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The dates are set for the NASCAR Cup Series’ two trips to Atlanta Motor Speedway in 2023 with thrilling action returning to the high banks in the spring and summer, including the speedway’s first night race since 2014.
Stock car racing’s best will tackle the intense high-speed action on Atlanta’s 1.54-mile oval for 400 miles of superspeedway-style racing in the Ambetter Health 400 on Sunday, March 19. Fresh off the dazzling 2022 running of this event - which saw an AMS record 46 lead changes among 20 drivers - the Ambetter Health 400 will be one of the most anticipated events of the 2023 season.
As the race to the NASCAR playoffs intensifies, the NASCAR Cup Series will race into Atlanta once again for the Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart on Sunday, July 9. New for 2023, Atlanta’s summer NASCAR races will be decided at night under the lights.
“After all the excitement we saw on the track and the fun we had off the track, I’m thrilled to invite fans back for the Ambetter Health 400 in March,” said AMS Executive Vice President and General Manager Brandon Hutchison. “Equally as exciting is being able to deliver what our fans have been asking for in July: NASCAR action under the lights during the Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart. It’s going to be a year of live entertainment at its best! Our team is already hard at work to ensure both events are packed with unforgettable experiences for our fans.”
The NASCAR Xfinity Series will also race under the lights in the Alsco Uniforms 250 on Saturday, July 8. The 2023 Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart weekend will be the first to feature night races at AMS since 2014.
Atlanta’s NASCAR Doubleheader returns on Saturday, March 18, with the Fr8 208 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race and the RAPTOR 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday, March 18. Since 2015 the doubleheader has been a fan favorite, delivering two exciting NASCAR races with just one ticket during the spring race weekend.
Tickets and camping accommodations for all five NASCAR races are available now. For more information on the Ambetter Health 400 and Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart at Atlanta Motor Speedway, visit www.AtlantaMotorSpeedway.com.
Tickets:
Tickets and camping for both the Ambetter Health 400 and the Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart are available for purchase online at www.AtlantaMotorSpeedway.com or by calling 877-9-AMS-TIX (877-926-7849). Cup race tickets start at just $49 for adults and children 12 and under are just $10.
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Shakespeare may have penned “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” but race fans will find it hard to sleep when NASCAR roars back to New England July 15-16, 2023. The 2023 NASCAR schedule has been released, and New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) will again play host to the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) Crayon 301 and the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS).
“Christopher Bell and Justin Allgaier made sure this year’s NASCAR weekend at ‘The Magic Mile’ was one for the history books,” said New Hampshire Motor Speedway Executive Vice President and General Manager David McGrath. “Our on-track schedule was jam-packed, the Fan Zone was energized and the grandstands were full of passionate race fans. We can’t wait to do it even bigger and better next summer.”
Earlier this year, NCS driver Christopher Bell overcame not only his anxiety over Loudon the Lobster, but also some stiff competition on the track to power his Toyota Camry TRD to the first oval win of his young career. In the NXS race, Justin Allgaier survived a wild afternoon of NXS action to claim his first-ever win at NHMS.
The 2023 NASCAR weekend will be the only visit by America’s most popular form of motorsport to the six-state New England region.
Details regarding additional races and broadcast information for NASCAR’s 2023 event at NHMS will be released at a later date.
Tickets:
Fans can renew their tickets for the 2023 NASCAR weekend at NHMS.com through Oct. 7, 2022. Adult tickets start at just $49 for Sunday and $35 for Saturday. Tickets for kids 12 and under are just $10 for Sunday and free on Saturday. Further details can be found on the NHMS website or by calling 833-4LOUDON. The full weekend schedule will be released at a later date.
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Just three days after Bubba Wallace provided an historic end to Kansas Speedway’s 2022 season, NASCAR announced it is coming back to Kansas Speedway for two great weekends of racing in 2023.
The most competitive racing on the planet will return to Kansas Speedway, May 6-7, culminating in the NASCAR Cup Series’ AdventHealth 400 on Sunday, May 7. The weekend begins on Saturday, May 6, with a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race and fun for the whole family. An ARCA Menards Series race will also take place that weekend (date TBD).
Even more excitement will be on tap September 8-10, when the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs return to America’s heartland and cap four great races in three days. The Hollywood Casino 400 on Sunday, Sept. 10, will once again be the penultimate race of the Round of 16, putting an exclamation point on a power-packed weekend of high-octane action. The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series will begin the weekend festivities on Friday, Sept. 9, followed by a NASCAR Xfinity Series race the following day and an ARCA Menards Series race (date TBD).
“We can’t wait to welcome our fans back for two great weekends in 2023,” said Kansas Speedway President Pat Warren. “The improvements we made to the fan experience this year will be even bigger and better next year, and we know the racing will once again provide them with a lifetime full of memories.”
Tickets for next season go on sale at a later date. For the latest ticketing information, news and updates, please visit www.kansasspeedway.com.
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Texas Motor Speedway will again host the very best in motorsports competition in 2023, highlighted by the NASCAR Playoffs weekend in September and an NTT INDYCAR SERIES / NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series doubleheader weekend in April.
The 2023 schedule will mark the 27th consecutive season that “The Great American Speedway” will showcase both NASCAR and INDYCAR competition since the Fort Worth facility opened in 1997.
“Texas Motor Speedway is proud to once again provide our race fans with the very best in NASCAR and INDYCAR competition,” said Texas Motor Speedway Executive Vice President and General Manager Mark Faber. “The 2023 NASCAR Playoffs weekend next September will have the very same high intensity and fantastic competition that we’re expecting in next week’s Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 and Andy’s Frozen Custard 300. We are very happy to have the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races paired together again, returning a traditional fan-favorite race weekend to the speedway in April after three years apart. There’s also a wide array of spectator events and activities scheduled at the speedway throughout 2023 for our guests to enjoy whether they’re race fans or not.”
The incredible intensity of the NASCAR Playoffs schedule, with its win-and-move-on mentality, will return to Texas Motor Speedway on Sept. 23-24. The NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500, the first race in the Round of 12 (the second round), is scheduled to take place Sunday, Sept. 24. The biggest names in NASCAR, including Chase Elliott, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, and Kyle Larson will be chasing a victory to punch their ticket to the next round of the playoffs.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series Andy's Frozen Custard 300, scheduled for Sept. 23, will be the first race in the Round of 12 (the opening round) of the series’ NASCAR Playoffs schedule. Top series teams from JR Motorsports, Kaulig Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing and Richard Childress Racing, with drivers like AJ Allmendinger, Justin Allgaier and Austin Hill, will all be competing for the unique Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 trophy.
Texas Motor Speedway is proud to once again host the NTT INDYCAR SERIES in 2023. The April 2 race, the first in a multi-year partnership with INDYCAR, will be the 27th consecutive year, and 36th race overall, that the country’s best open-wheel racing will compete side-by-side at more than 200 mph on the 1.5-mile oval.
This year’s highly competitive NTT INDYCAR SERIES race in March saw Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden pass teammate Scott McLaughlin in the outside lane on the last turn of the final lap to win by just 0.0669 of a second. That margin of victory turned out to be the series’ closest in the entire 2022 season.
The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series returns as the first race of a weekend doubleheader with the NTT INDYCAR SERIES on Saturday, April 1, after three years apart. The two series ran a doubleheader weekend together at the speedway from 1997 through 2019.
Additional major spectator events at Texas Motor Speedway next year will include the Ducks Unlimited Expo, Goodguys Rod & Custom Shows, the C-10 Nationals, and LS Fest as well as music festivals BMF Fest and Bandas y Trocas.
Fan amenities that will still be new at the speedway in 2023 will feature several No Limits Next facility upgrades like the three open-air bars, the world’s longest belly-up bar, and drink rails and increased leg room in a major portion of the grandstand area.
Season tickets and camping for Texas Motor Speedway’s 2023 major event season are on sale now. Save up to 33 percent versus buying individual tickets, take advantage of interest-free monthly payments, get the best seat selection and more. All-new reduced rates are available for the GEICO Infield, GEICO VIP and WinStar World Casino & Resort Lone Star Circle camping areas. Click HERE for more information and to purchase season tickets.
Texas Motor Speedway will play host to the 2022 NASCAR Playoffs next weekend. The playoffs doubleheader will be highlighted by the NASCAR Xfinity Series Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 on Saturday, Sept. 24 (2:30 p.m. CT on USA Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Ch. 90, and PRN), and the NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 on Sunday, Sept. 25 (2:30 p.m. CT on USA Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Ch. 90, PRN, and 95.9 The Ranch).
The newly renovated Lil’ Texas Motor Speedway 1/5-mile dirt track will kick off the weekend of racing with the inaugural C. Bell’s MICRO MANIA. The four-day event (Sept. 21-24) features practice on Wednesday (Sept. 21), qualifying races Thursday and Friday (Sept. 22-23) and mains and finals Saturday (Sept. 24). Micro Sprints are smaller versions of full-sized sprint cars with side-mounted 600cc motorcycle engines that can generate 140 horsepower with similar chassis and body styles to the larger versions. NASCAR stars currently confirmed to participate include Christopher Bell, two-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kyle Busch and his son Brexton Busch, Sheldon Creed, Daniel Hemric, Brett Moffitt, and John Hunter Nemechek.
TICKETS:
For ticket information for next week’s 2022 NASCAR Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 weekend, including individual day tickets for C. Bell’s Micro Mania, please visit www.texasmotorspeedway.com.
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NASCAR and Auto Club Speedway announced today that the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series race on Feb. 26 will be the final race on Auto Club Speedway’s classic 2-mile oval. Planning continues for a new short track located on the current site, but details will be announced at a later date.
Concurrently, NASCAR and Auto Club Speedway are continuing to work with Hillwood Properties on redeveloping portions of Auto Club Speedway’s property. To accommodate this process, the Speedway has removed portions of the Turn 1 and Turn 4 grandstands in anticipation for the future short track development pending approval.
Yet the focus right now is racing on the 2-mile oval, and Auto Club Speedway is gearing up for an incredible grand finale on its current configuration. It’s a track that has produced exciting races won by legendary winners for more than a quarter century. And on Feb. 26, 2023, the best drivers in the world will vie for the bragging rights of winning the last race on this D-shaped oval located in the heart of the Inland Empire.
“This is going to be a can’t-miss event,” said Auto Club Speedway President Dave Allen. “This 2-mile oval has produced so many incredible memories during the past 25 years, and we know the final race on this surface will produce more memories that will last a lifetime.
“Moreover, the continued redevelopment of this property will inject more fuel into the local economy, and we’re excited what the future holds for our racetrack and the Inland Empire as a whole.”
Auto Club Speedway’s 2-mile oval opened as California Speedway in 1997. It quickly became the region’s premier motorsports destination featuring breathtaking NASCAR and IndyCar races. Some of racing’s greatest drivers have won races on the high-speed track, including NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon and reining NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson, who won the WISE Power 400 at Auto Club Speedway on Feb. 27.
The complete NASCAR Cup Series schedule was unveiled today, and it revealed that the final race on Auto Club Speedway’s 2-mile oval will hold a premium spot on the premier series’ schedule. Once again, it will be the much-anticipated follow-up to the DAYTONA 500 and set the tone for what promises to be a NASCAR Cup Series season to remember.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series will also compete one final time on the 2-mile layout on Saturday, Feb. 25.
Tickets for the final NASCAR Cup Series weekend on Auto Club Speedway’s 2-mile oval are on sale now. Fans are encouraged to visit www.autoclubspeedway.com for the latest ticket information.
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NASCAR fans who love Phoenix Raceway had their hopes confirmed by NASCAR on Wednesday. The sanctioning body announced that it’s once again holding two weekends of racing at the iconic one-mile, doglegged oval, beginning with Ruoff Mortgage 500 weekend, March 10-12.
NASCAR previously announced that NASCAR Championship Weekend is returning to Phoenix Raceway in 2023, with four championship races scheduled for three days, Nov. 3-5.
“This wouldn’t be possible without the tremendous support and devotion our fans and campers continue to show our world-class facility,” said Phoenix Raceway President Julie Giese. “We don’t take that support for granted, and we look forward to delivering two incredible weekends of NASCAR racing that will provide them with a lifetime full of memories.”
The March 2023 weekend begins with the ARCA Menards Series’ General Tire 150 on Friday, March 10, and continues Saturday, March 11, with the return of the NASCAR Xfinity Series’ United Rentals 200. Those races set the table for Sunday, March 12, when the stars of the NASCAR Cup Series compete in the Ruoff Mortgage 500. Tickets for those races are on sale at www.phoenixraceway.com, and fans are encouraged to secure their seats now given that the Ruoff Mortgage 500 sold out in 2022.
The popularity of Phoenix Raceway’s March weekend is due in no short part to the potent preview it will provide for NASCAR Championship Weekend, Nov. 3-5, 2023. The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series will crown its champion on Friday, Nov. 3, followed by the ARCA Menards Series West finale and NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race on Saturday, Nov. 4. And for the fourth consecutive season, the NASCAR Cup Series will culminate its season with the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race on Sunday, Nov. 5.
Grandstand tickets for the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway sold out in May, but a limited number of standing room only tickets remain available for NASCAR’s 2022 grand finale on Sunday, Nov. 6. There are also grandstand tickets available for the Lucas Oil 150 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday, Nov. 4, and the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship / ARCA Menards Series West doubleheader on Saturday, Nov. 5. A Saturday ticket also includes Busch Light Pole Award qualifying for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race.
Additional 2022 NASCAR Championship Weekend experiences and entertainment will be announced in the weeks ahead, and fans are encouraged to visit www.phoenixraceway.com for the latest information and to secure their tickets before they are gone.
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Windsor business owner files protest over downtown permanent parking zone petition
The chairman of Windsor's Downtown Development Authority is challenging the validity of a petition that would ask voters to create a permanent parking zone in downtown.
Dan Stauss, owner of Memory Lane Antiques, said he filed the protest as an individual and registered voter. A protest can only be filed by a registered voter in Windsor.
A hearing officer on Tuesday, Sept. 13, listened to a litany of arguments challenging the petition and must make a decision within five days, or by the end of day on Sunday.
If the protest is denied, the petition would ask voters to modify the town's zoning map to create a permanent parking zone in the central business district, primarily the 400 and 500 blocks of Main Street, ultimately restricting development on two of the three backlots owned by the DDA, which plans to redevelop the site into retail, restaurants and residences.
The petition had 2,255 valid signatures; it needed 1,283.
Stauss said he filed the protest because the petition amounts to an illegal taking of DDA land and would result in spot zoning if passed by voters. "It's saying 'we are taking this property and making it permanent parking, on land the DDA owns and the DDA won't have any right to develop it,' " he said.
Redeveloping the backlots into a mixed-use project has been part of the town's master plan and comprehensive plan for years, he said.
Typically, parking is a secondary use in most zoning districts, but the petition would create a primary use, which throws the town charter and town zoning "out the window," Stauss said.
"It's important we have a thriving and growing downtown and to attain that we need to have more commercial downtown," he said. With much of Windsor's growth occurring on the edges of town, Stauss said he worries downtown will become stagnant. "People will go to the new stuff," he said. "If we don't have new amenities, downtown will wither."
With the protest, it is too late to get the issue on the Nov. 8 ballot. That means the town will likely schedule a special election, which by law, would have to be held between Oct. 27 and Jan. 26, Town Clerk Karen Frawley said.
The dirt lots south of Boardwalk Park and Windsor Lake have been used as parking for several years and provide access to the lake, park and local businesses. Earlier this year, the town board increased the maximum building height in the area from 35 to 65 feet, partially to accommodate future development of the backlots.
Even as the petition was being circulated, the DDA was forging ahead with redevelopment plans for the backlots.
The DDA board voted in July to spend up to $60,000 to prepare project renderings with the cost shared equally among the town, developer Tribe Development and the DDA. It is unclear whether the petition, if it makes it on to the ballot and is approved by voters, carries any legal authority over the DDA, a quasigovernmental organization.
Meanwhile, the town has been working to add more parking downtown.
Plans include expanding the parking lot near the Windsor-Severance Fire Museum on Sixth Street east toward the Windsor History Museum, which is currently an unpaved lot that doesn't serve the community well in its current state and is often vandalized because there isn't much foot traffic in the area, the town has said.
The parking improvements will include updates to Boardwalk Park's existing lot on Birch Street, adding more spaces on the south and east sides. These additions will accommodate visitors to Boardwalk Park, which is often busy throughout the summer for many popular town events like the Summer Concert Series.
Existing spaces at the Fifth Street roundabout will also be converted to add more accessible parking for people with disabilities. These spaces will be closer to the Farmers Market Pavilion. The DDA board announced recently it will purchase land near Windsor Lake, north of Main Street, as part of the town's $1 million commitment to acquire more land for downtown parking. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/money/real-estate/2022/09/14/windsor-business-owner-protests-permanent-parking-zone-petition/69492640007/ | 2022-09-14T21:52:13Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/money/real-estate/2022/09/14/windsor-business-owner-protests-permanent-parking-zone-petition/69492640007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Larimer County deputies arrest man after hourslong standoff in northwest Fort Collins
A man was arrested early Tuesday morning after law enforcement said he threatened his parents and refused to come out of their house for several hours.
A neighborhood just northwest of Fort Collins city limits was locked down for for 9½ hours Monday afternoon and early Tuesday morning while Larimer County Sheriff's Office deputies were responding to the incident.
Deputies responded to a home in the 2900 block of Wakonda Drive — near the intersection of Overland Trail and Vine Drive — about 3 p.m. Monday. The first deputy on scene said he saw a woman talking to her adult son through the patio door, according to arrest documents obtained by the Coloradoan.
The woman told the deputy her son showed up at their residence earlier that day and went to the shop on the property, where his father was working.
Previous coverage:Larimer County Sheriff's Office locks down northwest Fort Collins neighborhood for hours
His son was upset and yelling when he came into the shop, his father told the deputy. They left the shop while his son was still upset and walked to the patio. He continued to yell and then allegedly hit his father, knocking his glasses off his face, according to arrest documents.
The deputy reported not seeing any visible injuries but said the suspect's father said his right cheek and temple were in pain.
His father then went back into the shop, and that's when his mother said her son walked to the front of the house — possibly to a white vehicle without plates he arrived in — and came back with a plastic-looking long barrel gun, according to arrest documents.
His mother told the deputy he threatened to kill her and his father and then himself, according to arrest documents.
He allegedly went inside the house and refused to come out for an undisclosed amount of time while deputies stationed outside made repeated commands for him to come out.
Cayne Lucia, 34, was arrested in connection with the incident just before 3 a.m. Tuesday, according to booking records. He was also arrested on three outstanding warrants. It's unclear how or when law enforcement took Lucia into custody.
No formal charges have been filed in this case, and the Larimer County Sheriff's Office had not released additional information about this incident as of 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. A spokesperson for the sheriff's office told the Coloradoan they are working on a press release.
Lucia had previously eluded law enforcement for nearly eight months in late 2017 and early 2018 until he was eventually arrested in June 2018, according to previous Coloradoan coverage.
During those eight months, the sheriff’s office claimed Lucia fled from them at least twice.
Lucia was sentenced to 30 months in prison in May 2019 after pleading guilty to charges of vehicular eluding and felony menacing, according to Coloradoan records. Several other charges were dismissed, according to online court records.
Lucia was in the Larimer County Jail as of Wednesday afternoon. He is next scheduled to appear in court on this case Sept. 20.
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Mountain West will have a new commissioner as Craig Thompson announces plan to step down
The only commissioner the Mountain West has ever known is stepping down.
The conference announced Wednesday that Craig Thompson will step down on Dec. 31, ending his 24-year run leading the league.
The Mountain West was created in 1998 and officially began operations in January of 1999.
Thompson cited the recent decision of the College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams as a final accomplishment he wanted to see before stepping down.
“My one remaining priority was expansion of the College Football Playoff and viable access for the Mountain West,” Thompson said in a news release. “I take considerable pride in my committed engagement to this effort over the past two-and-a-half decades and look forward to the finalization of those details in the coming months. With CFP expansion accomplished and having invested almost a third of my life in the Mountain West, the time is now right for me to conclude my tenure and allow the Conference to continue its momentum under new leadership.”
Forming the MW:The inside story on how the Mountain West was created
On Oct. 15, 1998, the new league hired Thompson, who was commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference at the time. He had previously helped launch the American South Conference and served as its first commissioner.
The Mountain West was formed as a breakaway from the WAC, with Colorado State one of the schools leading the charge.
The 66-year-old Thompson has helped negotiate nearly $600 million in TV revenue and five MW teams have participated in BCS or New Year's Six bowl games.
Conference membership has also fluctuated greatly. CSU, Air Force, UNLV, New Mexico, San Diego State and Wyoming were original members who are still in the league.
BYU and Utah left in 2011 and TCU in 2012. Boise State joined in 2011 with Fresno State, Hawaii (football only), Nevada and San Jose State following shortly after.
The MW has thus far been left untouched in the most recent rounds of realignment, but both the Pac-12 and Big 12 could be eyeing some member schools in possible expansion.
At the same time, the MW has chosen not to add so far during realignment.
The Mountain West was the first conference to launch its own cable television network. The Mtn. launched on Sept. 1, 2006, beating Big Ten Network to air by a year.
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Latest package delivery scam involves USPS, sheriff’s office warns
Published: Sep. 14, 2022 at 4:04 PM CDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
JENA, La. (Gray News) - Authorities in Louisiana are getting the word out about a scam involving the U.S. Postal Service.
The LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office reports it has become aware of a scam where residents receive a text message that appears to be from the postal service stating that there is a problem with a delivery.
If clicked, the link will take the user to a site that appears to be a USPS website that asks for credit card information to have the package delivered for a fee.
Authorities said this is a scam, and the postal service does not operate in such a manner.
The sheriff’s office urged all residents not to click on these links or follow such fraudulent text messages.
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.Jason DeCarlo is proof of how important consistency is when it comes to winning a track championship.
The Chase City, Virginia resident won the 2022 South Boston Speedway Virginia State Police HEAT Hornets Division championship without a win. His record of seven Top-Five finishes and having finished no worse than sixth in any race was strong enough to carry DeCarlo to his first career South Boston Speedway track title.
In the final points tally, DeCarlo edged his best friend, two-time former division champion Kevin Currin of Chase City, Virginia, by eight points to win the title.
“Winning the championship means a lot to me,” DeCarlo remarked. “To win a championship at South Boston Speedway – I don’t know the word to describe it. It’s really cool. Looking through all the pictures of my crew at the track on championship night, like hugging my spotter Jonathon Bailey and when Kevin (Currin) came running over to congratulate me, that meant more than just winning the championship.”
For DeCarlo wrapping up the division championship on the final night of racing was great relief.
“It was a huge relief to win the championship, and it was exciting when we did it,” DeCarlo said. “It was getting kind of tense down there towards the end. Kevin was steadily gaining, and we were managing to stay in front of him.”
Consistency was DeCarlo’s hallmark through the season. Competing in his second season in the division, he posted a pair of second-place finishes, a pair of third-place finishes, two fourth-place finishes, a fifth-place finish and three sixth-place finishes during the 2022 season.
“Consistency is a big thing in winning a championship,” DeCarlo pointed out. “I had a little experience coming into the season and we were able to figure out some things with the car. We have the only little Mazda out there on the track. We learned more about the car, I learned the track better, figured out where the best place was for me to run on the track and tried to make myself more consistent in my driving style.
“The other part,” DeCarlo continued, “was we stayed on top of the maintenance of the car, kept the car running, made sure everything was good on it, and it ran consistently all year.”
The disappointing part of the season for DeCarlo was not winning a race.
“The only thing about the season I’m not pleased about is we did not get a win,” DeCarlo noted. “I feel like it is in us. It was just nothing really clicked for us to get it. We’re going to shoot for a few wins next year.”
The first half of the season was fun for DeCarlo, but the second half of the season produced more tension as Currin, who missed starting an early-season race because of a mechanical failure, began producing wins and climbing into contention for the title. Currin finished his season with a division-high four wins in his nine starts.
“I enjoyed the beginning, the good strong finishes, but when you get into a points chase with your best friend it is kind of nerve-wracking,” DeCarlo explained. “We don’t let off of each other. We were talking junk back and forth constantly.”
Regardless of the outcome of the championship chase, DeCarlo said he and Currin were not going to let racing come between their friendship.
“When I got into racing and quit helping him with his car like I was two seasons ago, we made it set that we were not going to let this come between us,” DeCarlo said. “We’re not going to let a race win, or a trophy come between our relationship. I know he wasn’t going to let it happen, and I wasn’t going to let it happen. That didn’t mean that we weren’t going to race each other hard.”
DeCarlo pointed out while the Virginia State Police HEAT Hornets Division is designed to be a fun, affordable division to compete in, the competition is tough.
“You race in this division for the fun of it, but the racing is very competitive,” DeCarlo noted. “I think in qualifying for the last race there was only three tenths of a second between first place and ninth place. That is how competitive the division has gotten. If you are off one or two tenths of a second you are not going to be near the front.
“The racing in the division is getting better,” DeCarlo continued. “If Kevin (Currin) would have had one more start he would be here instead of me. Dillon Davis (third place in points) missed one race. Kendall Milam (fourth place in points) missed one race. Stephen Layne had an axle to break the next-to-last night which threw him out of it. Everybody races hard. It’s a competitive division.”
DeCarlo says he plans to return next season to compete in the Virginia State Police HEAT Hornets Division.
“We can afford to race in the Hornets Division with the sponsorship we have, and with the time I and everybody else has to work on the car,” DeCarlo said. “It’s more feasible to stay where we are. The Hornets Division is affordable, it’s fun, and we put on a good show.”
Upcoming Events At South Boston Speedway
South Boston Speedway’s NASCAR racing season has ended but there are a trio of events remaining on the speedway’s 2022 calendar.
The Country Roads Truck Show, featuring a wide variety of vehicles, will be held Saturday, September 17 from 12 noon until 5 p.m. in the infield area at South Boston Speedway.
This is the second year that the event hosted and promoted by Thorpe Money Ent. is being held at South Boston Speedway.
Visitors to the show will also see classic and custom cars, a wide variety of trucks, low riders, ATVs and much more.
There will be live music with a performance by 04trac and other artists.
Gates will open at 11 a.m. Tickets are priced at $20 each for spectators and $40 for showing and will be sold only at the gate on the day of the event. The only gate open for spectators and participants to enter the event is through the speedway’s pit gate located in turn two.
Racing returns to South Boston Speedway on Saturday afternoon, October 22 when the CARS Tour makes its stop at the .4-mile oval. A 125-lap CARS Tour Late Model Stock Car Division race and a 100-lap CARS Tour Pro Late Model race will comprise the day’s action. The first race of the day is set for a 2 p.m. start.
Advance tickets are priced at $15 each and are available on South Boston Speedway’s website southbostonspeedway.com or by calling the speedway office at 1-434-572-4947 or toll free 1-877-440-1540 during regular business hours. Tickets will be $20 each at the gate on race day.
The speedway will close out its 2022 calendar on Saturday afternoon, October 29 when the speedway hosts its second drifting event of the season, SoBo Drifts powered by Barlow’s Tire. That event will be held from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m.
Additional details surrounding the event will be announced soon.
