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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Rhode Island’s truck tolling system must end within 48 hours, saying the program to fund repairs to the state’s bridges discriminates against out-of-state truckers and is unconstitutional.
The RhodeWorks tolling system was begun in 2018 to create a funding stream for repairs to about 650 bridges in the state that were either structurally deficient or close to becoming structurally deficient. But U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith wrote the system aimed at commercial tractor-trailers “was enacted with a discriminatory purpose.”
Smith’s 91-page ruling said the system violated a clause of the U.S. Constitution that bars states from passing legislation that discriminates against or excessively burdens interstate commerce. He wrote that an injunction to end the program “shall take effect 48 hours following entry of final judgment.”
The trucking industry filed a court challenge against the system in 2018, saying in part it discriminated against out-of-state economic interests in order to favor in-state interests. The state held the legal position that the federal court cannot restrain the collection of state taxes, such as tolls, and state matters should be adjudicated in state court.
“We told Rhode Island’s leaders from the start that their crazy scheme was not only discriminatory, but illegal,” said Chris Spear, president and chief executive of the American Trucking Associations, in a statement Wednesday. “We’re pleased the court agreed.”
The other plaintiffs were Cumberland Farms Inc., M&M Transport Services Inc. and New England Motor Freight.
The state has collected about $101 million in tolls since 2018, including nearly $40 million during the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to a state Transportation Department. Tolls are collected electronically via gantries spanning the state’s major highways.
The decision sets a standard that prevents other states from setting up similar tolling systems, said Rhode Island Trucking Association President Chris Maxwell.
“Had we not prevailed, these tolls would have spread across the country and this ruling sends a strong signal to other states that trucking is not to be targeted as a piggy bank,” he said.
Former Gov. Gina Raimondo signed the bill authorizing the tolls in 2016, and the state began collecting them in 2018. Raimondo justified tolling trucks, saying big rigs caused the most damage to roads.
The state is considering its options, according to a statement from the office of current Democratic Gov. Dan McKee. But the administration reiterated that it is not considering tolling passenger vehicles.
“As this ruling has just come out, our team is reviewing the decision and evaluating next steps,” the statement said.
The suit was at first dismissed by a federal district court which said it lacked jurisdiction and the case should be heard in state court. But t he 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2020 reversed the lower court ruling, sending it back to district court.
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The deadliest drug problem in our state is soon to be addressed thanks to Alabama Rep. Matt Simpson, a former district attorney in Baldwin and Mobile counties.
The fentanyl epidemic is a national problem that has come to our state causing over 1,000 deaths in Alabama in 2021 alone. That is more than a 130 percent increase over the prior year.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid. It is treated differently than other drugs in Alabama in that a trafficking conviction does not require jail time. Presently, there is a $50,000 fine for people convicted of trafficking up to two grams of it.
Rep. Simpson is proposing legislation in the next legislative session that would make selling, delivering, or manufacturing that amount carry a three-year prison sentence. His legislation will propose longer prison sentences for larger amounts of the drug, including a life sentence for eight grams of more.
Fentanyl is cheaper than drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and dealers are mixing it with these and other drugs to maximize their potency. Many drug users are not even aware they are taking fentanyl, which could easily attribute to the substantial number of deaths among drug users.
Drug dealers have even started making fentanyl in bright, pretty rainbow colors to intentionally attract and target young people. Few drug users realize that as little as two milligrams of fentanyl can be deadly.
This drug, like so many others, seems to be coming from China and through Mexico into the United States. No matter where it’s coming from, it’s ending up in our state and wreaking havoc.
Thanks Rep. Matt Simpson for recognizing this massive problem and adding further, more stringent penalties to those who are targeting our children and poisoning all those who use fentanyl knowingly or unknowingly.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BMO Financial Group announced today that it is increasing its US$ prime lending rate from 5.50 percent to 6.25 percent, effective September 22, 2022.
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $1.07 trillion as of July 31, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will vote on an overhaul of a centuries-old election law, an effort to prevent future presidential candidates from trying to subvert the popular will.
The legislation under consideration beginning Wednesday is a direct response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count Act, an arcane 1800s-era law that governs, along with the U.S. Constitution, how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners.
While that process has long been routine and ceremonial, Trump and a group of his aides and lawyers tried to exploit loopholes in the law in an attempt to overturn his defeat.
The bill, which the House will start debating on Wednesday, would set new parameters around the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress that happens every four years after a presidential election. The day turned violent last year after hundreds of Trump’s supporters interrupted the proceedings, broke into the building and threatened the lives of then-Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress. The rioters echoed Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud and wanted Pence to block Democrat Joe Biden’s victory as he presided over the joint session.
The legislation intends to ensure that future Jan. 6 sessions are “as the constitution envisioned, a ministerial day,” said Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican who co-sponsored the legislation with House Administration Committee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. Both Cheney and Lofgren are also members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
“The American people are supposed to decide an election, not Congress,” Lofgren said.
The bill, which is similar to legislation moving through the Senate, would clarify in the law that the vice president’s role presiding over the count is only ceremonial and also sets out that each state can only send one certified set of electors. Trump’s allies had unsuccessfully tried to put together alternate slates of illegitimate pro-Trump electors in swing states where Biden won.
The legislation would increase the threshold for individual lawmakers’ objections to any state’s electoral votes, requiring a third of the House and a third of the Senate to object to trigger votes on the results in both chambers. Currently, only one lawmaker in the House and one lawmaker in the Senate has to object. The House bill would set out very narrow grounds for those objections, an attempt to thwart baseless or politically motivated challenges. The legislation also would require courts to get involved if state or local officials want to delay a presidential vote or refuse to certify the results.
The House vote comes as the Senate is moving on a similar track with enough Republican support to virtually ensure passage before the end of the year. After months of talks, House Democrats introduced the legislation on Monday and are holding a quick vote two days later in order to send the bill across the Capitol and start to resolve differences. A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation this summer and a Senate committee is expected to vote on it next week.
While the House bill is more expansive than the Senate version, the two bills cover similar ground and members in both chambers are optimistic that they can work out the differences. While few House Republicans are expected to vote for the legislation — most are still allied with Trump — supporters are encouraged by the bipartisan effort in the Senate.
“Both sides have an incentive to want a set of clear rules, and this is an antiquated law that no one understands,” said Benjamin Ginsburg, a longtime GOP lawyer who consulted with lawmakers as they wrote the bill. “All parties benefit from clarity.”
House GOP leaders disagree, and are encouraging their members to vote against the legislation. They say the involvement of courts could drag out elections and that the bill would take rights away from states.
Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis, Lofgren’s GOP counterpart on the House Administration Committee, said Tuesday that the bill would trample on state sovereignty and is “opening the door to mass litigation.”
Democrats are “desperately trying to talk about their favorite topic, and that is former president Donald Trump,” Davis said.
Cheney, a frequent Trump critic who was defeated in Wyoming’s GOP primary last month, says she hopes it receives votes from some of her Republican colleagues.
The bill would “ensure that in the future our election process reflects the will of the people,” she said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former president Donald Trump padded his net worth by billions of dollars and habitually misled banks and others about the value of prized assets like golf courses, hotels and his Mar-a-Lago estate, New York’s attorney general said Wednesday in a lawsuit that seeks to permanently disrupt the Republican’s ability to do business in the state.
Attorney General Letitia James dubbed it: “The art of the steal.”
The lawsuit, filed in state court in Manhattan, is the culmination of the Democrat’s three-year civil investigation into Trump and the Trump Organization. Trump’s three eldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump, were also named as defendants, along with two longtime company executives.
In its 222 pages, the suit struck at the core of what made Trump famous, taking a blacklight to the image of wealth and opulence he’s embraced throughout his career — first as a real estate developer, then as a reality TV host on “The Apprentice” and later as president.
It details dozens of instances of alleged fraud, many involving claims made on annual financial statements that Trump would give to banks, business associates and financial magazines as proof of his riches as he sought loans and deals.
For example, according to the lawsuit, Trump claimed his Trump Tower apartment — a three-story penthouse replete with gold-plated fixtures — was nearly three times its actual size and valued the property at $327 million. No apartment in New York City has ever sold for close to that amount, James said.
Trump applied similar fuzzy math to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, the lawsuit alleged, by valuing the private club and residence as high as $739 million — more than 10 times a more reasonable estimate of its worth. Trump’s figure is based on the idea that the property could be developed for residential use, but deed terms prohibit that.
“This investigation revealed that Donald Trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth, to deceive banks and the people of the great state of New York,” James said at a news conference.
“Claiming you have money that you do not have does not amount to the art of the deal. It’s the art of the steal,” she said, referring to the title of Trump’s 1987 memoir, “The Art of the Deal.”
James said the investigation also uncovered evidence of potential criminal violations, including insurance fraud and bank fraud, but that her office was referring those findings to outside authorities for further investigation.
Trump, in a post to his Truth Social platform, decried the lawsuit as “Another Witch Hunt” and denounced James as “a fraud who campaigned on a ‘get Trump’ platform.”
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, said the allegations are “meritless” and that the lawsuit “is neither focused on the facts nor the law — rather, it is solely focused on advancing the Attorney General’s political agenda.”
In the lawsuit, James asked the court to ban Trump and his three eldest children from ever again running a company based in the state.
She is also seeking payment of at least $250 million, which she said was the estimated worth of benefits derived from the alleged fraud. And she wants Trump and the Trump Organization from entering into commercial real estate acquisitions for five years, among other sanctions.
James’ lawsuit comes amid a whirlwind of unprecedented legal challenges for a former president, including an FBI investigation into Trump’s handling of classified records and inquiries into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
While James’ lawsuit is being pursued in civil court, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been working with James’ office on a parallel criminal investigation.
Trump cited fear of prosecution in August when he refused to answer questions in a deposition with James, invoking his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination more than 400 times.
The odds of a criminal prosecution have been seen as falling in recent months after Bragg allowed a grand jury to disband without bringing charges. Bragg said again Wednesday, though, that the criminal investigation was “active and ongoing.”
A criminal prosecution would have a far higher burden of proof than a civil lawsuit. And in a criminal case, prosecutors would have to prove that Trump intended to break the law, something not necessarily required in a civil case.
“Generally in criminal cases you have to prove intent. In civil cases, just negligence or intentional misrepresentation give rise to liability,” said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor in San Diego who now practices law at a Los Angeles firm.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan said it was aware of James’ referral of potential criminal violations, but otherwise declined comment. The Internal Revenue Service’s criminal investigation division said it “doesn’t confirm the existence of investigations until court documents are publicly available.”
The Trump Organization is set to go on trial in October in a criminal case alleging that it schemed to give untaxed perks to senior executives, including its longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg, who alone took more than $1.7 million in extras.
Weisselberg, 75, pleaded guilty Aug. 18. His plea agreement requires him to testify at the company’s trial before he starts a five-month jail sentence. If convicted, the Trump Organization could face a fine of double the amount of unpaid taxes.
Weisselberg and another Trump Organization executive, Jeffrey McConney, were also named as defendants in James’ lawsuit.
At the same time, the FBI is continuing to investigate Trump’s storage of sensitive government documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and a special grand jury in Georgia is investigating whether Trump and others attempted to influence state election officials.
All of the legal drama is playing out ahead of the November midterm elections, where Republicans are trying to win control of one or both houses of Congress.
Meanwhile, Trump has been laying the groundwork for a potential comeback campaign for president in 2024 and has accused President Joe Biden’s administration of targeting him to hurt his political chances.
Trump’s previous refusal to answer questions in testimony could be held against him if a lawsuit ever reaches a jury. In civil cases, courts are allowed to draw negative inference from such Fifth Amendment pleadings.
“If Trump wanted to argue that some accounting decision was harmless instead of malicious, he might have already passed up the opportunity when he decided to stay silent,” said Will Thomas, an assistant professor of business law at the University of Michigan.
In a previous clash, James oversaw the closure of Trump’s charity for alleging misusing its assets to resolve business disputes and boost his run for the White House. A judge ordered Trump to pay $2 million to an array of charities to settle the matter.
James, who campaigned for office as a Trump critic and watchdog, started scrutinizing his business practices in March 2019 after his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress that Trump exaggerated his wealth on financial statements provided to Deutsche Bank while trying to obtain financing to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the second week of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly got underway, the United States Council for International Business (USCIB) joined with partners, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the International Organization of Employers (IOE), to hold a Global Business Town Hall on September 21. The Town Hall tackled some of pressing priorities outlined in the UN Secretary General's report Our Common Agenda, which seeks to foster a human-centric recovery for the global workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Panels centered around four critical areas from Our Common Agenda, including resetting the multilateral system, rethinking education to close the skills gap, reforming global response to future health crises, and reinforcing human rights through the role of governance and the rule of law.
"Business is a full partner and, together, we have the capacity to respond to these pressing global challenges," asserted USCIB President and CEO Peter M. Robinson during his closing remarks.
Other high-level speakers and panelists included International Labor Organization (ILO) Director-General Elect Gilbert Houngbo, UN DESA Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development Navid Hanif, IOE Secretary-General Roberto Suarez Santos, President UN Human Rights Council Federico Villegas, and SHRM Chief of Staff, Head of Government Affairs and Corporate Secretary Emily M. Dickens, who served as keynote.
"The report mentions that we truly are at an inflection point in history," Dickens told the audience of over 300 attendees, which consisted of representatives from business and UN officials. "I submit to you today that this inflection point touches no other place like it does the workplace—the location where people spend the majority of their time, the mechanism that allows people to take care of themselves and their families, the incubator for innovation that impacts how well we live."
This town hall was a second in a series, following one organized by USCIB, SHRM and IOE during the UN High-Level Political Forum in July.
About USCIB: USCIB promotes open markets, competitiveness and innovation, sustainable development, and corporate responsibility, supported by international engagement and regulatory coherence. Its members include U.S.-based global companies and professional services firms from every sector of our economy, with operations in every region of the world. USCIB is the U.S. affiliate of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Organization of Employers (IOE) and Business at OECD. More at www.uscib.org.
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War in Ukraine: Foreign secretary to condemn Russian atrocities at UN as Vladimir Putin orders mobilisation
The UK’s foreign secretary is set to condemn Vladimir Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine when he meets his Russian counterpart for the first time.
James Cleverly will face Sergei Lavrov on Thursday during a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council, where foreign ministers are due to discuss the war.
World leaders and senior diplomats from across the globe are gathered at the UN General Assembly in New York this week, with Mr Cleverly attending as part of a UK delegation headed by Prime Minister Liz Truss – his first overseas trip since taking the role.
At the Security Council meeting, Mr Cleverly will commit to working with allies on holding Russia accountable and seeking justice for victims.
He is expected to say: “Ukrainians’ resilience and spirit of defiance, in defence of their country, continues to inspire all free people and nations.
“But every day, the devastating consequences of Russia’s invasion become more clear and evidence of Russian atrocities continues to mount.
“We can and must make clear to President Putin that his attacks on the sovereign will of the Ukrainian people – so clearly expressed as they fight for their homes – must stop, his assaults on the UN charter and international norms that protect us will not be tolerated, and that he must withdraw from Ukraine to enable a return to regional and global stability.”
The foreign secretary will also argue Moscow plans to fix the results of referendums on becoming parts of Russia due to be held in Russian-controlled regions in eastern and southern Ukraine.
In a speech on Wednesday, the Russian president also announced a partial military mobilisation as the Kremlin attempts to regain ground in the face of a counterattack by Ukraine’s forces.
Mr Putin accused the West of engaging in “nuclear blackmail” and noted “statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading Nato states about the possibility of using nuclear weapons of mass destruction against Russia”.
He said: “To those who allow themselves such statements regarding Russia, I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for separate components and more modern than those of Nato countries and when the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, to protect Russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal.”
US president Joe Biden accused Mr Putin of causing a “brutal, needless war.”
He said: “A permanent member of the United Nations Security Council invaded his neighbour, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map. Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the United Nations Charter.
“This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple, and Ukraine’s right to exist as a people.
“Wherever you are, wherever you live, whatever you believe … that should make your blood run cold.”
The UK’s defence secretary Ben Wallace said Mr Putin’s actions were “an admission that his invasion is failing”.
“No amount of threats and propaganda can hide the fact that Ukraine is winning this war, the international community are united and Russia is becoming a global pariah,” he said.
Foreign Office minister Gillian Keegan questioned whether Mr Putin was “in control”.
She told Sky News: “Some of the language there was quite concerning at the end and obviously we would urge for calm.”
The Chichester MP also said: “It’s something that we should take very seriously because, you know, we’re not in control.
“I’m not sure he’s in control either, really. I mean, this is obviously an escalation and, of course, for the Russian people now they will be conscripted into this war.”
The US ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, tweeted the mobilisation was a sign “of weakness, of Russian failure”.
Later on Thursday, Mr Cleverly will join a meeting focused on accountability for war crimes in Ukraine.
The foreign secretary and US secretary of state Antony Blinken both stressed unwavering support to Kyiv and to “maintaining unity with partners to ensure Putin fails in his illegal war” when they met at the UN gathering on Tuesday, according to a read-out of the encounter.
Mr Cleverly also had a meeting with Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba.
In her summit speech, Ms Truss pledged the UK under her leadership would work with allies to counter authoritarianism and champion freedom, sovereignty and democracy.
The Prime Minister met Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska and prime minister Denys Shmyal to tour an exhibition titled Russian Warcrimes at the Ukrainian Institute of America on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s president insisted Wednesday that his country is serious about reviving a deal meant to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear bomb but questioned whether Tehran could trust America’s commitment to any eventual accord.
The U.S. had already “trampled” on a previous deal, President Ebrahim Raisi told the U.N. General Assembly, referring to America’s decision to pull out of the accord in 2018.
Ever since Iran’s 1979 revolution that overthrew its Western-backed shah, Tehran has been at odds with the United States and has sought to project itself as a counterweight to American power.
Tehran’s resolve to resist U.S. pressure has seen it build close ties with countries like Russia, develop a domestic ballistic missile program and attempt to export its narrow revolutionary ideals to countries across the Mideast through Shiite militias and proxies.
Its nuclear program, which Iran insists is for peaceful energy purposes, is seen as an extension of its defiance of an American-led world order.
After former U.S. President Donald Trump walked away from the deal brokered by the Obama administration, Tehran steadily abandoned every limitation the accord imposed on its nuclear enrichment.
But efforts to salvage the deal are now nearing a take-it-or-leave-it inflection point. European Union officials have warned the window for securing a nuclear deal is about to close.
In exchange for agreeing to the terms of the new nuclear deal, Iran would receive relief on economic sanctions and be given greater access to global financial markets and the flow of U.S. dollars.
“There is a great and serious will to resolve all issues” in the nuclear talks, Raisi said, but he added: “Our wish is only one thing: observance of commitments.”
“Can we truly trust without guarantees and assurances that they will this time live up to their commitment?” he asked of the U.S.
Swings in American foreign policy with successive administrations have concerned not only Iran, but also U.S. allies who have questioned America’s reliability and its commitment to agreements, ranging from climate to security.
Even as he expressed a desire to reach a deal, Raisi criticized what he said was lopsided scrutiny of Iran’s nuclear activities while other nations’ atomic programs remain secret — a reference to Israel, which has never confirmed nor denied having such weapons. Israel, which is vehemently opposed to the nuclear deal, accuses Iran of concealing aspects of its nuclear program from U.N. inspectors.
“We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” U.S. President Joe Biden said in his own speech at the U.N., but he stressed the U.S. is ready to rejoin the accord if Iran steps up its commitments.
Raisi, who was previously chief of Iran’s judiciary, also denounced Western “double standards” on human rights. He accused Israel of creating the world’s largest prison through its blockade of the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
He also cited mass graves of Indigenous people found in Canada and the manner in which the U.S. detains migrants and refugees on its southern border.
Wearing a traditional black turban identified with Shiite clerics, Raisi held up a photo of slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani, whom he described as a “freedom-seeking man.” The Revolutionary Guard chief who oversaw Iranian militias and proxy armed groups in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and beyond was assassinated in a strike authorized by Trump in 2020 at the height of tensions with Iran.
Raisi, who was sworn in as president only a year ago, has been described as a protege of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He spoke for the first time from the podium at the U.N. in his role as president. Last year, he delivered remarks to the assembly virtually due to COVID-19 restrictions.
He told the gathered leaders Iran wants to have “extensive relations with all our neighbors” — an apparent reference to foe Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries in the region.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have held a number of direct talks over the past year, though tensions remain high between the two. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates recently reopened its embassy in Tehran and sent an ambassador there.
Raisi’s speech comes at a sensitive time in Iran.
Israel’s shadow war against Iran continues. It is widely believed to have been behind the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists and sabotage attacks on Iran’s nuclear program.
Meanwhile, Western sanctions, which Raisi described as a “punishment on the people of Iran,” have eaten away at Iran’s reserves, exacerbated inflation, and devalued Iran’s currency against the U.S. dollar.
Economic protests have flared — and frequently are met with lethal force.
In recent days, protesters have clashed with police in cities across the country, including the capital, over the death of a 22-year-old woman who was held by the morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strictly-enforced dress code.
Raisi has offered condolences to the woman’s family and promised an investigation, while other Iranian officials have accused unnamed foreign countries of seizing on the incident to foment unrest. Her death has ignited long-simmering anger among many Iranians, particularly young people, at the country’s ruling clerics.
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Aya Batrawy, a Dubai-based correspondent for The Associated Press, is on assignment at the U.N. General Assembly. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ayaelb
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain granted personhood status Wednesday to what environmentalists call Europe’s largest salt-water lagoon, which has suffered massive die-offs of marine life as it degrades due to coastal development and local farming. The new law came after a citizen-led push to provide better protection for the threatened ecosystem.
The initiative backed by more than 600,000 citizens will become law after Spain’s Senate in Madrid voted in favor of the proposal to grant the Mar Menor lagoon on Spain’s southeastern coast the status of personhood, the first time such a measure has been taken in Spain.
A total of 1,600 square kilometers (994 square miles) of the lagoon and the nearby Mediterranean coastline will now be legally represented by a group of caretakers made up of local officials, local citizens and scientists who work in the area. The grassroots group that pushed the measure hopes this will improve the ability to defend the lagoon from further degradation.
The World Wildlife Fund calls the Mar Menor Europe’s largest salt-water lagoon. It’s home to several species of fish, seahorses and the endangered European eel. The lagoon, which covers 135 square kilometers (84 square miles), is separated from the open sea by a thin strip of land 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) long that is a popular vacation spot dotted with hotels.
For years, ecologists and citizens have denounced the periodic die-offs of marine life in the lagoon due to the runoff of fertilizers from nearby farms.
In 2019, over 50,000 people marched in the nearby city of Cartagena to denounce the degradation of the lagoon. This month, Spain’s government approved 20 million euros ($19.7 million) in aid to improve water treatment in towns near the Mar Menor as part of a recovery plan for the lagoon.
“So that natural disasters like those that have occurred, so that the episodes of mortality of fauna of the Mar Menor don’t return, let’s give this ecosystem its own rights,” Senator María Moreno said before the vote.
The law codifies the lagoon’s right “to exist as an ecosystem and to evolve naturally” and recognizes its right to protection, conservation and restoration.
In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the Whanganui River.
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Remember the days when one of the best money-saving travel tips was booking an Airbnb versus a hotel? Not only were nightly rates almost always far cheaper, but the Airbnbs and hosts themselves often shaped up to be the most memorable aspects of a trip.
These days, staying at an Airbnb rarely involves big savings or friendships with the hosts. For better or for worse, features like self-check-in make it so hosts and guests never even meet. Meanwhile, many listings are managed not by owners but by corporate property management behemoths—without the convenience of on-site, full-time staff.
And the cost? A June 2022 NerdWallet analysis looked at 1,000 U.S. Airbnb reservations for 2022 or 2023. Although there’s no way to compare the costs directly since every Airbnb is different, some key indicators provide clues as to when Airbnbs are better or worse than a hotel.
In some cases, Airbnb rentals are still a good deal compared to hotels. Other times, they’re far from it.
Length of trip
For short stays, Airbnbs are rarely a good deal for two reasons: discounts and cleaning fees.
Savings get bigger with trip length: The nightly rate for the average seven-night Airbnb stay was 32 percent cheaper than a one-night stay, according to NerdWallet’s analysis.
— One-night stay: $314 median nightly price
— Seven-night stay: $213 median nightly price (32 percent less per night versus staying one night)
Why are longer stays cheaper? One reason is multiday discounts. Hosts offer these incentives because they’d prefer having fewer bookings to manage and ensure occupancy.
Another reason is cleaning fees. While not all listings have them, the median cleaning fee is $75, according to NerdWallet’s analysis. Since it’s a one-time fee, the cost is reduced by longer stays. A $75 cleaning fee stings more on a one-night stay versus a three-week stay, where it would amount to only about $3.50 per day. Since hotels typically don’t have cleaning fees, travelers staying a night or two might be better off with a hotel if Airbnb cleaning fees are steep.
Size of group
For solo travelers and couples, Airbnbs are typically more expensive (though NerdWallet’s study only looked at “entire place” properties, so people sharing a room or home might still save).
NerdWallet compared the price per head for Airbnbs with a max capacity of two adults against a hotel room in the same city. It also compared the cost of an Airbnb with a max capacity of six people against the cost to book three hotel rooms (assuming two adults per room).
The average Airbnb for six was 33 percent cheaper than booking three hotel rooms. But the average hotel was 29 percent cheaper than booking an Airbnb for two.
Here’s how median costs broke down, per person:
— Small Airbnb (fits two adults): $125
— Large Airbnb (fits six adults): $60
— Hotel room (fits two adults): $89
Other factors to consider
Of course, every traveler’s situation is unique, and other costs go into a trip beyond sticker price. Ask yourself about:
Transportation: Does the hotel charge for parking? Is there a free airport shuttle? Is the hotel downtown and walkable, whereas your Airbnb might necessitate a rental car?
Staff availability: For Airbnbs, you might never meet the host or interact with any sort of staff. If you prefer to speak to a human (or simply need personal assistance for anything from getting directions to helping clean a mess), a hotel might have better offerings.
Then again, even hotels are still understaffed. The American Hotel & Lodging Association forecasts that hotels will end 2022 with 1.97 million employees, which is 84 percent of prepandemic levels, and a May 2022 AHLA survey found that 97 percent of hotels indicate that they are experiencing a staffing shortage.
Food: Can you skip restaurants by cooking in the Airbnb kitchen? Is the free hotel breakfast more convenient?
Other amenities: Does your Airbnb include laundry? Are daily activities included with your hotel, making it so you can skip paying for other entertainment if you’ll spend all day at the pool?
For remote workers, what about office space? A Deloitte spring 2022 survey of 4,200 Americans asked what factors go into their lodging decisions. “Space to work” saw a 19 percent increase in 2022 versus 2021—and an Airbnb with a separate office or backyard might be a more enjoyable workspace than being cooped up in a small hotel room.
Additional fees and ways to pay: Will you owe resort fees? Airbnb doesn’t have a loyalty program, but can you stay at the hotel for free on points?
Given the variability, it’s impossible to proclaim that Airbnbs are better or worse than hotels. And given ongoing reduction in hotel services like housekeeping and room service, the sometimes lackluster feeling that increasingly surrounds Airbnb is a tough comparison to make as hotel services disappear, too.
But if you’re booking travel in 2022 under the assumption that Airbnbs are always the best deal, reconsider your strategy.
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Should you try Bloom Nutrition Greens and Superfoods smoothie mixes?
The power of TikTok is that it can shine a spotlight on practices and products and pull them into the mainstream overnight. It can introduce strategies that help people live a better life. For instance, with only one in 10 adults eating enough fruits and vegetables, TikTok has put the focus on Bloom Nutrition Greens and Superfoods smoothie mixes, a product that seems to help people achieve the nutrition and gut health they’re lacking.
In this article: Bloom Nutrition Green Superfood, Amazing Grass Greens Blend (Detox and Digest Formula) and Country Farms Super Greens Drink Mix
What are Bloom Nutrition Greens and Superfoods smoothie mixes?
According to its website, Bloom is a supplement company for women that was founded by Mari and Greg. After Mari hit rock bottom, she went on a fitness journey with now-husband Greg and eventually lost 90 pounds. Since there were no supplements for women that satisfied their needs — all options had too much filler, tasted horrible or had ingredients they couldn’t pronounce — the pair created their own blend of dehydrated fruits and vegetables to help Mari on her journey.
Why does TikTok love Bloom?
While Bloom Nutrition Greens and Superfoods smoothie mixes are marketed as being beneficial to your fitness journey, TikTok’s infatuation with the product isn’t because of its nutritional benefits. Instead, influencers claim it reduces bloating. Some say you can look your best in under 15 minutes. Others love the taste. In summary, TikTok loves Bloom Nutrition Greens and Superfoods smoothie mixes because they taste good and make you look and feel better.
Why are nutritionists skeptical?
Nutritionists are skeptical of Bloom’s performance because most of the listed ingredients fall far below recommended daily values. However, since supplements and superfood powders aren’t regulated by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), it’s unsafe to take more than the recommended dose because it could lead to toxicity and other problems.
What’s the verdict on Bloom Nutrition Greens and Superfoods smoothie mixes?
While TikTok loves Bloom, nutritionists say the smoothie mixes don’t look spectacular on paper. However, those outspoken nutritionists seem to overlook or disregard the fact that this product is only meant to be used as a supplement. It isn’t supposed to fulfill all of your daily nutritional needs; it’s the sand that fills in the gaps where your diet is lacking.
If Bloom Nutrition Greens and Superfoods smoothie mixes don’t cause harm, don’t interact with any medications you may be taking and can help you get some of the nutrition your body may be lacking, then, overall, it would seem to be a beneficial product.
Superfood powders to try
Bloom Nutrition Green Superfood
This is the trending brand — the one that’s making news and bringing attention to superfood powders. It comes in berry, citrus, coconut, mango and original flavors. Sold by Amazon
Amazing Grass Greens Blend (Detox and Digest Formula)
The detox and digest formula of this popular blend helps increase the growth of good bacteria to support digestion, as well as overall health and immunity. Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Evlution Nutrition Stacked Greens
Stacked Greens has no artificial sweeteners, flavors or fillers. It’s made from greens, fruits and vegetables to support immunity and defend against free radicals. Sold by Amazon
This product is formulated to fill the gap between what you eat and what you should be eating. It’s made with 49 different superfoods and contains no wheat or dairy. Sold by Amazon
Purely Inspired Organic Greens
This offering doesn’t pack quite as much in as others, but it still has the essential vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and probiotics. Sold by Amazon
Hum’s superfood powder is formulated to boost energy and metabolism while supporting healthy skin. It’s available in a yummy mint chocolate chip flavor. Sold by Amazon
Country Farms Super Greens Drink Mix
Country Farms drink mix is a slightly more affordable option that still promises to boost energy, support immune health and aid in digestion. Sold by Amazon and iHerb
California Gold Nutrition Superfoods
California Gold has a dozen blends ranging from antioxidants to whole foods. It contains no gluten, no GMOs and no soy. Sold by iHerb
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Create the perfect jack-o’-lantern this Halloween with items you already have around the house
Pumpkins always make excellent fall decorations, but you can take your Halloween display to the next level by carving your pumpkins into intricate designs. And you don’t even need to be an artist to carve the perfect pumpkin. You just need the right tools on hand to carve effectively.
The good news is you don’t need to buy any special pumpkin-carving tools. Instead, you can carve truly impressive designs in your pumpkins with tools you already have in your kitchen.
If you’re eager to create an eye-catching jack-o’-lantern this Halloween, check out these tips for carving pumpkins with kitchen tools you have on hand.
In this article: Shun Classic 6-Inch Serrated Utility Knife, Wusthof Classic Paring Knife and Norpro Stainless-Steel Canning Ladle
Prepare your work area
While carving a pumpkin is usually fun, it’s also pretty messy. Before you start, you want to ensure you won’t get your home too dirty.
Ideally, you should carve a pumpkin outdoors, where you won’t have to worry as much about the pulp and fibrous strands from inside the pumpkin getting everywhere.
But whether working on a surface outside or indoors, you should always line your work area with a protective covering you can throw away later. Old newspaper is a go-to option, but parchment paper, butcher paper or cut-up paper grocery bags also work well. Then, once you’re done carving, you can wrap up the pumpkin’s pulp and other debris in the covering and toss everything into the trash.
Pick the right tools
You should also check that you have all the essential tools before carving. You can find pumpkin carving kits at many stores, but a quick look through your kitchen drawers usually provides all you need for successful carving.
A knife is the most crucial tool, and any serrated utility knife in your kitchen will work well. However, for more detailed work like your jack-o’-lantern’s mouth, a paring knife is a better option for getting into small spaces.
You’ll also need a tool for scooping out the pumpkin’s interior. A stainless steel soup ladle is extremely effective for removing all the fibrous strands and pulp, but you can also use an ice cream scoop to clean out your pumpkin.
Plan your design
While you may be tempted to pick up your knife and just start carving away, it helps to plan and draw your design before cutting. You can use a pen or marker to create the pattern on the pumpkin’s exterior. Some people like to freehand a design, while others use stencils for a foolproof spooky design.
Cut out the lid
When you’re ready to cut, start with the top or lid. Use a serrated knife to carefully cut out the circle you’ve drawn around the pumpkin’s stem. Hold the knife at a 45-degree inward angle to create a lid that can sit in place on top without falling inside once you’ve cut it free.
Scoop the interior
After you’ve cut out the lid, remove all of the pumpkin’s insides. Many people like to collect and clean the seeds so they can roast them in the oven later. Use your ladle or ice cream scoop to remove all of the pulp and stringy pieces inside the pumpkin. You may need to scrape your tool against the sides of the pumpkins to get out all the stringy bits.
Discard all the pumpkin’s insides in the trash. Once the pumpkin is scooped out, wipe down the exterior of the pumpkin to remove any moisture or pulp. That makes it easier to cut out your design.
Cut out the design
When the pumpkin is completely cleaned out, use your serrated knife to cut out the design you’ve drawn or traced on the exterior. Make straight cuts for the cleanest look.
If you’re cutting teeth or other intricate details, switch to a paring knife for more precise cuts. Remove the pieces you cut out, and put them aside with the rest of the trash to be thrown away.
Light the pumpkin
Once you’ve carved your pumpkin, lighting it gives it a truly spooky effect. You can go for a classic look by using a small tea light or votive candle, placing it inside the pumpkin and lighting it. If you’re concerned about having an open flame on your porch or inside your home, you can use battery-operated candles instead.
Best kitchen tools for carving a pumpkin
This set of sturdy, well-performing kitchen knives contains a serrated utility knife and a paring knife, so you have all the knives you need to carve a pumpkin. The knives feature single-piece, stamped blades made of durable stainless steel. The included block makes them easy to store, too.
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Shun Classic 6-Inch Serrated Utility Knife
This versatile, multipurpose utility knife is ideal for carving pumpkins because it has scalloped serrations that easily cut through most foods. It’s made of durable Japanese steel and has a water-resistant pakkawood handle. It’s dishwasher-safe, too.
Sold by Amazon
This super-sharp paring knife provides excellent precision when cutting the fine details in your pumpkin’s design. It features a triple-riveted full tang design to allow for greater control and a blade made of high-carbon stainless steel for improved durability.
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Norpro Stainless-Steel Canning Ladle
This durable stainless-steel ladle is excellent for scooping out all the fiber threads and pulp from inside the pumpkin because it has a sharper edge than other ladles. Its long handle also makes it easy to get the bottom of a pumpkin, while its 7-ounce bowl can remove large quantities of pumpkin pulp at once.
Sold by Amazon
KitchenAid Gourmet Ice Cream Scoop
This high-quality ice cream scoop is made of cast zinc, so it’s strong enough to scoop out any pumpkin. It has an ergonomically designed handle, which makes it easy to get a comfortable grip on it. It’s also dishwasher-safe.
Hello To Halloween Press Pumpkin Carving Stencils
If you don’t want to freehand your pumpkin’s design, these stencils make it much easier to create the perfect jack-o-lantern. Each set includes 30 stencils you can use for carving or painting pumpkins.
