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Over 100 people from Culpeper and surrounding areas met at Kildee Farms on Sept. 7 to hear from nine local groups about how data and solar projects on the horizon may affect the county and its future.
Speakers included Spokesman for Culpeper Alliance for Balanced Growth Andrew Gutowski, Chuck Ladner from Friends of Culpeper Battlefields, Julie Bolthouse from Piedmont Environmental Council, Susan Ralston from Citizens for Responsible Solar and Culpeper County Supervisor Susan Gugino, who represents the Stevensburg District.
“There are other issues surrounding these projects that both our elected officials and the citizens of Culpeper need to fully discuss, especially as we’re updating the Comprehensive Plan,” Gutowski said. “This upcoming town hall will give us a chance to discuss the future of Culpeper.”
Ralston gave a 30-slide presentation at the meeting, which showed maps of both data centers and utility-scale solar projects including CloudHQ Data Center, Maroon Utility-Scale Solar and Attotek's new proposed data center.
In April, AttoTek, Inc. submitted an application to rezone 50 acres Commercial Services and 38 acres Rural Area to Light Industrial in the Stevensburg District to allow for the development of a data center, which is a permitted use in the area’s technology corridor.
The Culpeper County Planning Commission reviewed the application during a meeting on June 8.
According to his application, Martin intends to market the property developers for the development of up to three data center structures.
Phase A of construction would consist of a single-story structure of a maxim of 337,500-square-feet. Phase B would consist of two single-story structures for a total of approximately 945,000-square-feet. The proposed buildings will be approximately 45 feet high, including water tanks and equipment located on the roof.
An approximately seven acre electrical substation would also be constructed.
According to Ralston’s presentation, the location of the center’s transmission line is unknown.
The Culpeper County Board of Supervisors will vote at a later date whether to approve the rezoning request.
Earlier this year, Woodbridge-based development firm Marvell Developments LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon, submitted the request for 20420 Germanna Highway – currently the location of Magnolia Equestrian Center LLC – in order to construct two buildings, totaling over 400,000-square-feet.
During a nearly four hour meeting on April 5, supervisors voted 4 to 3 to approve a rezoning request of over 230 acres of agricultural land on Route 3 in Stevensburg to light industrial, paving the way for Amazon Web Services to construct a data center.
Prior to the vote on March 28, nearly 100 people braved the cold to tour some of Culpeper’s most historical sites in an effort to see the damage that may be done with the passage of a proposed rezoning application from Amazon.
“The visit is designed to provide a perspective to help the Culpeper Board of Supervisors when they consider the requested zoning change from agricultural to light industrial to accommodate building data centers next door to some of Culpeper’s most important historic and scenic assets,” the invitation to the tour read.
Despite their efforts, the application was approved.
According to Ralston’s presentation, Northern Virginia has the largest concentration of data centers in the world, with the market still booming.
"Power shortages in Data Center Alley (Northern Virginia) and the need for more land are driving development to Culpeper,” Gutowski said. “There are proposals for two utility-scale solar projects covering almost 3,000 acres of farmland, and over 3 million square of data center projects proposed.”
There are proposals for two utility-scale solar projects covering almost 3,000 acres of farmland, and over 3 million square feet of data center projects pending.
The land use issues extend beyond the actual footprint of these projects and bleed into power and required transmission lines, which are expected to make an impact on the county’s landscape.
Once a data center is approved, Dominion ratepayers in Virginia pay for it, the presentation continued. Also, State Corporation Commission (SCC) has final say for the placement of the transmission lines, which frequently result in different routes than Dominion or other local groups have recommended.
Citizens for Responsible Solar, who co-hosted the town hall, also opposes the Greenwood Solar site plan, which is set to cover 1,000 acres of farmland in Stevensburg with a solar power plant.
Greenwood Solar I, LLC received a conditional use permit approval from the Board of Supervisors for this facility on October 2, 2018. The property is located along Route 661 (Blackjack Road) and Route 663 (Batna Road) in the Stevensburg Magisterial District.
In accordance with Article 20 of the Zoning Ordinance, the Planning Commission will determine whether the proposed development meets site plan approval criteria prescribed within Article 20.
The Planning Commission had a meeting about the application on Sept. 14, but the discussion and recommendation was unavailable by press time.
In terms of solar, there’s a better way, Ralston proposes.
“Siting solar facilities on rooftops, parking areas, landfills or other previously disturbed land like ‘greyfields’ or ‘brownfields’ is preferable to development on valuable open space or agricultural land.”
The town hall was hosted by The America Battlefield Trust, Brandy Station Foundation, Citizens for Responsible Solar, The Culpeper Alliance for Balanced Growth, Culpeper Battlefield Tours, LLC, Friends of Cedar Mountain Battlefield, Friends of Culpeper Battlefields, Journey Through Hallowed Ground and The Piedmont Environmental Council. | https://www.insidenova.com/culpeper/crowd-gathers-for-data-solar-discussion-in-culpeper/article_be555402-3512-11ed-af94-77ee77b9d237.html | 2022-09-15T18:00:00Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/culpeper/crowd-gathers-for-data-solar-discussion-in-culpeper/article_be555402-3512-11ed-af94-77ee77b9d237.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A 32-year-old man has been charged with attempted trespassing on a school bus and disorderly conduct after an incident Tuesday afternoon in the Dumfries area.
At 4:52 p.m., officers were called to the 3100 block of Chesapeake Drive, where they learned a bus was stopped and attempting to unload students when a group waiting at the bus stop got into an argument with the bus driver.
When the bus driver attempted to close the door, the man -- who had a student on the bus -- began knocking on the door. When the bus driver did not respond, the parent struck the glass door several times and attempted to open it, said Prince William County Police Master Officer Renee Carr.
The bus driver began to drive away with the parent holding on to the handle of the door. When he let go, he fell and was struck on the lower leg by one of the bus wheels, Carr said.
The bus driver drove the remaining children back to their school and the man was taken to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
There were several children on the bus at the time of the incident and no injuries were reported, Carr said. The children were released to their parents or guardians without incident.
Police charged Gione Deswayne Wise of Chesapeake Drive with attempted trespassing on school bus and disorderly conduct, Carr said. | https://www.insidenova.com/news/crime_police/parent-attempts-to-force-his-way-on-school-bus-in-dumfries-area/article_63416bf2-3515-11ed-b28c-cf9e67cbbf74.html | 2022-09-15T18:00:06Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/crime_police/parent-attempts-to-force-his-way-on-school-bus-in-dumfries-area/article_63416bf2-3515-11ed-b28c-cf9e67cbbf74.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- World-renowned vaping brand VAPORESSO has recently launched the all-new LUXE X pod to an overwhelmingly positive response from consumers. In front of partnering stores across the UK and France, eager customers lined up in their hundreds to be the first in the door to get their hands on the new product offering. This response comes due to growing brand confidence ahead of a large-scale public advertising campaign in Britain and KoL endorsements supporting the brand's commitment to quality and innovation.
The all-new LUXE X from VAPORESSO is one of the brand's cornerstone flagship products as the first 40w pod system with non-replaceable coils. The device features SSS Leak-resistant Technology, an ultra-futuristic transparent casing, and is supported by COREX technology and an AXON chip to give stronger flavors and bigger clouds without mess.
Speaking to the launch of the LUXE X in the UK and France, VAPORESSO CMO, Thalia said, "We are excited to see that consumers are just as passionate about our new products as we are. At VAPORESSO, we have always prioritized R&D investment to ensure that our products are of the highest possible quality to give consumers an exceptional vaping experience. Moving forward, we will continue to connect with local retailers to build our brand presence and reputation within these key markets."
In the UK, VAPORESSO launched an extensive brand exposure campaign throughout London. For four weeks, 80 bus lines across Central London featured VAPORESSO advertisements. In total, the large landscape panels on double-decker buses throughout Gold Pack, Westminster, Camden, Victoria, Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Street, and Covent Garden were seen by 15 million consumers in the country's most fashionable and wealthy areas.
Following the extensive advertising campaign in the UK, hundreds turned up to wait in line outside Cloud City Vapes on August 13th between 2 - 4 PM. Similarly, the VAPORESSO flagship store in Marseille, France, saw hundreds waiting in line on August 16th. The highly-successful launch event demonstrated VAPORESSO's growing market penetration in both markets and increasing consumer demand driven by product superiority and comprehensive marketing efforts.
Extensive reviews of the LUXE X have also appeared on popular vaping media sites, who rated the LUXE X as one of the most flavorful pod vapes they've tried. According to Just Juice, an award-winning premium e-liquids and vape juice provider, the LUXE X stands out among many other devices because the flavors come through fantastically with the new ICE range of Just Juice.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) declared the regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.50 per share on Nucor's common stock. This cash dividend is payable on November 10, 2022 to stockholders of record on September 30, 2022 and is Nucor's 198th consecutive quarterly cash dividend.
Nucor and its affiliates are manufacturers of steel and steel products, with operating facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Products produced include: carbon and alloy steel -- in bars, beams, sheet and plate; hollow structural section tubing; electrical conduit; steel racking; steel piling; steel joists and joist girders; steel deck; fabricated concrete reinforcing steel; cold finished steel; precision castings; steel fasteners; metal building systems; insulated metal panels; overhead doors; steel grating; and wire and wire mesh. Nucor, through The David J. Joseph Company, also brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron and hot briquetted iron / direct reduced iron; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap. Nucor is North America's largest recycler.
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Why Arkansas' Sam Pittman, Missouri's Eli Drinkwitz are taking on keyboard warriors | Toppmeyer
This the "Topp Rope," a twice-weekly SEC football column from the USA TODAY Network's Blake Toppmeyer.
College football rankings don’t matter in September, many coaches say.
Don’t include Arkansas coach Sam Pittman among those coaches.
The Razorbacks (2-0) moved into the AP's No. 10 position Sunday, and Pittman tweeted a graphic promoting as much.
A “Well, but…” guy exists in every crowd, and within an hour, a Hogs fan responded to Pittman’s tweet that in-season rankings don’t matter and the focus should be on reaching the championship game.
That got caught in Pittman’s craw.
“I think (the ranking is) a big deal. I do," Pittman said. "Everybody always looks at the negative all the time. I tweeted out that we were No. 10, and I got some responses of, ‘Well, it doesn’t matter.’ Well, I ain’t tweeting it out to (the media) or a 50-year-old man. I’m trying to use it as recruiting.”
TOPPMEYER:Jimbo Fisher is just a rich man's Kevin Sumlin at Texas A&M football
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Rankings are a fun talking point. The drama over the Top 25 and perceived (or sometimes real) biases help separate college football from other sports. I’ve never understood why some folks bemoan the presence of September rankings. They’re entertainment, and, to Pittman’s point, they can be a recruiting tool.
“I’d rather be ranked 1, but I’d rather be ranked 10 than I would 100,” said Pittman, whose team plays Missouri State on Saturday. “We’re proud of where we are today. That doesn’t mean anything about Saturday’s game, but we are using it in recruiting, and we’re proud of it.”
If Pittman really wants to spur recruiting, he should blast the Hogs' ranking all over Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram.
I'm told that's where the kids hang out, these days.
Keyboard warriors aren’t the biggest issue facing Missouri Tigers
With all the warts Kansas State exposed on Missouri, why is Tigers coach Eliah Drinkwitz spending time monitoring online message boards? Shouldn’t he have some coaching to do?
Drinkwitz encouraged his players to block out “the toxicity or negativity” that he apparently observed from Missouri faithful after the Tigers got embarrassed in a 40-12 loss to the Wildcats.
“There’s an old Bill Parcells quote that talks about losers assemble in groups and complain — and I would add get on Twitter and message boards and have all the answers — and winners assemble as a team and find ways to win,” Drinkwitz said. "And that's what we're going to do."
The only thing worse than a ticked-off fan base is an apathetic fan base, so Drinkwitz should feel thankful for Tigers fans who are simply frustrated instead of tuned out, as Missouri slogs along in Drinkwitz’s third season.
Drinkwitz is 12-13 at Missouri. Predecessor Barry Odom, a Tigers alumnus, was fired after going 25-25 in four seasons.
Preaching an us-against-the-world mentality is one of the oldest moves in the coaching playbook, but Missouri’s problem isn’t keyboard warriors.
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Chief among the problems is a leaky run defense and that Drinkwitz hasn’t produced a quality quarterback despite that being his position of expertise.
Email of the week
Michael writes: Your column about the SEC was right on, particularly about underachieving Texas A&M and coach Jimbo Fisher. A&M, in a talent-rich state, has never been that good over the years for more than two or three years in a row. Jimbo is not a great coach, which he has shown at FSU and A&M.
My response: Joe Burrow made Ed Orgeron look great in the 2019 season. Jameis Winston did the same for Fisher in 2013. Since Winston, Fisher has not produced an elite quarterback. His quarterback guru credentials have been revoked. Kellen Mond was Fisher’s best quarterback at A&M. Mond signed with Kevin Sumlin.
Fisher’s signee, Haynes King, threw for 97 yards Saturday.
Three-and-out
1. Some are wondering whether Fisher needs to tap someone on his staff for play-calling duties after Texas A&M’s 17-14 loss to Appalachian State, but that seems like rearranging the deck chairs. Regardless of who calls the plays, the No. 22 Aggies must perform better at the line of scrimmage, and they require a quarterback change ahead of Saturday’s game with No. 13 Miami.
2. Brian Kelly hasn’t fixed LSU, but early indications point to him making a smart move adding Arizona State transfer quarterback Jayden Daniels. The newcomer is the best thing going for the Tigers, but facing Mississippi State’s veteran defense will be a chore. It's an early proving ground for each team, much like Kentucky-Florida last week.
3. Much will be made of what Auburn’s game against No. 23 Penn State means for Bryan Harsin’s future. Certainly, a loss would nudge Harsin further into a nest of vipers, but don’t think Harsin is safe with a win. Auburn lost a commitment from four-star wide receiver Karmello English on Wednesday, and the Tigers’ recruiting class ranks last in the SEC. Yes, last means behind Vanderbilt. That's the opposite of momentum.
As Week 3 arrives, enjoy the games, debate the Top 25 rankings and don’t pay much mind to your Twitter mentions.
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Latinos make up nearly 20% of the population in the U.S., but they remain underrepresented in front of and behind the cameras.
NPR’s Mandalit del Barco has a five-part series for NPR that explores that subject. She joins Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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In November, voters will pick their representatives in the midterm elections. But some of those voters have also been hand-picked by political parties.
This year judges in four states – Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, and Alabama ruled that congressional maps were illegally drawn around partisan or racial lines to favor Republicans.
With four months to go before Alabama’s primary, the Supreme Court said it was too close to an election to order new maps. That set a precedent allowing all four states to useillegallygerrymandered maps this fall.
What does this mean for future elections and voting rights if states can use illegally drawn maps? How close is too close to an election to change things?
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Firm earns high honors as Best Family Law Firm in Dallas
DALLAS, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Texas Lawyer's Best of 2022 edition has singled out Family Law firm Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson (ONDA) as the Best Family Law Firm in Dallas.
Texas Lawyer is the oldest and one of the most respected legal publications in the state. For the 2022 edition, readers ranked the firm No. 1 in Dallas and among the Top 3 for Family Law in the San Antonio/Austin markets. This is the second year that ONDA has earned the publication's Best Family Law Firm honor, which is compiled through peer votes and independent research.
"Our goal is to provide the best representation for the individuals and families involved in family matter disputes, and we do that by attracting the very best lawyers practicing Family Law today," said Scott Downing, managing partner of the firm. "We appreciate that our dedication is acknowledged by Texas Lawyer."
ONDA has received some of the legal industry's highest honors, most recently with the inclusion of 16 attorneys in the 2023 Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch legal guides.
In addition, the firm is home to several of the state's Top 100 Super Lawyers for their representation of Family Law matters. ONDA is frequently ranked among the Best Law Firms by U.S. News/Best Lawyers.
Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson has served families for more than 30 years. With offices in Dallas, Frisco and San Antonio, ONDA is one of Texas' largest Family Law firms. Each partner is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and each is a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists.
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KUER politics reporter Saige Miller joins Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee to discuss the race between former presidential candidate Evan McMullin and Republican incumbent Mike Lee.
Democrats are supporting McMullin, who is a conservative. Lee endorsed McMullin in the 2016 presidential race against Donald Trump, but then developed a close relationship with Trump, before eventually backing away from the former president’s election conspiracies.
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Dallas Mavericks CEO, Sarah Jakes Roberts, Tasha Cobbs Leonard and more set to join T.D. Jakes in Atlanta next week
ATLANTA, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A global movement culminates next week. Woman, Thou Art Loosed! The Grand Finale conference at the Georgia World Congress Center on Sept. 22 - Sept. 24 will host more than 20,000 women from around the world. Female titans of business and powerhouse artists have joined the conference to lend their voices and expertise as many prepare to reconvene one last time in the city where Woman, Thou Art Loosed! began. Woman, Thou Art Loosed! The Grand Finale is now sold out to attend in person, but virtual viewing is available. Tickets to attend virtually may be purchased at WTAL.org.
T.D. Jakes, an accomplished entrepreneur, global Christian leader and values-based entertainment leader, is known for his influence beyond the pulpit—Woman, Thou Art Loosed! spurred a stage play and movie. The Girl Talk session this year titled "Power in Charge," and powered by Coca-Cola, will feature women who are breaking barriers and leading in their respective fields. Serita A. Jakes, author, producer and founder of Serita Jakes Home, will host the conversation with guests:
- Cynt Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks
- Janice Bryant Howroyd, CEO and founder of the ActOne Group
- Valerie Love, senior vice president North America for the Coca-Cola Company
- Nana Gecaga, CEO of the Kenyatta International Convention Centre
- Hattie Hill, CEO and president of the T.D. Jakes Foundation
The Girl Talk session is a time for women to discuss pressing issues of the day including leading Fortune 500 companies. The conference will also examine the onslaught of mental health issues facing women today in a session led by Cora Jakes, associate pastor of The Potter's House, and Dr. Anita Phillips. Other new and notable speakers at Woman, Thou Art Loosed! The Grand Finale include Connie Orlando, Dr. Natasha Stewart Gresham, Trinitee Stokes and Kelly Cornish-Slaughter.
Woman, Thou Art Loosed! The Grand Finale wouldn't be complete without performances from inspirational artists. Newly added musical guests include:
- Fantasia Barrino Taylor
- Micah Stampley
- Tasha Cobbs Leonard
- Sandra Riley
- Marissa Farrow
- Candy West
- Nicole Binion
- Jacqueline McCullough
- Maranda Curtis
- Kierra Sheard
- Gaye Arbuckle
In honor of this year's final gathering and to pay homage to the conference's original location, Coca-Cola will partner with the conference in support of T.D. Jakes Ministries and the T.D. Jakes Foundation to celebrate the deep-seated community roots in Atlanta.
Other previously announced distinguished speakers include:
- T.D. Jakes, senior pastor of The Potter's House and founder of Woman, Thou Art Loosed! conferences
- Sarah Jakes Roberts, co-senior pastor of The Potter's House OneLA
- Carolyn D. Showell, Christian therapist and executive pastor of First Apostolic Faith Church in Baltimore, Maryland
- Priscilla Shirer, founder of Going Beyond Ministries
For more information on Woman, Thou Art Loosed! The Grand Finale and to register for virtual viewing, visit WTAL.org
Woman, Thou Art Loosed! began as a Sunday school curriculum in 1992 by Bishop Jakes and has since birthed a best-selling book, a widely-acclaimed stage play, a GRAMMY®-nominated album and a national conference that has drawn more than a half million women from around the world. In October 2004, Woman, Thou Art Loosed! was developed into a movie in collaboration with Reuben Cannon Productions and became a box office top-10 hit, winning a 2005 NAACP Image Award. More information can be found at WTAL.org
Located in Dallas, The Potter's House is a 30,000-member nondenominational, multicultural church and humanitarian organization led by Bishop T. D. Jakes, who was twice featured on the cover of Time magazine as "America's Best Preacher" and as one of the nation's "25 most influential evangelicals." The Potter's House has four locations, The Potter's House of Dallas, The Potter's House of Fort Worth, The Potter's House of North Dallas, and The Potter's House OneLA, and a Spanish language church, Casa de Fe. More information can be found at ThePottersHouse.org.
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Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson speaks with musician Lang Lang about “The Disney Book,” which contains piano versions of classic Disney songs such as “Let it Go” and “When You Wish Upon a Star.”
Lang Lang plays the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday night.
Lang Lang reimagines Disney classics in his latest release. (Simon Webb)
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In his newest documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, Ken Burns and his collaborators are revisiting some very familiar ground. Geoffrey C. Ward, who wrote the script for this new series, also wrote the Burns epic documentaries The War, about World War II, and The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, in which Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt figured prominently, as they do here. And Ward wrote The Civil War, which put Ken Burns on the map in the first place.
More than 30 years later, the structure and methods of a Ken Burns production are so familiar as to be almost comforting, and The U.S. and the Holocaust employs them all. There are celebrity voices reading the words of historical figures — this time, the voices include Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Liam Neeson and Werner Herzog. Photographs are used patiently and poetically, revealing new elements as they pan and zoom in and out. Music and sound effects make every moment both more real and more emotional. And a Ken Burns documentary series always starts with a clear-cut summary of things to come — provided, this time, by frequent Burns narrator Peter Coyote.
The U.S. and the Holocaust, like many Ken Burns history projects, examines his subject from the bottom up. Instead of interviewing military experts, he talks to survivors or their relatives. When historians and other experts are heard from, they discuss events from that same perspective. In this case, they try to understand, and explain, what it was like to endure Nazi atrocities — or even to believe that they were happening.
The documentary spends a great deal of time delving into the intricacies of national politics — not only in Germany, where Adolf Hitler rose from prison to dictatorial power, but in America, where waves of isolationism kept the U.S. out of the war for years. It shows that most everyday Americans were not unaware of what the Nazis were doing in Europe. Throughout the documentary, we see newspaper headlines proving that the facts indeed were out there. Yet they were questioned by many, until after the war, when concentration camps were liberated and their atrocities documented.
The opening installment, which premiers on Sept. 18, stops in the year 1938, and part two goes up to 1942. The concluding two hours cover the end of World War II, and its aftermath — the formation of Israel, the Nuremberg war trials, even the invention and introduction of the word "genocide."
It's not until the final five minutes that the story is brought fully up to date. But those final sounds and images that conclude The U.S. and the Holocaust — scenes with which we're all too familiar, of hate crimes and hate-filled marches — connect the past to the present without Coyote, or anyone else, having to say a word. Once again, Burns and company have made history come to life — and reminded us that our life, right now, is indeed history in the making.
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In the third episode of our Youngbloods miniseries, we're putting the spotlight on Sarah Hanahan, a young alto saxophonist who has always been sure of her connection to the instrument. "I remember playing it for the first time," she says. "I never like, squeaked and squawked on it. I always had a sound; I always had a tone. I was a kid, but I found it right away."
Hanahan developed that sound with some help from her dad, a drummer who passed down his passion for music. She'd tag along to his gigs and practice sessions, quietly absorbing the richness of the pit orchestra. Weekends were for leisure and hours of live music via DVD – Buddy Rich, Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival was on heavy rotation in the Hanahan household, but it was the legendary drummer's saxophone section that Hanahan noticed above all else, inspiring her to pick up the instrument at 7 years old. It's been a union ever since.
Hanahan honed her skills at the Jackie McLean Institute at the University of Hartford. While there Hanahan devoured McLean's recordings, emulating his sound and experimenting with making them her own. "I feel Jackie every day."
This episode, we'll hear highlights from Hanahan's burning set at the Caramoor Jazz Festival in Katonah, NY, and some personal anecdotes from her former professor, the saxophonist Abraham Burton.
Musicians: Sarah Hanahan, alto saxophone; Miki Yamanaka, piano; Barry Stephenson, bass; Jonathan Barber, drums .
Set List:
Credits:
Writer and Producers: Alex Ariff, Sarah Geledi; Assistant Producers: Camilo Garzón, Donelle Wedderburn and Scout Opatut; Host: Christian McBride; Producer: Trevor Smith; Recording Engineer: Corey Goldberg, assisted by Anthony Nieves; Consulting Editor: Katie Simon; Episode mix: Ron Scalzo; Project Manager: Suraya Mohamed; Vice President of Visuals and Strategy at NPR Music: Keith Jenkins; Executive Producers: Anya Grundmann and Gabrielle Armand.
Special thanks to Timothy Coffey and Valerie Whitney.
The Youngbloods theme was produced by Raydar Ellis.
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New CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht has been making headlines for his moves to change the network's reputation for being hostile to former President Donald Trump.
Before joining CNN, however, Licht made his name in the business by reimagining morning shows for MSNBC and CBS, leading to Morning Joe and what's now called CBS Mornings, making them livelier, more focused, and more substantive. Now he's seeking to make his mark on CNN's early-day fare, announcing that he'll team star host Don Lemon (who will relinquish his prime-time slot), with dayside anchor Poppy Harlow and Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlin Collins. The new show will debut early next year.
In a statement, Licht promised a "game-changing" morning show for cable news. The hosts "are each uniquely intelligent, reliable and compelling; together they have a rare and palpable chemistry," Licht said. "Combined with CNN's resources and global newsgathering capabilities, we will offer a smart, bold and refreshing way to start the day."
The hosting duo on CNN's current show New Day, John Berman and Brianna Keilar, will take on new anchoring duties at the network.
Veteran journalists depart under the new chief
Since joining the network in May, Licht has made clear what he doesn't like about CNN: Too many reporters and anchors act as analysts and commentators, he told associates. Too many commentators simply pump up the volume.
This stance also reflects the stated convictions of CNN's new parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav (who hired Licht) and its most important single investor, John Malone. Last October, Malone signaled to CNBC that he wanted to see CNN's journalism become more down-the-middle.
"I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with and, you know, actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing," Malone said.
Licht has promised CNN will never pull punches on his watch and told staffers that they will have to trust him — but also to wait and see. In the meantime, much of CNN's lineup has experienced listless ratings.
