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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An honor guard fired a three-gun salute toward cloudy skies as friends and comrades-in-arms gathered in Kyiv to bid farewell to a Russian woman who was killed while fighting on Ukraine’s side in the war with her native country.
Olga Simonova, 34, was remembered for her courage and kindness at a funeral in the Ukrainian capital on Friday.
Simonova’s coffin was draped in the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag, with a cuddly toy lion on top. Her nom de guerre was “Simba,” like the main character in the Disney cartoon “The Lion King.”
Just a few days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Simonova spoke to the The Associated Press in a trench in the Donbas region, where she had served for years alongside Ukrainian soldiers fighting against Russian-backed separatists.
Born in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, Simonova had a keen interest in sports and excelled in both mountain climbing and karate. She said she was always proud to compete for Russia.
But she started feeling uncomfortable about her native country after reading about Russia’s war in Chechnya and its actions in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Filled with doubts that she “would ever be able to raise the flag of my country, my homeland” again, Simonova made a life-changing decision. She travelled to Ukraine to join the conflict in the Donbas on the Ukrainian side, first as a volunteer fighter, then a paramedic and ultimately as an enlisted member of the Armed Forces.
“I had this internal feeling that I could handle it and that what I was doing was right and necessary, because I can’t turn a blind eye to the situation,” she said. “I just had to buy a one-way ticket. I bought it and I left.”
Simonova said she never hid her Russian origin from her colleagues and gained their trust by showing her commitment to Ukraine on the battlefield. In 2017 she received Ukrainian citizenship.
She became a sergeant and was given command of both infantry and artillery units.
Friends and colleagues said Simonova, who was unmarried and had no children, had recently redeployed from the east to the southern Kherson region, where Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive against Russian forces. They said she died on Sept. 13, after her vehicle hit a land mine.
“She was respected not only as a commander, but as a person,” said Dmytro Karabinovskyi, her former commander and friend.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize — for now — an LGBTQ student group.
In an email to students, university officials on Friday said that it “hold off on all undergraduate club activities while it immediately takes steps to follow the roadmap provided by the U.S. Supreme Court to protect YU’s religious freedom.”
On Wednesday, the high court cleared the way for the LGBTQ group, YU Pride Alliance, to gain official recognition from the Jewish university in New York.
The undergraduate group describes itself as “a supportive space for all students, of all sexual orientations and gender identities, to feel respected, visible, and represented.”
Spokespeople for the university did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment on Saturday.
By a 5-4 vote Wednesday, the justices lifted a temporary hold on a court order that requires Yeshiva University to recognize the group, even as a legal fight continues in New York courts. Two conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, sided with the court’s three liberal justices to form a majority.
The disagreement among the justices appears to be mostly about procedure, with the majority writing in a brief unsigned order that Yeshiva should return to state court to seek quick review and temporary relief while the case continues. If it gets neither from state courts, the school can return to the Supreme Court, the majority wrote.
The case was being closely watched by other faith-based institutions.
Following the ruling, the president of the university, Rabbi Ari Berman, said that faith-based universities have the right to establish clubs within its understanding of the Torah.
“Yeshiva University simply seeks that same right of self-determination,” he said. “The Supreme Court has laid out the roadmap for us to find expedited relief and we will follow their instructions.”
Berman also said the university’s “commitment and love for our LGBTQ students are unshakeable.”
Nevertheless, a lawyer for the students said the university’s action Friday was divisive and “shameful.”
“The Pride Alliance seeks a safe space on campus, nothing more. By shutting down all club activities, the YU administration attempts to divide the student body, and pit students against their LGBT peers,” said the lawyer, Katie Rosenfeld.
The university’s tactic, she said, “is a throwback to 50 years ago when the city of Jackson, Mississippi closed all public swimming pools rather than comply with court orders to desegregate.”
The university, an Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, argued that granting recognition to the Pride Alliance, “would violate its sincere religious beliefs.”
The club argued that Yeshiva’s plea to the Supreme Court was premature, also noting the university already has recognized a gay pride club at its law school.
A New York state court sided with the student group and ordered the university to recognize the club immediately. The matter remains on appeal in the state court system, but judges there refused to put the order on hold in the meantime.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration has rewritten Virginia’s model policies for the treatment of transgender students, issuing guidance for school divisions that would roll back some accommodations and tighten parental notification requirements.
The new model policies from the Virginia Department of Education, which were posted online Friday, say students’ participation in certain school programming and use of school facilities like bathrooms or locker rooms should be based on their biological sex, with modifications offered only to the extent required under federal law. The policies also say that students who are minors must be referred to by the name and pronouns in their official records, unless a parent approves the use of something else.
Regarding parental notification, the guidelines say school divisions may not encourage teachers to conceal information about a student’s gender from his or her parents. And they say parents must be given an opportunity to object before counseling services pertaining to gender are offered.
The guidance is subject to a 30-day public comment period that opens later this month. Then, in accordance with a 2020 state law, local school boards must adopt policies that are “consistent with” the department’s but may be “more comprehensive,” the document says.
Macaulay Porter, a spokesperson for Youngkin, said in a statement that the updated policy “delivers on the governor’s commitment to preserving parental rights and upholding the dignity and respect of all public school students.”
The revisions mark a sharp departure to guidance that was first issued in 2021 during Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration. Those guidelines said schools should let students use names and gender pronouns that reflect their gender identity without “any substantiating evidence.” They also said students could participate in programming and access facilities in a manner consistent with their gender identity and urged schools to weigh sharing information about students’ gender identity with parents on a “case-by-case” basis, considering the health and safety of students.
The updated guidelines say school divisions must ensure no student is discriminated against or harassed on the basis of his or her sex and should “attempt to accommodate students with distinctive needs, including any student with a persistent and sincere belief that his or her gender differs from his or her sex.”
Single-user bathrooms and facilities should be made available in accessible areas and provided with appropriate signage, indicating accessibility for all students, the guidelines say.
Conservative lawmakers and advocacy groups welcomed the changes.
“We are thrilled to see Governor Youngkin leading our schools toward respecting the privacy and dignity of all students and the preeminent role of parents in the lives of their children,” said Victoria Cobb, president of The Family Foundation.
Democrats, the Virginia Education Association and LGBTQ advocacy groups, meanwhile, criticized Youngkin, saying the changes would harm vulnerable children.
The new policy “calls for the misgendering and outing of children in schools where they’re supposed to be safe. Absolutely shameful,” tweeted Democratic Del. Mike Mullin. Senate Democrats, in a collective statement, called the move “an outright violation of Virginians’ civil rights” and said it perpetuated “the national MAGA playbook of obliterating any inference of diversity, equity, or inclusion in our communities.”
Some LGBTQ advocates suggested the changes could be contested in court. The ACLU of Virginia said it was “appalled” by the overhaul, was reviewing the proposal and would have “more to say in the days to come.”
Virginia’s initial guidance was developed in accordance with a bipartisan 2020 law, which required the Department of Education to craft the policies concerning the treatment of transgender students in public schools and make them available to local school boards. The school boards were then directed to adopt policies “consistent with” the state’s model policies.
But many school boards never complied, according to a recent analysis by Equality Virginia, an LGBTQ advocacy group. A Department of Education spokesman told the Virginia Mercury last year the agency was not even tracking which divisions were meeting the standards.
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(NEXSTAR) — Are you at your wit’s end trying to calm your baby? Good news: researchers say they’ve cracked the code on how to soothe fussy infants who won’t stop crying.
In the peer-reviewed study published by Current Biology, 21 infants were tested in 32 sessions using four different methods of soothing to get them back in their cribs peacefully. Overwhelmingly, researchers say, the winning process was what they call “5-Minute Carrying, 5- to 8-Minute Sitting.”
Here’s how it works, according to the study:
- With the baby in your arms, walk around for five minutes. Researchers say the lulling movement soothes crying and promotes sleep in babies.
- Before placing the baby down for sleep, sit with them in your arms for five to eight minutes. The stop-start motion helps prevent infants from waking after being laid down, researchers say.
Other methods tried on the babies included WalkHold (parent holds infant and walks around); SitHold (parent holds infant and sits); COT (infant was laid in a cot); and MCOT (infant placed in mobile crib or stroller and rocked back and forth). Researchers say these methods produced mixed results.
While some of the methods soothed initially, they didn’t help the return to the crib. Others helped infants get to their cribs peacefully but didn’t keep them asleep, according to the study.
For new parents, long bouts of crying — especially in the middle of a sleep-deprived night — can be among the top challenges with a new baby. The American Academy of Pediatrics says babies typically don’t have regular sleep cycles until around 4 months. And although newborns sleep up to 16-17 hours per day, it’s only in 1-2 hour increments, AAP says.
“About 20-30% of infants cry excessively and exhibit sleep difficulties for no apparent reason, causing parental stress and even triggering impulsive child maltreatment in a small number of cases,” the researchers write.
Authors said they hope their work is substantiated with even more studies.
Meanwhile, AAP recommends a few behaviors to help babies sleep through the night, including making sure babies stay awake for longer periods of the day. Additionally, parents should make nighttime feeding times and interactions quieter, whispering if necessary.
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SAN DIEGO (KSWB) – A father who entered an elephant enclosure with his 2-year-old daughter at the San Diego Zoo has been sentenced to four years probation.
Jose Manuel Navarrete was arrested in March 2021 on suspicion of child cruelty after zoo officials said he bypassed multiple barriers and “purposely and illegally trespassed” into a habitat containing Asian and African elephants.
“You hear this woman yelling, ‘Jose, stop. Jose, stop!’” a witness told Nexstar’s KSWB at the time. “And he jumps the fence and then he goes through the elephant enclosure, and he’s got his little girl with him who, I don’t know, had to be under 2.”
Video shared to KSWB shows Navarrete flee the enclosure after realizing an elephant is charging toward him and his daughter. Police noted at the time that he dropped the young girl while climbing to safety, then quickly turned back to retrieve her.
Navarrete, already on probation for two other cases in Orange County, did not show up to his initial sentencing in July.
“He did contact my office last court hearing on his inability to come down to San Diego from Orange County,” said his attorney representing him.
Navarrete entered a plea deal for child endangerment, which his attorney told the judge he is remorseful for.
“Mr. Navarrete, I’m not convinced that you are going to fare well on probation given your interview with probation,” said Judge Rachel Cano, who said Navarrete indicated that he, too, was a victim.
“Rest assured, you are not the victim. It was your daughter, and you endangered your daughter,” Judge Cano said.
The judge told Navarrete to take his probation terms seriously.
“If I place you on probation, you are willing to abide by those conditions?” the judge asked.
“Correct,” Navarrete said.
Navarrete was sentenced to four years probation. He has been asked to stay away from the San Diego Zoo.
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(NEXSTAR) – If you go to your local pharmacy or vaccination site, you’ll be getting a new type of COVID-19 shot these days. It’s a bivalent booster shoot, meaning it contains parts of the original COVID-19 variant and the omicron variant that’s grown dominant in 2022.
The new formulation is designed to give you better protection against the type of coronavirus circling now, but does a new type of vaccine mean it will feel different?
“All the side effects from the bivalent booster (in clinical trials) were very similar to what we saw with the regular booster and even going back to the initial vaccination,” said Andrew Pekosz, a virologist with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in a recent media briefing. “Most often it’s redness at the site of inoculation, some soreness, feeling tired for a day or two afterwards — all the same side effects we’re seeing at relatively the same rates with the bivalent booster.”
Other common side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine in adults — whether it’s the updated formula or not — include headaches, fever, chills and nausea, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In kids, the most common side effects are a bit different. For really young children, between 6 months and 3 years old, you’ll often see soreness at the injection site, but also swollen lymph nodes, irritability, sleepiness or loss of appetite.
In children 4 to 17 years old, the side effects are more similar to what adults see. Side effects in this age group are more likely to occur after the second dose, the CDC says.
The CDC says side effects are usually mild and pass within a day or two.
The Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of two bivalent COVID-19 boosters. The Moderna shot is available for adults, while the Pfizer shot is available for people 12 and older.
It’s hard to say how much better these boosters will protect us from the virus than the last version, because tests of this exact recipe have only just begun in people.
The FDA cleared the new boosters based in large part on human studies of a similarly tweaked vaccine that’s just been recommended by regulators in Europe. Those tweaked shots target an earlier omicron strain, BA.1, that circulated last winter, and studies found they revved up people’s virus-fighting antibodies.
With that earlier omicron version now replaced by BA.4 and BA.5, the FDA ordered an additional tweak to the shots — and tests in mice showed they spark an equally good immune response.
There’s no way to know if antibodies produced by an omicron-matched booster might last longer than a few months. But a booster is also supposed to strengthen immune system memory, adding to protection against serious illness from the ever-mutating virus.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (KTLA) – Police in Anaheim, California, say they’re looking to speak with a man who was filmed punching and kicking a dog in the hallway of an apartment complex this past week.
The video, which was captured on a doorbell security camera, has been shared hundreds of times on social media. Police believe it happened in recent days at the large Gateway apartment complex next to Angel Stadium.
“As a dog owner, I would never kick my dog in the face, no matter how bad she did something. So, yeah, it’s not easy to look at,” said Alex Cannas, a dog owner who spoke with KTLA after watching the video.
WARNING: Video contains graphic footage. Viewer discretion is advised.
It seems that the more people see the video, the more outrage continues to grow.
Sgt. Shane Carringer of the Anaheim Police Department said they’ve been made aware of the viral video and are now trying to find the abuser.
“We started getting tagged and videos in our inboxes on a variety of social media platforms that showed this video,” Carringer said. “I knew immediately that it would be something that the Anaheim Police Department would investigate.”
Carringer agreed that the video appeared to show an extreme reaction by the man in question, but said it would be up to police detectives to get the full picture and determine whether or not criminal charges are warranted.
As of Friday, police were still trying to identify the man in the video.
Anyone with information about the man in the video is asked to contact the Anaheim Police Department at 714-765-1900.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida woman was charged with attempted first-degree murder after she allegedly stabbed her roommates in a dispute Friday morning, according to deputies.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office got a call at around 8:03 a.m. from a victim who claimed that he and another person were stabbed by Christina Adams, 30, that morning.
Deputies said Adams was found near driving near the crime scene. She initially denied the accusation during an interview with deputies, but later admitted that she stabbed the roommates after they asked her to leave the home they shared with her.
Adams confessed to getting a large knife and stabbing both roommates to the point where she thought they were dead, according to the sheriff’s office.
After the stabbing, Adams said she tried to destroy evidence of the attack, changed her clothes, left the home, and went shopping. Deputies located her while she was on her way back.
“These senseless acts of violence are shocking to all of us,” Sheriff Billy Wood said. “I’m very proud of my deputies and detectives that worked so quickly to not only provide aid to the victims but, also to capture such an evil person and ensure that our streets are safe.”
Adams was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and tampering with evidence.
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WASHINGTON STATE — The Washington State Department of Agriculture is expecting an increase in bird flu cases in the state with the ongoing fall migration increasing transmission. There have been 34 Washington flocks infected by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) so far this year, so veterinarians are encouraging bird owners to continue exercising extra precautions. All of the infected flocks had contact with wild waterfowl, according to the WSDA.
State Veterinarian Dr. Amber Itle suggests a “S.A.F.E.” method of enhanced biosecurity efforts, to keep your birds away from wild waterfowl. This includes:
S- Self-reporting a lot of wild sick or dead birds, or the health of your birds if you’re near an infected flock
A- Avoiding contact with waterfowl that migrates
F- Fencing birds out of shared water sources like ponds
E- Eliminating outdoor feeders, especially overnight
Any sick or dead domestic bird can also be reported online. Continue to avoid bird fairs, exhibitions, poultry auctions and on-farm sales.
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(NEXSTAR) – Don’t expect to find Hellmann’s mayonnaise in supermarkets west of the Rocky Mountains.
That’s not to say the people of the West Coast refuse to eat mayonnaise, or hold some kind of grudge against the condiment. It’s because Hellmann’s mayonnaise, one of the most recognizable brands of mayonnaise in many parts of the country, is known as something else entirely in parts of the West.
Take a gander at these jars of Best Foods mayonnaise:
Best Foods — a brand owned by Unilever, like Hellmann’s — is essentially the Hellmann’s of the western United States. More specifically, Best Foods and Hellmann’s are brand names for the very same line of mayonnaise products. They’ve simply retained separate branding since 1932, when Best Foods Inc. of California purchased Richard Hellmann Inc. of New York, according to Unilever.
Best Foods and Hellmann’s have been offered (almost) exclusively in their respective regions ever since.
Best Foods and Hellmann’s also maintain their own separate websites, which appear nearly identical aside from their Best Foods or Hellmann’s branding.
But it goes beyond that. Fans of Best Foods and Hellmann’s have been exposed to nearly identical advertising campaigns for the better part of a century — including this pair of animated commercials from the 1950s, and these early-‘90s commercials featuring the same jingle and slogan. (“Bring out the Best Foods and bring out the best,” one commercial cheerily suggests, while the other asks consumers to “Bring out the Hellmann’s and bring out the best.”)
Still, despite their shared histories and marketing, there may be a difference of opinion when it comes to the tastes of both brands. A representative for Unilever did not respond to questions about their specific recipes, but an FAQ page on the former Hellmann’s website indicated that both products were not identical, but rather “basically” the same.
“Taste preferences vary; some people find Best Foods Mayonnaise is slightly more tangy,” according to the site’s archived FAQ page from 2002.
A comparison of both products’ nutrition facts shows they have the same ingredients and relative ingredient quantities. Best Foods, however, has five more milligrams of sodium per teaspoon than Hellmann’s, according to Unilever.
In any case, the differences are slight enough that Unilever’s official Hellmann’s webpage claims that Hellmann’s is simply “known as Best Foods west of the Rockies.” Those who want to taste for themselves, meanwhile, can sometimes find both brands at outlets within the same city or state, as Reddit users in several places have previously claimed.
“I did a side-by-side taste test once and there is slightly more [tanginess] in Best Foods than Hellmann’s,” one user from Colorado wrote.
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(NEXSTAR) – Don’t expect to find Hellmann’s mayonnaise in supermarkets west of the Rocky Mountains.
That’s not to say the people of the West Coast refuse to eat mayonnaise, or hold some kind of grudge against the condiment. It’s because Hellmann’s mayonnaise, one of the most recognizable brands of mayonnaise in many parts of the country, is known as something else entirely in parts of the West.
Take a gander at these jars of Best Foods mayonnaise:
Best Foods — a brand owned by Unilever, like Hellmann’s — is essentially the Hellmann’s of the western United States. More specifically, Best Foods and Hellmann’s are brand names for the very same line of mayonnaise products. They’ve simply retained separate branding since 1932, when Best Foods Inc. of California purchased Richard Hellmann Inc. of New York, according to Unilever.
Best Foods and Hellmann’s have been offered (almost) exclusively in their respective regions ever since.
Best Foods and Hellmann’s also maintain their own separate websites, which appear nearly identical aside from their Best Foods or Hellmann’s branding.
But it goes beyond that. Fans of Best Foods and Hellmann’s have been exposed to nearly identical advertising campaigns for the better part of a century — including this pair of animated commercials from the 1950s, and these early-‘90s commercials featuring the same jingle and slogan. (“Bring out the Best Foods and bring out the best,” one commercial cheerily suggests, while the other asks consumers to “Bring out the Hellmann’s and bring out the best.”)
Still, despite their shared histories and marketing, there may be a difference of opinion when it comes to the tastes of both brands. A representative for Unilever did not respond to questions about their specific recipes, but an FAQ page on the former Hellmann’s website indicated that both products were not identical, but rather “basically” the same.
“Taste preferences vary; some people find Best Foods Mayonnaise is slightly more tangy,” according to the site’s archived FAQ page from 2002.
A comparison of both products’ nutrition facts shows they have the same ingredients and relative ingredient quantities. Best Foods, however, has five more milligrams of sodium per teaspoon than Hellmann’s, according to Unilever.
In any case, the differences are slight enough that Unilever’s official Hellmann’s webpage claims that Hellmann’s is simply “known as Best Foods west of the Rockies.” Those who want to taste for themselves, meanwhile, can sometimes find both brands at outlets within the same city or state, as Reddit users in several places have previously claimed.
“I did a side-by-side taste test once and there is slightly more [tanginess] in Best Foods than Hellmann’s,” one user from Colorado wrote.
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(The Conversation) – When I first started my job as a biologist at the University of South Florida, I drove my Jeep to a grassy field, dug up a mound of fire ants and shoveled it into a 5-gallon bucket. Immediately, thousands of ants swarmed out of the soil and up the walls of the bucket headed for freedom. Luckily I had a lid.
How do ants make climbing walls, ceilings and other surfaces look so easy? I’ve been studying ants for 30 years, and their climbing abilities never cease to amaze me.
Worker ants – who are all female – have an impressive toolbox of claws, spines, hairs and sticky pads on their feet that enable them to scale almost any surface.
Human hands vs. ant feet
To understand ant feet, it helps to compare them with human hands. Your hand has one broad segment, the palm. Sprouting from your palm are four fingers and an opposable thumb. Each finger has three segments, while your thumb has only two segments. A hard nail grows from the tips of your fingers and thumb.
Humans have two hands – ants have six feet. Ant feet are similar to your hands but are more complex, with an additional set of weird-looking parts that enhance them.
Ant feet have five jointed segments, with the end segment sporting a pair of claws. The claws are shaped like a cat’s and can grip irregularities on walls. Each foot segment also has thick and thin spines and hairs that provide additional traction by sticking into microscopic pits on textured surfaces like bark. Claws and spines have the added benefit of protecting ant feet from hot pavement and sharp objects, just as your feet are protected by shoes.
But the feature that truly separates human hands from ant feet are inflatable sticky pads, called arolia.
Sticky feet
Arolia are located between the claws at the tip of every ant foot. These balloonlike pads allow ants to defy gravity and crawl on ceilings or ultrahard surfaces like glass.
When an ant walks up a wall or across a ceiling, gravity causes its claws to swing wide and pull back. At the same time, its leg muscles pump fluids into the pads at the end of its feet, causing them to inflate. This body fluid is called hemolymph, which is a sticky fluid similar to your blood that circulates throughout an ant’s body.
After the hemolymph pumps up the pad, some of it leaks outside the pad, which is how ants can stick to a wall or a ceiling. But when an ant picks up its foot, its leg muscles contract and suck most of the fluid back into the pad and then back up the leg. This way an ant’s blood is reused over and over – pumped from the leg into the pad, then sucked back up the leg – so none is left behind.
Ants are feather-light, so six sticky pads are enough to hold them against the pull of gravity on any surface. In fact, at home in their underground chambers, ants use their sticky pads to sleep on the ceiling. By sleeping on the ceiling, ants avoid the rush-hour traffic of other ants on the chamber floors.
A unique gait
When you walk, your left and right feet alternate so one is on the ground while the other is in the air, moving forward. Ants also alternate their feet, with three on the surface and three in the air at a time.A computer simulation showing an ant’s special walk. Created by Shihui Guo.
The walking pattern of ants is unique among six-legged insects. In ants, the front and back left feet are on the ground with the middle right foot, while the front and back right feet and the middle left foot are in the air. Then they switch. It’s fun to try to copy this triangular pattern using three fingers on each hand.
The next time you see an ant crawling up a wall, look closely and you might witness some of these fascinating features at work.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) – A man has admitted to brutally killing his mother in a New York City apartment three years ago so he could get his inheritance sooner, authorities said Friday.
Jared Eng, 25, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and is facing at least 18 years in prison for his role in the crime, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Following the incident, Eng allegedly sent text messages saying, “It’s done,” “I’m free,” and that he “got rid of [his] problem,” according to prosecutors.
Eng allegedly beat and stabbed his mother, Paula Chin, in the Tribeca home they shared before reporting her missing on Feb. 4, 2019, prosecutors said. After the murder, Eng allegedly cleaned the apartment and stashed his mom’s body in the family home in Morristown, New Jersey. Two other suspects helped him move the victim, officials said.
Investigators found Chin stuffed in a storage container with multiple stab wounds and a blunt head injury. Bloody gloves and duct tape were also recovered, authorities said.
“This was a brutal and shocking murder of the defendant’s own mother, and while nothing can undo this tragedy, today’s guilty plea represents an important step towards justice,” District Attorney Alvin Bragg said.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) — “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show in Broadway history, will stage its last performance on Broadway in February 2023.
The musical has scheduled its final performance at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre on Feb. 18, just a few weeks after the show celebrates its 35th anniversary on Broadway on Jan. 26, a spokesperson said.
“The Phantom of the Opera” had been the largest single-generator of income and jobs on Broadway, employing more than 6,000 people over the years, including 450 actors.
“Phantom” originally opened in London in 1986, and has since been seen by more than 145 million people in 183 cities (and 17 languages) over 70,000 performances.
Based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, “The Phantom of the Opera” tells the story of a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls madly in love with Christine, a young soprano. Webber’s celebrated songs from the musical include “Masquerade,” ″Angel of Music,” ″All I Ask of You” and “The Music of the Night.”
Enjoying a successful run in NYC since 1988, the production of “Phantom” — along with the rest of Broadway’s productions — had paused amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The musical reopened last October after 18 months to much fanfare and excitement from fans. However, the weakened tourist climate sounded its death knell.
‘Phantom’ phenomenon
On Broadway alone, the musical has been performed more than 13,500 times and played to more than 19 million people at The Majestic Theatre.
With lyrics written by musical theatre giant Andrew Lloyd Webber, ‘Phantom’ has also enjoyed long life off-Broadway. The show was adapted for the big screen in 2004 with a film of the same name. Directed by Joel Schumacher (“Batman Forever,” “Flatliners”) it starred Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum, as the Phantom and Christine, respectively. The adaptation included a brand-new song written by Webber called “Learn to Be Lonely,” which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Despite its critical acclaim, the song was never added to the stage production, however.