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LONDON (AP) — Roger Federer is a father of four — two girls who are 13, two boys who are 8 — and so perhaps that is why, as he wraps up his playing career, he thinks about the “GOAT” debate that has engulfed the tennis world the way parents might look at their children.
Folks love to ask: Who’s the “Greatest of All-Time” in men’s tennis, Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic?
“People always like to compare. I see it every day with my twins. Without wanting, you compare them. You shouldn’t — ever,” Federer said during an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, hours after his farewell news conference at the arena that will host the 20-time Grand Slam champion’s final competition, the Laver Cup.
“Naturally, we do the same in tennis. … I am my own career, my own player, that needed those challenges. They needed a challenger like myself,” he said, leaning back on a couch, having traded in the blue blazer and polo shirt he wore earlier for a post-practice navy pullover, white T-shirt and black jogger pants. “We made each other better. So at the end of the day, we’ll all shake hands and be like, ‘That was awesome.’ Now is somebody going to be happier than the other? I mean, in moments, maybe.”
He called the topic “a good conversation, let’s be honest” and “definitely a fun debate” that “you can endlessly talk about.”
But he also used the word “silly,” given all that he, 22-time major champ Nadal and 21-time major champ Djokovic have accomplished.
“I always say it’s wonderful to be part of that selective group,” he began, talking about the so-called Big Three rivals, then paused to sigh.
“How can you compare? What’s better? To win when you’re old or when you’re young? I have no idea, you know. Is it better to win on clay or grass? Don’t know. Is it better to have super dominant years or come back from injury? I don’t know,” he said. “It really is impossible to grasp.”
Referring to Nadal, who is 36 and is expected to be Federer’s doubles partner for his final match Friday, and Djokovic, who is 35, Federer said: “What I know is they are truly amazing and greats of the game and forever and will go down as one of the — maybe THE — greatest.”
Federer, who is Swiss, grew up a basketball fan, and brought up the Michael Jordan vs. LeBron James back-and-forth from hoops.
“Who is the greatest? Probably MJ. But is it LeBron? Some stats say he is. I think it’s a phenomenon of (social) media. Everybody calling each other ‘GOAT.’ ‘GOAT.’ ‘GOAT.’ ‘GOAT.’ ‘GOAT.’ ‘GOAT.’ I’m like, Come on, OK? There cannot be possibly that many ‘GOATs,’” Federer said, then cracked himself up with a Dad joke: “In Switzerland, we have a lot of them, but they’re in the fields.”
Federer promises he won’t make a comeback; his surgically repaired right knee won’t allow it. His age, 41, doesn’t help.
He is adamant, though, that he will remain connected to tennis. That will include showing up at certain tournaments, he said, “to say farewell or goodbye, because I’ve been a part of those tournaments for 20 years.”
It will include watching on TV, some of the time, and keeping an eye on results, all of the time.
He plans to keep tabs on Nadal, who won the Australian Open and French Open this season, and Djokovic, who won Wimbledon but couldn’t enter the Australian Open or U.S. Open because he isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19 (“It’s been quite strange not seeing Novak in a lot of the draws,” Federer observed).
“At this point, once either they surpassed you, or you’re not playing anymore, it doesn’t matter how far up they go,” Federer said. “For me, as long as I could be a part of it and control some of it, I cared more.”
When it comes to the pursuit of more Grand Slam titles by Nadal and Djokovic, he said: “I hope they go and do everything they want. I really hope so. Because it would be great for the game and nice for their fans, for their family. As long as it makes them happy.”
At one point during the nearly half-hour conversation with the AP, Federer mentioned the idea of a player “falling out of love” with the game.
What did he mean by that?
Essentially: It’s not possible to always love every minute of every facet of the life of a pro tennis player.
“You go through phases. As a kid, you have this vision of the tour as this fantastic place: ‘It’s the coolest thing. I can share the locker room with the guys. I walk out to stadiums, there’s fans screaming my name. I can sign autographs, take pictures. On top of the world.’ But then at some point, comes a time, you’re like: ‘I didn’t read the small print, you know?’ Where it said: ‘And, oh, by the way, you need to do it in another language, and we need one more promo shot and you need to travel now and miss a plane and wait for hours and hours in rain delays.’ We knew it was probably going to happen, but was it going to be this intense? This is the part a lot of people don’t know about — what the athletes have to go through at that level,” Federer said.
“Not looking for any ‘Aw, you poor guys.’ We’re doing well. We’re making loads of money and we have the chance to entertain millions of people. But I’m just saying, sometimes you have to second-guess yourself. Question yourself. Like, ‘Am I truly enjoying it like I’m supposed to?’ Because it’s a dream come true,” he continued. “And here you are, living the dream, yet it doesn’t feel so special anymore, because now it’s gotten normal. ‘Normal’ can be dangerous. ‘Normal’ can be no good, you know?”
That, Federer explained, is when the trick is to make things exciting for yourself — maybe “you fake it” or maybe “you have people around you that help you.”
He gave credit to the various coaches and other members of his team through the years for helping push him.
“People see me on the court and they’re like,” he said, then lowed his voice to a whisper, “’Oh, my God! He’s so gifted! Like, he can do it all by himself!'”
That, Federer said, is nonsense.
”We need inspiration. We need motivation. We need people to kick our ass and tell you, ‘OK, put on your shoes and go for a run. Put on your shoes and let’s go practice. I know you don’t want to do it here. I actually also don’t want to be here, but let’s still do it. And then you can go relax,'” he said. “It’s a challenge. But a good one. And I would do it all over again.”
And then he smiled.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals fired longtime executive Dayton Moore on Wednesday, ending the roller-coaster tenure of an influential general manager and president who took the club from perennial 100-game loser to two World Series and the 2015 championship before its quick return to mediocrity.
Royals owner John Sherman, who retained Moore after acquiring the club from David Glass in 2019, announced the move during a news conference at which Moore spoke briefly before quietly slipping out of the room.
“I think the objective is clear: It’s to compete again for championships, and we have to make sure we’re progressing toward that goal,” said Sherman, whose club was 30 games below .500 heading into its game against Minnesota.
“In 2022 we regressed,” Sherman said, “and that happens. It happens to great teams. But as I started talking to Dayton and others, I felt like we needed more change than was talked about, and that was a big reason to make this one.”
Sherman tried a mild shakeup to the front office last offseason, elevating Moore from general manager to president of baseball operations while giving J.J. Picollo the GM title. But the awkward splitting of jobs never worked out, and Sherman decided to move forward with Picollo handling all aspects of baseball operations.
Picollo was the first person Moore hired when he took over the Royals in 2006.
“I’ve known J.J. since he was 21 years old,” Moore said during his brief remarks. “He’s an incredible leader, and as I’ve mentioned before, he’s more than prepared to lead the baseball operations department in a very innovative and productive way. I’m proud that he’s continued to get this opportunity.”
Sherman said he expects other changes to be discussed down the stretch and into the offseason, including whether to keep manager Mike Matheny and his coaching staff. But it will be up to Picollo to make those decisions.
“J.J. has been great to work with,” Matheny said. “Had him on the road, had a lot of meetings here recently as the season has been winding down. He has a great perspective on the system and what needs to be done.”
Moore was hired in 2006 and tasked with rebuilding an organization that had not reached the playoffs in more than two decades. He quickly followed the blueprint that he learned from longtime Braves executive John Schuerholz, investing in Latin America and the minor league system before spending on proven major league talent.
It took most of another decade for the plan to work, but the Royals began to see progress with a winning record in 2013, when a wave of young players began to reach the majors. And the breakthrough came the following year, when a team built around Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas won the first of two consecutive AL pennants.
The Royals lost their first trip to the World Series to the San Francisco Giants in a dramatic seven-game series, but they finished the job the following year, beating the New York Mets in five for their first championship since 1985.
“He’s a great guy, a great person,” said Royals catcher Salvador Perez, one of the stars of those championship years. “It’s hard, you know? I never thought that he was going to leave this organization.”
For most of the people in the organization, Moore is the only boss they’ve ever known.
“Everybody looks at us like baseball players,” Royals second baseman Nicky Lopez said, “but there’s a life out of baseball and he cared about it. He cares about us as people, which is something very special.”
The end of Moore’s tenure may have seemed abrupt Wednesday, but it was years in the making.
He knew it would be impossible for the small-market organization to keep Hosmer and other stars as they hit free agency after their championship years, so after a middling 2016, the club began a nearly top-to-bottom rebuild.
It was slowed by poor drafts, lousy player development and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on baseball, and the Royals had consecutive 100-loss seasons. And when the club finally made strides last season, and some of its young talent graduated to the big leagues, it failed to capitalize on it. The Royals started slowly this season and never recovered.
“There is a gap right now between where we are and where we expected,” said Sherman, who owned a piece of the first-place Guardians before acquiring the Royals. “I felt like in 2021 we did make progress, and in 2022, that’s not how I feel.”
The organization Picollo is tasked with taking to the next level is better off than what Moore inherited 16 years ago: Infielder Bobby Witt Jr. is among the leading contenders for AL Rookie of the Year, and rookies such as Vinnie Pasquantino and MJ Melendez give Kansas City a young core reminiscent of the group Hosmer and Moustakas one led.
Yet there are plenty of organization problems that Picollo must address.
The Royals for years have struggled to develop pitching — their staff currently has the fourth-worst ERA in baseball and the worst WHIP by a wide margin, which led to the firing of pitching coordinator Jason Simontacchi earlier this season.
They have struggled to identify impact talent in the draft, consistently whiffing on first-round picks. That includes four chosen over a two-year span during their World Series years that failed to make a meaningful big league impact.
And they have struggled to keep up with the changing times, preferring old-school, anecdotal scouting methods to new-school analytics and data-driven decision-making that has leveled the playing field with big-market ballclubs.
“Dayton always talks about what a championship team looks like. That’s a great conversation,” Sherman said, “but I’d like to know what a wild-card team looks like first. Because Kansas City fans know, if you can get a wild-card slot and get into the dance, anything can happen.”
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Kent's public health director has warned about a potential “twindemic” hitting the county this winter. Dr Anjan Ghosh says Kent is predicted to face a worse than usual flu season and re-emergence of COVID.
The number of coroanvirus cases is forecast to increase in December, while concerns have been raised over rising flu cases in Australia. The country's winter occurs during the UK’s summer, and it has seen more than 220,000 labratory-confirmed cases in 2022, higher than normal.
Dr Ghosh said: “The coronavirus outlook is further complicated, potentially, by the twindemic. What is happening in Australia is a good predictor for what could happen in England.”
Read more: Black people more likely to be stopped and searched in Kent
Fears were expressed of a large number of residents falling ill and the resulting impact on the NHS and businesses during a County Hall meeting in Maidstone. Flu can lead to fevers, coughs, sore throat, muscle aches and fatigue. COVID can cause shortness of breath, high temperature and loss of smell and taste.
Recent figures have reported a total of 12 deaths a week from COVID in the county. Four ventilator beds have been occupied this week in Kent hospitals. However, Dr Ghosh warned Kent could face an “earlier onset of flu” this winter, which coincide alongside an upsurge of coronavirus cases.
Dr Ghosh said: “The modelling suggests that we will see an escalation or a surge in coronavirus cases around end of November and early December. That increase could happen sooner, with case rates showing an upward trend towards mid-October.”
If a surge occurs, the county council health boss says that remote working, social distancing and testing hubs may need to be reintroduced. Case rates remain highest among residents who are aged over 50, while, the fastest Covid increases are taking place among primary-school aged children.
There has also been a “low and stable” trend in the number of outbreaks in care homes in Kent. KCC’s shadow cabinet member for public health, Cllr Karen Constantine, urged the authority to “pay close attention” to the uncertain situation. Canterbury county councillor Neil Baker (Con) expressed concerns over a “severe” risk to Kent, with a potential joint surge of influenza and coronavirus.
However, Dr Ghosh said: “It is not a risk to overall health, except in certain vulnerable groups. The challenge is more staff resilience and business continuity, basically lots of people falling ill and staying at home as service suffers.”
Vulnerable residents have been urged to get jabbed with the Covid vaccine as an autumn booster is being rolled out across England’s care homes this month. Other suggestions include wearing face masks in crowded enclosed spaces, washing hands and staying at home if feeling unwell.
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A man who tried to disguise £20,000 cash as baguettes wrapped in tin foil has forfeited the money. Valentin Gjoni, 54, from Chessington in Greater London, was in a car with two other people when they were stopped by Border Force officers in October 2020 travelling out of the UK through the Eurotunnel terminal in Folkestone.
He told officers they were travelling to Italy and then on to Albania and that there was no money in the vehicle - but following a search, they found more than £20,000 wrapped inside tin foil made to look like baguettes in a cool bag. More than £15,000 was also found hidden inside coat pockets and £5,000 located inside a handbag.
Kent Police was alerted and the money was seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Gjoni objected to the forfeiture - but the order was granted for a total of £40,440 during a recent hearing at Maidstone Magistrates' Court.
Read more: Bagshot Park: The £30m Grade II mansion home to Prince Edward and Sophie Countess of Wessex
Detective Inspector Dave Godfrey, of Kent Police's economic crime unit, said: "While Mr Gjoni was never charged with any criminal offences in relation to this incident, they were unable to provide any verifiable evidence as to why they were carrying such large sums of money across the border.
"Our financial investigators regularly use the Proceeds of Crime Act to ensure money potentially earned through illegal means cannot be used to fund further criminal activity, and to reinforce the important message that crime does not pay."
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A man accused of attacking a woman in Tonbridge is due to appear in court. Henry Olner has been charged following the incident earlier this year.
Kent Police said that, in the early hours of May 21, a woman in her 30s was walking through the town centre when she was approached by a man she did not know on High Street. They said he attempted to speak to her before touching her over her clothing.
"When the victim challenged his actions, it is alleged the suspect punched her in the face causing a cut to her lip," police said. "Officers arrested a man on the following day."
Read more: Three men arrested after chaotic brawl outside Ashford McDonald’s goes viral
Olner, 24, of Church Lane, Tonbridge, was charged with sexual touching and assault by beating on September 13. He has been bailed to appear before Medway Magistrates’ Court on October 13.
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The 49th Annual NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final will be headlined by the 80-lap, $15,000 to win, Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series event but also on the schedule is the SK Light Modified Invitational. A unique twist on SK Light Modified racing, the 20-lap feature will be open to any SK Light Modified competitor that has not won a race at Stafford in 2022.
JR Recovery has posted $1,000 in bonus money for the September 24th event which will be distributed amongst the top 3 finishers; $500 for the winner and $300 for 2nd and $200 for 3rd. With the bonus money the race will pay $1,250 to the winner, $750 for 2nd, and $675 for 3rd.
With nine different SK Light drivers already scoring a victory this season, Saturday’s SK Light Modified Invitational is anyone’s for the taking. Four of the top 10 in the SK Light point standings have yet to win a race in 2022 including Bob Charland, Amanda West, Meg Fuller and Jason Chapman, all should be a factor on Saturday afternoon.
The NAPA Fall Final is set for Saturday, September 24 and tickets are available now online at StaffordSpeedway.com/tickets and tickets will also be available for purchase at the admission gates. If you are unable to attend the event, tune into the live stream on FloRacing, the official streaming partner of Stafford Speedway.
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Marvel Lines Up Writers For the Fantastic Four Reboot Film
At D23 Expo earlier this month, Kevin Feige confirmed that WandaVision helmer Matt Shakman will bring Marvel’s Fantastic Four back to the big screen. Now, Deadline is reporting that Marvel has lined up Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer to write the script. And according to Deadline, Kaplan and Springer actually signed on to the project before Shakman did.
The report notes that Kaplan and Springer “have been outlining where this next series of films will fit into the Marvel Cinematic Universe alongside Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige.” And since Shakman joined the film, he and the writers are now “[aligning] their visions” before starting the script.
Kaplan and Springer have only a few credits to their name, but they are co-writing Warner Bros.’ comedy film, Disaster Wedding, for Palm Springs director Max Barbakow.
RELATED: Matt Shakman In Talks To Direct Marvel’s Fantastic Four Reboot
Although the Fantastic Four kicked off Marvel’s Silver Age in 1961, their history on the big screen is less than illustrious. Roger Corman’s 1994 FF movie was never officially released. Regardless, the bootleg recording is available at many U.S. comic conventions. Tim Story’s 2005 reboot, and its 2007 sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, were better received. However, no further sequels were produced.
By the time the new Fantastic Four movie hits theaters it will be nearly a decade since Josh Trank’s infamous Fant4stic in 2015. Critics, audiences, and even Trank himself trashed the studio cut, and that was the last live-action appearance of the team to date. The lone exception was John Krasinski’s cameo as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness earlier this year.
Fantastic Four will be released on November 8, 2024.
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The University of Wyoming volleyball team opened Mountain West play with a road loss to Colorado State on Tuesday night.
The Cowgirls fell in four sets (25-17, 16-25, 25-7, 25-17) to drop to 4-9 on the year.
Following a rough start, UW went on a 10-4 run in the second set to pull ahead 12-8, and didn’t trail the rest of the set. CSU cut the deficit to 13-12, but the Cowgirls rallied with a big run, scoring 12 of the next 16 points to secure the set. The Rams were able to control the third and fourth sets, however, to take the match.
Corin Carruth led Wyoming with eight kills on the night, while a trio of Cowgirls — Tierney Barlow, Teresa Garza and KC McMahon — added seven kills each. Barlow hit .385 against the Rams, with McMahon and Kayla Mazzocca recording a team-best two total blocks.
The Rams did most of their damage offensively, hitting .415, while the Cowgirls hit .240. CSU had 11 service aces in the match, compared to seven for UW. Colorado State also had four fewer serving errors (10-6).
Kendal Rivera had three of the Cowgirls’ aces in the match, while Kasia Partyka added two. Partyka also had a team-high 31 assists and added five digs. Garza had a team-high 10 digs, while libero Hailey Zuroske added five.
UW will look to rebound Saturday in Laramie, as the Cowgirls face UNLV at 1 p.m. in the first home match of their conference slate.
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CHEYENNE – Joe Plowman has withdrawn from the Laramie County School District 1 at-large race.
He informed the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that he would be Monday night, and filed with the Laramie County Clerk's office Wednesday morning.
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CHEYENNE – Joe Plowman has withdrawn from the Laramie County School District 1 at-large race.
He informed the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that he would be Monday night, and filed with the Laramie County Clerk's office Wednesday morning.
"I had some personal issues suddenly arise that will take my full attention for the foreseeable future," he said in an email Monday night cancelling an interview with the WTE. "I will also be withdrawing my candidacy immediately."
Plowman did not provide a further explanation for his decision, but sent his notice via email. He wrote that he had familial issues arise and would not be able to vote the time needed for the campaign and position on the board.
Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee confirmed he had officially withdrawn from the race, and filed his notification of withdrawal. She said since ballots have already been printed, the clerk’s office will post a notice at each polling place of Plowman’s withdrawal from the race. A notice will also be included with absentee ballots sent to voters in Laramie County School District 1.
He had recently said he decided to run because of conversations in Cheyenne regarding book banning. He said if residents are going to be on a school board, they shouldn’t be removing books from library shelves and restricting what can be taught.
Four candidates remain in the LCSD1 at-large race, and there are 14 candidates overall.
This report has been updated to reflect the Laramie County Clerk's confirmation that Joe Plowman has withdrawn.
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In a post on its Facebook page this week that an airport official pointed the Wyoming Tribune Eagle to on Wednesday, Yellowstone Regional Airport reported on its construction progress. Courtesy photo
To maintain social distancing, the Yellowstone Regional Airport board met in 2020 inside a large hangar at Choice Aviation in Cody. Lauren Modler/Cody Enterprise
In a post on its Facebook page this week that an airport official pointed the Wyoming Tribune Eagle to on Wednesday, Yellowstone Regional Airport reported on its construction progress. Courtesy photo
To maintain social distancing, the Yellowstone Regional Airport board met in 2020 inside a large hangar at Choice Aviation in Cody. Lauren Modler/Cody Enterprise
CODY (WNE and WTE) – A month and a half into the project, the expansion of the east end of the Yellowstone Regional Airport’s terminal is largely proceeding according to plan, despite challenges with one local telecommunications provider.
During its regular meeting Sept. 14, the airport board heard from Rob Bauer, the project manager from Groathouse Construction, about the work that had been accomplished since construction began Aug. 1.
“In August, our primary focus was to get the utilities out of the way,” Bauer said. “We got Black Hills Energy relocated. We got City of Cody relocated. We got TCT relocated. We’re still working with Qwest (CenturyLink) to get their service relocated. In September, our activity has just been digging and filling foundation and getting it backfilled and ready for concrete."
Relocating the Qwest/CenturyLink lines has been a challenge, Bauer said. “They (Qwest/CenturyLink) are just hard to get a hold of and coordinate with.”
The company, currently known as Lumen, notes that such "projects require advanced engineering, highly skilled technology workers and time to complete." This is according to an email Wednesday afternoon to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
In his email, Mark Molzen, the telco's global issues director, wrote that Lumen considers "every project (as) important to us and we want to get this done as quickly as possible." The airport-related work, Molzen wrote, "is a priority to us and we are working to get it completed as quickly as possible."
In a post on its Facebook page this week that an airport official pointed the WTE to on Wednesday, the airport reported it is "constructing new runway approach lights to help reduce the number of flights that are disrupted by visibility issues. For the next few weeks, the runway may be closed part of the day to complete work that needs to be done on the runway. This will not affect any flight on United."
In October, the crew will begin work on the expansion’s footer foundation – the only part of the foundation that touches the ground – and will do some underground utility work, he said.
The project involves a 10,000-square-foot expansion that will add a waiting area, ticket counters, offices, baggage screening and storage to the east end of the airport terminal. The project, estimated at up to $6 million, will be partially funded through federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act dollars.
The online version of this story has been updated in the fifth and sixth paragraphs with comments from a representative of Lumen.
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A longtime fixture at the Laramie Boomerang has been named the community newspaper’s managing editor.
David Watson, who has spent the last 20 years covering local high school and University of Wyoming sports for the Boomerang, will lead the newsroom as the 141-year-old community newspaper continues to evolve. That includes growing the organization’s delivery of local news through traditional print and multiple digital platforms.
“I’m excited another chapter has begun after more than 20 years at the Boomerang,” Watson said, who begins his new role Saturday. “I’ve learned a lot during this journey from many of whom I consider mentors in the journalism industry — especially for local community journalism that matters most for Albany County and Laramie.”
Watson takes the reins from former Managing Editor Greg Johnson, who left to pursue another professional opportunity.
“I wish Greg well in his new venture and appreciate his efforts in bringing the Boomerang back to a solid journalism foundation,” said Bill Albrecht, regional president for APG of the Rockies, the Boomerang’s parent company. “He had a tall order when he arrived a year ago and met the challenge.
“While I know he did not accomplish everything he wanted to do while he was with us, he did make a big difference and we are grateful for the difference he has led.”
In Watson, Albrecht said the Boomerang and Albany County have a proven journalist with a passion not only for reporting local news, but for the community he calls home.
“Having the opportunity to extend the offer to David Watson to lead the Boomerang’s content team in Laramie is one of the pleasures of my position,” he said. “While David is not originally from Laramie, he considers it home.”
Albrecht also noted Watson has had opportunities to pursue other journalism jobs, but always “has decided to stay, and that is good for our organization and good for Laramie.”
The change will be noticeable for longtime Boomerang sports fans who have come to rely upon Watson’s award-winning coverage of local high school and UW sports, Albrecht said.
“Most know David through his sports reporting and editing, but if you spend any time with him at all you will understand that he is versed in politics, outdoor activities, the people of Albany County, running a business and engaging with people,” he said. “I welcome David to my leadership team and look forward to what he does to continue making a difference in Albany County.”
While Watson has served several stints as interim managing editor in the past when the Boomerang was between editors, he said the time now feels right to take the chair permanently.
“I’m eager to continue to learn and keep moving forward with the many improvements we’ve made in such a short time frame in print and digital content, which our readers expect from their newspaper,” Watson said. “I truly believe in the Boomerang’s moniker phrase ‘your connection, your community — since 1881.’ I also look forward to engaging even more with the entire community and working with everyone as we progress together into the future.”
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CASPER – As persistently high natural gas prices renew a dispute between environmental and industry groups over conservation practices at oil and gas wells, there remains little overlap on how losses of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, should be regulated.
Wells that produce often also produce some natural gas. In the weeks after a well is drilled, before operators are equipped to capture that gas and transport it to buyers, that natural gas – a highly flammable fuel composed mostly of methane – is often released or burned off. The same may happen even after the necessary infrastructure is in place if excess gas becomes a safety risk.
Lacking substantive federal standards, states have imposed a patchwork of regulations designed to protect air quality and minimize the noise and visibility of flaring. Environmental groups are advocating for stricter federal standards.
“When gas is flared, it is not taxed, and there’s no value collected from that gas, because it’s considered to be just a product that is basically wasted,” said Shannon Anderson, staff attorney for the Powder River Basin Resource Council.
Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington-based budget watchdog, said in an August report that over the last decade, wells that were drilled on federal lands or tapped federal minerals failed to capture 300 billion cubic feet of natural gas. That is an estimated loss of $949 million.
The group suspects those numbers, which do not account for leaking equipment or abandoned wells, should actually be much higher. It wants the federal government to require more comprehensive reporting standards, lower the cap on allowable methane emissions and impose a tax on methane that is still released.
“This is gas that’s not getting to market to benefit consumers, and it’s largely not charged a royalty, either,” said Autumn Hanna, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. “We have outdated rules that oversee the definition of what wasted gas is, and we have self-reported industry data that we’re relying on. So we just have layers of problems.”
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Wyoming regulators retain more responsibility to oversee flaring and venting at oil and gas wells than the federal government. Agencies are developing rules that would apply nationally.
The Bureau of Land Management has yet to propose a methane rule under President Joe Biden.
But the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule, released in November, was quickly applauded by environmental groups and criticized by some oil and gas industry representatives.
In a written statement at the time, Wayne Lax, a Powder River Basin Resource Council board member, said the proposed rule contained “reasonable steps to protect the public health of people living and working near oil and gas wells and associated infrastructure.”
The Western Energy Alliance said complying “would be extremely costly and therefore would shut in American production prematurely.”
The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission updated its rules for oil and gas wells several years ago, amid pressure from environmental groups, including the Powder River Basin Resource Council.
The state agency currently restricts both venting and flaring, particularly for producing wells that are at least six months old, though it does grant exemptions to qualifying operators. And it has the support of the oil and gas industry.
In Wyo.
“Wyoming’s doing it better than anyone,” said Ryan McConnaughey, vice president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. “Companies are already doing everything they can to capture and utilize methane as quickly as possible.”
From the industry’s perspective, he said, the state’s regulations strike “a good balance of making sure that we capture those resources and make sure that the state of Wyoming is receiving the benefit it is owed, but also not being over-burdensome in ways that would make it impossible to produce here in Wyoming.”
McConnaughey believes the eventual federal methane rules should resemble Wyoming’s approach.
Anderson said enforcement – including decisions about when to give operators more leeway – has been “a little hit or miss” since the state tightened its standards.
“I think it could be better, but overall, it’s definitely a step in the right direction in terms of making sure that industry at least has to put forward a justification for flaring, and that they have to explain the timeline and circumstances of limiting that flaring going forward,” she said. She’d still prefer to see stricter standards instituted uniformly across the country.
Almost half of federal mineral royalties generated in Wyoming are returned to the state. Efforts to tax flared gas have gained little traction here.
“A lot of operations in Wyoming depend on flaring,” said Rob Godby, an economics professor at the University of Wyoming.
Wells drilled unconventionally, or fracked, often see their output decline rapidly during the first few years, Godby said. By the time operators are required to start capturing natural gas, the volume may be much lower than it was right after drilling.
“That so much flaring potentially happened in Wyoming was of real concern, not only to the feds, who have heard about it for decades,” he said. “In a time where there were issues with state revenues and concerns of how that might go, the idea that we’re allowing companies in Wyoming to flare that gas – it’s kind of an indirect subsidy.”
Nearly half of Wyoming lands and closer to 70% of the state’s minerals are federally owned.
Wyoming is the No. 1 producer of natural gas on federal lands: In 2020, it was responsible for just over 41%.
Operators in Wyoming reported venting and flaring up to $77 million worth of natural gas over the last 10 years, Hanna said.
Environmental groups are hopeful – and the oil and gas industry is worried – forthcoming federal rules, paired with the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act, which contains penalties for high methane emissions along with incentives to reduce them, could override Wyoming’s resistance to taxing venting and flaring.
Implications for Wyoming’s oil and gas companies, the state economy and the climate will depend on how federal agencies choose to proceed.
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Soldiers assigned to B Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division play the opposition forces role through situational training lanes during Exercise Cartwheel at Nausori Highlands Training Area, Fiji, September 20, 2022. Exercise Cartwheel is a multilateral military-to-military training exercise with the U.S., Republic of Fiji Military, Australian, New Zealand, and British forces that builds expeditionary readiness and interoperability by increasing the capacity to face a crisis and contingencies by developing and stressing units at the highest training levels.
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NIAGARA FALLS — A homebuyer education workshop, hosted by the Niagara Orleans Regional Land Improvement Corporation, begins Thursday night. The six-hour workshop, conducted over the course of two evenings by HUD Certified Housing counselors, covers the full process of purchasing a home, from finding one to financing and closing on the purchase of it.
The workshop will be conducted from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22 and Sept. 29 at at TReC, 616 Niagara St. Admission is free but space is limited and advance registration is required. Call 716-884-7791, extension 131, to reserve seats.
In addition to detailing the home buying process, the workshop offers information about various home purchase incentive programs and opportunities, according to NORLIC board member Chris Voccio, a Niagara Falls-based county legislator. Presented in partnership with Belmont Housing, the workshop fulfills the certification requirements for more first-time homebuyer programs.
NORLIC, also known as a land bank, acquires delinquent and vacant residential properties and strives to get them rehabbed and reoccupied.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened the use of nuclear weapons, claiming Russia is being blackmailed with nuclear threats. Now, leaders around the globe are condemning Putin’s comments as both escalatory and false.
In a speech to the United Nations on Wednesday, President Biden responded to Putin’s latest nuclear threats with strong words for Russia –condemning their ongoing war on Ukraine.
“The United States is ready to pursue critical arm control measures, a nuclear war can’t be won and must never be fought,” President Biden said. “A permanent member of the UN Security Council invaded its neighbor, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map.”
President Biden urged for a resolution to the war as Putin announced he will require an additional 300,000 reservists to sustain the war.
“This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state,” Biden said.
Leaders from around the world echoed President Biden’s sentiment that Russia’s invasion threatens not just Ukraine but the entire world.
Latvian President Egils Levits said “Russia continues to spread false narratives about the cause of the global crisis in food, fuel, and finance. These lies must be overturned. Russia alone is responsible for the crisis.”
The European Union foreign ministers are meeting Thursday in New York ahead of Thursday’s EU Security Council meeting to discuss the ongoing situation with Russia.
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Chicago rideshare drivers continue to demand better wages, lower fares for passengers
CHICAGO - Chicago rideshare drivers took their fight to City Hall Wednesday to demand better pay and safer jobs.
They are urging the mayor to pass an ordinance to ensure the safety of drivers, to receive better wages and to keep fares low for passengers.
The ordinance was first introduced into City Council in February.
It would guarantee that drivers would make at least 30-cents per minute, and would prevent rideshare companies from taking a commission of more than 20-percent.
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The proposal also calls for an appeals process for drivers who are suspended from the company, and a passenger verification system to keep drivers safe.
"I feel that a dollar a mile is fair. It is what it started as a year ago. It's the only job that gets a rate cut, and they consistently spin it as a positive for us because we will be busier working to the point where we never go home," said Brian Bettenhausen, a rideshare driver.
The Chicago Gig Alliance organized the rally.
They hoped the ordinance would be up for a vote this summer.
We have reached out to the city of Chicago for a response, but have now heard back.
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As Emory oak trees in parts of Arizona disappear, members of several Apache tribes are working on a collaborative plan with the U.S. Forest Service and researchers to preserve them.
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One Ukrainian woman planted flowers after Russia took over her town — to show she wasn't going anywhere. Now the Russian forces are gone and she and the town are trying to pick up the pieces.
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Resurrecting a ‘forgotten’ classic
David Hennessy spoke to Brian Martin and Andrew Maunder who are currently bringing Kate O’Brien’s Distinguished Villa back to the London stage after almost 100 years.
Finborough Theatre’s current production of Distinguished Villa by Kate O’Brien is a rare staging of the play in London since it was first a hit at the Aldwych Theatre in 1926.
Born in 1897 in Limerick, Kate O’Brien was the most successful Irish female novelist of the 1930s and 1940s.
Her first novel Without my Cloak was an Irish multi-generational story that sold 50,000 copies and won the James Tait Black Prize and the Hawthornden Prize.
She followed this with best sellers like The Lady.
But it was the success of her play Distinguished Villa that gave her the confidence to pursue writing as a career.
Like her later work, her debut play dealt with the lives of women of the time and their choices, or lack of them.
It was also notable for looking at the lives of ordinary people. ‘The sins of the suburbs’, read one headline at the time.
It is perhaps her fame as a novelist that is the cause of the play being ‘forgotten’ and not staged in almost 100 years in London.
Producer Andrew Maunder of Aardwark Theatre told The Irish World: “It’s exciting to bring it back.
“Kate O’Brien isn’t forgotten.
“She’s quite a well known author, particularly in Ireland but in the UK as well.
“But she’s well known as a novelist rather than as a dramatist, but the play was her first piece when she wrote it in 1926 when she was in her 20s.
“I guess because she was a novelist, the drama aspect has been forgotten.
“She didn’t write many more plays. She focused on novels.
“I just kind of came across it and then I thought It sounded quite interesting.
“To take it from words on a page, and seeing it actually kind of living, speaking, breathing, people talking the words, it’s really good and satisfying to see.”
Rathfarnham actor Brian Martin, who has acted in London productions of Juno and the Paycock and The Lieutenant of Inishmore, reveals he knew nothing of this work until this production came about.
Brian says: “I’ve never heard of this play before.
“I studied drama in Trinity for four years before coming over here, and we studied all sorts of playwrights and everything, but her name never came up.
“We assume we know all the great stuff and we’ve taken it all along with us.
“But I just wonder, is it the fact that she’s a woman?
“Is that more reason to have forgotten it?
“There must be even more great works by women out there to find.
“I worked with Andrew here before.
“He sent through the email for this and I read the script, and I was just in love with it from the get go.
“The fact there was an Irish gay woman in Brixton writing this play, went straight to the West End- You wouldn’t even hear of that happening today or I don’t know when that last ever happened.
“I was in love with the play and very enthusiastically wrote back to Andrew, ‘I really want to audition for this’.
“And luckily I’m here.
“It’s an absolute joy and pleasure to bring it back to life.
“And this is the perfect venue to do it.”
The story of Distinguished Villa centres around the house of Mabel and Natty as well as their two lodgers Frances and Gwen who happens to be Mabel’s sister.
When the play starts it is clear that Mabel is a proud housewife and Natty seems happy for her to prioritise her home and looking ‘refined’ even above his needs and wants. Mabel would like to call their home ‘Distinguished Villa’ while Natty knows how pretentious that is.
At the play’s outset Alec Webberley is calling around to try to romance Frances and is undeterred by her refusals while Gwen is engaged to John.
However, later on in the piece feelings have grown between Frances and John while Gwen has found out she is pregnant with Alec’s child.
With Alec unwilling to take responsibility, Gwen must tell John the child is his but it will be the end of anything between him and Frances.
At the same time Natty suffers some kind of breakdown. The pressure of maintaining the façade of being happy with his life has got to him and he can go on no more, pleading with his wife ‘I am tired’.
The play is ahead of its time. It seems modern by today’s standards but in 1926 Kate O’Brien had women onstage talking about issues like premarital sex and pregnancy while mental health was something that was not even spoken about.
“I think it felt very modern,” Brian, who plays John, says.
“That’s why I was so surprised reading it, in particular about the mental health stuff because everything that is said there just feels right at home with today.
“It doesn’t feel dated, even the wording of it.
“I’m sure loads of people will come and be able to relate to that aspect of it.
“That was the emotional hook for me, the fact that he says that.
