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In swapping James Harden for Ben Simmons, the Brooklyn Nets decided they needed to act now as they slide down the standings.
The Los Angeles Lakers didn't do the same.
A number of deals were made Thursday before the NBA's trade deadline, topped by the blockbuster between the Nets and Philadelphia 76ers. Just 13 months after acquiring Harden, Brooklyn sent him to a division rival.
Kristaps Porzingis was also on the move, going from Dallas to a Washington team that was busy before the trade deadline. Most of the deals were still pending NBA approval and confirmed to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity by people with knowledge of the details.
In Brooklyn, Harden seemed to have soured on the situation with Kevin Durant hurt and Kyrie Irving only playing in home games because he won't get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The trade gives the Nets a chance to turn things around.
“I feel like we’ve got versatile players so we’ll have to figure it out and figure out what works for us,” Durant said during an interview on TNT. “But I’m just happy that we got guys that want to be a part of this.”
The Nets have lost nine straight games, tumbling to eighth place in the tightly contested Eastern Conference.
That's one spot ahead of where the struggling Lakers are in the West.
Los Angeles seems in desperate need of a move after falling to 26-30 with consecutive losses, getting handled easily by defending champion Milwaukee and falling to rebuilding Portland.
But the Lakers didn't make any, raising the question how they plan to move forward with a roster that hasn't worked. LeBron James and Anthony Davis have battled injuries and Russell Westbrook has been so inconsistent that he's been benched down the stretch of some games.
While it was going to be hard to move the former league MVP for salary reasons, apparently the Lakers didn't have any other players anybody wanted in deals. So, they will have to hope they can add players in the buyout market.
James said Wednesday after the loss in Portland the deadline felt like a fog hanging over the Lakers and they needed to see what was on the other side.
“We’ll see what happens,” James said. “We'll see what happens as far as the deadline.”
For the Lakers, it was nothing.
Brooklyn coach Steve Nash said he was expecting the same for his team, having previously said the Nets weren't planning to deal Harden.
But the team's situation was getting worse, with Harden missing the last three games with a hamstring injury and playing poorly the last time he was on the floor.
In moving the three-time scoring champion, the Nets addressed some of their needs. Simmons is a top defender who can guard multiple positions despite his offensive shortcomings and not having played this season while seeking a trade.
Seth Curry gives Brooklyn outside shooting it's missed with Joe Harris out following ankle surgery. Andre Drummond could start or play a key role off the bench for a team that has mostly played small.
The blockbuster deal adds even more intrigue to the already jumbled playoff race in the East, where Brooklyn was only 5 1/2 games out of first entering play Thursday night.
In other moves Thursday the Wizards were one of the busiest teams.
On the day injured Washington star Bradley Beal had wrist surgery, the Wizards broke apart a roster that had gotten off to a promising start this season. Spencer Dinwiddie and Davis Bertans were traded to Dallas in the deal for Porzingis. Washington also dealt Montrezl Harrell to Charlotte for veteran backup point guard Ish Smith, second-year forward Vernon Carey Jr. and a future second-round draft pick.
The Bucks were to land Serge Ibaka from the Los Angeles Clippers in a four-game trade that would land former No. 2 pick Marvin Bagley III in Detroit, ESPN.com reported.
Also, the Toronto Raptors got veteran forward Thaddeus Young from San Antonio, sending Goran Dragic and a first-round pick to the Spurs.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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The first step toward the release of Android 13 was taken by Google today
0Android 12 was released on October 4th last year, and Android 12L for larger-screened devices like tablets and foldables should be launched next month. And today, believe it or not, Google has released Android 13 Developer Preview 1 for Pixel handsets.
Next month, Google will release Android 13 Developer Preview 2. In April and May Google will launch two Beta releases of Android 13 followed by one more in June and the final Beta release in July. Those two will have Platform Stability which means that both Betas will be close enough to the final stable version of Android 13 that they can be installed without much concern.
Google will offer versions of Android 13 with platform stability starting in June
For many Pixel users, the launch of the Beta releases with Platform Stability will be the first time they might feel comfortable installing the new build on their handsets. The final release of Android 13 could be dropped as early as September looking at the timeline Google published on the developers website.
Developer Preview 1 and 2 are not for consumers. The big hint is the use of the words "Developer Preview." Developers begin the process of making sure that their apps will work with the new build. If you're the average guy on the street with a Pixel handset, wait for the two builds with Platform Stability (which will be Beta 3 and Beta 4) before installing Android 13. If you don't mind the possibility of having crummy battery life or finding features you need disabled, you might install an earlier Beta release but don't say that we didn't warn you.
To make sure that the average Joe doesn't even attempt to install the two Developer previews, Google is making them available to be installed only via manual download or by flash. Once you've installed a Developer preview on your Pixel, all subsequent Developer previews and Beta releases will be offered OTA through the final release.
Earlier today we told you that Google will soon offer to top-shelf Android phones one of the coolest new Pixel features. This is a system that picks out the main color of the user's wallpaper and uses it to color app icons, menus, and other items. This is being built into Android 13 as Google notes.
Expect more information to be released at Google I/O 2022
Google writes, "Starting with Android 13, users can opt into themed app icons. With this feature, app icons in supported Android launchers are tinted to inherit the coloring of the user's chosen wallpaper and other themes." Android app developers are also being informed about the new Photo picker tool which "provides a safe, built-in way for users to select media files, without needing to grant your app access to their entire media library.
We should learn a lot more about new features for Android 13 during the Google I/O Developer Conference that is expected to be held in May. Google says that "privacy and security" remain the focus with the overall goal of "building a responsible and high quality platform for all by providing a safer environment on the device and more controls to the user." The website also includes a place for developers to send their feedback of the Android 13 Developer Preview to Google.
Google is also offering to developers guidance on how to optimize their apps for tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks. The company says that now is the time for developers to get ready for these types of devices and design fully adaptive apps that fit any screen.
The company adds that it will build into Android 13 some of the updates that it will be adding on Android 12L to help developers take advantage of the large number of large-screened Android devices available. Google says that there are more than 250 million large-screen Android devices currently active.
Even though Google stopped officially naming Android builds after desserts with Android 10, internally the practice has continued. Android 12 was known inside Google as Snow Cone and Android 13 is Tiramisu.
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| 2022-02-11T01:02:14
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BEIJING (NEXSTAR) — The Skeleton competition is a staple in the Winter Olympics and those who compete in the sport love it, but they say it’s not without its dangers.
Imagine lying face-first on a flat sled, millimeters above an icy track traveling up to 80 miles an hour. That’s Skeleton in a nutshell.
“Oh man, it’s an amazing sport,” says 2007 World Cup champion and 2010 Olympian Zach Lund. “It’s definitely an adrenaline rush. High speed, every run is a different challenge.”
The Olympian says the competition takes him back to his childhood.
“It’s kind of like when you were a kid,” explains Lund. “Just going up to the top of the hill in a sled, just in a lot more extreme way.”
Make no mistake, Skeleton is dangerous. It’s been dropped and reinstated twice since its Olympic debut in 1928.
“We tell people that it’s the best way to get people to watch our sport, we tell ’em how dangerous it is,” explains Brian McDonald, Skeleton coach and former competitor. “We look like we are kind of heroes going head first at 100 miles an hour.”
McDonald clarifies that while they may not be traveling at 100 miles per hour, the experience is worth the danger.
“I have been all over the world, I have met so many people,” says McDonald. “My experiences are a lifetime worth of memories so I wouldn’t change a thing.”
The Skeleton can take a toll on the competitor’s skeleton though, says Zach Lund.
“It’s really hard on your body. I have a fused neck, I had a lot of injuries over the years. It kicks your butt. I’m not gonna lie, it’s a lot more demanding than it looks like on TV.”
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| 2022-02-11T01:05:31
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — After years of work, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill to make it easier for victims of sexual harassment to get their day in court.
“The bill is going to help fix a broken system that protects perpetrators and corporations and ends the days of silencing survivors,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said.
Gillibrand sponsored the legislation that prevents forced arbitration for workers who are victims of sexual assault and harassment.
“No longer will survivors of sexual assault or harassment in the workplace come forward and be told that they are legally forbidden to sue their employer because somewhere buried in their employment contracts was this forced arbitration clause,” Gillibrand said.
The bill also voids any past forced arbitration clauses.
“Most people have no idea what they’re doing when they sign an employment contract,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said.
Graham emphasized their action will protect American workers.
“You’re going to have a chance to be heard differently and is long overdue,” Graham said.
Both Gillibrand and Graham thanked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for working across the aisle to get the bill to the Senate floor.
“People who were harassed will get their rights and have their own choice and their own decisions to make,” Schumer said.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) celebrated the outcome.
“It shows that Congress can work in a bipartisan way,” Grassley said.
The bill now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s puppy Commander will make his TV debut on Super Bowl Sunday.
The German shepherd and Biden’s wife, Jill, will appear in a commercial airing before Sunday’s broadcast of “Puppy Bowl XVIII.” The first lady’s office tweeted the video.
Both contests will be held on the day before Valentine’s Day, which is Monday.
“Hi there. I’m Jill Biden, here at the White House with our new puppy Commander,” the first lady says. “You know, Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays because it’s all about love.”
The first lady, wearing a gray turtleneck sweater with “AMOUR” in pink letters across the front, is seated in the White House movie theater with Commander by her side.
“What’s so wonderful about having pets is they bring us unconditional love, joy and comfort every day,” she adds. “All of us are wishing you a very happy Valentine’s Day.”
Other footage in the ad shows the two frolicking in a White House hallway.
Last year, Jill Biden filmed a public service announcement focused on mask-wearing in a pandemic to air during Puppy Bowl XVII. She was surrounded in that ad by the family’s German shepherds, Champ and Major.
Champ died last year; Major now lives in Delaware after behaving aggressively at the White House.
The Bidens recently welcomed a cat named Willow to the White House.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — One of the many communities excited about the Cincinnati Bengals being in Super Bowl LVI is quarterback Joe Burrow’s hometown of The Plains, Ohio.
“It feels like we’re higher than Georgia pines down here in The Plains,” said Travis Brand, the owner of Gigi’s Country Kitchen. “It’s crazy.”
Several people at Brand’s restaurant in the town of 3,000 were talking about Burrow and the Bengals as they dined.
“What he has brought to this area is amazing,” said resident Tammy Hogsett. “He has brought hope. He has brought laughter. He has brought joy to the children in this area. I could cry talking about it because he has given all of these children an opportunity to see that they could do whatever they want. They can be whatever they want, and when you come from an area like this sometimes that’s difficult.”
Sam Smathers was Burrow’s youth football coach when the quarterback was in the 3rd through 6th grades. Smathers said he still gets goosebumps thinking about how Burrow and his team won the AFC championship.
“We’ve come to expect certain things when Joe’s on the field,” he said. “The rest of the world sees it now.”
Super Bowl LVI will take place at SoFi Stadium on Feb. 13.
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(The Hill) — This coming Super Bowl Sunday in Los Angeles could be the hottest National NFL championship in history, as heat advisories continue to plague Southern California, The Washington Post reported.
High temperatures this weekend are expected to climb into the 90s in some areas, about 20 to 25 degrees above normal, according to the Post. This is the first time in California’s history the National Weather Service has issued heat advisories in February, with such warnings typically occurring between April and October, the Post reported.
Super Bowl LVI is slated to kick off at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, featuring the Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Super Bowl VII, which also took place in Los Angeles in 1973, ranks as the hottest NFL championship yet, with temperatures reaching 84 degrees Fahrenheit by kickoff, the Post reported.
(This story originally appeared in Equilibrium, a newsletter that tracks the growing global battle over the future of sustainability. Subscribe here: thehill.com/newsletter-signup.)
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — Two years after filing for Chapter 11 protection amid a flood of child sex abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America has reached a tentative settlement with an official bankruptcy committee representing more than 80,000 men who say they were molested as children by Scout leaders and others.
The settlement announced Thursday comes just two weeks before the start of a hearing at which a Delaware judge will hear arguments on whether she should confirm the BSA’s proposed reorganization plan.
All told, the compensation fund would total more than $2.6 billion, which would be the largest aggregate sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history.
The official abuse claimants committee, known as the tort claimants committee or TCC, was appointed by the U.S. bankruptcy trustee to act in and represent the best interests of all sexual abuse survivors. It has long maintained that the BSA’s plan to compensate abuse victims was “grossly unfair,” representing only a fraction of potential liabilities of insurers and local Boy Scout councils, and a fraction of what they can pay.
But after weeks of intense discussions that extended late into the night Wednesday, the committee announced that it had negotiated “important and positive modifications” to the BSA’s plan. It is now recommending that abuse claimants who voted against it change their votes.
Judge Laura Selber Silverstein will hold a case status hearing Friday.
The committee said it had accomplished three primary goals with the revised plan, including enhancing child protection measures for Boy Scouts going forward and ensuring independent governance of the settlement fund that will distribute payments to eligible abuse claimants.
Retired Texas bankruptcy judge Barbara Houser, who served as lead mediator in Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy, has been nominated to be the settlement fund trustee. It’s unclear whether there are other candidates.
The revised plan also provides abuse claimants the ability to sue insurance companies and local troop sponsoring organizations, such as churches and civic groups, that do not enter into settlements within one year of the reorganization plan taking effect.
The agreement is expected to intensify pressure on remaining plan opponents, including certain insurance companies and an ad hoc committee representing 10 Catholic dioceses and archdioceses and the Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America, a church-affiliated nonprofit that insures hundreds of dioceses, religious orders and institutions.
John Humphrey, co-chair of the TCC, said the BSA’s failure to win sufficient support for its previous plan forced the organization and local councils back to the negotiating table.
“Survivors empowered themselves when they voted in sufficient numbers to block confirmation of the previous plan,” he said in a statement.
The Boy Scouts, based in Irving, Texas, sought bankruptcy protection in February 2020, seeking to halt hundreds of individual lawsuits and create a fund for men who say they were sexually abused as children. Although the organization was facing 275 lawsuits at the time, it found itself facing more than 82,000 sexual abuse claims in the bankruptcy case.
In a statement Thursday, the Boys Scouts said that, with the addition of the official abuse claimants committee, “all significant survivor constituencies” support the reorganization plan.
Voting by abuse claimants on the previous plan showed about 73.5% of 53,596 valid ballots supporting the plan. The Boy Scouts were hoping for at least 75%. Under the rules for a typical Chapter 11 case, the Boy Scouts needed approval of two-thirds of sexual abuse claimants who voted. However, because the BSA plan includes liability releases for non-debtor third parties, including local BSA councils, insurers and troop sponsoring organizations that contribute to the victims fund, a higher level of support likely will be required.
Regardless of the level of support, plan opponents, including the U.S. bankruptcy trustee, argue that it cannot be confirmed if non-debtor third parties are released from liability without the consent of holders of abuse claims.
In a court filing Monday, the bankruptcy trustee, who acts as a “watchdog” in such cases to ensure compliance with the U.S. bankruptcy code, argued that the third-party releases violate the due process rights of claimants and are not authorized under the bankruptcy code.
The reorganization plan calls for the Boys Scouts and its roughly 250 local councils to contribute up to $786 million in cash and property, and assign certain insurance rights, to the fund. In return, they would be released from further liability.
The BSA’s two largest insurers, Century Indemnity Co. and The Hartford, would contribute $800 million and $787 million respectively. Other insurers have agreed to contribute about $69 million.
The BSA’s former largest troop sponsor, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church, has agreed to contribute $250 million into the fund for abuse claims involving the church. Congregations affiliated with the United Methodist Church have agreed to contribute $30 million.
The sponsoring organizations, like settling insurers, would be released from further liability in exchange for their contributions.
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The expected contribution from BSA and local councils has been corrected in this version to $786 million, instead of $776 million.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s puppy Commander will make his TV debut on Super Bowl Sunday.
The German shepherd and Biden’s wife, Jill, will appear in a commercial airing before Sunday’s broadcast of “Puppy Bowl XVIII.” The first lady’s office tweeted the video Thursday.
Both contests will be held on the day before Valentine’s Day, which is Monday.
“Hi there. I’m Jill Biden, here at the White House with our new puppy Commander,” the first lady says. “You know, Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays because it’s all about love.”
The first lady, wearing a gray turtleneck sweater with “AMOUR” in pink letters across the front, is seated in the White House movie theater with Commander by her side.
“What’s so wonderful about having pets is they bring us unconditional love, joy and comfort every day,” she adds. “All of us are wishing you a very happy Valentine’s Day.”
Other footage in the ad shows the two frolicking in a White House hallway.
Last year, Jill Biden filmed a public service announcement focused on mask-wearing in a pandemic to air during Puppy Bowl XVII. She was surrounded in that ad by the family’s German shepherds, Champ and Major.
Champ died last year; Major now lives in Delaware after behaving aggressively at the White House.
The Bidens recently welcomed a cat named Willow to the White House.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/commander-white-house-dog-tv-debut-puppy-bowl_n_6205a11fe4b0e224afc4f6fc
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When I caught COVID right before Christmas — a breakthrough infection I got despite being vaccinated, boosted and wearing a medical-grade mask just about everywhere I went — I resigned myself to the fact that my kids would get it, too. We live in a tiny New York City apartment, after all. And my younger child is too young to be vaccinated.
But we tested them frequently throughout my quarantine, and after 10 days I hadn’t spread it to either of my kids or my husband. This has caused some people in my life to question whether I really had COVID-19 after all. (I’m going to believe the, like, seven at-home rapid tests that told me I did.)
But it’s also made me wonder a lot about the mysteries of COVID spread within households and how that has changed because of omicron. Many people fighting infections are also dealing with the same phenomenon.
Here’s what experts have to say about household COVID spread right now:
Omicron is more likely to spread within households than previous variants
Estimates suggest the initial omicron variant is up to four times more transmissible than previous COVID variants — and the newest omicron subvariant (BA.2) may be even more contagious than that. That seems to track within households as well. In early December, British health officials estimated that the risk of spreading omicron within a household was three times higher than with the delta variant.
With all of the variants, households pose a big risk just because of how much time you’re spending around those people.
“There are a lot of high-touch surfaces that might not get cleaned frequently. You might interact directly with saliva more frequently, especially if you have little kids. You’re probably not masking at home, so sitting next to each other on the couch you could easily get a spray of the bigger droplets in your face,” explained Alex Huffman, an aerosol scientist with the University of Denver.
“But, most importantly, your exposure to inhaled virus is likely much higher at home,” Huffman said. A lot of that has to do with ventilation.
“Many apartments and houses have pretty low air-exchange rates, so the air doesn’t get refreshed very often, and air that an infected person breathes out can build up to fairly high concentrations,” he said.
That said, household spread is not inevitable
One of the many reasons why health experts really hate the idea of just “getting omicron over with” ― aside from the fact that even “mild” COVID can feel really bad and that long-haul symptoms are a real risk ― is that it is by no means inevitable that you’ll get infected just because someone else in your family or home is sick.
“It’s very difficult to compare one study against the next. In general, early on in COVID, it was roughly found that between 10 to 20% of household exposures would end up with COVID, and that was pre-vaccine,” said Dr. Richard Martinello, an associate professor of infectious diseases and pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. Other studies have put the secondary attack rate (i.e., the spread of the disease within a household or dwelling) a bit higher — more like 25% or 30%.
With omicron, those rates are likely higher. But again, it is by no means inevitable. Martinello pointed to a recent study from Denmark — which has not yet been subject to peer review — that suggests that with BA.2, a little over 40% of household contacts became infected themselves. With BA.1 (the initial omicron strain), it was more like 30%.
Basic prevention makes a big difference
There are a lot of factors that determine how likely household spread is, which is one issue that makes precise estimates of that type of transmission so challenging.
For one, some people shed more of the virus than others. People who are immunocompromised, for example, tend to have more severe, long-lasting infections. That means they’re likely to shed the virus for a longer period of time. Then there are other elements, like whether everyone in your home is vaccinated. The fact that my unvaccinated preschooler never got COVID when I had it makes me question whether he had an asymptomatic infection at some prior point that we never knew about that gave him some level of immunity, but I have no evidence of that. Also, antibody tests can be unreliable.
No matter your family or household’s specific circumstances, prevention can make a big difference in stopping the spread at home. To the extent it is possible, you should still isolate within your own home. (I fully admit that I gave up on this quest when I was sick myself because it was Christmas and also because there are only so many places you can hide from a zealous 3-year-old in an 800-square-foot home.)
