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By JAY REEVES | Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Two U.S. military veterans who disappeared three months ago while fighting Russia with Ukrainian forces were among 10 prisoners, including five British nationals, released by Russian-backed separatists as part of a prisoner exchange mediated by Saudi Arabia, officials said Wednesday.
Alex Drueke, 40, and Andy Huynh, 27, went missing in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border June 9. They had traveled to Ukraine on their own and became friends because both are from Alabama.
Their families announced their release in a joint statement from Dianna Shaw, an aunt of Drueke.
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“They are safely in the custody of the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia and after medical checks and debriefing they will return to the states,” the statement said.
Shaw said both men have spoken with relatives and are in “pretty good shape,” according to an official with the U.S. embassy.
President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan welcomed the releases and thanked the governments of Ukraine and Saudi Arabia for their work to secure the detainees‘ freedom. “We look forward to our citizens being reunited with their families,” he said in a tweet.
In a later statement, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States “is appreciative of Ukraine including all prisoners of war, regardless of nationality, in its negotiations” and thanked Saudi government partners for securing the release of the 10 prisoners, including the two Americans.
The Saudi embassy released a statement saying it helped secure the release of 10 prisoners from Morocco, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Croatia. Shaw confirmed that Drueke and Huynh were part of the group.
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The United Kingdom said five British nationals had been released, and lawmaker Robert Jenrick said one of them was Aiden Aslin, 28, who had been sentenced to death after he was captured in eastern Ukraine.
“Aiden’s return brings to an end months of agonising uncertainty for Aiden’s loving family in Newark who suffered every day of Aiden’s sham trial but never lost hope. As they are united as a family once more, they can finally be at peace,” Jenrick tweeted.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss heralded the news on social media.
“Hugely welcome news that five British nationals held by Russian-backed proxies in eastern Ukraine are being safely returned, ending months of uncertainty and suffering for them and their families,” she tweeted.
Moroccan media reported that the released prisoners included Brahim Saadoun, 21, who was sentenced to death in June after being accused of terrorism and trying to overturn the constitutional order. Captured by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine, the court claimed he was a mercenary, while Saadoun’s father said he had enlisted in Ukraine’s regular army.
Russian state television had previously said Drueke and Huynh were being held by Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The U.S. does not recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and has no diplomatic relations with them, making it necessary for others to lead efforts to get the men released.
Drueke joined the Army at age 19 after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and he believed he could help Ukrainian fighters because of his training and experience with weapons, Shaw said previously. Drueke left in mid-April.
Druke’s mother received a call from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning and an embassy worker handed the phone to the man, Shaw said.
“He got on the phone and said, ‘Hi mom, it’s your favorite child,’” she said.
Huynh moved to north Alabama two years ago from his native California and lives about 120 miles (193 kilometers) from Drueke. Before leaving for Europe, Huynh told his local newspaper, The Decatur Daily, he couldn’t stop thinking about Russia’s invasion.
“I know it wasn’t my problem, but there was that gut feeling that I felt I had to do something,” Huynh told the paper. “Two weeks after the war began, it kept eating me up inside and it just felt wrong. I was losing sleep. … All I could think about was the situation in Ukraine.”
Huynh told his fiance he wants a meal from McDonald’s and a Pepsi-Cola when he returns home, Shaw said.
The two men bonded over their home state and were together when their unit came under heavy fire. Relatives spoke with Drueke several times by phone while the two were being held.
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George Kliavkoff, whose career includes executive positions at Major League Baseball, NBCUniversal and MGM Resorts International, stands accused of being bad at math.
The Pac-12 commissioner caused quite the stir Tuesday when he opined that UCLA stood to lose money by joining the Big Ten.
“We are sure they are financially better off staying (in the Pac-12),” he said during an appearance on ‘Canzano and Wilner: The Podcast,’ “and we are sure there was no other criteria in the decision, other than financial.”
On the surface, the comments seem to contradict the laws of time, physics and media rights valuations:
— The Pac-12’s next media contract cycle is expected to generate $35 million-to-$40 million annually (per school) in revenue.
— In the Big Ten, the Bruins will receive at least $70 million per year.
But Kliavkoff was insistent.
“We think the incremental money they are going to receive from the Big Ten’s media rights deal will be more than 100 percent offset by additional expenses,” he said, “so you end up taking the money you earned and it goes to airline and charter companies and coaches and administrators.
“It doesn’t go to supporting the student-athletes.”
His comments on the podcast, which was recorded Monday night, came three days before the University of California’s Board of Regents is scheduled to discuss UCLA’s move to the Big Ten in the summer of 2024.
The agenda for the closed session Thursday morning (10 a.m.) reads as follows:
“UCLA Big Ten Membership – Potential Legal Issues and Financial Impacts”
The regents aren’t expected to take action. The meeting is listed as a discussion — just as it was when the regents met in the middle of August at UCLA.
That suggests two possible outcomes:
— The regents decide to take action against UCLA at a later date. (They have the authority to revoke the move, although that course of action could carry significant legal and financial consequences — in addition to setting a dangerous precedent within the UC system.)
— They agree to continue discussing the matter as a next step toward the ultimate goal of letting it dissolve into the political ether.
Which way it goes, we cannot say. The University of California Office of the President did not respond to a request for comment about the meeting and explanation of possible procedural steps.
What’s not up for debate is that Kliavkoff’s math was met with disbelief from anyone with a surface-level understanding of the jackpot awaiting the Bruins in their new home.
Over the past two months, the Hotline has examined the situation from every angle. And we have done so with the help of a contact in the sports-media industry that has access to revenue-and-expense modeling for Big Ten membership but zero allegiance to the Bruins or the conference.
An honest broker, in other words.
The Pac-12 and UCLA have, of course, run the numbers ten times over and reached different conclusions. The conference believes the move is a net negative for the Bruins, as Kliavkoff stated so confidently, while the school believes membership in the Big Ten will be a financial boon.
Why the disparity? Because the accuracy of any financial modeling depends entirely on the accuracy of the inputs.
And as we see it, there are two critical inputs:
1. UCLA’s annual expenses as a member of the Big Ten, including airfare, administrative costs and salaries for coaches comparable to their peers in the new league.
2. The Pac-12’s annual revenue with UCLA remaining in the conference, which creates direct access to the massive Los Angeles media market.
In our opinion, that’s where the models diverge. The conference has estimated higher for both; the Bruins, lower for both.
Which is accurate?
Let’s start with the Pac-12 revenue. The conference and its potential media partners (ESPN, Fox, Amazon, etc.) have run their projections with and without UCLA as part of the next grant-of-rights agreement.
We don’t have access to those projections and are left to offer estimates based on numerous conversations with sports media sources.
Without the Bruins involved, the Pac-12’s annual media rights revenue is likely in the $40 million per school range. That could mean $37 million or it could mean $43 million, but we’ll use $40 million for this exercise.
The central question is where that revenue number goes with UCLA in the conference. Does having a campus in Los Angeles produce a small bump into the low $40 millions, or a significant bump to the $50 million range?
USC is the more valuable property, of course, with a brand that can drive ratings. But UCLA’s presence likely would help with the three cash streams in the sports media ecosystem (retransmission fees, pay-TV subscriptions and advertising).
Meanwhile, UCLA’s expenses in the Big Ten will increase significantly. Chartered flights alone could add $8 million-to-$10 million annually.
The Bruins also have benchmarked their administrative costs and coaching salaries against those of schools in the Big Ten and, based on our understanding, believe that any increases would be limited.
The Hotline doesn’t necessarily agree. Why? Because everything in college athletics always costs more than you think and because each Big Ten school will ramp up spending once the cash starts flowing from the new media contract.
What about the numbers?
First, one caveat: Whether the Bruins are in the Big Ten or the Pac-12, it’s important for readers to understand that total media revenue each year comes from three primary buckets: broadcast of regular-season football and men’s basketball games; the College Football Playoff; and March Madness.
We don’t know how revenue from the expanded CFP will be divided among the Power Five conferences or within each Power Five conference. Nor can we project the cash from NCAA Tournament units that have yet to be earned.
So we’re sticking with the regular-season broadcast revenue here.
And Kliavkoff’s math comes mighty close to working if you make one major assumption: That the Pac-12 will collect significantly more than the public projections (including ours) suggest.
We’ll peg UCLA’s revenue number in the Big Ten as $70 million annually. Now, let’s back out $10 million for the massive amount of travel for the Bruins’ teams (chartered flights) and another $5 million for the administrative costs, including coaching salaries, that come with doing business in the Big Ten.
To be clear, we think the $10 million estimate is probably high based on where the Bruins currently stand when benchmarked against the averages in the Big Ten.
But if the modeling includes $10 million in airfare and $5 million in administrative costs, that brings UCLA’s net down to $55 million.
And if the Pac-12’s media rights are worth closer to $50 million than $40 million with a campus in Los Angeles, then it starts to approach a wash.
Again, we don’t necessarily agree with that Pac-12 revenue figure. It feels high by at least 10 percent. But that’s how you make the math work.
Now, there’s one more piece to the calculation: The UC regents, who possess the power of the purse.
The Hotline doesn’t expect the regents to force the Bruins to subsidize Cal for revenue lost resulting from UCLA’s departure. But until there is definitive evidence that no subsidy is forthcoming, we won’t completely dismiss the possibility.
Combine an unexpectedly high revenue number for the Pac-12 with UCLA in the conference with a subsidy imposed by the regents — even if it’s a few million annually — and the model outputs start to converge.
So that’s our view:
The most reasonable scenario suggests UCLA’s revenue bump in the Big Ten, as compared to staying in the Pac-12, works out to $10 million-to-$12 million annually.
But if the Pac-12’s media rights with a campus in L.A. are worth significantly more than we believe, the math gets interesting.
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Melissa de la Cruz’s The Ring & The Crown is Coming To Disney+
As production on Percy Jackson and the Olympians continues to heat up, Disney+ is adding another young-adult fantasy property to its streaming ranks. Deadline brings word that the House of Mouse is developing a new series based on The Ring & The Crown, based on the novel by Melissa de la Cruz which was originally published in 2014.
The book follows the lives of two girls who both occupy very different spots on the social ladder. Princess Marie-Victoria is the heir to the world’s mightiest empire, while Aelwyn Myrddyn is the bastard daughter of Merlin and destined to remain in the crown’s service. Despite their conflicting backgrounds, the girls have been able to maintain a close friendship. However, as they grow older, their lives head in opposite directions. As the noble families of the world flaunt their wealth, and magic during the annual London Season festivities, Marie, Aelwyn, and others begin making moves to acquire power of their own.
Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg are writing the Disney+ adaptation of de la Cruz’s novel. The duo previously worked together on shows like Star Trek: Discovery, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, and the original Roswell. De la Cruz also has an existing relationship with Disney. In 2015, she published The Isle of the Lost, a prequel novel set before the events of the studio’s Descendants franchise.
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“I am so, so, so excited to partner with Disney once more,” said de la Cruz in a new statement. “The Ring and The Crown is one of my finest novels, it was inspired by my favorite book of all time, Tolstoy’s War and Peace as well as my favorite mythology of all time, the Arthurian legends. I cannot wait to see it brought to life by such a stellar team, studio and streaming service.”
“We are thrilled to be reunited with Charlie Andrews, Reena Singh, and the 20th team,” added Berg and Harberts. “Their vision, combined with The Gotham Group’s passion and expertise, provide the perfect ingredients to craft a romantic, action-packed, supernatural soap with seasons and seasons of stories. We could not be more excited to be a part of bringing this rich universe to life.”
Are you excited to see if Harberts and Berg can do The Ring & The Crown justice? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: The Ring & The Crown
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Titania’s Chit Chat is Over In New She-Hulk Episode 6 Clip
After last week’s episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Jennifer Walters is once again legally able to call herself She-Hulk. Jen’s increasingly annoying nemesis, Titania, tried to co-opt the She-Hulk name for her own brand of beauty products. However, a legal defeat won’t be enough to keep Titania from interfering in Jen’s life. In a new She-Hulk episode 6 clip, Jen discovers that Titania has wormed her way on to the guest list for a wedding.
Within the preview, Titania reveals how she got her invite to the wedding. And unfortunately for Jen, no one seems to believe her about Titania’s true intentions. That includes the bride-to-be, who happens to be one of Jen’s best friends.
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Despite the Daredevil tease at the end of last week’s episode, there’s no sign of Matt Murdock in this clip. That may mean we’ll have to wait at least another week to see Charlie Cox on the show. Regardless, we’ll know one way or another if Daredevil is back yet in just a few hours.
The sixth episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law will premiere on Disney+ tonight at midnight.
What do you think about the new She-Hulk episode 6 clip? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: She-Hulk by Soule & Pulido: The Complete Collection
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Hilliard Studio Method Announces Expansion into Winston-Salem
Charlotte, NC - Sept 2022 - Liz Hilliard, Creator and Owner of Hilliard Studio Method, announces licensing agreement with Lucy Noell Skelly (Croxton) of Winston-Salem, NC for Hilliard Studio Method of Winston-Salem. The new studio location is set to open in 2023.
Hilliard Studio Method’s award winning core-centric, pilates based workout has stolen the hearts of many Charlotteans. It comes by no surprise that the dedication to the method workout has spread by word of mouth into many cities around the globe. This is the first of many satellite partnerships throughout the nation. “Just like any mother seeing her child take wings I feel so proud and excited that HSM is headed to this beautiful community in the hands of this accomplished, powerful woman,” says Hilliard.
Lucy Noell was born and raised in Winston-Salem and always hoped to move back to start a family. Following a wedding in Ravello Italy, she and her husband, Matt, are moving back to Winston at the end of this year. Lucy Noell attended the University of Georgia and graduated with a degree in Advertising from Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Lucy Noell has had a decade-long successful career in fundraising.
Lucy Noell started taking classes at Hilliard in the spring of 2018 and was immediately hooked.
“I hope to bring Hilliard to Winston as a lifeline for myself, and also a public service to others. Every city should have one and what better place to start the Hilliard expansion than right down the road in the Triad with so many Hilliard loyalists. I approached Liz and Lee to see if they would be open to it, and they loved the idea and were ready to expand. The rest was history!” Noell said.
If you or someone you know is interested in opening your own Hilliard Studio Method in your city, please email info@hilliardstudiomethod.com for more details. Follow along on instagram @hilliardstudiomethod for the latest news and events.
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The Little Theatre to Host a “Behind the Scenes” Community Open House
The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem will host a Community Open House on Saturday, October 15, from 10 am-12 noon at the Hanesbrands Theatre, 209 N. Spruce Street in Winston-Salem.
This “behind the scenes” look at Winston-Salem’s oldest performing arts group will take visitors on a tour of the many elements that go into bringing a show to the stage. From lighting and sound to props and drops, guests will see the gorgeous set and costumes of Guys and Dolls up close, discover a “magic trick” or two used by the backstage crew, and learn about the many positions volunteers fill in a community theatre.
Admission is free and the event is open to the public. There will be a free drawing for tickets to upcoming shows and refreshments will be provided.
For further information, call (336) 725-4001 or visit www.LTofWS.org.
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Volunteers Needed to Pick Grapes for Good at the Guilford County Farm
“The Big Pick” annual event takes place Saturdays, Sept. 24 & Oct. 1
GUILFORD COUNTY – Guilford County Parks is seeking volunteers to participate in the annual Big Pick at the Guilford County Farm, 7315 Howerton Rd., Gibsonville. The event will take place on two Saturdays, Sept. 24 and Oct. 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. Everyone is invited to attend, but minors must be accompanied by an adult and registration is required prior to the event.
Harvested grapes will be donated to local food banks, shelters, and kitchens for people in need of some delicious fresh produce.
“This is a unique hands-on volunteer experience that benefits low-income families that lack access to sustainable nutrition,” said John Gladstone, Guilford County Passive Parks Supervisor. “Last year we were able to harvest and donate nearly 1,200 pounds to organizations that then distributed the grapes to nearly 500 families. We want to make a bigger impact this year.”
The vineyards are a proud feature of the farm, grown specifically to give back to the community. The 3-acre Vineyard has 18 rows of Red Muscadine vines and produces thousands of pounds of grapes each year.
Volunteers should bring a personal water bottle, sun protection, footwear for walking in open fields, and gloves are also recommended.
For more information or to register for the event, visit https://bit.ly/3TjIHts. Larger groups interested in volunteering should contact John Gladstone, email jgladst@guilfordcountync.gov.
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12th Annual GTCC Foundation Golf Classic scheduled Oct. 25 at Grandover Resort East Course
JAMESTOWN, N.C. (Sept. 21, 2022) – –The 12th Annual GTCC Foundation Golf Classic presented by Honda Aircraft is set for October 25 at the Grandover Resort East Course in Greensboro.
Entry in or sponsorship of the charitable tournament supports scholarships and the mission of the GTCC Foundation. Since 2011, tournament proceeds have made it possible to award approximately $500,000 to GTCC students, which supports education and workforce development at the college.
Entry fee for the captain’s choice format tournament is $1,200 per four-man team and includes four golf shirts, four premier tee gifts, eight tickets to the tournament celebration party on October 24, breakfast, lunch and awards reception on tournament day, one tee or green sign and recognition in GTCC promotions.
Several levels of sponsorship are also available for the 18-hole tournament including: title sponsor, breakfast sponsor, premier shirt sponsor, tournament golf ball sponsor and special hospitality sponsor.
Other sponsorships available include: scholarship sponsor, putting green sponsor, practice range sponsor and hole sponsor.
Registration for the tournament begins at 7:30 a.m. on October 25 with the tournament beginning at 9 a.m.
For more information or to sign up for a team or sponsorship, contact John Hartigan at 336.334.4822, ext. 50040 or jdhartigan@gtcc.edu.
About Guilford Technical Community College: Guilford Technical Community College is the fourth largest of 58 institutions in the North Carolina Community College System. GTCC serves more than 27,000 students annually from five campuses and a Small Business Center. For more information, visit gtcc.edu, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
About the GTCC Foundation: The GTCC Foundation supports efforts to ensure education excellence through fundraising, advocacy and promoting awareness of the college’s positive impact on the community. Founded in 1966, The Foundation oversees more than 200 gift funds that provide critical financial support annually for students and faculty. For more information, visit: https://foundation.gtcc.edu.
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“Violence. Tyranny. Intrigues. Power.”
No, those aren’t the headlines on FOX News but the opening narration of Medieval, the epic historical written, produced, and directed by Petr Jakl. If it wasn’t enough that this growlingly stentorian voiceover is provided by Michael Caine, subtitles are employed to further convey exposition. As if it were needed.
The film was originally titled Jan Zizka after its main character (played by Ben Foster), reputedly the only warrior never to have suffered a defeat. As Zizka is not well-known on these shores, the more generic title Medieval has been applied — and generic is precisely what the film is. It conceivably could have been called “Old King Wenceslas,” since that character appears in the form of Karel Roden. But Medieval it is.
Given the nature of international film financing, it’s no surprise to hear so many dialects and see so many nationalities on the screen. No one really attempts an authentic Czech accent, but that would further muddy the waters, which are muddy and bloody enough. The setting is Italy in the early days of the 15th Century, a time of great political upheaval and narrative bombast. The warrior’s grunt, the swords clank, the blood flows, and limbs (and other appendages) fly — frequently in slow motion. Medieval has a distinct proclivity for trampling any semblance of subtlety while over-emphasizing bloodshed.
Foster plays Zizka as the strong, silent type, while the requisite villainy is provided by Matthew Goode, Til Schweiger, and Roland Moller. Sophie Lowe, a talented young actress who deserves to be much better known, may not strike a blow for 15th-Century feminism as Katherine, the resident damsel in distress, but she’ll swim through a rat-infested grotto and apply maggots to Jan’s bloody eye socket without so much as a blink of her own eye.
That the film wallows in such repetitious violence is arguably its biggest drawback, simply because it’s unnecessary. Medieval is never boring but it does become numbing. It’s difficult to differentiate one battle from the next. The period detail is nice to look at, and there’s even a CGI (computer-generated) lion at large, perhaps left over from the recent Beast?
Schweiger, Goode (channeling Jeremy Irons at his most odious), and the great Caine (long beyond critical reproach) are mostly confined to the castle, and their expository exchanges only serve to confuse matters. In almost every scene involving dialogue — which is hardly the film’s strong suit — a further double-cross is being threatened or perpetrated. Rather than attempt (and fail) at being a history lesson, the makers should have simplified and streamlined, and simply made a piece of entertainment. As it stands, Medieval is clumsily balanced between the two.
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Winston-Salem’s popular LGBTQ+ screening series, “OUT at the Movies,” will launch its ninth annual film festival beginning September 29 and running through October 2, boasting a varied selection of 31 films — plus parties and special events — during the four-day event. Individual tickets are $10, flex passes (any five in-person screenings) are $40, and festival passes (one admission to any in-person or online screening) are $80. For advance tickets or more information, visit https://outatthemovies.org/.
“We are excited and looking forward to four days of screenings, many with Q&As, parties and a concert,” said Rex Welton, the co-founder and director of the “OUT” festival and screening series. “Technology that allows folks to watch movies from home is wonderful, but to me, a true festival is bringing together audience members and filmmakers to watch movies, participate in Q&As, and talk about their experiences at our nightly receptions.”
The Selected Festival Shorts Preview will be screened on September 29 at 8 p.m. at a/perture cinema (311 W. Fourth Street, Winston-Salem) and the remainder of the selections will be screened on the main campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) School of Filmmaking (1533 S. Main Street, Winston-Salem).
“A/perture has really enjoyed working closely with Chad E. Harris over the past year,” said Lawren Desai, executive director and curator of a/perture cinema. “Chad is responsible for programming the shorts program for the ‘OATM’ festival, which is also the one program we will screen on opening night. From June-September of this year, Chad also programmed four short films to precede our programming as part of our ‘shortsb4films’ program (https://aperturecinema.com/shortsb4films/) — and we thought it would be a great way to highlight the festival by sharing some of their shorts either selected or submitted.”
Encompassing the festival, “we have 31 films — features and shorts — and all but one will be available online (from September 30-October 8), as well as the in-person screening of each film at UNCSA’S ACE Theatre Complex,” said Welton. “I am very happy with this year’s line-up. Between submissions on ‘FilmFreeway’ and from distributors, we had over 150 movies under consideration. Paring that down to 31 was a tough job!”
Filmmaker James Andrew Walsh is an “OUT” veteran, his 2021 debut feature The Extinction of Fireflies having been screened at last year’s festival. When it came time for an encore, Walsh was only too happy to oblige with his latest film, Jimmy and Carolyn, a comedy/drama starring Gregory Harrison and Mary Beth Peil, which will be the opening night screening on September 30 at 7 p.m. at the UNCSA Main Theatre.
“We are thrilled to be the opening night at this year’s festival,” Walsh said. “It’s a dream come true. Rex and his team throw a wonderful event. But above and beyond their exquisite hospitality, theirs is a festival that honors and respects filmmakers first and foremost. I wish they were all like this one: The perfect balance of Hollywood movie glamor and excitement and genuine cinema magic! I love this festival so much I worked last year’s swag into the movie — sejie if you can spot it!”
Filmmaker Todd Flaherty is a newcomer to the festival. He wrote, produced, edited, directed, and stars in Chrissy Judy, a comedy/drama/character study in which he plays a drag queen confronting new career and life challenges when his performing partner (Wyatt Fenner) departs for supposedly greener pastures. The film will be screened on October 1 at 7 p.m. at the UNCSA Main Theatre.
“I am a Winston-Salem and ‘OUT’ first-timer, and I’m excited to get the opportunity to visit and share our film with a new audience,” Flaherty said. “Rex and the ‘OUT’ team have been an absolute dream! We love the films they’re programming this season and they’ve made us feel like absolute stars!
“Many people ask, and I hesitate to say, the film is autobiographical,” he said. “But, like the old saying goes, ‘write what you know’ … and I know very intimately about these beautifully love-filled and fragile queer relationships. I’ve been a Chrissy and a Judy in my formative relationships and was grateful to have the space to write about them. Working on a micro-budget is incredibly difficult and forced me to wear more hats than I had initially intended — producing and editing the film as well as to cut costs. Of course, when I watch the film I wish we had a larger budget … but I truly love what we created with a crew of three on such a small budget. It’s a beautiful film made with Scotch tape and love and, somehow, it looks like a million bucks. I couldn’t be happier.”
Flaherty is currently working on his next feature, on which he hopes to commence production next year. In addition, “I was recently cast in a new film that starts shooting next month,” he said. “I’m very excited and honored to play a part in it — and not have to worry about directing or producing or editing!”
Assembling an annual four-day film festival is hard work, but “it truly is fun and rewarding,” said Welton. “’OUT at the Movies’ had an international reputation for not only great movies and events but also stellar hospitality. I often tell our volunteers that we may not be one of the bigger, older, and/or most critically acclaimed festivals, but we can do the very best job when it comes to taking care of our visiting filmmakers, actors, documentary subjects, and audience members — and we do!
“I am also very proud of the fact that filmmakers who often live in the same bigger city — primarily New York City or Los Angeles — have met each other in Winston-Salem during one of our festivals and have ended up working together on future films. I have to believe that these collaborations would not have happened had it not been for ‘OUT at the Movies’!”
Sponsorship levels for the festival begin at $100, and all levels include tickets and other perks. Donors at the $250 level and above will receive an invitation for two to the festival’s VIP party featuring celebrities, delicious food, and an open bar. In addition, the festival is still seeking volunteers.
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PICKS OF THE WEEK
MIRACLE (Film Movement): Hailed as one of the shining lights of “new” Romanian cinema, filmmaker Bogdan George Apetri’s award-winning thriller (originally titled Miracol) is persuasive testament to his talents. Occasionally vague and frequently self-indulgent, it’s nevertheless an absorbing work.
Ioana Bugarin plays Cristina, a young novice who quietly arranges a surreptitious visit to a local hospital. The drive proves fateful in a number of ways, which are best not divulged here. Several days later, police inspector Marius Preda (Emanuel Parvu) is assigned to ascertain what actually occurred to Cristina. As he carefully, methodically delves into the circumstances surrounding Cristina, his tight-lipped veneer begins to crack, his investigation becoming an obsession.
Apetri occasionally employs self-indulgent sleight-of-hand, some of which may baffle viewers. But they’re no denying the power of Miracle’s central performances. Bugarin exudes a pensive vulnerability throughout, and Parvu – who has more lines in his first scene than Bugarin does the entire film – contributes a slow-boiling intensity that carries the narrative to its conclusion … which is anything but inevitable. Or is it?