In recent weeks, Licht dispatched both chief media correspondent Brian Stelter and his Sunday media-analysis program, Reliable Sources. Gone too is veteran White House correspondent John Harwood, whom, Licht told colleagues, brought more insight than original reporting.
On the day his departure was announced, Harwood memorably declared that President Biden was correct in a recent speech in Philadelphia to call the pro-Trump core of the Republican party a threat to democracy. Harwood told viewers that was a tough declaration for a journalist to make.
"We're brought up to believe there's two different political parties with different points of view, and we don't take sides in honest disagreements between them," said Harwood, a distinguished Washington correspondent whose father was a senior editor at the Washington Post. "But that's not what we're talking about. These are not honest disagreements."
Licht had also made a pilgrimage to Capitol Hill in July to woo Republican lawmakers to the idea that CNN would be a forum in which their arguments could be heard fairly. The conservative Washington Free Beacon reported his appeal was absorbed skeptically.
A shift perceived on the air as well
Lemon is among the CNN personalities seen as viscerally opposed to Trump. He has often used his nightly show to criticize the former president's rhetoric and actions. In condemning Trump's embrace of racist claims that former President Barack Obama was not born in this country, Lemon addressed Trump on the air, asking why Obama got under his skin. "Is it because he's smarter than you, better educated, made it on his own, didn't need Daddy's help?"
Lemon is clearly still on board as a major player at CNN; Licht has told associates the host is a highly talented broadcaster.
One of his new partners, Collins, frequently pressed Trump administration officials, including the former president, while a reporter attending White House briefings. (In 2018, the Trump White House communications director - the former number two official at Fox News - sought to bar Collins from covering a White House event.) She previously covered the White House for the conservative Daily Caller website, founded by Fox News's Tucker Carlson. She will serve as co-host and chief correspondent on the program.
In making Morning Joe into a success at MSNBC, Licht played upon the rapport of its hosts (the two primary ones eventually married) and presented a more moderate Joe Scarborough from his days as a conservative Republican lawmaker in Congress. At CBS, Licht blended sophistication, insider knowledge and common sense, with Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell, in a formula that lifted substance and ratings. (Rose left in a cloud of scandal and the show has been rebuilt anew.)
CNN's liberal critics see a strained effort by Licht to pull the network back to a notional center that no longer exists. And they've pointed to incidents in which Keilar, known for extended videos dissecting Trump's hypocrisies, devoted significant air time to blasting Biden's speech about Trump and democracy as too divisive. Similarly, longtime correspondent Jeff Zeleny and anchor Jake Tapper mused that perhaps Biden could invite Trump to accompany him to the funeral events for British Queen Elizabeth II. (Tapper said it would be clever to invite Trump knowing that Trump would probably not want to accompany Biden because he would not want to be seen as subordinate to his successor.)
Wrote Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi, "The way CNN is going I wouldn't be surprised if they make Trump their new election integrity analyst next week."
Question marks remain at CNN over what's ahead
Licht, who declined an interview request for this story through a spokesperson, has told colleagues he wants to move away from the drama of the Jeff Zucker years at CNN, both on and off the air. But staffers there have been curious — even anxious — about what that affirmatively means for the network. In a note to staff, Licht said he would reveal plans for the 9 pm-midnight (eastern time) slate of shows.
One of Licht's fresh hires: former New York Police Department deputy commissioner John Miller, as a counter-terrorism analyst for the network. Miller is also an experienced journalist; he obtained a rare interview with Osama Bin Laden while at ABC News in the late 1990s and, in between stints in the NYPD, also served as an analyst at CBS News.
Yet that stirred intense criticism from Islamic and civil rights groups, as Miller has publicly denied the existence of an earlier program inside the NYPD to surveille Muslims. The program, which yielded no leads or terrorism prosecutions, was brought to light by reporters at the Associated Press.
Ironically, Licht arrived at CNN after a stint at CBS where he oversaw the evolution of Colbert's foundering Late Show to tap into the host's rapier-like political and liberal sensibility. It now frequently sits atop the late night ratings. Licht's stints at MSNBC and CBS created a record to date that is far from conservative — or pro-Trump. Today, Licht told staffers, "the next chapter of CNN is beginning to shape."
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Apollo Class II e-bike designed to accommodate two riders or additional cargo safely
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veo, the first profitable micromobility company, has created the micromobility industry's first dual-passenger vehicle, the Apollo Class II e-bike, that can safely accommodate two riders or additional cargo storage.
Revealed today at Micromobility America, the Apollo is designed to increase ridership and reduce dependence on gas-powered vehicles by addressing two needs: the ability for two people to ride one vehicle and to transport goods utilizing a cargo storage system. The Apollo will launch in select markets in early 2023.
"As the micromobility industry continues to grow, we must expand our vehicle offerings to address unmet market demands," said Candice Xie, co-founder and CEO of Veo. "The Apollo was developed in direct response to insights from rider surveys, feedback from municipalities, and global research that indicates the immense need for safe tandem riding and cargo hauling. By opening up micromobility to new riders and new trip types, we can reduce car dependency and help cities advance their ambitious climate goals."
The Apollo features a throttle-assist motor, which allows riders of varying body types and abilities to get where they need to go without pedaling. The throttle provides assistance for traveling up hills or carrying cargo and offers a boost to get up to speed from a stopped position. Veo's ridership data shows that the first-generation throttle-assist e-bike, the Cosmo-e, receives four times as many rides per day as Veo's electric pedal-assist bikes. Once deployed, Apollo vehicles can carry two passengers or can be retrofitted to accommodate one passenger with additional cargo, depending on the needs of each market.
"If we want to get more people out of cars and into the bike lane, micromobility must accommodate rider needs for varying trip types and purposes," said Edwin Tan, Veo co-founder and president. "A second seat and cargo-hauling capabilities make the transition to micromobility realistic for more people."
Veo has been designing and manufacturing its vehicles in-house since 2017, which allows for continuous innovation, consistent deployment of new vehicles, and control of the entire supply chain process to ensure top quality and safety. Veo, which has a fleet of eight vehicles, including seated and standing scooters, class I and class II e-bikes, accessible wheelchair devices, and pedal bikes, continues to expand its portfolio in the more than 50 markets it serves nationwide.
"For the past five years, Veo has led innovation in the shared micromobility industry, bringing more vehicles and safety technology to market than any other company – including the industry's first seated scooter – and we're just getting started," said Tan.
Apollo Specifications
- Motor - 750-watt
- Tires - 20-inches
- Max load- 400 lb. passenger weight
- Battery range - 45 miles
- Max speed - 15 mph
Veo is committed to designing and manufacturing vehicles that lead the industry in safety and user experience. Apollo safety and convenience features include:
- Simulated electric engine noise: When the throttle is engaged, the vehicle will notify pedestrians, particularly those who are blind or have visual impairments, that an e-bike is approaching with an audible noise.
- Intelligent display system: A light-up display that communicates information about the vehicle's status (e.g., battery level, speed level, riding zone information) and displays turn signals to other road users while the vehicle is in use.
- Integrated phone holder: Holds riders' phones for safe navigation.
- Bluetooth speaker: Syncs with smartphones so riders can hear directions or listen to music for safe routing and riding.
- Veo Voice: Veo's newest IoT with precise geofencing and Veo Voice technology, which uses on-board speakers to explain local riding regulations.
- Veo's proprietary swappable battery technology: Allows field technicians to swap out batteries in the field, enabling scooters to be available 24/7. Batteries are compatible with other Veo vehicle types to further enhance field operations efficiency.
About Veo
Veo is on a mission to end car dependency by making clean transportation accessible to all. We have provided millions of shared bike and scooter rides in 50+ cities and universities across North America and counting.
Veo operates from a set of values that distinguish us in the industry. We are grounded in financial responsibility: Veo partnered with select cities to achieve profitability before scaling. Our in-house design and manufacturing process enables us to constantly innovate and provide cities with the next generation of shared electric bikes and scooters. We develop collaborative, long-term partnerships with cities and universities so we can work together toward a sustainable, safe, and equitable transportation future.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, senior administration officials told The Associated Press.
The separate meetings are to be the first in-person encounter between Biden and the families and are taking place amid sustained but so far unsuccessful efforts by the administration to secure the Americans' release. The administration said in July that it had made a “substantial proposal” to get them home, but despite plans for the White House meetings, there is no sign that a breakthrough is imminent.
Griner has been held in Russia since February on drug-related charges. She was sentenced last month to nine years in prison after pleading guilty and has appealed the punishment. Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges that he and his family say are false. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained, placing their cases with the office of its top hostage negotiator.
Friday's meetings, which both families have long sought, are intended to underscore the administration's commitment to bringing home Griner, Whelan and other Americans jailed abroad, as well as to “connect with them on a human level as they undergo an ordeal that the Russian government has imposed on them," said one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as the meetings had not yet been publicly announced.
Negotiations have been complicated by the tense relations between Washington and Moscow over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of announcing two months ago that the administration had made a substantial proposal to Russia. Since then, the administration has followed up in multiple ways to press its offer and get serious negotiations underway, one of the administration officials said Thursday.
The Russians, who have indicated that they are open to negotiations but have chided the Americans to conduct them in private, have come back with suggestions that are not within the administration's ability to deliver, said the official, declining to elaborate. But the U.S. has been following up through the same channels that produced an April prisoner swap that brought Marine veteran Trevor Reed home from Russia, the official said.
The administration has not provided specifics about its proposal, but a person familiar with the matter previously confirmed it had offered to release Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer now imprisoned in the U.S. It is also possible that, in the interests of symmetry, Russia might insist on having two of its citizens released from prison.
Biden spoke by phone in July with Griner's wife, Cherelle, and with Whelan's sister, Elizabeth, but both families have also requested in-person meetings. On Friday, Biden plans to speak at the White House with Cherelle Griner and with the player’s agent in one meeting and with Elizabeth Whelan in the other.
The meetings are being done separately so as to ensure that each family has private time with the president. But the fact that they are happening on the same day shows the extent to which the two cases have become intertwined since the only deal that is presumably palatable to the U.S. is one that gets both Americans — a famous WNBA player and a Michigan man who until recently was little known to the public — home together at the same time,
In the past several months, representatives of both families have expressed frustration over what they perceived as a lack of aggressive action and coordination from the administration.
Cherelle Griner, for instance, told The Associated Press in an interview in June that she was dismayed after the failure of a phone call from her wife that was supposed to have been patched through by the American Embassy in Moscow left the couple unable to connect on their fourth anniversary.
Whelan's relatives have sought to keep attention on his case, anxious that it has been overshadowed in the public eye by the focus on the far more prominent Griner — a two-time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time WNBA all-star. They also conveyed disappointment when Whelan, despite having been held in Russia since December 2018, was not included in a prisoner swap last April that brought home another detained American, Marine veteran Trevor Reed.
Friday's meeting was scheduled before news broke this week of an unconnected trip to Russia by Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has been a veteran emissary in hostage and detainee cases. Administration officials reacted coolly to that trip, with State Department spokesman Ned Price saying Wednesday that dialogue with Russia outside the “established channel” risks hindering efforts to get Griner and Whelan home.
Administration officials say work on hostage and detainee cases persist regardless of whether a family receives a meeting with the president, though there is also no question that such an encounter can help establish a connection. Biden met in the Oval Office in March with Reed's parents after the Texas couple stood with a large sign outside the White House calling for their son's release. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-griner-whelan-families-meeting/507-76776e08-09a8-44d1-8373-3fe03ec54c38 | 2022-09-15T18:02:33Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-griner-whelan-families-meeting/507-76776e08-09a8-44d1-8373-3fe03ec54c38 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Queen Elizabeth II’s death on Sept. 8 impacted countries beyond just the United Kingdom. She was the head of state in several countries around the globe, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Now, King Charles III holds that title. These countries are all former colonies of the British Empire that have voluntarily retained their connections to the crown after independence.
Since many of these countries have honored their connection to the monarchy by adding the likeness of the queen to their currency, some people have claimed the queen’s death will force these countries to change their money. One tweet with more than 50,000 likes claimed Canada will have to “mint and print a whole bunch of new money because some other country’s queen died.” Queen Elizabeth II currently appears on the Canadian $20 bill and its coins.
More from VERIFY: Yes, King Charles III’s likeness will start appearing on money in the UK
THE QUESTION
Is Canada required to change its money after Queen Elizabeth II’s death?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, Canada is not required to change its money after Queen Elizabeth II’s death. It can make the change voluntarily, however.
WHAT WE FOUND
Although Queen Elizabeth II has appeared on various Canadian bills and coins over the years, there is no Canadian law that requires that the British monarch appear on the country’s currency or that the money be changed when one dies.
Canadian money comes from two sources: the Bank of Canada, which prints and issues the country’s paper money, and the Royal Canadian Mint, which mints the country’s coins.
In Canada, the standard $20 bill has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on it. She also appears on one side of all standard Canadian coins.
The Bank of Canada has yet to make a public statement about the future of the bills that feature Queen Elizabeth II’s likeness, or whether the bank will start printing money featuring King Charles III. But the Royal Canadian Mint has posted a statement to its website to assure Canadian citizens that coins currently in circulation are still valid.
“The Royal Canadian Mint wishes to remind consumers and businesses that the royal succession has no impact on coins currently in circulation,” the Royal Canadian Mint said. “A change in Monarch does not require the replacement of circulation coins. Therefore, Canadians consumers and businesses can continue using all coins currently in circulation.”
Even so, the Royal Canadian Mint kept open the possibility that future coins may look different.
“We are working on a plan to issue a variety of coins commemorating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s lifetime of service as Queen of Canada,” the Royal Canadian Mint said. “The Mint will also support the Government of Canada as it works to determine a new … design for future Canadian coins.”
Canada’s Currency Act, which governs the nation’s production of money, mandates that coins are produced based on the rules in the Royal Canadian Mint Act, and paper money is produced based on the rules in the Bank of Canada Act.
The Royal Canadian Mint Act outlines no requirements for a coin’s design, other than that a circulating coin’s design is determined by Canada’s federal cabinet.
The Bank of Canada Act requires that a bill’s design be approved by the country’s Minister of Finance and that it be printed in both English and French.
There are no other requirements for the design of paper money.
Canadian bills are printed based on design principles the Bank of Canada keeps published on its website. These principles require paper money to reflect Canada and have a broad appeal to Canadians, but say nothing about remaining current with the reigning British monarch.
“The Bank recognizes that in order to design bank notes that have broad appeal and reflect Canada, we need more input from Canadians,” the Bank of Canada says. “Therefore, we will consult more openly and with a larger number of Canadians on the development of visual content for new bank notes (theme, subject matter and images), while applying the criteria developed for the note in question.”
Although there is no requirement that Canada change its currency to reflect the current British monarch, it has in the past.
The Royal Canadian Mint says it has included the likeness of the current reigning monarch on its coins since it started production in 1908. Since then, four monarchs have been featured on the country’s coins: Edward VII, George V, George VI and Elizabeth II.
The Bank of Canada issued its first series of bills in 1935, less than a year before Elizabeth’s grandfather, King George V, died. Elizabeth, at just 8 years old and still a princess, was one of several royal family members to appear on Canada’s first series of bills.
Canada did update its currency in 1937 after George VI became king, but the update was prompted by a new law to make all of Canada’s paper money bilingual. Still, the Bank of Canada took the opportunity to also add George VI’s likeness on all but two denominations of bills.
The country next changed its bills in 1954, a couple of years after Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne. She replaced her father on the country’s paper money, and since then she has appeared on various denominations of bills. Today, the only bill she’s on is the $20 bill.
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WACO, Texas — Two more Sun Belt teams get their shots at ranked teams Saturday, a week after two top-10 teams lost to Group of Five programs on the same day for the first time in the College Football Playoff era. Both winners came from that same fun conference.
There is probably no reason, however, to put No. 2 Alabama and 17th-ranked Baylor on upset alert. Even after those Sun Belt shockers in Week 2.
Alabama (2-0) slipped out of the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 after escaping Texas with a 20-19 victory, but is listed as a nearly seven-touchdown favorite for its home game against Louisiana-Monroe (1-1).
Louisiana-Monroe’s 21-14 win at Tuscaloosa in 2007 was part of a four-game Tide losing streak late in coach Nick Saban’s first season there. The team is coached by Terry Bowden, who was Auburn’s coach from 1993 until midway through the 1998 season.
Texas State (1-1) is a more than a four-touchdown underdog going to Baylor (1-1). Since becoming an FBS team in 2012, the Bobcats are 0-9 against Top 25 teams and lost those games by average margin of nearly 34 points.
SEC teams Kentucky and Arkansas each play FCS opponents after big jumps to round out the latest top 10. The ninth-ranked Wildcats, who rose 11 spots in the Top 25, play Youngstown State. The No. 10 Razorbacks jumped six spots before hosting Missouri State and former coach Bobby Petrino, who will be coaching his first game in Fayetteville since getting fired 10 years ago.
The What to Watch rundown for this week of college football, presented by Regions Bank:
BEST GAME
No. 12 BYU at No. 25 Oregon
After playing without two starting receivers in its overtime win over Baylor, BYU will try to get consecutive wins over ranked teams for a second straight season.
In their final season as a football independent before going to the Big 12, the Cougars could put themselves in a strong position with a win, especially with potential showcase games in October against Notre Dame and Arkansas.
The Ducks have the opportunity to really bounce back before Pac-12 play. While they scored 70 points last week, that was in a win over Eastern Washington. Oregon opened with a 49-3 loss to now-No. 1 Georgia.
HEISMAN WATCH
As a true freshman at Oklahoma midway through last season, Caleb Williams unseated preseason first-team AP All-America quarterback Spencer Rattler, who had also been considered one of the early leading Heisman candidates.
This past offseason, Williams followed coach Lincoln Riley to Southern California, where he is second in the Pac-12 with 331 total yards a game. He has completed 39 of 49 passes (79.6%) for 590 yards with six touchdowns and no interceptions, and run for 72 yards.
NUMBERS TO KNOW
15 — Defending Sun Belt champion Louisiana-Lafayette’s winning streak, the nation’s best.
80 — Consecutive AP poll appearances for Notre Dame since Sept. 17, 2017, before the Fighting Irish fell all the way out of the rankings from ninth this week after its 0-2 start. Marcus Freeman is the first Irish coach to open his career 0-3, counting last season’s Fiesta Bowl.
1,349 — Games the Texas Longhorns will have played in their history come Saturday. That is 10 times more than UTSA, its opponent, which will play its 135th.
UNDER THE RADAR
UTSA at No. 17 Texas
After its near-upset of future SEC foe Alabama, the Longhorns play their third consecutive home game to start the season in a first-time meeting against UTSA, a school in the same university system and less than 90 miles away.
The Roadrunners, in only their 12th season of football, got in the Top 25 for the first time last year. They have gone to overtime in both games this season (a loss to Houston and a win over Army). Sixth-year senior UTSA quarterback Frank Harris is the national leader with 394.5 total yards per game.
HOT SEAT
Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher isn't anywhere near losing his job, not when he is making $9 million a season and signed through 2031. But there is certainly some concern among Aggies faithful about this season, Fisher’s fifth, potentially going off the rails.
After being stunned at home last week by Appalachian State, Texas A&M hosts 13th-ranked Miami in its final home game until the last Saturday in October. After that, the offensively challenged Aggies play No. 10 Arkansas in suburban Dallas then have trips to Mississippi State and No. 2 Alabama.
Could the Aggies go into their open date at the end of that stretch, at the midpoint of their season, with a 1-5 record? | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/ncaa/week-3-preview-bama-baylor-out-to-avoid-more-sun-belt-upsets-alabama-football-byu-football-oklahoma-football-texas-football-baylor-football-georgia/535-8a0e0b3f-dacd-446a-a9bb-0437839339b6 | 2022-09-15T18:02:45Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/ncaa/week-3-preview-bama-baylor-out-to-avoid-more-sun-belt-upsets-alabama-football-byu-football-oklahoma-football-texas-football-baylor-football-georgia/535-8a0e0b3f-dacd-446a-a9bb-0437839339b6 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What to Know Today
Judge sanctions conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in latest trial. The trial in Waterbury, Connecticut, less than 20 miles from Newtown, was attended by more than a dozen family members of victims, who say they have been confronted and harassed for years by people who believed Jones’s false claim that the shooting was staged by “crisis actors” as part of a plot to take away people’s guns. The judge also sanctioned Jones on Tuesday for his failure to turn over analytic data related to his website and the popularity of his show, preventing his lawyers from arguing he didn’t profit from his Sandy Hook remarks. This is the second such trial for Jones, who was ordered by a Texas jury last month to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of one of the slain children, and faces a third trial in Texas involving the parents of another.
Superintendent of Maryland’s largest school district announces gun safety assemblies… In a letter to parents on Tuesday, Superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools Dr. Monifa McKnight and State’s Attorney John McCarthy notified parents that public high school students will be educated on gun safety this fall in scheduled school assemblies. Citing national data from the Gun Violence Archives on escalating gun deaths and injuries among teenagers — which directly impacted the schools earlier this year — the letter says the assemblies will provide information on the law and consequences of gun violence, strategies to resolve problems without violence, and warning signs that someone may choose violence.
… as Democrats call on federal agencies to keep children safe at school. More than 30 congressional Democrats on Tuesday called on federal agencies to address “misguided” school safety policies focused on hiring, retaining, and funding school resource officers, an approach they called “counterproductive and harmful.” In a letter to the Department of Justice, Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services, House lawmakers said the government has failed to protect schoolchildren and families in the wake of at least 30 school shootings this year, and proposed more programs to support students, including mental health resources.
Medical summit aims at firearms violence prevention. Professionals from 47 multidisciplinary medical societies and health organizations from across the country participated in the second Medical Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention, in Chicago. Co-hosted by the American College of Surgeons, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, the meeting aimed to identify ways the medical community could reach a consensus-based approach to preventing firearm injuries, with a focus on understanding and addressing gun violence as a public health issue. Recommendations and proceedings from the summit will be released in the coming months.
Teenager charged in death of Philadelphia woman. A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of Parks and Recreation employee Tiffany Fletcher at the Philadelphia playground where she worked, city officials confirm. Fletcher was “caught in the crossfire” of a shootout involving at least one other person at the Mill Creek Recreation Center in West Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said. The 14-year-old boy was arrested after a brief chase, and a 9mm ghost gun was recovered in a nearby trash can, Outlaw said. Authorities also found 12 spent shell casings at the scene and are still searching for other suspects.
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29.5 — Percentage increase in the rate of firearms deaths among children from 2016 to 2020 — more than twice as high as the relative increase in the general population. [CDC] | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/sandy-hook-witnesses-testify-school-safety/ | 2022-09-15T18:06:35Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/sandy-hook-witnesses-testify-school-safety/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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First-degree assault charges were dismissed Wednesday against a 13-year-old boy accused of shooting and injuring five innocent people during a gang clash at a Cinco de Mayo festival in downtown Sunnyside earlier this year.
The shooting occurred when rival gangs clashed at the public street festival. A 35-year-old man was shot in his leg, a 12-year-old boy was stuck in the lip and tongue, a 6-year-old girl was shot in her lower leg and two boys, 16 and 14, also were shot in the legs.
The 16- and 14-year-old boys had possible gang ties, a probable cause affidavit said.
Police arrested the suspect nearly two weeks after the shooting. The Yakima Herald-Republic does not typically identify juvenile suspects.
Yakima County Prosecutor Joe Brusic said in a Thursday morning news release that the charges were dismissed without prejudice because of a lack of cooperation from the state’s only eyewitness, also a juvenile.
“This is truly unfortunate," he said. "The Sunnyside Police Department is extremely frustrated, as is the Yakima County Prosecutor's Office, with this development. The city of Sunnyside, as well as Yakima County, must obtain justice in this terrible shooting. We will do everything in our power to prosecute this case in the future.”
Sunnyside police and the prosecutor’s office obtained a material witness warrant for his arrest but learned that he had moved to California with his parents “and did not want to voluntarily return,” Brusic said in the release.
California law requires all extradition hearings to take place before apprehension of a material witness, Brusic said.
That process would not allow for the witness to be returned in time for trial, which was scheduled to begin Oct. 3, he said.
“Working within this procedure, it became clear we were not going to be able to obtain this critical witness in time for trial. Without this witness, the State would not be able to prove this very important case beyond a reasonable doubt,” Brusic said in the release.
Brusic said having the charges dismissed with prejudice leaves the door open for charges to refiled if the witness and necessary evidence become available in the future. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/charges-dropped-against-teen-suspect-in-cinco-de-mayo-shooting-in-sunnyside/article_bd8baa9e-3517-11ed-b80b-f7c9186f5f81.html | 2022-09-15T18:10:54Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/charges-dropped-against-teen-suspect-in-cinco-de-mayo-shooting-in-sunnyside/article_bd8baa9e-3517-11ed-b80b-f7c9186f5f81.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Yakama Nation Tribal Council members possibly could face removal from office in a recall attempt next month.
A recall petition seeks the removal of all 14 tribal council members and two alternates over alleged misappropriation of funds and efforts to shield six council members from suspensions ordered by the tribe’s Code of Ethics Board, according to a report in the Yakama Nation Review.
An audit of Land Enterprise funds found the misuse of funds, according to documents from the tribe’s Code of Ethics Board obtained by the Yakima Herald-Republic.
“Yakama Nation Land Enterprise tribal funds were identified as a result of an audit of tribal records to be unauthorized at best and fraudulent at worst,” the documents said.
A recall meeting has been scheduled for Oct. 12, where voting tribal members will decide whether council members will be removed, the Nation Review reported.
Yakama leaders didn’t immediately respond to an interview request about the recall effort.
The recall effort stems from pay increases, payouts and incentives managers in the tribe’s Land Enterprise received during the COVID-19 pandemic while 23 workers in other areas of enterprise divisions faced furloughs or termination, according to Code documents.
Land Enterprise is composed of several divisions such as internet provider Yakama Networks.
Tribal Council members who made up the Roads, Irrigation and Land Committee — Raymond Smartlowit, George Selam, Gerald Lewis, George Meninick Sr., Gene Sutterlict Sr. and Dana Miller — all were accused of failing to impartially investigate the financial perks Land Enterprise management received, the Code documents said.
That committee oversees Land Enterprise.