The Venetian resort in Las Vegas opened “Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular,” in 2006, which featured elaborate special effects and technology, including a giant chandelier that was able to reassemble in midair. The Venetian built the theatre specifically for the show, at a cost of around $40 million. While it was generally successful — playing to “millions” of people over six years — the show closed in 2012 after 2,691 performances.
In 2010, Webber’s ‘Phantom’ sequel, “Love Never Dies,” opened in London’s West End, though it was never well-received and has yet to debut on Broadway. The show, loosely based on Frederick Forsyth’s 1999 novel “The Phantom of Manhattan,” picks up a decade later and reunites Christine and the Phantom in New York’s Coney Island. The polarizing show was slated to tour in several countries as recently as 2020, though the outing was derailed by COVID-19-related closures.
A live recording of “Love Never Dies” is widely available to stream, if you can’t get enough ‘Phantom,” however.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Shelby Jordan, an offensive lineman who played for the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Raiders, died earlier this month, the Patriots announced Friday.
Jordan, 70, died on Sept. 9, according to the announcement.
Jordan played in 95 games with 87 starts at right tackle during his eight seasons with the Patriots. With the Raiders, Jordan was able to win a ring as a member of the Super Bowl XVIII Championship team in 1983.
Prior to his NFL career, Jordan led Washington University’s Division III Bears in tackles for three consecutive seasons before being named a Kodak first-team All-American during his senior year.
The 1972 team captain and Bears MVP is considered the greatest defensive player in the history of the school, and in 1973, he was the first football player in university’s 150 year history to be drafted in the NFL.
He was initially a 7th-round draft pick by the Houston Oilers in 1973, but was dropped during training. He signed with the New England Patriots, eventually becoming a six-year starter at offensive tackle.
After retiring from the NFL in 1988, Jordan launched and directed a Los Angeles-based nonprofit economic-development corporation that provides affordable urban housing to help families and seniors.
In 2013, Jordan was also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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(NEXSTAR) — It turns out there’s not only best market times to buy a new house, there is apparently one specific week prospective homebuyers should look out for. Reator.com calls it “the very best time of the year” for buyers.
Mark it on your calendar: Sept. 25 through Oct. 1. Realtor says there are typically about 8.4% more homes for sale nationally during these dates — even better, they’re typically priced $20,000 lower than usual.
“The best time to purchase a home is the last week of September, because that’s historically when the market is most hospitable to buyers,” said Realtor.com economic data analyst Hannah Jones. “Typically, the early fall is when there are fewer buyers. There are also more homes on the market, and the housing market is generally calming down from the summer rush.”
Realtor says it used a number of criteria to determine the “best” week, including home list prices, the number of homes for sale, and days homes stayed on the market. Data from 2018-19 and 2021 were used. Analysts skipped 2020 due to the unusual market conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
While 2020 was a great time for buyers, so far, 2022 has been a rough time to find a new home. A national streak of rising inflation through the spring and summer, in addition to decreased demand for homes, resulted in record home listing prices.
Realtor says the median list price for a home as of August 2022 was $435,000 — that’s about 14% higher than August 2021. In July, the median listing price was $449,000, which is 16.6% higher than last July, Realtor reports.
Back in June, Redfin reported the median sale price for a home was $428,400, an 11.2% increase since the same time last year. While summer prices may not look great for prospective buyers, Redfin market analyst Tim Ellis said June’s numbers were the smallest year-over-year increase “in nearly two years.”
Market cooling is also affirmed by Realtor economic data manager Sabrina Speianu and chief economist Danielle Hale. In an August report, the pair wrote: “August housing data reveals that listing prices decelerated for the third month in a row, as more sellers hit pause on listing homes and homes for sale spent more time on the market than last August. While fewer new listings are entering the market, overall inventory continues to grow, providing more choice to buyers who are still shopping for a home.”
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(The Conversation) – Inflation in the U.S. is surging to near a 40-year high, with prices on food, fuel and pretty much everything seeming to rise more every month.
Smartphones may be an exception.
Apple, for example, recently announced its new versions of the iPhone and other gadgets, and turned a lot of heads when it said it wouldn’t charge more despite higher costs to make the devices.
This is puzzling because companies typically raise prices in line with inflation – or at least enough to cover the increased costs of making their products.
Consumer price data tells an even more befuddling story. The latest consumer price index data suggests smartphone prices are actually down 20.4% in August from a year ago, according to an index released on Sept. 13, 2022. That’s the biggest drop of any detailed expenditure item the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks, and contrasts with the overall 8.3% increase in prices.
What’s going on?
As an economist teaching business school students, I enjoy exploring and explaining these economic puzzles. I believe there are two basic explanations – one for the data and another for Apple.
Why consumer prices on smartphones fell
The story behind the consumer price index data is easier to explain, if a bit technical.
The 20% drop over the past year isn’t unusual for smartphones. In fact, according to the index, they almost always go down from month to month. Since the end of 2019, smartphone prices have come down a whopping 40%.
And though smartphones are showing the biggest drop in the index, tech gear more broadly – from computers to smartwatches – also tend to fall over time. In the previous 12 months, televisions are down 19% and what the government calls information technology commodities are down 8.8%.
Part of the reason for their steady decline is found buried in the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. The consumer price index tries to measure a constant quality of goods and services in the economy. This means it seeks to track the price changes of the exact same set of goods and services each month. It’s comparing the price today with the price of the exact same thing a month or year ago.
For most goods, it’s not really an issue because their quality doesn’t change much over relatively small periods of time. For example, an apple you bite into today is pretty much the same as an apple you ate a year ago.
Smartphones and other technology-heavy gadgets are different. Because smartphones are constantly improving in quality – with the latest updates of an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy awaited breathlessly every year – it is more difficult to ensure you’re comparing prices of products of the exact same quality.
For rapidly improving items, the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses what are called “hedonic regression models” to estimate these changes in quality over time. Hedonic models measure the same amount of satisfaction. While this sounds complicated, the goal is simple: to figure out how much each new smartphone feature changes the price.
As a consumer, you are essentially doing this whenever you decide whether it is worth paying the extra money for that marginally better camera or extended battery life when buying a new phone.
And so, the 20.4% drop doesn’t mean you’re going to pay less for a new smartphone. But it does suggest you’re getting 20% more bang for your buck versus the same phone a year earlier. Whether it’s worth it is another question.
Why Apple kept prices flat
That brings us to why Apple didn’t change its prices, even as the quality of the iPhone improved and supply chain costs went up.
Beyond the quality issues, one of the main ways supply chain problems are affecting phones is in the shortage of computer chips. If there is any product dependent on computer chips, it is smartphones. The shortage has resulted in delays to produce cars, trucks and many other consumer items.
The shortage has also increased the price of semiconductor parts. The U.S. government’s producer price index shows the price of semiconductor parts like chips and wafers steadily rising since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, after falling for years. Chip prices are likely going up 20% in the next year.
For these and other reasons, analysts were expecting Apple to increase its prices.
Instead, Apple released its latest iPhone models at the same prices as the last two models, or US$799 for the iPhone 14 and $999 for the pro version. Keeping prices constant during inflationary times means iPhones are getting relatively cheaper.
So why isn’t Apple increasing prices? Is it just being kind to its customers, who have fueled tremendous profits for the company over the past decade?
Probably not.
With a gross profit margin of over 40% – meaning that’s how much it makes over the cost of producing all its products and services – Apple can probably afford to absorb increased chip and other component costs.
My best guess, since the smartphone market is fairly competitive, is that Apple is keeping prices the same to build market share in the U.S. – beyond the record 50% it recently hit – so the iPhone remains one of the best-selling smartphones.
So while the cost of almost everything we buy is rising, you can take some comfort in knowing at least one item is getting both better over time and not succumbing to an inflationary price spiral.
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(The Hill) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) challenged Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to a debate on Friday, following Democrats’ outrage over DeSantis’ decision to charter two planes of migrants that landed in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
“Hey [Gov. Ron DeSantis], clearly you’re struggling, distracted, and busy playing politics with people’s lives,” Newsom said in a tweet. “Since you have only one overriding need — attention — let’s take this up & debate. I’ll bring my hair gel. You bring your hairspray. Name the time before Election Day.”
Newsom and DeSantis are both running for reelection this year, and DeSantis is considered a top potential presidential candidate for the GOP in 2024. Speculation has also swirled about Newsom running for the Democratic nomination amid doubts that President Biden will run for a second term.
Both governors have also stepped up efforts to enact policies in line with their respective party’s priorities and platforms. Newsom has taken a hard-line stance on protecting abortion rights, and on Thursday launched a billboard campaign in seven Republican-led states with some of the strictest abortion laws.
The billboards tout California’s abortion access. He also previously ran ads in Florida, criticizing DeSantis and encouraging Florida residents to move to California.
DeSantis, a staunch supporter of former President Trump and his immigration policies, chartered two planes of migrants from San Antonio, Texas, which landed in Martha’s Vineyard, a common vacation destination for the wealthy in New England.
DeSantis and other GOP governors of southern border states, including Govs. Greg Abbott (Texas) and Doug Ducey (Ariz.), have transported migrants who have crossed the southern border into the U.S. across state lines into Democratic-led states and cities.
Democrats, including Newsom, are fuming over the move. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D), a leading progressive, slammed DeSantis on Thursday, accusing the governor of chartering the flights as part of a political stunt.
Newsom’s tweet Friday came in response to a separate post from veteran journalist Dan Rather last month, where he suggested that the new head of CNN set up a debate between the two governors.
“Two governors of big states, potential presidential candidates,” Rather said. “Prime time. Ratings I bet would be huge. Who would have the courage to show up?”
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BEIJING (AP) — As world leaders gather in New York at the annual U.N. General Assembly, rising superpower China is also focusing on another United Nations body that is meeting across the Atlantic Ocean in Geneva.
Chinese diplomats are speaking out and lobbying others at an ongoing session of the Human Rights Council to thwart a possible call for further scrutiny of what it calls its anti-extremism campaign in Xinjiang, following a United Nations report on abuses against Uyghurs and other largely Muslim ethnic groups in the western China border region.
The concurrent meetings illustrate China’s divided approach to the United Nations and its growing global influence. Beijing looks to the U.N., where it can count on support from countries it has befriended and in many cases assisted financially, as a counterweight to U.S.-led blocs such as the Group of Seven, which have grown increasingly hostile toward China.
“China sees the U.N. as an important forum that it can use to further its strategic interests and goals, and to reform the global order,” said Helena Legarda from the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin.
While holding up the United Nations as a model of multilateralism, China rejects criticism or decisions that the ruling Communist Party sees as counter to its interests. Its diplomats struck back at the report published last month by the U.N. human rights office raising concerns about possible “crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang — vowing to suspend cooperation with the office and blasting what it described as a Western plot to undermine China’s rise.
China had pushed hard to block the report on Xinjiang, delaying its release for more than a year. In the end, the information did come out — but just minutes before embattled U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet left office.
Like the United States, China feels a certain freedom to ignore U.N. institutions when it wants: The Trump administration pulled the U.S. out of the Human Rights Council in 2018, accusing it of anti-Israel bias. The Biden administration jumped back in this year, and has made a priority of defending Israel in the 47-member-state body.
Also like the United States, China leverages its influence to get its way — effectively stymieing an investigation by the U.N.’s World Health Organization into whether China was the birthplace of the coronavirus pandemic.
Ken Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, said Chinese President Xi Jinping is trying to redefine what human rights are, in part by casting economic development as a key criterion. China, Roth said, “more than any government in the past, is trying to undermine the U.N. human rights system” — by pressuring U.N. officials, retaliating against witnesses and trying to bribe governments.
“One of their top priorities right now — maybe after Taiwan — is to avoid condemnation by the Human Rights Council,” Roth said. The self-governing island of Taiwan is claimed by China as its sovereign territory, an issue that the Beijing government is vociferous about internationally.
Shi Yinhong, an international relations expert at Renmin University in China, said advocating for the U.N.’s role in maintaining the international order doesn’t mean that China agrees with every U.N. body, citing the COVID-19 origins study and the recent Xinjiang report.
“When the U.N high commissioner for human rights issues such a report, in the eyes of China, it is the same as all organizations in the world, no matter official or private, that defames China,” Shi said.
But China doesn’t want its pique toward the rights office, which falls under U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, to spill over to its deepening relationship with other parts of the world body that deal with refugees, climate, the internet, satellites, world hunger, atomic weapons, energy and much more.
China wields power as one of the five veto-holding members of the Security Council, helping it build relationships with the United States and others who needed China’s support for past resolutions on Iran and North Korea.
That influence has diminished somewhat with the overall deterioration of U.S.-China ties, Shi said. Subsequently, both China and Russia vetoed a U.S.-backed resolution in May to impose new sanctions on North Korea.
Under Xi, who came to power 10 years ago, China has expanded its U.N. involvement from primarily international development early on to political, peace and security issues, Legarda said.
She noted how China has had its concepts and language worked into U.N. resolutions and used the U.N. system to promote a “Global Development Initiative” proposed by Xi in a video address to last year’s General Assembly.
“This is a reflection of China’s more assertive and ambitious foreign policy under Xi,” Legarda said.
China has stepped into a diplomatic void created by a lack of U.S. leadership, said Daniel Warner, a Geneva-based political analyst. Former President Donald Trump shunned many international institutions, Warner said, and successor Joe Biden has been preoccupied with domestic issues.
Chinese hold the top jobs at three of the U.N.’s 18 specialized agencies: the Food and Agricultural Organization, the Industrial Development Organization and the International Telecommunications Union, where the United States has put up a candidate to succeed outgoing chief Houlin Zhao. A Chinese official headed the International Civil Aviation Organization until last year.
For China, it’s a matter of prestige as well as influence, Warner said.
“The United States and the Western countries were very much involved in the initial United Nations,” he said. “China doesn’t want to have that kind of leadership. They’re not talking about liberal values, but they want to make sure that their interests are defended in the U.N. system.”
Chinese diplomats spearheaded a joint statement — which it said was backed by 30 countries including Russia, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — that blasted “disinformation” behind the U.N. report on Xinjiang and the “erroneous conclusions” drawn in it. And China’s ambassador in Geneva said Beijing could no longer cooperate with the human rights office — without specifying how.
Sarah Brooks, a China expert at the International Society for Human Rights advocacy group in Geneva, said China could hold up its funding for the office — which lately has come in at $800,000 a year, far less than Western countries that give tens of millions.
Still, Brooks said it would be a “huge blow” if funding from China were to stop, in part because many countries appreciate and support the causes that Beijing helps pay for.
“The optics of it are really damaging,” she said. “You have a country that says, ‘Hi, I want to be responsible, but I’m so thin-skinned … I’m still going to lash out at the organization that drafted it.’”
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Keaten reported from Geneva. Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus on Saturday hailed the full lifting of a U.S. arms embargo on the ethnically divided island nation as a milestone reaffirming increasingly tighter bilateral bonds that serve to bolster stability in the turbulent east Mediterranean region.
President Nicos Anastasiades tweeted his gratitude to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, for helping to lift the embargo.
Turkey, which maintains more than 35,000 troops in the northern third of Cyprus, condemned the decision. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry urged the U.S. to reconsider, warning that the move would harm efforts for a Cyprus peace deal, lead to an arms race on the island and undermine regional stability.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in in a statement that Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined Cyprus met the conditions to allow for “exports, re-exports and transfers of defense articles … for the fiscal year 2023.”
The U.S. will assess annually whether Cyprus complies with conditions for the embargo lift, including implementing anti-money laundering regulations and denying Russian military vessels access to ports for refueling and servicing.
Cyprus barred Russian warships from using its ports in early March following the invasion of Ukraine.
The conditions are enshrined in the Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act that the U.S. Congress passed in 2019. The law underscores U.S. support for closer ties among Greece, Cyprus and Israel based on recently discovered offshore gas deposits.
The U.S. enacted the embargo in 1987 to prevent a potential arms race from harming peace talks with the Mediterranean island nation’s breakaway Turkish Cypriots. Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded following a coup aimed at union with Greece.
Barred access to U.S. weapons, Cyprus turned to Russia to procure Mi-35 attack helicopters, T-80 tanks and Tor-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems.
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LONDON (AP) — President Joe Biden arrived in London to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in U.S.-U.K. relations, as both a new monarch and a new prime minister are settling in.
The hawkish approach of Prime Minister Liz Truss to Russia and China puts her on the same page as Biden. But the rise of Truss, 47, who once called the relationship “special but not exclusive,” could mark a decidedly new chapter in the trans-Atlantic partnership on trade and more.
Of high concern for Biden officials in the early going of Truss’s premiership is her backing of legislation that would shred parts of the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland. Analysts say the move could cause deep strain between the U.K. and the European Union, and undermine peace in Northern Ireland. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the move “would not create a conducive environment” for crafting a long-awaited U.S.-UK trade deal coveted by Truss and her Conservative Party.
“She’s signaled that she’s willing to go to the mattresses on this and that’s going to cause a rift not just between the U.K. and EU, but the UK and the U.S.,” said Max Bergmann, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a former senior State Department official in the Obama administration. “It’s one that’s going to keep the White House up at night.”
Biden arrived in London late Saturday and had been set to meet with Truss on Sunday, but the prime minister’s office said Saturday they would skip the weekend hello, opting instead for a meeting in New York at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, though Truss still planned to gather with other world leaders converging on London for the royal funeral. The White House confirmed the U.N. meeting just as the president boarded Air Force One.
The two close allies now find themselves in a period of political uncertainty on both sides of the Atlantic. Not unlike his fellow septuagenarian Biden, King Charles III faces questions from the public about whether his age will limit his ability to faithfully carry out the duties of the monarch.
Charles, 73, and Biden, 79, discussed global cooperation on the climate crisis last year while both attended a summit in Glasgow, Scotland. They also met at Buckingham Palace in June 2021 at a reception the queen hosted before a world leaders’ summit in Cornwall.
Truss finds herself, as Biden does, facing questions about whether she has what it takes to lift a country battered by stubborn inflation borne out of the coronavirus pandemic and exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unleashing chaos on the global energy market.
All the while, Britain — and the rest of Europe — is carefully watching to see what the upcoming U.S. midterm elections will bring for the Democratic American president after he vowed upon taking office that “America is back” to being a full partner in the international community after four years of Republican Donald Trump pushing his “America First” worldview.
“It certainly is a time of change and transformation in the U.K.,” said Barbara A. Perry, presidential studies director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She added, “We don’t know what will happen in our midterms. We don’t know what will happen in 2024.”
Truss, a former accountant who was first elected to Parliament in 2010, hasn’t had much interaction with Biden. The U.S. president called her earlier this month to congratulate her. Truss, as foreign secretary, accompanied her predecessor, Boris Johnson, on a White House visit last year.
It’s been more than 75 years since Winston Churchill declared there was a “special relationship” between the two nations, a notion that leaders on both sides have repeatedly affirmed. Still, there have been bumps along the way.
Tony Blair was derisively branded by the British tabloids as George W. Bush’s “poodle” for backing the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq. David Cameron and Barack Obama had a “bromance,” but Obama also had his frustrations with the Brits over defense spending and the U.K.’s handling of Libya following the 2011 ouster of Muammar Gaddafi.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan forged a close alliance in the midst of the Cold War, with the prime minister once telling students that the Republican president’s “really good sense of humor” helped their relationship. But there were difficulties too, such as when Thatcher and members of her Cabinet bristled at the Reagan administration’s initial neutrality in the Falklands War.
The White House wasn’t expecting Truss’s announcement in May, when she was foreign secretary, that the government would move forward with legislation that would rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The agreement was part of the U.K.’s 2020 Brexit withdrawal from the EU that was designed to avoid a hard north-south border with Ireland that might upset Northern Ireland’s fragile peace.
Now, in the first weeks of Truss’s premiership, Biden administration officials are carefully taking the measure of the new British leader. Analysts say there is some trepidation in the administration that undercutting the Northern Ireland protocol could plunge Europe into trade turmoil at a moment when Biden is working mightily to keep the West unified in confronting Russia over its aggression against Ukraine.
“Brexit could once again become the issue — the issue that can make it difficult for all of Europe to work together at a time when it is critical for Europe to work together,” Bergmann said. “If you’re the Biden administration, this is not the time for the two of your closest partners getting into fights.”
To be certain, there were areas of friction between Biden and Johnson, who had a warm rapport with former President Donald Trump.
Biden staunchly opposed Brexit as a candidate and had expressed great concern over the future of Northern Ireland. Biden once even derided Johnson as a “physical and emotional clone” of Trump.
Johnson worked hard to overcome that impression, stressing his common ground with Biden on climate change, support for international institutions and most notably by making certain Britain was an early and generous member of the U.S.-led alliance providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
The former prime minister also unsuccessfully pressed Biden starting days into his administration to begin negotiations on a new U.S.-U.K. trade deal just as the U.K. regained control over its national trade policy weeks before Biden took office and following the end of a post-Brexit transition period.
But Biden largely kept focus on his domestic to-do list in the early going of his presidency— passing trillions in spending on coronavirus relief, infrastructure, and more — and put negotiations on trade deals on the back burner.
Elliot Abrams, chairman of the conservative foreign policy group Vandenberg Coalition, said that Truss needs Biden to make a new U.S.-U.K. trade deal a priority. Queen Elizabeth’s funeral won’t be the setting for tough bilateral conversations, but it still marks a moment for the two leaders to begin taking stock of each other.
Truss, who succeeded Johnson after he was forced to resign in the face of a string of scandals, has lagged in the opinion polls. She also won her election with a smaller margin than her recent predecessors and is looking for an early win.
“I think if I were (Truss), I want recognition of the leading role Britain’s played, far more than any other country outside the United States in supporting Ukraine,” said Abrams, who served in senior national security and foreign policy roles in the Trump, George W. Bush and Reagan administrations. “And I think I’d want some positive economic message to give the British people, which could be that the free trade agreement negotiations are starting.”
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EUFAULA, Ala. (WRBL) – So, it turns out finding a snake in your toilet is more common than we may think.
Great.
Friday, Eufaula police officers were called to a home with a slithering surprise.
“We never know from one day to the next what kind of call we will receive during our shift. Today was no exception, however, a snake in the toilet wasn’t on our list of possibilities. Day shift removed the unwelcomed visitor and released it to a more suitable habitat,” shared Chief Steve Watkins on the department’s Facebook page.
Watkins shared pictures of the residence’s reptile. Turns out it was a harmless Gray Rat snake. Still, a new phobia has been unlocked for this author.
“In the snake’s defense, he was just trying to reach the homeowner about their car’s extended warranty,” joked Watkins.
And while this may be funny for some, a bite on the backside was thankfully avoided. So, next time you have to do your business, especially at night, check the bowl and make sure you don’t see two eyes looking back up at you.
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Ease pain naturally with your favorite music and quality headphones
Every music lover knows that music can lift their spirits, invoke happy memories and even soothe a broken heart. Now pain relief can be added to that list. A recent study found that listening to music can relieve physical pain — especially pain that can be classified as chronic. The effect was amplified by being able to choose the music.
If you’d like to give music therapy for pain relief a try, you’ll need quality wireless headphones. These will help you shut out the world and become immersed in therapeutic sound.
Benefits of wireless headphones
In the past, headphones required a wire to connect to any music-emitting device. Even if the sound quality was impressive, the cable often got in the way and limited the wearer’s movement. Thanks to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, this isn’t a concern with wireless models. The result is more flexibility to move about while wearing them, or kick back and relax cord-free.
Types of wireless headphones
There are three types of wireless headphones — in-ear, earbuds and over-the-ear. Often referred to as earphones, in-ear and earbud models are similar in that they are small and lightweight. However, the main difference is that in-ear models fit inside the ear canals while wireless earbuds fit just outside of the ear canals on the conchas. Over-the-ear models have cushioned ear cups that cover the ears during wear.
The term headphones is often used interchangeably for all three models. The one you choose is a matter of preference. There are quality options in all three categories. Each offers a comfortable fit, noise-canceling capabilities and rich, balanced sound.
Features to look for in wireless headphones
Regardless of the type of wireless headphones you buy, there are a few features to consider that will help you make the most of listening to music to ease your pain.
Fit
Comfort is key when wearing headphones, especially to reduce pain. After all, you don’t want to add to your discomfort with a device that rubs, pinches or applies pressure. Look for earbuds and earphones that are contoured and have a compact design. Ideally, earbuds will include several ear tips in different sizes for a customized fit. Over-the-ear headphones should have cushioned ear cups that are simple to adjust.
Audio quality
Sound is just as important as comfort when wearing headphones. Top brands can be expensive but are known for producing outstanding sound with balanced treble and bass. Noise-canceling technology is available in many models and helps filter outside sounds that can interfere with music. Easy-to-use controls are important for adjusting the sound and volume to fit your preferences.
Connectivity
Because there are no wires to get in the way, wireless headphones work with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The best models are easy to connect and pair and don’t easily lose connection. By checking customer feedback, you can get an idea if connectivity drops are a concern with any wireless headphones you are considering.
Battery life
When relaxing to music, your wireless headphones should hold a charge for as long as you plan to use them. Well-made models provide hours of listening time once fully charged, with some brands getting as much as 50 hours of playtime.
Best wireless headphones for pain relief music therapy
Best over-the-ear wireless headphones
Sony Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones
These wireless headphones come at a high price but offer high-end sound and unbeatable noise-canceling technology. With thick cushioning in the headband and ear cups, the fit is just right for relaxing to your favorite music.
Anker Soundcore Life Q30 Wireless Headphones
Soundcore Life Q30 Headphones are affordable compared to other high-end brands but offer similar features including noise canceling technology, transparency mode and nice sound. The padded ear cups provide comfort during wear.
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Jabra Elite 45h Wireless Headphones
Don’t let the reasonable price fool you. These headphones deliver a nice sound and provide a cushion fit. They also boast long battery life and a highly portable folding design.
