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Apartel, Boutrous House – 6 – Away With Him\nThe driver pulled under one of them – he would pick others after seeing that there are many vehicles passing one or to meet other passenger. Then after getting his order that you gave for what you told him; which includes place you must head to; you said what and you pay – you ride safely. After getting out passengers the other passengers to that bus the other passenger went. Now this car was park where TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office says a woman ended up in the hospital after driving erratically, being involved in a hit-and-run and driving another car off the road before rolling her SUV.
Deputies responded to Lake Michigan Drive in Allendale Township around 4:30 p.m. Friday after getting a call about an SUV driving erratically and the wrong way on the road.
Originally, the caller said the SUV was heading west on Lake Michigan Drive, but turned around and started going east.
While deputies were responding, more calls came in claiming that the SUV hit a car near Lake Michigan Drive and 24th Avenue in Tallmadge Township as it was trying to do a U-turn in the middle of the road.
The callers said the SUV did not stop after the crash and kept driving east where it forced another car off the road, east of 14th Avenue and Lake Michigan Drive.
The sheriff’s office says when that happened, the SUV also went off the road and rolled over before landing upside down.
The driver, a 47-year-old from Greenville, had to be removed from the SUV and taken to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.
The other driver involved, a woman from Grand Rapids, was checked at the scene before deciding to get her own medical treatment. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/ottawa/sheriff-driver-hospitalized-after-hit-and-run-rollover-crash | 2022-09-17T01:50:48Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/ottawa/sheriff-driver-hospitalized-after-hit-and-run-rollover-crash | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 49ers signed punter Mitch Wishnowsky to a four-year contract extension on Friday, according to a team release. Wishnowsky was in the final year of his rookie contract but is now under the organization’s control through 2026. Financial terms of the deal have not yet been released.
The Niners drafted Wishnowsky in the fourth round of the 2019 draft out of Utah. Wishnowsky grew up playing Australian Rules Football but was forced to quit after repeated shoulder injuries in his teenage years. In 2013, he decided to quit his job and enroll at Prokick Australia, a training center dedicated to helping Australian Rules players convert to punters and kickers, which eventually earned him a scholarship at Utah.
In four seasons with the 49ers, Wishnowsky has been a consistent punter and handled kickoff duties, although kicker Robbie Gould is kicking off this season. Wishnowsky has been a consistently average specialist for the Niners. Over his NFL career, Wishnowsky is averaging 45.5 yards per punt. He has twice been named the league’s special teams player of the week.
Wishnowsky has always prioritized limiting opponents' returns. Out of 35 punters with at least one punt per game last year, he ranked 16th in the percentage of his kicks that pinned opponents inside their 20, 22nd in average yards per punt, and 18th in average net yards per punt, but opponents returned his kicks at the sixth-lowest rate in the league and only managed the eighth fewest return yards per punt against Wishnowsky’s kicks.
Wishnowsky has been one of the lowest-paid punters in the league over the past few years. He is currently making a $965,000 base salary this season with a cap hit of just over $1.15 million. Seahawks punter Michael Dickson is currently the highest-paid punter in the NFL with a contract worth more than $3.6 million a year. However, Wishnowsky’s new deal will likely fall somewhere between $1.5 million and $3 million in average annual value. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/16/23357493/49ers-extend-mitch-wishnowsky | 2022-09-17T01:51:18Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/16/23357493/49ers-extend-mitch-wishnowsky | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: The BJP will organise 'unity in diversity' festivals, blood donation drive, cleanliness drive across the country as part of its fortnight-long "seva" campaign to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday, party general secretary Arun Singh said on Friday.
The campaign will begin on Modi's birthday on September 17 and conclude on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Singh said .
Addressing the press conference at the BJP headquarters here, Singh said the main objective of the campaign is to "reach out to the poor and downtrodden and improve their quality of life."
As part of the campaign, BJP workers in all districts will organise "unity in diversity" festivals and send a message of "Ek Bharat, Shresth Bharat (One India, Great India)" to the people.
In these festivals, BJP functionaries in all state units will identify a state different from theirs and adopt its language and culture for a day, Singh said.
The party will undertake plantation drive, cleanliness drive, and awareness campaigns for water conservation during the fortnight-long campaign, he said.
Singh said that BJP workers will also distribute equipment among the people with disability, promote khadi products, and organise free health checkup camps during this period.
"Welfare of the poor and downtrodden is the focal point of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government's welfare schemes," Singh said.
As part of the campaign, BJP workers and people in general will be encouraged to use Khadi and local products on October 2.
The BJP has formed an eight-member central panel led by Arun Singh to monitor the campaign.
The BJP has been celebrating Prime Minister Modi's birthday as 'Seva Diwas' (Day of Service) for several years by organising welfare activities across the country for a fortnight. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/17/narendra-modi-birthday-celebration-bjp.html | 2022-09-17T02:06:43Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/09/17/narendra-modi-birthday-celebration-bjp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Today (9/16) was a particularly busy day for staff working Lane County Public Health's walk-in clinic at the Valley River Center. Some people waited up to two hours to get the Omicron COVID booster shot that became available earlier this week. KLCC's Brian Bull was there and had this report from the scene:
"I’ve been by the walk-in clinic at the Valley River Center mall twice today, and both times the seat banks were comp filled out to the door. We’re talking about probably 25-30 people at a time waiting for their turn to get the Omicron variant booster shot.
"A couple gentlemen who I talked to on their way out said they ended up waiting about two hours for their shots. And then another woman who was just walking out when I came to the mall said that she waited an hour and a half and just simply gave up. She said she saw some people who were on the verge of passing out after such a lengthy wait.
"One worker who I did talk to inside did say that they are trying to get to people the best they can, they acknowledged that it was standing room only, but added that it’s very important to get the Omicron variant booster shot as soon as possible.
"For KLCC News at the Valley River Center mall, I’m Brian Bull.
©2022, KLCC. | https://www.klcc.org/health-medicine/2022-09-16/hundreds-get-omicron-booster-shot-at-lcphs-walk-in-clinic-ahead-of-the-weekend | 2022-09-17T02:10:57Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/health-medicine/2022-09-16/hundreds-get-omicron-booster-shot-at-lcphs-walk-in-clinic-ahead-of-the-weekend | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Updated September 16, 2022 at 9:34 PM ET
The Justice Department is asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to lift part of an order from Judge Aileen Cannon that bars the government from using classified materials seized from Mar-A-Lago in its investigation and requiring the government to disclose those materials to the special master appointed in the case.
The DOJ is not appealing the entire order establishing the special master process, asking for what it deems "modest but critically important relief."
The appeal was expected; in a filing last week, the department had given Judge Aileen Cannon a deadline until Sept. 15 to respond to their request.
The department has not been able to use the seized material in their criminal investigation since Cannon's order to deny the DOJ access to the classified documents and appoint a special master to review the material for any that Trump may be able to assert privilege over,
The 11th Circuit mostly compromises Republican judges, many of whom were appointed by Trump. But Neal Devins of William and Mary School of Law told NPR that while Cannon, a Trump appointee, has been siding with the former president thus far, the judges on the court of appeals may not necessarily follow suit.
"We may actually see Trump judges on the 11th Circuit overturn this decision, just as we saw Trump judges during the elections reject claims of election fraud pretty much uniformly," Devins said.
In the meantime, a special master has been selected to get involved in the investigation.
Thursday night, Cannon named Raymond Dearie as special master to review materials seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, denying the Justice Department's request to block the process, in which the government cannot use the materials seized for their criminal investigation until the review is complete.
Dearie, a veteran federal judge, was a candidate proposed by Trump who the Justice Department did not object to. He holds senior status in the Eastern District of New York and was first appointed by Ronald Reagan.
Cannon directed Dearie to issue interim reports and recommendations "as appropriate" during the review, which she ordered to be complete by Nov. 30, closer to the timeline request by the Trump lawyers. The government wanted the review done by mid-October.
The Justice Department had previously stated that they didn't want the special master to have access to classified material, but Cannon has said that request is meritless. But she did say that the court would direct the special master to prioritize the "approximately 100 documents marked as classified."
Cannon also says she's unconvinced with the government's argument that the FBI's criminal investigation into the documents is intertwined with the intelligence community's assessment.
Cannon notes that Trump's team will bear the cost of the professional fees and expenses of the special master and any support staff or expert consultants who are engaged with the process. Trump's team had originally requested the cost be split between them and the government.
The Justice Department has said they will appeal the order for a special master.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/npr-politics/2022-09-15/doj-appeals-judges-order-barring-its-use-of-classified-materials-in-mar-a-lago-probe | 2022-09-17T02:11:04Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/npr-politics/2022-09-15/doj-appeals-judges-order-barring-its-use-of-classified-materials-in-mar-a-lago-probe | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Harrison Burton and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Mustang are set to start Saturday night’s 62nd annual Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway from 27th place.
Burton turned a lap at 124.743 miles per hour in Friday’s qualifying session.
The 500-lap race on the high-banked concrete oval is set to get the green flag Saturday night just after 7:30 p.m. with TV coverage on USA Network.
Stage breaks are planned for Laps 125 and 250.
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Aric Almirola nips Ryan Blaney for Bristol Night Race pole
A Ford driver hadn’t won a pole position at Bristol Motor Speedway in more than 10 years, but that changed radically on Friday afternoon when Aric Almirola snagged the top starting position for Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race (7:30 p.m. ET on USA, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
In the final round of time trials, Almirola covered the .533-mile distance in 14.946 seconds (128.382 mph) to become the first NASCAR Cup Series pole winner at Thunder Valley since Greg Biffle claimed the top starting spot in March of 2012.
“We had a really good (car) in practice,” Almirola said. “We ran, I think, 55 laps straight, and I felt really good about it. We swapped over to (qualifying trim), and it still had a lot of speed.
“I’m really proud of the effort on this team. We were bummed out we didn’t make the Playoffs, but we’re showing what we’re capable of. We can race with these guys. Yeah, we’re going to try and do it for 500 laps (Saturday) night.”
In fact, Ford drivers locked out the front row for the cutoff race for the Round of 16 in the Cup Playoffs, with Chase Briscoe running second to Almirola with a lap in 14.968 seconds (128.193 mph). Alex Bowman (128.176 mph) qualified third in the tightly bunched field, with Denny Hamlin (127.911 mph) taking the fourth starting position.
Playoff drivers will occupy positions two through nine on the grid. Brad Keselowski in the 10th position joined Almirola as the only other non-Playoff driver to qualify for the final round, as six Ford drivers made the final 10.
Kevin Harvick, who realistically is in a must-win position after suffering calamities in the first two Playoff races, will start seventh.
Among Playoff drivers who failed to qualify for the final round, Austin Dillon and Daniel Suarez have the most ground to make up. Dillon, three points below the cut line, qualified 28th, one position better than Suarez, who is six points ahead of Kyle Busch in 13th.
An eight-time winner at Bristol, Busch spun in practice and qualified 21st.
From his earliest memories, Bristol has held a special distinction for Chase Elliott
Long before he started racing in the NASCAR Cup Series, Chase Elliott developed a special affinity for Bristol Motor Speedway and the Bass Pro Shops Night Race.
“Yeah, I think Bristol is the one that kind of has that asterisk next to it for me, just because the environment here is so cool,” Elliott said on Friday before Cup practice. “This fall race, at night, 500 laps—this was one of the events that, when I was a kid, it was larger than life.
“You couldn’t get a ticket for this thing for five years. It was just one of those events that everyone wanted to be at, and if you weren’t there or you weren’t talking about it in the early 2000’s, you weren’t living is how I thought it was.”
In fact, the Night Race helped shape Elliott’s decision to follow in the footsteps of his father, NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott.
“When I look back at this event and what I remember of it, this was one of the races that made me want to be a race car driver, honestly,” Elliott said.
“The environment here is unmatched, and this event is special. I don’t see another date or track on our schedule that can rival what this environment is on Saturday night in August or September.”
Ross Chastain says his No. 1 Trackhouse Chevrolet still has the speed to win
A quick glance at Ross Chastain’s results over the summer months might lead you to believe that the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet has fallen off in the performance department.
That would be a mistaken assumption, says Chastain, whose record over the last two months has been spotty at best.
“I feel like the pace has not left us,” Chastain said before Friday’s NASCAR Cup Series practice at Bristol Motor Speedway. “There’s been a lot of mistakes on my part, and then just stuff that’s going to happen in racing, just all kind of piled on for two months in a row there.
“But the pace never left. I never questioned that. It was just a matter of me not messing up; not speeding on pit road, debris in the drive pin holes at Darlington, or just crashing. It’s just eliminating that.”
In a breakout year for himself and for Trackhouse, Chastain won two of the first 10 events of the season and ruffled some feathers along the way. In the seven races after he ran eighth on July 17 at New Hampshire, Chastain posted an average finish of 25.0 and fell from second to eighth in the standings.
After running seventh last Sunday at Kansas, Chastain is 26 points to the good entering Saturday night’s Round of 16 cutoff race at Bristol.
With that margin, Chastain has mixed feelings about taking a conservative approach to the race.
“You never want to crash in practice, especially this year with this car,” Chastain said. “You don’t want to crash. I think that the simple answer is ‘Yes,’ (to a conservative mind-set), but I still want to go fast.
“I know I say I don’t want to be the fastest in practice, but I do. I want to be the fastest. I want to qualify on the pole, and I want to lead 500 laps. (But) there are going to be certain situations where it’s going to be in my best interest to not insert myself.”
Kyle Larson, sponsor HendrickCars.com extend deal with Hendrick Motorsports
Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson will drive for Hendrick Motorsports through 2026 with HendrickCars.com as his sponsor, the team announced Friday.
Larson and HendrickCars.com have signed concurrent extensions to that effect.
“When Kyle joined our team, the expectations were sky high from both inside and outside the organization,” said team owner Rick Hendrick. “To say he’s exceeded them would be an understatement.
“Not only has Kyle proven himself as a champion driver, he’s performed at a championship level outside of the race car. We’re proud to continue our relationship and to see him represent our team and our brands in such positive ways. The years to come are very bright.”
Larson welcomed the chance to continue his relationship with an organization that has won more Cup championships (14) than any other.
"I can’t explain how much this opportunity means,” Larson said. “The chance to compete for the top team and best sponsors in racing is something every driver dreams about. I’m humbled to have incredible people in my corner and amazing support from so many fans.
“Thanks to everyone at Hendrick Motorsports and Hendrick Automotive Group for believing in me, (crew chief) Cliff (Daniels) and our team. Even though we’ve done some great things so far, I truly believe our best is ahead of us.” | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/73056-bristol-weekend-notebook | 2022-09-17T02:21:12Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/73056-bristol-weekend-notebook | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
How disappointed are you?
“Very disappointed. We had a very fast Monster Energy GR Supra. I was excited for the rest of the race. Thank you to Mitch Covington (Monster Energy) and Interstate Batteries. If it was God’s plan for us to win tonight, we would’ve. I feel like the guys made a really good progress over the last year from this car, from what we had last year. I felt like we were a little off last race here last September. We came back and I feel like we were one of the fastest, so very thankful for that.”
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday said he intends to use "every penny" of the $12 million his state budgeted to relocate migrants and set the expectation for buses and "likely more" flights full of migrants paid for by the state.
"These are just the beginning efforts," the Republican governor said. "We've got an infrastructure in place now. There's going to be a lot more that's happening."
Speaking at a news conference in Daytona Beach, DeSantis defended using taxpayer dollars to send 50 migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard because he said many people who cross the border end up in Florida. He said people working for Florida are in Texas and they "profile" individuals who are likely headed to Florida.
Florida, he added, has hired its own contractor to coordinate the state's relocation efforts in Texas, though DeSantis did not close the door on working with Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott to arrange future transportation.
"We may collaborate," DeSantis said.
If he could, DeSantis said, "I would send [them] back to Mexico or back to the home country." Most, if not all, of the migrants on the two flights said they were from Venezuela.
DeSantis also disputed that the migrants did not know where they were going in Massachusetts because he claimed they had signed a waiver and were provided with a packet that included a map of Martha's Vineyard.
"It's obvious that's where they were going," he said, adding, "It's all voluntary."
The state budget DeSantis signed this year allocated $12 million to move "unauthorized aliens" but specified the intent was to transport people "from this state." Asked about that provision, DeSantis dismissed it as semantic because so many migrants end up in Florida, but they are not moving there in groups large enough to intercept.
"So we've been interdicted people on a onesie, twosie basis," DeSantis said. "And we said, OK, so we've had people in Texas for months, trying to figure out how are these people getting into Florida? What's the movement? And the reality is 40% of them say they want to go to Florida. And so that's a lot. I mean, we talk about all those people, but the problem is that they're coming in through with like three people in a car and they go through, it's hard for us to know, because they're just coming into the state like any other car, so there's not a big movement."
"So they've been in Texas, identifying people that are trying to come to Florida and then offering them free transportation to sanctuary jurisdictions. And so they went from Texas to Florida, to Martha's Vineyard in the flight."
Responding to criticism on Thursday from President Joe Biden, DeSantis said, "We're continuing to ... use every tool at our disposal to insulate the state of Florida from the negative ramifications of his reckless border policies."
"He didn't scramble to get his Cabinet together when we had millions of people illegally pouring across the southern border," DeSantis said.
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It appears the budget language which appropriated the money for Florida's migrant relocation program would not permit this week's two flights, for which Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed credit, or the relocation of some of the migrants recruited for them.
Two planes carrying about 50 migrants arrived at Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts earlier this week. The DeSantis' administration had secured $12 million in the state budget to pay for migrant relocation, and the governor had repeatedly threatened to use the money to send them to liberal strongholds.
DeSantis said he arranged for the two flights which landed in Massachusetts, but the migrants had actually been in Texas.
Florida's migrant relocation program, according to the budget language which DeSantis signed into law, says the program should move migrants who are "unlawfully present" in the United States "from this state," meaning the flights from Texas to Massachusetts would not have been covered by the budget, language and anyone relocated as part of the program was not legally allowed to be in the US.
Martha Vineyard's airport director Geoffrey Freeman said Wednesday's flights originated in San Antonio, Texas.
And CNN spoke with more than a dozen migrants on the flights, who also affirmed they were transported from San Antonio, not Florida. They also said they were Venezuelan citizens seeking asylum and applying for refugee status, and showed CNN court papers for future asylum determination proceedings.
Federal law, cited in the Florida budget language, dictates those migrants who have future asylum determination proceedings are lawfully present in the US until a federal judge makes a determination otherwise.
As questions and criticism swirl as to why Florida's governor used state funds to transport migrants from Texas to Massachusetts, DeSantis said the flights were organized for people who were "trying to come to Florida and then offering them free transportation to sanctuary jurisdictions."
None of the migrants CNN spoke to said they had any desire or plans to travel to Florida.
Although flight data from FlightRadar 24 and FlightAware did show the two planes carrying the migrants making a quick stop in Crestview, Florida, public records obtained by CNN showed the plane was refueled at the airport.
Taryn Fenske, a spokesperson for the governor, sent CNN a statement saying the relocation program aims to stop human smugglers and traffics "found within the state" in addition to preventing migrants, "at the southern border from entering Florida."
Fenske reiterated the state would continue the relocation program.
DeSantis also said in a news conference Friday he intended to use "every penny" of the $12 million his state budgeted to relocate migrants and set the expectation for buses and "likely more" flights full of migrants paid for by Florida.
He defended using taxpayers dollars to send the migrants to Massachusetts because he said many people who cross the border end up in Florida, adding there are also people working for his state who are in Texas to "profile" individuals who are likely headed to Florida.
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The Justice Department asked the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals to block parts of a judge's order requiring a special master to review classified documents from Mar-a-Lago.
Read the filing here:
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A former top official in the Trump White House counsel's office told the National Archives last fall that, according to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, there were only 12 boxes of records at Mar-a-Lago and they were just filled with newspaper clippings, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
The Archives was following up on information from the White House Office of Records Management that there were about two dozen boxes in the residence, according to the source.
There was a back and forth in September 2021 between the Archives' chief counsel, Gary Stern, and former White House deputy counsel Pat Philbin, who was also a designee for the Archives regarding the Trump records, according to the source. The source said that the engagement was part of the ongoing process of getting the boxes back.
Stern asked Philbin about the records. Philbin asked Meadows and relayed to the Archives that Meadows said there were only 12 boxes. Philbin also relayed to the Archives that Meadows had said they were not aware of any other boxes.
Philbin has contended he was unaware of the contents of the boxes or that there was classified material inside, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Stern then reiterated to Philbin that the Archives had information that there were more boxes, it had a list of missing documents and to please keep looking.
The source tells CNN the National Archives saw the exchange as part the prolonged effort to get former President Donald Trump to send presidential records to the Archives from Mar-a-Lago. The exchanges were first reported by The Washington Post on Friday.
Ultimately, many more than 40 boxes were found at Mar-a-Lago containing documents with classified markings and presidential records.
As CNN has previously reported, Meadows has also engaged in efforts to get Trump to return documents to the National Archives since last year. Meadows is one of Trump's designees to the Archives, and he became involved in the summer of 2021 after being contacted by Philbin.
While he was at Mar-a-Lago last summer, Meadows talked with Trump about the documents that the Archives was seeking to have returned, sources said. Meadows continued to work with the Archives in its efforts to recover documents since then, according to the sources.
"Mr. Meadows did not personally review the boxes at Mar A Lago and did not have a role in examining or verifying what was or wasn't contained within them," Meadows' spokesperson Ben Williamson told CNN.
Philbin did not provide comment when asked by CNN. The Archives has not responded to CNN's request for comment.
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'Jeopardy!' fans criticize Ken Jennings for allowing contestant to correct answer
Ken Jennings, one of the new permanent hosts of "Jeopardy!" was criticized by fans this week for "unfair" rulings after allowing a contestant to correct an answer.
The moment happened on Wednesday's episode when contestant Luigi de Guzman answered a question under the "Cons" category. A painting was shown on the screen with the clue: "Here's a typical early 19th-century landscape by this British painter."
"Who is Constant?" de Guzman answered.
"Say it again," Jennings, 48, replied.
"Sorry, who is Constable?" de Guzman responded.
And his answer was accepted.
But later in the show, contestant Harriet Wagner made a similar error when answering a clue about the fantasy author of "Always Coming Home."
"Who is Angela LeGuin — Ursula LeGuin," Wagner said.
But Jennings ruled her answer incorrect, before allowing de Guzman to give the right answer.
"Yes, Harriet, you remembered that her name was Ursula, but I’m afraid I had already begun ruling against you when you began correcting yourself," the champion-turned-host said.
The "Jeopardy!" rules state that "contestants may change their responses as long as neither the host nor the judges have made a ruling.
"There’s no way to prepare for how nerves may affect you when the game is in play," the game show’s website states. "If you’re giving a response and suddenly hear your mouth saying something your brain wasn’t planning on – or forget to phrase your response in the form of a question – you can correct yourself; but you’ll have to be quick."
Some fans on Twitter were not pleased with Jennings’ rulings, calling them "unfair."
"#Jeopardy why did Ken Jennings let one contestant (male) change a wrong answer, but ruled against another (female), even though she said the correct answer within the time limit? Tonight's episode was an unfair runaway because of that ruling on the last answer in double jeopardy," a viewer wrote on Twitter.
"Gosh, Jeopardy - why not have a certain amount of time to answer? Harriet answered her revised answer of Ursula at least as quickly as Luigi was allowed to correct his response from Constant to Constable a few minutes earlier," another fan wrote.
"Jeopardy, Luigi gives wrong answer, Ken asks him what, then gives correct answer. Harriet says wrong first name, then while she begins to correct herself Ken interrupts and rules her incorrect. SO INCONSISTENT and unfair," a third person replied.
At the end of the episode, de Guzman won his fourth consecutive night and Wagner placed third in a tight game. After the reaction, de Guzman offered an apology to Wagner.
"Having watched the game again as an outsider and with cold eyes, I want to say that I probably owe @harriet4332263 two apologies," de Guzman wrote. "First, ‘Constable.’ I knew it was Constable. I recognized the painting. In the moment I had this memory of speaking to someone about Constable. But in between seeing/remembering/thinking/buzzing/answering, my wires got crossed and I said something like ‘Constant.’ I saw Ken hesitate, and corrected myself."
"If I had been in Ken’s shoes, I probably would have cut Luigi off *brusquely* and moved on. But Ken hesitated, and in the moment, I saw him hesitate, and I kept talking. The rule ended up on my side, but looking at it cold, I see how it could have ended up differently," he added.
"Second, ‘LeGuin.’ Same situation, but Ken didn’t hesitate when @Harriet43342263 was speaking. He cut her off. That put her on the other side of the rule, and I got the rebound and a put-back. If I’d have been Ken, I’d have either cut both of us off, or hesitated both times. But that wasn’t the side of the stage I was on on the day, and it took a great deal of separation in time and space for me to watch it and see it," de Guzman continued.