In Romanian with English subtitles, the DVD ($24.95 retail) includes audio commentary and Apetri’s first film, the 2006 short A Very Small Trilogy of Loneliness. ***
ALSO AVAILABLE
“BERNARD-HENRI LEVI COLLECTION” (Cohen Media Group/Kino Lorber): A self-explanatory, four-film selection of acclaimed feature documentaries directed by the esteemed, French-born best-selling writer, philosopher, and political activist Bernard-Henri Levy: 2021’s The Will to See (Une autre idee du monde), 2017’s The Battle of Mosul (La bataille de Mossoul), 2016’s award-winning Peshmerga, and 2012’s The Oath of Tobruk (Le serment de Tobrouk). Each film is in French with English subtitles, and the two-disc DVD collection retails for $29.95.
BLOOM UP (Kino Lorber): Subtitled A Swinger Couple Story – which explains everything – writer/producer/director/cinematographer Mauro Russo Rouge’s feature documentary follows Hermes Osanto and Elisabetta Barbero, a middle-aged Italian couple who have embraced a polyamorous lifestyle. In Italian with English subtitles, available on DVD ($19.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($29.95 retail).
COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON (Kino Lorber): Nadine Labaki and Saleh Bakri star in writer/director Mouina Akl’s award-winning drama as a couple who opt to leave pollution-riddled Beirut for a simpler life in a remote mountain village, only to have civilization encroach upon their lives when they learn of a proposed garbage landfill to be developed adjoining their property. In Arabic with English subtitles, available on Blu-ray ($29.95 retail) replete with behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes, Q&A, theatrical trailer, and more.
“CURSED FILMS”: SEASON 2 (Shudder/RLJE Films): The Shudder documentary series continues (and concludes) with all five episodes from the 2022 (and final) season, which explores the bizarre circumstances surrounding such notable genre films as The Wizard of Oz (1939), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Stalker (1979), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1987), and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), featuring interviews with Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Roger Deakins, Lorna Luft, Ruggero Deodato, Adam Savage and others, available on Blu-ray ($29.97 retail), replete with bonus features.
“THE EQUALIZER”: SEASON TWO (CBS Home Entertainment/Paramount Home Entertainment): Executive producer Queen Latifah assumes the role of a former government operative who takes action against those who prey upon the downtrodden and helpless, in all 18 episodes from the 2021-‘22 season of the award-winning action CBS series based on the prime-time ‘80s series, with Lorraine Toussaint, Laya DeLeon Hayes, Liza Lapira, and Adam Goldberg rounding out the regular cast, available on DVD ($33.99 retail), replete with bonus features.
FACING NOLAN (Kino Lorber): Arguably the greatest pitcher in baseball history, Nolan Ryan is the subject of director Bradley Jackson’s feature documentary debut, with Ryan discussing his illustrious life and career, which culminated with his overwhelming election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999, with such notables as Pete Rose, George Brett, Cal Ripken, Roger Clemens, Rod Carew, Dave Winfield, Randy Johnson, and even former U.S. President George W. Bush weighing in, available on Blu-ray ($19.95 retail), featuring bonus Q&A sessions, clips, and trailer.
KARMALINK (Good Deed Entertainment/Kino Lorber): The first science-fiction film made in Cambodia, writer/producer/director Jake Wachtel’s award-winning debut feature follows teenager Leng Heng Prak (in his feature debut) and streetwise orphan Srey Leak Chhith (in her feature debut) as they delve into the mysterious world of past-life regression in their quest to possess a priceless Buddhist treasure. Sadly, Prak died shortly after completing the film, which is dedicated to him. In Khmer with English subtitles, available on Blu-ray ($29.95 retail).
THE KILLING (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The last film he made in the United States, Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 adaptation of Lionel White’s novel Clean Break (scripted by Kubrick and Jim Thompson), sees Sterling Hayden masterminding a daring racetrack heist that, naturally, does not go according to plan. Tough, bleak, and fast-based, with solid back-up from Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Ted de Corsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jay C. Flippen, Timothy Carey and Joe Turkel, available on 4K Ultra HD combo ($39.95 retail), replete with audio commentary and theatrical trailer. ***
THE LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The Blu-ray bow ($24.95 retail) of director James P. Hogan’s 1937 drama set in Madrid against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, boasting a star-studded ensemble cast: Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Lionel Atwill, Helen Mack, Anthony Quinn, Robert Cummings, and Karen Morley – and look fast for Alan Ladd. Bonus features include audio commentary and trailers.
“LUCIFER”: THE SIXTH & FINAL SEASON (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment): Tom Ellis is back in action as that handsome devil, who forsakes Hell for Los Angeles, in all 10 episodes from the 2021 (and final) season of the award-winning Netflix fantasy series based on DC Entertainment’s Vertigo comic franchise, with Lauren German, D.B. Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Kevin Alejandro, Aimee Garcia, and Rachael Harris rounding out the regular cast, available on DVD ($24.98 retail) and Blu-ray ($24.99 retail).
MERCENARY FIGHTERS (Code Red/Kino Lorber): The Blu-ray bow ($29.95 retail) of the self-explanatory, standard-issue 1988 shoot-‘em-up (originally titled Freedom Fighters) detailing political strife in South Africa, with Peter Fonda, Reb Brown, Jim Mitchum, Ron O’Neal, and Robert DoQui caught in the crossfire. Produced by the inimitable Menahem Golan/Yoram Globus duo at Cannon Films, this aroused controversy for being filmed on location at the height of the anti-apartheid movement. (I once interviewed Fonda and he expressed no affection for this film.) Rated R. *½
MURINA (Kino Lorber): The Blu-ray bow ($29.95 retail) of screenwriter/director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s award-winning debut feature, a coming-of-age parable starring Gracija Filipovic (in her feature debut) as a restless teenager on a remote island along the Adriatic coast who chafes against her domineering father (Leon Lucev) by accompanying wealthy but mysterious Cliff Curtis on a weekend excursion. In Croatian with English subtitles, bonus features include Q&A session, director’s introduction, and theatrical trailer.
POST MORTEM (Shout! Studios/Shout! Factory): Peter Bergendy wrote the story and directed this award-winning chiller set during the waning days of World War I, with Victor Klem as a troubled photographer and Anna Fruzsina (in her feature debut) as a war orphan drawn to a supposedly haunted village where the residents fear evil spirits as much as the Spanish Flu epidemic. In English, German and Hungarian with English subtitles, available on DVD ($19.99 retail) and Blu-ray ($22.98 retail), both boasting bonus features.
“SEAL TEAM”: SEASON FIVE (CBS Home Entertainment/Paramount Home Entertainment): David Boreanaz (also an executive producer) and the members of Bravo Team are back in action, newly facing hazardous missions both here and abroad, with Max Theriot, Toni Trucks, Neil Brown Jr., and A.J. Buckley rounding out the regular cast in all 14 episodes from the 2021-'22 season of the Emmy-nominated CBS action series created by executive producer Benjamin Cavell, available in a four-disc DVD collection ($39.99 retail), replete with bonus features.
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): Barbara Stanwyck plays the title character in this brooding 1946 melodrama, the only film noir directed by Lewis Milestone, as a wealthy but paranoid heiress who suspects former beau Van Heflin of trying to blackmail her over the death of her aunt years before. In a showy feature debut, Kirk Douglas plays Stanwyck’s self-loathing, alcoholic husband (and the local district attorney), with sterling support from Lizabeth Scott and Judith Anderson. This earned an Oscar nomination for John Patrick’s original story. Long available in various public-domain formats, this special-edition Blu-ray ($24.95 retail) includes audio commentary and trailers. ***
THE TURNING POINT (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): Hard-driving reporter William Holden and hard-boiled district attorney Edmond O’Brien join forces to bring down a powerful crime syndicate in director William Dieterle’s noir-ish1952 potboiler based on Horace McCoy’s story, which was inspired by the Kefauver Committee hearings of that period, with Ed Begley and Neville Brand providing the requisite villainy, Alexis Smith the requisite love interest, and Tom Tully, Ted de Corsia, Don Porter, Ray Teal, and an unbilled Carolyn Jones (in her feature debut) in support. The highlight is the climax where hired gun Brand pursues Holden during a boxing match, available on DVD ($14.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($24.95 retail), each boasting audio commentary and theatrical trailer. **½
“YOUNG SHELDON”: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment): Iain Armitage stars as the precocious mathematics genius Sheldon Cooper in this award-winning CBS comedy “prequel” series spun off from The Big Bang Theory detailing his childhood in East Texas, with Big Bang Theory creators and executive producers Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro on board, and executive producer (and sometime director Jim Parsons) reprising his role as the adult Sheldon, with Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Montana Jordan, and Annie Potts (Perry’s real-life mother) rounding out the regular cast in all 22 episodes from the 2021-’22 season, available on DVD ($19.99 retail) and Blu-ray ($24.99 retail).
(Copyright 2022, Mark Burger)
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Greensboro Downtown Restaurant Week is underway, continuing through Sunday, September 25. For a complete list of all 23 participants, go to the Downtown Greensboro website, downtowngreensboro.org/events/chow-downtown.
But for more details about the food specials that are being offered, you’re already in the right place! Herewith, the special offerings from a few cherry-picked places I include among my personal favorites.
Blue Denim (217 South Elm Street, 336-676-5689, bluedenimgso.com) is noteworthy for abundance of flavor, an outgrowth of chef/owner Jody Morphis’s Louisiana roots. He is knocking a dollar off the price of Crawfish Beignets. Their crisp exterior gives way to an interior studded with bits of crawfish that stand out in their own right, plus onions and peppers. They are enhanced with comeback sauce, a variation on remoulade.
‘cille and ‘scoe (312 S. Elm Street, 336-522-6592, cilleandscoe.com) was the subject of a full article in Yes! Weekly on April 6. Access it at issuu.com/yesweekly/docs/yes_weekly_-_april_6_2022). The restaurant’s name pays tribute to the grandparents of Chef-Partner Sean Reaves. Chef is going all out for this event, with a four-course tasting menu for $38, to include fire-roasted oysters, sweet potato gnocchi with sage brown butter, duck risotto, and pork belly.
At Crafted, the Art of the Taco (220 S Elm Street, 336-273-0030, eatatcrafted.com), Taquitos will be priced at $12.95, including a side. You’ll get three crispy corn tortillas filled with chicken tinga topped with roasted poblano sour cream, cilantro, and cotija cheese; or black beans and corn with Baja sauce and vegan cheese. Choose a side from the menu list.
The wine list at Lewis & Elm Wine Bar (600 S Elm Street, 336-763-3435, lewisandelm.com) is exceptional. Food items are tapas style, small plates. They are cutting the price of their Panino in half for this event. This is a grilled sandwich on freshly baked foccacia, encasing Italian cured meats and melted cheeses.
Liberty Oak (100 W Washington Street, 336-273-7057, libertyoakgso.com) is running the perennially popular Oak Burger at $12 (grilled black angus beef topped with their homemade barbecue sauce, white cheddar cheese, applewood smoked bacon, plus onion straws, served on a toasted challah roll, with one side), and Shrimp and Grits (shrimp and andouille sausage sautéed with garlic and fresh herbs, served over smoked Gouda stone ground Grits and topped with a cream sauce) for $20.
MACHETE (600-C Battleground Ave, 336-265-8859, machetegso.com) drew special attention last year when it was named a semifinalist for best new restaurant in the entire United States in the prestigious James Beard Awards. Lofty company, indeed. Their special this week is a trio of ice creams- Butter Pecan, Thai Basil, and Mango Sorbet- all made in-house, for $9.
Whenever anyone asks, “What’s the best restaurant in town?” I always include The Undercurrent (327 Battleground Avenue, 336-370-1266, undercurrentrestaurant.com) in my response. For this event, all entrees are being discounted 10 percent (dine-in only). The Undercurrent is always a good value for dining at this level, and this price cut makes for a real deal!
White and Wood (215 S. Elm Street, 336-638-1216, thewhiteandwood.com) has two hand helds on the menu, a Burger and a Grilled Cheese. In the article I wrote about this restaurant, I characterized them both as knockouts. A brioche bun hosts the Ultimate Bacon Cheeseburger, based on ground filet mignon and ribeye steak, blended in-house. The depth of flavor in the meat is exceptional. Gruyere cheese takes this to an even higher level of sophistication, rounded out by thick sliced bacon. A homemade shallot aioli and “drunken barbecue sauce” enhance the meat. The Grilled Cheese blends superior cheeses- mezzo secco, gruyere, and fromage blanc- hosted on Italian round sour dough bread, enhanced with bacon, tomato, and cooked onion. For Restaurant Week, they will be offering the burger or grilled cheese served with a side arugula salad or homemade tater tots plus a choice of any dessert for $25. They will continue to offer Happy Oyster Hour (half price, 5-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday) and Wine Wednesday/Thirsty Thursday specials (20% discount on bottles of wine) through that week.
Zeto Wine Shop (335 Battleground Avenue, 336-574-2850, zetowines.com) is celebrating its 23rd anniversary this year! For Restaurant Week, they are providing a $5 discount on a $20 Vinomatic card (pay $15). This is a delightful device! You insert your card, then choose the quantity pour, then press the button, and it dispenses into your glass. About a dozen selections are available. I’ll most likely be first in line.
See you somewhere, downtown, this week!
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Michael J. Braxton, Lyle C. May, Terry Robinson, and George T. Wilkerson will not be allowed to own a copy of Inside: Voices from Death Row, the second book they wrote with Tessie Castillo.
The four men are inmates on North Carolina’s Death Row. When interviewed last week, Durham-based journalist Castillo said that her co-authors all received contributor’s copies of Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row, the award-nominated 2020 collection of essays they wrote with her after she taught them in Central Prison in Raleigh.
“The men had it for a few days before correctional officers came around and seized their copies. The book was banned throughout the North Carolina prison system.”
As was all material in it, including notes and document files.
“When we were writing the second book, and I was sending the essays back to them for editing and corrections, I had to have volunteers send those documents without titles so that prison officials and officers wouldn’t be able to tell that these were chapters in the next book.”
That new book is published by Scuppernong Editions, the publishing imprint of Greensboro’s Scuppernong Books. On Friday, September 23, at 6 p.m., it will debut at the bookstore at 304 South Elm Street as the opening event of Carceral Country, an ambitious nine-part series examining incarceration in America. This event is hybrid and can be attended in person or by Zoom. Castillo’s co-authors will be joining by phone.
Castillo said that Inside and its predecessor happened because of a psychologist she met at a 2013 Super Bowl party.
“He worked specifically with people on Death Row, and had been advocating for a long time to bring in volunteers into Death Row to teach classes on art, writing and other things. He finally succeeded, and was looking for volunteers. To my knowledge, nobody has previously been allowed to visit Death Row except for chaplains.”
She immediately volunteered, but it took a year for the project to be approved.
“At the time, I was a lobbyist working with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition and the state legislature on reforms to criminal law and the death penalty. As part of criminal justice work, I was also a journalist and had been publishing articles for many years.”
Castillo said books aren’t the only thing censored on Death Row.
“Letters routinely are. After they switched to tablets last October, text messages and emails were and are closely monitored, and things are routinely redacted. I’ve sent stuff to them that was blocked, or delayed for a long time while somebody went over it.”
There have been other forms of pushback.
“One of our co-authors was thrown into solitary confinement for 37 days without being given a reason. After his solitary ended, he was told it wasn’t specifically because of the book, but the music he’s writing, which appears in the book. The guys will sometimes get reminders from guards that they are being watched, phone calls are being monitored, and letters are being read. My name is on a watch list, so I often have to send things to them via someone else.”
In the foreword to the new book, Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, quoted co-author Lyle May:
“Prison is a place, an experience, a period of time, in which to continue to grow, to develop, to age, to die. It is a very different place than any other, but still just a place where people continue to be people.”
Castillo agreed.
“I think it’s really important that, if we’re going to have a system that actually kills people, we should understand how it works. So, I would encourage people to learn more. Until you know a person on Death Row, it’s really easy to kill someone who’s there. It’s a lot harder when you do.”
That’s why she and her co-authors offer book clubs where people can call in and speak with Braxton, May, Robinson and Wilkerson over Zoom. “They can ask any questions they want. We also do speaking engagements where the guys call in from prison, so there are a lot of opportunities that we offer for folks to get to know these guys.”
Despite this, said Castillo, most of the 135 inmates on Central Prison’s Death Row remain completely silenced.
“They don’t have any money. These guys pay for text messages that they send, they pay per minute to write the text messages, they pay per minute for phone calls, for movies they watch, and for games. Their only source of money is friends and family. They’re not allowed to be paid for their work, and my co-authors don’t earn anything from the book. All the money goes to the North Carolina Victims Assistance Network.”
Castillo sent YES! Weekly the following statements from each of her co-authors.
Michael J. Braxton, also known as Alim, is the only rapper to release music from Death Row, where he has been since 1993. His debut album Mercy on My Soul is available through NU Revolution Entertainment.
Braxton wrote:
Here are two things I’d like your readers to know. First, I love to learn. I chose my Muslim name, Alim, because it means “One who has knowledge.” I read constantly. I’ve read biology, chemistry, and physics textbooks, a science and technology encyclopedia, a geographical dictionary. I’ve read tons of books on Black history and race in America. I am a student of Islamic law, and I’ve read the Qur’an many times. If there’s something I’ve heard about but don’t understand, I’ll study it until I do. If I weren’t in prison, I might be a professor or a scholar. The second thing I want your readers to know is that I am a rapper on a mission. I’ve been rapping since I was 13, but only started releasing recordings in the last few years. I am passionate about making music, but I see hip hop as my ticket to greater and more important things. My ultimate goal is to make amends for the crimes I have committed and to help innocent people on Death Row win their release — in particular, my friends Stacey Tyler and Elrico Fowler. Allah says in the Qur’an that to kill a person is like killing all of mankind, and to save one life is like saving all of mankind. Inshallah, I will use my music to literally save a man’s life on Death Row.
Lyle C. May is a prison journalist, abolitionist, Ohio University alum, and member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society. He has been on Death Row since 1999.
May wrote:
It’s important to remember that incarcerated people are thinking, feeling, and oftentimes evolving human beings. We have families, loves, anxieties, regrets, and struggle to make a semblance of a life in confinement. This, unfortunately, juxtaposes the politics of crime and punishment that anyone convicted of a crime is “less than.” This narrative justifies inhumane treatment, injustice, and death. By reducing me to something less than ordinary citizens, it makes fighting against systemic wrongs like the death penalty and life without parole, or better conditions of confinement a matter of survival. The public has been conditioned to believe draconian punishment is morally acceptable. I push back against that belief with what my and others’ experience demonstrates, and what academics have struggled to explain for decades: harsher punishments cause more violent crime; the death penalty and Life Without Parole are an extension of racial oppression and political power; prisons fail society because they have been allowed to deteriorate under the guise of being “tough.” These are examples of why I write and pursue justice. That will to resist is central to my identity and desire for freedom.
Terry L. Robinson, also known as Chanton, has been on Death Row since 1998. He is currently working on two books, the urban fantasy novel Born to the Devil and the memoir Tales from the Hood: A Road Map to Death Row. He maintains his innocence and continues to fight what he calls his wrongful conviction.
Robinson wrote:
I would like readers to know that throughout my life’s journey I have discovered that I am a product of my hidden flaws evolved into the undeniable truth. My past mistakes were not the result of my having no moral conviction, but the willingness to be accepted I didn’t know my poor decisions back then, my shameless behavior, was my drafting the résumé for my life; that I would be categorized and looped into a statistic and thought to be unworthy of humanity. I didn’t understand that somewhere in my quest for the validation of others, I’d surrendered my self-approval. And with no way to undo the wrongs of my past, I was beyond redemption.
Today, I realize the way to redemption is not gifted by the naysayers but gained through accountability, growth, and positive change. Today I am no longer tethered to the validation of others; I am defined by my ownership. My writing is the tool by which I have carved out my redemption by laying my truths bare. It’s self-affirmation and a reminder that I’m entitled to be flawed.
George T. Wilkerson is a three-time winner of the PEN America literary award. He edited the anthology You’ll Be Smarter Than Us and is editor of Compassion, a national newsletter by and for Death Row prisoners. Bone Orchard, his collaborative collection from BleakHouse Publishing, examines the differences between doing time with a release date and having a death sentence. He has been on Death Row since 2006.
Wilkerson wrote:
I would want readers to know that I am a work-in-progress in both respects; and that as I grow as a person, it enriches my writing, which in turn helps me grow as a person. It’s an upward-spiraling feedback loop of growth.
To me, writing poetry and personal essays is about mining our humanity and sharing what I find. the premise is that despite our superficial, circumstantial differences, underneath it all — or rather, ABOVE it all? — we are all fundamentally the same. Writing helps me to discover the raw material for empathy, those golden veins of emotion we all share.
Thus, the more I write, the more HUMAN I feel, the more connected and whole.
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ASHEBORO
Four Saints Brewing
218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722
Thursdays: Taproom Trivia
Fridays: Music Bingo
Sep: 24 Kelsey Hurley
Oct 8: Eck McCanless
CARBORRO
Cat’s Cradle
300 E Main St | 919.967.9053
Sep 21: S.G. Goodman w/ Le Ren
Sep 21: Amanda Shires w/ Honey Harper
Sep 22: The Spill Canvas w/ Michael Flynn
Sep 22: Sarah Borges
Sep 23: flor w/ The Wldlfe & good problem
Sep 24: Be Loud! ’22 ft. Preesh!, What Peggy Wants, The Sexells, & Secret Monkey Weekend
Sep 24: Nighblooms, Charity Lane, & Rodes Baby
Sep 25: Eric Sommer, Ken Stewart, & Red Haired Girl
Sep 25: Movements w/ Angel Du$t, One Step Closer & Snarls
Sep 25: Eric Sommer, Ken Stewart, & Red Haired Girl
Sep 26: Girlpool w/ Dream & Ivory
Sep 27: Oseesw/ Bronze
Sep 27: Fleece w/ GRAE
Sep 28: King Buffalo w/ Heavy Temple
Sep 29: Electric Six & Supersuckers
Sep 29: Tinariwen w/ Garcia Peoples
Sep 29: The 502s w/ Happy Landing
Sep 30: Titus Andronicus
Oct 1: Watchhouse w/ Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
Oct 1: Jukebox the Ghost
Oct 3: Lucy Dacus w/ Crooks & Nannies
Oct 4: Melt w/ FRUTE
Oct 4: Rare Americans w/ DYLYN
Oct 4: of Montreal w/ Locate S,1
Oct 5: Ibeyi
Oct 6: Alex G w/ Barrie
Oct 6: The Cactus Blossoms w/ Alexa Rose
Oct 7: Tyrone Wells w/ Nathan Colberg
Oct 7: Steve Kimock & Friends
Oct 8: Wild Rivers w/ Kyndal Inskeep
Oct 8: Clem Snide & Jill Andrews
Oct 9: EddieFest w/ Tha Materials, Secret Monkey Weekend, Phineas Nyang’oro, Nikki Meets the Hibachi, & more!
Oct 9: Caroline Rose w/ Toth
Oct 11: Lucero w/ L.A. Edwards
Oct 11: Sammy Rae & The Friends w/ The Collection
Oct 13: Jonathan Richman w/ Tommy Larkins
Oct 13: Dead Horses w/ Andrea von Kampen
Oct 14: Stereolab w/ Rievel Is Glauque
Oct 15: Psychic Hotline Block Party
CHARLOTTE
Bojangles Coliseum
2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600
Oct 6: Kevin Gates
Oct 7: Carin Leon
CMCU Amphitheatre
former Uptown Amphitheatre
820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555
Sep 23: Gryffin
The Fillmore
1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970
Sep 22: Matt Maeson
Sep 24: Movements
Sep 25: LadyGang
Sep 25: One Ok Rock
Sep 28: King Princess
Sep 29: Fozzy
Sep 30: Highly Suspect
Oct 1: Coin
Oct 1: Monolink
Oct 2: New Rory & Mal
Oct 3: Peach Pit
Oct 3: Barns Courtney
Oct 4: Dave East & Friends
Oct 5: Niki
Oct 7: Twin Temple
Oct 9: Judah & the Lion
Oct 11: Turnstile w/ JPEGMAFIA & Snail Mail
Oct 12: Sabrina Claudio
Oct 12: Yung Bae
Oct 13: The Sage Motel Tour ft. Monophonics
Oct 15: Noah Kahan
Oct 15: Baynk
PNC Music Pavilion
707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292
Sep 21: $uicideboy$ w/ Ski Mask The Slump God & more
Sep 24: Zac Brown Band
Sep 26: Shinedown
Oct 4: Alice in Chains & Breaking Benjamin + Bush w/ special guests
Spectrum Center
333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000
www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com
Sep 21: Mary J. Blige
Oct 2: Charlotte R&B Music Experience ft. Monica, Tevin Campbell, Tamer Braxton, H-Town, 112, & NEXT
Oct 8: The Millennium Tour ft. Bow Wow, Mario, Keri Hilson, Lloyd, Pleasure P, Bobby V, Sammie, Ying Yang Twins, Dem Franchize Boyz, Lil Scrappy, Travis Porter, Crime Mob, Trillville, & Day26
CLEMMONS
Village Square Tap House
6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330
Sep 22: Joey Whitaker
Sep 23: Black Glass
Sep 29: Anna Mertson
Sep 30: Decades
Oct 6: JVC
Oct 14: Spindle 45
DURHAM
Carolina Theatre
309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030
Sep 25: The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle
Sep 28: Billy Bragg
Sep 29: Sibling Rivalry Tour
Sep 30: Ninja Sex Party
Oct 13: Here Come The Mummies
Oct 15: Pierce Freelon
DPAC
123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787
Oct 6: Wanda Sykes
Oct 7: Brandi Carlile
Oct 8: Father John Misty w/ Suki Waterhouse
Oct 9: Tauren Wells w/ Aaron Cole & Lakewood Music
Oct 11: Gov’t Mule w/ Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs
Oct 12: Wardruna
Oct 15: Diana Krall
ELKIN
Reeves Theater
129 W Main St | 336.258.8240
Wednesdays: Reeves Open Mic
Fourth Thursdays: Old-Time Jam
Sep 23: Mountain Heart
Sep 24: The Reeves House Band plays Fleetwood Mac
Oct 1: Dustbowl Revival
Oct 6: Becca Stevens, Jeff Black, & Joe Thrift
Oct 15: The Embers ft Craig Woolard
GREENSBORO
Arizona Pete’s
2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889
Oct 11: The Contortionist
Barn Dinner Theatre
120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211
Aug 26 - Sep 24: Beehive — The 60’s Musical
Sep 30: Stephen Freeman — 20 Years of Dinnertainment
Oct 1 - Nov 19: Is There Life After 50?
