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LeBron James continues to show us what Black excellence is all about.
Just a few weeks ago, James and his two sons, Bronny and Bryce, were highlighted on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Throughout the summer, we’ve seen the ascension of the two protegés, and we’ve also seen James step out and play in multiple recreational league games.
The basketball side of the James family is must-watch television, but Vanity Fair decided to highlight the entire family in their latest cover shoot.
In the collage of pictures, James’ wife, Savannah, and their daughter, Zhuri, are shown. In one of the pictures, the entire family, including James’ mother and Savanah’s parents, are together in the shoot wearing pajamas.
Another picture highlights Bronny, Bryce and Zhuri outside as the little sister attempts to sketch her big brothers.
Throughout the shoot, the family was dressed in designer clothing, accessories and jewelry from Tiffany & Co., Ray-Ban, Chanel, Balenciaga, Gucci, and other high-end brands.
If you ever wanted to see an example of Black excellence, look no further than the James family. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/lebron-james-and-family-pose-for-photo-shoot-with-vanity-fair/ | 2022-09-14T18:11:30Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/lebron-james-and-family-pose-for-photo-shoot-with-vanity-fair/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Director Nia Dacosta and actor Teyonah Parris share what Disney means to them at the D23 Expo. The two also were in attendance for a sneak peek of the new “The Marvels” trailer coming to Disney.
Director Nia Dacosta and actor Teyonah Parris share what Disney means to them at the D23 Expo. The two also were in attendance for a sneak peek of the new “The Marvels” trailer coming to Disney. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/nia-dacosta-and-teyonah-parris-gear-up-for-the-marvels/ | 2022-09-14T18:11:36Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/nia-dacosta-and-teyonah-parris-gear-up-for-the-marvels/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A White principal at East Forsyth High School was accused of using the N-word while counseling one of his White students to never use the word.
On Sept. 9, principal Jeff Cheney voluntarily reported himself to the superintendent’s office, and apologized for what he said to the student.
The student recorded the conversation with Cheney, and though he’s not shown in the video, school officials acknowledged that it was the principal’s voice.
East Forsyth High School PRINICPAL says the n word without hesitation! @FCSchoolsGA @forsythnews #GoBroncos pic.twitter.com/Hkimn7VuZX
— Forsyth Count (@ForsythCount) September 9, 2022
On the recording, the student asks Cheney, “So what am I calling you that’s so bad?”
Cheney says, “Cracker. Cracker is slang for White and it’s the antonym to [full N-word], which is a very offensive comment, right? So it’s almost like saying that to a White person.”
The school district spokesperson released a statement on Sept. 12 that states, “In the 0.38 second recording Mr. Cheney says, ‘Cracker is slang for White and it’s the antonym to (full N word), which is a very offensive comment.’ He immediately recognized his mistakes in comparing the two words and using the full N word. Mr. Cheney contacted the district office and met with the parents of the student to disclose this information, apologize, and commit to rectifying these mistakes in the future. He is not at school today.”
There has been no disciplinary action taken against Cheney, and the student’s identity has not been released. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/white-principal-recorded-using-racial-slur-in-front-of-student/ | 2022-09-14T18:11:42Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/white-principal-recorded-using-racial-slur-in-front-of-student/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Obie Award-winning director, actress and musician Whitney White has a keen understanding of what her presence means in the world of theater. She is passionate about Black stories and works to amplify the voices of Black women in spaces where they are not heard. The Chicago native is currently directing The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington at the Steppenwolf Theatre. Rolling out spoke to White about her passions, the importance of representation, and why she took on her latest project.
What does it mean to be a good director?
I think being a good director just means how rigorous you can be. Are you giving it your best? How much are you questioning the story? How much can you push the players? How much can you give the work? I think good direction comes from your process because art is subjective.
What have been some of the challenges in navigating the theater world as a Black woman?
Thank you for making space for that. I find that people are still always so surprised. Unfortunately, they’re surprised not only that you’re there, not only that you’re in charge, but that you are good at what you do.
Talk about the importance of representation in these spaces.
Representation is survival. To be able to see yourself and see others. Operating in society gives you the audacity in a western culture to want to carve out your own path. I believe that, my mother raised me like that. Look for yourself in the world and put yourself out there in the world so others can see themselves. I think it’s key.
Why did you decide to direct The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington?
When you see it, you’ll know. It’s just so outrageously fantastic. The play is combining 1800 with 2020 now and in such an incredibly unapologetic way. It’s just kind of electric. It’s fun. It’s dark. It forces us to deal with a real truth in our shared American past and combines that.
What would you like for people to take away from this production?
A lot of what we learn about [history] has been sanitized. A lot of our own stories have been erased. I hope that the audience comes and just thinks a little deeper about the foundations of America and what it took for America to become America and that at any given point in time, you can always make a decision that will better affect people in the future. Are you brave enough to do it?
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington is currently running at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago through Oct. 9, 2022. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/whitney-white-says-representation-means-survival/ | 2022-09-14T18:11:48Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/whitney-white-says-representation-means-survival/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Actor Yvette Nicole Brown is coming to Disney in the new fairy tale “Disenchanted.” She also shared how Bambi and Dumbo, the first Disney animations she saw, made her cry as a child. “Disenchanted” comes to Disney Plus this November 2022.
Actor Yvette Nicole Brown is coming to Disney in the new fairy tale “Disenchanted.” She also shared how Bambi and Dumbo, the first Disney animations she saw, made her cry as a child. “Disenchanted” comes to Disney Plus this November 2022. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/yvette-nicole-brown-says-watching-bambi-made-her-cry-as-a-child/ | 2022-09-14T18:11:54Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/yvette-nicole-brown-says-watching-bambi-made-her-cry-as-a-child/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Melanie Chisholm — best known as Mel C or Sporty Spice — revealed Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted the night before her first-ever Spice Girls gig.
The 48-year-old British singer revealed that in October 1997, the attack happened during an appointment with a massage therapist at her hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, according to the podcast “How To Fail.”
“Here we were, the eve of the first-ever Spice Girls show,” recalls Chisholm while appearing on the podcast to promote her new memoir, “The Sporty One,” which is to be released in the US on Sept. 27. “So I treat myself to a massage in the hotel and what happened to me, I kind of buried immediately, because there were other things to focus on.”
Chisholm reveals that while she didn’t want to make a fuss about the incident with a male masseur, she also didn’t have time to deal with the actual assault.
“I didn’t want to make a fuss, but also I didn’t have time to deal with it,” she said. “Because I didn’t deal with it at the time, I realized that I allowed that to be buried for years and years and years, and then when I was writing the book, it came to me in a dream. I woke up and it was in my mind.”
The Post reached out to Chisholm’s reps for comment.
The “Wannabe” singer said after the incident — which she did not go into detail about —she immediately got up from table and left the room before anything else happened.
“Then, of course, I had to think, ‘Do I want to reveal this?’ And I just thought, actually, I think it’s really important for me to say it and to finally deal with it and process it. And for other people,” the star said.
“I suppose in a version of sexual assault it’s a mild version, but I felt violated, I felt very vulnerable, I felt embarrassed and then I felt unsure,” she said. “Terrible things happen all the time, and this situation wasn’t as bad as it could have been.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/mel-c-was-sexually-assaulted-before-first-spice-girls-show/ | 2022-09-14T18:12:13Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/mel-c-was-sexually-assaulted-before-first-spice-girls-show/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Voting opened Wednesday on which toys should go into the National Toy Hall of Fame this year. The class of 2022 finalists are: bingo, Breyer Horses, Catan, Lite-Brite, Nerf Toys, Masters of the Universe, piñata, Phase 10, Pound Puppies, Rack-O, Spirograph, and the top.
“These 12 toys span the history of play. The top is as old as civilization itself and bingo has been played in some form for hundreds of years,” said Christopher Bensch, vice president for collections at The Strong museum in Rochester, where the hall of fame is housed.
The public is invited to vote online through Sept. 21. The three toys that receive the most public votes will make up a single “Player's Choice” ballot. That ballot will be counted alongside those turned in by a national selection committee whose members include industry experts, academics and others.
The inductees will be announced Nov. 10.
“All 12 of these toys have what it takes to be contenders for the class of 2022,” Bensch said.
Anyone can nominate a toy for the annual honor, but to be recognized by the hall of fame, toys have to have achieved icon status, longevity and foster learning or discovery. They also must have changed play or toy design.
The National Toy Hall of Fame opened at The Strong in 1998. So far, 77 toys have been inducted, from simple favorites like the paper airplane, bubbles and sidewalk chalk to the even more ubiquitous, including the stick and cardboard box.
Last year's honorees were American Girl Dolls, Risk, and sand. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/bingo-lite-brite-nerf-among-toy-hall-of-fame-finalists | 2022-09-14T18:16:34Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/bingo-lite-brite-nerf-among-toy-hall-of-fame-finalists | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As the world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II's death, some people are noting the British empire's troubling past.
The Koh-i-noor diamond, which is featured on one of the royal crowns, is a reminder of that past.
It was reportedly unearthed in what is now India in the 13th Century.
Over the course of centuries, the crown changed hands as different rulers conquered the land.
Britain reportedly acquired the diamond after it annexed Punjab in 1849. According to NBC News, Maharaja Duleep Singh, who was 11 years old at the time, signed the Treaty of Lahore, which stipulated that the diamond would go to the queen of England.
The BBC reports that the 105.6-carat diamond is set in a crown last worn by Queen Elizabeth II's mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
It's unclear who will get the crown next. NBC News reports that royal experts say the crown may eventually be returned or it could be given to Camilia, the new queen consort. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/koh-i-noor-diamond-featured-on-the-queens-crown-has-troubling-history | 2022-09-14T18:16:47Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/koh-i-noor-diamond-featured-on-the-queens-crown-has-troubling-history | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO — Chicago Police say a man who tried to kidnap a 5-year-old girl has been arrested.
Last Thursday, a surveillance camera captured the suspect, later identified as Gerardo Posadas, trying to grab the child who was walking with her mother.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that police said Posadas allegedly offered the woman $150 for the girl.
When she refused, the 25-year-old tried to pull the child by her hair toward him, WGN-TV reported.
According to the news outlets, the woman and the girl were able to get away.
Police said he was charged with aggravated battery in a public place and attempted aggravated kidnapping, the news outlets reported. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/man-charged-in-attempted-kidnapping-of-5-year-old-girl-in-chicago | 2022-09-14T18:16:53Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/man-charged-in-attempted-kidnapping-of-5-year-old-girl-in-chicago | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ryan Reynolds showed millions of fans the importance of getting a colonoscopy.
The actor said he lost a bet and agreed to record his experience getting the procedure. The 45-year-old posted the video on Instagram.
After the procedure, Reynolds' doctor informed him that a polyp was found.
"This was potentially lifesaving for you," Dr. Jonathan LaPook said. "I'm not kidding. I'm not being overly dramatic."
LaPook said he removed the polyp, which could have led to colon cancer.
"This saves lives pure and simple," he said.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that adults aged 45 to 75 be screened for colorectal cancer.
Colorectal cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/ryan-reynolds-documents-lifesaving-colonoscopy | 2022-09-14T18:17:05Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/ryan-reynolds-documents-lifesaving-colonoscopy | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Moose attacks, seriously injures archery hunter in Larimer County
An archery hunter sustained life-threatening injuries after the moose he tried to shoot with his arrow gored and trampled the adult male in western Larimer County.
The rare event occurred around noon Tuesday in a remote area off Long Draw Road, which is a 70-mile drive west of Fort Collins, according to Jenevieve Kramer, Larimer County Sheriff's Office spokesperson.
The hunter was able to activate the emergency signal from his GPS device to alert authorities of the attack. The hunter located other hunters while hiking out of the area and they helped him to Long Draw Road, which is south of Cameron Peak.
That's where a deputy found the injured hunter and performed life-saving first aid, including applying a tourniquet, according to Kramer.
"He was in very bad shape,'' Kramer said.
Kramer said the man was airlifted via helicopter from nearby Colorado Highway 14 to an area hospital where his current condition is unknown.
Travis Duncan, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson, told the Coloradoan this is the fourth moose attack of a human this year and 13th such attack since 2019.
Archive coverage from 2021:Colorado's moose are making headlines as busy season for human-wildlife encounters begins
Black bears have attacked two people this year in Colorado and 17 people since 2019, the state wildlife agency said.
According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the presence of dogs is usually the catalyst in serious moose conflicts. The agency said since 2013 all but two of the at least 15 moose encounters with humans resulting in injuries have been associated with dogs.
The agency said moose react to all dogs as they would a wolf, one of its primary predators, by trying to crush it with its hooves. Because of their instinctive, aggressive response, wildlife officials recommend keeping dogs on a leash and under control when recreating in the backcountry or consider leaving dogs at home.
A dog was not present in Tuesday's encounter with the hunter.
Colorado's archery moose season runs Sept. 11-30.
How to stay safe in moose country
- Signs of moose aggression include laid back ears, raised hairs on the neck and licking of the snout.
- Avoid animals that are behaving belligerently or abnormally.
- Keep pets away, as moose can get quite aggressive around them. Be especially cautious when walking dogs.
- If a moose displays aggressive behavior or begins to charge, run as fast as you can and try to put a large object between you such as a boulder, car or tree. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/14/moose-attack-colorado-seriously-injures-archery-hunter-in-larimer-county/69494471007/ | 2022-09-14T18:19:11Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/14/moose-attack-colorado-seriously-injures-archery-hunter-in-larimer-county/69494471007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Colorado State football kicker Cayden Camper has left the program
The Colorado State football team will have a new placekicker moving forward.
Senior Cayden Camper has left the program, Jay Norvell confirmed Wednesday. Camper kicked for the Rams in last week’s loss to Middle Tennessee but wasn’t at practice early in the week.
In two games this season Camper was 0-for-1 on field goals and 1-for-2 on field goals.
Camper leaves CSU as a record holder. He set the single-season record for field goals made with 25 in 2021. He also set a single-game record with six made field goals in a 2021 win over San Jose State.
The records are, as if often is the case with kicking, a double-edged sword. Making the kicks is good, but they came as the offense routinely stalled in the red zone as evidenced by 14 of the 25 coming in the 20-29-yard range.
Camper is a 70% career field goal kicker, with his percentage outside 30 yards less than 60%.
Mailbag:Addressing the issues facing the CSU football team after 0-2 start
His replacement will be likely either redshirt senior Henry Katleman or senior Michael Boyle. Katleman, an Oregon transfer, has handled kickoff duties so far this season and has hit all four of his career field goal attempts. Boyle is a Hawaii transfer who hasn't played this season.
Norvell was coy Wednesday on who would handle place-kicking duties.
"We'll see. We're not quite done with the end of the week yet," Norvell said. "Those kids have been competing. We'll have that finalized by the end of the week."
He’s the second longtime Ram to leave the program this week after receiver Dante Wright entered the transfer portal Tuesday.
Offensive line changes in store
CSU has allowed the most sacks in the nation at 16 and no other team has more than 11 allowed so far this season.
The Rams lost both tackles to injury last week, with Brian Crespo-Jaquez going down for the season with a midweek injury. Dontae Keys suffered a more minor injury but was unable to play past the first quarter.
Norvell wouldn't share the changes in store, but said there will be some new looks.
"We're working on some things. I don't really want to divulge what we're doing, but we have to address those issues," Norvell said. "We got caught last week. Both tackles got hurt late in the week, it was very difficult to adjust the gameplan to handle that."
One option is moving center Jacob Gardner to tackle, where he previously started at tackle.
Follow sports reporter Kevin Lytle on Twitter and Instagram @Kevin_Lytle. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/csu/football/2022/09/14/colorado-state-football-kicker-cayden-camper-has-left-the-program/69494756007/ | 2022-09-14T18:19:17Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/csu/football/2022/09/14/colorado-state-football-kicker-cayden-camper-has-left-the-program/69494756007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year, we ask questions of the most plugged-in San Francisco 49ers fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate.
Elijah Mitchell is headed to injured reserve for eight weeks with an MCL injury. I’m sure fans are wondering if releasing Trey Sermon was a wise move. Hindsight is 20/20. While I understand the comfort of a player familiar with the system, I’m here to argue it wasn’t a mistake.
Roster cutdowns can’t come down to potential injuries to other players in mind. You can point to injury history for a player, but you don’t count on them. Simply put, the best 53 players must make the roster. The third-round pick spent on Sermon certainly adds to the conversation but shouldn’t factor into the decision. When you know, you know.
Sermon struggled to stack positive sessions in succession during training camp. One day, he would perform well catching the football. The next day, it would just be on the ground. Never put entire days together but did flash at times. Pass protection is paramount and a big reason why Shanahan trusts certain players. Not holding up in that area is a surefire way to add to the noise surrounding Sermon’s other aspects this preseason. Toss in, not contributing on special teams. I think it’s fair to move on.
The 49ers engaged with the Philadelphia Eagles in trade talks for Sermon per John Lynch. Lynch even called Sermon “one of the best players in camp,” which I’ll assume was to help his trade value at the time. The Eagles were clearly interested. The trade talks prepared the 49ers for Sermon to not clear waivers. The Eagles took a flyer on Sermon as he was inactive for week one against Detroit. Miles Sanders, Boston Scott, and Kenneth Gainwell are ahead on the depth chart. An injury might be his only shot to see the field at the moment.
Elijah Mitchell was always going to lead the backfield. Jeff Wilson is a “Kyle guy.” Tyrion Davis-Price cost the 49ers another third-round pick. Jordan Mason earned his spot performing as the most consistent in preseason of the position group. Plus, there is always a former Shanahan back floating around waiting for a workout.
Roster spots are precious to all teams. Regardless of draft capital invested, it is time to cut bait when you feel a player isn’t contributing. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/14/23351788/week-2-49ers-reacts-survey-will-the-niners-regret-releasing-trey-sermon | 2022-09-14T18:20:23Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/14/23351788/week-2-49ers-reacts-survey-will-the-niners-regret-releasing-trey-sermon | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tuesday was technically an off day for the 49ers, with no practice or media availability on the schedule for the day. However, for three players on the team, yesterday was a day spent making memories with fans and leaving an impact that will last a lifetime.
Azeez Al-Shaair, Spencer Burford, and Marcelino McCrary-Ball came out on their day off to spend time connecting with community members at RYSE Youth Center in Richmond.
Those players were there representing the 49ers as the San Francisco 49ers welcomed RYSE Inc. to its existing cohort of organizations receiving social justice grants to create measurable societal change in the Bay Area.
A bit about the non-profit, RYSE Inc. was founded in 2008 in response to a string of homicides affecting youth in Richmond. Serving the Richmond/West Contra Costa area, the organization supports ages 13 to 21, including those in and out of school, LGBTQ, homeless, undocumented, foster- and justice-system involved children and young adults.
The grant will reduce racial and ethnic disparities in Contra Costa County, reduce the average rate of youth incarcerated in Contra Costa County and ensure the systems and adults responsible create a safe, loving, welcoming, and responsive environment.
The financial aspect is essential, but the thing I want to focus on the most is the human impact that was made by these players devoting their time to giving back to the community.
It was made very clear that not only did these players volunteer for this but this non-profit, in particular, was something they were passionate about having a direct hand in assisting with. Al-Shaair is one of the representatives on the 49ers social justice council, and I had the opportunity of speaking with him at the RYSE Center.
I asked Al-Shaair about what it meant to him to have the platform that he does as an NFL player to make a difference in the community and his impact as a role model for so many people that look up to him. Here is what Al-Shaair had to say.
I always felt like there was nobody who was like me. Like I was the only one going through a struggle I was going through, thinking that nobody ever made it out of the struggle. And then you realize as you get older that people literally are in poverty, go through it and overcome it. But for me being in the platform that I have, I am able to spread that awareness and let the kids know, like coming out here today and letting kids know that there’s people who have literally been in situations just like you and made it on the other side. So I think this platform that I have is just so big and it allows me to reach more people a lot more people than it would if I was doing something else on a day to day basis, so it’s awesome.
And reach those people he did, as Al-Shaair shared some smiles and some laughs with some members of the community in Richmond on Tuesday.
One person in particular that Al-Shaair, Burford, and McCrary-Ball connected with was Jonathan Long, a student at Kennedy high school in Richmond. Long is an exceptionally talented football player who plays defensive tackle and a little offensive line at Kennedy. He also is a gifted producer and took some time to show the 49ers players some of his beats in the music studio in the youth center.
Long was born and raised in Richmond made it very clear how devoted he is to making a positive impact on his school and his community. I was highly impressed with the passion Long spoke with while discussing the changes he wanted to assist with, and one thing, in particular, stood out.
“I’m trying to fix all the stuff at my school to make it a better place, and just bring fun back to our community”
I can promise you, after watching it firsthand, that The 49ers and the players in attendance absolutely helped contribute to bringing fun to the community. In addition, McCrary-Ball spent some time working on some artwork with some of the youth at RYSE.
Burford spent some time chatting with a couple of members of the community before the three of them indulged in some snow cones made on location at the RYSE Center.
Al-Shaair got to spend some quality time with his new friend Jonathan.
Another really cool thing was seeing the trio of 49ers players learn how to screen print shirts with a member of the community named Eddy Chacon. Chacon is a lifelong 49ers fan born and raised in the Bay Area, having grown up in the Richmond area, which means so much to him.
Chacon spent some time showing the trio the ropes before giving them the chance to operate the screen press themselves as they helped make shirts for the members of the community to commemorate the event.
Here is the finished product for the one Chacon made during the demonstration.
McCrary-Ball then took over the controls to make one as well. Here is McCrary-Ball operating the press and the finished product.
Next up was Al-Shaair.
Then Burford joined in on the fun as well.
Here is the group of the four of them together.
One of the goals of my writing will always be to highlight the human element of the sport of football. Often times people overlook the person beneath the shoulder pads and helmets, and I think it’s a shame that the triumphs these players make off the field don’t get anywhere near the same attention as the production they have on the field does.
After spending the afternoon watching Al-Shaair, McCrary-Ball, and Burford touch the lives of so many people, I wanted to make sure I did my part to emphasize how genuine these players were in their interactions.
This was not something that felt forced or simply a stunt for good publicity. These players had a palpable enthusiasm for the work they were doing there. Wins and losses come and go, but the memories that these players gave these kids at the RYSE Center will last a lifetime.
These guys in the NFL are heroes to so many people that look up to them, and yesterday in Richmond, a group of kids got the chance to not only meet their heroes but bond with them in a way that they will never forget. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/14/23352471/49ers-community-impact | 2022-09-14T18:20:29Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/14/23352471/49ers-community-impact | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Batman: The Audio Adventures Season 2 Premieres on October 7
Last year, DC put a comedic spin on the Dark Knight legend with Batman: The Audio Adventures, a scripted podcast series from SNL alum Dennis McNicholas. The initial run of 10 episodes was such a hit that it was only a matter of time before HBO Max ordered a second season. Now, we finally know when to expect new episodes. According to Variety, Batman: The Audio Adventures season 2 will finally premiere on October 7.
Jeffrey Wright, who recently appeared in The Batman as Jim Gordon, headlines The Audio Adventures as the voice of Batman himself. In the first season, the GCPD formally deputized Batman as a member of their ranks, which puts him at odds with Catwoman, who has no intention of doing things by the book. Meanwhile, a handful of villains resurfaced to cause new mayhem. Their number includes Two-Face, who begins losing control over his split personalities. The Caped Crusader also had to deal with the Joker and the Riddler, the latter of whom recently escaped from Arkham Asylum.
In season 2, the Joker is still at large while Penguin and Two-Face are also working together to bring Batman to his knees. Meanwhile Harleen Quinzel (a.k.a. Harley Quinn) plots her own rise to power. But the biggest threat to Gotham’s safety might be the Scarecrow and the “chemical nightmares” he inflicts upon the city.
“It’s edgy, but has comic elements too — it’s very noir and old-school in some ways,” Wright told Variety. “What drew me to this, what distinguishes it, is that it’s a radio show. I’m giving a wink to the old radio shows… I love the strangeness and the melodrama you can bring to it. We lean on that.”
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Batman: The Audio Adventures notably features the vocal talents of several other A-list performers. The supporting cast includes Rosario Dawson (Catwoman), Brent Spiner (Joker), Ike Barinholtz (Two-Face), John Leguizamo (Riddler), Bobby Moynihan (Penguin), Brooke Shields (Vicki Vale), Jason Sudeikis (Hamilton Hill), Seth Meyers (Jack Ryder), Kenan Thompson (Commissioner Gordon), Melissa Villaseñor (Robin), Heidi Gardner (Harley Quinn), and Alan Tudyk (Alfred). Chris Parnell served as the series’ narrator.
The first season of The Audio Adventures was originally available as a Max exclusive. But earlier this month, DC released all 10 episodes on every other major podcast platform. And in two weeks, fans can expect a new tie-in comic book series written by McNicholas, with the first issue hitting stores on September 27.
Are you excited to begin streaming the new season of Batman: The Audio Adventures next month? Let us know in the comment section below!
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The world may be more connected than ever thanks to technology. And, yet, thanks to those advances, our dependency on wireless devices grows stronger. We’re always on the go, but want to stay in touch with family and friends and with what’s happening in the world. Our smartphones, smartwatches, and wireless earbuds and headphones need to be ready to go at a moment’s notice. That’s where a reliable charging dock comes into play.
We know that most wireless devices come with a charging cable. However, it’s more convenient to have a charging dock where all of your devices can power up in one organized place. If you’ve been looking for a charging dock like this, we recommend the CEREECO 4-in-1 Wireless Charging Station Dock.
Right now, on Amazon, this charging dock is markdown down almost 25% to $33.99 from its normal retail price of $43.99. There’s also a coupon to check to save an extra $4 right now, bringing the price down to $29.99.
Either way, the 4-in-1 Charging Dock is a value because of its ability to power up multiple devices at once.