"I especially want to shout out @Harriett4332263’s grace here. I’ve pinged her about this, and she has shown me the grace befitting a great litigator. That means a lot to me, and I really appreciate it," he concluded.
Jennings and actress Mayim Bialik were named the show’s permanent replacements for the late Alex Trebek in July. Trebek died of cancer in 2020 after hosting the show for nearly 37 seasons.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Kim Michaux always goes the extra mile for her son Woody.
Lifting her 32-year-old son into the family’s vehicle is a routine she executes often.
Their destination of Swift Creek Reservoir is a familiar place.
“This is my favorite place because you run along the water," Kim Michaux said. “It is always a pretty run, isn’t it Woody?”
Kim and Woody are prepping for not one but two marathons this Fall.
“We’re training for the Marine Corps Marathon and Richmond Marathon. Our goal is to run two marathons in two weeks,” Kim said.
Woody’s journey though has been fraught with potholes.
“He was a normal kid,” Kim said. “He was extremely shy. But a nice kid.”
Eleven years ago, just before his 21st birthday, the one-time lacrosse player who attended Hampden-Sydney College was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called Wilson’s Disease.
The condition left Woody unable to control his muscles, swallow or speak. His mind remains sharp.
“He was a physics and chemistry major. He was a huge gamer. Halo was his game of choice,” Kim said.
Wilson’s affects one in about 40,000 people. It can be fatal if it is not diagnosed. There is no known cure.
“He is all there and he is very happy. Emotionally whatever he is feeling he is full-on,” Kim said.
Woody’s debilitating condition is not preventing him and his mom from enjoying the great outdoors together.
Their bond grows stronger with every stride.
“We’re definitely closer now for sure because I take him away by myself on a weekend, He is stuck with me now,” Kim said with a laugh.
Marathon training is their escape and some of the best medicine.
“He loves it because he is in the event. People are cheering for him. They’re fist-bumping him. He is part of it. And not watching other people do stuff,” Kim said.
While running is typically a solitary endeavor, Kim can’t envision competing without her partner.
“He loves different people pushing him. He likes the banter. It is a positive, happy group of people so he absolutely loves it,” Kim said.
So far Woody has appeared in 41 half marathons. Most with mom at his back. The pair has been competing for four years. Their goal run half marathons in all 50 states.
“Honestly I’ll never quit, you know what I mean? He is a lot of work. You do what you have to do, that is it,” Kim said.
Kim is determined to run her son to the finish line, no matter the race.
“I’m in way better shape now than when I was 40," she said. "It is because I’m pushing him. I’m not going to stop because he loves it. How do you not do this for him?”
Kim and Woody are a dynamic duo in lockstep and roll.
“Running has been an amazing thing for us to add because it is a good positive happy thing where you hang out with awesome. The running community has been very welcome of Woody,” Kim said.
Woody and Kim’s goal of running half marathons in all 50 states is off to a glowing start. The mother and son duo has completed 24 races in under four years.
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Charges: Grandmother killed with hatchet in Kanabec County
OGILVIE, Minn. (FOX 9) - Disclaimer the details in this story are disturbing.
A man in Ogilvie, Minnesota faces a felony murder charge after his grandmother was found brutally killed with a hatchet in her home earlier in the week.
Dustin Tinklenberg, 42, was charged with 2nd-degree murder in connection to the death of his grandmother Stella Anderson, 92. Tinklenberg made his first court appearance Friday, and his bail was set at $1 million with conditions and $2 million without conditions.
The Kanabec County Sheriff’s Office said on Sept. 13, deputies responded to a home in the 1300 block of Highway 23 in Ogilvie on the report of a woman who had been found dead on her couch, according to the criminal complaint.
First responders entered the home and found a woman who was "clearly deceased" and did not check for her pulse. Law enforcement said Anderson was lying on the couch with a "major laceration" on her face which was "severely deformed," the criminal complaint reads.
Investigators said Anderson’s nose, which was no longer attached to her face, was placed on top of the blanket covering her body, the complaint states.
Anderson’s daughter, Linda Lang-Smith, told authorities she found her mother after she arrived at the residence to visit with her and help with some chores. When she entered the home, she thought her mother was napping on the couch.
However, when Lang-Smith tried to wake her mother, she saw Anderson's face and "thought she was seeing things." Lang-Smith quickly ran out of the house and contacted the authorities, according to the complaint.
When investigators arrived at the home, multiple family members were on the front lawn. Anderson’s son told authorities he believed Tinklenberg was responsible for the murder and asked if they had found him yet, the complaint states.
Law enforcement later located Tinklenberg at the residence of a former significant other and took him into custody. Tinklenberg told law enforcement he would sometimes stay with his grandmother because he was homeless.
While talking with investigators, Tinklenberg claimed his grandmother had sexually assaulted him as a child, and she continually harasses him and "takes advantage of him," the criminal complaint reads.
He claimed before the attack, there was another alleged incident of sexual assault, the complaint states. A short time later, he claimed his grandmother had somehow manipulated/altered the bacon he was eating.
"So I lost it," Tinklenberg allegedly told investigators, according to the complaint.
The Ramsey County Medical Examiner said Anderson suffered seven sharp force injuries to the head. Her manner of death was determined to be a homicide, according to court documents.
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Mistral’s Divers in Sognuara for Hoodies! #122 (Part) By L.UCKMAKER [31 July – 5 August] By WOLF79\nWHO SPAKI PENNILL! THU HIM IN TO GUE PU BRA!! SAVATING EVERING!!! 0 MAD ð???° RICHMOND, Va. -- Kim Michaux always goes the extra mile for her son Woody.
Lifting her 32-year-old son into the family’s vehicle is a routine she executes often.
Their destination of Swift Creek Reservoir is a familiar place.
“This is my favorite place because you run along the water," Kim Michaux said. “It is always a pretty run, isn’t it Woody?”
Kim and Woody are prepping for not one but two marathons this Fall.
“We’re training for the Marine Corps Marathon and Richmond Marathon. Our goal is to run two marathons in two weeks,” Kim said.
Woody’s journey though has been fraught with potholes.
“He was a normal kid,” Kim said. “He was extremely shy. But a nice kid.”
Eleven years ago, just before his 21st birthday, the one-time lacrosse player who attended Hampden-Sydney College was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called Wilson’s Disease.
The condition left Woody unable to control his muscles, swallow or speak. His mind remains sharp.
“He was a physics and chemistry major. He was a huge gamer. Halo was his game of choice,” Kim said.
Wilson’s affects one in about 40,000 people. It can be fatal if it is not diagnosed. There is no known cure.
“He is all there and he is very happy. Emotionally whatever he is feeling he is full-on,” Kim said.
Woody’s debilitating condition is not preventing him and his mom from enjoying the great outdoors together.
Their bond grows stronger with every stride.
“We’re definitely closer now for sure because I take him away by myself on a weekend, He is stuck with me now,” Kim said with a laugh.
Marathon training is their escape and some of the best medicine.
“He loves it because he is in the event. People are cheering for him. They’re fist-bumping him. He is part of it. And not watching other people do stuff,” Kim said.
While running is typically a solitary endeavor, Kim can’t envision competing without her partner.
“He loves different people pushing him. He likes the banter. It is a positive, happy group of people so he absolutely loves it,” Kim said.
So far Woody has appeared in 41 half marathons. Most with mom at his back. The pair has been competing for four years. Their goal run half marathons in all 50 states.
“Honestly I’ll never quit, you know what I mean? He is a lot of work. You do what you have to do, that is it,” Kim said.
Kim is determined to run her son to the finish line, no matter the race.
“I’m in way better shape now than when I was 40," she said. "It is because I’m pushing him. I’m not going to stop because he loves it. How do you not do this for him?”
Kim and Woody are a dynamic duo in lockstep and roll.
“Running has been an amazing thing for us to add because it is a good positive happy thing where you hang out with awesome. The running community has been very welcome of Woody,” Kim said.
Woody and Kim’s goal of running half marathons in all 50 states is off to a glowing start. The mother and son duo has completed 24 races in under four years.
You can also watch Greg McQuade's "Heroes Among Us" reports Thursdays on CBS 6 News at 6 p.m.
Find unique, award-winning stories every day on CBS 6 News:
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Tuesdays: CBS 6 Problem Solvers Investigations
Wednesdays: Wayne's World
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Thursdays: Beyond the Roster
Fridays: I Have a Story
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Finding more venture capital for minority and women-owned start-up firms could help bolster the region’s business community in many ways, says Doug Villhard, director of Olin Business School’s entrepreneurship program at Washington University in St. Louis.
According to a Bloomberg report, Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx founders received just 2% or less of the total venture capital in 2021. Just 2% of venture capital money went to female business founders.
“This funding gap shortchanges not only underrepresented founders but also the vitality of the entire innovation community,” Villhard said.
Villhard and Wash U are partnering with the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy think tank based in Washington, “to develop policy-based solutions for the historically lopsided funding support available to underrepresented minorities and women,” according to a release.
A nine-member commission that includes entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and public policy experts will oversee and guide the project while providing input and insight from the perspective of innovation practitioners.
The goal is to address questions including: What are the root causes of this inequity? What impact does this have on the economy? What solutions can address it?
“Rather than simply talk about the past, this commission intends to identify meaningful public policy solutions to drive more equitable funding, unlock more potential and further spur our economy,” Villhard said.
The project is the second backed by a $750,000 grant to Olin Business School from The Bellwether Foundation. The grant called for three separate annual commissions — formed jointly with Brookings — tackling “megatrend” issues affecting the quality of life in the region and across the country.
The first Olin Brookings Commission project concluded in April, and saw participants develop an artificial intelligence-driven tool to flag suspicious shipments of prescription opioids and developed policy recommendations designed to empower the tool’s use among federal agencies, law enforcement and industry.
In November, the commission will host a national conference of researchers presenting work focused on unearthing the root causes for disproportionate funding and informing any potential public and private policy solutions to address the yawning gap. The conference will be held at the Brookings Institution. Daniel Elfenbein, professor of organization and strategy at Olin, will serve as chair of the conference.
In addition to Villhard and Elfenbein, the project will be led by WashU faculty members Dedric Carter, Olin’s professor of practice in entrepreneurship and WashU’s vice chancellor for innovation and chief commercialization officer; and Gisele Marcus, professor of practice.
A key component of the Bellwether funding calls for student involvement. Ming Zhu Wang, a fifth-year Olin PhD student in strategy, will organize related research, along with five entrepreneurship fellows pursuing master’s in business administration degrees, who will assist with planning, research, and feedback.
Commission members include:
Christine Aylward, founder and managing partner at Magnetic Ventures
Charli Cooksey, founder and CEO of WEPOWER
Lori Coulter, co-founder and CEO of Summersalt
Morgan DeBaun, founder and CEO of Blavity and advisory board member for the Black Economic Alliance
Gaurav Garg, founding partner of Wing Venture Capital
Lisa Morales-Hellebo, co-founder and general partner at REFASHIOND Ventures
Martin Hunt, CEO of Swanlaab USA Ventures
Andre Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
Akeem Shannon, CEO and founder of Flipstik
Commission members will collect and distill data and industry input over several meetings — including the November conference — with plans to release a comprehensive report of its findings and recommendations by April 2023. | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/black-entrepreneurs-face-tough-adventure-landing-venture-capital/article_22172c34-3556-11ed-86a5-13d29199bcce.html | 2022-09-17T02:31:41Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/black-entrepreneurs-face-tough-adventure-landing-venture-capital/article_22172c34-3556-11ed-86a5-13d29199bcce.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220913-N-ML137-1034 KEKAHA, Hawai`i (Sept. 8, 2022) Carolyn Doyle, an avian technician at Save Our Shearwaters (SOS), practices banding techniques on a wedge-tailed shearwater carcass during a volunteer event at Waiokapua (commonly known as Major’s Bay) at Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands. This event is a training opportunity for members from both PMRF’s and SOS’s environmental teams in preparation for the Dark Skies program. PMRF is the world’s largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Samantha Jetzer)
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220913-N-ML137-1059 KEKAHA, Hawai`i (Sept. 8, 2022) A wedge-tailed shearwater fledgling peaks out of its borough at Waiokapua (commonly known as Major’s Bay) at Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands. PMRF is the world’s largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Samantha Jetzer)
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A member from the Marine Corps Forces Pacific Band plays the flute during the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony hosted by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Sept. 16, 2022. The event is held every year on the third Friday of September, honoring prisoners of war and missing-in-action service members. DPAA’s mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Michael O’Neal)
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VISTA, Calif. (KSWB) — A Southern California high school has forfeited their football games scheduled for this week amid an assault investigation, it was announced Thursday.
The investigation stems from an incident that occurred inside the Vista High varsity football locker room on August 31 where cellphone video showed a 14-year-old student being assaulted.
Vista High has forfeited the freshman, junior varsity and varsity football games scheduled for this week against Poway High and the games will not be rescheduled, Poway High football head coach Kyle Williams said.
After-school activities were also canceled for the rest of the week, with the district saying the assault investigation is causing disruptions.
Some students feel it is the right thing to do while others don’t agree with the decision.
“I hope the whole season is canceled,” student Johana Farias said.
“Why mess it up for the kids who had absolutely nothing to do with it?” questioned freshman football player Kaleb Zavala.
Rena Marrocco, who is a community member running for school board, says she understands both sides of the issue.
“On the one hand it’s kind of unfair to penalize the entire team and school for the actions of the few, but on the other hand, it does send a message that at least they are hearing that much,” Marrocco said.
Parents, students and community members rallied Wednesday outside of Vista High, demanding justice and accountability against the players suspected of being involved in an attack that was caught on video and spread on social media.
An online petition, calling for suspension or expulsion for the students involved has gathered over 9,000 signatures.
The Vista varsity head football coach has since been placed on leave until the investigation is complete, according to Vista Unified School District. The freshman football coach has been let go and Nexstar’s KSWB was told the boys in the video have all been taken off the team pending the investigation.
The Vista Unified School District and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department are conducting investigations into the incident.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Kim Michaux always goes the extra mile for her son Woody.
Lifting her 32-year-old son into the family’s vehicle is a routine she executes often.
Their destination of Swift Creek Reservoir is a familiar place.
“This is my favorite place because you run along the water," Kim Michaux said. “It is always a pretty run, isn’t it Woody?”
Kim and Woody are prepping for not one but two marathons this Fall.
“We’re training for the Marine Corps Marathon and Richmond Marathon. Our goal is to run two marathons in two weeks,” Kim said.
Woody’s journey though has been fraught with potholes.
“He was a normal kid,” Kim said. “He was extremely shy. But a nice kid.”
Eleven years ago, just before his 21st birthday, the one-time lacrosse player who attended Hampden-Sydney College was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called Wilson’s Disease.
The condition left Woody unable to control his muscles, swallow or speak. His mind remains sharp.
“He was a physics and chemistry major. He was a huge gamer. Halo was his game of choice,” Kim said.
Wilson’s affects one in about 40,000 people. It can be fatal if it is not diagnosed. There is no known cure.
“He is all there and he is very happy. Emotionally whatever he is feeling he is full-on,” Kim said.
Woody’s debilitating condition is not preventing him and his mom from enjoying the great outdoors together.
Their bond grows stronger with every stride.
“We’re definitely closer now for sure because I take him away by myself on a weekend, He is stuck with me now,” Kim said with a laugh.
Marathon training is their escape and some of the best medicine.
“He loves it because he is in the event. People are cheering for him. They’re fist-bumping him. He is part of it. And not watching other people do stuff,” Kim said.
While running is typically a solitary endeavor, Kim can’t envision competing without her partner.
“He loves different people pushing him. He likes the banter. It is a positive, happy group of people so he absolutely loves it,” Kim said.
So far Woody has appeared in 41 half marathons. Most with mom at his back. The pair has been competing for four years. Their goal run half marathons in all 50 states.
“Honestly I’ll never quit, you know what I mean? He is a lot of work. You do what you have to do, that is it,” Kim said.
Kim is determined to run her son to the finish line, no matter the race.
“I’m in way better shape now than when I was 40," she said. "It is because I’m pushing him. I’m not going to stop because he loves it. How do you not do this for him?”
Kim and Woody are a dynamic duo in lockstep and roll.
“Running has been an amazing thing for us to add because it is a good positive happy thing where you hang out with awesome. The running community has been very welcome of Woody,” Kim said.
Woody and Kim’s goal of running half marathons in all 50 states is off to a glowing start. The mother and son duo has completed 24 races in under four years.
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This story was originally published by WTVR in Richmond, Virginia. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/love-pushes-mom-to-run-with-her-son-how-do-you-not-do-this-for-him | 2022-09-17T02:49:26Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/love-pushes-mom-to-run-with-her-son-how-do-you-not-do-this-for-him | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wink Martindale carries himself like a sheriff instead of a deputy, and talks like a head coach instead of a defensive coordinator. He makes statements to open his media sessions and calls for questions, and then before his very first home game as a Giants assistant, implores the fans to turn MetLife Stadium into the seventh circle of hell.
Martindale interviewed to be the Giants’ head coach back when Joe Judge got the job and, at 59, still wants an NFL team to call his own. That says a couple of positive things about the upper echelon of the team’s coaching staff.
1. Martindale is hungry and ambitious, and every organization wants hungry and ambitious people.
2. Just as head coach Brian Daboll was unafraid to hand over the play-calling to a fellow offensive whiz (Mike Kafka), he was unafraid to hire Martindale, an extra-large personality and relative stranger who wants to use his new platform to achieve his ultimate career goal.
If the Giants are to follow up their stunning road upset of the Titans with a victory Sunday over the Panthers, and then with a season that breaks a streak of five straight defined by double-digit losses, Martindale will be a chief reason why. He is the lost son of Buddy Ryan, a big-talking renegade who has never met a blitz package he didn’t like.
It’s too bad the late Al Davis famously said, “The other team’s quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard,” because Martindale probably would have come up with that one next week.
“Whether you’re golfing with him, whether you’re playing pickup hoops, or whether you’re out there on the football field, this guy’s personality is he wants to win and he wants to win by attacking you, and imposing on you,” said Giants outside linebackers coach Drew Wilkins, who spent a decade working with Martindale in Baltimore.
“I know I love this system. … I think our whole staff loves coaching in this system, and the players love playing in it because it’s like you’re playing offense on defense. We’re not going to sit back and say, ‘Oh, this guy made a nice throw.’ … We’re going to affect the quarterback. Everybody on the field is in an attack mindset.”
In 2018, his first year as John Harbaugh’s coordinator in Baltimore, Martindale applied that philosophy in making the Ravens the league’s top-ranked defense. That unit was ranked fourth in 2019 and seventh in 2020, but 25th in 2021, when Baltimore was decimated by injuries. Harbaugh thought it was best to make a change, and Martindale thought his odds of becoming a head coach would be enhanced in the New York market anyway.
Patrick Graham’s surprise departure for Las Vegas opened that big-city door for Martindale, and Daboll, a first-time head coach, didn’t hesitate to hire someone he didn’t really know. Daboll and Martindale have praised each other’s competitiveness, and by all accounts have hit it off.
“They’re so similar,” Wilkins told The Post. “They’re both so driven by the details and they speak the same language. They’ve really blended well together, and it’s like you’re getting that same sense of urgency and that same pure leadership from both of them in our meetings.”
That urgency and leadership worked against Tennessee in the second half, when the Giants’ defense took the fight to Derrick Henry and contained the Titans without the help of injured edge rushers Kayvon Thibodeaux and Azeez Ojulari. Giants defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson said he’d never seen his cover corner, Adoree’ Jackson, play with such physicality and purpose in his quest to hit people.
“I think it’s a credit to the way Wink has built our system,” Henderson said, “and the confidence he puts in our players and what he demands from us.”
Henderson relayed that Martindale has repeatedly said he’s “building a bully” defense, which comes as no surprise. When the Giants hired Martindale, his former boss, Harbaugh, told The Post the following:
“Giants fans are really going to like his style. He will be in attack mode. He’s definitely one of the best defensive play-callers in the league, and a real joy to be around every day. I have great respect for him. He’s a highly confident, charismatic-type coach. … You’ve got to be ready for any call at any time, and that’s become one of his trademarks. And he keeps it honest and is very straightforward with the players.”
Of course, that recommendation inspired the natural follow-up: Why, then, did Harbaugh escort Martindale to the door?
An educated guess says Martindale’s outsize persona was less appealing with the Ravens at 8-9, and with their defense ranked four spots lower than the Giants’ defense. Both sides knew it was time for the sheriff, dressed in his cap, dark shades, hooded vest, long-sleeve shirts, shorts and an eclectic array of shoes, to find a new Dodge City.
The other day, Martindale ordered Giants fans to turn MetLife Stadium into the kind of place that inspired fear in opponents.
“We’ll take care of the rest,” he promised, “and we’ll give you something to be loud about.”
Great Giants teams always start with defense. With Martindale as a weapon, this unit should certainly make some noise. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/wink-martindale-has-been-perfect-man-to-restore-giants-identity/ | 2022-09-17T03:00:21Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/wink-martindale-has-been-perfect-man-to-restore-giants-identity/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM HST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 216 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over portions of
central and windward Oahu. Rain was falling at a rate of 1 to
2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Waikane, Waiahole, Kahaluu, Ahuimanu, Kaaawa, Punaluu,
Mililani, Wahiawa, Kaneohe, Hauula, Wheeler Field, Kalihi,
Kaneohe Marine Base, Schofield Barracks, Maunawili, Kailua,
Manoa, Kahana Valley State Park, Kualoa and Heeia.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 515 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
Weather Alert
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM HST THIS EVENING FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 630 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 324 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over portions of
central, windward and southeast Oahu. Rain was falling at a
rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Honolulu, Aiea, Halawa, Ahuimanu, Moanalua, Kahaluu, Salt
Lake, Waiahole, Kalihi, Pearl City, Waikane, Kaneohe, Manoa,
Maunawili, Waikele, Iroquois Point, Waipahu, Mililani,
Kaneohe Marine Base and Palolo.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
This advisory replaces the previous advisory that was in effect for
the island of Oahu in Honolulu County
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 630 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Federal prosecutors charged Honolulu businessman Milton Choy with one count of bribery in connection to an investigation in Maui County.
According to charge documents, Choy – the owner and manager of H2O Process Systems, LLC – offered bribes to Stewart Stant, an agent for Maui County’s Department of Environmental Management, in exchange for business and contracts for Choy’s company with Maui County.
The alleged bribes took place between October 2012 and December 2018.
H20 Process Systems provides wastewater services, including distributing, installing, and consulting on various wastewater equipment and parts.
Stant served as the Director of the Department of Environmental management from December 2015 to December 2018. He has been charged elsewhere in relation to this case.
This is not the first bribery case involving Choy. In February 2022, Choy was identified as “Person A” in the bribery scandal involving former Hawaii Sen. J. Kalani English and for State Rep. Ty Cullen.
On Friday, September 16, 2022, Maui County Mayor Michael Victorino released the following statement:
“Allow me to be crystal clear. The events that led to corruption charges involving former Maui County official Stewart Stant and Honolulu businessman Milton Choy occurred during the previous administration.
I strongly condemn public corruption in all forms. I am committing my administration to fully cooperate with law enforcement investigators.
Yesterday, I ordered an audit of all no-bid contracts awarded to Mr. Choy's companies both current and past. Hawaii’s procurement laws ensure fair and transparent handling of government purchases. Whenever corruption undermines the public trust, those responsible must be investigated, prosecuted, and punished to the fullest extent of the law. I cannot, and I will not, tolerate such betrayals of public trust."
This is a developing story. Check back with KITV4 for more information.
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii. | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/honolulu-businessman-milton-choy-charged-in-connection-to-maui-county-bribery-case-update/article_00f9803c-3539-11ed-9f9b-a73ce1493143.html | 2022-09-17T03:02:07Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/honolulu-businessman-milton-choy-charged-in-connection-to-maui-county-bribery-case-update/article_00f9803c-3539-11ed-9f9b-a73ce1493143.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM HST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 216 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over portions of
central and windward Oahu. Rain was falling at a rate of 1 to
2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Waikane, Waiahole, Kahaluu, Ahuimanu, Kaaawa, Punaluu,
Mililani, Wahiawa, Kaneohe, Hauula, Wheeler Field, Kalihi,
Kaneohe Marine Base, Schofield Barracks, Maunawili, Kailua,
Manoa, Kahana Valley State Park, Kualoa and Heeia.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 515 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
Weather Alert
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM HST THIS EVENING FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 630 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 324 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over portions of
central, windward and southeast Oahu. Rain was falling at a
rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Honolulu, Aiea, Halawa, Ahuimanu, Moanalua, Kahaluu, Salt
Lake, Waiahole, Kalihi, Pearl City, Waikane, Kaneohe, Manoa,
Maunawili, Waikele, Iroquois Point, Waipahu, Mililani,
Kaneohe Marine Base and Palolo.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
This advisory replaces the previous advisory that was in effect for
the island of Oahu in Honolulu County
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 630 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
All lanes on the eastbound side of the H-1 Freeway have been re-opened following a crash in the Aiea area, Friday afternoon.
