move into the area, especially around Highway 195.
Many cars go upwards of eighty miles an hour on Highway 195 and some drivers have to cross an entire highway to make their turn. It's been this way for the last 20 years.
"We've been concerned for years and it's risen in the level of importance and I think it really reached a tipping point in the last couple of years since Spokane has been discovered by a lot of people outside of Washington. A lot of people are moving here,” said Adam Marshall, a Latah resident.
People that live in the surrounding neighborhoods are happy that additional houses and business won't be built yet because they want roads to first be safe.
One resident believes the moratorium is the right step in the right direction.
Kai Huschke, the chair for the Latah/Hangman neighborhood council, said, "We love where we love and there's an interest to protect the quality of life. Within all that, there's recognition of years that there's a lack of infrastructure of all kinds. Super exciting, like hugely exciting. It's been years in the making."
A recent transportation study of US 195 called for $400 million of improvements in the infrastructure along Highway 195 and cited safety as the number one issue along the corridor.
That money would pay for things like safer intersections and offramps.
"We know what a lot of the solutions are to those problems. So, in terms of transportation, we have a good sense of what needs to happen,” said Spencer Gardner, the city’s planning director. “The problem that we have now is we need to fund the projects that need to occur."
One Latah resident, Molly Marshall, says that if more people come to the area, there's an even higher chance for accidents.
She's surprised the moratorium actually passed.
"I was very surprised. We didn't know it was going to be put forth forward at the council meeting last night, so very surprising to us, but very encouraging,” said Marshall.
The city planner says until the city and state can figure out how to fund these improvements, development should be paused.
People are worried that additional development will lead to more and more people. Residents say this will increase the number of people traveling east and west on the highway and pressure on roads that go into the highway.
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ALMIRA, Wash. — More than a year after a fire destroyed the Almira Elementary and Middle School building, construction is now underway for the new school.
A fire burned down the Almira Elementary and Middle School building on Oct. 9, 2021. Since then, the school district has scrambled to get students back on track. Numerous donations were made to the district, including Chromebooks, desks and worktables.
Eventually, the old football field became the temporary school campus. Seven portables were split into two classrooms each, all serving 148 students.
"I think everybody is super happy we're all here," said Kelsey Hoppe, the principal of the Almira school. "It was a great start to the year. Better than the last three starts of last year."
While these transitions since the fire have been difficult, the school and Almira community remain strong.
"It's pretty amazing to see how resilient kids can be," said Kristy Okamoto, a teacher at the Almira school.
The Almira School District secured $13 million from the state to rebuild its school. Designs show a much bigger building at about 50,000 square feet, with more classrooms, a larger gym and a cafeteria.
"I think this is going to be a real gem of a school up here in the northern Palouse," Project Manager Gene Sementi said. "There's not going to be anything like it until you get to Spokane or Wenatchee."
The new school will still serve Almira's kindergarteners through eighth grade. This time around, middle schoolers will use the added second floor for their classes.
"This building is expensive. There's no way we could have built it," said Dan Reid, the Almira School District superintendent. "So it's a blessing in disguise. The fire was horrific. But the end result, this community is going to have a phenomenal facility."
Once complete, project leaders expect the new school will be building bright futures in Almira for the next 80 years. It is set to open in Fall 2023.
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PARIS (AP) — New wildfires raging in southwestern France have torn through over 1,000 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of residents amid record temperatures for September.
Fires that began to rage Monday caused the evacuation of over 500 people in the Gironde region, as a smaller blaze burned south of Bordeaux, near Dax, where temperatures reached 39C (102F).
Strong winds hampered the efforts of hundreds of firefighters, who struggled to extinguish the flames throughout the night into Tuesday with little success. The fires are still uncontained.
Two Canadair aircraft specialized in firefighting — that already saw considerable work over the hot summer months in southern France — have been deployed to help, alongside helicopters and a Dash plane.
French weather agency Meteo France announced Monday it had recorded record temperatures for the month of September — especially in the southwest due to a heatwave rising up from Morocco. Mercury hit 39.1 degrees Celsius (102.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the southwestern Landes region. | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-new-wildfires-hit-southwestern-france-amid-record-heat/ | 2022-09-14T01:46:53Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-new-wildfires-hit-southwestern-france-amid-record-heat/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (AP) — Gov. David Ige on Monday appointed several people, including some prominent Native Hawaiian activists, to a new board charged with managing Mauna Kea summit lands underneath some of the world’s most advanced astronomical observatories.
Two of the eight appointees — Lanakila Mangauil and Noe Noe Wong-Wilson — were leaders of 2019 protests that brought a halt to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, the latest observatory proposed for the mountain on Hawaii’s Big Island.
Many Native Hawaiians consider the summit sacred, and protesters objected to building yet another telescope there. The summit currently hosts about a dozen telescopes built since the late 1960s.
Responding to the protests, the state created the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority this year with a new law that says Mauna Kea must be protected for future generations and that science must be balanced with culture and the environment. Native Hawaiian cultural experts will have voting seats on the governing body, instead of merely advising the summit’s managers as they do now.
The eight nominations must be confirmed by the state Senate.
The authority will have 11 voting members. The other three are representatives of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, the University of Hawaii Board of Regents and Hawaii County’s mayor.
Ige thanked the nominees for being willing to serve on the authority.
“Through this new stewardship model, I believe we can find a way for science and culture to coexist on Mauna Kea in a mutually beneficial way,” Ige said in a statement.
Also appointed is Kamanamaikalani Beamer, a University of Hawaii professor and former commissioner of the Hawaii State Water Resource Management Commission. He was named for his expertise in Hawaii Island land resource management.
Current Kamehameha Schools general counsel and former Hawaiian Telcom president was appointed for his business and finance experience.
The governor selected Rich Matsuda, an engineer who leads community relations for W.M. Keck Observatory, from three names submitted by Maunakea Observatories.
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Nathaniel Hackett found himself in no man’s land, and he assured himself a spot in football purgatory with a headscratcher of a decision that turned his head coaching debut into a dud and ruined Russell Wilson’s homecoming.
Trailing the Seahawks 17-16 Monday night, the Broncos crossed midfield with just over a minute left when Javonte Williams caught a short pass from Wilson and charged his way to the Seattle 46.
That put Denver facing fourth down just barely in field goal range but 5 yards shy of the first-down marker.
Isn’t this why the Broncos sent three players and five picks to Seattle six months ago for Wilson, whom they signed to a mega million-dollar extension?
“It put us in that weird spot there because we were in the field goal range but we were in that fourth down situation,” Hackett said. “Didn’t think we were going to get that many yards, so I thought it was a great job by Javonte. We just made the decision we wanted to take or shot there on that one.”
Hackett decided to take the ball out of his $296 million man’s hands and place his trust in a kicker who’s now 1 for 8 from 60-plus yards in his career after Brandon McManus hooked a 64-yard attempt that would been the second-longest field goal in NFL history.
Hackett called timeout with 20 seconds left after letting 43 seconds burn off the clock, then sent McManus out, capping a weekend full of special teams bloopers, bungles and blunders.
Hackett’s call left Troy Aikman and Joe Buck stumped in their “Monday Night Football” booth debut.
“I was surprised by it,” Aikman said. “We were caught off guard with the timeout. Like everybody, we couldn’t quite understand why they were letting so much time come off the clock.”
Summoning Wilson to the sideline showed “that he trusted McManus’ leg more than he trusted Russell Wilson being able to convert there on fourth down,” Aikman argued. “And that will be heavily dissected as we move through the week and it won’t sit well with Russell Wilson.”
Hackett had all three timeouts and 63 seconds left when Williams was tackled 5 yards shy of the first down.
“When they finally do call the timeout with one second left on the play clock and while we’re looking into this camera, they switch and they bring their field goal team on and it was shocking (to) look down and there’s McManus,” Buck said.
“And they didn’t have to try this desperate field goal,” Buck insisted. “And this is why you make a deal to get Russell Wilson, in my estimation.”
To go for it on fourth-and-5 and at least get McManus closer to a higher-percentage field goal attempt.
“I think Nathaniel Hackett is going to be a great head coach and that’s going to be a great marriage going forward,” Buck said. “But this this is a weird ending to this game, to say the least.”
And to a wild opening weekend in which kickers, punters, long-snappers and holders made an unusual amount of head-turning plays both good and bad.
Saints kicker Wil Lutz kicked a 51-yard field goal with 19 seconds left to beat Atlanta and Browns rookie Code York nailed a 58-yarder with 8 seconds left against Carolina to deny Baker Mayfield’s bid for vengeance.
Randy Bullock pushed a 47-yard field goal wide left as time expired, allowing the Giants to escape with a win over the Titans and the Colts’ Rodrigo Blankenship missed a 42-yard try with 2 minutes left in overtime, resulting in a tie with the Texans.
The wildest and wackiest of games in Week 1 was the Steelers’ 23-20 win at Cincinnati in a game that featured goof-ups by a backup long snapper, two missed field goals and a blocked extra point that sent the game into overtime where Chris Boswell kicked a 53-yarder as time expired.
Chiefs safety Justin “Case” Reid, who was an emergency kicker at Stanford, made one of two extra points and blasted a kickoff through the back of the end zone for a touchback before kicker Harrison Butker returned from a rolled ankle in the Chiefs’ rout of the Cardinals.
Buccaneers punter Jake Camarda kicked the ball off the giant video board hanging high over the field at the Cowboys’ stadium and at swampy Soldier Field, Bears holder Trenton Gill was called for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for taking a towel onto the field and trying to dry the kicking area before a field goal try.
Hackett’s headscratcher topped all of those, and he stuck with his decision even after McManus missed badly on a field goal try that didn’t count because Seattle called timeout.
“I was happy he got that one out of the way,” Hackett explained. “I thought he had plenty of distance on that one and just thought that we were going to be able to make that. I have confidence in him, and if we have to put him in that situation again, I think he’ll be able to make it.”
Wilson was diplomatic, refusing to publicly criticize his coach’s decision.
“Well, we got the best field goal kicker maybe in the game,” Wilson said. “We said, ‘Where can you make it from tonight? And he said, ’46 left hash.’ I think we were on the 46. That was before the drive. We got it there; unfortunately didn’t go in.
“I think he has the leg for it for sure,” Wilson added. “Just went a little left I believe and just — I believe in Coach Hackett. I believe in what we’re doing. Believe in everything, and any time you can try to find a way to make a play on fourth-and-5, that’s great, too. Also, I don’t think it was the wrong decision. I think he can make it. Obviously hindsight he didn’t make it, but we were in that situation again I wouldn’t doubt whatever he decided.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It’s sometimes difficult to believe that Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, for all that he’s accomplished during his young but brilliant NFL career, would carry such a considerable chip on his shoulder.
He thrives on the doubters. The naysayers. The critics who try to diminish everything he’s done.
It was that way when he was coming out of high school, and Texas Tech was among the only schools that gave the baseball player a football scholarship. And coming out of Texas Tech, when so many NFL teams pegged him as a system quarterback who would flounder like so many other “Air Raid” products as a professional.
It was that way this past offseason, too, when detractors tried to argue that Mahomes would take a step back without the game-breaking ability of Tyreek Hill, who was shipped to the Dolphins for a package of draft picks.
So much for that.
Mahomes merely responded by throwing for 360 yards and five touchdowns without an interception on Sunday in Arizona, a performance that was so nearly flawless that the Chiefs built a big enough lead that he could ride the bench at the end.
“That’s just Pat. That’s just who he is,” Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy said this week, after they had turned their attention from the 44-21 blitz of the Cardinals to a Thursday night showdown against the Los Angeles Chargers.
There was one point during the game when Mahomes, after throwing his fourth touchdown pass, put up four fingers at a woebegone defender, as if to say: “How ‘bout that?” It was done in the heat of the moment, and Mahomes said Tuesday that he didn’t even remember doing it. But it spoke volumes about his competitive fire.
“There’s always that behind-the-scenes moment he’s going to create that keeps him fired up and energized,” Bieniemy said. “The kid is a tremendous football player. I love the energy and excitement he brings. And he’s the ultimate competitor.”
It’s something that Chiefs coach Andy Reid identified a half-decade ago, when they traded up in the first round to make Mahomes their quarterback of the future. They were traits similar to those Reid saw while coaching Brett Favre in Green Bay, Donovan McNabb and Michael Vick in Philadelphia, and Alex Smith in Kansas City.
“The way he approaches football is important,” Reid said. “If you ask him, family and football are right at the top of the things he does. Whether he does a commercial or whatever, he’s going to put football at the front. It’s not going to disrupt what he’s doing. And as you know, he’s extremely smart. His recall is exceptional. His attention goes with that.
“You tell him something once,” Reid said, “and he’s got it.”
The same goes if you slight him once. He’s going to remember it.
“I mean, you always feel like you have more to prove,” Mahomes said. “I promise, Tom Brady’s feeling like he has more to prove, and I think that just comes with any sport, any competitor. If you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse. And they build you up to tear you down, and you got to kind of know that. For me, it’s all about, ‘How can I make myself better?’ Not what other people say. ‘How can I make myself better so we can go out there and win football games?’”
That’s rapidly becoming a difficult question to answer.
Mahomes is coming off his sixth career game with at least five TD passes, joining a club that includes Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino and Ben Roethlisberger. Each of them played at least 240 games; Mahomes has played 64.
He’s also closing on 20,000 yards for his career — he needs 649 more — a number that Mahomes could reasonably achieve in two games. That would mean reaching the threshold in 66 games, five fewer than the NFL record.
“I’m glad that he’s on our side,” Bieniemy said, “and just looking forward to watching him do work from here on out.”
NOTES: CB Trent McDuffie was placed on injured reserve with a hamstring injury, meaning he will be out at least four weeks. … K Harrison Butker (ankle sprain) did not practice Tuesday and appear unlikely to play Thursday night. The Chiefs signed former Jets K Matt Ammendola to their practice squad to provide insurance. “We’ve got the Plan B. We’re working on it,” Reid said. “We’ll see if that’s where we go with it.” … OL Trey Smith (ankle) and WR Justin Watson (chest) are expected to play. … The Chiefs activated practice squad LBs Jack Cochrane and Elijah Lee. They also signed CB Dicaprio Bootle and WR Corey Coleman to the practice squad and released FS James Wiggins.
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(Motor Authority) — Cruise, a self-driving technology company majority owned by General Motors, will expand its fledgling robotaxi service to two more U.S. cities before 2022 is out, CEO Kyle Vogt said Monday during a Goldman Sachs conference, Reuters has reported.
Cruise’s taxi service currently operates in San Francisco, where the company is headed, but will expand to Austin and Phoenix later this year, Vogt said. Phoenix is where Alphabet’s rival Waymo self-driving technology company has been operating a service for the past three years.
Vogt also said he expects Cruise to earn $1 billion in revenues as early as 2025, though that’s still about half what GM annually invests in the company, according to Reuters.
Cruise has been offering rides to the public in San Francisco since February and was granted permission to start charging for rides in June, though the service is limited to between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The taxis are also limited to 30 mph and cover only certain parts of the city. Cruise’s service will also be rolled out in a limited fashion in Austin and Phoenix, Vogt said.
Cruise has about 70 taxis in operation in San Francisco but is on track to double or even triple the number by the end of the year. The taxis are based on the Chevrolet Bolt EV, though Cruise plans to eventually add a dedicated vehicle known as the Origin.
It hasn’t been all smooth sailing for Cruise. One of its taxis was involved in a crash in June, resulting in minor injuries. The company later recalled its fleet and made updates to the software.
Cruise’s self-driving system ranks at Level 4 on the SAE scale of self-driving capability, as it is limited in the areas in which it operates. The final goal is Level 5, where a self-driving car is able to operate at the same level as a human. While Level 5 might be a decade or more away, companies are already offering commercial services involving Level 4 cars. The Waymo One service has been running successfully in Phoenix for the past three years and is currently testing in San Francisco, and China’s Baidu continues to expand its Apollo Go service in Chinese cities. | https://www.wwlp.com/automotive/cruise-robotaxi-service-expands-to-austin-phoenix/ | 2022-09-14T01:50:19Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/automotive/cruise-robotaxi-service-expands-to-austin-phoenix/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
People's Bank of China set the onshore yuan (CNY) reference rate for the trading session ahead.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK) – A man shot over the weekend at a Little Rock, Arkansas, apartment complex has been identified as the father of a reality television star.
Ronald Dunlap, 49, is the father of Cassadee Dunlap, who starred in the second season of “Cheer.” A police report showed he was shot several times after going into the wrong apartment early Saturday morning.
A family member told Nexstar’s KARK that Dunlap thought it was his apartment, but he actually lived in a different building.
Joshua Womack told KARK he was asleep and heard knocking on the door shortly after 3 a.m., but then the situation escalated.
“I heard a big, loud thud through the front door,” Womack said. “The door was actually knocked off the hinges. With that, he ended up bum-rushing it. It wasn’t like an accidental walk-in.”
Police said Womack shot Dunlap several times after reportedly finding the man in his kitchen.
Womack said he is temporarily living elsewhere while the scene is being investigated. Another person’s apartment door was struck by gunfire, but no other injuries were reported.
A police spokesperson told TMZ Dunlap is believed to have been intoxicated when he came to Womack’s apartment.
Dunlap’s family member said he is now stable and expected to survive.
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Popular tonic brand Fevertree has reported a loss in profits for the first half of the year, even with strong sales in Europe and the U.S. citing fallout from a prolonged supply chain crisis.
The company says that despited high demand for its products on both sides of the Atlantic, volatile freight costs for trans-Atlantic air shipments have managed to greatly cut into the company's bottom line.
Comments on the company's social media suggest that there have been issues getting products on store shelves as well signaling an ongoing supply chain issue in the U.S.
