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The so-called human condition consists of a range of the characteristics we all share. Life. Birth. Death. Living. Learning. Loving.
Philosophers busy themselves contemplating the human condition. It’s studied in anthropology, history, literature, art, music, theater, psychology and religion. Yet in the volumes they’ve written, there is nothing about the loss of our car keys, a phenomenon fundamental to the human condition.
I stumbled on this critical issue when my wife recently lost our car keys. She drove home from the store, obviously using the car keys. But after she arrived, they disappeared. The search was on. We looked in every nook and cranny. Moved furniture, looked under and inside the refrigerator, interrogated the cats. Nothing.
I went to my Facebook friends for help. I asked them to offer suggestions from their own life experience. What, I asked, was the weirdest place you ever found your lost keys? Wow. In a matter of a couple of days, I heard 157 different stories.
What I learned is that losing your car keys is not just part of the human condition. It is the human condition.
Categorically, most car keys deemed to be lost are lingering in the refrigerator. The very first suggestion was to look there. We did. No keys. Check the ice cube tray, they said. The veggie bins. The freezer.
Clothes hamper? Closet? Garbage? Yuck. We combed through it. Cat’s toy box? Cat’s litter box? One person found hers there.
A lot of folks eventually found their keys in the door where they left them after unlocking it. Many were eventually found in the trunk of the car, and a few were still in the ignition. Lots were found in hidden compartments of purses or in the pockets of a jacket not worn since the keys were lost.
It took one fellow 10 years to find his. Seems they fell into a 20-gallon pot he was planting. A decade later, poof, there they were at the bottom of the planter. Lynn found his in his truck. The door was locked with his keys inside.
A lot of car keys were made up in the bed or left in not-often worn pants. The bottom of couches, under the cushions is a popular place to lose keys. One fellow lost his motorcycle keys on the roof where he inadvertently left them while putting on a new roof.
Kitchen drawers. Washing machines. Mailboxes. Under a newspaper. Becky found hers in the dog food dish. Clarence’s keys were waiting in the freezer with the frozen salmon.
My old musician friend Rick Spencer eventually located his among a dozen picks inside his acoustic guitar. Hey Rick, there are a lot of good, old country songs about lost love and truck driving. You need to write one about lost car keys. Would be a big hit.
One woman told me her keys were lost for a long time after she “flung my keys at my ex. He threw them in the snow. No keys for months.”
Dee suggested I ask the dog, but I only have four cats, and they were napping. A couple of folks blamed their toddlers. There were instances where visiting friends picked up the wrong set of keys as they departed.
Some said they “are still looking” and will let me know what strange place in which they will hopefully eventually be found.
There was advice on praying, and my friend Sally said, “I know this sounds weird, but often works for me. Walk backwards to increase recall. Seems to stimulate going back in time to help recall.” Bingo!
And so, a week after they went missing, Pat remembered she bought a new pillow the day the keys disappeared. There they were, at the bottom of the plastic bag encasing the new pillow.
Social scientists need to know more about the time and energy, heartburn and heartache we spend hunting lost keys instead of working for world peace. This is the most overlooked issue of our time.
Rodger McDaniel lives in Laramie and is the pastor at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne. Email: rmc81448@gmail.com.
Rodger McDaniel lives in Laramie and is the pastor at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne. Email: rmc81448@gmail.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/mcdaniel-the-most-overlooked-issue-of-our-time-finding-lost-keys/article_d503105a-1f81-11ed-ab90-df2d50bf8c3e.html | 2022-08-20T13:05:18Z |
There is one thing I seriously dislike about summer. That one thing is that it passes by way too quickly.
As a lifelong Wyomingite, this is something that always poses a problem for me. I admit that I’m a fair-weather type of person. I’m not particularly fond of snow, I’m not a winter sports person, and I absolutely detest the wind.
Right or wrong, during the winter months, I find myself longing for the summer. Sitting on a boat or on the beach, hiking, enjoying a great meal and live music outdoors, or sitting out at night, gazing at the incredible star-filled sky, the possibilities for summer activities and enjoyment are nearly endless.
Everyone from Wyoming knows the saying: we have two seasons – winter and construction. For a person like myself who loves warm weather, you can imagine my dilemma. Like a lot of you, I jam everything into the limited weeks of summer, which only exacerbates the problem. There’s a lot to fit in in this limited time, and, of course, the busier I am, the faster the time seems to travel. Summer just barely got under way, and now here we are at the end of it. I know from here on, the cold weather and wind are rapidly approaching.
Aside from what my heart desires under the summer sun, there’s even a bigger reason I don’t want it to end this year. Amid the hustle and bustle, I walked into my oldest son’s room two nights ago, only to discover it was nearly empty. My heart sank. How could this be?
It seems like just a few days ago when I carried him for the first time through our front door in his car-carrier; he was just two days old. Now, he has grown up. He’s heading to college, his heart full of enthusiasm and his eyes focused on his bright future. It’s truly a great time in his life; this is what we prepared him for. He’s ready, and my wife and I know he will do well.
But just like summer, I don’t want this time to end. Being a parent is one of the absolute best things I have ever done in my life. And just like summer, the life we have known for the past 18 years raising our oldest son has been full of joy and adventure. Those years have been packed with pride as we have mentored and watched him transform into becoming the fine young man he is today.
On our farm, however, summer can also bring enormous challenges. More than any summer in recent memory, this one has been tough. Weather conditions have caused our farm to suffer some of the largest crop losses in its history. And we are not alone. Ag producers across the country are feeling the same thing. Our hope for successful harvests this year has turned into frustration and disappointment.
In retrospect, I guess what this all boils down to is there is a season for everything. Some of those seasons can be pretty tough, like the one we have faced on our farm this summer, or like a long, cold winter. Other seasons, while they are hard to let go of, bring us incredible joy and satisfaction.
As much as I hate to admit it, if the season never changed and it was always summer, would I still love it? If this summer never ended, it would be catastrophic for America’s farms. If we always had prosperous years on the farm, would we push ourselves to find better ways of doing things? If our children never matured into adults, would we eventually tire of the younger years? They would certainly never experience the opportunity to become the person God created them to be.
A change of seasons helps us to keep perspective. Without that change, life would become mundane, and it would suppress our ability to become more. While I hate to see summer go, as a farmer, I am ready to put this year behind me and begin the planning process in hopes of a better year next year. As a parent, while I will miss the awesome 18 years of Carson living under our roof, I am excited about the new season that is upon us. My bet is the next 18 years will be better than we could have ever imagined.
We should constantly prepare ourselves to face the next season with enthusiasm and gratitude. Otherwise, we’ll stay trapped, longing for summer; longing for something that can never be attained. Worse yet, we will face the future with angst and frustration.
Each new season can deliver hope and prosperity. And it brings with it things we never imagined possible. No matter what season you find yourself in, learn to appreciate and live in the moment; they go by way too fast. Cherish the great memories and remain hopeful; it is likely your best season is yet to come.
Ron Rabou is president of Rabou Farms, Inc. in southeast Wyoming. He is a fifth-generation Wyomingite, a nationally known speaker and author, past radio host and owns multiple businesses. To learn more, visit www.raboufarms.com or www.ronrabou.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/rabou-theres-a-season-for-everything-but-some-are-too-short/article_2b1325ce-1f83-11ed-8c82-3f1783676b7f.html | 2022-08-20T13:05:24Z |
Editor's note: Although space didn't allow us to run this letter before Tuesday's primary election, and Mr. Schroeder lost the GOP primary to Ms. Degenfelder, we felt it should be published anyway, since it was in response to a recent WTE editorial.
You have always been critical of Superintendent Schroeder, and now have given him a "non-endorsement" for the superintendent’s office. Your main objection is that he comes from a private, military background. Yet he has over 15 years of experience in the public school setting as a teacher and principal.
He supports a ban on critical race theory. This theory IS in various Wyoming public schools, although not yet widely prevalent. You show your support of CRT and the LGBTQ+ agenda (which should be separated from LGBTQ+ people) by your support for the NEA (National Education Association) and consequently WEA.
I venture to say the majority of Wyomingites oppose the teaching of CRT, which should be separated from an unbiased teaching of Black and minority history. The same can be said for the participation of boys in girls’ sports based on identity. These are national debate issues for our legislature to weigh in on again, as well as perhaps a Parental Rights in Education bill.
Supt. Schroeder has stated his goal of education is for students “to learn to think.” Another primary tenet of his is that parents are the guardians of their children and their education. Hence, school choice. The education system is to serve that end. This contrasts directly with ideology promoted by the NEA and leaders in government who promote parents turning over their children to the state for education/indoctrination.
This battle for our children’s education is at a crisis point for our nation; whether they will be taught to read and write and value U.S. history and develop a work ethic or not. Looking at the latest statistics for both Wyoming and the U.S. – it appears we are losing the battle. We need someone to stand up for our kids, and Supt. Schroeder is such a person!
It is not only Supt. Schroeder who supports these ideals. When Dr. Kelly bowed out of the race, he gave his support to Mr. Schroeder. Ms. Degenfelder supports many of these same ideas. She has no classroom teaching experience, but is supported by the rich and powerful in Wyoming. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/reader-objects-to-wtes-non-endorsement-of-brian-schroeder/article_9907d472-2004-11ed-b818-9baeb7801c4d.html | 2022-08-20T13:05:30Z |
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WTE's Carpenter has exceptional writing skills, unique insight Letter from Nancy White | Cheyenne Aug 20, 2022 2 hrs ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It was a joy to read Will Carpenter's "Weekend Picks: Appreciate the everyday in Cheyenne" (WTE, Aug. 11).Will, you are able to appreciate things about Cheyenne that many of us that have lived here for years miss or dismiss.Your writing skills are exceptional and insight unique.You will go far, but don't go too far (away), please. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Letter To The Editor Skill Will Carpenter Insight Writing Miss Things Joy Recommended for you Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus Trending Now Hageman beats Cheney, will face Grey Bull in November Poll: Hageman up big ahead of Wyoming's GOP primary next week Kozak wins sheriff primary, Hackl presumptive DA Nearly all incumbents advance in state, county and city races Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for today's primary election Latest Special Section Cheyenne Frontier Days To view our latest Special Section click the image on the left. Latest e-Edition Wyoming Tribune Eagle To view our latest e-Edition click the image on the left. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/wtes-carpenter-has-exceptional-writing-skills-unique-insight/article_fbf9e38e-2001-11ed-870d-e7555e4c9137.html | 2022-08-20T13:05:43Z |
Tuesday’s primary election revealed many things about the current state of politics in Wyoming – some good, some bad.
Let’s start with some good news. Regardless of your party affiliation, this week’s primary once again showed that the state’s election process is trustworthy, and our county clerks and their staff are dedicated to preserving its integrity. Not only did we hear no complaints of voting irregularities, results are canvassed by independent boards at the county and state levels to certify that was the case.
That’s unlikely to silence those like Republican Secretary of State primary winner Chuck Gray, however, who have parroted the false election fraud claims coming from former President Donald Trump and his supporters ever since the 2020 election results didn’t go his way. We just hope this week and another well-handled election in November will cause Mr. Gray and others to stop sowing seeds of distrust about a system in Wyoming that clearly works well.
The next post-election takeaway isn’t that surprising, but should concern anyone who had hopes the Legislature would stop wasting time on highly partisan, mostly far-right boilerplate legislation. With an economy desperately in need of diversification, a K-12 education funding crisis, tens of thousands of residents without health insurance and many other top-shelf issues facing them, lawmakers shouldn’t be wasting their time on the pet issues of the American Legislative Exchange Council and other groups.
Yet, based on Tuesday’s results, it seems many of the state’s Republican voters either don’t care or failed to do their homework about certain candidates. For example, in Natrona County, Casper developer Bob Ide narrowly defeated former Senate President Drew Perkins. Of course, we have no evidence of how he will perform as a lawmaker, but the fact Mr. Ide was photographed with state GOP Chairman Frank Eathorne at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, gives us some indication.
Rural eastern Wyoming, especially, is growing ever more conservative. In Goshen County, Rep. J.D. Williams lost his seat to Allen Earl Slagle, and Rep. Shelly Duncan lost her seat to Scott Smith. And in Converse County, Rep. Aaron Clausen narrowly lost his seat to Tomi Strock, who encouraged her campaign Facebook followers to attend a Chuck Gray-sponsored screening of “2000 Mules” because “it is trully (sic) an eye opening documentary” about the 2020 election.
All of this sets up the 67th Wyoming Legislature to be even more radical than the one that wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on a special session about vaccine mandates.
Which brings us to a key point: If more people don’t start doing their homework, asking questions of candidates and voting, this radicalization of our political system will continue. And, sorry, folks, we hate to say it, but there’s really no excuse for this other than simple laziness.
Today, thanks to the internet and social media, there are more ways than ever to find out where each candidate stands on the key issues. In addition to stories and news briefs in publications like the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, there are candidate questionnaires on our website, WyomingNews.com, and answers to online surveys by other organizations.
Not plugged in? There’s still the old-fashioned method of picking up the phone and calling those you’re wondering about (yes, the phone numbers can be found on the Secretary of State and Laramie County Clerk’s Office websites, but we’ll soon be publishing a list of all of the phone numbers and email addresses they provided when they filed to run for office).
Another disturbing lesson to be learned from this year’s primary field is that some people seem to want to get elected so they can destroy the system from the inside. While we certainly hope that isn’t the case with Mr. Gray and Republican U.S. House nominee Harriet Hageman, we saw evidence of this trend from people like current State Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder, gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell, U.S. House candidate and current state Sen. Anthony Bouchard and others.
Thankfully, many of these folks failed to advance to the general election, but some did. And with all of the noise made lately at school board meetings here and across the state about books in school libraries and district mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, voters must be extra careful to vet trustees candidates this fall.
Of course, with the attention placed on the race between Ms. Hageman and incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, it would be easy to say that the days of Wyoming going unnoticed on the national political scene are over. We’re not sure, though.
Certainly, the high-profile battle between Ms. Cheney and Mr. Trump drew the attention of journalists and political insiders from the Beltway and across the country. It also generated a lot of attention from average residents nationwide with an opinion about Ms. Cheney and her service on the congressional committee investigating the 1-6-21 Capitol riot. That attention led to millions of dollars from outside the state pouring into Ms. Cheney’s campaign account, as well as Mr. Trump endorsing in down-ballot races.
We can’t help but wonder if this is a one-time blip on the radar, however. How likely is it that, once the current battle of wills fades away, the least-populated state in the union will continue to garner such attention? As is the case with Alaska other than when Sarah Palin’s on the ballot, we think it’s pretty unlikely.
Of course, the most obvious takeaway is that the former president still has a lot of influence in the Equality State. Ms. Hageman’s landslide victory over Ms. Cheney is all the evidence we need to see that. Unlike the attention that came with it, that likely will take much longer to fade into the past, especially if the Republican Party continues to be the Party of Trump.
OK, that’s enough looking back. With 80 days to go until the general election, it’s time to grab a notebook, make a list of candidates to research (we provided a good one in Thursday’s edition and online) and get to work.
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21 large scale murals are being painted across Uvalde to honor the 19 students and 2 teachers killed at Robb Elementary School. Artists hope the project will help families and the community heal.
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21 large scale murals are being painted across Uvalde to honor the 19 students and 2 teachers killed at Robb Elementary School. Artists hope the project will help families and the community heal.
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David Moore has spent the summer taking steps similar to what police chiefs, superintendents and others on school security frontlines across the country have been doing in response to mass shootings that have rattled communities, large and small, across the country.
Moore, who is police chief in Janesville, Wisconsin, two hours northwest of Chicago, and others have spent the summer break reassessing and revising security plans and conducting fresh training exercises after the tragic shooting and botched law enforcement response in Uvalde, Texas, that saw 19 elementary school students, ages 9 to 11, and two teachers killed.
“That was shocking, to be honest. It was shocking to us,” said Moore, of the Texas shooting and the delayed police response to the incident.
School districts and police departments are also working to reassure their communities that the failed response in Uvalde won’t be repeated in their local schools.
Salvador Ramos, 18, stormed into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24 and massacred a classroom full of students and two teachers with an AR-15 rifle. Police have been faulted for their delayed response, waiting more than an hour before entering the classroom.
Moore said his Wisconsin agency has made sure officers have key fobs to access schools, doors have been numbered to reduce potential confusion and every local school building has police radios to directly communicate with officers.
“We are not waiting for someone to let us in,” said Moore, whose efforts also include training teachers and school staff with emergency first aid-like caring for wounds and how to stop bleeding.
The failed response in Texas, along with a spate of other mass shootings — including a May shooting at a Buffalo grocery store targeting Black shoppers and employees — has school superintendents, police chiefs and concerned constituencies anxious to test their own readiness and not repeat the same mistakes.
“It leaves a knot in my gut,” said Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri of the delayed response in Texas.
The Florida law enforcement agency and the 101,000-student, 150-school Pinellas County Schools district conducted an active-shooter training in late July with the failings of Uvalde front of mind.
Gualtieri said during a briefing after the training that the coronavirus pandemic inhibited active-shooter exercises. He was anxious to see the results of the exercise at a local school and to show the public “we are doing the best we can.”
“It’s essential,” he said. “You need the assurance that it works. You’ve got to keep pushing it.”
Other school districts and police across the country conducted active-shooter and other security training exercises this summer to help ease angst among students, parents and staff conditioned by school shootings that have permeated American society since the Columbine High School massacre 23 years ago.
The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, also near Tampa, conducted a 16-hour training exercise in late July to train officers on response times and approaches if they are the initial responder to a shooting. That includes immediate and fast responses, said Sheriff Mike Pendergast.
More districts are poised to increase police footprints on campuses for the new school year, including more school resource officers (SROs) and security guards, some of them armed.
Albany County School District #1 Superintendent John Goldhardt said that while security measures are already in place, the district is focusing on being more vigilant in violence prevention and preparation.
“We don’t want our schools to be prison-like where we’re blocking everybody out and in, but we want folks to be safe from harm,” Goldhardt said.
He did not give specifics on how exactly the school was becoming more vigilant, but he did explain some security measures that are already in place.
This includes having restricted access points to school buildings and requiring visitors to check-in before letting them enter the school. Visitors must provide identification, which is run through a brief background check system that checks for outstanding arrest warrants and a history of sexual misconduct and violence, Goldhardt said.
Three resource officers are employed at the district as well to help with safety. One works at Laramie High School, one at Laramie Middle School and the other at Whiting High School and the elementary schools.