“If the sick person can’t be fully isolated, I would suggest keeping as much distance as possible; wearing high-quality, tight-fitting masks (i.e., N95s); opening windows when you can; adding a couple portable air filters (like commercial HEPA filters or DIY Corsi-Rosenthal boxes); and limiting the time you spend in shared areas together,” Huffman said.
And be strategic about the time you spend together, he added.
“If possible, make sure you eat and drink in separate areas where the air can be ventilated or filtered more quickly,” he said, because any time the masks come off, the risk is highest.
Experts are still learning about COVID-19. The information in this story is what was known or available as of publication, but guidance can change as scientists discover more about the virus. Please check the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the most updated recommendations.
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There’s a subtlety to emotional abuse that makes it difficult to spot — not only for those looking in on the relationship from the outside, but also potentially for the victims themselves.
“Emotional abuse is insidious,” therapist Sharie Stines, who specializes in recovery from abuse, told HuffPost. “It’s often invisible. It’s frequently designed so that only the target knows she’s being abused, and on the surface, the abuser looks ‘normal.’”
Behaviors like gaslighting, criticizing, insulting, belittling, blaming, threatening, isolating and withholding affection or money can all be forms of emotional abuse. Abusers use these tactics and others to wear down their partner’s self-confidence and independence, allowing the perpetrator to gain and sustain power and control in the relationship.
“Victims of emotional abuse are never validated, reassured, listened to or understood. They are left feeling lonely, confused, hurt, and insecure.”
Abusive relationships don’t always begin this way, though. In fact, they may initially seem loving and caring, at least on the surface. During the early days of the relationship, the perpetrator uses grooming techniques, like charm, gifts and affection, to rope in the victim before pulling the rug out from under them.
“That ‘kindness’ is designed to win over the trust and confidence of an unsuspecting victim, making them vulnerable to subsequent abuse,” Lisa Ferentz, a licensed clinical social worker and educator specializing in trauma, previously told HuffPost.
Emotional abuse can eventually escalate into physical violence. And perpetrators who engage in abuse, be it physical or verbal, tend to utilize the same type of language.
Below, experts reveal some of the common phrases abusive partners use. (You can read about some of the behavioral warning signs in this post.)
1. “You’re too sensitive.”
Emotional abusers will try to dismiss your legitimate feelings about something hurtful they’ve done or said — say, insulting your cooking in front of friends, but claiming it was just a joke — by accusing you of being “too sensitive.”
“It takes the focus off the offending behavior. It is a form of gaslighting,” said psychotherapist Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, author of “Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People — and Break Free.” “It leaves someone feeling invalidated and with a sense of shame.”
2. “You’re impossible to please.”
Emotional abusers are master manipulators, Stines said. They’ll give you backhanded compliments — “the apartment doesn’t look as dirty as the last time you tried to clean” or “you can’t even tell how heavy you are in that outfit” — which are actually insults. When you call them out on it, they’ll deny that they said anything rude and write you off as impossible to please.
“The victim is confused and thinks, ‘I am impossible to please,’” Stines said. “This is because her abuser is so hurtful that she feels displeased often. It’s not really her fault for feeling so unhappy, it’s really the fault of her abuser who keeps psychologically hurting her.”
3. “Your friends don’t have your back like I do.”
It’s to the perpetrator’s advantage to isolate the victim from their friends, family and other members of their support system. That way, no one is around to witness the abusive behavior or help the victim safely exit the relationship. Abusers often do this by discouraging you from hanging out with your friends — who they’ll say don’t have your best interests at heart — while convincing you to spend as much one-on-one time with them as possible.
“For example, my partner used to say that my friends were coming between our relationship or that I couldn’t do anything right because I was always on the phone,” said domestic violence educator and survivor Zoë Flowers, author of “From Ashes to Angel’s Dust: A Journey Through Womanhood.” “Luckily, I never believed him and kept seeing my friends, albeit secretly, which ultimately saved my life when I left.”
4. “Why are you making such a big deal out of this?”
Emotionally abusive partners will ignore the issue at hand and flip it back on you instead. Let’s say the perpetrator came home hours late from work without calling to let you know. When you try to tell your partner you were worried or frustrated because you had already prepared dinner, they won’t apologize or take responsibility. Instead they’ll chastise you for blowing things out of proportion yet again.
“The light is no longer shining on the late and insensitive partner, but on the victim of the emotional abuse,” Stines said. “What are her options? If she shares her feelings, such as, ‘I was feeling ignored, or worried,’ her abuser would respond with something like, ’You’re too sensitive,’ or ‘You always overreact.’ These comments are stated to shut up the victim so that she doesn’t dare question him now or in the future.”
5. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Gaslighters will make you question your own judgment, memories and sense of reality. When you make an accusation based on something you experienced, a gaslighter will tell you it never happened or that your memory is faulty.
“This then leads to the person relying on the gaslighter for what has been presented as the ‘correct’ version of reality,” Moulton Sarkis said. “Someone may feel that they are losing their sanity and become dependent on the gaslighter.”
6. “Everyone thinks you’re crazy.”
Once a gaslighter has made you doubt your own perceptions, they’ll convince you that other people think you’re mentally unstable, too, which shakes your confidence even further.
“It’s dismissive,” Moulton Sarkis said. “It also makes a person feel like they have no outside support, thus isolating them from friends and family. The more isolated a person feels, the less likely they will be to leave an abusive relationship.”
7. “My ex was so much better than you.”
Comparing you unfavorably to their former partners is yet another attempt to chip away at your self-esteem. They might make disparaging remarks about how your appearance, intelligence, skills, or personality stack up to their exes or other people in your lives.
These types of comments are “used to diminish their partner’s spirit and confidence,” Flowers said.
What should do you if your partner makes these kinds of comments?
It depends. There’s no one-size-fits-all response when it comes to dealing with an abusive partner.
“I do not want to put anyone in more danger by providing someone with a blanket suggestion about what they should or should not say,” Flowers said. “I believe survivors are the experts in their relationships.”
If you’re in an abusive relationship (or suspect you might be), Flowers recommends calling the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233) where advocates can provide guidance tailored to your specific situation.
Additionally, these expert-backed tips may help you deal with a toxic, manipulative partner:
Trust your gut.
Over time, emotional abuse makes it more difficult to tap into what your intuition is trying to tell you. But if you have a gut feeling that something is off, don’t ignore it.
“When you feel that tension in the pit of your stomach, or a sense of unease with a situation, don’t immediately dismiss that feeling because someone else thinks you should,” clinical psychologist B. Nilaja Green previously told HuffPost. “Investigate what this sensation could be telling you and get more information before making your next move.”
Know your hooks.
“These are the weaknesses or soft spots in your own psyche that an emotional abuser will exploit,” Stines said.
“For instance, if it’s easy for you to feel guilty, remind yourself not to make decisions out of guilt. If your weakness is ‘giving him the benefit of the doubt,’ remind yourself that this only works with non-emotional abusers. Abusers will exploit your good nature.”
Trying to convince your partner to see your side is probably a waste of time.
You may try different ways to make your case to them, but it’s no use. Explaining yourself doesn’t work with an emotional abuser.
“Victims of emotional abuse are never validated, reassured, listened to, or understood,” Stines said. “They are left feeling lonely, confused, hurt and insecure.”
If you feel inclined to respond, Stines suggests saying something non-combative like, “Thank you for sharing your thoughts about me. Perhaps you’re right. But I don’t think so.”
“Make a decision to stop arguing with your abuser,” she added. “That is one example of a healthy boundary. Remember, you can’t set boundaries for anyone but yourself.”
When you’re feeling defensive, try to disengage from the conversation.
“Call a friend. Journal. Do something other than defend yourself,” Stines said. “Remind yourself that you don’t need to defend yourself because you didn’t do anything wrong.”
The most effective response, in Moulton Sarkis’ view, is to not respond at all.
“Any type of response can and will be used against you, either now or in the future,” she said. “The purpose of using this emotionally abusive language is not just to hurt you — it is also to make you look unstable and then blame you for supposedly being ‘irrational.’”
Remember to lean on your support system.
Need a safe place to stay, a listening ear or help finding a professional who specializes in abusive relationships? Turn to a trusted person in your life who can help you access the support you need.
Need help? In the U.S., call 1-866-331-9474 or text “loveis” to 22522 for the National Dating Abuse Helpline.
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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts contestant on “The Price Is Right” was hoping to win a getaway to some tropical locale during a recent appearance on the game show.
Instead she won a trip to neighboring New Hampshire.
Catherine Graham had already won a firepit and a love seat when she was picked to go on stage and play “Side By Side” with host Drew Carey.
Then she found out she’d be playing for a trip to New Hampshire, just across the border from Massachusetts. She won by correctly guessing the value of the prize was $7,696 instead of $9,676.
Graham confessed she was hoping for somewhere a bit more exotic than the “Live Free or Die” state, which she said she’s already visited “a million times.”
“I just wish it was Tahiti or some place, or Bora Bora. A cruise around the world maybe,” Graham told WBZ-TV, laughing.
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Samira Wiley addressed how unwanted comments about people’s bodies can have a lasting impact, even if someone is comfortable in their own skin.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” actor got candid about an experience that “really affected” her in a People magazine interview published Wednesday — and to make matters worse, it occurred in a professional setting.
“I remember this one so vividly because [I] feel like I have a healthy body image,” the 34-year-old “Orange is the New Black” star said. “And I was on the shoot and one of the outfits they put me in was something that showed a bit of midriff. And honestly, I thought it was fine. But someone on the set was like, ‘Oh, don’t worry. We can fix that in post.’”
Wiley noted to the magazine that she had a pretty good attitude about her body at the time, and the remark “didn’t really put me in a horrible mood” but she couldn’t help but be shaken by its larger implication.
“But this is what I have to deal with?” she asked. “I can’t imagine what all of these young girls who are just looking at these magazines, and their perception is that this is reality and it’s not.”
Wiley is one of several actors who have recently spoken out about how unwanted comments about their bodies can be daunting — even if they comments are meant to be compliments.
Jonah Hill said in October 2021 that praise about his smaller body is “not helpful,” regardless of commenters’ intent.
“I know you mean well but I kindly ask that you not comment on my body,” he said in an Instagram post. “Good or bad I want to politely let you know it’s not helpful and doesn’t feel good. Much respect.”
Lena Dunham — whose body has been a part of public discourse for the entirety of her career — recently gave some perspective on this attitude. The “Girls” star and creator got married to musician Luis Felber on Sept. 25, and photos from her big day were published in a Vogue spread. Soon after it was published, her body was heavily criticized because it had “changed since I was last on television.”
“When will we learn to stop equating thinness with health/happiness?” she wrote on Instagram in October 2021. “Of course weight loss can be the result of positive change in habits, but guess what? So can weight gain.”
She added: “The pics I’m being compared to are from when I was in active addiction with undiagnosed illness.”
Wiley seems to be taking the conversation around body image a step further by producing the upcoming documentary short “The Gratitude Project,” which will feature stories from real people who have used body gratitude to better themselves, inside and out, People reported. The film is slated to premiere in June 2022 at Tribeca Film Festival.
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After a wild NBA trade deadline day, there was still an NBA transaction yet to happen on Thursday night as LeBron James and Kevin Durant needed to draft their All-Star squads.
The festivities got started with Kevin Durant addressing the James Harden trade, as they recorded the draft right after that news broke. Durant was drafting for a team he wouldn’t play on, and LeBron took advantage of his fifth year as a captain (4-0) to use some savvy in his draft strategy and steal some advantages. After Durant took Joel Embiid with his first pick, LeBron left Jokic for his final pick knowing KD wasn’t likely to select two centers, and then later left James Harden on the board the entire reserve selection, knowing Durant wouldn’t want to pick him after he just forced his way out of Brooklyn, leading to some hilarity on the TNT set.
It was the most entertaining All-Star Draft yet, and while both sides are stacked with talent as one would expect with an All-Star Game, you’d be hard pressed to find many that wouldn’t name Team LeBron as a favorite for the Feb. 20 exhibition in Cleveland.
TEAM DURANT
Joel Embiid
Ja Morant
Jayson Tatum
Andrew Wiggins
Trae Young
Devin Booker
Karl-Anthony Towns
Zach LaVine
Dejounte Murray
Khris Middleton
LaMelo Ball
Rudy Gobert
TEAM LEBRON
LeBron James
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Stephen Curry
DeMar DeRozan
Nikola Jokic
Jimmy Butler
Luka Doncic
Darius Garland
Chris Paul
Donovan Mitchell
Fred VanVleet
James Harden
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The Brooklyn Nets ended one big three with the hopes of forming another on Thursday when the team pulled off a trade deadline swap with the Philadelphia 76ers. The deal was headlined by Philly landing James Harden and Ben Simmons heading to Brooklyn, ending two of the most high-profile sagas we have had in the NBA this year.
The trade happened right around lunchtime on Thursday, and later in the day, Kevin Durant was put into a position to respond. Durant and LeBron James are the two captains for the 2022 NBA All-Star Game, and on the heels of the deadline, the pair went onto TNT to select their teams ahead of the league’s upcoming trip to Cleveland. Durant was asked to give his thoughts on the trade, and gave an answer that made clear that something was amiss in Brooklyn.
“I think everybody got what they wanted.”@KDTrey5 reacts to the Harden-Simmons trade. pic.twitter.com/6XWIgtrMVM
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) February 10, 2022
“I’m excited for our team,” Durant said. “Looking forward to finishing the season out with this new group and these new players. The playoffs are right around the corner, we gotta fast track into getting used to each other. But I’m excited, I think everybody got what they wanted.”
When asked by Charles Barkley if the Nets have a psychiatrist on staff because of everything that’s going on in Brooklyn, Durant replied, “What I gotta deal with? I’m making millions of dollars playing basketball.” Soon after, Durant picked Harden’s new teammate Joel Embiid with his first pick in All-Star draft.
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The 2022 NBA All-Star Draft took place on Thursday and for the first time since they started doing this format, there was some serious drama caused by it happening on the same day as the trade deadline. James Harden pushed his way out of Brooklyn and into a trade to the 76ers for Ben Simmons, as the deal got reported as done at 1:30 p.m. ET.
About an hour after that, LeBron James and Harden’s now-former teammate Kevin Durant drafted their All-Star teams, with Harden sitting out there as a reserve option. As the draft wore on, it became increasingly clear that LeBron was taking advantage of the fact that KD was never going to take Harden, continually taking others in front of him, and when it got down to the final two picks, the entire TNT crew and LeBron broke out in laughter as KD talked his way through selecting Rudy Gobert over Harden.
LeBron couldn't keep it together after KD picked Gobert over Harden 😅#NBAAllStar | @Nike pic.twitter.com/2wS1U8t7sE
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) February 11, 2022
It’s honestly the best moment in NBA All-Star Draft history, which has only been televised four times but has become increasingly funny as the Inside the NBA crew egg them into some spiciness — last year featured LeBron and KD poking fun at the Utah Jazz when they left Gobert and Mitchell for the last two picks. This year was so much better, as KD tried his best to play it straight while LeBron had a huge grin on his face as he knew he was pushing all the right buttons to create some incredible content.
The best part is LeBron pointing out that Harden’s missed time with a hamstring and wondering if he’s going to even play, with Barkley then interjecting that he’s healthy now that he got traded, which finally got KD to break and laugh about the whole thing. LeBron then poked further when KD tried to trade for Darius Garland and he refused to deal the Cavs’ star guard.
"You not done making trades for the day?" 😂@KingJames wouldn't give up Darius Garland to @KDTrey5 in the #NBAAllStar Draft pic.twitter.com/ILYJY74FGU
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) February 11, 2022
It is television gold and we might not see anything quite like it again, and LeBron and KD really are the perfect two to deal with it all.
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If there was a lifetime achievement award for skateboarding, they’d probably name the trophy after Tony Hawk (maybe one already exists?) At any rate, Hawk just doesnt slow down and always seems to be in the news. In the last year alone, Hawk was announced as the subject of a documentary by the Duplass Brothers, tried his hand as an Olympic pro skating commentator (he quickly bailed), and was even caught in the middle of kerfuffle with Lil Nas X about skateboards painted with blood. Now he has announced the first ever Tony Hawk’s Weekend Jam festival of music and skate culture in Las Vegas.
The three day event is going down at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center from from May 12th to 15th and it’s a collision of rock bands and legendary pro skaters. On the music side of things, Modest Mouse, Descendents, and Devo are topping the lineup, with Andy MacDonald, Bucky Lasek and Steve Caballero among a radical list of pro skaters who’ll be participating in events throughout the weekend. Hawk’s son, Riley, will even be playing with his band Warish, too.
Presented by Pollen, Weekend Jam is an all-inclusive festival and accommodation experience that promises “Skate Contests, Vert Alert Exhibition Hosted by Tony, Skate Shop, Gaming Activation From GCN, Live Bands, Food Trucks, and more.”
Other skaters currently slated to attend include Christian Hosoi, Kevin Staab ,Lizzie Armanto, Rune Glifberg, and Sandro Dias, Steve Caballero. While on the music side, X, Cold Cave, The Vandals, Rough Francis, and The Downhill Jam will all be on stage.
For tickets and more info, check out the event website.
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Whether you’re a staunch vegan or a hardcore carnivore, it’s easy to see that the vegan food space is more exciting than it’s ever been. Store shelves, fast food menus, restaurant concepts — they’re all beefing up (pun very much intended, sorry) efforts to cater to the palates of vegans and vegetarians across the nation. Why? Speaking broadly, meat consumption is on the decline. Bloomberg reports that the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and the whole of Europe are buying less meat than ever before. Now granted, a lot of that has to do with the rising price of meat and environmental concerns, but those reasons are more than enough to drive many of us to eat less meat when cooking at home.
Thankfully, people like Pinky Cole — CEO, and co-founder of the massively popular Slutty Vegan — are making it easier for us meat-eaters to expand and rethink the ways we think about the food we stuff in our maws. It’s less about ditching flavor and the “fun” of food and more about experiencing new flavors. That’s exciting. The success of Slutty Vegan in Atlanta, a city known for its love of big burgers, fried chicken, and barbecued meats, is a testament to Cole’s mastery of turning veggies into the sorts of umami bombs diners love.
Now Cole wants to give us the tools to make delicious plant-based food on our own as she prepares to drop her first cookbook, Eat Plants Bitch, which features 91 recipes of “vegan comfort food,” that expand upon and capture the magic of her flagship restaurant. Unfortunately, Eat Plants Bitch doesn’t drop until June 21st (the book is available for pre-order now) but anticipating Super Bowl Sunday, we hit up Cole for some quick snack recipes to liven up our Sunday spread and picked her brain for her thoughts on the current food space.
What can you tell us about Eat Plants Bitch, What makes it different than other cookbooks out there?
Eat Plants Bitch is basically a combination of recipes that the meat-eater would typically eat, but it’s all made plant-based. I wanted to create a book that speaks to the audience of the people who come to Slutty Vegan. 90 percent of the people who eat at Slutty Vegan are meat eaters, so our audience is the person that has no desire to be vegan but are trying vegan options, so when I came up with Eats Plant Bitch, I wanted that to be an extension of that concept.
I wanted people who eat meat to say “you know what, maybe I don’t want to go vegan but as long as I have this cookbook I can create different menu items with the recipes in this book without feeling like I have to give up the things that I love, like burgers and fries, Philly cheesesteaks, all of that good stuff” and that’s what makes it different. I’m not specifically talking to the vegan audience, vegans already get it, but we’re really tapping into the minds of the person who really likes to eat meat and doesn’t necessarily want to compromise.
What would you say to meat-eaters regarding why is it important to adopt vegan food into their lifestyle? Why should we all be lowering our meat consumption?
We save the planet when people eat less meat, that’s a given. People don’t realize, even I had to learn this, the emissions and the gas that animals give off affect our economy, our world and our ecosystem. The less meat people eat, the healthier we are in the end. But to tell people to eat less meat is not really my message, my message is to just have options. I want people to feel comfortable in the options that they have. So I’ll tell you, the first thing I want you to do is come to Slutty Vegan, if you don’t live in Atlanta or Georgia, take it one step at a time.
I think the goal in life is if we can get more people to be vegan it’s a win, but everybody is not going to make that lifestyle switch, so what we can do is make people think about food differently, which is why I love to help people reimagine food.