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AfterShokz Air Bone Conduction Wireless Bluetooth Headphones
In between over-the-ear headphones and earbuds are models like the Air Bone design. It offers a minimalist structure that’s extremely lightweight and comfortable. Although they don’t cancel noise, they produce notable sound.
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Apple AirPods Max Wireless Headphones
Just as you’d expect from Apple, AirPods won’t disappoint when it comes to their amazing sound and ability to cancel outside noise for a memorable listening experience. They are also comfortable to wear thanks to the padded ear cups. The price is high, but it’s acceptable for dedicated Apple fans.
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Bose QuietComfort 45 Bluetooth Wireless Noise-canceling Headphones
Bose QuietComfort over-the-ear headphones are industry leaders for their impressive sound and comfortable fit. Proprietary Quiet Mode blocks outside sounds so the wearer gets the most out of the pain-minimizing benefits of music.
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Best in-ear and earbud wireless headphones
Apple AirPods Pro Wireless Earbuds
When it comes to earbuds, the AirPods Pro stand out in terms of comfort and sound quality. They combine the best of both worlds with reliable sound canceling technology that produces an immersive listening experience and a transparency mode that makes it possible to hear outside sounds when necessary.
These wireless earbuds offer a nice package for a fraction of the price of many competitors. They include a charging case, ear tips in three sizes and ear hooks that keep them in place while being active during wear.
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Studio Beats Buds Wireless Noise Canceling Earbuds
In addition to Spatial Audio technology that produces smooth, balanced sound, Beats Buds feature active noise-canceling capability and transparency mode like higher-priced competitors. However, they are available at a midrange price.
With a lightweight, compact build and ear tips in six sizes, the Everyday Earbuds provide a comfortable fit that works for most wearers. They are a midpriced pair that includes a charging case. They get exceptional runtime per charge.
Bose Soundsport Wireless Headphones
Dependable Bluetooth connectivity, impeccable sound and useful functions are some of the impressive features of Bose Soundsport Headphones. The lightweight slip-on fit makes them comfortable and easy to wear.
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Sony Noise Canceling Wireless Earbud Headphones
These Sony earbud headphones get high marks for having outstanding noise canceling capabilities and next-level sound. Although pricey, many owners find them to be a worthy investment for enjoying their favorite music.
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Which space exploration toys are best?
On September 26, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is launching the Double Asteroid Redirect Test spacecraft directly at Dimorphos, an asteroid passing by the Earth, to test its capabilities in the event of an imminent threat to the planet. It’s an exciting time for space fans and an even better time to introduce the concepts of space exploration to your children. Among the best ways for kids to learn is through play. Even if the toy you choose isn’t meant to be educational, it can inspire a fascination that lasts a lifetime.
What to know before you buy a space exploration toy
Age range
All toys have suggested age ranges. You should always double-check the suggested age range for safety and to ensure you don’t get a toy that’s too simple or complex for your child. You can safely fudge the numbers on some toys by a year or two should your child be more or less mature than other kids.
Education factor
Some space exploration toys are explicitly meant to serve as educational tools. These usually have books with space-related information or are “experiment kits” meant to teach various concepts such as rocketry. If you know your child wants to learn, save yourself the effort of googling all the answers to their questions by grabbing one of these educational toys.
What are the best space exploration toys to buy?
4M Toysmith Green Science Solar Rover
This toy gives your children something to build, something to play with and something to learn from all in one. It’s for ages 5 and up, and there are five other kits besides the solar rover.
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There are 10,000 reusable, recyclable and non-toxic water beads included, plus three large squish balls, two medium squish balls, six small squish balls and two astronauts.
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ArtCreativity Saturn Rocket Plush Toy
This plush is great for younger children as it can spark the imagination without being harmful if dropped or should they poke themselves or someone else. It stands 18.5 inches tall.
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This set includes a rocket and lunar rover, plus two small astronauts that can fit inside both. It has lights and sounds to keep younger children engaged, and it includes the necessary batteries.
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This massive 29-inch space-themed dartboard is equally fun for kids and adults. Because it uses plastic sticky balls, 12 of which are included in four colors, there’s no risk of damaging your walls on a miss.
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This magnetic set includes 33 pieces that kids can use to make four different rockets or one massive one. The pieces are environmentally friendly and washable. It comes with a storage container.
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iPlay, iLearn Solar System Floor Puzzle
This 48-piece puzzle is made of polished wood for durability and is meant for kids ages 3-8. It also includes a planetary exploration guidebook full of fun facts to help kids learn.
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Jackinthebox Space Educational STEM Toy
This toy for kids ages 7-10 includes six activities: a space explorer board game, a rocket science experiment, a constellation arts-and-crafts, a solar system wind chime, a build-your-own kaleidoscope and a recipe to make “phases of the moon” cookies.
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This play tent is the perfect place to let your child’s imagination rocket to the stars. It’s even better when you buy other space-themed toys to use to stuff it. It’s 41.5 inches wide and 54 inches tall in the center.
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Jsinma Space Shuttle Building Set
This 807-piece set is meant for kids ages 6 to 12 and lets you build a space shuttle, lunar lander and lunar rover. It also comes with four mini-figures.
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Lego City Deep Space Rocket And Launch Control
This set includes 837 pieces and is meant for kids ages 7 and up. It comes in frustration-free packaging for an extra cost and the rocket is over 16 inches tall once built.
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This set includes 786 pieces, including six astronaut mini-figures, and it is for kids ages 7 and up. It’s inspired by real NASA equipment and comes with physical and digital instructions.
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Lego Creator Three-In-One Space Rover Explorer
This set includes 510 pieces that kids can use to make three different space-themed items: a large rover, a space fighter and a base. It’s meant for kids ages 8 and up.
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Lego Duplo Space Shuttle Mission
This set is meant for kids ages 2 and up and comes with 23 pieces with larger connectors than standard Legos so they don’t get frustrated.
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Little Experimenter Projector Telescope
This telescope is the perfect toy to inspire interest in space and astronomy. It comes with three discs with eight images each for 24 total projections, plus each one has a passage in an accompanying guidebook.
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Myriad365 Rocket Science Kit For Kids
This rocket-building kit is meant for kids ages 8 and up and includes enough “fuel” to launch it up to five times and up to 50 feet high. The company is based in Austin, Texas.
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Remoking Space Adventure Toy Playset
This 30-piece set is good for children as young as 3 and is perfect for multi-child households. There are several rockets, vehicles and astronauts so each child can play with a similar toy.
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Science Can Talking Astronomy Solar System Model Kit
This is packed with educational avenues that can keep kids as young as 3 engaged. There are three projection slides with a total of 24 images and the recording can play in English or Spanish.
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Spooktacular Creations Astronaut Helmet
There’s hardly a better way to help your child feel like a real astronaut than to get them the most important part of the uniform. The fully functioning visor is the cherry on top.
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Watinc Outer Space Story Board
Your child can build their own solar system with this felt board and 39 hook-and-loop planets and figures. It also includes four hooks so you can hang it up, though you can leave it on the floor.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — After 36 rounds together in the ring over the past five years, Canelo Álvarez finally put a convincing finish on his remarkable trilogy with Gennady Golovkin.
The Mexican superstar decisively won his third ring meeting with Gennady Golovkin on Saturday night, earning a unanimous-decision victory and clear superiority in their rivalry.
Four years after the fighters’ most recent meeting ended in a narrow, disputed victory for Álvarez (58-2-2, 39 KOs), the four-division world champion left little doubt about this verdict — even though he won by just 115-113 on two judges’ scorecards, with the third seeing it 116-112.
“He’s a strong fighter,” Álvarez said to the raucous cheers of his supportive Vegas crowd. “For me, I’m just glad to share the ring with him. He’s a really good fighter. I’m glad to be involved in that kind of fight.”
Even with an injured left hand that he says will require surgery, the 32-year-old Álvarez delivered a comprehensive pummeling of the now-40-year-old Golovkin (42-2-1) in the first eight rounds, repeatedly testing Triple G’s famed chin with combinations and overhand rights. Golovkin rallied late, but ran out of time.
Golovkin started far too slowly with no clear strategy to take the initiative away from Álvarez. Fighting at 168 pounds for the first time in his career, the Kazakh middleweight star still had moments of his dynamic best in the later rounds against a wearier Canelo, but they weren’t enough to turn the bout against a younger opponent more comfortable at super middleweight, where he reigns as the undisputed champion.
“Everybody knows this is high level, the best fight for boxing,” Golovkin said. “Look at his face. Look at my face. It’s high level, because we trained well, and this is shows that we did a very good fight, very good quality.”
The bitter rivals embraced and spoke warmly to each other after the final bell, perhaps signaling a thaw in their frosty relationship.
Judges Steve Weisfeld and David Sutherland both scored the no-action first round and four of the final five rounds for Golovkin, leading to those 115-113 scores in a bout that Álvarez largely dominated for long stretches. The Associated Press also favored Canelo, 117-111.
Golovkin landed only 23% of his 521 punches, and he only threw 10 punches to Canelo’s body, according to CompuBox. Álvarez wasn’t much more accurate, landing only 26% of his shots, but the Mexican star landed 85 power punches to Golovkin’s 46 and controlled the ring for long stretches.
With a clear victory to wrap up one of the livelier rivalries in recent boxing history, Álvarez rebounded splendidly from only the second loss of his career, a fairly one-sided light heavyweight defeat delivered by Dmitry Bivol last May.
“Thank you so much for your support,” Álvarez said to the crowd. “I’ve gone through very difficult things in my life. Only thing you can do is continue to move forward. I’ve gone through difficult times with my defeat, but defeats can show how you can be great, how you can come back and show humility.”
Golovkin again said he won’t retire after this bout, but the longtime middleweight champion took only his second loss — and the first that was decisive. All three blemishes on his career record are the results of his trilogy with Álvarez.
“I have a great plan,” Golovkin said of his future. “I have a lot of appointments. Congrats today, Canelo. Congrats, fans. Remember, I’m still champion at 160. I come back, guys. I’m still champion.”
After their first two fights resulted in a draw and a narrow majority-decision victory for Álvarez, the fighters finally met again four years later, again fighting just off the Las Vegas Strip at T-Mobile Arena, the site of all three meetings in the trilogy.
The 32-year-old Álvarez was a 5-to-1 favorite shortly before the opening bell, and he fought like it. Throwing far more punches and taking the initiative away from Golovkin, Canelo largely dominated the first half of the fight while a welt rose on Golovkin’s right temple.
Golovkin had no discernible game plan against Canelo’s bullying in the first eight rounds, instead absorbing Álvarez’s blows and not launching enough of his own. Golovkin finally upped his work rate and made progress against a wearier Canelo in the late rounds, but it wasn’t enough.
Álvarez was cut over his right eye in the later rounds, but the damage and Golovkin’s increased activity didn’t appear to wobble him at all, even while his offensive effectiveness dipped.
The bout was the long-delayed final chapter in one of the most intriguing trilogies of this era. Álvarez and Golovkin first fought in 2017 and again in 2018, but those 24 rounds did nothing to determine superiority among two evenly matched fighters with nearly unmatched combinations of skill and punching power.
They fought to a split draw in their first meeting, but nearly everybody without an official scorecard thought Golovkin deserved the victory. Their second meeting was closer, and while Álvarez won by razor-thin majority decision, Golovkin again vehemently disagreed with the judges in his only career defeat.
Golovkin had fought only four times in the four years since that bout, and this third bout likely was delayed by his vocal criticism of Álvarez for testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance before the second fight. Álvarez said the rivalry was now personal after years of bad blood and mutual criticism, while Golovkin insisted Álvarez was just another opponent.
That’s clearly not true: This matchup was special, and it may turn out to be the greatest rivalry of both fighters’ careers.
In the show’s penultimate bout, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez remained unbeaten and retained his WBC super flyweight title with a difficult unanimous-decision victory over Israel Gonzalez. The 22-year-old Rodriguez (17-0, 11 KOs) is a rising star, and he overcame a point deduction for a low blow to win a tactical matchup with an unorthodox opponent.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Chris Buescher closed out a bizarre first round of NASCAR’s playoffs in which none of the title contenders won a race by becoming the 19th winner this season with his victory Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway.
The second win of Buescher’s career marked the first time in this format of NASCAR’s postseason that a playoff driver failed to win a race during a round. Erik Jones won the opener and Bubba Wallace won last week.
Buescher won for RFK Racing, the longtime Jack Roush-owned team that took on Brad Keselowski in the ownership group this season, to give the organization its first win in a points-paying Cup race in over five years. Buescher and Keselowski both won a pair of exhibition races for RFK at Daytona in February.
“This is so special, this team does such a good job,” said Buescher, who won with a late call for two tires on the final pit stop. “It’s special to get RFK into victory lane for the first time.”
Keselowski, who left a long successful career at Team Penske to become an owner and driver at rebranded RFK, won the first stage for his first stage victory of the season. He congratulated Buescher both on-track and in victory lane.
It was the first points-paying win for RFK — then called Roush Fenway Racing — since Daytona in 2017, and the first non-superspeedway win on an oval since Carl Edwards won at Bristol in 2014.
The showdown on the Bristol short track was the first elimination race of NASCAR’s playoffs and it was a nail-biter to the very end as at least a dozen of the 16 title contenders had some sort of problem. There was a rash of flat tires for Ford drivers, mechanical problems for Toyota, an engine failure for Kyle Busch and Richard Childress Racing’s two drivers were both involved in a crash.
The 16-driver field was cut by four, and eliminated from the playoffs were Kevin Harvick, Busch and RCR teammates Austin Dillon and Tyler Reddick.
“This place is tough on the drivers. It’s tough on the cars,” Reddick said. “You never know how it’s going to go.”
Harvick, Busch and Dillon were all below the cutline headed into the race, but Harvick had a shot at the win until a wheel fell off his Ford during the final pit stop. He’d inherited a near-clear path to the victory — and an automatic berth into the next round — when Keselowski got a flat tire and hit the wall while leading.
“Just went from having a chance to lead the parade to being a part of the parade,” said Harvick, who noted he was ahead of Buescher at the final pit stop. ”
Austin Cindric barely advanced because he was one of the early Ford drivers to run into trouble with a flat tire. There was a rash of tire problems for Ford drivers, and it would have eliminated many of them if so many playoff drivers didn’t have problems.
Among those who had no problems were Hendrick Motorsports teammates Chase Elliott and William Byron, who finished second and third in Chevrolets.
Christopher Bell finished fourth in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing and was followed by Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain of Trackhouse Racing. Non-playoff drivers AJ Allmendinger and Cole Custer finished seventh and eighth.
The 19 winners in a season has been done a record four other times in NASCAR history and Elliott, who cycled back to the points lead for the start of the second round of the playoffs, noted the first three races showed what a crapshoot the process is this year.
“I don’t think anybody is safe,” Elliott said. “Nobody is safe in these rounds. And we want to do better, too.”
BIZARRE END FOR BUSCH
Kyle Busch won’t race for a third championship in his final season with Joe Gibbs Racing. Busch closed a wild week in which he announced he was leaving JGR to drive for Richard Childress Racing, then went to Bristol desperately trying to stay in title contention.
But his engine seemed to fail just past the halfway mark and Busch bounced off the wall, then drove his Toyota to the garage and walked back to his truck. He never removed his helmet.
“I don’t even know what to say. I’m flabbergasted,” Busch said. “I just feel so bad for my guys. They don’t deserve to be in this spot, we’re too good of a group to be this low down on the bottom and fighting for our lives just to make it through. But two engine failures in three weeks, that will do it to you.
“This is not our normal.”
It seemed certain Busch had been eliminated from the playoffs until the next restart and Daniel Suarez triggered a crash that also caused damage to contenders Dillon and Reddick. Like Busch, Dillon went to Bristol below the cutline and in danger of elimination.
The crash gave new hope to Busch, but he said he wasn’t sticking around to find out if he advanced. He said once released of his NASCAR obligations, he was headed back to North Carolina: “I’ve got kids at home,” Busch said.
Busch wound up 34th and was eliminated.
UP NEXT
The opening race of the second round of the playoffs is Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway. Blaney won the All-Star race there in May, and Larson won the playoff race there last season when Texas opened the third round and Larson’s victory earned him an automatic berth in the championship finale.
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Jack Grealish and Son Heung-min, two of the English Premier League’s most high-profile players, have been facing growing criticism for their failure to score this season.
They silenced the doubters on Saturday.
With a strike after 55 seconds, Grealish — the England international with the 100 million pound ($139 million) price tag — set Manchester City on its way to a 3-0 win at Wolverhampton and first place in the standings, at least for 24 hours.
With a hat trick after coming off the bench, Son — the joint-top scorer in the league last season — rounded off Tottenham’s 6-2 victory over last-placed Leicester, whose manager Brendan Rodgers will head into the international break with his job under serious threat after six straight league defeats.
The wins left City and Tottenham tied for points in first and second place, respectively, and their managers thrilled to see their forwards scoring again.
“Rightly so, people have been asking questions — I should be scoring more and getting more assists,” said Grealish, who hadn’t even set up a goal this season.
“I am always going to have people talking about me with the money that was spent on me, but all my career I haven’t scored enough goals. I do want to add that to my game.”
Naturally, Erling Haaland was one of City’s other scorers at Molineux — that’s 14 in nine games in all competitions since joining from Borussia Dortmund — along with Phil Foden, with Wolves playing with only 10 men from the 33rd minute after Nathan Collins’ red card for a chest-high lunge on Grealish.
City has 23 goals in its seven games so far.
Son was rotated — or was he dropped? — by Tottenham manager Antonio Conte for the Leicester game and the South Korea forward looked emotional after each of his goals having gone on as a 59th-minute substitute. Two of them were curling shots into the top corner and his hat trick goal squirmed under beleaguered Leicester goalkeeper Danny Ward, before needing the say-so of a VAR review.
“The way I play, I can do much better than I have been,” Son said. “I have been disappointed, the team has been doing really, really good but I was disappointed with my performances.”
Harry Kane, Eric Dier and Rodrigo Bentancur also scored for Tottenham, while Youri Tielemans — with a twice-taken penalty — and James Maddison scored for Leicester.
Rodgers said the pressure was “very much” on him.
“I understand the game,” he said. “The scoreline didn’t reflect the game but the bottom line is it’s a heavy defeat. They (the owners) have given me brilliant support. Whatever happens to me at Leicester, whether I stay and fight on, I’ll always respect them.”
NEWCASTLE FLAT-LINING
It’s no wins in six games for Newcastle, whose manager Eddie Howe will understand the pressure that comes with coaching the soccer team with the world’s richest owners. How patient will the club’s Saudi leadership be?
After a disappointing 1-1 draw with Bournemouth at St. James’ Park, Newcastle remained without a win in the league since beating Nottingham Forest at home on the opening weekend. Five of Newcastle’s six results have been draws.
There were some jeers from Newcastle supporters at the fulltime whistle after Bournemouth held out for a point in a disciplined defensive performance, which saw the visitors take the lead against the run of play through Philip Billing in the 62nd.
Newcastle, which hit the post through Kieran Trippier and Joelinton by that point, equalized five minutes later when Alexander Isak converted a penalty awarded for a handball against Jefferson Lerma.
Bournemouth continued its upturn in results since firing Scott Parker after a 9-0 loss at Liverpool at the end of August. In three games since under caretaker manager Gary O’Neil, the south-coast team has two draws and a win at Nottingham Forest.
TRIBUTES TO QUEEN
There were more tributes to Queen Elizabeth II before and during Saturday’s games, including a pre-match minute’s silence and a period of applause after the 70th minute — marking the 70 years she was on the throne.
All players wore black armbands as a mark of respect for the queen, who died last week. Her funeral is in London on Monday.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky has self-reported violations to the NCAA following an investigation into athletes being compensated for part-time work that was not performed at the university hospital.
The school asked that the violations be processed as Level III in the report, which was released Saturday but submitted Sept. 3 to NCAA reinstatement director Jerry Vaughn.
The school began an investigation after learning in February of possible violations, which were found to have occurred between spring 2021 and March. It was limited to a “small number” of athletes who concealed their use of a clock-in/clock-out system while working in the hospital’s patient transport department.
The report does not specify which teams the athletes were from, but said the part-time jobs “could require physical strength and might be suitable for athletes.” Players’ names and how many were involved are redacted from the six-page document, which says a hospital supervisor denied knowing of athletes recording hours not worked.
The hospital’s human resources department became involved and worked with its chief nursing officer to suspend players from the hospital, along with the supervisor. Some but not all hours were recorded but not worked, the document noted.
Kentucky’s athletics compliance determined that violations had occurred and declared the athletes ineligible as corrective actions, the document stated. Athletes also will not be able to work with UK Healthcare without a specific academic reason. The report added that no athletic coaching staff member or department official knew of or should have known of the violation.
Kentucky’s release of the report comes days after football coach Mark Stoops announced that leading rusher Chris Rodriguez Jr. will return on Oct. 1 at Mississippi. Rodriguez, who rushed for 1,379 yards last fall, has missed three games, including Saturday’s contest against Youngstown State and is out next week against Northern Illinois.
Stoops has repeatedly declined to give specifics on Rodriguez’s status and has not described his absence as a suspension. Linebacker Jordan Wright sat out the opener but returned for last week’s victory at Florida.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Andrea Lee and Lilia Vu both reached No. 1 in the women’s world amateur ranking when they were in college. Now they have a shot at their first LPGA Tour victory.
Vu had four birdies on the back nine and had a 3-under 69 on Saturday and Lee finished strong with a 67 to share the lead with Ayaka Furue (67) of Japan going in the final round of the AmazingCre Portland Classic.
Lee starred at Stanford and said the Columbia Edgewater course reminds her of the Cardinal’s home course with its tree-lined fairways. Vu was an All-American at UCLA who earned her LPGA Tour card back for this year through the Epson Tour.
Furue, who won the Ladies Scottish Open this year, joined them at 13-under 203.
None of them could find much separation with so many players in the mix, and when the day ended, 10 players were within three shots of the lead.
“I’m just going to go out there and have a good time and let the golf do what it will do,” Vu said.
Former Women’s British Open champion Hinako Shibuno had a 66 and was one shot behind along with Paula Reto of South Africa, who had a 67, former Women’s PGA champion Hannah Green (68) and Daniela Darquea of Ecuador, who had a most exciting round of 68.
Darquea holed out for eagle from the fairway on the ninth hole to get back in the game and then finished with a 25-foot birdie putt.
Esther Henseleit of Germany had a 71 and was two shots behind along with Ryann O’Toole (67), while the group three shots behind included Carlota Ciganda of Spain and Maja Stark of Sweden, who played at Oklahoma State.
Stark is playing her first tournament as an LPGA Tour member. She won four times on the Ladies European Tour this year, the last one coming in the ISPS Handa World Invitational in Northern Ireland that was co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and counted as a win.
Stark was one shot behind when she three-putted from about 12 feet on the par-3 16th hole and made what she referred to as a “quick double bogey.” Even so, she’s very much in the mix, just like so many others.
“There’s so many girls around the lead, so I guess it’s going to be like around 20 people still playing for the win,” Henseleit said. “Just try to go out and shoot something low and see if it’s your day tomorrow.”
Also three shots behind was Caroline Inglis, a member at Columbia Edgewater who had plenty of support throughout the entire day.
“It’s so nice. Like I’ll make like a tap-in for bogey or something and they’re like clapping. It’s like, ‘Simmer down.’ But no, it’s nice to have so many familiar faces and have a good crowd cheering me. You don’t get that very often, so it’s pretty special.”
Brooke Henderson of Canada was four shots behind. Nelly Korda had a 69 and was six shots behind. Korda needs to win to have a chance to return to No. 1 in the world.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Yadier Molina hit a two-run drive while Albert Pujols went hitless in his quest for 700 homers, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-1 on Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader.
Pujols started at first base and hit second for the first time this season. He went 0 for 3 with two walks in his first two plate appearances. The sold-out crowd of 46,678 loudly booed both walks.
St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol said playing Pujols so frequently is a no-brainer despite his age of 42.
“When you put a winning lineup out there, he’s in it,” Marmol said. “It’s not a matter of whether we’re facing a lefty or a righty. He’s in there because he’s doing a nice job against everybody. It’s just a matter now of resting him to make sure he’s fresh.”
Pujols hit career homer No. 698 during Friday night’s 6-5 victory over Cincinnati. He is hitting .317 (45 for 142) with 15 homers and 35 RBIs in 48 games since July 10.
Tommy Edman had three hits for the NL Central-leading Cardinals. Paul Goldschmidt and Brendan Donovan each drove in a run.
The doubleheader was scheduled after a July 17 rainout. It is the sixth doubleheader for the Cardinals this season, and No. 5 for the Reds.
TJ Friedl hit an RBI double in the seventh to account for Cincinnati’s only run. Mike Minor (4-12) issued five walks in three innings and was charged with five runs and five hits.
“I was battling my control,” Minor said. “I just couldn’t throw where I wanted to. I was trying to throw strikes but obviously I couldn’t. If you can’t throw a strike, it’s tough to get guys out.”
The lowly Reds lost for the eighth time in nine games.
“I thought we hit some balls hard but their defense made some nice plays in the outfield,” Cincinnati manager David Bell said.
St. Louis right-hander Dakota Hudson (8-7) pitched a career-high eight innings of six-hit ball in his first big league start since Aug. 30.
“That’s what we’ve been looking for all year,” Marmol said. “Super efficient. Overall, that’s exactly what we’ve been waiting for. Legit outing.”
Hudson was optioned to Triple-A Memphis on Sept. 5.
“I’ve been trying all year to get in a position to help us win,” Hudson said. “I had to have that mental talk with myself and say that’s what we’re going to do. The four-hour drive to Memphis is a perfect time for it. As much as I hated it and it did make me angry, maybe it will help me turn the page.”