Commenters saying they are from the UK and the U.S. are reporting issues, with one commenter on Instagram writing, "Are you having supply issues? Not finding you on shelves locally anymore."
As Reuters reported, inflationary pressures have been coupled with unfavorable shipping costs.
In April, the the travel, logistics and infrastructure publication McKinsey & Company reported that an ongoing supply-chain crisis has been the driving force behind an increase in freight rates. The report said that "Between 62 and 85 percent of revenues are channeled into purchasing carrier capacity (such as shipping lines or cargo airlines)."
"For both ocean and air freight, gross profit margins shrink as carrier rates increase, and inflate at times of low rates," the report said.
Fevertree said in a statement, "Labor shortages at our East Coast bottler in the U.S. have impacted our ramp up."
The London-based company also said that the availability of glass will also hurt their profits in the second half of the year.
According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, though most shipping, including in maritime capacity, returned to 2019 levels, port capacity and container availability continued to be a problem. Supply chain issues in 2020 and 2021 have appeared to flow into 2022 in the form of changes in future demand. There has been an evolution in the recovery from the height of the pandemic into future means of merchandise transport and trade. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/popular-tonic-brand-fevertree-reports-dip-in-profits-citing-increased-freight-costs | 2022-09-14T01:57:06Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/popular-tonic-brand-fevertree-reports-dip-in-profits-citing-increased-freight-costs | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
IRVING, Texas, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Texas Commission has announced recipients of the organization's 2022 Regional Leadership. The awards recognize North Texas organizations and individuals who have had a lasting impact shaping the region.
The North Texas Commission's Regional Awards Selection Committee convened in early August to determine who would receive the awards. Out of more than 50 nominees, nine recipients were selected to receive the Awards, including business leaders, elected officials, civic leaders, and organizations. Honoring the memory of the organization's former president/CEO Dan Petty, the North Texas Commission also established the Dan Petty Regional Visionary Award, announced for the first time during the Commission's 51st Annual Members' Luncheon.
"These nine unique awards represent the significance of our region's public and private sector leaders and the importance of collaboration in North Texas. These past few years have reminded us that we are better together as we work as one, unified region to tackle our challenges and work on future growth opportunities," said Chris Wallace, the NTC's President and CEO.
Recipients of the 2022 Regional Leadership Awards are:
Civic Leadership Award: Dr. Susan Bohn, Aledo ISD – In addition to serving as Superintendent of Aledo ISD, Dr. Bohn is an engaged and active member of her North Texas community. By forging meaningful relationships with leaders in the region, she has created strategies to help boost economic development and collaboration.
Corporate/Organization Leadership Award: DFW International Airport – DFW Airport serves as a major economic generator for the North Texas region. The organization supports over 200,000 full-time jobs, promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion through programs like their Capacity Building Program Series, and works to enhance infrastructure development through various sustainable design projects such as the Terminal D expansion, which incorporated sustainable approaches and products to reduce energy usage.
Diversity Leadership Award: Wendy Lopez, AECOM – As one of the most significant female leaders within AECOM, Wendy Lopez has had the power to influence positive change across the region. As a gay female in a male-dominated industry, Wendy has worked with her peers and colleagues to help grow AECOM's diversity, equity, and inclusion focus. As a top female executive in North Texas, Wendy has been able to encourage members of the LGBTQ community and young engineers to be themselves.
Education Leadership Award: Dr. James Hurley, Tarleton State University – Since becoming president of Tarleton State University in 2019, Dr. Hurley has shown his commitment to education. Through the creation of partnerships with regional school districts and two-year colleges, he has deepened the university's commitment to educational attainment and affordability for all North Texas students.
Elected Official Leadership Award: Councilmember Adam McGough, City of Dallas – Throughout time as a Dallas City Councilmember, Adam McGough has made significant contributions to the North Texas region. McGough has served on the City of Dallas's Public Safety committee, Regional Transportation Council, and TEX-21. During his time as an elected official, Councilmember McGough has championed the voice of the underrepresented and has been known to bridge gaps, provide solutions, and mitigate disagreement and dissension inside of his council.
Philanthropy Award: Anthony Mbroh, Mbroh Engineering – Anthony Mbroh, PE, is an advocate and a leader who has devoted his time to supporting various North Texas non-profit organizations over the past 25 years. Tony's philanthropic endeavors include mentoring disadvantaged students, donating his time to help small businesses grow, and supporting the ongoing education at the University of Dallas.
Social Impact Award: University Crossroads, The University of Texas at Arlington – For more than three decades, University Crossroads has been helping students navigate the road to higher education by providing services that focus on college awareness, readiness, and access; career exploration; and financial literacy. Through the help of community partners, the organization is able to offer these services free of charge to more than 40,000 students annually across North Texas.
Rising Star Award: Kyle Riley, HNTB – Kyle Riley has not only become a leader in the HNTB organization but as a rising leader in the Dallas-Fort Worth community. Kyle currently leads the HNTB Fort Worth office, has been appointed to the Downtown FTW Inc. board, is an Leadership North Texas Alumnus, and participates in several local chambers. As he continues to rise in his career, Kyle will continue to make a positive impact in the region.
Dan Petty Regional Visionary Award: Victor Vandergriff – Recognizes a visionary leader who has demonstrated a history of pioneering solutions across a wide spectrum of sectors and needs.
Established in 1971, the North Texas Commission is a unique public-private partnership that drives large impactful projects and legislative issues benefiting a robust 13-county region, and tackles the region's greatest challenges with board and staff subject matter experts who provide resources to market the region and educate future leaders. The Commission also manages the region's unified advocacy voice at the state and federal levels.
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HONG KONG, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Bay Bio (hereinafter referred to as "GBB") is pleased to announce today the completion of its USD 15M Pre-series B funding led by Tiger Jade Capital (hereinafter referred to as "Tiger Jade"). The funding was oversubscribed and upsized with participation from one of the world's top life science MNCs, AEF Greater Bay Area Fund (managed by Gobi Partners GBA), and Vectr Ventures, as well as existing institutional investors. The Pre-series B round was advised by DL Securities, a boutique investment bank based in Hong Kong. Tiger Jade was seeded by TigerMed, one of the largest CROs of clinical trials in PRC and covers over 300 companies/clients in its ecosystem, all of which may require services from GBB directly or indirectly. The other strategic investor is a Fortune 500 life science MNC with a capitalization over USD 200B. Their business spans over 125 countries, thus providing an anchor for GBB's global business expansion going forward. The funds raised will mainly be used to accelerate the development of AI-empowered bioprocessing platforms, the construction of production facilities; as well as the establishment of a global commercial development team. Looking ahead, GBB will strive to develop and provide an "end-to-end" AI-enabled bioprocessing platform to satisfy the R&D and commercial demands of global customers.
Driven by growing global needs for higher R&D and bioprocessing efficiency, GBB pioneers a concept of "AI + Bioprocessing" and aims at a vision of "Global Bioprocessing Made Simpler and More Efficient". Two proprietary AI+CMC technology platforms, AlfaCell® and AlfaMedX®, have been successfully commercialized and used by multiple biopharma companies. Empowered by the AlfaCell® platform, the uncertainties of productivity and stability are eliminated in the cell line development process, thus significantly reducing the workload and improving the efficiency of upstream bioprocess development. The AlfaMedX® platform enables GBB to quickly establish a culture medium library of more than one thousand formulas and provide rapid customized culture medium development services to customers. Currently, AlfaCell®, AlfaMedX® and other AI solutions have been used to improve the CMC process of various biological drugs including fusion proteins, monoclonal antibodies, bispecific antibody drugs, etc. Meanwhile, GBB's end-to-end solutions have supported R&D of synthetic biology, industrial enzyme preparations, cultured meat, and other biomanufacturing fields.
Kingsley Leung, Chairman and Co-founder of GBB, commented, "We are pleased to know that GBB's disruptive innovations in the bioprocessing field are recognized by the market and our robust forward tested data and promising commercial success are accepted by investors. With the support from Tiger Jade Capital and one of the world leading MNC, GBB can quickly integrate into the global biopharmaceutical ecosystem, and accelerate the realization of our vision of "Global Bioprocessing Made Simpler and More Efficient". In turn, GBB will help customers accelerate developmental timelines, reduce the cost and risk of biomanufacturing, ultimately, allow affordable biological drugs to patients in need."
Mr. Jasper Jiang, the partner of Tiger Jade Capital, commented, "We are excited to have GBB in our portfolio, an excellent locally built AI-driven bioprocessing startup in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. The fact that GBB stands out in a relatively tough market environment, and receive favor from a top multinational company and other well-known venture capital speak volumes about the company's technological achievements and development prospects. There are several distinctive Hong Kong based funds also joining the funding of GBB, including the Pentepebble, a local medical incubation investment institution that we are exploring to establish an incubator together. We believe that this investment will also better meet the national strategy of vigorously developing the Greater Bay Area and bring confidence to future capital entering the biomedical industry in this area."
About Tiger Jade Capital
Tiger Jade Capital established in 2019, obtained the support and cornerstone investment of China's leading CRO Company TigerMed (300347. SZ, 03347. HK). Its investment fields include early and medium-term equity investments in global medical care fields, such as innovation drugs, CROs and medical equipment.
Since its establishment, Tiger Jade Capital has invested in a number of well-known biomedical companies, including several leading companies in the fields of mRNA vaccine and cell therapy, as well as the biotechs with globally innovative technologies and biomedical enterprises that have been listed or are in the process of listing. The latest fund of the company pays close attention to the policy dividend of the Greater Bay Area and explores the important role played by Hong Kong as an international biomedical research platform for the globalization of Chinese Biomedical enterprises, and actively incubates and looks for early-stage companies with international standards.
About Great Bay Bio
Great Bay Bio (GBB), headquartered in Hong Kong, was founded in 2019 with extensive footprint in the Greater Bay Area. Adhering to the corporate vision of "Global Bioprocessing Made Simpler and More Efficient", GBB is committed to applying AI and other cutting-edge technologies to promote bioprocessing innovations, thus solve pain points, such as long timelines, high cost and low success rate, in drug development. GBB takes improving human life, health and value as its long-term goal.
The core team of GBB is composed of global talents with expertise in medicine, pharmacy, synthetic biology and AI. With a 3000 m2 R&D center and CMC platform, GBB has successfully pushed several biological drugs into the NDA stage, including national class 1 new drugs. During the three years since its establishment, GBB has applied for more than 30 patents for its AI empowered bioprocesses solutions. The resulting AI platforms were successfully commercialized, enabling GBB to establish long-term cooperation with many domestic and foreign leading enterprises.
GBB has attained the titles of National "High-Tech Enterprise" twice in a row by the National High-Tech Enterprise Certification Management Leading Group Office, "Sprouts List Most Valuable Enterprises for Investment in China for the Year 2020 by the Zero2IPO Group, "Top 50 Innovative Biotechnology Companies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Award 2020" by ZDVC RESEARCH and KPMG China, "Top 15 in the 2021 Merck Greater Bay Area Innovation Bootcamp" and "Spring class of Microsoft accelerator entrepreneurship acceleration plan in 2022".
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Rachel Brosnahan comes here often—to the Emmys, that is. The actor was nominated for the fourth time for outstanding actress in comedy for her role as '50s era comedian Miriam “Midge” Maisel in Amazon Prime’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (She won the category in 2018). It’s currently filming the final episodes of the fifth season—the show’s last—but on Monday, the cast took a break from what has surely been emotional days on set for some more modern day dress-up. “We went to the virtual Emmys in 2020 and we were shooting the current season during the first one back so I’m excited to see everyone all dolled up again,” Brosnahan told Vanity Fair ahead of the night’s programming.
Her look this year was a violet Pamella Roland gown with a plunging neckline and all-over appliqués. On red carpet, she told E!’s Laverne Cox, “We had a bit of a last-minute switcheroo so she’s brand new and I’m loving her. I’ll show you later what's under here. I’m taped within an inch of my life girl.”
A late, great “switcheroo” goes to show how, when there are talented people in the room, a chic, cohesive look can come together nearly last minute. “I love the way the different elements of the look play off of each other,” Brosnahan told Vanity Fair. “We drew from the lavender colors in the beading for the nails, shoes and eye makeup and from the shape of the tulle details to build the shape of the hair.”
“The dress Rachel wore was too beautiful not to dictate the look,” added Lisa Aharon, Brosnahan’s makeup artist, who worked with Clarins. “We pulled the eye shades and skin effect from the gorgeous colors in the fabric and beading landing at purple hues (to compliment Rachel’s blue eyes), fluttery lashes, and glowing skin,” which she achieved with a Clarins Double Serum “patted and pressed into the skin as the first layer.” Ditto with Clarins Double Serum Eye around the eye area. Before all that, thought Aharon gave Brosnahan a lymphatic drainage massage, which she usually does with tools, but this time did with her fingertips.
“When applying skincare or makeup, I always like to work in thin layers, starting with the deepest. Skincare is just important as the makeup and when applied correctly will help the makeup achieve its full potential,” Aharon said, describing her approach to longwear makeup, the full run down of which she posted on Instagram. “But it’s also crucial to use a foundation and makeup products that work well with a clients natural skin texture and type.”
Brosnahan’s own pre-red carpet makeup prep is delightfully old school: “I always stick my face in an ice bucket for as long as I can stand it and order a vat of fries to the room for our whole team.”
By the end of the extensive Emmys broadcast, the results of all that massage, pressing, patting, ice dunking, and Clarins spoke for themselves. The imitable Jean Smart, who won in their category for her role in HBO Hacks, gave her fellow nominee a shoutout: “[Brosnahan is] very classy, she sent me this box of these unbelievable designer cookies, they’re like five pounds each—and I thought that was so nice and classy until I realized that she was hoping that I wouldn't be able to fit into a single dress in Hollywood. Thanks anyway.”
When the camera panned to catch her reaction, Brosnahan was still glowing.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night.
The visit came as American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in July that the U.S. had made a "substantial proposal" to Russia to facilitate a swap. Though he did not detail the terms, a person familiar with the matter said the U.S. had offered to release convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
In an interview last month, Richardson said he was hopeful about the chances of a two-for-two prisoner swap. In cases like this, Richardson said at the time, "it's proportional — two-for two."
The person who confirmed Richardson's visit insisted on anonymity to discuss private negotiations. The Richardson Center for Global Engagement, which Richardson founded, issued a statement declining to comment on his visit. The nature of the dialogue and any outcome were not immediately clear.
CNN was first to report Richardson's visit.
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Time is running out to get your tickets for the "Lover Our Schools" home giveaway.
The deadline for your chance to win a brand new home in the Couret Farms neighborhood, a traditional neighborhood development in Upper Lafayette, just south of Carencro, is this coming Sunday.
Thanks to Dr. Kip Schumacher, Matt Stuller and Nick Pugh, every employee who works for Lafayette Parish School System will have a chance to win that home valued at 330 thousand dollars.
A portion of the proceeds from this home giveaway fundraiser will be given directly to each school within the Lafayette Parish School System to address their specific areas of need, while the remainder will be used for future Love Our Schools initiatives.
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The U.S. Commerce Department has reached a deal with Google to boost chip production for researchers.
Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. signed a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. government to try and produce more chips that researchers and use in the development of new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices, Reuters reported.
As investment publication Seeking Alpha reported, California-based Google will pay the initial costs to set up production. It will subsidize the first production run in the deal with Washington regulators.
According to Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Laurie Locascio, the deal was actually signed before the CHIPS and Science Act was passed by U.S. lawmakers.
Locascio said, "a great example of how government, industry and academic researchers can work together to enhance U.S. leadership in this critically important industry." | https://www.katc.com/news/national/google-makes-deal-with-us-to-develop-chips-for-researchers | 2022-09-14T02:16:36Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/google-makes-deal-with-us-to-develop-chips-for-researchers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Northeastern University says package detonated at campus, injuring 1
A Northeastern University staff member was being treated for minor injuries after a package sent to its Holmes Hall campus in Boston detonated as they opened it on Tuesday night, the school told CNN.
Details: Northeastern University Police Department tweeted just before 10pm that the scene was "contained" and the NUPD was working with city police to secure the area. The FBI said in an emailed statement it's "aware of the incident and coordinating with our law enforcement partners."
The Boston Emergency Medical Services confirmed in a statement that multiple EMS units responded to reports of an explosion in Leon Street and one patient was treated and transported to an area hospital by ambulance.
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HPU Alumna and Family Support Veterans Through Major Endowment
This endowment will support leadership in military and veterans awareness initiatives at HPU in perpetuity.
HIGH POINT, N.C., Sept. 13, 2022 – High Point University alumna, Dr. Mary Jo “M.J.” Hall, Class of 1969, and her husband, retired Col. Emmett E. “Jay” Stobbs, Jr., recently established the M.J. Hall and Jay Stobbs Leadership in Military and Veterans Awareness Endowment in honor of retired Brigadier Gen. Norman “Snapper” C. Gaddis, a U.S. Air Force officer who was commissioned in the Army-Air Corps in World War II and served in the newly formed Air Force during the Korean War and in the Vietnam War.
Gaddis served on active duty as a fighter pilot during several major world conflicts, including the Berlin Airlift. In 1967, Gaddis was sent on a mission along with 18 other aircraft to target a boat manufacturing plant in Hanoi, Vietnam. The mission ran afoul when Gaddis’ aircraft was shot down in the flyover, killing his copilot in the ejection process. Gaddis survived the crash but was captured immediately by North Vietnamese forces. He spent his first 1,000 days in solitary confinement and six years as a prisoner of war (POW), living through intense interrogation, torture and mental abuse. Gaddis was released in 1973 along with more than 500 other American POWs as a part of Operation Homecoming. Since his retirement in 1976, Gaddis has acted as an advocate for surviving POWs and has spoken at many events in recognition of their sacrifice. M.J. and Jay met Gaddis at one such event and have remained close friends over the years.