Goldhardt said these officers are effective in handling issues as they come up and working toward prevention. Principals in the district are also working to build relationships across the school so that staff can have a better idea of which students may be in need of extra help.
This approach includes building trust between students and staff so they can ask for help when they need it or report alarming behavior if they witness it.
“We need to be aware of our surroundings, aware of people who have needs and focus on positive relationships so that they can trust us if they’ve heard about something,” Goldhardt said.
Hardening schools
The latest shooting’s aftermath also has seen a push to further harden school campuses with more layers of security, limiting access points and the prospect of more students having to go through metal detectors and security pat-downs just to go to school.
On the East Coast, Talbot County Public Schools in Maryland recently conducted “an independent security assessment” and has been adding security hardening measures, said Debbie Gardner, special programs and public relations coordinator for the 4,500-student, eight-school district.
“The facility hardening projects that have been completed are meant to enhance the overall security of our facilities, with the primary goal of preventing unauthorized access and an enhanced visitor screening process,” Gardner said.
Those include installing security vestibules at school entrances that can further control access to buildings and give staff another layer of screening. Talbot schools also have improved classroom doors and installed security film on windows to prevent shattering.
Moore said installing vestibules, a secure lobby or holding area where visitors can be further screened, also are a focus in Wisconsin as he works with local schools to improve security layers within buildings and campuses.
Across the country in rural southern Oregon near the California border, the Klamath County School District also is planning upgrades to security cameras, more mental health services and outreach to students (including via partnership with Klamath Basin Behavioral Health). The district is working on increased training related to emergency responses and helping teachers and staff better recognize and respond to signs of trauma and distress among students, said district spokesperson Marcia Schlottmann.
Schlottman said the district held a security training with emergency responders in late April, roughly a month before Uvalde.
A number of districts and police agencies across the countries did not respond to requests for comment on their security efforts this summer.
‘Acts of terrorism’
The security efforts are running parallel to fresh debates on gun control as progressive advocates point to shooters’ frequent use of AR-15 rifles in their rampages.
“School shootings are similar to ‘acts of terrorism’ in that by their nature they catch people by surprise. So, it is very difficult to prepare for them,” said Dr. Eugenio Rothe, a professor of psychiatry and public health at Florida International University. His research has focused on the mental health and other factors driving the American phenomena of school and mass shootings.
“The police and other law enforcement are working on solutions, but the common denominators are very clear,” said Rothe.
He points to “access to weapons” as a primary concern but also “children who are marginalized and bullied” and parents, teachers and school counselors who ignore signs of distress.
Constitutional gun rights via the Second Amendment and Republican opposition to more sweeping gun control measures also has enhanced the focus on putting more money toward security infrastructure and technology to help better secure campuses in the age of more frequent mass shootings.
Anti-gun control conservative lawmakers point to increasing security and police footprints at K-12 schools as the preferred path over new restrictions on guns and gun ownership.
There also are bipartisan and institutional penchants for another post-mass shooting slate of security infrastructure and technology spending and training exercises to further button down campuses and ease fears among students, teachers and staff.
Amy Klinger, an education professor at Ashland University in Ohio and director of programs at Educator’s School Safety Network (a nonprofit training group) said training teachers and staff on keeping campuses secure is as important as more infrastructure spending.
“It’s very simple and usually comes down to day-to-day procedures,” Klinger said.
The challenge, according to security consultants, has been getting schools to find the time and sustained funding for training efforts.
“There’s as much of a competition for time as money in schools,” said Kenneth Trump, a Cleveland-based national school security expert.
Trump said he wants schools to focus more on training frontline staff and workers who might be the first to interact with a distressed student or shooter.
“They get the least training to no training at all in many cases,” he said.
‘Army of counselors’
Mental health advocates contend there is a dire need for increased counseling and behavioral health services, as well as improved outreach to distressed kids and better identifying and addressing bullying and threats of violence.
“Mental health is key to solving this problem,” said Brenda High, founder and co-director of Bully Police USA, an Idaho-based group that has pushed for anti-bullying measures across the United States.
High’s 13-year-old son, Jared, killed himself in 1998 after being severely bullied and assaulted at a school in Washington state.
“The only way to solve the problem is to have an army of counselors and people go in there to help these kids choose a better path,” said High, who crafts student-centered programs aimed at using peers to discourage bullying.
That requires increased staffing, pay for counselors and changes in school cultures — including addressing teachers, staff and parents who ignore bullying and distressed students.
But High and others worry the rush to harden schools, limit access and turn them into high-security zones will further stress students returning from pandemic shutdowns and diminish the learning environment.
“There are some schools out there that do treat their students like inmates,” High said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/a-knot-in-my-gut-for-officials-as-school-begins/article_2cf60720-1f11-11ed-af36-535cf0669f03.html | 2022-08-20T13:05:55Z |
After a court ruling Friday, abortion in Michigan continues to be legal for now - though there are more legal challenges ahead.
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After a court ruling Friday, abortion in Michigan continues to be legal for now - though there are more legal challenges ahead.
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The couple celebrated the birth of their daughter on Aug. 6 at 11:03 p.m. Pictured from left are Anastasia (Nastya) Talbot, Emily Mari Talbot and Gerhard Talbot.
ROCK SPRINGS — A new bundle of joy was recently born at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. However, her parents faced several challenges leading up to her arrival. Gerhard and Anastasia Talbot came to the United States after having to flee Ukraine due to the ongoing war.
“I am born South African and have been a United States resident since 2016. My wife Anastasia (Nastya) Talbot, is Ukrainian and received her United States residence on May 5, 2022,” Gerhard said. “We had been living in Ukraine, a town called Kremenchuk in the province (oblast) of Poltava, for the last 4 years while I was doing temporary contract work in my business consultancy for a local mining business.”
He said that they had been waiting almost two years for Nastya’s resident visa to be approved.
“When the war was building up and the invasion commenced, we reached out to the state department, but had no support of help in expediting the final approval step. The hardest for us was leaving into the unknown of Europe, as Anastasia was not allowed to travel to the U.S.A.”
On March 6, they made the decision to flee.
“We were able to leave an active war situation in Ukraine after gaining approval documents to take a vehicle across the border and save up 50 gallons of gasoline for the 600 mile journey to the Polish border.
“Knowingly facing a one way journey into the unknown, the trip was filled with mortal danger of missile attacks and getting robbed of the gasoline we collected due to shortage and getting stranded in harsh freezing weather.
“We stayed overnight in the car at a remote gas station after we were diverted away from a border we planned to cross. The next evening, we finally made it safely across the Ukrainian border into Moldova,” Gerhard said. “It was a 48 1/2 hours journey, with 59 military checkpoint stops and 5 1/2 hours waiting at the border to cross.”
Gerhard also said that they only took important documents and a few items they knew they could carry in one suitcase each. Upon crossing the border into Moldova, there were no accommodations available, so they drove 3 hours to the capital to find a hotel.
“We planned to fly to Frankfurt the day where we had the best chance of finalizing her visa. Unfortunately, the airspace over Moldova was closed due to the war and missile threats,” he said. “So, we had to drive another 300 miles to Bucharest, Romania. We rested in a hotel and departed the next day to Frankfurt, leaving the car in Romania.
“On arrival in Frankfurt, we were told by the embassy that they could not help us and referred us to the website. It took 2 months waiting to eventually finalize this, after active involvement of an immigration lawyer and a doctor from the hospital in Rock Springs writing letters to expedite based on pregnancy complications.”
The Talbots said that two people in particular helped quite a bit during this process.
“Leslie Taylor from Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and Dr. Samer Kattan made it possible for us to have remote visits to manage the pregnancy. Not knowing when we could get to the U.S.A. was the biggest worry and stress. We have a safety cut off date for flying to the U.S.A. due to the pregnancy and even had to start making plan b arrangements in case. Not being able to set up a home and baby room was the toughest.”
Gerhard said that during the time they were waiting for the visa to travel, they were able to make sure that Nastya’s mother and sister were able to evacuate.
“I had received a job offer at Tata chemicals Green River, but it was complicated as I would not be separated from my wife. When it appeared that the visa was eminently to be issued, I accepted the role and commenced working here while getting everything prepared for my wife’s arrival two weeks later.”
Nastya arrived in New York, received her permanent residence and then met up with Gerhard in Salt Lake City.
“We traveled to Rock Springs and the next day met Dr. Kattan in person for a full physical, checkup and ultrasound. We continued to see him weekly until Emily Mari Talbot was born on Aug. 6, 2022, at 11:03 p.m.”
Gerhard shared that his mother would have turned 90 years old this year on Emily’s birthday.
“This is very special, in particular since on arrival in South Africa to visit family, we discovered that Anastasia was pregnant.”
The Talbots said that they are thankful for those who have helped along the way.
“Within the first few days of arrival, Tami Christensen from High Country Realty helped us find the ideal house here in Rock Springs, with Judy Osborne of Wells Fargo helping with finance.
“In particular, thanks to Leslie Taylor, Dr. Kattan, Dr. Moore and the OB staff from Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and Roger Hoops and Pam Luettich from Tata Chemicals North America who made our trip and settlement in Rock Springs possible.”
Gerhard also commended his wife, Nastya.
“Congratulations and thanks goes to my wife Nastya, who from the first time she knew she was pregnant, always looked after herself and the baby so well. She wanted all natural birth and didn’t want to take any pain medication or relief. I am so proud of my beautiful wife and stand in amazement for what she did to deliver our beautiful baby girl.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/crossing-oceans-couple-flees-ukraine-celebrates-birth-of-baby-in-rock-springs/article_f508eebe-1f05-11ed-9507-dfe8eece4c6b.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:01Z |
Nearly 18 months into his tenure at DOJ, Attorney General Merrick Garland faces consequential decisions about the Jan. 6 attack and former President Donald Trump.
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Nearly 18 months into his tenure at DOJ, Attorney General Merrick Garland faces consequential decisions about the Jan. 6 attack and former President Donald Trump.
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Thomas Mattimore can vouch for the 2022 primary election in Laramie.
He can do that because he monitored it all day Tuesday, checking voter identification as an Albany County election judge.
Thomas Mattimore can vouch for the 2022 primary election in Laramie.
He can do that because he monitored it all day Tuesday, checking voter identification as an Albany County election judge.
“I will guarantee to anybody that this election is as fair as it can be, because I was in it,” he said in between checking in voters at his Albany County Fairgrounds polling place.
That sense of personal responsibility resonated with other election judges.
When asked if the Albany County election was free and fair, judge John Duvall said that, “One of our jobs is to make it so, as best we can.”
That sense of importance and duty is common among the small army of election workers it took to hold Tuesday’s Wyoming primary.
For Mattimore, the 2020 election was the motivation to act and get involved in the process.
“There were a lot of complaints about the election in 2020,” he said.
By working the polls himself, Mattimore said was able to see the process firsthand, including the new voter identification requirement.
Tuesday’s election required judges to follow the state’s new voter identification law, which requires a Wyoming driver’s license or state-issue identification, tribal identification, valid U.S. passport, U.S. military card, driver’s license or identification card from another state, University of Wyoming, college community college or public school student identification, or a valid Medicare or Medicaid insurance card.
“The ID law may slow things down, but there is no doubt,” Mattimore said. “I feel a lot more comfortable about it than before. It makes sure everything is legit.”
Doubts about the election have been tearing the country apart, said Raul Merly, Mattimore’s partner working the polling place verifying and logging addresses.
The verification that he and Mattimore oversaw can help bring it together.
Merly said their system of checking names, identifications and addresses, with two judges from two parties keeping track of the voters, means that “we super-verify everything.”
Election Judge Joe Horther said he encourages others to serve as a judge to help understand “how well it is run. … There are checks and balances.”
An added benefit, he said, is a chance to meet other judges.
As judges are paired in teams of opposing political parties, getting to know their colleagues on the front lines of the election may seem an opportunity for conflict.
That’s not the case, Merly said.
“I never expected to find a happy, nice person on this (he gestured to his right) side of the table. But I did,” he said. “It invigorated my faith in America.”
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It sure beat running around on a cinder track.
That was a comment from marathon runner Denis McCarthy from St. Louis, Missouri, who registered for the Med Bow Rail Marathon and Half Marathon just a couple days before the event.
“I was looking for a running event for the weekend and came across this race,” McCarthy said. “I was eying an event that involved running around a cinder track for hours, then found this mountain trail event instead.
“The drive was a little longer, but it sure was worth it to run in the mountains on this wonderful trail instead of going in circles.”
McCarthy is one of a rather colorful group of runners with a goal of running a marathon or half marathon in every state. Mark Bonderud came from Monmouth, Maine, while Jo May and Doug Beagle traveled all the way from Houston, Texas. All three competed in the 60 and over age category.
For this second Med Bow Rail Marathon and Half Marathon, runners came from 16 states and eight Wyoming communities. Attracting 123 registered runners, the race was put on by the Friends of the Medicine Bow Rail Trail and directed by a marathon planning committee.
Laramie was well represented with 41 runners. The number of women slightly edged out the men.
In contrast to the marathon and half marathon veterans, for others this was the first event at their chosen distance. One unidentified runner, relaxing after she ran the full 26.2 miles, said it was her first marathon, and now she could barely move to get up out of her chair.
“It was tough,” she said. “Really tough. I swear, going to and from the turnaround point at Dry Park was uphill both ways.”
That turnaround point is the northern-most trailhead on the Rail Trail and is only included on the marathon route.
Some used the race to train for other marathons. One of those was well-known Cheyenne runner Brent Weigner, who runs marathons around the globe. This was his 376th marathon.
“I was by myself around 2 miles down the trail when a deer crashed through the woods 20 yards in front of me,” Weigner said. “This was my last long run before the Liberia Marathon next week, so I entered it with the plan to run easy.
“I finished last overall, so I succeeded in my goal to keep it easy. Next I run in Monrovia, Liberia, in a week.”
Others had goals to set personal records or garner one of the engraved railroad spikes reserved for the top three finishers in each race. Top overall runners also went home with a certificate for a six-pack of beer from Bond’s Brewing Co., one of the event sponsors. Those finishing in the top three of their age groups were awarded special running caps.
Top marathon finisher was Andrew Bodley from Fort Collins with a time of 3 hours, 38 minutes and 47 seconds. Not far behind was the top female finisher, Laramie runner Kaley Holyfield, with a time of 3:43:40.
Top finisher in the half marathon was Casper runner Jarod McDaniel with a time of 1:41:46, and top female finisher was Laramie runner Sommer Stevens with a time of 1:44:43.
A small army of volunteers maintained aid stations, helped with parking and manned the start and finish lines. The University Amateur Radio Club provided communication along the course since much of the area lacks cell coverage.
Grand Avenue Urgent Care was on hand for medical emergencies; thankfully they remained on alert, but were not called. Other sponsors include Albany Lodge, Premier Bone and Joint Centers, WWC Engineering and Hammond Land Surveying.
Volunteers also took on the herculean effort of preparing the Medicine Bow Rail Trail for the event. That is no easy feat with a 21-mile pathway accessed only via non-motorized travel. Those efforts began when the snow melted, but really accelerated a couple weeks before the race.
Georgia Carmen, one of those trail preparation volunteers, spent hours using a scythe or electric weed-whacker in an effort to keep Mother Nature from encroaching too far onto the trail. Other volunteers used shovels to repair erosion areas and snippers to keep willows at bay on the foot path around Lake Owen, which is a portion of both courses.
Those efforts paid off with many runners stating they were impressed by the beauty along the pathway. A few even had the opportunity to ogle moose that meandered on and the off the trail.
Full race results are available on UltraSignup (ultrasignup.com) and more information about the event and the Medicine Bow Rail Trail are on the website maintained by the nonprofit group Friends of the Medicine Bow Rail Trail at medicinebowrailtrail.org. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/go-the-distance-goals-vary-at-the-med-bow-rail-marathon-and-half-marathon/article_bf5b7456-1f02-11ed-b87c-73b4a99e8869.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:14Z |
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CASPER — The federal government must reevaluate the environmental impacts of coal mining on federal lands before it can issue new leases, a judge ruled last week.
Just over a week after he ordered the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to revise its coal leasing allowances in the Powder River Basin for a second time, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris of Montana found that a Trump-era environmental review of coal leasing “was arbitrarily curtailed and failed to consider relevant factors.”
He reinstated an Obama-era moratorium on most federal coal leasing — which was later repealed by the Trump BLM and not reinstated when the Biden administration moved to replace the Trump-era policy — until the agency completes “sufficient” analysis.
Sally Jewell, the outgoing secretary of the Interior under then-President Barack Obama, on Jan. 15, 2016, issued a moratorium on new coal leasing until the BLM took a comprehensive look at the program’s effects.
Tribal and environmental groups sued the Department of the Interior in 2017, after then-Secretary Ryan Zinke concluded that “the public interest is not served by halting the Federal coal program for an extended time,” and lifted the moratorium.
Morris ruled in 2019 that the move violated federal environmental law and directed the BLM to assess the consequences of new leasing. It did, but the same groups, unsatisfied with the results, sued the agency again in 2020.
The order is a win for a number of environmental groups, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and the states of California, Washington, New York and New Mexico.
“Federal coal isn’t compatible with preserving a livable climate,” Taylor McKinnon, a senior public lands campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a written statement. “The Biden administration must now undertake a full environmental review to bring the federal coal program to an orderly end.”
After cheering the “significant victory,” Jenny Harbine, managing attorney for Earthjustice’s Northern Rockies office, called for the Biden administration to “go further by urgently phasing out the existing coal leases that are destroying our planet.”
The Biden Interior Department defended its decision not to reinstate the moratorium while formulating a new coal policy.
Wyoming and Montana, together the source of more than 40% of the country’s coal, intervened in the case in support of continued leasing.
“Enacting a moratorium at a moment when coal is badly needed to ensure a secure and reliable energy supply is wrongheaded on many fronts,” Gov. Mark Gordon said in a written statement. “This decision is bad for Wyoming.”
Travis Deti, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association, called the ruling “political and divorced from reality.”
While mines in the Powder River Basin hold enough leases to get them through the next decade, he said, some hope to operate for longer than that.
“It puts a question mark on long-term plans,” Deti said. “Not only for coal operators, but for utilities as well.”
More than a decade has passed since Wyoming’s last federal coal lease sale, but a couple of sales are pending.
According to the groups challenging coal leasing, the remaining window to stop the effects of climate change from becoming catastrophic is already too narrow for the U.S. to burn all of the coal that has already been leased.
The National Mining Association, another intervenor backing the BLM, said it plans to appeal the ruling.