The Cardinals jumped in front with two runs in the second. Edman singled in Donovan, and Goldschmidt drove in Molina with a bases-loaded walk. It was the Reds’ 14th bases-loaded walk this season, second-most in MLB.
Molina hit his fifth homer in the third, a drive to left that capped a three-run inning.
“I gave him a (batting practice) fastball,” Minor said. “I could have hit that one out.”
It was Molina’s third homer in September.
“He’s done a nice job,” Marmol said. “His approach is what it needs to be. He’s using the whole field. He’s picking his spots to do damage.”
STAN THE MAN & PUJOLS
Pujols made his 1,653rd career appearance in a team win, tying Stan Musial (1941-63) for fourth in MLB history. Pujols’ two walks gave him 999 with the Cardinals and 1,369 overall.
SATURDAY AT THE PARK
St. Louis is an MLB-best 19-6 (.760) on Saturday this season (9-3 at home), its most successful day of the week. With the win, the Cardinals established a single-season franchise record for Saturday victories, surpassing the 1962 (18-11) and 2014 (18-9) clubs.
ROSTER MOVES
Reds: RHP Raynel Espinal was optioned to Triple-A Louisville. … RHP Kyle Dowdy was recalled from the taxi squad to serve as the 29th player for the doubleheader. He pitched four scoreless innings in his second big league appearance of the season.
Cardinals: Before Saturday’s first game, Hudson was added as the 29th player for the doubleheader.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: RHP Hunter Greene (right shoulder strain) was reinstated from the 15-day injured list. He was slated to start the second game. … RHP Graham Ashcraft (right biceps soreness) is set for a second rehab outing for Triple-A Louisville on Monday.
Cardinals: OF Dylan Carlson (left thumb sprain) came off the 10-day injured list and started in center field. … OF Tyler O’Neill (left hamstring strain) was placed on the 10-day IL. … LHP Steven Matz (torn ligament, left knee) is set for his final relief outing for Triple-A Memphis on Sunday at Iowa.
UP NEXT
Reds: Greene (4-12, 5.26 ERA) struck out 15 during three rehabilitation appearances for Triple-A Louisville. The rookie is 0-2 with a 5.40 ERA in three starts against the Cardinals this season.
Cardinals: LHP José Quintana (5-6, 3.34 ERA) has allowed two earned runs or fewer in all eight appearances for the Cardinals since arriving from the Pirates in a trade on Aug. 2.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman finally got his first victory. It wasn’t easy.
Drew Pyne passed for two touchdowns and 150 yards in his first career start and Notre Dame overcame numerous mistakes to hold on to beat California 24-17 Saturday.
Freeman was asked what was going through his mind when two potentially game-clinching turnovers were overturned, one on a targeting penalty and another when Cal quarterback Jack Plummer was ruled down before he fumbled.
“It was a conversation between me and God, and a conversation between me and myself to focus on what matters,” Freeman said.
The way the Irish have played this season has a lot of Irish fans praying and talking to themselves.
The Irish (1-2) outscored Cal (2-1) 10-0 in the fourth quarter to avoid becoming just the third Notre Dame squad to start a season 0-3. The Irish, who started the season ranked No. 5, had blown leads three times, made sure there was no second-half letdown this time.
“Found a way to finish,” Freeman said. “I’m proud of those guys. You know what, it is hard to win football games. It’s hard. You’ve seen it in the first three games. It’s hard.”
It wasn’t over until the last play as officials overturned two plays that appeared to be game-clinching turnovers for the Irish, giving the Bears a last-second shot. On fourth-and-13 from the Notre Dame 35, Cal’s Jack Plummer threw the ball into the end zone. The ball bounced off several players and Bears receiver Jeremiah Hunter nearly pulled it in, but the ball landed on the grass.
It was a familiar feeling for the Bears, who had five losses by seven points or less last season.
“It’s gut-wrenching. We had chances to win. Too many errors. One or two more plays,” Cal coach Justin Wilcox said.
Notre Dame tailback Chris Tyree said it was hard to watch.
“They almost gave me a heart attack out there, man,” he said. “It’s really exciting football to watch, especially when it goes down to the wire like that. That’s going to be a moment we’ll never forget.”
Defensive lineman Jacob Lacey, who finished with five tackles and two sacks, said the Irish defense was focused on finishing in the fourth quarter.
“It’s everything we work for. It’s one of our keys to victory, finishing in the fourth quarter. We talk about it every week. We fell short a couple of times, but now we’re on the right track.”
The Irish opened a 24-17 lead with 9:16 remaining on a 6-yard pass from Pyne to Michael Mayer, just Mayer’s second catch of the day. The touchdown was set up when Pyne threw a short pass to tailback Audric Esitime, and he sprinted for a 36-yard gain before tripping at the 6-yard line.
The Bears drove to the Notre Dame 22 midway through the fourth quarter but couldn’t get any closer. Plummer threw three straight incompletions, then was sacked by Isaiah Foskey for a 10-yard loss with 6:30 left.
Cal got the ball again on their own 7-yard line, but on third-and-10 Jack Plummer was sacked for a 5-yard loss. It looked as though Notre Dame had put the game away when cornerback Clarence Lewis picked off a pass from Plummer, but the Bears got one more chance when J.D. Bertrand was called for targeting.
Pyne, playing because Tyler Buchner sustained a season-ending shoulder injury last week, was 17-of-23 passing. In addition to the scoring pass to Mayer, Pyne threw a 21-yard TD pass to Tyree. Tyree, who had only 12 touches through the first two games, rushed for 64 yards on 17 carries and had five catches for 44 yards. Estime added a 1-yard run and 76 yards rushing on 18 carries
Plummer was 16 of 37 for 184 yards passing, including an 18-yard TD pass to J. Michael Sturdivant. Jaydn Ott was held to 33 yards on 13 carries.
Pyne struggled some early on. His first pass to Tyree was short, and he overthrew several receivers and had receivers drop some passes. A snap struck Pyne in the facemask, but he recovered and handed off to Estime for a 7-yard gain. On another play, he was signaling for a back to move when the ball was snapped.
Freeman said he’d take a moment to savor the win.
“If you don’t take a minute to enjoy these things, you’re going to regret it,” he said. “That’s what I keep reminding myself is enjoy the victory.”
GOING FOR THE WIN
Plummer said the Bears would have gone for two-points and the win if the last pass had been caught.
“If we scored there we were going for two, trying to get out of there,” he said.
UNFRIENDLY STADIUM
Irish fans booed Notre Dame twice late in the second quarter when the mistakes were piling up. A loud cheer of “California!” could be heard, marking the second straight week the visitors got a loud chant going.
THE TAKEAWAY
Cal: Plummer, a transfer from Purdue who lost his starter’s job with the Boilermakers last season following a 27-13 loss to Notre Dame, showed the Bears he can make big plays, but not quite enough for the upset.
Notre Dame: The Irish need to cutdown on mistakes if they’re going to be competitive. Receiver Braden Lenzy had a false start on third-and-1, leading to Pyne being sacked on the next play. Right tackle Blake Fisher also was called for a false start on third-and-3. Late in the second quarter, when the Irish drove into Cal territory, linemen Jarrett Patterson and Zeke Correll were called for false starts on back-to-back plays to stall out the drive.
NEXT UP
Cal: The Bears open the Pac-12 season on Saturday at home against Arizona.
Notre Dame: The Irish play at North Carolina on Saturday.
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BOSTON (AP) — Brady Singer pitched out of a bases-loaded, nobody out jam in the third and finished with six shutout innings on Saturday to lead the Kansas City Royals over the Boston Red Sox 9-0.
Pitching in Fenway Park for the first time, Singer (9-4) won his fifth straight decision, allowing five singles and a walk while striking out five. It was the second straight start without allowing a run for the 26-year-old College World Series champion from Florida.
MJ Melendez and Vinnie Pasquantino had three hits apiece for the Royals; Melendez scored four runs and Pasquantino drove in three. The first four batters in the Kansas City lineup went 10 for 20 with eight RBIs.
Rich Hill (7-7) gave up four runs on eight hits and a balk, striking out four.
The Red Sox loaded the bases on two singles and a walk with nobody out in the third inning and the top of the order coming up. But Singer got Tommy Pham to pop up in front of the mound, Rafael Devers was called out on strikes, and J.D. Martinez popped up to first base.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Red Sox right fielder Alex Verdugo lost a ball in the sun in the fifth inning when Pasquantino hit a liner directly at him. Verdugo stood helplessly until the ball bounced right in front of him and then off his right arm.
He picked it up and threw it in, but not before Bobby Witt Jr. had scored from first. The play originally was scored a single and an error, but then was changed to a double.
Center fielder Kiké Hernandez had more than the sun to contend with when he settled under Pasquantino’s high popup in the first inning. As Hernandez and Verdugo moved in to field the ball, a small flock of birds took off from where they were resting on the grass.
Hernandez managed to make the catch.
DEBUT
RHP Franklin German made his major league debut for Boston, coming in to start the sixth inning. It didn’t go well.
All four batters he faced reached — on two singles and a pair of walks. He left with the bases loaded and one run in, and Eduard Bazardo allowed another run to score when Melendez grounded into a fielder’s choice. Witt and Pasquantino singled to score two more and give the Royals n 8-0 lead.
UP NEXT
The series finale will see Boston RHP Nick Pivetta (9-11) face Kansas City’s Kris Bubic (2-11).
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SUGAR GROVE, Ill. (AP) — Cameron Smith made a pair of 7-foot birdie putts to finish off his round of 4-under 68 and allow him to overtake Dustin Johnson going into the third and final day of the LIV Golf Invitational-Chicago.
As easy as Johnson made it look in the opening round, Saturday at Rich Harvest Farms was such a struggle that he shot over par for the first time in the 14 rounds he has played in the Saudi-funded series.
Johnson was lucky the deficit to Smith was only two shots. He came up well short of the green on the par-4 17th and had to make an 8-foot par putt, while Smith took the lead for the first time with his 7-foot birdie putt.
On their final hole at the par-5 18th, Johnson’s approach took a hard hop over the green. After a free drop from the grandstand, he chipped weakly to 8 feet and missed his birdie putt. Smith was on the other side of the green, lagged a 60-footer to 7 feet and holed that for another birdie.
Smith was at 10-under 134.
They will be joined in the lead group Sunday by Peter Uihlein, the former U.S. Amateur champion who had the low round of the breezy day with a 66. That left Uihlein only three shots behind going into the last day.
Laurie Canter (68) and Charl Schwartzel (69), who won the first LIV Golf Invitational outside London, were four shots behind. The group five back included Lee Westwood, Charles Howell III and Bryson DeChambeau.
Smith won the British Open at St. Andrews and made $2.5 million. A victory Sunday would be worth at least $4 million.
“It was tricky out there today,” Smith said. “I got a couple of breaks and DJ didn’t quite make the putts he usually does.”
Phil Mickelson looked as though he might get a round under par until he made three bogeys in a four-hole stretch and shot 74 to fall 12 shots behind.
Mickelson spoke Friday about the need for the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to work together. The PGA Tour has suspended players for playing in the Saudi-backed series without getting a conflicting-event release.
Mickelson is among seven players — along with LIV Golf — who has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour.
“The PGA Tour for the last 20 or 30 years have had all the best players in the world. That will never be the case again. LIV Golf is here to stay, and this type of divisive talk is doing nobody good,” Mickelson said. “The best solution is for us to come together.
“I think both are needed for the game of golf. Both are good for the game of golf. The inclusion of LIV Golf in the ecosystem of the golf world is necessary,” said Mickelson, a chief recruiter in the early stages for LIV Golf. “As soon as that happens and we all start working together, that’s going to be a really positive thing for everyone.”
In the team competition, Johnson’s four-man squad had a one-shot lead over Smith’s team, with Uihlein’s great round helping put his team — Brooks Koepka is captain — two shots behind.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, the runner-up to Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel for the Heisman Trophy in 2012, made his first public appearance on campus in nearly a decade since it was disclosed that he was the victim of a high-profile catfishing scheme involving a fake girlfriend.
“It’s always good to be home. There’s no place like home. But I want to make this real clear: It’s not about me. It’s not about one person. It’s about this whole family,” Te’o said, speaking to fans Saturday before Notre Dame’s game against California.
Te’o received an enthusiastic response from fans. He attended Mass with the team at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on campus and then walked with the team before the game to the stadium. He stopped briefly with coach Marcus Freeman to address the crowd, with Touchdown Jesus as a backdrop.
“This team needs all of us,” Te’o said. “It’s easy to jump on the bandwagon when everything is going great. It’s easy to get on when everything is right. But what I want to know is, who is with me? … Who is going to get off that wagon and start pushing with me? That’s why I am here.”
Te’o high-fived fans as he walked through the crowd and stopped briefly for photos. He then took questions from the media in the press box before the game. He said it was his fourth time back at Notre Dame since news broke about the hoax.
Te’o said he’s been pleasantly surprised by the response he received from the Netflix documentary “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.” He said he was anxious about it because he didn’t want to talk about the hoax again.
“All the facts are out there and I’m happy with it because it’s factual. … Since Day 1, it’s been nothing but positive,” he said.
Te’o was a second-round draft pick in 2013 by the San Diego Chargers. He played for San Diego for four seasons and the New Orleans Saints for three.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Texas Tech linebacker Bryce Ramirez was carted off in the first quarter Saturday night at No. 16 North Carolina State with an apparent serious leg injury.
Ramirez was injured when teammates tackled Wolfpack running back Jordan Houston, with the pile rolling over Ramirez’s left leg that was planted in the turf. The leg bent below the knee and was twisted abnormally as he laid on the grass, with team training staffers using a towel to cover the lower left leg as they began treating him.
The game was stopped for roughly 10 minutes before he was lifted onto the cart. Ramirez was alert and multiple N.C. State players came by to offer a fist tap or well-wishes before he left with 4:02 on the clock.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Anthony Richardson nearly cost Florida another victory.
He can thank cornerback Tre’Vez Johnson, running back Trevor Etienne and South Florida’s late gaffes for getting him off the hook.
Etienne’s 3-yard touchdown run followed Johnson’s fourth-quarter interception and helped the 18th-ranked Gators hold off South Florida 31-28 in the Swamp on Saturday night.
USF’s Spencer Shrader missed a 49-yard field goal with 23 seconds left that likely would have sent the game into overtime. Shrader had little chance of making the kick after holder Andrew Beardall dropped the ball while trying to get it set.
“We got a lot of work to do. That’s very obvious,” Florida coach Billy Napier said. “But credit to our team for sticking together and finding a way to win.”
Nonetheless, the back-and-forth game will be remembered mostly for Richardson’s miscues and his team’s inability to stop the run against a 24 1/2-point underdog that entered the game having lost 19 of 23 under third-year coach Jeff Scott.
“We came here to win the game. We did not get that done,” Scott said. “That hurts.”
Richardson was off most of the night for the second straight week. He completed 10 of 18 passes for 112 yards and two interceptions. The first one led to seven points for the Bulls. The second one cost his team points. Richardson checked out of a run on a first-and-goal play from the 5 and attempted a back-shoulder throw to Justin Shorter. Cornerback Aarmaris Brown picked it off.
“I have no issue with the decision. It’s how he threw it,” Napier said. “Simple play, got to be executed better.”
Richardson added: “I just didn’t give him a chance to make a play on the ball.”
It was the second straight game that Richardson did more harm than good for Florida (2-1). He threw two interceptions last week against Kentucky, both of them leading to short field and touchdowns for the Wildcats in a 10-point loss.
Richardson was hoping to rebound against South Florida, which entered the game with one of the worst defenses in college football. Instead, he left some Florida fans questioning whether he’s a long-term solution at the all-important position.
Florida looked to be in trouble after Richardson’s second pick. They trailed 28-24 and needed help. Johnson delivered, intercepting Gerry Bohanon’s third-down pass on the ensuing possession and giving Florida the ball back with a short field.
Napier turned to Etienne, the younger brother of Jacksonville Jaguars running back Travis Etienne. Trevor Etienne carried the ball four straight times, the last one into the end zone to put Florida back in front.
The Gators still needed a stop to preserve the victory. They got help from the Bulls (1-2), who botched a shotgun snap, lost 14 yards and ended up with a longer field-goal try than expected on their final play.
Montrell Johnson ran for 103 yards and a touchdown to lead Florida. Etienne added 56 yards on the ground. Richardson was the story, though. He looked more like former Florida quarterback Treon Harris than retired NFL star Cam Newton (the guy he’s been compared to) as a passer.
Florida doesn’t have a TD pass in three games, a skid for a program accustomed to tossing the ball around with success.
“We put the ball in his hands and ask him to do a lot. He’s going to make mistakes,” Napier said.
Brian Battie led the Bulls with 150 yards rushing and a touchdown. Bohanon chipped in 102 yards and a score on the ground. But his two interceptions were the difference for a team than finished with 286 yards rushing.
“That game showed we can play with anybody,” Bohanon said. “We showed it is about us.”
THE TAKEAWAY
South Florida: The Bulls fell to 0-3 against Florida, but this one was considerably closer than the previous two. It could be a sign USF is closing the gap on the Gators, who remain the only Sunshine State team that hasn’t lost to South Florida.
Florida: The Gators failed to score in the third quarter for the third time in as many games this season, an eye-opening trend in Napier’s first season. Florida has been outscored 24-0 by Utah, Kentucky and South Florida in the frame.
UP NEXT
South Florida: Plays at Louisville next Saturday, the Bulls’ first trip there since 2012.
Florida: Plays at Tennessee next Saturday, the Gators’ first road trip of the season.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Kalen DeBoer knew no matter how well the transition had gone, this was the week that would validate — one way or another — what Washington had showed so far.
Behind a spectacular performance by Michael Penix Jr., the Huskies emphatically stated their case as a contender in the Pac-12 and maybe worth some national recognition.
Penix threw for 397 yards and four touchdown, and Washington (3-0) toppled No. 11 Michigan State 39-28 on Saturday night.
“We just beat a really good football team in my mind,” Huskies coach DeBoer said. “To get this win now is just going to continue to put the belief in our guys.”
Penix was terrific for three quarters in a primetime national showcase that showed DeBoer’s rebuild is progressing faster than expected. Washington led 29-8 at halftime and 36-14 after three quarters.
Having a star quarterback certainly helps.
“Every game that we’ve seen (Penix) he comes out with the same energy, comes out with the same leadership, mentality. It’s just it’s easy to follow someone like that,” Washington running back Wayne Tualapapa said.
Penix completed 24 of 40 passes and just missed posting the eighth 400-yard passing game in Washington history. He was at his best in the first half, connecting on 18 of 24 attempts for 278 yards and leading Washington to touchdowns on four of its five possessions.
He wasn’t sacked by a Michigan State pass rush that led the country in sacks after two weeks.
“I felt real comfortable out there knowing that I got five guys up there that’s gonna protect me each and every play,” Penix said.
It was the second-best day in Penix’s career in terms of yards passing and TDs, trailing only his 491 yards and five TDs in 2020 against Ohio State while playing for Indiana.
“You got a guy who you can win football games with, not just like try to manage a game, and he’s got so much belief by his teammates in him,” DeBoer said.
Ja’Lynn Polk had six catches for a career-high 153 yards and three TDs. Polk’s 53-yard touchdown catch early in the third quarter was a resounding answer after Michigan State scored on the opening drive of the second half to pull within 29-14.
Payton Thorne threw for 323 yards and three TDs, and led a pair of quick fourth-quarter scoring drives for Michigan State that caused some nerves for the Huskies. Thorne threw a 33-yard TD to Keon Coleman with 5:17 left and the 2-point conversion pulled Michigan State within 11. But the rally was too late for the Spartans (2-1), who were stymied in the run game and saw their pass defense get exposed.
“We had a matchup issue that they took advantage of. It was obvious, it showed up early in the game,” Michigan State coach Mel Tucker said. “We knew that it was going to be a game of explosives. … We knew that we needed to eliminate explosive gains and we weren’t able to do that.”
It was Washington’s first win over a ranked Power Five nonconference opponent at home since beating Michigan to open the 2001 season. And the night ended with a sea of purple fans celebrating on the turf of Husky Stadium.
Penix and the Huskies were hot from the outset. Penix threw touchdowns of 8 yards to Polk on Washington’s opening possession and a 19-yard strike to Tualapapa on facing third-and-6 in the second quarter. Penix capped his stellar first half by leading Washington on a 65-yard TD drive in the closing seconds of the half and scrambling from pressure to hit Polk on a 17-yard TD with four seconds left in the half.
Polk had a career-high 100 yards receiving by the half and the Huskies rolled up 322 yards to just 90 for the Spartans in the first 30 minutes.
“We weren’t able to hit the quarterback enough and we weren’t able to put enough pressure on him,” Tucker said.
MISSING
Michigan State played without starting wide receiver Jayden Reed and starting defensive tackle Jacob Slade. Washington was without starting safety Asa Turner and left tackle Jaxson Kirkland remained out following offseason ankle surgery.
THE TAKEAWAY
Michigan State: The Spartans had the worst pass defense in the country a season ago. And while there was hope through the first two games it had improved, the Spartans secondary was completely exposed by Washington. The Spartans surrendered nearly 400 yards passing in just three quarters. Washington’s first punt came in the final minute of the third quarter.
Washington: The Huskies run defense deserves a ton of recognition: Michigan State finished with 42 yards rushing. The better judge of how Washington did was holding the combo of Jerek Broussard and Jalen Berger to 30 yards on 17 carries. Michigan State averaged 228.5 yards rushing over the first two games.
UP NEXT
Michigan State: The Spartans host Minnesota to open Big Ten play next Saturday.
Washington: The Huskies open Pac-12 play next Saturday hosting Stanford.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama scored on a long touchdown pass, a pick-six and a blocked punt.
And that was just the first six minutes.
Bryce Young passed for three touchdowns and rushed for a fourth, Will Anderson Jr. scored on an interception return and No. 2 Alabama rolled to a 63-7 victory over Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday.
The Crimson Tide (3-0) scored on offense, defense and special teams in the first six minutes and raced to a 28-0 first-quarter lead. It was a whirlwind start against the 49 1/2-point underdog Warhawks (1-2) a week after a much closer-than-expected victory over Texas cost Alabama the No. 1 ranking.
Afterward, Tide coach Nick Saban challenged the team to play to the program’s always lofty standard more consistently.
“There’s some evidence out there that this is the standard we want to play to,” Saban said, noting that the competition gets tougher with Southeastern Conference play upcoming.
It wasn’t a seamless performance throughout for either the Tide offense or Young, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner. But special teams came through, including a school-record for punt return yards.
Young completed 13 of 18 passes for 236 yards but also threw his first two interceptions of the season. He did run for a 7-yard score, where he spun near the goal line and dove across.
Anderson returned his first career interception 25 yards for a touchdown, one play after Young’s initial pick. The national sacks leader a year ago, he also got his second sack of the season.
“What can’t he do?” cornerback/return man Kool-Aid McKinstry said.
“He was probably surprised he caught it, I ain’t gonna lie,” linebacker Henry To’oTo’o said. “He had a little stiff-arm and he was just watching it when they did the highlights on the board. And he was like, ‘I can’t believe I did that.’”
Malachi Moore got a short scoop-and-score after Ja’Corey Brooks’ blocked punt.
Chandler Rogers completed 11 of 21 passes 96 yards for Louisiana-Monroe and was intercepted once. Malik Jackson ran for an 11-yard touchdown, set up by the Tide’s failed fourth-down attempt.
“It went like most people thought it would go,” Louisiana-Monroe coach Terry Bowden said. “They were just too good for us in every phase of the game. You could watch the video and say that’s kind of what you’re stepping into, but you still prepare for them not to play well or something to go wrong. And you have a better game.
“And as I talked to the team afterwards, they were so good in every phase.”
Jahmyr Gibbs remained the Tide’s most versatile weapon. He gained 36 yards on nine carries and caught four passes for 65 yards, including a 37-yard touchdown when he juked one defender and shed a couple of downfield tackle attempts.
The Tide outgained Louisiana-Monroe 509-169.
THE TAKEAWAY
Louisiana-Monroe: Managed to keep a horrid start from snowballing even more for awhile and actually was only outgained 132-125 before Alabama’s final drive of the second half. Bowden is now 3-4 against the Tide, with the first six meetings as coach of rival Auburn from 1993-98.
Alabama: This one won’t mean much in the big picture for Alabama’s season, but it started out as a nice, swift rebound from the Texas game. The Tide did have a lull before a pristine Young-directed TD drive in the final two minutes before the half.
LONG RETURNS
Alabama had 262 punt return yards to break a 75-year-old game record set against LSU in 1947. McKinstry flirted with scores on returns and Brian Branch produced one in the fourth quarter. McKinstry averaged 34 yards on his first four returns. Then Branch returned a punt 68 yards for a TD. Gibbs also had a 57-yard kick return.
“The blockers did their job and I can’t do anything but give them thanks for creating the lanes for me to take,” McKinstry said.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
There’s no chance Alabama will overtake No. 1 Georgia on Sunday after the Bulldogs beat South Carolina 48-7. Chances are the Tide will stay put.
TIGHT ENDS
Alabama’s receivers, for the most part, are having quiet seasons. The tight ends, however, came up big on the final first-half drive. Cameron Latu had three catches, including a 38-yarder when he reached over a defender downfield. Freshman reserve Amari Niblack then caught his first pass, a 15-yard TD.
UP NEXT
Alabama hosts Vanderbilt in the Southeastern Conference opener.
Louisiana-Monroe hosts Louisiana.
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BROWNWOOD, Tx (ETBU Athletics) – Finishing out their West Texas trip with a sweep, the East Texas Baptist University volleyball team defeated Howard Payne University in three sets, 25-21, 25-18, 25-21. ETBU is now 11-1 and 2-1 in American Southwest Conference play.
