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A U.S. Coast Guardsman from Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST) Honolulu practices entering and clearing spaces aboard a Navy vessel anchored at Pearl Harbor. The versatile MSST units can be assigned in support of any of the Coast Guard's 11 statutory missions, but are commonly associated with port, waterway and coastal security as well as other homeland security roles. US Coast Guard Art Program 2017 Collection, Ob ID# 201711, "Focused to secure," Tom Hedderich, watercolor, 10 x 14
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Exclusive Preview: Fantastic Four #47
Exclusive Preview: Fantastic Four #47
Dan Slott’s run with the FF has come to a close, but there’s no time to rest for Marvel’s first family of superheroes! Judgment Day has arrived, thanks to a mad Celestial god unleashed by the Avengers to save the X-Men from the Eternals. And the Celestial plans to judge every man, woman, and child to determine if Earth is worthy to survive. Typical day for the Fantastic Four. That’s probably why they aren’t too worked up about it. Regardless, the team will soon learn that they shouldn’t let their guard down in Fantastic Four #47.
In Superhero Hype’s exclusive preview for Fantastic Four #47, writer David Pepose and artist Juann Cabal show us what happens when a villain catches the team unawares. They may not have faced Oubliette Midas before, but she’s got a ruthless streak and she doesn’t care who she has to hurt to achieve her goals. However, Oubliette has made a grave mistake by threatening the Invisible Woman’s family. Susan Richards never backs down when the lives of her loved ones are on the line.
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Here’s the official description from Marvel.
“A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY TIE-IN! The Taking of Baxter 1-2-3-4 begins now! With judgment looming over the Marvel Universe, Reed Richards has locked himself in his Think Tank in search of answers. But with the fate of humanity on the line, what happens when OUBLIETTE MIDAS sets her sights on the Baxter Building?
As the Fantastic Four falls before the Exterminatrix’s death traps, only one hero remains standing – but if you thought Oubliette was dangerous, it’s nothing compared to what the Invisible Woman is capable of. Get ready for Die Hard in the Baxter Building, as we’ve only got one thing left to say: Yippie-ki-yay, Marvel Universe.“
You can read the full preview in our gallery below. Fantastic Four #47 will hit comic book stores on Wednesday, September 21.
What did you think about this preview? Let us know in the comment section below!
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The Spectacular Spider-Man Will Stream On Disney+ In October
In April 2021, Sony and Disney reached an agreement that would allow certain Sony projects to stream on Disney+ and Hulu. The most notable franchise in the deal is Spider-Man. Fast forward to today as Disney+ announced its upcoming slate of projects coming to the streamer in October and two Sony-produced animated shows involving Peter Parker made the list. The Spectacular Spider-Man and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series stream on Disney+ starting October 19.
The Spectacular Spider-Man depicted the adventures of Peter (Josh Keaton) during one semester of high school. The series ran for 26 episodes for two seasons from March 2008 to November 2009 before its cancellation. The critically acclaimed series received excellent reviews, and TV Guide listed the show as one of the sixty greatest animated series of all time. Disney+ will release the first season before presumably setting a date for season 2.
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Originally envisioned as a sequel of sorts to Sam Rami’s Spider-Man, Spider-Man: The New Animated Series followed Peter (Neil Patrick Harris), Mary Jane Watson (Lisa Loeb), and Harry Osborn (Ian Ziering) in college. The series only ran for 13 episodes, and the show is no longer considered canon to Rami’s films. But it did feature villains that the Raimiverse never got around to, including Michael Clarke Duncan as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin.
Hulu has previously added Sam Rami’s Spider-Man films to its service. However, there are still no live-action Spider-Man films on Disney+. But given the terms of the deal with Sony, they will likely show up at some point.
Are you excited to watch these animated series on Disney+? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
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At least 10 people are dead and four are missing, including two children, from floodwaters triggered by heavy rainfall in central Italy early Friday, authorities said.
The country’s national fire service, Vigili del Fuoco, said nearly 200 firefighters were at work rescuing dozens of people through the night who took refuge on the roofs of houses and trees.
The agency posted videos to Twitter showing responders in the town of Senigallia, in the eastern Marche region, carrying out operations. Another 400 interventions were carried out in the provinces of Ancona and Pesaro-Urbino.
More than 15 inches of rain fell in central Italy as the Misa River, which flows through Senigallia, peaked early Friday morning, the local municipality said on Facebook.
Climatologist Massimiliano Fazzini told Italian state TV that the concentration of rain over four hours, including a heavy 15-minute period, was the most in hundreds of years, the Associated Press reported.
“It was an extreme event, more than an exceptional one,″ he said.
Two children, including a boy swept out of his mother’s arms in Barbara, were among four people still unaccounted for as of late Friday morning, according to the AP.
“It wasn’t a water bomb, it was a tsunami,” Riccardo Pasqualini, the mayor of Barbara in the Marche region, told Italian state radio.
In the community of Serra de’ Conti, firefighters also sifted among the mud and fallen trees in the search for missing persons.
Senigallia Mayor Massimo Olivetti closed multiple city offices and schools in the town. Residents were also advised not to use tap water until all checks have been carried out to allow safe consumption.
Italy’s Department of Civil Protection issued an orange alert Thursday for parts of central and southern Italy, including the Campania and Lazio regions. The alert remained in effect Friday as rain and strong winds were expected to continue throughout the day. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/italy-hit-with-tsunami-floodwaters-at-least-10-dead-4-missing/ | 2022-09-16T17:35:22Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/italy-hit-with-tsunami-floodwaters-at-least-10-dead-4-missing/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
If hell is a teenage girl, then count on Netflix’s Do Revenge to deliver your latest dose of purgatory. Starring Camila Mendes as fallen It girl Drea and Maya Hawke as outsider Eleanor, the film centers on a vengeance plot deliciously conceived by high schoolers, and pays homage to Y2K-era movies from Clueless to Cruel Intentions along the way.
“Do Revenge is like a Pinterest board exploded on Netflix,” filmmaker Jennifer Kaytin Robinson previously told Vanity Fair. When she wasn’t curating the film’s hyperspecific onscreen aesthetic, Robinson spent her time capturing the behind-the-scenes vibes for posterity. “I love Polaroids, and I’ve always been drawn to that type of photography,” she said during a recent Zoom. “I started this knowing that I wanted to document the making of the film and have my own little time capsule of it. Polaroids just felt like a really fun version of that. Ultimately, I want to make a coffee-table book of all of them.”
Always armed with her Polaroid Now i-Type and Polaroid OneStep+ instant cameras, Robinson often had to sneak in spontaneous pictures either during rehearsal or at the tail end of a take. “It’s funny because I didn’t want to be intrusive to my own process as a filmmaker as this Polaroid photographer, which was my side hustle,” she said with a laugh. “But I tried to find those moments, and then whenever I remembered the camera was out, I tried to set up these tableaux and get these little pictures.”
In celebration of her sophomore directorial feature (streaming now on Netflix), Robinson shared her exclusive behind-the-scenes photo diary with VF—and couldn’t resist quoting Clueless in the process. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/do-revenge-photo-diary | 2022-09-16T17:36:21Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/do-revenge-photo-diary | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
If hell is a teenage girl, then count on Netflix’s Do Revenge to deliver your latest dose of purgatory. Starring Camila Mendes as fallen It girl Drea and Maya Hawke as outsider Eleanor, the film centers on a vengeance plot deliciously conceived by high schoolers, and pays homage to Y2K-era movies from Clueless to Cruel Intentions along the way.
“Do Revenge is like a Pinterest board exploded on Netflix,” filmmaker Jennifer Kaytin Robinson previously told Vanity Fair. When she wasn’t curating the film’s hyperspecific onscreen aesthetic, Robinson spent her time capturing the behind-the-scenes vibes for posterity. “I love Polaroids, and I’ve always been drawn to that type of photography,” she said during a recent Zoom. “I started this knowing that I wanted to document the making of the film and have my own little time capsule of it. Polaroids just felt like a really fun version of that. Ultimately, I want to make a coffee-table book of all of them.”
Always armed with her Polaroid Now i-Type and Polaroid OneStep+ instant cameras, Robinson often had to sneak in spontaneous pictures either during rehearsal or at the tail end of a take. “It’s funny because I didn’t want to be intrusive to my own process as a filmmaker as this Polaroid photographer, which was my side hustle,” she said with a laugh. “But I tried to find those moments, and then whenever I remembered the camera was out, I tried to set up these tableaux and get these little pictures.”
In celebration of her sophomore directorial feature (streaming now on Netflix), Robinson shared her exclusive behind-the-scenes photo diary with VF—and couldn’t resist quoting Clueless in the process. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/do-revenge-photo-diary | 2022-09-16T17:36:21Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/do-revenge-photo-diary | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
After getting to spend an extended amount of time with America's foremost reality star, Hillary Clinton said she has to admit she finds Kim Kardashian's dedication to studying the law to be pretty impressive.
The former Secretary of State and her daughter Chelsea Clinton invited the Skims founder to be their special guest on an episode of their new Apple TV+ series, Gutsy. On the show, Clinton even squared off against Kardashian in a quiz testing their legal acumen. When asked about the experience during an interview with Extra on Wednesday, the former First Lady confessed, “I really admire her determination to get her law degree so that she can do more to help people who are unfairly treated in the criminal justice system.” When asked about the reality star besting her during that quiz, Clinton—herself a lawyer—noted, “She may have failed a couple of times before, but she didn’t quit, she kept going, and she had taken the bar a lot later than I had. I haven’t taken a bar in a very long time, and she knew the answers to some of those questions and I no longer did.”
Kardashian failed California's “baby bar” exam three times before finally passing in December of last year. In an episode of her Hulu show, The Kardashians, she revealed that she she had found out she passed the first-year- law students' examination while sitting in her car in the parking lot of Red Lobster. She explained that the moment was particularly tense as “You are only allowed to take the baby bar a certain amount of times. This was the last time I could ever take it, so if I don’t [pass] then this law school journey is over for me.” But she did pass and enthusiastically shared the happy news on Instagram at the time, writing, “Looking in the mirror, I am really proud of the woman looking back today in the reflection. For anyone who doesn’t know my law school journey, know this wasn’t easy or handed to me. I failed this exam 3 times in 2 years, but I got back up each time and studied harder and tried again until I did it!!!” She continued, “I was told by top lawyers that this was a close to impossible journey and harder than the traditional law school route, but it was my only option and it feels soooo good to be here and on my way to achieving my goals...I know my dad would be so proud. He would actually be so shocked to know that this is my path now but he would have been my best study partner.”
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King Charles and his wife Camilla, Queen Consort completed their tour of the United Kingdom this week following the death of Queen Elizabeth with a visit to a place that holds special importance to the new monarch.
The royal couple arrived in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, on Friday, landing by helicopter to a royal gun salute from the 104 Regiment Royal Artillery at Cardiff Castle. Once there, the royals attended a service of prayer and reflection for the life of the late queen at Llandaff Cathedral. Following the church service, Charles and Camilla were driven to the bayside Senedd, the name for the Welsh parliament, where they were given a Motion of Condolence. As they entered the building, the royals waved to the gathered crowds and Camilla showed no signs of the broken toe she's been struggling with all week. Once inside, former royal harpist Claire Jones played a specially-composed piece for the pair as they crossed the Senedd to receive the Motion. Following this event, the king is also scheduled to conduct various audiences at Cardiff Castle and later today will attend a reception for the city's local charities with Camilla.
During the motion of condolence, the Senedd's presiding officer Elin Jones delivered a moving speech, speaking fondly of the queen's many beloved Welsh corgis. “The stories and tributes paid by members to the Queen when we convened on Sunday were warm and witty,” she said. “As you may imagine, there were many mentions of corgis—her constant, lifelong Welsh companions. Corgi, a Welsh word. Literally small dog. And of course, the members here representing Pembrokeshire were particularly keen to champion her preference for the Pembrokeshire corgi. And the member for Ceredigion, me, was silent, and ever so slightly jealous, of the Queen's choice of the Pembrokeshire corgi over the Cardiganshire corgi.”
This was a significant final stop for King Charles as before his mother's death he held the title of Prince of Wales for over 60 years. A title that now belongs to his son, Prince William. This was also the final stop on the monarch's tour of the UK as the country's new ruler. Earlier this week, he and Camilla traveled to Belfast in Northern Ireland, arriving at Hillsborough Castle on Tuesday. King Charles said in a speech during that visit, “In the years since she began her long life of public service, my mother saw Northern Ireland pass through momentous and historic changes. Through all those years, she never ceased to pray for the best of times for this place and for its people, whose stories she knew, whose sorrows our Family had felt, and for whom she had a great affection and regard.”
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This will surprise no one, but it’s an absolute joy to talk with Mariah Carey about diamonds.
“I don’t have birthdays, but if I did, they would be my birthstone,” Carey told Vanity Fair recently over Zoom (camera off, name set to “Mimi” and accented with a blue butterfly emoji). No small part of that joy is purely sonic. The warm depth of her voice is a pleasure to listen to generally, but there’s also a brightness that rings through it when a subject she likes comes up—like diamonds and when to wear them, for example.
We’re discussing Carey’s hypothetical birthstone because she collaborated with Chopard on two collections—Chopard X Mariah Carey Collection and Happy Butterfly X Mariah Carey. Working with Caroline Scheufele, the luxury horologist and fine jeweler’s co-president and artistic director, Carey designed pieces that feature ethical stones, arranged whimsically in the shape of butterflies, another one of the performer’s favorite things.
“I don’t want to say, Oh, everybody in the world can wear this because we all know everybody can’t afford everything. I grew up with nothing, so let’s not get it twisted that I think everybody on earth can afford diamonds,” Carey said. “But if you can and you make an investment in a quality piece, this is something that I think people could wear with multiple types of looks. Whatever your vibe is for that day.”
“I’ll be sleeping in it,” she added. “And there’s no doubt about that.”
The collection was two years in the making. It began with a phone call from Scheufele, during which the artistic director sketched out a glamorous butterfly collar.
“Working with Mariah was such a pleasure, but it was a bit different for me, as we had to do everything virtually, since neither of us were able to travel. We worked together on Zoom, on email and on WhatsApp, collaborating to make sure everything would be perfect,” Scheufele said. In her sketches, she was guided by Carey’s love of the butterfly and Chopard’s own Happy Diamonds range. Not a terrible way to spend a pandemic, and symbolic, too, if you frame the shutdown as a period of metamorphosis on the other side of which emerges this bright and sparkling thing. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/mariah-carey-and-chopard-debut-a-flutter-of-diamond-butterflies | 2022-09-16T17:36:40Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/mariah-carey-and-chopard-debut-a-flutter-of-diamond-butterflies | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
At the end of July, the England women’s national team was en route to a European championship, and the Japanese British musician Rina Sawayama, though not a soccer fan, told her go-to makeup artist that she wanted to show her support. “I feel like doing something from the 2000s,” Mona Leanne recalls Sawayama saying, and Bend It Like Beckham— the box office smash from 2002—came to mind.
It was a time, the pair remembered with some amusement, of pale, shimmery eye shadow and icy pink Nivea lip balm. Sawayama put on an England jersey, soccer-length socks, and London designer Martine Rose’s recent reinterpretation of Nike Shox (est. 2000); Leanne added a silver lip and frost-blue eye, teeing up a ready comparison to Sporty Spice.
Such alchemy is also present in Sawayama’s music. For the past five years, she has been releasing pop songs that refract past eras and outré genres through incisive writing and bracing spectacle. Her 2020 debut album, SAWAYAMA, launched the singer to wider recognition and critical acclaim, and this September’s follow-up is titled Hold the Girl. “What I wanted to do,” Sawayama says, “was get really refined as a pop writer whilst also retaining that core authentic, exploratory view of production.” She describes “This Hell,” an undeniable single off the new album, as emerging from a mash-up of a lyrical idea workshopped in an iPhone note and a multilayered homage to Shania Twain’s country pop: the twinkling stomp, the buoying key changes, the “Let’s go girls.” Her glitter-red cat eye in the accompanying cowboy-wedding-themed video is the clincher.
The results of Sawayama’s explorations, in music and in makeup, have been prismatic and maximalist. A familiar front-row presence, she wore face jewels to the Schiaparelli couture show earlier this year, and a 1920s pencil brow to Balenciaga. “The great thing about Rina is she’s so open to ideas,” Leanne says—like an electric sweep of aqua shadow layered underneath the eyes.
With a tour kicking off this month and a role alongside Keanu Reeves in next year’s John Wick: Chapter 4, Sawayama anticipates further reinventions. “I never think of my face as a brand,” she says. “I would get way too bored if I had to keep the same thing going for a long time.” As with her songs, she shrugs off straight-on nostalgia, more interested in how the substance of those memories can be rewired. “We always go with the concept,” Sawayama says of her top-to-bottom styling. “What’s the vision? And then we go from there.”
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivers remarks at the Pentagon’s annual POW/MIA recognition ceremony.
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Thursday, at the Hamilton County School Board Meeting, ESL teachers attended to show support for Hispanic students after school board member Rhonda Thurman made comments about the growing number of Hispanic students in schools.
Thurman spoke to the Chattanoogan at the end of last month and made this statement that sparked controversy:
"We had about 8,000 Hispanic students last school year, and at last count the number was 8,671 this year. They arrive every day at schools like Howard in groups of five or more. It is mind-boggling to me the burden it puts on the schools, the teachers, and the taxpayers."
Teachers are upset by the comments and Thurman told us she stands by them and won't apologize.
"To even think of them as a burden it's very sad," said ENL teacher for East Ridge Elementary School, Jennifer Defur. "The word 'burden' is 'burden,' and in any context that is just not a word you would associate with a student."
"I didn't say they were a burden, I said the situation is a burden to the system," said Thurman.
When asked what situation exactly she meant she responded, "Well, number one it is overcrowding of some of our schools."
She said the increasing number of Hispanic students enrolling in Hamilton County Schools is a "situation" and said she didn't mean the students were a burden.
"I've talked to some teachers that have actually have left some of the schools because they said they couldn't deal with it anymore, so it's a burden to somebody," she said as a basis of what prompted her to make the comments in the first place.
The ESL and ENL teachers showing up to the Hamilton County School Board meeting felt otherwise. They were there to prove that Hispanic students are an asset to the school system.
"If 85 percent of their students are Hispanic, it's not a burden for them," Thurman said in response to the teachers. "But the ones that are having to deal with it at the high school level and the middle school level, it is a burden to them when they cannot give them an assignment and they can't read it and they don't understand it."
"I think any great teacher will give an equal amount of time to each student. They will meet them where they need to," said Defur. "You would see they are not a burden. They are a blessing."
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The life cycle of plastic begins underground, where oil and gas are extracted from deep below the surface of the planet. These fossil fuels are then refined in facilities, using extreme temperatures and significant amount of water and energy, where they are transformed into pellets that are eventually melted and molded into things like water bottles, packaging, garbage bags and clothes.
And the widespread use of single-use plastic — the stuff we use once and then throw away — is only made worse by its disposal. Plastics do not break down once they're thrown into nature. And, alarmingly, only around 9% plastic in the US is actually recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency — even the stuff you specifically threw into the recycle bin.
What you might not realize is this isn't just a pollution problem. It's a climate problem. And by the time we start talking about recycling, the damage is already done.
The process of making plastic is so energy intensive that if the plastics industry were a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, according to a 2021 report from Beyond Plastics.
Plastics are the "new coal," said Judith Enck, a former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator and now president of Beyond Plastics. Generating energy from coal — the most polluting fossil fuel — is already being phased out. But Enck said it's likely that plastics may be sticking for a while longer, unless consumers significant cut their plastic use.
"It's a climate killer," Enck told CNN. "We're finally seeing an increase in renewable energy and energy efficiency. And the fossil fuel industry knew that they were losing market share on transportation and electricity generation, so plastic production is the plan B for the fossil fuel industry."
From its production to its end-of-life, plastic belches greenhouse gas emissions at every stage of its life cycle. Here's why experts say the convenience of plastic comes at a terrible cost for the climate, and what you can do to help reduce its impact.
Quantifying the impact
The plastic industry is responsible for at least 232 million tons of planet-warming emissions each year, according to the Beyond Plastics report.
That's the same amount as the average emissions released by 116 coal-fired power plants in 2020, according to the report's authors. It's also the same annual emissions as around 50 million cars, according to the EPA. And more plastic-making facilities continue to come online.
"Remember that when you're making plastic, there's the greenhouse gas emissions, but these facilities also emit massive amounts of air toxins and particulates," Enck added. "It's really a health threat."
Refineries and production facilities also tend to set up shop in marginalized communities of color, Enck said.
"If you look at where more than 90% of the climate pollution is released by the plastic industry, it's in 18 communities in the whole country, and they're all low-income communities and the residents are more likely to be people of color," Enck said, outlining other findings in the report. "Plastic production is an environmental justice issue."
And plastic recycling doesn't work, Enck said, because most of what we think we're recycling just ends up in the landfill. It also doesn't address the planet-warming emissions that comes from making it in the first place.
Jacqueline Savitz, chief policy officer for Oceana in North America, said people should think of the plastic crisis as an overflowing bathtub.
"When the bathtub is overflowing, you don't want to just run for the mop; first, you want to turn off the faucet," Savitz said. "Recycling is the mop. You're not going to get very far, if the faucet is still on. So what we have to do is reduce the amount of plastics that we're producing at the source, and that's turning off the faucet."
What you can do about it
Recycling alone will not solve this massive problem, Enck said, but we should still do it — bearing in mind what can and cannot be recycled.
The number system on the bottom of plastic items are not a guarantee they will be recycled. Only things marked 1 and 2 — and on rare occasion, 5 — are sure bets, depending on what your municipality can handle.
This is why it's so important to focus on reducing plastic use in the first place, Enck said, and our individual changes can add up.
"It's just not going to solve the problem unless we change the law," Enck said. "But with individual actions, what I urge people to do is look at their own home or their worksite — what is your heaviest use of plastic?"
You won't know what you can change until you take stock. Make note of all of the plastics in your home. Most of the single-use stuff you'll find around the kitchen and the bathroom. Then, armed with a list of where you use single-use plastic the most, you can start to make replacements.
Here are some examples:
Say no to bottled water — Get a couple of canteens and cut a major source of plastic out of your life.
Reusable grocery bags — You can easily go a step further by not using the plastic produce bags the store provides for your apples and broccoli. If you're uncomfortable putting produce directly in the cart, have a special bag to carry it in until you get to the checkout. There's no rule that says you have to wrap your fruits and veggies at the store.
Choose paper (or no) packaging over plastic — If you're looking at two versions of the same product and one is packaged in paper or cardboard and the other is in plastic, then the choice is obvious. And look for plastic-free options like bar shampoo.
Buy in bulk to reduce plastic waste — Nuts, rice and beans are all things that come in plastic bags, but they don't need to. Bring your own reusable containers to fill with your favorite bulk foods. (Just make sure to zero-out the scale before you start filling them, so you don't pay for the weight of your container.)
Refuse plastic cutlery — Take your own utensils to restaurants that typically provide plastics. Or, if you're ordering takeout, tell the restaurant they don't need to add it to your bag.
And Enck's group has more suggestions for how to cut your personal plastic use.
Think bigger
Ultimately, the world needs large-scale change to address the climate impact of the fossil fuel and plastics industries, Savitz said. Oceana, for example, is working with local volunteers from cities and counties around the country to help pass new laws to reduce single-use plastics, in hopes of sparking change at the national level.
"We think that if we could start to reduce single-use plastics at the local level with local ordinances, that can start to become more of the norm," she said. "Then we can start taking it to higher levels of government, even getting to the point of getting national policies that will drive reductions in plastic use."
Ultimately, Savitz said consumers need to continue urging major corporations to provide plastic-free solutions and help support refill and reuse programs to encourage society to shy away from plastic use and stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
"Our country is burning and flooding and hurricanes are coming earlier and earlier," she told CNN. "I really think it's shocking that one of the things that's really leading to that is plastics, and it's hurting us in other ways, too. So if we could find a way to reduce our production of plastics as a country and as a global society, we'd be taking a bite out of climate change."
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A few years ago, retired Maine couple George and Cathy Hardy installed their first heat pump inside their 1930s Cape-style house. Then they installed two more -- completely replacing their entire oil-based home heating system that had gotten them through countless sub-zero winters.
George, a former engineer, was initially skeptical that heat pumps -- super-efficient electric heating and cooling systems -- could do the same amount of work as oil. But the couple was surprised by how well they perform.
"We couldn't be happier with them," Cathy told CNN. "For me, it's the comfort. For him, it's the efficiency."
George, who used to keep a close eye on the thermostat for costs, said that switching from oil to electricity has saved thousands of dollars on heating in the last few years. The cost of heating oil in Maine has steadily risen from around $1 per gallon in 2008 to more than $4.50 per gallon in 2022.
"In winter in Maine you're going to burn 150 gallons of oil per month," George said. "Paying $5 a gallon, that's almost $1,000 a month to heat your home."
Now he estimates the highest monthly winter electricity bill he's had to pay is around $420 -- and that's when it gets really cold. Usually it's $100 lower than that.
The Hardys are part of a growing movement of consumers who are choosing energy-efficient electrical heating and cooling in Maine and around the country. When Maine Gov. Janet Mills took office, she pledged to install 100,000 heat pumps by 2025 to help wean her state off fossil fuel and meet her climate targets.
"We are definitely on track to hit that goal, or even hit it early," Burgess told CNN. "As the technology has gotten better, people have gotten used to having them or maybe know someone who has one. They've really taken off."
How heat pumps work in cold weather
Heat pumps have a leg up on traditional air conditioners and furnaces because they aren't using energy to heat or cool air -- a very inefficient process. Instead, they use energy to move heat in or out of the house.
In warm weather, heat pumps act as air conditioners by taking heat from indoors and pushing it outside. During a recent heat wave over 90 degrees, the Hardys said they were cool in their home.
"I can't tell you how comfortable we are," Cathy said. "It's not freezing like a window AC [that's] harder to control the temperature. We don't touch the thermostat."
In cold weather, heat pumps consolidate heat from outside and push it indoors. And yes -- there is still enough heat energy outside in the winter for the heat pump to warm your home, even when temperatures are very cold.
Heat pumps of the past always performed best in warm and moderate climates -- ones that don't get too cold. But the technology has advanced, making them more capable of heating homes in uber-cold temperatures.
"The American consumer's perception is 'heat pumps don't work in cold climates, why would I want one?'" said Mark Kuntz, a CEO for Mitsubishi who oversees the companies US heat pump and HVAC operations. "The excitement in this is around a special type of heat pump that can produce an efficient heat -- even in sub-zero temperatures."
Driving down the upfront cost
Heat pumps tend to have a higher upfront cost than a traditional gas or electric furnace. But when compared with replacing an entire home heating and cooling system, the cost can even out -- depending on the home.
In addition to state rebates and tax incentives, new federal incentives are coming to help bring down the cost of these appliances.
The Inflation Reduction Act contains billions of dollars for generous, decade-long consumer incentives to help make energy-efficient appliances like heat pumps, water heaters, and residential solar panels much cheaper.
The law provides tax credits to cover 30% of the cost of installing highly efficient ACs, water heaters, furnaces and other cooling and heating equipment. Households can receive up to $600 for each piece of equipment, and up to $1,200 total per year. There is also a special credit of up to $2,000 for electric heat pumps.