Imagine having one area where you can charge a couple of phones, a pair of wireless earbuds, and even a smartwatch at the same time. You don’t have to worry about your devices being scattered around your house! This charging dock does it all.
Compatibility won’t be an issue either with this charging dock. It can charge almost any brand of mobile device including:
- iPhones
- iPads
- Samsung (including Galaxy)
- LG
- HTC
- Huawei
- iWatch/Apple Watch
- Airpods
You can even use the charging dock as a desktop organizer for all your devices and even watch/listen to your smartphone as you work at your desk.
The charging dock comes with a Smart Safe charging pad that provides “intelligent temperature protection” to help prevent over-charging, over-voltage and over-heating, according to the description. This reduces the chance of damage to your devices. It also has an updated indicator light that turns off after the charging dock recognizes that devices are charging normally and will power down when completed.
You can also adjust the phone stand to your preferred angle (including vertical and horizontal) to make reading and video viewing easier.
The CEREECOO 4-in-1 Charging Dock has a 4.2 out of 5-star rating on Amazon with more than 7,300 reviews so far. Many of the reviews comment on the dock’s compact design that helps keep multiple devices and its wires from getting out of control.
“So far this product has been perfect,” wrote Dedra Satterfield in her 5-star Amazon review. “Keeps everything organized and very convenient. I would absolutely purchase this again and recommend [it] to anyone who needs to declutter!”
User Randon S. Kerr gave the charging dock a 5-star review, highlighting the look of the item and everything it included.
“It is compact enough to fit neatly on my nightstand, but spacious enough that nothing feels cramped,” Kerr wrote in the review. “I absolutely love that all the cords were provided (except the watch charger, but that is listed in the item description.) They even throw in a USB-C cord.”
If you’re in the market for a new charging dock to keep all your devices powered up and ready to go when you are, then take advantage of this limited-time sale price on Amazon. It also would make a great gift for the tech-lovers in your family and friend circle.
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VESTABURG, Mich. — A 13-year-old girl is dead after a house fire in Montcalm County Wednesday morning.
Michigan State Police (MSP) says the fire broke out on North Caris Road in Vestaburg at 7 a.m.
We’re told a K9 unit was called in to assist investigators.
The girl’s body was discovered inside the building, troopers say.
What caused the fire is not yet known but authorities do not suspect arson.
MSP credits the following agencies for their assistance: Montcalm County Sheriff’s Office, Home Township Fire Department, Richland Township Fire Department, Montcalm County EMS, Montcalm County Victim’s Services and the Michigan Red Cross. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/michigan/montcalm/13-year-old-girl-dies-in-montcalm-county-house-fire | 2022-09-14T18:20:43Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/michigan/montcalm/13-year-old-girl-dies-in-montcalm-county-house-fire | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma City residents were on edge after a big, bad wolf was sighted Tuesday. OK, big and bad may be a tall tale.
“The dog was very timid and was not able to be caught,” said Bruce Stone, city manager for The Village, which is part of the Oklahoma City metro area.
The animal was reported wandering across the metro Tuesday morning.
The Oklahoma City Police tweeted that they were “just responding to a bunch of folks crying wolf” as they tried to get “the pup safely home.”
The animal — a female — didn’t look like she would huff and puff or blow your house down, like the wolf of “Little Red Riding Hood” fame. Stone told KFOR she didn’t make a sound.
“The dog was just sitting there quietly,” said Stone. “[It] just kind of seemed like it was lost and needed help.”
The animal had a collar, so officials knew someone owned her and were probably looking for their pet.
The animal is a hybrid: “85% wolf & 15% Alaskan Malamute pet,” according to the Oklahoma City Police. And she calmly accepted rescue from police, who called her a “cordial canine.”
“Obviously, it is a little unusual that it is a mixed breed,” said Stone.
While it is against the law in The Village to harbor a wolf, there is no mention of mixed breeds.
“I don’t think the public has anything to be concerned about,” said Stone. “Just another loose animal that needs to be captured and taken back to the owner.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/crying-wolf-hybrid-dog-returned-to-owners-after-wandering-city/ | 2022-09-14T18:24:40Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/crying-wolf-hybrid-dog-returned-to-owners-after-wandering-city/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(KTLA) — Popular ’90s R&B singer Jesse Powell has died. He was 51.
The “All I Need” crooner died “peacefully” in his Los Angeles home, according to his sister Tamara Powell, who made the announcement via Instagram on Tuesday evening.
“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our beloved son, brother, and uncle Jesse Powell. Jesse loved music, and he especially loved his fans who supported him throughout his career,” she wrote in the post. “We want you all to know that you meant the world to him.”
She also asked for privacy during this time for her and her family so they can “mourn this tremendous loss and celebrate his everlasting legacy.”
A cause of death was not mentioned in the post.
Tamara also posted a video to Instagram showing her brother performing.
“That voice!” she wrote in the caption. “Aside from being one of the best R&B male vocalists out there, you were the best big brother ever. I loved you so much. I’m thankful that we were so close; a whole mess all the time.”
“We absolutely adored you ‘Jet’ and our family will not be the same without you,” she continued to say.
The Grammy-nominated singer was born in Gary, Indiana.
He became a soul sensation in his 20s after meeting producer Carl Roland. His big break came when record executive Louis Silas Jr. heard him singing at an artist showcase and signed him right afterward, according to AllMusic.
He was best known for his hit “You,” which peaked at No. 2 on the R&B Billboard charts and No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. His second album, “‘Bout It,” was certified gold. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/grammy-nominated-rb-singer-jesse-powell-dies-at-51/ | 2022-09-14T18:26:39Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/grammy-nominated-rb-singer-jesse-powell-dies-at-51/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Prince William County Schools has agreed to purchase three more parcels needed to build its next Woodbridge elementary school by 2024.
The School Board earlier this month approved the agreement to buy three parcels totaling 4.89 acres for $3.5 million from Marumsco Neighborhoods, LLC. The purchase means that all five of the properties needed for the school, which will be constructed adjacent to Fred Lynn Middle School at the intersection of Prince William Parkway and Route 1, have been acquired.
School Board Chair Babur Lateef said that the system needs to break ground on the building by next spring in order for it to be on schedule for the 2024 opening. In April, the division agreed to a land swap with Pathway Vineyard Church, giving the old Ann Ludwig School property near Dale City and $2.65 million to the church in return for its property on Prince William Parkway and $1.1 million.
The school system has budgeted over $40 million for the new school to be open in 2024. It’s intended to alleviate overcrowding at other Woodbridge-area elementary schools like Marumsco Hills Elementary, which at times has used up to six portable classrooms. John Jenkins Elementary School opened in 2019 in Occoquan, but the Eastern District still needs more elementary capacity to keep up with population growth in the area.
While the original plan was to make the new school the system’s first “net-zero” emissions school, a commitment of the division’s four-year strategic plan, Lateef said earlier this year that the property doesn’t lend itself to that. Instead, the tentative plan is to make the replacement of Occoquan Elementary School in 2025 net-zero. | https://www.insidenova.com/news/education/more-parcels-purchased-for-woodbridge-school/article_40c4bfbe-3445-11ed-93de-4b89586bdc20.html | 2022-09-14T18:27:10Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/education/more-parcels-purchased-for-woodbridge-school/article_40c4bfbe-3445-11ed-93de-4b89586bdc20.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(KTLA) – Officials are asking for the public’s help identifying a man with distinctive tattoos who has been hospitalized for three days at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center.
The man has “LGS” tattooed on his right eyebrow, “Fuente” on his right cheek, “SNR” or possibly “SUR” across his chest, “El Mike” on his right arm and “Robin” on his right hand.
He is described as being between 55 and 60 years old, 6 feet tall, and weighing 144 pounds, officials said.
The mystery patient has a slim build, gray hair, a beard, a mustache and a receding hairline. His eyes were described as being brown or hazel.
No further details about the man have been released.
Anyone with information about the patient is asked to contact Cristol Perez, a licensed clinical social worker at the hospital. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/tattooed-mystery-man-has-been-hospitalized-for-3-days-in-la-officials-ask-for-help-iding-patient/ | 2022-09-14T18:27:21Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/tattooed-mystery-man-has-been-hospitalized-for-3-days-in-la-officials-ask-for-help-iding-patient/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Buy Adidas RPT-02 SOL
Headphones, no matter how good the promised battery life is, always seem to clunk out at the worst time. The obvious solution is to keep up with charging on a nightly basis, but I want a smarter option than that.
Another issue, in my long list of headphone pet-peeves, is the inability to wear over-ear headphones during a workout or intense walk without the cups becoming a sweaty sauna for the ears.
As if they heard my headphone dilemmas, Adidas has announced the RPT-02 SOL: a pair of solar-charging, sweat-proof and washable headphones. But can a company that isn’t exactly known for their audio-proficiency make a worthwhile set of headphones, or do they fall short of the mark?
Soaking up the Sun
The big selling point of these headphones is the way they charge. Whether you’re outside, in your home or even in a room with just a hint of light, these Adidas headphones will use solar to continually charge.
It’s a fantastic feature, but Adidas weren’t the first to do it. The brand Urbanista has now released two pairs of solar-charging headphones: one over-ear and one in-ear. They even used the same technology that Adidas is now using, Powerfoyle.
However, this isn’t to take away from Adidas. The brand has implemented the technology in a seamless way. You wouldn’t be able to tell they’re solar-powered headphones by looking at them, and in my two weeks using them, I didn’t have to charge them once.
Through the use of the Adidas headphone app, you can even see how much your headphones are charging, and what kind of light is being used. If for some strange reason you can’t get any light, there is also a USB-C charging port on the headphones.
Read more headphone reviews:
- Apple AirPods Max review: Why these headphones are worth £549
- Sony WH-1000XM5 review: Near-flawless headphones and a price to match
- Sony LinkBuds review: A truly unique headphone experience
How do they sound?
Adidas has created a solid audio performance with the RPT-02 SOL. If you’re looking for a kick of bass to power your gym routine, you’ll be glad to hear these headphones are not lacking in that area.
There is a very clear focus on the lower pitch, giving a good kick in bass-heavy songs. However, this priority on bass can sometimes muddy the rest of the track, over-powering other instruments or sounds.
For the most part, this won’t be an issue unless you’re an audiophile looking to break down each instrumental performance while you’re out on your run. Also, thanks to the Adidas headphone app, you are able to adjust the equalisation, lowering the bass if it feels a bit much.
One very noticeable emission with these headphones is active noise cancellation where microphones and speakers would actively reduce the noise around you. These headphones instead make use of passive noise cancellation – naturally blocking out sound thanks to the design of the headphones.
Sitting directly on your ears, the RPT-02 SOL block some noise but not all. This means if you’re wearing them in the gym, you might still hear deadlift grunts and the never-ending charts music in the background. Once I started playing music or a podcast, these background sounds were mostly covered.
Lacking ambient sound features (the ability to allow outside noise in), runs out in the big wide world can feel somewhat isolated. You are less likely to hear cars and people coming up behind you, but this is an issue many headphones for exercise face.
Aesthetics and comfort collide
The Adidas RPT-02 SOL are a lovely looking pair of headphones. A sleek black all-over, they use a mix of plastic and recycled nylon. This not only looks good, but is also good for the environment, with a large amount of the headphones being made up of recycled materials.
However, while they look great, the same can’t be said for their comfort. These are on-ear headphones, not over-ear meaning they will sit on top of your ears. It was hard to wear them for long periods of time, with my ears getting squished down and quickly becoming uncomfortable.
The nylon used is also quite scratchy. This isn’t an issue when they are on your ears, but when I had the headphones around my neck, they would itch and become irritable quickly.
Another tricky quirk of the design is that they don’t fold, or move at all. That means you won’t be able to fold them down to fit in your bag, or store them easily when you’re on the move. While they do feel tough, this does mean they are far from the best headphones for travelling, especially considering they don’t come with a travel case, either.
A worthy gym companion
Adidas isn’t a headphone company, it’s a sports apparel company. With that in mind, it will be no surprise that one of the best uses of these headphones is through a workout or any form of exercise.
I tried the headphones both during runs and gym sessions. In both situations, these headphones worked well. Their tight fit kept them on securely for a whole 5km run, and during a full gym routine.
While the on-ear design allows sound to leak in, it does also allow for a much more breathable headphone experience. Your ears don’t get as hot and sweaty as they would with over-ear headphones and the breathable fabric also helps with this.
Verdict
The Adidas RPT-02 SOL have the potential to be an amazing pair of headphones. They charge via solar power, they are sweat- and water-resistant, made of mostly recycled materials, and the parts are machine washable.
Those are all unique features, but I found it hard to not focus on their tight and uncomfortable fit. While they do offer good sound, they are no match for a lot of headphones at this price point, or even cheaper alternatives and the lack of noise cancellation is doing them no favours.
If you are drawn to the solar charging feature, you are better off with the cheaper Urbanista Los Angeles. They come with complete with active noise-cancellation, a more comfortable design, and a similar audio performance.
Where Adidas has found a niche is as a pair of gym headphones. You can wash them, you don’t have to worry about sweat, and they are always ready to pick up and go, even if you haven’t used them or charged them for weeks. Throw in the breathable feel when you’ve got a sweat on, and these quickly become an appealing pair of headphones for the gym.
Alternatives
Urbanista Los Angeles
Solar charging headphones remain rare, but if this is the feature that draws you to the RPT-02 SOL the most, the Urbanista Los Angeles will be the obvious alternative.
These over-ear headphones utilise the exact same solar charging technology known as Powerfoyle.
Along with the solar feature, these headphones also offer active noise cancellation, a stylish design, and a cheaper price tag than their Adidas competitor.
Shokz OpenRun Pro
Whether you are in the gym or going for a long run outside, it is important to be aware of your surroundings. This is where the Shokz OpenRun Pro thrive. These headphones play music through bone conduction. This is where the vibrations are played through your collar bones instead of your ears. While this will result in a less-immersive experience, it allows you to be fully aware of what is going on around you.
Beats PowerBeats Pro
The Beats PowerBeats Pro are often considered one of the best pairs of running headphones. They utilise an ear-hook to keep them in place while running, lifting weights or generally throwing your body around for the sake of exercise.
While fit and comfort are two key factors of these earbuds, they also offer fantastic audio quality, powered by technology from both Apple and Beats.
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Kootenai County commissioners are weighing whether to accept the county’s $2.4 million cut of nationwide opioid settlements or allocate the funds to Panhandle Health District, as reported by our news partners, the Coeur d'Alene Press.
Idaho will receive approximately $120 million as part of settlements with Johnson & Johnson and three major opioid distributors.
The funds will be divided between the state, counties, cities and health districts. Counties have the option to allocate their portion to their local health district.
Kootenai County’s $2.4 million allotment would be dispersed in chunks of about $135,000 per year over 18 years. Panhandle Health District will receive about $193,000 per year for the same period.
Commissioner Leslie Duncan said Tuesday that she supports the county keeping the funds, suggesting that the money could be used to offset costs associated with opioid treatment in the county jail.
During each of the last three months, Duncan said, about 80 people have gone through detox in jail.
“I see a big taxpayer savings here, so I would like us to go down this path,” she said.
The settlement funds must be spent on approved opioid remediation programs, whether new or already established. It’s unclear whether the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office has any existing programs that would qualify to receive funding.
Commissioners Duncan and Bill Brooks opted not to make a formal decision Tuesday on whether to keep the funds or allocate them to PHD. The board will take up the matter again at a future hearing.
Counties and cities have until Dec. 3 to accept their allotment of funds.
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Andersson is the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and has been PM since 2021. Her party held 100 of 349 seats before the election and will have the most seats again but it likely won't be enough to form a coalition. Instead, the anti-crime, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats led by Jimmie Akesson will have a chance to work with right-leaning governments to form a narrow coaltion.
That said, the votes are still being counted and nothing is certain yet.
What's clear to me now is that the west is shifting to the right on almost every front. How that goes -- and the anti-globalization message I expect to come with it -- will shape the latter part of this decade and perhaps much of the next decade for markets. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/swedens-pm-says-she-will-resign-20220914/ | 2022-09-14T18:33:12Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/swedens-pm-says-she-will-resign-20220914/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Adeleke describes Atiku as a ‘unifier, bridge builder, that will fix Nigeria’
Osun State governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke on Wednesday described the former Vice-president of Nigeria and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar as a unifier, a bridge builder and a tested leader, that would fix the problems currently confronting the nation when he becomes the next president.
The governor-elect was quoted to have said this at the reception organised for the former vice-president in Ibadan via a statement made available to newsmen in Osogbo by one of his media campaign spokespersons, Mallam Olawale Rasheed.
According to the statement, “Your candidature is the tonic Nigeria needs to regain her vitality. Your economic blueprint is the best in terms of its workability and applicability. Atiku is the man to salvage the sinking ship of Nigeria.
“I warmly welcome you to South West, your second home. You are part of us in Yorubaland. We are your proud in-law and so we are one with you. Very soon, it will be my singular honour as a Governor to have the First Lady of Nigeria from my state.
“In your professional life, before politicking, also you are an integral part of our region. You served the nation as a public servant but principally across Lagos and our region. So Yoruba people know Atiku and Atiku also knows them.
“In your foray into politics, your best confidants are again from this region. From the Yar’Adua era to date, your trusted foot soldiers and associates are not just from the North, but South-South, East and South West. You are a pan-Nigerian leader.
“I use this platform to call on Yorubas and Nigerians as a whole to rally around the PDP and her presidential candidate who is ably supported by another great Nigerian, my brother, the Governor of Delta State, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa. An Atiku Presidency will restore peace, stability and prosperity to every home in Nigeria.
“I must also call on all party chiefs to sheath their swords and embrace common agenda to ensure the total victory of the party at the 2023 General elections. Nigerians are waiting for us, eager for Atiku’s Presidency. We must rise above the past and embrace the future in the best interest of many Nigerians who see us, the PDP as the Messiah.”
He however maintained that “When next we will be having a grand meeting, Sir, you would have become an elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by God’s grace.”
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The All Progressives Congress (APC), has disclosed that the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party,( PDP) is leaving in the past especially his claim to have won five out of the six states in the SouthWest as Director General of Obasanjo/Atiku Campaign Organisation in 2003.
Atiku on Wednesday in Ibadan at a stakeholders meeting promised to repeat the success recorded in the SouthWest in 2033.
However, the National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the South-West, Isaac Kekemeke at a press briefing in Ibadan declared SoithWest as ‘no go area’ for the PDP, noting the credibility of its Presidential candidate, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He said the party remains strong in the South-West and the party will win more states to its fold in the region in 2023.
Kekemeke said the party has inaugurated the Committee of Eminent Personalities headed by Ondo state governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu to facilitate the success of the party in 2023.
He said although the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who said the PDP would take over South West in 2023 was in the APC before, the APC would show him that those of them in the APC knew the PDP too well.
He assured all aspirants who contested for positions during the primaries of the party that their political aspirations would not be used against them in any way. He urged them to join the rest of the party to work for the success of the party’s candidates in all elections in 2023.
Kekemeke said, “If His Excellency, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and presidential flag bearer of the PDP thinks he knows the APC because he was here, my answer is, many of us in APC know the PDP more than he thinks he knows the APC.
“Our National Chairman ( Senator Adamu Abdulahi) was a governor under PDP, he knows PDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore, knows the PDP, I know the PDP, I was a pioneer secretary of the PDP member Constitution Drafting Committee of the PDP under Chief Bola Ige, Senator Teslim Folarin knows the PDP. One of the reasons he ( Atiku) left the APC is because he couldn’t understand the APC.”
Kekemeke said the APC and its
presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, strongly believed that restructuring Nigeria would engender its development
He said Tinubu had not abandoned his position on true federalism, which he said would make Nigeria run efficiently and bring development to all the constituent units.
“APC believes that Nigeria should be restructured. It’s not just Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who believes in the restructuring of Nigeria, that is the position of our party, APC, that Nigeria ought to be restructured, Nigeria should practice true federalism.
“Our presidential candidate is a democrat and as a progressive, he aligns himself with the position of the party. We can do better with Nigeria by looking at the way it is wrong, by giving more powers to the constituent units and by decentralizing as many issues as possible for effective development,” Kekemeke said.
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- APC declares SouthWest as ‘no go area’ for PDP, Atiku in 2023 | https://tribuneonlineng.com/apc-declares-southwest-as-no-go-area-for-pdp-atiku-in-2023/ | 2022-09-14T18:33:15Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/apc-declares-southwest-as-no-go-area-for-pdp-atiku-in-2023/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Senate backs Oronsanya’s report on rationalisation of government agencies
•Wants revitalisation of cocoa, groundnut, rubber plantations to boost revenue generation
The Senate has said that it would support the Oronsanya report on the rationalisation of government agencies to boost revenue generation for national development.
The Chairman Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Solomon Olamilekan dropped the hint while addressing heads of government agencies at the ongoing interactive session on the 2023-2025 medium-term expenditure framework and fiscal strategy paper in Abuja.
He said that implementation of the report would help the dire revenue situation of the country.
He said, “There is no way, with the current economic situation that we will not implement the Oronsanya report, it is part of the report that some staff will stay while others have to go because the government can no longer continue to fund agencies that are liabilities and government cannot continue to be a father Christmas.”
Senator Olamilekan however disclosed that any government agency that generates enough revenue for national development would not be affected by the rationalisation.
He also disclosed that MDAs risk zero budget allocation in the 2023 budget over the non-appearance of their Chief Executives at the Senate interactive session to give their inputs on the 2023-2025 MTEF-FSP.
“This is the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and we have the right to summon anybody and we can as well take it that when you don’t appear, it means you do not need allocation in the 2023 budget,” Olamilekan said.
Olamilekan also took a swipe at the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari for failing to honour the invitation by the committee to clarify some vital issues as regards crude oil production, fuel subsidy, and local fuel consumption among others.
The lawmaker said that the NNPC Liaison Officer claimed that since the agency is now a limited liability company, therefore the Senate has no legal backing to summon the agency.
In his reaction, the committee chairman said that the law passed by the National Assembly only empowers the NNPC to be an active participant in the oil industry adding the Federal Government still owns the agency 100 per cent until there are major investors in the agency.
“We will summon you and invite you at any hour, we need your attention, you are a limited liability company by our law. We change your status because we want you to be an active participant in the oil industry.
“Call your Liason Officer and correct impression by him, NNPC is owned by the Federal government and you remain accountable to the Federal government,” he stressed.
The NNPC GMD was later directed to appear before the committee on Thursday.
In another development, the Senate called for a revitalisation of government-owned Cocoa, Groundnut, Rubber and Palm oil plantations in the country to further diversify the economy from crude oil.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Olamilekan said the call to diversify from crude oil to other agricultural commodity products became necessary, given the increasing dwindling revenue profile of the nation.
He said there was a new economic order in Nigeria that required MDAs to think of alternatives to improve the revenue profile of the country.
He said the emphasis at the moment was how best to earn more foreign exchange, adding that cocoa, groundnut and palm oil were major foreign exchange sources for Nigeria in the past.
“We are having a shortfall in daily crude oil production and so we must make frantic steps to bring back the groundnut, cocoa, rubber and palm oil produce to earn more foreign exchange for Nigeria.”
He said Senate was committed to ensuring the setting up of the required regulatory bodies to drive the production of the commodity products.
He also called for the provision of relevant data on monthly, and yearly production and sale of coco from the National Cocoa Research Institute.
Some of the organisations that made presentations at the programme were the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Voice of Nigeria (VON), and the National Lottery Commission among others.
The interactive session continues on Thursday.
ALSO READ FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE | https://tribuneonlineng.com/senate-backs-oronsanyas-report-on-rationalisation-of-government-agencies/ | 2022-09-14T18:33:45Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/senate-backs-oronsanyas-report-on-rationalisation-of-government-agencies/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Blackrock is out with a great note today (read it here) that talks about the tradeoff between growth and inflation. They estimate it would take a deep recession in the US and 3 million job losses to bring inflation back to 2% quickly and it would be even worse in Europe.
They say that it's high time central bankers were upfront about it and debate the tradeoffs openly, write Jean Boivin and Alex Brazier.
By focusing solely on the theoretical de-anchoring of inflation expectations and ignoring the very real growth costs, both the Fed and the ECB are swerving a crucial debate that needs to be had: where should policymakers land on the inflation/growth trade-off and what is the appropriate speed at which inflation should come back down to the 2% target?
Instead, central bankers are increasingly relying on stringent, inflexible language in an effort (I think) to bluff on credibility while insisting there won't be a hard landing.
They argue that the right path for central banks is to reduce the hit to growth by taking longer to bring inflation back to target. That would allow production capacity to normalize without a hard hit to growth.
The problem is that central banks are married to the idea that their words steer inflation expecations. So instead of having an open debate and living up to their promises of transparency, they'll play a game of hidden messages and have covert debates.
Blackrock also highlights that the myth of Vocker and weighs heavily on global central bankers, who are often more concerned with their personal legacies than what's best for society.
"From the personal perspective of central bankers, the worst possible outcome is to be the next Arthur Burns. He went down in history as the man who allowed U.S. inflation to reach nearly 15% and inflation expectations to surge. From that perspective, causing a recession is not as bad an outcome, particularly if there is a chance to blame it on something else or spin it as a 'Volcker moment'"
That's a particularly damning comment because was written by a central bank insider -- Jean Boivin was the deputy governor of the Bank of Canada. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/were-in-a-new-regime-where-that-trade-off-between-growth-and-inflation-is-even-sharper-20220914/ | 2022-09-14T18:37:33Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/were-in-a-new-regime-where-that-trade-off-between-growth-and-inflation-is-even-sharper-20220914/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The members of the City of St. Louis LGBTQIA + Advisory Board appointed by Mayor Tishaura Jones were sworn-in on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, at City Hall. At the beginning of LGBTQIA pride month this June, Mayor Jones issued her first Executive Order of the year to establish this council to address the disparities and rights violations that LGBTQIA+ St. Louisans face in the city of St. Louis.