The highway was fully re-opened as of 4:30 p.m.
Original:
AIEA, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Three lanes of eastbound H-1 Freeway have been shut down due to a crash in the Aiea area, Friday afternoon.
The crash occurred near the overpass at Kaonohi Street, authorities said. Drivers headed on eastbound H-1 are advised to expect delays in the area and to use alternate routes, if possible.
It is unclear how many care are involved or if anyone has been injured. Honolulu Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has been called out to the scene. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/all-lanes-of-eb-h-1-freeway-re-opened-following-crash-near-aiea/article_cef3175e-3625-11ed-b82a-eb30a2f6a805.html | 2022-09-17T03:02:13Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/all-lanes-of-eb-h-1-freeway-re-opened-following-crash-near-aiea/article_cef3175e-3625-11ed-b82a-eb30a2f6a805.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM HST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 216 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over portions of
central and windward Oahu. Rain was falling at a rate of 1 to
2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Waikane, Waiahole, Kahaluu, Ahuimanu, Kaaawa, Punaluu,
Mililani, Wahiawa, Kaneohe, Hauula, Wheeler Field, Kalihi,
Kaneohe Marine Base, Schofield Barracks, Maunawili, Kailua,
Manoa, Kahana Valley State Park, Kualoa and Heeia.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 515 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
Weather Alert
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM HST THIS EVENING FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 630 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 324 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over portions of
central, windward and southeast Oahu. Rain was falling at a
rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Honolulu, Aiea, Halawa, Ahuimanu, Moanalua, Kahaluu, Salt
Lake, Waiahole, Kalihi, Pearl City, Waikane, Kaneohe, Manoa,
Maunawili, Waikele, Iroquois Point, Waipahu, Mililani,
Kaneohe Marine Base and Palolo.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
This advisory replaces the previous advisory that was in effect for
the island of Oahu in Honolulu County
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 630 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
LIHUE, Kauai (KITV4) -- The deadline is approaching to participate in two surveys, all to help Kauai's seniors, caregivers, and those with disabilities.
Kauai County's "Agency on Elderly Affairs" created the surveys to assess and improve some of the biggest challenges these demographics face.
For questions about the survey, to find auxiliary or other accommodation, or if you prefer a printed copy of the survey, please contact the Agency on Elderly Affairs at 808-241-4470, or email elderlyaffairs@kauai.gov. Links to the survey are also available at www.kauaiadrc.org. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/kauai-caregivers-and-elderly-invited-to-complete-surveys-before-september-23-deadline/article_eadf4596-3625-11ed-9366-2bff8c026f7b.html | 2022-09-17T03:02:25Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/kauai-caregivers-and-elderly-invited-to-complete-surveys-before-september-23-deadline/article_eadf4596-3625-11ed-9366-2bff8c026f7b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
President Joe Biden met separately with the families of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan at the White House on Friday, marking his first time personally meeting with them since their loved ones were detained in Russia.
Biden reiterated "his continued commitment to working through all available avenues to bring Brittney and Paul home safely," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Friday.
"The President appreciated the opportunity to learn more about Brittney and Paul from those who love them most, and acknowledged that every minute they are being held is a minute too long," Jean-Pierre said in the statement.
Griner was detained in February for carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. The two-time US Olympic basketball gold medalist pleaded guilty to drug charges and said she accidentally packed the drugs while in a hurry. She has been sentenced to nine years, along with a fine of about $16,400. Her legal team in Russia has appealed the sentence.
Whelan has been imprisoned in Russia for more than three years after being convicted on espionage charges that he vehemently denies. He was sentenced in June 2020 to 16 years in prison in a trial US officials denounced as unfair.
The Biden administration has repeatedly said that working to secure Griner and Whelan's release, as well as that of Americans wrongfully detained abroad, is a top priority. In late July, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US had put forward a "substantial proposal" to try to secure the release of Griner and Whelan. Sources told CNN that proposal included a swap for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Griner's wife, Cherelle Griner, told CNN that Friday's meeting served as critical reassurance that the administration was committed to bringing her wife home from Russia.
"It wasn't a meeting where the President told me the news that I want to hear," Cherelle Griner said. "It wasn't that, but it was one of those still pivotal meetings where... it allowed me to have confidence in what he's doing right now."
Cherelle Griner had pushed for months for this meeting, which occurred some seven months into Brittney Griner's detainment in Russia.
Cherelle Griner said that Biden alluded to reporting in the media of the administration's prisoner swap offer.
"I'm going to give credit where it's due, and I feel as if this administration is putting a lot of manpower into ways to get BG home through negotiations," she said. "Because it's not as simple as one may think -- of looking at the list of people we have and asking Russia to choose. It's more complex than that and they are exhausting a lot of effort."
"I don't think they have quite figured out exactly what Russia wants in return for BG," she added.
Paul Whelan's brother, David, said Friday that "it means a lot" to his family that Biden showed "this continued commitment to securing Brittney Griner's and Paul's freedom."
Writing on Twitter following his sister Elizabeth's meeting with Biden, David Whelan said it "is hard for a family to have courage w/o @WhiteHouse @StateDept leadership to free their loved one."
Cherelle Griner said she has been communicating with her wife through letters.
"She's not well," she said. "We've had some very disturbing communications about her venting about how she is at that moment, to the point where I was very concerned."
"She's losing it. We've reached that amount of days where even a strong person is like, 'babe I don't know how long I'm going to be able to take it,'" she added.
John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, told CNN's MJ Lee on Friday afternoon that the President is "not going to let up" over the ongoing detentions.
"He's confident that this is going to remain at the forefront of his mind and his team's mind, and that are going to continue to work this as hard as they can," Kirby said.
Asked why Russia hadn't already accepted a US offer for Griner and Whelan's return, Kirby responded: "If we had the answer to that question, we might already have a deal. I think that's a better question put to our Russian colleagues."
"We made a serious offer, we want them to accept it," Kirby said. "Frankly, these two individuals ought to be home anyway, period, but we understand that's probably going to have to be the result of the negotiating process, one that we're willing to participate in honestly, and fully and we've been doing that. We await them to take the offer that's on the table."
A senior administration official told CNN Thursday that there has been "movement but not breakthrough" on the efforts to secure the releases of Griner and Whelan. The official said that the US has urged Russia to put forward "a serious counteroffer" to the proposal on the table to secure the release of the two, but "we've not gotten a serious response back."
The White House meetings come after CNN first reported earlier this week that former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and his team were in Moscow and held meetings with Russian leadership.
The details around those meetings were not immediately clear. Richardson and his namesake center privately work on behalf of families of hostages and detainees.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
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The Justice Department on Friday asked an appeals court to put on hold parts of a judge's order requiring a third-party review of the materials seized last month at Mar-a-Lago.
In its request with the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals, the Justice Department says it wants the court to allow its criminal investigators to review the materials marked as classified and for the court to exclude those documents from the special master's review of the search.
The department sought the intervention after District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday rejected prosecutors' request that they be allowed to restart their criminal investigation into the classified documents, which they said was necessary for assessing the national security risks in how the materials had been handled.
"The court's order hamstrings that investigation and places the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) under a Damoclean threat of contempt should the court later disagree with how investigators disaggregated their previously integrated criminal-investigative and national-security activities," the Justice Department wrote.
"It also irreparably harms the government by enjoining critical steps of an ongoing criminal investigation and needlessly compelling disclosure of highly sensitive records, including to Plaintiff's counsel," DOJ added.
The Justice Department on Friday asked for the 11th Circuit to take action "as soon as practicable."
The new filing with the 11th Circuit fast-tracks the dispute over the Mar-a-Lago search up the appeals court and raises the possibility that the US Supreme Court will be asked to weigh in as well in the coming weeks.
The Justice Department originally sought the warrant to search Mar-a-Lago after months of negotiations Trump's team over documents that were brought from his White House to the Florida resort after he left office. The FBI is investigating at least three potential crimes in its probe: violations of the Espionage Act, illegal handling of government records and obstruction of justice.
In her Thursday night order, Cannon cast doubt that the 100 or more documents in question were actually classified, concluding that the question was in dispute and one best reviewed by an independent party.
She also blew off Justice Department arguments that the hold she had put on its criminal probe was putting national security at risk. That approach is at odds with the deference courts normally show to government assertions about classification and national security.
Cannon also concluded that the classification designations were in doubt without the Trump team putting forward the type of evidence -- such as declarations -- that would suggest the materials weren't in fact classified. Trump has claimed in media appearances he declassified the documents he took to Mar-a-Lago, but his lawyers have yet to make that assertion in court filings.
Cannon has repeatedly acknowledged in court decisions that her rationale is based in part on Trump's status as a former president, writing Thursday that the "principles of equity" required her "to consider the specific context at issue, and that consideration is inherently impacted by the position formerly held by Plaintiff."
The case now lands before a circuit court where six of the 11 active judges are Trump-appointees. It will go to a panel of three randomly selected judges from the court. A panel that includes some of the appellate judges picked by the former President could still be sympathetic to the Justice Department, given the deference the government is usually given when it says national security is at risk.
There is also skepticism among outside legal observers about Cannon's decision to intervene in the first place, given that a separate magistrate judge in Florida approved the warrant for the search and the investigation itself is being run out of a grand jury in DC.
Cannon -- a 2020 appointee of then-President Trump -- was randomly assigned the lawsuit that Trump filed two weeks after the FBI executed the search warrant.
Documents marked as classified aren't Trump's property, DOJ says
The Justice Department points out that none of the 100 documents marked as classified could possibly be Trump's personal records -- a type of claim he's trying to make to keep some of the documents out of the evidence.
"None of those rationales applies to the records bearing classification markings: The markings establish on the face of the documents that they are not [Trump]'s personal property," the department writes.
They continue, arguing out that Trump's attempts to assert privileges are weak -- if he's even made them at all.
"Neither [Trump] nor the court has suggested that they might be subject to attorney-client privilege. [Trump] has never even attempted to make or substantiate any assertion of executive privilege. Even if he did, no such assertion could justify restricting the Executive Branch's review and use of these records for multiple independent reasons."
The Justice Department also takes issue with both Trump going to court to try to block investigators from being able to access classified records seized from Mar-a-Lago and with Cannon stepping in.
Trump "lacks standing at least as to the discrete set of records with classification markings because those records are government property, over which the Executive Branch has exclusive control and in which Plaintiff has no property interest," the DOJ writes.
The government attorneys say that the courts can only get involved in exceptional circumstances, such as when constitutional rights are disregarded in a search or when a search subject has a special need to keep seized material, and that "cannot extend to these records."
"The district court reasoned that other materials in which Plaintiff [Trump] might have a cognizable interest cannot readily be separated from those in which he does not. But that rationale is inapplicable to records with classification markings, which are easily identifiable and already segregated from the other seized materials," the department writes.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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Police seeking man accused of robbing credit union
Authorities are searching for a man accused of stealing an undisclosed amount of money from the Monroe Community Credit Union branch in Temperance Friday night.
The incident occurred at approximately 5:40 p.m.. According to a press release issued by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, the white male suspect entered the branch located at 7408 Lewis Ave. in Temperance and allegedly demanded and received an undisclosed amount of money, then fled in a dark colored Chrysler with obstructed plates.
The suspect is described as an older white male, standing approximately 5'6" to 5'8" tall with a hunched posture and slender build, gray hair and scruffy facial hair. He was wearing a dark gray shirt, light gray athletic pants, white athletic shoes and a red visor with "Rebel" on the front. He was also carrying a red and white striped bag.
Deputies Brian Rachuba, Lance Shields and Danny Greenwood, along with Detectives Robert Blair and Joshua Motylinski are investigating. Anyone with information on the identity of the robber is asked to contact the Monroe County Sheriff's Office Detective Bureau at 734-240-7530. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/17/police-seeking-man-accused-of-robbing-credit-union/69500509007/ | 2022-09-17T03:09:10Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/17/police-seeking-man-accused-of-robbing-credit-union/69500509007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Buzz Cut: Human Allies Stand Up for Mermaid Community Alleging Inaccurate Representation
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In The Buzz Cut, we bring you a round-up of news you wish wasn’t news.
Human Allies Stand Up for Mermaid Community Alleging Inaccurate Representation
Based on archeological evidence unearthed in the form of a popular animated movie from the 90s, historians are currently outraged at a bit of historical revisionism. Where their evidence suggested that a half-woman-half-fish can only have white skin and red hair, a new movie made the audacious claim that this creature can have red hair and dark skin. Many professed shock and disappointment at the lengths that Big Cartoon could go to, stating that the mermaid’s depiction as a black character truly speaks to the fact that we live in a post-truth age. “The existence of merpeople is undisputed. But to suggest that merpeople can also be of non-white races? That’s pure woke propaganda,” said one angry fan. Others say that they have no issue with black mermaids as such, if specifically black mermaids really did exist. But since they don’t — either in real life or in history, unlike white merpeople — it is simply unnecessary to take such creative liberties, they felt. Especially so, when young, impressionable minds are likely to see this happen. “What will the children think? That they’re supposed to normalize non-white characters on screen?“ said one concerned parent and spokesperson for merpersons.
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Superhero Franchise Revives Itself With Fresh Infusion of Propaganda
A Hollywood studio known for churning out characters that glorify the supremacy of one country over the rest of the world has expanded. After critics deemed its current form of ideological brainwashing too staid, the studio introduced a new superhero from the canon of superheroes who make nations proud, again. This time, it’s in the form of a Mossad agent who wears her country on her sleeve. The move was said to account for criticism about the lack of diversity and representation in the world of propaganda — a critique that producers took seriously by celebrating the military prowess of another occupying country. And a woman, no less: making her a truly global #Girlboss.
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Conscientious Citizen Criticizes State for Failing to Provide Working Pen
A man recently garnered praise for being sharply critical of his government for not providing an equally sharp instrument to write with. As a beneficiary of the state, he demanded to know why public service was in such an abysmal condition that he could not even rely upon the authorities to arrange for a proper pen at a specific event. Calling it a matter of national shame, the brave citizen was lauded for his dissenting voice against the wilful negligence of the country in using tax money — not his, but everyone else’s — efficiently enough. Instead of focusing on the essentials — such as a functioning pen — the government instead chose to spend its resources on ostentatious displays of ceremony and excess for a few people, especially over the last few days.
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White Man Suffers Severe Allergic Reaction to Seeing Space Unoccupied by Him, Collapses on the Spot
Science has previously confirmed that white men are unable to withstand the sight of any space that remains unoccupied by them. It has since been treated as a public health concern, with governments arranging their infrastructure to suit this vulnerable population’s needs. But one place fell woefully short of the minimum standard of safety required for white men — the stage at an awards show. It happened when a black woman didn’t get the memo — a white man in the area promptly suffered an attack that left him collapsed on the spot, where the woman was supposed to make her acceptance speech. Paramedics were late to arrive at the scene. Luckily, the man was revived with the help of an antidote known to reverse the effects of unoccupied space: diverted attention. With audiences sufficiently distracted by the man’s plight to focus on him instead of the black woman’s speech, the patient recovered from the attack in time to carry on with the show. A crisis thus being averted, the night went on as usual — with no further space left bereft of white men. | https://theswaddle.com/the-buzz-cut-human-allies-stand-up-for-mermaid-community-alleging-inaccurate-representation/ | 2022-09-17T03:09:20Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/the-buzz-cut-human-allies-stand-up-for-mermaid-community-alleging-inaccurate-representation/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Difference Between a ‘Kink’ and a ‘Fetish’
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Just because someone is turned on by the sight of feet, doesn’t necessarily mean they have a “foot fetish.” Instead of a “fetish,” it might just be a “kink” — the two aren’t the same.
However, in casual conversations — both online and offline — the terms are used rather interchangeably for an assortment of unorthodox sexual practices. So much so that now, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know whether one is indeed referring to a kink while calling it so, or whether they mean to say, “fetish” — and vice versa.
Here’s some demystification: a kink can be anything sexually non-mainstream that piques one’s sexual interest but is not crucial to their experience of sexual pleasure. Stemming either from innate desire or developed as acquired tastes, kinks can include spanking, bondage, role play, exhibitionism, voyeurism, or absolutely anything else under the sun that isn’t strictly “conventional” in the bedroom — or, at times, not even a bedroom.
However, what qualifies as unconventional for the purpose of a kink can be subjective. Depending on how old one is or how conservative of a culture they belong to, one might find the usage of sex toys during intercourse, kinky. But for another person, using a sex toy might be vanilla. Similarly, the act of cunnilingus (or oral sex performed on a person with female genitalia) might appear kinky to some, but for most of us, it’s a routine affair.
Much like a kink, one’s fetish can sexually arouse them too — except, that’s not where their fascination with the object of their fetish ends. Unlike a kink, a fetish is integral to the sex life of a person — almost defining it, in a way.
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“Fetish is heavily tied to having a psychological need for those specific objects or acts in order to experience pleasure and or orgasm, whereas kinks can add to a sexual experience but aren’t necessarily needed to achieve sexual release,” a sex educator who uses the name, Dirty Lola, told Huffington Post. While kinks build on sexual desire, fetishes are almost central to a desire’s creation.
This explains why being turned on by the sight of feet, doesn’t have to point to a “foot fetish.” For one’s sexual fixation on feet to qualify as a fetish, it’s important for feet to be so involved in their sexual experiences that without it, they can’t experience sexual pleasure.
“[I]f massaging someone’s genitals with shoes is a fun turn-on, it might be considered a kink,” notes Francisco Ramirez, a sexual-health consultant, explaining the difference between the two. “However, if the shoe on its own is a turn-on, and it feels like a necessary part of your sexual repertoire, it might be a fetish.”
Ramirez proposed a thought experiment to further demarcate the line between the two. “If you’re curious if the thing that turns you on is more of a kink or a fetish, try closing your eyes and imagining that thing. Then, ask yourself, ‘was it more of an enhancer…or a necessity?'” It’s kink if it’s about pleasure building; a fetish, if it’s about feeling pleasure in the first place.
Elaborating on how kinks and fetishes manifest in one’s sex life, Lola notes, “I’m a submissive, and I love spankings and impact play. That kind of play adds another layer to my sex life that I love… However, I don’t always want or need that kind of play to be a part of all of my sexual experiences. In fact, there are only certain people I practice that kind of play with and I usually don’t have penetrative sex when I play heavily. The play itself is usually pleasurable and fulfilling on its own.”
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Having said that, kinks and fetishes do certainly overlap. Think of a Venn diagram, and picture this: the circle representing fetishes is a small one, located inside the larger circle representing kinks. In other words, while all fetishes are kinks, not all kinks are fetishes.
What is integral to healthy explorations of both kinks and fetishes, though, is consent. Needless to mention, it’s quite possible that two people who are prima facie attracted to each other sexually might not share the same kinks and fetishes. If one is into sadomasochism, for instance — either as a kink or as a fetish — doesn’t mean the other partner is too.
It then becomes imperative to ensure one has the consent of their partner — if they’re planning to explore their kinks and fetishes through intercourse with them.
“I’ve heard people accuse others of not being sex-positive if they didn’t want to get kinky, and that’s nonsense, super inappropriate, and basically the opposite of sex-positive,” explains Carol Queen, a sexologist. “[Kinks and fetishes] can absolutely be enhancing and exciting, but there’s no shame if someone doesn’t want to play.”
Having said that, mocking people having kinks and fetishes — or preventing oneself from exploring their potential kinks and fetishes — isn’t fair either. As Ramirez says, “It’s not the kinks that complicate our relationships; it’s our stigma of them that does.” | https://theswaddle.com/the-difference-between-a-kink-and-a-fetish/ | 2022-09-17T03:09:27Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/the-difference-between-a-kink-and-a-fetish/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from September 16, 2022
- Judge approves temporary closure of M&M Grocery in Macon
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Man arrested in connection with robbery of north Macon Dollar Tree
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Macon Mental Health Matters offers courses to help teens deal with mental health issues
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from September 16, 2022
- Judge approves temporary closure of M&M Grocery in Macon
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Man arrested in connection with robbery of north Macon Dollar Tree
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Macon Mental Health Matters offers courses to help teens deal with mental health issues
- For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here. | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-142/ | 2022-09-17T03:16:27Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-142/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Macon Mental Health Matters offers courses to help teens deal with mental health issues
"The biggest part is listening to him more, validating what they're feelings are and trying to be more open about what he has to say."
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)— Macon Mental Health Matters is looking to change the stigma surrounding mental health. It’s doing so with a course known as “Teen Mental Health First Aid.”
MMHM is helping parents help teens struggling with mental health challenges.
The free course began Friday, for parents and leaders in the organization who work closely with teens.
One of the grandparents in attendance was Natalie Merriott. She says growing up, her family frowned upon mental health. Her goal by attending is to help reverse her idea of what mental health is.
“I honestly probably didn’t even think that it affected kids 10 years ago. But now since I’ve had the grandson at home, it’s like well this is going to affect him there’s no way around it,” said Merriott.
As the guardian of her 10-year old grandson, she says the course is helping her recognize the signs of mental health challenges and how to provide effective care for here grandson.
“The biggest part is listening to him more, validating what they’re feelings are and trying to be more open about what he has to say,” she said.
Jarvis Adside is a Pastor at St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church in Macon, and helped train the people in attendance. He says mental health signs can come in a variety of ways.
“Simple as a young person that’s sleeping a lot, simple as a young person that’s not taking care of themselves, what does that look like a young person that’s acting up in school, that does not want to go to school,” he said.
Adside says the course is meant to help spread awareness about mental health among children. He says it’s also a step in the right direction to tackling violence in the community.
“There’s a great deal of people who still don’t understand that mental health, mental disorders, and substance abuse is a contributing factor to a lot of the violence that we’re seeing today,” said Adside.
Merriott says the course opened her eyes to the mental health challenges the community faces. She had one message to those who frown upon mental health.
“We don’t choose to have it, but it’s something we do have and we have to learn how to deal with it, and find the right balance that works for us,” she said.
The second course is September 23. MMHM says it hopes to host the course more often. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-mental-health-matters-offers-courses-to-help-teens-deal-with-mental-health-issues/ | 2022-09-17T03:16:33Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-mental-health-matters-offers-courses-to-help-teens-deal-with-mental-health-issues/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Macon Mental Health Matters offers courses to help teens deal with mental health issues
"The biggest part is listening to him more, validating what they're feelings are and trying to be more open about what he has to say."
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)— Macon Mental Health Matters is looking to change the stigma surrounding mental health. It’s doing so with a course known as “Teen Mental Health First Aid.”
MMHM is helping parents help teens struggling with mental health challenges.
The free course began Friday, for parents and leaders in the organization who work closely with teens.
One of the grandparents in attendance was Natalie Merriott. She says growing up, her family frowned upon mental health. Her goal by attending is to help reverse her idea of what mental health is.
“I honestly probably didn’t even think that it affected kids 10 years ago. But now since I’ve had the grandson at home, it’s like well this is going to affect him there’s no way around it,” said Merriott.
As the guardian of her 10-year old grandson, she says the course is helping her recognize the signs of mental health challenges and how to provide effective care for here grandson.
“The biggest part is listening to him more, validating what they’re feelings are and trying to be more open about what he has to say,” she said.
Jarvis Adside is a Pastor at St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church in Macon, and helped train the people in attendance. He says mental health signs can come in a variety of ways.
“Simple as a young person that’s sleeping a lot, simple as a young person that’s not taking care of themselves, what does that look like a young person that’s acting up in school, that does not want to go to school,” he said.
Adside says the course is meant to help spread awareness about mental health among children. He says it’s also a step in the right direction to tackling violence in the community.
“There’s a great deal of people who still don’t understand that mental health, mental disorders, and substance abuse is a contributing factor to a lot of the violence that we’re seeing today,” said Adside.
Merriott says the course opened her eyes to the mental health challenges the community faces. She had one message to those who frown upon mental health.
“We don’t choose to have it, but it’s something we do have and we have to learn how to deal with it, and find the right balance that works for us,” she said.
The second course is September 23. MMHM says it hopes to host the course more often. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-mental-health-matters-offers-courses-to-help-teens-deal-with-mental-health-issues/ | 2022-09-17T03:16:33Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-mental-health-matters-offers-courses-to-help-teens-deal-with-mental-health-issues/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Middle Georgia school receives national recognition
The award is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Kings Chapel Elementary is one of six Georgia schools named as a 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.
The award is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps.