I think there is a misconception in the vegan space that vegans are throwing their agenda on people or forcing people to eat vegan, and I think that it pushes people away, well, for the past few years anyway. I’m just taking a different approach, it’s just necessary for people to understand food differently than they’ve known it before. Most people, up until recently, weren’t really interested in vegan food because they had this misconception that it was nasty and didn’t taste good. “This won’t do anything for me I’m going to stick to my meat.” Now we can educate people in the funnest way, I think that people are starting to adapt and allowing themselves to make their own decisions.
Could you explain to us the Slutty Vegan ethos? What do those words mean to you?
We create a cultural experience that helps people to reimagine food. The keyword here is “experience” and that’s the internal and external experience. When I came up with Slutty Vegan I knew that customer service was the key to keeping me in business and keeping the consumer coming back. We’ve never paid for paid advertisements, people come to Slutty Vegan because they love the energy, they love the vibe, they love the frequency of what we offer. What we do here is create an ultimate experience for you that is memorable, like an amusement park or a family reunion, by the time you leave you don’t even realize that you just had a vegan burger and you just started the first step in changing your lifestyle, but it’s a cultural experience.
And when I say “cultural” I don’t mean a black or white thing, culture can be many things, right? We bring people together in the name of food from around the world and we do that through a fun ultimate safe space where people can just be themselves, and that’s internal and external.
Slutty Vegan is literally a place where you can be all of the things you can imagine. How we build and grow this company is a universe of Black excellence, and excellence and general, and it feels good to know that we’re part of an empire that is teaching people about love and community and family and showing up in a way that is tasteful but we still get the job done in the funnest way.
What’s the easiest dish from the book you’d recommend for beginners? Can you walk us through that process?
Street Corn, anyone can make street corn. Start with four ears of yellow or white corn, remove the husk, then you just need some salt, some mayonnaise, hot sauce, vegan parmesan cheese, some Chinese chives, vegan butter, and minced garlic. You can choose to add paprika and cayenne pepper, to each their own, but all you’ve got to do is boil your corn, put all of those ingredients together, top them, and voila, that’s about the easiest recipe you can make and you don’t have to be a cook to do that.
On the flip side, for the more advanced vegan what recipe from your book is really going to blow minds?
I have a paella and vegan shrimp recipe. Not everyone can make paella, I barely could make it before I learned how. But I love it. I wanted to put this recipe inside as a curveball because you usually get paella from a restaurant unless you really know how to cook but I wanted the everyday person to be able to make this with a vegan shrimp.
For this recipe I use Chorizo, vegan bacon strips, slutty vegan bacon strips actually, I use garlic, tomato, tomato paste, paprika, some crushed tomatoes, some Spanish Paella rice, I use a vegan broth, you can get that easily from Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods, onion powder, garlic powder, pepper, some saffron threads, and then the jumbo vegan shrimp.
Cook up the rice sauté the ingredients, add them all together sautéed the shrimp, voila that’s your paella. Yes that’s a little more complex than the corn, but if you really know how to follow directions, it’ll taste like your favorite Spanish restaurant. This is why I created these recipes, I wanted the everyday person whether vegan or not to be able to say “I can do this, this is easy and its fun and it tastes good, and it’s vegan” so there are wins across the board!
I know you have a lot of famous fans has anyone left you most starstruck? I know Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake, Queen Latifah, and Tiffany Haddish have all shown up.
My most memorable experience was with Snoop Dogg — that experience was so dope, he was so laid back and so cool. Most celebrities are high-energy, he was just chill, you can tell he has been doing this for a long time. He said “I’m so proud of you, these fries taste so good” I don’t know if it was the weed or what but his energy was magnetic.
Justin Timberlake just recently came, not so much starstruck but it was a full-circle moment. I grew up watching Justin Timberlake. For him to have my food and he gave us a post, celebrities don’t do that, he put that on his page to support us and we didn’t even ask for it, he just did it on his own and that made me feel good.
Oh you know what my most memorable was actually? Alicia Silverstone, She came to my restaurant but she was incognito, no one knew it was her she was so low key. I ended up doing a podcast with her and she said “I went to your restaurant.” Her energy was so dope. I’m sure the world already knows this but more need to know how amazing she is. And she sent me some gifts in the mail, she was just so special it went beyond the restaurant.
And that’s what I love about Slutty Vegan, it’s not just a one transaction exchange — we’re building relationships with people and that for me makes it feel more familiar. This is not a brand where we just collect money and provide a service, we’re building an empire based around family and that feels good.
I wanted to ask about your burger with Shake Shack, the Slutty Shack. Are there ever any plans to bring that nationwide?
We did it in Atlanta and New York and the response was so crazy that people kept reaching out. I can’t say that there is going to be anything in the near future, but what I can say is that we created such a demand that I’m sure that people will be happy if we put that on their menu permanently.
The burger has Slut Dust… what is Slut Dust?
Let me tell you something funny. Slut Dust is Slutty Vegan’s fry seasoning that we put on every single fry that you taste… but first of all, I don’t know the first thing about adding seasonings together, I just use my tongue and taste it. When I started Slutty Vegan I knew that I needed a fry seasoning so I started playing with some seasonings and it actually tasted good. It was so good that people are like ’we gotta buy this seasoning’ so it’s my own proprietary recipe, and now we sell our retail Slut Dust and people love it. We sell it off the shelves almost every single week. You can put it on everything, you can put it on vegetables, hey you could put it on meat, it’s become a staple in people’s kitchens.
What do you think of the fast food space, what restaurant is catering best to vegans and vegetarians? Do you have a go-to pick?
The easiest is fries and a side salad, you can’t go wrong with that and you can get it at virtually any restaurant as long as they don’t make the fries in a beef juice. But the good thing about what’s happening in the vegan space, and I like to think Slutty Vegan anchored that — we were the guinea pigs in jumpstarting the fast food vegan movement on a mainstream level that now all the big mainstream restaurants are starting to add vegan options to their menu. You can go to other big-name restaurants and get chicken nuggets and burgers and fries and meat substitutes that are vegan.
It’s so much easier now to go vegan because now we have options. I can remember back in the day being a vegan and being isolated, there used to be one item on the menu that used to be vegan, and I was still happy about it, now I can go to any restaurant for the most part and there are at least two or three options that are vegan and that makes me feel good.
I think that the vegan fast food space is emerging I think it’s really opening up. I like to say that Pinky Cole and Slutty Vegan really had a hand in making that movement as popular as it is today.
From your perspective, what is the fast food space doing right or doing wrong?
For a long time, they got this wrong but now they see an opportunity — They didn’t cater to everybody. Not everyone eats meat. The basics on the regular fast food menu are not for everyone and I think it crippled business a bit because I don’t think they realized how big of an audience the vegan and plant-based lifestyle movement was. Now I think they are utilizing this opportunity to be able to add to their menus.
I think one thing that can be fixed in a typical space is really separating what is vegan and what is not. Everyone wants to add vegan options to their menu but you have to know what oils to cook the food in, what oils not to cook the food in, making sure that you’re not cross-contaminating. I think that fast food restaurants still don’t have that tip top but I’m hopeful they’ll get it right because I too, as a consumer, want to be able to go to a fast food restaurant and get some food without wondering if it was made in the same oil as chicken or beef.
But it’s definitely showing how much progress we’ve made in the last four years. I can guarantee you before I started Slutty Vegan it did not look like this. The only place where there were so many vegan options was LA and now you see a lot of options in other places. They just have to identify the difference between straight vegan, or this is a vegan sandwich, but this is not vegan bread.
KFC just dropped a plant-based chicken, but it is fried in the same oil as their regular oil, so not technically vegan.
Exactly, they’re still trying to figure it out. I want more fast food restaurants to be more intentional about adding these items to the menu versus just adding them to make money just because the trend is hot right now.
To close out, what is the perfect vegan snack to make for Super Bowl Weekend?
I have a Vegan Hot’lanta chicken dip that’s coming out and a spinach dip. You will see that recipe very soon. Super Bowl is a very fun event and a time where people come together as a family. My dip will be number one, but aside from that, you can’t go wrong with vegan beef egg rolls.
Everybody loves an egg roll you can make at home. They taste so delicious. Now I can have a vegan egg roll and eat that around the Super Bowl and dip that in a sweet sauce!
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The Death On The Nile reboot has become something of a hot potato for what could have been a home run, even during the pandemic. We’re getting an Agatha Christie adaptation from director Kenneth Branagh that stars Wonder Woman leading lady Gal Gadot, after all. Unfortunately for 20th Century Studios and Disney, Gal’s co-star, Armie Hammer, has been swallowed up by a social-media controversy (which he has called “bullsh*t”) that aired out alleged “cannibal” texts and accusations of rape against him. Hammer subsequently dropped out of Shotgun Wedding (starring Jennifer Lopez), but Death On The Nile was already too far into the thick of things to erase him.
The film did, however, attempt to minimize him in the newest trailer, but yup, it’s hard to convince anyone to watch an Armie Hammer movie these days. That’s not the only source of cast controversy, though. The film’s set to hit theaters this weekend, but two countries announced that it won’t be welcome there. As Deadline confirms, both Lebanon and Kuwait decided to pull the plug on screenings out of protest for Israeli-born Gadot, who served two (mandatory) years in her native country’s army. As Deadline further explains, the Gadot ban in these countries is an ongoing practice:
Given her connection to the IDF, Lebanon previously blocked the actress’ movie Wonder Woman from release in May 2017. At the time, the country was reportedly prompted to do so by the group Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel-Lebanon. Wonder Woman was also banned in Qatar. Wonder Woman 1984 was banned in Lebanon as well, however, at the time Kuwait theaters were closed at that point in time during the pandemic.
Gadot saw some backlash come her way last year when she tiptoed into the Israel-Hamas conflict over on on Twitter (she subsequently turned off replies), given that nearly any comment made on the subject is seen as incendiary by those who don’t agree.
With that said (and as noted by Page Six), Death On The Nile has a few other cast members who could be seen as political firebrands. One of them, Letitia Wright, came under fire for her expressed anti-vaxxer views. And Russell Brand got called out last year for an apparent far-right-wing bender, a label that he’s pushing back on, and that’s probably not the last word on that note. So, one can only guess how the Disney-distributed movie will fare on its February 11 release date (later to stream) in the U.S.
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Fans of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift have been anticipating a collaboration between the two singers for quite some time now. It began back in November when Taylor dropped the video for “I Bet You Think About Me.” In it, viewers noticed a visual reference to Sheeran’s 2021 album, =. The next hint came through Ed’s video for “Overpass Graffiti” where he makes references to Taylor in a newspaper and a patch on his jacket. Some went as far as to guess that their upcoming collaboration would be a remix of “The Joker And The Queen,” and for those of you who thought so, we have some great news for you.
Ed and Taylor have delivered their new take of “The Joker And The Queen,” and it comes just a day after Ed confirmed the collaboration between him and Taylor was on the way during an interview before last night’s 2022 Brit Awards. As for the new song itself, ED kicks it off with his original verse before stepping aside for Taylor to add a soothing verse that details her falling for a man whom she was originally reluctant to entertain.
The new song is also the duo’s fourth collaboration together following 2012’s “Everything Has Changed,” 2017’s “End Game,” and 2021’s “Run (Taylor’s Version).”
You can listen to the new song in the video above.
Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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Biden doing 'deep dive' on 'about 4' Supreme Court candidates
President Joe Biden appears to be narrowing his list of candidates for the Supreme Court, saying he's looking at "about four people" as Democrats who met with him Thursday say he wants a "persuasive" nominee in the mold of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
In an interview Thursday, Biden told NBC the White House is doing a "deep dive" on the candidates to see if there's anything in their background that would disqualify them. Biden has said his nominee will be a Black woman and he will decide by the end of February.
The comments came just before a meeting with 10 Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in which he told the senators, many of them his former colleagues, that he wants to nominate a woman in the mold of Breyer who will not only be able to persuade her colleagues but will write "stirring, compelling, lasting arguments," according to Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, one of the committee members who attended the meeting.
The senators said Biden would meet soon with candidates. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the meeting was half "friendly and light" and half serious as the president prepares to make history by nominating the first Black woman for the court.
The weekslong vetting process, and a gradual narrowing of candidates, is routine for Supreme Court nominations. In his NBC interview, Biden did not mention the names of any of the candidates but said he believes his eventual pick will get Republican votes.
"I'm not looking to make an ideological choice here," he said, adding that he wants someone like Breyer, "with an open mind, who understands how the Constitution, interprets it in a way that is consistent with the mainstream interpretation of the Constitution."
Biden and Senate Democrats have said they want his nominee to have significant Republican support.
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, another Democratic member of the Judiciary panel, said after the meeting that he thinks Biden's pick will be a "reset" after partisan Supreme Court battles and the court's shift to the right under former President Donald Trump. Democrats vigorously opposed his three nominees, but they all now sit on the high court.
"This choice is historic not only because it will bring historic diversity of the court, but also the quality of the person whom the president will appoint, I think, will be historic, and will really help unite the country as well as the court," Blumenthal said.
Despite the Democrats' lofty bipartisan goals, it's unclear if Biden's nominee will be able to win any GOP votes. Most Senate Republicans have consistently voted against his lower court nominees.
One Republican who has voted for some of the lower court judges is is South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. He has said he is open to supporting Biden's nominee and is pushing a judge from South Carolina — U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs, who the White House said was under consideration for the job earlier this month.
Also under consideration are Ketanji Brown Jackson, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger.
Other possible candidates include U.S. District Court Judge Wilhelmina Wright from Minnesota; Melissa Murray, a New York University law professor who is an expert in family law and reproductive rights justice; and Leslie Abrams Gardner, a U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Georgia and the sister of Stacey Abrams, a powerful voting rights activist and nominee for Georgia governor.
Biden told NBC his short list includes nominees who are "incredibly well qualified and documented. They are the honor students that come from the best universities they have experience, some on the bench, some in the practice of law."
Graham has said Childs is a good candidate partly because she did not go to Harvard or Yale, unlike all the justices currently on the bench.
After the meeting, Blumenthal predicted Biden will nominate someone "of such compelling personal story, of character and intellect that Republicans will have no choice but to support her in some number."
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this report.
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Black members of Biden's Cabinet mark Black History Month
The six Black members of President Joe Biden's Cabinet on Thursday celebrated Black History Month by discussing their roles, some of which are historic firsts.
Actor Taraji P. Henson and athletes Sloane Stephens and Nneka Ogwumike also took part in a separate discussion on the importance of mental health and wellness among Blacks.
Cedric Richmond, a former congressman who also is Black and is a top adviser to the president, moderated a conversation about Black leadership with the Cabinet members who advise Biden on everything from the military to foreign affairs to the economy.
Michael Regan, the first Black man to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, said during the livestreamed event that Black leadership is "extremely important."
"Diverse leadership is extremely important because this is a democracy and, in order for a democracy to work, its leadership should reflect the people that it represents," he said.
Other participants included Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first Black person in the post; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield; and Cecilia Rouse, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Rouse is the first Black woman to lead the council.
Also present was Shalanda Young, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Young is awaiting a Senate vote on her nomination to become the agency's director. She would be the first Black woman to lead the office if confirmed, which is expected.
Biden promised the most diverse Cabinet in U.S. history.
The conversation with Cabinet members was followed by a separate livestreamed event on the importance of mental health and wellness in the Black community, hosted by Susan Rice, Biden's domestic policy adviser, and Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services.
Henson, tennis pro Stephens and Ogwumike of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks shared stories of their challenges with mental health and wellness.
Henson opened the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, named for her late father, to help eliminate the stigma around mental health issues among African Americans and to provide resources.
The singer-actor said the foundation was borne "out of my own necessity" after her son's father died when the child was 9, followed soon after by the loss of her father, a Vietnam veteran who had struggled with his own issues.
"There’s trauma there," she said. "When it came time to address it, I didn't know where to go."
Stephens, who won the U.S. Open title in 2017, has been the target of racist abuse on social media after losing matches.
Biden designated February as National Black History Month, writing in a proclamation that the observance "serves as both a celebration and a powerful reminder that Black history is American history, Black culture is American culture, and Black stories are essential to the ongoing story of America — our faults, our struggles, our progress, and our aspirations."
Biden and his wife, Jill, and Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, and Cabinet members will host commemorative events throughout February focused on the theme of "Black Health and Wellness," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
The U.S. Secret Service hustled Emhoff out of a Black History Month event at Dunbar High School in Washington on Tuesday because of a bomb threat.
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Governor wants to expand prison capacity in Arkansas
Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) is asking legislators to approve funding to expand capacity at Arkansas prisons.
"The first responsibility of the government is public safety. It rides on my shoulders and I look at our prison population and we need to address the issue of adequate space," said Hutchinson, during his weekly press conference on Thursday.
With the fiscal session set to begin on Monday, Hutchinson is asking state legislators to fund building 498 new prison beds at the Arkansas Department of Corrections Calico Rock facility.
"This is a one-time expenditure in terms of the investment. Obviously, when it's online there will be operating costs, but that can be dealt with in a future budget session. But this would not be a catastrophic reserve, that's set aside, we want to keep that at a high balance. This is our current surplus that we'll look at and it will take legislative support," he said.
According to the Department of Corrections, there are more than 19,000 people incarcerated in Arkansas prisons. Currently, 2,251 people are waiting to be transported to DOC prisons. In Arkansas, projections show a 1.4% increase in the number of incarcerations each year for the next 10 years.
"As you grow in population, historically the prison population grows as well. We're a growing state. And so if we can't eliminate crime, they're going to have to make sure public safety is guaranteed by incarcerating those that are violent or career criminals," Hutchinson said.
Arkansas Secretary of Corrections Solomon Graves said it's still early in the planning process but he hopes the work to expand prison capacity is underway in the first part of 2023.
The 498 additional prison beds are estimated to cost $60 million - $100 million, Hutchinson said.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – We now know when Better Call Saul will return. AMC says the series will premiere Monday, April 18 with two episodes airing back-to-back. This will be followed by five episodes airing weekly.
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The drama will return for its final six episodes beginning Monday, July 11. Better Call Saul was supposed to return last year but the pandemic delayed production.
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Grass fire blackens headstones at Fort Smith National Cemetery
Grass fire blackens headstones at Fort Smith National Cemetery
CHRONISTER WAS BOOKED INTO THE SEQUOYAH COUNTY JAIL. NO BOND HAS BEEN ISSUED. TO THIS NOW. A FIRE AT THE FORT SMITH NATIONAL CEMETERY MADAGED SOME HEADSTONES. THE FIRE CHIEF SAYS THE DEPARTMENT GOT A CALL OF A GRASS FIRE AROUND 3 YESTERDAY. EWS CRRESPONDED AND PUT OUT THE FI. RE THEY'RE NOT SURE WHAT CAUSED IT YET, BUTAY S IT APPEARS TO HAVE STARTED NEAR A CONSTRUCTION AREA. WE KNOW SEVERAL HEADSTONES WERE BLACKENED.... (MARSHALL MURPHY, DIRECTOR OF FSM NA TL CEMETERY "what we do is see which process will remove the soot from the stone. we've already done that.o s we know what we're going to do, now we go through d an actually make that hapn pe and our employees will go through and get this all cleaned.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Following last week’s deadly crash on Sandia Crest Rd. many people are wondering why that road doesn’t have more guardrails. Thirty-one-year-old David Hunter, a sergeant at MDC, was killed last week when the truck he was in veered off the snowy Sandia Crest Road.
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KRQE News 13 found a memorial and the truck was still there 100 feet down the mountain. In that same area, there are no guard rails in place and after that deadly crash, many are asking why that is.
“There’s areas that we determine that are hazardous that have cliffs and areas that are heavily traveled where people would need that guardrail but then there’s other areas where there is slow speed limit and guardrails are not needed,” said New Mexico Department of Transportation spokesperson, Kimberly Gallegos.
Gallegos says the areas of crest road that have curves do have guardrails for safety, but the stretch of road where the crash happened is straight and doesn’t warrant those barriers. Gallegos says every couple of years, the DOT evaluates safety improvements along roadways and just recently assessed the crest road.
“Over the last five or six years, we’ve had significant guardrail installed along with NM 536 which is Sandia Crest Road,” Gallegos says it’s also the responsibility of drivers to be aware of safety signage in the area. “There’s speed limit signs, posted signs where there’s designated areas to pull off for trails, there’s slow signs around the edges where you’re going around the huge mountain where it tells you to drive slower and be careful,”: said Gallegos.