Carolina Theatre
310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605
Sep 21: Wednesday
Sep 23: Mandisa
Sep 24: LoveFest 2022
Sep 24: Day & Dream
Sep 25: East of Nashville Songwriters in the Round
Sep 24: Living with Ruthie Mae
Sep 30: KRS-One United Way of Greater Greensboro Concert
Sep 30: Bitch
Oct 1: Chris Meadows and The Dark Knights
Oct 15: Abigail Dowd
The Corner Bar
1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559
www.facebook.com/corner.bar.37
Comedy Zone
1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034
Sep 23-24: D’Lai
Sep 29: Mike Cannon
Sep 30 - Oct 2: Don “DC” Curry
Oct 7-8: Chris Wiles
Oct 14-16: Carolanne Miljavac
Common Grounds
602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.388
www.facebook.com/CommonGroundsGreensboro
Oct 1: Don Merckle
Cone Denim
117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646
Oct 8: B.O.B w/ Live Band
Oct 15: Sabbath
Flat Iron
221 Summit Ave | 336.501.3967
Sep 21: Carri Smithey
Sep 22: David Childers & The Serpents
Sep 23: House Flat Iron Vol III
Sep 24: Hustle Souls
Sep 26: Greg Koch
Sep 28: Will Overman & Will Easter
Sep 29: Travis Williams Group
Sep 30: Dr. Bacon
Oct 1: Oh No! Casino
Oct 2: Dan Davis Trio
Garage Tavern
5211 A West Market St | 336.763.2020
www.facebook.com/GarageTavernGreensboro
Sep 22: Patrick Rock & Cierra Dumas
Sep 23: Soundkraft
Sep 24: Diamond Edge Band
Sep 29: Tony & Katy
Sep 30: Hotwax & The Spinters
Oct 1: Camel City Blues Band
Greensboro Coliseum
1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400
Sep 30: Los Tigres del Notre
Oct 8: Real Talk Comedy Tour
Oct 13: Frankie Beverly & Maze
Little Brother Brewing
348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678
www.facebook.com/littlebrotherbrew
Wednesdays: Trivia
Sep 23: Johnny-O and the Jump Out Boys
Sep 24: Paris Avenue
Sep 30: Aaron Woody Wood
Piedmont Hall
2411 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400
South End Brewing Co.
117B W Lewis St | 336.285.6406
Tuesdays: Trivia Night
Sep 23: Drew Holgate Band
Sep 24: Sammy Turner & The Dirty South Band
Sep 25: Barefoot Modern
Sep 29: Eversole Brothers
Sep 30: Mason Jar Confessions
Steel Hands Brewing
1918 W Gate City Blvd | 336.907.8294
www.facebook.com/steelhandsgreensboro
Sep 22: Jim Mayberry
Steven Tanger Center
300 N Elm Street | 336.333.6500
Sep 24: Mariachi Cobre
Oct 1: Michelle Cann
Oct 11: R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Oct 15: That Girl Lay Lay
The Idiot Box Comedy Club
503 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699
Thursdays: Open Mic
Sep 24: Nick Youssef
Oct 1: Ben Jones
Oct 15: Jason Allen King
White Oak Ampitheatre
1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400
WineStyles
3326 W Friendly Ave Suite 141 | 336.299.4505
www.facebook.com/winestylesgreensboro277
Sep 24: T&K
Oct 1: Susanna Macfarlane
Oct 8: Stewart
HIGH POINT
After Hours Tavern
1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113
www.facebook.com/AfterHoursTavernHighPoint
Goofy Foot Taproom
2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567
Sep 24: Michael Chaney
Oct 15: Mike Everett
High Point Theatre
220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401
Sep 24: Smokey & Me: A Celebration of Smokey Robinson
Oct 7: Hedy! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr
Oct 8: Scotland’s Tannahill Weavers
Oct 15: Kathy Mattea & Suzy Bogguss
Plank Street Tavern
138 Church Ave | 336.991.5016
www.facebook.com/plankstreettavern
Sweet Old Bill’s
1232 N Main St | 336.807.1476
Sep 22: Metro Jethro’s
JAMESTOWN
The Deck
118 E Main St | 336.207.1999
Sep 22: Dan Miller
Sep 23: Simerson Hill
Sep 24: Retro Vinyl
Sep 29: Renae Paige
Sep 30: Big City
Oct 1: Patrick Rock
Oct 6: Kelsey Hurley
Oct 7: The Plaids
Oct 8: Cory Leutjen and The Traveling Blues Band
Oct 13: Dan Miller
Oct 14: Jill Goodson
KERNERSVILLE
Breathe Cocktail Lounge
221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822
www.facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge
Wednesdays: Karaoke
Sep 23: Stone Parker Band
Oct 7: Blue City Bombers
Kernersville Brewing Company
221 N Main St. | 336.816.7283
www.facebook.com/kernersvillebrewing
Thursdays: Trivia
Sep 24: Killer Wabbits
LEWISVILLE
Old Nick’s Pub
191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059
Fridays: Karaoke
LIBERTY
The Liberty Showcase Theater
101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844
Sep 30: John Anderson
OAK RIDGE
Bistro 150
2205 Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.6359
RALEIGH
CCU Music Park at Walnut Creek
3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.821.4111
Sep 24: Farm Aid 2022
Sep 27: Alice in Chains w/ Breaking Benjamin & Bush
Lincoln Theatre
126 E. Cabarrus St | 919.831.6400
Sep 24: The Breakfast Club (80’s Party Band)
Sep 27-29: IBMA Bluegrass Ramble
Sep 30: Joe Hero, Deep 6, & Sickman
Oct 1: Whitey Morgan and The 78’s w/ Josh Meloy
Oct 3: Lucy Dacus w/ Crooks & Nannies
Oct 6: Nikki Lane
Oct 7: The Mersiv w/ Lost In The South, Black Carl!, & Saka
Oct 13: Battle of the Broker Bands
Oct 14: Saint Augustine’s Homecoming Kick Off Party ft. The Niito Band
Red Hat Amphitheater
500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800
Sep 30 - Oct 2: IBMA’s World of Bluegrass Main Stage
Oct 3: Death Cab for Cutie w/ LOW
Oct 7: Maxwell w/ Ash Minor
PNC Arena
1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300
Oct 2: Panic! At The Disco w/ Marina & Jake Wesley Rogers
Oct 6: Dr. David Jeremiah ft. Gaither Vocal Band
Oct 7: Katt Williams
WINSTON-SALEM
Burke Street Pub
1110 Burke St | 336.750.0097
CB’s Tavern
3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664
Earl’s
121 West 9th Street | 336.448.0018
Mondays: Open Mic
Thursdays: Will Jones
Sep 23: Jesse Ray Carter
Sep 24: Industry Hill Block Party
Sep 24: Kyle Kelly
Sep 30: Drew Foust
Oct 1: Jason Moss and The Hosses
Oct 7: Carolina Clay
Oct 8: Mike Cosner and The Fugatives
Oct 14: Zack Brock and The Good Intentions
Oct 15: Aaron Hamm and The Big River Band
Fiddlin’ Fish Brewing Company
772 Trade St | 336.999.8945
Tuesdays: Trivia
Sep 23: Hotwax & The Splinters
Oct 7: Camel City Blues
Oct 14: Joe Dowdy Trio
Foothills Brewing
638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348
Sundays: Sunday Jazz
Thursdays: Trivia
Sep 21: Discount Rothko
Sep 23: The Grand Ole Uproar
Sep 28: Robertson Boys
Sep 30: Heavy Peace
Oct 2: Crystal Fountains
Oct 9: Anne and The Moonlighters
Oct 14: Heavy Peace
Midway Music Hall
11141 Old US Hwy 52, Suite 10 | 336.793.4218
www.facebook.com/midwaymusichallandeventcenter
Mondays: Line Dancing
Sep 23: Jimmy Shirley Jr & the Footlights
Sep 24: Classic Country & Oldies
Oct 1: Sidekix
Oct 8: Jimmy Shirley Jr & The 8 Track 45 Band
Oct 15: Diamond Edge
Muddy Creek Cafe & Music Hall
137 West St | 336.201.5182
www.facebook.com/MuddyCreekCafe
Oct 13: Jim Messina
The Ramkat
170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714
Sep 21: Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors w/ The National Parks
Sep 22: Time Sawyer w/ The Pinkerton Raid
Sep 23: Zoso — The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience
Sep 24: Silent Disco Dance Party!
Sep 29: Damn Tall Buildings
Sep 30: Nite Moves
Oct 1: Scythian
Oct 5: Popa Chubby
Oct 6: Handsome Jack w/ Michael Bennett
Oct 7: Couldn’t Be Happiers w/ The Simple Joy
Oct 12: Kitchen Dwellers w/ Daniel Donato
Oct 15: Rhymin’ N Stealin’ (The Original Beastie Boys Tribute)
ROAR
633 North Liberty Street | 336-917-3008
www.roarws.com | www.roarbrandstheater.com
Sep 21: Trivia Time @ Fords Food Hall
Sep 22: Siren Series @ Fords Food Hall
Sep 23: Tracey Bentley @ JL Caspers
Sep 23: DJ FISH @ Fords Food Hall
Sep 23: DJ SK101 @ The Mayfair Club
Sep 23: REWIND @ Fords Food Hall
Sep 24: The Carolina Pines @ Fords Food Hall
Sep 24: The Usual Suspects @ JL Caspers
Sep 24: Torch Songs @ The Mayfair Club
Sep 24: DJ CHUBBS @ The Mayfair Club
Sep 24: DJ FISH @ Fords Food Hall
Second & Green
207 N Green St | 336.631.3143
www.2ngtavern.com | www.facebook.com/secondandgreentavern
Winston-Salem Fairground
421 W 27th St | 336.727.2236
Oct 3-5: C+C Music Factory & Rob Base
Oct 4: Niko Moon, Restless Road, & Frank Ray
Oct 5: Rend Collective w/ Christian Paul
Wise Man Brewing
826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008
Thursdays: Music Bingo
Oct 1: William Hinson Band
Oct 8: Southern Groove
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Gregory “Dirt da General” Oliver, and his Skeleton Grp, are rounding troops of “top-tier NC hip-hop for a top tier cause,” with the inaugural Artz - N - Kraft Fest, on October 1 at The O in Greensboro.
In partnership with Mental Health Services of NC, the festival features performances from Mr. Rozzi, FAM - U, #SplashBrothaz, Delivery Boy, Eternal the MC, Precyce Politix, Kwon da Don, and Skeleton Grp, coming together, as organizers note, “not only to represent NC hip-hop but to raise money and awareness for the special needs community, especially the children.”
It’s a pursuit Oliver holds close to his heart, with legacy on his mind. “I’ve had this crazy idea in my head for the past two years to put together a music festival,” he said. “I didn’t know where to begin, who to call or what to do, I just knew I wanted to bring this idea to life. I knew I wanted to honor my son and bring as much attention to the challenges that the special needs community encounters on a daily basis.”
“I’m big on legacy, leaving something positive and fruitful to my son is my main mission,” Oliver continued. “At some point in his life, I want him to know that all I’ve done, and will do, is just for him.”
With a few special guests still unannounced, Oliver is looking forward to matching the energies of performers with his own. “Each brings a unique vibe,” he said, “and that’s exactly what I was looking for.”
On the performer end, he turns to Skeleton Grp, a project Oliver formed after being “figuratively stripped to the bone” by hardship. “I had lost just about everything,” he explained. “So all I had left was my skeleton but if you got a strong skeletal foundation you can rebuild anything better than it was before and that’s how Skeleton Grp. was born.”
“I wanted to rebrand myself, start with a clean slate and create a company that represented the person I had become at that point in my life,” he continued, offering the structure behind Skeleton Grp — with Charles “Zig-Lah“ King and Dante “Pancho“ Jackson, the other entities under the Skeleton Grp umbrella.
“I’ve known each of these guys well over 20 years so they are not just my friends, these are my brothers,” he said — relating the personal nature attached to the festival’s communal endeavor. “I’ve worked with a lot of these artists before, either being featured on their albums or bumping into them at shows,” he explained. “When I reached out, a lot wanted to be involved because they have a friend or family member who’s special needs. So this show, in one way or another, is personal for most of the lineup.”
Serving a two-fold purpose, exposure of the “super-talented” hip-hop artists in the area; and fundraising for Mental Health Services of North Carolina (not to be confused with the state agency), which works to “empower individuals with special needs,” through a variety of advocacy and programming.
“It was important to me to work with an organization solely dedicated to the special needs community, and also a minority, and after doing some research they were at the top of my list,” Oliver explained, praising their anti-bullying curriculum. “The work they do educating the schools and community is paramount.”
According to organizers, Mental Health Services of NC works “to fill gaps in mental health care services throughout the state,” through a host of programs. The “P.T.S. Support for Exceptional Children” program takes a holistic approach — with outreach for parents and educators of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities — offering safe spaces for discussion and opportunities for caregiver respite.
Advocacy and support — for the person and families — are the cornerstone of their work, centered around an anti-bullying curriculum; with annual and recurring monthly events. “Special Hoops,” an annual 3-on-3-basketball tournament promotes athleticism and healthy elements of competition “under the guidance of mental health professionals and elite student-athletes.” “First Fridays,” an athletic-focused extension, offers free meals and activities. “Special Women’s Wellness” programs are designed to empower participants through confidence-building activities like dream boards and photoshoots to “cultivate leadership, self-worth, and self-actualization.”
A shared goal for their programming involves providing “an empowering, inclusive space where participants can gain support, a sense of belonging, build confidence, self-esteem, and develop advocacy skills.”
While the mission is an all-ages experience, the programs offer adult-only events like the “Third Thursday” socials (at the Barber Park Event Center in Greensboro) with refreshments, prizes, and live music — all of which is organized and operated by members of the special needs community.
For Oliver, it all hits close to home and his heart. “I’m the father of a special needs child so I personally know the challenges that these kids fight with each day, but also the difficulties that parents encounter,” he said. “It’s not easy, physically or emotionally, so if this festival can help the children and parents just a little bit then I think it’s a victory for everyone involved.”
And as with most victories, prizes are involved. The Artz - N - Kraft Fest will host a raffle, with prize packages, hand-picked by Oliver.
“I was meticulous about it,” he said, “I wanted to involve local, independent businesses. I didn’t want to ask for a monetary donation but instead offer a service that would benefit not only the lucky winner — but each business, as well.”
For example, the ‘Aspiring Artist Package’ offers a free 2-hour studio session with A-Wall. at Carolina Records, a video shoot with Jay Hurd of Jay Hurd films, and a 2-hour photo session with Kimberly Staples (of Photos by KBS).
“I’ve got other packages, with a little something for everyone, but you gotta be in attendance to win,” Oliver said, “so go get a ticket.”
The Artz - N - Kraft Fest goes down October 1 at The O (formerly Club Orion) in Greensboro.
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On Sunday, September 25 from 4 to 6 p.m., three songwriters from the region will share their songs and the stories behind them in an intimate writers-in-the-round setting at the Crown at the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro.
Winner of the 2018 Chris Austin Songwriting Competition at Merlefest, catherine the great from Bedford, VA., will join Winston-Salem’s Sam Foster and Greensboro’s Eugenius in the fifth installment of the East of Nashville Songwriters Series, which has so far featured acts such as David Childers, Momma Molasses, Emanuel Wynter, and Matty Sheets.
Foster is a road dog. He lives and breathes the idea that repetition and regularity are the chisels to refine his craft. Foster emerged on the music scene in 2014 as a solo artist, and he’s taken his brand of tenacity to eager crowds all over the Southeast ever since. He’s a little bit country and a whole lotta rock and roll. While drawing much inspiration from legends of country music past and present, Foster’s sound can be more broadly described as rock. His roots run deep into the veins of American music, and he’s continually inspired by folk, soul, Southern rock, and rhythm and blues, drawing comparisons to such singer-songwriters as Jason Isbell and Bruce Springsteen.
Some of his first memories are of the music his parents listened to, especially Dwight Yoakam. “I saw a music video of his when I was like 4 or 5 years old and thought he looked cooler than anything singing and playing guitar,” Foster says. The best part about being a songwriter, in Foster’s opinion, is the craft of putting an idea to paper, making it rhyme, then making it make sense — and then filling it up by working it out with a band. “I write the songs for myself, but if just one person connects with it and they feel the same way I felt the first time I heard Springsteen’s “Thunder Road,” then that’s icing on the cake.” Foster will be presenting stripped-down versions of songs off his recent album, Heatwaves (June 2022) — “it’s the material I’ve felt most confident about as an artist” — and perhaps others.
Regarding music’s place in his own life, Foster says, “It’s catharsis. Whether I’m writing and performing my own material, or listening to records - it’s a way of processing emotions. There’s records and songs that have pulled me through some rough nights on a bender at 3 a.m. There’s records and songs that have been there to help celebrate good times. Music is life-changing and life-sustaining.”
North Carolina native Eugenius is a rapper, producer, and songwriter. Born Timothy Eugene Peterson to a preacher and a playwright, he suffered from stage fright for most of his childhood, but found solace in hip-hop as a young teen. Drawing inspiration from his faith and life experiences, he began putting his thoughts to music and hasn’t stopped since.
Growing up in a Christian household with a Bermudan mother, Gospel and island music (reggae, calypso, soca, and more) formed the soundtrack to his upbringing. Encountering Blackwell’s Reality Check, though, changed his life. “I’d never heard such wit and humor and sincerity from a ‘gospel rapper.’” That’s when Peterson picked up the pen, and he and Blackwell eventually became friends.
Timothy’s faith deeply informs his music and the diversity of music he pursues and studies: “God is my favorite artist.
The Bible even says that we’re his masterpieces.” While he loves all kinds of music, he is mainly a rapper: “Rap is such a fun medium because the traditional 16-bar verse is kind of a puzzle — how am I going to say what I want, make it rhyme, and stay on beat all at the same time?” But he’s also willing to break the rules of the form: “who’s saying I can’t rhyme over a 5/4 time signature or start singing in the middle of the verse?”
He regularly collaborates with his friend DEViANt Sounds, and follows musicians such as Sonny Miles (who he got to meet at the Flat Iron), Free Derrick Hardy, Lil Kawaii. Eugenius is working on a new project due to drop this coming winter, with several side projects in the works, as well.
catherine the great is the solo project of Catherine Backus (the skipperdees, After Jack). While the project primarily exists as a repository for her feelings, her sad songs have drawn numerous accolades, including first place at the Merlefest Chris Austin Songwriting Contest, fourth place at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriter Showcase, and finalist in the Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Awards. Over the course of her career, she’s shared stages with folks like Molly Tuttle, Kim Richey, Willie Watson, and Ben Sollee.
With too many musicians to list as influences, Catherine attributes some of her strongest inspiration to “a couple Anaïs Mitchell albums and an Alice Munro short story collection” she was given by her now-wife in her early 20s. “That combination probably made me much better at my craft, and a better human, to boot.” She and her wife — a fellow musician and songwriter — met at an Eddie’s Attic Songwriter Shootout in 2012. “We both lost that night, but I think we won in the long run.”
For Catherine, songwriting is comparable to distilling: “it’s an act of taking the biggest ideas and stories and feelings and condensing them into (ideally) three minutes or so; when it works, it feels a little like magic, every time.” Her songwriting is focused on kindness and love, written to encourage “folks to be a little kinder to themselves and each other. And maybe to tell somebody they love them, if they’re so moved.”
Outside of performance, music is also central to her work as a music therapist; she sees that work as an enormous privilege that is also incredibly fulfilling: “I get to make music every day with people at all stages of life, from early childhood to the dying process.”
Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
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Guidelines for attending GCS athletic events have changed
Times have changed and with it come new ways to keep school students and the community safe. Guilford County Schools has implemented a new policy for attending its district athletic events. Starting Sept. 23, purses, backpacks and other traditional bags will not be allowed.
Acceptable bags must be made of clear plastic or vinyl, including gallon-sized or smaller zip storage bags. Small clutch bags, diaper bags, with the infant/toddler present, and bags used for medical supplies, such as insulin pumps, will be allowed but will be subject to inspection.
Fans carrying bags that do not meet the criteria will be turned away from the venue at or near the gates. They will have the opportunity to return prohibited items to their car.
This change is one of several updates being made as the district reviews safety procedures on its campuses. Following the successful use of security scanners at its high school entrances, GCS has begun using them at large public gatherings, including athletic events.
“The safety of our students, staff and guests is a top priority,” said Dr. Whitney Oakley, superintendent. “We are constantly enhancing our emergency and safety protocols and procedures.”
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A new decade is underway for the Jamestown Rotary Club Horse Show as it approaches its 61th event. For the past 60 years members of the Jamestown Rotary Club have participated in the annual fundraiser and this year will be no different. They will be at the Piedmont Saddle Club arena at 8001 Leabourne Road, Colfax, on Oct. 1 to help participants and spectators enjoy the activities. The fun begins at 10 a.m. and continues throughout the day.
A total of 49 classes will be judged in Western and English style. Some participants do both. Each one competes for points from the Piedmont Horsemen’s Association to count toward awards at the end of the show season.
“The horse show serves a two-tier function,” said Michael Greth, Rotary member and chair of the event for the past three years. “It is an opportunity to get revenue to support charities, non-profits and schools in our area, but also to enhance community presence. It is a fun, family event and this year we will have drawings to give away approximately $900 worth of gifts to people in the bleachers.”
Although the goals for the Jamestown Rotary Club have remained the same throughout the years the event itself has seen several changes. It started when Bob Moore, a member of Jamestown Rotary, and Vance Proctor, president of the local Grange chapter, were riding horses together and came up with the idea for the two groups to present a local horse show. With the help of Piedmont Saddle Club, the only group with a portable ring, the long-standing event began.
Several years later, when the Piedmont Saddle Club and the Grange withdrew their sponsorship of the show, the Jamestown Rotary Club took over sole responsibility of conducting it. Moore and fellow Rotarian Bob Whisnant built a portable ring for the club’s use. Originally held at High Point College Athletic Stadium, the show later found a home at the Jamestown Public School athletic field for many years.
The horse show once included music from local bands and singers, and even a dog show held during lunch break as an additional form of entertainment.
Several years ago, the venue for the horse show changed to the Piedmont Saddle Club arena, where there is both an indoor and outdoor show area. The various events transition from one to the other. What was once more of a rodeo atmosphere is now strictly part of the Piedmont Horsemen’s Association show circuit. Judges are rotated from year to year.
“The horse show is more for the participants now,” Greth said. “The competition is on a point system and at the end of the year the riders with the highest numbers of points win awards.”
The beautiful horses and the communication between riders and their mounts are still exciting for spectators to witness, however.
“It is interesting to watch the younger riders focus as they compete,” Greth said. “They are in control.
“One of the most interesting entries I saw was a dog sitting in the saddle as the horse was lead around the ring by the participant,” Greth added. “I asked the judge how she planned to grade it and she just said she would figure it out.”
Admission to the horse show, as always, is free but passes to the event will be presented to local school children to promote the activity. Each child who attends will receive a ribbon from a past show.
“We started that last year,” Greth said. “We received some historic ribbons from the estate of Bob Moore and still have a few of them left. We will give them away and when we run out will give newer ones. The kids enjoy getting them and it is a trend we want to continue.”
The horse show is one of two main fundraising events sponsored by the Jamestown Rotary Club.
“One hundred percent of the money we raise goes back into the community,” Greth said. “Covid slowed things down, but last year was better than the year before and we think this year will be even better. Club members spend lots of time getting sponsorships and we hope to have at least $8,000 to distribute as needed.”
Directions to Piedmont Saddle Club
Take Hwy. 68 north. Pass the airport and I-73. Leabourne Road will be on the left at GTCC’s Cameron Campus.
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To look at Kate Quinn, you would not expect her to be someone interested in the power and politics of the first-century Roman Empire. Nor would you expect her to be someone interested in spies and Enigma codes, much less Germany invading the Ukraine. Yes, Germany. Russia was an ally at the time.
But Quinn is an author and they write what interests them and, hopefully, will interest readers. She believes in the power of a story.
The daughter of a librarian mother with a degree in Ancient Medieval History, Quinn began learning about history at a young age.
“She watched a lot of BBC and always told me stories from the past,” Quinn said recently, prior to speaking to the High Point Literary League. “It introduced me to historical fiction on the young side. History fascinated me at a young age and that’s where I gravitated when I began writing stories of my own.”
Her first literary attempt was in longhand, front and back of a sheet of paper. It was about the assassination of King Edward II of England. She was 7 years old.
Quinn expected to follow her professional jazz musician father into music as an opera singer. She earned a master’s in classical voice from Boston University but after deciding the grueling travel schedule of an opera singer was not her, Quinn decided to fall back on her other love — writing, which she had done for years.
Her mother’s background in medieval history influenced Quinn to write the four “Empress of Rome” historical fiction books that were set in the first century and two books on the Italian Renaissance.
Quinn’s first book, Mistress of Rome, is set in a world of depravity, blood and secrets in Rome and follows the heroine, Thea.
“I was watching ‘I, Claudius’ at way too young an age,” Quinn said laughingly. “I heard a lot about the ancient world [as a child] and it fascinated me. Ancient Rome is this juxtaposition of this empire that had these tremendous achievements in architecture and law and sculpture and art and all these things, yet at the same time you still had slavery and this rampant empire running over other cultures.
“So much violence. That’s the thing that makes great grist for novels.”
She switched to writing about 20th Century events because the past had become stale to her. Noticing the current boom in 20th Century war fiction, her more recent books are still set in the past but a more recent past. She set The Alice Network in two time periods, 1917 World War I and 1947, just after World War II. Other books also tie in events in two different time periods.
2014 was the 100th anniversary of WWI and the theme sparked Quinn’s interest. During her research she learned of the real Alice Network — and the book was born.
