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Project will destroy wetlands in scenic Great Pee Dee River and harm vulnerable communities
PAMPLICO, S.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Energy, one of the nation's top polluters, has immediate plans to condemn the land of several African-American heirs and working class citizens as part of their proposed pipeline project, which would run along the Great Pee Dee River and through several communities, including Pamplico. To address these urgent issues and build continued community support, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League will host a meeting on Saturday, September 24 from 10:00am to 1:00pm at Pamplico Public Library, which is located at 100 Main Street in Pamplico.
Pamplico is a rural area already plagued with poverty and public health problems, and Dominion's plans will only exacerbate these issues. BREDL has recently received word from its members that Dominion is moving forward with its plans to condemn the heirs property of Florence County residents to build its 14.5 mile long pipeline, which will run from the gas regulating station at River Neck Road, east of North Old River Road and South Old River Road to its termination with a connection at the Kingsburg Valve Station near the intersection of South Old River Road and East Brazen Road.
"It's unconscionable what Dominion Energy is trying to do," said Kathy Andrews, Director of Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League. "They have threatened and intimidated property owners to sign away their land for an unnecessary pipeline that will not only devastate wetlands and the environment of endangered species in our communities but will destroy a way of life for people who have depended on the Great Pee Dee River and the surrounding land for decades."
BREDL is also very concerned about the pipeline's construction on nearby waters, including Jefferies Creek, Barfield Mill Creek, Mills Branch, Briar Branch, Bigham Branch, Bullock Branch, and other tributaries of the Great Pee Dee River.
"At SCELP, we believe that environmental protection and justice go hand in hand, and we are proud to represent BREDL in their pursuit for environmental justice for the Pamplico community," said Lauren Milton, Staff Attorney with South Carolina Environmental Law Project, which represents BREDL in their environmental fight against the Dominion pipeline.
"Based on all the facts we have gathered during the last two years, there is absolutely no reason to disrupt the communities along the Great Pee Dee River with a second gas pipeline," said Lou Zeller, Strategic Advisor for BREDL. "Dominion Energy is trying to bulldoze and bully residents whose farms, families and livelihoods depend on a healthy river. The company would destroy all of this for its own private gain. The people of Pamplico are saying, 'Go home, you're not welcome here!'"
Meeting Information:
Urgent Community Meeting
Saturday, September 24
10:00am – 1:00pm
Pamplico Public Library
100 Main Street, Pamplico, SC 29583
Media contact:
Kathy Andrews
Director, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
kandrews@bredl.org
(843) 698-9816
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NEWARK, N.J, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PLM Fleet, the nation's largest technology-driven fleet management company dedicated exclusively to the cold supply chain, recognizes 50 successful years. Since it was founded in 1972, PLM has managed customized leasing partnerships, each crafted to address the customer's unique business needs.
With their comprehensive fleet management approach, PLM Fleet creates flexible and customer-specific solutions to reduce costs and drive productivity for businesses nationwide. Located in the state-of-the-art fleet solutions center in Newark, NJ, PLM is recognized as the only nationwide company that is dedicated exclusively to the leasing, renting, and ColdLink® telematics of over 13,000 refrigerated trailers. With 32 locations nationwide, PLM conveniently offers equipment in all the key markets.
"I can think of no better way to honor PLM's 50th Anniversary than to win for the 3rd consecutive year the NJ Top Workplace award,'' said Keith Shipp, President and CEO. "This year our team has innovated and launched several new digital tools to support our customers and streamline their operations. We have focused on how to drive engagement and simplify interactions for our customers, and it is so gratifying to see our employees champion this direction forward.''
PLM continues to implement new ways to improve efficiency and customer service. Recently the company launched computerized inspections of leased vehicles to streamline and integrate operations. MyPLM, a secure, online customer platform, has released new enhancements to manage invoices, rental reservations, damage notifications, and ColdLink® telematics for trailer location, temperature monitoring, mileage, and more.
Among recent product launches, PLM has introduced Zero Emissions trailers, the only CARB (California Air Resources Board) compliant refrigerated units for multi and single temperature applications, and PLM TrustLink™, a comprehensive, cloud IoT management platform that provides real-time, track and trace capabilities for the sensitive cold supply chain.
PLM Fleet is the largest nationwide, technology-driven company dedicated to refrigerated trailer leasing and cold supply chain solutions. Located in the state-of-the-art fleet solutions center in Newark, NJ, PLM is recognized as the only nationwide company dedicated to exclusively leasing, renting, and maintaining comprehensive fleet management of over 13,000 refrigerated trailers. PLM's services include new trailer leasing, new trailer design and OEM ordering, short term leasing of existing trailers, flexible rental options, onsite maintenance, emergency breakdown service, GPS, temperature management, and lifecycle cost savings for its customers.
Media contact:
Linda Hadley
PLM Fleet
862-229-6502
marketing@plmfleet.com
plmfleet.com
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The landmark DMT and psilocybin-like prodrug, psilacetin, patch formulations are designed for patient comfort and useability. The patch design could provide a non-invasive and dose-controlled method of treatment for substance use disorders, PTSD and depression
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Psilera Inc. ("Psilera"), a biopharmaceutical company optimizing next-generation mental health treatments, announces the patent approval of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and psilacetin (4-AcO-DMT and psilocybin-like prodrug) transdermal patch formulations. Transdermal application allows patients to dose topically while receiving treatment through the surface of their skin, overcoming the need for intravenous needles and episodic oral dosing. This patient-first approach may solve many of the current industry pitfalls, such as length of treatment time, lack of take-home treatment options, and insurance reimbursement.
"This patent allowance from the U.S. Patent Attorney's Office marks a flagship milestone for Psilera and the broader mental health industry," said Dr. Chris Witowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Psilera. "We expect several patent issuances for Psilera's new chemical entity library, formulations, and methods of use and treatment over the coming months."
Psilera is actively discussing potential patent out-licensing and partnership opportunities with parties interested in working together for first-in-human clinical trials. Currently, Psilera has projects with leading industry, governmental, and academic institutions to study the safety and therapeutic effects of DMT and psilacetin administered in sub-hallucinogenic dosages.
Psilera leverages a world-class scientific and pharmaceutical team that reexamines and repurposes psychotropic natural products into effective and accessible patient-centric treatments. Their drug discovery process combines novel syntheses with the proprietary Psilera Third Eye™ computing platform to optimize next-generation neurological drugs at the atomic level.
Investor Contact:
Collin Gage
cgage@psilera.com
Media Contact:
Katie DeMarsh
Katie@psilera.com
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SlimFast encourages intermittent fasters to choose smart, simple and tasty options that will support them throughout their fasting journey
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- While it's reported that more than 12 million U.S. households practice intermittent fasting1, limited products and resources have been available to support the intermittent fasting approach. Enter SlimFast, a leading global weight management brand, that announced today the first-ever nationally distributed intermittent fasting product line*. Designed to help people feel confident and supported throughout their fasting journey, the collection offers products fit for various lifestyles and fasting goals. With a range of protein shake mixes, hydrating electrolyte drink mixes and complete meal bars – each product can support specific phases, whether it's to help curb hunger, provide nutrients or to provide energy and flavor to the fasting cycle.
"SlimFast is a brand that brings over 40 years of experience in the field of weight management, and we not only have a pulse on the evolving needs of consumers – we are committed to providing a variety of offerings that deliver on need states, taste and accessibility," said Sarah Lombard, senior brand director at SlimFast. "We saw a need for nationally distributed, accessible products that offer solutions to help people before, during and after their fast. These new products will meet people exactly where they are and give them simple, smart and satisfying solutions to successfully practice intermittent fasting."
SlimFast's philosophy of real simple, real tasty, real results comes to life through the offerings in the new intermittent fasting line, which is full of craveable flavors, and several options designed to address specific stages of the eating and fasting zones.
SlimFast Intermittent Fasting Snack Shake Mix*
Fuel up before your fast or as a filling treat in your eating zone
Available in decadent Double Chocolate Cake and Vanilla Cupcake flavors, these delicious shakes are packed with 15g of slow-digesting protein2 and 6 grams of fiber. Formulated with hunger control in mind, these shake mixes can be enjoyed when preparing to fast to help curb hunger — or any time during the allocated eating zone.
SlimFast Intermittent Fasting Energizing Hydration Supplement Drink Mix*
Enjoy anytime during your eating or fasting zone.
- Introducing a tasty beverage alternative to black coffee, water or tea, these fruity drink mixes come in Berry Lemonade and Fruit Punch flavors. Each drink mix3 has zero sugar, one gram of carbs and combines hydrating electrolytes and 100 mg of caffeine from natural sources to help support energy and focus without breaking your fast.
SlimFast Intermittent Fasting Complete Meal Bars*
Strategically break your fast and power the eating cycle
- With two delicious flavors, Chocolate Nut Crunch and Vanilla Almond Crunch, these complete meal bars are packed with nutrition, making them a smart and satisfying way to break the fasting cycle. These convenient and great-tasting complete meal bars are crafted with 15 grams of protein, 10 grams of fiber and 24 vitamins and minerals.
"One of the well understood benefits of intermittent fasting is that it can assist in helping individuals consume less calories, yet there are few options on the market to actually help consumers stay committed to their fasting zones," said Maryann Walsh, registered dietitian and SlimFast consultant. "These new offerings from SlimFast bring consumers easy-to-use, delicious options that support them during their eating and fasting zones, so they can successfully achieve their milestones and feel confident they have the tools to properly practice intermittent fasting."
The new intermittent fasting line can easily complement the SlimFast Plan or be enjoyed alongside a do-it-yourself weight management approach. In addition to setting people up for success through the new offerings, the brand also provides tools such as a supportive community on Facebook, resources online and even an intermittent fasting timer in the SlimFast app.
The SlimFast Intermittent Fasting Protein Shake Mix comes in a 10-serving canister for $16.49, the Energizing Hydration Supplement Drink Mix comes in a 12-count box for $9.99 and the Complete Meal Bars come in 5-count boxes for $9.99. All products are available for purchase online at Walmart.com, SlimFast.com and in-store at Walmart locations nationwide.
For more information on the new SlimFast intermittent fasting product line, as well as other SlimFast products and store locations, please visit slimfast.com.
Part of Glanbia Performance Nutrition, SlimFast was founded to help people achieve their weight loss goals safely, reliably and with ease. Since 1977, the SlimFast plan has helped millions of people around the world lose and manage their weight. The creator of the meal-replacement shake category, SlimFast now features a full assortment of delicious ready-to-drink and shake mixes, snacks and meal replacement bars. SlimFast products can be found in specialty and mass retail stores nationwide and most online retailers. For more information, visit slimfast.com or manage your weight your way through the SlimFast Together App, available on Apple and Google Play. Follow the brand on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.
Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Glanbia (ISE/LSE: GLAPF), a global nutrition company. GPN's mission is to inspire people everywhere to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals through their leading health and wellness brands including Optimum Nutrition®, SlimFast®, think!®, Isopure®, Amazing Grass® and BSN®, among others. Revenues for GPN in 2021 were approximately $1.4 billion. Visit glanbiaperformancenutrition.com or glanbia.com to learn more. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
1 Source: IPSOS Intermittent Fasting Deep Dive (Weight Managers) November 2021 S4
2 Relative to whey protein
3 When consumed with at least 16.9 fl oz water
*Not a low calorie food. See nutrition facts for sugar, calorie, and saturated fat content. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGH, a full-service marketing and communications agency for restaurant franchises and more, recently debuted a complete brand refresh for U.S. locations of bb.q Chicken – a Korean fried chicken franchise that operates more than 3,500 stores across 57 countries and was recently named one of the fastest growing restaurant chains in the U.S.
MGH rolled out new and modern creative across all aspects of bb.q Chicken's brand image, including its website, social media and in franchise locations across the U.S.
- The newly redesigned consumer and franchise websites feature a modern aesthetic, consumer-friendly navigation, simpler online ordering and better depiction of the core elements of the brand.
- bb.q Chicken's social media platforms, including Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, were overhauled to showcase the Korean authenticity of the brand and to effectively connect with American customers.
- Franchise locations across the country will receive a new visual identity focused on making the brand more approachable to U.S. customers, including updated storefront branding describing bb.q Chicken as "Korea's Finest Fried Chicken," product posters, menu designs and more.
The brand refresh also included the addition of a new tagline and manifesto that embody the quality and authenticity of the bb.q Chicken franchise and its products. Leading up to the creative overhaul, MGH executed in-depth consumer and market research to identify key brand differentiators that highlight bb.q Chicken's new visual identity. Moving forward, MGH will continue to promote bb.q Chicken and the new branding to U.S. customers through a cohesive marketing plan, including social media content creation, public relations, influencer marketing and store opening support.
"MGH is thrilled to have the opportunity to help one of the fastest growing restaurant franchises refresh its look and feel to help better showcase its authentic flavors and better appeal to an American audience," said MGH CEO Andy Malis. "We are confident that this work will help bb.q Chicken reach its goal of drawing attention to its superior product on the national stage, while demonstrating why they are known as Korea's Finest Fried Chicken."
To view the new website, visit www.bbqchicken.com. The new visual elements will be rolling out to U.S. franchise locations in the coming months.
Based in Hunt Valley, Md., MGH is an integrated marketing and communications agency offering advertising, public relations, media planning/buying, creative design and production, interactive (design, strategy, development and marketing), market research, direct response, influencer marketing and social media marketing to franchised restaurants and more. MGH is a two-time winner of the Ad Age Best Places to Work award.
MGH's current and recent restaurant franchise marketing clients include Rosati's Pizza, Swensons Drive-In, Which Wich, Nestlé Toll House Cafe by Chip, Round Table Pizza, Mason's Famous Lobster Rolls, bb.q Chicken, 16 Handles, Ledo Pizza, Great American Cookies, SoBol, Hot Dog on a Stick, Marble Slab Creamery, and Marco's Pizza.
Visit https://restaurantmarketing.mghus.com/ for more information on MGH and its restaurant marketing services or connect with MGH via: Facebook at https://facebook.com/mghus; Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/mghmarketing; Twitter at https://twitter.com/mghus; or YouTube at https://youtube.com/mghtv.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a mission to save the planet one paper straw at a time, mother-daughter team Kathryn and Karrie Laughton, has launched Roc Paper Straws, the nation's newest paper straw manufacturing company. The Rochester, NY manufacturer is one of only a handful in the U.S., and the only one in New York State and the northeast.
Roc Paper Straws President Karrie Laughton is a market insider. As the owner of Lux Lounge, a popular Rochester bar that uses a lot of straws, she like her customers, wanted to help protect the environment. Replacing plastic straws with paper was one way to help. But finding quality durable eco-friendly paper straws that would not get soggy and fall apart was not easy. The market need was not being fulfilled by existing manufacturers. Most were made overseas, were not food safety grade or durable.
After three years of planning, perseverance, and pandemic-related delays, the Laughtons invested half-million dollars in the best new equipment, renovated a 10,000 sq. ft. manufacturing space, sourced sustainable high-quality food-grade paper, glue, and inks, hired key employees, and scored lending from Rochester Economic Development Corporation, which empowers new and existing companies to start, grow and thrive.
Roc Paper Straws is now making and distributing a range of standard and custom-branded high-quality, durable, eco-friendly paper drinking straws with no forever chemicals, that are non-toxic, food grade, eco-friendly, biodegradable, marine-safe, and compostable. They are available wrapped and unwrapped in an array of colors and can be custom branded with company colors and logos.
Their product and shipping boxes are made from recycled material and are recyclable right down to the Kraft paper tape and compostable stickers.
"The irreversible damage that single-use plastics have had on our environment is astounding. People are insisting on change," said Laughton. "Plastics can be recycled, but less than 10% are. Plastic straws are consistently one of the most littered plastic items and are in the top 10 list of items found in international coastal cleanups. They end up in landfills, pollute oceans, are detrimental to wildlife and beautiful sea creatures, and microplastic particles end up in our food and drinking water. We have addressed these key environmental issues as well as the leading consumer complaint that papers straws get soggy by using food-grade glue and dyes and a high-quality thicker grade paper that is more durable."
Roc Paper Straws products are available online at rocpaperstraws.com. Products ship free to the lower 48 states. For institutional use and custom orders, contact Roc Paper Straws at (585) 355-4441 or rocpaperstraws@gmail.com.
About Roc Paper Straws
Roc Paper Straws is a women-owned paper straw manufacturing and distribution company based in Rochester, NY. It offers standard and custom branded high-quality, durable, eco-friendly paper drinking straws with no forever chemicals, that are non-toxic, food grade, biodegradable, marine-safe, and compostable.
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Local News Briefs
Mayoral appointments meeting set
ZANESVILLE − A meeting to select a mayoral appointments to the Oho Public Works Commission Issue 1 Muskingum County Subcommittee for rounds 37 and 38 and to the Muskingum County Convention Facilities Authority will be at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in the first floor conference room of the Zanesville Municipal Building, 401 Market St.
Local named to farm bureau committee
COLUMBUS − The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation recently named 20 people to its policy development committee. The committee collects and organizes public policy recommendations from county farm bureaus and presents the final policy suggestions to be voted on by Ohio Farm Bureau’s delegates during the state annual meeting in December.
On the committee as a state trustee is Matt Bell of Zanesville. Richard Maxwell represents Perry County.
Rich Hill Township Trustees to meet
CHANDLERSVILLE − Rich Hill Township Trustees will meet in regular session at 8 p.m. Sept. 26 at the village hall, 3640 Herron Road, Chandlersville.
Haas graduates college
CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE − Sara Haas of Roseville graduated Austin Peay State University during recent summer commencement.
Pickin' in the Pavilion ends season
NEW CONCORD − Pickin' in the Pavilion will have its last even of the season at 7 p.m. Sept. 25 at Rix Mills Presbyterian Church, 2770 Rix Mills Road, New Concord.
Performing is Stringsounds, steel drums and chorus of John Glenn High School. Food by the Chandlersville Community Building group starts at 6 p.m.
Bring a chair. The event might be held inside the church if weather is inclement.
New clinic opening
NEW LEXINGTON − The new Perry Behavioral Health Choices clinic will have a ribbon cutting and grand opening at 1 p.m. Thursday at 605 N. Main St., New Lexington.
In honor of National Recovery Month there will also be a scavenger hunt and open houses with activities, tours and more at the PBHC activity center, outpatient clinic, bookstore, Carriage House peer center and youth and family center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday as well.
MU homecoming concert is Friday
NEW CONCORD − Muskingum University is having its annual homecoming concert at 8 p.m. Friday in Brown Chapel. It's part of the college's 100th annual homecoming celebration.
The Collage Concert features the entire music department. The concert showcases student and faculty soloists and ensembles in performances performed with minimal break selections.
Civil War Roundtable to meet
ZANESVILLE − The Zanesville Civil War Roundtable will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Stone Academy Museum, 115 Jefferson St. Guest speaker will be author and historian Dan Masters with a presentation on the Battle of Stones River.
For more information call Bob Crowder at 740-221-7388 or email bobcrowder856@yahoo.com for more information.
Mystery dinner planned
ZANESVILLE − The Muskingum Valley Park District will hold a murder mystery dinner from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 24 at Pizza Cottage, 3938 Pond View Drive.
The setting is Little Italy in the 1940s. Tickets for $30 are available at mvparkdistrict.org. Meal consists of pizza, salad, dessert, water and pop. For ages 18 and older.
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Wanted: Police officers and firefighters
City looking to hire for these positions as well as corrections officers
ZANESVILLE − The city's public safety services instituted lateral transfers this summer, in hopes of attracting experienced firefighters and law enforcement personnel. The program has proven successful, but both the Zanesville Fire Department and Zanesville Police Department are understaffed and some departments, like the city jail, are nearing a staffing crisis.
Lateral transfers allow an experienced officer or firefighter to transfer from an outside department into Zanesville's department with retaining their pay level. Hiring lateral transfers allows the department to gain experienced officers while reducing the time it takes to get them on the road by themselves.
Zanesville Police Department Interim Chief Captain Scott Comstock said the ZPD has hired five lateral transfers this year, but the department is still short-staffed.
"Our maximum staffing is for 59 sworn officers," Comstock said. "Currently we are down 10 due to retirements, resignations, people moving to different fields."
The new hires will bring the staffing up to 54, but four more officers are expected to retire at the beginning of next year, he said. "We are only replacing what we are losing due to attrition."
The department is still able to respond to all of its calls, Comstock said. The staffing level at the jail is in crisis though, he said. The city has deferred all female inmates to the county jail. "Effectively our jail is running at 50% of our efficiency, and 50% of our staff. We should have 21 corrections officers, and we have 12 due to the 13th one being deployed." It is has not gotten to the point where the jail cannot house inmates, but the jail is in desperate need of more corrections officers.
The dispatch center is down to five dispatchers, with one on medical leave. There should be between nine and 11. "We are not failing to meeting our shift coverage, but we are looking at some outside-the-box ways to handle it," Comstock said.
The good news, Comstock said, is that the city has hired five new dispatchers. It is just a matter to getting them trained and in service.
"Staffing wise, of the three pieces that put together the Zanesville Police Department, our patrol force, our dispatch and our jail, dispatch is hurting the worst currently," Comstock said. "But there is a light at the end of the tunnel with the new hires. The jail is hurting the worse next in line, and there isn't a light at the end of the tunnel on recruitment. The third is the police force; we need extra manpower, especially to focus on specific calls and special details.
"We are surviving, it is not different here than anywhere else in the country in law enforcement," he said. "The percentage of people we are down pretty much matches a nation-wide standard." The department is down 12 to 15% staffing wise, which mirrors places even larger departments like Columbus, which Comstock said lost about 150 officers this year. "For a department that size, it is apples-to-apples what we are down."
The lateral transfer program has been successful, Comstock said, but fewer are able to take advantage of a transfer then expected he said. Some don't qualify, often because they attempt to transfer from out of state, and others washout during the interview process.
Applicants still need to go through a background check, physical and medical screening, and an interview process. "We want to make sure we are not hiring another department's problem officer," Comstock said. Apart from the benefits to the transferring officer, mainly retaining their pay grade, the process eliminates the need to take the Civil Service exam. "The advantage to the department, we are getting people who are not just experienced, but they have proven they can do the job. Ten to 15% of new hires realize 'this isn't the job for me,'" Comstock said.
Lateral transfers are able to get to work faster. "A lot of these guys know how to handle a disorderly drunk, or a domestic, or an accident, they just need to figure out how we handle it here," Comstock said. "They need to learn our radio codes, our streets and geographical layout. When you don't have to teach someone to be a cop, you just have to teach them out to be a cop here, it expedites things, he said.
The number of applicants to show up to take the city's Civil Service test has plummeted over the years, he said, for both police and fire. There were 17 applicants for most recent test, only four showed up to the test. One of those was a lateral transfer applicant who was determined not to qualify for a transfer. Comstock said 20 years ago there would have been 60 to 80 applicants, and 30 years ago more than 100. With a high washout rate, most of those applicants wouldn't make it to the background check stage. This year, of the 17 people who applied for the test, Comstock said he expects to get one officer out of the process. "Normally, we would build a list of 20 or so applicants, and it would be a good list to pick from for two years as we need to. That just doesn't exist any more."
Zanesvlle Fire Department Chief Jeff Bell said results were similar for his department. "We had 49 sign up to take the test, 17 showed up to take it, and only four passed the written and physical agility parts."
The number is a far cry from the 200 that showed up to take the test when Bell joined the department 22 years ago. They were all seeking one of five openings available.
Bell's department is currently down five firefighters. To keep a minimum of 12 firefighters on duty during each shift means overtime. While some firefighters like the extra pay, it can lead to burnout, Bell said. Meanwhile, the number of calls the department responds to continues to climb. The number of fire calls has remained steady over the last 20 years, thanks in large part to better prevention. However, the number of other calls has climbed; from 2015 to 2021 the department averaged 3,500 calls for service a year. Of those, about 150 to 175 were fire calls, and 40 to 50 of those are structure fires.
"We have kind of become a Swiss Army knife for the city," Bell said, as the department has expanded its services, from EMS to inspections, hazmat responses. "When dispatch doesn't know who to send, they send the fire department."
Bell said as the number of volunteers diminish, formerly volunteer departments are going full time which means more departments are drawing from a limited number of firefighters available for any given position. With more employment opportunities available, and with the potential for bigger departments like Columbus to start a lateral transfer program, focus is on retention of current Zanesville firefighters.
"We have to look at ways to make our department some place that people want to stay," he said.
In addition to lateral transfers joining the department as experienced firefighters, they can also get to work quicker. Currently, applicants sign up for a test and then upon taking it, wait a few weeks for the results. After that comes an FBI and BCI background check, a department background check and polygraph test. "Then you go through an interview process. By the time we fast track someone it is 18 months," Bell said. Laterals can be on the job in a couple months following a physical and stress test.
Both Comstock and Bell said careers in their respective departments are rewarding, with good benefits and opportunities to serve the community. Comstock said the police department is well respected in the city and offers a variety of career paths.
People interested in applying for jobs in the city's emergency services should visit www.governmentjobs.com/careers/zanesville or call (740) 617-4877 for more information.
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740-868-3708
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Meadowbrook fends off Sheridan in clash of MVL powers
THORNVILLE — Meadowbrook and Sheridan are accustomed to high expectations.
With those come challenges like overcoming adversity and regaining momentum.
The Muskingum Valley League division leaders displayed their responses by splitting the first two sets on Tuesday.
But, the Colts took command in the third set and fought through a late Generals' surge in the fourth to earn a hard-fought 25-21, 20-25, 25-16, 25-20 victory at Glen Hursey Gymnasium.
"I always tell our girls to face adversity with aggression," Meadowbrook coach Kelly Zehnder said. "We made a lot of errors in that second set. We locked down on our serving, and our digging was much better. We did a lot of good stuff on defense in those last two sets and responded well to the challenge."
Sheridan (6-3, 6-1) hung tight in the first set and led 19-18 before Meadowbrook scored four straight to pick up a first-set win, but the Generals started strong in the second. Behind the net play of Alexis Bradley and Jamisyn Stinson, they held a 9-6 advantage and built it up to 17-11.
The Colts (8-2, 7-0) closed to 18-15, but Sheridan got a key kill from Alyssa Ward and aces from Rilyn Reedy and Reagan Davis to capture the second set and even the match at 1-all.
But, Meadowbrook reset and used an 8-3 run to take control of the third set, extending an early lead to 14-9. Sheridan cut the deficit to 15-13, but Ella Jefferis, who had 41 assists, got the offense going, passing out sets to the trio of Camden Black, Taylor Sichina and Megan DeVillez to help the Colts finish off the third set on a 10-3 run.
The Colts carried the momentum to the fourth, leading by as many as nine, 19-10. Sheridan got as close as 23-20, but a kill by Kendyl Cannon and an ace from Sichina fended off the Generals.
Sheridan coach Mandy Fox credited Meadowbrook for its play, while also lamenting her own team's offensive struggles in the last two sets.
"Our serve-receive is usually pretty good, but we had a tough time with that. It took us out of our offense," she said. "When you do that against a team like Meadowbrook, you put yourself in tough spots. We didn't pass well and execute our offense, and they took advantage of it."
Black again led the Colts' attack with a team-high 20 kills, to go with 13 digs, while DeVillez chipped in 10 kills, Sichina eight and Cannon six for the winners.
Karly Launder served five aces and made 13 digs to highlight a balanced defensive effort. Mylee Arnold and Mila Norman chipped in 11 and seven digs, respectively, and Cannon made two solo blocks.
Zehnder noted a few adjustments after the second set allowed the Colts to regain control.
"I switched our lineup for the second set, and that didn't work so I changed it again for the third," she said. "That was more favorable for us and allowed Camden, Taylor and Megan to be in the right spots. We had a better handle on Jamisyn and found a few spots to attack with our serving. It seemed like we wore them down in the final two sets.
"This was a great atmosphere against a really good team," she added. "Sheridan has a lot of great kids, and they made a lot of hustle plays. This is one we put in our back pocket and can use later. We can definitely learn from it."
Stinson paced Sheridan with a team-high 12 kills to go with 14 digs and three blocks, while Bradley had 10 kills, 28 assists and six digs to go with 11-of-11 serving, Ward added 11 kills and two blocks and Davis went 13-of-14 serving with a team-best 15 digs.
It was the second straight loss for the Generals, who fell to Jonathan Alder on Saturday. Fox knows her team doesn't have time to dwell on those with Coshocton looming on Thursday.
She also credited her team for battling through after losing setter Dylan Fox in warmups. She wants to see how her team responds entering the second half of the season.
"Your character comes through when you're down," Fox said. "We will watch film and be prepared to battle a good Coshocton team. We have good depth and saw that tonight as Payton Powell stepped in and helped run our offense. We just have to build ourselves back up and find out who we are."
Meadowbrook won the reserve match, 25-22, 25-21, as the Colts' leaders were not available. Madison Hupp had six kills and eight digs, Lily Talbot added 10 assists and eight digs with 5-of-5 serving and Emma Doherty went 7-of-7 serving with two aces, nine digs and four kills for Sheridan (6-3, 6-1).
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Roundup: New Lex volleyball outlasts John Glenn
NEW CONCORD — A wild Tuesday night at the Fish Tank ended with New Lexington pulling out a hard-fought road win.
Their hitters were a big reason.
Jerilynn Koehler tallied 18 kills and also had a pair of bocks as the Panthers earned a 25-20, 25-21, 9-25, 19-25, 15-11 win in a Muskingum Valley League crossover.
Nora DuPerow added 11 kills with three aces and 10 digs and Trinity Cook six kills with seven digs for New Lex (7-2, 5-2 MVL-Small); Caroline Dupler chipped in two aces and five digs.
Emma Briggs (11), Kara Fields (nine) and Aleea Musselman (eight) combined for 28 kills for John Glenn (4-7, 3-4 MVL-Big), while Lauren Blair set up 30 assists and Sarah Wayne and Graceann Hithcock combined for 23 digs. Fields also had six blocks, Briggs 11 digs and Musselman 19 digs.
New Lex won the reserve match, 25-21, 25-23, as Jorja Burkhart had four aces and 16 assists and Caroline Dupler and Brooklyn Bud seven kills. Lily Robinson totaled five assists and Alaiah Johnson two aces and two kills for John Glenn.