The DOT does want to discourage anyone from driving up to the crest road when there is a significant storm like we saw last week. “Our plows get up there and they plow the residential areas further up. It’s discouraged because of the elevation and we have our priority routes already in place for snow removal so our main concern is interstates first, New Mexico highways. We do have this on our list but we have our priority” Gallegos said.
When asked why that road wasn’t closed during the storm in the first place, the DOT says it’s out of their control. “It wasn’t closed because only state police can close the roadway but we do heavily discourage travel during inclement weather,” said Gallegos.
The investigation into the crash that killed Hunter is still ongoing. It’s unclear if he was driving, but the truck was registered to him. Another person involved in the crash is out of the hospital. BCSO is still trying to find a man who tried to help the hunter that day.
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'If this walk could talk' film screening
'If this walk could talk' film screening
ANNIVERSARY. 40 29'S ALLISON WISE SPOKE TOIM H ABOUT THE PROJECT. ALLISON THE SENIOR WALK IS A TRADITION THATS RYVE SPECIAL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS. GRADTEUAS CAN HAVE THEIR NAMES ETCHED INTO THE CONCRETE TO BE A PART OF RAZORBACK HISTORY. AND LARRY FOLEY IS GIVING A VOICE TO THE STORIES BEHIND THE NAMES AS PART OF HIS DOCUMENTARY IF THIS WALK COULD TALK... G PK "it was interesting to hear over and over and over is how emotionally people feel about their name beingn o the walk, and how th heyave just gone for generations and showing to show their grandchildren and, and their great grandchildren. Is t' really kind of a cool thing." YOU'LL SEE THOUSANDSF O NAMES ETCHED INTO MILES OF SIDEWALKS ON THE U OF A CAMPUS - STARTING WITH THE RSFIT GRADUATING CLASS OF 18-76. IN HIS FILM, IF THIS WALK COULD TALK, FILMMAKER, LONGTIME PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF THE J-SCHOO- L LARRY FOLEY SAYS..ITS THE STORIES BEHIND THAT NAMES THAT REALLY SHIN- E these are reflections in time HE SAYS A BIG INSPIRATION FOR THE STORYLINE E AR HUNDREDS OF OLD RAZORBACK YEARBOOKS... "in every one of those yearbooks are really cool old snapshots frozen in time, and some great writing some pros, some poems, students though ts of their time on campus GFX AND AS PART OF THE UNIVERSITY ARKANSAS' sesquicentennial celebration, THE 90 MINUTE FILM PREMIERES TONIGHT AT 7 O CLOCK AT THE FAULKR NE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ON CAMPUS. THE FILM W
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Police are also looking for information about a failed home invasion on November 14. The victim told officers two men, possibly 16 to 20 years old, tried to break into his home on the 1000 block of Lawrence Drive, near Lomas and Tramway.
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Investigators say a silver sedan, a black pickup, or a grey sedan may be involved. If anyone knows anything, they are asked to call Crime Stoppers.
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Two New Mexico teachers have received the Presidential Award for excellence in mathematics and science teaching, the nation’s highest honor for teaching in STEM.
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Silvia Miranda from Mesa Elementary School in Clovis won the K-6 math award and Hope Cahill of El Dorado Community School in Santa Fe received the science award. They both will be recognized virtually later this month and will receive a signed certificate from the president.
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Trucker convoy could disrupt Super Bowl Sunday, Department of Homeland Security says
The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement across the country that a convoy of truckers protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates, similar to recent protests in Ottawa, Canada, could soon begin in the U.S. — with the potential to affect Sunday's Super Bowl in the Los Angeles area and cause other disruptions.
A DHS bulletin issued on Tuesday to state and local officials, obtained by CNN, said the agency "has received reports of truck drivers planning to potentially block roads in major metropolitan cities in the United States in protest of, among other things, vaccine mandates for truck drivers."
The DHS warning was first reported by Yahoo News.
"The convoy will potentially begin in California as early as mid-February and arrive in Washington, DC, as late as mid-March, potentially impacting the Super Bowl LVI scheduled for 13 February and the State of the Union Address scheduled for 1 March," the bulletin said.
"While there are currently no indications of planned violence, if hundreds of trucks converge in a major metropolitan city, the potential exists to severely disrupt transportation, federal government operations, commercial facilities, and emergency services through gridlock and potential counterprotests," the bulletin continued.
A DHS spokesperson told CNN in a statement that the department "is tracking reports of a potential convoy that may be planning to travel to several U.S. cities. We have not observed specific calls for violence within the United States associated with this convoy, and are working closely with our federal, state, and local partners to continuously assess the threat environment and keep our communities safe."
A federal law enforcement official told CNN that early last week, authorities began seeing calls on a variety of online forums for the events in Ottawa to expand into the U.S. The official said that law enforcement and security officials guarding the Super Bowl in Inglewood, California, are preparing for any possible disruptions.
For nearly two weeks, Canadian truckers have been protesting a new rule that requires them to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or face a two-week quarantine in their homes after they return across the U.S.-Canadian border. Others have joined to rally against mask mandates, lockdowns, restrictions on gatherings and other COVID-19 preventative efforts in the country.
Tensions stemming from protests have simmered to the point that traffic at key U.S. transit points has ground to a stop and a judge has temporarily banned demonstrators in the nation's capital from using horns.
DHS said it has worked for more than a year to support security measures around the Super Bowl and dedicated more than 500 individuals from the department to assist. The agency says it has also worked with federal, state and local partners to strengthen security around the U.S. Capitol.
President Joe Biden is set to deliver the annual State of the Union address to Congress on March 1.
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COLORADO SPRINGS — School board meetings in Colorado Springs District 11 have become popular, albeit contentious, sessions since the most recent election, which brought in three new directors: Reverend Al Loma, Dr. Sandra Bankes, and Lauren Nelson.
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Each ran on conservative platforms – some spoke directly against the district’s Equity Policy, taking issue with data compiled by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), which found wide-ranging inequities from school to school and from student to student within schools.
“Why is District 11 distinguishing ‘historically marginalized students and white students? The thing about history is, it doesn’t change. There will continually be historically marginalized students. At what point would this not need to be accounted for?” Lauren Nelson wrote in a 15-page-long open letter to “D11 Leadership” before winning a seat on the board months later.
With input from Superintendent Michael Thomas, Alex Knox-Miller, director of Equity and Inclusion, decided to pause work being done in response to AIR’s findings by the district’s newly-formed Diversity Equity and Leadership Team (DELT).
She called the decision an “emotional” one, noting it was not a decision made by the new board, but rather, influenced by the change in members.
“I think that’s what we’re pausing for,” Knox-Miller explained in late January. “To see where they’re at with equity.”
In explaining the process of the audit, Knox-Miller had this to say:
“AIR started with a really scientific process where they asked a couple of questions, asked us for a whole bunch of information. My hands did not touch any of the data AIR asked for. They asked HR, they asked finance, they asked every department that would help them paint a picture of what was going on in our district. [Board Vice President] Jason Jorgenson was also there. I’ve heard him challenge the findings and that’s concerning to me. He was part of the process. These community members – who I am very confident reflect our community – they’re the ones who came up with the findings based on the data.”
So the project moved outside of the district’s purview in a grassroots effort started by D11 parents and community members. They call themselves Neighbors for Education, and their numbers are growing.
“I think that that is amazing that they are continuing this work,” Knox-Miller said. “That tells me that the work that we were doing was important.”
In the meantime, tensions between the board and multiple groups of parents and community members are rising.
Recently, in an effort to hold D11 BOE Members accountable, the group filed for documents under the Colorado Open Records Act.
Their findings revealed a specific email written by Rev. Al Loma to Superintendent Michael Thomas, which focused on a comment made by Shaun Walls, Vice President of the Chinook Center and member of Men of Influence – a volunteer group that works for justice in the community.
The comment was made during the January 12 board meeting, where he’d signed up for citizen comment.
“Do you remember what you said?” I asked Walls on Wednesday.
“You’re in bed with the devil, but we carry the stick,” he answered. “I was referring to the people that paid for [board members’] elections and their campaigns.” And he said the phrase is well-known in “the protest world.”
But Rev. Loma said he interpreted the comment as a threat and noted others felt the same.
“When it was first said, I restrained my knee-jerk reaction to jump over our counter and gangster slap him, but I let it ride,” Loma wrote to Thomas. He reported some parents were also upset by what Walls said.
“The next day, three white female Parents [sic] called me. Needless to say, they were terrified by their words. Moreover, they said the men of Influence [sic] stared them down in a violent manner [sic],” he wrote. And Loma wrote when those parents asked him what they should do, he said, “I personally guaranteed their safety and told them to ignore ‘the barking chihuahuas.'”
“This guy, he racializes everything when the conversation doesn’t need to be singularly about race. He said ‘gangster slap’ because [the Men of Influence] were the only black people in the room,” Wallace said. “Those white women are more important in what they feel than what we feel is important.”
Walls also said his group had saved a seat at that same board meeting for another woman – who is Black – and was making her way over to her spot. But before she could get there, Walls said a security guard grabbed her by the arm to pull her out of the room.
“He actually touched her,” Walls said. “He grabbed her.”
Walls said Rev. Loma addressed him directly at a different meeting, saying he could relate to the Men of Influence because he “used to duck bullets, too.”
“We never said we ducked bullets,” Walls said. “That alone shows why the equity plan needs to stay in place. They’re doing it right to our face.”
Mike Williams is one of the parents who founded Neighbors for Education.
“The Men of Influence, who are a volunteer organization who do teen nights at Hillside on Fridays, did turkey drives, toy giveaways… is who Loma references here,” Williams said of the uncovered email.
“Jorgenson has said Men of Influence do great work in the community. I don’t think Jorgenson is going to put up a group that is threatening and violent. We don’t agree with Jorgenson on 99.9% of stuff. But he promoted the Men of Influence because he understands the work they’re doing in the community,” Williams said. “And they’re parents! They’re District 11 parents!”
And he chastised Loma for continuing to put inflammatory posts on his personal, albeit public, social media accounts – something Board President Parth Melpakam said he addressed.
But, after Whoopi Goldberg alleged that the Holocaust was “not about race,” resulting in a two-week suspension from her spot as host on ABC’s “The View,” Loma posted a meme that upset some parents.
His meme showed a color gradient (depicting skin colors from white to black) card held next to Goldberg’s face under the title “Black privilege [sic].” White and peach-colored skin tones on the card were next to the word “FIRED,” while the word next to the tan, brown, and black skin colors read “TWO WEEK SUSPENSION.”
When asked why he’d posted the Goldberg meme, Loma said, through email, “For similar offenses, one person was fired, and the other person was suspended.” In regards to the parents who took offense to the post, Loma said, “If someone was offended, that was not my intent. I was bringing to light that a Hispanic woman was treated unfairly.”
Loma did not clarify the woman’s name or the circumstances he was referring to.
“This board is out of control,” Williams said. “As soon as those three got elected, it’s just been chaos.”
In a board meeting held Wednesday, Melpakam said he read the following apology, written by Loma, who was on an excused absence:
“Dear President Melpakam,
Please accept my sincere apologies for recent comments and social media posts that have brought undue attention and criticism to myself and to the District 11 Board of Education.
It was never my intention to offend anyone by posting personal texts, expressions or images and I will strive to be mindful of the responsibilities and impact attributed to our words and deeds as members of this board.
Thank you for your consideration,
Al Loma”
Per the board operating manual a public apology is the corrective step issued after a board member is addressed for a violation.
D11 is hosting a “Family Listening Tour” with a first stop on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Hillside Community Center. Attendees are asked to RSVP because space is limited.
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CHICAGO (WGN) — “Cheer” star Jerry Harris pled guilty Thursday in a federal child pornography case, which alleges he solicited sex from minors at cheerleading competitions. A seven-count indictment was filed against him in December of 2020, alleging sexual misconduct across a trio of states.
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As part of a deal, Harris entered a guilty plea on one count of receipt of child pornography and another of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Prosecutors say if this case had gone to trial, their evidence would have shown that back in the summer of 2020, while Harris was living in his hometown of Naperville, he communicated with a minor – who he knew was under 18 – via Snapchat, repeatedly asking for photos of a sexual nature.
With respect to the second charge, prosecutors stated Harris traveled from Dallas to Orlando in May of 2019 to engage in sexual conduct with a 15-year-old, whom he asked to meet in a public bathroom.
After ensuring Harris was fully competent and aware of what he was admitting to, the judge on Thursday accepted his plea.
The defense team in the case released a statement to Nexstar’s WGN News saying the criminal conduct “took place in the context of a competitive Cheer Community where inappropriately sexualizing and sexually abusing children was far too common and too often overlooked. Jerry was himself exploited, manipulated, and sexually abused as a child within the Cheer Community in a way that perversely made him believe that this sexual conduct was somehow normal when it was not.”
The statement goes on to say Harris has been in therapy since his incarceration in October of 2020, which he spoke of today in court. The “Cheer” star told the judge he’s been seeing psychologists at the correctional facility in Chicago where he’s currently being held.
Part of the plea package involves the prosecution asking the judge to sentence Harris on just those two counts.
The count of child porn in Illinois carries a minimum of 5 years in prison and a max of 20 years. The second charge in relation to travel between Texas and Florida carries a maximum term of 30 years behind bars.
Sentencing is due to be carried out on June 28.
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(NEXSTAR) – Athletic brand Adidas caught Twitter users by surprise Wednesday when they posted a photo of 25 pairs of bare breasts, ranging in shapes and sizes. While it stirred some negative responses in the comment section, the company said the post was for a good reason.
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The tweet includes the aforementioned photo with the caption, “We believe women’s breasts in all shapes and sizes deserve support and comfort.” Adidas then directs users to explore its new sports bra collection which offers 43 styles, available in 72 sizes, “so everyone can find the right fit for them.”
Adidas’s tweet received mixed reviews. Some applauded the brand’s move, with one user even calling out Facebook and Instagram for restricting “open, healthy, educational advertising or content.” Others disapproved of the post, to which Adidas responded by saying they “want to celebrate bodies in all their glory.”
“The gallery was designed to show just how diverse breasts are, featuring different shapes and sizes that highlight why tailored support is paramount,” the company said in a statement to Nexstar.
Twitter, as AdWeek points out, doesn’t have any guidelines regarding nudity. The social media giant’s terms of service instead says users “should only provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others.”
“You understand that by using [Twitter], you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive,” the company’s terms of service reads.
Twitter did not immediately respond to Nexstar’s request for comment. According to Adidas, 90% of women aren’t wearing the right bra size.
“There is a sizeable data gap when it comes to sports bra development, so we worked with experts in breast health and biomechanics, University of Portsmouth, to challenge ourselves and drive forward our innovation to better meet the needs of our female athletic community,” said Amy Charlton, Senior Director Product at Adidas.
In addition to its tweet announcing the line, promotional images show the new sports bras being worn by an array of body types, AdWeek reports.
“At adidas, we believe everybody in sport deserves to be supported. That is why we tirelessly innovate to meet the needs of our diverse community, helping more people experience the life-changing benefits of sport. A sports bra is the single most important piece of workout apparel for those with breasts. The confidence and support it gives can have a significant impact on someone’s performance and ability to stick with sport. That is why we have re-engineered our entire portfolio, catering to more bodies and workouts than ever before,” the company’s statement to Nexstar continued.
The new line of bras Adidas is advertising will be released on Feb. 14.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. – When Walter Payton hung up his cleats in 1988, he did so as the NFL’s all-time leading rusher. Sadly just 11 years later, he passed away at the age of 45.
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Today, however, his name lives on as part of the league’s Man of the Year Award. It’s a source of great pride for his children, Brittney and Jarrett.
“When it took his name in 1999, we never knew it was going be this big,” Jarrett Payton said. “Now to see how much it’s grown with the link with Nationwide and how Roger Goddell has really truly elevated this award, it’s made guys want to win this like they want to win the MVP.”
The highly-coveted award recognizes a player for his involvement with the community with each team submitting a worthy nominee.
“It used to be, only three guys were the finalists,” said Jarrett Payton. “Now every single team has its nominee. For our family, we get a chance now to be able to interact with these guys and to keep telling these guys to keep doing what they’re doing, because a lot of the stuff that we see about these football players or athletes, it’s more about the bad stuff. The good stuff they’re doing needs to be elevated even more.”
“The more we can do with this award to really showcase that and highlight the amazing work that these guys are doing in their communities,” Brittney Payton said. “They’re really making a difference in changing people’s lives every day. The more that we can do as a family to support that and spread the word about their missions to help those organizations continue to grow, it’s a great thing.”
And who better to be the symbol of good works in the NFL than a man whose nickname was “Sweetness”?
“My dad was just one of the kindest, most giving, generous guys that was out there,” said Brittney Payton. “I always say they don’t make them like they made him anymore. It’s so touching to me to see just how his spirit and his legacy continues to live on.”
The NFL will announce this year’s Walter Payton Man of the Year Award at the “NFL Honors” on Thursday night.
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico Cattle Growers Association says it’s lost its legal bid to block the killing of feral cattle in the Gila. The group was among those asking a judge to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent federal officials from shooting the animals from a helicopter.
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Wildlife officials say the cattle are damaging the environment, but ranchers fear branded cattle may be killed by mistake. The Cattle Growers’ Association president tells KRQE a restraining order was not granted and he expected to plan to begin Thursday morning.
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A historic house and Corrales property is now open for the season. Visitors are once again able to tour Casa San Ysidro. And this year, every second Saturday of the month is free from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
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There are also a number of events throughout the year, from a history of coins, to the history of Hispano music.
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ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) – By now you may have seen the viral YouTube video where a father alleges a Taos police officer punched him in the nose in front of his kids after members of a drug task force raided their shuttle bus home in Espanola.
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The father showed body cam footage of the raid — but said he left out the video of the punch because it was inappropriate. KRQE obtained the police body cam footage and the officer’s use of force report to get a better understanding of what happened.
Angelo Giuffre and his family were sleeping in their shuttle bus outside an auto repair shop in Espanola last May after having engine problems. A drug task force was raiding the shop and making sure there weren’t suspects in the van. One of Giuffre’s three children is seen in the body cam video, watching the scene unfold.
According to the use of force and police reports — Taos police officer Luke Martinez says he first used an open hand to Giuffre’s face as a distraction to get control of his hands. Then he says he used an open hand strike to Giuffre’s face because he kept resisting.
The camera’s moving and blocked so you can’t see what he did. After getting off the bus, Giuffree’s wife started shooting cell phone video to document their encounter.
The Taos police chief told News 13 officer Martinez did not violate any policies with those strikes to the face. The Giuffre family says they’re thinking of suing but so far nothing has been filed.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Child Income Tax Credit Bill will be introduced Friday. Bill sponsor, House Majority Leader Javier Martinez, says the bill will help all New Mexico families.
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“This bill will apply to most New Mexico families. From those making very little money to those making upwards of $250,000,” said Rep. Martinez. “So this is truly something we are hoping captures most New Mexico families with children.”
House Bill 213 would give families the chance at an income tax credit of up to $350 a year per child. This is only for families who make $25,000. Families who make more are still eligible for smaller amounts. Families would be eligible next tax season.
It is modeled after the federal tax credit. On Friday, it will be introduced in the House Taxation and Revenue Committee.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – State lawmakers are considering a bill that would prevent more people that could prevent more people from ending up homeless. If the bill is approved, it would give renters more rights.
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Supporters of House Bill 65 say it will ease the housing crisis by giving renters more protection against evictions. “It will not end eviction,” said David Jaramillo, a registered lobbyist for the City of Albuquerque, and a supporter of House Bill 65. “It will prevent a large amount of unhoused, or homelessness,” Jaramillo explained.
If passed House Bill 65, will give tenants eleven days after their rent is due to pay it before they can be slapped with a late fee. Currently, they have three days. It will also give those who are evicted 15 to 20 days to find a new place to live instead of being kicked out after seven.
Supporters say the bill protects renters from ending up on the streets, while also protecting the landlord’s investments. Not everyone agrees, saying the bill could fuel the housing crisis.
“The older mom and pop owners, might see this as a great opportunity to sell their homes because they’re blindsided by the regulations,” said Kent Cravens, with the Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors. “Those homes will likely not be put back into the rental pool, because inventories are low and homes are selling quickly,” Cravens explained.
As of 2019, 32 percent of households in New Mexico were rentals, which is below the national average. Last year the cost of rent in Albuquerque went up nearly 19 percent. The bill passed the house 38-21. It’s now making its way through the senate.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — After years of work, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill to make it easier for victims of sexual harassment to get their day in court.