“And I think all the stuff about the women getting pregnant and talking about premarital sex…”
Andrew continues: “The original version was even more outspoken than that.
“The Gwen character talks about how she doesn’t want to be a mother and that seemed quite revolutionary, shocking at the time because women were supposed to be wives and mothers.
“But the idea that a young woman has sex outside marriage and seems to be able to kind of shrug it off and didn’t seem to be bothered or guilty about it, that seemed quite shocking at the time.”
Finborough are putting on the same production that was staged and published in 1926 but that version was somewhat censored so the ‘original’ version that Andrew talks about would have been different from the originally staged version.
Andrew continues: “The Natty character, I guess he’s what psychiatrists would call a smiling depressive.
“He seems perfectly fine on the outside but underneath, he’s kind of desperate. In a way he’s kind of ground down by his life.
“People seem alright but they’re not really alright.”
Mabel is the voice of the society of the time, not shy to give the young ladies advice on how to act like they are just that and also what is and is not becoming of a ‘gentleman’.
“There’s a kind of generational clash somehow going on there,” Andrew says.
“Mabel represents the old kind of almost Victorian ideas about respectability whereas the younger women are less attached to that, slightly more modern in their attitudes.”
Brian adds: “I think it’s great as well that it’s an older female character saying to younger female characters, it’s not just that typical man tells a woman how to be.
“We have that in the play, especially from the Alec character and you kind of get that from all the male characters, it’s still of its time.
“But to have the older female character, she’s been so indoctrinated by society at the time: This is what she believes in and she tries to pass that down and there’s kind of revolt.
“I think that’s great, just as an extra layer to it.
“It’s not as black and white, I think every character has kind of shades of grey.
“My character John is kind of seen to be the love interest in the story and he’s very passionate and he loves his poetry, but he still lashes out and he still has a temper.
“Or Frances’ character, she does have her progressive values, but at the same time, she can be quite rude and brash with the older characters.
“The writer is not afraid, she doesn’t show just good or bad.
“There’s no black and white moral compass, every character is so well shaded.
“Every actor is so satisfied playing every role because they’re so well fleshed out and really fun to play.
“There’s so much to find in the writing, there’s lots of subtext to be found there and to play around with as an actor, which is really fun.
“Because when you first read it, it’s not always obvious what’s going on.
“There’s lots of speeches that might, on the surface sound the same, like you’re saying the same thing over and over.
“There’s actually loads of nuance in there and it takes a brave writer to be able to trust the actor to kind of figure that out for themselves.”
The Irish World was reminded of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen which was ground breaking in its social commentary on issues like feminism, we can’t help thinking that here Kate O’Brien is saying something about similar themes like the role of women and the only difference here is that in this story it is the husband that is driven to something drastic.
Brian says: “It is showing the constraints of marriage on both women and men.
“If polyamory and condoms existed at the time, we wouldn’t have this play.
“It’s because there’s no option to leave your marriage.
“Once you’re committed to something, once you’re engaged- In the case of John’s character from a week in, he’s engaged to this woman and that’s his commitment for life.
“That’s a huge comment.
“It’s a comment against the institution of marriage, I think, in a way is how restrictive the whole thing is, and how these expectations from society and how you behave in a relationship are as well, there’s no freedom.
“And that’s why my final line, I think, is really powerful, ‘Things like this are done slowly’.
“We take away the human element from ourselves through all of these kinds of constructed institutions that we create.
“’Our methods are refined in Distinguish Villa’. which is quite a dark thing to say.
“These are dark, refined methods we have of slowly squeezing the life out of people over the course of their life.”
Andrew adds: “But polite methods anyway, everyone’s very polite, and no one really says what they mean until the end really.
“Manners are what seems to matter no matter what’s happening underneath.”
Brian adds: “I wonder if it took an outsider coming in to see that, how much would Irish society in the 20s have been like London society as well?
“I don’t know if it would have been the same in the 20s, her being an outsider help to unveil all that stuff and to put a mirror to society and put it back to the English people, ‘This is how you’re behaving’.”
Andrew continues: “It kind of veers between comedy and serious stuff seamlessly so the first half is quite comedic and then it gradually gets darker and darker as it goes on.
“Towards the end, it’s quite hard to know how to read it because sometimes the audience laugh in places in the middle of a serious scene so there’s still that kind of slightly shifting all the time between something which makes you laugh and something which is really kind of sad and grim at the end.”
Brian adds: “We had gasps tonight which was great.
“That means people really care and are invested in the story.
Kate O’Brien wrote Distinguished Villa when a friend challenged her to write a play.
When it opened, it was called a masterpiece and much was made of the fact that it had been written by a secretary.
O’Brien also got congratulations from Sean O’Casey whose The Plough and the Stars was also running in the West End at the same time.
Andrew says: “He wrote to her congratulating her saying that Dublin and Limerick had arrived in London together, or they conquered London or something like that.”
Although Distinguished Villa was well received at the time of its opening and went on a national tour before going to Broadway and then the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, it has rarely been seen since.
Although Kate O’Brien wrote further plays such as The Bridge, she was most famous for her novels.
Known as an author with an edge, As Music and Splendour was notable for normalising a lesbian relationship and a number of her novels were banned in Ireland.
In the 1945 film A Brief Encounter a stifled housewife visits a library and asks for ‘the new Kate O’Brien’ which hints to the audience the moral dilemmas that character is about to face.
Kate O’Brien died in 1974.
Distinguished Villa may not have been performed in London for a long time but the playwright’s great niece Kathy Rose O’Brien, an actress who has been nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award, did stage a reading of the play when she was studying at RADA.
Brian says: “Her dad, John O’Brien, was here on Tuesday for our first preview. He flew over from Ireland to see it and it was amazing talking to him.”
Andrew adds: “The family are really proud of her and proud of her work, I think.
“So they would come wanting to see the production and in a sense see what the theatre and what the company have done with it.”
This is not the first revival of an Irish piece Andrew and Brian have worked on for Finborough Theatre.
In 2019 they revived, after 75 years, Jane Clegg by Belfast playwright St John Ervine.
Brian completed his drama training at LAMDA after four years in Trinity and has been in London since 2009.
He has also won awards for his short film, The Cocaine Famine.
At the time he was onstage at Noel Coward Theatre with Aidan Turner in The Lieutenant of Inishmore and got the well known actor’s support with it.
“I wrote a short film a few years ago when I did Lieutenant of Inishmore, it was about two Irish drug dealers who interrogate a London dealer on the whereabouts of their latest shipment of cocaine.
“It’s a black comedy, and it kind of parallels the story of the potato famine: Just replace the potatoes with cocaine, which are in a boat, white and fluffy and highly addictive.
“I did it at the same time as doing Lieutenant of Inishmore which Aidan Turner was in and Michael Grandage was the director.
“He (Turner)’s such a nice guy and Martin McDonagh is my hero.
“He’s found a way to put ordinary people on stage and show the darkness and the comedy of it all, I think he’s a genius.
“We premiered it (The Cocaine Famine) during that run, and they both saw it and loved it and they very kindly attached their names as executive producers for post-production, gave us loads of money, and we sent it off to film festivals.
“We were in 50 festivals and won seven or eight awards, were nominated for a few more.
“It’s one of the things I’m most proud of.
“That summer- that play and that film- were two of the most proud things I’ve done.
“I’m so proud of this play, that we’ve mounted this production.
“I want to get this word out to as many Irish people as possible because I think they’d sit here beaming with pride as well.”
Distinguished Villa is at Finborough Theatre until 1 October.
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Actor Fergal Coghlan and producer Clare Langford told David Hennessy about Sus, a tale of racism that is not black and white.
Dilated Theatre Company are presenting a major revival of Sus by Barrie Keeffe, a play that looks at institutional racism within the police force.
The play sees Delroy, a young black father, being brought into an East London Police Station on what he thinks is SUS – suspect under suspicion – the law now commonly known as Stop and Search.
Unbeknownst to him, Karn and Wilby, two white male police detectives, are tasked with drawing a confession from him for an unspeakable crime and go about it in the most brutal of ways.
Although it is set on the eve of the election of Margaret Thatcher, it is prescient today with contemporary issues such as the Black Lives Matter movement.
As the election results come in, Karn, the older of the two, is elated at the prospect of a ‘new dawn’, while Delroy is subject to the abuse and horrors of an institution oozing with racism, misogyny, corruption and brutal violence.
Barrie Keeffe was well known for writing the film The Long Good Friday, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren.
However, he was more prolific as a writer of plays. Sus was first produced as a play in 1979 and it has since been made into a film starring Ralph Brown and Rafe Spall.
Barrie Keeffe died in 2019 after an illness. The Irish World once interviewed Barrie Keeffe, whose family came from Cork.
With the pandemic, one can assume this production to be one of the first to put on a Barrie Keeffe play since his passing.
Fergal Coghlan, who plays Detective Wilby and is also one of the play’s producers, told The Irish World: “SUS was the law which allowed the police to stop people, take them in or to stop and search them.
“They’ve got carte blanche up to a certain extent to do what they want: To harass people, to bully, to intimidate, to just have fun at other people’s expense whenever they wanted to really.
“It’s scary stuff really.”
Alexander Neal (who also produces) and Fergal play the police officers while Stedroy Cabey plays Delroy.
Fergal continues: “Wilby’s got a very rigid sense of morality.
“Now he’s put in this position of authority within the police force and he’s got the same sort of rigid mentality about criminals, wrongdoers, and he has got that kind of inner aggression ready to unleash.
“He’s got this binary view of the world which drives him and unfortunately, it leaks into his view of race as well.
“So we are arresting a black man in this play and that bias is extremely heavy.”
Producer Clare Langford, from Limerick, adds: “The play is very much about tapping into what’s current now, as well as looking at what’s going on historically.
“What have we learned? I mean, if you’re looking at a series of racial abuses that have happened in the past few years alone, you would think we’d have moved on quite a bit.
“And, of course, we saw within the Black Lives Matter after the murder of George Floyd, people take a look at what was happening around them locally and on a more global scale to see, we really haven’t gone far enough yet.
“This play is set in 1979, on the eve of Margaret Thatcher’s election, which was a very polarizing time, and it kind of feels like there was a lot of progression that happened and then there’s been this shift, especially since maybe 2016. With Trump, with Brexit happening, there’s been this shift towards really polarized politics and pitting one side against the other which ultimately means nobody wins.
“I think everyone’s ethos on this production is to value art, and in this case theatre, as a way of turning the mirror around and looking at what’s going on within society, within politics.
“In Sus what you’ll find is that every aspect of it is very meted out.
“It’s not black and white, the characters have all got good and bad aspects to them.”
Fergal continues: “Obviously George Floyd is a major thing that happened and very sadly, coincidentally right now, Chris Kaba as well.
“The other thing to point out is the Sarah Everard case which is the worst of the bad apples in the police force, when they’re given these opportunities and these powers to be able to do what they want- That’s the very extreme example of what happens.
“But you’re looking inside a police interrogation room and how two white police officers behave, and the toxicity of that culture really.
“You’re in a room that has no windows and one door and the police have almost full license to do whatever they want.
“And they do. They personify that right wing attitude and that change that was happening in the political landscape at that time, for sure.
“And we’re talking about a story that Barrie Keeffe covered as a journalist in the 60s, he finally wrote the play in 1979 when he realised he had a really good political backdrop for that right wing behaviour, and it’s still relevant today.”
Although never seen, Margaret Thatcher’s presence looms large in the play.
Fergal says: “Really the only things referenced outside of the case itself is the political landscape of the times.
“It was a very exciting time for Tory supporters because there was so much buzz around this right wing mentality, which was, ‘We need to stop being tolerant, we need to start clamping down on scroungers and people who are relying on the state. And we need strong leadership and law and order’.
“And that’s why these police officers are so excited.
“They also received a pay rise after Thatcher came in because she knew that she needed to get them on side to deal with unions basically.”
The Metropolitan Police were found to be institutionally racist. It was this racism that hampered investigations like the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
However, still today, we often see stories about racial profiling with regard to stop and search.
It seems like the black man in the story could be easily replaced with an Irish one given the anti- Irish sentiment that existed in the police at the time..
Fergal, whose parents come from Kildare and Wicklow, says: “My dad came over as a young man in ’67 and he remembers being stopped by the police.
“At one point, it was him and a friend of his who’d come over together and they were in a phone box trying to figure out the phone codes and my dad popped out and asked this guy in the mechanic shop and said, ‘Hey, you got the code for Hammersmith?’
“And the next thing- This guy must have called the police and the cops came around, they took them out the phone box, slammed up against the wall, searched them, made them empty their pockets, were fairly rough handed with them.
“But they were treated guilty before proven innocent really, to explain what they were doing.
“And they were just trying to phone this person about getting access to a flat where they were staying.
“So that was in the 60s.
“It was the same time there was signs up saying, ‘No Blacks, no Irish no dogs’.”
Sus is at Park Theatre 21 September until 15 October.
For more information and to book, click here.
You can donate to the play’s crowdfunding appeal here.
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Bite the power
Still railing against the powers that be, 80s duo The Proclaimers- brothers Craig and Charlie Reid- are back with a new album Dentures Out. They talk Brexit, Scottish independence and the new British PM…
The Proclaimers, twins Craig and Charlie Reid, 60 – formed in Thatcher’s Britain in 1983 to ‘get off the Dole’ and in the nearly forty years since have become one of the most distinctive and popular bands to come out of Scotland.
Traversing roots, alternative and folk – via country and punk – their hits include belters Letter from America, I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) and Sunshine on Leith.
Their concerts sell out instantly, as anyone who has tried to buy tickets will tell you.
Dentures Out, their 12th studio album, is a scathing attack on today’s Britain.
It follows 2018’s Angry Cyclist which took aim at Brexit and Donald Trump.
This new album’s title track characterises Britain as an old woman looking back on long gone glory days – that may never have existed.
Craig told The Irish World: “We’re very proud of it. It is the first Proclaimers album which has a theme running through it.
“The theme is the past, that makes it unique in a Proclaimers record.
“It’s what we’re about now. It says what we think now, that’s all we can do.”
It is 35 years since the release of their landmark debut album This Is The Story, and 34 years since their breakthrough international hit, the album Sunshine On Leith.
That second album was successfully adapted into a film and for the stage. Their new album examines the weaponising of nostalgia by populist politicians and the cynical commodification of heritage and culture.
The World That Was, the single that provided the first taste of the album, looks at how nostalgia was exploited during the pandemic with allusions to ‘warm’ wartime memories.
The theme is further explored on the title track, Dentures Out – an anti-nostalgia song.
As mentioned, it portrays Britain as a diminished country, clinging onto former, vanished glories.
“It’s saying that Britain is a country which appears to be in terminal decline, a backward looking country, a country obsessed with nostalgia, and which I think there is no doubt has diminished in its own eyes, whether people admit it or not.
“It’s certainly diminished in the eyes of the rest of the world – obsessed with the past, not living in the present.
“Brexit was a symptom of that malaise, it wasn’t the malaise itself.
“Brexit is probably the greatest democratic mistake since the second world war. I’m almost certain it is.
“It happened despite the fact that Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay.
“We made the mistake of not voting for independence two years before that.
“If you’re accepting that someone else is making your decisions for you, there’s no point in saying, ‘Scotland should stay in the Single Market’.
“The hard Brexit that has been pursued is an absolute disaster.
“One day, they’ll have to re-join at least the Customs Union, if not the Single Market, but I don’t think there is any prospect of Britain going back into the EU.
“An independent Scotland (however) – there is a very large chance that that would happen.
“But as regards Britain, they’ll have to unravel some of it in the future – but it will not be in the near future, which is so sad.”
Craig says many who voted against Scottish independence because of the uncertainty about it only to then face the uncertainty of Brexit feel cheated.
“The main reason a lot of people voted to remain in the UK was because they were assured that by remaining in the UK, they would remain in the EU – the opposite has proved to be the truth.
“They were also told that Britain would never vote for Brexit. Well, England and Wales voted for it.
“They were also told that Boris Johnson would never be Prime Minister – he became Prime Minister.
“The circumstances have totally changed. There SHOULD be another (Scottish in[1]dependence) vote but I don’t think there will be anytime soon because I think David Cameron graciously deigned to give us the vote because he thought that independence would lose by a mile.
“Independence got a lot closer than I think most people thought it would, and with the polls basically 50/50 for the last two, three years, they will not risk giving another independence vote, certainly not on the terms they did in 2014.
“A lot of people who voted ‘no’ now bitterly regret it. I’ve met loads of them.
“It’s tempting for people like me to go, ‘Well, I told you. If we didn’t grasp the opportunity we had, we would be dictated to later on, and things would get worse’.
“They’ve got a lot worse than even I thought, I have to say, a lot worse.
“But Scotland is in a state of paralysis.
“The majority of seats will still go to the SNP. Labour might make some comeback, or they might not, but the parties who want independence will still prevail in Scotland for the next few years.
“But as I say, I don’t think there’ll be a vote. They’re gonna have to look for another way to get through.” Wales’ Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield is a guest on the album playing on the title track and Things As They Are. The twins have been vocal about Welsh independence as well.
“If I were in Wales, I would want independence.
“I would look at Wales and I’d look at the situation that was happening and I would say, ‘We have no prospect of getting the governance we want unless we get independence’.
“I believe that, obviously, for Scotland, but the independence movement in Wales is well behind what it is in Scotland, and I don’t know if they’ll ever achieve majority.
“It is not up to a Scotsman to say, ‘Wales, you must vote for independence’.
“But what I would say is, were I Welsh, I would vote for independence, I would be pressing for independence.”
Have you been taking an interest in the effects of Brexit on Northern Ireland including the current debate about a united Ireland? “Great interest. I always take an interest in what’s happening in Ireland.
“A united Ireland is not an inevitability, like an independent Scotland is, but is very likely. I think an independent united Ireland is very likely.
“What they’re trying to do now with the Protocol is anti-democratic, they’re tearing up treaties that they themselves signed.
“They don’t want to play straight – and they’re amazed that Europe is standing there and saying, ‘No, you signed this, we assumed that you were going to abide by it and we’re not going to reopen it. We’re not going to renegotiate it’.
“They shouldn’t.
“The people of Ireland, north and south, are being used in what is a decades-long civil war in the Tory party.
“That’s what it boils down to. “It also boils down to the, many of them overseas, owners of the popular press in Britain, for decades blaming everything on Brussels, telling pure lies about Britain’s relationship. Now they’ve got what they wanted, they’re unhappy, and still blaming other people.
“I remember them saying all these reasons why you should vote Brexit.
“And I thought, ‘There’s one reason why you shouldn’t vote Brexit – and that is Northern Ireland’.
“That – by itself – was reason for people in England and Scotland and Wales to reject Brexit if you could see what would happen.
“It was inevitable what would happen if Brexit happened – and now they’re pursuing a hard Brexit.
“I don’t know how they get out of it.
“I don’t know how they square this circle.
“As I say, one day, the United Kingdom – or what’s left of it – will have to re-join at least the Customs Union, if not the Single Market.
“But that will be done by a future generation of politicians, not by the ones who have got us into this mess.”
Do you take any hope from Boris Johnson’s removal from power? “Liz Truss is as right wing as he is. She’s trying to portray herself as a modern day Margaret Thatcher which is pathetic. It’s deeply sad.
“The economic situation now is so dire, nobody could go into governing with confidence that they could turn things around.
“She’s been given a Hospital Pass, there’s plenty of people within the Tory party who will be happy to see her as Prime Minister and fail.
“I wonder if the Tory party thinks, ‘Well, things are so bad that the next election might be a good one to lose’, give it to Labour and let them screw it up or fail to manage the situation that they find themselves in.
“I would like very much to be rid of the Tory party but I think the economic situation for the next few years is absolutely dire.
“It is (a very uncertain time), you’re right in saying that (this album) follows on from Angry Cyclist.
“Things were bad then and they are quite a lot worse now, a lot worse.
“We appear to be going into a long dark tunnel and we don’t know if or when we’re ever going to come out of it.
“You still have the nut jobs on the right who are in charge.
“We started as The Proclaimers in January or February ‘83. Early next year, we will have been going as the Proclaimers for 40 years.
“We had been in bands before. We started off with The Proclaimers when we were just turning 21.
“The only thing was to do our own music our own way. We were playing as an acoustic duo.
“We thought we could get an indie record deal and get some kind of audience playing clubs.
“That was our ambition – just to get off the Dole – and play our own music our own way.
“We made the first acoustic album in 1987, when we had just turned 25 – we’d got off the Dole.
“Our ambition was, we thought we could sell some copies of that record and just keep going and see where it would lead us with no real other thoughts and ambitions other than that record and see what we could do with it.”
Letter From America, their 1987 hit single, dealt with the destruction of heavy industry in Scotland during the Margaret Thatcher years.
Was music a ray of light for you in those dark times? “It was a way of expressing ourselves. We always loved music.
“If you’re gonna actually play music yourself and if you’re gonna write original songs, I didn’t see the point of not doing them in our own way and not doing them in our own accent, which the likes of record companies and publishers, it put them off.
“But we were determined to do it our own way, so we did.”
They have a long-running love affair with audiences in Ireland, having first gone there in the 1980s.
“It’s fantastic. We’ve always found both north and south to be very receptive to what we did.
“It’s always a pleasure to go there.
“We’re just in Belfast and Dublin this time, but hopefully maybe get back next year to do some more stuff.”
Likely to be on their setlist is a song called Irish Girls are Pretty.
“It always gets a very good reaction,” Craig laughs.
Sunshine on Leith has been adopted as a terrace anthem of Hibernian FC.
“It’s great because if it’s being sung, it means that Hibs have won, we’ve won either a final or a semi-final or a game against Hearts or something.
“So yeah, that always brings me a great deal of joy hearing that being sung by the Hibs fans.”
Has it not been known to start a fight now and then? “It generally doesn’t but I know it has in the odd pub in Edinburgh because it’s now associated with Hibernian football club.
“It can kick off, but, generally, most people accept it for what it is.”
The Reid family talent for music has passed on to the next generation with your daughter Roseanne Reid debuting as a country singer in 2019 and performing at Glastonbury this year.
“She’s got her own talent, and she works very hard at it, so I’m very proud of her.”
Do you worry about your child following you into such a financially insecure profession?
Craig says: “I never encouraged it and I never discouraged it.
“The only thing I said to her was, ‘If you want to do it, you’ve got to do it properly and you’ve got to make it the main thing. You’ve got to work hard at it’.
“That was all I said.
“Music, to do it right, you’ve got to really, really got to want to do it.
“I said that to her, ‘Don’t approach it as something that’s a bit of a hobby. If you’re going to be serious about it, be serious about it’.
“She knew we had to work it – and we still do.”
What are you most proud of in your four decades as a band? “Probably just putting the first record out, the first acoustic album.
“That was a great achievement. “Having the success we did with Sunshine on Leith, particularly in the likes of Australia and New Zealand and then having the 500 Miles hit in the US.
“But maybe the thing I’m most pleased about is that we had a long break between ‘94 to 2001 when we put the fourth album out, Persevere.
“The amount of albums we have done since then, the amount of live touring we have done since then, far exceeds anything we did on the first three albums.
“I’m most proud of that, coming back in 2001 and keeping on going from that period.”
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US President Joe Biden to tell UK PM Truss in ‘some detail’ that the UK must negotiate with EU on NI
UK government says PM Truss ‘declined’ to discuss the protocol with France’s President Emmanuel Macron.
US President Joe Biden will tell PM Liz Truss she must work with the EU to find a negotiated outcome to solve post-Brexit tensions over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the White House has said.
The US president and the Prime Minister are to meet in New York today (Wednesday), as Ms Truss attends a United Nations summit.
“And we must collectively take steps – the US, the UK, the parties in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland – to ensure that it is protected,”
Her spokespeople said she ‘declined’ to discuss the protocol with France’s President Emmanuel Macron yesterday, and No 10 would not say if it will be discussed at her meeting with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan made it clear President Biden will discuss it “in some detail” with Ms Truss.
Ms Truss is pushing ahead with her controversial Northern Ireland Protocol Bill in breach of international law.
Her hard-right anti-EU faction want her to unilaterally trigger Article 16 of the protocol, to override parts of the agreement brokered as part of the Brexit deal.
Mr Biden and Ms Truss will also meet after a tweet from the president sent just as the PM was discussing her economic policy, which said he was “sick and tired of trickle-down economics”.
“It has never worked,” he said.
The comments underlined the differences between the two leaders’ stances just as Ms Truss says she wants to foster closer ties with international allies.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said it was “ludicrous” to suggest Mr Biden was criticising UK policy, arguing each country is facing different economic challenges.
Mr Sullivan told reporters the president “will encourage the UK and the European Union to work out an effective outcome that ensures there is no threat to the fundamental principles of the Good Friday Agreement”.
“And he will speak in some detail to her about that,” he added.
The adviser said Mr Biden will “communicate his strong view that the Good Friday Agreement – which is the touchstone of peace and stability in Northern Ireland – must be protected.
“And we must collectively take steps – the US, the UK, the parties in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland – to ensure that it is protected,” he added.
Ms Truss’s official spokesman said on Tuesday that the protocol is an issue “we want to resolve this with the EU” when questioned why she did not discuss it with Mr Macron.
Mr Sullivan welcomed Ms Truss’s “robust and unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” and said Russia’s invasion would be a point of conversation.
The “challenges posed by” China, the energy crisis and the “economic relationship between the US and the UK” were also billed.
He accepted Ms Truss’s prediction that a comprehensive US-UK trade deal, which Brexit supporters touted as a major prize of leaving the EU, is years away.
Ms Truss had told reporters: “There aren’t currently any negotiations taking place with the US and I don’t have an expectation that those are going to start in the short to medium term.”
Mr Biden was meant to hold talks with the Prime Minister in the UK as he visited to attend the Queen’s funeral, but they were delayed until Ms Truss’s US trip.
Related:
Number 10 plays down protocol as White House plays it up
EU ready to be ‘flexible and responsive’ over Northern Ireland Protocol: Martin
Protocol row can be resolved, says Taoiseach, as he congratulates new PM
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Forecast updated on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 4:30 PM by WBOC Meteorologist Dan Satterfield (AMS-CBM).
DELMARVA FORECAST
Tonight:Mostly clear and more humid. Low 68°. Wind: S 4-12 mph.
Thursday: Warm and more humid. Scattered showers, and breezy PM. High 84°. Wind: SW/NW 8-17 mph.
Thursday Night: Clearing early, windy and much cooler. Low 52°. Wind: NW 9-18 mph. Winds higher near open water.
Friday: Sunny, windy, and much cooler. High 68°. Wind: N 14-26 mph. Winds higher near open water.
Forecast Discussion:
Look for clear skies tonight with light winds. It will be warmer and more humid than last night as a south breeze develops ahead of a cold front. Lowest temps. will dip to around 68 degrees by sunrise with temps. on the coast closer to 74°.
Thursday looks warm, with higher humidity ahead of a rather strong cold front. Winds will increase from the SW to 10-17 mph then turn to the NW in the late afternoon/evening. Look for showers as the front passes in the early afternoon hours, and some may be heavy.
Afternoon high temps will reach 84° with drier and cooler air arriving in the evening. Skies will clear in the evenign with much cooler air arriving by Midnight. Morning lows will be in the low 50's by sunrise Friday with a north breeze at 8-17 mph. Winds near open water will be much higher with gusts to over 35 mph possible.
Friday looks cool and windy, behind the cold front, with sunshine and low humidity. Winds will increase from the north to NW at 14-26 mph. Afternoon high temps. will stay below 70 degrees in most areas!
In the long range, Saturday will be mild with temps. near 73 and it will warm to around 80° on Sunday with dry air and sunshine. Some showers with another cold front will arrive Sunday evening into early Monday with afternoon temps. around 77 degrees Monday PM. Skies will clear Monday afternoon into Tuesday with nice fall weather. Look for sunshine an dhigh temps. in the mid to upper 70's through Wednesday.
The average high for today is 78 degrees with an average low of 58 degrees.
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Police arrested Cecil Adkison on Sept. 20, the gunman who killed 14-year-old Quinton Mack outside of a restaurant on Aug. 23. Adkison was taken into custody by the Atlanta Police Department’s Fugitive Unit and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Mack was shot multiple times in the parking lot of a strip mall on Fayetteville Road in southeast Atlanta. A witness said the teenager was picking up an order from Phat Phish Café and after walking out, gunshots were heard. Mack collapsed on the sidewalk feet from the front door of the restaurant.
He was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta but died from his injuries.
Detectives were able to gather security camera footage from the scene, but no details were released about a possible motive in the shooting.
Adkison was charged with felony murder, and was booked into the Dekalb County jail.
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Houston rapper Jermaine West, whose stage name is Da Breadman, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and distributing meth, cocaine and opioids.
West pleaded guilty on April 6, 2022, to 10 counts of drug trafficking in the Houston area. On Sept. 19, 2022, U.S. District Judge George Hanks ordered West to serve 280 months in federal prison, as well as six years of supervised release.
The investigation started in 2019 when law enforcement found out that West was trafficking narcotics. That information, in addition to West being known as an influential gang member, prompted the FBI, DEA, Houston Police Department, and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to launch the investigation.
West had been engaged in gang activity beyond trafficking drugs, and the judge said that the rapper “destroyed people’s lives,” noting that he “played a dangerous game” for 20 years and that he “played the game and lost.”
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The woman who filed the civil lawsuit claiming that comedians Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears molested them has decided to drop the case.
“Jane Doe,” as she has been identified, asked the Los Angeles County judge to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning that she cannot file the same lawsuit ever again.
The plaintiff also included a statement in her dismissal motion, Yahoo.com reports, that included the following paragraph:
“My family and I have known Tiffany Haddish for many years — and we now know that she would never harm me or my brother or help anyone else do anything that could harm us. We wish Tiffany the best and are glad that we can all put this behind us.”
Interestingly, the statement did not say anything to absolve Spears of blame, but now he and Haddish are in the clear.
As previously reported, the siblings filed a lawsuit against Haddish and Spears on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, claiming the comedians allegedly taught the woman, who was 14 at the time, and her 7-year-old brother how to perform sexual acts for a skit in 2013.
While Spears characterized the lawsuit as a financial “shakedown” in his Instagram page, Haddish expressed contrition for even participating in the video skit.
“I know people have a bunch of questions. I get it. I’m right there with you. Unfortunately, because there is an ongoing legal case, there’s very little that I can say right now,” Haddish said at the time. “But, clearly, while this sketch was intended to be comedic, it wasn’t funny at all — and I deeply regret having agreed to act in it. I really look forward to being able to share a lot more about this situation as soon as I can.”
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New York City mayor Eric Adams announced on Sept. 20 that starting in November, private businesses will no longer require employees as well as student-athletes to have COVID-19 vaccines. On the other hand, city workers are still required to be vaccinated.
Kyrie Irving, who is unvaccinated, missed most of the 2021-22 NBA season because of New York’s private sector mandate that precluded him from playing in home games. Meanwhile, a player from a different team who was unvaccinated could play in New York City.
Irving doesn’t mind sharing his thoughts with the world, and that’s what he did when he heard about the latest mandate change.
“If I can work and be unvaccinated, then all of my brothers and sisters who are also unvaccinated should be able to do the same, without being discriminated against, vilified, or fired,” Irving tweeted. This enforced vaccine pandemic is one of the biggest violations of human rights in history.”
If I can work and be unvaccinated, then all of my brothers and sisters who are also unvaccinated should be able to do the same, without being discriminated against, vilified, or fired. ♾🤞🏾
This enforced Vaccine/Pandemic is one the biggest violations of HUMAN RIGHTS in history.
— A11Even (@KyrieIrving) September 20, 2022
On Sept. 18, Irving appeared on “The Boyz Night Podcast” where he talked about how the vaccine mandate affected his season.
“I played 29 games, I barely played home games,” Irving said. “It wasn’t a typical season I would have wanted, but things happen. I had to stand on a whole bunch of bigger stuff that just that.”
Even though Irving is free to play without being vaccinated, it looks as though he’ll continue to stand up for people who don’t have the same choice he does.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians experienced a near-total internet blackout on Wednesday amid days of mass protests against the government over the death of a woman held by the country's morality police for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code.
An Iranian official had earlier hinted that such measures might be taken out of security concerns. The loss of connectivity will make it more difficult for people to organize protests and share information about the government's rolling crackdown on dissent.
Iran has seen nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained for allegedly wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf too loosely. Demonstrators have clashed with police and called for the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself, even as Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
The protests continued for a fifth day on Wednesday, including in the capital, Tehran. Police there fired tear gas at protesters who chanted “death to the dictator” and “I will kill the one who killed my sister," according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
London-based rights group Amnesty International said security forces had used batons, birdshot, tear gas, and water cannons to disperse protesters. It reported eight deaths linked to the unrest, including four people killed by security forces. It said hundreds more had been wounded.
Iranian officials have reported three deaths, blaming them on unnamed armed groups.
Witnesses in Iran, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said late Wednesday they could no longer access the internet using mobile devices.
“We’re seeing internet service, including mobile data, being blocked in Iran in the past couple of hours,” Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, Inc., a network intelligence company, said late Wednesday.
“This is likely an action by the government given the current situation in the country," he said. “I can confirm a near total collapse of internet connectivity for mobile providers in Iran.”
NetBlocks, a London-based group that monitors internet access, had earlier reported widespread disruptions to both Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook parent company Meta, which owns both platforms, said it was aware that Iranians were being denied access to internet services. “We hope their right to be online will be reinstated quickly,” it said in a statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, Iran's Telecommunications Minister Isa Zarepour was quoted by state media as saying that certain restrictions might be imposed “due to security issues," without elaborating.
Iran already blocks Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube, even though top Iranian officials use public accounts on such platforms. Many Iranians get around the bans using virtual private networks, known as VPNs and proxies.
In a separate development, several official websites, including those for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the presidency and the Central Bank, were taken down at least briefly as hackers claimed to have launched a cyberattack on state agencies.
Hackers linked to the shadowy Anonymous movement said they targeted other Iranian state agencies, including state TV.
Central Bank spokesman Mostafa Qamarivafa denied that the bank itself was hacked, saying only that the website was “inaccessible” because of an attack on a server that hosts it, in remarks carried by the official IRNA news agency. The website was later restored.
Iran has been the target of several cyberattacks in recent years, many by hackers expressing criticism of its theocracy. Last year, a cyberattack crippled gas stations across the country, creating long lines of angry motorists unable to get subsidized fuel for days. Messages accompanying the attack appeared to refer to the supreme leader.
Amini's death has sparked protests across the country. The police say she died of a heart attack and was not mistreated, but her family has cast doubt on that account, saying she had no previous heart issues and that they were prevented from seeing her body.
In a phone interview with BBC Persian on Wednesday, her father, Amjad Amini, accused authorities of lying about her death. Each time he was asked how he thought she died, the line was mysteriously cut.
The U.N. human rights office says the morality police have stepped up operations in recent months and resorted to more violent methods, including slapping women, beating them with batons, and shoving them into police vehicles.
President Joe Biden, who also spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, voiced support for the protesters, saying, "we stand with the brave citizens and the brave women of Iran, who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights.”
The U.K. also released a statement Wednesday calling for an investigation into Amini's death and for Iran to “respect the right to peaceful assembly.”
Raisi has called for an investigation into Amini’s death. Iranian officials have blamed the protests on unnamed foreign countries that they say are trying to foment unrest.
Iran has recently grappled with waves of protests, mainly over a long-running economic crisis exacerbated by Western sanctions linked to its nuclear program.
The Biden administration and European allies have been working to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, in which Iran curbed its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Still, the talks have been deadlocked for months.
In his speech at the U.N., Raisi said Iran is committed to reviving the nuclear agreement but questioned whether it could trust America’s commitment to any accord.
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. It began ramping up its nuclear activities after President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 agreement unilaterally.
Experts say it now likely has enough highly-enriched uranium to make a bomb if it chooses to do so.
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It was only a matter of time before it happened.
On Tuesday, Seth Davis and The Athletic published what will probably end up as the first step of the rehabilitation process of former Marquette men’s basketball head coach Steve Wojciechowski’s coaching career. There is no other way to read Davis 3,000+ word profile of the former Duke assistant without saying “ah, yes, this is designed to make Wojciechowski appeal as a hire to other athletic directors to get him a new job in coaching.”