Its CEO, Rich Nolan, said in an emailed statement that “Americans need the energy affordability and energy security buttressed by coal production on federal lands and so do our allies struggling to transition away from Russian energy.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/judge-halts-federal-coal-leasing/article_919b4968-1f04-11ed-9f25-e784a8f76c72.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:20Z |
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JACKSON —Alina Lobacheva was planning to be in Wyoming for only a few months.
The Russian doctor and professor came to study American college students’ health as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wyoming.
Then she fell in love with Bill Plummer.
The well-known upright bass player was up on stage when Lobacheva was out one night with her host professor’s family. Plummer came to their table to chat.
They exchanged emails.
From opposite ends of the earth, the unlikely pair became devoted pen pals.
When Lobacheva returned to Wyoming for additional research, Plummer proposed. The newlyweds — each entering later stages of life — moved to Idaho. Then, when Plummer’s declining health moved him to family in Arizona, Lobacheva settled in Jackson, where she now works as a massage therapist.
She describes massage as an essential part of health care in Russia and sees her current practice as a continuation of her medical background.
On Friday Lobacheva was officially granted full citizenship at a naturalization ceremony in Grand Teton National Park, joining a cohort of 21 new citizens from 10 countries: Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Mercedes Caso De Azcarraga, 62, grew up visiting the United States from her home in Mexico City. She described the nations as “next door neighbors.”
“I knew the language and loved the country,” she said.
The retired nonprofit worker and mother of five moved to San Diego in 1985 with her husband, who is also from Mexico City. Her children now live in New York, California and Hawaii.
“This feels like our country,” Azcarraga said. “I’m grateful to Mexico and proud of my heritage, but at this stage in life this is where I want to be.”
A rainy Friday didn’t seem to dampen spirits for Wyoming’s newest citizens, who appreciated the chance to share their immigration stories and hear from Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Kelly Rankin.
Anahi Carmona Childs, 40, said, “It feels good to be done.
“It takes years to get to this point; I’m grateful it’s over,” she said.
Childs submitted her citizenship papers a year and a half ago. Twelve months later she drove to Casper for an interview. From 120 potential questions, officials asked Childs about her state representatives and U.S. history.
“I was a bit nervous, but it was very smooth,” she recalled. “The person who did my interview was friendly and smiling.”
Candidates are typically asked 10 questions and need six correct answers. Childs nailed the first six perfectly.
“That was great,” she said.
Born on the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico, Childs first came to the United States to study English as a college student.
In Utah she discovered a “different kind of living.” People lived in houses without fences, and their windows were free from the heavy metal shutters she remembered in Mexico. The streets weren’t exactly paved in gold, but the feeling was one of “freedom.”
Childs now works as an assistant manager for the Huff House Inn and Cabins in Jackson, training employees from Mexico. With her husband, a Wyoming native, she is raising twin 9-year-old daughters and expecting a third.
As part of her oath, Childs said, she had to “renounce” Mexico — even vowing to fight against her native country if the United States ever went to war with its southern neighbor.
The tone of Friday’s ceremony, however, was more encouraging.
Grand Teton’s Deputy Superintendent Gopaul Noojibail — the first Indian American to lead a national park in that capacity — encouraged new citizens to remember their roots and to blend their culture with American values. He said the national parks now belong to them.
For Englishwoman Fiona Wilson, 58, the ceremony came a day before her wedding. Like Lobacheva, Wilson has been living in the U.S. for years on a green card. That certificate allowed her to raise two children, build a house in Jackson and with a partner open a daycare — Little Acorns.
But election season was always strange.
This year Wilson will finally be able to cast a ballot.
She’s looking forward to voting based on housing issues — which she sees firsthand trying to hire day care staff. Days before her wedding ceremony, Wilson still wasn’t sure which candidates would best tackle the housing problem. She hadn’t had much time to think about it.
Lobacheva was slightly more prepared.
On Monday, just days after Grand Teton’s ceremony, the well-dressed Russian-American high-heeled her way to the clerk’s office to register to vote.
Clerk’s office employee Kate Daigle explained the separate Republican and Democratic primary ballots like choosing a favorite football team. Lobacheva tried to think of an equivalent in Russian sports.
Ultimately she selected a Republican ballot and made her way to cast her first votes, grinning all the while. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/new-americans-already-putting-citizenship-to-good-use/article_8811cb28-1f05-11ed-a476-4b06cceed7be.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:26Z |
Scott Simon speaks with New Orleans Health Department Director Dr. Jennifer Avegno about the huge LGBTQ+ gathering Southern Decadence amid the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
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Scott Simon speaks with New Orleans Health Department Director Dr. Jennifer Avegno about the huge LGBTQ+ gathering Southern Decadence amid the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
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Steam billows from stacks at the Naughton Power Plant in Kemmerer earlier this month. When the coal-fired power plant is retired in 2025, Bill Gates-backed TerraPower has announced the plant will be the site of a demonstration nuclear reactor.
Steam billows from stacks at the Naughton Power Plant in Kemmerer earlier this month. When the coal-fired power plant is retired in 2025, Bill Gates-backed TerraPower has announced the plant will be the site of a demonstration nuclear reactor.
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A rendering of what the Natrium nuclear plant planned for Wyoming could look like.
CASPER — TerraPower, the advanced nuclear developer planning to build a demonstration reactor in Kemmerer by 2028, announced Monday that it has raised $750 million from new private investments.
The bulk of the funding came from Bill Gates, the company’s founder, and subsidiaries of SK Group, a major South Korean energy and technology conglomerate that contributed $250 million.
“To our knowledge, no other advanced nuclear company has achieved an investment of this magnitude, and we have continued interest from the financial community,” said TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque.
SK Group’s investment is “a great validation of our business plan,” Levesque said. “Investors had to choose between us and other people, and chose TerraPower.”
In addition to supporting the Natrium plant headed to Wyoming, the financing will bolster the rest of TerraPower’s nuclear initiatives, including other reactor designs and cancer research.
“We are committed to supporting TerraPower’s global deployment of game changing products, Moohwan Kim, an executive vice president at subsidiary SK Inc., said in a written statement. “We see important synergies in our businesses and this investment reinforces our strategic global carbon reduction goals.”
The first Natrium project comes with a multi-billion-dollar price tag. Being the first of its kind adds a lot of extra startup costs to the project, Levesque said.
“We have 800 engineers working on the reactor right now,” he said. “You don’t need to redesign it every time.”
Once the Natrium design receives initial regulatory approval, variations proposed elsewhere will be simpler to license, he said. And it will be easier for those future facilities to source components and fuel when a supply chain already exists for at least one plant.
Levesque said the private investments in TerraPower, coupled with federal support — a Department of Energy grant will cover half of the inaugural Natrium project’s costs — are a “dream team” for the fledgling industry.
“If we do need to make further capital raises, I think our business plan will support that,” Levesque said.
But he noted that once Natrium and other TerraPower reactors reach commercial adoption, selling those designs to utilities will also become a key source of funding for the company. First-time costs “add up to real money,” he said.
“And that’s really what’s been holding advanced nuclear back.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/nuclear-firm-terrapower-raises-750m-from-investors/article_e11a6140-1f04-11ed-bd27-a7d62a7e3a3c.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:32Z |
Can a violin be an instrument for a scam?
You may have seen people playing Bach or Vivaldi on the street, inviting passersby to toss them a coin or crumpled bill in appreciation.
But there are reports from across the country that many of the performers are not violinists, but flimflam artists. People called finger-syncers who set up on a street, flick on a speaker, and slide a bow over an electronic violin while a pre-recorded track plays. These forged Joshua Bells leave out instrument cases to receive money, often with signs saying they need help for rent or medical bills.
But the website of the UK's ClassicFM and other media report that police in Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Texas, and Arizona have issued alerts, and caution that many of these ersatz Itzhak Perlmans are part of a growing national hustle.
David Wallace, chair of the Strings Department at Boston's Berklee College of Music, says he has received videos from friends around the country asking if a violinist was really playing — they weren't — and he worries that true musicians may suffer for this scam.
"Busking has been a longstanding way for musicians to earn money or to make an honest living for centuries," he told us. "But when people become skeptical about whether a musician is legitimate, they become more cautious about giving to any musician."
We seem surrounded by schemes these days. Text messages from strangers who say, "Miss you." Emails that invite you to claim winnings in lotteries you never entered, or collect spurious unpaid debts. There are tweeting bots, and deep-fake Tom Cruises, and so-called tech-support sites that ask you to grant them brief remote access to repair your computer. What could possibly go wrong?
A recent report in The New York Times says more than $100 billion dollars of federal pandemic relief funds might have been paid to sham companies and schemers. And of course, about a third of the American people still tell pollsters that the 2020 election was rigged, a lie that has been used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
I don't think the duped commuters lose much money in this street violinist scam. But it may be one more raindrop in the storm of schemes that blur our view of what's right in front of us.
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As the dust settled the morning after candidates prevailed in primary races, they looked ahead to the general election. There are three key races at the state level that will decide whether Republican political leaders will remain in power.
The general election will take place on Nov. 8.
U.S. House: Hageman v. GreyBull
Former President Donald Trump backed the winner of the U.S. House Republican primary race, Harriet Hageman, and his support paid off.
Incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, was defeated by a landslide. She received only 49,316 votes, as reported in the Wyoming Secretary of State’s unofficial summary, while Hageman was victorious with 113,025.
“Congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her great and very decisive WIN in Wyoming,” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social following the win. “This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs.”
The three other contenders came nowhere near the two rivals in the U.S. House race. Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, received the third-highest number of votes at 4,505, Denton Knapp came in fourth with 2,258 votes, and Robyn Belinskey was last at 1,305.
Lynette GreyBull won the Democratic primary election against two competitors for the sole U.S. House seat, and will face Hageman. She received 4,503 votes, while Meghan Jensen and Steve Helling brought in less than 3,000 votes combined.
Constitution Party candidate Marissa Selvig and registered independent candidate Casey Hardison are also set to be on the November U.S. House ballot.
Governor: Gordon v. Livingston
The Republican incumbent, Gov. Mark Gordon, easily won his primary race. He defeated three challengers with 101,092 votes, and told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle he will keep working for constituents’ support heading into the general election.
“We take nothing for granted,” Gordon said in a phone call from his election party in Buffalo. “I’ve always fought for every election, that’s just the way Jennie and I are. We want to make sure that we do the best job we can.”
Rival Brent Bien received less than half of the votes Gordon did, managing to secure 48,549. He was followed by Rex Rammell with 9,373, and James Scott Quick with 4,725 across the state’s 23 counties
Theresa Livingston achieved success in the Democratic primary, and brought in 4,989 voters. She defeated Rex Wilde, who received 2,016. There were 214 write-ins.
She’s said Wednesday she’s looking forward to competing with Gordon for Wyoming votes on Nov. 8.
“It’s going to be a good election,” she told the WTE. “I hope it’s really positive. I want people to talk about what they’re going to do instead of bad-mouthing other candidates.”
State Superintendent: Degenfelder v. Maldonado
Despite Gordon’s success, another Republican incumbent at the state level fell to a challenger in the primary.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder lost less than a year after he was appointed by the governor, and the difference was fewer than 4,000 votes.
Megan Degenfelder won the primary election with 59,301 votes, and Schroeder fell short with 55,746.
“It’s just so humbling, realizing all of the support that we received across the state,” Degenfelder told the WTE on Wednesday. “We had hundreds of individual donors, 90% of which were based in Wyoming, and just dozens of volunteers and folks around the state.”
She said it was amazing to see the grassroots effort come to fruition, and she plans to keep the momentum going as the general election approaches. Degenfelder is set to run against the sole Democratic candidate for state superintendent, Sergio Maldonado Sr.
Robert White III and Jennifer Zerba were also vying for the position in the Wyoming Department of Education, but received only 4,392 and 13,656 votes, respectively, in the GOP primary.
Other statewide races
While Republican state secretary and state treasurer candidates who won Tuesday night will not face Democrats on Nov. 8, there were notable successes by two Trump-endorsed candidates.
State Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, defeated his rival, Sen. Tara Nethercott, R-Cheyenne, in the Secretary of State race with 75,938 votes. She received 63,044, but it was not enough to head into the general election. They were both campaigning for the seat along with Mark Armstrong, who received 14,292 votes.
Gray took to Twitter the day after the election and thanked the people of Wyoming for their support.
“I am honored and humbled by our victory last night,” he wrote. “This is the people of Wyoming’s victory. Thank you to those who voted yesterday and made their voices known.”
Incumbent Curt Meier took home a win in the state treasurer’s race. His 97,489 votes bested Bill Gallop’s 40,643. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/primary-winners-look-ahead-to-general-election/article_797bc756-1f07-11ed-8432-ebe4f3d6fa67.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:38Z |
Scott Simon talks with ProPublica's Justin Elliott about a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act requiring the IRS to study free tax filing options for taxpayers.
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Scott Simon talks with ProPublica's Justin Elliott about a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act requiring the IRS to study free tax filing options for taxpayers.
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SHERIDAN — On paper, the state of Wyoming has some of the strongest guardian ad litem laws in the country. The only problem, lawyer Jonathan Martinis said, is there seems to be a world of difference between the law itself and how it is applied in many courts across the state.
“I do a lot of guardianship work across the country, and I can tell you that Wyoming’s law is actually very good,” Martinis said. “You have one of the only laws in the country that absolutely guarantees someone facing a guardianship petition the right to a guardian ad litem…and an attorney…But the problem is…what has been an open secret in Wyoming for a very long time: those rights are very often not provided.”
Martinis and fellow lawyer Melissa Theriault shared the preliminary results of their research on the state’s guardian ad litem program during a meeting of the Wyoming Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities in Sheridan Aug. 12.
The council commissioned the research earlier this spring in an effort to better understand the current system and any deficiencies in it, the council’s executive director, Shannon Buller, said.
Guardianship is a court proceeding in which one person — the guardian — may be granted authority over another person: the ward. This usually happens in a case when a ward is unable to take care of themselves for a variety of reasons, ranging from advanced age and disease to physical and developmental disabilities.
At the hearing on the petition for guardianship, a judge will decide if a guardian is needed and if the proposed guardian should be appointed. The court appoints a guardian ad litem to attend the hearing. The guardian ad litem is appointed to help determine the wishes of the ward and what is in the ward’s best interests.
Or at least that’s the way it’s supposed to work as outlined in Wyoming statute, Martinis said. The truth of the situation is a little more messy.
“Our findings so far are pretty scary,” Martinis said. “We’ve looked at 256 files (from 2021) in several counties. Of those 256 (guardianship) cases, only 102 appointed a guardian ad litem. That’s 40%, so you have a 60% chance of not getting what the statute in Wyoming requires you to get. And even worse: Of those 256 cases, we only found two so far where a person (ward) had an attorney. That’s 0.7%”
In addition, the lawyers determined “your rights, when it comes to guardianship, are largely dependent on what county you live in,” Martinis said, with some counties being much more consistent than others in meeting the state requirements.
For example, Albany and Natrona counties both had few guardianship cases where a guardian ad litem was actually appointed, Martinis said.
In a total of 38 Albany County cases, a guardian ad litem was only appointed in eight. In 73 Natrona County cases, only 18 guardians ad litem were appointed.
On the positive side, in Sheridan and Johnson counties, a relatively high number of guardianship cases received a guardian ad litem, Martinis said. In 19 Sheridan County cases, 17 guardians ad litem were provided. In 15 Johnson County cases, 13 guardians ad litem were appointed.
“That’s good for Sheridan and Johnson, but very, very bad for people with disabilities facing guardianship if they don’t live in Sheridan or Johnson,” Martinis said.
Buller made it clear, in an interview with The Sheridan Press, there was “no malice” behind a failure to provide guardians ad litem in some counties throughout the state. Rather, she said it came down to a lack of resources and available guardians ad litem in many communities.
Buller said she expected the council’s work examining and rethinking the guardian ad litem program to take at least five years. After research is completed and the scope of the problem is determined, the council will work to determine solutions including potential changes to legislation.
The guardian ad litem problem is just one issue the council is examining as it re-evaluates guardianship cases, Buller said.
“It is very standard, again not out of malice, that when kids (with developmental disabilities) get ready to leave high school, they are told they should get a guardian, and they might not need a guardian or they might need a limited guardian — someone to just help them with finances or to help with medical decisions,” Buller said. “So we’re working on that end also and trying to educate people on the importance of not rushing into guardianship…because it takes months and months and hours and hours to unring that bell…What we’re trying to do is make sure people are represented so they can say ‘No, I don’t need one.’”
The Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities is a governor-appointed group comprising people who have developmental disabilities; family members of people with developmental disabilities and state agency representatives.
These individuals work together to promote choice, independence and inclusion for all Wyoming residents with developmental disabilities. The council next meets in early November. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/state-mandated-service-may-not-be-as-available-as-its-supposed-to-be/article_c57c9610-1f04-11ed-b2af-e35ab7ccdaf6.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:44Z |
U.S. and Chinese tensions cause economic worries in the Indo-Pacific region By Julie McCarthy Published August 20, 2022 at 7:56 AM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email There's growing fear that the rift between the U.S. and China could cause economic instability in the wider Indo-Pacific region. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.keranews.org/2022-08-20/u-s-and-chinese-tensions-cause-economic-worries-in-the-indo-pacific-region | 2022-08-20T13:06:45Z |
Average gas prices drop another 6.2 centsAverage gasoline prices in Wyoming have fallen 6.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.10 per gallon Monday, according to GasBuddy.com’s survey of 494 stations in Wyoming.
Prices in Wyoming are 62.6 cents per gallon lower than a month ago, and stand 55 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has declined 14.8 cents in the last week, and stands at $5.27 per gallon.
According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Wyoming was priced at $3.25 per gallon Sunday, while the most expensive was $5.19, a difference of $1.94 per gallon.
The national average price of gasoline has fallen 9.9 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.92 per gallon Monday. The national average is down 63.7 cents per gallon from a month ago, and stands 74.8 cents per gallon higher than a year ago, according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million weekly price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country.
Wyoming Game and Fish seeks info on elk poachingThe Wyoming Game and Fish Department is seeking information about a bull elk that was poached along Highway 34 in Sybille Canyon in early August.
Sometime between the evening of Aug. 5 and the morning of Aug. 6, a mature bull elk was shot along Highway 34, approximately two-and-a-half miles west of the Thorne/Williams Wildlife Research Center. The elk’s head and antlers were removed between the evening of Aug. 6, and the morning of Aug. 7.
“It is unfortunate this elk was taken out of season and was left to waste. We are asking for the public’s assistance with bringing forward information with this investigation,” Matt Withroder, Laramie Regional wildlife supervisor, said in a news release.