Tri-Valley 25, 25, 25, Crooksville 5, 8, 17: Lexi Howe tallied 20 kills to pace all all players in the host Scotties' MVL crossover win in Dresden.
Evan Dittmar added 12 kills and Caity Journey 15 digs for Tri-Valley (7-4, 5-3 MVL-Big).
Brynn Lundell had two kills and 10 digs for Crooksville (2-9, 1-6 MVL-Small).
Tri-Valley won the reserve match, 25-6, 25-12.
River View 25, 25, 25, Morgan 10, 14, 13: Bailey Laudick led a balanced hitting effort with 11 kills and five aces to pace the host Lady Bears to a convincing MVL crossover win at Luther Stover Gymnasium.
Kayla Dulgar had another solid all-around showing with 10 kills, five aces and 22 assists for River View (8-2, 5-2 MVL-Big), which also saw Cayla Shrimplin pile up 16 aces and 16 digs and Brittany Henderson collect six aces and 11 assists.
Alivia Spaulding chipped in nine kills for the winners. Morgan leaders were not reported.
Morgan won the reserve match, 25-10, 18-25, 17-25. Jenna Shoults had six points for River View.
Philo 25, 25, 25, West M 10, 19, 15: Aleigha Busse led a balanced hitting effort with eight kills and seven aces as the Electrics rolled to an MVL crossover win at The Power Plant.
Brooklyn Ferrell added six kills, Olivia Winland five and Briannah Wolfe four for Philo (4-8, 3-4 MVL-Big); Winland had 11 digs, Ferrell 10 and Busse eight, while Addyson Khune and Delaney Carmichael had 12 and 11 assists, respectively.
No statistics were available for West M.
Philo took the reserve match, 25-5, 25-2, as Parker Hina had four kills and Olivia Fink three with six aces. Makenna Staker added five aces.
Coshocton 25, 25, 25, Maysville 14, 17, 6: Jalynn West piled up four aces, seven kills and 20 assists to lead the Lady Skins to a dominant win on the road in an MVL crossover.
Lindsey Bryant added six aces and seven kills, Kenedi Jackson three aces and five kills and Miyah Davis eight kills for Coshocton (6-3, 5-2 MVL-Small). Leah Mathias chipped in three kills and Addy Gordon two aces.
Sailor Atkins totaled eight kills, Olivia McPeek five aces and 12 assists and Bekah Scott 13 digs for Maysville. Arissa Savage had a pair of blocks.
Coshocton won the reserve match, 25-23, 25-15, behind three aces and eight assists from Jaeli Tiedt and six kills from Maggie Laaper and Sophia McFadden.
Taylor Freeland had four aces and Rachel Gundelfinger seven assists for Maysville.
Boys Soccer
Morgan 3, Coshocton 1: Josh Stickrath, Brylee Shannon and Elliott Voytko provided goals for the Raiders in an MVL match on their home turf.
No other information was available.
River View 7, Sheridan 0: The Black Bears broke open a 1-0 game by scoring four times an in eight-minute span to earn an MVL win on the road.
Luke Carpenter had 29 saves for Sheridan.
Tri-Valley 8, New Lexington 1: The Scotties won an MVL match at Kenny Wolford Park. No leaders were reported.
Maysville 6, West M 0: The Panthers earned an MVL win on the road. No details were reported.
Girls Soccer
West Holmes 5, Tri-Valley 3: The host Knights won a nonleague game on their home field to improve to 6-3-0.
The Scotties slipped to 3-4-1.
Details were not available.
Cross Country
River View boys second at Indian Valley quad: Drew Tumblin was seventh overall in 20:49.2 to pace the Black Bears in a quadrangular at Indian Valley.
Trey Skjold was 12th (2134.8), Landon Cochran 13th (21:35.0), Brody Johnson 20th (23:23.4) and Ethan Fisher 21st (23:24.8) for River View.
Indian Valley swept the top four spots, including champion Xander Hall, who clocked at 17:18.3 and runner-up Joe Carlisle, who was at 17:31.
Zanesville's Kameron Dunn was eighth (20:53.1) and teammate Nick Caldwell 15th (21:53.3), while Philo's Julian Boylan was 19th (23:18.5). Neither team factored into the team scoring.
River View's Lydia Black was seventh (25:15.1) and Ashlyn Tumblin 16th (28:38.6) in the girls meet, which Indian Valley also dominated with six of the top nine finishers.
Zanesville's Alyssa Foley was fifth (24:27.5) and teammates Ayanna Stewart (27:23.2) and Emma Hurd (28:39.2) 13th and 17th, respectively.
Philo was led by Jenna Lytton in 10th (26:14.5) and Kassydi Harris in 12th (27:22.3).
Boys Golf
Maysville 149, West Muskingum 181: Freshman Hoyt Dodson fired a 35 for medalist honors to lead three Panthers in the 30s in an MVL dual match on the front nine at EagleSticks.
Owen Lutz fired 36 and Connor Larimer 38 for Maysville (47-10, 17-3 MVL), while Ayden Huff posted 40 out of the No. 6 hole.
Jack Porter posted 40 and Jacob Allen 43 for West M; Nick Anton had 48 and Reid Lemity 48.
Maysville won the reserve match, 198-231. Kyle Porter had 53 for West M.
New Lexington 186, River View 195: Brody Agriesti's 42 paced the Panthers to an MVL road win on the back nine at Hickory Flats.
Caden Gibson posted 46 and Drew Barnette 48 for New Lex, while Brandon Stevenson shot 50.
Caleb Kline's 41 earned medalist honors for River View; Thad Cox added 44, Isaiah Carpenter 52 and Caily Shriver 58. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/09/14/roundup-new-lexington-volleyball-outlasts-john-glenn/69492212007/ | 2022-09-14T12:55:25Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/09/14/roundup-new-lexington-volleyball-outlasts-john-glenn/69492212007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The House panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to revive the public portion of its probe this month, eyeing at least two more hearings in the coming weeks to highlight former President Trump’s role in the deadly rampage.
Publicly, the inquiry into the Jan. 6 attack has been overshadowed in recent weeks by the FBI’s extraordinary seizure of thousands of government documents, including those alleged to be highly sensitive, from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida last month — part of a separate Justice Department investigation into Trump’s potential mishandling of federal records.
But behind the scenes, the Jan. 6 select committee has spent Congress’s long summer recess plugging away, interviewing a number of new witnesses while seeking the cooperation of several more, including such prominent GOP figures as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Vice President Mike Pence.
The work has continued against the backdrop not only of the legal battle surrounding the FBI search, but of Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) losing her primary battle against a Trump-backed candidate. Despite Cheney’s loss, many Democrats think the focus in the headlines on Trump is helping their party ahead of the midterms.
As the House returns to Washington this week, the panel is promising to air its new findings in at least one public hearing this month, with another perhaps to follow in October — a schedule that would put Trump and his GOP supporters on the defensive heading into November’s midterm elections.
The exact timing of the hearings, as well as the witness list, remain works in progress, according to members of the committee. But a central focus of the investigation throughout August was the wide-ranging effort by a long list of Trump supporters — some of them on Capitol Hill — to install slates of fake electors in certain battleground states where Trump has claimed, falsely, that he prevailed over President Biden. Gingrich, the committee has found, was a part of that effort.
“Former House Speaker Gingrich appears to have been involved in some of the planning around the counterfeit electors scheme, and efforts to substitute a fraudulent process for the actual process,” a member of the select committee said in an interview.
Another member of the committee, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), said Gingrich’s campaign to keep Trump in the White House did not stop even after Congress voted to certify Biden’s victory in the aftermath of the failed insurrection.
“We also have information about his efforts to get the election overturned, even after the riot on the 6th,” Lofgren told CNN earlier this month.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the select committee, delivered a letter to Gingrich this month seeking his “voluntary cooperation.” The request cited Gingrich’s communications with several top Trump advisers — including Meadows, Jared Kushner and Jason Miller — about methods to reverse the election outcome and suggested Gingrich may have been in direct touch with Trump on the subject.
Snippets of Gingrich’s emails obtained by the panel reveal he had suggested line edits for a post-election TV ad in Georgia, where Trump was defeated, promoting conspiracy theories around voter fraud. The message, Gingrich advised, should include reference to a “call to action.”
“The goal is to arouse the country’s anger,” Gingrich wrote to Kushner and Miller, adding that viewers “will then bring pressure on legislators and governors.”
“These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate,” Thompson wrote to Gingrich. “Instead, these efforts attempted to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after voting had already taken place.”
The Sept. 1 letter was a clear sign that the committee’s investigation is far from over, while raising new questions about what remaining figures could be implicated as its work continues.
Meadows, it was already known, is one of them. While Trump’s former chief of staff had delivered thousands of text messages to investigators last year, he has refused to speak with the panel, even under subpoena. The House held Meadows in contempt of Congress last year, but the Justice Department declined to bring charges. The standoff remains under litigation.
Some members of the select committee are also interested in speaking with Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who had sought to overturn the 2020 election and solicited the help of several well-placed figures, including Meadows and John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who had drafted the dubious legal reasoning on which the “stop the steal” effort relied.
“Speaking as one member and only as one member, I would say she has a relevant testimony to render, and she should come forward and give it,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), another member of the select committee, said earlier this month in an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program.
“I don’t want to overstate her role — we’ve talked to more than 1,000 people,” Raskin continued. “But we’d like to hear from Gingrich and we’d like to hear from her, too.”
Still another figure of interest is Tony Ornato, a former Secret Service agent who doubled as Trump’s deputy chief of staff. Ornato has already spoken with investigators, but they want him back to clarify discrepancies in testimony surrounding Trump’s alleged clash with his security detail on the day of the Capitol attack.
“We do want to talk to him again,” Lofgren told CNN. “There are a lot of things that just don’t add up, to me, on what the Secret Service has said and the material that we’re getting.”
Also largely unexplored by the committee are Trump’s actions in the window between the Capitol attack of Jan. 6 and Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20 — a time period during which Trump’s own Cabinet members were considering invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
The committee has hinted at that effort in clips shown of a conversation with Trump’s Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia — who penned a memo urging Trump to stop questioning the election results — as well as in a letter to Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“You appear also to have detailed knowledge regarding President Trump’s state of mind in the days following the January 6th attack. For example, you appear to have had a discussion with President Trump on January 10th that may have raised a number of specific concerns about his possible actions in the days before the January 20th inaugural,” the committee wrote to the popular pundit.
The committee has also suggested it could imminently release a report on the National Guard’s hours-long delay in getting to the Capitol to defuse the violence on Jan. 6.
But time is running short.
With Democrats expected to lose control of the House in the midterms, the panel will have to wrap up its investigation before year’s end, or Republicans will pull the plug on it. With that in mind, the panel is expected to issue an interim report on its findings before November’s elections, with its final report to follow later in the year.
“When the final report is released, the committee is dissolved,” Lofgren said earlier this summer. “And so, so long as information continues to come in, we want to avoid that result. We don’t want to prematurely cut off witnesses who want to be heard.” | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/jan-6-panel-set-to-reemerge-with-eye-on-newt-gingrich/ | 2022-09-14T12:55:54Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/jan-6-panel-set-to-reemerge-with-eye-on-newt-gingrich/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Stephen Curry says Americans should treat President Trump — and his potential 2024 White House bid — as a serious “threat.”
“Take Trump seriously? Of course,” the Golden State Warriors star and NBA Finals MVP told Rolling Stone magazine for a cover story published Monday for its October issue.
“Most of his rhetoric — before he was president, during his last four years, and even now, if he tries to run again — has a tone of divisiveness that doesn’t have a place in our country,” he said.
“As serious and as loud as the threat is of him or whoever else is running for office,” Curry, 34, continued, “there’s a similar urgency and a loudness that’s necessary on the other side.”
It’s not the first time that Curry has spoken out against the 45th president. After Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank called the then-commander in chief an “asset” to the country in a 2017 interview, Curry told the San Jose Mercury News, “I agree with that description, if you remove the ‘et’ from asset.”
That same year, Curry said he didn’t want his team to make a traditional stop at the White House to celebrate their NBA championship title. Following Curry’s remarks, Trump tweeted that the White House invitation had been “withdrawn.”
Curry, a board member of When We All Vote, Michelle Obama’s voter registration and engagement organization, opened up about his activism to Rolling Stone.
“You’re growing and evolving on the same page as these national, politicized conversations, but it doesn’t have to be sides,” he said.
“What I try to do is be real, but also activate conversation that is sometimes uncomfortable,” the NBA All-Star said.
“The current events of the Trump era, I don’t wake up and say, ‘I wanna go at that conversation,’” Curry told the magazine.
“Some of this stuff falls on your doorstep and people want a perspective or comment, and sometimes you cough that up unsolicited.”
Curry said that while he didn’t regret not speaking out more in 2016 when the NBA weighed moving its All-Star game from North Carolina in protest of a controversial law requiring that transgender people use the bathroom corresponding to their biological sex, he could’ve “been a lot stronger” on the issue.
“We get attacked as athletes sometimes when you don’t want to say something — ‘I need to get more educated,’ there’s all these lines that people use,” Curry said.
“It kind of seems like you’re soft or like you’re equivocating or avoiding whatever the situation is.”
Curry also revealed that former President Obama — a frequent golfing partner and well-known basketball fanatic — once scolded him for repeating on a 2018 podcast a conspiracy theory that questioned whether astronauts really landed on the moon.
Following the podcast interview, Curry recalled, “I got an email. It was a pretty stern, direct one from President Obama.”
After telling him that humans did step foot on the moon, Curry said Obama instructed him, “You’ve got to do something about this.”
Following Obama’s advice, Curry hosted an Instagram Live discussion with an astronaut for his more than 45 million followers, and auctioned off a pair of custom-made space-themed sneakers, with proceeds going to STEM education programs.
Curry said back in June, after clenching his fourth NBA championship and telling the cameras, “What are they gonna say now?” he received a congratulatory call from Obama.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.
Archaeologist Octavio del Rio said he and fellow diver Peter Broger saw the shattered skull and skeleton partly covered by sediment in a cave near where the Mexican government plans to build a high-speed tourist train through the jungle.
Given the distance from the cave entrance, the skeleton couldn’t have gotten there without modern diving equipment, so it must be over 8,000 years old, Del Rio said, referring to the era when rising sea levels flooded the caves.
“There it is. We don’t know if the body was deposited there or if that was where this person died,” said Del Rio. He said that the skeleton was located about 8 meters (26 feet) underwater, about a half-kilometer (one third of a mile) into the cave system.
Some of the oldest human remains in North America have been discovered in the sinkhole caves known as “cenotes” on the country’s Caribbean coast, and experts say some of those caves are threatened by the Mexican government’s Maya Train tourism project.
Del Rio, who has worked with the National Institute of Anthropology and History on projects in the past, said he had notified the institute of the discovery. The institute did not immediately respond to questions about whether it intended to explore the site.
But Del Rio said Tuesday that institute archaeologist Carmen Rojas told him that the site was registered and would be investigated by the institute’s Quintana Roo state branch Holocene Archaeology Project.
He stressed that the cave — whose location he did not reveal because of a fear the site could be looted or disturbed — was near where the government has cut down a swath of jungle to lay train tracks, and could be collapsed, contaminated or closed off by the building project and subsequent development.
“There is a lot more study that has to be done in order to correctly interpret” the find, Del Rio said, noting that “dating, some kind of photographic studies and some collection” would be needed to determine exactly how old the skeleton is.
Del Rio has been exploring the region for three decades, and in 2002, he participated in the discovery and cataloguing of remains known as The Woman of Naharon, who died around the same time, or perhaps earlier, than Naia — the nearly complete skeleton of a young woman who died around 13,000 years ago. It was discovered in a nearby cave system in 2007.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is racing to finish his Maya Train project in the remaining two years of his term over the objections of environmentalists, cave divers and archaeologists. They say his haste will allow little time to study the ancient remains.
Activists say the heavy, high-speed rail project will fragment the coastal jungle and will run often above the fragile limestone caves, which — because they’re flooded, twisty and often incredibly narrow — can take decades to explore.
Caves along part of the coast already have been damaged by construction above them, with cement pilings used to support the weight above.
The 950-mile (1,500-kilometer) Maya Train line is meant to run in a rough loop around the Yucatan Peninsula, connecting beach resorts and archaeological sites.
The most controversial stretch cuts a more than 68-mile (110-kilometer) swath through the jungle between the resorts of Cancun and Tulum.
Del Rio said the route through the jungle should be abandoned and the train should be built over the already-impacted coastal highway between Cancun and Tulum, as was originally planned.
López Obrador abandoned the highway route after hotel owners voiced objections, and cost and traffic interruptions became a concern.
“What we want is for them to change to route at this spot, because of the archaeological finds that have been made there, and their importance,” said Del Rio. “They should take the train away from there and put it where they said they were going to build before, on the highway … an area that has already been affected, devastated.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/prehistoric-skeleton-found-in-mexico-cave-threatened-by-planned-train/ | 2022-09-14T12:56:31Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/prehistoric-skeleton-found-in-mexico-cave-threatened-by-planned-train/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — California recently approved a new law that will require all new cars sold in the state to have zero emissions.
Now, the states that follow California’s standards must decide if they too will implement that rule.
The move to make all new vehicles electric or hydrogen-powered in California will begin in 2035.
“California has been the state that’s been leading the charge on fighting climate change and for good reason because they’re facing a lot of the brunt of climate change,” said Trevor Higgins from the Center for American Progress.
Seventeen other states that follow California’s standards will have to decide whether to follow the standard or revert to federal emission rules.
“Some states have said we’ll adopt everything that California does, including Virginia,” Higgins said.
Virginia made their decision to follow California’s lead before Republican Governor Glenn Younkin took office, and Younkin vowed to fight the zero emissions rule.
Robert Glicksman, an environmental law professor at George Washington University, says for some states, opting out will be tough.
“It would take adoption by the state legislature and approval by the governor to opt-out,” he said.
Experts say federal emissions rules may eventually catch up to California’s laws, but it’s unlikely to happen by 2035.
Instead, the Biden administration is offering incentives to car manufacturers and consumers. Higgins says the incentives should cause a natural shift to electric vehicles.
“They’re fun to drive, they are affordable, they help the grid to be more resilient, they let you charge your own house if the grid will be able to fail,” he said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/will-other-states-implement-californias-electric-vehicle-rules/ | 2022-09-14T12:56:43Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/will-other-states-implement-californias-electric-vehicle-rules/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The diagnostic services provider projects DermAI may decrease turnaround time for melanoma cases by 30-40%
GENEVA and PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unilabs, a leading diagnostic services provider, and Proscia®, a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, today announced that the diagnostic group has chosen Proscia's DermAI®* to advance its aspiration of becoming the most digitally-driven diagnostic group – enabling better decisions for a healthier tomorrow. The artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technology will first be deployed in Sweden and then rolled out across other countries where Unilabs serves patients.
"The era of computational pathology is here," said Dr Christian Rebhan, Chief Medical and Operations Officer at Unilabs. "We are designing our diagnostic processes around AI because getting better, faster results to our patients can help to improve outcomes. Our team has seen the power of DermAI's potential and looks forward to adopting it."
Unilabs and Proscia established a strategic partnership in March 2021 to study the potential impact of DermAI on the laboratory's high-throughput pathology operations. Based on this evaluation, Unilabs projects a potential decrease in turnaround time of 30% to 40% for cases of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, compared to its current workflow. This added efficiency, if realised, could enable patients to start treatment sooner, helping to improve outcomes.
Millions of skin biopsies are taken annually, each of which may display one of hundreds of diagnoses. Cases must often be re-routed to the right specialist, resulting in inefficiencies for the laboratory and delays for the patient. Proscia's DermAI is designed to automatically classify H&E stained dermatopathology slides and highlights the promise of computational pathology in driving critical productivity gains. The performance of the technology was demonstrated in one of pathology's most comprehensive studies to date.
"We are excited to expand our relationship with Unilabs," said David West, Proscia's CEO. "Its commitment to innovation for both its pathologists and its patients is second to none, and we look forward to seeing the impact that DermAI can make."
*DermAI is available for research use only.
Media contacts:
Sandra Lastra, Communications Specialist
e: sandra.lastra@unilabs.com
t: +41 (0)76 55 22 342
Sydney Fenkell, Head of Marketing Communications
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BOSTON — A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday, and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries.
Authorities said another suspicious package was found near a prominent art museum and the FBI was assisting with the investigation.
The parcel that blew up was one of two that were reported to police early in the evening. Boston's bomb squad neutralized a second package near the city's Museum of Fine Arts, which is on the outskirts of the Northeastern campus.
NBC Boston reported that the package that exploded went off as it was being opened near the university's Holmes Hall, which is home to the university's creative writing program and its women's, gender and sexuality studies program. It said the FBI was assisting the investigation.
Authorities declined to elaborate, but Northeastern spokesperson Shannon Nargi said in a statement that an unidentified university staff member suffered minor injuries to his hand in the explosion. Felipe Colon, a Boston police superintendent, later described the victim as a 45-year-old man.
Police converged on the campus shortly before 7:30 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 with about 16,000 undergraduate students. WCVB-TV 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.
Michael Davis, chief of Northeastern's police force, told reporters the campus was secure. Boston police didn't say whether any other suspicious packages were found.
"We're monitoring the situation at Northeastern and we're ready to work with the university and our law enforcement partners on any prosecutions that may develop," Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said, promising "a comprehensive investigation to determine exactly what occurred here."
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both on the other side of the Charles River separating Boston from Cambridge, said they were increasing patrols on their campuses as a precaution and urging students and faculty to report anything suspicious.
Tuesday's explosion marked one of the first big scares in Boston since 2013, when two bombs planted near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 others.
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A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced Tuesday in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man's family.
Pieper Lewis, 17, was sentenced Tuesday after she pleaded last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks of Des Moines. Both charges were punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Polk County District judge David M. Porter on Tuesday deferred those prison sentences, meaning that if Lewis violates any portion of her probation, she could be sent to prison to serve that 20-year term.
As for being required to pay the estate of her rapist, "this court is presented with no other option," Porter said, noting the restitution is mandatory under Iowa law that has been upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court.
Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment. Officials have said Lewis was a runaway who was seeking to escape an abusive life with her adopted mother and was sleeping in the hallways of a Des Moines apartment building when a 28-year-old man took her in before forcibly trafficking her to other men for sex.
Lewis said one of those men was Brooks and that he had raped her multiple times in the weeks before his death. She recounted being forced at knifepoint by the 28-year-old man to go with Brooks to his apartment for sex. She told officials that after Brooks had raped her yet again, she grabbed a knife from a bedside table and stabbed Brooks in a fit of rage.
Police and prosecutors have not disputed that Lewis was sexually assaulted and trafficked. But prosecutors have argued that Brooks was asleep at the time he was stabbed and not an immediate danger to Lewis.
Iowa is not among the dozens of states that have a so-called safe harbor law that gives trafficking victims at least some level of criminal immunity.
Lewis, who earned her GED while being held in juvenile detention, acknowledged in a statement prior to her sentencing that she struggled with the structure of her detention, including "why I was treated like fragile glass" or wasn't allowed to communicate with her friends or family.
"My spirit has been burned, but still glows through the flames," she read from a statement she had prepared. "Hear me roar, see me glow, and watch me grow."
"I am a survivor," she added.
The Associated Press does not typically name victims of sexual assault, but Lewis agreed to have her name used previously in stories about her case.
Prosecutors took issue with Lewis calling herself a victim in the case and said she failed to take responsibility for stabbing Brooks and "leaving his kids without a father."
The judge peppered Lewis with repeated requests to explain what poor choices she made that led up to Brooks' stabbing and expressed concern that she sometimes did not want to follow rules set for her in juvenile lockup.
"The next five years of your life will be full of rules you disagree with, I'm sure of it," Porter said. He later added, "This is the second chance that you've asked for. You don't get a third."
Karl Schilling with the Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance said a bill to create a safe harbor law for trafficking victims passed the Iowa House earlier this year, but stalled in the Senate under concerns from law enforcement groups that it was too broad.
"There was a working group established to iron out the issues," Shilling said. "Hopefully it will be taken up again next year."
Iowa does have an affirmative defense law that gives some leeway to victims of crime if the victim committed the violation "under compulsion by another's threat of serious injury, provided that the defendant reasonably believed that such injury was imminent."
Prosecutors argued Tuesday that Lewis waived that affirmative defense when she pleaded guilty to manslaughter and willful injury.
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SELBYVILLE, Del. - The Selbyville Public Library will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new building at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, and members of the community are invited to share in this moment.
Library Director Kelly Kline said she is grateful to the community and all the people who have been involved in the various points along this journey to make the new library building a reality.
“We want to invite the community to be involved in this moment because the new library belongs to them," Kline said. "This is a family-friendly event, so bring your kids and be ready to watch us break ground, under the tent, shovels in hand!”
The start of the new library building has been years in the making, beginning in 2016 with the completion of a needs assessment. These projects involve a lot of moving parts from requesting the support of the state Council on Libraries to community involvement to fundraising to architectural planning. This project would not be happening without funding from the state of Delaware’s Bond Bill, and the American Rescue Plan Act, which is a federal program designed to help revitalize communities after the pandemic. Furthermore, these appropriations allow construction to begin much sooner than originally anticipated.
Some of Selbyville’s most prominent organizations have strong relationships with the library, which date back to its inception. The library itself was formed in 1932 by the Selbyville Community Club and initially operated out of the Club Room of Red Men’s Hall. The Selbyville Community Club and the library partnered on many efforts through the decades, most famously on Youth Art Month, which transforms the library into a gallery for Selbyville’s young artists. The library then moved to the Salem United Methodist Church in the late 1940’s. To this day, the library still utilizes the Salem Church for the programs that are too big for its meeting room.
Kline is also quick to point out the rich history of the library as it relates to the families of John G. Townsend Jr. and Dr. Asher and Pauline Carey, who were both instrumental in the homing and furthering of the Selbyville Public Library to its current point.
“We wouldn’t be here without the Townsend family who gave the library a literal home for over 50 years as well as the Carey family, whose gift helped the library in its previous stage of growth 20 years ago," Kline said. "The location of the new building is also part of the Carey donation. The contributions from these two families endure, and we are so grateful.”
The new building will be a substantial upgrade for the community. The meeting room in the current library holds about 30 people, whereas the new building will be able to accommodate 150 people for larger activities and gatherings.
While most of the new library building project is currently funded, there are continuing operational needs, so fundraising is an ongoing effort as construction gets underway.
The project, which can be viewed on the library’s website at https://www.selbyvillelibrary.org, is expected to open in the early winter of 2023, as long as there are no unforeseen delays.
Kline and her staff would like to formally invite the community to experience the making of the Selbyville Public Library’s continuing history as they move into the next phase of growth. The groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 4 will happen rain or shine, and refreshments will be available afterward in the library to celebrate. | https://www.wboc.com/news/selbyville-public-library-announces-groundbreaking-for-new-building/article_e4ffea56-3425-11ed-9944-d79712af6e79.html | 2022-09-14T13:07:30Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/selbyville-public-library-announces-groundbreaking-for-new-building/article_e4ffea56-3425-11ed-9944-d79712af6e79.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Francis Xavier Dotterweich age 87 of Salisbury passed away peacefully at home on September 5, 2022.
He was born in Essex on July 1, 1935 in his home on Riverside Road, to John George Doterweich and Agnes Ema Ibbott. He is one of seven children.
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Harriett Sherr, 78, of Salisbury, passed away on Monday, September 5, 2022. Born on April 13, 1944, in Baltimore, MD, she was the daughter of the late Sidney and Bernice Sherr. | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/harriet-natalie-sherr/article_e8ecbe66-3423-11ed-b8e3-b7a6b761308d.html | 2022-09-14T13:07:42Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/harriet-natalie-sherr/article_e8ecbe66-3423-11ed-b8e3-b7a6b761308d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Norma Mason Tull, 91, of Salisbury, MD passed away on September 9th, 2022 at Coastal Hospice by the Lake. She was born January 5th, 1931 in Pocomoke, MD to parents Doris M Dukes & Jesse Mason, and her stepfather was William “Coonie” Dukes.
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Patrick Sparr, 59, of Westover, MD died on Monday, September 12, 2022. Born on August 13, 1963 in Baltimore City, MD, he was the son of the late Henry Leroy and Mary Helen Sparr. | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/patrick-alan-sparr/article_99c0afa8-3425-11ed-97e6-679a1ae2ada3.html | 2022-09-14T13:07:55Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/patrick-alan-sparr/article_99c0afa8-3425-11ed-97e6-679a1ae2ada3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Valerie S Cherrix Sep 14, 2022 Sep 14, 2022 Updated 1 hr ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Valerie (Suzy) Cherrix, 56, of Salisbury, passed away on Friday, September 9, 2022. Born on February 14, 1966 in Virginia, she was the daughter of James C. Rayne and the late Suzanne H. Rayne.To read full obituary, click Here. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recommended for you | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/valerie-s-cherrix/article_2f6ffed4-3424-11ed-ba51-87a74ea1b474.html | 2022-09-14T13:08:01Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/valerie-s-cherrix/article_2f6ffed4-3424-11ed-ba51-87a74ea1b474.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: Kerala High Court has issued a ban on parading the elephant Thechikottukavu Ramachandran, a favourite in the Thrissur Pooram circles, in public places.
The court's interim order is based on Assistant Forest Conservator's report, which said the elephant has lost eyesight on its right eye. The report recommended a complete to parading of the tusker.
A division bench of Justices Muhammad Mushtaq and Anu Sivaraman issued the order on a plea submitted by a Idukki-based society.
In 2017 too, a medical team had submitted a report asking for a similar ban. Even after that the elephant was paraded in public places.
The ban was imposed only after an agitated elephant killed two people in 2019. This too turned out to be a temporary stop, as the ban was revoked later.
The elephant, which has many fans among pooram enthusiasts, is thought to be 58 years old. As per reports, it went from Assam forests to Bihar without a name and was later christened Moti Prasad. Though the elephant was named Ganeshan when he reached Thrissur, it was renamed name by the Thechikottukavu Devaswom, after it bought the elephant from Venkidadri Raju Narayanaswami in 1984.