Principal William Ray says this award is a collective community effort.
“We want to be a school that our community can be proud of, and I think this award is not just a school award but I think it’s a school community award because it’s the product of a lot of support from our school district, our parents, and our community partners,” said Ray.
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Middle Georgia school receives national recognition
The award is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Kings Chapel Elementary is one of six Georgia schools named as a 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.
The award is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps.
Principal William Ray says this award is a collective community effort.
“We want to be a school that our community can be proud of, and I think this award is not just a school award but I think it’s a school community award because it’s the product of a lot of support from our school district, our parents, and our community partners,” said Ray.
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Museum of Aviation helping fight hunger around the world
Rise Against Hunger and Northrop Grumman partnered with the Museum of Aviation, to pack 10,000 meals to be shipped around the world.
WARNER ROBINS, Ga (41NBC/WMGT) – Rise Against Hunger and Northrop Grumman partnered with the Museum of Aviation, to pack 10,000 meals to be shipped around the world for those who struggle with hunger.
September is Hunger Action Month, and the Northrop Grumman is putting together 25 “Rise Against Hunger” events.
Over 100 volunteers packed bags of food that can feed up to a family of four. The bag is packed with rice, soy packets, dehydrated vegetables and vitamin packets.
Vice President for System Sustainment with Northrop Grumman, Scott Pfeiffer, said acts like these are a part of the company’s culture.
“I think it’s indicative of the culture within Northrop Grumman people care about their communities they care about their world and they’re proud to support these events like this where they know it’s going for a good cause”, said Pfeiffer.
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Museum of Aviation helping fight hunger around the world
Rise Against Hunger and Northrop Grumman partnered with the Museum of Aviation, to pack 10,000 meals to be shipped around the world.
WARNER ROBINS, Ga (41NBC/WMGT) – Rise Against Hunger and Northrop Grumman partnered with the Museum of Aviation, to pack 10,000 meals to be shipped around the world for those who struggle with hunger.
September is Hunger Action Month, and the Northrop Grumman is putting together 25 “Rise Against Hunger” events.
Over 100 volunteers packed bags of food that can feed up to a family of four. The bag is packed with rice, soy packets, dehydrated vegetables and vitamin packets.
Vice President for System Sustainment with Northrop Grumman, Scott Pfeiffer, said acts like these are a part of the company’s culture.
“I think it’s indicative of the culture within Northrop Grumman people care about their communities they care about their world and they’re proud to support these events like this where they know it’s going for a good cause”, said Pfeiffer.
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THE END ZONE SCOREBOARD: Scores from Week 5 of high school football
Here are Middle Georgia's high school football scores from Week 5.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Here are Middle Georgia’s high school football scores from Week 5:
Games featured on The End Zone:
Northeast – 47
ACE – 21
Peach County – 7
Perry – 35
Jordan – 0
Southwest – 61
West Laurens – 0
Bleckley County – 33
Pacelli – 21
Stratford – 7
Mount de Sales – 21
Westfield – 49
***For highlights of the games featured on The End Zone, click here.***
Other scores:
Dutchtown – 14
Warner Robins – 7
Lakeside, Evans – 17
Veterans – 28
Northside – 20
North Cobb – 17
Locust Grove – 0
Jones County – 62
Pike County – 3
Howard – 14
Washington County – 43
Glenn Hills – 7
Twiggs County – 22
Hawkinsville – 58
Wilcox County – 52
Tiftarea – 28
East Laurens – 6
Johnson County – 34
Dublin – 0
Metter – 12
FPD – 28
Pinewood Christian – 34
Tattnall – 34
Mount Vernon – 35
Frederica – 13
John Milledge – 63 | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-scoreboard-scores-from-week-5-of-high-school-football-2/ | 2022-09-17T03:16:51Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/the-end-zone-scoreboard-scores-from-week-5-of-high-school-football-2/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
THE END ZONE SCOREBOARD: Scores from Week 5 of high school football
Here are Middle Georgia's high school football scores from Week 5.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Here are Middle Georgia’s high school football scores from Week 5:
Games featured on The End Zone:
Northeast – 47
ACE – 21
Peach County – 7
Perry – 35
Jordan – 0
Southwest – 61
West Laurens – 0
Bleckley County – 33
Pacelli – 21
Stratford – 7
Mount de Sales – 21
Westfield – 49
***For highlights of the games featured on The End Zone, click here.***
Other scores:
Dutchtown – 14
Warner Robins – 7
Lakeside, Evans – 17
Veterans – 28
Northside – 20
North Cobb – 17
Locust Grove – 0
Jones County – 62
Pike County – 3
Howard – 14
Washington County – 43
Glenn Hills – 7
Twiggs County – 22
Hawkinsville – 58
Wilcox County – 52
Tiftarea – 28
East Laurens – 6
Johnson County – 34
Dublin – 0
Metter – 12
FPD – 28
Pinewood Christian – 34
Tattnall – 34
Mount Vernon – 35
Frederica – 13
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Investigation For Descendants of 1921 Tulsa Massacre Continues
Bodies of possible victims will be exhumed for testing in hopes of finding descendants of the 1921 racially charged massacre in Tulsa.
Scientists and a public oversight committee is investigating the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in an effort to identify additional victims of the attacks.
This investigation is part of an ongoing effort to connect them to living descendants.
The Tulsa Massacre, one of the worst acts of racial violence in the U.S., occurred when a white mob came to Greenwood — a predominantly Black and affluent neighborhood in Tulsa locally known as "Black Wall Street” — and attacked residents.
The attack included the destruction of about 35 blocks of homes and businesses, with the violence erupting after a 19-year-old Black male was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 17-year-old white woman in an office building.
According to CBS, the committee recently shared updated plans this week, including extracting more DNA from recently reburied remains and searching new sites for more bodies.
Last year, remains in Oaklawn Cemetery were found and exhumed for DNA testing. The bodies were temporarily reburied and the group plans to extract additional DNA soon, according to a report issued Tuesday to the 1921 Graves Investigation Public Oversight Committee.
The group shared in the report that it also intends to search additional sites for more bodies.
According to the report by state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck and forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield, the remains will be reburied in the same locations.
"We are already making preparations," Stubblefield said. "We don't have a date, but we hope to be there this fall."
According to CBS, the search for the graves of the massacre victims began in 2020. The efforts continued last year, and almost three dozen coffins containing the remains of possible victims were recovered.
Historians who have studied the event estimate the death toll to be between 75 and 300. At this point, none of the remains recovered have been confirmed as victims of the massacre, according to the outlet.
Victims were never compensated, but according to CBS, a pending lawsuit seeks reparations for the three remaining known survivors of the violence — Viola Fletcher, Hughes Van Ellis and Lessie Benningfield — as well as other descendants.
According to the lawsuit, “the defendants” allege the exploitation of death, destruction and disparities they created ... have resulted in their unjust enrichment at the expense of these communities."
The city of Tulsa has argued that it should not be ordered to pay reparations because its current residents did not participate in the massacre, according to the CBS.
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King Charles III Requests Harry Wear His Military Uniform to the Queen's Vigil After Previous Prohibition
Harry will be allowed to wear his military uniform for Queen Elizabeth's vigil.
For the events surrounding the death of Queen Elizabeth, her grandson Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has been prohibited from wearing his military uniform, but for the upcoming vigil being held Sept. 17, he may be allowed to wear it.
The Duke of Sussex served in the military for over a decade, which included two tours in Afghanistan before he stepped down as senior member of the royal family, reported ABC News.
King Charles III gave word about prohibiting non-working members of the family from wearing their military uniforms during the events related to the queen's Death, according to the outlet.
This would include Harry and his uncle Prince Andrew, who had to give up his title following his connection to the Epstein case, reported the news outlet.
The Duke of Sussex and Prince Andrew wore suits with their military medals rather than the uniform to prior events, according to CBS News.
The king reportedly changed his mind and will permit Harry to join his brother Prince William in wearing their military uniforms at the vigil being held on Sept. 17 at Westminster Hall, reports CBS News.
The rest of the family will wear dark formal clothes, according to the news source.
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The Funeral of Her Majesty the Queen is set for Monday at 11 a.m. British Summer Time, or 3 a.m. Pacific, at Westminster Abbey.
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of stability in a turbulent era that saw the decline of the British empire and disarray in her own family, died last week after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.
Only 2,000 guests will be present at her service but millions will watch globally online or TV.
A procession will lead to Westminster Abbey, carrying the queen’s coffin on a gun carriage. After the funeral the coffin will be taken to St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle for a committal service, which will be televised.
The following coverage includes, in Pacific time:
- PBS Socal will provide the BBC’s live coverage starting Monday at 1 a.m.
- BBC America will offer eight hours of live coverage beginning at 1 a.m.
- CNN‘s live coverage with Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett starts at 1 a.m.
- NBC’s coverage starts at 2:30 a.m., anchored by Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Lester Holt. It can be streamed on today.com and NBCNews.com.
- On ABC, David Muir and Robin Roberts will anchor live coverage from London, beginning at 2:30 a.m.
- KTLA live coverage begins at 3 a.m. anchored by Chris Schauble and Eric Spillman and streaming on Watch KTLA 5.
- Bloomberg TV’s live coverage is scheduled from 2:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.
- C-SPAN will have live coverage beginning at 2:30 a.m., with streaming on the C-SPAN Now app and on a special page on the C-SPAN website.
- MSNBC coverage begins at midnight, anchored by Chris Jansing. At 2 a.m., Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist will be joined by Katty Kay for a special edition of “Morning Joe” from London.
- Spectrum News’ coverage begin at 2:30 a.m. with Pat Kiernan, Bob Hardt, Jamie Stelter and Roger Clark.
Here is the schedule of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral service:
- 2:45 a.m. — funeral procession begins from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey. The first procession begins at Westminster Hall, moving through Parliament Square, before arriving at Westminster Abbey just before 3 am Pacific.
- 3 a.m. — funeral service begins at Westminster Abbey, followed by procession.
- At 4:15 a.m., the procession will move through Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, passing Parliament Street, Whitehall, Horse Guards, The Mall, Queen’s Gardens, Constitution Hill and Apsley Way.
- The Queen’s coffin will be moved onto the State Hearse at around 5 a.m. Members of the Royal Family will then begin leaving for Windsor, ending the London activities.
- At 9 a.m. Committal Service will take place in St. George’s Chapel, conducted by the Dean of Windsor.
- A private burial will take place later in The King George VI Memorial Chapel.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the trial of a Black former Bassett Unified School District teacher who won $25 million after alleging he was wrongfully fired in 2019 should not be disqualified from hearing post-trial matters in the case, another judge has ruled.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Maria D. Hernandez reviewed the district’s motion to remove Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie M. Bowick while Hernandez herself sat by Judicial Council assignment as a Los Angeles Superior Court judge and issued a ruling Thursday.
The district’s attorneys stated in their court papers that Bowick’s own post-trial disclosures raised doubt whether she could be fair to the BUSD in further proceedings in the case.
The BUSD lawyers maintained in their court papers that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rupert A. Byrdsong, who previously worked with the law firm representing trial plaintiff Michael Ross, appeared in Bowick’s courtroom without a robe and “on multiple occasions made clear his support of one party.”
Byrdsong, whose courtroom is on the same floor as Bowick’s, followed up with a congratulatory text to Bowick when the verdict was returned “for the party he favored” even though there “are still substantial issues to be decided,” the BUSD attorneys stated in their court papers.
Bowick “evidenced that she knew that her colleague’s conduct in visibly supporting one side over the other both in the courtroom and by ex parte text was improper” by eventually asking him to cease his appearances in the courtroom and feeling compelled to disclose the congratulatory text, the BUSD lawyers argued in their court papers.
“The appearance of impropriety here is palpable and inescapable,” the BUSD lawyers stated in their court papers..
But in her ruling, Hernandez said the district had not met its burden of showing that a reasonable person could conclude that Bowick, who declined to recuse herself, could not be impartial during further proceedings in the Ross case. Hernandez rejected the BUSD attorneys’ speculation that Bowick changed a ruling she previously made to make it more favorable to Ross after Byrdsong allegedly met with Bowick in the latter’s chambers.
Hernandez said Bowick stated on the record that she changed her ruling based on the facts and the law. In court papers, Bowick denied that Byrdsong went into her chambers and said her assertion was supported by her clerk.
In the underlying lawsuit, Ross alleged he lost his job in a backlash for having previously brought a discrimination suit and because he spoke out about sexual misconduct by a district custodian. A jury on July 23 found that Ross was the victim of retaliation and a failure to prevent retaliation. Of his $24.8 million in damages, $22 million was allocated to compensate him for his past and future emotional distress.
The district maintained Ross was terminated for legitimate reasons. Lawyers for the BUSD stated in their court papers that on the last day of summer school in July 2017, Ross left early without permission and “without concern for the whereabouts of his students.”
In his initial suit, Ross stated he was hired by the BUSD in 1994 and held teaching positions at various schools in the San Gabriel Valley, including Bassett High School and Torch Middle School.
Torch School students who called Ross the “N-word” and other racial epithets were routinely not disciplined despite the plaintiff’s complaints, the initial suit stated. He also was given a written reprimand for calling the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department instead of the district’s own security personnel to report one student’s threat of violence against him, according to the initial suit, which was filed in May 2016 and settled a year later.
In July 2017, BUSD custodian Michael Barry was arrested and charged with multiple acts of sexual misconduct involving several students at Torch School. One of the alleged victims was a female student who had told Ross the janitor had made her feel uncomfortable, according to the second suit. Ross reported what the girl had said to the Torch School assistant principal, according to the second suit filed in June 2019.
After Ross spoke with the Torch School principal about Barry in August 2017, the district allegedly retaliated by placing him on leave and then sending him a notice of charges and proposed recommendation of termination 15 months later when he was still not allowed to return, the second suit stated.
Ross appeared for a hearing with a legal representative and presented a written brief and oral argument which “squarely refuted and disproved several of BUSD’s meritless allegations,” but he was nonetheless fired in January 2019, according to the second suit.
Bowick presided over lengthy litigation that pitted Katy Perry and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles against nuns who opposed the pop star’s bid to buy a former Roman Catholic convent in Los Feliz as a residence. The sale was never consummated.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District no longer plans to suspend Daniel Pearl Magnet High School journalism teacher and magazine adviser Adriana Chavira as originally planned following an outpouring of support from media associations and the family of the slain journalist whose name adorns the school.
A hearing officer accepted Chavira’s appeal of the suspension Sept. 16 but did not provide a reason, Chavira said in an interview.
“It is definitely a great sense of relief,” she said. “This has dragged on way too long. It should have never happened.”
Chavira faced a three-day suspension — and potential termination — for refusing to remove the name of an unvaccinated librarian from an article in the Pearl Post, the student-run magazine at Daniel Pearl Magnet High School in Lake Balboa. The story, written and edited by students, reported on the closure of the school’s library due to the teacher-librarian Greta Enszer’s decision not to follow LAUSD’s vaccination mandate.
Chavira was ordered to remove the name and warned she could face discipline for insubordination if she did not comply. The administration accused her of disclosing confidential information and cited the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, a law protecting the release of an individual’s health information by medical providers, insurers and health plan administrators.
The magazine adviser left the decision up to her students. They decided to leave the article up after meeting with an attorney with the Student Press Law Center.
“The information was newsworthy and it was definitely not libelous,” Chavira said.
California’s Education Code explicitly provides student publications with freedom of the press, regardless of whether the district funds their work. The same state law further bars schools from dismissing, suspending, disciplining or transferring an employee for protecting a pupil exercising that freedom.
Pressure from the journalism community and Daniel Pearl’s family helped with her fight, she said. Pearl was a Wall Street Journal reporter captured and killed while on assignment in Pakistan. His father, Judea Pearl, the president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, joined with more than a dozen journalism organizations to call on LAUSD to reconsider the disciplinary action.
Following the reversal, Chavira said she hopes the attention brought to the topic will raise awareness about student journalists’ rights at other school districts in California.
“I want them to know they do have a right on campus to publish what they want, as long as they do solid reporting,” she said. “I also hope that advisers are willing to stick up for their students and not just follow what administrators want in their publications.”
Only about 20 states in the country have laws supporting student publications, Chavira said.
“We definitely need more states to give these protections to student journalists,” she said.
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Fiery Joshua Trees ablaze in a California wildfire create the striking cover image for “High Desert,” the new collection of poems by poet, editor and translator André Naffis-Sahely.
“A lot of the fire poems I wrote were around the 2019 fires when you’d get up in the morning and brush ash off the car, so I think it was almost a foregone conclusion that I’d end up writing about fires given what’s happened to our state the past few years,” says Naffis-Sahely. “I think of fire as this destructive force, but at the same time it’s always linked to the idea of rebirth, where, essentially, you can’t really have regeneration without fire, right?
Naffis-Sahely tells me there’s a British saying that poets don’t drive – “You and I both know that in the U.S. that’s not true at all. Poets definitely drive and they write a lot about driving.” – and that being behind the wheel exposed him to the California landscape’s beauty and its dangers.
“So as I’m writing this book, I’m driving for the first time in my life, I’m seeing fire everywhere,” he says. “The desert tends to be very brutal in the way that it destroys anything left behind by human beings, where it just completely wears down structures. The wind blows over and all traces of human activity are gone far more than in other kinds of ecosystems,” he says.
“It was also something that was quite fascinating to me, because one of the great differences between the Arabian desert that I grew up in, and the California desert that I spent so much time in, was the absence of fire, actually. Because fire is just not a thing over there,” says the poet. “We get sandstorms.”
Naffis-Sahely is talking to me, not from the desert, but from London where he spends part of the year as editor of the magazine Poetry London. Born in Italy to an Iranian father, an architect and activist who escaped the 1979 revolution, and an Italian mother, Naffis-Sahely grew up in Abu Dhabi before moving to the U.K. in his late teens. He says he might have stayed there had he not met his wife, the writer and educator Zinzi Clemmons, and moved to the U.S. in 2014.
Since then, he’s taught at Whittier College, Occidental College and was author in residence at UCLA, and when we talk he and Clemmons were preparing to return to California and their positions at UC Davis, where they both now teach. (And full disclosure: As I was preparing to interview Naffis-Sahely, I realized he and I had met once for a few minutes on the campus at Occidental College, something I’d been unaware of when I started reading his work.)
The poet’s decision to move to the United States to be with his wife fuels one of the collection’s most powerful poems, “Welcome to America.” Written in the voice of an immigration agent, the poem shares a litany of accusations and insinuations – “I’ve looked at your passport / and there are too many stamps,” “Why would she want you?” and “I like thrillers / and mysteries and plots with / a point” – that the poet says were said to him in real-life.
“The original title was, ‘What the Immigration Officer Told Me,’ because that’s essentially what happened. That poem is pretty much a direct transcript of a conversation I had during one of the many, many times I was grilled by airport security,” says Naffis-Sahely, who says the agent couldn’t believe the poet was moving to the States for love. “They actually did print out my poems and essays” in a vain attempt to try to find some other motive.
Joining his previously published collection “The Promised Land: Poems From Itinerant Life” and the pamphlet “The Other Side of Nowhere,” “High Desert,” which is out from the U.K. poetry publisher Bloodaxe Books, mixes work about Los Angeles and the California desert with found poems that evoke the voices of 19th Century scholars and labor activists along with figures like Gen. George S. Patton and Richard Nixon using their own words.
One of the Los Angeles poems, “Maybe the People Don’t Want to Live and Let Live,” evokes the life of Arthur Lee, the leader of the great 1960s LA band Love.
“With Arthur Lee, as you know, there was so much of California, specifically LA, in his life. Through the course of his life, you really see LA kind of transformed from the place that it was in the ‘50s all the way up to the early noughties just before he died,” says the poet. “I love his music. The more I read about him, there isn’t as much as I’d like out there; I think people should write more books about Arthur Lee.”
In the poem, “At the Graves of Labour’s Fallen,” he describes a haunting visit to a cemetery in Bisbee, Arizona, where the best plots “belonged to cattle-thieves, cut-throats, bushwhackers” but tucked away in the back corner were the laborers and Labor organizers where “Time / had made most names illegible” on the headstones.
“When I was going through the graveyard, you’d see that the elements essentially had just rubbed away at the gravestones, to the point that you can barely make out the names,” he says. “Part of the fuel for these poems was, OK, you may not be able to capture the whole of what that moment was, the whole of what that existence was, but you’re able to put down at least a very limited record of it before it completely vanishes.”
Naffis-Sahely and I talked about a range of other topics – from the great California poet Robinson Jeffers to haunting stories about buildings eroded by sand and the elements – and as we wrapped up, I asked if there’s anything else he’d like to share about “High Desert.”
“You know, maybe, on the politics, I’ll say this: My father is Iranian; he left Iran in ‘79 because essentially he was a left-wing activist. And so like a lot of people in that kind of background, he was exiled. And so I think part of it was a bit of a tribute to him and to his brand of politics. You know, we’ve always had a bit of a tradition of left-wing politics in the family,” he says, adding the book was “my way of talking about family history, but in a different way.”
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Craig Johnson reveals the book he considers ‘literary napalm’
Craig Johnson is the author of the best-selling Longmire mystery series, which has also been turned into a Netflix series. He lives in the town of Ucross, Wyoming, which has a population of 26. The latest Longmire novel, “Hell and Back,” is out this month.
Q. What can you tell readers about your new Longmire book, “Hell and Back”?
I think, after 18 Longmire novels, it was time to shake things up, and “Hell And Back” certainly does that. The good sheriff finds himself in the middle of a snow-covered street in Fort Pratt, Montana, a town infamous for the fiery deaths of 30 young Native boys in a local boarding school. Walt can’t remember who, what, or where he is, which sets him on a trajectory of investigation of himself before he can even attempt to discover why it is that he is there.
Q. This is your 18th Longmire novel. What are the challenges of writing a character over many books as you’ve done?
Any long-lived series demands a bit of reinvention from time to time, which is an adventure in itself, because you’re tampering with a formula of success, and some loyal readers may not appreciate that. I’m lucky in that I’ve got pretty sharp readers and a wonderful publisher in Viking/Penguin that allow me a great deal of literary freedom—so I get to take chances.
Q. What is the most unexpected benefit of your writing success?
I can walk into the hardware store in Buffalo, Wyoming and buy anything I need. Now, that might not sound like much, but for a guy who has straightened nails for most of his life, it’s pretty great…
Q. What are you reading now?
I’m reading David Maraniss’ biography of Jim Thorpe, “Path Lit By Lightning,” and Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Travels With George”—we’re so fortunate to live in a time when so many marvelous writers have turned their talents to non-fiction. I’ve also been lucky enough to snag an advance reader copy of T. Jefferson Parker’s upcoming “The Rescue,” always a treat.
Q. How do you decide what to read next?
Well, I’m an indentured servant in regard to researching the Longmire novels, which is a blast, but other than that I just follow my interests and good writers. There are really only two genres in literature, good writing and bad. I try to avoid the bad.
Q. Do you remember the first book that made an impact on you?
“To Kill A Mockingbird” set me back on my heels as a child – it’s literary napalm, it sticks and burns. Another would be “The Grapes Of Wrath,” which people are still trying to ban all over the place. I have to smile every time I visit the Steinbeck Center in Salinas, in that I’m acutely aware that in the ’30s they used to burn the man’s books right across the street in the town square.
Q. Is there a book you’re nervous to read?
The sequel to “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “Go Set A Watchman,” I can’t help but think that Harper Lee didn’t want that book published.
Q. Do you listen to audiobooks? If so, are there any titles or narrators you’d recommend?
Anything read by George Guidall – he’s the king of audiobooks. I live on a ranch where the nearest town has a population of 26, and when I feed the horses at night, I have an old CD player where I keep Guidall. As the horses eat, I sit there on a stool in the tack shed and have him introduce me to the literature of the world. I was once talking to him, and we discussed the importance of audio books, particularly in the American West, and how people rarely sit in their cars and finish an album, but they’ll sit there in a parking lot or their driveway and finish a chapter. Besides, he records my books…
Q. What’s something about your book that no one knows?
The horrific fire depicted in “Hell And Back” is actually modeled after the boarding school fire that took place in Wrightsville, Arkansas, in 1959, where 21 African-American boys were burned to death—doors were locked from the outside and some of the children were literally chained to radiators.
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Hamlin: Tap the Brakes on Xfinity Twisties
BRISTOL, Tenn. – NASCAR’s 2023 national touring schedules show the Xfinity Series with eight of its 33 events on road/street courses and Denny Hamlin said that’s too many because the sport was built on oval track racing.
“While I love to see where we’re going with our schedule on the Cup side, going back to the old historic tracks, especially for the All-Star race (North Wilkesboro), we … have to start to taper off some of these road courses that we’re running,” Hamlin said Thursday during a media zoom conference.