A reward is being offered for information on this case, and informants are urged to call the Stop Poaching Tip Line at 1-877-WGFD-TIP (1-877-943-3847). Tips can also be made by texting keyword WGFD and message to 847-411, or can be made online at https://wgfapps.wyo.gov/StopPoaching/submitTIp.aspx. Informants can remain anonymous.
Registration opens for online Master Gardener trainingThe University of Wyoming Extension’s fall/winter online Master Gardener training will be offered from Sept. 15 through Feb. 16. The 16-week course, which includes breaks for holidays, features approximately 48 hours of gardening instruction led by subject matter experts in the UW Extension.
“The course is for anyone with an interest in gardening, from beginning gardeners to experienced gardeners. The focus is all about growing in Wyoming,” said Master Gardener Statewide Coordinator Chris Hilgert in a news release.
Live classes take place via Zoom on Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. Class sessions are also recorded.
Registration for the 2022-23 online training is open until the course begins on Sept. 15. To sign up, visit bit.ly/master-gardener-2022. The registration fee is $150.
Topics include an overview of the training; basic botany; soils and composting; plant propagation; season extension; growing vegetables and herbs; fruit trees and berry crops; site analysis and landscape design; herbaceous plants; woody plants; lawn care; weed management; integrated pest management; diagnosing plant problems; entomology; and volunteering in the Master Gardener program.
Instructors include Hilgert and nine other experts from the UW Extension.
Participants will receive an electronic copy of “Sustainable Horticulture for Wyoming: A Master Gardener Handbook,” as well as a variety of other resources provided by instructors.
Revenue Committee seeks proposals for K-12 educationThe Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Revenue Interim Committee is accepting proposals for K-12 education revenue to consider at its next meeting Sept. 14-15.
Those interested in submitting a proposal are asked to provide a summary through the Public Comment System at https://wyoleg.gov/postcomments/AddComments.aspx?CommID=J03.
It is asked that stakeholders include the resources involved in the implementation of the proposal, as well as resources for the committee to review prior to consideration.
All proposals must be submitted no later than 5 p.m. Sept. 1.
National Weather Service radar to be down for upgradesBeginning Thursday, the KCYS WSR-88D radar operated by the NOAA National Weather Service in Cheyenne will be down for about a week for the replacement of the generator, fuel tanks and accompanying components.
According to a news release, this activity is important to support the radar’s operation during periods of commercial power outages, specifically when hazardous weather is present.
This generator update is the fifth major project of the NEXRAD Service Life Extension Program, a series of upgrades and replacements that will keep the nation’s radars viable into the 2030s, according to the release. NOAA National Weather Service, the United States Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration are investing $150 million in the eight-year program.
The first project was the installation of the new signal processor, and the second project was the transmitter refurbishment. The two remaining projects are the refurbishment of the pedestal and equipment shelters. The Service Life Extension Program will be complete in 2023.
Radars are critically important in remote sensing severe storms, snow, wildfire smoke, and weather forecasting for critical watches and warnings. NWS forecasters will use surrounding radars and satellite information to continue issuing any warnings, when needed.
Child care help OK’d for community college studentsThe Department of Family Services has announced that money will be available for qualified community college students, to assist them with the cost of child care during the fall 2022 semester.
The emergency child care assistance grant provides funds for students enrolled in a degree, credit diploma or certificate program, whether they take those classes in person, online or in a hybrid, said a news release from the state DFS. Citizens, non-citizens and international students all may qualify.
Qualified students must also experience one or more of the following hardships related to child care costs:
n They must be underemployed
n Unemployed
n Be taking a reduced college course load
n Have reduced credits earned in the prior academic term
n Be at risk of reduced credits in the upcoming academic term
n Face prohibitive child care costs
The level of assistance depends on the age and number of children. Grant awards are prorated based on student enrollment, meaning the level of the award depends on the number of credit hours a student is enrolled.
“DFS is excited to partner with community colleges across the state to provide essential child care support for students working to achieve their educational goals and enter the workforce as a valuable resource to Wyoming communities,” said Roxanne O’Connor, the DFS Support Services Division’s senior administrator. “We are very grateful for the work and collaboration that the community colleges and the Community College Commission put towards this innovative and much needed program. Since we know that child care is a cornerstone of economic strength, the widespread impact of these dollars will be realized by students, educational institutions and employers throughout Wyoming.”
Applications will be available at the beginning of the fall semester. Funding is limited, and awards will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Funding is provided through American Rescue Plan Act child care discretionary dollars. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/worth-noting-aug-20-2022/article_afd2c740-1f03-11ed-a944-3f0555fbcb45.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:51Z |
A judge has temporarily blocked the state of Utah from fully enforcing its controversial law banning transgender girls from competing in girls' sports.
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A judge has temporarily blocked the state of Utah from fully enforcing its controversial law banning transgender girls from competing in girls' sports.
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Plenty going on news-wise these days — not all of it political — so let’s tag up on some bases.
TRY TO IMAGINE the hoots of disbelief, the ridicule and the din of derision if Donald Trump’s economic experts had attempted to change the definition of a recession like Joe Biden’s minions are doing.
Imagine what knuckleheads we conservatives would have been dubbed by the vast majority of news outlets if we bought the argument that two quarters of negative growth in the economy suddenly did not constitute a recession.
Even though potentates like Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer (who got a perfect score on his SAT) have patiently explained to rustics like us for years that two quarters of negative growth does constitute a recession.
Imagine the eye-rolling that would have gone on by our liberal superiors — who done gone to college — if we bought into “The Evil Trump’s” contention that two quarters of negative growth did not constitute a recession.
Of course that never happened (didn’t have to) because, well, the economy was going great guns for most of Trump’s four embattled years in office, even though geniuses like Paul Krugman predicted a stock market crash if Trump were elected.
Didn’t happen.
Krugman now patiently explains, using short words that even slack-jawed stump jumpers like us can understand, that two quarters of negative growth does not necessarily constitute a recession, even if Obama and Schumer say so.
The liberal media buys this not a recession argument hook, line, sinker, bait bucket, tackle box and trolling motor.
I passed both econ and micro when (surprise!) I done went to college. But I’m certainly no Krugman when it comes to defining recessions. For the sake of my individual retirement account, I prefer the “new think” that we’re not in a recession, as opposed to the “old think” that we are.
I HEARD ON THE NEWS that Jimmy Carter banned staffers from uttering the word “recession,” and his underlings resorted to calling his truly awful economy “the banana.”
Carter’s denial was about as effective as Gerald Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now!” buttons.
WHILE WE’RE IMAGINING stuff, imagine the firestorm in the media if Donald Trump Jr. left laptop computers lying around documenting years of drug abuse, sex with prostitutes, pictures of same and references to passing on millions in easy money from foreign countries to “The Big Guy.”
Now imagine social media outlets banning any talk of Donald Trump Jr. doing stuff like that. And imagine the FBI doing its best to deep-six stuff like that about a Republican candidate’s son.
Is that a knee-slapper or what?
WHEN PEOPLE ASK what line of work I was in before I retired (the news media) I think I’ll tell them I was a piano player in a bordello.
I CAME ACROSS this quote from C.S. Lewis, which seems apt in these bossy, woke times:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of the victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
MEANWHILE, up in the Snowy Range in beautiful Carbon County, it has been a wet summer. Hail littered the ground like snow one afternoon not long ago. It’s as green as I’ve seen it in years, and the trees filling in after the great bark beetle invasion 15 years ago are now as tall as I am.
No burn bans so far, knock on, well, wood.
Laramie was inundated last weekend. And in Cheyenne, we had our annual Frontier Days gully washer right on time. You have to wonder if the organizers wish some other time than monsoon season had been selected for the Daddy of ‘Em All.
My wife grew up in Oklahoma, where speaking “truth to power” is referred to as telling someone “how the cow ate the cabbage.”
Where she grew up, gully washers are known as “Oklahoma toad stranglers.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/opinion/guest_column/sometimes-the-truths-enough-to-strangle-a-toad/article_9ac7cc7a-1f02-11ed-b8ee-6356c9095fe0.html | 2022-08-20T13:06:57Z |
It's been another extraordinary week in politics - from Rep. Liz Cheney's big primary loss to continuing legal issues for former President Donald Trump and those close to him.
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It's been another extraordinary week in politics - from Rep. Liz Cheney's big primary loss to continuing legal issues for former President Donald Trump and those close to him.
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Many aspects of Wyoming’s education system, from the constitutional prohibition against legislators prescribing textbooks to the block grant funding model, rely on the concept that districts and institutions know what is best for their students.
Recently, however, everyone from private citizens to legislators are taking it upon themselves to decide what other people should be able to read and learn – and they think both K-12 students and those in college shouldn’t be allowed to learn things that these would-be education decision-makers personally disagree with.
Laramie County School District 1 is facing a new round of attempts to ban books in school libraries. (The people organizing these attempts object to the language of “banning,” but it’s hard to think of a better way to describe trying to prohibit schools from purchasing books and students from reading said books. And since they’ve turned off comments on their Facebook page, it’s also hard to engage in a true effort to share awareness about the books being featured.)
Rather than the current opt-out system that the school district has, where any parents who have concerns regarding their child’s reading can limit what titles their children can access, the parents opposed to certain books favor an opt-in system. Using this approach, thousands of other parents would have to opt into allowing their students access to all the materials that should be available to them. To this editorial board, this seems like one group of parents attempting to control the parenting decisions and children of others, instead of focusing on their own choices and children.
Of particular concern is the ways in which these parents seem to want schools to cater specifically to the things that they personally agree or disagree with, telling other parents to go to the public library or Amazon.com if they want their kid to read “Slaughterhouse-Five.” (Yes, a book from 1969 is still apparently a concern.) But a public school is just that – public. A student whose parents are fine with them reading “The Bluest Eye” shouldn’t have to hitch a ride to the public library or spend $10 on Amazon because it makes a handful of parents uncomfortable.
While those challenging library policy ask us to “think of the children,” legislators who wish to control what is taught at the university level ask us to “think of the constituents.”
After efforts to defund the Gender and Women’s Studies program at the University of Wyoming failed during the last session, Sen. Cheri Steinmetz, R-Lingle, revisited the issue in a recent meeting between lawmakers and trustees. Steimetz and other lawmakers have cited everything from concerned constituents (failing to note how many constituents fall into that group) to low numbers of graduates in the program as reasons to pull funding from this program, specifically.
But both of these arguments seem to run counter to two of the core mission statements of the university to “graduate students who have experienced the frontiers of scholarship and creative activity and who are prepared for the complexities of an interdependent world” and to “nurture an environment that values and manifests diversity, internationalization, free expression, academic freedom, personal integrity and mutual respect.”
There isn’t a one-to-one correlation between “the value of a degree program” and “the number of students majoring or minoring in that program.” In their time at UW, students may decide to get credits by taking classes in many areas that they don’t intend to major or minor in. An English major will still take classes in mathematics and science, and a business major may decide that anthropology and religious studies classes are the best options to complete their degree. Part of being a well-rounded student and a well-rounded human being is exposure to different ideas and concepts.
Hundreds of students end up in Gender and Women’s Studies courses each semester, sometimes because they’re interested in the topic and want to get their required credits, sometimes because they want to make a career out of championing the rights of women and the rights of people of all gender identities. We doubt that lawmakers would consider taking away degree requirements for mathematics courses, no matter how many students graduate with a degree in math. And in the same way that a parent concerned about a particular book can decide not to let their child read it, a student concerned about the contents of a Gender and Women’s Studies class can just … not take it.
Again, Sen. Steinmetz and others seem to be confusing protecting their own beliefs with forcing their beliefs on others. Attempting to remove the option to even take a Gender and Women’s Studies course from all students because a few constituents don’t like it turns concern into curtailing academic freedom.
We ask that everyone, from parents to lawmakers, try to remember the core values of personal liberty, academic freedom and trust in educational institutions that are enshrined in our Constitution. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/opinion/staff_editorials/residents-lawmakers-shouldnt-force-their-beliefs-on-students/article_ddcc445a-1f03-11ed-9116-bf3ea67bd3a1.html | 2022-08-20T13:07:09Z |
The University of Wyoming soccer team is set to hit the road to begin its 2022 campaign.
The Cowgirls will open their season today at 7 p.m. at Northern Colorado, before heading to Oregon State for a 1 p.m. matchup on Sunday. UW went 8-10-1 overall and 4-7-0 in Mountain West play last season, with Colleen Corbin’s eight wins marking the most in program history for a first-year coach.
Thes victories included one over rival Colorado State on senior day, as well as a record-setting 6-1 win over Nevada. Both those highlights occurred at home, as road matches were one area where the Cowgirls struggled last season.
Wyoming went 0-7-1 away from home, being outscored 24-3 in those matches. Success on the road has been an area of emphasis for Corbin and her staff heading into the 2022 season.
“My biggest message this year to the team is they should approach every game the same way,” Corbin said. “It’s about mentality. It should all feel the same mentally and emotionally. They need to be tuned in regardless of what field we are on.”
With just a few weeks of fall practice under their belt – and a couple exhibition wins – Corbin feels as though this team is different from a season ago, displaying growth in maturity among other areas.
“Based on what we’ve seen from preseason, it just feels different right now,” Corbin said. “The energy is different. The competitiveness is high. The comradery and the team atmosphere right now is phenomenal.”
The Cowgirls defeated Casper College 3-0 and Kansas State 2-1 during preseason exhibition matches. Senior Haylee Rice and sophomore Maddi Chance each scored a pair of goals, while freshman Alyssa Glover accounted for the other score.
Chance netted three goals last season, which ranked third on the team, while starting in all 19 games. Senior Jamie Tatum — who also started every match — led the Cowgirls with six scores and a team-high seven assists last fall.
Junior Alyssa Bedard found the back of the net four times, while also adding two assists. Senior Faith Joiner added three goals. Seniors Sydney Miller and Hannah Hagen, as well as sophomores Eliza-Grace Smith, Rae Gerking, Liv Stutzman and Taylor Brook, return after seeing significant playing time last season.
The Cowgirls were picked ninth in the preseason MW coaches poll following an 11th-place finish in 2021. Northern Colorado was selected first in the preseason Big Sky coaches poll after winning the regular season with a 10-8-2, 8-1 record.
The Bears dropped both of their exhibition matches this fall to a pair of MW schools, losing to Air Force 2-1 and Colorado State 1-0.
Wyoming leads the all-time series with Northern Colorado, 10-7-2. However, the Bears have recently had the upper hand. They’ve claimed a win in five of the last eight meetings, which includes a 3-1 victory in Laramie last season.
“This year, for us, the Northern Colorado game is about trying to rewrite the story,” Corbin said. “Last year, our team would tell you they approached the game with not the best mentality. The way the team is approaching the match this year is night and day different.”
Oregon State posted an 11-7-1 overall record and 3-7-1 mark in Pac-12 play last fall. The Beavers were picked 11th in the Pac-12 preseason coaches poll. They won both of their exhibition matches in August, beating Trinity Western 4-1 and Seattle 2-1.
Sunday’s game will represent the first-ever matchup between the Beavers and Cowgirls.
“Oregon State is definitely going to bring a level of competitiveness that one would expect from the Pac-12 school,” Corbin said. “Fortunately, we had the opportunity to play against Colorado this past spring and against Kansas State this preseason. We’ve matched up against Power Five teams in the last six months, so I think that helps.”
The first road trip of the season concludes with a match at Montana on Aug. 25. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/sports/cowgirls-to-kick-off-season-with-road-swing-at-unc-oregon-state/article_43ff93fc-1f05-11ed-98e3-030fc293586e.html | 2022-08-20T13:07:15Z |
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University of Wyoming true freshman wrestler Jore Volk celebrates his championship win at the U20 Freestyle World Championships Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
LARAMIE — University of Wyoming true freshman Jore Volk is bringing some wrestling hardware back to the United States after winning the 57-kilogram at the U20 Freestyle World Championships on Tuesday in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Volk posted a 4-0 record on his way to capturing the world title.
Volk, who hails from Lakeview, Minnesota, started strong by posting back-to-back hard-fought wins against Iran’s Ahmad Mohammadnezhad 7-5 and Uzbekistan’s Azizbek Naimov 7-2. His win against Mohammadnezhad came by virtue of a takedown with two seconds left in the match, which was reviewed after initially ruled a no-takedown. Volk then cruised to the win against Naimov to set up a semifinal showdown against Georgia’s Luka Gvinjilia.
Volk controlled his match against Gvinjilia by jumping out to an early 4-2 lead. He later broke the bout wide open with a series of exposure points for a 13-6 advantage and punched his ticket to the championship match.
In the finals, Volk matched up with Kazakhstan’s Merey Bazarbayev for a tightly-contested battle for gold. Volk scored the only takedown of the match and built a 3-0 lead heading into the break. In the final three minutes, Volk displayed a stingy defense to shut down a flurry of attacks from Bazarbayev to clinch a 3-2 victory for the title.
It was the first USA medal of the U20 world championships, and Volk will now return to Laramie and turn his attention to preparing for his first season for the Cowboys. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/sports/uw-s-volk-wins-u20-world-title/article_ff59644e-1f04-11ed-b02c-135f3f318e28.html | 2022-08-20T13:07:34Z |
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Animal Collective has always been more of an idea than they are a band.
Founding member David Portner, who assumes the alias “Avey Tere” when performing, spoke with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle by phone on Thursday about Animal Collective’s new album, “Time Skiff,” the state of the band’s creative process and their ability to alter their sound while remaining influential – and offbeat – throughout their 20-year career.
The Baltimore-based band will perform at The Lincoln Theatre on Monday. It will be their first time ever performing in Cheyenne.
Over time, their style has changed subtly from record to record without losing the common thread that’s run through 12 album releases. No matter the instrumentation or which members of the band are collaborating on the project, the final product is unabashedly representative of an Animal Collective record.
Their debut album, “Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished” (2000), was created by Portner and Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) prior to the arrival of other long-time members Brian Weitz (Geologist) and Josh Dibb (Deakin). The debut project is ethereal, nearly avant-garde, and its contents didn’t make it easy to gain traction as a group fighting for recognition in New York City.
Question: You were talking about trying to break into the scene and touring. “Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished” and your most popular album, “Merriweather Post Pavilion” (2009), are very different. I’m trying to picture people’s reactions to hearing the spacier stuff you were doing in the beginning.
Portner: “I feel like we were kind of always thrown for a loop, and, conversely, throwing people for a loop, because we were always wanting to just keep switching it up. We felt like as we changed as people, it was always important to have the music change and reflect what we were thinking, what we were doing at the time.