Ramachandran has been a favourite of the Thrissur Pooram enthusiasts for many years. He debuted in 2014 and was loved for his broad cranium and long trunk.
In 2019, the Elephant Owners Association went on strike saying that they will not provide their tuskers for Thrissur Pooram till the ban on Ramachandran was revoked. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/14/hc-bans-elephant-thechikottukavu-ramachandran.amp.html | 2022-09-14T13:10:29Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/14/hc-bans-elephant-thechikottukavu-ramachandran.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Muscat: Around 141 passengers were evacuated from a Kochi-bound Air India Express plane at Muscat airport on Wednesday after smoke started billowing from the wings of the aircraft.
According to sources, 16 passengers experienced difficulties after inhaling the smoke. However, no casualties or injuries were reported.
The incident happened while the Kochi-bound Boeing 737-800 aircraft was taxiing and after the warning, the passengers were evacuated as a precautionary measure, the source said.
Moments before take-off, the engine is suspected to have caught fire. Video footage of passengers rushing out the emergency door of the plane, with some even carrying toddlers and running, has been doing the rounds on social media.
There were 141 passengers and six crew members onboard the aircraft that was operating flight IX 442, the source said.
While the Oman Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the incident, Indian regulator DGCA (Director General of Civil Aviation) will probe the mishap, according to an official.
Alternative arrangements have been made to bring the passengers from Muscat to Kochi, the source said. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/14/smoke-from-air-india-flight-passengers-evacuated.amp.html | 2022-09-14T13:10:54Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/14/smoke-from-air-india-flight-passengers-evacuated.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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BALTIC SEA (Sept. 4, 2022) U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft fly over the Norwegian replenishment oiler HNoMS Maud (A530) during a maneuvering exercise with partner and allied ships in the Baltic Sea, Sept. 4, 2022. Paul Ignatius is part of the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, under the command and control of Task Force 61/2, on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)
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U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., gather for a groundbreaking ceremony on base Aug.11, 2022. The addition of the new building joins an already expanding campus for the 25th Attack Group as their new headquarters building nears completion. The $90 million headquarters complex will house two operational squadrons and a group headquarters, making it the largest of its kind within the remotely piloted aircraft community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob Gutierrez).
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Zelensky visits recaptured Ukrainian city of Izyum
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid a visit on Wednesday to the northeastern city of Izyum in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, which was recently recaptured from Russian control as part of Ukraine's counter-offensive.
Why it matters: Izyum was a major logistical hub for Russian forces in the north of Ukraine.
The big picture: Over the weekend, Russia's Defense Ministry announced that troops were being removed from Izyum and the city of Balakleya in an effort to "regroup" in light of the Ukrainian advance.
- During the previously unannounced visit on Wednesday, Zelensky oversaw the raising of Ukraine's flag over the city's main square, the New York Times reported.
- “Our blue and yellow flag is already flying in de-occupied Izyum,” he said, per the Times. “And it will be so in every Ukrainian city and village.”
- Much of the city has been destroyed and the abandoned remains of Russian tanks and vehicles dotted the streets, NBC News reported.
- “The view is very shocking, but it is not shocking for me,” Zelensky told reporters, “because we began to see the same pictures from Bucha, from the first de-occupied territories … so the same destroyed buildings, killed people.” | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/14/zelensky-visit-izyum | 2022-09-14T13:14:25Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/14/zelensky-visit-izyum | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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BALTIC SEA (Sept. 6, 2022) U.S. Navy Electricians Mate Fireman Yuye Lin, from New York, New York , removes a fuse aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117), Sept. 6, 2022. Paul Ignatius is part of the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, under the command and control of Task Force 61/2, on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)
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Yes, you can find a great lobster roll in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City may be more than 600 miles away from the Pacific Ocean, but that doesn't mean you can't find a great lobster roll in town.
State of play: I visited Colossal Lobster this week after a friend recommended it. It's located inside HallPass food hall at The Gateway.
What I ordered: I got their hot buttery Connecticut roll ($19) on a crispy bun and garlic parmesan tater tots ($5).
- The roll was topped with scallions and served with a lemon wedge.
My thoughts: Holy 💩
- It was so tasty that I forgot all my dreads of the day, like taking my car to the auto shop for necessary repairs.
Details: The lobster shop's menu also offers a classic Maine roll served with chilled lobster mayonnaise salad and shrimp ceviche.
The bottom line: Though it ain't cheap, I definitely plan on going back for a special occasion.
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Three Utah drives to see colorful fall leaves
So you want to see the mountains adorned in autumn foliage, but you're worried about the traffic jams up Big Cottonwood Canyon.
Good news: Trees grow on pretty much all of our mountains.
Here are three of our favorite fall color drives:
The Wasatch Back
Details: Start in Midway and take Cascade Springs Drive to the springs. Then take Forest Road 114 east to State Road 92 (the Alpine Loop) south and take Provo Canyon to the Utah Valley.
- The range of habitats and colors on this route is extraordinary.
Emigration Canyon
Details: Take I-80 up to Mountain Dell and head north on State Road 65 up to Big Mountain Pass. Take Emigration Canyon Road back into town.
- The maples and oaks near the top of Emigration Canyon play beautifully with the early evening light.
- And it's so close to the city you can do this after work and still make it home for supper.
Fishlake National Forest
Details: The Pando aspen grove is the world's largest living thing — and it's right here in Utah. At its fall best, it's like traveling through gold confetti.
Loa is the nearest town, so take S.R. 24 west about 13 miles to S.R. 25 and head north to the lake. Turn back there or take the North Fremont River Road around to S.R. 72, which heads south to Fremont and Loa.
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Between the end of summer and gearing up for the upcoming Central Washington State Fair, you’d think this time of year would be quiet with few events to share. That’s not the case at all.
Yakima supposedly experiences 300 days of sunshine a year, so we know how to utilize our time spent outdoors, even as autumn is right around the corner.
If you’re looking for the best of both worlds, something to do and some time to relax, this weekend is for you. Saturday has plenty to offer, giving you Sunday to recoup before starting the downhill ride to October.
El Grito de Independencia
Join the El Grito de Independencia celebration from 6-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, at Heritage University, 3240 Fort Road in Toppenish.
Mexico’s Independence Day is Friday, and El Grito de Independencia honors the believed battle cry from the Rev. Miguel Hidalgo in the town of Dolores. His speech is known as the el Grito de Dolores.
The cultural festival, where you can indulge in food, drinks and paletas, will feature fun for the whole family. There will be crafts and games; play Loteria with the family. Community resources will be in attendance with information for attendees.
You can also enjoy a performance by Grupo Proyecto 2020.
Héctor Iván Godoy Priske, the head counsel of Mexico in Seattle, will recite El Grito at 7:30 p.m.
Cowiche Brew Run
If you’re feeling sprightly, you can walk, jog or run a 5K or 10K race on Saturday at Cowiche Creek Brewing Co., 514 Thompson Road. The 10K starts at 9 a.m. and the 5K starts at 10 a.m. Both races start and end at the brewery.
Day of race registration will cost $50 for the 5K and $55 for the 10K. All proceeds will benefit People for People’s Meals on Wheels commercial kitchen project.
There will be an after-party following the races. Beer and food will be available, as well as local art vendors.
For complete details, including course maps, visit mypfp.org/cowichebrewrun.
Beardfest 2022
Beards, beers and live music will converge from 5 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday at Beardfest in the parking lot party at Bearded Monkey Music, 1802 W. Nob Hill Blvd.
The 21-and-older event will feature live music by the Brett Benton Band, Mark Pickerel and Jeff Fielder, Devil’s Gulch and the Missionaries, and the Black Market Blues Band.
Tickets cost $20 and can be purchased in person at Bearded Monkey or at https://bit.ly/YH-Rbeardfest.
Cruisin’ for food on The AveWant to do some good while cruising the Ave or watching Vintiques and other cool cars?
The last authorized Yakima Avenue cruise is from 6-10 p.m. Saturday.
During the cruise, The Yakima Vintiques Car Club is teaming up with the Yakima YWCA for a food drive benefiting the YWCA, an organization that provides a safe place for victims of domestic violence to become self-reliant survivors and supports women and children in Yakima.
Nonperishable food items and bottled water or donations will be accepted from 6-9 p.m. at Coffee Cravings, 118 W. Yakima Ave.
The Paperboys
The Seasons Performance Hall, 101 N. Naches Ave., will kick off its fall-holiday concert season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday with The Paperboys
The Paperboys are a Canadian folk band that blends Celtic folk with bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern Europe, African zydeco, soul and country influences.
Tickets cost $20 at theseasonsyakima.com or the Seasons Box Office, which is open Wednesday through Friday from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/yakima-valley-weekender-for-sept-16-18-mexican-independence-cool-beards-and-paperboys/article_cb73812e-3097-11ed-8595-f768ef537710.html | 2022-09-14T13:16:12Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/yakima-valley-weekender-for-sept-16-18-mexican-independence-cool-beards-and-paperboys/article_cb73812e-3097-11ed-8595-f768ef537710.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SUNNYSIDE — The Sunnyside City Council postponed a decision about the Town House Motel’s business license on Monday after hearing concerns about substandard living conditions and criminal activity.
City staff recommended the council revoke the motel’s business license. Abandoned vehicles, criminal activity and substandard rooms found during a 2019 inspection violated city ordinances and closing the motel would protect public health and safety, staff said.
The council did not make a decision on Monday and scheduled another meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 26.
The Town House Motel is on the Yakima Valley Highway in Sunnyside and is owned and operated by Sunnyside residents Fred Kim and his wife. Fred Kim said that the motel’s living conditions have greatly improved and criminal activity comes from individuals who trespass on motel property, rather than stay there as guests.
The Kims were represented at the meeting by Sunnyside attorney Douglas Garrison, who encouraged the council to let the business keep its license.
“We are talking about someone’s livelihood and life,” Garrison said. “Mr. and Mrs. Kim have made their life here.”
Sunnyside Police Chief Al Escalera said police had responded to calls at the Town House Motel.
“There’s significant criminal activity that goes there,” Escalera said. “Town House Motel is definitely something that’s been problematic.”
The staff recommendation stems from a 2019 inspection, which found that several rooms at the Town House Motel were in substandard condition. A police report from March 2019 said mold was visible in two of the rooms and electrical and plumbing issues needed to be corrected.
Trevor Martin, community and economic development director in Sunnyside, said several rooms were shut down in response to the 2019 report. Since then, city staff had towed an abandoned vehicle in the motel parking lot and responded to a reported theft.
“The city staff recommendation at this time is that City Council revoke the business license of the Town House Motel,” Martin said.
Martin said that no inspection had occurred since 2020. Garrison acknowledged Kim had failed to schedule a follow-up inspection.
Garrison said some rooms were vandalized by guests who “destroyed” a room and that the 2019 report did not represent the current conditions of motel rooms, which he presented photos of. He said the issues presented in 2019 have since been resolved by the owners, who spent more than $8,000 to fix issues with the motel’s electricity.
Kim said that he finished updating rooms last year and that the pandemic delayed completion.
“I tried to follow up to the way it was supposed to be done, it took a while,” Kim said. “I was all done in 2021, I say June or May. It was all completed.”
Garrison and Kim invited city staff and council members to tour the motel and create further requirements for the owners rather than revoke the business license.
“What I would propose is that we conduct some follow up inspections,” Garrison said. “The Kims are open to that.”
Several Sunnyside residents gave public comments. David Swails, who owns the nearby Valley Auto Parts store, said he has video of someone stealing fuel from his business and then going to the Town House Motel. Swails and Laurie Vanhorn, another community member, were both in favor of the business license revocation.
Kim said many people walk through the motel’s parking lot and crimes are being committed by trespassers. Kim said he has evicted guests in the past when necessary and that he’d submitted more than 40 trespassing reports to the police. He is considering putting up a fence to keep trespassers out.
“Did I evict anyone? Yes,” Kim said. “Many, many times.”
Escalera said police continue to be called to the hotel.
“Historically, it has been more than a challenge for the police to deal with,” he said. “It continues to remain problematic to this day.”
At the end of the meeting, Sunnyside Mayor Dean Broersma said the criminal activity needs to be discussed, even if the living conditions have improved. Broersma directed city staff to conduct a follow-up inspection before Sept. 26.
The council can revoke the business license, create conditions the owners must meet to keep their business license or allow the Town House Motel to retain its business license. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/lower_valley/sunnyside-council-delays-decision-on-town-house-motel-business-license/article_f34ec242-3391-11ed-a8a5-2bda5e3d47fd.html | 2022-09-14T13:16:14Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/lower_valley/sunnyside-council-delays-decision-on-town-house-motel-business-license/article_f34ec242-3391-11ed-a8a5-2bda5e3d47fd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Madison Keys, founder of the nonprofit organization Kindness Wins, announced that she is using her charity’s fourth annual “Kindness Wins Day” as a fundraising tool to raise money for tennis courts in need of renovations in underserved communities.
“It’s really important to me that kids everywhere have access to well-maintained, playable courts,” Keys said. “Sometimes Mother Nature causes problems and sometimes courts are just neglected, so I really wanted to use Kindness Wins Day this year to raise as much money as possible to help make more good courts available for the sport I love.”
In previous Kindness Wins Days, Keys, her tennis colleagues and followers have rallied together to flood social media with positive messages, encouraging the public to do the same and emphasize the importance of kindness.
This year, the American wanted to use the day to make a bigger impact and raise money for communities whose tennis facilities need major improvements.
“We’ve already had so many people reach out about their facilities needing help - in big and small communities and even schools -- so I’m really excited to play a small role in bringing some kindness to their courts,” Keys said.
Kindness Wins Day will be raising funds through Instagram (@KindnessWinsFoundation) and on kindnesswinsday.org. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2789596/kindness-wins-day-set-to-raise-money-for-courts-in-underserved-communities | 2022-09-14T13:16:51Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2789596/kindness-wins-day-set-to-raise-money-for-courts-in-underserved-communities | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Today's Cool School is Jennings Elementary!
Students are enjoying their brand new school. It's the first school built in Jeff Davis Parish since Jennings High School was built in 2005. Residents of the parish approving a tax increase in the early 2000s for the high school, but renewing the tax in order to build the new elementary school.
The new facility is over 135 thousand square feet and will be able to handle 1200 students in 76 new classrooms. There's a great room, a new cafeteria, new playground equipment, and more.
Superintendent John Hall was on had for day one, and principal David Harper saying the only things kids needed for the first day was a smile on their face!
If you have a Cool School, let us know. Send Dave Baker an email to coolschools@katctv.com. Put Cool Schools in the subject line, include a picture and a short story about why your school is cool. | https://www.katc.com/community/cool-schools/gma-cool-schools-jennings-elementary | 2022-09-14T13:17:07Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/community/cool-schools/gma-cool-schools-jennings-elementary | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
President Joe Biden will visit the Detroit Auto Show on Wednesday, where he is expected to promote his administration’s electric vehicle policy.
The White House said Biden’s goal is to make 50% of all auto sales in the U.S. electric vehicles by 2030.
As part of an infrastructure bill passed by Congress, $7.5 billion has been earmarked to build a network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations throughout the U.S.
According to Fox Business, Biden will announce the first tranche of stations will be built along 53,000 miles of the national highway system at a cost of $900 million.
Biden also signed the Inflation Reduction Act in August. The bill has new provisions for Americans seeking a tax credit for purchasing an electric vehicle.
While there has been a $7,500 credit for electric vehicles, the credits were capped at 200,000 per manufacturer. The new law eliminates that limit.
While at the Detroit Auto Show, Biden will view several new electric vehicle models as manufacturers grow their EV portfolios. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/biden-to-promote-electric-vehicles-charging-network-in-visit-to-detroit | 2022-09-14T13:17:13Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/biden-to-promote-electric-vehicles-charging-network-in-visit-to-detroit | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller (FM&C) is the principal adviser to the Senior Army leadership on all matters related to Financial Management and Comptrollership.
In this video, we follow the Army's independent public accountants during an audit site visit facilitated by U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
This work, Army Audit Site Visit: FORSCOM, by Elizabeth Szoke, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/857219/army-audit-site-visit-forscom | 2022-09-14T13:21:41Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/857219/army-audit-site-visit-forscom | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When the White House released its new Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022, the first paragraph touched on an important but often ignored theme: [quote] The United States has long recognized the Indo-Pacific as vital to our security and prosperity. Our ties were forged two centuries ago. [end quote] These words show that social context and history are as essential to a country·s geopolitical vision as its relative military power. This article examines US geopolitical discourse in the Indian and Pacific Oceans through the medium of presidential State of the Union and Inaugural Addresses speeches to show that a shared and lived history of geographic affiliation with the Pacific region undergirds much of contemporary US geopolitical thinking. A fuller appreciation for this aspect of US geographic and cultural history can deepen the modern-day strategist·s appreciation for the nuances of US military strategy in the region.
This work, The Geopolitics of US Maritime Priorities in the Indo-Pacific, by Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/audio/70479/geopolitics-us-maritime-priorities-indo-pacific | 2022-09-14T13:22:33Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/audio/70479/geopolitics-us-maritime-priorities-indo-pacific | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Global digital assets investment leader works diligently to address potential hard fork for funds with ETH exposure
TORONTO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 3iQ Digital Asset Management (3iQ), a leading global digital asset investment fund manager, today announced it is taking proactive measures for its investors with the possibility of at least one hard fork of the Ethereum protocol which may result in one or more new tokens.
3iQ, led by its industry-leading independent research and digital assets portfolio management, is monitoring these potential developments and remains in close consultation with other market participants and its service partners on all aspects of the Merge including the potential hard forking of Ethereum blockchain. 3iQ offers a number of investment strategies with ETH exposure including the 3iQ CoinShares Ether ETF (TSX: ETHQ) and the Ether Fund (TSX: QETH), which became North America's first spot Ether exchange-traded product (ETP) when it launched in December 2020.
Ethereum's proof-of-work (PoW) Mainnet merge with the Beacon Chain proof-of-stake (PoS) system may potentially lead Ethereum miners to pursue two different pathways. The first would be to find a new PoW blockchain that supports their existing mining hardware. The second pathway would be to reject the upgrade and continue to mine Ethereum under its previous PoW consensus mechanism by creating a new blockchain. If miners were to pursue this second pathway, a chain split is expected to occur that would spawn a variant of the post-Merge Ethereum PoS blockchain. Such new versions of Ethereum would continue operating on a PoW consensus mechanism. Assuming only one hard fork for illustrative purposes, the result would be two separate blockchain networks with two different native tokens: Ethereum (ETH) and an EthereumPoW token.
With the Merge and potential hard fork, 3iQ has no intention to halt trading of QETH and ETHQ and additional products with ETH exposure like the 3iQ Global Cryptoasset Fund. ETHQ will remain open for daily creations and redemptions as normal course of business, just as it has during every trading day since the ETF's inception.
"3iQ will always put our investors and shareholders' best interests first," said Fred Pye, Chairman and CEO of 3iQ. "Our best-in-class team will continue to evaluate all aspects of the Merge and potential hard forking of Ethereum blockchain. We will regularly update investors and continue to examine all possible avenues to maximize unitholder accretion while maintaining our Funds' investment objectives."
3iQ has plans in place to price the value of potential forked assets – if any – in line with fund value principles. And in the event of any hard forking, 3iQ would plan to keep such PoW assets in their funds in the short-term while continuously reevaluating and updating investors as more information becomes available.
For more information around the Merge and potential hard forking of Ethereum blockchain, read 3iQ's research pieces "The Merge," "What the Fork?" and "Show Time." To learn more about 3iQ's digital asset offerings, visit www.3iQ.ca.
Founded in 2012, 3iQ Corp. (3iQ) is Canada's leading digital asset investment fund manager with more than C$700 million in assets under management. 3iQ was the first Canadian investment fund manager to offer a public bitcoin investment fund, The Bitcoin Fund (TSX: QBTC) (TSX: QBTC.U), and a public ether investment fund, The Ether Fund (TSX: QETH.UN)(TSX: QETH.U). More recently, 3iQ launched the 3iQ CoinShares Bitcoin ETF (TSX: BTCQ) (TSX: BTCQ.U) and the 3iQ CoinShares Ether ETF (TSX: ETHQ) (TSX: ETHQ.U). 3iQ offers investors convenient and familiar investment products to gain exposure to digital assets.
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You will usually pay brokerage fees to your dealer if you purchase or sell units of the ETF on a stock exchange or other alternative Canadian trading system (an "exchange"). If units of the ETF are purchased or sold on an exchange, investors may pay more than the current net asset value when buying units of the ETF and may receive less than the current net asset value when selling them.
There are ongoing fees and expenses associated with owning units of an investment fund. An investment fund must prepare disclosure documents that contain key information about the fund. You can find more detailed information about the ETF in its public filings available at www.sedar.com. Investment funds are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.
Certain statements contained in this document constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking information may relate to matters disclosed in this document and anticipated events or results and may include statements regarding the future financial performance of the funds managed by 3iQ. In some cases, forward-looking information can be identified by terms such as "may", "will", "should", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "intend", "estimate", "predict", "potential", "continue" or other similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. Actual results may vary from such forward-looking information. Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and we assume no obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances.
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3iQ:
Ryan Graham, JConnelly
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- After an unexpected rise in late-season flu cases last season and a steep rise in 2022 cases in the Southern Hemisphere, the United States might face an unpredictable flu season, with potential severe impact on the public due to reduced exposure over the past two seasons.1,2,3
- Flu vaccination is necessary to help protect people from flu and its complications, especially those at highest risk, such as individuals 50+ and those with underlying health conditions.4,5
- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people from certain racial and ethnic groups are at higher risk for being hospitalized with flu, and flu vaccination is especially important for these communities.6
SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Nurses Association (ANA) in collaboration with Sanofi and actor Jason Alexander have launched the Not Today, Flu national flu vaccination campaign. The campaign encourages everyone who is eligible from 6 months and older to get their flu shot this upcoming season.
Despite the risk of flu and flu-related complications each year, millions of Americans still do not get their flu shot annually. ANA is urging everyone to follow the scientific evidence supporting flu vaccination and the guidance of nurses and health care professionals. All people eligible should get their flu vaccination and encourage their loved ones to do the same.
"The flu shot is more vital now than ever to help protect ourselves and our communities against the flu and its related complications. We are still working to manage COVID-19 while facing other emerging viral threats to public health," said ANA President Ernest J. Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN. "Each one of us has to do our own part. The best way to help reduce the burden of flu on the health care system7– is to get your flu vaccine as recommended by your nurses and the CDC.8 Everyone eligible, including nurses and health care professionals, should get vaccinated against the flu as soon as possible."
The United States may face a resurgence of the flu this upcoming season, and there is an unprecedented risk of possible severe COVID-19 and flu co-infections due to low immunity against influenza and the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions.3,9 Flu can lead to potentially life-threatening complications, including pneumonia or serious heart conditions.8 Not Today, Flu is launching to drive awareness around the importance of flu vaccination and the urgency to vaccinate as many people as possible to help protect against flu and flu-related complications. Between 2010-2020, flu infections caused more hospitalizations and deaths annually than any other virus on the planet, with as many as 810,000 hospitalizations and 61,000 deaths during this 10-year period.10
"Every day, things come up that you have no control over, and they can really ruin your plans – the flights getting cancelled, deliveries not arriving, your computer freezes, it rains. It can all make you just a little crazy. So, when there's something I can do to help take back control, I do. Like getting the flu shot," said Jason Alexander. "It can help protect people from getting sick with the flu and suffering from flu-related complications.9 That's why I'm delighted to be part of the Not Today, Flu campaign. It empowers people to help protect themselves and their loved ones by getting their flu shot. I've been getting it for over 20 years and I intend to keep getting it each year."
Visit NotTodayFlu.com to learn more about the importance of flu vaccination, especially for adults over age 50, underrepresented communities with historically lower rates of flu vaccination6, and those with chronic health conditions, and discover where you can schedule a flu shot where you work or live. Share your support by utilizing #NotTodayFlu on your social channels.
About The American Nurses Association
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the premier organization representing the interests of the nation's 4.3 million registered nurses. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting a safe and ethical work environment, bolstering the health and wellness of nurses, and advocating on healthcare issues that affect nurses and the public. ANA is at the forefront of improving the quality of healthcare for all. For more information, visit nursingworld.org.
About Sanofi
We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
About Jason Alexander
Best known for his award-winning role as George Costanza of television's Seinfeld, Jason Alexander has achieved international recognition for a career noted for its extraordinary diversity. He has worked extensively as a writer, composer, director, producer and teacher of acting. He has well-known roles in such shows as "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," "Two and a Half Men" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and in films "Pretty Woman," "Jacob's Ladder" and "Love Valor Compassion." On Broadway, he won a Tony Award for his performance in "Jerome Robbin's Broadway," and starred in "Fish in the Dark" and "The Portuguese Kid," among others. After moving to LA, Jason continued working in the theater, notably serving as the artistic director for the Reprise Theatre Company and starring in "The Producers."
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm. Accessed September 2022.
2 Australian Government Department of Health. Australian Influenza Surveillance Report – 2022 Influenza Season in Australia. Available at: https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-surveil-ozflu-flucurr.htm. Accessed September 2022.
3 Dhanasekaran, V., Sullivan, S., Edwards, K.M. et al. Human seasonal influenza under COVID-19 and the potential consequences of influenza lineage elimination. Nat Commun 13, 1721 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29402-5. Accessed September 2022.
4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Estimated Flu-Related Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 2019–2020 Flu Season. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2019-2020.html. Accessed September 2022.
5 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People at Higher Risk of Flu Complications. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/index.htm. Accessed September 2022.
6 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/disparities-racial-ethnic-minority-groups.html. Accessed September 2022.
7 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preventive Steps. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/prevention.htm. Accessed September 2022.
8 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Key Facts About Seasonal Flu Vaccination. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm. Accessed September 2022.
9 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Interim Guidance for Routine and Influenza Immunization Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pandemic-guidance/index.html. Accessed September 2022.
10 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Past Seasons Estimated Influenza Disease Burden. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html. Accessed September 2022.
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Add a touch of goodness to National Guacamole Day and National Taco Day with recipes, in-store activations, savings and more
DALLAS, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Guac and tacos is a combination that's #AlwaysGood, and in honor of National Guacamole Day (September 16) and National Taco Day (October 4), Avocados From Mexico™ (AFM) is inviting shoppers to celebrate the delicious duo while helping grow consumption and demand around these key occasions. The number one selling brand of avocados in the U.S. is also the leading avocado brand available in the fall1, and AFM is kicking off the season with its first ever Guac N' Tacos shopper program.
The new program highlights the combo of guac and tacos with thematic in-store displays, digital media and coupons – shoppers can save $0.75 when purchasing avocados at select grocery stores. Branded point of sale materials outside the produce aisle will also remind shoppers to add avocados to their tacos in over 5,000 stores nationwide. The program will be in-store beginning September 5 through October 9, 2022.
Tacos represent the majority of Mexican handheld eating occasions, yet less than 2% of the Mexican handheld occasions include avocados2, creating an opportunity for AFM to reinforce the delicious combination of guac and tacos.
"Because guacamole and Mexican dishes represent the top two volume driving opportunities for avocados3, National Guacamole Day and National Taco Day are the perfect occasions for AFM to encourage shoppers to purchase avocados," said Stephanie Bazan, Vice President of Shopper and Trade Marketing at Avocados From Mexico. "Avocados From Mexico always bring good taste and good times, and this program makes it easy and fun to add them to Guac N' Taco celebrations."
Want More Guac N' Tacos? Visit AFM's digital Guac N' Tacos celebration featuring chef Pati Jinich's epic month-long cross-country tour to discover unique taco recipes. From classic guacamoles to new spins on tacos, Avocados From Mexico has all the recipes you need to make your National Taco and Guacamole Day #AlwaysGood. Get inspired at https://avocadosfrommexico.com/recipe/.
To learn more about AFM, visit www.avocadosfrommexico.com, Facebook (www.facebook.com/AvocadosFromMexico) or Twitter (@AvosFromMexico). And, for more details on the brand's robust year-round promotional activities and marketing tools, visit www.avocadosfrommexico.com/shopper.
Avocados From Mexico (AFM) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association (MHAIA), formed for the purpose of advertising, promotion, public relations and research for all stakeholders of Avocados From Mexico. Under agreements, MHAIA and the Association of Avocado Exporting Producers & Packers of Mexico (APEAM) have combined resources to fund and manage AFM, with the intent to provide a focused, highly- effective and efficient marketing program in the United States. AFM is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
1Hass Avocado Board Volume Data
22018 Cambridge Demand Landscape Study
3Numerator Basket Affinity, 5/3/21 to 5/1/22; Nielsen Scantrack, Homescan; Technomic; AFM Avocado Demand Landscape (2018)
CONTACT: Ana Ambrosi, aambrosi@avocadosfrommexico.com
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SANTA CLARA, Calif, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/-- Advanced software tools continue to play a major role in 4,500+ rare disease drugs innovation and development, helping overcome challenges such as limited availability of patients and high-risk costs. To ensure successful remedies, patient screening must get simpler, cost-efficient, and faster to recruit.
DOLOXE Inc's Clinical Trial Planner tool has made all these possible. It incorporates unique drop-and-drag data field searches and accurate data insights, which can reduce trial protocol design and patient recruitment time by more than 30%.
Highlights of the tool
- Built based on 40,000-plus completed trails, 18,000 ongoing trials and 5,000-plus planned trials enrolment and study period analysis. New protocol design and enrolment planning can be automated based on the above data sets.
- The software application comes with drag and drop fields aligned with data analytics platforms such as Tableau and Power BI tools.
- Customized software can be installed at the client's location with all the logics and required data sets.
The engineer of this life-saving software is Business Intelligence and Analytics evangelist, Mr. Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru. "To create successful drugs, we need a technological solution that solves real-life difficulties with ease," says Surendra, who has been working in the industry for over 17 years.
After thorough research and neck-breaking work, Koduru, The Fellow Member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), designed the Clinical Trial Planner software that could make the process of designing drugs for rare medicines faster and more cost-effective, helping save thousands of lives across the globe.
