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2 kids killed, 2 in serious condition after Mo. car crash
NEW MADRID, Mo. (KAIT) - Officials say two children were killed and three were injured when their car was hit by an 18-wheeler on a Missouri highway.
According to the preliminary crash report from Missouri State Highway Patrol, a 2004 Ford Expedition failed to yield around 12:10 p.m. Friday and pulled into the path of an 18-wheeler in the northbound lane of Interstate 55. The incident happened a few miles south of Marston, KAIT reports.
The Expedition, which was being driven by 34-year-old Startisha M. Brown, had six passengers from Memphis, Tennessee, five of whom were children ranging in age from 11 to 15. The sixth passenger was 30-year-old Tatrelisha M. Johnson.
Two of the children, an 11-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy, died from injuries sustained in the crash.
Two other children suffered serious injuries. A 13-year-old girl was taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital by helicopter, and a 15-year-old girl was taken to St. Francis Medical Center by ambulance.
Johnson, Brown, and a 14-year-old girl were all taken by ambulance to the hospital. The latter two are said to have moderate injuries.
The driver of the 18-wheeler, Daniel L. Wiggins of Pineville, Louisiana, was uninjured.
Portageville Fire and Rescue posted a media release of their response to the crash. According to officials, when fire and rescue got to the scene, all seven occupants of the Expedition were trapped. It took first responders over 10 minutes to rescue everyone.
The state highway patrol is investigating the crash.
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GUANGZHOU, China, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair 2022 (CIEF 2022) with the theme of "Science and Technology Innovation for Smart Future" kicked off in Guangzhou on September 2. This year's CIEF will last three days from September 2 to 4.
The CIEF 2022 is co-hosted by China Association for Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Central Committee of Jiusan Society, the People's Government of Guangdong Province, and the People's Government of Guangzhou Municipality, and co-organized by the People's Government of Guangzhou Municipality and Asia Digital Group. Held both online and offline, the CIEF 2022 has set up more than 20 exhibition areas for new-generation information technology, biomedicine and health, etc. It has established a high-quality and efficient digital display matchmaking platform through technical means such as AI, metaverse and immersive interaction to achieve data sharing, information exchange and accurate matchmaking.
Nearly 9,000 projects from all over the world participate in the CIEF 2022. During the CIEF 2022, more than 100 events such as innovation competition and achievement auction will be held offline to promote the commercialization and trading in scientific and technological achievements.
The value of projects for commercialization this year is expected to be no less than 12 billion yuan
"We must improve the mechanism for the transfer and commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, and pursue a path that integrates the innovation chain, industrial chain, talent chain, policy chain and capital chain," stressed General Secretary Xi Jinping.
As a brand event for showcasing the achievements of the widespread innovation and entrepreneurship strategy and a key service platform for the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, the CIEF is committed to covering the "last mile" in the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, providing services for innovation and entrepreneurship, promoting the agglomeration of factors of innovation, and facilitating the integration of government, enterprises, university, research institutes, financial support, intermediary service and users.
Since 2015, the CIEF has exhibited over 16,000 pieces of innovation and entrepreneurship achievements, and over 23,000 projects have been released on the achievement trading platform. The value of commercialized projects exceeds 60 billion yuan.
The CIEF 2022 focuses on the fields such as new-generation IT, intelligent and new energy vehicles, biomedicine and health, AI and digital economy. Livestreaming studios on online exhibition hall have been launched. Special events such as auction of achievements, technology transfer, project roadshow, and forum summit will be held to assist in the commercialization of more innovation and entrepreneurship achievements in Guangzhou and even China as a whole.
During the CIEF 2022, more than 2,700 exhibitors will participate in the online exhibition, and nearly 9,000 pieces of achievements will be involved in online display and matchmaking. It is expected that the value of commercialized achievements for the year will be no less than 12 billion yuan.
The functions of the online platform increase
This year's CIEF has extensively upgraded the online platform to create a higher-level "online" CIEF. The new platform highlights the new model and new experience for digital exhibition. It builds exclusive 3D booths and livestreaming studios for exhibitors through new technology use scenarios, virtual metaverse and immersive interaction at the online exhibition halls. It also fulfils functions such as online analysis of enterprise demands, intelligent matching, evaluation of achievements, signing of contract for intended cooperation, and service tracking.
The online platform of the CIEF will be connected with "Innovation China" platform. It provides services such as "expert pool", "project pool" and "demand pool" to bring together innovative resources such as enterprises, talents, services and finance. The CIEF will carry out more than 100 online and offline roadshows and matchmakings every year as a CIEF that "stays open throughout the year".
The increase in the functions of the online platform promotes the integration of online and offline CIEF. "Online" and offline functions will further complement each other, so that achievements will be used in more areas in a targeted manner, and more scientific and technological achievements will be commercialized, generate benefits in a market-oriented manner, and empower economic and social development.
Give full play to unique advantages and implement Nansha Plan
In June this year, the State Council issued the Master Plan of Guangzhou Nansha on Deepening Comprehensive Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao with Global Perspective (hereinafter referred to as the "Nansha Plan"), which is another major decision and plan made by the central government on the building of the Greater Bay Area from an overall and strategic perspective. According to the Nansha Plan, active efforts will be made to undertake the transfer and commercialization of innovation achievements in the fields such as electronic engineering, computer science, marine science, AI and smart cities in Hong Kong, and build a high ground for the transfer and commercialization of scientific and technological achievements in South China.
In order to promote the implementation of the Nansha Plan, the CIEF will leverage its unique advantages to help Nansha accelerate the building of an industry cooperation base for scientific and technological innovation, build a major strategic platform that keeps its foothold in the Bay Area and is oriented to Hong Kong and Macao with a global vision, and help Guangdong build a strategic fulcrum for a new development pattern.
The CIEF 2022 has set up the Nansha District Achievements Exhibition Area, an online platform for the CIEF, to introduce Nansha District policy on science and technology innovation, industrial policies as well as technological achievements, promote the gathering of national technological innovation resources in Nansha, and promote the establishment of a routine liaison mechanism for collaborative technological innovation with Hong Kong and Macao.
Exhibition area for popular science products and technologies set up for the first time
In a speech delivered at the National Science and Technology Innovation Conference, the Conference of the Academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Ninth National Congress of China Association for Science and Technology, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "technological innovation and scientific popularization are important for pursuing innovative development. Equal importance should be attached to science popularization and technological innovation."
Without a general improvement in scientific literacy, it will be difficult to cultivate innovation personnel of a higher caliber and rapidly commercialize scientific and technological achievements. The CIEF 2022 set up an exhibition area for popular science products and technologies for the first time in order to aid the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements.
At exhibition area, nearly 200 exhibitors showcase a wide range of popular science projects. A "close" contact with popular science resources and knowledge can stimulate the general public's interest and enthusiasm in science and technology, and then help them develop scientific quality and embrace scientific thinking.
The CIEF 2022 is committed to the domestic commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, and also works to expose more people to science and technology, so as to lay the foundation for innovative development, and maintain the country's innovation capacity.
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SOURCE Asia Digital Group | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/04/cief-2022-opens-nearly-9000-projects-all-over-world-participate-online/ | 2022-09-04T05:42:00Z |
TikTok star dies in skydiving accident
TORONTO (CTV Network) - Authorities are investigating the fatal skydiving accident of a 21-year-old TikTok star from Canada.
Funeral services were held Friday for 21-year-old Tanya Pardazi, better known by her TikTok handle “philosatea.” She was a philosophy student at the University of Toronto.
Pardazi posted about taking skydiving lessons in her last TikTok post on Aug. 22.
Skydive Toronto has acknowledged there was a fatal accident Aug. 27 involving a student. The student skydiver reportedly released the main parachute at an altitude too low for it to properly inflate.
Friends told CTV News Toronto it was Pardazi’s first solo dive. The 21-year-old was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
“Tanya had an interest in anything that was new and adventurous,” said her childhood friend, Melody Ozgoli. “Life was too boring for her, and she was always trying to do something adventurous.”
Canada’s South Simcoe Police Service is investigating the accident.
Copyright 2022 CTV Network via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. Gray News contributed to this report. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/04/tiktok-star-dies-skydiving-accident/ | 2022-09-04T06:26:30Z |
TikTok star dies in skydiving accident
TORONTO (CTV Network) - Authorities are investigating the fatal skydiving accident of a 21-year-old TikTok star from Canada.
Funeral services were held Friday for 21-year-old Tanya Pardazi, better known by her TikTok handle “philosatea.” She was a philosophy student at the University of Toronto.
Pardazi posted about taking skydiving lessons in her last TikTok post on Aug. 22.
Skydive Toronto has acknowledged there was a fatal accident Aug. 27 involving a student. The student skydiver reportedly released the main parachute at an altitude too low for it to properly inflate.
Friends told CTV News Toronto it was Pardazi’s first solo dive. The 21-year-old was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
“Tanya had an interest in anything that was new and adventurous,” said her childhood friend, Melody Ozgoli. “Life was too boring for her, and she was always trying to do something adventurous.”
Canada’s South Simcoe Police Service is investigating the accident.
Copyright 2022 CTV Network via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. Gray News contributed to this report. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/04/tiktok-star-dies-skydiving-accident/ | 2022-09-04T06:47:50Z |
Oregon Tech battled back from a two-set deficit to force a winner-take-all finale, but Lewis-Clark State outlasted the Lady Owls in a 150-minute marathon to open Cascade Collegiate Conference volleyball play Friday night at Danny Miles Court.
The Warriors (7-1, 2-0 CCC) claimed the 30-28, 25-20, 22-25, 20-25, 15-12 win – rallying from a 7-3 deficit in the final set.
“It’s never easy being down two sets and the easy thing to do is cash in your chips,” OIT coach Ken Murczek said. “I am proud that we played at a higher level in the third and fourth sets and felt that we had some good momentum going into the fifth. Leading 8-5 at the switch, I thought we were in a good spot, but unfortunately made a couple costly errors and opened the door and came out on the wrong side of it.”
Three consecutive kills from Kaylin Talonen gave the Lady Owls (3-4, 0-1) the 7-3 lead in Set 5 and had a three-point edge at the change-over. LC countered with eight of the next 10 points, including two key blocks at the net and a service ace, to take control and claim the win.
Set 1 featured 18 ties – with Tech having three set points and LC having two, before an OIT hitting error gave the visitors the early win. The Warriors bolted to an 8-1 lead in Set 2, only to see Paige Tevelde record back-to-back aces, drawing the Owls even at 11-11. OIT trailed 19-18 late, but a service error and two LCSC aces keyed a 6-2 run to end the period.
OIT powered their way through Set 3 and Set 4 – taking a 13-6 lead in the third frame behind three kills from Savanna Sterck. The visitors closed within 23-21, but a Sterck kill, followed by a Molly Grace spike ended the set. OIT rolled in Set 4, turning a 6-1 start into a 13-7 lead – as Ashley Ripplinger combined on three consecutive combo-blocks.
Talonen led OIT with 18 kills, while Grace had a career-high 15 kills. Sterck added 11 kills and five blocks, Ripplinger had a team-best seven blocks, Courtney Isom recorded 32 assists and four blocks, with Aubrey Kievit logging a match-high 26 digs.
Grecia Ung Enriquez and Lisi Langi each had 16 kills to lead LC, with Channa Hart leading all players with eight blocks. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/sports/oit-roundup-owls-lose-conference-volleyball-opener-in-marathon/article_bb2cf09a-2bef-11ed-8c7b-0340cb914d64.html | 2022-09-04T07:31:58Z |
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The Hawaii State Board of Education is in the process of developing its strategic plan for Hawaii’s public education system and has launched a Strategic Planning Engagement Survey as part of a comprehensive community engagement process.
The survey is designed to provide the public with the opportunity to share its opinions on the priority areas that the Board must focus on to improve the state’s public education system and provide insight into how well the system is currently meeting the needs of students, families, schools, and communities.
The public is invited to take the online survey, which should take no more than 10 minutes to complete, before the October 11, 2022 deadline. Results will be compiled and shared with the Board and the public in late October or early November.
In addition, the Board will conduct public community meetings throughout the state to discuss in more detail the public’s opinions and insights into how Hawaii’s public education system can improve in meeting the needs of all students. The survey is accessible by computer, phone, or tablet but can only be completed once on each device.
Diane is KITV4’s weekend evening anchor and weekday reporter. She hosts the Aging Well series on Tuesday evenings at 5, 6, and 10 p.m. She is a mother, a cat owner, and a yogi. | https://www.kitv.com/news/state-board-of-education-launches-strategic-planning-engagement-survey/article_e3e9d5ec-2c1d-11ed-a215-3bee52dcc29a.html | 2022-09-04T08:16:27Z |
Boy finds giant worm in backyard
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (RNZ) - A 9-year-old boy had one of the best days of his life when he discovered a giant earthworm in his backyard.
Barnaby Domigan found a worm that he and his mom estimate was about a meter long at the bottom of his family’s garden in Christchurch.
While his mom considered the earthworm “the stuff of nightmares,” Barnaby was delighted. The boy said he likes learning about “weird animals” and described the worm as feeling cold and squishy.
He named his find Dead Fred, according to Radio New Zealand.
After his dad took his photo with the worm, Barnaby and his family put it back in the garden.
“I tried to convince my dad to keep it in a plastic bag, but he wasn’t really in on that idea. I think it’s because adults don’t really enjoy giant worms in their houses, so if I was an adult, I would agree,” Barnaby said.
One expert said it appears to be a species of native earthworm, but a close examination would be needed to identify an individual specimen.
Copyright 2022 Radio New Zealand via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. Gray News contributed to this report. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/04/boy-finds-giant-worm-backyard/ | 2022-09-04T08:24:07Z |
Port Huron elementary school literacy program in need of volunteers
Looking to make a difference in a child's life? The Read for Life program at the Literacy Academy at Cleveland can provide that opportunity.
The program helps children improve their reading and writing skills and is in need of volunteers.
The literacy program is aimed at first and second graders from the elementary school that are below the reading levels for their ages. The program typically tutors around 30 kids per year. All materials are provided by the Read for Life program.
Read for Life has not been able to tutor students since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Christine D’Luge, co-director of Read for Life, said the program has lost some of its volunteers because of it.
“We’re all retired, and we lost three-quarters of our tutors,” she said. “They were afraid of getting COVID.”
D’Luge said that if not enough people volunteer, the Read for Life program may have to downsize to tutoring only one grade.
Tutors will work with the students one-on-one. Sessions take place from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday at the Literacy Academy at Cleveland throughout the school year. D’Luge said the program has shown to make a difference for the students involved.
“Through tutoring, our kids have made great advances in terms of standardized testing,” she said.
D’Luge said the students in the program are always enthusiastic about working with tutors. Typically, students will stay with the same tutor throughout the school year. D’Luge said the program is also gratifying for people wanting to help their community.
“All people have to do is show up and be a cheerleader for these kids,” she said.
Before becoming co-director, D'Luge was a tutor in the program. She said she has always enjoyed helping the students involved. She has seen many of the other tutors enjoy their time with the students as well.
"It's positive for everyone," she said. "It doesn't seem like work at all."
No experience in teaching is required to tutor for the program. Additionally, there is no age minimum. The only requirement is to pass a background check with the Literacy Academy at Cleveland.
People interested in becoming a tutor can reach out to D’Luge at roadlawyer@comcast.net. An orientation and training session will be done at the end of September.
Contact McKenna Golat at mgolat@gannett.com or (810) 292-0122. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2022/09/04/port-huron-elementary-school-literacy-program-in-need-of-volunteers/65464506007/ | 2022-09-04T08:38:06Z |
Boy finds giant worm in backyard
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (RNZ) - A 9-year-old boy had one of the best days of his life when he discovered a giant earthworm in his backyard.
Barnaby Domigan found a worm that he and his mom estimate was about a meter long at the bottom of his family’s garden in Christchurch.
While his mom considered the earthworm “the stuff of nightmares,” Barnaby was delighted. The boy said he likes learning about “weird animals” and described the worm as feeling cold and squishy.
He named his find Dead Fred, according to Radio New Zealand.
After his dad took his photo with the worm, Barnaby and his family put it back in the garden.
“I tried to convince my dad to keep it in a plastic bag, but he wasn’t really in on that idea. I think it’s because adults don’t really enjoy giant worms in their houses, so if I was an adult, I would agree,” Barnaby said.
One expert said it appears to be a species of native earthworm, but a close examination would be needed to identify an individual specimen.
Copyright 2022 Radio New Zealand via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. Gray News contributed to this report. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/04/boy-finds-giant-worm-backyard/ | 2022-09-04T08:46:42Z |
Most elections are, at least in part, reactions to the results of the last election. Usually, that means they function as a referendum on the last election's winners and their performance in office.
It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for the midterm cycle to focus on the conduct of the last election — a kind of referendum on the legitimacy of the system itself.
By that standard, 2022 qualifies as unusual indeed.
Donald Trump and his followers, who now represent the activist core of the Republican Party, have insisted on making 2022 a do-over of 2020. Their essential argument is not that President Biden has failed or been a bad president, but that he was never legitimately elected president in the first place.
Trump has in fact this past week demanded he be "reinstated" as the "rightful winner" of the 2020 election or that the election be re-run "immediately" because Facebook had been advised by the FBI not to trust certain stories about Biden's son, Hunter, during the 2020 campaign.
Trump continues to insist, after 20 months, that he won an election that he lost by more than 7 million in the popular vote and by 306-232 in the Electoral College. Neither he nor his acolytes have produced any evidence to undermine those totals. But they have eroded confidence in the system and its caretakers to the degree that a majority of Republicans tell pollsters they think the election was "stolen."
The rest of the GOP, including prominent leaders such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, would clearly prefer to talk about Biden and about inflation, gas prices, crime and immigration. But they cannot wrest the party's megaphone back from the man who has monopolized it since 2015. And whatever they think of Trump personally, they are as reliant as he is on the support and donations and votes of his followers. So they fall in line, or they fall silent.
The rise of election denial in the GOP
Moreover, a new generation of candidates has emerged and surged in GOP primaries by stressing their embrace of Trump's claims.
Trump has endorsed 159 candidates who are election deniers for state and federal offices this year, and about 80% of them have already won their Republican primaries, according to a survey by The New York Times. A separate survey by The Washington Post found 87 election deniers among candidates for offices that will matter to the vote certification of the next election in six battleground states he narrowly lost in 2020 (Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin). Of that number, 54 have already won their primaries.
"The 2020 election was stolen," say the MAGA candidates who wear Trump's favor, adding, "You know it and I know it." That statement of assurance is usually the only proof offered. And the crowd at the rally roars back its affirmation.
The "you know it and I know it" mantra is also available in a variety of display formats. You can go on Amazon today and order it on a package of 10 waterproof vinyl car decals, or go elsewhere for it on a doormat or on a polyester flag measuring 15 square feet.
From the standpoint of a fact-checker, there is no evidence of fraud sufficient to support that claim. After nearly two years of recounts, ballot reviews, expert examinations and court cases, that remains the bottom line. The 2020 election has been scrubbed and studied as none other in U.S. history, and the consensus conclusion remains that it was run more smoothly and counted more reliably than ever.
So why do Trump's people continue to deny the outcomes, and why do crowds cheer?
Perhaps, because in politics, myth can be as powerful as fact — and at times it may well be more so.
Claims of voter fraud have become integral to Trump's brand. But he did not invent the idea of a stolen election. He exploited it as no one had before, to be sure, but he was mining a lode that had been opened long ago and tapped as a rich source of grievance for generations.
Deep and tenacious roots
For the "election deniers," and for many Americans who accept the 2020 results but still think voter fraud is a big problem, the roots of these beliefs are deep.
The Heritage Foundation, long an anchor on the right among think tanks in Washington, devotes a page of its website to voter fraud and offers a database of cases. It also offers a disquisition on ballot stuffing and voter intimidation and other forms of malfeasance common in the 1700s and 1800s and early 1900s.
The prime example cited by Heritage is an election stolen by the notorious Democratic machine in New York City known as Tammany Hall. It happened in 1844. More recent examples cited include a mayoral primary in East Chicago, Ind., in 2003.
The figure of 1,182 is cited for the total of criminal prosecutions for voter fraud in recent years, most of them dealing with improper registration or fraudulent use of absentee ballots. They are listed as 2022 cases, but on further inspection they date back over a period of years and arise from primaries as well as general elections. The database does not mention that in 2020 alone there were more than 50 million votes cast in primaries and more than 158 million in the November election.
William Safire was a White House speechwriter for President Richard Nixon who later spent decades writing columns on politics and language for The New York Times. In his popular New Political Dictionary, he wrote extensively on "ballot box stuffing" and "cemetery voting." He, too, went back to Tammany Hall rigging outcomes for the Democrats in New York City in the 1800s, while also allowing that the Republican strongholds in upstate New York were often suspect in their reporting as late as the 1920s.
Safire noted that many had believed the 1960 presidential election was tipped to John F. Kennedy and running mate Lyndon B. Johnson by vote theft in rural Texas counties and the heavily Catholic precincts of Chicago, where the Democratic machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley held sway. One story often repeated among Protestant Republicans in Illinois described school buses shuttling nuns around the city on Election Day, unloading them to vote at every Catholic parish they passed.
Still, in Safire's treatment, these phenomena were historical artifacts of an era before mechanized and later digitized voting became the norm and cheating became more challenging. The Florida vote counting fiasco in 2000, which struggled for weeks to ascertain a reliable result, ended the era of complacency on this score. In the end, the Supreme Court upheld a count by which George W. Bush won the state by just over 500 votes, thus securing Florida's crucial contribution to his minimum-margin win in the Electoral College.
Since then, the administration of U.S. elections has been thoroughly examined and renovated. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) devoted billions to upgrading the election infrastructure, and many states instituted reforms of their own to facilitate and improve their voting and counting systems.
At the same time, the Bush White House was directing the Department of Justice to investigate thoroughly the possibility that voter fraud in major cities was padding the Democratic vote in swing states. The probe began in 2002 and five years later had little to show for its work. The federal Election Assistance Commission, tasked with finding fraud, reported that while some abuses had occurred, they were far from systematic or pervasive enough to matter much.
Nevertheless, the search went on and some U.S. attorneys around the country felt they were being pressured to prioritize prosecutions for voter fraud. Several resigned, and the allegations became part of the investigation Democrats began into the department after taking the majority in Congress in 2006. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, appointed by Bush in 2005, resigned in 2007.
Trump brings the issue back to the fore
Talk of voter fraud simmered down a bit thereafter. But the issue returned to prominence when Trump, after years of pumping up the "birther" conspiracy about Barack Obama's citizenship, shifted his focus to voter fraud in 2016. The only way he could lose, he said often that year, was if the election were stolen.
When he won that year, Trump still leveled angry allegations of voter fraud, perhaps because he had lost the national popular vote by nearly 3 million. He said between 3 million and 5 million non-citizens had voted in California alone, but he offered no proof whatsoever. He then appointed a bipartisan commission to find the proof, not just in California, but nationwide.
The commission was soon identified with the aggressive tactics of its vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who had sent requests around the country for extensive voter data. Many states, both red and blue, resisted or flat out refused. Dissension broke out within the commission, which disbanded after seven months without having found any evidence of voter fraud.
Nonetheless, Trump was back in the 2020 cycle predicting he could only lose if there was fraud, and that stance once again segued into a fury of denial and denunciations when he lost. While he struck out in the courts at the state and federal level (the Supreme Court refused to hear any of the appeals), Trump took his case to the public and has had considerable success in sowing doubt among his sympathizers.
At least one of the other Republicans eyeing the 2024 presidential election cycle, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has also made voter fraud a signature issue. In August, he held a news conference at which he announced the filing of charges against 20 Floridians who he said had voted illegally in 2020.
With rows of his "election police" posed behind him, DeSantis said he was outing ex-offenders who had no right to vote because of the seriousness of their crimes. It was later reported that at least some of the ex-offenders had believed their rights had been restored by a referendum Florida voters had approved by a big margin in 2018.
Getting stronger still?
Ricky Hatch is a Republican in Weber County, Utah, who has been an election official there since 2012. He is among several local election administrators from around the country who appear in a forthcoming book by CBS News reporter Major Garrett and David Becker, a previous longtime elections lawyer with the Department of Justice who founded the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research. In The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of "The Big Lie," Garrett and Becker detail the travails of the ordinary citizens on the front lines of the voting struggle.
Hatch said some of his neighbors cannot be persuaded even when he personally demonstrates to them how all the machinery of the process works right there in their home county. "They say, 'I know your machines have been hacked by China,' " Hatch reports. "I show them there is no means to hack the machines, that nothing is connected. They just say, 'They have been hacked, you just don't know it.' "
Hatch says he has heard objections from skeptics over the years, but nothing like the wall of denialism erected by Trump.
"I hate saying this, but he has the same characteristics as a cult leader," Hatch says. "He pulls people into a belief system. I thought it would die down. ... It's getting stronger."
At a minimum, the issue of voter fraud seems undiminished in its ability to galvanize certain categories of voters and create doubt about the outcome of elections.
Perhaps that should not be surprising. Voter fraud exists, but its prevalence and importance are less a matter of fact than of belief. Relying on that belief to explain away unpalatable election results is an exercise of faith, but one that millions find more acceptable than all the arguments and evidence from experts, courts and academics.
In the end, articles of faith are just that. Whether you consider faith to be higher than reason or simply unreasonable, such beliefs can be largely immune to factual refutation or rational argument. And they can be powerful motivators of human behavior, including at the polls.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-04/claims-of-voter-fraud-old-as-the-republic-still-work-as-weapons-for-trump | 2022-09-04T09:05:01Z |
HONOLULU (KITV)- Time is running out for food service businesses to go green. September 5,2022 the law kicks into place requiring Honolulu restaurants, food vendors, and food trucks to use only bio-degradable containers.