“I found that if we’re very confident and putting all of ourselves into the tunes, it usually reaches people. I feel like it usually crosses over and the energy is understood. We know we’re doing stuff that’s a little bit more difficult. It’s understandable to us why a lot of people didn’t fully ‘get’ ‘Painting With’ (2016) or maybe ‘Centipede Hz’ (2012) as much as they ‘got’ ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ or this new one.”
Q: When you go into an album, like you said with “Sung Tongs” (2004), do you go in a different direction because you wanted to do something different, or do you start working on it, then realize it’s something different?
A: “We go in saying it’s gonna be different. It’s mostly because, for a greater part of our career, we’ve often gone on tour with new music before we’ve recorded it. We decide what instruments we’re gonna play, and that’s usually how we did it as far back as I can remember, to like ‘Sung Tongs’ or ‘Here Comes the Indian’ (2003).
“It’s almost like starting a new band. Every time we play (a) record, it’s like, ‘This is the new band we’re going to start. This is what we’re going to play.’
“Say for something like ‘Sung Tongs’ – we were just sort of like, ‘Well, it’s been really frustrating touring around the U.S. with all this gear and all these amps that break all the time while not having the money to repair them. What if we just toured around with acoustic guitars?’”
Q: It’s interesting changing style enough to where it’s still under Animal Collective, but “Strawberry Jam” (2007) and “Sung Tongs” are pretty different sonically.
A: “After ‘Sung Tongs,’ we did ‘Feels’ (2005), and that was us like, ‘Let’s go electric again.’ Even people at Fat Cat Records were a little like, ‘Oh, but this isn’t like ‘Sung Tongs’ and ‘Sung Tongs’ did so well.’ We were just kind of like, ‘Well, don’t worry about it.’”
Q: In terms of the new album, “Time Skiffs,” what was it like getting that together?
A: “Since ‘Merriweather,’ our process has been making demos. That was in 2018 that we started (making ‘Time Skiffs’). Noah wrote maybe 26 songs and sent those. I collected all the demos I had, which was about 20 or something like that. Josh had a few, a couple of that he had from the Music Box show in New Orleans.
“We just kind of started going through all those demos individually and sort of picking out the tunes that we all liked, and then we decided to get together in Tennessee.
“Unfortunately, that’s when COVID-19 happened, so we couldn’t get together in a room anymore. With some of those songs, we didn’t want to just sit around and not do anything. We still wanted to record something, so we decided that recording from our home bases was the best thing to do.”
Q: How much do you think that impacted how the album turned out? Just the atmosphere of it?
A: “The process was tough for me, personally. I think it was different for all of us. We all had very different experiences during quarantine because some of us have families. I live with my girlfriend, and it was definitely, as most people know, a very isolating period, and it was tough making a record that way.
“The slowness of it, and everybody being in there while still having their own responsibilities was different than any other record that we’ve done. The process, for me, it was a little bit more, you know, frustrating and just a little darker.
“That said, I think the time and the space really allowed us to hone in on the sound of everything. We don’t usually give ourselves time to do that when we’re finally in the studio with the tunes.”
Q: When you say it was darker, is it that what was going on at the time surfaced in the writing and instrumentation?
A: “I just think the darkness of the mood, just being alone in my studio without the other guys around, without somebody to cheer you up immediately or get you through a vocal part. We’re used to always being there for each other. We’re in the studio with each other. We check out everybody’s part. We’re listening when we all do our vocal parts, and that kind of thing.
“There’s a little bit more sadness involved in doing it on your own and not having anybody around to react with or anything.”
Q: How is everything going between members of the band? You guys have managed to actually stay together. That’s not always the attitude with groups that have been around for a while.
A: “We still really enjoy making music together. We’re like brothers; we really know each other better than anybody else knows us. In certain ways, we spend more time around each other than anyone else. We’ve just gotten good at knowing when to give each other some space. But I think it’s also the way we’ve set up the band.
“We’re more of a collective of musicians. I always think of great jazz musicians playing together. You know what I mean? I’m not comparing ourselves musically to any of those people, but just in terms of the ethics and not feeling like it ever really was a band that needed to stay together.
“We’ve done a record with two of us, and we’ve done a record with four of us. We’re just still so invested in this thing ‘Animal Collective’ that we wanted to keep going. There were times when I just had to tell myself, ‘We’ll get through this. We’ve gotten through other situations, and this, too, shall pass. We’ll come out to a brighter day, and then it’ll be different.’
“Next year, we’re going to be doing something completely different. Who knows what that might be at this time.”
Will Carpenter is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s Arts and Entertainment/Features Reporter. He can be reached by email at wcarpenter@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3135. Follow him on Twitter @will_carp_. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/townnews/music/avey-tere-talks-fluidity-of-animal-collectives-sound-ahead-of-show-at-the-lincoln/article_3705c2b6-1f50-11ed-8e51-b7b38cd9a196.html | 2022-08-20T13:07:40Z |
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CHEYENNE – Nash Coleman stood behind his group as it waited to tee off on Hole No. 9 Friday afternoon at the Airport Golf Club.
The Cheyenne East sophomore was stewing because he thought the double-bogey he just carded on Hole No. 8 was going to cost him the Cheyenne Invitational title. Instead, Coleman finished in a tie with Kelly Walsh’s Brodey Deacon at 7-over-par 147.
“I almost cost myself the tournament there, but I finished my round on (Hole No.) 10, and I was able to make birdie there,” Coleman said. “I hit a good drive and then a good iron that left me with an opportunity to get up and down in two.”
Coleman’s day featured four bogeys, in addition to the double on No. 8. He netted birdies on Hole Nos. 1, 4 and 16.
“There wasn’t a whole lot that was different between my first round and my second, I just got a couple more putts to fall,” Coleman said. “I’m comfortable with my ball-striking and pretty comfortable with where my short game is. I’m not right on it right now, but I feel pretty good about it.”
East won the team title at 52-over 612. Kelly Walsh placed second at 60-over, while Central was third (72-over).
Thunderbirds junior Kael Lissman led the individual race after the first round, but carded an 11-over 81 to finished at 13-over for the tournament and in a four-way tie for fifth.
Lissman started his day on Hole No. 10 and birdied the opening hole. He bogeyed four of the next five and posted doubles on Hole Nos. 16 and 17.
Lissman found positives in his round, despite his struggles.
“I found something out about myself, because I had lots of adversity,” Lissman said. “This was a good lesson about fighting through it and keeping things together.
“I had a lot of self-doubt after a couple of holes. I’ll use this as a lesson. It was a good experience that I can take, learn from and hopefully do better.”
Central senior Caden Cunningham was 7-over during Friday’s final round and tied for fifth at 13-over. His round started slowly, which he attributed to a tight swing.
“I was getting up and down from every single tree on the course, it seemed, and that was pretty good,” Cunningham said. “But it wasn’t the number you want on a second day. I just didn’t put myself in a good position on the first day, let my mind get the best of me and stopped thinking positive things.
“I had to put the ball within two feet just to make a putt, and that was really frustrating.”
The East boys also had Daniel Meyer place ninth (15-over) and Isaak Erickson tie for 10th (17-over). Central’s Zack Wiltanger also tied for 10th.
On the girls side, Central senior Barrett Georges split fourth at 16-over. She led the event after the first round, but posted a 12-over 82 in the final round.
Georges has been working on managing adversity, and Friday’s round gave her plenty. She had four bogeys on the front nine and two bogeys, a double-bogey and a quadruple-bogey on the back nine.
“Last year, I would have let something like that build up and affect me for hole after hole after hole, and I’d keep plummeting downhill,” Georges said. “I came back from my eight on (Hole No.) 11 with three pars. I stayed a little more positive than I usually do.
“This really showed me that it will benefit you in the long run if you stay positive.”
Central senior Katie Cobb also cracked the top 10, finishing in a tie for seventh at 22-over.
Kelly Walsh won the girls team title at 48-over 468. Central was third (86-over).
Jeremiah Johnke is the WyoSports editor. He can be reached at jjohnke@wyosports.net or 307-633-3137. Follow him on Twitter at @jjohnke. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_central/coleman-east-boys-win-cheyenne-invite-title/article_a6dd301a-201d-11ed-a3ad-0be3a20e60db.html | 2022-08-20T13:07:46Z |
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming soccer team had some positive moments during Thursday’s season opener at Northern Colorado, but it wasn’t enough to secure a victory.
UW suffered a 2-0 loss to the Bears at Jackson Stadium in Greeley, Colorado, as the Cowgirls fell behind early and weren’t able to make up ground. UNC recorded its first goal in the first minute off the foot of Haley O’Nan, and Abby Bush stretched the gap to two in the 67th minute.
“As an athlete, as a human, you can do everything right and things don’t go your way,” Wyoming coach Colleen Corbin said. “We just have to be able to take something away from this match and move forward. At the end of the day, this result doesn’t define us as a team and doesn’t affect our goals for the end of the season.”
While UW wasn’t able to find the back of the net Thursday, it had plenty of chances. The Cowgirls fired 19 shots, including eight on goal, while the Bears had 13 shots with eight on target.
Freshman Alyssa Glover accounted for six of those shots in her first game as a collegiate athlete, including one that ricocheted off the crossbar late in the first half. Sophomore Alyssa Bedard was also denied by the crossbar early in the second half, as she finished the match with a pair of shots. Sophomore Maddi Chance logged three shots, while junior Jazi Barela had two.
Senior goalie Miyuki Schoyen registered six saves in her first game as a Cowgirl. UNC keeper Kaya Lindberg recorded five saves.
Next up for Wyoming is a 1 p.m. match at Oregon State on Sunday. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/cowgirls-drop-season-opener-at-northern-colorado/article_648e9c02-201e-11ed-952f-6f888cd05a20.html | 2022-08-20T13:07:52Z |
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LARAMIE – The University of Wyoming men’s basketball team returned from a 12-day trip to Greece earlier this month, an experience that was about more than just hoops for the Cowboys.
UW did play three games while overseas, going up against Panerythraikos BC and Panathinaikos Select in Athens, before heading to Patras to take on Promethius Patras. However, for a team that added three Pac-12 transfers and a pair of freshmen to a group that is coming off one of the school’s most successful seasons since the 1980s, the excursion was also a chance to grow closer together off the court.
Among the highlights of the trip were biking around Athens, tours of the Acropolis and museums, sea kayaking in the Athens Riviera and a visit to the Temple of Poseidon. The Pokes also attended a Champions League soccer match between Olympiacos FC and Maccabi Haifi.
“If you go on a foreign tour, it’s hard to get good enough games to warrant where it’s just about basketball,” UW coach Jeff Linder said. “If you’re going to make it solely about basketball, you kind of have to bounce around from country to country to get good enough games, because in late July or early August, the real pro players aren’t going to be playing.
“This first game, we did play against one of the better second division teams in Greece. They were well-organized and had some good players, so we got some value out of that. But, for the most part, it was just the experience and being around one another.”
As for the basketball part, Hunter Maldonado led the Pokes in scoring with 13.5 points per game, while also averaging seven rebounds and four assists. Graham Ike added 12.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and three assists per game, while Brendan Wenzel averaged 12 points and shot 10-of-15 on 3-point attempts during the three games.
Linder says this trip was just the latest example of a strong off-season for Wenzel, a 6-foot-7 junior guard and former Utah transfer who became a key part of the rotation during his first season playing for the team.
“The guy that really, over the course of the summer and in Greece, took another step is Brendan Wenzel,” Linder said. “He almost reminds me a little bit of (three-time Big Sky defensive player of the year) Jonah Radebaugh, who I had at Northern Colorado and just signed with Valencia in the EuroLeague.
“It’s on the record, when he came here from Utah, that second semester when he was here, I was like, ‘You might be the first guy that enters the transfer portal twice in the same semester,’ just because I wasn’t quite sure if he wanted to do it still. At some point, he had to decide if he wanted to do it. He decided he wanted to do it, and man, over the course of the last year, his body and just how good he’s gotten, it was hard to take him off the floor at times in Greece.”
USC transfer Max Agbonkpolo contributed nine points and 7.7 rebounds per game, while Xavier DuSell and Jeremiah Oden averaged 9.9 points and nine points, respectively. Super senior Hunter Thompson knocked down 8 of 16 3-point attempts while putting up 9.3 points per game, with Noah Reynolds and UCLA transfer Jake Kyman averaging 5.5 and five points per game, respectively.
True freshman post Caden Powell and 7-foot sophomore Nate Barnhart also got some quality minutes during the trip, with each making a positive impression on the coaching staff.
Linder noted Powell has progressed faster than expected on the offensive end, while his defensive prowess has created more competition in practice for Ike than the all-conference forward has faced in previous years. Barnhart, meanwhile, showcased his versatility during the two games in which he received extended playing time.
“He’s up to 195 pounds, which still looks like he’s 170 pounds, but he rebounded the ball (well),” Linder said of Barnhart. “He had two games where he played a lot of minutes in Greece, and he averaged 11 rebounds. So he’s a guy that can really go get offensive rebounds with his size and length.
“A lot like (Hunter) Thompson, people see a guy that’s 7-foot or 6-foot-10, and they think he needs to be a back-to-the-basket guy or this bruiser. He’s not that. He’s a guy that we’re probably playing more on the perimeter as of right now. He can move pretty well, and he’s a really good passer.”
The Cowboys’ third transfer, former USC guard Ethan Anderson, was unable to make the trip due to his passport inadvertently being sent back from UW to the passport agency. Regardless, Linder says the team’s newcomers have already reaped the benefits from having two months of summer workouts together.
“It was unfortunate for him,” Linder said. “But at the same time, what we did this summer for eight weeks leading up to that, the amount of reps we got in 5-on-5, it was really good for those three new guys and Caden Powell.”
Josh Criswell covers the University of Wyoming for WyoSports. He can be reached at jcriswell@wyosports.net or 307-755-3325. Follow him on Twitter at @criswell_sports. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/pokes-see-sights-grow-closer-during-greece-trip/article_dcf9de8a-2015-11ed-9951-1f012f190922.html | 2022-08-20T13:07:59Z |
Russian shelling, Ukrainian airstrike reflect broadening war
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces stepped up their battle to seize one of the dwindling number of cities in embattled eastern Ukraine not already under their control while continuing to fire on towns and villages in the country’s north and south, Ukrainian officials said Saturday.
Russian shelling collapsed balconies and blew out windows in the southern region of Mykolayiv, injuring at least nine civilians, authorities said. A five-story apartment building and private homes in the town of Voznesensk were badly damaged, the Black Sea region’s governor said.
“As of 13.30 p.m. (local time) - nine wounded, including four children. All children in a serious condition. Ages range from 3 to 17 years,” Gov. Vitaliy Kim wrote in a Telegram post. He added that a young girl lost an eye as a result of Saturday’s attack.
Reflecting the broadening frontlines of the nearly 6-month war in Ukraine, a Ukrainian airstrike hit targets in the largest Russian-occupied city in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, according to Ukrainian and Kremlin-backed local officials.
The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol said preliminary reports pointed to “a precise hit” on a Russian military base. The head of the Kremlin-backed administration said the attack damaged residential areas and slightly injured one civilian.
In its daily update, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said intensified combat took place around Bakhmut, a small city whose capture would enable Russia to threaten the two largest remaining Ukrainian-held urban centers in the eastern Donbas region.
Bakhmut has for weeks been a key target of Moscow’s eastern offensive as the Russian military tries to complete a months-long campaign to conquer all of the Donbas, an industrial region that borders Russia where pro-Moscow separatists have self-proclaimed a pair of independent republics.
A local Ukrainian official reported sustained fighting Saturday morning near four settlements on the border between Luhansk and Donetsk provinces, which together make up the contested region.
Luhansk Gov. Serhii Haidai did not name the settlements or mention Bakhmut, which lies around 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the border between the two provinces. Russian forces overran nearly all of Luhansk last month and since then have focused on capturing Ukrainian-held areas of Donetsk.
Russian shelling killed seven civilians Friday in Donetsk province, including four in Bakhmut, Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko wrote Saturday on Telegram. Taking Bakhmut would give the Russians room to advance on the province’s main Ukrainian-held cities, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
The General Staff update said Sloviansk and Kramatorsk also were targeted Friday along with the Kharkiv region to the north, home to Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Neither Moscow nor Kyiv commented on the airstrike aimed at Russian-occupied Melitopol in southern Ukraine. Earlier Saturday morning, The Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, claimed that pro-Russia forces had shot down Ukrainian shells near the city, as well as near a key power station in the Kherson region, which the Russians seized early in the war.
The head of the Kremlin-installed administration in Melitopol confirmed Saturday that the city had come under Ukrainian fire.
“During the night, the Kyiv regime launched two attacks on our beautiful Melitopol, on residential areas of the city. Russian air defense systems shot down missiles, but as a result of the shelling, the houses of residents on (two) streets were partially destroyed and damaged,” Galina Danilchenko said on Telegram.
The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Ferodov, said local Ukrainian authorities were gathering information on the strike.
“Tonight, there were powerful explosions in Melitopol, which the whole city heard,” Ferodov said. “According to preliminary data, (it was) a precise hit on one of the Russian military bases, which the Russian fascists are trying to restore for the umpteenth time in the airfield area,”
Shortly after Dalnichenko’s post, Ferodov reported that residential areas in the city were hit but he blamed that strike that destroyed about 10 homes on the Moscow-backed forces stationed in Melitopol. He also reiterated his earlier claim that a Ukrainian airstrike badly damaged a Russian military base.
The Ukrainian governor of the southern Zaporizhzhia region, which is partly controlled by Russia and where Melitopol is located, said late Friday evening that a child was seriously injured by Russian shelling on the outskirts of the regional capital that day.
The governor, Oleksandr Starukh, said on Telegram that the 8-year-old girl remained on a ventilator following surgery, but was in “stable” condition. Starch added that the same attack in the city of Zaporizhzhia left two adult civilians with “injuries of moderate severity.”
Ukrainian officials have indicated plans for a counter-offensive to win back occupied areas in the country’s south while Russia had most of its focus on the east.
Local authorities reported renewed Russian shelling overnight along a broad front, including of the northern Kharkiv and Sumy regions, which border Russia, as well as of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region and Mykolayiv.
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Kozlowska reported from London.
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A look at Ukraine, 6 months into its war with Russia NPR | By Joanna Kakissis Published August 20, 2022 at 7:00 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Flipboard Listen • 3:36 An update on the war in Ukraine and a look at how life in the city of Odesa has changed. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-20/a-look-at-ukraine-6-months-into-its-war-with-russia | 2022-08-20T14:19:45Z |
After a court ruling Friday, abortion in Michigan continues to be legal for now - though there are more legal challenges ahead.