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Money approved for states to build car-charging network
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it has approved ambitious plans by 34 states and Puerto Rico to create a national electric vehicle charging network as the U.S. begins in earnest its transition away from gas-powered transportation.
The plans’ approval means $900 million can begin to flow to the states, which are tasked with using money from President Joe Biden’s huge infrastructure law to form the network of chargers across the nation. Building out a reliable and convenient network is critical to spur more adoption of the technology, which is itself key to reducing greenhouse emissions that cause global warming.
The announcement came on the same day that Biden toured the North American International Auto Show in Detroit to tout the new law that includes tax incentives to purchase electric vehicles.
In practical terms, it means residents in some of those states could see charging stations start popping up along major travel corridors as early as next spring. Biden has a goal of ultimately installing 500,000 chargers across America and building a network of fast-charging stations across 53,000 miles of freeways from coast to coast.
“Unlocking this type of funding is an enormous step in getting the charging network out, which is something we absolutely need if we’re going to get full-scale deployment and adoption” of electric vehicles, said Nico Larco, director of Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. “We don’t have the capacity now to power anywhere near the fleet that we need.”
Federal officials said they will continue to review the plans not approved in this round with the goal of approving all the states’ EV roadmaps by Sept. 30.
Biden’s infrastructure law provides $5 billion over five years for the electric vehicle charging network.
The funding announced Wednesday is specifically for installing the most powerful chargers along “alternative fuel corridors” — major freeways that connect states — with the goal of eliminating the “range anxiety” that keeps many people from purchasing electric vehicles or using them on long road trips. Under proposed guidelines, states would be required to install at least one four-port fast-charging station every 50 miles on these corridors and ensure they are within one mile of an off-ramp.
Some states received exemptions in rural areas for the 50-mile requirement, according to the approval letters.
An additional $2.5 billion in discretionary grants is also available to fund electric vehicle charging infrastructure in economically disadvantaged communities, rural areas and urban cores. And Biden’s recently passed Inflation Reduction Act includes $3 billion to spur electric vehicle adoption and charging accessibility in disadvantaged communities.
Some rural states have raised serious concerns about the proposed federal requirements that accompany the money, including the every 50-mile requirement.
State transportation officials in Wyoming joined with their counterparts in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota last month to urge the Biden administration to ease the qualification requirements.
The proposal to install a minimum of a four-port charging station, for example, would needlessly drive up costs in areas with few people and so far little demand for chargers, according to Wyoming Department of Transportation Director K. Luke Reiner.
EVs account for 0.1% of vehicle registrations in Wyoming and it would be “irresponsible and illogical” for rural sates to spend now on a four port requirement, Reiner wrote in an August letter to the U.S. Transportation Department.
“It would take more than two decades before a significant enough increase in statewide EV adoption would result in long queues of EVs waiting for charging at four-port stations,” he wrote.
Wyoming’s plan is still pending, while Montana’s plan was among the 35 approved.
The Federal Highway Administration will review those concerns and determine the final guidelines now that the public comment period has closed. Federal officials are also considering a waiver of the “Buy America” provision of the infrastructure deal.
Officials in Nevada, for example, have expressed concern that they would not be able to acquire charging stations that meet the American-made provisions and thus would be unable to start building out their piece of the network.
Experts who have followed the evolution of electric vehicle adoption in the U.S. say having charging stations everywhere is important.
“It’s like the U.S. Postal Service. You need to be able to send mail everywhere, including places that are rural,” said Jeremy Michalek, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the university’s Vehicle Electrification Group.
“Even if that charger that’s in that rural area isn’t used as much every day, we still need the infrastructure to supply them.. We have gas stations that are used less in rural areas than they would be in a big city, but we need them for the demand.”
Electric vehicle owners hailed the news and said they currently must take extra steps and precautions if they want to take their EVs on a long trip.
Bob Palrud of Spokane, Washington, says the small number of chargers in some rural areas of the West means he must carefully plot his travel routes to avoid running out of power. Palrud journeys three times yearly with his wife, Judy, to their cabin in Sheridan, Wyoming, and twice they’ve gotten so low on electricity coming through southeastern Montana that his vehicle automatically shut down some functions to conserve power.
“The thing people worry most about is range,” said Palrud, a semi-retired house painter who was at a charging center just off Interstate-90 in Montana on Wednesday on his way back to Spokane. “I sit there and do mental calculations on what kind of range I’m going to get.”
When he travels to see family in Minnesota, Palrud said he goes hundreds of miles out of his way to avoid northern Montana, where there is no major interstate and charging options are few.
“It would be better to have more but it’s not a deal killer,” he said. “I could chop a couple hundred miles off and that would be great.”
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As part of NASCAR’s announcement of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series schedules, Martinsville Speedway will host NASCAR race weekends on April 14-16, 2023 and the penultimate races of the Xfinity Series and Cup Series season, Xfinity 500, on Oct. 28-29, 2023.
“Martinsville Speedway has been a short track tradition from the start of NASCAR’s illustrious 75-year history, so we look forward to welcoming the best competitors in motorsports back to ‘The Short Track’ for the sport’s 75th Anniversary season,” said Clay Campbell, Martinsville Speedway President. “The Martinsville grandfather clock, one of the most iconic trophies in professional sports, will once again be the center of the fierce battles on the racetrack as part of our spring and fall race weekends.”
In the spring, Martinsville will host all three NASCAR national series featuring the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series on Friday, April 14, 2023, Xfinity Series on Saturday, April 15, 2023, and the Cup Series on Sunday, April 16, 2023. Martinsville has hosted April Cup races in 1952, 1958, 1960-1969, 1971- 2008, 2011-2013, 2016-2017 and 2021-2022. The track has hosted spring Xfinity Series races in 1982-1994 and 2021-2022. Martinsville has hosted spring CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races in 1999-2019 and 2022.
Racing Virginia will be active in the month of April as the Commonwealth will host two Cup Series races in the same month for the third consecutive season as Richmond Raceway will host the Toyota Owners 400 on April 2, 2023.
In the fall, Martinsville will host the penultimate race of the Xfinity Series in the Dead On Tools 250 on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023 and the Cup Series for the fourth consecutive season in the Xfinity 500 on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. In an intense short track battle that can only happen at Martinsville, the races will set the field for the respective series for the NASCAR Championships the following week at Phoenix Raceway. Martinsville Speedway has hosted a fall Cup race every year since 1949. The track has hosted a fall Xfinity Series race in 1982-1994 and 2020-2022.
Start times and television networks for the 2023 Cup Series, Xfinity Series and CRAFTSMAN Truck Series schedules will be announced at a later date.
2023 NASCAR tickets are available for purchase via phone at 877-RACE-TIX or online at martinsvillespeedway.com. Fans can view the full 2023 NASCAR schedule and purchase tickets at www.nascar.com/2023schedule
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The 2023 NASCAR Cup Series schedule was announced today, and like 2022, the DAYTONA 500, NASCAR’s biggest and most prestigious event, will kick off NASCAR’s 75th Anniversary season while the Coke Zero Sugar 400 will again be final race of the regular season. In addition, the schedules for the NASCAR Xfinity and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series ’23 schedules were released.
The 65th annual DAYTONA 500, which has had tickets (starting at $99) on sale since June, is again set for Presidents’ Day Weekend, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. It will mark the 42nd straight year (dating back to 1982) The Great American Race has started off NASCAR’s season. Tickets are selling fast for the DAYTONA 500 and fans are encouraged to make their plans now and can do so by visiting www.DAYTONA500.com or by calling 1-800-PITSHOP.
Fans will again see the NASCAR’s Next Gen cars in competition on the 31-degree banking during Thursday’s (Feb. 16) Bluegreen Vacations Duel races, which will set the starting field for the 65th annual DAYTONA 500, as part of Speedweeks Presented By AdventhHealth. Friday, Feb. 17, the NEXTera Energy 250 for the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series will get the green flag while Saturday (Feb. 18) will see the Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. 300 for the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The ARCA Menards Series will also be in competition during Speedweeks Presented By AdventHealth.
Next year’s summer classic, the Coke Zero Sugar 400, is set for Saturday evening, Aug. 26. Last month, for the third time in history, the Coke Zero Sugar 400 served as the last-chance, cutoff race for the playoffs and delivered in dramatic fashion as Austin Dillon held off furious challenges by a host of drivers to take the final spot in the Cup Series Playoffs. Friday, Aug. 25, the Wawa 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series race kicks off the much-anticipated week. For ticket information on the Coke Zero Sugar 400, fans can call 1-800-PITSHOP or
log onto www.
“The energy and excitement of our 2022 DAYTONA 500 and Coke Zero Sugar 400 was unprecedented,” said Daytona International Speedway President Frank Kelleher. “And we expect even more in 2023. Fans will get to be a part of the pageantry of the season-opening Great American Race, as well as all of our events as part of Speedweeks Presented by AdventHealth, and we will have more experiences for families and friends alike to enjoy.
“The excitement for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 continues to be at an all-time high, especially with the introduction of NASCAR’s Next Gen car as the sport has produced a record number of winners. The pressure to get into the playoffs is immense. Just ask Austin Dillon, who has been able to win the Coke Zero Sugar 400 and punch his ticket to this year’s playoffs. We can’t wait for that same level of excitement in 2023.”
Guests at Daytona are guaranteed to experience edge-of-your-seat excitement in a state-of-the-art motorsports facility with amenities that include more than 101,500 seats, thousands of premium club seats, 40 escalators and 17 elevators, 60 luxury suites, social “neighborhoods” and three concourse levels that span the nearly mile-long frontstretch.
Fans wishing to attend the 2023 Coke Zero Sugar 400 can take advantage of an early access pre-sale. Available online or by phone, tickets for the general public start at $49 for adults and $10 for kids 12 and younger. Fans who attended the 2022 event can take advantage of even lower pricing when renewing by the deadline of Dec. 2.
The complete ’23 schedules of all three NASCAR series can be found at www.nascar.com. Start times and television networks for Cup Series races will be also announced at a later date.
Fans can also stay connected with Daytona International Speedway on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, as well as the all-new NASCAR Tracks App, for the latest speedway news.
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For the first time ever, the NASCAR Xfinity Series will challenge the picturesque rolling hills of Sonoma Raceway at the DoorDash 250 on Saturday, June 10, 2023.
NASCAR announced today the Xfinity Series will join the NASCAR Cup Series race weekend at Sonoma Raceway next year for the first time in the history of the series as part of its full 2023 season schedule release. The Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Cup Series race will return to Sonoma Raceway on Sunday June 11, 2023.
The Xfinity Series is a proving ground for up-and-coming NASCAR Cup Series drivers and has produced some of NASCAR’s biggest stars. Fans will be treated to three days of racing action over the weekend.
“We are thrilled to have the Xfinity Series racing here in Sonoma for the first time ever,” said raceway executive vice president and general manager Jill Gregory. “This is part of our promise to our fans to keep raising the bar. And we expect several of the Cup Series racers to pull double duty and run the Xfinity Series race as well.”
The 2023 date remains fixed on the same weekend as this past June. The Toyota/Save Mart 350 will span 110 laps and will run the historically popular chute configuration, adding to the fan experience with more opportunities for passing and on-track action.
Practice and qualifying times, other companion events and TV broadcast information will be provided at a later date.
Tickets and camping information for the 2023 Toyota/Save Mart 350 weekend can be found by visiting SonomaRaceway.com or calling 800-970-RACE (7223).
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NASCAR today announced the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series schedule that includes Talladega Superspeedway’s race weekends - the GEICO 500 and the YellaWood 500, return to the spring and fall, respectively.
During NASCAR’s 75th Anniversary, the 53rd edition of the Talladega springtime classic, GEICO 500, is set for Sunday, April 23, 2023, and will be the premier series’ 10th points race of the year. The winner of the GEICO 500 will advance to the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs. Tickets, which start at just $65, are on sale now and can be found here or at www.talladegasuperspeedway.com
While the 2022 YellaWood 500 is just over two weeks away (on Oct. 2), next year’s version of the fall classic will take place on Sunday, October 1, 2023, and will again be the crucial, second race in the Round of 12 of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs. The doubleheader NASCAR Playoffs weekend will start on Saturday, Sept. 29, with the Chevy Silverado 250 for the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series.
“We are thrilled to have both our GEICO 500 and YellaWood 500 weekends back next spring and fall on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule,” said Talladega Superspeedway President Brian Crichton. “Families and friends will yet again be able to converge at the greatest race track in the world for the greatest experience and entertainment. We look forward to new fans also being here, creating race traditions and taking home lifetime memories that can only be had at Talladega.”
One part of the entertainment that Crichton refers to is the Talladega Garage Experience, which debuted in fall of 2019 and continues to receive rave reviews. The Talladega Garage Experience gives fans the chance to be immersed into the sport of NASCAR like never before, including being able to be up-close to NASCAR’s top drivers and teams via a fan walkway under the same roof as the NASCAR Cup Series garage car bays. In addition, there’s the unique 35,000 square foot “Big Bill’s” covered Open Air Social Club, complete with ample seating, a bar and a 41-foot diagonal video screen, the opportunity to be a part of Ruoff Victory Lane, and a lot more.
All the incredible traditions fans know and love such as camping, the Saturday Night Concert, the Big One on the Blvd (spring GEICO 500) in the infield, the unique social atmosphere, tailgating, parties, kids programming and just plain family fun along with much more will be back in ’23.
Fans wishing to attend the Cup Series races at ’DEGA in 2023 can purchase tickets starting at $65.00 for adults and $10 for kids 12 and younger. Account holders from 2022 can take advantage of even lower pricing when renewing their tickets & camping. For information on the 2023 GEICO 500 and YellaWood 500, fans can visit www.talladegasuperspeedway.
The complete ’23 schedules of all three NASCAR series can be found at www.nascar.com. Start times and television networks for Cup Series races will be also announced at a later date.
NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs contender Ross Chastain is the reigning champion of the GEICO 500 while Bubba Wallace won last year’s YellaWood 500.
Grandstand and tower seating are still available for the upcoming NASCAR Tripleheader Playoffs race weekend, Oct. 1-2, which includes Sunday’s YellaWood 500 and a Saturday doubleheader with the Chevy Silverado 250 for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the Sparks 300 for the NASCAR Xfinity Series. For all ticket information, fans are encouraged to 1-877-Go2-DEGA or visit www.talladegasuperspeedway.com
Fans are encouraged to keep up with all the happenings at the biggest, baddest race track on the planet by following Talladega Superspeedway on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, as well as the all-new NASCAR Tracks App. for the latest speedway news.
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The world’s most competitive form of motorsports will make two stops in Las Vegas for the sixth consecutive year in 2023.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway once again will host two NASCAR Cup Series races next year. NASCAR officials released the 2023 schedule on Sept. 14th, bringing the biggest stars in American motorsports back to the Entertainment Capital of the World.
“It’s great for our destination to be one of a select few cities chosen to host two NASCAR races each year,” said LVMS President Chris Powell. “Since 1996, Las Vegas Motor Speedway has delivered some of the most exciting racing in the world, and we’re looking forward to welcoming tens of thousands of race fans from around the globe back to Las Vegas for two more thrilling NASCAR weekends in 2023.”
LVMS will host a tripleheader March 3-5, headlined by the Pennzoil 400 Presented by Jiffy Lube on Sunday, March 5. The Alsco 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series race will be Saturday, March 4 and the Victoria’s Voice Foundation 200 Presented by Westgate Resorts NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race will kick off the weekend on Friday, March 4. The speedway’s annual fall date, the South Point 400, will be Oct. 15. The South Point 400 will also be the first race of the round eight of the NASCAR Playoffs. The Fall weekend will begin with the Alsco 302 NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday, Oct. 14.
Qualifying, practice, start times, TV coverage and fan events will all be announced at a later date. Season, weekend and individual race tickets are on sale now at www.lvms.com.
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Judge temporarily blocks Ohio law banning most abortions
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge temporarily blocked Ohio’s ban on virtually all abortions Wednesday, again pausing a law that took effect after federal abortion protections were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
The decision means abortions through 20 weeks’ gestation can continue for now, in keeping with state law in place before the ban.
Hamilton County Judge Christian Jenkins’ decision to grant a 14-day restraining order against the law came as part of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Ohio on behalf of abortion providers in the state. The clinics argue the law violates protections in the state Constitution guaranteeing individual liberty and equal protection. The suit also says the law is unconstitutionally vague.
The law was signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in April 2019, and prohibits most abortions after the first detectable “fetal heartbeat.” Cardiac activity can be detected as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many people know they’re pregnant. The law had been blocked through a legal challenge, then went into effect after the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was overturned.
DeWine’s opponent in the November election, Democrat and abortion rights proponent Nan Whaley, called Wednesday’s ruling “a victory, albeit a temporary one, for Ohio women.” She said, “Ohio women won’t be safe until we have a pro-choice governor who doesn’t seek to impose extreme views like government mandates against private health care decisions.”
Abortion providers and their defenders have said the law has already created a host of hardships, including forcing a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim to travel to Indiana for an abortion.
The judge’s decision is a blow for abortion opponents, who have been celebrating implementation of the long-delayed restrictions since Roe was overturned.
Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati had anticipated the judge was leaning toward a pause after a hearing held last week, when he asked questions about the 10-year-old’s case and suggested, “We should just be very honest about what we’re talking about here.”
“Let’s just be very honest,” the anti-abortion group wrote in a statement, “it is always, always best when LIFE is chosen. Always.”
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As I began writing about the updates to the district’s curriculum, it quickly became apparent that the topic was too large in scope for a single article. This column will focus on how we utilize technology to augment instruction. Next week will dive into the specific technology knowledge and skills our students will be acquiring.
The district took a huge leap in our use of technology to support instruction just in front of the COVID-19 pandemic. We made the decision to become a 1-to-1 school, meaning that all students would have access to a chromebook. This looks a little different depending upon the age of the student as access can vary from a classroom cart model where the devices are used during the day, but are stored in the classroom to a model where older students have a specific chromebook assigned to them and are free to use the devices at home.
In addition, our new math curriculum required the purchase of approximately seventy interactive panels. Think of an interactive panel as a cross between a television and a computer with touchscreen functionality. Smart panels are very much a normal component of instruction in today’s classrooms.
Adapting to the distance learning experience during the pandemic also meant utilizing various applications to enhance instruction. As challenging as it was, the need to improvise also brought out some really good practices that support student learning. Teachers continued to use the best of those practices even after students returned to the classroom. The use of these various technologies has become an integral part of modern instructional practice.
This is a brief snapshot of some of the applications and software that we use to aid instruction.
Google Workspace for Education is a suite of tools for document creation and sharing, as well as homework hand out/turn in processes in classrooms. All staff and students use Google Workspace for Education.
GoGuardian is a Chromebook management program that teachers can use to help focus their students’ Chromebook use by preventing them from wandering to websites that are irrelevant to the lesson. Teachers can launch tabs automatically for students, and can lock student screens when attention is needed at the front of the class. Additionally, GoGuardian provides content filtering, helping to keep students away from inappropriate material. GoGuardian also has a parent app that allows parents to see their students’ Chromebook usage history.
PearDeck is a service that allows teachers to add interactivity to traditional slide decks. Students can anonymously respond to prompts, answer questions, draw or diagram and more during a teacher’s presentation. Student responses are saved and are reviewable by the teacher. This allows the teacher to gauge the class’s learning and adjust future lessons as necessary.
Clever is a portal used primarily by our elementary students. Students can use a QR code to badge into their Chromebook, which then takes them to their Clever portal. The Clever portal is set up by school administrators and classroom teachers. Once badged in, students can access all of the district’s software products directly without being required to sign in. Clever handles the sign-in process for them.
Students in graphic design classes are issued Adobe Creative Cloud accounts that provide access to Adobe tools such as Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere Pro.
Engineering and STEM students utilize AutoCAD which is a powerful computer-aided design software that can communicate with our 3D printers to bring student creations to life.
Cleveland students use Typing Pal to learn the basics of efficient keyboarding.
Music teachers use Quaver to make the learning of music theory fun for younger students.
In addition, curriculum publishers now produce digital curriculum to support instruction. The days where a student simply received a new textbook are long gone. Digital curriculum supports can add to the teacher’s instruction, provide remediation or additional challenge material by analyzing student responses and determine what each individual student needs in the way of support. This practice is known in education as differentiated instruction. It is designed to meet the needs of each student by matching instructional materials with the present abilities of the student.
McGraw-Hill is a major publisher of curricula used by thousands of schools across the United States. Their publications are typically of high quality and we purchase a fair amount of curricula from them.
Our K-6 language arts curriculum is published by McGraw-Hill. Their online Wonders product is a resource teachers use to reinforce their classroom lessons. Leveled readers help provide students with needed support materials. Leveled readers typically come in three reading levels. They all contain the essence of the same story or material, however, the leveled readers allow students to learn the concepts using a text with a reading level better matched to their current ability. If you have been around as long as I have, think of it as the difference between Wikipedia, World Book Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Britannica. You could look up a topic on any of them, but the level of detail and complexity varies greatly.
The McGraw-Hill Inspire product reinforces classroom lessons for science. The new science standards are built on an inquiry-based model. Students are encouraged to ask questions and learn how to use evidence to support scientific principles. As parents, if you recall how many questions your children asked you when they were little — well, the goal of the Inspire curriculum is to extend that curiosity and use it as a springboard for learning.
Reveal is the McGraw-Hill online math resource. It includes the traditional curriculum “bundle” which comprises a student edition, consumables (skill practice) and a teacher’s edition. It is paired with a product called ALEKS. ALEKS complements the lessons in the Reveal curriculum and provides feedback to both the student and the teacher. ALEKS is adaptive. As students solve problems, the software recognizes concepts the child has mastered and moves them on to more challenging content. By the same token, if a student is struggling with a concept, the software adapts instruction and practice to meet the child’s needs. Teachers are able to access detailed reports on content mastery across the entire class or can view an in-depth analysis at the individual student level.
That’s a quick snapshot of how we use technology to support and enhance curriculum and instruction. Next week will focus on the technology skills our students are learning. | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/utilizing-technology-to-augment-instruction/article_8be35472-3384-11ed-a260-fbe0871f8d37.html | 2022-09-14T21:55:37Z | fergusfallsjournal.com | control | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/utilizing-technology-to-augment-instruction/article_8be35472-3384-11ed-a260-fbe0871f8d37.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One of the novels I had to dissect for an early literature course at university was Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for a Time Being,” an engrossing fiction that made the Man Booker Prize shortlist in 2013 and garnered praise and acclaim from a wide audience. It’s a book I highly recommend and I leave you now with a short segment of my review of the text.
A haunting element that continually stalks the margins of Ozeki’s world is the wolf pack that inhabits her lonely Canadian island. Relentlessly threatening the security of Ozeki’s life in Whaletown, they are a constant reminder of her vulnerability to the natural elements which exist beyond her control in her volatile natural surroundings. The idea of wolves carries over the Atlantic to Nao’s precarious existence in Japan, where she is constantly threatened by a group of bullies that inhabit her school. Nao is bitten by their scissors and tortured through their psychological acts of ijimi, a group of animals that continue their torment outside of school and shadow her walk home every day. She describes them as hyenas and like these scavenging predators of opportunity they share many of the same characteristics. Betrayed by their dark chirping laughter, these animals have a propensity to slowly maim their intended prey until death, a sinister method of hunting that utilizes psychological attack as a macabre tool to achieve their ultimate goal. Nao, like Ozeki, also discovers the otherworldly remove of island life, if only for a few moments each morning before the daily torture of the classroom. Nao’s island, in contrast to Ozeki’s, is a peaceful one, found within the verdant secrecy of a temple garden within the concrete jungle of Tokyo. Ozeki maintains her own cloistered island of protection, hers extending to the precipice of the corona of her headlamp, bamboo slightly rapping just beyond the power of her lumens and reminding her of the danger lying in wait beyond. They both find themselves in an unfamiliar wilderness, Ozeki being transplanted from New York to British Columbia’s Cortes Islands and Nao forced out of Sunnyvale with her family back to Japan, each new environment presenting terrifying new threats. Like the ever-present wolves that invoke fear, the cougars also present on the Island of Whaletown are another interesting species that provide an equally foreboding aura in “A Tale for the Time Being.” The cougar is another carnivorous predatory animal, one that employs careful stalking to target vulnerable prey. A deadly entity that focuses its efforts on the weak and the wounded, the cougar that can be discerned in Nao’s world is that of her father’s depression. This latent force trails Haruki #2 tirelessly, pawing at his weakness of conscience, culturally induced shame, and inability to repress his inner morality, all of which result in his termination and resulting inability to provide for his family.
I hope everyone continues to encounter books that invoke thought and inspire further journeys into the world of literature. Until next time, keep reading!
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Making my way into the kitchen brought silence. It’s easy to enjoy the stillness within the confines of stability, predictability — an offering it is. Too quiet, I thought as it wasn’t all that early. I peered out the kitchen window and recognized the pick-up parked in the driveway. All was well.
Familiarity offers stability as the recognizable pickup lay in wait for the day to begin – giving reassurance the owner of it was home and it would be a regular Saturday upon the farm.
It’s going on forty years now of being married to the pickup man – and not all pickups throughout the years have been gray ones. Now, he sorta matches his and I like that. Did I mention that in all those years of being married, never once have we owned a garage in which to park the pickup? Best part about not having a garage is that I need not peer into it to know if he’s home. I need merely to peek out the window to assess the situation.
Same sorta thing happens come evening. As the pickup lights blink their way down the driveway, it signals we will have yet another evening at home and for that I am grateful. Funny how that goes…the rhythm of life underneath the current of life…which ebbs and flows… I pause—trying not to take too much for granted. But at times I do take things for granted because I am mere mortal.
There have been times when the pickup’s pulled in late and I’ve wondered if I’d have another morning view of it, much less the farmer within it. Not all have the luxury of lingering talks upon the porch from the bird feeder vantage point like we do. Not all have the luxury of walking country roads in the not so quiet with new pup on leash as she unleashes energy much too powerful for our stage in life. Yet, the pickup man will not admit it. And that’s okay cause I think pup is an offering of stability signaling life will go on and we will be participants of.
The weekend will welcome a few chores and just for today the country roads are quieter than normal as the county fair is in full swing. Nothing is on the horizon for traveling here or there other than groceries. We buy instead of eat out cause we get more stability with the dollar when we do. Nothing on the radar other than calling dad who is now on hospice and each time he picks up, it is an offering of stability and I don’t want to take one second for granted – ever.
After the quiet of Saturday comes Sunday and it’s all an offering as we prayerfully respond to the invitation to come worship. Neighbors are counting on neighbors to show up cause they need us and we need them and the offering of ourselves to others is a constant and I like that, too.
I suppose, though, neighbor-to-neighbor is no offering if one does not first go to be reconciled to our brothers at the altar of our hearts. Only then can we be poured out as an offering according to Matthew 5:23-24. As we still, as we pause, and as we go to a place within for examine – confessing will bring fruit which will be all His as it is only He who offers true stability both now and forever – in Jesus name. Amen.
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Many associate “Banana Republic” with clothes shopping. Others use it as an insult. Time to pull the lever on the history machine and find out its origins.
“Banana Republic” was first coined in the 1920s to describe Honduras but also other countries controlled by the United Fruit Company, a U.S. owned multinational corporation, now Chiquita Banana. United Fruit owned many banana plantations and used native labor to raise bananas for export to the United States and other countries. By the 1930s it owned over 3.5 million acres in Latin America and the Caribbean and was the largest landowner in Guatemala.