The subsidies get even larger for low-income families. The law gives low- and moderate-income households rebates of up to $14,000 to buy electric appliances -- which would go a long way to cover a heat pump -- as well as much of the cost of electric water heaters, stoves and ovens and clothes dryers, as well as upgrading the home's breaker boxes and electric wiring.
The Hardy's love their heat pumps for the energy savings and ease of use, but George is also happy to move away from consuming fossil fuels for another reason.
"For the climate change today and everything else, if you want to get away from oil, push the heat pumps," he said.
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Kaiser Permanente will open a new state-of-the-art medical center Monday at 13285 Minnieville Road in Woodbridge.
The new center is Kaiser's seventh major hub in the Mid-Atlantic region. State and local officials, business leaders, and residents celebrated the coming opening with a ribbon-cutting Thursday evening.
The new center is the largest on the East Coast, including five stories with a total 245,000 square feet, Prince William County Economic Development said in a news release. The medical campus houses the carrier’s primary care doctors, specialists -- including radiology, lab, pharmacy -- observation units and surgical suites on site.
"In addition to more than 50 high-paying jobs coming to our community, this new medical center represents more than $200 million in capital investment,” said Ann B. Wheeler, Chair, Prince William Board of County Supervisors, in the news release. "This center expects to see more than 40,000 residents from our county and around the region this year."
Prince William County Department of Economic Development worked closely with site selection representatives to find the location and worked with other county departments to get the project done.
"Taking on this project during the COVID-19 pandemic was both important and daunting,” said Tom Flynn, deputy director, PWCDED. “We were excited to provide targeted industry status for this healthcare project, resulting in a reduction in permitting fees as well as fast-track permitting that helped keep the project on schedule."
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It’s a repeat performance for Saint Agnes Catholic School, which for the second time has been named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.
The Arlington school, which instructs students from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade, was one of 297 nationwide to receive the 2022 accolade. Honorees were announced Sept. 16.
“The mission of the school is to follow in the footsteps of Christ and St. Agnes, to educate the whole child,” said St. Agnes principal Jennifer Kuzdzal said. “My faculty is incredible, our kids are tremendous and the parent partnership is so strong. This recognition validates everything we do here, and I am so grateful for the supportive community of St. Agnes.”
St. Agnes was the only one in Arlington, and one of only seven (as well as the lone private school) from Virginia to receive the 2022 honor. It previously had been named a Blue Ribbon School in 2009.
“I offer my heartfelt congratulations,” said Michael Burbidge, the Roman Catholic bishop of Arlington. “Under the inspired and joyful leadership of Principal Kuzdzal and the strong support of pastor Father William Saunders, St. Agnes School offers students a Christ-centered education focused on academic excellence and the development of the whole child.”
“This second Blue Ribbon recognition affirms the strength of the school and the great work of the faculty and staff,” Burbidge said.
Up to 420 schools can be recognized annually through the program, although the number was lower this year. Up to 50 private schools can be among the honorees.
“Blue Ribbon Schools have gone above and beyond to keep students healthy and safe while meeting their academic, social, emotional and mental-health needs. These schools show what is possible to make an enduring, positive difference in students’ lives,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement accompanying the announcement of honorees.
More than 60 percent of the Arlington diocesan school district have achieved Blue Ribbon status at least once. St. James Catholic School in Falls Church has received it three times (1999, 2014 and 2020) and St. Agnes School joins Blessed Sacrament (2008, 2018) as a two-time awardee.
St. Agnes has an enrollment of about 450 students. Kuzdzal has been a member of the St. Agnes School community for 20 years, first as a teacher and now as principal.
Now in its 39th year, the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program has bestowed approximately 10,000 awards to more than 9,000 schools. The Department of Education recognizes all schools in one of two performance categories, based on student scores (both overall and by sub-group) and graduation rates.
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Another sign of the slowing local real-estate market: Sellers are getting less, on a per-square-foot basis, than they had earlier in the year.
That’s according to data reported Sept. 12 by MarketStats by ShowingTime, based on listing data from Bright MLS, as analyzed by the Sun Gazette.
Of the nine major localities comprising the Washington region’s core, per-square-foot costs for homes that went to closing in August were running below the cumulative year-to-date figures, even though most were higher in August 2022 than in August 2021.
The District of Columbia led the pack, as it traditionally does, with a typical home selling for $536 per square foot. That’s unchanged from August 2021, and runs below the 2022 year-to-date average of $552.
Arlington led suburban jurisdictions, with an August 2022 rate of $451 per square foot, down from $454 a year before (the lone year-over-year decliner) and off from a year-to-date average of $484.
Among the other Virginia localities:
• In Alexandria, the average per-square-foot sales price of $422 for August 2022 was up from $419 in August 2021 but below the year-to-date average of $436.
• In Falls Church, the per-square-foot cost of $386 was below $422 a year before and trailing the $451 year-to-date average.
• In Fairfax County, the average sales price of $324 was up from $315 a year ago but down from the 2022-to-date total of $338.
• In Loudoun County, the average sales price of $259 was up from $244 a year before but down from $269 year-to-date.
• In Prince William County, the average sales price was $226 per square foot, up from $208 a year before and down, albeit slightly, from $227 year-to-date.
In the Maryland suburbs, Montgomery County’s average per-square-foot price of $300 in August was up from $275 a year before but down from the $302 year-to-date running total, while Prince George’s County’s $233 per square foot in August was up from $226 a year before but down slightly from $237 during the first eight months of the year.
Figures represent most, but not all, homes on the market. All August 2022 figures are preliminary and are subject to revision.
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Unforeseen conditions encountered during construction are given as the rationale for a nearly $250,000 increase in the construction contract for “multi-modal improvements” at the Ballston-MU Metro station’s at-grade plaza.
Arlington County Board members are slated to approve the change on Sept. 17.
The project, designed to streamline operations and improve safety on Fairfax Drive and North Stuart Street at the station’s entrance, began in June 2020 and was slated to be completed by November 2021. But a succession of some minor and a few major issues cropped up, pushing the estimated completion date back by about a year.
With the extra funding, the budgeted total now is just over $5.7 million, county officials said.
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Arlington County Board members on Sept. 17 are slated to eliminate the current $1.50 fee charged to riders of the Arlington Transit (ART) bus network for transfers from Metrorail to the bus system.
The change, slated to go into effect Oct. 1, is designed in part to encourage a return to regional rail and bus transit, which continues to be severely impacted by a slow return-to-the-office environment in the local region and by having more residents who are now opting for alternate ways of getting around.
The discount is applicable to those using SmarTrip cards to pay for service. Eliminating the transfer fee is expected to cost the county government about $242,000 annually.
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For the first time since November 2021, the average sales price of single-family homes that sold in August stood at less than a million dollars.
That’s seemingly yet another sign that (a) the local real-estate market is cooling and (b) it is returning to seasonal ebbs and flows that see higher sales (and prices) from late winter to mid-summer, with lesser amounts other times of year.
A total of 1,262 home transactions were consummated across Fairfax County in August, down 27 percent from 1,719 a year before, according to figures from MarketStats by ShowingTime based on listing activity from Bright MLS.
The big decline in sales was no great surprise, given the accumulating evidence that the buyer frenzy existing from the summer of 2020 to early spring of 2022 has abated. Sellers largely remain in command of the market, but buyers suddenly find themselves with less competition and more time to make their choices despite a still-tight inventory.
The $972,777 average single-family price recorded in August was up 2.6 percent from a year before, but broke a string of eight consecutive months, and nine out of the preceding 10, where average single-family prices were in the seven-figure arena:
• July: $1,043,000. • June: $1,071,000. • May: $1,051,000. • April: $1,044,000. • March: $1,119,000. • February: $1,030,000. • January: $1,062,000. • December 2021: $1,001,000.
(The November 2021 figure of $937,000 came after October’s $1,034,000, the first time the single-family average price had surpassed a million dollars in Fairfax County.)
For August, the average sales price of an attached home – townhouses, rowhouses and condos – was $480,729, up 3.5 percent from a year before. The condo-only segment of the market reported an average sales price of $347,512, down 1.1 percent.
Add all those up, and the average overall sales price, for all types of homes, of $721,095 was up 3.7 percent.
A total of 199 properties closed at more than $1 million, including eight for more than $2.5 million.
Homes that went to closing in August spent an average of 18 days between listing and ratified sales contract, up a tick from 17 days a year before, and garnered 98.4 percent of listing price, down from 100.1 percent a year ago.
A total of 913 properties that sold in August were financed through conventional mortgages, with 161 buyers using cash and 136 taking out VA-backed loans.
While higher mortgage-interest rates and economic uncertainty have combined to move some prospective purchasers to the sidelines, current conditions also have led some prospective sellers to hold off, as well. As a result, inventory remains tight: The 1,527 properties on the Fairfax market at the end of August represented a decline of 15 percent from a year before.
Do not expect the softening market to stiffen up as fall arrives and begins its seasonal sashay toward winter. The number of pending sales on the market at the end of August (1,189) was down 31 percent from a year before, which suggests the cooling trends will continue at least through the start of the spring buying season early next year.
Figures represent most, but not all, home sales in the market. All August 2022 figures are preliminary and are subject to revision.
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 13 voted 9-1 to ask the Commonwealth Transportation Board to rename the county’s sections of Lee Highway and Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway as Routes 29 and 50, their existing respective route numbers.
The majority of supervisors sought to remove the roadways’ associations with Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
“Basically, we’re officially changing the name of Route 29 to Route 29 and Route 50 to Route 50,” said Supervisor Walter Alcorn (D-Hunter Mill). “Frankly, it’s important for us at this point in our history to make sure that we are not glorifying folks that we do not want to glorify anymore.”
The name change grew out of the board’s July 2020 directive that the Fairfax County History Commission inventory Confederate-related street names. The commission submitted its inventory in December 2020.
Supervisors in July 2021 created the Confederate Names Task Force to review the names of Lee Highway and Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway, evaluate whether to change one or both of the roadways’ names and ponder possible new names.
After meeting nine times, the task force in December 2021 submitted a report that recommended changing both roads’ names, suggested alternative names and asked that the board consider giving financial assistance to those affected by the new names.
The task force’s chairman presented the final report on Feb. 8 this year, and supervisors subsequently asked staff to conduct further outreach to residents and businesses in those roadway corridors.
County staff on June 14 presented results of those outreach efforts to the board’s Transportation Committee and included data on signage costs, neighboring jurisdictions’ actions on road renamings and whether those localities had compensated affected parties.
Fairfax County will need to spend about $1.4 million to change 177 signs that specify Lee Highway and another 56 that now identify Route 50 as Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway.
Staff members are asking for more time to develop a financial-assistance program for residents and businesses affected by the name switches, but have estimated it would cost about $1.5 million to implement. Staff will refine the program’s details, which the Board of Supervisors will take up in future budget processes.
No funding has been identified yet for the $2.9 million total cost of the changes, and the county is prohibited from using revenue sources that are dedicated to enhancing transportation capacity.
Supervisor Patrick Herrity (R-Springfield), the board’s only Republican, cast the lone vote against the road renamings.
“It’s pretty clear from the evidence that we do have from the public feedback that we have gotten that our residents don’t support this change,” Herrity said. “The only voice we had for change was a committee that, based on the public impression of many who participated in the process . . . was formed with a predetermined decision in place. And that’s my impression as well.”
When queried by the county government, the vast majority of business owners and residents along the corridors indicated the name changes would affect them financially, he said.
The survey asked which of a short list of potential names the respondents would prefer for the roadways, but did not inquire whether they favored or opposed the change, Herrity said.
“With ever-rising taxes and inflation, I don’t think we should be spending money on something our residents have said they do not want and imposing financial or other burdens on our businesses that actually use the road names, without even asking them if they want the change,” Herrity said.
Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay (D) disagreed with Herrity’s views.
“These symbols and these names have a profound negative effect on a lot of people in our community,” McKay said. “We can stand by and let that continue and celebrate that, or we can make a modest change to name these back to the same thing they’re named now, which is the route number.” Supervisor Dalia Palchik (D-Providence) concurred.
“The simplest, most cost-effective and least-confusing path is just using the numbers that we use,” Palchik said, adding that the task force’s report also published a dissenting opinion.
The county is not going on a street-renaming spree, as some critics feared, but rather is taking a “very limited, targeted, moderate approach,” said Supervisor James Walkinshaw (D-Braddock).
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TALLAHASSEE FLA. (WTXL) — Inflation is driving up grocery bills, costing 13.5% more in August than they did a year ago.
Dozens of families across the big bend have experienced food insecurity but non profits, such as Second Harvest of the Big Bend, are stepping-up to bridge that gap.
"So what we're hoping is that we can turn Tallahassee orange," said Monique Ellsworth, CEO of Second Harvest.
A color bridges the gap between food insecurity and families in need.
"Over 50% of our community is in need they're living paycheck to paycheck and often times what families are going to reduce the budget they have set aside for food," said Ellsworth.
Ellsworth is asking people in the community to plant signs in their neighborhoods and businesses to bring awareness of food insecurity.
To support Hunger Action Month, these orange signs with a QR code takes you straight to Second Harvest, giving you information about the cause and how you can help.
"The opportunity to put these signs in your yard is that it will kind of collate the entire community and provide this kind of unified vision for a hunger free big bend region," said Ellsworth.
To help raise awareness, Second Harvest teamed up with Publix. By the end of this week more than 6,000 team members will help create food boxes to give to families across our region.
"It is one of the top things we actually do," said Todd Jones, CEO of Publix. "To be able to give back whether it's our time our talent our treasures our Publix family loves to do this."
Jones said giving back to the community started back over 90 years ago as part of Publix's main mission.
He said being able to keep this tradition alive makes working in the supermarket business even more special.
"It really says that we've done a really good job of telling the Publix story about why we're here and the importance of giving back to the community and it's just very humbling it's a privilege," said Jones.
Second Harvest volunteers and Publix team members packed hundreds of boxes with canned goods and produce to give families healthy food options.
This is the 40th anniversary of Second Harvest and they've set a goal to generate 40,000 lbs of food donations from the local community. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/second-harvest-working-to-turn-the-city-orange-for-hunger-action-month | 2022-09-16T17:45:01Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/second-harvest-working-to-turn-the-city-orange-for-hunger-action-month | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Divers searched through the night for a student missing after a rowing team's boat capsized in an Orlando lake following a nearby lightning strike, officials said.
Medics took one child to a hospital and three others who were on the boat were sent home with their parents following the incident on Lake Fairview on Thursday evening, Orlando Fire Department Executive Deputy Chief Ian Davis said during a news conference.
“The rowing club was on the lake practicing,” Davis said. “There was lightning strike in the area. We’re unsure if it actually hit the vessel or was just in the area. The boat was capsized.”
Davis said divers and officials from multiple agencies were searching a wide area for the missing child. He did not give the age of the child or what school the team members attend.
Orlando television station WESH reported that the team was practicing at the North Orlando Rowing facility. Its online calendar said middle school and JV/Varsity teams were scheduled to practice between 3:50 and 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
“We are going to use every diver that we have to see if we can locate the missing child,” Davis said. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/rowing-team-member-missing-after-florida-lightning-strike | 2022-09-16T17:45:05Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/rowing-team-member-missing-after-florida-lightning-strike | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TUCSON, Ariz. — A new nightclub in Tucson, Arizona, for ages 18 and older, encourages anyone with special needs or a disability to join them for a dance party.
Club Zeus only has one requirement for all attendees.
“Everybody leaves feeling like a rockstar,” said club creator Crisann Black.
Black created the once-a-month dance party for young adults with special needs to enjoy food and drinks in a fun and safe environment.
“They come in full glam, and they look gorgeous, and it’s just incredible to see them and their confidence, and it just all shines,” said Black.
Crisann Black is a mother of five kids. She created Club Zeus naming it after her youngest son with autism.
Even though he’s only 4 years old, she said she thinks about his future often and the need for inclusive spaces for those with developmental disabilities.
“He’s my baby, and I try to remember that he’s growing, and he’s not always going to be a baby,” said Black. “In thinking about his future in regards to therapies or activities that he's involved in, I want to see more activities take place,” she added.
Black said she feels like parents with kids who have special needs often have to explain their behavior to other people.
“I do have to speak on his behalf and explain to people, 'Hey, he has a disability. He doesn’t mean any harm,'" Black said. "And sometimes we get really great responses where families are like, 'Oh, you know what, that makes total sense. Let's let them continue to play.' And then other times families will remove their child, and then he’s kind of left alone to deal with it."
Club Zeus will hold a dance party on the second Saturday of every month.
Their next event is on Oct. 8.
“Being his advocate is one of the greatest things that I can be. Being his mom is amazing, but being there to really defend and support him is probably the best thing,” said Black. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/nightclub-for-young-adults-with-special-needs-opens-in-arizona | 2022-09-16T17:45:58Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/nightclub-for-young-adults-with-special-needs-opens-in-arizona | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Uber says it's been in touch with law enforcement following a "cybersecurity incident."
The New York Times reports that the person claiming responsibility for the attack sent them images of emails, cloud storage and code repositories from Uber's internal systems.
According to the Times, Uber employees received a message on the company's Slack system that said, "I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach.”
The hacker reportedly claimed to be 18 years old.
The alleged hacker told The Washington Post that they hacked Uber for fun and might leak its source code. The person was also apparently critical of Uber's security, which they reportedly described as "awful."
Uber hasn't responded to specifics about the hack, only saying it would post additional updates as they become available. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/uber-responding-to-cybersecurity-incident | 2022-09-16T17:46:16Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/uber-responding-to-cybersecurity-incident | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NASA said this week it found more organic material on mars than ever before. The Perseverance rover discovered signs of ancient microbial life on the red planet in rock samples it collected. The rover is exploring the Jezero crater.
The crater was created 3.5 billion years ago near the convergency of a river and lake.
“The delta, with its diverse sedimentary rocks, contrasts beautifully with the igneous rocks – formed from crystallization of magma – discovered on the crater floor,” said Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley of Caltech in Pasadena, California. “This juxtaposition provides us with a rich understanding of the geologic history after the crater formed and a diverse sample suite. For example, we found a sandstone that carries grains and rock fragments created far from Jezero Crater – and a mudstone that includes intriguing organic compounds.”
The area was believed to contain vasts amount of water.
Organic molecules consist of compounds made primarily of carbon and usually include hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
“We picked the Jezero Crater for Perseverance to explore because we thought it had the best chance of providing scientifically excellent samples – and now we know we sent the rover to the right location,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science in Washington. “These first two science campaigns have yielded an amazing diversity of samples to bring back to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign.”
NASA plans to send a spacecraft to mars in 2033 to return samples to earth. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/science-tech/mars-rover-finds-more-organic-material-than-ever-before-on-red-planet | 2022-09-16T17:46:22Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/science-tech/mars-rover-finds-more-organic-material-than-ever-before-on-red-planet | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cone Health to Offer COVID-19 Bivalent Booster Vaccines
The updated booster dose targets the original strain of COVID-19, as well as the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants.
Greensboro – The public can now schedule appointments to receive the COVID-19 bivalent booster shot through Cone Health. The system will begin offering the vaccine on Monday, Sept. 19.
The omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants are responsible for most of the COVID-19 cases in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bivalent booster vaccines target both the original strain of COVID-19 and the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron strains.
The CDC and Federal Drug Administration have authorized bivalent booster vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. The Moderna vaccine is available to people ages 18 and older who received a primary or booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least two months ago. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been authorized for people ages 12 and older who received a primary or booster dose at least two months ago.
Cone Health will offer bivalent booster vaccines at the following pharmacies:
- Cone Health Community Pharmacy at MedCenter Greensboro, 3518 Drawbridge Pkwy., Suite 130, Greensboro
- Outpatient Pharmacy at MedCenter High Point, 2630 Willard Dairy Rd., High Point
- Outpatient Pharmacy at Alamance Regional, 1238 Huffman Mill Rd., Burlington
Cone Health will begin offering the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent booster on Sept. 19. The Moderna booster is coming soon. To schedule an appointment or to find more information, visit conehealth.com/vaccine. The community can also call 336-890-1188, Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
*Attachments include photos of the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent booster vaccine, as well as Phil Averitt, clinical pharmacist at MedCenter High Point, holding one of the vials.
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At Cone Health, we focus on the health and well-being of every community we serve. We do this through five hospitals, four ambulatory care centers, three outpatient surgery centers, five urgent care centers and more than 150 physician practices. These include primary and specialty care through Cone Health Medical Group and Triad HealthCare Network. We provide insurance coverage through HealthTeam Advantage.
Cone Health is a leader in value-based care. But our biggest asset is our 12,000 team members. Our continuing investment in them ensures nationally recognized health care excellence coupled with a caring, compassionate experience second to none. | https://www.yesweekly.com/coronavirus/cone-health-to-offer-covid-19-bivalent-booster-vaccines/article_0537cc7c-35d8-11ed-9941-8f1caacd58bb.html | 2022-09-16T17:49:50Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/coronavirus/cone-health-to-offer-covid-19-bivalent-booster-vaccines/article_0537cc7c-35d8-11ed-9941-8f1caacd58bb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GROW Residency with Poet Nich Graham Begins September 26
GREENSBORO, NC (September 16, 2022) – Artist and poet Nich Graham will be in residence at the Greensboro Residency for Original Works (GROW) September 26 to October 23. Graham will use the principles of permaculture – an approach to land management that adopts arrangements observed in natural ecosystems – as prompts and inspiration for developing original poetry. Additionally, they will host workshops which will include poetry development sessions, block printing instruction, and an open mic event.
All events are free and registration is not required. GROW is located next to the Davie Street entrance of the Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N. Davie St. To learn more about the residency, visit CreativeGreensboro.com.
Workshop Schedule:
Interactive Spaces, Poetic Observations
Saturday, October 1, Two Sessions Available: 10 am to 1 pm and 1-4 pm
How to use permaculture principles as guidelines for impromptu poetry.
First Friday
Friday, October 7, 6-9 pm
Come try writing impromptu poetry or on-the-spot spoken word.
Designing Self-Us Regulations
Saturday, October 8, Two Sessions Available: 10 am to 1 pm and 1-4 pm
Editing poetry and finding visual translations.
Improvisational Symbols
Saturday, October 15, Two Sessions Available: 10 am to 1 pm and 1-4 pm
Practice reciting poetry and learning about block printing.
Open Mic
Saturday, October 22, 12-3 pm
Bring your work to share for this open mic. Try block printing while you are here.
About the Artist
Graham is a self-taught artist who has used graffiti, music, film photography, spoken word, poetry, and illustration to bridge ideas into physical manifestations. Without formal training in art, they experiment with different mediums to articulate, process, and inspire. They currently focus on both poetry and print-making. Graham has self-published three books of poetry and completed internships at The Sanctuary in Arcata, CA. Locally, Graham has also served as an intern and employee at the Elsewhere Museum. In addition to permaculture and poetry, Graham has significant experience in gardening, farming, and food justice. See more of their work at www.troubadirt.org.
About GROW
GROW is a flexible creative space located at the Greensboro Cultural Center and managed by Creative Greensboro, the City’s office for arts and culture. Compensated residencies of up to eight weeks are awarded to Guilford County-based creative individuals and organizations to produce new and original works that encourage visitation and engagement by the public. Each residency includes at least six hours of weekly programming that is offered to the public free of charge. For more information, visit www.greensboro-nc.gov/GROW. | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/grow-residency-with-poet-nich-graham-begins-september-26/article_4055989e-35d7-11ed-8b17-5baf1898c894.html | 2022-09-16T17:49:52Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/grow-residency-with-poet-nich-graham-begins-september-26/article_4055989e-35d7-11ed-8b17-5baf1898c894.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sternberger Elementary Physical Education Teacher Named GCS Teacher of the Year
Christopher Carroll to Represent the District in Regional Competition
Greensboro, N.C. – Veteran educator Christopher Carroll is taking home one of Guilford County Schools' (GCS) highest honors. During the annual Celebration of Excellence, Leah Carper, the 2022 North Carolina Teacher of the Year, announced Carroll, a physical education teacher, as the 2022-2023 GCS Teacher of the Year.
Carroll, who is entering his 25th year as an educator, said the power of education is all in the "why." He uses his lessons to answer that question for students and demonstrate how they can live active and healthy lives.
Before passing on her title, former GCS Teacher of the Year and current North Carolina Teacher of the Year Leah Carper said, ”In my position as North Carolina Teacher of the Year, I travel across the state and I have to say we are the best. We are strong, we are smart and we are innovative.”
Carroll was also named Elementary Teacher of the year. Holly Herberg of Ferndale Middle was named Middle School Teacher of the Year and Weaver Academy's Nina Sumpter took home the honor of High School Teacher of the Year. Other finalists included Olivia Gerald from Grimsley High and Juana Rhili of Guilford Elementary.
The Teacher of the Year announcement was one of several announcements made Thursday at Eastern High as the district's top educators were recognized. The Guilford Education Alliance, The Joseph M. Bryan Foundation and Racial Equity Institute, LLC sponsored the event and related prize money.
The evening's events also included announcing the GCS Principal of the Year. That honor and $1,000 in prize money went to Paul Travers of Washington Montessori. Travers also received the Elementary Principal of the Year award. “At Washington, one of the things we try to do everyday is communicate hope. We want parents to know and believe that when they drop their students off, that we’re creating hope. We don’t talk to our kids about what do they want to be in the future, we talk to them about how they want to impact the world.”Kristina Wheat of Northern Middle School earned the Secondary Principal of the Year distinction.
Rookie Teacher of the Year Jerico Carrillo said the key to connecting with his students is understanding what motivates them. The Southern High band director says when students feel seen, heard and understood, they become more active participants in their education.
Zaynah Brooks from Wiley Elementary, Gary Kight at Morehead Elementary, Kathryn Porter from Jamestown Middle and Brooklynn Whipple from Fraizer Elementary were recognized as Rookie Teacher of the Year finalists.
For the first time, GCS named a Social Worker of the Year. Brittany Wells from Jamestown Middle received the inaugural honor. In her application, Wells said, "We are all granted a life that allows us to use our passions, talents, values and energy in any capacity, and social welfare is where I use mine. I believe that if we begin thinking about humankind as our family and the world's problems as our problems, we can change the world." Other finalists included Shameka Byers from Pearce Elementary and Terri Sims Starling, who serves at Washington Montessori, the Middle College at GTCC-Greensboro and STEM Early College at N.C. A&T State University.
Ashley Lopez-Davila took home two trophies Thursday night. The Alderman Elementary school counselor earned the title GCS Counselor of the Year and Elementary School Counselor of the year.
In her application for Assistant Principal of the Year, winner Kimberly Leighty underscored the importance of teamwork. The Western Guilford High School administrator noted, "Our system needs a diverse army of equity warriors who can use our collective voice to advocate for what education can be." That army is what she says will create change and a pathway to prosperity for students.
Western Guilford High School has two award-winning administrators. Christina Sapusek took home the honor of Mentor of the Year. She was joined by finalists Emily Rex of Guilford Elementary, Yvette Spratling from Wiley Elementary and Bryant Thompson of Ferndale Middle.
Haynes Inman Education Center’s school pride shined. They took home a trophy for secondary schools. Sumner Elementary School received a spirit award for elementary schools.