Next year the Xfinity Series will race at Circuit of the Americas, Portland, Sonoma, Chicago Street Course, Road America, the Indianapolis Road Course, Watkins Glen and the Charlotte ROVAL. That’s the most road/street courses for any of NASCAR’s three national touring series. The Cup Series 2023 schedule boasts six with Portland and Road America absent from stock car racing’s top tier events. The Camping World Truck Series contains only two road course races on its schedule – COTA and Mid-Ohio.
Hamlin noted the road course/street races in the Xfinity Series don’t help drivers develop for the Cup Series because the cars in the two series no longer brake or shift the same.
“The techniques which you use to be fast on the road courses are the same no matter what the car, but I’m really not sure that’s where we should be headed,” Hamlin said. “It just seems like the good racing has been on the ovals and that’s what we are.
“Not many people tune in to watch IMSA races. You have to be good at what you’re good at and we’re good at short track, big track, contact oval racing. That’s who we are, and we don’t need to venture too far off from what we are and what our roots are.”
Since Hamlin made his NASCAR Cup debut in 2005, he has acquired one road course victory. That came in 2016 at Watkins Glen.
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A brush fire that started near a highway in Oakland, California, spread to a nearby residential area on Friday, damaging multiple homes and destroying at least one.
The fire started near the I-580 freeway, according to Oakland Fire Department crew members who were able to put out the blaze, but not before it caused severe damage, KGO reported.
Crews continued to work to put out different "hot spots" even after firefighters were able to get the fire under control.
At least one firefighter was taken to an area hospital with heat-related injuries but was expected to recover.
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into Hanmi Financial Corporation (NasdaqGS: HAFC).
On August 12, 2019, the Company disclosed that it was unable to file timely its Form 10-Q for the quarter ending June 30, 2019, "because the Company and its auditor are evaluating the classification of a single $40.7 million credit relationship…as well as a possible internal control deficiency primarily relating to construction lending, which may affect prior periods." On August 22, 2019, the Company announced it had received a notice from NASDAQ that the Company was no longer in compliance with NASDAQ rules due to its untimely quarterly disclosure and was in danger of being delisted. Then, on October 4, 2019, the Company disclosed it had moved the entire $40.7 million loan relationship into nonaccrual status, lowered its rating, and would take a $15.7 million provision for loan and lease losses, which it ultimately increased to $25.2 million total.
Thereafter, the Company and certain of its executives were sued in a securities class action lawsuit, charging them with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws. Recently, the court presiding over that case denied the Company's motion to dismiss, allowing the case to move forward.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether Hanmi's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to its shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of Hanmi shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-hafc/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
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For some time now, a strange thing has been going on in the Nigerian society with clergymen tormenting many women’s old age by claiming that they are witches. Trampling on the Holy Bible that they preach from, these pastors separate children from their parents, especially mothers, by claiming that they (mothers) are witches and that they are responsible for their children’s misfortune!
Earlier this week, I had a conversation with my aunt, a retired teacher who lives in Iseyin, Oyo State, and her heartbreaking story is the fillip for this piece. Here’s her story: “It’s church that has made my children the way they are. It’s Deeper Life that has caused me misery. It’s Deeper Life that has done things to my children. If I call them—I don’t even call anyone again. It’s only one that attends to me, Doyin, whose child died at birth recently. She’s the one that comes to me. All the time I was ill, they didn’t ask after me, they didn’t behave as if they had a mother somewhere. With all the houses I built—it’s other people who want to snatch them from me. They don’t go there. The one I built at Idi Ose, it took the help of a lawyer from our town to rescue me by sending the alfa who wanted to take over the house away from there.
“My children are the ones who are supposed to be close to me and talking with me, but they consider me a sinner because of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church I attend. I’m ill and that’s where I’m being treated, so why would I not go there? Everyone will have a reward for their sins. I labored alone to send them to school, I know that God exists. My pension is enough to cater for my needs; it’s not that I want them to give me anything. And I have my houses. Nonetheless, what could make one’s children to say strange things? I sent them to school and helped them to get jobs…One day, one will die and that will be the end.”
I had to stop the transcription at this stage because the story broke my heart. I know that the problem spotlighted here transcends the Deeper Life denomination. I have seen the demonic practice in other churches and I don’t even think that Deeper Life endorses the maltreatment of parents. You see, in Nigeria today, there are certain people who are supposedly so holy until they show absolutely no love or care to their parents! They pronounce judgment on their parents. They hate their parents with venomous rage. I know a man who never at any time helped his mother out in her life time, claiming that no one helped him when he was in the university but forgetting that his mother was busy trying to save his brother run over by a trailer at the time. To think that a man who treated his mother with such scorn is a deacon in a church!
Since these witch-hunters brandish the Bible, then let’s quote some verses they apparently have never read. In Ephesians 6:2-3 we read: “Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.” How do you honour your parents? By treating them with love and respect, and by using your substance (your car, your money, etc) to make them comfortable. Every New Year day when my mother was alive and did not spend the celebration with us, I used to personally take pounded yam to her. Never once did I fail. Here’s what the Master, whose name these scoundrels are using to break families, said on the topic (Mark 7:11-13): “But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition.”
In churches today, many of the folks that call themselves pastors do precisely what is stated here: they teach people to dishonor their parents. They are nothing but violent, repulsive, anarchic and manipulative criminals. Like the Pharisees of old, they make the old age of many women a misery by cutting their children off from them. They do this to enrich themselves because, with no parents to spend money on, their gullible followers will dwell on their (the pastors’ ) own financial needs.
Indeed, if not for cruelty of soul, why would anyone hear that his/her mother was involved in an auto accident and not quake? What sin could she have committed? Why would a mother have to suffer in her old age when her children are alive and doing well? Where does anyone get the boldness to open their stinking mouth and call their mother a witch? Where is the honour, love and respect that parents are supposed to have? And, of all things, why use the Holy Bible to justify cruel treatment of parents?
In this country of ours, some supposedly educated people teach their young children to avoid their parents because, as they say, “Grandma is dirty and fetish.” You that is not dirty or fetish, how do you know where you will end your life? In Ijebu, I’m told, many old women suffer emotional torture as young people refuse to eat food prepared by them—correct egusi soup properly laced with ogiri and with dried sawa fish– in the mistaken belief that they are witches! This is not even about social class: in Lekki and many other high-class neigbourhoods, there are wealthy but extremely distressed women who have only household servants for comfort: their children, living the Big Life abroad, have abandoned them to their fate. These mother-haters send their own children to choice secondary schools and seek admission for them in Harvard and Oxford, not realizing that their own old age will be exactly like they have made their own mothers’. SAD!!!
Re: Bring back our Yoruba childhood
It’s a pity that we don’t value what we have in Yorubaland. White people are sending their wards to our universities to learn our language. Yemi Elebuibon is now living in America teaching Americans Yoruba.
Rev Oladimeji Michael: 08023852901
I read “Bring back our Yoruba childhood” to my satisfaction. In fact I’ve read it three times. I commend your effort. The administrators of school curriculla need to act. For example, when I was still in service, I had an administrator from Modakeke, Osun State, who did not allow anyone to address him in Yoruba. But when we spoke English to him, he did not the vocabulary! School administrators and commissioners need to implement government policy on Nigerian languages in schools.
Alhaji Adewumi: 08068311581
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I have never physically met APC Vice Presidential candidate Kashim Shettima, but I have communicated with him for extended periods over the past seven years. I’ve found him to be a man of vast and versatile erudition and a bibliophile who is enamored of his own rhetorical and expressive flourishes. It’s precisely this characteristic that may be his undoing in national politics.
Nowhere has this become more apparent than in his widely panned September 15 speech during the 96th anniversary celebration of the Yoruba Tennis Club in Ikoyi, Lagos, where he attributed to Bola Ahmed Tinubu praiseworthy qualities he isolated in past Nigerian presidents and heads of state.
The News Agency of Nigeria quoted Shettima as saying Nigeria needs a leader who has the “humility and generosity of spirit” of Yakubu Gowon, the “work ethic and broadmindedness” of Olusegun Obasanjo, the “situational pragmatism and…Maradonic skill” of Ibrahim Babangida, “the hospitality” of Sani Abacha, “the vision and sense of responsibility” of Abdulsalami Abubakar, and the “abnegation and commitment” of Muhammadu Buhari.
Shettima clarified in a September 16 tweet that he “never attributed hospitality to Abacha” in his speech. “I did a rundown of our past Presidents and played up ‘the taciturnity and a dose of ruthlessness of a Sani Abacha’to show we need strongmen to deal with the nonstate actors who’ve turned Nigeria into a vast killing-field,” he tweeted.
Shettima’s speech was clearly a case of the sacrifice of substance on the altar of stylistic convenience. In other words, Shettima appeared to be more concerned with lyrical bravado than with meaning, more in love with verbal exuberance than with the correctness or appropriateness of the claims of his words.
But the general population isn’t as kind to him in their interpretive rendition of his speech as I am. And for good reason. Using the resources of basic logic and contemporary history, many—perhaps most— Nigerians understood his speech as a threat of existential annihilation to them should he and Tinubu get elected as vice president and president. Here’s why.
Yes, relative to other past presidents and heads of state, Obasanjo has an admirable work ethic and is broadminded. And,yes, Gowon is indisputably humble and generous in spirit. But it stretches credulity to the elastic limit to even remotely suggest that Tinubu embodies or shares these qualities. Like every human being Tinubu has his good qualities, but he is anything but humble and generous in spirit. And, in his current state, he is anything but a workaholic.
More crucially, though, the other qualities Shettima associated with other past presidents and heads of state are either demonstrably inaccurate or unworthy of celebration. Take, for example, the notion of Buhari’s “abnegation and commitment.” No claim can be more dishonest than that.
Abnegation means “renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.” There has been no more self-loving, self-interested, self-centered leader in the entire history of Nigeria than Muhammadu Buhari. He is a classic, unashamed, sadisticnarcissist.
The first major project Buhari executed upon becoming president in 2015 was to build a multi-million-naira vanity helipad for his exclusive use in his hometown of Daura, which would be useless from May 2023. Not even Goodluck Jonathan who got a lot of hell from civil society groups for corruption built a helipad for himself in his hometown of Otueke.
Additionally, Buhari’s penchant for going to London to treat even his littlest illnesses (including an ear infection that had already been treated in Nigeria), his high-priced sartorial excesses, and his fondness for extortionately elaborate red-carpet ceremonies each time he leaves the country and returns to it do not square with the profile of a person whoembodies “abnegation.”
Let’s not even talk of the presidential air fleet that needlessly and avoidably drains Nigeria’s national resources, which Buhari had promised to get rid of but on which he spends billions on maintenance.
And Buhari’s “commitment”? Seriously? What commitment? I have argued in several previous columns that Buhari’s inexplicably frenzied globetrotting even after his government proclaimed a new policy that reduced the frequency and duration of foreign travels by government officials reputedly as a “cost-saving measure” shows that his wanderlust is actuated by his resentment of Nigeria. A man who is committed to Nigeria won’t have an obsessive-compulsive impulse to desert the country at the slightest opportunity.
To suggest that Tinubu personifies Buhari’s “abnegation and commitment” is to unintentionally demarket Tinubu and threaten Nigerians.
But it gets worse. The quality of “situational pragmatism and…Maradonic skill” that Shettima associated with Babangida— and implied Tinubu possesses— is a negative trait. Situational pragmatism is no more than a sophisticated euphemism for opportunism, and when people called Babangida “Maradona” or “Maradonic” in the Lagos-Ibadan press in the 1990s, they did so with an unmistakable tone of disapproval.
Maradona was notorious for his intricate dribbling and for his occasional, dishonest, sleight-of-hand goals such as his infamous1986 FIFA World Cup “the-hand-of-God”goal against England where he illegally used his hand to score but evaded the sanction of the referee because he wasn’t caught—or his illegal interception of a shot from the former USSR during the 1990 World Cup with “the hand of God” without the referee seeing him.
So, Maradona and “Maradonic” symbolize elaborate deception and Machiavellianism. Babangida dribbled the nation, like Maradona, through his dizzyingly never-ending transition to nowhere, his interminable banning and unbanning of politicians, his “settlement” of critics, and ultimately scored a sleight-of-hand goal against politicians—and Nigeria—when he invalidated the results of the June 12, 1993, election that MKO Abiola was poised to win.
People are entitled to be alarmed if this is the quality Shettima admires in Babangida and says Tinubu exemplifies.
Perhaps even more worrying is that Shettima thinks Sani Abacha’s “taciturnity” and “ruthlessness” are virtues to be cherished, celebrated, and expected in a president in 2023. Being communicative is a central attribute of successful democratic leaders. Taciturnity, that is, being uncommunicative is an abhorrent vice in a democracy, and we see it in Buhari who habitually ignores Nigerians.
Given that Tinubu has started to avoid the media limelight that he had once jealously hugged—apparently to conceal his all-too-obvious mental and physical infirmities—Shettima’s embrace of taciturnity as a quality we should expect in a president sounds to me like a threat to continue with the lusterlessness that has defined Buhari’s leadership in the past seven years.
And “ruthlessness” in a democracy? What was Shettima thinking? I get that the outlaws that have made life in Nigeria precarious and brutish deserve to be crushed with ruthless force. But you don’t need to embody the ruthlessness of Abacha to do that. You only need to be a decisive leader who cares for the people—unlike Buhari—to tackle and tame the insecurity that plagues Nigeria. Ruthlessness isn’t a quality a democratic leader should possess.
Given what I know of Shettima, I am certain that he didn’t intend to unsell or undersell his boss. He appears to just love the show of erudition and bibliophilia that comes from his exhibitionistic verbal swagger. It may excite his admirers and may even be cherished by Nigerian rhetorical scholars, but it’s a treacherous political minefield.
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until October 17, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against MINISO Group Holding Limited (NYSE: MNSO), if they purchased or acquired the Company's securities pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's October 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
What You May Do
If you purchased or acquired securities of MINISO as above and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-mnso/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by October 17, 2022.
About the Lawsuit
MINISO and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information in its IPO Registration Statement, violating federal securities laws.
On July 26, 2022, market researcher Blue Orca Capital reported on a myriad of issues involving the China-based company, including that "there is overwhelming evidence that MINISO misleads the market about its core business" and that "Chinese corporate filings also indicate, in our view, that the chairman siphoned hundreds of millions from the public company through opaque Caribbean jurisdictions as the middleman in a crooked headquarters deal," among other things.
On this news, the price of MINISO's American Depositary Shares fell $1.08, or 14.98%, to close at $6.13, on unusually heavy trading volume.
The case is Ashraf v. MINISO Group Holding Limited, No. 22-cv-05815.
About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
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New Orleans, LA 70163
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until October 25, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Stitch Fix, Inc. (NasdaqGS: SFIX), if they purchased the Company's shares between December 8, 2020, and March 8, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
If you purchased shares of Stitch Fix and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-sfix/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by October 25, 2022.
Stitch Fix and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On December 7, 2021, the Company disclosed the occurrence of "short term cannibalization" from new customers who chose to use its new direct-buy Freestyle option rather than the traditional Fix option, as well as a loss for its first quarter of 2021 and a cut to its full-year revenue projections. On this news, shares of Stitch Fix declined by $5.97 per share, or 24%, from $24.97 per share to $19.00 per share.
Then, on March 8, 2022, the Company disclosed a weak outlook for the third quarter of 2022 and a cut to its revenue guidance for the full year, as well as "friction" that had occurred due to customers visiting stitchfix.com, the primary landing page for customers interested in the Fix, being redirected to the Freestyle experience first. On this news, shares of Stitch Fix declined by $0.67 per share, or 6%, from $11.01 per share to $10.34 per share.
The case is Retail Wholesale Department Store Union Local 338 Retirement Fund v. Stitch Fix, Inc., No. 22-cv-4893.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com1-877-515-1850
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WALLA WALLA, Wash. -
Col. Robert Certain spoke about his experience as a POW at events in Walla Walla.
With his story he shared why those missing in action should be remembered.
He said, "as long as we keep the memories alive those people still have an influence on who we are and how we live."
The Community heard the story of his time during the Vietnam war and when he was captured. He talked about how his plane was shot down and what life was like in the prisons.
He said "memories contain stories, even more stories than you can ever tell and some of them are good stories some of them are bad stories you can learn, in my experience you can learn the most from screwing up."
He said those memories are especially important for those that did not make it back, and that he takes time to remember those that were with him during the war.
"Well for me of course it's the crew members that died that night the pilot the copilot and the gunner, I'll always remember them as killed in action and I remember the ones who came who were prisoners with me in the cells while I was there," he said.
The crowd laughed at times as Certain made light of the experience he had as a POW.
Director of the VA Medical Center in Walla Walla, Scott Kelter said, "Sharing what is a very humbling experience and sharing it in a way that brings some levity to the situation, he made it very relatable in how he experienced it and how he considers it now."
The Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency has profiles of those missing and found, a place for MIA and POW stories to be found. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/remembering-prisoners-of-war-and-those-missing-in-action/article_72ae973e-361b-11ed-b645-5351a206a650.html | 2022-09-17T03:52:57Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/remembering-prisoners-of-war-and-those-missing-in-action/article_72ae973e-361b-11ed-b645-5351a206a650.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SUNNYSIDE, Wash.-
A two car crash sends one person to a hospital in Sunnyside and another to Kadlec Regional Medical Center via life flight.
Sgt. Wes Rasmussen with the Yakima County Sheriff's Office tells us a 20-year-old woman driving with a 4-year-old who is said to be transported as well, but is not hurt.
According to Sgt. Rasmussen, the woman was heading east on Stove Rd stopped at the intersection.
The driver of the other car had the right away, but still crashed. They have been transported to the hospital in Sunnyside.
We're told traffic is slow moving and Stove Rd and Waneta Rd. should be cleared within the hour.
This is a developing story, which means information could change. We are working to report timely and accurate information as we get it. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/two-people-transported-to-nearby-hospitals-after-a-crash-in-sunnyside/article_406719a4-361b-11ed-9dc4-938fe85caf25.html | 2022-09-17T03:53:00Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/two-people-transported-to-nearby-hospitals-after-a-crash-in-sunnyside/article_406719a4-361b-11ed-9dc4-938fe85caf25.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Avian Flu, also known as the bird flu, is back in Tennessee for the first time since 2017. All poultry shows and exhibits are, now, on hold, and backyard farmers cannot sell poultry at any market.
The Avian Flu has not spread to Duck, Cluck, Goose Urban Farms but many poultry farmers around the state are worried about what it could mean for their birds.
"Some of these are pets, it would mean losing all of them all at once it would be devastating," said Owner Jennifer Lawrence.
Jennifer Lawrence started Duck, Cluck, Goose Urban Farms a few years ago after she began collecting chickens to have her own source of eggs.
Lawrence says after finding out about critically endangered birds her hobby turned into a passion to save species that were at risk like the Dutch Hookbill.
The Avian Flu was last in Tennessee five years ago and now that it's made a return, Lawrence has been monitoring her birds closely making sure they show no signs of illness or start to drop dead, but she says she can't do much to stop wild birds.
"They're the carriers, and you can't control were ever they go," said Lawrence.
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture advises poultry farmers to bring their birds indoors until the Avian Flu is brought under control.
Lawrence says many farmers in her situation don't have the capability of doing that, but she is taking sanitary precautions.
"Clean shoes, having a bleach pan with bleach and water to dips shoes in," said Lawrence.
Lawrence says if one of her birds became sick with the Avian Flu, she would have to contact the Department of Agriculture for testing and they would have to put down her entire flock of endangered birds.
"And for a farm like this it would mean losing all my birds," said Lawrence.
State Veterinarian Dr. Samantha Beaty says while the disease may spread to farms there is no risk of consuming contaminated chicken from a grocery store.
Right now, Lawrence is unable to ship any of her product until the disease is controlled, but she's more concerned about losing her pets.
"Hoping and praying is all we can do at this point," said Lawrence. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/avian-flue-returns-to-tennessee-impacting-local-poultry-farmers/article_9b19a784-3636-11ed-a9be-6b6ac84d98f9.html | 2022-09-17T03:59:25Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/avian-flue-returns-to-tennessee-impacting-local-poultry-farmers/article_9b19a784-3636-11ed-a9be-6b6ac84d98f9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pete Carney talks to Burt Bailey before going for some training pics as Slade plays back in Civitan Hall to 73 diehardt R&B fans..Photography By Ray Carter... D.OA: DEMISET’/STASKRA (KR) : RUSST : ALTERING HAMANGHA / SHIVALIS / SKULLPET / RISKERVET -1 DAY SESSIONS PATINAE/ RIGHT EPILATAL PLIXTATER AMPHO- BOTH SXFYTKYM : THE BOAT DROWS\nDOME - TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office says a man drowned in a private pond Friday evening after he likely fell in.
Deputies responded to the pond near Krystal Kove Drive and 8th Avenue in Tallmadge Township just after 7:30 p.m. Friday.
They found that the 30-year-old man, who lives at the home near the pond, likely fell into it.
Several departments searched the pond and were able to recover the man’s body.
First responders tried to save the man, but say it was too late.
The sheriff’s office does not suspect foul play and believes a medical condition was a contributing factor in the drowning. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/ottawa/sheriff-man-falls-drowns-in-pond-after-likely-medical-emergency | 2022-09-17T04:01:10Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/ottawa/sheriff-man-falls-drowns-in-pond-after-likely-medical-emergency | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Georgia farmer is celebrating wins from two of his favorite local sports teams by honoring them with corn.
A corn maze, that is.
But, the project didn't come without challenges in this tough economic environment.
Jim Steed says that prices for fertilizer and water have gone up, causing some challenges. He had to plant a special type of corn that would grow through the hotter months.
Steed used GPS technology to help map out the maze, by marking out the path with little red flags. That was how he knew where to cut. The result is a massive homage to the University of Georgia's football team and the Atlanta Braves baseball team.
He's excited to open up the maze for fans in the area where he lives, in Augusta, Georgia. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/farmer-creates-huge-corn-maze-to-celebrate-wins-for-two-of-his-favorite-sports-teams | 2022-09-17T04:01:16Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/farmer-creates-huge-corn-maze-to-celebrate-wins-for-two-of-his-favorite-sports-teams | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A brush fire that started near a highway in Oakland, California, spread to a nearby residential area on Friday, damaging multiple homes and destroying at least one.
The fire started near the I-580 freeway, according to Oakland Fire Department crew members who were able to put out the blaze, but not before it caused severe damage, KGO reported.
Crews continued to work to put out different "hot spots" even after firefighters were able to get the fire under control.
At least one firefighter was taken to an area hospital with heat-related injuries but was expected to recover.
Authorities say wind played a significant role in the fire's spread. 80 firefighters responded to the scene. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/brushfire-damages-multiple-homes-outside-of-san-francisco-destroys-at-least-one | 2022-09-17T04:01:29Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/brushfire-damages-multiple-homes-outside-of-san-francisco-destroys-at-least-one | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Georgia farmer is celebrating wins from two of his favorite local sports teams by honoring them with corn.
A corn maze, that is.
But, the project didn't come without challenges in this tough economic environment.
Jim Steed says that prices for fertilizer and water have gone up, causing some challenges. He had to plant a special type of corn that would grow through the hotter months.
Steed used GPS technology to help map out the maze, by marking out the path with little red flags. That was how he knew where to cut. The result is a massive homage to the University of Georgia's football team and the Atlanta Braves baseball team.
He's excited to open up the maze for fans in the area where he lives, in Augusta, Georgia. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/farmer-creates-huge-corn-maze-to-celebrate-wins-for-two-of-his-favorite-sports-teams | 2022-09-17T04:01:35Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/farmer-creates-huge-corn-maze-to-celebrate-wins-for-two-of-his-favorite-sports-teams | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Ronald Gardner, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) senior enlisted advisor, salutes during the presentation of colors at the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Sept. 16, 2022. The event is held every year on the third Friday of September, honoring prisoners of war and missing-in-action service members. DPAA’s mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ariel Owings)
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Mr. Ray Kapaun, nephew to Medal of Honor Recipient U.S. Army Chaplain (Capt.) Emil Joseph Kapaun, speaks during the National POW/MIA Recognition Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Sept. 16, 2022. The event is held every year on the third Friday of September, honoring prisoners of war and missing-in-action service members. DPAA’s mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ariel Owings)
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Hillsborough football stays undefeated with big win over Ridge
Harry Frezza
Correspondent
Hillsborough High School’s football team stretched its winning streak to 16 Friday night with a 21-11 win over Ridge.
The key play of the game came when sophomore Jackson Jankowicz returned a kickoff 99 yards for a score with 604 left to play after Ridge had cut the Hillsborough lead to 14-11.
Hillsborough is 3-0 overall and 2-0 in Big Central Conference American Silver Division play. Ridge fell 1-2 overall and 0-2 in the division.