Lobster, softshell crab, short rib. When Saigon Grill sends out food to go, it's now going out in recyclable to-go containers. "Customers letting us know their food gets a little colder a little bit quicker, ” said Saigon Grill Co-owner Pila Langi.
The food truck Saigon Grill is one of the food service businesses preparing for Honolulu ordinance 19-30 to fully kick in. The law says the food industry can no longer use polystyrene containers, non-biodegradable plastic cups, plates, bowls, or give out plastic utensils. People have to ask for the utensils or go to the self-service to get it themselves. Many businesses were granted exceptions when the law partially activated in January. But as of the fifth, those exceptions are over.
Customers are noticing the changes. “They sit down they open up their food and ask where are their containers, forks, and everything. So they come back and ask why we didn’t put it in. We explain the situation, “ said Langi.
Saigon Grill says going green is hitting their bottom line. The new bio-degradable containers are more expensive. The customers may soon see the effects of that cost. “It affects us and it affects the customer as well. We do add a little bit here and there on the margins, “ said Langi.
Saigon Grill says customers are saying food sticks to the new containers more, and there's often more leakage. But conservationists say if changes like this aren't made, we may see something more harmful in our oceans.
“Our ocean is really becoming inundated with plastics. The UN says by 2050 there will be more plastics in our ocean than sea life,” said Ocean Voyages Institute Founder and Executive Director Mary Crowley.
And the sea means the world to Hawaii. “Surfing, sailing, swimming. The ocean also creates two out of three breaths we take. It is important to the health of the planet,” said Crowley.
Jefferson Tyler joined KITV after a lengthy stint in Reno, Nev. where he covered a variety of subjects. From wildfires to presidential elections, Jefferson takes pride in creating balanced stories that keep viewers’ attentions. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/new-law-on-to-go-containers-fully-goes-into-effect-sept-5/article_4e2a5a6e-2c2b-11ed-8f63-03e887670df8.html | 2022-09-04T09:47:40Z |
Henley junior running back Logan Whitlock dives into the end zone and scores a touchdown in the first quarter at Seaside on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Whitlock rushed for 128 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries as the Hornets won 22-21.
Henley defensive lineman, Owen Northcutt, left, wraps up Seaside running back Kyler McCleary for no gain in the first half Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 at Seaside. The visiting Hornets won 22-21.
Henley quarterback Shaw Stork delivers a blow to Seaside's Jordan Westerholm and muscles his way toward the first-down marker Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at Seaside. Stork threw a touchdown pass as time expired and rushed for a two-point conversion to give the Hornets a 22-21 victory in their season opener.
A swarm of Hornets gang tackle Seaside running back Jake White for a loss in second quarter Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 at Seaside. The Hornets shut out the host Seagulls in the second half and rallied for a last-second, 22-21 victory.
Henley running back Logan Whitlock draws a flock of Seagulls but moves the ball into Seaside territory late in the second quarter Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.
Seaside's Brady Jackson uses his slashing running style to escape the reach of Henley linebackers Owen Northcutt, left, and Thomas Bocci on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 at Seaside.
Henley junior running back Logan Whitlock dives into the end zone and scores a touchdown in the first quarter at Seaside on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Whitlock rushed for 128 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries as the Hornets won 22-21.
Rob Hilson/For the Herald & News
Henley defensive lineman, Owen Northcutt, left, wraps up Seaside running back Kyler McCleary for no gain in the first half Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 at Seaside. The visiting Hornets won 22-21.
Rob Hilson/For the Herald & News
Henley quarterback Shaw Stork delivers a blow to Seaside's Jordan Westerholm and muscles his way toward the first-down marker Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at Seaside. Stork threw a touchdown pass as time expired and rushed for a two-point conversion to give the Hornets a 22-21 victory in their season opener.
Rob Hilson/For the Herald & News
A swarm of Hornets gang tackle Seaside running back Jake White for a loss in second quarter Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 at Seaside. The Hornets shut out the host Seagulls in the second half and rallied for a last-second, 22-21 victory.
Rob Hilson/For the Herald & News
Henley running back Logan Whitlock draws a flock of Seagulls but moves the ball into Seaside territory late in the second quarter Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.
Rob Hilson/For the Herald & News
Seaside's Brady Jackson uses his slashing running style to escape the reach of Henley linebackers Owen Northcutt, left, and Thomas Bocci on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 at Seaside.
Henley High coach Alex Stork adhered to the coaching adage about going for the win on the road.
And it paid off for the Hornets in their season opener Friday night at Seaside.
Shaw Stork threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Luke Bennett as time expired and Stork than ran in a two-point conversion to give the Hornets, ranked No. 8 in the state in Class 4A in the preseason coaches' poll, a 22-21 victory against the host Seagulls.
Coach Stork said it wasn't just about going for the win on the road, however.
"It was pretty wet, so we were a little nervous of our snap/hold/kick operation. We felt like we had momentum, so we went for it," the coach said.
Stork hit Bennett on a slant pattern and then ran in the conversion around the end on the short side of the field to win it.
Logan Whitlock rushed 14 times for 128 yards and two touchdowns for the Hornets. Stork was 12-of-21 passing for 104 yards and a score and also rushed eight times for 41 yards and a TD.
Seaside led 21-6 until Whitlock scored on a 7-yard run with 1:12 left in the first half, pulling Henley within 21-14 at the intermission. Whitlock also tallied on a 4-yard run in the first quarter after the Seagulls opened the scoring on a 99-yard run.
Whitlock led the Hornets on defense with 6½ tackles, including four solo. Owen Northcutt added 5½ stops, with 1½ tackles for loss. Nolan Northcutt also made 5½ stops, with five of them solo.
Henley held the Seagulls scoreless in the second half.
"The defense really responded to the (halftime) adjustments and executed well," the coach said.
And the last-second heroics certainly made the ride home a lot happier.
"It was a really good trip for team morale," Coach Stork said. "The boys really bonded as group. A lot of guys contributed in that final quarter." | https://www.heraldandnews.com/sports/henley-goes-for-it-gets-win-at-seaside-in-season-opener/article_888e3f16-2bec-11ed-a455-bf6aac5fb910.html | 2022-09-04T10:05:06Z |
Teen shot by officer investigating sound of gunfire in Ohio
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - An Ohio teenager was hospitalized following an officer-involved shooting. Police were investigating after they heard shots fired.
According to Akron Police, officers were patrolling around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when they heard multiple shots fired. Officers drove to a home on Longview Avenue and approached the back to investigate.
Police say as officers approached the rear of the home, they encountered multiple male subjects, at least one of whom was armed with a handgun, WOIO reports.
During the encounter, one officer shot his department-issued weapon, striking a 16-year-old male suspect in the hand. Officers were able to take the subject into custody without further incident.
Officers administered first aid and called for an ambulance.
The 16-year-old was later transported to Akron Children’s Hospital in stable condition. His injury is considered non-life threatening.
Police say multiple firearms were recovered from the scene.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating.
Copyright 2022 WOIO via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/04/teen-shot-by-officer-investigating-sound-gunfire-ohio/ | 2022-09-04T10:20:43Z |
Latest version of Galen™ transforms diagnosis of prostate, breast and gastric cancer and includes expanded detection, user-interface, and workflow integration capabilities
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ibex Medical Analytics, the leader in AI-powered cancer diagnostics, today announced the launch and roll-out of Galen™ 3.0, a transformative solution offering new detection capabilities and a broad set of features to support pathologists in the diagnosis of multiple tissue types across various digital pathology workflows. Galen 3.0 is CE-Marked, approved in additional countries and now generally available to Ibex customers.
Creating a new modality for cancer diagnosis, Galen is the first and most widely deployed AI technology in pathology and used in routine clinical practice at laboratories, hospitals, and health systems worldwide. Galen supports pathologists across numerous diagnostic tasks during the review of breast, prostate, and gastric biopsies and helps improve the quality of cancer diagnosis, reduce turnaround time, boost productivity and improve user experience for pathologists. Galen demonstrated outstanding outcomes across clinical studies performed in multiple pathology labs and diagnostic workflows1,2,3,4,5.
Galen 3.0 incorporates the very latest evolution of Ibex's AI algorithms for detecting cancer and other clinically relevant features in prostate, breast, and gastric biopsies. To ensure very high accuracy and generalizability, Ibex trained the Deep Learning networks on huge, enriched data sets from laboratories worldwide that were digitized by multiple scanning systems, including rare prostatic malignancies such as intraductal carcinoma, neuroendocrine tumor, colorectal adenocarcinoma, lymphoma, and urothelial carcinoma. Galen also calculates a Gleason score, tumor size and percentage for each cancer slide, potentially enabling pathologists to save review time and reduce subjectivity.
"With an estimated 1.9 million new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States alone this year, we are excited to bring Galen 3.0 to pathology labs worldwide, providing clinically validated, automated decision-support tools that help pathologists diagnose cancer more rapidly and more accurately to support the high demand," said Issar Yazbin, Vice President of Product Management at Ibex. "Keeping our customers' needs central to our research and development, we are proud to deploy Galen 3.0, bringing enhanced detection capabilities, improved user experience, increased interoperability tools and ease of implementation into existing clinical workflows."
Galen 3.0 features an open API (Application Programming Interface) accelerating interoperability and seamless integration with image management solutions, lab information systems and digital pathology workflow solutions. The Ibex API is already used in multiple collaborations between Ibex and leading digital pathology partners where Ibex's AI findings are seamlessly integrated to the partners' solutions. Version 3.0 also includes new customizable reporting modules, enabling every customer site to tailor the slide and case reports according to their own needs.
Ibex Medical Analytics presents at the European Congress of Pathology which takes place in Basel, Switzerland, between September 3-7 (booth no. 1).
About Ibex Medical Analytics
Ibex is transforming cancer diagnostics with world-leading, clinical grade AI-powered solutions, empowering physicians to provide accurate, timely and personalized cancer diagnosis for every patient. Our Galen™ suite of solutions is the first and most widely deployed AI-technology in pathology and used as part of everyday routine, supporting pathologists and providers worldwide in improving the quality and accuracy of diagnosis, implementing comprehensive quality control, reducing turnaround times and boosting productivity with more efficient workflows. Ibex's Artificial Intelligence technology is built on Deep Learning algorithms trained by a team of pathologists, data scientists and software engineers. For additional company information, please visit https://ibex-ai.com/ and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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SATURDAY
Acoustic singer-songwriter Jonathan Foster performs: 8 p.m., The Great Untamed, 209 S. 3rd St.
SUNDAY
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
MONDAY
WHAT’S CLOSED FOR LABOR DAY: Albany County and city of Laramie offices are closed; the landfill is closed; trash and recycling collection that normally happens on Monday will be done Tuesday; post office, closed; most banks, closed; most retail and grocery stores, open; University of Wyoming administrative offices are closed and no classes; on the UW campus, Coe Library, Half Acre Recreation and Wellness Center, the UW Art Museum, UW Geological Museum and Wyoming Union are closed, and most transit services will be unavailable; Boomerang office, closed.
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
TUESDAY
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Reception at Wyoming Women’s History House: 4-6 p.m., 317 S. 2nd St., to celebrate 152 years since Louisa Swain’s vote in the first Wyoming election in which women voted with the same rights that men enjoyed in Wyoming. Free and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Free “American Trombone!” recital at UW: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall.
THURSDAY
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Business After Hours: 5:30-7 p.m., Western States Bank, 3420 E. Grand Ave.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
FRIDAY
NU2U street dance and costume party: 5-11 p.m., in front of the store at 5th and Garland streets in Laramie. Open for all ages.
Sept. 10
22nd annual Wyoming Buddy Walk: 9 a.m. to noon, Washington Park band shell.
Wyoming Archaeology Fair: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison and Historic Site. Free and open to the public, the fair will feature activities and educational booths, and the Wind River Dancers will perform traditional indigenous dance styles from 1-2 p.m.
Tailgate party for Wesley Foundation’s 100th anniversary: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tailgate Alley located in the stadium lot next to the indoor practice facility. The student ministry is marking 100 years at the University of Wyoming and First United Methodist. Free lunch picnic.
Summer Market Day at the fairgrounds: 3-6 p.m., beef barn.
Sept. 11
Special worship service for Wesley Foundation: 10 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1215 Gibbon St., followed by a potluck. Special guest Bishop Karen Olivetto will attend and preach. All are invited to reminisce with former Wesley Foundation members and meet the recent generation of the organization.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 12
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
Sept. 13
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Sept. 14
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Sept. 15
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Sept. 16
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Sept. 17
Walk to End Alzheimer’s: 9 a.m., Optimist Park, with music and food following the walk.
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Sept. 18
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 19
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Sept. 20
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 21
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Sept. 22
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Sept. 25
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 26
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Sept. 27
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 28
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Sept. 29
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Sept. 30
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
Oct. 2
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 3
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 4
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 5
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 6
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Oct. 8
12th annual Kids Pumpkin Walk: Noon to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. A fun family event featuring outdoor activities, indoor games, education, candy, treats and plenty of pumpkins. Cost is $4 for adults, 17 and younger admitted free.
Oct. 9
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 10
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 11
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Oct. 12
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 13
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Oct. 16
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. the second Monday of the month via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 17
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 18
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 19
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 20
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Oct. 21
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Oct. 23
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 24
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Oct. 25
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 26
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Oct. 27
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Oct. 30
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 31
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Nov. 1
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Nov. 2
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Nov. 3
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-sept-4-2022/article_2e480978-2bb1-11ed-ac99-ab3ad02908a9.html | 2022-09-04T11:50:56Z |
CHEYENNE – Billy Jack’s Pizza Pub will be there, whether you’re coming, going or just looking for a bite and a beer.
On Wednesday, the small-chain restaurant whose parent company is based out of Kearney, Nebraska, opened its third location, its second in Cheyenne, in the Cheyenne Regional Airport, 420 Airport Parkway West, Suite 1.
Originally, this location was scheduled to open in 2021 in tandem with the company’s storefront on South Greeley Highway, which is only operational via delivery and pickup. With construction delays hindering in the airport location’s schedule, the grand opening was pushed back until now.
The new airport location will have full dine-in service as well as a unique breakfast menu to accommodate for travelers. This will also be the first pizza restaurant in the city to open its doors at 5 a.m., in an effort to accommodate for those earlier flights from here to Denver International Airport.
Billy Jack’s was competing for this airport location from the start, according to founder and CEO Bill Winberg. While it was always a part of the business plan to secure this location, he told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Thursday, it’s still an exciting step.
“It’s still very exciting to have the success and be able to grow as fast as we are,” Winberg said. “There’s a really good following up there already. Hopefully, the word will spread, because everybody loves the food and loves the atmosphere.”
Due to the small size of this airport, Winberg has a unique expectation for the restaurant, one that airport Director of Aviation Tim Bradshaw apparently shares with him. Just like the restaurant that was featured within the airport’s original terminal on East 8th Avenue, they expect the majority of the client base to be non-travelers.
“With the following that we have, we’re pretty confident that it will become something like that,” Winberg said. “We’re all very familiar with the old Cloud Nine and how successful it was. We’re hoping that we can create that same type of scenario for this.”
But why is a Kearney, Nebraska-based pizza chain now outnumbering the outlets in their original location’s city with two stores in Cheyenne?
Simple. Winberg is a University of Wyoming graduate. The majority of Billy Jack’s shareholders are based in the Cheyenne area.
With this kind of support, the hope is that the airport and Billy Jack’s can develop a symbiotic relationship. The restaurant will give the relatively new airport more exposure, and the traffic of travelers and unique location for a community restaurant will attract customers.
The location also secured a bar and grill license, and provides a full-service bar. It is fully open to the public and customers do not have to be traveling to dine.
Billy Jack’s Pizza & Pub is open from 5 a.m.-10 p.m. every day. This location does not provide delivery or carry-out service. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/billy-jacks-pizza-pub-opens-airport-location/article_9f2ce292-2a50-11ed-af48-cbc65d0c8665.html | 2022-09-04T11:50:57Z |
Familiar and not always productive patterns have emerged over the past two decades for schools and communities shattered by mass shootings.
Some of those — including knee-jerk and politically motivated reactions — can actually work against solving root problems associated with school violence, according to security experts and others on the front lines of the issue.
In the immediate aftermath of a shooting, the news media, gun control and gun rights activists and mental health advocates all now routinely swoop in with dramatic images of grieving parents and memorial services, with emotional calls to action.
Federal and state lawmakers have also thrown money at the problem — often via one-time or short-term grants — to up security with more cameras, reinforced doors and more campus police and mental health professionals.
“You see the knee-jerk reactions of legislators. And it is frequently one-time, shot in the arm grants,” said Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, based in Ohio.
For many police departments and school districts — especially smaller ones — jumping through the hoops of applying for federal and other grants is too daunting of a challenge to take on. And if they do plunge into that process and are successful at securing a grant, the pot isn’t infinite. They’ll have to figure out long-term funding after the original money runs out.
“The grant process is not simple. You can put a lot of work into it and end up with nothing,” said Martin Sayre, community engagement commander for the St. Cloud Police Department, in Minnesota. “I’m not a professional grant writer.”
The St. Cloud police force has 116 sworn officers — including school resource officers at local schools.
Sayre said new and enhanced security efforts frequently require financial and operational coordination between law enforcement and school districts.
Striking a balance
Mac Sosa, chief of police in Stevensville, Montana (south of Missoula), said his law enforcement agency agreed to a 50/50 cost split with local schools for an on-campus officer. That is a common formula among school districts with school resource officers (SROs) on campus.
Sosa said he also tries to leverage regional and national training programs and resources related to active shooters, threat assessments and behavior interventions.
But Trump said the problem is getting longer-term sustainable investment in school security and moving beyond vendors offering infrastructure and “gadgets.”
“We are running into a number of people who want to do school safety on the cheap,” said Trump. “Many would rather do a one-time shot in the arm and install a few cameras. You have to strike a balance.”
No one solution
Sayre said police and school districts need to realize that all schools and campuses are not created equal when addressing safety and the deterrence of violence.
Newer and older school buildings are unique — as are urban schools compared to suburban and rural counterparts.
“They are all different,” Sayre said. St. Cloud police are looking at how best to secure and access classrooms and other doors after the widely-publicized school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
Sayre said secure and reinforced doors have proven effective in protecting students in past shootings. However, police had trouble entering the classroom during the Uvalde shooting.
Some police departments are making sure officers have keys, key fobs and maps of schools as they learn the lessons from the delayed Texas response.
“That is one thing we are working on in the short-run and long-term,” Sayre said.
Political corners
The national challenge is evolving the conversation from short-term attention and funding to long-term solutions that address school violence and its underlying causes.
“Are you being proactive or are you being reactionary?” said Amy Klinger, an education professor with Ashland University in Ohio and director of programs at the Educator’s School Safety Network.
Klinger said reactionary approaches too often center on political and media fights over guns and on active shooter drills that appease local worries but don’t actually fix anything. “Everyone goes into their corner and screams at each other,” Klinger said of the discourse and politics.
There were 97 shootings in classrooms and on campuses nationally this past school year and 943 gunfire incidents at American schools since 2013, according to Ronn Nozoe, CEO of the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
The Virginia-based group hosted a forum Aug. 22 with current and former principals from schools that have experienced high-profile shootings including in Columbine, Colorado and Parkland, Florida.
The forum focused on how school administrators who have dealt with previous shootings can help districts and communities who have suffered new violence.
In June, President Joe Biden and Congress approved a school safety package after the Uvalde shooting.
Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Martin said the measure offers more than $2 billion to help schools hire more mental health counselors and expand behavioral health services for students.
Federal school safety grant programs are administered by various agencies including the U.S departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Education. Those streams of funding have helped grow the school security to a $3.1 billion sector, according to a 2021 analysis by consulting firm Omdia. That is up from $2.7 billion in 2017.
The measure — which lacked enough congressional support for restrictive new gun controls — also offers $750 million to help states create and implement crisis intervention plans and to enact “red flag” laws that allow police to seize firearms from individuals deemed dangerous. The new federal measure law, which could face challenges under the Second Amendment, also implements enhanced gun purchase screening for buyers under the age of 21.
Red flag laws vary from state-to-state and give police powers to potentially confiscate firearms from individuals deemed dangerous. They do face criticism from Second Amendment adherents and scrutiny from civil libertarians concerned about potential overreach and use against those with unpopular or anti-government stances.
“We know big problems take big solutions,” said Martin at the NASSP event held in Littleton, Colorado ,where 15 people were killed at Columbine High School in 1999.
The difficulty has been getting those “big solutions” to stick.
Same old, same old?
Gun control advocates argue that without new restrictions — particularly on the AR-15 rifles favored by many school shooters — the carnage will continue.
Others say past efforts to focus on mental and behavioral health and to address a school bullying culture that, it’s been suggested, feeds the potential for shootings, have been short-lived.
“That’s cutting it for about a week and the kids are back to the same old ways,” said Brenda High, who founded Bully Police USA. High alleges her 13-year-old son committed suicide after being mistreated at his school in Washington state.
High, who now lives in Idaho, works to set up peer councils at schools to help address bullying.
Michelle Kefford is principal at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where shooter Nikolas Cruz killed 17 and injured 17 more on Valentine’s Day 2018. Kefford said during the Aug. 22 forum in Colorado that the focus needs to be on getting students to trust teachers and administrators enough to tell them about distressed classmates and potential threats. That, Kefford said, is violence as important as increasing spending for security and mental health initiatives.
That requires engaging students and overcoming unwritten school yard codes and social norms against snitching.
Kefford and the other principals at the event also said the scars from school violence never completely fade and memories can easily be retriggered and become retraumatizing.
In Florida, that’s happening as sentencing hearings are underway this month for Cruz, who could face life in prison or the death penalty.
“That is opening wounds for all of my staff, all of my students and the entire community,” Kefford said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/communities-demand-long-term-solutions-once-attention-fades-from-school-shootings/article_ef7bacb4-2bdc-11ed-890d-2fa315e7f44d.html | 2022-09-04T11:51:00Z |
CHEYENNE — While more than a third of Wyomingites who borrowed federal student loans would have their debt completely wiped out by President Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness plan, Republicans in the state remain critical of the initiative and are weighing alternatives.
Many voiced their concerns this past week that it would be irresponsible spending, discriminatory and could lead to an increase in inflation. They want to find other ways to support Wyoming students through financial literacy classes, encouraging career and technical education, and pointing them toward state scholarship programs.
Forgiving loans for those who have already taken them out is not on the GOP agenda.
“The Biden loan forgiveness plan does not magically make these loans disappear, nor will it bring down the cost of higher education,” said Gov. Mark Gordon in a statement. “Instead, this new and poorly thought-through government handout transfers the debt from borrowers to hardworking taxpayers, some of whom already diligently paid off their loans or chose to forgo higher education. This, among the many other fiscal policy disasters this White House has created, will only exacerbate inflation and continue to increase the costs of everyday goods.”
Biden announced Aug. 24 that $10,000 in student loan relief would be provided to Americans who earn under $125,000 a year, or $250,000 for married couples or heads of households. He said up to $20,000 would be canceled for Pell grant recipients. There will be a final student loan pause extended through Dec. 31, and individuals with undergraduate loans can cap their repayments at 5% of their monthly income.
Biden said nearly 45% of borrowers, or close to 20 million people, would have their debt completely erased. Wyomingites would have a large percentage of its federal student loan borrowers’ debt canceled in the nation if the White House follows through with the announcement.
Lawmakers react
“While Wyoming boasts one of the most affordable post-secondary education systems in the country, half of those who attended colleges and trade schools have student debt,” Rep. Cathy Connolly, D-Laramie, told the WTE. “The Biden administration’s move to forgive a portion of student debt is a welcomed and bold gesture.”
She said since the Biden administration has already forgiven loan debt to Wyoming businesses, it makes sense to similarly forgive the debt of the state’s most valuable resource, its people. Connolly said this lets people prioritize meeting today’s bills and savings for the future – and pumps needed money into the Wyoming economy.
Some Republicans say it’s a misguided policy decision, and the challenges with student debt have to do with mismatching the number of academic programs with the actual needs for them in the job market.
Sen. Brian Boner, R-Douglas, said he believes the nation needs to focus on teaching useful skills in the career and technical field, instead of “doubling down on a failed policy.”
“We have been looking for ways to address this by pushing more career technical education,” he said. “Not only do you spend less time in school, but you also are going to have a useful skill set once you get out of school.”
Boner recommends programs such as Wyoming Works, or educating students on more affordable higher education choices such as community college, trade school or joining the military. The state senator said serving in the military was how he paid for school.
He wants to see reforms on how loans are given out.
“No other type of loan is treated this way, where you effectively get an 18-year-old kid to agree to such a large amount of debt with no ability to really pay it back,” Boner said. “I wish we would treat student loans more like every other type of loan, where there’s a little bit more discernment involved, and that way we can prevent these situations from happening in the future.”
Gov. Gordon backs improving financial literacy, so borrowers have a better understanding of loans’ financial terms.
Michael Pearlman, Gordon’s director of communications, said Wyoming subsidizes higher education in some ways other states do not. He mentioned the Hathaway Scholarship and the new Wyoming’s Tomorrow Scholarship, which was signed into law earlier this year.
Tuition
Scholarship availability was cited by Rep. Landon Brown, R-Cheyenne.
He said there’s a place for solutions to the cost of higher education at the state level, and Wyoming has “already done an amazing job at this point of making college very closely affordable.” He said there’s personal responsibility to apply for scholarships, because local colleges are practically begging every year for people to apply.
“Every single year that I’m in the Legislature, I continue to see new and improved ways for college to become more affordable,” he said. “I do think this state has done a very good job, and it’s even in our Constitution to be as nearly free as possible.”