"Mr. Koduru has played a crucial role in developing Clinical Trial Planner and many other automation and analytical tools that have helped our company grow, enabling our clients to achieve their goals," says DOLOXE's Scientific Advisor Anand Rotte.
About DOLOXE Inc
DOLOXE Inc is a successful data consulting company that addresses challenging data problems. As technology advisors, the company's mission is to provide comprehensive software solutions through technology consulting, software, and delivery. DOLOXE's services range from Databases, Intelligence Tools, Web API Services and Data Analytics.
The Clinical Trial Planner tool along with Scrapper tool is available on request. In addition, data integration using web API token id can be generated as per the client's interested trial data fields.
For more information, visit www.doloxe.com
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The deal allows EOI to launch its first satellite in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO)
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EOI Space, a company deploying low-flying small satellites that provides intelligence to government and commercial customers, today announced its deal with SpaceX to launch EOI's first satellite using the SpaceX rideshare program. SpaceX, which designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, has a unique service that allows small satellite owners to share space on its missions.
EOI's first satellite, a technology demonstrator, is manifested to launch in 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This demonstration mission will allow EOI to test and validate its technology, ensuring the satellite's configuration and operational parameters meet the desired mission applications. Providing imagery at a 15 cm (6-inch) ground sample distance will enable EOI to deliver worldwide high-resolution imagery and location data in a timely manner, never previously seen from commercial satellites.
"This is an exciting time for us as EOI will be the first private company to operate in VLEO. Our first satellite launch is just the beginning of EOI's mission to provide the highest resolution commercially available imagery and near real-time data delivery to our government and commercial customers," said Christopher Thein, CEO of EOI. "We look forward to working with SpaceX on additional rideshares as we complete manufacturing a series of satellite rollouts in the near future."
As EOI's satellite constellation advances, so will the need to have a trusted and proven launch provider. The SpaceX rideshare program has a track record of success since the program's first launch in 2021. Falcon 9, which will be launching EOI's demonstration satellite, has over 160 successful launches. EOI is manifested to launch on board SpaceX's Transporter-8 rideshare mission, which will liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. All these factors weighed into EOI's decision to choose SpaceX for the company's first satellite launch.
Based in Louisville Colorado, EOI is developing a unique low-flying constellation of small satellites to collect ultra-high-resolution imagery to support a wide range of earth observation applications in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) using its proven, patent-pending electric propulsion technology. By operating closer to Earth than ever before, EOI will capture the highest commercially available views of our planet from Space for real-time intelligence, asset monitoring, and situation awareness. The Satellites-as-a-Service model will provide governmental entities and other companies with another technology to gather data, previously unavailable in the commercial marketplace.
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First-ever Mulligan's 5K Fun Run and Walk Will Raise Funds to Support the Kentucky Humane Society
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The dogs are coming back! Lucky's Mutt Madness, a national dog adoption event organized by the TurfMutt Foundation and held in partnership with the Kentucky Humane Society (KHS), will once again be held at Equip Exposition, the international landscape, outdoor living, and equipment exposition. The event will be held Thursday, October 20 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. during Expo, at the Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC) in Freedom Hall.
Adding to the excitement and momentum of Lucky's Mutt Madness, Equip Exposition is also holding Mulligan's 5K Fun Run and Walk for its registrants.
"We look forward to starting off Expo right with a little exercise before the trade show door opens," says Kiser. "And the view is spectacular from the bridge where we'll be running or walking. It's not to be missed."
The event, sponsored by Ariens, steps off on Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00 a.m. Participants can run, jog, or walk across the Ohio River over the famous Big Four pedestrian bridge before Expo's door opens. Proceeds from the event benefit the KHS.
Mulligan's 5K Fun Run & Walk is named after Kiser's rescue dog, Mutt Mulligan, who is the spokesdog for the TurfMutt Foundation and was adopted at Mutt Madness in 2019. She continues to "paw it forward" by inspiring kids and their families to care for and spend time in their living landscapes, like their backyards, parks and other green spaces.
"Over the last few years over 40 dogs have found homes through Mutt Madness," says Kris Kiser, President and CEO of the TurfMutt Foundation and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI), which owns Equip Exposition. "Nearly every dog available went home with an Expo attendee last year." He hopes this track record will repeat again this year.
At Lucky's Mutt Madness, the TurfMutt Foundation will also donate a $10,000 check to the KHS to support their good work in animal rehabilitation, rescue and adoption—an important part of TurfMutt from the beginning.
"Equip Expo is bustling with energy – and that excitement will spill into Lucky's Mutt Madness," says Kiser. "For the dogs, Mutt Madness helps them find a home. For the landscapers, dealers and manufacturers who attend Expo, adopting an animal friend fits with their outdoor life. After all, these are the people who create the outdoor spaces America relies on. And who appreciates the family yard, parks and other community green spaces more than a dog?"
The TurfMutt Foundation also is proud to have renewed its partnership with Mission Unstoppable and Lucky Dog on CBS. Both shows are produced by Hearst Media Production Group. Filming begins this fall at Lucky's Mutt Madness, where the show's hosts, Eric and Rashi Wiese, will be on-site.
"We couldn't be happier that Lucky Dog will film at Mutt Madness and bring attention to our dog adoption work," says Kiser. Kiser himself has appeared on Lucky Dog episodes helping homeowners ready their yards for new rescue dogs.
The TurfMutt program may have started as a way to showcase the value of "nature beginning your own backyard," says Kiser. "… but it now has grown into an international platform that has reached more than 70 million kids, teachers and families. TurfMutt also is an education partner of the U.S. Green Building Council's prestigious Learning Lab.
Equip Exposition is ranked sixth largest in the U.S., boasts a million square feet of exhibit space including a 30-acre Outdoor Demo Yard showcasing the newest outdoor power equipment in the industry.
For information on The TurfMutt Foundation visit www.TurfMutt.com
For more information on Equip Exposition visit www.equipexposition.com
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Photo 1: Lucky's Mutt Madness, a national dog adoption event organized by the TurfMutt Foundation and held in partnership with the Kentucky Humane Society (KHS), will once again be held at Equip Exposition, the international landscape, outdoor living, and equipment exposition. The event will be held Thursday, October 20 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. during Expo, at the Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC) in Freedom Hall.
Photo 2: Adding to the excitement and momentum of Lucky's Mutt Madness, Equip Exposition is also holding Mulligan's 5K Fun Run and Walk for its registrants. The event, sponsored by Ariens, steps off on Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00 a.m. Participants can run, jog, or walk across the Ohio River over the famous Big Four pedestrian bridge before Expo's door opens. Proceeds from the event benefit the KHS.
Photo 3: TurfMutt Foundation President Kris Kiser with two KHS volunteers at the 2021 Lucky's Mutt Madness.
Photo 4: Two Expo dog adopters at the 2021 Lucky's Mutt Madness.
Photo 5: Hundreds of Expo attendees come to the event to say hello to—and adopt—dogs needing forever homes.
Photo 6: TurfMutt Foundation President Kris Kiser with puppy Mulligan at Mutt Madness in 2019.
Photo 7: Kris Kiser and Mulligan the TurfMutt today.
Link for downloading photos: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/izpqs9db9h6s2v6/AADPjXG5wdZ5DKnXIl5ELb1Da?dl=0
Mulligan's 5K Fun Run and Walk Details:
Who: The TurfMutt Foundation and Ariens
When: Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Location: Big Four Pedestrian Bridge, Louisville, Kentucky
Lucky's Mutt Madness Details:
Who: The TurfMutt Foundation and the Kentucky Humane Society
When: Thursday, October 20, 2022, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Kentucky Exposition Center, Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky
Note: These events are open to attendees and exhibitors of Equip Exposition and members of the media.
Note: RSVPs for media seeking to attend and cover the dog adoption event at Freedom Hall are highly recommended as press badges are required for access. The trade show has a large footprint utilizing much of the KEC. Since the dog adoption event is in the Freedom Hall arena, it's advised that reporters and photographers register early for media access so badges can be ready for them.
Media contacts:
Ami Neiberger, Four Leaf PR on behalf of OPEI, 703-887-4877, ami@fourleafpr.com
Debbi Mayster, Four Leaf PR on behalf of OPEI, 240-988-6243, debbi@fourleafpr.com
Sara Brown Meehan, Kentucky Humane Society, 502-762-3729, bmeehan@kyhumane.org
TurfMutt was created by the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute's (OPEI) TurfMutt Foundation and has reached more than 70 million children, educators and families since 2009. Through education partners such as Weekly Reader, Discovery Education and Scholastic, TurfMutt has taught students and teachers how to "save the planet, one yard at a time." Today, TurfMutt is an official USGBC® Education Partner and part of their global LEARNING LAB. TurfMutt has been an education resource at the U.S. Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Green Apple, the Center for Green Schools, the Outdoors Alliance for Kids, the National Energy Education Development (NEED) project, Climate Change Live, Petfinder and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2017, the TurfMutt animated video series won the coveted Cynopsis Kids Imagination Award for Best Interstitial Series. TurfMutt's personal, home habitat was featured in the 2017-2020 Wildlife Habitat Council calendars. More information at www.TurfMutt.com.
OPEI is an international trade association representing manufacturers and suppliers of outdoor power equipment, small engines, battery power systems, portable generators, utility and personal transport vehicles, and golf cars.
Based in Louisville, the Kentucky Humane Society is the state's largest pet adoption agency and oldest animal welfare agency, established in 1884. Each year KHS finds loving homes for over 5,500 dogs, cats and horses. KHS is also a leader in helping keep pets in their homes and out of shelters in the first place, offering a free Pet Help Line, low-cost spay/neuter services, dog training classes and education. Learn more at www.kyhumane.org.
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Leading cybersecurity firm identifies vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers in 8 out of 10 Small and Medium Organizations
SAN DIEGO and VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberCatch today announced the quarterly publication of the Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Vulnerabilities Report (SMBVR) for Q2 2022.
The SMBVR is a quarterly research study focused on SMBs in North America to detect vulnerabilities that a cyber attacker can identify and exploit to break into a business, steal data and or infect its systems with ransomware.
The Q2 2022 SMBVR was comprised of scans of a random sample of 19,375 SMBs (16,175 in U.S. and 3,200 in Canada) in sixteen high-value target segments (download infographic). Key findings of the Q2 2022 study include:
- Spoofing, clickjacking and session riding vulnerabilities were detected at significantly high levels
- The Q2 SMBVR's scope was expanded to include organizations in critical segments, such as Hospitals, Utilities, Banks and Credit Unions, and all of these organizations also had high levels of vulnerabilities. For example, in all three of these segments, 8 out of 10 had spoofing vulnerabilities that attackers could easily exploit.
"The Q2 2022 SMBVR findings of high levels of vulnerabilities across all sixteen segments both in the U.S. and Canada – is very concerning. It indicates that large numbers of SMBs, including in critical segments such as healthcare, utilities and financial services, have security holes that can be easily exploited remotely to steal data, install ransomware or inflict damage. This is a threat to economies of the U.S. and Canada," said Sai Huda, founder, chairman and CEO, CyberCatch. Mr. Huda is a globally recognized risk and cybersecurity expert and author of the best-selling book, "Next Level Cybersecurity."
"Attacking an SMB provides a double bounty for attackers. They can not only steal the SMBs data and sell it in the dark web while also demanding a ransomware bounty, but also use the data to next break into a larger organization that the SMB is a supplier to. SMBs have limited knowledge about cybersecurity and resources, so they are the most vulnerable. Foreign adversaries and criminal gangs view SMBs as the weakest link in the chain and are increasingly targeting SMBs," continued Mr. Huda.
To download a copy of the SMBVR, please visit: https://cybercatch.com/smbvr-download/
CyberCatch is a unique cybersecurity Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that protects small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from cyberattacks by focusing on the root cause why SMBs fall victim: security holes. It provides an innovative cloud-based SaaS platform coupled with deep subject matter expertise to help SMBs implement just the right type and amount of cybersecurity controls. The platform then performs automated testing of controls from three dimensions: outside-in, inside-out and social engineering. It generates the Cyber Breach Score to continuously measure cyber risk, and finds security holes and guides the SMB to fix them promptly, so attackers can't exploit any missing or broken controls to break in and steal data or infect ransomware. CyberCatch's continuous value proposition: Test. Fix. Secure. Learn more at: https://www.cybercatch.com
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SUMMIT, N.J., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simplicity Group ("Simplicity") today announced the acquisition of Coastal Insurance Consulting ("Coastal"), a Pennsylvania-based brokerage agency that provides insurance products, marketing, and underwriting support for financial professionals. Michael Driscoll and Brendon Healy become Simplicity's newest partners and will continue to manage Coastal's day-to-day operations. Coastal is the 42nd business to join Simplicity.
"Coastal's team is a first-rate group whom we are thrilled to welcome to Simplicity," said Bruce Donaldson, President and CEO of Simplicity. "Our unrivalled partnership will help Coastal realize the benefits of scale across their business, which will immediately benefit their agents and their agents' clients."
"We have proudly built the Coastal brand over the last decade, and we are thrilled to join forces with Simplicity," said Michael Driscoll, Coastal. "Our partnership with Simplicity will allow us to continue to provide a comprehensive array of products and marketing supports to our agent and advisor partners and will also give us access to additional resources, including Simplicity Wealth."
"We are excited about joining forces with our new partners at Simplicity and we are confident that our shared business philosophies will help us efficiently integrate to best support our clients," said Brendon Healy, Coastal. "We are looking forward to integrating into Simplicity's service centers so that we can continue to provide access to top-rated products, best-in-class sales strategies, and unparalleled marketing resources. We are excited for what the future holds for the entire Coastal team."
About Coastal Insurance Consulting
Coastal Insurance Consulting serves financial professionals and agencies with products, marketing, and underwriting support. The Company partners with industry-leading insurance carriers and offers term and permanent life insurance, disability income, long-term care and annuity solutions. Coastal's specialized service includes tailored sales strategies, access to electronic contracting, marketing resources, underwriting, quotes, business submission and case management. For more information, please visit https://coastalic.net/
About Simplicity Group
Simplicity Group is one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing financial product distribution companies, which has had 42 distribution businesses join its partnership (including Coastal). Each of Simplicity's operating businesses is directed by its local management team and benefits from access to Simplicity's group resources. Through partnership with top distribution organizations and technology companies, Simplicity seeks to provide compelling business solutions that will attract the industry's best leadership, talent, advisors, agents, and future partners.
Simplicity supports independent financial advisors and agents across the country with investment, annuity and life insurance solutions with a focus on client education, consumer value, and partnership. For more information, please visit: www.simplicitygroup.com and follow the Company on LinkedIn.
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President Biden on Monday pitched his “cancer moonshot” initiative as a bipartisan pursuit that should bring Americans together, comparing it to former President Kennedy’s famous “moonshot” initiative.
“Cancer does not discriminate red and blue. It doesn’t care if you’re Republican or a Democrat. Beating cancer is something we can do together, and that’s why I’m here today,” Biden said at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
His speech was delivered on the 60th anniversary of Kennedy’s “moonshot” speech at Rice University in Houston, during which he outlined his plan for the U.S. to become an international leader in space exploration.
“Unwilling to postpone, President Kennedy set a goal to win the space race against Russia and advance science and technology for all of humanity,” he said.
“Together, we can choose to move forward with unity, hope and optimism. And I believe we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone, the same national purpose that will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, to end cancer as we know it and even cure cancers once and for all,” he added.
Biden called the initiative “bold, ambitious” and “completely doable.”
The initiative, which he relaunched in February, aims to cut the cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years and improve the lives of caregivers and cancer survivors.
Biden announced on Monday the appointment of Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an agency created in March focused on developing biomedical technologies to improve health outcomes.
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President Biden on Monday bemoaned the state of U.S. airports as he touted the ways a bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year would help upgrade terminals, improve the passenger experience and reduce emissions.
Biden traveled to Boston to highlight a $62 million investment in Logan Airport through the infrastructure law. The funding will be used to modernize the international terminal of the airport and to improve roadways that keep planes circulating.
The investments will create nearly 6,000 jobs, Biden said, and will help add more ticket counters in the airport, cut down time for passengers trying to make connections and reduce the time planes spend idling on the tarmac, cutting emissions in the process.
Biden hailed the investments as part of a badly needed overhaul of American airports.
“Not a single solitary American airport, not one, ranks in the top 25 in the world,” Biden said with frustration. “The United States of America, not one airport ranks in the top 25 in the world. What in the hell is the matter with us? It means commerce. It means income. It means security. And we don’t even rank in the top 25.”
Biden warned that the lack of infrastructure investment in recent decades had allowed competing countries like China to catch up with America economically. But he argued that the U.S. was finally investing again with the $1 trillion law passed last year with bipartisan support.
The bill includes billions of dollars in funding for airports, some of which has already been allocated both to smaller municipal airports and major ones like Logan.
“Right now with this infrastructure law, America is really getting on the move again,” Biden said. “We’re moving, and your life is going to change for the better.”
Biden has been traveling around the country in recent months to highlight projects funded by the infrastructure law, often joined by Democrats making the case to constituents that they’ve been able to get results for their communities with limited majorities in Congress.
The president will also give a speech while in Boston on his administration’s “cancer moonshot” initiative, which aims to cut the death rate from cancer in half over the next 25 years. | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/biden-pledges-to-improve-outdated-us-airports/ | 2022-09-14T13:38:03Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/hill-politics/biden-pledges-to-improve-outdated-us-airports/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SlimFast encourages intermittent fasters to choose smart, simple and tasty options that will support them throughout their fasting journey
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- While it's reported that more than 12 million U.S. households practice intermittent fasting1, limited products and resources have been available to support the intermittent fasting approach. Enter SlimFast, a leading global weight management brand, that announced today the first-ever nationally distributed intermittent fasting product line*. Designed to help people feel confident and supported throughout their fasting journey, the collection offers products fit for various lifestyles and fasting goals. With a range of protein shake mixes, hydrating electrolyte drink mixes and complete meal bars – each product can support specific phases, whether it's to help curb hunger, provide nutrients or to provide energy and flavor to the fasting cycle.
"SlimFast is a brand that brings over 40 years of experience in the field of weight management, and we not only have a pulse on the evolving needs of consumers – we are committed to providing a variety of offerings that deliver on need states, taste and accessibility," said Sarah Lombard, senior brand director at SlimFast. "We saw a need for nationally distributed, accessible products that offer solutions to help people before, during and after their fast. These new products will meet people exactly where they are and give them simple, smart and satisfying solutions to successfully practice intermittent fasting."
SlimFast's philosophy of real simple, real tasty, real results comes to life through the offerings in the new intermittent fasting line, which is full of craveable flavors, and several options designed to address specific stages of the eating and fasting zones.
SlimFast Intermittent Fasting Snack Shake Mix*
Fuel up before your fast or as a filling treat in your eating zone
Available in decadent Double Chocolate Cake and Vanilla Cupcake flavors, these delicious shakes are packed with 15g of slow-digesting protein2 and 6 grams of fiber. Formulated with hunger control in mind, these shake mixes can be enjoyed when preparing to fast to help curb hunger — or any time during the allocated eating zone.
SlimFast Intermittent Fasting Energizing Hydration Supplement Drink Mix*
Enjoy anytime during your eating or fasting zone.
- Introducing a tasty beverage alternative to black coffee, water or tea, these fruity drink mixes come in Berry Lemonade and Fruit Punch flavors. Each drink mix3 has zero sugar, one gram of carbs and combines hydrating electrolytes and 100 mg of caffeine from natural sources to help support energy and focus without breaking your fast.
SlimFast Intermittent Fasting Complete Meal Bars*
Strategically break your fast and power the eating cycle
- With two delicious flavors, Chocolate Nut Crunch and Vanilla Almond Crunch, these complete meal bars are packed with nutrition, making them a smart and satisfying way to break the fasting cycle. These convenient and great-tasting complete meal bars are crafted with 15 grams of protein, 10 grams of fiber and 24 vitamins and minerals.
"One of the well understood benefits of intermittent fasting is that it can assist in helping individuals consume less calories, yet there are few options on the market to actually help consumers stay committed to their fasting zones," said Maryann Walsh, registered dietitian and SlimFast consultant. "These new offerings from SlimFast bring consumers easy-to-use, delicious options that support them during their eating and fasting zones, so they can successfully achieve their milestones and feel confident they have the tools to properly practice intermittent fasting."
The new intermittent fasting line can easily complement the SlimFast Plan or be enjoyed alongside a do-it-yourself weight management approach. In addition to setting people up for success through the new offerings, the brand also provides tools such as a supportive community on Facebook, resources online and even an intermittent fasting timer in the SlimFast app.
The SlimFast Intermittent Fasting Protein Shake Mix comes in a 10-serving canister for $16.49, the Energizing Hydration Supplement Drink Mix comes in a 12-count box for $9.99 and the Complete Meal Bars come in 5-count boxes for $9.99. All products are available for purchase online at Walmart.com, SlimFast.com and in-store at Walmart locations nationwide.
For more information on the new SlimFast intermittent fasting product line, as well as other SlimFast products and store locations, please visit slimfast.com.
Part of Glanbia Performance Nutrition, SlimFast was founded to help people achieve their weight loss goals safely, reliably and with ease. Since 1977, the SlimFast plan has helped millions of people around the world lose and manage their weight. The creator of the meal-replacement shake category, SlimFast now features a full assortment of delicious ready-to-drink and shake mixes, snacks and meal replacement bars. SlimFast products can be found in specialty and mass retail stores nationwide and most online retailers. For more information, visit slimfast.com or manage your weight your way through the SlimFast Together App, available on Apple and Google Play. Follow the brand on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.
Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Glanbia (ISE/LSE: GLAPF), a global nutrition company. GPN's mission is to inspire people everywhere to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals through their leading health and wellness brands including Optimum Nutrition®, SlimFast®, think!®, Isopure®, Amazing Grass® and BSN®, among others. Revenues for GPN in 2021 were approximately $1.4 billion. Visit glanbiaperformancenutrition.com or glanbia.com to learn more. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
1 Source: IPSOS Intermittent Fasting Deep Dive (Weight Managers) November 2021 S4
2 Relative to whey protein
3 When consumed with at least 16.9 fl oz water
*Not a low calorie food. See nutrition facts for sugar, calorie, and saturated fat content. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Operation: Coming Home and Mattamy Homes held a raising of the flag ceremony as part of a celebration that honored U.S. Army Golden Knight SSG George Perez and his family.
At the ceremony on September 8, the former U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division soldier and his 16-year-old son raised a US flag in front of their future homesite, as Mattamy Homes continues construction on what will be their custom-built Hero Home 26 in Mattamy's Providence Creek community in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.
This flag-raising ceremony paid tribute to the veteran and his family, who was seriously wounded in Fallujah, Iraq. His company encountered a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) on September 14, 2003. The blast killed one of his team and left Perez with multiple injuries. Doctors had no choice but to amputate Perez's left leg below the knee joint.
Far from feeling defeated, Perez had no intention of retreating from duty. As soon as he recovered enough to try, he rejoined regular training using a prosthetic, despite the intense pain and debilitating swelling during daily maneuvers. Through intense effort and sheer willpower, he was soon able to continue regular operations with his fellow soldiers. He rejoined the 82nd Airborne in 2004 and became the first amputee to qualify for static line jumps.
"Our partnership with Operation: Coming Home is an extremely humbling opportunity," said Bob Wiggins, president of Mattamy Homes' Raleigh Division. "As a builder, Mattamy Homes is able to come together with multiple vendors and trades and donate a dream home for a truly deserving veteran -- and SSGT Perez is no exception. We are ready to come together to make this home everything it needs to be and present to SSGT Perez and his family in just a few months."
Key speakers such as Senator Jim Burgin (North Carolina State Senator, 12th District), Lewis Weatherspoon (Harnett County Commissioner) and other members of the HBA and builder team spoke to recognize their appreciation for the Perez family.
Mattamy Homes is building the Perez family's Clearwater / French Country ranch floorplan home with accommodations for the veteran including a study and an owner's suite super shower with seat. An open-concept floorplan will make Perez's everyday living and special gatherings more inspiring with an attractive and free-flowing gourmet kitchen, dining area, Great Room and screened-in porch — in addition to the exceptional design of the individual rooms, baths and other living areas.
Building materials, land, and labor will all be donated. The Mattamy Homes team, alongside veterans and trade partners will be helping throughout the coming months to create his dream home.
The Perez family will receive keys to their brand-new home at a ceremony on November 10, 2022.
About Mattamy Homes
Mattamy Homes is the largest privately owned homebuilder in North America, with 40-plus years of history across the United States and Canada. Every year, Mattamy helps more than 8,000 families realize their dream of homeownership. In the United States, the company is represented in 11 markets — Dallas, Charlotte, Raleigh, Phoenix, Tucson, Jacksonville, Orlando (where its U.S. head office is located), Tampa, Sarasota, Naples and Southeast Florida. In Canada, Mattamy Homes' communities stretch across the Greater Toronto Area as well as Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton. Visit www.mattamyhomes.com for more information.
About Operation: Coming Home
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Former Vice President Mike Pence reveals in a new book that he was angry but not afraid on Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters at the U.S. Capitol were chanting for him to be hanged.
In the memoir “So Help Me God,” Pence details the anger he felt despite the threat to his life if the rioters found him.
“I was angry at what I saw, how it desecrated the seat of our democracy and dishonored the patriotism of millions of our supporters, who would never do such a thing here or anywhere else,” Pence wrote on the back cover the book, which was obtained by Axios.
“I was not afraid, but I was angry,” he said.
Pence was one of the main targets during the riot after he refused to go along with former President Trump’s idea that the vice president did not have to certify the votes of the Electoral College.
Pence’s refusal to go along with Trump’s plan and denunciation of the riot since has made a strong dent in his relationship with Trump.
The last couple chapters of Pence’s book focus on the Capitol riot, while the rest detail Pence’s journey as a Christian, how he saw his role as vice president and policy areas he helped with in office such as abortion and national security, according to Axios.
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The Biden administration next month will place new restrictions on U.S. shipments of semiconductor chips and chipmaking equipment to China, according to Reuters.
The Commerce Department will formalize new rules prohibiting the shipment of chipmaking equipment to Chinese factories that produce advanced semiconductors, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
U.S. companies seeking to export the equipment must obtain a Commerce Department license.
Three U.S. companies — KLA Corp., Lam Research Corp., and Applied Materials Inc. — already operate under the restrictions as directed by the Commerce Department.
The Hill has reached out to the Commerce Department for comment.
Semiconductor chips power most electrical systems and machines, from appliances to computers, vehicles and modern weapons.
Over the summer, the U.S. passed the Chips and Science Act, seeking to increase America’s competitive with China in the semiconductor industry with $50 billion in funding for the industry.
Last month, as tensions soared between the U.S. and China over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)’s visit to Taiwan, the U.S. began restricting the export of high-end graphics computer chips to Russia, China and Hong Kong.
Chipmaking company Nvidia, based in California, said the U.S. began requiring a license to export chips that are better than or equal to its A100 graphics card to those three countries. A similar restriction was reportedly applied to the company Advanced Micro Devices.
According to Reuters, the Commerce Department will formalize the licensing rule for exporting the highly advanced semiconductor chips next month.
China has demanded the U.S. drop the requirement, which affects data centers, artificial intelligence systems and other equipment that requires highly advanced chips.
The U.S. was once responsible for producing 37 percent of global semiconductor chips, but is now responsible for just 12 percent of production, according to the White House.
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This morning in our kitchen, we welcomed back our Wednesday regular, Nick Rabar from Avenue N. Preparing delicious Charred Potatoes with Red Chimichurri, Nick took us through the steps showcasing how you can tackle this in your own home and chatted about the details surrounding Avenue N’s newest location, Honeybird Kitchen.
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Recipe instructions:
Charred Potatoes with Red Chimichurri
Recipe Time: 40 minutes
Serves: 4 – 6
Ingredients:
1# Sweet Potatoes, diced, roasted
1# Yukon Gold Potatoes, diced, roasted
1# Red Bliss Potatoes, diced, roasted
2ea. Shallots, chopped, roasted
4ea. Garlic Cloves, sliced
1/8 cup Olive Oil
1 pinch Kosher Salt
1 pinch Black Pepper
Red Chimichurri:
2ea. Red Peppers, roasted
1/2 bunch Parsley, chopped
1/4 cup Olive Oil
1/8 cup Red Wine Vinegar
1.5 T Smoked Paprika
1/2ea. Shallot, minced
2 cloves Garlic, minced
1 pinch Kosher Salt
1 pinch Crushed Red Pepper
Directions:
Combine all chimichurri ingredients and mix with fully cooked potatoes. Serve Warm
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Taos Ski Valley, Already B Corp Certified, Is Now Carbon Neutral
The New Mexico resort has become the first ski area in the country to achieve a CarbonNeutral Certification from Climate Impact Partners
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Taos Ski Valley announced today that it has achieved a CarbonNeutral Certification from Climate Impact Partners. Taos, already the world’s first and only B Corp-certified ski resort, is now the first in the industry to achieve the certification. This milestone follows years of sustainability work and close to $100 million invested in reducing on-mountain energy use, and it puts Taos ahead of its stated 2030 timeline to have a net footprint of zero carbon emissions, otherwise known as net zero.
Taos, located in the Sangre de Cristo range of New Mexico, attained the certification through a combination of on-site emissions reductions and investment in carbon offset projects like the implementation of clean cooking stoves in Ghana and Guatemala.
The Carbon Neutrality Debate
There are some questions about the extent to which carbon offsets and independently awarded certifications like CarbonNeutral mean much in global efforts to address climate change. Auden Schendler is one of the foremost experts on sustainable business. The climate activist, businessman, and current senior vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company said this CarbonNeutral Certification is something—but not everything. “The is a ‘me versus we’ question,” he said. “If you care about stabilizing the climate and protecting the outdoor economy, you work on systemic change. If you care about how you look, you [do] carbon neutral.”
Instead, Schendler suggested in a white paper to which he’s currently contributing that businesses may be better off investing their offset money in something “actually impactful,” such as “converting offices from natural gas to electric heat or switching company vehicles to electric.” He added that investing time and energy in support of passing more climate legislation is also vital to meaningful change.