Not just land: United Fruit was controlling foreign governments, treating them as for-profit colonies; exploiting their labor – similar to the brutality of the Dutch East India company elsewhere in the 1600s. These countries could not fight off United Fruit’s agenda. It had money. It used public relations and lobbyists in the United States to push their foreign policy objectives. They befriended dictators and hired mercenary troops to enforce their production quotas.
To this day, “Banana Republic” denotes a corruptly governed, often despotic country with a weak economy reliant on exporting natural resources, subjugated to foreign exploiters, with poor infrastructure. Today’s banana republics may not be so swayed by banana company overlords anymore, but the same sort of problems continue — dictatorship, weak law and order. Drug, human, or other trafficking sap their integrity.
I agree with Senator Tom Cotton on one issue: we shouldn’t allow unfettered purchase of real estate by foreigners, particularly in our best agricultural areas. China has been buying up a lot of our agricultural sector because it can’t feed itself even before this year’s drought with crop failures and rivers and lakes drying up. Unfortunately, they own some water rights and agriculture in California, which is drought-stricken and consuming groundwater at an irreplaceable pace (70% of groundwater use goes to agriculture) for export abroad.
But banning foreign ownership won’t stop attempts to buy up our agriculture. Shell companies will pop up to hide true ownership by foreign interests — unless we have an IRS, FBI, etc. fully funded, with enough manpower, computer power and modernized processing to enforce the law — and Congress also passes laws such as the Inflation Reduction Act to help end shell corporations and dark money in politics.
Colombia was a banana republic once. In 1928 striking unionizing workers were gunned down by the Colombian military on United Fruit’s behest. They were striking for one day of rest weekly, hygienic housing and the poorest workers to be paid 50% more; wages paid weekly, not biweekly. Unions threatened production and United Fruit had the Colombian government in their pocket. Hence that massacre and other hits on union leaders. That’s what being a banana republic means.
Forward history a few decades later. Pablo Escobar, a drug kingpin, narcoterrorist and overall bad hombre, amassed 30 billion dollars’ worth of wealth though incalculable fear. He kidnapped, intimidated and killed people. His followers were increased by his election to office in 1982 — as a representative to the Chamber of Representative of Colombia. He was in charge of housing and football fields; handed out food and blankets to the poor. Paid for some medical needs. He aimed to be president. He kept running his drug cartel, massacring competitors and revenging slights. He bribed or killed judges, law enforcement, witnesses, lawyers. “Money or bullets.”
He was linked to the deaths of over 40 police officers. Colombia became the global murder capital. The fear was so bad that people wouldn’t speak out and in some areas, judges would preside over the trial of drug traffickers behind a black curtain and with voice distortion technology. Witnesses were allowed to sign depositions with fingerprints instead of names.
Escobar finally surrendered to law enforcement, but escaped prison and was killed by police on December 2 1993 — the day after his 44th birthday. He died as he lived, a violent criminal. Yet Escobar’s followers worshiped him. 25,000 attended his funeral and some hailed him as a saint capable of miracles. Mindboggling.
Obstruction of justice itself is a fundamental crime. The legal process cannot be threatened or bullied by anyone — drug lord or politician or both — to exist “without fear or favor” with equality and justice for all. Crimes deserve to be heard at trial, so guilt and innocence can be established by the rules of evidence, not threatening innuendo or violence.
Recently, we have heard a lot of disturbing accounts of alleged witness tampering, threats and attacks against the FBI. Verbal attacks on judges, inciting violence against law enforcement. Intimidation of election officials. Defying subpoenas and court orders. Creating panic against our government. Threatening riots. Planned insurrections. We’re not a banana republic yet, but boy, some are sounding like full Banana Republicans. | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/opinion/the-dangers-of-bananas/article_7ad31c06-32c8-11ed-934c-77b7d60212c8.html | 2022-09-14T21:55:54Z | fergusfallsjournal.com | control | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/opinion/the-dangers-of-bananas/article_7ad31c06-32c8-11ed-934c-77b7d60212c8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chuck D has sold a huge stake in his back catalogue including over 300 songs. The Public Enemy rapper has made a deal with his longtime publisher Reach Music to give the company 100 percent of his writer royalties plus half of his copyright interest. In a statement to Rolling Stone magazine, he said: “Doing this deal was the right timing for a forward and logical evolution of our business together in an ever-changing industry.“Reach has always been ahead of the curve on establishing respect for the hip-hop genre songwriting, and publishing-wise they will continue taking care of my works.”
Although the sale doesn’t cover his entire body of work, it does include Public Enemy’s most formative work released from 1987 to 2012. During that time, the hip-hop legends released some iconic albums, such as It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back, Fear of a Black Planet and Apocalypse 91 … The Enemy Strikes Back.
Meanwhile, during this period he co-wrote most of the group’s songs, including “Fight The Power,” “Bring The Noise” and “Welcome To The Terrordome.”
Michael Closer, Reach’s president, founder, and owner added: “I’m so grateful to Chuck for our business together as his music publisher throughout these many decades. “There’s no one more consequential in the world of hip-hop than Chuck D, and he has written iconic and impactful songs that will forever be a part of music history.
“The team at Reach will continue working hard to protect these works while also introducing them to new generations to come.”
The move comes after the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and Neil Young have struck similar deals over the past couple of years. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/chuck-d-signs-over-his-royalties-and-half-of-his-copyright-interest/ | 2022-09-14T21:59:46Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/chuck-d-signs-over-his-royalties-and-half-of-his-copyright-interest/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Demetria Obilor’s path to success in entertainment hosting and social media took a turn for the better, surprisingly when she made the best of a potentially bad situation.
In 2017, Obilor went viral after an upset viewer in Dallas criticized the attire she wore on air on a Facebook post. The viewers’ criticism was followed by a wave of support from social media users and complimented Obilor’s figure to the point she was given the name “#TrafficBae.” Her social-media following shot up from the criticism. Now, she’s one of four guests on Revolt‘s new “Black Girl Stuff,” where the roundtable of women share weekly opinions on hot topics.
Recently, Obilor spoke to rolling out about her career and latest ventures.
What’s going on with the new show over there at Revolt?
Revolt just launched an amazing new show.
I’m so happy to be a part of it. It’s called “Black Girl Stuff.” I’m joined by my other three co-hosts. It’s an amazing show where we talk about pink-collar topics. We get into the fun social media comments of the water cooler subjects.
One that got a lot of attention was getting flewed out. Should a man expect sex? But we also get very serious as well. We address issues of colorism that people accused us of on the show actually just recently, and that is very buzz-worthy.
No shade at all but like huh 😂 pic.twitter.com/b1JHcE2ToS
— Cleo Targaryen the first of her name (@cleotrapawest) August 31, 2022
People are talking about that.
So we get everything from pop culture to social issues. It’s definitely a show for everybody. I know the topic … the name of the show was called “Black Girl Stuff,” but really everyone can watch it. My almost 90-year-old White Grandma loves the show, so everybody should tune in to learn something for sure. You can watch it on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Revolt TV.
What do you want to tell younger people in the news industry regarding misconceptions about the path to your success?
I can only simply tell you my story, of Demetria Obilor’s student loan debt and how I worked hard to graduate early from school. I could just take you through my journey, and show you how difficult it’s been for me, and how difficult it still is. Even now, people look at my social media following and think, “Oh, she must be a millionaire. She’s got a million followers. She must be a millionaire.”
That’s not true. Right? I’m working to that level, and I’m not going to stop, but trust me, I’ve experienced so many roadblocks along my journey. If my story can inspire anyone – and I don’t want to get into the superficialness of it – I’m sure there are people who say, “Oh, well, maybe she’s lighter complexion. Well, it’s easy for girls who look like that,” and I understand that. There may be privilege along with that, but there are also wars of that as well that I can dive into. The weird, perverted people who have come to me trying to exploit me for sex in exchange for work. And that’s real, [but] that don’t work over here, though. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/demetria-obilor-responds-to-social-medias-colorist-claims-on-new-revolt-show/ | 2022-09-14T21:59:52Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/demetria-obilor-responds-to-social-medias-colorist-claims-on-new-revolt-show/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Doja Cat has been inspired by 1990s German rave music for her new album. The “Kiss Me More” hitmaker is working on her fourth record – the follow-up to 2021 LP Planet Her — and admitted the “challenge” she and her collaborators are facing is taking their “many ideas” and making them “consistent.” Speaking to the CR Fashion Book, she said: “We just have so many ideas and making those ideas consistent is the challenge right now. “I can’t really tell much. I just know there’s a lot going on. I’m very into this ’90s German rave kind of vibe right now and it’s really fun.”
Although Doja recognizes a trend of artists embracing electronic influences — such as Drake on Honestly, Nevermind and Beyoncé on ‘Renaissance’ — it’s something she’s always been in love with.
“I know that’s kind of the trend at the moment but I loved that stuff as a kid and now that I can express it (obviously, I couldn’t buzz my head and wear a furry bra and have a belly button piercing back then), I’m sort of embracing that.”That’s kind of a hint to the album. Rave culture, not house,” she said. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/doja-cat-promotes-rave-culture-while-discussing-her-new-album/ | 2022-09-14T21:59:58Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/doja-cat-promotes-rave-culture-while-discussing-her-new-album/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sponsored by Backwoods, Bonfire ATL not only caters to the hip-hop audience, but also to R&B music. Rhythm and blues is an internationally popular genre that caters to diverse audiences.
The R&B duo, D— Tootie and Jazzy with the Soul, performed together this past Sunday on the Bonfire stage. They later spoke to rolling out on how their musical influences stem from the church and also from classic R&B artists such as Jazmine Sullivan, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald.
D— Tootie and Jazzy with the Soul are recognized for having powerful voices that come from deep within and they complement each other well. These two artists, also cousins, spoke on how artists are winning right now in Atlanta and more.
Tell us who is making smoke right now in Atlanta.
Jazzy: What’s making smoke is the artists. Every artist out here is coming out here and they are working hard. They are putting in hours, they are putting in the time, and they are putting in that work.
Tootie: We are. Period. People in Atlanta are blowing up. A lot of different people are blowing up. Singing wise, rapping, and all that.
What did you just perform for the crowd?
Tootie: We performed “Backwoods” by D— Tootie, and Jazzy with the Soul, right here, my cousin. We did “No Fool.” “Backwoods” is out right now, but “No Fool” we are still working on that, so it will be out to you soon.
What made you want to pursue a music career?
Jazzy: We’ve been singing since we were just jits.
Tootie: We were young as h—.
Jazzy: She was in the choir for as long as I can remember and I always wanted to be in the choir just like her. She would always teach me how to harmonize.”
Tootie: Yes, we were just on the phone singing and harmonizing.
Jazzy: The funny part is we are the only ones in our family that can sing … the only ones.
Tootie: It’s crazy. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/rb-singers-showcase-their-powerful-voices-on-bonfire-stage/ | 2022-09-14T22:00:04Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/rb-singers-showcase-their-powerful-voices-on-bonfire-stage/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Serena Williams had an illustrious tennis career for over 20 years and recently played her last Grand Slam game. Or maybe that’s what she wants us to think.
On the Sept. 13 episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Williams was asked if there was any chance that she could return to playing tennis.
“There’s no chance of you pulling a Tom Brady and saying ‘Maybe I’m evolving to coming back,’ ” Fallon asked.
Williams responded, “You know what? Tom Brady started an amazing trend. That’s what I want to say.”
At the end of the 2021 NFL season, Brady announced his retirement from the game. Forty days later, Brady had a change of heart and announced that he was returning to play.
During the show, Williams went in-depth about what retiring means to her.
“I think retirement is something that’s super-earned, that people work really hard for,” Williams said. “But I just feel like I’m at an age where I definitely have a lot more to give, there’s a lot more I want to do, so I’m not going to be relaxing. There is so much more for me and I feel it’s more like an evolution of Serena.
“There [are] so many things that I’ve been wanting to do for so many years and I have such a passion for tennis for so long that I have never done it but now it’s time for me to try to enjoy those things.”
For all the people who think there’s a chance of Williams returning to the court, don’t get your hopes up, but also, don’t be surprised if it happens. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/serena-williams-leaves-the-door-open-for-comeback-after-making-this-statement/ | 2022-09-14T22:00:10Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/serena-williams-leaves-the-door-open-for-comeback-after-making-this-statement/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tyrese’s love life has been a roller-coaster ride for a while, and he’s shared his feelings with fans on a number of occasions.
In August 2022, Tyrese and his ex-wife Samantha Lee Gibson were in court as the judge ordered the star to pay $10,690 per month in child support.
Weeks later, Tyrese is on Instagram venting, but with a strange twist. In an Instagram video, the caption reads “Telling people I lived with Kim Kardashian and contemplated suicide.” The twist is that the video has nothing to do with Kardashian, and everything to do with his ex-wife.
“It is not OK to do something this evil, vile, and f—– up to somebody,” Tyrese said. “Have me slipping in and out of depression confused just trying to figure out what did I ever say or do that can have somebody so vile, so methodical, so evil, and so hurtful.”
Tyrese continues and says even though he’s a celebrity, he has feelings just like anybody else. Later on in the video, he starts talking about his ex-wife.
“I was in love with this woman, I never cheated on this woman,” Tyrese said. “The only woman I kissed in five years was Naomie Harris’ forehead in the movie Black and Blue. There is no baby on the way, I never got another woman pregnant and said ‘Go have an abortion.’ It did not happen.”
Some people think Tyrese is just trying to get attention, and one Instagram user said “He’s trying to say Kim is that powerful we would only listen to him because he wrote her name on a post.”
If you or someone you know needs help, please contact the 24-hour National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 800-273-8255. You can also contact the suicide text line by sending “HOME” to 741741 to reach a crisis counselor. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/tyrese-uses-celebritys-name-as-clickbait-to-vent-about-his-ex-wife/ | 2022-09-14T22:00:16Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/14/tyrese-uses-celebritys-name-as-clickbait-to-vent-about-his-ex-wife/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JUNO BEACH, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) announced today that it intends to sell $2.0 billion of equity units.
Each equity unit will be issued in a stated amount of $50. Each equity unit will consist of a contract to purchase NextEra Energy common stock in the future and a 5% undivided beneficial ownership interest in a NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc. debenture due Sept. 1, 2027, to be issued in the principal amount of $1,000. The debentures will be guaranteed by NextEra Energy Capital Holdings' parent company, NextEra Energy, Inc.
The holders would be required to complete the stock purchase by no later than Sept. 1, 2025, and their purchase obligations may be satisfied with proceeds raised from remarketing the debentures that comprise part of their equity units.
The net proceeds from the sale of the equity units, which are expected to be approximately $1.94 billion (after deducting the underwriting discount and other offering expenses), will be added to the general funds of NextEra Energy Capital Holdings. NextEra Energy Capital Holdings expects to use its general funds to fund investments in energy and power projects and for other general corporate purposes, including the repayment of its outstanding commercial paper obligations.
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SEATTLE — The Seattle Education Association (SEA) voted to suspend their strike after reaching a tentative agreement with Seattle Public Schools (SPS).
The first day of school was scheduled to begin on Wednesday, Sept. 7, but it was pushed back several times due to the picket. School will officially begin on Wednesday, Sept. 14.
The two sides reached an agreement on Monday after working with a mediator. The union said educators went on strike over issues involving pay, mental health support, and staffing ratios for special education and multilingual students.
The tentative agreement is for a three-year contract with special education ratios maintained and improved in some areas. It also includes adding baseline mental health staffing in all schools and raises above IPD every year. The complete agreement is embargoed until it is ratified by both SEA and SPS. The vote is scheduled for later in the week.
“We’re excited to get back into our classrooms and buildings, knowing that our action means we’ll have more of what our students and educators need to succeed,” said SEA President Jennifer Matter. “This has been a huge win for our public school students.”
A spokesperson for SPS said in a statement Monday, "We are proud to move in a direction that will better meet the needs of our students and staff. We are looking forward to beginning school and welcoming students and staff for the 2022-23 school year."
The first day of school will not be an early release day, instead next Wednesday, Sept. 21, will begin the 75-minute early release schedule, according to the district.
Students will have to make up five days due to the strike - they are required to attend 180 days. The dates will be negotiated by the district and teachers union before being approved by the school board. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/seattle/seattle-teachers-union-votes-suspend-strike-public-schools/281-aababd28-47b1-4a0b-82f4-abb37110ff4f | 2022-09-14T22:03:06Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/seattle/seattle-teachers-union-votes-suspend-strike-public-schools/281-aababd28-47b1-4a0b-82f4-abb37110ff4f | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz suddenly and surprisingly rested their case Wednesday after calling only a fraction of their expected witnesses, leading to a shouting match after the judge accused them of a lack of professionalism.
Cruz's attorneys had told the judge and prosecutors they would be calling 80 witnesses but rested at the beginning of Wednesday's court session after calling only about 25. There were 11 days of defense testimony overall, the last two spotlighting experts about how his birth mother's heavy use of alcohol during pregnancy might have affected his brain's development and led to his murder of 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago.
The sudden announcement by lead attorney Melisa McNeill led to a heated exchange between her and Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who called the decision without warning to her or the prosecution “the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case.”
The 12-member jury and 10 alternates were not present but were lining up outside the courtroom to enter. The sudden announcement also meant prosecutors weren't ready to start their rebuttal case.
Lead prosecutor Mike Satz threw his hands up when Scherer asked if he could begin and, with a nervous laugh, said “no."
“We’re waiting for 40 more (defense) witnesses,” Satz said.
Scherer then accused Cruz's attorneys of being inconsiderate to all involved, but especially the jurors for wasting their trip to court.
“To have 22 people march into court and be waiting as if it is some kind of game. I have never experienced such a level of unprofessionalism in my career," Scherer said, raising her voice.
McNeill countered angrily, “You are insulting me on the record in front of my client," before Scherer told her to stop. Scherer then laid into McNeill, with whom she has had a testy relationship since pretrial hearings began more than three years ago.
“You’ve been insulting me the entire trial,” Scherer barked at McNeill. “Arguing with me, storming out, coming late intentionally if you don’t like my rulings. So, quite frankly, this has been long overdue. So please be seated.”
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty last October to murdering 14 Stoneman Douglas students and three staff members on Feb. 14, 2018. His trial, now ending its second month, is only to determine whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole. For a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous.
After his attorneys rested, Cruz told Scherer he agreed with the decision.
“I think we are good,” he said.
When jurors were told of the decision, several stared at the defense table, appearing stunned.
Cruz's attorneys have tried to show how his late birth mother's alcohol abuse during pregnancy put Cruz onto a lifelong path of erratic, bizarre and often violent behavior that culminated in the shootings. They also tried to show that his adoptive mother, Lynda Cruz, became overwhelmed after her husband died when Cruz was 5.
They called witnesses who knew his birth mother, Brenda Woodard, a Fort Lauderdale prostitute. They testified she drank fortified wine and malt liquor and abused cocaine during her pregnancy.
They called Cruz's psychiatrists and psychologists and teachers from his preschool, elementary and middle school years — they all testified he was a slow developing child who hurt others, had frequent outbursts, made threats and had few friends.
The defense concluded their case by calling Dr. Kenneth Jones, one of the nation's leading fetal alcohol experts, who said in his five decades of research he had never seen a birth mother who had more documented drinking than Woodard. He believes Cruz's doctors didn't properly diagnose him with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, meaning he never got the right treatment.
But Cruz's attorneys had been expected to call his younger half-brother, Zachary, who was a central figure in their case with witnesses accusing him of bullying his smaller, weaker brother. They also presented no witnesses from the school for students with behavioral problems that Cruz attended and no witnesses to discuss his troubled days attending Stoneman Douglas, where he was frequently searched for weapons.
Two attorneys who have followed the trial are stunned by the defense's decision.
“Wow. That is a shocker,” said David Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor. He said perhaps the defense was worried the prosecution's cross-examination of their witnesses was hurting their case, but “I am surprised that there was no testimony about his high school years or more about" Cruz.
Robert Jarvis, a professor at Nova Southeastern University's law school near Fort Lauderdale, said the decision is hard to fathom.
“Perhaps the defense felt it had made its case. Perhaps the defense felt it was losing the jury and further witnesses would only alienate the jury. Perhaps the defense felt that the witnesses to be called would give the prosecution too much leeway to explore matters during cross-examination that the defense did not want explored,” Jarvis said.
Still, he said Scherer's dressing down of McNeill was uncalled for. He has been an outspoken critic of Scherer's selection to oversee such a complicated case — she had never tried a first-degree murder trial before being assigned Cruz's.
“It was the defense’s right to rest when it thought the right moment was reached. Indeed, I have never heard of a judge effectively demanding that a party call all its proposed witnesses,” Jarvis said. “This is just another example of Judge Scherer not being the right judge.”
The defense is trying to overcome the prosecution’s case, which focused on Cruz’s massacre as he stalked a three-story classroom building for seven minutes with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle. Satz played security videos of the shooting and showed the rifle Cruz used. Teachers and students testified about watching others die.
Satz showed graphic autopsy and crime scene photos and took jurors to the fenced-off building, which remains blood-stained and bullet-pocked. Parents and spouses gave tearful and angry statements about their loss.
Prosecutors said they will need more than a week to prepare their rebuttal case. The trial is now tentatively scheduled to resume Sept. 27 and conclude the week of Oct. 10.
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CHICAGO — A federal jury on Wednesday convicted R. Kelly of several child pornography and sex abuse charges in his hometown of Chicago, delivering another legal blow to a singer who used to be one of the biggest R&B stars in the world.
Kelly, 55, was found guilty on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement.
But the jury acquitted him on a fourth pornography count as well as a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him fixing his state child pornography trial in 2008. He was found not guilty on all three counts of conspiring to receive child pornography and for two further enticement charges.
His two co-defendants were found not guilty on all charges.
Jurors, who deliberated for 11 hours over two days, wrote several questions to the judge on Wednesday, at least one indicating the panelists were grappling with some of the case’s legal complexities.
One asked if they had to find Kelly both enticed and coerced minors, or that he either enticed or coerced them. Over objections from Kelly’s lawyer, the judge said they only need to find one.
At trial, prosecutors sought to paint a picture of Kelly as a master manipulator who used his fame and wealth to reel in star-stuck fans, some of them minors, to sexually abuse then discard them.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover child pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. The conspiracy to hide his abuse ran from 2000 to 2020, prosecutors said.
Kelly associates Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown were co-defendants at the Chicago trial. Jurors acquitted McDavid, a longtime Kelly business manager, who was accused of conspiring with Kelly to rig the 2008 trial. Brown, a Kelly associate for years, was acquitted of receiving child pornography.
Kelly has already been convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in New York and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
In Chicago, a conviction of just one count of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, while receipt of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum of five years. Judges can order that defendants sentenced earlier in separate cases serve their new sentence simultaneously with or only after the first term is fully served. Federal inmates must serve at least 85% of their sentences.
During closing arguments Tuesday, Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean likened the government’s testimony and evidence to a cockroach and its case to a bowl of soup.
If a cockroach falls into soup, she said, “you don’t just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup,” said told jurors.
“There are just too many cockroaches,” she said of the prosecution’s case.
The three defendants called only a handful of witnesses over four days. Co-defendant McDavid, who was on the stand for three days, may have damaged Kelly’s hopes for acquittal by saying that he now doubts Kelly was truthful when he denied abusing anyone after hearing the superstar’s accusers testify.
In her closing rebuttal, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng cited testimony that Kelly’s inner circle increasingly focused on doing what Kelly wanted as his fame boomed in the mid-1990s.
“And ladies and gentlemen, what R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls,” she said.
Four Kelly accusers testified, all referred to by pseudonyms or their first names: Jane, Nia, Pauline and Tracy. Some cried when describing the abuse but otherwise spoke calmly and with confidence. A fifth accuser, Brittany, did not testify.
Sitting nearby in a suit and face mask, Kelly often averted his eyes and looked down as his accusers spoke.
Some dozen die-hard Kelly fans regularly attended the trial. On at least one occasion during a break, several made hand signs of a heart at Kelly. He smiled back.
Jane, 37, was the government’s star witness and pivotal to the fixing charge, which accused Kelly of using threats and payoffs to get her to lie to a grand jury before his 2008 trial and to ensure she and her parents wouldn’t testify.
A single video, which state prosecutors said was Kelly abusing a girl of around 14, was the focal point of that trial.
On the witness stand for two days at the end of August, Jane paused, tugged at a necklace and dabbed her eyes with a tissue when she said publicly for the first time that the girl in the video was her aged 14 and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30.
Some jurors in the 2008 trial said they had to acquit Kelly because the girl in the video didn’t testify. At the federal trial in Chicago, Jane said she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said it was not her in the video, saying part of her reason for lying was that she cared for Kelly and didn’t want to get him into trouble.
Jane told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse. Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: “Uncountable times. … Hundreds.”
Jane, who belonged to a teenage singing group, first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had visited Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. She said she implored her parents not to take action against Kelly because she loved him.
Defense attorneys suggested a desire for money and fame drove some government witnesses to accuse Kelly, and they accused several people of trying to blackmail him. They also suggested that at least one of his accusers was 17 — the age of consent in Illinois — when Kelly began pursing her for sex.
Bonjean implored jurors not to accept the prosecution’s portrayal of her client as “a monster,” saying Kelly was forced to rely on others because of intellectual challenges, and that he was sometimes led astray.
“Mr. Kelly can also be a victim,” she said in her opening statement.
Prosecutors played jurors excerpts from three videos that Jane said featured her. Court officials set up opaque screens around the jurors so journalists and spectators couldn’t see the videos or the jurors’ reactions.
But the sound was audible. In one video, the girl is heard repeatedly calling the man “daddy.” At one point she asks: “Daddy, do you still love me?” The man gives her sexually explicit instructions.
Prosecutors have said Kelly shot the video that was also evidence in the 2008 trial in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home around 1998.
Another accuser, Pauline, said Jane introduced her to Kelly when they were 14-year-old middle school classmates in 1998. At Kelly’s Chicago home later that year, Pauline described her shock when she said she first walked in on Kelly and a naked Jane. She said Kelly told her that everyone has secrets. “This is our secret,” she testified he said.
Pauline told jurors she still cares for Kelly. But, as a 37-year-old mom, she said she now has a different perspective.
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WASHINGTON — Car buyers might not get the vehicle they want on time, commuter rail lines could see service disrupted, and shipments from everything from oil to livestock feed could be snarled.
Those are just a few of the wide-ranging impacts a walkout by U.S. rail workers would have on the country’s industries and economy. A strike could happen if the railroads and unions can’t settle their differences before an early Friday walkout deadline.
Here’s how some industries are gauging the potential impacts and getting ready for the possible work stoppage.
AUTO INDUSTRY
Nearly all new vehicles that travel more than a couple hundred miles from the factory to their destination are shipped by rail because it’s more efficient, said Michael Robinet, an executive director for S&P Global Mobility. So it’s almost a certainty that new vehicles coming to the U.S. from Mexico or other countries will be delayed, he said.
“It’s not like there’s extra truck capacity to take all the vehicles that the railroads can’t carry,” Robinet said.