The amount of student loan debt Wyomingites have is 20% lower than the national average, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s data, which Rep. Mike Yin, D-Jackson, applauded. He said he’s glad that the state has an education system that allows debt burdens to be lower, and he’s supports Biden’s initiative.
“If you’re someone who has student debt, it means you aren’t able to buy a house, or you aren’t able to start a business,” he said. “Now those Wyoming citizens are going to be able to take those opportunities and take those risks that they haven’t been able to.”
Yin wants to address the underlying issues in higher education costs. He said $10,000 to $20,000 doesn’t solve the problem of ballooning costs.
For anyone who criticizes the student debt plan, or argues it might contribute to inflation, Yin said he would question whether the tax cuts under former President Donald Trump’s administration were seen in the same light.
Costs
Critics recognize how the student loan relief plan will benefit borrowers, saying they are concerned with the economic repercussions and moral ambiguity.
They warned there is no real plan to pay for the student loan forgiveness, or any real estimation of the cost. Some worry about inflation from higher spending by those who otherwise would use the money to repay student loans.
“This will be a multi-million dollar program, and to my knowledge they have no disclosed how the program will be paid for,” Sen. Stephan Pappas, R-Cheyenne, said in a statement. “My fear is that this will just add to our already huge national debt, which is already more than $30 trillion. We must quit spending like we have.”
Wyoming Republican U.S. Sens. Cynthia Lummis and John Barrasso voiced the same concerns. Lummis sent a statement to WTE, saying that according to the Penn Wharton model, it’s a reckless decision that will add $300 billion to the national debt.
Barrasso is a co-sponsor of the Debt Cancellation Accountability Act. It would require the U.S. Department of Education to obtain a congressional appropriation to pay for any federal student loan debt.
Pappas sees the program as discriminatory, because people who have already paid their loans have no ability to participate. He noted that once program funds are expended, it may be expected in the future, and this could further discriminate against students.
“And what about parents and students who took out personal loans or took it out of their savings? Will they get any relief?” he said. “If we want to be fair, there should be accommodation for those borrowers.”
Rep. Bill Henderson, R-Cheyenne, is among those worried about inflation. He said this may lead to higher fees and tuition.
Jacob Channel, Student Loan Hero senior economist and former Sheridan resident, said inflation is a possibility. He said because federal borrowers have had a pause on their student loan payments for the past two years, the extra money is already being spent or saved. This change, he expects, won’t have as big an impact.
Jasmine Hall is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s state government reporter. She can be reached by email at jhall@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3167. Follow her on Twitter @jasminerhphotos and on Instagram @jhrose25. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/republicans-cite-alternatives-to-student-debt-forgiveness/article_0d506762-2baf-11ed-bc67-3b37591363a4.html | 2022-09-04T11:51:06Z |
CHEYENNE — Wyoming is following the lead of federal health officials when it comes to getting newly updated vaccinations against the coronavirus.
On Thursday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky endorsed a CDC advisory committee recommendations for use of updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech for people ages 12 and older, and from Moderna for all adults.
On Friday, Wyoming Department of Health Public Information Officer Kim Deti told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that public and private partners will work to ensure vaccines are available to residents who want them. Updated COVID-19 boosters add omicron BA.4 and BA.5 spike protein components to the current vaccine composition, helping to restore protection that has waned since previous vaccinations.
Also Thursday, Laramie County was rated in the “low” COVID-19 community level category by the CDC. For much of the summer, the county had been at the “medium” or “high” levels. The federal agency didn’t immediately reply to queries seeking further details.
What the lower level means for Cheyenne and the surrounding area is that the CDC isn’t recommending everyone wear a mask in public indoors. However, the agency says, “people with symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19 should wear a mask.”
It appears as if Laramie County was last in the “low,” or green, CDC category back in April, according to a representative for Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. As other medical experts also note, the CRMC rep noted in her email to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that “these only represent reported cases” of COVID-19 infections, “as home tests are not reported much.”
As the CDC noted in a news release, “the updated COVID-19 boosters are formulated to better protect against the most recently circulating COVID-19 variant,” said Walensky. “They can help restore protection that has waned since previous vaccination and were designed to provide broader protection against newer variants. This recommendation followed a comprehensive scientific evaluation and robust scientific discussion. If you are eligible, there is no bad time to get your COVID-19 booster and I strongly encourage you to receive it.”
In the coming weeks, the CDC also expects to recommend updated COVID-19 boosters for other pediatric groups. The Food and Drug Administration in recent days authorized updated COVID-19 boosters.
Public health nursing offices and local health departments in Wyoming will be receiving more than 15,000 doses in the next few weeks. WDH’s Deti said out of that supply, doses may be shared with other COVID-19 vaccine providers in their respective communities. Pharmacies that are part of the federal retail pharmacy program may also have the updated boosters available in the next two weeks.
Deti expects additional orders can be placed in the next several weeks by vaccine providers. She said interested parties should confirm availability ahead of time with the location they want to visit for their vaccination. Such shots will continue to be free to all residents.
“These are intended to be a single booster dose for people who already completed what’s known as a primary series, such as two primary doses of a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine,” she said. “People who have not yet received a primary series would need to have those doses before these updated booster doses, with appropriate timing between.”
WDH doesn’t recommend people waiting until they are at imminent risk of infection, and instead they should get inoculated beforehand to prevent infection and serious illness. People who have already received a booster can get the updated dose if it’s been long enough since their most recent shot in the arm.
As flu season approaches, Deti reminded the public that residents can get flu shots and COVID-19 booster doses at the same time.
“We continue to recommend Wyoming residents stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations,” she said.
This article has been further updated online with information from CRMC about CDC indicators for Laramie County.
Jasmine Hall is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s state government reporter. She can be reached by email at jhall@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3167. Follow her on Twitter @jasminerhphotos and on Instagram @jhrose25. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/state-follows-cdc-in-recommending-updated-covid-19-boosters/article_59a8f648-2bae-11ed-ab56-9f859f25dd89.html | 2022-09-04T11:51:12Z |
WyoSports
CHEYENNE – Bridger Brokaw used what he learned during last fall’s Wyoming Invitational to establish his race strategy for Saturday’s race at Little America Golf Course.
It nearly worked to perfection as the Cheyenne Central junior placed second in a personal-best time of 16 minutes, 18.6 seconds. The Indians also were second as a team with 115 points. Laramie won the meet with 86 points, putting two runners in the top eight.
Brokaw held a late lead, but was nipped near the finish by sophomore Jackson Fagerlin of Resurrection Christian High of Loveland, Colorado. Fagerlin crossed the line in 16:17.1.
“I kind of went out slower and took the lead about 1.2 (miles) in,” Brokaw said. “I wanted to be somewhere near the lead at Mile 2 and try to hold on. He’s a little bit bigger and out-kicked me. I’m still happy because of was a (personal record).”
While Brokaw didn’t have enough left in the tank to out-kick Fagerlin, a change in his strategy put him in contention late.
The Little America course features two steep uphill sections that Brokaw attacked en route to a 14th-place time of 17:32 in 2021. He remained aggressive yet more measured on the hills Saturday.
“I knew hills were going to be tough, and I knew not to hit them too hard,” Brokaw said. “It shouldn’t take everything I have to get up those hills, but I also couldn’t go up them so slow that I was losing time.
“Those hills killed me last year. I knew it was going to be a hilly course but I wasn’t in as good of shape as I needed to be, and I went that them a little too hard. I prepared better this year and was a little more tactical.”
Senior Will Barrington placed 16th for Central (17:05.2) while junior Trevor Schmidt placed 24th (16:23.6).
The Cheyenne East boys were 18th in the 24-team field. Junior Brayden Colbert was the Thunderbirds’ top finisher, capturing 87th in 18:51.8.
Central’s girls also placed second, finishing with 138 points by placing three runners in the top 20. Dakota Ridge High of Littleton, Colorado, won the meet (116). Indians senior Sydney Morrell placed fourth in 19:09.5.
“Even though I felt terrible on this course, I still performed a lot better than I thought I was going to,” Morrell said. “The terrain is really tough. Last week, we were mainly on concrete and on flats. This week, we’re on spikes trying to get up these grassy hills.
“It was a big change. This is true cross-country compared to what we ran last week.”
Central senior Averie Perriton crossed the finish line 18th (20:35.6) and sophomore Rian Cordell-Reiner took 19th (20:44.8).
East was seventh, led by junior Ynes Ronnau’s 31st-place finish (21:18.2). Sophomore Rachel Hedum was South top finisher. She was 132nd in the field of 234 runners.
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/central-harriers-both-second-at-wyoming-invite/article_6a1fbf22-2bd4-11ed-8757-bb3ccab85729.html | 2022-09-04T11:51:16Z |
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CHEYENNE – Thunder Basin knocked off Cheyenne South in swimming, Saturday morning, 97-79.
South’sJaneah Brown and Hannah Fisher took home first and second place, respectively,in the 50-yard freestyle. Brown finished in 28.42 seconds, while Fisher needed 29.11.Brown also swam a 1:13.73in the 100-yard fly to finish in second place. Fisher also placed second in the 100 backstroke (1:12.92).
PaulaMusslickwon the 100-yard freestyle with a final time of 1:03.88. She also was second in the 200 individual medley (2:43.78). Keely Henderson was the team’s final first place finisher, winning the 500-yard freestyle with a final time of 6:26.82.
Central wins four duals in Laramie
CHEYENNE – Cheyenne Central picked up four dual victories Saturday in Laramie.
The Lady Indians bet Laramie (107-79), Kelly Walsh (107-73), Jackson (134-51) and Douglas (125-52).
Emily Meares and Izzy DeLay both won one event and placed second in another. Meares won the 100-yard butterfly (1 minutes, 4.51 seconds) and was second in the 50 freestyle (26.62 seconds). DeLay won the 200 individual medley (2:17.53) and touched second in the 100 free (55.38).
Senior Brinkley Lewis won 1-meter diving (235.5 points). Jaesa Whitesell won the 100 breaststroke (1:13.01). DeLay, Meares, Sydney Gough and Andie Prince formed the winning 200 medley relay team (1:57.56).
East take fourth at Green River Invite
CHEYENNE – Junior Sydni Sawyer placed second in one event and fourth in another to help the Cheyenne East girls swimming and diving team place fourth at the Green River Invitational on Saturday.
Sawyer was second in the 200-yard individual medley (2:27.13) and fourth in the 100 breaststroke (1:16.64).
She also joined Macradee Jackson, Shannon Bailey and Nzelle Ayokosok on the third-place 200 medley relay team (2:06.00). They also were third in the 200 freestyle relay (1:54.71).
Bailey finished fourth in the 100 free (1:00.81) and fifth in the 50 free (27.73 seconds). | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_south/grls-swimming-thunder-basin-knocks-off-south/article_42dce600-2bbc-11ed-890b-c373df70a204.html | 2022-09-04T11:51:29Z |
LARAMIE — Several girls swimming and diving teams from around the state competed at the Laramie High Natatorium Friday and Saturday for the first dual-scoring meets of the season.
The Lady Plainsmen hosted a triangular meet on Friday and picked up wins against Thunder Basin (134-49), Jackson Hole (129-57) and Campbell County (100-86).
Saturday’s quad meet featured LHS wins against Kelly Walsh (98-85), Jackson Hole (135-50) and Douglas (130-50), and a loss to Cheyenne Central (107-79) to end the weekend at 6-1.
LHS senior Ashlyn Mathes won two events on Friday, clocking in at 2 minutes, 2.73 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle and 5:36.46 in the 500 free. Senior Maya Peterson won the 100 backstroke in 1:05.02 and sophomore Rowyn Birdsley won the 1-meter springboard diving by tallying 220.45 points. Senior Therese Richardson was runner-up in the 50 free in 27.12.
Mathes and Peterson continued their win streaks in their respective events during Saturday’s meet. Mathes won the 200 free in 2:01.25 and 500 free in 5:38.39, and Peterson won the 100 back in 1:04.78. The diving was down to the wire with Birdsley finishing runner-up at 233.70, right behind Central’s Brinkley Lewis’ 235.50.
GOLF
The Plainsmen and Lady Plainsmen golfers competed Thursday and Friday at Rochelle Ranch Golf Course in Rawlins for the Outlaw Invitational.
The Lady Plainsmen were fourth out of five teams with a total to par gross of 217 over. The Central girls were at the top of the teams standings at 121 over.
LHS senior Grace Kordon finished in the top five when she was fourth with consistent two rounds of 95 for 190 total. Senior Samantha Kitchen was in the top 10 when she tied for 10th with rounds of 109 and 101 for 210.
Central’s Barrett Georges won the girls individual title with and 81 and 79 for 160.
The Plainsmen were fifth out of nine teams at 111 over. The Central boys won at 44 over.
Juniors James Trask and Colin Suloff paced the Plainsmen when they cracked the top 10 in a tie for 10th at 165. Trask had scorecards of 80 and 85, and Suloff turned in an 83 and 82.
Cheyenne East’s Nash Coleman won with a 5-over 149 with rounds of 74 and 75.
VOLLEYBALL
The Lady Plainsmen volleyball competed at the second early-season invititational, this weekend in Gillette.
The matches, with pool play on Friday, are abbreviated best out of three games. Saturday featured gold, silver and bronze bracket play with eight teams in each bracket.
On Friday, LHS beat Douglas 25-14, 25-13 and Rapid City Central 25-23, 25-19, and lost to Kelly Walsh 26-24, 25-12.
Laramie (5-4) spread the offense around to several players with junior setter Maddy Stucky distributing the ball for a total of 50 assists. Sophomore Savanna Steiert tallied 22 kills, including a team high 11 against Rapid City Central. Junior Noel Jensen and freshman Tessa Dodd led LHS against Douglas with seven and six kills respectively. Defensively, senior libero Taylor Tyser notched 27 digs and Stucky had a team high 12 against Rapid City Central.
On Saturday, LHS won its first match against Spearfish 25-7, 25-18. More information about out matches was not available before publication. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/laramie_high/lady-plainsmen-aquatics-host-season-s-first-duals/article_eada6818-2bef-11ed-bffd-432881b650b1.html | 2022-09-04T11:51:35Z |
Laramie junior Dominic Eberle placed fifth at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Eberle ran the 5-kilometer course in 16 minutes, 33.5 seconds. The Plainsmen won the meet with 86 points, putting two runners in the top 10.
Laramie junior Addison Forry placed 12th at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday morning at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Forry finished the 5-kilometer race in 20 minutes, 14.7 seconds. The Lady Plainsmen were ninth in the 23-team field.
Laramie senior Meyer Smith, center, placed eighth at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Smith ran the 5-kilometer course in 16 minutes, 51 seconds. The Plainsmen won the meet with 86 points, putting two runners in the top 10.
Laramie junior Dominic Eberle placed fifth at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Eberle ran the 5-kilometer course in 16 minutes, 33.5 seconds. The Plainsmen won the meet with 86 points, putting two runners in the top 10.
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Laramie junior Addison Forry placed 12th at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday morning at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Forry finished the 5-kilometer race in 20 minutes, 14.7 seconds. The Lady Plainsmen were ninth in the 23-team field.
Laramie senior Meyer Smith, center, placed eighth at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Smith ran the 5-kilometer course in 16 minutes, 51 seconds. The Plainsmen won the meet with 86 points, putting two runners in the top 10.
LARAMIE — The Laramie High boys proved they are the top long-distance running team in the region at the large Wyoming Invitational.
The high school races Saturday morning on a 5-kilometer course at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne featured packed fields with 24 boys teams and 23 for the girls from around Wyoming and Colorado.
The LHS boys had a low of 86 points. Cheyenne Central was second at 115 and Niwot was third at 121.
The Plainsmen placed two runners inside the top 10 in a field that had 222 runners. Junior Dominic Eberle was fifth in 16 minutes, 33.5 seconds and senior Meyer Smith was eighth in 16:51.0. Resurrection Christian sophomore Jackson Fagerlin won in 16:17.1.
The three Plainsmen were senior Cooper Kaligis (18th, 17:13.5), sophomore Gideon Moore (26th, 17:26.7) and senior Nathan Martin (29th, 17:31.8).
The Lady Plainsmen were ninth with 263 points. Dakota Ridge won with 116, Central was runner-up at 138 and Natrona County was third with 146.
Junior Addison Forry led the LHS girls when she finished 12th in 20:14.7. Liberty Common junior Isabel Allori won in 17:20.2. There were 234 student-athletes in the girls race.
The next two Lady Plainsmen runners were junior Leah Schabron (26th, 21:01.3) and freshman Libbie Roesler (33rd, 21:19.4).
Up next for the Plainsmen and Lady Plainsmen will be next Saturday at the Chief Nation Invitationals hosted by Wyoming Indian High in Ethete. The races will also serve as an early state preview at the same venue for the culminating state championships on Oct. 22. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/laramie_high/plainsmen-harriers-win-wyoming-invitational/article_ab9fdae0-2bcf-11ed-ae4b-932e5fdb3f2e.html | 2022-09-04T11:51:41Z |
CHEYENNE – Thayline Teixiera scored two goals to help Coffeyville (Kansas) to 3-0 win over No. 16-ranked Laramie County Community College on Saturday.
“We did not play well,” interim LCCC coach Jim Gardner said. “It’s hot and humid and we did not adjust. We went our real sluggish and played that way the whole game. That team was pretty fired up they were playing a ranked team, and we didn’t play like a ranked team.
“We have to play with a lot more intensity (today) like we did last weekend. We may not win, but we’ll stay in it and get something out of it.”
LCCC got just six shots on goal. It faces Barton Community College today in El Dorado, Kansas.
LCCC spikers drop two in McCook
CHEYENNE – The Laramie County Community College volleyball team lost to Barton (Kansas) 14-25, 25-20, 19-25, 17-25 on Saturday morning in McCook, Nebraska. The Golden Eagles later dropped a 19-25, 25-20, 25-21, 15-25, 8-15 loss to Butler (Kansas).
Rigan McInerney posted 11 kills against Barton, while Demi Stauffenberg chipped in with 10 kills and nine digs. Brooke Parker had 30 assists.
Against Butler, Stauffenberg had 30 kills and 13 digs. McInerney added 11 kills and 10 digs. Sadie Christiansen chipped in with 26 digs. McKenzie Earl posted 10 digs and nine kills. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/other_sports/lccc/colleges-lccc-soccer-falls-at-coffeyville/article_680ffd0e-2bf8-11ed-acde-3bbcaefe0414.html | 2022-09-04T11:51:47Z |
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LARAMIE – University of Wyoming junior quarterback Andrew Peasley completed just 25% of his passes during the Cowboys’ season-opening loss at Illinois, and while his receivers did not give him much help, he still missed quite a few open throws.
Peasley’s performance against Tulsa was a complete 180. He completed eight of his first 10 passes to start the game, including a 48-yard touchdown pass late in the second quarter. This let him get into a rhythm. In the fourth quarter, he completed 10 of his 16 passes, including a game-tying 51-yard touchdown pass.
“Our offense is based on our run game, and our quick (passing) game was decent today,” said Peasley, who finished with 256 passing yards and two touchdowns. Getting completions was big thing for me this week. Just getting the ball into receivers hands and letting them go to work will open things up.”
Peasley also rushed for a team-high 45 yards on 10 carries.
D-line makes a statement
After giving up 261 yards on the ground to Illinois, the Pokes defensive front came into Saturday’s game feeling like it had something to prove.
The defense held Tulsa’s rushing attack to just 61-yards and sacked quarterback Davis Brin four times. One of which was a strip sack that opened the scoring on the second play of the game.
“We got embarrassed in the run game last week,” sophomore middle linebacker Easton Gibbs said. “We wanted to go out there and make a statement that (last week) was not going to be a common theme all year. We came out and knew we had to be more physical.”
Special teams helps
Special teams came up with 19 of the 40 Cowboys points. The big-time play everyone will point to is the blocked kick by Ryan Marquez in the third quarter that was returned for a touchdown, but another play sticks out in coach Craig Bohl’s mind.
Just after Tulsa took a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter, Bohl had a decision to make. On fourth down, inside the Tulsa 40-yard line, he could either punt the ball away or kick a 55-yard field goal. Bohl elected to attempt the 55-yarder, and kicker John Hoyland nailed it.
“(That kick) spread a lot of electricity along the sideline,” Bohl said. “Now we are within one possession, and then things just began to go.”
No quit in WY
The offense had trouble moving the ball the entire second half. At the start of the fourth quarter, Tulsa scored to go up by 10. With 1:45 remaining in the game, running back Titus Swen fumbled to give Tulsa the ball back. After the defense forced a fumble, Hoyland missed a chip-shot field goal that would have effectively ended the game.
All of these things could have spelled certain doom for a team, but the Cowboys never gave up. They battled until the end and were rewarded for their efforts. It takes a lot for a team to not get down when things like that happen, but Wyoming’s mental fortitude was on display throughout the game.
“Its definitely huge (being able to overcome adversity),” defensive tackle Jordan Bertagnole said. “The biggest emphasis that we talked about on the sideline getting ready to go in on these last drives and overtime was just that we had to believe and know that we were going to win this game.”
While a win is a win at the end of the day, it was far from perfect. The Cowboys struggled up until the final quarter of the game, and really had a hard time getting out of their own way.
Passing defense
While the Pokes’ run defense was excellent, their passing defense was downright abysmal. They allowed 460 yards through the air, including multiple completions of over 40 yards. While mostly holding Tulsa’s passing attack at bay in the first quarter, things quickly fell apart completion. They gave up 202 yards passing in the second quarter, including three straight third-down completions that led to a touchdown.
In the third quarter, Tulsa converted on four consecutive third-down attempts, ending with a 41-yard touchdown reception by JuanCarlos Santana.
Third-down defense
Third-down defense also left a lot to be desired. The Pokes allowed Tulsa to convert on 50% of third downs (9 for 18) in the contest. This included six straight third-down completions in the third quarter before the defense was able to get off the field.
Despite the deficiencies, the team overcame them to walk out of War Memorial Stadium with a win. The mark of a good team is being able to win when all hope looks lost. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/peasley-rebounds-in-cowboys-win-over-tulsa/article_e31c8d60-2bed-11ed-9d16-e7d62b1a0d9b.html | 2022-09-04T11:51:53Z |
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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 2011, VIOFO has always been striving to enhance the image quality of dash cameras, covering all three channels, front+interior+rear. It is well known that the T130-3CH released last year greatly improves its night vision for interior recording enhanced by the newly adopted OV image sensor integrating ultra low light and near infrared technology. This year VIOFO has reached new heights in A229 Duo rear camera's resolution. As the upgraded version of the A129 series, this newly released A229 Duo dashcam innovatively features up to Quad HD 2K high resolution rear cam, the highest so far in the market for rear recording to give enhanced driving safety protection from both front & behind. What else is built into this newly released dashcam? Check full details as below.
2K+2K Front & Rear QHD Recording
A229 Duo supports Quad HD 1440P30fps front + Quad HD 1440P30fps rear recording. Some drivers say that tailgaters tend to back off when they spot a rear-facing dashcam installed on the car in front of them, making the rear-end accidents less likely to happen. Now with a 2K high-res rear camera, it can easily capture license plate numbers in a rear ended accident, or provide evidence if another car is harassing behind on the road. Built-in F1.6 aperture lens and WDR technology are also of great assistance to shoot more detailed images both day and night.
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Different from the VIOFO conventional 2 inch screen, A229 Duo dash camera is built with a larger 2.4 inch HD display which delivers a more direct effortless live view and improved performance in heat dissipation and better durability. In addition to" REC", "MIC", "Wi-Fi", two new LED indicators, "PWR" and "GPS", have been added on the front panel to help drivers easily catch the status of the cam and the functions enabled.
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USB-C Charging Cable & Power Ports
To accommodate more car models with different installations, the A229 Duo is equipped with a reversible USB-C charging cable and two USB-C power ports, one on the left side of the front cam and one on top of the GPS module. Compared to micro USB cables, USB-C cables can carry more power and reliably offer a more stable power supply.
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Built-in GPS Mount
The GPS mount can track the route, speed and time data in the video file, allowing compatible viewers to display on playback. It will also keep the camera clock synchronized with GPS time so that the video files are correctly time stamped.
3 Advanced Parking Modes
The A229 Duo dashcam has three advanced parking modes, Auto Event Detection, Timelapse, and Low Bitrate Recording, which help drivers to capture full evidence during parking.
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When the engine is off, the HK4 hardwire kit will ensure continuous power for parking monitoring and provide low voltage protection for your car's battery. What's more, its ACC function can automatically switch between parking mode and normal recording without waiting. - Circular Polarizing Lens
The CPL (Circular Polarizing Lens) can be used to reduce reflections and glare from the window glass and road surfaces. It works in the same way as polarized sunglasses and significantly improves image quality and contrast in many situations. - Bluetooth Remote Control
The Bluetooth emergency remote control can be positioned in a convenient location allowing for safe and easy use while driving. Pressing the button will instantly lock the current video clip and image.
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It was just after 4 a.m. when an attack that would shock the world began — quietly.
Eight men in tracksuits hopped the fence at Munich's Olympic Village, carrying with them Kalashnikov rifles and grenades in duffel bags.
They were members of the group Black September — an affiliate of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Their mission was to hold Israeli athletes hostage and demand the release of 236 prisoners: 234 in Israel and the two leaders of the West German Baader-Meinhof terrorist group.
Their mission failed. About 20 hours after it began, five of the hostage-takers would be dead, along with 11 members of Israel's Olympic team and a West German policeman.
But the Munich massacre of Sept. 5 to 6, 1972, would have lasting repercussions on an international scale, waking up Western governments to the threat of terrorism, showing the power of live broadcast and setting the stage for future violence.
"The cheerful Games"
Munich 1972 was supposed to be the opposite of Berlin 1936. Nearly three decades after the Holocaust, West German authorities went to pains to try to erase symbolism of the country's Nazi past. The light blue Olympic emblem, "Radiant Munich," as the International Olympic Committee notes, symbolized "light, freshness, generosity." The event's motto was "the cheerful Games."