Hillsborough is at unbeaten Phillipsburg (3-0, 2-0) next week in another Silver Division game. Ridge plays host to Hunterdon Central (2-2, 0-1).
Check back soon for more. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/17/hillsborough-nj-football-ridge-record/69493226007/ | 2022-09-17T04:08:54Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/17/hillsborough-nj-football-ridge-record/69493226007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Montgomery football continues hot start, tops Somerville to stay undefeated
MONTGOMERY - Montgomery High School let’s out at 2:25 p.m. Less than 20 minutes later on Friday afternoon, the Cougar football players began to show up, and fill up, the film room for some last-minute preparations for Friday night's tilt with Somerville. head coach Zoran Milich told them that they didn’t need to be there until 3:30.
Everyone wants to win every game, but this was one that had a little extra meaning to it for the Cougars.
“They came right in and got to work,” Milich said. “In fact last night one of the captains texted me and asked if they could come in at 2:45 to watch film. So 2:45 today rolls around and there’s a couple players in there. I walk in five minutes later and the room is filled with 30 players. They wanted to make sure they were fully prepared.”
It’s been a long time coming for Montgomery (4-0), which now has its best start since 2007 after defeating Somerville (1-3) 27-21 on Friday night.
After a three-and-out on its first drive, the Montgomery offense was nearly unflappable as junior quarterback Matthew Schmelzer threw three touchdowns with junior Matt D’Avino on the receiving end of two of them.
“I’m really, really proud,” Schmelzer said. “I just want to keep working and growing and winning. I don’t like losing.”
The Cougars took the lead for good just three plays into the third quarter when Schmelzer threw his second touchdown of the night, a 60-yarder over the middle of the field to senior Eddie Qian.
Somerville looked its best on the game’s opening drive when they marched 53 yards in seven plays to take a 7-0 lead but was then under pressure for the rest of the night.
Sophomore Brenden Pacheco replaced senior Michael Miller at quarterback early in the third quarter and had a chance to take the lead with just over two-and-a-half minutes left in the game, but threw an incompletion on 4th-and-seven, turning the ball over on downs. Montgomery ran the clock out the rest of the way.
“This makes me feel great and I couldn’t be prouder of the team,” Milich said. “It’s a big win. Anytime you can be 4-0 it’s exciting. We’re heading in the right direction but there’s a lot more work to do.”
“Each week is going to get progressively harder because everyone’s improving as the season goes along,” Milich said. “I told them that it doesn’t matter who we play or who says what about who we’ve already played. There’s a way to succeed and there’s a process to winning. We just have to take care of that regardless of who’s in front of us.”
What it means
Montgomery is now 4-0 and off to its best start since 2007. The Cougars have had just three winning seasons (2013-14, 2014-15, 2019-20) since 2010.
Somerville drops to 1-3 in Ian Pace’s first season as head coach and may need to worry about the status of Miller, who exited the game Friday night with what looked to be a rib injury.
If not for having to forfeit its season-opening win over Mastery of Camden due to using an ineligible player, the Pioneers would have a 2-2 record.
Key plays
Down 14-7 and needing a response after a Terrell Mitchell 55-yard touchdown in which he broke several tackles, Schmelzer threw a screen pass out into the left flat for D’Avino, who got a block and took it 30 yards into the end zone. The extra point was no good, and Somerville still led, this time at 14-13.
Just three plays into the third quarter Qian caught his only pass of the night, a 60-yarder over the middle from Schmelzer, and helped to give Montgomery a 19-14 lead.
With 5:13 left in the third quarter, Schmelzer would throw his final touchdown of the night down the left seam to senior Ethan McManus. The Cougars then ran a trick play and Schmelzer converted on the extra two-points with a short pass to senior Gavin Guidette to push the lead to 27-14.
They said it
Schmelzer on his running ability: “I pride myself in being a dual-threat. I don’t want to limit myself. People have said that I can’t use my legs but I’ll do whatever it takes to win.”
Milich on calling plays for Schmelzer: “We wanted the ball in Mike’s hands. When [Somerville was] crashing down on one side and we were losing yards a couple of times Mike decided to pull the ball and then had to decide how to balance using his arm vs his legs for the rest of the game. They had to worry about both options for the rest of the game.”
What’s next
Montgomery will look to stay undefeated when it hosts Hamilton West next Friday night.
Somerville will host Union next Friday night in an American Gold Division matchup. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/17/montgomery-nj-football-somerville-win/69493269007/ | 2022-09-17T04:09:00Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/17/montgomery-nj-football-somerville-win/69493269007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sayreville football pulls out key win over Edison in defensive struggle
SAYREVILLE – Air Bombers?
Well, not quite, but in a defense-filled game Sayreville used two big passes to set up touchdowns in the 14-6 win over Edison.
Sayreville also recovered three fumbles and an onside kick in Friday’s win between two of the Top 10 teams in the MyCentralJersey Big Central Conference Top 15.
No. 3 Sayreville opened the scoring when quarterback Caidan Holmes threw a 68-yard touchdown pass to Devlin Mills, who ran it about 55 yards himself for the 7-0 lead with 8:24 left in the first quarter. Mills then recovered the onside kick, but Sayreville couldn’t score.
The Bombers increased the lead to 14-0 when Holmes connected downfield with Bryan Cline for a 43-yard pass to the 1-yard line. The QB took it in with 2:20 left in the third quarter. Sayreville covered the ensuing onside kick on a fumble, but the Edison defense held.
Holmes, who also starts at safety and normally plays receiver, moved to quarterback for the injured Michael Colonnello (broken collarbone in first game). He deftly directed the offense.
Sayreville faced more adversity when star running back/safety Zaimer Wright left with a shin bruise with 4:25 left in the first half. He returned with about four minutes into the second half, but played sparingly the rest of the way.
Bombers coach Chris Beagan described his team as showing “grit” in the win.
No. 8 Edison’s two injured senior stars played. Senior Matt Yascko Jr., who missed the last two games with a broken nose, started and played throughout. Receiver/defensive back Malcolm Stansbury played after missing last week’s game.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article will be updated with more details and quotes ASAP | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/17/sayreville-nj-football-edison-win/69493268007/ | 2022-09-17T04:09:06Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/09/17/sayreville-nj-football-edison-win/69493268007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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SHELTON, Wash. — Evidence that used to take a month to process by crime lab investigators is now taking close to a year, said the Washington State Patrol (WSP).
According to numbers provided by WSP, in 2017 crime lab investigators processed blood evidence in driving under the influence cases in under 30 days.
By the end of 2021, the backlog was closer to a year, 355 days, according to the state’s latest figures.
“This is not a satisfying situation for anybody,” WSP spokesperson Chris Loftis said.
Loftis said the backlog should be reduced next year when a new lab, with new investigators, is scheduled to open in Federal Way.
Loftis said the state’s investigators have not been able to keep up with the increase in crime. He said WSP will look to legislators next year for more funding to help reduce the backlog.
Loftis said prosecutors can request expedited processing of evidence, reducing the wait time to two to eight weeks.
“I’m angry and upset about all of that,” said Jamie Johnston, whose father, Duane Wharton was killed in a crash on Highway 101 last week.
She said her father loved driving trucks and was a loving grandfather of 11.
Rita Lyman, 66, from Shelton was also killed in the crash.
WSP investigators determined a third driver caused the crash, and that 66-year-old man was arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence and two counts of vehicular homicide.
A state patrol drug recognition expert determined the driver was under the influence of drugs.
The driver was arrested, but a judge released him the next day.
Mason County Prosecutor Michael Dorcy decided to delay filing charges until the blood evidence can be processed. He said that could take six to nine months.
He said while he understands Johnston’s frustration, delaying filing charges is a safer strategy for getting a conviction.
His office argued the man should have been held on $150,000 bail.
The judge ordered the man released, without any bail. The driver was prohibited from driving under the influence of any medication.
Johnston said she fears the man will hurt someone else behind the wheel.
"Just, ‘You’re good to go. Continue to do what you do.’ And possibly kill other people, that’s not OK,” Johnston said. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/washington-dui-backlog-growing/281-887626da-d216-4377-a972-b635c899603b | 2022-09-17T04:10:11Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/washington-dui-backlog-growing/281-887626da-d216-4377-a972-b635c899603b | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported Friday. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year’s totals, which were the highest in decades.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “It’s both the number of challenges and the kinds of challenges. It used to be a parent had learned about a given book and had an issue with it. Now we see campaigns where organizations are compiling lists of books, without necessarily reading or even looking at them.”
The ALA has documented 681 challenges to books through the first eight months of this year, involving 1,651 different titles. In all of 2021, the ALA listed 729 challenges, directed at 1,579 books. Because the ALA relies on media accounts and reports from libraries, the actual number of challenges is likely far higher, the library association believes.
Friday’s announcement is timed to Banned Books Week, which begins Sunday and will be promoted around the country through table displays, posters, bookmarks and stickers and through readings, essay contests and other events highlighting contested works. According to a report issued in April, the most targeted books have included Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir about sexual identity, “Gender Queer,” and Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” a coming-of-age novel narrated by a young gay man.
“We’re seeing that trend continue in 2022, the criticism of books with LGBTQ subject matter,” Caldwell-Jones says, adding that books about racism such as Angie Thomas’ novel “The Hate U Give” also are frequently challenged.
Banned Books Weeks is overseen by a coalition of writing and free speech organizations, including the National Coalition Against Censorship, the Authors Guild and PEN America.
Conservative attacks against schools and libraries have proliferated nationwide over the past two years, and librarians themselves have been harassed and even driven out of their jobs. A middle school librarian in Denham Springs, Louisiana, has filed a legal complaint against a Facebook page which labeled her a “criminal and a pedophile.” Voters in a western Michigan community, Jamestown Township, backed drastic cuts in the local library over objections to “Gender Queer” and other LGBTQ books.
Audrey Wilson-Youngblood, who in June quit her job as a library media specialist in the Keller Independent School District in Texas, laments what she calls the “erosion of the credibility and competency” in how her profession is viewed. At the Boundary County Library in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, library director Kimber Glidden resigned recently after months of harassment that included the shouting of Biblical passages referring to divine punishment. The campaign began with a single complaint about “Gender Queer,” which the library didn’t even stock, and escalated to the point where Glidden feared for her safety.
“We were being accused of being pedophiles and grooming children,” she says. “People were showing up armed at library board meetings.”
The executive director of the Virginia Library Association, Lisa R. Varga, says librarians in the state have received threatening emails and have been videotaped on the job, tactics she says that “are not like anything that those who went into this career were expecting to see.” Becky Calzada, library coordinator for the Leander Independent School District in Texas, says she has friends who have left the profession and colleagues who are afraid and “feel threatened.”
“I know some worry about promoting Banned Books Week because they might be accused of trying to advance an agenda,” she says. “There’s a lot of trepidation.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/book-ban-efforts-surging-in-2022-library-association-says/article_9c489e2c-360d-11ed-9521-db567cd29618.html | 2022-09-17T04:25:33Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/book-ban-efforts-surging-in-2022-library-association-says/article_9c489e2c-360d-11ed-9521-db567cd29618.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — When a government document mysteriously appeared earlier this week in the highest profile case in the federal court system, it had the hallmarks of another explosive storyline in the Justice Department’s investigation into classified records stored at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
The document purported to be from the U.S. Treasury Department, claimed that the agency had seized sensitive documents related to last month’s search at Mar-a-Lago and included a warrant ordering CNN to preserve “leaked tax records.”
The document remained late Thursday on the court docket, but it is a clear fabrication. A review of dozens of court records and interviews by The Associated Press suggest the document originated with a serial forger behind bars at a federal prison complex in North Carolina.
The incident also suggests that the court clerk was easily tricked into believing it was real, landing the document on the public docket in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant case. It also highlights the vulnerability of the U.S. court system and raises questions about the court’s vetting of documents that purport to be official records.
The document first appeared on the court’s docket late Monday afternoon and was marked as a “MOTION to Intervene by U.S. Department of the Treasury.”
The document, sprinkled with spelling and syntax errors, read, “The U.S. Department of Treasury through the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Marshals Service have arrested Seized Federal Securities containing sensitive documents which are subject to the Defendant Sealed Search Warrant by the F.B.I. arrest.”
It cited a federal statute for collecting financial records in federal investigations. The document also included the two supposed warrants, one that claimed to be sent to CNN in Atlanta and another to a towing company in Michigan.
Those supposed warrants, though, are identical to paperwork filed in another case in federal court in Georgia brought by an inmate at the prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina. The case was thrown out, as were the array of other frivolous lawsuits the man has filed from his prison cell.
The man has been in custody for several years since he was found not competent to stand trial after an arrest for planting a fake explosive outside the Guardian Building, a skyscraper in Detroit. Since his incarceration, he has filed a range of lawsuits and has impersonated the Treasury Department, claimed to be a federal trustee and claimed to be a lawyer for the Justice Department, a review of court records shows.
In the Georgia case, the man alleged that Trump and others had “acquired ‘millions of un- redacted classified tax returns and other sensitive financial data, bank records and accounts of banking and tax transactions of several million’ Americans and federal government agencies,” court documents say.
The judge in that case called his suit “fanatic” and “delusional,” saying there was no way to “discern any cognizable claim” from the incoherent filings.
The man has repeatedly impersonated federal officials in court records and has placed tax liens on judges using his false paperwork, two people familiar with the matter told the AP. Because of his history as a forger, his mail is supposed to be subjected to additional scrutiny from the Bureau of Prisons.
It’s unclear how the documents — the fake motion and the phony warrants — ended up at the court clerk’s office at the courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida.
A photocopy of an envelope, included in the filing, shows it was sent to the court with a printed return address of the Treasury Department’s headquarters in Washington. But a postmark shows a Michigan ZIP code, and a tracking number on the envelope shows it was mailed Sept. 9 from Clinton Township, Michigan, the inmate’s hometown.
The AP is not identifying the inmate by name because he has a documented history of mental illness and has not been charged with a crime related to the filing.
“There is simply nothing indicating that he has any authorization to act on behalf of the United States,” the judge in the Georgia case wrote.
But despite the clear warning signs — including a stamp noting the Georgia case number on the phony warrants — the filing still made its way onto the docket.
Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the Treasury Department would not comment. They declined to answer on the record when asked if the document was false and why the government had not addressed it.
Representatives in the court clerk’s office and the magistrate judge overseeing the search warrant case did not respond to requests for comment. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/phony-document-lands-on-court-docket-in-trump-search-case/article_ec400e7a-360c-11ed-a852-c73cfaf655c2.html | 2022-09-17T04:25:42Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/phony-document-lands-on-court-docket-in-trump-search-case/article_ec400e7a-360c-11ed-a852-c73cfaf655c2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to it grows.
On Tuesday, using his Truth Social platform, the Republican former president reposted an image of himself wearing a Q lapel pin overlaid with the words “The Storm is Coming.” In QAnon lore, the “storm” refers to Trump’s final victory, when supposedly he will regain power and his opponents will be tried, and potentially executed, on live television.
As Trump contemplates another run for the presidency and has become increasingly assertive in the Republican primary process during the midterm elections, his actions show that far from distancing himself from the political fringe, he is welcoming it.
He’s published dozens of recent Q-related posts, in contrast to 2020, when he claimed that while he didn’t know much about QAnon, he couldn’t disprove its conspiracy theory.
Pressed on QAnon theories that Trump allegedly is saving the nation from a satanic cult of child sex traffickers, he claimed ignorance but asked, “Is that supposed to be a bad thing?”
“If I can help save the world from problems, I’m willing to do it,” Trump said.
Trump’s recent postings have included images referring to himself as a martyr fighting criminals, psychopaths and the so-called deep state. In one now-deleted post from late August, he reposted a “q drop,” one of the cryptic message board postings that QAnon supporters claim come from an anonymous government worker with top secret clearance.
A Trump spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
Even when his posts haven’t referred to the conspiracy theory directly, Trump has amplified users who do. An Associated Press analysis found that of nearly 75 accounts Trump has reposted on his Truth Social profile in the past month, more than a third of them have promoted QAnon by sharing the movement’s slogans, videos or imagery. About 1 in 10 include QAnon language or links in their profile bios.
Earlier this month, Trump chose a QAnon song to close out a rally in Pennsylvania. The same song appears in one of his recent campaign videos and is titled “WWG1WGA,” an acronym used as a rallying cry for Q adherents that stands for “Where we go one, we go all.”
Online, Q adherents basked in Trump’s attention.
“Yup, haters!” wrote one commenter on an anonymous QAnon message board. “Trump re-truthed Q memes. and he’ll do it again, more and more of them, over and OVER, until everyone finally gets it. Make fun of us all you want, whatever! Soon Q will be everywhere!”
“Trump Sending a Clear Message Patriots,” a QAnon-linked account on Truth Social wrote. “He Re-Truthed This for a Reason.”
The former president may be seeking solidarity with his most loyal supporters at a time when he faces escalating investigations and potential challengers within his own party, according to Mia Bloom, a professor at Georgia State University who has studied QAnon and recently wrote a book about the group.
“These are people who have elevated Trump to messiah-like status, where only he can stop this cabal,” Bloom told the AP on Thursday. “That’s why you see so many images (in online QAnon spaces) of Trump as Jesus.”
On Truth Social, QAnon-affiliated accounts hail Trump as a hero and savior and vilify President Joe Biden by comparing him to Adolf Hitler or the devil. When Trump shares the content, they congratulate each other. Some accounts proudly display how many times Trump has “re-truthed” them in their bios.
By using their own language to directly address QAnon supporters, Trump is telling them that they’ve been right all along and that he shares their secret mission, according to Janet McIntosh, an anthropologist at Brandeis University who has studied QAnon’s use of language and symbols.
It also allows Trump to endorse their beliefs and their hope for a violent uprising without expressly saying so, she said, citing his recent post about “the storm” as a particularly frightening example.
“The ‘storm is coming’ is shorthand for something really dark that he’s not saying out loud,” McIntosh said. “This is a way for him to point to violence without explicitly calling for it. He is the prince of plausible deniability.”
Bloom predicted that Trump may later attempt to market Q-related merchandise or perhaps ask QAnon followers to donate to his legal defense.
Regardless of motive, Bloom said, it’s a reckless move that feeds a dangerous movement.
A growing list of criminal episodes has been linked to people who had expressed support for the conspiracy theory, which U.S. intelligence officials have warned could trigger more violence.
QAnon supporters were among those who violently stormed the Capitol during the failed Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
In November 2020, two men drove to a vote-counting site in Philadelphia in a Hummer adorned with QAnon stickers and loaded with a rifle, 100 rounds of ammunition and other weapons. Prosecutors alleged they were trying to interfere with the election.
Last year, a California man who told authorities he had been enlightened by QAnon was accused of killing his two children because he believed they had serpent DNA.
Last month, a Colorado woman was found guilty of attempting to kidnap her son from foster care after her daughter said she began associating with QAnon supporters. Other adherents have been accused of environmental vandalism, firing paintballs at military reservists, abducting a child in France and even killing a New York City mob boss.
On Sunday, police fatally shot a Michigan man who they say had killed his wife and severely injured his daughter. A surviving daughter told The Detroit News that she believes her father was motivated by QAnon.
“I think that he was always prone to (mental issues), but it really brought him down when he was reading all those weird things on the internet,” she told the newspaper.
The same weekend a Pennsylvania man who had reposted QAnon content on Facebook was arrested after he allegedly charged into a Dairy Queen with a gun, saying he wanted to kill all Democrats and restore Trump to power.
Major social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have banned content associated with QAnon and have suspended or blocked accounts that seek to spread it. That’s forced much of the group’s activities onto platforms that have less moderation, including Telegram, Gab and Trump’s struggling platform, Truth Social. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/trump-openly-embraces-amplifies-qanon-conspiracy-theories/article_b167cca4-360a-11ed-8942-0fc0cce1666a.html | 2022-09-17T04:25:42Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/trump-openly-embraces-amplifies-qanon-conspiracy-theories/article_b167cca4-360a-11ed-8942-0fc0cce1666a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — “The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York.
The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance on Broadway on Feb. 18, a spokesperson told The Associated Press on Friday. The closing will come less than a month after its 35th anniversary.
It is a costly musical to sustain, with elaborate sets and costumes as well as a large cast and orchestra. Box office grosses have fluctuated since the show reopened after the pandemic — going as high as over $1 million a week but also dropping to around $850,000. Last week, it hit $867,997 and producers may have seen the writing on the wall.
Based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, “Phantom” tells the story of a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lavish songs include “Masquerade,” “Angel of Music,” “All I Ask of You” and “The Music of the Night.”
The first production opened in London in 1986 and since then the show has been seen by more than 145 million people in 183 cities and performed in 17 languages over 70,000 performances. On Broadway alone, the musical has played more than 13,500 performances to 19 million people at The Majestic Theatre.
The closing of “Phantom” would mean the longest running show crown would go to “Chicago,” which started in 1996. “The Lion King” is next, having begun performances in 1997.
Broadway took a pounding during the pandemic, with all theaters closed for more than 18 months. Breaking even usually requires a steady stream of tourists, especially to “Phantom.”
The closure was first reported Friday by the New York Post. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/the-phantom-of-the-opera-to-close-on-broadway-next-year/article_e5e617b0-360f-11ed-8828-d792292da192.html | 2022-09-17T04:25:42Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/the-phantom-of-the-opera-to-close-on-broadway-next-year/article_e5e617b0-360f-11ed-8828-d792292da192.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Residents on Alaska's vast and sparsely populated western coast braced Friday for a powerful storm that forecasters said could be one of the worst in recent history, threatening hurricane-force winds and high surf that could knock out power and cause flooding.
The storm is the remnants of what was Typhoon Merbok, which University of Alaska Fairbanks climate specialist Rick Thoman said is also influencing weather patterns far from Alaska — a rare late-summer storm now is expected to bring rain this weekend to drought-stricken parts of California.
"All this warm air that's been brought north by this ex-typhoon is basically inducing a chain reaction in the jet stream downstream from Alaska," he said.
"It's a historic-level storm," Thoman said of the system steaming toward Alaska. "In 10 years, people will be referring to the September 2022 storm as a benchmark storm."
Hurricane-force winds were forecast in parts of the Bering Sea, while in the small communities of Elim and Koyuk, around 90 miles (145 kilometers) from the hub community of Nome, water levels could be up to 18 feet (5 meters) above the normal high tide line, according to the National Weather Service. Flood warnings were in effect until Monday in parts of northwest Alaska.
In Nome, which has about 3,500 residents, Leon Boardway was working as usual Friday at the Nome Visitors Center, a half-block from the Bering Sea. "I just want to keep my door open and the coffee pot on," he said after it had begun to rain and the winds picked up.
But few people were coming by. Residents, visitors and businesses in the town, famous for being at the end of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and the setting for the dredging-for-gold reality show "Bering Sea Gold," were boarding up windows and otherwise bracing for the storm.
"The ocean is getting worse out there," said Boardway, 71, as he checked out the center's webcam, which from its high perch has a good view of the swells.
"I hope everybody stays calm and everybody just gets in a good, safe position," he said.
Typhoon Merbok formed farther east in the Pacific Ocean than where such storms typically appear. Water temperatures are unusually warm this year so the storm "was able to spin up," Thoman said.
Meanwhile, a low-pressure system was expected to drop from the Gulf of Alaska and park off the coast of Northern California, producing gusty ridgetop winds before rains set in late Saturday, the National Weather Service said.
In the Sierra Nevada foothills northeast of the state capital of Sacramento, fire crews have been fighting what has become the largest wildfire in that state so far this year. While rain is needed, the storm was predicted to also bring winds that could spread the Mosquito Fire.
The storm will slow but not end California's fire season because fuels are critically dry and a period of warmer, drier weather will follow, said Courtney Carpenter, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
Forecasters said the weather system will spread rain down the state's central coast but little if any is expected in most of Southern California, where mountain and desert communities are dealing with the aftermath of too much rain.
Crews were clearing head-high mud flows in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, following flash-flooding Monday. Downpours from remnants of a Pacific hurricane caused the devastation in Southern California, with winds topping 100 mph (160 kph) last weekend.
First responders on Thursday found the body of a woman missing since the mudslides tore through her mountain town. Her remains were discovered buried under mud, rocks and other debris near her home.
The deluges added to road and infrastructure damage in desert national parks from the summer's punishing monsoonal thunderstorms.
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Thiessen reported from Anchorage, Alaska. Antczak reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/alaska-braces-for-huge-storm-flooding-power-outages-feared | 2022-09-17T04:42:43Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/alaska-braces-for-huge-storm-flooding-power-outages-feared | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A brush fire that started near a highway in Oakland, California, spread to a nearby residential area on Friday, damaging multiple homes and destroying at least one.