"I believe those closest to the problems are also those closest to the solutions," said Mayor Jones.
The board is made up of the following individuals: Carsen Rhys Beckwith (they/them) - Special Projects Manager for the Transgender Strategy Center, Shira Berkowitz (they/them)- Senior Director of Policy at PROMO, Jordan Braxton (she/her) - currently Prevention Specialist for Vivent Health, but has been an active member of the community in many capacities, Monica Del Villar (she/her)- Executive Director for the Civil Rights Enforcement Agency (CREA), Ex Officio member, Nick Dunne (he/they) - Mayor's Office Public Information Officer, LGBTQIA+ & Arts Liaison, Vincent Flewellen (he/him) - Chief Diversity Officer & Vice President of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion for Webster University, Tyrell Manning (he/him) - Ending the HIV Epidemic Program Coordinator for City of St. Louis Department of Health, Samati Niyomchai (he/him)-Program Manager at Project ARK at Washington University School of Medicine, Gilberto Pinela (he/him) -Communications Manager for Cortex Innovation Community and Joani Ward (she/her) - Financial Strategist & Insurance Broker for World Financial Group.
"The members of this advisory board will be tasked with collaborating, bringing together its resources, and helping my administration stay laser-focused on the issues directly affecting the LGBTQIA+ community and to pursue meaningful policy changes," Jones said.
The board is beginning it’s work during a resurgence of far-right state officials proposing discriminatory bills targeting LGBTQIA plus people, public school teachers, schools and school districts who mention them and purportedly teach or espouse “critical race theory.” The Missouri republican legislature has a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers and was able to pass the 'Parents Bill of Rights of 2022,' giving parents much more leverage in arguing information and history as indoctrination. In articles 15. (1), the bill states it will “Recognize and affirm the protected right of parents to direct the education of their minor child,” not teachers, and will allow parents in Missouri to seek punitive measures: “[The parents] of a minor child enrolled in a public school in the district may bring a civil action for injunctive relief against the school district or public school in which their child is enrolled if such school district or public school violates” these parental rights as referenced in article 16.
While Missouri anti-trans legislation hasn’t become law yet, bills aimed at trans youth, banning them from competing on women’s sports teams and from receiving gender-affirming medical procedures are being retooled by Republicans for the 2023 session. The Missouri Nondiscrimination Act prohibiting discrimination based on gender and sexual identity and orientation has not been passed and advocates for trans people in Missouri warned The Kansas City Beacon that trans people’s needs for safe housing, health care, health services aren’t being adequately addressed.
On the national front, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said last week that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong in ruling in favor of equality in Obergefell v. Hodges 2015 and will not support marriage equality's codification by Congress which would legally prohibit limiting the definition of a “spouse” to a person of the opposite sex.
"I've been a no on this," Hawley said in reference to the protection and codification of marriage equality for people of all genders and sexual orientations. "I don't think the underlying Supreme Court decision was rightly decided."
"The nine-person advisory board [was] appointed by the Mayor and is tasked with developing a report within its first year to highlight disparities still affecting the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as action steps the City can take to ensure further protections," explained Nick Dunne, Public Information Officer, City of St. Louis Mayor's Office and an inaugural LGBTQIA + Advisory Board member. Board stipulations require that at least one of the nine members represents the transgender advocacy community; at least one board member represents LGBTQIA+ health advocacy, including HIV/AIDS or gender-affirming care; and one must be an LGBTQIA+ identifying City employee. | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/mayor-jones-office-makes-history-by-establishing-the-first-lgbtqia-advisory-board-in-st-louis/article_b7a31f5e-3431-11ed-ad8c-3fdc8ff12a73.html | 2022-09-14T18:40:13Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/mayor-jones-office-makes-history-by-establishing-the-first-lgbtqia-advisory-board-in-st-louis/article_b7a31f5e-3431-11ed-ad8c-3fdc8ff12a73.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The highly anticipated Carnival Celebration has successfully completed her sea trials, bringing her one step closer to debuting with the Fun Ship fleet. These critical tests are essential to ensure the ship’s systems function properly, and the new ship sailed through the trials with great results.
Carnival Celebration Completes Sea Trials
Carnival Celebration set sail on her sea trials Monday, September 5, from Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland. The initial trials took several days, testing the ship’s engines, thrusters, and technical systems, including maneuverability, speed, and stopping abilities.
Onboard was the ship’s master, Captain Vincenzo Alcaras, as well as the engineering team and many crew members, not only overseeing the testing but also gaining familiarity with the ship’s systems for smooth and efficient operation.
“During her sea trials, Carnival Celebration underwent several tests, which are meant to determine the ship’s capability and her performance,” said Alcaras. “We’ve done many maneuvering tests, such as endurance tests, steering tests, speed tests and thrusters tests. The ship performed wonderfully, and shortly, we will get her out and start cruising.”
While Alcaras and other crew members were onboard the ship to witness the sea trials, the vessel remains under control of the shipyard and the master has not yet taken control of the vessel.
Depending on an individual vessel’s size, systems, and performance, as well as weather and marine traffic in the test area, sea trials typically take just a few days or as long as 10 days to complete.
Carnival Celebration completed her trials in the Baltic Sea, in the complicated archipelago around Turku, Finland, on the country’s southwestern tip.
What’s Next?
Up next for the vessel will be ongoing finishing work and outfitting the ship with all the supplies necessary for passenger service. In the weeks to come, crew members will begin arriving to the ship and preparing to welcome guests.
The ship’s maiden voyage is planned for November 6, 2022, sailing from Southampton. The 14-night one-way, transatlantic itinerary will bring Carnival Celebration to her new homeport in Miami, Florida, calling on ports in Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands along the way.
The second Excel-class vessel in Carnival Cruise Line’s fleet and sister ship to the award-winning flagship Mardi Gras, Carnival Celebration is sure to be celebrated when she reaches Miami, with fanfare from fireboats and shoreside facilities as she makes her way into the port for the first time.
The ship’s arrival in Miami will be the culmination of the cruise line’s 50th birthday celebrations that have included special decorations, new menu introductions, exclusive merchandise, cruise ship meetups, and other events all year long.
Carnival Celebration will feature six distinctive zones onboard, each offering unique flair for guests to enjoy. Of special interest will be the Golden Jubilee bar and lounge, a one-of-a-kind venue showcasing 50 years of Carnival Cruise Line history with integrated memorabilia, retro designs, and other nostalgic touches.
For example, the venue will be home to the vintage 1934 Rolls Royce Saloon that was removed from Carnival Ecstasy in June. The Fantasy-class ship will be retired in early October, just weeks before Carnival Celebration debuts.
Once in Miami, the new ship will offer a range of 6-8 night Eastern, Western, and Southern Caribbean itineraries year-round, giving guests plenty of opportunities to enjoy all the ship has to offer, including the second Bolt rollercoaster at sea and plenty of fleet-wide favorites.
Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration will be joined by yet another Excel-class vessel, Carnival Jubilee, which is planned to enter service in 2023. | https://www.cruisehive.com/carnivals-new-cruise-ship-is-another-step-closer-to-completion/81526 | 2022-09-14T18:42:55Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/carnivals-new-cruise-ship-is-another-step-closer-to-completion/81526 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The upcoming September 15, 2022 Carnival Journeys cruise of Carnival Miracle, a 15-night roundtrip sailing from San Francisco to Hawaii, has had an itinerary change and will no longer be visiting all the previously planned Hawaiian ports.
Kauai has been dropped from the ship’s itinerary, and the days of the visits to other ports have been altered. Kona has also been added to the schedule.
Overall Itinerary Changed
Carnival Miracle will be leaving on its Hawaiian journey from San Francisco on September 15 and will still be returning on September 30, but little else of the ship’s Hawaiian visit remains the same as previously planned for the voyage.
The Spirit-class vessel will still cruise for four days at sea before reaching Hawaii, but three of the four days of visits to different Hawaiian ports are now different.
Originally, Carnival Miracle was scheduled for the following time in Hawaii:
- Tuesday, September 20 – Kauai – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Wednesday, September 21 – Honolulu – 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Thursday, September 22 – Maui – 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Friday, September 23 – Hilo – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Now, the ship’s itinerary has been changed and the first three port visits are different. The new schedule is as follows:
- Tuesday, September 20 – Honolulu – 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Wednesday, September 21 – Maui – 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Thursday, September 22 – Kona – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Friday, September 23 – Hilo – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Guests should note that not only have the days of visiting Honolulu and Maui changed, but the ship will also arrive in Maui one hour later than previously scheduled. If guests have booked independent shore tours while visiting these islands, it will be necessary to make appropriate changes.
Shore tours booked through Carnival Cruise Line will automatically be adjusted for the day and time changes.
After island-hopping in Hawaii, the ship will enjoy four days at sea to return to the Pacific Coast, spend Wednesday, September 28 in Ensenada, Mexico from 3-8 p.m., and have one final day at sea before returning to San Francisco on Friday, September 30.
No Explanation or Compensation
No explanation has been offered for the change in Carnival Miracle‘s itinerary, and guests may be understandably upset at missing out on “The Garden Isle” during their cruise, which is always a popular stop that epitomizes the tropical paradise vibes Hawaii is known for.
It is possible the change is due to conflicts with other vessels, though no other cruise ship is scheduled for Kauai on September 20. The port does handle other marine traffic, however, and could be concerned with security arrangements, congestion, or other logistical difficulties related to other port business.
Another possibility is engine issues with Carnival Miracle, as Kauai is the furthest port west in the island chain that the ship is scheduled to visit. This is somewhat unlikely, however, as the ship is showing no time changes for its other port calls for this lengthy journey and no engine difficulties have been reported.
No compensation is being offered to guests for the itinerary changes, though pre-booked shore tours for Kauai arranged through Carnival Cruise Line will be refunded and port fees will be adjusted for the changes.
Cruise lines have full authority to change a ship’s itinerary for any reason, including operational concerns, weather, or safety, without any compensation necessary.
The 88,500-gross-ton Carnival Miracle can welcome as many as 2,124 guests at double occupancy and up to 2,680 passengers when fully booked.
The ship has a great deal to offer guests on these lengthy Carnival Journeys itineraries, including all the classic favorites – the Punchliner Comedy Club, Guy’s Burger Joint, RedFrog Rum Bar, BlueIguana Cantina, Bonsai Sushi Express, Waterworks aqua park, miniature golf course, Spa Carnival, and more. | https://www.cruisehive.com/last-minute-itinerary-change-confirmed-for-carnival-cruise-ship/81503 | 2022-09-14T18:42:56Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/last-minute-itinerary-change-confirmed-for-carnival-cruise-ship/81503 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Earlier this year, we learned that Candace Cameron Bure would be leaving the Hallmark Channel and moving to the GAC Media’s Great American Family Channel. Now, as part of its Countdown to Great American Christmas, GAC provided a general idea of when Bure’s first film will air.
The “Fuller House” star will play the lead in and be the executive producer of “A Christmas…Present.” The family holiday film will premier on the network in November 2022.
In the holiday movie, Bure plays overachieving, always busy mom and real estate agent Maggie Larson, who takes her family to visit her widowed brother and his daughter for Christmas. Although the adults have different expectations for the holiday, a series of events encourages Maggie to “embrace the reason for the season,” according to the description.
“‘A Christmas … Present’ is about slowing down enough to recognize what’s right in front of our eyes,” Bure said in a statement. “The hustle and bustle of the Christmas season will arrive before we know it but it’s through the quiet moments that we hear God speak to us, directing our path to what’s most important.”
The actor shared the news on her Facebook page with a screenshot of a story from People about the upcoming movie.
“SO HAPPY to announce that Candy Rock Entertainment is underway with their first Christmas movie of the season starring…me,” Bure wrote. “‘A Christmas…Present’ will premiere on @gactv this November! #christmasiscoming”
The film was developed through Bure’s Candy Rock Entertainment venture.
“Candace is so personally involved in every aspect of these projects and she has incredible drive to ensure that these stories represent the quality, standards and values that she carries with her across everything she does in business,” Ford Englerth, President of Candy Rock Entertainment, said in a statement.
“Candy Rock Entertainment’s mission is to bring to life compelling stories that the entire family can enjoy while feeling a sense of togetherness and connection,” Bure said in the statement. “I’m so proud of the first of these projects because they are exactly that.”
The network’s Great American Christmas holiday programming will begin on Oct. 21. Every Saturday and Sunday, a new slate of original holiday movies will premiere, along with Christmas movies all day and all night through the end of the year.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | https://www.katc.com/candace-cameron-bure-first-christmas-movie-great-american-family-coming-november | 2022-09-14T18:43:16Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/candace-cameron-bure-first-christmas-movie-great-american-family-coming-november | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As the world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II's death, some people are noting the British empire's troubling past.
The Koh-i-noor diamond, which is featured on one of the royal crowns, is a reminder of that past.
It was reportedly unearthed in what is now India in the 13th Century.
Over the course of centuries, the crown changed hands as different rulers conquered the land.
Britain reportedly acquired the diamond after it annexed Punjab in 1849. According to NBC News, Maharaja Duleep Singh, who was 11 years old at the time, signed the Treaty of Lahore, which stipulated that the diamond would go to the queen of England.
The BBC reports that the 105.6-carat diamond is set in a crown last worn by Queen Elizabeth II's mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
It's unclear who will get the crown next. NBC News reports that royal experts say the crown may eventually be returned or it could be given to Camilia, the new queen consort. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/koh-i-noor-diamond-featured-on-the-queens-crown-has-troubling-history | 2022-09-14T18:43:28Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/koh-i-noor-diamond-featured-on-the-queens-crown-has-troubling-history | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO — Chicago Police say a man who tried to kidnap a 5-year-old girl has been arrested.
Last Thursday, a surveillance camera captured the suspect, later identified as Gerardo Posadas, trying to grab the child who was walking with her mother.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that police said Posadas allegedly offered the woman $150 for the girl.
When she refused, the 25-year-old tried to pull the child by her hair toward him, WGN-TV reported.
According to the news outlets, the woman and the girl were able to get away.
Police said he was charged with aggravated battery in a public place and attempted aggravated kidnapping, the news outlets reported. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/man-charged-in-attempted-kidnapping-of-5-year-old-girl-in-chicago | 2022-09-14T18:43:34Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/man-charged-in-attempted-kidnapping-of-5-year-old-girl-in-chicago | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DETROIT — The North American International Auto Show returned to Detroit for the first time in three years.
The event will take place September 14-25 at Huntington Place and other locations, including different parks and the Detroit Riverfront.
This year’s show will "be an indoor and outdoor city-wide celebration of mobility," said Rod Alberts, the Detroit Auto Dealers Association executive director.
President Joe Biden is also set to appear at the auto show on Wednesday.
During a White House American Rescue Plan event, Biden was asked about the show.
He said he would be there because he's a "car guy."
According to the Associated Press, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and other cabinet members are also set to attend.
This year's auto show will also only feature the debut of one new car model, the Ford Mustang, the news outlet reported.
The Associated Press reported that it's set to be unveiled at an outdoor event Wednesday along the Detroit River.
This year's event will likely be smaller than in years past, the Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlet, this year’s auto show will feature more consumer-friendly events.
The show hasn't been held in three years due to the pandemic, with the event also moved from January to September, the Associated Press reported.
“The industry has changed — the world has changed,” Karl Zimmermann, vice president of the Detroit Auto Dealers Association, told the news outlet. “Do I think it’s going to be the same as it was before? No. It's a much different format. We’re using [it] indoors. We’re using outdoors.”
Here’s everything you need to know about this year's Detroit auto show:
Show Dates
Media Day: Sept. 14
Industry Tech Days/AutoMobili-D: Sept. 14-15
Charity Preview: Sept. 16
Public Show: Sept. 17-25
Ticket Pricing for Public Days
- Adults: $20 per person
- Senior: $12 per person (65 and older)
- Children: $10 (3-12 years old; 2 years and under free with a parent or guardian)
- Family Pass: $50 (2 adults, 3 children)
Dates and Times for Public Days
Saturday, Sept. 17: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 18: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 19: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 20: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 21: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 22: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 23: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 24: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 25: 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
To purchase tickets, click here: https://naias.com/2022-tickets
The North American International Auto Show announced that the Charity Preview would feature an Air Mobility Experience with a Gravity Jet Suit and a drone display that will light up the Detroit skyline. We’re talking hundreds of drones!
The gala will run from 6-11 p.m.
The Huntington Place fundraiser will also highlight the premiere of the auto show’s new dinosaur and off-road vehicle encounters. Gala guests will reportedly get to experience experiential activations, including Camp Jeep, F-150 Lightning, and Ram Truck rides.
Nile Rodgers & CHIC are also expected to perform on the main auto show floor.
For more information about the North American International Auto Show, click here. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/detroit-auto-show-returns-after-3-year-hiatus | 2022-09-14T18:43:40Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/detroit-auto-show-returns-after-3-year-hiatus | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A number of public and private programs are credited with reducing food security in 2021 as a report released showed fewer people were food insecure last year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said that 34 million people were living in food insecure households in 2021, a decline from 38 million in 2020. Most significantly, the number of children living in food insecure households declined from 12 million to 9 million.
The data indicated it was the lowest rate of food insecure Americans since data has been tracked.
Feeding America credited the combination of the expanded children tax credit, SNAP benefits and private donations for reducing food insecurity.
“Still, nearly 34 million people facing hunger in this country are too many, and we know this number would have been much higher were it not for the continued unprecedented response from the charitable food sector and government nutrition programs,” said Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America. “The public/private response to the hunger crisis brought on by the pandemic has been successful in mitigating food insecurity rates, particularly among households with children, and we need to continue and expand those efforts to ensure everyone has access to the food and resources they need to thrive.”
The ending of the expanded child tax credit coupled with rising food costs could cause figures to go back up.
The cost of food at the grocery store has gone up 13.5% in the last year. Meanwhile, wages have only gone up about 5%, government data shows. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/food-insecurity-dropped-significantly-in-2021-but-could-rise-again | 2022-09-14T18:43:46Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/food-insecurity-dropped-significantly-in-2021-but-could-rise-again | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As the world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II's death, some people are noting the British empire's troubling past.
The Koh-i-noor diamond, which is featured on one of the royal crowns, is a reminder of that past.
It was reportedly unearthed in what is now India in the 13th Century.
Over the course of centuries, the crown changed hands as different rulers conquered the land.
Britain reportedly acquired the diamond after it annexed Punjab in 1849. According to NBC News, Maharaja Duleep Singh, who was 11 years old at the time, signed the Treaty of Lahore, which stipulated that the diamond would go to the queen of England.
The BBC reports that the 105.6-carat diamond is set in a crown last worn by Queen Elizabeth II's mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
It's unclear who will get the crown next. NBC News reports that royal experts say the crown may eventually be returned or it could be given to Camilia, the new queen consort. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/koh-i-noor-diamond-featured-on-the-queens-crown-has-troubling-history | 2022-09-14T18:43:58Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/koh-i-noor-diamond-featured-on-the-queens-crown-has-troubling-history | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — A community band hoping to make a big trip overseas received a big surprise on Tuesday.
The Sounds of Success Community Marching Band is trying to raise enough money to fly to London for Band Week in June 2023. They're the only community band in the country invited to the prestigious event.
But they have a long way to go for their dream to become a reality.
The SOS band needs to raise a lot of money for the trip — including $50,000 just for a down payment — in just a matter of weeks or they can't go.
The band, thankfully, got some star power Tuesday evening when Palm Beach County rapper Vanilla Ice surprised students while they were practicing at Riviera Beach Preparatory Academy.
The rapper, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, encouraged band members to follow their dreams in music.
"We all have to wake up with something to do, a purpose, a meaning, a drive," Vanilla Ice said. "It's not just the kids that are playing the music, but all the mentors out here giving these kids the musical direction."
More than 100 students from multiple area schools participate in the SOS band, ranging in age from 5 years old all the way up to high schoolers.
"These kids are in our city. They're representing Palm Beach. They're our neighbors. So let's put some money in the pot for them and send them to London and compete," Vanilla Ice said.
To raise money for the trip, the SOS band has launched a raffle. Each ticket costs $100 and will give you the chance to win six prizes including a BMW 330i, 2023 Hyundai Venue, a VIP luxury yacht trip, golf at the Wellington Golf Club, or an 85-inch TV.
Raffle tickets are on sale through 5 p.m. on Dec. 16. To purchase a raffle ticket, click here.
"If they go to London and compete, they're representing Palm Beach County, and that's what it's all about," Vanilla Ice said. "If we can raise the money for them, it's a big ticket."
Band director Antoine Miller said they have a lot of fundraising to do.
"We are right now trying to raise $50,000 for our down payment, which is due by the 25th of this month," Miller said.
Vanilla Ice encourages the kids to follow their dreams.
"I did 'Ice, Ice Baby' when I was 16 years old," the rapper said. "And it takes that time of life to all of this inspiration and become who you are."
Band member Jazmyn Holmes, 13, is excited about the possibility of going to London.
"I like the energy that we have," Holmes said. "We are so driven to do what we love."
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The Association of American Railroads said it estimates that a potential rail-freight strike could cost the United States nearly $2 billion a day.
Their warning comes as leaders of two major labor unions say they’re ready to go on strike if an agreement is not reached by Friday night.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met with representatives from both sides as the Biden administration tries to head off a strike. The White House has acknowledged that a strike could challenge the nation’s supply chain.
"We're going to be very honest, a shutdown would have a tremendous impact on our supply chains,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “As you all know, it's going to have a ripple effect into our overall economy on the American family. A shutdown is not acceptable. That is not something that we want it risks harming families at risk farming, harming businesses and whole communities.”
One of the unions, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, rejected a contract offer, but agreed to hold off going on strike until Sept. 29.
"IAM freight rail members are skilled professionals who have worked in difficult conditions through a pandemic to make sure essential products get to their destinations," the union said. "We look forward to continuing that vital work with a fair contract that ensures our members and their families are treated with the respect they deserve for keeping America’s goods and resources moving through the pandemic."
Rail operators say a strike would cause 7,000 railcars to idle. Those railcars would leave behind items such as parts, cars, food and other products. They say the result would be lost jobs and retail product shortages.
SMART-TD and BLET, two of the largest freight labor unions, said they are prepared for a potential strike to begin at the end of Friday.
“It is the rail carriers that refuse to reach an acceptable agreement,” the unions said in a statement. “In fact, it was abundantly clear from our negotiations over the past few days that the railroads show no intentions of reaching an agreement with our Unions.”
The Biden administration got involved during the summer by getting the sides to hold off on a strike during a 60-day cooling-off period. That period expires at the end of the day Friday.
During that time, the Presidential Emergency Board came up with a recommended contract for the sides, which included a 24% compounded wage increase during the five-year period from 2020 through 2024, with a 14.1% wage increase effective immediately for union employees. The retroactive pay increase would provide an average of $11,000 per employee in back pay.
The recommendation also would give employees additional paid time off and cap employee insurance contributions at 15%.
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Ryan Reynolds showed millions of fans the importance of getting a colonoscopy.
The actor said he lost a bet and agreed to record his experience getting the procedure. The 45-year-old posted the video on Instagram.
After the procedure, Reynolds' doctor informed him that a polyp was found.
"This was potentially lifesaving for you," Dr. Jonathan LaPook said. "I'm not kidding. I'm not being overly dramatic."
LaPook said he removed the polyp, which could have led to colon cancer.
"This saves lives pure and simple," he said.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that adults aged 45 to 75 be screened for colorectal cancer.
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A Starbucks-branded drink is being recalled over concern about metal fragments.
The recall only applies to the 15-ounce Starbucks Vanilla Espresso Triple Shot drink, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The recalled drink was sold in seven states. They include Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
While the drink has the Starbucks brand, it is distributed by Pepsico Inc.
A spokesperson for the company told USA Today that the recalled products have a best buy date of March 20, 2023.
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Erath High and Erath Middle schools have been evacuated because of a threat.
The students have been moved to an alternative site, according to a text message sent to parents.
Erath Police confirm they are investigating a written threat on a wall.
KATC has a crew en route and will have more information once it becomes available.
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RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — A community band hoping to make a big trip overseas received a big surprise on Tuesday.
The Sounds of Success Community Marching Band is trying to raise enough money to fly to London for Band Week in June 2023. They're the only community band in the country invited to the prestigious event.
But they have a long way to go for their dream to become a reality.
The SOS band needs to raise a lot of money for the trip — including $50,000 just for a down payment — in just a matter of weeks or they can't go.
The band, thankfully, got some star power Tuesday evening when Palm Beach County rapper Vanilla Ice surprised students while they were practicing at Riviera Beach Preparatory Academy.
The rapper, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, encouraged band members to follow their dreams in music.
"We all have to wake up with something to do, a purpose, a meaning, a drive," Vanilla Ice said. "It's not just the kids that are playing the music, but all the mentors out here giving these kids the musical direction."
More than 100 students from multiple area schools participate in the SOS band, ranging in age from 5 years old all the way up to high schoolers.
"These kids are in our city. They're representing Palm Beach. They're our neighbors. So let's put some money in the pot for them and send them to London and compete," Vanilla Ice said.
To raise money for the trip, the SOS band has launched a raffle. Each ticket costs $100 and will give you the chance to win six prizes including a BMW 330i, 2023 Hyundai Venue, a VIP luxury yacht trip, golf at the Wellington Golf Club, or an 85-inch TV.
Raffle tickets are on sale through 5 p.m. on Dec. 16. To purchase a raffle ticket, click here.
"If they go to London and compete, they're representing Palm Beach County, and that's what it's all about," Vanilla Ice said. "If we can raise the money for them, it's a big ticket."
Band director Antoine Miller said they have a lot of fundraising to do.
"We are right now trying to raise $50,000 for our down payment, which is due by the 25th of this month," Miller said.
Vanilla Ice encourages the kids to follow their dreams.