Three whistleblowers were allegedly fired from Yakama Networks, and this led to Internet outages across the service area and their firings didn’t follow proper procedure, Code documents said.
The fired employees oversaw IT services for all divisions of Land Enterprise, including computers, software, servers, security cameras and broadband towers, Code documents said.
Not all council members cooperated with the Code’s investigation, Code documents said.
“The investigation was difficult due to noncompliance with Code of Ethics enforcement procedures,” Code documents said.
The Code of Ethics suspended the six council members for 30 days without pay and placed Meninick, Sutterlict, Miller and Smartlowit on probation until they complied with the investigation, according to Code documents.
A recall petition requires 25 signatures to trigger a meeting. The tribe’s General Council — which includes five elected officials and all voting tribal members — validated 346 signatures, the Nation Review reported.
A quorum of 250 voting tribal members is needed to start the recall meeting. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/yakama-nation-tribal-council-hit-with-recall-effort-in-wake-of-alleged-misuse-of-funds/article_b04b67b0-33ba-11ed-bb50-530e320e4160.html | 2022-09-15T18:10:56Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/yakama-nation-tribal-council-hit-with-recall-effort-in-wake-of-alleged-misuse-of-funds/article_b04b67b0-33ba-11ed-bb50-530e320e4160.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FONTANA, Calif. (WXIN) — Strollers sold as part of a travel system are being recalled because they pose fall and injury hazards to children.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves Cityscape Travel Jogger Strollers, which were sold as part of a travel system that includes a car seat. They were sold through BabyTrend and Amazon from January 2021 through May 2021.
The strollers were recalled because the parking brake on the strollers can fail, posing fall and injury hazards to children. So far, no injuries have been reported.
The recalled strollers have Baby Trend printed on the stroller’s frame. A label with Model TJ75B12A and the manufacture date and lot information is located on the inside of the side stroller frame. The label also includes contact information and an address (13048 Valley Blvd, Fontana, CA 92335).
The recalled lot number is 111444 0122, and the date of manufacture of the recalled strollers is Oct. 28, 2020.
Anyone with the recalled strollers should stop using them. Baby Trend and Amazon are contacting purchasers directly with instructions on how to return the strollers in exchange for a $175 e-voucher or a full refund.
Anyone with questions or who didn’t receive communication from either Baby Trend or Amazon can contact Baby Trend at 800-328-7363 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. PT Monday through Friday or e-mail info@babytrend.com. | https://www.wpri.com/recalls-and-warnings/stollers-recalled-due-to-faulty-parking-brake/ | 2022-09-15T18:14:52Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/recalls-and-warnings/stollers-recalled-due-to-faulty-parking-brake/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge has blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate.
District Court Judge Michael Moses chided attorneys for the state on Thursday over the rule.
He said it circumvented his April order that temporarily blocked a 2021 Montana law that made it harder to change birth certificates.
Moses said there was no question that the new rule recently adopted by the Montana Department of Health and Human Services violated his earlier order.
Moses said his ruling in April was “clear as a bell."
He even took it a step further by comparing their actions to a convicted person who tries changing their name to avoid prosecution for getting in trouble a third time.
“Isn’t that exactly what happened here?” the judge asked. “I’m a bit offended the department thinks they can do anything they want.”
Advocates for transgender rights say only Tennessee, Oklahoma, and West Virginia have sweeping prohibitions against birth certificate changes similar to what Montana has pursued.
Two years ago, Idaho and Ohio struck down such a ban.
Moses was asked to intervene by the ACLU of Montana after the state health department enacted the new temporary rule.
State officials denied it adopted the new rule in bad faith. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/montana-judge-blocks-anti-trans-birth-certificate-rule | 2022-09-15T18:16:18Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/montana-judge-blocks-anti-trans-birth-certificate-rule | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A socio-political group and advocate of the Yoruba agenda, YorubaKoya Initiatives (YI) has commended the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Patron of the association, Senator Ajayi Borofice and the popular Yoruba Nation activist, Professor Banji Akintoye over their commitment to the interest of the Yoruba race.
President of YorubaKoya Initiatives, Asiwaju Sunday Akinyemi gave the commendation in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Akinyemi said after his recent interface with various groups, traditional rulers, lawmakers and other top Yoruba sons and daughters in different locations, he has come to the realisation that the region is one and “will always remain firm and steadfast in the quest for progress, unity and independence of Yorubaland.”
The statement said the South West coordinators’ visit to the President and founder of the group, was part of the preparations for its forthcoming national conference slated to hold in Lagos state and billed to attract personalities across the Yoruba race.
“We used the recent visit by the South-west coordinators to appreciate all the South-west governors for their initiative to eradicate the problem of insecurity in our land through the official lunch of Amotekun Corps. This initiative is more than 80% success across our region.”
According to Akinyemi, the Yoruba group appreciate the good work Professor Banji Akintoye and Sunday Ighoho are doing, most especially in the quest for adequate security in the region.
“We also appreciate our governors for the initiative of Amotekun Corps which is meant to reduce insecurity in our land to the barest minimum. History will not forget them in a hurry.
“Yoruba race will always appreciate the effort of our past and present heroes in the region, most especially, Otunba Gani Adam, the Aare Onakakanfo, who has been a frontrunner for the development, security and independence of the Yoruba race, Prof. Banji Akintoye, Mr Sunday Ighoho and host of others who has been supportive also to the course of independence for the race.
“Prof. Akintoye is a pacesetter and searchlight for the cause of Yoruba independence.
“Mr Sunday Igboho has shown uncommon bravery in this herculean task that probably without his initiatives our eyes would not have opened to the menace of insecurity bedevilling our region, the injustice melted on Igboho is injustice and insult to all of us by the Nigerian government. We ask God to give him more wisdom and energy for the task to come.”
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As part of efforts geared towards improving traffic management across the state, the general manager, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Mr Bolaji Oreagba, has called for the establishment of more ‘Traffic Safety Advocacy Clubs’ in both public and private schools.
LASTMA boss made the call, on Thursday, during an interactive session with students of Dee-Gee Secondary School, Ebute Metta, Lagos, who came on a courtesy visit to commemorate with him on his 365 days in office.
Oreagba, who was the director of operations, LASTMA was appointed as the authority’s general manager by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on the 14th of September, 2021.
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The general manager disclosed that the establishment of more of these clubs in schools across the state would go a long way in inculcating traffic safety measures into students at a tender age.
This was just as he enjoined parents/guardians to always be a good example to these children by obeying all traffic regulations and road signs whenever they were on board with them.
“These young students are definitely the future of this country, so if you catch them young by impacting traffic knowledge in them, automatically there would be massive reduction in accidents on our roads in the nearest future,” he said.
Oreagba disclosed that the School Advocacy Programme (SAP) where LASTMA officers educate and enlighten students of different schools is a continuous programme across the five divisions of the state.
Master Adesegun Umar (SS3), who spoke on behalf of other students, commended officers of LASTMA for a job well done by managing and controlling traffic across Lagos State.
He confirmed that they had all gained additional knowledge during the interactive session with the LASTMA boss particularly on ‘Zebra Crossing’ lines on roads. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/lastma-calls-for-establishment-of-more-traffic-safety-advocacy-clubs-in-schools/ | 2022-09-15T18:19:25Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/lastma-calls-for-establishment-of-more-traffic-safety-advocacy-clubs-in-schools/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In recent weeks, there has been controversy over the approval granted by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for the purchase of a new office complex in Abuja valued at N4bn by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM). According to reports, the commission had, during its presentation to the FEC, given the impression that the said office was a ready-to-use edifice that easily out-classed its current office in the Garki 2 District of Abuja.
However, the value of the said building, which was initially put at N2.5 billion, was allegedly raised to N4 billion by the time the presidential assent was obtained. Things how-ever took a different turn when members of the commission’s board went on an inspection tour of the facility and discovered that it was still under construction. Again, the
Director of Finance and Administration of the agency who had reportedly advised against the proposed purchase un- til the approval was cash-backed, was allegedly removed from the commission’s headquarters and redeployed to its Lagos office. Indeed, the management was accused of taking steps to beat the August 25 2022 deadline for the withdrawal of the cash from the account of the commis- sion domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), a step which did not go down well with the board of the agency.
As the controversy festered, the Federal Government, rightly in our view, halted the purchase until further notice. The Minister of Finance, whose ministry supervises the agency, also constituted a panel to probe the entire process relating to the purchase of the uncompleted building. Reacting to the saga, the NAICOM management indicated that it had, prior to the FEC approval, obtained a
“No Objection” verdict from the Bureau of Public Procure- ment (BPP) following the valuation of the property by the
Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, adding that ade- quate due diligence was conducted on the property. The property, it said, “was to be acquired as NAICOM Academy and office accommodation following the approval by the immediate past Governing Board of the Commission.” Crucially, it added that “all documents relating to the property clearly state that the property was in an unfinished state” and that provision was made in the 2022 approved budget of the commission for the purpose of the acquisition.
It is instructive to note that were it not for the opposition by the board of NAICOM, purchasing the uncom- pleted building at the centre of this story would have been a done deal. If indeed the management of the commission presented the building to FEC in its true state, then on what basis did it approve the purchase at such a humongous sum? Why was the impression given that the NAICOM management was desperate to see the deal through even when legitimate questions had been raised over the propriety of going ahead with the purchase of the edifice? It is important for the Buhari administration which prides itself in fighting corruption to show absolute intolerance for the kind of impropriety suspected to be at the heart of the NAICOM building controversy. At the very
, to conserve public funds and give value for money, expect audit control to vet the presentations made to the FEC. If anything, the current controversy at NAICOM speaks to the unending negative drama often associated with governance in Nigeria. The point cannot be ignored that the board of NAICOM was not in support of purchasing an uncompleted building deceptively presented as an edifice ready for occupation while the management was pos- itively predisposed to the deal. Normal governing routine precludes the management from proceeding with fundamental actions without the concurrence and approval of its board. It is egregious that the FEC could receive proposals from the NAICOM management outside of the ap- proval of its board. The fact that getting approval from FEC without the NAICOM’s board approval was contemplated suggests that governance is not being conducted in consonance with known rules, and this is the basis of the disorganisation and lack of proper coordination and effective performance in government. Those in charge of governance and government must realise that the real purpose of government can only be pursued and achieved through scrupulous adherence to the rules and regulations and not through whimsical infringement of the pro- cesses and regulations.
There is a reason a board exists to supervise the NAICOM management and this reason should be taken into consideration and respected even while the FEC exercises its overarching supervision over the two levels. We do not see how a diligent and careful adherence to rules and proper evaluation at all levels would lead to the purchase of a building under construction for such a huge sum. Gov- ernment has a duty to insist on following due process and the uncanny desire to expend public funds in a wasteful manner. Needless to say, the result of the ongo- ing probe should be made public and appropriate steps taken on it.
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As next year’s general election approaches, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi has visited former President, Good luck Jonathan.
The former governor of Anambra State said he was able to exchange views on serious issues of national interest during the meeting.
While taking to the popular social media platform, Facebook to share pictures from the meeting, the presidential hopeful described the former president as his senior brother.
“I recently visited my senior brother, H.E. Goodluck Jonathan to exchange views on an array of serious national interest questions,” he posted. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/photos-obi-visits-goodluck-jonathan-discusses-national-issues/ | 2022-09-15T18:19:45Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/photos-obi-visits-goodluck-jonathan-discusses-national-issues/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Police service commission staff hail resignation of Smith
• Say we don't want retired police officer as chairman of commission again
The striking civilian staff of the Police Service Commission, PSC, under the umbrella of the Joint Union Congress, on Thursday, hailed the resignation of the chairman of the commission, Alhaji Musiliu Smith but said that the battle was not over yet.
Speaking with the Tribune Online in Abuja before going to a congress summoned to determine the next line of action, the chairman of the PSC chapter comrade Adoyi, said we welcome the development but rather than see this as a reason to celebrate.
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“We note that it is not yet over, especially against the background of the fact that, more than even the chairman of the commission, the onus lied more on the IGP, Usman Alkali Baba to toe the path of honor and resign, to save his face and the image of the NPF – indeed, restore confidence in the Nigerian system, for the ignoble act he perpetuated in active connivance with Mr. M A K Smith in the constant rape of the constitution while it lasted.
” So, in sober reflection, we are most humbled to make this urgent call on the president, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR; to, in the spirit of magnanimity and the overriding national interest shrug off any pressure from any quarters in the attempt to further appoint retired policemen to the chairmanship position of the Police service commission’s board.
“We make this plea, conscious of the prerogative of the president but conscious of the fact that national interest had been submerged by parochial interests in the past, due to the choices of individuals for the chairmanship position obviously due to their backgrounds as policemen.
Alhaji Smith had, on Wednesday evening, during the plenary session of the board tendered his resignation following reported pressures from other members of the board to resolve the lingering crisis
The congress of striking workers is in progress.
More details later…. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/police-service-commission-staff-hail-resignation-of-smith/ | 2022-09-15T18:19:51Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/police-service-commission-staff-hail-resignation-of-smith/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Police service commission staff hail resignation of Smith
• Say we don't want retired police officer as chairman of commission again
The striking civilian staff of the Police Service Commission, PSC, under the umbrella of the Joint Union Congress, on Thursday, hailed the resignation of the chairman of the commission, Alhaji Musiliu Smith but said that the battle was not over yet.
Speaking with the Tribune Online in Abuja before going to a congress summoned to determine the next line of action, the chairman of the PSC chapter comrade Adoyi, said we welcome the development but rather than see this as a reason to celebrate.
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- Police service commission staff hail resignation of Smith
- Police service commission staff hail resignation of Smith
“We note that it is not yet over, especially against the background of the fact that, more than even the chairman of the commission, the onus lied more on the IGP, Usman Alkali Baba to toe the path of honor and resign, to save his face and the image of the NPF – indeed, restore confidence in the Nigerian system, for the ignoble act he perpetuated in active connivance with Mr. M A K Smith in the constant rape of the constitution while it lasted.
” So, in sober reflection, we are most humbled to make this urgent call on the president, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR; to, in the spirit of magnanimity and the overriding national interest shrug off any pressure from any quarters in the attempt to further appoint retired policemen to the chairmanship position of the Police service commission’s board.
“We make this plea, conscious of the prerogative of the president but conscious of the fact that national interest had been submerged by parochial interests in the past, due to the choices of individuals for the chairmanship position obviously due to their backgrounds as policemen.
Alhaji Smith had, on Wednesday evening, during the plenary session of the board tendered his resignation following reported pressures from other members of the board to resolve the lingering crisis
The congress of striking workers is in progress.
More details later…. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/police-service-commission-staff-hail-resignation-of-smith/ | 2022-09-15T18:19:51Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/police-service-commission-staff-hail-resignation-of-smith/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
The Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion has called for urgent steps to tackle the current economic situation and the negative effects of inflation on the citizenry.
The primate of the Church, Most Reverend Henry Ndukuba while presenting his address at the Anglican standing committee meeting in Abuja stressed the need for government to adopt measures to stem the tide.
He stressed that the fast-depleting external reserves, inflation, the humongous public debt servicing cost, and vandalism of pipelines as well as the increased poverty level spelt doom on the present and future generations of the country.
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According to him, the present situation whereby some security officials and some so-called untouchable citizens in the country were being allowed to have a free day in oil theft and other resources called for urgent attention by the present leadership.
Archbishop Ndukuba, therefore, appealed to the federal government to have the political will to do the needful before it gets out of hand.
According to the Anglican leader, inability of anti graft agencies to fight high corrupt public officials and non remittance of revenue by government generating agencies may collapse the revenue profile of the country.
On the forthcoming general election, the Anglican primate passionately appealed to Nigerians to fully participate and not trade with their votes for credible leaders to emerge.
Archbishop Ndukuba urged Bishops of the Church across over one hundred and thirty dioceses to mobilise their members to get their permanent voter cards and make the sacrifice by coming out to vote during the 2023 elections.
On the state of the education system, Most Reverend Henry Ndukuba decried the lack of solution to end the crisis between the federal government and ASUU and called on religious institutions to focus their attention and invest heavily in education to save the system from total collapse.
He admonished the congregation not to be discouraged but remain patriotic and pray for divine Intervention. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/tackle-current-economic-hardship-inflation-anglican-tells-govt/ | 2022-09-15T18:20:17Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/tackle-current-economic-hardship-inflation-anglican-tells-govt/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Judge blocks Montana's anti-trans birth certificate law
A Montana state judge on Thursday blocked a 2021 state law that would have barred transgender people from changing the gender listed on their birth certificate unless they have undergone gender-affirming surgery.
Driving the news: The judge ordered the Montana Department of Health and Human Services to reinstate a 2017 rule that said that a person could modify their birth certificate by presenting an affidavit or a form indicating that a person had transitioned — no surgery required, per court documents.
State of play: The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Montana had filed a lawsuit challenging the law, arguing that it violates the equal protection clause of the Montana Constitution.
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The nomadic Ukrainian soccer club playing home games in Poland
Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk earned a critical Champions League point on Wednesday, drawing 1-1 with Scottish club Celtic.
State of play: Though this was designated a Shakhtar "home" game, it was played nearly 1,000 miles away in Warsaw, Poland, because Ukrainian teams can't play international games in an active war zone.
- Shakhtar reached an agreement with Polish side Legia Warsaw to host their three group stage home games.
- That was Poland's latest display of neighborly hospitality, following their acceptance of more than 2 million refugees this spring.
What they're saying: "[Poland] opened the door of the country for Ukrainian people, they opened their hearts," Shakhtar's sporting director Darijo Srna told AP.
- "The most important [thing] is to play," he added. "To show the world that ... we are fighting, that we are living, that we will have a good future."
- After two matches, the club sits in second place in Group F, trailing Real Madrid. They crushed RB Leipzig, 4-1, last week.
The backdrop: This isn't the first time Shakhtar has played in an unfamiliar home.
- The club's nomadic existence began in 2014 when the Russo-Ukrainian war broke out. They'd opened their beautiful new stadium just five years earlier, but were forced to leave Donetsk.
- Since then, they've bounced around Ukraine from Lviv to Kharkiv to Kyiv, where last month they hosted the Ukrainian Premier League's first game back since February's invasion.
Between the lines: Shakhtar's roster, like their home stadium, also looks different. FIFA ruled this summer that foreigners on Ukrainian clubs could suspend their contracts until June 2023 with no penalty, leading to a mass exodus.
- Last year, Donetsk had 11 foreign players. This year, only three remain.
- The club's youth teams were also affected by the war, with dozens of teenagers stranded across Europe for months in the aftermath of their rushed evacuation.
The last word, from Shakhtar coach Igor Jovićević after Wednesday's draw:
"[Celtic] gave us a very hard time, but we were supported by 40 million fans in Ukraine and we claimed a point. This game is something to be really proud about. We turned the impossible into possible, we turned the improbable into probable." | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/ukraine-soccer-club-games-poland | 2022-09-15T18:21:25Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/ukraine-soccer-club-games-poland | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Startups' tool helps doctors identify monkeypox in people of color
Health care startups Violet and Health in Her Hue collaborated this month to create a simple tool that helps clinicians better identify monkeypox (MPV) in people with dark skin tones.
Why it matters: Medical dermatology textbooks are replete with images of white or light skin, but dermatologic conditions can appear dramatically different on people with dark skin tones, leading to potentially missed diagnoses. That's a particular concern with MPV, which manifests on the skin.
- A recent analysis of textbooks found that only 4% to 18% of images in major dermatology resources showed images of dark skin.
- "That’s a missed opportunity," Violet content marketing manager Mariah Katz, who helped create the tool, tells Axios.
How it works: The tool lets clinicians click on a series of 10 skin tones and view illustrations — based on photos from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — of how MPV appears on that tone as it progresses.
- "We always ask ourselves: What are medical students not typically learning in school? And we try and bridge the gaps to help deliver more inclusive care," adds Katz.
Context: Violet develops culturally inclusive medical resources for caregivers, while Health in Her Hue links Black women with culturally competent providers.
- The two New York-based startups collaborated to develop the guide.
Flashback: Violet in August debuted with $4.1 million in seed funding in a round led by SemperVirens, bringing total funding to $5.3 million.
What they're saying: Jenna Lester, an assistant professor of dermatology at UCSF and the founding director of its Skin of Color Clinic, tells Axios the guide is an encouraging step towards more inclusive care.
- "I think it’s important for us to develop any tools we can to help clinicians identify skin disease in patients of all skin tones," says Lester.
- "I’m encouraged to see specific products designed to address the people who are traditionally left out or excluded from care," she adds. | https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2022/09/15/startups-tool-helps-doctors-identify-monkeypox-dark-skin | 2022-09-15T18:21:31Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2022/09/15/startups-tool-helps-doctors-identify-monkeypox-dark-skin | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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An empty BNSF Railway coal train leaves Guernsey and heads north on May 12, 2020. Coal shipments coming down from the Powder River Basin are a key part of this rural town’s economy and a source of good paying, union jobs. WyoFile photo/Andrew Graham
Snow falls near the Union Pacific control tower between Central and Warren avenues on Oct. 19, 2021, in downtown Cheyenne. Wyoming Tribune Eagle/file
An empty BNSF Railway coal train leaves Guernsey and heads north on May 12, 2020. Coal shipments coming down from the Powder River Basin are a key part of this rural town’s economy and a source of good paying, union jobs. WyoFile photo/Andrew Graham
CHEYENNE – As negotiations between union leaders and freight railroads continued Wednesday, it was unclear how many Wyoming workers would be impacted if railroad workers do decide to strike.
The two largest rail freight haulers in the Equality State – Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway – both offered prepared statements in response to requests from the Wyoming Tribune Eagle for comment on potential local impacts.
Mike Jaixen, Union Pacific’s senior manager of communications, said by email that in 2021, the company employed 730 people in Wyoming.
“We do not have any further breakout of which roles these employees have or locations where they work within the state,” Jaixen said.
A company statement sent earlier by UPRR spokesperson Robynn Tysver said, “Considering the looming possibility of a national rail labor strike, we are prepared to take the proactive steps to secure our customers’ goods. At this time, we have only embargoed rail security-sensitive material (RSSM) shipments to make sure these hazardous commodities are safely secured in the event of a work stoppage.
“While these actions are necessary, they do not mean a work stoppage is certain,” the statement continued. “What we want, and continue to push for, is a prompt resolution that provides historic wage increases to employees and allows the railroads to restore service as soon as possible, preventing further disruption to the struggling supply chain.”
Tysver directed the WTE to an article on the American Association of Railroads website that says a work stoppage could potentially have a negative economic impact of up to $2 billion a day.
When asked for similar information, a member of the BNSF media team said they were unable to “break down numbers per location,” but they also didn’t provide a statewide employment number. Instead, they emailed the company’s statement, which said, in part, “Throughout the collective bargaining process, we have continued to believe that it is in the best interests of our customers, employees and the public for the railroads and unions to settle this dispute without delay and prevent service disruptions.”
“While President Biden’s Presidential Emergency Board recommendations markedly exceeded the rail carrier’s proposal, the railroads agreed that in the interests of all stakeholders involved, we would support agreements based on those recommendations,” the statement continued. “BNSF and other railroads remain focused on rail labor negotiations and are encouraged by the progress of reaching tentative agreements with nine of the 12 unions; however, every union must be under an agreement to avoid a strike or other job action that will impact the movement of freight.”
As Friday’s strike deadline approaches, BNSF said, “we must take actions to prepare for the eventuality of a labor strike if the remaining unions cannot come to an agreement. These actions are necessary steps we must take in advance of a service disruption to ensure the safety and security of certain commodities whose movements are federally regulated with chain of custody and securement requirements. Ultimately, these actions will safely secure our customers’ freight, ensure the safety of our employees and the communities we serve, and put our network in the best position to quickly restore service and meet our customers’ expectations when operations resume. However, we will operate as long as we can safely operate as we move toward the Friday deadline.”
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The Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy Facebook page shared this photo on Sept. 9, 2020, with the caption: “Cadets have been busy and focused on completing classes and setting up a plan for their futures. Recently, they virtually met with military recruiters and Job Corps representatives to explore just a couple of the options they have once they graduate from WCCA. It’s great seeing the cadets show their Courage to Change!”
CHEYENNE – A type of military academy in Guernsey that's affiliated with the government is drastically scaling back operations, according to a stakeholder and an announcement from the Wyoming Military Department.
The latter cited a shortage of staff, something employers throughout the state and country have been facing. The Wyoming National Guard has also warned of such issues, including in testimony at the state Capitol.
According to a two-page news release emailed Wednesday evening after the Wyoming Tribune Eagle's inquiries, the Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy "will shut down for an indefinite amount of time based on the inability to recruit and retain staff." The release said "shutdown procedures are underway" and indicated the organization has operated for almost 20 years.
The teenage attendees of the academy, who are called cadets, are going back home, according to the government and to an adult who has been working with someone who has been a student. All of the youth will be returning home by Oct. 1, the military department said.
The Wyoming Military Department, which said it has oversight of academy, "has dedicated administrative staff, as well as Wyoming National Guard members on state active duty, to make up for staffing shortages, particularly in the cadet care and management section." Since July, when the current class of attendees began, "continued staff attrition" led "to an inability to maintain the 24/7 residential program," the announcement said.
"The critical staffing shortage" is considered "to be unsustainable for the long term," it added. According to the announcement, the current cadet class has almost 60 members, and almost 1,500 have graduated from the program over the years.
“We understand the hardship this places on families and cadets, but we simply cannot sustain our current program given our staffing issues,” said Maj. Gen. Gregory Porter, the adjutant general of the Wyoming National Guard, in the prepared statement. "We are committed to helping the cadets achieve their educational and individual goals, and will work with them to find alternate means to meet them."
Representatives of the Wyoming Military Department and of the Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy have not provided additional details to the WTE beyond the news release. The priority on Wednesday "was to notify the families of Cadets and the staff of Cowboy Challenge," a spokesperson for the state military department wrote in an email to the WTE. "That is why we were delayed in getting the public release out."
Following what is described as a five-month-long residential academy, there is a year-long "mentorship program, designed to provide structure, instill discipline, and help young men and women recognize and achieve their potential in a quasi-military training environment," the release said. "All cadets volunteer to take part in the program." The goal is for "non-traditional learners" ages 16 to 18 "to improve their educational level and employment potential and become responsible productive citizens of" Wyoming.
