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Officer Carla Doll is serving as Underwood School District's new school resource officer, a position which provides a valuable asset for students and serves to further strengthen the relationship between the sheriff's office and area schools.
Deputy Carla Doll is a 7-year veteran in the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office and has begun the school year in the Underwood School District as the new school resource officer. The partnership with the school district enhances the safety of students and staff while building relationships in the community. Doll will provide a valuable asset to help educate students on acceptable behavior in schools and the community while teaching students crime prevention and personal safety.
Doll attended M State in Fergus Falls and earned a law enforcement skills certificate through Alexandria Technical College. She is also a certified drug abuse resistance education instructor. Over the past five years, Doll has had the opportunity to provide D.A.R.E. training for the Underwood sixth-grade students.
“As a law enforcement officer, it is important to build healthy positive relationships with youth, teachers and parents,” Doll explains. “As a parent and a law enforcement officer, the safety and wellbeing of each student, teacher, staff and parent of the Underwood School community is my main goal.”
Sheriff Barry Fitzgibbons describes the collaboration involved in the school resource officer position: “The position was created after discussion with the school administration and the sheriff’s office. The SRO will perform law enforcement duties, develop educational crime prevention programs and serve as a liaison between the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office and the Underwood School District.”
By being in the school on a regular basis, the SRO is available to staff and students to assist in disciplinary issues by bridging the gap between youth and law enforcement and acting as an informal counselor, mentor and teacher. Doll will help train and educate students and staff, assist in the evaluation and implementation of safety plans and act as a liaison between the school and the sheriff’s office.
“With the SRO position in our school, it is another person that can support, collaborate and ensure our school is a safe place to learn,” said superintendent, Jeff Wilson. “The SRO also becomes a dependable, appreciated member of the school community who students look to for advice and support.”
Doll mentions that she has already had the opportunity to build many relationships within the school and is excited to build positive relationships, along with looking forward to mentoring and encouraging the students in their day-to-day activities.
According to Wilson, Doll has already made an impact in the school system. “I see Officer Doll serving as another educator, informal social worker and a law enforcement officer,” Wilson notes. “I look forward to Officer Doll continuing to build authentic relationships with students and staff and supporting them when and where necessary in our community.”
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Gov. Tim Walz announced last week a newly proposed comprehensive climate plan, visited nurses on picket lines, met with members of Taiwan’s agriculture industry to strengthen trade partnerships, announced appointments and received his updated bivalent COVID-19 booster at the state capitol.
On Sept. 16, Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan launched a comprehensive plan to protect the state’s environment and combat climate change. The administration says the plan was created with the input of thousands of businesses, conservationists and climate leaders. Called the Climate Action Framework, it promises to identify strategies to help Minnesotans avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
“To maintain the things we love about Minnesota – our pristine lakes, incredible wilderness areas and state parks and outdoor economy – we need to act in a collaborative, bipartisan and forward-looking way,” said Walz. “That’s what this plan aims to do. With input from thousands of Minnesotans, this plan will mitigate the economic, health and environmental impacts of climate change to make Minnesota a great place to live for generations to come.”
On Sept. 11, Walz and Flanagan recognized the 21st anniversary of 9/11 and encouraged eligible veterans to apply for service bonuses made possible by legislation passed last session.
On Sept. 13, Walz and Flanagan visited nurses on the picket lines. According to chiefhealthcareexecutive.com, about 15,000 nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association walked off the job for three days last week. It was perhaps the largest private-sector nurses’ strike in the nation’s history. Nurses went on strike at 15 different hospitals. The nurses’ union is embroiled in contract disputes with seven different health systems that operate the hospitals.
Also on Sept. 13, Walz and Flanagan, along with the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, invited young women and gender-expansive youth from across the state to apply for open positions with the Young Women’s Cabinet, which currently has 24 vacancies. According to the administration, young women and gender-expansive people between the ages of 16 and 24, especially those from underrepresented communities, are invited to apply. Applications are available through the Minnesota Office of the Governor and Lt. Governor and will be accepted through Tuesday, Oct. 4.
“It’s my honor to continue to elevate the leadership of young women across Minnesota,” said Walz. “Every young person in Minnesota deserves a bright future. Through this partnership, we center the leadership and solutions of young women in order to improve opportunities for young people, their families and their communities.”
The Young Women’s Cabinet is composed of 30 young people and youth leaders representing the following communities: African American, African Immigrant, American Indian, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Disabilities, Greater Minnesota, Latinx, and LGBTQIA+. The cabinet ensures that the efforts of the Young Women’s Initiative stay grounded in the lived experiences of young women and gender expansive youth.
During the week, Walz also authorized emergency assistance for 13 Minnesota counties due to damage caused by severe thunderstorms in two weather events which occurred in June and July. On June 20-24, Aitkin, Becker, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Lac qui Parle, Mahnomen, Morrison, Norman, St. Louis and Todd counties experienced severe thunderstorms, which included damaging winds, heavy rain and flooding. On July 23, Houston and Renville counties experienced damages caused by severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, heavy rain and flooding.
On Sept. 14, the Commission on Judicial Selection announced that it was recommending three candidates for consideration to fill a vacancy in Minnesota’s Eighth Judicial District. The vacancy occurred upon the retirement of the Honorable Charles C. Glasrud. The seat will be chambered in Morris in Stevens County. The three candidates included:
Jason Butts, currently the Breckenridge city attorney, since December 2021. Butts previously worked in private practice at Smith & Strege, Ltd. He also worked as a contracted public defender for the City of Wahpeton, North Dakota, and he has previously served on the Richland County Treatment Court. Butts serves on the board of the State Bar Association of North Dakota’s Lawyer Assistance Program, and he previously served on the association’s Board of Governors and Title Standards Committee. Butts is a former councilman for the City of Breckenridge.
Benjamin Pieh is the assistant public defender for the State of Minnesota, serving indigent clients across the Eighth Judicial District. He previously served as a law clerk for Judges Paul Nelson, Dwayne Knutsen and Thomas Van Hon in the Eighth Judicial District. Pieh chairs the 12th District Ethics Committee and serves as a board member for the Prairie Arts Chorale.
Benjamin Wilcox is a partner at Wilcox Law Office, P.A. He serves as the city attorney for Benson and Kerkhoven and as an assistant city attorney in Clontarf, Danvers, DeGraff, Holloway and Murdock. Wilcox serves as a board member for the Robert Sonsteng Foundation and the Southwest Initiative Foundation.
Also on Sept. 14, Walz announced that Minnesotans can now place a third order for four additional free at-home rapid tests through the state’s online ordering program. State residents who have previously ordered the full limit of eight tests from this program are now able to receive four additional tests per household at Order your free at-home rapid tests on mn.gov/covid19. Those who have not yet placed an order can receive up to twelve tests at once while supplies last. The federal government’s free at-home test program was suspended earlier this month.
On Sept. 15, Walz met with members of Taiwan’s agriculture industry to strengthen trade partnerships between Taiwan and Minnesota. Members of the Taiwanese agriculture industry and Minnesota corn and soybean association representatives signed letters of intent outlining Taiwan’s intended purchases of corn and soybean products from Minnesota suppliers. Walz signed as a witness to these agreements. The value of these purchases is estimated to be $2.7 billion in total. Earlier this month, Walz announced that exports of manufactured, agricultural and mining goods from Minnesota were valued at $6.7 billion in the second quarter of 2022, reaching the highest level on record. Minnesota exports grew 12 percent between the second quarters of 2021 and 2022.
On Sept. 16, Walz and Flanagan received their updated bivalent boosters at the state capitol.
Also on Sept. 16, Walz and Flanagan announced appointments to the Board of the Minnesota State Academies, Board of Optometry, Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board, Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commissions and Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) was awarded a $25 million Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to fund bridge improvements on I-90 in Austin. | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/state-regional/walz-weekly-roundup-sept-12-16-2022/article_f85f9b9a-3822-11ed-adbd-cb125ad4971f.html | 2022-09-19T23:15:48Z | fergusfallsjournal.com | control | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/state-regional/walz-weekly-roundup-sept-12-16-2022/article_f85f9b9a-3822-11ed-adbd-cb125ad4971f.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 2022 Minnesota High School Bowling season kicked off at Northern Aire Lanes, with the Otters hosting the West Central (North) Conference opener. The WCN conference is made up of Fergus Falls, Detroit Lakes, Perham, New York Mills, Wadena and Bemidji, with newcomer Thief River Falls joining the conference starting with the second meet.
The Otters varsity for 2022, seniors Matthew Tungseth and Ryder Drayton, juniors Nolan Korby and Alayna Price, sophomore Andrew Muchow, freshman Kyle Korby and eighth-grader Nathaniel Whistleon, defeated rival Detroit Lakes in the opening match, three games to two. The match came down the very last frame of game five, with Tungseth coming up with a clutch double and count in the tenth frame to lock up the game and the match, 190-189. Korby led the Otters by filling all his frames, with strikes or spares, for a 100% fill percentage. In high school bowling, the games are bowled as a team, with individual stats based on each frame bowled. Match two was a 5-0 sweep against Perham, with Alayna leading the team at 83%. The Otters completed the meet with a 5-0 win over Wadena. Whistleon filled the match at 100%.
The Otters will have three JV teams this year. Fergus Falls JV Black will be senior Amelia Eide, juniors Kaydence Knutson and Owen Foreman, sophomores Kendra Koep and Myia Krensing and freshman Coliey Connelly. FF JV Black defeated Bemidji Blue in match one, 5-0. Match two was another close battle, as Krensing came up with a spare and count to secure the one pin victory, and a 3-2 win over FF JV Maroon. Foreman led the team with 70% fills in the match. It was Krensing (100%) and Foreman (80%) again, as they led the way in a 5-0 win over Perham in the final match. FF JV Black is coached by Morgan Christenson.
Fergus Falls JV Maroon, junior Brody Bray, sophomores Alex Trinkle and Micah Gaines, freshmen Logan Jensen and Ian Meyer and eighth-graders Ean Knutson and Josh Rogal, earned a 5-0 win over New York Mills in their opener. Gaines (100%), Knutson (83%), Trinkle (75%) and Meyer (75%) led the team. Knutson (87%) and Gaines (75%) were team-high in the 2-3 loss to FF JV Black in match two and Gaines (66%) led the way in a 4-1 win over Bemidji White, as FF JV Maroon finished 2-1 on the day. FF JV Maroon is coached by Kaitlyn Krensing.
Fergus Falls JV Gold, eighth-graders Maddie Price and Grace Gaines and seventh-graders Abbi Connelly, Kendall Sundby, Brayden Haugen, KayLea Weisenberger and Jadalyn Wolfe got their first MHSB win against the bye/conference average in match one, 3-2. Haugen led the team with 75% fills. FF JV Gold took Bemidji White to the last game, but came up just short, for 2-3 loss. Wolfe had a high fill percentage in the match at 83%. Gaines (50%) and Maddie (50%) were team-high in the final match victory, 5-0, over New York Mills. FF JV Gold is coached by Jess Jennen.
The Otters’ next meet will be in Wadena, on Sept. 25.
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The Otters Jose Rodriguez looks to move the ball up the pitch, against Hillcrest, on Sept. 17. Rodriguez would end up with the game winning goal, on a penalty kick.
In a cross town clash, the Fergus Falls Otters boys soccer team defeated the Hillcrest Comets via a 2-1 score, on Sept. 17, at Otter Stadium.
The Otters got on the board first, as Shane Zierden collected a through ball and found the back of the net. About eight minutes later, Hillcrests tied the contest as Emil Boe split a pair of defenders and scored.
That score would hold into halftime.
At the 48-minute mark, a hand ball inside the 18-yard box gave the Otters a penalty kick. Jose Rodriguez stepped up and was true on his strike.
Both sides had opportunities over the remained of the contest, but it was the Otters who held firm and picked up the win.
“We had a real battle with Hillcrest. Our defense and keeper again had a very nice game,” mentioned Otters coach Joel Heikes. “The Comets put the pressure on resulting in them getting about nine corner kicks in the game but our team held strong clearing on all of them.”
The Comets had 15 shots on goal compared to the Otters nine.
“It was an exciting game if you were in the stands, but, unfortunately for us, the Otters worked hard and wanted it more than we did and came prepared for the victory,” said Comets coach Rod Jensen. “We had plenty of chances in the second half to tie and win the game but were unsuccessful. Again, it was a learning experience for our coaching staff and team regarding what we need to work on as we continue into this early season.”
The Comets, now 3-3, travel to Bemidji on Sept. 19, for a battle against a very tough conference opponent.
Fergus, at 3-2, hosts Sartell, on Sept. 19, in a remake from last week.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Actor Suresh Gopi inaugurated the ticket sales for the T20 cricket match between India and South Africa, which will be played at Karyavattom Sports Hub (Greenfield Stadium) on September 28.
The actor presented the first ticket to Federal Bank Deputy Vice-President and Regional Business Head A Harikrishnan.
The match will be the first of the India-South Africa Mastercard T20 series.
An upper-tier ticket will cost Rs 1,500. For students, tickets will be available at a 50 per cent discounted rate. Students must book the tickets through their respective institutions to avail of the concession.
A pavilion ticket will cost Rs 2,750, and a seat on the Kerala Cricket Association's (KCA) grand stand, including food, will cost Rs 6,000.
Where to buy tickets
Online ticket sales for the match got underway at 7.30 pm on Monday. The tickets, which are inclusive of GST and Entertainment Tax, can be bought via www.paytminsider.in.
A single mail ID can be used to purchase up to three tickets. KCA is associating with Akshaya Centres in the state to facilitate online ticket sales.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteoroids striking the planet’s surface.
Scientists reported Monday that Mars InSight detected seismic and acoustic waves from a series of impacts in 2020 and 2021. A satellite orbiting the red planet confirmed the impact locations, as far as 180 miles (290 kilometers) from the lander.
Scientists are delighted by the detections — a first for another planet.
The first confirmed meteoroid exploded into at least three pieces, each leaving its own crater. An 11-second audio snippet of this strike includes three “bloops,” as NASA calls them, one of sounding like metal flapping loudly in the wind here on Earth.
“After three years of InSight waiting to detect an impact, those craters looked beautiful,” Brown University's Ingrid Daubar, a co-author of the research paper in the journal Nature Geoscience, said in a statement.
The InSight team expected to pick up numerous meteoroid strikes, given Mars' proximity to the asteroid belt and the planet's thin atmosphere, which tends to keep entering space rocks from burning up. But the lander's French-built seismometer may have missed impacts because of interfering noise from the Martian wind or seasonal changes in the atmosphere. Now scientists know what to look for, according to NASA, likely resulting in a surge of detections.
“Impacts are the clocks of the solar system,” French lead author Raphael Garcia said in a statement from the Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space in Toulouse. “We need to know the impact rate today to estimate the age of different surfaces.”
Launched in 2018, InSight has already detected more than 1,300 marsquakes. The largest measured a magnitude 5 earlier this year. By comparison, the marsquakes generated by the meteoroid impacts registered no more than a magnitude 2. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/nasa-mars-lander-records-strikes/507-d4bfba24-f9c6-47ba-8db6-cd19e315bce5 | 2022-09-19T23:24:05Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/nasa-mars-lander-records-strikes/507-d4bfba24-f9c6-47ba-8db6-cd19e315bce5 | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Prock Attack Rules As NHRA Countdown Begins
Drag racing’s Prock Family added to its NHRA legacy Sunday, powering John Force Racing to a pair of victories during the opening event of the Countdown to the Championship Playoffs.
Austin Prock posted his second career win in Top Fuel while father/crew chief Jimmy Prock tuned Robert Hight to victory in Funny Car at the 37th annual Pep Boys NHRA Nationals. Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa., played host to Round 1 of the six-event postseason that will crown champions of the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season.
Austin and Jimmy Prock doubled-up for the first time in their careers. Family scion Tom Prock was a street-racer on Detroit’s famed Woodward Avenue before moving on to organized competition in various classes. A pioneer in the Funny Car class, Tom Prock’s career peaked in 1972 driving the Custom Body Enterprises Dodge fielded by brothers Fred and Phil Castronovo. Known as the “Utica Flash,” the car won over 60 percent of its races.
Opening the current postseason from the 12th position, Austin Prock scored his first win of the season with a 1,000-foot run in 3.755-seconds at 329.67 mph to defeat point-leader Justin Ashley.
Prock also jumped six spots in the standings. His day began with round-wins against Doug Foley, four-time/reigning world champion Steve Torrence and three-time world champ Antron Brown _ outdueling the latter during a pedal-fest in the semifinals. Prock finished his weekend by defeating Ashley in a side-by-side final that was a rematch of the 2022 Winternationals in Pomona, Calif. _ a race won by Ashley.
“It’s awesome and we’re right back in the hunt of this thing,” said Prock, 27. “If you come out and win Reading, you’re right back in it. This is unbelievable and it was just one of those days where everything was going our way. I’m so proud of this team and thank you to (team-owner) John Force for giving me the opportunity. This was exactly what we needed.”
Austin became the ninth different driver to hoist a Wally trophy this season in NHRA’s premier class.
“We came into the Countdown sitting 12th, and if we wanted to play for the big trophy we knew we had to win this weekend,” said Prock, driver of the Montana Brands/Rocky Mountain Twist dragster. “Everybody kept their heads down and still believed in themselves, and that attitude is how you win a Wally. I was really proud to win four rounds; it was the first time in a long time that I’ve been able to do that on Sunday. It’s super-cool that we came out on the good side of a close race.”
Ashley advanced to a final round for the fifth time this season and assumed the point lead by trailering Jeff Chatterson, Doug Kalitta and Mike Salinas. Ashley, who moved ahead of 2016 world champion Brittany Force in the standings, will take a nine-point lead into the Betway NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C., on Sept. 23-25.
Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Joey Gladstone (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also will head to North Carolina after posting timely postseason victories.
Robert Hight took aim at a fourth Funny Car world championship via his 60th victory, a career-best seventh of the season and second at Maple Grove while solidifying his hold on the championship point-lead.
Hight drove to a winning 1,000-foot pass in 3.937-seconds at 328.38 mph in his Auto Club Chevrolet Camaro SS “Prock Rocket” against Tim Wilkerson. As the No. 1 qualifier, Hight earned a first-round bye amid a 15-car field. Crew chiefs Jimmy Prock and Chris Cunningham were impressively consistent throughout Sunday, eliminating two-time world champion Cruz Pedregon and three-time world champ Matt Hagan to reach the final.
Wilkerson then handed the victory to Hight by red-lighting at the Christmas Tree by 0.220-seconds. Hight’s milestone victory stretched his lead to 81 points over Hagan, of Tony Stewart Racing.
“This is exactly how we scripted it,” said Hight, 53. “The only problem is, it’s really easy to script a weekend and a lot harder to get the job done. We needed to qualify well and get bonus points every run, because at the end of the year those bonus points can be the difference.
“This is just hard to believe, what we’re doing. I would have never guessed somebody would win seven Funny Car races. This is huge, to start out like this, but it’s one down and five to go. We’re going to have fun and then go focus on Charlotte and try to get it done next week. If we can do that, we’ll really be in a good position.”
Wilkerson overcame a fire in the semifinal round to advance to his second final this season and 49th in his career. The popular veteran and Ford Mustang campaigner scored round-wins against Alexis DeJoria, two-time/reigning world champion Ron Capps and 16-time world champ “Brute” Force _ who made his 800th career start after qualifying second.
“Not a bad weekend to start the Countdown,” said Force, 73. “Everyone (at JFR) is in the hunt. Robert may just run away with it, but this PEAK Chevy _ we’re still in the mix, still five races to go. Keep on trying to get the job done.”
Erica Enders’ enjoyable weekend in Pro Stock saw her avenge a loss to Troy Coughlin in the final at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Wash., via a stellar quarter-mile pass in 6.582-seconds at 209.72 mph at “The Grove.”
Enders opened the Countdown by collecting her seventh win this season and 40th in her career. Her trip to the final featured round-wins against Alan Prusiensky, Matt Hartford and Kyle Koretsky _wrapping up eliminations with her first victory at the Pennsylvania facility. Erica’s lead stands at 81 points over archrival and five-time/reigning world champion Greg Anderson.
“It was an amazing day, but really, ever since we set foot on the property it’s been great,” said Enders, driver of the Melling Performance/Elite Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro SS. “Bo Butner went to No. 1 and we were No. 2, but after that, we were low every time we went down the track. This Countdown is going to be a dog-fight, as it is every single year. We have to capitalize on every moment and execute perfectly from here.
“This is definitely special. A goal that I wrote down on January 1st was that I wanted to win at the tracks we haven’t won before, and we started off on the right foot in Pomona. We won the 900th Pro Stock race and Sonoma (Raceway in California) has been on my list every year. We got it done, then we came here to Reading and got it done as well.”
Coughlin reached a final for the fourth time this season by defeating Cristian Cuadra, No. 1 qualifier and 2017 world champion Butner and Anderson.
Joey Gladstone retook the point lead in Pro Stock Motorcycle, capping a memorable day at the track where he grew up. Gladstone was handed the victory when Angie Smith went red at the Christmas Tree. Gladstone posted a quarter-mile pass in 6.835-seconds at 196.93 mph to earn his third win this season _ all coming during the last four national events aboard his Reed Motorsports Suzuki Hayabusa.
Five-time/reigning world champion Matt Smith took the point lead after his U.S. Nationals win over Labor Day weekend. Gladstone grabbed it in the Countdown opener aboard his Suzuki after defeating Hector Arana Jr., Matt Smith in a pivotal second-round match and then Marc Ingwersen to reach the final. Gladstone exited Maple Grove with a 29-point lead over Matt Smith.
“This is the playoffs, so that win is big,” said Gladstone, a 31-year-old native and resident of Milton, Del. “Matt has been a strong force, so to be able to get a good edge is awesome. We’ll need it because he hauls butt. Everyone in this class is so tough, everybody is a contender. Any day you can beat one Smith is a good day _ but two Smiths? That’s a big deal. I’m proud of my team and proud of my tuner. Today is my daughter, Olivia’s, birthday. It was a really special day, and how memorable is it to do this on her birthday?”
Angie Smith, Matt’s wife, reached her second final this season after victories against Ron Tornow, four-time world champion Eddie Krawiec and defending event winner Steve Johnson.
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Final finishing order (1-16) at the 37th annual Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa. The race was the 17th of 22 events in the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series and Round 1 of the six-event Countdown to the Championship:
Top Fuel _ 1. Austin Prock; 2. Justin Ashley; 3. Antron Brown; 4. Mike Salinas; 5. Steve Torrence; 6. Brittany Force; 7. Doug Kalitta; 8. Clay Millican; 9. Jeffrey Chatterson; 10. Cameron Ferre; 11. Leah Pruett; 12. Tony Schumacher; 13. Shawn Langdon; 14. Doug Foley; 15. Josh Hart; 16. Joe Morrison.
Funny Car _1. Robert Hight; 2. Tim Wilkerson; 3. Matt Hagan; 4. John Force; 5. Bob Tasca III; 6. J.R.Todd; 7. Ron Capps; 8. Cruz Pedregon; 9. Alexis DeJoria; 10. Chad Green; 11. Paul Lee; 12. Phil Burkart; 13. Cory Lee; 14. Jim Campbell; 15. Terry Haddock.
Pro Stock _ 1. Erica Enders; 2. Troy Coughlin Jr.; 3. Kyle Koretsky; 4. Greg Anderson; 5. Matt Hartford; 6. Bo Butner; 7. Dallas Glenn; 8. Aaron Stanfield; 9. Cristian Cuadra; 10. Camrie Caruso; 11. Fernando Cuadra Jr.; 12. Chris McGaha; 13. Alan Prusiensky; 14. Mason McGaha; 15. Fernando Cuadra; 16. Tanner Gray.
Pro Stock Motorcycle _ 1. Joey Gladstone; 2. Angie Smith; 3. Marc Ingwersen; 4. Steve Johnson; 5. Eddie Krawiec; 6. Matt Smith; 7. Jerry Savoie; 8. Angelle Sampey; 9. Scotty Pollacheck; 10. Kelly Clontz; 11. Jianna Evaristo; 12. Karen Stoffer; 13. Chris Bostick; 14. Ron Tornow; 15. Ryan Oehler; 16. Hector Arana Jr.
Pro and Sportsman class results from the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway:
Top Fuel _ Austin Prock, 3.755-seconds, 329.67 mph def. Justin Ashley, 3.783-seconds, 326.40 mph.
Funny Car _ Robert Hight, Chevy Camaro, 3.937, 328.38 def. Tim Wilkerson, Ford Mustang, Foul/Red Light.
Pro Stock _ Erica Enders, Chevy Camaro, 6.582, 209.72 def. Troy Coughlin Jr., Camaro, 6.601, 209.56.
Pro Stock Motorcycle _ Joey Gladstone, Suzuki, 6.835, 196.93 def. Angie Smith, EBR, Foul/Red Light.
Top Alcohol Dragster _ Jeff Veale, 5.455, 265.12 def. Shawn Cowie, 10.517, 82.94.
Top Alcohol Funny Car _ DJ Cox Jr., Chevy Camaro, 5.477, 263.77 def. Sean Bellemeur, Camaro, 5.641, 263.10.
Competition Eliminator _ Ken Voight, Chevy Cobalt, 8.734, 154.69 def. Jay Schonberger, Olds Cutlas, Broke.
Super Stock _ Roger Reese, Chevy Nova, 10.433, 125.69 def. Byron Worner, Chevy Camaro, 9.845, 134.82.
Stock Eliminator _ Katie Sepanek, Chevy Chevelle, 11.598, 108.13 def. Joe Santangelo, Chevy Camaro, 10.418, 118.91.
Super Comp _ Donald Bangs, Dragster, 8.927, 172.23 def. Anthony Barrett, Dragster, 8.885, 179.59.
Super Gas _ Bo Butner, Chevy Corvette, 9.935, 165.05 def. Frank Volpe, Ford Mustang, 9.875, 162.57.
Top Sportsman presented by Vortech Superchargers _ Vonnie Mills, Chevy Camaro, 6.689, 200.14 def. Larry Willard, Chevy Bel Air, 7.382, 180.26.
Factory Stock Showdown _ David Barton, Chevy Camaro, 7.752, 177.44 def. Aaron Stanfield, Camaro, 7.824, 175.96.
Junior Dragster Shootout _ Paige Ketterer, 7.987, 81.17 def. Mason Artim, Foul/Red Light.
Final round-by-round results from the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway:
TOP FUEL
ROUND ONE _ Doug Kalitta, 3.720, 329.58 def. Leah Pruett, 4.458, 224.51; Clay Millican, 3.776, 285.11 def. Tony Schumacher, 4.882, 151.95; Brittany Force, 3.698, 337.66 def. Cameron Ferre, 4.121, 291.32; Justin Ashley, 3.732, 329.83 def. Jeffrey Chatterson, 3.865, 321.58; Mike Salinas, 4.841, 225.18 def. Joe Morrison, 15.215, 31.54; Austin Prock, 3.705, 336.15 def. Doug Foley, 6.531, 93.23; Steve Torrence, 3.740, 324.51 def. Shawn Langdon, 5.901, 131.00; Antron Brown, 3.851, 249.76 def. Josh Hart, 10.983, 73.85;
QUARTERFINALS _ Salinas, 5.868, 282.42 def. Millican, 7.115, 115.65; Brown, 3.730, 323.97 def. Force, 5.389, 123.14; Prock, 3.762, 326.87 def. Torrence, 3.767, 324.36; Ashley, 3.841, 306.12 def. Kalitta, Foul/Red Light;
SEMIFINALS _ Ashley, 3.739, 330.80 def. Salinas, 9.497, 83.15; Prock, 5.732, 293.47 def. Brown, 6.565, 146.54;
FINAL _ Prock, 3.755, 329.67 def. Ashley, 3.783, 326.40.
FUNNY CAR
ROUND ONE _ J.R. Todd, Toyota Supra, 3.914, 330.72 def. Chad Green, Ford Mustang, 3.932, 324.59; Robert Hight, Chevy Camaro, 3.878, 333.74 was unopposed; John Force, Camaro, 3.932, 287.66 def. Cory Lee, Mustang, 4.407, 287.84; Ron Capps, Supra, 3.858, 331.53 def. Phil Burkart, Chevy Monte Carlo, 4.282, 243.06; Bob Tasca III, Mustang, 3.895, 333.91 def. Terry Haddock, Mustang, 5.649, 125.62; Matt Hagan, Dodge Charger, 3.909, 334.65 def. Jim Campbell, Charger, 4.445, 207.53; Tim Wilkerson, Mustang, 3.922, 331.36 def. Alexis DeJoria, Supra, 3.924, 330.31; Cruz Pedregon, Charger, 3.918, 326.40 def. Paul Lee, Charger, 3.991, 319.45;
QUARTERFINALS _ Force, 4.000, 324.59 def. Todd, 3.972, 326.95; Hight, 3.901, 332.67 def. Pedregon, 5.567, 135.46; Wilkerson, 3.918, 329.58 def. Capps, 4.420, 201.10; Hagan, 3.935, 329.67 def. Tasca III, 3.941, 330.63;
SEMIFINALS _ Wilkerson, 4.621, 182.62 def. Force, 9.003, 82.09; Hight, 3.908, 331.69 def. Hagan, 4.123, 255.34;
FINAL _ Hight, 3.937, 328.38 def. Wilkerson, Foul/Red Light.
PRO STOCK
ROUND ONE _ Troy Coughlin Jr., Chevy Camaro, 6.576, 208.65 def. Cristian Cuadra, Ford Mustang, 6.581, 205.63; Matt Hartford, Camaro, 6.569, 209.33 def. Chris McGaha, Camaro, 6.606, 207.75; Aaron Stanfield, Camaro, 6.580, 208.52 def. Camrie Caruso, Camaro, 6.595, 207.98; Greg Anderson, Camaro, 6.572, 207.69 def. Fernando Cuadra Jr., Mustang, 6.602, 207.27; Dallas Glenn, Camaro, 6.598, 208.46 def. Mason McGaha, Camaro, 6.638, 206.73; Kyle Koretsky, Camaro, 6.567, 208.94 def. Tanner Gray, Camaro, 6.663, 206.32; Bo Butner, Camaro, 6.565, 208.84 def. Fernando Cuadra, Mustang, 6.643, 205.51; Erica Enders, Camaro, 6.548, 209.39 def. Alan Prusiensky, Dodge Dart, 6.607, 206.32;
QUARTERFINALS _ Anderson, 6.612, 207.21 def. Glenn, 6.668, 206.67; Koretsky, 6.602, 208.94 def. Stanfield, 7.839, 130.73; Coughlin Jr., 6.605, 209.04 def. Butner, 6.601, 208.07; Enders, 6.569, 209.39 def. Hartford, Foul/Red Light;
SEMIFINALS _ Coughlin Jr., 6.601, 209.46 def. Anderson, 6.714, 188.02; Enders, 6.584, 209.43 def. Koretsky, 6.613, 208.94;
FINAL _ Enders, 6.582, 209.72 def. Coughlin Jr., 6.601, 209.56.