Her most recent book, The Diamond Eye, is very timely these days, set in Ukraine in 1941 as Hitler was invading Kiev, now Kyiv. Russia was an American ally at the time and Ukrainian solders were important in the Soviet defeat of the German army. The story is based on top sniper Mila Pavlichenko, a real-life Ukrainian sniper for the Soviets during World War II. She was credited with 309 deaths and was known as Lady Death.
Quinn does most of the research for her books herself. When she learns of an interesting topic, she dives into the history. All of her books are based on truth, with some literary license added, of course.
All of her books feature strong women. The term she used — to the delight and applause of the female Literary League members — was “badass.” Many live in adversity while using often unknown skills to answer the call of their countries. They go from being weak to very strong women. Quinn is interested in what happens to them after a war when they are expected to step back into the box they were in before the war.
“I love looking at ladies in history and restoring them to the public today,” Quinn said.
The best-selling New York Times and USA Today historical fiction author has options on three of her books, The Huntress, The Alice Network and The Rose Code as a limited series, but Quinn said the release date was probably years from now.
Quinn has never regretted her decision to leave opera but is using that knowledge in a new book in collaboration with author Janie Chang.
“It’s about an opera singer,” Quinn said. “For the first time, I don’t have to do research!”
The motto of the High Point Literary League is “to ignite, enhance, and nurture the appreciation of literature in our community.” The membership-only group sponsors two events annually that feature nationally renowned authors as guest speakers. For more information, visit hpliteraryleague.org.
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Since 1940, motorists along Greensboro Road/West Main Street at its intersection with Penny and Wrenn Farm roads have passed a North Carolina highway historical marker recognizing Beard’s Hat Shop. The N.C. Office of Archives and History is responsible for the marker, officially known as J-19.
Such markers generally recognize a person or event, such as a battle but in this case, the NCOAH went against normal policy and erected a marker recognizing a business.
William Beard was well known as an excellent haberdasher, with customers as far away as Indiana, where Quakers from this area traveled to the Yearly Meeting, taking along their Beard hats.
He established his shop in the Florence Community (near the intersection of Penny and East Fork roads), about 1.3 miles from the marker. Beard’s house, built in 1774, was located near the current Deep River Friends Meeting. The house was destroyed by fire June 6, 1993. It’s said that General Charles Cornwallis camped on Beard land on the way to the battle of Guilford Courthouse in March 1781.
At William’s death in 1795, 20-year-old son David inherited “all the interests in his hatter’s trade, also the hatter’s tools.” Apparently no land came with the bequest.
David Beard soon opened his own hat shop nearby on land purchased from Phineus Mendenhall, now the site of the Meadows at Jamestown. Beard family history indicates that the brick hat shop was about 200 feet west of his house, described as “a commodious brick building of colonial architecture.”
An article in the Dec. 27, 1931, Winston-Salem Journal by Jamestown native Martha Robbins Tilden describes the house as being “built of brick and hip-roofed after the Dutch style.”
Tilden’s article also relates the tale of buried treasure on the Beard plantation. She says, “At intervals the superstitious with crooked sticks tried, in vain, to locate the treasure.”
To the east of the house was a tanyard where hides from beaver, rabbit, cattle, sheep, etc. were turned into leather for the hats. Beard may have had 25 vats for tanning. Hunters brought their pelts to Beard to sell, turning the shop into a trading post.
Apparently, Beard operated the only hattery in the area. A typical Beard hat for gentlemen was in the wide-brimmed Quaker style and lasted many years. The Friends Collection at Guilford College has one of Beard’s hats on display.
Milliner Katie Allen has created replicas of hats made by Beard for display at Mendenhall Homeplace. Her work was recently on display at the Village Fair at the Homeplace. She said Beard’s hats often had a drawstring in the inner hatband so the hat would fit any head, no matter the size. Allen added that wallpaper was often added inside the hat instead of cloth. Her designs feature fabrics that mirror wallpaper designs.
It has been said that Beard was so successful, that rather than saying they were from the Florence Community, people would list Beard’s Hat Shop as their place of residence.
However, times were not always rosy for David Beard. An article written by A.M. Briggs recalls that Beard stockpiled goods at the beginning of the War of 1812, thinking it was a good investment. But a depression followed the war, causing Beard to lose almost everything he owned. According to information from the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, although he continued to make hats, Beard never recovered from this financial loss.
David Beard owned more property than just that on which his business was located. Around 1819, Isaac Potter bought land in Jamestown for his home from Beard. That home burned several years ago but a marker on West Main Street indicates the location.
Beard made hats for over 50 years. After his death in 1849, Isaac Lilly, ran the tannery and shop. Harper Johnston bought the tanyard in 1863 and operated the business until after the Civil War. Beard’s original buildings were torn down around the turn of the 20th century, and the bricks were used in other buildings.
In 1938, Mabel Leigh Hunt wrote a children’s book, “Benjie’s Hat”, about a young Quaker boy who needed a new hat. He had one specially made for him by David Beard. The book is available at the Jamestown Public Library.
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Miranda Keith is the 2022-23 High Point Literary League’s winner of a scholarship to High Point University. The scholarship recognizes excellence in creative writing and literary areas of study.
The senior English major from Asheville, with double minors in biology and Chinese, is a Presidential Scholar and Honor Student. She began as a neuroscience major, thinking she wanted to be a doctor. However, she found her passion was not neuroscience.
“I actually stumbled upon [High Point University],” Keith said when asked how she chose the school. My dream school was Wake. High Point was on my list. The color is purple and I like it.
“I ended up touring and the second I got on campus I loved it. I said, ‘This is where I want to be.’”
After graduation, Keith plans to use her proficiency in Chinese to teach English to Chinese students. She has applied for a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Taiwan to be an English teaching assistant.
Following that, she wants to get a master’s degree.
“I’m pretty sure I want to get into publishing and fiction editing,” Keith said. “I figure my experiences abroad will steer me in a direction of what I want to do.”
An aspiring writer, Keith was very excited to meet author Kate Quinn at the recent High Point Literary League luncheon.
Keith is the most recent Literary League Scholarship winner. Inspired by Helen Mounts, the Literary League Scholarship was established in 1987 at then High Point College by members of the High Point Literary League.
Qualified students must be North Carolina residents, with preference given to students studying creative writing or journalism.
High Point University’s English Department faculty nominates the recipients. Emphasis is placed on students who have demonstrated academic merit and financial need, with preference given to female students who have maintained at least a “B” average in their writing curriculum. At least one scholarship, ranging from $800 to $2,500, has been awarded annually since 1990,
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When renovations were planned for the Pennybyrn independent living community on Penny Road in High Point, they included a new gallery to display high-quality artwork for residents and their guests. On Sept. 15 the first exhibit opened to the delight of those gathered to view the paintings, pottery and a handcrafted wooden clock.
If the reaction of those visiting the gallery is any indication, it should continue to be a success.
“I especially like the painting of the baby elephant,” Louise Squires said. “I might not want to hang it in my home, but it is so well done.”
A rabbit beside a wooden wall was so realistic it resembled a photograph. “But the colors are much warmer,” Eddie Bass said, as he also noted how the light source created interesting shadows and depth to the painting.
Many were intrigued by a painting created by Victor Huggins called Blue Ridge Mountains. The fields and trees beneath the mountains were highlighted by indentations that set the artwork apart from others in the collection, which included a variety of styles.
Pennybyrn owns two of the paintings by nationally and internationally known artists Marcy Dunn Ramsey and Matthew Hillier. Before the official gallery opening, Ramsey came to share her inspiration and motivation behind her artwork “Circle Dance.” On occasion, others whose art is displayed in the gallery also will be invited to discuss their work.
Moving forward, the Art Gallery Committee, chaired by Pennybyrn resident Kitty Montgomery, plans to add to the facility’s permanent collection and supplement the gallery with borrowed pieces.
The inaugural exhibit included artwork from the vast collections of residents Peg and Dar Ferry and Eloy Doolan and his late wife Connie.
“I wanted to share some of the pictures my wife and I had collected so others would be able to enjoy them,” Doolan said.
Jeff Horney, executive director of Theater Art Gallery (TAG), will serve as the gallerist and curator. Exhibits will be changed every three months, with the next showing a photography display.
“We want to keep the displays interesting and explore different opportunities to grow and expand the gallery, Sarah Barker, director of Development & Community Relations, said. “We will be looking for a variety of mediums to showcase.”
Sister Lucy Hennessey, mission leader and chair of Pennybyrn’s Board of Directors, shared her passion for the new art gallery in a written statement:
“We are thankful for those who are blessed with the talents of painting and drawing, which inspire us all and provide a glimpse of God’s beauty,” she said.
It appears art will continue to be part of the culture and beauty of life at Pennybyrn in many ways. Besides the new fine art gallery, the facility has two other galleries — one for visiting artists and one for work completed by residents.
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The volunteers feeding houseless and hungry people in downtown Greensboro since 2009 received little notice from city officials until this month when District 3’s Zack Matheny called for “educating” them and alleged they “leave significant trash lying around.”
After Matheny made that comment during the September 1 city council work session, Greensboro Police Attorney Andrea Harrell said the city is considering a permit and/or food service certification course for those serving meals in Center City Park.
When contacted by YES! Weekly, the small group of chefs, rugby players, and church folk who do that every Sunday morning stated they always clean up after themselves, and that the hot meals are prepared and served by trained professionals.
Several allege that no council member has ever responded to multiple invitations to observe what they do, but did not elaborate on whether any were invited between June 2015, when Matheny resigned from council, and July of this year, when he regained his former seat.
First winning that seat in 2007, Matheny served four terms. He also ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent North Carolina’s 6th District, but was defeated in the Republican primary. A year later, he resigned from council to become president of the economic development group Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI), stating “my desire to avoid any perceived conflicts of interest.”
DGI is a taxpayer-funded private not-for-profit entity contracted to provide services to the downtown business district. Mayor Nancy Vaughan is a member of its board of directors.
After announcing his District 3 bid last year, former Obama advisor Chip Roth criticized his opponent, alleging that remaining president of DGI would result in Matheny having “to recuse himself again and again.”
In May, Roth dropped out of the race after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. In the July 26 general election, Matheny’s was the only name on the District 3 ballot.
As previously reported, city managers have proposed revised ordinances prohibiting trash in public spaces, obstruction of public byways, and excessive noise. On Friday, Vaughan told YES! Weekly that a council vote on the ordinances is scheduled for October 3.
The proposed revisions make no mention of those who feed the homeless, but on September 1, Matheny alleged:
“You have some folks that, I’ll use Center City Park because it’s an easy one, that show up on any given day or time and just think that they’re giving help by delivering food that doesn’t go through the health department, and then leave significant trash lying around, which is what this is talking about as, well. So, what is our goal, educating those that think they are helping, in cleaning up their own stuff?”
Harrell said the city is “looking at maybe shoring up the special event permit” and “a requirement that they go through some of food service certification course.”
On Friday, September 9, YES! Weekly spoke to Earl Zayack and Kriste Clodfelter, who met at the Interactive Resource Center (IRC) when both were homeless, and subsequently married. As reported last Thanksgiving, Zayack and Clodfelter lived in tents for five years and were regularly forced to move as the city displaced homeless encampments. Since 2018, Zayack has been employed full-time, and he and Clodfelter live on property they own.
Zayack said he began helping the volunteers feeding people in the park eight years ago when he was still homeless himself.
“Now, it’s coming out of my pocket, and I’m helping feed people who are where I used to be. We have issued many unanswered invitations to city council to come out and watch what we do.”
Zayack criticized Vaughan as someone “who used to be a big advocate for homeless people,” but whom he alleged has abandoned that position. He was just as critical of Matheny, who like Zayack is a Republican. “They are more interested in serving big money than voters.”
“Now they’re trying to say that we can’t do it because of trash issues,” said Clodfelter angrily. “Or because the homeless like to sit in the park. Saturday night downtown is completely full and the trash cans get loaded up, but it’s not from us. We all bring trash bags and pick it up and take it to dumpsters ourselves. We sometimes take trash out of overflowing containers, and stick it in new bags.”
Both called Matheny’s allegation a blatant attempt to push houseless people out of Center City Park.
“There’s nowhere else for them to charge their phones on Sundays, or even go to the bathroom,” said Clodfelter. “The city is trying to take away their right to basic human needs.”
“Council is doing this for their donors,” said Zayack, “not the people who are out there. They’re being neglected and pushed under the rug.”
Clodfelter condemned what she described as the city’s lack of transparency.
“They never gave us any heads-up on the revisions to the ordinances. They say we need to find solutions. Well, meet with us and talk with us, so we can work on it. When they try to create an ordinance they don’t want us to know about, it’s like they want us to get in trouble. If we want to spend our money to buy and cook food and do something for these people, that’s on us. It’s not affecting them at all.”
On Sunday, September 11, due to the Folk Festival, the usual Sunday volunteers were at 407 East Washington St. in the parking lot of the Interactive Resource Center.
Under tents providing shelter from the rain, Clodfelter and Zayack, along with three members of the Triad Rugby Association, served omelets, champagne chicken soup, and savory biscuits, while a few yards away, Kay Dunman of Awaken City Church handed out snacks and coffee.
As he had last Thanksgiving, British-born rugby coach Mike Willer greeted those he served with a hearty “cheers, mate.” That soup and biscuits were made by chef Manoli Krinos, from ingredients supplied by Culinary Visions Catering. Last Thanksgiving, Krinos made his biscuits with lamb fat, telling YES! Weekly “I buy a whole carcass and shave it off while it’s frozen.” He did not say whether he used lamb fat this time, but the biscuit he offered was delicious.
With Willer and Krinos was Tiger Rugby’s David Morris, who said he helped “start this with Kay Dunman 13 years ago.” Of the three “rugby guys,” as Morris called them, he had the sharpest words for council.
“They need to be out here when we’re feeding folks on Sundays, or on Tuesdays and Thursday nights when we’re giving out blankets and tents in 25-degree weather. But they don’t want to know what’s going on. They’d rather put these people on a bus and ship them out of there.”
Krinos was more charitable.
“I like Mr. Matheny and a lot of things he has done. I’m not sure of the context in which he made that statement, but think we can find common ground and a solution because this is not going to go away. If you push it out of one area, you’ve got it somewhere else.”
Krinos said that he’d talked about Matheny’s concerns with the general manager of Culinary Visions Catering. “He has been doing meals for the Under the Bridge group for years. If we need more stringent health standards stuff, he will let us use his kitchen as a commissary.”
“It’s a very complex issue,” said Dunman, who confirmed Awaken City Homeless Ministry began serving food in the park in 2009.
“I don’t need a permit to make sandwiches, any more than I need one for cooking for people in my home. As for trash, we pick that up at the park. What happens after we leave, we can’t control, but that’s no different from someone getting a to-go order and leaving the packaging behind. In my opinion, they resent our presence near the Tanger Center and don’t want folks they consider the dregs of society seen by the elite.”
Zayack pushed back on the suggestion that he and his associates needed “educating.”
“We have three certified professional chefs and I’ve worked in the food industry my whole life. There’s no way they can we’re not educated on how to do this. Matheny needs to come down to Center City Park and be educated on what we’re actually doing.”
In an email to Matheny on September 15, the Wimbledon-born Willer was more conciliatory.
I would like to invite you downtown and have the opportunity to specifically meet with our group who meet regularly on Sunday morning on the corner of Friendly and Davie, 7:30 a.m., and have the opportunity to sample some of the food we serve. Perhaps see something of the people and professionalism in the making and handling of the provisions early in the morning. If you are kind enough. I may even share my Chicken sandwich recipe. (Well, my wife’s.)
The bottom line, I think you may be pleasantly surprised about what you have down there as a resource, that can be maintained very well by civically-minded people. As for cleaning up, we make a great effort in encouraging the homeless to pick up after themselves. It would be good to encourage what we have here.
On Sunday, September 18, Matheny responded. After thanking Willer for his email, Matheny wrote:
“There is a bit of misrepresentation on the feeding aspect. My goal is to actually help folks receive [sic] the services they need, which is a lot more than food on a given Sunday. Folks are literally wasting away as are their dogs, and while having folks like you give them food on occasion [sic] may seem helpful, the needs remain unanswered. I would be fine coming down sometime to view your feedings, however, I must say, there is a much larger strategic initiaive [sic] that needs to happen.”
YES! Weekly reached out to Matheny on September 8, asking for clarification on his stated goal “to hold accountable” the volunteers who feed the homeless in the park and what evidence he has seen for the claim that they “leave significant trash lying around.”
Ten days later, he sent the following response:
“I recommend you speaking with city staff clean & green and the ambassadors. You will be properly educated.”
Matheny attached two images to this email. One showed trash on the sidewalk around a city receptacle in Center City Park across from the Greensboro Cultural Center at 200 N. Davie Street near the intersection with Friendly Avenue. The other depicted two large tied-off trash bags in the bed of a city utility vehicle.
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The 8th annual Winston-Salem Fashion Week returns for a celebration of styling, upcycling, and celebrating undiscovered designers.
“We are in an era of sustainable clothing. Not only for its environmental benefits but to recreate the meaning of style. This year’s theme is celebrating all things fashion, all elements inspire by fashion such as art, color, style, and sustainability,” said Nikita Wallace, WSFW founder and creative director. “After a successful season last year, which happened to be our first time back in person since everything went virtual, we knew we wanted to expand our designers and models across North Carolina this year.”
Winston-Salem Fashion Week kicked off its celebrations with an Opening Night Reception and Art to Fashion Exhibition at the Forsyth County Central Library on September 12, followed by live music, food, and recognition of sponsors, partners, and community leaders at the GMAC building. “We had over 80 submissions from designers introducing their fashion concepts, but we had to limit our showcasing to three winners,” Wallace said. The Art of Fashion Exhibition Winners included Sasha Woods, designer/owner of The Ultimate Junki, in first place with a hand-beaded and embellished piece emphasizing the shoulders. In second place was Ashley McHenry with a Pandemic Accessory Collection. The final contest position ended in a tie between a Fashion Photo album from No Punching Bags’ Angel Fant and a jewelry collection by Kayla Amador with Iconografi.
WSFW held its annual Elite Swap Exchange and Styling Presentation this past weekend. The event, hosted at the Hampton Inn and Suites, focuses on sustainability in the Triad and offers attendees a chance to re-vamp their wardrobes.
“The swap is one of many traditions we intend to maintain every year during fashion week. This year we decided on making the swap more exclusive and game-like, narrowing down our guest list to 50 participants who will bring three items each to exchange with others in the same category. We were honored to have local vendors available for those who wanted to shop while they swap,” Wallace explained. “We ended the first weekend with a panel discussion on sustainable fashion and how to style with thrifted items and clothes found in the closet. The discussion was hosted by two special guests and fashion influencers, Talia Leslie and Ty Harper.”
There will also be a Food to Fashion show, in conjunction with the Southside Food Forest, on Thursday, September 22 on Arcadia Street. This show will begin at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
This upcoming weekend and finale for WSFW 2022 will feature three days of looks on the runway from local designers, boutiques, and retail stores. The Opening Night Runway show featuring Champion Night and Red Carpet Event will run this Friday, September 23, at 6:30 p.m. and is located at the RJR Bailey Park Coal Pit in downtown Winston-Salem. This show is free and open to the public.
“In conjunction with SECCA, Champion Night will open with LEAD Girls of North Carolina Fashion Camp, then focus on local artist, Paul Bright, and his collection at SECCA that centers around textiles named Mode 2. The night will end with the annual Champion Collection and WSFW Project Run Slay,” Wallace shared.
WSFW’s Project Run Slay is a contest that allows participants to upcycle and reuses pieces and slay the runway with their new looks and fashion.
“We held a collegiate contest this year for Project Run Slay, which started back in May 2022. While last year’s focus was more focused on upcycle pieces, this year we wanted to elaborate on style. So we recruited about 20 college students, gave them apparel from Champion, and encouraged them to bring their own influence to the pieces.” The fun of fashion doesn’t end there; a red carpet event will highlight the models and guests with photo opportunities and designer recognition.
On Saturday, September 24, WSFW Designers Runway Show will present at SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art) from 1 to 4 p.m. Ten designers will be featured, a majority of them new to WSFW. The ten designers include Tamara McKinney with Skinflints Closet, Tiffany Flowers with Bella Te Couture, Mike Foley and Natalie Lucas with Tutoboso, Que Varn with L.Samone Clothing, Praveer Gangwani with Gangwani Collection, Sharon Rocker with A Taste of Class, Akilah Shaw with Tahirah Apparel, Josina McNeil with Regal Jo, Amelia Bailey with Eye Q, and Marisa Jeter with AISA MMXII. In partnership with Goodwill of Northwest, NC, five designers will be featured in Goodwill’s “Diva, Dapper on a Dime.” Designers received a stipend to shop at Goodwill and incorporate those items to restyle into their newly recreated collection, while the remaining designers in the show will create their collection from scratch and recycled material.
Returning model, Kristopher Brown, is thrilled to be back to strut for another year.
“I am grateful to be walking for designers Praveer and Tiffany this year, as well as Champion the day before. I am confident this year will be one for the books. The talent displayed will be a feast for the eyes. Who doesn’t want something bigger, better, and bolder?”
WSFW will end the season with its Retail Brand and Youth Runway Show. The final night will be held Sunday, September 25 at 5 p.m., located at Innovation Quarter’s Biotech Atrium. The runway show will open with a special collection from long-time Winston-Salem staple Body and Soul Boutique. The show will also highlight DXL Menswear’s big and tall curvy men collection, and JCPenney’s plus size collection. The evening will end with the youth walk, featuring JCPenney’s kid collection and Blaire’s Closet youth collection, a local clothing shop in the triad.
“We have 20 renowned youth models who always bring me delight from seeing them walk down the runway with such confidence and poise. It reminds me of the beauty fashion can bring to anyone of any color and age,” Wallace said.
This year, Winston Salem Fashion Week has partnered with SECCA, Forsyth County Central Library, Goodwill Northwest NC, The Arts Council, and The Muse Winston Salem. Other sponsors include Champion, Hanesbrand, Inc, Innovation Quarter, Deweys Bakery, The Hampton Inn & Suites, The City of Winston Salem Mayors Office, Winston-Salem Chamber, Lamar Advertising Company, JCPenney, Pulse Vodka, Royalty Marketing, YES! Weekly, and Triad Voice Magazine.
For more information on shows or tickets, www.wsfashionweek.com.
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Many years ago while visiting London, my wife Pam stepped off the curb and was almost run over by Prince Andrew’s car. Had she been underage perhaps Andrew would have stopped, but, instead he just waved at her as he drove past. I too once had a brush with the royal family, and while it wasn’t life threatening, it was life altering. First, a few paragraphs to set the scene.
After working at various TV stations for ten years, I started a television production company in 1980 which allowed me to develop and distribute my own programs. The first couple of years, however, were lean ones, so I accepted freelance work from network broadcasters to keep the company afloat. CNN had just signed on the air and was always looking for news content, so I soon became a regular supplier of feature stories. Sometime during the last week of April 1981, I got a call from CNN to see if my crew could shoot video footage during Prince Charles’ upcoming visit to Colonial Williamsburg. Naturally, I said yes and began making plans to cover the big event.
Charles was to make a four-day swing through the east coast with stops in New York City, Washington, D.C., Norfolk (to inspect the Nimitz), and then on to Williamsburg, where he was scheduled to tour the Colonial Capitol and Governor’s Palace, and receive an honorary fellowship from the College of William and Mary. It may be hard to fathom now, but back then Charles was the world’s most eligible bachelor and a rock star of major proportions. Girls screamed at the Prince as he walked past Chandler Hall, where they displayed a hastily made banner that said “Hi Charlie!” It was as if the Beatles had come to town. They would have their hearts broken two months later, however, when Charles married Diana, but for that moment, he belonged to the screaming co-eds of William & Mary.
Unlike my other assignments for CNN in which I would write and narrate my own stories, on this day we were only responsible for shooting footage and assisting Kathleen Sullivan who would produce the package and appear on camera. Sullivan was the first female anchor hired by CNN, and one of the most stunningly beautiful women I had ever met. She was also a pretty good journalist, so I had no ego problems with playing a supporting role that day. Speaking of which, that day was Sunday, May 3. The weather was perfect for a royal visit, and for shooting video.
Back then the industry standard for recording video in the field was a 3/4 inch Sony U-matic cassette. Normally after shooting a story for CNN, we would hustle back to our offices in Petersburg to tape my voice-over and edit the package. There was no internet then, thus no way of emailing a video file. Instead, I had to take the finished tape to the airport and put it on the next flight to Atlanta. I always saved the raw tapes, and, for safety’s sake kept a dub (copy) of the completed package. Here’s where all this dull technical jargon begins to connect to what went wrong with my royal encounter.
For this assignment, neither I nor Kathleen would have to worry about putting tapes on a plane to Atlanta because she planned to drive to the CNN bureau in D.C. and have everything edited there. Since there would be no time to make dubs of everything in the field, I asked Kathleen to make sure she returned the raw tapes to me after the story was edited. She understood that our footage would have some historical importance, so she agreed to my request. Meanwhile, since Kathleen was acting as talent, it freed me up to take still photos of the occasion, so I strapped a 35mm camera around my neck and started snapping pictures as we followed Charles and Virginia Governor John Dalton around Colonial Williamsburg. Toward the end of the tour, the two men were about to enter the Colonial Capitol, and I had a chance at immortality.
Throughout the day, Charles had granted no interviews, nor posed for individual TV stations or networks, but I had an ace up my sleeve. I had worked with Gov. Dalton on a number of video assignments, and he was always obliging to me, so while all other photojournalists could only see the backs of the two men, I shouted out to Dalton, “Governor, turn him around for me”. Dalton complied, and now not only would I have some great video of Charles, but I would also be able to snap a potential Pulitzer Prize winning photo destined for the cover of TIME magazine. I clicked off several shots, then Dalton and Charles turned back around and headed into the Capitol. My assignment had ended, and I was on cloud nine. I handed the video tapes over to Kathleen and reminded her to make sure no one at the D.C. bureau erased them before she could mail them back to me. She told me not to worry, and I trusted her because, after all, she was an anchorperson, and TV anchors are trustworthy.
Back at our office I realized that, during the day, I had tried to take about 50 photos on a roll of film that only had 24 exposures. In other words, I hadn’t kept track of how many times the shutter clicked, and so there were no photos of Prince Charles on that roll. So much for my Pulitzer Prize, but at least I would be able to relive that historic day once Kathleen mailed our raw tapes back to me. I called her the next day to make sure she had my correct address, and that’s when she told me the tapes had gotten lost and she didn’t know where they were. It was the last time I ever spoke to Kathleen Sullivan, and the last time I ever attempted to pose as a still photographer.