"They wanted to come across as playful, as laid back, congenial. Not a police state," says David Clay Large, a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games.
Authorities were aware of security threats, but they were coming from different directions. There was the Red Army Faction, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof's leftist group, which had carried out bombings in West Germany that year. The far-right National Democratic Party of Germany was a concern, as were other groups, Large says.
Despite warnings, the idea of a Palestinian group carrying out an attack was not "at the top of their list for possible dangers," Large says.
The Games had already gone on for 10 days without a serious incident, and security officials had let down their guard. The gunmen, having already scouted the location, easily slipped into the building that housed the Israelis. They knew which apartment to go to.
Black September ended up with nine hostages, after killing wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano, who had both fought back against the attackers.
The group demanded the release of 236 prisoners, most of them Palestinians in Israeli custody, and threatened to kill hostages otherwise.
As West German authorities scrambled to figure out how to respond that morning, the Games resumed as normal. It was at least seven hours into the hostage situation by the time events were halted.
The hostage crisis was viewed globally as it unfolded
When television networks finally switched to covering the hostage crisis, it created the aspect of the attack most notable today: It was the first time a terrorist incident had reached a global audience during a live broadcast.
At the Olympic press center, 11 monitors showed the ongoing athletic events while another three were trained on the building where the Israelis were being held hostage. Dave Marash was a CBS Radio reporter at the time. "Those simultaneous images flickering on those monitors struck me as the most incongruous, most inappropriate, most flat surreal visual memory of my life," he told NPR in 2002.
The hours dragged on as West German authorities worked to buy time. Their response was uncoordinated. Security was in the hands of state authorities, not federal ones. They had no expertise in dealing with hostage situations. Calling in the army wasn't an option — West Germany's postwar constitution limited the domestic use of the army during peacetime.
"What they tried to do was negotiate their way out. That was their only recourse," Large says. But the West Germans had no way to give Black September the main thing it wanted: the release of the prisoners. Israel's prime minister, Golda Meir, said no. She told the West Germans they were responsible for getting the hostages out.
The West Germans came up with a plan. Black September was told it would be able to take a plane with its hostages to Cairo. On the plane would be West German police disguised as members of the plane's crew, who would overpower the terrorists.
Late that evening, the gunmen and their hostages were flown by helicopters to the Fürstenfeldbruck air base outside Munich, where the plane was waiting.
Significant problems immediately became apparent. The police officers who were supposed to be on the plane backed out, saying it was too dangerous. Plan B was to use snipers to kill the hostage-takers as they emerged from the helicopters and tried to board the plane. But the police had no expert snipers and no proper equipment. And they didn't know how many Black September members were in the group.
"The attempt to pick off these commandos turned out to be an absolute fiasco," Large says. "They ended up shooting five of them, five of the eight commandos, but not before the commandos then killed in cold blood all of the remaining nine hostages."
A West German policeman was also killed in the exchange of gunfire. Three of the Black September members escaped but were soon captured.
Initial reports coming out of the air base said the rescue was a success. It wasn't until early on Sept. 6 that officials confirmed that all the Israelis had been killed.
ABC sportscaster Jim McKay, who had anchored coverage throughout the day, made the announcement to world audiences at 3:24 a.m.: "They're all gone."
New exposure for acts of terrorism and the Palestinian cause
About 900 million people are believed to have watched the hostage crisis on television.
"From start to finish, it was the first time terrorists had hijacked a televised event and turned it into their own drama," says Bruce Hoffman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who has studied terrorism for decades.
In 1968, about 11 international terrorist groups were operating. A few years after the Munich massacre, that number was more than 50, Hoffman says. A large reason for that was the global attention the attack received.
"I think other aggrieved persons saw terrorism as a vehicle to attract attention to themselves and their cause and also coerce governments. I mean, you had these small nonstate actors ... with limited weaponry and constrained capacity for violence, forcing governments to deal with them," Hoffman says.
The impetus for the attack, of course, did not come out of nowhere, having its origins in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a conflict between Jordan and the PLO.
The incident, though horrific, gave new attention to the Palestinian cause. More than a million Palestinians had been refugees since Israel's creation in 1948 and the wars that followed, but global powers had been largely ignoring their plight.
Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and the director of its Program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs, notes that the U.S. and the Soviets were preoccupied with the Cold War.
The Munich attack, as well as other terrorism connected to the PLO, "was really a double-edged sword," he says. "It brought attention to the Palestinian issue, but it's mostly negative attention."
He says it was likely part of a two-pronged approach by the PLO: active diplomacy combined with militant attacks that were carried out with plausible deniability.
"And these kinds of violent attacks actually succeed in putting the issue on the international agenda," Elgindy says. From there, the PLO notched two diplomatic wins: 20 Arab League countries recognized the organization as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" in October 1974. A month later, the United Nations gave the PLO observer status.
Israel begins a sweeping retaliation
Palestinian militants had previously hijacked several planes in incidents starting in 1968, and Japanese terrorists recruited by a Palestinian group massacred 26 people at Israel's Lod Airport in May 1972.
But Israel considered the brazenness of an attack against its athletes to be a new extreme.
In the days after the Munich massacre, Israel launched airstrikes and raids on PLO bases in Syria and Lebanon, destroying bridges and houses. Over 200 people may have been killed, including women and children, according to Large.
Relations between West Germany and Israel had been improving since the mid-1960s but were now at another low point after the attack during the Olympics. Tensions were further inflamed less than two months later when Black September sympathizers hijacked a Lufthansa flight on Oct. 29, 1972, demanding that the three Black September members in West German detention be freed.
The West Germans quickly complied. The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre arrived in Libya to a hero's welcome, given refuge by Moammar Gadhafi.
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was enraged. She authorized Israeli assassination squads to take out those involved in planning the Munich attack. Operation Wrath of God lasted some 20 years.
Accounts vary on how many people directly connected to the attack were killed by Israel. In one infamous case, agents killed a waiter in Norway whom they mistook for a PLO official.
"They didn't get all the culpable figures involved," though they did kill some innocent people, Large says. "This was not a delicate operation on the part of Israel. And it further inflamed the extreme tensions in the Middle East."
The attack spurred the development of counterterrorism forces
It's impossible to capture every ripple effect of the attack, but terrorism scholars note that one distinct change was in how Western governments thought about international terrorism as a threat, long before the 9/11 attacks.
"If Germany suffered such a gruesome, huge attack and failed so colossally, then we could be next. So we better prep," says Ronit Berger Hobson, outlining what governments were thinking at the time.
Hobson, a lecturer in politics and international relations at Queen's University Belfast, recently outlined the international security response to the Munich massacre in an article in the journal Israel Affairs, co-authored with professor Ami Pedahzur of the University of Texas at Austin.
Multiple governments created new special forces to respond to hostage situations and terrorism — they never had them before. West Germany promptly organized the GSG 9 police unit. France, Britain and the U.S. followed with similar forces, as part of the police or the military.
Israel already had its Sayeret Matkal unit, which had origins in intelligence-gathering. (During the hostage crisis, Israel offered to send this force in, but West Germany rejected the help.) But the Munich attack and others led to a proliferation of special forces units within Israel's security services with a renewed focus on counterterrorism, Hobson says.
Those special forces were able to demonstrate successes in the years that followed. In 1976, Israeli forces successfully rescued hostages in Entebbe, Uganda. The GSG 9 succeeded in freeing hostages from a hijacked plane in Somalia in 1977. As Hobson and Pedahzur note, France's Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale freed hostages aboard an Air France flight in 1994.
Some missions failed as well, including when terrorists killed or injured most hostages in Ma'alot, Israel, in 1974 and the U.S. attempt to rescue hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, in 1980.
The Olympics were forever changed
The Olympic Games were suspended for a total of 34 hours, with a memorial for the Israelis held in the main competition stadium the morning of Sept. 6. But International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage declared that the "Games must go on."
The remaining members of the Israeli team quickly flew home, under orders from Meir.
Shaul Ladany, now 86, a racewalker who survived the attack by escaping early on, said he would have liked to have stayed for the remainder of the Games.
Countries hostile to Israel had tried unsuccessfully to keep Israel from competing in various sports forums, he told NPR. "After we lost 11 of our people, with our own hand we gave them that satisfaction that they kicked us out of the Olympic Games."
From a security standpoint, the Olympics would never be the same.
Organizers of subsequent Games were forced to devote more to prevent future attacks. "The security budgets just dramatically shot up," says Large, with the 1976 Montreal Olympics spending 50 times more on security than Munich had spent. China spent $6.5 billion on security alone for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The trend toward ballooning security budgets — for personnel, surveillance, equipment, infrastructure and more — continues to the present, one of the factors that make any government think hard about costs before offering a bid.
Perhaps the security budgets have kept the events of Munich from being repeated — though terrorism would strike the Olympics again in Atlanta in 1996, when a bomb exploded, killing one person directly and another person indirectly and injuring more than 100.
It was a half-century ago that Munich presaged for the world the era of international terrorism — only fully crystallized to Americans on 9/11.
"It was basically sending the message, because the theme of the Olympics is peace and cooperation. And if the Olympics weren't safe, nothing would be," says Hoffman, the terrorism researcher. "It ushered in, I think, the modern era of terrorism that we're still enmeshed in today and can't escape."
The book One Day in September by Simon Reeve served as an additional resource for this story.
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TEREHOVA, Latvia — The road carrying a mile-long stream of semi-trucks waiting to enter Russia from Latvia is lined with port-a-potties and dumpsters full of junk-food wrappers and empty caffeinated soda bottles. The wait to get through this border crossing takes around two days.
"You should have seen this line two months ago," recalls Belarusian trucker Dmitri, who sits in the cab of his truck passing the time watching Russian television. "There were more than a thousand trucks and it took at least seven days to cross into Russia."
Dmitri, who doesn't give his last name for fear of being targeted for his opinions, has been idling here for two days, inching toward the front of the line. The mustachioed man in his 50s says he's transporting a trailer full of beer from Germany to Moscow, and he says because his country has aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has impacted his work and reputation.
"I've lost work from this and people treat me worse than before," he says. "I was in Lithuania a few days ago trying to eat at a Ukrainian restaurant there, and they wouldn't let me. They kicked me out and told me to get my food from Putin instead."
Dmitri says he ate at a restaurant across the street, but the incident stuck with him. "The leaders behind this war aren't suffering from it," he says. "It's us, the regular people, who have to suffer."
Latvia, a member of NATO and the European Union, has pushed for a strong global response to Russia's war in Ukraine. The country's 180-mile border with Russia has become tense as a result. Long lines of trucks at border crossings illustrate the toll economic sanctions against Russia and Belarus have taken, and anxieties among those living along the border are also on the rise.
Some of those in Latvia are stateless
Farther back in line is Anatoly Chibaterevsky, who's driving 1,000 miles from his home in western Latvia to his brother's funeral in Volgograd, a city in southwest Russia. The 75-year-old has lived in Latvia most of his life. He doesn't say what country he was born in, but explains that his family moved here as part of the Soviet occupation of the country shortly after World War II, and returned after being deported to Siberia for a decade's worth of hard labor in 1949.
When Latvia gained independence in 1991, Chibaterevsky was one of tens of thousands of ethnic Russians who were never given Latvian citizenship. He is essentially stateless. He rifles through his suitcase and emerges with his passport, which says "Latvian noncitizen" on its burgundy cover.
He says he hopes the Russians let him enter. "They usually let me cross with no problems," he says, "but last time they told me, 'You ran away from Russia, so you're staying in Latvia.'"
Ethnic Russians are a large minority in Latvia
Ethnic Russians like Chibaterevsky only make up a quarter of Latvia's population of 2 million, but they're the norm in the towns along the eastern border, where many of them speak Russian and identify with Russia. And up until recently, they got much of their information about the world from Russian TV.
"Russian channels are now blocked and since Russia has been declared the aggressor, we just follow orders and watch what we're being ordered to watch," says Nadezhda Kravchenko, who lives in the Latvian border town of Zilupe.
When asked how Russia's war in Ukraine is affecting her, she says Latvia has no power over the situation, that it's none of her business, and then walks away without saying another word.
Nearly everyone NPR approached in Zilupe was hesitant to talk about the war.
"Everyone is afraid to tell you what they really think, but I'm not," says Jurijs, a 65-year-old pensioner who says he's not scared to talk about the war, but doesn't give his last name for fear of being targeted by authorities.
He says he watches both Russian and Latvian news and he's decided the Latvian side is propaganda. "Ukrainians are fascists and the U.S. gives them weapons," he complains, repeating talking points from Russian state TV. "Russia has liberated them, but they continue to plant land mines and bomb kindergartens and hospitals. Why is Ukraine doing this?"
Latvian authorities are cracking down on public support of Russia, and that's why Jurijs says nobody here wants to openly talk about the war. "They can put you in jail for that," he says. "But I'm old. Let them put me in jail for supporting Russia. When Russia invades, they'll come and liberate me."
Some Russian-speakers seem to be changing their views on the war
A poll taken earlier this year by Latvian research firm SKDS showed only 25% of Latvians who spoke Russian at home sympathize with the Ukrainian side in the war, while 83% of Latvian speakers supported Ukraine. In another poll conducted by the same firm, 36% of Russian-speakers in Latvia believed that Russia was fighting "Naziism" in Ukraine, a narrative pushed by Russian state television, while just 6% of Latvian speakers believed the same to be true.
"What we know from surveys done before the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that a majority of Russian speakers in Latvia actually had favorable views regarding Russia and Putin," says SKDS Executive Director Arnis Kaktins. "The reason for that is quite a large part of this population lived in the Russian information field, and we know it is very specific, distorted propaganda, and inevitably you are going to believe it and start to think the same way."
Kaktins says the polls his firm have taken since the war began show an increasing number of Russian-speaking Latvians changing their views to a more nuanced and critical stance on Russian state narratives. Kaktins says young Russian-speaking Latvians tend to be the most critical of Russia's government.
A Ukrainian seeks a roundabout route to the Donbas
Back at Latvia's Terehova border crossing, cars inch forward toward Russia. Among them is the Toyota SUV of Natalia Kononenko, who never thought she'd be here. She's Ukrainian, and she's driven nearly 1,000 miles from Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, where she's been staying, as her home region of Donetsk in the eastern part of her country is being fought over by Russian and Ukrainian troops. Her son, a young student, is stuck there.
"There's talk that the Russians will take over the rest of our region and then we'll have to make a decision to be on one or other side," she says. "But until now, no one is forcibly taking us anywhere."
And that's why Kononenko is on a rescue mission to pull her son out of the Donetsk region. Instead of driving a few hundred miles through the fighting on the front line and risking getting killed, she's driving thousands of miles, circumnavigating Ukraine, so that she can approach Donetsk from Russia, a journey that'll take several days.
She's praying that the Russian border guards will allow her into the country. "There shouldn't be a problem, but we don't know," she says with a nervous grin. "We'll just keep on driving and hope for the best."
Behind her in the line is Anatoly Chibatersvsky, the Latvian noncitizen who's also hoping to get to the other side. "There are benefits to being a noncitizen," he concedes. "With my passport I don't have to buy visas for the EU nor for Russia."
He says even his children who are eligible for Latvian citizenship have opted to be like him and remain stateless. In today's world of national allegiance and the wars fought over it, he says being stateless is, in some ways, a relief.
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Last week, students returning to campus at Oberlin College in Ohio got a shock: A local news outlet reported that the campus' student health services would severely limit who could get contraception prescriptions. They would only be given to treat health problems — not for the purpose of preventing pregnancy — and emergency contraception would only be available to victims of sexual assault.
It turned out the college had outsourced its student health services to a Catholic health agency – and like other Catholic health institutions, it follows religious directives that prohibit contraception to prevent pregnancy. They also prohibit gender-affirming care.
"I would characterize the student's reaction as outrage," says Remsen Welsh, a fourth-year Oberlin student and co-director of the student-run Sexual Information Center on campus. "A lot of people in my circles were sending [the news story] around like, what is happening?"
Although the college quickly came up with a new plan to offer reproductive health services to students on campus, the incident at Oberlin shows the wide reach of Catholic health care in the U.S., and how the rules these institutions follow can limit access to contraception.
Now that many states – including Ohio – have adopted restrictions or outright bans on abortion, that's also raised the stakes for contraception access.
Religious restrictions affect many health care settings
Issued by the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, the Ethical and Religious Directives that guide Catholic health care systems "prohibit a broad swath of reproductive care," including birth control pills, IUDs, tubal ligation and vasectomies, says Dr. Debra Stulberg, a professor of family medicine at the University of Chicago who has researched how these directives play out in health care.
Catholic hospitals have long been a mainstay of health care in America. And these days, the directives apply to a wide range of settings where people seek reproductive health care – including urgent care centers, doctors' offices and outpatient surgery centers that have been bought by or merged with Catholic health systems.
They can also apply when Catholic health agencies are hired to manage health care services for other institutions, which is what happened at Oberlin.
Four of the 10 largest health care systems in the country are Catholic, according to a 2020 report. In some counties, they dominate the market. In 52 communities, the report found, a Catholic hospital is the only one around within a 45-minute drive.
"After all this consolidation, this is where it shakes out, where we've got about 40% of reproductive age women living in areas with high or dominant Catholic hospital market share," says Marian Jarlenski, a health policy researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, who examined the data in 2020.
'Not transparent at all'
Patients often aren't aware that these restrictions might affect the care they get, says Lois Uttley, a senior advisor with the health advocacy group Community Catalyst. They may not realize their hospital or doctor's office has Catholic ties. For instance, Common Spirit Health, one of the nation's biggest health systems, is Catholic, but you wouldn't know it from its name. And Uttley says Catholic health institutions typically don't publicize these policies.
"They are not open and transparent about it at all," Uttley says. "We think it's only fair that a patient be warned ahead of time about what she may or may not be able to get at a local doctor's office or urgent care center or hospital."
In a campus bulletin posted on Tuesday, Oberlin's president, Carmen Twillie Ambar, said Oberlin had only recently learned that these restrictions would be enforced by Bon Secours, the large Catholic health system whose subsidiary was hired to run the college's health services. Bon Secours told the local Chronicle-Telegram that it would only offer birth control prescriptions for medical reasons – an exception allowed under the religious directives.
When workarounds are all you've got
In practice, many doctors who work for Catholic-owned or affiliated health providers routinely rely on "medical condition" exceptions as a way to get around religious restrictions on contraception, Stulberg's research has found.
For example, hormonal IUDs can be used to control heavy menstrual bleedings, so doctors will often say they're providing the IUD to treat this condition, even if the real goal is contraception.
Or doctors who aren't allowed to perform a tubal ligation might instead remove the tubes altogether — they'll just say it's to lower a patient's risk of ovarian cancer. Dr. Corinne McLeod, an OB/GYN at Albany Medical Center, says these kinds of workarounds were pretty common when she worked at a Catholic hospital in Albany, N.Y.
"That was basically a wink, wink, nudge, nudge," McLeod says, adding, "Everybody knew what was happening. That was just the way they got around [restrictions]." One problem with relying on such loopholes, she says, is that if religious higher-ups at institutions get wind of it, they might crack down.
In other cases, workarounds might include creating a separately funded and run wing within a Catholic hospital or health clinic to provide the full range of reproductive health services.
That's essentially what happened at Oberlin: The college partnered with a local family planning clinic to offer these services on campus three days a week, and said it would provide students with transportation to the clinic on other days. But the Catholic health provider will continue to offer other health services on campus.
Tiffany Yuen, a fourth-year Oberlin student who runs the Sexual Information Center with Welsh, said the solution was "a start. But it's not enough." In the past, about 40% of visits to the student health center were related to sexual health, according to Aimee Holmes, a certified nurse midwife who worked as a women's health specialist at Oberlin for many years until Bon Secours' subsidiary took over.
'In some cases, women truly have no other choices'
Research suggests that even with workarounds, Catholic directives can limit women's contraception choices. For example, one study found that while it was pretty easy for patients to book an appointment for hormonal birth control at clinics owned by Catholic hospitals, it was rarer to get one if you wanted a copper IUD, which is one of the most effective forms of long-acting reversible contraception.
I personally ran into these limitations eight years ago, when I gave birth to my second child. When I asked my doctor for a tubal ligation once I was on the delivery table, he informed me he couldn't do the procedure because we were at a Catholic hospital. A recent study suggests this experience is common: It found that women who deliver at a Catholic hospital are half as likely to get tubal ligation or removal as those who deliver at another type of hospital.
Stulberg has conducted surveys that find many people don't realize their choices will be limited because they don't know their health provider is governed by these rules. "And of the people that had some kind of a reproductive health refusal, the majority, it wasn't until either they were there or afterwards that they found out that they couldn't get what they wanted," she says.
In some cases, patients may simply be able to go to another health provider to get the contraception they need – but not always. "In some cases, women truly have no other choices," Stulberg says. "This hospital or this system is the only provider in town."
She says a patient's options may also be constrained depending on their health insurance and whether the providers covered under the plan are subject to religious directives.
Several experts said that these restrictions can often impact low-income patients disproportionately. Dr. Karishma Dara, a family medicine doctor in Seattle, says that when she worked as a resident at a Catholic hospital in Washington, D.C., that served many low-income people, patients who came in for IUD appointments were told they had to go to a different, non-Catholic clinic to get the devices inserted.
"Any time that you have to add another step to getting care or contraceptive care, it's like another point at which an unintended pregnancy can happen," Dara says.
In fact, Catholic directives can limit access to contraception long after a health care facility stops being Catholic, says Elizabeth Sepper, an expert on religious liberty and health law at the University of Texas at Austin. "There are lots of examples where a Catholic health system has purchased a hospital, just held it for a handful of years and then sold the hospital," she says. "But the purchase agreement then commits the next owner to continue the Catholic religious restrictions."
Reproductive rights advocates want to see laws that require hospital systems to be more transparent about what health services they do and don't offer. Legislators in New York have introduced such a law.
"You know, I'm not against Catholic health care, but I think that patients need to know what kind of services are available to them," says Jarlenski.
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When President Biden spoke on Sept. 1st, to tell the nation that democracy is in danger, his warnings echoed the words of many who have been paying attention. Especially those who study the past.
Not a month earlier, the president met with a group of handpicked historians who told him that democracy was teetering, hanging on by a thread.
After The Washington Post reported on the historians meeting, it didn't take long for some to raise questions, not about the fact that democracy is in peril, but about the monochromatic makeup of those delivering that message.
It seemed the Biden administration had only invited white experts to advise the president — four historians and one journalist: Princeton historian Sean Wilentz, University of Virginia historian Allida Black, presidential historians Michael Beschloss and Jon Meacham, who is also an occasional speechwriter for Biden, and journalist and Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum.
But it wasn't only the lack of diversity in that group, it was where that lack of diversity seemed to lead.
"They compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before World War II," read the Post's sub-headline.
Those comparisons leave out important parts of U.S. history that resonate today, says Kenneth Mack, a professor of law and history at Harvard.
"We don't really have to look outside the United States, nor do we really have to look all the way back to the Civil War to think about things like voter suppression, demagoguery, and fascist tactics," he says.
"We've had the death of democracy happen right here, in the United States," says Mack. "African Americans experienced this directly." He's talking especially about the overthrow of Reconstruction, and all that followed, well up until the Civil Rights Movement.
Jelani Cobb, a New Yorker writer and the new dean of Columbia Journalism School, adds, "The formative experience around American authoritarianism has been the treatment of people of African descent and people of Indigenous descent."
Cobb says the meeting missed the point.
If you don't examine how democracy has died for people of color in this country, you might miss how freedom fades not in big bombastic moments, but in slow ongoing repression.
And if you exclude the voices of scholars and writers who understand an anti-democratic, fascist order as heritage, rather than an aberration, you might miss how democracy has before been pulled back from the brink.
"In having an all white room," Cobb says. "you kind of replicate the kind of gaps in perspective that we've seen that have facilitated this problem in the first place."
It's Exactly What Is Happening Now
Reconstruction was a bold plan to repair the wounds of slavery, and build out of the ashes of civil war a multiracial democracy. Rather than accept equality, it was violently overturned by Southern whites.
"At the turn of the century we lost everything," says University of Connecticut Professor Manisha Sinha.
"It all went down the drain because of a very reactionary Supreme Court and because of state laws and local authorities who were willing to subvert elections and not allow people to vote."
"Sounds familiar?" she asks.
There was rising white supremacist domestic terrorism, lynchings and the reign of the Ku Klux Klan, and what Sinha describes as "racist authoritarianism."
In many ways, she says, "it's exactly what is happening now."
Both Sinha and Mack note that the past cannot just be grafted onto the present. But it's important to understand how racism and white supremacy have always been at the center of threats to our democracy.
"If you talk to scholars of race, that's the kind of perspective that you get," Mack says.
Mack says he is glad the president is meeting with scholars to talk about the lessons of history. "The group that Biden had in was a very distinguished group," he says.
"But the real question is, are there other people who would add to that discussion and enrich it and bring something that the people who were invited didn't bring?
Erica Loewe, White House Director of African American Media, told NPR in a statement: "Since day one, President Biden has regularly engaged with diverse stakeholders and community leaders who offer different perspectives on a variety of issues. As a result, he has consistently taken action to ensure personnel and policy decisions reflect the diversity of this nation."
Whose history is being centered?
We can not know exactly what the historians said to President Biden, or whether they talked at any length about reconstruction and the death of democracy.
But two of the historians appeared on TV afterword to talk about the meeting.
Both Princeton Professor Sean Wilentz and Presidential historian Michael Beschloss confirmed and reiterated the Post's reporting on the two key moments in American history they picked to focus on — the lead up to the Civil War and the 1930's and 1940's.