Graycee Mosley led the team with a double-double of 12 kills and 15 digs as Lexi Moody totaled 21 assists and Lillie Hill finished with 21 digs.
HPU kept the game close in the first set pulling to go up, 9-6.. ETBU tied it up 10-10 with a kill by Madi Chandler, before taking the lead 21-18 on a kill by Hannah Perry. The set ended with an error by HPU for the 25-21.
ETBU came into the second set with a run setting the score at 6-3. HPU quickly caught back up tying it at seven. ETBU took the lead with a kill by Avery Reid, Perry, and Mosley, 14-11. Perry ended the set with a kill for the seven-point win, 25-18.
The Yellow Jackets jumped out to a 3-0 lead to start set three. ETBU took the lead with a kill by Chandler, followed by a service ace by Perry to go up by two, 6-4. HPU regained their lead with a run making it 10-7. ETBU kept the score neck and neck until a kill by Kiley Smink gave ETBU at three-point lead, 20-17. Smink ended the match with a kill from Maddison Harris for the sweep, 25-21.
ETBU will continue ASC play at home on Tuesday, September 20th, at 6:00 pm against Texas Dallas.
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JACKSON, Ms (Grambling State Athletics) – The Grambling State University football team refused to back down in the opening half on Saturday afternoon, but 11th-ranked Jackson State imposed its will and flexed its muscles in a 24-point third quarter in a 66-24 home-opener victory in the W.C. Gordon Classic on Saturday afternoon at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium.
Grambling State (1-2) got the ball to begin the game. After a short Quaterius Hawkins to Maurice Washington completion, Ryan Peppins caught a short pass but fumbled the football at the GSU 21. Jackson State (3-0) took advantage of a Grambling State penalty as Sy’veon Wilkerson scored on a 1-yard run, giving JSU a 7-0 lead with 9:55 left in the opening frame.
Both teams struggled to move the ball on their next possessions. Hawkins was picked off at the JSU 39. Jackson State went to work, moving the ball on the ground with Wilkerson getting the bulk of the carries. Sheduer Sanders kept the drive alive with a fourth-down complete as JSU extended the lead to 14-0 after a Wilkerson 3-yard touchdown scamper with 36 seconds remaining in the first quarter. But Grambling State would not end the opening quarter scoreless as Maurice Washington broke into daylight and went 73 yards to the house as GSU closed the gap to 14-7 as the first period ended.
GSU wasn’t done as the defense accounted for the next score. GSU defensive end Sundiata Anderson sacked Sanders, knocking the ball free as Bryan Powell picked up a fumble at the Jackson State 17 and went untouched into the end zone for the scoop and score touchdown as Grambling State tied the game at 14 with 14:11 remaining in the half. Jackson State responded with a 9-play, 71-yard drive as Sanders connected with Dallas Daniels for a 7-yard touchdown pass to give JSU the 21-14 lead with 9:54 left in the second quarter.
After GSU was forced to punt the football, Grambling State got a gift on the Jimmy Iles punt as Kevin Coleman muffed the kicked and recovered by Chance WIlliams at the Jackson State 25. The GSU drive stalled as Garrett Urban’s kick was no good from 46 yards, but running into the kicker moved the ball closer by five yards as he booted the 41-yarder, cutting the deficit to 21-17 with 5:19 remaining.
Both teams were forced to punt the ball and JSU started its final drive of the half at the Grambling State 41 with 1:57 left. Sanders connected with Daniels for a big gain, but was stripped of the ball and was recovered by Marquis Britten to end the JSU scoring threat. Jackson State took the opening kickoff to begin the second half, marching down the field as Sanders hit Daniels for a 28-yard touchdown, extending the JSU lead to 28-17 with 13:25 left in the third. An Alejandro Mata 31-yard field goal, with 9:41 left in the frame pushed the lead to 31-17.
On Grambling State’s next drive, Quaterius Hawkins was sacked, fumbling the ball on the play as JSU recovered the ball at the GSU 11. One play later, Alvin Brumfield bulldozed his way into the end zone, increasing the JSU lead to 38-17 with 5:42 left in the quarter.
After another GSU punt, Jackson State put together another drive with Sanders scoring on a. 15-yard keeper with 1:43 remaining to give JSU a 44-17 lead. Jackson State put the game out of reach early in the fourth quarter as Sanders connected with Willie Gaines for an 86-yard touchdown strike, extending the advantage to 52-17. JSU added one more touchdown to push the lead to 59-17.
Grambling State tacked on a touchdown with 4:45 remaining as Lyndon Rash scored on an 79-yard touchdown strike from Hawkins to close the gap to 59-24.
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TEXARKANA, Tx (KMSS/KTAL) – A missed field goal late in the fourth quarter helped Liberty-Eylau hang on to beat Atlanta 16-14.
The Leopards are now 4-0 and will travel to Sulphur Springs next week. Atlanta falls to 3-1 and will host Brook Hill.
TEXARKANA, Tx (KMSS/KTAL) – A missed field goal late in the fourth quarter helped Liberty-Eylau hang on to beat Atlanta 16-14.
The Leopards are now 4-0 and will travel to Sulphur Springs next week. Atlanta falls to 3-1 and will host Brook Hill.
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HATTIESBURG, Ms (Northwestern State Athletics) – One of Northwestern State’s keys to Saturday night’s visit to Southern Miss was to try to win the field position battle.
The Demons were unable to do that, and the homestanding Golden Eagles took advantage.
A first-half scoring blitz, aided by excellent field position, put Southern Miss in the driver’s seat, and the Golden Eagles cruised to a 64-10 victory at M.M. Roberts Stadium.
“From the start, we couldn’t get anything going offensively,” said fifth-year head coach Brad Laird, whose team avoided its second shutout loss of the season on Eddie Godina’s 43-yard field goal in the third quarter.
“The first six drives, we had five punts and a turnover. Defensively, we held our own early and ended up giving up some big plays.”
The Golden Eagles (1-2) scored on their first three drives Saturday night, part of a first half in which their average starting field position was their 44-yard line.
Meanwhile, the Demons (0-3) took until the second half to awaken offensively.
Northwestern State needed until its ninth drive to pick up its initial first down of the game. By then, the Golden Eagles had built a 27-0 lead.
The Purple Swarm defense stood tall early in the first quarter, stiffening twice in the red zone to force Southern Miss to settle for a pair of Briggs Bourgeois field goals.
The run of big plays for the Southern Miss offense began on a 3rd-and-12 from the NSU 40 when Ty Keyes found Jakarius Caston for a 40-yard score that pushed the Golden Eagles’ lead to 13-0 less than 11 minutes into the game.
“We didn’t start fast,” Laird said. “We started slow, and it showed.”
Swayze Bozeman’s 12-yard fumble return touchdown 8 seconds into the second quarter marked the third non-offensive touchdown against the Demons this season and extended Southern Miss’ lead to 20.
Taking advantage of a return game that averaged 19.8 yards on nine punt returns, the Golden Eagles had a pair of touchdown drives that started in Demon territory to push the lead to 34 on Caston’s second scoring catch – a 7-yarder from Zach Wilcke.
Even when the Golden Eagles were backed up, they found a way to compensate.
Scotty Roblow’s eighth punt of the first half was fair caught at the Southern Miss 11. It took the Golden Eagles one play to reach the end zone as Jalen May took his first career catch 89 yards for a touchdown.
“A lot will be evaluated,” Laird said. “After the first three weeks, certain things offensively, defensively and special teams will be evaluated as we get ready for conference play.”
Seeing his most extensive action of the season, quarterback Zachary Clement led a pair of scoring drives for the Demons in the second half as the NSU passing game awakened.
A 50-yard catch-and-run by Travon Jones set up Godina’s 43-yard field goal with 3:51 to play in the third quarter.
Following Zay Franks’ 58-yard scoring catch, the Demons answered with a six-play, 55-yard scoring drive that culminated with Ke’Nard King’s first career touchdown catch.
King hauled in a 15-yard dart from Clement one play after Clement’s 2-yard touchdown run was negated by an illegal blindside block call in the end zone.
“(Quarterbacks) coach (Kyle) Washington and the guys in the room make sure we’re ready if the opportunity comes,” said Clement, who finished 16-for-33 for a career-high 214 yards and the touchdown pass to King. “(The second half) was positive for us to get some momentum and know we can move the ball. We know we can move the ball and make positive plays.”
The Demons return to action Sept. 24, facing Lamar in both the Southland Conference and the home openers for the Demons.
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FRISCO, TX (Silver Star Nation) – The Dallas Cowboys have a different look going into Sunday afternoon’s matchup with last year’s Super Bowl runner up Cincinnati Bengals.
With starting quarterback Dak Prescott among the five starters who are not active for Sunday, Cooper Rush will try to lead the Cowboys back from last week’s crushing defeat.
Cowboys insider Mickey Spagnola has his keys to the game.
The Cowboys and Bengals kick off at 3:25 p.m. CDT at AT&T Stadium.
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Summer has returned and apparently has no intention of leaving. However, Autumn, which begins Thursday 9/22/2022, may have a few things to say about that.
In the meantime a high-pressure system to our east is giving us a southeasterly flow, bringing in plenty of moisture. Be ready for a quick increase in humidity over the next couple of days. At this point, it appears the high pressure will increase, not only across our area but across much of the region. This will lead to a very humid and uncomfortable and hot weather pattern for much of the upcoming week. This includes the start of Autumn next Thursday and lasts into the following weekend.
Morning low temperatures will be from near 70 to the low 70s. Afternoon high temperatures will climb into the mid to upper 90s as summer comes to an end and will last through the first weekend of Autumn. There is some good news coming our way, though. By next Monday, a very cool air mass will head our way as high-pressure moves well to our east. Morning lows will be falling into the low 60s with afternoon highs in the mid-80s. It may be a bit late, but our first taste of Autumn will be worth the wait and it could be our next chance at rain.
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After 11 months of negotiating, members of the Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition (GTAC) voted to ratify a new contract with the University of Kansas, according to a statement from GTAC.
Since 1992, GTAC has been fighting for workplace improvements including a living wage, better healthcare, and safe and healthy working conditions for graduate teachers at KU.
On Dec. 2, 2021, GTAC rejected KU’s final proposed contract, which didn’t include any guaranteed salary increases, declaring an impasse.
After a fact-finding hearing was held, where both the union and the University presented arguments to an independent party from the Kansas Department of Labor, the fact-finder recommended changes while saying that both the union and the University did not provide reasonable proposals.
“The Union’s proposed 6% increase does not capture the inflation increase for the past year or the economic predictions for this year,” the fact-finder said in his recommendations. “At the same time the proposed 6% is not reasonable given the overall budget/funding issues for the State, the Board of Regents and KU.”
The new contract provides for a wage freeze during the current academic year, while providing increases in payment for future academic years.
At the end of this academic year, GTAC will resume bargaining with the administration.
“We are pleased to have reached an agreement with GTAC. The university stands ready to continue dialogue on issues of importance to our graduate students,” Director for News and Media Relations Erinn Barcomb-Peterson said when asked to comment on the new contract.
GTAC did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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University of Kansas administration sent an email to students, staff and faculty, confirming that the University is in possession of ancient Native American human remains in its museum collections. The statement assured that the University is in the process of repatriation.
Director of Tribal Relations Melissa Peterson confirmed the remains are currently being stored in the Lippincott Annex, home to the Indigenous Studies department and behind Lippincott Hall, which was first reported by the Lawrence Times. The department asked community members on Twitter to keep Native folk in mind.
It's been a heavy, heavy week. There are no words. Please keep our Native students, faculty, staff, alums and community in your thoughts as we try to process this and work for all ancestors to find their way home. https://t.co/zQ8s3EHg5F
— KU IndigenousStudies (@KUIndigenous) September 20, 2022
Federal data shows that the KU’s Museum of Anthropology currently holds at least 380 remains, and 554 unclassified associated funerary objects.
According to Peterson, the attention was brought to KU administration by a new Collection Manager in the Natural History Museum.
The statement relays that as a University, KU has a responsibility to follow the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), a federal law enacted by Congress in 1990, which allows for tribal nations to reclaim any human remains and funerary objects held in museums.
According to Peterson, staff members in the Anthropology Department working on completing the repatriation process with tribal members were laid off at the time, resulting in an unfinished NAGPRA process. The statement released by KU administration acknowledged that although they have made attempts to return these remains in the past, possession of these remains causes great pain for many in the Native community.
“We are fully committed to the work of creating meaningful institutional memory by properly repatriating the ancestors and funerary objects,” the statement said. “We are working with members in our Native American community and outside consultants specializing in repatriation.”
“As a Native American person — to have our ancestors on campus when they should be repatriated to our tribal nations is so disappointing,” Peterson said. “But I’m just glad to be in my position so I can help see this through after so many years.
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The Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) at the University of Kansas is one step closer to finding a new vice provost.
Makini King, the first of four candidates for the position, will present her philosophy on diversity and inclusion in higher education from 2:30-3:30 p.m. on Sept. 20 in the Kansas Union Big 12 Room.
According to a University news release, King currently works as the assistant vice chancellor for the Division of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She was the director of diversity and inclusion initiatives at UMKC for six years, and is also a licensed psychologist.
Three more presentations on Sept. 23, 28 and Oct. 3 will follow King’s. According to the news release, each candidate’s name will be announced two days before their respective presentation.
Feedback from faculty, staff and students on each candidate is encouraged. Following the visit from King, a survey on her presentation can be completed. This survey must be completed by 5 p.m. Sept. 23. A recording of the presentation available the morning after, along with further information, can be found on the search website.
The presentation can also be livestreamed here, with the passcode 921666.
Nicole Hodges Persley, the current interim vice provost of the DEIB office, is the second candidate. She will present this Friday.
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Kansas men’s and women’s cross country both finished inside the top five in the Woody Greeno/Jay Dirksen Invitational in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday. In both teams’ first traveling meet, the men’s team placed third with 54 points, and the women’s team finished fourth with 91 points.
The men’s team, who narrowly lost to Kansas State (48) and Air Force (53), was led by junior Chandler Gibbens, finishing second overall with a time of 24:10.8 in the men’s 8k race. Other members of the Kansas team ran closely together.
Sophomore Peter Walsdorf finished 13th (24:43.7), and freshman Tanner Talley finished 20th (24:55.0). Freshman Tanner Newkirk (27th) and sophomore Sam Hubert (29th) also finished inside the top 30.
The women’s team fell short to Kansas State (46), Nebraska (49), and Drake (77). The team was led by junior Lona Latema, who placed fourth overall in the women’s 5k race with a time of 17:19.0.
The rest of the Kansas team didn’t finish as high, with just two additional runners, Kenadi Kruger (17th), and Avryl Johnson (24th), cracking the top 30.
Kansas travels again on Friday, Sept. 30th, for the Gans Creek Classic, hosted by the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
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As multiple media outlets have been saying, Kansas football started out 3-0 and receiving votes for the first time since 2009.
Head coach Lance Leipold acknowledges that the recognition is nice, but it’s something that they cannot keep their focus on.
“It's been great to be recognized for the guys' efforts,” Leipold said. “But you know shortly after that you just have to keep your head down and stay focused on what you’ve got to get done and get better at.”
Duke is playing with a lot of confidence, and it will require the Jayhawks to stay focused, especially after the Blue Devils won the last matchup.
“Obviously, we're playing a good football team that's well coached,” Leipold said. “They're playing with a lot of confidence. They haven't lost a game, and it's a team that got a new coaching staff, a lot of the same players, who got after us last year at their place. That should be another reason we should have a good focus.”
With Duke also being unbeaten, it might serve as motivation for the Jayhawks as they begin their three-game homestand.
“I would sure hope so, and only in motivating things,” Leipold said. “I also hope that we're grounded enough to know that we’re nowhere near a point where we're going to show up and roll without thinking it’s gonna take care of itself.”
With both Kansas and Duke being undefeated, it’s for sure going to bring excitement to David Booth Memorial Stadium.
“I think it adds to the excitement, of course, two 3-0 teams now,” Leipold said. “We talk about it, it's a big game. You don't get a chance to be in these, and what I was telling them is that the reason why it gets to be a bigger game now, is because you're making it so by what your past performance did.”
With Kansas receiving national attention, Leipold says the credit goes elsewhere.
“I'm really proud of the program getting its due recognition and our players for their efforts,” Leipold said. “That's what's important. It isn't a player, it's not Lance Leipold. It's a program, and the staff that just worked extremely hard since we arrived. It's a group of players that have bought in and continue all those things.”
Kickoff between Duke and Kansas is set for Saturday at 11 a.m. on Fox Sports 1.
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Travis d’Arnaud broke a scoreless tie with a two-run homer in the fourth inning, Dansby Swanson went deep in the eighth, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 3-2 and clinched a playoff berth.
The defending World Series champion Braves secured their trip to the postseason when Milwaukee lost to the New York Mets 7-5 less than 30 minutes later. Atlanta (93-55) is also vying for its fifth consecutive division title, but remained in second place, one game behind the Mets in the NL East.
Swanson added his 21st homer in the eighth off Kyle Finnegan. The Braves have won 10 straight games at home, outscoring opponents 47-15 over this stretch.
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Gordon Ramsay gin adverts banned over claims of honeyberry ingredient grown at St Andrews distillery
Ads for celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s gin have been banned for making unauthorised claims about the spirit’s honeyberry ingredient.
The Instagram and Facebook posts for Ramsay’s Gin, seen in March, said the honeyberries that made up its “botanical foundations” were grown in fields a few miles away from the Eden Mill distillery near St Andrews.
The ads read: “Here, the farmer follows a philosophy of natural growth, meaning the Honeyberries retain the rich flavours and micro-nutrients that come from Scotland’s wonderful terroir.
“With more antioxidants than blueberries, more potassium than bananas, more vitamin C than oranges and a flavour like a mixture of blueberry, plum and grape, these might be the tastiest Honeyberries in the world.”
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) challenged whether the claims about honeyberries were permitted for alcoholic drinks.
Eden Mill Distillery, trading as Ramsay’s Gin, said the ads had been posted only once, had been deleted and would not be used again in any form or across any channel.
The company said it had not previously distilled with honeyberries and, excited by the opportunity to work with Ramsay, had neglected to conduct its usual due diligence.
It said the company owners, marketing team and head distiller had all been briefed on the complaint and they provided an assurance that it would not happen again.
The ASA noted the only permitted nutrition claims that could be made in relation to alcohol were “low alcohol”, “reduced alcohol” and “reduced energy”.
The ASA said: “While we welcomed the action Ramsay’s Gin had taken to withdraw the ads because the claims ‘retain … micro-nutrients’ and ‘more antioxidants than blueberries, more potassium than bananas, more vitamin C than oranges’ were nutrition claims that were not permitted for alcoholic drinks, we concluded the ads breached the Code.”
The regulator ruled the ads must not appear again in the form complained of, adding: “We told Eden Mill Distillery trading as Ramsay’s Gin not to make non-permitted nutrition claims about alcoholic drinks.”
Eden Mill said: “We have apologised to the ASA and take full responsibility. The content was posted on our Instagram and Facebook and was immediately removed on raising by the ASA.”
Honeyberries are the fruit of the honeysuckle Lonicera caerulea, also known as blue honeysuckle or edible honeysuckle.
The RHS describes the fruit as very similar in taste and looks to blueberries, advising they can be eaten raw or used in jams and jellies.
Like blueberries, they are high in antioxidants and vitamin C.
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Passenger nightmare over Avanti West Coast bookings ‘could put them off trains for good’ – Transport Focus
Booking problems being suffered by passengers at one of the biggest cross-Border rail operators could put them off train travel for good, an industry watchdog has told The Scotsman.
Independent passenger body Transport Focus’s warning came as transport minister Jenny Gilruth was due to meet the UK Government tomorrowover the situation, which has left travellers unable to book on Avanti’s weekend trains between Glasgow, Edinburgh and London as little as four days in advance.
The operator, run by Aberdeen-based First Group and Italian firm Trenitalia, significantly cut its services last month as part of a pay dispute after it said the number of staff volunteering for overtime – on which its timetable depends – “fell dramatically”.
Train drivers’ union Aslef claimed Avanti’s managing director Phil Whittingham had been fired last month over the issue.
The company is being temporarily run by First Rail managing director and former ScotRail managing director Steve Montgomery.
Despite Avanti’s Scottish services being unaffected by the timetable reduction, its website stated yesterday that bookings for trains on Saturday were not expected to open until thisafternoon.
Bookings for Sunday are not expected to open until tomorrow afternoon, with no dates provided for when bookings for subsequent weekends would open.
Avanti trains connect Scotland’s two largest cities with London via the west coast main line and via Birmingham.
Transport Focus senior stakeholder manager Robert Samson said: “Avanti’s temporary timetable was due to reduce chaotic last-minute cancellations and give passengers certainty.
"Passengers are still facing cancellations, overcrowding and poor information online.
“This disruption is having a huge impact, potentially putting large numbers of people off using the train for good.
"Avanti must do better in ensuring that the timetable it offers is delivered reliably and that it provides better information to all passengers.”
A spokesperson for the Scottish Government’s Transport Scotland agency: “We understand the concerns around Avanti West Coast services, including their booking system and their current reduced timetable.
"Whilst the number of services into and out of Scotland remain largely unaffected, there are substantial reductions elsewhere.
“Whilst officials continue to engage with Avanti West Coast, and are regularly updated, detailed monitoring is a matter for the Department for Transport (the UK Government).
"The transport minister intends to raise this matter directly with the UK Government this week.”
Aslef said Avanti “does not employ enough drivers to deliver the services it has promised passengers it will run”.
The union has announced more strikes at the company and 11 other England-based operators for Saturday, October 1 and Wednesday, October 5.
Avanti said tickets were being released “later than we had hoped” because it was having to finalise the reduced timetable at short notice.
It said delays to tickets being available would “continue for upcoming weekends, where our network may be impacted by engineering work, and different iterations of the timetable are required”.
Its spokesperson said: “Customers can currently buy tickets for weekday Avanti West Coast services up to October 21.
"Some train times will need to be adjusted when we finalise our timetable. However, customers won’t lose their tickets or seat reservations and we’ll notify them if their train changes.
"We sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.”
Avanti has said Mr Whittingham left “to pursue other executive leadership opportunities”.
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Adam posted on the dot plot here as part of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) previews:
- A risk is that the Fed signals rates staying high. That would set off a dogfight between the Fed and markets, which are increasingly worried about overtightening and recession.
Further Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) previews:
- Video: Signs of global economic weakness mount ahead of the FOMC decision
- USD - Federal Reserve "monetary policy will remain restrictive through 2023 and into 2024"
- Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement due Wednesday, 21 September 2022 - preview
- Another 75bps hike on Wed; Risk of USD stronger for longer - BofA
- Fed could raise rates until they force unemployment higher - WSJ
FOMC forecast, +75bp hike but high inflation means +100bp is a risk
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Carnival Luminosa is looking ever more like an actual Carnival cruise ship as workers continue the whirlwind updates that have been ongoing now for some weeks. The newest ship in the fleet has already received a shiny fresh coat of paint, with the stunning new livery looking amazing.
The vessel also floated again for the very first time today as workers have completed the works to the ship’s hull, bow thrusters, and propellers.
One thing that does set Carnival Luminosa apart from the rest of the fleet is the funnel. While Carnival’s ships are known to have the iconic whale tale shape funnel, Carnival Luminosa has an entirely different design.
Carnival Luminosa Dry Dock Update
The newest cruise ship to join the Carnival Cruise Line fleet of ships, Carnival Luminosa, is getting closer to being completely transformed into a genuine Carnival Cruise Ship
Workers at the Fincantieri shipyard in Palermo, Italy, have been working hard to complete a massive list of works that will need to be done before Carnival Luminosa sets sail for the first time later this year.
Carnival Cruise Line took possession of the Spirit-class cruise ship last month, with the vessel operational for Italian cruise line Costa Cruises prior. Since the official handover ceremony at the shipyard on September 8, the shipyard has been a beehive of activity, of which the results look promising.
Already the vessel sports the new Carnival Cruise Line livery. First introduced on Mardi Gras, the hull now is a navy blue that swoops from the bow to close to the waterline, bordered by thin white and red lines.
Contractors at the shipyard also concluded the work that needed to be done to the hull below the waterline. Typically, during a dry dock, the shipyard will strip the hull from any growths compromising the vessel’s performance through the water.
In the case of Carnival Luminosa, all paint was stripped, and the vessel received a new hull coating. The coatings will reduce the resistance of the ship hull through water, reduce the needed engine power, and thus reduce fuel consumption.
Other jobs that have now been completed include maintenance on the vessel’s thrusters, which are used for maneuvering, and maintenance of the rudders and propellers. One area that does look distinctly Carnival, but in many ways does not, is the funnel.
What Happened to the Whale Tail?
Everyone who has looked to a port and seen a cruise ship lying there instinctively knows that a Carnival cruise ship is in due to the presence of the whale tail. The iconic whale tail has been a staple onboard Carnival’s ships since 1982 when it added one to the 1,412-passenger Tropicale.
However, the 92,720 gross tons, 2,826-passenger Carnival Luminosa is different. Instead of the whale tail, the vessel has kept the funnel design that it sailed with when operational under Costa Cruises.
Workers did apply the new livery colors, a three-quarter covering of navy blue, white line, and Carnival red. So, if Carnival is going through all the work of transforming the vessel, why not change the funnel?
Carnival Luminosa is part of a program called ‘Costa by Carnival.’ Carnival has decided to keep the original funnel and many interior design aspects that make Carnival Luminosa distinctly Italian to set the ships in the program apart from the rest of the fleet.
Carnival Luminosa is not the only ship to make its way to Carnival. Two more Costa Cruises’ newest vessels, Costa Venezia and Costa Firenze, will join the 2,260-passenger Costa Luminosa in 2023 and 2024. Costa Venezia will operate from New York, and Costa Firenze will sail out of Long Beach.