Today my wife has a beautiful Wedgwood plate on display in our house, which has a personal inscription from The Dutchess of York, whose husband had once tried to kill Pam. But nowhere in our house is a photo or video of England’s new King, who I once spent the day with. I feel badly about this entire incident, so perhaps Camilla will send me a plate to ease my pain. Long live the King, and to hell with Kathleen Sullivan.
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Bookmarks invites everyone to the 17th Annual Bookmarks Festival of Books & Authors on Saturday, September 24 in downtown Winston-Salem.
All events are free to the public, including activities for every age group and reader. Festival goers will encounter interactive author panels on a variety of genres, book signings, kids’ activities, exhibitors, and food trucks. These events will take place at various locations on Spruce, Poplar, and Holly Streets with panels in Arts Council’s Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts and Hanesbrands Theatre, Calvary Moravian Church, and Footnote.
The festival will kick off at 9 am at Winston Square Park with a dance party with WSPD Paw Patrol and a performance by the Piedmont Youth Chorus. Then, at 9:30 am there will be a storytime reading of Loud Mouse from Frozen’s Elsa, Idina Menzel, and her sister Cara Mentzel. After the event, they will be signing books at the book signing tent that is located in the center of the festival. Due to safety concerns and park capacity, wristbands will be required for this event; visit www.bookmarksnc.org/festival to learn more and stay updated.
At 11 am at Calvary Moravian Church, there will be a special keynote with Sandra Cisneros for her new book of poetry, Woman Without Shame. She is best known for her bestselling novel, The House on Mango Street. This free keynote is presented with support from WellCare North Carolina.
Other author panels we are excited for: Demons & Dragons with Sayantani DasGupta (Crown of Flames) and Tui T. Sutherland (Wings of Fire series) at 10:15 am on the Kids Stage; When Women are Witches with Megan Giddings (The Women Could Fly) & Noami Novik (The Golden Enclaves), Moderated by Isabel Ibañez at 2:30 pm in Hanesbrands Theatre; The Alternate Words of Tor Publishing with P. Djèlí Clark (The Master of Djinn), T. Kingfisher (What Moves the Dead), Tj Klune (Under the Whispering Door), & Lucinda Roy (Flying the Coop) at 11:30 am in Reynolds Place Theatre, and so much more.
Throughout the day, there will be various activities for families and young readers at the Read Write Spell corner in Winston Square Park along with the children’s exhibitors by the Kids Stage. Many of the activities will be based on literacy and the stories from the featured storytime events.
As the largest annual book festival in the Carolinas, Bookmarks’ mission is to cultivate community by bringing people of all ages together with books and authors that educate, inspire, challenge, and entertain. We hope you join us! Learn more at bookmarksnc.org/festival.
Arts Council is the chief advocate of the arts and cultural sector in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Our goal is to serve as a leader in lifting up, creating awareness and providing support to grow and sustain artistic, cultural and creative offerings throughout our region. We acknowledge that it takes every voice, every talent, and every story to make our community a great place to live, work, and play. Arts Council is committed to serving as a facilitator, organizer, and promoter of conversations that are authentic, inclusive, and forward-thinking. There are over 800,000 art experiences taking place in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County annually. To learn more about upcoming arts and culture events happening in our community please visit www.cityofthearts.com.
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The university is facing a nearly $5 million deficit in the coming year, according to President Bailey. He told faculty and staff that this number will increase dramatically in the coming years if action is not taken.
“To be very frank with you, I’m looking at, three years from now, a $13 million, four years from now, a $14 million gap. I think our target in terms of programmatic changes is likely at the $13 million mark,” Bailey said.
While Bailey, still in his first year as president at SOU, made no specific mentions of what programs or staff would be cut to close the gap, he acknowledged that 78% of the school’s budget is related to employees.
“So, it’s real,” he said.
Financial challenges are not unique to SOU. Across the board, higher education institutions have been struggling in Oregon and nationwide. According to Ben Cannon, executive director of the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission, which allocates state funding to colleges and universities, the problem largely comes down to enrollment.
“Schools across Oregon are dealing with flat or declining enrollment, which means flat or declining tuition revenue, as well as increased cost pressures,” Cannon said.
He said that despite Oregon’s graduation rates being strong, an overall demographic change means that high school graduation rates will flatten or decline for years to come. And in a competitive market where other states may offer more financial aid, these problems are being felt most by smaller, regional institutions.
According to Bailey, revenue from the state for Oregon's public higher education institutions has remained flat in recent decades. At the same time, he says, increased costs have been made up with tuition.
"So now, two thirds of our revenue is based on tuition. And with student credit hours going down over time, that's two thirds of our budget," he said.
To meet these challenges, SOU President Bailey proposed four “planks” in his plan to address the deficit. They include cost reductions, more aggressive grant fundraising for research, increased philanthropic support for endowed faculty positions and diversifying the university’s revenue. He said tuition increases are not a good option.
Amidst the gloom, SOU recently received its largest ever donation, an approximately $12 million gift from Medford-based auto dealer Lithia Motors. The donation will provide $4 million for a new Institute for Applied Sustainability, which includes faculty positions, $5 million for new scholarships and a leadership development program, and help installing electric vehicle charging stations on campus, among other things.
“If they were easy decisions -- even if they were hard decisions -- someone would have made them by now,” he said.
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SAN DIEGO — Home run milestones continue to be the talk of Major League baseball as the regular season winds down.
In New York yesterday, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge became the sixth player in history to hit 60 home runs in a season.
Meanwhile, the St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols is two shy of joining the rarified air of 700 career home runs. Only three others have done that – all legends. Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds.
As of Wednesday, the Cardinals have 13 regular season games left for Pujols to join baseball's 700 club.
Not that he really cares.
Not chasing a number
Want to get on Albert Pujols's bad side?
Mention to him, as sports writers constantly do, that he's chasing 700.
"I'm not chasing anything buddy," Pujols said at a packed dugout press conference before Tuesday's game against the San Diego Padres. "I mean, that's something that you guys are playing with it. I just, never chase any numbers and I accomplished so much. So, 22 years later I definitely [am not] going to chase anything."
Actually, Pujols does use his least favorite word-of-the-moment when he talks about chasing another World Series title. He helped St. Louis win championships in 2006 and 2011. And he wants another, before he retires after this season and ends a two-decade plus career that'll easily land him in the Hall of Fame.
A sedate affair turns electric
That ending always was going to be a fond but fairly sedate affair, with teams on the road honoring Pujols. The Padres did their part with a very San Diego gift of surfboards for Pujols and fellow retiree-to-be, St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina.
But Pujols has turned an easy going retirement tour into something electric, thanks to a home run barrage that ignited a somewhat sleepy final season.
He's hit a dozen since August 10th, and it's prompted reporters to use another phrase Pujols doesn't like (– we just can't get it right!! –) "power surge."
"My power surge?" Pujols asked in the dugout with a wry grin, "Ok I guess I didn't have any power – I had to surge for some."
The assembled reporters laughed.
"Just taking the same swing that I start taking in spring training for a week that I was there, and carry that into the season," Pujols continued, "and hopefully knowing that if I trust my process like I always have as a professional, sooner or later it's going to come around. And I think that it took this long, I don't know why. I think God has his ways to turn things around. But for me it was just [trying to] repeat the same swing that I've been doing for 21 years in my career."
Pujols acknowledges his swing speed is better now than years past. He's also been feasting on left-handed pitchers, who've given up nine of his last twelve homers. Tuesday the Padres offered up only right-handed pitchers. They held Pujols to two singles and a walk that drew boos from the homer-hungry fans at Petco Park.
A chance souvenir....
There'd be no lucky ones in the bleachers snagging a Pujols home run.
But high above the first base line, 36-year-old San Diegan Chris Wooldridge found himself perfectly positioned to catch the closest thing to history Tuesday night – an Albert Pujols foul ball.
"I just saw it pop up and it looked like it was coming right at me," Wooldridge laughed, "and it was just so perfect. I didn't have to move or anything."
Wooldridge said he hadn't been to a Major League game in maybe 15 years. He'll remember this one, and a chance souvenir from a 42-year-old player finishing with a bang.
"It's impressive," he said. "I mean, you're not supposed to be, y'know hitting as many home runs and playing at that caliber at that age. It's just really, really special."
And an absence of suspicion
There was a time, not too long ago, when a home run barrage by a 42-year-old would raise questions.
Not unreasonable questions to ask in San Diego, where Padres star Fernando Tatis, Jr. currently is serving a lengthy suspension after testing positive for a performance enhancing drug.
"Pujols has never had an issue ever in his entire career with anything," Wooldridge said, "[he's] been a stand-up player and role model and that's just something to applaud."
There've been no credible allegations against Pujols nor has he had the outlier performances – he never hit 50 home runs in a season. His major league career began in 2001, during the so-called steroid era and the same year Barry Bonds' 73 home runs set the single-season record but cast doubt on that and other records.
But Pujols has played most of his baseball since the game's become a standard-bearer in the fight against sports doping.
"The light switch went on in baseball," said U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart. "And they put in a policy that protects clean athletes."
Indeed, it's striking to note the absence of suspicion, among fans and sports journalists, about both Pujols's march toward 700, and Judge's single season home run exploits.
Tygart says baseball has earned people's trust with its wide-ranging efforts to combat doping.
"Testing is critically important," he said, "both in competition, out of competition, blood, urine. Having a good list [of prohibited substances], doing research to ensure the science stays ahead, or at least [in] lock step with those who might want to gain an advantage, and then the investigations and the intelligence – using information that comes to them."
Tygart believes baseball has put in place an "outstanding policy that really knocks it out of the park" on the elements that he says create a "Matrix of Effectiveness."
According to MLB, there were more than 1,400 Major League drug tests in 2003 and approximately 12,000 this year. All players now are tested, and randomly.
Unencumbered by suspicion, San Diego fans cheered all four of Pujols's at-bats Tuesday. Many stood, with cell phones recording hoped-for history.
It didn't happen, but fans on the road, and certainly in St. Louis, will keep turning out to watch one of baseball's great late season chases.
Or whatever Albert Pujols wants people to call it.
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MIDDLEPORT — FMC Corporation's Agricultural Sciences plant presented donations to local first-responder agencies in conjunction with its recent annual Safety Day.
Safety Day has FMC employees interacting with first responders in the course of presentations and demonstrations focused on community, home and work safety. Key elements of the day were fire extinguisher and impairment trainings for plant employees.
Participating agencies included Middleport Fire Department, Middleport Police Department, the Niagara County Sheriff's Office, WellNow Occupational Health Clinic and the Alzheimer's Association Western New York Chapter.
Plant manager Katie Russell presented donations of $2,000 to Middleport Fire Department and $1,000 to Middleport Police Department during the event.
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NEW YORK — 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.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Joe Biden declared at the United Nations on Wednesday that Russia has “shamelessly violated the core tenets” of the international body with its war in Ukraine as he summoned nations around the globe to stand firm in backing the Ukrainian resistance.
Delivering a forceful condemnation of Russia’s seven-month invasion, Biden said reports of Russian abuses against civilians and its efforts to erase Ukraine and its culture “should make your blood run cold.” He referenced President Vladimir Putin’s announcement Wednesday that he had ordered a partial mobilization of reservists, a deeply unpopular step that sparked protests in Russia.
And Putin’s new nuclear threats against Europe showed “reckless disregard” for Russia’s responsibilities as a signer of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Biden said.
He also criticized Russia for scheduling “sham referenda” this week in territory it has forcibly seized in Ukraine.
“A permanent member of the U..N Security Council invaded its neighbor, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map. Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the U.N. charter,” he told his U.N. audience.
Biden’s speech was part of an effort to maintain Russia’s isolation on the global stage as the costs of war mount, worries about energy this winter loom and Congress is likely to look more skeptically on spending more on military defense. The president called on all nations, whether democracies or autocracies, to speak out against Russia’s “brutal, needless war” and to bolster’s Ukraine effort to defend itself.
“We will stand in solidarity against Russia’s aggression, period,” Biden said.
Biden also highlighted consequences of the invasion for the world’s food supply, pledging $2.9 billion in global food security aid to address shortages caused by the war and the effects of climate change. He praised a U.N.-brokered effort to create a corridor for Ukrainian grain to be exported by sea, and called on the agreement to be continued despite the ongoing conflict.
Biden, during his time at the U.N. General Assembly, met with Secretary General António Guterres and held his first meeting with new British Prime Minister Liz Truss, during which they discussed Russia’s war, energy security and China. He also met with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Biden also pressed nations to meet an $18 billion target to replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, reiterating the U.S. commitment of $6 billion to that goal.
“Now is the moment to accelerate our efforts to reduce health inequities, and to address barriers to access including gender and human rights barriers to build a more inclusive healthcare systems, to leave no one behind, to end AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria for good,” Biden said, as he was joined by leaders from Japan, Germany, France, Canada and the EU for the announcement.
But the heart of the president’s visit to the U.N. this year was his full-throated censure of Russia as its war nears the seven-month mark. One of Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassadors, Gennady Kuzmin, was sitting in Russia’s seat during Biden’s speech.
The address came as Russian-controlled regions of eastern and southern Ukraine have announced plans to hold Kremllin-backed referendums on becoming part of Russia and as Moscow was losing ground in the invasion.
The White House said the global food security funding includes $2 billion in direct humanitarian assistance through the United States Agency for International Development. The balance of the money will go to global development projects meant to boost the efficiency and resilience of the global food supply.
“This new announcement of $2.9 billion will save lives through emergency interventions and invest in medium- to long-term food security assistance in order to protect the world’s most vulnerable populations from the escalating global food security crisis,” the White House said.
Biden was confronting no shortage of difficult issues as leaders gathered this year.
In addition to the Russian war in Ukraine, European fears that a recession could be just around the corner are heightened. Administration concerns grow by the day that time is running short to revive the Iran nuclear deal and over China’s saber-rattling on Taiwan.
His Wednesday address comes on the heels of Ukrainian forces retaking control of large stretches of territory near Kharkiv. But even as Ukrainian forces have racked up battlefield wins, much of Europe is feeling painful blowback from economic sanctions levied against Russia. A vast reduction in Russian oil and gas has led to a sharp jump in energy prices, skyrocketing inflation and growing risk of Europe slipping into a recession.
Biden’s visit to the U.N. also comes as his administration’s efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal appear stalled.
The deal brokered by the Obama administration — and scrapped by Trump in 2018 — provided billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for Iran’s agreement to dismantle much of its nuclear program and open its facilities to extensive international inspection.
“While the United States is prepared for a mutual return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, if Iran steps up to its obligations, the United States is clear: We will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons,” Biden said.
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WASHINGTON — Intensifying its fight against high inflation, the Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday by a substantial three-quarters of a point for a third straight time and signaled more large rate hikes to come — an aggressive pace that will heighten the risk of an eventual recession.
The Fed’s move boosted its benchmark short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level since early 2008.
The officials also forecast that they will further raise their benchmark rate to roughly 4.4% by year’s end, a full point higher than they had envisioned as recently as June. and they expect to raise the rate again next year, to about 4.6%. That would be the highest level since 2007.
By raising borrowing rates, the Fed makes it costlier to take out a mortgage or an auto or business loan. Consumers and businesses then presumably borrow and spend less, cooling the economy and slowing inflation.
Falling gas prices have slightly lowered headline inflation, which was a still-painful 8.3% in August compared with a year earlier. Those declining prices at the gas pump might have contributed to a recent rise in President Joe Biden’s public approval ratings, which Democrats hope will boost their prospects in the November midterm elections.
Speaking at a news conference, Chair Jerome Powell said that before Fed officials would consider halting their rate hikes, they would “want to be very confident that inflation is moving back down” to their 2% target. He noted that the strength of the job market is fueling pay gains that are helping drive up inflation.
And he stressed his belief that curbing inflation is vital to ensuring the long-term health of the job market.
“If we want to light the way to another period of a very strong labor market,” Powell said, “we have got to get inflation behind us. I wish there was painless way to do that. There isn’t.”
Fed officials have said they are seeking a “soft landing,” by which they would manage to slow growth enough to tame inflation but not so much as to trigger a recession. Yet most economists are skeptical. They say they think the Fed’s steep rate hikes will lead, over time, to job cuts, rising unemployment and a full-blown recession late this year or early next year.
“No one knows whether this process will lead to a recession, or if so, how significant that recession would be,” Powell said at his news conference. “That’s going to depend on how quickly we bring down inflation.”
In their updated economic forecasts, the Fed’s policymakers project that economic growth will remain weak for the next few years, with rising unemployment. They expect the jobless rate to reach 4.4% by the end of 2023, up from its current level of 3.7%. Historically, economists say, any time unemployment has risen by a half-point over several months, a recession has always followed.
Fed officials now foresee the economy expanding just 0.2% this year, sharply lower than their forecast of 1.7% growth just three months ago. and they envision sluggish growth below 2% from 2023 through 2025.
Even with the steep rate hikes the Fed foresees, it still expects core inflation — which excludes the volatile food and gas categories — to be 3.1% at the end of next year, well above its 2% target.
Powell acknowledged in a speech last month that the Fed’s moves will “bring some pain” to households and businesses. and he added that the central bank’s commitment to bringing inflation back down to its 2% target was “unconditional.”
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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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The Tuesday morning execution of search warrants at three properties in Lockport led to the discovery of suspected cocaine, fentanyl and crack cocaine, as well as explosives, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office announced on Wednesday.
The Niagara County Drug Task Force executed narcotic search warrants at 6598 Dysinger Road, apartment 5, 277 Washburn St., apartment 1, and 135 Pine St., apartment 2, beginning at 7 a.m. Tuesday, with assistance from the county’s Emergency Response Team and Lockport Police Department. In the course of the searches, the task force turned up multiple firearms, quantities of suspected narcotics and U.S. currency, and at one unidentified location explosives were found.
The Erie County Bomb Squad was called in to take possession of the explosives.
Criminal charges will be filed pending results of lab testing of seized materials, the sheriff’s office said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's new moon rocket sprouted more fuel leaks Wednesday in a test ahead of a possible launch attempt next week, but engineers managed to get them down to acceptable levels.
There was no immediate decision on whether NASA would try for a liftoff Tuesday given the sporadic nature of the hydrogen leaks, which have bedeviled the launch team for months.
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson wouldn't commit to a launch attempt date, although she said the test went well.
“We’ll go take a look at the data,” she said. “I’d like the team to have an opportunity to look at that before I speculate.”
The daylong demo had barely begun when hazardous hydrogen fuel began escaping at the same place and same time as before, despite new seals and other repairs. Engineers halted the flow and warmed the lines in hopes of plugging the leak, and proceeded with the test. But the leak persisted before dropping to acceptable levels. Hours later, another leak cropped up elsewhere, before tapering down.
Blackwell-Thompson said all test objectives were met. But managers need to review the results before determining whether the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket is ready for its first test flight, a lunar-orbiting mission with mannequins instead of astronauts.
Hydrogen leaks spoiled the first two launch attempts, as well as earlier countdown tests. So much hydrogen escaped during the countdown earlier this month that it exceeded NASA’s limit by more than double. Wednesday's leak almost got that big again.
After hours of fits and starts, NASA finally managed to load nearly 1 million gallons (4 million liters) of fuel into the rocket.
Following the Sept. 3 launch delay, NASA replaced two seals in the leaky line. One seal had a tiny indentation; it measured a mere one-hundredth of an inch.
“Now that doesn’t sound like a lot, but again we’re dealing with hydrogen," the smallest element on the periodic table, said mission manager Mike Sarafin.
NASA also altered the fueling process, easing slowly into the loading of the super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen. After Wednesday's big leak appeared, the launch team moved even more slowly to subject the plumbing to even less stress.
In a separate matter, NASA still needs the U.S. Space Force to extend the certification of on-board batteries that are part of the flight safety system before another launch attempt.
Once launched, the crew capsule atop the rocket will be the first to orbit the moon in 50 years. The $4.1 billion mission should last more than five weeks, ending with a splashdown in the Pacific. Astronauts would climb aboard for the second test flight, dashing around the moon in 2024. The third mission, targeted for 2025, would see a pair of astronauts actually landing on the moon.
NASA's Space Launch System rocket is more powerful than the Saturn V rocket that sent Apollo astronauts to the moon during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The engines and boosters are carryovers from the now retired space shuttles. Just like now, NASA struggled with elusive hydrogen leaks during the shuttle era, especially during the early 1990s.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Intensifying its fight against high inflation, the Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday by a substantial three-quarters of a point for a third straight time and signaled more large rate hikes to come — an aggressive pace that will heighten the risk of an eventual recession.
The Fed’s move boosted its benchmark short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level since early 2008.
The officials also forecast that they will further raise their benchmark rate to roughly 4.4% by year’s end, a full point higher than they had envisioned as recently as June. And they expect to raise the rate again next year, to about 4.6%. That would be the highest level since 2007.
By raising borrowing rates, the Fed makes it costlier to take out a mortgage or an auto or business loan. Consumers and businesses then presumably borrow and spend less, cooling the economy and slowing inflation.
Falling gas prices have slightly lowered headline inflation, which was a still-painful 8.3% in August compared with a year earlier. Those declining prices at the gas pump might have contributed to a recent rise in President Joe Biden’s public approval ratings, which Democrats hope will boost their prospects in the November midterm elections.
Speaking at a news conference, Chair Jerome Powell said that before Fed officials would consider halting their rate hikes, they would “want to be very confident that inflation is moving back down” to their 2% target. He noted that the strength of the job market is fueling pay gains that are helping drive up inflation.
And he stressed his belief that curbing inflation is vital to ensuring the long-term health of the job market.
“If we want to light the way to another period of a very strong labor market,” Powell said, “we have got to get inflation behind us. I wish there was painless way to do that. There isn’t.”
Fed officials have said they are seeking a “soft landing,” by which they would manage to slow growth enough to tame inflation but not so much as to trigger a recession. Yet most economists are skeptical. They say they think the Fed’s steep rate hikes will lead, over time, to job cuts, rising unemployment and a full-blown recession late this year or early next year.
“No one knows whether this process will lead to a recession, or if so, how significant that recession would be,” Powell said at his news conference. “That’s going to depend on how quickly we bring down inflation.”
In their updated economic forecasts, the Fed’s policymakers project that economic growth will remain weak for the next few years, with rising unemployment. They expect the jobless rate to reach 4.4% by the end of 2023, up from its current level of 3.7%. Historically, economists say, any time unemployment has risen by a half-point over several months, a recession has always followed.
Fed officials now foresee the economy expanding just 0.2% this year, sharply lower than their forecast of 1.7% growth just three months ago. And they envision sluggish growth below 2% from 2023 through 2025.
Even with the steep rate hikes the Fed foresees, it still expects core inflation — which excludes the volatile food and gas categories — to be 3.1% at the end of next year, well above its 2% target.
Powell acknowledged in a speech last month that the Fed’s moves will “bring some pain” to households and businesses. And he added that the central bank’s commitment to bringing inflation back down to its 2% target was “unconditional.”
Short-term rates at a level the Fed is now envisioning would make a recession likelier next year by sharply raising the costs of mortgages, car loans and business loans. Last week, the average fixed mortgage rate topped 6%, its highest point in 14 years, which helps explain why home sales have tumbled. Credit card borrowing costs have reached their highest level since 1996, according to Bankrate.com.
Inflation now appears increasingly fueled by higher wages and by consumers’ steady desire to spend and less by the supply shortages that had bedeviled the economy during the pandemic recession. On Sunday, Biden said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he believed a soft landing for the economy was still possible, suggesting that his administration’s recent energy and health care legislation would lower prices for pharmaceuticals and health care.
The law may help lower prescription drug prices, but outside analyses suggest it will do little to immediately bring down overall inflation. Last month, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office judged it would have a “negligible” effect on prices through 2023. The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model went even further to say “the impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from zero” over the next decade.
Even so, some economists are beginning to express concern that the Fed’s rapid rate hikes — the fastest since the early 1980s — will cause more economic damage than necessary to tame inflation. Mike Konczal, an economist at the Roosevelt Institute, noted that the economy is already slowing and that wage increases — a key driver of inflation — are levelling off and by some measures even declining a bit.
Surveys also show that Americans are expecting inflation to ease significantly over the next five years. That is an important trend because inflation expectations can become self-fulfilling: If people expect inflation to ease, some will feel less pressure to accelerate their purchases. Less spending would then help moderate price increases.
The Fed’s rapid rate hikes mirror steps that other major central banks are taking, contributing to concerns about a potential global recession. The European Central Bank last week raised its benchmark rate by three-quarters of a percentage point. The Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of Canada have all carried out hefty rate increases in recent weeks.
And in China, the world’s second-largest economy, growth is already suffering from the government’s repeated COVID lockdowns. If recession sweeps through most large economies, that could derail the U.S. economy, too.
Even at the Fed’s accelerated pace of rate hikes, some economists — and some Fed officials — argue that they have yet to raise rates to a level that would actually restrict borrowing and spending and slow growth.
Many economists sound convinced that widespread layoffs will be necessary to slow rising prices. Research published earlier this month under the auspices of the Brookings Institution concluded that unemployment might have to go as high as 7.5% to get inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target.
“The risk is that the Fed acts more aggressively in its mission to return inflation back to its 2% objective, pushing the funds rate higher than previously expected and keeping it higher for longer,’’ Nancy Vanden Houten, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, said Wednesday after the Fed’s meeting.
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AP Economics Writer Paul Wiseman contributed to this report.
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Police say they have a suspect in custody in a bank robbery Wednesday evening on Marblestone Drive outside Lake Ridge.
The robber passed a threatening note to a teller at the Wells Fargo at 12711 Marblestone Drive near the Prince William County government center, police reported on Twitter at 6:20 p.m.
The robber was soon found and arrested, police said.
No other details have been released. Stay with InsideNoVa.com for updates.
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Moving into a new office or looking for some fresh ideas to make your clients feel welcome? This month’s column answers questions from a small business owner making a move into a much larger space. If you have questions about your commercial or residential space feel free to send them in to yaron@formaltraditional.com and you too could see your answers in print.