Beschloss talked to MSNBC's Jonathan Capeheart. "If we were living in 1940," he said to Capeheart, who it's important to note, is a Black man, "you and I would've said there's a serious danger that America will not be a democracy."
The "we" is telling; America at that time was already not a democracy for most Black people.
Beschloss went on, saying, "There are people from within who wanna make this an authoritarian system."
He didn't mention that in the 1940's many Black people already lived under authoritarian systems, like Jim Crow.
Beschloss pointed to a second reason that democracy felt perilous then, as it does now. "The Nazi Germans, the Italians, the Imperial Japanese — we're living in a world where fascism is on the March," he said.
But those rising fascist movements abroad borrowed heavily from America's fascist tactics, from Jim Crow and America's brutal treatment of Indigenous people. "A global thing," says Manisha Sinha, "but homegrown in the United States."
Wilentz also didn't mention race and American history when he spoke with CNN. What he did say was the moments where democracy is at risk all have something in common — a crisis of legitimacy.
"The key to all of this is when the basic institutions of the country are being called into — the legitimacy of those institutions is being called into serious question," he told CNN's Michael Smerconish.
"That certainly happened before the Civil War and led to secession. The slaveholders' rebellion in which they said, look, we don't believe in your constitution. Your constitution is wrong."
That was a moment when Southern whites rejected and questioned the legitimacy of the federal government. But across American history Black people and people of color have had a justified, deep distrust of American institutions.
Whose distrust and rejection of American institutions is Wilentz placing at the center of the story?
Wilentz has a history of getting race and racism wrong, says Jelani Cobb. He points to an infamous piece, entitled "Race Man," that Wilentz wrote in 2008. "Sean Wilentz said that Barack Obama had run the most racist campaign in modern American history," Cobb says.
In the essay, Wilentz accused the Obama campaign of "the most outrageous deployment of racial politics since the Willie Horton campaign ad in 1988 and the most insidious since Ronald Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign in Philadephia, Mississippi, praising states' rights." That announcement, just miles from where 3 civil rights workers were murdered by the KKK, was seen as a tacit nod by Reagan to white supremacists.
"Here we have this crisis which is shot through with racial elements and that's the person in the room," Cobb says. "Yeah. That's a problem."
In the room where it happens
Scott Kurisage, executive director of the American Studies Association, says to really understand the past, and its role in the present, we must look to historians who study more than just those in power. There is value to the presidential historian who reads every scrap of paper a president wrote, he says. "But if that's not paired with someone who's analyzed the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the Black freedom movement, the movement of Japanese Americans for redress against incarceration," you don't have the full story.
It's not enough to understand democracy is at risk, without learning from those who have borne — and still bear — the brunt of its loss.
"The people who've studied exclusion and people who've studied the struggle for civil rights and democracy for oppressed peoples have the biggest insights into how fragile democracy can be," he says. They also have insight into something else, "What it takes to build a movement — what type of struggle, what type of sacrifice, what type of courage and determination it takes to obtain, and preserve democracy."
Because if we have ample examples in our historical DNA for the death of democracy, we also have a blueprint for its protection, and rebirth. There were abolitionists who fought against the horrors of slavery in America. Then, after the failures of reconstruction and the imposition of a brutal system of Jim Crow, came the long fight for Civil Rights.
"It took lots of people, activists on the ground, working daily to reintroduce democracy in those parts of the United States where it had been taken away," historian Kenneth Mack says. "And it was only reintroduced within my lifetime."
The 1960's struggle for equal rights was a massive movement led by Black people and people of color — people who maintained a stubborn belief in America's promise as they pushed for a second attempt at reconstruction.
"I think it's really important for us to remember that even as ordinary American citizens, you can actually push the pendulum of history," says historian Manisha Sinha.
People must push, Sinha says, but those in power must act. "The only time American democracy has been protected has been when the federal government has responded in forceful ways," she says.
The August historians meeting was not the only time President Biden hosted experts to learn from the past. Earlier this year he met with another group that included Annette Gordon-Reed, a Black scholar who studies race, law and history at Harvard. In previous speeches, Biden has compared today's threats to voting rights to Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction America.
But Jelani Cobb says it's still concerning that this meeting of all white historians happened at all. Especially at the same time that there is a movement by Republican politicians to sensor and silence the histories of Black people and people of color across the United States.
The campaign to outlaw the teaching of America's racist — and anti-democratic — past is not a coincidence, says Cobb. The same politicians who are pushing history into the shadows, are also pushing and promoting voter suppression laws pulled directly from that past. "What they are doing is effectively turning off the light switch," at the moment we most need to be able to see, Cobb says.
History after all, can be read like a map.
"There's a map that will help us understand the moment we're in, and we are plunging ourselves into complete darkness at that moment."
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How melting glaciers caused by climate change led to to floods in Pakistan NPR Published September 4, 2022 at 6:01 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Flipboard NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of Michigan geographer Ulrich Kamp < > about how glacial melt caused by climate change combined with changing monsoon patterns caused flooding in Pakistan. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-04/how-melting-glaciers-caused-by-climate-change-led-to-to-floods-in-pakistan | 2022-09-04T12:13:25Z |
Three years after the death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracy theories continue to flourish online in right-wing media circles that tie the notorious sexual predator to opponents of the right.
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Three years after the death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracy theories continue to flourish online in right-wing media circles that tie the notorious sexual predator to opponents of the right.
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Newly hired Americans emerge out of '2 year nightmare' as U.S. economy adds more jobs NPR Published September 4, 2022 at 6:01 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Flipboard ENTER TEASER Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-04/newly-hired-americans-emerge-out-of-2-year-nightmare-as-u-s-economy-adds-more-jobs | 2022-09-04T12:13:37Z |
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How we work, when we work, how much we work – it's all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.
The pandemic left workplaces reimagined and workers changed. The number of job openings right now outnumbers people looking for work by almost two-to-one.
Last year saw a record exodus of workers, and companies say they are still struggling to hire. Millions have re-evaluated what type of work they were willing to do for what type of pay or benefits and in what type of environment.
On Labor Day, here's a snapshot of what's happening with American workers.
Jobs are growing, and workers are still quitting
Despite inflation and economic slowdown, the labor market remains tight. Employers kept adding jobs all summer, particularly in food and retail. Layoffs have been confined to pockets of the economy – the tech sector, cryptocurrency, home buying – and to select companies, like the beleaguered Bed Bath & Beyond.
Most employers would rather hold on to workers. Too many have grappled with short staffing: More than 4 million people quit their jobs each month for the past year, the highest in decades.
It's not just about the money, it's about worker well-being
While millions quit, others have felt emboldened to fight for change.
From baristas to warehouse staff to frontline nurses, more workers are filing charges of unfair labor practices against their employers or staging walkouts and strikes. They're demanding not just higher wages, but improvements to safety and wellbeing: longer breaks, more paid leave, more control over their schedules.
Office culture, too, has changed. Just over a third of workers were going to offices in person at the end of August in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, according to Kastle Systems, which tracks office card swipes. At Apple, J.P. Morgan, the Washington Post and other companies, workers have pushed back on the notion that they have to return to offices to be productive.
And the TikTok-fueled concept of "quiet quitting" has stormed into summertime work conversations: the idea of doing the bare minimum at work, skipping the hustle and those above-and-beyond tasks. Some, like Arianna Huffington, are dismayed at the idea, calling it a step toward quitting on life; while many experts and workers see the term as a misnomer, better described as boundary-setting for personal time.
Biggest American brands are getting their first unions
Labor organizers declared mid-2022 the #hotlaborsummer. Petitions to form a union are up almost 60% compared to last year, continuing to reverse a long-running decline in union interest. Many of these workers are in food and retail, coffee shops and non-profits, media and tech. Labor experts say more women and particularly women of color are leading the charge.
Unions have won first-time victories at big-name companies: Amazon and REI in New York, an Apple store in Maryland, Trader Joe's in Massachusetts and Minnesota, Chipotle in Michigan and of course Starbucks, where more than 200 stores nationwide have unionized in less than a year.
A union is about collective bargaining, but getting there is arduous
Companies have many paths to try to slow down or even undo labor organizing. A key goal for new unions is a collective-bargaining contract to seal their wage, benefit and other demands. But research finds that when an employer resists, only a small fraction of workers who unionize successfully reach a contract.
Legal delays are abundant. Amazon, for example, launched a monthslong appeal to overturn the historic union win at its Staten Island warehouse. Starbucks has so far begun negotiations with only three of more than 200 stores. Both companies have taken the remarkable step of challenging the fairness of the union election process itself.
Union membership remains low, though support is at a 57-year high
Only about 10% of U.S. workers belonged to a union as of early 2022. At the same time, the level of public support for unions has been growing for over a decade.
This summer, 71% of Americans told Gallup they approve of unions, a level not seen since 1965. Labor experts say support is even higher with younger people, potentially growing a new generation of organizers.
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Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich NPR Published September 4, 2022 at 6:01 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Flipboard NPR's Ayesha Rascoe remembers writer Barbara Ehrenreich < > who died last week at 81. She talks with Alissa Quart who runs the Economic Hardship Reporting Project - founded by Ehrenreich. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-04/remembering-barbara-ehrenreich | 2022-09-04T12:13:57Z |
Many in Jackson, Mississippi, have had unreliable access water for decades. It's a problem made worse - and harder to solve - by a shrinking population and economic decline.
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Many in Jackson, Mississippi, have had unreliable access water for decades. It's a problem made worse - and harder to solve - by a shrinking population and economic decline.
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In Melissa Clark's kitchen — which she calls "messy," but is actually beautiful — cooking dinner is fun, not fussy, ideally done while listening to the B-52s, and best when it takes as few dishes as possible.
Clark, whose New York Times column is called "A Good Appetite," has written dozens of cookbooks. In her latest — Dinner in One — Clark offers 100 recipes that can be made in a single container, be it pot, bowl, skillet or slow cooker.
"Imagine like writing a haiku," Clark says. "You want to express the biggest thought with the fewest amount of words. ... The end goal was when I'm finished cooking, there's like three things in the sink."
There are recipes in this cookbook for miso-glazed salmon with roasted sugar snap peas, cheaters chicken and dumplings, even one-bowl cakes.
NPR wanted to put Dinner in One to the test, so Clark chose a recipe to try out: cheesy baked pasta.
"Normally when you make a baked pasta, you boil the pasta in one pot, you drain it in a colander, so therefore messing up two things already," she explains. "But what I'm doing here is I'm going to cook the pasta ... right in the sauce."
Getting all of the ingredients ready
First, Clark lines up all of the ingredients on the counter including pasta, tomatoes, three kinds of cheese, sausage, and spices and herbs from not one but three jam-packed spice drawers.
"Here's another thing," she says, pulling out oregano, red pepper flakes, fennel, garlic and bay leaves. "You can leave half of these herbs out. It's going to taste the same."
That's the thing about this cookbook — it's not one bit fussy, and all of the recipes are flexible. If you want to add vegetables to this dish, Clark suggests tossing in spinach. If you're lactose intolerant, Clark says add more sausage and cut out the cheese. Hate slicing garlic? Use some from a jar!
"If it tastes good, it's not bad," she says.
How she got her start
Before she was the winner of multiple James Beard awards, Clark was a coat-checker and a hostess at a restaurant called American Place. That job was her first peek behind the scenes at a professional kitchen.
"I knew I wanted to be a food writer at that point," she says. "This was right at the beginning of food blogs coming out on the internet. ... And I thought, along with a lot of other people, hey, you know, I want food to be my lens for looking at the world. I want food to be how I tell my story and how I tell other people's stories. ... To really understand someone, to understand their soul and their mind, I really feel like you need to see what they eat."
So what does her soul say?
"Definitely says I grew up in Brooklyn," Clark says. "Especially if you catch me on a bagels and lox Sunday."
For the recipe test, Clark pulls a 12-inch skillet off the wall, adds the olive oil, and the sausage, which she squeezes out of its casing like toothpaste. It drops, sizzling, into the pan. She cooks the sausage until it has a nice, browned crust.
"That brown crust on a sausage is what's going to give you extra flavor," she explains.
Meanwhile, she crushes the fennel with a mortar and pestle and adds that, plus the garlic — thinly sliced, not from a jar — and the other spices and herbs.
"I'm also going to add some salt right now," Clark says. "Because I want the garlic to absorb it. If you add salt as you go, it seasons it better rather than adding it all at once."
She's full of these kinds of cooking gems.
Another example: "If something smells good to you, you'll probably like the taste."
And: "What grows together goes together."
Explaining things — like how thinly slicing the garlic will make it taste sweeter in the dish — is one of Clark's favorite parts of what she does.
"I love talking to people about food and answering questions and figuring out how they're comfortable cooking and how I can make it easier for them," she says. "I really love cooking. I mean, I really do. And I really want everyone else to love it, too."
And it's OK not to cook, too
But don't get her wrong — sometimes she prefers takeout just like everyone else.
"I like to do takeout on things that takeout does better than me," she says. "Like sushi. Takeout does sushi better than me. I'm not afraid to tell you."
Clark pours the tomatoes into the pan, and once that sauce has gotten thick, she adds the pasta. Then she folds in about a third of the mozzarella, plops the rest on top, adds spoonfuls of ricotta, then a little more ricotta and sprinkles the whole thing with Parmesan.
Finally, she sticks the skillet in the oven to bake.
Clark counts how many utensils she used for this dish. The total?
The real test, though, is how it tastes.
When the cheese is brown and bubbling, Clark takes the skillet out of the oven, plucks some fresh basil, and serves the pasta on her back deck, overlooking the garden.
"Two thumbs up?"
Two thumbs up.
Cheesy Baked Pasta with Tomato, Sausage, and Ricotta
Like a cross between baked ziti and a meaty lasagna, this golden-topped pasta is rich with brawny bits of sausage, creamy ricotta, and crushed tomatoes, all seasoned with plenty of garlic, oregano, and fennel seed. It's a certified crowd-pleaser that's easy to adapt.
SERVES 4
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
12 ounces hot or mild Italian sausage (pork, chicken, or turkey)
½ teaspoon fennel seeds
4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon dried oregano
Pinch of crushed red pepper flakes (optional), plus more for serving
1 (28-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes
1 (14-ounce) can crushed or strained tomatoes
2 bay leaves
2 teaspoons kosher salt
12 ounces pasta (small shells, farfalle, or other small shape)
8 ounces fresh mozzarella, torn into bite-size pieces
6 ounces (about ¾ cup) whole-milk ricotta
⅓ cup grated Parmesan cheese
Freshly ground black pepper, for serving
¼ cup slivered fresh basil
DIRECTIONS
1. Heat the oven to 425ºF.
2. In a 12-inch ovenproof skillet or Dutch oven, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Remove the casings from the sausage and crumble the meat into skillet, using a spoon to break it up. Cook, stirring, until it's starting to brown, 5 to 7 minutes.
3. Using a mortar and pestle or the flat side of a chef's knife and a cutting board, lightly crush the fennel seeds. Stir them into the pan along with the garlic, oregano, and red pepper flakes, if using, and cook another 1 to 2 minutes.
4. Stir in the whole tomatoes, using a spoon to break them up. Add the crushed tomatoes, bay leaves, and salt and bring to a simmer. Cook for 10 minutes to thicken it slightly.
5. Stir in the pasta and 1 cup water and return the sauce to a simmer. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring to make sure the pasta doesn't stick to the pan. Remove from the heat, remove the bay leaves, and fold in a third of the mozzarella.
6. Top the pasta with the remaining mozzarella and dollops of ricotta. Sprinkle with the Parmesan. Bake until the pasta is tender when poked with a fork, and the cheese is bubbly and golden, 18 to 22 minutes. (If you'd like a browner topping, run the pan under the broiler for 1 to 2 minutes.) Let cool slightly before serving with black pepper and basil on top, and more red pepper flakes on the side.
VEGETARIAN UPGRADE
You can leave out the sausage entirely or substitute a plant-based sausage.
VEG IT UP
You can add 8 ounces of sliced mushrooms along with the sausage in Step 2. Increase the cook time until the moisture evaporates from the pan and everything is very browned.
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Yungblud on his new album and the importance of self-acceptance NPR Published September 4, 2022 at 6:01 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Flipboard NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musician Yungblud < > about his new eponymous album, featuring songs that focus on the importance of self-acceptance. Note to listeners: This interview mentions self-harm. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-04/yungblud-on-his-new-album-and-the-importance-of-self-acceptance | 2022-09-04T12:14:16Z |
Teen shot by officer investigating sound of gunfire in Ohio
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - An Ohio teenager was hospitalized following an officer-involved shooting. Police were investigating after they heard shots fired.
According to Akron Police, officers were patrolling around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when they heard multiple shots fired. Officers drove to a home on Longview Avenue and approached the back to investigate.
Police say as officers approached the rear of the home, they encountered multiple male subjects, at least one of whom was armed with a handgun, WOIO reports.
During the encounter, one officer shot his department-issued weapon, striking a 16-year-old male suspect in the hand. Officers were able to take the subject into custody without further incident.
Officers administered first aid and called for an ambulance.
The 16-year-old was later transported to Akron Children’s Hospital in stable condition. His injury is considered non-life threatening.
Police say multiple firearms were recovered from the scene.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating.
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Klamath Union's Javan Zumwalt, lower right, stops a Woodburn ballcarrier short of the first-down marker on fourth down Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, giving the Pelicans the ball.
Klamath Union players and coaches salute the flag during the national anthem before the season opener against Woodburn on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at Modoc Field.
Klamath Union's Javan Zumwalt, lower right, stops a Woodburn ballcarrier short of the first-down marker on fourth down Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, giving the Pelicans the ball.
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Klamath Union's Tony Ortiz makes a touchdown-saving tackle in the first quarter against Woodburn on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at Modoc Field.
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Klamath Union cheerleaders show their spirit during the season opener against Woodburn on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.
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Klamath Union players and coaches salute the flag during the national anthem before the season opener against Woodburn on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at Modoc Field.
Klamath Union High's defense made some stellar stops in its season opener Friday night.
But the Pelicans got worn down by Class 5A Woodburn, losing 42-14 at Modoc Field.
Klamath Union made two fourth-down stops and had a goal-line interception by Javan Zumwalt to remain within 21-6 at the half.
“We played well as a team,” Zumwalt said. “We made the plays to keep us in it, just need to execute better and we will be fine.”
The Pelicans' offense couldn't get anything going, however, resulting in turnovers and poor field position that became too much for the defense to overcome.
“We still need a lot of work, we need to be more disciplined,” Pelicans lineman Hayden Smith said. “This team needs to continue to grow and learn from our mistakes, we all have a very strong bond with each other, and we will rely on that as our strength.
“We need to use film as a tool and make adjustments, every mistake is fixable, and we just need to continue to work and be disciplined as a team.”
The Pelicans will host Class 3A Burns this Friday at Modoc Field. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/sports/klamath-unions-defense-worn-down-by-class-5a-woodburn-in-season-opener/article_8b26b3ec-2be3-11ed-b5a4-bbe1ff25c63a.html | 2022-09-04T12:32:14Z |
Friday night's scores
CLASS 4A
Mazama 26, Estacada 14
Henley 22, Seaside 21
Woodburn 42, Klamath Union 14
CLASS 3A
North Valley 16, Lakeview 13
CLASS 1A (8-man)
Lost River 44, Adrian 28
Bonanza 20, Tulelake 14
CLASS 1A (6-man)
Glendale 55, Gilchrist 18
CALIFORNIA
Maxwell 42, Modoc 28
ROUNDUP
Mazama 26, Estacada 14: Tyson Van Gastel threw for two touchdowns and rushed for two more as the visiting Vikings, ranked No. 4 in Class 4A in the state in the preseason coaches' poll, defeated the third-ranked Rangers.
Gastel had two completions in four attempts, both for scores. He hit Tyler Aguiar from 19 yards with 3:53 left in the first quarter to give the Vikings the lead for good and found him again late in the third from 20 yards as Mazama scored 26 consecutive points.
Aguiar had an 85-yard kickoff return after the Rangers scored on their opening drive, leading to Van Gastel's 1-yard touchdown run.
Van Gastel also tallied on a 17-yard run late in the second, giving the Vikings a 19-8 halftime lead. Van Gastel also picked off an Estacada pass.
Trevor Anderson led Mazama with 73 yards rushing on 16 carries. Treyce Horton added 58 yards and Van Gastel had 25, both on seven attempts.
Mason Nowak led the Vikings' defense with seven tackles, including a sack. Brody Hubble had 6½ tackles and an interception and Brandon Monteith made six stops.
Lost River 44, Adrian 28: Nathan Dalton rushed for 240 yards, including touchdowns of 75 and 71 yards in the first quarter, as the visiting Raiders, ranked No. 4 in the Class 1A 8-man preseason coaches' poll, knocked off the top-ranked Antelopes.
The Raiders also avenged a 62-20 loss to Adrian in last year's state semifinals.
Chase McAuliffe completed 4 of 9 passes for 133 yards, including a 82-yard touchdown to Connor Dunlea. McAuliffe also tallied on a 20-yard run and Dunlea returned a kickoff 91 yards for a score. The Raiders' other touchdown came on a 4-yard run by Codey Lyman.
The Raiders, who took a 22-8 lead after the first quarter, amassed 285 yards on the ground.
Lost River limited the Antelopes' Jace Martin to 77 yards on 37 carries.
North Valley 16, Lakeview 13: Benny Alves completed 9 of 13 passes for 85 yards and a touchdown but threw an interception on the Honkers' final drive as they lost their Class 3A debut.
Freshman Hayden Taylor scored the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter for the host Knights and Bryson Teal made the game-saving pick.
Lakeview's Brandon Markus rushed for 91 yards and also had 31 yards receiving.
Bonanza 20, Tulelake 14: Adrian Mojica rushed for 173 yards and two touchdowns and the host Antlers held on for the victory.
Alan Hill was 4-of-6 passing for 85 yards and touchdown pass to W.D. Kness. Austin Seminski led Bonanza with 78 yards receiving and Andres Mojica added 61 yards on the ground.
Brian Perez led the Honkers with 72 yards rushing and Xavier Silva added 64. Tulelake had 214 yards on 30 carries. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/sports/prep-football-roundup-mazama-lost-river-post-big-wins/article_07bb77ac-2bc7-11ed-a4a2-b776d38f41a8.html | 2022-09-04T12:32:20Z |
Ukrainian port city, Kharkiv come under Russian shelling
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling hit the southern Ukraine port city of Mykolaiv during the night, damaging a medical treatment facility, the city’s mayor said Sunday.
Mykolaiv and its surrounding region have been hit daily for weeks in the conflict. On Saturday, a child was killed and five people were injured in rocket attacks in the region, governor Vitaliy Kim said. Mykolaiv city mayor Oleksandr Senkevych did not specify whether there were any injuries in the overnight attack, which he said also damaged some residences.
Mykolaiv, on the Southern Bug River about 30 kilometers (20 miles) upstream from the Black Sea, is a significant port and shipbuilding center.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Russian shelling late Saturday set a large wooden restaurant complex on fire, according to the region’s emergency service. One person was killed and two injured in shelling in the region, governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the eastern Donetsk region where Russian forces have been trying to take full control, said four people were killed in shelling on Saturday.
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday that the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine was disconnected from its last external power line but was still able to run electricity through a reserve line amid sustained shelling in the area.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said in a statement that the agency’s experts, who arrived at Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, were told by senior Ukrainian staff that the fourth and last operational line was down. The three others were lost earlier during the conflict.
But the IAEA experts learned that the reserve line linking the facility to a nearby thermal power plant was delivering the electricity the plant generates to the external grid, the statement said. The same reserve line can also provide backup power to the plant if needed, it added.
“We already have a better understanding of the functionality of the reserve power line in connecting the facility to the grid,” Grossi said. “This is crucial information in assessing the overall situation there.”
In addition, the plant’s management informed the IAEA that one reactor was disconnected Saturday afternoon because of grid restrictions. Another reactor is still operating and producing electricity both for cooling and other essential safety functions at the site and for households, factories and others through the grid, the statement said.
The Zaporizhzhia facility, which is Europe’s largest nuclear plant, has been held by Russian forces since early March, but its Ukrainian staff are continuing to operate it.
Vladimir Rogov, the head of the Russia-installed local administration in Enerhodar, the city where the plant is located, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying there had been no new shelling of the area on Sunday as of midday.
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Arrest made in connection with Eliza Fletcher’s abduction
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - A man has been arrested in connection with the abduction of Eliza Fletcher, WMC reported.
Memphis Police Department arrested Cleotha Abston, 38, and charged him with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence.
“This remains to be an active and ongoing investigation,” police said via Twitter.
Fletcher, 34, was jogging when a man approached her and forced her into a dark-colored GMC Terrain after a brief struggle. Fletcher was reported missing when she did not return home.
She is the granddaughter of the late Joseph “Joe” Orgill III, a Memphis hardware businessman and philanthropist, according to the Associated Press.
Fletcher is still missing.
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The same day that 600 National Guard members deployed around Jackson, Miss., to distribute water to tens of thousands of people, one steady line of cars flowed instead through a quiet residential neighborhood, as they've been doing for months.
The Sykes Park Community Center got a large filter six months ago to purify water for local residents to pick up.
"We just don't do it periodically. We do it every single day," says Jason Page, a youth mentor with the group Strong Arms, who speaks as he directs traffic in and out of the parking lot. "The Jackson water has been messed up for a while now."
A week after more than 160,000 residents lost their water, it's still not clear when the city's primary water treatment plant, O.B. Curtis, will be back up. But even when that happens, people here say the larger crisis will not be over. Jackson's water has been unreliable and unsafe for decades. Many residents accuse the state government of neglecting the needs of a city that's 82% Black. And those tensions, along with Jackson's shrunken tax base, pose a challenge to any lasting solution.