About Guilford County Schools
Guilford County Schools, the third-largest school district in North Carolina and the 50th largest of more than 14,000 in the United States, serves nearly 70,000 PK-12 students at 126 schools. With approximately 9,800 employees, GCS works in partnership with parents, businesses, colleges, and the community to deliver an education that connects student interests and skills with the careers and economy of our future here and around the world. We provide educational choices to meet individual student needs in a culturally diverse citizenship and new opportunities to help our students Soar to Greatness. For more information, visit the district’s website at www.gcsnc.com. | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/sternberger-elementary-physical-education-teacher-named-gcs-teacher-of-the-year/article_ed0ed4d0-35d0-11ed-a57d-a36c821d982c.html | 2022-09-16T17:49:52Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/sternberger-elementary-physical-education-teacher-named-gcs-teacher-of-the-year/article_ed0ed4d0-35d0-11ed-a57d-a36c821d982c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WS-TEACH Receives $4.7M Grant to Strengthen Local Teacher Recruitment Efforts
This week, the U.S. Department of Education announced nearly $25 million in grants to help recruit, prepare, develop, and retain a strong, effective, and diverse teacher workforce around the country through the Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) program.
Winston-Salem State University, Wake Forest University, Salem College, and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WS/FCS) received a $4.7 million TQP grant. The collaborative project, Winston-Salem Teachers for Equity, Achievement, Community, & Humanity (WS-TEACH), will use an innovative, interinstitutional teacher preparation model to transform the landscape of teacher education in the region.
The TQP program funds graduate teacher preparation and induction for schools in high-need communities.
Grounded in equity-centered and data-informed teaching practices, WS-TEACH will recruit, prepare, and retain 120 highly-qualified educators in three areas: special education (K-12), elementary education (K-6), and secondary education (9-12) teachers for WS/FCS over a 5-year period. WS-TEACH residents will receive a 12-month living stipend of $30,000 as they complete Master’s-level coursework and two clinical internships in high-need WS/FCS schools. After graduating, WS-TEACH residents will teach for at least three years in a high-need WS/FCS school while receiving professional development and support through a collaborative coaching model.
Winston-Salem State University will administer the grant, and program leaders from all three universities will organize WS-TEACH in coordination with Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. The program leaders are Provost Anthony Graham (Winston-Salem State University), Interim Associate Dean of Education Cynthia Williams Brown (Winston-Salem State University), Department Chair of Education Alan Brown (Wake Forest University), Dean of Graduate Studies Sheryl Long (Salem College), Deputy Superintendent of Operations Jesse Pratt (WS/FCS), and Co-Director of Research and Assessment in the Program for Leadership and Character Kate Allman (Wake Forest University).
Recruitment will begin this fall, and eligible candidates must hold an undergraduate degree with an earned GPA of 3.0 or higher and a desire to enter the teaching profession. The first cohort will officially begin in June 2023. | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/ws-teach-receives-4-7m-grant-to-strengthen-local-teacher-recruitment-efforts/article_f891fa34-35db-11ed-8b53-479154ba72fc.html | 2022-09-16T17:49:53Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/ws-teach-receives-4-7m-grant-to-strengthen-local-teacher-recruitment-efforts/article_f891fa34-35db-11ed-8b53-479154ba72fc.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Central Carolina Fair heads into final weekend
GREENSBORO, NC – The 2022 Central Carolina Fair is heading into its final weekend!
The Fair will open at 5 p.m. today with a midway packed with thrilling rides, the Roaring Metal Rage motocross spectacular, mouth-watering carnival food and games and attractions for all ages.
Saturday (Sept. 17) will feature the ‘Everyone’s a Kid on Saturdays’ promotion from 11a.m. – 3 p.m. with admission and an unlimited ride wristband available for only $15.
Sunday’s (Sept. 18) schedule includes the Festival El Grito sponsored by La Raza 98.3 FM at White Oak Amphitheatre. Admission to the festival and fairgrounds is FREE for all patrons on Sunday.
Visit CentralCarolinFair.com for more information. | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/central-carolina-fair-heads-into-final-weekend/article_d3c7b958-35ce-11ed-9208-87d794a224bd.html | 2022-09-16T17:49:54Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/central-carolina-fair-heads-into-final-weekend/article_d3c7b958-35ce-11ed-9208-87d794a224bd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WWE® ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL DATES TO LIVE EVENT SCHEDULE INCLUDING GREENSBORO COLISEUM – DEC. 28
Tickets On Sale Next Friday, September 23
STAMFORD, Conn., September 16, 2022 – WWE® (NYSE: WWE) today announced 25 additional live events as part of the company’s touring schedule. Tickets go on sale next Friday, September 23.
The schedule includes:
- Friday, November 18: SmackDown®– XL Center in Hartford, Conn.
- Sunday, November 20: Sunday Stunner® – Bryce Jordan Center in State College, Pa.
Friday, November 25: SmackDown – Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence, R.I.
Sunday, November 27: SuperShow Holiday Tour – Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, ME
Friday, December 2: SmackDown – KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y.
Saturday, December 3: SuperShow Holiday Tour – Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, N.Y.
Sunday, December 4: SuperShow Holiday Tour – VSU Multipurpose Center in Petersburg, Va.
Monday, December 5: Raw®– Capital One Arena in Washington, DC
Friday, December 9: SmackDown – PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Saturday, December 10: WWE Live Holiday Tour – Dow Event Center in Saginaw, Mich.
Saturday, December 10: WWE Live Holiday Tour – Wesbanco Arena in Wheeling, W. Va.
Sunday, December 11: WWE Live Holiday Tour – Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo, Mich.
[if !supportLists]- [endif]Sunday, December 11: WWE Live Holiday Tour – Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, W. Va.
Monday, December 12: Raw – Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee
Friday, December 16: SmackDown – Allstate Arena in Chicago
Saturday, December 17: SuperShow Holiday Tour – Vibrant Arena at The MARK in Moline, Ill.
Sunday, December 18: SuperShow Holiday Tour – Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minn.
Monday, December 19: Raw – Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, IA
Monday, December 26: WWE Live Holiday Tour – Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH
Wednesday, December 28: WWE Live Holiday Tour – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland
Wednesday, December 28: WWE Live Holiday Tour – Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C.
Thursday, December 29: WWE Live Holiday Tour – FTX Arena in Miami
Friday, December 30: WWE Live Holiday Tour – Coca Cola Coliseum in Toronto, Ontario
Friday, December 30: SmackDown – Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla.
Friday, January 6: SmackDown – FedExForum in Memphis, Tenn.
About WWE
WWE, a publicly traded company (NYSE: WWE), is an integrated media organization and recognized leader in global entertainment. The Company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family-friendly entertainment on its television programming, premium live event, digital media and publishing platforms. WWE’s TV-PG programming can be seen in more than 1 billion homes worldwide in 30 languages through world-class distribution partners including NBCUniversal, FOX Sports, BT Sport, Sony India and Rogers. The award-winning WWE Network includes all premium live events, scheduled programming and a massive video-on-demand library and is currently available in more than 180 countries. In the United States, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, is the exclusive home to WWE Network. | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/wwe-returning-to-greensboro-coliseum-dec-28/article_0b418dd6-35d0-11ed-8033-eb763901fd6b.html | 2022-09-16T17:50:11Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/foodanddrink/wwe-returning-to-greensboro-coliseum-dec-28/article_0b418dd6-35d0-11ed-8033-eb763901fd6b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
High Point Museum BBQ Bash Set For Sept. 24
HIGH POINT, N.C. (Sept 16, 2022) - The High Point Museum is hosting a BBQ Bash program to celebrate the opening of its new exhibit, “The Story of BBQ in N.C.” Saturday, Sept. 24, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the High Point Museum and Historical Park, located at 1859 E. Lexington Ave.
This free event is open to the public and includes many barbecue-related activities. From 11 a.m. to noon, the High Point Historical Society will host a discussion with Cecil Conrad of Bar-B-Que Center, the oldest barbecue establishment in downtown Lexington, N.C., that still cooks on pits. Conrad will discuss the history of pit-cooked barbecue in Lexington.
Museum visitors will get the chance to taste North Carolina barbecue after learning about its history. From noon to 3 p.m., D'z Butts BBQ food truck will be in the museum parking lot offering food for purchase. D’z Butts is an Oak Ridge-based barbecue team specializing in pork, chicken, beef and sides.
Additionally, there will be a paper barbecue grill-making in Little Red Schoolhouse from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors of all ages are welcome to come and craft their own paper barbecue grill to practice making their North Carolina barbecue.
The High Point Museum, a division of the High Point Public Library, shares Greater High Point’s history, provides perspective for current issues, and strengthens the sense of community.
The City of High Point aims to serve as the catalyst for bringing together the community’s human, economic and civic resources for the purpose of creating the single most livable, safe and prosperous community in America. For more information on the City, visit www.highpointnc.gov | https://www.yesweekly.com/high-point-museum-bbq-bash-set-for-sept-24/article_ab290e26-35dc-11ed-ae59-174616f09685.html | 2022-09-16T17:50:17Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/high-point-museum-bbq-bash-set-for-sept-24/article_ab290e26-35dc-11ed-ae59-174616f09685.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
40+ Stage Presents “Rhonda’s Rites of Passage” a new play by Grace Ellis
APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 90 minutes, one act. Q & A with cast and playwright to follow the first matinee performance.
Winston-Salem, NC – September 16 - 40+ Stage Company is proud to announce the premier of “Rhonda’s Rites of Passage” a play by Winston-Salem playwright Grace Ellis. Forty-something Rhonda Lee Morgan is Ellis’ heroine in this magical comedy directed by Lara Ianni. Rhonda discovers an opportunity to revive her career as an actor—a career she abandoned twenty years ago when she dropped out of college to start a family. Aiding her in her pursuit of a residency with the Manhattan Players are two friends from her creativity group, her drama teacher from college, and a musician from the local little theater. The comedy begins when Rhonda struggles to escape the demands of her family—a health-fanatic daughter, a genial goof-off son, a narcissistic husband, and a demented grandmother—as well as the objections of her psychiatrist, her employer, and the fearsome gatekeeper for the program in New York. Ellis has a message underneath the laughter—it’s never too late, even if we find ourselves entangled in a net of our own making.
“Rhonda’s Rites of Passage” opens Friday, September 30, at Mountcastle Forum in the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC. Tickets are available online at https://www.intothearts.org/events-info/rhonda, at the door, or call 336-747-1414.
For more information about 40+ Stage Company, visit www. 40PlusStage.com.
DATES AND TIMES: Evenings: September 30, October 1, 7, and 8 at 7:30 pm and matinees October 2 and 9 at 2:00 pm. Talk-back follows the matinee October 9.
PLACE: Mountcastle Theatre, Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, 251 N. Spruce Street, Winston-Salem, NC.
COST/ADMISSION: Adult $20, Senior $16, Student $12. Plus taxes and fees on all prices.Online: https://www.intothearts.org/events-info/rhonda or Call Arts Council Box 336-747-1414. Tickets also available at the door. Open seating.
PARKING: Convenient parking is located directly across the street. Event Parking will be charged a nominal fee per car for most evening and weekend events. There are several parking garages located within walking distance.
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Ana Cabrera CNN anchor and correspondent tweeted:
Xi has long wanted to take back the island nation. So this is not new. However, with Putin invading Ukraine with limited success, perhaps Xi is being a little more strategic with his military plan before acting. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/cnn-chinas-xi-has-told-military-wants-china-to-have-capability-to-take-taiwan-by-2027-20220916/ | 2022-09-16T17:51:36Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/cnn-chinas-xi-has-told-military-wants-china-to-have-capability-to-take-taiwan-by-2027-20220916/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In the US sessin the price has seen up and down action, but did extend to a new high for the day at 0.9654. That was just short of the 200 hour MA at 0.96561. The price is trading at 0.9650 currently.
Get above the 200 hour MA and the 50% retracement at 0.9674 and the 100 day MA at 0.9688 would be the next key targets to get to and through.
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As conflicting reports continue to trail the proposed new national carrier, Nigeria Air, indications have emerged that the federal government may have finally pitched its tent with the most profitable African airline, Ethiopian Airlines as the technical partner in the packaging of the new airline.
According to information circulating across the sector at the weekend, the new deal will be made public very soon as officials and representatives of the federal government had gone ahead to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to tidy up the loose ends in the projects with the Ethiopian airline’s management.
Under the agreement, the African airline is expected to provide equipment, technical personnel and management for the new national airline.
The latest development came after the President Muhamadu Buhari-led government had at inception promised to float another national airline for Nigerians, two decades after the controversial liquidation of Nigeria Airways.
Though several efforts with a huge amount of money spent on earlier attempts to midwife the new airline had failed, the hope of getting another national carrier under the present government was rekindled this year with the appointment of a renowned pilot and administrator, Captain Dapo Olumide as the interim managing director and his team members to package the new airline.
According to the government, the majority shares of 49 per cent of the new carrier project will be owned by strategic equity partners, another 46 per cent by Nigerians while the Federal Government will own five per cent of the shares.
The style adopted in packaging the project has continued to generate criticisms with key players accusing the government of withholding the required information about the new airline from Nigerians.
However, the news that the government had picked Ethiopian Airlines as the technical partner of the new national carrier has started generating mixed feelings with some praising government for picking a fellow African airline as a partner in the project.
Some of those who supported the move attributed their reasons to a good example so far portrayed by the African airline as witnessed in its ability to compete favourably with foreign airlines across the globe while other airlines from the continent continue to perform below expectations.
Other key players have opposed the choice of Ethiopian Airlines on the premise that its role as a competitor to the new national carrier on the Nigeria/Addis Ababa route will not yield good dividends.
According to the key players, selecting a fellow competitor who operates in many destinations across Nigeria may be used to further exploit the country.
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Ogun PDP passes vote of confidence on Ayu, refutes Makinde’s claim
The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has passed a vote of confidence on the national chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.
In a statement signed by the State Publicity Secretary of the party, Akinloye Bankole, the leadership of the party refuted the claim by Governor Seyi Makinde that Southwest Stakeholders had called for the resignation of Ayu during the Southwest Stakeholders interactive session with the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Ibadan on Wednesday.
Bankole said the party in the state disassociated itself from Makinde’s pronouncement and affirmed that there was no prior meeting nor agreement relating to such pronouncement.
The statement had it that the party in the State is convinced that the current demand for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman is ill-timed and dangerous for the wellbeing of the party, especially as the political mobilization and campaigns for the 2023 general elections build-up across the nation.
“Ogun PDP strongly insist that the sanctity of the party constitution can not be slaughtered on the alter of narrow individual whims and caprice. The party, at this crucial stage and time of its democratic existence, requires full concentration to remain focused on its goal of rescuing and repositioning the country for prosperity and abundance. Therefore, all forms of distractions should be jettisoned for the common of all.
“The leadership of the party in Ogun State reiterated their unwavering support and unalloyed commitment to the presidential aspiration of the former Vice President of Nigeria and the PDP presidential candidate, His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, His Excellency, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa.
“The party also in unism, passed a vote of confidence on the PDP National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu and the entire members of the National Working Committee, NWC for providing purposeful leadership guidance in the party’s bid to wrestle power from the shackles of the ruling APC both at the national level and indeed, across the nation come 2023.”
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Ebonyi State Social Behavior Change and Advocacy Core Group (SBC-ACG) of Breakthrough Action Nigeria BA-N has tasked Journalists to use their platforms to promote the importance of exclusive breastfeeding and other health benefits for mothers and children.
According to the group, poor breastfeeding causes poor development in children.
The SBC-ACG Members made the call, during their quarterly meeting held at Don Sampros Hotel Ishieke, Abakaliki, organised by BA-N with the support from USAID.
The group which focuses on addressing social/gender norms as it affects priority behaviours (spousal communication and joint decision making, exclusive breastfeeding, Delivery with Skill Birth Attendant, immunization and prompt seeking care for fever), said the support of the media will help to fight mal-nutrition and other dangerous illnesses that can harm children and their mothers during and after delivery in the State.
According to them, the usage of razor blade by some traditional birth attendance to conduct Caesarean sections in the communities has also increased the number of maternal and child death in the State.
The group also tasked religious leaders, traditional rulers, civil society organizations and the state ministry of health to also support and monitor pregnant mothers to ensure they go for Antenatal, feed well and deliver at the health facilities.
“We have discovered, during our outreach that poverty, Fear, ignorance and negligence are the core factors that have been causing the increasing rise of mother and child death in the State. We advocate that the religious leaders, traditional rulers, media, CSOs support and provide for the less privileged pregnant mother’s within their areas to enable them have a safe delivery and healthy children”.
” We also want the religious leaders, traditional rulers to start kicking against women delivering their babies with traditional birth attendance because the TBAs cannot control emergencies or give adequate care to the mothers and children”.
The group, however, urged men in to allow their wives to support them financially to reduce poverty in the family.
Addressing the SBC-ACG group, Malam Mukhtar Gaya, BA-N Advocacy advisor commended the group for their efforts in sensitizing and educating the residents of Ebonyi State on the importance of always visiting the hospital when they are pregnant, feeding well during pregnancy and other health benefits.
He then encouraged the religious leaders to always preach the gospel in their churches and mosques. According to him, that will reduce death drastically among the women and children in the State.
Also, the Acting state coordinator of BA-N, Mrs Ifeoma Chris, appreciated the volunteers for their efforts in fighting maternal and child death and malnutrition in Ebonyi State.
She then urged them to continue doing the good work through sensitization awareness in everywhere they go.
Earlier, Mrs Charity Odio, the Advocacy and Capacity Strengthen Officer of BA-N said the meeting was called to identify gaps and challenges and proffer solutions, get feedback from action point of the last review meeting and review the status of SBC-ACG members and strengthen linkages with other integrated SBC approach and identify gaps in the Local Government Areas monitoring the SBC-ACG activities.
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United States’ John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has charged people to embrace whistle-blowing policy to eradicate societal wrongdoings.
Speaking at a one-day step-down training/meeting on strengthening the capacity of stakeholders in the whistleblowing policy in Ilorin on Friday, the Kwara State coordinator of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Barrister Jumoke Olaoye, said that all acts of wrongdoings must not be swept under the carpet.
Barrister Olaoye said that wrongdoings should be properly disclosed with adequate and cogent information, ensuring that such information would be treated with utmost anonymity by the appropriate bodies.
She also enjoined members of every community to encourage whistleblowing policy whenever they detect any form of misappropriation of funds on community projects, data misrepresentation, discrimination, criminal activities, unethical treatment, as well as unjust or unruly behaviour in workplace, schools, and religious institutions.
Earlier in his welcome address, the coordinator, African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, (AFRICMIL), Chido Onumah, represented by the programme manager, Mr Kolawole Ogunbiyi, said that there is a need to combat corruption through early detection and exposure of every mismanagement, bribery, fraud, theft of public funds and other illicit acts, adding such are effective tools in the fight against corruption.
Onumah also said that one of the best ways to expose illicit acts is a whistleblowing policy, adding that as Nigerian citizens, “we can not keep quiet on any act of corruption”.
Also speaking at the training, the community chairman of Bode Sadu, Oba Lambe Jimoh, represented by Mr Ajadi Jimoh, said that the training was capable of exposing people to how to fight for their rights and how to go about it when their rights are violated.
Also present at the training were the Chief Imam of Bode Sadu, Alhaji Ibrahim Nuhu Baba, head market women and Iyalaje of Bode Sadu, Chief Mrs Oseni Belawi Ramat Shehu, who said that the training had assisted the people in living a better life in the society.
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Michigan-based startup Our Next Energy (ONE) this week unveiled a prismatic anode-free battery cell it claims will lay the foundation for 600-mile EVs.
The prototype cell will be integrated into a BMW iX prototype later this year as part of a dual-chemistry battery pack. ONE said in a press release that it’s aiming for a volume-produced version of the dual-chemistry setup, called Gemini, in 2026 that will enable 600 miles of range “in a wide range of vehicle platforms” including trucks and SUVs.
ONE revealed its 600-mile test iX earlier this year but hadn’t yet detailed the chemistries. The startup now says it will pair the anode-free chemistry with lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) similar to the kind popularized by Chinese automakers, and now used by Tesla in certain vehicles.
The 1007-wh/l anode-free cells eliminate the need for graphite and manufacturing equipment associated with anodes, enabling cell costs of $50 per kwh at scale, or about half the cost of current lithium-ion cells, ONE claims.
Anode-free cells typically have a lower life cycle than conventional lithium-ion cells, which would normally make them unsuitable for automotive use. But ONE claims its Gemini dual-chemistry packs solve that problem with a 90% reduction in cycle and peak power requirements, adding that a proprietary DC-DC converter allows the anode-free and LFP chemistries to be integrated into one pack.
Each chemistry is used for a specific function—LFP for daily driving, and anode-free for long-distance trips. With this arrangement, ONE anticipates a 250,000-mile service life.
LFP cells allow consistent charging and reduced demand for difficult-to-source ingredients, but they’re a bit heavier and need a boost in cold weather—likely all remedied with this dual-chemistry approach.
ONE appears to be the only entity trying to take dual-chemistry battery packs mainstream, although it’s certainly not the only company thinking about it. For instance, Nissan has been working on its own solid-state cells, and within that project it hasn’t ruled out combining chemistries within packs.
Drivers of long-range electric vehicles tend rarely to tap into the full range and battery capacity of their EV. So while many startups are betting on faster-charging cells, this approach might prove not only better for automakers but the end user as well.
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BMW M is close to revealing its first standalone model since the iconic M1 supercar launched four decades ago. This time around it will be an SUV, a model to be called the XM, and it’s due for its debut on Sept. 27.
A teaser video released on Tuesday gives a taste of the XM’s throaty exhaust note, as well as the design of its light signature. Clues have already surfaced as to how the XM will look, thanks to the reveal of a concept version a year ago. Spies have also spotted camouflaged prototypes testing in the wild for the past year, and some images alleged to be official patent drawings surfaced earlier in September.
The noise in this video comes from a newly developed twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8 that will serve as part of a plug-in hybrid powertrain in the XM. System output will be in the vicinity of 750 hp and 737 lb-ft of torque, which will make the XM the most powerful BMW road car to date. Though it’s yet to be confirmed, a tamer version of the plug-in hybrid setup could be offered in a base XM, with the 750-hp version reserved for something like an XM Competition model.
The powertrain will then filter across to more BMW vehicles, including potentially the redesigned M5 that’s also out testing. If the engineers go with BMW’s existing plug-in hybrid design, the powertrain will consist of a single electric motor sandwiched between the V-8 and the transmission.
The reveal of the XM will serve as the culmination of this year’s 50th anniversary of the M division, which launched the M4 CSL, M3 Edition 50 Jahre BMW M, M3 Touring, and M Hybrid V8 LMDh race car this year, which previews the M division’s electric future. A redesigned M2 is also coming in October.
The XM will be built at BMW Group’s plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and the market launch will likely take place in the first half of next year. There’s no word on pricing but as BMW M’s flagship, a base sticker in the six figures is likely.
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Boeing officials said Thursday they will find new buyers for some Boeing 737 Max jets that were built for Chinese airlines but can’t be delivered because China’s aviation regulator has not cleared the plane to fly after two deadly crashes.
Boeing hopes the move will reduce its inventory of undelivered Max jets, which built up while the planes were grounded around the world.
However, the decision risks adding to tension between the aircraft manufacturer and China, which was once Boeing’s biggest market for the Max.
Arlington, Virginia-based Boeing had 290 undelivered 737s in inventory as of June 30, with about half of them earmarked for China, company officials said. The company did not disclose how many might be resold to new buyers.
Boeing’s hopes were raised last December, when China’s aviation regulator took a major step toward letting airlines resume using the Max. In February, Chinese airlines ran flight tests. But the Civil Aviation Administration of China has not taken the final steps to allow Max flights and deliveries to resume, which Boeing officials blame on COVID-19 lockdowns.
Meanwhile, the company was running out patience.
“We have deferred decisions on those planes for a long time. We can’t defer that decision forever,” Boeing Chief Financial Officer Brian West said Thursday. “So we will begin to re-market some of those airplanes that were otherwise earmarked for our Chinese customers.”
China “is an important market,” and Boeing did not make the decision lightly, West said during a Morgan Stanley investor conference. But he expressed confidence that Boeing can find new buyers for the planes, which list at $100 million and up — although airlines routinely get deep discounts.
China is the last major market where the Max is still awaiting approval to fly. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approved changes Boeing made to the plane in late 2020, and regulators in Europe, Canada and Brazil have followed suit.
The importance of the Chinese market to Boeing was underscored in July, when China’s three largest airlines ordered nearly 300 planes from its European rival Airbus.
U.S. relations with China were strained during the administration of former President Donald Trump, who waged a trade war with China. On Thursday, Boeing CEO David Calhoun said free trade with China has helped the company but that recent “geopolitical events” will “slow us down.”
“I think we will get back there some day,” Calhoun said at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event. “I just don’t think it’s a day soon.” | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-boeing-will-re-sell-max-jets-ordered-by-chinese-airlines/ | 2022-09-16T17:54:08Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-boeing-will-re-sell-max-jets-ordered-by-chinese-airlines/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX has hired an auto industry executive to lead the railroad after its current CEO retires.
Jacksonville, Florida-based CSX Corp. said Thursday that Joe Hinrichs will take over from Jim Foote at the end of this month. Hinrichs previously served as president of Ford Motor Co.’s global auto business.
Hinrichs said in an interview with The Associated Press he’s very excited that CSX and the other major railroads were able to reach a tentative contract agreement Thursday with unions to prevent a potentially devastating national strike.
“Our employees are going to get a well-deserved raise after working so hard the last couple years through the pandemic,” Hinrichs said. “We’re excited about moving from here. Now we can move our conversation into how do we work together to grow the business and better serve our customers.”
The railroads have been plagued with delivery delays that prompted shippers to complain loudly this year about poor service. Federal regulators got involved and ordered the railroads to address the problems.
But improvement has come slowly. CSX and the other major railroads each needed to hire and train hundreds of additional workers, and that has been difficult amid the ongoing nationwide labor shortage.
Hinrichs said he hopes the new union contracts will help CSX attract and retain more employees.
He said he knows the railroad business as a customer, but not the details of its operations. He has been studying up on the Precision Scheduled Railroading model that CSX has used to slash its costs in recent years and will plan to lean on the expertise of CSX’s managers.
“Fortunately, we have a very strong operating team here at CSX that has implemented Precision Scheduled Railroading in the last couple years,” Hinrichs said. “The results have been outstanding. Many people believe CSX is a leader in that regard.”
Hinrichs said he has “read all the books that Hunter Harrison put out” and has been talking to people in the industry to learn more. Harrison originated the Precision Scheduled Railroading model when he led the Canadian railroads and implemented it at CSX before his death.
The model relies on using fewer, longer trains with a mix of freight on them, so railroads can operate with fewer locomotives and employees. Since CSX put it in place, the model has been widely adopted by other U.S. railroads. Collectively, the major U.S. railroads have used the model to cut nearly one-third of their workforce over the past six years.
Foote agreed to remain on as an advisor through March to help with the transition.
CSX is one of the nation’s largest railroads, and it operates more than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of track in 26 Eastern states and two Canadian provinces after acquiring Pam-Am Railways in the northeastern United States earlier this year. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-csx-railroad-hires-ford-executive-to-replace-retiring-ceo/ | 2022-09-16T17:54:21Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-csx-railroad-hires-ford-executive-to-replace-retiring-ceo/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard faces an in-depth antitrust investigation in Britain after the tech company refused to offer proposals to ease competition concerns.