We’re moving from a small office to a 2,000 sq ft building, and we’re unsure how many people are going to be in-person at any one time. How do we keep from having too few or too many offices? Congratulations on moving up! We design long counters and shelves with ample power and usb ports where hybrid staff can drop in and work when needed. Coupling that with one or two flex offices allows for staff to hold private meetings when needed, but not consume the space when they’re in the field or at home.
Pro Tip: Rather than having cords all over the place, run power strips on top of the counters so they’re easier for staff to access. A grommet finished hole can allow for the one cord of the power strip to access the outlet beneath cleanly.
Half the tube style light bulbs are different colors, should we use cool or warm lights? We prefer warm light and recommend cool lighting only where necessary. However you decide, you should begin replacing the fluorescent tubes with led ones. Not only will they last much longer, but they will reduce your energy bill significantly.
Pro Tip: When all four bulbs are out in a fluorescent light fixture, there’s good chance that those bulbs may have been fine and that the ballast is at fault.
We have an unsightly kitchenette in the line of sight of our front door. Is there any way to hide it without making structural changes? Absolutely. Consider purchasing or constructing a free standing folding screen. Decorating the screen in a branded way will make it look intentional, and hide the kitchenette. Best of all you can fold it up and not have to worry about restoring the space to its original condition if you move.
Pro Tip: A little bit of wallpaper can go a long way. For the cost of a single roll, your screen can become a scene stealer.
The signs by our bathrooms look very industrial, can we remove them? There should be an indication of which doors lead to the bathrooms, but they don’t have to be industrial looking. There are many clever ways to indicate a bathroom without using the standard signs. A quick online search will show you lots of other options.
Pro Tip: On brand signage is an excellent way to make your company memorable, doubly so if it is humorous.
How else can we make our space memorable? Sometimes the smallest things make the biggest impact. I always take notice when I arrive for an appointment at a showroom and there’s a sign personally welcoming me. A section of chalk board paint and a few minutes from a staff member with good handwriting is a worthwhile investment to make people feel seen.
Pro Tip: Hospitality is never out of style. Offer every visitor at least a glass of water or a soda every time. Doing so graciously will get remembered as well.
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About this Article
This article appears in the October 2022 issue of Haymarket-Gainesville Lifestyle Magazine. To pick up a copy, visit these locations: https://piedmontlifestyle.com/pick-up-a-copy-of-the-magazines/
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two U.S. military veterans who disappeared three months ago while fighting Russia with Ukrainian forces were among 10 prisoners, including five British nationals, released by Russian-backed separatists as part of a prisoner exchange mediated by Saudi Arabia, officials said Wednesday.
Alex Drueke, 40, and Andy Huynh, 27, went missing in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border June 9. They had traveled to Ukraine on their own and became friends because both are from Alabama.
Their families announced their release in a joint statement from Dianna Shaw, an aunt of Drueke.
“They are safely in the custody of the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia and after medical checks and debriefing they will return to the states,” the statement said.
Shaw said both men have spoken with relatives and are in “pretty good shape,” according to an official with the U.S. embassy.
President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan welcomed the releases and thanked the governments of Ukraine and Saudi Arabia for their work to secure the detainees‘ freedom. “We look forward to our citizens being reunited with their families,” he said in a tweet.
In a later statement, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States “is appreciative of Ukraine including all prisoners of war, regardless of nationality, in its negotiations” and thanked Saudi government partners for securing the release of the 10 prisoners, including the two Americans.
The Saudi embassy released a statement saying it helped secure the release of 10 prisoners from Morocco, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Croatia. Shaw confirmed that Drueke and Huynh were part of the group.
The United Kingdom said five British nationals had been released, and lawmaker Robert Jenrick said one of them was Aiden Aslin, 28, who had been sentenced to death after he was captured in eastern Ukraine.
“Aiden’s return brings to an end months of agonising uncertainty for Aiden’s loving family in Newark who suffered every day of Aiden’s sham trial but never lost hope. As they are united as a family once more, they can finally be at peace,” Jenrick tweeted.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss heralded the news on social media.
“Hugely welcome news that five British nationals held by Russian-backed proxies in eastern Ukraine are being safely returned, ending months of uncertainty and suffering for them and their families,” she tweeted.
Moroccan media reported that the released prisoners included Brahim Saadoun, 21, who was sentenced to death in June after being accused of terrorism and trying to overturn the constitutional order. Captured by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine, the court claimed he was a mercenary, while Saadoun’s father said he had enlisted in Ukraine’s regular army.
Russian state television had previously said Drueke and Huynh were being held by Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The U.S. does not recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and has no diplomatic relations with them, making it necessary for others to lead efforts to get the men released.
Drueke joined the Army at age 19 after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and he believed he could help Ukrainian fighters because of his training and experience with weapons, Shaw said previously. Drueke left in mid-April.
Druke’s mother received a call from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning and an embassy worker handed the phone to the man, Shaw said.
“He got on the phone and said, ‘Hi mom, it’s your favorite child,’” she said.
Huynh moved to north Alabama two years ago from his native California and lives about 120 miles (193 kilometers) from Drueke. Before leaving for Europe, Huynh told his local newspaper, The Decatur Daily, he couldn’t stop thinking about Russia’s invasion.
“I know it wasn’t my problem, but there was that gut feeling that I felt I had to do something,” Huynh told the paper. “Two weeks after the war began, it kept eating me up inside and it just felt wrong. I was losing sleep. … All I could think about was the situation in Ukraine.”
Huynh told his fiance he wants a meal from McDonald’s and a Pepsi-Cola when he returns home, Shaw said.
The two men bonded over their home state and were together when their unit came under heavy fire. Relatives spoke with Drueke several times by phone while the two were being held.
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LAKE CITY, IOWA — Three people have been arrested for their alleged roles in reportedly falsifying information to get a newly-hired police officer for the town of Lake City into the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy.
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office confirms that Lake City Administrator Eric Wood and former police officers Tony Snyder and Aaron Alspach were arrested, though exact charges weren’t released. Snyder is currently on the police force in the town of Atlantic.
According to a report from last year from KCIM radio, both Snyder and Alspach were hired as officers while still needing certification by the ILEA. By law, they had one year to gain that certification. Alspach was eventually dismissed by the city council after repeatedly failing to gain the certification, the radio station reported.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — In a social media landscape filled with photoshopped influencers and perfectly curated lives, some people just want something real.
If you’re a member of Generation Z, or a parent of a Gen Zer, chances are you’ve heard of the French service topping the app store charts — BeReal. But what is it? And are the social media giants like Meta, Snapchat and TikTok taking notice?
BeReal launched back in 2020 but didn’t make a big splash for another two years. The idea is to pull back the curtain on re-touched and filtered social media photos that can create a false reality.
How does BeReal work?
Users 13 years old and up download the app, create a profile and wait.
Once a day, at a random time, the app will send a notification to its users to snap a picture of what they’re doing at that exact moment. The picture is taken simultaneously using the front and rear-facing cameras of the user’s smartphone within two minutes of the notification and overlays the two photos.
Users can see their BeReal friend’s posts and react to them with custom “RealMojis.” It’s all in an effort for users to take a look at their friends’ authentic day-to-day lives. Users can make their accounts public or private, tag their locations and look back at a private calendar of their posts.
BeReal says the app is “A new and unique way to discover who your friends really are in their daily life.”
How are Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat responding?
Three of tech’s social giants have seemingly taken notice of the app’s success and are developing their own features that emulate BeReal.
“The fear of the incumbents is that this becomes the next TikTok,” Mark Shmulik, an internet analyst for Bernstein, told The Washington Post. “So they’ve all scrambled to launch their own version.”
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, confirmed it’s working on an “internal prototype” called “Candid Challenges” for Instagram, tech news website Engadget reported.
TikTok, which has seen huge success among younger users, is also trying to get in on the “Real” game. They’ve launched a feature called “TikTok Now” which is a similar concept but adds the option to upload a video instead of just a picture.
Snapchat is getting in on the action with “Dual Camera,” a new feature allowing users to take simultaneous images with their phone’s front and rear cameras. Differing from the others, there is no challenge aspect.
BeReal is currently sitting at number three in the Apple app store, beating out every other social media application. Only time will tell if BeReal is a flash in the pan or become a heavyweight in cyberspace.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaigning for a northwestern Ohio congressional seat, Republican J.R. Majewski presents himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, once describing “tough” conditions including a lack of running water that forced him to go more than 40 days without a shower.
Military documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request tell a different story.
They indicate Majewski never deployed to Afghanistan but instead completed a six-month stint helping to load planes at an air base in Qatar, a longtime U.S. ally that is a safe distance from the fighting.
Majewski’s account of his time in the military is just one aspect of his biography that is suspect. His post-military career has been defined by exaggerations, conspiracy theories, talk of violent action against the U.S. government and occasional financial duress.
Still, thanks to an unflinching allegiance to former President Donald Trump — Majewski once painted a massive Trump mural on his lawn — he also stands a chance of defeating longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in a district recently redrawn to favor Republicans.
Majewski is among a cluster of GOP candidates, most running for office for the first time, whose unvarnished life stories and hard-right politics could diminish the chances of a Republican “red wave” on Election Day in November. He is also a vivid representation of a new breed of politicians who reject facts as they try to emulate Trump.
“It bothers me when people trade on their military service to get elected to office when what they are doing is misleading the people they want to vote for them,” Don Christensen, a retired colonel and former chief prosecutor for the Air Force, said of Majewski. “Veterans have done so much for this country and when you claim to have done what your brothers and sisters in arms actually did to build up your reputation, it is a disservice.”
Majewski’s campaign declined to make him available for an interview and, in a lengthy statement issued to the AP, did not directly address questions about his claim of deploying to Afghanistan. A spokeswoman declined to provide additional comment when the AP followed up with additional questions.
“I am proud to have served my country,” Majewski said in the statement. “My accomplishments and record are under attack, meanwhile, career politician Marcy Kaptur has a forty-year record of failure for my Toledo community, which is why I’m running for Congress.”
With no previous political experience, Majewski is perhaps an unlikely person to be the Republican nominee taking on Kaptur, who has represented the Toledo area since 1983. But two state legislators who were also on the ballot in the August GOP primary split the establishment vote. That cleared a path for Majewski, who previously worked in the nuclear power industry and dabbled in politics as a pro-Trump hip-hop performer and promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory. He was also at the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Throughout his campaign Majewski has offered his Air Force service as a valuable credential. The tagline “veteran for Congress” appears on campaign merchandise. He ran a Facebook ad promoting himself as “combat veteran.” And in a campaign video released this year, Majewski marauds through a vacant factory with a rifle while pledging to restore an America that is “independent and strong like the country I fought for.”
More recently, the House Republican campaign committee released a biography that describes Majewski as a veteran whose “squadron was one of the first on the ground in Afghanistan after 9/11.” A campaign ad posted online Tuesday by Majewski supporters flashed the words “Afghanistan War Veteran” across the screen alongside a picture of a younger Majewski in his dress uniform.
A biography posted on his campaign website does not mention Afghanistan, but in an August 2021 tweet criticizing the U.S. withdraw from the country, Majewski said he would “gladly suit up and go back to Afghanistan.”
He’s been far less forthcoming when asked about the specifics of his service.
“I don’t like talking about my military experience,” he said in a 2021 interview on the One American Podcast after volunteering that he served one tour of duty in Afghanistan. “It was a tough time in life. You know, the military wasn’t easy.”
A review of his service records, which the AP obtained from the National Archives through a public records request, as well as an accounting provided by the Air Force, offers a possible explanation for his hesitancy.
Rather than deploying to Afghanistan, as he has claimed, the records state that Majewski was based at Kadena Air Base in Japan for much of his active-duty service. He later deployed for six months to Qatar in May 2002, where he helped load and unload planes while serving as a “passenger operations specialist,” the records show.
While based in Qatar, Majewski would land at other air bases to transfer military passengers, medics, supplies, his campaign said. The campaign did not answer a direct question about whether he was ever in Afghanistan.
Experts argue Majewski’s description of himself as a “combat veteran” is also misleading.
The term can evoke images of soldiers storming a beachhead or finding refuge during a firefight. But under the laws and regulations of the U.S. government, facing live fire has little to do with someone earning the title.
During the Persian Gulf War, then-President George H.W. Bush designated, for the first time, countries used as combat support areas as combat zones despite the low-risk of American service members ever facing hostilities. That helped veterans receive a favorable tax status. Qatar, which is now home to the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East, was among the countries that received the designation under Bush’s executive order — a status that remains in effect today.
Regardless, it rankles some when those seeking office offer their status as a combat veteran as a credential to voters without explaining that it does not mean that they came under hostile fire.
“As somebody who was in Qatar, I do not consider myself a combat veteran,” said Christensen, the retired Air Force colonel who now runs Protect Our Defenders, a military watchdog organization. “I think that would be offensive to those who were actually engaged in combat and Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Majewski’s campaign said that he calls himself a combat veteran because the area he deployed to — Qatar — is considered a combat zone.
Majewski also lacks many of the medals that are typically awarded to those who served in Afghanistan.
Though he once said that he went more than 40 days without a shower during his time in the landlocked country, he does not have an Afghanistan campaign medal, which was issued to those who served “30 consecutive days or 60 nonconsecutive days” in the country.
He also did not receive a Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, which was issued to service members before the creation of the Afghanistan campaign medal if they deployed overseas in “direct service to the War on Terror.”
Matthew Borie, an Air Force veteran who worked in intelligence and reviewed Majewski’s records at AP’s request, said it’s “odd” that Majewski lacks many of the “medals you would expect to see for someone who deployed to Afghanistan.”
There’s also the matter of Majewski’s final rank and reenlistment code when he left active duty after four years of service.
Most leave the service after four years having received several promotions that are generally awarded for time served. Majewski exited at a rank that was one notch above where he started. His enlistment code also indicated that he could not sign up with the Air Force again.
Majewski’s campaign said he received what’s called a nonjudicial punishment in 2001 after getting into a “brawl” in his dormitory, which resulted in a demotion. Nonjudicial punishments are designed to hold service members accountable for bad behavior that does not rise to the level of a court-martial.
Majewski’s resume exaggeration isn’t limited to his military service, reverberating throughout his professional life, as well as a nascent political career that took shape in an online world of conspiracy theories.
Since gaining traction in his campaign for Congress, Majewski has denied that he is a follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory while playing down his participation in the Capitol riot.
The baseless and apocalyptic QAnon belief is based on cryptic online postings by the anonymous “Q,” who is purportedly a government insider. It posits that Trump is fighting entrenched enemies in the government and also involves satanism and child sex trafficking.
“Let me be clear, I denounce QAnon. I do not support Q, and I do not subscribe to their conspiracy theories,” Majewski said in his statement to the AP.
But in the past Majewski repeatedly posted QAnon references and memes to social media, wore a QAnon shirt during a TV interview and has described Zak Paine, a QAnon influencer and online personality who goes by the nom de guerre Redpill78, as a “good friend.”
During a February 2021 appearance on a YouTube stream, Majewski stated, “I believe in everything that’s been put out from Q,” while characterizing the false posts as “military-level intelligence, in my opinion.” He also posted, to the right-wing social media platform Parler, a photo of the “Trump 2020” mural he painted on his lawn that was modified to change the zeros into “Q’s,” as first reported by CNN.
Then there’s Majewski’s participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Majewski has said that he raised about $25,000 to help dozens of people attend the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol. He also traveled to the event with his friend Paine, the QAnon influencer, and the two later appeared in social media postings near the Capitol.
Majewski acknowledged he was outside the Capitol, but denies entering the building. Still, he lamented the decision on a QAnon livestream a week after the attack, stating that he was “pissed off at myself” for not going into the building.
“It was a struggle, because I really wanted to go in,” Majewski said on the livestream, which was first unearthed by the liberal group Media Matters.
Majewski has not been charged in connection with the attack. But he has falsely stated that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and said that the insurrection “felt like a setup” by police who were targeting Trump supporters.
In his statement, Majewski said, “I deeply regret being at the Capitol that day” and “did not break the law,” while calling for those who did to be “punished to the fullest extent of the law.”
The mischaracterizations extend to his professional career, in which he has repeatedly described himself as an “executive in the nuclear power industry,” including in a campaign ad last spring.
But a review of his now-deleted resume on the website LinkedIn and a survey of his former employers do not support the claim.
He most recently worked for Holtec International, a Florida-based energy conglomerate that specializes in handling spent nuclear fuel. But he is not listed among the executives and members of the corporate leadership teams in current or archived versions of the company’s website.
A spokesman confirmed Majewski was a former Holtec employee, but declined to offer details on his position or role, which Majewski’s LinkedIn page described as “senior director, client relations.”
Majewski’s campaign declined to address his claim of being an executive, but said he participated in weekly conference calls with executives.
Majewski also described himself on LinkedIn as “project manager – senior consultant” for First Energy, an Ohio based power company, a position that he stated he held since shortly after leaving the military. The company, Majewski explained in a biography posted to his website, quickly recognized him for his “intellect and leadership capabilities”
Yet records from his 2009 bankruptcy raise questions about his seniority. They show he was an “outage manager” who earned about $51,000 a year. In the bankruptcy, Majewski and his wife gave up their home, two cars and a Jet Ski to settle the case, court records show.
Still, in a nationalized political environment, some Republicans suggest none of this will matter to voters.
“At the end of the day, this will be a question of whether they want Nancy Pelosi leading the House or Kevin McCarthy,” said Tom Davis, a former congressman who led the House Republican campaign arm during George W. Bush’s presidency. “These elections have become less about the person. I wouldn’t say candidates don’t matter, but they don’t matter like they used to.”
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LaPorta reported from Wilmington, North Carolina. AP investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected by deleting the reference to the social media platform Parler as being defunct.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor and European Union judicial cooperation agency Eurojust have launched a set of guidelines for nongovernmental organizations collecting evidence of atrocities in Ukraine and elsewhere around the world.
“With the war in Ukraine, peace and justice are under the most severe pressure, and accountability for core international crimes and violations of human rights is more than ever essential for international criminal justice,” Eurojust President Ladislav Hamran said in a statement Wednesday.
He said the guidelines will be “a key building block in efforts of authorities and civil society organisations to collect and preserve information and evidence that may become admissible in court.”
They include advice on approaching and interviewing vulnerable witnesses, dealing with documents, digital information and items that could be evidence as well as storing, analyzing and keeping the information and potential pieces of evidence secure.
Allegations of atrocities by Russian forces fighting in the nearly seven-month war in Ukraine have again come to the fore in recent days as Ukrainian forces have recaptured parts of their country and discovered mass graves and possible torture sites.
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan has opened an investigation in Ukraine and sent teams to gather evidence. Other nations also are supporting investigation efforts by sending experts. The prosecutor hasn’t yet announced any charges linked to the conflict.
In March, Eurojust helped set up a Joint Investigation Team with Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. The ICC prosecution also agreed to participate in the team and in May it was broadened when Slovakia, Estonia and Latvia joined.
Khan said NGOs are “critical partners in our common goal to achieve accountability for international crimes. Now more than ever we must work together to strengthen our common work towards justice.”
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Wednesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of making “saber-rattling threats” to cover his failed invasion of Ukraine, as she prepared to tell the United Nations that its founding principles were fracturing because of aggression by authoritarian states.
In her debut speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday night, Truss will call the war in Ukraine a battle for “our values and the security of the whole world,” and extol the late Queen Elizabeth II as a symbol of everything the U.N. stands for.
The text of the speech was released in advance by Truss’ office.
Responding to a statement from Putin that he was mobilizing reservists and would use everything at his disposal to protect Russia — an apparent reference to his nuclear arsenal — Truss accused the Russian leader of “desperately trying to justify his catastrophic failures.”
“He is doubling down by sending even more reservists to a terrible fate,” the speech said. “He is desperately trying to claim the mantle of democracy for a regime without human rights or freedoms. And he is making yet more bogus claims and saber-rattling threats.”
“This will not work. The international alliance is strong – Ukraine is strong,” said Truss, who addressed the U.N. on the same day Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the global gathering by video.
In a speech outlining her view of foreign policy in a world turned upside down by Russia’s invasion, Truss spoke of the queen, whose funeral on Monday was attended by many of the world leaders now gathered at the United Nations.
She said the queen “symbolized the postwar values on which this organization was founded.” She said the monarch, who died this month after 70 years on the throne, “transcended difference and healed division.”
Truss referred to a speech to the U.N. by the queen in 1957, in which Elizabeth said “the peoples of the world expect the United Nations to persevere in its efforts” to end conflict and crisis.
Truss said the monarch had “warned that it was vital not only to have strong ideals but also to have the political will to deliver on them. Now we must show that will.”
In her first international speech since becoming prime minister two weeks ago, Truss hailed the founding principles of the United Nations, while calling for new international alliances to circumvent the influence of authoritarian regimes.
She said the U.N.’s founding principles “that have defined our lives since the dark days of the 1940s are fracturing,” and “geopolitics is entering a new era” in which “authoritarian states are undermining stability and security around the world.” That was a direct shot at Russia – and also at China, whose growing clout among developing nations is a major concern for the United States and its allies.
Truss said the world’s democratic powers must woo developing nations with “strategic ties based on mutual benefit and trust” rather than “exerting influence through debt, aggression, and taking control of critical infrastructure and minerals.”
She also called for a toughening of the West’s response to Russia’s invasion. She urged sanctions on Russia and said “the G-7 and our like-minded partners should act as an economic NATO,” supporting countries targeted by “the economic aggression of authoritarian regimes.”
She urged nations to find alternatives to Russian oil and gas and protect supply chains for everything from food to minerals. “The free world needs this economic strength and resilience to push back against authoritarian aggression and win this new era of strategic competition,” she said.
Truss said post-Brexit Britain was “building new partnerships around the world,” citing its role in NATO and the Joint Expeditionary Force military group of northern European nations, whose importance has increased since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
She also pointed to deepening ties with “fellow democracies like India, Indonesia and South Africa” and trade ambitions with Indo-Pacific and Gulf states, a sign that Britain, now outside the European Union, sees the rest of the world – and especially Asia – as a political and economic priority.
The speech amounts to a bold statement of the new prime minister’s world view. But Truss is likely to draw criticism for linking the global fight for freedom and democracy to her own plans to change Britain’s economy.
Saying that “our commitment to hope and progress must begin at home,” Truss said demonstrating the strength of democracy “begins with growth and building a British economy that rewards enterprise and attracts investment.” To Truss, a Conservative free marketeer, that means cutting individual and corporate taxes and slashing regulations for business.
Opponents say tax cuts reward the rich more than the poor and will do little to ease a cost-of-living crisis, fueled largely by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that has pushed U.K. inflation to 10%, a level not seen in four decades.
Despite the economic shockwaves, Truss said Britain’s commitment to defending Ukraine “is total.”
“This,” she said, “is a decisive moment in our history, in the history of this organization, and in the history of freedom.” ___
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Tom Kim can be excused for his mistake Wednesday. The Presidents Cup is new for the 20-year-old South Korean, just like it is for seven other players on the International team that face a daunting task at Quail Hollow.
Only this was more a math mistake than a rookie mistake.
“We’re on 12 today, and he makes a mistake doing simple math there,” said Camilo Villegas of Colombia, one of the assistant captains for the International team. “So I look at the kid and said, ‘Tom, is that college math?’ He looks at me and goes, ’Dude, I didn’t even graduate from high school.'”
Kim ticks about every box when it comes to the fresh faces at this Presidents Cup, which starts Thursday, only looks are deceiving.
Yes, at age 20 he is the youngest player to play for the International team since Ryo Ishikawa of Japan was 18 in 2009 at Harding Park. Kim also has won more tournaments this year than anyone on his team. And he brings as much personality as he does game.
He likes to laugh and talk trash. The team has players from seven countries who speak four languages. That’s not a problem. Kim speaks three languages.
Captain Trevor Immelman was asked earlier in the week who would be his starting five if they were playing basketball. He had Kim penciled in as his point guard because of his size and his “fast mouth.”
Kim’s given name is Joohyung. As a boy, he was so smitten with Thomas the Tank Engine that he wanted that for his name, and eventually it was shortened to Tom.
Born in South Korea, his family moved to Australia when he was a child. He picked up golf at age 6 and when the cost of living became too high, his parents decided to move to the Philippines. Kim’s golf thrived even more.
As for the high school math? As he said in a first-person account for Golf Digest, “College scouts weren’t coming after me, and my goal was always to turn pro, so I decided to do it early.” He was 15.
Kim worked his way through developmental tours in Asia. His path was slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and he spent the last two years on the Korean tour, winning twice.
He ended last year at No. 131 in the world, and then quickly made himself known. He won the Singapore International to start the year (and was runner-up in the Singapore Open a week later). He received a sponsor exemption to the Scottish Open — Korea-based Genesis is the title sponsor — and finished third.
That sent him on his way toward a PGA Tour card and he nailed that a few weeks later by winning the Wyndham Championship, where he started the tournament with a quadruple-bogey 8.
There is very little dull about Thomas the Tank.
Kim was invited to the Saudi International in February and shared a table at the press conference with LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman to talk about Saudi money going to the Asian Tour. But the kid left little doubt where he always wanted to play.
He was overjoyed at getting his PGA Tour card, and he’s even more amped up about the Presidents Cup, a chance to hand the mighty American team its first loss since 1998, before Kim was even born.
“I’ve dreamt of this as a kid. For me to be able to represent the international team is an absolute honor. So I’m super pumped,” he said. “I can’t wait for Thursday to come. I’ve always dreamt of doing crazy fist bumps because it’s match play. So I’m really looking forward to it.”
He won’t have to wait long. Kim is playing with K.H. Lee of South Korea in the third of five matches Thursday in the opening session of fourballs. They face two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and big-hitting Cameron Young, five times a runner-up in his rookie season on the PGA Tour.
The Americans have all 12 players ranked among the top 25 in the world, and they are going for their ninth consecutive victory, playing before a home crowd at Quail Hollow. They are heavily favored.
Kim is among four South Koreans on the team, a record for a golf nation more known for the major champions and No. 1 players the women have produced. Kim joins Lee, Sungjae Im and Siwoo Kim. International team assistant K.J. Choi could not be prouder.
Choi is intrigued by Kim, describing him with terms like “very fun” and “cute” and “many talking.”
“First 15 years, not much coming for the younger players, the Koreans. But now more than seven, nine, 10,” Choi said. “I’m starting in America 30 years old, it’s very difficult English. But younger guy is already out of the country and experienced in English. That’s why the more friendship, comfortable in the play, everything.”