Further details have been added from a news release. This online report may be updated again with additional details.
Jonathan Make is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s assistant managing editor and editor of the Wyoming Business Report. He can be reached at jmake@wyomingnews.com or 307-633-3129. Follow him on Twitter @makejdm. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/wyoming-cowboy-challenge-academy-shuts-for-now-due-to-staff-shortage/article_b428bc68-351b-11ed-9624-8be2de0c1c13.html | 2022-09-15T18:23:27Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/wyoming-cowboy-challenge-academy-shuts-for-now-due-to-staff-shortage/article_b428bc68-351b-11ed-9624-8be2de0c1c13.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Byrdie (www.byrdie.com) announces its fourth Byrdie Beauty Lab, an open-to-the-public day of panels, classes, treatments, experiences, and samples, presented in person by the beauty and style publication for the first time in three years.
The event takes place Saturday, Sept. 17, from 10 AM to 5 PM, at Chelsea Industrial, 535-549 W 28th Street, New York, NY. General admission entrance is 547 W. 28th Street. Admission is free.
Byrdie Beauty Lab brings to life the brand's mission – to celebrate individuality and empower our readers to find confidence, community, and joy through beauty and style.
The Byrdie Beauty Lab 2022 includes both mainstage presentations and one-on-one services. On the mainstage, guests can experience masterclasses with industry professionals, a panel discussion celebrating Latina women in the beauty and wellness industry, and a live discussion on the Black hair experience from Byrdie's award-winning Crowned series. Mainstage programming will also be available via livestream, here.
The day will also include experiences and services like makeup touch-ups from TooD, baby hair styling from Baby Tress, and a Sculpting Service by Skin Gym. RSVPs for the services are not required, though they are recommended to reserve guests' spots—sign up here.
"The world has changed dramatically since Byrdie last brought our community together in person. COVID didn't exist, many of us went to an office every day (wearing clothes other than sweats), and TikTok hadn't yet exploded," said Hallie Gould, Byrdie's Senior Editorial Director. "I'm so excited we're finally able to gather in person this year, to connect with our readers and have genuine fun with beauty again."
Byrdie Beauty Lab sponsors include Ulta Beauty, L'Occitane, and Strivectin. For the full event lineup, and to sign up for the on-site experiences, please visit the event site here.
About Byrdie
Byrdie is dedicated to all things beauty, inside and out. From hair and makeup to health and wellness, Byrdie takes a fresh, no-nonsense approach to feeling and looking your best and reaches nearly seven million people each month (Comscore, July 2022). Byrdie is part of the Dotdash Meredith publishing family. www.byrdie.com
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This marks the first investment in a production studio by The Sandbox, representing a major milestone for both companies
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cosmo Media Labs, a multi-functional production studio for content and gaming as well as IP and brand partnerships, announced its official launch today after securing an investment from The Sandbox, the leading decentralized gaming virtual world and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands. This is the first time The Sandbox has taken a financial stake in an independent production company.
Cosmo Media Labs develops, creates and produces successful content strategies that bridge traditional media with the new. The Cosmo team speaks the language of legacy brands and identifies the best gamification, NFT, and play-and-earn opportunities that will achieve each individual brand's goal in the metaverse. The new partnership and investment will fuel the growth of Cosmo Media Labs and provide tools, systems, and mechanisms to usher in the decentralized era of content creation, consumption, and monetization.
"We're excited to team up with The Sandbox and work with top creators, brands, and IP holders to unlock their full potential in the new era of digital entertainment and Web3," said Alexander Bushnell, CEO and Co-founder of Cosmo Media Labs. "The Sandbox is the leader of the evolving open metaverse space and its investment and support will allow us to accomplish this at scale. We are proud to work together to bring brands a clear understanding and strategy of how to best leverage the power of their IP within the new landscape of interactive entertainment and digital ownership."
"The metaverse is redefining the creator economy by growing a new ecosystem through sharing value creation between brands, creators, and the community," said Sebastien Borget, COO and Co-founder of The Sandbox. "We're excited to support the Cosmo Media Labs team through this investment as it is a production studio that can bridge between media and help shape the culture of the metaverse to bring the innovation of Web3 through new forms of experiences that provide an accessible and meaningful format of entertainment."
The first major project is with Complex Networks to create a content landscape that innovates how users interact with sneaker, streetwear and hip hop culture. Cosmo is building the Complex infrastructure within The Sandbox by developing games, building social hubs and producing experiences for Complex Networks – all with a forward facing strategy of utilizing the play-and-earn landscape to foster a virtual economy platform for the streetwear and sneaker market.
"Blockchain based technology provides exciting opportunities for the new creator economy," said Tobias Queisser, Co-founder of Cosmo Media Labs. "Cosmo Media Labs is uniquely fitted to partner with The Sandbox to build a new media content approach that is holistic for brands and partners who are activating and engaging in the metaverse."
Cosmo Media Labs is a multi-functional production studio for content and gaming as well as media strategies for IP and brand partnerships. Founded by MGM veteran and producer Alexander Bushnell and AI entertainment tech entrepreneur Tobias Queisser, CML bridges traditional media with Web3, creating premium content for all media and tech platforms.
The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is one of the decentralized virtual worlds that has been fueling the recent growth of virtual real estate demand, having partnered with major IPs and brands including Warner Music Group, Ubisoft, The Rabbids, Gucci Vault, The Walking Dead, Snoop Dogg, Adidas, Deadmau5, Steve Aoki, Richie Hawtin, The Smurfs, Care Bears, Atari, ZEPETO, CryptoKitties, and more. Building on existing The Sandbox IP that has more than 40 million global installs on mobile, The Sandbox metaverse offers players and creators a decentralized and intuitive platform to create immersive 3D worlds and game experiences and to safely store, trade, and monetize their creations. For more information, please visit www.sandbox.game and follow the regular updates on Twitter, Medium, and Discord.
Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of the open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, TinyTap, and Be Media. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 340 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on Twitter or Facebook.
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By integrating with SAP® SuccessFactors® solutions, DailyPay on-demand pay solution delivers financial wellness and flexibility to millions of customers nationwide.
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DailyPay, Inc., a leader in on-demand pay, today announced that its DailyPay on-demand pay solution is now available on SAP® Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. DailyPay integrates with SAP® SuccessFactors® Employee Central, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, and SAP SuccessFactors Compensation and delivers on-demand pay, also known as earned wage access, to customers.
"The power of choice and control over earned pay, especially during times of high inflation and gas prices, can be critical for working Americans trying to pay bills and making ends meet," said Michael McKeon, Senior Vice President of Channel and Partnerships Strategy, DailyPay. "Through our partnership and integration with SAP, America's forward-thinking employers will have the opportunity to offer this benefit and help drive recruiting and employee tenure."
In a tight labor market, DailyPay can be a critical solution for companies looking to hire faster and retain employees longer to meet consumers' demands by:
- Boosting Recruitment — According to DailyPay's research, employees who offer DailyPay fill open positions 52% faster.
- Retaining Top Talent — A Mercator Advisory Group study commissioned by DailyPay found that average tenure improved by as much as 73% when employers offered DailyPay.
- Increasing Employee Savings — According to an Aite Novarica study with DailyPay, 95% of those previously reliant on payday loans in any way either stopped using payday loans (81%) or reduced use (15%) after using DailyPay -saving $624-930 annually.
SAP Store, found at store.sap.com, delivers a simplified and connected digital customer experience for finding, trying, buying and renewing more than 2,000 solutions from SAP and its partners. There, customers can find the SAP solutions and SAP-validated solutions they need to grow their business. And for each purchase made through SAP Store, SAP will plant a tree.
DailyPay is a partner in the SAP® PartnerEdge® program. The SAP PartnerEdge program provides the enablement tools, benefits, and support to facilitate building high-quality, disruptive applications focused on specific business needs – quickly and cost-effectively.
DailyPay, powered by its industry-leading technology platform, is on a mission to build a new financial system for everyone. DailyPay delivers an industry leading on-demand pay solution with modern, insight-driven pay strategies that help America's leading employers to activate their workforce and build stronger relationships with their employees so they feel more engaged, work harder, and stay longer. Through its massive data network, proprietary funding model and connections into over 6,000 endpoints in the banking system, DailyPay works to ensure that money is always in the right place at the right time for employers, merchants and financial institutions.DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations based in Minneapolis and Belfast. For more information, visit www.dailypay.com/press.
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$2 Million Dollar Grant from Philanthropic Arm of Olive Garden Parent Company Will Help Increase Access to Nutritious Food in Communities of Color
25 Food Banks Have Received Refrigerated Mobile Food Pantry Vehicles Since January 2021
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darden Restaurants is helping Feeding America® add refrigerated trucks for 10 member food banks to support mobile pantry programs and food distribution in communities with the highest need. Through a $2 million grant from the Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation, and support from partners Penske Truck Leasing and Lineage Logistics, each food bank will receive a 26-foot vehicle that can transport 12,000 pounds of food at a time, and will also receive $52,000 to use for food and other needs.
Food banks receiving this gift include:
- Arkansas Foodbank (Little Rock, Ark.)
- Chattanooga Area Food Bank (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
- Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma (Tulsa, Okla.)
- Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley (Pharr, Texas)
- Golden Harvest Food Bank (Augusta, Ga.)
- Kansas Food Bank (Wichita, Kan.)
- Roadrunner Food Bank (Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina (Fayetteville, N.C.)
- Second Harvest Food Bank of the Big Bend (Tallahassee, Fla.)
- Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank (Toledo, Ohio)
"Across our company, we have a higher purpose to nourish and delight everyone we serve, and that includes the communities where we operate our restaurants," said Rick Cardenas, President and CEO of Darden Restaurants. "We're uniquely positioned to help in the fight against hunger, and we're proud to continue helping more Feeding America member food banks increase access to nutritious food for people who need it most."
The Need
The rate of inflation has caused grocery prices to spike by more than 13% over the last year, and families are turning to local food banks for support. Communities of color continue to be impacted by food insecurity at a disproportionately higher rate.
In addition, local food banks are also dealing with the impacts of inflation, resulting in higher costs for food and the transportation needed to acquire and deliver food to their communities. Feeding America helped identify food banks serving communities of color with disproportionately high levels of food insecurity to receive a truck to help increase their mobile food pantry capacity.
"As food prices remain stubbornly high, the nearly 34 million people who experienced food insecurity in 2021 continue to face a tough choice, whether to purchase food or pay for other basic needs, such as electricity or medicine," said Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America. "This Hunger Action Month, we're grateful for the collaborative efforts from Darden, Penske and Lineage in continuing to provide member food banks with refrigerated trucks that will help reach more communities and provide millions of meals to individuals and families across the country."
Responding to the Need
Darden and the Darden Foundation have been partners with Feeding America for more than 10 years. This donation marks the latest effort in Darden's ongoing commitment to help fight hunger, and it follows two previous donations that provided 15 refrigerated trucks for food banks located in: Birmingham, Ala.; Columbus, Ga.; Detroit, Mich.; Ft. Worth, Texas; Huntsville, Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Memphis, Tenn.; Monroe, La.; Orlando, Fla.; San Antonio, Texas; Shreveport, La.; Tampa, Fla.; Theodore, Ala.; and Tyler, Texas. Within the first year of serving their communities, these trucks have conducted more than 7,000 mobile food pantry distributions and helped provide more than 27 million meals.*
This work builds on Darden's ongoing Harvest program, which donates unserved, nutritious food from Darden's family of restaurants to local nonprofits. Since this program's inception, Darden's team members have 'harvested' more than 130 million pounds food — amounting to more than 108 million meals.*
*According to the USDA, 1.2 pounds of food is equivalent to one meal.
About Darden Restaurants and the Darden Foundation
Darden's family of restaurants features some of the most recognizable and successful brands in full-service dining — Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze and Eddie V's. For more information, visit www.darden.com.
The Darden Foundation works to bring to life our spirit of service through its philanthropic support of charitable organizations across the country. Since 1995, the Darden Foundation has awarded more than $100 million in grants to non-profit organizations such as Feeding America, National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) and American Red Cross.
About Feeding America
Feeding America® is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through a network of more than 200 food banks, 21 statewide food bank associations, and over 60,000 partner agencies, food pantries and meal programs, we helped provide 6.6 billion meals to tens of millions of people in need last year. Feeding America also supports programs that prevent food waste and improve food security among the people we serve; brings attention to the social and systemic barriers that contribute to food insecurity in our nation; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry. Visit www.feedingamerica.org, find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
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PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Treadway Events announced the return of "The Cinema of Horrors: Drive-In Experience," a contactless, Halloween experience coming to the Clark County Fairgrounds & Event Center – 25 minutes away from downtown Portland, OR. This unique horror movie drive-in series offers a COVID-19 safe way to celebrate Halloween in 2022. The month-long event features the scariest horror blockbuster movies and combines real live actors, over-the-top lighting, and special effects throughout the film each night.
The Cinema of Horrors Drive-In will run for sixteen nights in October, kicking off on October 7th. Tickets are on sale now for $69.00 per vehicle and allow for as many people as you can legally fit in your car! There are no age limits, but parents are encouraged to use discretion based on each night's film rating.
Event Dates: October 7th-9th, 13th-16th, 20th-23th & 27th-31st, 2022. Films begin nightly at 7:00 pm, and gates open at 5:00 pm. All vehicle placements are first-come, first-served, and interested attendees must purchase tickets online in advance.
For film listings, tickets, and more event information, visit www.Ridgefield.CinemaOfHorrors.com.
To view the promotional video, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7os2Oy9jYLU.
About Treadway Events: Treadway Events is a full-service event management agency based in Portland, OR. Helping nonprofit organizations, individuals, and Fortune 500 companies in Oregon, Washington deliver unmissable live event experiences. Treadway produces and owns various annual, themed events such as the Cinema of Horrors haunted house in Kelso, WA.
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The Partnership Will Provide Customers with best-in-class Shipment Visibility
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, global shipping leader General Logistics Systems (GLS), announced that it will be partnering with project44 for enhanced shipment visibility across their US service area. The decision will grant a range of improvements to the company's customer experience, including real-time, end-to-end shipment updates, as well as enhanced communication with the addition of proactive alerts. Furthermore, the project44 platform will help GLS achieve expanded network visibility, predict delivery issues, and reduce operational costs.
Of the company's announcement, Steve Griffin, GLS US Parcel Services COO commented, "A partnership with project44 is something GLS has been looking forward to, as it equips us with new and enhanced abilities that we can use to advance our services. GLS expects this platform to help the company optimize operational costs, improve customers' delivery experiences, and boost our service speeds. These benefits are guaranteed to establish GLS as the premier provider of parcel and freight delivery services in every geography we service."
project44 has developed a set of advanced shipment solutions, which GLS aims to take advantage of. These include:
- Providing real time alerts to consignees so they know when their order was shipped, on-road, and delivered.
- Streamlining collaboration between different parties during the shipment process.
- Enabling access to consumer delivery experience capabilities already widely used in the eCommerce market.
- Accessing new supply chain improvements via AI integrations.
- Aggregating shipping data for enhanced reporting and predictive analytics.
GLS' partnership with project44 is just one part of its expanding service improvements, including a revamped website and upgrades to its hubs.
About GLS: GLS is a global shipping company that provides parcel and freight delivery throughout the West. Its services include Priority, Ground, and Freight delivery.
Visit GLS-US.com to learn more.
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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hellas is continuing to make a huge impact in the drought stricken western part of the United States as Granger High School in West Valley City, Utah has a newly installed multi-purpose athletic field to compete on near Salt Lake City.
Granger High School is part of the Granite School District. The students come from 50 different countries and speak over 30 languages, but they come together to rally around the Lancers and the red, blue and silver. School district officials realized it was time for repairs to the facility to ensure athlete safety. Working closely with Hellas experts helped make this project become a reality.
Hellas crews removed the previous field and installed new FusionH XP2® synthetic turf with RealFill™ infill. The field highlights include the letter "G" for Granger at midfield, plus mascot names and the lancer logo in the end zones. Field markings were added for football, soccer, and lacrosse.
FusionH XP2 is a combination of resilient monofilament fibers of Matrix® with Helix technology and slit-film two-color fibers. FusionH XP2 is designed to withstand heavy foot traffic and provides a safe, playable surface that feels like natural grass.
RealFill infill offers a uniform, predictable playing surface with a consistent GMAX reading throughout the life cycle of the turf. It's dust free SBR cuboidal rubber granules.
Hellas has positioned operational hubs across the United States to serve local markets nation-wide. It has offices in the following areas Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Wichita, and Miami. Hellas has built NFL fields from coast to coast. The Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans, Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers all play on Hellas' Matrix Helix synthetic turf.
About Hellas Construction Inc. – Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Hellas is America's largest sports contractor specializing in the manufacturing, construction and installation of sports surfaces and amenities. The firm owns and operates its own heavy construction equipment staffed by specially trained and certified employee crews. By controlling the supply chain and building facilities with its own forces, Hellas can complete any turf, track, court, or sports lighting project – start to finish – without delay. For more information visit www.hellasconstruction.com.
About Granger High School – GHS is a public high school located in West Valley City, Utah, United States. The teacher to student ratio is 25.64. The mascot is the Granger Lancer. The school is located in Granite School District.
About The Dallas Cowboys – a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and compete in the National Football League, East division.
About The Houston Texans - a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas and compete in the National Football League South division.
About The Los Angeles Rams - a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area that competes in the National Football League West division.
About The Los Angeles Chargers - a professional American football team that played in San Diego from 1961 till they relocated to Los Angeles after the 2016 season and currently compete in the National Football League West division.
Media Contact: Jeff Power
Hellas Director of Communications
jpower@hellasconstruction.com
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an impressive and attention-getting way to display up to three flags behind a truck cab," said an inventor, from Ocala, Fla., "so I invented the WHIP RACK. My design ensures that the flags remain safely confined within the truck bed and it can also be used to hold a sun umbrella while parked."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to proudly display multiple flags behind the cab of a pickup truck. In doing so, it offers an alternative to installing a single flagpole that requires drilling. As a result, it increases stability and convenience and it could enhance the appearance of the truck and displayed flags. The invention features a lightweight and weatherproof design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for pickup truck owners. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Tallahassee sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TLS-224, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Kia and Hyundai Purchasers Urged to Contact Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe to Discuss Their Legal Rights
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP today launched an investigation into automakers Kia and Hyundai for manufacturing vehicles without a "car immobilizer system," an electronic security device that prevents a car from being started unless the correct key is present, and allegedly failing to thoroughly disclose the related safety concerns.
Many Kia car models dating from 2011 to 2021 and Hyundai car models dating from 2015 to 2021 allegedly were not equipped with a "car immobilizer system." According to numerous press report and complaints, the lack of this security device makes these cars easier to steal than most other cars.
In fact, reports suggest that many car thieves can simply break into these cars using readily downloadable software and USB flash drives and cables. According to a CNBC report, viral videos on social media service TikTok depicts young teens stealing and driving Kia and Hyundai vehicles using a USB cord. This TikTok challenge, which uses the hashtag "Kia Boys," reportedly has over 33 million views.
As a result, Kia and Hyundai vehicles are being stolen at increasingly higher rates. In Los Angeles, officials say the viral trend targeting these easy-to-steal vehicles has resulted in an 85% increase in thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles compared with last year. And according to a September 8, 2022 Wall Street Journal article, 48% of cars stolen in St. Louis this year were Kias or Hyundais, compared with 7% of the total in 2021.
Several recent lawsuits have claimed that the lack of a car immobilizer system in many Kia and Hyundai vehicles is a safety defect that causes car owners increased repair costs, loss of value, and loss of vehicle use. To date, Kia and Hyundai have failed to issue a safety defect recall, provide warranty coverage, or remedy the defect.
In light of these allegations, the Schubert Firm is investigating whether Kia and Hyundai's failure to disclose their failure to include an immobilizer devices in certain vehicles is false and misleading in violation of state and federal laws.
If you purchased a Kia, manufactured between 2011 and 2021, or a Hyundai, manufactured between 2016 and 2021, that uses a traditional steel key ignition system, please contact us today or visit our website at https://www.classactionlawyers.com/cartheft.
Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe represents shareholders, employees, and consumers in class actions against corporate defendants, as well as shareholders in derivative actions against their officers and directors. The firm is based in San Francisco, and with the help of co-counsel, litigates cases nationwide.
Contact
Amber L. Schubert
Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP
aschubert@sjk.law
Tel: 415-299-8257
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Fragrance Subscription Service Broadens Offering with Exclusive Lineup of Elevated Fragrances Available Only to Saks and Scentbird Customers
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading fragrance subscription company, Scentbird, will debut a partnership with Saks, the premier luxury ecommerce platform today. Through the collaboration, Scentbird subscribers will have access to a curated assortment of over 30 highly-coveted men's, women's and unisex fragrances from luxury brands for a limited time. In addition to its 600+ designers and niche fragrances currently offered, Scentbird will add the following labels to its lineup: Sisley, Creed, Tiziana Terenzi, Initio, Parfums Prives, Ex Nihilo, Acqua di Parma, Parfums de Marly, House of Sillage, Amouage, Veronique Gabai and Goutal Paris.
Starting today, the collaboration will direct members to a co-branded Saks x Scentbird landing page, providing the option for customers to purchase a full size bottle of their choice directly from Saks.com. Scentbird's existing subscription service includes delivery of a 30-day supply of designer perfume or cologne to the subscriber's door each month for $16.95. The Saks Collection fragrances will arrive in a limited edition 8ml black atomizer for a $10 premium upcharge.
"As the premier destination for luxury fashion, we are continuously personalizing our offering to enhance the shopping experience for our customers," said Kate Oldham, senior vice president and general merchandise manager of beauty, jewelry and home at Saks. "Through our partnership with Scentbird, we are delivering a unique fragrance discovery experience that cannot be found anywhere else online."
"Scentbird is continually evolving to best meet the needs of our members," said Scentbird CEO, Mariya Nurislamova. "Our new initiative with Saks will be another step toward elevating and empowering our customer experience through scent discovery. Like us, Saks seeks to consistently innovate the digital luxury space and create unparalleled, personalized destinations for customers seeking self-expression—whether through fragrance or other categories."
For more information about the Saks x Scentbird Collection, please visit https://www.scentbird.com/saks.
Saks is the premier digital platform for luxury fashion in North America. Driven by a mission to help customers express themselves through relevant and inspiring style, we serve as a destination to explore and discover the latest from established and emerging designers. Our expertly curated assortment features sought-after names in women's, men's and kids fashion, as well as beauty, home and lifestyle merchandise. Through the Saks website and app, we provide access to professional stylists, inspiring editorial content and interactive events. Our differentiated approach seamlessly combines elevated online experiences with in-person services through an exclusive partnership with the Saks Fifth Avenue stores.
Visit Saks.com for more information. Follow @saks on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter, and @thesaksman on Instagram.
Scentbird is the leading fragrance subscription service to provide a sustainable approach to scents. With over 600 niche and designer fragrances ranging from Jason Wu to Versace, Scentbird allows consumers to discover new fragrances of their choosing every single month for $16.95.
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We had a five-alarm house fire one Saturday afternoon in January when I was in the second grade.
My parents sent us to the neighbor’s house for our safety (and to get us out of the way, I’m sure). Our poor dog, Goldie, did not get the memo and kept running into the house to try to rescue us -- only to be escorted out by the firefighters.
We were so close to losing everything. Had my grandfather not arrived when he did for a visit, and had my brother not been so excited to show him some new football cards he had, my brother never would have discovered his room full of smoke in time to save the house from the fire that was creeping through the walls after the chimney cracked.
Even as it was, my father called 911 and hung up -- thinking maybe it wasn’t a big deal -- before relenting and calling again.
We were lucky. Our family was displaced for about three months while they tore out the errant fireplace and chimney from our more than 100-year-old farmhouse (shown above) — notably, the original fireplace and chimney are still there; this was the newer one.
We had to rebuild most of our living room and my siblings’ bedrooms in addition, of course, to having everything from the walls and floors to textiles and toys professionally cleaned to remove the smoke stains and smell. Curtains, clothing, blankets, my mom’s wedding gown – bags and bags of stuff carried out for cleaning.
I don’t think my siblings and I got to take anything out of the house with us that day. But my mom had boxes of family photos. I remember seeing the blue photo box with the white lid. The rest was left to the whims of the fire.
Home Fires and Personal Loss
Now I look around my adult home and think: If the house were on fire and we were all (humans and pets) out safe, what would I take out if I had time?
I sometimes use this thought process to create Artifcts – making sure that in the worst case, I have the memory captured and, in best case, I have a record I can turn over to my homeowner's insurance agent for replacement of the (at least somewhat) replaceable items. I have even moved some items not actively used into airtight bins like home organization professionals advocate in case that would save them in a fire like the one I experienced as a child. Smoke and water were the primary sources of loss.
I asked my neighbor, Westlake Fire Chief David Wilson, about his experience with families in similar situations.
"They don’t usually come out carrying stuff,” he told me. With the fire crew taking over the scene, families often ask the fire fighters to rescue sentimental items, like a painting in a study, a blanket from a bed, an heirloom gun from a safe or photos from a closet.
He added, “We want people to be prepared, though. What would you save?”
Be Prepared
As you prepare for the chilly fall and winter days and nights ahead, complete the home maintenance required to keep you, your loved ones and your home safe. Use common sense, too, and avoid setting up fire traps with unattended candles, hot-burning lights, poorly screened fires or even ill-placed (seemingly benign) glass objects that can act as sun magnifiers; we do, after all, live in a flammable world.
Take a minute (or two) to create a free account and Artifct those priceless family heirlooms, photos and other items that would be irreplaceable if lost to a fire. Artifcts can’t bring the items back, but we can help you preserve the memories, stories and histories behind the objects.
In addition, here are a few nonprofit resources we found with great tactical information, planning resources, safety equipment tips and even after-fire help guides.