PRO STOCK MOTORCYCLE
ROUND ONE _ Joey Gladstone, Suzuki, 6.821, 198.52 def. Hector Arana Jr., Buell, Foul/Red Light; Eddie Krawiec, Suzuki, 6.795, 198.44 def. Karen Stoffer, Suzuki, Foul/Red Light; Angie Smith, EBR, 6.796, 199.52 def. Ron Tornow, Victory, 6.982, 191.95; Jerry Savoie, Suzuki, 6.836, 194.66 def. Chris Bostick, Buell, 6.911, 195.28; Marc Ingwersen, EBR, 6.893, 196.99 def. Scotty Pollacheck, EBR, 6.889, 197.36; Steve Johnson, Suzuki, 6.785, 198.32 def. Kelly Clontz, Suzuki, 6.891, 195.65; Angelle Sampey, Suzuki, 6.904, 199.23 def. Jianna Evaristo, Suzuki, 6.903, 194.16; Matt Smith, EBR, 6.761, 201.82 def. Ryan Oehler, EBR, 7.196, 178.24;
QUARTERFINALS _ Ingwersen, 6.962, 194.72 def. Sampey, 6.902, 197.19; A. Smith, 6.841, 198.90 def. Krawiec, 6.815, 198.50; Johnson, 6.867, 195.05 def. Savoie, 6.892, 194.13; Gladstone, 6.815, 197.51 def. M. Smith, 6.818, 199.61;
SEMIFINALS _ A. Smith, 6.849, 198.61 def. Johnson, 6.945, 194.69; Gladstone, 6.869, 196.90 def. Ingwersen, 6.927, 195.73;
FINAL _ Gladstone, 6.835, 196.93 def. A. Smith, Foul/Red Light.
Countdown to the Championship point standings (top-10) following the Pep Boys NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway:
Top Fuel _1. Justin Ashley, 2,170; 2. Brittany Force, 2,161; 3. Mike Salinas, 2,160; 4. Antron Brown, 2,116; 5. Steve Torrence, 2,114; 6. Austin Prock, 2,096; 7. Josh Hart, 2,083; 8. (tie) Doug Kalitta, 2,063; Leah Pruett, 2,063; 10. Shawn Langdon, 2,052.
Funny Car _ 1. Robert Hight, 2,225; 2. Matt Hagan, 2,144; 3. Ron Capps, 2,141; 4. John Force, 2,128; 5. Bob Tasca III, 2,119; 6. Tim Wilkerson, 2,103; 7. J.R. Todd, 2,095; 8. Cruz Pedregon, 2,073; 9. Alexis DeJoria, 2,062; 10. Jim Campbell, 2,022.
Pro Stock _ 1. Erica Enders, 2,225; 2. Greg Anderson, 2,144; 3. Kyle Koretsky, 2,137; 4. Troy Coughlin Jr., 2,135; 5. Aaron Stanfield, 2,134; 6. Dallas Glenn, 2,107; 7. Matt Hartford, 2,063; 8. Mason McGaha, 2,061; 9. Bo Butner, 2,053; 10. Camrie Caruso, 2,052.
Pro Stock Motorcycle _ 1. Joey Gladstone, 2,193; 2. Matt Smith, 2,164; 3. Steve Johnson, 2,151; 4. Angie Smith, 2,144; 5. Angelle Sampey, 2,115; 6. Marc Ingwersen, 2,104; 7. Eddie Krawiec, 2,103; 8. Jerry Savoie, 2,089; 9. Karen Stoffer, 2,077; 10. Ryan Oehler, 2,056.
NHRA 2022 COUNTDOWN TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFFS SCHEDULE/WINNERS
Sept. 15-18 _ Pep Boys NHRA Nationals, Maple Grove Raceway, Reading, Pa: Austin Prock (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) Joey Gladstone (Pro Stock Motorcycle).
Sept. 23-25 _ Charlotte NHRA Nationals, zMAX Dragway, Concord, N.C.
Sept. 30-Oct. 2 _ NHRA Midwest Nationals, World Wide Technology Raceway, Madison, Ill.
Oct. 13-16 _ Texas NHRA FallNationals, Texas Motorplex, Ennis.
Oct. 27-30 _ NHRA Nevada Nationals, The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Nov. 10-13 _ Auto Club NHRA Finals, Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Calif.
Editor’s Note: John Sturbin is a Texas-based journalist specializing in motorsports. During a near 30-year career with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he won the Bloys Britt Award for top motorsports story of the year (1991) as judged by The Associated Press; received the National Hot Rod Association’s Media Award (1995) and several in-house Star-Telegram honors. He also was inaugural recipient of the Texas Motor Speedway Excellence in Journalism Award (2009). His list of freelance clients includes Texas Motor Speedway, the Dallas Morning News, New York Newsday, Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel, Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller Times, NASCAR Wire Service, Ford Racing and Used Car Dealer magazine).
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Efforts to ban books in the U.S. are on the rise for 2022, according to a new report from the American Library Association (ALA).
The ALA released preliminary data on Friday that revealed total book challenges in 2022 are expected to exceed record numbers in 2021.
The organization documented 681 attempts to ban or restrict library resources between Jan. 1, 2022 and Aug. 31, 2022.
In 2021, there were 729 total attempts to censor library resources, which set a record number in ALA’s more than 20-year history of compiling this data.
A total of 1,651 unique titles have been targeted so far in 2022 compared to 1,597 titles in 2021.
More than 70% of the 681 attempts this year targeted multiple titles, while most past efforts only sought out the ban of singular books.
The news was released ahead of Banned Books Week, which began on Sunday, Sept. 18.
Libraries across the country will highlight this increase in censorship with various programming, the ALA said.
It will “bring together authors, librarians and scholars to share perspectives on censorship and resources to support library workers” during the week.
ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom director Deborah Caldwell-Stone told the Associated Press that criticism largely surrounds books on LGBTQ subjects, as well as books on racism, such as “The Hate U Give,” by Angie Thomas.
Some of the most targeted books include 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, as mentioned in an April report, according to the AP.
ALA President Lessa Kananiʻopua Pelayo-Lozada wrote in a statement that these heightened numbers reflect national efforts to “silence marginalized or historically underrepresented voices and deprive all of us — young people, in particular — of the chance to explore a world beyond the confines of personal experience.”
“Though it’s natural that we want to protect young people from some of life’s more difficult realities, the truth is that banning books does nothing to protect them from dealing with tough issues,” she said.
“Instead, it denies young people resources that can help them deal with the challenges that confront them.”
“Library professionals trust individuals to make their own decisions about what they read and believe.”
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49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan had a conference call Monday afternoon to provide injury updates. Unfortunately, there’s bad news. Rookie running back Ty Davis-Price has a high-ankle sprain and will miss a few weeks. Shanahan said the team was unaware of TDP’s injury until later in the game. Now, it’s on Marlon Mack and Jordan Mason.
Last week, Shanahan said the running backs must learn how to play without the ball. I asked Kyle how Mason has progressed in the past week:
“He needs to now. Last week was his first week getting a lot more of that. I thought they both stepped it up in that area. I thought JP had his best game in special teams. We never knew that he [TDP] was hurt. He’ll [Mason] have to be ready this week now.”
Davis-Price ran hard and did a fine job of maximizing his carries Sunday. Losing your third-round pick to an injury, even in the short-term, is a setback.
The 49ers will work out a running back and sign him to the practice squad. We can also expect Mack to get promoted to the active roster this Saturday. Here are the backs the Niners worked out last week:
Tevin Coleman
Devonta Freeman
Godwin Igwebuike
Nate McCrary
La’Mical Perine
Abram Smith
Tight end Tyler Kroft has a sprained MCL and will also miss a few weeks. Kroft’s injury explains why Ross Dwelley led the tight ends in snap counts Sunday after Kroft doubled up the rest of the tight ends in Week 1.
Speaking of tight ends, Kittle is close, per Shanahan: “Yeah, he was close, that’s why we took it that far. But I’m glad we made the decision to sit him.” Now, Kittle has an extra week to get healthy, and playing on Sunday Night Football might be the difference in Kittle being active in Week 3.
As you might imagine, the conference call was dominated by quarterback questions. Shanahan said he hadn’t had the chance to talk to Trey Lance yet, but some of the players have made the trip to visit him. The Niners head coach expects Lance to be around the building with his rehab and be involved in meetings. San Francisco will add a third quarterback behind Jimmy Garoppolo and Brock Purdy. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/19/23362029/49ers-injury-updates-davis-price-kroft | 2022-09-19T23:27:27Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/19/23362029/49ers-injury-updates-davis-price-kroft | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Adnan Syed Released From Prison After Baltimore Judge Vacates His Conviction in the Murder of Hae Min Lee
Prosecutors now have 30 days to seek a new trial, as Adnan Syed is placed on home detention with GPS monitoring.
Adnan Syed was released Monday after a Baltimore judge vacated Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a case detailed on the hit true crime podcast series “Serial.”
Syed, now 42, will now be placed on home detention with GPS location monitoring. Prosecutors must decide whether to seek a new trial date or dismiss the case within 30 days.
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn said the move was “in the interest of judgement and fairness” when announcing her decision, the Associated Press reported. The judge ruled that the state violated a legal obligation to share evidence that may have helped Syed’s defense.
This comes after Baltimore City prosecutors filed a motion last week to vacate his murder conviction and seek a new trial, questioning the integrity of the original trial that put Syed behind bars.
Their lengthy investigation into the trial, conducted with support of Syed’s defense, “revealed undisclosed and newly-developed information regarding two alternative suspects as well as unreliable cell phone tower data,” according to a prosecution news release. While prosecutors said they were not claiming Syed was innocent, they lacked confidence in “the integrity of the conviction,” the release stated.
Syed, who was 17 at the time of his arrest, has been behind bars for the last 23 years and serving a life sentence plus 30 years after he was found guilty of strangling Lee, his ex-girlfriend, when she was 18 years old.
Lee’s body was found buried in Leakin Park. Authorities at the time said Syed snapped when Lee broke up with him, and ended up killing her.
Syed has maintained his innocence and his case received widespread attention in 2014 when “Serial” raised new questions about Lee’s death, and highlighted questionable evidence in the case. The 12-episode podcast about Syed’s case won a Peabody Award.
He and his lawyers fought the conviction many times during his incarceration, most notably in 2016, when he was granted a new trial, but Maryland’s highest court later reinstated his conviction. Syed’s team then brought their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court, where his plea for a new trial was denied in 2019.
Hae Min Lee’s brother, who participated in the hearing via Zoom from California, called the ruling “a nightmare.” “This is not a podcast for me,” he said, according to NBC Baltimore. “It’s real life that will never end.”
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Alabama Police Find Huge 'Harmless' Snake in Local Family Toilet
The Eufaula Police Department in Alabama had an unexpected encounter with wildlife when responding to a call about a snake in a family’s toilet.
An Alabama Police Department received an unusual call to a home this week when a snake was discovered in a homeowner’s toilet.
According to the Eufaula Police Department, they’re used to surprises.“We never know from one day to the next what kind of call we will receive during our shift,“ the department said in a post on social media.
"Today was no exception, however a snake in the toilet wasn’t on our list of possibilities.”
According to the post, the critter was a “harmless” gray rat snake.
The gray rat snake, also known as a chicken snake or oat snake, is commonly found throughout southern states including Alabama, according to Alabama Wildlife.
The department’s post shared that their comrades removed the snake and released him to a proper environment.
While unexpected, the department kept the situation light.
“In the snake's defense, he was just trying to reach the homeowner about their car’s extended warranty,” the post read.
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American Held Hostage by Taliban Since 2020 Is Released in Prisoner Swap After Negotiations
Mark Frerichs, a U.S. Navy veteran and civilian contractor, was abducted and held hostage in Afghanistan for over two years. He was released in exchange for Taliban official Bashir Noorzai.
An American contractor who had been held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2020 has been released after a negotiation, according to a statement from President Joe Biden.
Mark Frerichs, a U.S. Navy veteran and civilian contractor, was abducted two years ago in Kabul where it was believed he was held captive by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network, according to The Washington Post.
Frerichs was released in a prisoner swap for a Taliban drug lord Bashir Noorzai, who had been held in U.S. government custody for 17 years.
“His release is the culmination of years of tireless work by dedicated public servants across our government and other partner governments, and I want to thank them for all that effort,” Biden said in a statement.
Frerichs’ sister, Charlene Cakora, of Lombard, Illinois, had been in communication with the Biden administration and was thankful for the release of her brother. Cakora said in a statement, “I am so happy to hear that my brother is safe and on his way home to us. Our family has prayed for this each day of the more than 31 months he has been a hostage. We never gave up hope that he would survive and come home safely to us,” according to the New York Post.
Noorzai was serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2005 of smuggling $50 million worth of heroin from Afghanistan and Pakistan into the U.S.
Biden said the decision to release Noorzai in exchange for Frerichs was “difficult,” according to the statement.
Noorzai told reporters in Kabul that he had been released from an unspecified prison in the U.S. However, other Taliban officials said he had been held at a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay.
According to The Washington Post, negotiations about Frerichs’ release had been part of the ongoing conversations between the U.S. and Taliban officials in Qatar, revolving around removing American troops from Afghanistan.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s acting foreign minister, said at a news conference that the swap of the two men happened at the airport in Kabul, the New York Post reported. Muttaqi said during the press conference in Kabul that the prisoner exchange marked a “new era” in relations with the U.S., according to the outlet.
“This can be a new chapter between Afghanistan and the United States, this can open a new door for talks between both countries,” Muttaqi said. “This act shows us that all problems can be solved through talks and I thank both sides’ teams who worked so hard for this to happen."
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CDC Issues Alert for Uptick in Rare Polio-Like Disease Affecting Kids
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a warning of the possible increase in cases of a rare, neurological condition among children that is similar to polio.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a warning of a potential increase in cases of a rare condition among children that is similar to polio, according to a recently released health alert.
The alert detailed a rise in severe respiratory illness this fall that can lead to a condition called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM.)
According to the CDC, AFM is a severe neurological condition that affects the nervous system — specifically the spinal cord — and causes loss of reflexes, a sudden unexplained weakness or paralysis of the arms or legs, with more than 90% of cases occurring in young children.
"The warning sign is often, a child who's recovering from a routine illness and then the recovery stops looking like what you would expect — they're now getting worse again, and especially if they become weak," Dr. Matt Elrick told ABC News. Elrick is an assistant professor of neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute who specializes in AFM.
"This is exceptionally rare even during an outbreak so it's not something that should necessarily keep everyone up at night," Elrick continued.
"But if your child has an illness and was recovering and is now getting worse again, or not behaving in the way that you might expect the normal recovery from illness to be, that's a good reason to go see the pediatrician and sort out what's going on."
Cases of AFM typically start in the late summer to early fall.
As of Sept. 2, there were 13 confirmed cases across nine states this year.
The CDC previously saw an increase in AFM in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
"We really thought this was going to happen in 2020, because we had the last spike in 2018," Dr. Sarah Hopkins, a pediatric neurologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, told NBC News. "But then with mask-wearing and social distancing and all those things that limit the spread of a respiratory virus, we didn't have that expected spike."
Dr. Benjamin Greenberg, a neurologist at UT Southwestern's O'Donnell Brain Institute, told the outlet that it is likely cases will increase with in-person school gearing back up.
"We have a group of kids now who've never seen the virus, because they weren't having school exposures. So we think the at-risk population is bigger than in 2020," he told the outlet.
According to the CDC, there is no vaccine or antiviral medicine available, so health professionals will offer typical treatments.
The CDC said people should continue standard practices to reduce the spread of germs, including washing hands with soap and water, covering your cough or sneeze, and staying up-to-date on recommended vaccines. The CDC also said to contact a health care provider immediately if you or your child have trouble breathing or sudden limb weakness.
While rates of AFM are increasing, the disease is still very rare, according to the CDC.
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Indiana Man Arrested After Driving 90 MPH While Impaired With Girlfriend and 1-Year-Old Daughter in Car: Cops
28-year-old Coleman Sheridan is being held on 4 different charges.
An Indiana man was arrested after being caught driving 90 mph while impaired, with an infant on board, according to police.
Coleman Sheridan, 28, was pulled over the night of Sept. 17, after an Indiana State Police Trooper clocked him going over 90 mph, according to police.
Police said Sheridan showed signs of impairment and failed sobriety tests performed on scene and had a blood alcohol content of 0.9%.
Inside Sheridan's vehicle police say they found several open beer cans that still contained alcohol as well as two passengers, his girlfriend and their 1-year-old daughte.
According to police, Sheridan is currently being held without bond in the Vanderburgh County Jail on four different charges, two level-six felonies, one level-five felony, and one class B misdemeanor.
Sheridan is being charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a prior conviction, operating a vehicle while intoxicated-endangerment, operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a passenger less than 18 years of age, and reckless driving.
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LAPD Arrests 2 Teens in Connection With Overdose of 2 High School Girls
“This was not an overdose. This was murder.” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
Two California students have been arrested by Los Angeles police in connection with the overdose of two young girls that resulted in the death of one and the hospitalization of the other.
On Sept. 13 LAPD were dispatched to Bernstein High School in Hollywood to investigate an overdose, according to a LAPD press release. When the LA Fire Department arrived one victim was found deceased on scene and the other was rushed to the hospital and is expected to recover, police said.
Investigators believe that the victims bought what they believed was Percocet that may have been laced with fentanyl, according to reports.
The Los Angeles County Coroner identified the student who died as 15-year-old Melanie Ramos, according to USA Today.
Police announced at a press conference that they arrested one suspect,15, early morning on Sept. 15 and found the pills that were responsible for the overdose; he is being charged with suspicion of manslaughter.
The second arrest was a 15-year-old believed to be responsible for selling drugs in a nearby park and will be charged with the sale of narcotics, according to police.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti also spoke at the press conference, sending a message to drug dealers telling them they’re coming for them.
“This was not an overdose. This was murder. And my heart breaks with the families and children affected by this growing evil. We will not rest until justice is served,” said the mayor.
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Man Says 'I Do' 5 Weeks After Neighbors Performed CPR for More Than 14 Minutes to Save Him From Heart Attack
Chris Favorin was in the throes of a massive heart attack known as a “widow maker” when his neighbors, nurse practitioner Rachel Mowry and her firefighter/EMT husband Christopher, sprang into action.
The moment a Pennsylvania man staggered onto a porch and rang his neighbors’ bell for help was captured on the homeowner’s security camera.
Chris Favorin was in the throes of a massive heart attack known as a “widow maker” when, barely able to stand up, he crumbled onto his hands and knees on his neighbors’ porch, video of the moment showed.
“I was a mess; I thought I’d lose him for sure,” said his fiancée Beth of her thoughts in the moment, which was five weeks before their wedding.
Chris had just finished a home workout when he suffered the heart attack. Beth knew he needed help and he didn't think he could make it to the hospital, so Chris decided to go to his next-door neighbors for help.
There, nurse practitioner Rachel Mowry and her firefighter/EMT husband Christopher, both of whom happened to be home, sprang into action.
“We started doing what we needed to do,” Christopher said.
The husband-wife team performed non-stop CPR compressions for 14 minutes before getting a pulse. Two minutes later, the 53-year-old’s heart stopped again.
“Honestly, we knew not (having a pulse was) pretty bad,” Rachel said.
They managed to bring him back a second time.
“I believe god put them in my path that day,” Chris said. “Without them being there, I know I would not have made it.”
“They're heroes in my eyes; The best neighbors anyone can have,” Beth said.
Thanks to their quick actions, Rachel and Christopher were able to watch as Chris and Beth tied the knot in their hometown of York. The pair even got a shoutout during the vows.
“I’m very blessed,” Chris later said of having Rachel and Christopher as his neighbors. “Because without them, we, I, wouldn’t be here.”
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Millions of Mourners Journey to London to Say Goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II
It was a day of pomp, pageantry, spectacle and emotion as an estimated billion people from around the world watched Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, with millions traveling to watch the processions in person.
As the world watched, the British royal family said their final goodbyes to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday.
Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte, 7, walked behind their great-grandmother’s coffin at her funeral after their parents, Prince William and Princess Catherine, made the difficult choice to include their children say goodbye to Queen Elizabeth, who they affectionately knew as “gan-gan.”
It was a day of pomp, pageantry, spectacle and emotion as an estimated billion people from around the world watched the funeral, with millions traveling to watch the processions in person.
Those who traveled to London for the queen’s funeral who Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville spoke with said that it didn’t matter if they actually saw the cortege, but instead what was important was that they were there in person.
King Charles III, Prince William, Prince Harry and other members of the royal family marched behind the coffin, which was pulled on a gun carriage by more than 100 sailors.
Prince Harry was not allowed to wear his military uniform and instead wore a simple gray morning coat. As the procession passed London’s war memorial, the tomb of the unknown soldier, Prince William and the others in the procession saluted. Prince Harry, in contrast, was not permitted to salute.
It's just one of the perceived slights said to be irritating Prince Harry and Meghan, duchess of Sussex. Inside Westminster Abbey, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan were seated in the second row, while Prince William and even disgraced Prince Andrew were in front.
“Harry and Megan have behaved extremely well this whole 11 days in what was quite an awkward position for them,” Tina Brown said. “The whole family has put on a show of family unity; now backstage they have to really work things out.”
The queen's coffin, orb, scepter and a wreath of flowers chosen by King Charles III sat atop the coffin. They include blooms grown from the queen's own wedding bouquet with a handwritten note. It said, “In loving and devoted memory. Charles R.” The “R” is Latin for “Rex,” or “king.”
In a moving moment, mourners sang “God Save The King.” King Charles blinked back tears. Prince Harry looked tight-jawed, fighting tears as well.
After the procession through London, the queen's coffin was taken in a see-through hearse to Windsor. Even the queen's corgis appeared to be saying a solemn farewell.
Eight pall bearers carried the lead-lined 500-pound coffin to its final resting place, a crypt in St. George's Chapel next to her husband Prince Philip and father George VI.
Now preparations are underway for the next chapter in the royal pageant: the coronation of King Charles III.
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Obama Reflects on Time Spent With Queen Elizabeth as All Former Presidents Are Invited to Memorial for Monarch
Former President Barack Obama reflected on his time spent with Queen Elizabeth II and the lasting impression the late monarch made on his family in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
All five living former presidents—Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter—have reportedly been invited to memorial for Queen Elizabeth II, which will be held in collaboration with the British Embassy at the Washington National Cathedral.
The event's invitation described the memorial as "a Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II," the Telegraph reported. It is going to feature an honor guard by the Queen’s Color Squadron, which is a unit of the Royal Air Force, and will be held on Wednesday, according to Sky News.
The place of worship previously hosted memorial services, as well as state funerals for former U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. Whether any or all of the former presidents will attend the upcoming service has not yet been confirmed.
Former President Obama reflected on his time spent with Queen Elizabeth II and the lasting impression the late monarch made on his family in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
Immediately struck by how much the queen reminded him of his own grandmother, in not just appearance but also in manner, Obama said Queen Elizabeth was "gracious," but also had a "no nonsense" quality, was an "excellent listener" who had a genuine curiosity "although she was impatient to get to the point."
In 2011, the Obamas were invited to a state dinner at Buckingham Palace, and while then-First Lady Michelle Obama was slightly concerned over gifting the queen the "small modest broach of nominal value" that she had picked out, the following evening, when the American Embassy hosted the queen for a state dinner in return, she arrived wearing the broach.
"It was an example of the subtle thoughtfulness that she consistently displayed not just to us but to everybody who she interacted with," Obama said.
"The combination of a sense of duty and a clear understanding of her role as a symbol for a nation and as the carrier of a certain set of values combined with a very human quality of kindness and consideration, I think that's what made her so beloved, not just in Great Britain but around the world," he told the BBC.
Obama's interview came as the world over mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and while her own family apparently pushed through their own pain to honor the late monarch.
On Friday, Queen Camilla could be seen stumbling as she was leaving a cathedral, the first outward sign of the 75-year-old's secret pain from which she's been suffering after breaking a toe. She suffered the injury before the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Camilla is “in a lot of pain” but “has been an absolute trooper,” a palace insider told London’s Daily Telegraph. She has been at King Charles III’s side for most of his grueling schedule and stood to attention for 20 minutes as the queen was lying in state.
Meanwhile, protesters demanding Welsh independence jeered King Charles on a visit to Wales Friday, but there were far more people cheering and clamoring to see the new king. He had by then solved the problem that triggered a petulant flash of temper over a leaky pen: he was seen carrying his own pen, which he took out from his breast pocket before sitting down to sign documents Friday.
The Royal families’ many obligations came as hundreds of thousands waited to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II. Among the mourners was soccer idol David Beckham. The emotional moment as he paused and bowed reverently came after he spent more than 12 hours in line with other well-wishers.
“We all want to be here together we all want to experience something where we celebrate the amazing life of our queen,” Beckham said.
And Princes William and Harry’s feud is reportedly not over, despite efforts to put on a united front. “From what I am being told, it is papering over the cracks until this is over rather than any form of real reconciliation,” DailyMail.com columnist Dan Wooten said of the status of their rift.
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Ohio Children Found in 'Deplorable' Conditions Without Parents Upon Authorities Search of Home: Authorities
When Ohio authorities entered a home for a sexual assault investigation, they discovered two children under the age of 4 in what they called 'deplorable' conditions.
On Sunday, when Ohio law enforcement entered a home to exercise a search warrant in connection with a sexual assault investigation, they discovered a 3-year-old locked in a cage and a 2-year-old holding drug paraphernalia, according to authorities.
The 3-year-old child was locked inside a cage that was secured with zip ties, according to authorities. The cage was filled with bugs, soiled bedding, and a cup full of spoiled milk, according to a statement from the Hocking County Sheriff's Office.
A 2-year-old was found walking around the home, described as being in "deplorable condition," holding a methamphetamine pipe, according to the statement.
Sixty-one-year-old Ella Webb, the grandmother of both children who had full custody, has been taken into custody at Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office Jail and charged with endangering children, according to local outlet WBNS.
Webb pleaded not guilty in Hocking County Municipal Court on Monday, and is being held on a $200,000 bond, according to the outlet.
According to authorities, the parents of the children, Franklin “TJ” Varney, 38, and Megan Smith, 25, left the children and fled the scene due to their connection to the sexual assault investigation.
Both children were safely taken into emergency custody with the assistance of South Central Ohio Job and Family Services and placed in emergency foster care, the sheriff's office said.
Child endangerment charges were filed against both parents by the Hocking County Sheriff's Office with nationwide arrest warrants requested from the court, according to the statement.
“I very, very strongly encourage Mr. Varney and Ms. Smith to immediately surrender themselves to law enforcement,” Hocking County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Caleb Moritz said in the statement.
“If they choose to run from their responsibilities, as they did tonight, the Hocking County Sheriff’s Office will tirelessly leverage every local, state and federal resource available to bring these two to justice.”
The sheriff's office asks that anyone with information call 740-385-2131 or send an anonymous text message to 740-380-HCSO.
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Prince George and Princess Charlotte Praised for Behavior During Queen Elizabeth's Funeral
Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte, 7, attended the funeral for great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, who they affectionately knew as “gan-gan.”
Prince William and Princess Catherine, the new Prince and Princess of Wales, debated whether to bring their children to the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, who Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis affectionately knew as “gan-gan.”
They decided their older children, 9-year-old George and 7-year-old Charlotte, were mature enough to attend. They rode silently with their mother and Queen Consort Camilla to the funeral.
Their younger brother, 4-year-old Prince Louis, did not attend his great-grandmother’s funeral. He was likely decided to be too young for the solemn day. He attended the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebration in June and could be seen growing rambunctious at times. In a social media post about the celebrations at the time, Prince William and Princess Catherine humorously acknowledged their youngest child's antics. "We all had an incredible time, especially Louis…" they wrote in part, including an eyes emoji.
While speaking to children outside Windsor Castle on Sept. 10, Princess Catherine said Louis told her, "At least grannie is with great-grandpa now," The Sunday Times' royals editor, Roya Nikkhah reported. Queen Elizabeth’s husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, died in June 2021. He was 99.
But Prince Louis is also struggling to understand the queen’s death and is “asking questions” about it, Australia’s Governor-General David Hurley said Princess Catherine told him during a reception at Buckingham Palace in London Saturday.
“The younger one is now asking questions like, ‘Do you think we can still play these games when we go to Balmoral [Castle in Scotland] and things like that, because she’s not going to be there?'” Hurley told the Daily Mail.
Prince Louis’s older siblings received high praise for how they handled themselves at the queen’s funeral.
Princess Charlotte could be seeing waiting as the Queen Consort and her mother, commonly known as Kate Middleton, exited their car. The young princess made sure her hair was in place before entering Westminster Abbey. She wore a small diamond horseshoe pin in honor of her great-grandmother, who had a great love for horses.
Prince George, now second in line to the throne, could be seen saying "good morning" to a member of the clergy.
At one point, Prince George could be seen being comforted by his mother during the service. At another point in the day, Princess Charlotte broke down in tears.
But the pair were aware of their duties as members of the royal family as well. As the two children waited for the great-grandmother’s coffin to pass them at Wellington Arch, Princess Charlotte could be seen telling Prince George, “You need to bow.” Her big brother could be seen listening intently.
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Queen Elizabeth Funeral Security Prep Included Calling in 10,000 Cops and Employing Anti-Drone Technology
Authorities took great lengths to ensure the two million people who flocked to Central London to say goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II were kept safe.
A 12-mile “ring of steel” snaked around Central London, where two million people crowded, 500 world leaders among them, to say their final goodbyes to Queen Elizabeth II Monday. How did authorities keep everyone safe?
Approximately 10,000 police officers from across Great Britain were called up for duty. Armed officers were positioned on rooftops with sniper rifles, while drones were banned from the skies in the area.
Anti-drone technology was put in place to make sure none slipped through.
Security lined the procession route, armed officers alternating with unarmed beat cops faced both the direction of the procession and the crowd.
All world leaders arrived by bus with the exception of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, who were the only leaders allowed to travel separately.
They arrived in an armored car known as “the Beast,” with another armored vehicle used as a decoy in case of a terrorist attack.
As the hearse made its way through the British countryside towards Windsor Castle, onlookers threw flowers onto the hearse, which was covered with petals and stems by the time it reached its destination.
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Queen Elizabeth’s Coffin Arrives at Windsor Castle After State Funeral, Where She Is Laid to Rest
After 10 days of honoring Queen Elizabeth II, she is put to rest at Windsor Castle.
Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral took place in London's historic Westminster Abbey on Monday morning, ending the United Kingdom's official period of mourning for its longest-reigning monarch.
President Biden and over 100 other heads of state were among the around 500 foreign leaders who attended the event. Security protocols decades in the making were even challenged.
Queen Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other sovereign countries, died on Sept. 8 at the age of 96 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
King Charles III, her eldest son, has ascended to the throne and began undertaking constitutional duties immediately following the death of his mother.
Days of meticulously planned public festivities followed the queen's death, including a procession on Wednesday from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall. Throughout the four days the queen lay in state, there were many people waiting in long lines for the opportunity to pass the queen's coffin. Many waited nearly 30 hours to do so.
The queen's coffin was carried in a walking procession to Hyde Park following the funeral. It was then transported in a hearse to the queen's ultimate resting place at Windsor Castle's St. George's Chapel, where her late husband Prince Philip and sister Princess Margaret are also buried.
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Uttaradesh Pindoriya was last booked under at Police St...more\nNew York City woman arrested of sexually moul*st*ring six people ... PARMA, Idaho — Veterans Sportsman Alliance makes it their mission to help disabled veterans get outdoors for a social and therapeutic experience in nature.
We caught up with this group as they had veterans out for a day of sturgeon fishing at Jim Schwartz Sturgeon Pond north of Parma, VSA is a non-profit that started in California and is now in five states including Idaho.
"The Idaho chapter is kind of new," said Jeremiah Johnsons of VSA Idaho. "We want to be able to spread the word about Idaho, really get out there and let veterans know we are here too."
Walt Modler is a Marine Corps veteran who served during the Vietnam War, he enjoyed a beautiful day on the pond as Walt and his fellow veterans reeled in dozens of sturgeon.
"It is nice to be out in the wild and enjoying something, it is great that we have groups that support veterans and keep them active," said Modler.
Veterans Sportsman Alliance takes veterans out hunting and fishing thanks to donations to help them with supplies, but they also rely on private landowners, farmers and places like Schwartz Pond.