“We believe that the use of a carbon offset is not the perfect solution, but to be certified carbon neutral is an outstanding first step,” said Taos Ski Valley CEO David Norden. The hope is that, moving forward, Taos will be incentivized to reduce more emissions on-site to minimize the cost of and need for offsetting. “The ultimate goal is zero emissions,” said Norden.
How Taos Achieved an Industry First
Becoming CarbonNeutral is a process. Taos is already on 100 percent daytime solar and hopes to expand the use of renewables across the resort. In alignment with its new certification, Taos is purchasing 10 electric snowmobiles and will also debut the first electric snowcat in North America this winter. The company also created a new role devoted to overseeing net-zero efforts and monitoring progress toward emissions reductions.
“Carbon neutrality allows us to understand what our footprint is, which most organizations don’t actually know,” said Norden. This transparency is key to reducing future emissions and minimizing reliance on offsets to achieve carbon neutrality.
Despite these critiques, Taos is still leading the charge on carbon reduction in the ski industry, and other ski resorts and businesses are taking notice. B Lab—the nonprofit that provides the esteemed B Corp certification to businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental responsibility—convened its annual summit in Taos prior to the pandemic, to show sustainability leaders that the resort reflects B Corp values. More recently, entities such as the Forest Service, Nature Conservancy, and other ski resorts have reached out to Taos to learn more about how it centers its business model around environmental and social responsibility.
“We are a learning organization, and if we continue to do the work we believe that people will continue to take note and ideally do their part in their region to care for the planet and to care for the people on the planet,” said Norden. “We’re building a story that more people are gravitating towards.”
Taos Ski Valley’s commitment to social and environmental responsibility is also affecting how individuals engage with the resort. Following the announcement of its B Corp certification in 2017, Taos sold more lift tickets than after any other marketing campaign the company has run. Today, Taos continues to see high numbers of visitors and has a robust recruitment pipeline as people seek out Taos’s commitment to sustainability.
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12-year-old boy shot in the head on Chicago's Lower West Side
CHICAGO - A 12-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the head on Chicago's Lower West Side Tuesday night.
Police say the victim was standing outside in the 1800 block of West 21st Place with an adult family member around 10:30 p.m. when two unknown offenders approached on foot and began firing shots in the victim’s direction and then ran away.
The boy was shot in the right temple and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
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3 killed, 16 others wounded by gunfire in Chicago Tuesday — nearly half the victims from a mass shooting
CHICAGO - At least 19 people were shot, three of them fatally, in Chicago Tuesday, nearly half of the victims wounded in a shooting at Washington Park on the South Side.
- Two men were killed and seven others were wounded when gunfire erupted after an argument broke out between two groups about 7:45 p.m. at Washington Park, 5531 S. King Drive, according to Chicago police. More than 30 shell casings were recovered at the scene and crime tape surrounded a baseball diamond. No arrests were reported. A $15,000 reward was being offered for information about the shooting.
- Late Tuesday, a man in his 20s was shot and killed in North Lawndale on the West Side. He was standing in the street in the 2200 block of South Kolin Avenue when someone began shooting about 11:10 p.m., police said. He was shot twice in the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died.
- A 12-year-old boy was shot in the head about 40 minutes earlier while outside with an adult family member on the West Side, police said. They were in the 1800 block of West 21st Place about 10:30 p.m. when two people approached and opened gunfire. The boy was shot on the right temple and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
- About 15 minutes earlier, two men were wounded by gunfire in Roseland on the South Side. The 23-year-old man and 60-year-old man were standing in the 10200 block of South Yale Avenue about 10:15 p.m. when four men approached and one of them fired a handgun, police said. The younger man was shot in the lower abdomen and was transported to Christ Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition. The older man was shot twice in the back and was taken to the same hospital in good condition.
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Car crashes into back of semi truck trailer on I-55, leaves one dead
WILL COUNTY, Ill. - One person was killed when a car rear ended a stopped semi truck trailer on I-55 in Will County early Wednesday.
Illinois State Police says the fatal crash happened on I-55 southbound near milepost 252 around 1:22 a.m. Southbound lanes were closed for about five hours for investigation.
All lanes were back open by 6:10 a.m.
Following the investigation, police found both vehicles were traveling southbound on I-55. The semi was stopped due to intermittent lane closures for construction when car hit the rear end of the semi trailer.
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The driver and sole occupant of the car sustained life-threatening injuries and was pronounced dead.
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Jan. 6 panel: What to know in the closing months of the historic investigation
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 textsfrom 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 summerthat 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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King Charles, William and Harry join queen's coffin in procession to Westminster Hall
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, her coffin borne by a horse-drawn gun carriage and trailed by grieving family members during a 38-minute journey to the Houses of Parliament, where it will lie in state until the funeral early next week.
With the royal standard and crown of state resting on top of the coffin and artillery firing salutes at one-minute intervals, the solemn procession was designed to underscore the queen’s 70 years as head of state as the national mourning process shifts to the grand boulevards and historic landmarks of the U.K. capital.
King Charles III, his sons Princes William and Harry and other members of the royal family walked behind the gun carriage. Big Ben’s bells tolled and a gun salute boomed as the coffin proceeded along The Mall to the martial strains of a military band.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Mr Peter Phillips, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex walk behind the coffin during the procession for the Lying-in State of Queen Elizabeth II
The coffin was draped in the Royal Standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown – adorned with almost 3,000 diamonds -- and a bouquet of flowers and plants including pine from the Balmoral Estate, where Elizabeth died last week.
Crowds of mourners massed along the flag-lined road, the Mall, outside the palace for the procession from the monarch’s official London residence to the historic Westminster Hall at Parliament.
LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 14: The Queen’s funeral cortege makes its way along The Mall from Buckingham Palace during the procession for the Lying-in State of Queen Elizabeth II on September 14, 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II's coffin i
The crowds are the latest manifestation of a nationwide outpouring of grief and respect for the only monarch most Britons have ever known, who died at her beloved Balmoral summer retreat on Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
Joan Bucklehurst, a 50-year-old retail worker from Cheshire in northwestern England, said the queen "meant so much for everybody."
"She was amazing, yeah," she added, choking up with emotion. "So, we had to be here. We’ve been here a few times when there have been special occasions, but this one, I couldn’t miss this."
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Maj. Gen. Christopher Ghika, of the Household division, who organized the ceremonial aspects of the queen’s funeral said it was a sad day, "but it’s our last opportunity to do our duty for the queen and it’s our first opportunity to do it for the king, and that makes us all very proud."
London’s Heathrow Airport halted flights to prevent overhead planes disturbing the procession.
Coffin of Queen Elizabeth II traveling in a state hearse arrives at Buckingham Palace ahead of tomorrow's Lying-in-State Procession in London, England, on Sept. 13, 2022. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The airport said in a statement that the changes would "ensure silence over central London as the ceremonial procession moves from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall."
Troops involved in the procession have been preparing since the queen died. So have the horses of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery.
Sgt. Tom Jenks, from the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, said that the horses have undergone special training, including how to handle weeping mourners, as well as flowers and flags being thrown onto streets as the procession passes by.
Since the early morning, people staked out prime viewing positions behind metal barriers along the Mall and other streets along the route. They stood or sat on folding chairs, umbrellas at the ready, takeout coffees in hand.
Crowds have lined the route of the queen’s coffin whenever it has been moved in its long journey from Scotland back to London.
A map shows notable locations in London during the 10-day-mourning period for the late Queen Elizabeth II. Her state funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19, 2022. (Credit: FOX Television Stations)
On Tuesday night, thousands braved a typical London drizzle as the state hearse, with interior lights illuminating the sovereign’s flag-draped casket, drove slowly from a military air base into the heart of London.
Earlier, in Edinburgh, some 33,000 people filed in silent respect past her coffin as it lay for 24 hours at St. Giles’ Cathedral.
Hundreds of thousands are expected to do the same in London when the queen lies in state at the 900-year-old Westminster Hall, the oldest building in Parliament, for four days before her state funeral on Monday.
The hall is where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried, where kings and queens hosted magnificent medieval banquets, and where ceremonial addresses were presented to Queen Elizabeth II during her silver, golden and diamond jubilees.
Chris Bond, from Truro in southwest England, was among those lining up along the banks of the River Thames. He also attended the lying in state of the queen’s mother in 2002.
"Obviously, it’s quite difficult queuing all day long, but when you walk through those doors into Westminster Hall, that marvellous, historic building, there was a great sense of hush and one was told you take as much time as you like, and it’s just amazing," he said.
"We know the queen was a good age and she served the country a long time, but we hoped this day would never come," he added.
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Chris Imafidon, secured the sixth place in the queue.
"I have 1,001 emotions when I see her," he said. "I want to say, God, she was an angel, because she touched many good people and did so many good things."
Westminster Abbey: A history of England's famous royal church | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/queens-coffin-procession-buckingham-palace-westminster-hall | 2022-09-14T13:45:07Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/queens-coffin-procession-buckingham-palace-westminster-hall | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI's) plea in connection with the amendments proposed to its constitution to relax the cooling-off period requirement.
The cooling-off period for office-bearers will kick in after two consecutive terms at either the BCCI or at the state association level. The office-bearers can now have a maximum of 12 years at one go: two three-year terms at the state association level and two three-year terms at the BCCI, and after this, the cooling-off will be applicable.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the BCCI, submitted before a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Hima Kohli that Clause 6 as approved by the top court indicates that a person who has completed one term at the state cricket association level followed by one term at the BCCI would have to undergo a three-year cooling off period.
Therefore, the cooling off period would come into effect after only one term at the BCCI. During the hearing, Mehta had submitted before the bench that three years is a very short time period to prove leadership qualities to take the sport forward, and urged this provision, in the existing constitution, be modified to reflect that it comes into effect after an office-bearer has completed two consecutive terms.
The top court noted submissions from senior advocate Maninder Singh, amicus curiae in the matter, that there was no justification in confining the cooling-off period to the president and secretary, and it should extend to all office-bearers at the BCCI.
Accepting the proposed amendments to the constitution by the BCCI, the top court noted that it is of the view that this would not dilute the spirit and object of the cooling-off period, if implemented after an individual has completed two terms at either BCCI or state association level.
The BCCI sought to amend its constitution concerning the tenure of its office-bearers including its president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah by doing away with the mandatory cooling-off period between tenures of office-bearers across state cricket associations and the BCCI.
The top court had accepted reforms in the BCCI recommended by the Justice R M Lodha-led committee. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/14/cooling-off-period-after-2-consecutive-terms-sc-allows-amendment-to-bcci-constitution.html | 2022-09-14T13:45:23Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/14/cooling-off-period-after-2-consecutive-terms-sc-allows-amendment-to-bcci-constitution.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chicago to see plenty of sunshine, temps nearing 80s with patchy fog
CHICAGO - Wednesday opens with some fog in outlying areas. There could be a brief advisory for this on the way.
Otherwise today will feature plenty of sun and highs near 80 degrees, however it will cool off during the afternoon with the passage of a cold front down the lake.
Tonight will be mainly clear with patchy fog remaining a possibility. Expect to see hazy skies due to wildfire smoke from out west for the next couple of days.
Tomorrow and Friday will be in the mid 80s with mostly sunny skies. Over the weekend the pesky small chance of a shower/storm mainly Sunday remains.
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Otherwise the main story will be unseasonable warmth with highs ranging from 85-92 degrees heading into the middle of next week. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/weather/chicago-to-see-plenty-of-sunshine-temps-nearing-80s-with-patchy-fog | 2022-09-14T13:45:25Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/weather/chicago-to-see-plenty-of-sunshine-temps-nearing-80s-with-patchy-fog | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Queen Elizabeth II Funeral: what are the Edinburgh supermarket opening times - including Aldi, Tesco and Asda
Supermarkets across Edinburgh will have alternative operating hours on the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
On Thursday 8 September, Queen Elizabeth II died at her Balmoral Estate in Scotland.
Following this the UK entered a ten day period of mourning which will conclude with the Queen’s state funeral.
Thousands of people are expected to attend the funeral, standing outside Westminster Abbey to pay their respects to the monarch.
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King Charles III announced that the day would officially be a bank holiday, however, it is up to the business to decide whether workers get the day off.
Following this announcement the likes of Aldi, have announced that they would be closing all stores for the day. Many other supermarkets will also operate on alternative hours.
So, what will the opening times be for supermarkets in Edinburgh? Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming changes.
What are the opening hours for the UK’s biggest supermarkets?
Tesco
Tesco announced that some stores will be closed between 10am and 2pm on Monday 19 September.
The closest Tesco to Edinburgh City is and the opening hours listed on the website are:
Tesco Express, 8 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3JT
You can find out more about the opening times for the stores closest to you via the Tesco store locator.
Aldi
Aldi confirmed that all stores would be closed for the bank holiday.
The announced in a statement: “As a mark of respect, all Aldi stores across the UK will close on Monday 19 September to allow our store colleagues to pay tribute to Her Majesty the Queen.”
The closest Aldi to Edinburgh City is and the opening hours listed on the website are:
Commercial Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6EY
To check the opening times for your local Aldi use the Aldi store locator.
Sainsburys
Sainsburys announced that all of its stores will be closed with some minor exceptions.
The brand announced that their petrol stations and convenience stores will open between 5pm and 10pm.
A spokesperson said: “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
“In honour of Her Majesty and so our colleagues can pay their respects, all Sainsbury’s supermarkets and Argos stores will be closed on Monday, 19 September. This includes groceries online and Argos fast track delivery.
“Our convenience stores and petrol filling stations will be open from 5pm-10pm to allow our customers to pick up essential items, while select stores in central London will open to serve those attending the funeral in person. We thank our customers for their understanding.”
The closest Sainsburys store for Edinburgh City Centre is:
Waverly Mall, Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BQ
Find out more about your local Sainsburys, and their opening times at the Sainsburys store locator. You can find out further information by calling the store on 0131 556 4322
Asda
Asda confirmed that stores will close for around four hours during the Queen’s funeral.
The closest Asda for Edinburgh City Centre is:
ASDA Leith, 2 Sandpiper Drive, Edinburgh, EH6 6NX
Asda advises that you check with their store locator and supermarket opening times vary from store to store.
Waitrose
John Lewis Partnership confirmed that all John Lewis and Waitrose stores would be closed on Monday 19 September. However, some Waitrose stores may remain open to serve those on the funeral route.
The closest Waitrose for Edinburgh City Centre is:
Waitrose, 373 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8AU
You can find out the local opening times for the closest store to you at the Waitrose store finder.
Lidl
Lidl confirmed that they would be closing all stores for the bank holiday.
The closest Lidl for Edinburgh City Centre is:
Unit 1, Westside Plaza, Edinburgh, EH14 2SW
You can find out more about your local Lidl at their store finder.
Morrisons
Morrisons confirmed that stores will close for around four hours during the Queen’s funeral.
The closest Morrisons for Edinburgh City Centre is:
Morrisons Portobello Road, Edinburgh, EH8 7£F
You can find your local Morrisons, and their opening times at their store locator. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-funeral-what-are-the-edinburgh-supermarket-opening-times-including-aldi-tesco-and-asda-3841458 | 2022-09-14T13:45:30Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-funeral-what-are-the-edinburgh-supermarket-opening-times-including-aldi-tesco-and-asda-3841458 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Openers A Akshaya and T Shani batted through the innings as Team Emerald edged out Team Sapphire by nine runs in the KCA Pink Challengers T20 tournament at the SD College Ground in Alappuzha on Wednesday.
Akshay remained unbeaten on 61 off 63 balls, while Shani hit 56 not out of 57 balls as Emerald made 125/0 in 20 overs.
Despite a spirited chase Sapphire ended up on 116/8. J S Deepthi top-scored with a 35-ball 39. C M C Najla picked up 3/14, while Shani scalped two.
S Sajana hit an unbeaten 45 and Divya Ganesh scored 32 not out as Team Amber chased down a target of 82 by five wickets against Team Ruby in the day's other match which was reduced to 16-overs-a-side.
Brief scores: Team Ruby 81/5 in 16 overs (Darsana Mohanan 27, Keerthi K James 22; Divya Ganesh 2/16) lost to Team Amber 85/2 in 15.2 overs (S Sajana 45 not out, Divya Ganesh 32 not out; Keerthi K James 2/17).
Points: Amber 4; Ruby 0.
Player of the match: Divya Ganesh
Team Emerald 125/0 in 20 overs (A Akshaya 61 not out, T Shani 56 not out) bt Team Sapphire 116/8 in 20 overs (J S Deepthi 39, T Shani 2/17, C M C Najla 3/14).
Points: Emerald 4; Sapphire 0.
Player of the match: Akshaya | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/14/kca-pink-challengers-akshaya-shani-star-in-emeralds-narrow-win.amp.html | 2022-09-14T13:45:41Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/14/kca-pink-challengers-akshaya-shani-star-in-emeralds-narrow-win.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Great British Bake Off 2022: who left GBBO this week, how to catch up and remaining contestants
Great British Bake Off judges eliminated their first contestant last night - here’s everything you need to know.
The Great British Bake Off finally returned with season 13 of the Channel 4 show on Tuesday evening.
The show saw 12 bakers return to the tent alongside judges Prue Leith, and Paul Hollywood, and hosts, Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas.
The baking show is known for putting some of the world’s best home bakers to the test, with intense technical challenges and spectacular showstoppers within a weekly theme.
Week one saw the 12 hopeful bakers take on cake week, where they were tasked with making 12 mini cakes, a red velvet cake for the Technical challenge, and for the Showstopper they were asked to make a house close to their hearts from sponge.
It was a stressful first week for the bakers with some managing to impress judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood
So, who left The Great British Bake Off last night? Here’s everything you need to know about what happened in this week’s episode.
Who left The Great British Bake Off last night?
Unfortunately, charity director Will was first to be eliminated from the show.
Following his exit, Will said: "Somebody has got to go first and obviously I am disappointed but I am proud to have made it,
"Yeah, I am alright. There is obviously a lovely bunch of people that I have met, and I have got an experience that I can definitely talk about and share. I am proud of that.
He added: "I learnt from my experience in the tent that baking can be hard work but rewarding! Well I wasn’t there long but I would say that my best moment was Noel’s reaction of my home cake! My worst moment had to be... Italian meringue buttercream."
How to catch up on Great British Bake Off
If you missed out on last night’s episode then you can catch up on the full episode on the Channel 4 hub All 4 which can be accessed on your phone, tablet, computer or TV.
Who are the remaining GBBO contestants?
- Abdul, 29, electronic engineer from London
- Carole, 59, supermarket cashier from Dorset
- Dawn, 60, IT manager from Bedfordshire
- James, 25, nuclear scientist from Cumbria
- Janusz, 34, personal assistant to head teacher from Lancashire
- Kevin, 33, music teacher from East Sussex
- Maisam, 18, student and sales assistant from Greater Manchester
- Maxy, 29, architectural assistant from London
- Rebs, 23, Masters student from County Atrim
- Sandro, 30, nanny from London
- Syabria, 32, cardiovascular research associate from London
The Great British Bake Off airs on Tuesdays at 8pm on Channel 4. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/recommended/entertainment/great-british-bake-off-2022-who-left-gbbo-this-week-how-to-catch-up-and-remaining-contestants-3843258 | 2022-09-14T13:46:21Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/recommended/entertainment/great-british-bake-off-2022-who-left-gbbo-this-week-how-to-catch-up-and-remaining-contestants-3843258 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lizzo has taken September by storm by first winning a VMA award in the “Video For Good” category, but on Sunday, Sept. 11, she also took home her first Emmy award at the 74th Emmy Awards for her Amazon series called, “Watch Out for the Big Grrrls.” The Amazon series is a behind-the-scenes look at Lizzo’s search for the right backup dancers to accompany her on stage.
The series focused on body positivity and also created an avenue for “thique” women. This eight-episode series started with 13 women and after just one episode 10 women remained. The group of dancers competed each week for a spot on Lizzo’s backup dancer roster. Some of the episode titles include “Curves and Confidence,” “Naked,” and “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall.”
Lizzo is succeeding at creating a lane for women that look like her and embrace their body types.
Watch her acceptance speech below.
Not only did Lizo make a bold statement with this tulle red gown, but in her speech she dedicated her win to the big grrrls.
“When I was a little girl all I wanted to see was me in the media. Someone fat like me, Black like me, beautiful like me. If I could go back and tell little Lizzo something I would be like, ‘you are going to see that person but b—- it’s going to have to be you,'” she said.
“One year ago, these women were filming this television show that would change their lives forever. They are Emmy award-winning superstars who are going on a world tour. Make some noise for my big girls.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/lizzo-wins-emmy-for-amazon-series-watch-out-for-the-big-grrrls/ | 2022-09-14T13:46:40Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/13/lizzo-wins-emmy-for-amazon-series-watch-out-for-the-big-grrrls/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CAN TV, Chicago’s cable access network, is home to iconic local programs. Maybe you’ve tuned in to watch radio legend La Donna Tittle prepare her signature dishes on “Cookin’ wit Tittle,” or you’ve stayed current on Chicago politics with its long-running “Political Forum” show.
But for the last two years, the network lacked a permanent executive director. Darrious Hilmon filled that role in April and is seeking to re-energize and modernize the network to reflect the way Chicagoans watch TV today. Hilmon, who has a background in executive management, is the former executive director of the Chicago State Foundation and chief operating officer of the Chicago Urban League.
“CAN TV’s unique formula – hyper-local TV that celebrates the diversity of Chicago – is what makes it a beloved part of the community,” says Hilmon. “At the same time, it faces challenges. Fewer Chicagoans subscribe to cable. More of our viewers are used to watching shows online or on their phones.”
Much of Hilmon’s initial efforts are focused on updating the network, which was established in 1983 and has grown into one of the largest and most prominent community access networks in the nation. To adapt, Hilmon and the CAN TV team are set to release a new prime-time lineup of original programming, a new website, and other big changes.
This month, the new website went live. It includes 24/7 live streams of CAN TV’s four program channels, and on-demand episodes for popular shows.
“We’re making it easier than ever for our long-time viewers to watch our shows, and we’re hoping to attract new viewers who value original stories about the culture and people of Chicago,” says Hilmon.
On Sept. 12, the network launched a new signature programming block – five new programs airing weeknights at 7 p.m. CDT. The shows are a mix of interview and conversation formats featuring local news, culture, politics, and community leaders all hosted by Chicagoans and featuring stories about Chicago.
On Fridays, Hilmon himself will be in front of the camera as the host of “In The Arena.” The show will feature kitchen table conversations with Chicago thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, businesspeople, and newsmakers.
“I’ll be asking the obvious – and not so obvious questions,” says Hilmon.
In addition, CAN TV is improving the metrics of its audience and impact through a partnership with Neilsen ratings. “Professional ratings help CAN TV demonstrate its [appeal] and attract additional support,” explains Hilmon.
CAN TV’s popular low-cost training programs that teach media production skills will continue. The training programs foster a strong community of Chicago creators to produce shows that chronicle life in the city. One CAN TV producer just hit his 500th episode milestone.
“CAN TV prides itself on being the public’s space on cable television, free of commercials, filters, and censors, often featuring voices excluded from the mainstream media,” said Hilmon. “We’re excited about this next chapter for CAN TV.”
For more information visit www.cantv.org. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/chicagos-community-tv-network-is-getting-a-refresh/ | 2022-09-14T13:46:42Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/chicagos-community-tv-network-is-getting-a-refresh/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Actor Jo Marie Payton of the new Disney animated series “The Proud Family” is back. On the D23 Expo red carpet, he actress shared how Cinderella was her favorite film growing up because it reminded her so much of herself. “The Proud Family” is now streaming on Disney Plus. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/jo-marie-payton-of-the-proud-family-says-she-was-cinderella-in-real-life/ | 2022-09-14T13:46:43Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/jo-marie-payton-of-the-proud-family-says-she-was-cinderella-in-real-life/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Roc Nation School of Music, Sports, and Entertainment is a part of Jay-Z’s mission to educate the next generation of industry makers. The program offers academic opportunities, scholarships, and a summer academy, as their mission is to close the college completion gap by providing high-achieving students with financial needs access to high-quality education at a national teaching and research institution.
Justin Williams is the assistant director of the Roc Nation Hope Scholarship and spoke with rolling out about the program and what they offer.
What is this program about?
This is [based] upon bringing creatives together and giving them the opportunity to further their education. We are an undergraduate program with one master’s program. We have five majors which are applied music, vocal performance, music, technology, and entrepreneurship, course management, and sports marketing and communication.
What is your role?
One of my hats is to be a promise coach, which helps facilitate classes for students and point them in the right direction as far as internships, one-on-one mentorships, and externships.
What can this program do for students looking to make a name for themselves in music, sports, and entertainment?
One of our faculty directors is Young Guru, who is the director of the music, technology, and entrepreneurship program, and that gives students the opportunity to one-on-one [facetime] with him and pick his brain on a daily basis. That’s what sets us apart from other universities across the country.
What have you learned since joining this program?
I’ve learned how to explore the creative minds of others and get them on the right track, and get them to see more of the world. We want to open them up to more opportunities and future careers in the sports and entertainment industry. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/justin-williams-shares-how-roc-nation-supports-the-next-generation-of-creators/ | 2022-09-14T13:46:43Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/justin-williams-shares-how-roc-nation-supports-the-next-generation-of-creators/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – The Mass Cultural Council and its partners will be celebrating its fiscal year 2022 Cultural Facilities Fund grants awarded to cultural organizations throughout the state.
Massachusetts Cultural Council Executive Director Michael Bobbitt and MassDevelopment President and CEO Dan Rivera will join Hampshire County legislators and local officials at noon Wednesday at the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Northampton. They received a $162,000 grant to renovate their space.
The tour will continue at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art for a roundtable discussion about the ArtsHub with members of the western Mass creative community.
“Our team at Mass Cultural Council is focused on amplifying the many benefits the Power of Culture provides Massachusetts residents, visitors, and communities,” said Bobbitt. “It is a joy and a passion for me to tour, visit, network with, and learn more about the cultural assets in western Massachusetts, and I am so grateful to Sen. Comerford and her legislative colleagues for hosting me today.”
“I’m grateful to Hampshire County legislators and local leaders for the opportunity to explore some of the creative institutions that make Western Massachusetts so special,” said Rivera. “Northampton and Amherst are home to dynamic arts and culture communities that create high-quality jobs, drive equitable economic growth, and enrich local neighborhoods. At MassDevelopment, we’re proud to support these institutions by administering the Cultural Facilities Fund with Mass Cultural Council, which provides major improvement grants to nonprofit cultural organizations.”
“My team and I are honored to be hosting Michael Bobbitt, Dan Rivera, and their teams,” said Comerford. “Our region’s arts institutions are vibrant engines of community transformation and economic development. I’m delighted to work with state colleagues to shine the well-deserved spotlight in their direction while also helping to channel resources.”
“I am so excited to welcome Executive Director Bobbitt and President and CEO Rivera for a tour of Florence this week to showcase the amazing cultural and economic development activity happening in this key part of Northampton,” said Sciarra. “We’re grateful for their interest and support as we promote Northampton as an important cultural center of western Massachusetts.”
“I am looking forward to welcoming back Michael Bobbitt and to greeting Dan Rivera in the 3rd Hampshire District and sharing with them the ways in which our arts and cultural institutions are essential to the economic (and emotional) health of our residents and communities,” said Domb. “I am excited to express our appreciation for their generous engagement and to learn what these partnerships need in order to continue to flourish.”
“A vibrant arts community makes Northampton a place where people want to live, study, and visit,” said Sabadosa. “With rising housing costs, however, supporting artists with affordable creative spaces has never been more important. I’m grateful that Michael Bobbitt and Dan Rivera have made time in their schedules to hear directly from local artists and cultural leaders so we can work together to best support them.”
“Florence is flourishing,” said Cassandra Holden, Executive Director, Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity. “Arts and culture intertwine with history here creating fertile ground for creative exploration and expression. I am excited to welcome Michael Bobbitt and Dan Rivera to the village and highlight the work of the many talented artists, artisans, historians, and educators whose work enriches this community and makes this such a vibrant place to live.”
“We are excited to share the progress of the ArtsHub with Michael Bobbitt, who spoke so eloquently about the potential of the ArtsHub at the kick-off Virtual Summit, How to Recover and Thrive, in January,” said Lisa Davol, Director of Marketing, Franklin County Chamber of Commerce and co-coordinator of the ArtsHub. “As the leader of the arts in the Commonwealth, we are thrilled that he is able to visit, ten months into this project, to share in its early successes and hear our plans for the future.”
“We are equally pleased to introduce Dan Rivera, President and CEO of MassDevelopment and advisor to the Baker-Polito administration on reopening the economy during the pandemic, to the ArtsHub and share how it is setting the stage for the creative community to benefit from its many features,” said Dee Boyle-Clapp, Director of the Arts Extension Service and ArtsHub co-coordinator. “The ArtsHub received its primary support from a Mass Office of Business Development Recovery grant, and we are excited to share how the ArtsHub has utilized this support on behalf of the region’s creative businesses.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampshire-county/cultural-facilities-to-celebrate-grant-funding-in-northampton/ | 2022-09-14T13:48:03Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampshire-county/cultural-facilities-to-celebrate-grant-funding-in-northampton/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Woodbridge High School graduate Da’Shawn Hand was placed on injured reserve Tuesday by the Tennessee Titans.
According to the NFL Network's Tom Pelissero, Hand is expected to miss the rest of the NFL season after suffering a torn quad in Tennessee’s season-opening loss Sunday to the New York Giants. Hand only played two snaps Sunday.
A defensive lineman, Hand made the Titans’ 53-man roster out of training camp.
During the preseason, Hand recorded four tackles and one sack in two games.
Tennessee initially signed Hand to its practice squad Jan. 5. Hand became a free agent Jan. 30. Hand only played in the Titan's regular-season finale, getting on the field for six snaps.
Hand was available after the Indianapolis Colts released him from their practice squad. Hand was with the Colts from Dec. 21 to Dec. 31.
On Feb. 15, the Titans announced Tuesday they had signed Hand to a reserve/futures contract.