"I did 'Ice, Ice Baby' when I was 16 years old," the rapper said. "And it takes that time of life to all of this inspiration and become who you are."
Band member Jazmyn Holmes, 13, is excited about the possibility of going to London.
"I like the energy that we have," Holmes said. "We are so driven to do what we love."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that three Iranian citizens have been charged in the United States with cyberattacks that targeted power companies, local governments and small businesses and nonprofits, including a domestic violence shelter.
The charges accuse the hacking suspects of targeting hundreds of victims in the U.S. and other countries. Prosecutors say the hackers encrypted and stole data from victim networks and threatened to release it unless exorbitant ransom payments were made. In some cases, the victims made those payments, the department said.
The hackers are not believed to have been working on behalf of the Iranian government but instead for their own financial gain, and some of the victims were even in Iran, according to a senior Justice Department official who briefed reporters on the case on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the department. But the official said the activity exists because hackers are permitted by the Iranian government to largely operate with impunity.
The three accused hackers are thought to be in Iran and have not been arrested, but the Justice Department official said the pending charges make it “functionally impossible” for them to leave the country.
The case was filed in federal court in New Jersey, where a municipality in Union County was hacked last year.
One of the victims was a domestic violence shelter in Pennsylvania, which the indictment says was extorted out of $13,000 to recover its hacked data.
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PHILADELPHIA (CN) — A lawyer for a Temple University physics professor falsely accused of being a Chinese spy appealed to the Third Circuit Wednesday, saying that his client’s federal claims should be put before a jury.
“This is a case about accountability,” Xiaoxing Xi's lawyer David Rudovsky of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg told a Third Circuit panel Wednesday.
A superconducting technology expert, Xi’s life was turned upside down seven years ago by now-withdrawn espionage charges that accused him of relaying sensitive “pocket heater” technology belonging to the company Superconductor Technologies to Chinese researchers.
As part of the investigation, a team of agents stormed Xi’s Pennsylvania home at dawn on May 21, 2015, saying he could be imprisoned for 80 years on such charges.
“His house is searched. He's stripped searched. He's accused of being a technological spy… and that's the information that defamed him nationally,” recounted Rudovsky Wednesday.
As agents led Xi away in handcuffs, his wife and children were allegedly held at gunpoint. Xi said it took just four months for the basis of the government’s complaint to collapse. He subsequently filed suit in 2017 against Andrew Haugen, the FBI’s Chinese counterintelligence agent who he has said fabricated the entire controversy.
Xi’s lawyer argued Wednesday that Haugen knew that the pocket heater technology in question was not revolutionary and was publicly available. And that while Xi did discuss technology with Chinese scientists, it was Xi’s own, and Haugen knew it, referencing emails to the scientists introduced as evidence.
“There's nothing in any of these emails that implicate or reveal secrets about the pocket heater,” Rudovsky said, adding that after finding this out, Haugen was “left with nothing,” but proceeded anyway — even after having been informed by the inventor of the pocket heater that nothing in the emails had anything to do with a pocket heater. The subject related to an instrument Xi had invented himself.
“There's no reliable evidence that agent Haugen had to support the claim that professor Xi had shared confidential information with colleagues in China,” the lawyer continued.
While Leif Overvold, a Department of Justice attorney who represented the FBI Wednesday, argued that Haugen hadn’t fabricated evidence, he faced scrutiny from the Third Circuit panel.
“If you look at the actual factual allegations, this is much closer to a malicious prosecution case,” Overvold argued.
“He made up stuff. That's very different from your standard, malicious prosecution case,” U.S. Circuit Judge Marjorie Rendell, a Bill Clinton appointee, said.
“There's not an allegation in the complaint of any particular factual statement that was made up,” Leif responded.
A point of order U.S. Circuit Judge Cheryl Krause, an Obama appointee, took issue with.
“They specifically plead that special agent was advised by the inventor that these emails did not relate to this device. It was a different device,” Krause replied.
Philadelphia-based U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick ruled previously that the FBI’s investigation and prosecution of Xi were matters of discretion, dismissing his allegations of malicious prosecution, unlawful search and seizure, and an equal-protection rights violation. Surrick left just one of the 10 counts Xi filed, a surveillance claim, in tact.
A U.S. citizen born in China, Xi also argues his ethnicity likely played a role in his arrest, alleging it is part of a pattern when it comes to FBI investigations, although the panel appeared skeptical of this argument Wednesday.
“What gives us that inference, the inference is just as easy that [the agent] just didn't like him,” Rendell said as she questioned Xi’s lawyer.
Krause likewise echoed that Xi has failed to provide evidence that Haugen showed a pattern of discriminatory animus.
In addition to suffering embarrassment and an invasion of his privacy, Xi has argued in federal court that the bogus charges “have and will continue to have an adverse impact on his academic career.”
After his arrest, the professor was forced to take administrative leave, suspended as interim chair of the Physics Department of Temple University, and banned from communicating with his students or directly accessing his lab.
According to Xi’s original complaint, two days prior to his arrest, he had been told by the dean of the university that he would be appointed the permanent chair of the Physics Department.
Just before his arrest, Xi was the co-principal investigator overseeing nine research projects worth more than $1 million a year in U.S. government funding. By the time Xi could resume conducting research in September, when charges against him were dropped, he says he had lost valuable time and summer salaries.
Xi also contended in his original complaint that his prosecution has put a cloud over any future work he might undertake, “including advising Chinese students, hosting Chinese visitors, recommending students for employment in China, engaging in joint research projects and exchanging ideas and samples with Chinese colleagues, and serving on proposal review panels in China.”
Because the stakes are high, Xi’s lawyer argued, “the case must go on to discovery.”
“It'll be reviewed again in summary judgment, but a jury can make a decision if they want to argue that agent Haugen was just negligent at some point and didn't deliberately violate professors civil rights,” Rudovsky said. “They're free to argue that.”
U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Donald Trump appointee, rounded out the three-judge panel Wednesday.
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NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first foreign trip since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group.
Wearing a blue suit and a face mask, Xi was met on the airport tarmac by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and an honor guard, all of whom wore masks.
Xi’s trip underlines the importance Beijing places on asserting its role as a regional leader amid tension with Washington, Japan and India.
Tokayev’s government said the two leaders would discuss energy and trade. Kazakhstan, a sparsely populated country of 19.4 million people and sprawling grasslands, is a major oil and gas producer. China is a leading customer.
Tokayev thanked Xi for his visit, which he said was of “historic significance” and came at a time of “unprecedented, after the end of the Cold War, escalation of international tensions.” He also hailed China’s support of “the economic development of Kazakhstan and our international initiatives."
The Chinese leader promised to resolutely support Kazakhstan “in protecting its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, firmly support your ongoing reforms to ensure stability and development, and categorically oppose the interference of any forces in the internal affairs” of the country “no matter how the international situation changes.”
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported that after his visit to Kazakhstan, Xi flew to Samarkand in neighboring Uzbekistan for a summit of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization, led by China and Russia.
Beijing and Moscow see the SCO as a counterweight to U.S. alliances in East Asia.
Other SCO governments include India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Observers include Iran and Afghanistan.
The Chinese leader is promoting a “Global Security Initiative” announced in April following the formation of the Quad by Washington, Japan, Australia and India in response to Beijing’s more assertive foreign policy. Xi has given few details, but U.S. officials complain it echoes Russian arguments in support of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine.
Xi and Putin plan to hold a one-on-one meeting and discuss Ukraine, according to the Russian president’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov.
Kazakhstan is part of China's multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative to expand trade by building ports, railways and other infrastructure across an arc of dozens of countries from the South Pacific through Asia to the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
The initiative and China's economic inroads into Central Asia have fueled unease in Russia, which sees the region as its sphere of influence. Kazakhstan and its neighbors are trying to attract Chinese investment without upsetting Moscow.
“This visit is extremely important,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Roman Vassilenko this week ahead of Xi’s arrival. "We certainly hope that it will advance political and economic and commercial relations with China.”
Pope Francis was in Kazakhstan at the same time as Xi, but there was no indication they might meet. Aboard his flight, the pope was asked about a possible meeting and replied, “I don’t have any news about this. But I am always ready to go to China."
Xi’s trip — at a time when his government is urging the Chinese public to avoid foreign travel under its “zero-COVID” strategy — underlines the importance to the ruling Communist Party of asserting China’s strategic ambitions.
Relations with Washington, Europe, Japan and India are strained by disputes over technology, security, human rights and territory.
The summit takes Xi abroad while the party prepares for an October congress at which he is expected to break with political tradition and try to award himself a third five-year term as leader.
That suggests Xi, China’s most powerful leader since at least the 1980s, is confident his third term is secure and he doesn’t need to stay home to make last-minute political deals. His trip also might help to promote his standing with nationalists in the ruling party.
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LUXEMBOURG (CN) — Abuse of market dominance in the mobile phone market will cost Google $4.2 billion, the European General Court ruled Wednesday, giving only a 5% reduction to the original fine.
The 2018 fine was the result of a three-year investigation in which the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, found that found the Silicon Valley-based Google had used its dominance in the smartphone market to promote other Google products, such as Google Search and the Chrome browser.
Android was installed on 80% of mobile phone devices in the European Union when the fine was issued. Though the commission said Google had paid phone makers like Samsung and HTC to preload Google Search directly onto their devices, Google’s lawyers attributed the widespread use of Android to the supposed superiority of the product.
Google and its parent company, Alphabet, have denied any wrongdoing. Downplaying its dominance of the mobile phone market, the search titan cited “intense, unrelenting competition between Apple and Android" in its appeal of the fine. Alphabet attorneys for also questioned how the company could have known Google would violate competition rules on products it provides for free, pointing out the EU had never brought a case before involving an open-source operating system such as Android.
"We are disappointed that the Court did not annul the decision in full. Android has created more choice for everyone, not less, and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world,” the company said in a statement.
In his opening statements before the European General Court in Luxembourg last year, European Commission lawyer Nicholas Khan said argued that “Google’s conduct denied any opportunity for competition."
The General Court did shave about $200 million off the original 4.34 billion euro ($4.4 billion) fine from Brussels, agreeing with Google about the calculation of revenue-sharing agreements it made with third parties.
"The General Court largely confirms the commission's decision that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine," Judge Anna Marcoulli said Wednesday, reading the decision aloud.
Consumer-protection organizations applauded the ruling. “This shows the European Commission got it right. Google can no longer impose its will on phone makers. Now they may open their devices to competition in search and other services, allowing consumers to benefit from increased choice,” said Thomas Vinje, spokesman and counsel for FairSearch, which was a plaintiff in the case.
The EU investigation was instigated by a complaint made by the Google watchdog in 2013.
It’s the second win in less than a year for competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has focused on cracking down on what she sees as tech giants flouting EU rules. Last year, the same court upheld a $2.7 billion fine against Google for illegally promoting its own shopping-comparison service over rivals. The company announced in January that it would appeal the decision.
Vestager’s office has had mixed results in Luxembourg. Earlier this year, the court overturned a $1.2 billion antitrust fine against Intel for giving rebates to computer manufacturers to shut out rivals. It also annulled a $1.05 billion antitrust fine against U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm for paying smartphone maker Apple not to use chips from rival companies.
Brussels has since adopted the Digital Markets Act, which cracks down on how tech giants can operate in the European Union. Set to take effect next year, the new regulations ban companies from promoting their own products via their own platforms and limit how they can use personal data.
Both Google and the commission can appeal Wednesday’s decision, though neither said if they planned to do so. "The Commission will carefully study the judgment and decide on eventual next steps,” it said in a statement.
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(CN) — A somber royal procession took the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where the matriarch's body will lie in state until her funeral on Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of London to pay their respects to a queen whose 70-year reign came to define Great Britain in the post-World War II era. She died last Friday at the age of 96.
King Charles III and other members of the royal family solemnly walked behind the coffin, which was borne on a gun carriage draped in a royal flag and adorned with a wreath of flowers and imperial state crown.
The procession passed down some of London's most storied avenues and brought tears to many in the public who attended the historic event.
The procession marked the passing of the queen's body from the privacy of the royal family to the public realm. Enormously long lines were growing as the public gathered outside Westminster Hall to be able to individually pay respects to their departed monarch. Mourners were told to expect waits of up to 24 hours for a viewing of the queen's coffin, which will remain closed.
London is set to become the focus of the world over the next five days as more than 100 heads of state, including U.S. President Joe Biden, journey to the British capital to attend farewell events and the funeral of Elizabeth, one of the world's most beloved figures.
Wednesday's procession was meticulously planned by Britain's military with the renowned red-uniformed Buckingham Palace royal guards playing a central role.
The procession – accompanied by somber marching music, cannon fire and the ringing of Big Ben's bell – somberly walked from the royal grounds around Buckingham Palace to the grounds of the Houses of Parliament, where Westminster Hall is located. It is the oldest building on the parliamentary estate and played a central role in British history with many of Britain's major institutions – Parliament, law courts and government offices – growing up around it.
Elizabeth died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Buckingham Palace said the cherished and beloved queen died “peacefully” with her eldest son, Charles, at her side. Shortly after her death, Charles was declared king.
She was beloved by world leaders and millions of people for her many good attributes, including her warm smile, humility and sense of humor.
Her death marked the end of an era not just for Britain but for the world. When she ascended to the throne following her father's early death in 1952, Stalin was still in power in the Soviet Union and Harry Truman was U.S. president.
Over the course of her reign, Elizabeth traveled extensively as she tried to ease the slow dismantling of the British empire following World War II and forge relations with leaders around the globe.
Among her more memorable trips, she visited the Great Wall of China in 1986 and the Kremlin in 1994. She toured the United States in 1957, a trip that included lunch with Herbert Hoover, the former president, in New York City.
The British monarch is the head of state not only in the U.K. but also in 14 other former colonies, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica and a number of smaller island nations.
She met 13 of the past 14 American presidents and helped cement the so-called “special relationship” between the U.S. and Britain. The only president she didn't meet was Lyndon B. Johnson.
Biden ordered American flags to be lowered to half-staff at the White House and at all public buildings, grounds, military posts, naval stations, naval vessels, and overseas embassies and consular offices until sunset Monday, the day of her burial.
Courthouse News reporter Cain Burdeau is based in the European Union.
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ROSEBURG, Ore. (CN) — The legal battle over Oregon's controversial Winchester Dam is scheduled to heat up in May 2023, when an extended stay ends in the battle between WaterWatch of Oregon and Winchester Water District. The water district says it's ready for the fight.
"People that are suing us do this for a living," said Winchester Water District President Ryan Beckley. "And the facts and data don't seem to actually be too interesting to them, or they certainly aren't willing to engage with them."
But WaterWatch says the people running the dam have no regard for endangered fish.
"The folks that are running the dam for the district really don't seem to have much interest in obeying the law," said WaterWatch's Southern Oregon Program Director Jim McCarthy, who is leading the charge against Winchester for killing endangered Coho salmon and other migratory fish.
Unlike many dams, the Winchester Dam no longer exists to produce energy — and hasn't since the 1960s. Instead, the dam's sole purpose is to create a private flatwater reservoir for the 156 homeowners behind the dam, aka the Winchester Water District. According to McCarthy, it may be the only 1890s claim for recreational water in Oregon's history.
According to WaterWatch's lawsuit, the Winchester Dam causes illegal take of Coho salmon by blocking access to spawning habitat and falsely attracting fish to areas of the dam with leaks.
"I spent an estimated 260 hours out there observing what was going on at different seasons and different times of the year," said retired biologist Jeff Dose. "And I observed numerous adult salmon and steelhead jumping at the dam."
According to McCarthy, owners of the 132-year-old dam have been out of compliance with maintenance permits since the early 90s and have resorted to environmentally detrimental repairs. In 2018, former district president Juan Yraguen responded to an emergency repair request from the Oregon Water Resource's Dam Safety Division by hiring his company, Basco Logging Inc., to fill a hole with cement.
"He used green cement, which is concrete specially formulated to solidify when it hits water," McCarthy said. As a result, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reported the incident to the Department of Environmental Quality, which fined Basco Logging $58,378 for "violating state water quality standards and causing pollution, killing fish and other aquatic species."
"That really galvanized people too," McCarthy, said, noting the dam owners not only failed to obtain permits and hire qualified engineers, “they fought it, and they were quite adamant that they shouldn't be held accountable for that."
Additionally, McCarthy said part of the dam's original wooden cradle structure was repaired with pressure-treated wood, which is toxic to fish. "They never bothered with permits, so they have never had to be told by the state that their plans were unlawful for putting pressure-treated wood," McCarthy said.
Beckley doesn't see it that way. “Those maintenance projects typically fall under, essentially, just a notification permit, which isn't really a permit at all,” he said. “We just notify Corps of Engineers and Dam Safety and say, hey, we're going to do XYZ."
Beckley also has his doubts about dam repairs killing fish, adding how there was no autopsy done on the fish to suggest they were killed from the turbidity of poured concrete.
But despite the state's listing of the dam as "high hazard" because of its fish ladder, Beckley is adamant the fish counts by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have been inaccurate for the last 12 years.
"[Fish and Wildlife] decided to stop counting the individual fish and they went to an extrapolation count," Beckley said, adding that selecting eight random days of a season doesn't account for how Coho salmon run sporadically in big groups. To prove his point, he plans to purchase and install a "24/7 live-feed digitized counting system." He said Fish and Wildlife is not thrilled about the plan.
"They have been fighting me like hell," said Beckley. "And I can't get them to tell me why, except that they don't actually want to see the information."
Beckley said WaterWatch has not been as communicative as they've let on, either. WaterWatch offered to remove Winchester Dam at "little to no cost" to the district. The offer, McCarthy said, was rejected.
But, Beckley said, "They have never responded to me once."
The only feasible solution, according to Beckley, is fixing the ladder to meet the National Marine Fisheries standard, which includes a six-inch maximum jump height. However, he also said the solution is unnecessary and may cause further harm to salmon by letting predatory smallmouth bass into the reservoir.
Moving the dam's fish ladder is also off the table, Beckley said, since the south end is too close to the water intake for the city of Roseburg.
Still, Dose believes the district needs to do more to protect young migratory salmon. "Modern dams today have collection facilities and transportation facilities to get juvenile fish safely over the dam," he said. "This has none of that."
Dose said he's observed hundreds of juvenile fish fall off the ledge of the dam onto exposed bedrock below. And McCarthy noted modern dams have plunge pools so fish that go over the top don't fall onto rock at the bottom — something Winchester does not. "Pretty much anytime I go down there, I see adult fish falling off the crest of that dam and onto that rock ledge," he said. "So, the sound of cascading water there is a sound of fish death."
This observation also led Dose to discover how juvenile salmon are being picked off by predatory bird species as they swim up to the dam ledge. However, Beckley insisted "juvenile salmon going over the dam has never been established to be a legitimate concern."
"Ultimately, at the end of the day, their only goal, their only real objective would be to bully us into removing the dam," Beckley said.
On that, the sides agree.
"It's our philosophy that every dam has an expiration date," McCarthy said. "This one is well past its expiration date."
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STRASBOURG, France (CN) — The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday found France was in the wrong for refusing to repatriate two French women who joined the Islamic State terrorist group, ruling the process is too arbitrary.
Paris violated a clause in the European Convention on Human Rights that protects citizens' right to return to their homeland, the Strasbourg-based court found. The 1953 treaty created the court and protects the political and civil rights of European citizens.
The case was brought by the parents of the two women, identified only as L and M in court documents for privacy reasons, who say their daughters and grandchildren are living in dangerous conditions in refugee camps in northeast Syria.
L was 23 when she left France for Syria, much of which was controlled by the Islamic State, in 2014, and M was 26 when she left a year later. They both had children with jihadist husbands and are now being held in a Kurdish-run camp after being arrested when the terrorist group lost control of the Syrian territory it held.
They have both expressed a desire to return to France. When she last spoke with her parents, L was suffering from untreated typhoid fever while M appeared to be malnourished and expressed concern about the health of her baby, who was suffering from a heart condition.
The parents had asked the French Foreign Ministry and the French president to repatriate the women and their children from the camps, arguing they were in poor health and their lives were in danger.
So far, the government has refused. During a hearing in the case in 2021, France argued that attempting to bring them back would be too dangerous. “It would pose extremely difficulties,” lawyer François Alabrune argued on behalf of France at the time.
Europe's top rights court took issue with how France determined who it would repatriate.
“The examination of the requests for repatriation made by the applicants on behalf of their family members was not surrounded by appropriate safeguards against arbitrariness,” the court wrote in Wednesday's ruling.
The government indicated that it determined on a case-by-case basis who it would remove from the camps. Between 2019 and 2021, Paris brought back 35 children, all orphans or “humanitarian cases,” via five missions to the region. In July, the government announced that 16 women and 35 children from Syrian camps had returned via chartered planes. The applicants in this case were not among them and the families were not given any explanation as to why their children and grandchildren remained while others were returned.
Although the ruling from the Strasbourg court was unusually long, it did little to clarify what obligations countries have to their citizens in these situations.
“The lens that the court takes is very narrow,” Evelyne Schmid, a professor of international law at Université de Lausanne who was familiar with the ruling, said in an interview.
The court said that France has to allow an independent body to review any repatriation requests that it rejects.
“There must be a mechanism for the review of decisions … through which it can be ascertained that there is no arbitrariness,” the ruling states.
The issue of repatriation has been contentious in France. Human rights groups say of the more than 40,000 foreigners in camps in Syria, around 250 are French citizens or their children. Living conditions are extremely poor. Activists have urged France and other European countries to bring back their citizens living in the camps, but many counties have argued that they pose a security risk.
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(AP) — TikTok may be the platform of choice for catchy videos, but anyone using it to learn about Covid-19, climate change or Russia's invasion of Ukraine is likely to encounter misleading information, according to a research report published Wednesday.
Researchers at NewsGuard searched for content about prominent news topics on TikTok and say they found that nearly 1 in 5 of the videos automatically suggested by the platform contained misinformation.
Searches for information about “mRNA vaccine," for instance, yielded five videos (out of the first 10) that contained misinformation, including baseless claims that the Covid-19 vaccine causes “permanent damage in children's critical organs.”
Researchers looking for information about abortion, the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, climate change or Russia's invasion of Ukraine on TikTok found similarly misleading videos scattered among more accurate clips.
The amount of misinformation — and the ease with which it can be found — is especially troubling given TikTok's popularity with young people, according to Steven Brill, founder of NewsGuard, a firm that monitors misinformation.
TikTok is the second most popular domain in the world, according to online performance and security company Cloudflare, exceeded only by Google.
Brill questioned whether ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is doing enough to stop misinformation or whether it deliberately allows misinformation to proliferate as a way to sow confusion in the U.S. and other Western democracies.
“It's either incompetence or it's something worse,” Brill told The Associated Press.
TikTok released a statement in response to NewsGuard's report noting that its community guidelines prohibit harmful misinformation and that it works to promote authoritative content about important topics like Covid-19.
“We do not allow harmful misinformation, including medical misinformation, and we will remove it from the platform,” the company said.
TikTok has taken other steps that it says are intended to direct users to trustworthy sources. This year, for example, the company created an election center to help U.S. voters find voting places or information about candidates.
The platform removed more than 102 million videos that violated its rules in the first quarter of 2022. Yet only a tiny percentage of those ran afoul of TikTok's rules against misinformation.
Researchers found that TikTok's own search tool seems designed to steer users to false claims in some cases. When researchers typed the words “Covid vaccine" into the search tool, for instance, the tool suggested searches on keywords including “Covid vaccine exposed" and "Covid vaccine injury."
When the same search was run on Google, however, that search engine suggested searches relating to more accurate information about vaccine clinics, the different types of vaccines and booster shots.
TikTok's rise in popularity has caught the attention of state officials and federal lawmakers, some of whom have expressed concerns about its data privacy and security.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on social media's impact on the nation's security. TikTok's chief operating officer, Vanessa Pappas, is set to testify alongside representatives from YouTube, Twitter and Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook.