Schwartz Pond stocks fish, rents out equipment and makes it really easy for anglers because they don't need a fishing license with the pond being on private property.
"We like to be able to drive right to our blinds so these guys don’t have to walk, we can just put them in the blinds, give them a chair, a heater, a shotgun and shells and say here you go let’s have some fun," said Johnson. "Most of them enjoy it, they get to talk about their stories, we get to tell them our stories so it’s a little different."
VSA takes disabled veterans to Schwartz Pond once a year, Walt Modler enjoyed fishing with his fellow veterans, but he also really enjoyed watching some of vets kids catch some sturgeon.
"Those veterans that brings their kids ,it is even better," said Modler. "The excitement of the first fish, especially if it's big the kids just love it."
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- There are now 32 confirmed cases of monkeypox in Hawaii, according to the State Department of Health (DOH).
There have been 22 confirmed cases in Honolulu County, 3 in Hawaii County, 2 in Maui County, 2 in Kauai County, and 3 cases confirmed in Hawaii residents who are out of the state.
Of the 32 cases confirmed statewide, four were in non-Hawaii residents; two on Oahu and two on Kauai. The numbers were last updates on Sept. 16.
“As monkeypox cases continue to rise across the country and in Hawaii, DOH will continue to provide updated information to the public,” said Deputy State Epidemiologist Dr. Nathan Tan. “It’s critically important to us that we continue to make vaccination available to communities disproportionately impacted by this outbreak—and the data released today will help all of us ensure that vaccine is being distributed equitably.”
DOH says it will also be releasing additional data on JYNNEOS vaccine administration in state, online, each Wednesday. The DOH says it has administered 2,515 monkeypox vaccine doses. Tap here to view that data.
Health officials say monkeypox shares many commonalities with smallpox, like causing blistering skin rashes. It is a rare disease caused by the monkeypox virus. Infection begins with flu-like symptoms and swollen lymph nodes, and progresses to a rash or sores, often on the hands, feet, chest, face, or genitals. Individuals generally become ill within 21 days of exposure, the DOH said
Monkeypox can spread through direct contact with body fluids, lesion material, or items used by someone with monkeypox as well as close, prolonged contact with an infected person or animal. It can also be spread through large respiratory droplets.
Monkeypox vaccines are available in every county in Hawaii. Anyone who is eligible who would wish to make an appointment can call the following numbers:
• Hawaii Department of Health (Statewide): 808-586-4462
• Malama I Ke Ola (Maui): 808-871-7772
• Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (Oahu): 808-427-0442
• Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center (Oahu): 808-521-2347
• Kaiser Permanente (Oahu): 808) 434-2000, prompt 1
• Hamakua-Kohala Health (Big Island): 808-930-2751
• Malama Pono Health Service (Kauai): 808-246-9577
Earlier in August, DOH expanded its vaccine eligibility in order to prevent the spread of the virus.
“As more vaccine doses become available, we are expanding vaccine eligibility to communities that have been disproportionately impacted by this outbreak and individuals who are at risk for severe illness,” said Deputy State Epidemiologist Dr. Nathan Tan.
Those eligible to receive the JYNNEOS vaccine under the new guidelines include the following:
• Anyone who has had close contact with a person with known or suspected monkeypox infection in the last two weeks
• Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender individuals who have multiple or anonymous sex partners;
• Persons who are severely immunocompromised or those with certain skin conditions, such as eczema; AND who have a household member or sex partner at high risk for monkeypox.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The University of Oregon says it apologizes for the behavior of student fans at the Saturday football game against Brigham Young University after video showed students chanting hateful phrases.
In the video, students can be heard chanting “F— the Mormons.”
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox retweeted the video and said, “Religious bigotry alive and celebrated in Oregon.”
Aubrey, who didn’t want to share her last name, said she recorded the video that’s circulating. She said the chanting started earlier, and she didn’t start recording until students did it a third time.
“The student section definitely knew I was upset and one of the Oregon fans behind me leaned over and said, essentially, ‘Be kind to them. They’re freshmen.’ Which was really disappointing because that is an acknowledgment that that person knew that what they were doing was wrong,” she said.
Aubrey, a BYU alumna and a Mormon, said she tried talking to crowd control employees and was told there would be an announcement made in the stadium asking fans to stop the chants. She said the announcement never came.
“It seems that [Americans] really try to respect certain religions, but the Mormon Church has never been one of them,” she said. “It seems like it’s still OK to make fun of Mormons. And that happens in front of me all the time and I would like it to stop.”
The Oregon Pit Crew, which helps organize the student section at sporting events, tweeted a response to the offensive chants Saturday night.
“To all @BYUfootball fans in attendance at todays (sic) game we would like to apologize for the actions of the students in attendance. We do not condone or support any hateful speech directed towards one’s religion and are ashamed of those who participated,” the Oregon Pit Crew said.
Kris Winter, interim vice president for the Division of Student Life at the University of Oregon, also issued a statement in which he called the chants “despicable.”
The University of Oregon tweeted a statement in response to the students’ behavior:
“The University of Oregon sincerely apologizes for an offensive and disgraceful chant coming from the student section during yesterday’s game against Brigham Young University. These types of actions go against everything the university stands for, and it goes against the spirit of competition. We can and will do better as a campus community that has no place for hate, bias or bigotry.”
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown retweeted the University of Oregon’s statement and said, “In Oregon, we strive to be a welcoming, inclusive state to all, regardless of race, religion, gender, or background. Our state and nation have an ugly history of discrimination and bigotry. The chant at yesterday’s Oregon-BYU game was unacceptable. We must do better.”
Ahead of Saturday’s game, BYU’s football team entered Autzen Stadium holding an Oregon flag with the name “Webb” and the number 18 on it to honor Spencer Webb, an Oregon Ducks tight end who died in a fall in July.
Aubrey traveled to the University of Oregon game from the Washington, D.C. area. She tries to attend a BYU football away game every year. After this experience, she doesn’t expect she will return for another game at Autzen Stadium.
BYU recently investigated its fans after they were accused of directing racial slurs toward a Duke volleyball player during a match last month. The university said it found no evidence to support the claim but reiterated it would not tolerate any conduct that threatens a student-athlete.
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What are the lyrics to 'Panis angelicus'?
Here are the lyrics to the 13th century hymn Panis angelicus
Who wrote Panis angelicus?
Dating back to the 13th century Panis angelicus is the last but one stanza from the hymn 'Sacris solemniis', which was written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the feast of Corpus Christi.
It has been set to music by a number of composers including João Lourenço Rebelo, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, André Caplet, Saint-Saëns, and, perhaps the best known of all, the setting by César Franck.
What does Panis angelicus mean?
Panis angelicus means 'Bread of Angels' or 'Angelic Bread'
Panis angelicus lyrics
Thus Angels' Bread is made
the Bread of man today:
the Living Bread from heaven
with figures dost away:
O wondrous gift indeed!
the poor and lowly may
upon their Lord and Master feed.
Thee, therefore, we implore, O Godhead, One in Three,
so may Thou visit us
as we now worship Thee;
and lead us on Thy way,
That we at last may see
the light wherein Thou dwellest aye.
Amen.
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SUSSEX COUNTY, Del.- Rehoboth Beach Police are investigating antisemitic flyers found outside hundreds of homes.
The hateful flyers came in small bags, filled partially with corn kernels. The flyers contain messages blaming Jewish politicians for civic issues. The Rehoboth Beach Police Department says over 300 bags were distributed.
Community members are disturbed by the hate speech. Many say, this is not typical for an open and accepting community like Rehoboth Beach.
While people are dismayed by the flyers, Rabbi Sholom Vogel of the Chabad of Southern Delaware, says he plans to fight back with love and kindness.
"You cannot fight darkness with a stick. You can only light a candle and the darkness will disappear," said Vogel.
One Rehoboth Beach resident, Steve Fallon, believes antisemitism should not be tolerated by any means.
RBPD is working with the State Attorney General's office to investigate the flyers and determine whether any crime was committed.
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Forecast updated on Monday, September 19, 2022, at 4:00 PM by WBOC Meteorologist Dan Satterfield (AMS-CBM).
DELMARVA FORECAST
Tonight: Clear, warm and humid. Low 67°. Wind: S 6-12 mph.
Tuesday: Sunny and warm. Less humid PM. High 85°. Wind: NW 6-13 mph.
Tuesday Night: Clear and cooler. Low 60°. Wind: W 3-7 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny and warm. High 85°. Wind: W 3-8 mph.
Forecast Discussion:
Look for mostly clear skies tonight with light winds from the south ahead of a cold front. It will be dry and humid with lows around 67° at sunrise. It will be warmer near the Bays and on the immediate coast.
Tuesday looks slightly cooler behind a cool front that will pass through early in the day. It will turn less humid by afternoon with mainly clear skies and a NW wind at 8-12 mph. Afternoon high temps will reach 85° which is 6 degrees above the average for later September.
Wednesday looks warm as well with a light west wind, but the humidity will be low. Afternoon high temps will reach 85° inland and on the coast with the westerly wind flow keeping marine air away from the coast. Large swells from Hurricane Fiona will begin to reach our shores late Tuesday into Wednesday and this will produce strong rip currents. Use extreme caution swimming in the surf.
In the long range, a cold front will move through Thursday with showers and much cooler weather by evening. Look for afternoon highest temps. to reach the low 80's with a west breeze. Friday will be clear and cool with temps. only near 70 and lows will drip into the 40's Friday night.
Saturday will be mild with temps. near 74 and it will warm to around 80 on Sunday. Some showers with another cold front will arrive Monday with afternoon temps. around 77-78 degrees.
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Danske with CNY thoughts:
- USD/CNY has taken another leg higher lately on a stronger USD and wider US-China spread.
- Relative rates clearly in favour of higher USD/CNY. US money market rates now far above Chinese.
And highlight some of the known issues facing China:
- global recession fears, more US restrictions on Chinese tech, continued property crisis and weaker CNY
- PMIs dropped back in August, but the credit impulse is still robust. Retail sales surprised to the upside in August but remain weak. Confidence is low. The property sector is still in a deep crisis although stress among developers has eased somewhat lately.
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Offshore yuan, CNH, update:
Still ahead from China today:
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That final number in the pic below, CPI excluding food & energy is the closest to the US core CPI. Its risen now for the 5th month in a row.
USD/JPY is little changed, circa 143.30.
Core CPI (that which excludes fresh food) has hit its highest y/y rise, excluding sales tax hike impact, since September of 1991.
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Coming up at 0130 GMT.
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Lowe spoke last week, I don't exp[etc the minutes will offer anything in addition to what he had to say. Links to his comments are in this post:
ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: USD/JPY bounces back from under 142.90
and:
- RBA Gov Lowe says cash rate should at least average 2.5% over time
- More from RBA Gov Lowe says the Bank is closer to normal setting for rates
- RBA Gov. Lowe says inflation is too high
TD preview the minutes in brief:
- Given the string of stronger economic data, we will watch the Sep Minutes if the RBA now expects a higher terminal rate as offshore inflation points to sticker inflation dynamics globally which may spillover to onshore. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/aud-traders-heads-up-for-rba-sept-meeting-minutes-due-today-tuesday-20-september-2022-20220919/ | 2022-09-19T23:53:34Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/aud-traders-heads-up-for-rba-sept-meeting-minutes-due-today-tuesday-20-september-2022-20220919/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The PBOC will set one- and five-year loan prime rates today.
around 0115 GMT on Tuesday, 20 September 2022 In August the 1-Year Loan Prime Rate was cut to 3.65% (from 3.70%). As background:
most new and outstanding loans in China are based on the one-year LPR the previous cut to the 1-year was in January the 5 basis point cut is not as much as the 10bp cut that was expected Also last month, the 5-Year Loan Prime Rate has been cut to 4.30% (from 4.45%)
most home mortgage rates are based on the five-year the 5-year was last cut in May the consensus expectation was for a 10 basis point cut, a 15bp cut is more than most were expecting For today, given the MLF rate remained steady last week there is no change expected to the LPRs at today's setting. Add in likely PBoC concerns on the weakening yuan (CNY and CNH are falling against the USD, almost everything is!) and the Bank will be hesitant to add even lower rates to reasons for capital to leave the country. Having said this, though, we had a small cut yesterday:
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EUR
The euro (EUR) is the official currency of the European Union (EU) and 19 of 27 member states at the time of writing. It is the second most-traded currency worldwide in forex markets after the US dollar.The euro was originally introduced back on January 1, 1999, having replaced the European Currency Unit. Banknotes and physical euro coins subsequently entered circulation only in 2002.Upon its adoption, the euro replaced domestic currencies in participating EU member states. The rise in its value since then and importance in the global market has helped solidify its status as one of the most important currencies in the FX market today.Together with the USD, the currency pair is easily among the most important for forex, given its exposure into the two main economic blocs. What Factors Affects the EUR?There are several factors that affect the euro. Like most currencies, monetary policy is the most influential, which in this case refers to the European Central Bank (ECB).The ECB is responsible for regulating the monetary policy, money supply, interest rates, and relative strength of the euro. Forex traders of the euro are routinely tuned into any decision or announcements from the ECB for this reason.With 19 sovereign member states, the euro is particularly vulnerable to political developments. Recent examples include Greece’s debt crisis and Brexit, among others, which can seriously impact the euro.Finally, economic data from the bloc or from key member states such as Germany, France, Spain, and others are also closely eyed. This includes retail sales, jobless claims, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and others.
The euro (EUR) is the official currency of the European Union (EU) and 19 of 27 member states at the time of writing. It is the second most-traded currency worldwide in forex markets after the US dollar.The euro was originally introduced back on January 1, 1999, having replaced the European Currency Unit. Banknotes and physical euro coins subsequently entered circulation only in 2002.Upon its adoption, the euro replaced domestic currencies in participating EU member states. The rise in its value since then and importance in the global market has helped solidify its status as one of the most important currencies in the FX market today.Together with the USD, the currency pair is easily among the most important for forex, given its exposure into the two main economic blocs. What Factors Affects the EUR?There are several factors that affect the euro. Like most currencies, monetary policy is the most influential, which in this case refers to the European Central Bank (ECB).The ECB is responsible for regulating the monetary policy, money supply, interest rates, and relative strength of the euro. Forex traders of the euro are routinely tuned into any decision or announcements from the ECB for this reason.With 19 sovereign member states, the euro is particularly vulnerable to political developments. Recent examples include Greece’s debt crisis and Brexit, among others, which can seriously impact the euro.Finally, economic data from the bloc or from key member states such as Germany, France, Spain, and others are also closely eyed. This includes retail sales, jobless claims, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and others.
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One of Shakespeare’s conceits is the wisdom of clowns. From Feste in Twelfth Night to the Fool in King Lear, they speak truth to power, but tell it slant and do so at their peril.
The stabbing last month of Salman Rushdie, who lived under threat of a decades-long fatwa for his comedic novel, The Satanic Verses, and Will Smith’s Oscars stage assault on Chris Rock remind us that satire is risky business: One person’s hilarity is another’s sacrilege. Satirists, comics, and fools are ideological pathfinders, risking their reputations, and sometimes their health and security, to chart terrain for the rest of us. Comedians are America’s modular, detachable consciences, at times challenging the status quo, at times serving it.
In his critique of pre-Enlightenment culture, Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin argued that long before America’s Bill of Rights enshrined free speech, “comic rites and cults, the clowns and fools, giants, dwarfs, and jugglers, the vast and manifold literature of parody” formed a sanctioned resistance to the “official and serious tone of medieval ecclesiastical and feudal culture.”
Fools were stabilizing forces in downtrodden societies, enabling peasant classes to lampoon the rich and vent their discontent with poverty, disease, violence, and a totalitarian church and state—within the bounds of stages and jokes.
Americans, too, have relied on comedians for subversive apprehensions of our national circumstance. Thomas Paine’s wry voice of American common sense planted seeds of our first revolution. American humor also served a unifying function after the Civil War and the end of chattel slavery, and again in the face of expanding American imperialism in Mark Twain’s satire.
Nineteenth-century America’s jester was the blackface minstrel, his artform employing comic skits and dancing, and freighted with tragic irony. Most minstrels were white men—often Irish and Italian immigrants—who caricatured the physicality of African slaves and freedmen, who had themselves developed show dance forms like the cakewalk to parody the mannerisms of white people. Like Bakhtin’s fools, minstrels performed a kind of acceptable populist subversion that gave rise to blackface literature like, for instance, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s landmark Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and a century later, dissident narratives such as Norman Mailer’s The White Negro, which called for (white) people to abandon postwar conformity for a more rebellious outlook, which Mailer associated with Black people.
Despite being compromised by the racist tropes of its era, minstrelsy amplified a bevy of art forms including jazz, tap dance, and the blues, which were also deemed subversive due, in part, to their origins in Black culture. Minstrel shows also featured authentic African American talents including Scott Joplin, who was known as the King of Ragtime; Gertrude “Ma” Rainey; and Charley Case, who is sometimes credited with inventing stand-up comedy.
Case’s father was an African American musician; his mother was Irish American. At a time when much of America fell under Jim Crow anti-miscegenation laws, Case performed unadorned narrations about his mixed heritage family while casually twisting a bit of string around his fingers. He became one of the nation’s highest-paid performers, and yet, off-stage, Case was known for his brooding, morose nature. He shot himself to death in a hotel room in 1916.
Today, America’s comedians have assumed the mantle of public intellectuals. Whether or not one agrees with them, their collective voices are arguably more pervasive and influential than those of traditional intellectuals like Nicholas Kristof or Ayaan Hirsi Ali. And like Bakhtin’s clowns, modern comedians play a dual role in our society—sometimes stabilizing it, and other times, challenging cultural norms.
On the day Donald Trump was elected president, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock appeared on Saturday Night Live to leaven what seemed a hopeless situation for half of the country’s voters. Rock ridiculed liberals’ surprise that Hillary Clinton lost; Chappelle struck a conciliatory note: “I’m wishing Donald Trump luck, and I’m going to give him a chance. And we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one, too.” (Chappelle later apologized for his naivete.)
And after at least 59 people were killed in Las Vegas in 2017, victims of the country’s deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman, survivors appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show to make sense of the carnage.
In both instances, American stand-up comics helped smooth out high-stakes incidents. In other situations, comedians tested societal boundaries. DeGeneres herself went against the grain when she came out as a lesbian 25 years ago, depicting the first openly gay character on primetime television. As billionaire British Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling desperately rejected accusations that she was a “TERF,” Chappelle defended her and said he identified with that title. Comedian podcaster Joe Rogan has interviewed some of the nation’s most canceled figures—from vocal vaccine skeptic Robert Malone to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones—inviting widespread protests and commanding ever larger audiences.
One of the reasons that comedians appeal to us so much, however, is that their intellectualism is played, first and foremost, for laughs. Comedy is performative, and whatever views they express may not be “real,” but all an act. “I talk shit for a living,” Rogan said in a stand-up routine earlier this year. “If you’re taking vaccine advice from me, is that really my fault? If you want my advice, don’t take my advice.”
Comedians’ riffs on sexual assault, gender identity, electoral politics, abortion, or any other off-limit discourses are creating new canons of critical literature, displacing the intellectual takes of popular academics of the past. But unlike treatises of old, when Jon Stewart rants about bat coronaviruses and burn pits, or Bill Burr takes on abortion rights, millions are listening, watching, guffawing, and sometimes, even agreeing.
Ask yourself: When was the last time you wanted to know what Francis Fukuyama, Noam Chomsky, or Cornel West thinks about a given topic? You’re more likely to wonder what HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher said about it. It’s no accident that America’s most popular cable news program, Fox’s The Five, employs comedian Greg Gutfeld to speak about current events. The second most-watched cable news show is Tucker Carlson Tonight, which bounces between rightward diatribes and satirical snark.
In the age of social media, where a wrongfooted sentence can conflagrate a career built over a lifetime, comedians are our ideological crash-test dummies. They press the limits of permissible speech and thought, they challenge social convention, they test our boundaries, and make us roar when they tell us what we’re really thinking (but dare not say aloud).
The comedic mask allows us the liberty of laughter, without any commitment to deeper subversions. Jokes reveal hypocrisies and incite us to laugh at the nakedness of our emperors—even in front of our emperors. American comedy is a sanctioned release of social and ideological pressure, often in service to more durable authorities.
Comedians are America’s public intellectuals, sure, but they’re also just joking.
Solomon Moore is an editor-at-large at Zocalo Public Square.
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ANAHEIM — A good start came apart quickly for José Suarez, continuing to show the caution flag in his otherwise encouraging second half.
Suarez has struggled the third time through an opposing lineup, including allowing a fifth-inning grand slam to Carlos Santana in the Angels’ 9-1 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Monday afternoon.
With the loss, the Angels (64-83) were mathematically eliminated from postseason contention. They have not made the playoffs since 2014, the third-longest drought in MLB behind Seattle (2002) and the Philadelphia Phillies (2012).
Until the fifth, it looked like yet another strong performance for the left-hander. But then he walked No. 9 hitter Curt Casali. Suarez then began his third look at the Mariners’ lineup.
Mitch Haniger singled. Suarez hit Ty France with a pitch. He then fell behind Santana before throwing him a 3-and-1 pitch on the outside corner that Santana launched over the left field fence, turning a 1-0 deficit into a 5-0 deficit.
On one swing, Suarez gave up more runs than he had allowed in any of his previous eight second-half starts. Since he started throwing a new changeup and using his slider more, he has pitched to a 2.81 ERA over those nine starts. For the season, his ERA is 4.11.
His second-half resurgence has likely led the Angels to pencil him in as a member of the 2023 rotation, but he is going to have to clean up his issues if he’s going to be successful.
Opponents have a .523 OPS against Suarez in their first look at him in his starts. The second time though, it jumps to .780. The third time through, it’s 1.135.
Last season, Suarez didn’t have the issue to this extreme. His opponents’ OPS went from .667 to .714 to .776.
Most pitchers get worse the more often they face a lineup, which is why teams have taken to pulling starters so quickly these days or using an opener. That allows a pitcher to face more hitters before he sees the top of the order for the third time.
When Suarez gave up the grand slam on Monday, it put the game out of reach. With Mike Trout getting a day off, the Angels produced just one run on eight hits. They didn’t score until the sixth, which was their third time seeing Seattle starter Logan Gilbert.
Shohei Ohtani doubled, his only hit of the day. He went to third when Matt Duffy’s drive to center ticked off the glove of Dylan Moore and he scored on Taylor Ward’s sacrifice fly.
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A jury will resume deliberations next month in the retrial of a San Gabriel man who during the serving of a search warrant at his home in 2014 fatally shot a Pomona police officer.
Because of scheduling conflicts, the Los Angeles County Superior Court jury took a break and is scheduled to resume talks on Oct. 10. The panel has reached a verdict on one of two counts but the court has not disclosed details of the decision.
David Martinez, 45, has been charged with the second-degree murder of Officer Shaun Diamond and assault with a firearm on an officer.
“At this point, we don’t really know the verdict they reached,” said Brady Sullivan, Martinez’s lawyer.
Martinez’s first trial ended in 2019 with the jury acquitting him of first-degree murder but deadlocking on second-degree murder.
Sullivan has said that on Oct. 28, 2014, Martinez, who wanted to leave the Mongols motorcycle club, thought other Mongols were breaking into the house and he fired a shotgun in self-defense to protect his family.
The prosecution has argued that Martinez tested positive for methamphetamine that day, stayed in the club, kept his Mongols tattoos and joked and bantered with other Mongols via text messages and even during a jail call after he was arrested.
Two days before the shooting, Martinez testified, he used meth at a Mongols event.
A multiple-agency operation targeting the Mongols led to several search warrants being served that day. Pomona SWAT was asked to serve the warrant at the home of Martinez’s parents in the 100 block of North San Marino Avenue in San Gabriel.
The entry team knocked and then banged on the metal screen door, and made announcements, prosecutors said. Martinez’s father opened the wooden front door and was reaching for the screen door.
David Martinez said he had heard banging on the door, grabbed a shotgun and saw the barrel of a gun and fired. He hit his father in the arm and Diamond in the back of the neck. Martinez dropped the shotgun and laid down on the floor.
None of the officers fired their weapons, a deputy district attorney has said.
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Here’s what we learned, what we heard and what comes next for the Rams after they avoided disaster with a 31-27 victory over the Atlanta Falcons to record their first win of the season and improve to 1-1 overall:
STAFFORD’S MIXED RESULTS
Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford rebounded from a lackluster Week 1 performance by getting multiple playmakers involved early against the Falcons before feeding star receiver Cooper Kupp to build a 28-3 advantage in the second half.
But Stafford’s control of the offense was overshadowed by his two interceptions, giving him five after the three he had in the season-opening loss to the Buffalo Bills. Stafford has had seven multi-interception games since joining the Rams last season, the most in the NFL during that span.
“I know that’s what you guys will see, but I saw a guy that had total command, saw the field really well and it’s unfortunate that those two errors that we had ended up leading to turnovers,” Rams coach Sean McVay said.
Stafford took the blame for the first interception because he forced a ball in the end zone to tight end Tyler Higbee that was picked off by Falcons cornerback Casey Hayward with one minute left in the first half. Stafford started the game 12 of 12 for 120 yards before the turnover.
“It felt like I was just peppering in completions, getting the ball to our guys in space, letting them do their thing,” Stafford said. “It was a greedy play from me on the first pick, no question about it.”
Stafford had no regrets on the second turnover, a ball intended for Kupp that was intercepted by Falcons linebacker Mykal Walker, but the mistake led to an Atlanta touchdown in the third quarter to ignite the Falcons’ comeback.
“The second one, I’m cutting that loose every time,” Stafford said. “That guy made a really nice play in man coverage, uncovering from the stack. I’ll take a look at it, but that was kind of my first inclination of that play. I hate that that happened because I felt like I was in a great rhythm getting the ball to our guys, getting us in and out of the right plays. I felt like we were playing at a really high clip and it’s just frustrating to have those two plays.”
A MATURE MCVAY
McVay was pretty calm for a head coach who witnessed his team nearly blow a 25-point lead in the final four minutes of regulation.
“Unless they tell me that you get more points for being able to win by more points, I don’t really care if we found a way to be able to get it done,” McVay said. “That’s how I know I’m maturing because I would’ve been grumpy before on this thing. But holy hell, I need a couple drinks.”
Star cornerback Jalen Ramsey helped McVay find growth after his jump-ball interception in the end zone ended the Falcons’ fourth-quarter rally. If Ramsey didn’t save the day, perhaps McVay would have had a different tune because the near-collapse included a blocked punt returned for a touchdown and a rare fumble by Kupp with 3:22 left in the fourth quarter.
“Yeah, really it was just turnovers,” McVay said. “We really had to punt one time today and we saw how that worked out. So we gave them a lot of opportunities, but again, don’t take away the credit that they deserve for being able to make those plays. But we’ve got to be more poised and more resilient. That’s exactly what we’re going to do.
“We’re not going to run away from some of the things that we didn’t do well today. But we’re also not going to allow ourselves to do anything other than appreciate being able to come away with a win and what we know is such a competitive league.”
INJURY UPDATES
The Rams sustained another injury blow to the interior of the offensive line and they could also be thin at cornerback on Sunday in Arizona.
Right guard Tremayne Anchrum broke his ankle on the first offensive snap for the Rams and played a second snap, according to McVay, before being carted off the field to cut short his first career start.
Starting cornerback Troy Hill suffered a groin injury against the Falcons and McVay didn’t sound optimistic about his chances of playing against the Cardinals. To make matters worse, rookie cornerback Cobie Durant had a hamstring strain before his 51-yard interception return. If both cornerbacks can’t play, rookie Derion Kendrick, Robert Rochell and David Long will likely split snaps to assist Ramsey.
Anchrum was filling in for Coleman Shelton, who left his right guard post to replace center Brian Allen, who is sidelined with a knee injury. Shelton will likely see another start at center this week with Alaric Jackson expected to start at right guard. Jackson, who was drafted as a tackle last season, played 60 snaps at right guard against the Falcons.
The offensive line injuries first occurred in the preseason after rookie guard Logan Bruss tore his ACL and MCL and was lost for the season.
Sean McVay didn't sound optimistic about CB Troy Hill (groin) playing Sunday vs. Cardinals. CB Cobie Durant's status also in doubt because he sustained a hamstring injury #Rams
— Gilbert Manzano (@GManzano24) September 19, 2022
WHAT COMES NEXT
The Rams opened the season against mobile quarterbacks with Buffalo’s Josh Allen and Atlanta’s Marcus Mariota. Now they will face dynamic Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray, who might be the toughest player to track outside the pocket, when the Rams travel to Arizona on Sunday for their first NFC West game and first road matchup of the season.
Murray delivered arguably the best play of Week 2 after he scrambled for 85 yards on a 2-point conversion that took 21 seconds to materialize. The Cardinals (1-1) erased a 20-0 deficit in the second half to defeat the Las Vegas Raiders last week.
“This is going to be a huge week of discipline for the defense,” Rams safety Nick Scott said Monday. “Guys owning their role and trusting the guys around them to do their part to try to limit those big plays based off of scrambles.”
Rams vs. Falcons postgame show https://t.co/C1bUUMaDyh
— Gilbert Manzano (@GManzano24) September 19, 2022
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In three weeks, California will begin sending Middle Class Tax Refund payments to 23 million qualifying residents.
The state set aside $9.5 billion from its $308 billion annual budget for the inflation-relief payments. Initially proposed as a gas rebate, the state Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom settled on a plan to return some of the state’s $98 billion budget surplus to residents struggling with rising prices amid record-high inflation.
“California’s budget addresses the state’s most pressing needs, and prioritizes getting dollars back into the pockets of millions of Californians who are grappling with global inflation and rising prices of everything from gas to groceries,” Newsom, Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said in June when the provision was signed.
Payments will range from $200 for certain high-income earners to $1,050 for married, joint tax filers.
Similar to the pandemic-related Golden State Stimulus payment programs, recipients of the MCTR must be California residents and tax filers in order to qualify. The state will base relief payments on adjusted gross income found in 2021 tax returns.
Also like the GSS distribution, the Franchise Tax Board will be sending the relief money via direct deposits. Instead of sending out paper checks to the nonelectronic filers, the state will mail debit cards.
FTB representatives said Monday that the agency is working on a distribution calendar, but for now, recipients should expect most direct deposits to land between Oct. 7 and Nov. 14.
Households with joint tax filers will get as much as $1,050 if they have eligible dependents and earn less than $150,000 annually in AGI. The benefit falls to $750 for income earners above $150,000 and to $600 for dual-filers who earn $250,001 to $500,000. There is no benefit for joint filers who make more than $500,000 annually or single filers who earn $250,000.
Here’s how it breaks down for single tax filers and those who claim “head of household” on their tax returns:
—Less than $75,000 annually in adjusted gross income will get $700 if they have a dependent. Those with no dependents will get $350.
—$75,001 to $125,000: $500 (with dependent) or $250 without
—$125,001 to $250,000: $400 (with dependent) or $200 without.
MCTR distribution will go something like this, the FTB said Monday:
Direct deposit payments for Californians who received Golden State Stimulus (GSS) I or II will be issued to bank accounts Oct. 7-25, with the remaining direct deposits occurring between Oct. 28 and Nov. 14.
About 90% of the direct deposits will be issued in October.
Debit cards will be mailed between Oct. 25 and Dec. 10 for Californians who received GSS I and II. The remaining debit cards mailed by Jan. 15, 2023.
“We expect about 95% of all MCTR payments – direct deposit and debit cards combined – to be issued by the end of this year,” the FTB said via email.
The state has set up a website where residents can check eligibility and how much they will receive.
For more information, go to ftb.ca.gov and click on the window that says “Middle Class Tax Refund.”