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After a court ruling Friday, abortion in Michigan continues to be legal for now - though there are more legal challenges ahead.
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Scott Simon asks Kelly Deen, marketing vice president for a smoothie powder retailer, how an Apple privacy feature is affecting smaller businesses.
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Scott Simon asks Kelly Deen, marketing vice president for a smoothie powder retailer, how an Apple privacy feature is affecting smaller businesses.
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Nearly 18 months into his tenure at DOJ, Attorney General Merrick Garland faces consequential decisions about the Jan. 6 attack and former President Donald Trump.
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Nearly 18 months into his tenure at DOJ, Attorney General Merrick Garland faces consequential decisions about the Jan. 6 attack and former President Donald Trump.
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Scott Simon speaks to author Jamil Jan Kochai and his 2nd-grade teacher, Susannah Lung, who taught him how to read and write English after his family moved to the U.S. from Pakistan.
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Scott Simon speaks to author Jamil Jan Kochai and his 2nd-grade teacher, Susannah Lung, who taught him how to read and write English after his family moved to the U.S. from Pakistan.
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Scott Simon speaks to legendary puppeteer Frank Oz about a museum exhibit honoring his parents - who made puppets and were survivors of the Holocaust.
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Scott Simon speaks to legendary puppeteer Frank Oz about a museum exhibit honoring his parents - who made puppets and were survivors of the Holocaust.
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New York City officials and volunteers are giving asylum seekers bused from Texas a warm welcome, but the migrants' arrival can still be rocky, with many having to stay in homeless shelters.
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New York City officials and volunteers are giving asylum seekers bused from Texas a warm welcome, but the migrants' arrival can still be rocky, with many having to stay in homeless shelters.
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Scott Simon talks with Nobel Prize winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah about his latest novel, "Afterlives," which follows several generations of East Africans in the wake of colonization.
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Scott Simon talks with Nobel Prize winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah about his latest novel, "Afterlives," which follows several generations of East Africans in the wake of colonization.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson gets an 11-game suspension, the Big Ten Conference announces a huge TV rights deal, and the WNBA playoffs get underway.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson gets an 11-game suspension, the Big Ten Conference announces a huge TV rights deal, and the WNBA playoffs get underway.
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TIJUANA, Mexico — Moses Zazueta Ramirez was at home last Friday when he started getting messages from his mom and seeing the chaos unfold on social media.
A drug cartel had hijacked and burned more than a dozen vehicles across his home city of Tijuana, and rumors spread that they had announced a curfew. Step outside tonight and there would be trouble, was the story doing the rounds.
It was the third time that week that widespread arson and shootings by drug cartels had been seen in cities across northern Mexico. Shops and bystanders were being targeted, with some officials saying it was in retaliation to arrests of high-level cartel leaders and others attributing it to disputes between gangs.
"I got really scared," Ramirez said. "I don't feel safe."
The rumor about the cartel imposing a curfew on Tijuana wasn't true, but the 23-year-old decided to skip his work at a local restaurant that weekend anyway and stay at home with his girlfriend.
"My coworkers told me that, hey, you got to come ... and I said, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to risk myself to just get some money," he said.
Many others in Tijuana felt the same, and despite assurances of safety from local authorities, the normally bustling border city was eerily quiet on Saturday.
The drug cartels had flexed their power in Tijuana in a way not seen for more than a decade and reignited fear and debate over who is it that really wields influence in the country: the government or the gangs.
In the days since the attacks, military reinforcements have been sent into Tijuana to bolster security. And on Friday, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited and gave a national address from a military base, flanked by senior defense officials.
"Work is underway," he said from inside. "The most important thing is that the causes that lead to insecurity and violence throughout the country and in Baja California are being addressed."
Yet outside, hundreds of Tijuana residents gathered, encouraged to come by Carlos Atilano Peña — a local politician from an opposing political party who is using the moment to spread a very different message.
"Federal authorities say there was no terrorism, but we say we had terrorism here in Tijuana," he told NPR. "Because they gained what they were seeking: to have a lot of problems and fear in the population."
Peña is tapping into a sentiment felt by many. One mother at the rally outside the military base said violence had become a part of life in the region, but the scale of the attack last week still surprised her.
Six people have been arrested in the week since, according to the president. State officials say 17 people were detained and suspects include members of the Jalisco cartel.
Authorities hope the arrests prove they are in control and that they make people feel safe. But it's a hard sell.
"The population had to follow [rumors of a curfew] from criminal groups, whether or not these were verified," said Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, the head of security research at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at UC San Diego. "This aligns really well with data that we have on the perception that criminal groups have the firepower capacity to effectively confront the state."
"It tells you a lot about how the population perceives the effectiveness of the state, either federal or locally, in terms of their response to what is happening."
Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero says she understands that many residents do take their cues from the cartels, and she is determined to change that.
"It's an unfortunate question of culture, narcos culture," she told NPR. "And I cannot allow a cartel to rule my citizens. I cannot allow citizens to pay the consequences of these criminal acts ... we need them to trust our police."
A 2021 study by the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies found that 64% of Mexicans think organized crime or drug trafficking groups buy public officials. Part of the problem, Caballero said, was previous political leaders in Mexico had either accepted the cartel violence or looked the other way when it happened.
"It has happened a lot, some of their leaders have had these pacts. It's very clear and everyone knows it," Caballero said. "But in this government, there is no pact with criminals. And I'm going to protect the good citizens, the law-abiding citizens."
She also downplayed the severity of last week's attack, saying burning a dozen cars in a city of two million people "statistically does not make it an act of terrorism."
"The situation is serious, but it is not dire. Take precautions if you want to come to Tijuana, but know ... the city remained safe because we contained the situation," she said.
Tijuana hasn't seen this type of violence in its streets since the mid-2000s, when the federal government took a hardline approach on the cartels.
"It was definitely a flashback of other times where you saw this spectacular violence playing out in the city," said Farfán-Méndez, the security expert.
The response today has a similar flavor to back then, as Tijuana is blanketed with military protection. Checkpoints have been set up in some areas and troops can be seen stopping and inspecting cars close to where one of the vehicles was set on fire last Friday.
Yet Farfán-Méndez questioned whether increased military force was the answer, and she pushed back against the focus on cartels. It's easy for politicians to say the violence is just gangs fighting each other, she said, when there were other indicators of problems — like homicides being more common in poorer neighborhoods, and rates remaining stubbornly high for women.
"I think we should really abandon these narco narratives that, even though they can be very sexy and very appealing, do very little in serving us to understand why is it that a place like Tijuana has not been able to reduce levels of violence," she said. "I think these events should encourage us to really think seriously, precisely about what are these structural conditions that allowed this violence to take place."
"I think there's a concern that rather than developing civilian institutions that are devoted to law enforcement, we're seeing increasingly the armed forces getting more duties."
What's more, this model of sending in the National Guard might not do much to calm residents who are resigned to violence.
"Let me put it as an example where I live," said Ramirez, the restaurant worker. "There's a park with a community center and the military people took the place to use it as a base. And right next to that park ... there's this crowd of drug dealers. And the people just walk past and come out with bags full of drugs."
"So nah, I don't think I'm really secure. I don't feel safe at all."
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Here ye! Here ye!
When Riley Williams, who is accused of stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop during the Jan. 6 insurrection, was released from jail last year, the judge ordered that Williams would only be able to leave home for work, court proceedings, and a handful of approved outings.
Now it appears the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is one of those exceptions.
The 25-year-old has been granted permission to attend the Fairies & Fantasy themed fair for eight hours over the weekend, her lawyer Lori Ulrich told the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette.
"She is confined to her home 24/7 with exceptions. Every once in a while, if there is an activity that interests her, we ask if she can attend," Ulrich said.
This is not the first time the Mechanicsburg, Pa., resident has been allowed a reprieve from house arrest, Ulrich said. She noted that prosecutors are generally amenable to letting Williams go on day-long adventures.
This weekend, that might mean potentially partaking in some corseted cosplay, making preparations for a make-believe renaissance wedding, or enjoying a good ol' fashioned jousting competition. All of which sound like a nice break from the serious charges Williams faces.
Prosecutors say Williams stole Pelosi's computer from the speaker's office, which they say Williams boasted about on her own social media platform. The FBI was investigating whether Williams allegedly planned on selling the laptop to Russia's foreign intelligence agency.
"I took Nancy Polesis [sic] hard drives. I don't care. Kill me," authorities say she wrote on the social media site Discord.
At least 895 people across the country have been arrested in connection with the insurrection at the Capitol.
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There's growing fear that the rift between the U.S. and China could cause economic instability in the wider Indo-Pacific region.
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There's growing fear that the rift between the U.S. and China could cause economic instability in the wider Indo-Pacific region.
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A judge has temporarily blocked the state of Utah from fully enforcing its controversial law banning transgender girls from competing in girls' sports.
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A judge has temporarily blocked the state of Utah from fully enforcing its controversial law banning transgender girls from competing in girls' sports.
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Peter and Bill are still tanning on the beach, so this week we bring you another collection of some of our favorite in-person guests, all in preparation for us being back on the road.
Not My Job: We quiz legendary conductor Marin Alsop on superconductors
Marin Alsop is the music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and one of the most celebrated conductors in the world. And, well she knows plenty about conducting an orchestra, what does she know about superconductors?
Not My Job: Lion King choreographer Garth Fagan answers questions about lyin' kings
When choreographer Garth Fagan was growing up in Jamaica, he dreamed of a far-off place where he could pursue his art and teach dance to others. And he found that paradise in Rochester, N.Y., where he founded the Garth Fagan Dance company. Fagan choreographed The Lion King on Broadway, so we've decided to quiz him on lying kings — three questions about really deceitful people.
Not My Job: Drag queen Peaches Christ gets quizzed on Queens, New York
We've invited Peaches Christ, queen of San Francisco Drag Queens, to play a game called "Fuggedaboutit!" Three questions for a drag queen about Queens — that borough of New York City destined to be the next hipster capital now that Brooklyn is old news.
Not My Job: Opera star Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming is a four-time Grammy-winning soprano who has sung some of the most beautiful pieces of music ever recorded. Sure, she knows her way around an aria, but what does she know about "Baby Shark"?
Not My Job: We ask Josh Groban about elevators
Josh Groban has one of those classic show-biz stories: Right before the 1999 Grammys, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli gets sick. Who can fill in to rehearse a duet with Celine Dion? Well, how about this 17-year-old music student? He's now one of the top-selling artists in the music business. Groban had a big hit with "You Raise Me Up" so we've invited him to play a game called "You Bring Me Down" — three questions about elevators and escalators.
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Russian shelling, Ukrainian airstrike reflect broadening war
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces stepped up their battle to seize one of the dwindling number of cities in embattled eastern Ukraine not already under their control while continuing to fire on towns and villages in the country’s north and south, Ukrainian officials said Saturday.
Russian shelling collapsed balconies and blew out windows in the southern region of Mykolayiv, injuring at least nine civilians, authorities said. A five-story apartment building and private homes in the town of Voznesensk were badly damaged, the Black Sea region’s governor said.
“As of 13.30 p.m. (local time) - nine wounded, including four children. All children in a serious condition. Ages range from 3 to 17 years,” Gov. Vitaliy Kim wrote in a Telegram post. He added that a young girl lost an eye as a result of Saturday’s attack.
Reflecting the broadening frontlines of the nearly 6-month war in Ukraine, a Ukrainian airstrike hit targets in the largest Russian-occupied city in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, according to Ukrainian and Kremlin-backed local officials.
The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol said preliminary reports pointed to “a precise hit” on a Russian military base. The head of the Kremlin-backed administration said the attack damaged residential areas and slightly injured one civilian.
In its daily update, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said intensified combat took place around Bakhmut, a small city whose capture would enable Russia to threaten the two largest remaining Ukrainian-held urban centers in the eastern Donbas region.
Bakhmut has for weeks been a key target of Moscow’s eastern offensive as the Russian military tries to complete a months-long campaign to conquer all of the Donbas, an industrial region that borders Russia where pro-Moscow separatists have self-proclaimed a pair of independent republics.
A local Ukrainian official reported sustained fighting Saturday morning near four settlements on the border between Luhansk and Donetsk provinces, which together make up the contested region.
Luhansk Gov. Serhii Haidai did not name the settlements or mention Bakhmut, which lies around 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the border between the two provinces. Russian forces overran nearly all of Luhansk last month and since then have focused on capturing Ukrainian-held areas of Donetsk.
Russian shelling killed seven civilians Friday in Donetsk province, including four in Bakhmut, Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko wrote Saturday on Telegram. Taking Bakhmut would give the Russians room to advance on the province’s main Ukrainian-held cities, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
The General Staff update said Sloviansk and Kramatorsk also were targeted Friday along with the Kharkiv region to the north, home to Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Neither Moscow nor Kyiv commented on the airstrike aimed at Russian-occupied Melitopol in southern Ukraine. Earlier Saturday morning, The Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, claimed that pro-Russia forces had shot down Ukrainian shells near the city, as well as near a key power station in the Kherson region, which the Russians seized early in the war.
The head of the Kremlin-installed administration in Melitopol confirmed Saturday that the city had come under Ukrainian fire.
“During the night, the Kyiv regime launched two attacks on our beautiful Melitopol, on residential areas of the city. Russian air defense systems shot down missiles, but as a result of the shelling, the houses of residents on (two) streets were partially destroyed and damaged,” Galina Danilchenko said on Telegram.
The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Ferodov, said local Ukrainian authorities were gathering information on the strike.
“Tonight, there were powerful explosions in Melitopol, which the whole city heard,” Ferodov said. “According to preliminary data, (it was) a precise hit on one of the Russian military bases, which the Russian fascists are trying to restore for the umpteenth time in the airfield area,”
Shortly after Dalnichenko’s post, Ferodov reported that residential areas in the city were hit but he blamed that strike that destroyed about 10 homes on the Moscow-backed forces stationed in Melitopol. He also reiterated his earlier claim that a Ukrainian airstrike badly damaged a Russian military base.
The Ukrainian governor of the southern Zaporizhzhia region, which is partly controlled by Russia and where Melitopol is located, said late Friday evening that a child was seriously injured by Russian shelling on the outskirts of the regional capital that day.
The governor, Oleksandr Starukh, said on Telegram that the 8-year-old girl remained on a ventilator following surgery, but was in “stable” condition. Starch added that the same attack in the city of Zaporizhzhia left two adult civilians with “injuries of moderate severity.”
Ukrainian officials have indicated plans for a counter-offensive to win back occupied areas in the country’s south while Russia had most of its focus on the east.
Local authorities reported renewed Russian shelling overnight along a broad front, including of the northern Kharkiv and Sumy regions, which border Russia, as well as of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region and Mykolayiv.
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Leading Pop-Up Consignment Franchise Launches Social Media Contest and Community School Supply Donations
TULSA, Okla., Aug. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Just Between Friends, North America's largest and leading children's and maternity pop-up consignment community marketplace, continues to provide a resource for families to help ease the financial burden of increased cost of living and rising inflation. With monthly costs reaching unprecedented highs, the consignment franchise is prioritizing helping families save through a national social media contest and localized community giveback as parents look to stretch their budgets and amp up their children's wardrobes this back-to-school season.
Parents are expected to spend an average of $864 this year on school supplies for elementary to high school children, with 75% of parents worried about the cost. While back-to-school shopping minds may go right to school supplies, other items such as clothing, extracurricular accessories, and backpacks end up being more costly.
With inflation reaching a new record-high, and the increasing cost of back-to-school shopping weighing on families, Just Between Friends is helping their local sale communities navigate the expenses of back-to-school season with a social media photo contest that includes money-saving prizes and nonprofit school supply donations.
CONTEST DETAILS*:
- Just Between Friends (JBF) is calling on parents to share photos of their children 'Ready for the first day of school,' dressed for success, feeling confident in their consignment finds. From August 15- 31, parents who post their photos on Facebook and Instagram, tagging @JBFsale and using the hashtags #DressForSuccessWithJBF, will be entered into weekly and grand prize submissions.
- Throughout the campaign, Just Between Friends will announce two weekly winners on social media who will be selected to win $100 vouchers for their nearby upcoming Just Between Friends sale. The grand prize winner will be announced on Instagram and will receive a family backpack of resources to help combat the all-too-common pain points brought on by inflation – including a VISA gift card for essentials like clothing, gas and extracurricular accessories and a meal box.
COMMUNITY DONATION DETAILS: Just Between Friends franchisees from coast-to-coast will be supporting local community partners this back-to-school season. Area shoppers are encouraged to bring in school supply donations that will benefit these local organizations in exchange for free admittance to the sale. See details below:
- Just Between Friends – Indianapolis, IN
- Just Between Friends – Elk Grove, CA
- Crayons, Colored Pencils, Highlighters, Dry-Erase Markers + Washable Markers
- #2 Pencils (Ticonderoga), Pencil sharpeners + Erasers
- Binder Paper (wide-ruled and college), Spiral Notebooks, Composition Books
- Backpacks, 1-inch and 2-inch binders (D-ring) + Dividers
- Student Scissors, Glue sticks (large and small) + Rulers
- Just Between Friends – Reading, PA
- Pencils, Pens, Markers + Crayons
- Folders, Binders, Lined Paper + Backpacks
- Erasers, Glue Sticks, Scissors + Calculators
- Just Between Friends – North Richland Hills, TX
"Shopping for the family has been hard this year," said Shannon Wilburn, CEO and Co-Founder of Just Between Friends. "With back-to-school season hitting amid increased inflation and rising cost of living, families are looking for new ways to save on essentials. Just Between Friends is happy to be a resource as our fall sale season begins, and we want to help local families and our communities as we continue navigating these unprecedented economic times."
For details on the contest and to submit a photo, visit @JBFSale on Facebook and @JBFSale on Instagram. To find a JBF sale near you, visit http://jbfsale.com/stateLocations.jsp as fall sales continue to pop up across the country.
At a Just Between Friends sale, parents and grandparents can shop rows and rows of baby and children's shoes, toys, clothing, maternity, and baby equipment at 50 - 90% off retail prices, and as a consignor, they can sell items and earn from 60 - 70% on item sales. At the end of each Just Between Friends sale, items are donated to local organizations which help local women, children and families, serving groups that provide clothing closets, crisis centers, transitional emergency care, food banks and many other services.
*See contest landing page for official rules and restrictions.