By creating the Leadership in Military and Veterans Awareness Endowment, Hall and Stobbs wanted to recognize the leadership that Gaddis and others displayed throughout their military service. The endowment will help fund programming and awards that honor and support veterans, such as the annual Veterans Day celebration. It will also help facilitate an essay contest and award, named in honor of Gaddis. The contest will offer students the opportunity to submit an essay describing leadership and character qualities found within the United States military and how these are reflected in their lives, now and in the future, as professionals. Hall and Stobbs especially want students to reflect on how they choose to lead a life of significance.
“Supporting the military and veterans’ initiative is an excellent way to help HPU reinforce itself as a God, family and country university,” says Dr. Hall. “Besides honoring the patriotism and service of military members, veterans and their families, the annual Brigadier General Norman C. Gaddis Leadership awards will recognize students who are building and demonstrating character-based leadership qualities such as personal initiative, faith and gratitude by learning from and with these patriots.”
Both Hall and Stobbs have had accomplished careers in the defense field, and throughout their lives have established themselves as respected leaders in their sectors. In 1969, Hall graduated from High Point University with her bachelor’s degree in elementary education. She continued her higher education and graduated from the University of Maryland with her Master of Education, earned her Master of Business Administration from Long Island University and her Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership from George Mason University. In 1972, she traveled to Germany, and in 1974, to Korea to teach for the Department of Defense (DoD) school system. While in Germany, she met Stobbs, who was stationed in Europe at the time. Once she returned to the United States, she continued to work for the DoD in a variety of operational management roles, eventually as a professor at the Defense Acquisition University. While there, she also served as the director of leadership development and special assistant to the university’s commandant. In 2007, Hall assumed her current role as content manager and strategist with the Association for Talent Development (ATD) Forum, a membership consortium for companies to connect, collaborate and share innovative practices related to learning and organizational performance. Over the years, Hall has spoken at many domestic and international leadership conferences and published and edited numerous articles, blogs, reports and books, including the 2020 book “Leading the Learning Function: Tools and Techniques for Organizational Impact.” She is a recipient of High Point University’s 2018 Alumni Service Award and currently serves on the Board of Visitors.
Similar to Hall, Stobbs had a notable career with the Department of Defense. His tenure with the U.S. Army began when he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science in engineering. He was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers, and immediately completed Airborne and Ranger training. He worked in and commanded combat and construction engineering units and completed assignments involving nuclear weapons management and effects. This included serving as a key coordinator and implementor for the Nunn-Lugar legislation to dismantle Russian nuclear weapons and to safely store their components. In recognition of his expertise and commitment, the DoD awarded him the Distinguished Service Medal. After 30 years of service, Stobbs retired from the military as a colonel. In 1999, he joined Northrop Grumman Corporation in Springfield, Virginia,as a senior scientist and engineer. During his career, Stobbs earned the Professional Engineer (PE) certification and graduated from several higher education institutions including the University of California, Davis, with a Master of Science in applied science, Long Island University with a Master of Business Administration, and the U.S. Army War College. Since his retirement, he has remained active with a variety of volunteer groups, primarily associated with military veterans and community service projects. He also enjoys speaking at Veterans Day events.
Hall and Stobbs have remained committed to investing in HPU’s programs and scholarships. Through their support of the university, the couple aims to assist students in their pursuit of a life skills education while simultaneously allowing Hall to give to her alma mater, which she says was instrumental in her successful professional journey. To ensure the same opportunities are available to the next generation of students, they have also supported students through the HPU Fund for Extraordinary Education. Ultimately, Hall and Stobbs were inspired by the kindness of other HPU families who established scholarships and formed the Emmett E. Stobbs, Jr. Endowed Scholarship in 2021 to benefit ROTC students in the Webb School of Engineering. In addition to their philanthropic generosity, Hall has contributed her expertise to multiple initiatives within the Stout School of Education. To honor the couple’s time, talent and commitment to charitable enterprises at HPU, Hall and Stobbs have been recognized in the Elizabeth Miller Strickland Scholarship Plaza.
For more information on how you can establish a fund or scholarship to benefit student success at High Point University, please contact Chris Dudley, Senior Vice President for Development at cdudley@highpoint.edu.
Photos: 1) Pictured is High Point University alumna Mary Jo “M.J.” Hall, Class of 1969, and her husband, retired Col. Emmett E. “Jay” Stobbs Jr., who recently established the M.J. Hall and Jay Stobbs Leadership in Military and Veterans Awareness Endowment at HPU, in honor of retired Brigadier Gen. Norman “Snapper” C. Gaddis. | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/hpu-alumna-and-family-support-veterans-through-major-endowment/article_ea5c4856-3398-11ed-8e67-eb730fd2448f.html | 2022-09-14T02:33:07Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/hpu-alumna-and-family-support-veterans-through-major-endowment/article_ea5c4856-3398-11ed-8e67-eb730fd2448f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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History Museum Examines Greensboro as a Welcoming City September 16
GREENSBORO, NC (September 13, 2022) – The Greensboro History Museum will host Leilani Roughton, Executive Director of the New Arrivals Institute, for a History Lunch Break conversation at 12 pm, Fri., Sept.16 at the museum, 130 Summit Ave. For over a decade the New Arrivals Institute has been providing immigrants and refugees with language and job training. The organizations assists refugees and immigrants with self-sufficiency and US Citizenship through education.
In 2014, after community conversations with immigrants and refugees and specific recommendations developed by a committee of immigrant leaders, Greensboro City Council unanimously passed a resolution making Greensboro a Welcoming City. Roughton will talk with Curator of Community History Glenn Perkins about the New Arrivals Institute, the people it serves, and why Greensboro is a welcoming city for newcomers. This free event is open to everyone and guests are encouraged to bring their lunch.
The Greensboro History Museum, an AAM-accredited Smithsonian Affiliate, is a division of the City of Greensboro Library Department and operates as a public-private partnership with the nonprofit GHM Inc. In partnership with the community, the Greensboro History Museum collects the city's diverse history and connects people to that history and one another through engaging exhibits, educational programs and community dialogue. Located in Downtown Greensboro's Cultural District, the museum is open Tuesdays–Saturdays 10 am to 5 pm and Sundays 2-5 pm. Admission is free. Learn more at www.greensborohistory.org. | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/history-museum-examines-greensboro-as-a-welcoming-city-september-16/article_67f7c46c-3384-11ed-b3ab-eb0053a6b757.html | 2022-09-14T02:33:19Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/history-museum-examines-greensboro-as-a-welcoming-city-september-16/article_67f7c46c-3384-11ed-b3ab-eb0053a6b757.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NC Black Rep and Wake Forest Announce Winning Playwrights
"Finding Holy Ground" plays are collaboration between School of Divinity, NC Black Rep and Wake the Arts
(Winston-Salem, N.C. – Sept. 13, 2022) – The North Carolina Black Repertory Company (NC Black Rep) and Wake Forest University are proud to announce JuCoby Johnson and Eljon Wardally as the winning playwrights of the “Finding Holy Ground” playwrighting commissions.
The project, “Finding Holy Ground: Performing Visions of Race and Justice in America,” is funded by a $250,000 grant received by Wake Forest from the Henry Luce Foundation and is a collaboration between Wake Forest University School of Divinity, NC Black Rep and Wake the Arts.
Both playwrights will receive a $10,000 commission, developmental workshops and fully staged productions of their plays.
Johnson, who grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, has been creating art in Minneapolis–Saint Paul since relocating there in 2011. He has been seen onstage at The Guthrie Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Jungle Theater and many more.
“In my art, I uplift communities while emphasizing what still must be done to ensure that every person is given space to be their full selves without fear of disownment or exile. I am honored to receive resources to produce my play for Finding Holy Ground. My goal is that the work will serve as a full-bodied examination of both the beauty and pain that exist side by side within the walls of the Church,” Johnson said.
Wardally is an award-winning Grenadian Italian American playwright and screenwriter who was born in New York and raised near Little Italy in Manhattan. Her passion is telling stories about the underrepresented and bringing visibility to those overlooked. She writes about loneliness, national and family secrets, sometimes telling stories with a dark comedic twist. She received her MFA from Fordham as part of its inaugural Playwriting class.
“I am so grateful for the opportunity to write a piece that will create conversation within the community,” she said. “Art has the power to wield change. With my play, “I Am…A Shepherdess,” I seek to explore how sometimes the biggest deterrent in our quest for freedom in all facets, can be ourselves.”
Plays were selected based on their ability to encourage community conversations on race, justice and religion in the U.S. Playwrights submitted ideas for works that addressed topics such as homophobia, racism, white supremacy and social inequities in America.
The plays will be staged in Wait Chapel during the 2024 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem. Community events will be held to promote discussions and reflection.
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Chow Downtown Returns September 20-25
GREENSBORO, NC – Chow Downtown, Downtown Greensboro Inc.’s annual restaurant week, returns September 20-25 with a promise of can’t-miss specials and deals at many of the center city’s dining establishments.
“Zeto will celebrate 23 years of business this November. As a longtime downtown business, events like this encourage people to come down and explore all the wonderful opportunities the various businesses have to offer,” says Su Peterson, owner of Zeto Wines. “Zeto, like most of our downtown restaurants, is locally owned, and we appreciate being able to showcase what we have to offer during this week and every week. Let's all get out and support our downtown, unique businesses … all of us are the fabric and personality of Greensboro.”
Chow Downtown will include varying specials at the following participating restaurants:
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Grupo Firme Announces U.S. Arena Tour “Enfiestados y Amanecidos” following Stadium Tour in 2022
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LOS ANGELES, CA (September 13, 2022) – Following their highly successful “Enfiestados y Amanecidos” Stadium Tour, Regional Mexican phenomenon, Grupo Firme, announces their Arena portion of the tour to complete 2022. Presented by Music VIP Entertainment, the Latin Grammy-award winning septet from Tijuana brings their high energy show to several new cities across the U.S.
The 2022 stadium tour featured folclórico dancers to accompany their performance of which the band intends to bring to the Arena setting. The band teases to include Banda, Norteño and mariachi tracks as well. “It’s going to be a Mexican party in the U.S.” says Caz.
Grupo Firme “Enfiestados y Amanecidos” Arena Tour 2022
Saturday, October 8th – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
Friday, October 21st – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
Saturday, October 22nd – Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Center
Saturday, November 12th – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum
Saturday, November 19th – San Antonio, TX @ Alamodome
Sunday, November 20th – Austin, TX @ The Moody Center
Friday, November 25th – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
Friday, December 9th – Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center
Saturday, December 10th – Fresno, CA @ Save Mart Center
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents The Chevalier
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (September 13, 2022) –Two years after premiering the staged reading, the Winston-Salem Symphony is proud to present The Chevalier, a play with music written and directed by Bill Barclay, on Sunday, October 2 at 3 p.m. at R. J. Reynolds Auditorium in Winston-Salem.
Barclay’s powerful story focuses on Joseph Bologne, who was born on the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe to an enslaved mother and French Nobleman. His mixed race meant that the French title of nobility would not convey to young Joseph. That slight would not matter as talent and fate set the man on an inspiring path to earning nobility on his own. Bologne became known as a master swordsman whose fighting skills earned him a place as an officer for the King’s guard, thus securing his noble rank of Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
The Chevalier was one of history’s most accomplished men. He was the archetypal Renaissance man: a gentleman of the nobility, champion fencer, general of Europe’s first Black military regiment, crusader against slavery, virtuoso violinist, and a composer whose works were celebrated by the greatest musicians of his age. Bill Barclay’s play with music portrays Bologne in a deservedly heroic light: as a friend to the young Mozart, as an enlightening mentor to Marie Antoinette, and above all as a true patriot of equality—an ideal that shines through the fabric of his music.
The Chevalier is a symphonic play addressing music and race. It is a meditation on the true nature of equality, based entirely on historical events, told in today’s language, and conflating the fervor of the French Revolution with the resistance against authoritarianism unfolding in 2020. Joseph Boulogne, le Chevalier de Saint-Georges—master composer, virtuoso violinist, finest fencer in Europe, general of Europe’s first Black regiment, and crusader against slavery—was an extraordinary artist of color nearly forgotten by white-washed history.
The Chevalier will be conducted by Thomas Heuser with Brendon Elliott as solo violin. Joining the Winston-Salem Symphony will be Thomas Brazzle as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Sarah Baskin as Marie Antoinette, David Joseph as W. A. Mozart, and Bill Barclay as Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
Tickets to The Chevalier begin at $25 and can be purchased by calling the Symphony Box Office at 336-464-0145 or online at wssymphony.org. Please note the following parental advisory: This production contains brief instances of explicit language.
About Bill Barclay
Barclay was director of music at Shakespeare’s Globe from 2012–2019, where he produced music for over 120 productions and 150 concerts. A director, composer, writer, and producer, he is the artistic director of Concert Theatre Works. Broadway and West End credits include “Farinelli and the King,” “Twelfth Night,” and “Richard III,” all starring Mark Rylance. A passionate advocate for evolving the concert hall, he has created works of concert theatre for the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, and six times for the Boston Symphony Orchestra (“Peer Gynt,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Andris Nelsons, “The Magic Flute,” and “L’Histoire du Soldat” with Charles Dutoit). Other credits include The Silkroad Ensemble, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Virginia Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Tanglewood, Washington National Cathedral and Buckingham Palace.
About the Winston-Salem Symphony
Proud to be one of the Southeast’s most highly regarded regional orchestras, the Winston-Salem Symphony will celebrate its 75th Anniversary across 2022. The Symphony inspires listeners of all ages throughout North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad with various concerts, education programs, and community engagement initiatives each year.
The Symphony is supported by Season Presenting Sponsors Bell, Davis & Pitt, P.A.; 2022 Classics SeriesGuest Artist Sponsors Salemtowne; Symphony Unbound/Etherbound Presenting Sponsors Chris and Mike Morykwas; 75th Anniversary Season Sponsor Betty Myers Howell; the Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, the North Carolina Arts Council, and other dedicated sponsors. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online at wssymphony.org or by calling the Symphony Box Office at 336-464-0145. | https://www.yesweekly.com/music/the-winston-salem-symphony-presents-the-chevalier/article_23c20090-3371-11ed-80ad-f38215b3ee93.html | 2022-09-14T02:33:49Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/music/the-winston-salem-symphony-presents-the-chevalier/article_23c20090-3371-11ed-80ad-f38215b3ee93.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Persistence of Vision: Exhibit Celebrates the Birth of Animation
It’s a moving art exhibition—literally—to coincide with the School of Art’s forward motion in launching a new BFA degree concentration in Animation.
Running August 10th through September 27th in the gallery of the Maud Gatewood Studio Arts Building, Persistence of Vision features more than twenty-five beautifully preserved animation toys and optical devices on loan from the Laura Hayes and John Howard Wileman Collection of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM).
UNCG Art Historian Heather Holian says the toys are among the earliest preserved examples of animation and reflect the framework for the medium as we know it today. But, she says, animation didn’t begin just as entertainment:
“What’s interesting about these toys is that many of them were developed as science experiments. Physicists were exploring questions like why a fast moving carriage wheel appeared to be spinning forwards, backwards or standing still when you’re looking at it through the verticals of a fence or railing. Then in 1824, Peter Mark Roget (famous for his thesaurus) wrote about this “persistence of vision,” which explains how our brains retain an image for a thirtieth of a second beyond when our eyes actually see it. Just that little bit of time allows animation to be possible.”
The toys and experiments in the exhibit date between 1825 and 1905, and Dr. Holian says they are still a delight to experience:
“Even after more than 100 years and the development of highly sophisticated forms of digital animation and effects, these Victorian devices have lost none of their fascination—from a gray tabby cat perpetually chasing a bird over the side of a phenakistoscope disc to a vase magically filling with flowers to a man repeatedly climbing a ladder to the moon, these objects continue to visually intrigue and delight. They also have the power to teach and help us unravel something of the time and place they were made, the people who made and bought them andthe science behind them.”
The timing of the show and the collaboration with NCSSM to bring the items to UNCG is not a coincidence. Assistant Professor of Animation Dan Hale says, “We are celebrating the birth of the animation program here at UNCG by exhibiting artifacts that represent the birth of animation as an artistic medium.”
The title of the show Persistence of Vision could also be used to describe what it has taken to bring animation to UNCG. Dr. Holian is a Disney and Pixar historian who has been teaching a class and bringing animation artists to campus since 2008. An animation program has been the topic of conversation and planning since 2012 by School of Art Director Chris Cassidy, former Chair Lawrence Jenkens (when the school was a department in the College of Arts and Sciences) and Dr. Holian. In 2020 Professor Hale was hired. And, this year for the first time, students will be able to choose animation as a concentration within the BFA in Studio Art.
“This has been a long time coming,” says Dr. Holian. “Animation has been a long term dream for the School of Art. This exhibition has been a long time dream of mine. And now they’re finally coming together.”
By the end of the fall semester, the program is expected to have admitted a full first cohort of 20 students, and Professor Hale predicts that the demand will grow:
“There is profound interest among young people in animation. Ask anyone between the ages of 12 and 18 and they will readily identify their favorite animated series and tell you why. So what is it about animation that they connect with? I think it’s this idea that you can tell any story through animation. You’re not restricted to the look of the actors or the location. You can create anything your mind can conceive. I think that’s one of the things that draws students into this medium. And, the career paths are more than just cartoons—there is animation in documentaries, training videos, tutorials, and then there’s the gaming industry, which is taking off.”
Dr. Holian adds, “In a modern or contemporary school of art, animation is essential. The value is incalculable to our students. It moves our School forward. Animation brings together every one of the traditional art forms that we are familiar with and then takes it beyond that. It also allows artists to bring in their own voices in very profound ways and allows for collaboration which is so important for our artists, especially our young artists.”