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In 2019, on a 6-1 vote, the Supreme Court of Kansas determined that the state constitution guaranteed the right to an abortion. Now, after Kansans voted to uphold that right by rejecting an amendment to the state constitution on Aug. 2, six of the court’s justices are up for retention in November.
It's especially tough for voters to make informed decisions because the justices are barred from campaigning.
Two experts joined Up to Date to review the selection process for Supreme Court justices and why some state lawmakers continue to talk about changing that process.
- Carol Beier, former justice on the Kansas Supreme Court from 2003 to 2020
- Steve Leben, Douglas R. Stripp Missouri Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City. He served 27 years as a judge in Kansas. | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-19/retention-of-kansas-justices-is-no-longer-a-given | 2022-09-20T00:02:17Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-09-19/retention-of-kansas-justices-is-no-longer-a-given | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Soldiers with the N.J. Army National Guard teamed up with Soldiers from the U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigade to advise and prepare the Albanian Armed Forces for a critical NATO Validation Exercise which took place in Bize, Tirana, Albania on September 15, 2022. The New Jersey National Guard continues an over 20-year state partnership with Albania, while the SFAB Soldiers have been in country since April, embedded with the Albanian Light Infantry Battalion Group.
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All of the major U.S. airlines are waiving changes and cancellations for numerous flights to and from the Caribbean as Hurricane Fiona landed in the Dominican Republic on Monday after wreaking havoc in Puerto Rico over the weekend.
After operations were suspended at San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) in Puerto Rico on Sunday, flights were able to resume as of 11 a.m. local time on Monday, according to a message on Twitter posted by Aeropuerto SJU, which oversees the hub’s operations. According to the post, the runways have been inspected, and the traffic control tower is not damaged. “It is up to each airline to determine when they feel they can fly,” the Twitter message stated.
The airports in Ponce and Mayagüez were inoperative Monday due to flooding, according to the Puerto Rico Emergency Portal System (PREPS). Aguadilla airport was operating at 100 percent, PREPS reported, and Arecibo and Humacao were being inspected on Monday.
But with Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi describing the damages in Puerto as “catastrophic,” and with many people still without water and electricity, it could be days or longer before many services return to the island.
On Monday morning, Fiona was centered about 10 miles southeast of Samana in the Dominican Republic, with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It was moving to the northwest at 8 miles per hour. The storm is expected to move into the Atlantic in the afternoon and pass close to the Turks and Caicos islands on Tuesday. It could threaten the far southern end of the Bahamas on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.
For those who need or want to change their travel plans to the region, thankfully all of the major U.S. carriers dropped their change fees during the pandemic for all but Basic Economy fares, making it very easy and convenient for travelers to cancel and change their flights, including in times of crisis such as this. The new policies allow travelers to cancel their flight and immediately get flight credit that can be applied to future travel.
But some of the airlines have gone a step further and are waiving the fare difference or dropping the change fee for Basic Economy fares as well for flights during and in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.
Airlines’ Hurricane Fiona rebooking policies
United has issued a Hurricane Fiona travel waiver for travel to and from Puerto Rico. The original ticket must have been purchased by September 17, 2022, for travel that takes place September 19–25, 2022. The change fee and any fare difference are being waived for travel between the same cities and must be rebooked by October 2, 2022. For a change in departure or destination city, the change fee will be waived, but not the fare difference.
American isn’t waiving the fare difference but is waiving the change fee for Basic Economy fares as well as all other fare classes for a large swath of travel in the Caribbean as long as the ticket was purchased by September 14, 2022, for travel that was scheduled September 17–21, 2022.
Delta has dropped the fare difference for most Caribbean travel through September 23, 2022, for the same cabin of service as originally booked. Bookings for travel scheduled to take place after September 23, 2022, will have a fare difference applied but there will be no change fee—as always.
Southwest customers who were booked to travel to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, or San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 17–20, 2022, can rebook in the original class of service for no added charge.
JetBlue is waiving the change fee and fare differences for travel that was scheduled to take place September 16–19, 2022, to and from Puerto Rico, and for travel that was scheduled to take place September 18–19, 2022, to and from the Dominican Republic. JetBlue has gone a step further and has issued a change fee and fare difference waiver for the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos—where the storm is headed next—for travel that was scheduled to take place September 19–20.
How can travel insurance help?
Of course, travel is about more than just the flight. Some travelers may be midjourney and may need additional rebooking assistance, or have hotels, car rentals, and other experiences booked that may not offer a full refund.
If the travel was booked with a credit card, be sure to check your credit card benefits portfolio. Many credit cards include travel insurance coverage such as trip cancellation and interruption coverage and trip delay coverage.
If you don’t have travel insurance coverage through a credit card and are hoping to add it last-minute to cover an upcoming trip, it won’t be useful with regards to Hurricane Fiona–related disruptions. Once a natural disaster such as Hurricane Fiona has struck and is considered a known or foreseeable event, it is no longer covered by most travel insurance policies. The only exception is “Cancel for Any Reason” (CFAR) coverage, an optional upgrade to a standard travel insurance plan that typically needs to be purchased within 7 to 21 days of making the initial trip deposit. So if you bought travel insurance prior to the arrival of Hurricane Fiona or decided to add CFAR coverage within the required time frame, you should expect some protection. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/airlines-issue-travel-waivers-as-hurricane-fiona-hits-caribbean | 2022-09-20T00:07:00Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/airlines-issue-travel-waivers-as-hurricane-fiona-hits-caribbean | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It was no secret that the late Queen Elizabeth II—laid to rest today at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, following a week of public mourning and 70 years as Britain’s longest-reigning monarch—was her happiest a bit farther north.
To the Highlands of Scotland, quite literally the highest part of the United Kingdom, the royal family would decamp every summer for weeks of peace and quiet at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire. It was a tradition dating back to Queen Victoria, who had her eyes on this prize—a windswept, grassy green-and-heathered moorlands—since the 1850s, particularly a lesser castle deemed too small but in just the right spot. Prince Albert bought the estate and gifted it to his wife, who then ordered the castle be torn down. Balmoral Castle as it stands was completed in 1856; it’s now 50,000 acres and 150 buildings, with the nearby town of Braemar, about a 10-minute drive from the estate, expanding in its wake.
“I think Granny is the most happy there,” said Princess Eugenie in the documentary The Queen at Ninety. “I think she really, really loves the Highlands.”
As for a day in the life at Balmoral, Eugenie said it was predominantly “walks, picnics, dogs—a lot of dogs, there’s always dogs—and people coming in and out all the time. … [It was] a lovely base for Granny and Grandpa, for us to come and see them up there, where you just have room to breathe and run.”
Room to breathe and run is right: Even outside the comfy confines of a royal estate, the U.K.’s largest national park, the 1,748-square-mile Cairngorms, is here. (I say “here” because I’m literally writing this story from a desk at the Fife Arms in Braemar.) Travelers make their way to the Cairngorm Mountains to “bag some Munros”—aka climb Scotland’s tallest peaks, a list of 282 cataloged by mountaineer Sir Hugo Munro. But even just getting outside for a walk in these parts is good for the soul, be it through woodlands or along the moors, as Queen Elizabeth was known to do with family and especially her beloved corgis.
It’s ironic that the monarchy found comfort in this part of Scotland: On the drive up from Edinburgh, along an old military road, a decorated stone commemorates the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 outside the entrance to Braemar. (A quick history refresher: The Jacobite rising of 1715 was the failed attempt of James Edward Stuart to reclaim the thrones of England, Ireland, and Scotland for the Catholic Stuart line.) Thankfully, everyone seems to have a great sense of humor up here—a common trait among some of the friendliest people in the world. (It’s true: They’ve been ranked.)
“I have spoken before of my deep and abiding affection for this wonderful country,” the Queen said in a speech to the Scottish Parliament last year. “It is the people that make a place and there are few places where this is truer than Scotland.”
As one local told me today, in Scotland, they don’t look down on anyone, but they also don’t look up. “We are equals,” he said. Perhaps that’s a reason Queen Elizabeth II could just be Lilibet when she was in Aberdeenshire—sleeves rolled up and doing the dishes after Philip finished grilling dinner.
“You think I’m joking, but I’m not,” former Prime Minister Tony Blair once noted in his autobiography, A Journey: My Political Life. “They put the gloves on and stick their hands in the sink. The Queen asks if you’ve finished, she stacks the plates up and goes off to the sink.”
The Queen’s legacy across Scotland
St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh: Shortly after her coronation at age 25, Queen Elizabeth II spent a week in Scotland, including a dedication at the Old Town cathedral on June 24, 1953. St. Giles was also one of her final resting places as the coffin made its way from Balmoral to Edinburgh, before continuing to Westminster Abbey and finally Windsor Castle.
Royal Yacht Britannia, Leith: The Britannia launched from Clydebank, Scotland, in 1953, and it served the Royal Family for more than 44 years and a million nautical miles. It was decommissioned in 1997 and is now a major tourist attraction in Leith.
Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh: The Queen would take meetings (and hold garden parties) at this palace in the shadow of Arthur’s Seat, an ancient volcano and the highest hill in Edinburgh. The relatively new Scottish Parliament, founded in 1999, is right next door.
Glamis Castle, Angus: Queen Elizabeth II’s mother was born Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon, the youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Glamis, in Angus, north of Dundee. Glamis Castle served as a convalescence hospital during World War I, where Lady Elizabeth helped wounded soldiers. Princess Margaret was born here, and she and Elizabeth II spent happy days picnicking and horseback riding at Glamis Castle. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-queens-beloved-scotland | 2022-09-20T00:07:06Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-queens-beloved-scotland | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Considering that Italy is steeped in thousands of years of history, is renowned for its food and wine, and is known for its captivating art and architecture, it’s no wonder that many people dream of moving to the Mediterranean country. In recent years, the government has made the reality easier, with visas aimed at courting foreign retirees and by selling homes in certain municipalities for as little as one euro. Now, one Italian island is even offering to pay people to move there.
Sardinia, an Italian island off the western coast of Italy, wants to offer people 15,000 euros (US$14,976 based on current exchange rates, which are very favorable for the dollar right now) to relocate to its shores. It’s the second largest island in the Mediterranean (behind Sicily) and is famous for its pristine waters, beautiful coasts, and distinctly local fare (expect a culinary canon unlike the mainland, marked by what can be harvested, like prickly pears, or caught locally, such as lobster). To get there, travelers can fly into any of Sardinia’s three airports (Cagliari, the capital city, has the most routes) or go by ferry.
There are some stipulations to the scheme, however. Namely, the money must go toward buying or renovating a home in a town of fewer than 3,000 people, such as Galtellì (near Mount Tuttavista, popular for hiking) and Calasetta (known for its white-sand beaches). Applicants also need to plan to live there full-time—the funds aren’t intended to be used for vacation homes.
In recent decades, Sardinia’s rural communities have suffered from dwindling populations. The program is meant to repopulate the countryside—and give those smaller communities an economic boost.
“We have created the conditions for young people to decide to stay and (develop) the economic fabric of the most fragile territories,” Sardinian President Christian Solinas said in a press release. “There can be no growth without a real enhancement of the territories, of the interior and most disadvantaged areas, which must pass through new policies for their repopulation.”
The government has now set aside 105 million euros for the project. Considering that not every applicant will use the full amount (the grant cannot exceed 50 percent of the purchase and renovation price), more than 7,000 individuals or families could ultimately participate. The maximum rate of 15,000 euros will be provided to applicants as a one-time, nonrepayable grant, which home buyers can apply for at the main office of their new municipality. However, they would first need to register their residence in Sardinia (which they must do within 18 months of arrival to be eligible for the assistance).
Note that the hurdles of dealing with Italy’s bureaucratic system are infamously challenging, so applying for the fund may be easier said than done (especially if you don’t speak Italian). Still, for a chance at la dolce vita, it may be worth a shot. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/you-could-get-paid-15-000-to-move-to-sardinia-heres-how | 2022-09-20T00:07:12Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/you-could-get-paid-15-000-to-move-to-sardinia-heres-how | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The prices of food at the grocery store have skyrocketed in recent months and some consumers say the high prices have led them to make tough decisions.
Consumers are spending much more than they used to and Oliva Yocum says she's started stockpiling food because of it.
"I've actually started pickling and cannning stuff because I think it's going to get a lot worse," she said.
Not only are people spending more, but the higher price tags are also making it harder for people to eat healthier.
Nashville resident Vidal Garrett says it's sometimes cheaper to pick up fast food.
"I can go get a cheeseburger and fries at McDonalds and spend about five or six bucks," he said. "I come in here [grocery store] and try to get a grilled chicken salad, but buying the chicken alone is going to cost me ten to 12 bucks."
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, home food prices were up 13.5% in August compared to a year earlier.
The price of bread and milk is up about 16% and 17% respectively. Eggs, on the other hand, cost nearly 40% more than last year.
Colorado farmer Eric Hanagan says the increasing cost of fertilizer — which hit a record high this year and at one point more than doubled in price — is one of the many reasons driving prices up.
"Our revenues are way, way down," Hanagan said. "We're running 50% of our sales because farmers are affected by the drought, fertilizer and fuel prices."
Those price increases trickle down to the consumer and the USDA expects grocery store food prices to increase by up to 11% this year — with meat being the primary driver.
"It's kind of sad that you're better off financially buying greasy hamburger meat and fries rather than buying the salad and fruit for your kids," Garrett said.
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Big heat is forecast for Acadiana this week as a ridge of high pressure expands across the region keeping plenty of sun in the outlook too.
Look for mostly sunny skies accompanied by daytime highs in the mid-90s through mid-week, with afternoon highs threatening the upper 90s before the week is done.
Rain chances will stay below 10% through Saturday but may perk up a bit Sunday into Monday ahead and near Acadiana's next frontal system that should arrive by Monday.
Following the front temperatures should cool some 10 degrees during the day and night with lows dropping back into the low-mid 60s next week, fingers crossed.
Consult the KATC 10 Day Forecast for the latest.
Meanwhile in the tropics, Hurricane Fiona was beginning to move away from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Eastern Bahamas.
Fiona was getting better organized and is expected to become a major hurricane Monday evening or by Tuesday. Fiona could threaten Bermuda by Thursday.
Elsewhere, a couple of tropical disturbances are being monitored by the National Hurricane Center.
One wave in particular, may develop closer to the Eastern Caribbean and take a more southerly route through the Caribbean Sea into this weekend.
The latest longer range models agree to some extent that there could be a "significant" tropical system threatening the Northwest Caribbean and perhaps portions of the Gulf of Mexico in the 7-11 day time-frame...stay tuned.
It's way too early to tell where any potential system may go beyond 5-7 days but the Gulf of Mexico is still very much in play for tropical activity each and every year into October.
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MEDINA — A tradition that dates back centuries in old Europe will make its local debut during the upcoming Ale in Autumn event.
On Saturday, buskers will be stationed throughout the village.
A busker is a street performer who entertains crowds with their musical, comedic or unusual acts for tips. Busking has a lengthy history; local merchants once upon a time invited buskers to their storefronts, plazas or public squares to attract new business.
The idea to bring buskers to Medina was brought to Orleans Renaissance Group prior to the onset of the Covid pandemic by local musician Rob Robinson, who has buskered in plenty of places including Toronto and Olcott, according to ORG president Chris Busch.
Once the pandemic subsided, Robinson raised the idea again, laying out a map of downtown and suggesting places where a busker could perform.
“We started reaching out to businesses and made 17 Xs on the potential spots on the map,” Busch said. “Buskers will be spread out throughout the downtown.”
The buskers will provide a variety of entertainment, including country, blues and gospel music, hula hoop-ers and magicians. They will be on the streets from 1 to 6 p.m. People are encouraged to visit downtown and tip the performers.
“It’s an old idea, but new in Medina," Robinson said. "I see it becoming an annual thing. There are a lot of street performers in Western New York, but no actual buskers.”
Tickets for Ale in Autumn are available at https://medinaareapartnership.ticketspice.com/ale-in-autumn-2022. Check-in on Saturday is at the Senior Center on West Avenue. Time slots are staggered to avoid congestion: 1, 2 and 3 p.m., according to event coordinator Ann Fisher-Bale. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/busker-festival-coincides-with-ale-in-autumn-in-medina/article_048d4d0e-385f-11ed-b8b9-cb2cfa8c6025.html | 2022-09-20T00:11:39Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/busker-festival-coincides-with-ale-in-autumn-in-medina/article_048d4d0e-385f-11ed-b8b9-cb2cfa8c6025.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MEDINA — The Friendly Phones / Home Visitation program was promoted at the most recent luncheon meeting of Senior Citizens of Western Orleans.
The program's purpose is to provide socialization, companionship and assistance to people aged 60 years and older who have limited ability to leave their home. According to Batavia-based Catholic Charities representative Lisa Wittmeyer, volunteer visitors spend an hour a week with a qualified senior, during which time they might play cards, cook together, work at a craft or hobby or do other activities.
Benefits of having a regular home visitor include feeling less isolated and lonely, according to Wittmeyer. Catholic Charities has determined that seniors look forward to simple acts of kindness and assistance that enable them to live independently.
Friendly Phones / Home Visitation has been in existence for at least 20 years. In Genesee County it is funded by the Ask Marshall Fund family of programs. In Orleans County it is funded anonymously.
Catholic Charities screens volunteer visitors and tries to match them with seniors based on shared interests such as past work experience or both playing the same musical instrument.
Before a volunteer is assigned to visit a senior, Wittmeyer said she visits the senior's home to do a safety check, looking for adequate fire exits, working smoke detectors and no evidence of rodents.
There is no fee to receive visits and the hours are flexible for volunteers, Wittmeyer said. Seniors may request a home visitor themselves or be referred by an agency or faith-based community.
The program does not provide personal care, medical care or transportation services.
Anyone interested in becoming a home visitor or in receiving a home visit may call Wittmeyer at 585-343-0614. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/friendly-phones-senior-home-visitation-available-in-orleans-county/article_fc638594-3859-11ed-adc1-77d82a71f1b9.html | 2022-09-20T00:11:39Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/friendly-phones-senior-home-visitation-available-in-orleans-county/article_fc638594-3859-11ed-adc1-77d82a71f1b9.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WEST SENECA — Anedda Trautman of Lockport has been appointed assistant superintendent of instructional services at Erie 1 BOCES. She will oversee the divisions of Career and Technical Education, Exceptional Education and Workforce Development, and will be accountable for the performance of students, staff and administration within those divisions. In addition she is responsible for the design, development, delivery and evaluation of instructional programs and services provided by Erie 1 BOCES.
Trautman has been with Erie 1 BOCES since 2017, most recently serving as a director of the Career and Technical Education division, which she previously served as its associate director. Before joining Erie 1 BOCES, Trautman was the principal of Orleans / Niagara BOCES' Niagara Career and Technical Education Center.
With more than 20 years of experience in education, Trautman also is a lecturer for Buffalo State College. She earned her Bachelor of Science, Master of Education and Master of Educational Administration degrees from the State University of New York College at Buffalo.
Trautman is the elected president of the Association of Career and Technical Administrators, serves as a board member for Niagara Frontier Industry Education Council and is an advisory council board member for SUNY Erie’s Auto Technology program. In addition, she is a member of National Association of Women in Construction, NYS Association for Women in Administration and a graduate of Leadership Niagara class of 2011. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/up-the-ladder-anedda-trautman-promoted-at-erie-1-boces/article_00fb6f26-3838-11ed-a07b-43c524562526.html | 2022-09-20T00:11:41Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/up-the-ladder-anedda-trautman-promoted-at-erie-1-boces/article_00fb6f26-3838-11ed-a07b-43c524562526.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEWFANE — Newfane Town Board members are discussing the creation of a law to address right-of-way obstructions on town roads and sidewalks.
The issues was brought up by the board during a town work session this past week.
The potential law is still in its drafting phase by Town Attorney James Sansone. It is intended to prevent the unlawful blocking of traffic on roads and sidewalks by persons and companies. The method on how this would be done would be through escalating fees for repeat offenses.
The fees discussed at the meeting would be $100 for the first offense, $200 for the second violation, and $300 for each violation that would follow, though these amounts and the policy itself haven’t formally been decided yet.
Throughout the discussion, it was mentioned by board members that there were particular recurring incidents in the town that this law is partially intended to address.
“We asked an establishment to cease and desist placing bands in the street,” said Newfane Supervisor John Syracuse. “That was adhered to in a positive manner, however it then moved to obstructing the sidewalk, and residents, businesses, and tourists made complaints about it.”
Syracuse then said that attempts to address this were made more difficult, even when the town attempted to involve law enforcement.
“We’ve sent cease and desist orders, and directed our town attorney to do so. Unfortunately our attorney was met with an unsavory conversation,” Syracuse said. “We talked with the sheriff, but there really is no local law for them to enforce. Unfortunately it becomes necessary that we would have to put something out there that would allow for the authorities to step in.”
Syracuse emphasized that the town has safety policies that must be observed by everyone.
“This isn’t a target against anyone,” Syracuse said. “It’s a general public safety rule that we shouldn’t have anyone obstructing the safe movement of vehicles or pedestrians.”
Members of the town board were asked to name the individual or individuals responsible for the obstructions, and Syracuse and board members Troy Barnes and Susan Neidlinger all declined to comment. Board members Laura Rutland and Richard Coleman couldn’t be reached to comment.
Newfane Attorney James Sansone was asked to explain the potential law in greater detail, and about what prompted exploration of a local law, but said that it was too early to discuss openly, as some parts might be changed later.
“I’m not sure yet if it’s going to be finalized by the board,” said Sansone. “It’s too early to discuss if the board hasn’t discussed a formal version.”
Syracuse noted during the work session that the town doesn’t have a law allowing for the issuance of permits to set up on sidewalk.
“If someone has the forethought to come in and ask us, then we allow that,” Syracuse said, “but there’s no actual permitting process on the books.”
The draft law would add a permit process for occupying sidewalk, he said.
Syracuse said however that the final draft of such a law could be completed and ready to review within the next few months. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/newfane-discusses-potential-right-of-way-obstruction-law/article_edb59a3a-3860-11ed-92f5-0f1f7ff40eb6.html | 2022-09-20T00:11:43Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/newfane-discusses-potential-right-of-way-obstruction-law/article_edb59a3a-3860-11ed-92f5-0f1f7ff40eb6.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As most people probably don‘t need reminding, last month, the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump’s for-profit club and private residence, Mar-a-Lago. There, they reportedly discovered the former president had information about a foreign country’s nuclear secrets, among other classified documents that one of his lawyers had claimed he’d already returned. All of this is an extremely big deal, and we know that because in order to search the joint in the first place, the government had to get a federal judge to sign off on the warrant, which he only did after being convinced there was probable cause to believe the ex-president may have violated the Espionage Act, in addition to other crimes. If indicted and found guilty, Trump could face more than three decades in prison, a place that he would not fare well given the lack of Diet Coke valets.
But the thing that is most upsetting to Trump at the moment? The thing that resulted in a social media meltdown and which he’s probably demanding his lawyers sue over immediately? That the agents who raided his home—again, on suspicion they’d find evidence he violated the Espionage Act—wore their shoes in his bedroom.
On Sunday, the ex-president took Truth Social to inform his followers: “I’ll soon be heading to the scene of the unwarranted, unjust, and illegal Raid and Break-In of my home in Florida, Mar-a-Lago. I’ll be able to see for myself the results of the unnecessary ransacking of rooms and other areas of the house.” Hours later, he returned to the app to relay the injustice he’d found, writing that "in any event, after what they have done, the place will never be the same. It was ‘ransacked,‘ and in far different condition than the way I left it.” Then he dropped the bomb: “Many Agents—And they didn’t even take off their shoes in my bedroom. Nice!!!”
While Trump has long been described a germaphobe, he has a documented history of engaging in less-than-hygienic behavior, including shaking hands well into March 2020, and allegedly having unprotected sex with a porn star, the latter of which he denies. But apparently he can’t stand the idea of people wearing their outdoor shoes in his room. And that’s not where the fixation ends.
Last month, Trump complained that a photo released by the Justice Department showing classified documents scattered on the floor of Mar-a-Lago made it look like he wasn‘t on top of his housekeeping, ranting on Truth Social: “Terrible the way the FBI, during the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see.” Later, he called into a radio show and complained, “A lot of people think that when you walk into my office, I have confidential documents or whatever it may be—all declassified—but I had confidential documents spread out all over my floor. Like a slob.“
Anyway, memo to the FBI: Next time you raid one of Trump’s homes, make sure to leave your shoes at the door!
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After Dr. Mehmet Oz announced his candidacy for US Senate, he and his opponent for the Pennsylvania GOP nomination, David McCormick, engaged in a monthslong battle for Donald Trump’s endorsement. Ultimately, despite McCormick’s ties to the Trump administration, it was Oz who received what the two men viewed, at the time, as an extremely coveted nod. Now, though? The former reality-TV doc and walking gaffe machine wants nothing to do with the ex-president. Just like all the other Republican nominees desperately hoping voters forget their association with guy, on account of the 2020 lies, and the classified documents, and the possible fraud, and the generally unhinged manner in which he goes about life.
The New York Times reports the embarrassing news, for Trump, that while candidates for higher office obviously want his supporters’ votes and his “MAGA money,“ they’re also concerned that the former president will turn off sane people in a general election. While they’ve attempted to distance themselves from him, like a crazy uncle who doesn’t understand why family members suddenly hear their phones ringing when he starts in on his conspiracy theories, Trump is obviously completely unaware of the fact that candidates he endorsed now view him as a liability. Which has led to extremely awkward situations like this:
Vance and Oz are far from the only GOP nominees who are clearly having buyer’s remorse with it comes to the ex-president. Bo Hines, a Republican House candidate from North Carolina, proudly touted Trump’s support during his primary contest and then deleted Trump’s name and face from his website, according to the Times. Tim Michels, the GOP nominee for governor in Wisconsin, took Trump’s endorsement off of his campaign’s homepage (and then put it back after media outlets reported the move, claiming it was a mistake). New Hampshire’s Don Bolduc, who won the Republican Senate nomination last week after spending his entire campaign repeating Trump’s 2020 election lies, told Fox News two days later: “I want to be definitive on this: The election was not stolen.” Three days after Trump showed up, uninvited, to Oz’s rally, the GOP Senate nominee said he would have voted to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 win. (Oz has also, per the Times, “removed prominent mentions of the endorsement from his campaign website and has swapped out Trump-themed branding from his social media.”)
The candidates, are, of course, entirely correct in their assessment that while Trump may be popular among his base, he turns off people who think inciting insurrections and stealing classified documents from the government is bad. According to a New York Times/Siena College poll released last week, 60% of independent voters hold an unfavorable view of the former president, while 62% said they believed he’d “committed any serious federal crimes.” Fifty-three percent believed he’d threatened American democracy with his actions surrounding the 2020 election.
As for the rallies Trump has been crashing? They haven’t exactly been putting the candidates they’re ostensibly supposed to be helping in, say, the best light. On Saturday, for example, Trump declared that Vance has been “kissing my ass.”
He also spent the evening spewing racist rhetoric:
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Would-be US politicians spend millions of dollars a year trying to figure out what voters want. Is it someone with a deep understanding of the issues that affect the electorate, who will work tirelessly to pass laws that will improve lives? A charming outsider who will cut through unending bureaucracy to get things done? A person with incredible empathy who can connect with anyone? Or maybe: a former football player who is, by his own admission, not very bright? Herschel Walker, a Senate candidate, is hoping it’s that last one.
Yes, in an inexplicable conversation with reporters on Friday about his upcoming debate with Senator Raphael Warnock, Walker said his prep entailed “Talking to the voters, talking to you.” He added: “You told me I gotta prepare, so I’m preparing. I’m this country boy, you know, I’m not that smart. And [Warnock’s] that preacher. He’s a smart man, wears these nice suits. So he’s going to show up there, embarrass me at the debate, October the 14th. And I’m just waiting, you know, I’ll show up, and I’m [going to] do my best.”
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While some have postulated that Walker is attempting to lower the expectations for his performance, if he’d wanted to do that he could have simply stopped at “I'm this country boy...I’ll show up and I’m [going to] do my best.” Typically, a candidate does not want to literally tell voters, “I’m not that smart.” Especially when there has been a lot of evidence that that is very much the case.
A spokesperson for Walker later said that the candidate was obviously being sarcastic about his intelligence, and that the people who didn’t get that are clearly idiots. “It is a sad day when so many people in politics and the media don’t understand sarcasm,” Will Kiley declared, according to The Hill. “Herschel has been traveling across Georgia for over a year meeting the people and listening to their concerns. Herschel is going to be ready on October 14 in Savannah to debate Raphael Warnock, who has to stand there and explain his horrendous voting record to the people.”
While Walker has given voters a never-ending list of reasons not to vote for him—in addition to the remark about his intelligence, he’s also suggested that the jury is still out on evolution, admitted to domestic violence, and members of his own staff have reportedly called him a “pathological liar” who lies “like he’s breathing”—the Georgia race remains worrisomely close. Walker “is a terrible candidate, but so was Donald Trump,” Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster, recently told my colleague Chris Smith. “Regardless of how incompetent Walker is, how unprepared for the job, those MAGA Republicans are going to look at him and go, ‘He’s for our tribe.’”
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In many ways, Donald Trump’s speech over the weekend in Youngstown, Ohio, was standard fare for the former president; predictably bitter, he warned of America’s decline into a crime-riddled hellscape and lashed out at the media, Hunter Biden, the FBI, and the Justice Department. “We are a nation that has weaponized its law enforcement against the opposing political party like never ever before,” he stated, and baselessly suggested the government was hiding evidence that he actually won the election. But Trump’s appearance at the rally in support of Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance took a strange and dark turn Saturday when dramatic music suddenly began playing over the arena’s loudspeakers.
The last several minutes of his speech had a soundtrack—a film-score-like tune that resembled an anthem for followers of QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory and political movement that portrays Trump as a messiah figure saving America from an international cabal of elite, Satan-worshipping pedophiles. As the song played, rally attendees raised their arms in cult-like unison, flashing a one-finger salute, a raised index finger, which appears to reference the foundational QAnon motto, “Where we go one, we go all.” The song, to followers of Q, appeared to be a 2020 track released under the title “Wwg1wga.”
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Trump’s team has denied using this QAnon anthem in Ohio. In a statement to The New York Times on Sunday, Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich said, “The fake news, in a pathetic attempt to create controversy and divide America, is brewing up another conspiracy about a royalty-free song from a popular audio library platform.” Trump’s team used this same defense last month after the former president shared a video that featured the song on his social media website, Truth Social, telling Vice the song is unrelated to QAnon and is called “Mirrors,” by TV and film composer Will Van De Crommert. Both Google and Apple’s music-detecting apps identified the song as “Wwg1wga” by an artist using the name Richard Feelgood, per Media Matters, and analyses showed the two songs to be virtually identical.
Regardless of the Trump team’s denials, Q disciples immediately recognized the song choice for what it was, as noted by Media Matters senior researcher Alex Kaplan.
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The former president has shown an increased preoccupation with the far-right conspiracy theory and political movement ever since the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago home. Last week, Trump reposted an image of himself donning a Q pin on his lapel alongside the slogan “The Storm Is Coming” (another Q motto that refers to a violent day of reckoning in which Trump’s enemies will be rounded up and potentially executed on live TV). In late August, Trump used his Truth Social account to repost a “Q drop”––a message supposedly authored by the movement's anonymous creator, who claims to be a government official with a Q-level security clearance––before later deleting it from his profile.