Just Between Friends (JBF) is North America's largest and leading children's and maternity pop-up consignment community marketplace and is the only franchise in this vertical to employ an industry-leading safety and recall expert. Just Between Friends provides a resource for families shopping or selling items for a variety of reasons – from saving money on a strict budget to family trips – as well as providing a sustainable resource in the consignment sale space. What began as a sale between a few mom friends, including CEO and Co-founder Shannon Wilburn in 1997, has grown into a nationwide phenomenon with more than 150 franchises in 32 states.
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RADNOR, Pa., Aug. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed against Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. ("Kiromic") (NASDAQ: KRBP). The action charges Kiromic with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Kiromic's materially misleading statements and omissions to the public, Kiromic investors have suffered significant losses.
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CLASS PERIOD: PURCHASED COMMON STOCK BETWEEN JUNE 25, 2021 AND AUGUST 5, 2022
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KIROMIC'S ALLEGED MISCONDUCT
In late June 2021, Kiromic conducted an initial public offering (IPO) which closed on July 2, 2021. At the time of the IPO, Kiromic presented itself as a target discovery and gene-editing company which utilized artificial intelligence to create immunotherapy products. Although Kiromic had no immunotherapy products on the market at the time, it had applications to begin human clinical trials for two new drug candidates, known as Investigational New Drug (IND) applications, pending with the FDA. The company's public filings in connection with the IPO stated that Kiromic could commence clinical trials within thirty days of those IND applications unless the FDA imposed a clinical hold.
Kiromic, however, had received communications from the FDA on June 16 and 17, 2021, prior to the IPO, informing the company that the FDA was placing the IND applications for its two candidate products on clinical hold. The IPO documents failed to disclose this information, instead representing that clinical testing was expected to proceed in the third quarter of 2021. Clinical testing did not proceed in the third quarter of 2021, nor was it likely given the FDA's imposition of a clinical hold.
On July 16, 2021, two weeks after the closing of Kiromic's IPO, Kiromic issued a press release revealing that it had received "comments" from the FDA regarding its IND product, "ALEXIS." Additionally, on August 13, 2021, Kiromic issued another press release wherein Kiromic made passing reference to "clinical hold issues" by the FDA regarding Kiromic's IND products, but did not otherwise expand on what those issues were. Since the true details of Kiromic's misrepresentations and omissions entered the market, the price and value of Kiromic's stock has declined significantly.
WHAT CAN I DO?
Kiromic investors may, no later than October 4, 2022, seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages Kiromic investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of all class members in directing the litigation. The lead plaintiff is usually the investor or small group of investors who have the largest financial interest and who are also adequate and typical of the proposed class of investors. The lead plaintiff selects counsel to represent the lead plaintiff and the class and these attorneys, if approved by the court, are lead or class counsel. Your ability to share in any recovery is not affected by the decision of whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff.
ABOUT KESSLER TOPAZ MELTZER & CHECK, LLP
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP prosecutes class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country and around the world. The firm has developed a global reputation for excellence and has recovered billions of dollars for victims of fraud and other corporate misconduct. All of our work is driven by a common goal: to protect investors, consumers, employees and others from fraud, abuse, misconduct and negligence by businesses and fiduciaries. The complaint in this action was not filed by Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP. For more information about Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP please visit www.ktmc.com.
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New York City officials and volunteers are giving asylum seekers bused from Texas a warm welcome, but the migrants' arrival can still be rocky, with many having to stay in homeless shelters.
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New York City officials and volunteers are giving asylum seekers bused from Texas a warm welcome, but the migrants' arrival can still be rocky, with many having to stay in homeless shelters.
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Scott Simon talks with Nobel Prize winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah about his latest novel, "Afterlives," which follows several generations of East Africans in the wake of colonization.
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Scott Simon talks with Nobel Prize winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah about his latest novel, "Afterlives," which follows several generations of East Africans in the wake of colonization.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson gets an 11-game suspension, the Big Ten Conference announces a huge TV rights deal, and the WNBA playoffs get underway.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson gets an 11-game suspension, the Big Ten Conference announces a huge TV rights deal, and the WNBA playoffs get underway.
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Some insects have quite the sweat tooth By Geoff Brumfiel Published August 20, 2022 at 8:12 AM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 2:41 Sweat is essential to keeping humans cool and comfortable, but some insects also need our sweat to survive. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.keranews.org/2022-08-20/some-insects-have-quite-the-sweat-tooth | 2022-08-20T14:59:30Z |
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Former President Donald Trump's pick to oversee the parent agency of the Voice of America paid a prestigious private law firm so extravagantly to investigate his own agency's senior executive officials that it constituted a "waste or gross waste of government resources," a federal watchdog concluded Friday.
Michael Pack, the former CEO of VOA-parent U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO, awarded the contract without any bidding process to the politically connected Richmond, Va., law firm McGuireWoods, which ultimately received more than $1.6 million in taxpayer money.
Friday's report from the U.S. State Department's Inspector General found the service the law firm provided "were duplicative of existing resources and involved the payment of billable hours far in excess of the salary of federal employees who can perform the same work." The inspector general also found "serious violations of federal law and regulation" in the payment of a subcontractor without any authorization.
Neither Pack nor two representatives of McGuireWoods replied to efforts requesting comment on the findings on Friday.
Pack's initial nomination to the job by Trump languished for two years; shortly after showing up at USAGM headquarters in early June 2020, he all but declared war on his new colleagues. Pack told conservative media outlets that, like Trump himself, he was there to "drain the swamp" at Voice of America and its sister networks.
In such appearances, Pack claimed, without evidence, that opportunities for espionage were rife within its networks. He embarked on efforts to investigate and stamp out what he alleged was rampant anti-Trump bias in Voice of America's coverage.
The government-owned service seeks to provide independent news reporting for more than 312 million people overseas every week across multiple platforms. His advisers ordered investigations of individual reporters; he rejected the employee visa renewals of some foreign nationals, forcing them to scramble for new posts or to return home, often to regimes hostile to the U.S.
Pack's criticisms span a period that includes the tenure of former USAGM CEO John Lansing, who is now CEO at NPR. (Under NPR's protocols, top newsroom leaders cannot review any of the network's coverage that touches on USAGM because of his prior position there.)
In the summer of 2020, Pack moved swiftly to fire most of his top leadership team, including his chief financial officer, his general counsel, and his chief strategic officer, enraged that they blocked some of his initiatives and warned others could prove illegal. Told that it was also probably illegal to fire them, Pack placed seven on administrative leave and revoked the security clearance of six of them. In August 2020, Pack commissioned McGuireWoods to conduct an inquiry into them.
A July 2021 review by the same government watchdog exonerated the officials with the suspended clearances of any wrongdoing. In addition, it found that Pack had targeted them for raising red flags over his actions. The inspector general rebuked USAGM for failing to refer concerns about them to its office, which is charged with conducting such reviews under federal law. But it also said the costs were extreme and contrary to federal rules and regulations.
One McGuire Woods attorney charged the federal agency $930 an hour for his work; That was about 12 times the cost that would have been incurred by relying on a government attorney, the inspector general's office found. "USAGM paid for over 1,600 hours of McGuireWoods attorneys' time who billed at a rate in excess of $500 per hour," it stated.
NPR obtained documents reflecting that McGuireWoods intended to charge USAGM $2.1 million, but its actual billings ultimately ebbed.
Pack had ties to the Richmond law firm. The conservative filmmaker had become close to U.S. Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni, interviewing the couple for a sympathetic documentary. John Adams, McGuireWoods' lead partner on the USAGM contract, had served as Thomas's law clerk at the Supreme Court.
McGuireWoods' contract
Starting in late 2020, NPR did a series of stories detailing McGuireWoods' activities for USAGM, including the law firm's decision to shed a client that could have impeded its ability to secure the lucrative contract.
The Open Technology Fund, a not-for-profit almost wholly dependent on USAGM for money, had sought free advice from McGuireWoods lawyers on legal matters in spring 2020. In June 2020, Pack decided to take over the fund, to redirect all his agency's subsidies from it, and to fire its leaders and board. He instead wanted to use the money for anti-censorship software tied to Falun Gong. Attorneys for the fund shared sensitive materials with McGuireWoods as they strategized with the firms' lawyers over a potential lawsuit to block the moves.
After reviewing the materials and dragging their feet, senior partners at McGuireWoods cited concerns that the case might be too political, three people with knowledge told NPR, and the firm dropped the technology fund as a client. Pack granted McGuireWoods its contract just weeks later.
In December 2020, Pack unveiled a plan to strip the Open Technology Fund of federal dollars and ban it from receiving any government funds. In so doing, he relied on material from McGuireWoods.
The inspector general's report did not address that element. A complaint to the Virginia State Bar over McGuireWoods' actions toward the Open Technology Fund has not resulted in any action against the firm, according to a review of publicly available records.
Pack's moves drew condemnation internally and externally; the U.S. Congress passed legislation to insulate Voice of America from political meddling and, in one case, a federal judge called Pack's actions unconstitutional.
Pack resigned at President Biden's request just two hours after the new president took the oath of office in January 2021. The new leadership of USAGM embraced the inspector general's findings on Friday. And Biden's nominee for the USAGM CEO position, former Voice of America director Amanda Bennett, still awaits a vote from the U.S. Senate.
Disclosure: This story was reported by NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik and edited by NPR chief business editor Pallavi Gogoi. Because of NPR CEO John Lansing's prior role as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, no senior news executive or corporate executive at NPR reviewed this story before it was published.
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Can a violin be an instrument for a scam?
You may have seen people playing Bach or Vivaldi on the street, inviting passersby to toss them a coin or crumpled bill in appreciation.
But there are reports from across the country that many of the performers are not violinists, but flimflam artists. People called finger-syncers who set up on a street, flick on a speaker, and slide a bow over an electronic violin while a pre-recorded track plays. These forged Joshua Bells leave out instrument cases to receive money, often with signs saying they need help for rent or medical bills.
But the website of the UK's Classic FM and other media report that police in Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Texas, and Arizona have issued alerts, and caution that many of these ersatz Itzhak Perlmans are part of a growing national hustle.
David Wallace, chair of the Strings Department at Boston's Berklee College of Music, says he has received videos from friends around the country asking if a violinist was really playing — they weren't — and he worries that true musicians may suffer for this scam.
"Busking has been a longstanding way for musicians to earn money or to make an honest living for centuries," he told us. "But when people become skeptical about whether a musician is legitimate, they become more cautious about giving to any musician."
We seem surrounded by schemes these days. Text messages from strangers who say, "Miss you." Emails that invite you to claim winnings in lotteries you never entered, or collect spurious unpaid debts. There are tweeting bots, and deep-fake Tom Cruises, and so-called tech-support sites that ask you to grant them brief remote access to repair your computer. What could possibly go wrong?
A recent report in The New York Times says more than $100 billion of federal pandemic relief funds might have been paid to sham companies and schemers. And of course, about a third of the American people still tell pollsters that the 2020 election was rigged, a lie that has been used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
I don't think the duped commuters lose much money in this street violinist scam. But it may be one more raindrop in the storm of schemes that blur our view of what's right in front of us.
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Competition launched to name planets, stars discovered by James Webb telescope
(CNN) - There’s a contest now open to name new planets discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The telescope is making amazing discoveries every day, and each planet and host star needs to be named.
The organization in charge of naming celestial objects, the International Astronomical Union, launched the global NameExoworlds 2022 Competition.
An exoworld is considered to be any planet outside our solar system.
The competition does have its rules: you can’t name an exoworld after yourself, your pet, or give it religious or military significance.
The public can submit their names through Nov. 11. Entries can be submitted through this form.
An international committee will review the submissions and announce the winners next March.
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CUTE: Baby seal breaks into New Zealand home
Published: Aug. 20, 2022 at 11:52 AM EDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
MT. MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (CNN) - A baby fur seal broke into a marine biologist’s family home in New Zealand.
The marine biologist, Phil Ross, told CNN the seal managed to get into the house through one of the cat doors.
According to Ross, the family cat seemingly provoked the animal.
Ross said that his wife was able to encourage the seal out of the house and into the garden.
She then called the department of conservation ranger to get the baby fur seal to a safe place.
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Potential tropical storm heads for Mexico, Texas Gulf coast
Published: Aug. 20, 2022 at 12:19 PM EDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A potential tropical storm is heading for the U.S.-Mexico border area, and could cause rains and flash flooding in northeastern Mexico and south Texas.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday that potential Tropical Cyclone Four was located about 165 miles (270 kilometers) south-southeast of the mouth of the Rio Grande.
That area includes the Mexican border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.
The disturbance was moving northwest at 13 mph ( 20 kph), and could become a tropical storm before hitting land late Saturday.
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Largest Pet Retail Franchise Gifts $15,000 Worth of Prizes to Winners Nationwide, Donates $5,000 of Merchandise to Jacksonville Humane Society
LIVONIA, Mich., Aug. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Supplies Plus, the largest and most trusted pet retail franchise in the United States, launched the addition of OptimPlus™ to their roster of private brand offerings in June. In conjunction with this launch, Pet Supplies Plus sponsored a "Feed Great, Feel Great" sweepstakes for pet parents nationwide with nearly $15,000 worth of prizes.
Out of more than 60,000 entrants, the grand prize winner was a Los Angeles area-resident who will receive a Pet Supplies Plus pet care gift basket valued at $250, a $1,000 Pet Supplies Plus gift card, a one-year supply of OptimPlus and a $500 Spa Finder gift card. Twenty-five additional winners nationwide each received a $100 Pet Supplies Plus gift card, a $100 Vitamin Shoppe gift card and a three-month supply of OptimPlus.
As part of the new brand launch, Pet Supplies Plus also conducted a nomination-based contest on their social platforms. The contest was tied to "Feed a Rescue Pet Week" and neighbors were encouraged to nominate a local animal shelter or rescue to win $5,000 worth of products, including OptimPlus food, to help support their organization. Of the more than 4,000 nominations received, the selected winner is the Jacksonville Humane Society (JHS), who cares for thousands of dogs and cats each year, and offers a variety of programs including adoption, lost pet resources, training classes and more.
"This donation came at the very best time," said Denise Deisler, CEO of the Jacksonville Humane Society. "JHS is proud to support many families every week with our pet food pantry, but we can also do so with the generous support of friends like Pet Supplies Plus. Sometimes the difference between a pet entering a shelter and staying with their family is just one bag of food. This donation will help keep pets happy, healthy and at home!"
"I'd like to congratulate all of the sweepstakes winners and Jacksonville Humane Society as the winner of our 'Feed a Rescue Pet Week' social media giveaway," said Chris Rowland, Chief Executive Officer of Pet Supplies Plus. "We are honored to be able to gift $15,000 worth of prizes to neighbors nationwide and make a donation to JHS to support their food pantry. Pet Supplies Plus is excited about the positive response surrounding the OptimPlus launch and will continue to provide quality, affordable options to pet parents everywhere."
OptimPlus formulas are just as unique as each pet, focusing on their life stage, breed size, health and dietary needs. All varieties of natural dry dog and cat food are made with an enriching blend of vitamins, minerals and nutrients to provide a complete and balanced diet. OptimPlus deliberately selects each ingredient and always puts real animal proteins first. Every formula also contains guaranteed live probiotics to help support healthy digestion, an important part of a pet's overall wellness.
Pet Supplies Plus offers a wide array of natural pet foods and a variety of made-in-the-USA pet consumables, including food, treats, rawhide and chews. Set in welcoming neighborhood environments, Pet Supplies Plus team members get to know their neighbors and pets by name at every store. Full-service grooming, self-serve pet wash stations and fresh bakery treats are also available in-store at many locations. Neighbors can now fill prescriptions online and receive home delivery for quality medications and specialty diets. Whether shopping in-store or online, Pet Supplies Plus makes choosing local easy. For more information, visit www.petsuppliesplus.com.
About Pet Supplies Plus
Your neighborhood Pet Supplies Plus has everything you need for your furry, scaly and feathery friends. Our shelves are stocked with the right products, including a wide selection of natural and made in the USA products. Easily find all their favorites at prices you love, whether you shop with us in store or online using free curbside pickup, same-day delivery or Autoship. To help keep your pets happy and healthy, pet prescriptions can be filled online and delivered directly to your door. As the nation's largest independent pet store with over 630 locations in 40 states and counting, we make shopping local simple. For more information visit www.petsuppliesplus.com.
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Can a violin be an instrument for a scam?
You may have seen people playing Bach or Vivaldi on the street, inviting passersby to toss them a coin or crumpled bill in appreciation.
But there are reports from across the country that many of the performers are not violinists, but flimflam artists. People called finger-syncers who set up on a street, flick on a speaker, and slide a bow over an electronic violin while a pre-recorded track plays. These forged Joshua Bells leave out instrument cases to receive money, often with signs saying they need help for rent or medical bills.
But the website of the UK's Classic FM and other media report that police in Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Texas, and Arizona have issued alerts, and caution that many of these ersatz Itzhak Perlmans are part of a growing national hustle.
David Wallace, chair of the Strings Department at Boston's Berklee College of Music, says he has received videos from friends around the country asking if a violinist was really playing — they weren't — and he worries that true musicians may suffer for this scam.
"Busking has been a longstanding way for musicians to earn money or to make an honest living for centuries," he told us. "But when people become skeptical about whether a musician is legitimate, they become more cautious about giving to any musician."
We seem surrounded by schemes these days. Text messages from strangers who say, "Miss you." Emails that invite you to claim winnings in lotteries you never entered, or collect spurious unpaid debts. There are tweeting bots, and deep-fake Tom Cruises, and so-called tech-support sites that ask you to grant them brief remote access to repair your computer. What could possibly go wrong?
A recent report in The New York Times says more than $100 billion of federal pandemic relief funds might have been paid to sham companies and schemers. And of course, about a third of the American people still tell pollsters that the 2020 election was rigged, a lie that has been used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
I don't think the duped commuters lose much money in this street violinist scam. But it may be one more raindrop in the storm of schemes that blur our view of what's right in front of us.
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Competition launched to name planets, stars discovered by James Webb telescope
(CNN) - There’s a contest now open to name new planets discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The telescope is making amazing discoveries every day, and each planet and host star needs to be named.
The organization in charge of naming celestial objects, the International Astronomical Union, launched the global NameExoworlds 2022 Competition.
An exoworld is considered to be any planet outside our solar system.
The competition does have its rules: you can’t name an exoworld after yourself, your pet, or give it religious or military significance.
The public can submit their names through Nov. 11. Entries can be submitted through this form.
An international committee will review the submissions and announce the winners next March.