Collaboration is essential to the exhibition and the program, says Dr. Holian:
What excites me about this project is that it brings together two UNC system schools. It brings together a university and a high school. And it is bringing together different areas of our campus including Dr. Promod Pratap as our Physics Consultant and Co-Collaborator.” Professor Hale adds, “ We also look forward to working with other areas of the College of Visual and Performing Arts on topics such as music soundtracks for animation, acting coaching for students developing characters, etc.”
The two professors will lead different areas of the program. Dr. Holian’s “Art of Disney and Pixar” is a 200-level class without prerequisites and brings students from all over the university to the School of Art.
“It’s a crowd-pleaser,” Holan says. “I like to think it’s a way to introduce students to Art History through a medium they enjoy and through films they know and have a connection with already. My other classes focus on the ancient Romans through the Renaissance, and no one just stumbles into those classes. Interesting similarity though—in Renaissance art and in animation, collaboration is key. Although we center on a single artist genius, all of them had workshops. The modern animation studio is an extension of the workshop system.”
Dr. Holian also teaches a 300-level class focusing on the work of women in animation. Conversely, Professor Hale’s classes focus on the making of animation.
“I say ‘Great. You watched all the Disney films growing up and now you want to learn how to make it? Well strap in because you have to draw 12 pictures to have one second of animation.’ I teach them how to create their own work. We start with animation analysis. We study techniques then incorporate them into our own works. Basic concept art. Stop motion animation. Hand drawn 2D animation. Computer generated 3D animation. From there, they choose their direction to finish up the degree.”
“Our students will really benefit from having animation and art history side by side’” says Dr. Holian. “That’s not something you’re going to get at a conservatory or a school that is not a broader university that has humanities education as central to the arts. I think our animation program will thrive really well under these circumstances. This program benefits from being in a College of Visual and Performing Arts and from being in a research university.”
Professor Hale says animation students will also benefit from being in a School of Art where there is a focus on the foundations:
“Our foundation courses are so robust. There is an emphasis on slowing down and learning the art of observation. Our students experience a wide range of media—like painting and sculpture—which are all important to animation. You can’t animate a human if you can’t draw a figure, and you can’t create 3D animation if you don’t understand the volume of sculpture.” Professor Hale explains the deeper purpose of concentrating in animation:
“I think students will leave this program with skills to succeed. But I think if you only focus on the skills you lose the “why.” Why are you telling this story? If you haven’t had a class in Greek literature and you haven’t read the Odyssey how are you going to tell a really great adventure story? It’s that kind of understanding and expansion of the mind that’s so important to storytelling. It’s not just about drawing the best picture. If we wanted that we’d just go make a photograph. It’s about taking all of these narratives and crafting something that connects with other people. You need that broad understanding to be effective, and that’s what students will get here.
For more on attending Persistence of Vision
For more about the BFA in Studio Art concentration in Animation
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U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Richard, 35th Fighter Wing commander, and Master Sgt. Rong Meak, 35th Force Support Squadron Falcon Feeder Dining Facility food service section chief, discuss new improvements to both Grissom and Falcon Feeder Dining Facilities during a Wild Weasel Walk-Through at Misawa Air Base, September 9, 2022. Meak showcased equipment, produce and supplies during the tour around the Falcon Feeder. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class William Rodriguez)
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Award-winning playwright James Ijames is unapologetic about creating his work through a Black lens. His play, The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, running now though Oct. 9 at the Steppenwolf Theatre, is an example of this. Rolling out spoke with Ijames about his work. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/award-winning-playwright-examines-his-responsibility-as-a-creator/ | 2022-09-14T02:36:59Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/award-winning-playwright-examines-his-responsibility-as-a-creator/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Azealia Banks threw shade at Nicki Minaj. Again.
On the night of Sept. 12, Banks addressed the comments Minaj made saying that she’s working on three defamation lawsuits against people who have thrown dirt on her name, leaving many wondering who she could’ve been talking about.
On her Instagram Story, Banks talked about why Minaj can’t sue, and how she also has some demons to take care of herself.
“A lot of s— has been put in place to git rid of you from four years back,” Banks said. “You think Kenneth Petty randomly stepping into your life is a thing that happened because of love? No, he’s a f—— plant. He’s there to report everything you do.”
Banks continued to throw intense allegations at Minaj in her videos, and even attacked her music career.
“Nicki, you’re kind of a f—— pedophile,” Banks said. “Nicki, you gotta go. You talk all this queen of rap s—, but you haven’t made a better song than me or Cardi B in the last f—— six years. You will never have the f—— dexterity that I have.”
Banks was supposed to be getting her own reality television show in August 2022, but thinks Minaj had a hand in not coming to fruition yet.
“I was supposed to start filming a reality show last month,” Banks said on Instagram. “But apparently Nicki gave the network an ultimatum because she knows I’ll have better ratings. … And now they all hate her and think she’s ghetto, terrible to work with, overweight and boring.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/why-azealia-banks-made-intense-allegations-against-nicki-minaj/ | 2022-09-14T02:37:05Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/why-azealia-banks-made-intense-allegations-against-nicki-minaj/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — Upending the political debate, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban Tuesday, sending shockwaves through both parties and igniting fresh debate on a fraught issue weeks before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
Graham’s own Republican Party leaders did not immediately embrace his abortion ban bill, which would prohibit the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy with rare exceptions, and has almost no chance of becoming law in the Democratic-held Congress. Democrats torched it as an alarming signal of where “MAGA” Republicans are headed if they win control of the House and Senate in November.
“America’s got to make some decisions,” Graham said at a news conference at the Capitol.
The South Carolina Republican said that rather than shying away from the Supreme Court’s ruling this summer overturning Roe vs. Wade’s nearly 50-year right to abortion access, Republicans are preparing to fight to make a nationwide abortion ban federal law.
“Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, we’re going nowhere,” the senator said while flanked by female advocates from the anti-abortion movement. “We welcome the debate. We welcome the vote in the United States Senate as to what America should look like in 2022.”
Reaction was swift, fierce and unwavering from Democrats who viewed Graham’s legislation as an extreme example of the far-right’s hold on the GOP, and as a political gift of self-inflicted pain for Republican candidates now having to answer questions about an abortion ban heading toward the midterm elections.
“A nationwide abortion ban — that’s the contrast between the two parties, plain and simple,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington who is in her own fight for reelection, said Republicans “want to force” women to stay pregnant and deliver babies.
“To anyone who thought they were safe, here is the painful reality,” she said. “Republicans are coming for your rights.”
The sudden turn of events comes in a razor-tight election season as Republicans hoping to win control of Congress are struggling to recapture momentum, particularly after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision sparked deep concerns among some voters, with signs of female voters peeling away from the GOP.
In a midterm election where the party out of the White House traditionally holds an advantage, even more so this year with President Joe Biden’s lackluster approval ratings, the Democrats have regained their own momentum pushing back the GOP candidates in House and Senate races.
Tuesday’s announcement set up an immediate split screen with Biden and Democrats poised to celebrate their accomplishments in a ceremony at the White House after passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and Republicans forced to answer for Graham’s proposed abortion ban.
“This bill is wildly out of step with what Americans believe,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
“While President Biden and Vice President Harris are focused on the historic passage of the Inflation Reduction Act to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, health care, and energy – and to take unprecedented action to address climate change — Republicans in Congress are focused on taking rights away from millions of women,” Jean-Pierre said.
Graham’s legislation has almost zero chance of becoming law, but it elevates the abortion issue at a time when other Republicans would prefer to focus on inflation, border security and Biden’s leadership.
The Republican bill would ban abortions nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of rape, incest or risk to the physical health of the mother. Graham said it would put the U.S. on par with many countries in Europe and around the world.
In particular, Graham’s bill would leave in place state laws that are more restrictive. That provision is notable because many Republicans have argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling leaves the abortion issue for the states to decide. But the legislation from the Republicans makes it clear states are only allowed to decide the issue if their abortion bans are more stringent.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who is one seat away from majority control, declined to embrace Graham’s legislation.
“I think every Republican senator running this year in these contested races has an answer as to how they feel about the issue,” McConnell said. He said most GOP senators prefer having the issue dealt with by the states, rather than at the federal level. “So I leave it up to our candidates who are quite capable of handling this issue to determine for them what their response is.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/gops-graham-unveils-nationwide-abortion-ban-after-15-weeks/article_6ccf844e-33bf-11ed-a33a-630e6fa38544.html | 2022-09-14T02:37:28Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/gops-graham-unveils-nationwide-abortion-ban-after-15-weeks/article_6ccf844e-33bf-11ed-a33a-630e6fa38544.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — A federal judge Tuesday unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, showing that agents earlier obtained a hard drive after issuing a subpoena for surveillance footage recorded inside Mar-a-Lago.
A heavily redacted version of the affidavit was made public last month, but the Justice Department requested permission to show more of it after lawyers for Trump revealed the existence of a June grand jury subpoena that sought video footage from cameras in the vicinity of the Mar-a-Lago storage room.
“Because those aspects of the grand jury’s investigation have now been publicly revealed, there is no longer any reason to keep them sealed (i.e. redacted) in the filings in this matter,” department lawyers wrote.
The newly visible portions of the FBI agent’s affidavit show that the FBI on June 24 subpoenaed for the records in June after a visit weeks earlier to Mar-a-Lago in which agents observed between 50 to 55 boxes of records in the storage room at the property. The Trump Organization provided a hard drive on July 6 in response to the subpoena, the affidavit says.
The footage could be an important piece of the investigation, including whether anyone has sought to obstruct the probe. The Justice Department has said in a separate filing that it has “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
The Justice Department has been investigating the holding of top-secret information and other classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House. FBI agents during their Aug. 8 search of the home and club said they recovered more than 11,000 documents, including over 100 with classification markings.
Separately Tuesday, the Justice Department again urged U.S. District Aileen Cannon to lift her hold on core aspects of the investigation. Cannon last week granted the Trump team’s request for an independent arbiter to review the seized documents and weed out from the investigation any records that may be covered by claims of executive or attorney-client privilege.
She also ordered the department to halt its review of the records pending any further court order or the completion of a report by the yet-to-be-named special master. The department urged Cannon last week to put her order on hold and told the judge Tuesday that its investigation would be harmed by a continued delay of its ability to scrutinize the classified documents.
“The government and the public unquestionably have an interest in the timely enforcement of criminal laws, particularly those involving the protection of highly sensitive information, and especially where, as here, there may have been efforts to obstruct its investigation,” the lawyers wrote.
The Trump team on Monday urged the judge to leave her order in place. His lawyers raised questions about the documents’ current classification status and noted that a president has absolute authority to declassify information, though it pointedly did not say that Trump had actually declassified anything. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/judge-unseals-additional-portions-of-mar-a-lago-affidavit/article_fe2330c6-33bf-11ed-b111-db9dbf22a891.html | 2022-09-14T02:37:34Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/judge-unseals-additional-portions-of-mar-a-lago-affidavit/article_fe2330c6-33bf-11ed-b111-db9dbf22a891.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Holly Edwards, owner of Lock City Books in the Bewley Building, got the OK from Lockport planning board members to house four kittens in two kennels within her bookstore. The business had recently renovated to create a cat room where children could sit and read to cats.
Edwards said the activity helped kids gain confidence in their reading and also socialized the animals who were being offered for adoption by rescue groups working with the business.
It was at the time of the renovations that Edwards was informed that her zoning was not concurrent with holding animals and would need a special permit from the building department.
“We weren’t aware of the restriction,” Edwards said directly before her meeting with the planning board. She also had a letter from Matt Martin, owner of the Bewley Building, with his written approval of the operations for the board to consider.
Edwards said that 16-cats had been adopted through the store since November of 2021, months before she started the construction in her store. During that time there was a small bench in which children could sit and read to the felines. Today, a door and window have been installed to create a space where interested adopters can see the cats out of their cages.
Each of the animals has vaccinations through the rescue agencies, Cat by Cat Inc. and Stars Inc., and have also been spaded or neutered, if they are of age for the procedure.
Interested book and cat lovers can fill out the paperwork right at the shop and Edwards brings that to the agencies. The store does not accept any reimbursement for adopting the cats, and in fact pays to feed them and keep the kennels clean.
Planning board member Marshall Roth said he’d make a motion, “for the kids,” and the board voted unanimously in favor.
The next step is for the Common Council to schedule a public hearing on the issue and it is the council’s decision, having seen the planning board’s recommendation for approval, that will decide if cats will be adopted out of the downtown bookstore. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/bookstore-with-cats-gets-planning-boards-approval/article_263b874c-32f9-11ed-a9da-9b0984d62a8c.html | 2022-09-14T02:37:40Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/bookstore-with-cats-gets-planning-boards-approval/article_263b874c-32f9-11ed-a9da-9b0984d62a8c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The city planning board has declined to recommend a special use permit for a personal trainer who wants to operate her business from her Continental Drive residence.
The board convened on Monday to consider Belinda Ragland’s request and the 3-1 vote in Ragland’s favor wasn’t sufficient. Three of the seven board members were absent and four “yes” votes were required. Board member Marshall Roth cast the sinking “no” vote.
Ragland said her business’ hours of operation would be 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and she would work with one or two clients per day. Clients would park in her large driveway or possibly in front of her home, she said. There would be no business signage on the property.
The city had received a written statement of opposition from Ragland’s neighbor, Lynda Nero, based on parking concerns. In the winter especially, Nero wrote, it’s difficult to discern the street from the edge of her property and she doesn’t want Ragland’s clients parking on her lawn.
Ragland got a sterling character reference by 4th Ward Alderman Kitty Fogle, who happened to have business with the planning board herself on Monday: seeking approval of the renovation plan for her business.
Of the Raglands, Belinda and her husband Chris, Fogle told the board, they used to reside in her ward “and they were upstanding citizens.” Further, she said, “I saw Chris with his snowblower each winter. If he says the snow will be gone, it will be gone.”
Roth apparently was unmoved by Fogle’s words.
“I’m concerned about the complexion of the neighborhood,” he said, noting that he and his wife have always rented space for business purposes.
After the board’s vote, the Raglands asked what their next move should be and were told only that their request was not approved.
Approval of a special use permit is up to the Common Council. The planning board’s role is to recommend, or not recommend, the granting of one, and its decision is not binding. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/city-planning-board-declines-to-back-trainers-home-based-business-plan/article_d29b82de-338b-11ed-9a6f-db507409c638.html | 2022-09-14T02:37:47Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/city-planning-board-declines-to-back-trainers-home-based-business-plan/article_d29b82de-338b-11ed-9a6f-db507409c638.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The county sheriff's Emergency Communication Center now has the ability to receive Text to 9-1-1 calls from cell phones in Niagara County, Sheriff Michael J. Filicetti announced on Tuesday.
The Text to 9-1-1 technology was part of an upgrade to the county's Motorola Vesta 9-1-1 phone system. It enables dispatchers to receive Text to 9-1-1 calls and also prepares the county for Next Generation 9-1-1 once that's implemented in New York state, according to Filicetti.
Text to 9-1-1 "will give a voice to those who would otherwise be unable to make a phone call in that emergency situation," Filicetti said. "I credit the work of our Communications Division for overseeing this project and bringing Niagara County into the next generation of 9-1-1”
To text 9-1-1 in an emergency: Enter the number "911" in the "To" field, compose a brief message containing the location of the emergency and the type of help needed, and push the "Send" button. Then, be prepared to answer questions and follow instructions from the 9-1-1 call taker.
Some tips from the Communication Division when texting 9-1-1: Use simple words and keep messages brief and concise; do not use abbreviations, emojis or slang.
Voice 9-1-1 calls remain the best way to exchange information with 9-1-1 dispatchers. According to the National Emergency Number Association, text messaging should only be used in extreme situations where it's unsafe to make a voice call, for example, during an instance of domestic violence, home invasion, school campus violence or a natural disaster; or in the event a caller can't communicate via voice due to hearing or speech impairment.
The Communication Division advised that a 9-1-1 text message may take longer to process than a voice call, due mostly to the time it takes to receive and reply to the text message; and in some instances text messaging does not carry location information, so it's important to provide location in the first text message requesting help.
The division also advised:
— Text to 9-1-1 service provided within the boundaries of Niagara County may not be available in other areas of the state or country. If the service is unavailable in your location or unavailable temporarily, you will receive a message indicating that and directing you to contact 9-1-1 by other means.
— Text-to-9-1-1 is not available if you are roaming.
— A text or data plan is required to place a text to 9-1-1; fees related to sending messages could apply based on the individual device owner's service plan.
— Photos and videos cannot be sent to 9-1-1 via texting at this time.
— Text-to-9-1-1 cannot include more than one person. Do not send your emergency text to anyone other than 9-1-1.
— Do not text and drive. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/text-to-9-1-1-enabled-in-niagara-county/article_2e1fcb1e-33ab-11ed-843e-77919a7ffe74.html | 2022-09-14T02:37:53Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/text-to-9-1-1-enabled-in-niagara-county/article_2e1fcb1e-33ab-11ed-843e-77919a7ffe74.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO — A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II.
Members of Herbert “Bert” Jacobson’s family waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the young man they knew about but never met. Jacobson was among the more than 400 sailors and Marines killed on the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The casket containing his remains was carried Tuesday morning on a horse-drawn caisson led by a military escort before his burial at Arlington National Cemetery, said Amber Vincent, a cemetery spokeswoman.
“This has kind of been an unsolved mystery and it gives us closure to finally know what happened to Bert, where he is and that he’s being finally laid to rest after being listed as an unknown for so long,” said Brad McDonald, a nephew.