Meanwhile, Truth Social itself has become a cesspool for the sorts of QAnon content and influencers that Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit have clamped down on. Trump has boosted this development by promoting dozens of Q-linked accounts in the past month, according to an Associated Press analysis. Amid Trump’s attempts to ingratiate himself with the movement, QAnon—an ideology that the FBI first identified as a domestic terrorist threat in 2019, according to a memo obtained by Yahoo News at the time—continues to have dangerous and deadly ramifications offline. In Michigan earlier this month, after a 53-year-old man shot and killed his wife and wounded their daughter, and was then killed by police, his other daughter said her father’s obsession with the conspiracy theory drove him to violence, per NBC News. And in Pennsylvania, a 61-year-old man armed with a loaded firearm allegedly entered a Dairy Queen a week and a half ago and told police he was trying to “kill Democrats and liberals,” per local news.
Trump began directly acknowledging QAnon while still in office. “I do know they are very much against pedophilia,” Trump said in 2020 when he was asked about the movement. And while his support for the conspiracy theory remained more muted during his presidency, Trump’s subtle winks and nods have grown into more blatant promotions of the movement that openly calls for killing his political rivals.
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Colorado Teardrops announced earlier this month that it has completed the prototype version of “the world’s first camper trailer designed to extend the towing range of electric vehicles.”
What might sound like a strange product niche could answer a dilemma for some Americans with luxury budgets: While an electric vehicle might work perfectly fine for the vast majority of the year, the annual weeklong camping trip can be the deal-breaker.
As some who have tried to tow with their EVs—Teslas included—can attest, real-world driving range while towing can be abysmal. In the range of 60% to 75% of normal range is to be expected, and some larger travel trailers will cut range in half.
That’s where the idea for the Boulder, a 12-foot-long electrified teardrop-style camping trailer introduced just over a year ago, comes in. With about 75 kwh of batteries mounted in its lower frame area—within a few kwh of the usable capacity of a number of popular electric crossovers like the Tesla Model Y or Volkswagen ID.4—it’s effectively carrying an extra battery pack along. According to the company, it has the potential to produce a total range while towing that’s greater than the towing EV’s original range.
With its prototype announcement, Colorado Teardrops announced that it “has partnered with a major automotive manufacturer to advance technology directly relevant to The Boulder.”
The company also confirmed that it’s completed the initial phase of the Boulder’s development. A stage of development allowing Level 2 charging is complete, while it’s now working on the DC fast-charging between the trailer and tow vehicle that will be the enabler for making the idea work.
For it all to work, that is, the travelers will need to pull over and essentially plug the trailer into the EV, letting it fast-charge the vehicle at up to 60 kw—or potentially a higher power for shorter periods, as the company suggested 100 miles of range returned in 10 minutes.
At its initial reveal last year, the company suggested that the Boulder’s dry weight would be just 1,950 lb, with a tongue weight of 185 lb. It will sleep a family of four, including a queen-size mattress, bunk beds, a dining area with couches, interior climate control, and a hot-water shower—plus a fold-out kitchen galley, potentially with an induction cooktop.
The Boulder keeps to classic teardrop-camper dimensions, according to the company, but in the meantime it hasn’t shied from trailers that might look more at home towed by a larger vehicle like a Ford F-150 Lightning or Rivian R1T. Two future models, the 17-foot Golden and the 27-foot Denver, don’t keep to the same teardrop look, but they have hard-shell tops that retract into a lower profile when towing. When camping they extend to provide 78-inch head room. It now suggests those models, which appear to only be at the rendering/planning stage, will offer battery packs up to 200 kwh, which would be enough to top out the upcoming Max pack versions of Rivian’s trucks.
Like many travel trailers, you’ll need to be in it for the lifestyle, as you could potentially buy a lot of fancy hotel nights—and a lot more EV—for the price. Colorado Teardrops asks for as little as $1,000 down, but a $10,000 down payment secures a lower price starting at $45,000. The company claims that it is accepting reservations for the Boulder for delivery in the first half of 2023, although that already represents a timeline pushed forward.
This isn’t the only firm pursuing electrified travel trailers, and it’s not the first to try the idea. Airstream showed an eStream concept earlier this year, incorporating a system developed with ZF, that could be arriving in the next few years. That system, in a different trailer, managed to get a 240-mile real-world range out of an Audi E-Tron Sportback EPA-rated at 218 miles.
Keeping a big automotive-grade battery pack unused the rest of the year isn’t so great for the environment or the strained supply chain either, so let’s hope the company is thinking big about how this product could be part of the home energy ecosystem, helping households put the battery to use the rest of the year.
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LONDON (AP) — Events surrounding Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral on Monday cap 10 days of national mourning and are expected to be watched by hundreds of thousands of people packed onto the streets of London and millions around the world. Those are just a few of the staggering array of numbers generated by the death of the 96-year-old monarch after a 70-year-reign.
Here are some figures on the queen’s funeral and events marking her death:
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— 2,000: Dignitaries and guests in Westminster Abbey for the the state funeral, ranging from King Charles III and other royals to world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden to members of the British public who helped battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
— 800: Guests at a committal service later Monday at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.
— 5,949: Military personnel deployed throughout the meticulously choreographed operation that began with the queen’s death on Sept. 8 at her Balmoral Estate in the Scottish Highlands. That number comprises 4,416 from the army, 847 from the navy and 686 from the air force. In addition, around 175 armed forces personnel from Commonwealth nations have been involved.
— 1,650: At least that number of military personnel involved in the pomp-filled procession of the queen’s coffin from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch after her funeral. A further 1,000 line the streets along the procession route When the coffin reaches Windsor, 410 military personnel will take part in the procession, 480 will line streets, 150 will be in a guard of honor and line steps and 130 more will fulfil other ceremonial duties.
— 142: Royal Navy ratings tasked with pulling the state gun carriage carrying the queen’s coffin on Monday from the Houses of Parliament for her funeral and afterward for a procession through London.
— More than 10,000: Police officers. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the “hugely complex” policing operation is the biggest in the London force’s history, surpassing the London 2012 Olympics which saw up to 10,000 police officers on duty per day.
— 262: Years since the last time a funeral was held at Westminster Abbey for a British monarch. King George II’s funeral was held at the abbey in 1760.
— 22: Miles (36 kilometers) of barriers erected in central London alone to control crowds and keep key areas around the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace secure.
— 1 million: The number of people London transport authorities estimated to visit the capital on Monday. Around 250 extra rail services will run to move people in and out of the city.
— 5: Miles (8 kilometers) of people who lined up to file past the queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall. The mammoth queue stretched back from the Houses of Parliament along the south bank of the River Thames to Southwark Park. The number of people who viewed the coffin over four days is not yet known.
— 125: Movie theaters that opened their doors to broadcast Monday’s funeral live.
— 2,868: Diamonds, along with 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 269 pearls, and 4 rubies, sparkle in the Imperial State Crown that rested on the queen’s coffin as it lay in state.
— 2: Minutes of silence at the end of the funeral at Westminster Abbey.
— 1: Coffin. The silent eye in the days-long storm of pomp, pageantry and protection is a single, flag-draped oak coffin carrying the only monarch most Britons have ever known.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An executive of a vegan food products company has been charged with felony battery and making a terroristic threat after a fracas outside a football game in which he’s accused of biting a man’s nose, officials said.
Beyond Meat Chief Operations Officer Doug Ramsey has been accused of a road rage attack outside Saturday’s game between the Arkansas Razorbacks and Missouri State Bears in Fayetteville, Arkansas, according to Fayetteville television station KNWA.
A police report says the 53-year-old Fayetteville man attacked another man who tried to inch in front of him in a parking garage traffic lane and made contact with a wheel on Ramsey’s sport utility vehicle. A police officer responding to the reported disturbance arrived to find “two males with bloody faces,” the report states.
After speaking with Ramsey, the other man and a witness, the officer determined that Ramsey had gotten out of his SUV and “punched through the back windshield” of the other car. The driver of the other vehicle said he emerged from his car and Ramsey “pulled him in close and started punching his body” and also “bit the owner’s nose, ripping the flesh on the tip of the nose,” the officer reported.
That man and the witness also reported hearing Ramsey “threaten to kill” the man.
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LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom and the world bade farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday with a state funeral that drew presidents and kings, princes and prime ministers — and crowds in the streets of London and at Windsor Castle — to honor a monarch whose 70-year reign defined an age.
In a country known for pomp and pageantry, the first state funeral since Winston Churchill’s was filled with spectacle: Before the service, a bell tolled 96 times — once a minute for each year of Elizabeth’s life. Then, 142 Royal Navy sailors used ropes to draw the gun carriage carrying her flag-draped coffin to Westminster Abbey, where pallbearers carried it inside and about 2,000 people ranging from world leaders to health care workers gathered to mourn.
The trappings of state and monarchy abounded: The coffin was draped with the Royal Standard and atop it was the Imperial State Crown, sparkling with almost 3,000 diamonds, and the sovereign’s orb and scepter.
But the personal was also present: The coffin was followed into the church by generations of Elizabeth’s descendants, including King Charles III, heir to the throne Prince William and 9-year-old George, who is second in line. On a wreath atop the coffin, a handwritten note read, “In loving and devoted memory,” and was signed Charles R — for Rex, or king.
“Here, where Queen Elizabeth was married and crowned, we gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth, and from the nations of the world, to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless service, and in sure confidence to commit her to the mercy of God our maker and redeemer,” the dean of the medieval abbey, David Hoyle, told the mourners.
The service ended with two minutes of silence observed across the United Kingdom, after which the attendees sang the national anthem, now titled “God Save the King.”
The day began early when the doors of Parliament’s 900-year-old Westminster Hall were closed to mourners after hundreds of thousands had filed in front of her coffin.
Monday was declared a public holiday in honor of Elizabeth, who died Sept. 8 — and hundreds of thousands of people descended on central London to witness history. They jammed sidewalks to watch the coffin wend its way through the streets of the capital after the service. As the procession passed Buckingham Palace, the queen’s official residence in the city, staff stood outside, some bowing and curtseying.
Mark Elliott, 53, who traveled from the Lake District in northern England with his wife and two children to watch the procession, got up at 1:30 a.m. to stake out a good viewing location near the palace.
“I know we don’t know the queen, but she’s been our head of state for 70 years, you feel as though you know her, you feel as though she’s part of the family. It is kind of moving,” he said.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said in his sermon at Westminster Abbey that “few leaders receive the outpouring of love we have seen” for the queen.
More people lined the route the hearse took from the capital to Windsor Castle, and many tossed flowers at the cortege as it passed. Millions more tuned into the funeral live, and crowds flocked to parks and public spaces across the U.K. to watch it on screens. Even the Google doodle turned a respectful black for the day.
As the coffin arrived at the castle, there were poignant reminders of her love of animals: A groom stood at the roadside with one of her ponies, Emma, and another member of staff held the leashes of two of her beloved corgis, Sandy and Muick.
During the committal ceremony in St. George’s Chapel on the castle grounds, Dean of Windsor David Conner praised Elizabeth for her “life of unstinting service” to the nation but also her “kindness, concern and reassuring care for her family and friends and neighbors.”
Then the crown and the orb and scepter were removed from atop the coffin and placed on the altar — separating them from the queen for the last time. Her coffin was lowered into the royal vault through an opening in the chapel’s floor. Charles looked weary and emotional as mourners sang the national anthem.
At a private family service, the queen was later laid to rest with her husband, Prince Philip.
The mourners at Westminster Abbey included U.S. President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, all of the living former British prime ministers and European royalty.
In Japan, whose Emperor Naruhito also attended, several people sipped beer and watched the service at The Aldgate British pub in Tokyo’s fashionable Shibuya district.
“The queen had an especially long history in a country that boasts a long history, and so she deserves deep respect,” said one of them, Tomotaka Hosokawa.
The global outpouring of sympathy touched the king, who on the eve of the funeral, issued a message of thanks to people in the U.K. and around the world, saying he and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, have been “moved beyond measure” by the large numbers of people who have turned out to pay their respects.
Jilly Fitzgerald, who was in Windsor, said there was a sense of community among the mourners as they prepared to wait hours to see the procession carrying the queen’s coffin.
“It’s good to be with all the people who are all feeling the same. It’s like a big family because everyone feels that … the queen was part of their family,” she said.
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Kullab reported from Windsor, England. Associated Press journalists Sylvia Hui and Jill Lawless in London and David Keyton in Windsor contributed.
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Former NFL superstar Antonio Brown has just dropped his new video featuring now- jailed rappers Young Thug and Gunna.
AB, who is an NFL free agent who has little chance of being resigned with any squad due to the toxicity he brings to teams, has moved on to multiple other lucrative ventures in the interim.
One of them is musicianship, which includes the “Get in My Bag” single, the first single from his Paradigm album.
The video features AB in a smoke-filled bowling alley with a bevy of women as Young Thug got things kicked off as Gunna vibed along in multiple scenes.
The video was obviously shot before Gunna and Thugger got hemmed up on a 56-count RICO indictment in Atlanta. The two emcees have been in jail since May 9 and won’t be eligible for release until after their trial that is scheduled to begin in January 2023.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases — including a 26% rise in new syphilis infections reported last year — are prompting U.S. health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts.
“It is imperative that we … work to rebuild, innovate, and expand (STD) prevention in the U.S.,” said Dr. Leandro Mena of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a speech Monday at a medical conference on sexually transmitted diseases.
Infections rates for some STDs, including gonorrhea and syphilis, have been rising for years. Last year the rate of syphilis cases reached its highest since 1991 and the total number of cases hit its highest since 1948. HIV cases are also on the rise, up 16% last year.
And an international outbreak of monkeypox, which is being spread mainly between men who have sex with other men, has further highlighted the nation’s worsening problem with diseases spread mostly through sex.
David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, called the situation “out of control.”
Officials are working on new approaches to the problem, such as home-test kits for some STDs that will make it easier for people to learn they are infected and to take steps to prevent spreading it to others, Mena said.
Another expert said a core part of any effort must work to increase the use of condoms.
“It’s pretty simple. More sexually transmitted infections occur when people are having more unprotected sex,” said Dr. Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Syphilis is a bacterial disease that surfaces as genital sores but can ultimately lead to severe symptoms and death if left untreated.
New syphilis infections plummeted in the U.S. starting in the 1940s when antibiotics became widely available. They fell to their lowest ever by 1998, when fewer than 7,000 new cases were reported nationwide. The CDC was so encouraged by the progress it launched a plan to eliminate syphilis in the U.S.
But by 2002 cases began rising again, largely among gay and bisexual men, and they kept going. In late 2013, CDC ended its elimination campaign in the face of limited funding and escalating cases, which that year surpassed 17,000.
By 2020 cases had reached nearly 41,700 and they spiked even further last year, to more than 52,000.
The rate of cases has been rising, too, hitting about 16 per 100,000 people last year. That’s the highest in three decades.
Rates are highest in men who have sex with men, and among Black and Hispanic Americans and Native Americans. While the rate for women is lower than it is for men, officials noted that it’s has been rising more dramatically — up about 50% last year.
That ties to another problem — the rise in congenital syphilis, in which infected moms pass the disease on to their babies, potentially leading to death of the child or health problems like deafness and blindness. Annual congenital syphilis cases numbered only about 300 a decade ago; they surged to nearly 2,700 last year. Of last year’s tally, 211 were stillbirths or infant deaths, Mena said.
The increases in syphilis and other STDs may have several causes, experts say. Testing and prevention efforts have been hobbled by years of inadequate funding, and spread may have gotten worse — especially during the pandemic — as a result of delayed diagnosis and treatment. Drug and alcohol use may have contributed to risky sexual behavior. Condom use has been declining.
And there may have been a surge in sexual activity as people emerged from COVID-19 lockdowns. “People are feeling liberated,” Saag said.
The arrival of monkeypox added a large additional burden. CDC recently sent a letter to state and local health departments saying that their HIV and STD resources could be used to fight the monkeypox outbreak. But some experts say the government needs to provide more funding for STD work, not divert it.
Harvey’s group and some other public health organizations are pushing a proposal for more federal funding, including at least $500 million for STD clinics.
Mena, who last year became director of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, called for reducing stigma, broadening screening and treatment services, and supporting the development and accessibility of at-home testing. “I envision one day where getting tested (for STDs) can be as simple and as affordable as doing a home pregnancy test,” he said.
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A male driver was shot multiple times early Monday morning while transporting his kids to school and then crashed his vehicle into a house in metro Atlanta.
The DeKalb County Police Department said in its report that the man was on his way to his kids’ school when was fired upon about 20 times within a tony neighborhood in Stone Mountain, Georgia, on Sept. 19, 2020.
Eleven bullets pierced the minivan and four of the bullets struck the driver, who then fled the van with his kids. He was taken to the hospital and is listed in serious condition, according to Atlanta’s WSB-TV.
Neighbors told the station they were jolted while preparing their own children for school when they heard about 20 gunshots outside their windows. One said they peeked out their window and saw two vehicles speed down the narrow street.
They told police that they believe the driver was specifically targeted.
“I think it was targeted. This wasn’t no road rage. They were waiting on him,” Supreme Roberts told the station. “They say he was hit four times. I think he’s gonna survive it, but I just want to say to him, ‘Change your life.’ ”
Another neighbor, who would only identify herself as Yvette T., said it was like being in the middle of an action film that terrified her to her core. Her daughter had just gotten home from work at around 8 a.m. when the two heard the fusillade of bullets.
“As soon as she came down the steps, we heard gunshots and a big boom,” she said. “And I looked out my bedroom window and literally saw people shooting guns, like a movie.”
Yvette T. admits that she has to decide whether she wants to continue to live there after her daughter termed it as the “worst thing she’d ever seen.”
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Republican governors have been sending more migrants released at the U.S. border with Mexico to Democratic strongholds, raising questions about their legal status, how they are lured on board buses and planes and the cost to taxpayers.
Florida’s Ron DeSantis flew about 50 Venezuelans last week to the small, upscale island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. During the weekend, Texas’ Greg Abbott bused more migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington home.
U.S. authorities are grappling with unusually large numbers of migrants crossing the border from Mexico amid rapidly changing demographics. The administration said Monday that people from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua accounted for more than one of three migrants stopped at the border in August.
Since April, Texas has bused about 8,000 migrants to Washington, 2,200 to New York and 300 to Chicago. Arizona bused more than 1,800 to Washington since May, while the city of El Paso, Texas, bused more than 1,100 to New York since Aug. 23.
Here are some questions and answers:
ARE MIGRANTS LEGALLY IN THE UNITED STATES?
Yes, temporarily. Tens of thousands of migrants who cross the border illegally from Mexico are released in the United States each month with notices to appear in immigration court to pursue asylum or on humanitarian parole with requirements to report regularly to immigration authorities. Migrants may seek asylum if they enter the country illegally under U.S. and international law, and U.S. authorities have broad authority to grant parole based on individual circumstances.
Migrants must keep a current address with authorities, who schedule appointments in a city with the nearest court or immigration office. They must apply separately for permission to work.
Last year, it took an average of nearly four years for asylum cases to be decided in immigration court, according to the Biden administration, leaving migrants in a legal purgatory that shields them from deportation. The backlog in immigration courts has mushroomed to more than 1.9 million cases, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
To avoid massive overcrowding in detention facilities, the administration began releasing many migrants on humanitarian parole. The Border Patrol paroled nearly 250,000 migrants from August through June, including 40,151 in June, the latest figures released. In the previous seven months, it paroled only 11 migrants.
ARE THESE MIGRANTS KIDNAPPED?
Kidnapping is a high legal threshold, but migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard say they were taken there on false pretenses. Migrants sign waivers that the transportation is free and voluntary.
DeSantis used a state program in which migrants deemed “unauthorized aliens” can be moved “from Florida,” though the governor has acknowledged the flights originated in Texas.
They stopped first in Florida, before going to Martha’s Vineyard, but DeSantis has not emphasized that. Instead, he maintains that the two flights were a legitimate use of funds because the migrants otherwise would have aimed to go to Florida, though he offered no evidence of that and did not how migrants might have been vetted.
Migrants who boarded the flights told The Associated Press that a woman who approached them at a San Antonio shelter promised jobs and three months of housing in Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
DOESN’T THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION BUS AND FLY MIGRANTS AROUND THE COUNTRY?
Yes, but under different circumstances. Like earlier administrations, it transports migrants between detention facilities, often on their way to being removed from the country.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had more than 4,800 domestic flights in the last year, including 434 in August, according to Witness to the Border, a group that criticizes U.S. enforcement. The top five destinations from March to August were: Alexandria, Louisiana; Laredo, Texas; Phoenix; and Harlingen and El Paso in Texas. ICE also buses many migrants.
The Department of Health and Human Services transports unaccompanied children to “sponsors,” who are often family, or child-only detention facilities.
DID ANYONE ASK FOR THIS?
Republican-led states say they are sending migrants to “sanctuary” cities that welcome immigrants. While the definition of a sanctuary city is slippery, a sudden influx of migrants can test attitudes and limits of generosity.
Chicago’s “Welcoming City Ordinance” prohibits asking people about their immigration status, denying services based on immigration status and disclosing information to federal immigration authorities.
New York limits cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities, partly by prohibiting police officers from participating in joint enforcement or by letting immigration agents work in city jails.
In Martha’s Vineyard, the six towns that make up the island south of Boston haven’t issued any “sanctuary” declarations.
The Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for restrictions, keeps an extensive list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions, which, by its definition, limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. They include Boston and seven other Massachusetts cities. None of the towns in Martha’s Vineyard are on the list.
WHO’S PAYING AND HOW MUCH?
Texas has committed billions of dollars to Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star,” an unprecedented move into border security that includes the bus trips, prosecuting border crossers for trespassing and massive presence of state troopers and National Guard.
The Florida Legislature allocated $12 million for its program for the current budget year.
The city of El Paso, which last week contracted a private bus company at a cost of up to $2 million, plans to seek reimbursement from the federal government.
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RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An eastern Indiana police officer who was shot in the head during a traffic stop in August has died more than two weeks after she was removed from life support, authorities said.
Richmond Police Department Officer Seara Burton died Sunday night at a Reid Health facility surrounded by her family, the department said in a statement posted to Facebook.
“We would sincerely like to thank the Richmond community, and those who have supported Seara, her family, and the department from near and far,” the statement from several officials said.
Burton was critically wounded in the shooting Aug. 10. The 28-year-old officer was moved to hospice care, two days after she was removed from life support on Sept. 1 at a hospital in Dayton, Ohio.
Burton’s remains were escorted by Richmond police and other agencies from the Dayton area to a Richmond funeral home Monday afternoon, WISH-TV reported.
Burton was a four-year veteran of the department in Richmond, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) east of Indianapolis.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said he and his wife, Janet, are mourning with Burton’s family, colleagues and the Richmond community, saying in a statement that “our hearts are heavy.”
“Janet and I send our condolences to Officer Burton’s family and loved ones as they search for peace and strength from a power greater than all we can muster,” he said.
Prosecutors have charged Phillip Matthew Lee, 47, with three counts of attempted murder, three drug possession counts for methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin and possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon. He has pleaded not guilty.
A message seeking comment on whether Lee was now expected to face a murder charge was left Monday morning for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office by The Associated Press.
Authorities have said officers stopped Lee and called Burton to assist with her police dog. The dog indicated the possible presence of narcotics. Court documents say that while officers were speaking with the rider, he pulled out a gun and opened fire toward the officers, shooting Burton. Other officers returned fire and he ran away. Lee was apprehended following a brief foot chase.
No other officers were shot.
Lee was treated for gunshot wounds, police said.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee — a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial,” a true-crime series that transfixed listeners and revolutionized the genre.
At the behest of prosecutors who had uncovered new evidence, Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn ordered that Syed’s conviction be vacated as she approved the release of the now-41-year-old who has spent more than two decades behind bars. There were gasps and applause in the crowded courtroom as the judge announced her decision.
Phinn ruled that the state violated its legal obligation to share evidence that could have bolstered Syed’s defense. She ordered Syed to be placed on home detention with GPS location monitoring. The judge also said the state must decide whether to seek a new trial date or dismiss the case within 30 days.
“All right Mr. Syed, you’re free to join your family,” Phinn said as the hearing ended.
Minutes later, Syed emerged from the courthouse and flashed a smile as he was shepherded to a waiting SUV through a sea of cameras and a cheering crowd of supporters.
Syed did not speak during the hearing, nor did he address the reporters outside afterward. But after the hearing, his lawyer Erica Suter described his reaction to the decision, saying: “He said he couldn’t believe it’s real.”
Sara Patel, a friend of Syed’s, said “we’re very happy and relieved that he’s finally free. We’ve just been on pins and needles this whole time.”
Syed has always maintained his innocence. His case captured the attention of millions in 2014 when the debut season of “Serial” focused on Lee’s killing and raised doubts about some of the evidence prosecutors had used, inspiring heated debates across dinner tables and water coolers about Syed’s innocence or guilt.
Last week, prosecutors filed a motion saying a lengthy investigation conducted with the defense had uncovered new evidence that could undermine the conviction of Syed, Lee’s ex-boyfriend, in 2000.
“I understand how difficult this is, but we need to make sure we hold the correct person accountable,” assistant state’s attorney Becky Feldman told the judge as she described various details from the case that undermine the decades-old conviction, including other suspects, flawed cellphone data, unreliable witness testimony and a potentially biased detective.
After the hearing, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said investigators are waiting for the results of “DNA analysis” before determining whether to seek a new trial date or throw out the case against Syed and “certify his innocence.”
Syed was serving a life sentence after he was convicted of strangling 18-year-old Lee, whose body was found buried in a Baltimore park.
The investigation “revealed undisclosed and newly-developed information regarding two alternative suspects, as well as unreliable cell phone tower data,” Mosby’s office said in a news release last week. The other suspects were known persons at the time of the original investigation, but weren’t properly ruled out nor disclosed to the defense, said prosecutors, who declined to release information about the suspects, due to the ongoing investigation.
Prosecutors said they weren’t asserting that Syed is innocent, but they lacked confidence “in the integrity of the conviction” and recommended his release on his own recognizance or bail. The state’s attorney’s office had said if the motion were granted it would effectively put Syed in a new trial status, vacating his convictions, while the case remained active.
Syed was led into the crowded courtroom in handcuffs Monday. Wearing a white shirt with a tie, he sat next to his attorney. His mother and other family representatives were in the room, as was Mosby.
In 2016, a lower court ordered a retrial for Syed on the grounds that his attorney, Cristina Gutierrez, who died in 2004, didn’t contact an alibi witness and provided ineffective counsel.
But after a series of appeals, Maryland’s highest court in 2019 denied a new trial in a 4-3 opinion. The Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that Syed’s legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that the deficiency prejudiced the case. The court said Syed waived his ineffective counsel claim.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Syed’s case in 2019.
The true-crime series was the brainchild of longtime radio producer and former Baltimore Sun reporter Sarah Koenig, who spent more than a year digging into Syed’s case and reporting her findings in almost real-time in hour-long segments. The 12-episode podcast won a Peabody Award and was transformative in popularizing podcasts for a wide audience.
During the hearing, Hae Min Lee’s brother Young Lee spoke to the court, saying he feels betrayed by prosecutors, since he thought the case was settled.
“This is not a podcast for me. This is real life,” he said.
Speaking outside the courthouse after the ruling, Mosby expressed sympathy for Lee’s brother and said she understands why he feels betrayed.
“But I also understand the importance as the administer of the criminal justice system to ensure equality and justice and fairness. That is entitled to the defendant, as well,” she added.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The number of Venezuelans taken into custody at the U.S. border with Mexico soared in August, while fewer migrants from Mexico and some Central American countries were stopped, officials said Monday.
Venezuela leapfrogged Guatemala and Honduras to become the second-largest nationality after Mexico among migrants crossing the U.S. border illegally. U.S. authorities stopped Venezuelans 25,349 times in August, up 43% from 17,652 times in July and four times the 6,301 stops recorded in August 2021.
At the same time, it was the third straight month that fewer immigrants from Mexico and Central America’s Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Those nationalities have dominated the mix for decades.
Overall, U.S. authorities stopped migrants 203,598 times in August, up 1.8% from 199,976 times in July but down 4.7% from 213,593 times in August 2021.
Migration from Cuba and Nicaragua remained high, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. Cubans were stopped 19,057 times in August, down from 20,096 times in July but up from 4,496 in August 2021. Nicaraguans were stopped 11,742 times, down from 12,075 in July but up from 9,979 in August 2021.
It’s the latest sign of rapidly changing migration flows as U.S. authorities wrestle with unusually large influxes overall.
While no single reason can be pinpointed, it is extremely challenging for the U.S. to expel migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba under a pandemic rule known as Title 42, which U.S. officials invoke to deny people a chance at seeking asylum on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. U.S. relations with all three countries are strained, making it difficult to send them home.
“Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration across the Western Hemisphere, including the recent increase in encounters at the southwest U.S. border,” said Chris Magnus, commissioner of CBP, which oversees the Border Patrol.
Mexico accepts migrants expelled under Title 42 if they are from Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, in addition to Mexico. While the pandemic rule applies to all nationalities in theory, people from those four countries are most affected.
The Biden administration is leaning on other countries in the Americas to absorb more people fleeing their homes.
About 6.8 million Venezuelans have left their homeland since an economic crisis took hold in earnest in 2014 for the country of 28 million people. Most have gone to nearby nations in Latin America and the Caribbean, including more than 2.4 million who are in neighboring Colombia.
Venezuelan migration to the U.S. plummeted early this year after Mexico introduced restrictions on air travel but has increased in recent months as more come over land through the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap in Panama.
Nearly 7 of every 10 stops of Venezuelans crossing illegally during August occurred in the Border Patrol’s Del Rio, Texas, sector, making it the busiest of the agency’s nine sectors on the Mexican border. Migrants were stopped more than 52,000 times in the Del Rio sector, many of them around the city of Eagle Pass, with El Paso, Texas, a distant second with about 29,000 stops.
The trend of more Venezuelans is reflected in daily headlines. Roughly 50 migrants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew to the upscale Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard were all Venezuelan, as were five of the six people whom U.S. authorities found drowned in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass in early September. The sixth was from Nicaragua.
Title 42 encourages repeat attempts because there are no legal consequences for getting caught. In August, 157,921 migrants crossed at least once, with 55,333 from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua and 56,979 from Mexico or the Northern Triangle countries.
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This story has been clarified to reflect that the figures from the U.S. government show fewer Cubans and Nicaraguans were stopped in August than July, but that migration from those countries is still much higher than last year. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-us-migration-from-venezuela-cuba-nicaragua-soars-in-august/ | 2022-09-20T00:31:24Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-us-migration-from-venezuela-cuba-nicaragua-soars-in-august/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The leader of Sweden’s third largest party — the center-right Moderates — on Monday was formally asked to attempt to form a government that could include the populist Sweden Democrats, either inside a governing coalition or outside to secure a majority.
In Sweden’s Sept. 11 election, the country’s four center-right parties won 176 seats while the center-left coalition that included the ruling Social Democrats got 173 seats. Following that, Andreas Norlen, the speaker of the 349-seat Swedish parliament, the Riksdagen, asked Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the Moderates, to see if he can form a governing coalition.
Norlen who has held talks with all party leaders about who could try to form a governing coalition, said he didn’t name a date before which Kristersson should come back with an answer because that could take time.
“My message to the speaker has been that everything is going well,” Kristersson told reporters after meeting with Norlen. “I want to form a government that unites, not divides.”
The leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Akesson, said after meeting Norlen on Monday added that “it would suit Sweden to have with a majority government. That is my take.”
The question is now what coalition can reach a majority. One of the center-right parties has said it does not want to be in a coalition with the right-wing Sweden Democrats, a party founded in the 1980s by far-right extremists that now is the country’s second-largest in parliament.
Different center-right constellations are possible but it seems clear that the Sweden Democrats will have significant leverage in any center-right government.