If you have a subscription to The Athletic, then you’ve probably already seen the article. If you don’t, then please do not go out of your way to read it. I already read it. It has…. some problems. The “oh, look at Wojo, looking out over the mountains in Utah, he is changing his worldview” stuff in it is fine…. If it was an article designed to tell you all about how he is moving past the world of collegiate coaching.
But the rest of it….. well, that’s where the problems come in, and to put it quite plainly, Davis and The Athletic decided to varnish over some facts on their way towards making Wojciechowski a palatable hire down the road.
So, we’re going to go through the dang thing, because I’ve got Things To Say about it, or at the very least jokes to get off my chest. We’ll do it in the style of Fire Joe Morgan, just less artfully because I’m not Michael Schur.
As a primer/refresher, I highly recommend you flip back into the AE archives and re-read our request that Wojciechowski no longer be allowed to coach at Marquette. Feels relevant right now.
Here we go, skipping ahead to the interesting parts.
He’s also not coaching, which means he’s not worried about catching a flight to a high school tournament, or breaking down video in the wee hours of the morning, or trying to convince a player not to transfer,
Or being “very, very surprised” that his players were transferring.
or figuring out a way to win on the road at Villanova,
Something he never did and only three coaches in MU history have ever done.
Tom Crean: 1-1 all time at Villanova
Buzz Williams: 1-5 all time at Villanova
Shaka Smart: 1-0 all time at Villanova
Steve Wojciechowski? 0-7. Crean won on try #2, Williams on try #4, Smart on try #1 AND he’s the only one of the three to ever win at The Pavilion.
FUN FACT: Al McGuire is 0-1 on the road against Villanova, and MU didn’t play the Wildcats in their building again until it was a requirement of the Big East.
or wooing a five-star recruit,
Something he only ever succeeded at once.
or wondering what’s being said about him on Twitter,
Probably for the best since he started blocking Marquette fans who weren’t even tagging him halfway through his run in Milwaukee and then deleted the entire thing a year after that.
or fielding skeptical questions from the media.
I find it reprehensible that someone in the media is portraying “reporters asking questions of a college basketball coach” as something hard that they have to endure, much less subtly imply that it is an imposition upon the coach for said reporters to approach said coach with skepticism.
For Steve Wojciechowski, aka Wojo,
You can almost hear Davis say “and I call him that because we are friends!”
Wojciechowski first discovered hot yoga about 15 years ago while he was an assistant basketball coach at Duke, his alma mater. It was a welcome respite from the grind of the season and a much-needed lubricant for his aging joints. He continued the practice through his seven years as the head coach at Marquette.
This is literally the first time I am hearing about this. I am not surprised about this, because Steve Wojciechowski attempted to be The World’s Least Interesting Human Being while serving as Marquette’s head coach, and God forbid he ever share anything remotely interesting about himself at all ever.
After he was fired in March 2021, Wojciechowski moved his family to Park City – his wife, Lindsay, grew up in nearby Salt Lake City, and her parents still live in the area – and became a regular at PC Yoga Collective. He comes here so often that the manager asked if he would be interested in becoming a certified teacher. “I’ve thought about it,” he says. “I think it’d be great. It’s coaching. It’s guiding. The great thing about yoga is it’s judgment-free.”
You also can’t lose six of your last seven yoga sessions, so it seems like a pretty safe bet for him.
For most of his life, his identity was tethered to basketball. To lose that in humiliating fashion was hard to process. Yet, over time, Wojciechowski hasn’t just accepted his fate
Not sure he has based on some of the things you’re about to report here, Seth, but we’ll get to it.
That he has found serenity after enduring a coach’s ultimate nightmare is a plot twist that even those closest to him never saw coming. “I was waiting for the wheels to come off, and I’ve been very surprised they haven’t,” Lindsay says. “The daily habits and the consistency have been more surprising than anything. He has absolutely been where his feet are.”
Read it again and realize what’s being said. The man’s wife is shocked that he hasn’t completely lost his mind and she’s stunned that he’s acquired daily habits to bring stability to his life. I’m not sure this is exactly the kind of quote that you want to throw into a soft focus profile like this.
As Wojciechowski gazes at the rolling terrain framed beautifully by the Wasatch mountains, he hardly resembles the doughy, tightly wound figure last seen roaming the sidelines in Milwaukee.
I can’t believe Seth called him fat. I’ve said a lot of not kind things about Steve Wojciechowski on this website and on the Twitter machine, but I wouldn’t ever come anywhere close to thinking about assaulting his physical appearance.
His hair is longer, his waistline smaller, and a well-manicured, golden scruff decorates his face. Give him a cowboy hat, and he could be Robert Redford in a classic Western.
One of the first things Wojciechowski needed to do after he moved to Utah was buy a car. He had never needed this particular life skill before, since his employers had always supplied him with a ride.
Is this a thing for high major assistants everywhere? Was it a regular thing to happen for a rookie assistant before the turn of the century? Was it a special thing for him in 1999 because he was WOJO AT DUKE and so some dealership was more than happy to hook him up with a vehicle? I’m legitimately asking.
[Lindsay Wojciechowski] certainly didn’t foresee [Wojciechowski buying a used Ford F-150] a few months before, when Marquette athletic director Bill Scholl called Wojciechowski to let him know that he was being fired. The news was hardly a shock, but it was jarring all the same.
There is something very funny about the idea that Bill Scholl picked up the phone and said, “Hey, Steve, just so you know, your work ID card has been turned off, let me know when you want to schedule a time to come clear out your office.” This wasn’t an in person meeting. It was a phone call. I have MANY questions about what exactly transpired here, but seeing as Seth Davis appears to have not done any background interviewing with anyone at Marquette for this article, much less anyone who doesn’t have a direct connection to Duke, I guess we’ll never know.
It was a painfully public takedown for a man who had long led a high-profile basketball life.
Oh boo hoo. If you don’t want to be publicly taken down, then don’t sign a multi-million dollar contract to do an incredibly high profile job.
“I don’t know if I was a cerebral player,” he says. “I knew what the guy I was supposed to listen to wanted, but the reason I got to where I did was my energy and my intensity.”
If only this lesson had been applied to literally any public appearance Marquette head coach. You know what’s a good way to head off students booing you? Not sounding like a robot that’s been taken hostage when shooting a video reminding everyone that you have a home game against Xavier on Thursday night.
After 10 months of playing professionally in Poland, Wojciechowski returned to Duke as an assistant, where he began his climb in the profession. “Most times, assistants are anonymous,” he says. “I never really experienced that.” After five seasons on the Duke bench, Wojciechowski left in the spring of 2014 to become the head coach at Marquette.
15. He was a Duke assistant from 1999 through 2014. 15 seasons. This is a simple copyediting error here, and a mistake that shouldn’t have even left Seth’s desk. Also, again, boo hoo, if you want to be an anonymous assistant, don’t go work for your own college head coach who was already an icon in the sport by the time you received a W-2.
His predecessor, Buzz Williams, who had taken the Golden Eagles to two Sweet 16s and an Elite Eight before leaving for Virginia Tech, proved to be a tough act to follow.
Marquette spent four weeks in the top 10 of the AP poll under Wojciechowski’s guidance and for one brief week, they were a preseason contender to win a national championship. Let’s not pretend that he didn’t figure it out for a hot second.
The program emptied out after Williams left, and Wojciechowski went 4-14 in the Big East in his first season. Things only got marginally better in the ensuing years as Wojciechowski took Marquette to the NCAA Tournament just twice, in 2017 and ’19. Both times, the Golden Eagles lost in the first round.
In hilariously awful fashion. You should say that part if you’re talking about how Buzz was a tough act to follow, you should say that Wojciechowski suffered two embarrassing losses in the NCAA tournament in his two appearances. Oh, right, but we’re rehabbing him and pointing out that Wojciechowski thought double teaming Ja Morant to leave one of his teammates open to hit shots over and over and over again was a good idea kind of ruins the plan. Carry on.
Beyond not having enough talent,
Hold the damn phone.
Where did this come from? Yes, the roster got a little sparse in the immediate wake of Williams’ departure. But Henry Ellenson, the aforementioned lone five-star prospect in Wojciechowski’s tenure, committed to the Golden Eagles before the very next season even started, and Ellenson was eventually joined in that recruiting class for Year Two by two four-star prospects according to 247 Sports. The Marquette box score for the NCAA tournament loss to South Carolina has five four-star prospects that were recruited to play at Marquette along with two four-star guys who transferred in. This doesn’t include the unheralded recruit who transferred in and then broke Dwyane Wade’s single season scoring record the season after that.
The team that lost to Murray State had four four-star prospects that Wojciechowski himself recruited to Marquette, two of which who were on the NCAA team two years earlier, and a fifth that transferred in during his tenure. One of those four-star prospects that was on both NCAA tournament teams would break MU’s career scoring record in the first game of the very next season.
What on God’s green earth do you mean that Wojciechowski did not have enough talent to succeed? Either Seth Davis just accepted something that Wojciechowski said to him and didn’t bother to double check it or even push back on during the interviewing process OR Seth Davis just didn’t bother to actually look at the rosters. Both things are complete and total failures.
Oh, and who was responsible for the talent acquisition? Oh, it was Wojciechowski? I see. Very interesting.
Continuing.
Beyond not having enough talent, Wojciechowski struggled with the challenge of getting his guys to play as hard as he did – all day, every day, including in every drill of every practice. “He was never OK with them not giving a 10 out of 10,” says Chris Carrawell, who spent four years as Wojciechowski’s assistant and is now an associate head coach at Duke. “These kids have changed, though.”
Seth Davis just let the associate head coach at one of the premiere programs in the entire country, one with a reputation for recruiting the very best high school prospects in the country, call high school and college players in the 21st century lazy compared to how they worked hard in his day. That’s insane.
It’s also insane that by way of Davis’ writing about what Wojciechowski was telling him, we can draw the conclusion that Wojciechowski griped during the interview about how his players never worked as hard as he wanted them to work. I dunno about anyone else, but to me, that is not exactly a ringing endorsement of your coaching style. It’s kind of your job to explain to the players why you need them to work extremely hard and then hold them accountable to that level.
If they’re not and you find that frustrating, that’s on you.
Continuing Carrawell’s quote.
At some point it can wear on them mentally. Sometimes I’d say to him, ‘These guys are tired, and we got a game tomorrow. Do you want to win the practice, or do you want to win the game?’”
In November 2015, during the very early part of Wojciechowski’s second season, Inside Marquette Basketball ran a feature about how technology has impacted MU’s training processes. This includes a look at the Catapult devices, which is effectively a GPS monitor that the players wear during practice and games to determine how much energy and effort each player expends while they have it on. One of three things is true: 1) Carrawell has forgotten this happened, 2) Carrawell wasn’t aware of what the Catapult data was telling the coaches and the training staff, or 3) Wojciechowski didn’t care about that information at all either on accident or on purpose. I desperately hope it was 1 or 2, because if it was 3 and Carrawell had to effectively beg his boss to leave some in the players’ tank repeatedly during his time in Milwaukee.... well, that’s a real argument in favor of firing the head coach, isn’t it?
Weird that Carrawell drifts back into the mental status for a second there after alluding to the players being lazy earlier, but oh well.
If there was a tipping point that led to Wojciechowski’s demise, it was the April 2019 decision by the Hauser brothers, Joey and Sam, to transfer, three days after the Golden Eagles’ high-scoring guard, Markus Howard, decided to forgo the NBA Draft and return for his senior season.
Again, Wojciechowski was “very, very surprised” that the Hausers transferred.
I would greatly disagree that this was a tipping point that led to his demise, at least not at the time. Remember, Marquette tore up his old contract and announced a brand new five year deal for Wojciechowski less than a month after the transfer announcement happened. All indications from the Al McGuire Center at that point were “this is our guy, he was completely not responsible for anything that happened with the Hausers, we’re moving onwards and upwards.” Hardly what you would call a tipping point at the time. In retrospect, maybe, sure, and I would personally have been fine if AD Bill Scholl had shown him the door in the immediate wake of saying he was very, very surprised that it happened. If anything, the contract after the transfers was the tipping point, not the transfers themselves.
As the losses continued to pile up, the fans and media turned on him.
I would love to see any example of “the media” turning on Steve Wojciechowski. I’m pretty sure I don’t remember an ongoing campaign from anyone in “the media” to point out all of his flaws on a regular basis, and I say this with the confidence of someone who runs a sports blog dedicated to keeping track of things people say about Marquette.
As for the fans turning on him, well, yeah. That’s what happens when you go from #10 in the country for four weeks to and a record of 23-4 to losing six of your final seven games and getting embarrassed in the NCAA tournament..... and then you follow that up with another six-of-seven losing stretch at the end of the next season after you got the team from unranked to start the year to #18 in the country. People tend to notice these things and lose their patience when you’re wasting the career of the most prolific scorer in program history and forcing them to say “yeah, but Markus Howard never won an NCAA tournament game” when talking about his career.
He tried to shield himself from the pummeling he was taking on social media,
As mentioned earlier, Wojciechowski deleted his Twitter in the wake of the Hausers transferring in 2019, allegedly because he was planning to do that after the season all along, which means he coached two full seasons without one. “Tried to” implies that he failed at this, which is pretty impressive since that would mean either 1) people were jumping into his Instagram comments or 2) he was actively searching it out after deleting his Twitter. I really hope it’s not the second one.
but he couldn’t protect his family from the “Fire Wojo” chants that came from the stands at home games down the stretch of the 2020-21 season. “It was shocking, honestly,” Lindsay says. “To see that level of negativity towards a guy who was really working his tail off felt very personal. It was a really hard time for our family.”
This, as written by Seth Davis and described by Lindsay Wojciechowski, did not happen. The 2020-21 season was the “no attendance because of COVID” season.
February 3, 2021: Marquette announces that they are exploring a way to let player and staff families attend games. Every game up til that point was required staff only. MU would play just two more home games after that. One was three days later, with announced attendance of zero people. The other was the final game of the season when 1,800 people were allowed access to Fiserv Forum. Now, I wasn’t at that game. Maybe 1,800 people scattered throughout Fiserv managed to make enough noise collectively that you could tell that they were chanting Fire Wojo. I don’t know.
But a repeated pattern of chanting at multiple games that season? Didn’t happen. Perhaps Lindsay is remembering the chants from the 2019-20 season and either she or Davis is attributing them to the wrong season. Lindsay Wojciechowski is allowed to misremember things. Seth Davis is not allowed to get his facts wrong.
In any case: Boo hoo. You (or your husband, in this case) are getting paid to win basketball games and you’re not. I get that the entire idea of losing is a culture shock from the 15 years of experience in Durham, but if you weren’t prepared for the possibility that your nickname to fit neatly into the four syllable/five claps chant sequence, that’s on you.
The Golden Eagles finished that season 13-14 (8-11 Big East) and failed to qualify for a postseason tournament. “That’s not good enough there,” Wojciechowski says flatly.
I would like to know what places that 13-14 and 8-11 in the league is good enough. No one, not even DePaul and their years of futility, would say “fine” to that result.
Remember when Seth Davis said that he had “accepted his fate” earlier in the article? Yeah, doesn’t sound like it, does it?
Please note that Davis fails to note that Marquette started off the year 5-2 with two wins over teams ranked in the top 10 of the AP poll at the time. Those two teams would finish the year with a collective record of 40-22 and each won at least one game in the 2021 NCAA tournament. Marquette went 8-12 after that point, including yet another six losses in seven games stretch after starting out Big East play with a mark of 4-4. Weird how the context of the repeated collapses supervised by Wojciechowski doesn’t get mentioned at all in this article.
He had some conversations with Scholl about changing the direction of the program, but when they couldn’t agree on the proper way to course correct, Scholl let him go.
No mention from Davis as to what the disagreement was about in particular, so we’re left to take this as a confirmation of Jeff Goodman’s reporting that Wojciechowski was told to shake up his coaching staff in order to keep his job and he refused. Given that Dwayne Killings had already taken the Albany job by the time Wojciechowski was let go, leaving an open spot to hire literally anyone, you’d think that shaking up the staff would be a non-issue. I am left to think either A) Wojciechowski refused to allow his boss to approve the new hire or B) Wojciechowski refused to let either Jake Presutti or Justin Gainey go.
And thus made Scholl fire him and by extension fire both Presutti and Gainey. Genius move, no notes.
Even though the Wojciechowskis loved Milwaukee and their sons were happy there, they decided it would be best to relocate and start over. They sold their house, went on vacation to Hawaii, and then settled in Park City, where several years earlier they had bought what they thought would be their second home.
Please note: The Wojciechowskis moved to Utah where they already owned a house. Per Realtor.com, the median listing price in October 2019 in Park City was just under $1.2 million and is now just short of $1.8 million. But hey, maybe they got a great deal years ago.
Skipping forward, because the next few paragraphs are the actually useful and interesting part of this profile. Davis discusses what Wojciechowski has been up to in the last 18 months, and it’s honestly quality work that I have no objection with, at least not for any reasons that we would find interesting.
Wojciechowski doesn’t ski or play golf, two popular activities in Park City, but he has had little trouble occupying his time. Aside from all the driving he and Lindsay do to school and practices (“We’re basically a couple of taxis,” she says)
Yes, this is called parenting. Hooray for you.
The guy who could hardly hang a picture is now shopping at hardware stores so he can help his father-in-law do small projects around the ranch house. He mows the front lawn once a week. He makes some extra cash working out local basketball players, and he reads at least 20 minutes a day.
Congrats, you’re reading as much as the average third grader.
A major highlight over the winter was the chance to go behind the scenes with the Utah Jazz, thanks to then-coach Quin Snyder, another former Duke point guard and who recruited Wojciechowski to Durham. Snyder gave Wojciechowski free reign to attend practices, sit in on coaches’ meetings and attend home and road games.
Snyder was fired at Missouri in 2006, so he could relate to what Wojciechowski was going through. As the season wore on, Snyder became increasingly reliant on Wojciechowski’s thoughts on the Jazz, the coaching profession and the crossroads that Snyder was himself approaching. “I got very curious about how he was framing things,” Snyder says. “I asked him to write out some thoughts, and I got these terrific long emails that were super thoughtful and introspective. To see him go from the fear of getting fired to actually have it be a liberating experience really resonated with me.”
The Jazz started out the season 20-7 through December 15th, then went thru a stretch of 2-11 basketball in January. They ultimately finished 49-33 and were eliminated in six games by the Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs and Snyder resigned after the season was over. I don’t even have a witty comment here.
That leads to the inevitable question of when – or whether – Wojciechowski will coach again. And if so, at what level? His agent, Jimmy Sexton, fielded enough calls last spring to give Wojciechowski confidence that if he wants to return to college coaching, a good opportunity will be there for him. He served as an assistant coach with the USA Basketball team that won the bronze at the FIBA AmeriCup in Brazil earlier this month. Perhaps that experience will spark his competitive jones.
This is my favorite paragraph. “Hey, everybody, lots of people called superagent Jimmy Sexton last March and April to wonder if Wojciechowski was interested in returning right away to coaching, but he passed, so get your phone calls in now if you’re thinking about making a change!”
I would be fascinated to see what level of program reached out to Sexton. I don’t know how a Major Seven athletic director tries to sell “Well, Bill Belichick was bad with the Cleveland Browns, so we’re hoping that happens here” to their fans, and I don’t know if Wojciechowski is capable of hustling after it at somewhere like Illinois State, who just changed coaches this past offseason.
Indeed, Wojciechowski seems plenty content being off the treadmill, and taking a job in the next few years would mean moving his sons while they are still in high school. Marquette paid him a buyout of more than $9 million, so he won’t feel any financial pressure for a while. It’s not like he’s blowing all his money on cars.
Here’s some actual news for you, the discerning Marquette fan. Since MU is a private institution, their contracts are not subject to open records requests. We have to wait for tax records to get an idea of what the men’s basketball coach is getting paid, and given the nature of a buyout, that kind of thing might have never made it into the tax forms. Here’s Wojciechowski just letting it out into the open that the buyout — freshly readjusted in that new contract in 2019, remember — was $9 million when he was let go. That’s exactly the kind of cash that I thought would have been close to impossible for the university to pay out in October 2020, and yet, somehow, they made it work. Never doubt the university’s commitment to athletics.
Whoever negotiated and approved that buyout at the university in the wake of the 2019 collapse and the departure of the Hausers should be fired, or at the very least never allowed near a negotiating table ever again. This isn’t a retroactive opinion from me, I said I hoped the university protected themselves against a big buyout in the near future when the new contract was announced.
Towards the end of the long conversation by the teepee, Wojciechowski offers a glimpse of the warrior within. “I do know this,” he says. “If a day ever comes and it’s the right time and place for me to coach again, I’m in a much better frame of mind. I’m a better coach today than the day I got fired at Marquette.”
I would have loved to see Seth Davis make him elaborate on that. What we saw at Marquette was a repeated inability to adjust to persistent and reoccurring flaws in his teams to the point where they were actually getting worse. I don’t know how he can prove that he is a better coach to someone who might be trying to hire him, but just saying that he has a better worldview and peace of mind isn’t going to cut it.
And that’s that.
If you read the article and you think I missed some particular brand of nonsense in there, shout it out in the comments. If you didn’t read it because it’s a subscription site and you need something clarified, then holler about that, too!
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I had a plan to use this space as a generalized preview of Big East play since Marquette kicks that off on Wednesday night. The plan was to use the NCAA’s RPI rankings to make my point, since those debuted last week......
but now they’re no longer on the Nitty Gritty site. I get it, I was surprised when I found it last week, but it’s definitely a little weird that they went up and then rolled it back.
In any case, we’re going to have to twist this a little bit differently. Same general idea, as I point out exactly how seriously Marquette has to take all of Big East play in order to avoid bad losses. I just don’t have the specific RPI numbers to make my point.
I’m just going to walk you through most of the league’s losses to this point of the season. We’re going to skip Creighton because we know we can trust Creighton.
Here’s everyone else, going in current winning percentage order:
- Seton Hall (9-3): Losses to Hofstra at home and to Stony Brook and Princeton on a neutral court.
- Xavier (7-3): Losses to Virginia at home and Lipscomb & Purdue on a neutral court (okay, the Purdue one is fine.)
- St. John’s (9-4): Lost all four in a row to Miami, Weber State and UNLV out in Las Vegas, and then on the road at Fairfield.
- Providence (8-4): Losses at Iona, at UT Arlington, and on a neutral court to Temple and George Washington
- Connecticut (6-5): While their season opening loss to Penn State isn’t an issue, they reeled off four straight to Kansas and Army in an event hosted at West Point, then lost to San Diego and Utah in an event hosted by San Diego
- Butler (6-6): Two separate three match losing streaks, first it was Denver and Portland in an event hosted by the Pioneers and a loss at Boise State; and their current three match losing streak as of this writing is Ohio, Missouri, and Central Michigan all at home.
- DePaul (4-8): Started the year with six straight losses to Stephen F. Austin, SMU, UC Irvine, Western Kentucky, Northern Kentucky, and Bowling Green, and they have since added losses to Northwestern and Illinois-Chicago.
- Villanova (4-8): UMBC and USC out in Los Angeles, Fairfield at home, Missouri State, Dayton, and Illinois in Dayton (okay, those last two are fine), Yale and Sacred Heart in an event hosted by Yale.
- Georgetown (2-9): Do I have to explain this one further? Seven straight losses to start the year in this form: American, New Orleans, and Howard at home; Maryland, USF, and Stony Brook hosted by Stony Brook; and then Rider at home. Since that streak, they’ve added back-to-back sweep losses at UC Santa Barbara.
Marquette’s only loss so far this season? On the road against the reigning national champions who are currently ranked in the top 10 in the country. If Marquette takes losses in league play to someone not named Creighton, they’re attaching whatever losses above you’re seeing to their RPI, not to mention whatever losses these teams take to each other. Y’all get the idea.
Big East Match #1: vs DePaul Blue Demons
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Time: 7pm Central
Location: McGuire Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Streaming: FloSports
Live Stats: Sidearm Stats
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteVB
Marquette is 35-29 all time against DePaul, but that’s a little misleading. MU went 2-4 against the Blue Demons before officially become a Division 1 program in 1986. So it’s 33-25 in Division 1 since 1986, and even that’s misleading. Marquette is currently on a 22 match winning streak against DePaul dating all the way back to the 2009 season.
I already rattled off DePaul’s losses, particularly that six match losing streak to start the season, so we don’t need to dive too deep into how their season has gone so far. I will say this part, though: DePaul was picked to finish third in the Big East this season because Creighton and Marquette. I’m not saying that they can’t do that because it’s strongly possible that all of these teams beat on each other all season long and maybe the Blue Demons end up in third when it’s all done.... but it is not looking very solid for them, that’s for sure.
Part of DePaul’s problem is an inability to roll out a consistent lineup this season. Kills leader Jill Pressley (3.67 kills/set) has played in all 49 sets so far this season, but no one north of a kill per set has been able to match her there. Aly Kindelberger is just one off, but also she’s averaging only 1.65 per set. Maggie Jones has been setting in every frame so far this season, but she’s splitting time this season at just 5.51 assists per set. Most of the time her partner has been Ashley Cudiamat (4.96/set), but she has missed three sets this year as well.
Rachel Krasowski leads DePaul in digs at a very strong 5.02/set mark, but even she hasn’t played in every set as she’s only at 48 so far this year. The aforementioned Aly Kindelberger makes up for her lack of kills by averaging a team high 1.21 blocks per set. Points are points, so you can’t argue with how she gets there.
Big East Match #2: vs Butler Bulldogs
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Time: 7pm Central
Location: McGuire Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Streaming: FloSports
Live Stats: Sidearm Stats
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteVB
Marquette is 17-9 all time against Butler. The series started with six straight Butler wins and MU was 1-6 all time against the Bulldogs when Butler joined the Big East. It’s been 16-3 since then. The most recent BU victory was in the 2021 spring season when the Bulldogs took a five set victory in Indianapolis before the Golden Eagles swept them the very next day.
It’s probably not great for the Bulldogs that they’re rolling into Big East play with three straight losses, and not just losses, but home losses. Marquette won’t be their first league match, as they’ll be tangling with DePaul on Friday night in Chicago before wandering north on I-94 to come to Milwaukee. ASIDE: I have logistics questions here. If you’re Butler, do you drive up to Milwaukee after playing DePaul with a 7pm Central time start to spend the night, or do you stay in Chicago, sleep, then wake up, eat breakfast, then drive to Milwaukee? Which one is better for performance the next night: Not going to sleep until nearly midnight in Milwaukee or driving 90 minutes in the middle of the day before playing at 6pm?
Unsurprisingly, Butler and their six losses have had a consistency problem just like DePaul. Mariah Grunze and her 3.52 kills per set lead the team and she’s appeared in all 42 sets this season. #2 attacker Megan Sheridan has missed a set, as has Marisa Guisti at 1.24 kills/set. Amina Shackleford and Autumn Flowers have missed four and 10 sets respectively, and that’s how you end up relying on Grunze for nearly 30% of the team’s attacks even though she’s only hitting .169. With that said, the Bulldogs are only hitting .176 as a team, so in that perspectively, Grunze’s struggles aren’t even that noticeable.
Freshman Cora Taylor appears to be Butler’s option at setter, and she’s averaging nine assists a set. That’s good! She has also missed seven sets along the way, and that’s never a good thing for building a rapport with your hitters. At a glance, it appears that the issue is that Taylor has taken the starting job from Jenna Splitt, so perhaps things are getting better in that setter/hitter dynamic.
Jaymeson Kinley is doing Jaymeson Kinley things as she averages 4.95 digs per set. Things are heavily tilted in her direction in that department, although Grunze is north of two digs in her average, and that’s really good for someone who’s doing so much of the team’s attacking. Marisa Guisti is leading the team in blocks at 1.15 per set, and Amina Shackelford is just barely short of one block a frame. That’s some pretty respectable stuff for a team that’s clearly been struggling a bit this season, so we’ll see how Marquette attacks their front line.
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A wild opening 35 minutes just kept on getting wilder at Valley Fields on Tuesday night as YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles defeated Milwaukee 5-3 to win possession of The Milwaukee Cup for the first time since 2014 and gain possession of the Cup for the first time since 2016. The Golden Eagles are now 4-3-0 on the season.
The match tilted towards bananas in the first half-hour-plus of the match as Beto Soto and Edrey Caceres combined to find Alex Mirsberger — not anyone on the team, just Mirsberger — for three header goals off of corner kicks all in a 15 minute stretch. All from the same side of the field, all booted past the goal, all from roughly the same spot by Mirsberger.
I swear to you that these are three different goals. Look at the clock and the score to confirm it.
In the 18th minute:
18' | Mirsberger with the first goal of the game!#WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/Mg5gjGsRfV
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) September 21, 2022
In the 31st:
31' | Mirsberger with his second goal of the game and third of the season!#WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/m8Vnvii2PP
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) September 21, 2022
And In the 33rd:
33' | Mirsberger stop us if you have heard this one. Mirsberger with a goal again! 33' in and he already has a hat trick!#WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/Zpwun88JhI
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) September 21, 2022
Those last two were officially just barely more than two minutes apart, 129 seconds precisely. I can not imagine exactly what Milwaukee head coach Kris Kelderman was hollering at his roster after the second one, much less the third one in rapid fire fashion.
Whatever it was, it worked a little bit. Milwaukee took advantage of a Marquette structure that wasn’t all that interested in parking the bus and attacked into it, leading to this 43rd minute goal by Emil Lindgren Pedersen to make it 3-1 at halftime.
First Half / 42:13
— Milwaukee Men’s Soccer (@MKE_MSoccer) September 21, 2022
Panthers pull one back and come up with a huge shift in momentum heading into the break.
Emil Lindgren Pedersen the goal!
Josh Kidder and Raul Medina the assists. pic.twitter.com/x4nMA4PoqC
I feel like Marquette could have been doing a little bit better to support Ludvig Malberg in net here between Malberg getting the start because Chandler Hallwood getting redcarded last time out and the 3-0 lead.
Anyway, 3-1 with 45 minutes to play is still pretty good.
Except then it was 3-2 in the 53rd minute as Logan Farrington scored what kind of looks like a duplicate of Pedersen’s goal, except with a long kick ahead subbing in for the pass through Marquette’s back line.
And then things really got wild.
Less than a minute after the restart, Malberg smashes the ball to clear it away from his net. It flies most of the way down the field, bounces, and MU keeper Gijs Van Schouten grabs it before anyone else can touch it.
Except he had left the 18 yard box by about two steps when he grabbed it, and Van Schouten immediately realized what he had done.
Red card, he’s gone, and Nick Chiappa was on in relief while Milwaukee goes down to 10 men for the remainder.
Free kick for Marquette from the spot of the foul.
Marquette goal, Abdoul Karim Pare as the free kick gets bounced around a little bit and Pare puts it in.
Second Half / 53:29
— Milwaukee Men’s Soccer (@MKE_MSoccer) September 21, 2022
A WHOLE LOT GOING ON.
52:36 MKE goal!
See below, as Farrington gets sprung by Davidsson and Abdulahad.
53:22 red card on Van Schouten, who was called for a handball outside of the box.
53:23 goal for Marquette, sending home the free kick,
It's 4-2. pic.twitter.com/U3CKvVtWCP
54' | Karim with his fourth goal of the season!#WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/uXRVBGDdCy
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) September 21, 2022
To reset: 4-2 Marquette in the 54th minute with two goals already in the net in the nine minutes since the second half started, Mirsberger has a hat trick, Milwaukee has 10 men.
Marquette was pretty comfortable at that point, but it’s also important to not let the side with 10 guys start thinking they can do things against you as well, so MU kept up appearances and kept pushing forward when they could. That led to the 68th minute, as the Golden Eagles scored without a stoppage and a set piece for the first time in the match. It’s some nice work by Caceres and Lukas Sunesson to get the ball to Soto, who officially got credit for this goal, which was originally called an own goal but was later changed in the official scorebook.
68' | Marquette scores on a Milwaukee own goal to bring the lead back up to three.
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) September 21, 2022
MU 5- UWM 2#WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/WTDapZOTMv
At that point, you can kind of just run out the clock, but 23 minutes is a lot of time. Malberg did have to make one save related to a Milwaukee corner kick in the 70th minute, and eventually the horn blew to mark full time and give the Milwaukee Cup back to the Golden Eagles.
All four of Mirsberger’s goals on the season have been headers on corners, and that moved him into a three-way tie for the team lead in goals this season. Well, that and Pare’s second half goal as well, since that brought him to four on the year to match Lukas Sunesson’s total.
Marquette’s five goals in the match are the most that either side of The Milwaukee Cup has scored in this derby match since 2000. Mirsberger’s hat trick was the first by a Golden Eagles since C. Nortey pulled it off against Seton Hall in 2011. Caceres’ third assist of the match came on Soto’s goal, giving a Marquette player three helpers in a match for the first time since 2017 when Luka Prpa accomplished that feat against Creighton. The seven total goals in the match are the second most in Milwaukee Cup history, trailing only a 9-0 Milwaukee victory in 1977.
Up Next: Big East play! The Golden Eagles are the last team to get started as the other 10 squads paired off last weekend. That leaves MU in a tie with Georgetown for 10th place as four of the five matches went to a draw. Xavier will be MU’s first opponent, and the Golden Eagles will head down to Cincinnati on Saturday night for that one. First kick against the 6-0-2 Musketeers is set for 6pm Central time.
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If eight-ish matches of a regular season is enough to truly get a measure of a season, then we can take the NCAA’s freshly debuted women’s soccer RPI seriously. While I don’t know if it is or is not enough to truly give us quality data information, I think we can safely say that if you look at the entire league, the RPI at this point does tell us a lot about how the Big East is shaking out. More specifically, it can tell us what is and is not a likely chance for Marquette to pick up points in the league standings as Big East play gets started on Thursday afternoon.
There are a couple of tiers involved here, as you’d expect, and for context here, Marquette is currently situated at #153, the best team in the league outside the top 100.
TIER ONE
Georgetown: #12
Xavier: #23
Yeah, let’s call this group the “maybe if we cross our fingers AND our toes” group. Feels like the Golden Eagles might struggle to get any points off of either team if these RPI numbers hold.
TIER TWO
Creighton: #52
Connecticut: #62
Butler: #99
These are the teams that Marquette has to target as “can steal points from” this season. With that in mind, this gives the Golden Eagles a great opportunity to measure themselves early in the season, as Butler is coming up this weekend. These are still teams with at least hope for an NCAA tournament bid depending on how Big East play goes, so we’re talking about the Golden Eagles suddenly rounding into that kind of form in order to get these theoretical points.
You will notice that there are five teams ahead of Marquette in the RPI, and only six teams qualify for the Big East tournament. Seems important to keep in mind.
TIER THREE
Seton Hall: #155
Providence: #159
St. John’s: #197
These are “The Neighbors,” aka the teams that Marquette is most similar to at this point of the year. SHU and PC are essentially interchangeable with the Golden Eagles with all three of them within seven spots of each other. I don’t want to say that these are must win games, but they’re pretty close if MU wants to find themselves in the top six.
TIER FOUR
DePaul: #211
Villanova: #333
If Marquette loses to one of these two, they have to replace that loss with a win against one of the five teams in front of them in order to get the points for a top six finish. The Blue Demons and the Wildcats qualify as “bad” right now, and you can’t be losing or honestly even going to a draw with a bad team if you think you’re a team worthy of a postseason berth.
As is the case with Butler, Marquette gets a chance to open up league play to prove that they are better than one of these Tier Four teams. It would be incredibly valuable to start off the 10 match league slate with three points out of Tier Four.
Last year, 16 points was enough to get a top six spot. If Marquette beats all five teams in the Tiers below them, that’s 15 points. That’s exactly what MU had last year to finish in seventh place, so that’s probably not going to be enough this year either.
Big East Match #1: at DePaul Blue Demons (2-5-0, 0-0-0 Big East)
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2022
Time: 4pm Central
Location: Wish Field, Chicago, Illinois
Streaming: FloFC
Live Stats: Stat Broadcast
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteWSOC
Marquette is 18-6-2 all time against DePaul. The series dates back to 1996 and was heavily tilted towards the Golden Eagles through 2013 as MU opened up a 13-3-0 margin and didn’t even allow a goal in the first seven encounters. MU is 5-1-1 in the last seven meetings, including wins in both spring 2021 matches as well as the fall 2021 match.