Automakers might be hampered in building vehicles, too, because some larger parts and raw materials are transported by rail. But Robinet said automakers will go to great lengths to get the parts to keep their factories running as much as possible.
Mike Austin, senior mobility analyst for Guidehouse Research, said the strike could make new vehicles even more scarce, driving prices up beyond current record levels. That could raise inflation “as other goods aren’t moving through the rails.”
Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis, said Wednesday at the Detroit auto show that his company will wind up apologizing to customers because their orders may not arrive on time.
COMMUTING
Metra commuter rail service, which operates in the Chicago area, said Wednesday that it would suspend operations on four of its 11 lines on Friday if a work stoppage occurs. Some disruption on those lines would begin after rush hour Thursday night. In Minnesota, the operators of a commuter rail line that carries workers along a densely populated corridor from Minneapolis to northwestern suburbs and towns warned that service could be suspended as early as Friday.
In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, any strike would cancel the rail service until employees return to work, said David Jackson, a spokesman for the regional transit agency Sound Transit. Some Caltrain riders in the San Francisco Bay Area could be impacted by a rail strike, officials said.
The Maryland Transit Administration warned this week that a strike would mean the immediate suspension of service on two of its three MARC commuter rail lines.
Amtrak, meanwhile, said that starting Thursday, all its long-distance trains are canceled to avoid possible passenger disruptions while en route.
ENERGY
A strike could have a significant impact on the energy industry, and could hurt consumers who would likely end up paying more for gasoline, electricity and natural gas. Refineries might have to halt production if they can’t get the deliveries they need, or if they don’t have access to rail to ship gasoline.
No one wants to risk leaving flammable chemicals stranded on the railroad tracks if a strike occurs. That's why railroads began curtailing shipments of hazardous materials on Monday to protect that dangerous cargo.
Roughly 300,000 barrels of crude oil move by rail each day, which could supply about two mid-size refineries, according to AFPM. And about 5 million barrels of propane, representing a third of U.S. consumption, are moved by rail monthly, the group said.
Roughly 70% of ethanol produced in the U.S. is shipped by rail, and ethanol accounts for about a tenth of U.S. gasoline volume, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights. Nearly 75% of the coal moved to electric utilities in the first half of 2022 was moved by rail, the group said.
AGRICULTURE
Livestock producers could see problems almost immediately if shipments of feed abruptly ended, according to the National Grain and Feed Association.
Meat and poultry groups noted the reliance on rail for shipments of feed and called for a quick resolution of the rail dispute. Every week, the nation’s chicken industry receives about 27 million bushels of corn and 11 million bushels of soybean meal to feed chickens, said Tom Super, senior vice president of the National Chicken Council.
RETAIL
Experts say retailers have been shipping goods earlier in the season in recent months as a way to protect themselves from potential disruptions. But this buffer will only slightly minimize the impact from a railroad strike, which is brewing during the critical holiday shipping season, said Jesse Dankert, vice president of supply chain at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a retail trade group that counts more than 200 retailers like Best Buy as its members. She noted that retailers are already feeling the impact from the uncertainty as some freight carriers are limiting services.
Dankert noted that retailers, noticing a slowdown in shipments, are now making contingency plans like turning to trucks to pick up some of the slack and making plans to use some of the excess inventory that it has in its distribution centers.
But she noted that there are not enough trucks and drivers to meet their needs. That scarcity will only drive up costs and make inflation worse, she said.
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The dinosaurs at Walt Disney World could soon be starting their countdown to extinction.
DinoLand U.S.A., the dinosaur and paleontology-themed land at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park, is getting an overhaul. The news came at Disney’s 2022 D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, as Disney Parks executive Josh D’Amaro made the announcement.
“We see tremendous opportunity here to tell some new stories that fit right in with what Animal Kingdom is all about,” D’Amaro said, with Walt Disney Animation Studios Chief Creative Officer Jennifer Lee adding that filmmakers and Walt Disney Imagineers have been working together to find ways to “bring the films from this last decade into the parks in natural ways.”
She said the first film that came to mind for the team when thinking about an overhaul of DinoLand U.S.A. was 2016’s “Zootopia.”
“Watching Judy Hopps board the train and go through those amazing landscapes, the animals in those environments just jumped off the screen to me as a possibility that could live in Animal Kingdom,” said Imagineering Portfolio Creative Executive Chris Beatty, who joined D’Amaro and Lee on stage at D23 Expo.
While the trio emphasized that the project was still in very early development and that their ideas remain in the “blue sky,” brainstorming phase, Lee suggested that guests visiting the new area could potentially be immersed in the different districts represented in the bustling city of Zootopia, including Little Rodentia, Bunny Burrow and the Rainforest District, with Beatty teasing possible new districts that haven’t been revealed yet. A new original series, “Zootopia+,” is set to debut on Disney+ later this year, so it’s also possible we could see some new settings introduced there for the Imagineers to bring to life.
Lee explained that the team also identified 2016’s “Moana” as a good fit for integration into Animal Kingdom, and said guests might get the chance to journey with the titular princess, help fight off the Kakamora and meet mysterious animals and creatures.
They revealed one piece of concept art for the area, which primarily shows the “Moana” portion of the potential new land, with Zootopia visible to the back right of the artwork. Two “Moana”-themed rides are clearly visible — a spinner to the right and a log flume to the left.
Also part of the discussion was a potential expansion “beyond Big Thunder Mountain” at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, which would include areas themed to “Coco,” “Encanto,” and Disney villains. D’Amaro, Lee and Beatty reiterated that that this “blue sky” phase of brainstorming is a time to explore what’s possible and ask “What if?”, calling these concepts “thought starters,” so it’s possible plans for DinoLand’s overhaul may evolve before construction begins.
‘Moana’ and ‘Zootopia’ at Other Disney Parks
Elsewhere at Disney World, construction is already well underway on another “Moana”-themed attraction. Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana, an interactive walk-through experience, will open at EPCOT in late 2023. Fans visiting D23 Expo got a closer look at a scale model of Te Fiti (shown below) in the Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Wonderful World of Dream pavilion. At Shanghai Disney Resort, meanwhile, a full “Zootopia”-themed land is under construction.
‘Mandalorian’ and Marvel Characters Coming to Disneyland
During a panel presentation that gave fans a closer look at what’s headed to Disney parks around the world, D’Amaro was joined by a series of big-name guests to help share the news. “The Mandalorian” executive producer Jon Favreau introduced fans to new walk-around Mandalorian and Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) characters headed to Disneyland Park for a new meet-and-greet beginning in mid-November.
Also at the event, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige shared details about a third attraction coming to the Avengers Campus at Disneyland Resort’s Disney California Adventure Park that will introduce a new villain, King Thanos. Feige and D’Amaro also brought a massive walking, talking Hulk out on stage to announce a meet-and-greet with the green guy beginning at Avengers Campus this week.
Combine all this with the reveal of a new live-action “The Little Mermaid” trailer and it’s been a pretty exciting month for Disney fans.
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Some people voiced their displeasure with Jimmy Kimmel for pulling a stunt as Quinta Brunson took the stage to accept her first Emmy award.
Monday was a historic moment for Brunson, who stars and created the ABC comedy "Abbott Elementary," as she became the first Black woman to be nominated for three Emmys in the same year in comedy categories, NPR reported.
Before Brunson won the Emmy for best writing of a comedy series, as part of a comedic bit, co-presenter Will Arnett walked out to present the award, dragging the late-night host by his foot, "Today" and NPR reported.
So when Brunson took the stage to accept the award, the news outlets reported that she had to step over Kimmel, who was still lying onstage.
Brunson, who appeared to be a good sport about it, told Kimmel to "wake up I won," the NBC morning show and The Hollywood Reporter reported.
Kimmel responded back with a thumbs-up, but he never left the stage until after Brunson finished her speech and had to be dragged off by Arnett, the media outlets reported.
Backstage, Brunson told reporters that the moment “didn’t bother me that much,” but she added that she wasn't sure how the internet would feel about it, THR reported.
Well, people did criticize Kimmel for stealing the attention away from Brunson, THR and "Today" reported.
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Disney debuted the trailer for its upcoming live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” at its biennial D23 expo. For the first time, audiences had a chance to see “Grown-ish” star Halle Bailey in the title role of Ariel.
It’s been about three years since Disney first announced Bailey had been cast as the teen mermaid who wishes to be part of the human world. Since then, fans have been eagerly waiting for a glimpse at her in costume. Walt Disney Studios made those wishes come true on Sept. 9 by releasing the movie’s first teaser trailer, which not only gives us our first look at Ariel as played by a Black woman but also showcases Bailey’s beautiful singing voice in the classic song, “Part of Your World.”
Out of the sea, wish I could be… part of that world.
Disney's The Little Mermaid is coming to theaters May 26, 2023. pic.twitter.com/lUw5BmYRK5
— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) September 9, 2022
As expected, seeing Bailey embody such a popular character that was previously depicted as white set off a tidal wave of reactions across social media — but these included a uniquely heartwarming twist. Parents of children of color quickly started posting reaction videos of their little ones seeing “The Little Mermaid” trailer and marveling at how one of Disney’s most popular characters now looks like them.
TikToker @nickyknackpaddywack had one of the best when she shared a touching blind reaction video of her daughter, Maya, watching the trailer.
“Mommy!” the girl exclaimed with a smile as she turned around to look at her mom. It took a moment for the realization to sink in as she points to the TV, but then she says exactly what she’s thinking, “She’s brown like me, Mama!”
@nickyknackpaddywack Mayas reaction to #thelittlemermaid trailer. #representationmatters #representationinthemediamatters #blackgirls ⬠original sound – Nicky
The emotional reactions to seeing a Black Ariel aren’t just coming from the youngest generation of Disney fans. Even older Disney lovers couldn’t contain their joy at seeing the new take on such a beloved princess. TikToker @workingmama called her daughters in to watch the trailer and their responses were so emotional when they finally saw Ariel, who isn’t revealed until the end of the clip.
Before seeing Bailey on the screen, the older girl commented on how beautiful her voice sounded. But once the reveal happened, the magic came rushing to the surface and caught her mom by surprise.
“She’s Black!” the girl shouted with joy. “Mama! She’s Black! What?! Mama! They made a Black Ariel!”
@workingmama My daughter’s reaction to the little mermaid trailer. #littlemermaidtrailer #representationmatters ⬠original sound – Workingmama
Days after countless people shared their children’s reactions, the 22-year-old actor who is breaking down barriers shared her awe and gratitude for the support she’s received since the trailer debuted.
“People have been sending these reactions to me all weekend and I’m in truly in awe,” Bailey tweeted on Sept. 12. “This means the world to me.”
people have been sending these reactions to me all weekend and i’m in truly in awe this means the world to me https://t.co/cuKjKN8nxH
— Halle (@HalleBailey) September 12, 2022
Disney’s animated version of “The Little Mermaid” was released in 1989 and featured Jodi Benson in the title role, who was 28 years old at the time and making her big-screen debut. The popularity of the movie kicked off what has become known as the Disney Renaissance, a string of acclaimed animated movies that brought the studio back to the forefront of American entertainment.
Alan Menken, one of the composers of the animated version, collaborated with modern Broadway icon Lin-Manuel Miranda to add a few new songs that will be used in the live-action version. But Miranda says not to worry about any of the classic sing-alongs being dropped.
“We wrote three or four original tunes, replacing none of the ones you like,” Miranda told Variety in a Feb. 17 interview. “There’s no bigger ‘Little Mermaid’ fan than me.”
The live-action “The Little Mermaid” will swim into theaters on May 23, 2023. It will also star Melissa McCarthy as Ursula the Sea Witch, and “Hamilton” star Daveed Diggs as the voice of Sebastian the crab.
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Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal welfare organization, is helping Acadiana shelters offer free pet adoptions this weekend – Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17.
Shelters in Lafayette, St. Martin, St. Landry and Vermilion parishes are participating so no matter where you live in Acadiana, you can find love close to home for free. BFAS will be reimbursing shelters for every cat and dog adopted.
Pet adoptions decrease over the summer, therefore shelters across the country are currently at full capacity.
Shelley Delahoussaye, supervisor at the Lafayette shelter, said this year is worse than in past years.
"There are more animals coming in than going out," she said. "Less people are working from home so rates of adoption and fostering of animals are decreasing."
BFAS is leading the no-kill movement by running lifesaving community programs for dogs and cats and providing support and training for animal shelters and rescue groups. Their goal is to make every shelter and every community no-kill by 2025.
Residents not ready to commit to adoption can foster a cat or dog to provide the pet a temporary home and relieve area shelters. Please call your local animal shelter to learn more.
Area shelters participating in the free pet adoption this weekend:
Lafayette Animal Control and Care Center
410 Dugas Road
Lafayette, LA 70507
337-291-5644
Friday: 8 a.m-4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
St. Martin Parish Animal Services
1104 Industrial Park Dt.
St. Martinville, LA 70582
337-364-1220
Friday and Saturday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Animal Aid Vermilion Area
11303 Pioneer Road
Kaplan, LA 70548
337-366-0212
Email: Animalaidvermilion@gmail.com
Friday: 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Saturday: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
St. Landry Parish Animal Control
255 Hangar Road
Opelousas, LA 70570
337-948-6184
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Below is a list of trick-or-treat times and Halloween events throughout Acadiana. Some municipalities in Acadiana have not yet decided. KATC will continue to update this list as cities and towns make a decision.
If you would like to add your event to this list, email the information to news@katctv.com.
ACADIA PARISH
Church Point: October 31, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Crowley: TBD
Estherwood: October 31, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Iota: October 31, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Mermentau: October 31, 5:30 to 7:00 pm
Morse: October 31, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Rayne: October 31, 5:30 to 7:30 pm/Fright Fest 6 to 8 pm
EVANGELINE PARISH
Basile: TBD
Chataignier: TBD
Mamou: October 30, 5:30 to 8:30 pm
Pine Prairie: October 31, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Turkey Creek: TBD
Ville Platte: TBD
IBERIA PARISH
Jeanerette: TBD
New Iberia: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Delcambre: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Loreauville: TBD
Other events in Iberia Parish:
- Pumpkin Patch will be held from October 6-8 at Loreauville Park Building. Fall festival games, photo booths, pumpkins, fall flowers and much more. Entry is free. Timeslots for entry. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information follow them on Facebook or text Kirsten at 337-577-7515.
JEFF DAVIS PARISH
Elton: TBD
Jennings: October 31, 5 to 7 pm
Lacassine: TBD
Lake Arthur: TBD
Welsh: TBD
Other events in Jeff Davis Parish:
- Lake Arthur Boo on the Avenue will be held on October 31 starting at 2 pm with train rides, food, drinks and more.
LAFAYETTE PARISH
Broussard: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Carencro: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Duson: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Lafayette: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Scott: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Youngsville: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Other events in Lafayette Parish:
- Club4 fitness in Lafayette is sponsoring a Zombie run in Moncus Park on Saturday, September 17, 2022. Members and non-members are welcome to participate. The start time is 8:30 am. Meet at the hill. For more info call 337 789 2336.
- Autumn in the Oaks, Saturday, October 29, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm Moncus Park's signature fall event, Autumn in The Oaks, is fun for the whole family! This event features children's trick or treating and activities, local food vendors, hayrides, and music by DJ Danita from 99.1 KXKC Moncus Park is currently seeking local businesses to engage with the community by setting up a trick or treating booth or providing a free activity at the event. Visit www.moncuspark.org/autumnintheoaks to learn more. Additional Information: $10 parking is available on-site. No ice chests allowed. Guests are encouraged to arrive in costume.
- The Pumpkin Patch at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church will be held October 7-31. The event will benefit youth ministries. For more information got to saintbarnabas.us.
ST. LANDRY PARISH
Arnaudville: October 29, 6 to 8 pm
Cankton: TBD
Eunice: TBD
Grand Coteau: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Krotz Springs: October 31, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Lawtell - October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Leonville: TBD
Morrow - October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Opelousas: TBD
Palmetto: TBD
Plaisance - October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Port Barre: TBD
Sunset: TBD
Washington: TBD
ST. MARTIN PARISH
Breaux Bridge: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Butte La Rose: TBD
Cade: TBD
Catahoula: TBD
Cecilia: TBD
Henderson: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Parks: TBD
St. Martinville: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Stephensville: TBD
ST. MARY PARISH
Amelia: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Baldwin: TBD
Bayou Vista: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Berwick: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Franklin: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Morgan City: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Patterson: TBD
Other events in St. Mary Parish:
- Join the City of Franklin on Monday, October 31 from 6-8 pm for its 4th Annual Boo on the Bayou trunk or treat along the Historic Bayou Teche on Teche Drive. If you, your business, church, school or organization would like to take part in this event, contact Tammy Rogers at (337) 828-6350 to reserve your space to hand out candy to more than 3,000 children.
VERMILION PARISH
Abbeville: TBD
Erath: TBD
Gueydan: TBD
Kaplan: TBD
Maurice: October 31, 6 to 8 pm
AROUND THE STATE:
- New Orleans: Krewe of Boo 2022 parade rolls Saturday, October 22, 2022, at 6:30 pm.
- 2022 New Orleans Zombie Run October 22, 2022, at 9 am.
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Organization works to spread awareness of childhood cancer in Eastern Carolina
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Cancer is the leading cause of death in Eastern Carolina and children are no exception to being vulnerable to the disease.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. With President Biden announcing his reignition of the Cancer Moonshot program, there’s attention drawn to the youngest of the patients being affected.
State Cancer Profiles reports that up to 47 kids a year are diagnosed with cancer in Eastern Carolina. As for the state of North Carolina overall, that number sits around 416.
The National Pediatric Cancer Foundation says 43 children a day are diagnosed with cancer, and 1 in 285 in the United States will be diagnosed before they are 20. Yet, they also report that only 4% of the billions of dollars the government spends on cancer is directed toward childhood cancer.
Riley’s Army is an organization in Greenville focused on providing support to children with cancer and their families. Executive Director Lynn Pischke says childhood cancer is more common than a person would think.
“If you went to a school and combined all of their third grades, at least one of those kids in the third grade would develop cancer in their lifetime before they are an adult,” Pischke says.
Riley’s Army provides financial, emotional, and social support for kids, as well as their families, diagnosed with cancer in eastern North Carolina. The nonprofit family is actively helping 30 families at a time.
They, and other businesses and households, vocalize their support and awareness of the disease with a gold ribbon bow. The bow stands as the international awareness symbol of childhood cancer.
“We have patients that are [at] Saint Jude, Chapel Hill, or in Cleveland. They could be anywhere,” Pischke says. “If they live here and they’re from here and they register to be one of our families, then take care of them regardless of where they are geographically.”
If you would like to get involved with cancer awareness programs in Eastern Carolina, you can start by visiting the sites seen below:
- https://www.rileysarmy.com/
- https://rmhc-carolinas.org/
- https://piratesvscancer.com/
- https://pediatrics.ecu.edu/rainbow-services/
- https://www.cancer.org/
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The founder of Ventura, California-based Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, has given away the $3 billion company to help fight climate change, he said.
Patagonia will go to a set of trusts and nonprofits that work to fight climate change. Chouinard said that he and his family now no longer own the company.
In an interview with the New York Times, 83-year-old Chouinard said, “Hopefully, this will influence a new form of capitalism that doesn’t end up with a few rich people and a bunch of poor people.”
He said, “We are going to give away the maximum amount of money to people who are actively working on saving this planet.”
According to Forbes, Chouinard, who has a net worth of $1.2 billion, founded Patagonia in 1984 after a successful career in the apparel industry in the 1970s.
Forbes reported that the company has set aside 1% of its sales since 1985 to give money to grassroots environmental groups in the U.S. and other countries.
According to Bloomberg, Chouinard transferred all of the company's voting stock into a trust, and the rest of the shares will go to a nonprofit. Patagonia will continue to operate by selling products that customers are familiar with.
"The Patagonia Purpose Trust ensures the company’s commitment to its purpose forever," the company said.
Read the full letter from the company's founder about the transition here:
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving away the company. He and his family have transferred all the company’s voting stock into a trust, with the rest of the shares going to a nonprofit.
— Kim Bhasin (@KimBhasin) September 14, 2022
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Community Relief Fund provides immediate payments from $50 million fund
WEED, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- About 80 fire survivors received initial financial assistance Tuesday during the first day of Roseburg Forest Products' $50 million Community Relief Fund being distributed to residents of Weed, Lake Shastina and nearby communities directly affected by the Mill Fire.
Independent administrators assisted residents making claims to cover immediate needs such as temporary housing, transportation, food and clothing, and medical issues. Roseburg began distributing funds from the company's Community Relief Fund less than two weeks after the fire began on Sept. 2.
"Roseburg is so grateful for the patience and response by a number of impacted families who now have initial funds to support their immediate needs," said Pete Hillan, a spokesperson for the company. "Tuesday was only the start of our efforts to help people recover now instead of waiting years for financial support."
Fund administrators will provide assistance at the Weed Community Center, 161 E. Lincoln Ave., Weed, Ca., throughout the week from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The application process has been designed to be streamlined and user-friendly, and to provide on-the-spot funds for those with legitimate claims. More information also is available at: www.weedrelieffund.com
Individuals coming to the Community Center may elect to be represented by an attorney. It is not necessary to have representation, however, to participate in this Fund. In addition, people who accept money from the Fund will be asked only to sign a receipt, so that the Fund has an accurate record of how much it paid. People will not be asked to waive any claim they may have related to the fire as a condition of receiving benefits from the Fund.
"Roseburg has been part of this extraordinary community for 40 years, so it's important for us to do everything we can to support our neighbors, economically and otherwise, during this difficult time," Hillan said.
About Roseburg Forest Products
Founded in 1936, Roseburg Forest Products is a privately-owned company and one of North America's leading producers of particleboard, medium density fiberboard and thermally fused laminates. Roseburg also manufactures softwood and hardwood plywood, lumber, LVL and I-joists. The company owns and sustainably manages more than 600,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, North Carolina and Virginia, as well as an export wood chip terminal facility in Coos Bay, Ore. Roseburg products are shipped throughout North America and the Pacific Rim. To learn more about the company please visit www.Roseburg.com.
Contact: Pete Hillan
pete@singersf.com
831.227.5984
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast says another prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded as seas rose 8,000 years ago.
Archaeologist Octavio del Rio says the shattered skull and skeleton collapsed are partly covered by sediment.
Given the distance from the cave entrance, it couldn't have gotten there without modern diving equipment, so it must be over 8,000 years old.
Some of the oldest human remains in North America have been discovered in the sinkhole caves that experts say are threatened by the Mexican government's project to build a high-speed tourist train through the jungle.
Del Rio said he's worried that the cave, which he did not disclose the location of, could collapse, become contaminated, or be closed off due to the building project and subsequent development.
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By teaching and measuring these 16 skills, employers enhance the employee experience and manage business outcomes like productivity and attrition.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emtrain, which provides eLearning and predictive analytics for the workplace, announced today a new skill building framework to help organizations proactively manage their workplace culture and business outcomes. Backed by research and psychometrically validated, Emtrain scores and benchmarks respect, inclusion, belonging, and ethics and recommends microlessons to teach pro-social skills where lacking.
"Our 16-factor model gives employers and managers a heat map of behaviors and predicts attrition and team productivity," said CEO and Founder Janine Yancey.
Emtrain's skill building framework goes beyond traditional approaches that focus on core skills and job skills. Pro-social skills, such as mitigating bias, managing power, and advancing allyship empower HR and diversity initiatives. Microlessons teach pro-social skills and behaviors at scale, building competencies for teams and allowing executives to measure and benchmark their culture and risks throughout the organization.
Cross-industry benchmarking incorporates 90 million perceptions from 2 million employees from over 500 hundred organizations. Individual employer scores can be segmented by gender, age, race, location, and other demographics. Heatmaps help leaders focus on developing skills where they're vulnerable. For the first time ever, organizations can have real time visibility of the social dynamics within their workplace.
"As we embrace a hybrid workplace, leaders are struggling to figure out how to build and maintain high performing teams. Employees no longer have the natural relationships that evolve when working side by side. Hybrid work is forcing organizations to be more deliberate and intentional in how they create inclusion and our pro-social skills model will help them do that," said Emtrain's Chief Innovation Officer Robert Todd.
Emtrain provides eLearning and analytics that measure the impact of social dynamics in the workplace. Emtrain's solutions go beyond compliance to develop inclusion, ethics and respect as professional competencies via video-based training to build skills. Emtrain partners with industry experts and uses current events to develop video-based training content on topics such as sexual harassment, unconscious bias, respect and ethics. In addition, using patent-pending analytics, the company allows companies to benchmark their corporate culture against the global community to identify issues before they become toxic problems that can become compliance issues and destroy workplace culture. Emtrain's platform is used by more than 600 companies including Bed Bath & Beyond, Genentech, LiveNation and more. Recognized by Fast Company on the "World Changing Ideas 2020" list, and named one of the fastest growing companies on the "Inc. 5000 2021" list Emtrain is a VC-backed, woman-owned and women-led company. Learn more at https://www.emtrain.com.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE: TDS) announced the publication of its 2021 Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Report.
"TDS has held good corporate responsibility at the forefront of our values for over 50 years," said LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., TDS President and CEO. "This report will highlight many of our efforts."
In order to advance its ESG strategy, TDS conducted a stakeholder assessment to identify challenges and opportunities that are most important to stakeholders. TDS partnered with an independent third party to guide the organization in the process of researching, testing, and analyzing its significant ESG issues. The topics identified in the stakeholder assessment remain key priorities for the TDS ESG Program. These include: Access and Affordability; Data Security; Business Continuity; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; and Community Relations and Engagement.
"Our socially responsible practices, which make up the "S" in ESG, are what comprise our 3Cs – Customers, Culture, and Community," said Carlson.
TDS has also designated an Environmental, Social and Governance Steering Committee to oversee all initiatives and disclosures related to ESG.
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework is featured in the appendix of the TDS 2021 ESG report and provides a collection of industry-specific standards to help measure and communicate performance on sustainability topics.
TDS also prepared an index in reference to the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) Standards in order to report significant economic, environmental, and social topics within the business.
About TDS
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS), a Fortune 1000® company, provides: wireless; broadband, video and voice; and hosted and managed services to approximately 6 million customer connections nationwide through its businesses, UScellular, TDS Telecom, and OneNeck IT Solutions. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, TDS employed approximately 8,900 associates as of June 30, 2022.
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The world has never been in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a news briefing in Geneva on Wednesday.
"Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from Covid-19 was the lowest since March 2020," he said. "We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. We're not there yet, but the end is in sight.
"A marathon runner does not stop when the finish line comes into view; she runs harder with all the energy she has left," Tedros said. "So must we. We can see the finish line, we are in a winning position, but now is the worst time to stop running. Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap the rewards of all our hard work."
There is still a risk of more variants, deaths, disruption and uncertainty, he said, "so let's seize this opportunity."
WHO released six policy briefs Wednesday that outline key actions for governments to take to end the pandemic. The briefs are based on the evidence and experience of the past 32 months and offer guidance on how to save lives, protect health systems and avoid social and economic disruption. They are "an urgent call for governments to take a hard look at their policies and strengthen them for Covid-19 and future pathogens with pandemic potential," Tedros said.
Although official case counts have become significantly underreported, trends have shown a steady drop in cases both globally and in the US.