All that’s left is to see how it translate. Tom Kim is full of laughter and void of fear. Thomas the Tank is on the fast track, and the stage has never been bigger for him.
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An illegal ATV rider zipping down the street in the Bronx blew through a traffic stop — and a red light — before slamming into a cyclist Sunday, cops said.
A video posted on TikTok shows a police officer trying to stop the ATV rider by sticking out his baton at East 149th Street and Third Avenue during a crackdown on the illegal vehicles around 5 p.m., according to the NYPD.
“During this enforcement initiative, a uniformed officer assigned to the 40th Precinct attempted to stop an illegal ATV operator traveling eastbound on East 149th Street by issuing verbal commands,” the NYPD said in a statement.
But the ATV operator didn’t comply and ran the red light, smashing into a 44-year-old woman on a bike who was going southbound on Third Avenue and had a steady green light, cops said.
The ATV goon fled the scene and the injured woman was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition. There were no arrests and police released a photo of the scofflaw in an attempt to identify him, cops said.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips.
All calls are strictly confidential.
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Multiple suitcases apparently filled with body parts were found inside a Brooklyn apartment Wednesday afternoon, according to police sources.
Cops made the gruesome discovery at 315 Linwood St. in East New York after a foul order was reported in a sixth-floor home, sources said.
Officials entered the apartment and discovered blood and human remains after receiving word that the tenant — a woman in her 20s — was unaccounted for, the sources said.
A person of interest had been identified and was being sought for questioning, according to sources.
The medical examiner was investigating the findings and was expected to release further information Thursday.
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Scrambling to find alternative housing for the city’s street homeless population amid an influx of more than 13,000 migrants into the overwhelmed shelter system, Mayor Eric Adams has awarded $34 million in contracts to provide “stabilization beds” or temporary “safe havens.”
The Department of Homeless Services has awarded two contracts totaling $34 million to the Bronx Family Network, according to records reviewed by The Post.
Bronx Family Network provides services including full showers and kitchens, access to clothing, and appropriate referrals to substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation centers, medical and health services.
DHS estimates that there are 3,182 homeless adults currently living on the streets, subways or in other public places. Other estimates are higher.
Earlier this year, Adams launched a program to remove homeless individuals from encampments and from the subway system and dispatched outreach teams to persuade them to access shelter and services.
But many street homeless individuals refuse to go to the large congregate shelters because they consider them unsafe.
“For those individuals living outdoors for an extended period who agree to accept services, stabilization beds provide a less restrictive alternative to traditional shelter. In this way, stabilization beds provide shelter to the unsheltered and help facilitate ongoing coordinated services with outreach teams to help individuals who were previously residing in the subway and other public spaces get back on their feet,” DHS said in the announcement of the contracts.
The alternatives for the street homeless cannot come soon enough with cold weather approaching and the city already struggling to house more than 7,000 of the migrants that have crammed an already overburdened shelter system.
The city has already issued emergency contracts with hotels to provide 6,000 rooms to house migrants to provide relief for a shelter system that Adams said is at a breaking point.
There are about 55,000 individuals in the shelter system and the city is under a federal court order to provide shelter to anyone who seeks it and can be sued for denials or delays.
One homeless advocate said the city is way behind the curve in providing shelter and permanent housing to street homeless individuals.
“This morning we were at sweeps in two different boroughs to support homeless New Yorkers as the City conducted yet another blitz to remove people from sight. Last year the City placed only 16 people eligible from the street into supportive housing,” said Helen Strom, a supervisor of benefits and homelessness advocacy at the Safety Net Project.
“Stabilization beds that are single rooms are urgently needed, but the mayor also needs to get people into permanent housing and stop these vicious sweeps immediately.”
An administration official said the new contracts to combat street homelessness is part of a larger $171 million program Mayor Adams announced in April.
“As part of the mayor’s focus on addressing unsheltered homelessness, the Adams administration allocated an additional $171 million a year to aggressively expand and enhance outreach efforts and specialized resources, including Safe Havens, stabilization beds, and Drop-in Centers (DICs),” a spokesman for the city Department of Social Services said.
“This is the largest investment made by any city administration in street outreach and targeted low-barrier programs to support some of our most vulnerable New Yorkers experiencing homelessness on the streets and subways.”
The stabilization program provides overnight single room beds for chronic street homeless individuals while outreach teams work with them to find a more permanent housing option.
Adams said Wednesday the huge surge of migrants has “put an additional strain on our housing and our shelters” and the administration has to become “extremely creative as we place people into temporary housing arrangements so we could get them into permanent housing.”
“But we do need the federal government and we need the state to assist in that, and we have been in conversations with both,” Adams said while addressing a Crain’s power breakfast gathering.
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Suspects wanted for smashing glass doors at Northwest Side businesses and stealing cash
CHICAGO - Chicago police are warning Dunning and Portage Park business owners about a recent string in commercial burglaries.
In each incident, the offenders used a brick or large rock and smashed the front glass door of the business.
Once the offenders were inside, they targeted cash registers and safes, and took money. They then fled in a vehicle.
The incidents occurred at the following locations and times:
- 3500 block of North Austin Avenue on Sept. 12 at 2:25 a.m.
- 6400 block of West Belmont Avenue on Sept. 12 at 4:10 a.m.
- 3900 block of North Cicero Avenue on Sept. 15 at 5:18 a.m.
- 4300 block of North Milwaukee Avenue on Sept. 17 at 4:55 a.m.
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The offenders are described as Black males between the ages of 16 and 20. They were roughly 130 to 150 pounds wearing dark clothing, masks and gloves.
They were driving in a dark four-door sedan or minivan.
If you have any information on these crimes, you are asked to contact the Bureau of Detectives – Area Five at (312) 746-7394.
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An Apartment Explosion in Chicago Left 8 Injured, 3 of Which Are in Critical Condition
“I could just hear people screaming and calling for help," Donell Adams, a victim of the explosion, told CBS News.
An early morning explosion in a four-story apartment building in Chicago on Sept. 20 left at least eight people injured, three of them critically, said the Chicago Fire Department in a tweet.
The apartment building was located in the South Austin neighborhood in Chicago, to which CFD was dispatched for a structural collapse, reported CFD. The apartment building was owned by West End LLC and was a 4-story building with 35 units, according to ABC News.
One of the victims, Donell Adams, spoke to CBS about their experience that day.
"It was like raining bricks and window seals, the frames, everything just raining over me and I could just hear people screaming and calling for help," Adams said.
"But there was nothing I could do. I was under the car and debris going everywhere. Then it went off again. It was smaller, just traumatic,” Adams told CBS.
Adams was just entering the building at the time of the initial explosion, and notes hearing a smaller explosion shortly after the first, according to CBS.
Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, said she is monitoring the situation in a statement in a Facebook post and offered her thoughts and gratitude to those involved.
“My thoughts are with those who were injured and displaced in the building collapse in the Austin neighborhood. We must also thank the brave men and women of the Chicago Fire Department who are working to abate the dangerous conditions,” said Mayor Lightfoot in the post.
The source of the explosion is unknown but CFD suspect the top level of the apartment building may have been where it occurred, according to a tweet by CFD. The incident is under investigation by Chicago Police and the Office of Fire Investigation, CFD reported.
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As Inflation Soars, More Americans Racking Up Credit Card Debt
Credit Card Debt surges as Americans struggle to stay afloat with soaring costs.
More Americans are racking up credit card debt as they struggle to make ends meet during record-setting inflation, a new survey says.
A report from Creditcards.com found that 60% of credit card holders are now carrying balances for at least a year, a 10% increase from last year.
"It's even harder to get out of debt when it's spending on necessities that got you into that position in the first place," said Creditcards.com senior analyst Ted Rossman. "These expenses aren't easily avoided."
With inflation surging between 8% and 9%, people are paying far more for basic necessities such as food, gas and energy. And using plastic for those everyday needs is growing, the study found.
"Credit card debt is easy to get into and hard to get out of," Rossman said. "High inflation and rising interest rates are making it even harder to break free."
And robbing Peter to pay Paul carries a ridiculously high price.
The average balance for credit card holders is $5,270, according to TransUnion.
If "you only make minimum payments at the average interest rate of 18.17 percent, you’ll be in debt for more than 16 years and will end up paying a grand total of $11,875,” Rossman said. “This helps illustrate why it’s so important to pay way more than the minimum.”
Of those carrying credit card debt, 24% said their purchases were for groceries, childcare and utilities. Clothing and electronics accounted for 11% and another 11 % said the debt came from vacation and entertainment costs.
Many said losing their job would seriously affect their ability to pay off credit card debt. Some 53% of credit card holders with outstanding balances said becoming unemployed would have a "major impact" on being able to make even the minimum payment on their cards.
Rossman advises those struggling with credit card debt to apply for a card offering the option to transfer an existing balance at 0% interest. "These promotions last as long as 21 months," he said. He also suggested low-rate personal loans and nonprofit credit counseling as ways to bring down debt and manage finances.
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As Trump and His Children Face Fraud Suit, Former President Appears to Further Embrace QAnon Support
New York Attorney General Leticia James has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump and sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., as well as against senior executives at the Trump Organization for fraud.
Former President Donald Trump and his three adult children have been accused of "grossly inflating" the value of the Trump family assets by billions.
New York Attorney General Leticia James has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump and sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., as well as against senior executives at the Trump Organization for fraud.
The suit accuses them of exaggerating the value of everything they own, from high-rises to golf clubs.
"With the help of his children and senior executives at the Trump Organization, Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and cheat the system," James said in a statement. "In fact, the very foundation of his purported net worth is rooted in incredible fraud and illegality. Mr. Trump thought he could get away with the art of the steal, but today, that conduct ends."
She said the Trumps claimed Mar-a-Lago was worth $739 million, but that it’s worth a fraction of that at just $75 million.
James also claimed that Trump inflated the size and value of his luxury apartment at Trump Tower. He claimed the triplex apartment is a whopping 30,000-square-feet, when it's 11,000-square-feet.
James is seeking harsh penalties. She wants the family banned from doing business in New York state for five years and is suing them for $250 million in ill-gotten gains.
Trump previously called James a "renegade prosecutor" who he said is running a "vindictive and self-serving fishing expedition."
Trump called the lawsuit "another witch hunt" in a statement posted on the Truth Social site Wednesday.
"She is a fraud who campaigned on a 'get Trump' platform," Trump wrote.
Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter after the suit was announced. Next to a video of James, he wrote, "The bullshit Dem witch-hunt continues!"
Eric Trump wrote on Truth Social, "Letitia James is the most corrupt Attorney General in United States History — she campaigned on the promised to sue my father."
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."
As his legal woes mount, the former president appears to be turning to the more extreme - fringe element of his MAGA nation, QAnon.
The Q devotees were out in force at Trump’s Ohio rally this weekend and according to some reports, Trump appeared to appeal to them directly.
Music some said sounded a lot like the Q theme song was also played.
The crowd responded by doing the Q salute, raising one finger in the air, symbolizing a one. The conspiracy theorist group’s motto is "where we go one, we go all."
Trump's spokesperson dismissed the reports.
“The fake news, in a pathetic attempt to create controversy and divide America, is brewing up another conspiracy,” he said. He also said the song heard playing is a royalty-free song from a popular audio library platform.
But Trump has also been reposting QAnon content on Truth Social, including a photoshopped image of himself wearing a Q pin with the Q slogan, “the storm is coming.”
Will Sommers, the author of a book that examines QAnon, “Trust the Plan,” said hardcore Q followers believe Trump will slaughter his enemies in a violent uprising. “Someday there will be there will be a moment Trump will arrest his enemies and imprison them and execute them and after that there will be a Utopia,” he said. “I think it’s really disturbing.”
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Aunt Charged With Attempted Murder After Cops Say She Pushed Nephew, 3, Into Water Off Chicago Pier: Reports
Victoria Moreno, 34, was taken into custody Monday night and was later charged after cops say she is accused of pushing the boy into the water and not attempting to rescue him around 1 p.m. Monday, according to reports.
An Illinois woman has been charged with attempted murder after cops say she pushed her 3-year-old nephew into the water off Chicago’s Navy Pier Monday afternoon, Fox 32 reported.
Victoria Moreno, 34, was taken into custody Monday night and was later charged after cops allege she pushed the boy into the water and did not attempt to rescue him, according to reports.
The boy has been left in critical condition, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
According to the police report, Moreno initially told responding officers that she was only a witness to the incident, then claimed she was holding the boy’s shirt and allegedly let go because he “was acting up,” the Chicago Sun Times reported.
A witness named Ashton King told the Chicago Sun Times that she heard a splash and tried to get a floatation device in the water to rescue the child and that the relative did not attempt to help at all.
“He was ... floating on his back and just looking up at the sky, his head was the only thing that was bobbing above the water,” King told the Sun-Times. “By the time we had thrown [a life preserver] in, he had already gone under.”
“Your first instinct is to jump in, jump in and save them,” King added.
The Chicago Sun Times says a source with knowledge of the investigation claimed that surveillance video shows the relative pushing the child toward the edge of the pier and tossing him into the water.
The child went into cardiac arrest and was rushed to nearby Lurie Children’s Hospital, police reportedly said.
The child had been in the care of his grandmother Monday when his aunt took him from the home when the grandmother briefly went upstairs, according to authorities, The Independent reported.
“Navy Pier is deeply saddened to learn about the injury of a child pulled from the water this afternoon. We are working very closely with the Chicago Police Department as they investigate the incident. Our hearts are with the child and his loved ones,” officials for Navy Pier told The Independent in a statement.
Inside Edition Digital has reached out to the Chicago Police Department for more information but has not heard back.
Moreno made her initial court appearance Wednesday. She was denied bail by the judge and is not to have any contact with family members, her next court appearance is on Sept. 30, according to the Cook County District Attorney's Office.
Inside Edition Digital has reached out to the Cook County Courts for comment and plea information and has not heard back.
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Franzia Creating Box Wine Costume for Dogs This Halloween
The dogs do not have to be of drinking age to put on the costume.
Nothing says cute, hilarious, and very clever like Franzia’s latest invention — a box wine costume for dogs.
The wine company, whose famous box of booze is now coming to a puppy near you, has teamed up with BARK to create what might be the talk of the Halloween season this year, People reported.
The box wine costume retails for $15 on BARK’s website and “Pairs beautifully with the velvety plush mouth-feel of the Cabernet Slobbernon BARK x Franzia toy, fermented with stuffing, squeakers, and a long pour of T-shirt rope. Delivered and aged to perfection in a cardboard box,” according to BARK’s website.
Sadly, there is no booze inside these costumes for the dog’s owners to indulge in but they are totally safe for the animal.
This is not Franzia’s first foray into the Halloween costume world — Food and Wine points out that the company sold full-body costumes in 2020 for humans, and in 2021 they upgraded those costumes to literally dispense wine.
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Small Alaska Communities Plagued by Power Outages and Severe Destruction After Typhoon Merbok
In addition to Hooper Bay, other communities hit by the storm include Golovin, Nome, Shaktoolik, Unalakleet, Newtok and Kotlik.
Locals in Hooper Bay, Alaska, and surrounding areas are dealing with the aftermath of one of the worst storms the region has ever seen. It was caused by Typhoon Merbok over the weekend, according to USA Today.
Authorities are currently assessing the destruction to determine the need for items like food and water.
“Today, the Red Cross designated the storm event in Western Alaska a Level 4 disaster, which allows the Red Cross to fundraise directly for the recovery effort,” Gov. Mike Dunleavy wrote on Twitter.
“About 50 Red Cross team members from all over the country are now on the ground deploying to the affected areas.”
Dunleavy has issued a disaster declaration and said authorities are moving quickly to provide relief for those affected.
“From Scammon Bay to Hooper Bay, neighbors helping neighbors, and response teams working with all to repair, rebuild and prepare for the approaching winter,” Dunleavy tweeted. “We will continue to monitor the storm and update Alaskans as much as possible.”
Residents are dealing with substantial damage to homes, roads, and various structures around the community. They are also experiencing power outages.
So far, no one has been reported injured or killed.
The small western community is home to about 21,000 residents. The entire 1000-mile stretch of the coastline was affected by the storm.
In addition to Hooper Bay, other communities hit include Golovin, Nome, Shaktoolik, Unalakleet, Newtok and Kotlik.
As the floodwaters continue to recede, more and more damage is being revealed.
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South Carolina Woman Found Dead in a Department Store, 4 Days After She Was Last Seen
Bessie Durham, 63, was working as a janitor and was last seen 4 days before she was found dead.
A South Carolina woman was found dead in a department store restroom on Sept. 19.
Bessie Durham, 63, was working at Becks Department Store as a janitor when she was found dead in the store's public restroom, according to WIS-TV.
Durham was reportedly last seen at work on Sept. 15, but no one reported seeing her again till her body was found on Sept. 19, according to WIS-TV. Durham's family filed a missing persons report which led police to search her workplace at which they found the body, reported the local news outlet.
Police are investigating to find out if anyone was negligent as the busy department store was open between Sept. 15 and Sept. 19, according to ABC News.
“We’re still working with the store to find out what their process is to closing down the store, inspecting the store and things of that nature,” said Melron Kelly, Columbia deputy police chief, according to ABC News.
The local county coroner is scheduled to perform an autopsy to determine cause of death and has stated there are no signs of drug use or that someone killed Durham, reported Count on 2 News.
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Suspect Charged in Murder of North Carolina Teens Found Shot to Death After Being Reported Missing
An unnamed teenage suspect has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of North Carolina teens Devin Clark and Lyric Woods.
A 17-year-old suspect in connection to the murder of the two North Carolina teens that were found shot dead in woods has been charged, according to authorities.
On Monday, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina identified the two young people found shot and killed Sunday as missing teens Lyric Woods, 14, and Devin Clark, 18, according to a press release.
Woods, a ninth-grade student at Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough, was reported missing by her family to the sheriff’s office on Saturday. Clark, a senior at Eastern Alamance High School in Mebane, was reported missing by his family to the Mebane Police Department on Sunday, according to local outlet ABC 11.
According to ABC 11, the missing person’s report filed for Woods and Clark said they had both been seen last around 11 p.m. on Friday.
Woods’ family offered rewards for information about her whereabouts, including her grandfather’s offer of a $10,000 reward for information about her death, according to the outlet.
Tiffany Concepcion, Clark’s mother, told ABC 11 she wanted justice. “I don’t care where I have to go, what I have to do, who I’ve got to talk to, I’m going to keep going and keep doing it.
“He never hurt anybody, so for him to get done like this is — I have to have answers,” Concepcion said.
On Sunday afternoon, two men riding four-wheeler bikes found the teens shot to death near a power-line easement outside the city of Hillsborough, about 2 miles away from the house where Woods was last seen, according to a news release.
On Tuesday, Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood said in the press release that an unnamed 17-year-old has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, a Class A felony, for the deaths of Clark and Woods.
"Through the hard work of my investigators, along with the assistance of personnel from many other law enforcement agencies, we have identified a suspect in this case," Blackwood said in the release.
"We will now work with local, state, and federal authorities to apprehend and present the suspect to the court system."
The suspect will not be charged as an adult due to state law that went into effect in December of 2019 and instead, the case will be transferred from a district court to a superior court, according to the release.
Blackwood went on to thank the victims' families "for trusting us and the investigative process during this excruciatingly painful time. I hope the apprehension of this subject will bring them some comfort as they mourn their loved ones,” the statement read.
Orange County Schools issued a statement stating they were “deeply saddened by news” of Woods’ passing.
“Our hearts are with all of Lyric’s family and everyone who knew her, including many at Orange High, Gravelly Hill Middle, and Efland-Cheeks Global Elementary,” according to the statement.
According to ABC 11, Clark was a former football player, and Eastern Alamance honored Clark with a balloon release on the football field. Students at Cedar Ridge High wore white T-shirts Monday with Woods' name written on them. School administrators said they plan to honor the teen with a balloon release in her honor later this week.
The lives of both teens were remembered Monday night with a moment of silence at a soccer game between their two high schools, according to the outlet.
"This past weekend, Devin Clark an Eastern Alamance student and Lyric Woods a Cedar Ridge student tragically lost their lives," the public address announcer stated just before the game.
"Please keep their families in your thoughts and prayers.”
Woods’ family and friends organized a GoFundMe for her funeral costs, raising over $23,000 as of Wednesday.
An aunt of Clark’s, Anamarie Bowes, also organized a fundraiser to aid in funeral expenses for her nephew, raising over twice their goal of $11,000.
Clark’s family continues to have questions, but his aunt Crystal Hughes said she found some comfort in knowing her nephew was loved by the community, according to ABC 11.
"It actually made me feel good to know that he touched a lot of people's lives, that he made an impact on a lot of people,” she said. “And not only in the school, within the community as well, because people looked up to him as well as him looking up to other people as his coaches and just a man figure in the community.”
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Texas Man Charged With Murder in Shooting Death of Dad Whose Toddler Was Found Dead in Stolen Car
A Teaxas man has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting a dad, and then stealing car with the victim's toddler in the back seat. Police said they later found the vehicle abandoned and the child dead inside.
A 38-year-old Houston man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the shooting of a father whose 2-year-old son was later found dead in the backseat of a SUV after the suspect fled in the father's vehicle, police said.
The suspect has been charged with murder and evidence tampering, Houston police announced late Wednesday. The man was not identified.
Relatives identified the victims as Michael Essien, 38, and his son, Micah. "Tell Houston, tell the whole world that I want my nephew back. He's only 2 years old. He does not know how to hurt a fly," Jessie Okon, the toddler's aunt, told KHOU-TV Wednesday. "My brother has always been a peaceful man. I need my brother back."
The killing occurred Tuesday afternoon, as Essien argued with the unidentified man in a Houston suburb, police said. Essien was shot several times and died at the scene, police said. When officers arrived to investigate, the victim's SUV was gone, authorities said.
Not long after, Essien's wife called police to report that her husband and child were missing. After speaking with her, police were able to determine that her husband was the man who had been shot, authorities said.
Officers began searching for Essien's vehicle, and discovered it abandoned about 30 minutes later. The child was in the back seat. Officers broke a window to get to the toddler, but it was too late, police said. Though police administered first aid, the baby was unresponsive.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine a cause of death, and police said heat exhaustion may have been the cause.
The suspect was arrested at an apartment complex near the shooting scene on Wednesday, officers said.
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Thieves Burglarize Nashville Bachelorette Parties' Rentals While They're Out Celebrating
An Inside Edition investigation has found that when the bachelorettes hit the strip at night, there are thieves who swoop in and target their rental houses and apartments.
For bachelorette parties, there's no hotter destination to let loose than in the music city. Social media is filled with brides-to-be and their besties celebrating in Nashville, Tennessee.
But an Inside Edition investigation has found that when the bachelorettes hit the strip at night, there are thieves who swoop in and target their rental houses and apartments.
Some brides are even warning others to steer clear of Nashville after their rental properties were burglarized in what they believe to be targeted attacks.
Cassidy Mathes and her girlfriends, all from Cincinnati, rented an east Nashville apartment for Cassidy's bachelorette party. After decorating, they got glammed up in vintage wedding gowns for a night on the town.
Ring video shows them on their way out, but just one hour later, several trucks arrived and two men entered. The thieves emerged with their loot about one minute later.
The bachelorettes say they lost $10,000 in the burglary.
“We're walking in with suitcases and suitcases of nice clothes and jewelry and valuables. The second we leave, they make their move. It's very calculated, it's very much thought out,” one woman said.
Mathes’ mom was with the girls that night and says she’s still in shock.
“It was horrible. It was horrible. I was just in total disbelief. I could not believe that this was really happening,” she said.
The person who rented the house to them says he fully refunded the group's fees and installed new locks the very next day following the break-in.
Texas bride Michelle Johnson and her sister Monica say they came home to find the door of their rented Nashville house shattered and the burglar still inside.
“I was terrified because I felt very responsible for the girls. My biggest concern was getting everybody away from the house as much as we could,” Monica said.
Little did the women know, police have responded to 13 other burglaries at this one rental property alone in the last year and a half. So far, they have yet to make an arrest in the case.
“There's no followup, so I'm sure that person could do it again and get away with it just as easy as they did,” Johnson said.
The Metro Nashville Police Department says Nashville is safe and reminds visitors to lock their doors and not let their guard down.
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Congress passed a bill Wednesday that would allow divorced couples to separate their consolidated federal student loan debt, potentially making some of them eligible for President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program.
The bill now heads to Biden's desk for his signature, after the Senate approved the bill in June. The Biden administration has said it supports the legislation.
Until 2006, married couples were allowed to consolidate their federal student loan debt into a single joint loan. The idea was that it could make repayment simpler by allowing the couple to make a single monthly payment.
But it also made couples jointly responsible for the debt, and there's been no way for couples to separate their student loans later on, even in the event of divorce or domestic abuse.
"Spousal consolidation loans have been a terrible burden for borrowers who have since divorced or been subject to domestic abuse, as these loans financially handcuff them to their former spouses or abusers," said Kyra Taylor, student loan staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, in a statement.
Couples' consolidated loans are also excluded from some federal student loan relief plans like the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which cancels outstanding balances for some public sector workers after they make 10 years of qualifying payments.
The consolidated loans are also ineligible for the forthcoming forgiveness announced by Biden in August, which will provide up to $10,000 of debt cancellation for individuals who make less than $125,000 a year and married couples or heads of households who make less than $250,000 annually. Those qualifying borrowers who also received a Pell grant while enrolled in college are eligible for up to $20,000 in student loan forgiveness.
The bill passed Wednesday would allow borrowers with a joint consolidation loan to jointly submit an application to the Department of Education to separate their debt into two separate loans. The loans would be split proportionately based on the original loan amounts, according to a statement of support of the bill from the White House.
The bill would also allow survivors of domestic violence or economic abuse, or borrowers who are unable to reach the other borrower, to submit an individual application.
Once the debt is separated, each borrower will have a Direct Consolidation Loan, which can be eligible for student loan forgiveness under Biden's new plan -- as long as the borrower also meets the income qualification and the underlying loans were first disbursed on or before June 30, 2022 -- according to the Department of Education.
The Biden administration is expected to release the application for student loan forgiveness in early October. Borrowers will have until December 31, 2023, to apply.
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The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has come to an agreement with Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to be interviewed by the panel in the coming weeks, according to a source close to the committee.
Ginni Thomas' attorney, Mark Paoletta, confirmed the voluntary interview in a statement, saying, "As she has said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas is eager to answer the Committee's questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election. She looks forward to that opportunity."