The service at Arlington was the latest chapter in the story of the man from the small northern Illinois town of Grayslake, for the family that never had a body to bury when he was killed and the scientific quest to put names to the remains of hundreds of personnel from the battleship who lay buried anonymously for decades in a dormant volcanic crater near Pearl Harbor.
It is a story of waiting.
The battleship remained submerged for two years before it was refloated and bodies were recovered. A few years later, the graves of men on the Oklahoma were reopened in the hopes that dental records might lead to their names. But 27 sets of remains were not identified and had to be reinterred at the crater, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, commonly known as the Punchbowl.
Another effort to identify about 100 sets of remains came up empty in 2003.
In 2015, the Department of Defense announced plans to exhume the remains again.
“We now have the ability to forensically test these remains and produce the identifications,” Debra Prince Zinni, a forensic anthropologist and laboratory manager at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Hawaii, told The Associated Press at the time.
That gave new hope to Jacobson family members, who had been disappointed by each failed effort. They told the AP that Jacobson’s mother cried every Dec. 7, at least in part because she never knew where he was.
“She always had the hope the phone would ring and it would be Bert,” McDonald said.
The 2015 effort, Project Oklahoma, has led to the identification of 355 men — including Jacobson — who were killed when their ship was hit by at least nine torpedoes. That leaves 33 sets of remains still to be identified. To mark the 80th anniversary of the attack, those unidentified remains were reinterred, said Gene Hughes, a public affairs officer with Navy Personnel Command. He has worked with the families of those killed on the Oklahoma, including Jacobson’s relatives.
For Jacobson’s family, any hope they would know exactly what happened on Dec. 7, 1941, faded long ago. All they knew from talking to Jacobson’s shipmates was that he had just come off duty after spending several hours ferrying men to shore.
McDonald said a good friend of his uncle from the Navy said he was pretty sure Jacobson “was asleep in his bunk and died before he even knew a war was going on. But we don’t really know.”
That left one final question: What happened to Bert Jacobson’s body?
The answer came in 2019, when McDonald said the family was notified that Jacobson’s remains had been identified. Hoping the burial could take place the next year, they were forced to wait, in large part because the COVID-19 pandemic delayed most gatherings, funerals included.
Now, they have gotten the closure that Jacobson’s parents and other family members never had.
“I wish they could have seen this,” McDonald said of his grandparents, parents and others.
For him, seeing the funeral for the uncle he never met take his place at Arlington is especially significant.
“When Bert joined the Navy, he ran into a fella from South Dakota who was an orphan,” McDonald said. “When they got a weekend pass, Bert took him home and the orphan met his (Bert’s) younger sister.”
Orville McDonald and Norma Jacobson dated and later married, giving McDonald a favorite ending to that story.
“That orphan was my dad, and Bert’s sister was my mom,” he said. “So, I wouldn’t be here without Bert.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/sailor-killed-at-pearl-harbor-is-laid-to-rest-at-last/article_beb4b538-33c2-11ed-a746-efbaf4a585bd.html | 2022-09-14T02:37:59Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/sailor-killed-at-pearl-harbor-is-laid-to-rest-at-last/article_beb4b538-33c2-11ed-a746-efbaf4a585bd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cross Country: Whiteford's Masters nips Mason's Ansel in great TCC race
ERIE – Whiteford and Erie Mason see plenty of each other during cross country season.
“I want to say we see Erie Mason at every single meet we go to,” Whiteford coach Jay Yockey said.
That wasn’t a great situation for Whiteford runner Keegan Masters last season. He never was able to beat Mason’s Jackson Ansel.
Last year during track and field season, Masters won the last 3,200-meter showdown between the two. That seemed to boost his confidence.
Masters has beaten his rival four times this season, the latest coming at Tuesday’s Tri-County Conference jamboree at Mason.
It was far from easy.
Master won the race in 16:54, a scant four seconds faster than Ansel.
“Whenever those two toe the line, it’s going to be a great race,” Yockey said. “I think Jackson really wanted to beat him today on his home course, but Keegan has a different kind of grit and determination this season.”
Ansel will get plenty of chances for revenge this season.
“It’s going to be that way all season,” said Mason coach Allison Meisner. “It was tight the whole way today. We’ve got a little bit of work to do.”
Adrian Madison won the team title with 48 points. Mason was close behind with 52 and Whiteford placed third with 60.
Summerfield, led by third-place finisher Evan Suydam, took fifth with 136.
Mason showed good balance as Ryan Joyce ran sixth, Parker Campbell seventh, Austin Sulier 16th and Parker Sorg 22nd.
Whiteford’s Elliott Rodgers placed fifth and Zach Kahn ninth.
Josh Jensen was 18th for Summerfield.
Mason also was second in the girls race, scoring 58 to finish only behind Sand Creek (46).
“I was very happy with how the girls performed today,” Meisner said. “They really stepped up.”
Bailey Meiring and Elizabeth Lambert took third and fourth, respectively, for Mason. The Eagles also had Mikaela Graves (16), Riley England (19) and Cheyenne Crouch (21) run well.
An 11-12 finish by Emily Rasor and Annabelle Gapp led Whiteford. The Bobcats’ placed five in the top 20 as Aubrie Simmons checked in 14th, Jillian Webb 17th and Megan Butz 20th.
Makenna Shipe was 29th for Summerfield.
Rubley is LCAA runner-up
BROOKLYN – Dundee’s Isaak Rubley took second in Tuesday’s Lenawee County Athletic Association jamboree with a time of 17:23.46.
Alex Czeiszperger won the race in 17:11.39 and helped Hudson win the team title with 68. Clinton was second with 71 followed by Onsted with 72, Hillsdale 79, Dundee 90, Brooklyn Columbia Central 127, Ida 185 and Blissfield 202.
Zachary McMahan was fifth for Dundee and Ida’s Jack Gelso placed 20th.
Onsted won the girls meet with 35 followed by Clinton with 56, Blissfield with 74, Dundee with 84 and Hudson with 98.
Ida did not have a full team, but Katelyn Bydlowski finished seventh. Kaylee Hovey, Bridget Waterstradt and Natalie Swisher ran 12-16-18 for Dundee.
Carlson’s Anderson second
NEW BOSTON – Gibraltar Carlson junior Jon Anderson ran 17:20.4 to take second place in the Downriver League jamboree Tuesday.
The winner was Michael Makuch of Wyandotte Roosevelt at 16:54.2.
Allen Park won the team title with 32 points. Woodhaven took second with 56 and Carlson third with 78.
Nathan Lawe (13), Blake Fowler (17) and Quinn Burgei (25) also ran in the top 25 for the Marauders.
Carlson’s girls were missing their two seniors, but still placed fourth with 94 points. Wyandotte took the title with 35.
Ariana Pate and Ashley Farnsworth ran 22nd and 25th, respectively for Carlson. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/14/cross-country-whitefords-masters-nips-masons-ansel-in-great-tcc-race/69493405007/ | 2022-09-14T02:41:30Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/14/cross-country-whitefords-masters-nips-masons-ansel-in-great-tcc-race/69493405007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Local Sports: Dundee swimmers down Mules; Ida volleyball survives test
DUNDEE – Dundee’s girls swimming team ran its record to 4-0 Tuesday with a convincing 122-59 victory over Bedford.
Joslyn Ball (individual medley, 500-yard freestyle), Emma O’Connell (50, backstroke) and Lia Parry (100, breaststroke) all won two individual events for the Vikings.
Emma Schramm and Kiersten Matzinger went 1-2 in diving and Brook Hester ruled the butterfly.
Dundee also swept the relays.
Bedford’s Hannah Smith took the 200 freestyle.
PREP SWIMMING
Williams, Luhrs excel
MILAN – Annabelle Williams (100 and 200-yard freestyle) and Kiera Luhrs (50 freestyle and butterfly) were double winners as Miland beat Dexter 106-80 and Chelsea 133-52 Tuesday.
Phoebe Rhoney won the 500, Krista Cook took the backstroke and the Big Reds took a lot of depth points.
“It was a total team effort as we raced hard and the girls’ passion really shined tonight,” Milan coach Dan Heikka said of his 6-0 team.
PREP VOLLEYBALL
Ida survives test
HUDSON – Ellie Jones and Kaylee Stein racked up 10 kills each as Ida held off Hudson 25-16, 26-28, 24-26, 25-19, 15-12 Tuesday.
Alyssia Satkowski added 9 kills, Mia Karl was credited with 5 solo blocks and Ryleigh Eyler spread the offense with 35 assists and led the defense with 10 digs.
“Tonight was a true team effort,” Ida coach Ashley Begeman said. “I’m proud of them for battling back from being down 6-1 in the fifth set to come back and take it 15-12. It was close all the way through, but they dug deep and stayed aggressive to earn the win.”
Whiteford clipped
ADRIAN – Whiteford fell to Adrian Madison 25-22, 25-11, 22-25, 25-11 Tuesday in a Tri-County Conference match-up.
The Bobcats (3-5 overall, 1-1 in TCC), got 21 digs from Alyssa Ulery and 16 from Ava Hillard. Alaina Andrews had 24 assists while Allison Spradling and Kenzie Gray were credited with 7 kills each.
State Line stumbles
TEMPERANCE – State Line Christian won the opening set, but Pittsford Freedom Farm came charging back for a 7-25, 25-23, 15-13 win.
State Line led 10-5 in the third set.
“A tough loss for sure,” State Line coach Gina Yglesias said.
State Line won the elementary, junior high and junior varsity matches.
PREP SOCCER
State Line victorious
TEMPERANCE – Trevin Johnson and Jordan Reddick scored two goals each as State Line Christian blanked Pittsford Freedom Farm 5-0 Tuesday.
Landon Worley added a goal and an assist and Eli Dyer logged his fourth shutout of the season for the 5-4 Patriots.
PREP GOLF
Bears move to 12-1
GROSSE ILE – Sydney Botten took medalist honors with a round of 45 as Jefferson moved to 12-1 with a 197-220 win over Grosse Ile Tuesday.
Rylee Dunn and Callie Calvin hit season-best rounds of 46 for the Bears while Kayce Maitland shot 52 and Olivia Peare 53.
PREP TENNIS
Airport singles sweep
Airport swept the singles with Aiden Self, Ryan Lewis, Ethan Lassiter and Brenden Dittrich to earn a 5-3 victory over St. Mary Catholic Central Tuesday.
The Jets also got a point from Jacob Frye-Landon Poe at No. 4 doubles.
SMCC’s points came in the first three singles flights from Ian Bird-Davis McDonald, Xander Memije-Noah Iott and Blake Crust-Xavier Memije.
Wise-Charlton win
ANN ARBOR – Bedford’s No. 3 doubles team of Zach Wise and Mason Charlton had to work hard for their point Tuesday.
The Mule duo lost the first set, then rallied to win the second 6-2 and took a 10-7 super tiebreaker in the third.
It was Bedford’s only point in a 7-1 loss to Ann Arbor Huron.
Dexter tops Monroe
DEXTER – Monroe suffered a 6-2 loss to Dexter Tuesday. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/14/local-sports-dundee-swimmers-down-mules-ida-volleyball-survives-test/69493365007/ | 2022-09-14T02:41:36Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/sports/2022/09/14/local-sports-dundee-swimmers-down-mules-ida-volleyball-survives-test/69493365007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A California man is one of a few left in the world who creates feather capes and helmets the way the ancients did, with no wires or other modern tools to hold it together.
Rick San Nicolas is a kumu hulu nui or master featherworker, and the former Hawaii resident says practicing this art keeps him Aging Well.
Making a shoulder cape will take him hundreds of thousands of hours to finish. He's been making feathered symbols of the royal court since 1999. He makes "ancient Hawaiian featherwork, as far as feather cape making, traditional styles; mahiole or feathered helmets; kahili."
He taught himself how by reading, talking to elders, and studying existing works. And he loves it.
"It's probably one of the most important parts of old Hawaiian culture and into the future too," he said.
KITV4 stopped by Embassy Suites by Hilton Waikiki Beach Walk, the latest site of one of his many exhibits.
Alika Deshay, Ali'i Nui of the Royal Order, says of the display, "It is our dream that future generations will not only see this in books and museums but see it on a na ali'i [the royalty] in the community."
San Nicolas says it's important to him to share the knowledge as well. He teaches in person and online, including several Royal Orders.
"There are so few people who know this work. There are even fewer who teach," he noted.
Diane is KITV4’s weekend evening anchor and weekday reporter. She hosts the Aging Well series on Tuesday evenings at 5, 6, and 10 p.m. She is a mother, a cat owner, and a yogi. | https://www.kitv.com/kakou/aging-well/aging-well-master-featherworker-says-keeping-cultural-art-alive-fuels-his-passion/article_b1f94248-2fd8-11ed-bad6-ffe506e2f8a9.html | 2022-09-14T02:44:28Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/kakou/aging-well/aging-well-master-featherworker-says-keeping-cultural-art-alive-fuels-his-passion/article_b1f94248-2fd8-11ed-bad6-ffe506e2f8a9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Twitter shareholders voted in favor of Musk's $44 billion takeover deal, a value of $54.20 per share. The company's stock opened September 13 at just under $41 per share, nearly 25% below the deal price.
Elon Musk may be fighting tooth-and-nail to get out of his deal to buy Twitter, but the social media company's shareholders plan to hold him to it.
The vast majority of Twitter shareholders on Tuesday voted in favor of Musk's $44 billion takeover deal, a value of $54.20 per share. The company's stock opened Tuesday at just under $41 per share, nearly 25% below the deal price.
A preliminary count indicated that 98.6% of the votes cast on Tuesday were in favor of the deal, Twitter said in a statement.
"Twitter stands ready and willing to complete the merger with affiliates of Mr. Musk immediately, and in any event, no later than on September 15, 2022, the second business day following the satisfaction of all conditions precedent, which is the timeline required by the merger agreement."
The vote came days after Musk's third letter to Twitter seeking to terminate their deal, with this one pegged to a purported $7.75 million severance payment the company made to its former head of security, Peiter Zatko, who later blew the whistle about its alleged security and privacy vulnerabilities.
In the letter, Musk's lawyers claimed the payment — said to have been made to Zatko and his lawyers on June 28 as part of a separation agreement — violated a provision of the acquisition contract. Twitter agreed not to provide any severance payments to employees in amounts outside "the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice," according to the contract.
Twitter slammed Musk's latest effort to get out of the deal as "invalid and wrongful."
Musk first sent a letter to terminate the deal in July, alleging that Twitter violated the agreement by misrepresenting the number of spam and fake bot accounts on its platform. Twitter sued Musk to complete the acquisition, accusing the billionaire of using bots as a pretext to exit a deal that he developed buyer's remorse over following a market decline.
Zatko testified in front of the US Senate on Tuesday about what he alleged are Twitter's serious security and privacy vulnerabilities, including possibly having foreign intelligence agents on its payroll.
The case between Musk and Twitter is scheduled to go to trial on October 17.
-- CNN Business' Clare Duffy contributed to this report | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/twitter-shareholders-vote-overwhelmingly-in-favor-of-elon-musks-44-billion-takeover-deal/article_1533c80f-d2d5-5779-b981-fcb64d5a3fb2.html | 2022-09-14T02:44:34Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/twitter-shareholders-vote-overwhelmingly-in-favor-of-elon-musks-44-billion-takeover-deal/article_1533c80f-d2d5-5779-b981-fcb64d5a3fb2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- It's been just over three weeks since a Virginia couple was killed in a head-on crash on Oahu's North Shore. And Tuesday night, KITV4 is hearing exclusively from the couple’s daughter who survived the crash.
Holly Hartman, 30, is still recovering from the incident that left her critically injured. She suffered a broken arm and leg, fractured clavicle, knee cap and ulna, along with a severe abdominal injury. She's now in rehab in Honolulu after spending nearly three weeks in the hospital.
Five surgeries later and she is now using a walker as she continues to try and heal both physically and emotionally.
The Hartman's were on Oahu for the first time to support Holly in the Spartan Race at Kualoa Ranch. She says while it's been difficult to come to terms with her parents' passing, she's trying to see the joy in the situation.
"My parents were in the best part of their marriage. Having the best time of their lives in a place they really wanted to be in. And I'd just finished what I thought was the hardest thing I'd ever done. So, I mean we were in a really, really good place. And if they're gonna go, I'm glad that it was together, and not separately and that they were saved from any pain. Because it was pretty quick for both of them," Holly told KITV4.
Dad, Ron, was 62 years old and mom, Michelle, was 52.
Holly says it's still unclear when she'll be able to return back home and see her older sister, Rebekah, and younger brother, Josh.
An Oahu Grand Jury indicted 27-year-old Brennan Canumay on two counts of manslaughter after he allegedly weaved in and out of traffic on Kamehameha Highway before colliding with the Hartmans.
A GoFundMe page has been established for Holly to help with her medical expenses and funeral costs for her parents. Tap here if you would like to donate.
Mika is the co-anchor for KITV4 Island News at 5, 6, and 10 p.m.
Since joining KITV4 in 2016, Mika has also served as a multimedia journalist, weather, and traffic anchor. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/daughter-of-virginia-couple-killed-in-north-shore-crash-talks-about-recovery-forgiveness/article_48f3933e-33ca-11ed-911e-2ff2c30a82c4.html | 2022-09-14T02:44:40Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/daughter-of-virginia-couple-killed-in-north-shore-crash-talks-about-recovery-forgiveness/article_48f3933e-33ca-11ed-911e-2ff2c30a82c4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A truck displaying pro-Trump flags is dirven past Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, the home of former President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, Aug. 9. A newly unsealed version of the affidavit that federal investigators used to secure a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago revealed some previously unknown details about the classified materials that former President Donald Trump gave to the Justice Department under subpoena in June.
A newly unsealed version of the affidavit that federal investigators used to secure a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago revealed some previously unknown details about the classified materials that former President Donald Trump gave to the Justice Department under subpoena in June.