Carnival Luminosa will set sail from Brisbane, Australia, on November 6. From May next year, the vessel will be repositioning to Alaska. Homeporting from Seattle, Washington, Carnival Luminosa will offer guests 7-night cruises to Alaska.
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Ka Leo o Hawaii celebrates 100 years of being the newspaper on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus. The paper has also been the training ground for many local journalists.
Ka leo has been the voice of Hawaii and for the students here at UH Manoa for a century and gives journalists a hands on approach to story telling. Our Own Paula Akana got her start as a journalist at Ka Leo… In 2016, Chavonnie Ramos started as a freshman videographer moving to sports and eventually becoming editor in chief.
Chavonnie Ramos, Hawaii Business Magazine, says “I’ve been at Hawaii Business Magazine for a year now and I think Ka leo has helped a lot because you get to learn a lot of real world experience just working on different stories just gaining that experience you don’t get in the classroom.”
And having a student newspaper at U-H for 100 years speaks to the importance of having student journalism on a college campus.
Spencer Oshita – Former Editor, 100 Year Celebration Committee, “For the last 100 years, students on this campus have been able to use their own voice to speak about the things that matter to them. Uncovering stories from mismanagement in the administration here on campus to covering larger stories like pearl harbor."
Editor in Chief, Amanda Dick says to keep up with digital era, Ka Leo is expanding its online presence through its website and social media.
Amanda Dick – Editor in Chief, Ka Leo O Hawaiʻi says, “We’ve heard all along, that print is going print is dying we have a good amount of the community that reads our newspaper but we also want to be where our voice is, and our students primarily go online which is why we are trying to focus a lot of social media and the website because we don’t want to fall behind. “
Ka Leo O Hawaiʻwill be releasing its 100th anniversary issue on October 3rd.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to Cyip@kitv.com
Cynthia is an award-winning journalist who returned to Hawaii as an Anchor/Reporter/MMJ from Houston. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a B.A. and M.B.A. DM her on IG @CynthiaYipTV to share stories.
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GEORGETOWN, Del. -- While a group of migrants did not land in a plane at Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown on Tuesday, there was no shortage of volunteers and support waiting to welcome them with open arms.
Pastor Rene Knight is originally from the Dominican Republic and is currently the pastor at Iglesia Metodista Unida Betel in Georgetown. He received a call on Monday about the possibility of migrants arriving in Georgetown the next day that would need spiritual support upon their arrival. For Knight, being at the airport if and when migrants arrived was a no brainer.
"We are here to focus on the human beings and that is my focus," Knight says. "We are here to show that we care, and we will do everything that we can in our power to give them support."
Pastor Mark Harris, an associate at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Lewes, Del., stood alongside Knight in front of the terminal at the airport Thursday. He also received a call from a friend on Monday night with word that migrants would arrive by plane in Georgetown.
"The reason I was contacted yesterday was because a number of us in this are have been involved for a long time in the problem of immigrants essentially being misused in a whole variety of ways and treated as objects and not as people," Harris says. "So there have been a number of programs here in the churches to try to support people as seasonal workers or here as legal or illegal immigrants."
When asked about the type of support these migrants would need, volunteers mentioned a few key means of assistance: housing, food, clothing, monetary support, and jobs, among other physical, emotional, and spiritual resources. Many local organizations in Georgetown, like the Crisis House, are prepared to offer their resources to potential refugees. A spokesperson from the City Of Rehoboth beach told WBOC they were working with partners to "compassionately assist migrants if they arrive".
Back at the airport, people like Rossana Arteaga-Lopenza, waited to do their part. Arteaga-Lopenza, who is an immigrant herself and volunteer with Casa de Venezuela Delaware - a non-profit organization with a mission to promote the culture and tradition of Venezuela - felt a personal connection to the migrants expected to arrive on Thursday.
"I hope they know that this is the last part of their journey," Arteaga-Lopenza says. "I want them to be citizens of tomorrow that are aware and they feel powerful and empowered to make a change."
The possibility of migrants arriving in Georgetown on Thursday was uncertain, but the patience, support, and love of the community was far from it.
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West Ocean City, Md. --- A local charitable organization, Diakonia, is getting new property. The plan is to build a hub to continue Diakonia's services. The 4.4-acre property on Stephen Decatur Highway in West Ocean City will be transformed into a new facility for Diakonia. Diakonia provides resources for people in need, such as housing, veteran services, and food assistance. Although the original location on Old Bridge Road will remain in operation, Ken Argot the Executive Director of Diakonia says some of their other resources and offices will move to the new location.
"The food pantry however will move to the new location along with our thrift store which is on Sunset Boulevard," Argot said. "And our current Executive Offices and veteran's office on Stephen Decatur. So we're paying rent of those other two so in building this building we'll be able to be rent-free."
There will be 42 affordable housing units on the property as well.
"The housing is at a critical level, Vance Larson, the outreach and housing case manager at Diakonia, said. "COVID hit, some very good people fell on some very bad times and our job is to try and soften the blow for them."
The property was donated by the Blue Water Development Company. Now, the next step is to find sponsors.
"Well be looking at the cost of all the buildings and then we will be seeking sponsors for different units or different buildings with naming privileges," Argot said.
The plan is to start breaking ground on the property within the next year.
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CAMBRIDGE, Md.-A man has died in an apparent shooting according to Cambridge Police.
Police say it happened around 3 p.m. Tuesday. Officers arrived at the area near Fairmount Avenue for a report of shots fired. They then found a man lying near a wooded area of the 500 block of Edgewood Avenue with reported gunshot wounds. They determined he was dead.
Maryland State Police is investigating the incident.
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GEORGETOWN, De. - No plane carrying migrants arrived at Delaware Coastal Airport on Tuesday.
There was widespread speculation that a plane traveling from Texas to Delaware via Florida would have migrants on board, as it was the same plane used by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to transport around 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts last week.
But that flight's arrival at Georgetown's airport was canceled on Tuesday afternoon.
Georgetown Mayor Bill West, who's town is nearly a third latino says the migrants would be treated with compassion.
"I'm upset that this country has decided to go this route. Yeah Texas doesn't have room for them, they're running out and it's affecting communities," he said.
"Our people in Georgetown are concerned with the overcrowding in houses right now. What's it going to be with more people coming? And it's not fair to us, it's not fair to the other states having to take people," he continued.
Joe Harrison, who lives in Lewes does not want this community to play a part in the national immigration debate.
"I'm not in favor of using these people as political pawns but I think there's enough blame to go around both parties in terms of fixing the entire immigration system," Harrison said.
Rehoboth Beach officials, like those in Georgetown, say assistance will be provided to any migrants should they arrive.
Delaware Governor John Carney says the Delaware Emergency Management Agency would work to assist any migrants.
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Despite plans being put in place to tackle racial inequalities, Black people are six times more likely to be stopped and searched in Kent compared to their white counterparts, recent figures show. People have voiced their anger at the actions of police officers across the country following the death of Chris Kaba, a 24-year-old dad-to-be who was shot dead in south London by a police officer.
Fears that racial profiling still continues resurfaced as a result of the shooting - which is currently subject to a homicide investigation. Figures released by Kent Police show that there were 13.72 stop and searches for every 1,000 Black people compared to 2.54 for their white counterparts between January and June 2022. The rate for mixed race was 8.027 per 1,000 arrests and 7.866 per 1,000 arrests for Chinese and other ethnic groups.
When faced with these figures, chief superintendent Amanda Tillotson, head of diversity and inclusion at Kent Police, told KentLive: “Stop and search is ultimately a safeguarding power that we use to keep the public safe, tackle crime and anti-social behaviour and prevent terrorism. For more stories for our minority communities, sign up to Untold Stories.
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“In Kent, we adhere to national guidelines and training standards, which were introduced to support a more intelligence-led approach. This had led to more stops resulting in positive outcomes such as an arrest or penalty notice.
“Our officers do not discriminate on the grounds of someone’s race, sex, age, or any other personal factor. They are given clear guidance on appropriate and proportionate use of stop and search powers to ensure that encounters are fair and effective which is reflected by the independent policing inspectorate which graded Kent Police ‘outstanding’ at how we treat the people we serve with fairness and respect.”
'We want to listen to people with lived experiences'
This comes months after the National Police Chiefs’ Council launched its Police Race Action Plan to address race disparities affecting Black people and becoming an actively anti-racist police service. The report showed that there is a 20 per cent gap in confidence in policing between Black Caribbean communities and the general population.
The plan seeks to ensure that Black people and communities are ‘routinely involved in the governance of policing’, ‘respected and treated in a fair and equitable way’, ‘and protected and properly supported as victims of crime and as vulnerable groups’. A spokesperson said: “That commitment holds firm as we scope and pilot actions in the plan that will have a tangible impact on improving policing for Black people.
“This plan isn’t a quick fix to the deficit of trust and confidence policing faces from Black people, but by listening to people with lived experience and using their feedback to help us shape the final Plan, we are developing something that will have a substantial and long-lasting impact.”
The NPCC said it is committed to increase the awareness and understanding of every officer and member of staff of racism, anti-racism, Black history as well as adopting an ‘explain or reform approach’. The latter aims to examine police or practice where racial disparity exists. “At times, there will be reasons why disparity exists. Where disparity cannot be explained, the expectation is that it should be changed. There will be a particular focus on the lawfulness, proportionality and necessity of the use of police powers to ensure demonstrable legitimacy,” the Race Action Plan reads.
In an attempt to tackle violent crime, the former Home Secretary Priti Patel permanently lifted restrictions placed on police in the use of stop-and-search powers. In a letter to police shared in May, Ms Patel announced the easing of conditions on the use of the tactics under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.
Section 60 powers give officers the right to search people without reasonable grounds in an area when they expect serious violence, and to look for weapons before they can be used, or those used in a recent attack.
'Confidence in the police among Black people is far too low'
Programme Director for the Police Race Action Plan, Deputy Chief Constable Tyron Joyce said: "Police officers are given powers to use to tackle crime, protect communities and as far as we can, reduce the risk of death and serious injury to others. It is essential that these powers are used legitimately in order to build trust and confidence in our communities. It is vital that each police interaction is handled sensitively, in line with policy, and that we learn from those instances where we have not got that balance right."
“Currently confidence in the police among Black people is far too low and we need to change that to be legitimate and effective. A new police action plan sets out the commitment of chief constables in England and Wales to become an anti-racist police service that Black people can trust.
“One of the key actions in the plan is to adopt an ‘explain or reform’ approach to race disparities and develop a new national approach to help forces tackle race disparities in their use of powers, including stop and search. We anticipate this is likely to include some changes in training. This will be supported by strengthened governance and oversight of the use of police powers at a national and local force level, including effective supervision and community scrutiny of police data and body-worn video (BWV) footage of police interaction with Black people.
“The plan will now be subject to further independent scrutiny with the public, police officers and staff, and experts, who have been invited to share their views before it is finalised in Spring 2023.”
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- Napier Barracks: The 'deeply unsuitable' Folkestone asylum seeker holding centre still open two years on
- The Thanet-based organisation and volunteers who have raised over £2 million in aid for Ukraine
- Syrian refugee family wanted to leave Kent but reveal why they are starting to settle
- Canterbury ex-Gurkha soldier hopes to become world's first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Everest
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Thousands of people are calling for a new Bank Holiday to be created in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. About 140,000 people have signed a petition calling for the holiday but we want to know what you think about the idea?
The campaign has quickly gathered momentum following the death of Her Majesty on September 8, describing the late Queen as "the world's most popular monarch" and the "most constant symbol of Great Britain". The monarch's funeral was made a one-off Bank Holiday on Monday, September 19 as shops, restaurants and businesses closed to allow their staff the opportunity to pay their respects.
Now, the Change.org petition from John Harries seeks to make September 8 a returning national Bank Holiday. Is a new Bank Holiday the best way to remember the Queen? Or there is a better way to celebrate her life?
Let us know your thoughts in our comments section - press here to have your say Or in our Survey here.
We want to know if you think a Bank Holiday should be created in memory of Queen Elizabeth II? Would the nation benefit from an extra Bank Holiday or do you think we should celebrate the life of Her Majesty in another way? If you want to share your opinion then add it in the comments and we'll highlight the best ones as they come in.
We will be discussing the options with you below in the comments section - and you can take part.
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Dennis Richardson Sr., 80 Sep 20, 2022 33 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Dennis Richardson Sr., 80, of Yakima died Friday, Sept. 16, at Fieldstone Communities.Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Moxee, 509-457-1232. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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John Frederick Roush Sr., 85 Sep 20, 2022 33 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save John Frederick Roush Sr., 85, of Yakima died Monday, Sept. 12.Arrangements are by Shaw and Sons Funeral Home, Yakima, 509-453-0331. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Lucia Rodriguez Macias, 91 Sep 20, 2022 33 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Lucia Rodriguez Macias, 91, of Yakima died Tuesday, Sept. 13, at Landmark Care Center.Arrangements are by Brookside Funeral Home and Crematory, Moxee, 509-457-1232. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Matthew George, 46 Sep 20, 2022 33 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Matthew George, 46, of White Swan died Sunday, Sept. 18.Arrangements are by Colonial Funeral Home, Toppenish, heggiescolonialfuneralhome.com. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Ronald Cameron, 90 Sep 20, 2022 33 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ronald Cameron, 90, of Yakima died Tuesday, Sept. 13, at home.Arrangements are by Keith and Keith Funeral Home, Yakima, 509-453-9155. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save × Add your entry Posting As Emoticons [smile] [beam] [wink] [sad] [cool] [innocent] [rolleyes] [whistling] [lol] [huh] [tongue] [love] [sleeping] [yawn] [unsure] [angry] [blink] [crying] [ohmy] [scared] [sleep] [sneaky] [tongue_smile] [thumbdown] [thumbup] [censored] [happybirthday] [ban] [spam] [offtopic] [batman] [ninja] [pirate] [alien] Comment Text CAPTCHA × Your entry has been submitted. Guest × Report ×Reported ×There was a problem reporting this. × Watch the guestbook. Stop watching this guestbook. Watch this discussion Get an email notification whenever someone signs the guestbook. Notifications from this guestbook will end. (0) entries Sign the guestbook Log in Add your entry Submit An ObituaryFuneral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. Go to form LOCAL FLORISTS John Gasperetti's Floral Design Findery Floral Jenny's Floral & Gifts Blossom Shop Flrsts Amy's Wapato Florist FUNERAL HOMES AND SERVICES Brookside Funeral Home Colonial Funeral Home Keith & Keith Funeral Home Langevin - El Paraíso Funeral Home Merritt Funeral Home Midstate Monuments Prosser Funeral Home Rainier Memorial Shaw & Sons Funeral Home Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory Steward & Williams Tribute & Cremation Center Terrace Heights Memorial Park Valley Hills Funeral Home West Hills Memorial Park
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Monroe passenger killed after van overturns in South Brunswick, police say
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A 21-year-old Monroe woman was killed Monday night when the van she was riding in overturned on Route 130 near Deans Rhode Hall Road, police said.
The victim was identified by police as Cassidy Cutler.
Police said a 2003 Ford Econoline van driven by Eli Szmer, 32, of Monroe, was traveling southbound on Route 130 at 10:32 p.m. when he lost control, crossed the grass divider and northbound lanes, struck a guardrail and flipped over.
Cutler, a front-seat passenger, was killed in the crash, police said.
An investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information should contact Pvt. 1st Class Mike Leung at 732-329-4000, ext. 7472.
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Somerset man fatally shot in Plainfield, police investigating
PLAINFIELD – Police are investigating after a Somerset man was shot and killed Saturday evening on Kensington Avenue, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office announced on Tuesday.
Plainfield police responded at 6:38 p.m. Saturday to the 700 Block of Kensington Avenue after reports of gunshots in the area, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
Arriving officers located a male victim, later identified as David Michael Buck, with gunshot wounds, the Prosecutor’s Office said. Buck was taken to an area hospital where he later was pronounced dead, the Prosecutor’s Office said.
The Union County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force and the Plainfield Police Department are actively investigating the case.
Anyone with information should contact Prosecutor’s Office Sgt. Chris Scuorzo at 908-472-0492, Detective Ryan Kirsh at 908-347-1420 or the Plainfield Police Criminal Investigations Bureau at 908-753- 3131.
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Somerset Patriots use eight-run inning in Game 1 playoff win over Portland
The Somerset Patriots can claim a postseason series victory at TD Bank Ballpark on Thursday night.
The Patriots used an eight-run fourth inning to a fuel a 9-4 victory over the Portland Sea Dogs in Game 1 of the Eastern League Northeast Division Series in Portland, Maine on Tuesday night.
The win was Somerset's first postseason victory since becoming the New York Yankees Double-A affiliate. The Patriots return home where they can clinch a spot in the Eastern League Championship Series with a win in Game 2 of their series with Portland at 6:35 p.m. Thursday.
Somerset fell behind 3-0, when Niko Kavadas and Hudson Potts hit back-to-back home runs for the Sea Dogs in the second inning.
Then in the fourth, the Patriots pieced together eight runs on five hits, four walks and an error.
Brandon Lockridge brought home the first run on a fielder's choice, and Eric Wagaman followed by driving in the second run on an infield single.
Portland starter Shane Drohan then left the game with the bases loaded before Ryan Zeferjahn came on and failed to retire any of the three batters he faced.
Zeferjahn issued back-to-back walks to Trey Sweeney and Jasson Dominguez to give the Patriots the lead.
Then, with the bases loaded, Austin Wells provided Somerset insurance with a two-run single.
Elijah Dunham capped the eight-run inning with another two-run single to put the Patriots up 8-3. Dunham collected four hits, his second four-hit game of the season.
Jesus Bastidas added three hits, while Trey Sweeney had two. All 12 Patriots hits were singles.
Sweeney added the Patriots' final run with an RBI single in the fifth inning.
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Randy Vasquez earned the win for Somerset, tossing 5.2 innings and allowing just the three runs on the back-to-back homers. Vasquez retired the next 12 batters he faced.
Yankees No. 9 prospect, righty Clayton Beeter will get the start for Somerset in Game 2 at TD Bank Ballpark. Beeter was acquired at the MLB trade deadline in a deal that sent Joey Gallo from the Yankees to the Dodgers.
Fans can follow the action live as Steven Cusumano calls the play-by-play on MiLB.tv and FOX Sports New Jersey 93.5 FM | 1450 AM, the Flagship Station for Patriots Baseball, with pregame coverage beginning at 6:20 p.m.
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400 community leaders in South West Nigeria pledge support for FGM eradication
•As Oyo govt threatens prosecution of perpetrators
As efforts towards reducing the prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) continues across South West Nigeria, over 400 community leaders across the south west states have pledged support for the eradication of female genital mutilation in their communities and the enforcement of the VAPP Act to prosecute perpetrators of FGM
This was made known on Tuesday by Hacey Health initiative in Ibadan during a learning and sharing workshop on FGM with the theme Sharing experience to strengthen FGM partnerships organised by Hacey Health initiative
Also at the programmer, the Oyo State Government reiterated commitment to prosecution of persons perpetrating Female Genitile Mutilation by enforcing laid down provisions of the law.
The State Reproductive Officer, Mrs Balqees Olawoyin, made this known, added that the many success stories are not being recorded on FGM because violators are allowed to go as it is being handled as a family matter.
According to her, gone are the days when FGM is treated as a family issue in Oyo state, adding that the government will not relent in ensuring that violators are brought to book, including conspirators within family members.
Some of the stakeholders at the sensitisation programme noted that traditional leaders are the best to handle all forms of violations against the girl-child and women while others noted that cultural practices within communities are kept hidden from government hence perpetrators may escape punishments due to who such culture of silence.
The programme was focused on allowing stakeholders especially community focal persons on FGM and organisations advocating against it share ideas on better mechanisms of curbing the act.
It was agreed that the ‘Stop Cut’ project, which focuses on reducing the prevalence of FGM by improving law enforcement systems and enhancing public knowledge, awareness via strengthened collaborative efforts championed by critical stakeholders has done a lot on awareness and education towards dissuading people from perpetrating the act and those engaged in the act know that what they are doing is wrong.
They described FGM as a major human rights issue which is interwoven with other gender equality issues, including early and forced marriage, honour-based violence as well as girls’ education.
It was emphasised that FGM has no health benefits for women but is a source of hazard that can truncate their reproductive abilities or cause lasting damage to their health.
Participants suggested that the culture that makes people overlook the negative aspects just to follow beliefs and doctrines should be eradicated as the practice is not only barbaric but also criminal and dangerous.
They stated that FGM is considered an important rite of passage for girls in many south west communities, adding that education has not altered the belief as parents continue to be influenced by social norms and community expectations which place FGM as a core rite that outweighs its physical, psychological, or legal risk.
They consequently stated that for the fight against FGM to be successful, implementation of the laws and ability to change perceived beliefs will go a long way.
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Firms facing 'significant period of uncertainty' after more sectors see demand slump
Businesses are facing a “significant period of uncertainty” after the number of sectors reporting falls in demand increased for a fourth successive month in August.
Of the 14 sectors monitored by the Bank of Scotland UK Sector Tracker, 11 saw demand, as represented by new orders, fall. That is one more than in July and the highest number since June 2020, at the height of the first Covid lockdown.
Tourism and recreation, which includes the likes of pubs, hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities, suffered the fastest fall in demand, as consumers continued to rein in discretionary spending.
Each of the sectors which saw new orders contract also saw output decrease (11 out of 14 sectors in August versus nine in July).
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Technology equipment manufacturers (58.1 on the August tracker’s measure of demand versus 52.4 in July), providers of software services (58 versus 57.8) and metals and mining firms (51 compared with 34.3) were the only sectors to see both demand and output grow.
Elsewhere, the tracker showed that slower rises in material and logistics costs helped bring overall input cost inflation (76.6 versus 78.4 in July) down to its slowest pace since September 2021. However, reports of energy and salary cost inflation remained close to record highs, Bank of Scotland noted.
In addition, supply constraints continued to ease last month with companies reporting supplier shipping delays falling to their lowest level since October 2020. Manufacturing firms reported that input shortages dropped to their lowest level since November 2020, providing some relief to businesses.
The tracker, overseen by Bank of Scotland parent Lloyds Banking Group, includes indices compiled from responses to S&P Global’s UK manufacturing, services and construction PMI survey panels, covering more than 1,500 private sector businesses.
Scott Barton, managing director, Lloyds Bank Corporate and Institutional Banking, said: “The cost of doing business remains extremely high, and firms continue to face into a significant period of uncertainty.
“Reduced supply chain pressures is positive news for businesses, helping to alleviate one of the challenges they face and should allow them to free up some working capital that they may have otherwise tied up in stock.
“This should allow businesses to benefit more from the flexibility and agility to react to whatever lies ahead. Healthy cashflow and strong working capital management will be key.”
Jeavon Lolay, head of economics and market insight at Lloyds Bank Corporate and Institutional Banking, added: “Our tracker shows that the slowdown in activity spread to more sectors of the UK economy in August. More tellingly, all 11 sectors that saw output fall last month also saw demand falter.
“While the government’s energy support package represents a crucial intervention for households and businesses, it is too early to tell whether this will turn the overall trend of the economy. However, it should have a marked impact on UK inflation, with the likely peak later this year now estimated to be closer to the current rate of 10 per cent, rather than the much higher double-digit rates anticipated for next year.”
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Scottish education: Teachers' strike threat should focus politicians' minds on the need to improve their working conditions – Alison Dickie
Children have the right to a quality education. It’s laid out in the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In this International Happiness at Work Week (yes, there is such a thing!), it makes sense that this is better delivered by happy, respected and well-supported teachers. Sadly, this requires some work.
They say life is a journey and sometimes a funny one. In May, after standing down as a councillor, I found myself in P1 land, knee-deep in play pedagogy and “Percy the Park Keeper”! I’d taught a lovely P5 class on Fridays since November, and chose to move to full-time supply teaching.
Being naturally suited to the upper and middle stages of primary, my amazing P1 teacher friends were guffawing in the background. “Who let her loose?” they cried! However, during that supply period and specifically a learning moment in The Pea Song, I was reminded that it’s frontline workers, such as teachers, who make the real difference to lives.
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Despite the political rhetoric from all national corners about education being a priority, action speaks louder than words. And this includes for teachers.
Roll on to today and, unfortunately, it’s been a different experience. Supply has felt like a session on those penny-pushers in the local arcade, never quite securing the money.
Planning issues around the numbers entering teaching and a lack of permanent contracts for both probationers and experienced teachers have resulted in a surplus of teachers ‘having’ to be on supply – most competing for that same supply ping on their phones.
Teachers are graduates, they work hard and mainly love their profession. At the very least, they need sustainable long-term posts, which, in turn, can only benefit the quality of education. Instead, there are stories of disillusionment across social media and talk of looking to other countries for employment.
A recent Freedom of Information response from one local authority alone revealed that, whilst there had been an increase in probationers, permanent contracts had halved and 20 per cent of their teachers were on zero-hours contracts.
On Friday, the EIS announced the results of a consultative ballot. On a turnout of 78 per cent, 94 per cent voted to reject the five per cent pay offer and 91 per cent were willing to strike for a better one.
In our broken system, where the rich are getting richer at the expense of real-time wage cuts and increasing poverty for many, teachers and other frontline workers have had enough.
When vice-convener of education on Edinburgh Council, I watched in awe as schools went beyond the call of duty during lockdown and recovery. Whether Covid or the increasing number of responsibilities laid at their door, they just get on with it for the sake of the children and young people.
On October 5, we will celebrate World Teachers’ Day. The theme for this year is “the transformation of education begins with teachers”.
Wouldn’t it be great if elected members at all levels tackled some of these issues to better support teachers and to maximise the impact that they have on our children and young people’s lives?