“The bill is going to help fix a broken system that protects perpetrators and corporations and ends the days of silencing survivors,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said.
Gillibrand sponsored the legislation that prevents forced arbitration for workers who are victims of sexual assault and harassment.
“No longer will survivors of sexual assault or harassment in the workplace come forward and be told that they are legally forbidden to sue their employer because somewhere buried in their employment contracts was this forced arbitration clause,” Gillibrand said.
The bill also voids any past forced arbitration clauses.
“Most people have no idea what they’re doing when they sign an employment contract,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said.
Graham emphasized their action will protect American workers.
“You’re going to have a chance to be heard differently and is long overdue,” Graham said.
Both Gillibrand and Graham thanked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for working across the aisle to get the bill to the Senate floor.
“People who were harassed will get their rights and have their own choice and their own decisions to make,” Schumer said.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) celebrated the outcome.
“It shows that Congress can work in a bipartisan way,” Grassley said.
The bill now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – With schedule changes due to COVID-19, the UNM men’s basketball team found itself with a stretch of 10 days between games. Head coach Richard Pitino was very vocal about adding another game to the schedule, and he got his wish. Northern New Mexico College will be playing UNM at the Pit on Friday night.
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On paper, the game doesn’t seem like a big-time matchup. Northern New Mexico is an NAIA school while UNM has an NCAA Division I program. A game like this can be easy for a team like the Lobos to overlook, but coach Pitino says he is treating it just like any other game.
“Everybody acts like it doesn’t count,” said Pitino. “If we lose everybody is going to be all over us so, it’s like anything else. I mean crazy things happen all the time. Treat it like anything else. Like I said, I don’t take anything for granted.”
UNM has won two of its last three games and is hoping the upcoming game against the Eagles can help the team have a successful last month going into the Mountain West tournament in March. The Lobos will then host Wyoming on February 15 and the team has already started preparation.
Game time against Northern New Mexico is Friday night at 7 p.m. at the Pit. The game will be broadcast on the Mountain West Network.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s puppy Commander will make his TV debut on Super Bowl Sunday.
The German shepherd and Biden’s wife, Jill, will appear in a commercial airing before Sunday’s broadcast of “Puppy Bowl XVIII.” The first lady’s office tweeted the video.
Both contests will be held on the day before Valentine’s Day, which is Monday.
“Hi there. I’m Jill Biden, here at the White House with our new puppy Commander,” the first lady says. “You know, Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays because it’s all about love.”
The first lady, wearing a gray turtleneck sweater with “AMOUR” in pink letters across the front, is seated in the White House movie theater with Commander by her side.
“What’s so wonderful about having pets is they bring us unconditional love, joy and comfort every day,” she adds. “All of us are wishing you a very happy Valentine’s Day.”
Other footage in the ad shows the two frolicking in a White House hallway.
Last year, Jill Biden filmed a public service announcement focused on mask-wearing in a pandemic to air during Puppy Bowl XVII. She was surrounded in that ad by the family’s German shepherds, Champ and Major.
Champ died last year; Major now lives in Delaware after behaving aggressively at the White House.
The Bidens recently welcomed a cat named Willow to the White House.
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| 2022-02-11T01:16:11
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Tesla announced another recall on Thursday.
The company said it's recalling certain 2020-2022 Model S, Model X, Model Y, and 2017-2022 Model 3 vehicles.
Tesla says the vehicles have a "Boombox function" that allows sounds to be played through an external speaker that could obscure pedestrian warning sounds.
"Pedestrians may be unaware of an approaching vehicle if the PWS sounds are obscured, increasing the risk of a crash," said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Tesla will be performing an over-the-air software update that will address the issue, the NHTSA said.
In the last two months, the company has issued recalls for windshield defrosting issues, a faulty seat belt chime, software that allows vehicles to roll through stop signs and trunk and camera issues.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — One of the many communities excited about the Cincinnati Bengals being in Super Bowl LVI is quarterback Joe Burrow’s hometown of The Plains, Ohio.
“It feels like we’re higher than Georgia pines down here in The Plains,” said Travis Brand, the owner of Gigi’s Country Kitchen. “It’s crazy.”
Several people at Brand’s restaurant in the town of 3,000 were talking about Burrow and the Bengals as they dined.
“What he has brought to this area is amazing,” said resident Tammy Hogsett. “He has brought hope. He has brought laughter. He has brought joy to the children in this area. I could cry talking about it because he has given all of these children an opportunity to see that they could do whatever they want. They can be whatever they want, and when you come from an area like this sometimes that’s difficult.”
Sam Smathers was Burrow’s youth football coach when the quarterback was in the 3rd through 6th grades. Smathers said he still gets goosebumps thinking about how Burrow and his team won the AFC championship.
“We’ve come to expect certain things when Joe’s on the field,” he said. “The rest of the world sees it now.”
Super Bowl LVI will take place at SoFi Stadium on Feb. 13.
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(The Hill) — This coming Super Bowl Sunday in Los Angeles could be the hottest National NFL championship in history, as heat advisories continue to plague Southern California, The Washington Post reported.
High temperatures this weekend are expected to climb into the 90s in some areas, about 20 to 25 degrees above normal, according to the Post. This is the first time in California’s history the National Weather Service has issued heat advisories in February, with such warnings typically occurring between April and October, the Post reported.
Super Bowl LVI is slated to kick off at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, featuring the Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Super Bowl VII, which also took place in Los Angeles in 1973, ranks as the hottest NFL championship yet, with temperatures reaching 84 degrees Fahrenheit by kickoff, the Post reported.
(This story originally appeared in Equilibrium, a newsletter that tracks the growing global battle over the future of sustainability. Subscribe here: thehill.com/newsletter-signup.)
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A cold front will bring a chance for light snow across parts of eastern New Mexico Friday night. Cooler weather returns statewide with the front on Saturday but rebounds quickly by Sunday afternoon.
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Temperatures will rebound quickly Friday afternoon after some cooler weather today again in eastern New Mexico. Meanwhile, for the rest of the state, the warming trend continues today and Friday. A cold front will push south across eastern New Mexico Friday bringing wind gusts as high as 40 mph as it pushes south. It will bring a canyon wind into the Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas Friday night, also bringing wind gusts as high as 40 mph.
Light snow will be possible behind the cold front Friday night into Saturday morning across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, northeastern New Mexico, and down to the east slopes of the Sandias and Manzanos, potentially down to the I-40 corridor too. Temperatures will be cooler Saturday all across the state.
Afternoon high temperatures rebound quickly Sunday afternoon all across the state. This warming trend will continue through Tuesday of next week. After Tuesday though, there is a lot of uncertainty in the forecast, but what is looking more and more likely is another storm system moving into New Mexico. Temperatures will start to drop off Wednesday across the state as the storm moves in, and it does look to bring widespread chances for snow and even rain potentially through Thursday. For now, stay tuned to the latest forecasts as it will continue to change.
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President Joe Biden said Thursday four potential Supreme Court nominees are undergoing "deep dive" background checks.
"The shortlist are nominees who are incredibly well qualified," Biden said in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt.
The president wouldn't provide names, but he said some of them have experience on the bench.
With the Senate split 50-50, the president could need every Democrat's vote to get his nominee through. However, he believes his pick will also get Republican votes.
"I'm not looking to make an ideological choice here," Biden said.
The president added that he wants someone similar to Justice Stephen Breyer, who was nominated by former President Bill Clinton.
Breyer said he will step down at the end of the current Supreme Court term.
Prior to being elected president, Biden said he would nominate the first Black woman to the court.
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DOVER, Del. — The Boy Scouts of America has reached a tentative settlement with an official bankruptcy committee representing more than 80,000 men who say they were molested as children by Scout leaders and others.
The settlement comes two years after the organization filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid the flood of child sex abuse lawsuits.
In two weeks, there will be a hearing where a Delaware judge will hear arguments on whether she should confirm the Boy Scout's proposed reorganization plan.
The plan includes a proposed victims' compensation fund of more than $2.6 billion.
That would be the largest aggregate sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history.
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| 2022-02-11T01:17:33
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Tesla announced another recall on Thursday.
The company said it's recalling certain 2020-2022 Model S, Model X, Model Y, and 2017-2022 Model 3 vehicles.
Tesla says the vehicles have a "Boombox function" that allows sounds to be played through an external speaker that could obscure pedestrian warning sounds.
"Pedestrians may be unaware of an approaching vehicle if the PWS sounds are obscured, increasing the risk of a crash," said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Tesla will be performing an over-the-air software update that will address the issue, the NHTSA said.
In the last two months, the company has issued recalls for windshield defrosting issues, a faulty seat belt chime, software that allows vehicles to roll through stop signs and trunk and camera issues.
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Links - Utah Rally for Recovery resources
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SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah — A no kill animal shelter in South Salt Lake is maxed out with dogs and they’re asking the public to help them.
From dogs that are surrendered, to abandoned, and even some returns, South Salt Lake Animal Services is completely at capacity with dogs.
The filled shelter worries staff because it means they are unable to help take in new animals and adoptions are at a standstill.
Supervisor of Animal Service Jenica Laws says since less people are working from home now, they’ve noticed a complete shift.
Read - Animal shelters call 2021 "year of pet abandonment" as owners return pets from pandemic
“During the pandemic last year, we had one or two dogs and now we have no empty kennels," she said. "We are going to try to find a rescue for these guys or a home for these guys, we are not ones to euthanize just because we are completely full.”
The shelter is reaching out to other rescues to help empty the kennels but they're also asking members of the public who are considering a new pet to adopt.
“We’re trying to reach out to the public to show them what amazing dogs we have here in South Salt Lake and they deserve the best,” Laws said.
The shelter says part of the problem is that they’ve had some dogs returned, puppies who need training or dogs that have separation anxiety.
“During the pandemic, everyone wanted a dog because they were at home, 24/7, they wanted a friend," Laws explained. "Once they went back to work, they realized this dog needs a little more time and focus and the dogs got more anxious because their owners went back to work."
After posting their call for help online, the post has garnered almost 5,000 shares.
The shelter is always looking for volunteers and donations. Right now, dog food is a priority, as well as blankets, towels, and bleach.
For more information, head to their website by clicking here.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Senate stood and applauded following the unanimous vote in support of a bill to put period products in every school in the state.
The Senate voted in favor of House Bill 162, which creates a private-public partnership to ensure free access to menstruation products in Utah schools.
"This bill is incredibly important," Senate Majority Whip Ann Millner, R-Ogden, said on the Senate floor. "I hate to say this, we wouldn’t envision charging people for toilet paper in our schools, right? These products are just as important to our young women and this is an opportunity to make that available in a very safe and appropriate manner to every child."
The bill has had sizable support on Capitol Hill to address an issue long-ignored. Girls have missed school because they haven't had access to menstruation products. The Policy Project, a group that has advocated for it, rounded up donors and persuaded lawmakers to fund the initiative.
The bill has a final vote in the Senate. It has been tabled to ensure there is adequate funding in the overall budget process.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Bipartisan bills introduced on Utah's Capitol Hill expand the state's medical cannabis program, winning overall support from patient advocates.
"I was telling patients, 'Look, these are decent bills,'" said Christine Stenquist, the head of Together for Responsible Use and Cannabis Advocates (TRUCE). "Because they were posting, 'Tell me what I’m supposed to hate.' I’m like, nothing yet! Nothing yet! Which is wonderful. We’ve come a long way since 2014."
Stenquist, who was an original sponsor of the citizen ballot initiative that legalized medical cannabis in Utah has criticized the state-run program in the past. But she said progress has been made in the latest bills.
Senate Minority Whip Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, is sponsoring Senate Bill 195. The bill allows medical cannabis to be used for acute pain post-surgery; allows children who are card-holders to receive doses at school from a nurse; allows cannabis for hospice, among other things.
"Patients being able to go and access medical cannabis after surgery instead of opiates is a win for all of Utah with our opiate crisis," said Desiree Hennessy, the executive director of the Utah Patients Coalition, another sponsor of the medical cannabis ballot initiative and advocate for patient access.
Senate Majority Leader Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, is sponsoring Senate Bill 190, which handles more regulatory measures for the cannabis industry. The bill includes labeling and advertising restrictions; allows midwives to recommend cannabis; expands cannabis cards to terminally-ill patients; and bans synthetic THC known as "Delta 8."
Synthetic THC has been prohibited in Utah before, but it has emerged as an "over-the-counter" type product. With the bill, the legislature is reaffirming its prohibition to it.
"Somebody’s always pushing the envelope," said Sen. Vickers. "That’s kind of what’s happened. That envelope is being pushed so we’re trying to rein it back in."
The patient advocates have mixed views on it. The Utah Patients Coalition supports Delta 8, while TRUCE opposes it.
"This extraction process was a health concern for the public and we felt standardization needed to be in place," said Stenquist.
In a series of bills, the legislature has declared that medical cannabis should be treated no differently than any other prescription drug. However, there is one glaring exception.
Sen. Vickers said while first responders can have access to cannabis — police officers still cannot. It's because of a complicated issue around federal laws and guns (because cannabis is still illegal on a federal level).
"The recommendation in the bill right now is that a first responder, other than law enforcement, could be a medical cannabis card holder and a patient, but they cannot use the product within 12 hours of going on a shift," Sen. Vickers told FOX 13 News.
Hennessy said overall, they are making progress with the cannabis bills.
"This is a year where we’re evaluating what we have, seeing how we can make it work better," she said.
Sen. Escamilla described Utah's medical program as "a baby program" still getting going. Lawmakers want to see the impact of expanding access to cannabis through bills previously passed.
"We're making sure again patients are having access like they were meant to be based on the program we created here from policy," Sen. Escamilla said.
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| 2022-02-11T01:18:22
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SALT LAKE CITY — A proposed constitutional amendment to overrule a controversial Utah Supreme Court ruling failed on a close vote in the House of Representatives.
House Joint Resolution 4, sponsored by Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, would have allowed civil lawsuits over childhood sexual abuse to be applied retroactively. The resolution failed on a 48-25 vote because House rules call for 50 votes on a proposed amendment.
It previously won a unanimous vote in a House committee.
The resolution was run in response to the Utah Supreme Court's ruling in a lawsuit brought by a woman who sued a now-retired federal judge, accusing him of sexually abusing her as a teenage witness in the high-profile murder trial of a serial killer. The state's top court ruled the law, which allows sex abuse victims to sue in civil court, could not be applied retroactively.
The resolution may not be entirely dead. If Rep. Ivory can convince his colleagues to reconsider it, he can get another vote in the House of Representatives. He can also bring it back next year.
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https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/proposed-constitutional-amendment-on-sex-abuse-lawsuits-fails-in-close-house-vote
| 2022-02-11T01:18:28
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President Joe Biden said Thursday four potential Supreme Court nominees are undergoing "deep dive" background checks.
"The shortlist are nominees who are incredibly well qualified," Biden said in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt.
The president wouldn't provide names, but he said some of them have experience on the bench.
With the Senate split 50-50, the president could need every Democrat's vote to get his nominee through. However, he believes his pick will also get Republican votes.
"I'm not looking to make an ideological choice here," Biden said.
The president added that he wants someone similar to Justice Stephen Breyer, who was nominated by former President Bill Clinton.
Breyer said he will step down at the end of the current Supreme Court term.
Prior to being elected president, Biden said he would nominate the first Black woman to the court.
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https://www.fox13now.com/news/national/biden-says-hes-doing-deep-dive-on-4-potential-supreme-court-nominees
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Tesla announced another recall on Thursday.
The company said it's recalling certain 2020-2022 Model S, Model X, Model Y, and 2017-2022 Model 3 vehicles.
Tesla says the vehicles have a "Boombox function" that allows sounds to be played through an external speaker that could obscure pedestrian warning sounds.
"Pedestrians may be unaware of an approaching vehicle if the PWS sounds are obscured, increasing the risk of a crash," said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Tesla will be performing an over-the-air software update that will address the issue, the NHTSA said.
In the last two months, the company has issued recalls for windshield defrosting issues, a faulty seat belt chime, software that allows vehicles to roll through stop signs and trunk and camera issues.
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Lock Haven, Pa. — The Clinton County District Attorney released a statement on the Oct. 5, 2021 shooting of a man by State Police officers in Greene Township.
David Strouse said troopers from PSP Lamar, Montoursville, and Milton were justified in their use of force that left Nurgazy Mamyrov, 27, of Langhorne deceased.
The incident occurred just beyond a rest stop located near mile marker 194 on Interstate 80. A coroner’s report said Mamyrov was pronounced dead at 5:58 a.m. as a result of multiple gunshot wounds.
Related reading: Clinton County DA releases name of suspect involved in I-80 robbery, shooting incident
“At the time the officers discharged their weapons, they reasonably believed that both they and their fellow officers were in a life-or-death situation that posed both the threat of serious bodily injury and death,” wrote Clinton County District Attorney David Strouse.
Mamyrov was accused of attempted robbery while being armed with a firearm. A witness who called State Police at approximately 3:45 a.m. said Mamyrov shot several windows out of his truck as he fled the scene.
Related reading: One dead in shooting at Interstate 80 rest area in Clinton County
Mamyrov allegedly barricaded himself inside a tractor trailer and refused commands from PSP to exit the vehicle or put his hands outside the window. PSP troopers said they issued more than 20 commands to Mamyrov in an effort to remove him from the vehicle.
Witnesses, troopers, and video surveillance showed Mamyrov start the engine of his truck and release the air brakes at 5:51 a.m. He then drove through spike strips and several state police vehicles, striking a trooper. "The trooper was nearly crushed by the vehicles, but escaped with only a head injury," according to a press release.
Authorities opened fire as Mamyrov reversed his truck and pushed through the barricade of vehicles. Troopers said Mamyrov’s truck traveled approximately 321 feet before it was disabled.
“Based upon my review of the facts and circumstances surrounding Mamyrov’s death, the law enforcement personnel involved in this incident acted reasonably under the circumstances and bear no criminal liability for their actions,” Strouse wrote.
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Williamsport, Pa. — Joseph Charles Newman, 40, of Williamsport was accused of felony deceptive business practices after he allegedly failed to repair two vehicles.
Newman accepted $100 as a downpayment on Jan. 1, 2022 to replace the transmission of a Chevrolet Uplander, according to a police report. A week after receiving the initial payment, Newman was paid $425 to retrieve a new transmission from Bloomsburg. He was also given $25 for gas and travel expenses.
According to the report, Newman agreed to fix brakes on a Ford Mustang on Jan. 22. He was paid $350 for the work. Police said in both instances Newman moved the vehicles to his residence located near the 2300 block of Newberry Street.
Newman was contacted by one of the vehicles' owners on Jan. 31 and asked to return the money and SUV. Newman allegedly agreed to return both the following day. According to the report, Newman did not return any messages after the exchange.
Newman allegedly asked the owner of the Mustang for an additional $1,000 if he wanted his vehicle returned. According to police, the accuser received a phone call from Newman, who, during the call, allegedly threatened to shoot them.
Newman was charged with third-degree felony deceptive business practices and two counts of theft by unlawful taking. He was also charged with two counts of first-degree misdemeanor theft by deception.
Newman was arraigned on Feb. 8 before Judge Christian Frey and given $25,000 monetary bail. Court records show Newman was unable to post the amount and incarcerated at the Lycoming County Prison.
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Rivals Rankings Week: Updated Rivals150 for 2023 released
Rivals Rankings Week is in full swing and now turns its attention to the 2023 class, where the Rivals150 has been overhauled The list is topped by new No. 1 G.G Jackson and features both familiar faces and new names.
Below is an overview of some of the most prevalent prospects and storylines created by the release.
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RIVALS RANKINGS WEEK
Previews: Biggest rankings questions to address during the next refresh | Toughest rankings decisions
Monday: Top five countdown for 2022
Tuesday: New 2022 Rivals150 released | Top storylines in new ranking
Wednesday: New 2022 position rankings released
Thursday: 2023 Rivals150
Friday: 2024 top 70
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G.G. JACKSON SEIZES THE TOP SPOT
The newly minted top prospect in the county, G.G. Jackson started his ascent this summer but put an exclamation point on things as a sophomore at South Carolina's Ridge View High School. There are few players in America that can match Jackson’s blend of length, athleticism and general skill. The 6-foot-6 forward comes with guard skills in addition to an ability to get to the rack and shoot it from deep.