The rituals of boiling water, and the luxury of a bath
Lifelong resident Halima Olufemi, 45, remembers her great-grandmother and grandmother boiling water. "So much so that we would buy extra jugs and they would always pour the water in," she says. "It was a way of life."
She's now an activist with the People's Advocacy Institute and has been helping distribute water in this emergency.
So has Danyelle Holmes, with the Mississippi Poor People's Campaign. Thirty years ago she moved here from Greenwood in the Mississippi Delta to go to college and was told not to drink the water.
"I've never drank tap water since I've been here in the city of Jackson," Holmes says. "Never."
The city's aging water lines can leak, leading to low pressure and contamination. There have also been broken water and sewage lines. And in 2016 the state's health department warned that it had found lead in the water supply.
Even before this crisis, Holmes always boiled her water. She does take showers, but her water is usually tinted brown, and she refuses to take a bath in that.
"Now, before my mom passed away three years ago, it did me good to just go home to take baths back in Greenwood," she says. "That was a luxury for me."
A city and state divided by race and politics
When you ask almost anyone here why the water's been this bad so long, the answer inevitably turns to politics and race. School desegregation led to white flight in the 1970s. That transformed Jackson into an overwhelmingly Black city and a largely poor one. The mayor is Black and a Democrat. The governor and most state lawmakers are white and Republican.
Danyelle Holmes says the water is a danger to residents because "those that are in power ... neglected to do what they had the power to do, and that is to invest in the infrastructure here in the city of Jackson."
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba says fixing the water system would cost more than a billion dollars. There's no way Jackson's shriveled tax base could pay for that. But when the city asks the state for money, it usually gets far less than requested, if any.
The governor blames water problems on the city's mismanagement. This year he signed the state's largest ever tax cut.
For activist Olufemi, it's all part of the country's fraught racial history, and how she says those in power have always treated the economically disadvantaged, especially people of color.
"I don't think that they care until it happens to them," she says. "Until it affects their homes, their children, their money, they don't pay attention."
Making infrastructure work can be a unifying force
Carlos Martín of the Brookings Institution says the impact of race and partisan politics on infrastructure is real, and Jackson residents are not alone. But ideally, making infrastructure work should unite people.
"In many ways, it's a miracle that we don't have more Jackson, Mississippis, and Flint, Michigans, in this country," he says. "And that's for the grace of God and infrastructure that ties most communities' infrastructures together."
He says on the whole around the country, infrastructure ties together communities that are Black and white, rich and poor, creating a shared interest in keeping the systems working properly.
But "when we don't see those same communities being served by the same physical infrastructure systems, we see more of these cases" like Jackson, he says.
Martín says Jackson and other minority, low-income cities lack the political clout to get the resources they need for long term planning and investment. And it's not clear this current crisis will lead to that either.
"Money fixes things at the last minute," he says. "We have, generally, a history of doing things like what we're seeing right now in Jackson, declaring an emergency once the damage has already occurred."
Tensions over blame amid calls for a long-term fix
At a recent press conference, when asked why Jackson has had unreliable water for decades, Gov. Tate Reeves was defensive.
"I know that you in the press want to play the blame game and you really want to focus on pitting different people against each other, and that's certainly your priority, that's fine," he said. "What we are focused on is the immediate health and welfare of Jackson residents."
It was the first press conference all week where the governor and mayor actually appeared together. Both Reeves and Mayor Lumumba repeatedly emphasized their "operational unity."
"When I have been asking for this help, when the state comes to me and says we're coming to help you, it doesn't benefit for us to try and take jabs at each other, to fight in that moment," Lumumba said. "What we have to take advantage of is this opportunity to realize how we create a better system for our residents."
But it wasn't long before another tit-for-tat spat between the two, raising questions about whether they can effectively work together even in a crisis that's gained national attention.
Jackson will get money from the recent federal infrastructure law — which, researcher Martín points out, most of the state's congressional delegation voted against. It's up to the state to decide how to parcel out those funds among municipalities.
Meanwhile, state lawmakers have met in private to talk about new ideas for some kind of long-term fix. Some have called for addressing the crisis in a special session of the legislature, which is not due to meet again until January.
For now, though, thousands of people here will keep lining up for the water they need to cook, wash dishes and drink.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-04/avoiding-the-tap-water-in-jackson-miss-has-been-a-way-of-life-for-decades | 2022-09-04T13:44:00Z |
Need a good mystery to get your blood pumping? We hear NPR staff picks from our Books We Love list: "The Verifiers," "The Paris Apartment," and "The Latinist."
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Need a good mystery to get your blood pumping? We hear NPR staff picks from our Books We Love list: "The Verifiers," "The Paris Apartment," and "The Latinist."
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Governor Ron DeSantis is reshaping school boards in Florida. He's exerting control over local school policies, including how they teach children about race and sexual orientation.
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Governor Ron DeSantis is reshaping school boards in Florida. He's exerting control over local school policies, including how they teach children about race and sexual orientation.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-04/florida-gov-desantis-leads-a-nationwide-shift-to-politicizing-school-board-races | 2022-09-04T13:44:04Z |
Three years after the death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracy theories continue to flourish online in right-wing media circles that tie the notorious sexual predator to opponents of the right.
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Three years after the death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracy theories continue to flourish online in right-wing media circles that tie the notorious sexual predator to opponents of the right.
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The start of the school year in war-torn Ukraine means most classes are online. Teachers face the challenge of being in the school building. even as their students are all over Ukraine and the world.
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The start of the school year in war-torn Ukraine means most classes are online. Teachers face the challenge of being in the school building. even as their students are all over Ukraine and the world.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <
> about what President Biden can do to curb threats against democracy in the wake of his speech last week.
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-04/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-on-threats-to-democracy | 2022-09-04T13:44:20Z |
LARAMIE – When Ethan Geiger first met his mustang Ghost, he never guessed that 107 days later he would walk out of an arena in Douglas with the title Reserve Grand Champion for training her.
The only thing Geiger knew about Ghost was that she is originally from the Adobe Town Herd Management Area, west of Baggs near the Colorado border.
Ghost joined Geiger’s family through a training program run by the Wyoming Mustang Association and Mustang Heritage Foundation, a group that works to find new homes for mustangs that are placed in holding facilities by the Bureau of Land Management.
Geiger participated in a trainer incentive program competition in collaboration with the two groups. The program assigned the Albany County youth in connecting with a mustang. The goal is for the animal to be trained with an intention to adopt or sell it.
By the end of the competition, Ghost – which had virtually never been touched by a human before beginning to work with Geiger – had to be able to load up in a trailer, walk on a lead and complete an series of other obedience tasks for judges.
She did this at the competition all thanks to Geiger, who at age 13 led Ghost’s training with advice and lessons from his parents. Now in addition to the accolades, the pair have a friendship that will last for life.
“It goes to show the bond those two have,” said Geiger’s mom, Heather Simons. “She’ll follow him over anything.”
It took Geiger three days to remove Ghost’s neck tag after she arrived in Laramie, working through his fear of approaching a wild horse and gaining her trust. A few days later, he got her to wear a halter.
Now Ghost leans so close to Geiger he has to brace himself to not fall over.
“I thought she was going to be kind of wild,” Geiger said. Instead, “she’s so gentle and calm.”
Despite Ghost’s demeanor, there are challenges to training any animal that Geiger had to keep track of. He juggled school and sports on top of his training duties, sacrificing social time with friends to take care of the horse.
He even spent some time caring for her on crutches after being hurt at one of his bull riding competitions in Texas.
On top of his own responsibilities, Geiger took time at the TIP challenge to help others with their horses, ultimately earning recognition for his sportsmanship with the Spirit of the Mustang award.
Geiger said the reason he does all of it is simple.
“It’s fun having a horse to hang out with,” he said. “You can tell them anything and they won’t go tell the other horses.”
This type of bond is something his parents imparted on Geiger, though they left him to do most of the caring for Ghost himself.
For Heather, the training experience meant taking a deep breath and letting her son work through the excitement, fear and frustration of training a wild mustang on his own. The moments before he finally removed Ghost’s neck tag stuck out at the most emotional.
“The lessons he learned in that hour span … I can’t teach and school can’t teach,” she said.
There are thousands of mustangs in holding facilities across the country, and the TIP challenge acts as a way to show the intellect and adaptability of the animals, said his dad, Robert Simons.
While competitors have the option to auction their horses after the competition, it was clear early on that the family would adopt Ghost so she and Geiger could be friends for life.
His parents hope the competition will bring awareness to the intelligence and adaptability of mustangs and help more of the animals find safe, loving homes.
“Don’t discount a horse because it came from the wild,” Robert said.
Abby Vander Graaff covers education for the Laramie Boomerang, a website and newspaper affiliated with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. See: WyomingNews.com/users/profile/avandergraaff or WyomingNews.com/laramieboomerang. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/local-teen-wild-mustang-bond-through-training/article_faed89c0-2a63-11ed-91a1-f76c964b55c3.html | 2022-09-04T13:56:03Z |
For a second time, NASA has scrubbed the launch of its new moon rocket. Problems with fuel leaks and faulty sensors led to the delays for the Artemis-1 test mission, with more possible delays to come.
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For a second time, NASA has scrubbed the launch of its new moon rocket. Problems with fuel leaks and faulty sensors led to the delays for the Artemis-1 test mission, with more possible delays to come.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with John Ourande <
> of Sports Business Journal about the bidding war among tech companies to acquire broadcasting rights for the NFL.
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-04/apple-amazon-and-google-are-in-a-bidding-war-to-acquire-the-nfl-sunday-ticket | 2022-09-04T14:04:51Z |
The same day that 600 National Guard members deployed around Jackson, Miss., to distribute water to tens of thousands of people, one steady line of cars flowed instead through a quiet residential neighborhood, as they've been doing for months.
The Sykes Park Community Center got a large filter six months ago to purify water for local residents to pick up.
"We just don't do it periodically. We do it every single day," says Jason Page, a youth mentor with the group Strong Arms, who speaks as he directs traffic in and out of the parking lot. "The Jackson water has been messed up for a while now."
A week after more than 160,000 residents lost their water, it's still not clear when the city's primary water treatment plant, O.B. Curtis, will be back up. But even when that happens, people here say the larger crisis will not be over. Jackson's water has been unreliable and unsafe for decades. Many residents accuse the state government of neglecting the needs of a city that's 82% Black. And those tensions, along with Jackson's shrunken tax base, pose a challenge to any lasting solution.
The rituals of boiling water, and the luxury of a bath
Lifelong resident Halima Olufemi, 45, remembers her great-grandmother and grandmother boiling water. "So much so that we would buy extra jugs and they would always pour the water in," she says. "It was a way of life."
She's now an activist with the People's Advocacy Institute and has been helping distribute water in this emergency.
So has Danyelle Holmes, with the Mississippi Poor People's Campaign. Thirty years ago she moved here from Greenwood in the Mississippi Delta to go to college and was told not to drink the water.
"I've never drank tap water since I've been here in the city of Jackson," Holmes says. "Never."
The city's aging water lines can leak, leading to low pressure and contamination. There have also been broken water and sewage lines. And in 2016 the state's health department warned that it had found lead in the water supply.
Even before this crisis, Holmes always boiled her water. She does take showers, but her water is usually tinted brown, and she refuses to take a bath in that.
"Now, before my mom passed away three years ago, it did me good to just go home to take baths back in Greenwood," she says. "That was a luxury for me."
A city and state divided by race and politics
When you ask almost anyone here why the water's been this bad so long, the answer inevitably turns to politics and race. School desegregation led to white flight in the 1970s. That transformed Jackson into an overwhelmingly Black city and a largely poor one. The mayor is Black and a Democrat. The governor and most state lawmakers are white and Republican.
Danyelle Holmes says the water is a danger to residents because "those that are in power ... neglected to do what they had the power to do, and that is to invest in the infrastructure here in the city of Jackson."
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba says fixing the water system would cost more than a billion dollars. There's no way Jackson's shriveled tax base could pay for that. But when the city asks the state for money, it usually gets far less than requested, if any.
The governor blames water problems on the city's mismanagement. This year he signed the state's largest ever tax cut.
For activist Olufemi, it's all part of the country's fraught racial history, and how she says those in power have always treated the economically disadvantaged, especially people of color.
"I don't think that they care until it happens to them," she says. "Until it affects their homes, their children, their money, they don't pay attention."
Making infrastructure work can be a unifying force
Carlos Martín of the Brookings Institution says the impact of race and partisan politics on infrastructure is real, and Jackson residents are not alone. But ideally, making infrastructure work should unite people.
"In many ways, it's a miracle that we don't have more Jackson, Mississippis, and Flint, Michigans, in this country," he says. "And that's for the grace of God and infrastructure that ties most communities' infrastructures together."
He says on the whole around the country, infrastructure ties together communities that are Black and white, rich and poor, creating a shared interest in keeping the systems working properly.
But "when we don't see those same communities being served by the same physical infrastructure systems, we see more of these cases" like Jackson, he says.
Martín says Jackson and other minority, low-income cities lack the political clout to get the resources they need for long term planning and investment. And it's not clear this current crisis will lead to that either.
"Money fixes things at the last minute," he says. "We have, generally, a history of doing things like what we're seeing right now in Jackson, declaring an emergency once the damage has already occurred."
Tensions over blame amid calls for a long-term fix
At a recent press conference, when asked why Jackson has had unreliable water for decades, Gov. Tate Reeves was defensive.
"I know that you in the press want to play the blame game and you really want to focus on pitting different people against each other, and that's certainly your priority, that's fine," he said. "What we are focused on is the immediate health and welfare of Jackson residents."
It was the first press conference all week where the governor and mayor actually appeared together. Both Reeves and Mayor Lumumba repeatedly emphasized their "operational unity."
"When I have been asking for this help, when the state comes to me and says we're coming to help you, it doesn't benefit for us to try and take jabs at each other, to fight in that moment," Lumumba said. "What we have to take advantage of is this opportunity to realize how we create a better system for our residents."
But it wasn't long before another tit-for-tat spat between the two, raising questions about whether they can effectively work together even in a crisis that's gained national attention.
Jackson will get money from the recent federal infrastructure law — which, researcher Martín points out, most of the state's congressional delegation voted against. It's up to the state to decide how to parcel out those funds among municipalities.
Meanwhile, state lawmakers have met in private to talk about new ideas for some kind of long-term fix. Some have called for addressing the crisis in a special session of the legislature, which is not due to meet again until January.
For now, though, thousands of people here will keep lining up for the water they need to cook, wash dishes and drink.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-04/avoiding-the-tap-water-in-jackson-miss-has-been-a-way-of-life-for-decades | 2022-09-04T14:04:57Z |
Need a good mystery to get your blood pumping? We hear NPR staff picks from our Books We Love list: "The Verifiers," "The Paris Apartment," and "The Latinist."
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-04/books-we-love-thrillers-to-get-your-blood-pumping | 2022-09-04T14:05:03Z |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with zookeeper Jenna Wingate of the Cincinnati Zoo about the new baby hippo, Fritz. He just turned one month and is already something of a star.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with zookeeper Jenna Wingate of the Cincinnati Zoo about the new baby hippo, Fritz. He just turned one month and is already something of a star.
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Governor Ron DeSantis is reshaping school boards in Florida. He's exerting control over local school policies, including how they teach children about race and sexual orientation.
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Governor Ron DeSantis is reshaping school boards in Florida. He's exerting control over local school policies, including how they teach children about race and sexual orientation.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-04/florida-gov-desantis-leads-a-nationwide-shift-to-politicizing-school-board-races | 2022-09-04T14:05:15Z |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of Michigan geographer Ulrich Kamp <
> about how glacial melt caused by climate change combined with changing monsoon patterns caused flooding in Pakistan.
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-04/how-melting-glaciers-caused-by-climate-change-led-to-to-floods-in-pakistan | 2022-09-04T14:05:21Z |
Three years after the death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracy theories continue to flourish online in right-wing media circles that tie the notorious sexual predator to opponents of the right.
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Three years after the death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracy theories continue to flourish online in right-wing media circles that tie the notorious sexual predator to opponents of the right.
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The U.S. job market is white-hot, with over 300,000 jobs added to the economy last month alone. We hear from some recently-hired Americans about their experiences in getting hired for their new jobs.
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The U.S. job market is white-hot, with over 300,000 jobs added to the economy last month alone. We hear from some recently-hired Americans about their experiences in getting hired for their new jobs.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-04/newly-hired-americans-emerge-out-of-2-year-nightmare-as-u-s-economy-adds-more-jobs | 2022-09-04T14:05:33Z |
We look at how President Biden's message to MAGA Republicans was received, as well as what the latest details on the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago tell us about the why the FBI was worried.
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We look at how President Biden's message to MAGA Republicans was received, as well as what the latest details on the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago tell us about the why the FBI was worried.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-04/politics-chat-biden-to-campaign-in-key-cities-on-labor-day | 2022-09-04T14:05:40Z |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe remembers writer Barbara Ehrenreich <
> who died last week at 81. She talks with Alissa Quart who runs the Economic Hardship Reporting Project - founded by Ehrenreich.
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-04/remembering-barbara-ehrenreich | 2022-09-04T14:05:46Z |
Many in Jackson, Mississippi, have had unreliable access water for decades. It's a problem made worse - and harder to solve - by a shrinking population and economic decline.
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Many in Jackson, Mississippi, have had unreliable access water for decades. It's a problem made worse - and harder to solve - by a shrinking population and economic decline.
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The start of the school year in war-torn Ukraine means most classes are online. Teachers face the challenge of being in the school building. even as their students are all over Ukraine and the world.
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The start of the school year in war-torn Ukraine means most classes are online. Teachers face the challenge of being in the school building. even as their students are all over Ukraine and the world.
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In Melissa Clark's kitchen — which she calls "messy," but is actually beautiful — cooking dinner is fun, not fussy, ideally done while listening to the B-52s, and best when it takes as few dishes as possible.
Clark, whose New York Times column is called "A Good Appetite," has written dozens of cookbooks. In her latest — Dinner in One — Clark offers 100 recipes that can be made in a single container, be it pot, bowl, skillet or slow cooker.
"Imagine like writing a haiku," Clark says. "You want to express the biggest thought with the fewest amount of words. ... The end goal was when I'm finished cooking, there's like three things in the sink."
There are recipes in this cookbook for miso-glazed salmon with roasted sugar snap peas, cheaters chicken and dumplings, even one-bowl cakes.
NPR wanted to put Dinner in One to the test, so Clark chose a recipe to try out: cheesy baked pasta.
"Normally when you make a baked pasta, you boil the pasta in one pot, you drain it in a colander, so therefore messing up two things already," she explains. "But what I'm doing here is I'm going to cook the pasta ... right in the sauce."
Getting all of the ingredients ready
First, Clark lines up all of the ingredients on the counter including pasta, tomatoes, three kinds of cheese, sausage, and spices and herbs from not one but three jam-packed spice drawers.
"Here's another thing," she says, pulling out oregano, red pepper flakes, fennel, garlic and bay leaves. "You can leave half of these herbs out. It's going to taste the same."
That's the thing about this cookbook — it's not one bit fussy, and all of the recipes are flexible. If you want to add vegetables to this dish, Clark suggests tossing in spinach. If you're lactose intolerant, Clark says add more sausage and cut out the cheese. Hate slicing garlic? Use some from a jar!
"If it tastes good, it's not bad," she says.
How she got her start
Before she was the winner of multiple James Beard awards, Clark was a coat-checker and a hostess at a restaurant called American Place. That job was her first peek behind the scenes at a professional kitchen.
"I knew I wanted to be a food writer at that point," she says. "This was right at the beginning of food blogs coming out on the internet. ... And I thought, along with a lot of other people, hey, you know, I want food to be my lens for looking at the world. I want food to be how I tell my story and how I tell other people's stories. ... To really understand someone, to understand their soul and their mind, I really feel like you need to see what they eat."
So what does her soul say?
"Definitely says I grew up in Brooklyn," Clark says. "Especially if you catch me on a bagels and lox Sunday."
For the recipe test, Clark pulls a 12-inch skillet off the wall, adds the olive oil, and the sausage, which she squeezes out of its casing like toothpaste. It drops, sizzling, into the pan. She cooks the sausage until it has a nice, browned crust.
"That brown crust on a sausage is what's going to give you extra flavor," she explains.
Meanwhile, she crushes the fennel with a mortar and pestle and adds that, plus the garlic — thinly sliced, not from a jar — and the other spices and herbs.
"I'm also going to add some salt right now," Clark says. "Because I want the garlic to absorb it. If you add salt as you go, it seasons it better rather than adding it all at once."
She's full of these kinds of cooking gems.
Another example: "If something smells good to you, you'll probably like the taste."
And: "What grows together goes together."
Explaining things — like how thinly slicing the garlic will make it taste sweeter in the dish — is one of Clark's favorite parts of what she does.
"I love talking to people about food and answering questions and figuring out how they're comfortable cooking and how I can make it easier for them," she says. "I really love cooking. I mean, I really do. And I really want everyone else to love it, too."
And it's OK not to cook, too
But don't get her wrong — sometimes she prefers takeout just like everyone else.
"I like to do takeout on things that takeout does better than me," she says. "Like sushi. Takeout does sushi better than me. I'm not afraid to tell you."
Clark pours the tomatoes into the pan, and once that sauce has gotten thick, she adds the pasta. Then she folds in about a third of the mozzarella, plops the rest on top, adds spoonfuls of ricotta, then a little more ricotta and sprinkles the whole thing with Parmesan.
Finally, she sticks the skillet in the oven to bake.
Clark counts how many utensils she used for this dish. The total?
The real test, though, is how it tastes.
When the cheese is brown and bubbling, Clark takes the skillet out of the oven, plucks some fresh basil, and serves the pasta on her back deck, overlooking the garden.
"Two thumbs up?"
Two thumbs up.
Cheesy Baked Pasta with Tomato, Sausage, and Ricotta
Like a cross between baked ziti and a meaty lasagna, this golden-topped pasta is rich with brawny bits of sausage, creamy ricotta, and crushed tomatoes, all seasoned with plenty of garlic, oregano, and fennel seed. It's a certified crowd-pleaser that's easy to adapt.
SERVES 4
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
12 ounces hot or mild Italian sausage (pork, chicken, or turkey)
½ teaspoon fennel seeds
4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon dried oregano
Pinch of crushed red pepper flakes (optional), plus more for serving
1 (28-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes
1 (14-ounce) can crushed or strained tomatoes
2 bay leaves
2 teaspoons kosher salt
12 ounces pasta (small shells, farfalle, or other small shape)
8 ounces fresh mozzarella, torn into bite-size pieces
6 ounces (about ¾ cup) whole-milk ricotta
⅓ cup grated Parmesan cheese
Freshly ground black pepper, for serving
¼ cup slivered fresh basil
DIRECTIONS
1. Heat the oven to 425ºF.
2. In a 12-inch ovenproof skillet or Dutch oven, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Remove the casings from the sausage and crumble the meat into skillet, using a spoon to break it up. Cook, stirring, until it's starting to brown, 5 to 7 minutes.
3. Using a mortar and pestle or the flat side of a chef's knife and a cutting board, lightly crush the fennel seeds. Stir them into the pan along with the garlic, oregano, and red pepper flakes, if using, and cook another 1 to 2 minutes.
4. Stir in the whole tomatoes, using a spoon to break them up. Add the crushed tomatoes, bay leaves, and salt and bring to a simmer. Cook for 10 minutes to thicken it slightly.
5. Stir in the pasta and 1 cup water and return the sauce to a simmer. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring to make sure the pasta doesn't stick to the pan. Remove from the heat, remove the bay leaves, and fold in a third of the mozzarella.
6. Top the pasta with the remaining mozzarella and dollops of ricotta. Sprinkle with the Parmesan. Bake until the pasta is tender when poked with a fork, and the cheese is bubbly and golden, 18 to 22 minutes. (If you'd like a browner topping, run the pan under the broiler for 1 to 2 minutes.) Let cool slightly before serving with black pepper and basil on top, and more red pepper flakes on the side.
VEGETARIAN UPGRADE
You can leave out the sausage entirely or substitute a plant-based sausage.
VEG IT UP
You can add 8 ounces of sliced mushrooms along with the sausage in Step 2. Increase the cook time until the moisture evaporates from the pan and everything is very browned.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <
> about what President Biden can do to curb threats against democracy in the wake of his speech last week.
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-04/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-on-threats-to-democracy | 2022-09-04T14:06:10Z |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musician Yungblud about his new eponymous album, featuring songs that focus on the importance of self-acceptance. Note to listeners: This interview mentions self-harm.
Copyright 2022 NPR
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musician Yungblud about his new eponymous album, featuring songs that focus on the importance of self-acceptance. Note to listeners: This interview mentions self-harm.
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Arrest made in connection with Eliza Fletcher’s abduction
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - A man has been arrested in connection with the abduction of Eliza Fletcher, WMC reported.
Memphis Police Department arrested Cleotha Abston, 38, and charged him with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence.
“This remains to be an active and ongoing investigation,” police said via Twitter.
Fletcher, 34, was jogging when a man approached her and forced her into a dark-colored GMC Terrain after a brief struggle. Fletcher was reported missing when she did not return home.
She is the granddaughter of the late Joseph “Joe” Orgill III, a Memphis hardware businessman and philanthropist, according to the Associated Press.
Fletcher is still missing.
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Some states could tax Biden’s student loan debt relief
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan could lift crushing debt burdens from millions of borrowers, but the tax man may demand a cut of the relief in some states.
That’s because some states tax forgiven debt as income, which means borrowers who are still paying down student loans could owe taxes on as much as $10,000 or even $20,000 that was taken off their bill. In Mississippi, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arkansas and North Carolina, forgiven student loans will be subject to state income taxes unless they change their laws to conform with a federal tax exemption for student loans, according to a tally by the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
That dismays Cathy Newman, a Louisiana State University graduate who just took a job teaching freshman biology at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. She figures she could end up owing a few hundred dollars of money that she could have kept had she stayed in Louisiana.