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority said Thursday that it was referring the blockbuster deal for more scrutiny under a so-called phase 2 investigation.
The watchdog said that based on the available information, the deal “may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition” in the United Kingdom.
The all-cash deal, which is set to be the largest in the history of the tech industry, is facing scrutiny from competition regulators around the world. It would give Microsoft, maker of the Xbox console and gaming system, control of popular game franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush.
In the U.K., regulators had opened a preliminary inquiry and threatened to escalate it earlier this month unless the companies came up with proposals within five days to ease their concerns.
Last week, “Microsoft informed the CMA that it would not offer such undertakings,” the watchdog said.
Microsoft declined to comment and referred to a statement this month from President Brad Smith, who said the company is ready to work with U.K. regulators and is committed to making Activision’s popular Call of Duty game available on both Xbox and rival Sony’s PlayStation.
More than eight months after Microsoft announced the deal, only Saudi Arabia has approved it. Competition watchdogs from New Zealand to Brazil and the U.S. are still examining the purchase, while the European Union is expected to soon announce its own investigation. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-microsofts-69b-activision-deal-faces-in-depth-uk-inquiry/ | 2022-09-16T17:55:12Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-microsofts-69b-activision-deal-faces-in-depth-uk-inquiry/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police are investigating a fake advertising campaign that appeared on social media and shows a poster urging people to snitch on their neighbors if they heat their homes too much this winter — when an energy crunch is expected to hit Western Europe.
The bogus ad, which appears to be in public such as on a bus stop shelter, offers 200 Swiss francs (about $200) for anonymous tips that point the finger at people who heat their homes more than 19 C (66 F) this winter. Pictures of the poster reportedly turned up on the Russian social media platform Telegram.
The ad shows a young woman on a mobile phone above the message: “Is your neighbor heating his home above 19 degrees? Please inform us,” above a phone number — reportedly of the Swiss federal energy department. At top left is the Swiss Confederation’s coat of arms — a logo unmistakable to nearly all Swiss.
On its website, the department warned against the “false” message and called it a “manipulation.” Swiss public broadcaster SRF reported that pictures of the poster appeared on Russian Telegram channels, were picked up by Belarus’ Belta news agency, and the Russian television channel RT recently ran a fake report on fines for people who heat their homes excessively in Switzerland.
The Swiss federal police said Thursday they had received a complaint for “abusive use” of the coat of arms and other possible misdemeanors, and were investigating.
The Swiss government has launched a campaign encouraging the Swiss not to waste energy amid the expected energy crunch linked to reduced supplies of oil and gas from Russia in the wake of its war in Ukraine. Consumers have been advised to take measures such as lowering the thermostat, covering pots and pans while cooking, and turning off lights and appliances when not in use. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-swiss-police-investigate-fake-ad-campaign-on-energy-wasting/ | 2022-09-16T17:56:02Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-swiss-police-investigate-fake-ad-campaign-on-energy-wasting/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Baby William Andrew Kloetzer, was born silently into heaven on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 at MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center. Private family funeral mass will be held on Sunday, Sept. 18, at the St. Mary's Catholic Church in Ackley. He will be laid to rest at the Pleasant Hill Grant Township Cemetery. Counsell Woodley Funeral Home of Iowa Falls is caring for Baby Kloetzer and his family.
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Are you looking for something to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered. Here’s a list of things you can do Friday, Saturday and Sunday without leaving Hardin County. If you’re looking for more area fun, check out our online calendar.
Blooms and Brews
Blooms and Brews is a come-and-go fundraiser for the Southfork Watershed Alliance. The event will be held from 4-7 p.m. today (Friday) Sept. 16 at Timbukbru in Iowa Falls. Visitors can learn about Urban Conservation and opportunities for funding to install water quality practices in their own yard. Kevin Cole, with the USDA National Lab for Agriculture and the Environment, ARS at Iowa State University will perform drone demonstrations.
There will be food available and a 50/50 raffle will also be held.
Archeology Day
Calkins Nature Area is hosting their second annual Archeology Day on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. People are encouraged to bring in their own artifacts to have them identified. Learn to make arrowheads and pottery, the history of the Ulch Collection, throw spears, shoot bows and more. The event is free and open to the public with cash needed only for the food truck. Calkins is located at 18335 135th St. in Iowa Falls.
Constitution Day
Celebrate Constitution Day on Saturday, Sept. 17 in Eldora. The event will be held at the Hardin County Courthouse lawn from 10:30-11:45 a.m. Seating will be provided or people are encouraged to bring a lawn chair. There will be food available by the Sons of American Legion for a freewill donation and baked goods as a freewill donation from the CCC/POW.
The program consists of American history, patriotism, singing, speakers in character and a military tribute. Rain location will be at the Grande Theatre across the street from the Courthouse.
Barn Stahl Walk
The Barn Stahl Farm in rural Wellsburg will be hosting their first walk-in-the-dark event of the season. The event is from 7:30-10 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17 and participants are encouraged to bring a flashlight as they experience the corn maze in the dark. The walk takes at least an hour to get through. Cost is $7 for admission. The Barn Stahl is located on 16519 185th St. in Wellsburg.
Historical Society hosts car show/ice cream social
The Hardin County Historical Society will hold its seventh Annual Car Show and Home-made Ice Cream Social on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022 at the Masonic Lodge on the corner of South Washington and 23rd. Ave. in Eldora.
Registration and parking will be available starting at 11 a.m, food available for purchase at noon, and home-made ice cream is free with a freewill donation.
A raffle will be offered for participants with a silent auction.
The Historical Society encourages attendees to bring a non-perishable food item for the Pine Lake Food Pantry. | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/get-out-in-the-greenbelt/article_ebf123b4-3512-11ed-bfe0-4bf117adcb4b.html | 2022-09-16T17:57:26Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/get-out-in-the-greenbelt/article_ebf123b4-3512-11ed-bfe0-4bf117adcb4b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Eldora-New Providence School Board met Thursday night. The main discussion was over the failed bond vote and what the next steps are to get the needed work done.
The Eldora-New Providence School Board understands that the 30-percent of the district’s 2,518 registered voters may very well not change their minds if they decide to put the recently failed bond up for vote again in a year. It’s the 70-percent who didn’t bother to vote that they feel they need to address.
The $9.9 million Bond that would have led to a complete renovation of the elementary school – with an addition to include new preschool classrooms, a new media center, a new gym and new office space – new parking and safer access, a connecting annex to increase safety between the two buildings and work at the high school building failed with 415 no votes and only 341 yeses. The measure needed 60-percent approval to pace.
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IOWA FALLS-George Folkerts, 87, of Iowa Falls, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 at UnityPoint Health – Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo. A visitation will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, at St. Peter's United Church of Christ, rural Geneva. He will be laid to rest with a private family graveside service following visitation at the church cemetery. Counsell Woodley Funeral Home of Iowa Falls is caring for George and his family. | http://www.timescitizen.com/obituaries/death_notices/folkerts-george-wednesday-sept-14-2022/article_52122374-35b2-11ed-b850-ff23a789c153.html | 2022-09-16T17:57:44Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/obituaries/death_notices/folkerts-george-wednesday-sept-14-2022/article_52122374-35b2-11ed-b850-ff23a789c153.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON — Prince William has told well-wishers that walking behind the coffin of his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was “challenging” and brought back memories of the funeral of his mother, Princess Diana.
William and his wife, Catherine, the new Princess of Wales, spent almost an hour Thursday chatting with dozens of people and viewed floral tributes outside Sandringham Estate, the royal country residence in Norfolk.
During Wednesday’s coffin procession, William and his brother, Prince Harry, walked behind the queen’s coffin along with their father, King Charles III, and the king’s siblings from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall.
William, speaking of the procession, said: “The walk yesterday was challenging.”
Jane Wells, 54, was among the thousands who turned up outside Sandringham Thursday. “I said how proud his mother would have been of him, and he said how hard it was yesterday because it brought back memories of his mother’s funeral,” she told reporters afterward.
Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Many in Britain still remember the image of a young William and his brother Harry walking with their father behind her coffin.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— London mourners brave 9-hour wait to say goodbye to queen
— What to know about the queen’s lying in state
— Queen’s reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy
— With its queen gone, Britain ponders how to discuss death
— Palace reveals details of queen’s state funeral on Monday
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday it would be “perfectly acceptable” for King Charles III to continue to advocate for climate change action in his new apolitical role as monarch.
Albanese was speaking ahead of his departure for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
Albanese said the new king would decide whether he continues to advocate for reduced greenhouse gas emissions, as he has done for years as a prince.
“It’s important that the monarchy distance from party political issues. But there are issues like climate change where I think if he chooses to continue to make statements in that area, I think that is perfectly acceptable,” Albanese said. “It should be something that’s above politics, the need to act on climate change.”
The British monarch is also Australia’s head of state.
In his first speech as king last week, Charles suggested he would be more circumspect as monarch and step back from his advocacy on a range of issues.
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KAMPALA, Uganda — Hundreds of Ugandans attended a memorial service in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, a somber ceremony that underscored affection for the departed British monarch in this East African country.
Speakers in the Anglican cathedral in the Ugandan capital on Thursday included Foreign Affairs Minister Jeje Odongo, who paid tribute to the queen as an “endearing” leader.
“She wasn’t the queen of England alone,” she said. “She was the queen of all of us in the Commonwealth.”
The Rev. Jonathan Kisawuzi, the cathedral’s dean, spoke of the queen’s “faith, courage and direction” in her 70-year reign. “We will remember her always,” he said.
Uganda is one of the 56 member states of the Commonwealth, a group of mostly former British colonies that now includes others, such as Rwanda, that were not part of the British Empire.
Elizabeth is fondly remembered among Ugandans, who recall her attendance at the 2007 Commonwealth summit held in Kampala.
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TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’ll travel to London with former prime ministers for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and that Canadians will continue to benefit from the stability the monarchy provides.
Trudeau and Canada’s opposition leaders paid tribute to the late queen in a special session of Parliament on Thursday. She visited the country 22 times as monarch.
Trudeau said she embraced her role as queen of Canada and said “her sudden absence has struck us all palpably and profoundly.”
“Her Majesty was everywhere. Her face on our coins. Her portrait hanging in Parliament and post offices. Her televised Christmas address a cozy ritual in homes from coast to coast to coast,” Trudeau said.
“Canadians feel like they’ve lost a family member – a family member who grew up alongside us.”
Trudeau said in Canada’s constitutional monarchy, the crown’s function is to be a bedrock for the constitution, and to transcend daily political debates.
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LONDON — A group of British legislators sanctioned by China have written to officials expressing concerns that the Chinese government has been invited to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
Conservative lawmaker Tim Loughton told the BBC on Thursday the invitation to China should be rescinded, citing the country’s human rights abuses and treatment of Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang.
Britain “can’t possibly have official representatives of the Chinese government attending such an important occasion,” he said.
The Chinese ambassador to the U.K. is banned from Parliament after Beijing sanctioned seven British legislators last year over their stance on China.
It is not clear whether President Xi Jinping, currently meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Uzbekistan, will attend Monday’s state funeral. Media reports suggest Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan may attend.
Russia, Belarus and Myanmar were not included in the funeral invitation list.
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LONDON — Thousands of people have turned up at Sandringham Estate, the royal country estate in Norfolk, to greet Prince William and his wife Catherine.
The royal couple appeared outside the gates of the estate to view the sea of floral tributes left for Queen Elizabeth II and to greet thousands of well-wishers.
A large crowd gathered outside the country residence on the eastern English coast early Thursday, hoping for a chance to meet and speak with the couple.
William and Kate, known since the queen’s death as the Prince and Princess of Wales, walked slowly along metal barriers as they received bouquets from the public and chatted to well-wishers.
Sandringham was the queen’s country retreat, where she spent some of her childhood years and where she presided over many Christmas family gatherings.
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LONDON — Buckingham Palace has announced that two minutes of silence will be observed across the United Kingdom at the end of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral.
The funeral is to be held at Westminster Abbey on Monday, with some 2,000 guests attending, including visiting heads of state and other dignitaries.
Officials said Thursday that after the funeral, the late queen’s coffin will be transported through the historic heart of London on a horse-drawn gun carriage.
It will then be taken in a hearse to Windsor, where the queen will be interred alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
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LONDON — While mourners in London are standing in a 4-mile (6.5-kilometer) line to view Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin lying in state, members of the royal family are meeting crowds gathered in other parts of Britain.
Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, went to Manchester in northern England on Thursday to view tributes left for the queen and speak to well-wishers.
Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, was due to visit Glasgow in Scotland later in the day with her husband, Sir Tim Laurence.
Meanwhile, the Prince and Princess of Wales were to view flowers left outside Sandringham House in Norfolk, in eastern England.
King Charles III, the new monarch, spent a day in private.
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LONDON — Standing in line to see the queen’s coffin as it lies in state in London is proving a test of patience and stamina for thousands of people.
By late Thursday morning, the line had grown to about 3½ miles (5.6 kilometers) long on the south bank of the River Thames, reaching as far as Tower Bridge.
Authorities warn those planning to come: “You will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with very little opportunity to sit down, as the queue will keep moving.”
The closed coffin sits on a raised platform, called a catafalque, inside Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament.
Visitors go through airport-style security. Only small bags are permitted.
The venue is to stay open 24 hours a day until just after dawn on Monday, the day of the queen’s state funeral.
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LONDON — The spiritual leader of the Church of England has been meeting mourners in the long line of people waiting patiently to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II.
Wearing a high-visibility vest, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was on hand Thursday to speak to some of the thousands of people in the queue along the south bank of the River Thames.
He paid tribute to the late monarch, who died last Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
“She was someone you could trust totally, completely and absolutely, whose wisdom was remarkable,” he said.
Her death and transfer of the crown to her son, King Charles III, “means we will move seamlessly to another person who will demonstrate service for the country, and see their role not as over everyone, but to serve the country and the constitution,” Welby said.
___
LONDON — Thousands of people have stood in line through the night in London, waiting their turn to view Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin as it lies in state.
Authorities said the line on Thursday stretched about 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) along the south bank of the River Thames.
The queen’s flag-draped oak coffin is lying in state at 900-year-old Westminster Hall for four days before her funeral on Monday.
People, hushed and somber, streamed past each side of the coffin.
Military detachments standing guard are rotated every 20 minutes.
One of the ceremonial guards appeared to faint early Thursday and fell off the raised platform. His condition was not immediately clear.
The queen died in Scotland last Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
___
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has sent King Charles III his condolences and offered him his full support in addressing “common challenges.”
Those challenges include “the protection of the climate and the planet,” a statement from the French presidency said.
Before he became monarch after last week’s death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles often spoke out on those issues. But as sovereign he is expected to tread more carefully in his political comments.
Macron spoke with the king by phone on Wednesday. He said on Twitter he will attend the Queen’s funeral. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-live-updates-people-wait-all-night-to-view-queens-coffin/ | 2022-09-16T17:57:43Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-live-updates-people-wait-all-night-to-view-queens-coffin/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 23 |
LONDON — Prince William has told well-wishers that walking behind the coffin of his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was “challenging” and brought back memories of the funeral of his mother, Princess Diana.
William and his wife, Catherine, the new Princess of Wales, spent almost an hour Thursday chatting with dozens of people and viewed floral tributes outside Sandringham Estate, the royal country residence in Norfolk.
During Wednesday’s coffin procession, William and his brother, Prince Harry, walked behind the queen’s coffin along with their father, King Charles III, and the king’s siblings from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall.
William, speaking of the procession, said: “The walk yesterday was challenging.”
Jane Wells, 54, was among the thousands who turned up outside Sandringham Thursday. “I said how proud his mother would have been of him, and he said how hard it was yesterday because it brought back memories of his mother’s funeral,” she told reporters afterward.
Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Many in Britain still remember the image of a young William and his brother Harry walking with their father behind her coffin.
___
KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— London mourners brave 9-hour wait to say goodbye to queen
— What to know about the queen’s lying in state
— Queen’s reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy
— With its queen gone, Britain ponders how to discuss death
— Palace reveals details of queen’s state funeral on Monday
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
___
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday it would be “perfectly acceptable” for King Charles III to continue to advocate for climate change action in his new apolitical role as monarch.
Albanese was speaking ahead of his departure for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
Albanese said the new king would decide whether he continues to advocate for reduced greenhouse gas emissions, as he has done for years as a prince.
“It’s important that the monarchy distance from party political issues. But there are issues like climate change where I think if he chooses to continue to make statements in that area, I think that is perfectly acceptable,” Albanese said. “It should be something that’s above politics, the need to act on climate change.”
The British monarch is also Australia’s head of state.
In his first speech as king last week, Charles suggested he would be more circumspect as monarch and step back from his advocacy on a range of issues.
___
KAMPALA, Uganda — Hundreds of Ugandans attended a memorial service in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, a somber ceremony that underscored affection for the departed British monarch in this East African country.
Speakers in the Anglican cathedral in the Ugandan capital on Thursday included Foreign Affairs Minister Jeje Odongo, who paid tribute to the queen as an “endearing” leader.
“She wasn’t the queen of England alone,” she said. “She was the queen of all of us in the Commonwealth.”
The Rev. Jonathan Kisawuzi, the cathedral’s dean, spoke of the queen’s “faith, courage and direction” in her 70-year reign. “We will remember her always,” he said.
Uganda is one of the 56 member states of the Commonwealth, a group of mostly former British colonies that now includes others, such as Rwanda, that were not part of the British Empire.
Elizabeth is fondly remembered among Ugandans, who recall her attendance at the 2007 Commonwealth summit held in Kampala.
___
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’ll travel to London with former prime ministers for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and that Canadians will continue to benefit from the stability the monarchy provides.
Trudeau and Canada’s opposition leaders paid tribute to the late queen in a special session of Parliament on Thursday. She visited the country 22 times as monarch.
Trudeau said she embraced her role as queen of Canada and said “her sudden absence has struck us all palpably and profoundly.”
“Her Majesty was everywhere. Her face on our coins. Her portrait hanging in Parliament and post offices. Her televised Christmas address a cozy ritual in homes from coast to coast to coast,” Trudeau said.
“Canadians feel like they’ve lost a family member – a family member who grew up alongside us.”
Trudeau said in Canada’s constitutional monarchy, the crown’s function is to be a bedrock for the constitution, and to transcend daily political debates.
___
LONDON — A group of British legislators sanctioned by China have written to officials expressing concerns that the Chinese government has been invited to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
Conservative lawmaker Tim Loughton told the BBC on Thursday the invitation to China should be rescinded, citing the country’s human rights abuses and treatment of Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang.
Britain “can’t possibly have official representatives of the Chinese government attending such an important occasion,” he said.
The Chinese ambassador to the U.K. is banned from Parliament after Beijing sanctioned seven British legislators last year over their stance on China.
It is not clear whether President Xi Jinping, currently meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Uzbekistan, will attend Monday’s state funeral. Media reports suggest Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan may attend.
Russia, Belarus and Myanmar were not included in the funeral invitation list.
___
LONDON — Thousands of people have turned up at Sandringham Estate, the royal country estate in Norfolk, to greet Prince William and his wife Catherine.
The royal couple appeared outside the gates of the estate to view the sea of floral tributes left for Queen Elizabeth II and to greet thousands of well-wishers.
A large crowd gathered outside the country residence on the eastern English coast early Thursday, hoping for a chance to meet and speak with the couple.
William and Kate, known since the queen’s death as the Prince and Princess of Wales, walked slowly along metal barriers as they received bouquets from the public and chatted to well-wishers.
Sandringham was the queen’s country retreat, where she spent some of her childhood years and where she presided over many Christmas family gatherings.
___
LONDON — Buckingham Palace has announced that two minutes of silence will be observed across the United Kingdom at the end of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral.
The funeral is to be held at Westminster Abbey on Monday, with some 2,000 guests attending, including visiting heads of state and other dignitaries.
Officials said Thursday that after the funeral, the late queen’s coffin will be transported through the historic heart of London on a horse-drawn gun carriage.
It will then be taken in a hearse to Windsor, where the queen will be interred alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
___
LONDON — While mourners in London are standing in a 4-mile (6.5-kilometer) line to view Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin lying in state, members of the royal family are meeting crowds gathered in other parts of Britain.
Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, went to Manchester in northern England on Thursday to view tributes left for the queen and speak to well-wishers.
Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, was due to visit Glasgow in Scotland later in the day with her husband, Sir Tim Laurence.
Meanwhile, the Prince and Princess of Wales were to view flowers left outside Sandringham House in Norfolk, in eastern England.
King Charles III, the new monarch, spent a day in private.
___
LONDON — Standing in line to see the queen’s coffin as it lies in state in London is proving a test of patience and stamina for thousands of people.
By late Thursday morning, the line had grown to about 3½ miles (5.6 kilometers) long on the south bank of the River Thames, reaching as far as Tower Bridge.
Authorities warn those planning to come: “You will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with very little opportunity to sit down, as the queue will keep moving.”
The closed coffin sits on a raised platform, called a catafalque, inside Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament.
Visitors go through airport-style security. Only small bags are permitted.
The venue is to stay open 24 hours a day until just after dawn on Monday, the day of the queen’s state funeral.
___
LONDON — The spiritual leader of the Church of England has been meeting mourners in the long line of people waiting patiently to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II.
Wearing a high-visibility vest, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was on hand Thursday to speak to some of the thousands of people in the queue along the south bank of the River Thames.
He paid tribute to the late monarch, who died last Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
“She was someone you could trust totally, completely and absolutely, whose wisdom was remarkable,” he said.
Her death and transfer of the crown to her son, King Charles III, “means we will move seamlessly to another person who will demonstrate service for the country, and see their role not as over everyone, but to serve the country and the constitution,” Welby said.
___
LONDON — Thousands of people have stood in line through the night in London, waiting their turn to view Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin as it lies in state.
Authorities said the line on Thursday stretched about 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) along the south bank of the River Thames.
The queen’s flag-draped oak coffin is lying in state at 900-year-old Westminster Hall for four days before her funeral on Monday.
People, hushed and somber, streamed past each side of the coffin.
Military detachments standing guard are rotated every 20 minutes.
One of the ceremonial guards appeared to faint early Thursday and fell off the raised platform. His condition was not immediately clear.
The queen died in Scotland last Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
___
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has sent King Charles III his condolences and offered him his full support in addressing “common challenges.”
Those challenges include “the protection of the climate and the planet,” a statement from the French presidency said.
Before he became monarch after last week’s death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles often spoke out on those issues. But as sovereign he is expected to tread more carefully in his political comments.
Macron spoke with the king by phone on Wednesday. He said on Twitter he will attend the Queen’s funeral. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-live-updates-people-wait-all-night-to-view-queens-coffin/ | 2022-09-16T17:57:43Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-live-updates-people-wait-all-night-to-view-queens-coffin/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 23 |
WATERLOO
Baby William Andrew Kloetzer, was born silently into heaven on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 at MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center. Private family funeral mass will be held on Sunday, Sept. 18, at the St. Mary's Catholic Church in Ackley. He will be laid to rest at the Pleasant Hill Grant Township Cemetery. Counsell Woodley Funeral Home of Iowa Falls is caring for Baby Kloetzer and his family.
William Andrew Kloetzer was born on September 8, 2022, the son of Seth William and Caitlin Ann (Landt) Kloetzer in Waterloo. He was born at 7:37 a.m.
Although William Andrew was held in our arms for only a little while, we hold him in our hearts, forever.
Love, Mommy and Daddy and baby sister, Kimber Ann Kloetzer. | http://www.timescitizen.com/obituaries/death_notices/kloetzer-baby-william-andrew-thursday-sept-8-2022/article_d7acd4b2-35b1-11ed-a42d-3bd9428e97f6.html | 2022-09-16T17:57:50Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/obituaries/death_notices/kloetzer-baby-william-andrew-thursday-sept-8-2022/article_d7acd4b2-35b1-11ed-a42d-3bd9428e97f6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
IOWA FALLS-Annalisa Stubbe, 69, of Iowa Falls, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 at Grand JiVante in Ackley, under the care of St. Croix Hospice. Arrangements are pending with the Counsell Woodley Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Iowa Falls. | http://www.timescitizen.com/obituaries/death_notices/stubbe-annalisa-wednesday-sept-14-2022/article_24696dba-35b2-11ed-8450-67696516c4b9.html | 2022-09-16T17:57:56Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/obituaries/death_notices/stubbe-annalisa-wednesday-sept-14-2022/article_24696dba-35b2-11ed-8450-67696516c4b9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A group of 142 migrants was detained near North Macedonia’s southern border with Greece early Thursday, authorities said.
A police statement said the detainees were mostly from Syria and Pakistan, and had entered from Greece. They were taken to a shelter pending deportation to Greece.
Police say the number of people illegally entering North Macedonia has doubled so far this year, compared to the same period in 2021.
More than 11,000 people — mostly from Pakistan, Syria and India — have been stopped this year. They usually pay criminal gangs to be smuggled through the Balkans to Europe’s prosperous heartland.
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Iowa Falls-Alden's Ali Ackerson bumps the volleyball during Thursday's NCC match in Hampton. The host Bulldogs rallied to win the contest in five sets.
Momentum was a precarious commodity during Thursday's North Central Conference clash between area rivals in Hampton.
Coming off a tournament title at Saturday's Belmond-Klemme tournament, Iowa Falls-Alden was looking to square its overall record to .500 versus a two-win Hampton-Dumont/CAL squad.
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Dubai-based design firm ZN Era Space wants to put a ring on it—it being Dubai.
Called the Downtown Circle project, the proposal envisions an 1,800-foot-tall, 1.9-mile ring around downtown Dubai, including the world’s tallest free-standing skyscraper, Burj Khalifa.
The circular structure would be held aloft by five pillars and contain private residences and commercial spaces over five floors. It would also include a continuous greenbelt that would run along the ring’s interior, called the Skypark, which, the company said, would include various habitats, from waterfalls to sand dunes. It would contain so much space that the horizontal skyscraper would effectively be a city within the city.
In an Instagram post on August 8, the company said that idea is “a response to the dilemma of how to build densely while retaining livability.”
Beyond addressing the issue of space in densely populated urban areas like Dubai, the ambitious project would also address the issue of environmental sustainability. Dubai has an ambitious and comprehensive plan, called Dubai 2040, that maps out a path for a more sustainable urban development of the city, which the Downtown Circle would strive to align with through a roof made entirely of solar panels and an electric tram system, among other more climate-friendly features.
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Standing at the entrance to Switzerland’s magical Lauterbrunnen Valley, I felt an eerie sense of familiarity. Where before had I seen this stunning landscape, a fertile and narrow river valley enclosed by towering cliffs, over which dozens of waterfalls spill in ribbons of silver?
Tugging at my memory was a whimsical illustration from my childhood copy of The Hobbit, a depiction of the elvish valley of Rivendell painted by author J.R.R. Tolkien himself. When I pulled up the image and compared it with the landscape before me, the similarity was stunning. Suddenly I realized that the renowned author must have stood right where I was standing now, his awe becoming the inspiration for Middle Earth.
I made this discovery in May during a week-long visit with my daughter, in which we based our stay deep in the Lauterbrunnen Valley, a 10-minute walk from the village at Camping Jungfrau. Its cluster of tiny cabins, bungalows, and tent sites around a lively restaurant and fairy-lit garden perfectly encapsulated the magic of the place. Almost directly above us, so close that its spray stung the air, the massive Staubach Waterfall roared us to sleep at night.