According to latest WHO update, weekly case counts are falling in all regions, with an overall fall of 28% compared to a week before. And in the United States, cases have been steadily dropping for the past two months, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
WHO's weekly epidemological update said Wednesday that there were just over 11,000 fatalities reported between September 5 and 11, a 22% decrease compared with the week before.
Decreases were reported in five of the WHO regions: 31% in the European Region, 25% in the South-East Asia Region, 22% in the Region of the Americas, 11% in the Western Pacific Region and 10% in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. There was a 10% increase in deaths in the African Region.
The United States reported the highest number of weekly deaths followed by Japan, Russia, Brazil and the Philippines.
Overall, there have been more than 6.4 million deaths reported globally as of September 11.
About two-thirds of the global population -- and about the same in the US, specifically -- are vaccinated with at least their initial series. But significant disparities in Covid-19 vaccination rates persist among lower-income countries, and rates are changing little now, especially in the US.
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When Damien Sneed performed this concert on Jan. 28, 2021, the doors of Dizzy's Club were still closed to the public. Instead, the pianist and vocalist connected to his virtual audience via livestream, sharing stories of his upbringing in Augusta, Ga. and anecdotes about the gospel and blues music he performs. Throughout the performance, Sneed, accompanied by Michael Olatuja (bass) and Jonathan Barber (drums), infuses the traditional songs with a virtuosic jazz sensibility, invigorating them with scatting, dizzying runs and masterful improvisation.
The concert is a conversation that explores the expression of sorrow, joy and faith through music. Selections include songs from Sneed's childhood, when he sought to understand why the lyrics of hymns and other African-American traditional music are sometimes at odds with the uplifting sounds and tones with which they were performed. The answer, of course, is that spirituals are born from a history of oppression. Despite that legacy, their unwavering faith, hope and optimism vanquish grief. True to this tradition, when guest vocalist Anitra McKinney joins Sneed on stage, their vocal performances are exhilarating. Sneed successfully brings us together to enjoy a show that is exciting, thought-provoking and thoroughly restorative.
To learn more about Damien Sneed, check out his radio episode on Jazz Night in America.
Musicians
Damien Sneed, piano and vocals
Michael Olatuja, bass
Jonathan Barber, drums
Anitra Raquel McKinney, vocals
Set List
"Wade in the Water" (Traditional)
"Walk with Me'" (Traditional)
"The Lord Will Make A Way" (Traditional)
Credits
Line Producers: Raynel Frazier, Yunie Mojica; Production Manager: Sarah Peterson; Broadcast Sound Engineer: Rob Macomber; Camera Director & Operator: Jim Sapione; Camera Operator: Roland Chassagne; Editor: Nikki Birch; Project Manager: Suraya Mohamed; Lead Producers: Nikki Birch, Alex Ariff; Supervising Editor: Ben de la Cruz; VP Music and Visuals Music: Keith Jenkins; Executive Producers: Gabrielle Armand, Anya Grundmann.
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NPR Politics What happened in the Senate's hearing on the federal response to monkeypox By Pien Huang Published September 14, 2022 at 2:08 PM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:52 Congress held its hearing on the federal response to the monkeypox outbreak. That comes as cases — and vaccinations — slow down in the U.S. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/npr-politics/2022-09-14/what-happened-in-the-senates-hearing-on-the-federal-response-to-monkeypox | 2022-09-14T22:14:34Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/npr-politics/2022-09-14/what-happened-in-the-senates-hearing-on-the-federal-response-to-monkeypox | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
California sued Amazon on Wednesday, accusing the company of pushing sellers and suppliers into anticompetitive deals that lead to higher prices, including at rival online stores.
The lawsuit, filed by state Attorney General Rob Bonta, focuses on the way Amazon — the largest online retailer — deals with third-party merchants, who account for most of the sales on the platform.
California alleges that Amazon penalizes sellers and suppliers that offer cheaper prices elsewhere on the internet, including Walmart and Target, for example by displaying their items lower or less prominently or outright blocking their new postings.
"Amazon makes consumers think they are getting the lowest prices possible," the lawsuit alleges, "when in fact, they cannot get the low prices that would prevail in a freely competitive market because Amazon has coerced and induced its third-party sellers and wholesale suppliers to enter into anticompetitive agreements on price."
California's antitrust lawsuit is among the biggest legal challenges to Amazon in recent years, as lawmakers and regulators in the U.S. and abroad have investigated the retail giant for potential anticompetitive practices.
Amazon has denied any antitrust violations. Its representatives did not immediately comment on Tuesday's lawsuit.
California also accuses Amazon of creating a "vicious anticompetitive cycle": Sellers view Amazon as a must; Amazon charges them higher fees to be able to sell on its platform; Sellers, in turn, raise their Amazon prices. And, even though it costs them less to sell on other websites, Amazon's policies push sellers to raise prices on those sites, too.
"Through its illegal actions, the, quote, "everything store" has effectively set a price floor, costing Californians more for just about everything," Bonta said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, a judge dismissed a similar lawsuit that was filed in Washington, D.C., though the city's attorney general has appealed.
In that case, Amazon argued its deals with merchants were meant to prevent shoppers from being overcharged, and punishing Amazon would hurt consumers.
Amazon has separately proposed a settlement with European antitrust regulators, who charged the company with violating competition laws. Their key allegations accused the company of using data it collected from third-party sellers to its own benefit.
Editor's note: Amazon is among NPR's recent financial supporters.
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As a nationwide trend of states banning or placing more restrictions on abortion continues, Kansas — where abortion remains legal — struggles to keep up with out-of-state client demand.
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Updated September 14, 2022 at 5:42 PM ET
CHICAGO — A federal jury on Wednesday convicted R. Kelly of several child pornography and sex abuse charges in his hometown of Chicago, delivering another legal blow to a singer who used to be one of the biggest R&B stars in the world.
Kelly, 55, was found guilty on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement.
But the jury acquitted him on a fourth pornography count as well as a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him fixing his state child pornography trial in 2008. He was found not guilty on all three counts of conspiring to receive child pornography and for two further enticement charges.
His two co-defendants were found not guilty on all charges.
Jurors wrote several questions to the judge on Wednesday, at least one indicating the panelists were grappling with some of the case's legal complexities.
One asked if they had to find Kelly both enticed and coerced minors, or that he either enticed or coerced them. Over objections from Kelly's lawyer, the judge said they only need to find one.
At trial, prosecutors sought to paint a picture of Kelly as a master manipulator who used his fame and wealth to reel in star-stuck fans, some of them minors, to sexually abuse then discard them.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover child pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. The conspiracy to hide his abuse ran from 2000 to 2020, prosecutors said.
Kelly associates Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown were co-defendants at the Chicago trial. Jurors acquitted McDavid, a longtime Kelly business manager, who was accused of conspiring with Kelly to rig the 2008 trial. Brown, a Kelly associate for years, was acquitted of receiving child pornography.
Kelly faced 13 counts. A conviction of just one count of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, while receipt of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum of five years. Judges can order that defendants sentenced earlier in separate cases serve their new sentence simultaneously with or only after the first term is fully served. Federal inmates must serve at least 85% of their sentences.
During closing arguments Tuesday, Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean likened the government's testimony and evidence to a cockroach and its case to a bowl of soup.
If a cockroach falls into soup, she said, "you don't just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup," said told jurors.
"There are just too many cockroaches," she said of the prosecution's case.
The three defendants called only a handful of witnesses over four days. Co-defendant McDavid, who was on the stand for three days, may have damaged Kelly's hopes for acquittal by saying that he now doubts Kelly was truthful when he denied abusing anyone after hearing the superstar's accusers testify.
In her closing rebuttal, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng cited testimony that Kelly's inner circle increasingly focused on doing what Kelly wanted as his fame boomed in the mid-1990s.
"And ladies and gentlemen, what R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls," she said.
Four Kelly accusers testified, all referred to by pseudonyms or their first names: Jane, Nia, Pauline and Tracy. Some cried when describing the abuse but otherwise spoke calmly and with confidence. A fifth accuser, Brittany, did not testify.
Sitting nearby in a suit and face mask, Kelly often averted his eyes and looked down as his accusers spoke.
Some dozen die-hard Kelly fans regularly attended the trial. On at least one occasion during a break, several made hand signs of a heart at Kelly. He smiled back.
Jane, 37, was the government's star witness and pivotal to the fixing charge, which accused Kelly of using threats and payoffs to get her to lie to a grand jury before his 2008 trial and to ensure she and her parents wouldn't testify.
A single video, which state prosecutors said was Kelly abusing a girl of around 14, was the focal point of that trial.
On the witness stand for two days at the end of August, Jane paused, tugged at a necklace and dabbed her eyes with a tissue when she said publicly for the first time that the girl in the video was her aged 14 and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30.
Some jurors in the 2008 trial said they had to acquit Kelly because the girl in the video didn't testify. At the federal trial in Chicago, Jane said she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said it was not her in the video, saying part of her reason for lying was that she cared for Kelly and didn't want to get him into trouble.
Jane told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse. Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: "Uncountable times. ... Hundreds."
Jane, who belonged to a teenage singing group, first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had visited Kelly's Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. She said she implored her parents not to take action against Kelly because she loved him.
Defense attorneys suggested a desire for money and fame drove some government witnesses to accuse Kelly, and they accused several people of trying to blackmail him. They also suggested that at least one of his accusers was 17 — the age of consent in Illinois — when Kelly began pursing her for sex.
Bonjean implored jurors not to accept the prosecution's portrayal of her client as "a monster," saying Kelly was forced to rely on others because of intellectual challenges, and that he was sometimes led astray.
"Mr. Kelly can also be a victim," she said in her opening statement.
Prosecutors played jurors excerpts from three videos that Jane said featured her. Court officials set up opaque screens around the jurors so journalists and spectators couldn't see the videos or the jurors' reactions.
But the sound was audible. In one video, the girl is heard repeatedly calling the man "daddy." At one point she asks: "Daddy, do you still love me?" The man gives her sexually explicit instructions.
Prosecutors have said Kelly shot the video that was also evidence in the 2008 trial in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home around 1998.
Another accuser, Pauline, said Jane introduced her to Kelly when they were 14-year-old middle school classmates in 1998. At Kelly's Chicago home later that year, Pauline described her shock when she said she first walked in on Kelly and a naked Jane. She said Kelly told her that everyone has secrets. "This is our secret," she testified he said.
Pauline told jurors she still cares for Kelly. But, as a 37-year-old mom, she said she now has a different perspective.
"If somebody did something to my kids," she said, "I'm killing 'em. Period."
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NPR World News Wikipedia's race to cover the queen's death By Kai McNamee, Sarah Handel Published September 14, 2022 at 1:33 PM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 1:52 Within seconds of Queen Elizabeth II's death, an army of Wikipedia editors rushed to update her page on the site. It was chaos. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/npr-world-news/2022-09-14/wikipedias-race-to-cover-the-queens-death | 2022-09-14T22:16:10Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/npr-world-news/2022-09-14/wikipedias-race-to-cover-the-queens-death | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The craft house opened back in 2019 and has been fighting an uphill battle ever since.
After Hurricane Michael supply prices increased, shortly after in 2020 COVID-19 took effect. Following in 2021, labor shortages began to sweep the nation. Now in 2022 with inflation at the forefront of every business, supplies have risen and there is a lack of products available.
Owner Justine Spells said it all began to be too much and was taking time away from her son. Though she will miss the business, she feels they have made their mark.
“I’ve already been getting indebted with messages and phone calls. The word has spread very quickly and a lot of outpouring of love and support which is phenomenal to feel. Especially when sometimes you feel alone in the battle, “ said Spells.
Local Band Member Barrence Dupree shares those same sentiments and feels sad about the closing, adding with more major food chains appearing in Tallahassee it is taking away from the City’s authenticity.
“Yea it’s sort of saddening a little bit, you know? It takes away from that community vibe that makes Tallahassee unique. That’s one of the things I feel make a lot of pride in the community by having a lot of uniqueness and local flavor," said Dupree.
Though customers have a while to say goodbye, the Craft House won’t be closing for good until next May.
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VALDOSTA, Ga. — Valdosta Police Department is inviting their community out to join them for a family fun community day on October 8.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at John W. Saunders Memorial Park, community members will be able to meet local police officers and participate in basketball games, cornhole and other fun activities, according to VPD. A cookout will also take place.
The event is in conjunction with the National Faith & Blue Weekend, which is an annual initiative to improve communities by engaging local residents and law enforcement officers through the connections of faith-based organizations, according to Faithandblue.org. The annual weekend takes place October 7 though October 10.
If interested in getting involved or making a donation, contact Police Chief Leslie Manahan at Imanahan@valdostacity.com, or Officer Randall Hancock at Rhancock@valdostacity.com. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/vpd-to-host-family-fun-community-day-for-faith-blue-weekend | 2022-09-14T22:16:26Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/vpd-to-host-family-fun-community-day-for-faith-blue-weekend | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal appeals court ruling Wednesday revives unsettled lawsuits against Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by the late team doctor Richard Strauss.
A district judge in Columbus had dismissed most of the unsettled cases, acknowledging that hundreds of young men were abused but agreeing with the university's argument that the legal time limit for the claims had long passed. The plaintiffs argued that the clock didn't start until the allegations came to light in 2018, and that their cases should be allowed to continue.
Two of the three judges on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that heard the case concluded in the ruling Wednesday that the men "plausibly allege a decades-long cover up" and "adequately allege that they did not know and could not reasonably have known that Ohio State injured them until 2018."
"Ohio State is a vast institution, and the plaintiffs' allegations underscore how difficult it is for a student to know what appropriate persons within the Ohio State administration knew" about abuse allegations, Judge Karen Nelson Moore wrote in the decision.
Lead plaintiff Steve Snyder-Hill said it's a huge ruling for the survivors, who believe it could influence other sexual misconduct cases at universities.
"Our lawyer argued that if OSU had gotten away with what they were trying to do here, with getting this motion thrown out on the statute of limitations, then they would have paved the way and given a playbook for all these other universities to do the same thing that they've done, and I'm glad that this court saw through it and didn't let it happen," Snyder-Hill said.
Judge Ralph B. Guy Jr. dissented with the decision, writing that the clock on the claims ran out decades ago and that the court's decision "effectively nullifies any statute of limitations for Title IX claims based on sexual harassment."
Ohio State is reviewing the ruling, university spokesperson Benjamin Johnson said by email.
Hundreds of former student-athletes and other alumni say they were abused by Strauss during his two decades at the school, and that Ohio State officials failed to stop him despite knowing about complaints. The men alleged Strauss abused them during medical exams, required physicals and other encounters at campus athletic facilities, a student health center, his home and an off-campus clinic.
The doctor died in 2005. No one has publicly defended him.
The university has reiterated apologies for anyone he harmed, and it has reached over $60 million in settlements with at least 296 survivors.
The school sought to dismiss remaining cases, saying it didn't intend to disrespect the men or their allegations but the claims were made years too late. OSU's lawyer has argued that if the doctor's behavior and Ohio State's inaction during his tenure were as egregious as alleged, the students knew enough that, legally speaking, they should have started inquiring about possible recourse back then.
The ruling Wednesday said the appeals court can't say whether the plaintiffs' "snippets of knowledge" should have prompted them to investigate further. That, the ruling said, "is a question of fact — one that is improper to resolve at the motion-to-dismiss stage."
Two groups totaling more than 100 survivors appealed the dismissal, contending the two-year window for the claims didn't start until 2018, when the men began to speak out and the school hired a law firm to investigate. Until then, most of the plaintiffs didn't recognize their experiences as abuse, and they didn't know that OSU's indifference to students' concerns allowed the abuse to continue for years, an attorney for the men said during arguments on the appeal.
Strauss joined Ohio State in 1978 and was on the faculty and medical staff. He was able to retire in 1998 with emeritus status. School trustees revoked that mark of honor three years ago. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/court-revives-lawsuits-against-ohio-state-over-sex-abuse | 2022-09-14T22:16:32Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/court-revives-lawsuits-against-ohio-state-over-sex-abuse | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The founder of Ventura, California-based Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, has given away the $3 billion company to help fight climate change, he said.
Patagonia will go to a set of trusts and nonprofits that work to fight climate change. Chouinard said that he and his family now no longer own the company.
In an interview with the New York Times, 83-year-old Chouinard said, “Hopefully, this will influence a new form of capitalism that doesn’t end up with a few rich people and a bunch of poor people.”
He said, “We are going to give away the maximum amount of money to people who are actively working on saving this planet.”
According to Forbes, Chouinard, who has a net worth of $1.2 billion, founded Patagonia in 1984 after a successful career in the apparel industry in the 1970s.
Forbes reported that the company has set aside 1% of its sales since 1985 to give money to grassroots environmental groups in the U.S. and other countries.
According to Bloomberg, Chouinard transferred all of the company's voting stock into a trust, and the rest of the shares will go to a nonprofit. Patagonia will continue to operate by selling products that customers are familiar with.
"The Patagonia Purpose Trust ensures the company’s commitment to its purpose forever," the company said.
Read the full letter from the company's founder about the transition here:
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving away the company. He and his family have transferred all the company’s voting stock into a trust, with the rest of the shares going to a nonprofit.
— Kim Bhasin (@KimBhasin) September 14, 2022
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast says another prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded as seas rose 8,000 years ago.
Archaeologist Octavio del Rio says the shattered skull and skeleton collapsed are partly covered by sediment.
Given the distance from the cave entrance, it couldn't have gotten there without modern diving equipment, so it must be over 8,000 years old.
Some of the oldest human remains in North America have been discovered in the sinkhole caves that experts say are threatened by the Mexican government's project to build a high-speed tourist train through the jungle.
Del Rio said he's worried that the cave, which he did not disclose the location of, could collapse, become contaminated, or be closed off due to the building project and subsequent development.
Caves along some of the coastline have already been damaged by construction. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/ancient-skeleton-found-in-mexico-cave-threatened-by-train | 2022-09-14T22:16:56Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/ancient-skeleton-found-in-mexico-cave-threatened-by-train | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nepali climber and guide Sanu Sherpa has managed to not only summit some of the world's tallest mountains, a feat completed by less than 50 people on Earth: He's done it twice.
Sherpa is the first to do so, and others have quite a long way to go now to beat his record.
"I was just doing my job," 41-year-old Sherpa said.
"What I have done is not something that is impossible," he said.
He began his career as a porter and kitchen aid, moving on to become a guide in mountaineering. He summited his first 8,000-meter (26,362 feet) peak in 2006.
The 14 peaks known as the eight-thousanders are a group of mountains that reach 8,000 meters, or 26,000 feet.
Nepali guides, AFP reported, are usually ethnic Sherpas from the valleys around Mount Everest. They usually carry most of the climber's equipment and food and help them with ropes and ladders on the journey.
Altitudes above 8,000 meters are called the "death zone," as the lack of oxygen cannot sustain human life for prolonged periods. About 14 people, on average, die each year on the eight eight-thousander peaks in Nepal alone. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/nepali-climber-completes-summit-of-14-mountain-peaks-known-as-the-eight-thousanders-twice | 2022-09-14T22:17:02Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/world/nepali-climber-completes-summit-of-14-mountain-peaks-known-as-the-eight-thousanders-twice | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Back in the early 1990s, Nathaniel Landau was a young virologist just starting his career in HIV research. But he and his colleagues were already on the verge of a landmark breakthrough. Several labs around the world were hot on his team's tail.
"We were sleeping in the lab, just to keep the work going day and night because there were many labs all racing against each other," Landau says. "Of course, we wanted to be the first to do it. We were totally stressed out."
Other scientists had identified groups of people who appeared to be completely resistant to HIV. "People who knew they had been exposed to HIV multiple times, mainly through unprotected sex, yet they clearly were not infected," Landau explains.
And so the race was on to figure out why: "Are these people just lucky or did they really have a mutation in their genes that was protecting them from infection?'" he asks.
Now 25 years later, scientists all over the world are trying to answer the same question but about a different virus: SARS-CoV-2.
By this point in the pandemic, most Americans have had at least one bout of COVID. For children under age 18, more than 80% of them have been infected, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But just as with HIV, some people have been exposed multiple times but never had symptoms and never tested positive.
"We've heard countless anecdotes about nurses and health-care workers, being exposed without any protection and remaining negative over and over again," says pediatrician Jean-Laurent Casanova, who studies the genetics of viral resistance at Rockefeller University. "Or people share a household with someone who's been coughing for a couple of weeks, and one person stays negative."
So why haven't these people caught COVID? .
After two years of hunting, a team at the University of California, San Francisco has come pretty close to answering the question.
"These findings are like hot off the presses," says immunogeneticist Jill Hollenbach, who led this research. "We haven't published them yet. It's all stuff that's been happening this summer."
Hollenbach and her team have found a genetic mutation doesn't prevent the virus from infecting cells – that's what Landau was searching for– but still does something remarkable: It prevents a person from having COVID symptoms.
Turns out, stopping an infection altogether is an extremely tough nut for our bodies to crack.
What does it take to be a true superdodger?
Over the course of human history, scientists have identified only two instances of true virus superdogers. That is, where a specific mutation in their genes makes people completely resistant to a virus. So that it slides off their cells, "like water sliding off a glass window," as Casanova puts it.
In 2003, a team in London showed how some people never get a stomach bug, called norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhea. The researchers found that one mutation in their genes prevents them from making a molecule the virus needs to infect the cell.
(In 1995, researchers in France figured out why some people appeared to never be infected with a species of malaria, known as Plasmodium vivax. However, over the past decade, further studies have clarified that these superdodgers actually do become infected with the parasite, they simply don't show symptoms.)
By far, the most famous virus superdodgers are people protected against HIV. The ones Landau and his colleagues were studying back in the early 1990s.
In 1996, his team was getting really close to solving that puzzle. One morning they found a huge clue. The night before, they had set up an experiment to test which molecules HIV needed to infect a human cell. The experiment garnered spectacular results.
It showed that HIV didn't enter cells the way scientists had believed. Instead it needed a little bit of extra help. Specifically, HIV needs a specific molecule, called CCR5, on the surface of the cell to "open the door" and let the virus enter, Landau says. Without CCR5, the virus only sticks to the cell's surface but can't enter. "It's kind of like the virus is knocking at the door, but nobody's opening the door. The door is locked," he says.
"That was what we call a eureka moment," Landau says. "That was the moment where we could say, 'We found something that had never been seen before.' "
Landau and his colleagues rushed to the computer and wrote up the findings as quickly as possible. Then he literally ran to the FedEx store to submit the paper to the journal Nature, knowing that other teams were likely to have the same finding soon.
"In those days you couldn't just submit your paper through your computer," he says. "You had to mail a hard copy of it to the journal. And my job was to sprint over to the FedEx store so we could get the paper mailed on time."
Then only a few short weeks later, Landau and his colleagues made another huge discovery, and in the process solved the final piece of the HIV puzzle. . "We were quite amazed that it all happened so quickly," Landau says.
In collaboration with a research group down the hall, Landau and his colleagues sequenced the CCR5 gene in two people completely resistant to HIV. Lo and behold! Both people had the same mutation in the gene – and it's a powerful mutation. It completely cripples the molecule so that it doesn't appear on the cells' surface, the group reported in the journal Cell. Remember, without CCR5, HIV can't infect the cell.
"You can put as many virus particles as you want onto those cells, and they will not get infected," he says. "So in the case of resistance to HIV, the story was very clear."
The finding completely shifted the field of HIV. It led to the first – and only – way to cure a person of HIV and suggested a new route, using gene editing with CRISPR.. But it did something else: It showed scientists that one mutation could make a person completely resistant to an infection. One mutation in their genes could make them a true superdodger.
"So when SARS-CoV-2 came along, of course, many labs looked to see if the same might be true for this virus," Landau says. And inspired by the story of CCR5, they went looking for mutations in the genes required for SARS-CoV-2 to enter and infect cells.
Are there really COVID superdodgers?
For COVID superdodgers, the situation appears to be more complex than for people resistant to HIV, Landau says, because the way SARS-CoV-2 infects cells is different from that of HIV.
Instead of using CCR5 to "open the cell's door," SARS-CoV-2 uses the ACE2 receptor. People can't live without ACE2. "The receptor regulates your blood pressure," Landau explains. So, unlike CCR5, you can't simply knock out the ACE2 receptor, he says. "You're not going to have many people walking around that don't have ACE2.
"Of course, there may be more subtle mutations in ACE2 which could play a role in resistance to SARS-CoV-2," he adds. "But there doesn't seem to be an obvious and dramatic mutation as is the case for HIV."
But perhaps what's more likely, he says, is that people have mutations in genes other than ACE2, and these mutations probably don't protect them from getting infected per se but do protect them from getting sick.
So having one of these mutations would make you a sort of COVID minidodger, if you will. There are other ways to resist an infection besides denying the virus entrance into the cell, Landau explains. And they likely involve your body's immune system.
That's exactly what the team at UCSF has found.
Since the pandemic began, Jill Hollenbach and her colleagues at UCSF have been studying people who test positive COVID but show no symptoms. "Not even a sniffle or a scratchy throat," she says. "So they are entirely asymptomatic."
After analyzing DNA from more than 1,400 people, they identified a mutation that helps a person clear out a SARS-CoV-2 so fast that their body doesn't have a chance to develop symptoms.
The mutation occurs in a gene called HLA, which is critical during the earliest stages of infection. Hollenbach and her colleagues found that having a particular mutation in that gene increases a person's chance of being asymptomatic by almost 10 times. They reported those preliminary findings online last September.
Since then, they've gone on to show how this mutation works. And it has to do with your immune system preparing for SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic even began back in 2019.
When viruses first enter cells, HLA signals to the immune system that cells are invaded and need help. That signal triggers a cascade of events that ultimately leads your body to make potent weapons specifically designed to fight SARS-CoV-2. These weapons include antibodies and T cells that uniquely recognize pieces of this virus. Once these targeted weapons are available, your immune system has a much easier time clearing up the infection. But these weapons take time to manufacture. And that delay allows the infection to spread and symptoms to develop.
But what if, for some lucky reason, your immune system already had weapons specifically targeted to SARS-CoV-2?
This summer, Hollenbach and her colleagues demonstrated that, with a specific mutation in HLA, some people have T cells that are already pre-programmed to recognize and fight off SARS-CoV-2. So there's no delay in generating COVID-specfic weaponry. It's already there.
"Your immune response and these T cells fire up much more quickly [than in a person without the HLA mutation]," Hollenbach says. "So for lack of a better term, you basically nuke the infection before you even start to have symptoms."
But here's the kicker. For the HLA mutation to work (and for you to have these pre-armed T cells), you first had to have been infected with another coronavirus.
"Most of us have been exposed to some common cold coronavirus at some point in life," she explains. And we all generate T cells to fight off these colds. But if you also have this mutation in your HLA, Hollenbach says, then just by mere luck, these T cells you make can also fight off SARS-CoV-2.
"It's definitely luck," she says. "But, you know, this mutation is quite common. We estimate that maybe 1 in 10 people have it. And in people who are asymptomatic, that rises to 1 in 5."
While Hollenbach and her team continue to look for more minidodger genes, Casanova over at Rockefeller University and his colleagues are still trying to determine if there are true superdodger genes. And he's looking for participants right now for his study.