Hand began the 2021 NFL season with the Detroit Lions, who then released him Nov. 30. Detroit drafted Hand in the fourth round of the 2018 NFL Draft out of Alabama. He had a productive rookie season, posting three sacks and four tackles for loss in 13 games.
But injuries limited his playing time to 16 games overall from 2019-2021. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/woodbridge-graduate-dashawn-hand-expected-to-miss-rest-of-nfl-season/article_eec93dc2-3429-11ed-ae96-33f5cd570fb2.html | 2022-09-14T13:48:52Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/prince_william/woodbridge-graduate-dashawn-hand-expected-to-miss-rest-of-nfl-season/article_eec93dc2-3429-11ed-ae96-33f5cd570fb2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One of the big concerns regarding local amateur sports these days is a shortage of game officials for all events, and not enough coaches for some of the teams, as well.
Basketball, baseball, football, lacrosse, soccer and the like all have shortages for game officials. Sometimes it’s a big problem finding enough officials to cover all games, especially any makeups. Those organizations often advertise in different manners trying to find new officials.
Some game schedules have to be adjusted, whether on the high-school or youth levels, depending on the availability of officials. Even for regularly-scheduled contests, such shortages are taken into consideration.
Postponed events become a big issue more than anything, because they interfere with schedules that already have been accounted for.
As for coaches?
On the high-school level, finding enough girls field hockey and girls lacrosse coaches has become a problem in recent years. Same for indoor and outdoor track and field – and more specifically, specialty events like pole vaulting and other jumps – and sometimes girls softball.
Basically, not as many people want to coach and referee anymore. There are too many headaches to take on those positions these days, and the pay, especially for coaches, isn’t nearly attractive enough.
In the 6D North Region of Northern Virginia for all high-school sports, recruitment measures and brainstorming sessions are ongoing in an attempt to attract and encourage more young coaches for all sports, and work with them to remain involved for more than just one or two seasons.
For now, the games and events continue despite the shortages. But will that remain the case if the shortages last and become more dire?
All of that is a big worry.
We’ll see what happens. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/shortages-for-coaches-officials-a-growing-concern/article_39843dd2-3428-11ed-9015-e3c4ef9446ab.html | 2022-09-14T13:48:58Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/shortages-for-coaches-officials-a-growing-concern/article_39843dd2-3428-11ed-9015-e3c4ef9446ab.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Church festival this weekend in Maybee
MAYBEE -- Divine Grace Parish will hold its annual Fall Festival Friday through Sunday at the St. Joseph site.
Concessions, raffles, adult beverages and music by Hijinx is set for Friday.
A steak roast will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday. Also offered Saturday will be music by Wingman, concessions, basket raffles, dime toss, country store and bake sale, doll booth, ice cream, adult beverages and lemonade shake-ups.
Sunday is Family Day and will kick off with the popular BBQ Chicken Dinner, starting at 11 a.m. Meals include half of a barbecued chicken, baked potato, salad bar, dessert and beverage.
Also offered Sunday will be a country store/bake sale, concession, raffles,50/50 raffle, basket raffles, doll booth, classic car show, corn hole, ice cream, lemonade shake-ups, DJ music, face painting and children’s games. A Pedal Tractor Pull will begin at 1 p.m. Illusionist Twist & Shout will offer at show at 2 p.m.; balloon art will follow.
The festival will conclude at 6 p.m. Sunday with raffle drawings. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/09/14/church-festival-this-weekend-in-maybee/69486489007/ | 2022-09-14T13:55:20Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/09/14/church-festival-this-weekend-in-maybee/69486489007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Harvest Festival this weekend in Erie
ERIE – The annual Harvest Festival, featuring a new blessing event, will take place Saturday and Sunday at Erie United Methodist Church, 1100 E. Samaria Rd.
The festival will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. An indoor and outdoor craft fair will take place and will feature vendors from around the country. A bake sale will be held all day and will include cakes, pies, cupcakes, cookies and more. A Pet and People Blessing will be offered from 10 to 11 a.m. and from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday in the outdoor tent.
Lunch will be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Soup, chili, hot dogs and homemade pie will be sold. Bonfire Night is set for 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Free hot dogs, chip and ice cream will be available. Attendees should bring chairs.
Worship with guest preacher Dr. Doug Ralston will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday. A special Harvest Festival offering will be taken.
Two weeks later, on Oct. 3, a Harvest Festival Meal and Auction will take place. The meal will be available from 5 to 6:45 p.m. and will include mostaccioli, coleslaw, bread, dessert and a beverage. Carry-out orders will be available. The auction will follow dinner, at 7 p.m. The grand prize is a $500 gift certificate for La-Z-Boy.
Money raised benefits the church’s operations. The Harvest Festival started in 1956.
“The Rev. Bernard Hearl started our first festival that was held in the church basement,” Wendy Danner from the church said. “Families brought in fresh vegetables to be cooked. The Warren Ford Family furnished rabbits, the Clara Smith family furnished chicken. For many years there were crafts made by our members, such as needlework, tatting, ceramics, woodwork, basket weaving, and candies. Now it is craft vendors from around the country.”
For more information, call the church at (734) 856-4153. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/09/14/harvest-festival-this-weekend-in-erie/69486712007/ | 2022-09-14T13:55:26Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/09/14/harvest-festival-this-weekend-in-erie/69486712007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kathryne Padgett is spending some quality time with her younger sister, Raegan Padgett, following her breakup with Alex Rodriguez earlier this month.
Padgett — a Texas-based fitness enthusiast and a former college soccer player — joined her sister at a Texas Rangers-Oakland A’s game on Tuesday, when she said Raegan was “fulfilling her WAG duties.”
Raegan, 24, is currently engaged to A’s catcher Shea Langeliers, who made his MLB debut with Oakland last month. The Baylor alums got engaged this past January after nearly four years together.
Padgett, a former NPC [National Physique Committee] competitor, appeared to be in good spirits at the game. The sisters snapped photos with friends in front of the field and almost got hit with a foul ball, according to a post on Padgett’s Instagram Story.
The photos shared by Padgett, 25, comes just weeks after Page Six exclusively reported that she and Rodriguez, 47, had called it quits.
“They’re good friends – they’re just each single. They broke up, but they’re super tight. It’s all good,” an insider told the outlet, adding that the former Yankees slugger is “concentrating on his family and his business.”
Rodriguez and Padgett were first seen together back in January, when they attended a Packers playoff game at Lambeau Field. The outing came months after Rodriguez split from his ex-fiancée, Jennifer Lopez.
A short time after the Packers game, Rodriguez and Padgett were spotted watching the Minnesota Timberwolves together, as the ex-Yankees slugger is a co-owner of the team.
Over the summer, the twosome enjoyed a lengthy European getaway, which included stops in Italy and Spain. Rodriguez’s daughters, Natasha, 17, and 14-year-old Ella — whom he shares with ex-wife Cynthia Scurtis — also spent time with their dad overseas.
In June, a source told Page Six that Rodriguez’s romance with Padgett “wasn’t serious.”
“Kathryne’s a great girl, but they’re not serious,” the insider said at the time. “They’re just dating. They’re having fun, that’s it. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/alex-rodriguezs-ex-kathryne-padgett-hangs-with-sister-after-breakup/ | 2022-09-14T13:55:29Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/alex-rodriguezs-ex-kathryne-padgett-hangs-with-sister-after-breakup/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Community can help create art installation with award-winning artist
The community can help create an art installation during this Saturday’s “Whispers of the 41 Latitude Community Art Project.” The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the River Raisin National Battlefield Park outside of the Battlefield Visitor Center, 333 N. Dixie Highway.
Reinhardt also will conduct workshops at the Workshop Hub, 52 S. Monroe St., from noon to 4 today and from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday. Other sessions will be set up in the Monroe area in the coming weeks.
The project is open to people of all ages.
Artist Beatrix Reinhardt will guide participants through a free, 30-minute workshop to learn the early photographic method called cyanotype. Cyanotypes are one of the oldest photographic printing processes in the history of photography using sunlight (and water).
The cyanotypes created by each participant will be exhibited in the Workshop Hub on Monroe St. in Downtown Monroe throughout the month of September. At the end of the installation’s run, the collection will be scanned and printed on vinyl for a public open-air display that will be permanently housed on the campus of MCCC.
Reinhardt has created similar installations in Vietnam, Spain and Iran.
Dr. Gordon Marsh, a composer and pianist who has collaborated with Beatrix on previous projects, will curate an audio compliment to the temporary installation.
Participants should bring a plant or weed and the coordinates where it was harvested.
“The whole process, depending on sunlight conditions, will take approximately 30 minutes,” organizers said.
“This is a beautiful opportunity for people of all ages and areas of interest to be involved in something that will live on for years and generations to come. Those who like photography, art, printing, music, sound, energies, history, community, horticulture, habitats, farming and much more can be touched in some way or another by participating in this activity," Reinhardt said.
Reinhardt grew up in Jena, formerly in East Germany. She is interested in looking at what she calls “charged sites,” sites endowed with significant histories and spaces that endure drama and/or tensions.
“However, her images offer little or no discernible evidence of this history, either the past event or any current tensions associated with it, the implications being that significance can only be materialized by human experience. Her works explore the relationship between space, memory and history and increasingly the notion of the trace," organizers said.
A space that sparks her interest is battlefields. She has investigated battlefields in South Africa, Spain and Serbia among others. When working with these historical spaces she has focused on the element of grass and weeds, the last entity a soldier sees and the first sign of life that returns after soil experiences a major violation.
“In her works she elevates these plants and weeds to be a type of witness, historian or author and create imaginary spaces that allows an exchange and conversation amongst them,” organizers said.
Reinhardt has lived, worked, exhibited and taught in different parts of the world. She currently works for City University of New York/ College of Staten Island. She has degrees in photography, media studies, linguistics and psychology.
She has exhibited in Europe, North America, Africa, Australia and Asia and has received several awards, including artist fellowships and artist’s project grants from the CUNY Research Foundation, John Anson Kitteredge Foundation and Australian National University.
To learn more about Reinhardt, visit https://www.beatrixreinhardt.com/.
Dr. Gordon Marsh is the department chair of fine arts at Roanoke College in Salem, Va. He has a doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago, a master’s in composition and a bachelor’s degree in applied piano.
Funding for “Whispers on the 41st Latitude” is from The Foundation at Monroe County Community College and workshop hosts. Other sponsors are Consumers Energy Foundation, DTE Energy, First Merchants Bank, La-Z-Boy Inc. and ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital.
Other workshops can be set up.
“I welcome any organization that is interested in hosting a workshop to contact me to schedule a session,” Reinhardt said. She can be reached at (347) 968-1357 or at Beatrix.Reinhardt@csi.cuny.edu. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/09/14/community-can-help-create-art-installation-with-award-winning-artist/69491450007/ | 2022-09-14T13:55:32Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/09/14/community-can-help-create-art-installation-with-award-winning-artist/69491450007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Challengers for village council seats to participate in manager search
All candidates for seats on the Dundee Village Council will be invited to participate in the initial interview process for the next village manager.
The announcement came last Tuesday as council unanimously approved the rubric, job posting, assessment plan and timeline, as presented by recruiting agency Amy Cell Talent, for hiring a replacement for Dave Uhl, who resigned as village manager last month to become Frenchtown Charter Township's public safety and economic development director.
Four council seats, including the position of village president, will be up for grabs this November in the general election. Interim Village Manager Gregg Guetschow said that the idea to involve all candidates for those positions came from both him and Village President Andrea Hickey. However, the rest of the council voiced their support for the suggestion.
"The first round of interviews are proposed to include current council, and also council and village president candidates," Hickey said. "That is being done purposefully because of the transition period within which all of this takes place, to make sure we have input from any stakeholder who is involved, or potentially involved."
Barbie Sigers, senior consultant with Amy Cell, said that the process her firm will follow to hire the village's next manager began with conversations with council members and other stakeholders to align the rubric for potential candidates. The job posting itself went active on various job boards on September 7, and it will remain active until October 9.
"We'll present that information (to council) on Friday, October 14," Sigers said. "The process involves us doing survey questions, video interviews, phone interviews, then, once we have sot of a final list of maybe 7-10 (candidates), then we can present those to you and do background checks, reference checks, and vet them."
Multiple council members lauded the work Amy Cell has already done in moving the village towards the hiring of its next manager.
"I was actually very impressed with the company," said Trustee Jennifer Howard. "I spent a lot of time on the phone with one of (Sigers') colleagues, and they were very informative, they had very good questions and I was able to speak my mind and offer a lot of opinions."
Like Hickey, Sigers stressed the importance of transparency and openness throughout the search process.
"It is important to us to have everyone involve din this," she said. "New and old, they should have input and their feedback heard." | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/14/challengers-for-village-council-seats-to-participate-in-manager-search/69491933007/ | 2022-09-14T13:55:44Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/14/challengers-for-village-council-seats-to-participate-in-manager-search/69491933007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Monroe County Community College hosts open house on National Video Games Day
Creating a video game used to require millions of dollars, a large team of developers and expensive sophisticated equipment.
But today, thanks in large part to evolving technologies, a small group of talented and devoted people can make the next hit game in their basement.
They just need the proper training.
Dozens of prospective students, incoming freshmen and even some families who don't have to start thinking about college for at least a few years flooded into the computer labs inside Founders Hall at Monroe County Community College Monday for the National Video Games Day Open House. The event was intended to showcase MCCC's App Development, Computer Science and Game Design and Development programs. Prospective students and their families were given the opportunity to tour the labs and learn about the programs, as well as meet faculty and current students and see demonstrations of prior students' work.
The program began in the college's main cafeteria, where college administration explained some of the basics about the school's associate of applied science degree and the various specializations students can pursue.
According to a press release from MCCC, the college's associate of applied science degree with specialization in application development is designed to train students in web and mobile app development. The college also offers a one-year certificate in this area. The associate of applied science degree with specialization in computer science is designed to train students for the area of computer programming in an engineering/science environment. The associate of applied science degree in game design and development provides students with the foundational skills for game design and development.
Monday's program was initially supposed to take place entirely in one of the computer labs inside Founders Hall. But so many people registered for the event that the college had to take up both of the building's labs, as well as the cafeteria.
MCCC Instructor of Computer Information Systems, Zackary Moore, was one of the faculty members leading Monday's open house. A 2011 graduate of St. Mary Catholic Central High School, Moore believes the excitement around the college's game design program, in particular, stems from the relatively recent explosion in popularity of indie - or independent - video games. These games are typically produced by a small team of developers rather than at a big-budget studio overseen by one of the publishing titans of the industry, such as Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft.
Indie games such as Stardew Valley, Shovel Knight and Cubhead were initially published on platforms such as the PC-based Steam, but have since gone on to debut on every major gaming console - making their small teams of creators millions of dollars in the process.
"I think the big appeal is indie game development," Moore said. "They want to make their own games, publish their own games, work for themselves, work from home. They have all of those abilities at that point."
Moore said that students in MCCC's Game Design and Development program will begin by learning various coding languages. He said the class that most students are itching to get to the most is CIS 267 - Beginning Game Programming, which they take in the fall semester of their second year in the program.
"What I do for that course is three-quarters of that semester I'm teaching you, showing you examples of 'This is how collisions (between two virtual objects) happen, this is how you throw an object, this is how you do x, y and z,'" Moore said. "Then that remaining quarter of the semester it's 'group up and make me a game.'"
Much like how they will operate in the real world, students have to pitch their idea for a game to Moore and the rest of the class. Everyone then votes on the game that they will cooperatively develop over the final four weeks of the semester.
"From then on they kind of polish that out, and along the way I give them milestones, give them things they need to achieve, and I just keep track of it," Moore said.
Two of the games Moore's previous classes created were on display for attendees to try out at Monday's open house. Moore said this initial game is normally created using pre-made digital assets that are in the public domain, but students who progress to the capstone course in the winter semester of their second year will then develop their own games using assets - sounds, animations, code - that they make themselves.
Moore said that it's up to the students to decide how far they want to take their games, but added that he's constantly surprised by just how professional their final projects turn out.
"The last game (my students made) was the best game I have ever seen developed by students," he said. "It had an actual storyline with it, it had experience points (your character could earn), with it, I think they did four, huge levels. It was Zelda-based (meaning it was based off of Nintendo's popular 'Legend of Zelda' franchise), and it was very intense and you could just tell they did a huge amount of work... The students take off with it."
MCCC is hoping to continue expanding its game and app development programs. It currently has three Oculus-branded virtual reality headsets, and Moore said the college is currently exploring moving into the augmented reality space by purchasing Microsoft HoloLense equipment.
For more information about MCCC's game and app development programs, along with the rest of the college's offerings, visit https://www.monroeccc.edu/. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/14/mccc-hosts-open-house-on-national-video-games-day/69491831007/ | 2022-09-14T13:55:50Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/14/mccc-hosts-open-house-on-national-video-games-day/69491831007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With “The Godfather” serving as a leadership manual for many politicians, Joe Biden might have been thinking of a particular scene during his 9/11 speech at the Pentagon. The president solemnly declared that “national unity” is “the greatest lesson” of that awful day even as his Department of Justice issues subpoenas to scores of Donald Trump supporters.
The contrast between the president’s call for unity and the FBI’s partisan putsch is a bloodless version of the baptism murders scene in “The Godfather,” where Michael Corleone participates in his son’s christening while his goons assassinate the heads of the rival families.
So far, the FBI hasn’t fired a shot at Trump World, but the broad, aggressive subpoena action, which also involved seizing the cellphones of two associates, led even The New York Times to call it a “substantial escalation” of the government’s war against the former president.
As a result, the raid on Mar-a-Lago is beginning to look more like the start of something far more comprehensive and dangerous than a narrow one-off limited to official documents.
The developing pattern suggests Biden is committed to helping Democrats in the midterms by giving the party’s Trump haters a pound of flesh while scaring much of the opposition into silence. Attorney General Merrick Garland increasingly appears comfortable as the administration’s enforcer, willing to use his power to serve his boss.
The hypocrisy is stunning. Dems accused Trump of trying to weaponize Justice as president but show no qualms about doing exactly that.
Instead of trying to parse their shifting explanations, it’s better to remember what the late John Mitchell once said of the Nixon administration: “Watch what we do, not what we say.”
Biden’s dark turn was hinted at in his “MAGA, MAGA, MAGA” speech in Philadelphia.
Although it was widely panned, including by many Dems, and Biden tried to walk it back the next day, his broad labeling of Trump supporters as a “threat to democracy” takes on a far more sinister dimension when the FBI gets involved.
The extent of that involvement is dribbling out, with the usual legacy media outlets getting leaks from anonymous sources who are said to be “familiar with the matter” or “have knowledge” of the situation.
Translation: Justice Department aides aren’t afraid they’ll be prosecuted for leaking grand-jury and other supposedly confidential information. They know they are on the politically protected team.
According to the Times, ABC News and others, Garland has expanded his Jan. 6 probe to include everything from Trump’s plan to substitute new slates of electors in the states he was contesting to the money he is raising through Save America, a political action committee.
The latest subpoenas come after dozens of other former Trump aides were previously served with demands to provide information on numerous topics, including the planning of the Jan. 6 rally. Separately, state lawmakers and GOP party officials were also reportedly subpoenaed earlier in the summer.
At least four phones have been seized, three of them from Trump lawyers John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark and Boris Epshteyn. Those getting subpoenas include former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik, the Times says.
The new fronts in the attack make it seem inevitable that Trump will make presidential history again by being hit with criminal charges, perhaps numerous ones. It also seems likely that such charges could come before the fall elections.
Justice generally follows self-imposed guidelines that require prosecutors to steer clear of politically sensitive cases within 60 days of an election. But as with most things involving Trump, standards and rules are being trashed under the justification that he broke political norms.
Such hypocrisy would be comical if the stakes weren’t so high. The assault on Trump is so far out of proportion to events that you don’t have to agree with him that the election was stolen to suspect he is being targeted for political reasons more than criminal ones.
In addition, the attempts to criminalize the statements and peaceful efforts to contest the 2020 election made by people close to him, as well as by supporters at the state level, smack of a banana republic.
There is, of course, an ulterior purpose for this madness. For Dems in general, keeping the focus on Trump and what they call “insurrectionists” amounts to an enormous scam of diversion.
They prattle on feverishly and endlessly about extremists and threats to democracy in an effort to distract voters from focusing on sky-high inflation, surging crime and the open border nightmares their policies have produced. If voters focus on those failures, many Dems will be unemployed come January.
For Biden, the stakes are even higher. A Republican-led Congress would mean aggressive investigations of the role the Big Guy played in the access-peddling schemes of his son Hunter and brother Jim Biden.
We already know that millions upon millions of dollars flowed through Hunter’s accounts from China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and elsewhere and that one of Hunter’s partners moved money between Joe’s account and Hunter’s. As Post reporter Jon Levine recounts, emails on Hunter’s infamous laptop show he often paid for his father’s household expenses while Joe Biden was vice president.
In a 2010 email, Hunter’s business partner Eric Schwerin lists home maintenance costs under the title “JRB Bills.” They included $1,239 in repairs to an air conditioner at “mom-mom’s cottage,” $1,475 to a painter for “back wall and columns at the lake house,” $2,600 for fixing up a “stone retaining wall at the lake” and $475 “for shutters.”
There is also the 2019 missive from Hunter to his daughter Naomi, where he writes:
“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
Pop, aka the Big Guy, aka the president of the United States, somehow became a wealthy man, but even he can’t afford to face a GOP Congress. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/merrick-garland-stars-in-joe-bidens-the-godfather-part-iv/ | 2022-09-14T13:56:17Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/merrick-garland-stars-in-joe-bidens-the-godfather-part-iv/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Prior was +9.8%
- PPI -0.1% m/m vs -0.1% expected
- Prior m/m reading was -0.5%
- Ex-food and energy +7.3% y/y vs +7.1% expected
- Ex-food and energy +0.4% m/m vs +0.3% expected
The ex-food and energy numbers are disappointing. Inflation is flowing through the core right now and that's what has the market worried. These are close enough to expectations not to cause big ripples but bad enough to keep dip buyers at bay. The dollar is unmoved on the numbers. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-august-ppi-87-yy-vs-88-expected-20220914/ | 2022-09-14T13:58:38Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-august-ppi-87-yy-vs-88-expected-20220914/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The major US stock indices are trading marginally higher in early US trading:
- Dow industrial average up 13.9 points or 0.05% at 3115.20
- S&P up 2.99 points or 0.08% at 3935.71
- NASDAQ up 2 points or 0.02% at 11636.90
- Russell 2000 down 5.5 points or -0.30% at 1825.80
The small gains come after the 3 major indices declined the most since June 2020 yesterday. Stocks are not out of the woods yet.
In the US debt market, yields are off their highest levels after PPI data came in as expected/a little worse. The headline number came in at -0.1% as expected. The core measure came in at 0.4% vs. 0.3% expected. The year near numbers were lower as sharp rises from a year ago dropped out of the equation.
- 2 year yield 3.794%, +3.6 basis points
- 5 year 3.605%, +2.6 basis points
- 10 year 3.427%, +1.7 basis points
- 30 year 3.504% +1.4 basis points
In other markets:
- spot gold is trading up $2.37 or 0.14% at $1703.50
- spot silver is up $0.22 or 1.14% at $19.54
- WTI crude oil is trading at $88.77 that's up $1.45
- The price bitcoin is trading near closing levels from yesterday at $20,277
In the forex market, the
- USDJPY has moved to a new session low in the early US session and tested the 200 hour MA at 142.586 in the process. Move below would give sellers more comfort. Stay above and teh 100 hour MA at 143.164 will be eyed.
- The USDCAD moved up to test the highs from the last two weeks at 1.3207 today, but backed off. The price trades at 1.3181 currently.
- The EURUSD trades above and below the parity level and the 200 hour MA at 0.9998.
- The GBPUSD is trading above and below is 200 hour MA at 1.1554.
The JPY is the strongest and the CAD is the weakest of the major currencies. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-stocks-up-modestly-after-the-sharp-declines-yesterday-20220914/ | 2022-09-14T13:58:44Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-stocks-up-modestly-after-the-sharp-declines-yesterday-20220914/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WEDNESDAY
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Albany County Planning and Zoning Commission meets: 5 p.m., Albany County Courthouse, 525 E. Grand Ave., or via Zoom. For agenda and information on how to participate on Zoom, visit co.albany.wy.us.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
THURSDAY
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
FRIDAY
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
SATURDAY
Walk to End Alzheimer’s: 9 a.m., Optimist Park, with music and food following the walk.
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
SUNDAY
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
UW Faculty Recital Series free performance: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features Nicole Riner on flute and Chi-Chen Wu on piano.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
MONDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
TUESDAY
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 21
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 4-6 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Sept. 22
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 25
UW Faculty Recital Series presents oboist Jennier Stucki: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. Free to attend.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 26
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Sept. 27
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 28
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Sept. 29
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 30
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
UW Music presents Duo Cintemani: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features a critically acclaimed flute-guitar group.
Oct. 2
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 3
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 4
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 5
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Casper Aquifer Protection Draft Plan public comment: 6-8 p.m., in-person at Laramie Municipal Operations Center at 4373 N. 3rd St. and online at Zoom; meeting ID: 85445790677, passcode: 626454.
Oct. 6
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 8
12th annual Kids Pumpkin Walk: Noon to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. A fun family event featuring outdoor activities, indoor games, education, candy, treats and plenty of pumpkins. Cost is $4 for adults, 17 and younger admitted free.
Oct. 9
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 10
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 11
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Oct. 12
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 13
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 16
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. the second Monday of the month via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 17
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 18
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 19
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 20
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 21
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Oct. 22
Laramie Foster Closet Fall Fest: Noon to 5 p.m., Albany County Fairgrounds.
Oct. 23
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 24
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Oct. 25
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 26
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Oct. 27
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 30
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 31
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Nov. 1
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Nov. 2
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Nov. 3
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-sept-14-2022/article_6963de52-3371-11ed-b574-dfb5e0ee1572.html | 2022-09-14T13:59:54Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-sept-14-2022/article_6963de52-3371-11ed-b574-dfb5e0ee1572.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CASPER — In January 2013, then-Gov. Matt Mead signed into law sweeping changes that effectively made Wyoming’s schools superintendent a ceremonial position.
It had taken lawmakers only 12 days to pass Senate File 104, which removed the elected superintendent from day-to-day management of the state’s Department of Education in favor of a director appointed by the governor.
Lawmakers had a strained relationship with the superintendent at the time, Cindy Hill, with many legislators critical of how she was running the education department.
Hill and her supporters countered that by stripping away the superintendent’s powers, the Legislature had effectively nullified the will of the voters who had elected her two years earlier.
Hill attended the governor’s signing ceremony. Afterward, she accompanied her attorney in serving Mead with a lawsuit challenging the new law’s constitutionality. A year later, the Wyoming Supreme Court struck down the law.
But its impact continued to reverberate in the form of disagreements between the Republican who backed the law and those who viewed it as a usurping of the voters’ will.
Eight years later, a similar movement is now being discussed among state lawmakers.
This time, its target is the secretary of state — Wyoming’s No. 2 elected official and the person responsible for overseeing the state’s elections.
Last month, a legislative committee moved to take elections administration out of the purview of the secretary of state. Instead, elections would be run by a separate agency with an appointed director.
The move by the Joint Corporations Committee came in response to Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, securing the GOP nomination in the August primary.
Gray, who is running unopposed in the general election, called President Joe Biden’s election illegitimate and fraudulent and made voter fraud and banning ballot drop boxes a key focus of his campaign — although cases of voter fraud in Wyoming are exceedingly rare.
The committee’s vote has parallels to the so-called “Hill Bill,” with its backers saying the change is needed to address a critical part of state government — this time around, the administration of elections.
“I’m concerned based on some of the rhetoric and some of the mailers I saw in regards to our most likely upcoming secretary of state that we may be in a precarious position when it comes to election administration for the next four years,” said Rep. Dan Zwonitzer, who proposed the change and who voted for Senate File 104 when it was adopted in 2013.
But other veteran lawmakers have cautioned against pursuing a similar path, one that raises constitutional questions about the Legislature’s role in deciding executive branch duties.
“We’ve been down this road before in the education area,” Sen. Charlie Scott, R-Casper, said during the committee’s meeting.
Scott, who supported Senate File 104 at the time, called the consequences “most unfortunate.”
While there are clear parallels between the Hill Bill and the recent bill draft, some observers say the current effort is different — and this time, possibly constitutional.But while the Wyoming Constitution lays out the superintendent’s duties, it leaves the duties of the secretary of state up to the Legislature to decide.
As Zwonitzer sees it, that provides room for lawmakers to take elections oversight away from the secretary.
“You don’t have a similar provision regarding the secretary of state, what you have is the provision ... that creates the office and says the powers and duties should be prescribed by law,” said University of Utah law professor Bob Keiter, an expert on the Wyoming Constitution.
The bill draft would likely amend part of the state’s election code (22-2-103), which deems the secretary of state “the chief election officer” and says that the officeholder “shall maintain uniformity in the applications and operations of the election laws of Wyoming.”“What the Legislature can grant, the Legislature can take away,” said David Adler, a constitutional scholar and lecturer.
Casper attorney and outgoing Sen. Drew Perkins put forward a similar line of reasoning, saying that if the Legislature has the power to assign something, it also has the power to “reassign” it.Hill, who finished out her term in 2014 before mounting an unsuccessful run for governor against Mead, argues that the Legislature is misinterpreting its role in scenarios like these.
“Legislators who support these efforts do not understand the constitutional principle of separation of powers,” she said in a statement to the Star-Tribune. “The Legislature must confine itself to its constitutionally prescribed role and must not seek to take unto itself powers belonging to other branches.”
If Zwonitzer’s proposal is successful, Gray would still be in charge of the state’s entire business division, among other important duties.
But though it isn’t named in the state constitution, election supervision may be one of the secretary’s “inherent powers” — basically, generally accepted duties traditionally associated with the office, Keiter said.
“When most people think of the secretary of state, they think of election responsibilities more than providing a seal on business filings,” he said.
It would be up to the courts to decide whether this bill infringes on those inherent powers.
But until Gray is sworn in and a bill is successfully passed and enacted, it can’t face a legal challenge.