A 3-1 win over Lindenwood back last Thursday is what separates the Blue Demons from a four match losing streak coming into this league opener for both squads. You can’t really blame them for one of them, because losing 3-1 to then-#6 Stanford, even at home, isn’t that big of a deal. Heck, it was only 1-0 until not long before the hour mark, and then the Cardinal knocked in two within 90 seconds of each other. DePaul scored all three of their goals in the first 41 minutes against Lindenwood a week ago, then gave one up just after halftime on the visitors’ only shot of the second half. That’s not ideal, but holding them to just no shots when you’re up 3-1 is pretty good.
DePaul has only been shutout twice this season, in their first two losses of the year at that, so while their record is not great, they are putting the ball in the net with regularity. Susie Soderstrom and Sydney Parker have both scored twice so far this season to lead the team in that column, and Soderstrom has added an assist to her year to lead the team in points with five. Katie Godden is one of the three Blue Demons with one goal so far and her two assists are tied with Grace Phillpotts for the lead there. That’s a lot of points from a lot of different people, so that’s something positive for them and/or something for Marquette to watch out for.
Elena Milam has taken over the net for the Blue Demons, playing every minute of their last two matches. She had been splitting time with Mollie Eriksson up to that point with both women appearing in five matches total this year so far. Going by goals-against average, neither one is a great option for head coach Michele O’Brien, but Milam has the advantage, 1.87 to 2.18. Eriksson has stopped a higher rate of shots, 78% to 71%, but at this point of the year, you have to almost go more by vibes than anything else for your keeper. Whatever gets your team energized to pick up wins, y’know? I presume it will be Milam, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Eriksson get back in there.
Big East Match #2: at Butler Bulldogs (3-4-1, 0-0-0 Big East)
Date: Sunday, September 25, 2022
Time: Noon Central
Location: Butler Bowl, Indianapolis, Indiana
Streaming: FloFC
Live Stats: Stat Broadcast
Twitter Updates: @MarquetteWSOC
Marquette is 3-8-1 all time against Butler. All but one of the matches have come since the two teams came together in the Big East after The Reformation. The first six matches were even with MU holding a 3-2-1 mark, but it’s been six straight for the Bulldogs since and the Golden Eagles haven’t scored a single goal in any of them.
Butler was picked to finish third in the Big East this season and even earned a first place vote in the preseason poll of the league’s coaches. With that in mind, that 3-4-1 record isn’t what you want to see, but it’s also not the worst thing ever. It’s also not great, because Butler started out the year with two wins, including a road 1-0 conquest of then-#9 Michigan on a 64th minute goal by Katie Soderstrom. That vaulted Butler into the top 25 at #17 and then they immediately lost to Illinois. Then, following a 7-0 demolition of Wright State, the Bulldogs dropped home matches to then-#22 Wisconsin and Dayton..... and then tacked on a road loss to Northwestern.
They haven’t won at all since that WSU match, as their most recent contest was a 2-2 draw at home to Ball State. The Cardinals look to be the worst non-conference opponent that Butler faces this year, so that’s not the kind of note that you want to be heading into your league opener against Xavier on, but it is the one that they have.
Thanks to a hat trick against Wright State, Katie Soderstrom is Butler’s leader in goals so far this season. She has six total, twice as many as redshirt junior Abigail Isger, who accounted for two more of the seven goals against WSU. A team high three assists also gives Soderstrom the BU lead in that department and has her comfortably in front of Isger in points, 15-7. All told, Butler has 15 assists on 16 goals, so while they’ll have to be careful to mark Soderstrom well, Marquette will have to keep a watchful eye on everyone else, too.
Anna Pierce has played all but 17 minutes this season, so she should be the netminder when this match rolls up. The redshirt freshman from Michigan has a goals-against average just a little bit north of one goal per 90 minutes and she’s stopping 76% of shots on frame. Pierce is averaging just a bit over three saves per match as the BU defense is helped out by outshooting their opponents by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.
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Kegger on I-75!
A cascade of Coors Light shut down a Florida highway this week after several trucks smashed into each other and sent a tidal wave of beer cases and cans into the roadway.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a pair of tractor-trailers were traveling down I-75 in Hernando County on Wednesday morning when one clipped the other while switching lanes.
One truck veered onto the shoulder while the other stopped on the outside lane of the three-lane roadway, according to FOX 13.
Two additional semis and a pickup managed to come to a rest behind the vehicles, but a fifth truck packed with Coors Light smashed into the vehicles and set off a chain reaction.
When the suds settled, officials were forced to close the stretch until workers could sweep away the mass of cans, cases and spilled beer.
There were no reported injuries.
The accident backed up traffic for miles before the roadway was reopened after several hours, according to reports.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane will be holding a Diwali festival this coming Oct. 22. The festival will feature a Rangoli art contest, live performances, arts and crafts and vegetarian and vegan foods.
Diwali is India's festival of lights. The festival lasts five days across Indian communities. The lights are an important symbol of Indian spirituality.
This year's Diwali festival puts an emphasis on the Rangoli art festival. Rangoli art is characterized by its colorful, geometric patterns. This art is usually drawn on the floor of a home's entrance to ward off evil spirits and welcome good spirits.
The Rangoli Art Festival is the main event the festival. Prizes ranging from $150 to $500 are available for all different age groups.
The Diwali festival is also looking for vegetarian and vegan food vendors for the festival. Interested vendors must be in good standing with the Spokane Regional Health Department and have a current business license.
The Diwali festival will take place on Oct. 22, and will take place at River Park Square from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Wall St. from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For all Rangoli art contest submissions and vendor interests should email Charitydoyl@yahoo.com.
You can find more details on the event here.
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SPOKANE, Wash — The weather's getting colder, and with it, the Spokane City Library is introducing events new and old for people to attend this upcoming fall season.
Shred Day will be held at the North Spokane and Spokane Valley libraries. Attendees can bring personal, sensitive documents for the library to shred. The shredding service will be available from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Other financial literacy workshops will be available, covering a variety of topics such as Estate Planning 101, Medicare enrollment and retirement workshops.
Several libraries will also be holding recreational workshops. These workshops will feature topics and hobbies of all charities. Blacksmithing, tatting lace, photography, jerky making and seed saving are all programs available at several Spokane County Library branches this October.
The events are beginner-friendly and open until registration spots are filled. Some events, like blacksmithing, are listed for adults, while other events are aimed at children and teenagers. According to the library, this is for attendee safety and security.
A full list of events happening at the Spokane library is available here.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane's Director of Neighborhood, Housing and Human Services (NHHS) John Hall announced his resignation Wednesday, city of Spokane spokesperson Brian Coddington confirmed to KREM 2.
His resignation comes approximately three months after he was appointed to the position by Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward.
Hall let the city know he accepted another position on the East Coast, according to Coddington. Spokane City Council President Breann Beggs told KREM 2 that Hall's new position is located in Virginia.
Beggs told KREM 2 that Hall was "very frustrated with how he was treated" and the new opportunity in Virginia "looked very promising."
Hall was appointed to the position of director on July 11, 2022, after former director Cupid Alexander stepped down. One of Hall's primary focuses was the Trent Resource and Assistance Center (TRAC), which opened in early September.
Prior to his time with Spokane NHHS, Hall served as the executive director of the Indianapolis Housing Agency beginning in 2019. He also served as department director of the City of Wichita's Housing and Community Services Department and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Hall's last day will be Sept. 30, according to Coddington.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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A bizarre social media trend dubbed “NyQuil chicken” or “sleepy chicken” appears to be making the rounds online, prompting questions and warnings from many people.
As early as 2017, posts shared on Reddit show people cooking chicken in the cough and cold medicine, sometimes referring to it as “sleepytime” or “bedtime” chicken. It’s unclear why these videos gained popularity on social media, but they made their way onto TikTok in 2021.
Now, the purported “challenge” is trending again on social media. It’s clearly a stomach-turning stunt meant to generate views. But is cooking chicken in NyQuil actually dangerous, like some people online claim?
THE QUESTION
Is cooking chicken in NyQuil dangerous?
THE SOURCES
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Kelly Johnson-Arbor, M.D., medical toxicologist and co-medical director with the National Capital Poison Center
- Karla Robinson, M.D., a family physician in North Carolina
- Piedmont Healthcare
- Cleveland Clinic
THE ANSWER
Yes, cooking chicken in NyQuil is dangerous.
WHAT WE FOUND
The FDA warned people that the social media videos encouraging people to cook chicken in NyQuil or other similar cough and cold medications sound “silly and unappetizing,” but can also be “very unsafe” – whether someone is eating the chicken or just cooking it.
Since people in many of the videos use an entire bottle of NyQuil or more, large amounts of the medication could be absorbed into the chicken while cooking, Kelly Johnson-Arbor, M.D., medical toxicologist and co-medical director with the National Capital Poison Center, says. Alcohol, which is an ingredient in liquid NyQuil, could also evaporate during the cooking process, making the medication more concentrated.
“The thought is that if you are boiling the medication that you could potentially boil away the water contents or the liquefying contents that helped to dilute the medication," Karla Robinson, a family physician in North Carolina, previously told VERIFY sister station WCNC.
Many formulations of NyQuil contain acetaminophen, dextromethorphan and doxylamine. If someone ingests too much of any of these ingredients, they could become very ill or die, according to Johnson-Arbor.
Acetaminophen is a pain reliever and fever reducer that is safe when taken in recommended doses, but too much of the drug can cause liver damage and even death.
Some early symptoms of acetaminophen overdose include cramping, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, stomach pain, sweating and vomiting. Worsening symptoms include an enlarged liver, pain in the upper right side of the abdomen and urinating less than normal.
Dextromethorphan, a cough suppressant, can cause heart palpitations, agitation and even hallucinations if a person takes too much of it. An overdose of the drug can also lead to a potentially life-threatening drug reaction called “serotonin syndrome,” which results from having too much of the chemical in the body.
Serotonin syndrome can cause diarrhea or nausea, or more severe symptoms such as a high fever or seizures. The drug reaction can be fatal if it’s not recognized and treated quickly.
Doxylamine is an antihistamine that can cause sleepiness, dizziness and a rapid heart rate in high doses. A decongestant that is used in cough and cold medications like NyQuil can also result in high blood pressure, headaches and heart attacks if a person takes too much of it, Johnson-Arbor says.
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But cooking chicken in NyQuil also poses health risks even if a person doesn’t eat it, the FDA warns.
“Inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drug to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs,” the FDA writes on its website. “Put simply: Someone could take a dangerously high amount of the cough and cold medicine without even realizing it.”
Robinson said people should always use medicine according to the instructions on its label or based on a doctor’s advice.
“There are guidelines as to how the medication is supposed to be used. The label is very clear on the dosing, administration routes, and how in fact we are to use the medication," Robinson said. "And any time you alter that, you run the risk of either being exposed to higher than expected levels of the medication or maybe even rendering the medication ineffective.”
Anyone who experiences adverse reactions after using cough and cold medicine can contact the Poison Control center online or via phone at 1-800-222-1222. Both options are free and available 24 hours a day.
Spencer Collins and Meghan Bragg with WCNC contributed to this report.
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SEATTLE — It's (finally almost) happening.
ESPN projections indicate the Seattle Mariners have a 99.2% chance of securing a playoff spot this year, which would snap the 21-year streak without postseason baseball. (Barring an incredible collapse that I hope will not happen because I typed this clarifying sentence.)
Yes, those much-maligned Mariners are at the doorstep of breaking the unenviable streak.
As it stands Wednesday, the Mariners would be the sixth seed in the playoffs. Seattle trails the Toronto Blue Jays by 2.5 games for the fourth seed and the Tampa Bay Rays by 0.5 games for the fifth seed. The Baltimore Orioles are five games behind the Mariners and would need a remarkable finish to the season to sneak into the playoffs.
Now the question remains, of course, is what wild card spot and opponent would be the best possible path for the Mariners' playoff run in 2022.
Each wild card spot has its share of pros and cons.
4th seed
Pros: Home-field advantage over the fifth seed in the playoffs.
Major League Baseball (MLB) added two more playoff teams in 2022, bringing the overall total to 12.
That wrinkle means the third and fourth seed in the wild-card round will have home-field advantage and, if necessary, they'd host all three playoff games in the series. The lower-seeded team, in this case the fifth seed, has to find a way to win two road games to advance to the divisional round.
The No. 4 seed would also guarantee Mariners fans get to see at least two home playoff games at T-Mobile Park this season. The other two spots don't offer the same guarantee.
Cons: A (theoretically) tougher matchup in the Divisional Round if they advance.
The winner of the No. 4 vs. No. 5 matchup will advance to play the Houston Astros (98-51), the No. 1 seed in the American League. The difference in the quality of the opponent may be negligible, however, depending on how you feel about the New York Yankees.
Houston has nine more wins than the Yankees this season and has allowed the second-fewest runs in baseball (474). The Astros have been remarkably consistent all season, unlike the Yankees that showed they can be mired in long slumps during the season.
5th seed
Pros: The satisfaction of winning more games than the last wild card team.
Hooray!
Cons: Literally everything else.
Let's keep this one short and sweet. The fifth seed is the worst spot for the Mariners to finish because A) they'd be on the road during the entire wild-card round and B) still have to go through the top-seeded Astros in the ensuing round.
6th seed
Pros: Facing the easiest AL playoff team in the wild-card round and setting up a divisional matchup against the Yankees, who have been susceptible to extended funks.
On the surface, you'd think the sixth and final playoff spot would be the least desirable position to be in.
Instead, by virtue of the MLB's new playoff rules, the No. 6 seed is actually quite a good place to be in. For one, you'd face the third-seeded Cleveland Guardians, who have the worst run differential (+39) among projected American League playoff teams. They currently have the worst record, too.
If they found a way to advance, the Mariners would tee up a matchup against the Yankees.
But it's worth noting that the Yankees have a higher run differential (+210) than the Astros (+208) and have the second-best offense in baseball (737 runs). Aside from a disastrous 4-14 record in early August, the Yankees have been on par with the Astros for most of the season.
Cons: Three potential road games in the wild card and a bruised ego because they wouldn't have made the postseason without the expanded format.
And that's about it. Everything else shapes up favorably for the sixth seed.
Current AL playoff picture as of Wednesday afternoon:
- Houston Astros (98-51)
- New York Yankees (89-58)
- Cleveland Guardians (81-67)
- Toronto Blue Jays (84-64)
- Tampa Bay Rays (82-66)
- Seattle Mariners (81-66)
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We are less than a month away from the start of the 2022-23 NBA season and with that, the Locked On Podcast Network is rolling out a unique NBA Top 50 players list for 2022-23 this week.
Locked On teamed up with bookmaker BetOnline to gauge and rank the top 50 NBA players based on how they affect the spread or betting line for their team, if they weren’t playing.
BetOnline took the 50 top players who most move those lines. So, they took the top 50 players who would move the lines, and ranked them out. We’ll roll them out throughout the week on the Locked On NBA podcast, as our local experts around the country chime in about a ranking for each player on the list that plays for the team they cover.
Checkout the first episode of the Locked On NBA Top 50 on the Locked On NBA podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts, or on Locked On NBA's YouTube channel for video!
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Locked On NBA Top 50 List: 50-41
50. Tyrese Haliburton, G, Indiana Pacers | Spread value: 1.5 points
2021-22 stats: 15.3 points, 8.2 assists, 4.0 rebounds per game
Locked On Pacers host Tony East: "Haliburton might be young and unproven, but he's on the path to being an All-Star pretty soon. He's the only player ever to average 15 points, eight assists and shoot 40% from three per game in one of his first two seasons. He'll be in the All-Star conversation soon as one of the most impactful offensive players in the NBA."
49. Scottie Barnes, F, Toronto Raptors | Spread value: 1.5 points
2021-22 stats: 15.3 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists per game
Locked On Raptors host Sean Woodley: "This is a fine ranking for a player going into just hit second NBA season. However, the reigning Rookie of the Year is actually ranked lower on this list than Cade Cunningham and Evan Mobley, who came in second and third in that Rookie of the Year race."
48. Marcus Smart, G, Boston Celtics | Spread value: 1.5 points
2021-22 stats: 12.1 points, 5.9 assists, 3.8 rebounds, 1.7 steals per game
Locked On Celtics host John Karalis: "At 48, I'm a little surprised to see Marcus Smart on this list, but I'm happy the reigning Defensive Player of the Year is getting recognized for his impact. Not only is he one of the NBA's best defenders, he's also a great point guard on offense. He's extraordinarily valuable to the Celtics."
47. Klay Thompson, G/F, Golden State Warriors | Spread value: 1.5 points
2021-22 stats: 20.4 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists per game
Locked On Warriors host Cyrus Saatsaz: "After missing two and a half years due to brutal injuries to his Achilles tendon and ACL, Klay Thompson made what is clearly a triumphant comeback last season...Expect the 32-year-old to shoot much better next year and play much better next year and find himself deserving of a much higher ranking than 47."
46. Fred VanVleet, G, Toronto Raptors | Spread value: 1.5 points
2021-22 stats: 20.3 points, 6.7 assists, 4.4 rebounds, 1.7 steals per game
Locked On Raptors host Sean Woodley: "VanVleet's 46th ranking on this list is probably not super representative of the player that VanVleet is at his peak. VanVleet in the first half of the year was one of the most valuable players in the NBA when it comes to on-the-court/off-the-court point differential. His season was derailed by injury in the second half and it might be why we find him here at 46."
45. Draymond Green, F, Golden State Warriors | Spread value: 1.5 points
2021-22 stats: 7.5 points, 7.3 rebounds, 7.0 assists, 1.3 steals, 1.1 blocks per game
Locked On Warriors host Cyrus Saatsaz: "Draymond Green should be ranked much higher. There are some players above him who should not be. Green is a 4-time world champion, former Defensive Player of the Year, and really a unique player between his incredible defense and his ability to play any position and guard any position."
44. Andrew Wiggins, F, Golden State Warriors | Spread value: 1.5 points
2021-22 stats: 17.2 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 46.6% FG%
Locked On Warriors host Cyrus Saatsaz: "Andrew Wiggins was a starter last year for the Western Conference All-Star team. Maybe it wasn't a monster season in averages, but he was incredible in the playoffs and was instrumental and helping the Warriors to a Finals win on both ends of the floor. Expect more great things from him in a contract season coming up."
43. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, G, Oklahoma City Thunder | Spread value: 2 points
2021-22 stats: 24.5 points, 5.9 assists, 5.0 rebounds per game
Locked On Thunder host Rylan Stiles: "Shai Gilgeous-Alexander should at least be in the top 40. He is clearly one of the most valuable players in the NBA. While he's not competing for an MVP, his value to the Thunder is insurmountable. This Thunder team goes as SGA does. The difference in having him on or off the floor is massive. He can drag this team to wins himself."
42. Jamal Murray, G, Denver Nuggets | Spread value: 2 points
2020-21 stats (out for 2021-22 season): 21.2 points, 4.8 assists, 4.0 rebounds, 1.3 steals per game
Locked On Nuggets host Matt Moore: "Jamal Murray's impact on winning is not reflected in the BetOnline NBA Top 50 list. Jamal Murray is ranked extremely low. He missed the last season because of a knee injury. He's below a handful of players he shouldn't be. Jamal Murray wins basketball games and big time basketball games. The Nuggets have won 62% of their games with Murray in the lineup since 2018-19."
41. Domantas Sabonis, F/C, Sacramento Kings | Spread value: 2 points
2021-22 stats: 18.9 points, 12.3 rebounds, 5.8 assists per game
Locked On Kings host Matt George: "When it comes to half court offense, it's going to run almost exclusively through Sabonis. He puts up numbers that are second only to Nikola Jokic as a big man in the NBA. As a facilitator, the Kings are going to lean on him constantly. If he's not out there, the Kings' half court offense suffers greatly."
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Editor's note: The segment of Locked On Sports Today discussed in this article is located in the final segment of the video in the player above
After Monday night’s doubleheader, just six NFL teams remain undefeated. That would be the Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Bucs, Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants.
To break down the 2-0 teams, and who should feel the best right now and discuss which teams are real contenders, Locked On NFL insider, former NFL player and Super Bowl champion Isaiah Stanback joined Peter Bukowski on the Locked On Sports Today podcast with Peter Bukowski.
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Who are the 2-0 teams Stanback is most excited about?
“The two teams I’m most excited about are the Buffalo Bills and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers," Stanback said. "The Buffalo Bills are looking like an unstoppable force. Josh Allen is just throwing this thing around, Leslie Frazier’s defense is playing lights out, they picked up exactly where they left off beside the fact that they picked up someone by the name of Von Miller, so this defense is even better than they were last year."
"Then you go to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers," Stanback continued. "Everyone’s talking about Tom Brady and his wife and issues he’s having off the field and he missed 11 days of camp. But at the end of the day, it’s TB12 and it doesn’t matter how good he’s playing at this moment. It doesn’t matter what he dealt with in the offseason and the injuries to that offense. As long as he is on the field, you have a chance. And as long as Todd Bowles’ defense is out there, they’re always in a position to win."
The Bills and Bucs are of course the Vegas favorites to go to the Super Bowl at this time. The Bills’ lead the NFL in point differential at +55, more than twice any other team.
But what about those surprise 2-0 teams like the Dolphins and the Giants? Is there a 2-0 team that Stanback isn’t buying just yet?
“The one that jumps out at me is of course the New York Giants," Stanback said. "There’s too many unknowns with that team. Not only do they have a new head coach, and they seem to be doing well with Brian Daboll so far, but they still have Daniel Jones at QB and as long as he’s their quarterback there’s always going to be question marks. I think you’re still holding your breath every time Saquon Barkley touches the ball. I’m still unsure about them, they obviously have a couple wins early. They’ll have a chance to go 3-0 against a Dak-less Dallas team but I’m not convinced yet.”
We’ll have at least one fewer unbeaten team come Sunday as the Bills face off with the Dolphins, who just defeated the Ravens in Baltimore 42-38 with 569 yards and six touchdowns from Tua Tagovailoa plus over 360 combined yards from receivers Jaylen Waddle and Tyreek Hill. Can Miami sustain this early success?
“We knew McDaniel was going to bring in a high-powered offense,' Stanback said. "They have all the weapons you could imagine offensively. They’re the fastest team hands down. Waddle and Tyreek Hill are running circles around guys…These guys are putting points up left and right. While they beat the Baltimore Ravens and Bill Belichick’s Patriots, I’m just not convinced yet. They’re not going to be able to duel things out every week and win like they did in Week 2 against the Ravens. I’m not sure they’re going to sustain that firepower. Is McDaniel going too far into his bag too early? Eventually Miami’s going to face some defense.”
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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Cross River Command, has warned politicians to shun all forms of hate speech, discrimination, racism and violence ahead of the 2023 general elections and campaigns.
The state Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr Samuel Fadeyi, said this on Wednesday in Calabar during the commemoration of the 2022 International Day of Peace.
“All campaigns should be issue-based, it shouldn’t be based on discrimination, racism or gender. People should shun hate speeches and embrace peace because we need unity to grow as a nation.
“As we go out for this peace walk today, we are creating the awareness that peace must continue to reign in the country,” he said.
The theme for the 2022 International Peace Day is “End Racism, Build Peace”.
In commemoration of the day, the Commandant led personnel of the State Command on a peace walk along major routes in the Calabar metropolis to create awareness of the benefits of peacebuilding for national growth.
He noted that as the campaign for the 2023 general election was set to commence on September 28, it was important for politicians to eschew all forms of hate speeches and promote unity.
According to him, the command had commenced sensitisation of the electorates on the need to promote peace and unity ahead of the polls, Tribune Online reports.
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Mr. James Iniama, an aspirant in the recent governorship primary in Akwa Ibom State in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), speaks on why the South failed in the bid to secure presidential ticket of the party for the 2023 election. UDEME UTIP brings some excerpts:
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A car show is being held in Ringgold this weekend to benefit a young girl in our area.
We first introduced you to Layla Shook in 2013.
She is 10-years old and was born with a disorder that causes malformations of the skull, face, hands and feet.
This weekend's proceeds from show will go to benefit Layla's Journey.
For more information, call Robbie Wilson at 706-639-6145 or click here.
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The height of the Fall allergy season typically occurs in mid-September and runs until this first frost of the season. Allergens such as ragweed are abundant his time of the year, leading to a high pollen count. Doctor Marc Cromie, President of the Chattanooga Allergy Clinic, believes that the fall time allergy season closely rivals the spring season.
"This time of year pollen is more microscopic. It's in the air, and you don't see it as much, and it's not as high as the spring, but the fall allergy season is our second biggest allergy season of the year," said Cromie.
As fall progresses, viruses such as the flu become more widespread. These viruses can have similar symptoms to extreme allergies but can be distinguished according to Dr. Cromie.
"Typically allergies are going to cause itchy, sneezy, and it's going to be clear drainage. It's not going to be pure or yellow or green. It's not going to cause a lot of pain, and it's not going to cause any significant fever," said Cromie.
If you are struggling with seasonal allergies, there are precautions that you can take. A simple solution is to limit time outdoors. Over-the-counter medications and nasal sprays can also help reduce allergy symptoms. If allergy symptoms continue after these precautions, it may be time to consider a round of allergy shots.
"That's when you need allergy shots or immunotherapy. Patients that do immunotherapy are doing an all-natural close to a cure. They are changing their immune system and keeping it from overreacting to everything. These are the patients that are not suffering this fall."
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday filed a civil fraud lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, three of his children and his business.
In more than 200 pages, the lawsuit alleges that the defendants were involved in an expansive fraud lasting over a decade that the former President used to enrich himself, and that the fraud touched all aspects of the Trump business, including its properties and golf courses.
Here's a breakdown of some of the notable properties mentioned in the lawsuit:
1. Mar-a-Lago
The New York attorney general's lawsuit alleges Trump's Mar-a-Lago property in Florida was valued "as high as $739 million based on the false premise that it was unrestricted property and could be developed and sold for residential use," and continues, "in reality, the club generated annual revenues of less than $25 million and should have been valued at closer to $75 million."
2. Trump Tower
James said that Trump inflated the square footage of his Trump Tower triplex apartment in order to misrepresent the value at over $300 million. "Mr. Trump represented that his apartments spanned more than 30,000 square feet, which was the basis for valuing the apartment. In reality, the apartment had an area of less than 11,000 square feet, something that Mr. Trump was well aware of," James said. "Based on that inflated square footage, the value of the apartment in 2015, in 2016, was $327 million. To this date, no apartment in New York City has ever sold for close to that amount."
3. Trump Park Avenue
Trump Park Avenue was appraised in 2010 to be worth approximately $72.5 million, according to the lawsuit. But Trump's company claimed in subsequent financial statements that the property was worth roughly $292 million, according to the lawsuit. The property near Central Park includes high-end residential units, commercial spaces and storage spaces.
4. Trump Old Post Office (Now: Waldorf Astoria Washington DC)
The lawsuit from James accuses former President Donald Trump of using allegedly doctored financial statements in his and Ivanka Trump's personal pursuit to open a luxury hotel in Washington, DC, in the years before he ran for the presidency. It became a hub for his supporters and close contacts, and bookings grew because of the connection to the sitting president.
5. Trump International Hotel and Tower — Las Vegas, Nevada
The Trump hotel in Las Vegas -- a hotel condominium of which Trump owns half -- had misleading financial statements between 2013 and 2021, the suit alleges, due to income projections based on the sale of residential units that assumed prices much higher that what units were selling for, among other reasons.
6. 40 Wall Street
James also highlighted what she says happened with 40 Wall Street, a property in New York City's financial district, which is referenced dozens of times in the lawsuit. Trump's company got appraisals for the property in 2010 and 2012, which found that it was worth $200 million and $220 million respectively, according to the lawsuit. But Trump's company repeatedly claimed that the property was worth a lot more in its official financial statements, according to the lawsuit.
7. Trump golf courses
The lawsuit argues the Trump Organization also used a variety of deceptive or inappropriate methods to inflate the value of Trump's golf courses. For example, the organization added 30% to the value of various golf courses to account for a Trump "brand premium," despite what the suit describes as rules against such practices. Trump claimed a club, Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter, purchased for $5 million in 2012 jumped to a worth of a $62 million in 2013.
8. Licensing deals
Many of the Trump Organization's ventures involve licensing deals, in which another party owns the property and pays Trump to use his brand. The lawsuit alleges that Trump's business inflated the value of its overall licensing business by including "speculative and non-existent deals" between 2015 and 2018. Some of those speculative deals involved potential overseas arrangements. The suit argues that including them in the valuations in 2016 and 2017 was misleading because the Trump Organization purportedly stopped seeking foreign deals after Trump took office. The licensing deals' value were further boosted by including deals between business entities owned by the Trump Organization, according to the suit. According to former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, "licensing was generally handled by Ivanka" and brothers Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were well aware of the actual revenue derived from licensing in general, according to the lawsuit.
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The New York state attorney general filed a sweeping lawsuit Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and the Trump Organization, alleging they were involved in an expansive fraud lasting over a decade that the former President used to enrich himself.
In the more than 200-page lawsuit, Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, alleges the fraud touched all aspects of the Trump business, including its properties and golf courses. According to the lawsuit, the Trump Organization deceived lenders, insurers and tax authorities by inflating the value of his properties using misleading appraisals.
"This conduct cannot be brushed aside and dismissed as some sort of good-faith mistake," James said at a news conference in New York.
"The statements of financial condition were greatly exaggerated, grossly inflated, objectively false, and therefore fraudulent and illegal," she added. "And as a result of that we are seeking relief, and Mr. Trump, the Trump Organization, his family -- they should all be held accountable."
Trump and his children, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump, are named as defendants in the lawsuit. Allen Weisselberg, former CFO for the Trump Organization, and Jeff McConney, another longtime company executive, are also named.
James said she believes state and criminal laws may have been violated and referred the matter to the US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York and the Internal Revenue Service.
The US attorney's office declined to comment.
"These acts of fraud and misrepresentation were similar in nature, were committed by upper management at the Trump Organization as part of a common endeavor for each annual Statement, and were approved at the highest levels of the Trump Organization -- including by Mr. Trump himself," the lawsuit states.
As part of the lawsuit, James is seeking $250 million in allegedly ill-gotten funds and to permanently bar Trump and the children named in the lawsuit from serving as the director of a business registered in New York state. She is also seeking to cancel the Trump Organization's corporate certificate, which, if granted by a judge, could effectively force the company to cease operations in New York state.
Trump previously called James a "renegade prosecutor" who he said is running a "vindictive and self-serving fishing expedition." The Trump Organization called her previously allegations "baseless" and denied any wrongdoing.
Responding to Wednesday's announcement, Trump attorney Alina Habba said in a statement to CNN: "Today's filing is neither focused on the facts nor the law -- rather, it is solely focused on advancing the Attorney General's political agenda. It is abundantly clear that the Attorney General's Office has exceeded its statutory authority by prying into transactions where absolutely no wrongdoing has taken place."
Weisselberg's attorney, Nicholas Gravante, declined to comment.
The civil lawsuit comes as Trump is under increasing legal pressure as prosecutors are taking investigative steps that move ever closer to his inner circle.
Trump is facing numerous criminal investigations from federal and state prosecutors involving the accuracy of his company's financial statements, interference in the 2020 presidential election, and his handling of classified documents after leaving office. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
AG alleges that Trump lied 200+ times about the value of his assets
James alleges that the former President and his company made "scores of fraudulent, false, and misleading representations" over a 10-year period, according to the lawsuit, which specifically highlighted what it called "200 false and misleading valuations" of Trump's assets.
"The financial statements in question were issued annually; each contained a significant number of fraudulent, false, and misleading representations about a great many of the Trump Organization's assets; and most played a role in particular transactions with financial institutions," the lawsuit alleges.
"The number of grossly inflated asset values is staggering," the suit adds.
According to James, Trump's businesses prepared statements of financial condition every year to submit to banks and other financial institutions. The statements showed the financial position of the Trump businesses, James said, and were relied upon if the Trump Organization wanted to apply for loans.
Each statement was personally certified as accurate by Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., or Weisselberg, James told reporters on Wednesday.
Trump "made known" that "he wanted his net worth reflected on those statements to increase," James said, "a desire Mr. Weisselberg and others carried out year after year in their fraudulent preparation of those statements."
As an example of allegations Trump inflated valuations to increase his own profits. James highlighted what she says happened with 40 Wall Street, a property known as The Trump Building in New York City's financial district, which is referenced dozens of times in the lawsuit.
Trump's company obtained appraisals for the property in 2010 and 2012, which found that it was worth $200 million and $220 million respectively, according to the lawsuit. But Trump's company repeatedly claimed that the property was worth a lot more in its official financial statements, according to the lawsuit.
In 2011, Trump's company said the property was worth $524 million. He said it was worth $527 million in 2012, and $530 million in 2013, according to the lawsuit, which argued that there was not a valid basis for these inflated valuations, and that Trump falsely claimed these numbers came from "professionals."
During Wednesday's news conference James also said that Trump inflated the square footage of his Trump Tower triplex apartment in order to misrepresent the value at over $300 million.
"Mr. Trump represented that his apartments spanned more than 30,000 square feet, which was the basis for valuing the apartment. In reality, the apartment had an area of less than 11,000 square feet, something that Mr. Trump was well aware of," James said.
She added: "Based on that inflated square footage, the value of the apartment in 2015, in 2016, was $327 million. To this date, no apartment in New York City has ever sold for close to that amount."
Three-year investigation
The announcement is the latest development in what has been a three-year investigation led by James into the Trump Organization's finances.
In January, James' office said it found "significant" evidence indicating the Trump Organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain loans, insurance and tax benefits. The following month, Trump's long-time accounting firm resigned.
James' launched her investigation in 2019 after Trump's former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen testified before Congress alleging that Trump inflated the value of certain assets to obtain loans and insurance and undervalued others to gain tax benefits.
Cohen told CNN's Victor Blackwell on "Newsroom" Wednesday that the allegations in James' lawsuit represent a "complete destruction" to Trump's image as a wealthy self-made businessman.
"It's like a nuclear bomb exploded. The man has a fragile ego, which we all know. His entire life is predicated on his net worth and him portraying himself as this wonderful businessman, this massive success, this incredibly wealthy guy. And what do we know? We know that it's not true," he said.
In addition to the new fraud lawsuit, the Trump Organization is going on trial next month on charges it was engaged in a 15-year tax fraud scheme and its long-time chief financial officer has agreed to testify against the company.
Weisselberg, who served as chief financial officer at the Trump Organization for decades, pleaded guilty in August to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal, he had agreed to testify against Trump's real estate company at trial.
In recent weeks, the Trump Organization had offered to settle to ward off the lawsuit even as they denied any wrongdoing, but James' office made it clear it wasn't interested in a deal, people familiar with the matter said.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been conducting a criminal investigation into the Trump Organization but has yet to bring any charges and former prosecutors have cast doubt that that would ever happen.
The burden of proof in civil investigations is lower than for criminal investigations, however, something that benefits James' office. To bring a criminal case, prosecutors would need evidence of Trump's state of mind and whether he intended to mislead or defraud anyone when he made statements embellishing the value of his properties.
Bragg's office interviewed bankers, Trump Organization employees and Trump's longtime accountant but it does not have a key insider cooperating with the investigation. One of the issues that gave Bragg pause from moving forward earlier this year was the lack of an insider who could tie Trump to the valuations, CNN has reported.
AG: Trump's oldest children 'knowingly participated'
Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. "knowingly participated" in the alleged fraudulent schemes, the lawsuit states.
The alleged scheme "required the participation of Mr. Trump and his children," the lawsuit said, adding that the children were "aware of the true financial performance of the company."
The lawsuit, for instance, alleges that Eric Trump was involved in an approach to appraising properties in Las Vegas in a way that lowered their value for tax purposes while inflating their value on Trump financial statements.
It also quotes testimony from Trump Jr. as it describes how the value of Trump Park Avenue was allegedly inflated on Trump financial statements. An appraisal of the property by an outside firm in 2010 for a loan took into account how some of the units were rent-stabilized, lowering their value, according to James' complaint. Yet, Trump financial statements put a value on the units roughly six times higher than what the appraiser had concluded, the lawsuit said.