"You fill out a questionnaire online about your exposures to SARS-CoV-2," he says. And then if you meet the criteria of a superdodger, the team sends you a testing kit. Basically you spit in a cup and mail it back to Casanova and his collaborators.
"We'll extract your DNA and sequence your genome," he explains. "We hope that in a group of 2,000 to 4,000 people, some people will have genetic mutations that tell us why they're resistant to infection."
And perhaps, like with HIV, that finding will one day shift the field of COVID research and lead to a vaccine that does what everyone wishes our current vaccines do: turn everyone into a COVID superdodger.
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
In Chile, the country's young president, Gabriel Boric, is facing a big test. On Sunday, Chileans will decide whether to ratify a new constitution to replace the current one, which was written during the country's military dictatorship. Polls predict voters will reject this new constitution. As NPR's John Otis reports, that would be a blow for President Boric.
(SOUNDBITE OF CARS HONKING)
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER: (Shouting in Spanish).
JOHN OTIS, BYLINE: In the streets of Santiago, a boisterous crowd waves Chilean flags and banners that say rechazo - that's Spanish for rejection.
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting) Rechazo. Rechazo.
OTIS: They're urging people to reject Chile's draft constitution, which they claim is a radical left-wing document that would turn the nation upside down. Much of their anger is directed at President Gabriel Boric, who's a big supporter of the new Magna Carta.
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in Spanish).
OTIS: At 36, Boric, a leftist, is Chile's youngest ever president. He sports a beard, tattoos on his arms and never wears a necktie. Boric was sworn in in March amid rising inflation, unemployment and street crime. But rather than taking action, the president has dithered, says Camila Quiroz, an industrial engineer taking part in the march.
CAMILA QUIROZ: Like, come on. You have to do something. You have the power, you know. You have the people. And why you don't do anything? We are living in chaos. We are living in a dangerous place.
OTIS: A survey this week by Chilean polling firm Cadem puts Boric's job approval rating at just 39%.
CLAUDIO FUENTES: It was very expected that you have a reduction of popularity. But what is new in Boric is that this went very quick. And...
OTIS: No honeymoon.
FUENTES: No honeymoon at all.
OTIS: That's Claudio Fuentes, who teaches political science at Diego Portales University in Santiago. He and others describe Boric as something of an accidental president. As an opposition congressman, Boric helped broker a deal that ended violent protests in 2019 that threatened to bring down Chile's right-wing government. To address the protesters' demands for everything from better pensions to free university education, Chile began the long, slow process of writing a new constitution.
GLORIA DE LA FUENTE: (Speaking Spanish).
OTIS: Analyst Gloria de la Fuente says Boric's role in defusing the 2019 crisis helped him leapfrog past more experienced candidates to win the presidency last December. Once in office, Boric botched efforts to pacify indigenous protests in southern Chile. He's struggling with the country's highest inflation rate in nearly 30 years. Meanwhile, his government agenda is largely on hold because it depends on passage of the draft constitution.
RODRIGO ESPINOZA: (Speaking Spanish).
OTIS: "The result," says political analyst Rodrigo Espinoza, "has been government paralysis that has further eroded Boric's popularity."
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in Spanish).
OTIS: At a rally to drum up support for the new constitution, I meet Bernardita Aninat, who trains teachers in Santiago. She says that problems like inflation are global trends beyond Boric's control.
BERNARDITA ANINAT: I think he's done a good job, but it's hard. And also, it's five months in a sort of a crisis. The world is all turned up and down.
OTIS: In a recent interview on Chilean TV, Boric admitted that he's off to a rough start.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
PRESIDENT GABRIEL BORIC: (Speaking Spanish).
OTIS: He said, "I think we have to be humble and learn from the mistakes." But things could get even rockier for his administration. Polls show that once-robust support for the draft constitution is waning due to its controversial platforms. Some call for stronger protections for the environment and indigenous groups that could put the brakes on the country's lucrative mining industry. Other articles call for eliminating Chile's Senate and legalizing abortion. Although the polls may be wrong, Fuentes, the university professor, says that Boric is bracing for the draft constitution to be rejected.
If the no vote wins, does that mean disaster for Boric?
FUENTES: I don't think so. I mean, probably, you will see a very quick reaction of him trying to negotiate a new path to have a new constitution.
OTIS: However, starting the constitutional rewrite process all over again, as Boric has suggested, could mean several more years of gridlock for his government. John Otis, NPR News, Santiago, Chile. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/npr-world-news/2022-09-02/chilean-president-gabriel-boric-faces-his-biggest-political-challenge-yet | 2022-09-14T22:23:04Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/npr-world-news/2022-09-02/chilean-president-gabriel-boric-faces-his-biggest-political-challenge-yet | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 75th Innovation Command hosted a retirement ceremony during September Battle Assembly on Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, Texas, Sept. 10. Retirees, from left, are Sgt. 1st. Class Danial Lisarelli; Master Sgt. Patrick Hewitt; Master Sgt. Richard Queen; Lt. Col. Samsul Alam; Lt. Col. Michael Ansay; and Col. Beth Sweet.
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A Family member of a Soldier assigned to 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, left, receives a volunteer appreciation award from Col. Andy Kiser, Commander of 2SBCT, right, during a ceremony at Ft. Carson, Sept. 14. The brigade held the ceremony to honor the selfless service of volunteers within the Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Maj. Jason Elmore.
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A Family member of a Soldier assigned to 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, left, receives a volunteer appreciation award from Col. Andy Kiser, Commander of 2SBCT, right, during a ceremony at Ft. Carson, Sept. 14. The brigade held the ceremony to honor the selfless service of volunteers within the Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Maj. Jason Elmore.
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UNION GAP – Clothing retailer Nordstrom Inc. announced Wednesday it will open a Nordstrom Rack store in Union Gap, adjacent to the Valley Mall.
The new store, which will open in fall 2023 at the former Bed, Bath & Beyond site, was announced during a Greater Yakima Chamber of Commerce luncheon hosted by Valley Mall officials.
“This will bring people who haven’t been here before,” said Linda DiLembo, general manager of Valley Mall. “I know we’ll have people coming here from the Tri-Cities for Nordstrom Rack.”
The 28,000 square-foot store joins more than 80 local, regional and national retailers and restaurants at the Valley Mall, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It is owned by California-based CenterCal Properties.
“We are truly excited to announce the addition of Nordstrom Rack to our fine group of tenants at Valley Mall,” Fred Bruning, chairman and founder of CenterCal Properties, stated in a news release.
“Bringing the famous Nordstrom name back to the Valley has been a goal of ours for many years, and we are sure they will be welcomed warmly by the local community,” Bruning added. “The addition of Nordstrom Rack underscores our commitment to keeping Valley Mall vibrant and the leader in retail shopping for the entire Valley.”
Two other new tenants, the locally-owned Fuji restaurant and national chain Chuck E. Cheese, plan to open in 2023 near the mall’s Main Street entrance, DiLembo announced at Wednesday’s luncheon.
Nordstrom started as a shoe store in 1901, and the Seattle-based retailer now operates more than 350 Nordstrom, Nordstrom Local and Nordstrom Rack locations. Including the new Rack stores in Union Gap, Olympia and Salem announced on Wednesday, the company will operate 12 Nordstrom Rack and six Nordstrom stores in Washington state, and seven Nordstrom Rack stores and two Nordstrom stores in Oregon.
“We look forward to opening these new Nordstrom Rack locations … strengthening our network of stores, and introducing new customers to the Rack’s unique product offerings,” Carl Jenkins, senior vice president of Nordstrom Rack Stores, announced in a Wednesday news release.
Nordstrom Rack is an off-price retail division of Nordstrom which offers discounted prices on apparel, accessories, beauty, home and shoes from many of the brands sold at Nordstrom. It also offers online order pickup for Nordstrom websites and returns. It's the largest source of new customers to Nordstrom, the company said.
Nordstrom previously operated a store in downtown’s Yakima Mall, but closed it in 2001 after 40 years of operation in Yakima. The downtown mall closed in 2003.
Traci Russell, vice president of leasing for CenterCal Properties, attended Wednesday’s luncheon and said bringing Nordstrom Rack to the area is part of the company’s plan to revitalize and rebrand the mall for its 50th anniversary.
Russell said she originally discussed putting Nordstrom Rack inside the former Sears location at the south end of the enclosed mall, but company officials told her they preferred a separate, outlying location.
“They wanted to be on (the north) end of the property, and at that time we hadn’t finished negotiating with Bed, Bath & Beyond,” she added. “So it worked out very well.” | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/nordstrom-rack-to-open-store-in-yakima-valley-in-2023/article_8f0c7e2c-346e-11ed-8b70-8bf9f6ad1ca8.html | 2022-09-14T22:24:01Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/nordstrom-rack-to-open-store-in-yakima-valley-in-2023/article_8f0c7e2c-346e-11ed-8b70-8bf9f6ad1ca8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – It’s a big week for Hispanic culture. Thursday marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month and the Springfield Puerto Rican parade returns to an in person event this weekend.
The parade will take place this Sunday, September 18th at 11 a.m. and all involved are so glad to be back in person once again.
“We are so excited! Obviously the virtual parade was good to keep the culture alive but we always want to see the community, see the flags, see the smiling faces, and be out on Main Street. So this is, we are super excited, we can’t wait,” said Jade Rivera McFarlin, spokesperson for the parade.
Parade-goers are encouraged to bring a chair, a Puerto Rican flag and get ready to have a great time. The parade kicks off at the corner of Wason and Main Street then heads down Main Street and ends at Boland Way.
After the parade there will be a celebration at the main stage located at Main and Bridge Street. There will be a line up of local artists. State Senator Adam Gomez, who walked in the parade as a child, is now humbled to be this year’s Grand Marshal.
“The Puerto Rican parade is always fun. We try and invite everyone down. This weekend we like to say everyone is Latino, Puerto Rican, please come wave your flags,” said Gomez.
Following the parade, there will be an afterparty at Riverfront Park featuring a performance by Tito Puente Junior.
“It’s a great, great parade. We have a lot of fun, we have a lot of laughs, it’s very colorful, it is very energetic and I am going to be ready to salsa a little bit,” said Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno.
The parade will be emceed by a familiar face, 22News Reporter Melissa Torres! There a few events leading up to Sunday’s parade, including a flag raising this Friday with Senator Gomez at 5:00 p.m. in Memorial Square Park on North Main Street. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/springfield-puerto-rican-parade-held-this-weekend/ | 2022-09-14T22:24:50Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/springfield-puerto-rican-parade-held-this-weekend/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sept. 8, 2022, during a joint force exercise, more than 200 service members across four major commands participated in a, first time ever performed, joint force exercise at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. This exercise will develop new operational concepts, capabilities and plans to bolster deterrence and maintain the U.S. military’s competitive advantage for the future. (U.S. Air National Guard video by: TSgt Danny Whitlock)
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On Sept. 8, 2022, during a joint force exercise, more than 200 service members across four major commands participated in a, first time ever performed, joint force exercise at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. This exercise will develop new operational concepts, capabilities and plans to bolster deterrence and maintain the U.S. military’s competitive advantage for the future. (U.S. Air National Guard video by: Staff Sgt. Anthony Pham)
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On Sept. 8, 2022, during a joint force exercise, more than 200 service members across four major commands participated in a, first time ever performed, joint force exercise at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. This exercise will develop new operational concepts, capabilities and plans to bolster deterrence and maintain the U.S. military’s competitive advantage for the future. (U.S. Air Force Reserves video by: Staff Sgt. Anthony Pham)
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On Sept. 8, 2022, during a joint force exercise, more than 200 service members across four major commands participated in a, first time ever performed, joint force exercise at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. This exercise will develop new operational concepts, capabilities and plans to bolster deterrence and maintain the U.S. military’s competitive advantage for the future. (U.S. Air National Guard video by: Master Sgt. Colton Elliott)
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EMS workers are hoping to teach people how to be safe during National Preparedness Month.
"Everybody assumes it's not going to happen to them, whether it's severe weather or fire, so it's better to prepare yourself ahead of time because you just never know," said Hamilton County EMS Public Relations Manager Amy Maxwell.
Over the years, Tennessee has suffered through a variety of natural disasters.
"We've seen a lot of significant flooding that's occurred in the spring but we've also seen it in the fall," said Maxwell. "We've had droughts in the fall, we've had wildfires back in 2016, we've also had significant tornadoes that have occurred in the early spring."
No matter the circumstance, Maxwell said people should always be prepared.
"This is a great time to draw awareness and encourage us to take steps to prepare for emergencies, whether it's at our homes, at our schools, at our business," said Maxwell.
You should begin your preparations by creating a safe spot for your family, whether it's in your home or with a friend nearby.
"Designate a safe place in your house," said Maxwell. "So if you're having to shelter in place during a tornado, which we have seen in the past, finding that safe location which is in the center of the lowest point in your house."
She also said it's a good time to make a 'to-go' kit with items like water, a flashlight, a weather radio, cell phone, and first aid kit.
"Non perishable items that can be stored in this to-go kit," said Maxwell. "Pet supplies, people don't remember but your pets are your family too and we also need to include that."
She added to check on your own safety in the event of a natural disaster that forces you to evacuate.
"To protect your head is so important for flying debris in the event you are in the path of a tornado," said Maxwell. "Also in severe weather, have a pair of shoes on."
She said it's a good idea to 'sweat the details,' as the smallest things can make the biggest difference.
"Anytime you are proactive instead of reactive could really end up really saving your life or your family's," said Maxwell.
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UPDATE: The city of Summerville has ended their boil water advisory Wednesday, officials announced.
City Manager Janice Galloway said the lifting of the advisory came after all water samples from the City of Summerville Water System tested negative for bacteria.
Bottled water remains available at City Hall.
The city asks that residents still without water call City Hall at 706-859-0900.
PREVIOUS UPDATE: A water buffalo with drinking water has been delivered to the city of Summerville this evening.
Residents can access the clean drinking water at City Hall, located in the parking lot across from the Summerville Fire Department on Cox St.
A second water buffalo will be on site later this evening.
Chattooga County residents can receive clean drinking water at:North Summerville Baptist Church119 Maplewood Dr, Summerville*Donation Location as well*Lucky’s Supermarket7880 GA-48, MenloCentral Avenue Baptist Church & Associational Missionary14074 Highway 27, Trion
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) September 5, 2022
Officials ask that anyone interested, bring their own containers.
Chattooga County EMA has shared additional options for safe drinking water:
PREVIOUS STORY: Water could become a critical issue with Summerville and Menlo water customers for up to a week.
City officials say the pumps are off and underwater at the treatment plant in Summerville.
Menlo Mayor Allen Keen says he is coordinating with Summerville on getting water tankers brought into Summerville.
At this time the boil water advisory continues.
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The Chattanooga Police Department will be holding a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.
The police department will be discussing the recent violent crime and upcoming initiatives.
The press conference is scheduled to start at 3:30pm in the Community Room of police services on Amnicola Highway and will be streaming on the Local 3 News Facebook page.
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President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Detroit on Wednesday announcing the approval of the first $900 million for electric vehicle chargers across the country, which he says will help build charging stations across 35 states.
"It used to be that to buy an electric car, you had to make all sorts of compromises. But not now. Thanks to American ingenuity, American engineers, American autoworkers -- it's all changing," Biden said in a speech following a tour of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
He added, "Today, I'm pleased to announce we're approving funding for the first 35 states, including Michigan, to build their own electric charging infrastructure throughout their state."
The money is part of the bipartisan infrastructure law and will help build chargers across 53,000 miles of the nations' highway system. The funding will build a half-million chargers across the country, Biden said.
During his speech in the Motor City, the President said Michigan is "building the future of the electric vehicle" and that funding from his major legislative accomplishments -- including the infrastructure law, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act -- will "advance America's electric vehicle future."
"The great American road trip is going to be fully electrified, whether you're driving coast-to-coast along I-10 or on I-75 here in Michigan," Biden added. "Charging stations will be up and as easy to find as gas stations are now."
He added that American manufacturing "is back" and that the American people "should be confident that we're on the right track."
"Since President Biden took office, companies like Toyota, Honda, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Panasonic have announced investments of nearly $85 billion to make electric vehicles, batteries and EV chargers across America, including in North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri and Kansas," a White House official said in a statement.
Biden is also slated to talk to union workers, CEOs and local leaders "throughout the day," the official said.
During a tour of the auto show ahead of his speech on Wednesday, Biden got behind the wheel of several cars.
Inside an orange Corvette ZO6, the President told reporters, "I'll tell ya what, I'm telling my Secret Service detail I'm driving home!"
Biden also toured several electric vehicles, including a Silverado EV, which starts production next year in Michigan and is estimated to have a range of 400 miles on a full charge, the F150 Lightning, which he test drove last year, and the Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary Edition.
Biden also briefly -- and slowly -- drove an electric Cadillac Lyriq down the blue carpet at the auto show with a Secret Service agent sitting in the passenger seat.
"Come on, jump in. I'll give you a ride to Washington," he told reporters. "It's an Uber."
This story has been updated with additional developments on Wednesday.
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Railroad and union officials are currently meeting with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh at the Labor Department in Washington, according to the White House, as the Biden administration tries to help avoid a freight rail strike that could cause massive supply chain disruptions and have significant repercussions on the economy.
The two main unions that have disputes with the railroads -- the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and SMART Transportation Division -- were expected to send their union chiefs to the meeting with Walsh.
The meeting comes with just days remaining until a federally mandated cooling off period expires and the strike could begin. It serves as a major test for President Joe Biden and his White House, which has positioned itself as one of the most pro-labor administrations in decades but also wants to avoid any potential shocks to the economy with the midterm elections just months away.
Members of the Machinists union on Friday voted to reject a tentative labor deal reached with the nation's freight railroads. There are about 5,000 members of the union at the railroads working as locomotive machinists, track equipment mechanics and facility maintenance personnel. They make up less than 5% of the more than 100,000 union members at the railroads.
The rejection is not an immediate setback in efforts to avoid the potentially devastating rail strike. The union said it will give an extension until the end of the month to try to reach a change in the tentative agreement that could make it acceptable to its membership. But it is a sign of the difficulty that the railroads will have reaching deals with a dozen different unions that will also be acceptable to their rank-and-file membership.
A Labor Department spokesperson said Wednesday that the unions and railroad officials are "negotiating in good faith" and "committed to staying at the table" as the discussions remained ongoing.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday morning aboard Air Force One: "All parties need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues and come to an agreement. A shutdown of our freight rail system is unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people and all parties must work to avoid just that."
About 60,000 union members working for railroads are set to go on strike after midnight on Friday. These members include the engineers and conductors who make up the two-person crews on each train. Forty-five thousand other workers belong to unions that have reached tentative deals with the railroads, but a strike by engineers and conductors would bring the freight rail system to a grinding halt.
Such a shutdown could have massive effects across the supply chain and also for the nation's passenger rail system. About 30% of the nation's freight moves by rail, and gas, food, consumer goods and cars and trucks could all increase in price or become more scarce if freight trains are shutdown. Amtrak is also warning of huge effects to its service as it runs on tracks that are owned by freight rail companies. Service has already been canceled along key long-haul routes across the country in anticipation of a possible strike.
Officials have grown increasingly concerned about a shutdown, and the White House has been discussing contingency plans as labor talks remain at an impasse and agencies across the federal government are working through options available to keep critical supply chains operational.
Biden personally called rail unions and companies earlier this week when he visited Boston in an attempt to avoid a strike, according to Jean-Pierre. Biden continues to receive regular updates on the high-stakes negotiations.
A White House official previously told CNN the Biden administration is working with shippers, truckers and air freight to see how these other modes of transportation could keep goods moving if there is a rail shutdown. One area of key concern is how to transport hazardous materials.
One official said interagency meetings with the departments of Transportation, Defense, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Energy and the Federal Emergency Management Agency were happening daily.
Disputes on Capitol Hill
Congress has the authority to impose a settlement between the railroads and unions, but Democrats have been wary of undercutting the unions amid the ongoing negotiations.
Republican Sens. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Richard Burr of North Carolina asked for unanimous consent in the Senate to impose a slate of non-binding emergency board recommendations, which would forestall a strike. The Presidential Emergency Board was established by the Biden administration in July and issued the recommendations last month.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, objected to the Republicans' effort.
And while nine of the 12 unions involved in the ongoing labor negotiations have reached tentative agreements with carriers based on the emergency board's recommendations, the two largest unions have rejected the proposals.
This story has been updated with additional details on Wednesday.
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Northeastern University in Boston reopened Wednesday after an employee reported being injured by an exploding package.
The campus is now "secure and open" with beefed up security, the university said Wednesday afternoon.
On Tuesday evening, an employee said a hard plastic case exploded in Northeastern's virtual reality lab.
The employee told investigators that when he opened the package, it depressurized with the force of an explosion, law enforcement sources said.
But Boston Police and FBI bomb technicians didn't find any evidence of explosives nor an initiation system capable of causing an explosion, a source briefed on the investigation told CNN.
And the package wasn't sent to the lab through the postal service, according to multiple sources.
The package did contain a rambling note that criticized Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the relationship between academic institutions and the developers of virtual reality, several federal law enforcement sources told CNN.
CNN has reached out to Facebook for comment.
The 45-year-old man who opened the package suffered minor hand injuries, university and law enforcement officials said.
"Events such as the incident that took place on our Boston campus last night can create or heighten anxiety for many of us," said a joint statement from David Madigan, Northeastern's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and Kenneth Henderson, chancellor and senior vice president.
"We would like to underscore what was communicated to our community last night: Multiple law enforcement agencies have determined that the campus is safe and secure."
The university serves more than 16,000 undergraduate students, according to last year's enrollment report.
Northeastern is offering support services such as confidential counseling for students and staff, the university said.
A multi-agency response
Police were called to the scene around 7:18 p.m., Boston Police Superintendent Felipe Colon said Tuesday night.
About a minute after the initial call, a Northeastern University police officer arrived at Homes Hall, said Michael Davis, chief of the university police department.
University police announced the scene was "contained" just before 10 p.m.
"It's very important to note our campus is secure," Davis said during the news conference.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu praised law enforcement's response.
"We want to make sure to emphasize that this is of the utmost priority, the safety and well-being of all our young people here," Wu said.
The FBI Boston Division coordinated with the Boston Police Department, FBI spokesperson Kristen Setera told CNN.
The FBI offered the full resources of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, its evidence response team and special agent bomb technicians to assist in the investigation, said Jason Cromartie, assistant special agent in charge.
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A conversation between a federal judge and a lawyer for one of the Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy ended in a screaming match on Wednesday, when the lawyer suggested she would argue at trial that her client deleted evidence after the riot because he was directed to by another lawyer.
Juli Haller, who represents Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs, told US District Judge Amit Mehta that she was exploring whether to argue that the Oath Keepers general counsel, Kellye SoRelle, instructed Meggs to delete text messages from his phone after the riot.
Meggs has since been charged with tampering with documents for the alleged act and has pleaded not guilty.
"How is it today, 10 days before trial, I'm first being told you might advance an advice-of-counsel-defense," Mehta shouted at Haller.
The argument is indicative of the many legal issues that have yet to be resolved before the five leaders of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group head to trial later this month -- the first seditious conspiracy trial stemming from January 6.
The trial will be a major test of DOJ's decision to prosecute the rarely used charge, and the unsettled legal disagreements could implicate how they chose to present their case.
Haller said that she only learned of the allegation after SoRelle, who was federally charged two weeks ago, testified to a grand jury in June. Her testimony has not previously been reported.
SoRelle faces charges including obstruction of an official proceeding and obstructing justice by telling others to delete information from their phones. She has pleaded not guilty.
Mehta said that the allegation itself SoRelle suggested others should delete messages was not new. "I read it in the newspaper months ago," Mehta shouted at Haller, adding "I'm not buying it" and that "it was in the indictment"
"Which indictment? The first, second, sixth," Haller shouted over Mehta. The two continued to cut each other off, Haller alleging that it was new information and Mehta rejecting her arguments. Prosecutors shook their heads fiercely.
Mehta eventually told Haller to sit down, but she did not. Another lawyer suggested a break in the hearing, to which Mehta shouted "no."
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"Being outside was where it felt sacred," Kimberly Flores recalled.
She was 10 years old and camping with her grandparents when she was struck by the majesty of nature.
"This is a gift that was given to us," she told CNN. "We get to live in this space and we need to take care of it."
Flores is the owner of fulFILLed -- a zero waste and refill store in Park City, Utah, where customers purchase sustainable household and personal care products. With refillable glass bottles, shoppers can buy all-purpose cleaner, shampoo, conditioner or laundry detergent by the ounce.
"I have 40 different refillable products," Flores said. "We are putting out the cleanest products that are currently on the market and you're purchasing it without having to buy your own trash. "
Evolving mission
Before starting her business, Flores was a television reporter for 15 years.
"At seven years old, I would watch the news with my grandmother," Flores said. "She told me one day 'you would make a really good reporter.'"
Toward the end of her journalism career, she focused on environmental storytelling.
She relished informing and educating audiences about pollution and sustainability, but that deeper calling she experienced with her grandparents compelled her to do more.
It started in a van
Flores left the TV industry in 2017 and opened Utah's first mobile refill shop in 2021.
"This was just supposed to be my side hustle. I was going to do this while I had my big girl job," Flores said with a laugh.
But that side hustle turned into a full-time career.
"I knew I had to live a life with less plastic. And so that's why I'm trying to help my community. It needs to start with consumers."
She opened a brick-and-mortar fulFILLed shop later that year.
According to a study in 2020, despite efforts to reduce waste, there will still be an estimated 710 million metric tons of plastic polluting the environment by 2040.
But that doesn't stop Flores' mission to educate others about the low-waste lifestyle.
"Thousands of plastic bottles and plastic packages have been kept from the waste stream and landfills since we opened the doors of fulFILLed in October of 2021. We don't have an unlimited supply of resources. We're gonna have to start thinking about reusing and recycling."
Becoming plastic-free
Transitioning to a plastic-free lifestyle can be overwhelming and won't happen overnight. So, give yourself some grace. Flores provided four simple but impactful tips to get started:
- Have a reusable water bottle on hand to avoid single-use plastic bottles.
- Bring your old plastic bags to the grocery store or purchase a reusable grocery bag.
- Carry utensils to reduce the use of plastic ware.
- Bring a reusable coffee cup to your favorite coffee shop.
"Plastic is made to last, and it takes more than 400 years to break down," Flores said. "So the more we try to reduce single-use plastics, the better it will be for our community, our country and our world."
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Baltimore prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday asking for a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose case was the subject of the hugely popular first season of the "Serial" podcast.
A statement from the state attorney's office cited newly discovered evidence.
"After a nearly year-long investigation reviewing the facts of this case, Syed deserves a new trial where he is adequately represented and the latest evidence can be presented," Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said in the statement.
Syed is serving a life sentence after he was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery, kidnapping and false imprisonment in February 2000 for the slaying of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. He has maintained his innocence and has been appealing his convictions for years.
"As stewards of the court, we are obligated to uphold confidence in the integrity of convictions and do our part to correct when this standard has been comprised," Mosby said. "We have spoken with the family of Ms. Hae Min Lee and (they) fully understand that the person responsible for this heinous crime must be held accountable."
The state will request that Syed be released on his own recognizance pending the investigation if the motion to vacate his conviction is granted.