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By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press
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Despite strong efforts by Kyle Busch in each of the first two races of this year’s NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, neither neither race turned out how he and his team had hoped. In the Round of 16 opener at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway two weekends ago, Busch led a race high 155 laps and appeared headed for victory when an engine issue derailed his bid just 21 laps from the finish. Last weekend at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Busch again had a strong outing, having worked his way into the top-five before a pit-road penalty relegated him to the back of the field. From there, he spun through the infield grass and damaged his car enough to keep him out of contention. While the first two playoff races have not netted the results he and his team expected, good news is on the horizon in the form of his favorite racetrack on the circuit – Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, site of Saturday night’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race. The event has long been a staple on the Cup Series schedule and certainly a favorite of drivers and fans alike. Many even argue that the 500-lap race is slowly and steadily evolving into a crown jewel on the schedule. Busch, driver of the No. 18 M&M’S Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), has at least nine reasons why he’s been looking forward to Bristol and its significance in the 2022 Cup Series playoffs. His eight wins on its high-banked, half-mile concrete surface are the most among active drivers. If anyone thought adding dirt to the surface would slow Busch down at Bristol, they’d need to think again. Busch brought home a victory there in April’s Food City Dirt Race, giving him nine total wins within the confines of the track coined “The Last Great Colosseum.” A ninth Cup Series victory on the concrete surface and 10th overall at Bristol would send the younger Busch brother into a tie with some all-time greats of the sport. Dale Earnhardt, Cale Yarborough and Rusty Wallace all ended their careers at the “World’s Fastest Half-Mile” with nine victories. If Busch was to achieve nine Bristol concrete wins, the next milestone would be Darrell Waltrip’s all-time record of 12 wins at the Tennessee short track. A win Saturday night for the M&M’S driver would not only add to his career total at Bristol, but also vault him directly into the playoffs’ Round of 12. Heading into Saturday night’s race, Busch sits just two points below the top-12 cutline to advance. The Round of 12 begins Sept. 25 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. Busch, the two-time Cup Series champion, holds the distinction of being the only driver in NASCAR history to win all three national series races in a single weekend, which he’s done twice at the Bristol bullring. He captured the “Bristol Triple” in 2010 and 2017, when he swept NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series, Xfinity Series, and Cup Series races. In addition to his eight career Cup Series concrete surface wins, Busch has 14 top-fives and 19 top-10s in 32 career starts on the concrete surface at Northeast Tennessee’s “Thunder Valley.” So, as Busch and the M&M’S team head to Bristol this weekend, it will no doubt be a sight for sore eyes. A ninth victory on the concrete surface would not only put him alongside NASCAR Hall of Famers Earnhardt, Yarborough, and Wallace, but also send him to the next round of the playoffs so he can take another step toward a third Cup Series championship. KYLE BUSCH, Driver of the No. 18 M&M'S Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing: What are your thoughts heading to Bristol Saturday? “I would like to get back to victory lane at Bristol, no doubt. We’ve had some decent runs there the last several years and hope we can do the same there this year. We were obviously there earlier this year but that was a completely different kind of race on the dirt surface, but never hurts to get a win there no matter what the surface looks like. There are a lot of unknowns going into this race since there hasn’t been a race with the NextGen car on the concrete surface, so a lot of unknowns, for sure. It’s always a great racetrack to circle on the calendar and know it’s a time when we can shine. We also have M&M’S on board again this weekend, so hoping we can have a solid finish and get us through to the next round.” What makes Bristol Motor Speedway so unique? “Bristol Motor Speedway is one of the best racetracks on the circuit. All the fans love it because of the excitement, the run-ins and the close-quarter action with all the cars being packed on top of one another at a half-mile racetrack with us 40 lunatics running around in a tight circle. With the fans, the atmosphere there always makes for a good time, and sometimes a frustrating time when things don’t always go your way.” What is the toughest part about 500 laps at a place like Bristol? “Races at Bristol are very demanding, both mentally and physically. I think physically just because of the nature of the non-stop driving. You are always on the go and always doing something, down the straightaway, in the corners, because it’s so long and what it takes from the corner entry throughout the corner you just don’t have any time to relax at all on the straightaway. And then the mental demands of that place, too, because it’s concrete and the vibration and the challenge it puts on your body is pretty high there. Bristol is the one the more fun racetracks for me, especially being so successful there, and I pride myself on being able to handle that and not falling out of the seat.” What is your first memory of Bristol and what is your best story of success? “I remember my first time. It was in an Xfinity Series car at a test session for Hendrick Motorsports. I remember I needed about 27 laps before I thought I was going to knock the wall down, with all the optimism and pumped-up feelings I had about going there. But after that, it’s been pretty fun. We’ve had some challenging times there, but I’ve also had some good times there. Looking to continue that on Saturday night with our M&M’S Camry. What’s the highlight? You can’t dismiss the sweeps there. 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David's Electric has partnered with Jesse Little and Young's Motorsports as the primary partner for the night race at Bristol Motor Speedway, on September 15. Visit Kingsport and Visone RV return as associate partners with Jesse and the No. 02 for the UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics.
David's Electric is excited to partner with Jesse at The Last Great Collesium Thursday night. "As a longtime race fan, being able to partner with Jesse Little and the Youngs Motorsports Team at Bristol Motor Speedway is something we have been looking forward to all season," said David Poerio, owner of David's Electric. “Under the lights at the historic track with the Truck Series and Jesse piloting the Chevy Silverado makes this race the perfect arena for David’s Electric to highlight our company and pursue B2B connections in the KY market. We look forward to supporting Jesse and the team during the 2022 season.” Poerio continued.
"Visone RV is proud to be supporting Jesse Little at Bristol this week, as we have throughout the season,” said Visone RV Parts owner Terry Blankenship. “When Jesse offered us the opportunity to partner with himself David’s Electric, and Visit Kingsport we jumped at the opportunity,” Blankenship continued. "We are excited to introduce Visone RV to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series as we know they share the same passion for RVs that we have. That passion translates into our relentless effort to acquire quality, hard-to-find motorhome parts and make them available to the public at wholesale or below."
"The Bristol night race is always a special one," Little said. "This Thursday I'll get to run the high banks with my Youngs Motorsports 02 team and some of my most long-standing partners. David's Electric, Visit Kingsport, and Visone RV will be riding on board for the 200 laps. I have always been so thankful to have their support and really look forward to giving all of them and the team of guys the strong run they all deserve."
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NBC Sports’ 2022 coverage of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES delivered the most-watched INDYCAR season in six years (since 2016) and NBC Sports’ most-watched season on record, an increase of 5% compared to 2021.
The 2022 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, capped off by Will Power winning his second-career series championship, averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 1.30 million viewers across NBC, USA Network, Peacock and NBC Sports digital platforms, marking the most-watched season for the INDYCAR SERIES since 2016 (1.31 million viewers, NBCSN TAD/ABC TV-only) and ranking as the best in NBC Sports history, up 5% vs. last year’s then-record viewership (1.24 million viewers, NBC/NBCSN). TAD is based on data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics.
Half of the season’s 16 races on television delivered a TAD of more than 1 million viewers, the highest mark since 2008. The inaugural race of 2022, the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on Feb. 27, stands as the most-watched season-opener in 11 years with a TAD of 1.44 million viewers (St. Pete, 2011, 1.84 million, ABC) and the most-watched non-Indianapolis 500 INDYCAR race in 11 years.
Additionally, the Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 10 delivered the most-watched edition of the race in NBC Sports history (since 2009) with a TAD of 1.08 million viewers.
Bolstered by streaming on Peacock, including the platform’s exclusive presentation of the Honda Indy Toronto on July 17, the 2022 season ranked as the most-streamed INDYCAR season on record with an Average Minute Audience (AMA) of 50,400 viewers, up 470% vs. 2021. The 106th Running of the Indianapolis 500 was the most-streamed INDYCAR race ever with an AMA of 218,800 viewers. The AMA also includes streaming on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app via authentication.
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Season Finale: Teenager Late Model sensation Leland Honeyman Jr. will take the checkered flag in his freshman year at Young’s Motorsports competing in the 2022 ARCA Menards Series East season with Thursday night’s Bush’s Beans 200 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.
Honeyman will run the No. 02 LH Waterfront Construction Chevrolet for the entire seven-race series continuing with Thursday night’s combination event with the premier ARCA Menards Series in Thunder Valley.
In addition to ARCA, Honeyman is slated to make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut aboard the No. 20 LH Waterfront Construction Chevrolet Silverado RST immediately following the ARCA finale at the World’s Fastest Half-Mile.
Welcome Back: For the last ARCA Menards Series East race of the season, Leland Honeyman Jr. and Young’s Motorsports welcome back LH Waterfront Construction as the primary marketing partner of the No. 02 Chevrolet SS this week at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Since 1995, LH Waterfront Construction has been building custom homes and performing remodels at the highest level.
Make It A Combo: The seventh ARCA Menards Series East race of the season will be combined with the 18th premier ARCA Menards Series race of the season with the combination of the two series expected to produce one of the most competitive races of the 2022 season.
Previously, the ARCA Menards Series East and the premier ARCA Menards Series connected in Honeyman’s most recent race at The Milwaukee Mile.
Last Time Out: In his sixth ARCA Menards Series start at The Milwaukee Mile, Honeyman continued to showcase his impressive rookie skills.
After qualifying his No. 02 Spiroflow | LH Waterfront Construction Chevrolet ninth, Honeyman was challenged with the handling of his racecar throughout the race but fought back to collect a respectable 11th-place finish in the Sprecher 150.
Super Season: In six ARCA Menards Series East starts this season, Honeyman has earned three top-five and five top-10 finishes, including a pole at Five Flags (Fla.) Speedway and a career-best second in the same event. He has controlled the field for 27 laps thus far in 2022.
Overall, he holds an average start of 5.3 and an average finish of 6.0 entering Thursday night's combination race between the premier ARCA Menards Series and the ARCA Menards Series East.
Just The Facts: Honeyman, 17, aligns with the Mooresville, N.C.-based team after a successful 2021 season competing in the Carolina Pro Late Model Series, where he earned championship-runner-up honors and picked up an astounding victory in the annual Hickory (N.C.) Motor Speedway Fall Brawl.
The Phoenix, Ariz. native began honing his racing skills at the tender age of two racing Quads. By four years old, he moved into Trophy Karts and then subsequently collected three series championships in off-road racing Trophy Karts.
After an instrumental tenure in Go Karts, he moved into Bandolero competition in 2015 and two years later was crowned a Bandolero National Champion. From there, he moved into Limited Late Models before graduating to the Carolina Pro Late Model Series division in 2021.
To The Point(s): Entering Bristol, Honeyman Jr. sits third in the championship standings.
47 points separate him from first in the championship standings currently held by Sammy Smith with one race remaining this season. Just 14 points separate Honeyman Jr. from second in the championship standings occupied by Taylor Gray.
Young’s Motorsports’ No. 02 team also secures third in the ARCA Menards Series East owner standings.
Calling The Shots: Guiding Honeyman as crew chief of the No. 02 LH Waterfront Construction Chevrolet is veteran crew chief Andrew Abbott.
Abbott returns to the Young’s Motorsports team after serving as crew chief in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Sam Hunt Racing.
With 194 combined starts as crew chief in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and Xfinity Series, Abbott has five top-five and 18 top-10 finishes, including a top-five finish most recently at Richmond (Va.) Raceway with John Hunter Nemechek in September 2021.
Bristol will officially mark Abbott’s seventh career race under the ARCA banner.
Young’s Motorsports ARCA Program: A staple in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Mooresville, N.C.-based Young’s Motorsports will begin its second season of ARCA competition in 2022.
Last year, the organization expanded its platform to include the NASCAR-owned ARCA Menards Series.
Throughout the premier ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East seasons, Young’s Motorsports participated in 17 races overall with a best finish of second at Five Flags (Fla.) Speedway with rookie driver Leland Honeyman Jr. after earning the General Tire pole award.
Honeyman also delivered the team a top-five effort in the 2022 ARCA East season-opener at New Smyrna (Fla.) Speedway in February 2022.
The team also earned a top-10 in their ARCA East debut at Dover (Del.) International Speedway with driver Connor Mosack in 2021.
In all, Young’s Motorsports has delivered one pole, three top-five, six top-10s, eight top-15s and 16 top-20 finishes.
Follow on Social Media: For more on Leland Honeyman Jr., please visit LelandHoneymanRacing.com, like him on Facebook (Leland Honeyman Racing) and follow on Instagram (@lelandhoneymanjr) and Twitter (@lelandhoneyman3).
For more on Young’s Motorsports, please visit YoungsMotorsports.com, like them on Facebook (Young’s Motorsports) and follow on Instagram (youngsmotorsports) and Twitter (@youngsmtrsports).
Thoughts About Bristol Motor Speedway This Week: “I am really excited to get back into the seat knowing that I am going to be racing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series along with the ARCA Menards Series on the same night.
“Bristol is such an amazing track. I have been preparing myself by spending a lot of time on the simulator this week and I hope that will pay off for both races on Thursday night.”
Your Goals for Bristol Motor Speedway Debut?: “I am definitely ready to close off the season with a win knowing it will be my last ARCA Menards Series East race for this season. It’s not going to be easy but it’s Bristol and crazy things can happen.
“I’d love to take a good run from the ARCA race and apply it towards a successful top-20 finish in the Truck Series.”
Thoughts on the 2022 Season: “I cannot believe the year will be complete on Thursday night. Our year has been going well and I’m looking forward to making the best of Thursday night and ending my rookie season on a high note.”
“Being able to grab a second-place finish in my debut season was a good way to start and I hope to be able to contend for a win this week and if not this year, for sure in 2023.
“I am very thankful for everything that Tyler (Young) and my No. 02 team have done for me this year!”
Race Information:
The Bush’s Beans 200 (200 laps | 106.6 miles) is the seventh of seven races on the 2022 ARCA Menards Series East schedule. Practice begins on Thursday, September 15, 2022, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. A timed General Tire pole session kicks off at 3:30 p.m. The event will be televised live on FOX Sports 1 (FS1) beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET. ARCARacing.com will also stream live timing and scoring throughout the entire race day festivities. All times are local (ET).
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This Saturday night, September 17th, Perris Auto Speedway will play host to the 14th annual Glen Howard Memorial. The exciting show will feature the Amsoil USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, IMCA Modifieds, Lucas Oil POWRi Southwest Lightning Sprints, and The PAS Senior and Young Gun Sprints. Spectator gates for the open wheel extravaganza will open at 5:00 PM and the first race will be at 7:00.
Saturday’s race honors the late Glen Howard, who was a jack of all trades when it came to racing. He was a driver, car owner, innovator, official, and racing entrepreneur. He spent his entire adult life around the sport and helped hundreds of drivers along the way. Whether it meant advising on setups, driving tips, or letting someone have credit for parts needed to get a car on the track, Howard never turned anyone down. His love for the sport and seeing it survive meant the world to him. Thus, Saturday’s race holds a special meaning for every competitor on the track.
“We started the Glen Howard Memorial in 2008 after Glen passed away,” promoter Don Kazarian said. “At that time, virtually every driver in the series knew Glen. Either as an official, car owner, or through his business. So, right out of the bag, this race was a big deal and everybody really wanted to win it. These days, many of the drivers from the first few editions of the race are no longer racing. Except for a handful of drivers who were racing back then, a majority of the field these days may not have known Glen. However, a crew member or a parent may have been racing or been around him. They have passed on the importance of the race to these younger drivers. Thus, it remains one of the most significant and coveted races on our schedule.”
Staged every year at The PAS, eight different drivers have won the sought-after race. Three of the eight – Damion Gardner, Austin Williams, and Charles Davis Jr. – will be in action on Saturday. Gardner, the nine-time USAC/CRA champion from Concord, California, leads the way with four Glen Howard Memorial wins. Williams, from Corona, has two, and Buckeye, Arizona’s Charles Davis Jr. has one win. Davis’s victory came last year and he warmed up for this week’s race by winning the last sprint car race at The PAS on August 20th. Starting ninth in the 30-lap main event on that night, Davis, driving his brilliant yellow #47, methodically worked his way to the front. In storybook fashion, he blew past Gardner going down the back straightaway on the last lap sending the crowd into a frenzy.
“Many of the people in attendance said it was the greatest race in our 26-year history,” Kazarian stated. “It would be hard to argue that point. Charles Davis junior smoked some of the best drivers west of the Mississippi including the nine-time series champion on the last lap. The ovation he got when he climbed out of that car was incredible. On top of everything else, it could not happen to a nicer guy. He is one of the really good guys in the sport. Anybody who is counting him out this Saturday night, better look back at the video from last month. He is always a contender at Perris Auto Speedway.
Glen Howard Memorial Winners
2008 Tony Jones
2009 Bryan Clauson
2010 Cory Kruseman
2011 Nic Faas
2012 Mike Spencer
2013 Nic Faas
2014 Damion Gardner
2015 Damion Gardner
2016 Austin Williams
2017 Damion Gardner
2018 Damion Gardner
2019 Austin Williams
2020 Canceled
2021 Charles Davis Jr.
While the USAC/CRA Sprint Cars will headline Saturday’s show, there will also be four other classes in action. The Modifieds will be on hand for their final IMCA points race of 2022. Randy Thornell, who was The PAS Modified champion 15-years-ago, has a commanding 21-point lead over Guatay’s Andy Papp.
For the first time since 2018, lightning sprints will be racing at The PAS. The former home track of the California Lightning Sprint Car Series, Saturday will be the first-ever appearance of the Lucas Oil POWRi Southwest Lightning Sprint Series on the famous half-mile clay oval. Lightnings were a regular part of the PAS schedule from the first year the track opened in 1996 through 2018. Drivers who graduated from the lightning sprints included five-time USAC/CRA champion Mike Spencer, “Dynamite” David Cardey, and USAC National star Darren Hagen.
The PAS Senior and Young Gun Sprint Cars will round out Saturday’s show with heats and main events. Seligman, Arizona’s Richard McCormick is the current point leader in the Senior Sprints, and recent high school graduate Stevie Rogers of Apple Valley leads the way in the Young Guns.
Adult tickets for Saturday’s show are $30.00. Seniors 65 and over get in for $25.00. For kids 6 to 12, it is just $5.00. Children 5 and under are admitted free. There will be plenty of tickets available for everyone at the ticket window on Saturday, this event will not sell out. For those who wish to purchase advance tickets, they are available 24 hours a day online at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/pas/7/event/1256365 or by calling 1-800-595-4849. Perris Auto Speedway is located on the Lake Perris Fairgrounds at 18700 Lake Perris Drive in the city of Paris (91767). The fairgrounds charges $10 for parking
Fans can stay up to date on track and driver news on The PAS social media efforts at the links below.
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Perris Auto Speedway wants to thank the following corporate partners. Ahern Equipment Rentals, Anderson Chevrolet, Battery Systems, Chris’ Hauling, City of Perris, Communication Innovations, Daytona Boat & RV Storage, Ed Moore Bullet Proof Driveshaft, Flowdynamics, HD Industries, Heimark/Anheuser Busch, Hoosier Tires, Inland Rigging, Living Water’s Hospice, LKQ Pick Your Part, Luke’s Transmission, Moose Racing, Pepsi-Cola, Performance Online, Pole Position Raceway, PrintItNow.com, Rainbow Bolt & Supply, Rene’s Bar & Grill, Rugged Radios, Shaver Specialties, Square H, Sunoco Race Fuels, Trench Shoring, Upland Rock, Varner Construction and Vista Paint.
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Perris Auto Speedway 2022 Schedule
September 10th PASSCAR SERIES - SUPER STOCKS, STREET STOCKS/IMCA STOCK CARS, AMERICAN FACTORY STOCKS AND IMCA SPORT COMPACTS. (Note; No IMCA Points will be awarded for this event due to the IMCA Super Nationals running on this weekend. PASSCAR points will be awarded for this event).
September 17th "GLENN HOWARD CLASSIC" AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS, PAS SENIOR/YOUNG GUNS SPRINT CARS, IMCA MODIFIEDS, Lucas Oil POWRi SOUTHWEST LIGHTNING SPRINT CARS, AND WRA VINTAGE CARS ON DISPLAY. PLUS “POWER OF PURPLE NIGHT” BENEFITING THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY RELAY FOR LIFE RIVERSIDE COUNTY EAST
September 24th PASSCAR SERIES - SUPER STOCKS, STREET STOCKS/IMCA STOCK CARS, AMERICAN FACTORY STOCKS AND IMCA SPORT COMPACTS
October 1st AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS, PAS SENIOR/YOUNG GUNS SPRINT CARS AND IMCA MODIFIEDS
October 15th LKQ Pick Your Part Presents NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION VIII DEMO CROSS, FIGURE 8'S, TRAILER FIGURE 8'S, MINI STOCKS AND DOUBLE DECKERS
October 22nd PASSCAR “CHAMPION’S NIGHT” SUPER STOCKS, STREET STOCKS/IMCA STOCK CARS, AMERICAN FACTORY STOCKS, PAS MODIFIEDS AND PAS SPORT COMPACTS
November 2nd 26TH ANNUAL HEIMARK/ANHEUSER BUSCH BUDWEISER OVAL NATIONALS - Practice Night
November 3rd 26TH ANNUAL HEIMARK/ANHEUSER BUSCH BUDWEISER OVAL NATIONALS - AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL AND AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS
November 4th 26TH Annual HEIMARK/ANHEUSER BUSCH BUDWEISER Oval NATIONALS - AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL AND AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS
November 5th 26TH Annual HEIMARK/ANHEUSER BUSCH BUDWEISEROVAL NATIONALS - AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL AND AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS
November 12th LKQ Pick Your Part Presents NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION IX DEMO CROSS, FIGURE 8'S, TRAILER FIGURE 8'S, MINI STOCKS AND DOUBLE DECKERS
THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
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DNA leads to an arrest in 2014 killing of Texas family
HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say newly tested DNA evidence helped them make an arrest in the killings more than eight years ago of a family, including two boys, who were shot in their suburban Houston home.
Feng Lu, 58, who had long been considered a suspect in the case, was arrested on Sunday by police in San Francisco after his arrival from China, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
Lu has been charged with capital murder in the deaths of Maoye Sun and his wife Mei Xie and the couple’s two sons, 7-year-old Titus and 9-year-old Timothy, the sheriff said in a tweet on Tuesday.
Lu was being held Wednesday at a jail in San Mateo County, California, pending extradition to Texas. Court records did not list an attorney for Lu who could speak on his behalf.
The bodies of all four family members were found on Jan. 30, 2014, in their home in the Houston suburb of Cypress. All had been shot in the head. Investigators said Sun was last seen alive leaving work on Jan. 24.
Lu was linked to the killings after new forensic testing done in January on samples that previously were not able to be identified showed that Lu’s DNA was found on a purse that belonged to Xie, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The DNA testing contradicted statements Lu had made previously to investigators in which he had said he did not know Xie or her children and didn’t know where the family lived, according to the affidavit.
Authorities have not disclosed a motive for the killings, but according to the affidavit, Lu had unsuccessfully tried to get Sun’s help with a promotion at work. Both had worked at Cameron International, which provides products and services to oil and gas companies.
Lu “stated he believed that (Sun) made derogatory comments about him to fellow co-workers ... which may have been the reason he did not get the promotion,” according to the affidavit.
Investigators say Lu had bought a handgun a week before the killings and then returned it five days after the killings without the weapon’s barrel. Authorities allege Lu gave inconsistent stories about what happened to the gun’s barrel. Investigators also allege that bullets Lu had bought with the gun had likely been manufactured on the same machine as the bullet that killed one of the boys, Titus.
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There will be a new face behind the wheel of the No. 9 Chevrolet in 2023. JR Motorsports announced today the signing of 25-year-old Brandon Jones to the organization where he’ll compete full time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series next season.
Jones is five-time winner and eight-year veteran in the series who has qualified for the NXS Playoffs in six of the last seven seasons. In addition to his five wins - including a popular victory earlier this year at Martinsville Speedway – Jones claims 35 top-five and 97 top-10 finishes, and a best points effort of sixth in 2020.
“Brandon’s been a tough competitor over the years, and he’s a talented addition to JR Motorsports,” said Kelley Earnhardt Miller, JRM co-owner and general manager. “He’s a series veteran that brings a lot of experience, and we’re going to see big things from Brandon and the 9 team in 2023.”
In 2022, Jones owns one win, five top-five and nine top-10 finishes, and sits seventh in the championship points battle with one race remaining before the onset of the playoffs. He also won three out of four ARCA Menards® Series starts he’s made in 2022.
“To watch how competitive JRM has been over the years is really impressive,” Jones said. “They’re a threat to win every week, and one of the premier teams in our series. I’m so thankful to Dale (Earnhardt Jr.), Kelley and Mr. Hendrick for allowing me to be part of it.
“Reuniting with Chevrolet again is awesome, too. They were a big part of my career early on, and I’m looking forward to building on those relationships and driving a Camaro in 2023.”
Jones has found Victory Lane at every level of NASCAR national series competition in which he’s raced. The Atlanta native lays claim to eight ARCA wins, a K&N East-West Challenge victory and a Truck Series triumph in 2020.
JRM’s No. 9 team has won three championships (2014, 2017-18) and tallied 20 of the company’s 69 overall victories since 2014.
Sponsorship and crew chief duties for Jones and the No. 9 team will be announced at a later date.
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Palakkad: The Forest Department of Kerala is taking a tough stance against its employees who make it difficult to get justice for Madhu, the tribal youth who was lynched at Attappadi in Palakkad district four years ago.
The department has so far removed four of its workers from the nominal muster roll for turning hostile witnesses during the trial in the case, which is in progress at a special court in Mannarkad. The four witnesses were employed as forest watchers on daily wages.
Three of them – Kali, Anilkumar and Razaq – were sacked recently while the fourth one – Sunilkumar – lost his job on Wednesday.
Action was taken against all four on the same day they turned hostile before the SC/ST(POA) Special Court.
While Kali, Anilkumar and Razaq were sacked by Attappadi range officer Sumesh C, the action against Sunilkumar was taken by the officer in charge of the Silent Valley division. The officers have cited failure to discharge assigned duties as the reason for removing them from their jobs.
Since the daily wage staffers are appointed by the officers concerned as per requirement, they can be removed based on the discretion of the authorities. The nominal muster roll watchers are not considered as government employees, hence service rules are not applicable for their removal.
Kali, Anilkumar and Razaq were on duty at Pottikkal Teak Plantation inside the Attappadi forests when Madhu was picked by a group of local people from a spot nearby.
“Kali, Anilkumar and Razaq are also witnesses in another case registered by the Forest Department against 12 accused on charges of trespassing into the forest area (to pick up Madhu). During the investigation into the case, they had deposed before us that they saw the accused bringing Madhu from inside the forest. According to their statements, they had seen Hayarunnisa, a woman employed to cook food for the workers at the plantation, give water to Madhu. However, during the trial, they retracted their statements,” range officer Sumesh told Onmanorama. Sumesh, along with some of his colleagues in the forest department, is also a witness in the case.
Sunilkumar was on duty near the checkpost at Bhavanipuzha when the incident occurred. He had told the police investigation team that he had seen the accused parading Madhu. However, on Wednesday, he told the trial court that he could not recognise those in the video played as evidence.
Sunilkumar himself is seen in the video, according to the prosecution. The court ordered an eye test of Sunilkumar while declaring him hostile. It turned out that his eyesight is perfect and it remains to be seen how the medical report would influence the trial.
The court’s order as well as the government’s action are seen as a step to prevent the remaining witnesses from turning hostile. Along with Sunilkumar, another witness, Deepu, also turned hostile on Wednesday. So far, 16 prosecution witnesses have turned hostile, leaving the fate of the case that rocked the state uncertain.