Ellen Goodwin is co-founder and Chief Solutions Officer of Artifcts. Headquartered in Prince William County, Artifcts is an online and app-based platform that allows you to capture, preserve and share the history, memories, and stories behind all your stuff! What will you Artifct first? | https://www.insidenova.com/are-you-fire-ready-belongings-don-t-fare-well-against-fire-water-and-smoke/article_ee47b4d4-3521-11ed-b46b-4f19376c28c7.html | 2022-09-15T18:31:27Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/are-you-fire-ready-belongings-don-t-fare-well-against-fire-water-and-smoke/article_ee47b4d4-3521-11ed-b46b-4f19376c28c7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Marcus Wolfe of Bristow grew up watching NASCAR with his dad Richie, and now at 12, he is on track to one day be a professional driver. Although he only started racing go-karts last year and has been competing against far more experienced kids, he’s already won many races, including the championship in his division last year.
His home track is United Karting in Hanover, Maryland, but he also competes at tracks all over the region including North Carolina, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
“It's just so fun because it's fast and you're always battling with someone else,” says Marcus. “There’s a lot of adrenaline.”
It’s the fast part that makes his mom Brenda’s heart speed up. “He's been talking about racing since he could talk,” she says. “We have videos of him in his crib on the baby monitor asking about going to see Denny Hamlin [American professional stock-car racing driver and NASCAR team owner]. He even dressed up as Denny Hamlin one Halloween. He's got such a passion for it and I'd be doing him a disservice if I held him back. So we say our prayers and just let him be him.”
Marcus’s kart is an LO206 which has the same motor as the ones grown men drive. “These karts are capable of going just shy of a hundred miles an hour, so they put a slide restrictor in the carburetor, which limits the speed for the little guys,” says Richie. “These go-karts aren't beach karts. They have extremely advanced braking systems, tires, engines, and aerodynamics.”
Marcus often gets up to 65 miles an hour when racing around a track, so it’s important he has the proper safety gear. “He wears a fire suit, a helmet, and a neck roll called a HANS device, which is the same thing they wear in NASCAR,” says Richie. “He also wears special racing shoes, racing gloves, and a rib protector, which is like body armor that goes around his chest and ribs. The most alarming thing for Brenda or any mom or parent is that there are no seatbelts in these karts. There’s nothing strapping them in because if they were to overturn, you don’t want them to be trapped inside.”
Marcus understands the dangers well. “You just have to be focused all the time,” he says. “You always have to be thinking ahead and paying attention to your surroundings.”
Brenda says he’s had a couple of close calls with running off the track or getting pushed off. “He gets right back in there though; we're real proud of him. A couple of weeks ago he had a race where his tire would not stay sealed and it kept losing air. He ran a 12-lap race and eight of those laps were with a flat tire. He just stayed in it and still came in second place. The kid’s got heart and it's so fun to watch.”
Racing has become a real family affair. “My dad’s up every night before the races, working on my kart, trying to make it faster,” says Marcus. Richie also packs the trailer, unloads it, and plans the race registrations. Marcus’s 16-year-old brother, Joey, is crew chief of the Wolfe Pack Racing team and also recently started racing himself. And his mom and sister, 18-year-old Taylor, handle photography and social media, pack lunches and cheer him on.
“When I had my first race, my whole family - all my cousins, uncles, great uncles – they were all there,” says Marcus. “There were 20 or 30 people watching me and they all had my Wolfepack Racing tee-shirt on.”
Brenda adds, “My husband’s uncle, Bob Wolfe, lives in Maryland and he's an older gentleman. He hasn't been feeling too good lately, but even he comes out to see Marcus. He says he’s his number one fan.”
LowKey Racing in Hanover has also been amazing, she says. “They’re a race team led by Eric King, Amy Bitz and Ryan Miller III. They took an interest in Marcus last year and asked him to be on their team.” They also taught Richie a lot about go-karts.
Since go-kart racing is an expensive sport, they get other kinds of support as well. “Marcus’s cousin, Joey Pyles, donated a race trailer to our team to haul the kart, which is huge,” says Richie.
Race entry fees alone start at $100 to $200 for local races and can run up to $1,500 for national races, so the family also has sponsors who help them out. “Daniel Beery is an authorized franchisee of Snap-On Tools in Northern Virginia and he's been a tremendous help,” says Brenda.
“He gave us a toolbox with lots of tools and a bunch of tents and coolers,” says Marcus. “He also helps us with race tires.”
Since these tires only last a couple of races, there’s a constant need for new ones. At $200 a set, it can get very expensive very fast. “We have people who are just tire sponsors, which is really helpful and a blessing,” says Brenda. “Simply Home in Fredericksburg has been a tire sponsor for us for a while, and Platinum Auto Body in Sterling and Hoosier Tire East, a national sponsor, also help out.”
A student of Marstellar Middle School, Marcus is active in other sports as well such as motocross, mountain biking and skateboarding. “I love riding my bike with my best friend, Jack McGehee,” he says. “We're always outside unless it’s raining.”
Brenda says they’re a very active family. “We all love to be outside camping or just hanging out in the driveway, watching the kids ride their bikes.”
Adds Richie, “I'm always on a boat or fishing or hunting and the kids have always tagged along.”
Marcus’s ultimate goal is to make it to NASCAR and race for Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan's team, 23XI. “I've always dreamed of being a professional NASCAR driver,” he says. Be sure to follow his racing career at Wolfe Pack Racing LLC on Facebook.
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This feature appears in the 2022 September issue of Haymarket-Gainesville Lifestyle Magazine. To pick up a copy, visit these locations:
Haymarket Gainesville Community Library, 14870 Lightner Road, Haymarket
Cushing Gainesville Commuter Lot, 7312 Cushing Road, Manassas
Broad Run VRE, 10637 Piper Lane, Bristow
Manassas VRE Station in Old Town, 9451 West St., Manassas
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Florida Teen Attacked by Shark Is Fitted With a New Prosthetic Leg
Addison Bethea recently lost her leg in a shark attack off the coast of Florida. Inside Edition was there as she received her new prosthetic leg.
Nearly three months after losing her leg in a shark attack, a 17-year-old girl is now beginning a new phase of life with a prosthetic leg.
Addison Bethea was out searching for scallops in shallow waters off the coast of Florida, when a 10-foot shark, believed to be a bull shark, chomped down on her right leg.
Thankfully, her older brother Rhett, a firefighter, was with her at the time and swam to her rescue.
“I was in shock,” Addison said. “I tried to punch it off of me, trying to punch it in its nose, cause that's what you're supposed to do when you fight a shark.”
Back on the boat, her brother tied a tourniquet around her leg, which Addison credits with saving her life.
During surgery, her right leg had to be amputated just above her knee, but that hasn’t kept her spirit down. She started off in a wheelchair, then moved on to crutches and even climbed stairs for the first time.
Inside Edition was given exclusive access inside Prosthetic and Orthotic Associates of Orlando as Addison was fitted with a brand-new leg. The state-of-the-art prosthetic costs around $75,000.
Within no time, the brave teen was walking again on both feet. The clinic's founder, Stan Patterson, calls her new, natural gait remarkable.
“It's very unusual. She's an overachiever,” Patterson said.
Her parents were overcome with emotion.
“She's amazing. From the moment she started waking up in the hospital, she’s just kind of astounded everyone,” her mom said.
By the day's end, Addison walked out of therapy on her own — each step a little closer towards a new life.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help pay for Addison’s recovery and on-going medical costs.
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Hoax 911 Call Reporting Active Shooter Prompts Massive Police Response at Houston High School
The school was just one of a dozen schools in Texas forced to go into lockdown Tuesday after hoax 911 calls originating from the same number, police said.
A 911 call that prompted dozens of police officers to storm a Houston high school in search of an active shooter was a hoax, police said.
After the false report was made Tuesday afternoon, school officials placed Houston Heights High School on lockdown.
Videos taken inside the school shows heavily-armed SWAT teams going classroom to classroom.
Terrified students cowered under their desks, while others barricaded a door.
Outside, news crews rushed to the scene and choppers hovered overhead. Distraught parents huddled together before the news came that the report was unfounded.
The school was just one of a dozen schools in Texas forced to go into lockdown Tuesday, and law enforcement sources say the hoax calls appear to have all originated from the same phone number.
“Considering what happened recently in an active shooting, we went in and immediately started searching, because we want to make sure our kids are safe and okay,” Police Chief Troy Finner said at a press conference.
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Putin Ally Drowns in Latest Mysterious Death of Russian Tycoons
Ivan Pechorin joins a long and growing list of Russian executives who've died under strange circumstances.
A top energy executive has toppled off a speeding boat, becoming the latest Russian tycoon to die under strange and mysterious circumstances, according to local reports.
Ivan Pechorin, 39, was the managing director of the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation. He was sailing Saturday off Russky Island in the Sea of Japan when he fell overboard.
“Ivan’s death is an irreparable loss for friends and colleagues, a great loss for the corporation,” his company said in a statement.
His body was found two days later when it washed ashore. Russian news outlet Baza, citing an unnamed witness, claimed Pechorin and others on the vessel were drunk when he fell.
Just days before, Pechorin had attended the Eastern Economic Forum, hosted by President Vladimir Putin in the port city of Vladivostok.
Pechorin, who was in charge of aviation development for the energy and mining corporation, is at least the ninth prominent Russian businessmen to have reportedly died by suicide or in unexplained accidents since January.
Six of the executives were associated with two of the country's largest energy companies.
Pechorin's death occurred eight months after his boss, Igor Nosov, died from a reported stroke at age 43.
On Sept. 1, the chairman of Russian oil giant Lukoil died after falling from a window of Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital, according to the country's state-controlled media. Ravil Maganov, 67, and his company, had been critical of Russia's February invasion of Ukraine.
Alexander Subbotin, a former top Lukoil executive, was found dead in May at a shaman's house where he reportedly went to seek treatment for a hangover. Vladislav Avayev, a former vice president of of Russia's privately owned Gazprombank, was found dead from a gunshot wound in April, along with his wife and 13-year-old daughter, following a reported murder-suicide.
Sergei Protosenya, a former deputy chairman of gas company Novatek, was found hanged in a villa in Spain in April. Alexander Tyulyakov, an executive with Gazprom, a multinational energy corporation based in St. Petersburg, was found hanged in his garage in February.
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Where Is Melissa Highsmith? News That Toddler Abducted 51 Years Ago May Have Been Seen Fills Family With Hope
Melissa Highsmith was abducted as a toddler in Texas in 1971.
For nearly as long as he can remember, Jeff Highsmith has been searching for a sister he's never met.
His mother did not speak of baby Melissa, who was picked up by a babysitter on a hot August day in 1971 and hasn't been seen since.
When he was 7, Jeff remembers his father sitting him down and telling him about Melissa, who had been taken nine years before he entered the world. She was born in November, and from then on, his father remembered his lost daughter on each of her birthdays.
"My mom never talked about it. She feels like its her fault," Highsmith told Inside Edition Digital on Wednesday as he explained how his family is yet again filled with hope that Melissa, who would now be 52, is out there somewhere, just waiting to be found.
The internet lit up this week when an anonymous tip was called into the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The tipster had seen an age-progression photo of Melissa posted by the organization, and said a woman matching that description had been seen on Daniel Island, near Charleston, South Carolina.
Highsmith has given many interviews in the past few days. His sister's 51-year-old abduction in Fort Worth has appeared this week on local and national news outlets. It's even gotten play in Spain and France.
"We're hoping that it reaches Melissa and that she sees it," Highsmith says, his voice cracking. "I talked to my dad. He was really excited and started crying on the phone.
"He prays every day for her. It still hurts. He's hopeful this is her. We need something to break," the 42-year-old son says. "My mom and dad are 72 and 73. They're healthy, but the decades go by fast. We have to find Melissa before they pass on."
Melissa was the firstborn of the Highsmith children. Her mother, Alta, was 22 and recently separated from her husband, Melissa's father. Working as a waitress in Fort Worth and sharing an apartment with her best friend from high school, Alta was looking for a babysitter.
She placed an ad in the local paper and posted a notice in the laundry room of her apartment complex.
"Someone responded and called my mom at work," Highsmith said, recounting a story he's heard many, many times.
"My mom said, 'OK, would you come to the restaurant for an interview?' But she never showed up."
The next day, the woman called back and apologized, saying something had come up and she wasn't able to make it. But she really wanted the babysitting job.
"She convinced my mom that Melissa would be safe, and she said had a big backyard with a playset," Highsmith said.
"My mom called her roommate and said, 'The woman is coming, would you get Melissa ready?'"
The woman arrived, wearing long gloves and a hat in the August Texas heat. The roommate would remember thinking that odd, and for years she beat herself up for handing Melissa to the woman, Highsmith said.
"She has lived with this trauma for 50 years," Highsmith said. "That was the last time anyone saw Melissa."
There were no leads. Highsmith says detectives focused at the time on his mother, a young mother separated from her husband with very limited means. And the case went cold.
Highsmith's parents eventually reconciled and stayed together for another 30 years, having four more children before splitting again.
Over the years, as news stories emerged about various anniversaries of Melissa's abduction, women came forward, believing they could be the missing child.
But DNA proved all of them wrong, including a woman in 2019 who looked a lot like Melissa's mother and had a reddish birthmark on the back of her neck, just like Melissa.
That proved too much for the missing girl's parents.
"My dad said, look we can't do this anymore, it's too painful. Until we have concrete proof, we don't want to do this anymore," Highsmith said.
His son said he understood.
"But I just couldn't give up," Highsmith said. "My sisters can't give up. There's a hole in your heart. Something is missing."
So he and his sisters, and his wife, have established and maintain a Facebook page dedicated to finding Melissa.
To his dying day, Highsmith says he will never stop searching for the sister he doesn't know.
"We're just going to keep looking," he said. "I have faith that God will restore my family, that there's a reason and there's a purpose. My faith is all that I have."
Anyone with information about Melissa Highsmith is asked to call the Fort Worth Police Department at 817-392-4222 or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 800-843-5678.
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President Biden claimed Thursday that a tentative deal to avoid a major railway strike means that grocery prices won’t go any higher after increasing an eye-watering 13.5% over the past 12 months.
“Mr. President, grocery prices are up over 13%, what do you tell struggling Americans?” a reporter shouted at Biden during a Rose Garden event celebrating the agreement.
“Rail’s moving and it’s not going to go up,” Biden called back in response.
Although averting a shutdown of railways prevents a major transportation disruption, it’s unclear how the labor deal would halt broader food price increases.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday that at-home food prices increased 0.7% from July to August — for a 12-month increase of 13.5%, as overall annual inflation remained high at 8.3%.
The railway labor arrangement awards better pay and benefits to workers who transport goods, which could potentially increase consumer prices. The deal has yet to be approved by rank-and-file union members.
Biden announced the deal early Thursday after a 20-hour overnight negotiation session at the Labor Department.
“This agreement is a big win for America,” Biden said. “This is a win for tens of thousands of rail workers and for their dignity and the dignity of their work.”
The president went on, “This is a great deal from both sides, in my view. The agreement is also a victory for railway companies.”
The pact calls for rail workers to get a 24% raise over five years and caps the cost of worker health care expenses. Workers had also demanded sick days and reportedly will receive an additional paid day off per year.
Biden took the victory lap after calling into Labor Department-led negotiations around 9 p.m. Wednesday to say that a railway shutdown was “unacceptable,” according to a White House official.
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh led the marathon talks and called the White House around 2 a.m. to report that a tentative deal had been reached, the official said. Biden didn’t participate in that early-morning call.
The president hastily added two events to the White House schedule on Thursday morning — including a brief Oval Office meet-and-greet with negotiators. The president entertained his guests by telling a version of his famous “Joey, baby!” story to underscore his love of Amtrak, even though fact-checkers have debunked the tale.
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This rookie cop was a little too arresting.
A bodybuilding Detroit police officer has resigned after her chief found out she was sharing porn on an X-rated OnlyFans page, according to the force.
Janelle Zielinski was “posting pornographic videos” on a site she advertised on her Instagram — where she also posted racy pics, including some in uniform, a Detroit Police Department (DPD) official told Fox 2.
Detroit Police Chief James White learned about the OnlyFans site Tuesday and launched an immediate investigation, the force’s director of professional standards, Chris Graveline, told the local station.
He ordered Zielinski to be suspended — only to find out the rookie, who only graduated from the academy in March, had already resigned.
Her resignation letter is effective Sept. 23, but since she was suspended, she will no longer be working, Graveline told the Fox station.
While having an OnlyFans page is not illegal, “one of the bedrocks of DPD is you have to keep your private life unsullied as well,” Graveline said, saying that on such matters, “Command moves very quickly.”
“Chief White takes these things very seriously because it represents not just DPD but all of the city of Detroit,” Graveline said.
Zielinski had her police uniform on in photos on her Instagram but not in the actual porn material on the OnlyFans page that her social media directed people to, the force said. Most of the racier Instagram pics of her in uniform have also since been deleted.
Zielinski confirmed the news on the site, where she also shares photos of herself wearing barely-there bikinis as well as bodybuilding pics.
A photo posted Tuesday — the day her chief launched his probe — showed her topless with just her nipples covered.
“I’m going to just say it since everyone’s finding out … I quit DPD to better my life and be with the people I care about and love me,” she wrote on her Stories.
Insisting she had “never been fired, or in trouble whatsoever,” she attacked those who “can’t handle people’s success.”
“That’s on you not me,” she wrote.
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Prosecutors in Colorado are reviewing the June fatal police shooting of a 22-year-old man who was armed with a knife and had called 911 for roadside assistance, according to officials and family attorneys.
The Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office received a "motorist assist" call on June 10 at 11:21 p.m., the sheriff's office said in a news release. Responding deputies found a car that appeared to have been in an accident along with its driver.
"The driver and sole occupant, an adult white male, immediately became argumentative and uncooperative with the Deputies and had armed himself with a knife," the news release from the sheriff's office said.
"Additional law enforcement officers arrived and for over an hour tried to bring the situation to a peaceful resolution. Deputies were able to break out the car windows and remove one knife. The suspect rearmed himself with a rock and a second knife."
Christian Glass, from Boulder, Colorado, had an accident on the side of the road, called 911 for help and was "fully contained in his vehicle and presenting no threat," according to his family.
In a news conference Tuesday, Glass' parents said their son didn't carry weapons, and the knives were rock tools used for carving rocks as a form of art.
In 911 call audio released by the family, Glass tells the dispatcher "I have a weapon on me. I will throw them out the window as soon as an officer gets here" and continues to describe having two knives, a hammer and a rubber mallet.
Body camera video of the incident released by the family shows Glass offering to throw the weapons out of the car and a responding officer telling him not to do so.
"He actually offered to throw his rock knives and his tools out of the window so they wouldn't be worried. But they told him no and he obeyed," Glass' mother, Sally Glass, said.
CNN has reached out to the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office for additional information pertaining to the duty status of the officers and deputies involved. CNN has also requested an unedited copy of the body camera footage from the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office.
How the incident unfolded
In the video, responding deputies can be heard asking Glass to exit the vehicle several times.
One responding officer asks Glass if he had taken any drugs, to which Glass responds "I smoked, I've been ..." before becoming distracted by an officer placing what attorneys for the family said were tack strips behind his car, the video shows.
The autopsy report released by attorneys for the Glass family stated that Glass had both THC and amphetamine in his system.
Deputies were able to break out the car's windows and remove one of the knives, but Glass re-armed himself with a rock and a second knife, according to the sheriff's office. In the video, deputies can be heard repeatedly asking Glass to drop the knife.
Deputies deployed bean bags and a taser "with negative results" before Glass "eventually tried to stab an officer," according to the sheriff's office.
Body camera video shows law enforcement then shot Glass with a stun gun before he can be seen twisting and then seemingly thrusting a knife toward an officer before police fired multiple gun shots. The video then shows Glass apparently stabbing himself.
The body camera video released by the attorneys for the family has been edited to blur Glass' body.
"The only thing we have edited from the videos is after Christian is removed from the car. We blur the screen where his body is on the ground and medical treatment is being provided to his body. We felt it wasn't appropriate to have Christian's naked body out there in the world," attorney Siddhartha Rathod said.
Family says Glass suffered a mental health episode
Glass -- who was shot in the early morning of June 11, more than an hour after police first arrived -- was pronounced dead on scene, the news release from the sheriff's office said. The autopsy report showed Glass' injuries were fatal and included five gunshot wounds to the torso and one to his right arm.
Meanwhile, Glass' family and attorneys said he was having a mental health episode.
"There was no need to threaten him with force; to draw guns; to break his car window; to fire beanbag rounds from a close distance; to tase him; to shoot him dead. From beginning to end, the officers on scene acted unconscionably and inhumanely," Glass' parents and attorneys said in a news release.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is conducting the investigation of the incident, and the deputy who fired his weapon and killed Glass was placed on administrative leave, according to the sheriff's office.
"This incident remains under investigation. Following an initial presentation of the case made to the 5th Judicial District Attorney's Office, CBI Investigative Agents continue to provide additional follow-up to enable the DA's Office to conduct a full assessment of the facts related to the incident," the Colorado Bureau of Investigation told CNN in a statement.
In their release on Tuesday, the 5th Judicial District Attorney's Office said it has been in contact with the US Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the FBI Denver Division regarding the case.
"We are working diligently to thoroughly review the evidence in this case," 5th Judicial District Attorney Heidi McCollum said. "When a peace officer shoots and wounds or kills a person in Colorado, there are specific protocols to investigate and review such matters."
The office is mandated to release a report or to present the case to a grand jury "to further investigate or decide if indictments should issue," McCollum said.
"I will release my decision on the action this office will take as soon as the review process and a complete and thorough investigation is completed," McCollum said. "While we understand that public sentiment may desire this process to move at a more rapid pace, it is not in the interests of justice and fairness to the family of the victim for this matter to be rushed to a conclusion."
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The Biden administration on Thursday announced several new initiatives to develop technology for massive, floating offshore wind turbines as part of the effort to launch offshore wind in California and elsewhere on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
The administration said last year that it was moving to advance offshore wind power on the coast of California for the first time. When developed, the regions selected have the potential to generate enough green energy for up to 1.6 million homes over the next decade, administration officials said at the time.
The deep-water regions off the West Coast -- and other coastal areas, including the Gulf of Maine -- will require turbines to be installed on floating platforms and tethered to the sea floor. The platforms will also allow turbines to be installed farther from the coast.
US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm estimated floating turbines could unlock up to 2.8 terawatts of clean energy in the future -- more than double the country's current electricity demand.
The technology needs to be developed and ready to deploy once California starts developing its first offshore wind farm in the coming years; the Department of Interior is set to hold a wind lease auction later this fall off the coast of Morro Bay. Other future floating offshore wind developments are planned off the coasts of Oregon and the Gulf of Maine, though the dates of those lease sales have not been set.
"More than half of the nation's offshore wind sources are in deep waters," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland told reporters Thursday. "Floating wind will help us reach areas once thought unattainable."
Interior announced a new goal Thursday of adding 15 gigawatts of floating offshore wind power capacity by 2035 -- which alone could be enough to power up to 5 million American homes, Haaland said. That goal is in addition to Interior's plan to install 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2035.
In addition, Granholm and White House climate officials announced a new initiative designed to reduce the cost of floating offshore wind energy by over 70%. Granholm called the plan "audacious" and said those cost reductions would be driven by Biden's recent climate law.
Outgoing White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy called offshore wind a "new American industry that's really booming" and said the new initiative were designed so the US can try to position itself "to lead the world on floating offshore wind.
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President Joe Biden on Friday will personally meet with the families of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan at the White House, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
This will be the first time he has met with them in person. Biden will meet with them separately, an official said.
"The President wants to make sure their families know they remain front of mind and that his team is working on this every day," an official told CNN.
The Associated Press was first to report on the meeting.
The Biden administration has repeatedly said that working to secure Griner and Whelan's release, as well as that of Americans wrongfully detained abroad, is a top priority. In late July, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US had put forward a "substantial proposal" to try to secure the release of Griner and Whelan. Sources told CNN that proposal included a swap for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Griner was detained in February for carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. The two-time US Olympic basketball gold medalist pleaded guilty to drug charges and said she accidentally packed the drugs while in a hurry.
She has been sentenced to nine years, along with a fine of about $16,400. Her legal team in Russia has appealed the ruling.
Whelan has been held by Russia for alleged espionage since 2018.
The Biden administration has offered to exchange convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout as part of a potential deal to secure the release of Whelan and Griner, according to people briefed on the matter. Sources told CNN that the plan to trade Bout, a convicted Russian arms trafficker serving a 25-year US prison sentence, for Whelan and Griner received the backing of Biden after being under discussion since earlier this year. Biden's support for the swap overrides opposition from the Department of Justice, which is generally against prisoner trades.
Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens is currently in Rome for meetings at the Vatican and will not be attending the meetings on Friday, according to a US official. Secretary of State Tony Blinken has met with the families of Griner and Whelan earlier this year.
The State Department did not immediately confirm if Blinken would attend the meetings on Friday.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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A driver died Thursday after crashing into a barrier at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida, the base said via Twitter.
The unidentified driver "attempted to run the Birmingham Gate" at 6:30 a.m., according to the base. Sentries deployed a protective barrier, stopping the vehicle, the base tweeted.
"The driver is deceased and has no known military affiliation," the tweet said.
"No shots were fired," a base spokesperson told CNN. "The protection barrier was deployed...and the driver hit the barrier."
Birmingham Gate will remain closed until further notice, according to the base.
Naval Air Station Jacksonville, an air and industrial base supporting US and allied forces in anti-submarine warfare and aviator training, is the largest Navy base in the Southeast region, according to the Navy website. It's the third largest in the nation.
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President Joe Biden wants Americans to celebrate diversity, especially during National Hispanic Heritage Month.
In a presidential proclamation, Biden praised the Hispanic community for their contributions to the U.S.
"Our deepest values have been informed by the love of family and faith that is at the core of so many Hispanic communities... these contributions help us realize the promise of America for all Americans," Biden stated.
National Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
It will be marked across the country with ceremonies, activities and programs that celebrate Hispanic heritage.
"Let us give thanks to the many generations of Hispanic leaders who have helped build this country and continue to fight for equality and justice," Biden said. "Let us pledge to invest in the next generation of Hispanic men and women who hold the destiny of our Nation in their hands."