Alison Dickie is a teacher and was previously a councillor for Southside/Newington, vice-convener of education on Edinburgh Council, and a Scottish Parliament official
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Got odors? City of Murfreesboro wants to know where and when
If the stench and stink of Middle Point Landfill are overpowering, city leaders in Murfreesboro want to know when and where.
On Tuesday, the city launched a website for residents to report odors or gas believed to be connected to the BFI's Middle Point Landfill: murfreesborotn.report. The website landing page has a simple complaint form that residents can fill out and information goes directly to the city.
In recent years, Middle Point has been the subject of hundreds of odor complaints from members of the community. The landfill is also located near Murfreesboro's northern boundary by the East Fork Stones River, which is the source of drinking water for the city and much of Rutherford County.
Although the landfill has its own website odor reporting system, most of those complaints are sent directly to BFI or to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
“TDEC has statewide obligations and limited resources, we understand that," Mayor Shane McFarland said. "The city, however, has a specific local issue to address, and we need a more targeted approach."
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By launching the odor-reporting website, the city hopes to reduce confusion and improve the reporting process by collecting information directly from the public
Information will be used by the city to determine whether odors are ongoing, changing, or gone altogether. Anyone who wishes to provide additional information that will be confidential can indicate that on the form, along with a preferred method of contact.
The site also alerts the public that any emergency odor, gas, or illness situation should be directed to 911 or the Rutherford County Emergency Management Agency via https://ema.rutherfordcountytn.gov/.
BFI, which owns and operates the landfill, has stated the odor problems would be resolved by the end of July 2021.
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In recent years, BFI and TDEC have repeatedly pointed to city infrastructure as the source of odors. In response, Murfreesboro set up a simplified air-monitoring plan for one type of gas: hydrogen sulfide, a foul-smelling gas common to both sewers and landfills.
The city’s monitoring program revealed that high levels of hydrogen sulfide were not coming from the city sewer system. Sensors located in the vicinity of Middle Point -- and away from any sewer facilities -- repeatedly detected elevated hydrogen sulfide levels near the landfill. The timing of these elevated readings was consistent with the wind direction coming off the landfill.
Based on recently discovered information, it appears that there are ongoing chemical reactions in landfill that continue to generate unusually high temperatures and gasses that are not typically emitted from landfills.
Last month the Murfreesboro City Council consulted with legal counsel before directing staff in a 7-0 vote to file the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Nashville against the landfill owners, Republic Services, a publicly traded corporation based in Phoenix. The lawsuit also will be against two of the company's local operations: BFI Waste Services of Tennessee LLC and Republic Services of Tennessee LLC.
Reach reporter Nancy DeGennaro at degennaro@dnj.com. Reach reporter Scott Broden at sbroden@dnj.com.
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MP John Kiarie Proposes Separating M-Pesa from Safaricom: "It's Operating Like Bank"
- Kiarie proposed that the Safaricom business should be split so that the mobile telephone services will remain under the regulation of the CA, while M-Pesa will be under CBK
- M-Pesa, which was founded in 2007, handles over 61 million daily transactions, making it the largest fintech provider in Africa
- Safaricom recorded KSh 50 billion in gross profit from M-Pesa, according to its financial report for the year ending March 2022
Dagoretti South member of parliament (MP) John Kiarie wants the M-Pesa service to be separated from giant telecommunications company Safaricom and its other carrier services.
Kiarie proposed that the Safaricom business should be split so that the mobile telephone services will remain under the regulation of the Communications Authority of Kenya, while M-Pesa will be under the administration of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).
Speaking during an induction meeting of newly elected MPs on Tuesday, September 20, at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi, the Kenya Kwanza Alliance lawmaker argued Safaricom and other telcos were operating like banks.
"We have companies that are registered as communication companies that are doubling up as banks. As it is right now, they fall and are regulated by the Communications Authority, but because they are also transacting money, some regulations come from CBK that they depend on," Kiarie said.
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The MP said parliament should work with CBK to enact laws to break the telcos.
"How can this parliament help you (CBK) with legislation, and would that legislation mean that we break these telecommunication companies into different operating units where the communication sits on its own regulated by CA, and they have units transacting money regulated by CBK? He posed.
M-Pesa marks 15th anniversary
M-Pesa handles over 61 million daily transactions, making it the largest fintech provider in Africa.
The service has grown to over 51 million customers in seven markets led by Kenya. It also operates in Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho, Ghana, Egypt and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The statistics were released by the telco in March when M-Pesa marked 15 years of service since its launch in Kenya in March 2007.
M-Pesa profit
Safaricom recorded KSh 50 billion in gross profit from M-Pesa, according to its financial report for the year ending March 2022.
The company attributed the growth in M-Pesa profit to an increase in mobile money uptake, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic shift to cashless transactions.
"The growth in technology helped businesses to adopt online payments, a move that contributed to increased uptake of the mobile money services," said the telco.
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Because it wasn’t enough that one L.A. city councilman went to prison and two more are awaiting trial while former top officials at the LADWP and City Attorney’s office pleaded guilty and the mayor dangles as the not-quite U.S. ambassador to India over sexual harassment allegations against a top aide, the L.A. County Sheriff got a warrant to search the home of an L.A. County supervisor.
Maybe it’s caused by climate change.
We have now learned that while Supervisor Sheila Kuehl was trying to run Sheriff Alex Villanueva out of town for not cooperating with investigations she supported, he was investigating her for alleged bribery and fraud.
There’s a certain chicken-and-egg quandary about this situation. Was she investigating him to discredit his investigation into her? Or was he investigating her to discredit her investigation into him?
Some chicken-and-egg questions can be answered with a calendar. Villanueva was elected in 2018. Kuehl is being investigated over roughly $800,000 worth of questionable contracts awarded to a friend starting in 2014, just under the dollar amount that required a board vote.
Sherlock Holmes might deduce that Villanueva came into office and wouldn’t play the L.A. game, and the L.A. gamesters vowed to get rid of him by any means necessary before he blew up their whole operation. In order for that to be true, there would have to be a lot of corrupt politicians running pay-for-play games, and they’d all have to stick together and call for the ouster of Villanueva.
Also, they’d have to accuse him of something other than pay-for-play, both because there’s no evidence he’s doing that and because he might be the only elected official in town who isn’t.
Villanueva is accused of not fully cooperating with investigations run by inspector general Max Huntsman and the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission.
Kuehl is accused of alleged bribery and fraud related to contracts that Metro, the transportation agency that is richly funded thanks to four L.A. County sales tax increases, gave to a nonprofit organization called Peace Over Violence to run a sexual harassment hotline. A whistleblower told sheriff’s investigators that the hotline was a “complete failure” but Metro’s then-chief executive, Phillip Washington, insisted that the contract be renewed so that he would stay in the “good graces” of County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.
In L.A., running a nonprofit funded by lucrative insider public contracts is a fulfilling career path if your goal is a Ferrari. Maybe you won’t be surprised to hear that the CEO of Peace Over Violence is Kuehl’s good friend Patricia Giggans, or that Giggans made generous contributions to support Kuehl’s campaigns.
You might be surprised to hear that Kuehl got Giggans appointed to the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission investigating Villanueva.
At the same time the sheriff’s department obtained a search warrant for Sheila Kuehl’s home, it also obtained warrants to search the home of Patricia Giggans and Metro headquarters in downtown L.A.
This caught the attention of U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, who said he was “deeply troubled” to see former Metro CEO Phillip Washington named in search warrants tied to corruption allegations. President Biden has nominated Washington to head the FAA, and Wicker sits on the Senate committee that will be vetting the nomination. “Additional scrutiny and review” will be required, Wicker said.
So Phil Washington may join Mayor Garcetti in confirmation purgatory.
The scandal has also hit the desk of an official in Sacramento, Attorney General Rob Bonta. That’s because Kuehl told Fox 11 that she was tipped off to the search warrant, first by the L.A. Times, and then by the county counsel. Kuehl said the county counsel got the tip from Sheriff’s Department inspector general Max Huntsman. Sheriff Villanueva immediately sent a letter to Bonta demanding an investigation into the tip-offs about the search warrant.
So just remember, when you pay the extra-high sales tax in L.A. County or try to use Metro’s lavishly funded public transportation system only to find out that it’s filthy, unsafe and doesn’t go where you’re going, you have no one to blame but yourself. You missed your chance to start a nonprofit and get a sweetheart contract. If you’d done that, you’d have a Ferrari by now.
Write Susan@SusanShelley.com and follow her on Twitter @Susan_Shelley
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Cross Country: Huron boys nip Jefferson in Huron League jamboree
MILAN – New Boston Huron's boys cross country team never has to worry about finding good competition.
The Chiefs have it every day in practice.
"We have a great group of runners," Huron coach Cassandra Roupe said. "They try to stay ahead of each other, stay on each other's heels and pick each other up. it's been that way all season. The highlight has been the way they compete as a team."
That team concepted worked Tuesday as Huron nipped Jefferson by 5 points to win the first Huron League jamboree of the season.
Huron finished with 46 points and the Bears had 51. St. Mary Catholic Central placed third with 106 followed by Flat Rock with 120, Grosse Ile with 135, Riverview with 136, Airport with 161 and Milan with 174.
Jefferson’s Carter McCalister was the individual winner in 15:51.87.
Ryan Morris was Huron’s top finisher in fourth, but his teammates ran close behind him as Griffin Mentzer, Lucas Kuhn, Abdul Ghennewa and Luke Dulecki finished 8-9-10-15.
"We knew (Jefferson) would be our tightest competition," Roupe said. "We just tried to stay ahead of them and split up their runners."
Jefferson placed Blake Schroeder seventh, Ben Merkel 12th, Orion Galloway 14th and Xander Hartunian 17th.
“I was very proud of our guys today,” Jefferson coach Phil Speare said. “We knew it would be tough to beat them and we really closed things up in the second half of the race to make it very close.”
Flat Rock’s Jacob Stanislawski was third and teammate Nate Vargo placed 16th.
Simon VanderVlucht ran fifth with teammates Luke Foster, Henry Wickenheiser and Jacob Smith 13-22-27.
Seth Haliburda took 18th for Airport with teammate Kenny Wingate 29th.
Parker Prior paced Milan in 30th.
The girls race had to be postponed when lightning was spotted after the runners had finished about two miles. League officials will meet to decide how to handle the situation.
Kyle Siggett and Cameron Crane took the top two spots as New Boston Renton won the middle school race.
Carleton Wagar was the girls champ with Annabell Chan of Flat Rock Simpson taking first place.
Blissfield Invitational
BLISSFIELD – Monroe County Region runners took the first four spots in Tuesday’s Blissfield Invitational.
Dundee’s Isaak Rubley won the race in 17:04.37 and was followed closely by Jackson Ansel of Erie Mason (17:15.59), Whiteford’s Keegan Masters (17:21.68) and Evan Suydam (17:41.93) of Summerfield.
Mason was the top Region team finisher, taking third with 73. The Eagles were topped by Tecumseh (67) and Adrian Madison (71).
Dundee was fourth with 94 and Whiteford fifth with 102.
Mason put sox runners in the top 29 with Austin Sulier, Parker Campbell, Parker Sorg, Lucas Sachs and Jackson Carner finishing 11-13-26-27-29.
Elliott Rodgers was eighth and Zach Kahn 25th for Whiteford.
Dundee’s Zachary McMahan took seventh and teammates Noah Nieman and Ethan Grulke were 20th and 24th, respectively.
Josh Jensen of Summerfield ran 28th.
Dundee’s girls were third with 97, Whiteford fifth with 117 and Mason sixth with 129. Onsted won the title with 31.
Katie Hovey placed eighth, Bridget Waterstradt ninth, Brianna Cousino 26th and Lily Valentine 28th for Dundee.
Bailey Meiring and Elizabeth Lambert ran side-by-side in 13th and 14th for Mason and Annabelle Gapp and Emily Rasor did the same for Whiteford in 19th and 20th.
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Local Sports: Whiteford's volleyball team inspired by playing Summerfield
OTTAWA LAKE – Playing its arch-rival brought out the best in Whiteford’s volleyball team Tuesday night.
The Bobcats overwhelmed Summerfield 25-14, 25-15, 25-18.
“It was a good win tonight,” Whiteford coach Janie Bunge said. “It’s always fun to play well against Summerfield. Summerfield is one game we always look forward to.”
Whiteford put together perhaps its most complete performance of the season.
“We came out with all guns firing,” Bunge said. “We served really, really good. Most of the girls who went back there had quite a few points. We also ran a really fast offense, and you can’t do that if you don’t make that first pass.”
Allison Spradling (6 kills, 9 digs), Alyssa Ulery (9 digs, 12 points), Kenzie Gray (6 kills) and Alaina Andrews (21 assists, 3 aces) led the Bobcats, who moved to 6-6-2 overall and 3-1 in the Tri-County Conference.
Summerfield’s standouts were Addy Ciacelli (6 points, 4 kills), Megan Pease (4 kills, 7 blocks) and Julia Fietz.
Whiteford won the junior varsity match despite 14 points by Summerfield’s Mia Miller.
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Ferguson lifts Carlson
SOUTHGATE – Emma Ferguson rang up 23 assists and 2 aces as Gibraltar Carlson beat Southgate Anderson 25-13, 25-10, 25-15 Tuesday.
Skylar Zaranka logged 12 kills, 4 digs and 3 aces, Ava Romej had 6 kills and 3 aces and Gloria Llakmani recorded 12 digs for the 5-6 Marauders.
“We kept our errors down and were efficient from the service line,” Carlson coach Bill Henneman said.
PREP SWIMMING
Ball hits state cuts
DUNDEE – Joslyn Ball hit state-qualifying times in winning both the butterfly and backstroke and also swam on two winning relays to lead Dundee to wins over Trenton 128-55 and Detroit Country Day 105-81.
Lia Parry won the 50 and 100-yard freestyles with a state qualifying time in the 100 and Kaylee Imo ruled the breaststroke.
The Vikings swept the relays with the 400 quartet of Emma O’Connell, Brooke Hester, Ball and Parry hitting a state cut.
McNamara sets records
BELLEVILLE – Lauren McNamara set school records in winning the 50-yard freestyle and backstroke and swam on two winning relays to help Flat Rock nip Belleville 80-79 Tuesday.
The win in the 400 relay gave the Rams the victory.
Sophia Chan won diving and the 100 freestyle. Other wins came from Riley Chevalier (individual medley) and Isabella Thomas (breaststroke). Breanna Sexton was second in the butterfly.
PREP TENNIS
Milan, Airport halted
MILAN – Milan and Airport could not quite finish Tuesday before rain halted their match.
Milan held a 6-0 lead on the strength of wins by Matthew Bowman, Zach Fink, Gavin Kruise-Gunnar Kruise, Nathan Bowman-Tyler Denham, Tyler Hatfield-Matthew Fink and Luke Morse-Zach Farmer.
The other two matches will be completed at the Huron League meet.
Duran battles
Azariah Duran fell 5-7, 6-0, 6-3 at No. 1 singles, but that was the closest Monroe came to a point in an 8-0 loss to Ann Arbor Pioneer Tuesday.
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YOUNGSVILLE — "As far as what I have to say about Mia is I'm super proud of her effort this year and doing what's best for the team and doing less of what's best for Mia", says head coach Julie Dawson.
In 5th grade, a friend's mother introduced Southside's Mia Sheppard to volleyball but the intensity is what kept her in it.
"Having a team with you to experience everything with you is like the best thing ever", says Shepppard.
In her senior year, Sheppard transitioned from a pin hitter to a middle hitter, allowing her versatility to shine and for head coach Julie Dawson, she's led by example.
"She's really shining at the current moment. She's owning the position, she's dominating, she's consistent... a consistent server. She's just an overall good teammate."
Sheppard not only leads on the court but also on the track where she holds the school record in the 100m dash. She's also a part of the 4x1 and 4x2 relays.
As some believe that records are meant to be broken, she's honored to set the standard.
"Honestly, I don't really think about it and hopefully someone will, at one time, get better than that, but I think it's a good place to start for this school."
As well as the two-sport athlete approaches the game, she attacks the books, netting a 3.9 GPA, a 28 on the ACT and she's earned college credit hours already.
"Not only is she intelligent in the classroom, she's intelligent on the volleyball court. Volleyball is one of those sports where you have to have a very high I.Q. and that's why she's able to have the success that she has on the court is due to her ability to think outside the box and be creative in her higher level thinking skills."
And in Sheppard's final season, she hopes to be remembered for her selflessness.
"I just want to be remembered as someone who always wanted the best for everyone and wants everyone to succeed and want everyone to just play their best."
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The CIF-SS boys water polo polls released Monday, Sept. 19
(Selected by the CIF-SS Boys Water Polo Advisory Committee.)
DIVISION 1
1 JSerra
2 Mater Dei
3 Newport Harbor
4 Harvard-Westlake
5 Los Alamitos
6 Loyola
7 Oaks Christian
8 Huntington Beach
9 Laguna Beach
10 Foothill
Others: None
DIVISION 2
1 San Clemente
2 Dana Hills
3 San Marcos
4 Newbury Park
5 Westlake
6 La Serna
7 Redondo Union
8 Beckman
9 Long Beach Poly
10 Ventura
Others: None
DIVISION 3
1 Irvine
2 Portola
3 Damien
4 Capistrano Valley
5 El Segundo
6 Temple City
7 Northwood
8 Claremont
9 Crescenta
T10 Buena
T10 Costa Mesa
Others: St. John Bosco, Pacifica/GG
DIVISION 4
1 Crean Lutheran
2 Downey
3 Arcadia
4 Etiwanda
5 San Marino
6 Yucaipa
7 Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks
8 Redlands
9 Canyon/Anaheim
10 Temecula Valley
Others: Charter Oak, La Habra, Sage Hill, Schurr
DIVISION 5
1 Buena Park
2 Xavier Prep
3 Westminster
4 San Dimas
5 Royal
6 Saddleback
7 West Covina
8 Don Lugo
9 Santa Ana
10 Muir
Others: Sunny Hills, El Modena
DIVISION 6
1 Hemet
2 El Rancho
3 Arroyo Grande
T4 Garden Grove
T4 Paramount
6 Savanna
7 Moorpark
8 Sierra Vista
9 Webb
10 Whitney
Others: Montclair, Moreno Valley, Tahquitz
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The CIF-SS girls tennis polls released Monday, Sept. 19
Selected by the CIF-SS Girls Tennis Advisory Committee.
DIVISION 1
1 Westlake
2 San Marino
3 Mater Dei
4 Corona del Mar
5 Arcadia
6 Peninsula
7 Palos Verdes
8 Harvard-Westlake
9 Portola
10 Los Osos
Others: Mira Costa, Aliso Niguel, University, Woodbridge, Tesoro
DIVISION 2
1 Fountain Valley
2 Beverly Hills
3 Oak Park
4 The Archer School
5 Foothill Technology
6 Palm Desert
7 Los Alamitos
8 Newbury Park
9 Hart
10 Rancho Cucamonga
Others: None
DIVISION 3
1 Sage Hill
2 Wilson/Hacienda Heights
3 Northwood
4 Rowland
5 Flintridge Prep
6 Crossroads
7 Capistrano Valley
8 Canyon
9 Saugus
10 Redlands
Others: Rosary, Fullerton, Flintridge Sacred Heart, Geffen Academy at UCLA, South Pasadena, Cerritos
DIVISION 4
1 Mark Keppel
2 Providence/Santa Barbara
3 Heritage
4 Carpinteria
5 Ontario Christian
6 Diamond Bar
7 Katella
8 El Monte
9 Chaffey
10 Mayfair
Others: Webb, Redlands East Valley, Upland, Jurupa Valley, La Quinta/La Quinta
DIVISION 5
1 California
2 Segerstrom
3 Workman
4 Arroya Valley
5 Yeshiva
6 Canyon Springs
7 Nogales
8 Montclair
9 Jurupa Hills
10 Western
Others: Citrus Hill, Hillcrest, Ocean View, Summit
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The pair has already been under pressure as of late, with the dollar contesting key technical levels on multiple charts - this included. The key trendline support (white line) and the 14 July low around the region of 0.6678-81 is helping to hold losses for now, though we are seeing sellers test the waters with the low today hitting 0.6667 - its lowest since June 2020.
As much as sellers are looking to make a play, any firm break will need confirmation from the Fed later today. That remains the key driver of trading sentiment at the moment. With the dollar side of the equation in focus, it will require a hawkish push from the Fed to really signal a break lower in AUD/USD towards 0.6500 next.
Another negative factor for the pair is that the aussie side of the equation isn't too comforting, with risk tones under pressure and also the fact that the Chinese yuan is sliding further. USD/CNY has now firmly breached 7.00 and is looking for a further break to the topside:
That will keep added pressure on the antipodeans while also providing a tailwind for the greenback. But again, the Fed will determine the next steps even on this front so keep your eyes and ears peeled for the market reaction later in the day.
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The dollar is keeping steadier so far on the day as we continue the countdown to the FOMC meeting decision later. The greenback is running against some key levels with GBP/USD slipping back below 1.1400 and AUD/USD testing its lowest levels since June 2020, down 0.3% to 0.6667 - contesting a drop below key technical support as outlined here.
Elsewhere, the dollar is just a touch firmer with EUR/USD down 0.1% to 0.9960 with large option expiries seen at 1.0000 for the next few days. Then, USD/JPY is up 0.2% to 144.00 though key resistance remains at the 145.00 level with barrier options also noted at said level.
Risk tones are more tepid and cautious after yesterday's retreat in the equities space. S&P 500 futures are up just 0.1% while bond yields are just a touch lower after the advance in the day before. 10-year Treasury yields is holding a break above 3.50%, currently seen at 3.553% ahead of European trading.
The Fed countdown will be the main focus in the session ahead, so that might make for a bit of a lull amid the lack of conviction in markets going into the main event.
1000 GMT - UK September CBI trends total orders
1100 GMT - US MBA mortgage applications w.e. 16 September
That's all for the session ahead. I wish you all the best of days to come and good luck with your trading! Stay safe out there.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane police have interviewed not one, but two people who say they were tricked into giving a man tens of thousands of dollars, believing he was a cryptocurrency investor.
The first victim, an Uber driver, told police a passenger he picked up claimed to work for a company out of Scottsdale, Arizona that traded cryptocurrency. Over the course of seven months, the victim ended up sending close to $20,000 through Apple and Google Pay. He asked to withdraw $2,000 from his "account" to pay for taxes and when he went to cash the check, it bounced and the suspect went radio silent.
KREM 2 is not naming the suspect because he hasn't been formally charged with a crime. But, police believe he scammed another person out of even more money. A woman came forward with a similar story and said she met the suspect playing poker at Northern Quest.
She told police she sent nine payments, totaling nearly $85,000. When she asked for $10,000 back, the suspect sent $3,000 and disappeared.
According to the search warrant, police in Phoenix believe the same man conned an Arizona resident out of $18,000 using the same scam. Authorities believe the man has since left Spokane and could be living in Tennessee.
Those court documents also show that this man has a warrant out of Los Angeles for theft over $400. Police are continuing to investigate.
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KENNEWICK, Wash. — The Kennewick School District is holding a parent preview night at its Administration Center on October 20 to show parents the health-related curriculum coming up in classes.
Fifth-graders will have separate growth and development programs, then an HIV/AIDS prevention program together. Parents will be able to preview the separate boys and girls growth and development curriculum from 5:30 to 6:20 p.m. at preview night. The HIV/AIDS prevention preview will be from 6:30 to 7:20 p.m.
Fourth-grade girls also go through a growth and development program. Fourth-grade boys don’t, receiving a hygiene lesson instead, according to a press release from Robyn Chastain, KSD’s Executive Director of Communication and Public Relations. Parents of fourth-grade girls can preview the growth and development curriculum from 6:30 to 7:20 p.m. The boys’ hygiene lesson is not previewed.
Additionally, parents can make an appointment at the KSD Administration Center between October 21 and November 4 to preview class materials. Schedule with Kristi Lakey in the Teaching and Learning department at 509-222-6579.
Washington state law requires legal guardians to preview HIV/AIDS prevention materials before they can excuse their student from the program. The KSD nursing staff will be providing the information at preview night, but parent attendance is kept and given to school staff in order to accommodate anyone who may excuse their child from the program.
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What to Know Today
New Orleans has the highest murder rate of any major city this year. According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association, a nonprofit group of police executives, the Louisiana city had 41 homicides per 100,000 residents through the first half of 2022, far surpassing Chicago (11.5), Los Angeles (4.8), and New York City (2.4). Both city officials and residents blame an overtaxed police force struggling to comply with a federal mandate to tackle corruption. The average police response time is over two hours, according to one analysis. “We’re in a crisis of crime and a crisis of confidence in this city,” a former New Orleans police superintendent said. Context: St. Louis has topped the ranking of major city murder rates since 2014, but New Orleans has consistently ranked among the top five.
The majority of Texans support raising the age to buy semiautomatic rifles — and also want teachers to carry guns. According to a new poll from The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler, 73 percent of registered voters support a ban for adults under 21, a figure that includes 69 percent of Republicans, while 21 percent of all respondents (and 26 percent of Republicans) oppose such a ban. Fifty-five percent of respondents also support allowing teachers and other staffers to carry guns in schools. Meanwhile, 63 percent are concerned about the possibility of gun violence in their community, including a majority of Democrats, Independents, Republicans, white people, Black people, and Latino people. Less than half of respondents — 43 percent — said they possess guns. Context: In July, The Trace and The Texas Tribune explored Texans’ complicated relationship with guns.
California sheriff faces questions over fast-tracked gun permits for campaign donors. A Los Angeles Times investigation found that at least 50 people who obtained concealed carry licenses during the tenure of LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva donated to his 2018 election campaign or his 2022 re-election campaign. More than half donated money before they got the permit. For some of these donors, a six-to-eight-month wait was shortened to one or two months. While in office, Villanueva relaxed the standards for pistol permits, and the resulting surge in permit holders — an eighteenfold increase in 2020 alone — has been a point of pride for the sheriff. Earlier this month, two sheriff’s deputies were suspended as a result of a criminal investigation into “irregularities discovered in the CCW application process.”