In the end, however, it was his consistency that allowed him to overtake DJ Wagner at the top of the rankings.
Jackson seems particularly high on North Carolina and South Carolina but is also considering Duke. Kentucky has been in contact but is yet to make things official with an offer. That could come in time, however, and it's unclear what kind of impact it would have on Jackson’s process.
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RON HOLLAND SHOOTS HIS WAY TO THE TOP 10
Texas-based forward Ron Holland saw his stock soar this season and jumped up 15 spots to No. 9 on the back of a developing outside jumper. The major knock on Holland’s game over the summer was the lack of a three-point threat, but those conversations have been put to rest over the last few months, as the 6-foot-8 forward has knocked down deep shots with decent consistency and looks miles more confident pulling up than he once did. Holland isn’t an elite three-point shooter by any means, but the marked improvement and upward trajectory is undeniable and must be respected.
Holland is considering programs such as Texas, Memphis, UCLA and Oregon among others. The picture of his recruitment should start to clear as he takes additional visits this fall.
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SON OF NFL LEGEND MAKES MASSIVE JUMP
Edgerrin James Jr., sometimes goes by the nickname Jizzle James, and the son of the former NFL star by the same name has transitioned from regional recruit to national prospect. A point guard at Florida’s Olympia High School, James, who jumped up 71 spots to No. 57 in the national rankings, helps lead the one of top teams in the state with impressive ball handling and explosive offensive game that allows him to take opponents off the dribble and finish in a variety of ways.
He’s also a willing defender and is effective in transition. He’s already scored more than 1,000 points in his high school career.
James currently holds offers from Georgetown and Florida Gulf Coast and is likely to see his options expand this summer while playing in the Nike EYBL as a member of the E1T1 organization.
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BRONNY JAMES CREEPS UP THE RANKINGS
The most notable name in the class of 2023, Bronny James is making small strides in the right direction. The son of LeBron James and a standout at California's loaded Sierra Canyon High School, the 6-foot-3 guard is becoming a more well-rounded prospect. He was a standout at this year’s Hoophall Classic event and is rebounding well for his position as of late.
James has long had range and continues to become a more consistent jump shooter. His biggest area of growth, however, has been his ball handling, which has progressed significantly and allows him to spend some time at the point.
James moved from No. 34 to No. 30 in this update and could continue to rise this summer when he hits the grassroots circuit and has a chance to shine as a focal point.
Little is known about James’ recruitment, as he doesn’t do many interviews and plays things close to the vest. That said, it seems as though Duke, North Carolina, Ohio State, Texas and Tennessee are in the mix along with professional options.
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Sunbury, Pa. — Officers with the Sunbury Police Department responded to a call on Feb. 4 and said they located a man who had been stabbed in the side of his head.
According to the report, the accuser complained of losing sight in his left eye and was immediately transported to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. Police were then able to clear the scene and speak with a resident at 314 Race Street in Sunbury.
The witness directed authorities to a knife Seth Allen Ruhl, 20, of Sunbury allegedly put back in the kitchen after the incident. Ruhl told police he stabbed the accuser after allegedly being approached and yelled at.
According to officers, Ruhl and his two friends were approached by the accuser, who then attempted to engage in a fight. Despite being shown the weapon, the accuser allegedly continued to approach Ruhl and his friends.
Ruhl was charged with second-degree felony aggravated assault, first-degree misdemeanor possession instrument of crime with intent, and simple assault. Ruhl’s bail was set at $50,000 monetary after an arraignment with Judge Michael Toomey. Ruhl will appear in court on Feb. 22 for a preliminary hearing.
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East Chillisquaque Twp., Pa. -- The Potts Grove Volunteer Fire Company has some work ahead to become re-certified to serve as the East Chillisquaque Township's fire company, according to township supervisors.
At a Feb. 7 meeting, township supervisors took action to de-certify the Potts Grove Fire Company and Quick Response Squad from providing Emergency Services in East Chillisquaque Township.
The township had a population of just under 700 at the time of the last census.
According to a letter addressed to the Potts Grove Fire Co. #12 dated January 3, 2022 from the East Chillisquaque Twp. Supervisors, the fire company was requested to provide evidence of all required certifications for each tactical officer based on 2012 Pottsgrove Fire Co. bylaw and current state and federal requirements, including all refreshers.
The letter also requested documentation of adherence on background checks, child abuse background check certifications, membership names for workman's compensation insurance, the 2012 bylaws, standard operating guidelines, and current PA Dept. of Health quick response licensure.
"If the above information isn't received and clearly stated," said the letter, "the Supervisor's Board will take additional action to provide emergency services for the people of East Chillisquaque Township."
A new contract is now in place with the Milton Fire Department, which will take over as the primary responder for firefighting and emergency response for East Chillisquaque Twp. residents.
Shortly after the meeting on Feb. 8, a post to Facebook went up claiming, "East Chillisquaque put a political hit job out on Potts Grove Fire Company and shut the department down over 4 certifications. This could have easily been remedied but the supervisors already had their minds made up with no option for the department to even remedy any perceived deficiencies."
"Emotions run high on social media," said Jason Messersmith, a lieutenant and public information officer for Potts Grove Volunteer Fire Company. "The supervisors pulled the workman's compensation insurance," he said, meaning the fire company is at risk each time they respond to a call.
"We have all the certifications we need for workman's compensation to cover us," said Messersmith, "but not as outlined in our bylaws." The workman's comp is the clincher, he said. Without it, there is too much liability placed on the volunteer fire company.
"We'd have to do a lot of additional fundraising to cover the cost ourselves," Messersmith said.
On average, the fire company maintains that their average response times are equal to or exceed the times of other area responders. If they are called to respond to a structure fire, they have 11 or 12 responders ready to go.
According to Messersmith, they had courses set up to meet the certification requirements, but circumstances--including canceled courses due to COVID-19 and other issues--kept the company from completing all certifications.
"Our focus is to continue to serve the citizens," said Messersmith. "We're looking to the future, to clear and concise communication, and good transparency with the township."
Potts Grove Volunteer Fire Company President Eric Satteson said in a comment on Facebook that he resigned as president, but Messersmith said no formal resignation had been handed in.
Messersmith acknowledged past tension in the relationship between the fire company and township, but said the focus is on moving forward.
"People have put a lot of time into running this. We have a lot of really good equipment. We have great support from the township and community," he said. "This is a learning moment. We want to get back to responding to calls again."
According to the supervisors, the company will be given a year or longer, if required, to meet the qualifications set forth in its bylaws, and all state and federal requirements.
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Sting is selling his music catalog, including hits he made with the Police and as a solo artist, joining a chorus of stars who are cashing in with investors who see value in licensing their songs.
Universal said Thursday that its music-publishing arm bought the catalog, including “Every Breath You Take,” “Roxanne" and “Fields of Gold.” Financial terms were not disclosed.
In recent months, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Stevie Nicks, Neil Young and others who sold millions of albums to Baby Boomers have sold their recordings, songwriting catalogs or both. Buyers typically get the permanent right to use the artist's songs or recordings in commercials, movies, television shows and other formats.
Prices are rarely disclosed, but music industry experts put Springsteen's sale to Sony Music Entertainment in December at $550 million and Dylan's deal the same month with Universal Music Publishing Group at between $300 million and $500 million.
Sting, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, helped form the Police in London in the 1970s as its lead singer, songwriter and bass guitar player. The band combined new wave rock, reggae and jazz, and was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.
Between his work with the group and as a solo artist, Sting has won 17 Grammy awards and numerous other honors. Universal said he has sold more than 100 million albums. In 2019, music-licensing agency BMI said “Every Breath You Take” had surpassed “You've Lost That Loving Feeling” to become the most-played song in its catalog.
Sting still performs live concerts and has acted in more than a dozen movies.
In statement issued by Universal Music Group, Sting said he wants his work used to connect with longtime fans in new ways and “to introduce my songs to new audiences, musicians and generations.”
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| 2022-02-11T01:21:17
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CHICAGO (AP) — Jerry Harris, former star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of receiving child pornography and soliciting sex from minors that could keep him in prison for decades.
During a change of plea hearing in federal court in Chicago, Harris pleaded guilty to one count of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and one count of receiving child pornography, a U.S. attorney's office spokesman said.
Harris, 22, pleaded guilty to two of seven felony counts against him, one for persuading a 17-year-old to send him sexually explicit photographs for money and the other stemming from a trip he took to Florida for the purpose of “engaging in illicit sexual conduct” with a 15-year-old. Prosecutors agreed to drop the remaining five counts under a plea agreement.
The child pornography charge carries a sentence ranging from five to 20 years and the second charge carries a maximum sentence of 30 years. Harris is scheduled to be sentenced June 28. He remains in custody at a federal detention facility.
Harris, who is from the Chicago suburb of Naperville, was arrested in September 2020 on a charge of production of child pornography. Prosecutors alleged at the time that he solicited videos and images from two 14-year-old brothers.
According to a complaint, federal prosecutors said that Harris admitted to repeatedly asking a minor teen for pornographic videos and images between December 2018 and March 2020.
Then in December of that year, he was indicted on more charges alleging misconduct in Illinois, Florida and Texas. According to the indictment, Harris allegedly solicited sex from minors at cheerleading competitions and convinced teenage boys to send him obscene photographs and videos of themselves.
Harris admitted to FBI agents to asking a teenage boy to send him lewd photographs of himself, and to requesting child pornography on Snapchat from at least 10 to 15 others he knew to be minors, according to the indictment.
“Cheer” was a huge success when it was released in January 2020 and Harris became wildly popular for his upbeat attitude and his encouraging “mat talk.” Harris even interviewed celebrities on the red carpet at the Academy Awards for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
The docuseries follows the competitive cheerleading squad from Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas.
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| 2022-02-11T01:21:24
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
03-05-06-08-11-12-15-16-19-22-23-24
(three, five, six, eight, eleven, twelve, fifteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four)
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| 2022-02-11T01:21:30
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
1-2-8
(one, two, eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
1-2-8
(one, two, eight)
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| 2022-02-11T01:21:36
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
7-2-5-6, FIREBALL: 7
(seven, two, five, six; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
7-2-5-6, FIREBALL: 7
(seven, two, five, six; FIREBALL: seven)
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| 2022-02-11T01:21:42
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
0-1-6-4
(zero, one, six, four)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
0-1-6-4
(zero, one, six, four)
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| 2022-02-11T01:21:48
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
09-18-25-30-31
(nine, eighteen, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-one)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
09-18-25-30-31
(nine, eighteen, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-one)
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| 2022-02-11T01:21:55
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
01-02-05-07-14-15-18-22-23-25-26-30-34-43-48-51-54-55-70-73-74-76
(one, two, five, seven, fourteen, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-five, twenty-six, thirty, thirty-four, forty-three, forty-eight, fifty-one, fifty-four, fifty-five, seventy, seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-six)
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| 2022-02-11T01:22:01
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East Texas school districts working to meet demand for substitute teachers
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Finding substitute teachers is an ongoing challenge for school districts nationwide, including here in East Texas.
“Unfortunately, there is a teacher shortage nationwide as we see fewer people coming into the profession, more people stepping out for retirement, or something else, and so we’re always trying to fill that void,” Henderson ISD Director of Communications David Chenault said.
A void, magnified by the pandemic.
“Especially for some of our older retired folks who normally we would rely on but maybe for one reason or another had health compromised or were kind of at a higher risk group,” Chenault said.
Both Henderson ISD and Arp ISD raised their pay rates to fill the demand.
“We, like most schools in our area, we’ve been very strategic over the last two years and we raised our sub pay over the last two years,” ARP ISD Superintendent John Shannon Arrington said.
Tyler ISD Coordinator of Human Resources Artimese Lawrence said Tyler ISD is sitting a pretty good place with the substitute pool, especially with the help of the community.
“We’ve had retiree teachers, we’ve had former teachers, parents who say ‘Hey, I’m here, what’s the process for substituting?’”
Longview ISD hosts monthly orientations to train substitute applicants. Each month, the number of applicants fluctuates, but one woman was at the orientation on Thursday after taking time off in fear of the pandemic.
“She said that she has been home for over two years, and she said ‘I think I’m ready to get back out and start working,’” Longview ISD Director of Human Relations Shalona McCray.
Henderson, Arp, Tyler, and Longview ISD said the districts will always look for more applicants.
“It’s going to be a continual thing. I don’t see any time that we’re not going to need substitutes,” Chenault said.
Copyright 2022 KLTV. All rights reserved.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
8-8-2, FIREBALL: 3
(eight, eight, two; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
8-8-2, FIREBALL: 3
(eight, eight, two; FIREBALL: three)
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Nacogdoches company improves drone usage in wooded areas
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Drone photography for collecting survey-grade data is remarkable, except when it comes to dense forests like we have in Deep East Texas and other parts of the nation.
However, there’s always a way around a problem.
A Nacogdoches drone exploration company has a view beyond the trees like none other.
Hydrex Environmental Drone Division general manager Clayton Collier equips the 25-year-old company with the best high-resolution cameras, but he recognizes their limitations.
“Especially here in East Texas with all our woods. West Texas is great for photogrammetry,” Collier said. “East Texas, if it’s wooded, really need to be flying LiDAR.”
LiDAR is Light Detection and Ranging, and it is the newest data collector in the Hydrex toolbox for GIS and Drone Division coordinator John Chapman.
“So, with LiDAR, we have laser pulses that gives us returns from underneath vegetation canopy that we can’t see,” Chapman explained.
Airplanes have transported the sensors for two decades. Large drones, capable of hauling the extra weight, allow LiDAR to scan through the trees with pin-point precision.
“It’s just become more economical and efficient to use drones to fly LiDAR sensors,” Collier said.
From the field, scans are relayed to the Hydrex Drone Division, a corporate neighbor to Stephen F. Austin State University’s Geospatial Science program. Graduates are often hired by the company.
The GIS team produces 3D models illustrating the topography above and below the trees. The focus is on erosion.
“So, we can see underneath where that ravine is despite all this vegetation on top,” Chapman said in front of a monitor image of a deep-green forest that traveled into a deep underground ravine.
The information is valuable in project planning and site design before the first shovel of dirt is turned. Hydrex clients include developers and entities developing landfills.
“We’ve been flying landfills in Mississippi and wooded sites around East Texas and Houston area for development,” Collier said.
The customer base can only expand because no tree can stand in the way.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
QC-10C-4D-2H-8H
(QC, 10C, 4D, 2H, 8H)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
QC-10C-4D-2H-8H
(QC, 10C, 4D, 2H, 8H)
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First Alert: Rounding out the week with more sunshine and mild temperatures
Weather Where You Live
DEEP EAST TEXAS (KTRE) - It will be a chilly night under clear skies as overnight lows drop into the lower 40′s.
We end the week on Friday with sunshine galore and daytime highs warming into the middle 70′s. It will look and feel like a spring day in east Texas, making for a great opportunity to get outdoors and soak up some vitamin ‘D’.
Our next weather maker and cold front will then arrive on Saturday, ushering in a fresh batch of colder air and blustery, north winds. These winds will gust to around 25 to 30 mph during the day.
In addition to the cold winds, there will be cloudy skies and a 30% chance of coming across a brief shower or very light rain. If we do see any wet weather, rainfall amounts will be meager, averaging a tenth-of-an-inch or less.
Skies will clear out Saturday night, leading to a light freeze for Sunday morning. Sunday will be a sun-filled day with seasonal temperatures as highs top out around 60-degrees.
The sunny skies and dry weather will last through the middle of next week as chilly mornings give way to mild afternoons, leading to another stretch nice weather for the middle of February.
The next best chance to see some widespread rains look to return a week from now, or next Thursday, as a more potent storm system sweeps through the state.
To stay on top of the weather conditions in your neighborhood, make sure you download and frequent our KTRE First Alert weather mobile application. It gives you access to our First Alert forecast, severe weather alerts, interactive radar, and featured video updates. It is weather on the go, when you want it, at your convenience, right in the palm of your hand.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An orphaned black bear who lived at the Los Angeles Zoo for 25 years has died, officials said Thursday.
The bear, Ranger, was euthanized on Wednesday because he was in declining health and had a decreased quality of life, the zoo said in a statement.
“This is truly a deep loss for our zoo community,” zoo director and CEO Denise M. Verret said in the statement. “Ranger’s presence helped connect millions of Angelenos to the type of wildlife that exists around us, which is crucial to building empathy, so we may peacefully co-exist with one another."
Ranger was an orphaned cub who was rescued in Minnesota in 1997 and taken to the Los Angeles Zoo. He couldn't be returned to the wild because he had become accustomed to human interaction, the zoo said.
Record-breaking freezing temperatures were so impactful on Texas’ bay systems that officials called it “the largest freeze-related fish kill since 1980.”
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Police recruit in coma after suffering heat stroke during academy training
HONOLULU (Hawaii News Now/Gray News) – A police recruit in Hawaii is in a coma after suffering heat stroke during police academy training last week.
Alexa Jacobs, 27, has been in a coma since she passed out from a heat stroke on Friday, her family told Hawaii News Now. Her body temperature at the time was 107 degrees Fahrenheit.
Jacobs is currently in a trauma center on Oahu awaiting a liver transplant.
The Maui Police Department has not given any details on what led to Jacobs passing out, other than that she was participating in the department’s academy. Officials said in a statement, “Out of respect for the employee’s medical privacy, no further information is to be released.”
Jacobs’ family has set up a GoFundMe to help with her recovery. As of Thursday evening, they have raised more than $25,000.
Copyright 2022 Hawaii News Now via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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AP Week in Pictures: Asia The Associated Press
Feb. 10, 2022 Updated: Feb. 10, 2022 7:11 p.m.
1of 11 The Badaling section of the Great Wall of China is lit on the outskirts of Beijing on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Beijing. Ng Han Guan/AP Show More Show Less
2of 11 Two workers scan a tube after collecting swab samples from tables and chairs for COVID-19 testing at the main media center of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Beijing. Jae C. Hong/AP Show More Show Less
3of 11 Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cheer as they listen to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during an election rally in Muzaffarnagar, India, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022. Weeks-long ballots will take place in Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state with a population of more than 200 million, as well as states such as Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. Coronavirus is still spreading rapidly through India, prompting anxiety as elections will attract millions to polling booths. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Show More Show Less
4of 11 Laura Wallner of Austria competes during the women's freestyle skiing Big Air qualification round of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. Matt Slocum/AP Show More Show Less
5of 11 People line up to vote during the first phase of Uttar Pradesh state elections at a village near Meerut, India, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. India's most populous state is voting in seven phases before results are declared in March. Manish Swarup/AP Show More Show Less
6of 11 An Indian hand rickshaw puller waits for customers in front of a building displaying posters of different theater shows in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Bikas Das/AP Show More Show Less
7of 11 People wait to receive a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Achmad Ibrahim/AP Show More Show Less
8of 11 Sri Lankan soldiers dressed in traditional costumes carry nation al flags during the Independence Day celebration in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Sri Lankans celebrated it's independence day on Friday as the island nation's president made an appeal to the country's expatriates to send money home as the country struggles in the throes of its worst economic crisis. Eranga Jayawardena/AP Show More Show Less
9of 11 A foreign passenger wearing a protective mask as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus disease arrives at Manila's International Airport, Philippines on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. The Philippines lifted a nearly 2-year ban on foreign travelers Thursday in a lifesaving boost for its tourism and related industries as an omicron-fueled surge eases. Basilio Sepe/AP Show More Show Less
10of 11 Residents line up to get tested for the coronavirus at a temporary testing center for COVID-19 in Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Vincent Yu/AP Show More Show Less
11of 11 Police officers try to restrain an exile Tibetan who tried to cross a police barricade near Chinese embassy during a protest against Beijing Winter Olympic Games in New Delhi, India, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Hundreds of Tibetan exiles are marching outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, denouncing the Beijing Winter Olympics and demanding freedom for their region. Altaf Qadri/AP Show More Show Less
Feb. 4-10, 2022
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.
The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson asked the state's attorney general and state police Thursday to investigate reports her office has received that an unnamed third party was allowed to access vote tabulator components and technology in Roscommon County.
Unauthorized access to machines is a breach of election security protocols and may have exposed the machines to vulnerabilities that render them unusable in future elections, Benson said in a news release.
At least one unnamed third party allegedly gained inappropriate access to tabulation machines and data drives used in Richfield Township and Roscommon County, which could require the equipment to be replaced at taxpayer expense, Benson said. Contracts with voting system vendors and state law restrict access to voting equipment to qualified personnel.