“Chuck Gray might have standing once the general [election] is over,” Perkins said. “There’s nothing to sue about yet. Legislators talk about ideas.”
If a case is brought, the argument will likely center around just how far the Legislature can go in setting the powers of the office, Adler said.
“When is the Legislature using its statutory authority to govern the office in a way that does not eclipse the constitutional authority? That would always be the question. That would be the subject of constitutional law cases,” he said.
Gray, for his part, said the attempt would violate the constitution. He indicated he would push back on efforts to change the office.
“It’s nothing more than another unconstitutional power grab by leftist politicians who don’t care about the people’s right to direct their government,” he said in a statement. “I’ll do all I can to give voters the power to govern and not let these sold-out insiders get away with this.”
Gray beat Sen. Tara Nethercott, R-Cheyenne, by nearly 13,000 votes to secure the Republican nomination. He earned around half of the total votes cast in the primary.
Opponents of the proposal point out that Gray was legitimately elected by the voters of Wyoming, something that should be respected by lawmakers.
“Elections are the means by which a democracy can function,” Hill said in her statement. “Transferring duties away from elected offices nullifies the vote, making our system into something other than a democracy.”
Hill said that if lawmakers do strip the secretary’s election powers, they would essentially be claiming to “know better than the voters as to who should occupy the office.”
In Hill’s case, she and two people who voted for her brought the the lawsuit that ended up overturning the law that removed most of her powers.
Keiter, the Wyoming Constitution expert, said he would expect voters to be involved in any similar lawsuit that could be filed on Gray’s behalf.
“This would essentially nullify their choice,” Keiter said.
There may also be a “very strong” argument to be made that taking away election powers could be a violation of the separation of powers between the Legislature and the secretary’s office, which falls under the executive branch, Keiter said.
Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, voted against Senate File 104 in 2013, but is in favor of moving forward with the secretary of state bill.
“There is a bit of right and wrong in the world,” said Case, who serves on the corporations committee. “I’m sorry, the elections weren’t stolen.”
Case partly voted against the Hill Bill because it was drawn up during the session in a hasty process that left less time for the public to weigh in. That won’t be the case this time.
The draft bill will likely return to the corporations committee for a future vote. If it succeeds in that venue, it would be months before the full Legislature considers the matter, giving the public time to speak out either for or against.
The bill limiting Hill’s power cruised through the lawmaking process, but legislation targeting the secretary’s office likely won’t have as smooth a path.
Since 2014, the Wyoming Legislature has moved farther to the right, and the part of the Republican Party angered by Senate File 104 now make up a larger faction within the statehouse.
“I think putting it on the table to talk about it is not just disrespecting the voters. Putting it through in a week in a regular session, without public input, that would be disrespecting the voters,” Case said. “We can talk about ideas in Wyoming. It’s still OK to talk about ideas.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/effort-to-strip-power-from-sos-similar-to-school-superintendent/article_317660c6-3373-11ed-9412-9769a8644ab7.html | 2022-09-14T14:00:19Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/effort-to-strip-power-from-sos-similar-to-school-superintendent/article_317660c6-3373-11ed-9412-9769a8644ab7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, speaks during the morning Senate special session Nov. 2, 2021, at the Capitol.
CASPER — The Wyoming GOP State Central Committee will vote Saturday on a resolution to censure Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, following his recent attempts to solicit an independent candidate to challenge the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for secretary of state in the upcoming general election.
“Unfortunately, Wyoming’s problem is not only the Democratic and Republican parties,” the resolution, as shared in a Friday email with members of the Republican Party, states. “Our problem stems primarily from individuals who identify as Republican yet vote and act contrary to the platform of the Wyoming Republican Party.”
The resolution says that the members of the State Central Committee will deny Case “any financial or physical support” in “any political endeavors…” and requests Case to change his party affiliation.
Park County GOP State Committeeman Vince Vanata said the resolution, which, unusually, is formatted as a letter, was initially passed “unanimously” at a GOP state executive committee meeting on Aug. 29 and has received an endorsement from the Park County GOP.
Wyoming GOP Executive Director Kathy Russell confirmed that Friday’s version of the resolution is the most current draft.
“I really probably won’t do anything, to be honest,” Case said regarding the resolution. “I can’t change their minds.”
He said the State Central Committee hasn’t directly notified him of the resolution.
Wyoming National Committeeman Corey Steinmetz didn’t respond to the Star-Tribune by deadline to confirm this, or whether the State Central Committee plans to officially notify Case before the meeting.
Case, known for his libertarian bent and willingness to deviate from party lines, is one of several more traditional and moderate-leaning Republicans who have garnered the ire of some far-right party members.
He’s already been censured once by the Fremont County GOP for acting “contrary to the will of the governed and the Wyoming Republican Party platform.”
That followed a guest column Case wrote for the Cowboy State Daily encouraging Wyoming Republicans to return to “Big Tent” politics and denouncing the politics of “hate and disparagement” that he said has come to characterize the Wyoming GOP.
“At every turn, the Republican State Party leadership gives voice to a minority viewpoint that will not tolerate disagreement,” Case wrote in the column, urging people to get involved in politics and run in the primaries.
The resolution cites the column as one grievance, but it particularly targets Case’s recent involvement in attempts to find an independent challenger to Republican Secretary of State candidate Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, who defeated his most prominent challenger, attorney Sen. Tara Nethercott, R-Cheyenne, by roughly 9 points in the August primaries.
Case tried to convince former Republican representative Nathan Winters to run against Gray in the general election, but Winters declined, saying that it’s important for the GOP to unite behind Gray.
Case was joined by a group of traditional, moderate-leaning Republicans and some Democrats in the search for an independent challenger. The endeavor ultimately failed.
“The idea that an elected ‘Republican’ would undermine the will of the Republican voters of this State is beyond the pale,” the resolution says, regarding Case’s push to get an independent on the November ballot. “If he’s going to do things contrary to the Republican Party platform, or if he’s going to appease those people in a different party, than Cale Case should just remove the ‘R’ from after his name, run as an unaffiliated, and then see if the voters truly want to elect him for the person he is,” Vanata said.
The effort to limit Gray’s power as secretary of state hasn’t stopped there.
Last month, the Joint Corporations Committee sought to draft a bill that would strip elections administration from among the secretary of state’s duties. Elections would be run by a separate agency with an appointed director instead.
Case is in favor of moving forward with the secretary of state bill, which, the resolution says, is “tantamount to an abuse of power and position.”
Gray has called President Joe Biden’s election fraudulent and illegitimate. His platform focuses on voter fraud and banning ballot drop boxes, even though voter fraud is extremely rare in Wyoming.
The Secretary of State is Wyoming’s No. 2 elected official and oversees the state’s elections. Gray is running unopposed in the general election, so he is almost guaranteed to succeed current Secretary of State Ed Buchanan.
Case questioned whether Gray would win the Republican nomination if he were to go head-to-head with Nethercott in a runoff election, which some states require when no candidate receives a majority vote. (Gray won 49.8% of the Republican vote, while Nethercott and another candidate, Mark Armstrong, got 41% and 9.1% of the vote, respectively).
“I think he’d probably lose,” Case said of Gray’s prospects in a theoretical runoff election. “These people that insist on their legitimacy, they’re missing the most important thing; democracy doesn’t exist to further partisan politics. We want to further a result where the majority are in power.”
Case said he wasn’t really worried about the resolution itself hurting him politically, given his experience with being censured by Fremont County GOP, which he thinks may have actually helped him in the primary. He won by 10 points over challenger Shawn Olmstead.
“Believe it or not, I’ve heard a lot more positives than negatives,” he said. “I think it helped my election. I really do. It was a nasty election, the nastiest one I’ve ever been in, but I think it probably helped me.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/gop-aims-to-censure-case/article_fd917534-3377-11ed-ab93-970738433d8b.html | 2022-09-14T14:00:25Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/gop-aims-to-censure-case/article_fd917534-3377-11ed-ab93-970738433d8b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...AIR QUALITY ALERT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM MDT THIS
AFTERNOON...
The following message is transmitted on behalf of the Wyoming
Department of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division and the
Wyoming Department of Health.
WHAT...Air Quality Alert for Wildfire Smoke.
WHERE...Much of southeast Wyoming. Some locations impacted include
but are not limited to Douglas, Lusk, Wheatland, Torrington, Pine
Bluffs, Cheyenne, Laramie, Shirley Basin, and Muddy Gap.
WHEN...Through 1 PM MDT Today.
IMPACTS...Heavy smoke from distant wildfires.
HEALTH INFORMATION...The Wyoming Department of Health recommends the
elderly, young children, and individuals with respiratory problems
avoid excessive physical exertion and minimize outdoor activities
during this time. Wildfire smoke is made up of a variety of
pollutants, including particulate matter and ozone, which can cause
respiratory health effect. Although these people are most
susceptible to health impacts, the Department of Health also advises
that everyone should avoid prolonged exposure to poor air quality
conditions.
CURRENT CONDITIONS...The Wyoming Department of Environmental
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The Higher Ground Fair, now in its fifth year, is a celebration of rural life in the West. This year’s event will feature demonstrations, live music and more.
Food, music and social justice will combine this weekend at the fifth annual Higher Ground Fair, a fundraiser for Feeding Laramie Valley.
The fair is returning after a two-year hiatus and will feature special performances and presentations from a variety of musicians, educators and advocates.
“The real underlying thrust of the fair is to become a self-sustaining event that’s several days long and offers an opportunity for people to come together and discuss some really important issues and some problem solving around them,” said Lisa Cox, a spokesperson for Feeding Laramie Valley.
The event will include historical reenactments from the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center and presentations on Indigenous treaty rights, food and environmental justice and animals like horses, raptors and goats.
It also will include gardening and agricultural demonstrations, live music from local and regional bands and an array of food truck dining options.
Some of the acts include the Wind River Dancers, Rex Peoples & X Factr, Pluck! and the Hazel Miller Band.
The event aligns with Feeding Laramie Valley’s mission, which focuses on expanding food access throughout the community while taking into account its root causes.
“It creates a whole environment of everyone eating together as a community and getting food as a community,” Cox said. “A lot of what Higher Ground Fair is building around is equitable and just food systems.”
The attractions at the event are aimed to celebrate a variety of aspects of Western living, according to a press release from Feeding Laramie Valley.
This year the two-day event will be hosted at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. People can buy tickets online for a lower price than at the door. Anyone older than 65 gets a discount, and admission for children 12 and younger is free.
Volunteers are needed for the event and can sign up by sending an email to info@highergroundfair.org. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/higher-ground-fair-seeks-to-lift-community-this-weekend/article_ae0e93f0-32de-11ed-8619-b39ef3321753.html | 2022-09-14T14:00:37Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/higher-ground-fair-seeks-to-lift-community-this-weekend/article_ae0e93f0-32de-11ed-8619-b39ef3321753.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GILLETTE — A shrill whistle cut through the air.
“There’s a white pickup pulling up,” said Natalie Perkins, from her post looking out of the hotel room’s window.
The room full of people went still. The air conditioner hummed and traffic was heard from the road outside the Gillette hotel.
Then a few moments later she signaled again: “He just made a full circle.”
The 15 or so people spaced between the neighboring hotel rooms, conjoined by the open partition door on the wall separating them, fell quiet. A few Gillette police officers shuffled into position, including two in the waiting room, as the other officers stationed themselves in the operation room and spoke in hushed tones.
The rest happened in a blink, starting with a knock at the door.
The two officers in the other room shot into the hallway. Handcuffs clicked and clasped and the officers resurfaced in the neighboring operation room, escorting the man they had just detained.
The onlookers from the waiting room — a group of human trafficking victims advocates, and Uprising Wyoming employees, including trafficking survivors — peered into the other room through the partition as the man was patted down.
The 38-year-old Gillette man, still in handcuffs, was then seated on the edge of the bed, facing a mirror and two trafficking advocates, Terri Markham, the nonprofit executive director, and Julie Johnson, a survivor of trafficking herself.
“I could have been in this room,” Johnson told him. “I was in this room at a different point in my life, against my will. I was being sold to buyers.”
They talked to the Gillette man about the prevalence of sex trafficking and the lesser known implications of it.
The majority of people who are bought for sex are forced and coerced into it. By the organization’s metrics, 85-90% of those selling sex do so against their will.
“Most people think that I’m trying to prevent new victims of trafficking, which I absolutely am, but more than that, I’m trying to prevent new buyers of sex,” Markham said to him.
Then she asked whether he knew, or ever thought about, whether the people advertising sex did so by choice.
“No, not really. I mean, I haven’t thought about that part, I guess,” he said. “You don’t figure that would happen around here, I guess.”
On Friday, as part of a joint training with Uprising Wyoming and the Gillette Police Department, officers caught four men in a sting operation. Each man responded to an online post to buy sex and unknowingly communicated with law enforcement and arranged to pay for sex in a Gillette hotel.
Two men were from Gillette and another came from Casper. All three were ticketed and released. A fourth man came from South Dakota and was arrested for soliciting a minor. Based on his conversations leading up to the meeting, he believed the woman would be 16 years old.
Between last Wednesday and the time of the sting Friday afternoon, 79 potential buyers responded to the posts and 10 made plans to show up at the hotel, with some backing out for various reasons.
“We have seen a lot of activity in Gillette,” Markham said.
For Uprising Wyoming, its training helps law enforcement learn hands-on through the sting operation and aims to shift the policing focus from a victim-focused lens to one focused on the offenders, or buyers, Markham said.
“Focusing more on the offender side, the buyers and the exploiters, accomplishes so much more and can actually start to chip away at the problem, versus where it’s historically just been all of the focus on the victim side of things,” she said.
For police, the training was informative and the sting operations could serve as a deterrent, alerting the public that the department will be monitoring online buyer activity and undergoing more sting operations.
“We’re going to keep doing these, so you never know when it’s us,” said Police Sgt. Derek Weinhardt to the second Gillette man who was detained Friday.
Uprising Wyoming, the anti-trafficking organization, is based in Sheridan and was founded in 2019. The organization aims to increase awareness and education about human trafficking, including sex and labor trafficking.
One educational component focuses on changing the preconceived notions many have about what sex trafficking is and what it looks like.
The sensationalized images from popular culture can obscure what the reality of trafficking looks like, Markham said. Those who are forced or coerced do not always visibly appear so. There are many who are trafficked through familial trafficking and other ways that don’t align with antiquated language and tropes surrounding ideas of trafficking.
In Wyoming, the organization sees the most trafficking cases from Casper, Gillette and Rock Springs. Markham said that the transient nature of extraction industries and other jobs in Campbell County may contribute to its prevalence.
Johnson and Charlie Falkis, both with Uprising Wyoming, have been trafficked for sex in their own lives.
For Johnson, who was trafficked by her then husband when living in another state, she said that facing the men caught trying to buy sex that day brought her a mix of emotions. It was nerve-wracking, challenging, frustrating and healing.
“In some aspect it’s healing,” she said. “Empathy is important to have in this world because people struggle with stuff and it turns them into monsters. We want to prevent that.
“We want to try to get to the root of the problem, so we can bring more awareness to what the root of the problem is, so we can prevent it.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/human-trafficking-sting-brings-training-and-awareness/article_56548f62-3378-11ed-a24e-b715636c3f07.html | 2022-09-14T14:00:43Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/human-trafficking-sting-brings-training-and-awareness/article_56548f62-3378-11ed-a24e-b715636c3f07.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The following calls were included in the Albany County Sheriff’s Office responses:
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10
• 12:51 a.m., intersection of N. 6th St. and E. University Ave., possible impaired driving
• 3:25 p.m., Wyoming Highway 230, emergency
SUNDAY, SEPT. 11
• 1:53 p.m., 200 block of W. Ivinson Ave., fighting
• 2:22 p.m., 2000 block of PFE Rd., theft/unauthorized use of vehicle
• 3:10 p.m., Albany County Area, emergency
The following calls were included in the Laramie Police Department responses:
FRIDAY, SEPT. 9
• 5:58 a.m., 2100 block of Harrison St., emergency
• 7:59 a.m., 1200 block of E. Palmer Dr., emergency
• 10:27 a.m., 700 block of E. Canby St., trespassing
• 11:16 a.m., 900 block of N. 5th St., accident
• 1:12 p.m., 500 block of S. 13th St., extortion
• 1:42 p.m., 900 block of N. McCue St., trespassing
• 2:47 p.m., 4300 block of E. Grand Ave., shoplifting
• 2:49 p.m., 200 block of W. Snowy Range Rd., traffic hazard
• 2:55 p.m., 400 block of N. 15th St., wildlife
• 4:33 p.m., Albany County Area, theft/unauthorized use of vehicle
• 5:14 p.m., 3900 block of E. Grand Ave., traffic hazard
• 7:07 p.m., 1500 block of N. McCue St., accident
• 8:06 p.m., 400 block of N. 3rd St., emergency
• 8:34 p.m., 500 block of E. University Ave., possible domestic disturbance
• 9:53 p.m., 1900 block of Van Buren St., theft
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10
• 7:58 a.m., 500 block of S. 10th St., theft
• 9:22 a.m., intersection of N. 4th St. and E. Fremont St., accident
• 9:43 a.m., 300 block of N. Buchanan St., emergency
• 11:43 a.m., 700 block of Beaufort St., possible domestic disturbance
• 12:16 p.m., 600 block of E. Grand Ave., shoplifting
• 1:03 p.m., 2100 block of E. Hancock St., vandalism
• 1:47 p.m., 500 block of N. 3rd St., hit and run
• 4:31 p.m., intersection of N. 22nd St. and Armory Rd., hit and run
• 5:44 p.m., intersection of Television Rd. and Armory Rd., accident
• 6:52 p.m., 2500 block of E. Grand Ave., accident
• 8:39 p.m., intersection of S. 4th St. and E. Grand Ave., possible impaired driving
• 8:58 p.m., 400 block of E. Grand Ave., false ID
• 9:37 p.m., intersection of S. 20th St. and E. Grand Ave., possible possession of controlled substance
• 10:18 p.m., 4300 block of E. Grand Ave., hit and run
• 10:37 p.m., 600 block of E. Ivinson Ave., emergency
• 11:11 p.m., 400 block of E. Boswell Dr., emergency
SUNDAY, SEPT. 11
• 12:46 a.m., 900 block of E. Fetterman Dr., possible domestic disturbance
• 1:27 a.m., 300 block of S. 5th St., fighting
• 1:53 a.m., 200 block of E. Ivinson Ave., fighting
• 2:05 a.m., 2100 block of Harrison St., emergency
• 9:46 a.m., 1700 block of Walsh Ct., animal bite
• 11:23 a.m., 200 block of Wister Dr., accident
• 11:31 a.m., 3000 block of E. Grand Ave., accident
• 12:37 p.m., 2100 block of Reynolds St., vandalism
• 12:46 p.m., 2100 block of Wyoming Ave., possible domestic disturbance
• 2:50 p.m., 700 block of Downey St., vandalism
• 6:05 p.m., 2100 block of E. Grand Ave., emergency
• 6:15 p.m., 4300 block of E. Grand Ave., shoplifting
• 6:22 p.m., 2400 block of Sunrise Ct., possible domestic disturbance
• 9:25 p.m., 3200 block of E. Grand Ave., accident
• 9:43 p.m., 1300 block of S. 3rd St., possible impaired driving | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/local_news/arrest_record_and_police_calls/on-the-record-sept-14-2022/article_d53b6748-32c8-11ed-8c15-db766db79d83.html | 2022-09-14T14:00:56Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/local_news/arrest_record_and_police_calls/on-the-record-sept-14-2022/article_d53b6748-32c8-11ed-8c15-db766db79d83.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Medical workers seek protections
By Ellen Gerst
Casper Star-Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
CASPER — Wyoming lawmakers are working on a bill that could increase criminal penalties for attacking health care workers.
A similar bill was attempted in 2013, but failed after passing the senate. But health care workers who testified to the Joint Judiciary Committee in May said that attacks have become more frequent since then, and so have instances of verbal abuse and threats.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated that trend, said Josh Hannes, vice president of the Wyoming Hospital Association, during a committee meeting.
“Never has the violence been as escalated as it has been these last couple of years,” said Tracy Garcia, chief nursing officer at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center.
Between January 2021 and April of this year, Garcia said, the Cheyenne hospital has recorded 34 assaults. She said those include patients hitting, slapping, grabbing or kicking staff members, as well as sexual harassment, pulling hair and making threats to employees’ lives. In about a third of those cases, Garcia said, the patient was intoxicated or mentally ill.
“I strongly believe that it’s the right time to change the belief… that it’s an expected part of our work,” said Nicole Rooney, chief nursing officer at Laramie’s Ivinson Memorial Hospital, at the May committee meeting.
The current draft of the bill, which is set to be discussed at a committee meeting next week in Casper, would make assault or battery against healthcare workers doing their job a misdemeanor offense. Simple assault or threats would carry a penalty of up to $750, and battery would carry the same plus the potential of up to six months incarceration.
“Verbal assault, while nasty and mean … is a far different thing than physical abuse,” Sen. John Kolb, R-Rock Springs, said at the May meeting.
Of course, assault and battery are already crimes, lawmakers pointed out. But health care workers are seeking a special carveout within those crimes, similar to those already in place for assaults against police or detention officers.
Health care workers told the committee that cases of worker attacks are likely under reported, and are often only prosecuted when law enforcement officers responding to the scene are attacked themselves.
“It’s already difficult to staff our facilities,” Hannes said, “and I think it’s important that as a state we stand up and we say that this behavior is not going to be tolerated ever.” While hospitals around the state have increased security, adding officers or cameras to deter attacks, Hannes said funding is tight everywhere and often can’t cover additional measures. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/medical-workers-seek-protections/article_ab27e926-3373-11ed-b405-931f95ee19e6.html | 2022-09-14T14:01:02Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/medical-workers-seek-protections/article_ab27e926-3373-11ed-b405-931f95ee19e6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Sheridan schools turn away more out-of-district requests
By Kristen Czaban
The Sheridan Press
Via Wyoming News Exchange
SHERIDAN — Sheridan County School District 1 has faced an unusual problem in recent years, with more individuals living outside the district wanting to attend school in Big Horn or Tongue River, but less space for those students to do so.
According to SCSD1 Superintendent Pete Kilbride, the district turned away approximately 25 students for the 2022-2023 school year, an increase from past years.
Kilbride said the increase is largely due to the increase in homes being built in Sheridan County.
“Big Horn schools see the largest request for out-of-district placement due to their proximity to Sheridan, but all of our schools have requests each year,” Kilbride said.
He added that 15 years ago, Big Horn Elementary was made up of 50% out-of-district students, and with the growth currently taking place, that percentage is down to about 30%.
Reasons for the high demand to attend schools outside of where families live vary.
Some parents, for example, work in SCSD1 but live in Sheridan. Other times, families seek a smaller school environment like those found in Big Horn or the Tongue River Valley.
“Many of the families that have moved in recently tour the various schools in the county, and if they came from a small town, they often feel more comfortable with a similar sized school,” Kilbride said. “We've asked for feedback and a 'family atmosphere' is often cited as one of the major factors for choosing to attend. People in Sheridan County are lucky to have such great schools to choose from across all three districts.”
In SCSD2, which includes Sheridan and Story, families from outside the district are asked to fill out an application to attend classes in the district. Rebecca Adsit, assistant superintendent at SCSD2, said the high caliber of academics, activities and athletics, often draws families to the larger school system.
The decision to turn students away that live outside the district, like what has been happening in SCSD1, is primarily based on class size.
“We try to keep our class sizes low so students can receive more personalized attention,” Kilbride said. “This is especially true at the elementary grade levels.
“Principals must look at the impact additional students will have in the classroom and once we are at the number we can comfortably serve, the class is capped,” he continued. “It's always hard to turn people away, but if we don't, the very reason they are wanting to come here (small school, small class sizes etc.) no longer exists.”
Kilbride said the state Legislature identifies a student/teacher ratio of 16:1 at the primary grades as ideal, and SCSD1 administrators try to keep numbers close to that.
Turning students away impacts more than the children, though. Districts are funded based in part on the number of children they serve. So when SCSD1 turns potential students away, it also turns away the dollars that come with them.
“But for schools in Sheridan County, it's not about the money, it's about being able to serve our students well,” Kilbride said. “We've had to turn kids away who have parents that work for us, or we can take one of their kids but not all of them because that grade is full. It's hard, but parents have been understanding.”
SCSD1, according to the State Construction Department School Facilities Division’s annual report and supplemental budget request, has seen a nearly 11% increase in brick-and-mortar enrollment between 2012 and 2021. In comparison, SCSD2 has seen an 8.5% increase and Sheridan County School District 3, located in Clearmont, has seen an increase of nearly 7%. Overall, the statewide average increase is 3.398%.
The Wyoming Department of Education compiles student enrollment data from each school district reports on Oct. 1 of each year, but administrators from local school districts have already shared anecdotally that numbers continue to climb. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/sheridan-schools-turn-away-more-out-of-district-requests/article_315814d0-3374-11ed-a5c6-771911c465bb.html | 2022-09-14T14:01:14Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/sheridan-schools-turn-away-more-out-of-district-requests/article_315814d0-3374-11ed-a5c6-771911c465bb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Seven independents, seven Libertarians and three Constitution Party candidates will be on the ballot for the Legislature in November’s general election. It's the highest number of minor-party and unaffiliated candidates since at least 1998, according to Secretary of State records.
Those numbers align with recent election patterns, according to Jim King, a professor of political science at the University of Wyoming.
Most of these candidates are running in districts lacking a two-party competition. Some candidates say their choice to run outside the two-party system is in response to the statehouse’s declining decorum and a fractured supermajority Republican party.
Brenda Lyttle is running as an independent for House District 8, a new district encompassing much of North Cheyenne. Her sole opponent is Republican and former legislator Dave Zwonitzer, who served as a state representative from 2006-2016.
“I don’t have to worry about the party labels. I can just say, ‘Here’s me, here’s what I’m for,’” said Lyttle, who works as a private practice attorney. She previously worked for the Wyoming Department of Family Services, a job that introduced her to the Legislature.
“I saw a lot of work getting done and I saw Democrats and Republicans being able to work together,” Lyttle said. But name calling, dissension and party infighting have since gotten in the way of productivity, Lyttle said.
Lawmakers expressed concern this spring that despite spending more time and money to meet, they are passing fewer committee bills into law. During the 2022 budget session, 59% of introduced committee bills survived to become law — a 23-year low, according to the Legislative Service Office.
Teton County
Despite being a lifelong Republican, Bob Strobel said he’s running as an independent because of the political diversity of House District 22. Before redistricting, it included parts of Teton, Lincoln and Sublette counties. It now comprises parts of the first two.
As an independent, Strobel said he’ll be able to bring together progressive types from southern Teton County with Republicans closer to where he lives in Etna. While he sees his governing approach as less about his own political opinions and more about the will of voters, Strobel said there are some issues he won’t waiver on, like public lands. He does not support turning federal lands over to the state.
Strobel will face Republican Andrew Byron in the Nov. 8 general election.
Other independent candidates include Dan Brecht in House District 4, Todd Peterson in House District 5, Bruce Jones in House District 6 and Jeff Martin in House District 54.
After losing a Republican write-in campaign for Senate District 23, Patricia Junek will also run as an independent against Speaker of the House Eric Barlow, R-Gillette.
Barlow earned 3,355 votes in the primary election, while 814 were Republican write-ins. How many of those were for Junek is unknown, according to the Campbell County Clerk’s office, since write-ins were not processed when they did not exceed the number of votes for the candidate on the ballot.
Constitution Party
The Constitution Party of Wyoming was first organized in 2010. The 2022 general election will mark the most legislative candidates the group has ever had on a Wyoming ballot — one candidate running for the state Senate and two for the state House. All three candidates came to the party for the same reason, according to Chairman Jeff Haggit.
“They were disappointed, or upset or disillusioned, however you want to word it, with the Republican Party,” Haggit said. What sets his party apart from the GOP is a deeper commitment to “our God-given right of life, liberty and the ownership and control of property,” according to Haggit.
“We don’t try to test the winds of political change and maybe try to appease the general movement,” said Haggit, who feels the GOP has moved to the political left.
Overall, the Constitution Party’s numbers in the state have not changed significantly in the last couple of years, Haggit said, but he thinks this year marks the start of something.
The three Constitution candidates include Michael Ray Williams in Senate District 11, Matthew Freeman in House District 41 and Larry Williamson in House District 53.
Libertarian Party
The Libertarian Party has made greater strides as a minor party in Wyoming in recent years.
In 2020, voters elected the first minor-party legislator in more than a century when Rep. Marshall Burt, L-Green River, beat incumbent Democrat Stan Blake for House District 39. Burt was also the first Libertarian anywhere in the country to win a state house race since 2002.
“Even with one of the most fiscally conservative voting records in the statehouse, I have built relationships with legislators with all ideologies to explore better ways forward,” Burt said in a July Facebook post.
During his first term, Burt was lead sponsor of Wyoming’s first “tri-partisan” piece of legislation. House Bill 81 – Operation of motorcycles-disabled persons, which is now law, updated motorcycle operation and equipment requirements to allow for use by persons with disabilities. Also a first, Barlow allowed Burt to form a caucus for the Libertarian Party during the 2022 session, despite being the body’s only member.
Burt will face Republican Cody Wylie in the general election.
Neither Burt nor the Libertarian Party of Wyoming commented.
Other Libertarian candidates include Patrick Gonzales in House District 15, Dennis Laughlin in House District 18, Misty Morris in House District 48, Carrie Satterwhite in House District 50, Bethany Baldes in House District 55 and Amanda Padilla in Senate District 17.
Libertarian and Constitution Party candidates are also in the running for governor and Wyoming’s U.S. House seat.
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Bluffs, Cheyenne, Laramie, Shirley Basin, and Muddy Gap.
WHEN...Through 1 PM MDT Today.
IMPACTS...Heavy smoke from distant wildfires.