The name Lauterbrunnen translates as clear springs, and indeed being there in spring, water seemed to spring from everywhere, seeping from the rock in mossy grottoes, flowing in rivers and streams, and pouring over the cliffs in a series of waterfalls that locals promised us numbered 72 at the height of snowmelt.
I wasn’t the only one to make the Tolkien connection, of course; a subsequent dive into the world of Tolkienology revealed a host of fascinating facts about a trek the author took through the Bernese Alps in 1911, when he was 19. In this formative adventure—led by a quirky aunt whom some Tolkien researchers posit was the model at least in part for Gandalf—the young J.R.R., his brother Hilary, and a motley crew of relatives and friends spent weeks looping through these glacier-carved valleys and snowbound passes that would spark his imagination for the rest of his life.
While Tolkien scholars and readers have tried to map the route from references in letters, journal entries, conversations, and signatures in guest books, much remains vague. But the connection to The Hobbit, which Tolkien was not to write for another 25 years, doesn’t: He laid it out in a letter to his son Michael in 1967, when he was 76.
“The hobbit’s (Bilbo’s) journey from Rivendell to the other side of the Misty Mountains, including the glissade down the slithering stones into the pine woods, is based on my adventures in 1911,” he wrote. Admitting that his “wanderings mainly on foot in a party of 12 are not now clear in sequence,” Tolkien continued, “We went on foot, carrying great packs, practically all the way from Interlaken, mainly by mountain paths, to Lauterbrunnen and so to Mürren and eventually to the head of the Lauterbrunnenthal in a wilderness of morains.”
But the truth is, you don’t need the backing of scholarship to know you’re wandering the world of hobbits, dwarfs, elves, orcs, and dragons as you explore the high Alpen peaks and valleys of the Jungfrau region, with its tiny gabled villages tucked deep into dales and stacked precariously atop sheer cliffs. The village of Lauterbrunnen, tucked in the V of the valley with the White Lütschine River running through it, is too much like Rivendell for there to be any doubt. And there indeed are the Misty Mountains—in the form of three peaks, the Eiger (13,024 feet), Mönch (13,448 feet), and Jungfrau (13,641 feet)—rising up at the end of the valley like mysterious sentinels.
There is no evidence that Tolkien visited Trümmelbach Falls, an underground waterfall and UNESCO World Heritage site, and yet we found it impossible to duck through the rock-hewn tunnels and edge along the cliff-hugging walkways that link its 10 underground cascades without thinking of Smaug and the dwarfs’ Kingdom Under Mountain.
Another series of caves and waterfalls that could easily be mistaken for Middle Earth: St. Beatus Caves near Lake Thun feature a labyrinth of stalactite- and stalagmite-bedecked caverns and underground pools connected by passages that feel like nothing so much as Gollum’s underground lake.
Today there’s no need to hike to reach Mürren; we got there by walking the length of the valley to Stechelberg and catching the world’s steepest cable car. It offers vertigo-inducing views through the glass walls and floor as it ascends almost 3,000 feet to the village at 5,450 feet.
With its chalets, hotels, and restaurants staggered up a steep slope and linked by stairs, this car-free village offers perhaps the most dramatic views of any in the area; one restaurant terrace juts over the valley floor below. A path winds down the mountain to neighboring Gimmelwald, passing 500-year-old farmhouses and hay sheds and hillsides grazed by curious cows and frisky goats.
On the other side of the valley, the village of Wengen may be the best known of those ringing Lauterbrunnen thanks to the ski runs that ascend directly behind town and the Maennlichen cable car to the Jungfraujoch, or Top of Europe.
But it was the creaking cogwheel Wengernalp train connecting Lauterbrunnen with Wengen and Grindelwald that once again brought Tolkien’s journey to mind. Watching the late afternoon sun light up the valley as the train began its descent, I was reminded again of Tolkien’s vivid world and the essential escape and alternate vision it had offered me and countless others as we grew up and tried to make sense of our own. And about how this mountain-shrouded valley, with its impossibly high cliffs and glacier-fed cascades, had provided just such awe, inspiration, and escape for all those who entered its walled enclave.
Lastly, as we wound down the mountainside, a new vista unfolding with every switchback, it occurred to me that this train—the longest cogwheel railway in Europe—made its first run in 1892. How likely is it that Tolkien and his 12-person band took this same ride 20 years later?
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani engineers and troops cleared a key highway Thursday that will enable aid workers to speed supplies to survivors of devastating floods that have left thousands homeless and killed 1,486 people.
Traffic between the flood-hit city of Quetta and southern Sindh province remained suspended for weeks after floods damaged the key highway. The blockage had forced the military to deliver aid to victims by helicopters and boats.
As they reopened the route, engineers in flood-hit Baluchistan provinces also restored the power supply for millions, according to a government statement. And the disaster’s deady toll became more clear. On Thursday, the United Nations’ children agency said 528 children were among those killed in the floods.
The National Flood Response and Coordination Centre said the worst-ever deluge destroyed 390 bridges and washed away over 12,000 kilometers of roads across the country. The inundation of roads affected the government’s response to floods, and people complained they were still waiting for the government’s help.
The crisis affected over 33 million people and displaced over half a million people who are still living in tents and make-shift homes. The water has destroyed 70% of wheat, cotton and other crops in Pakistan. At one point, a third of the country’s territory was submerged.
Initially, Pakistan estimated that the floods caused $10 billion in damages, but now multiple economists say the cost is more like $30 billion in damages. That’s five times more than what Pakistan’s government will get under the 2019 bailout signed with the International Monetary Fund.
So far, 100 flights from different countries and international aid agencies have delivered the much-needed supplies to Pakistan, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. The U.N. weeks ago urged the international community to generously help Pakistan in relief, rescue and rehabilitation work.
On Wednesday, the U.N. resident coordinator in Pakistan, Julien Harneis, told reporters that the member states had committed so far $150 million in response to an emergency appeal for $160 million. So far, he said, $38 million pledges from the world community had been converted into assistance for Pakistan.
The impoverished nation is diverting funds allocated for development projects to help flood victims. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif this week promised the country’s homeless people that the government will ensure they are paid to rebuild and return to their lives. With winter just weeks away, displaced people living in tents are worried about their future.
Sharif on Thursday traveled to Uzbekistan to attend a summit of a security group formed by Beijing and Moscow as a counterweight to U.S. influence. Washington is one of the most generous responders to floods in Pakistan. The United States has announced $50 million aid, which is being delivered by military planes.
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Glittering glacier fields, Alpine lakes, roaring waterfalls, and velvety green hillsides—these are a few of the elements that make hiking in Switzerland an all-star event. And you won’t lack for options, thanks to the 38,000 miles of hiking trails that spiderweb across Switzerland’s peaks, valleys, and hills, an astonishing figure given that the entire country encompasses less than 16,000 square miles.
Hiking is more fun here, too, thanks to the network of Alpine huts, guesthouses, and inns that offer hospitality to weary hikers and make it relatively simple to hike inn-to-inn with only a daypack.
Ready to participate in the country’s unofficial national sport? Here are some of Switzerland’s best hiking regions and trails.
The Jura Mountains: Jura Vaudois Nature Park
Dotted with 2081 named peaks, none higher than 5,600 feet, the gentle Jura Mountains form the natural boundary between Switzerland and France and provide a peaceful retreat. Rising from the shores of Lac Léman near Lausanne to the 5,500-foot summit of La Dôle, the 270-square-mile Jura Vaudois Nature Park encompasses quiet villages, shady riverbanks, craggy cliffs, and steep slopes thickly forested in spruce and pine.
You can’t help but hike through history on the Romainmôtier Heritage Trail, which winds through the sleepy Nozon River valley, starting and ending at the 10th-century Romainmôtier Abbey, one of the best-preserved examples of a Cluniac Romanesque priory in Switzerland and likely the country’s oldest monastery as well. The stone church is open to visitors, as is the newly renovated restaurant, which serves locally sourced regional specialities, such as spit-roasted rosemary chicken and fresh fruit tarts in a courtyard.
The route is one segment of the 200-mile Cluny Way, which follows the ancient Way of St. James from France’s powerful Cluny Abbey, founded in 910, through Burgundy and the Loire Valley to Le Puy-en-Velay. Just outside the park, another historic hike follows a section of the Alpine Panorama trail through Lavaux Vineyards, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site for the long history of its characteristic terraces and viticultural traditions, which date back to the 11th century.
Another one of the park’s most popular hiking options is the Jura Crest Trail, the oldest long-distance hiking trail in Switzerland, which runs almost 200 miles from Zurich to Geneva, traversing the ridgeline and offering far-reaching views of the Alps.
How to Get There
Located 45 minutes from Geneva, the park has numerous entrance points accessible via car or bus. The visitor center located in the Hôtel du Marchairuz at Marchairuz Pass, which can be reached by Post Bus, makes a good starting point.
The Engadine Dolomites: Swiss National Park
Created in 1914, Swiss National Park was the country’s first national park—and bizarrely remains the only one so designated, despite the creation of numerous nature parks and reserves. Relatively small at 65 square miles, this remote area of the eastern Graubünden canton had been decimated by logging and mining, its ecosystem all but destroyed and wildlife banished when it was selected by the government for preservation in 1914. Today it’s as much a wilderness area as a park, its once bare slopes swathed in thick forest and home to an estimated 250 ibex, 1,800 red deer, and many other species, including chamois, marmots, and bearded vultures.
Altitudes in the park vary from 4,500 feet to 10,500 feet, making for diverse challenge levels. Hikers up for a serious challenge might opt for the 10-mile hike to the Fuorcia Val Sassa Pass or the climb to the top of 10,933-foot Piz Quattervals, a five-hour ascent that requires finding a trail over scree-covered slopes. One of the most popular hikes in the park, the 8-mile Munt la Schera crosses tundra-like high-altitude steppes with views that extend into Italy’s Stelvio National Park to the south passing old mine tunnels and meadows blanketed in wildflowers. The 13-mile route from Lavin to Zernez traverses the Zeznina Valley to the Alpine Macun Lakes before ascending to the 9,350-foot pass Fuorcletta da Barcli.
Cyclists come to ride the 86-mile loop around the Swiss National Park as well as the Graubünden Route, one of nine marked National Cycling Routes, which also skirts an edge of the park.
How to Get There
Swiss National Park is easily reachable by Swiss Rail via Zurich to Zernez, by local bus, or by bus from Livigno in Italy.
The Valais
The Pennine Alps, the highest mountains in Western Europe, form the backbone of the Valais, which boasts the highest concentration of 12,000-foot peaks in the Swiss Alps.
So remote that the roads here were among the last in Switzerland to be paved, this slice of southwestern Switzerland remains deeply rooted in tradition, and you’ll find fresh cheese, housemade sausage, and freshly baked bread everywhere you go. This is still the Alps of your grandparents’ postcards, where slate-roofed wooden hay sheds dot hillsides and the clang of cowbells and jingle of sheep and goats sing you to sleep at night and wake you in the morning.
You’ll never forget hiking the historic Leukerbad via ferrata, a series of eight precarious ladders built to transport goods up the almost sheer mountainside. The endpoint, Albinen, was designated a national heritage site for its many gabled wooden houses preserved from the 1600s and 1700s.
No trail in Switzerland is better known that the Walker’s Haute Route, an inn-to-inn trekking route that runs from Chamonix in France to Zermatt below the Matterhorn with possible stops including the villages of Trient, Champex-Lac, Verbier, Arolla, Les Hauderes, Grimentz, and Gruben. A center of mountaineering since the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, Zermatt celebrates its adventurous history in the folksy Matterhorn Museum.
How to Get There
Both Chamonix and Zermatt are accessible by Swiss Rail, with Zermatt having the additional benefit of being the terminus of the Glacier Express, a tourist favorite for its Alp-spanning route. To reach the Leukerbad via ferrata, take the train to Leuk followed by the postal bus to Leukerbad. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/incredible-places-to-hike-in-switzerland | 2022-09-16T17:58:07Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/incredible-places-to-hike-in-switzerland | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tomorrow (September 17) marks six months to the day that almost 800 P&O Ferries employees were unceremoniously sacked on the spot in a now infamous Zoom call with chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite. Now, a former employee from Herne Bay is fighting a one-man resistance against the disgraced travel operator and has taken them to court for unfair dismissal.
John Lansdown, 40, worked for the company for 15 years across two stints as a sous chef. He originally joined P&O in 1998 aged just 16.
Agency staff were waiting to replace the shell-shocked crew as they were given their marching orders, with the fired staff racking up hundreds of years experience between them. Employees were not given any consultation period as is required by law for mass redundancies.
Read more: Fury as P&O Ferries makes record profit after firing 800 workers
The company was hauled in front of the Business and Transport Select Committee following public outrage at the decision. Mr Hebblethwaite admitted the company had broken the law and that agency staff were being paid as little as £5.15 an hour - £4 below the national minimum wage.
P&O set aside £36.5 million for 'enhanced redundancy packages', which it deemed necessary to save the business. In return, employees were made to sign confidentiality agreements and agree not to disparage the company in the public domain.
But John is not one of those people. With no progress on the court case likely to happen until next year due to backlogs in the legal system, he believes it's important to keep the story in people's minds to prevent this happening in other industries. He has successfully crowdfunded to cover his legal fees to date of more than £1,700.
John said: "They weren't counting on someone like me telling them to stick their money where the sun doesn't shine. It was a tough decision to make, but it was the right one. I went to sea at 16. Back then there was opportunity for people, nowadays there aren't the same opportunities because those jobs don't exist anymore. It's about giving something back. The question is, when is enough enough?
"I've spent the past six months campaigning and preparing my case to fight. It has been a struggle at times and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't hear about the very real impact that this had on the physical and mental health of my former colleagues.
"It wasn't just a job to us, it was part of our identity. Those ships were our homes for half the year, and a lot of people haven't gone back to the ferry industry."
August's announcement that P&O owners DP World had made half-year profits of $721 million have done little to calm John's anger at the way the redundancies were made. Renewed public interest in the saga came last month when the Insolvency Service decided not to chase criminal proceedings against the company, citing there was little chance of a conviction.
In a statement, they said: “After a full and robust criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the employees who were made redundant by P&O Ferries, we have concluded that we will not commence criminal proceedings.”
'Dangerous precedent'
John is critical of the Government's response to the matter and has little hope of progress being made despite a new transport secretary being in place following Liz Truss becoming Prime Minister. Anne-Marie Trevelyan replaced Grant Shapps in the role earlier this month.
The Seafarers Remuneration Bill - established to protect seafarers rights - is currently making its way through the House of Commons before it could potentially become law. Parliament records show it's at Committee stage having had it's first and second readings in the House.
"The whole thing has set a dangerous precedent, as through Government inaction, it's given other businesses the green light to do the same thing. Nothing will change with a new Transport Secretary in place. They're just replacing incompetence with incompetence. The bill includes loopholes which need to be closed down themselves. It's not watertight and it needs to be. It's my understanding that this new piece of legislation will require all ferry operators out of UK ports to pay the minimum wage, when they are in UK waters.
"Only three miles of a Dover to Calais trip is in UK waters. We could only open the duty paid shop after we'd been in the water for 3 miles which is roughly 15 minutes. There should either be a bilateral agreement between us, the French and the Dutch, or we could adopt similar employment laws to theirs. You get much more protection as an employee from the French and Dutch laws.
"It touched a nerve with the public. Even though it's out of the news cycle, people are still mindful of what they've done. In this country we've all got a sense of fair play and that's what people find really unpalatable. People accept that businesses have to restructure but not in the way that they did it.
'Why did they only target one part of the business?'
"800 people and their families have had their lives upended and destroyed. Now the dust has settled on what happened six months ago, this was never about saving money.
"Why did they only target one part of the business? They never made any changes to the office, it was just the seafarers. We were referred to as the 'low hanging fruit' by one of the former HR directors even though we were the ones that kept those ships running. We've been dumped on the scrapheap without a second thought.
"If this doesn't bring change, then what will? Will NHS Trusts sack all their nurses and replace them with agency staff? The majority of people don't care where people come from as long as they're paid the going rate. It's terrible that agency staff have no rights - there's no pension liability, no holiday pay and no responsibility," he added.
John believes people are exhausted by the huge global events we've all dealt with in recent years - from Brexit and the pandemic to the Ukraine war and now, the death of the Queen. He's adamant none of these will stop him fighting his cause.
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The AGWSR Cougars, ranked 13th in the latest Class 1A poll, dispatched the Aplington-Parkersburg Falcons handily in a tournament just six days before going to Parkersburg Thursday. This time, the Cougars fell in five sets (25-15, 19-25, 23-25, 25-16, 16-14).
After being dominated in the first set by 10 points, the Falcons eeked out two close wins. AGWSR came back to force a fifth set with another lopsided win. The trend continued in the fifth with A-P winning close. | http://www.timescitizen.com/sports/ranked-cougs-fall-in-five/article_f6c50966-35c3-11ed-aaec-a3829ee00b04.html | 2022-09-16T17:58:08Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/sports/ranked-cougs-fall-in-five/article_f6c50966-35c3-11ed-aaec-a3829ee00b04.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Following the killing of an unarmed Black man who was shot dead by a police officer in south London, public figures and the family of the 24-year-old have been calling for action to demand justice. Chris Kaba, who had been due to become a dad, was killed on September 5 following a police pursuit in Streatham Hill.
The Audi he was driving was hemmed in by two police vehicles in Kirkstall Gardens, a narrow residential street, and one round was fired from a police weapon. The car was flagged up on automatic number plate recognition but it later emerged that the vehicle was not registered to Chris according to the watchdog Independent Office for Police Conduct.
CPR was “immediately administered” and an ambulance was requested. Chris died later that night in hospital. For more stories for our minority communities, sign up to Untold Stories.
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Met Police confirmed there was no gun other than the police weapon at the scene. Shortly after the incident, the IOPC opened a homicide investigation into the fatal shooting but did not confirm at the time if the police officer involved had been suspended.
The Met Police has since confirmed the firearms officer involved has been suspended from duty. Met Police Assistant Commissioner Amanda Pearson said: “This decision has been reached following careful consideration of a number of factors, including the significant impact on public confidence, and in light of the Independent Office for Police Conduct announcing a homicide investigation.
“Our thoughts and sympathies remain with Mr Kaba’s family and friends. We understand how concerned communities are, particularly black communities, and thank those who are working closely with our local officers.”
A march took place through London last Saturday (September 10), with crowds gathering outside Scotland Yard. The family was joined by supporters including the rapper Stormzy who said: "I just encourage everyone, at whatever capacity, do whatever you can do to help. But also, have the stamina to keep going because they have killed someone, that’s murder. Just keep going, because the family needs you.“
"Lacked urgency"
It was revealed that the family was not informed of his death for 11hours. Jefferson Bosela, Chris’s cousin and the family spokesperson told Sky News he feels the investigation into the case has “lacked urgency”, adding: “We've asked the IOPC some very basic questions, that they should have known from the outset.
"For people who are demanding justice and taking this really seriously, it looked like they took a very lax or laissez-faire approach and that's something that's almost an added insult to injury and that's really hurtful."
More protests are set to take place this week in London, Brighton and Manchester, including one on Saturday (September 17) outside New Scotland Yard.
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — The Vatican plans to keep open paths of dialogue with Russia, even if doing so “smells,” Pope Francis said Thursday, reaffirming Ukraine’s right to defend itself.
Francis spoke at length about Russia’s war in Ukraine and the need for peace during a press conference while traveling home from Kazakhstan. Francis had visited the former Soviet republic to participate in an interfaith peace conference that, in its final communique, called on all political leaders to stop conflict and bloodshed “in all corners of our world.”
Francis has long touted the need for dialogue, even with antagonists and countries that are hostile to the Catholic Church. He reaffirmed that policy in comments about Russia, China and even Nicaragua, where the government has been cracking down on the church.
“I don’t exclude dialogue with any power that is in war, even if it’s the aggressor,” Francis said. “It smells, but you have to do it. Always take a step forward, with the hand outstretched, because the alternative is to close the only reasonable door to peace.”
In that vein, Francis had hoped his trip to Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan would provide a chance to meet with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has justified the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine on spiritual and ideological grounds. Patriarch Kirill bowed out of the conference last month, but his envoy who attended said another meeting was possible between the two world religious leaders but must be prepared well in advance.
At the same time, though, Francis affirmed that it was “morally acceptable” for Ukraine to receive weapons to defend itself against Moscow’s invasion. He said such a defense is not only right but “also an expression of love for your country.” But he said the motivation behind such fighting is key.
“It can be immoral if it’s done with the intention of provoking more war or selling weapons or getting rid of the weapons that you don’t need anymore,” he said.
Lamenting that wars are raging around the planet, he recalled that when he was 9 years old, in 1945, he learned the value of peace as word spread in Buenos Aires that World War II had ended.
“Even today, I can see my mother and the neighbor weeping with joy because the war had ended. We were in a South American country, far away. But these people, these women, knew that peace was bigger than all wars. And they wept with joy when peace was made.”
“I won’t ever forget that,” he said.
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LONDON (AP) — The U.N. atomic agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution Thursday calling on Moscow to immediately end its occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant, where shelling of the facility and nearby areas in recent weeks heightened fears of a possible radiation disaster.
Poland and Canada proposed the resolution on behalf of Ukraine, which is not a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s top decision-making body. It passed with 26 votes. Russia and China voted against it while seven Asian and African countries abstained.
The document adopted a markedly harsher tone than previous statements by officials from the Vienna-based IAEA, who largely limited themselves to calling for a “security zone” around Europe’s largest nuclear plant. The resolution says the board “deplores the Russian Federation’s persistent violent actions against nuclear facilities in Ukraine, including forcefully seizing control of nuclear facilities.”
It urges Russia to “immediately cease all actions against, and at, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and any other nuclear facility in Ukraine.” Russia seized radioactive waste facilities in Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, at the start of the war but later withdrew.
The resolution also appeals to Russia to return control of the power station to Ukrainian authorities, adding that the presence of Russian troops at the plant significantly increases the risk of a nuclear accident. The plant continues to be operated by its pre-occupation Ukrainian staff, in conditions that the IAEA previously described as endangering the site’s safety.
Russia’s permanent mission to international organizations in Vienna, including the IAEA, hit out at the resolution as “anti-Russian.”
“The Achilles’ heel of this resolution is that it does not say a word about the systematic shelling of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is the main problem in terms of ensuring nuclear safety and security in the world,” the Russian mission said in a statement Thursday, according to the Russian Interfax agency.
“The reason is simple – the shelling is carried out by Ukraine, which Western countries support and protect in every possible way,” the statement added. Moscow and Kyiv have repeatedly accused each other of firing at and around the plant.
The Russian mission noted the abstentions of the seven Asian and African countries, including Burundi, Vietnam, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Senegal, and South Africa.
“Most of humanity refused to support this project,” it said.
Ukrainian officials, for their part, hailed the resolution as evidence of the IAEA’s “adequate response” to the situation around the crippled plant.
“The resolution of the IAEA Board of Governors, demanding that Russia de-occupy the Zaporizhzhia plant, is a good example of an adequate response from an international institution to the actions of a terrorist country,” Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko wrote on Facebook.
Halushchenko thanked the board for “calling everything by its proper name” and accused Moscow of unleashing “a shower of manipulative statements” around the situation at the plant.
He also expressed hope that the seven abstaining countries would revise their positions ahead of the IAEA’s general conference later this month.
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WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Infowars’ revenues and website viewership spiked as Alex Jones alleged on his show in 2014 that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, according to documents shown to a jury Thursday.
Jones and his Free Speech Systems company are on trial in Connecticut in a lawsuit brought by an FBI agent who responded to the shooting and relatives of eight of the 20 first graders and six educators killed in the December 2012 massacre in Newtown. They say Jones inflicted emotional and psychological harm on them, and they have been threatened and harassed by Jones’ followers.
Jones has already been found liable for spreading the myth that the shooting never happened and the six-member jury in Waterbury will be deciding how much he and his company should pay the plaintiffs in damages. The trial started Tuesday and is expected to last a month.
Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the families, showed internal Infowars documents detailing the revenue and website-visit spikes around the time of an article on Sept. 24, 2014, on the Infowars website that said no one died at Sandy Hook and Jones discussing the article on his show the next day.
The families’ lawsuit claims that Jones trafficked in lies to increase his audience and sales of the nutritional supplements, clothing and other merchandise he sells on the Infowars website and hawks on his web show. Jones and guests on his show said the shooting was staged with crisis actors as part of gun control efforts.
The discussion of revenue and web viewership came Thursday as Mattei spent a second day questioning Brittany Paz, a Connecticut lawyer hired by Jones to testify about his companies’ operations.
Documents showed daily revenues to the Infowars online store increased from $48,000 on Sept. 24 to more than $230,000 on Sept. 25. Total user sessions on the Infowars website, meanwhile, increased from about 543,000 on Sept. 23 to about 1 million on Sept. 24, the documents showed.
Paz also was asked about Infowars videos that show Jones and guests using lies and misinformation to claiming the massacre was staged. She acknowledged that much of what was said was not true.
In the videos, Jones says the school shooting was a “giant hoax” and “the fakest thing since the $3 bill.” He said there were aerial images of student actors running in circles in and out of the school when the images actually were of a nearby firehouse where people gathered after the shooting. He also claimed CNN was using green screens in fake interviews with people in Sandy Hook.
Mattei later showed an email from a company executive showing internal conflict within Infowars about continuing to discuss conspiracy theories about the school shooting.
“The Sandy Hook stuff is killing us,” Infowars editor Paul Watson wrote, asking why the company was risking its reputation and audience by harassing the parents of dead children.
Last month, a jury in Texas awarded the parents of one of the slain Sandy Hook children nearly $50 million in a similar lawsuit against Jones and his company.
Paz acknowledged that Infowars broadcasted misinformation. She also acknowledged that Jones did not check the qualifications of a guest who appeared numerous times on his show—- a conspiracy theorist who claimed to be a school security expert who had investigating the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado — even as Jones boasted of his credentials and Infowars received emails questioning the guest’s credibility.
Paz testified that she believes Jones and his companies have made at least $100 million in the decade since the massacre and Jones is now worth millions of dollars. Website traffic data reports run by Infowars employees and presented at the trial also show that by 2016, his show aired on 150 affiliate radio stations, and the Infowars website got 40 million page views a month.
Mattei showed Paz internal Infowars emails between employees sharing Google Analytics data. Paz earlier testified that she was told by Infowars employees that they didn’t use Google Analytics regularly to track website viewing data. After showing her the emails, Mattei asked if it was still her testimony that Infowars didn’t regularly use Google Analytics.
“I don’t know at this point,” she said.
Jones now says he believes the shooting happened, but he insists his comments were protected by free speech rights, which he cannot argue at trial because he has already been found liable for damages.
The families say the emotional and psychological harm to them was profound and persistent. Relatives say they were subjected to social media harassment, death threats, strangers videotaping them and their children, and the surreal pain of being told that they were faking their loss.
Jones’ lawyer, Norman Pattis, said in his opening statement Tuesday that any damages should be minimal and claimed the families were exaggerating the harm they say they have suffered.