“Michigan law is clear about the security threats that emerge when anyone gains unauthorized access to our election machines or technology, and I will have no tolerance for those who seek to illegally tamper with our voting equipment,” Benson said.
An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in six battleground states that were disputed by former President Donald Trump found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College votes by a combined 311,257 votes out of 25.5 million ballots cast for president. The disputed ballots represent just 0.15% of his victory margin in those states.
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PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona took heat Thursday for an Old West-style ad showing him shooting weapons out of the hands of President Joe Biden, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Critics said the ad by businessman Jim Lamon was irresponsible as it depicts violence against elected officials.
Lamon's campaign released the ad Thursday and said it will air in the Tucson market during the Super Bowl. Lamon is running a crowded GOP primary to take on Kelly, who was elected in 2020 to finish the late John McCain’s last term and is now running for a full six-year term.
The ad shows actors portraying the Democratic officials arriving on the dusty street of an Old West town armed with weapons and wearing cowboy hats and bandanas over their faces. After an onlooker shouts “It's the DC gang," Lamon, dressed as the sheriff, appears along with Border Patrol union president Brandon Judd and Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb.
Lamon tells the Democratic officials that Arizonans have had enough of them and “it's time for a showdown.” When the Democrats draw weapons, Lamon shoots them out of their hands, spins his revolver around his finger, holsters it and smiles.
Critics from both parties blasted the ad.
“When you don’t have substance, I guess this is what you resort to,” Stephanie Grisham, a White House press secretary for President Donald Trump, wrote on Twitter. “It’s petty & dangerous & it’s beneath Arizona voters who deserve so much more.”
Rep. Eric Swallwell, a California Democrat, said Republicans have “gone all in on using violence as a path to power.”
Lamon spokesperson Stephen Puetz responded to criticism of the ad by saying: “Unlike Kelly, Jim Lamon will shoot straight with Arizonans and take the fight to Biden — and he damn sure won’t let the left bully him into backing down."
A spokesperson for Kelly’s campaign, Sarah Guggenheimer, declined to comment.
Kelly's wife, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was critically wounded in a shooting at a constituent event in 2011. The shooting led to a reckoning over partisanship and violent language in politics.
This isn't Lamon's first brush with controversy in his political advertising. Last month, he ran an ad saying “let's go Brandon,” a rallying cry on the right that is a stand-in for an expletive against Biden.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Defenders of six Honduran environmental activists convicted this week for alleged actions against a mining operation plan to seek relief under a recently passed amnesty for political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.
The conviction of six of the so-called Guapinol 8 on Wednesday brought international criticism on the new government of President Xiomara Castro. While their case long predates her two-week old administration, advocates are calling on Castro’s government to act.
Most of the men had been in pre-trial detention since 2019, accused of deprivation of liberty and aggravated arson. Two of the eight were acquitted.
They are all members of the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, which has been protesting the legality of mining concessions in northern Honduras they argue threaten the Guapinol and San Pedro rivers. The concessions are inside a national park.
“We are going to submit a legal appeal together with the defense that they be included in the amnesty approved by congress,” said Hugo Maldonado, president of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras. “The trial has been manipulated and there hasn’t been due process.”
Maldonado referred to a broad amnesty passed last week that some criticized for helping people from the administration of Castro’s husband, former President Manuel Zelaya. It covers those targeted “for opposing and protesting against the coup” that removed Zelaya from office in 2009.
It wasn’t immediately clear how it could be applied to the environmental activists, but their lawyer Kenia Oliva told local media that they would appeal under the portion of the law that addresses “defenders of national sovereignty.”
Prosecutors allege the activists damaged private property and illegally held a security expert during a clash with the mine’s security team. But advocates have long asserted that the arrests were arbitrary and aimed at quelling protests against the mine.
“This verdict is outrageous and goes against Honduras’ obligations to guarantee the right to defend human rights. It must be overturned immediately,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International. “We will not stop demanding this of the authorities until all of the Guapinol defenders are immediately and unconditionally released.”
The men are scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 21.
Isabel Albaladejo Escribano, representative of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras, expressed “deep concern” over the verdict.
Her office said they had followed the trial closely. There was a lack of impartiality and prosecutors did not meet a minimum standard of proof, the statement said. She called for the convictions to be overturned.
Honduras is considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries for environmental activists. One of its most infamous cases was the 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres, who was protesting a hydroelectric project.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers are advancing two measures meant to limit public school students' access to inappropriate or obscene materials.
On Thursday, a House Education subcommittee passed House Bill 1217, which is designed to tighten Georgia's standards preventing schoolchildren from accessing material harmful to minors using school computers or internet networks. It now awaits action by the full committee. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee passed Senate Bill 226 on a split voice vote, creating a process for parents to demand removal of books and other materials. It moves forward for consideration by the full House.
The measures are part of a broader conservative push on school issues this year, including efforts to ban transgender girls from playing school sports and to give parents the right to examine instructional materials. Republicans also seek to ban critical race theory, a term stretched from its original meaning as an examination of how societal structures perpetuate white dominance to a broader indictment of diversity initiatives and teaching about race.
The internet filtering bill requires the state Department of Education to each year publish standards that districts must meet for using internet filters to block access to materials that are obscene, pornographic or harmful to minors. It also calls for using notification systems that will let a district employee know if a school computer or network is used to access such material.
The state also would be required to provide technical assistance, a list of acceptable vendors and training guidelines for school districts. Each school district or charter school would have to provide a copy of its acceptable use policy and filtering systems to the state for annual review, starting in fall 2022.
“This is a technology based bill that is to serve our families and to protect those youngest learners,” said the bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Chris Erwin of Homer.
The bill as presented Thursday calls for any student or school employee who violates a school district's acceptable use policy to be disciplined, even if the violation was unintentional. Erwin said he would change the measure to only cover unintentional violations after an Associated Press reporter pointed out the language. The measure also allows parents to entirely opt their students out of using the internet.
The anti-obscenity measure would let parents file objections to material with a school’s principal, who would have seven business days to decide whether to remove or restrict access. Parents could appeal to their local school board.
“It’s giving parents and guardians a process to address concerns about materials in a K-12 environment,” Republican Sen. Jason Anavitarte of Dallas told the committee on Wednesday.
Advocates said some local school boards refuse to take action on complaints, essentially ignoring them.
“The main concern is the parents who are not being heard,” said Taylor Hawkins of Frontline Policy Action, a conservative group. “Some schools have shut down parents’ concerns without ever hearing their concerns over these issues.”
Opponents said the measure will be used to ban books containing themes preparing teenagers for adulthood, including race, sexuality or violence.
“By doing a blanket ban on certain things, you’re not teaching a kid to use discernment,” said Desirrae Jones of the New Georgia Project “You’re teaching them to be afraid of things.”
The superintendent of the 53,000-student Forsyth County district announced earlier this year that the system had removed eight books from high school libraries including “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison.
Some anti-obscenity advocates want anyone, not just parents, to be able to make complaints. House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee Chairman James Burchett, a Waycross Republican, said complaint rights should only rest with parents or guardians.
“We are not going to turn this bill into a weapon for every taxpayer to harass the school system," he said.
The measure, when originally introduced last year, proposed to make school librarians subject to criminal prosecution for obscenity.
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Edmonton 6 Regina 3
Prince Albert 5 Calgary 2
Wednesday's results
Saskatoon 4 Calgary 2
Lethbridge 2 Moose Jaw 1
Portland 9 Spokane 0
Tri-City 4 Kamloops 3
Vancouver at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Thursday's results
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Lethbridge at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Regina, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Lethbridge at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu woman who pleaded guilty to taking classified documents while working at the U.S. Embassy in Manila was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail.
Asia Janay Lavarello pleaded guilty last year to one count of knowingly removing classified information, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
She removed “certain classified documents” from the embassy before hosting a dinner party in her hotel room, with guests including three American co-workers and two foreign nationals, her plea agreement said.
One of the Americans discovered documents marked “secret” in her bedroom during the party, according to the agreement filed in court.
Lavarello was a Department of Defense civilian employee working as the executive assistant to the Commander for the United States Indo-Pacific Command Joint Intelligence Operation Center, where she maintained top secret security clearance, court documents said.
In 2020, she took a six-month temporary duty assignment in the Philippines. She was also a student at National Intelligence University, according to her plea agreement.
Her attorney, Birney Bervar, said Lavarello apologizes and takes responsibility. He said she wasn't planning to do anything malicious with the documents, which he described as theses by other people that she was using as models for her own.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — While the winter coronavirus wave in California is receding fast, it could be a while before Los Angeles County lifts its indoor mask and vaccine mandates, the county's top health official said Thursday while urging football fans to take precautions when gathering for the Super Bowl.
Most California counties plan to follow state guidelines and end their indoor masking requirements for vaccinated people next week. But the state's most populous county is still seeing high transmission of the omicron variant even as the test positivity rate, case numbers and hospitalizations drop, said Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County's health director.
Because hospitalizations are projected to remain below 2,500 for the next seven days, the county's outdoor mask requirement for large gatherings is likely to be lifted next Wednesday, Ferrer said.
However the indoor mask requirement will remain until the county has two straight weeks at or below a “moderate” rate of 50 new cases per 100,000 people and there aren’t any reports of a new, troubling variant, Ferrer said. The current rate is 91 per 100,000.
"So if everything goes well, some time by the end of March we should be able to more safely lift the requirements on indoor masking," Ferrer said during a briefing Thursday.
She said there is no timetable or metric yet for ending the requirement for showing proof of vaccination at bars, clubs and lounges as well as indoor “mega events” with more than 1,000 people.
“We know we’re not lifting them anytime soon,” Ferrer said, because those are high-risk settings where people are likely to be in close contact without masks.
One outdoor mega event is Sunday's Super Bowl that will draw as many as 100,000 people to Los Angeles County's SoFi Stadium. Ferrer urged fans watching the game at the stadium or at bars and restaurants to stay masked, except while eating or drinking.
"If you’re hosting a gathering, smaller is better than large. We ask that you try to gather outdoors, if possible,” she said.
Thousands of Los Angeles County employees who have not gotten vaccinated or received an exemption could be fired under new rules passed this week by the Board of Supervisors. Enforcement of the vaccine mandate would shift from department heads to the county's director of personnel.
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who introduced the motion, said it was primarily aimed at the Sheriff’s Department, which has just a 54% vaccination rate, the lowest of any county department.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who has refused to enforce the vaccine mandate among his deputies and staff, on Tuesday called the new rule a “suicide pact” and said it would lead to the termination of 4,000 unvaccinated deputies.
Ferrer on Thursday emphasized that those most at risk for the virus are the unvaccinated, and that booster shots in particular provide significant protection from serious illness, hospitalization and death.
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MONROE, Mich. (AP) — A Ypsilanti man was sentenced to serve 25 to 50 years in prison Thursday under a plea agreement for a shooting that injured a Monroe police officer and put her in a coma.
Kordney McDonald, 21, pleaded no contest in November to charges of assault with intent to murder, carjacking and assaulting/resisting a police officer causing serious impairment.
Cpl. Renae Peterson was shot on a busy Monroe street on May 24, 2020, while investigating a carjacking. Two bullets struck Peterson below her protective vest. She underwent numerous surgeries and spent 17 days in a coma, Monroe County Prosecutor Michael Roehrig said.
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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts contestant on “The Price Is Right” was hoping to win a getaway to some tropical locale during a recent appearance on the game show.
Instead she won a trip to neighboring New Hampshire.
Catherine Graham had already won a firepit and a love seat when she was picked to go on stage and play “Side By Side” with host Drew Carey.
Then she found out she'd be playing for a trip to New Hampshire, just across the border from Massachusetts. She won by correctly guessing the value of the prize was $7,696 instead of $9,676.
Graham confessed she was hoping for somewhere a bit more exotic than the “Live Free or Die” state, which she said she’s already visited “a million times.”
“I just wish it was Tahiti or some place, or Bora Bora. A cruise around the world maybe,” Graham told WBZ-TV, laughing.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A proposal to dredge a new, major lake along the Platte River between Omaha and Lincoln drew a load of questions and no clear answers Thursday from cities, conservationists and a landowner who might be in the project's path.
Some of the organizations said they didn't outright oppose the idea but raised concerns about the potential lake's impact on the river and surrounding area. Conservationists said they were worried about the impact on wildlife and the environment, while water regulators from Omaha and Lincoln raised concerns about how it might affect their water supplies.
“Overall, there are simply too few details available about how the bill would change the hydrology and ecology of the river,” said Melissa Mosier, the Platte River manager for the conservation group Audubon Nebraska.
Speaker of the Legislature Mike Hilgers, the measure's sponsor, acknowledged that more studies are needed before the state moves forward. Hilgers said the package already includes money to conduct those reviews, and cautioned that many things could derail the project before it begins.
“We need answers before we do a project of this magnitude,” he said in testimony to the Legislature's Natural Resources Committee.
The Omaha-Lincoln lake measure is part of a larger package, backed by Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts, that would spend an estimated $200 million on water projects around the state.
The proposal also calls for a marina and road improvements at Lake McConaughy State Recreational Area in western Nebraska, and a visitor’s lodge and other upgrades at Niobrara State Park. Both of those proposals won strong public support at Thursday's hearing, with one supporter calling the Niobrara plan a “slam dunk” for northeast Nebraska.
A special legislative committee endorsed the Omaha-Lincoln lake idea in January as a way to boost the state economy and promote tourism.
State officials haven't settled on an exact location, but the roughly 3,600-acre lake would likely sit near Mahoney State Park, a popular state campground, and reach 30 feet deep. One artist's rendering shows the lake between Gretna and Ashland, on the eastern side of the Platte River and north of Interstate 80.
Hilgers has said the lake could rival western Iowa's West Okoboji Lake, one of the state's biggest tourism destinations.
The Omaha-Lincoln lake would also require private investments, as state officials have said they aren't going to commit tax dollars to develop the area around it.
Rick Kubat, a lobbyist for Omaha's Metropolitan Utilities District, said the city water provider is concerned about the project's potential impact on drinking water.
“Its our contention that step one, the very first thing we should do, is take a deep dive into the consequences in terms of public water supply,” Kubat said.
Al Davis, a former state lawmaker and lobbyist for the Sierra Club in Nebraska, questioned the wisdom of the estimated $71.1 million project, saying it would likely benefit wealthier residents who could afford lakefront homes.
Davis said lamwakers “should really focus on the preservation of natural surroundings” and said the lake would likely get flooded by the Platte River unless officials build large levees along the river.
John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said his group supports the development projects in western and northern Nebraska but said the Lincoln-Omaha lake “seems a lot more environmentally suspect.”
The project also worried Dan Bundy, a landowner whose property could be in the lake's path. Bundy said he and his neighbors quickly figured out that their properties would be submerged if the artist's rendering becomes a reality, and he raised concerns that the state wouldn't compensate him fairly.
“There is little doubt that there could be a huge windfall for the state of Nebraska and property owners who have property around the lake,” he said. “But what about those of us, including myself and my family, who would be under the lake?”
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LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — Orange County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man Thursday who charged at them with a knife after a standoff, authorities said.
Deputies answered a call just before midnight that a truck had hit several parked cars in a Lake Forest neighborhood.
The driver, who had a knife, locked the doors, refused to talk to the deputies and refused to leave the truck but they were able to call his cellphone, according to the Sheriff's Department.
Several neighbors were evacuated and a crisis negotiation team talked to the man for nearly three hours. At about 2:45 a.m., he got out of the car with a knife in his hand and ran at deputies, who opened fire, the Sheriff's Department said.
The man was struck several times. Despite lifesaving efforts he died at a hospital, authorities said. His name wasn't immediately released.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has rejected proposed ballot measures to cap political donations on procedural grounds.
But one prominent state lawmaker says he’ll push to put a similar proposal before voters.
Oregon Public Broadcasting reports Senate Majority Leader Rob Wagner, D-Lake Oswego, unveiled an amendment Thursday that cobbles together elements of several now-defunct proposals from good government groups, labor unions and advocacy organizations.
The amendment to Senate Bill 1526 would limit how much candidates, labor unions, political party committees and advocacy groups can accept and give in state elections. It also would set penalties for violating those rules. And the amendment would create a system of public financing for campaigns.
But the amendment also contains a controversial provision, allowing limitless giving for “small donor committees” that accept donations of no more than $250 per person each year. That’s been criticized in the past by Republicans, who fear it will allow labor unions and other groups that historically favor Democrats to have an outsized influence.
Wagner’s amendment also does not include requirements that political ads and so-called “dark money” groups more fully reveal the sources of their funding, which were included in some of the ballot measure proposals the secretary of state rejected.
If passed by the Senate and House, Wagner’s proposal would appear on the November 2022 ballot. The provisions, if approved by voters, would kick in following the 2024 election.
The senator’s decision to press the amendment comes after Fagan, the state’s top elections official, ruled this week that three ballot proposals submitted by Honest Elections Oregon and other good governance groups failed to meet a technical requirement set out in the state constitution.
Backers of those proposals — initiative petitions 43, 44, and 45 — say they will challenge that determination before the Oregon Supreme Court.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Sioux City police arrested a man Thursday after a standoff that began when officers realized the man had a gun inside a police car.
Police Chief Rex Mueller said officers had put the man in the patrol car near Sioux City Heelan High School because he was a possible suspect in an armed robbery.
When officers realized the suspect, 36-year-old Emanual Pleitez, had a micro gun, they backed away and began negotiations, the Sioux City Journal reported.
The standoff came as U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra was touring the Catholic school and he was kept inside the school, which was locked down.
During negotiations, the man became agitated, prompting officers to fire chemical weapons into the car. Mueller said the suspect fired several shots and then broke a window and attempted to climb out.
He was detained and then taken to a Sioux City hospital for treatment. No one suffered serious injuries.
Mueller said the state Division of Criminal Investigation will review the events, and the department will conduct its own investigation.
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BEIJING (AP) — Some local fans are getting to watch the Beijing Games in person, though it’s not clear exactly how they were selected for a visit inside the tightly controlled Olympic bubble.
As part of the strict measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the Games, athletes, reporters and others are being limited to a “closed loop” of dedicated Olympic venues and hotels.
Plans to sell tickets to the general public were scrapped before the Games began. But organizers announced that about 150,000 local spectators including school children and foreign embassy staff would be allowed in some venues.
How they are selected is a bit of a mystery. Jiarong Yan, a representative for Beijing organizers, said they apply and are invited by community organizations, educational institutions and other groups. They're subject to protocols, including testing before they enter and health monitoring after they leave, but quarantining isn’t required. They are kept separate from others inside the bubble.
On Thursday, some fans sat spaced apart inside the Capital Indoor Stadium to watch the men's figure skating free skate. Cheers erupted for China's Jin Boyang and again when Nathan Chen of the U.S. delivered a free skate performance that won him the gold.
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Kevin Huber completely understands how big a deal this really is.
He's living out the dream every Bengals fan has ever had. Including himself.
The 36-year-old punter has been rooting all his life for the only NFL team for which he has played. He grew up in Cincinnati, went to college there and daydreamed as a youngster in the stands at Riverfront Stadium about the Bengals winning the Super Bowl.
And now, the Bengals' longest-tenured player is one victory away from helping deliver Cincinnati that long-elusive title.
“It would be everything,” Huber said, shaking his head. “I mean, the city would just implode if we win this game.”
The showdown with the Rams in Los Angeles on Sunday marks the Bengals' third Super Bowl appearance, and first in 33 years — back when Huber's infatuation didn't go far beyond loving the tiger stripes on the bright orange helmets.
Among his first football memories are of Ickey Woods, the touchdown-loving running back with the unforgettable end zone dance. He didn't have one particular favorite player as a kid, but remembers being excited when Cincinnati drafted wide receiver Peter Warrick in 2000. The then-14-year-old Huber's copy of ESPN The Magazine with Warrick, LaVar Arrington and Courtney Brown on the cover was a prized possession.
But it wasn't long before Huber became well-versed in what it meant being a Bengals fan, with lofty expectations followed by so many frustrating finishes.
“A long time of just waiting for this moment,” Huber said. "You know, getting there a couple of times, but losing and then that long drought in between the last time they went and now, it would mean everything to the city. They would be just completely on cloud nine, just experiencing this, just excited, happy.
“I would assume the parade would be pretty epic.”