The U.S. began observing Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968. It was expanded to a month-long celebration in 1988, under President Ronald Regan.
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California filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Wednesday, alleging the e-commerce giant violated the state's antitrust and unfair competition laws by increasing prices across the state and “stifled competition.”
In a news release, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Amazon requires third-party sellers to enter contracts that prohibit them from selling their products for a lower price on competitor's websites, like Walmart, Target, or eBay.
Bonta said this practice has allowed Amazon to dominate the online marketplace by not allowing other retailers to compete.
“For years, California consumers have paid more for their online purchases because of Amazon's anticompetitive contracting practices,” said Bonta in the news release. “Amazon coerces merchants into agreements that keep prices artificially high, knowing full well that they can't afford to say no. With other e-commerce platforms unable to compete on price, consumers turn to Amazon as a one-stop shop for all their purchases. This perpetuates Amazon's market dominance, allowing the company to make increasingly untenable demands on its merchants and costing consumers more at checkout across California."
According to the lawsuit, if the seller does offer their products elsewhere for a lower price, Amazon allegedly penalizes the merchant by possibly terminating or suspending them from selling on Amazon.
"The reality is: Many of the products we buy online would be cheaper if market forces were left unconstrained," Bonta said in a statement. "With today's lawsuit, we're fighting back. We won't allow Amazon to bend the market to its will at the expense of California consumers, small business owners, and a fair and competitive economy.”
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When calling customer service and actually reaching a real human, it's likely people end up speaking to someone outside of the U.S. about a domestic issue.
It's no secret many companies outsource their customer service to call centers around the globe. Sometimes, it's the representative's accent that lets the customer know they aren't stateside.
But a startup has plans to hide foreign accents completely.
It's a controversial idea, creating a new debate around accents: On the one hand, this could help protect workers from discrimination. On the other hand, skeptics argue it could actually exacerbate existing problems with discrimination.
Accent training for call centers is already standard procedure. Workers are usually trained in a number of different English-speaking accents. The BBC reported on one company that trained workers both in their speaking accents and in understanding accents, like New Yorker, Jamaican and even Medieval English accents.
One of the apparent benefits of using tech that neutralizes accents means it could save companies from a rigorous training process. The other major goal is protecting workers from discrimination.
One of the founders of Sanas, who is a former call center worker, told the Guardian, "I built this technology for the agents because I don't want him or her to go through what I went through."
Unsurprisingly, call centers are magnets for all kinds of accent discrimination from callers. Accents are a huge factor in how people perceive identity and form prejudices. They can be associated with cultural background, nationality or even class and education.
Some research has shown accents can play an even more important role in how humans judge based on looks and how humans respond to non-native accents differently: In one study, native English speakers rated recordings of different accents saying statements like "Ants don't sleep," but the results showed the English speakers rated the statements said with the heaviest accents as the least true. In other words, they trusted them less.
It might be easy to point to studies like this as evidence that accent bias is just unavoidable, but experts say it seems more like the other way around: Stereotypes are what shape how we respond to certain accents in the first place.
Some studies show that native U.S. English speakers trust British accents more than Indian accents, regardless of how strong it is, or that Mexican and Greek accents were seen as "less intelligent or professional" than people using standard U.S. English.
This isn't just the U.S. Many countries in Europe, like Sweden or Denmark, have dialects referred to as "street language" or "street dialects." But these are often used by immigrant communities and are seen as "less refined."
Some language experts suggest exposure to more accents can actually help combat harmful stereotypes, which circles back to why some critics have raised eyebrows at the call center technology.
It can seem like erasing accents and identity might be a step backward to some, but not for others like call center workers, who might find some relief in technology like this.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, senior administration officials told The Associated Press.
The separate meetings are to be the first in-person encounter between Biden and the families and are taking place amid sustained but so far unsuccessful efforts by the administration to secure the Americans' release. The administration said in July that it had made a “substantial proposal” to get them home, but despite plans for the White House meetings, there is no sign that a breakthrough is imminent.
Griner has been held in Russia since February on drug-related charges. She was sentenced last month to nine years in prison after pleading guilty and has appealed the punishment. Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges that he and his family say are false. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained, placing their cases with the office of its top hostage negotiator.
Friday's meetings, which both families have long sought, are intended to underscore the administration's commitment to bringing home Griner, Whelan and other Americans jailed abroad, as well as to “connect with them on a human level as they undergo an ordeal that the Russian government has imposed on them," said one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as the meetings had not yet been publicly announced.
Negotiations have been complicated by the tense relations between Washington and Moscow over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of announcing two months ago that the administration had made a substantial proposal to Russia. Since then, the administration has followed up in multiple ways to press its offer and get serious negotiations underway, one of the administration officials said Thursday.
The Russians, who have indicated that they are open to negotiations but have chided the Americans to conduct them in private, have come back with suggestions that are not within the administration's ability to deliver, said the official, declining to elaborate. But the U.S. has been following up through the same channels that produced an April prisoner swap that brought Marine veteran Trevor Reed home from Russia, the official said.
The administration has not provided specifics about its proposal, but a person familiar with the matter previously confirmed it had offered to release Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer now imprisoned in the U.S. It is also possible that, in the interests of symmetry, Russia might insist on having two of its citizens released from prison.
Biden spoke by phone in July with Griner's wife, Cherelle, and with Whelan's sister, Elizabeth, but both families have also requested in-person meetings. On Friday, Biden plans to speak at the White House with Cherelle Griner and with the player’s agent in one meeting and with Elizabeth Whelan in the other.
The meetings are being done separately so as to ensure that each family has private time with the president. But the fact that they are happening on the same day shows the extent to which the two cases have become intertwined since the only deal that is presumably palatable to the U.S. is one that gets both Americans — a famous WNBA player and a Michigan man who until recently was little known to the public — home together at the same time,
In the past several months, representatives of both families have expressed frustration over what they perceived as a lack of aggressive action and coordination from the administration.
Cherelle Griner, for instance, told The Associated Press in an interview in June that she was dismayed after the failure of a phone call from her wife that was supposed to have been patched through by the American Embassy in Moscow left the couple unable to connect on their fourth anniversary.
Whelan's relatives have sought to keep attention on his case, anxious that it has been overshadowed in the public eye by the focus on the far more prominent Griner — a two-time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time WNBA all-star. They also conveyed disappointment when Whelan, despite having been held in Russia since December 2018, was not included in a prisoner swap last April that brought home another detained American, Marine veteran Trevor Reed.
Friday's meeting was scheduled before news broke this week of an unconnected trip to Russia by Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has been a veteran emissary in hostage and detainee cases. Administration officials reacted coolly to that trip, with State Department spokesman Ned Price saying Wednesday that dialogue with Russia outside the “established channel” risks hindering efforts to get Griner and Whelan home.
Administration officials say work on hostage and detainee cases persist regardless of whether a family receives a meeting with the president, though there is also no question that such an encounter can help establish a connection. Biden met in the Oval Office in March with Reed's parents after the Texas couple stood with a large sign outside the White House calling for their son's release. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/griner-whelan-families-to-meet-biden-amid-us-russia-talks | 2022-09-15T18:36:02Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/griner-whelan-families-to-meet-biden-amid-us-russia-talks | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The lingering dry air across areas around and north of Interstate 10 will continue to drive the clear sky pattern around inland counties this evening, with passing clouds likely near the coast. Rain action will be extremely limited, and most locations won't have any in the next few hours. Nighttime temps will fall steadily through the 70s, bottoming out in the mid 60s for southern Georgia and upper 60s around the I-10 corridor. A bit more moisture will intrude across southern counties Friday, resulting in a few more clouds and a slightly better chance for a brief shower or storm. Otherwise, it will be mostly sunny to partly cloudy with highs rising into the upper 80s. Over the weekend, it'll be near seasonable with low temps around 70° and highs in the upper 80s. A few more showers or storms will scatter around in the Suwannee Valley and coastline. Drier trends will resume next week with daytime temps a little above average.
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The man accused of kidnapping and killing Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher was arraigned Thursday for aggravated rape charges in a separate 2021 incident after DNA evidence from the Fletcher investigation linked him to the crime.
Cleotha Henderson, 38, was indicted last week on charges of aggravated rape, kidnapping and unlawful possession of a weapon for a September 21, 2021, incident involving a different woman.
Henderson appeared in a Shelby County courtroom Thursday morning for his arraignment on the charges. He was escorted into the courtroom by a Shelby County Sheriff's Department deputy and stood next to his lawyer, a Shelby County public defender.
The judge issued Henderson a total bond of $1,425,000 for the charges in this case, though he is being held on no bond for the charges related to Fletcher.
Henderson's attorney entered a plea of not guilty for the three charges and requested the case go to trial.
The Shelby County judge also mentioned Henderson's prior conviction, nearly two decades ago, for aggravated kidnapping. Court records show that Henderson pleaded guilty to the charge in November 2001 and was released in November 2020.
Because he is a convicted felon, Henderson could be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted on either the aggravated rape or the kidnapping charge, the judge said Thursday morning.
Henderson's next hearing in this case has been set for Friday, November 4.
The charges come nearly two weeks after Fletcher, 34, went out for an early morning run in a neighborhood near the University of Memphis and failed to return home. Her disappearance sparked an intense hunt -- buoyed by surveillance video police said showed her being forced into an SUV -- which led to Henderson's arrest near his Memphis home last Saturday.
Fletcher's body was found near a vacant duplex last week, authorities said.
She was the granddaughter of hardware magnate Joseph Orgill III, who died in 2018 at the age of 80. Tennessee-based Orgill has annual sales of $3 billion, according to the company.
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New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc won the Republican nomination on Tuesday after months campaigning on false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. A little more than a day later, he attempted an about-face.
Asked Thursday on Fox News about the 2020 race, Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general who faces Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in November, said he's "done a lot of research on this" and, after speaking with New Hampshire voters, was changing his position.
"I've come to the conclusion, and I want to be definitive on this: The election was not stolen," Bolduc said, adding that while he still believes there was fraud, "Elections have consequences and, unfortunately, President Biden is the legitimate president of this country."
The comments marked a U-turn from as recently as last month, when during a primary debate he doubled down on his past false assertions.
"I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying Trump won the election, and damn it, I stand by [it]," Bolduc said during the mid-August debate.
Hassan's campaign described Bolduc's new public stance as an unconvincing and cynical ploy.
"Don Bolduc has spent the entire campaign touting the Big Lie, and he can't hide from that record. He has even said that he supports overturning the results of the 2024 election if it doesn't go his way," Hassan campaign spokesman Kevin Donohoe said. "A word salad on Fox will not erase his record of election denial."
Earlier Thursday, Hassan's campaign shared on Twitter a video clip of Bolduc's debate remark, tweeting, "Don Bolduc is an election denier."
Bolduc's campaign did not immediately respond to CNN's request for an explanation for his reversal.
Hassan's seat represents a top pickup opportunity for Republicans, who are trying to erase Democrats' slim Senate majority this fall. New Hampshire broke for now-President Joe Biden by 7 points in 2020, and many in GOP leadership believe Hassan is susceptible to a competent challenger -- a view that led them to back state Senate President Chuck Morse in the primary. Morse conceded to Bolduc early Wednesday.
Morse had been endorsed by the state's popular GOP governor, Chris Sununu, whom Senate Republicans had tried -- and failed -- to recruit against Hassan. Leading GOP establishment figures also backed Morse, worried that Bold
uc's rhetoric over the 2020 election, his calls to repeal the direct election of senators as required by the 17th Amendment, and his criticism of the FBI after the search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence would doom him to defeat in a general election. Sununu during the primary called Bolduc a "conspiracy theorist-type candidate" and warned that the Republicans "would have a much harder time" flipping the seat if he was nominated.
At a news conference on Wednesday, Hassan offered a preview of the campaign to come, calling Bolduc "the most extreme nominee for US Senate that New Hampshire has seen in decades" and zeroing in on his ties to Trump.
"It is interesting that Donald Trump indicated his support for Don Bolduc this morning, and again, Don Bolduc supports the election denial for 2020 -- has helped spread those lies, says he supports or is open to abolishing the FBI, and says if the 2024 election doesn't go the way he thinks it should, he would work to overturn it," Hassan said.
Trump did not make an endorsement in the New Hampshire GOP Senate primary. Trump congratulated Bolduc on Wednesday for his "BIG WIN in New Hampshire" in a post on the former President's Truth Social platform. Bolduc's campaign shared a screenshot of that post on Twitter, writing, "Strong words from President Trump. Thank you, sir!"
Bolduc had in recent week shown some signs that he was beginning a pivot away from the false 2020 election claims that had been central to his candidacy. In an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio published on September 2, he repeatedly demurred when asked about those claims.
Eventually, though, after the interviewer plainly stated that there was "no evidence that the 2020 election was stolen," Bolduc tried to distance himself from that language.
"Did I say it was stolen? I didn't say it was stolen. I said that Granite Staters have issues, and that's who's important. I just want to be clear on what I'm saying," he said.
Bolduc, though, has long been an exponent of Trump's lies. In an interview with the New Yorker published in October 2021, he defended his decision to sign on to the letter that said Trump was the 2020 winner and insisted that his rigged election and fraud claims were sincere.
"I very much believe it and I think it exists, and I think it happens and it's been happening for a long time in this country. When you try to steal the Presidency, a lot of people are going to go, 'OK, wait a minute. What the hell's going on here?,'" Bolduc said at the time.
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Former President Donald Trump claimed on Hugh Hewitt's radio show Thursday that he declassified the government records that were taken to Mar-a-Lago -- an assertion that his attorneys have avoided making in the litigation around the FBI's seizure of the materials.
Hewitt asked Trump about an account given by his former White House aide Kash Patel that Patel witnessed Trump's giving a verbal order to declassify the documents taken to Mar-a-Lago. (Patel, in an interview with Breitbart, said the materials Trump declassified had to do with the Russia probe, the Ukraine impeachment proceedings and "major national security matters of great public importance.")
"That's correct," Trump said. "And not only that, I think it was other people also were there. But I have the absolute right to declassify, absolute -- a president has that absolute right, and a lot of people aren't even challenging that anymore."
Trump added later in the interview that "everything was declassified."
In a court filing earlier this week, the Justice Department drilled down on the absence of any such assertion from Trump's legal team in court, while also arguing to the court that, even if he did declassify the materials, it would still be irrelevant to the legal dispute over the search.
Trump's attorneys have sought to cast doubt that the 100-plus documents with classification markings that the FBI seized last month are in fact classified. But his attorneys have not said outright that Trump declassified the materials.
Trump, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday, "principally seeks to raise questions about the classification status of the records and their categorization under the Presidential Records Act (PRA). But Plaintiff does not actually assert -- much less provide any evidence -- that any of the seized records bearing classification markings have been declassified."
None of the criminal statutes the Justice Department cited when applying for the warrant it used to search Trump's home hinged on the documents in question being classified.
Eighteen former officials in Trump's administration also told CNN last month that they were aware of no such declassification order and that they believed Trump's claims to be patently false.
During the Thursday radio interview, Trump said he did not believe he would be indicted. When asked if he had received a target letter in connection with the DOJ's probe into the fake electors, Trump said he had not, nor had he been asked to appear before the grand jury.
"I wasn't involved with alternate slates," Trump said. That claim that has been contradicted by testimony given in the House's January 6 investigation, where RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel testified that Trump called her as part of the effort to use fake electors to support him.
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Amazon Greenlights Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner 2099 Series
Replicants will officially live to fight another day. Earlier this year, word broke that Amazon Prime was working on a Blade Runner sequel series with the original film’s director, Ridley Scott, onboard as an executive producer. There haven’t been any updates about the project until today. Now, The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Blade Runner 2099 has been given a greelight, with Silka Luisa acting as showrunner.
Scott previously visited the Blade Runner universe in 2017 as an executive producer on Blade Runner 2049. That sequel was directed by Denis Villeneuve. But as the title implies, the new series will propel the story 50 years into the future, presumably introducing all-new characters into the franchise’s canon. In other words, we can likely rule out the return of Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard.
“The original Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is considered one of the greatest and most influential science-fiction movies of all time, and we’re excited to introduce Blade Runner 2099 to our global Prime Video customers,” said Vernon Sanders, Amazon Studios’ head of global television. “We are honored to be able to present this continuation of the Blade Runner franchise, and are confident that by teaming up with Ridley, Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, and the remarkably talented Silka Luisa, Blade Runner 2099 will uphold the intellect, themes, and spirit of its film predecessors.”
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Luisa most recently developed Shining Girls for Apple TV+, based on the 2013 novel of the same name. She has also served as a supervising producer on Paramount+’s Halo and co-wrote the sixth episode of the show’s first season. Before that, Luisa was a writer on Strange Angel, which also streamed on Paramount+. She and Scott will executive produce Blade Runner 2099 with 2049 co-writer Michael Green. Alcon Entertainment co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson are executive producing as well.
“We are delighted to continue our working relationship with our friends at Amazon,” added Kosove and Johnson in their own statement. “And we are beyond excited to continue to extend the Blade Runner canon into a new realm with the provocative storyline that Silka has created.”
“Audiences first discovered Ridley Scott’s brilliant vision for Blade Runner 40 years ago,” their statement continues. “And since then, it has become one of the most influential science-fiction films of all time. Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up sequel, Blade Runner 2049, then became one of the best reviewed sequels of all time. So, we recognize that we have a very high bar to meet with this next installment. Together with Silka and our partners at Amazon, and Scott Free Productions, we hope that we can live up to that standard and delight audiences with the next generation of Blade Runner.”
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Jacksonville releases heavily redacted police recordings from high school stabbing
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Jacksonville police released more public records related to the deadly stabbing at Northside High School two weeks ago today.
Saddique Melvin was killed, while another student was sent to the hospital with injuries in the September 1st attack.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with voluntary manslaugter, assault with a deadly weapon, assault on a school official, and possess a weapon on school campus/property. A 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy have both been charged with two counts of assault and disorderly conduct at school.
Shortly after the crime, WITN sought the release of all police radio recordings which are public documents under North Carolina’s Public Records Act. Police this afternoon released a heavily redacted recording, eliminating any reference to the nature of the call at the high school and even appearing to censor uses of the word “student” from any part of the recording.
WITN did learn that the stabbing happened on the second floor of the high school near the media center.
There is no provision in the open records statute that mentions the redaction of police radio recordings and WITN continues to press Jacksonville police to release these public records.
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A woman from Kent has spoken of her fury after she and her husband were forced to cancel a trip to Center Parcs - because they were refused a check-in to the Woburn Forest premises on the day of the Queen's funeral next Monday (September 19). Amy Pidwill has been forced to opt for a caravan break now she has nowhere to stay on the day.
Amy has visited the holiday park six times before and spent her honeymoon in one of its cabins with her new husband Ben. She said she was filled with "so much anger and disappointment" after the company closed its check-in for 24 hours, in a decision that sparked outrage.
"They won’t cover any costs for a hotel Monday night and wont refund the cost of a hotel Sunday night that now isn’t required," she said. "Just a straight refund for the break and they're washing their hands with us. We are cancelling and avoiding. I used to love Center Parcs. It used to be a luxurious treat."
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When asked if she thought the company had handled the situation well, Amy told the Mirror : "No way, they've been really inconsiderate. To announce it not even a week before... Some people have no choice because they cant book another holiday while they wait for the refund."
Center Parcs provoked fury after announcing it was closing its villages on Monday "as a mark of respect and to allow as many of our colleagues as possible to be part of this historic moment". When people staying at the park on Monday pointed out that they'd have nowhere to go, the company partially u-turned on the plan.
Those who were due to check-in on Monday are still not able to however, meaning many have had to significantly alter their trips away. For those who will be at one of the villages on the day of the Queen's funeral, all restaurants and activities will be closed.
Center Parcs made another u-turn yesterday (September 14) when it quickly went back on a suggestion that guests would be required to stay in their cabins for the whole of Monday.
"We were going to book for Christmas however following this news we won’t ever return to a Center Parcs with our family," one irate customer-to-be wrote on Facebook. Another wrote: "You have just ruined the only holiday I have this year and my mum's birthday. We have now just cancelled our holiday as we have two dogs that were meant to come too, so we would lose two days. We would only have a day's holiday. Bloody useless holiday park."
Yesterday Center Parcs explained that it decided to close its villages as a mark of respect, and to "allow as many of our colleagues as possible to be part of this historic moment."
"We have contacted all the guests due to arrive on Monday 19 September and offered them a number of different options. Our villages will be open to welcome guests on Tuesday 20 September.
"The vast majority of our guests are either due to arrive or depart on Monday 19 September. We have however, reviewed our position regarding the very small number of guests who are not due to depart on Monday and we will be allowing them to stay on our villages rather than having to leave and return on Tuesday.
"The villages will still remain closed on Monday and we will be offering a discount for the lack of facilities available on that day."
The company has been contacted for further comment.
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A Kwara State magistrate court sitting in Ilorin has ordered the remand of seven suspected thieves in the federal correctional centre, Ilorin over alleged involvement in stealing N40m worth of fish.
The defendants; Paul Friday, Joy Nanpen, Sunday Maikarfi, Stephen Philip, Emmanuel Clement, David Nankam and Issac Friday were also arrested for robbing two agric firms, located at Asa dam road, Ilorin of farm products and machinery.
According to the charge sheet, the police received a complaint through a petition letter written by the two fishery companies, AFAB Nigeria Ltd and YEXJOK Global ventures, that their farms were robbed in March 2022 whereby they jointly lost farm products and machinery valued at N40 million, adding that all efforts to apprehend the thieves proved abortive.
“Mr Jimoh Mohammed, a director in one of the companies was able to identify the suspects who were staying very close to the farm,” the sheet added.
The police said they also recovered 850 live fish inside the pond in their compound, adding that the defendants had confessed to the crime.
Prosecutor, Gbenga Ayeni urged the court to remand the suspects.
In her ruling, Magistrate Monisola Gbadeyan Kamson ordered their remand pending the arrival of legal advice from the office of the Attorney General.
She adjourned the matter to October 4, 2022, for further mention.
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A rare photograph showing Comet Leonard’s gas tail as it passes by Earth for its only ever appearance has been announced as the winner of the latest Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition.
The image, titled Disconnection Event , was taken by Gerald Rhemann and shows the tail of a comet being torn away by a powerful solar wind .
“Astronomy, myth and art come together beautifully in this shot. It holds great value to scientists, as it elegantly captures a disconnection event,” said Imad Ahmed, a member of the judging panel of this year’s competition, and director of the New Crescent Society.
“Yet this photograph, which was taken on Christmas Day, seems to tell an otherworldly story too – it could be the Star of Bethlehem, an angel or a fairy soaring through the night sky.”
The Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year award was won by two fourteen-year-old boys from China. Yang Hanwen and Zhou Zezhen collaborated to capture Andromeda Galaxy: The Neighbour , a photograph of one of the Milky Way’s closest and largest neighbours .
The competition is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich , in association with BBC Sky at Night Magazine , and is now in its 14th year.
The winning image will be on display alongside the winners of the other categories in the accompanying exhibition, opening at the National Maritime Museum in London, UK, on 17 September 2022.