On his Infowars show Thursday, Jones once again called the proceedings in Connecticut “a show trial.”
The judge “now has to carry out this fraud,” he said. “But across the legal community, people are just saying, ’My God, this is something worthy of Venezuela. This is unbelievable.’”
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HONOLULU (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Hawaii have announced bribery and public corruption charges against a Hawaii business owner and a Maui County official.
Court documents unsealed Thursday accuse Milton Choy, the owner of a Honolulu company that provides wastewater services and supplies, of bribing Stewart Olani Stant, who was a wastewater manager and then director of the Maui County Department of Environmental Management.
U.S. Attorney for Hawaii Clare Connors said at a news conference Thursday that the case is among the largest bribery investigations in state history. She said Choy provided Stant with more than $2 million in cash and gifts that included direct deposits to Stant’s bank accounts, cash, gambling chips and trips to Las Vegas.
In return, prosecutors said Choy received upwards of $19 million in business contracts from the county.
Messages left for Stant on various social media sites were not immediately returned. Listed phone numbers had been disconnected.
Choy took responsibility for his actions and admitted everything he did to federal investigators, said his attorney Michael Green.
“He gave unprotected statements — that’s where you don’t ask for a lawyer and you you sit down with the agents and tell them what you did. And he did that. And he was he candid the whole time and told them everything he knew about corruption,” Green said.
If found guilty, Connors said, Choy would be required to forfeit assets up to $15 million and face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. If convicted, Stant would be required to forfeit $2 million, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The two will be arraigned in federal court on Monday.
Connors said investigators were tipped off by a member of the public.
“When we received the information from this member of the public, our investigators and prosecutors took a look at it and thought this is significant,” Connors said. “It is certainly among one of the largest bribery cases that our our office has investigated and prosecuted.”
Steven Merrill, the FBI special agent in charge of the Honolulu office, said the agency’s work investigating corrupt public officials in Hawaii is not done.
“Public corruption is the FBI’s number one criminal investigative priority because corrupt public officials undermine the public’s trust and confidence in our government,” he said. “Both individuals individually profited from the scheme, but with no regard to the fact that the citizens of Maui County would be defrauded. They were emboldened to continue the scheme for many years until their greed caught up with them.”
Connors said that Choy was among the first people arrested in recent public corruption investigations and that he cooperated with investigators in cases against two Hawaii state lawmakers who were also prosecuted for taking bribes.
The lawmakers were accused of accepting bribes in exchange for shaping legislation while in office. They both pleaded guilty in February.
Rep. Ty Cullen resigned from the state House of Representatives shortly before federal prosecutors announced charges against him and former Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English.
As part of their agreements to plead guilty, English must forfeit about $15,000 and Cullen agreed to forfeit $23,000, representing the amounts of cash they received.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia has denied parole to convicted sniper killer Lee Boyd Malvo, ruling that he is still a risk to the community two decades after he and his partner terrorized the Washington, D.C., region with a series of random shootings.
Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others over a three-week span in October 2002. Multiple other victims were shot and killed across the country in the prior months as the duo made their way to the nation’s capital region from Washington state.
Malvo was convicted of capital murder in Virginia and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But a series of Supreme Court rulings and a change in Virginia law gave Malvo the opportunity to seek parole after serving nearly 20 years in custody.
The Virginia Parole Board rejected his request on Aug. 30, finding that Malvo remains a risk to the community and should serve more of his sentence before being released on parole, state records of Parole Board decisions for August show.
“Release at this time would diminish seriousness of crime; Serious nature and circumstances of your offense(s),” the Parole Board wrote.
Malvo’s accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, was executed in Virginia in 2009. Malvo, now 37, was sentenced to life without parole for the three Virginia killings. But after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional, two federal courts found that Malvo was entitled to new sentencing hearings. The Virginia legislature also passed a law in 2020 that gave juvenile offenders an opportunity to seek parole after serving 20 years.
Malvo was a 15-year-old from Jamaica who had been sent to live in Antigua when he met the much older Muhammad. Muhammad trained and indoctrinated Malvo, and in 2002 the pair embarked on a nationwide killing spree that ended with the 10 slayings in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Trial testimony indicated the shootings were a plan for Muhammad to regain custody of his children by killing his ex-wife and making her death appear to be a result of random violence.
Malvo is serving his sentence at the super maximum-security Red Onion State Prison in Virginia.
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Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving into park. Within seconds, he unrolls a fire hose and opens a hydrant, sending water flowing into one of the plastic tanks on the truck’s flat bed.
His timer is set for 5 minutes, 20 seconds — when the tank will be full and he’ll turn to the second one.
The water pulled from the ground here will be piped dozens of miles across rugged landscape to serve the roughly 700,000 tourists a year who visit the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai reservation in northwestern Arizona — an operation that’s the main source of revenue for the tribe.
Despite the Colorado River bordering more than 100 miles of Hualapai land in the canyon, the tribe cannot turn to it as a water source. About a dozen tribes across the Colorado River basin similarly have yet to fully secure access to the river. Now that the river is shrinking because of overuse, drought and human-caused climate change, tribes want the federal government to ensure their interests are protected.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
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The Hualapai Tribe has a water settlement in Congress that comes with $180 million for infrastructure. Still, it could be years before a pipeline is built and water flows from the river to the main town of Peach Springs or the tribe’s tourist center at Grand Canyon West.
“It was the best of a bad deal,” said Phil Wisely, the tribe’s public services director. “And the thing is, I don’t think we could get a better deal, especially now.”
The Colorado River no longer can support the 40 million people in the U.S. West who have relied on it, plus a $15 billion agriculture industry. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation recently mandated deeper cuts to the water supply and asked seven states to find ways to conserve more.
Tribes did not get a share of the river when the states agreed to divide it and signed the Colorado River Compact in 1922.
Unlike other water users, tribes don’t lose access to water when they don’t use it. A 1908 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as the Winters Doctrine says tribes have the right to enough water to establish a permanent homeland. Often, tribes give up potentially huge water claims in exchange for an assured supply and federal funding to deliver it.
Tribal water rights — once they’re fully resolved — could add up to about one-quarter of the river’s historic flows, according to the Water & Tribes Initiative.
On the Ute Indian Tribe’s reservation east of Salt Lake City, a water settlement has been delayed for decades because not everyone now agrees on the amount the tribe should receive.
Tribal leaders say they’re tired of pressing the federal government to protect its interests. They maintain the way water has been apportioned in Utah has been unfair, though Utah state officials disagree.
“Until you start to deal with the inequities or the injustice, you can never really have any momentum going forward,” said Shaun Chapoose, chairman of the Ute Business Committee.
In a statement to The Associated Press, the Interior Department did not say how tribal water rights, which are federal rights, would be protected as the river’s flow decreases. It said it is working with tribes that are affected by drought.
Back on the Hualapai reservation, the tribe has been chasing groundwater for years.
Querta’s job is a grind, but he’s well-suited for it — analytical, quick and goal-oriented.
The truck takes a beating on the gravel and dirt road on multiple round trips of more than 30 miles most days. The side mirrors and back windows have rattled loose and are held on by red duct tape. Major truck repairs or illness can put him out of commission.
COVID-19 sidelined Querta for two weeks last year with no replacement.
“I didn’t mind because I didn’t want anybody to mess up my truck or my tanks,” said Querta. “I take care of this truck like it’s mine.”
The water he taps is sent through a pipeline just outside Peach Springs to Grand Canyon West. Revenue from tourism funds programs for the elderly, public works, the cultural center and other services. The main tourist attraction is the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a glass bridge with a view of the Colorado River 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) below.
A restaurant overlooking the canyon operates with water conservation in mind — waterless urinals, faucets with sensors, bottled water and food served in disposable containers. Those practices will remain even if Hualapai gets water from the Colorado River, said operations manager Alvaro Cobia-Ruesga.
The Hualapai Tribe has long planned to expand Grand Canyon West with a store, fire and police station, housing and elementary school to serve tribal members who now ride a shuttle up to five hours round trip daily from Peach Springs and surrounding communities to their jobs there.
But without a secure source of water for Grand Canyon West, it won’t happen, said tribal Chairman Damon Clarke.
“One of the biggest things with our settlement is hope for the future and getting this not for us at this time, but for the generations ahead,” Clarke said.
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BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin museum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of cultural items from around the world and the debate over demands for some of them to be returned to their homelands.
The east wing of the Humboldt Forum contains items from the city’s Ethnological Museum and the Museum for Asian Art. It will display some 20,000 objects, among them dozens of Benin Bronzes that were stolen in Africa during colonial times — as well as an exhibit explaining to visitors how most of them are soon to return to Nigeria.
The east wing opened Thursday with a preview for reporters and will be open to the public starting Saturday. The west wing of the museum — located in the heart of of the German capital, next to the neoclassical Museum Island complex — opened in 2021. It also contains items from the two collections.
The objects on display offer a survey of the world’s cultures and have been chosen to place a new emphasis on the importance of art from Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas.
During the development of the exhibition, German curators worked closely together with teams from countries and regions where many of the objects originated.
“It was important for us to develop the narratives of these objects in cooperation with colleagues from all over the world,” said Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, an authority that oversees many of Berlin’s museums including the Humboldt Forum.
“This house was created through dialogue and exchange,” Parzinger added. “Our commitment to openness and transparency, the recognition of colonial injustice with resulting restitutions … will continue to define our work in the future.”
Earlier this year, Germany and Nigeria signed an agreement about the return of 514 objects from the famous Benin Bronzes collection that were looted from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now southern Nigeria, by a British colonial expedition in 1897.
The artifacts ended up spread far and wide. Hundreds were sold to collections such as the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, which has one of the world’s largest groups of historical objects from the Kingdom of Benin. Many of them date from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
While the first pieces will be returned to Nigeria later this year, about a third of the collection will remain on loan in Berlin for an initial period of 10 years.
In one of the galleries, 40 of the Benin Bronzes will be presented at the opening. They include iconic cast bronze memorial heads, carved ivory tusks and rectangular relief plaques.
A second gallery is dedicated to illustrating the restitution process. In video installations, German and Nigerian scholars, artists and representatives of museums and the royal family in Benin City explain from multiple perspectives the history and significance of the objects and give their view on the current restitution debate.
Other objects that will be on display include a sixth-century Buddhist cave temple from Kizil, located near Kucha on the Northern Silk Road in China, an exhibition of textiles and pottery from Central Asia, and traditional buildings and houses from different regions in Oceania such as a meeting house from Palau from 1907, as well as a replica of an Abelam cult house from Papua New Guinea.
Several galleries are dedicated to art from the Americas. Among the highlights are large stone reliefs from the Aztecs, and a 16-square-meter (172-square-foot) painted cloth with inscriptions by Mixtec, Nahuatl and Choco artists from what is now the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which records social events spanning a period of more than 500 years.
In addition to the permanent exhibitions, there will be changing temporary exhibits.
Among those shown during the opening of the museum, is a collection of around 60 objects that was compiled by Francis La Flesche, a native American ethnologist who was born on the Omaha Reservation in the United States’ Midwest in 1857. La Flesche collected the items, such as clothes, decoration and ornaments on behalf of the Ethnological Museum in the 19th century hoping to preserve parts of his culture this way.
All in all, the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum for Asian Art comprise about 500,000 objects, which were previously shown in museums in the city’s Dahlem district. Less than 3 percent will be on display in the Humboldt Forum.
Since the opening last year of the west wing of the Humboldt Forum — which is a partial replica of a Prussian palace that was demolished by East Germany’s communist government after World War II — more than 1.5 million people have visited.
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The 49ers' offense couldn't get off the ground in the Week 1 loss against the Bears. Nine of their 11 possessions ended with zero points, including their last four drives of the game. Obviously, the weather played a factor, but the offense just wasn't able to gain any momentum. The offense will need to solve their problems quickly as a tricky game against the Seattle Seahawks is next.
Here are the five players to watch on the 49ers' offense against the division rivals.
RB Jeff Wilson
Wilson is likely to be slated as the starting running back for at least Sunday, with Elijah Mitchell out for the next two months. In his five seasons with the 49ers, Wilson has only started in nine games, but he's been productive over the small sample. He has averaged 16.8 carries for 81.2 yards in games he starts, including three 100+ yard games, with his most recent start coming in Week 15 last season against the Titans. Wilson will likely be used in heavy rotation with Deebo Samuel but should get the lion's share of touches out of the running back group.
WR Deebo Samuel
Samuel was used once again as the wideback in the 49ers' Week 1 loss against the Bears. He finished with eight rushing attempts for 52 yards with a touchdown and a lost fumble in the red zone.
What was most concerning for Samuel was his performance in the passing game. The receiver was targeted a team-high seven times but had only two receptions for 14 yards and had as many drops as he did receptions. Samuel will likely see an increased role in the running game with the aforementioned Mitchell injury, but the 49ers will need more production from him in the pass game to take some pressure off of their young quarterback.
LT Trent Williams
In what may have been the biggest box score surprise from Week 1, Trent Williams had the most pressures allowed on the 49ers offensive line with three per Pro Football Focus. In his 24 games with the 49ers, Sunday was just the seventh time the All-Pro tackle allowed three or more pressures in a game. The offensive line caught some flack for their performance against the Bears, allowing 13 pressures on 27 snaps when the Bears didn't blitz and Williams wasn't his usual self. Look for a big bounce-back game from Williams against the Seahawks.
WR Jauan Jennings
Jennings had a quietly good game in Chicago, leading the 49ers in receptions and yards with his four-catch, 62-yard performance. Forty-four of those yards came on a single play when Jennings beat Kyler Gordon in the slot for the longest play of the game for the 49ers. He was also used heavily on third downs, targeted four times for two receptions and two first downs, including the 44-yard reception.
When the 49ers played Seattle last season, Jennings wasn't quite established in the 49ers offense being targeted just twice in two games, but following the 49ers' Week 12 loss against Seattle, Jennings was targeted 25 times over the next five games. As a result, the second-year receiver is now well established in the offense and will get plenty of looks against the Seattle secondary.
QB Trey Lance
Let's all be in agreement that from this point forward, Trey Lance is automatically on the players to watch list, so there can be a blurb about another offensive player. We know Lance is a player to watch, and he has been ever since he was taken third overall in the 2021 draft. Week 1 wasn't the best Lance performance we've seen but there were some flashes. Now let's see how he bounces back against a division rival in a game the 49ers would like especially after the Week 1 loss. Seattle got a sample of Lance in 2021, allowing 157 yards on nine completions and two touchdowns to Lance after the then-rookie replaced an injured Jimmy Garoppolo. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/16/23354308/49ers-seahawks-5-players-offense | 2022-09-16T18:02:29Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/16/23354308/49ers-seahawks-5-players-offense | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 49ers and their fans are strangers to the Seattle Seahawks, a division foe they see twice a year. However, they are not as familiar with this version of the Seahawks that DraftKings Sportsbook currently has listed as an 8.5-point underdog.
With Russell Wilson gone, Geno Smith under center, and many other changes, this is not the same Seahawks team that has had the 49ers' number over the last decade.
Let's start on the offensive side of the ball. Smith is replacing a perennial pro bowler in Wilson, who has been a thorn in the 49ers' side since he came into the league. Wilson had a 16-4 career record against San Francisco during his time in Seattle, leaving some rather large shoes for Smith to fill in this rivalry.
Smith was highly efficient in his first start in week one, which ironically came against Wilson and his new team, the Denver Broncos. Smith was 23/28 for 177 yards and two touchdowns for an average of 5.9 net yards per pass attempt.
That's a drop off from the 6.3 Wilson posted in his final season in Seattle when the Seahawks were the 31st ranked passing offense in the league under the same offensive coordinator currently conducting the offense.
Smith has proven he can effectively manage a game and not be the reason his team loses, but the 49ers can breathe a sigh of relief as Smith won't cause the same headache that Wilson and his twice-annual Houdini act they have been at the mercy of over the last decade.
The Seahawks also have a new look offensive line after the departure of long-time left tackle Duane Brown who had anchored the blind side in Seattle since 2017. Rookie Charles Cross took over in his place, who Seattle selected with the 9th overall pick in the 2022 draft.
Seattle also has another rookie starting on the offensive line, with third-round pick Abraham Lucas lining up as the starting right tackle. Veteran Austin Blythe takes over the starting center job, leaving Gabe Jackson and Damien Lewis as the only two returning starters from last season on the offensive line.
DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett still pose a formidable threat to any opposing secondary, with the duo combining for ten receptions in their week one win. Metcalf has averaged 76 yards on six receptions in his six career meetings against the 49ers but faces a new challenge in Charvarius Ward in what is poised to be an electric matchup between the two.
Shifting to the opposite side of the ball, the Seahawks have gone through some major defensive changes since they last took the field against the 49ers. Bobby Wagner is now playing for the Rams, which still feels weird to type or say out loud.
Wagner's absence is something that Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers' offense will look to take advantage of after dealing with the future hall of fame linebacker wrecking their game plan for years. Seattle also has two rookie cornerbacks starting for them, who will get put to the test early and often against a talented wide receiver corps in San Francisco.
Deebo Samuel has only played Seattle three times in his NFL career but has recorded at least five receptions and 100 yards in each of those three meetings. Samuel has averaged 134 scrimmage yards and a touchdown in his career against the Seahawks, and he will look to continue that streak on Sunday.
The SeSeahawks'efense allowed 433 yards in Week 1 but held Denver to 16 points in large part because of their stout red zone defense that kept the Broncos out of the end zone on four trips inside the 20-yard line.
This is nothing new for Seattle, as they posted the 3rd best red zone defense in the entire NFL in 2021. If the 49ers are going to get their first win of the season, they can’t afford to settle once they get into the red zone.
Denver failed to do so and after an abnormal amount of self-inflicted mistakes via penalty, ended up dropping a game to a Seahawks squad that they outgained by nearly 200 yards. Given how the 49ers lost in Chicago in a similar fashion, discipline has to be at the forefront of the game plan as they match up with an inferior opponent on paper.
Despite the losses of Wilson and Wagner, the Seahawks are far from a pushover opponent. They beat a very good Broncos team in Week 1, and they are still a well-coached team that is capable of executing in all three phases.
Having said that, this is an entirely new opponent than the one that has given the 49ers and their fans nightmares for the last ten years, and that has to provide some relief as the 49ers look to beat the Seahawks for the first time since December of 2019.
Final Score Prediction
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48ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans’ message was clear Thursday: “Self-Inflicted penalties will kill you, so we have to do a better job of just playing smarter, continue with the same relentless effort, the mindset, but we just have to play smarter on a few of those penalties where you guys saw.”
Repeatedly, Ryans mentioned the self-imposed mistakes by the defense. Yet, at the same time, Ryans didn’t seem like someone overly concerned that we’d see the same results moving forward.
A part of that can be contributed to the play of safety Talanoa Hufanga, who Ryans said played well on multiple occasions: “He flew around, he played with the type of energy, the tenacity, the grit that you would hope for, he stuck out amongst the entire group, just his style of play and I’m very happy with the way he played. The style of play he played with, we just have to have all 10 guys playing like that.”
Obviously, he means the other ten players on the field. It’ll be a different test for Huf and the secondary this week as DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett present a significant challenge, and Geno Smith should use the entire field.
Ryans didn’t sound too concerned with Geno or Seattle, as he knows, much like last week, it’s on the defense to finish: “That’s one thing we didn’t do this past Sunday, we didn’t finish. We had opportunities to close that game out, and defensively, we didn’t get the job done. So, for us, the thing coming in is how much better can we play. How can we help support our team and put us in position to win the game?”
One player who will have a big say in the result is Javon Kinlaw. He started the game strong with a pressure and forced an errant throw in Week 1. With all the attention on the Seahawks starting two rookie offensive tackles, that’ll open up 1-on-1 matchups for Kinlaw and Arik Armstead to win inside. Ryans said Kinlaw did well in Week 1 and expects the former top-15 pick to get better the more he plays.
Ryans praised Kinlaw for his work against double teams and for being disruptive in general. Ryans talked about how much Javon helps the defense and said, “he’s being the player that we thought he could be.” It helps that Kinlaw is healthy and no longer dealing with a nagging injury:
“Definitely, I notice a huge difference in just how he’s moving around. His demeanor, he’s in a really great space and he’s playing well for us and he’s moving around well. He’s not worried about injuries. Anytime you can get some stuff off your plate, mentally. You’re not worried about injuries. You’re not worried about rehabbing. Now you have time to focus on really getting better as a player and that’s where Kinlaw is. His focus is in the right place and you see his game improving each week.”
Kinlaw seems to be in a better place mentally. Week 1 was a great start. During these next three weeks, the 49ers have a massive edge in the trenches defensively. Kinlaw couldn’t ask for a better opportunity. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/16/23356463/49ers-ryans-kinlaw-hufanga | 2022-09-16T18:02:41Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/16/23356463/49ers-ryans-kinlaw-hufanga | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Russell won album of the year for her debut solo record “Outside Child,” while bluegrass guitarist Billy Strings won artist of the year at the Americana Honors and Awards.
Russell, whose starkly beautiful album touches on abuse she suffered as a child and her survival, said she heard common themes of community, family, unity and belonging in many of the speeches on Wednesday night during the award show in Nashville, Tennessee.
“I feel so honored to be part of this community, to be in a creative communion with my producer Dan Knobler,” she said.
In a tearful speech, she thanked her friends, family and fellow nominees and said that after spending her early years in foster care, she found her family in music. “Music saved me, music saves me every day,” Russell said.
Hosted by the duo The Milk Carton Kids, the annual awards show held at the Ryman Auditorium celebrated the oft-misunderstood genre that mixes country, gospel, rock, folk, roots and blues. In addition to the winners, this year’s show gave out lifetime achievement awards to Don Williams, the gentle giant of country music, singer-actor Chris Isaak and pioneering duo the Indigo Girls.
Billy Strings was not able to accept in person, so the award for artist of the year was accepted by dobro and steel guitar player Jerry Douglas. Sierra Ferrell won for emerging artist of the year.
Six-time Grammy winner Brandi Carlile won song of the year for “Right On Time,” which she wrote with her bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth and producer Dave Cobb.
“I really love the chill and challenge that I get every time I sing this song,” Carlile said.
Multi-instrumentalist Larissa Maestro won instrumentalist of the year and talked about other artists of color who had been nominated in that category in previous years and opened the door for her.
“I didn’t see people who looked like me for a lot of years,” she said. “This is really really exciting.”
Husband and wife duo War and Treaty, made up of Tanya and Michael Trotter, won over the audience with their soulful duet “That’s How Love is Made,” and later won duo/group of the year.
“Our road has been long, it’s been hard, but it’s been worth it,” said Tanya Trotter. “If you want to know what Americana music is, it’s the sound of family,” added Michael Trotter.
Russell, who is from Montreal, teamed up with Carlile for a performance in English and French of her song “You’re Not Alone.”
Another lifetime honoree was Al Bell, a music executive, record promoter and label owner who helped turn Memphis label Stax Records into a powerhouse, pushing the careers of artists like Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes and the Staple Sisters. He wrote the hit “I’ll Take You There,” for the Staple Sisters and later went to work at Motown Records with Berry Gordy.
“I feel the spirit,” Bell told the crowd. “I don’t have the words in my grasp to express how I feel right now and how Americana music is making me feel.”
He noted that popular music has always been influenced by Black music, but he said that streaming and new technology threatens to eliminate that music.
“We have to come together to save our authentic music and art that comes from our culture,” he said.
Singer and actor Chris Isaak received a performance lifetime achievement award and was introduced by country singer and actor Lyle Lovett, who called him “a remarkable artist and remarkable human being.”
“If you don’t have a great band, it’s no fun,” Isaak said, who praised his band during his acceptance speech.
Lovett, who has been out on tour this year with Isaak, then launched into a humorous love song for his tourmate as Isaak watched from side stage.
Folk duo Indigo Girls were given the Spirit of Americana/Free Speech in Music Award for their longtime advocacy for LGBTQ rights, women’s health, environmentalism and voting for their decades-long career.
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers spoke of being influenced by other women and activists in music, including Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell and said that their work as outspoken advocates is just as important today.
“It is going to take years to undo the racism and homophobia that is woven into the fabric of this country,” said Ray.
Fairfield Four, a harmony singing group that originated in the 1920s at the Fairfield Baptist Church in Nashville, was honored with the Legacy of Americana Award for preserving traditional Black a cappella gospel music. The Grammy winning gospel group is best known for its performance in the film “O Brother Where Art Thou” and they performed “Rock My Soul” during the awards show. Prior to their performance, the show held a moment of silence for Dr. Paul T. Kwami, who was the longtime musical director of the world-renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers. Kwami died in Nashville on Saturday at the age of 70.
Gospel group The McCrary Sisters, who are regular backup singers for the Americana Honors and Awards show, also honored their sister, Deborah, who died in June, with a stirring performance of “Amazing Grace” that had the audience in the Ryman Auditorium up on their feet. To close out the show, the McCrary Sisters led the audience in a toe-tapping version of “I’ll Take You There,” as award winners Russell and Ferrell danced and sang backup. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-tearful-allison-russell-wins-americana-award-for-debut-album/ | 2022-09-16T18:03:12Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-tearful-allison-russell-wins-americana-award-for-debut-album/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana Bond Commission on Thursday approved a $39 million future line of credit for a critical New Orleans area power plant project that had become an unlikely pawn in the ongoing political tug-of-war over enforcing Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban.
For two months the commission — generally known for its historically actuarial role, rather than taking political stances — held up a necessary financial approval step for the project as a way to “send a message” to leaders in New Orleans, who have expressed opposition to enforcement of the ban.
But as members debated on Thursday, they asked if any abortion “laws were been broken” in New Orleans and noted that the project, which is critical to power drainage pumps that remove rainwater in a city that faces chronic flood problems, was too important to possibly delay.
“We need to quit messing around with this and go ahead and approve it,” said Republican Sen. Bret Allain, who voted in favor of the item in August as well.
Battles between Democratic city leaders and Republicans in reliably red states have been happening across the country since the U.S. Supreme Court decided to end constitutional protections for abortion in June.
Dozens of prosecutors nationwide — including in Florida — have promised not to pursue charges against those seeking or providing abortions. In St. Louis, hours after the mayor signed a measure providing $1 million for travel to abortion clinics in other states, the Missouri Attorney General sued to block it. City councils in places such as Austin, Texas, and Nashville have passed measures urging law enforcement not to prioritize abortion ban enforcement.
In Louisiana, legislation bans all abortions except if there is substantial risk of death or impairment to the patient if they continue with the pregnancy and in the case of “medically futile” pregnancies — when the fetus has a fatal abnormality. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.
Following the downfall of Roe v. Wade, the New Orleans city council passed a resolution directing police and prosecutors not to use city funds to enforce the ban and to make it “the lowest priority for enforcement.”
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican who is considered a likely 2023 gubernatorial candidate, described city leaders’ opposition as a “dereliction of duty.” He turned to the Bond Commission, who voted to deny a preliminary authorization of the line of credit for a power plant project of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board.
On Thursday, members voted in favor of the future line of credit, 11-1. The sole objection was from Landry’s stand-in Algelique Freel. During August’s Bond Commission meeting Landry urged fellow commission members to “use the tools at our disposal to bring” leaders in New Orleans opposing enforcement of the abortion ban “to heel.”
Freel read a letter from Landry on Thursday that reiterated his continuing stance.