The populist party has tried to move toward the mainstream in recent years, standing this year on a platform of cracking down on crime and strictly limiting immigration.
Sweden in recent years has seen an increase in gang violence and this year there have been 273 shootings, 47 of them fatal, according to police statistics. The shootings also wounded 74 people, including innocent bystanders.
Last week, Sweden’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson acknowledged losing the election. She will continue in a caretaking capacity until a new government is formed. | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-center-right-leader-asked-to-form-new-government-in-sweden/ | 2022-09-20T00:32:33Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-center-right-leader-asked-to-form-new-government-in-sweden/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island K-12 public school districts are planning to spend just 1.6% of $330 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding on students in special education despite the fact that roughly 90% of those students in 3rd grade failed state standardized tests, according to a R.I. Kids Count analysis of district spending plans submitted to the R.I. Department of Education.
More than 21,000 — or about 16% — of all R.I. K-12 students have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
Target 12 reviewed district applications for the ARPA funds and found they had to explain in three different sections how they would “prioritize” “differently abled students” with the federal dollars, which includes students with IEPs. RICAS scores in 2021 show for 3rd graders with an IEP, only 12% in ELA and 9% in math met or exceeded expectations.
Despite these factors, the plans show programs specifically for students in special education are getting just $5.4 million, or 1.6% of the total.
“The RICAS are devastating for our students with IEPs,” said Paige Clausius-Parks, senior policy analyst at R.I. Kids Count. “Absolutely devastating.”
“We should all be appalled by those numbers and also motivated to do something differently, and to do so relentlessly,” she added.
Michael Green, whose son Silas attends Norwood Elementary School in Warwick, told Target 12 Silas started school a few years ago already behind because he needed multiple surgeries for a congenital heart defect. He said Silas has an IEP because he has ADHD and other health concerns.
“So it’s really important for him to be in school and getting his educational services on a regular basis,” Green said. “Once you start dealing with the administration, it just gets really difficult.”
Green said constant fights with the school administration for not following Silas’ IEP have led to Silas falling even further behind in school.
“It’s not fair for anyone to put anything extra in his way,” Green said.
Warwick Schools’ ARPA spending plan submitted to RIDE in March said the district’s math RICAS numbers are even worse than the statewide numbers, writing “2 percent of students with IEPs more or exceeded expectations.”
Warwick Superintendent Lynn Dambruch said in a statement to Target 12 that the district is focused on all students improving their RICAS scores and said low scores for students with IEPs are a statewide issue. She said ARPA dollars allowed the district to hire additional social workers and building aides, who will work in part with students in special education.
Rachel Marsh, whose son and daughter have IEPs and attend South Kingstown Schools, said getting her middle schoolers the services they need hasn’t been easy. She gave the example of her son, who she said had an IEP throughout elementary school before the school took it away at the beginning of the pandemic.
“They have to fail to get the services, so he wasn’t doing bad enough at the time they did the testing,” Marsh said. “And then once they took away those supports, he’s just struggling big time.”
“We’re going to make sure that you’re just passing and then we’re going to take it away, and good luck,” she added.
The statewide special education system sets up students and families to fail, she said, and as a result, she turned to The ARC Rhode Island for help, a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The ARC state director Joanna Scocchi agreed with Marsh.
“We have to do something,” she said. “Our children are failing. Our children can’t read.”
South Kingstown Superintendent Mark Prince did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Tolly Taylor (ttaylor@wpri.com) is a Target 12 investigative reporter for 12 News. Connect with him on Twitter and on Facebook | https://www.wpri.com/target-12/ri-special-education-students-failing-get-few-arpa-dollars/ | 2022-09-20T00:34:07Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/target-12/ri-special-education-students-failing-get-few-arpa-dollars/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, which tracks the world's wealthiest people, has found that Facebook founder and CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, has seen his wealth cut by over half so far this year.
Zuckerberg has dropped to 20th place on the index in an astonishing blow that, as Bloomberg reports, stands out even among some bad years for billionaires on the list. It's reportedly the biggest loss among the ultra-rich that has been tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Zuckerberg's net worth went from $106 billion less than two years ago, to $55.9 billion, currently.
His current placement on the index is the 38-year-old's lowest point since 2014.
At his peak, Zuckerberg's wealth was at $142 billion, in September 2021.
The next month, the CEO introduced Meta, changing his company's name away from Facebook Inc, leading to a struggle for the company to find it's place in the social media and tech space.
In February, the company released an earnings report which showed it had no growth in monthly Facebook users. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/bloomberg-mark-zuckerberg-has-lost-over-half-his-wealth-this-year | 2022-09-20T00:42:54Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/bloomberg-mark-zuckerberg-has-lost-over-half-his-wealth-this-year | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Candidates for the Board of Yakima County Commissioners gathered Thursday at the Terrace Heights Civic Center to respond to a series of questions from the Yakima Republican Women’s Club, which hosted the forum.
Candidates were asked their position on the usual topics: Crime prevention, water issues and water rights, the county’s operating budget, and the state Growth Management Act.
But one issue emerged that wasn’t included in the forum’s initial program: The landfill at Rocky Top on the flanks of Cowiche Mountain just west of Yakima.
There, a limited purpose landfill owned and operated by DTG Recycle has made recent facility expansions that have drawn the ire of residents and caught the attention of regulators. The landfill property overlaps the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy, which oversees many trails and natural habitat in the area.
There are six candidates spread across three commissioner races heading into the November general election. In District 1, Republican businessman Kyle Curtis faces former Yakima City Council member Dulce Gutierrez, a Democrat. In District 2, incumbent Amanda McKinney, a Republican, is challenged by write-in candidate Angie Girard, a Democrat. And in District 3, Incumbent LaDon Linde faces retired Army command sergeant major Steve Saunders, both Republicans.
Gutierrez was the only candidate who didn’t attend Thursday’s forum.
All candidates in attendance agreed that combating increasing crime is a top priority, that the budget needs to be closely watched, water rights need to be protected within reason and that the Growth Management Act — which governs rural development — could use some updating and retooling, though their perspectives on solutions varied.
But the most pointed discussion was that of Rocky Top, which is within McKinney’s district.
Neighbors complain of dust, odor and other problems they say are caused by the landfill’s increase in business and fear what their future expansion plans may mean for the environment.
McKinney told the crowd of about 50 people that the business is properly permitted and has a right to operate, though neighbors may not like it.
“Nobody wants to have a landfill in their backyard but we need landfills and that landfill is already approved,” she said. “And you could speak to the planning department and they will tell you there could be a lot of other things (located there) that neighbors wouldn’t want there.”
McKinney said there needs to be a balance between assuring the landfill abides by regulations while also protecting the rights of neighbors and preserving the conservancy.
She said she helped organize a meeting with all parties including neighbors after learning they were not communicating with one another.
“What I can say is they’re talking now and that is what they need to do,” she said.
Curtis, who serves on the county’s planning commission, questioned why the county wasn’t assessing a tax for waste disposed from companies outside the county.
There’s been complaints about DTG accepting waste from other counties on the west side of the state.
“I would say what has sparked my interest is why is our county attracting large corporations to come and bring their trash into our county?” Curtis questioned.
He said the county should be charging an additional tax for loads from outside the county.
“I think there might be an opportunity in a win-win to address the concerns the community is addressing but also bring in a new revenue source for the county and to potentially help (fund) roads and whatnot,” Curtis said.
Girard agreed that there needs to be lots of communication and collaboration between all parties. She also agreed with Curtis.
“There should be an out-of-county dump fee because they are attracting a lot of dump from outside the county and it’s a way to raise revenue and pay for some of the issues going on in that area,” she said.
Saunders likened the issue to a complaint he received from a caller about the odor caused by dairies.
The caller said he just moved there last year.
“I was like, ‘Well, it’s kind of like if you buy a house underneath an airport or next to an airport, there’s going to be airplanes,’ ” Saunders said. “To me, this is the same type of issue.”
Saunders said people should consider the area before moving there.
“Once again, know where you’re buying,” he said. “Don’t buy next to a landfill.”
Linde, a former dairyman, echoed McKinney’s sentiments on getting all parties together and talking before shifting his response to complaints surrounding dairies.
He said the dairy industry has an opportunity to work with a private company that wants to use a digestor convert cow manure into a renewable energy.
“So I’m really optimistic that this might be a real solution in that area,” he said. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/yakima-county-commission-candidates-asked-about-rocky-top-landfill-issues-during-thursday-forum/article_aa667844-351d-11ed-b204-a74d825eb3ea.html | 2022-09-20T00:43:46Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/yakima-county-commission-candidates-asked-about-rocky-top-landfill-issues-during-thursday-forum/article_aa667844-351d-11ed-b204-a74d825eb3ea.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Downtown on the Farm spotlights locally owned restaurants, businesses
Locally Owned Murfreesboro hosted the annual Downtown on the Farm, a culinary experience featuring locally sourced produce and meats made by award-winning restaurants.
Proceeds from the farm-to-fork event will be used to fund Locally Owned Murfreesboro's annual scholarships for students from Rutherford County in the Entrepreneurship Program in Middle Tennessee State University's Jones College of Business to help create the next generation of independent business owners in Middle Tennessee.
Over the past four years, nearly $20,000 has been raised to fund scholarships for future entrepreneurs. The funds were awarded to MTSU students who graduated from a Rutherford County high school and are majoring or minoring in entrepreneurship.
Learn more about how you can support local businesses by visiting locallyownedmurfreesboro.org. Locally Owned Murfreesboro also drops a weekly podcast each Wednesday that airs on the major streaming services. "Murfreesboro Matters" gives a forum for local business owners to connect with the public and share their stories. | https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2022/09/19/downtown-on-the-farm-featured-locally-owned-food-and-drinks/69502554007/ | 2022-09-20T00:46:53Z | dnj.com | control | https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2022/09/19/downtown-on-the-farm-featured-locally-owned-food-and-drinks/69502554007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Woman accused of hitting Rutherford County Schools students in crosswalk charged with misdemeanor
The driver accused of hitting two teenagers in a crosswalk on the third day of the school year was charged with a Class C misdemeanor for failure to exercise due care when operating a motor vehicle.
Ellen Drake was driving a 2022 Acura RDX and made a left turn from Blaze Drive in the Blackman area heading southbound on Fortress Boulevard when she struck the Rutherford County Schools students, who were making their way across Fortress at the crosswalk.
The 42-year-old Murfreesboro city employee was indicted Thursday and booked into the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center. The Murfreesboro city employee was released on her own recognizance. There is no bond amount listed on the arrest record and the arresting agency was not available.
Penalties, if convicted, include a fine of up to $50 plus full court costs and up to 30 days in jail. The driver's license would also incur three points. If a driver accumulates more than 12 points within a 12-month period, the license could be suspended.
Her arraignment is scheduled for 9 a.m. Sept. 30 in the courtroom of Judge Barry Tidwell.
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Both students were treated at the scene. Eighth-grader Kaydyn Hamby took the brunt of the collision and was transported to the hospital where doctors confirmed she suffered a concussion, bruises, and a broken tooth and was placed on crutches.
Tennessee Highway Patrol investigated the incident because Drake is a city employee. An agency spokesperson told The Daily News Journal no charges would be filed. But THP Trooper Scott Pollard is named in the indictment for the misdemeanor.
Drake remains employed as a training coordinator with the Murfreesboro Emergency Communications Center (Dispatch Center), confirmed Murfreesboro Police Department spokesperson Larry Flowers.
Reach reporter Nancy DeGennaro at degennaro@dnj.com. | https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2022/09/19/murfreesboro-employee-ellen-drake-charged-after-hitting-rutherford-county-students-in-crosswalk/69504707007/ | 2022-09-20T00:46:59Z | dnj.com | control | https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2022/09/19/murfreesboro-employee-ellen-drake-charged-after-hitting-rutherford-county-students-in-crosswalk/69504707007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VOTE: Who was the Murfreesboro area high school boys athlete of the week for Sept. 12-17?
Cecil Joyce
Murfreesboro Daily News Journal
Who was the Murfreesboro area high school boys athlete of the week for Sept. 12-17?
You can vote below.
Nominees are Oakland's C.J. Puckett, Rockvale's Robbie Daniel, Riverdale's D.J. Taylor, Siegel's Cory Sims, Smyrna's Arion Carter, Blackman's Jacob Page, MTCS' Chase Mitchell, Stewarts Creek's Gage Hoover, Eagleville's Jesse Brown and La Vergne's Quentin Carroll.
The poll will close at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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VOTE: Who was the Murfreesboro area high school girls athlete of the week for Sept. 12-17?
Cecil Joyce
Murfreesboro Daily News Journal
Who was the Murfreesboro area high school girls athlete of the week for Sept. 12-17?
You can vote below.
Nominees are Providence Christian's Anna Hartman and Emerson Edwards, Siegel's Presley Kuhns, Oakland's Elisa Fries, Eagleville's Meah Thompson, Stewarts Creek's Camden Prosser, MTCS' Lily Watson, Rockvale's Adison Winterbauer, Smyrna's Janae Edmondson and Central Magnet's Brooke Hamilton.
The poll will close at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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TUMWATER, Wash.-
State grants going towards the support of apprenticeships in Washington State through the summer and fall get more than $1.8 million.
Recently, The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has begun issuing the grants to apprenticeship programs and non-profits that support L&I. The funds are meant to help expand the access of apprenticeships and their experiences across the state.
This is the first time more than $8 million are available through the end of the year. It's among the largest amounts L&I has distributed for registered apprenticeships in total.
Several areas are covered by the grants, including remote learning, technology, equipment and driver-education courses for minors.
“These funds will improve apprenticeship technology, and ensure apprentices have access to the support they need to be successful,” said Celeste Monahan, assistant director of Fraud Prevention and Labor Standards. “We’re very excited for these organizations and look forward to others participating.”
Some of the first-round participants in the grant includes people from across the state that train more than 3,600 apprentices.
-NW Laborers, Kingston, $699,000
-NW Electrical Industry JATC, Mount Vernon, $301,083
-NW Ironworkers, Tukwila, $300,210
-Seattle Pipe Trades, Seattle, $145,665
-Ironworkers Local 14 JATC, Spokane, $113,967
-Inland Empire Electrical, Spokane, $76,201
-Seattle Area Roofers, Kent, $75,325
-SW Washington Electrical JATC, Tacoma, $57,826
-Washington Construction Teamsters, Pasco, $18,527
-Community Health Association of Spokane, Spokane, $17,777
-Tradesmen Electric, Battle Ground, $17,527
-Frontier Electrical Apprenticeship, Vancouver, $10,016
-Cares of Washington, Seattle, $8,750
-Computing for All, Bellevue, $3,750
The grant application period is open through December 31, the deadline to spend the money is June 30, 2023. Apprenticeship programs and non-profit organizations registered through the state should apply for the grants as soon as possible.
The application process is easy to apply. Organizations file a single application form, which L&I estimates it'll take a minimum of 30 days to review.
You can find information on the grants and updates on funding by visiting L&I's website. For those that wish to apply, you can email your questions or call 360-902-5320. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/1-8-million-awarded-washington-state-department-of-labor-industries/article_01325e36-3870-11ed-9b3c-f76dffa7d608.html | 2022-09-20T00:49:19Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/1-8-million-awarded-washington-state-department-of-labor-industries/article_01325e36-3870-11ed-9b3c-f76dffa7d608.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WALLA WALLA, Wash.-
Officers from the Walla Walla Police Department were sent to an apartment on the 400 block of S 1st Ave after a man was said to be unconscious and not breathing.
Walla Walla Fire and Police say the man was dead when they arrived.
According to WWPD, the man looked to have been recently assaulted leading Walla Walla Police Department Major Crimes Detectives responded to the scene to investigate.
An adult male has since been identified as a potential suspect and take into custody. Walla Walla Police believes this is an isolated incident and there's no further threat to the public.
A next-of-kin has not been notified for the victims family.
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/a-suspicious-death-now-investigated-as-homicide-in-walla-walla/article_2bdc997e-3872-11ed-9fdb-bfa56f27c33e.html | 2022-09-20T00:49:25Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/a-suspicious-death-now-investigated-as-homicide-in-walla-walla/article_2bdc997e-3872-11ed-9fdb-bfa56f27c33e.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
More than 1,600 books were banned in over 5,000 schools during the last school year, with most of the bans targeting titles related to the LGBTQ community or race and racism, according to a new report.
PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for free expression in literature, released a report Monday, the start of Banned Books Week, that shows the sweeping scope of efforts to ban certain books during the 2021-22 school year.
It found that there were 2,532 instances of individual books being banned, which affected 1,648 titles — meaning the same titles have been targeted multiple times in different districts and states.
Books were banned in 5,049 schools with a combined enrollment of nearly 4 million students in 32 states, the report found.
PEN America used documented cases of bans, which included reports to the group from parents and school staff, and news reports on book bans, so the report notes that its data most likely undercounts the true number of bans.
Suzanne Nossel, the chief executive of PEN America, said that the recent efforts to ban books are a new phenomenon that has been led primarily by a small number of conservative advocacy groups that believe parents don’t have enough control over what their children are learning.
“We all can agree that parents deserve to and are entitled to a say over their kids’ education,” Nossel said during a news conference hosted by PEN America on Monday. “That’s absolutely essential. But fundamentally, that is not what this is about when parents are mobilized in an orchestrated campaign to intimidate teachers and librarians to dictate that certain books be pulled off shelves even before they’ve been read or reviewed. That goes beyond the reasonable, legitimate entitlement of a parent to have a give-and-take with the school — things that are enshrined in parent teacher conferences and PTAs.”
PEN America’s report follows preliminary data released Friday by the American Library Association, or ALA, which found that the number of attempts to ban or restrict library resources in schools, universities and public libraries is on track to exceed the record counts of 2021.
From Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, the ALA documented 681 attempts to ban or restrict library resources, with 1,651 library titles being targeted, compared to 729 attempts for all of last year, with 1,597 books targeted.
The PEN America report notes that nearly all of the book bans — 96% — were enacted without the school or district following the best practice guidelines for book challenges that have been outlined by the ALA and the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Prior to the wave of book bans, parents would sometimes raise concerns to their child’s school or teacher about a book that their child brought home, according to Jonathan Friedman, director of free expression and education programs at PEN America.
But now, conservative groups and parents are Googling to find books that have any LGBTQ content and then a conservative group adds it to a list of inappropriate books, Friedman said.
“They complain about the books online, the books go on a list, the list takes on a sense of legitimacy and then it being on the list leads a school district to react to that list and take it seriously,” Friedman said, adding that in nearly all of the cases, this cycle is happening without respect for process or policy.
Friedman pointed to a case in Walton County, Florida, where a popular children’s book called “Everywhere Babies” landed on a banned books list last spring. The illustrations include what could be interpreted as a few same-sex couples, but they are never identified as such in the text. The book was removed from public school libraries in Walton County after the Florida Citizens Alliance, a conservative nonprofit focused on education, included the book in its 2021 “Porn in Schools Report.”
Of the 1,648 titles that were banned last year, the report found that 41% explicitly address LGBTQ themes or have protagonists or prominent secondary characters who are LGBTQ, and 40% contain protagonists or secondary characters of color.
More than one-fifth (21%) directly address issues of race and racism, and 22% contain sexual content of varying kinds, including novels with some level of description of sexual experiences of teenagers, stories about teen pregnancy, sexual assault and abortion, as well as informational books about puberty, sex or relationships.
The report estimates that at least 40% of the bans listed on PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans are connected to proposed or enacted legislation, or to political pressure from elected officials to restrict the teaching of certain concepts.
PEN America also found at least 50 groups involved in pushing for book bans, 73% of which have formed since 2021. One of the largest is Moms for Liberty, a group advocating for parental rights that has more than 200 local chapters listed on its website.
Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, said parents’ input should be valued by teachers.
“I mean, there’s not two sides to this issue,” Justice said during an interview on “CBS Saturday Morning.” “There are moms who love their kids, who don’t want pornography in school, and then there are people who do want pornography in school. I think that the book issue has been used to try to marginalize and vilify parents. And the truth is there is no place for pornography in public schools.”
The 50 groups identified by the report have been involved in at least half of the book bans enacted last year, and at least 20% of the bans can be directly linked to the actions of the groups, the report found.
The most frequently banned books were “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe, followed by “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” by George M. Johnson and “Out of Darkness” by Ashley Hope Pérez, the report found.
Pérez said that what’s striking to her about the fact that her book is banned in 24 school districts is that it was published in 2015 and wasn’t challenged until 2021. She said that some right-wing groups have used terms like “pornographic,” “inappropriate,” “controversial” and “divisive” to describe the banned books, and that the books they’re describing are most often by or about nonwhite people and other minorities.
“The books are a pretext. It is a proxy war on students who share the marginalized identities of the authors and characters in the books under attack,” she said during Monday’s news conference. “It is a political strategy. The goal is to stir up right-wing political engagement by drawing still brighter lines around targeted identities.”
She said banning books harms students in a few ways. When a student shares a gender or sexual identity with a character in a book, and that book is banned, it “sends the message that stories about people like them are not fit for school.”
By giving into demands from conservative groups, schools give them an unearned legitimacy, she said.
“When school leaders cave to these pressures, they elevate the questionable judgment of a handful of parents over the professional discretion and training of librarians and educators and above all, above the needs of students,” she said. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/more-than-1-600-books-banned-during-2021-22-school-year-report-finds/article_43683ff6-3879-11ed-91a8-47861295ee64.html | 2022-09-20T00:49:31Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/more-than-1-600-books-banned-during-2021-22-school-year-report-finds/article_43683ff6-3879-11ed-91a8-47861295ee64.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PACKWOOD, Wash.-
Therapy dogs are helping to comfort and rejuvenate firefighters on the front lines of the Goat Rocks fire, burning about 1.5 miles north of Packwood.
The therapy dogs are being used at base camp, where firefighters go to rest before going back to fight the fire or be reassigned to another fire.
Firefighters visit, play, and cuddle with the dogs, relieving stress in the process.
The Akita is Haddasah, who will turn 4 in November. Her handler is Julie.
The chocolate lab is 11 year old Bungee, his sister is the black lab Pickles, who is 10. Their handler is Raquel. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/therapy-dogs-comfort-firefighters-on-goat-rocks-fire/article_234f53aa-3859-11ed-b46f-7bc53a937a16.html | 2022-09-20T00:49:37Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/therapy-dogs-comfort-firefighters-on-goat-rocks-fire/article_234f53aa-3859-11ed-b46f-7bc53a937a16.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATAC, Wash. — Security screening lines stretched all the way into the parking garage at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sunday morning. Many travelers say they missed their flights due to the long wait times.
The airport's media relations manager, Perry Cooper, called the situation "very unusual."
"It was a high volume day of passengers, which was one of our largest since the pandemic. In addition, we saw a large volume of cruise buses dropping off passengers from the end of the season ship and arrivals. Several factors could be involved in the situation," said Cooper.
Cooper said the longest wait time the Port of Seattle recorded was 90 minutes. However, TSA claims wait times did not pass 60 minutes. Travelers say they waited more than two hours.
"We got here about 9:50 a.m. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 12:30 p.m. and by the time we got through TSA it was 12:55 p.m.," said traveler Matt Macoleni.
"At 9:20 a.m. we were still in that line, at 9:40 a.m. we were in that line. We were there all the way up until 10:40 a.m. I remember checking my watch, our flight was already gone and we were in the line," said traveler Ken Collins.
TSA confirmed there were no staffing shortages Sunday and some staff worked mandatory overtime. Twenty-seven of the 29 security lanes were open during the peak period, which was 8:15 am. to noon.
Roughly 4,000 cruise ship passengers were dropped off every hour, according to TSA.
TSA expects Monday to be another busy day at SEA Airport with a similar number of travelers. Sunday saw roughly 60,000 travelers, and at least 56,000 travelers are expected Monday.
The Port encourages travelers to use the SEA Spot Saver, which allows travelers to save a spot in the security line.
Cooper said the Port will work with TSA to determine the next steps forward. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/very-unusual-seattle-airport-experience-forces-long-line-of-travelers-into-parking-garage/article_71f93b9c-3868-11ed-ae2e-c7a35fe4ec3b.html | 2022-09-20T00:49:43Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/very-unusual-seattle-airport-experience-forces-long-line-of-travelers-into-parking-garage/article_71f93b9c-3868-11ed-ae2e-c7a35fe4ec3b.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is asking drivers to stop and think about what they take for granted everyday: driving.
This week WSDOT is asking: What if driving wasn't a commuter choice?
According to WSDOT about 25% of people in Washington can't drive due to age, disabilities, or economic reasons.
The #weekwithoutdrivingchallenge runs September, 19-25. Drivers accepting the challenge are asked to walk, bike, bus, or find other modes of transportation for the week. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/week-without-driving-challenge-sept-19-25/article_88412276-385d-11ed-a0c9-931c13b237d1.html | 2022-09-20T00:49:49Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/week-without-driving-challenge-sept-19-25/article_88412276-385d-11ed-a0c9-931c13b237d1.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Psychologist Carol Dweck coined the terms “fixed mindset” and “growth mindset” to describe our beliefs about learning and intelligence. In short, a person with a fixed mindset avoids challenges, gives up easily, and has a deterministic view of their abilities, whereas someone with a growth mindset thrives on challenges, exercises intellectual curiosity, and views failure as a springboard for growth.
During the pandemic, event marketers with a growth mindset experimented with new ways to serve their audiences, collaborated with their remote teammates, and generated revenue for their organizations. And now that the worst of the pandemic is behind us (fingers crossed), how can event marketers continue moving boldly into the future?
First, don’t fall into the trap of adopting a “recovery” mindset — you’ll not only waste budget dollars trying to reactivate prospects lost in The Great Reshuffle instead of finding new leads, you’ll waste time trying to recreate the same events as in 2019 rather than creating ones that better align with the changes our industries have experienced. Break free from legacy thinking, learn new skills, question long-standing beliefs, and try these tactics:
Brainstorm new ideas as if your event was a launch.
Involve your entire event team and ask: If we were to create and launch a brand-new event that competed with ours, what would it look like? Perhaps this discussion will open doors to new offerings, new markets, new opportunities to seize, and/or new strategies to deal with competitive threats. Perhaps it will shed light on offerings, strategies, or tactics that are no longer serving you.
Experiment with new channels and new tactics.
Dirty databases, email fatigue, data privacy rules, and the overall pace of change in the marketing landscape demand that you take an omnichannel approach to reaching and engaging your audience. From tactics like TikTok, digital TV, and digital out-of-home to industry-specific tools like InGo and Gleanin, to influencer and content marketing, it’s time to innovate. If you’re out of your comfort zone in these areas, consider using an agency or consultant to help get you started.
Get to really know your audience.
Perform primary research like focus groups or interviews with members of your audience to discover what makes them tick — and what makes them attend your event (or not). Ask questions like: What keeps you up at night? What would you attempt to accomplish in your career if you weren’t afraid of failing? What professional opportunity are you most excited about in the next year? You’ll learn so much more about your audience than you would by asking the usual questions — Why did you attend? What sessions would you like for us to offer next year? And best yet, you’ll have great new insights to apply to your next marketing campaign.
Don’t Fear Failure
Of course, not every tactic we’ve shared here will perform — whether that’s defined as generating awareness, piquing interest, or converting leads — and not every piece of creative will resonate.
Ensure you are tracking, measuring, learning, and adapting. And while you need to have patience — it takes time to move cold leads through the customer funnel — you also need to recognize when it’s time to pivot away from something that’s not working. The continual process of testing an idea, learning from the results, and iterating is only possible with a growth mindset.
Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes is president and chief marketing strategist of mdg, a marketing and public relations agency specializing in audience acquisition for B2B events. | https://www.pcma.org/avoid-recovery-mindset-when-marketing-events-mdg/ | 2022-09-20T00:50:14Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/avoid-recovery-mindset-when-marketing-events-mdg/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Meeting attendees love mixing business with pleasure. So why not plan your next meeting in a must-visit destination? The following five in-demand cities offer unforgettable experiences—and Marriott Bonvoy®properties with plenty of event spaces to meet your needs.
- Boston charms visitors with its historic buildings and brownstone-lined neighborhoods. Attendees staying at the Westin Copley Place in downtown’s Back Bay can easily explore the city on foot, with historic sites—including the Boston Public Library, Boston Public Garden and Boston Common—just steps away.
- Among iconic buildings, unrivaled museums and neighborhoods packed with personality, your event immediately becomes more interesting in Washington, D.C. The Marriott Marquis Washington, D.C. is set in the heart of the city and perfectly captures the energy of downtown. Your attendees can make their free time meaningful at such nearby attractions as the National Geographic Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Ford’s Theatre and the National Mall.
- Seattle offers the best of both worlds—a dynamic urban core surrounded by the natural beauty of Elliott Bay, Mt. Rainier and the Olympic Mountains. The Westin Seattle, steps from Pike Place Market and the Washington State Convention Center, gives attendees a convenient base for exploring while providing jaw-dropping skyline views.
- In Houston’s bustling downtown, visitors can catch a show in the theater district, visit the Houston Zoo or watch the Astros play at Minute Maid Park—located across from the Marriott Marquis Houston. At the Marriott Marquis, attendees are connected by skywalk to the George R. Brown Convention Center and can cool off after a long day in the Texas-shaped rooftop lazy river.
- Highlights of Los Angeles’s revitalized downtown include the Arts District, the Fashion District, Little Tokyo and South Park (home to the L.A. Live entertainment complex). Close to it all is the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles, in the Financial District and boasting panoramic skyline views from its outdoor venues.
Whatever the size of your meeting or event, you’ll find a perfect fit with Marriott Bonvoy Events. Plus, for every qualified event, you can earn Marriott Bonvoy points to be used toward VIP experiences, free nights and other benefits. For more information, visit www.marriottbonvoyevents.com.
Caption 1: Scenic and historic Boston
Caption 2: The Westin Seattle offers 69,000 square feet of event space.
Caption 3: The rooftop pool deck at the Marriott Marquis Houston can host outdoor receptions. | https://www.pcma.org/five-amazing-destinations-to-consider-for-your-next-meeting/ | 2022-09-20T00:50:21Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/five-amazing-destinations-to-consider-for-your-next-meeting/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The award for speediest pivot to digital events after the COVID-19 lockdown should go to Executives’ Club of Chicago. “A lot of offices shut down that Friday and on the following Tuesday, we did a virtual program,” said Margaret Mueller, president and CEO of Exec Club, whose members are leaders at Chicago’s largest companies as well as civic and academic institutions. Before the pandemic, Exec Club held several in-person-only events weekly. When the pandemic hit, Mueller, who has led the organization since 2019, recognized right away that “no one knew what to do. They were all panicking.”
So, she worked to secure the former head of the Illinois Department of Public Health as the speaker to provide guidance for that first virtual event within days, which soon turned into a regular series of online events — “Coffee and Connects,” held four mornings a week and featuring experts in HR, finance, employment labor, and executive coaching. The programs were free to everyone in the business community, said Mueller, who has a Ph.D. in sociology, “to log on and connect and get help and guidance and support.”
From there, “we exploded our programming,” doubling the online events and doubling Exec Club’s reach, she said. “We really leaned into our purpose, which is what I think most organizations who thrived through the pandemic did. I use restaurants as a great example — the purpose of a restaurant is not to have people come into a brick-and-mortar space and eat food, right? Restaurants that realized that their purpose was to bring people together through the enjoyment of food — and who did cool meal kits, carry-out, cook from home, Zoom live cooking with their chef, and all these engagement experiences — thrived.”
After an initial “48 hours of panicking like everyone else” after the lockdown, “we sat down and realized our purpose is not to bring people into venues,” Mueller said, “to eat lunch and drink iced tea and be talked at. Our purpose is to connect and grow the business community, and they need us more than ever. That’s what inspired these Coffee and Connect and advisory sessions.”