The less-redacted version of the previously released affidavit was unsealed Tuesday by a federal judge in Florida.
It was previously known that Trump's lawyers provided one envelope to investigators, which contained 38 unique documents with classification markings, according to court filings. But the newly lifted redactions in the search warrant affidavit indicate that some of those classified files contained markings for "HCS, SI and FISA," according to court filings made public on Tuesday.
These classification markings indicate that the documents were connected to extremely sensitive government programs. "HCS" refers to human sources, or spies, that often work with the CIA. "SI" refers to signals intercepts that are typically handled by the National Security Agency. And "FISA" refers to domestic surveillance and wiretaps related to counterintelligence.
These new revelations confirm for the first time that documents related to these sensitive programs were returned to the US government as part of the June subpoena. Previous court filings indicated that when Trump voluntarily returned 15 boxes of materials to the National Archives in January, they contained 184 classified documents, including some with the same HCS, SI and FISA labels, as well as other classification markings.
Most of the information in the newly unsealed document has already been publicly disclosed, but the less-redacted version of the affidavit provides some new details about the investigation.
The now-lifted redactions in the search warrant affidavit shed some new light on the grand jury subpoena that federal investigators used to get surveillance tapes from Trump's company, which prosecutors used while probing potential mishandling of classified files at Mar-a-Lago.
A federal judge has previously said that this subpoena was served on June 24. The newly unredacted filing says the subpoena demanded that the Trump Organization turn over "any and all surveillance records videos images, photographs, and/or CCTV from internal cameras located on ground floor (basement)" between January 10 and June 24 of this year.
Trump's representatives complied with the subpoena on July 6 by giving a hard drive to FBI agents, according to the filing. It has been known that the Trump Organization handed over the surveillance footage, but the new filing adds some details about how and when they complied.
This story has been updated with additional reporting. | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/judge-unseals-less-redacted-version-of-affidavit-used-for-mar-a-lago-search-warrant/article_85fc64df-34dd-5b47-b8f8-f5312992b8aa.html | 2022-09-14T02:44:53Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/judge-unseals-less-redacted-version-of-affidavit-used-for-mar-a-lago-search-warrant/article_85fc64df-34dd-5b47-b8f8-f5312992b8aa.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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1992-2022 Anthony John "Turbo" Gabriel, II, 30, of Cheyenne died August 28. He was born on January 1, 1992 in Cheyenne. Services will be Saturday, 2:00 p.m., at Wiederspahn-Radomsky Chapel. A reception will immediately follow at The Gathering Place.
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Diane Alene Turner 1942-2022 Diane Alene Turner passed away September 11, 2022, surrounded by her loving family. Born in San Francisco on July 23, 1942, she married Keith Turner on August 9, 1964. She is survived by her loving husband of 58 years and three of their children: Sherri Turner, Paul Turner and Jennifer Turner, as well as seven grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her oldest son, Michael Turner, and her parents, Doris Olsen and Albert Marchi. She treasured her family, gardening, Wyoming, and traveling all over the country she loved. She is and forever will be greatly missed. You were the best of us. No services have been scheduled at this time. Relatives and friends may share condolences at www.schradercares.com
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Gilbert I. "Gil" Valdez 1933-2022 Gilbert I. "Gil" Valdez of Cheyenne, Wyoming passed from his earthly life on September 10, 2022 surrounded at his home by his loving family. He was born October 7, 1933 in Monte Vista, Colorado to Isaac and Aurelia (Dupont) Valdez. He was 88 years old. Gil graduated from Del Norte High School in Del Norte, Colorado in 1950. In 1952, he enlisted in the United States Air Force and was stationed in Scotland as an intercept radio operator throughout his enlistment, which ended in 1956. While there, he met and later married Rosemary Wilson in 1957. Their children, Karen, Stuart, Yvonne and Andrea were the most blessed addition to their marriage. In 1965, Gil received his business degree along with a commission in the Air Force from Colorado State College in Greeley, Colorado, a long-awaited goal from his early high school days. He became a navigator with later assignments at Head Quarters United Nations Command in South Korea, Head Quarters Recruiting Service in San Antonio, Texas, Commander Recruiting Detachment in Louisville, Kentucky, and Commander Special Activity Detachment (NORA) in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. Major Valdez retired from F.E. Warren AFB in December 1981. He and Rosemary divorced in 1979. She tragically died in a car accident in 1984. Gil enjoyed many interests and sports was at the top of his list. The Denver Broncos and Golden State Warriors were a must watch. He dabbled in golf but never took it very seriously. He was a life-time member of the VFW, DAV, Fraternal Order of Eagles, American Legion Post #6, and AMVETS, but his main enjoyment was being with JoAnn, his precious lady and dancing partner. They traveled to Europe, including the Isle of Capri and Monaco, Mexico, Grand Cayman, and Puerto Rico. COVID 19 put a screeching halt to visiting other places. In later years, they say, shopping and casinos become less complimentary but by no means less expensive. Gil was a kind and humble man, quiet but determined, and grateful. He leaves his loving daughters, Karen (David), Yvonne (David) and Andrea (Jim); and the best son a dad could have, Stuart, all of Cheyenne. He is also survived by nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; brother, Jake; and sister, Delma. He leaves a love for his precious lady, JoAnn, that will never end; he says, even in death. He is preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Arthur and sister-in-law, Angie; sister, Ernestine and brother-in-law, Eugene; and granddaughter, Shayla, a very unpleasant experience for him. His presence will be missed. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 from 4:00 p.m. until the Vigil for the Deceased at 6:30 p.m. at the Lakeview Chapel at Schrader, Aragon and Jacoby Funeral Home. A Funeral Liturgy will be celebrated on Thursday, September 15th at 10:00 a.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral with interment to follow at Cheyenne National Cemetery. Condolences may be offered to the family on-line at www.schradercares.com.
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Comedian Joy Koy will return to Cheyenne in March
Comedian Jo Koy will perform in Cheyenne on March 3 as a stop in his newly announced “Jo Koy World Tour.”
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Comedian Joy Koy will return to Cheyenne in March
Comedian Jo Koy will perform in Cheyenne on March 3 as a stop in his newly announced “Jo Koy World Tour.”
Pre-sale will begin Sept. 15 at 10 a.m., and tickets go on sale to everyone Sept. 16 at 10 a.m. Ticket prices with range from $51.50 to $61.50, and they will be available to purchase at cheyennepresents.com.
Koy’s Netflix stand-up special, “Live From The Los Angeles Forum,” premiered Tuesday, Sept. 13. The Jo Koy World Tour will feature all new material.
Currently, Koy is performing on his “Funny Is Funny World Tour,” but will kick off the “Jo Koy World Tour” on Jan. 27. He will also perform at Ball Arena in Denver on March 4.
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DOVER, Del. (AP/WBOC) - Political newcomer Lydia York won Delaware’s Democratic primary for state auditor on Tuesday against embattled incumbent Kathy McGuiness, who is awaiting sentencing on criminal corruption charges.
York, an attorney who was endorsed by the state Democratic party, had both outraised and outspent McGuiness during the campaign. York previously served as one of three of Delaware's Democratic presidential electors in 2016. She will now face Republican Janice Lorrah, also a political newcomer, in the November general election.
York said voters opted for “competence and clarity and leadership," but acknowledged that McGuiness’ legal troubles played a significant role in the campaign.
“It had to, because this was historic for the state of Delaware,” she said. “I think the voters felt a certain way about that.”
McGuiness is the first statewide elected official in Delaware's history to be found guilty of criminal charges while in office. She is awaiting sentencing on misdemeanor counts of conflict of interest and official misconduct - charges that stemmed from the hiring of her daughter as a part-time employee in the auditor's office.
McGuiness said she planned to call York to congratulate her on the win.
“I have been a public servant long before I was a state auditor, and really not going anywhere anytime soon,” said McGuiness, adding, “It’s not something where I am sad or my heart is sore, because I know how hard I worked and the effort that was put into it.”
A jury convicted McGuiness of the misdemeanors in July, but acquitted her on felony charges of theft and witness intimidation. The judge later tossed the procurement conviction.
A sentencing date for McGuiness has not yet been set. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison but a presumptive sentence of probation.
McGuiness had rejected repeated calls from several elected Democrats and party officials to step aside, both after she was indicted last October and again her conviction. A state Senate resolution to have her booted from office fizzled when House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf, a longtime ally of McGuiness, refused to go along.
“McGuiness has got legal issues ... It seems pretty serious,” said Melanie Eleuterio, 69, a retired school psychologist from Magnolia who voted for York.
Campaign finance reports show York raised and spent more money than McGuiness in their primary contest. As of Sept. 5, York reported raising $62,415 and spending $62,095.26 since establishing a campaign committee in late May, while McGuiness reported raising $33,770 since January and spending $43,574.19.
In a surprise visit, President Joe Biden traveled to Delaware to vote in his home state Tuesday. Delaware allows for vote by mail, but presidents often return home to cast their ballot in person.
Even before Delawareans began heading to the polls, thousands had already cast ballots. Almost 12,000 absentee and vote-by-mail ballots had been returned by Tuesday afternoon, and more than 4,800 people took advantage of early in-person voting under a law that came into effect this year.
A total of about 45,500 votes had been cast as of 2 p.m. Tuesday, state election officials said. Some 362,000 registered Democrats were eligible to vote in the primary. Delaware also has more than 209,350 registered Republicans, but not all were eligible to vote because there was no statewide GOP contest.
In other races Tuesday, there's a five-way Democratic primary in state Senate District 14 to replace Bruce Ennis of Smyrna, who is retiring after 40 years in the legislature. Ennis has been a lone conservative Democratic voice in the state Senate for years. On the Republican side, Dover-area incumbent Sen. Colin Bonini faces two primary challengers in District 16 as he tries to keep the seat he has held for 27 years.
“If it ain't broke, don't fix it,” said Jeff Collins, a Dover pastor who voted for Bonini.
In the state House, six Democratic incumbents, including two members of a progressive wave that shook up the party in 2020, are facing primary challengers. There's also a four-way Democratic primary for the Dover seat left open by Rep. Andria Bennett’s retirement. Rep. Bryan Shupe of Milford is the only House Republican facing a primary challenge.
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Kohl’s has announced that it will be hosting two national hiring events to prepare for the holiday season. The events will be held September 15-17 and October 13-15.
Kohl’s is looking to fill a number of seasonal associate openings in stores, distribution centers, and e-commerce fulfillment centers. In Grand Rapids, the company is looking to fill 430 open store roles.
At the hiring events, candidates can receive a job offer on the same day of their interview.
Kohl’s says that it offers employees flexible scheduling, weekly paychecks, an immediate 15% merchandise employee discount, as well as occasional associate shop special events with an increase to 35% off.
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Dee Farmer served time at a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, for credit card fraud. She was housed in a male facility even though she identified as a trans woman. Based on prison policy, she was placed with her gender assigned at birth. Within two weeks of her arrival, she says she was beaten and raped by her cellmate.
"I stayed in prison for 17 years. And while there, you know, I suffered all the types of abuses," she said. "When I was raped, the guard was sitting down in his office, and there were maybe 200 inmates in the unit I was in, in Terre Haute. There's only one guard, generally, to every housing unit. So, to believe that the officers can protect you is just a myth."
A lawsuit by Farmer against the prison system reached the Supreme Court.
The justices ruled in her favor, saying that prison officials may be liable for harm if they know of safety risks and disregard them. That case was in 1994.
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Today, LGBTQ+ inmates still face bias, discrimination and unsafe circumstances in prison.
Jane Hereth is an assistant professor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Their recent report documented the overrepresentation of LGBTQ+ people in the criminal justice system and the pipeline that funnels many of them there.
"Bias and discrimination across the board by police, by judges, by attorneys," she said. "Things like family rejection, poverty, homelessness, bullying in schools — were all part of their story leading to the criminal legal system."
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, LGBTQ+ individuals were twice as likely to be arrested as their straight counterparts.
"When we talk about incarceration, probation, the justice system in general, there's a high representation of LGBTQ Black and brown folks," Black and Pink Social Worker and Deputy Director Andrew Aleman said.
Once behind bars, trans individuals are at a heightened risk, especially trans women of color.
"We know that most trans women who are who are taken into custody are housed in a men's facility, despite knowing the risk and the high rates of sexual assault and violence that happen to trans women in men facilities," Lambda Legal Senior Attorney Richard Saenz said.
Shows like "Orange Is the New Black" introduced many in the public to life in prison for LGBTQ+ people.
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"'Orange Is the New Black,' and some other shows that have come out since then have really humanized people who are in custody," Saenz continued. "One of the things that I remember seeing is that a trans woman was approached, you know, maybe by four or five inmates at once, sort of like jokingly harassing her sexually. And so that is something that you generally see within the prison system on a daily basis."
Farmer says harassment takes a mental toll.
"They suffer a number of times. Many of them, even if they're not raped, they are constantly sexually harassed and pressured into sexual relationships," Farmer said. "And many of them have to do it for their safety."
Farmer says there's still a revolving door of LGBTQ+ people who go through solitary confinement for protection but then return to the general prison population because confinement was depressing.
"I was placed in the segregation unit and I was there for over a year. And while I was there, there were maybe eight or nine, not necessarily transgender, but gay and transgender — I would just say gender-nonconforming inmates — that were just back and forth into the segregation unit," Farmer said.
Organizations like Black and Pink are advocates for LGBTQ+ in the criminal justice system. Their programs connect gay inmates to support networks outside prison.
"My ask would be that we don't forget our roots, and we don't forget that there are thousands of LGBTQ people in prisons and jails right now. And these are our loved ones," Saenz said.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK) – A man shot over the weekend at a Little Rock, Arkansas, apartment complex has been identified as the father of a reality television star.
Ronald Dunlap, 49, is the father of Cassadee Dunlap, who starred in the second season of “Cheer.” A police report showed he was shot several times after going into the wrong apartment early Saturday morning.
A family member told Nexstar’s KARK that Dunlap thought it was his apartment, but he actually lived in a different building.
Joshua Womack told KARK he was asleep and heard knocking on the door shortly after 3 a.m., but then the situation escalated.
“I heard a big, loud thud through the front door,” Womack said. “The door was actually knocked off the hinges. With that, he ended up bum-rushing it. It wasn’t like an accidental walk-in.”
Police said Womack shot Dunlap several times after reportedly finding the man in his kitchen.
Womack said he is temporarily living elsewhere while the scene is being investigated. Another person’s apartment door was struck by gunfire, but no other injuries were reported.
A police spokesperson told TMZ Dunlap is believed to have been intoxicated when he came to Womack’s apartment.
Dunlap’s family member said he is now stable and expected to survive.
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Dish is offering to pay someone $1300 to watch 13 classic Stephen King films as part of their third Stephen King movie marathon this fall.
As CNBC reported, the winning participant will be asked to wear a Fitbit to track their heart rate while watching each film.
The winning participant will have to write down details about their experience like if they experienced any impact on their quality of sleep.
Dish says they are looking for a movie buff who is also an adrenaline junkie. They're looking for a detail-oriented candidate willing to track their experience watching the film.
The 13 classics that Dish wants the winner to watch are: Carrie, Christine, Creepshow, Cujo, Doctor Sleep, Firestarter, It, It Chapter Two, Misery, The Mist, Pet Sematary, Salem's Lot and The Shining.
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‘Big bad wolf’? Police capture pet wolf spotted near daycare
Published: Sep. 13, 2022 at 10:43 PM EDT|Updated: 15 minutes ago
OKLAHOMA CITY (Gray News) - Police officers in Oklahoma said they spotted a rare pet roaming the streets on Tuesday.
The Oklahoma City Police Department said officers helped capture a pet wolf that was reported as a lost animal.
According to the police department, a resident reported the pet, which is 85% wolf and 15% Alaskan Malamute, missing before it was seen near a daycare.
Officers said the “big bad wolf” was instead a “cuddly puppy” as they reunited the animal with its owner safe and sound.
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Southern California Girls Athlete of the Week
Athlete: Lizette Cervantes
School: Avalon
Sport: Volleyball
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PHOENIX — In theory, the Dodgers like what their bullpen could look like with Tommy Kahnle in it. In reality, it would be nice to see it for more than a week.
The veteran reliever was activated from the injured list on Tuesday, rejoining the Dodgers after missing four months with a forearm injury.
“Tommy’s been really good. He checked every box that we needed,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of Kahnle’s rehab assignment, during which he made seven appearances for Triple-A Oklahoma City, allowing three runs on seven hits while striking out seven in seven innings.
“To get a guy that’s pitched in high-leverage, pitched in big games to have him back in our ’pen is a huge add. He’s had a few days off so if it makes sense we’ll get him in there. But it’s going to be high velocity and a plus change.”
Kahnle’s forearm injury in May came on the heels of Tommy John surgery that sidelined him for the entire 2021 season. He has pitched in just five big-league games since the 2019 season – one with the Yankees in 2020 and four with the Dodgers in May. But it would probably take another injury to keep Kahnle off of the Dodgers’ postseason roster.
“I think the timing is good in the sense of he hasn’t pitched very much for us this year. So having a few weeks with him on our roster to get him kind of re-acclimated is a good thing,” Roberts said.
“Obviously with his track record I expect him to be healthy, I expect him to pitch well and I expect him to help us in the postseason.”
The Dodgers had those same expectations for Blake Treinen before he landed back on the IL last week with soreness in his shoulder. Roberts said “each day it’s gotten better” and Treinen could throw off a mound later this week.
CAT MAN
Infielder Gavin Lux is scheduled to take at-bats in a simulated-game situation against reliever Yency Almonte at Chase Field Wednesday. Both could return from injuries soon – Lux as soon as this weekend in San Francisco.