"We believe that keeping Mr. Syed detained as we continue to investigate the case with everything that we know now, when we do not have confidence in results of the first trial, would be unjust," Mosby said.
The re-investigation revealed evidence "regarding the possible involvement of two alternative suspects other than Syed," the statement said.
"The two suspects may be involved individually or may be involved together," the statement said.
Adnan and Lee were seniors at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County in January 1999 when she disappeared. Her strangled body was discovered in a city forest three weeks later.
Mosby said prosecutors are "not asserting, at this time, that Mr. Syed is innocent" but that the state "lacks confidence in the integrity of the conviction" and that Syed should get a new trial.
Syed and prosecutors in March filed a joint motion for post-conviction DNA testing, saying that since the crime occurred more than two decades ago, "DNA testing has changed and improved drastically."
Mosby said the motion to vacate was filed along with Sentencing Review Unit (SRU) Chief Becky Feldman. Syed was a juvenile when convicted.
The suspects were known persons at the time of the original investigation "and were not properly ruled out nor disclosed to the defense," according to Mosby's statement.
The state is not disclosing the names of the suspects but said that, according to the trial file, one of them said, "He would make her [Ms. Lee] disappear. He would kill her."
The investigation also revealed that one suspect was convicted of attacking a woman in her vehicle, according to the statement. The second suspect was convicted of engaging in serial rape and sexual assault, the statement said.
Some of the information was available at the time of the trial, the statement said, and some came to light later. It is not clear when these assaults took place.
Lee's car was located "directly behind the house of one of the suspect's family members," the statement said.
Attorneys for Syed brought the case to the attention of the SRU in April of 2021.
Syed's attorneys "identified significant reliability issues regarding the most critical pieces of evidence at trial," Mosby's statement said.
In the 2019 HBO docuseries "The Case Against Adnan Syed," an attorney for Syed said his client's DNA was not found on any of the 12 samples retrieved from the victim's body and car. That testing was not part of the official investigation by authorities. HBO, like CNN, is a unit of WarnerMedia.
At trial, prosecutors relied on testimony from a friend, Jay Wilds, who said he helped Syed dig a hole for Lee's body. To corroborate his account, prosecutors presented cell phone records and expert witness testimony to place Syed at the site where Lee was buried.
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The Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote declined on Wednesday a request from Yeshiva University to block a lower court order that requires the New York university to recognize a "Pride Alliance" LGBTQ student club.
In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court noted that the New York state courts had yet to issue a final order in the case, and that Yeshiva could return to the Supreme Court after the New York courts have acted.
"The application is denied because it appears that applicants have at least two further avenues for expedited or interim state court relief," the court said.
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, dissented from the court's order, noting that the lower courts could take "months to rule."
This story is breaking and will be updated.
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Three January 6, 2021, rioters involved in one of the most brutal assaults on police during the attack at the US Capitol were found guilty on Tuesday of several felonies following a bench trial before a federal judge.
Patrick McCaughey was found guilty of nine counts, including assault with a deadly weapon, for an attack against Washington, DC, police officer Daniel Hodges. A video of the assault, in which Hodges screamed in pain as he was crushed against a doorway and had his mask ripped off his face, went viral shortly after the attack.
"The lower west terrace and the lower west terrace tunnel were the scenes of shocking violence and hostility towards police on January 6, 2021," District Judge Trevor McFadden said before handing down the verdict. "No police officer should have to endure these attacks."
"Mr. McCaughey used the force of his body, and used the force of other rioters behind him, to pin Officer Hodges" against the wall and "left him defenseless to other rioters," McFadden said, adding that Hodges was "crushed" and let out "gut wrenching cries of pain."
One of McCaughey's codefendants, Tristan Stevens, was also found guilty on nine charges. The other, David Mehaffie, was found guilty of four charges.
Both Stevens and Mehaffie were acquitted on a single count of obstruction of an official proceeding, as McFadden said that government prosecutors did not prove that the two knew the certification of Electoral College votes was underway inside the Capitol when they arrived.
Dozens of people sat quietly in the courtroom while McFadden handed down the verdict.
Once the almost two-hour hearing was over, McCaughey was remanded into custody and was not allowed to say goodbye to his mother, who was in the courtroom. Another supporter of McCaughey shouted at the US Marshals as they took McCaughey away in handcuffs and later cried in the hallway of the DC courthouse.
According to prosecutors, the three men engaged in the assault of police officers guarding a tunnel entrance to the Capitol on the Lower West Terrace -- a brutal scene where officers were beaten, crushed and even dragged out into the crowd in an hours-long attack.
McCaughey and Stevens battled police, prosecutors said, while Mehaffie directed members of the mob in and out of the Lower West Terrace tunnel.
The three men argued at various times during the trial that they were trapped in the mob, were trying to help officers, or did not know about the violence. But McFadden said that testimony from multiple police officers during the trial, including Hodges and former Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell -- both of whom have been outspoken about the events of January 6 -- as well as videos of the event undercut those claims.
According to Gonell, Stevens hit him several times with a stolen riot shield and attempted to steal another officer's baton.
"To this day, even after going through treatment for the trauma, I still struggle with the timeline. But I do remember your defendant and what he did," Gonell told Stevens' attorney.
Hodges testified that he was crushed in a doorway inside the tunnel by McCaughey, who was pushing against him with a riot shield. Prosecutors showed images of Hodges taken after the attack, with half of Hodge's face covered in blood and bruising and swelling across his body.
McCaughey, Stevens and Mehaffie will be sentenced in November.
Three other men charged in the attack, Robert Morss, Geoffrey Sills and David Lee Judd, were found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding during a bench trial in late August. Morss and Sills were also found guilty of assault.
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Former President Donald Trump's top general feared he would authorize a strike on Iran as his presidency ended. His intelligence chief wondered what Russia had on him. A billionaire friend convinced him to try buying Greenland. A half-dozen top officials considered resigning en masse.
Even his wife, first lady Melania Trump, was "rattled by the coronavirus and convinced that Trump was screwing up," according to a forthcoming book from New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer and CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser set to publish on Tuesday.
In a phone call with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who maintained ties to the White House despite occasional criticism of Trump, Melania Trump sought help convincing her husband to take the pandemic more seriously.
"'You're blowing this," she recalled telling her husband," the authors write. "'This is serious. It's going to be really bad, and you need to take it more seriously than you're taking it.' He had just dismissed her. 'You worry too much,' she remembered him saying. 'Forget it.' "
The razor's-edge instability clouding Trump's four-year tenure in the White House led many of his senior-most advisers to worry about the fate of the country. The volatility is laid bare in new detail in "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021." The reporting for the book included two interviews with the former President at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Baker and Glasser write that many of the well-known fears about Trump's presidency were in fact closer to reality than previously reported, leading to widespread attempts among those who worked for him to head off disaster.
The revelations could also foretell the presidency Trump might oversee should he return to the White House in 2025. Trump's associates have told CNN he could announce a presidential bid after November's midterm elections. But, as Trump told Baker and Glasser, he won't invite former Vice President Mike Pence to join his ticket after Pence refused to interfere in the certification of the 2020 election.
"It would be totally inappropriate," Trump said. "Mike committed political suicide by not taking votes that he knew were wrong."
The book describes deep concerns among Trump's national security team, led by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and others, that the then-President would ignite a conflict with Iran in the waning days of his presidency or that he could stumble into nuclear war with North Korea.
One administration official told Trump before the 2020 election that if he lost, he should strike Iran's nuclear program, the authors report. "Milley at the time told his staff it was a 'What the f--- are these guys talking about?' moment," they write. "Now, it seemed frighteningly possible."
The tensions with Iran even permeated the walls of Mar-a-Lago. Trump told guests at a cocktail party over the holidays in 2020 that he was leaving early to return to Washington because of fears Iran may be trying to assassinate him to avenge the US killing of the country's top general a year earlier.
Concerns over Trump's behavior on the world stage began nearly as soon as he took office. More than simply a passing grudge, Trump's desire to withdraw the United States from NATO was in fact a sustained effort that was "much more serious than people realized," one senior White House official said -- an outcome that could have dramatically altered the current war in Ukraine.
Following a 2018 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland -- after which Trump sided with Putin over US intelligence agencies who had determined Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 election -- the top US intelligence official was left wondering what Trump's real motives were.
"I never could come to a conclusion. It raised the question in everybody's mind: What does Putin have on him that causes him to do something that undermines his credibility?" Dan Coats, the then-director of national intelligence, reflected to associates afterward, according to the book.
And a months-long fixation with purchasing Greenland from Denmark went far deeper than previously disclosed, inspired in the early days of Trump's presidency by a wealthy friend from New York, the cosmetics heir Ron Lauder.
"I said, 'Why don't we have that?' You take a look at a map. I'm a real estate developer, I look at a corner, I say, 'I've got to get that store for the building that I'm building,' etc. It's not that different," Trump told the reporters for their book.
Lauder proposed to Trump's then-national security adviser John Bolton that he act as a "back channel" to the Danish government. Instead, top National Security Council aides engaged for months in secret talks with Denmark's ambassador to the United States about Greenland.
Eventually, however, public revelations about Trump's plans to buy the island prompted indignation in both Greenland and Denmark, scuttling any effort to enhance the US role in an increasingly strategic area. Trump called the Danish leader "nasty" for rejecting his idea and canceled a trip to Copenhagen.
Trump enjoyed friendlier relations with other world leaders, but often imposed his own brand of chaos.
Baker and Glasser report Trump once abruptly phoned Jordan's King Abdullah II to inform him he was "going to give you the West Bank," prompting the monarch to tell a friend he thought he was having a heart attack.
"I couldn't breathe. I was bent doubled over," he said.
And while Trump liked to frequently tout that then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe -- who was assassinated in July -- had nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize, Trump had actually explicitly made the request to Abe during dinner in New York.
"The President asked Abe over dinner to nominate him," a senior Trump national security official says in the book.
Baker and Glasser describe previously unreported plans by members of Trump's Cabinet to collectively resign amid the chaos, only to remain in their posts out of concern for whohe might select to replace them.
In encrypted text messages, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told a top aide that five senior officials in the Trump administration -- including the secretaries of Defense, Education and Interior -- were on the verge of quitting amid a particularly chaotic period ahead of the 2018 midterms.
"Ok for the first time I am actually scared for the country. The insanity has been loosed," she wrote in the messages.
Trump's demands on his team included outlandish requests like abolishing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals after it blocked one of his immigration policies.
"Let's just cancel it," he told Nielsen, according to the book. He told Nielsen if such a move required legislation, "then draft a bill to 'get rid of the f--king judges' and have it sent to Congress as soon as possible."
When it came to responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, however, it was his most trusted advisers who were encouraging him to do more, particularly in the early days when Trump appeared nonchalant about the severity of the crisis.
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Stocks on Wall Street shook off an afternoon slide and finished modestly higher Wednesday, clawing back some of their losses a day after the market’s worst skid in two years.
The wobbly trading came as investors weighed another snapshot of inflation. Markets have been on edge about the possibility of a recession after a string of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve this year as the central bank fights inflation.
The S&P 500 rose 0.3% after wavering between small gains and losses much of the afternoon. The benchmark index was coming off its biggest drop since June 2020, which ended a four-day winning streak.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.1% higher, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.7%. Smaller company stocks also rose, pushing the Russell 2000 to a 0.4% gain.
Bond yields remained relatively stable after leaping higher on Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury rose to 3.79% from 3.75% late Tuesday, when it soared on expectations for more aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, held steady at 3.41%.
A report on inflation at the wholesale level showed prices are still rising rapidly, with pressures building underneath the surface, even if overall inflation slowed. It echoed a report on inflation at the consumer level Tuesday, which raised expectations for interest-rate hikes and triggered a rout for markets.
Still, the overall decline in inflation at the wholesale level helped assuage fears in the market that inflation at all levels is intensifying, said Quincy Krosby, chief equity strategist for LPL Financial.
“The market would have probably had another round of selling had the headline number been higher,” Krosby said. “The fact that it dipped a bit was helpful for today’s market.”
Traders now see a one-in-four chance the Fed may hike its benchmark rate by a full percentage point next week, quadruple the usual move, according to CME Group. A day earlier, it was closer to a one-in-three chance. The site puts the probability of a three-quarter percentage point increase now at 76%, up from 69% on Tuesday.
The central bank has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point.
The Fed is taking the aggressive action on interest rates to try and cool the hottest inflation in four decades. Tuesday’s report on high prices jolted the market with signs that inflation is entering a more stubborn phase that could require an already resolute Fed to become more aggressive.
Wall Street is especially worried that the rate hikes could go too far in slowing the economy and send it into a recession. The Fed is trying to avoid that outcome, but the latest inflation reports reveal that is becoming a more difficult task.
All told, the S&P 500 rose 13.32 points to 3,946.01, while the Dow added 30.12 points to 31,135.09. The Nasdaq gained 86.10 points to 11,719.68, and the Russell 2000 picked up 6.89 points to close at 1,838.46.
Energy stocks had some of the biggest gains as U.S. crude oil prices rose 1.3%. Exxon Mobil rose 2.5%.
“Today you have some investors coming off the sidelines, coming back into the market because there’s this feeling that the sell-off was a big one, there was a recalibration there, there was a little bit of panic selling there,” said Sylvia Jablonski, chief investment officer at Defiance ETFs.
The broader U.S. economy has been slowing, but consumers have remained resilient and the job market remains strong. Wall Street will get another update on inflation’s latest impact on spending when the government releases its retail sales report for August on Thursday.
The market is also monitoring U.S.-China tensions and war in Ukraine, while business and government officials are bracing for the possibility of a nationwide rail strike at the end of this week that could paralyze an already discombobulated supply chain.
The railroads have already started to curtail shipments of hazardous materials and have announced plans to stop hauling refrigerated products ahead of Friday’s strike deadline. Businesses that rely on Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern and other railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products are planning for the worst.
Union Pacific fell 3.7% and Norfolk Southern fell 2.2%.
Biden administration officials are scrambling to develop a plan to keep goods moving if the railroads shut down. The White House is also pressuring the two sides to settle their differences, and a growing number of business groups are lobbying Congress to be prepared to intervene and block a strike if they can’t reach an agreement. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-fall-tracking-wall-st-dismay-over-price-data/ | 2022-09-14T22:32:19Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-fall-tracking-wall-st-dismay-over-price-data/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 23 |
Stocks on Wall Street shook off an afternoon slide and finished modestly higher Wednesday, clawing back some of their losses a day after the market’s worst skid in two years.
The wobbly trading came as investors weighed another snapshot of inflation. Markets have been on edge about the possibility of a recession after a string of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve this year as the central bank fights inflation.
The S&P 500 rose 0.3% after wavering between small gains and losses much of the afternoon. The benchmark index was coming off its biggest drop since June 2020, which ended a four-day winning streak.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.1% higher, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.7%. Smaller company stocks also rose, pushing the Russell 2000 to a 0.4% gain.
Bond yields remained relatively stable after leaping higher on Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury rose to 3.79% from 3.75% late Tuesday, when it soared on expectations for more aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, held steady at 3.41%.
A report on inflation at the wholesale level showed prices are still rising rapidly, with pressures building underneath the surface, even if overall inflation slowed. It echoed a report on inflation at the consumer level Tuesday, which raised expectations for interest-rate hikes and triggered a rout for markets.
Still, the overall decline in inflation at the wholesale level helped assuage fears in the market that inflation at all levels is intensifying, said Quincy Krosby, chief equity strategist for LPL Financial.
“The market would have probably had another round of selling had the headline number been higher,” Krosby said. “The fact that it dipped a bit was helpful for today’s market.”
Traders now see a one-in-four chance the Fed may hike its benchmark rate by a full percentage point next week, quadruple the usual move, according to CME Group. A day earlier, it was closer to a one-in-three chance. The site puts the probability of a three-quarter percentage point increase now at 76%, up from 69% on Tuesday.
The central bank has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point.
The Fed is taking the aggressive action on interest rates to try and cool the hottest inflation in four decades. Tuesday’s report on high prices jolted the market with signs that inflation is entering a more stubborn phase that could require an already resolute Fed to become more aggressive.
Wall Street is especially worried that the rate hikes could go too far in slowing the economy and send it into a recession. The Fed is trying to avoid that outcome, but the latest inflation reports reveal that is becoming a more difficult task.
All told, the S&P 500 rose 13.32 points to 3,946.01, while the Dow added 30.12 points to 31,135.09. The Nasdaq gained 86.10 points to 11,719.68, and the Russell 2000 picked up 6.89 points to close at 1,838.46.
Energy stocks had some of the biggest gains as U.S. crude oil prices rose 1.3%. Exxon Mobil rose 2.5%.
“Today you have some investors coming off the sidelines, coming back into the market because there’s this feeling that the sell-off was a big one, there was a recalibration there, there was a little bit of panic selling there,” said Sylvia Jablonski, chief investment officer at Defiance ETFs.
The broader U.S. economy has been slowing, but consumers have remained resilient and the job market remains strong. Wall Street will get another update on inflation’s latest impact on spending when the government releases its retail sales report for August on Thursday.
The market is also monitoring U.S.-China tensions and war in Ukraine, while business and government officials are bracing for the possibility of a nationwide rail strike at the end of this week that could paralyze an already discombobulated supply chain.
The railroads have already started to curtail shipments of hazardous materials and have announced plans to stop hauling refrigerated products ahead of Friday’s strike deadline. Businesses that rely on Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern and other railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products are planning for the worst.
Union Pacific fell 3.7% and Norfolk Southern fell 2.2%.
Biden administration officials are scrambling to develop a plan to keep goods moving if the railroads shut down. The White House is also pressuring the two sides to settle their differences, and a growing number of business groups are lobbying Congress to be prepared to intervene and block a strike if they can’t reach an agreement. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-fall-tracking-wall-st-dismay-over-price-data/ | 2022-09-14T22:32:19Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-fall-tracking-wall-st-dismay-over-price-data/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 23 |
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury on Wednesday convicted R. Kelly of several child pornography and sex abuse charges in his hometown of Chicago, delivering another legal blow to a singer who used to be one of the biggest R&B stars in the world.
Kelly, 55, was found guilty on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement.
But the jury acquitted him on a fourth pornography count as well as a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him fixing his state child pornography trial in 2008. He was found not guilty on all three counts of conspiring to receive child pornography and for two further enticement charges.
His two co-defendants were found not guilty on all charges.
Jurors, who deliberated for 11 hours over two days, wrote several questions to the judge on Wednesday, at least one indicating the panelists were grappling with some of the case’s legal complexities.
One asked if they had to find Kelly both enticed and coerced minors, or that he either enticed or coerced them. Over objections from Kelly’s lawyer, the judge said they only need to find one.
At trial, prosecutors sought to paint a picture of Kelly as a master manipulator who used his fame and wealth to reel in star-stuck fans, some of them minors, to sexually abuse then discard them.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover child pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. The conspiracy to hide his abuse ran from 2000 to 2020, prosecutors said.
Kelly associates Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown were co-defendants at the Chicago trial. Jurors acquitted McDavid, a longtime Kelly business manager, who was accused of conspiring with Kelly to rig the 2008 trial. Brown, a Kelly associate for years, was acquitted of receiving child pornography.
Kelly has already been convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in New York and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
In Chicago, a conviction of just one count of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, while receipt of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum of five years. Judges can order that defendants sentenced earlier in separate cases serve their new sentence simultaneously with or only after the first term is fully served. Federal inmates must serve at least 85% of their sentences.
During closing arguments Tuesday, Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean likened the government’s testimony and evidence to a cockroach and its case to a bowl of soup.
If a cockroach falls into soup, she said, “you don’t just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup,” said told jurors.
“There are just too many cockroaches,” she said of the prosecution’s case.
The three defendants called only a handful of witnesses over four days. Co-defendant McDavid, who was on the stand for three days, may have damaged Kelly’s hopes for acquittal by saying that he now doubts Kelly was truthful when he denied abusing anyone after hearing the superstar’s accusers testify.
In her closing rebuttal, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng cited testimony that Kelly’s inner circle increasingly focused on doing what Kelly wanted as his fame boomed in the mid-1990s.
“And ladies and gentlemen, what R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls,” she said.
Four Kelly accusers testified, all referred to by pseudonyms or their first names: Jane, Nia, Pauline and Tracy. Some cried when describing the abuse but otherwise spoke calmly and with confidence. A fifth accuser, Brittany, did not testify.
Sitting nearby in a suit and face mask, Kelly often averted his eyes and looked down as his accusers spoke.
Some dozen die-hard Kelly fans regularly attended the trial. On at least one occasion during a break, several made hand signs of a heart at Kelly. He smiled back.
Jane, 37, was the government’s star witness and pivotal to the fixing charge, which accused Kelly of using threats and payoffs to get her to lie to a grand jury before his 2008 trial and to ensure she and her parents wouldn’t testify.
A single video, which state prosecutors said was Kelly abusing a girl of around 14, was the focal point of that trial.
On the witness stand for two days at the end of August, Jane paused, tugged at a necklace and dabbed her eyes with a tissue when she said publicly for the first time that the girl in the video was her aged 14 and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30.
Some jurors in the 2008 trial said they had to acquit Kelly because the girl in the video didn’t testify. At the federal trial in Chicago, Jane said she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said it was not her in the video, saying part of her reason for lying was that she cared for Kelly and didn’t want to get him into trouble.
Jane told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse. Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: “Uncountable times. … Hundreds.”
Jane, who belonged to a teenage singing group, first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had visited Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. She said she implored her parents not to take action against Kelly because she loved him.
Defense attorneys suggested a desire for money and fame drove some government witnesses to accuse Kelly, and they accused several people of trying to blackmail him. They also suggested that at least one of his accusers was 17 — the age of consent in Illinois — when Kelly began pursing her for sex.
Bonjean implored jurors not to accept the prosecution’s portrayal of her client as “a monster,” saying Kelly was forced to rely on others because of intellectual challenges, and that he was sometimes led astray.
“Mr. Kelly can also be a victim,” she said in her opening statement.
Prosecutors played jurors excerpts from three videos that Jane said featured her. Court officials set up opaque screens around the jurors so journalists and spectators couldn’t see the videos or the jurors’ reactions.
But the sound was audible. In one video, the girl is heard repeatedly calling the man “daddy.” At one point she asks: “Daddy, do you still love me?” The man gives her sexually explicit instructions.
Prosecutors have said Kelly shot the video that was also evidence in the 2008 trial in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home around 1998.
Another accuser, Pauline, said Jane introduced her to Kelly when they were 14-year-old middle school classmates in 1998. At Kelly’s Chicago home later that year, Pauline described her shock when she said she first walked in on Kelly and a naked Jane. She said Kelly told her that everyone has secrets. “This is our secret,” she testified he said.
Pauline told jurors she still cares for Kelly. But, as a 37-year-old mom, she said she now has a different perspective.
“If somebody did something to my kids,” she said, “I’m killing ’em. Period.”
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MADDOCK, N.D. (AP) — A woman walked into a North Dakota bar carrying a raccoon, leading health officials to warn those who had contact with the animal about possible rabies exposure.
Bartender Cindy Smith said she was serving drinks at the Maddock Bar last week when a local resident brought in the animal during happy hour. There were about 10 people in the saloon at the time, she said.
Smith said she immediately asked the woman to leave but instead she took the raccoon around the bar to show another customer. The woman eventually departed with the animal after about five minutes.
“We finally got her out with it, and that’s all that happened,” Smith told The Bismarck Tribune. “It never left her arms one time, and there was absolutely no biting.”
Maddock is town of about 500 people located about 85 miles (137 kilometers) from the Canadian border.
Rabies is a viral infection that affects mammals, including humans. In an alert issued Tuesday, North Dakota’s Health and Human Services Department is asking anyone who may have been bitten or had contact with the raccoon’s saliva to seek medical care.
“Because rabies is such a serious disease with a nearly 100% fatality rate, we are making this information available to the public as a precautionary measure,” epidemiologist Amanda Bakken said in a statement.
Six rabid animals have been reported in North Dakota this year, including two bats, two cats, one bovine and one skunk.
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Echo Included in Chicago's 2022 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® and the Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces
CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Echo Global Logistics, Inc. ("Echo"), a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services, today announced that the company was recently recognized as a great place to work by Chicago's 2022 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® and the Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces lists.
With its Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® program, the National Association for Business Resources recognizes companies that demonstrate a strong commitment to employees through their human resources practices. This is the ninth year Echo has been included in the list of Chicago's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®.
Echo was also recognized again by the Chicago Tribune in their 2022 Top Workplaces list, which recognizes Chicagoland companies that create and sustain a positive and productive workplace culture. Inclusion is based on employee responses to a confidential survey conducted by Chicago Tribune research partner Energage, which independently calculates the list of top workplaces.
"We're especially proud of the workplace we've built, where leading-edge technology and a collaborative environment empower team members to simplify transportation management for our shippers and carriers while thriving in their careers at Echo," said Doug Waggoner, Chief Executive Officer at Echo. "Our exceptional team and workplace culture drive the business success that is fueling our strong momentum."
As a Fortune 1000 company, Echo has a positive and productive corporate culture and offers employees robust benefits, development opportunities, mentorship programs, volunteer time off, team-building events, recreational clubs, and more. In addition to showing its appreciation for team member contributions by offering top-tier benefits and perks, Echo has a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The company creates a welcoming and inclusive environment by amplifying the diverse voices of the Echo workforce. Echo has a variety of business resource groups (BRGs) that support and encourage team members to share their unique perspectives and experiences.
"Echo provides the training, technology, and guidance our team needs to excel on the job, enabling Echo team members to perform well in a supportive environment," said Paula Frey, Chief Human Resources Officer at Echo. "It's an honor to be recognized again this year alongside many outstanding companies that succeed in building and maintaining a great company culture, and I'm grateful to all the Echo team members who bring their all to Echo every day."
"These 2022 winning organizations have stood out during unpredictable times and have proven they are an employer of choice. They continue to keep the needs of their employees first and provide perks that include, development, wellbeing, work-life balance, rewards and recognition. In addition, these winning companies offer a fantastic work culture and workplace environment that attracts and retains superior employees," said Jennifer Kluge, President and CEO of NABR and The Best and Brightest Program.
About Echo Global Logistics
Echo Global Logistics, Inc. is a leading Fortune 1000 provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. Headquartered in Chicago with more than 30 offices around the country, Echo offers freight brokerage and Managed Transportation solutions for all major modes, including truckload, partial truckload, LTL, intermodal, and expedited. Echo maintains a proprietary, web-based technology platform that compiles and analyzes data from its network of over 50,000 transportation providers to serve 35,000 clients across a wide range of industries and simplify the critical tasks involved in transportation management. For more information on Echo Global Logistics, visit: www.echo.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Enochian BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOB) between January 17, 2018 and June 27, 2022, both dates inclusive, (the "Class Period"), including common stock issued by Enochian in a private placement offering on or about February 16, 2018, of the important September 26, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Enochian BioSciences securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Enochian BioSciences class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6517 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 26, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) co-founder and inventor, Serhat Gumrukcu, was engaged in a variety of frauds; (2) Gumrukcu was not a licensed doctor anywhere in the world; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Gumrukcu's purported contributions to Enochian lacked a reasonable basis; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Enochian had overstated its commercial prospects; (5) Gumrukcu had improperly diverted approximately $20 million from Enochian to entities he owned; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about Enochian's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A’ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum provided all the offense Las Vegas needed to move the Aces one win away from the franchise’s first WNBA title.