Overall winner Comet Leonard was discovered by G J Leonard on 3 January 2021. It made its closest pass on 12 December 2021, and having left the Solar System, won’t be seen from Earth again. On 25 December 2021, a dramatic tail disconnection event happened. A piece of Comet Leonard’s tail was pinched off and carried away by the solar wind, as can be seen in this dramatic image. Photographed at Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm, Khomas, Namibia, on 25 December 2021. Photo by Gerald Rhemann/APOTY
Winner - Our Sun category An image of the Sun, combined from images taken every day between 25 December 2020 and 31 December 2021 (missing just 6 days during this period). After a year, the images were blended to create a single shot. The sunspots create two bands on the solar disc, around 15–35 degrees north and south of the equator and gradually start drifting towards it (a phenomenon known as Spörer’s law). Photographed in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Photo by Soumyadeep Mukherjee/APOTY
Winner - Stars and nebulae This ultra-deep exposure of the ‘Eye of God' (also known as the Helix Nebula, or NGC 7293), reveals the glorious colours of the core and rarely seen surrounding details. Photographed at Chilescope, Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile, on 8 August 2021. Photo by Weitang Liang/APOTY
Winner - People and space category This image features the International Space Station (ISS) positioned directly over the Apollo 11 Moon-landing site on the Sea of Tranquility. The moment only lasted milliseconds and required precise positioning to capture the pass at the perfect time. Photographed in Florence, Arizona, USA, on 19 January 2022. Photo by Andrew McCarthy/APOTY
Winner - Young astronomer of the year The Andromeda Galaxy, or Messier 31, is one of the closest and largest neighbours of the Milky Way. M31 is also the most distant object the human eye can see. When you look at it with the naked eye it’s like a fog, but through the telescope it shows its magnificence. Photographed in Heishicheng, Kangding, Sichuan, China, on 21 February 2021. Photo by Yang Hanwen/Zhou Zezhen/APOTY
Winner - The Annie Maunder prize for digital innovation Multiple images of the Sun from the first part of the Solar Cycle have been layered to create concentric rings in this unusual and original composition. The oldest ring lies in the centre while the most recent sits furthest away. Month by month, the rings grow like the rings of a tree. The overall image is a marking of the passing of time, which incorporates visual evidence of increasing levels of solar activity apparent in the dark markings of solar flares. Photo by Pauline Woolley/Solar Dynamic Observatory/APOTY
Winner - The Patrick Moore prize for best newcomer The Milky Way rises above the Minya Konka Mountain, the highest peak in Sichuan, China, in the early hours of the morning of 21 February 2021. Photo by Lun Deng/APOTY
Winner - Our Moon category Once a month the Sun rises over the giant lunar crater Plato and casts huge shadows from its east rim across its lava-filled floor. Occasionally this event coincides with a night of good visibility. The night of 20 April 2021 was one such rare night, with steady skies and the Moon high overhead, the dark, projected rim-profile was visible in exquisite detail. Photographed in St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, on 20 April 2021. Photo by Martin Lewis/APOTY
Winner - Skyscapes category Namcha Barwa is one of the most beautiful snow-capped mountains in China. The name of the mountain in Tibetan means ‘spear thrusting into the sky’. This untouched land is also home to the purest of starry skies, the trails of which weave a wide net even on full Moon days. Photographed in Nyingchi, Tibet, China, on 24 December 2021. Photo by Zihui Hu/APOTY
Winner - Galaxies category This image shows the faint star streams that were created when a smaller galaxy collided with, and its remnants then began to orbit, the Milky Way. Three versions of this photograph were made: a muted version for the background, a regular version for the disc and a super-stretched starless version for the stellar streams and halo. They were then combined into a single image. Photographed at Pie Town, New Mexico, USA, on 5 May 2021. Photo by Utkarsh Mishra/Michael Petrasko/Muir Evenden/APOTY
Winner - Aurorae category The Northern Lights are one of the most interesting natural phenomena. Although they are usually witnessed in the winter months, this photograph was taken during the late spring. It shows the dancing Aurora Borealis, reflected in a little frozen lake above the Eystrahorn mountain, Hvalnes, Iceland, on 10 April 2021. Photo by Filip Hrebenda/APOTY
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Runner-up - Planets, comets and asteroids category Here, Jupiter can be seen alongside three of the planet’s largest moons. The famous Great Red Spot is clearly visible on Jupiter itself, along with many other spots and storms. Similar details are also evident on all three of the Jovian moons. The bright ray crater Osiris can be seen on the moon Ganymede at the upper left. Photographed at El Sauce Observatory, Río Hurtado, Coquimbo, Chile, on 5 August 2021. Photo by Damian Peach/APOTY
Runner-up - Stars and nebulae The Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405, SH 2-229 or Caldwell 31) is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga. It lies about 1,500 light years from Earth and is about 5 light years across. Photographed in Fareham, Hampshire, UK, on 22 February 2022. Photo by Martin Cohen/APOTY
Runner-up - Galaxies category NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 are two spiral galaxies of similar size engaged in a major interaction. Known collectively as Arp 271, the interaction is expected to continue for tens of millions of years. Photographed at El Sauce Observatory, Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile, between 3 June 2021 and 1 January 2022. Photo by Mark Hanson/Mike Selby/APOTY
Runner-up - People and space category Built between 1974 and 1981, this spaceship-like structure was designed by Georgi Stoilov and involved the removal of more than 15,000 cubic metres of rock from the peak of Buzludzha, reducing the mountain’s height by 9 metres. Although the building is now closed to the public, its space-age silhouette is the perfect complement for dramatic images of the night sky. Photographed at Buzludzha, Balkan Mountains, Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria, on 12 August 2021. Photo by Mihail Minkov/APOTY
Runner-up - Our Sun category The Sun looks different every time astrophotographers capture an image as new sunspots form, grow and eventually fade away. The photographer selectively filtered out all wavelengths of light except a narrow red band (known as the H-alphaline) to reveal an active region of change of the Sun in this detailed image. Photographed in Preston, Lancashire, UK, on 19 December 2021. Photo by Stuart Green/APOTY
Runner-up - Skyscapes category Some of the most exquisite locations in Death Valley National Park are the salt flats at Badwater Basin. Located 86 metres below sea level, the basin is the lowest point in North America. Every winter brings new rainwater to the flats and the continuous freeze-thaw-evaporate process creates these hexagonal patterns in the mud. Photographed at Death Valley, California, USA, on 2 September 2021. Photo by Abhijit Patil/APOTY
Runner-up - Our Moon category This is a mosaic of the crescent Moon, made up of 32 separate images. In this image you can see the most famous craters, rims, mountains, domes and seas of this lunar phase. Photographed at Porto Mantovano, Lombardy, Italy, on 19 January 2021. Photo by Andrea Vanoni/APOTY
Runner-up - Aurorae category This photo, captured over Cameron River in Canada’s Northwest Territories, shows the differentiation between the aurora and the dark sky. Photographed near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, on 1 September 2021. Photo by Fred Bailey/APOTY | https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/a-comet-being-torn-apart-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/ | 2022-09-15T18:54:29Z | sciencefocus.com | control | https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/a-comet-being-torn-apart-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Saturn’s iconic rings and tilt may have been formed by the destruction of an ancient moon
Around 160 million years ago, the unstable orbit and subsequent shattering apart of a moon named Chrysalis may have caused Saturn to tilt and created its signature icey rings.
Thanks to its trademark disc of icy rings, Saturn is one of the most recognisable planets in the Solar System. But exactly how this distinctive feature formed has remained something of a mystery.
Now, a computer modelling study carried out by researchers at MIT suggests that the gas-giant’s rings, and the nearly 27° tilt at which it moves around the Sun, maybe due to an ancient moon careening out of orbit, clipping its host planet and being smashed into hundreds of pieces.
The team made the discovery by using gravitational data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. After running several computer models designed to emulate the orbits of Saturn and its satellites back through time, they determined that billions of years ago, Saturn had at least one more moon, which they have named Chrysalis.
Through gravitational interactions with Chrysalis, Saturn kept its tilt in sync with Neptune. However, around 160 million years ago, Chrysalis became unstable, ventured too close to Saturn and subsequently pulled apart.
The loss of this additional moon was enough to push Saturn out of sync with Neptune, leaving it with its current tilt. Moreover, some fragments of Chrysalis’s shattered body may have remained in orbit and eventually broken down to form the planet’s signature rings.
The researchers estimate that to achieve this effect Chrysalis would have been around 1,500km across – roughly the same size as Iapetus, Saturn’s third-largest moon.
“Just like a butterfly’s chrysalis, this satellite was long dormant and suddenly became active, and the rings emerged,” said Jack Wisdom, professor of planetary sciences at MIT and lead author of the study.
“It’s a pretty good story, but like any other result, it will have to be examined by others. But it seems that this lost satellite was just a chrysalis, waiting to have its instability.”
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Jason is the commissioning editor for BBC Science Focus. He holds an MSc in physics and was named Section Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors in 2019. He has been reporting on science and technology for more than a decade. During this time, he's walked the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider, watched Stephen Hawking deliver his Reith Lecture on Black Holes and reported on everything from simulation universes to dancing cockatoos. He looks after the magazine’s and website’s news sections and makes regular appearances on the Instant Genius Podcast.
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We are willing to call off strike ― ASUU
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, on Thursday, said that the union is willing to call off the seven-month-old strike if a concrete agreement is reached with the Federal Government.
ASUU and the Federal Government in Court over the prolonged strike but Osodeke, speaking in Abuja at a National Town Hall Meeting on Tertiary Education tagged: ‘The Locked Gates of our Citadels -A National Emergency’ said this could only be achieved if concrete agreements were reached with the Federal Government.
Recall that the union embarked on industrial action on Feburary14, making it over seven months since public universities across the country were closed down.
Osodeke said: “On all these issues, we have given the government a minimum that we can accept, but they have not responded on the issue of revitalisation, on the issue of earned allowance and on issues that we have all discussed.
“We negotiated and agreed that they should sign and this is very simple, not more than one day.
“On UTAS and IPPIS, we say release the report of the test you did and let’s look at the one who came first and take it as we agreed.
“So, we have given them the minimum we want, we have to come down and they can do it in one day if there is a will,” he said.
Osodeke, therefore, reiterated the union’s commitment to return to school if the Federal Government puts its proposal on the table, saying that negotiation could be reached if the government was willing.
“If the government loves this country, these children and their parents, then they should come to the table and let us resolve these issues in one day.
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“Just as we did in 2014, they should come and ensure that we do that, we can even have the meeting openly so that Nigeria will see what we are discussing,” he said.
The ASUU president expressed sadness over the lingering strike resulting in the government taking the union to court.
He said that suing the union was not an option as it would further worsen the situation of the students and tertiary education in the country.
He said that if the court forces the lecturers to return to school, they won’t force them to teach with open minds, saying that the students would definitely be at the receiving end.
Osodeke commended the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Pro-Chancellors for stepping in to resolve the issues.
He, therefore, called on parents and students to appeal to the government to do the needful so that the strike would come to an end once and for all, rather than attacking the union.
Meanwhile, Mrs Vivian Bello, Convener, Save Public Education Campaign, an NGO, pleaded with both parties to resolve the problems saying that the students are not the only people feeling the negative impact, but also the union.
Bello said that it behoves both sides to bring the crisis to a perpetual end for the sake of the students as well as the development of education in the country.
“We are going to play our traditional role which is the role of monitor.
“We are going to keep a very strong searchlight on the two actors- both in the government and on ASUU, in order to see that this issue of back and forth is quickly brought to an end the strike will be called-off,” she said.
Some of the contentious issues that led to the strike by the unions include the non-release of the revitalisation fund, non-payment of earned allowance (or earned academic allowance), renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement, and the release of white paper for the visitation panel.
Others are the non-payment of minimum wage arrears and the inconsistency occasioned by the use of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
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The Australian jobs report released in the new trading day in Australia (at 9:30 PM ET) showed a 33.5K increase vs estimates of 35K. The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.5% from 3.4% which is still near/at historic low levels.
The AUDUSD did move higher soon after the report, but ran into resistance at 0.6771. I highlighted this level in my preemployment post yesterday (click here). Sellers leaned him him him him him.
Buyers could not take the price above that level, and turned to sellers instead. The price has been chopping to the downside since that time. The New York session low reached 0.67018. That was just above the low from last week at 0.66984. The current prices trading at 0.6711. The sellers remain in control.
Taking a broader look at the daily chart, a move to a new session low would have traders looking toward a swing area between 0.6860 and 0.6881. A old downward sloping trendline cuts across within that area as well increasing the areas importance. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/audusd-rotates-back-toward-lows-for-the-day-20220915/ | 2022-09-15T18:58:31Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/audusd-rotates-back-toward-lows-for-the-day-20220915/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A teenager who was a sex-trafficking victim stabbed her rapist to death. Consequently, the young victim was ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to the man’s family and sentenced to five years of probation by a judge in Iowa.
Pieper Lewis was a 15-year-old runaway and was sleeping in the hallways of an apartment building when 28-year-old Christopher Brown took her in and started pimping her out to other men. One of the men was Zachary Brooks, who raped her multiple times.
Lewis recalled being forced by Brooks at knifepoint to go to his apartment to have sex with him. After Brooks raped her again in June 2020, she grabbed a knife and stabbed him more than 30 times.
Lewis is now 17 and has spent the last two years locked up in a juvenile detention center. She was originally charged with first-degree murder for the stabbing, and pled guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury.
On Sept. 13, the Polk County District Judge deferred Lewis’ prison sentence, meaning if she violates her probation, she could be sent to prison to serve 20 years.
Before her sentencing, Lewis read a statement saying, “My spirit has been burned, but still glows through the flames. Hear me roar, see me glow, watch me grow. I am a survivor.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/black-teen-gets-revenge-on-her-alleged-rapist-but-she-takes-the-fall-instead/ | 2022-09-15T19:00:57Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/black-teen-gets-revenge-on-her-alleged-rapist-but-she-takes-the-fall-instead/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The mom who told her daughter to attack a girl during a youth basketball game in November 2021 is being forced to pay $9,000 in restitution to the victim, according to “TMZ.”
Tira Hunt was recording a video of her daughter, whose father is ex-NBA player Corey Benjamin, in a basketball game. After one of the opposing players knocked Hunt’s daughter down after a jump shot, the mother encouraged her daughter to attack the girl. That’s when she sucker-punched the girl, and the crowd went into shock.
The mother went to the cops over the incident in December 2021 and was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and battery.
On Sept. 14, an Orange County Superior Court judge approved a diversion program that has a list of conditions, with the major one including a $9,000 payment to the victim. Hunt must also write an apology to the victim, her parents, and the two basketball teams involved, and attend anger management classes before returning to basketball games. Hunt was also forced to stay away from the victim.
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Jordan Peele has teased that an extended cut of “Nope” could be on the way.
The 43-year-old director was at the helm of the 2022 neo-Western science fiction horror film – which stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as a brother and sister attempting to capture evidence of a UFO – and while he can “neither confirm nor deny anything” about more footage, he is hoping that audiences will “see more” of the movie at some point in the future.
“I can neither confirm nor deny anything of the sort. It’s like, ‘Oh, s***.’ There’s been a lot of response to people sort of finding things in the trailer that aren’t in the actual movie,” Peele said when asked specifically about releasing an extended cut. “I can say, I do think people will see more in the future. That’s kind of all I really can say. I’m hopeful.”
The former “MADTV” star went on to explain that there is a lot of “enthusiasm” for the film and feels very “energized” by the fact that fans seem to want more from him.
“There’s a lot of enthusiasm clearly to sort of dig into the layers of this film. And it’s one of the things that I am most excited by, is that I think there’s a sense that people do see that we haven’t cheated,” he told Collider. “We’ve made a film that if you watch it, it’s telling a story and the pieces of the puzzle that feel like they’re missing upon another viewing, reveal themselves to not be missing. And so I’m very energized by the fact that people want more from this story.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/jordan-peele-hints-at-extended-cut-of-nope/ | 2022-09-15T19:01:09Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/jordan-peele-hints-at-extended-cut-of-nope/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sept. 9, The Fragrance Foundation hosted a brunch for 40 brand owners, designers, influencers, and style makers to celebrate New York Fashion Week. The brunch also provided vital information to attendees about advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the fragrance industry – at every level.
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Michael Blackson and Katt Williams are two raw, uncut comedians that lay everything out on the stage when they perform, but apparently that changes when the joke is on them.
Blackson recently found that out about Willians while filming for Nick Cannon’s “Wild N’ Out” show. According to Blackson, Williams verbally attacked him for comments made about him on “Drink Champs” last year.
“Look at Katt Williams. He fought a 10-year-old kid and smoked crack, but he’s so likable and lovable. Katt can go out and do a movie or whatever he wants,” Blackson said on the episode of “Drink Champs.”
On Sept. 14, Blackson tweeted about the incident.
“Life is too short to be beefing especially with people you love,” Blackson said. “I love every comedian like a brother, sometimes we say things about each other and it comes out the wrong way, but we don’t mean no harm. Katt Williams is still mad about something I said on ‘Drink Champs’ last summer.”
I thought I made a compliment but most of my compliments comes with a little roast because that’s what I do. Katt took it as insult and I had no idea he was still mad till we met on the taping of WildnOut yesterday. Non of the cast including Nick had no idea we were beefing
— Michael Blackson (@MichaelBlackson) September 15, 2022
“We ended up on opposite teams and all his jokes towards me were insults on my career while I tried to keep my jokes towards him on his height and permed hair,” Blackson continued. “I tried to keep it fun so people won’t know we had a problem with each other, but that midget n—- kept going hard. LOL SMH.”
Of course, Blackson couldn’t go on with the apology without adding in a few jokes.
Since you only 4 ft 9 inch tall imma be the bigger person and try to squash this, We’ve known each other over 25 yrs. We go back from the Friday movies, then Repos to Meet the blacks not counting the few tours we’ve done together.
— Michael Blackson (@MichaelBlackson) September 15, 2022
Let me know how you want to handle this Katt, I’m down with a VS on stage or you can just fight my 15 yr old son.
— Michael Blackson (@MichaelBlackson) September 15, 2022
Williams is the type of comedian that doesn’t care about anything he says, so it’s interesting to see that he couldn’t take a joke. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/the-joke-michael-blackson-made-about-katt-williams-that-ticked-him-off/ | 2022-09-15T19:01:21Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/the-joke-michael-blackson-made-about-katt-williams-that-ticked-him-off/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wendy Williams has been checked back into a rehab center for reasons other than those her representative initially stated.
The rep had issued a statement to Page Six claiming that Williams, 58, had “entered a wellness facility seeking help to manage her overall health issues.”
But the news outlet stated that sources told them that the former talk show queen has spiraled since the unceremoniously termination of her “Wendy Williams Show” in June 2022.
“It’s gotten worse,” the source told Page Six. “She went from wine to straight-up vodka.”
Williams lacked the infrastructural support to remain sober once the staff and producers at the “Wendy Williams Show” backed away from her after it was determined that the talk show would be discontinued.
“They turned their backs on her,” the source explained, corroborating claims that Wiliams’ ex-husband Kevin Hunter made about them abandoning Williams during her time of need. “They had too much control over someone so vulnerable.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WGHP) — A Republican candidate for congress is sending out a “call to action” over story time at a park in Charlotte.
According to a campaign email, Tyler Lee, who is running for North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District, has announced a “call to action for adults of Charlotte to reach out to City Council elected officials” to try and get a scheduled Drag Queen Story Hour event canceled.
The event is taking place at Romare Bearden Park on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to noon.
“Charlotte Area Drag Queen Story Hour is an organization that promotes diversity in literature through performance in Drag. Drag queens, kings, and theybies read books to children to show them that there is always a way to love who they are! Come join us for stories, crafts, and general fun all around!”
from charlotteartsfest.com
Drag Queen Story Hour has been under attack across the country, the subject of violent threats in Apex, protests in Winston-Salem and nationwide clashes.
In Texas, protesters disrupted a family-friendly drag show, some heard on camera asking cops to shoot attendees. In Los Angeles, a Drag Queen Story Time event was interrupted by Proud Boys, and nearly three dozen white supremacists were arrested near a pride event in Idaho with a U-Haul packed full of weapons.
Tyler Lee released the following statement about his efforts to cancel the event:
“Public parks are vested and maintained by taxpayer dollars, and such an event being marketed ‘for fun lovers of all ages’ is unacceptable.
When I was growing up, it was well known that pedophiles preyed on innocent children in parks and playgrounds, and now, public officials are allowing our taxpayer dollars to allow it.
I have reached out to Charlotte City Council Members with the request that they cancel the event, because I feel it is my duty as an adult to act as a sentinel for the safety and well-being of our children. We must stand up and exercise our First Amendment rights so that our silence cannot be construed as acceptance.”
He concludes by saying he wants to “stand up for the innocence of children” and urging people to reach out to Charlotte’s City Council.
Lee is running for the 12th District against incumbent democrat Alma Adams, who is originally from High Point and has been in that seat since 2014.
Lee is an alumnus of Liberty University. You can learn more about Drag Queen Story Hour on their website.
The Drag Queen Story Hour event in Charlotte is happening on both Saturday and Sunday. In Greensboro, Sunday will mark the 15th annual Greensboro Pride festival, the return of the festival after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled it in 2020 and 2021. Drag performers like American Idol’s Ada Vox will be performing. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/congressional-candidate-attempts-to-get-charlotte-drag-queen-story-hour-canceled/ | 2022-09-15T19:01:55Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/congressional-candidate-attempts-to-get-charlotte-drag-queen-story-hour-canceled/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware state trooper who was suspended with pay amid a federal investigation into a series of thefts from a package reshipping company will enter a guilty plea in federal court later this month.
Court records indicate that Jamal J. Merrell will make an initial appearance on Sept. 29 and plead guilty at that time to a misdemeanor count of deprivation of rights under color of law. The offense involves Merrell using his position as a law enforcement officer to deprive someone else of a right or privilege.
Merrell’s attorney, Eugene Maurer Jr., confirmed that his client will plead guilty but declined further comment.
A spokeswoman for Delaware State Police said Thursday that Merrell, 32, is no longer a trooper.
Merrell faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
The planned guilty plea comes more than a year after investigators with the FBI and Delaware State Police interviewed Merrell at his home in July 2021 and seized an iPhone. FBI agent Joshua Wilson stated in a search warrant affidavit that he and another FBI agent seized the phone fearing that Merrell would delete evidence from it after he refused to give his consent for authorities to search it.
The investigation began after an official with Totaltranslogistics LLC and his attorney went to the FBI office in Wilmington to report suspicious incidents over several months. TTL is an international reshipping company in New Castle that specializes in shipping packages to the country of Georgia. According to the affidavit, the businessman lives in Georgia but traveled to the U.S. after learning of the incidents.
Employees reported that Merrell had visited the company at least 10 times beginning in February 2021, when he told employees that he was conducting an investigation and would need to inspect packages at the warehouse. He also insisted that he be left alone when conducting the inspections, according to the affidavit.
Employees reported that Merrell could be seen on surveillance footage removing items from large containers, putting them in a cart, then moving the cart to an area outside video surveillance coverage and near an exterior door.
“Merrell would return an empty cart at the conclusion of these inspections. Merrell was also observed re-taping the larger shipping boxes from which he had removed items,” Wilson wrote.
A company official reported that he had received more than $20,000 in claims from customers for items missing from shipments or never delivered.
Merrell told authorities that he began an investigation after receiving a complaint about missing merchandise that had been shipped in June 2020. He said he made regular visits to the company and collected several items he deemed “suspicious” but did not provide receipts for the items he seized and did not report the seizures to his superiors, according to the affidavit.
Instead, Merrell told investigators that he sometimes kept items in his patrol vehicle or would take them home “out of concern of a theft from the vehicle.”
After learning that he might be the subject of an investigation, Merrell delivered several items to a state police facility in Newark, leaving them at the sally port instead of in the evidence locker. He also left an inventory of items he had seized, including laptop computers, cellphones and other items in their original packaging, according to investigators.
Asked by investigators whether he had sold any items he took, Merrell said he had been told by a company employee that a certain section of the warehouse had been designated for “trash.” Merrell told investigators he had taken about 100 iPhones from that area and sold them through Facebook. | https://www.wboc.com/news/former-trooper-to-plead-guilty-in-warehouse-package-thefts/article_70c27f5c-3522-11ed-99f7-cf6f1479e3b5.html | 2022-09-15T19:07:23Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/former-trooper-to-plead-guilty-in-warehouse-package-thefts/article_70c27f5c-3522-11ed-99f7-cf6f1479e3b5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GEORGETOWN, De. - Delaware State Police say the victim who was assaulted with a baseball bat at a Royal Farms convenience store in Georgetown last week has died.
Troopers say the case has now been handed over to the Delaware State Police Homicide Unit and upgraded charges are now pending against the suspect, 24 year-old Kevin Shorter of Georgetown.
Shorter had initially faced attempted murder charges in the assault of 38 year-old Paul McCarter, also of Georgetown.
Details on the initial assault and arrest can be found here.
State Police ask anyone with information on this case to contact Detective D. Grassi by calling 302-365-8441 or Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333. | https://www.wboc.com/news/victim-dies-after-brutal-beating-at-georgetown-royal-farms/article_ffe974e0-3515-11ed-8f23-9f75dc8d39bd.html | 2022-09-15T19:07:29Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/victim-dies-after-brutal-beating-at-georgetown-royal-farms/article_ffe974e0-3515-11ed-8f23-9f75dc8d39bd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FERRUM, Va. (WFXR) – Mental health is a topic that is becoming less taboo in the mainstream. However, a behavioral health provider says more needs to be done to eliminate the stigma inside the Hispanic community.
“We don’t talk about it. It didn’t exist basically. There was a lot of ‘Stay away from that person’ or nobody never had a conversation, something as simple as anxiety,” said Victor Rivera, a behavioral health provider. “I have not met a single person in any race that does not have some anxiety. It is a completely normal thing that people experience. Never talk about it in the Hispanic community. It was never brought up.”
Rivera has been working as a behavioral health provider for 13 years. The Puerto Rican native says his family moved to Franklin County when he was 15 years old. Since then, Rivera earned a degree in criminal justice at Ferrum College and worked in the probation and parole system until budget cuts cost him his job.
A friend reached out to Rivera and told him he’d be well suited for home mental health services, which lead him to his current role and conversations with his family.
“The only reason my parents talked to me about it really is because of what I do. We see some of struggles that some families go through and things that start happening that they want to know more about. So that has been the way in my family that we bridged the conversation, but it’s still heavily stigmatized in the Hispanic community,” said Rivera.
Rivera blames the stigma on judgment by society.
“People that struggle with any mental illness were looked at as being ‘crazy.’ When all of your life, you hear of those type of struggles being categorized in that manner and for sure you are afraid to talk about it,” said Rivera. “Because you do not want to be looked at as in a certain way. You do not want to be vulnerable and then be judged for the things that you say while you’re vulnerable.”
According to Rivera, there are other stigmas when it comes to mental health problems in the Hispanic community, related to issues of race, culture and economics.
“Somebody that immigrates to a new country and probably experiences a certain amount of trauma in doing so — I have not met a single person in the Hispanic community that I do counseling with that doesn’t have PTSD. It is across the board, whether it is from coming here and being treated a certain way, whether it is the process of coming across to the United States,” added Rivera. “I have an individual that I see that tried to get here, he almost died, because there is no easy way to get here. He was trying to pursue better for his family. So you are taking emotional mental health damage along the way and you get here and you do not speak the language.”
Rivera says one key for helping the Hispanic community open up about their mental health problems is the development of trust with a counselor. He says having a counselor that is a Hispanic native can help build that trust.
“It is way better than having somebody that is a natural-born American, a Caucasian that learns Spanish. Counseling is a social interaction. It’s way better when you meet somebody that is a natural-born speaker of the language. I grew up speaking Spanish. We speak Spanish in my household still. I listen to music in Spanish. I am Hispanic,” said Rivera.
Rivera told WFXR that the biggest step is talking about it.
“Normalizing it. Diabetes, flu, colds, all of that stuff is normal health conversations, but mental health is health,” said Rivera. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hispanic-heritage-month/mental-health-barriers-plague-hispanic-community-just-like-any-other-counselor-says/ | 2022-09-15T19:10:06Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hispanic-heritage-month/mental-health-barriers-plague-hispanic-community-just-like-any-other-counselor-says/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s hard to do much better than the Hawkeyes have on the defensive side of the ball. In the season opener against South Dakota State, the self proclaimed “Dough Boyz” allowed just three points, and that one field goal was set up by a head-scratching interception that set the Jackrabbits up over midfield.
Speaking of the Dough Boyz, check out what Terry Roberts wore at today’s media session:
With “Dough Boyz” on the back, the clever nickname the Hawkeye secondary gave itself has turned into NIL money.
Getting back to Iowa’s defense: They’re good. Like, really good. Against a red-hot Iowa State Cyclones team they forced two turnovers inside the red zone and three overall. But in the second half a 99-yard, 21-play drive was the defining sequence for the unit. It ended up being the game winning score as the Cyclones marched out of Kinnick with a 10-7 win.