The fire started near the I-580 freeway, according to Oakland Fire Department crew members who were able to put out the blaze, but not before it caused severe damage, KGO reported.
Crews continued to work to put out different "hot spots" even after firefighters were able to get the fire under control.
At least one firefighter was taken to an area hospital with heat-related injuries but was expected to recover.
Authorities say wind played a significant role in the fire's spread. 80 firefighters responded to the scene. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/brushfire-damages-multiple-homes-outside-of-san-francisco-destroys-at-least-one | 2022-09-17T04:42:49Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/brushfire-damages-multiple-homes-outside-of-san-francisco-destroys-at-least-one | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — The No. 12 Florida State soccer team (5-0-2) dominated Boston College (4-2-3), 6-0, in the ACC opener. With the win, the Seminoles are unbeaten in the last 16 games, good for the third-longest unbeaten streak in school history. FSU also improves to 7-2-2 in ACC openers since 2012. The garnet and gold have outscored their last four opponents 21-0 with four straight wins of five goals or more.
The Florida State offense struck early in the first half, thanks to the Seminole defense. Two steals in the Boston College final third led to two scores by Onyi Echegini. The Seminoles' defense stifled the Eagles, allowing just six shots and one shot on goal, leading to Cristina Roque’s 30th career win, improving her career record to 30-0-8.
Just one minute and four seconds into the game the Seminoles took an early lead thanks to Echegini’s third goal of the season. After stealing a Boston College throw-in, Echegini worked her way to the left edge of the 18-yard box and fired one into the top right corner of the net across the BC keeper’s face.
10 minutes later, Echegini struck again with her second goal of the game. Jody Brown stole the ball on a Boston College pass about 30 yards away from the BC goal. She passed the ball to the left to Echegini who would score her second goal of the game from eight yards out. She became the fourth Nole this season to record two goals in a game.
Echegini almost scored her third goal of the game in the 21st minute on a header off a corner kick but she was called for a foul inside the 6-yard box. She converted on her first career hat trick in the 55th minute. Jenna Nighswonger took the ball up the middle of the field and passed it off to Clara Robbins who split two defenders with the pass to Echegini. One-on-one with the goalkeeper, Echegini converted from seven yards out.
Four minutes later, Nighswonger extended the lead to four with her third goal of the season. She took the corner kick from the left corner and bent it into the back post. The ball ricocheted off the post and into the back of a Boston College defender before finding the net.
Sophia Nguyen expanded the lead with her first career goal in the 75th minute. After throwing the ball in to Olivia Garcia, Nguyen got the ball back towards the left sideline and bent one into the goal between a Boston College defender.
Kaitlyn Zipay capped things off in the 84th minute with her first goal of the season as well. Zipay played a give-and-go with Emma Bissell and popped out behind the BC defense and slid her shot past the Eagle’s goalkeeper. | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/florida-state-womens-soccer-tops-boston-college-in-acc-opener | 2022-09-17T04:42:56Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/college-sports/fsu/florida-state-womens-soccer-tops-boston-college-in-acc-opener | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Quarterback Tate Rodemaker came off the bench to lead Florida State to a come-from-behind 35-31 victory over Louisville on Friday night.
The sophomore came in after Jordan Travis suffered a lower left leg injury with a little more than four minutes left in the second quarter and Florida State down 21-14. All the Valdosta, Georgia native did was lead the Seminoles to three, 75-yard second-half scoring drives. The last came with 7:54 left with a sensational 2-yard catch in the end zone by Johnny Wilson that put the Seminoles (3-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) up for good.
Rodemaker finished 6-for-10 passing for 109 yards with two touchdowns and an interception while leading Florida State to 260 of their 455 yards. Treshaun Ward added 126 yards on 10 carries for the Seminoles. Wilson finished with seven catches for 149 yards and both touchdowns from Rodemaker.
Louisville (1-2, 0-2) lost despite racking up 495 yards on offense. Malik Cunningham threw for 243 yards on 21-of-34 passing with a touchdown and an interception. The fifth-year senior also added 127 yards rushing and two scores on 17 carries.
The Cardinals had a chance to win the game after Ryan Fitzgerald missed a 36-yard field goal with 1:44 left, but Kevin Knowles II picked off a Cunningham pass at the Florida State 38 with 37 seconds left.
BIG PICTURE
Florida State: Losing Travis, who was on the sideline in the second half with crutches and a boot, for any length of time could be a big blow for the Seminoles. However, for at least Friday night, Rodemaker’s heroics were enough to lead the comeback.
Louisville: It may be hard to call the third game of the season a must-win, but given the way the Cardinals season started, Friday’s game was one they really needed. The defense that showed up in the second half of the win at Central Florida last week failed to show up when needed in the second half on Friday.
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Florida State returns home for a primetime game Saturday night against Boston College.
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People on Universal Credit can expect a payment boost this week for these four categories of people. People in four specific groups can expect a windfall from the Department for Work and Pensions.
The DWP issued guidance on how people's finances if they have to move from their current benefit payment to UC. It comes as this week six legacy payments are expected to be replaced by UC.
People will be given "migration notices" in the post about the changes. While people are being put onto UC they may get paid less, Birmingham Live reports.
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Who will get the Migration Notice letter from this week?
The DWP is sending out a letter called a Migration Notice this week telling people their benefits will be ending if they are on:
- Child Tax Credit
- Housing Benefit
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Working Tax Credit
Other benefits, such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP), will stay the same. Migration is the process of the DWP transferring people over to UC.
Some instances people may choose to switch (voluntary migration) or it will be triggered by a change in their circumstances (natural migration) such as moving in with a partner, the break-up of a relationship, having children, getting a job, working more hours, losing their job, or relocating to a new address. Other times, people will get more money when forced to go on to Universal Credit, others the same amount.
The DWP says around 1.4 million (55 per cent) of the 2.6 million remaining legacy benefits claimants would get more money if on Universal Credit instead, 300,000 would see no change in their payments and approximately 900,000 households (35 per cent) would get less. Two-thirds of those forced over to Universal Credit but getting less will be offered transitional protection to keep their benefits at the previous higher level, though this is only a temporary measure, the DWP says. Their benefits will effectively be frozen every April rather than going up - possibly for years - until they are the same as everyone else on Universal Credit.
Claimants to get a Universal Credit payment boost
Types of claimants who might see a higher entitlement under Universal Credit include:
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Support Group who are not in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium;
- In-work households receiving Housing Benefit only or Working Tax Credit and Housing Benefit - these are likely to have higher entitlements under Universal Credit as the earnings taper rules are more generous;
- People who do not work enough hours to receive Working Tax Credit; and
- Households who have not been claiming all the legacy benefits they are entitled to
- Claimants to get a Universal Credit payment drop
Types of claimants who might see a lower entitlement under Universal Credit (and therefore likely to be eligible for transitional protection if they are moved through the managed migration process) include:
- Households in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) who are in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium and Enhanced Disability Premium
- Households with the lower disabled child addition on legacy benefits;
- Self-employed households who are subject to the Minimum Income Floor, after the 12-month grace period has ended.
In-work households that worked a specific number of hours (for example, lone parent working 16 hours claiming Working Tax Credits), which discouraged progression in the labour market. This was not good for employees, but it also caused problems for employers, limiting their scope to design jobs to fit their business rather than the incentives created by the welfare system; and
Households receiving tax credits with savings of more than £6,000 (and up to £16,000) - UC entitlement is reduced in a different calculation to tax credits (households with savings of more than £16,000 are not normally eligible for UC).
Anyone who would end up with less will see payments artificially kept at the same level at first under a policy called 'transitional protection' that is designed to stop people from being hit by a sudden drop in income. The DWP says in its guidance: "On Universal Credit, most people will be entitled to the same amount they received from their previous benefits or more.
"If the amount you are entitled to on your existing benefits is more than you will get on Universal Credit, a top-up is available. This is called transitional protection. You can only get this top-up if you have received a Migration Notice letter from DWP and claim by the deadline date on your letter.
"If your circumstances change before you make your claim, this may affect the amount you get. You should claim as soon as possible to make sure the amount you are currently entitled to can be protected. Any transitional protection you receive as part of your Universal Credit claim may stop if you have a change in circumstances once you've made your claim."
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WAIPAHU, Hawaii (KITV4)-- A pool that was once filled with Waipahu community members is now empty and green.
Residents have been waiting for 5 years for the pool at the Waipahu district park to re-open.
They say they miss having somewhere to gather with friends and family and a place to cool off during these hot summer days.
Cora Angel reminisced on taking her kids to the pool and hopes the next generation of kids can soon enjoy it.
"It's very frustrating and like I said It's a form of enjoyment and give the kids something to do and stay out of trouble" share Angel.
Many are wondering why did the pool close in the first place?
While contractors were renovating the pool pump room in 2017 they found issues with electrical bonding at the pool deck. The total cost of renovating the pump room was $987,400. Fixing the electric bonding will cost a total of $148,000.
Finding the right contractor to fix the issue and having enough funding postponed construction.
Spokesman for the city's parks and recreation department, Nate Serota, says it is a top priority to get the pool back up and running.
"We don't have parks for them to be eye candy or for them to be closed for renovation. We want them open we want them serving the public. We want to see kids there we want to see kupuna in there" shares Serota.
Construction is underway and repairs are being made to ensure the pool is safe for public use. Maintenance issues, including the discoloration of the pool, will be addressed so health and cleanliness standards are met.
Serota says renovations are nearing completion and the pool should be opening in the next couple of months.
"We want to see people enjoying these facilities. So we really want to get it activated as soon as possible."
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Chloe Marklay joined the KITV Island News team as a reporter/MMJ in September 2022. She comes from WTHI in Indiana where she worked as a reporter, producer, and fill-in anchor. | https://www.kitv.com/news/after-5-years-closed-the-waipahu-district-pool-will-be-opening-soon/article_abc87800-362f-11ed-98c3-43e19ee8bbe7.html | 2022-09-17T04:49:47Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/after-5-years-closed-the-waipahu-district-pool-will-be-opening-soon/article_abc87800-362f-11ed-98c3-43e19ee8bbe7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) - As home burglaries continue to rise, more families are choosing to secure their homes with surveillance cameras and home monitors. Now, there are several crimes caught on camera which raises the question, how affective are these security systems? Are they helping to reduce the number of break-ins?
Kaimuki resident Yun Li said a man walked into her garage in broad daylight and stole her Segway. She caught it all on her home security camera. Li said she has the suspect's license plate number and could recognize the man based on the footage.
However, she said right now, police have no leads.
“Security cameras add a little more peace of mind just like if you put out a sign that says you’ve got big dogs. It’s another layer that enables some sort of comfort but I don’t think its deterring any criminals," said Li.
She said she thinks she's more likely to find the culprit through social media.
According to HPD, less than 8% of all violent and property crime cases end up in prosecution.
Although home security footage is evidence, most of the time it is not enough to make an arrest.
"A lot of people have their video cameras set up overhead and you don’t get a good picture of the face. That’s one of the crucial things for the prosecutors to charge and to have a successful case," said Michael Kitchens, admin of “Stolen Stuff Hawaii” group on Facebook.
Kitchens said amateur criminals may be deterred from surveillance cameras but they do not stop larger break-ins. He recommends face level and hidden cameras.
Some experts said security alarm systems that notify the police are more important and cameras are secondary.
"We recommend little sensors on doors and windows to know if it’s been opened and then a motion detector is a last line of defense. It means someone is inside your home. We just want an alarm to be triggered as soon as humanly possible. If there’s an audible noise, want the homeowners aware, the intruder aware and HPD dispatched," said Kevin Aboud, CEO of ZMANA Residential and Commercial Security Systems.
Aboud said he gets 40 calls weekly and half of them are from people who have already experienced something in their home or neighborhood.
He recommended home security alarms for safety as well as convenience.
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Nottingham: Nottingham Forest squandered a lead for the second successive Premier League game as they slipped to a 3-2 home defeat by Fulham in the Premier League on Friday.
Taiwo Awoniyi gave Forest the perfect start when he headed them in front after 11 minutes from a Ryan Yates corner.
But Fulham struck three times in six minutes early in the second half to turn the match on its head.
Tosin Adarabioyo headed the equaliser in the 54th minute from a Willian cross and three minutes later Joao Palhinha found the top corner with a superb left-footed effort.
With Forest at sixes and sevens, Fulham scored again when Harrison Reed fired home from a Bobby De Cordova-Reid cross.
Lewis O'Brien gave Forest hope with a 77th-minute effort but Steve Cooper's side could not salvage a point.
Forest, who lost to Bournemouth in their previous game from 2-0 up, are second-bottom of the table with four points.
Fulham, who came up from the Championship with Forest last season, moved up to sixth with 11 points.
"From the first whistle in our first game of the season, we have been on the front foot," Reed said.
"We have made it difficult against the big teams as well. The manager had some words with us at half time about where we could hurt them.
"There is a really good feeling around the club."
For Forest, back in the top flight for the first time since 1999, the alarm bells are ringing.
They have played attractive football but porous defending is undermining their season and they have conceded 14 goals in their last four defeats.
It all started well for the hosts, though, as Awoniyi headed home to reward early pressure.
Everything changed after the break as Fulham hit back in ruthless fashion with Adarabioyo's header sparking a capitulation by Forest.
Palhinha's stunning strike flattened the atmosphere in the City Ground and when Reed made it 3-1 it left Forest with too much to do despite a late flurry.
"It has happened again. A few games now we have taken the lead and not managed it well enough," Cooper said.
"We are not handling conceding the first goal. It has cost us the last two games. You cannot do that at any level, particularly this one. It is something we need to improve on." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/09/17/forest-squander-lead-again-in-loss-to-fulham.html | 2022-09-17T04:49:53Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/09/17/forest-squander-lead-again-in-loss-to-fulham.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Senate Minority leader Kurt Fevella (District 19) is calling on the Honolulu Police Department to pursue criminal penalties for false reporting to law enforcement, following an alleged incident that occurred on September 7.
On the night of Wednesday, September 7, first responders arrived at a homeless encampment near One'ula Beach Park, following a 911 call that a male had been shot. But according to a letter from Fevella to HPD Chief Joe Logan, this was not the case.
In the letter, Senator Fevella explained, “I was present at the scene of this incident, and I have since learned from community members the male victim (who goes by the name of "Felix") falsely informed authorities about his injuries which were instead self-sustained while clearing kiawe shrubs and trees with a hammer.”
He went on to state, “My concern is that due to one person's alleged false report, law enforcement resources were wasted and more specifically directed away from the legitimate needs of others in the community of ‘Ewa Beach and elsewhere in the City and County of Honolulu.”
The senator is also concerned that incidents of false reporting can leave an impression about the safety of the ‘Ewa Beach community that is not always the case.
False reporting is currently punishable as a misdemeanor.
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Kathryn spent the last decade in the Bay Area working in nonprofits, education, and communications consulting. She has a B.A. in English from St. Mary's College of CA and an M.A. in Public Affairs and Politics from the University of San Francisco. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/hawaii-senator-kurt-fevella-calls-for-criminal-penalties-for-false-reporting-following-beach-park-incident/article_f37771de-3638-11ed-a714-a771f41bc0e7.html | 2022-09-17T04:49:59Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/hawaii-senator-kurt-fevella-calls-for-criminal-penalties-for-false-reporting-following-beach-park-incident/article_f37771de-3638-11ed-a714-a771f41bc0e7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ford’s current-generation Mustang will soldier on for one more model year, but it will do so without the fire-breathing Shelby GT500.
The information was first reported on Wednesday by Muscle Cars and Trucks and since confirmed to Motor Authority by Ford spokesman Mike Levine.
The current Mustang will have a shortened 2023 model year before finally bowing out to make way for the redesigned 2024 Mustang that was unveiled on Wednesday at the 2022 Detroit auto show. The current car will continue to offer the Mach 1, which will be the new range-topper in lieu of the Shelby GT500.
Ford hasn’t said when production of the current car will cease, though we know the redesigned car arrives next summer. Speaking to Muscle Cars and Trucks, Jim Owens, Ford Performance’s marketing manager, said Ford was still busy catching up building 2022 Mustangs due to various production setbacks in the past year, and that there was still plenty of demand for the current car.
While there’s a good chance the Shelby GT500 (and the GT350) will return, there might be a gap of several years as the Mustang’s Shelby variants aren’t typically available at launch. It means if you’ve been planning to buy a Shelby GT500, now would be the time to act.
Even if you wait for the arrival of the redesigned Mustang, there will be plenty of performance on offer straight out of the box thanks to a new Dark Horse model that will likely replace the Mach 1. It will share a 5.0-liter V-8 with the Mustang GT but see power rise to around 500 hp.
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Wind-tunnel testing has proven that the Lightyear 0 is the most aerodynamic production car in the world, Lightyear claims.
Testing conducted at the FKFS wind tunnels in Stuttgart, Germany, under WLTP protocols confirmed a 0.175 coefficient of drag (Cd) for the solar-assisted electric car, Lightyear said Thursday in a press release.
That figure puts the Lightyear 0 ahead of the Lucid Air, Tesla Model S, and Mercedes-Benz EQS, all at 0.20 to 0.21. Each of those are much larger than the Lightyear 0, however, and will likely be produced in higher volumes. Lightyear has said it only plans to sell 150 cars (priced at about $260,000 each), with a “high-volume” model to follow.
Lightyear’s claim is an impressive achievement for even a low-volume production car, however.
The Mercedes EQXX achieves just 0.17, but it’s not production-bound. The concept is a showcase of ideas to improve EV efficiency, and did a real-world range run of 746 miles from Stuttgart to Silverstone, England, on a single charge—with enough energy to spare for some victory laps.
Launched in 2013, the Volkswagen XL1 achieved a 0.189 Cd. The slim coupe used a plug-in hybrid diesel powertrain that seemed like a good idea in the days before the VW emissions scandal, and was actually produced in very limited numbers. Just 200 were sold out of a planned run of 250 cars exclusively for the European market, where the Lightyear 0 will also be available.
The production General Motors EV1 had a Cd of 0.195, but that was achieved with a fairly impractical two-door body shell. The EV1 wasn’t a high-volume car, either. GM built 1,117 and leased them to customers in California and a handful of other locations. Most were recalled and destroyed after California changed its zero-emission vehicle laws, allowing the EV1 to be withdrawn without the threat of penalties.
The EV1, XL1, EQXX, and now the Lightyear 0 have shown that cutting drag requires a radically different shape to conventional cars. Does that make sedans obsolete? At the very least, designers and engineers attempting to make a three-box sedan with leading-edge aero face some tough challenges.
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Jeep plans to launch an electric Wagoneer in 2024 and previewed the vehicle last week with the near-production Wagoneer S concept.
However, fans of the original SJ Grand Wagoneer can also jump on the EV bandwagon thanks to Michigan startup company The Ghost Garage, which is working on an electric conversion for the SUV icon.
Full details are still forthcoming as the conversion won’t be available until next year, but The Ghost Garage has already confirmed a range of more than 250 miles and peak output of 500 hp. The company will use Grand Wagoneers from model years 1989-1991, the last for the SJ generation.
Order books are now open and the price for a turnkey vehicle starts from $290,000. While that’s certainly steep, The Ghost Garage will perform a full restoration of the vehicle in addition to swapping in the electric powertrain. The restoration will extend to the interior of the vehicle and include safety upgrades, the company said. It will also come with a warranty.
The Ghost Garage was co-founded by Tim Smith, who is CEO of Osirius, a Detroit-based engineering company specializing in vehicle development, process integration, and tooling integration, and whose team of specialists will work on the Grand Wagoneer and future conversions for The Ghost Garage.
“A new generation of buyers are entering the classic vehicle market and looking for a blend of tradition and technology,” Smith said in a statement. “The Ghost Garage was conceived to break through the hobby-shop approach to restomods by offering the levels of quality and efficiency associated with luxury automotive brands.”
A number of electric conversion companies have sprung up in recent years as the popularity of EVs continues to grow, with names such as Everrati and Lunaz making headlines of late. Even the major automakers are getting in on the act, with the likes of Ford, Jaguar, Mini, and Volkswagen all offering options for some of their classics.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Gayl Jones is a fiction nominee for the National Book Award, the rare established name on a list of 10 that features eight debut works of fiction.
Jones was cited Friday for “The Birdcatcher,” an exploration of race, art and marriage in which a Black American writer journeys to the island of Ibiza and stays with her married friends, one of whom is trying to kill the other. Jones, 72, is herself the author of one of the most acclaimed debut books in recent memory, the novel “Corregidora,” which came out in 1975. She has published sporadically in the decades following and last year broke a 20-year hiatus with the novel “Palmares,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, announced long lists of 10 earlier this week for young people’s literature, poetry, literature in translation and nonfiction. The competitive categories will be narrowed to lists of five on Oct. 4, with winners announced during a Nov. 16 ceremony that will include honorary prizes for cartoonist Art Spiegelman and for Tracie D. Hall, executive director of the American Library Association.
The lists are judged by panels of authors, critics and other members of the literary community. Among the books bypassed by fiction judges: Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House,” Lydia Millet’s “Dinosaurs,” Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less Is Lost” and Yiyun Li’s “The Book of Goose.”
Besides Jones, Jamil Jan Kochai is the only nominee who had previously published fiction. He was cited Friday for the collection “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories.” The fiction list also includes two filmmakers: Fatimah Asghar, author of “If They Come for Us,” is the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated “Brown Girls”; Ramona Emerson, who wrote and directed the documentary “The Mayors of Shiprock,” is a National Book Award nominee for “Shutter.”
Three of the debut books are story collections: Leigh Newman’s “Nobody Gets Out Alive,” Marytza K. Rubio’s “Maria, Maria & Other Stories” and Jonathan Escoffery’s “If I Survive You,” an interlinked series of stories.
The other nominees are Sarah Thankam Mathews’ ”All This Could Be Different,” Tess Gunty’s “The Rabbit Hutch” and Alejandro Varela’s “The Town of Babylon,” released by Astra Publishing House, which was founded just two years ago. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/entertainment-news/ap-novelist-gayl-jones-is-among-national-book-award-finalists/ | 2022-09-17T04:52:12Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/entertainment-news/ap-novelist-gayl-jones-is-among-national-book-award-finalists/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Houston Astros ace right-hander Justin Verlander was reinstated from the 15-day injured list and is scheduled to start the second game of a four-game home set against the Oakland Athletics on Friday.
Verlander (16-3, 1.84 ERA), a leading candidate for the American League Cy Young award, landed on the IL with an injured right calf on Aug. 28. He avoided damage to the muscle, which shortened the IL stint and enabled Verlander to return to the rotation in time to provide the Astros a few additional starts prior to the postseason. That qualifies as fortuitous timing.
“The better shape you’re in, the sooner you can come back,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said. “He was in great shape; he works hard and is strong mentally.”
Verlander leads the majors in ERA and WHIP (0.855) while pacing the AL in wins and winning percentage (.842). He sustained the injury defensively against the Baltimore Orioles and was able to resume throwing in short order, facilitating his relatively quick return.
The Astros have not set a pitch count for Verlander, who anticipates being able to throw more than 75 pitches while not exceeding 110. He last threw 100-plus pitches on Aug. 16 and has reached that plateau only once in his previous six starts, a clear nod to the Astros’ attempts to keep him fresh for an extended postseason run.
“The lines of communication have been very open between myself and Dusty and (Astros pitching coach Josh) Miller, the training staff and management — and this has been no different,” Verlander said of expectations entering his 25th start. “I didn’t have to stop throwing for very long, so that was a huge benefit. But it’s been two and a half weeks since I’ve been in a game, so there’s also that.”
Rookie right-hander Adrian Martinez (4-4, 5.59) is the scheduled starter for the Athletics on Friday. Recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas for his fourth stint with Oakland on Aug. 28, Martinez is 2-1 with a 4.80 ERA over three starts since.
He took the loss in his previous start against the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 10, having surrendered seven runs on 14 hits (a franchise record for fewer than four innings) and one walk with two strikeouts over 3 2/3 innings in a 10-2 defeat.
Martinez will make his first career appearance against the Astros.
The Athletics were emboldened by the performance Thursday of starter James Kaprielian, who allowed two runs over six innings in his first appearance since Aug. 31. Kaprielian was scheduled to start on Sept. 9, but he was scratched with a right middle finger laceration. He had been 0-4 with a 6.46 ERA over his last five starts, but he rebounded from those struggles and the injury in fine form.
“This was a great outing for him coming off the finger,” Athletics manager Mark Kotsay said following a 5-2 loss on Thursday. “For him to come out and give us six innings against this lineup … and see him finish that sixth inning (was good). It’s a tough inning to get through third time through that lineup, and he did a great job for us.”
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Well, we were right on the edge of feeling pretty good about how this Marquette men’s soccer season was going. Three straight wins, two straight shutouts with starting netminder Chandler Hallwood back in the lineup after missing the first two match of the year.... lots to be feeling good about.