“This issue is much more fundamental than Louisiana’s abortion ban,” the letter said. “Each and every elected official takes an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of our state. These New Orleans officials have taken it upon themselves to pick and choose which laws they are going to enforce, in direct contradiction to their oath. What’s next? Can leaders of other municipalities now simply refuse to enforce any state statutes they personally disagree with?”
Caught in the middle of the political wrangling has been a vital power plant project for the state’s most-populous city.
State Sen. Jimmy Harris, a Democrat who represents New Orleans, urged commission members to approve the future credit line — noting that the plant would help protect 384,000 people, allowing them clean water to drink and bathe in, instead of undergoing frequent water boil advisories. Currently the pumps are powered by outdated turbines, which also power the city’s water and sewage system.
“Find something nonessential to go after,” Paul Rainwater, a lobbyist for New Orleans, told the commission in August. “Not the Sewerage and Water Board, not the power station, not the pumps.”
In a state that has been devastated by natural disasters, flooding is at the forefront of mind — especially as Louisiana is in the midst of hurricane season. Forecasters have predicted there will be 14 to 20 named storms this year, including six to 10 hurricanes.
“For this Bond Commission to hold up flood protection in any form shouldn’t be our position,” said Republican Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser.
While approval of a future line of credit will not immediately release project funds, the approval sends a “critical signal” to contractors that funds will be available to finish the project. The city and Entergy New Orleans are paying for the majority of the project’s cost, but Rainwater said state funding will be necessary to keep the project on track to be completed in 2024.
“The reckless politicization of this process was improper and risked the safety of our city,” New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno said following the commission’s vote. “Thankfully, this funding is moving forward, and the attempts to derail this essential project failed.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-likely-vote-over-louisiana-project-caught-in-abortion-debate/ | 2022-09-16T18:03:41Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-likely-vote-over-louisiana-project-caught-in-abortion-debate/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two buses of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border were dropped off near Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in residential Washington on Thursday morning in the bitter political battle over the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants out of Texas to cities with Democratic mayors as part of a political strategy this year because he says there are too many arrivals over the border to his state. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey also has adopted this policy, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also got in on the act recently. It was first dreamed up by former President Donald Trump.
Abbott tweeted that he’d sent the buses that arrived Thursday: “We’re sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border.”
About two dozen men and women stood outside the U.S. Naval Observatory at dawn, clutching clear plastic bags of their belongings carried with them over the border, before moving to a nearby church. Harris’ office had no immediate comment.
The steady flow of migrant buses has caused a scramble in Washington, with Mayor Muriel Bowser calling for federal intervention and a coalition of NGOs forming to handle the new arrivals, backed by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
This coalition has become accustomed to wildly divergent levels of coordination between the Texas and Arizona buses.
Tatiana Laborde, managing director of the international relief agency SAMU First Response, said the buses from Arizona come with detailed manifests of passengers and their nationalities, coordination on arrival times and medical personnel aboard each bus.
“They don’t want to just dump people here,” Laborde told The Associated Press last month.
In contrast, she said, the Texas buses arrived chaotically. They only hear from charitable groups on the Texas end that a bus carrying a certain number of people has departed. At some point about 48 hours later, that bus drops off riders at Washington’s Union Station.
Thursday morning’s surprise drop-off outside Harris’ residence suggests governors like Abbott were looking for creative new ways to make their political point — with the District of Columbia as the playing field.
Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, called the move “inhumane” and accused Abbott of “using human beings, babies, families, as political pinatas”
Speaking to reporters outside Harris’ residence, Garcia said the two busloads of migrants from Texas were “dumped like human garbage” in Washington on Thursday. He also said many of the migrants were being “tricked into signing these releases,” – something both the Texas and Arizona governments have denied.
He also called for both Republican and Democratic politicians to come together around, “a bipartisan solution to fixing our broken immigration system. I agree that it’s broken.”
After migrants seeking asylum cross the U.S.-Mexico border, they spend time in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility along the border until they are generally released into the U.S. to wait out their cases. Republicans say Biden’s policies encourage migrants to vanish into the U.S.; Democrats argue the Trump-era policy of forcing migrants to wait out their asylum cases in Mexico was inhumane.
DeSantis flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. And last week, Abbott sent about 75 migrants to Chicago.
Bowser has requested a National Guard deployment but was rejected by the Pentagon; the deployment was opposed by the NGOs, who called it an unnecessary militarization of a humanitarian issue.
Last week, Bowser declared a limited state of public emergency over the migrant issue and proposed forming a new Office of Migrant Services with $10 million in funding. The proposal comes before the D.C. Council next week.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two buses of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border were dropped off near Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in residential Washington on Thursday morning in the bitter political battle over the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants out of Texas to cities with Democratic mayors as part of a political strategy this year because he says there are too many arrivals over the border to his state. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey also has adopted this policy, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also got in on the act recently. It was first dreamed up by former President Donald Trump.
Abbott tweeted that he’d sent the buses that arrived Thursday: “We’re sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border.”
About two dozen men and women stood outside the U.S. Naval Observatory at dawn, clutching clear plastic bags of their belongings carried with them over the border, before moving to a nearby church. Harris’ office had no immediate comment.
The steady flow of migrant buses has caused a scramble in Washington, with Mayor Muriel Bowser calling for federal intervention and a coalition of NGOs forming to handle the new arrivals, backed by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
This coalition has become accustomed to wildly divergent levels of coordination between the Texas and Arizona buses.
Tatiana Laborde, managing director of the international relief agency SAMU First Response, said the buses from Arizona come with detailed manifests of passengers and their nationalities, coordination on arrival times and medical personnel aboard each bus.
“They don’t want to just dump people here,” Laborde told The Associated Press last month.
In contrast, she said, the Texas buses arrived chaotically. They only hear from charitable groups on the Texas end that a bus carrying a certain number of people has departed. At some point about 48 hours later, that bus drops off riders at Washington’s Union Station.
Thursday morning’s surprise drop-off outside Harris’ residence suggests governors like Abbott were looking for creative new ways to make their political point — with the District of Columbia as the playing field.
Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, called the move “inhumane” and accused Abbott of “using human beings, babies, families, as political pinatas”
Speaking to reporters outside Harris’ residence, Garcia said the two busloads of migrants from Texas were “dumped like human garbage” in Washington on Thursday. He also said many of the migrants were being “tricked into signing these releases,” – something both the Texas and Arizona governments have denied.
He also called for both Republican and Democratic politicians to come together around, “a bipartisan solution to fixing our broken immigration system. I agree that it’s broken.”
After migrants seeking asylum cross the U.S.-Mexico border, they spend time in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility along the border until they are generally released into the U.S. to wait out their cases. Republicans say Biden’s policies encourage migrants to vanish into the U.S.; Democrats argue the Trump-era policy of forcing migrants to wait out their asylum cases in Mexico was inhumane.
DeSantis flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. And last week, Abbott sent about 75 migrants to Chicago.
Bowser has requested a National Guard deployment but was rejected by the Pentagon; the deployment was opposed by the NGOs, who called it an unnecessary militarization of a humanitarian issue.
Last week, Bowser declared a limited state of public emergency over the migrant issue and proposed forming a new Office of Migrant Services with $10 million in funding. The proposal comes before the D.C. Council next week.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — While President Joe Biden was quick to hail Thursday’s strike-averting rail agreement as a win for America, it was also a big win for him politically, allowing Democrats to sidestep what could have been an economic debacle before November’s midterm elections.
Pressured to choose between labor and business, the president pushed hard for them to work together.
Prodded by a strategic late-night phone call from Biden — and fortified with Italian takeout — corporate and union negotiators spent 20 hours in intense talks at the Labor Department. They reached wee-hours common ground following an appeal to act in the shared interests of the nation, avoiding a strike that would have shut down railroads across the country.
By keeping the trains running, Biden overcame a major economic threat that doubled as a political risk. His fellow Democrats already face a difficult fight to maintain their narrow hold on power in Congress amid soaring inflation. Biden’s own approval rating, though improving, is still underwater.
The tentative deal, which still requires approval from a dozen unions, would raise members’ pay 24% over five years and improve work schedules and health care in a way that Biden said recognizes “the dignity of their work.” Railroad companies could continue vital operations and avoid a costly shutdown, while being in a better place to recruit and retain employees.
“This agreement allows us to continue to rebuild a better America with an economy that truly works for working people and their families,” Biden said Thursday in celebratory remarks in the Rose Garden. “Today is a win, I mean it sincerely, a win for America.”
Members of one union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 19, voted to reject the tentative agreement, but the IAM agreed to delay any strike by its members to allow more time for possible additional negotiations and for other unions to vote.
White House officials had worried that a rail shutdown, no matter how long, would have perilous economic consequences just as voters make up their minds ahead of the November elections. The settlement, instead, now provides Biden an opportunity to show his administration is delivering for voters, as dire news coverage yields to relief at the cost of only a few canceled Amtrak trains.
Through the talks, Biden managed to avoid the disruption without offending either labor or corporate constituencies. Biden, his advisers and Democrats across the country know the broadest possible coalition is needed to help candidates compete in midterms that have historically favored the party out of political power.
Biden intentionally chose not to dictate the terms of the agreement to either side, said Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
“The president’s focus was making sure that a contract was done that is satisfactory to everybody — and also prevented a major disruption to our economy,” said Walsh, who moved the last six hours of negotiations into his office.
What initially appeared to be a worst-case scenario ultimately turned into a collective sigh of relief.
“This is the best outcome the Biden administration could have hoped for,” said Jake Rosenfeld, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis who has researched the labor movement. He noted that the unions’ requests for sick leave and reliable scheduling aligned with Biden’s own values.
“Unlike in past labor disputes involving the railroads, the administration never had to put real pressure on the unions, but instead could act like an honest broker looking for a compromise between management and union positions,” Rosenfeld said. “That keeps the administration in good graces with labor more broadly.”
Business interests also praised the administration’s efforts. John Drake, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce vice president of transportation policy, said Walsh came to the table with a level of expertise and the trust of stakeholders. That made it easier to finalize a deal.
“The ramifications of a rail strike were so catastrophic that we couldn’t even begin to catalog it,” Drake said. “This is 100% a win.”
Not everyone celebrated. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell had proposed a measure on Wednesday that would have forced the unions to accept a contract. He criticized Senate Democrats for blocking his proposal, only to have aides stay silent on Thursday when asked whether the agreement was good for the economy.
Biden has gone out of his way to champion organized labor, often having members of local unions introduce him for speeches across the country.
UAW Local 598’s Ryan Buchalski, introduced Biden on Wednesday at the Detroit auto show as “the most union- and labor-friendly president in American history” and someone who was “kickin’ ass for the working class.” Buchalski harked back to pivotal sitdown strikes by autoworkers in the 1930s.
In the speech that followed, Biden recognized that he wouldn’t be in the White House without the support of unions such as the UAW and the IBEW electrical workers, saying that autoworkers “brung me to the dance.”
About 16% of voters in the 2020 election came from union households, which backed Biden 56% to 42% in the narrowly decided race, according to AP VoteCast.
The president’s approval took a major hit starting last year because of inflation worsened by supply chain disruptions for autos, furniture and other basic goods coming out of the pandemic recession. The problems intensified this year with a baby formula shortage and diminished supplies worldwide of food, oil and natural gas after Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine. Consumer inflation hit a 40-year high in June, only to start drifting down in the two months since.
Biden’s popularity has been regaining ground as gasoline costs have declined. A new poll by AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows his approval improving from a low of 36% in July to 45% in the most recent survey.
Estimates put the daily cost of a railroad shutdown at $2 billion. A stoppage would have left stranded raw materials for factories, fuel and even the chemicals needed to treat wastewater. That would have been a potentially debilitating blow just eight weeks before Election Day, which could determine control of the House, Senate and state governments.
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said the deal will ultimately have an impact on the midterm elections because workers want officials who will stand up for them. The mix of the pandemic, high prices and economic inequality has left many workers at the breaking point and they want a different social contract, she said.
“That’s what this election is all about — rewriting the rules of the economy,” Shuler said.
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For nearly a century, audiences have watched dreams come true for countless Disney characters who’ve wished upon a star. But just how did the wishing star come to be? That’s the premise of a new Disney animated film, “Wish,” announced at the company’s 2022 D23 Expo.
When Jennifer Lee, Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative officer, took the stage at D23 Expo to give fans a closer look at what’s coming to the big screen and Disney+ in the coming years, she invited “Wish” co-directors Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn to join her to share more about the film. Buck co-directed “Frozen” with Lee and Veerasunthorn worked on “Zootopia,” “Raya and the Last Dragon” and “Moana.”
“Wish” is expected to be released in November 2023 as part of the company’s year-long 100th anniversary celebration.
The film’s heroine is named Asha, and will be voiced by Ariana DeBose, who recently won an Oscar for her work in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake. The directors described Asha as a witty, driven, 17-year-old who cares deeply about her community, the Kingdom of Rosas — also known as the Kingdom of Wishes — which needs her help against a serious threat.
Buck said Asha’s journey will pit her against “one of the most formidable foes in Disney history. Asha sees a darkness in the kingdom that nobody else does and must find a way to help the people she loves.”
Asha makes a wish to the stars for guidance and the power of her wish brings down a star from the sky to help her — “Star,” a “cosmic force,” and a “little ball of boundless energy” that communicates through pantomime. The audience got a sneak peek and, from what we saw, Star is destined to be a fan-favorite character.
Giving Star a run for the cuteness prize will be Valentino (voiced by Alan Tudyk), a pajama-wearing goat who wishes for the ability to speak.
“Wish” will be a musical, with songs written by Grammy-winner Julia Michaels. DeBose performed one of the movie’s tracks, “More for Us,” for fans at D23 Expo and having heard it live — take it from me — this one could quickly find itself in modern-classic, “Let It Go” territory.
More Major Movie News from D23 Expo
D23 Expo was a star-studded weekend packed with panels and announcements about everything on the horizon for Disney’s various studios, including Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar and 20th Century, as well as news about Disney theme parks.
Fans learned about new films in production, like Pixar’s “Inside Out 2;” got to see the cast live on stage for films and Disney+ series including “Indiana Jones,” “Loki” (season two coming soon), “The Mandalorian” (season three coming soon), “The Haunted Mansion” and “The Marvels;” and got first looks at trailers and footage from highly anticipated upcoming releases like “Avatar — The Way of Water,” “Hocus Pocus 2” and Disney’s live-action “The Little Mermaid.”
Fans in attendance were also the first to learn about possible expansion plans at Walt Disney World, including new areas inspired by “Coco,” “Encanto” and the studio’s famous villains in early development for Magic Kingdom, and “Zootopia” and “Moana” areas in potential development for Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
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It has been two months since the launch of the new 988 suicide and crisis lifeline number, and there has been a jump in people contacting the lifeline since the switch.
Nationally, more than 83,000 additional contacts were made in August compared to June.
Calls to the veterans crisis line aren't included in these figures, but veterans are at a higher risk of suicide than those who have not served.
Data indicates veteran suicides have decreased over the last two years.
“If there's one good aspect of the pandemic from my perspective, I think it's really open dialogue across the nation, and including veterans with regard to the importance of mental health, wellness, and well-being, and how mental health is physical health,” said Matthew A. Miller who heads suicide prevention with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Veterans Health Administration said it's seeing success using artificial intelligence to help identify veterans at the highest risk for suicide.
A computer scans electronic health records of patients in the system to identify those showing warning signs.
“Certain medical issues or facing medical complexities is a risk factor for a lot of individuals, and the more at risk you are from a medical perspective,” Miller said. “Generally speaking, we found that there is a relationship for risk with regard to suicide and suicide prevention.”
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Uber says it's been in touch with law enforcement following a "cybersecurity incident."
The New York Times reports that the person claiming responsibility for the attack sent them images of emails, cloud storage and code repositories from Uber's internal systems.
According to the Times, Uber employees received a message on the company's Slack system that said, "I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach.”
The hacker reportedly claimed to be 18 years old.
The alleged hacker told The Washington Post that they hacked Uber for fun and might leak its source code. The person was also apparently critical of Uber's security, which they reportedly described as "awful."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A volunteer Ukrainian medic held captive three months by Russian forces in Ukraine’s besieged port city of Mariupol told U.S. lawmakers Thursday of cradling and comforting fellow prisoners as they died of torture and inadequately treated wounds.
Ukrainian Yuliia Paievska, who was captured by pro-Russian forces in Mariupol in March and held at shifting locations in Russian-allied territory in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, spoke to lawmakers with the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, a government agency created in part to promote international compliance with human rights.
Her accounts Thursday were her most detailed publicly of her treatment in captivity, in what Ukrainians and international rights groups say are widespread detentions of both Ukrainian noncombatants and fighters by Russia’s forces.
Known to Ukrainians by the nickname Taira, Paievska and her care of Mariupol’s wounded during the nearly seven-month Russian invasion of Ukraine received global attention after her bodycam footage was provided to The Associated Press.
“Do you know why we do this to you?” a Russian asked Paievska as he tortured her, she recounted to the commission. She told the panel her answer to him: “Because you can.”
Searing descriptions of the suffering of detainees poured out. A 7-year-old boy died in her lap because she had none of the medical gear she needed to treat him, she said.
Torture sessions usually launched with their captors forcing the Ukrainian prisoners to remove their clothes, before the Russians set to bloodying and tormenting the detainees, she said.
The result was some “prisoners in cells screaming for weeks, and then dying from the torture without any medical help,” she said. “Then in this torment of hell, the only things they feel before death is abuse and additional beating.”
She continued, recounting the toll among the imprisoned Ukrainians. “My friend whose eyes I closed before his body cooled down. Another friend. And another. Another.”
Paievska said she was taken into custody after being stopped in a routine document check. She had been one of thousands of Ukrainians believed to have been taken prisoner by Russian forces. Mariupol’s mayor said that 10,000 people from his city alone disappeared during what was the monthslong Russian siege of that city. It fell to Russians in April, with the city all but destroyed by Russian bombardment, and with countless dead.
The Geneva Conventions single out medics, both military and civilian, for protection “in all circumstance.” Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat and co-chair of the Helsinki Commission underscored that the conditions she described for civilian and military detainees violated international law.
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal.
“It is critical that the world hear the stories of those who endured the worst under captivity,” Wilson said. “Evidence is essential to prosecution of war crimes.”
Before she was captured, Paievska had recorded more than 256 gigabytes of harrowing bodycam footage showing her team’s efforts to save the wounded in the cut-off city. She got the footage to Associated Press journalists, the last international team in Mariupol, on a tiny data card.
The journalists fled the city on March 15 with the card embedded inside a tampon, carrying it through 15 Russian checkpoints. The next day, Paievska was taken by pro-Russia forces. Lawmakers played the AP’s video of her footage Thursday.
She emerged on June 17, thin and haggard, her athlete’s body more than 10 kilograms (22 pounds) lighter from lack of nourishment and activity. She said the AP report that showed her caring for Russian and Ukrainian soldiers alike, along with civilians of Mariupol, was critical to her release, in a prisoner exchange.
Paievska previously had declined to speak in detail to journalists about conditions in detention, only describing it broadly as hell. She swallowed heavily at times Thursday while testifying.
Ukraine’s government says it has documented nearly 34,000 Russian war crimes since the war began in February. The International Criminal Court and 14 European Union member nations also have launched investigations.
The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says it has documented that prisoners of war in Russian custody have suffered torture and ill-treatment, as well as insufficient food, water healthcare and sanitation.
Russia has not responded to the allegations. Both the United Nations and the international Red Cross say they have been denied access to prisoners.
Paievska, who said she suffered headaches during her detention as the result of a concussion from an earlier explosion, told lawmakers she asked her captors to let her call her husband, to let him know what had happened to her.
“They said, ‘You have seen too many American movies. There will be no phone call,’” she recounted.
Her tormentors during her detention would sometimes urge her to kill herself, she said.
“I said, ‘No. I will see what happens tomorrow,”’ she said.
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Lori Hinnant contributed to this report from Paris.
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People across the northern U.K. got quite a show when a slow-moving fireball lit up the sky Wednesday night.
CBS reported that the fireball was captured on cameras around 10 p.m. local time.
Eight hundred reports about the fireball came to the UK Meteor Network and more than 1,000 reports were received by the International Meteor Organization, the news outlet reported.
According to the UK Meteor Network, the fireball lasted for about 20 seconds, which they said is "relatively slow for a meteor."
They added that it was not consistent with space junk.
On Thursday, they updated that what hundreds of people across Scotland, Northern Ireland, and northern parts of England saw was indeed a meteor.
OK. The final analysis is in! The fireball over NI and Scotland last night was definitely a meteor. The fireball observed yesterday (Sept 14, 20:59:40 UT) above the UK lasted over 20 seconds and traveled NW, passing directly over Belfast. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/GnV70S13B8
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday appointed a veteran New York jurist to serve as an independent arbiter in the criminal investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, and refused to permit the Justice Department to resume its use of the highly sensitive records seized in an FBI search last month.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon empowered the newly named special master, Raymond Dearie, to review the entire tranche of records taken in the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and set a November deadline for his work. In the meantime, she continued to block the department from using for its investigation roughly 100 documents marked as classified that were seized.
The sharply worded order from Cannon, a Trump appointee, will almost certainly slow the pace of the investigation and set the stage for a challenge to a federal appeals court. The department had given Cannon until Thursday to put on hold her order pausing investigators’ review of classified records while the special master completes his work. The department said it would ask the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene if she did not do so by then.
The Justice Department did not immediately comment on Thursday’s ruling.
Cannon, who last week granted the Trump team’s request for a special master over the objections of the Justice Department, made clear in her Thursday order that she was not prepared to blindly accept the government’s characterizations of the documents, saying “evenhanded procedure does not demand unquestioning trust in the determinations of the Department of Justice.”
She turned aside the department’s position that Trump could not have any ownership interests in the documents, and said she was receptive to the possibility that the former president could raise valid claims of privilege over at least some of the records. She noted ongoing disagreements between the two sides about the “proper designation of the seized materials” and the “legal implications flowing from those designations.”
“The Court does not find it appropriate to accept the Government’s conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion,” she wrote.
The selection of Dearie, a former federal prosecutor who for years served as the chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn, came after both the Justice Department and Trump’s lawyers made clear they would be satisfied with his appointment as a so-called special master.
As special master, Dearie will be responsible for reviewing the entire inventory of documents taken during the search of Mar-a-Lago — the FBI says it recovered about 11,000 documents from the home during its search, including roughly 100 with classification markings — and segregating out any that may be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege. He is also tasked with identifying any personal materials of Trump’s that should possibly be returned to him.
The Justice Department said last week that it did not believe that the special master should inspect records with classified markings or evaluate the former president’s claims of privilege. Cannon rejected both positions Thursday, directing the special master to prioritize in his review the documents marked as classified, “and thereafter consider prompt adjustments to the Court’s Orders as necessary.” She set a deadline of Nov. 30 for the special master to complete the work.
The Justice Department has been investigating for months the hoarding of top-secret materials and other classified documents at the Florida property after Trump left office. Citing national security concerns, it has said its investigation would be harmed if the judge did not quickly lift her block on the department from continuing to make use of the classified records in its probe.
Cannon rejected that idea Thursday, saying “there has been no actual suggestion by the Government of any identifiable emergency or imminent disclosure of classified information arising from Plaintiff’s allegedly unlawful retention of the seized property.”
She added, “Instead, and unfortunately, the unwarranted disclosures that float in the background have been leaks to the media after the underlying seizure.”
She also said nothing in her order barred the department from “conducting investigations or bringing charges based on anything other than the actual content of the seized materials,” saying investigators were welcome to interview witnesses and collect information about the “movement and storage of seized materials.”
Trump’s lawyers had asked last month for a judge to name a special master to do an independent review of the records and filter out any that may be covered by claims of privilege. The Justice Department argued the appointment was unnecessary, saying it had already done its own review and Trump had no right to raise executive privilege claims that ordinarily permit the president to withhold certain information from the public and Congress.
Cannon disagreed and directed both sides to name potential candidates for the role.
The Trump team recommended either Dearie or a Florida lawyer for the job. The Justice Department said Monday that, in addition to the two retired judges whose names it submitted, it would also be satisfied with a Dearie appointment.
Dearie served as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York from 1982 to 1986, at which point he was appointed to the federal bench by then-President Ronald Reagan. He has also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorizes Justice Department wiretap applications in investigations involving suspected agents of a foreign power.
Dearie was chief judge of the district from 2007 to 2011, when he took senior status. But the Justice Department has said he remains active and had indicated to officials that he was available for the position and could work expeditiously if appointed to it.
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BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — Props are a familiar part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s repertoire when delivering public speeches — from cartoon bombs at the United Nations to a wall of CDs and binders supposedly seized from Iran by Mossad agents.
Now, the former prime minister — famed for his flair for the dramatic — is hitting the campaign trail with a new shtick. Behold: the Bibibus.
The bizarre bulletproof vehicle is part popemobile, part movie set and 100% vintage Netanyahu. As Israel heads to the polls for the fifth time in under four years, the veteran politician is using the Bibibus to attract passionate crowds of supporters and once again make himself the focus of attention among a weary electorate.
At a rally in the southern city of Beersheba on Tuesday, Netanyahu addressed a crowd of around 200 people in a mall parking lot. Flanked by his former finance minister, he spoke at a podium from the back of the modified delivery truck. Its side wall had been replaced with bulletproof glass, and its air-conditioned interior was backlit with an enormous LED screen projecting the logo of his Likud party over a fluttering Israeli flag.
Netanyahu does not actually ride in the vehicle. Instead, it serves as a mobile stage that is moved from city to city to serve as the backdrop for his campaign appearances.
Commentators have variously dubbed it the “aquarium truck,” the “Bibimobile” and the “Bibibus” — riffing on Netanyahu’s nickname. The Likud promotes the mobile rallies as “Bibiba,” or “Bibi is coming,” and says the truck is a necessary security precaution.
“I have to stand here, unfortunately,” he told the crowd, tapping his hand against the glass separating him from the throngs of cheering supporters before delivering pledges to combat rising costs of living and inflation.
The Likud says the vehicle and its bulletproof glass were adopted to comply with safety measures required by the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency.
But there may be more to the story. No other politicians have adopted similar protocols, and the bus is not entirely fortified. The bulletproof glass appears to cover only part of the vehicle, and when he spoke at the podium, a window was open and Netanyahu was exposed to the crowd. Netanyahu has also in the past repeatedly appeared at crowded markets and malls with no such protection. The agency did not respond to a request for comment.
Israel is holding parliamentary elections on Nov. 1, the fifth since the beginning of a protracted political crisis in early 2019. Like the other four, the upcoming vote will largely be a referendum on Netanyahu’s fitness to rule, and he could once again fail to form a durable coalition even if his party gets the most votes.
Netanyahu, who led the country from 2009 until last year, has been charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three different cases, and his high-profile trial has been dragging on for over two years. He has denied any wrongdoing and has lashed out against law enforcement and the courts, accusing them of conducting a politically motivated witch-hunt.
Netanyahu remains the country’s most popular politician, and his supporters adore him with cult-like reverence. But the corruption allegations have deeply divided Israelis, and last year he was driven from office for the first time in 12 years by an unwieldy coalition united in large part by its opposition to his continued rule.