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elderly, young children, and individuals with respiratory problems
avoid excessive physical exertion and minimize outdoor activities
during this time. Wildfire smoke is made up of a variety of
pollutants, including particulate matter and ozone, which can cause
respiratory health effect. Although these people are most
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that everyone should avoid prolonged exposure to poor air quality
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for Wyoming's monitoring stations and health effects information to
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Laramie County School District 1 Administration Building, pictured April 27 in Cheyenne. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – The Laramie County School District 1 Math Department is holding a math tier 1 resources adoption at the kindergarten to 8th grade level. Stakeholders and members of the public are invited to participate in the adoption process by reviewing the prospective resources.
These are available for public review and receipt of public comments through Oct. 15. Materials will be available Mondays through Thursdays from 7:30 a.m to 4 p.m., in room 352 of the LCSD1 Administration Building located at 2810 House Ave.
Materials will also be available on the second floor of the Laramie County Library, located at 2200 Pioneer Ave. They will be there Mondays through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., as well as Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The resources and public comments will be collected on Oct. 16.
For more information about the K-6 materials, contact LCSD1 Elementary Math Coordinator Valerie Kerschner at 307-771-2499. For more information about the 7th and 8th grade materials, contact LCSD1 Secondary Math Coordinator Amy Kassel at 307-771-2454. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/lcsd1-seeks-comment-on-math-resources/article_c7da41a4-32d8-11ed-98aa-e3dc2f2e7e44.html | 2022-09-14T14:01:39Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/lcsd1-seeks-comment-on-math-resources/article_c7da41a4-32d8-11ed-98aa-e3dc2f2e7e44.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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avoid excessive physical exertion and minimize outdoor activities
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respiratory health effect. Although these people are most
susceptible to health impacts, the Department of Health also advises
that everyone should avoid prolonged exposure to poor air quality
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Councilwoman Jessica Sell Chambers from Jackson. Courtesy photo
JACKSON (WNE) – St. John’s Health could break ground on a new 15-unit apartment building for hospital employees in Jackson this year.
The Jackson Town Council voted unanimously last week to approve the hospital’s three-story Karns Apartment Building development plan. The modern gray and white building will sit on 0.34 acres of vacant land at the corner of South King Street and East Karns Avenue, catty-cornered from StillWest Brewery and Grill.
The 15 units are intended to be rented to hospital staff, St. John’s Chief Communications Officer Karen Connelly told the Jackson Hole Daily.
There will be five studio units and 10 2-bedroom units, with three apartments that will be deed-restricted for the Teton County workforce. This means that even if the ownership changed hands, three apartments will still have to be occupied by people who work at least 30 hours a week in Teton County, among other restrictions.
The workforce units will include one studio and two 2-bedroom apartments.
The hospital will be able to build an extra 8,169 square feet beyond what’s typically allowed in the high density neighborhood zone. This is because the plan includes the three workforce deed restrictions under a regulation that exchanges more density for restrictions intended to make housing more accessible to local workers.
The project also will generate $39,715 for affordable housing through a mitigation fee paid by the developer.
While the project got councilors’ approval, it also brought up bigger questions about the direction of development in Jackson. Of the three units deed restricted as workforce housing, Councilor Jessica Sell Chambers said, “Thank you, I just think we can do better.”
The units aren’t “capital ‘A’ affordable,” she said, meaning they’ll never be restricted to people making less money. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/jackson-hospital-ready-to-build-15-apartments-for-its-employees/article_069b6d9a-33c0-11ed-97d9-3bd120dccbb5.html | 2022-09-14T14:02:04Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/jackson-hospital-ready-to-build-15-apartments-for-its-employees/article_069b6d9a-33c0-11ed-97d9-3bd120dccbb5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Recently arrested by the Cheyenne Police Department:
Tina M. Dawes, 46, transient, for misdemeanor duty upon colliding w/unattended vehicle/property and public intoxication at 7:48 p.m. Saturday at Rock Springs Street and Amber Trail.
Christopher P. Espinoza, 41, of Rollins Avenue for misdemeanor possession of marijuana and driving without an interlock device at 4:21 p.m. Saturday at South Arp Avenue and West Jefferson Road.
Justin A. Rhodes, 28, of Cheyenne (address redacted) for misdemeanor domestic battery at 2:30 a.m. Saturday in Cheyenne (address redacted).
Anne M. Mawk, 34, transient, for misdemeanor disturbing the peace/property at 5:06 p.m. Friday in the 1300 block of West 17th Street.
Joseph J. Carrera, 51, of West Sixth Street for felony endangering a child (methamphetamine use), misdemeanor driving under the influence (controlled substance with child passenger) and driving without a valid license at 4 p.m. Friday at West Sixth Street and O’Neil Avenue.
Lena M. Carrera, 38, of West Sixth Street for felony endangering a child (methamphetamine use), misdemeanor possession of methamphetamine/amphetamine-type drug and possession of marijuana at 2:39 p.m. Friday at West Sixth Street and O’Neil Avenue.
Christopher L. Grant, 22, of West Lincolnway on a misdemeanor warrant for probation violation at 8:30 a.m. Friday in the 1400 block of West Lincolnway.
Melissa D. Goodwine, 53, of Thomes Avenue on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to pay at 6:30 a.m. Friday in the 2300 block of West Lincolnway.
Kelvyn W. Curby, 23, of Darnell Place for misdemeanor DUI (alcohol, second in 10 years), headlights required (conditions and time) and possession of marijuana (greater than 1/4 oz.) at 1:56 a.m. Friday at Powderhouse Road and Prairie Avenue.
Patrick D. Ramos, 57, of Torrington on a felony hold for community corrections rejection at 4:25 p.m. Thursday at Cheyenne Transitional Center, 322 W. 17th St.
Ricky J. Scott, 50, transient, for misdemeanor public intoxication at 12:25 p.m. Thursday at West 22nd Street and Pioneer Avenue.
Tyson J. Smith, 34, transient, on a felony warrant for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon at 12 p.m. Thursday in the 1700 block of Fleischli Parkway.
Brandon C. Serini, 37, of East 19th Street on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear at 8 a.m. Thursday at Missile Drive and Westland Road.
Jarrod S. Toutjian, 32, of East Sixth Street for misdemeanor domestic battery at 9:45 p.m. Wednesday in Cheyenne (address redacted).
Susan G. Sargent, 67, transient, on a misdemeanor warrant out of Weld County, Colorado, for failure to appear at 7:35 p.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of West Sixth Street.
Amanda M. Miller, 40, transient, on a misdemeanor warrant out of Fort Collins, Colorado, for contempt of court/failure to comply at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday at the Cheyenne-Laramie County probation and parole office, 1934 Wyott Drive.
Malikai J. McKinzie, 20, of Ridgeland Street on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear at 11:54 a.m. Wednesday at East Fifth Street and Interstate 180.
Aaron B. Kelley, 46, transient, on a felony warrant through Laramie County District Court for bond violation at 11:50 a.m. Wednesday in the 3900 block of East Pershing Boulevard.
William H. Hill, 66, of East Lincolnway for being a felon in possession of a firearm, a felony; misdemeanor destruction of property (less than $1,000); and reckless endangering with a firearm at 3 a.m. Wednesday in the 2000 block of East Lincolnway.
Dennis B. Keding, 58, transient, for misdemeanor violation of a temporary protection order at 12:39 a.m. Wednesday at Ridge Road and East Lincolnway; and by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to comply at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday at the Laramie County jail.
Meliyo D. Lovato, 18, of Riverton for felony motor vehicle theft (greater than $1,000), misdemeanor fleeing/eluding and reckless driving at 12:26 a.m. Wednesday at West Fifth Street and O’Neil Avenue.
Connor L. Cathcart, 23, of Carpenter for misdemeanor DUI (alcohol, first in 10 years) at 12:10 a.m. Wednesday in the 2500 block of East Lincolnway.
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Recently arrested by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office:
Nicomedes A. Limache, 54, of Murray Road for misdemeanor domestic battery at 7:22 p.m. Sunday at his residence.
Latasha M. Gladden, 40, transient, on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear at 5:32 p.m. Friday in the 12000 block of Interstate 80 Service Road.
Danielle L. Anderson, 46, of Lafayette, Indiana, on a felony warrant through Laramie County District Court for probation violation at 11:15 a.m. Friday at the Laramie County jail, 1910 Pioneer Ave.
Nicolas J. Ossipoff, 35, of Happy Jack Road for felony possession of schedule I and II narcotics at 5:44 p.m. Thursday at his residence.
Shawna M. Ornelaz, 45, of Christine Circle on a misdemeanor warrant for probation violation at 12:20 p.m. Thursday at the Laramie County jail.
George E. Wederski, 40, of Christine Circle on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to comply at 4:15 a.m. Thursday at the Laramie County jail.
Joe B. Jaure, 42, of 27th Street on misdemeanor warrants for failure to comply and domestic battery at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday at the Laramie County Governmental Complex, 309 W. 20th St.
Isiah C. Lambert-Martin, 18, of South Greeley Highway on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear at 1:50 p.m. Wednesday at the Laramie County jail.
Robert W. Jahn, 41, of Wyoming (address redacted) for misdemeanor domestic battery (less than five years since last conviction) at 7:51 a.m. Wednesday in Cheyenne (address redacted).
Thomas Cisneros, 22, of Cribbon Avenue for misdemeanor DUI (alcohol) at 12:17 a.m. Wednesday in the 1600 block of South Greeley Highway.
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Recently arrested by the Wyoming Highway Patrol:
Luis R. Ochoa Magana, 38, of Yakima, Washington, for felony possession of a schedule I controlled substance, felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, felony conspiracy to deliver controlled substances and felony possession of a schedule II controlled substance (greater than 3 grams) at 9:10 p.m. Sunday at mile marker 363 on eastbound Interstate 80.
Jsocorro Mendoza Dimas, 37, of Turlock, California, for felony possession of a schedule I controlled substance, felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, felony conspiracy to deliver controlled substances and felony possession of a schedule II controlled substance (greater than 3 grams) at 8:34 p.m. Sunday at mile marker 363 on eastbound Interstate 80.
Alioune Ndiaye, 18, of Manhattan, New York, for felony theft (possession of stolen property), misdemeanor open container violation and possession of alcohol under the age of 21 at 9:26 p.m. Saturday at mile marker 21 on southbound Interstate 25.
Daouda C. Cisse, 20, of New York, New York, for felony theft (greater than $1,000) at 9:25 p.m. Saturday at mile marker 21 on southbound I-25.
Mamadou D. Barry, 19, of New York, New York, for misdemeanor driving under suspension, speeding (104 mph in a 75 mph zone), open container violation and possession of alcohol under the age of 21 at 9:20 p.m. Saturday at mile marker 21 on southbound Interstate 25.
Dana Costa, 36, of Coos Bay, Oregon, for felony theft and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance (3 oz. or less) at 9 p.m. Wednesday at mile marker 16 on southbound I-25.
Shaun Prough, 36, of Wiley, Colorado, for felony theft and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance (3 oz. or less) at 9 p.m. Wednesday at mile marker 16 on southbound I-25.
Police blotter is a list of recent arrests compiled from public records in Laramie County. All people listed here are innocent until proven guilty. Anyone listed who has a charge dismissed or is acquitted of the charge may bring or mail a court document proving such to the WTE editor, 702 W. Lincolnway, Cheyenne, WY 82001. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/police_blotter/police-blotter-9-14-22/article_e783112e-32bb-11ed-9b9a-0bb524dfb689.html | 2022-09-14T14:02:10Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/police_blotter/police-blotter-9-14-22/article_e783112e-32bb-11ed-9b9a-0bb524dfb689.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Drivers beware! A dimpled white asteroid crashed into the windshield of my car while I was driving on Central Avenue on the Friday before Labor Day (Sept. 2) around 3 p.m.
The incident took place a few hundred feet west of the entrance to the Airport Golf Course. The point of impact was right in front of the steering wheel. Thanks to the laminated construction of modern windshields, it didn’t go all the way through, but it did leave a crater about an inch deep and a pattern of cracks denser than a spider web.
I pulled over, got out of my car and brushed off the tiny shards of glass that landed in my lap. I looked around for the asteroid, but my search was unsuccessful.
I was hoping to find an object from outer space, but my hunch is that whatever I had the close encounter with was launched into orbit from the golf course. If you happened to have hit a golf ball toward the road at the time and location mentioned above, don’t worry, I’m OK. I have stimulated the local economy by having a new windshield installed in my car, and I’m back on the road.
It would be great to get reimbursed for the repairs, but instead of going through the hassle of trying to track down whoever has a horrible golf swing, all I ask is that you do a favor for all of us brave motorists out and about on the roads; get yourself a good golf coach. We would all appreciate it greatly. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/dimpled-white-asteroid-hits-mans-windshield-helps-stimulate-economy/article_ded987f0-33a7-11ed-886e-e3e004d475c6.html | 2022-09-14T14:02:29Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/dimpled-white-asteroid-hits-mans-windshield-helps-stimulate-economy/article_ded987f0-33a7-11ed-886e-e3e004d475c6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cost estimates for the proposed Alkali Creek Dam in Big Horn County have jumped to more than double the original $35 million price tag.
It will take some $70 million to $75 million to build the dam and reservoir, the interim director of the Wyoming Water Development Office told legislators at an August committee meeting in Afton. The anticipated cost has already jumped once — from $35 million to $59 million in 2020. The Legislature appropriated that amount for the project.
Now the price has been revised upward again.
“Obviously, we’re going to need other funding,” Jason Mead told members of the Select Water Committee last month. “To move forward, we really need to figure out the funding first.”
To cover the increase, the office will likely apply for federal funds, Mead said. The probable source is the Bureau of Reclamation’s Small Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Projects Program, he wrote in an email.
Wyoming could be eligible for $15 million to $20 million from that grant program, Mead said. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provided a boost to that federal program.
Alkali Creek would be built from scratch on an intermittent stream in the Bighorn Basin above Hyattville. The reservoir would also use water diverted from Paint Rock and Medicine Lodge Creeks.
As originally envisioned, the dam would be 108 feet high and 2,600 feet long. It would impound 7,994 acre-feet over 294 acres, although there’s a possibility it could be designed to impound another 900 acre-feet, Mead said.
Irrigators would be responsible for paying back $2.1 million in loans, a figure that remains unchanged despite the increase in anticipated costs.
Complex geology, escalating costs
The original estimate for the dam’s cost increased as a result of studies that revealed complex underlying geology and poor embankment material, among other factors. Increasing construction costs also factor in, as they have at a neighboring dam enlargement proposal that stalled after the Water Development Commission rejected the sole, high-priced bid.
That happened earlier this year when the commission rejected a $70-million bid to expand the Upper Leavitt Reservoir, originally estimated to cost $39 million. Inflation, high fuel prices, a COVID-19-restrained supply line and a paucity of workers combined to increase the anticipated cost, lawmakers said.
The Shell Valley Watershed Improvement District is also planning to apply to the BOR program for funding, Mead said.
The Leavitt Reservoir is north of Shell. The proposed Alkali Dam is to its south.
Plans are to rebid the Leavitt project, possibly breaking the construction program into several smaller bid packages to encourage competition, Mead said. No timeline has been set for that, however.
Meantime the state is facing challenges securing necessary easements for the Alkali Dam. Problems have arisen for land under part of the planned reservoir pool and portions of existing ditches that would be enlarged to fill the pool.
“We’ve got new landowners that have moved into the area,” Mead told the Select Water Committee last month. “Some people sold and some people, new people, moved in that weren’t familiar with the project, and it’s been a bit challenging to bring everybody up to speed.”
Landowners who are reluctant are “generally not in favor of easements” or are worried about potential impacts to their property, Mead wrote. Some of their property is irrigated from the two creeks that would be tapped to fill the reservoir but are above the dam’s outlet and wouldn’t specifically benefit from reservoir water.
Project proponents are working to evaluate alternatives that would minimize impacts or provide offsetting benefits, Mead said. “We’re trying to help folks understand that we’re not here to impact their operation, we’re there to keep it whole, if not improve it,” he told the committee.
WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/cost-of-proposed-alkali-dam-has-doubled-to-70m/article_f6e48fee-32a2-11ed-95e9-f3f995210b28.html | 2022-09-14T14:02:35Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/cost-of-proposed-alkali-dam-has-doubled-to-70m/article_f6e48fee-32a2-11ed-95e9-f3f995210b28.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“During COVID, when my two children were attending school online, I began to realize just how much of an impact technology has on children,” Dr. Lisa Strohman said at the beginning of her recent presentation at Davis Middle School. “I’m not against technology — I use it — but there is appropriate use and there is inappropriate use.”
Dr. Strohman was invited by Uinta County School District No. 1 and its Project AWARE Program to give a presentation titled “Parenting in a Tech Addicted World” first to middle and high school students during the day, and then to parents and family during the evening.
Strohman is a clinical psychologist who established Digital Citizen Academy to proactively prevent and educate students, educators and parents on the issues resulting from technology use.
She currently has a private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, and lives in Kave Creek, Arizona.
While in graduate school, Strohman worked with the FBI Honors Internship Program and eventually practiced law for a time before deciding that psychology was her strongest calling. Her area of specialty in psychology is to work with tweens, teens and adults who are suffering the adverse effects of technology overuse.
Strohman is the author of two books: “Unplug: Raising Kids in a Technology Addicted World” and, more recently, “Digital Distress: Growing Up Online” co-authored with Melissa J. Westendorf.
“We used to have a more stable environment influencing our children, family, school, church,” Strohman said, “and then 10 years ago, technology boomed and our kids are now being influenced by strangers.”
As an example of the effects of tech on family relationships, Strohman showed a video that demonstrated some negatives of technology use. The video showed a family sitting down to dinner and the mother asking the children to talk about their day at school. The father is on his cellphone but pretends to be listening by responding to the children’s comments, however inappropriately. At one point the teenage daughter, who is frustrated with her father’s responses, responds to his question about what she plans to do that evening by stating she is going to go to the basement to cook up some meth. The father’s response is that he thinks that is nice; it is evident he hasn’t listened to a word the daughter said.
Strohman said her presentation included a review of information on technology, learning the psychology behind the concerns and providing steps parents can take to protect their children from the negative effects of tech overuse.
“A lot has changed as to what we call addiction in today’s world,” Strohman said. “Studies show that teens today spend an average of 14 hours a day on tech. Children are gaining access to all kinds of technology at a much younger age — the average age for getting a first tech device is 7. Juveniles today have never known a world without tech.”
She then read current statistics regarding the negative use of tech and the results on children.
Statistics from 2021 show a 51% increase in suicide and self-harm among teens; one in six teens self-harm. Suicide is the leading cause of death for adolescents, she said, adding that 80% of children under the age of 18 are exposed to cyberbullying and shaming messages. Self-harm and the reporting of suicidal thoughts have increased by 225% in elementary and middle schools, and tech addiction contributes to a limited capacity for self-regulation.
“In my 20 years’ experience as a psychologist,” Strohman said, “I’ve discovered that kids just want to be noticed. They have a lot of anxiety about what to do with their feelings and when they self-harm; after the initial pain, they say they get a ‘runner’s high.’ That adrenalin rush can lead to more self harm.”
Strohman’s presentation showed a mass of social media sites and when she asked the young people in the audience how many knew a majority of the sites, most of them raised their hands.
Strohman then asked how many ever read the terms of service of any of the sites — no one raised their hand.
“There is no such thing as a secret app,” Strohman said. “All of these sites are shared and when you put something on one site, they have the right to share with anyone and can do whatever they want with the information. All sites can be used unsafely and can also be used safely.”
Strohman went over a paragraph in the “terms of service” from one of the social media sites which stated that the site can sell, share, change or do anything they want with the information placed on the site. As long as the person is 13 years of age, she said, the industry has automatic access to everything.
Strohman said she lists her two children’s ages as younger than they are on sites they use, so they are better protected, listing them as younger than 13 on tech sites.
TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, she said, and an interesting fact is that children in China are not allowed on TikTok.
She said the U.S. is more lenient regarding rules on technology than any other country.
Children under the age of 13 are not allowed access to SnapChat, and Strohman said it is the social media platform that traffickers use the most to find victims.
“An interesting fact about (Mark) Zuckerberg, who started Facebook, is that 10 years ago, he manipulated emotions on Facebook just to see if he could,” Strohman said. “Addiction is by design; it is intended; that is how these sites make money.”
Brain studies done with an MRI show the brain is damaged by overuse of tech, Strohman explained.
In teens with internet addiction, there is decreased functional brain connectivity and microstructure abnormalities. Studies show that tech addiction actually changes the brain.
An audience member asked at what age a child should get his or her own cell phone.
Strohman said that, in her opinion, a child should not receive a personal cell phone before reaching the eighth grade, and it should be monitored.
“The issue is that elementary students need to learn choices, and parents and teachers need to talk to them about this information,” Strohman said. “Ask your child about what is happening at school; monitor their tech time and what they are watching; search your own sites and your family sites at least once a month and clean off unwanted information. Have on-going conversations with your children about technology use.”
Strohman pointed to a triangle on a projector screen.
“Resilience is the triangle of well-being,” she said. “Resilience is the important connection between the mind, the brain and relationships that fosters well-being.”
At the earlier meeting with middle school and high school students, Strohman covered many of the same facts and warned them of the terms of service of social media sites.
She began by sharing her own personal history of an unstable home life, surviving bouts of homelessness, abuse and neglect. Strohman said her grandmother was the stable influence in her life and encouraged her to pursue education to better her life.
When she asked the teens how many had friends who had shared a personal photo, nearly all raised their hands and, when she asked how many read the terms of service on sites, they all responded with “no.”
“I understand why teens post things online,” Strohman said. “They don’t want to be left out; they may send something to their boyfriend because they don’t want to lose the relationship; or they are pressured into doing it by friends.”
Strohman talked about the dangers of human trafficking sites, child pornography and child sexual abuse materials online and then showed a video of a true story of a young girl who had shared a very personal photo of herself with her boyfriend who, in turn, shared it with his friends and it went viral. The young woman tried to get it removed to no avail and eventually was bullied, became depressed and took her own life.
“Just remember, whatever you post becomes your digital footprint,” Strohman said. “Remember, human relationships are not Hollywood TikTok; reality is hard. Talk to counselors and your parents before posting anything online. The past is behind you, learn from it. The future is ahead — prepare for it. The present is here — live it. This is your future.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/doctor-details-dangers-of-tech-for-teens/article_e851b4c6-32a1-11ed-a7ff-7ff725bbd84b.html | 2022-09-14T14:02:41Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/doctor-details-dangers-of-tech-for-teens/article_e851b4c6-32a1-11ed-a7ff-7ff725bbd84b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
State and federal authorities overseeing oil and gas operations in Wyoming anticipate millions in federal funding to clean up wells, pipelines, pads and other related facilities left “orphaned” or otherwise un-remediated by operators.
There are more than 2,307 orphaned well sites in Wyoming, according to state and federal estimates.
The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which oversees facilities on state and private lands, lists 1,307 well sites in its orphaned well program and is set to receive $25 million from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees facilities that tap federal minerals in Wyoming, estimates more than 1,000 orphaned wells in the state. The federal agency will tap into $250 million set aside for federal orphaned well remediation nationwide.
“Orphaned wells are a legacy that we must address, as they can release methane, pollute groundwater, and pose a hazard to people and wildlife alike,” BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning said in a press release.
For its part, Wyoming BLM estimates the cleanup work on federal wells in the state will create or sustain up to 300 industry-related jobs. Meantime, the WOGCC expects the federal funds to clean up state and private facilities will support what’s already a robust orphan-well-remediation program. The state has cleaned up more than 4,713 orphaned well sites since 2014, according to the agency. Of those, 186 were converted to water wells for nearby ranchers.
The federal push to clean up more orphaned wells is long overdue and will benefit landowners and others who suffer the environmental risks, according to advocacy groups. But, they say, the cost of clean up shouldn’t fall to American taxpayers.
“The people who drill the wells and profit from them are responsible for cleaning them up,” Powder River Basin Resource Council and the Western Organization of Resource Councils board member Bob LeResche said. The federal government is “doing something good for the environment and surface owners, but they’re doing it with taxpayer money, which is just wrong.”
When it comes to holding operators responsible for cleanup, the state has generally done a better job than the BLM, LeResche said. Of the $32 million the state has spent to remediate orphaned wells since 1997, $21 million was covered by bonds posted by operators, according to the WOGCC. The rest of the expense was covered by a conservation tax applied to all oil and gas operators in the state.
The BLM, however, still allows for a nationwide “blanket bond” of $150,000, just a fraction of actual remediation costs for many operators. The federal agency is also slow to add wells that are known to be inactive to its orphaned well list, LeResche said, sometimes waiting more than six years to pursue responsible parties.
The Powder River Basin Resource Council and others are pushing the BLM to revise its bonding rules to increase dollar amounts and speed up the timeline for remediation work, LeResche said.
Coal-bed methane gas wells, primarily in northeast Wyoming, make up most of the orphaned wells in Wyoming, according to state officials. The industry tanked beginning in 2010, mostly due to low natural gas prices and the proliferation of hydraulic fracking that redirected the industry to shale gas plays outside the state.
For a 20-year period before the coal-bed methane boom, the state had documented 500 orphaned wells. After the coal-bed methane bust, it documented 6,020 orphaned wells, according to the state. The CBM bust and the string of bankruptcies that followed added pressure on state officials to revise Wyoming’s bonding and reclamation rules.
The BLM needs to do the same, LeResche said, otherwise continuing to use federal taxpayer dollars “is bailing out the culprits who were leaving these wells unreclaimed and unplugged.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/millions-flow-to-plug-orphaned-oil-and-gas-wells/article_6aa12f7a-32a1-11ed-b266-5bcdc35c0a92.html | 2022-09-14T14:03:06Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/millions-flow-to-plug-orphaned-oil-and-gas-wells/article_6aa12f7a-32a1-11ed-b266-5bcdc35c0a92.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Podcast host Carla Mowell first got into podcasting when “This American Life” started posting show episodes online in the mid-2000s.
“I had an office job, so when I was doing things that were more tedious I would put on an episode of ‘This American Life,’” she recalled.
“Ever since then, when I got really into podcasting, I realized I wanted more.”
Mowell was disappointed early on by the lack of Wyoming podcast content.
“When I searched, I didn’t find anything that scratched the itch I had,” she said.
Her podcast “Wyoming My 307” seeks to correct that absence, setting out to explore “the people, culture, wildlife, geology and history of the least populated, and most wonderful, state in the U.S.”
She released her 10th episode at the end of August.
“My goal is to highlight a diversity of voices from Wyoming. We have such a stereotype in Wyoming of what a Wyomingite looks like. And I love Western culture. We don’t have a lot of diversity, but we have a lot more than we highlight.”
Taking a page from “This American Life,” “Wyoming My 307” is a thematic podcast—each episode consists of three segments linked by a common theme. Those segments include a guest interview bookended by“WyomingWildlife,” where Mowell shares information on Wyoming species, and “Dot on the Map,” which highlights a town in Wyoming.
“My commitment is to have at least one episode for every town in Wyoming, every ‘Dot on the Map,’” Mowell said.
So far, her episodes have tackled subjects like World War II in Wyoming, Wyoming’s history of flight, the life of a game warden and growing up gay in Wyoming.
“I spent quite a bit of time even before I started the podcast just thinking through topics,” Mowell explained. She finds inspiration and possible guest speakers from a variety of sources including newspapers, magazines, books and accounts she follows on social media. “Then I start building out the idea as a whole.”
The collection of Wyoming books and publications in her home speaks to Mowell’s prolific research habits.
“I’m continuously researching, always. Borrowing, buying, or reading books at the library. That part is forever. I go down these rabbit holes that are fascinating.”
Mowell writes up her podcast’s show notes in a companion blog where she provides a summary of each episode and pictures of the places she references. Mowell noted the blog has been a better access point for an older generation and those with special needs.
“Explaining podcasting to people has been part of what I’ve had to do, especially the older generation who might not be as attached to their dang phone as the rest of us,” she said.
Mowell set some unofficial rules for her podcast early on. One is to never feature a town she hasn’t visited. She wants to immerse her listeners in the “vibe” of an area she’s personally explored rather than list information they can find online.
She also aims to interview Wyomingites, though she allows more leniency on that front.
Her fourth episode “Words of Wyoming” explores Western language with linguist Grant Barrett, co-host of NPR’s “A Way with Words” and one of Mowell’s podcasting heroes.
“I can’t believe I scored this interview. I was like, so fangirling,” Mowell laughed.
She emailed the show asking for book recommendations on Western language for her own podcast “and within half an hour, Grant Barrett himself was emailing my butt!” Barrett offered to come on as a guest.
“He was so gracious. He spent extra time, because I was still new to podcasting, and he helped me,” she said.
“Wyoming My 307” has amassed a “steadily growing” audience. As of this article, the show has over 5,500 downloads. Most of Mowell’s audience is in the U.S., but she’s collected a smattering of international listeners as well.
One show element she’s working to improve is regularly releasing episodes, a key to maintaining an audience’s attention.
Two new grandchildren have kept Mowell busy, so much so that eager listeners have messaged her about when to expect more episodes.
“I do love and appreciate that energy of eagerness, of people wanting to hear the next one, and that does give me a boost too. But it’s my passion project; it’s not my job,” Mowell said.
Unlike bigger productions, she doesn’t have a team behind her.
“I’m a solo podcaster…directing, producing, editing, fact checking, I’m doing all of that. I’m okay giving myself a little grace on how often it comes out.”
Future episodes will feature Wyoming bars, architecture, the Pony Express and how to read a cemetery. Mowell is currently at work on an episode about cryptocurrency, and she’s excited about an upcoming interview with Jordan Dresser, Chairman of the Northern Arapaho Business Council.
“I do feel like an ambassador for Wyoming,” Mowell said. “I hope my podcast helps both people from Wyoming and outside of the state learn more about Wyoming and our diversity. Those of us who live here, for us to appreciate it, and those of us who are just zipping through, to slow down a little bit. There’s a lot more to Wyoming.”
“Wyoming My 307” is available on multiple podcast platforms such as Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Podbean. The show can also be accessed from Mowell’s blog at wyomingmy307.blogspot.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/podcast-teaches-about-wyoming/article_09426586-32a2-11ed-b192-77e9921460fe.html | 2022-09-14T14:03:12Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/podcast-teaches-about-wyoming/article_09426586-32a2-11ed-b192-77e9921460fe.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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