And the lawsuit pointed to Ivanka Trump's involvement in securing a loan for purchasing the Doral golf course in Florida and Chicago properties in 2012 -- loans that James claims were extended in part because of financial statements allegedly containing misrepresentations.
"On each of those transactions with Deutsche Bank, Ms. Trump was aware that the transactions included a personal guaranty from Mr. Trump that required him to provide annual Statements of Financial Condition and certifications," the lawsuit says.
Family was deposed by AG's office
In April, after a protracted legal fight to enforce subpoenas for Trump and his adult children's depositions, lawyers with James' office saying they were nearing the end of the investigation and needed the Trumps' testimony before making a decision.
Last month, Trump did not answer questions and asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when deposed by the attorney general's office. Eric Trump, who runs the business on a daily basis, also invoked his Fifth Amendment right in 2020 in response to more than 500 questions.
Since Trump and Eric Trump declined to answer questions, if the case goes to trial, the jury can draw an "adverse inference" against them for not answering questions. That could result in a higher judgment against them or the company if they're found liable.
Ivanka Trump and Trump Jr. both answered questions during interviews that spanned more than seven hours, sources told CNN.
James noted that Trump and Weisselberg invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege during her news conference.
"When asked under oath if he, Mr. Trump, continued to review and approve the statements after becoming president of the United States in 2017, Mr. Trump again invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege and refused to answer," James said Wednesday.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — “I absolutely do believe that this is beneficial for other businesses who are looking to get started,” says Brian Wyatt Jr.
The Bank On coalition is a national effort to ensure all consumers and small businesses have access to affordable banking. From there bank on helps individuals work towards financial capabilities such as building credit or small business loans with the help of their partners such as the City of Tallahassee, the county, and financial institutions.
President of Chambers of Commerce Katrina Tuggerson spearheaded bringing this national program to the Capitol City after seeing the benefits it brought to other areas. She quickly realized she would need some partners and brought in Mesha Ware Director of Financial Empowerment for the Capital City Chamber.
“It means a lot to me to know that we are helping anyone who might not feel comfortable in banking in a financial institution, in whatever their financial goals are, to be able to reach those,” says Mesha Ware.
Ware is hopeful that Bank On will lead to productivity and more new businesses.
"Not only a coalition of conversation but a coalition of action. We know that in order for businesses, financial institution, small businesses, entrepreneurs whatever that may be, to survive they need their community,” says Mesha Ware.
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The Peace Corps had an unprecedented global evacuation in March 2020. Now, people all over the U.S. are preparing to head back out across the world. At the end of September, Moira and Joshua Eafanti will travel to Paraguay.
For three months, they'll train to learn the local languages and some technical skills. Then they'll spend two years as agricultural volunteers working on sustainable farming practices.
"Peace Corps is one of the few jobs where you can wake up every day, and your entire working time is devoted to trying to be of help in any way to anyone," Joshua Eafanti said.
Since the start of the pandemic, they're some of the first volunteers to go abroad with the Peace Corps. Peace Corps Public Affairs Specialist Diana Callaway says they had to evacuate 7,000 volunteers from more than 60 countries.
"And we did it in about eight days," Callaway said.
It was a very sudden disruption, but Callaway says they were able to continue the program's mission of promoting peace and friendship in other ways.
"Domestic employment involved a partnership with FEMA, and we were helping with vaccination efforts," Callaway said. "But we also started virtual service projects where returned Peace Corps volunteers could work with our country partners and continue offering advice and creating projects just virtually through meetings and such."
Now, 48 countries are ready again to take in volunteers like the Eafantis.
"The positive side of the pandemic is when they had to pull everyone back is they got to really sit down and rethink kind of how they really want it to serve in the future," Joshua Eafanti said. "We will be agriculture volunteers, but also potentially also helping out with COVID efforts and COVID recovery as well. So it's kind of an exciting time to be back to be a part of kind of this new phase of the Peace Corps and to be a part of that first wave back to really reestablish ourselves in the community again."
Whether you're interested in agriculture, education, health, or economic development, there's a place for anyone who feels passionate about serving in the Peace Corps.
"A lot of people who have served pretty much say it's like a once-in-a-lifetime experience," Moira Eafanti said. "So I think, yeah, people should go for it."
Anyone who wants to apply to become a Peace Corps volunteer can visit peacecorps.gov/apply. The deadline to serve in early 2023 is Oct. 1.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians experienced a near-total internet blackout on Wednesday amid days of mass protests against the government over the death of a woman held by the country's morality police for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code.
An Iranian official had earlier hinted that such measures might be taken out of security concerns. The loss of connectivity will make it more difficult for people to organize protests and share information about the government's rolling crackdown on dissent.
Iran has seen nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained for allegedly wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf too loosely. Demonstrators have clashed with police and called for the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself, even as Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
The protests continued for a fifth day on Wednesday, including in the capital, Tehran. Police there fired tear gas at protesters who chanted “death to the dictator” and “I will kill the one who killed my sister," according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
London-based rights group Amnesty International said security forces had used batons, birdshot, tear gas, and water cannons to disperse protesters. It reported eight deaths linked to the unrest, including four people killed by security forces. It said hundreds more had been wounded.
Iranian officials have reported three deaths, blaming them on unnamed armed groups.
Witnesses in Iran, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said late Wednesday they could no longer access the internet using mobile devices.
“We’re seeing internet service, including mobile data, being blocked in Iran in the past couple of hours,” Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, Inc., a network intelligence company, said late Wednesday.
“This is likely an action by the government given the current situation in the country," he said. “I can confirm a near total collapse of internet connectivity for mobile providers in Iran.”
NetBlocks, a London-based group that monitors internet access, had earlier reported widespread disruptions to both Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook parent company Meta, which owns both platforms, said it was aware that Iranians were being denied access to internet services. “We hope their right to be online will be reinstated quickly,” it said in a statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, Iran's Telecommunications Minister Isa Zarepour was quoted by state media as saying that certain restrictions might be imposed “due to security issues," without elaborating.
Iran already blocks Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube, even though top Iranian officials use public accounts on such platforms. Many Iranians get around the bans using virtual private networks, known as VPNs and proxies.
In a separate development, several official websites, including those for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the presidency and the Central Bank, were taken down at least briefly as hackers claimed to have launched a cyberattack on state agencies.
Hackers linked to the shadowy Anonymous movement said they targeted other Iranian state agencies, including state TV.
Central Bank spokesman Mostafa Qamarivafa denied that the bank itself was hacked, saying only that the website was “inaccessible” because of an attack on a server that hosts it, in remarks carried by the official IRNA news agency. The website was later restored.
Iran has been the target of several cyberattacks in recent years, many by hackers expressing criticism of its theocracy. Last year, a cyberattack crippled gas stations across the country, creating long lines of angry motorists unable to get subsidized fuel for days. Messages accompanying the attack appeared to refer to the supreme leader.
Amini's death has sparked protests across the country. The police say she died of a heart attack and was not mistreated, but her family has cast doubt on that account, saying she had no previous heart issues and that they were prevented from seeing her body.
In a phone interview with BBC Persian on Wednesday, her father, Amjad Amini, accused authorities of lying about her death. Each time he was asked how he thought she died, the line was mysteriously cut.
The U.N. human rights office says the morality police have stepped up operations in recent months and resorted to more violent methods, including slapping women, beating them with batons, and shoving them into police vehicles.
President Joe Biden, who also spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, voiced support for the protesters, saying, "we stand with the brave citizens and the brave women of Iran, who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights.”
The U.K. also released a statement Wednesday calling for an investigation into Amini's death and for Iran to “respect the right to peaceful assembly.”
Raisi has called for an investigation into Amini’s death. Iranian officials have blamed the protests on unnamed foreign countries that they say are trying to foment unrest.
Iran has recently grappled with waves of protests, mainly over a long-running economic crisis exacerbated by Western sanctions linked to its nuclear program.
The Biden administration and European allies have been working to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, in which Iran curbed its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Still, the talks have been deadlocked for months.
In his speech at the U.N., Raisi said Iran is committed to reviving the nuclear agreement but questioned whether it could trust America’s commitment to any accord.
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. It began ramping up its nuclear activities after President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 agreement unilaterally.
Experts say it now likely has enough highly-enriched uranium to make a bomb if it chooses to do so.
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You don’t have to be in a perceived position of power or wealth to change the world for the better, according to Maria Shriver, who kicked off the Yakima Town Hall Series’ 50th season on Wednesday.
As First Lady of California "people would come up to me and say ‘you should do something about this,’ and I would ask them, ‘What are you doing about it?’”
“Each person in this room has the power to change a person’s life,” she told the Capitol Theater audience.
And they can also be role models for cooperation in a time of political polarization, she said in the conversational style presentation moderated by Sueann Ramella, programming director for Northwest Public Broadcasting.
The daughter of Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, her interest in journalism was piqued as she traveled with her father’s vice-presidential campaign in 1972, spending time with the traveling press corps, whom she said were more fun than the politicians in the front of the plane.
She realized that through journalism she could make a difference in the world, which was in keeping with her family’s tradition of service and duty. Her father was the founding director of the Peace Corps, and her mother founded the Special Olympics.
“I could make a difference with the stories that I choose to tell and the people I choose to interview,” Shriver said. “(I had) extraordinary opportunities to meet people I wouldn’t have met if I had stayed in my family’s path."
She applied her journalistic talents to the subject of Alzheimer’s disease when her father — whom she described as one of the smartest people she knew — was afflicted with it. She wanted to find out what caused the disease.
Shriver wrote a children’s book on the subject, and while she was pursuing her work on Alzheimer’s, she found that more women than men had the disease, which was born out by research that found two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients were women.
As a result, Shriver found the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement, which does research into the disease and provides information for prevention, treatment and how to live with it.
She said one thing she learned when her father developed the disease was to accept him in his current condition. During one visit he talked about the beautiful sound of a fountain, which Shriver said was actually traffic passing by. She finally accepted his interpretation of the sound rather than trying to correct him.
At a news conference before her presentation, Shriver said that while the political climate is highly polarized, there is actually more cooperation between people going on at local levels. It’s a matter of looking for that cooperation and exemplifying it rather than the loud, contentious voices in politics.
“There is a lot more cooperation going on in Yakima than is exemplified in Washington,” Shriver said. “The vast majority of people get along on vast fundamental issues. We focus on those who don’t get along.”
Shriver recalled how her father would bring people from various political parties, faiths and ethnicities together in his home. Shriver, a Democrat, was also the wife of a Republican California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and her children saw that while they had fiery disagreements on politics, it was respectful.
Shriver noted that she is the third member of her family to visit Yakima, and the second to speak in the Town Hall Series. Her cousin, Caroline Kennedy, spoke in 2018, while her uncle, John F. Kennedy, spoke at a Democratic dinner in Yakima in 1959 when he was a U.S. senator.
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The Kent City football team is 4-0 for the fourth time in the last six seasons.
The big difference this season is that Bill Crane is no longer the head coach, he is now the school's superintendent.
Zach Gropp was promoted from defensive coordinator and so far, so good.
"I think it helps that Gropp has been on our staff since I have been in seventh grade so he knows us," Eagles senior center and defensive tackle Will Harrison said. "He knows how we play so it helps to click with us."
One thing that has helped the transition is 17 seniors led by four year varsity players Kyler Larson and Mason Westbrook.
"There is a lot of us," Larson, the team's quarterback, said. "We all have a key role in the program and we all play together because we've all played together for awhile now."
Another advantage this season, according to the players, is their conditioning, something they have worked hard on.
"We like to play with enthusiasm, aggression, grit, love and elevation," Kent City senior guard and linebacker Jim Anderson said. "We like to start games fast and not let off the gas at all."
"Just being able to overcome some adversity, we got down pretty early against Central Montcalm and we battled back and was able to win that game," Gropp said about his team. "It just shows the heart and the fight our kids have."
The Eagles travel to play Lakeview (1-0, 2-2) on Friday night, a win would secure no worse than a share of a league title for the fifth time in the last seven years.
For more scores, highlights, and the latest news on high school sports in West Michigan, go to the FOX 17 Blitz page.
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Three injured after RTD train derails in Aurora
Three people were hospitalized Wednesday after an RTD light rail train in Aurora derailed at the intersection of Exposition Avenue and Sable Boulevard, officials said.
Driving the news: The Aurora Fire Rescue team responded late Wednesday afternoon as three people sustained non-life threatening injuries. Those passengers were taken to local hospitals, the agency said in a tweet.
- Aurora police separately tweeted that the intersection would be closed for "an extended time."
What to watch: Christina Zazueta, a spokesperson for RTD, told Axios Denver over email that Aurora police remained on the scene, and the crash would require an investigation to understand the cause, "which is unknown at this point."
Flashback: The intersection was the site of a derailment in January 2019, according to the Denver Post.
- That incident left one woman with a severed leg.
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Best gifts for classical music lovers
Looking for a music-themed gift for someone who loves classical music? We've got you covered with these gift ideas
Here is a range of music gift ideas for the music fanatic in your life, whether it friend, sibling, parent or partner.
From music-inspired bookends to a toy accordion for your budding maestro we have it covered
7 gifts for music-lovers, young and old
Fiona Maddocks's Music for Life – 100 works to carry you through
Whether you are a contemporary music enthusiast, or prefer core repertoire, Fiona Maddocks's book tells you everything you need to know about what fires you up when listening.
Choosing a hundred pieces of music - all appropriate for different stages and moments in a person's life - Maddocks explores what it is about each of them that inspires, delights or consoles. With facts, images, and quotes on each piece, it's a fascinating reflection on the power of music, and a great read for classical music novices and die-hard enthusiasts alike.
2000 piece orchestra puzzle
This 2000-piece triangular puzzle will provide hours, possibly days, maybe even weeks, of fun for both instrumentalists and non instrumentalists alike thanks to its size and the intricacy of its design. The image - courtesy of the popular twentieth century French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Loup - is charming and once the puzzle's finished, it should look very striking in a frame. Word of warning: you do need a large table to lay the whole thing out on.
Musical bookends
These novelty vintage-look shelf tidies are an attractive addition to anybody's library, and, since they're made from a resin (weighing around 1.7kg in total), are strong and sturdy enough to hold up anything from books to vinyl records. With a hand-painted finish, they are also full of beautiful details; pianists can even have a go at reading the notes on the miniature music stand! A lovely, unusual present for both musicians and non-musicians.
Empire junior 6-in-1 bluetooth turntable music centre
With its handsome, dark wood design, this turntable music centre has oodles of vintage appeal. Yet it features a 3-speed turntable (33 1/3, 45, 78 RPM), Bluetooth connectivity to stream your favourite music, an FM Radio, CD and cassette player - with a refreshingly user-friendly design.
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You can even connect it to your laptop to transfer vinyl to digital formats. Plus it's compact, portable, relatively affordable. And, by most accounts, the sound is great.
Colourful music stand
If the music is colourful, there's no reason why your music stand shouldn't be. If you want to add some extra va va voom to your concert, orchestra rehearsal or solo practice session (and who doesn't?), this stand-out music stand is a good way to start.
Toy accordion
A bright and fun starter accordion to help children begin exploring melody and rhythm. With seven keys and three bass buttons, it's easy to play, and makes a surprisingly big sound for a fairly small instrument. Plus it's durable enough to withstand many crashes.
The Musical Theatre card game
'Designed in London by theatre nerds, for theatre nerds' (as its creator Stage Insider puts it), this game puts Broadway fans through their paces, testing their knowledge of 52 musicals from classics like Les Misérables and My Fair Lady (some of the best stage musicals ever) to modern hits such as Six and Hamilton.
Luckily, though, you can choose whether you want intense one-on-one battles, or a more laid-back test of group knowledge. After a full Christmas dinner, I know which one I'd go for. Suitable for ages 4 +.
Authors
Hannah Nepilova is a regular contributor to BBC Music Magazine. She has also written for The Financial Times, The Times, The Strad, Gramophone, Opera Now, Opera, the BBC Proms and the Philharmonia, and runs The Cusp, an online magazine exploring the boundaries between art forms. Born to Czech parents, she has a strong interest in Czech music and culture.
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Welsh songs: 7 traditional Welsh folk songs you can't help singing along to
Our guide to some of the best folk and traditional songs to come out of Wales, a land famed for its rich musical heritage
Wales is rightly proud of its singing heritage. Song, both religious and secular, is hugely important to the Welsh culture – not for nothing is it often known as the Land of Song. In particular, choral music is an essential part of the country’s musical repertoire, with many Welsh choirs famed around the world.
Here are some of the best-known and best-loved traditional Welsh songs.
Best Welsh songs
'We’ll Keep a Welcome (in the Hillsides)'
The music for this popular song was composed in 1940 by Welsh songwriter and entertainer Mai Jones, while the words came from lyricists Lyn Joshua and Jimmy Harper. Originally introduced for the wartime BBC radio variety show Welsh Rarebit, the song has retained strong associations with Wales.
Originally broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme, Welsh Rarebit was aimed at Welsh people serving in the armed forces during World War II. We'll Keep a Welcome was written as the closing music for each episode.
Welsh Rarebit was later transferred to the BBC Light Programme, where it became the most popular show in 1949. We'll Keep a Welcome rapidly became a popular postwar song: indeed, by the 1950s, the song was sometimes referred to as "Wales' second national anthem".
The song got its first and second recordings during 1949. Later, in 1956, the great Welsh singer, present and comedian Harry Secombe also recorded a version.
'Sosban Fach' ('Little Saucepan')
A traditional Welsh folk song, Sosban Fach (or ‘Little Saucepan’) is a well-known and much-loved Welsh language song. A domestic vignette involving an overstretched housewife, a crying baby and a little pan boiling over the fire, the song has close associations with the rugby union club Llanelli RFC and, more recently, the Scarlets regional rugby side.
Those links came about through Llanelli's tin plating industry: generations of saucepans and other kitchen utensils were tin-plated in the town and then sold on to the British public. The town's industry, and its most famous song, are also remembered in the Scarlets' official magazine, Sosban.
Renowned Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel recorded the song on his 2000 album We'll Keep a Welcome.
'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau' ('Land of my Fathers')
Often referred to as Wales' unofficial national anthem, this rousing 'Land of my Fathers' has a strong family connection. The words were written by the Pontypridd-based poet Evan James and set to a tune composed by his son, the composer and harpist James James.
The latter, who also found the time to run a public house, composed the piece originally as a dance tune. It was originally intended to be performed in 6/8 time, but was slowed down to a 3/4 tempo when it caught on as an anthem for singing by large crowds.
We named 'Land of my fathersw' of the best rugby songs ever
'Ar Lan y Môr' ('Beside the Sea')
This traditional Welsh folk song exists in a few different forms, with various different lyrics. Across all variants, however, the tune remains the same. So does the subject matter: 'Ar Lan y Môr' is a love song, which also evokes the beautiful Welsh countryside.
This is another traditional Welsh song to feature on Bryn Terfel's album We'll Keep a Welcome: it's also present on the debut album by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, 2004's Première.
'Men of Harlech'
This famous song and military march is believed to be a description of the seven-year siege of Harlech Castle during the Wars of the Roses. The massive 13th-century castle was being held by the Lancastrians against the Yorkists and, under Constable Dafydd ap Ieuan, the garrison withstood the longest known siege in British history. Indeed, an alternative name for the song is 'Through Seven Years'.
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There may also be connections with an earlier siege of Harlech when, in around 1408, Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr resisted an attack by the future King Henry V of England.
'Men of Harlech' has featured in two well-known films: the 1941 movie How Green Was My Valley and Zulu, from 1964.
'Dafydd y Garreg Wen' ('David of the White Rock')
David Owen (1712-41), a harpist and composer from Caernarfonshire, is thought to have composed the tune to this haunting traditional Welsh song. Owen was known locally as Dafydd y Garreg Wen ('David of the White Rock'), after the name of the farm where he lived.
It is believed that Owen, on his death bed at the age of just 29, called for his harp and composed the tune. The words were added a century later by the poet John Ceiriog Hughes (1832-87).
'Dafydd y Garreg Wen' is another Welsh song with a unique distinction in history. When, in 1923, the BBC made its first broadcast from Wales, singer Mostyn Thomas opened the programme - with a rendition of 'David of the White Rock'. The song thus became the very first Welsh-language song to play on the airwaves.
Performances of the song are often accompanied by a harp - an important instrument in Wales' musical heritage.
'My little Welsh Home'
‘I am dreaming of the mountains of my home’: so begin the lyrics to this nostalgic folk song by musician and composer William Sidney Gwynn Williams (1896-1978). Williams also played a major role in the foundation of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in 1947: indeed, he became the festival's first musical director.
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Borodin Quartet welcomes new member
The legendary Russian string quartet has announced the replacement for former first violinist Ruben Aharonian
The legendary Borodin Quartet has announced the appointment of a new first violinist.
Nikolai Sachenko will step into the shoes of Ruben Aharonian, the Borodins' previous first violinist, who retired recently.
Founded in 1945, the Borodin Quartet is perhaps best known for its long and close association with Shostakovich, who consulted the quartet members on the composition of many of his string quartets. The Borodin Quartet has recorded the complete Shostakovich quartets no fewer than three times.
The Borodins were also closely associated, for many years, with the great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, with whom they made many noted recordings - including a legendary version of Shostakovich's Piano Quintet.
The Quartet has had a traditional affinity with Russian music, performing and recording the string quartets of Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and, of course, Borodin. They also performed at Prokofiev's funeral in 1953.
The Borodins have a series of European dates during the autumn and winter of 2022/23. Highlights include performances at the BOZAR in Brussels, Berlin Konzerthaus, Liszt Academy in Budapest, Liverpool Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall in London, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Philharmonie de Paris.
Winner of the violin gold medal of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998, Nikolai Sachenko has performed with many acclaimed conductors. He is currently concertmaster of the State Symphony Orchestra ’Novaya Rossiya’ under Yuri Bashmet, and has performed in ensembles alongside performers including Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Lynn Harrell and others.
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'The uncompromising pursuit of excellence in musical interpretations has been an unchanging tradition of the Borodin Quartet throughout its glorious long history,' Sachenko comments. 'I am happy to join my friends and colleagues of the Quartet and, together in our shared passion for the quartet world, I hope to continue this remarkable tradition of musical eminence.'
Picture: Nikita Sharpan
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- Barbara Hannigan continues as Gothenburg Symphony’s principal guest conductor
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London Phil seeks conductors from under-represented backgrounds
The London Philharmonic Orchestra's new Fellowship scheme aims to improve diversity in classical music
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) has opened applications for its new Conducting Fellowship, which aims to promote diversity in the classical music industry.
Specifically, the scheme will develop two outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds that are currently under-represented in the profession.
Applicants for the scheme will be required to self-identify their eligibility. This may include gender identity, race, socio-economic background, neurodiversity, disability and special educational needs.
'This is a groundbreaking programme offering immediate training and conducting opportunities to emerging artists who might have been excluded from regular orchestral practices,' explains Elena Dubinets, the LPO's artistic director.
'I am thrilled that we at the LPO are taking the work of improving diversity and inclusion in our profession seriously,' says Edward Gardner, the orchestra's principal conductor. 'It is vital as, fundamentally, music is for everyone.
'I am honoured to be involved in guiding the two successful candidates as I am passionate about developing the next generation of talented conductors. I can’t wait to work with the two Fellows over the 23/24 season and make music together.'
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The two successful applicants will be Fellows for the 2023/24 season and will receive professional guidance from Gardner. They will also work intensively with the LPO over a period of six to eight weeks.
The LPO Conducting Fellowship will include:
- Opportunities to conduct the orchestra in various settings including LPO residencies, educational programmes, and ensembles of its rising talent programmes
- Assisting opportunities and mentorship sessions with Edward Gardner
- Full immersion into the life of the orchestra, with the aim of forming the basis of a longer-term professional relationship.
Fees will be paid at the LPO prevailing rates for early career conductors and, if required, accommodation will be provided for the duration of the scheme. Applicants must be able to demonstrate extensive background and training in orchestral conducting, as well as a proven ability in developing and conducting programmes.
Conductors based in the UK will be prioritised.
Applications are open now, and will close at 9am on Friday 21 October 2022. Auditions will then take place in London on Thursday 26 January 2023.
You can find more information, including a link to the application form, on the LPO website.
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- Budding composers given opportunity to have works performed alongside a premiere by Mark-Anthony Turnage
- Krystian Zimerman among recipients of Praemium Imperiale 2022
- Ray Chen acquires historic Stradivari violin
- Rotterdam Philharmonic names Tarmo Peltokoski as its next guest conductor
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Royal Philharmonic Society honorary membership for Thea Musgrave
The composer's outstanding services to music have been recognised
The composer Thea Musgrave CBE has been made an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her outstanding services to music.
The composer was presented with her RPS honorary membership at her home in New York. The occasion was filmed, and you can find the footage on YouTube:
The RPS first introduced its honorary membership in 1826, seeking to recognise 'those who devote their lives to music and uplifting others with it'. The first recipient was the composer Carl Maria von Weber.
The roster of subsequent honorary members includes composers such as Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Verdi, Dvorák and Clara Schumann, as well as performers (Yehudi Menuhin, Janet Baker, Evelyn Glennie) and conductors (Pierre Boulez, Marin Alsop).
At the presentation, the following citation was read by Vanessa Reed, on behalf of the RPS Board and Council:
‘Born in 1928, and still hard at work writing music 94 years later, Thea is a musical icon. Over a remarkable international career, Thea has created a body of work bursting with energy, ready to leap off the page and seize our imagination.
'Her music abounds with such style and sophistication, constantly asking fresh and daring questions of musical forms and traditions. She lures us in by suffusing her music with so much of the world we know, drawing in particular on paintings, poems, myths and her Scottish heritage as the starting point for so many of her musical voyages.'
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Born in Scotland, Thea Musgrave studied at the University of Edinburgh and the Paris Conservatoire under Nadia Boulanger. She later studied under Aaron Copland at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Music Center.
Over seven decades of composing, Musgrave has produced works for various BBC choirs and orchestras, as well as for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and others.
Notable works include her Concerto for Orchestra (1967), Space Play (1974), the opera Mary, Queen of Scots (1977), and Songs for a Winter’s Evening (1995).
Oboists, in particular, have Musgrave to thank for a wide range of new work. Her long friendship with the oboist Nicholas Daniel has resulted in a large body of modern works for that instrument.
Thea Musgrave has also received several fellowships, awards and honours, including IVORs Award, a CBE (2002) and the Queen’s Medal for Music.
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The 49ers have to be thrilled with the play from safety Talanoa Hufanga to start the season. Through two games, Hufanga leads all safeties in run stops, has allowed a 33% completion percentage, and has two pass breakups and an incompletion.
Whether PFF grades or Sports Info Solutions, Hufanga is near the top of every category. Hufanga’s three tackles for loss and 2.7 average depth of tackle might be his most impressive stat. One thing the second-year safety out of USC must clean up is his missed tackles. He missed one in the backfield this past Sunday, bringing his total to three on the season.
The best defenses in the NFL have an excellent safety duo. The 49ers were at their best during the past couple of seasons when Jaquiski Tartt and Jimmie Ward were on the field and limiting the big play. There have been a couple of coverage busts in two games from the secondary, so that’s something to keep an eye on. Still, it’s difficult to place the blame on Hufanga.
During today’s episode, we spoke about one thing we like and disliked on both sides of the ball. Hufanga was an easy choice defensively. Of offense, the idea to kick a field goal from the two-yard line after dominating defensively all game was disappointing.
Perhaps, Kyle Shanahan was caught up in the moment and made an emotional decision to kick after Jake Brendel’s butt fumble on third down. Watch the play below. It’s an easy touchdown if Brendel gets the ball to Jimmy Garoppolo (11:59):
Instead, a field goal. Going for it on 4th & 2 when you have the 49ers defensive line, skill positions, and an offensive line that impressed shouldn’t be cromulent. That aggressive mentality is often rewarded by the football gods.
You can listen to the episode in its entirety below:
Other topics include:
Why there was zero empathy for Trey Lance after he got hurt (:37)
The defense has been overshadowed by all of the QB talk (7:42)
Akash says the 49ers will still win the division (9:12)
Why this is a perfect time to play the Broncos (24:19)
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The 49ers officially placed QB Trey Lance on the injured reserve list Wednesday afternoon. Running back Marlon Mack was promoted to the active roster from the practice squad as the corresponding move.
As reported yesterday, the team announced the signing of QB Kurt Benkert to the practice squad. In addition, San Francisco added a “new” running back in Tevin Coleman. To make room for Coleman, the 49ers released cornerback Kary Vincent Jr. from its practice squad.
Coleman spent time with Kyle Shanahan in both Atlanta and a previous stint with the Niners. Coleman followed Robert Saleh and Mike LaFleur to New York in 2021 where he appeared in 11 games and started five of those with the Jets.
Benkert spent the first four seasons with the Falcons, before landing with the Packers last season. Benkert appeared in one game, but he’s largely been on the practice squad during his stint in the NFL.
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49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke to the media ahead of Wednesday’s practice to provide injury updates. Defensive tackle Arik Armstead will miss practice with a foot injury, but Shanahan believes Armstead will be alright for Sunday night’s game against the Broncos.
And speaking of Denver, Shanahan said he would’ve hired their new coach Nathaniel Hackett if then offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur had gone to Green Bay to join his brother’s staff.
George Kittle will be a limited participant in practice Wednesday, which is an encouraging sign for his availability Sunday. Daniel Brunskill will miss practice once again with a hamstring injury. Trent Williams gets his weekly veteran’s day off.
Aaron Banks got a shoutout: “I’ve been real happy with him in these first two weeks. I think he took a step up in Week 1 from the preseason. And I thought he took an even greater step in Week 2.” Shanahan said Banks had one of the best games of any 49er on offense.
Warriors head coach Steve Kerr watched the 49ers walkthrough. Shanahan said he asked to stop by, but wishes Kerr would have come at a more exciting time like team meetings or an actual practice.
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Walmart announced Wednesday that it will be hiring 40,000 seasonal and full-time associates as the holiday season approaches.
The company says it is hiring for a variety of positions, including seasonal store associates, customer service associates and 1,500 full-time truck drivers. Walmart has been building its private trucking fleet this year, increasing potential first-year pay up to $110,000 in April.
For the in-store positions, current associates will be able to pick up extra holiday hours, after which Walmart will add to its temporary staff as needed. These associate positions saw three wage hikes last year that brought the average hourly wage to $16.40. This year, Walmart increased pharmacy workers’ average wage to $20 per hour and boosted its U.S. average hourly wage above $17.
The seasonal hiring total is smaller than last year when Walmart added 150,000 mostly permanent and full-time associates, as well as 20,000 supply chain workers to help alleviate logistic bottlenecks.
The company says more than 50% of its seasonal U.S. associates will transition to part-time or full-time roles in the new year.
Expectations for the crucial shopping season are modest, with some estimates predicting only 1% to 3% in inflation-adjusted sales growth. Walmart and other retailers have spent much of the year grappling with excess inventory and steep markdowns.
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KENNEWICK, Wash. - The Kennewick Police Department responded to a collision on Kennewick Avenue and Morain Street after a sedan blew through a stop sign, according to Sergeant Chris Littrell.
Littrell says a Ben-Franklin Transit bus was stopped at a red light with only the driver inside, no passengers, on the afternoon of September 21. A sedan came up behind it, and some witnesses told police the car was speeding.
The driver of the sedan approached the side of the bus, clipping the side before blowing straight through the intersection, according to Littrell. He says the bus driver was not hurt, but the car driver had some injuries and is headed to the hospital.
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Tonight, we have unsettled conditions with increasing clouds and a 40-60% chance of showers for Tri-Cities & Walla late tonight and a slight chance of a stray T-Storm in the Blues. Yakima/Kittitas Valley may see a stray sprinkle with breezy to gusty winds in Ellensburg 10-15 mph and gusts of 20 mph.
The 1st day of Fall or the Autumnal Equinox is Thursday...It’s Fall Y’all,which will bring a chance of AM showers and breezy to gusty winds in the afternoon winds 10-20 gusts up to 25-30 mph. Temperatures in the 70s and lows in the 40s and 50s.
Thursday night through Sunday will be really nice, mostly clear and sunny with mild temperatures into the 1st weekend of fall.
Tri-Cities
Wednesday Night ... Late Showers... 60
Thursday... AM Showers Then Clear and Breezy ...78/54
Friday... Sunny, PM Cloudy … 77/53
Saturday... Sunny, Clear ...78/52
Sunday... Sunny, Nice ...82/53
Monday... Sunny, Nice ...85/54
Yakima
Wednesday Night... Increasing Clouds... 54
Thursday … Sunny, Breezy...78/47
Friday... Sunny Day, Cloudy Night... 76/50
Saturday... Sunny, Clear … 77/51
Sunday...Sunny, Mostly Clear ...81/52
Monday... Sunny, Nice ….82/54
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Rinker Buck's first adventure was at age 15 as one half of the youngest duo to fly across America, an exploit he recounted in his book "Flight of Passage."
Now in his late 60s, Buck embarked on his latest adventure, building a river flatboat and then taking it down the Mississippi River. He explains the overlooked role of the flatboat in this country's history and what it was like piloting one on today's Big Muddy.
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Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks tours the 2022 Pentagon Energy Expo, which showcases emerging energy technologies to advance the combat capabilities of the Joint Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2022. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)
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U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 56th Fighter Wing participate in a 24-hour POW/MIA vigil, Sept. 15, 2022, at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. National POW/MIA Recognition Day, held every year on the third Friday of September, recognizes service members who were held captive and returned, and those who are still missing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jakob Hambright)
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By now, you’ve likely heard the news that on Wednesday morning, New York attorney general Letitia James filed a giant lawsuit against Donald Trump, his three eldest children, and the Trump Organization, alleging more than a decade of “staggering” fraud that allowed the family to rake in hundreds of millions in ill-gotten gains. In a 222-page filing, James accused the defendants of spending years systematically lying about the value of their assets in order to guarantee bigger loans, better insurance rates, and to smaller tax bills. For example, according to the suit, while 40 Wall Street, a downtown building owned by the Trump Organization, was valued at $200 million on a tax filing in 2010, the very next year, the valuation had suddenly skyrocketed to $524 million. In total, the complaint alleges that the defendants made over 200 false and misleading valuations from 2011 to 2021, some of which were made during Trump's presidency. “The pattern of fraud that was used by Mr. Trump and the Trump organization was astounding,” James told reporters, noting that, for regular people, it’s illegal to lie to banks to secure loans, whether it’s for mortgages or to send their children to college. “There cannot be different rules for different people in this country or in this state,” she said. The AG’s office is seeking $250 million in damages and to permanently ban the ex-president, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump from ever running a business in New York again, among other penalties.
At this time, you probably have questions. Luckily, we have answers.
How did the fraud alleged by James work, exactly?
Honestly, it was pretty simple: They (allegedly) just made shit up, and quite boldly at that. For example, Trump’s triplex in Trump Tower is 10,996 square feet. But in 2015, he said claimed it was approximately 3 times that size in order to secure a completely ridiculous valuation of $327 million. (“That price was absurd given the fact that at that point only one apartment in New York City had ever sold for even $100 million, at a price per square foot of less than $10,000, and that sale was in a newly built, ultra-tall tower,” James’ office said. “In 30-year-old Trump Tower, the record sale at that time was a mere $16.5 million at a price of less than $4,500 per square foot.”) At Trump Park Avenue, the man with his name on the door valued, per James, “12 rent-stabilized units at market rate, inflating the value by 65 times.” At Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach for-profit club and home, Trump said the property was worth $739 million when, in fact, it is worth roughly one tenth of that due to restrictions on development (and, we’re guessing, the ketchup stains that are impossible to get out of the rugs). At a Westchester golf club, a valuation was generated by taking into account steep initiation fees that were never collected. The lawsuit includes numerous other examples of what the AG’s office says are false financial filings, including one in which Trump allegedly inflated his wealth on financial statements that were provided to Deutsche Bank when he was trying to buy the Buffalo Bills.
They say children should not have to pay for the sins of their father. Are Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric being unfairly swept up in all this? Are they actually just innocent kids we should all give a break?