Reliever Brusdar Graterol and starter Tony Gonsolin are also scheduled to throw bullpen sessions Wednesday afternoon.
Of the group, Gonsolin’s throwing session could be the most important.
Roberts said Gonsolin’s first bullpen session since going on the IL with a forearm strain left the Dodgers manager neither “totally encouraged or discouraged.” According to Roberts, Gonsolin was still feeling some soreness in his forearm.
Gonsolin was scratched from a scheduled start on Aug. 29 and has not pitched since Aug. 23.
“I wouldn’t say it hurts. But he just doesn’t feel as strong as he feels he should be or as he has been in the past,” Roberts said. “So I’m kind of using my eyes, what I saw in the bullpen as far as the effort he’s exerting and talking to the trainers.”
Roberts acknowledged that it will be important to see improvement in Gonsolin’s bullpen session Wednesday.
“It’s important considering where we’re at on the calendar,” Roberts said. “He’s as frustrated as anyone. He’s done so much for us this year up to this point, so to even envision him not being a part of it is sort of frustrating for him.”
Not having Gonsolin available for a postseason rotation would force the Dodgers to re-think their pitching plans. But Roberts said he is still “confident” they won’t have to confront that possibility.
“But obviously every day, every ’pen that goes by that he’s not at full strength – a little less confident,” he said.
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Reliever Heath Hembree was designated for assignment to clear a roster spot for Kahnle. Hembree allowed six runs in 5-2/3 innings over six appearances with the Dodgers.
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CLEVELAND — When Mike Trout came to the plate in the eighth inning on Tuesday night, he had one thing on his mind: a home run.
Trout entered the game with a seven-game homer streak, one shy of the major league record, and he’d walked and hit a pair of fly balls in his first three trips to the plate.
“The first three at-bats I wasn’t (thinking about it), but my last one I was,” Trout said after the Angels’ 3-1 loss to the Cleveland Guardians. “I’m not gonna lie. That’s the nature of the thing, I guess. When I think home run, not good. As you saw. Chasing pitches. I was just amped up too much. Guess I got to start a new streak.”
Trout hit another fly out in his final trip, hitting a pitch that was above the strike zone, ending his chance at history. The major league record homer streak is eight games, achieved by Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Don Long in 1956 and matched by New York Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly in 1987 and Seattle Mariners outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. in 1993.
Trout is the sixth player to have his streak end at seven games since Griffey last reached eight.
After his homer on Monday night, Trout insisted that he wasn’t thinking about the streak, but he admitted on Tuesday that it was difficult to avoid.
“I’ve been thinking about it, for sure,” Trout said. “Everyone has been texting me. You guys are asking me all these questions. It’s kind of hard not to.”
The Guardians, who are fighting for their lives in a tight American League Central race, did not care to be a part of history.
Pitchers Cody Morris and Kirk McCarty – a pair of rookies who had pitched nine career big league games combined – pitched Trout even more carefully than opponents typically do.
Morris, a right-hander, did not throw Trout a pitch in the strike zone in either of his first two trips. Trout swung at a 2-and-0 pitch that was slightly outside in the first inning, hitting a fly ball to center field.
Afterward, Trout said that was the pitch.
“It was a good pitch, middle away, cut a little bit,” Trout said. “Just got it off the end.”
In the third, Morris walked Trout on four pitches when first base was open.
Trout came to the plate in the fifth inning with one out, a runner at first and the Angels up by a run, so the left-handed McCarty had to give him something. After falling behind 3-and-0, McCarty threw three pitches at the top of the strike zone. Trout took one, fouled one off, and then hit a fly ball to center.
Right-hander James Karinchak was on the mound in the eighth, and the best he gave Trout was a first-pitch fastball on the outside corner. Trout fouled it off. After that, he took a couple of pitches outside, then he swung at a pitch above the zone, hitting a routine fly to right field.
“That’s baseball,” Trout said. “There were a few pitches I could have hit. Just timing was a little off. Just got a little too big.”
The Angels’ only run was on a Matt Thaiss homer in the third inning. Thaiss’ second homer of the season gave them a 1-0 lead that left-hander José Suarez held until the fifth inning.
Suarez gave up a run in the fifth after a single, a wild pitch and two fly balls.
In the sixth, the Guardians hit him hard, though. José Ramirez yanked a double down the left field line. Oscar Gonzalez then spun on an 0-and-2 slider seemingly headed for his back foot and he lined it off the railing above the left-field fence, putting the Guardians up 3-1. Thaiss, the catcher, said the pitch was right where Suarez was supposed to throw it.
Suarez was knocked out after an out and another double, finishing his night with 5-1/3 innings and three runs allowed.
Suarez has a 2.14 ERA in his last eight starts, with 42 strikeouts and nine walks in his last 46-1/3 innings.
“I thought he pitched really well, gave us a chance to win, but we didn’t get much together offensively,” Manager Phil Nevin said. “Four hits. That’s not going to do it.”
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Pasadena City Council is set to interview a trio of candidates for a vacancy in District 3 on Thursday, Sept. 29, under a framework approved by the council this week.
The vacancy was created by the death of Councilman John J. Kennedy in July, which resulted in repercussions that have never had been faced in Pasadena.
Because the Council must be filled by Oct. 4 and it was too late to piggyback on the upcoming elections occurring in Los Angeles County this November, city leaders decided in August after hours of back-and-forth that they would fill the vacant seat on City Council by appointment.
It was also determined that the city charter does not grant Pasadena officials the ability to hold a special election themselves at a later date.
As a result, according to a city report, an ad hoc committee comprised of Mayor Victor Gordo, Councilmembers Tyron Hampton, Steve Madison, and Jess Rivas have met in recent weeks to discuss the specifics of the appointment process.
Gordo acknowledged during Council on Monday it will look a bit different than the years when Councilwoman Jess Rivas and Councilman Andy Wilson were selected.
According to Council, applicants will provide a 5- to 7-minute introduction and overview of their background, qualifications, and involvement in Pasadena and District 3 issues. They will then answer a set number of questions before councilmembers are given up to three additional minutes to ask unscripted questions.
Gordo said the changes provide “an opportunity to have more of a free flow discussion that’s based on follow up questions in the candidates record of involvement in Pasadena.”
Madison believed it’s key “to get as much input and feedback from the residents of that district as to what their wishes and expectations are,” he said, because the Council has been called on to determine who will represent a district that they are not a part of.
Councilman Andy Wilson seconded the sentiment, asking if it was possible for residents living in the district to submit questions for the applicants vying to be appointed.
“If we can publicize, you know, a call to those residents to submit questions,” Wilson said, that the city could track – that would be great.
Wilson also addressed any critics who believe a two-year appointment would be too long for the trio of candidates in the running, noting he and Councilwoman Jess Rivas were both appointed to serve a length of time only a few weeks less than what Rev. Lucious Smith, Brandon Lamar and Justin Jones will serve once they are selected.
“So it’s not wildly different,” Wilson said.
Gordo clarified the Council retains the ability to make two separate appointments, and “nothing predetermines” the initial appointment will be the second appointment.
“The council will have maximum flexibility,” Gordo said. “But I do think Mr. Madison’s point that we listen carefully to residents of District 3 is an important one.”
It’s also important to the ad-hoc committee, Gordo added, that members of the Council disclose if they had any contact or conversations with the applicants.
“I know I received, for example, phone calls from at least two of them,” Gordo said, “before they were formal candidates for appointment… mostly informing me that they would be throwing their hat in the ring.”
He also ran into “the third candidate at an event last week,” Gordo said. But no conversations were had about their “specific qualifications or candidacy.”
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Video of a Pasadena Police Department shooting that left one man dead in late July is now available on the city’s website.
Police shot and killed an alleged armed carjacking suspect following a pursuit on the morning of July 30, authorities said.
Pasadena officers became involved in the chase about 2:25 a.m., with the shooting occurring shortly after it ended, Lt. Keith Gomez said at the time. No officers were injured.
The coroner’s office later identified the suspect as Adam Youines, 35, of Montebello. He died at the scene.
“The Critical Incident Briefing video provides an overview of the entire incident and the posted videos include in-car video footage and audio recordings along with a short explanation of video content,” according to the city’s website.
“The actions of the suspect lasted approximately 35 minutes spanning several city blocks as well as segments of the CA 210 freeway,” according to the online report.
- Police video of officer-involved shooting here
The shooting is being investigated by the Pasadena Police Department Robbery and Homicide Detectives, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and the city of Pasadena.
Results of the department’s criminal investigation will be turned over to the District Attorney’s Office and ultimately, officials will determine whether officers acted within policy.
Under the department’s policy, officers shall use “only that amount of force that reasonably appears necessary given the facts and totality of the circumstances known to or perceived by the officer at the time of the event to accomplish a legitimate law enforcement purpose.”
The pursuit began when Monrovia Police Department reported to Pasadena Police Dispatch that they were pursuing a vehicle that had been carjacked in Pasadena on July 29, 2022.
Police said the suspect was armed with a handgun during the crime and that the suspect was potentially still armed.
About 18 minutes into the chase, Monrovia PD gave way to Pasadena PD, which picked it up the pursuit, according to police.
The chase found its way into a small shopping center in the 600 block of North Lake Ave., and police say that after several minutes of negotiating with the suspect to surrender peacefully, the shooting happened.
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Metra warns of service interruptions if freight railway strike happens
CHICAGO - If America's freight railroad workers strike on Friday, thousands of commuters in Chicago will have to find another way to get to work.
Even though the possible rail strike involves America's freight railroad companies, passenger lines like Metra and Amtrak use tracks owned by freight companies like BNSF and Union Pacific.
"Could be catastrophic for us commuters," one downtown commuter told FOX 32 Chicago.
"I'm scared. Hopefully it won't happen," said another.
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With a possible rail worker strike looming, Chicago Metra commuters are on edge about whether they will be able to keep riding the train to work after this week.
"I haven't seen a railroad strike like this in many, many years," said Joe Schwieterman, a transportation expert with DePaul University. "President Biden declared the 30-day cooling off period and that ends on Friday."
Schwieterman said while the freight railroad companies and the unions have mostly resolved salary issues, tens of thousands of workers still haven't seen an actual pay raise in almost two years.
"The sticking point now is just the militant attitude [the unions] claim the railroads have on time off, on missing work, on being penalized. They feel that's disrespectful, and they're pretty angry right now," he said.
Metra says if the strike happens, it will be forced to suspend service on four of its lines: the BNSF, and the Union Pacific North, Union Pacific Northwest and Union Pacific West lines.
In a statement, Metra said, "negotiations between the freight railroads and unions are ongoing, and we are hopeful that a settlement will be reached before the strike deadline. However, we want you to be aware of this issue so that you can make alternate plans for travel should a work stoppage occur."
If you commute on the Metra Electric or Rock Island lines, no need to worry, because Metra owns those tracks; its other five lines are right now in limbo.
Amtrak has preemptively canceled some of its long-distance routes, to avoid the possibility of its trains being stranded in other parts of the country. The deadline for the unions to come to an agreement with the unions is this Friday. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/metra-warns-of-service-interruptions-if-freight-railway-strike-happens | 2022-09-14T03:04:55Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/metra-warns-of-service-interruptions-if-freight-railway-strike-happens | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New eczema treatment approved for younger patients
CHICAGO - We've all had annoying mosquito bites that can drive us crazy, but imagine having to deal with that itchy sensation all the time.
That is what it's like for millions of Americans who deal with eczema.
There are medications to treat it, but until recently, children from six months to age five who weren't responding to those medications, didn't have many other options — until now.
There is now a new drug available for this age group.
You would never know by looking at her now, but five-year-old Ariah was often miserable with a continuous rash on her face and body that left her scratching and itching and not able to sleep.
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Ariah is one of thousands of kids who was constantly dealing with a common, but debilitating, skin condition known as atopic dermatitis, or eczema.
"She had a lot of patches on her face. Her hands were very affected. She had lots of like sorts of layers of scarring and patches of scabs on her neck, behind the neck, behind her in front and behind her knees and then on her ankles," said Ariah's mom, Sonia Dahliwa.
After trying every possible ointment and remedy available, Dahliwa was out of options — until she found Dr. Amy Paller.
Dr. Paller is a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University.
Ariah became part of a clinical trial for a drug that was being tested out for the first time on the youngest of eczema patients.
The new medicine is called Dupixent.
You've probably heard the commercials for Dupixent. It's been available for adults since 2017, but was only recently approved for those under five years old.
For children whose eczema is not being controlled, it's being called a game changer.
"These kids are just miserable. They're itching all the time," said Dr, Paller. "It affects mood, it affects your ability to be awake and function well in school. It also affects your relationships because this is a highly visible skin problem, so everyone can see it right in front of them."
Eczema is a skin problem that affects up to 20 percent of children in the U.S.
It causes red, dry, bumpy and itchy patches, and can develop within the first six months of life.
Current medications can make a difference, but for those who don't benefit, Dupixent is filling a gap.
"Sixteen percent have moderately severe disease so that one-third of children who just don't respond adequately to the topical agents, we've always had to move up to the next levels and that level for the most part was going to immunosuppressive medicines. We don't like to use oral steroids because they have so many side effects," said Dr. Paller.
The drug is administered by shot once a month.
In children with moderate to severe eczema, they were often getting multiple injections per month and continuing to come in regularly for laboratory visits.
Looking at Ariah now, you can barely see any signs of her eczema.
Her family hasn't only noticed a physical difference, but also says her mood has changed. Even her big sister admits she is more fun to play with.
"It was like a different child that I felt like we lost her along the way if that makes sense. And then she came back to us. You know, we were like this is the real Ariah," said Dahliwa.
Dr. Paller says one of the other huge benefits of Dupixent is that it has an incredible safety profile.
She says it's revolutionized how doctors treat children and encourages parents who have run out of options to talk to their dermatologist or pediatrician. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/new-medication-now-available-for-kids-who-deal-with-eczema | 2022-09-14T03:05:07Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/new-medication-now-available-for-kids-who-deal-with-eczema | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Some Chicagoans put pressure on city leaders to end mega festivals like Riot Fest
CHICAGO - Just days before the return of Riot Fest, neighbors of Douglass Park are putting more pressure on the city to stop mega festivals.
On Tuesday, members of Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood presented a letter to city leaders.
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This weekend's Riot Fest is the third massive festival to be held at Douglass Park this year. Neighbors have complained that the event negatively impacts the community and limits park access for residents.
A spokesperson for Riot Fest told FOX 32 Chicago in part, "We understand the concerns from residents and want to do everything to mitigate those concerns and remain a positive asset to the community...Today as part of our effort to support local businesses, we launched a new app with a map of area stores, cafés and other businesses." | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/some-chicagoans-put-pressure-on-city-leaders-to-end-mega-festivals-like-riot-fest | 2022-09-14T03:05:13Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/some-chicagoans-put-pressure-on-city-leaders-to-end-mega-festivals-like-riot-fest | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Blackhawks D Jake McCabe sidelined by spine surgery
CHICAGO - Blackhawks defenseman Jake McCabe will miss the start of the season after he had cervical spine surgery.
Team physician Michael Terry said Tuesday that McCabe is expected to return in 10 to 12 weeks. There was no word on when exactly McCabe had the surgery.
McCabe, who turns 29 on Oct. 12, had four goals and a career-best 18 assists in 75 games last season. He signed a $16 million, four-year contract with Chicago in July 2021.
Forward prospect Jalen Luypen also will miss the start of the season because of a left rotator cuff injury. The team said he is expected to return in 14 to 18 weeks.
The 20-year-old Luypen was selected by Chicago in the seventh round of the 2021 draft. He signed an entry level contract in August that runs through the 2024-25 season with a salary-cap hit of $859,166.67. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/blackhawks-d-jake-mccabe-sidelined-by-spine-surgery | 2022-09-14T03:05:25Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/blackhawks-d-jake-mccabe-sidelined-by-spine-surgery | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
No timetable for La Russa's return as White Sox return home
CHICAGO - White Sox manager Tony La Russa will watch the team’s home series against Colorado from a suite while he awaits clearance to return to the dugout.
The 77-year-old La Russa is on the mend after leaving the White Sox on Aug. 30 to deal with a heart issue. La Russa rejoined the team in Oakland on Sunday and then flew home with the club for the two-game set against the Rockies.
There is no timetable for the Hall of Famer when it comes to returning to the stress of in-game managing. Chicago begins a four-game trip on Thursday in Cleveland.
"For now, it’s just taking it day by day and following the lead of the medical professionals and talking to Tony," general manager Rick Hahn said Tuesday.
La Russa is in the second season of his second stint as White Sox manager. Bench coach Miguel Cairo is running the team while La Russa is out.
Chicago won nine of its first 13 games after Cairo took over, strengthening its bid for a third consecutive playoff appearance.
"Today I’m the manager. Tomorrow I don’t know," Cairo said. "But that’s in my job right now and I’m glad (La Russa is) around because I always ask him questions about what I could have done better or different or stuff like that. He got experience. He’s a mentor. He’s like a father to me. I care about him and I’m glad he’s well. He’s in good spirits."
Hahn said it’s "too soon" to address how La Russa’s health affects the team’s managerial situation for next year.
"Look, we’ve been trying to navigate the last few weeks under unique circumstances, and I think the team has done very well," Hahn said. "And obviously, everyone’s noted that. But as for what lies ahead for next year, it’s simply too soon for that."
All-Star shortstop Tim Anderson moved closer to a potential return when he was cleared Tuesday to begin ramping up his baseball activity. He had surgery last month to repair a tear on the middle finger of his left hand.
Anderson is batting .301 with six homers, 25 RBIs and 13 steals this season. The White Sox signed veteran shortstop Elvis Andrus after Anderson got hurt, and Andrus hit .293 with five homers and 20 RBIs in his first 22 games with his new team.