And then Marquette let one thing after another fall apart on them against Wisconsin back on Monday night. A 1-0 lead created in the 41st minute was 1-1 at halftime as the Golden Eagles couldn’t protect their margin for four minutes, and then less than four minutes out of intermission, zooooop, 2-1 Badgers. It kept getting worse as UW put up two more goals to go up 4-1 with just under 30 minutes left to play. MU did claw one back late, but eh, it’s not like it made much of a difference here, y’know?
So now what?
Well, it seems like Marquette has a pair of pretty big tests ahead of them over the next four days. First it’s an unbeaten squad with a win over a team that was ranked in the top 10 at the time of the match, and then it’s a game against a squad that beat that Wisconsin squad that caved MU’s head in. Now, as we’ll get into, both of these squads have had their own share of problems in the early going this season, so it’s not like this is a disaster waiting to happen for the Golden Eagles.
Instead, it’s a chance to get the train back on the tracks. Perfectly timed, too, as the Golden Eagles will start Big East play exactly one week after this Saturday’s match. If MU can figure out how to get the ship upright again and get things going in a positive direction, they should be able to pull two wins out of these matches. If they do, then they can charge at the wheat thresher that is Big East play with nothing but positive thoughts.
If they don’t? If things go almost weirdly wrong like they did against Wisconsin? Might be a long final five weeks of the season.
Match #6: vs Yale Bulldogs (2-0-2)
Date: Saturday, September 17, 2022
Time: 7:05pm Central
Location: Valley Fields, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Streaming: FloFC
Live Stats: Sidearm Stats
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteSoccer
This is the first ever meeting between Marquette and Yale in men’s soccer.
Yale started off their year with a pair of draws, but that description doesn’t really tell the story of either contest. In their opener, they gave up a 45th minute goal to Saint Francis.... on SFU’s first shot of the match while outshooting them 10-1 in the first half. Final shots: 21-4, and the Bulldogs equalized in the 63rd minute. Against Rutgers on the road next time out, there were a pair of penalty kicks, one for each side, in the first half hour before Yale took the lead in the 61st minute.....and then gave it away in the 87th while getting outshot 20-9 in the match.
Weird!
They’ve come away from their last two contests with wins, including booting in an 88th minute goal to tack onto a penalty kick to beat then-#10 West Virginia.... even though they got outshot 13-6. Their most recent game was a 1-0 home win over noted Big East squad Villanova... but again, the Bulldogs had to push through getting dominated in shots 14-7 to get a 77th minute strike from Kai Moos to hold on to win.
The good news for the Bulldogs is that they are undefeated on the season and they beat a top 10 ranked team. The bad news is that I don’t think they should really feel great about any of their results. What does that mean for Marquette? No idea!
Elian Haddock is the Yale goalkeeper, and boy howdy has he been busy this season. He’s allowed four goals in four matches, but is coming into Saturday night on a shutout streak of nearly two full matches. He’s faced 51 shots so far this season, but they’ve been kind of sprayed everywhere as he’s just a shade under three saves per contest. The 6’4” senior will also probably have a decent sized cheering section in Valley Fields because he went to Whitefish Bay High School.
Paolo Carroll is the only Bulldog with more than one goal this season, but that’s a little misleading. He’s the guy that knocked in both of their penalty kicks, and while there’s a certain amount of skill to doing that successfully, it’s also prrrrrrrrobably a little easier than scoring two in the run of play. He is second on the team in shots behind Max Rogers, so it’s not like Marquette can just ignore Carroll as long as he’s not at the spot. Rogers also has half of Yale’s four assists on the year, so he’s chipped in one way or another on three of the four goals that aren’t Carroll’s PKs.
Match #7: vs Milwaukee Panthers (1-3-2)
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Time: 7:05pm Central
Location: Valley Fields, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Streaming: FloFC
Live Stats: Sidearm Stats
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteSoccer
Marquette is 11-31-5 all time against Milwaukee, making this the 48th time that The Milwaukee Cup has been contested. Milwaukee has held the Cup since 2017 as they defeated Marquette 2-0 to take the traveling trophy that year and then won in 2018 and 2019 as well. While the series has been tilted towards the Panthers in the long haul, things are much more even since the late 1990s. Since Marquette took control of the Cup in 1998, MU’s record in the series stands at 8-11-3, although they are winless in the last five meetings. The Milwaukee Cup had been contested in every year of MU’s program up through the 2019 campaign, and the last two seasons had a break in the series due to COVID protocols and scheduling.
Milwaukee got a first place vote in the Horizon League’s preseason poll. That’s important to note here, because things have not gone well for them since that poll came out. Losing 2-0 to Elon on a neutral site? Not good, and their 4-0 loss on three second half strikes to then-#12 Duke isn’t exactly what you like to see happen on the road. I think their third match is perhaps the most instructive for Marquette, as the Panthers beat Wisconsin 2-1. This is the same Wisconsin team that scored four times in 20 minutes against the Golden Eagles last Monday night, and the Panthers did it after recovering from a 5th minute Badgers goal.
That’s their only win, though. They followed that up with a 3-2 loss on the road against Northern Illinois after coughing up the winner in the 88th minute, and in each of the last two contests, they’ve coughed up leads to go to draws against Drake and Western Illinois. Here’s UW-Milwaukee head coach Kris Kelderman after the WIU match:
“It was a frustrating result for our group based on how we played and the number of chances that we created – and quality chances that we created and had,” head coach Kris Kelderman said. “We have to buckle down and get sharper in front of the goal.”
I point that out because that match was on Tuesday night and as I write this, it was their most recent match. They’ll open up Horizon League play against Robert Morris on Saturday afternoon before coming over from the East Side to tangle with Marquette, so we’ll see what Kelderman instills in his troops between now and then.
Gabe Anguil and Abdu Regassa are currently tied for the lead on the team in points at five each, but they’ve gotten there in different ways. Anguil leads the team in assists with three — he’s the only one with more than two helpers so far this year — and the sophomore from Wauwatosa is the one who scored their goal against Western Illinois. Regassa is tied with Logan Farrington for the team lead in goals with two. He had one against Wisconsin and another in the Drake match. Farrington and Joshua Kidder are the team leaders in shots with 15 each in six matches so far this year, so MU’s defensive corps is going to have no shortage of numbers to keep their eyes on.
Dutch sophomore Gijs Van Schouten has taken over the Milwaukee net from Nick Chiappa in the last two contests. He’s stopping over 81% of shots on goal, which is a drastic improvement over Chiappa’s 38% in UWM’s first four contests. I would presume that’s a coaching change as opposed to an injury replacement, so it seems like a safe bet that Van Schouten is the likely starting netminder for the Panthers against MU. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/16/23351573/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-soccer-preview-yale-bulldogs-milwaukee-panthers-milwaukee-cup | 2022-09-17T04:53:59Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/9/16/23351573/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-soccer-preview-yale-bulldogs-milwaukee-panthers-milwaukee-cup | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP)Joey Meneses hit an inside-the-park home run, Ildemaro Vargas had a go-ahead double in the eighth inning and the Washington Nationals rallied to beat the Miami Marlins 5-4 on Friday night.
Washington snapped a five-game losing streak, beating Miami at home for the first time in eight tries this season. The Nationals are 2-12 overall against the Marlins.
Meneses, a 30-year-old rookie, is hitting .323 with nine homers and 23 RBIs in 38 games since debuting Aug. 2.
”I can’t say enough about the guy,” manager Dave Martinez said. ”He keeps hitting.”
Lewin Diaz homered for Miami. The Marlins have lost six of eight and 15 of 19.
Marlins reliever Cole Sulser (1-4) entered a 4-4 game in the eighth and walked Meneses and allowed Luke Voit’s single with one out. Vargas then lashed a shot to left-center that bounced over the wall and brought in Meneses to give Washington its first lead.
Carl Edwards Jr. (6-3) pitched a scoreless eighth for the Nationals. Kyle Finnegan handled the ninth for his ninth save in 13 attempts.
Miami starter Jesus Luzardo took a 4-0 lead into the seventh when Meneses hit one off the wall in center. It caromed off a leaping JJ Bleday and trickled down the warning track toward right, allowing Meneses time to round the bases.
”It really surprised me,” Meneses said. ”As I was running to third, I never thought it would be an inside-the-park home run.”
It was the eighth inside-the-park homer in Nationals history and the first since Andrew Stevenson on Sept. 26, 2020.
”He stopped at third, and that’s a tough thing to do really, to stop and get your momentum back and keep going,” Martinez said. ”He went and I told him `Tomorrow when you read the paper, it’s going to say HR on there no matter what.”’
Luzardo’s night ended a batter later when he walked Voit. Reliever Tanner Scott issued two more walks and yielded Victor Robles’ sacrifice fly. CJ Abrams then laced a two-run triple past a diving Brian Anderson in right to tie it.
Luzardo surrendered two runs and five hits in six innings while striking out six.
The Marlins had three hits in the eighth, but Edwards picked off pinch runner Luke Williams for the second out and right fielder Lane Thomas easily threw out Miguel Rojas at third to end the inning.
”If you get beat, it’s one thing,” Miami manager Don Mattingly said. ”But when you don’t play solid baseball, when you’re giving free bases and giving free outs, those are things you don’t want to do. You are what you are and we are where we’re at, but you still want to play solid baseball.”
After breezing through the first inning in six pitches, Washington starter Josiah Gray gave up a single and a double to begin the second, and Bryan De La Cruz and Rojas followed with RBI groundouts. Jordan Groshans walked and Diaz crushed a first-pitch fastball to right-center to make it 4-0.
Gray allowed four runs and struck out four in five innings. He has allowed a majors-leading 37 homers this season.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Nationals: DH Nelson Cruz (eye inflammation) was out of the lineup for the second consecutive game and remains day to day. . RHP Cade Cavalli (shoulder inflammation) will be shut down for 3-7 days after reporting pain upon throwing Wednesday from about 60 feet. Cavalli received a cortisone shot.
UP NEXT
Marlins: LHP Trevor Rogers (4-11, 5.35 ERA) has not won in seven starts since beating Washington on July 1, but does have a 2.95 ERA in three starts since returning from the injured list last month.
Nationals: RHP Erick Fedde (6-10, 5.24) is 4-1 with a 1.86 ERA in nine lifetime starts against Miami, though the loss came April 27 at Nationals Park.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who is running for governor in Arkansas, underwent surgery Friday for thyroid cancer.
Sanders announced she underwent the surgery after a biopsy earlier this month revealed that she had thyroid cancer.
“Today, I underwent a successful surgery to remove my thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and by the grace of God I am now cancer-free,” Sanders said in a statement released by her campaign. “I want to thank the Arkansas doctors and nurses for their world-class care, as well as my family and friends for their love, prayers, and support.”
Sanders, 40, said she looked forward to returning to the campaign trail soon. Sanders’ last public event was at the Arkansas Razorbacks football game on Saturday.
Sanders, who served as former President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman until 2019, is running against Democratic nominee Chris Jones. She is the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Sanders, who has shattered fundraising records in the race, is heavily favored in the predominantly Republican state of Arkansas. The state’s current Republican governor, Asa Hutchinson, is leaving office in January due to term limits.
A doctor for Sanders said in a statement that he expected her to be back on her feet within the next 24 hours. Dr. John R. Sims, a surgeon at CARTI Cancer Center in Little Rock, said Sanders will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine and continued long follow up care.
Sims said Sanders’ cancer was a stage 1 papillary thyroid carcinoma, the most common type of thyroid cancer and said she has an “excellent” prognosis.
“I think it’s fair to say she’s now cancer free, and I don’t anticipate any of this slowing her down,” Sims said.
During Sanders’ nearly two-year tenure at the White House, she scaled back daily televised briefings after repeatedly sparring with reporters and faced questions about her credibility. But she also earned reporters’ respect working behind the scenes to develop relationships with the media.
Sanders was well known in Arkansas politics before launching her governor’s bid, going back to when she appeared in ads for her father’s campaigns. She managed Sen. John Boozman’s 2010 election and worked as an adviser to Sen. Tom Cotton’s in 2014.
She’s run primarily on national issues in the Arkansas race, promising to use the governor’s office to fight President Joe Biden and the “radical left.” | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-sarah-sanders-undergoes-surgery-for-thyroid-cancer/ | 2022-09-17T04:55:58Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-sarah-sanders-undergoes-surgery-for-thyroid-cancer/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wall Street closed out the stock market’s worst week in three months with more losses Friday, as a stark warning from FedEx about rapidly worsening trends in the economy rattled already anxious investors.
The S&P 500 fell 0.7%, with all but two of its 11 company sectors ending in the red. The benchmark index sank 4.8% for the week, with much of the loss coming from a 4.3% rout on Tuesday following a surprisingly hot report on inflation. The last time it posted a bigger weekly decline was the week ended June 17.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.5% and the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.9%. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies took the heaviest losses, falling 1.5%.
All the major indexes have now posted losses four out of the past five weeks.
FedEx sank 21.4% for its biggest single-day sell-off on record after warning investors that profits for its fiscal first-quarter will likely fall short of forecasts because of a dropoff in business. The package delivery service is also shuttering storefronts and corporate offices and expects business conditions to further weaken.
Industrial giant General Electric also helped put traders in a selling mood after its chief financial officer said the company is still bogged down by supply chain problems that were raising costs. GE shares fell 3.7%.
The worrisome corporate updates hit a market already on edge because of stubbornly high inflation as well as the higher interest rates being used to fight it, which will slow the economy. Wall Street is bracing for another hefty interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve next week following a meeting of central bank policymakers.
“Based on this week’s market results there’s no question that investors are going into the weekend, No. 1 very concerned about the U.S. economy looking into the balance of this year and No. 2, with all eyes focused on next week’s Fed action,” said Greg Bassuk, CEO at AXS Investments.
The S&P 500 fell 28.02 points to 3,873.33. It’s now down 18.7% so far this year.
The Dow dropped 139.40 points to 30,822.42 and the Nasdaq slid 103.95 points to 11,448.40. The Russell 2000 gave up 27.04 points to 1,798.19.
Technology stocks, banks and energy firms had some of the biggest losses. Adobe fell 3.1%, Bank of America dropped 1.1% and Chevron slid 2.6%.
Makers of household goods, which are typically considered less risky investments, held up better than the rest of the market. Campbell Soup rose 1.3%.
The Federal Reserve is aggressively raising interest rates in an effort to cool the hottest inflation in four decades, but that has raised worries that it could hit the brakes too hard and slide the economy into a recession. The central bank has already raised interest rates four times this year and economists expect another jumbo increase of three-quarters of a point when the Fed’s leaders meet next week.
Higher interest rates tend to weigh on stocks, especially the pricier technology sector. Technology stocks within the S&P 500 are down more than 26% for the year and communications companies have shed more than 34%. They are the worst performing sectors within the benchmark index so far this year.
The housing sector is also hurting as interest rates rise. Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed above 6% this week for the first time since the housing crash of 2008. The higher rates could make an already tight housing market even more expensive for homebuyers.
Reports this week from the government showed that prices for just about everything but gas are still rising, the job market is still red-hot and consumers continue to spend, all of which give ammunition to Fed officials who say the economy can tolerate more rate hikes.
“The market is really looking at data in terms of what the Fed is going to do next year and how far they’ll have to go,” said Scott Wren, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute. “I think they’ll be in a good spot after September, where they’ll have plenty of flexibility to get where they want to be by the end of the year.”
Treasury yields eased a bit Friday after a report showed expectations for inflation among U.S. households are falling to their lowest levels since last year. That’s a positive for markets because the Fed fears a rise in such expectations would make inflation much tougher to fight. But the survey also showed uncertainty remains very high among households about where inflation is heading.
The yield on the 2-year Treasury, which tends to follow expectations for Fed action, fell to 3.85% from 3.92% shortly before the report’s release. The 10-year yield fell to 3.45% from 3.49%. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/ap-asian-stocks-follow-wall-st-lower-amid-inflation-pressure/ | 2022-09-17T04:56:19Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/ap-asian-stocks-follow-wall-st-lower-amid-inflation-pressure/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PARIS (AP) — Many domestic and some international flights were canceled in France Friday as air traffic controllers went on a national strike over pay and recruitment issues.
French civil aviation authority DGAC warned that domestic traffic would be “severely disrupted” with many flights canceled and other experiencing long delays. Travelers have been advised to postpone their trip if possible.
Air France said it has canceled 55% of its short- and medium-haul flights and 10% of its long-haul flights. The company could not rule out further delays and last-minute cancellations, it said in a statement.
Other companies operating in France, including Ryanair, Easyjet and Volotea, have also canceled flights.
Mamadou Souré, 42, arrived Friday morning at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport from Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
“We were supposed to take a flight to Milan at 9:30 a.m. but it was canceled, but thank God we found a flight at 1:30 p.m. for Turin. We’ll see if we can make it to Milan from there,” he said.
Maria Oudon, from Orlando, Florida, was relieved to see her flight mentioned as “on time” on the airport’s board. “We did spend all night worrying about it because they said to possibly change your flight or have other options. And we still came because we had to take our daughter to school,” she said.
France’s main union of air traffic controllers, the SNCTA, called the one-day strike to demand higher pay amid soaring inflation and demanding more staff to be hired in the coming years. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/ap-flights-disrupted-as-french-air-traffic-controllers-walk-out/ | 2022-09-17T04:56:40Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/ap-flights-disrupted-as-french-air-traffic-controllers-walk-out/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is taking control of three Russian-owned refineries in the country to ensure energy security before an embargo on oil from Russia takes effect next year, officials said Friday.
Two subsidiaries of Russian oil giant Rosneft — Rosneft Deutschland GmbH and RN Refining & Marketing GmbH — will be put under the administration of Germany’s Federal Network Agency, the Economy Ministry said in a statement.
As a result, the agency will also control the companies’ shares in the refineries PCK Schwedt, MiRo and Bayernoil, located in the east and south of Germany.
“This is a far-reaching energy policy decision to protect our country,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. “We’ve long known that Russia isn’t a reliable supplier of energy anymore.”
“With today’s decision, we’re ensuring that Germany is supplied with oil in the medium- and long-term as well,” Scholz said. “That is particularly true for the Schwedt refinery.”
The facility provides petroleum products to much of northeastern Germany, including Berlin.
Rosneft accounts for about 12% of Germany’s oil refining capacity, importing oil worth several hundred million euros (dollars) every month, the ministry said.
It said the move would help ensure continued energy supplies and was initially due to last for six months.
Rosneft had previously made clear it had no intention to stop imports of oil via the Druzhba pipeline, which runs from Russia through Ukraine to refineries in central Europe, despite a looming EU embargo coming into force on Jan 1, 2023.
Scholz said a 1-billion-euro (dollar) aid package would secure jobs for about 1,200 people currently working at the PCK refinery in Schwedt and help with its long-term transformation as part of the transition toward a green economy.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said the refinery would in the future receive oil through a pipeline from the port city of Rostock and via neighboring Poland, which had refused to provide supplies as long as there was a risk that Rosneft might profit from them. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/ap-germany-takes-over-subsidiary-of-russian-oil-giant-rosneft/ | 2022-09-17T04:56:47Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/ap-germany-takes-over-subsidiary-of-russian-oil-giant-rosneft/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The head of China’s legislature called for cooperation with South Korea in advanced technology and supply chains, as he met South Korean leaders Friday amid concerns that their moves to solidify a military alliance with Washington could hamper Seoul’s ties with Beijing.
Li Zhanshu, third in the Chinese Communist Party hierarchy and one of President Xi Jinping’s closest confidants, is the highest-level Chinese official to visit South Korea since his predecessor did so in 2015. His trip is seen as part of efforts by Beijing to boost ties with neighboring countries ahead of a Communist Party congress next month that will likely grant Xi a third five-year term as leader.
Li’s visit is also crucial for South Korea’s government, which wants to assure Beijing that its push to strengthen its alliance with the U.S. and participate in U.S.-led regional initiatives won’t target China, its biggest trading partner.
Li, chairman of the standing committee of China’s National People’s Congress, told a joint news conference with his South Korean counterpart that China supports “realizing cooperation in cutting-edge technology sectors and managing supply and industrial chains smoothly and stably.”
He didn’t elaborate. His comments are likely to reflect concerns in Beijing that its intensifying competition with the United States may lead to supply chain disruptions as some U.S. companies shift sourcing and production away from China. China also opposes South Korea’s possible participation in a U.S.-led semiconductor alliance involving Taiwan and Japan.
Li’s closeness to Xi suggests his comments reflect the thinking of Xi and his inner circle. Li, who is leading a 66-member Chinese delegation to South Korea, met South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and other top officials later Friday.
Earlier this month, Li visited Russia, where he decried international sanctions against Moscow, underscoring Beijing support for Russia in its war on Ukraine despite claims of neutrality. On Thursday, Xi met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Uzbekistan. Putin thanked Xi for his “balanced” approach to the Ukrainian crisis and blasted Washington’s “ugly” policies.
Li’s talks with Yoon have drawn keen attention because Yoon last month skipped an in-person meeting with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who visited Seoul after a trip to Taiwan that angered China, which claims the self-ruled island as its territory. Yoon, who was on vacation, spoke by phone with Pelosi but faced domestic criticism that he had intentionally shunned her so as not to provoke China. Yoon was the only head of government who didn’t meet Pelosi face-to-face during her Asian trip, which also included Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.
Kim Heung-kyu, director of the U.S.-China Policy Institute at Ajou University in South Korea, said Li’s visit is different from Pelosi’s because she arrived after her contentious Taiwan trip. But he said China would still likely see symbolic significance in Li meeting with a South Korean president whom Pelosi failed to meet.
Some worry that Yoon’s tilt toward Washington could trigger economic retaliation by China, as it did in 2017 when South Korea allowed the United States to base a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense radar system, or THAAD, on its soil. China, which says the radar can spy on its territory, suspended group tours to South Korea and conducted an unofficial boycott of South Korean products.
During their meeting, Yoon said the THAAD issue must not be a sticking point in bilateral ties, and Li agreed on the need for close coordination to resolve sensitive issues, according to Yoon’s office.
China is likely to be more cautious about launching another economic retaliation because it would push South Korea closer to the United States and worsen anti-Chinese sentiment in South Korea, according to Professor Kim Han-kwon of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy.
“In the case of the THAAD dispute, China shook public opinion in South Korea and caused South Korea to suffer economic losses,” he said. “But eventually, they failed to get THAAD scrapped and anti-China sentiment grew in South Korea. There was also a public reevaluation of a boosting of the South Korea-U.S. alliance and of South Korea-U.S.-Japan security cooperation.”
South Korea, the world’s 10th-largest economy, is a major supplier of semiconductors, automobiles, smartphones and other electronic products. This makes it an attractive partner to both the United States and China.
Unless South Korea “openly pursues an anti-China policy, China will likely continue to stress a message of amity and cooperation with South Korea, rather than pressure, conflict and confrontation,” said Kim, the institute director.
Cooperative relations with China are essential in efforts by Seoul and Washington to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear program. While there are questions about how much influence China has on North Korea, it’s still believed to have the greatest leverage among regional powers because it is North Korea’s last major diplomatic ally and main economic pipeline.
In his meeting with Li on Friday, South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin Pyo said South Korea hopes that China will play a constructive role with North Korea. Li said he and Kim agreed that establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula through dialogue would serve the interests of both nations.
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Associated Press writers Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul and Joe McDonald in Beijing contributed to this report. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/ap-top-china-official-wants-high-tech-cooperation-with-s-korea/ | 2022-09-17T04:57:27Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/ap-top-china-official-wants-high-tech-cooperation-with-s-korea/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Police in Virginia are searching for a man found guilty earlier this week of conspiring to kill a college student who was a nephew of the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland.
A jury found Rashad Dooley guilty Wednesday of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the death of Christopher Cummings, 20, in 2011, Norfolk police said in a news release. Dooley, who was acquitted of several other charges, including first-degree murder, wasn't in court. Police said Friday that three warrants for failure to appear were issued for his arrest.
Dooley is one of four Newport News men charged in the case last year, more than 10 years after Cummings, a student at Old Dominion University, was fatally shot and his roommate was injured.
The charges against two of the men, Kwaume Edwards and Ahmad Watson, were dismissed, news outlets reported. The trial for a fourth man, Javon Doyle, ended in a mistrial last month when the jury couldn't agree on a verdict. Doyle is expected to be retried, but no date has been set. | https://www.wboc.com/news/police-search-for-man-convicted-in-death-of-cummings-nephew/article_939a2b78-3631-11ed-bb7d-8749d06510e9.html | 2022-09-17T04:57:30Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/police-search-for-man-convicted-in-death-of-cummings-nephew/article_939a2b78-3631-11ed-bb7d-8749d06510e9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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