Gokul, another daily-wage forest watcher, meanwhile has stood by his statement in the court in favour of the prosecution.
The superintendent of police (SP), Palakkad, had written a letter to the district forest officer seeking action against the employees who had retracted their statement before the court. The forest department, however, initiated the action before the police instruction, sources said.
The trial resumed weeks after the Kerala High Court reversed the special court’s order cancelling the bail of 12 accused found to have tried to influence the witnesses. There are 16 accused in the case.
The special court at Mannarkkad had cancelled the bail of 12 accused on August 20, pointing out that while granting bail to the accused, the high court had instructed them not to try to influence the witnesses in any manner.
The high court stayed the Mannarkad court’s order on August 24 after the accused challenged the lower court’s directive.
Madhu - a tribal youth from Chindakki hamlet near Mukkali, Attappadi - was killed by a group of locals alleging regular theft on February 22, 2018. However, the trial could not begin for four years for various reasons, including the refusal of special prosecutors to take up the case.
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No. 19 Menards/Jeld-Wen Toyota GR Supra News and Notes:
- JONES AT BRISTOL: Brandon Jones has 12 NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) starts at Bristol Motor Speedway (BMS). Jones has two top-five finishes, five top-10 finishes, 136 laps led, an average start of 9.8, and a 12.4 average finish at the short track. In the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS), Jones has five starts with one top-five finish and three top-10 finishes. He also has two starts at BMS in the K&N Pro Series East with one top-five and two top-10 finishes.
- FEATURED ON THE HOOD: The No. 19 Menards Toyota GR Supra will carry the Jeld-Wen logo on the hood this weekend at Bristol. For more information, visit https://www.menards.com/.
- KANSAS XFINITY SERIES RECAP: Jones finished fourth in the rain-shortened NXS race at Kansas Speedway. Jones earned the pole starting position and led the field to the green but the No. 19 Menards/Klëarvūe Cabinets Toyota GR Supra started to tighten up over the long run. The rains came after the second stage, ending the race shy of the scheduled distance. Jones finished fourth, his fifth top-five finish of the 2022 season.
- 2022 ARCA MENARDS SERIES: Jones will also race in the ARCA Menards Series (AMS) Bush’s Beans 200 on Thursday night at BMS in the No. 81 Menards/Homewerks Toyota Camry. Jones has competed in four AMS races so far in 2022 winning three of the four races - Charlotte, Iowa, and Watkins Glen. He has an average start of 3.5 and an average finish of 1.5. In those four races, he has led 65 laps and has one pole.
- JGR AT BRISTOL: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) has 109 NXS starts at BMS with 13 of those starts ending in Victory Lane. The last JGR NXS driver to win at Bristol was Christopher Bell in the 2019 spring race. The team has combined for 36 top-fives, 55 top-10’s, 10 pole awards, and 3,340 laps led.
- FOLLOW ALONG: Follow along for updates and a behind-the-scenes look at Jones 2022 NXS Season.
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- RACE INFO: The NXS Food City 300 will start at 7:30 PM ET on Friday, September 16. The race will be broadcasted on USA, PRN Radio, SiriusXM Radio, and available to stream on the NBC Sports app. The AMS Bush’s Beans 200 will start at 6:30 PM ET on Thursday, September 15. The race will be broadcasted on Fox Sports 1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM Radio, and available to stream on the FOX Sports app.
From the Cockpit:
Brandon Jones: “It’s kind of surprising how much running ARCA for a few races this season has helped me in the Xfinity car. It gives me a big advantage to get on track before getting in the Xfinity car. Bristol has changed a lot from the first time I ran there to now and I love night racing so I’m excited for the race on Friday. The guys have been working hard in the shop on both the ARCA and Xfinity cars so hopefully we can get to Victory Lane in the No. 81 Menards/Homewerks Toyota Camry on Thursday night and again on Friday in the No. 19 Menards/Jeld-Wen Toyota GR Supra.”
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CLEVELAND, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Illuminating Company, a FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) subsidiary, has completed a complex $3 million tree-trimming project along nearly 100 power lines in the City of Cleveland to help enhance electric service reliability for more than 25,000 customers during the upcoming winter storm season.
Among the tree-trimming work recently completed is a $1.2 million project to clear overgrown trees and debris along power lines in the Glenville neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. The vegetation in this area has historically been one of the hardest areas to maintain across FirstEnergy's entire six-state service area because nearly all the company's power lines and electrical equipment run through the backyards of residents' homes and businesses, making it difficult to access with a truck and tree-trimming equipment. The project required a great deal of coordination between FirstEnergy's utility operations and the local community.
This work builds on The Illuminating Company's $16.5 million investment in tree trimming efforts across its entire service area this year. On the ground, contractors have trimmed trees along more than 1,500 miles of power lines across the company's service area since the beginning of the year. The program remains on track to complete an additional 500 miles of tree-trimming work by the end of the year. Similar work is performed annually by FirstEnergy transmission companies along high-voltage power lines in the company's service territory.
"Maintaining vegetation along power lines is the first line of defense in preventing tree-related power outages during severe weather and minimizing the impact if they do occur," said Virginia Bowman, manager of forestry operations for FirstEnergy's Cleveland region. "This work helps maximize the benefits of the vast upgrades we've made throughout our northeast Ohio service area."
Tree trimming is completed on a four-year cycle within FirstEnergy's service area. The work includes inspecting vegetation near power lines to ensure trees are pruned to preserve the health of the tree while also maintaining safe clearances around the lines and equipment. Trees that present a danger or are diseased may be removed to prevent them from creating a safety hazard or service disruption.
Beyond the vegetation work recently completed in the City of Cleveland, proactive equipment inspections have been completed along nearly 100 power lines serving about 30,000 local residents and businesses. In addition to inspecting and maintaining equipment in the area, The Illuminating Company has installed new automated equipment and technology along local power lines and within substations to help reduce many service disruptions to just a momentary outage.
The Illuminating Company serves 755,000 customers across Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake and Lorain counties. Connect with The Illuminating Company at www.illuminatingcompany.com, on Twitter @IlluminatingCo and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/IlluminatingCo.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy online at www.firstenergycorp.com. Follow FirstEnergy on Twitter: @FirstEnergyCorp.
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Final Drill is the last evaluation of a platoon's execution of close order drill.
Drill tests drill instructors on their ability to give drill commands and tests recruits on their ability to execute the movements properly. It instills instant obedience to orders and unit cohesion.
(U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Colin Harper)
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to help my wife to be able to use her portable oxygen tank easier," said an inventor from La Mirada, Calif., "so I invented the E-Z FLOW CARRIER."
The invention offers greater convenience for individuals on supplemental oxygen, making it easy to have a portable oxygen tank available wherever it is needed. The carrier is more stable and easier to maneuver than standard oxygen tank caddies as well as more comfortable to use by people of different heights. It's efficiency, practicality, and enhanced safety will makes life easier for anyone who uses portable oxygen tanks. The inventor has created a prototype.
The original design was submitted to the Riverside sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-RSD-181, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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The 2022 Military Health System Research Symposium opened with a morning plenary at the Gaylord Hotel in Kissimmee, FL on Monday, September 12, 2022. The session opened with the color guard team courtesy of the Navy Reserves Center Orlando.
MHSRS 2022 provides a collaborative setting for the exchange of information between military providers with deployment experience, research and academic scientists, international partners, and industry on research and related health care initiatives falling under the topic areas of Combat Casualty Care, Operational Medicine, Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine, Medical Simulation and Information Sciences, and Infectious Diseases.
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TORONTO and MONTREAL, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - A brighter future for commercial occupiers is here, as Landmark Advisory Services and ENCOR Advisors have announced their new strategic partnership. Leveraging their proven client-centered service model, over 80 years' of combined experience and a larger platform with national coverage, the collaboration fills an important void in the market for Canadian businesses.
Rob Renaud, ENCOR President said, "With our shared values of prioritizing client services while striving for constant innovation, coupled with our dedicated team of diverse real estate experts, this meaningful partnership will propel our combined efforts as industry changemakers."
Jacob Cowles, Landmark Managing Partner, added, "We have already received significant enthusiastic feedback, from current clients to other like-minded brokerages who see real value in partnering with us. Our collective history and broader suite of services will reinforce our clients' best interests, improve the corporate leasing landscape for all stakeholders, and leverage our unique, integrated platform to a wider base."
The tactical union will underpin Landmark and ENCOR's services in hundreds of markets Canada-wide and internationally, fortifying their expertise in market intelligence, transaction management, legal services, account management, lease administration and audits, facility management, and project management. It will launch from their current offices in Toronto, Calgary, and Montreal.
Championing the occupier is critical in Canada's rapidly-shifting commercial real estate market. Protecting client interests is paramount to both Landmark and ENCOR, especially at a time when there is so much pressure on workplace strategies and industrial supply chains. With accredited processes, expertise, technology and resources, this platform aims to drive value for occupiers through the reduction of occupancy costs and risk.
The promises to be a catalyst for positive change in the commercial real estate landscape, in the absence of dedicated, national tenant representation firms. As independent firms are increasingly absorbed by larger international players, the nimble Landmark/ENCOR model presents a rich opportunity to partner with an accountable and authentic service that provides unparalleled expertise to occupiers exclusively.
As an ally to other occupier-focused brokerages, the Landmark/ENCOR partnership paves the way for other firms to maintain their independence while using their platform to build and service more multi-market clients. Both firms are excited by the opportunity to scale the client partnership model that is coveted by major space occupiers whose core business is not real estate.
Having the right expertise at the table is vital. This strategic partnership provides the flexibility to attract the best and brightest advisors to its platform, while spearheading much-needed change in today's commercial real estate market. Tenants will receive a transparent and sophisticated suite of services that puts their needs first.
ENCOR Advisors™, backed by 50 years of commercial real estate legacy, is the evolution of a top-performing team under a new generation of leadership with a passion for delivering even better value for their clients. Occupier-focused, employee-owned, and results-driven, ENCOR goes the extra mile for clients.
Landmark Advisory Services Inc. is a commercial real estate advisory services firm whose purpose is to be an industry disruptor and driver of change using a relationship-driven model in a transactional structured industry. This national firm's foundation is built on creating dedicated partnerships with clients. Partner smarter.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical device company Theragen announced today that the Company's in-network participation agreements with managed care organizations and governmental payors now cover over 150 million U.S. residents for its ActaStim-S spine fusion bone growth stimulator and Kneehab XP quadriceps therapy system.
On the heels of its recent FDA approval of ActaStim-S, Theragen accelerated its growth in participating provider contracts. Since April, the Company has entered into new agreements that cover almost 30 million U.S. residents, including agreements with Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Blue Cross Blue Shield Texas, Blue Shield of California, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield, and several Amerigroup plans.
"Theragen's practical, home-based therapeutic devices feature clinically proven technology and empower patients to take an active role in their day-to-day recovery," says Vice President of Reimbursement and Strategic Development, Thomas Burke. "Our rapid expansion of in-network contracting is increasing patient access to these technologies and lowering barriers to affordable care."
Burke continues: "In keeping with Theragen's core values, patients are at the heart of everything we do. It's why we focus on easy-to-use product designs that follow value-based care guidelines by delivering therapies at home, in the lowest-cost setting."
Theragen COO and VP of R&D, Richard Pearce, adds: "Regarding ease-of-use for home therapies, we learned a great deal from the success of our flagship Kneehab XP System. Our newest device, ActaStim-S, is a remarkably discreet and unobtrusive wearable. We continue to receive positive feedback from patients due to its overall wearability and supportive ActaStim-Sync companion app. We are thrilled that more patients will now have access to this suite of technologies."
Theragen, Inc. is a leader in the development and manufacture of non-invasive, electrical stimulation DME products that deliver therapeutic energy for healing and empower patients to play an active role in their recovery. We're committed to continuous innovation and expanding our reach to help improve outcomes for more patients. To learn more, please visit theragen.com.
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Following increasing theft of homes and real estate, breakthrough blockchain protection for towns and homeowners is finally available
SARASOTA, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Town clerks and leaders across the country are working hard to ensure their citizens and homeowners are protected against a wave of homeowner title theft.
Protecting homes from title theft: new blockchain solution available to towns and homeowners
"It is easy to get a copy of any homeowner deed. It took less than 5 minutes to get my deed, and I was never even asked for ID" said Michael Danforth, a homeowner in Norwalk, CT.
Thieves across the country are taking this easily accessed information and using it to remortgage and steal properties, along with millions of dollars, from homeowners in small towns to big cities. It is happening with primary and vacation homes, raw land and more.
Town officials and homeowners alike are frustrated. Existing solutions can alert to a problem, but they cannot stop the thefts or prevent an altered deed from being re-recorded.
TruDoss (www.trudoss.com) is on a mission to help towns and homeowners protect their real estate through patented use of blockchain technology with distributed ledgers which keeps altered deeds from ever being recorded.
Paul Hartzell, co-founder of TruDoss, noted "recent stories in Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida tell us about people who were shocked to discover they no longer owned real estate they thought was theirs. This is wrong, and we have a solution that is available to towns right now."
Hartzell went on to say "TruDoss can stop theft before it happens by using our patented blockchain technology which uses a cryptographic hash, to identify the digital content immutably, making it impossible to submit an altered document without immediate detection before recording. This is how TruDoss will stop the thieves cold."
The TruDoss architecture allows integration with all types of document and data management platforms and provides this protection at reasonable cost. The service can be purchased by an annual license with no upfront costs and include 100% text search, global security certifications and a complete administrative console allowing highly secure citizen access, while not breaking the annual town budget.
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ASHFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The victim of Saturday’s deadly crash was identified by the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.
The victim has been identified as 53-year-old Rebecca A. Whitehead, originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Saturday evening, Whitehead had been involved in a two-car collision at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Route 116 in Ashfield at about 5:30 p.m. She died from her injuries in the accident.
The other vehicle occupant was identified as a 22-year-old man from East Longmeadow. He was brought to Baystate Franklin Medical Center but is expected to be okay.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vyopta, a leader in digital collaboration user experience management, today announced it has added support for Oracle Enterprise Communications Products. This includes new integrations with Oracle Acme Packet (AP) Platforms and Oracle Enterprise Operations Monitor. Oracle AP Platforms are one of the leading Microsoft-certified Session Boarder Controller (SBC) solutions.
Vyopta provides organizations using both Microsoft Teams Direct Routing and Oracle SBCs with complete visibility into the end-to-end call experience from origination to the PSTN. This enables companies to better monitor SIP trunk status and traffic, assuring the quality of voice/PSTN calls. Vyopta also provides detailed call records to help organizations diagnose and identify performance issues.
As remote and hybrid work have taken off, many organizations are finding it difficult to monitor and manage the edge of their enterprise UC networks. According to Microsoft, direct routing calling minutes grew eight times in 2020 alone and more than four times as many companies now use the service.
Oracle provides multi-tenancy support, security, and reliability through its Microsoft Teams direct routing solution. It also supports Operator Connect for companies in need of a managed services-style approach to Microsoft Teams voice.
"By supporting Oracle SBCs, we empower customers to better troubleshoot call issues for Microsoft Teams direct routing and broader voice environments," said Jonathan Sass, Vice President of Product for Vyopta. "We're helping organizations better manage the quality, reliability, and performance across their entire environment."
Vyopta, a leader in digital collaboration user experience management, has helped 40 million people collaborate better. Its Technology Insights and Space Insights applications have helped identify and address over 9 million issues. Vyopta helps organizations deliver the best UC user experience and optimize their UC and real estate investments. Hundreds of organizations worldwide spanning 20+ industries use Vyopta to monitor 6 million endpoints and over 20 billion meeting minutes a year.
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BOSTON (SHNS) – Three years after the Student Opportunity Act was signed to address educational inequity, pledging $1.5 billion to the public education system by 2027, low-income and minority students are falling even farther behind their peers in the wake of pandemic-era school closures and hybrid learning, according to a report released Wednesday.
The Massachusetts Education Equity Partnership, a coalition of education advocacy organizations, is making recommendations for lawmakers to take advantage of a surplus of federal and state funds to invest in initiatives from early education through post-secondary education statewide.
“Even before COVID-19, the same metrics that gave us our high overall rankings showed that the education Black and Latinx students, and students from low-income families received in Massachusetts was on par with that of the average student in the nation’s lowest performing states. Our outcomes for English learners and students with disabilities were even more concerning,” the report says.
The gap that existed before the pandemic has widened, advocates said. The percentage of Black and Latinx third graders reading on grade level dropped from 38 percent to 32 percent and 28 percent, respectively, while white students stayed steady at around 61 percent, the report found.
MEEP hopes to capitalize on pandemic recovery money – $3.7 billion of which has been earmarked for education since 2020 – as well as funds coming in from the Student Opportunity Act.
Recommendations include investing in early education programs that operate outside of the traditional workday, implementing statewide pay scales for early childhood educators to curb fast turnover in the field, funding high-retention residency programs for educators of color, and increasing the amount and accessibility of need-based state scholarship funding, including the MassGrant and MassGrant Plus.
“We are in a moment right now of immense opportunity with substantial financial and community resources on the table to really do things differently,” Natasha Ushomirsky, state director for Massachusetts at The Education Trust, said during a MEEP panel Wednesday. “What we need is the will and the leadership to really take advantage of this moment.”
At the early education level, MEEP recommends state leaders implement statewide quality standards and use financial incentives to expand access to hard-to-find care, including linguistically diverse programs and programs that operate outside of the traditional workday.
Wednesday’s report, titled “There Is No Excellence without Equity,” said that currently, there are 354,000 children aged 0 to 5 in Massachusetts, yet the early education and care system only has the capacity for 220,000, and costs of childcare for this age group in Massachusetts are among the highest in the country.
Advocates also recommend implementing a statewide payscale for early childhood educators, who are often paid less than K-12 public school teachers.
Ushomirsky also emphasized that the state should aim to have a workforce, both in early education and K-12 schools, that is “representative of the children and families that those educators serve.”
The MEEP report recommends state leaders invest in “high-retention residency and community pipeline programs with a demonstrated track record of success for educators of color” in K-12 public schools.
Co-founder and executive director of The Teacher’s Lounge, a nonprofit that aims to recruit and retain educators of color in Greater Boston and throughout the state, Devin Morris said it is important for students of color to have shared lived experiences with the educators in their classrooms.
He recited a quote popularized by South African disability advocate James I. Charlton, “Nothing about us, without us, is for us.”
The coalition is also advocating for state standards that “elevate the history, achievements, and key writings of communities of color, and combat racial and cultural biases.”
Ushomirsky referenced the “mirrors and windows” educational philosophy, an idea that students learn best when they see their own identities in the curriculum and classroom, as well as when they have opportunities to learn about others’ experiences.
“In Massachusetts we have a system that oftentimes is, for our students of color, primarily windows, glimpses of others experiences,” she said. “Our white students primarily see mirrors – just reflections of themselves. We have to make sure we have to change that.”
When it comes to postsecondary education, MEEP is urging state leaders to focus on expanding access to and affordability of college. The coalition recommends implementing a statewide curriculum for postsecondary planning and career exploration, including required courses for middle and high school students.
It also advocates for the state to increase the amount of need-based state scholarship funding available, and to develop guidelines for public colleges and universities to make sure all enrolled students receive “the support they need to complete their degrees.”
“We’re at a crossroads,” said Amanda Seider, executive director of OneGoal Massachusetts. “We could go back to doing what we did before the pandemic, we could go back into our old ways, and so many of these challenges and disparities will continue to be cemented into our system. Or, we have an opportunity, we can do things differently.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/coalition-says-education-achievement-gap-has-widened/ | 2022-09-14T19:05:14Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/coalition-says-education-achievement-gap-has-widened/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
EATONTOWN, N.J., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With our unwavering support for the Autism community, Bierman Autism Centers (Bierman) opens its third New Jersey facility in Eatontown, New Jersey, this September. Bierman's other New Jersey locations are in Berkeley Heights and West Windsor.
Founded in 2006, Bierman Autism Centers are a place where young kids engage in play to learn foundational skills they can build on, such as self-advocacy and communication. Serving children as young as 18mo to 9yrs of age, Bierman's one-on-one approach allows us to drive progress and measurable outcomes while each child advances on their terms.
Assessments and intake processes are currently taking place as we prepare for the opening. Visit our website, www.biermanautism.com, for more information. Bierman accepts most private insurance plans and is located at 40 Christopher Way, Eatontown, NJ 07724.
Regarded as the gold standard of autism treatment, Bierman's Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy services can help your child improve behaviors, learn new skills and reach new goals. We use naturalistic teaching to teach through play. We understand that children are always right – and if they are not learning, we adapt to them. We ensure children progress and develop skills through our proprietary data measurement system. We seek to create lifelong learners and long-term success.
Bierman's Chief Clinical Officer Christina Barosky, BCBA shares, "I am excited that Bierman is opening a third location in New Jersey. We can continue our mission to create progress and possibilities for children diagnosed with autism in New Jersey. I am also excited to be able to grow our team! Many excellent clinicians in the area will help us continue to provide the highest quality of care."
We're proud to have some of the best employees at Bierman. Our Behavior Technicians, Behavior Analysts, and Occupational and Speech Therapists are committed to understanding how your child's mind works and giving them the resources needed to succeed. If you are interested in joining our team, please visit www.biermanautism.com/about-us/careers/.
Bierman Autism Centers is where kids as young as 18 months to 9 years of age engage in play to learn foundational skills they can build on, such as self-advocacy and communication. They recognize that every kid's success is unique, and their one-on-one approach allows them to drive progress, and measurable outcomes, while each child is advancing on their terms. With over 150 graduations, BIERMAN currently has centers and is expanding in: Arizona, Indiana,
Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. For more about Bierman Autism Centers, visit www.biermanautism.com.
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DALLAS, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bottle Rocket announced that the company is one of a select few worldwide that has earned the formal Spark AR Creation Certification from Meta.
This certification further strengthens the company's deep technological expertise and signifies their continued focus on finding new and unique ways to help brands unleash creative and connected experiences in the Metaverse. Bottle Rocket is an experience-focused consultancy that designs and builds mission critical mobile and web applications for the world's most beloved brands.
Earning a Meta Certification at the company level means that Bottle Rocket is recognized as having proven digital expertise through verified certifications. The certification was earned by Bottle Rocket's technology team after completing the formal training for advanced-level creators through Spark AR Studio and represents the company's ability to deliver AR experiences for Facebook, Instagram and the Metaverse.
"This certification is an important tool in our arsenal and will help us create even more immersive and impactful experiences for our clients" says Rajesh Midha, Bottle Rocket's CEO. "This certification proves that we are not only capable, but also recognized by Meta as a leader in our space, as well as a highly-skilled developer of AR solutions for our clients. This certification and skill set is a logical extension of our current capabilities and solutions that we create for our clients."
David Harrison, Bottle Rocket's VP of Technology adds, "When we talk about AR and the Metaverse I think a good term to use is 'Real World Metaverse.' Rather than moving people into a new non-real 'verse,' we are focused on bringing the data to them in the real world, focusing on the Reality part of Augmented Reality." Harrison goes on to mention that this capability "has been in Bottle Rocket's wheelhouse since we were founded. Delivering connected experiences to customers in a manner that isn't intrusive, meets them where they want and allows them to get things done and get on with their day has always been one of Bottle Rocket's greatest strengths."
About Bottle Rocket
Bottle Rocket is a digital experience consultancy that provides strategy, product, design, and technology services that drive business results and exceed customer expectations. Bottle Rocket is part of the Ogilvy Experience worldwide network. To learn more about Bottle Rocket, please visit www.bottlerocketstudios.com or drop us a note at hello@bottlerocketstudios.com.
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Funding will Advance the Development and Pilot of an On Demand Medicine Manufacturing System
ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Demand Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ODP), and Wavelength Pharmaceuticals (Petah Tikva, Israel) - a SEQENS company, are pleased to announce that the US-Israel Binational Industrial Research & Development (BIRD) Foundation is investing $1M to advance on-demand, point-of-care medicine manufacturing. ODP, a technology company transforming the way medicines are produced, and Wavelength Pharmaceuticals, a world-class developer and manufacturer of Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredients (APIs) with more than 30 years of exceptional regulatory track record with all leading international authorities, will leverage their complementary manufacturing capabilities to strengthen a reliable supply of essential medicines and the ingredients required to make them.
The economic crisis, complex global supply chains, the scale of demand, and pricing and reimbursement policies are driving an increasing number of annual drug shortages leading to a serious threat to public health. The combination of ODP and Wavelength's manufacturing platforms will lead to efficiencies in the use of resources and reduced cycle times in producing medicines and their ingredients.
"The causes of these shortages are multidimensional and indicative of a fragile, dysfunctional marketplace. One reason for shortages is that current manufacturing techniques, facilities, and processes lack agility. Generic medicine manufacturers lack incentives to invest in advanced technologies," said Dr. Tyler McQuade, ODP's Chief Innovation Officer. "Any stress placed on the supply chain, such as COVID-19, yields major shocks. For example, 70 percent of 40 critical care drugs have experienced shortages during the pandemic."
"Working with ODP's Pharmacy on Demand platform offers a rapid response capability to meet surges in demand and mitigates supply chain risks associated with procuring starting materials from foreign governments," said Ilan Avni (Wavelength's VP Business Development). The combination of ODP and Wavelength's capabilities ushers in a new manufacturing era to ensure the essential drugs of today and tomorrow will meet present and future health crises."
On Demand Pharmaceuticals™ is an innovative technology company transforming how medicines are made so they can be produced on demand—whenever and wherever medicines are needed. Our breakthrough manufacturing technology platform, the Pharmacy on Demand (PoD)™, can be quickly customized to produce anything from key starting materials to active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), and final formulated drugs. With this technology, we're on a mission to provide an adequate, safe, and reliable supply of medicines to every community across the world.