[Author flashes the “give me a minute sign” while she catches her breath from laughing.]
In a word, no. In several words: No! Come on! According to James, Trump’s three eldest children—all of whom have served as executives of the firm—“knowingly participated” in the fraudulent schemes laid out in the complaint, which “required” both Trump and their assistance to pull off on such a large scale. In Vegas, for example, the suit accuses Eric Trump of using “the fraudulent valuation methods and assumptions” laid out by the AG to inflate the value of Trump Vegas every year from 2013 to 2016. Donald Trump Jr. was apparently in on the Trump Park Avenue scam. Ivanka, the apple of the ex-president’s very creepy eye, was allegedly involved in securing loans to buy Florida and Chicago properties in 2012, loans that were issued in part due to false financial statements. “On each of those transactions with Deutsche Bank, Ms. Trump was aware that the transactions included a personal guaranty from Mr. Trump that required him to provide annual Statements of Financial Condition and certifications,” the lawsuit says.
You’ve referred to Trump’s “adult children,” but have left out Tiffany, who is 28. Was she sued too?
She was not. Tiffany has never worked for the Trump Organization, and while she may have felt left out of the family when she was growing up, that’s obviously paying off for her now.
Where was Trump when he learned about the lawsuit?
That’s not clear at this time; most likely trying to intercept the mail before his housekeeper could open the penis-enlarging pills he’d ordered from China a week prior, even though he TOLD everyone he had something PRIVATE coming and that they were NOT to go through his stuff.
How is this connected to the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal case against the Trump Organization?
The cases are separate but have some overlap. Both offices opened parallel investigations on the suspicion that the Trump Organization had committed fraud, and in 2021, the attorney general’s office joined the DA’s criminal inquiry. In July 2021, the Trump Organization and its longtime CFO, Allen Weisselberg, were criminally charged by the DA for engaging in a yearslong scheme to enrich company executives with noncash perks on which taxes were not paid. Last month, Weisselberg pleaded guilty, and as part of that deal, will have to testify against Trump Organization, which has pleaded not guilty, at a trial scheduled to take place in October.
In her Wednesday filing, James said her lawsuit partially draws on Trump’s alleged instructions to Weisselberg to inflate his assets on financial statements. Weisselberg, along with another Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney, have also been named defendants.
If James’s suit is a civil one, does that mean the Trumps don’t have to worry about prison time?
Not exactly! While it’s true that James’s office does not have the authority to criminally prosecute the Trumps, she has referred her findings to federal prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service and has noted that, in addition to allegedly violating a number of state criminal laws, they “plausibly” broke federal criminal law too.
In related news, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg said Wednesday his criminal “investigation concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization, and its leadership is active and ongoing.”
Is there any overlap with the classified-documents investigation?
You know, you wouldn’t think there would be, but actually, yes. In the suit, James’s office said it believes the tax records seized as part of the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago may have been purposely hidden from them. Synergies!
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There’s been a frenzied quality to the celebrity-gossip space in the last few weeks, no? At this very moment, we could be coming down from any number of dramas or all of them at once: the Funny Girl–Lea Michele stuff, Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone’s breakup (and his subsequent linkage to model Gigi Hadid), the Don’t Worry Darling press-tour chaos, and the perceived tension between the Fab Four—three royal Brits and an American—during a very somber time. We are currently in the throes of an Adam Levine DM’ing scandal, and subsequent celebrity commentary around it. And these are just the major story lines that have given us something to talk and talk about in recent weeks.
The most fun kind of gossip—gossip I’ll define as high-caliber individuals in high-tension situations with low-stakes consequences—is apparently back. The best recent example of such a thing is also when Beanie Feldstein debuted on Broadway in a Funny Girl reprisal and then left before her contract was up, a contract that had already been ended six months sooner than originally planned. Michele, who wanted the role with a kind of keen earnestness that’s easy to deride, shared that she’d be replacing Feldstein. This was something of a shock. First because rarely do people who really, really want something and have been denied it already then get their way. And second because she already had to address allegations of racist behavior and being a general terror on set from cast members of Glee. (She apologized for her actions back then, and has since debuted to multiple standing ovations, got COVID, and is now back on stage, where she’s getting more standing ovations.)
At first, I assumed this kind of gossip was back because in-person events are back. Seems logical. Gossip turned personal over the pandemic years. Provincial dramas gained purchase in media more intimate than a tabloid, like podcasts and newsletters. But now, the usual schedule of awards and premieres and festivals that long determined Hollywood’s rhythm, and so the gossip cycle’s rhythm, are back and they’re overlapping, jamming up the tracks. Just this month, we’ve already endured the Venice, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals, New York Fashion Week, and the Emmys. It’s just a numbers game, I thought.
But more events can’t totally explain the tenor of all these narratives converging and the sheer level of obsession that some have inspired online. Then something happened in Venice that I think clarified what’s going on: that spit video.
To briefly recap, a video surfaced from the Venice premiere of Don’t Worry Darling in which it was suggested that Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine’s lap. These actors are both in the movie, and the film had already experienced a days-long drama bender. The evidence: In the short clip, Styles leans over Pine to push the theater seat down and sit. Pine is already seated as this happens, and just as Styles begins to sit down Pine looks in his lap and smiles in a way that communicates, “You’ve gotta be shitting me.” (The counter theory is deeply plausible in its mundanity: Pine briefly lost his sunglasses and discovered them, as you and I and everyone we know has done before, in his seat.)
The noise got so loud, Pine’s team was forced to issue a full-throated denial: “This is a ridiculous story—a complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation. Just to be clear, Harry Styles did not spit on Chris Pine. There is nothing but respect between these two men and any suggestion otherwise is a blatant attempt to create drama that simply does not exist.”
The spit obviously didn’t exist, but that didn’t matter: It was a fun day to be on the internet. Now, good drama is marked by really fervent days online, when folks on TikTok, Twitter, and the other forums are firing together for a shared purpose. Everyone seems to contribute to an overarching goal of pulling apart what is happening right before our eyes, and get their jokes off. The more boring the better, almost. We can watch things that are, on their face, as unremarkable as it gets—a man sitting down, for example—over and over again until we see absolute chaos.
I wonder how much the events of the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard libel trial have paved the way for the Darling press tour’s mess. The brand of internet analysis at work during that courthouse drama earlier this summer sure looks a lot like interpretations of whatever happened in Venice. During the trial, the bunk science of body language analysis, which has long been so popular on YouTube and Facebook migrated over to other mediums, namely TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. There was one clip in particular that presaged how the spit video played out: Anti-Heard viewers argued she snorted cocaine while giving testimony about Depp’s alleged abuse during their marriage. Some people merely suggesting it encouraged more and more people to see it as fact, even if a basic level of mental reasoning is required to refute such a claim. In both the spit and the snort, viewers were simply seeing things that are not there.
The alleged spit is the most obvious sign that some sort of collective confirmation bias is at work, as if our desire to witness a little interpersonal grist between two adult men produced the phantom saliva. Most of the people I saw posting about it on Twitter were doing so in total jest, like as a commentary on the messiness that seemed to envelope the press rollout of Darling. But it is notable that Pine’s camp would be the one to issue the extensive statement. “Sources close to Styles” said simply, “This is not true.” Styles must be so used to this sort of Zapruder-like analysis, so much so that his team didn’t bother putting its back into commenting on fans inventing things not there in videos of the star.
The performer, formerly a member of One Direction, has for years been plagued by what was once a joyful fan theory claiming he was in a secret relationship with his former bandmate Louis Tomlinson. The theory, known as “Larry Stylinson,” a portmanteau of their names, curdled into something more malevolent and paranoid as fans began attacking those who expressed disbelief in the theory as well as the mother of Tomlinson’s child. As Kaitlyn Tiffany, author of Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, wrote in The Atlantic around the Depp trial, Larry Stylinson and the anti-Heard movement are just two examples among so many where fan culture has turned vicious about things they simply can’t know.
Look no further than Meghan Markle and Prince Harry doing…anything at all. Body language “experts” are having their day in the sun as the couple makes their way back to England for events surrounding the queen’s funeral. The fact that Meghan Markle held Prince Harry’s hand at a family procession after his grandmother died means everything about their attitudes, their marriage, their intent, instead of what holding hands actually means: basically nothing.
So the general chaos of Harry and Meghan doing anything public or the Darling press tour or Lea Michele’s masterful Funny Girl ascendance may be less the product of a more public glitterati and more so a sign of where we all are in our journey together online. What exactly went wrong with Funny Girl and Darling and even with DiCaprio and Morrone is as good as one can theorize. And into that vacuum goes a so-far endless amount of speculation.
For the most part, thankfully, these various brouhahas still feel lighthearted. In the case of Darling and Funny Girl, at least, at the heart of the jokes is whether or not a few famous people didn’t enjoy working together at their jobs and have behaved in a childish manner toward each other. It’s mild in comparison to what we witnessed even earlier this summer. What is unavoidably true, though, is that we are hungry for this stuff, and as long as celebs give us crumbs, we’ll eat—and eat, and eat.
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Members of Joint Task Force – Alaska off load equipment and supplies after arriving in Bethel for disaster relief response Sept. 21, 2022, via a HC-130J Combat King II aircraft from the 176th Wing’s 211th Rescue Squadron. Approximately 100 service members from the Alaska National Guard, Alaska State Defense Force and Alaska Naval Militia were activated following a disaster declaration issued Sept. 17 after the remnants of Typhoon Merbok caused dramatic flooding across more than 1,000 miles of Alaskan coastline. A JTF in Nome is standing up concurrently as part of Operation Merbok Response (Alaska National Guard photo by Dana Rosso)
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BALTIMORE (AP)Joey Wentz took a shutout into the sixth inning and Akil Baddoo and Kerry Carpenter homered to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 3-2 victory over the fading Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night.
Wentz (2-2) allowed two hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings. It was the third time in five big league starts that the rookie has held the opposition scoreless.
Baddoo’s 448-foot home run in the third opened the scoring, bringing home two runs. Carpenter added a solo shot in the seventh.
”I felt good the whole night,” Carpenter said.
Rookie standout Gunnar Henderson hit a two-run homer in the seventh for Baltimore’s first runs of the series. The Tigers routed the Orioles 11-0 the previous night.
Austin Voth (5-3) allowed two runs and six hits in five innings for the Orioles, who have lost four of five. Baltimore entered the night five games behind Seattle for the American League’s final wild card.
”We’re not the only team that’s played this many games,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. ”I think the league’s tired. It’s part of being a big leaguer at the end of September and we’ve got to learn how to push through it.”
It was a bit of an adventure for Detroit after Wentz left the game. Alex Lange allowed a walk but struck out Ramon Urias with two on for the final out of the sixth. Joe Jimenez allowed Henderson’s two-out homer and then a single by Ryan Mountcastle. Andrew Chafin then came on and walked a batter before striking out Adley Rutschman to end the seventh.
”We felt like we were on our heels,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. ”We were just trying to get to the finish line. We had to use a lot of guys to do it.”
Chafin yielded a leadoff single in the eighth, but a double play helped him through that inning. Gregory Soto worked a perfect ninth for his 26th save in 28 chances.
The bottom of Baltimore’s order did much of the damage. Jeimer Candelario had four hits in the No. 8 spot, and Baddoo had a homer and a double batting after him.
NEW LEADER
The Tigers held a news conference in Detroit to introduce Scott Harris, their new president of baseball operations. Harris outlined his vision for the organization, which centered around three areas. The first two are acquiring and retaining young players, and getting the most from that talent.
His third topic of emphasis was a little more specific – the strike zone.
”It touches essentially every part of our game, so we’re going to start there. We’re going to start with the strike zone,” he said. ”We want to dominate the strike zone on both sides of the ball.”
Detroit is 29th in the major leagues in on-base percentage.
Harris said he intends to hire a general manager to join his front office at some point.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Tigers: Miguel Cabrera, who came back from a biceps injury Monday, had Tuesday’s game off.
UP NEXT
Detroit goes for a three-game sweep Wednesday night when Matt Manning (2-2) takes the mound against Baltimore’s Jordan Lyles (10-11).
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CAGUAS, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than a half million people in Puerto Rico remained without water service three days after Hurricane Fiona slammed into the U.S. territory, and many spent hours in lines Wednesday to fill jugs from water trucks while others scooped water from mountain runoff.
Sweat rolled down the faces of people in a long line of cars in the northern mountain town of Caguas, where the government had sent a water truck, one of at least 18 so-called “oases” set up across the island.
The situation was maddening for many people across an island once again left without basic services following a storm.
“We thought we had a bad experience with Maria, but this was worse,” Gerardo Rodríguez said in the southern coastal town of Salinas, referring to the 2017 hurricane that caused nearly 3,000 deaths and demolished the island’s power grid.
Fiona dumped roughly two feet of rain on parts of Puerto Rico before blasting across the eastern Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Swelled to Category 4 force, the storm was on a track to pass close by Bermuda late Thursday or early Friday and then hit easternmost Canada by late Friday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
The storm played havoc with Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, which had been patched but never fully rebuilt after Maria caused a blackout that lasted 11 months in some places.
As of Wednesday afternoon, roughly 70% of Puerto Rican customers lacked electricity, according to government figures.
In Caguas, the air conditioning of Emayra Veguilla’s car wasn’t working, so the bus driver propped up a small fan in the passenger seat. Earlier, she had blasted the song “Hijos del Canaveral” (“Sons of the Sugarcane Field”), written by Puerto Rican hip-hop star René Pérez as an ode to Puerto Rico and its people’s bravery.
“I needed a shot of patriotism,” she said. “I needed strength to do this once again.”
Veguilla had waited in line Tuesday, only to be told that the water had run out and that another truck would not be available until Wednesday.
Some people ahead of Veguilla gave up and drove away, with tensions running high the longer people waited.
“Move!” yelled one driver, fearful of people trying to cut in.
Some who saw the line opted instead to drive to a nearby highway where fresh water trickled down the mountainside via a bamboo pipe that someone had installed.
Greg Reyes, an English teacher, stood in line in muddy flip-flops to collect water for himself, his girlfriend and their cat. He had brought a large bag holding all the empty containers he could find in their house, including more than a dozen small water bottles.
Reyes said he and his partner had been buying water since Fiona hit, but couldn’t afford to do so any longer.
Standing behind him was retiree William Rodríguez, surrounded by three large buckets and four gallon containers. He had been living in Massachusetts and decided to return to Puerto Rico about six months ago.
“But I think I’m leaving again,” he said as he shook his head.
Those in the line grumbled about the slow pace of recovery and accused the government of not helping them as people on social media and even a gym said their doors were open to anyone who needed water or a shower.
“This hasn’t been easy,” said Juan Santos, a retiree who held the hand of his 5-year-old grandson. “We are suffering.”
None of those in line had power either, and many wondered if it would take as long to restore as it did with Hurricane Maria.
Power company officials initially said it would take a few days for electricity to be restored, but then appeared to backtrack Tuesday night, saying they faced numerous obstacles.
“Hurricane Fiona has severely impacted electrical infrastructure and generation facilities throughout the island. We want to make it very clear that efforts to restore and reenergize continue and are being affected by severe flooding, impassable roads, downed trees, deteriorating equipment, and downed lines,” said Luma, the company that operates power transmission and distribution.
Officials said crews found several substations underwater and inaccessible.
But Luma said it expected to restore power Wednesday to much of Puerto Rico’s north coast, which Fiona largely spared.
The hum of generators could be heard across the territory as people became increasingly exasperated.
“I continue to hope that by the end of today, a large part of the population will have these services,” said Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi.
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency traveled to Puerto Rico on Tuesday and the agency announced it was sending hundreds of additional personnel to boost local response efforts. On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration, which would allow for more federal assistance.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico and deployed a couple of teams to the island.
In the Turks and Caicos Islands, officials reported relatively light damage and no deaths, though the eye of the Category 4 storm passed close to Grand Turk, the small British territory’s capital island, on Tuesday.
“Turks and Caicos had a phenomenal experience over the past 24 hours,” said Deputy Gov. Anya Williams. “It certainly came with its share of challenges.”
Officials said school on Grand Turk would reopen next week.
The Hurricane Center said Fiona had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph) late Wednesday afternoon. It was centered about 615 miles (990 kilometers) southwest of Bermuda, heading north at 9 mph (15 kph).
Fiona killed a man in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe and two others in Puerto Rico swept away by swollen rivers. Two died in the Dominican Republic: one killed by a falling tree and the other by a falling electric post.
Two additional deaths were reported in Puerto Rico as a result of the blackout: A 70-year-old man burned to death after he tried to fill his running generator with gasoline and a 78-year-old man police say inhaled toxic gases from his generator.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The campaign that could bring legalized sports betting to California is the most expensive ballot-initiative fight in U.S. history at about $400 million and counting, pitting wealthy Native American tribes against online gambling companies and less-affluent tribes over what’s expected to be a multibillion-dollar marketplace.
A torrent of advertising has buffeted Californians for months, much of it making promises far beyond a plump payoff from a game wager. Some ads coming from the consortium of gambling companies barely mention online betting.
Instead, the ads tease a cornucopia of benefits from new revenues — helping the homeless, aiding the mentally ill and providing financial security for poorer tribes that haven’t seen a windfall from casino gambling. Further clouding the issue: There are two sports betting questions on the ballot.
The skeptics include Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who hasn’t taken a position on either proposal but has said Proposition 27 “is not a homeless initiative” despite the claims in advertising.
Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney said “something for nothing” promises have been used in the past to sell state lotteries as a boundless source for education funding. It’s political salesmanship, “not a cure-all,” he said.
With the stakes high, over $400 million has been raised so far – easily a national record for a ballot initiative fight, and nearly doubling the previous mark in California set in 2020 — with another seven weeks to go until balloting ends on Nov. 8.
“They are spending hundreds of millions because billions are on the line,” said longtime Democratic consultant Steven Maviglio, referring to potential future profits from expanded gambling in the state of nearly 40 million people.
“Both sides stand to really get rich for the long term,” said Maviglio, who is not involved in the campaign. It could become “a permanent funding source for a handful of companies — or a handful of tribes.”
All of it could be a bad bet.
With the midterm elections approaching, voters are in a foul mood and cynical about political sales pitches. And with two similar proposals on the ballot, history suggests that voters are inclined to be confused and grab the “no” lever on both.
“When in doubt, people vote no,” Pitney said.
In California, gambling now is permitted on horse races, at Indian casinos, in cardrooms and the state lottery. But the state has been something of a laggard in sports betting, which has been spreading across the country.
The two proposals would open the way for sports betting, but in strikingly different ways.
Proposition 27 is backed by DraftKings, BetMGM, FanDuel — the latter is the official odds provider for The Associated Press — and other national sports betting operators. The proposal would change state law to allow online sports betting for adults over the internet and on phones or other mobile devices.
Multistate operators would be required to partner with a tribe involved in gambling, or licensed tribes could enter on their own. However, the tribes argue they would have to surrender some of their independence to enter the deal. A tax would cover regulatory costs, with the bulk of the remainder earmarked for homeless programs, and a slice going to tribes not involved in online betting.
A rival proposal backed by many tribes, Proposition 26, would let people wager on sporting events in person at retail locations — casinos operated by tribes and the state’s four licensed horse racing tracks. A portion of a 10% tax would help pay for enforcement of gambling laws and programs to help people who have a gambling addiction. It also could open the way for roulette and dice games at tribal casinos.
A handful of political committees are in the center of the fight, raising funds and dueling for public support.
The Yes on 26, No on 27 committee, sponsored by more than two dozen Indian tribes, has raised about $108 million through this month, state records show. Among the major donors: Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria ($30 million), the Pechanga Band of Indians ($25 million) and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($20 million). All have been enriched by their own casinos.
Another committee seeking to defeat Proposition 27 is backed by tribes including the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and has pulled in about $91 million.
Their main rival, the Yes on 27 committee backed by sports betting companies, has generated about $169 million in loans and donations.
A committee opposing Proposition 26, backed by card clubs, has piled up over $41 million for the fight. The proposition includes changes in enforcement that the clubs see as an attempt to give tribes a virtual monopoly on all gaming in the state.
Despite the lofty claims about new income for the state, it’s not clear what the fiscal benefits might be with either proposal.
With Proposition 27, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office concluded its effect on revenues and costs are uncertain, in part because it’s not known how many entities would offer betting or how many people would place bets. It’s possible it could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
But the office also concluded some of the income would not be new dollars since people could shift their spending habits, placing sports bets rather than buying lottery tickets or shopping at the mall.
The state analysts also found the fiscal impacts of rival Proposition 26 are unclear, in part because it’s not known how state-tribal compacts would be modified to allow for sports betting. They found the proposition could increase state revenues, possibly by tens of millions of dollars each year, but would increase costs for enforcement and regulation, too.
A muddle of political endorsements are in the mix. The California Republican Party opposes both proposals. State Democrats oppose Proposition 27, but are neutral on Proposition 26. Major League Baseball is backing Proposition 27.
Voters are witnessing a deluge of competing claims.
The No on 26 committee says wealthy tribes are looking to game the system to gain unprecedented gambling income and political influence.
Rob Stutzman, a spokesman for the No on 27 committee, warned that up to 90% of the profits from the proposal could go to the gambling companies and “you know a measure is bad news when both the Democratic and Republican parties oppose it.”
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BEREA, Ohio (AP)Nick Chubb pointed the finger at himself, taking the blame for a touchdown run that should have put away the Jets.
Instead, it gave them hope.
”I probably shouldn’t have scored right there, honestly, looking back at it,” Chubb said. ”It cost us the game.”
Two days after the Browns collapsed and blew a 13-point lead in the final two minutes to lose 31-30 to New York, Chubb said he made a mistake by going into the end zone for his third TD with 1:55 left.
With the Browns leading 24-17, Chubb took a handoff from the 12-yard line and ran left. He made a cutback, stepped through a tackler and scored to put Cleveland up by 13 and send a raucous home crowd into a frenzy.
Looking back, Chubb wishes he had done things differently.
If he had run out of bounds or been tackled after picking up a first down, the Browns could have simply taken three knees, run out the clock and improved to 2-0 for the first time in 29 years.
Instead, after Chubb’s TD, the Browns committed a dizzying array of errors in less than two minutes.
First, rookie Cade York missed an extra point, the Browns’ secondary miscommunicated and gave up a 66-yard TD pass, wide receiver Amari Cooper failed to recover New York’s onside kick and the Browns let Jets quarterback Joe Flacco, operating with no timeouts, throw a go-ahead TD pass with 22 seconds left.
It wasn’t until after the game that Chubb realized it could have all been avoided.
”A lot of things went wrong, not just one thing,” he said. ”But collectively as a unit, as a team we could have all done things different, but it’s only a problem because we didn’t win. So I probably should have went down.”
Of course, Chubb isn’t to blame and no one is pointing a finger at the three-time Pro Bowler.
Same for Cooper, who said Tuesday he should have either fielded the squib kick or batted it out of bounds.
”It was my play to make, and I didn’t make it,” he said.
The Browns’ failure to recognize the situation lies with coach Kevin Stefanski, who made it clear it was his responsibility to close out the win. He appreciated his players’ accountability, but isn’t passing the buck.
”Put it on me,” he said. ”The players do not hide from it. I do not hide from it.”
Chubb’s willingness to shoulder the loss is hardly surprising. He’s one of the team’s most-respected players, revered by his teammates for his work ethic and willingness to put the Browns first.
A born leader.
The reserved 26-year-old Chubb said the more he replayed the game in his mind, the more he recognized he could have altered its outcome.
However, he acknowledged that once he got near the goal line, there weren’t many options.
”It would have been tough (to stop),” he said. ”I think the first down marker was at the 1 or 2 and the goal line is right there, too. I probably could have got down. It would have been third-and-short, third-and-inches, but it probably could have happened.
”I could have went out of bounds, but people were behind and they would have pushed me in or something like that. I probably should have just dropped down after I made the cut.”
What’s interesting is that Chubb – and the Browns – were in a similar spot two years ago in a game against Houston. With Cleveland protecting a 10-7 lead, Chubb got loose on a 59-yard run, but instead of scoring, he stepped out of bounds at the 1-yard line and the Browns burned out the clock.
Two years ago, Stefanski had sent in a play called ”no mas” to ensure the clock management.
Chubb said he shouldn’t have had to be told again.
”We all work together,” Chubb said. ”We all communicate. But at the end of the day, I’ve been in that situation before and so I really can’t put it on anyone but myself at this point. I think the biggest thing is I was aware of what was going on and I thought the game was over if I’m being honest.”
NOTES: Rookie DT Perrion Winfrey returned to practice and expects to play after being disciplined last week and benched against the Jets. Winfrey didn’t give any details for his punishment and felt no need to apologize. ”I just feel like it was something that I needed to mature,” he said. ”I feel like I wouldn’t be the player that I’m going to be now if it had not happened, so I’m glad that it happened.”
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Due to nationwide and statewide reports of multiple fake active shooter reports, Fergus Falls Public Schools have been working with Fergus Falls police after receiving information of these swatting incidents.
Fergus Falls Schools Superintendent Jeff Drake sent a letter to parents and guardians of students on Sept. 21, detailing the the reason for increased law enforcement presence at their campuses.
“This afternoon, the school district received communication from the Fergus Falls Police Department regarding multiple incidents of hoax (fake) active shooter reports across Minnesota and the United States. Many school districts in Minnesota were referenced in these calls and Fergus Falls was no exception," said Drake.
Drake continued, “Although there is no evidence to indicate that the call was anything other than a hoax, out of an abundance of caution, additional officers were dispatched to our schools for the remainder of the day. Multiple law enforcement agencies are actively working to track down the source of these calls. The Fergus Falls Public School District and local law enforcement work very closely together to ensure the continued safety of our students and staff.”
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) also posted a message on their website stating that they were aware of the hoax incidents as well.
“We are aware of multiple swatting incidents involving active shooter events or mass casualties at schools across Minnesota. Local law enforcement are responding. No incidents have turned out to be real. Our Minnesota Fusion Center is tracking these reports and keeping local law enforcement apprised of the situation. States across the U.S. have experienced similar mass swatting attempts,” stated the release.
The BCA further said that swatting involves making a prank call to law enforcement services in an attempt to bring a large law enforcement response to a particular address.
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The Fergus Falls City Council, at the Sept. 19 meeting, approved project plans and the authorization to advertise for bids for Regional Treatment Center Phase 3 Preservation Project which opened the doors to further the effort to stabilize and preserve the structure.
According to a city memo, the estimated probable construction cost for the base bid contract is $898,000.00 and $830,000.00 for the proposed five bid alternates. The combined estimated construction cost is $1,728,000.00.
City Engineer Brian Yavarow stated during the meeting that the city was awarded $3,500,000 for Phase 2 and 3. The project expenditures up to this point for the already completed Phase 2 demolition are $2,447,035.65.
Yavarow further stated that a portion of the Phase 2 expenditures were already funded with the initial Phase 1 grant balance of $661,931.40. The remaining Phase 2 expenditures of $1,785,104.25 will come from the Phase 2 grant.
What this essentially means is that the grant amount of $1,714,895.75 that had not been spent from Phase 2 will be used as the Phase 3 funding source for the project. The amount however, does not include engineering, design, construction and administration fees, along with contingencies and staff time. Once the bid is awarded it will be contingent upon the final estimated project costs and the availability of funding at that time.
The timing of the approval to receive bids comes at this time because the engineering firm Stantec Inc. has substantially completed their project plans and specifications for Phase 3. The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has also completed their 30-60-90% interval plan review.
Bruce Paulson, with Stantec Inc., states in a letter to the SHPO, dated Sept. 8, that when the bids are received for the current project, and if there are funds remaining, they would be applied towards the design and implementation of a passive ventilation system to the greatest extent possible.
SHPO responded in the letter stating that in order to meet standards, the proposed boarding-up of window openings should not damage the extant historic windows (sash) or window frames. However, Paulson responded by stating that it was their understanding that the aluminum windows on the first floor of building one are not considered historically significant. The reason for covering the first floor glass block windows is because they continue to be broken by vandals.
“When this is done, the only two doors that will access the building are at the east side of building one in the front and at the back side of Building one. Those would be the two doors and those were both installed as part of the previous phases,” said Paulson.
Council member Brent Thompson expressed concern that SHPO might be forcing the city to spend the leftover money a certain way.
“I was under the understanding that SHPO was just to maintain the historic tax credit in the future. I was not aware that SHPO was going to be involved as far as stating whether we can use the money from the state to do what we need to do to this building. I’m not willing to go and start putting a ventilation system in through an entire structure other than building one, because we know for a fact that one is never coming down. I’m a little bit confused here as far as I figured SHPO that we (be allowed) to just do certain things to maintain the tax credits. I did not know it was a requirement to be able to get the money from the state,” said Thompson.
City Finance Director Bill Sonmor clarified how the money could be spent.
“SHPO is not saying what’s eligible cost or not, I think they’re more opining on what you can do to the building is that correct? Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development is the one who says what’s eligible costs. SHPO is not going to impact the eligibility of costs, I believe. That’s where we work with DEED,” said Sonmor.
Thompson then confirmed with Sonmor that the city can still pick and choose what they want to do, if they go out and get bids.
With that, the resolution to go forward with accepting bids was unanimously approved by council.
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Fergus Falls police are investigating an incident that unfolded in the city, on Sept. 20, near the intersection of North Kennedy Park Road and Western Avenue.
A member of the public had reported that a black Chevrolet Impala had hit a curb and had caused heavy damage at approximately 2:15 p.m.
Responding officers learned that the suspect vehicle drove through the ditch for several blocks striking a city sign, driving over a culvert and leaving behind a license plate. Fergus Falls Police Sgt. Abram Silbernagel said the plate did not match the Impala.
“To my understanding the license plate that was recovered on scene came back to a different vehicle in Big Stone County. We’ve been in contact with them,” said Silbernagel.
Silbernagel said so far there is no estimate of the total damages, but the Impala would most likely have front end damage.
According to witnesses, the driver was described as possibly being an older aged white male with facial hair.
Silbernagel also emphasized that if the public has any additional information, to please reach out to the Fergus Falls Police Department at 218-332-5555.
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What is homecoming anyway? Who is it for and what is it all about? The answers are simple, right? Everyone knows that homecoming is that first big event of the fall where the high school is buzzing with school spirit and excitement. There are dress up days, a coronation, a parade and various events with juniors and seniors competing against each other in activities like powder puff football and iron man volleyball, not to mention a football game, a field show and of course, the first dance of the school year. The students of Fergus Falls High School get to experience these events each and every fall and the community comes together to celebrate school pride in a fashion that is based on tradition and school spirit.
Homecoming starts well in advance of the actual week with freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors nominating and voting for their classmates to be a part of the homecoming royalty court. The senior class is highlighted by selecting the king and queen candidates with the final vote being revealed at the homecoming coronation. The homecoming coronation is the main event on Monday evening with a time honored tradition of student musical talent, dance routines, student and staff skits, with senior emcee’s who hold the audience in suspense until the coronation is “capped off” with the crowning of the king and queen.
Tuesday is set aside for the royalty who can be found around the community, visiting various senior care facilities such as Mill Street, Park Gardens, The Veterans Home, Productive Alternatives and Pioneer Care. The students who are part of the royalty spend time visiting, take pictures and are treated by the High School Student Council to lunch at a local restaurant. In recent years, the members of the royalty have concluded the day by returning to campus and planting a tree that has been donated by North Country Lawns.
Mid-week provides time for field show rehearsals as our student musicians prepare for one of their
biggest events of the season by spending the day out on the football field rehearsing for their show under the Friday night lights at halftime of the homecoming football game. The field show has varied in difficulty over the years and we are excited for the return of a traditional field show in 2022. This offers the unique opportunity for our community to see our best and brightest music students on display on the same field where our football and soccer teams compete. The field show not only showcases the musical talents of our students, but also serves as a formal introduction of the homecoming royalty to the fans in attendance at the football game.
Friday is the busiest day of the week as the day begins with the senior class gathering together before school at Otter Stadium for the picture of the graduating class. This year the students will dress in maroon and gold to form the “23” on the field and have their picture taken together as a class. The morning also features the battle of the classes with the junior and senior boys facing off in a spirited game of iron man volleyball. The high school student body gathers in the Gold Gym for an entertaining matchup that allows our upperclassmen to earn bragging rights in a friendly competition. This same scenario takes place at Otter Stadium between the junior and senior girls with the noon kickoff of the annual powder puff football game. Each of these events offers both competition and entertainment as the students enjoy a sense of Otter Pride in a way that is unique to homecoming week.
The excitement of the day is extended into the afternoon as the community is invited to attend the homecoming parade. A route from the high school through downtown Fergus Falls is decorated with floats and cars glittered with maroon and gold, featuring various clubs, teams, local businesses, student groups and of course, lots of candy for the kids lined up along the route, cheering as the floats pass by.
The week culminates with the traditional homecoming football game, where the Otters look to defend their home turf in front of the roaring crowd cheering on Otter Nation under the lights of Otter Stadium. The halftime field show is a definite must see and after the game, the homecoming dance offers the students one last chance to be a part of the time honored tradition of homecoming.
The students and community of Fergus Falls certainly are afforded opportunities to be involved in activities that were celebrated and enjoyed by the generations that came before them.
So this year, when homecoming week arrives, hopefully it will bring warm memories of your own experiences in high school as we all recognize this special tradition for the school and community to come together and celebrate something that we all have in common … OTTER PRIDE!
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Memorial services celebrating the life of Donald M. Howard, 92, of Dalton and formerly of Luxemburg will be 11:00 a.m. on Monday, September 26, 2022 at the Daniel Funeral Home in St. Cloud. Donnie passed away peacefully, with family by his side, on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at the Fargo VA Health Care System. Inurnment with military honors will take place at the Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery, Little Falls.
Visitation will be one hour prior to services on Monday at the funeral home.
Donnie was born on April 16, 1930 in Princeton, Minnesota, the tenth of eleven children, to Fenimore and Enid (Ross) Howard. His childhood years were filled wandering the fields of the family farm in Wyanett Township near Green Lake. He graduated from Princeton High School and at the age of 18, he enlisted in the US Army and was stationed at Gulf Shores, Alabama. He married Betty O’Neil on September 18, 1953 at St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Princeton. Donnie worked for Northwestern Bell for 31 years, retiring as an engineer in 1983. He volunteered with Catholic Charities and Telephone Pioneers of America. Donnie was a member of the Ashby American Legion Post #357 and the Fergus Falls Senior Center.
Donnie enjoyed spending winters in Gulf Shores, Alabama, carving, hunting, fishing and touring the countryside in his beloved Polaris Ranger. He loved to travel and he and one of his daughters went to China at the age of 80. Donnie was an avid sports fan who enjoyed watching the Vikings and also attending his grandchildren and great grandchildren’s sporting events. Late in life, he still went to the gym and for daily walks with his neighbors. Donnie took pride in staying fit. He will be remembered as a very patient, quiet man who loved to tinker. Donnie was a devoted husband and went to heaven on his 69th wedding anniversary.
He is survived by his children, Debbie (Keith) Mickelson of Dalton, Mark (Gayle) of St. Cloud, Mary Jo Howard of Naples, Florida and Julie (Dean) Wall of Clear Lake; ten grandchildren; ten great grandchildren; and sister-in-law, Frances Howard.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Betty in 2007; siblings, Madeline Johnson, Ross, Florence Leathers, Charlie, Willie, Robert, James, Thelma Hoeft, Cynthia Ablard, Roy, and four infant siblings.
A heartfelt thank you to the Fargo VA Health Care System for their exceptional care.
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Lori G. Hestenes, age 67, resident of Fergus Falls passed away peacefully on September 15, 2022 at the Broen Nursing Home under Hospice Care.
Lori was born in Augusta, Georgia on October 13, 1954 to Erwin and Nancy (Hoelz) Giljohann. Her father was serving in the US Army with the Military Police at Camp Gordon. She grew up and attended school in Mequon, WI. She attended Homestead High School and graduated with the Class of 1972. After graduating from high school, she attended Drake University in Des Moines, IA and graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
After graduation, Lori took a job as a Hall Director at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The person who would become her husband, Bob Hestenes, was a senior that year and was housed in her dorm. Lori and Bob were married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 20, 1996.