Mueller shared how pandemic-induced changes have made Exec Club a stronger and more successful organization than before COVID.
Changing the Membership Fee Model
“This is a time when a lot of member organizations are struggling with membership renewals, and that’s why it was a little bit risky for us to make everything free to everyone because it could potentially devalue the membership proposition and the membership fee,” Mueller said. “But it ended up being the best thing we ever did because our members appreciated how much they had available to them for free. They loved connecting with people they’d never met, other people from the business community who were not members. And then for non-members, it became a sampling strategy — they hadn’t come to an Executive Club event before. They loved what they were experiencing, and then they would sign on for membership.”
The risk paid off. “That was the intent — to serve and just do the right thing and worry about the money later,” Mueller said. “And it did work out for us: We’ve doubled our membership in the last three years.” Part of that growth — there are currently 2,400-plus members — has come from acquiring a similar organization that was struggling. Mueller said the pandemic created an opportunity “to find a partner who can help you scale and help people do things when it was too difficult for them to do it on their own.”
Paying members access some events at no cost; for other programs, they pay an additional attendance fee at a much lower price than non-members. After the pandemic, Exec Club introduced a non-resident membership rate which gives them access to virtual programs only. If they come to Chicago and want to attend an event in person, they pay the non-member rate.
Deploying a Hybrid Strategy
The goal for the online programs from the start was to make them interactive, with an executive in residence speaker and curated open discussions. “We would put people together who we thought it would be good to get to know each other in Zoom breakout rooms” or other platforms like Sidebar, which Mueller called “a super cool drop-in video room technology.”
Having a stable of virtual programs has “allowed us to really expand our groups,” she said. Sponsors have been able to share the links to online programs with colleagues in other cities and other countries. “We had international people online, which never would’ve happened before,” Mueller said. Prior to the pandemic, Exec Club’s audience was “basically people in Chicago. And now we have a far-reaching audience all over the world. And it was easier for the speakers, too. We were able to get speakers [for whom] it would’ve been very difficult to fly to Chicago.”
So Exec Club will not be abandoning virtual events now that in-person events are back. Nor will physical events be livestreamed. The way Exec Club now approaches an event is that “if it’s really just about the content — if you’re going to pretty much be talked at, then we’re not doing it in-person,” Mueller said. “That’s a virtual event. You don’t need to come and be in the room to just receive information. But if there’s going to be an experience or something where you really want to be in the room and it’s not just about the content, that’s going to be in person. That’s a useful guidepost because no one wants to sit there and be talked at anymore. The rules have changed. People have much higher expectations now for what happens when they enter the room. They’re not going to have a very high tolerance for something that’s not engaging — they’ll think, ‘I could have just logged on from my computer.’”
In addition, Mueller has found livestreaming an in-person event creates too high of an attrition rate — “like 50 percent,” she said. When they held simultaneous events in the past, “people looked at their calendars right before the event and they’d say, ‘Ah, I don’t really need to go there. I can just log on and get the content the same way.’” You really need to be able to motivate people to come in person “because it’s too easy to just log on.”
Finding the Sweet Spot for Program Times
Changes in work routines have led to shifts in the time of day when Exec Club in-person and online programs are offered. “After you’ve been working all day, the last thing you’re going to do is log onto a Zoom at 5:30 or six at night for a cocktail thing. You’ve got to get to your kids or your personal life or other responsibilities. I think the pressures are just tremendous. We’re also finding lunchtime is not a great time for in-person events anymore, because people are only in the office now, on average, two-and-a-half days a week, and those days are very heavy — they’re meeting with their teams, they’re meeting with clients. They no longer have time to take three hours out in the middle of the day. And the morning is really tough because of childcare and school and everything.
“We’re finding that sweet spot is 4 to 6 p.m., and that is a timeslot we had never considered before. We’ll have the networking, registration at 4 to 4:30, program at 4:30 to 5:30, and then a little reception after. Then people can get back home, and they haven’t missed a beat. Expectations have shifted — there are a lot of people who have said, ‘I’m not giving up dinner with my family anymore. I didn’t realize what I was missing, and I don’t want to do that.’ And honestly, hybrid work is a real thing. If you’re not already downtown, you’re not coming downtown just for an event. You’re just going to skip it.”
What the pandemic reinforced for her, Mueller said, is that organizations need to meet their audience where they are. She referred to a tweet by author John Hodgman: “Help in the way you’re asked to help,” adding, “not in the way you would like to help them.”
Forget About FOMO
The fear that you will miss something by not attending an event in person — “this whole FOMO concept,” said the Executives’ Club of Chicago’s Margaret Mueller, “has been turned on its head. The idea that you’ve got to show up, and you need the face time in the room. I think that has been completely disrupted. I think people don’t believe that anymore, and they’re being much more intentional and purposeful” about attending in-person events.
That’s challenging for event organizers, “because I don’t think people believe to the same extent they did before the pandemic that if they’re not there, they’re going to miss out,” she said, and she is continuing to “process what that means. I do not expect our events to get back to pre-pandemic levels for years — we’re coming back, but the event size is smaller. And I think that’s going to last for a while. It’s shifted. And in many ways, this is good. People want smaller, really. Although our sponsors don’t — they and our speakers want broader reach. But if you think about your members and attendees, they love walking to a room of maybe 50 to 100 people. That’s an amazing experience versus walking into a room of 500 people, and now you’ve got to try to work this room and see who’s here.”
Michelle Russell is editor in chief of Convene. | https://www.pcma.org/pandemic-caused-changes-strengthen-executives-club-chicago/ | 2022-09-20T00:50:28Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/pandemic-caused-changes-strengthen-executives-club-chicago/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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After the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on August 9 as part of an investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified documents, right-wing candidates for state office across the country took to their fringe social media pages. They posted that the federal government needs to be reined in and even called for the FBI to be abolished.
Kari Lake, a gubernatorial candidate in Arizona who won the GOP primary in August after being endorsed by Trump, issued a statement on Telegram and TruthSocial, Trump’s new social media platform, calling the federal government “tyrants” and an “illegitimate, corrupt Regime” that hates America. “If we accept it, America is dead,” Lake wrote. “We will not accept it.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray called the surge in death threats to law enforcement “deplorable and dangerous.” Two days later, Ricky Shiffer, a 42-year-old Navy veteran, attempted to breach an FBI office in Cincinnati and was shot and killed by police after an hours-long standoff. Only four days after Shiffer’s attack in Cincinnati, NBC reported that a man in Pennsylvania was arrested for making threats against the FBI on the far-right social media site Gab.
GOP candidates in Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, among a slew of others, are major influencers in this fringe ecosystem. And they are making connections between the 2020 election — which they claim was stolen — Christian nationalism, and gun rights.
The Trace reviewed their campaign platforms, public appearances, posts on fringe websites and social media, analyzed engagement with their supporters, followed their newsletters, and closely tracked right-wing events and media. We found that their rhetoric mixes Christian nationalism with armed rebellion — presenting a threat that extremism experts do not take lightly.
The groups that participate most in these spaces, which include The Proud Boys, Stop the Steal, and Christian nationalists, draw attention to a stew of political issues including supposed election fraud, abortion, school curricula, and COVID-19 restrictions. Most of these groups “prioritize Second Amendment rights, and will continue to do so, especially as things seem increasingly urgent to them,” said Dr. Amy Cooter, a senior research fellow at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at Middlebury College, where she focuses on anti-government sentiment, militias, and Christian nationalism. “There’s distrust in the system and a sense of unfairness that will all feed into each other and make a perfect storm of factors headed into the next election cycles.”
Last month, a poll by the University of Chicago found that nearly one third of surveyed Americans believe that they may soon have to “take up arms” against the U.S. government. Of the participants, 37 percent already have guns at home and agree with this view. Breitbart, a far-right news site that incorrectly claims the 2020 election was fraudulent, picked up on the poll, and followers quickly voiced their expectations of civil war. “It means there’s no political solution to entrenched corruption when elections are clearly rigged and the existing parasite class is clearly corrupt,” one comment read. Another said: “So Asymmetrical warfare and guerrilla warfare is the Patriot response! Must be!”
Guns, largely because of their ubiquity in America, are the weapon of choice of domestic extremists, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress. “Radicalized individuals who are emboldened by the gun lobby and far-right politicians often have far too easy access to firearms and greatly contribute to the rise in domestic extremism,” the report states.
Candidates for governor, secretary of state, and other state-level offices — many of whom emerged in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, when Stop the Steal provided something of a unifying principle for the far right — are using moral, religious language, and campaigning on issues that resonate with their base.
“They flesh out what messages are going to be appealing to a mass audience,” said Cooter.
The Christian nationalist movement does not take an inherently anti-government, anarchist position, but rather espouses an unwillingness to accept an elected administration that, as adherents see it, betrays their Christian values, in terms of abortion, sex education in schools, and guns. While Christian nationalism has existed for generations in the U.S., the 2020 election has so far proven to be a catalyst for far-right ideologies to seep into mainstream GOP thinking.
“All of this is about a sense of loss and unfairness, and it’s really easy to paint a target on a specific agency or individual who is seen as promoting if not causing that kind of threat,” Cooter added. “There’s still a tendency for pundits or others to talk about this as an issue of the fringe or a handful of extremists. I’m afraid that the more we simplify it in that direction, the more we’re going to miss the scope of the problem.”
The nexus between these issues has been apparent in the ReAwaken America tour, which launched in the spring of 2021. It has held events in 12 states so far, with several more stops planned in October, just weeks before the midterm elections.
Headlined by former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, the ex-Army general who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in 2017 about contacts with a Russian ambassador, the tour brings together Christianity, antipathy toward COVID-19 restrictions, claims of election fraud, and other hot-button conservative issues. Speakers may vary in their focus, but many of them call on audience members to reject the legitimacy of the current federal government.
Frequent speakers include Mark Finchem, Kari Lake, Kristina Karamo, and Doug Mastriano, who are all Trump-endorsed, right-wing politicians running for offices that control state and local elections. All claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and some have ties to extremism. Finchem previously associated himself with the Oath Keepers militia. Mastriano spent $5,000 of campaign funds paying Gab, the alternative social media network known as a hotbed of racism and the alt right, for “consulting.” Local news media recently reported that Mastriano’s security team is armed and not certified with state authorities, and one member was listed as a regional leader of the Oath Keepers.
The Trace reached out to each political candidate to ask about their ties to extremism, why they are participating in events that spread misinformation, and if they could clarify their views on Christian nationalism. None responded to requests for comment.
The tour takes place in churches and features at least 14 pastors, including one who has called for President Joe Biden’s to be held for “treason.” Other speakers include January 6 participants, Eric Trump, and several financiers of election fraud claims who have been subpoenaed by the House January 6 Select Committee, like Patrick Byrne, Mike Lindell, and Roger Stone. New York State Attorney General Letitia James wrote a letter to Flynn and the tour’s founder, Clay Clark, saying the August event in Batavia, New York, could “could spur extremist or racially motivated violence.” The letter referred specifically to speakers’ promotion of “white nationalist ideals” linked to the Great Replacement Theory, which James noted had inspired a mass shooting this past May in Buffalo, where 10 people were killed and three more were injured.
The Reverend Nathan Empsall, executive director and head of campaigns at Faithful America, an online community of Christians organizing for social justice causes, started a petition denouncing the ReAwaken America Tour as promoting Christian nationalism and asking churches not to participate in any events. It got more than 20,000 signatures.
“Christian nationalism isn’t a religion, it’s a political worldview,” Empsall told The Trace. Events like the ReAwaken America tour, he said, play on people’s sense of fear and distort religion to fit their messaging.
An earlier statement from a grassroots initiative called Christians Against Christian Nationalism, signed by over 25,000 people, criticized the ideology underlining the ReAwaken America Tour. “Christian nationalism demands Christianity be privileged by the State,” read the statement, “and implies that to be a good American, one must be Christian. It often overlaps with and provides cover for white supremacy and racial subjugation.”
Candidates including Kristina Karamo and Mark Finchem also appeared alongside priests, “researchers,” and “fighters” at another event that took place in August, in Detroit, called the Church Militant Convention, organized by a far-right website espousing Catholicism alongside highly politicized news, videos, and articles. (The Southern Poverty Law Center designated the website as a hate group for its anti-LGBTQ language.)
They spoke to “freedom fighters and patriots,” according to the event page. “This is for Catholics who reject the woke, the satanic, the lukewarm, the anti-Christian, the modernist and the ungodly,” the event description reads.
Michael Voris, the president and founder of St. Michael’s media, Church Militant’s mother company, moderated the convention.
Although Church Militant brands itself as “serving Catholics,” the Archdiocese of Detroit released a statement back when the group called itself RealCatholicTV.com as not being authorized to use the word “Catholic.” On Church Militant’s website, there are news articles about resisting the current national political leadership and how Catholicism is under attack nationwide. President Biden is always referred to as “unelected.” There are countless articles and videos claiming that Catholic doctrine protects Second Amendment rights and firearms possession.
Voris also hosts a web talk show in which he presents monologues for viewers. In one episode about guns, Voris begins by claiming that Democrats misrepresent religion and gender, and lack a “belief in God,” then transitions to a four-minute rant about how “Democrats and Marxist socialists” are eager to take guns away.
“Whoever has the guns, rules the country,” Voris says. “The forces of the so-called Great Reset have gathered, conspired, and laid out their plan.” The Great Reset was the World Economic Forum’s 2020 response to the global economic hardship brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. It quickly morphed into a viral conspiracy theory that held that “global elites” would use the health crisis to destroy American influence and wealth.
At the end of his message, Voris asserts: “The bad guys hate God, and they hate you having guns for the exact same reason. It’s all about destroying your human dignity.”
But Empsall vehemently rejects that guns and Christianity are tied. “America is awash in guns and individualism, and that’s certainly not in the Bible or the gospel,” he said. “They started with the guns and they brought in the religion, not the other way around.”
The Trace contacted Voris to understand why Church Militant invited candidates spreading election misinformation to its August convention. “In my view your questions aren’t really inquiries in the true sense of an inquiry,” he wrote back. “They are preceded by ASSERTIONS which are then designed to gain a reaction from me, rather than an ACTUAL journalistic understanding.”
Philip Gorski, a professor of sociology at Yale who studies Christian nationalism, religion, and political violence, said that while the origins of the political ideology can be traced as far back as the late 17th century, how Christian nationalism is unfolding today is unprecedented. This includes the political alliance between Catholics and conservative Protestants and the rise in Pentecostalism, which views spiritual warfare as a main tenet.
“There is a very strong belief that people and places can be demonically possessed. Your political enemies are not just your political enemies, they’re your spiritual enemies,” explained Gorski. “They’re not just people who disagree with you, they are instruments of Satan.”
According to Gorski, this rhetoric edges close to advocating political violence. Earlier this year, Church Militant promoted an online platform, CozyTV, belonging to Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist streamer whom the Southern Poverty Law Center described as “an outspoken admirer of fascists such as Mussolini.” Fuentes has compared himself to Hitler, attended and defended the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and became a core figure in the Stop the Steal movement which sought to overturn the 2020 election.
Salon described the CozyTV feature as a growing collaboration between Catholics and the Groyper movement, a group of Fuentes fans who are mostly young white nationalists with racist and anti-Semitic views aiming to bring far-right politics into mainstream conservatism.
The mishmash of election fraud, Second Amendment rights, and Christian nationalism currently circulating in fringe chatrooms has created an unprecedented gray area in which online groups can co-opt current events to further fuel anti-government sentiment. It has also created an opportunity for the gun industry and lobby to profit from extremism, according to Everytown for Gun Safety (which provides grants to The Trace. See more about our funding).
“They believe they’re facing an existential threat, and the electoral process can no longer remedy that threat,” Justin Wagner, senior director of investigations at Everytown, said. “As a result, some conclude that violence is either inevitable or even justified, and that guns are the most efficient tool of violence available to the public.”
“Extremists embrace conspiracy theories which depict them as under threat and look for a tool outside the democratic process to respond to that threat or advance their political ideology,” Wagner added. “Many on the far right see guns as practical and strategic tools, for tactical violence but also organizing principles through which to recruit new members.”
The Trace reached out to the FBI to understand how it is responding to growing threats of violence, including to their own offices, but the bureau declined to respond. The Department of Justice also declined to answer questions about what the federal government is doing to prevent far-right violence.
Meanwhile, in a national, televised address on September 1, President Biden said: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.”
The White House hosted a United We Stand Summit on September 15 to highlight these dangers. Gun violence prevention leaders, among others, led panels and conversations about “preventing radicalization and mobilization to violence.”
Biden once again called for more action, including developing more sensitive threat detection among law enforcement and better regulation of social media platforms. He said: “Domestic terrorism, rooted in white supremacy, is the greatest threat to our homeland today. I never thought I’d hear that or say that.” | https://www.thetrace.org/2022/09/christian-nationalism-guns-election/ | 2022-09-20T00:56:28Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/2022/09/christian-nationalism-guns-election/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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NEW from THE TRACE: As midterms loom, right wingers are revving up the faithful with talk of religion and guns. After the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on August 9 as part of an investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified documents, right-wing candidates for state office across the country took to their fringe social media pages. The Trace reviewed their campaign platforms, public appearances, posts on fringe websites and social media; analyzed engagement with their supporters; followed their newsletters; and closely tracked right-wing events and media. We found that their rhetoric mixes Christian nationalism with armed rebellion — presenting a threat that extremism experts do not take lightly. The groups that participate most in these spaces “prioritize Second Amendment rights, and will continue to do so, especially as things seem increasingly urgent to them,” one extremism expert told us. Read the rest of contributor Lila Hassan’s report here.
Report ties neighborhood conditions, coronavirus to NYC gun violence. New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams released a report last week urging local, state, and federal officials to invest resources in the root causes of gun violence, including job security, access to healthy food, mental health care and crisis response, and affordable housing. The report highlights some eye-opening stats linking historic disinvestment with frequency of shootings, and also found that “out of the 74 zip codes identified by the city as coronavirus hot spots at the height of the pandemic, 62 of them — or 84 percent — also had twice as many shootings last year as the citywide average.”
Teen activist says congresswoman assaulted her during gun violence debate. Outside the Capitol on Thursday, members of the group Voters for Tomorrow were pressing Georgia lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene about how the Second Amendment prevents gun violence when Greene allegedly stepped on the foot of Marianna Pecora, 18, then kicked her. Video of the incident shows a surprised Pecora exclaim “Oh, my God!” as Greene looks at Pecora’s feet and says “excuse me.” The group is considering filing charges.
Federal agencies see rise in ghost guns and illegal devices in Hawaii. “Whenever we execute a search warrant or an arrest warrant, it’s now almost a normal thing for us to find one or more ghost guns,” a Homeland Security official told HawaiiNewsNow. In addition to unserialized weapons, ATF and Homeland Security agents are seizing an increasing number of silencers, high-capacity magazines, and auto sears, which allow handguns to fire like machine guns. The seizures are concerning, as shootings in the state are rare. From The Trace archives: How Hawaii manages to be home to both a rising number of firearms and rock-bottom rates of gun violence.
ATF says ammo stolen from shipping containers. The agency said “large quantities” of Winchester 9mm ammunition were stolen from freight stations in three cities in the Raleigh and Durham areas of North Carolina on September 5 and 6. The ATF warned local gun dealers to be on the lookout for people trying to sell the stolen bullets.
Lockdowns and drills are a steep price to pay for American gun culture. Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak describes the terror and confusion that ensued when a report of a student with a gun last week led to a lockdown at a D.C.-area high school. Students huddled in the dark for an hour before getting the all-clear. “Do you know how long an hour is when you think you are going to die,” one of them asked Dvorak. Some of the kids texted their parents during the lockdown, only to be scolded by the administration for “heighten[ing] the anxiety and complicat[ing] matters for police and staff.” “I feel really unseen,” said Lila Ben-Yehuda, 15.
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136 — the number of guns intercepted at security checkpoints at Nashville International Airport so far this year, up 30 percent from this time last year. The airport is seeing three times the amount of guns per passenger than other airports, a TSA official said. [WKRN] | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/nyc-gun-violence-surged-in-covid-hotspots-report/ | 2022-09-20T00:56:34Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/nyc-gun-violence-surged-in-covid-hotspots-report/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities were making contact with some of the most remote villages in the United States on Monday to determine the need for food and water and assess damage from a massive weekend storm that flooded communities dotting Alaska’s vast western coast.
No one has been reported injured or killed during the massive storm — the remnants of Typhoon Merbok — as it traveled north through the Bering Strait over the weekend. However, damage to homes, roads and other infrastructure was only starting to be revealed as floodwaters recede.
About 21,000 residents living in the small communities dotting a 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) stretch of Alaska’s western coastline — a distance longer than the entire length of the California coastline – were impacted by the storm.
Many homes throughout the region were flooded, and some were knocked off their foundations by the rushing waters propelled by strong winds. Officials were starting the process of determining damage to roads, ports, seawalls and water and sewage systems.
The state transportation department said most airports in the area were open, and officials were making either temporary or permanent repairs to the runways that still have issues, said Jeremy Zidek, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
The storm remained stalled Monday in the Chukchi Sea near northwest Alaska, but it was rapidly weakening after at its most powerful stage influencing weather patterns as far away as California.
Coastal flood warnings were extended for an area north of the Bering Strait since water will be slow to recede in towns like Kotzebue, Kivalina and Shishmaref, National Weather Service meteorologist Kaitlyn Lardeo said.
Shishmaref had seen water surges 5.5 feet (1.68 meters) above the normal tide level, while Kotzebue and Kivalina had smaller surges, but were both still without power Monday, she said.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Sunday identified five communities — Hooper Bay, Scammon Bay, Golovin, Newtok and Nome — as being greatly impacted by a combination of high water, flooding, erosion and electrical issues. Nome, where one home floated down a river until it was caught by a bridge, was among the many reporting road damage after recording tidal surges 11.1 feet (3.38 meters) above normal.
Zidek said state officials were looking closely at those five, but also reaching out to every community in the region because of the numerous reports of damage.
“While the needs may be greater in some, we don’t want to neglect those other communities that have minor issues that still need to be resolved,” he said. However, efforts to reach some communities has been difficult due to downed communication lines.
The state’s emergency operations center is fully staffed with military, state agencies and volunteer organizations to address the aftermath of the storm.
Alaska National Guard members in the western half of the nation’s largest state have been activated to help, either in the communities where they live or elsewhere along the coast, he said.
The American Red Cross has 50 volunteers ready to help and will be sent to communities that are in most need.
Most support personnel will have to be flown to these communities since there are few roads in western Alaska. Providing air support will be the Alaska National Guard, small commuter airlines that routinely fly between these small villages and possibly bush pilots.
Weather always adversely impacts flights in rural Alaska, but Zidek said the forecast seems favorable to conduct the response operations.
“Three may be another smaller weather front coming in, but it’s nothing unusual for this time of the year,” he said.
Time is of the essence, Dunleavy said Sunday when pledging to get communities whole again as soon as possible. Freeze-up, or the start of winter, can happen as early as October.
“We just have to impress upon our federal friends that it’s not a Florida situation where we’ve got months to work on this,” he said. “We’ve got several weeks.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/damage-assessments-begin-in-flooded-remote-alaska-villages/ | 2022-09-20T01:00:39Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/damage-assessments-begin-in-flooded-remote-alaska-villages/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — A group of paddlers are traveling through Siouxland to raise awareness and money for a project to help people with disabilities.
Members of the Peacemaker Paddle Initiative came through Siouxland and they’re trying to raise $180,000 to build a waterpark in Florida for people with disabilities.
Eddie Hall became disabled when he was hit by a car when he was very young.
“It was a very traumatic incidence that took place,” Hall said. “I broke my left arm twice. Three times crushed the elbow. Broke my right leg once, broke my left leg twice, had a compound fracture.”
He said he’s thankful to still be alive and now he wants to make an impact with the Peacemaker Paddle Initiative.
“Being a part of this peacemaker paddle was something that needed to be done. We’re trying to raise the funds needed to build stirring waters, a fully accessible waterpark in lake wells, florida,” Hall said.
Bill Redmon helped organize the Peacemaker Paddle event. He said people with disabilities face a wide variety of challenges everyday.
“They might have an electric wheelchair and no place to plug it in to charge it. It could be as simple as that. It could be as simple as being overcrowded, they’re floating the lazy river and other kids are climbing over their tube while they’re floating the lazy river. They just don’t have enough space,” Redmon said.
The group is hoping to raise $180,000 and Redmon said he’s hopeful Siouxlanders will get involved.
“I don’t have a disabilities background. I just see the need and feel like guys we should be doing something. We’ve got it easy, we need to make it easy for everyone,” Redmon said.
Their trip will end on Wednesday in Pelican Point State Park Recreation Area in Burt County in Nebraska. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/group-of-paddlers-raising-money-for-people-with-disabilities/ | 2022-09-20T01:11:05Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/group-of-paddlers-raising-money-for-people-with-disabilities/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — After seven years of wiring funding from her company to line her pockets, 49-year-old Trina Welch has been found guilty of wire fraud.
Welch was under the employment of Kasco of Idaho, LLC as a bookkeeper for the company's accounts. From at least 2013 to 2019, Welch would take funding from the company by issuing herself checks to obtain money and properties. She would then use the money to buy properties, vehicles and travel. The money was also used to fund things for her family and her friends.
The total amount of money over the 341 fraudulent checks she issued to herself from the company totaled about $3.6 million. In 2017 alone, she admitted to taking $930,000 just to pay for credit card debt.
Welch pleaded guilty to the charge of wire fraud and will serve 51 months in federal prison, as well as an additional 3 years once released where she will report to probation.
Welch will also pay back the losses of what she stole, including interest, from all the properties she bought for herself.
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Inside preparations to challenge Biden's student loan forgiveness
Conservative groups have launched a national search for prospective plaintiffs to challenge the Biden administration's federal student loan forgiveness order in court.
Why it matters: 43 million student borrowers eligible for relief could be stuck in financial limbo if the order becomes embroiled in drawn-out litigation.
What we're watching: The Job Creators Network — a right-leaning small business group that's advocated for lower taxes and fewer regulations — is preparing to file a lawsuit once the Department of Education unveils the website where borrowers can apply.
- They've tapped Karen Harned from the National Federation of Independent Business to lead a team vetting potential plaintiffs. She oversaw a recent legal bid to block certain COVID-19 vaccine workplace mandates.
- Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist tells Axios his organization will either file its own lawsuit, team up with conservative think tanks or state attorneys general, or all of the above.
- One Oregon man who previously ran for U.S. Senate as a Republican is representing himself in a lawsuit challenging Biden's student loan plan in district court, arguing that the relief will worsen inflation and raise the interest expense on his mortgage.
State of play: The Biden administration last month announced plans to forgive $10,000 in student loans for individual borrowers who make under $125,000 per year, and $20,000 for those who have received Pell Grants.
- The administration has not yet rolled out the site where around 35 million borrowers will have to apply for forgiveness.
- The approximately eight million qualifying borrowers for whom the Department of Education already has income information will receive automatic debt relief.
Between the lines: One key challenge is proving that a plaintiff has the standing to sue in federal court.
- The Supreme Court has ruled that merely being a taxpayer does not provide the necessary standing to challenge an allotment of government funds alleged to violate the Constitution.
- "[Biden's loan forgiveness plan] is unfair but you can't take unfair to court," said Job Creators Network president Alfredo Ortiz.
Zoom in: One path some groups are exploring is finding a plaintiff who is a private citizen earning just above the income threshold, or who put themselves through school while working and has already paid off their loans.
- Loan servicers might seek standing by arguing that the administration's action led them to lose money they might otherwise have made.
- Some Republican state attorneys general, including Mark Brnovich in Arizona and Eric Schmitt in Missouri, have indicated early interest in arguing standing, though details are not yet clear.
What they're saying: "Standing is a game of Whac-a-Mole," Fordham University law professor Jed Shugerman told Axios. "If you're the Biden administration you have to whack every mole" but when an advocacy group is looking for a plaintiff, "All you need is one entity with concrete and direct harm that is willing to sue."
- Dalié Jiménez, professor of bankruptcy law at UC Irvine and director of the Student Loan Law Initiative, said legal challenges amount to an effort to intimidate people from applying for the relief in the first place.
- "Borrowers should continue to do as the department is asking them to do, which is to fill out the application until a court basically like says otherwise or prevents it from taking effect, Jiménez said.
The other side: The Biden administration says a 2003 law known as HEROES, the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, allows it to waive federal student loans to support borrowers in an emergency, such as a natural disaster or war.
- A 25-page memo from the Justice Department lays out the administration's legal justification, citing the "financial hardship arising out of the COVID -19 pandemic."
- White House spokesperson Abdullah Hasan told Axios in response to this reporting: "Let's be clear about what they would be trying to do here: The same folks who voted for a $2 trillion tax giveaway for the rich and had hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own small business loan debt forgiven would be trying to keep millions of working middle-class Americans in mountains of debt." | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-legal-challenges | 2022-09-20T01:21:37Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-legal-challenges | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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At least two people have died in Puerto Rico because of Hurricane Fiona, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi told CNN, as rescuers scrambled to save flooding victims.
A 58-year-old man died after being swept away by La Plata River behind his home in Comerío, and a man in his 30s died after attempting to fill his generator with gasoline while it was on, setting it on fire, according to Press Secretary Sheila Angleró-Mojica.
The storm wiped out power to most of the island before crashing into the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Ricans who remember the wrath of Hurricane Maria in 2017 say Fiona might be more destructive.
"It's unbelievable," said Juan Miguel Gonzalez, a business owner in San Juan.
"A lot of people -- more than (during) Maria -- lost their houses now ... lost everything in their houses because of the flooding," Gonzalez told CNN's Leyla Santiago.
"Maria was tough winds. But this one, with all the rain, it just destroyed everything in the house."
By midday Monday, about 1,000 people in Puerto Rico had been rescued by emergency crews, said Maj. Gen. José Reyes, adjutant general of the Puerto Rico National Guard.
At least people have died, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi told CNN Monday afternoon.
A 58-year-old man died after being swept away by La Plata River behind his home in Comerío, and a man in his 30s died after attempting to fill his generator with gasoline while it was on, setting it on fire, according to Press Secretary Sheila Angleró-Mojica.
Intense rain was expected to produce more mudslides and catastrophic flooding through Monday night.
One hundred first responders from New York will head to the US territory to help as soon as weather allows, Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said, adding governors of New Jersey and California have also pledged to send help.
Fiona made landfall Monday morning in the Dominican Republic after crossing onto land a day earlier in southwestern Puerto Rico.
Still, Puerto Rico remains almost entirely under flash flood or flood warnings -- nearly five years to the day after Hurricane Maria devastated the territory.
One area north of the city of Ponce reported over 2 feet of rain in 24 hours.
Rescues were underway Monday in the western Puerto Rican municipalities of Mayaguez and Hormigueros, officials said. The Guanajibo River in Hormigueros surpassed its previous record height set during Maria.
Meanwhile, southern Puerto Rico can expect another 4 to 8 inches of rain or more early this week -- meaning Fiona will leave the island deluged with 12 to 30 inches of rain, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
"These rains will continue to produce life-threatening and catastrophic flooding along with mudslides and landslides across Puerto Rico," the center said.
Fiona has already turned deadly in the Caribbean. At least one death was reported in the heavily-damaged city of Basse-Terre, the capitol of the French territory of Guadeloupe, the vice president of the territory's environmental agency said.
And Fiona could become a major hurricane by Wednesday, with winds reaching 111 mph. That would make Fiona the first major hurricane of the year in the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said.
Massive power outages cripple Puerto Rico
More than 1.4 million Puerto Rico power customers -- such as homes and businesses -- have lost electricity, officials said. The entire island was in the dark early Monday, PowerOutage.us reported.