Huber has tried to not think about that this week, but that image has decorated his mind many times as a fan and as a player. So has the post-Super Bowl celebration, with confetti falling around jubilant — and sometimes crying — players to punctuate the NFL's ultimate accomplishment.
“You see it every year,” Huber said. “And you always wonder if you’ll get the chance to do that.”
That's coming from a guy who has the perspective of playing 13 years in the NFL and is tied with former cornerback Ken Riley for the most regular-season games played in franchise history with 207.
Huber, who insists his playing days aren't close to being done, also has those scars from his fandom for a franchise that isn't often in this position.
After the Bengals beat Las Vegas in Cincinnati in the wild-card round for their first playoff victory in 31 years, Huber gathered his thoughts for a piece published by The Player's Tribune. He chronicled how he was born and raised in Cincinnati, went to the University of Cincinnati and was drafted by the Bengals in the fifth round in 2009. Huber described the euphoria of the Bengals ending what had been the NFL's longest playoff victory drought, and how much it meant to him and the city he calls home.
“Once that article came out, I got reached out to on social media and also via texts from friends and family, just a lot of people that felt the same way,” he said. “And they were able to just kind of enjoy that article from the same perspective.”
A victory at Tennessee followed in the divisional round.
Next came the Bengals' overtime win at Kansas City for the AFC championship, with Huber the holder on Evan McPherson's 31-yard kick that sent Cincinnati to the Super Bowl.
“It took a couple of minutes to really set in,” Huber recalled with a smile. "And everybody’s running around and you don’t know who to hug or what to do, and you kind of feel lost. I feel like I was running around just hugging the most random people, and I have no idea what I was doing.
“I would love to see a camera on me just kind of running around in circles."
It seemed everyone he has ever met or known in Cincinnati shared in the moment.
“I think by the time the night ended, I had like a thousand messages,” Huber said with a laugh. “But I’m sorry, everybody, I didn’t get to respond to every single one, but I'll try to get some of them back.”
He'll have lots more if everything works out in the Bengals' favor Sunday.
“It’s cool to think that years from now,” Huber said, “our team will be looked at as some of the greats of the organization and the greats of the Bengals that have played.”
During the team's rally Monday night at Paul Brown Stadium, the franchise's home since 2000, the fired-up fans screamed for every player and coach that emerged from the tunnel onto the field.
Huber nearly brought the place down when he offered this to the 30,000 bundled up in the stands:
“Hopefully," he said, "we’ll be back next week for the after-party.”
It would be a big-time Bengals bash that has been in the planning stages for a few generations. And one Huber only imagined all those years ago.
“The whole city has been just really enjoying the ride and celebrating this,” Huber said. “I’m just happy for them to be able to experience this. You know, it’s been a long time coming.”
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2009 — P Kevin Huber, 5th
2015 — TE C.J Uzomah, 5th
2016 — WR Tyler Boyd, 2nd
2017 — HB Joe Mixon, 2nd
2018 — S Jessie Bates III, 2nd; DE Sam Hubbard, 3rd
2019 — OT Jonah Williams, 1st; TE Drew Sample, 2nd; LB Germaine Pratt, 3rd; HB Trayveon Williams, 6th
2020 — QB Joe Burrow, 1st; WR Tee Higgins, 2nd; LB Logan Wilson, 3rd; DE Khalid Kareem, 5th; G Hakeem Adeniji, 6th; LB Markus Bailey, 7th
2021 — WR Ja'Marr Chase, 1st; G Jackson Carman, 2nd; DE Cam Sample, 4th; DT Tyler Shelvin, 4th; OT D'Ante Smith, 4th; K Evan McPherson, 5th; C Trey Hill, 6th; HB Chris Evans, 6th
2009 — LS Clark Harris
2019 — WR Trenton Irwin
2020 — CB Jalen Davis; G Quinton Spain; LB Keandre Jones; QB Brandon Allen
2021 — CB Eli Apple; DT Zach Kerr; S Michael J. Thomas; S Ricardo Allen
2021 — DT B.J. Hill (N.Y Giants)
2019 — OT Isaiah Prince (Miami); OT Fred Johnson (Pittsburgh)
2020 — HB Samaje Perine (Miami)
2021 — LB Clay Johnston (Carolina); CB Vernon Hargreaves III (Houston); CB Tre Flowers (Seattle); DE Wyatt Ray (Tennessee)
2014 — C Trey Hopkins
2017 — DT Josh Tupou
2019 — WR Stanley Morgan
2021 — TE Mitchell Wilcox
2020 — DT D.J. Reader (Houston); WR Mike D. Thomas (LA Rams); CB Trae Waynes (Minnesota); S Vonn Bell (New Orleans)
2021 - CB Chidobe Awuzie (Dallas); DE Trey Hendrickson (New Orleans); CB Mike Hilton (Pittsburgh)
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Charlie Moore's roundabout journey across college basketball just felt right during his two seasons at DePaul, returning to his native Chicago to be near his family.
With his father's mobility compromised by a 2015 stroke and his mother needing to work, his parents needed Moore around more than ever. And Curtis Moore attended all of his son's home games in his wheelchair.
“It worked. I feel like it brought a different energy, a different type of spirit to the household and my mom and my dad for those two years that I was there,” said Moore, who started at California, moved to Kansas, then DePaul and is now at Miami. “I feel like things are going much better now. I think my dad’s getting better as well.”
School-switching has never been more prevalent, thanks to the extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA for the pandemic-limited 2020-21 season and the relaxed transfer rules that allow one-time moves for immediate eligibility instead of an automatic sit-out year.
An Associated Press review of rosters in the six major conferences (the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference) plus four programs from mid-major leagues that are currently ranked in the AP Top 25 poll (Gonzaga, Houston, Saint Mary's and Murray State) determined 29% of players across those 80 teams have switched four-year schools at least once. That doesn't include junior college transfers.
The Big 12 has the highest portion at 41%. Colorado and Stanford are the only programs without a single incoming transfer. And just five high-major teams didn't add a transfer for this season, Colorado, Connecticut, Purdue, Villanova and Stanford — the latter touting a transfer-free team for the 12th year in a row.
While there's talk about disrupting team chemistry and a lack of resiliency when it comes to the hyperactive transfer portal, there's a personal story behind each switch and it's usually more complex than simply hopping around for more minutes, TV time or wins.
Moore has been a catalyst for the Hurricanes, who’ve been at or near the top of the ACC all season.
“The school, the people around the school, my coaching staff, my teammates, they’ve all just been welcoming and warm and helping people trying to reach their goal. There’s no egos or anything like that. It’s just people trying to win,” Moore said this week in a video interview with the AP. “It’s been a great way to end my college career.”
Payton Willis has come full circle, transferring back to Minnesota last summer after spending two previous seasons there. He's is one of 10 players with Minnesota who have transferred at least once, the most among the high-major programs.
But the sixth-year guard felt like he never truly left.
Willis started at Vanderbilt, where coach Kevin Stallings was fired shortly before he arrived. After two years mostly coming off the bench, he made his first transfer to Minnesota.
“I knew how valuable a Vanderbilt degree is, how prestigious it is. I just felt at home there. But when it was done, it was done,” Willis said in an interview earlier this season, declining to go into more detail.
Willis had flashes of success in the 2019-20 season, but was often lost in the Big Ten shuffle, so he moved to the College of Charleston. But COVID-19 conditions created a rather minimalist experience during his single season.
“I probably walked two or three blocks like 90% of the time I was there,” Willis said, “or I was at the beach. I really didn’t get to see too much, because we didn’t have in-person classes. I was either at home or at the gym.”
Prepared for an overseas career, Willis put the pros on pause after a call from new Gophers coach Ben Johnson, who previously recruited him as an assistant. The opportunity to play point guard was appealing, so he came returned to Minnesota and started a master's program in youth and leadership development.
Moore and Willis are rare three-time transfers. They're joined by Jalen Coleman-Lands, who arrived at Kansas after Iowa State, DePaul and Illinois. Texas A&M forward Jalen Johnson tore his ACL in preseason practice after arriving from Mississippi State, having previously played at Saint Louis and Louisiana-Lafayette.
For Moore, the firing of coach Dave Leitao last year left him with yet another change to manage. With the confidence and peace gained from his father’s improvement, he chose Miami with encouragement from assistant coach Bill Courtney (they briefly overlapped at DePaul).
“I thought he was going to be good, but this guy’s been great, the way he gets our team to play together and the way he shares the ball,” Miami coach Jim Larranaga said of Moore recently.
Moore was Illinois' Mr. Basketball in 2016, playing at Morgan Park High School in Chicago. He initially committed to Memphis, but coach Josh Pastner left for Georgia Tech. Moore played one year at Cal, before coach Cuonzo Martin departed for Missouri.
He moved a little closer to home at Kansas, but after a sit-out year and a season in a reserve role, he felt unsettled — particularly with the struggles around his father's health.
“I just wanted to make things better," Moore said.
Now playing in his fourth major conference, the 5-foot-11 Moore helped key an upset of Duke last month and his half-court shot banked in at the buzzer to beat Virginia Tech a few weeks later.
Though the Gophers have struggled in Big Ten play, Willis has two Big Ten Player of the Week awards this season. In a win over Rutgers on Jan. 22 (the only Gopher victory in 11 games since Christmas), Willis had a career-high 32 points and tied the program record with eight 3-pointers.
The extra pandemic-year effect will linger for three more seasons, and Willis offered his advice for those eyeing at the transfer portal: caution and patience.
“Each time I did it, I looked at myself in the mirror: ‘Was it on me? Is this truly going to be the better route? Or is it going to be better for me to stay here and stick it out and fight through the challenges?'” Willis said. “Nowadays it’s so hard. So many people are in kids’ ears about what they should and shouldn’t do. It makes it difficult for them to decipher who they should listen to and what they should listen to at the end of the day.”
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Kevin Durant wanted no part of James Harden on the day their partnership in Brooklyn ended.
Durant kept passing on Harden in the NBA All-Star Draft until LeBron James had to take him Thursday with the last pick, bringing some petty comedy to the process.
James had the first pick among players in the starters pool for the Feb. 20 game in Cleveland and drafted Giannis Antetokounmpo. Durant took Joel Embiid, whose Philadelphia 76ers agreed to the trade with Brooklyn that sent Ben Simmons to the Nets.
Durant had the first choice among reserves, going with Devin Booker of the NBA-leading Phoenix Suns. That meant James had the final pick and Durant made clear who was going to be left for him.
With his last selection, Durant took Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz, explaining with a straight face he needed size — even though defensive-minded players are hardly a need in an exhibition mostly about offense.
Holding a clipboard over his face to hide his laughter, James asked Durant if Harden was healthy enough to play. The three-time scoring champion and 2018 NBA MVP has missed the last three games with a left hamstring tightness.
“He got traded. He’s healthy now,” TNT analyst Charles Barkley responded.
James also drafted former MVPs Stephen Curry and Nikola Jokic in the starter pool, along with Chicago's DeMar DeRozan. Durant took first-timers Ja Morant of Memphis and Andrew Wiggins of Golden State, and Boston's Jayson Tatum — who replaced him in the starters pool because Durant is injured and won't play.
The Team LeBron reserves: Luka Doncic, Dallas; Darius Garland, Cleveland; Chris Paul, Phoenix; Jimmy Butler, Miami; Donovan Mitchell, Utah; Fred VanVleet, Toronto, and Harden.
The Team Durant reserves: Booker, Karl-Anthony Towns, Minnesota; Zach LaVine, Chicago; Dejounte Murray, San Antonio; Khris Middleton, Milwaukee; LaMelo Ball, Charlotte, and Gobert.
James has been a captain every year since the NBA went to a format where the leading vote-getters draft teams, instead of Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference. His teams have gone 4-0.
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Louisville joined South Carolina, Stanford and North Carolina State as top seeds if the women's NCAA Tournament began now.
The NCAA selection committee did its second reveal of the teams in line for the top 16 seeds on Thursday, although none of Thursday night’s games were factored in.
Tennessee was a top-seed in the first reveal on Jan. 22, but the Lady Vols dropped three of four games to fall to No. 3.
The top 16 seeds again will host the first- and second-round games, a year after the entire tournament was played in San Antonio because of COVID-19 concerns. While the coronavirus is still causing problems throughout the country, the NCAA expects to be able to play the tournament in its normal locations, including at campus sites for the first weekend.
Bridgeport, Greensboro, Spokane and Wichita will host the regionals and Minneapolis has the Final Four on April 1 and 3.
The No. 1-ranked Gamecocks were still projected to be the top seed in the Greensboro region. They would be joined by Indiana, Baylor and Oregon. N.C. State would be the top team in the Bridgeport Region and would have Michigan, UConn and Texas with them. The Huskies were projected in the original reveal to move out west to Spokane.
“It worked out that way. We didn’t say 'Let’s put UConn in Bridgeport,’” NCAA selection committee chair Nina King said.
Stanford is still No. 1 in that region and would be joined by Iowa State, Tennessee and Notre Dame. Louisville is the top seed in Wichita with Arizona, Oklahoma and LSU.
“The top two lines were pretty much all set," King said. “There was much more discussion on the 3s and 4s”
Oklahoma and Notre Dame entered the top 16 this time, while Georgia and Kansas State fell out.
“Oklahoma is playing well and the teams they are beating are really good,” King said. “No question, we talk about them a lot during the last reveal, they were just on the outside.”
King said the next few teams in discussion for the top 16 included Georgia Tech, Maryland and Georgia.
The NCAA will do one more reveal on Feb. 28 before the actual seedings are announced on selection Sunday on March 13. NCAA Vice President for women's basketball Lynn Holzman told the AP that the plan is to move the selection show back to Monday next year.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Morales had 21 points as Wagner extended its winning streak to 14 games, topping Mount St. Mary's 69-57 on Thursday night.
Will Martinez had 13 points for Wagner (17-2, 11-0 Northeast Conference). Raekwon Rogers added 10 rebounds.
Jalen Benjamin had 16 points for the Mountaineers (11-12, 7-4). Malik Jefferson added nine rebounds.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Deja Kelly scored 17 points, Alyssa Ustby had 10 points and 12 rebounds and No. 23 North Carolina beat Pittsburgh 64-54 on Thursday night.
North Carolina led by 22 points before Pitt battled back by closing the third quarter on a 5-0 run and scoring the opening 10 points of the fourth to get within 51-44. But the Tar Heels had an answer after each Pitt make the rest of the way to hold at least a seven-point lead.
Eva Hodgson added 14 points, with 3-for-3 shooting from distance, for North Carolina (19-4, 9-4 ACC).
North Carolina shot 28.1% from the field in the first half and still led 34-18. The Tar Heels attempted 16 free throws compared to Pittsburg's two, and had a 27-14 advantage on the glass. It was the third straight game North Carolina has held an opponent to under 20 points in the first half.
Jayla Everett made 4 of 5 3-pointers and scored 18 points for Pittsburgh (11-12, 2-10). Amber Brown added 14 points and Dayshanette Harris had 10 before fouling out late.
Pittsburgh shot better from the field, 41.1% compared to UNC's 32.2, but was undone by 22 turnovers and just four free-throw attempts.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Les Snead really doesn't mind if the public and the media think he's a wild risk-taker whose decade as the Rams' general manager is defined by his eagerness to mortgage Los Angeles' future so he can grab superstars of the present.
Snead's kids even gave him a mug that sits on his desk at the Rams' training complex. It's emblazoned with his own face from a well-known Twitter meme that profanely, precisely imagines how he must feel about draft picks.
But that's not the whole story — and it's simply not correct, according to the man doing the deals.
“There’s definitely risks, and we like to refer to it sometimes as being bold,” Snead said. “But being bold is a little bit more than just gambling.”
Although it's clearly more amusing than annoying to him, Snead feels the Rams' reputation is a lazy mischaracterization of the work and planning that go into his moves — and he feels that should be obvious from his success.
Yes, the Rams make bold moves with their draft capital. Yes, he values veteran stars and draft picks in different ways than the average GM.
That doesn't mean the Rams are built to burn brightly before fading into mediocrity.
“The shallow story would be the free agents, the stars,” Snead said. “And I get it. We’re in the entertainment business. I understand why that’s interesting content."
With ample help from coach Sean McVay, Snead has turned a longtime losing franchise into a consistent winner with a chance to claim its first Super Bowl victory of his tenure Sunday.
Their combined approach to their jobs is summed up in one of Snead's favorite mantras: “Wake up sprinting. Don’t be scared.”
And though he approached the season with the intensity inherent in a daily sprint, Snead flatly rejects the central thesis of most arguments about how the Rams ran to the Super Bowl twice in four years.
He doesn't feel the Rams have pushed all their chips into the middle of the table this season. He patiently details the Rams' solid homegrown talent base and player development successes that continue despite his dispersal of most of his high draft picks.
Yet even his organization has embraced the narrative: After the Rams got Von Miller and Odell Beckham Jr. at midseason, their social media team put out a tweet declaring: “We’re all in” — and then the Rams lost three straight games.
Snead can only chuckle.
“I was joking with a couple of people who were asking what we’re doing leading up to the Super Bowl ... and it’s preparing for the draft,” Snead said. "We couldn’t do what we do, we couldn’t have the team that we have, without the draft and those young players.”
Jalen Ramsey, Matthew Stafford, Miller and Beckham are all with the Rams because of audacious moves made by Snead. The first three acquisitions required parting with a combined four first-round picks, one second-rounder, two thirds and a fourth-round selection. LA also gave up a fifth- and a sixth-round pick to get Sony Michel.
But the Rams can do it because of their cost-effective contributors at other positions. The Rams even lost four defensive starters in free agency last season and only replaced them with internal candidates — and though they don't have the NFL's No. 1 defense this year, they're in the Super Bowl.
“We will always utilize whatever manner that’s available to acquire players to help us continue to be contenders,” Snead said. “We’ll try to use our picks in an innovative way, maybe a creative way.”
The Rams’ upcoming draft is a striking example of the consequences of Snead’s attitudes. They are likely to have eight picks in April, but five will be compensatory selections for people who left the team.
The highest pick they currently hold is at the back of the third round. Los Angeles traded its first-round pick to Detroit for Stafford, its second- and third-round picks to Denver for Miller, its fourth-rounder to Houston as incentive to take Brandin Cooks’ contract, and its sixth-round pick to New England for Michel.
But Snead conducts business with a different view of the value of draft capital. With his group's scouting combined with McVay's innovative coaching, the Rams believe they can remain winners indefinitely.
After five years together, McVay and Snead have formed a steadfast partnership anchored in mutual respect. According to McVay, it's a huge help that he has no interest in being a personnel guy, and Snead doesn't want to coach.
“Both he and I are not afraid to take risks, even if it means putting yourself out there for expectations,” McVay said. “I’m very appreciative to be with people who aren’t afraid to take their swings and shoot their shots."
Snead took over the front office of a 2-14 squad in St. Louis in 2012, and his approach to team-building has changed along with the Rams' growth. He built a foundation with solid draft picks — none bigger than Aaron Donald in 2014 — and after their return to Los Angeles, he added higher-profile names in his now-signature style, starting with the bold trade up to get Jared Goff in 2016.
“I’ve got the gene that I really, really appreciate trying to learn and apply and evolve,” Snead said.
One consequence of Snead’s style is a unique draft weekend experience: The Rams haven’t made a first-round pick since Goff in 2016, and they aren’t scheduled to have another until 2024.
“It really makes Thursday nights not stressful at all,” he said with a smile.
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BEIJING (AP) — Some local fans are getting to watch the Beijing Games in person, though it’s not clear exactly how they were selected for a visit inside the tightly controlled Olympic bubble.
As part of the strict measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the Games, athletes, reporters and others are being limited to a “closed loop” of dedicated Olympic venues and hotels.
Plans to sell tickets to the general public were scrapped before the Games began. But organizers announced that about 150,000 local spectators including school children and foreign embassy staff would be allowed in some venues.
How they are selected is a bit of a mystery. Jiarong Yan, a representative for Beijing organizers, said they apply and are invited by community organizations, educational institutions and other groups. They're subject to protocols, including testing before they enter and health monitoring after they leave, but quarantining isn’t required. They are kept separate from others inside the bubble.
On Thursday, some fans sat spaced apart inside the Capital Indoor Stadium to watch the men's figure skating free skate. Cheers erupted for China's Jin Boyang and again when Nathan Chen of the U.S. delivered a free skate performance that won him the gold.
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