Wilson had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead Las Vegas to an 85-71 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday night in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals.
The Aces had been 0-6 in the Finals before taking the first two games of the series with Connecticut. Las Vegas, which was swept in the championship in 2008 when the franchise was still in San Antonio and also in 2020, will look to secure the title on Thursday night in Connecticut.
“It’s going to take every bit of everybody,” said Gray, who added 21 points. “You can see the stats, it’s the toughness, it’s the little things that will get it done We have been a good road team this year. So we might as well go win on the road.”
Plum rebounded from a poor Game 1 to score 20 points.
“A’ja cussed me out before the game. That’s all I needed,” Plum said. “About time I joined the party. They carried us all week. It’s good to hit some shots, but we have one more.”
After being held to a season-low 67 points in Game 1, the Aces found their offensive prowess to hit 33 of 64 (51.6%) from the floor.
Connecticut, which finished 27 of 64 (42.2%) from the field, had four players in double digits, led by Courtney Williams with 18.
Jonquel Jones also had a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds, Alyssa Thomas finished with 13 points.
Looking to establish an offensive presence, both teams pushed the pace early, trading buckets to a 10-10 tie until the Aces seized momentum and used an 11-4 run to open a seven-point advantage. Las Vegas hit 55% (10 of 18) from the floor in the first quarter while the Sun struggled to a 35% clip, hitting just 7 of 20.
The Aces continued to apply offensive pressure in the second, led by Plum, who contributed 11 in the quarter.
“I thought Kelsey’s drives opened us up,” Hammon said. “I mean, the other day we got good looks again from three. We didn’t want to knock them down but you have to believe the worm will turn there eventually. The important thing is we are getting good looks once she gets in there.”
Connecticut was down 14 when coach Curt Miller went big with his lineup, and the Sun responded with a 12-4 run to cut their deficit to six before a Wilson bucket provided the Aces with a 45-37 halftime lead.
“Get to my spots, my teammates are putting me in a situation where I’m comfortable,” said Wilson, who made 10 of 13 shots.
Las Vegas’ offensive balance continued into the third, with five different scorers helping the Aces push the lead to 14, outscoring Connecticut 23-17, taking a 68-54 lead into the final period.
“We felt like we were playing catchup all night since we couldn’t string together consecutive stops,” Miller said. “Trying to keep this high-powered offense out of rhythm and tonight we struggled to do that.”
PAINTING EFFICIENCY
While the teams each came away with 34 rebounds, the Aces outrebounded the Sun 6-2 with offensive boards and had better overall efficiency in the paint by outscoring Connecticut 46-28.
LET’S GET PHYSICAL
The third quarter saw both teams with bumps and bruises. Gray and Natisha Hiedeman left the game with twisted ankles early in the third quarter. Gray went back to the locker room but later returned. Jackie Young suffered a busted lip. Williams left late in the third with what appeared to be a lower leg injury. Hiedeman and Williams returned to start the fourth quarter. Young returned early in the final period.
BACKS AGAINST THE WALL
Connecticut is 3-0 in elimination games in the playoffs so far this season.
“We are taking it one game at a time,” Jones said. “That’s all we can do. We are going to go back home, we are going to have our fans behind us, who have been with us all season, and we are going to use that to propel us to a win and that’s all we can do.”
WATCHING THE W
ABC registered the most-viewed WNBA Finals Game 1 in five years, with 555,000 viewers, and a peak viewership of 872,000. It was an 18% increase over Game 1 of the 2021 WNBA Finals.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota rookie Joe Ryan and reliever Jovani Moran combined to pitch no-hit ball until Bobby Witt Jr. doubled with one out in the ninth inning as the Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Tuesday night.
Ryan was pulled after seven innings and 106 pitches, four shy of his big league high. There has never been a no-hitter at Target Field and the Royals hadn’t come close to getting one against him.
The crowd of 19,005 booed when Twins manager Rocco Baldelli sent Moran to the mound to start the eighth.
“I’m not worried about that,” Baldelli said . “I want what’s best for this team and I want to go to the playoffs and I want to win games in the playoffs, and that’s the priority for me right now.”
Ryan tried to plead his case.
“He said, ‘Listen, I’ve thrown like 156 pitches in a game,’ which is fantastical, but I think true,” Baldelli said. “But all that said, it doesn’t really affect what goes on here and the fact that we need him to go pitch against the Guardians later on this week.”
In fact, when he was a senior at Cal State Stanislaus, Ryan did throw 142 pitches in a game against Cal Poly Pomona in 2018.
Ryan said he understood Baldelli’s rationale.
“The pitch count obviously comes into play. We’re trying to win some games and I’m throwing in five days again, too,’ Ryan said.
Moran worked a perfect eighth. He struck out Drew Waters to begin the ninth before walking pinch-hitter Hunter Dozier and MJ Melendez.
The Royals hadn’t come close to a hit until Witt lined a 1-2 fastball for a clean drive to deep left for an RBI double, setting off more boos from the fans.
“I wanted to help and be part of that no-hitter, but that’s part of the game,” Moran said. “And of course I’m going to get mad because I wanted to do my best and get that out, but it happens.”
Sebastian Rivero followed with an infield hit that drove in another run and Vinnie Pasquantino had a sacrifice fly.
The Twins’ last no-hitter was by Francisco Liriano against the White Sox on May 3, 2011 in Chicago.
Carlos Correa, Jose Miranda and Gio Urshela hit home runs as the Twins snapped a three-game skid. They remained five games behind Cleveland in the AL Central.
Ryan (11-8) struck out nine, walked two and set down his last 12 batters. He has never gone past seven innings in his career and had lost three of his previous four decisions.
The 26-year-old righty had never gone past seven innings in his career. He has a big league high of 110 pitches, done Aug. 9 at the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Ryan was a member of last year’s U.S. Olympic team and was traded to Twins by Rays while he was in Japan.
The Royals avoided being no-hit for the first time since 2008 when Jon Lester shut them down in Boston.
“What’s going on in the dugout is frustration,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. “Guys realizing that it’s embarrassing when you get no-hit. Going up there fighting through their at-bats, but it’s not something you want to have them finish off.”
“So it was good to put a couple runs on, get some positive things going, and hopefully it’ll translate into more offense tomorrow.”
Kris Bubic (2-12) allowed 10 hits and five runs with six strikeouts in five innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins: RF Max Kepler (right leg) was not in Tuesday’s lineup but Baldelli was hopeful he’d be available off the bench. Meanwhile, Baldelli said OF-INF Jorge Polanco and RHP Bailey Ober could potentially return this week. The manager also said OF Byron Buxton is slightly behind Polanco.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Zack Greinke (4-8) makes his 23rd start of the season on Wednesday night. He is 0-3 against Minnesota this season with a 4.20 ERA in those outings. He’s 0-6 on the road this season.
Twins: RHP Sonny Gray (7-4) will look to go 3-0 against the Royals this season when he takes the mound on Wednesday night.
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Document now includes data from June through December of 2021
DENVER, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MDC), parent company to the Richmond American Homes companies, recently announced that it published an update to its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report.
The M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report
The publication, which highlights the company's environmental initiatives, social practices and corporate governance, was originally published in June of 2021. At the close of 2021, the company collected and analyzed new data from June through December of that year. The new metrics are reflected in its recent updates to the following charts in the ESG Report:
- Greenhouse Gas charts
- SASB Home Builders Standard (IF-HB) Sustainability Disclosure Topics & Accounting Metrics chart
- GRI Index 200, 300 and 400 Series chart
"Recent updates to MDC's first-ever Environmental, Social and Governance Report provide a more complete picture of the company's commitment to its employees, subcontractors, homebuyers and the planet. Sustainability remains a major focus as we look toward the future. The next generation is counting on us to do our part," said Chief Financial Officer, Robert N. Martin.
For more information on M.D.C. Holdings, Inc.'s ESG initiatives, view the updated report at ir.richmondamerican.com.
About M.D.C. Holdings, Inc.
Operating under the name Richmond American Homes, MDC's homebuilding subsidiaries have built more than 230,000 homes since 1977. Among the nation's largest homebuilders, MDC's subsidiary companies have operations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Mortgage lending, plus insurance and title services are offered by the following MDC subsidiaries, respectively: HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, American Home Insurance Agency, Inc. and American Home Title and Escrow Company. M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MDC." For more information, visit MDCHoldings.com.
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SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index: August performance 0.54%
Capital Movement Index: September net flows advance 0.31%
WINDSOR, Conn., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced that the gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for August 2022 measured 0.54%.
Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.31% in September.
"SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement Index for September 2022 rose 0.31%, reflecting positive net flows into funds," said Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. "The 0.31% gain represents a slightly lower increase than the 0.36% gain reported a year ago. However, it indicates investors continue to add to their hedge fund allocations during this period of heightened market volatility."
SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index
The SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index is an asset-weighted, independent monthly window on hedge fund performance. On the ninth business day of each month it provides a flash estimate of the gross aggregate performance of funds for which SS&C GlobeOp provides monthly administration services on the SS&C GlobeOp platform. Interim and final values, both gross and net, are provided in each of the two following months, respectively. Online data can be segmented by gross and net performance, and by time periods. The SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index is transparent, consistent in data processing, and free from selection or survivorship bias. Its inception date is January 1, 2006.
The SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index offers a unique reflection of the return on capital invested in funds. It does not overstate exposure to, or the contribution of, any single strategy to aggregate hedge fund performance. Since its inception, the correlation of the SS&C GlobeOp Performance Index to many popular equity market indices has been approximately 25% to 30%. This is substantially lower than the equivalent correlation of other widely followed hedge fund performance indices.
SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index
The SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index represents the monthly net of hedge fund subscriptions and redemptions administered by SS&C GlobeOp on the SS&C GlobeOp platform. This monthly net is divided by the total assets under administration (AuA) for fund administration clients on the SS&C GlobeOp platform.
Cumulatively, the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index for September 2022 stands at 132.68 points, an increase of 0.31 points over August 2022. The Index has advanced 1.28 points over the past 12 months. The next publication date is October 13, 2022.
Published on the ninth business day of each month, the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index presents a timely and accurate view of investments in hedge funds on the SS&C GlobeOp administration platform. Data is based on actual subscriptions and redemptions independently calculated and confirmed from real capital movements, and published only a few business days after they occur. Following the month of its release, the Index may be updated for capital movements that occurred after the fifth business day.
SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index
SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index
SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator
About the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Index®
The SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Index (the Index) is a family of indices published by SS&C GlobeOp. A unique set of indices by a hedge fund administrator, it offers clients, investors and the overall market a welcome transparency on liquidity, investor sentiment and performance. The Index is based on a significant platform of diverse and representative assets.
The SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Index is available at www.sscglobeopindex.com or through a link on the homepage of www.sscglobeop.com. Alert and RSS subscriber options are available at www.sscglobeop.com. Index Twitter comments: #HFindex.
The SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index and the SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator provide monthly reports based on actual and anticipated capital movement data independently collected from all hedge fund clients for whom SS&C GlobeOp provides administration services on the SS&C GlobeOp platform.
The SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index is an asset-weighted benchmark of the aggregate performance of funds for which SS&C GlobeOp provides monthly administration services on the SS&C GlobeOp platform. Flash estimate, interim and final values are provided, in each of three months respectively, following each business month-end.
While individual fund data is anonymized by aggregation, the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Index data will be based on the same reconciled fund data that SS&C GlobeOp uses to produce fund net asset values (NAV). Funds acquired through the acquisition of Citi Alternative Investor Services are integrated into the index suite starting with the January 2017 reporting periods. SS&C GlobeOp's total assets under administration on the SS&C GlobeOp platform represent approximately 10% of the estimated assets currently invested in the hedge fund sector. The investment strategies of the funds in the indices span a representative industry sample. Data for middle and back office clients who are not fund administration clients is not included in the Index, but is included in the Company's results announcement figures.
About SS&C Technologies
SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale and technology.
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Harrison Bader is confident physically, ready to 'be a winning player' for the Yankees
BRIDGEWATER – As the end of the regular season draws closer for the New York Yankees, more and more eyes are shifting toward what a few potential postseason contributors are doing at TD Bank Ballpark.
The Somerset Patriots opened their week hosting a bevy of big leaguers – some on rehab assignments, others just working their way back for now – at Tuesday night’s series opener against their likely first-round playoff opponent, the Portland Sea Dogs.
Both outfielder Harrison Bader, acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals at the trade deadline but yet to play a big-league game in pinstripes as he continues to work his way back from plantar fasciitis, and reliever Aroldis Chapman had Double-A rehab appearances, while relievers Stephen Ridings and Albert Abreu got in some pre-game work as they get closer to their respective returns.
Bader, 28, is a Bronxville, New York native who played the first five-plus seasons of his major-league career with the Cardinals, winning a Gold Glove last year before ultimately being dealt in exchange for Jordan Montgomery this July. A career .246 hitter in the big leagues, Bader said in a group media session before Tuesday’s contest that as far as he knows, he’s “here for a few games,” but that he’s already ready to make his Yankees debut.
“I’m 100 percent ready to be a competitor and compete and be a winning player at the major-league level for the Yankees,” said Bader, who went 0-for-3 at the plate in his first game with Somerset before being removed for pinch-hitter Oliver Dunn in the seventh inning.
Asked about his mindset while he’s playing in Bridgewater, Bader ironically doesn’t seem to be willing to take his foot off the gas despite his surroundings.
“The thought process is training that winning mentality,” he said. “How the foot feels and everything, I’ve gone through all my rehab buildup and I’ve gone through all the progression that the trainers here have had me to do, and that’s all in the past now. I feel very confident with where I’m at physically … the mentality down here, you don’t just all of a sudden turn it on when you play in a big-league uniform. You’ve got to train it, you’ve got to cultivate it, and you’ve got to eat it and sleep it.”
Chapman, recovering from an infection in his leg following getting a tattoo, spun a scoreless fifth inning on Tuesday night, striking out two batters while walking one, and is lock for a big-league role in the back end of the bullpen once he’s deemed healthy.As for Abreu and Ridings, things aren’t quite as set in stone.
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Abreu, placed on the 15-day injured list on Aug. 21 with elbow inflammation, quietly threw a bullpen nearly five hours before first pitch on Tuesday, and was not available to speak with reporters.
Ridings, however, threw two simulated innings later that afternoon in what he said was his sixth live session after missing the entirety of this season with a right shoulder issue that he revealed is slightly more complicated than first expected.
“I’m not even sure how to describe (my injury), honestly,” he said. “I guess the way you would treat it is similar to thoracic outlet (syndrome), but I don’t necessarily have it. But they found that some of the nerves that run through a couple of the muscles in my neck aren’t in the right spot, and that could be what’s giving me some of the issues. We treated it with some injections, and it’s been great since.”
The hard-throwing 27-year-old righty began last season with Somerset, and allowed just one earned run in his first 14 appearances before being promoted to Triple-A Scranton and then ultimately New York, where he went 0-0 with a 1.80 ERA in his first five major-league outings.
Scheduled to throw for the Patriots on Saturday in his first game action of the season, Ridings says he’s still getting the feel back for some of his pitches, but is confident that he can contribute to the big league club this year if given the opportunity.
“My mind(set) is to help the (big league) club however I can,” he said. “If they want me to take it easy and be healthy for next year, so be it. But I’d love to help contribute in any way possible though. That’s where my mind is at least, I don’t know what they’re thinking.” | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/baseball/patriots/2022/09/14/harrison-bader-new-york-yankees-somerset-patriots/69494279007/ | 2022-09-14T22:35:21Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/baseball/patriots/2022/09/14/harrison-bader-new-york-yankees-somerset-patriots/69494279007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SALISBURY, Md. -- The Salisbury City Council approved a charter amendment on Monday night which will give city employees collective bargaining rights. City employees will now have the option to organize through employee organizations of their choosing. The measure was unanimously approved by a vote of 5-0.
There is currently no State law in Maryland that ensures or allows government employees to organize. To make sure employees will have the right to do so in the future, the City of Salisbury made collective bargaining agreements part of its municipal code.
"By codifying the rights to organize and bargain as a collective, we've made it far more difficult for them to be rolled back by future administrations," said Julia Glanz.
Glanz, the City Administrator, added that this move shows how important those employees are to the city of Salisbury.
"When showed alongside our pay predictability and career ladder initiatives, I think it shows that our employees mean the world to us," said Glanz.
Mayor Jake Day added that unions are a crucial part of a successful workplace, and that this move comes at an economically opportune time.
"I've always believed in the efficacy and importance of unions in the workplace," said Mayor Day. "Giving our employees more control over their pay and working conditions is the right thing to do, and it makes us even more attractive to job applicants at a time when the market is saturated with available positions.
City Council President Jack Heath echoed Mayor Day's thoughts about the importance of unions, and says employee safety should be the number one priority.
"We want every employee to feel like they can speak up if they see something that can be done better or more safely," said Heath. "Collective bargaining amplifies those concerns, and helps ensure that they're addressed."
This move does open the door for government employees to negotiate terms of their employment, or even go to arbitration. However, it does not allow for strikes or work stoppages. Mayor Day says this move had to be one that was beneficial to everyone, and the city feels like that has been accomplished. | https://www.wboc.com/news/city-employees-receive-collective-bargaining-rights/article_0b41c720-346c-11ed-8309-d7e2e75a68cb.html | 2022-09-14T22:37:24Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/city-employees-receive-collective-bargaining-rights/article_0b41c720-346c-11ed-8309-d7e2e75a68cb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SALISBURY, Md.- The Tiny Home Village is up on Anne Street in Salisbury. The tiny homes are for the chronically homeless. Salisbury's Housing and Homelessness Manager Christine Chestnutt says housing is critical for one's mental health.
"Living in fight or flight mode, constantly, that's the chaos they are living in because of the situation, it's hard to focus on doctor's appointments, or getting a job," said Chestnutt. "The whole idea is to get them connected when they move in, get them connected to the resources they need which is different for every individual, but to get them the resources they need to get into permanent housing."
There are 24 tiny homes and a communal bathroom. Inside the home there will be a bed, shelves, a refrigerator and microwave. There will also be heating and air conditioning. People who are not allowed include anyone convicted of a sex offense, convicted of murder, arson or producing methamphetamine. Everyone must be older than 18 and only one person per home. Chestnutt says the city could have purchased bigger tiny homes, but single were more conducive for Salisbury.
"They make them to have two sets of bunk beds for families but thankfully most of the chronically homeless that we have are individuals not families," said Chestnutt.
Ultimately, Chestnutt say this is transitional housing.
"Ideally we can get them connected to all the things that they need, whether it's ID, social security birth certificate, all the things and get them out of here and into permanent housing and make the bed ready for the next person so that's the goal, we don't want anyone to stay here we want them to move forward and progress," said Chestnutt.
Saturday September 17, volunteers will be needed to build a fence around the perimeter of the village. | https://www.wboc.com/news/tiny-home-village-construction-underway-in-salisbury/article_44dfaa1a-3471-11ed-a2e8-0b0644716d5e.html | 2022-09-14T22:37:30Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/tiny-home-village-construction-underway-in-salisbury/article_44dfaa1a-3471-11ed-a2e8-0b0644716d5e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense accused Russia of “blatant genocide” on Wednesday after Kyiv’s forces discovered what they called a “torture chamber.”
The ministry posted a photo that showed a dark room in the recently liberated town of Balakliya. On the wall of the cell, the Lord’s Prayer can be seen carved into the wall in Cyrillic.
“[A] Russian torture chamber in liberated Balakliya,” the ministry wrote. “The Lord’s Prayer was carved on the wall by Ukrainian prisoners. Russia must be held accountable for this blatant genocide.”
The last time Russian forces were pushed out of a wide swath of Ukrainian territory, Kyiv’s troops found a grisly scene — bodies left strewn in the streets of the suburbs north of Kyiv, or buried in shallow graves with restrained limbs and fatal head wounds.
Though no such blatant carnage has yet greeted Ukrainian liberators in the Kharkiv province, Ukrainian authorities said 40 civilians had been held captive in the town during the occupation.
“One man stayed in ‘prison’ 46 days — the Russians found a photo of his brother in a Ukrainian military uniform.” Sergey Bolvinov, head of investigations for the Kharkiv province for the Ukrainian national police said on Facebook. “According to witnesses, they were tortured in different ways.”
“I will not describe all the tortures, I will only say that the ‘easiest’ was when they were electrocuted,” he added.
A Balakliya resident named Artem told the BBC on Tuesday that he was among those electrocuted after Russian troops found a photo of his brother in uniform.
“They made me hold two wires,” he said. “There was an electric generator. The faster it went, the higher the voltage. They said, ‘If you let it go, you are finished.’ Then they started asking questions. They said I was lying, and they started spinning it even more and the voltage increased.”
It was not immediately clear if Artem, who was detained in the local police department, was the Balakliya resident referenced by Bolvinov. Artem said he regularly heard the screams of other detainees.
The regional police also said they had exhumed the bodies of two men shot last week at a Russian checkpoint in the days leading up to Balakliya’s liberation.
The men were reportedly wearing civilian clothes when they were killed and were buried by their neighbors following the incident.
A woman standing at the grave told a Reuters reporter she was the mother of one of the men, a 49-year-old named Petro.
“No one can return my son to me,” she said.
Ukrainian prosecutors have said six bodies have been found in the newly-liberated regions of the Kharkiv province with indications of torture. That number could rise as Ukrainian forces secure more towns liberated in their advance.
“We have a terrible picture of what the occupiers did,” Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said Wednesday.
“Such cities as Balakliya, Izium, are standing in the same row as Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin,” he added, listing places where the Ukrainians have alleged Russian forces committed atrocities.
With Post wires | https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/ukraine-accuses-russia-of-genocide-in-recently-liberated-province/ | 2022-09-14T22:46:14Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/ukraine-accuses-russia-of-genocide-in-recently-liberated-province/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Drivan & Tarratt has a team made of skatedancemask.coins:\nRod Tarratt has directed more professional and musical theatre chore- oppenwyn (Most recent show “Fly Fish”\nSkaters are selected only through intending cast- Rod or Danny personally skater. No walk in talent.\nIn the early stage. The idea to create a new company called CANAMI had started many\nClos GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Lansing man has been sentenced to life in prison for sexual exploitation of children. He is 60-year-old Robert Duane Wicke.
According to the Department of Justice, a special agent with the FBI worked undercover in a messaging application that is commonly used by people interested in sexually abusing children. The FBI agent posed as the mother of 7-year-old and 9-year-old daughters, who lived in California. Wicke wanted the mother to bring the girls to him, so that he could sexually assault them. He also planned to train them to be sex slaves. Wicke sent the undercover agent videos of other children being abused and raped, and wanted the mother to share the videos with her daughters. This was part of a grooming effort to desensitize the children to sex.
On March 21, 2022, Wicke went to a hotel in Grand Rapids, believing that the mother and her children were traveling to Michigan from California. However, he was instead greeted by federal agents. A search of his digital devices disclosed his collection of child pornography.
Wicke was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to coerce and entice children to engage in sex acts. He was also sentenced to 20 years’ custody on three counts of distributing child pornography videos, and 20 years’ custody for possessing a collection of child pornography. The child pornography offenses will be served concurrently with the life sentence. U.S. District Judge Jane M. Beckering also ordered 10 years of supervised release should Wicke be released early in custody. The judge also described his crimes as some of the worst she has seen during her time as a judge.
“Mr. Wicke’s depraved actions are beyond words,” said U.S. Attorney Mark Totten. “I am grateful for the FBI’s work to protect children. Today and every day we will hold child predators accountable.”
“Protecting children from dangerous child predators is a top priority for the FBI in Michigan and across the country,” said James A. Tarasca, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Michigan. “Today and every day we will hold child predators accountable.” | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/grand-rapids/lansing-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-sexual-exploitation-of-children | 2022-09-14T22:50:23Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/grand-rapids/lansing-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-sexual-exploitation-of-children | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) shows that the average interest rate on one of the most popular home loans in the United States is now above 6 percent for the first time since 2008.
The new MBA data shows that rates have skyrocketed to more than double what they were just one year ago, Reuters reported.
According to CNBC, mortgage application volume dropped 1.2% last week compared to the week before that.
Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting, said, “The spread between the conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate and both ARM and jumbo loans remained wide last week, at 118 and 45 basis points, respectively. The wide spread underscores the volatility in capital markets due to uncertainty about the Fed’s next policy moves.”
Matthew Graham, chief operating officer of Mortgage News Daily, said of last weeks mortgage rate jump, “It was one of the last shoes to drop before the Fed announcement on September 21st, and it arrived at a time where the market had fully priced in a 75bp hike, but was willing to consider something even higher if the data was convincing.”
Investors are worried that the U.S. Federal Reserve will hike rates even more than expected in their next meeting.
Refinance demand has also fallen another 4% this week and was at 83% lower than that same week just a year ago, according to CNBC. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/us-mortgage-rates-hit-6-high-for-first-time-since-2008 | 2022-09-14T22:50:35Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/us-mortgage-rates-hit-6-high-for-first-time-since-2008 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DENAIR, Calif. (KTXL) — California winemaker Fred Franzia, known as the creator of “Two Buck Chuck” wine, died at 79 years old at his home in Denair, his family and Bronco Wine Co. announced Tuesday.
The company said Franzia died with his family by his side but didn’t disclose a cause of death.
“Due to Fred’s vision, Bronco Wine Co. has achieved vertical integration all while remaining family-owned. His entrepreneurial spirit, tireless dedication, and his commitment to both his family and to the Bronco family will forever be remembered,” the company wrote in an Instagram post. “His legacy will endure for generations to come.”
Franzia co-founded Bronco Wine Co. in 1973 with his brother Joseph Franzia and cousin John Franzia with a vision of “creating high-quality wines at a value for wine consumers,” according to the company.
Bronco Wine Co., based in Ceres, California, produces many wines under different brands and is one of the largest wine producers in the country. One of the company’s brands includes Charles Shaw, a bargain-priced wine, which was sold at Trader Joe’s grocery stores and earned the nickname “Two Buck Chuck” with the price at $1.99 per bottle.
Fred Franzia was an outspoken critic of California’s wine culture, frequently proclaiming that no bottle of wine should cost more than $10.
“Core to his vision was a belief that wine should be enjoyed and consumed on every American table,” the company’s social media post read. “When asked how Bronco Wine Company can sell wine less expensive than a bottle of water, Fred T. Franzia famously countered, ‘They’re overcharging for the water — don’t you get it?’”
In a 2009 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Franzia said, “Who says we’re lower priced? We’re the best price. The others, I think, are overpriced.”
Franzia faced controversy, pleading guilty to fraud charges in 1994 after falsifying the grape varieties on his wine labels. He later stepped down as the company’s president and a board member for five years.
According to Bronco Wine Co.’s post, Franzia is survived by his five children, Renata, Roma, Joseph, Carlo and Giovanna; 14 grandchildren; brother Joseph S.; and sisters Joellen D’Ercole and Catherine McFadden. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/fred-franzia-creator-of-two-buck-chuck-wine-dies-at-79/ | 2022-09-14T22:51:08Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/fred-franzia-creator-of-two-buck-chuck-wine-dies-at-79/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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