That coalition collapsed in June, triggering new elections and raising the possibility of Netanyahu’s return to power after a year in the wilderness as opposition leader.
The former prime minister, who turns 73 next month, remains a tireless campaigner and has near-daily whistle stops, holding campaign rallies from the back of the Bibibus.
The bulletproof glass hasn’t protected Netanyahu from critics, who regard the Bibibus as another symbol of his disconnection from ordinary Israelis. Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported that the truck rental for two months of campaigning cost the Likud party 700,000 shekels ($200,000), a massive expense at a time when many are tightening their belts.
One of Likud’s main rivals, the Machane Mamlachti party, released a video mocking Netanyahu, contrasting his appearance behind glass with a clip of its leader, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, surrounded by a crowd of supporters. Ben Caspit, an Israeli columnist and longtime Netanyahu critic, has called the Bibibus “grotesque” and “a strange mistake.”
In the face of criticism, Netanyahu has doubled down and embraced the Bibibus. Likud released a campaign video with the former leader stepping dramatically out of the truck cab and wiping clean its enormous glass panes.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Just hours after a Montana judge blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate, the Republican-run state on Thursday said it would defy the order.
District Court Judge Michael Moses chided attorneys for the state during a hearing in Billings for circumventing 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 state officials violated his earlier order by creating the new rule. Moses said his order reinstates a 2017 Department of Public Health and Human Services rule that allowed people to update the gender on their birth certificate by filing an affidavit with the department.
However, the state said it would disregard the ruling.
“The Department thoroughly evaluated the judge’s vague April 2022 decision and crafted our final rule to be consistent with the decision. It’s unfortunate that the judge’s ruling today does not square with his vague April decision,” said Charlie Brereton, director of the Department of Public Health and Human Services.
Brereton said the agency was keeping the rule it issued last week in place and an agency spokesperson said the department is waiting to see the judge’s written order before considering its next steps.
ACLU attorney Malita Picasso expressed dismay with the agency’s stance and said officials should immediately start processing requests for birth certificate changes.
“It’s shocking that after this morning’s hearing the department would allege there was any lack of clarity in the court’s ruling from the bench,” Picasso said. “It was very clear that Judge Moses expressly required a reversion to the 2017 policy, and anything short of that is a continued flagrant violation of the court’s order.”
Such open defiance of judge’s order is very unusual from a government agency, said Carl Tobias, a former University of Montana Law School professor now at the University of Richmond. When officials disagree with a ruling, the typical response is to appeal to a higher court, he said.
“Appeal is what you contemplate — not that you can nullify a judge’s orders. Otherwise, people just wouldn’t obey the law,” Tobias said. “The system can’t work that way.”’
The move could leave state officials open to contempt of court charges, which in some cases can lead to jail time for offenders, Tobias said. He added that the attorneys representing the state were likely aware of the potential consequences but were “caught in the middle” between a recalcitrant agency and the judge.
The legal dispute comes as conservative lawmakers in numerous states have sought to restrict transgender rights, including with bans on transgender girls competing in girls school sports.
The Montana law said people had to have a “surgical procedure” before they could change the sex listed on their birth certificate, something Moses found to be unconstitutional because it did not specify what type of procedure was required.
Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration then created a new rule that blocked changes to birth certificates entirely, unless there was a clerical error.
Moses said during Thursday morning’s hearing that his April ruling had been “clear as a bell” and compared the state’s subsequent actions to a person twice convicted of assault who tries to change their name following a third accusation to avoid a harsher punishment.
“Isn’t that exactly what happened here?” Moses asked. “I’m a bit offended the department thinks they can do anything they want.”
One of the plaintiffs in the case, Amelia Marquez, said she was disgusted by the state’s response.
“We have people that think that they’re above the law and don’t have to listen to the judiciary branch of our government,” she said.
After learning the state planned to defy the court order, Shawn Reagor with the Montana Human Rights Network said the organization “will not stand by while the Gianforte administration blatantly disregards rulings from the courts to continue a vindictive attack on the trans community.”
Only Tennessee, Oklahoma and West Virginia have sweeping prohibitions against birth certificate changes similar to what Montana has pursued, advocates for transgender rights say. Bans in Idaho and Ohio were struck down in 2020.
A Republican lawmaker who voted in favor of the 2021 law suggested Moses was biased in favor of the plaintiffs in the case. Moses was appointed to the court by former Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat.
“Like clockwork, Judge Moses issued yet another predetermined order in favor of liberal plaintiffs without thoroughly engaging with the legal issues at hand,” Sen. Greg Hertz of Polson said in a statement.
The ACLU of Montana had asked Moses to clarify his order after the state health department enacted its new temporary rule effectively banning birth certificate changes a month after Moses handed down his temporary injunction in the case. That rule was made permanent last week.
The state argued the injunction did not prevent the health department from making rules, but Moses said under case law the injunction reinstated the 2017 rules and any other changes are on hold while the case is decided.
State officials denied that the new rule preventing birth certificate changes was adopted in bad faith. Montana Assistant Solicitor Kathleen Smithgall said the state came up with the new rule to fill a gap in regulations after the 2021 law was blocked.
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Driver accused of hitting Blackman students at crosswalk indicted Thursday
The driver accused of hitting two teenagers in a crosswalk on the third day of the school year was charged in a sealed indictment Thursday and booked into the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center.
The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said 42-year-old Ellen Drake, a Murfreesboro city employee, was released on her own recognizance. There is no bond amount listed on the arrest record and the arresting agency was not available.
Drake was driving a 2022 Acura RDX and made a left turn from Blaze Drive in the Blackman area heading southbound on Fortress Boulevard when she struck the Rutherford County Schools students, who were making their way across Fortress at the crosswalk.
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Both students were treated at the scene. Eighth-grader Kaydyn Hamby took the brunt of the collision and was transported to the hospital where doctors confirmed she suffered a concussion, bruises, and a broken tooth and was placed on crutches.
Tennessee Highway Patrol investigated the incident because Drake is a city employee. An agency spokesperson confirmed that THP would not charge the driver.
Drake remains employed as a training coordinator with the Murfreesboro Emergency Communications Center (Dispatch Center), confirmed Murfreesboro Police Department spokesperson Larry Flowers.
“The employee was not on duty and not driving a city-owned vehicle when the unfortunate accident occurred," Flowers said in an email. "To avoid a conflict of interest or impartiality, the accident investigation was turned over to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. The driver’s employment with the city is irrelevant as it relates to this incident.”
No more information is available. The criminal indictment is sealed because the victim is a minor.
This is a developing story.
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Multi-vehicle crash between tractor trailer, car kills one
Kirsten Fiscus
Murfreesboro Daily News Journal
Interstate 24 at Joe B Jackson Parkway is back open after a crash between a tractor trailer and another vehicle left a person dead.
The crash, in the westbound lanes of I-24 at the Church Street exit ramp, was first reported at 3:30 a.m. Friday.
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NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Rickie Fowler began his 15th professional season Thursday. From clubs to coach to caddie, just about everything is new for the five-time PGA Tour winner.
Fowler, whose last victory was the 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open, enjoyed immediate success.
He shot a 5-under 67 and was among nine players who finished their rounds four shots behind leader Justin Lower at the Fortinet Championship.
Lower, beginning his second PGA Tour season, concluded his career-low, 9-under 63 in the early evening at Silverado Resort and Spa. He held a two-shot cushion over defending champion Max Homa and a three-shot lead over Byeong Hun An, S.H. Kim and J.J. Spaun at the fog-delayed PGA Tour season opener.
Lower, whose career-best finish in 28 PGA Tour starts dating to 2013 was a tie for eighth in July at the Barbasol Championship, had a bogey-free round.
“I’ll take it. I birdied half the holes, so that’s always a good start, I guess,” Lower said. “I’m honestly just happy to be in the position I am having I guess, full status.”
Homa, finishing just before play was called because of darkness, birdied two of the last three holes for his 65.
Fowler, who had a bogey-free round, has only four top-10 finishes in the past three seasons. He recently began using a new putter and this week is also using a new set of irons.
Once ranked as high as No. 4 in the world, Fowler is now 176th. With his new clubs, Fowler hopes to rekindle his career with the assistance of a new caddie and new coach.
On the bag is friend and veteran PGA Tour caddie Ricky Romano. Butch Harmon, who has worked with Fowler in the past, replaced John Tillery, who was Fowler’s swing coach for the past three years.
“Yeah, I always like it when there’s a bogey-free round in there,” Fowler said. “For the most part, there wasn’t an issue today other than having to make a 15-footer when I hit it into the bunker. Other than that, it was a fairly simple day.”
An, a three-time PGA Tour runner-up who regained his card via the Korn Ferry Tour, had seven birdies and one bogey en route to his 66.
Kim, a PGA Tour rookie, had eight birdies and two bogeys in the opening round of the PGA Tour’s new season — its final time using a wraparound schedule.
Two groups were on the course Thursday morning when play was suspended for 90 minutes because of fog. There were 35 players left on the course when darkness halted play at 7:20 p.m. PDT. Among those, Robby Shelton had the best round going at 5 under through 13 holes. The first round was to resume Friday morning.
Fowler missed the FedExCup playoffs for the first time in his career in 2021. He got into the first playoff event this past season, the FedEx St. Jude Championship in August, but did not advance.
“I’ve had some good weeks in the past few years, but it shouldn’t just be a few weeks in those years, there needs to be more,” Fowler said. “I’m just trying to get to be more consistent.”
Greyson Sigg, Nick Taylor, Sahith Theegala, Scott Harrington, Matti Schmid, Emiliano Grillo, Sung Kang and Brice Garnett all matched Fowler’s 67. Grillo won the event in 2015 and had two runner-up finishes last season.
Fowler hadn’t played in the event since 2010 when it was played at CordeValle.
“Well, not going to the playoffs and not being on a Presidents Cup team, that’s been really the only reason I haven’t been to Napa yet,” Fowler said. “I’ve always heard good things about the event, so not to say thanks to bad play or anything, but that’s kind of the reason we’re able to be here this week.”
Fowler was pleased with his overall play, particularly off the tee.
“I set the round up by driving it fairly nicely, especially the second half of the day,” Fowler said. “And I was just able to keep moving forward. There weren’t many times where I had to play too defensively.”
Matt Kuchar, whose 2019 win at the Sony Open was the last of his nine PGA Tour titles, was among several players at 4 under.
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TORONTO (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays made major league history on Thursday by starting nine Latin American players against the Toronto Blue Jays.
It happened as baseball celebrated Roberto Clemente Day, honoring the late Hall of Fame outfielder from Puerto Rico.
Third baseman Yandy Díaz and right fielder Randy Arozarena, who are both from Cuba, topped the lineup, followed by shortstop Wander Franco, who is from the Dominican Republic, and first baseman Harold Ramírez, who is from Colombia.
The designated hitter was Manual Margot, who is from the Dominican Republic, followed by left fielder David Peralta, who is from Venezuela.
The second baseman was Isaac Paredes of Mexico, the catcher was René Pinto of Venezuela and center fielder Jose Siri of the Dominican Republic rounded out the batting order.
All nine players, as well as base coaches Chris Prieto at first and Rodney Linares at third, wore No. 21 to honor Clemente, who played 18 seasons with Pittsburgh. Clemente won four NL batting titles and helped the Pirates win the World Series in 1960 and 1971. He won the NL MVP award in 1966.
Left-hander Shane McClanahan, an American, was activated off the 15-day injured list before the game to start for the Rays.
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TORONTO (AP) — Yandy Díaz hit a three-run home run and the Tampa Bay Rays — starting an unprecedented nine Latin American players on Roberto Clemente Day — routed Toronto 11-0 on Thursday to pull within a half-game of the Blue Jays in the wild-card chase.
Clemente, the late Hall of Fame outfielder from Puerto Rico, was a two-time World Series winner and NL MVP who played 18 seasons with Pittsburgh. The Blue Jays’ Latin American starters are from five countries: Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic.
“Very happy, especially on a day like today,” Díaz said. “I think the Latinos are really putting a stamp on the game of baseball.”
All nine Rays starters, as well as bases coaches Chris Prieto and Rodney Linares, wore No. 21 to honor Clemente. The nine starters posed for a photo on the field after the game.
Díaz said he hoped to put his jersey and a lineup card in a frame to remember the historic day.
Rays manager Kevin Cash said the lineup was based on the batters he wanted to face Toronto right-hander Kevin Gausman.
“Gausman we’ve got as a reverse-split guy, so load up the righties,” Cash said. “It just worked out that they were all the Latin background.”
Shane McClanahan returned from the injured list to pitch five shutout innings.
“I’ve been dying to get back and help this team any way I can,” McClanahan said.
Isaac Paredes hit a solo home run and added an RBI single as the Rays (80-63) won the fifth and final game of the series. Toronto (81-63) will play a four-game series at Tampa Bay, starting next Thursday.
Seattle (80-62), which holds one of the three AL wild-card spots, was idle Thursday, but moved percentage points ahead of Toronto.
Díaz homered in a four-run second inning, his ninth. Paredes made it 5-0 with a leadoff blast in the seventh, his 19th.
Randy Arozarena had three hits, including an RBI single in the ninth, and Manuel Margot added a three-run double later in the six-run frame as Tampa Bay piled on against right-handers Trevor Richards and David Phelps.
Activated off the injured list after missing 15 games because of a left shoulder impingement, McClanahan (12-5) allowed three hits, struck out five and walked one.
“We’re better with him than without him, no doubt about it,” Cash said. He’s such a talented pitcher.”
The left-hander pitched around a pair of singles in the first inning, then retired 14 of the final 16 batters he faced. He lowered his ERA to 2.13.
“Today he was so nasty,” Rays catcher René Pinto said. “We are not machines but he looks like one.”
JT Chargois got two outs in the sixth, Jason Adam worked 1 1/3 innings, Javy Guerra pitched the eighth and Kevin Herget finished the six-hitter, Tampa Bay’s 10th shutout.
Gausman (12-10) allowed five runs and six hits in seven innings, snapping a streak of four straight winning decisions. He struck out seven and walked one.
“Too many mistakes and mistakes magnified with guys on base,” Gausman said.
After Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette hit back-to-back singles in the first, the pair executed a double steal. McClanahan escaped by striking out Matt Chapman and getting Teoscar Hernández to fly out.
Bichette doubled off JT Chargois in the sixth and advanced on Chapman’s infield single but Hernández struck out before Adam came on to strike out pinch hitter Cavan Biggio.
HONORING CLEMENTE
Bichette, right-hander José Berríos, outfielder George Springer and third base coach Luis Rivera wore No. 21 for Toronto.
SWEET DEAL
Two fans from Toronto’s Korean community gave some treats to Rays slugger Ji-Man Choi during batting practice, including one labelled Choco Pie. Choi returned the favor with some signed baseballs.
ROSTER MOVES:
Tampa Bay optioned LHP Josh Fleming to Triple-A Durham to clear a roster spot for McClanahan.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: RHP Shane Baz (right elbow) has started throwing on flat ground but will not return this season, Cash said.
Blue Jays: C Alejandro Kirk (left hip) was not available. Kirk did not play Wednesday.
UP NEXT
Rays: RHP Corey Kluber (10-8, 4.36 ERA) starts Friday as the Rays return home to host Texas. LHP Martín Pérez (11-6, 2.77 ERA) goes for the Rangers.
Blue Jays: Toronto has not named a starter for Friday’s home game against Baltimore. RHP Jordan Lyles (10-10, 4.62 ERA) starts for the Orioles.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm proposed new legislation Thursday that would force manufacturers to ensure that devices connected to the internet meet cybersecurity standards, making the 27-nation bloc less vulnerable to attacks.
The EU said a ransomware attack takes place every 11 seconds, and the global annual cost of cybercrime is estimated at 5.5 trillion euros in 2021. In Europe alone, cyberattacks cost between 180 and 290 billion euros each year, according to EU officials.
The European Commission said an increase of cyberattacks was witnessed during the coronavirus pandemic and that Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised concerns that European energy infrastructure could also be targeted amid a global energy crunch.
The law, proposed as the Cyber Resilience Act, aims to remove from the EU market all products with digital elements that are not adequately protected.
The EU’s executive commission said the law would not only reduce attacks but also benefit consumers since it will improve data and privacy protection
“When it comes to cybersecurity, Europe is only as strong as its weakest link, be it a vulnerable member state or an unsafe product along the supply chain,” said Thierry Breton, the EU commissioner for the internal market.
“Computers, phones, household appliances, virtual assistance devices, cars, toys… each and every one of these hundreds of millions of connected products is a potential entry point for a cyberattack.”
Breton said most hardware and software products are currently not subject to any cybersecurity obligations.
If adopted, the regulation would require manufacturers to take into account cybersecurity in the design and development of their devices. Companies would remain responsible for the security of products throughout their expected lifetime, or a minimum of five years.
Market authorities will have the power to withdraw or recall non-compliant devices and to fine companies that will not abide by the rules.
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which represents computer, communications and internet industry firms, welcomed the commission’s goal of improving cyber resilience but said the draft law would introduce unnecessary.
“These cybersecurity rules should strive to weed out bad products from the EU market, but the current … proposal would lead to innovative products piling up in waiting rooms before they can be used by Europeans,” CCIA Europe Public Policy Director Alexandre Roure said.
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New Delhi: Sanju Samson will lead the India-A team for a three-match one-day series against New Zealand A, starting September 22 in Chennai. Young all-rounder Raj Angad Bawa has earned his maiden India A call-up.
The second and third matches are scheduled for September 25 and 27 respectively.
Prithvi Shaw, who has been in fine form in the Duleep Trophy, is back in the mix along with most players, who were part of the ODI series in Zimbabwe.
Bawa, hero of India's U-19 World Cup winning campaign, is a fast medium bowler and left-handed hard-hitting middle-order batter.
While he has only played two Ranji Trophy games for Chandigarh, it is understood that the Chetan Sharma-led selection committee's concern is to create back-up for Hardik Pandya, who would time and again need to focus on workload management.
With the likes of Shivam Dube and Vijay Shankar not stepping up at the international level, the selectors are keen on creating a pool of back-up seam bowling all-rounders.
India have too many spin bowling all-rounder options but not many pace bowlers with good lower middle-order hitting prowess.
Bawa's all-round abilities will be put to test and the selectors will get an idea if he could be later upgraded at the senior level.
India A squad: Prithvi Shaw, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rahul Tripathi, Rajat Patidar, Sanju Samson (Captain), KS Bharat (wicket-keeper), Kuldeep Yadav, Shabhaz Ahmed, Rahul Chahar, Tilak Varma, Kuldeep Sen, Shardul Thakur, Umran Malik, Navdeep Saini, Raj Angad Bawa. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/16/sanju-samson-captain-india-a-new-zealand-a-one-day-series.amp.html | 2022-09-16T18:14:43Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/16/sanju-samson-captain-india-a-new-zealand-a-one-day-series.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jeep has a new electric off-roader headed to showrooms in 2024 in the form of the Recon, but in its new electric focus it hasn’t forgotten the Wrangler, which since 2021 has been available in 4xe plug-in hybrid guise.
Jeep boasts the Wrangler 4xe is America’s most popular plug-in hybrid, and for 2023 the automaker will further entice things by reducing the starting price with a new Willys entry-level grade priced from $55,590, including a $1,595 destination charge.
That’s down from the $56,190 price of the current 2022 Wrangler’s entry grade, the Sahara. Other grades include the better-equipped High Altitude and Rubicon.
Despite being the entry point of the 2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe lineup, the Willys still comes standard with LED headlights, 17-inch wheels, LT255/75R17C mud-terrain tires, rock rails, a limited-slip differential, a 9-speaker Alpine audio system, and all-weather floor mats. There are also “Willys” decals and a new “Electric 4-Wheel Drive” decal, both with a retro design. Popular features like the Sky One-Touch Power-Top and 8.4-inch infotainment screen are available, though.
Of course there’s also the Wrangler’s off-road capability supported by the 2.72:1 Selec-Trac full-time 4-wheel-drive system, heavy-duty Dana 44 axles, and a lift kit resulting in 10.1 inches of ground clearance. Together with the chunky mud tires, the lift kit helps deliver 30 inches of water fording.
All Wrangler 4xe grades come with the same powertrain: a 2.0-liter turbo-4 works with a pair of electric motors to generate a peak 375 hp and 470 lb-ft of torque. The electric motors are powerful enough to drive the vehicle in 4WD mode without the aid of the engine, in which case up to 21 miles of electric range is possible, courtesy a 17.3-kwh battery.
The 2023 Jeep Wrangler Willys 4xe made its debut on Wednesday at the 2022 Detroit auto show where Jeep also presented a Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary Edition.
Order books for the Wrangler Willys 4xe are now open and first deliveries are scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2022. Production will be handled at the Wrangler’s home in Toledo, Ohio.
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New Delhi: Sanju Samson will lead the India-A team for a three-match one-day series against New Zealand A, starting September 22 in Chennai. Young all-rounder Raj Angad Bawa has earned his maiden India A call-up.
The second and third matches are scheduled for September 25 and 27 respectively.
Prithvi Shaw, who has been in fine form in the Duleep Trophy, is back in the mix along with most players, who were part of the ODI series in Zimbabwe.
Bawa, hero of India's U-19 World Cup winning campaign, is a fast medium bowler and left-handed hard-hitting middle-order batter.
While he has only played two Ranji Trophy games for Chandigarh, it is understood that the Chetan Sharma-led selection committee's concern is to create back-up for Hardik Pandya, who would time and again need to focus on workload management.
With the likes of Shivam Dube and Vijay Shankar not stepping up at the international level, the selectors are keen on creating a pool of back-up seam bowling all-rounders.
India have too many spin bowling all-rounder options but not many pace bowlers with good lower middle-order hitting prowess.
Bawa's all-round abilities will be put to test and the selectors will get an idea if he could be later upgraded at the senior level.
India A squad: Prithvi Shaw, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rahul Tripathi, Rajat Patidar, Sanju Samson (Captain), KS Bharat (wicket-keeper), Kuldeep Yadav, Shabhaz Ahmed, Rahul Chahar, Tilak Varma, Kuldeep Sen, Shardul Thakur, Umran Malik, Navdeep Saini, Raj Angad Bawa. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/16/sanju-samson-captain-india-a-new-zealand-a-one-day-series.html | 2022-09-16T18:14:49Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/16/sanju-samson-captain-india-a-new-zealand-a-one-day-series.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Car buyers might not get the vehicle they want on time, commuter rail lines could see service disrupted, and shipments from everything from oil to livestock feed could be snarled.
Those are just a few of the wide-ranging impacts a walkout by U.S. rail workers would have on the country’s industries and economy. A strike could happen if the railroads and unions can’t settle their differences before an early Friday walkout deadline.
Here’s how some industries are gauging the potential impacts and getting ready for the possible work stoppage.
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AUTO INDUSTRY
Nearly all new vehicles that travel more than a couple hundred miles from the factory to their destination are shipped by rail because it’s more efficient, said Michael Robinet, an executive director for S&P Global Mobility. So it’s almost a certainty that new vehicles coming to the U.S. from Mexico or other countries will be delayed, he said.
“It’s not like there’s extra truck capacity to take all the vehicles that the railroads can’t carry,” Robinet said.
Automakers might be hampered in building vehicles, too, because some larger parts and raw materials are transported by rail. But Robinet said automakers will go to great lengths to get the parts to keep their factories running as much as possible.
Mike Austin, senior mobility analyst for Guidehouse Research, said the strike could make new vehicles even more scarce, driving prices up beyond current record levels. That could raise inflation “as other goods aren’t moving through the rails.”
Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis, said Wednesday at the Detroit auto show that his company will wind up apologizing to customers because their orders may not arrive on time.
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COMMUTING
Metra commuter rail service, which operates in the Chicago area, said Wednesday that it would suspend operations on four of its 11 lines on Friday if a work stoppage occurs. Some disruption on those lines would begin after rush hour Thursday night. In Minnesota, the operators of a commuter rail line that carries workers along a densely populated corridor from Minneapolis to northwestern suburbs and towns warned that service could be suspended as early as Friday.
In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, any strike would cancel the rail service until employees return to work, said David Jackson, a spokesman for the regional transit agency Sound Transit. Some Caltrain riders in the San Francisco Bay Area could be impacted by a rail strike, officials said.
The Maryland Transit Administration warned this week that a strike would mean the immediate suspension of service on two of its three MARC commuter rail lines.
Amtrak, meanwhile, said that starting Thursday, all its long-distance trains are canceled to avoid possible passenger disruptions while en route.
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ENERGY
A strike could have a significant impact on the energy industry, and could hurt consumers who would likely end up paying more for gasoline, electricity and natural gas. Refineries might have to halt production if they can’t get the deliveries they need, or if they don’t have access to rail to ship gasoline.
No one wants to risk leaving flammable chemicals stranded on the railroad tracks if a strike occurs. That’s why railroads began curtailing shipments of hazardous materials on Monday to protect that dangerous cargo.
Roughly 300,000 barrels of crude oil move by rail each day, which could supply about two mid-size refineries, according to AFPM. And about 5 million barrels of propane, representing a third of U.S. consumption, are moved by rail monthly, the group said.
Roughly 70% of ethanol produced in the U.S. is shipped by rail, and ethanol accounts for about a tenth of U.S. gasoline volume, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights. Nearly 75% of the coal moved to electric utilities in the first half of 2022 was moved by rail, the group said.
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AGRICULTURE
Livestock producers could see problems almost immediately if shipments of feed abruptly ended, according to the National Grain and Feed Association.
Meat and poultry groups noted the reliance on rail for shipments of feed and called for a quick resolution of the rail dispute. Every week, the nation’s chicken industry receives about 27 million bushels of corn and 11 million bushels of soybean meal to feed chickens, said Tom Super, senior vice president of the National Chicken Council.
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RETAIL
Experts say retailers have been shipping goods earlier in the season in recent months as a way to protect themselves from potential disruptions. But this buffer will only slightly minimize the impact from a railroad strike, which is brewing during the critical holiday shipping season, said Jess Dankert, vice president of supply chain at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a retail trade group that counts more than 200 retailers like Best Buy as its members. She noted that retailers are already feeling the impact from the uncertainty as some freight carriers are limiting services.
Dankert noted that retailers, noticing a slowdown in shipments, are now making contingency plans like turning to trucks to pick up some of the slack and making plans to use some of the excess inventory that it has in its distribution centers.
But she noted that there are not enough trucks and drivers to meet their needs. That scarcity will only drive up costs and make inflation worse, she said.
“As we have seen in the past two and half years, if there is a breakdown anywhere along the supply chain, one link falters, you see that ripple effect pretty quickly and those effects just spread from there,” Dankert said.
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Live Fast Motorsports (LFM) and Down N Dirty Outdoors announced today their partnership for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sept. 17, 2022.
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“First, we would like to say thank you to Live Fast Motorsports and BJ McLeod for the opportunity to partner together on the race at Bristol,” said Down N Dirty Outdoors CEO, Tim Berry Jr. “This is a big moment for Down N Dirty Outdoors. We have been working extremely hard this past year, revamping our entire game call line, especially the turkey call line, to compliment the Haint. The Haint is the hands down, premier Turkey Gobble call in the world. We are excited to showcase the Haint in Bristol, TN at the Bass Pro Shops Night Race this Saturday. We look forward to BJ and the #78 DND car being lightning fast and taking home the checkered flag! DND is Back in Black!”
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