Sig Sauer avoids class action suit over defective handgun. A New Hampshire judge rejected a claim from an Arizona police officer who argued that a trigger defect in the P320 pistol has “significantly diminished [the] resale value” of his handgun. At least 20 civil lawsuits have been filed against the Newington-based gunmaker by people who were allegedly injured when the gun unintentionally discharged. Several of the plaintiffs are police officers.
Gun policies cost Citigroup a municipal contract in Texas. Officials in the city of Anna rejected the banking giant’s bid to underwrite $100 million in bond sales even though it submitted the winning bid. The city will lose more than a quarter-million dollars on the deal. A city spokesperson said there were questions about whether Citigroup would comply with a 2021 state law that prevents the state from doing business with companies unless they vow not to “discriminate” against gun companies. In the aftermath of the 2018 Parkland shooting, Citigroup implemented policies barring its retail clients from selling guns without a background check or to people under 21. The financial firm has underwritten municipal bonds in Texas since then, and says it’s in compliance with the 2021 law.
Woman killed by neighbor holding target practice in his backyard. On August 27, Kesha Luwan Lucille Tate, 42, a mother of nine, was shot by her neighbor in Gaffney, South Carolina, after she asked him to stop firing his gun. The suspect, Nicholas Lucas, was allegedly intoxicated, and faces a murder charge. Tate’s family is questioning why Lucas was allowed to possess a gun, since he has a past assault conviction, and why there’s no state law barring backyard target practice. They’re now trying to pass the “Kesha Tate Target Law,” which would make it a crime to fire a gun in a residential neighborhood. More than just a name: Kesha Tate was a “social butterfly” who always took care of her family and friends, even as a preteen. Read more about her life from the AP.
Data Point
22 — the number of transgender, gender-nonconforming, or nonbinary people who have died of gunshot wounds so far in 2022. [Human Rights Campaign]
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Easton Oliverson, who was put into a medically induced coma after falling from a bunk bed at the Little League World Series in August, is suing the organization.
The 12-year-old suffered a fractured skull and brain bleeding as a result of the Aug. 15 fall in Williamsport. He’s had three operations and battled a staph infection, the family’s lawyer, Ken Fulginiti, told WKBN 27 on Tuesday.
“He’s not doing well,” Fulginiti said. “The more recent development, after a third craniotomy, is seizures. It’s been a long road.”
The suit, filed by Oliverson’s parents, seeks more than $50,000 for the boy’s care, along with punitive damages. The lawsuit names Savoy Contract Furniture in addition to Little League International, claiming the bed did not have a railing on the top bunk.
Oliverson, a pitcher and outfielder on the Snow Canyon team from Santa Clara, Utah, was discharged from the hospital last week.
His brother, Brogan, took his spot at the Little League World Series, and their father, Jace, was an assistant coach on the team. The team and Oliverson family received an outpouring of support following the injury.
“They really appreciate all the support they’ve gotten throughout the nation,” Fulginiti said. ”But they’re struggling to focus on the family. They have two other kids and it’s a lot.”
Little League International responded to TMZ’s request for comment, saying it is “policy not to comment on pending litigation.”
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — NASA’s asteroid redirection test is scheduled to make impact next week.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is a first-of-its-kind planetary defense test used to redirect an asteroid if it were on a collision course with Earth, a post by NASA stated.
NASA is targeting an asteroid named Dimorphos, which is not a threat to Earth. NASA called the asteroid a “perfect testing ground” to see if crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid will change its course.
Dimorphos is a 525-foot moonlet asteroid that is orbiting a larger asteroid named Didymos.
DART, which was built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, will have a spacecraft intentionally collide with the asteroid, a method referred to as kinetic impact.
“While no known asteroid larger than 140 meters in size has a significant chance to hit Earth for the next 100 years, only about 40 percent of those asteroids have been found as of October 2021,” the post stated.
The DART spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket on November 23, 2021.
The spacecraft is expected to make impact with the asteroid on Sept. 26, colliding with Dimorphos at a speed of 4 miles per second. NASA will be live streaming coverage of the DART collision on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube beginning at 5 p.m. CST
Impact is expected to take place at 6:14 p.m. ET.
At the time of the impact, the asteroid will be roughly 6.8 million miles from Earth.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The state of Louisiana’s unemployment rate breaks records again in August, according to the state’s department of labor.
The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) reports a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.5% for the month of August. This is the third month in a row the state has reported a record low rate.
“With unemployment rates continuing to fall and employment continuing to grow, Louisiana shows its commitment to putting people back to work,” said Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Cates. “Programs like Tech Ready Louisiana offered thru the LWC can give employees the skills needed to drive their careers further.”
The agency said the unemployment rate has not seen an over-the-month increase since April 2020. According to August data, Baton Rouge added 1,900 jobs from July 2022 and gained 10,600 jobs from August 2021.
Governor John Bel Edwards shared the following statement:
“We did it again. For the third month in a row, Louisiana has set a record for the lowest unemployment rate in state history. The unemployment rate is now 3.5 percent, we have the lowest number of people unemployed in state history, and we’ve created more than 220,000 jobs since the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. These historic numbers are a testament to the strength of our workforce, businesses, and the bipartisan work we’ve done to invest in growing and diversifying our economy. We still face difficult challenges, but our opportunities are so much greater. I want to encourage the people of Louisiana to reach out to the Louisiana Workforce Commission for assistance in identifying what job opportunities might be available in their communities, and to take advantage of the many workforce training and career certification programs available in our state.”
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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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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – As you drive by the Shriners Hospital for Children in Shreveport, you’re greeted by a beautiful bronze statue that captures the essence of what happens there, children receiving the support and care they need.
The story behind the statue started at an amusement park in Evansville, Indiana. It was June 11, 1970, at an outing for Shriners patients. Bobby Jo Wright was a Shriners patient who was there enjoying the fun.
“Shriner Al Hortman saw that I was having a hard time getting around the park on my crutches so he picked me up and was carrying me from ride to ride,” Wright recalled.
A newspaper photographer snapped a photo of them which appeared in the Sunday paper. The Shriners organization and hospital system fell in love with the photo and began using it in their logo, which eventually became the iconic statue.
“It still seems unreal because it was just one of those in-the-moment type things,” Wright shared. “It wasn’t staged or anything.
During the 100th anniversary celebration in Shreveport, the Shriners recognized Wright for being a hospital ambassador for more than half of that time.
“I think it’s amazing to be able to be here to be celebrating the 100th anniversary and to in a small way be a part of the total history of Shriner’s Children’s,” said Wright. “It’s more than a hospital. It’s a family. Once you’re a patient, you’re a Shriners’ kid for life.”
NBC 6 is hosting 6 Hours of Caring to benefit Shreveport Shriners Hospital for Children. Tune in on-air and online on Tuesday, September 20 from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
To donate to help support Shreveport Shriners Hospital for Children, please visit or call 318-629-7121.
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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— As President Biden’s plans for student debt relief continue to unfold, data released by the US Department of Education on Tuesday estimates more than 40 million people will receive assistance, including 600,000 borrowers in Louisiana will be eligible for assistance.
Following the Biden Administration’s announcement last month to bring up, LBJ sat down with
White House Officials say the impact of the forgiveness plan could provide relief to nearly 40% of all Louisiana adults who attended college. According to a White House fact sheet, the relief will provide up to $20,000 to Pell Grant recipients and up to $10,000 to other borrowers.
WGNO’s LBJ sat down with Rachel Thomas, the Senior Communications Advisor for Policy at the White House, to find out more about the plan and what it means for Louisiana. Watch the full interview in the player below.
FULL INTERVIEW: White House official talks student debt relief in Louisiana
The Department of Education also released an estimated amount of eligible borrowers by state. See the full data in the table below. To learn more about the plan and to find out how to apply, click here.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — In the 2022 fiscal year, 160,000 Texans got checks totaling $309 million for unclaimed property. The money comes from things like forgotten utility deposits, insurance proceeds, payroll checks, cashier’s checks, dividends, mineral royalties and abandoned safe-deposit box contents.
In the past, to get the money, Texans would have to go to ClaimItTexas.org to see if they were owed money and file a claim. Thanks to a new law now in effect in Texas, many people won’t even have to go through those steps.
According to the Texas Comptroller’s office, it will now send checks to people without requiring them to file a claim. That’s because of Texas House Bill 1514, which was passed by lawmakers in 2021. It directs the agency to send checks for unclaimed properties under $5,000 if the agency believes it can link the owed money to the correct owner. People who don’t want to wait can still make claims by going to ClaimItTexas.org.
The Comptroller’s office has returned more than $4 billion in unclaimed property since this program began in 1962. The state is currently holding more than $7 billion in cash and other valuables.
Businesses generally turn property over to the unclaimed property program after it has been considered dormant for one to five years.
There is generally no statute of limitations for unclaimed property the state holds, which means there’s no time limit for owners to file a claim; they can do so at any time.
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(WPRI) — If you love candles and the scent of Texas Roadhouse’s honey cinnamon butter, look no further.
The restaurant chain unveiled a new candle that smells just like the butter, which is served alongside its signature rolls.
“You read that right,” the restaurant chain wrote on social media Monday. “We have perfected the scent of the delicious Honey Cinnamon Butter you enjoy on your Fresh-Baked Bread and put it in candle form.”
Honey cinnamon butter fanatics can pre-order the candle beginning Sept. 23. Texas Roadhouse said the link to do so will be released that day on its social media accounts.
The candle will cost $12, according to the restaurant chain.
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(WFRV) — One lot of Healthy Choice microwaveable meals are being recalled for containing unlisted milk ingredients — about 22,061 pounds of the frozen beef products are affected, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Services says. The undeclared ingredient could pose a risk to those with milk allergies.
The affected product is Healthy Choice Power Bowls, Korean-Style Beef with lot code 5246220320 and best if used by date of 04/18/2023. The Texas-based Valley International Cold Storage Acquisition company is enacting the recall of the bowls, which were shipped to stores nationwide.
Recalled products feature the establishment number 34622 on the end flap of their cartons.
If you have these products in your freezer, FSIS says to either throw them away or return them to the place of purchase.
FSIS says the milk was discovered after the producer received other complaints that the bowls contained a chicken-based product.
While there have been no adverse reactions reported so far, FSIS notes you should contact a healthcare provider if you’re concerned about an illness.
Consumers with questions or concerns can contact the USDA at (888) 674-6854.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Caddo Parish Coroner named the man fatally wounded in a shooting in southwest Shreveport late Monday night.
D’Shaundre Harris, 28, was taken to Oschner LSU Health Hospital after suffering multiple gunshot wounds just after 7:30 p.m. in the 8900 block of Walker Rd. He later died in the hospital at 9:14 p.m.
Harris was identified through fingerprint comparison. The Caddo Parish Coroner’s office released his identity in a statement late Tuesday night.
This is the 40th homicide in Caddo Parish, and the 39th in Shreveport this year. The shooting remains under investigation.
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NEW BOSTON, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) – Connie Griffin grew tearful on the stand Tuesday as she testified in the Taylor Parker trial about how she doesn’t know what more she could have done about her suspicions that Parker was faking her pregnancy.
Parker, 29, is charged with kidnapping and capital murder of the 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock and her unborn baby, Braxlynn. Prosecutors say she stabbed Hancock more than 100 times, bashed her in the head with a hammer, strangled her, and cut the baby from her womb. The motive: to take the baby as her own in a desperate attempt to prove her own pregnancy was not faked and to keep Wade Griffin from leaving her.
Griffin says she tried to talk to her son Wade multiple times about her concerns that Taylor was not being honest about being pregnant or about her claims that she had millions hung up in the bank over technical issues orchestrated by her mother. And while she all but accused Taylor herself a few times, Connie Griffin admitted on the stand that she did not confront her directly.
The retired Red River Army Depot engineering department supervisor says she even considered hiring a private investigator to find proof of Taylor‘s misdeeds in hopes that presenting it to him would bring him around.
She says her son didn’t talk to her for nearly four months after she confronted Wade with a tip from Taylor’s ex-husband about her shady financial dealings.
“I couldn’t hardly stand it,” Connie said. “I questioned whether I should have even said anything.”
She ultimately decided it to “let it play out“ and tolerate Taylor as best she could while dropping hints along the way. She even reluctantly agreed to go to the gender reveal party, but only because she had just gone to her son Tanner’s the week before, and she did not want to hurt Wade.
“I pretty well knew she wasn’t pregnant, but I went,” Connie says. “It would have killed him had I not shown up knowing that I had been at his brother’s the week before. “
She says she avoided Taylor, but she did see at least two other people there that she knew also knew Taylor wasn’t pregnant.
It wasn’t long after the gender reveal party that Wade came to Connie to tell her that he now had an explanation for all the issues with Taylor’s access to her millions. He had received messages made out to look like they were coming from Taylor‘s mother, and she was claiming to be responsible for all of it.
“It was a big discussion. All of the sudden, we know who’s been behind everything and why the money’s not gonna come,” Griffin testified. “He was excited to tell me that ‘We finally found out what’s been going on all this time!’”
She read through the messages on Wade’s phone. Taylor was standing there when she read the expletive-filled messages on Wade’s phone.
“I wanted her to hear this,” Connie recalled. “I said, ‘I don’t know who wrote these whoever wrote this is pure evil!’ And I looked directly at her when I said that.”
Connie says Wade believed there were cameras in the trees behind his cabin because she indicated in the messages that knew he and Taylor had been out on the back patio that morning, drinking coffee.
“Do you not realize she is behind these text messages?” Connie recalls asking her son with some incredulity, telling him nobody knows where he is and what he is doing at all times better than Taylor. She also recalls asking him if he loved her. He told her that her he cared about her, but he was not in love with her.
“I said, ‘Well then, get her gone!”
But Wade was worried Taylor would have no place to go. Connie says she told him it was not his problem and he just needed to get away from her, the texts and “all of this.”
Connie says she tried one more time, four days before the murder. That’s when the couple came to her house to take showers after a fire under Wade‘s house knocked out the power and plumbing. It was also the morning Taylor was telling Wade she was set to be induced. But when they arrived, they told Connie it would not be happening because a bomb threat had been called in to the hospital.
“And I just looked at her and said, “Yeah, you called it in.’ It was the first thought on my mind.”
While Wade was in the shower, Connie says she showed Taylor a Facebook post from her mother, who had taken Taylor’s children on a trip to Colorado. Taylor had always said she didn’t have a relationship with her mother.
“‘I see your mom has the kids and they’re having a good time up in Colorado,’” Griffin says she pointedly told Taylor, “She didn’t have a lot to say. She got real quiet.”
While Taylor was in the shower, Connie says she “let Wade have it.” Taylor was well past her due date and he had taken time off under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). She worried to him that he would lose his job if he came back after six weeks and there was no baby. She told him to go back to work and assured him that if a baby ever came, he would get a call.
“I was very concerned about the job. I said, ‘Wade, she is not pregnant. She had a hysterectomy when Trey was born. He’s 5. She’s not pregnant, Wade.’”
Wade did not take it well, according to Connie. When Taylor got out of the shower, he told her they were going and stormed out of the house.
Four days later, she was up early when she saw Wade leave in his new truck and headed over to see if she could find his original birth certificate, which she knew he had been keeping in the glove box of his other truck. She says she was worried he would lose it. While she was there, a neighbor asked her to help her feed the dogs while Wade was out of town. Connie testified that she saw a baby bouncer in the middle of the living room when they went inside, a crib set up in the bedroom, piled with baby supplies and clothing, including a pink bow.
Within hours, she heard about Ragen Hancock‘s murder as the news began to spread.
“Why didn’t you do something?” asked First Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp. “Was there any idea that it was going to result in something like this?”
“No,” Connie responded. “I knew it had to end some way and I knew there was no baby coming, but I honestly thought that she would fake a miscarriage.”
“In spite of repeated attempts to call her out, it didn’t do any good,” Crisp said.
“No, I think it made it worse,” Connie said. “You’ll always have that doubt of, ‘Is there something that I could have done?’”
“You know you couldn’t have done anything, right?”
“I know,” Connie responded tearfully. “but you always have doubts of, ‘Is there something that I could have done?’ I thought it would end with a miscarriage because I knew she wasn’t pregnant.”
Prosecutors at one point took issue with a line of questioning from the defense that seemed to suggest Wade Griffin might have been involved or at least knew about it. Crisp also complained to the judge that Parker’s defense attorney Jeff Harrelson had repeatedly asked Griffin why she never called the police or do more.
Crisp said Taylor Parker is the one on trial here, not Wade or any of the witnesses.
Crisp also strenuously objected to Harrelson’s attempt to introduce a two-page letter Taylor wrote to Wade’s father, Jimmy, after her arrest. Harrelson brought it up while cross-examining Griffin and asked to enter it into evidence. Crisp objected, pointing out the fact that evidence is not admissible during cross-examination of state’s witness.
“You cannot do that. Now he’s wagging this letter in front of the jury and trying to make a proffer,” Crisp said,” accusing Harrelson of trying to force the admission of the letter into evidence.
While the contents of the letter were not revealed in court, Crisp told the judge the defense seemed to be making a mitigation case, which is supposed to be argued during the punishment phase of the trial, rather than whether Parker is guilty or innocent.
Mitigation is done during the penalty phase of the trial when the jury hears testimony about the defendant who has been convicted, the victims, and their families before they decide on the appropriate sentence under the law. As part of the jury’s charge in a death penalty case, they have to consider specific questions about whether the defendant is a future threat, among other things.
“I think what’s hanging out there is that they’re trying to blame Wade,” Crisp told the judge. “And if they’re not offering for an alternate perpetrator, then save it for the punishment phase.”
Harrelson responded that the defense is not obligated to reveal their defense strategy and denied they were trying to blame anyone for anything.
Jurors also heard Tuesday from the Mount Pleasant Police Department investigator who connected Parker to the bomb threat and a forensic fire investigator who determined the fire under Wade‘s house had been intentionally set.
Also taking a stand were employees of an OB/GYN clinic in Paris Texas, more than an hour away from where Parker lived in Simms. The clinic employees testified about the day on Sept. 30, 2020, when Parker came in for a new patient appointment. The receptionist testified that she saw Taylor crying in the lobby and asked her if she was okay as she turned in her forms. Parker told her that her mother was not able to make the appointment and that she wanted to reschedule. When the receptionist asked her what was upsetting her, Parker told her that her husband was in the military and had been killed.
That testimony had heads turning in the gallery of the courtroom, as onlookers looked around as if to confirm others had heard the same thing.
An RN who works at the clinic testified that Parker made enough of a scene that the doctor came out to try to help console her, offering a sonogram before she came back for her rescheduled appointment. The RN testified that in her six years at the clinic, she had never seen anyone turn down a sonogram. Most of the time, mothers-to-be want more than they need.
Instead, Parker rescheduled her appointment for the next day and left. But later that day, the receptionist said, she and an RN saw Parker sitting on a bench near the patient entrance by the parking lot at the rear of the clinic as they were coming back from their lunch break.
Previous testimony from investigators detailed how Parker Google search and location data placed her at the clinic that day, searching license plate numbers of the pregnant women coming in and out.
In other testimony on the sixth day of the trial, Cooper Tire human resources manager Blake Aubrey testified that everyone involved thought Parker was a great hire when she came on board in March of 2020 as a payroll clerk. Aubrey said she nailed the interview. She mentioned having some background in the medical field and a little HR. They thought they might even be able to cross-train her in other departments.
“We thought we’d knocked it out of the park when we hired her.”
But Aubrey says they later realized she had lied about her credentials and her job performance “wasn’t really matching what we were told in the interview process.” Some of the performance issues were related to her conducting personal business while on the clock, Aubrey said. She was spending a lot of time on her cell phone in the break room, doing things that were not related to work. They had a talk with her in April, right before COVID shut down the plant for nearly a month.
Aubrey confirmed that Parker was never an engineering project manager and never did any cross-training. She was certainly never asked to generate any project reports or budgeting, as she told Wade she did in a text recovered from her device. She also never told anyone at Cooper tire she was pregnant, even though she was hired around the time she announced her pregnancy to everyone else. But she did have several medical issues come up during her employment there.
Aubrey says she was on a final warning over her performance issues, but she ended up quitting via text.
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CHICAGO (WGN) — Navy Pier surveillance video appears to show a woman throwing her 3-year-old nephew into Lake Michigan, a police source told WGN.
Fire officials said the boy was pulled from the water in Chicago around 1 p.m. Monday and arrived at Lurie Children’s Hospital in “very critical condition.”
The boy was in cardiac arrest when he was lifted from the water off Navy Pier.
Police were questioning a woman in the case, and a source has confirmed to WGN that she is the boy’s aunt. So far, no charges have been filed.
Authorities have not released the surveillance video from Navy Pier.
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SHREVEPORT, La (Independence Bowl) – This week is Extra Yard for Teachers Week across the nation, and the Independence Bowl Foundation is proud to announce that in conjunction with Extra Yard for Teachers and a grant from the Louisiana Department of Revenue, the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl has donated $45,986 to local teachers.
“Teachers are so important in building future leaders of our community, and there were so many wonderful projects submitted by teachers across five different parishes,” said Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Executive Director Missy Setters. “We are so fortunate that with the help of Extra Yard for Teachers and a grant from the Louisiana Department of Revenue, we were able to help so many teachers and donate nearly $46,000.”
The $45,986 was donated to 46 different teachers and supported 54 different projects. Each project funded by the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl was posted on DonorsChoose.org by local educators and voted on by an independent committee. The nearly $46,000 of donations is the first part of just under $56,000 in total funding to local educators and schools by the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl in 2022.
The Independence Bowl Foundation began working with Extra Yard for Teachers to fund local teacher projects in 2021 and donated a total of $11,243 to local teachers last year. With the $45,986 donated this year, the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl has donated $57,229 to local teachers the past two years.
“The Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl is more than just a game, and it is so important to give back to the community that has supported us for 46 years running,” continued Setters. The Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl spread donations to 46 different teachers across five different Parishes – donating to 20 teachers in Bossier Parish, 16 in Caddo, three in DeSoto, one in Red River and five in Webster. Below is the
full list of teachers who received a part of the almost $46,000 in funding.
BOSSIER PARISH
CADDO PARISH
DESOTO PARISH
RED RIVER PARISH
WEBSTER PARISH
Along with funding, each teacher who receives funding from the bowl will receive two game tickets to the 2022 Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl in December, and the teachers will be recognized at the game.
$10,000 DONATION TO LOCAL SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE TEACHER RETENTION, RECRUITMENT AND RECOGNITION
In addition to the nearly $46,000 donated to local teachers, the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl will also donate $5,000 each to two schools, one from Caddo Parish and one from Bossier Parish, during bowl week in December.
The schools will be awarded the grant based on submissions from each school about a plan or program to promote teacher retention, recruitment or recognition. Schools will be required to submit their projects or programs by Friday, October 28. All project submissions will be judged by an independent committee, and the winning schools will be recognized during bowl week.
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CADDO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Caddo Parish Registrar of Voters is working to fix a discrepancy that allowed hundreds of inaccurate absentee ballots to be sent to voters in the parish at the end of August.
Caddo Parish Registrar of Voters Dale Sibley says the issue resulted from inconsistencies between the maps and written information that the registrar’s office uses to move voters as prescribed by redistricting plans adopted by the Shreveport City Council.
Sibley says Shreveport Councilmembers Tabatha Taylor and Jerry Bowman contacted him regarding absentee ballots that showed incorrect council districts.
“We worked with them and the demographer to identify the specific precincts affected and discovered a discrepancy between the maps and written information provided to us that we use to relocate voters as the final step in the redistricting process,” Sibley said.
Seven of the parish’s voting precincts were affected, and about 800 of the 13,000 ballots mailed were incorrect. Sibley says the error in voter placement is a correctable mistake that the parish and Louisiana Secretary of State worked to resolve.
The voters who received the ballots were part of a group of eligible voters to register to receive absentee ballots automatically.
Some Caddo voters outside the Shreveport city limits received ballots that reflected races within the city limits.
Voters who received the inaccurate ballots will be contacted by the parish registrar’s office by phone and mail, informing them to destroy them, and they will get corrected ballots.
“Replacement ballots will be mailed out by Friday, and voters should receive them within two weeks. Voters who have not received replacement ballots by the end of September should contact the Caddo Parish registrar’s office.
Sibley said affected voters should get the updated ballots by mail within two weeks.
Voters who received their absentee ballots are encouraged to check them for accuracy.
“While we can identify broad areas where there are issues, we cannot identify all individual situations where a mistake may have been made. Because the process of Redistricting sometimes requires corrective steps, I encourage all voters to check their cards and mail ballots so we can remedy any problem before the November 8 election deadlines,” Sibley said.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A free non-partisan breakdown of ballot issues is available for Arkansas voters.
The University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service’s Public Policy Center issued its voter ballot guide for the Nov. 8 general election. The 2022 Arkansas Ballot Issue Voter guide contains a breakdown of each ballot issue and its implications for voters.
The breakdowns include exactly what happens with a “for” or “against” vote for a particular issue and where to find additional information. It also includes a verbatim of each issue as it will appear on the ballot.
Arkansas has four issues proposed for the November ballot:
- Issue 1: Giving State Senators and Representatives Authority to Call Special Legislative Sessions
- Issue 2: Requiring 60% Voter Approval for Constitutional Amendments and Citizen-Proposed State Laws
- Issue 3: Arkansas Religious Freedom Amendment
- Issue 4: Arkansas Adult Use Cannabis Amendment
Currently, Issue 4 remains under review by the Arkansas Supreme Court. It will appear on the ballot, but votes may or may not count depending upon the court’s ruling.
The guide concludes with the opportunity to take a survey on the quality of the publication.
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