“The expectation, you know, it was to win the game,” team captain Riley Moss said. “If they didn’t score that touchdown, we would have won the game. That’s our mentality and that’s on us.
“In a sense we can always play better and we’re always chasing perfection and we’re never going to get perfection but we’re always going to chase perfection no matter how well or how bad we play.”
Safety Quinn Schulte agreed: “Our goal and our job is not to let them score at all.”
He also said after Saturday’s game that Iowa “gave up too many chunk plays.”
Yes, the longest play of the day was a 24-yard completion that wasn’t on the 99-yard touchdown drive. So technically one chunk play (unless you define a chunk play as 25+ yards).
That’s how lofty the expectations are for this defense.
“If we gave up a 20-yarder, that’s not too good,” linebacker Seth Benson said. “So we’ve just got to tighten things down and then communicate and we expect to get off the field three and out and play great defense. No big plays and get the ball back and I think we needed to do a better job of that.”
Regardless of how the Hawkeyes think they’ve been playing defensively, their 13 points allowed is good for second in the Big Ten. They’ve also given up a conference-best 4.2 YPA through the air. But as Moss said, the Hawkeyes are striving for perfection.
Either way, the “Dough Boyz” will be licking their chops this weekend against a Nevada team they’re heavy favorites against.
For more Hawkeyes coverage, follow @HawkeyeHQ on Twitter and Facebook. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/hawkeyes-defense-takes-blame-for-loss-our-job-is-not-to-let-them-score-at-all/ | 2022-09-15T19:10:27Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/hawkeyes-defense-takes-blame-for-loss-our-job-is-not-to-let-them-score-at-all/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Freeport area home explosion leaves two people seriously injured
FREEPORT — Two people suffered serious injuries during an explosion and fire Tuesday evening inside a house at the 4000 block of Business Route 20 West.
A neighbor and a passerby helped the injured residents out of their burning home before emergency responders arrived on scene, according to Freeport Rural Fire Department Chief Mike Wichman.
The injured people were taken to FHN Hospital in Freeport and were eventually airlifted to OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford.
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Their names have not been made public.
The cause of the explosion is being investigated by the State Fire Marshal’s Office.
Freeport’s Rural Fire Department responded to the emergency with help from the Lena, Cedarville and Pearl City departments, the Stephenson County Sheriff's Office and Illinois State Police.
Ken DeCoster covers business news and features. Contact him at 815-987-1391, kdecoster@rrstar.com or @DeCosterKen. | https://www.journalstandard.com/story/news/fire/2022/09/14/2-injured-in-freeport-area-home-explosion/69493979007/ | 2022-09-15T19:11:18Z | journalstandard.com | control | https://www.journalstandard.com/story/news/fire/2022/09/14/2-injured-in-freeport-area-home-explosion/69493979007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On the Market: Three bedroom home in Freeport for sale
Ken DeCoster
Rockford Register Star
Address: 2214 Wheatland Terrace, Freeport
Description: This ranch home features 1,772 square feet of living space, including three bedrooms and three baths. The home boasts an open floor plan, a main floor laundry and a finished basement. The home also features a lot of open space and natural light.
Asking price: $219,900
Realtor: Kimberly Taylor, NextHome First Class 815-232-4433
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Ken DeCoster covers business news and features. Contact him at 815-987-1391, kdecoster@rrstar.com or @DeCosterKen. | https://www.journalstandard.com/story/news/local/2022/09/15/freeport-ranch-style-home-with-three-bedrooms-for-sales/69486334007/ | 2022-09-15T19:11:19Z | journalstandard.com | control | https://www.journalstandard.com/story/news/local/2022/09/15/freeport-ranch-style-home-with-three-bedrooms-for-sales/69486334007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Conversation) – The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.
In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of 32nd. Under this methodology – an expansive model of 17 categories, or “goals,” many of them focused on the environment and equity – the U.S. ranks between Cuba and Bulgaria. Both are widely regarded as developing countries.
The U.S. is also now considered a “flawed democracy,” according to The Economist’s democracy index.
As a political historian who studies U.S. institutional development, I recognize these dismal ratings as the inevitable result of two problems. Racism has cheated many Americans out of the health care, education, economic security and environment they deserve. At the same time, as threats to democracy become more serious, a devotion to “American exceptionalism” keeps the country from candid appraisals and course corrections.
‘The other America’
The Office of Sustainable Development’s rankings differ from more traditional development measures in that they are more focused on the experiences of ordinary people, including their ability to enjoy clean air and water, than the creation of wealth.
So while the gigantic size of the American economy counts in its scoring, so too does unequal access to the wealth it produces. When judged by accepted measures like the Gini coefficient, income inequality in the U.S. has risen markedly over the past 30 years. By the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s measurement, the U.S. has the biggest wealth gap among G-7 nations.
These results reflect structural disparities in the United States, which are most pronounced for African Americans. Such differences have persisted well beyond the demise of chattel slavery and the repeal of Jim Crow laws.
Scholar W.E.B. Du Bois first exposed this kind of structural inequality in his 1899 analysis of Black life in the urban north, “The Philadelphia Negro.” Though he noted distinctions of affluence and status within Black society, Du Bois found the lives of African Americans to be a world apart from white residents: a “city within a city.” Du Bois traced the high rates of poverty, crime and illiteracy prevalent in Philadelphia’s Black community to discrimination, divestment and residential segregation – not to Black people’s degree of ambition or talent.
More than a half-century later, with characteristic eloquence, Martin Luther King Jr. similarly decried the persistence of the “other America,” one where “the buoyancy of hope” was transformed into “the fatigue of despair.”
To illustrate his point, King referred to many of the same factors studied by Du Bois: the condition of housing and household wealth, education, social mobility and literacy rates, health outcomes and employment. On all of these metrics, Black Americans fared worse than whites. But as King noted, “Many people of various backgrounds live in this other America.”
The benchmarks of development invoked by these men also featured prominently in the 1962 book “The Other America,” by political scientist Michael Harrington, founder of a group that eventually became the Democratic Socialists of America. Harrington’s work so unsettled President John F. Kennedy that it reportedly galvanized him into formulating a “war on poverty.”
Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, waged this metaphorical war. But poverty bound to discrete places. Rural areas and segregated neighborhoods stayed poor well beyond mid-20th-century federal efforts.
In large part that is because federal efforts during that critical time accommodated rather than confronted the forces of racism, according to my research.
Across a number of policy domains, the sustained efforts of segregationist Democrats in Congress resulted in an incomplete and patchwork system of social policy. Democrats from the South cooperated with Republicans to doom to failure efforts to achieve universal health care or unionized workforces. Rejecting proposals for strong federal intervention, they left a checkered legacy of local funding for education and public health.
Today, many years later, the effects of a welfare state tailored to racism is evident — though perhaps less visibly so — in the inadequate health policies driving a shocking decline in average American life expectancy.
Declining democracy
There are other ways to measure a country’s level of development, and on some of them the U.S. fares better.
The U.S. currently ranks 21st on the United Nations Development Program’s index, which measures fewer factors than the sustainable development index. Good results in average income per person – $64,765 – and an average 13.7 years of schooling situate the United States squarely in the developed world.
Its ranking suffers, however, on appraisals that place greater weight on political systems.
The Economist’s democracy index now groups the U.S. among “flawed democracies,” with an overall score that ranks between Estonia and Chile. It falls short of being a top-rated “full democracy” in large part because of a fractured political culture. This growing divide is most apparent in the divergent paths between “red” and “blue” states.
Although the analysts from The Economist applaud the peaceful transfer of power in the face of an insurrection intended to disrupt it, their report laments that, according to a January 2022 poll, “only 55% of Americans believe that Mr. Biden legitimately won the 2020 election, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.”
Election denialism carries with it the threat that election officials in Republican-controlled jurisdictions will reject or alter vote tallies that do not favor the Republican Party in upcoming elections, further jeopardizing the score of the U.S. on the democracy index.
Red and blue America also differ on access to modern reproductive care for women. This hurts the U.S. gender equality rating, one aspect of the United Nations’ sustainable development index.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republican-controlled states have enacted or proposed grossly restrictive abortion laws, to the point of endangering a woman’s health.
I believe that, when paired with structural inequalities and fractured social policy, the dwindling Republican commitment to democracy lends weight to the classification of the U.S. as a developing country.
American exceptionalism
To address the poor showing of the United States on a variety of global surveys, one must also contend with the idea of American exceptionalism, a belief in American superiority over the rest of the world.
Both political parties have long promoted this belief, at home and abroad, but “exceptionalism” receives a more formal treatment from Republicans. It was the first line of the Republican Party’s national platform of 2016 and 2020 (“we believe in American exceptionalism”). And it served as the organizing principle behind Donald Trump’s vow to restore “patriotic education” to America’s schools.
In Florida, after lobbying by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state board of education in July 2022 approved standards rooted in American exceptionalism while barring instruction in critical race theory, an academic framework teaching the kind of structural racism Du Bois exposed long ago.
With a tendency to proclaim excellence rather than pursue it, the peddling of American exceptionalism encourages Americans to maintain a robust sense of national achievement – despite mounting evidence to the contrary. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/us-becoming-a-developing-country-on-global-rankings-that-measure-democracy-inequality/ | 2022-09-15T19:11:49Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/us-becoming-a-developing-country-on-global-rankings-that-measure-democracy-inequality/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was involved in a car accident early Thursday morning in Kyiv but suffered “no serious injuries,” his press secretary said.
Another car collided with the president’s car and his escort vehicles in Ukraine’s capital city, Zelensky’s press secretary Sergii Nykyforov said in a statement.
“The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were found,” Nykyforov said.
The driver in the other car was treated by medics accompanying Zelensky and transferred to an ambulance, according to Nykyforov.
Law enforcement officials are investigating the circumstances of the accident, he added.
Zelensky visited Izyum in northeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, after Ukrainian forces retook the city from Russian forces as part of a major counteroffensive over the weekend.
The Ukrainian leader is seeking to address the U.N. General Assembly via video next week; however, Russia is looking to block the virtual speech. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/zelensky-involved-in-car-crash-but-suffers-no-serious-injuries/ | 2022-09-15T19:11:55Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/zelensky-involved-in-car-crash-but-suffers-no-serious-injuries/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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US hits more Russians with sanctions over Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday slapped sanctions on dozens of Russian and Ukrainian officials and a number of Russian companies for human rights abuses and the theft of Ukrainian grain.
The State Department said it had imposed sanctions on at least 23 officials and 31 Russian government agencies and firms for their roles in supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine. Some, but not all, of those penalized were already subject to U.S. sanctions, which include asset freezes and a ban on Americans conducting business with them.
“Those designated today — from perpetrators of violence to an official facilitating the purposeful removal of children from Ukraine — provide examples of the behavior that has become synonymous with the Government of Russia’s unprovoked war,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
“The United States will continue to take actions against those who support Russia’s defense-industrial base, its violation of human rights, and its attempts to legitimize its occupation of Ukrainian territory, wherever they may be,” he said in a statement.
Among those targeted on Thursday include 17 Russian and Ukrainian officials who were said to be working for, or on behalf of, the Russian government to destabilize Ukraine. Another five people were sanctioned for participating in the alleged theft of Ukrainian grain. Many of them were appointed by Russia to local leadership positions in parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Among the government agencies and companies hit with sanctions were Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, which has been subject to U.S. penalties since 2016, but has since been accused of running so-called “filtration” camps through which Ukrainians have been forcibly deported.
Other companies include high-tech firms involved in Russia’s space and satellite sectors and computer companies that produce micro-processors and semiconductors used by the Russian armed forces.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wave3.com/2022/09/15/us-hits-more-russians-with-sanctions-over-ukraine/ | 2022-09-15T19:12:18Z | wave3.com | control | https://www.wave3.com/2022/09/15/us-hits-more-russians-with-sanctions-over-ukraine/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The Queen’s niece and nephew and their families
The Earl of Snowdon and his children, Viscount Linley and Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones
The Queen's only nephew, David is the son of Her Majesty's younger sister, Princess Margaret, and the 1st Earl of Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones. He inherited his father's title to become the 2nd Earl in 2017. Recently divorced from his wife, Serena, he has two children, 23-year-old Charles, Viscount Linley, and 20-year-old Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones. Honorary chairman for Christie's Europe, Middle East and Russia, he's also a furniture designer and is known to be close to his cousin, King Charles III.
Lady Sarah Chatto, her husband Daniel, and their sons Arthur and Sam | https://www.tatler.com/article/a-whos-who-of-the-queens-extended-family | 2022-09-15T19:18:11Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/a-whos-who-of-the-queens-extended-family | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Queen’s niece and nephew and their families
The Earl of Snowdon and his children, Viscount Linley and Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones
The Queen's only nephew, David is the son of Her Majesty's younger sister, Princess Margaret, and the 1st Earl of Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones. He inherited his father's title to become the 2nd Earl in 2017. Recently divorced from his wife, Serena, he has two children, 23-year-old Charles, Viscount Linley, and 20-year-old Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones. Honorary chairman for Christie's Europe, Middle East and Russia, he's also a furniture designer and is known to be close to his cousin, King Charles III.
Lady Sarah Chatto, her husband Daniel, and their sons Arthur and Sam | https://www.tatler.com/article/a-whos-who-of-the-queens-extended-family | 2022-09-15T19:18:11Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/a-whos-who-of-the-queens-extended-family | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Queen Elizabeth II will be given a state funeral at 11am on 19 Saturday, after she has lain in state for four and a half days. But what exactly is a state funeral?
In Britain, state funerals are usually reserved for monarchs, with the last such ceremony held for a sovereign in 1952, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II's father, King George VI. However, in very exceptional cases, a state funeral may be ‘held to honour a highly distinguished figure’. Most recently former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was awarded a state funeral in 1965, in acknowledgement of his service to the nation throughout the Second World War. At the time of his funeral Her Majesty said the entire nation should ‘have the opportunity to express their sorrow’, she also described him as ‘the inspiring leader who strengthened and supported us all’.
Arguably, the state funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901, set the tone for the rest of the twentieth century. The next three state funerals of a monarch all conformed to the following pattern: lying in state in Westminster Hall; conveyance of the body from Westminster Hall to Windsor; and finally the funeral service and burial service in St George's Chapel Windsor. The state funeral for Her Majesty will follow a similar pattern, although the Queen's official funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey, before her body is laid to rest at Windsor. | https://www.tatler.com/article/history-of-state-funerals-what-they-are-and-who-gets-one | 2022-09-15T19:18:17Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/history-of-state-funerals-what-they-are-and-who-gets-one | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The sparkling crown which is currently sitting atop the late Queen Elizabeth II's coffin is quite the spectacle of royal grandeur, as well as being rich with family history. Named the Imperial State Crown, the piece originally dates back to the time of Queen Victoria, although it was redesigned for the coronation of the Queen's father, King George VI, in 1937, and shortened by an inch for Her Majesty's own coronation.
The Imperial State Crown is similar in appearance to St. Edward's Crown, which was created for the coronation of Charles II in 1661 after the original was destroyed under Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century, when he ordered the abolition of the monarchy.
Sparkling with nearly 3,000 stones, including 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, and five rubies, the piece weighs in at a hefty 2.3lbs (1.06kg). Some jewellery experts have estimated it to be worth between £3 billion and £5 billion, with the 317-carat Cullinan II (the diamond at the centre of the piece) alone being estimated at £400 million. That said, several specialists have decided that putting a price on the crown's worth is ‘nigh on impossible’. Royal expert Alastair Bruce has previously stated that the Crown Jewels collection (of which the crown is apart) was beyond monetary value.
The Cullinan II stone was cut from the largest diamond ever recorded (a 3,601-carat stone found in Africa in 1905) and given to Edward VII on his birthday by the government of the Transvaal (present-day South Africa) in 1907. The crown also includes the oldest gem in the royal collection: the Stuart Sapphire, said to have once been set in a ring donned frequently by Edward the Confessor, which sits at the centre of the diamond cross. At the front of the crown, above the central diamond, is the Black Prince's Ruby, a stone thought to have been worn by Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. The rim of the crown is lined with fur and purple velvet.
During her reign, Queen Elizabeth II wore the crown annually for the State Opening of Parliament as she sat on a golden throne reading out the government's key legislative plans for the year ahead. According to the BBC, in 2018, the sovereign joked about how heavy the piece felt atop her head: 'You can't look down to read the speech, you have to take the speech up, because if you did your neck would break,' explained the monarch. From 2019 onwards, the Queen wore a lighter crown for the ceremony, and by 2021, she wore none at all.
Historian and author of The Crown Jewels, Anna Keay, told the BBC: 'It can be quite hard to look at sometimes because of the sheer light that comes off them. It's literally dazzling… visually overpowering': whilst BBC presenter Clive Myrie described seeing the crown close-up as ‘almost unreal […] The clarity of the diamonds is absolutely unbelievable'.
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The Mall, which only three months ago had witnessed scenes of such celebration and joy for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee festivities, was altogether different on Wednesday. Following the death of the Queen on 8 September at Balmoral, Her Majesty had made her final journey home on Tuesday to her family at Buckingham Palace. The next day, the Queen’s coffin was taken in procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where she now lies in state – Her Majesty’s final resting place ahead of her funeral on Monday – so that the public may bid her a solemn farewell.
What it was like to be among the crowds during Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin procession
In the warmth of the September sunshine, the crowds arrived in their hundreds of thousands, police directing them to follow the route through the park, now a sea of floral tributes. The flags over The Mall were flying in the breeze, the mood sombre and reflective, each onlooker with their own story to tell. Some had been here since 8am, perched at the front on their neat collapsible chairs. Families arrived with children, ‘I want them to remember this moment,’ one said. Another woman had driven from South Wales at 3am. Two young lads from East London joined the throng. You sensed that Pret a Manger in Green Park was having a very good day. Someone produced a gluten-free packet of snacks.
There was speculation about the royals: ‘I think Harry should be allowed to wear his uniform, the Queen would have wanted that for him,’ said one; ‘Do you think Kate and Meghan will travel in the same car and what will they talk about?’ from another. In the hours that passed, policemen and rubbish collectors were cheered, and the lorry with curious brushes on its undercarriages was identified by my neighbour as the horse manure ‘scooper’. There was a flurry of activity with sniffer dogs, then army officers strolling by, and serious-looking men in Range Rovers driving slowly down The Mall. Onlookers at the front were charging their phones on battery packs and sending friends to join the long coffee queue. If you’re going to do this, organisation is the key.
After a three-hour wait, it was 2pm. Small children were jostled into position by their mothers, a sense of anticipation was building. ‘Don’t wave your flags,’ a mother instructed her young daughters. The 38-minute procession started on the dot of 2.22pm. In the distance, the gentle hum of helicopters overhead was dulled with the distant beat of drums and marching and the gentle clip clop of horses hooves: the Grenadier Guards were leading the funeral march music down The Mall. The pomp, ceremony and pageantry that we have come to expect on these historic royal occasions was perfected by the recent daily dawn rehearsals. There wasn’t a step out of place.
And as the coffin neared, on a gun carriage of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, draped in the Royal Standard, with the Queen’s Imperial State Crown laid on top of a purple cushion, silence fell. A silence that was expressive and almost too painful to bear. King Charles III, together with his siblings, walked ahead of his sons, Princes William and Harry, who flanked each other today as they did while walking this very same route for their mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales’s funeral 25 years ago. But it was as if the crowd were willing this family, in their shared deep grief and hour of need, to be strong for their beloved mother, grandmother and monarch. As the coffin passed, tears fell, friends hugged. And those of us who were there realised we had witnessed this momentous final chapter.
Edward Fitzalan-Howard is Earl Marshal, making him the most senior peer in Britain | https://www.tatler.com/article/queen-elizabeth-iis-coffin-procession-public-mourners-streets-of-london | 2022-09-15T19:18:30Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/queen-elizabeth-iis-coffin-procession-public-mourners-streets-of-london | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Among friends: Inside the new King and Queen Consort’s inner circle
The Duke & Duchess of Wellington
King Charles III is a frequent guest at the Wellington’s estate in Spain, having first visited in the 1970s when he was courting the duke’s sister Jane Wellesley. Camilla went to the wedding of their daughter Lady Charlotte in Granada in 2016.
Kirsty Smallwood
Kirsty is one of the Queen Consort’s oldest schoolfriends. She is the granddaughter of the politician and press baron Lord Beaverbrook, and the daughter of Sir Max Aitken, the celebrated Battle of Britain fighter pilot.
The Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Soames
A former Tory MP and a grandson of Winston Churchill, ‘Fatty’ Soames met Charles when they were 12, and was his equerry in the 1970s. Charles, in turn, was his best man in 1981.
The Hon George & Hon Sarah Lopes
George is the son of the 2nd Baron Roborough and his wife, Sarah, is Lord Astor of Hewver’s sister. Their son Harry is married to Camilla’s daughter, Laura (whose daughter, Eliza was a bridesmaid for the Duchess of Cambridge).
Rupert Lycett Green
This debonair tailor shot to fame in the 1960s with his cult West End shop, Blades. He has been close to the new King and Queen Consort for years, as was his late wife, Candida.
The Duke of Abercorn
An old friend of the late Queen, the duke splits his time between London and Baronscourt, the family’s estate in Northern Ireland. Charles is godfather to his son James, Marquess of Hamilton.
Emilie van Cutsem
Hugh, Emilie’s late husband, was very close to the King, and they often went shooting together. Emilie is a mainstay at royal weddings, and her granddaughters Grace and Florence were bridesmaids at both Harry and William’s nuptials.
Lady Tollemache
Garden designer Xa has been close to the new King and Queen Consort for decades. Charles is godfather to her elder son Edward, and she and her husband, Timothy are frequent guests at Sandringham.
Simon & Santa Sebag Montefiore
Santa, daughter of Charles and Patti Palmer-Tomkinson, is formidable on the slopes and she skis with the King in Klosters. Simon is a respected historian and author.
Lady Anne Glenconner
A lifelong friend of the Royal Family, Lady Anne was maid of honour at the late Queen’s coronation and is close to Camilla. She once told Tatler she thought Charles’s wife was wonderful with a ‘lovely sense of humour’.
Catherine Goodman
An artist and friend of both Charles and Camilla, Catherine cofounded the Royal Drawing School with Charles in 2000 – the King is known to be a keen watercolourist.
Lord Rothschild
Charles and Camilla have been guests at Lord Rothschild’s villa in Corfu, and he has received multiple honours from the King for his philanthropic work, including a CVO for services to the Duchy of Cornwall.
Baron & Baroness von Westenholz
The interior designer and former Olympic skier Piers was responsible for the successful revamp of Charles’s Dumfries House, while his wife, Jane, has been close to Camilla for years.
The Earl & Countess of Rosslyn
Peter, a former policeman, was appointed as Master of the Household to Charles and Camilla at Clarence House in 2014. His wife, Helen, runs the London Original Print Fair. In a strange twist of fate, their daughter Alice played Kate Middleton in a TV film.
The Earl of Snowdon & Lady Sarah Chatto
The King is extremely fond of his cousins David and Sarah. David founded luxury furniture company Linley, is involved with The Prince’s Foundation, and is the honorary chairman of Christie’s Europe, Russia, India and the Middle East. His sister, Sarah, shares Charles’s love of painting and the outdoors.
Charles & Patti Palmer-Tomkinson
Former Olympic skier Charles and his wife, Patricia (Patti), have been close friends with the King since the 1970s, and have often joined him skiing. Patti met her now-husband Charles when she was working as a chalet girl in Klosters, and is a good friend of Camilla.
Annabel & Simon Elliot
Interior designer Annabel was the King’s first choice to zhuzh up the Lodge at his beloved Dumfries House. Little wonder: she is Camilla’s sister and closest confidante. Her husband, Simon, a Dorset landowner, is very much in the fold, as is their son, Ben.
The Countess of Home
The late Earl of Home, David, whose father was the Tory prime minister Alec Douglas Home, was chairman of Coutts for 14 years. He and his wife, Jane, often stayed at Birkhall, the King and Queen Consort’s long-time Scottish residence. Their two daughters were at Prince William’s 21st.
The Earl & Countess of Halifax
The couple are close family friends of the Royal Family. Peter was once considered as a potential husband for Princess Anne; Camilla Halifax was previously married to Andrew Parker Bowles’s late younger brother, Rick. The late Queen stayed with the Halifaxes at Garrowby Hall (where Charles and Camilla used to meet in secret) when Royal Ascot was moved to York.
Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Penny is married to the Charles’s cousin Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma (the king was best man at their wedding). Penny was also close to the late Prince Philip.
Lady Sarah Keswick
Sarah is one of Camilla’s oldest friends, and her husband, Sir Chips, a banker and former chairman of Arsenal, is just as charming and a great draw at dinner.
Natalia, Duchess of Westminster
The King was great friends with Gerald, the late Duke of Westminster, and often stayed with him and Natalia at Eaton Hall, or at their shooting lodge in Lancashire. Natalia is also Prince William’s godmother.
Tatler’s Associate Editor reports from a historic day on the streets of London
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After taking X-rays, veterinarians discovered the one-year-old dog 'Nakoa', had been shot twice with real bullets. One of the wounds was old, while the other was fresh.
"It fully severed his spine, just shattering the vertebrae," explained Ku'ulei Durand, Executive Director of PAWS of Hawaii. "They said if the bullet had missed his spine, we would've been able to save him. But, because it severed his spine he has severe damage to all of his body, and he's going to be a paraplegic dog for the rest of his life."
Veterinarian assessments also showed Nakoa's leg would have to be amputated.
Due to the poor quality of life he would live, the difficult decision was made to put him down.
Vets also performed a CT scan, which they hope can help bring some justice to the situation.
"It's actually very important to do his CT scan because not only will this tell us what's wrong with him, the CT scan would be able to be used in prosecuting whoever it is that did this to him," explained Durand. "The veterinarians are going to be pulling out the bullets and sending them over to authorities to try and figure out who did this to this dog."
This comes amid a reported uptick in recent animal cruelty cases, according to local animal organizations.
Durand said PAWS of Hawaii is grateful to the public for their generous donations in helping pay for Nakoa's roughly $4,000 worth of medical bills on Wednesday.
Anyone with any information on this incident is asked to call police.
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