For additional information, please visit https://ondemandpharma.com
Wavelength is a customer-focused world-class developer and manufacturer of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. Its recent merger with SEQENS has created a scaled leader of global industrial footprint and one of the world's leading providers of pharmaceutical solutions with annual revenues of $1.3 billion, 24 manufacturing sites, 10 R&D centers and 3,200 employees worldwide. The combined company has a broad portfolio of products with more than 200 active pharmaceutical ingredients, 500 drug intermediates, as well as pharmaceutical grade solvents and specialty ingredients. The company offers a wide range of API custom development and manufacturing services across a wide range of advanced technology platforms including enzymatic chemistry, particle design, spray drying, custom polymers, lipids, highly potent and controlled substances. From pre-clinical grams to multi-ton commercial scale with uncompromising consistent quality, regulatory compliance and exceptional customer service.
For more information, please visit: seqens.com
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BALTIMORE – The Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved more than $10 million in grants and loans to reduce water pollution and flooding risks. The board is composed of Gov. Larry Hogan, Treasurer Dereck E. Davis and Comptroller Peter Franchot.
“These are smart investments to advance our Chesapeake Bay goals, protect public health and reduce flooding risks to Maryland communities,” said Maryland Environment Secretary Horacio Tablada.
The following projects were approved Tuesday:
Poolesville Wastewater Treatment Plant Enhanced Nutrient Removal Refinement project – Montgomery County
A $7,065,360 Bay Restoration Fund grant to the Town of Poolesville will help fund the planning, design and construction of denitrification filters and related equipment at the Poolesville Wastewater Treatment Plant. The project will allow the plant to consistently reduce its nitrogen discharge by 62.5 percent and its phosphorus discharge by 85 percent, significantly reducing the amount of nutrients discharged to Seneca Creek and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay. Excessive amounts of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus lead to lowered levels of oxygen needed to support aquatic life in waterways, including the Chesapeake Bay. Enhanced Nutrient Removal upgrades of wastewater treatment plants are a critical component of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay restoration plan.
Delmar Sewer Replacement Project – Phase I – Wicomico County
Funding of $2,838,561 – an $849,552 Water Quality State Revolving Loan Fund loan, an $849,552 grant in the form of forgiveness of a Water Quality State Revolving Loan Fund loan and a $1,139,457 Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Supplemental Assistance grant, all to the Town of Delmar – will fund a multi-phase project to rehabilitate the town’s sewer system. The project will reduce inflow and infiltration into the collection system, thereby decreasing the number and severity of sanitary sewer overflows and lowering operating costs for the town. By reducing wet weather flows, the project may also help to alleviate performance problems at the wastewater treatment plant. This project will be constructed in accordance with coastal and non-coastal resiliency guidelines developed as part of the Coast Smart Program to reduce climate change risks to such projects.
Hunters Mill Pond Retrofit project – Wicomico County
A $340,294 Comprehensive Flood Management Grant to Wicomico County will help fund a project to renovate and enhance an aging stormwater detention basin serving an unincorporated area of the county. It will increase the storage capacity of the basin so that it can handle more intense storm events while reducing the risk of downstream flooding. The project will also add water quality treatment features to reduce downstream pollution. The existing facility was built in the 1980’s and serves a drainage area of about 195 acres. This project is consistent with Maryland's climate change adaptation and resiliency objectives through the reduction of runoff that is exacerbated by increased precipitation or flooding events.
Crisfield Inflow and Infiltration Removal Phase I project – Somerset County
Funding of $70,214 – a $35,107 Water Quality State Revolving Loan Fund loan and a $35,107 grant in the form of forgiveness of a Water Quality State Revolving Loan Fund loan, both to the City of Crisfield – will help fund repairs throughout the city’s sewage collection system. The project will reduce inflow and infiltration of water into the sewage collection system and decrease the number and severity of sanitary sewer overflows while lowering operating costs for the city. This project will be constructed in accordance with coastal and non-coastal resiliency guidelines developed as part of the Coast Smart Program to reduce climate change risks to such projects. | https://www.wboc.com/news/md-board-of-public-works-approves-funding-for-clean-water-and-chesapeake-bay/article_8da3f17e-344f-11ed-b5a3-ebf137df379e.html | 2022-09-14T19:08:23Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/md-board-of-public-works-approves-funding-for-clean-water-and-chesapeake-bay/article_8da3f17e-344f-11ed-b5a3-ebf137df379e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEWBURGH, N.Y. , Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Managing partner Andrew Finkelstein is pleased to announce that the 2021 Orange County jury verdict that found in favor of the firm's client was the second highest in the state of New York in 2021. "This distinction is not something we take lightly. We are proud of our strong track record of success, and this verdict was especially satisfying as we were able to hold a distracted driver accountable, particularly in an instance where the injuries were not immediately apparent," he stated.
In October of 2021, Finkelstein & Partners trial attorneys Kenneth Fromson and Andrew Finkelstein argued successfully that a company's employee who drove distracted and hit our client in the rear caused serious bodily injury and should be held accountable for their actions. While our client was immediately rushed to an emergency room following the crash, she did not break any bones and was discharged the same day. Unknown at that time, the impact aggravated her asymptomatic arthritic ankle as well as injuring her shoulder. After suffering for 8 years and enduring multiple surgeries on both her ankle and shoulder, an Orange County jury voted for a verdict in her favor totaling $13,500,000. The award included $2,000,000 dollars for past medical expenses and $3,000,000 for future medical expenses.
At the time Mr. Finkelstein noted, "On behalf of our client, who has truly suffered, we are relieved and grateful to the members of the jury for acknowledging the driver's responsibility. Their decision sends a powerful message to our community. On a personal note, they have also provided our client financial relief, not only for the past 8 years' worth of medical expenses, but the verdict also enables her to finally look to the future with hope."
Headquartered in Newburgh, NY, Finkelstein & Partners, LLP has been successfully winning serious injury cases for nearly 60 years. Offices are located throughout New York and New Jersey and services include Personal Injury, Social Security Disability Benefits, Workers' Compensation, Nursing Home Neglect and Veterans Services. The firm's Commit to Quit Distracted Driving program highlights the serious dangers of distracted driving for teen drivers. We care deeply about the work we do and the communities we serve. We encourage our family of employees to devote time and assistance to community projects, because we want to be a part of building better communities. To learn more, visit the firm's website at lawampm.com or call 1-800-Lawampm / 1-800-529-2676.
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(Mass Appeal) – A paraplegic artist from Northampton who died in 1957 is recognized as an American impressionist and modern painter created beautiful pieces of work that you can go visit. Ray Radigan, curator of the Memorial Hall Museum, joins me with more about the artist and details of viewing his work. | https://www.wwlp.com/massappeal/exploring-the-art-and-artist-of-robert-strong-woodward-at-memorial-hall-museum/ | 2022-09-14T19:09:28Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/massappeal/exploring-the-art-and-artist-of-robert-strong-woodward-at-memorial-hall-museum/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(KTLA) – Officials are asking for the public’s help identifying a man with distinctive tattoos who has been hospitalized for three days at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center.
The man has “LGS” tattooed on his right eyebrow, “Fuente” on his right cheek, “SNR” or possibly “SUR” across his chest, “El Mike” on his right arm and “Robin” on his right hand.
He is described as being between 55 and 60 years old, 6 feet tall, and weighing 144 pounds, officials said.
The mystery patient has a slim build, gray hair, a beard, a mustache and a receding hairline. His eyes were described as being brown or hazel.
No further details about the man have been released.
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On Sept. 10, 1972, a terrorist attack happened at the Olympics in Munich, West Germany. A hostage crisis simmered and 11 Israeli athletes were killed.
American runner Frank Shorter and his teammates debated whether to run after the attack but decided to push forward. Shorter went on to win the gold, becoming the first American winner of that event in over 60 years.
Reporter Alex Ashlock met with Shorter, as he reflects on that day.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Childhood poverty has hit a historic low in the U.S., but the good news may not last for long as some temporary measures such as an expanded child tax credit to support families during the pandemic have ended.
Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson looks ahead with Stacia West, an associate professor of social work at the University of Tennessee and co-founding director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Here & Now‘s Anthony Brooks speaks with Nicholas Florko from our partners at STAT about two states that tried to eliminate hepatitis C despite the high cost of new cures.
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HOUSTON — On a summer day in a quiet neighborhood outside Houston, Pam Whitehead is sitting at the kitchen table of a split-level home, taking calls from women who are pregnant and need help.
"We were preparing for this in advance," Whitehead says. "We knew this was coming, we anticipated it, and we knew that we needed to prepare to be able to serve women."
Whitehead is the executive director of ProLove Ministries, a group that opposes abortion and tries to persuade women not to have them. She says calls to her group's hotline have been increasing – first, starting about a year ago, after the law known as S.B. 8 banned most abortions in Texas after about six weeks. They've continued – and come from across the country – since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
A rising need
With abortion now illegal or severely restricted in a growing number of states, groups that help patients travel for the procedure as well as those who oppose abortion and offer assistance with unintended pregnancies, are reporting more calls for help.
For those who continue their pregnancies, Whitehead's group runs a hotline that connects the women with a variety of support services. On this day, she takes down information from a woman who already has young children and is looking for help with transportation. Others need help with diapers, formula, or housing.
Whitehead is taking hotline calls from the kitchen of a maternity home outside Houston, where several women, mostly in their 20s and 30s, were washing dishes, cooking, and hanging out in the adjacent living room.
Near the front door, several strollers stand in a neat row — what Whitehead jokingly calls the "parking garage" — while their tiny occupants sleep down the hall.
Women typically come here – sometimes for months at a time — after struggling to find stable housing for themselves and their children.
An overwhelming decision
Samantha, 31, asked NPR not to use her last name out of concern for blowback from her boyfriend back home in the Midwest, who she says pressured her to have an abortion she didn't want. She said she came to Texas while still pregnant, initially planning to place her baby for adoption.
"And then I started feeling Benjy move," she said. "And I'm just like, 'Do I really want to give him up? Do I really want to give my little boy up?' "
Samantha said she would sit in the Texas hotel room provided by an adoption agency, praying, alone and without a support network, asking God for direction.
"I would just cry and scream, 'Tell me what you want me to do?' "
Determined to keep her baby and desperate for a place to stay, Samantha called the ProLove Ministries hotline, which placed her in the maternity home. She arrived around Memorial Day – just days before she unexpectedly delivered her baby several weeks early via C-section, due to a life-threatening condition for mother and baby called preeclampsia.
"Pam was in the room with me and she was holding my hand," Samantha says. "And it was the scariest, because he was little – so little, he was way too early. But he's doing amazing now."
A complicated place of refuge
Pam Whitehead's group is one of many around the country – including hundreds of anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that they work with that offer parenting classes and supplies, often donated by church groups.
The organization's founder, Abby Johnson, is a vocal, and often controversial, activist who opposes abortion rights in virtually all cases — even in situations like the 10-year-old Ohio girl who was raped and denied an abortion in her home state, soon after the Supreme Court released the decision overturning Roe this summer.
Whitehead agrees with that position – and said she's motivated by her own experiences.
"I can't imagine being in that situation," Whitehead says. "I know what it's like to be raped, though. I also know what it's like to have an abortion. And I'll tell you this – that abortion impacted me, greatly."
For Samantha, who describes herself as pro-choice, the maternity home has been a rare, if complicated, place of refuge and support.
In her small bedroom near the front of the house, filled with baby clothes and toys, Samantha says she's grateful for the help and especially the housing — which she'd struggled to find because of a criminal conviction in her past.
But she's concerned about the consequences of Roe v Wade being overturned –particularly for women who are victims of rape or experience medical complications with their pregnancies.
"There's going to be a lot of women who are going to go through hell because of this – emotionally and physically," she said.
In that aftermath of new abortion laws in Texas – and now nationwide – calls to the hotline so far this year have nearly quadrupled compared to a year ago, Whitehead said. Other anti-abortion groups tell NPR they're also working to expand similar services for new and expectant mothers.
Inadequate support, few options
Sonya Borrero, a professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, says that help often comes alongside inaccurate information and pressure to continue a pregnancy. Borrero has researched crisis pregnancy centers, known as CPCs.
"CPCs definitely take advantage of people's economic insecurity and just the societal inadequate support we have for pregnant people," she says.
She notes that these anti-abortion centers far outnumber abortion clinics nationwide, and typically don't provide a full range of reproductive healthcare such as contraception. Borrero says many of the ones she's encountered in her research also promote false information about the safety of abortion procedures and pills.
"I think these centers do speak to the significant need we have to support pregnant people — and especially those who choose to parent," Borrero says. "It really is filling that gap that our society has not filled. But it does come at a cost because there is an ideologically-driven mission."
As the need grows in a post-Roe environment, it's unclear how much of the gap these groups will be able to fill. When NPR visited this summer, the maternity home outside Houston was full – with one woman sleeping temporarily in an open loft area while several more slept in the upstairs and downstairs bedrooms.
Meanwhile, Democrats in some red states, including Mississippi, are pushing their Republican colleagues to vote for more public funding for maternity care and postpartum support – as abortion becomes increasingly out of reach.
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Anastasia Gasanova upset top seed Alison Riske-Amritraj at the SDAT Tennis Stadium on Tuesday evening at the 2022 WTA Chennai Open.
Ranked No.147, Gasanova broke Riske-Amritraj twice in the first set. In the second, Riske-Amritraj broke in the first game to lead 1-0, but Gasanova broke back immediately and took the lead again to complete the 6-2, 6-3 win in 1 hour and 29 minutes. Gasanova will next meet Great Britain’s Katie Swan, who defeated Arianne Hartono 6-1, 6-2 on Court 1, while former French Open semifinalist Nadia Podoroska advanced with a 6-4, 6-3 win against Kyoka Okamura on Court 2.
There was disappointment for local fans as India’s Ankita Raina went down in straight sets to fourth seed Tatjana Maria. The German, who reached the semifinals at Wimbledon earlier this year, won 6-0, 6-1 in 1 hour and 16 minutes.
Second seed Varvara Gracheva and third seed Magda Linette scored straight-set wins in the final matches Tuesday night. Gracheva needed 1 hour and 52 minutes to beat qualifier Mariia Tkacheva 6-3, 6-2 while Linette scored a 6-4, 6-0 win versus Moyuka Uchijima. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2790417/gasanova-upsets-top-seed-riske-amritraj-at-chennai-open | 2022-09-14T19:20:37Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2790417/gasanova-upsets-top-seed-riske-amritraj-at-chennai-open | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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After her first trial ended in a mistrial, a Wapato woman may go back before a jury on a charge that her infant son died of a fentanyl overdose through her neglect.
Samantha Marine Tainewasher, 38, was charged in U.S. District Court with involuntary manslaughter because her son got into opioids that someone left out in the trailer where she was living.
Her second trial is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 7, but her attorney is trying to get the case dismissed, arguing that it was an accidental death rather than a criminal act.
“She needs closure on this,” said Rick Smith.
Tainewasher was indicted on the manslaughter charge in federal court in July 2021, more than a year after her son, Steven Anthony Rane Jr., died. Tainewasher was charged in federal court because she is a Native American and her son died within the boundaries of the Yakama Nation’s reservation.
In court documents, prosecutors alleged that Tainewasher allowed her 1-year-old son to be around fentanyl pills, which he ingested and died.
She woke up March 29 and found her son was unresponsive and called for help.
Her first trial began in Aug. 29, but on Sept. 1 Judge Stanley A. Bastian declared a mistrial after the man accused of bringing the fentanyl to the camper trailer Tainewasher was living in invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself rather than testify.
At the hearing, prosecutors refused to grant the man immunity, which would have barred prosecutors from using his testimony to try him on related charges, which led Bastian to end the trial after finding that the man was a critical witness in the case.
“He was the last person to see the child alive, which was a significant moment,” Smith said.
While a video of the inside of the trailer before the boy’s death showed what looked like drugs on a mirror and that Tainewasher saw the man had a bag of fentanyl pills earlier, Smith said there was no evidence that she knew the drugs were there at the time of her son’s death or that he had access to them.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern Washington, which prosecuted the case, declined to comment for this story, citing the ongoing investigation.
Unlike a drug homicide, where someone intentionally provides drugs to a person who subsequently dies of an overdose, Smith said this case was different in that Tainewasher did not bring the drugs into the trailer and was asleep at the time her son took them.
He said the prosecutor’s argument could be used to charge a parent whose child died from an accidental poisoning or other household mishap.
“There are so many things that are legal that a child could consume or use or be exposed to that could possibly cause serious injuries or death,” Smith said. “You allowed your child to be around rat poison under the sink. A guy has a gun, it falls out on the floor while he’s asleep and a child either pulls the trigger on the gun, or the guy picks up the gun and it accidentally discharges and death results.
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The search for a missing 4-year-old boy who went missing Saturday evening at Sarg Hubbard Park in Yakima continued Wednesday.
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Lucian went missing at the park, near the Yakima River, around 7:15 p.m. Saturday. His family called police after 15 minutes, launching a massive search of the park and the surrounding area.
Lucian, who has autism, was last seen heading south and east across the park’s parking lot, in the direction of the river and other bodies of water. He was wearing blue shorts and a blue shirt with a shark on it.
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Senators wary of ticking clock on gay marriage vote
Senators working to garner support for a bill to codify the right to marriage equality are openly raising concerns that the process for building Republican backing is taking longer than expected.
Why it matters: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is expected to file for cloture on the bill on Thursday, setting up votes next week, but at least 10 Republicans will be needed to break a filibuster.
Driving the news: Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she and other senators working on the bill are crafting a “consensus amendment” to address the concerns of Republican senators, specifically protecting the tax-exempt status of religious institutions.
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What we’re hearing: The feedback process on the bill has become more and more sprawling over time, with a growing array of Republican senators proposing their own fixes.
- Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), a key vote, told Axios he has several of his own amendments, focused on "religious freedom," that he wants incorporated into the bill.
- Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has been circulating an amendment as well, along with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), to protect federal funding for religious non-profits.
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Behind AmerisourceBergen's PharmaLex buy
AmerisourceBergen won the auction for Germany-based PharmaLex, announcing its $1.29 billion all-cash acquisition of the pharma services company from AUCTUS Capital Partners earlier this week, Sarah writes.
Why it matters: The deal is further evidence that cash-rich strategics are well-positioned as buyers for big-ticket health care assets in today's volatile financing environment. (The credit markets are even tighter in Europe.)
Catch up fast: Germany's Auctus earlier this year engaged Harris Williams for financial advice on a potential sale, Axios wrote in April. Evercore advised AmerisourceBergen, per Monday's announcement.
Behind the scenes: AmerisourceBergen came out on top after prospective private equity suitors — including Blackrock and Blackstone — ultimately dropped, sources told Axios.
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By the numbers: PharmaLex’s LTM EBITDA was pegged in the mid-60 million euro range in April, whereas forward EBITDA is about 70 million euros.
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How it works: PharmaLex's global team of scientific, regulatory, and safety and compliance (GxP) experts provide strategic guidance and regulatory support to biopharma companies throughout a product’s lifecycle.
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- Astorg's nearly $1 billion deal for Amulet Capital's Open Health this summer.
👀 What we're watching: Whether other well-capitalized strategics like McKesson (which has been public about its interest in oncology) eventually go after a larger pharma services asset.
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9/2 — A caller reported that he had been in a fight with his wife that turned into a physical altercation. Both partners advised that the hitting was mutual and that alcohol was involved. They agreed to contact a family counselor to discuss their issues; if they did not, the officer told them there could be battery citations made against each of them.
9/2 — There was a verbal altercation between spouses. After they separated for the evening, the wife went to a hotel.
9/2 — There was a vehicle vs. deer collision outside of Tetonia. A report was taken for insurance and the deer was removed from the roadway.
9/2 — A caller reported being charged by an aggressive dog in downtown Driggs. The owner of the dog was given a written warning for dog at large.
9/2 — A student in the schoolyard at RUES observed the occupant of a passing vehicle point what appeared to be gun at the school and fire a shot. The school went into a soft lockdown as deputies responded and located the vehicle. They identified the young occupants and determined the firearm was actually a cap gun. The school and parents were notified.
9/2 — Officers responded to a rolling domestic disturbance after an intoxicated man who was fighting with his partner jumped out of a moving vehicle and walked down Highway 32. He was on probation through Fremont County and was not permitted to possess or consume alcohol, so he was taken into custody and transferred to Fremont.
9/2 — A caller reported a large campfire at a property outside of Driggs. Units determined that the fire was under control and being monitored.
9/3 — There was an accident near the switchbacks on Ski Hill Road when one vehicle drove off an embankment. Fire, deputies, and EMS were dispatched from Teton County ID and WY, and the driver was transported by air to EIRMC.
9/3 — A Tetonia caller reported hearing fireworks in the area. Officers responded but did not find anyone shooting fireworks.
9/3 — A man at a Victor bar was arrested on a Bannock County warrant. He later bonded out.
9/3 — Dispatch received 911 calls from several parties who heard a child screaming in Driggs. It was determined that there was a missing child in the area. The child was located and returned home safely.
9/3 — A caller reported that an aggressive man was camping illegally on private property in Tetonia. Deputies located the man’s car, which was parked on a public thoroughfare not on private property.
9/4 — A caller reported that individuals at the Pole Canyon trailhead had a truck filled with fruits and vegetables and made an offhand comment that they were hunting bears. IDF&G confirmed that bear baiting is legal and it is currently bear season.
9/4 — Intoxicated subjects started a fight at Big Eddy. The reported party was later determined to be the instigator of the fisticuffs. None of the combatants were injured and no charges were filed.
9/4 — A caller reported a fire in town in Driggs. Units responded and found that it was a recreational fire that didn’t meet the criteria of the county-wide burn ban.
9/4 — A Victor caller complained about yelling in the area. Deputies responded and found two house parties. The occupants agreed to quiet down.
9/4 — The sheriff’s office received a report of a man pulling a firearm on another individual after an argument escalated. The suspect was known. The assault is currently under investigation and charges are pending.
9/5 — The sheriff’s office received a delayed report of sexual assault that had occurred a week prior. The suspect was known and the case is under investigation.
9/6 — There was a grass fire in Tetonia. Residents were able to extinguish it before units arrived. Afterward, firefighters doused the area with water to prevent a future blaze.
9/7 — Two subjects were trespassed from a Driggs residence. They were able to pick up personal items from the house with an officer providing a civil standby.
9/7 — The pool locker room building at the Settlement subdivision was broken into and plumbing fixtures were damaged, with the cost estimated at over $30,000. The case is under investigation.
9/7 — Two car break-ins were reported on Wednesday, one at Teton Reserve and one at South Bates. Cash and credit cards were taken from wallets in both cars and charges were made later that day at the Target in Jackson.
9/7 — A woman reported that a man was harassing her via text and demanding the return of property. Because there was no threat of physical harm and the issue was civil in nature, she was given information on family crisis resources.
9/7 — A caller reported receiving indecent text messages from an unknown, anonymous suspect. Information was collected and the victim was advised to block the number.
9/8 — CPS helped arrange housing with a family member for a student in the school system who didn’t have a permanent home.
9/8 — A caller reported that two adults treated a child roughly as they were leaving a Driggs business. The reporting party recorded the license plates of their car. Dispatch made contact with the Wyoming jurisdiction where the car was registered and requested a welfare check on the home. Officers there were unable to make contact with the family.
9/8 — Construction tools worth over $1,000 were stolen in Victor. The theft is under investigation.
9/8 — A caller reported that an individual was dumping concrete onto the roadway near Driggs Elementary School. Officers responded and determined that the individual was part of a contracted work crew building a sidewalk in front of the school and that no illegal dumping was occurring.
9/8 — There was a one-vehicle rollover crash on S 2000 E. The occupant did not sustain serious injuries and refused transport. The car had to be towed.
9/8 — A Victor caller reported hearing yelling in an adjacent apartment. Deputies responded and found the occupants, who said no one had been screaming. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/community/sheriffs_log/sheriffs-log---september-14/article_d472323e-32ae-11ed-827d-1b01d75fe9a8.html | 2022-09-14T19:24:12Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/community/sheriffs_log/sheriffs-log---september-14/article_d472323e-32ae-11ed-827d-1b01d75fe9a8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The spring east of Alta is Driggs’s most senior water right, dating back to 1912, and doesn’t require pumping. Groundwater has been detected in the spring, but it’s possible that the issue may be remedied without a huge cost.
The City of Driggs has learned that an issue with one of its water sources, a spring at the mouth of Teton Canyon which had appeared to be susceptible to contamination, may be easily and cheaply remedied.
The spring east of Alta is the city’s most senior water right, dating back to 1912, and doesn’t require pumping. A year ago, routine Department of Environmental Quality tests of the spring revealed that groundwater was leaking into the spring somewhere, which meant the water could be contaminated. The spring has been turned off since last September; this summer the city asked property owners to irrigate on alternate days so that demand wouldn’t outpace the city’s other water sources on peak days.
Driggs public works director Jay Mazalewski said that the voluntary conservation measures resulted in a 14% reduction, around 15 million gallons, in water usage this July and August compared to last year, although it did rain more this summer than in 2021.
Meanwhile, civil engineering firm Keller Associates, with assistance from Rocky Mountain Environmental Associates and Clearwater Geosciences, analyzed the spring and other potential water sources, and came up with a few possible solutions.
A big takeaway from the spring analysis is that the issue at the spring isn’t with the water source, it’s with the infrastructure of the water collection area.
“DEQ’s big concern was that the water was just running underground from Teton Creek,” Mazalewski told the Driggs City Council on Sept. 6. “If that was the case then the spring would no longer be viable because it’s basically surface water.”
Instead, Keller Associates project lead Riley Bradshaw explained, shallow groundwater appeared to be seeping into the spring’s collection area from the toe of a nearby slope. There are some “low hanging fruit” solutions that could cost less than $50,000 to try out, such as checking the ground liner above the water pipes, filling in some low spots and rodent holes at the site, and inspecting the pipes with a video camera. If those efforts don’t stop the inflow of groundwater, the spring site could be rehabilitated either partially or completely, for between $300,000 and $1 million. Driggs has successfully applied for up to $1.5 million in ARPA funding to help with whatever construction is required on the spring (as well as a future million-gallon water storage tank).