Hahn said Anderson might be ready to return during the team’s next homestand.
"Once we get a little closer to that, we’ll come up with a plan for how we’re going to figure out how to incorporate both of them on a fairly regular basis going forward," Hahn said of Anderson and Andrus.
Hahn met with the media via Zoom after he tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. He said he had some mild flu-like symptoms and a little cough.
Center fielder Luis Robert returned to the starting lineup for the opener against Colorado after missing five games because of left wrist soreness. Robert is batting .295 with 12 homers and 56 RBIs in 92 games. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/no-timetable-for-la-russas-return-as-white-sox-return-home | 2022-09-14T03:05:31Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/sports/no-timetable-for-la-russas-return-as-white-sox-return-home | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A substitute teacher at a Louisiana school is accused of offering students $5 each to bully and attack one of their classmates, police said.
Aadrina Smith, 24, was arrested Monday and charged with five counts of contributing to the delinquency of juveniles and malfeasance in office.
The charges stem from an Aug. 23 incident at North Caddo Elementary Middle School in Vivian, about 32 miles northwest of Shreveport.
Smith, who was a substitute physical education teacher, allegedly offered to pay five students $5 each to tackle their classmate, the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook statement. A motive was not disclosed.
Video allegedly showed Smith "verbally communicating" with the students and appearing to congratulate three of them who participated, authorities said.
"The substitute teacher sat on the bleachers while the victim laid on the gym floor and later got up. Smith never helped the victim and did not report the incident," according to the statement.
It was unclear if Smith had an attorney.
A spokesperson for the Caddo Parish Public Schools said the teacher was fired over the incident and the school's principal alerted the authorities.
"The Caddo Parish School Board expects employees to conduct themselves professionally and in the interest of students at all times," the spokesperson said in a statement. "Throughout the investigation, the district and school have fully cooperated with law enforcement." | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/louisiana-substitute-teacher-accused-of-offering-students-money-to-bully-and-attack-their-classmate/article_3558fd18-33c6-11ed-ac90-cb43eef108d9.html | 2022-09-14T03:15:31Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/louisiana-substitute-teacher-accused-of-offering-students-money-to-bully-and-attack-their-classmate/article_3558fd18-33c6-11ed-ac90-cb43eef108d9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KENNEWICK, Wash. - A heavy police presence has been confirmed around Clearwater Avenue and Edison Street. SWAT is on scene along with Richland, Kennewick and Pasco police departments.
Westbound Clearwater is closed from Edison to Irving Place, with no estimated time for reopening. Drivers can only head South on Edison around Clearwater.
This is a developing story, which means information could change. We are working to report timely and accurate information as we get it. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/clearwater-ave-closed-swat-and-police-respond-to-apartments/article_c6362b5e-33cf-11ed-9e3d-c7399c28c09f.html | 2022-09-14T03:15:37Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/clearwater-ave-closed-swat-and-police-respond-to-apartments/article_c6362b5e-33cf-11ed-9e3d-c7399c28c09f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA COUNTY - A flash flood warning around Cliffdell has been issued on September 13, 2022 by the National Weather Service in Pendleton.
NWS first issued the alert at 4:45 p.m., saying it is valid for the next two hours.
Those in the area are told to move immediately to higher ground and quickly move away from the burn scar area. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/flash-flood-warning-issued-near-cliffdell/article_86ee1568-33c2-11ed-a774-cf84476606ab.html | 2022-09-14T03:15:43Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/flash-flood-warning-issued-near-cliffdell/article_86ee1568-33c2-11ed-a774-cf84476606ab.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TOPPENISH, Wash. - Heritage University will honor its name but paying tribute to Mexican culture on Friday by hosting 'El Grito de Independencia' and an event for the whole family.
El Grito refers to the cry for independence that was given first in 1810 by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. His shouts for freedom started the revolution and the Mexican War of Independence which went on for 11 years. In 1821, Mexico became free from Spain. However, independence is celebrated from the first cry for freedom starting the night of September 15 and going into September 16.
Organizer of El Grito Martin Valadez said it is important to hold the event on the Toppenish campus because of the large Hispanic community in the area.
"Our students are 70% Hispanic and we live in a community that has a lot of Mexicans, Texans, Latin American descent we want to share this great event with them and their culture with them and its important for them to have a place to go to celebrate part of their culture and history," Valadez said.
The celebration is on September 16, at 6 p.m. and the shout is at 7:30 p.m. There will be a band, folkloric dances, a DJ and more so our community can celebrate together. People who aren't Mexican or Latino are also invited to check out the event.
"This is a great time to come and just learn and share with people again," Valadez said. "It's a good time to interact with your neighbors." | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/heritage-university-hosts-el-grito-de-independencia-friday/article_e05a5a12-33c2-11ed-94b5-036b680a7fbd.html | 2022-09-14T03:15:49Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/heritage-university-hosts-el-grito-de-independencia-friday/article_e05a5a12-33c2-11ed-94b5-036b680a7fbd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHLAND, Wash. — The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s Office in Richland will swear in 21 new citizens at a naturalization ceremony on September 14. The immigrants will be sworn in before Judge Edward F. Shea at the Courthouse and Federal Building on Jadwin Avenue, starting at 10 a.m.
The 21 new citizens hail from seven different countries; Somalia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mexico, the Philippines, India and China.
The citizens can register to vote with representatives from the auditor’s office and the Washington League of Women Voters. Following the ceremony, the Daughters of the American Revolution will hold a reception for the new citizens. They will receive a pin of the American flag from the Sons of the American Revolution. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/naturalization-ceremony-to-swear-in-21-new-citizens/article_5da478f4-33c8-11ed-a6bc-b7b73c95e74f.html | 2022-09-14T03:15:55Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/naturalization-ceremony-to-swear-in-21-new-citizens/article_5da478f4-33c8-11ed-a6bc-b7b73c95e74f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, Wash. — On Saturday, September 10, detectives believe four-year-old Lucian left the playground at Sarg Hubbard park alone, headed south and east, before disappearing, igniting nationwide search efforts for the missing boy. Resources from across the state have been employed in the search, including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which partnered with the Ring Neighbors App to feature Lucian on the app.
Days after Lucian’s disappearance, there has been no Amber Alert issued for him, raising questions from many concerned citizens. Other statewide alerts have been issued.
Amber Alerts must be requested by law enforcement through a form with five criteria points, according to Carri Gordon, the Washington State Patrol’s Manager of Missing and Unidentified Persons Unit. All points have to be met, or an Amber Alert can not be issued. These include:
A child (or children) under 17 who are known to have been abducted, not a runaway or throw away
In danger of serious bodily injury or death
Activation within four hours of the event, unless not reported
Descriptive information that is enough for the public to help find the child
Reported and investigated by law enforcement
At this time, there is no evidence in Lucian’s case that he was abducted, according to Gordon, which keeps his case from warranting an Amber Alert. She noted the case does not have suspect information or vehicle information, mostly just Lucian’s photo, which Gordon said has been circulated well.
Gordon does not think an Amber Alert would provide any additional assistance in Lucian’s case.
The public is now asked to continue the search for Lucian. Call any tips in to 9-1-1. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/why-no-amber-alert-has-been-ordered-for-missing-lucian/article_dbb356de-33c3-11ed-8363-771a589b0b04.html | 2022-09-14T03:16:01Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/why-no-amber-alert-has-been-ordered-for-missing-lucian/article_dbb356de-33c3-11ed-8363-771a589b0b04.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Two men from Yakima County pleaded guilty to insurance fraud following investigation by the Office of the Insurance Commissioner’s Criminal Investigations Unit (CIU). Both Ricardo Carmona and Saul Perez will have to pay $600 in court fees and undergo three months of electronic home monitoring.
Ricardo Carmona, from Yakima, was in a car collision in February 2021, according to the CIU investigation. He reportedly did not have insurance, so he called Saul Perez, an insurance agent from Wapato, to create a policy.
Despite knowing about the collision, Perez wrote a policy for Carmona, according to the press release from the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. That policy was investigated, and the CIU reports the collision was misrepresented. It says Perez changed the time of the collision, to make it seem like it happened after the policy was made.
Perez and Carmona made statements about the collision that were later questioned, like whether the policy was written in-person or on the phone, and whether or not Carmona had seen the car, according to the press release. When Perez was questioned about the inconsistencies, he reportedly admitted the collision happened before the policy was made. He said he had been “trying to help him out.”
The claim, for nearly $11,000, was denied and referred to the CIU, which is required by state law. Both men pleaded guilty to false claims, attempted first degree theft and criminal conspiracy charges. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-county-men-plead-guilty-to-insurance-fraud/article_0ca4e11e-33cd-11ed-9ba5-0fc1e061e9d5.html | 2022-09-14T03:16:07Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-county-men-plead-guilty-to-insurance-fraud/article_0ca4e11e-33cd-11ed-9ba5-0fc1e061e9d5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Before 2015, getting conviction for rape was an herculean task but that is in the past with the introduction of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act 2015 which expanded the meaning of rape and its prohibition beyond the limited scope of earlier laws which provide that rape can only occur with vaginal penetration without consent
The Act in line with current realities took cognisance of the fact that sex has gone beyond the primary sex organs and thus, extended its provisions of rape to include anus and mouth. Now, the issue of forceful anal or oral sex is accommodated under our laws.
With the VAPP Act, rape has occurred when a person intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus or mouth of another person with any other part of his or her body or anything else without consent and even when there is consent but it is obtained by force, threat, intimidation or fraudulent representation as to the nature of the act or via the use of any substance or additive capable of taking away the will of the person or in the case of a married person by impersonating his or her spouse. Also, under the VAPP, a male can be raped and is protected.
Section 1 of the VAPP provides that a person commits the offence of rape if he or she intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus or mouth of another person with any part of his or her body or anything else. Section 1 (b) emphasises that rape occurs when the other person does not consent to the penetration; and (c) when consent is obtained by force or means of threat or intimidation of any kind or by fear of harm or by means of false and fraudulent representation as to the nature of the act or the use of any substance or additive capable of taking away the will of such person or in the case of a married person by impersonating his or her spouse.
In section 2, VAPP provides that a person convicted of an offence under subsection (1) of this section is liable to imprisonment for life except where the offender is less than 14 years of age; the offender is liable to a maximum of 14 years of imprisonment. In all other cases, to a minimum of 12 years imprisonment, in the case of rape by a group of persons, the offenders are liable jointly to a minimum of 20 years imprisonment without an option of fine.
Also, the court shall award appropriate compensation to the victim as it may deem fit in the circumstance and a register for convicted sexual offender shall be maintained and accessible to the public.
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The Tabloids Are Having A Field Day With Leonardo DiCaprio & Gigi Hadid Rumors
Leonardo DiCaprio has only been publicly single for two weeks, but already people are linking him up with yet another model half his age (OK, to be fair, she’s only twenty years younger than him). You’ve probably heard the rumors and brushed them off as ridiculous hearsay, but at this point, we have no choice but to address them. The very newly-single DiCaprio is apparently interested in Gigi Hadid, and she may or may not be reciprocating those feelings depending on which gossip outlet you read.
We know what you’re thinking, Hadid is 27 years old, past DiCaprio’s infamous, unofficial age limit of 25. He did just broke up with Camila Morrone a few months after her 25th birthday, so either he takes that cut off seriously, or he just has terrible timing. It is possible, though, that DiCaprio is making an exception for Hadid, because while at first the rumors the two were linked sounded pretty far-fetched, as time goes on, they seem to gain (slightly) more credibility.
According to People, nothing too serious is going on between Hadid and DiCaprio at the moment. “They are getting to know each other,” a source told the site, and they aren’t “dating” as of now. That being said, the source added that “Leo is definitely pursuing Gigi.” Still the fact the item appeared on People’s website in the first place is something. Unlike some of its peers, People tends to play it safe when it comes to wild rumors.
Apparently, the two have been “hanging out with groups of people” and they were spotted over the weekend at a Fashion Week party together, according to Us Weekly. Of course, that could very well mean nothing at all. New York Fashion Week is a busy time for Hadid and she’s likely expected to be at many parties, and DiCaprio attending the same one as her isn’t exactly surprising. Even if they did chat a bit, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything is going on between them. But hey, a DiCaprio/Hadid relationship would be an interesting turn of events, and it might mean the actor is turning over a new leaf, and in his 47th year, he’s finally ready to date a woman of the mature age of 27. Then, again, who knows if Hadid is ready to be that woman. All of the men she’s been previously linked to have been within about 5 years of her own age. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/leonardo-dicaprio-gigi-hadid-dating-rumors | 2022-09-14T03:19:01Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/leonardo-dicaprio-gigi-hadid-dating-rumors | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
White Suits, Sequins, and Tulle Ruled the Night at the 2022 Emmy Awards
When an actor chooses an ensemble for an award show like the Emmys, assumedly, their goal is to look good, end up on one or two best dressed lists, and standout. Sometimes, though, like-minded stylists unknowingly put their clients in looks of the same vein, which is how, say, four men show up to the Emmys in white suits. Luckily, no one was completely matching on the red carpet on Monday evening, and we didn’t have a Mariah Carey/Whitney Houston MTV Video Music Awards moment on our hands (though, wouldn’t that have been fun?). Still, there were a few trends that were so ubiquitous, you may have had to pause the pre-show to Google, “Are the Emmys sequined themed this year?” They weren’t, but a scroll through red carpet photos could convince you otherwise. And sparkles were hardly alone in the amount of attention they received at the 2022 Emmy Awards. In a world where beautiful dresses and suits are created every day, the amount of overlap on Monday night has seemingly no explanation.
White Suits
The more traditional-leaning male celebrities often seem to struggle when it comes to dressing for red carpet events. They’re not ready to go fully backless à la Timothée Chalamet, but they don’t want to blend into the sea of suits in a tailored black look. It seems like last night, the go-to solution for this common conundrum was simply, “let’s just make it white.” Four men showed up in all-white looks to the Emmys, simultaneously proving that the Labor Day rule is now outdated, and all-white is quickly becoming the new all-black, a way to look chic and fashionable, without dealing with any pesky color theory. To be fair, each star added a bit of his own personality to the suits. John Legend’s set was subtly emblazoned with the Gucci logo, while Seth Rogen matched his look to his hair. Nicholas Braun added a touch of bling with some Fred Leighton collar clips, and Andrew Garfield went for the more casual accessory choice of Arnette sunglasses.
Garfield in Zegna.
Braun in Dior Men.
Legend in Gucci.
Rogen in Brunello Cucinelli.
Sequins
It’s normal to see a fair share of sequins at an award show or premiere. They’re a go-to for designers when it comes to red carpet looks for one simple reason—they’re pretty. They sparkle and shine and can be manipulated in ways to mimic patterns like plaid, florals, or patchwork. They can turn a simple silhouette into an eye catching ensemble, and they come to life under the stage lights and flashing bulbs of the paparazzi. Ahead of Monday night, however, everyone seemed to have that same idea, and the result was a shimmering fever dream. Not that we’re complaining. Some of these sequined looks were the best of the night, but these actresses do know other embellishments exist, right?
Jung Ho-yeon in Louis Vuitton.
Christina Ricci in Fendi couture.
Amanda Seyfried in Armani Privé.
Reese Witherspoon in Armani Privé.
Britt Lower in Cucculleli Shaheen.
Amy Poehler in Halston.
Chrissy Teigen in Naeem Khan.
Sandra Oh in Rodarte.
Vanessa Bayer in Christian Siriano.
Tulle
And where there are sequins, there will be tulle—the two go together like princess-themed birthday parties and those Barbie cakes where the base doubles as her skirt. Kaley Cuoco looked like she belonged atop a mound of funfetti cake in her light pink Dolce & Gabbana gown, which featured a cut tulle mini skirt which extended to the floor around back. The bustier bodice was decorated with rosettes of various pink fabrics, but could have easily be rendered in buttercream frosting. A similar skirt was seen on Lizzo, as well, though the transition from short to long was a little more seamless on the artist’s red hot Giambattista Valli dress. The cut tulle covering her bust and arms burst out with energy as Lizzo accepted her first ever Emmy onstage, just as the tiers of turquoise fabric added some much-needed dimension to Melanie Lynskey’s custom Christian Siriano. Hannah Waddingham wore the only tulle dress of the night that wasn’t cut, and it suffered for that reason, the layers of baby pink hanging heavy of her corseted bodice, creating a dress that may have been more fitting at senior prom than a Hollywood award show.
Lizzo in Giambattista Valli.
Cuoco in Dolce & Gabbana.
Waddingham in Dolce & Gabbana.
Lynskey in custom Christian Siriano.
Capes of all Kinds
And last but not least is the trend that saw the most variety on the Emmys red carpet—capes. Coming in the form of overskirts starting at the waist, split up on separate shoulder blades, or tied around the neck to turn the wearer into a sort of fashionable Wonder Woman off-duty, they all had the effect of adding strength and glamour to the looks on which they were attached. First time nominees Sydney Sweeney and Elle Fanning both flirted with cape skirts. Fanning’s paid tribute to Old Hollywood while Sweeney was seemingly inspired by this year’s Gilded Glamour Met Gala theme, with an extra bustle really upping the volume. Ariana DeBose, Nicole Byer, Connie Britton, and Ayo Edebiri, meanwhile, represented the full-length capes. DeBose and Byer embraced the split variety, with fabric emerging from each side of their back, while Britton and Edebiri went more classic. Britton’s coral cape tied around her neck, delicately covering one shoulder, while the one attached to The Bear star’s Giambattista Valli mini dress emphasized the superhero she proved to be on her breakout role in the FX show.
Sweeney in custom Oscar de la Renta.
Fanning in custom Sharon Long.
Kerry Washington in Elie Saab.
Edebiri in Giambattista Valli.
Britton in Monique Lhuillier.
DeBose in Prabal Gurung.
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