Lori’s dream was to be a teacher, but at the time she graduated, teaching jobs were not available. Instead, she entered the business world by working in human resources, where she specialized in employee training. Without a doubt, her most fulfilling year of her career was the year she served as Principal at Morning Son Christian School! Anyone driving by either at the time the students were arriving or departing would see Lori. She greeted each and every student in the morning as well as waved goodbye at the end of every school day. That was truly the time of her life!
Lori enjoyed spending time with friends and family. She was also active in the community, serving on the board of numerous charitable organizations. She was most passionate about being a wife and a mother.
Lori is survived by her husband, Bob Hestenes; children: Shawndelle, Isiah and Elijah; one grandchild, Devynah.
Lori is preceded in death by her parents, Erwin and Nancy Giljohann.
A Memorial Service will be held at 11:00AM, Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at the Nazarene Church. Visitation will take place one hour prior to the service at the church.
Glende Nilson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls in in charge of Funeral Arrangements for Lori Hestenes.
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I absolutely love movies.
Throughout my degree I had the opportunity to take numerous film courses and I was baffled by how much I ended up learning in them. Like so many ubiquitous art forms we enjoy nearly every day such as music and photography, the magic and science behind movies present an infinitely complex system that is fascinating to study closely.
In one of these classes on the first day the professor went around the room and asked students for their favorite movie. As I raced to find a movie I had seen that would display a deep knowledge of cinema and impress the class, I stopped. Movies, although intricate and painstakingly expensive to make in most cases, are meant to invoke feelings of awe and wonder. Jurassic Park was my answer to this question and I still love it to this day. I even have the original VHS with the well-worn paper jacket it came in and I treasure all the places that cassette has taken me through the years.
Keeping with the theme of recommending items that spur thought and help to bring fresh perspective, I thought I’d offer a movie (or several) this week in place of a book. Wes Anderson is a widely celebrated filmmaker known for his eccentric use of symmetry, inspiring use of color and juxtaposition of humor and conflict.
“Moonrise Kingdom” is an absolute favorite of mine and one I highly recommend. I broke down a scene in another one of his beautiful films, “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” I leave you now with an interpretation of one of the many iconic scenes.
While navigating formidable ideas and situations such as war, love, and death, The Grand Budapest Hotel is able to simultaneously create a hilarious and fantastical realm through the clever use of mise-en-scene, cinematography and editing. Although only two minutes in length and comprising a very specific era in Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest storyline, this sequence can be observed to be a condensed version of the entire film in reference to its use of color, lighting and general cinematography and editing.
Two of the most salient aspects of mise-en-scene found within this short clip are the use of color and lighting, which work in tandem throughout the film to create the motif of good versus evil. M. Gustave and Zero are dressed in their strikingly purple uniforms and they are in the warm confines of a wood-lined train car. The key lighting comes from outside the window which creates a hard, motivated side-lighting. This bleak exterior, however, is countered with the warmer tones of color and fill lighting present within the cabin, inferring a feeling of warmth and safety. When stopping in the barley field, the soldiers come into view through a deep space composition shot. The outside is desolate, cold and presents a stark contrast to the atmosphere found within the train car. The soldiers wear grey uniforms, which directly relate to the frigid and austere landscape they come from. By varying the composition between shallow-space and deep-space shots, this scene further develops the thematic element of two different worlds colliding. Through the juxtaposition of these differing compositions, the ensuing argument and physical scuffle is made much more personal and affronting, bringing the outside world of political and military upheaval within the confined realm of Gustave and Zero’s previously sheltered area of safety.
As always, keep reading (and watching), until next time!
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Tumor-agnostic data supporting approval demonstrated an overall response rate (ORR) of 44% across multiple tumor types
FDA simultaneously grants traditional approval in adults with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a RET gene fusion, as detected by an FDA-approved test
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Retevmo® (selpercatinib, 40 mg & 80 mg capsules) for adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors with a rearranged during transfection (RET) gene fusion that have progressed on or following prior systemic treatment or who have no satisfactory alternative treatment options. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on ORR and duration of response (DOR). Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trial.
"In the LIBRETTO-001 trial, selpercatinib demonstrated clinically meaningful and durable responses across a variety of tumor types in patients with RET-driven cancers, including pancreatic, colon and other cancers in need of new treatment options," said Vivek Subbiah, M.D., associate professor of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and co-investigator for LIBRETTO-001. "These data and FDA approval of the tumor-agnostic indication underscore the importance of routine, comprehensive genomic testing for patients across a wide variety of tumor types."
In addition to the tumor-agnostic approval, the FDA has granted traditional approval for Retevmo in adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a RET gene fusion, as detected by an FDA-approved test. This FDA action broadens the Retevmo label to include patients with locally advanced disease and converts the May 2020 accelerated approval for NSCLC to a traditional approval.
The labeling for Retevmo contains warnings and precautions for hepatotoxicity (evidence of liver dysfunction), interstitial lung disease (ILD)/pneumonitis, hypertension, QT interval prolongation, hemorrhagic events, hypersensitivity, tumor lysis syndrome, risk of impaired wound healing, hypothyroidism, and embryo-fetal toxicity.
"Since its initial accelerated approval, Retevmo has shifted the treatment paradigm for patients with RET-altered cancers," said David Hyman, M.D., chief medical officer, Loxo@Lilly. "Retevmo is the first and only RET inhibitor to receive both tumor-agnostic accelerated approval and traditional approval in NSCLC, further supporting its ability to deliver meaningful clinical benefit for patients across diverse tumor types."
The two approvals are supported by data from the pivotal LIBRETTO-001 trial, which is the largest clinical trial of patients with RET-driven cancers treated with a RET inhibitor. The multicenter, open-label, multi-cohort study enrolled patients with locally advanced or metastatic RET-driven solid tumors, including NSCLC. Major efficacy outcomes were ORR and DOR, assessed by a blinded independent review committee (BIRC). Prespecified secondary endpoints included central nervous system (CNS) ORR and CNS DOR.
RET Fusion-Positive Solid Tumors
Among the 41 patients in the tumor-agnostic data set, the most common cancers were pancreatic adenocarcinoma (27%), colorectal (24%), salivary (10%), and unknown primary (7%). Thirty-seven patients (90%) received prior systemic therapy (median 2 [range 0 – 9]; 32% received 3 or more). Efficacy results are summarized below:
Efficacy results by tumor type are summarized below:
"Today's announcement of Retevmo's expanded label reflects an opportunity to bring more targeted treatment options to a broader set of difficult-to-treat solid tumors, such as pancreatic cancer," said Julie Fleshman, president and chief executive officer, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN). "This news further highlights the importance of broad biomarker testing, which may open the door to new therapy options for more patients."
Retevmo may affect both healthy cells and tumor cells, which can result in side effects, some of which can be serious.
RET Fusion-Positive NSCLC
Efficacy results for patients with both platinum chemotherapy treated and treatment-naïve RET fusion-positive NSCLC are summarized below:
The activity of Retevmo in patients with CNS metastases was also evaluated. Among the 247 patients with previously treated RET fusion-positive NSCLC, 16 had measurable CNS metastases at baseline as assessed by BIRC. One patient received radiation therapy (RT) to the brain within two months prior to study entry. Responses in intracranial lesions were observed in 87.5% (14 of 16) of patients; 39% of responders had an intracranial DOR of 12 months or greater. Among the 69 patients with treatment-naïve RET fusion-positive NSCLC, five had measurable CNS metastases at baseline as assessed by BIRC. Two patients received RT to the brain within two months prior to study entry. Responses in intracranial lesions were observed in four of these five patients; 38% of responders had an intracranial DOR of 12 months or greater.
"Retevmo's accelerated approval played an important role in providing earlier access for patients who needed new treatment options. We are now pleased to see the conversion from an accelerated approval to a traditional approval," said Andrea Ferris, president and chief executive officer, LUNGevity Foundation. "As a targeted treatment, this traditional approval further reinforces the need for comprehensive biomarker testing for lung cancer patients, with the hope that as many patients as possible can benefit from receiving treatments tailored to their specific tumor mutations."
In the full LIBRETTO-001 safety population (n=796) with advanced solid tumors, the most common adverse reactions (≥25%) were edema, diarrhea, fatigue, dry mouth, hypertension, abdominal pain, constipation, rash, nausea, and headache. The most common Grade 3 or 4 laboratory abnormalities (≥5%) were decreased lymphocytes, increased alanine aminotransferase (ALT), increased aspartate aminotransferase (AST), decreased sodium, and decreased calcium. For more information, see "IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FOR RETEVMO® (selpercatinib)" below.
About LIBRETTO-001
The Phase 1/2 LIBRETTO-001 trial is the largest clinical trial of patients with RET-driven cancers treated with a RET inhibitor. The trial, which spans 16 countries and 85 sites, included a dose escalation phase (Phase 1) and a dose expansion phase (Phase 2). The primary objective was to determine ORR by blinded independent review committee (BIRC) and other objectives included DOR, CNS ORR & DOR, safety and PFS.
About Retevmo® (selpercatinib, 40 mg & 80 mg capsules)
Retevmo (selpercatinib, formerly known as LOXO-292) (pronounced ret-tév-mo) is a selective and potent RET kinase inhibitor. Retevmo may affect both tumor cells and healthy cells, which can result in side effects. RET-driver alterations are predominantly mutually exclusive from other oncogenic drivers. Retevmo is a U.S. FDA-approved oral prescription medicine, 120 mg or 160 mg dependent on weight (<50 kg or ≥50 kg, respectively), taken twice daily until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FOR RETEVMO® (selpercatinib)
Hepatotoxicity: Serious hepatic adverse reactions occurred in 3% of patients treated with Retevmo. Increased aspartate aminotransferase (AST) occurred in 59% of patients, including Grade 3 or 4 events in 11% and increased alanine aminotransferase (ALT) occurred in 55% of patients, including Grade 3 or 4 events in 12%. Monitor ALT and AST prior to initiating Retevmo, every 2 weeks during the first 3 months, then monthly thereafter and as clinically indicated. Withhold, reduce dose, or permanently discontinue Retevmo based on the severity.
Severe, life-threatening, and fatal interstitial lung disease (ILD)/pneumonitis can occur in patients treated with Retevmo. ILD/pneumonitis occurred in 1.8% of patients who received Retevmo, including 0.3% with Grade 3 or 4 events, and 0.3% with fatal reactions. Monitor for pulmonary symptoms indicative of ILD/pneumonitis. Withhold Retevmo and promptly investigate for ILD in any patient who presents with acute or worsening of respiratory symptoms which may be indicative of ILD (e.g., dyspnea, cough, and fever). Withhold, reduce dose, or permanently discontinue Retevmo based on severity of confirmed ILD.
Hypertension occurred in 41% of patients, including Grade 3 hypertension in 20% and Grade 4 in one (0.1%) patient. Overall, 6.3% had their dose interrupted and 1.3% had their dose reduced for hypertension. Treatment-emergent hypertension was most commonly managed with anti-hypertension medications. Do not initiate Retevmo in patients with uncontrolled hypertension. Optimize blood pressure prior to initiating Retevmo. Monitor blood pressure after 1 week, at least monthly thereafter, and as clinically indicated. Initiate or adjust anti-hypertensive therapy as appropriate. Withhold, reduce dose, or permanently discontinue Retevmo based on the severity.
Retevmo can cause concentration-dependent QT interval prolongation. An increase in QTcF interval to >500 ms was measured in 7% of patients and an increase in the QTcF interval of at least 60 ms over baseline was measured in 20% of patients. Retevmo has not been studied in patients with clinically significant active cardiovascular disease or recent myocardial infarction. Monitor patients who are at significant risk of developing QTc prolongation, including patients with known long QT syndromes, clinically significant bradyarrhythmias, and severe or uncontrolled heart failure. Assess QT interval, electrolytes, and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) at baseline and periodically during treatment, adjusting frequency based upon risk factors including diarrhea. Correct hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, and hypocalcemia prior to initiating Retevmo and during treatment. Monitor the QT interval more frequently when Retevmo is concomitantly administered with strong and moderate CYP3A inhibitors or drugs known to prolong QTc interval. Withhold and dose reduce or permanently discontinue Retevmo based on the severity.
Serious, including fatal, hemorrhagic events can occur with Retevmo. Grade ≥3 hemorrhagic events occurred in 3.1% of patients treated with Retevmo including 4 (0.5%) patients with fatal hemorrhagic events, including cerebral hemorrhage (n=2), tracheostomy site hemorrhage (n=1), and hemoptysis (n=1). Permanently discontinue Retevmo in patients with severe or life-threatening hemorrhage.
Hypersensitivity occurred in 6% of patients receiving Retevmo, including Grade 3 hypersensitivity in 1.9%. The median time to onset was 1.9 weeks (range: 5 days to 2 years). Signs and symptoms of hypersensitivity included fever, rash and arthralgias or myalgias with concurrent decreased platelets or transaminitis. If hypersensitivity occurs, withhold Retevmo and begin corticosteroids at a dose of 1 mg/kg prednisone (or equivalent). Upon resolution of the event, resume Retevmo at a reduced dose and increase the dose of Retevmo by 1 dose level each week as tolerated until reaching the dose taken prior to onset of hypersensitivity. Continue steroids until patient reaches target dose and then taper. Permanently discontinue Retevmo for recurrent hypersensitivity.
Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) occurred in 0.6% of patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma receiving Retevmo. Patients may be at risk of TLS if they have rapidly growing tumors, a high tumor burden, renal dysfunction, or dehydration. Closely monitor patients at risk, consider appropriate prophylaxis including hydration, and treat as clinically indicated.
Impaired wound healing can occur in patients who receive drugs that inhibit the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling pathway. Therefore, Retevmo has the potential to adversely affect wound healing. Withhold Retevmo for at least 7 days prior to elective surgery. Do not administer for at least 2 weeks following major surgery and until adequate wound healing. The safety of resumption of Retevmo after resolution of wound healing complications has not been established.
Retevmo can cause hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism occurred in 13% of patients treated with Retevmo; all reactions were Grade 1 or 2. Hypothyroidism occurred in 13% of patients (50/373) with thyroid cancer and 13% of patients (53/423) with other solid tumors including NSCLC. Monitor thyroid function before treatment with Retevmo and periodically during treatment. Treat with thyroid hormone replacement as clinically indicated. Withhold Retevmo until clinically stable or permanently discontinue Retevmo based on severity.
Based on data from animal reproduction studies and its mechanism of action, Retevmo can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. Administration of selpercatinib to pregnant rats during organogenesis at maternal exposures that were approximately equal to those observed at the recommended human dose of 160 mg twice daily resulted in embryolethality and malformations. Advise pregnant women and females of reproductive potential of the potential risk to a fetus. Advise females of reproductive potential and males with female partners of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment with Retevmo and for 1 week after the last dose. There are no data on the presence of selpercatinib or its metabolites in human milk or on their effects on the breastfed child or on milk production. Because of the potential for serious adverse reactions in breastfed children, advise women not to breastfeed during treatment with Retevmo and for 1 week after the last dose.
Severe adverse reactions (Grade 3-4) occurring in ≥20% of patients who received Retevmo in LIBRETTO-001, were hypertension (20%), diarrhea (5%), prolonged QT interval (4.8%), dyspnea (3.1%), fatigue (3.1%), hemorrhage (2.6%), abdominal pain (2.5%), vomiting (1.8%), headache (1.4%), nausea (1.1%), constipation (0.8%), edema (0.8%), rash (0.6%), and arthralgia (0.3%).
Serious adverse reactions occurred in 44% of patients who received Retevmo. The most frequently reported serious adverse reactions (in ≥2% of patients) were pneumonia, pleural effusion, abdominal pain, hemorrhage, hypersensitivity, dyspnea, and hyponatremia.
Fatal adverse reactions occurred in 3% of patients; fatal adverse reactions included sepsis (n=6), respiratory failure (n=5), hemorrhage (n=4), pneumonia (n=3), pneumonitis (n=2), cardiac arrest (n=2), sudden death (n=1), and cardiac failure (n=1).
Common adverse reactions (all grades) occurring in ≥20% of patients who received Retevmo in LIBRETTO-001, were edema (49%), diarrhea (47%), fatigue (46%), dry mouth (43%), hypertension (41%), abdominal pain (34%), rash (33%), constipation (33%), nausea (31%), headache (28%), cough (24%), vomiting (22%), dyspnea (22%), hemorrhage (22%), arthralgia (21%), and prolonged QT interval (21%).
Laboratory abnormalities (all grades ≥20%; Grade 3-4) worsening from baseline in patients who received Retevmo in LIBRETTO-001, were increased AST (59%; 11%), decreased calcium (59%; 5.7%), increased ALT (56%; 12%), decreased albumin (56%; 2.3%), increased glucose (53%; 2.8%), decreased lymphocytes (52%; 20%), increased creatinine (47%; 2.4%), decreased sodium (42%; 11%), increased alkaline phosphatase (40%; 3.4%), decreased platelets (37%; 3.2%), increased total cholesterol (35%; 1.7%), increased potassium (34%; 2.7%), decreased glucose (34%; 1.0%), decreased magnesium (33%; 0.6%), increased bilirubin (30%; 2.8%), decreased hemoglobin (28%; 3.5%), and decreased neutrophils (25%; 3.2%).
Concomitant use of acid-reducing agents decreases selpercatinib plasma concentrations which may reduce Retevmo anti-tumor activity. Avoid concomitant use of proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs), histamine-2 (H2) receptor antagonists, and locally-acting antacids with Retevmo. If coadministration cannot be avoided, take Retevmo with food (with a PPI) or modify its administration time (with a H2 receptor antagonist or a locally-acting antacid).
Concomitant use of strong and moderate CYP3A inhibitors increases selpercatinib plasma concentrations which may increase the risk of Retevmo adverse reactions including QTc interval prolongation. Avoid concomitant use of strong and moderate CYP3A inhibitors with Retevmo. If concomitant use of a strong or moderate CYP3A inhibitor cannot be avoided, reduce the Retevmo dosage as recommended and monitor the QT interval with ECGs more frequently.
Concomitant use of strong and moderate CYP3A inducers decreases selpercatinib plasma concentrations which may reduce Retevmo anti-tumor activity. Avoid coadministration of Retevmo with strong and moderate CYP3A inducers.
Concomitant use of Retevmo with CYP2C8 and CYP3A substrates increases their plasma concentrations which may increase the risk of adverse reactions related to these substrates. Avoid coadministration of Retevmo with CYP2C8 and CYP3A substrates where minimal concentration changes may lead to increased adverse reactions. If coadministration cannot be avoided, follow recommendations for CYP2C8 and CYP3A substrates provided in their approved product labeling.
Retevmo is a P-glycoprotein (P-gp) inhibitor. Concomitant use of Retevmo with P-gp substrates increases their plasma concentrations, which may increase the risk of adverse reactions related to these substrates. Avoid coadministration of Retevmo with P-gp substrates where minimal concentration changes may lead to increased adverse reactions. If coadministration cannot be avoided, follow recommendations for P-gp substrates provided in their approved product labeling.
No dosage modification is recommended for patients with mild to severe renal impairment (estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate [eGFR] ≥15 to 89 mL/min, estimated by Modification of Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD] equation). A recommended dosage has not been established for patients with end-stage renal disease.
Reduce the dose when administering Retevmo to patients with severe hepatic impairment (total bilirubin greater than 3 to 10 times upper limit of normal [ULN] and any AST). No dosage modification is recommended for patients with mild or moderate hepatic impairment. Monitor for Retevmo-related adverse reactions in patients with hepatic impairment.
Please see full Prescribing Information for Retevmo.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements (as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) about Retevmo® (selpercatinib) for the treatment of locally advanced and metastatic RET fusion-positive NSCLC and other RET fusion-positive solid tumors, and reflects Lilly's current beliefs and expectations. However, as with any pharmaceutical product, there are substantial risks and uncertainties in the process of development and commercialization. Among other things, there is no guarantee that future study results will be consistent with study findings to date or that Retevmo will receive additional regulatory approvals. For further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see Lilly's Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, Lilly undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this release.
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On Sept. 20, the Fergus Falls Otters girls tennis team hosted section 8AA and Central Lakes Conference opponents Sartell-Saint Stephen Sabers in a dual. The Otters took a clean sweep of singles and topped the first doubles match to earn a 5-2 victory.
Fergus had great matches all around on the singles side of things, highlighted by a come-from-behind win for Ruby Ellison. Ellison has been occupying the third singles slot for much of the season and is really finding her stride and confidence. She found herself down 4-5 in the first set before winning 9 of the next 10 games to earn the match 7-5, 6-1.
“Ellison did a great job of staying the course and being aggressive throughout her match, as well as keeping that mental edge over her opponent after winning the first set,” said Fergus coach Jamie Lill.
Isabella Abrahams, Leila Nasri and Ashtyn Lill also all picked up straight set wins to earn all the singles points for the Otters. Karley Braeger and Cyntreya Lockett also edged out the Sabers 11-9 in a third set super tie-breaker.
“Tonight was a great team match for us from top to bottom,” said Lill. “We rebounded nicely from a less than superb showing on Monday night and the girls showed up to play.”
The Otters host the Willmar Cardinals in another 8AA and CLC matchup, on Sept. 22.
Singles:
1. Isabella Abrahams (FF) defeated Sarah Weno (S) 6-4, 6-3.
2. Leila Nasri (FF) defeated Charlotte Lau (S) 6-4, 6-2.
3. Ruby Ellison (FF) defeated Olivia Marek (S) 7-5, 6-1.
4. Ashtyn Lill (FF) defeated Addy Bultema (S) 6-2, 6-2.
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Scrapping annual MOT: what the DfT has said about plans for two-year test and how drivers have reacted
Motorist raise safety and cost concerns around propsal to relax test schedule to every two years
The majority of British drivers are against the Government’s plan to relax MOT rules, according to a new survey.
Most motorists have serious road safety concerns about the proposal to change the compulsory MOT from every year to every two years.
Former Transport Secretary Grant Shapps floated the idea of a bi-annual MOT earlier this year as a way to address the cost of living crisis. The RAC, which conducted the survey, said it understood the plans were still under consideration under his replacement at the Department for Transport (DfT), Anne-Marie Trevelyan.
However, the RAC poll of motorists found that 55% thought changing the MOT rules was a bad idea, with just 22% in favour. The other 23% were reportedly unsure about the plan.
Almost all of those opposed (98%) said they thought the move would lead to more dangerous vehicles on the roads. Twenty per cent thought it could lead to an increase in the number of collisions and 61% believed it would result in more breakdowns.
Most (58%) also doubted whether the move would save drivers money in the long run. Cutting the test frequency would save drivers a maximum of £27.40 over two years but could result in minor problems developing into more serious and more expensive issues. Some drivers also feared garages would increase other costs to make up for lost revenue.
Important safety tool
The RAC’s head of roads policy, Nicholas Lyes, said that while drivers were rightly sceptical about the cost benefits, the issue of road safety was of far greater concern. He said he had written to the the new Transport Secretary urging her to “consign this idea to the bin” and look at other means of saving drivers money.
He commented: “Many drivers look at the MOT test as an important tool to see if their vehicle is in a safe and roadworthy condition. It also gives drivers peace of mind from an overall road safety point of view to know that every other vehicle on the road has undergone the same checks.
“The idea that changing the MOT to every two years will save drivers money is met with huge scepticism as our research shows many have rightly identified that it may end up costing them more if faults go undetected and as a result get worse or cause other defects.
“But cost is secondary to road safety. We already know that many vehicles fail their MOT because of illegal tyre tread, so if this figure were to get significantly bigger more lives would be put at risk. And we know from our breakdown statistics that tyres in poor condition are far more likely to blow out or get punctured.
“There is a real danger that if the Government proceeds with these proposals that we could see an increase in the number of collisions and more injuries and deaths due to more unroadworthy vehicles using our roads, and an overall reduction in road safety.”
The DfT told the PA news agency that no decision has been made on changing MOT testing frequency and it would not comment on future Government policy.
Currently, all cars need an MOT on the third anniversary of their first registration and a repeat test even year after that.
Of those who supported easing MOT rules, 74% said they did so because modern cars are more reliable and do not need annual checks, while more than half (54%) believe it will save them money. A confident 41% told the RAC that they checked their car for basic roadworthiness and didn’t need to pay for someone to do it officially on an annual basis.
The latest data from the Department for Transport shows that in the first three months of 2022 29% of cars and light vans presented for a class 4 MOT failed the test. Of those, 25% failed on lighting and electrical faults, 19% failed on suspension, 16% on brakes and 12% on tyre defects.
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USA TODAY reported in 2019 that the St. Louis region remains one of the most segregated in America in terms of housing.
It cited a 24/7 Wall St. study that showed 38.3% of the area’s Black population live in Black neighborhoods, while Black residents comprised 18.3% of the region’s population.
Redlining, housing covenants and other discriminatory practices played a role in the divide, and in a landmark move St. Louis Realtors offered an apology for its role in creating the situation, which still exists today.
“The legacy of racism and discrimination is evident, and it needs to be addressed,” said Katie Berry, president of St. Louis Realtors.
“Our apology is not an indictment against an individual; rather, we as an organization understand that the region cannot move forward until there is an acknowledgment and understanding of the oppression and inequality within the real estate industry that has adversely affected people of color for generations.”
The lengthy written apology was released on Monday, and it is unique to the St. Louis area. The apology is not part of a nationwide Realtors campaign.
The apology states the local organization is “painfully aware of the historical discriminatory laws of the local, state, and federal governments, as well as the documented policies and practices of our national, state, and local Realtor organizations that perpetuated discrimination against the Black community and created barriers for the pursuit of property ownership.”
“Numerous historical events, laws, decisions, and initiatives reflect a history of explicit racial segregation and discrimination.
“We apologize for all of these actions. The discrimination to which the Black community was subjected to was part of a system designed to cause residential racial segregation, led by the federal government, supported by the banking system and the real estate industry, and driven by practices like redlining and the use of restrictive covenants.
The apology states that the polices “resulted in dual housing markets for white and Black families in the Metropolitan St. Louis area.”
St. Louis Realtors announced it has established a three-year “Reimagining St. Louis” plan to provide guidance on home ownership, financial literacy, and preserving assets. It includes promoting and supporting a mentorship program for African Americans interested in all aspects of the real estate industry.
A goal is “to benefit the communities that we harmed,” and the organization has hired Felicia Crawford-Randle as its first Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion director. She is directing implementation of the plan.
Will Jordan, executive director of the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing & Opportunity Council [EHOC] called the apology “an important first step toward bridging the economic gap created by racist and restrictive real estate policies over the years.”
“Property is often the most valuable asset a person has. We are talking about generational wealth that African Americans never had the chance to build through no fault of their own. It’s important to realize that the only way we will make true progress toward equity and fairness in real estate is through strategic partnerships with financial institutions, among others, and a willingness to promote equal opportunity for all in the real estate industry.
Nate Johnson, president of the board of directors for the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council, called the apology “historic in terms of accountability and proactivity,”
“For an organization that represents more than 9,000 members from across the real estate industry to publicly acknowledge past racial injustices while presenting a plan for solutions will hopefully serve as a wake-up call to others in the St. Louis region,” Johnson said.
“Racism in all forms is a complex topic, and mitigating its effects is a daunting task. But the work must be done, and I’m looking forward to working to make real progress in bridging economic gaps that have existed far too long.”
The St. Louis group is one of the largest real estate associations in the nation and its fifth oldest.
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As Sickle Cell Awareness Month continues this month, the American Red Cross is teaming up with organizations to rally blood donors who are Black to support patients with sickle cell disease.
Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the U.S., mostly affecting patients of African descent who may require frequent blood transfusions throughout their lifetime.
Chronic pain can accompany the disease, and it can lead to a need for lifesaving blood transfusions.
“When cells harden, they can get caught in blood vessels, potentially leading to stroke and organ failure,” Dr. Emily Coberly, Chief Medical Officer at Red Cross of Missouri, and Arkansas, said.
“Transfusions provide healthy blood cells, unblocking blood vessels and delivering oxygen, minimizing crises patients with sickle cell may face.”
One in 3 African American blood donors are a match for people with sickle cell disease.
The Red Cross is working with the National Pan-Hellenic Council, also known as the Divine Nine of historically Black fraternities and sororities, and other organizations through its Joined by Blood partnership through October to increase the number of Black blood donors.
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., is holding a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, at 500 N. Vandeventer Ave., St. Louis, 63108.
The event is being held “in loving memory of Sickle Cell warrior Ronicia “Ro” Otey,” according to the fraternity. Appointments can be made at redcrossblood.org by following the “Find A Drive” instructions.
Donna Jones Anderson, national president of the National PanHellenic Council, called the fight against Sickle Cell, “a problem of mutual interest to our member organizations and the communities we serve.”
“We’re asking each of our organizations, local collegiate and alumni NPHC councils to join us in a collaborative effort to host blood drives and encourage our communities to give blood. Through our collective action, we can help save lives.”
Finding a location to give blood like at the Kappa event is a telephone call or online visit away. Appointments can be scheduled at RedCrossBlood.org, by downloading the Blood Donor App or calling 1-800-RED CROSS.
All donors who come to give Oct. 1-31 will receive a $5 e-Gift Card by email to a merchant of choice.
“Community partnerships demonstrate that when we care for our community together, we can make a difference,” said Dr. Yvette Miller, executive medical officer, Red Cross Blood Services.
“Sickle cell disease has few visible symptoms. In fact, many individuals battling this disease often look healthy despite suffering in pain. The mission of the Red Cross is to alleviate human suffering.
“We are doing that by advocating for patients battling this cruel disease to improve access to the most compatible blood products and find ways the Black community and community at large can support the transfusion needs of patients.”
Launched in 2021, the initiative is a proven success. According to the Red Cross, the number of first-time African American blood donors who gave with the Red Cross increased by 60%.
Chris Ruffin Jr., a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., is one of 100,000 people in the U.S. who has sickle cell disease and relies on regular blood transfusions to manage his disease and treat complications.
He was diagnosed with the disease at birth and survived a stroke at 6 years old. A recipient of monthly blood transfusions, Ruffin has received over 3,000 units of blood in his life.
The HBCU graduate and Emmy Award-winning senior broadcast news producer, says “[Blood] donors help me and my family by helping keep me alive.”
“Every drop of blood you give makes us family. We’re joined by blood.”
While the disease has been studied for decades, screenings for sickle cell trait were not widely performed until 2006.
The Red Cross is providing sickle cell trait screening on all blood donations from self-identified African American donors. While carrying the trait does not mean that an individual has sickle cell disease, health experts recommend that individuals with sickle cell trait be aware of their status and consult their medical provider on what the possible ramifications could be.
Other organizations participating include 100 Black Men of America, Inc., Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International, Seven Day Adventist Church Office of Regional Conference and United MegaCare, Inc., and The Potter’s House.
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UNITED NATIONS — Iran’s president insisted Wednesday that his country is serious about reviving a deal meant to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear bomb but questioned whether Tehran could trust America’s commitment to any eventual accord.
The U.S. had already “trampled” on a previous deal, President Ebrahim Raisi told the U.N. General Assembly, referring to America’s decision to pull out of the accord in 2018.
Ever since Iran’s 1979 revolution that overthrew its Western-backed shah, Tehran has been at odds with the United States and has sought to project itself as a counterweight to American power.
Tehran’s resolve to resist U.S. pressure has seen it build close ties with countries like Russia, develop a domestic ballistic missile program and attempt to export its narrow revolutionary ideals to countries across the Mideast through Shiite militias and proxies.
Its nuclear program, which Iran insists is for peaceful energy purposes, is seen as an extension of its defiance of an American-led world order.
After former U.S. President Donald Trump walked away from the deal brokered by the Obama administration, Tehran steadily abandoned every limitation the accord imposed on its nuclear enrichment.
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But efforts to salvage the deal are now nearing a take-it-or-leave-it inflection point. European Union officials have warned the window for securing a nuclear deal is about to close.
In exchange for agreeing to the terms of the new nuclear deal, Iran would receive relief on economic sanctions and be given greater access to global financial markets and the flow of U.S. dollars.
“There is a great and serious will to resolve all issues” in the nuclear talks, Raisi said, but he added: “Our wish is only one thing: observance of commitments.”
“Can we truly trust without guarantees and assurances that they will this time live up to their commitment?” he asked of the U.S.
Swings in American foreign policy with successive administrations have concerned not only Iran, but also U.S. allies who have questioned America’s reliability and its commitment to agreements, ranging from climate to security.
Even as he expressed a desire to reach a deal, Raisi criticized what he said was lopsided scrutiny of Iran’s nuclear activities while other nations’ atomic programs remain secret — a reference to Israel, which has never confirmed nor denied having such weapons. Israel, which is vehemently opposed to the nuclear deal, accuses Iran of concealing aspects of its nuclear program from U.N. inspectors.
“We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” U.S. President Joe Biden said in his own speech at the U.N., but he stressed the U.S. is ready to rejoin the accord if Iran steps up its commitments.
Raisi, who was previously chief of Iran’s judiciary, also denounced Western “double standards” on human rights. He accused Israel of creating the world’s largest prison through its blockade of the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
He also cited mass graves of Indigenous people found in Canada and the manner in which the U.S. detains migrants and refugees on its southern border.
Wearing a traditional black turban identified with Shiite clerics, Raisi held up a photo of slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani, whom he described as a “freedom-seeking man.” The Revolutionary Guard chief who oversaw Iranian militias and proxy armed groups in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and beyond was assassinated in a strike authorized by Trump in 2020 at the height of tensions with Iran.
Raisi, who was sworn in as president only a year ago, has been described as a protege of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He spoke for the first time from the podium at the U.N. in his role as president. Last year, he delivered remarks to the assembly virtually due to COVID-19 restrictions.
He told the gathered leaders Iran wants to have “extensive relations with all our neighbors” — an apparent reference to foe Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries in the region.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have held a number of direct talks over the past year, though tensions remain high between the two. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates recently reopened its embassy in Tehran and sent an ambassador there.
Raisi’s speech comes at a sensitive time in Iran.
Israel’s shadow war against Iran continues. It is widely believed to have been behind the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists and sabotage attacks on Iran’s nuclear program.
Meanwhile, Western sanctions, which Raisi described as a “punishment on the people of Iran,” have eaten away at Iran’s reserves, exacerbated inflation, and devalued Iran’s currency against the U.S. dollar.
Economic protests have flared — and frequently are met with lethal force.
In recent days, protesters have clashed with police in cities across the country, including the capital, over the death of a 22-year-old woman who was held by the morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strictly-enforced dress code. On Wednesday, Iranians experienced a near-total internet blackout.
Raisi has offered condolences to the woman’s family and promised an investigation, while other Iranian officials have accused unnamed foreign countries of seizing on the incident to foment unrest. Her death has ignited long-simmering anger among many Iranians, particularly young people, at the country’s ruling clerics.
Associated Press writer Joseph Krauss contributed to this report.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that the US housing market is likely to suffer a reversal in the wake of policymakers’ interest-rate hikes.
“We’ve had a time of a red-hot housing market all over the country,” Powell said in a press conference after the Fed’s policy decision on Wednesday, in which the central bank raised interest rates by another 75 basis points.
“The deceleration in housing prices that we’re seeing should help bring prices more in line with rents and other housing-market fundamentals. And that’s a good thing,” Powell said.
US mortgage rates have climbed to the highest since 2008 in response to the Fed’s monetary tightening, with average 30-year fixed-rate home loans reaching 6.25% last week. While home-price gains remain high on a year-over-year basis, they have been decelerating.
Home sales have been declining as high borrowing costs and elevated prices compound affordability challenges, weighing on demand. A report earlier Wednesday showed sales of previously owned US homes fell for a seventh straight month in August, the longest streak since 2007, and builder sentiment has dropped every month this year in a record slide.
A report Tuesday showed that new-home construction unexpectedly rose in August. Still, a drop in building permits showed how residential construction is coming under pressure.
“We’ve probably in the housing market got to go through a correction to get back” to a place where supply and demand are better aligned, price gains are “reasonable” and people can afford properties, Powell said on Wednesday. Property prices “were going up at an unsustainably fast level.”
However, it will take a while for home prices and rents to cool more significantly, Powell said.
“Shelter inflation is going to remain high for some time,” Powell said. “Hope for the best, plan for the worst.”
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