“Basically, in a single sentence, it’s fixable,” Mazalewski said.
At the same time, the city will continue investigating the possibility of drilling additional wells, in order to “hedge its bets with the outcome of the spring,” Bradshaw said. Another well could be placed on city-owned land or on a newly purchased site, either in Idaho (where the hydrogeology is better but water rights are more expensive) or in Wyoming (where there are fewer productive sites but rights are much easier to come by). This could cost the city between $500,000 and $2 million.
At the next city council meeting on Sept. 20, public officials will dive into a deeper discussion of water rights as they pertain to increased development in Driggs. The city’s comprehensive plan and code broadly state that development should mitigate its own impacts, and recently, as new large residential projects are proposed, city staff has advised the decision makers that subdivisions should supply the city with water rights commensurate to their size, whether by transferring existing rights from the property or by purchasing them from elsewhere.
“This has been a topic among staff for quite awhile,” Mayor August Christensen said. “I’m hearing a lot of other cities talking about water rights being transferred, I’m hearing it from other mayors, I feel like I’ve been surrounded by water rights conversations in many different arenas, and how it’s the normal practice. For the City of Driggs to be able to protect ourselves, especially with water resources being such a tender subject...this is just another way we can continue to grow and move forward.”
Otherwise, Christensen added, the onus falls on the city and each taxpayer to pay for new water sources down the road if developments don’t come to the table with enough water to support their own demand.
Council member Tristan Taylor questioned whether the requirement had been enforced consistently with recently-approved applications. Mazalewski acknowledged that at least one subdivision in the past year had “slipped through” without the transfer of water rights, but that the city intended to always require mitigation going forward.
The council approved the White Antler preliminary plat, with an amended condition suggested by Taylor that water rights would be provided to the city in phases as the development was built out.
To help the city understand its water rights, supply, and infrastructure, and how much storage it may need in the future, Keller Associates is also working on a system-wide water facility plan for the city, which should be finished by December. The study is partially funded by an Idaho DEQ planning grant. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/local_government/driggs-gets-good-news-about-water/article_d71f06d0-2ec4-11ed-bff7-6f80727171ae.html | 2022-09-14T19:24:18Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/local_government/driggs-gets-good-news-about-water/article_d71f06d0-2ec4-11ed-bff7-6f80727171ae.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Traffic backs up on Highway 33 north of Driggs after a box truck rolled off the road in August. The Idaho Transportation Department district engineer will be proposing a SH33 corridor plan as well as short-term safety measures to the state transportation board later this fall.
In light of conversations happening about safety and traffic on the main thoroughfare in Teton Valley, the Idaho Transportation Department district engineer will be proposing a Highway 33 corridor plan as well as short-term safety measures to the state transportation board.
“It’s become pretty apparent to ITD that we need to change what we’re doing in this valley. The traffic is really starting to stack up, especially during the summer months,” District 6 engineer Jason Minzghor told the Teton Board of County Commissioners on Aug. 22.
Minzghor traveled to Teton County to meet with the commissioners last month after numerous residents and public officials protested the state agency’s decision not to construct turn lanes on the busy stretch of road between Victor and Driggs.
The turning lanes were one element of the Teton Mobility Corridor Improvements, an two-state set of transportation projects that includes highway updates, transit enhancements, and new pathways in Teton County WY and ID. Government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and business partners were awarded a federal BUILD Grant in September of 2020 for $20 million.
The grant included funding to ITD for a passing lane between Moose Creek and 9500 S and turn lanes at seven intersections from Baseline in Victor to LeGrand Pierre Avenue in Driggs. However, when the cost estimate nearly tripled this year, ITD eliminated all but the Baseline intersection improvements and the passing lane southeast of Victor.
News about the decision emerged just as Teton County was seeing one of its deadliest summer traffic seasons ever, with three fatal accidents in the month of July and several other crashes that left vehicles totaled and people hospitalized. At the time, ITD was soliciting public comment on its FY 2023-29 Draft Idaho Transportation Investment Program, a list of proposed ITD projects and funding sources for the next seven years. Around 40 residents wrote in about their safety concerns regarding SH33.
Minzghor said that ITD was “ready to provide assistance.” He proposed a corridor study or a planning and environmental linkages study for SH33 between the intersection with SH32 and the Wyoming state line in order to develop a more holistic plan that included input from the four local governments and the public.
“It would be a unified approach to accessibility and the future of the highway,” Minzghor later explained to the Teton Valley News. “What does the highway look like? Three lanes, four lanes, is it divided in certain areas? We would plan to meet with stakeholders, float ideas, involve the public throughout the process, prioritize the projects, and then go seek funding.”
He pointed to the recent SH20 corridor plan from Ashton to the Montana state line as a good example of what the process would look like, although he guessed that Teton’s study might not take as long as that one did.
Commissioner Mike Whitfield asked Minzghor to involve Teton County Fire & Rescue in the discussion as well; the new fire chief, Mike Maltaverne, has been a vocal advocate for highway safety. Maltaverne has suggested that ITD implement center and edge rumble strips on parts of SH33 and at the SH32 intersection. Studies around the country have concluded that installing center line rumbles reduced crossover crashes by up to 60%.
Commission chair Cindy Riegel requested that wildlife collisions are also taken into account.
“This board is interested in safety on all levels—accidents between cars, accidents when someone goes off the road, accidents with wildlife. We want to mitigate all those potential hazards in our community,” she said.
“We would definitely throw everything into the mix,” Minzghor responded. “The other thing we want to look at—we want to define access for this entire corridor so when a subdivision comes, we know exactly where it’s going. That’s the intent of the study also, to preserve the future so this community can grow in a logical fashion.”
When Commissioner Bob Heneage brought up the possibility of installing rumble strips as soon as possible to provide drivers with some measure of safety, Minzghor said that was something that could happen quickly and cheaply.
“How about I commit to next spring?” he said. “Let me see what I can do and come back to you.”
Minzghor said he will bring a proposal for safety improvements as well as corridor planning to the state transportation board later this fall. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/local_government/itd-open-to-corridor-planning-for-sh33/article_ac52c118-2fb3-11ed-aa62-63cd9592e33b.html | 2022-09-14T19:24:24Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/local_government/itd-open-to-corridor-planning-for-sh33/article_ac52c118-2fb3-11ed-aa62-63cd9592e33b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The precious acres of wheat and barley shimmer a little golden; summer’s moving fast. As I’m about to turn 70 in a few days, I’m emotional, sentimental, excited; just about every feeling running through me because I LOVE HARVEST. My stepmom sold our 800 acres last year to the Arnolds, also of Felt, ID. A good family. So these memories are for them and my ten children’s families and all the people that work hard for the Arnolds, and whoever else reads this.
Harvest Memories
The excitement of getting ready, smells and sounds, sunrises and sunsets. Pesky flies and spitting grasshoppers. Sneezing, putting Vick’s in your nose. Crazy weather, workin together. Ridin in the old red truck named Betsy with Grampa til I was old enough to drive my own. Chewin wheat into gum. Occasional soft rain was very humbling. Racing Grampa to get a spot under Dad’s combine. Going to town Tetonia, Jimmy Douglas’s dad’s elevator. Tippy trucks, in fact Dad would say, “Hammer on it, get back out here for another load,” and I was so scared on some of those steep sidehills, but you do what you’ve got to do. Mom and Grama’s delicious meals, always homemade bread or rolls, taters, gravy, nothing but the best for harvest crew! Later afternoon lemonade, grab a minute in the shade, nobody worried about getting paid. The old water jugs wrapped in gunny sacks kept cold in the creek. Unclogging the combine chaff. Backing up to the auger hoping no sparks would erupt in the dry grass. Tramping feet to the house after a busy day, Dad shaking off his overalls outside. Quick supper of bread and milk and then he’d sit at his desk and record his days of farming, then often read us a few poems and scriptures. Family prayers and off to bed. Next morning, up early, take the fuel truck out to the field to go again. I don’t remember breakfast but sure we had eggs and toast or oatmeal and cream. Orange juice was a treat of later years.
Seventy years ago my folks bought the 200-acre dry farm with broken down outbuildings and a little white house right on Badger Creek in Felt, just three miles west of Highway 32. It was the Rieley place.
Dad’s dream was to make something of it, water or no water. Mother Nature was boss hog then and still is today. Dry farmers had to hope and pray and work — to hope the good years outweighed the bad. I think they need more faith than all the irrigated with pumps fields of today.
Oh the stories to be told if only the old draft big ponies could talk and how I LOVE THEM.
Grampa McCulloch said the day he sold his black Belgian horses and bought a yellow D4 Caterpillar track tractor was the best and worst day of his life all in one. My great aunt’s history said he had 40 black horses.
Oh the blood sweat and tears shed from the farmers and animals in those days, late 1800s early 1900s. Plowing in those rocky fields, they don’t call it the Rocky Mountains for nothin. I still collect rocks, crack rocks, and throw lots of rocks with my grandkids. We should know the gems of our gem state!
My grampa and his brothers and Dad had land all over Felt. Mom had many cousins who farmed nearby plus the Smith and Arnold relatives too. Yep my grama Fay Scow rode her horse Flossie to work at the Felt store and met grampa Orville at a 4th of July dance, where sparks did fly. I can imagine how happy they were when their fourth daughter’s husband wanted to farm ‘cause they had no boys. Plus Dad was a good mechanic, and so fussy. He still had everything he ever bought, he took such good care of it.
The best of all the show memory for me was ridin horses with my Dad everywhere to check fields for wild oats, rye, sunflowers, low spots, pigweeds, etc. Sometimes on a straightaway, we’d let the reins loose and let em go — such fun! Such a wise Dad, never run em towards the house or in fields with badger holes or let them eat foxtail or eat at all when we were working.
I loved grooming before and after rides, getting cockleburs off Cesco with a pennynail, brushing him down with love. Grooming horses came in handy for a part-time job later in life.
My grampa’s sister married Orville Boehlke and they farmed across the canyon. It was their daughter who set my folks up on their first date. Then trivia of Uncle Norman Hogg. He married two of grama’s sisters and also farmed in Felt. He was the life of the party, a fun guy we all loved, like Lyle Smith and Leonard Ward who also helped raise me.
This last story is for my ten kids, the Arnolds, and their hardworking callused-handed employees who are the heart and soul of the farming. They keep it so beautiful day and night until the last grain is in the granaries, the last spuds in the cellars and last hay is stacked. Thank you!
How I Learned What Faith Was
I was only in 5th or 6th grade and had two little brothers. It was a very hot late August. Kernels hard, ready to be cut and put in bins, when a huge hailstorm hit! Precious grain hitting the ground. Dad grabbed Mom’s hand, told us kids to follow behind the house, we dropped to our knees in a circle in the field and held hands as Dad prayed in his beautiful voice to our Heavenly Father, his gratitude for the land and love of farming. Then if God could cease the hail, he said we have faith that we know you can if thou wilt. It was silent...except for Mom’s tears and the big lump in Dad’s throat. But as we returned to the house it quit hailing. We reverently bowed our heads in the quiet, realizing the crop was saved. What a precious moment for a lucky child to learn faith from her dear daddy.
Last memory was whoever finished cutting first would caravan up, no question asked, and move to the next farmer’s field until the whole Felt crops were safely tucked away for winter. That always warmed my heart.
Good luck, all the next generations and God bless your sincere efforts as you inherit this fine land, ‘cause land is the only thing that lasts! May you never have to sell the family cow, or grandmother’s prize quilts to pay taxes. Just know many hard years have gone before you.
As your eat your soft bread, warm potatoes, or any food or drink grown off the land;
Bow your head in appreciation for the sacrificing, the planning — who buys what seed, what can we afford to plant and where, then fertilizer, water, sunshine, brains, patience, fortitude, courage, stamina and muscle it takes to pull off a successful farm year.
To farmers: you’re the best!
Sincerely written by Shellie Burns Bowen Woolstenhulme
I still live in Felt the rest of my summers and feel my ancestors’ love everyday in the grain, spuds and in the hay; in all I do or say.
This was transcribed from a hand-written letter by the TVN so pardon any errors. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/opinion/editorials/dry-farm-girls-memoir/article_fc74de7c-2966-11ed-8042-8b967bcef99b.html | 2022-09-14T19:24:30Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/opinion/editorials/dry-farm-girls-memoir/article_fc74de7c-2966-11ed-8042-8b967bcef99b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Oh Teton Valley, it’s with a heavy heart that I write this month’s column. It’s been a hard summer, year really. We’ve had lots of accidents and deaths. So many of us are grieving or know someone who is.
I was at a meeting recently and made the comment that, “By my early thirties I had lost both my parents. And that as an only child, the worst kind of grief is the grief no one asks you about.”
And look, I get it. We don’t want to say or do the wrong thing or make someone feel worse. Which is such a kind, considerate perspective. Except when we’re so afraid of misstepping we don’t say or do anything. Or we put it off, or think it’s not our place.
And it’s not just grief we have a tendency to do this for, but most mental health issues. Substance use, depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicide. Especially suicide. We think “I’m not qualified”, “I don’t want to cause harm”, “Leave it to the professionals.”
But in a community our size, where a lot of us would rather do a whole bunch of other things than consult a professional, that can’t be our strategy in tough moments. We need each other and we all have a role to play in helping navigate dark times.
I think about that a lot, you know in addition to the normal cascade of things that keep a middle-aged woman up at night. How it really does take all of us to have a healthy, thriving community. I often wonder how the Coalition can do better at not just spreading that message, but getting people to live it. Really live it.
That’s especially been on my mind this month as September is National Suicide Prevention Month.
In considering how to frame talking about suicide in a sensitive and meaningful way, I remembered Kevin Hines. Kevin is one of only thirty-six people to survive jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. Following his attempt he’s gone on to become an author, speaker, and leading suicide prevention advocate. How he tells his story is truly inspiring and I highly recommend you check out his work.
Among the many things he says that’s stuck with me, is, “A pain shared is a pain halved.”
Us counselors are sometimes famous for overanalyzing and making things more complicated than they have to be. Just ask my husband how a simple, “What do you want for dinner?” goes over in our house.
And while I realize that grief and suicide (which are two sides of a very similar coin) are more complex than this. What if one of the simplest, easiest, most cost effective interventions is just being able to share our pain?
To allow ourselves to grieve, and be messy, and imperfect. To answer honestly when someone asks, “How are you?”
And to most importantly ask. To really ask the question. And then listen. Without trying to fix or manage. To just be there.
If what Kevin says is true, a reduction in suffering by half considerably lightens the load we’re all carrying. And we’re all carrying something. Especially grief. It’s the one emotion every single one of us has or will experience.
So if you are grieving let yourself grieve. It’s okay not to be okay. And if you know someone who’s grieving, ask them and keep asking them about it.
It takes all of us openly talking about all things we’d rather not to reduce the suffering in our little valley. Will you be the one to cut the pain in half?
If you are interested in learning more about how to have a more active role in grief support and suicide prevention, please let us know. We are forming a Crisis & Suicide Prevention Task Force to guide individual and community level planning. No prior knowledge or experience is necessary, just a desire to make our beloved community a safe place for all.
If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide or experiencing a crisis of any kind, let someone know. Whether it's calling or texting 988, family, friends, clergy, coaches, or co-workers, reach out.
The Mental Health Coalition provides free and confidential support, as well as six free counseling sessions to those in need. Call or text 208-354-6198, email info@tetonvalleymentalhealth.com, or find out more on our website mentalhealthcoalitionoftetonvalley.org. Our offices are staffed Monday-Friday from 9am-4pm.
Sara is the Executive Director of the Mental Health Coalition of Teton Valley whose mission is to empower the people of our community to enhance their mental wellness by providing advocacy, education, and access to resources. For more wellness tips and to see what the Coalition is up to, follow them on social media or visit their website www.tetonvalleymentalhealth.com. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/opinion/editorials/how-to-be-well-let-yourself-grieve/article_1e3ce828-2a21-11ed-9ad6-87bd41442f4f.html | 2022-09-14T19:24:37Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/opinion/editorials/how-to-be-well-let-yourself-grieve/article_1e3ce828-2a21-11ed-9ad6-87bd41442f4f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kurt Mitchell has started his Teton coaching season 6-0-1. The team has remained undefeated while scoring at least five goals in four of its first seven games.
Forward Irlanda Lopez bullied Snake River up and down the pitch, creating open space for others and working the ball through. Lopez forced a Snake River own goal with a beautiful corner kick.
Kurt Mitchell has started his Teton coaching season 6-0-1. The team has remained undefeated while scoring at least five goals in four of its first seven games.
Forward Irlanda Lopez bullied Snake River up and down the pitch, creating open space for others and working the ball through. Lopez forced a Snake River own goal with a beautiful corner kick.
The Teton Timberwolves soccer program is enjoying a fine run of form with both teams undefeated entering the middle of September.
The lady Timberwolves hold a record of 3-0-2 after finishing 4th in the 3A state championship in 2021. Led by a team of eight seniors, the girls have been dominant in their last two games, beating Snake River 6-1 and Aberdeen 8-0 last week.
Five different lady Timberwolves scored six second-half goals against Snake River on Sept. 6 after conceding the opener to the Panthers. Teton has nine games remaining, with all four district games remaining. Their next match is at American Falls on Sept. 17 at 11 a.m.
The boys have been even more dominant in their early season games, currently holding a record of 6-0-1. It has been a wonderful start under new coach Kurt Mitchell.
The boys ran out a 10-2 win against Snake River on Sept. 6 and followed that up with a 4-0 shutout of Aberdeen on Sept. 10.
Mitchell comes from a tenure coaching in the Teton FC youth soccer program, replacing departed head coach Jesus Castro.
“A lot of the kids that are on the team I coached earlier with Teton FC. It is nice to see a bunch of them again and re-instill the passion of soccer and get them fired up again to play,” said Mitchell.
The boys ended last season with a 3A state third place finish, and have an improved record through the first seven games compared to last year’s 5-2 start.
Mitchell pointed to the leadership quality of captains Charlie Comfort and Wyatt Gentry as bright spots in his team.
“Charlie Comfort is our senior captain and he knows how to behave. He is a great role model for these kids and he is a great leader for the whole team and I am really impressed with his play,” said Mitchell.
“Wyatt Gentry, he’s a sophomore and a great leader as well,” Mitchell continued. “As an underclassman, he knows how to behave and lead, he is always working and volunteering to do what it takes. Grabbing cones or balls, you can count on Wyatt to be one of the first ones out there.”
Mitchell is prioritizing possession in his game, with a strategy that emphasizes controlling the ball.
“Simple, easy, early. We try to look at the simple tasks and take the high percentage passes and do it early enough so that we can control possession and play a possession-type game. The chances will come without forcing them if you have the ball. If you are chasing the ball and transitioning all the time you’ll wear yourself out and play someone else’s style,” said Mitchell.
Mitchell’s Timberwolves play a standard 4-3-3 formation with players shifting depending on possession and the ball’s location on the field.
“There is nothing in the rulebook that says you have to give the other team a chance. We try to play that possession game and look for our chances to score while we’re holding, and not just play the run-and-gun offense. It’s all about controlling the ball,” said Mitchell.
Mitchell is also looking to capitalize on the prevalence of youth in his team, with Teton FC providing a good springboard to the varsity team.
“A few of the kids that came in that tried out as a freshman, they had a good foundation on them. We had 36 kids try out and I took 22. We had a lot of people interested and a lot of the young kids made it because they started early enough,” said Mitchell. “I think Teton FC is doing a great job bringing these kids up and not only preparing them for soccer but any other sport they want to do in the future.”
Perhaps the team’s greatest asset though is the attitude they carry day-in and day-out whether it is in practice, a game, in the classroom, or at work.
“We try to make practice fun so that it’s not disgruntled work and always look to have fun. Whether it’s at school or outside or at work, we talked about that and it all starts with attitude. If we all start with the right attitude there is no reason we can’t have a good time,” said Mitchell. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/sports/ths/boys-and-girls-soccer-enjoy-strong-start-to-season/article_a196ca70-2faf-11ed-bff2-1b2f86943f5d.html | 2022-09-14T19:24:43Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/sports/ths/boys-and-girls-soccer-enjoy-strong-start-to-season/article_a196ca70-2faf-11ed-bff2-1b2f86943f5d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FG pays N289m to 74 victims of police brutality
• Pleads for victims' forgiveness
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, paid a total sum of N289, 384, 09 million as compensation to 74 beneficiaries and victims whose rights were violated by the defunct Special Anti Robbery Squad of the Nigerian Police.
The symbolic presentation of cheques to the various beneficiaries and victims was done at the Headquarters of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), where the chairperson of the governing board of the commission, Dr Salamatu Suleiman, said a total of N431, 88, 094 million had, before now, been paid to 94 beneficiaries under the SARS panel.
She thanked those who filed petitions to the Independent Investigative Panel on Human rights violations against SARS and other units of the Nigerian Police for their belief in the human rights mechanisms of Nigeria and for diligently presenting and pursuing their cases before the panel.
The NHRC governing board chairman assures that the Commission, as an independent institution, will continue to exercise its mandate of promoting and protecting human rights in the country, using various constituted mechanisms under the NHRC Act (As amended).
Earlier in his speech, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chief Tony Ojukwu (SAN), said the award was only symbolic, that the victims cannot be adequately compensated compared to the level of their rights that were violated.
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According to Ojukwu, “In the history of past governments in the country, the present administration has elevated human rights fight to the level of compensation for those whose rights were violated.
“Last December, some persons whose cases of rights violation were investigated had over N146 million approved for their compensation and today, another compensation will be paid to other Nigerians by the panel.
“Amount to be paid will not solve all the problems as lives are lost. In any case, the payment is symbolic to show that we acknowledge the violation of your right and that we are saying sorry by the payment,” he said and warned, “It is a clear indication that we should not take law into our hands. The course of justice might be slow, but it will surely get to the destination.”
A breakdown of disbursement shows that, out of 74 victims who were compensated, 25 were victims of extrajudicial killings, four victims were compensated for enforced disappearance, 25 victims of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and 16 other victims of Illegal arrest and prolonged detention by the police.
While victims of confiscation of property and abuse of property were four persons, 58 victims get their dummy cheques at the ceremony while arrangements are ongoing to reach the families of those who are dead.
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Gbajabiamila inspects N11.6bn NASS Service Commission complex
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila on Wednesday inspected the N11.6 billion National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) complex, located within the National Assembly complex, Abuja.
Hon. Gbajabiamila, who was accompanied by Chairman, House Committee on House Services, Hon. Wale Raji and Clerk of House of Representatives, Dr Yahaya Danzaria during the inspection of the ongoing construction of the NASC complex, described it as a legacy project.
He also expressed hope that the 2023 Budget proposal will be presented latest by the first week of October 2022.
While expressing satisfaction over the level of work done so far on the temporary Chamber located at Conference Rooms 0.28 and 2.36 within the New Building, expressed optimism that the temporary chamber will be ready by Tuesday next week.
He said: “Where we are right now, it will be ready on Tuesday. They have done so far so good, this work started in August. It started a few weeks behind time but for a good reason.
“So far, between August and now, giant strides have been made. You see that the old Chambers have been ripped apart. The innovations are going to be state-of-the-art. We will at the end of the day be proud to have Chambers that match the best standard all over the world. I’m quite impressed with the work so far.
“I will encourage them to double the pace because as it is, unfortunately, or fortunately, this is not for the benefit of the 9th Assembly it is for the benefit of the 10th Assembly. The old Chambers are not going to be ready until sometime in August 2023 so we are talking about close to a year.
“But so far so good, we are happy and this temporary site where we will be sitting for the next 9, 10 months is honestly a far cry from where we used to be but they have done well in adapting, this used to be hearing room to a legislative chamber.
“Adaptation – you made a lot of innovations. We are ready to work. The 10th Assembly is most likely (taking off here) unless work can be accelerated but we don’t want to accelerate work and compromise the quality of work. So is better late but done well, everything worth doing is worth doing well.
“So, right now they bill to open that place in August. If we are lucky and they are able to move faster and work 24/7 round the clock, maybe a month or two earlier in which case the 10th Assembly will come into the new Chamber.”
He assured us that the configuration of the two halls being configured as temporary Chamber will accommodate about 100 and about 200.
“I can see everybody upstairs, everybody presiding can see everybody upstairs, can see everybody downstairs,” Hon. Gbajabiamila noted.
On his part, the Federal Commissioner, National Assembly Service Commission, who doubles as chairman of the monitoring and implementation Committee of this project, Basil Olusegun explained that the permanent site of the National Assembly Service Commission was initiated to ensure seamless service delivery.
“The reasons we are moving here are various: security, proximity to the service targeted functions. Here we have enough space, we are presently at an occupied rented apartment and here we cater for all our needs, handful parking space, we have offices all the functionaries, management team and down staff and clinic for staff welfare and most of all, we will be very close instead of staff coming from Utako when they have issues, we are very close to them here.”
While speaking on the cost of the project, he disclosed that “the estimated cost of the project is N11.6 billion and the estimated duration is 104 weeks. And if divided that is about two years. Right now, this place can take care of the 400 staff of the National Assembly Service Commission.”
Also speaking, the Senior Architect, Tirade Associate, project consultant, National Assembly Service Commission Complex, Architect Michael Baka assured that the ongoing construction will be accelerated.
“We are accelerating the work to see that we complete this project by April 2023 as against August 2023. On the civic works, which are on the third and fourth floors, we are 70% completed. By the time you factor in services, we say we are 30% completed. It is an office complex which also has pockets of spaces for occasions during work.”
He further affirmed that the cost of the project which currently stands at N11.6 billion, was N3.5 billion when it was conceived in 2011.
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