Newman said she can come up with the cash because she has a good job, but she knows of a lot of other borrowers who will still be stuck in difficult financial positions even with their loans forgiven.
“If they stay in the state, they could end up with a pretty hefty tax burden if things don’t change,” Newman said. “I won’t be happy if I have to do it. I can do it. But a lot of people can’t.”
More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt cut or eliminated under the forgiveness plan Biden announced late last month. The president is erasing $10,000 in federal student loan debt for individuals with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households that earn less than $250,000. He’s canceling an additional $10,000 for those who also used federal Pell Grants to pay for college. But it only applies to those whose loans were paid out before July 1, which leaves out current high school seniors and students who will follow them.
Although having $10,000 or $20,000 in loan payments eliminated will be a boon over the long term to borrowers who qualify, those in the affected states might be required to declare that as income. Depending on a state’s tax rates, the taxpayer’s other income and the deductions and exemptions they’re able to claim, that could add up to several hundred extra tax dollars that they’ll owe.
Spokespeople for tax agencies in several states — including Virginia, Idaho, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky — told The Associated Press that their states definitely won’t tax student loans forgiven under Biden’s program. Revenue officials in a few other states said they needed to do more research to know.
Newman, 38, went into debt to pay for graduate school. She had already set herself up for relief under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, though that requires five more years of teaching on top of the five she already taught at the University of Louisiana Monroe. Biden’s program would cut $10,000 off her debt load when it takes effect, but under existing Mississippi tax law, the relief won’t come free.
“It’s not a huge burden for me, but it could be for a lot of other people, which is what I’m worried about, especially if it’s unexpected, and I think a lot of people don’t realize that,” Newman said.
Any relief in states that would tax the forgiven debt would have to come from their Legislatures. Leaders of the Minnesota Legislature and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz have indicated in recent media interviews that there’s broad support for a fix, which could come during the 2023 session, or even earlier on the remote chance of a special session.
In Wisconsin, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration plans to propose a fix in the state budget next year, but that would have to be approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature. And Evers needs to get reelected in November before he can formally make that request. Republican legislative leaders and Evers’ GOP challenger, Tim Michels, did not reply to messages seeking comment on the student loan tax issue.
However, in Mississippi, the chairman of the state Senate committee in charge of taxes said he’s willing to take a look when the Legislature convenes next year. Republican state Sen. Josh Harkins, of Brandon, said he needs to learn more about what his state’s tax laws say on debt forgiveness.
“I’m sure people will want to look at adjusting that or making some changes in the law, but a lot of factors have to be considered,” Harkins said, noting that Mississippi enacted its biggest-ever tax cut earlier this year and adding that he wants to gauge the impact of inflation before making big tax policy decisions. “This all just hit in the last week.”
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Binkley reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press writers Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, and Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed to this story.
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Ukrainian port city, Kharkiv come under Russian shelling
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling hit the southern Ukraine port city of Mykolaiv during the night, damaging a medical treatment facility, the city’s mayor said Sunday.
Mykolaiv and its surrounding region have been hit daily for weeks in the conflict. On Saturday, a child was killed and five people were injured in rocket attacks in the region, governor Vitaliy Kim said. Mykolaiv city mayor Oleksandr Senkevych did not specify whether there were any injuries in the overnight attack, which he said also damaged some residences.
Mykolaiv, on the Southern Bug River about 30 kilometers (20 miles) upstream from the Black Sea, is a significant port and shipbuilding center.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Russian shelling late Saturday set a large wooden restaurant complex on fire, according to the region’s emergency service. One person was killed and two injured in shelling in the region, governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the eastern Donetsk region where Russian forces have been trying to take full control, said four people were killed in shelling on Saturday.
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday that the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine was disconnected from its last external power line but was still able to run electricity through a reserve line amid sustained shelling in the area.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said in a statement that the agency’s experts, who arrived at Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, were told by senior Ukrainian staff that the fourth and last operational line was down. The three others were lost earlier during the conflict.
But the IAEA experts learned that the reserve line linking the facility to a nearby thermal power plant was delivering the electricity the plant generates to the external grid, the statement said. The same reserve line can also provide backup power to the plant if needed, it added.
“We already have a better understanding of the functionality of the reserve power line in connecting the facility to the grid,” Grossi said. “This is crucial information in assessing the overall situation there.”
In addition, the plant’s management informed the IAEA that one reactor was disconnected Saturday afternoon because of grid restrictions. Another reactor is still operating and producing electricity both for cooling and other essential safety functions at the site and for households, factories and others through the grid, the statement said.
The Zaporizhzhia facility, which is Europe’s largest nuclear plant, has been held by Russian forces since early March, but its Ukrainian staff are continuing to operate it.
Vladimir Rogov, the head of the Russia-installed local administration in Enerhodar, the city where the plant is located, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying there had been no new shelling of the area on Sunday as of midday.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/04/ukrainian-port-city-kharkiv-come-under-russian-shelling/ | 2022-09-04T14:26:30Z |
Some states could tax Biden’s student loan debt relief
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan could lift crushing debt burdens from millions of borrowers, but the tax man may demand a cut of the relief in some states.
That’s because some states tax forgiven debt as income, which means borrowers who are still paying down student loans could owe taxes on as much as $10,000 or even $20,000 that was taken off their bill. In Mississippi, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arkansas and North Carolina, forgiven student loans will be subject to state income taxes unless they change their laws to conform with a federal tax exemption for student loans, according to a tally by the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
That dismays Cathy Newman, a Louisiana State University graduate who just took a job teaching freshman biology at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. She figures she could end up owing a few hundred dollars of money that she could have kept had she stayed in Louisiana.
Newman said she can come up with the cash because she has a good job, but she knows of a lot of other borrowers who will still be stuck in difficult financial positions even with their loans forgiven.
“If they stay in the state, they could end up with a pretty hefty tax burden if things don’t change,” Newman said. “I won’t be happy if I have to do it. I can do it. But a lot of people can’t.”
More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt cut or eliminated under the forgiveness plan Biden announced late last month. The president is erasing $10,000 in federal student loan debt for individuals with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households that earn less than $250,000. He’s canceling an additional $10,000 for those who also used federal Pell Grants to pay for college. But it only applies to those whose loans were paid out before July 1, which leaves out current high school seniors and students who will follow them.
Although having $10,000 or $20,000 in loan payments eliminated will be a boon over the long term to borrowers who qualify, those in the affected states might be required to declare that as income. Depending on a state’s tax rates, the taxpayer’s other income and the deductions and exemptions they’re able to claim, that could add up to several hundred extra tax dollars that they’ll owe.
Spokespeople for tax agencies in several states — including Virginia, Idaho, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky — told The Associated Press that their states definitely won’t tax student loans forgiven under Biden’s program. Revenue officials in a few other states said they needed to do more research to know.
Newman, 38, went into debt to pay for graduate school. She had already set herself up for relief under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, though that requires five more years of teaching on top of the five she already taught at the University of Louisiana Monroe. Biden’s program would cut $10,000 off her debt load when it takes effect, but under existing Mississippi tax law, the relief won’t come free.
“It’s not a huge burden for me, but it could be for a lot of other people, which is what I’m worried about, especially if it’s unexpected, and I think a lot of people don’t realize that,” Newman said.
Any relief in states that would tax the forgiven debt would have to come from their Legislatures. Leaders of the Minnesota Legislature and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz have indicated in recent media interviews that there’s broad support for a fix, which could come during the 2023 session, or even earlier on the remote chance of a special session.
In Wisconsin, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration plans to propose a fix in the state budget next year, but that would have to be approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature. And Evers needs to get reelected in November before he can formally make that request. Republican legislative leaders and Evers’ GOP challenger, Tim Michels, did not reply to messages seeking comment on the student loan tax issue.
However, in Mississippi, the chairman of the state Senate committee in charge of taxes said he’s willing to take a look when the Legislature convenes next year. Republican state Sen. Josh Harkins, of Brandon, said he needs to learn more about what his state’s tax laws say on debt forgiveness.
“I’m sure people will want to look at adjusting that or making some changes in the law, but a lot of factors have to be considered,” Harkins said, noting that Mississippi enacted its biggest-ever tax cut earlier this year and adding that he wants to gauge the impact of inflation before making big tax policy decisions. “This all just hit in the last week.”
___
Binkley reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press writers Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, and Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed to this story.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/04/some-states-could-tax-bidens-student-loan-debt-relief/ | 2022-09-04T14:37:23Z |
CHEYENNE – Thunder Basin knocked off Cheyenne South in swimming, Saturday morning, 97-79.
South’sJaneah Brown and Hannah Fisher took home first and second place, respectively,in the 50-yard freestyle. Brown finished in 28.42 seconds, while Fisher needed 29.11.Brown also swam a 1:13.73in the 100-yard fly to finish in second place. Fisher also placed second in the 100 backstroke (1:12.92).
PaulaMusslickwon the 100-yard freestyle with a final time of 1:03.88. She also was second in the 200 individual medley (2:43.78). Keely Henderson was the team’s final first place finisher, winning the 500-yard freestyle with a final time of 6:26.82.
Central wins four duals in Laramie
CHEYENNE – Cheyenne Central picked up four dual victories Saturday in Laramie.
The Lady Indians bet Laramie (107-79), Kelly Walsh (107-73), Jackson (134-51) and Douglas (125-52).
Emily Meares and Izzy DeLay both won one event and placed second in another. Meares won the 100-yard butterfly (1 minutes, 4.51 seconds) and was second in the 50 freestyle (26.62 seconds). DeLay won the 200 individual medley (2:17.53) and touched second in the 100 free (55.38).
Senior Brinkley Lewis won 1-meter diving (235.5 points). Jaesa Whitesell won the 100 breaststroke (1:13.01). DeLay, Meares, Sydney Gough and Andie Prince formed the winning 200 medley relay team (1:57.56).
East take fourth at Green River Invite
CHEYENNE – Junior Sydni Sawyer placed second in one event and fourth in another to help the Cheyenne East girls swimming and diving team place fourth at the Green River Invitational on Saturday.
Sawyer was second in the 200-yard individual medley (2:27.13) and fourth in the 100 breaststroke (1:16.64).
She also joined Macradee Jackson, Shannon Bailey and Nzelle Ayokosok on the third-place 200 medley relay team (2:06.00). They also were third in the 200 freestyle relay (1:54.71).
Bailey finished fourth in the 100 free (1:00.81) and fifth in the 50 free (27.73 seconds). | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_south/girls-swimming-thunder-basin-knocks-off-south/article_42dce600-2bbc-11ed-890b-c373df70a204.html | 2022-09-04T15:57:49Z |
Most valuable Poke
Third-year starting kicker John Hoyland made four field goals during the victory, including a career-long 55-yarder during the fourth quarter than helped the Cowboys cut Tulsa’s lead to 34-27. He missed the potential game-winner late, but rebounded with two makes during overtime.
Key stat
After posting a 25% completion rate and 30 passing yards during a season-opening loss, Andrew Peasley completed 20 of 30 passes for 256 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions.
Game summary
1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT1 OT2 Total
Tulsa 3 17 7 7 3 0 37
Wyoming 10 7 7 10 3 3 40
Scoring summary
First quarter
UW: Easton Gibbs fumble recovery (John Hoyland kick), 14:23. Key play: On the second play from scrimmage, Jordan Bertagnole forced a fumble on a sack and Gibbs recovered it in the end zone for a touchdown. UW 7, TU 0
TU: Zack Long 32 field goal, 9:02. Scoring drive: 13 plays, 62 yards, 5:21. Key play: Immediately following a holding penalty that set up a second-and-14, Davis Brin completed a 17-yard pass to Keylon Stokes to move Tulsa into field goal range. UW 7, TU 3
UW: Hoyland 25 field goal, 0:54. Scoring drive: 13 plays, 67 yards, 8:08. Key play: Will Pelissier took a jet sweep 18 yards to the Tulsa 27-yard line after back-to-back false starts pushed UW back to a second-and-14. UW 10, TU 3
Second quarter
TU: Steven Anderson 1 run (Long kick), 8:27. Scoring drive: 11 plays, 77 yards, 4:47. Key play: JuanCarlos Santana hauled in a 16-yard catch in tight coverage on third-and-eight from the 17-yard line to set up the touchdown. UW 10, TU 10
TU: Long 27 field goal, 2:48. Scoring drive: 10 plays, 86 yards, 3:56. Key play: Isaiah Epps caught a pass on a hitch route, beat the defender to the edge and broke away for a 54-yard gain to set up first-and-goal. TU 13, UW 10
UW: Pelissier 48 pass from Andrew Peasley (Hoyland kick), 0:57. Scoring drive: 6 plays, 75 yards, 1:51. Key play: Peasley hit Pelissier in stride up the seam for a 48-yard touchdown pass, the first score of Pelissier’s career and Peasley’s first as a Cowboy. UW 17, TU 13
TU: Malachi Jones 5 pass from Brin (Long kick), 0:08. Scoring drive: 5 plays, 75 yards, 0:49. Key play: With Tulsa facing a second-and-10 from the Cowboys’ 42-yard line, UW cornerback Deron Harrell was called for a 15-yard pass interference penalty. TU 20, UW 17
Third quarter
UW: Ryan Marquez blocked punt returned for touchdown (Hoyland kick), 12:12. Scoring drive: 0 plays, 0 yards, 0:00. Key play: Marquez blocked a punt, recovered it and ran into the end zone untouched to give the lead back to the Cowboys. UW 24, TU 20
TU: Santana 41 pass from Brin (Long kick), 8:12. Scoring drive: 9 plays, 75 yards, 4:00. Key play: Santana hauled in a 41-yard catch on third down, the third third-down conversion of the drive, to put Tulsa back on top. TU 27, UW 24
Fourth quarter
TU: Keylon Stokes 19 pass from Brin (Long kick), 14:54. Scoring drive: 8 plays, 55 yards, 3:17. Key play: With Tulsa facing a third-and-three near midfield, Brin scrambled nine yards to convert on third down for the second time during the drive. TU 34, UW 24
UW: Hoyland 55 field goal, 10:53. Scoring drive: 8 plays, 37 yards, 4:0. Key play: Peasley helped the Cowboys avoid a fourth consecutive three-and-out by squeezing a 14-yard completion between a pair of Tulsa defenders to Wyatt Wieland on third-and-nine from the UW 26-yard line. TU 34, UW 27
UW: Cobbs 51 pass from Peasley (Hoyland kick), 6:19. Scoring drive: 6 plays, 65 yards, 2:14 elapsed. Key play: Peasley found Cobbs behind the Tulsa defense for a long catch-and-run that tied the score. UW 34, TU 34
Overtime
TU: Long 25 field goal. Scoring drive: 5 plays, 18 yards. Key play: Tulsa gained 19 yards on its first two plays, but had to settle for a field goal. TU 37, UW 34
UW: Hoyland 25 field goal. Scoring drive: 6 plays, 19 yards. Key play: The Cowboys gained positive yards on all six plays, but were stopped at the Golden Hurricane’s six. UW 37, TU 37
UW: Hoyland 30 field goal. Scoring drive: 6 plays, 12 yards. Key play: UW got the ball to Tulsa’s 13, but a pair of incompletions and a run for no-gain forced the Cowboys to trot Hoyland onto the field for another field goal. UW 40, TU 37
Team statistics
TU UW
First Downs ............................................ 25............................... 17
Rushes-Yards ........................................ 32-61........................ 37-143
Completions-Attempts-Int. ................ 30-52-0.................... 20-30-0
Passing Yards ......................................... 460............................ 256
Total Yards ............................................. 521............................ 399
Punt Returns-Yards ............................. 1-14........................... 1-18
Kickoff Returns-Yards ......................... 1-21........................... 1-30
Interceptions-Yards Returned .......... 0-0............................. 0-0
Sacks-Yards Lost ................................... 4-35........................... 0-0
Punts-Average ....................................... 4-38.3....................... 5-47.8
Fumbles-Lost ......................................... 2-2............................. 1-1
Penalties-Yards ..................................... 7-65........................... 6-56
Time of Possession ............................. 30:45........................ 29:15
Individual statistics
TULSA
Rushing CAR YDS TD LG AVG
Anderson 10 40 1 8 4.0
Ford 7 26 0 8 3.7
Gary 3 6 0 4 2.0
Jackson 2 4 0 2 2.0
Team 1 –3 0 0 –3.0
Brin 9 –12 0 9 –1.3
Passing C-ATT-INT YDS TD LG SACK
Brin 30-52-0 460 3 54 4
Receiving REC YDS TD LG
Stokes 11 136 1 33
Santana 7 102 1 41
Jones 6 103 1 33
Epps 4 79 0 54
Tryon 1 7 0 7
Ford 1 0 0 0
WYOMING
Rushing CAR YDS TD LG AVG
Peasley 10 45 0 10 4.5
Swen 11 40 0 12 3.6
McNeely 6 26 0 8 4.3
Pelissier 2 19 0 18 9.5
James 2 9 0 5 4.5
Braasch 4 8 0 3 2.0
Team 2 –4 0 0 –2.0
Passing C-ATT-INT YDS TD LG SACK
Peasley 20-30-0 256 2 51 0
Receiving REC YDS TD LG
Cobbs 5 77 1 51
Christensen 4 45 0 17
Pelissier 3 67 1 48
James 2 34 0 23
Wieland 2 20 0 14
Braasch 2 10 0 6
Swen 1 2 0 2
Welch 1 1 0 1
Defensive statistics
TULSA
Player (unassisted tackles-assisted tackles-total): Wright 9-4-13, Powers 4-4-8, Ray 6-1-7, Carlisle 5-2-7, Terry 3-3-6, Davis 4-1-5, Anderson 2-1-3, Sawyer 1-1-2, Simon 1-1-2, Team 1-0-1, Johnson 1-0-1, Jackson 1-0-1, Rogers 0-1-1, Wallace 0-1-1, Oliver 1-0-1, Kulkin 0-1-1, Goodlow 0-1-1, Laake 1-0-1. Tackles for loss: Ray 1-2, Sawyer 1-1, Wallace 0.5-1, Goodow 0.5-1. Forced fumbles: Powers 1. Fumble recoveries: Terry 1-0. Pass breakups: Wright 1, Carlisle 1, Dvais 1.
WYOMING
Player (unassisted tackles-assisted tackles-total): Gibbs 3-5-8, Suiaunoa 5-2-7, Glinton 3-3-6, Ekeler 3-3-6, Stone 4-1-5, Williams 4-1-5, Bertagnole 3-2-5, Harris 3-1-4, Godbout 2-2-4, Harrell 3-0-3, White 3-0-3, Meyer 3-0-3, Hawkins 0-2-2, DeMarzo 0-2-2, Wieland 1-0-1, Driskill 1-0-1, Sunn 0-1-1, Siders 1-0-1, Robinson 0-1-1. Tackles for loss: Suiaunoa 1-4, Bertagnole 1-28, Harris 1-2, Siders 1-1. Sacks: Suiaunoa 1-4, Bertagnole 1-28, Harris 1-2, Siders 1-1. Forced fumbles: Stone 1, Bertagnole 1. Fumble recoveries: Gibbs 1-0, Glinton 1-0. Pass breakups: Glinton 3, Stone 1, Williams 1, Harris 1, White 1, Hawkins 1. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/wyoming-40-tulsa-37-2ot-statistics/article_b0d75d10-2c58-11ed-974f-8fc537c08ebf.html | 2022-09-04T15:57:55Z |
Indiana officer who was shot in head is moved to hospice
Published: Sep. 4, 2022 at 11:11 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An eastern Indiana police officer who was shot in the head during a traffic stop has been moved to hospice care after being taken off life support at a hospital.
The Richmond Police Department says 28-year-old Officer Seara Burton was transferred to a hospice facility in the Richmond area on Saturday. She had been treated at a hospital in Dayton, Ohio, since being shot on Aug. 10.
The department says in a Facebook post that “she will continue receiving excellent care and be surrounded by her family.”
Burton was taken off life support Thursday.
A Richmond man is jailed on three attempted murder charges in the officer’s shooting.
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Indiana officer who was shot in head is moved to hospice
Published: Sep. 4, 2022 at 11:11 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An eastern Indiana police officer who was shot in the head during a traffic stop has been moved to hospice care after being taken off life support at a hospital.
The Richmond Police Department says 28-year-old Officer Seara Burton was transferred to a hospice facility in the Richmond area on Saturday. She had been treated at a hospital in Dayton, Ohio, since being shot on Aug. 10.
The department says in a Facebook post that “she will continue receiving excellent care and be surrounded by her family.”
Burton was taken off life support Thursday.
A Richmond man is jailed on three attempted murder charges in the officer’s shooting.
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Local business expands to produce
BLUEFIELD, Va. (WVVA) -
Business at Bluefield, Virginia’s “Blue Mountain Rustic” has only expanded since opening its doors last spring.
Their first expansion was a gem mine, and now they’ve grown to include a local produce stand : Pickin & Grinnin’
“I think that the mass production of produce and things have really ruined the industry as a whole. And people are starting to want that home time feel, the old school way of eating, ya know? And honey, i’m in heaven i grew up that way and so we just wanted to bring that back to the community, really.”
Dewayne Jenkins/ Pickin & Grinnin’
Owner of blue mountain rustic, Allen Hatfield, says the stand serves an important place in the community for farmers and consumers.
“The connections that we are making, its been amazing. Just seeing the enthusiasm its made it all worth it. But yes, we’re trying to give that outlet to the local farmers whether its produce, whether its honey, whether its jams, jellies. You know all that kind of things.”
Allen Hatfield / Blue Mountain Rustic
If you’re looking for food grown closer to home, Pickin & Grinnin’ is open 10am to 6pm Tuesday through Saturday.
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New murals coming to Tazewell’s Main Street
TAZEWELL, Va. (WVVA) - Mainstreets all across Appalachia are getting an upgrade, and this is no different for the town of Tazewell. Alongside Tazewell Today’s beautification project, Murals on Main, several walls in town are in the process of becoming sites for public art
“We have a lot of empty spots on main street, it’s starting with the mural here in the mini park and it’s actually going to be moving to several locations on Main Street. We’re working on five different locations right now with several different artists.” - Vanessa Rebentisch / Executive Director of Tazewell Today
One of the murals called, “Standing Tall” is set to honor Black citizens, historical and modern, who helped shape Tazewell County.
“And they were speakers, and they were teachers and they were poets and they put their stories.. In story books and in poetry. And we were able to keep that history. This history is going to be even greater because our young people will be able to come up and be able to read about them and understand who they are. And it’s history that won’t be lost.” - Jeanette Wilson / Mural Committee Member
Jeanette has a personal connection to the mural, having her grandfather and uncle featured . The piece will be named after a stanza in her uncle George Murray Dickerson’s poem.
The mural was designed by local artist Ellen Elmes, and features several local painters and is set to be unveiled this fall.
The other mural currently in progress in the mini park is designed by Violet Asbury, and is set to be an ode to all the iconic places of Tazewell.
Soon all five walls will be painted by and celebrating Tazewell’s most talented.
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At the end of the Foo Fighters concert Friday night in London, frontman Dave Grohl ordered the crowd to make some noise — but not as a way to wrap up the show.
"Let's here it one more time for Taylor f****** Hawkins as loud as you can," Grohl shouted. "We love you Taylor!"
The performance at Wembley Stadium was the first of two tribute concerts dedicated for Hawkins, the late Foo Fighters drummer who died in March at the age of 50.
Sir Paul McCartney, Queen and AC/DC were featured in the lineup, but the most heartwarming appearance came from Hawkins' 16-year-old-son, Shane, who played the drums in honor of his father.
Taylor Hawkins' son, Shane Hawkins, performing "My Hero" with Foo Fighters ❤️ pic.twitter.com/Bkf81mEtC0
— Ethan Shanfeld (@ethanshanfeld) September 3, 2022
"All of these amazing people came here tonight for one reason, it was to celebrate the life of Taylor Hawkins," Grohl said at the show.
Hawkins died in Bogota, Colombia, where the band was scheduled to perform. No cause of death was announced, although a toxicology report showed traces of several substances in his body, the BBC reported. Investigators have not determined whether that was a factor in his death.
The rock group canceled its upcoming tour dates following Hawkins' passing — making Friday's performance the band's first show in months.
Hawkins' impact in rock music
Hawkins was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but grew up in Laguna Beach, Calif. He picked up drumming at age 10 and quickly knew he wanted to play professionally.
The drummer had been part of Foo Fighters since 1997. With Hawkins' help, the band went on to win 12 Grammy Awards and scored four No. 1 hits on the Billboard charts. In 2021, the group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
"Foo Fighters carry the torch of rock authenticity with infectious hooks, in-your-face guitar riffs, monster drums, and boundless energy," the organization wrote.
Grohl described Hawkins as his "best friend" in a 2007 interview on Fresh Air.
"We're close personally, but then we're also connected by this love and understanding of rhythm and drums," he said. "When we're writing songs, you know, I might request something or I might try to steer in a direction, but for the most part, the guy — he doesn't need me to tell him what to do because he's an incredible drummer."
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of Michigan-Dearborn Professor Ulrich Kamp about how glacial melt caused by climate change and changing monsoon patterns have caused flooding in Pakistan
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of Michigan-Dearborn Professor Ulrich Kamp about how glacial melt caused by climate change and changing monsoon patterns have caused flooding in Pakistan
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PUKALANI, Maui (KITV4) - According to the National Weather Service in Honolulu, trade winds will strengthen slightly today with moderate to locally breezy winds lasting through Monday.
Trade winds will continue to blow at moderate levels through Thursday with lighter trade winds and afternoon sea breezes expected from Friday onward into next weekend.