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CUTE: Baby seal breaks into New Zealand home
Published: Aug. 20, 2022 at 11:52 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
MT. MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (CNN) - A baby fur seal broke into a marine biologist’s family home in New Zealand.
The marine biologist, Phil Ross, told CNN the seal managed to get into the house through one of the cat doors.
According to Ross, the family cat seemingly provoked the animal.
Ross said that his wife was able to encourage the seal out of the house and into the garden.
She then called the department of conservation ranger to get the baby fur seal to a safe place.
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Gunmen storm hotel in Somali capital, leave 20 dead
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamic militants have stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital, engaging in an hours-long exchange of fire with the security forces that left at least 20 people dead, according to police and witnesses.
In addition, at least 40 people were wounded in the late Friday night attack and security forces rescued many others, including children, from the scene at Mogadishu’s popular Hayat Hotel, they said Saturday.
The attack started with explosions outside the hotel before the gunmen entered the building.
Somali forces were still trying to end the siege of the hotel almost 24 hours after the attack started. Gunfire could still be heard Saturday evening as security forces tried to contain the last gunmen thought to be holed up on the hotel’s top floor.
The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has ties with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest of its frequent attempts to strike places visited by government officials. The attack on the hotel is the first major terror incident in Mogadishu since Somalia’s new leader, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, took over in May.
In a Twitter post, the U.S. Embassy in Somalia said it “strongly condemns” the attack on the Hayat.
“We extend condolences to the families of loved ones killed, wish a full recovery to the injured, & pledge continued support for #Somalia to hold murderers accountable & build when others destroy,” it said.
There was no immediate word on the identities of the victims, but many are believed to be civilians.
Mohamed Abdirahman, director of Mogadishu’s Madina Hospital, told the AP that 40 people were admitted there with wounds or injuries from the attack. While nine were sent home after getting treatment, five are in critical condition in the ICU, he said.
“We were having tea near the hotel lobby when we heard the first blast, followed by gunfire. I immediately rushed toward hotel rooms on the ground floor and I locked the door,” witness Abdullahi Hussein said by phone. “The militants went straight upstairs and started shooting. I was inside the room until the security forces arrived and rescued me.”
He said on his way to safety he saw “several bodies lying on the ground outside hotel reception.”
Al-Shabab remains the most lethal Islamic extremist group in Africa.
The group has seized even more territory in recent years, taking advantage of rifts among Somali security personnel as well as disagreements between the government seat in Mogadishu and regional states. It remains the biggest threat to political stability in the volatile Horn of Africa nation.
Forced to retreat from Mogadishu in 2011, al-Shabab is slowly making a comeback from the rural areas to which it retreated, defying the presence of African Union peacekeepers as well as U.S. drone strikes targeting its fighters.
The militants in early May attacked a military base for AU peacekeepers outside Mogadishu, killing many Burundian troops. The attack came just days before the presidential vote that returned Mohamud to power five years after he had been voted out.
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Potential tropical storm heads for Mexico, Texas Gulf coast
Published: Aug. 20, 2022 at 12:19 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A potential tropical storm is heading for the U.S.-Mexico border area, and could cause rains and flash flooding in northeastern Mexico and south Texas.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday that potential Tropical Cyclone Four was located about 165 miles (270 kilometers) south-southeast of the mouth of the Rio Grande.
That area includes the Mexican border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.
The disturbance was moving northwest at 13 mph ( 20 kph), and could become a tropical storm before hitting land late Saturday.
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Gunmen storm hotel in Somali capital, leave 20 dead
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamic militants have stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital, engaging in an hours-long exchange of fire with the security forces that left at least 20 people dead, according to police and witnesses.
In addition, at least 40 people were wounded in the late Friday night attack and security forces rescued many others, including children, from the scene at Mogadishu’s popular Hayat Hotel, they said Saturday.
The attack started with explosions outside the hotel before the gunmen entered the building.
Somali forces were still trying to end the siege of the hotel almost 24 hours after the attack started. Gunfire could still be heard Saturday evening as security forces tried to contain the last gunmen thought to be holed up on the hotel’s top floor.
The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has ties with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest of its frequent attempts to strike places visited by government officials. The attack on the hotel is the first major terror incident in Mogadishu since Somalia’s new leader, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, took over in May.
In a Twitter post, the U.S. Embassy in Somalia said it “strongly condemns” the attack on the Hayat.
“We extend condolences to the families of loved ones killed, wish a full recovery to the injured, & pledge continued support for #Somalia to hold murderers accountable & build when others destroy,” it said.
There was no immediate word on the identities of the victims, but many are believed to be civilians.
Mohamed Abdirahman, director of Mogadishu’s Madina Hospital, told the AP that 40 people were admitted there with wounds or injuries from the attack. While nine were sent home after getting treatment, five are in critical condition in the ICU, he said.
“We were having tea near the hotel lobby when we heard the first blast, followed by gunfire. I immediately rushed toward hotel rooms on the ground floor and I locked the door,” witness Abdullahi Hussein said by phone. “The militants went straight upstairs and started shooting. I was inside the room until the security forces arrived and rescued me.”
He said on his way to safety he saw “several bodies lying on the ground outside hotel reception.”
Al-Shabab remains the most lethal Islamic extremist group in Africa.
The group has seized even more territory in recent years, taking advantage of rifts among Somali security personnel as well as disagreements between the government seat in Mogadishu and regional states. It remains the biggest threat to political stability in the volatile Horn of Africa nation.
Forced to retreat from Mogadishu in 2011, al-Shabab is slowly making a comeback from the rural areas to which it retreated, defying the presence of African Union peacekeepers as well as U.S. drone strikes targeting its fighters.
The militants in early May attacked a military base for AU peacekeepers outside Mogadishu, killing many Burundian troops. The attack came just days before the presidential vote that returned Mohamud to power five years after he had been voted out.
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PUKALANI, Kula (KITV4) - According to the National Weather Service in Honolulu, stable trade wind weather will prevail through the weekend, focusing modest rainfall over windward areas and producing a few showers across the Kona slopes of the Big Island each afternoon. Trade winds will ease early next week as a weak disturbance brings an increase in shower activity.
Winds are forecasted out of the east from 15-20 mph.
Temperatures should climb into the upper 80's.
SURF:
Based upon the latest south swell moving through Samoa at mid week, long period energy from this swell should begin arriving in our far offshore waters through the day. South swell should begin building surf along the south facing shores from this afternoon, peak surf to just below surf advisory levels Sunday through Monday then gradually lower through the middle of next week.
Short period, choppy wind wave surf will hold steady through the weekend along eastern facing shores, then lower slightly early next week as trades weaken. Surf along north facing shores will remain just above flat through the weekend. A small, medium period northwest swell is forecast to move through during the first half of next week. This should provide a small boost to north shore surf.
North: 0-2'
West: 2-4'
South: 2-4' (3-5' for the Big Island)
East: 2-4'
A small craft advisory is posted for our usual windy coastal waters around Maui County and the island of Hawaii.
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Weekend Meteorologist and Maui County correspondent
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Gary Busey charged with sex offenses at Monster-Mania Con
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual offenses at a New Jersey fan convention this month.
Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment, Cherry Hill police said Saturday.
The charges stem from offenses at the annual Monster Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel on Aug. 12-14 in Cherry Hill, a Philadelphia suburb, police said.
Busey, who lives in Malibu, California, was scheduled as a featured guest for all three days of the event.
Police did not immediately respond to a message seeking details. It also wasn’t clear whether Busey has an attorney to comment on the charges, and a representative didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Saturday.
Busey is widely known as a character actor, largely in supporting roles, though he came to attention and was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for playing the title role in the 1978 film “The Buddy Holly Story.”
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US Air Force targeted in ‘propaganda attack’ in Kuwait
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says it was the subject of a “propaganda attack” by a previously unheard-of Iraqi militant group that falsely claimed it had launched a drone attack targeting American troops at an air base in Kuwait.
The statement by the Air Force’s 386th Air Expeditionary Wing came hours after the group calling itself Al-Waretheen, or “The Inheritors,” put out an online statement on Saturday, claiming it had launched an attack on Aug. 12 targeting Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem Air Base.
The Air Force called it a “lie” and said “no such attack occurred.”
Satellite photos from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press since Aug. 12 showed no apparent damage at the base.
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Gary Busey charged with sex offenses at Monster-Mania Con
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual offenses at a New Jersey fan convention this month.
Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment, Cherry Hill police said Saturday.
The charges stem from offenses at the annual Monster Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel on Aug. 12-14 in Cherry Hill, a Philadelphia suburb, police said.
Busey, who lives in Malibu, California, was scheduled as a featured guest for all three days of the event.
Police did not immediately respond to a message seeking details. It also wasn’t clear whether Busey has an attorney to comment on the charges, and a representative didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Saturday.
Busey is widely known as a character actor, largely in supporting roles, though he came to attention and was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for playing the title role in the 1978 film “The Buddy Holly Story.”
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US Air Force targeted in ‘propaganda attack’ in Kuwait
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says it was the subject of a “propaganda attack” by a previously unheard-of Iraqi militant group that falsely claimed it had launched a drone attack targeting American troops at an air base in Kuwait.
The statement by the Air Force’s 386th Air Expeditionary Wing came hours after the group calling itself Al-Waretheen, or “The Inheritors,” put out an online statement on Saturday, claiming it had launched an attack on Aug. 12 targeting Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem Air Base.
The Air Force called it a “lie” and said “no such attack occurred.”
Satellite photos from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press since Aug. 12 showed no apparent damage at the base.
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — In this eastern Ukrainian city, a Soviet-era mural stands boldly in front of Zaporizhstal iron and steel works.
The mural shows muscular ironworkers handing a freshly forged sword to equally muscular soldiers who are rushing off to war. Today, however, Ukraine's iron industry is in rough shape because of war itself.
During much of the 20th century, a thriving industrial heartland churned in central and eastern Ukraine, fed by abundant coal mines and big, hulking steel mills. In several parts of the country, these plants still dominate the landscape, the local economy and even civic identity. Iron and steel production remains Ukraine's second-leading industry after agriculture. And prior to the Russian invasion this year, it was a major supplier of iron ore to Turkey, China and parts of the European Union.
While the war with Russia has raised serious international concern about getting Ukraine's vast production of wheat, corn and sunflower oil — normally its top exports — to global markets, the invasion has been even more devastating to the country's metalworks. Exports of bulk iron ore, for instance, that are shipped by the ton in massive cargo vessels have stopped entirely from Ukrainian ports.
Just half of the plant's blast furnaces are on
Inside the sprawling Zaporizhstal industrial compound, the plant's giant blast furnaces normally convert tons of raw iron ore into a stream of molten orange pig iron.
But Serhiy Safonov, the manager of the blast furnace shop, says that only two of the factory's four blast furnaces are currently operational.
The furnaces are designed to run constantly, he says, and normally would never be shut down over their 30-year life span. But earlier this year all four furnaces had to be dialed back to what Safonov calls a "low idle" as Russian troops threatened to advance on Zaporizhzhia. Moscow's forces never reached the area, but tens of thousands of people fled. Much of the city shut down, and the factory that used to employ 11,000 workers is now operating at less than 50% of capacity.
Yuriy Ryzhenkov, the CEO of Metinvest Group, which owns the Zaporizhstal plant, says they have enough raw materials inside Ukraine to keep pumping out rolls of sheet metal and bars of cast iron. The problem is they can't get those products to market. Metinvest and other Ukrainian steel producers now have huge backlogs of processed metal sitting in Ukrainian warehouses.
"The main difficulty is the logistics," Ryzhenkov says. Traditionally, all Ukrainian steel companies, of which Metinvest is the largest, export their products via the Black Sea ports or Azov Sea ports. "At the moment," Ryzhenkov says. "The ports have been blocked by the Russians."
There's no deal for shipping steel
While a few ships carrying grain have been allowed to leave Ukraine recently, there's still no agreement to allow vessels ferrying other goods to transit the Black Sea.
Some steel and iron ore is getting sent by rail to ports in Poland and Romania, but it's a slow and expensive process. Adding to the logistical challenges, Ukraine's railways operate on a different gauge track than the Western Europeans, meaning cargo has to get transferred at the border.
"This was never envisaged as the main export route for the steel industry in Ukraine," Ryzhenkov says.
As difficult as it is to get steel to customers in Turkey, Italy and North Africa, the Zaporizhzhia factory at least is still in Metinvest's hands.
Russian and Moscow-backed separatist forces seized the company's two steel mills in Mariupol. This includes the Azovstal plant, where Ukrainian soldiers made a final stand against the Russian occupation of the city. Russian forces blew apart the mill to capture it and finally take full control of the southern port city.
While Azovstal is now better known, it was actually the smaller of Metinvest's two steel plants in Mariupol. The other, Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, spread over more ground and, with 14,000 employees, had more workers than Azovstal. Ilyich was seized by Russian troops in April. Ukrainian fighters held out at Azovstal until mid-May.
"At some point in time we'll come back to Mariupol and see what is the state of Azovstal and Ilyich mill and see if they can be restored," he says.
The plants were insured, "but insurance doesn't typically cover the wartime risks," he says. "And that's the big problem."
The company's lawyers are looking at ways to file a claim against the Russian Federation for billions of dollars in damages, Ryzhenkov says — but making a shrug, as if it's a longshot.
There isn't a definitive tally of monetary damages in Mariupol, but the human suffering after months of bombardments has been extensive. Ukrainian officials say more than 20,000 civilians were killed in the Russian siege of the city. U.N. officials have documented a lower number of civilian casualties but still estimate the number killed in the city is in the thousands.
With the city under Russian control, Metinvest has urged customers globally not to buy steel from Mariupol. The company says there's a "high probability" that the occupying Russian forces are selling off some of the more than 200,000 tons of steel products Metinvest had stored at its two plants there.
Earlier this year, Metinvest was paying its idled employees two-thirds of their salaries, including at the Mariupol plants now controlled by the Russians. But in June the company had to lay off thousands of workers.
With limited revenue, two of its largest factories gone, and few options to export their industrial products to customers overseas, Ryzhenkov says the company right now is just focused on survival.
"We are making sure that whatever we still have control over we keep intact," he says.
"And we are waiting for Ukraine to kind of win the war and take back what belongs to it." But he's under no illusions that that is going to happen quickly.
Plants and raw materials are behind enemy lines
The challenges facing Metinvest are similar for other Ukrainian steelmakers and industrial firms, particularly in the east of the country.
"There are a number of really problematic trends that will compound over time," says Andrew Lohsen, who up until last year was based in Ukraine as a monitor and an analyst for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
"One of them is the fact that these industries are highly dependent on coal that is mined behind enemy lines now or close to the fighting."
He says the industrial capacity of Ukraine right now is severely strained because so much of its manufacturing sector is in or near the intense fighting in eastern Ukraine.
This has been part of the problem for Metinvest. Prior to 2014, Metinvest was based in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. When Russian-backed separatists seized Donetsk in 2014, Metinvest relocated its headquarters to Mariupol, a city on the Sea of Azov. This year, when Russia grabbed Mariupol, the headquarters were displaced again, this time moving to the capital, Kyiv.
Ryzhenkov at times sounds weary talking about the impacts of the war, the export bottlenecks, the assets stolen by the Russians, the layoffs. But when asked if the company might be able to somehow restart operations in Mariupol or elsewhere near the fluctuating front lines, he answers quickly.
"The position of our shareholders is very clear on this," he says. "We will not operate in any occupied territory, under any occupational regime." He insists they'll operate only in areas under Ukrainian control.
Hanna Palamarenko contributed to this report.
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More rain arriving to wrap up the weekend
Showers and storms will be widespread Sunday
SATURDAY: Plenty of clouds for the evening and warm with temperatures falling into the 70s. Mostly cloudy for the evening and overnight. Warm and humid overnight with lows in the mid to upper 60s. An isolated shower or storm cannot be ruled out. Areas of patchy fog developing after midnight.
SUNDAY: Cloudy to start the day with scattered showers and storms. Warm with temperatures rising into the 70s. Areas of patchy fog early. Showers and storms will become more widespread by the late morning into the early afternoon as we will have a washout. A warm and humid day with highs in the mid to upper 70s. Petersburg/Moorefield at 80 degrees.
A warm evening with scattered showers and storms and temperatures in the 70s. Cloudy with scattered showers and storms continuing until around midnight. Showers and storms become isolated after midnight with areas of patchy fog developing. Warm and humid with lows in the low to mid 60s.
MONDAY: Some clouds to start the day and warm with temperatures rising into the 70s. Areas of patchy fog early. A mix of sun and clouds for the afternoon with scattered showers and storms developing. Very warm and humid with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. A warm evening with temperatures falling into the 70s with an isolated shower or storm early. Clouds diminishing some for the night. Mild and comfortable with overnight lows in the low to mid 60s.
TUESDAY: A mix of sun and clouds to start the day and warm with temperatures rising into the 70s. Some clouds for the afternoon. Very warm and somewhat humid with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. Some clouds for the evening and warm with temperatures falling into the 70s. Clearing some with just a few passing clouds overnight. Mild and somewhat humid with overnight lows in the low to mid 60s.
WEDNESDAY: Plenty of sunshine to start the day with a few passing clouds. Warm with temperatures rising into the 70s. Some clouds for the afternoon with an isolated shower or storm possible for the day. Very warm and somewhat humid with highs in the low to mid 80s. Partly cloudy for the evening and overnight with an isolated shower or storm early. Mild and somewhat humid overnight with lows in the low to mid 60s.
THURSDAY: A mix of sun and clouds to start the day and warm with temperatures rising into the 70s. Partly cloudy for the afternoon with an isolated shower or storm. Very warm and somewhat humid with highs in the low to mid 80s. Mild and somewhat humid overnight with lows in the low to mid 60s.
FRIDAY: Some clouds to start the day and warm with temperatures rising into the 70s. Partly cloudy in the afternoon with an isolated shower or storm. Very warm and somewhat humid with highs in the low to mid 80s. Overnight lows in the low to mid 60s.
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Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment, Cherry Hill police said Saturday.
The charges stem from offenses at the annual Monster Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel on Aug. 12-14 in Cherry Hill, a Philadelphia suburb, police said.
Busey, who lives in Malibu, California, was scheduled as a featured guest for all three days of the event.
Police did not immediately respond to a message seeking details. It also wasn't clear whether Busey has an attorney to comment on the charges, and a representative didn't immediately return a message seeking comment Saturday.
Busey is widely known as a character actor, largely in supporting roles, though he came to attention and was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for playing the title role in the 1978 film "The Buddy Holly Story."
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