And it could be days before power is restored, the main power utility in Puerto Rico said Sunday, as daily high temperatures after Monday are forecast to reach the mid-80s to 90s.
Several transmission line outages contributing to the blackout, LUMA Energy said. Power will be restored "gradually," Pierluisi said in a Facebook post.
By late Monday morning, a bit of good news from island's capital: The power system came back up for hospitals in San Juan's medical complex, Puerto Rico Health Secretary Dr. Carlos Mellado López said. The complex is the island's most important and stretches across 227 acres, according to the Health Administration of Puerto Rico.
"The power system at all the hospitals in the Medical Center Complex has been restored," Mellado tweeted Sunday night. "Our patients are safe and receiving the medical care they need."
Fiona's latest path
Intense rainfall will continue producing mudslides, landslides and catastrophic flooding across Puerto Rico through Monday night, the National Hurricane Center said.
The hurricane slammed the Dominican Republic community of Boca de Yuma early Monday, whipping maximum sustained winds of 90 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
The storm knocked 59 aqueducts out of service, leaving more than 1 million people in the Dominican Republic without running water, according to Jose Luis German Mejia, an emergency management official. At least 54 homes have been reported damaged so far, said Juan Manuel Mendez, the country's emergency management director of operations.
Emergency officials have transported 789 people to safety, Mendez said at a storm briefing Monday. More than 500 people are housed in 29 shelters, he said.
Ten electric circuits are offline currently, but officials did not have an exact number of how many customers were without power.
"This is still an emergency event," and the storm is still affecting the country, said Mejia.
Life-threatening flash flooding and urban flooding is forecast for eastern portions of the Dominican Republic through early Tuesday, the hurricane center said.
Fiona could also dump 10 inches of rain in the eastern and northern parts of the country, according to the center.
As Fiona moves away from the Dominican Republic's northern coast, it's expected to intensify as it moves north over warm water.
Tropical storm conditions are expected in the southeastern Bahamas by late Monday or early Tuesday, and Fiona is expected to impact the eastern Turks and Caicos on Tuesday morning.
A hurricane warning is in effect for Turks and Caicos, the National Hurricane Center said Monday evening.
"Fiona will continue turning northward and then northeastward this week, nearing Bermuda on Friday as a major hurricane," CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.
Yet another widespread calamity
Power outages have become a familiar crisis for many who live in Puerto Rico. Just five months ago, residents suffered another islandwide blackout after a fire broke out in a power plant.
Some parts of the island still bear the scars of Maria, which inflicted catastrophic infrastructure damage; it took almost a year for power to be restored across the island.
Samuel Rivera and his mother Lourdes Rodriguez lived without power for about a year after Maria, Rivera told CNN. On Sunday morning, they lost power once again, conjuring up similar fears to those they had five years ago.
They were also concerned a nearby river might overflow and trees surrounding their home could be felled by the powerful winds, they said.
Rushing waters easily wiped away a bridge, carrying its structure downstream, one video of the dangerous flooding shows. Elsewhere in the city of Arecibo, quickly moving waters overtook large construction vehicles and entire trees as rain fell in sheets, another video by Samuel De Jesús shows.
Many rivers on the eastern side of the island were at moderate to major flood stages Sunday afternoon, including one southeastern river which rose over 12 feet in less than seven hours.
US President Joe Biden early Sunday approved an emergency declaration to provide federal assistance to disaster relief efforts.
More than 300 FEMA emergency workers were on the ground to respond to the crisis, said Anne Bink, FEMA's associate administrator for Response and Recovery.
"Our heart goes out to the residents that again are going through another catastrophic event five years later," Bink said, nodding to Maria. This time, she said, FEMA plans to implement lessons learned from the 2017 crisis.
"We were much more prepared. We have four warehouses now strategically located throughout the island, which includes commodities, exponentially larger supplies than in the past," Bink said.
"We're proactively there -- and well ahead of any storm hitting -- to make sure that we are coordinating. And all of the planning efforts we undertake during those blue skies days can be brought to bear when the rain falls."
Biden told Gov. Pierluisi in a Tuesday call that he would "ensure that the Federal team remains on the job to get it done, especially given that Puerto Rico is still recovering from the damage of Hurricane Maria five years ago this week," a readout of the call said.
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GOP Rep. Liz Cheney (right) of Wyoming and Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California previewed in an op-ed their proposed legislation to make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election in the future by proposing changes to the Electoral Count Act.
GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California have proposed legislation to make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election in the future by proposing changes to the Electoral Count Act.
They say the recommendations could help prevent an attack on the US Capitol from happening again and argue this legislation is critical, pointing to candidates currently running for offices at the state and federal level who could impact future elections and who believe former President Donald Trump's election lies. Cheney and Lofgren said this raises concerns of "another effort to steal a presidential election, perhaps with another attempt to corrupt Congress's proceeding to tally electoral votes."
The bill Cheney and Lofgren have put forward introduce new laws and strengthen existing ones to prevent individual state officials or members of Congress from subverting election results.
"The Electoral Count Act of 1887 should be amended to prevent other future unlawful efforts to overturn Presidential elections and to ensure future peaceful transfers of Presidential power," the bill reads.
Cheney and Lofgren also released an op-ed published Sunday in the Wall Street Journal as part of the rollout of their legislation.
"Our proposal is intended to preserve the rule of law for all future presidential elections by ensuring that self-interested politicians cannot steal from the people the guarantee that our government derives its power from the consent of the governed," Cheney and Lofgren wrote. "We look forward to working with our colleagues in the House and the Senate toward this goal."
This bill is scheduled to get a vote in the House on Wednesday, and then lawmakers must decide how to reconcile the differences that exist with the Senate's proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act put forward by a bipartisan group of senators in July.
"We're not disrupting the compromise," a House aide told CNN. "We think we are raising the floor for what this bill should look like."
Raising the threshold for Congress to object to electors
This legislation dramatically increases the threshold needed for members of Congress to object to state electors. The bill would require the support of one third of each chamber to raise an objection and a majority of votes for that objection to be sustained. It outlines five specific and narrow reasons for raising objections. The Senate version of the bill only requires one fifth of support in each chamber and does not restrict reasons for objections.
Currently, only one member from each chamber is required to object and there are no restrictions on the types of objections that can be brought up. That's why 147 Republicans across both chambers were able to object when Congress met to certify the election on January 6, 2021, and cited various reasons for doing so.
Enforcing states' vote-counting and certification process
The proposed bill addresses any potential delays a state could make to counting and certifying its votes and creates language to enforce the election certification process.
The legislation says no person "shall willfully fail or refuse to tabulate, count, or report any vote that is timely cast and is otherwise valid under applicable State and Federal law."
While the House bill gives the states more time to certify an election, known as the safe harbor deadline, it proposes stricter guidelines on how a state's vote can be challenged.
Only the candidates for president and vice president listed on the ballot can challenge a state's certification, which would be heard and determined by a district court panel of three judges and reviewable only by the Supreme Court. The legislation outlines a clear calendar for how courts need to expedite any election related challenges. Currently, anyone can make a challenge to a state's certification in court.
If a governor refuses to certify the election results, and the court orders it must be certified, the bill authorizes another state official to certify the results, thus prohibiting governors from standing in the way of the election certification process.
The new deadline for governors to certify their election and state electors to be chosen is December 14, pushed back from early December, and state electors must meet on December 23, unless the date falls on a weekend. Once state electors certify the election, the slates of electors get sent to Congress.
The legislation also clearly defines what accounts for a state's slate of electors and clarifies that states can only send one slate. Under the current bill, there is room for a state to send competing slates of electors in certain situations.
This language is meant to address what happened in 2020, where certain states submitted alternate electors for Trump that were not the official electors submitted by states. The fake elector scheme, as it has become known, is currently being investigated by the Department of Justice and has been an thread followed up on by the House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection.
Clarifying the vice president's role during Joint Session
The House bill seeks to reaffirm the Constitution and make it clear that the vice president has no authority to reject official state electoral slates, delay the counting of votes or issue any procedural rulings. The Senate bill has a version of this provision as well.
"The 12th Amendment is straightforward; it simply requires counting," Cheney and Lofgren wrote.
After the 2020 election, Trump tried to get then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors from states, which Pence never did.
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A judge on Monday approved a motion by prosecutors to vacate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the popular "Serial" podcast, who has maintained he is innocent in the 1999 slaying of his ex-girlfriend.
Baltimore prosecutors filed the motion last week asking for a new trial for Syed, who has been serving a life sentence after he was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery, kidnapping and false imprisonment in connection to the killing of Hae Min Lee.
In explaining her decision to vacate, Baltimore City Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn cited material in the state investigation that was not properly turned over to defense attorneys, as well as the existence of two suspects who may have been improperly cleared as part of the investigation.
Her ruling was met by cheers and tears in the courtroom. Syed -- who attended the hearing wearing a white button-down shirt, a dark tie and a kufi cap -- was not handcuffed, but his feet were. After the ruling, officials uncuffed his ankles, and soon after, Syed walked out of the courthouse to cheers and applause from supporters. He did not stop to speak to reporters as he got into a vehicle.
"We're not yet declaring Adnan Syed is innocent," Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said Monday following the judge's ruling. "But we are declaring that in the interest of fairness and justice he is entitled to a new trial."
Prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether to pursue a new trial, and they are waiting for DNA analysis that they are trying to expedite to determine whether Adnan's case is dismissed or the case is set for trial. But that mandate, Mosby said, is "separate and apart" from the investigation into who killed Lee.
In the meantime, Syed will wear an ankle monitor with tracking, according to Becky Feldman, chief of the Sentencing Review Unit of the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office.
Twenty-three years after he went to prison, "we now know what Adnan and his loved ones have always known, that Adnan's trial was profoundly and outrageously unfair. Evidence was hidden from him, evidence that pointed to other people as the killers," Assistant Public Defender Erica Suter, Syed's attorney and director of the Innocence Project Clinic, said in a statement following the ruling.
The hearing comes nearly eight years after the "Serial" podcast dug into his case, raising questions about the conviction and his legal representation. In doing so, the podcast reached a huge audience and set off a true-crime podcasting boom as well as further examinations of the case, including the HBO docuseries "The Case Against Adnan Syed."
Prosecutors moved to vacate Syed's conviction following a nearly year-long investigation, they said in a news release last week. At the time, Mosby said prosecutors were "not asserting, at this time, that Mr. Syed is innocent" but that the state "lacks confidence in the integrity of the conviction" and that Syed should get a new trial.
The reinvestigation of the case revealed evidence about the possible involvement of two suspects other than Syed, including a person who said they would make Lee "disappear" and that "(h)e would kill her," prosecutors said. Syed's attorneys said he and his legal team were unaware that information existed until this year.
Defense attorneys praised the prosecution's motion to vacate the conviction as righting a wrong.
"Given the stunning lack of reliable evidence implicating Mr. Syed, coupled with increasing evidence pointing to other suspects, this unjust conviction cannot stand," Suter said in a statement last week.
Maryland public defender Natasha Dartigue in a news release called the case "a true example of how justice delayed is justice denied. An innocent man spends decades wrongly incarcerated, while any information or evidence that could help identify the actual perpetrator becomes increasingly difficult to pursue."
What we know about the case
Adnan and Lee were seniors at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County in January 1999 when she disappeared. Her strangled body was discovered in a city forest three weeks later.
Syed and prosecutors in March filed a joint motion for post-conviction DNA testing, saying that since the crime occurred more than two decades ago, "DNA testing has changed and improved drastically."
The March motion asked that the victim's clothing be tested for touch DNA, which was not available at the time of trial. Items now being tested were not previously tested in 2018 -- when the Baltimore City Police Lab tested various items for DNA -- with the exception of the victim's fingernail clippings, Mosby's statement said.
Mosby said the motion to vacate was filed along with Sentencing Review Unit Chief Becky Feldman. Syed was a juvenile when convicted.
The alternative suspects were known persons at the time of the original investigation "and were not properly ruled out nor disclosed to the defense," according to Mosby's statement.
The state is not disclosing the names of the suspects but said that, according to the trial file, one of them said, "He would make her (Ms. Lee) disappear. He would kill her."
The investigation also revealed that one suspect was convicted of attacking a woman in her vehicle, according to the statement. The second suspect was convicted of engaging in serial rape and sexual assault, the statement said.
Some of the information was available at the time of the trial, the statement said, and some came to light later. It is not clear when these assaults took place.
Lee's car was located "directly behind the house of one of the suspect's family members," the statement said.
Attorneys for Syed brought the case to the attention of the sentencing review unit in April 2021.
Syed's attorneys "identified significant reliability issues regarding the most critical pieces of evidence at trial," Mosby's statement said.
In the 2019 HBO docuseries "The Case Against Adnan Syed," an attorney for Syed said his client's DNA was not found on any of the 12 samples retrieved from the victim's body and car. That testing was not part of the official investigation by authorities. HBO, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.
At trial, prosecutors relied on testimony from a friend, Jay Wilds, who said he helped Syed dig a hole for Lee's body. To corroborate his account, prosecutors presented cell phone records and expert witness testimony to place Syed at the site where Lee was buried.
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Pelosi condemns Azerbaijan's "illegal" attacks during visit to Armenia
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she delivered a "clear message of America's commitment to Armenia" on Monday following her visit to the country over the weekend.
Why it matters: During the trip, which came days after Azerbaijan launched a large-scale attack on Armenia, Pelosi condemned Azerbaijan's "illegal and deadly" attack on the country's sovereign borders.
- A delicate ceasefire is in place, with more than 200 soldiers already killed in the flare-up.
The big picture: The attack has raised fears of another war between the two countries over Nagorno-Karabakh, where a large-scale war in 2020 ended with a ceasefire agreement and nearly 5,000 dead on both sides.
What she's saying: "Make no mistake," Pelosi said during remarks at Yerevan's Cafesjian Center for the Arts.
- "This assault is unacceptable and exclamatory and threatening prospects for the much-needed peace agreement to succeed," added Pelosi, who's the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Armenia.
- "We, our delegation, have been very outspoken in saying that this was initiated by the Azeris and that there has to be recognition of that."
Details: Pelosi traveled to the country with a congressional delegation including House Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), along with caucus member Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.).
- The delegation met with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whom Pelosi described as "a valued partner in advancing security, prosperity and democracy in the Caucasus region."
- Pelosi also visited the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial, laying a wreath to honor the 1.5 million Armenians killed in the genocide.
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This buzzy cosmetic treatment may sound scary, but we promise it doesn't involve any blood-sucking or gothic coffin-dwellers. A vampire breast lift is really just a funny name for a procedure that helps to fill and lift the breasts by stimulating your body's own collagen and elastin. To help you understand exactly what this treatment can do, we've answered some commonly asked questions—and are sharing one beauty expert's experience of getting it done!
How is a vampire breast lift done?
A doctor draws 120 ccs (roughly four ounces) of your blood and puts it through a centrifuge to separate the growth factors from the red blood cells. “Growth factors are like fuel for the cells, helping to increase tissue density and the production of collagen and elastin,” says gynecologist Monica Grover, MD, who is the chief medical officer at VSPOT in New York City. When the blood is separated, the doctor pulls the growth factors—called platelet-rich plasma (or PRP)—into a syringe, and then places them into your breasts in a series of 10 to 15 injections.
Does a vampire breast lift hurt?
The doctor will apply a topical numbing cream and then inject lidocaine to further numb the area. Some offices also offer nitrous oxide to inhale. With these options, patients describe the PRP injections, which take about 20 to 30 minutes, as very uncomfortable. "If you are on your period, your breasts are more tender than usual, which can cause some discomfort. Additionally, if they are smaller, then there is more sensitivity due to the closer proximity to the chest wall," Grover says. Postpartum mothers or those who are actively breastfeeding or just recently completed breastfeeding may also feel more sensitivity due to hormonal fluctuations.
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Is it for small breasts only?
Those with smaller cup sizes see the most dramatic lifting results, Grover says. But we can still enhance cleavage, create a rounder shape, and smooth out skin for larger breasts.
How long does it last?
Breasts reach peak perkiness about six months after injections, and then stay full for another year or two.
What are the side effects of a vampire breast lift?
After treatment, bruising, swelling, and tenderness last for about a week, during which time you can't wear any type of bra that compresses your breast tissue, such as a sports bra.
How much does it cost?
Price typically ranges from $1,700 to $3,600.
Where can I get a vampire breast lift near me?
Med spas and medical offices across the country are offering the vampire breast lift. As with any cosmetic treatment, a good rule of thumb is to go to a board-certified physician. Ask to see before and after photos of their patients and only move forward if you feel completely comfortable.
“I Got a Vampire Breast Lift”
I’ve never wanted a boob job. I was and am very proud of my little breasts. I love that their small size meant that I didn't have to wear a bra for much of my professional life. I still marvel at how well they stood by me through years of breastfeeding, even surviving a bout or two of mastitis. They’ve been needle-biopsied (because of a non-cancerous lump) and stitched up and healed to puny perfection. Through flat and flatter, my boobs and I have had a good long run of it.
But what no one warned me is that one day I would wake up and discover that they’d turned into rocks in socks (picture holding up a pair of tube socks and dumping some pebbles in them). And they've only gotten downward pointier and droopier with age and the hormonal changes associated with menopause. I’m 51, the average age for menopause.
Now, I wouldn't have changed a moment of my flat-chested life. But when I heard about the vampire breast lift, a nonsurgical way to fill out your breasts and leave them looking lifted using your body’s own ability to regenerate collagen, I was intrigued. I’m not judgmental about plastic surgery (in fact, I had my nose done at 40), but this sounded like a promising option that didn’t involve implants or much downtime. So, I went to visit Cindy Barshop, owner of VSPOT, a med-spa that offers the vampire breast lift, hoping the experiment wouldn’t go tits up. Or would, as the case may be.
Barshop introduced me to Dr. Grover, who showed me before and afters of women who had had the procedure. They were impressive. The results weren’t so much bigger as they were better. Slightly rounder and less saggy, but still thoroughly natural. For the price of $3,600 as opposed to $11,100 (the average cost of a breast augmentation, including anesthesia and operating room facilities), zero downtime, and the opportunity to simply improve rather than permanently augment my bust line with a foreign body, I was sold.
Soon thereafter, I am numbed with a topical anesthetic while my blood is centrifuged. I also receive lidocaine injections and am offered Pro-Nox—a hand-held gas system, which delivers a pleasantly mellowing oxygen/nitrous oxide mixture. I gladly accept. Despite it all, the subsequent injections hurt more than beestings, but less than an open flame. The Pro-Nox did make it all seem a bit funny somehow.
Immediately after the injections, there was a difference. Even though it'll take months for my body to develop new collagen and elastin, my breasts already looked more symmetrical. Like an artist, Dr. Grover used more of my growth factors in my right breast, which had been the prolific one during my breastfeeding years and, consequently, had become more deflated. I'm about five weeks out now, and really happy. The results are subtle but noticeable: My husband couldn't put his finger on what had changed (at the beach, he asked if my swimsuit was new—it was not, but it fit differently). At a gathering with some friends, one of them texted a friend of ours who couldn’t make it to say, “Didi’s boobs look great,” without knowing anything about what I had done. I divulged, and then asked her what she meant by great. She said, “Just perkier. They went from sad to happy.”
To me, the procedure reset the clock and effectively slowed down the effects of aging on my chest—for awhile. Barshop tells me that for some, it’s a one-and-done procedure, but that other women come back every couple of years for a PRP refill. I’m starting to think I might fall into the latter camp. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/beauty/a40989983/vampire-breast-lift/ | 2022-09-20T01:24:50Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/beauty/a40989983/vampire-breast-lift/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Best Body Lotions for All Skin Types
Shop dermatologist-approved picks that will keep your skin smooth and moisturized.
Just like your face, your body needs lotion to keep your skin moisturized, smooth, and soft. Depending on the formula, body lotion has the ability to target specific goals beyond dryness, too, such as improved elasticity, shine, and less dry patches. No matter what your skin type or goals, year-round application of body lotion is the best and easiest way to keep skin glowing and hydrated, especially because you don't have to spend a fortune when looking for a good option.
When shopping for a body lotion, you want to look for a formula that contains both humectants and emollients, since these combination products are the most effective moisturizers, says Hadley King, M.D., a board-certified dermatologist in New York City. This is particularly important if your skin skews on the dry side, she explains. "Humectants like hyaluronic acid, allantoin, and glycerin are helpful, because they attract moisture and hydrate the skin, but you also need emollients to lock in the moisture and moisturize," says King. Good emollients include petrolatum, dimethicone, squalene, shea butter, coconut oil, beeswax, and ceramides.
If you have additional skin concerns, like anti-aging or eliminating redness, you can also look for formulas that contain specialty ingredients like soothing aloe vera or niacinamide, a derivative of vitamin B3 that has anti-inflammatory properties and helps protect the skin from infrared heat and helps prevent discolorations, says King.
But we get it: Ingredient lists are long and hard to decipher. So to help you pluck the best body lotions from the shelf, we asked dermatologists for their favorite picks. Keep reading for some of the best options on the market right now. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/beauty/skin-makeup/g29037501/best-body-lotions/ | 2022-09-20T01:25:00Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/beauty/skin-makeup/g29037501/best-body-lotions/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There’s a chill in the air, pumpkin spice lattes are back, and stores are selling aisles of colored pencils and binder paper. This can only mean one thing: Back-to-school season is in full swing. While there have been plenty of shows that have captured the experience of being a student—everything from Euphoria to Degrassi to High School The Musical: The Series—few shows have captured what it’s like being on the other side of the desk. Enter ABC’s Abbott Elementary, a mockumentary sitcom that follows a group of passionate teachers at an underfunded and predominantly Black school in West Philadelphia. The series follows each of them as they try to do right by their kids, even in the face of an indifferent school board and a less-than-professional TikTok-ing principal.
The show was a critical darling when it debuted in December 2021, and it has since won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Casting, Writing, and Supporting Actress (Sheryl Lee Ralph). Comedy writer and creator Quinta Brunson told The New York Times that she “wanted to make a feel-good comedy that was 22 minutes long, that families can watch together but wasn’t corny, and could still be for everyone."
“I think a lot of people are enjoying having something that is light and nuanced. Abbott came at the right time,” she added. “I simply want to make people laugh. That’s all I’m here for. Which is the beauty of the 22-minute sitcom.”
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Abbott Elementary returns for season 2 on September 21, 2022, so here’s how to tune into the much-hyped show—plus everything else to know if you’re new to the series!
Where can I watch Abbott Elementary?
Abbott Elementary season 2 officially drops on September 21 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. But for fans without cable, you can stream it on Hulu the following day. (If you’re a night owl, that typically means the episodes are available from midnight onward. But this has varied depending on the show.)
If this is your first time tuning in, you can watch Abbott Elementary season 1 on HBO Max and Hulu. The 13 episodes are only 22 minutes long, so catching up should be a breeze.
When it came to choosing where to air Abbott Elementary, Brunson told Deadline that she always wanted it to be on primetime TV, first and foremost. “I was very interested in it being on network TV, specifically ABC, because I just think that ABC represents family viewing,” she explained. “What do shows look like for people who are both 55 and 25 to watch together at the same time? I just don’t think that streaming has really captured that yet. I think people still look to network for those kinds of shows, and I knew that Abbott was a show like that. I knew that it was meant to be seen by many different people.”
What is Abbott Elementary about?
The show follows Brunson’s Janine Teagues and her colleagues, all passionate teachers who are determined to help their kids succeed despite all the hurdles that the school district throws their way. Filmed in the fourth-wall breaking style of The Office and Modern Family, it uses comedy to address issues around America’s public education system.
Brunson told Time magazine that Abbott Elementary was inspired by her mother, who worked as a teacher for 40 years. “I was in her kindergarten class when I was little. I went to the school she taught at. I rode to school with her; I rode home with her. That environment felt very natural to me, and I felt that I could tell some really strong stories there,” she said. As for the name of the series, it was inspired by Brunson’s middle-school teacher, Ms. Abbott.
Who’s in Abbott Elementary?
The ensemble cast includes Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Chris Perfetti, and Sheryl Lee Ralph, who recently won her first Emmy Award.
What is season 2 of Abbott Elementary going to be about?
Brunson told Deadline that compared to the first season, season 2 will show more of the teachers’ personal lives at home. “For the first season, I really wanted the characters to stay in the school for the most part. I think we leave maybe three times…that was on purpose, I just wanted the audience to fall in love with our school,” she explained. “This season, now we get to go maybe to some of the characters’ houses, go out with them at night.” Fingers crossed this means an eventual Janine and Gregory date night.
Watch season 2 of Abbott Elementary when it premieres on September 21 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC, or stream it the following day on Hulu.
Gretchen Smail (she/her) is a freelance writer who covers TV, movies, books, games, and pop culture. An entertainment writer at Bustle for over three years, her bylines have also appeared in Oprah Daily, Vulture, The Guardian, and The Hollywood Reporter. A member of the Asian American Journalists Association, her career highlights include interviews with BTS, Michelle Yeoh, Margaret Cho, and Ming-Na Wen. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a41244849/where-to-watch-abbott-elementary-season-2/ | 2022-09-20T01:25:10Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a41244849/where-to-watch-abbott-elementary-season-2/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Spoilers to follow for Abbott Elementary season 1.
When Quinta Brunson stepped over Jimmy Kimmel to accept an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Writing, it confirmed what Abbott Elementary fans already knew: The show is really good. The ABC sitcom follows Brunson’s Janine Teagues and her colleagues at an underresourced Philadelphia school as they try to do right by their kids—often to hilarious and heartwarming results. Various debacles include the teachers dealing with an annoying new online trend, obtaining carpets by less-than-legal means. and having to work with a step-dancing principal who’s more interested in improving her social media account than the school itself.
Though it debuted in 2021, the series has already nabbed three Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Casting and Supporting Actress for Sheryl Lee Ralph. Brunson told Variety that the goal of the first season was just to “show people what we can do, what a banger the show can be.” Now Abbott Elementary is returning for season 2 on September 21, which gives the writers more freedom to explore different topics and pacing. “Now we’ve got episodes that are just chill. They have no real stakes. And I hope that audiences are okay with that,” she said.
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Other changes in season 2 include letting us see what the teacher’s lives are outside of school—but only a little bit. “It feels like I’m adding another layer to these rich characters that I love so much,” she said. “But I don’t want to be out of the school that much. I want to stay in these hallways, so people feel at home when they come watch.”
And of course, season 2 is going to continue the will they/won’t they relationship between Janine and new teacher Gregory (Tyler James Williams). “They actually get to be work colleagues who do the exact same thing and want to do it well,” she said. “We get excited writing little situations for them that have nothing to do with love. We all know the attraction is there…and you get to have moments that mean nothing to our characters but everything to our audience. I’m just pumped about them.”
Season 1 ended in April, and it’s been a long summer since we last saw the Abbott Elementary faculty and staff. So here’s everything else you need to remember before diving back into the school year.
Janine finds her voice.
At the start of the series, Janine is a chipper and idealistic second-grade teacher who’s pretty unprepared for how difficult teaching at an underfunded public school will be. As a result, most of the humor in season 1 arises from the kids walking all over Janine. But thanks to mentorship from Barbara and Melissa, Janine definitely grows. The season ends with her delivering a strong word to the kids to get them to pipe down during a field trip—the first time Barbara has not had to step in on her behalf. In the final moments, Janine assures the camera crew, through tears, that she finally feels like she belongs at Abbott.
Gregory starts to care about his job.
When we first meet Gregory, he’s a withdrawn and disinterested substitute teacher. We later learn his father doesn’t consider teaching a “manly” enough profession, and that he’s also hurt that he was passed over for Ava to be the principal at Abbott Elementary. Gregory's got quite a chip on his shoulder, but Janine and the rest of the staff thaw his heart. While he is initially unwilling to put any effort into teaching, he learns to embrace being silly and earnest for the kids. In the end, when Gregory is given the opportunity to maybe take Ava’s job, he decides to instead stay on as a full-time teacher.
Barbara’s relationship with her daughter is less than stellar.
Though the series stays largely within the school grounds, we do get some hints at each of the character’s personal lives. This includes meeting Barbara’s daughter, Taylor, a glamorous New Yorker who has a strained relationship with her mom because Barbara disapproves of Taylor working for an alcohol company. This relationship has a ripple effect on Janine, who sees Barbara as a mother figure, and she clearly longs for the relationship Taylor has—as tense as it is—because Janine’s own mom barely acknowledges her. At the same time, Barbara and Taylor’s fight leads to Taylor connecting to Gregory. It’s implied the two start dating, even while Gregory clearly also has eyes for Janine.
Everyone loves Jacob’s boyfriend, Zach.
Like Janine, Jacob is portrayed as the amusingly uncool teacher. But he wins over his coworkers when they meet his bubbly boyfriend Zach, who immediately becomes a fan favorite among the staff. They’re basically adorable together, and we can only hope he shows up more in the second season.
Ava shows another side to her.
As their unprofessional principal, Ava is practically an antagonist to Janine and the teachers, but Janine is convinced she can be reformed. We learn Ava has troubles at home with taking care of her grandmother, and that she’s only principal because she blackmailed the superintendent about him cheating on his wife, though the superintendent reveals he’s married his mistress, making Ava’s blackmail useless. She’s forced to present in front of the school board about continuing the funds for Abbott Elementary.
In a rare vulnerable moment, Ava bombs the presentation, but then gives an impassioned speech about how the school has the finest teachers in Philadelphia. She admits she doesn’t deserve the funds, but the school certainly does. She manages to keep her job, but the superintendent makes it clear he’s never going to support the school financially as payback for the blackmail. (This is somewhat fixed, though, because Barbara is convinced by Melissa to blackmail someone else for an advancement grant.)
Melissa starts dating again.
It’s humorously implied Melissa definitely has mob connections. But one thing she doesn’t have is a love connection—that is, until she starts dating Gary, the vending machine delivery man who always flirts with her in the lunchroom. While it might not be like the grand romance that Barbara and her husband have, it’s likely this relationship will be explored further in season 2.
Janine and Tariq break up.
In true sitcom fashion, we find out early on that Janine is dating a guy who simply doesn’t deserve her: Tariq, a freeloader who’s working on his rapping career. They’ve been dating since eighth grade, and initially Janine says she wants to marry him, much to the horror of her colleagues. Eventually, she, too, figures out he’s just no good for her. In the final episode, he reveals he’s been asked to tour elementary schools in New York and write a whole anti-drugs kids album. Janine is ecstatic, then shocked when he decides for them that they’re moving to New York.
After showing Taylor and Gregory walking away holding hands, the season ends with Janine telling Tariq that their lives are taking them in two different directions. She tells him that she doesn’t want to go to New York nor do long-distance. They break up, and Janine returns to her kids and Gregory on the bus. “I feel like this is a young woman who needs to know herself before she can know anyone else, whether that be Tariq again, some random guy [or] Gregory,” Brunson told TVLine. But of course, with the way Gregory fondly looks at Janine in the final moments of the season, you know some more slow-burn romance moments are in store.
Watch season 2 of Abbott Elementary when it premieres on September 21 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC, or stream it the following day on Hulu.
Gretchen Smail (she/her) is a freelance writer who covers TV, movies, books, games, and pop culture. An entertainment writer at Bustle for over three years, her bylines have also appeared in Oprah Daily, Vulture, The Guardian, and The Hollywood Reporter. A member of the Asian American Journalists Association, her career highlights include interviews with BTS, Michelle Yeoh, Margaret Cho, and Ming-Na Wen. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a41273914/what-happened-in-abbott-elementary-season-1/ | 2022-09-20T01:25:20Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a41273914/what-happened-in-abbott-elementary-season-1/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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