A series of weak disturbances moving through the islands over the next seven days will bring periods of increasing cloud and shower trends to each island.
- Temperatures are expected to climb into the upper 80's to low 90's today.
- Showers should clear the state later this morning with more sunshine in the forecast this afternoon.
- Winds are forecasted out of the east in the 10-25 mph range.
SURF:
The National Weather Service in Honolulu says south-facing shore surf will remain low through the week with the continued passage of small, long period background south southwest swell.
A swell originating from a gale moving east of New Zealand early this week will be directed within the island's south southwest swell window and is timed to reach our local waters next weekend.
This slightly larger, medium to long period swell will support a noticeable increase in south shore surf.
A series of small, medium period north swells from a couple of systems northwest of the state, between the western Aleutians and the International Date Line, will produce minor bumps to late week north-facing shore surf.
East wind wave chop will remain slightly elevated under generally moderate to fresh east trade winds over and upstream of the islands.
North: 1-3'
West: 1-3'
South: 2-3'
East: 2-4'
A small craft advisory is posted for our usual windy areas around Maui County and the island of Hawaii.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Weekend Meteorologist and Maui County correspondent
Malika has been at KITV since July 2020. She graduated from the University of Hawaii and attended Mississippi State University for her certification in Broadcast Meteorology. Malika started her career in the Hawaii news industry in 2007. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/labor-day-forecast-breezier-winds-today-showers-clearing-the-state/article_281c1152-2c65-11ed-815e-f7a0f2382200.html | 2022-09-04T17:24:07Z |
ROCK SPRINGS – The biker community made a young man’s dream come true Sunday morning.
Motorcyclists from all over joined together to give Rock Springs resident Vincent Johnson, an 18-year-old with cerebral palsy, a ride that he will never forget.
For several years, it was Johnson’s dream to go on a motorcycle ride.
In order to make that dream happen, though, he needed to ride in a sidecar. His grandmother Susan Nay began reaching out, making calls and posting on Facebook in search of one so her grandson can fulfill his dream.
In May, she got in touch with Jay Weisgerber, a man from Alliance, Nebraska, who just so happened to have a sidecar. Weisgerber was living in Rapid City, South Dakota, at the time and was ready to make the trip.
Johnson’s health wasn’t doing well then, however, so the ride had to be postponed.
Weisgerber created a Facebook page called Vincent’s Ride and began posting on the Sweetwater Classifieds page to recruit local bikers to join him in making Johnson’s dream come true.
On Saturday, Sept. 3, Weisgerber, along with his dog and girlfriend, traveled 405 miles to give Johnson a quick ride around town.
“I didn’t even care if anybody else showed up. I was on a mission. I was dead set on giving this young man Vincent a ride,” Weisgerber said.
“People who want to donate ask, ‘Do you have a 501c3?’ and I say, ‘No. This has nothing to do with money.’ I’ve had people offer me money, pay my way, offer to pay for my motel and I had three different people who I have never met offer to let me stay at their house last night with my dog and my girlfriend. That’s how these people are coming together.”
“I’ve been a biker my whole life and it doesn’t surprise me a bit because that’s the way the biker community is.”
Nearly 60 bikers and members of the Sweetwater County community showed up to Johnson’s house Sunday morning, gifting him with an autographed helmet and t-shirt that was donated by Flaming Gorge Harley Davidson. Motorcycle clubs included Bad Lands Bandits, Fallen Saints Red Desert, American Legion Riders and others joined in on the ride.
“When people think of the bikers in our community, people have a negative thought of what being a biker is. This is the turnout you can get on a three-day weekend. All the organizational stuff goes away when it comes to this because we have a purpose and a focus,” said Grant Waklich, president of the American Legion Riders MC.
“The man who brought his sidecar here, Jay, he came here from Alliance, Nebraska. He’s a school bus driver and he has taken his three-day weekend to come to Rock Springs to do this for this young man because this is what his wish is. This is what his dream is.
“It doesn’t matter who you ride with, what you ride or how you ride, this is about the community and this is a great representation of what the biker community in this area stand for.”
Upon the bikers’ arrival, Nay was nearly brought to tears by the love and support her grandson had received.
“I am just overwhelmed. I am very excited for Vincent and I think this is a fantastic thing these people are doing. I’m going to cry. He likes to try different things and he’s been talking about this one for several years now,” said Nay after seeing the amount of people who showed up for her grandson’s wish.
When seeing the look on Johnson’s face when the bikers showed up to his house, Rep. Marshall Burt of House District 39, who is also a member of the Fallen Saints Red Desert Motorcycle Club, said, “This is what it’s all about.
“What a lot of people don’t realize, as bikers, we might have a bad perception because we wear a lot of leather and we may look a little standoffish, but bikers, in their nature, are very charitable individuals and as a group,” Burt said.
“There are a lot of events that happen throughout the year that bikers will show up to, donate a lot of their money. Being able to get together with fellow riders and enjoy the beautiful day to give back to the community is really what we focus on.
“That’s our goal. We always want to give back to the community.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/vincents-ride-bikers-make-young-mans-dream-come-true/article_96870d22-2c6a-11ed-a2a2-cb6a716c632c.html | 2022-09-04T17:48:53Z |
Americans splurge on beauty, despite pullbacks elsewhere
NEW YORK (AP) — Like many Americans, Karla Maldonado has been cutting back her spending to spare her wallet from rising costs: She is eating out less and attending fewer social events to curb the impact of high gas prices.
But the 26-year-old social worker of Portland, Oregon, hasn’t skimped on her eye makeup — the mascara, eyeliner and eyeshadow she typically wears to work just above her face mask.
“That’s something I can’t go without,” Maldonado said. And she doesn’t seem to be alone.
Many major retailers slashed their financial outlooks for the year after seeing shoppers pull back on many discretionary items in the latest quarter. But among the notable exceptions: beauty.
Target, Kohl’s, Macy’s and Nordstrom all highlighted strong sales of beauty items in their fiscal second-quarter earnings reports issued over the past few weeks. Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, said that it’s seeing increased momentum in its beauty business, citing strong sales in cosmetics as well as skin and hair businesses. Meanwhile, Ulta Beauty, the largest beauty retailer in the country, said overall sales spiked nearly 17% in its most recent quarter, compared to the same period last year.
Americans, once stuck behind Zoom screens in the thick of the pandemic, are out and about and wanting to look their best. Co-workers — some of whom are meeting each other for the first time — are trying to make an impression. Meanwhile, people are going out on dates and getting together for summer parties and barbeques after months of pandemic-induced leisurewear and Netflix binges at home.
But another possible explanation for why beauty is thriving when consumers are more apprehensive about their spending is a long-held theory known as the “lipstick index,” which posits that lipstick sales rise during times of economic downturn.
The reasoning goes: When consumer sentiment declines, Americans seek escapism by looking for small ways to indulge themselves, such as by purchasing a new lipstick instead of pricier alternatives they can no longer afford. For others, their version of lipstick might be cheap beer or a $5 Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks, which reported record revenue in August for its fiscal third quarter.
The lipstick theory has held, though not always. Makeup sales spiked during the Great Depression and the recession in the early 2000s. But sales declined during the 2008 economic collapse, according to market research firm NPD Group. The same happened during the early days of the pandemic as Americans stayed home — or behind masks -- and shifted their interests towards wellness and skincare as stimulus payments flooded bank accounts, helping balloon the savings of consumers who were already spending less on traveling or eating out due to pandemic lockdowns.
Now, makeup is roaring back. Americans have bought more eye, face and lip makeup — roughly 2%, 5% and 12% respectively — in a year-over-year analysis of sales across stores, according to the market research firm IRI.
At Macy’s, CEO Jeff Gennette noted in an earnings call late last month that consumers have focused on deals and cut back on purchases amid high inflation. Still, they managed to buy beauty products as well as travel-related items like luggage, shoes and clothes to wear to the office, Gennette said.
Meanwhile, Kohl’s reported that shoppers were making fewer trips, spending less per transaction and shifting toward value-oriented store brands. But at its Sephora beauty shops, launched last year as part of a partnership with the beauty chain, shoppers are spending freely on skincare, makeup and fragrance.
“Customers are not willing to give up their beauty purchases,” Kohl’s CEO Michelle Gass recently told The Associated Press. “People need to feel good at this time with so much pressure on them.”
The Sephora sales reflect broader findings released in July by NPD Group, which showed among 14 discretionary industries tracked by the group this year, beauty was the only category that saw a rise in sales. However, the persistence of beauty at more prestige markets — such as Macy’s, Sephora and Nordstrom — is primarily being driven by high-income earners, or those with an annual salary of $100,000 or more, according to Larissa Jensen, NPD’s beauty industry adviser.
“While we’re all feeling these inflationary pressures, it has less of an impact on a consumer earning six figures than it does on a lower income consumer,” Jensen said.
Elsewhere, however, strong sales show Americans of all income levels participating in the uptick. At Target, beauty enjoyed sales increases in the low single digits while home goods, clothing and electronics all suffered declines. As a result, for the winter holidays, Target said it will be more cautious with its orders for discretionary merchandise but will lean on beauty as well as necessities like groceries.
Its competitor Walmart launched higher-end beauty areas in March in collaboration with British retailer SpaceNK, and it says those sections have performed well. The retailer, which has been offering consumers select discounts, will hold a beauty event in September where customers can find deals at the store and online.
These wins, combined with low levels of price increases and supply chain issues, has made the beauty industry feel insulated from challenges in the wider economy, Jensen said.
“But there’s still so many things swirling around,” she warned. “And we need to be cognizant that things could change at any minute.”
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Old coins worth nearly $300,000 found under floorboards
Published: Sep. 4, 2022 at 12:34 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) – An English household literally uncovered a buried treasure and they’ll likely get a pretty penny for it.
During a renovation of their 18th century home in 2019, the residents came across a salt-glazed earthenware cup stuck beneath the concrete and floorboards.
When they looked inside, they discovered more than 260 gold coins.
The auction house Spink & Son issued a statement calling this one of the largest hoards of 17th and 18th century English gold coins ever confirmed in Britain.
They said the coins could be worth nearly $300,000.
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US ambassador to Russia leaving post as Ukraine war drags on
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, ended his tenure as America’s top diplomat in Moscow on Sunday after nearly three years, spanning the Trump and Biden administrations, and will retire from a lengthy career in government service, the embassy announced. His departure comes as Russia’s war with Ukraine is in its seventh month.
His four-decade public service career included postings as deputy secretary of state and senior positions in the departments of Justice, Defense and Commerce.
Elizabeth Rood, the deputy chief of mission to Russia, will be the top U.S. diplomat in Moscow until a successor nominated by President Joe Biden replaces Sullivan.
On Saturday, Sullivan attended a farewell ceremony in Moscow for former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday.
The departure comes as U.S.-Russian relations remain tense. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the war has slowed to a grind with both sides trading combat strikes and small advances in the east and south. Both Russian and Ukraine have seen thousands of troops killed and injured, and Russia’s bombardment of cities has killed countless innocent civilians.
The U.S. has imposed numerous waves of sanctions on Russia and provided billions of dollars worth of military assistance to Ukraine, shifting to a longer-term support strategy in recent weeks.
In April 2021, Sullivan headed back to the U.S. for consultations after officials in Moscow “suggested” he follow the example of the Russian ambassador to Washington who was recalled from Washington after Biden described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “killer.”
A Boston native, Sullivan was nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate with unusually strong bipartisan support as ambassador to Russia in December 2019. Biden asked him to remain in the post when Biden took office last year.
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UNION, N.J., Sept. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) today announced that Gustavo Arnal, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, passed away on September 2, 2022. The entire Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. organization is profoundly saddened by this shocking loss.
"I wish to extend our sincerest condolences to Gustavo's family. Gustavo will be remembered by all he worked with for his leadership, talent and stewardship of our Company. I am proud to have been his colleague, and he will be truly missed by all of us at Bed Bath & Beyond and everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him," said Harriet Edelman, Independent Chair of the Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Board of Directors. "Our focus is on supporting his family and his team and our thoughts are with them during this sad and difficult time. Please join us in respecting the family's privacy."
Mr. Arnal joined Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. in May 2020 following a distinguished global career in finance at Avon, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and Procter & Gamble. At Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., Mr. Arnal was instrumental in guiding the organization throughout the coronavirus pandemic, transforming the Company's financial foundation and building a strong and talented team. He was also an esteemed colleague in the financial community.
About the Company
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") is an omnichannel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. The Company sells a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty and Wellness markets. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond.
The Company operates websites at bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.ca, and facevalues.com.
Contacts:
INVESTORS: Susie A. Kim, IR@bedbath.com
MEDIA: Julie Strider, Media@bedbath.com
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An E. coli outbreak that was first detected largely in the Midwest is growing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
There are now reported illnesses in New York and Kentucky in addition to those previously recorded in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Though the CDC said the specific source of the outbreak hasn't been confirmed, many of the people who got sick reported eating sandwiches with romaine lettuce at the fast food chain Wendy's.
There have now been at least 97 illnesses tied to the outbreak, with 43 hospitalizations and no deaths.
In a statement, Wendy's said it was fully cooperating with public health authorities and was committed to upholding food safety and quality standards.
"While the CDC has not yet confirmed a specific food as the source of that outbreak, we have taken the precaution of removing the sandwich lettuce at some restaurants," the company said. "The lettuce that we use in our salads is different, and is not affected by this action."
The CDC said investigators were working to determine if romaine lettuce was the cause of the outbreak and, if so, whether it had been served or sold elsewhere.
The agency said so far there was no evidence that romaine lettuce sold in grocery stores or other restaurants was tied to the outbreak. Officials were also not advising people to stop eating romaine lettuce or stop eating at Wendy's.
The first illness tied to the outbreak was reported in late July, and those who became sick ranged in age from three to 94 years old.
Michigan saw a majority of the illnesses, with 58 sick people reported to the agency.
The CDC said that, because many people recover from an E. coli infection without medical care and aren't tested, the true number of people sickened by the outbreak is "likely higher" than the official tally and the outbreak could be present in more states.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-04/an-e-coli-outbreak-possibly-linked-to-wendys-has-expanded-to-six-states | 2022-09-04T18:17:19Z |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of Michigan-Dearborn Professor Ulrich Kamp about how glacial melt caused by climate change and changing monsoon patterns have caused flooding in Pakistan
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of Michigan-Dearborn Professor Ulrich Kamp about how glacial melt caused by climate change and changing monsoon patterns have caused flooding in Pakistan
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On-air challenge: Every answer is a seven-letter compound word or familiar two-word phrase in which the first two letters are the same as the last two in reverse.
Ex. Part of a train --> RAILCAR
1. Product from Purina or Pedigree
2. Crimson, for example
3. Where a football player reaches to score a touchdown
4. Cheer on, as a team
5. Symbol with rainbow colors that might be displayed in a Pride parade
6. Number of people voting or attending an event
7. Male journalists
8. First position in a ranking
9. What you might say when patting Rover on the head
Last week's challenge: It comes from listener Paula Egan Wright. Name a well-known island. Move the first letter six spaces later in the alphabet. Read the result backward. You'll get where this island is located. What island is it?
Challenge answer: Malta --> atlas
Winner: David Kurman of The Villages, Florida
This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Michael Penn, of Durham, N.C. Name two countries, with a total of 12 letters, that when spelled one after the other form six consecutive state postal abbreviations.
If you know the answer to the two-week challenge, submit it here by Thursday, September 8 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.
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Americans splurge on beauty, despite pullbacks elsewhere
NEW YORK (AP) — Like many Americans, Karla Maldonado has been cutting back her spending to spare her wallet from rising costs: She is eating out less and attending fewer social events to curb the impact of high gas prices.
But the 26-year-old social worker of Portland, Oregon, hasn’t skimped on her eye makeup — the mascara, eyeliner and eyeshadow she typically wears to work just above her face mask.
“That’s something I can’t go without,” Maldonado said. And she doesn’t seem to be alone.
Many major retailers slashed their financial outlooks for the year after seeing shoppers pull back on many discretionary items in the latest quarter. But among the notable exceptions: beauty.
Target, Kohl’s, Macy’s and Nordstrom all highlighted strong sales of beauty items in their fiscal second-quarter earnings reports issued over the past few weeks. Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, said that it’s seeing increased momentum in its beauty business, citing strong sales in cosmetics as well as skin and hair businesses. Meanwhile, Ulta Beauty, the largest beauty retailer in the country, said overall sales spiked nearly 17% in its most recent quarter, compared to the same period last year.
Americans, once stuck behind Zoom screens in the thick of the pandemic, are out and about and wanting to look their best. Co-workers — some of whom are meeting each other for the first time — are trying to make an impression. Meanwhile, people are going out on dates and getting together for summer parties and barbeques after months of pandemic-induced leisurewear and Netflix binges at home.
But another possible explanation for why beauty is thriving when consumers are more apprehensive about their spending is a long-held theory known as the “lipstick index,” which posits that lipstick sales rise during times of economic downturn.
The reasoning goes: When consumer sentiment declines, Americans seek escapism by looking for small ways to indulge themselves, such as by purchasing a new lipstick instead of pricier alternatives they can no longer afford. For others, their version of lipstick might be cheap beer or a $5 Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks, which reported record revenue in August for its fiscal third quarter.
The lipstick theory has held, though not always. Makeup sales spiked during the Great Depression and the recession in the early 2000s. But sales declined during the 2008 economic collapse, according to market research firm NPD Group. The same happened during the early days of the pandemic as Americans stayed home — or behind masks -- and shifted their interests towards wellness and skincare as stimulus payments flooded bank accounts, helping balloon the savings of consumers who were already spending less on traveling or eating out due to pandemic lockdowns.
Now, makeup is roaring back. Americans have bought more eye, face and lip makeup — roughly 2%, 5% and 12% respectively — in a year-over-year analysis of sales across stores, according to the market research firm IRI.
At Macy’s, CEO Jeff Gennette noted in an earnings call late last month that consumers have focused on deals and cut back on purchases amid high inflation. Still, they managed to buy beauty products as well as travel-related items like luggage, shoes and clothes to wear to the office, Gennette said.
Meanwhile, Kohl’s reported that shoppers were making fewer trips, spending less per transaction and shifting toward value-oriented store brands. But at its Sephora beauty shops, launched last year as part of a partnership with the beauty chain, shoppers are spending freely on skincare, makeup and fragrance.
“Customers are not willing to give up their beauty purchases,” Kohl’s CEO Michelle Gass recently told The Associated Press. “People need to feel good at this time with so much pressure on them.”
The Sephora sales reflect broader findings released in July by NPD Group, which showed among 14 discretionary industries tracked by the group this year, beauty was the only category that saw a rise in sales. However, the persistence of beauty at more prestige markets — such as Macy’s, Sephora and Nordstrom — is primarily being driven by high-income earners, or those with an annual salary of $100,000 or more, according to Larissa Jensen, NPD’s beauty industry adviser.
“While we’re all feeling these inflationary pressures, it has less of an impact on a consumer earning six figures than it does on a lower income consumer,” Jensen said.
Elsewhere, however, strong sales show Americans of all income levels participating in the uptick. At Target, beauty enjoyed sales increases in the low single digits while home goods, clothing and electronics all suffered declines. As a result, for the winter holidays, Target said it will be more cautious with its orders for discretionary merchandise but will lean on beauty as well as necessities like groceries.
Its competitor Walmart launched higher-end beauty areas in March in collaboration with British retailer SpaceNK, and it says those sections have performed well. The retailer, which has been offering consumers select discounts, will hold a beauty event in September where customers can find deals at the store and online.
These wins, combined with low levels of price increases and supply chain issues, has made the beauty industry feel insulated from challenges in the wider economy, Jensen said.
“But there’s still so many things swirling around,” she warned. “And we need to be cognizant that things could change at any minute.”
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Family of boy with autism requests cards from strangers for his 9th birthday
ATLANTA, Ga. (WGCL/Gray News) - A Georgia family celebrating an 8-year-old autistic boy’s birthday is asking for people to send him birthday cards after no one showed up to his party last year.
When you are 8 years old, it is important to know that people care about you. Austin has had several birthday parties where no one showed up, and now his mom and aunt are asking for people to help show they care.
Austin’s aunt, Bri Sosebee, told WGCL he turns 9 years old on Sept. 14.
“Last year, he didn’t have anyone show up to his birthday party,” she said.
Sometimes, we all need a reminder that we matter, and that is what Austin’s family is hoping he’ll learn by receiving support from strangers.
“He is a little discouraged that people don’t think of him,” Sosebee said. “He is autistic and doesn’t understand.”
Austin’s mom, Amber Sosebee, said he is a playful but sometimes moody kid with a big heart.
His aunt said he’s had a rough time.
“People tend to bully him at school, no one wants to show up to any of his events,” Bri Sosebee said. “Every kid deserves to be loved and he deserves to have friends show up.”
This year, the family is doing something different. They’re asking total strangers to write and send birthday cards to Austin.
“Maybe a few birthday cards and he would realize there are others who actually want to send him something, who actually care,” Bri Sosebee said.
Austin’s family said he loves Spider-Man, sharks, Minecraft and football.
If you would like to make Austin’s birthday extra special this year you can send birthday cards to 7830 Smith Farm Road, Cumming, GA, 30028.
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Old coins worth nearly $300,000 found under floorboards
Published: Sep. 4, 2022 at 12:34 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
(CNN) – An English household literally uncovered a buried treasure and they’ll likely get a pretty penny for it.
During a renovation of their 18th century home in 2019, the residents came across a salt-glazed earthenware cup stuck beneath the concrete and floorboards.
When they looked inside, they discovered more than 260 gold coins.
The auction house Spink & Son issued a statement calling this one of the largest hoards of 17th and 18th century English gold coins ever confirmed in Britain.
They said the coins could be worth nearly $300,000.
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US ambassador to Russia leaving post as Ukraine war drags on
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, ended his tenure as America’s top diplomat in Moscow on Sunday after nearly three years, spanning the Trump and Biden administrations, and will retire from a lengthy career in government service, the embassy announced. His departure comes as Russia’s war with Ukraine is in its seventh month.
His four-decade public service career included postings as deputy secretary of state and senior positions in the departments of Justice, Defense and Commerce.
Elizabeth Rood, the deputy chief of mission to Russia, will be the top U.S. diplomat in Moscow until a successor nominated by President Joe Biden replaces Sullivan.
On Saturday, Sullivan attended a farewell ceremony in Moscow for former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday.
The departure comes as U.S.-Russian relations remain tense. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the war has slowed to a grind with both sides trading combat strikes and small advances in the east and south. Both Russian and Ukraine have seen thousands of troops killed and injured, and Russia’s bombardment of cities has killed countless innocent civilians.
The U.S. has imposed numerous waves of sanctions on Russia and provided billions of dollars worth of military assistance to Ukraine, shifting to a longer-term support strategy in recent weeks.
In April 2021, Sullivan headed back to the U.S. for consultations after officials in Moscow “suggested” he follow the example of the Russian ambassador to Washington who was recalled from Washington after Biden described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “killer.”
A Boston native, Sullivan was nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate with unusually strong bipartisan support as ambassador to Russia in December 2019. Biden asked him to remain in the post when Biden took office last year.
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Family of boy with autism requests cards from strangers for his 9th birthday
ATLANTA, Ga. (WGCL/Gray News) - A Georgia family celebrating an 8-year-old autistic boy’s birthday is asking for people to send him birthday cards after no one showed up to his party last year.
When you are 8 years old, it is important to know that people care about you. Austin has had several birthday parties where no one showed up, and now his mom and aunt are asking for people to help show they care.
Austin’s aunt, Bri Sosebee, told WGCL he turns 9 years old on Sept. 14.
“Last year, he didn’t have anyone show up to his birthday party,” she said.
Sometimes, we all need a reminder that we matter, and that is what Austin’s family is hoping he’ll learn by receiving support from strangers.
“He is a little discouraged that people don’t think of him,” Sosebee said. “He is autistic and doesn’t understand.”
Austin’s mom, Amber Sosebee, said he is a playful but sometimes moody kid with a big heart.
His aunt said he’s had a rough time.
“People tend to bully him at school, no one wants to show up to any of his events,” Bri Sosebee said. “Every kid deserves to be loved and he deserves to have friends show up.”
This year, the family is doing something different. They’re asking total strangers to write and send birthday cards to Austin.
“Maybe a few birthday cards and he would realize there are others who actually want to send him something, who actually care,” Bri Sosebee said.
Austin’s family said he loves Spider-Man, sharks, Minecraft and football.
If you would like to make Austin’s birthday extra special this year you can send birthday cards to 7830 Smith Farm Road, Cumming, GA, 30028.
Copyright 2022 WGCL via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/04/family-boy-with-autism-requests-cards-strangers-his-9th-birthday/ | 2022-09-04T18:27:58Z |
On-air challenge: Every answer is a seven-letter compound word or familiar two-word phrase in which the first two letters are the same as the last two in reverse.
Ex. Part of a train --> RAILCAR
1. Product from Purina or Pedigree
2. Crimson, for example
3. Where a football player reaches to score a touchdown
4. Cheer on, as a team
5. Symbol with rainbow colors that might be displayed in a Pride parade
6. Number of people voting or attending an event
7. Male journalists
8. First position in a ranking
9. What you might say when patting Rover on the head
Last week's challenge: It comes from listener Paula Egan Wright. Name a well-known island. Move the first letter six spaces later in the alphabet. Read the result backward. You'll get where this island is located. What island is it?
Challenge answer: Malta --> atlas
Winner: David Kurman of The Villages, Florida
This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Michael Penn, of Durham, N.C. Name two countries, with a total of 12 letters, that when spelled one after the other form six consecutive state postal abbreviations.
If you know the answer to the two-week challenge, submit it here by Thursday, September 8 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.
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