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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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 Justice Department (DOJ) is investigating MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell over potential identity theft and damage to a protected computer in connection with a breach of a Colorado county’s voting system.
The FBI seized Lindell’s phone last week while he was waiting at a drive-thru in Minnesota — a move that the Trump ally is contesting in court.
The warrant for the search, which was filed by Lindell’s team on Wednesday as part of his lawsuit to the United States District Court in Minnesota, showed that the DOJ is investigating Lindell for identity theft, intentional damage to a protected computer and conspiracy to commit identity theft or intentionally damage a protected computer.
The warrant was approved by U.S. Magistrate Judge Tony Leung on Sept. 7, according to document. Law enforcement were required to execute the search warrant before Wednesday, Sept. 21.
The magistrate approved the search and seizure warrant on the basis of probable cause that Lindell may have violated federal law.
Agents searched for records or information connected to Mesa County election clerk Tina Peters’s alleged scheme to breach voting machines during the 2020 election.
Peters was indicted on state criminal charges in March.
Officials first became aware of the breach after passwords and hard drive copies from Mesa County voting machines were presented at an event hosted by Lindell.
Lindell, who has frequently made unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was stolen, is currently facing defamation lawsuits from two election technology companies, Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems Inc., over his claims of election fraud.
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The Swiss National Bank and the Bank of England meet today. Tmings below in GMT:
This snippet via BNZ on what to expect from the Bank of England:
- the market is leaning towards a 75bps move
- economists are more in the 50bps camp
- The BoE is also expected to rubber stamp the start of active sales of its large UK government bond holdings in the secondary market despite the forthcoming ramp up in issuance to finance Liz Truss’ energy price cap and other fiscal measures
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GBP goes into the meeting basically at lows not seen since March 2020.
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Earlier preview: via Barclays:
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South Korea's Finance Minister with the forex intervention threat.
It comes as the Korean won has fallen to its lowest against the US dollar since March 2009. The KRW is not the only currency getting pummelled against the USD. The FOMC raised rates overnight, and promised much more to come. Recap ICYMI:
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House Freedom Caucus plots return to relevance
The House Freedom Caucus is so far refusing to back GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for speaker should its party win back the majority — testing what commitments it can leverage in exchange for its members' support.
Why it matters: The ultra-conservative group, which has a history of dislodging Republican leaders whom members didn’t see as properly representing the conservative movement, is plotting a return to relevance after years of seeing its influence fade.
- If Republicans regain the House majority with tight rather than wide margins, it could give the caucus more power.
- "If you’ve got 30 votes in a narrow majority, you can be influential," said Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.).
Driving the news: The group's chairman, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), and other members are pushing for the GOP conference to vote on a new House rules package before electing the new leadership.
- It's one of several leverage points the caucus is discussing, as The Washington Examiner and Punchbowl News have reported.
What they're saying: Perry told Axios "it's a different game" when a party is in the majority, compared to when they’re in the minority and totally unified on opposing the other party.
- "Everybody's in the Freedom Caucus right now on the Republican side," he said. "That'll change when you're in the majority. Somebody has to be the conscience of the conference and actually do the things we said we were going to do on the campaign trail."
- As for aligning behind McCarthy, Perry said: "Talk to me on Nov. 9." For now, Freedom Caucus members have adopted an official stance of neutrality in leadership elections, Buck told Axios.
- In a separate phone interview, Perry said the caucus has heard from "a lot of [candidates] that want to be in the Freedom Caucus, across the country in these open seats. … We think that’s a good sign."
Between the lines: There was a time when HFC members were the leaders of the right — not just in Congress, but across the conservative movement as a whole.
- Their actions — which often served as a check on party leadership and the GOP establishment overall — largely dictated conservative messaging and activism.
But the group's star power has weakened in recent years for key three reasons:
1. The minority: House Republicans have been more unified — and less involved in policymaking decisions — in their last four years in the minority.
2. Donald Trump's rise: The caucus was once viewed as the beacon of the right, but was overtaken in 2016 by a larger-than-life figure who preached many of the same ideals and principles.
3. Leadership shakeup: Former Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — original co-founders of the Freedom Caucus — were once the frontmen.
- But Meadows left Congress in late 2020 to become Trump's chief of staff, while Jordan has since landed a spot within House Republican leadership.
- Jordan has already endorsed McCarthy for speaker, telling Axios that McCarthy has done a "great" job and been more unifying than some previous leaders — though he acknowledged "it's easier to do when you're when you're in the minority."
- After Trump took office, Jordan said HFC shifted its focus from passing legislation to fiercely defending Trump.
What to watch: Some members want to adopt more scorched-earth tactics toward President Biden.
- Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told Axios he wants to "force this president to sign bills that would rescind some of the harm" of Democratic policies and "shut it down if necessary. Gridlock is a good thing compared to the alternative."
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Ex-girlfriend testifies in civil trial over 2014 fatal shooting
The woman accused of negligence in her ex-boyfriend's 2014 death testified Wednesday in a civil trial examining the manner of his death — but she didn't say much.
Driving the news: A jury started hearing testimony in the highly publicized civil lawsuit filed by the family of Jonathan Crews against his ex-girlfriend, Brenda Lazaro.
- Lazaro is now married and goes by Brenda Kelly. Her husband and in-laws joined her in the courtroom Wednesday.
Context: Kelly was with Crews the night he died, and she told police that he shot himself as a way to prove that he loved her, but his family doesn't believe his death was a suicide and alleges that Kelly fired the shot.
- His body was found in his bed. His phone was found damaged between the mattress and the box spring of the bed, according to evidence submitted at the trial.
The intrigue: The case is a rare cross between civil and criminal proceedings.
- Kelly hasn't been charged with any criminal wrongdoing, but anything she says in the civil trial could be used in a criminal case.
- When Thomas Shaw, the Crews family's attorney, asked her dozens of questions on the witness stand over a 90-minute span, she didn't answer any of them.
- "I respectfully invoke my privilege against self-incrimination," she said after each question.
What they're saying: Shaw alleged during his opening statement that Kelly exhibited "obsessive jealousy" while dating Crews, arguing with him over one of his close female friends. At one point Kelly falsely claimed she was pregnant with Crews’ child.
- Emily Ramsey, the friend whom Kelly and Crews argued about, testified that she and Crews had never pursued anything beyond friendship. Crews had in fact set Ramsey up with his best friend, who is now her husband.
- As the arguments escalated between Crews and Kelly, he told his friends the afternoon before he died that he was planning to pack up her belongings and break up with her, Ramsey said.
What investigators found: Crews was lying in bed when his body was found. The bullet had entered from the left side of his chest, per the medical examiner's report.
The other side: In his opening statement, Kelly's attorney Andrew Jee asked jurors to "look at the evidence in a logical manner and determine if something happened."
- "Does somebody kill somebody because they're having lunch with someone that they're not romantically involved with? Probably not … I'm not sure the evidence is going to show that," Jee said.
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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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The Wyoming GOP office in Cheyenne. A growing rift within the Wyoming Republican Party was evident last week when the five Republican candidates for the state’s lone U.S. House seat debated.
The Wyoming Republican Party is seeking applicants, and soon, to fill a three-month-long vacancy in the secretary of state’s office following the resignation of Ed Buchanan last week.
The general election will determine who steps into the role starting in January for a traditional four-year term. An interim secretary of state is needed until then.
State statute calls on Buchanan’s party as well as the governor to fill the vacancy. The same process was utilized in January to replace former Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow and was the cause for controversy and a short-lived legal battle.
Interested candidates have until 5 p.m. Wednesday to submit an application to the Wyoming GOP. The party’s state central committee will then send three nominees to the governor for a final selection.
Buchanan left office early to begin his appointment as a district court judge in Torrington. He had announced in May he would not seek re-election to instead pursue the judicial opportunity.
After securing the Republican nomination for secretary of state in the primary election, Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, will run without an opponent on the ballot. He cannot be considered for the interim, however. The Wyoming Constitution prohibits Gray from being appointed before January because it would overlap with his legislative term.
Otherwise, the office has three qualifications: one must be at least 25 years old, a U.S. citizen and a registered voter in Wyoming. For the interim appointment, the applicant must also be a registered Republican.
The GOP state central committee will meet at 1 p.m. on Saturday Sept. 24 in Pavillion to make the selection. The meeting is open to the public.
The committee is made up of three Republican leaders from each Wyoming county – the county chair, state committeeman and state committeewoman – and each county gets three votes. Applicants will need to “attend the meeting to present themselves,” according to a statement sent to media on Friday by Donna Rice, secretary for the Wyoming Republican Party.
Gov. Mark Gordon will have five days to make a final selection from the three party nominees.
WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy.
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LARAMIE – The public is invited to meet with the finalists in the city of Laramie’s search for its next chief of police.
Seven semifinalists sat for interviews with a pair panels last week and a slate of three finalists has been selected to succeed former Laramie Police Chief Dale Stalder. He retired last week.
The city invites the public to meet the finalists at an open house at 6 Thursday at the Laramie Municipal Operations Center, 4373 N. 3rd St.
The finalists are:
Brian Browne: A 20-year veteran of the Anaheim Police Department in Southern California, Browne now serves as a captain overseeing the department’s operations support division.
Frank Rodriguez: As deputy commissioner of the criminal investigations division for the North Carolina Division of Insurance, he leads the state Law Enforcement Special Agents investigate complex fraud crimes. He previously was chief deputy for a sheriff’s office with a 175-person staff in a community of 100,000 people. He retired after 24 years in the U.S. Army that included eight deployments.
Robert Terry: A longtime Laramie resident, Terry holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Wyoming. He was hired as a patrol officer at the Laramie Police Department in 2002 and was promoted to patrol sergeant in 2010 and detective sergeant in 2014. In 2016, he was promoted again to his current position of assistant chief of police.
For a longer version of this news article, see the website of the Laramie Boomerang, which is affiliated with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle: https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/
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Margot Robbie Mixes Up Her Look for the European Premiere of Amsterdam
While earlier this week, Margot Robbie was a blushing bride in white lace at the New York premiere of her upcoming film, Amsterdam, when it came time to promote the project in Europe, the actress did a style 180. On Wednesday, Robbie arrived to the movie’s London premiere in a vampy black look, an unexpected choice for the the actress in more ways than one.
Robbie stepped on the red carpet in a monochrome dress from Celine, featuring a tight, ruched top with multiple keyhole cutouts, a slice across the upper waist to reveal her abs, and a maxi skirt. It was the cape, however, wrapped around the actress’ neck and flowing behind her, that really added to the vampiric aesthetic of the look. Capes have proven to be a popular red carpet trend lately— they were well-represented at the Emmy Awards last week—and now with Robbie’s approval, it seems we should get used to seeing the added fabric on the red carpet.
The dress is a departure from Robbie’s usual style, mostly because of the designer. The Chanel ambassador hasn’t worn a look by another label on a major red carpet in about two years, since she wore Dries van Noten to the Birds of Prey premiere in 2020. It’s unclear why she decided now to mix things up. It is thought the cast opted to wear black out of respect for Queen Elizabeth’s passing, due to the premiere’s location of London.
Robbie was joined by a few of her costars on the carpet, including Christian Bale, Rami Malek, and Andrea Riseborough, who all also dressed in black for the occasion. Many of Amsterdam’s other stars, however, were missing from the event. Anya Taylor-Joy wasn’t in attendance, as she is currently in Australia, shooting the Mad Max prequel, Furiosa. Taylor Swift, who is briefly featured in the movie was also missing from the premiere, but she is currently in Nashville, where she was just given the Songwriter-Artist of the Decade Award at the annual Nashville Songwriter Awards. It’s too bad she couldn’t make the premiere, though, as the Michael Kors dress she wore awards would have been perfect for the all-black red carpet.
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Milan Fashion Week is officially underway and the first day was one for the books—specifically the Guinness Book of World Records. Against a backdrop of the world’s largest inflatable sculpture, Diesel creative director Glenn Martens kicked off the season with his latest collection of genderless denim and leather innovations. For the first time, the show was open to the public, no doubt endearing the popular designer and his singular vision of the Y2K streetwear brand even more to the 5,000 people—among them 1,600 fashion students—in the audience. Meanwhile, at Fendi, Kim Jones—fresh off his New York show celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Fendi Baguette—looked to the ‘90s and early aughts sending furry wedge mules and cargo pants down the runway. A specific Fendi logo created by Karl Lagerfeld in 2000 served as a starting point for the collection and could be found embroidered front and center on sporty dresses and more subtly, on the heels of platform boots. Check back here often as we spotlight the top looks from the season’s most exciting shows.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The Tallahassee Police Department confirmed Wednesday night that a shooting occurred.
The scene is by Mission Road in west Tallahassee. Law enforcement did not provide any information on injuries.
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Social platform TikTok says it will require U.S. government department accounts to be verified. Accounts for politicians and political parties will be required to be verified as well.
TikTok says videos that are targeted toward voters and others, aimed at campaign fundraising, will be banned on the short-form video app, the company announced on Wednesday.
The social company's "mandatory verification" for political accounts could affect engagement with political content before the 2022 midterm elections.
The ban on political fundraising ads will activate in the coming weeks and will have a big impact on the political monetization of the app. Political parties and politicians will not be allowed to request donations from users on the app under the ban, TikTok claims.
Blake Chandlee, president of global business solutions at TikTok, said in a statement, "Specifically, they will not have access to features like gifting, tipping, and e-commerce, and will be ineligible for our Creator Fund."
While TikTok already bans political advertising in its terms of service, the platform says it will further enforce this by removing access to advertising tools from accounts that belong to politicians and political parties.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa. (KMTV) — At first glance, Joe Miller might look like a typical high school junior but this past year has been anything but typical for him and his family. He's living with the effects of liver cancer.
"It's super rare, actually, the doctors said they'd never seen it. It's usually a cancer found in younger kids or babies and I got it at 16 years old," Joe said.
He missed his whole sophomore year because of chemotherapy and months in the hospital. Earlier this year he received a liver transplant.
"It's been a long journey for our family and one that's still going on," his father Dan Miller said.
After a rough year, family friend Jason Kaiman stepped in and made a huge gesture. Since Joe is a passionate University of Michigan fan, Kaiman paid for a dream trip to Ann Arbor. He took care of everything from hotels and gear to sideline passes.
"This past weekend we got pregame and postgame sideline passes, and our seats were right behind the Michigan bench, like three rows up," Joe said.
Joe also got to meet his idol, Wolverines Quarterback J.J. McCarthy.
"I met him on the sideline before the game, got to talk to him a little bit after," Joe said.
For Kaiman, granting the wish was a no-brainer calling Michigan games "life-changing" and "electric" for fans like Joe.
"I've been paid back ... a hundred times over, for the money I've spent. It's just been an amazing thing," Kaiman said.
Dan believes Kaiman's good deed is reflective of Joe and his kind heart, which he's maintained despite all his challenges.
"The things he's had to go through, a 16-year-old kid's not supposed to have to go through it. Unfortunately, cancer finds the best," Dan said.
Joe's mom says he smiled for 72 hours straight. While he's still undergoing treatment, she reminds us all, the "world is full of gracious and generous people."
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TikTok says videos that are targeted toward voters and others, aimed at campaign fundraising, will be banned on the short-form video app, the company announced on Wednesday.
The social company's "mandatory verification" for political accounts could affect engagement with political content before the 2022 midterm elections.
The ban on political fundraising ads will activate in the coming weeks and will have a big impact on the political monetization of the app. Political parties and politicians will not be allowed to request donations from users on the app under the ban, TikTok claims.
Blake Chandlee, president of global business solutions at TikTok, said in a statement, "Specifically, they will not have access to features like gifting, tipping, and e-commerce, and will be ineligible for our Creator Fund."
While TikTok already bans political advertising in its terms of service, the platform says it will further enforce this by removing access to advertising tools from accounts that belong to politicians and political parties.
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A federal appeals court is allowing the Justice Department to continue looking at documents marked as classified that were seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and resort.
The emergency intervention upends a trial judge's order over those documents that blocked federal investigators' work on the documents, and is a strong rebuke of the Trump team's attempt to suggest without evidence that materials were somehow declassified.
A special master's review of that subset of about 100 records, which would've allowed Trump's legal team to see them, is now partially stopped. The special master, Judge Raymond Dearie, is able to continue his work reviewing the rest of the material seized from Mar-a-Lago, to make sure records belonging to Trump or that he may be able to claim are confidential aren't used by investigators.
"It is self-evident that the public has a strong interest in ensuring that the storage of the classified records did not result in 'exceptionally grave damage to the national security,'" the three-judge panel from the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals stated. "Ascertaining that necessarily involves reviewing the documents, determining who had access to them and when, and deciding which (if any) sources or methods are compromised."
Court rebukes Trump on declassified claims
Throughout the litigation, Trump's lawyers have raised vague questions about whether the materials are in fact classified. But they have not straightforwardly asserted in court that the former President declassified them, even as Trump himself has claimed outside of court that he did.
Wednesday night, the appeals court panel called Trump's legal team out.
"Plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was President," the court wrote. "But the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. And before the special master, Plaintiff resisted providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents."
Trump's lawyers have also sought to put off making any specific disclosures about whether the documents had been declassified while the special master initially reviews the materials.
"The records' classification markings establish that they are government records and that responsible officials previously determined that their unauthorized disclosure would cause damage -- including 'exceptionally grave damage' -- to the Nation's security," the prosecutors had told the 11th Circuit in a Tuesday night filing.
The Justice Department had asked for the 11th Circuit's intervention in the Mar-a-Lago documents dispute after Trump successfully sued to obtain the appointment of a special master -- an independent attorney -- to pour through the roughly 11,000 documents the FBI obtained in its search of Trump's home.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge who granted Trump's bid for the review, previously declined a Justice Department request that she pause the parts of her order that applied to the 100 documents identified as classified.
None of the three criminal statutes the FBI cited when it obtained the Mar-a-Lago search warrant hinge on the materials being classified, DOJ argued.
In seeking to restart its criminal investigation into the documents, the Justice Department argued that Cannon's order was hindering investigators from taking steps to assess and mitigate national security risks posed by how the documents were handled.
Cannon said that a national security assessment of the materials being conducted by the intelligence community could proceed. However, the Justice Department argued that that assessment could not be decoupled from the criminal investigation.
Not Trump's records
The 11th Circuit resoundingly rejected Trump's arguments that he may have an interest in classified records that could keep them from federal criminal investigators.
Trump "does not have a possessory interest in the documents at issue, so he does not suffer a cognizable harm if the United States reviews documents he neither owns nor has a personal interest in. Second, we find unpersuasive Plaintiff's insistence that he would be harmed by a criminal investigation," they wrote.
"Because of the nature of the classified materials at issue here and based on the record, we have no reason to expect that the United States' use of these records imposes the risk of disclosure to the United States of Plaintiff's privileged information," they wrote.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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DOVER, Del.- The Governor’s Central Delaware Career Expo was held on Sept. 21 at the Blue Hen Corporate Complex in Dover. The one day event gave community members the opportunity to explore a wide range of career fields.
Delaware has been dealing with a labor shortage driven by the pandemic and the career fair was introduced in hopes of combatting this issue.
The event was open for middle and high school students as well as adults. The student portion of the event ran from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. and doors opened to all community members from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Students were able to participate in hands on activities and demonstrations from several different organizations. Some employers even held on sight interviews and gave job offers to interested candidates.
Alonna Berry, who works for the Governor's Office, says the goal of the event was to spread awareness about all of the opportunities that are available.
Some adult job seekers were glad to see options that do not require a college degree.
Some of the featured industries at the career expo included construction, health care, education, transportation, manufacturing, public service, and more.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. - Rehoboth Avenue is home to several popular attractions in Rehoboth Beach. Nearby is a residential community whose residents walk to those attractions.
To get there and back, though, you much cross State Road.
The Grove and Munson Street intersection with State Road is one of the busiest during the warm weather months for vehicles and pedestrians alike, and neighbors day it is unsafe.
"We've been here about a year and a half and we've seen two car accidents that actually we witnessed ourselves," said David Pollack, a State Road neighbor.
Neighbor Elizabeth Stoddard corroborated Pollack's account.
"People coming through don't realize it's not a four-way stop, and there have been quite a few fender benders, and actually a really bad accident last year," Stoddard said.
The City of Rehoboth Beach will install several pedestrian safety improvements over the next several months, including "bump-out" curbs which will shorten the distance required to cross the street, well-marked crosswalks, and flashing beacons that will alert drivers that people are entering the crosswalk.
The project will cost the city between $75,000 and $100,000, and is expected to be complete by the start of the 2023 summer visitor season.
Pollack said he is pleased by the coming improvements.
"The idea that there will be a crosswalk there certainly makes it much better for us and much safer for us and our families to cross the street," Pollack said.
The City is also considering adding sidewalks to Grove Street between State Road and Rehoboth Avenue. That project, though, will require coordination with Delmarva Power to relocate power poles and lines. That project is likely to begin in Fall 2023 for completion by Summer 2024.
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YAKIMA, Wash. — The Yakima County Fire Marshal’s Office is lifting the county-wide burn ban issued August 5, starting at the beginning of September 22. The decision follows agreement among local officials that multiple factors have reduced fire danger in the county.
Some factors considered include the lower temperatures, improved humidity and fuel moisture content. As the ban is lifted, people are still asked to remain vigilant, monitor the wind and have water on hand if they burn.
“The Yakima County Fire Marshal’s Office appreciates the public’s cooperation with this recent burn ban and for understanding the sensitive situation many communities and their first responders were facing with some dry conditions,” said the press release. “The Fire Marshal’s Office also emphasizes that any open burning must be done in accordance with fire codes and Clean Air regulations.”
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PASCO, Wash. - The Federal Aviation Administration held its triannual exercise at the Tri-Cities airport on Thursday morning.
Pasco Fire Department with the help of Kennewick and Richland Fire Departments, several local police departments, and U.S. departments at the airport practiced their response times and methods to a simulated plane crash.
PFD Public Information Officer Ben Shearer says there were about 50 students from the Tri-Tech Firefighter program dressed up in makeup pretending to be injured passengers who survived a plane crash.
The simulation started with a call to Pasco Fire Station 82 at the airport timing their response and communication.
Shearer says this drill is a big challenge for all the different departments are communicating.
"Police, S.W.A.T, bomb squads, coroners office, transportation offices trying to transport all these people around, all these parts come into play when we do these graded exercises because that's what it's all about," says Shearer. "Trying to see how these parts all work."
Crews arrive to a "downed plane" and treat the situation as they would if a plane had just crashed by assessing the scene and trying to save as many people from the crash as possible.
The training includes everything from unknown location of the crash, injured people, fires and last minute changes being added as first responders try to work on the scene.
Shearer says, "Firefighters are going to have to think on their feet and then make those decisions appropriately to see what happens."
The training gives all of the different departments that participated the chance to work in situations they do not encounter on a daily basis.
Richland Police Officer and Bomb Squad Member Jason Crouch says this training is an amazing opportunity for them to get the experience they need.
"On a normal day this area that we're working in is not typically open," says Crouch. "Being able to know where our access points are, where our gates are and who we need to talk to. This exposes all of the information we need to know if we get called here for an actual incident."
Shearer tells me the department heads will reconvene in a couple weeks to go over their scores and figure out the weak areas of their plan and prepare for their next training three years from now.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — A 29-year-old man from Moses Lake pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining nearly $50,000 in COVID-19 relief funding that he was not eligible for. Dondre Charles Jackson will be sentenced in Spokane at 10 a.m. on January 5, 2023.
Jackson lied about having a catering and food service business in order to receive two loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) included in the national Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of March 2022, according to the plea. These resources were offered to small business owners to alleviate the effects the pandemic had on businesses. PPP provided owners with forgivable loans for certain expenses, like job retention.
Jackson applied for the two loans using fake information about a made up business, sending in fake tax documents to support the story, according to a press release the Office of U.S. Attorney Vanessa Waldref. He wasn’t eligible for any of the funding he received.
“COVID-19 relief programs quickly ran out of money due to the number of people and businesses that requested funding, which meant that some deserving small businesses were not able to obtain funding to keep their businesses in operation during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Waldref. “We created the Eastern Washington COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force because it is critical to the strength and safety of our communities that we all work together to combat pandemic-related fraud and bring much-needed accountability to these programs.”
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YAKIMA, Wash. - The 50th Anniversary series of Yakima Town Hall kicked off Wednesday at the Capitol Theatre. Award-Winning Journalist and member of the Kennedy family Maria Shriver shared why she chose a career in journalism and what her life as a public figure has been like.
Shriver said her family was always on the move, trying to be what she called "architects of change." This inspired her to find her own way to make a difference. After touring different places with journalists, she realized she had the curiosity and drive for the lifestyle.
Shriver reported on a variety of topics including Alzheimer's Disease and women's health. Through her research, she discovered nearly two-thirds of people with Alzheimer's Disease are women and no one really knows why. From there, she worked to raise funds to change how research is done for women's health, since the majority of it is done on men.
Shriver's story is just one of many the Town Hall Board has brought to Yakima in order to expose our community to different perspectives. The Board President Jill Falk said when choosing speakers, they really take into account who students in our community would benefit hearing from.
"Seeing someone like Maria Shriver could be a game changer for some young person who hasn't quite found their path or is redefining their path," Falk said.
The board gives 150 tickets to schools who ask. This is for each speaker, for students 8th grade to college level. In the 50th anniversary series, a lot of the speakers have a journalism background.
"We really like having journalists because they really have this 30 thousand foot view and they get to see so much," Falk said.
Shriver had a lot to offer students in a press conference that took part backstage, explaining how modern journalists can restore trust in themselves.
"Take the burden off of our shoulders to rush to get out there first but we wanna become known for providing good journalism for providing journalism that's fact based, that's not partisan," Shriver said.
She also offered advice to students seeking a journalism career.
"Learn how to write, learn how to write, learn how to write, learn the importance of facts, how to check your facts," she said. "What's important is the long run, what's important is your entire career not just a moment in your career."
Shriver also spoke about what it means to be a journalist and why it is important to enter the field for the right reasons, not just to be on camera.
The Town Hall 50th Anniversary series will continue through April 2023. You can find the dates and speakers by clicking HERE.
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Canterbury: Riding on skipper Harmanpreet Kaur's unbeaten 143, India crushed England by 88 runs in the 2nd Women's ODI here on Wednesday.
Chasing a target of 334, England were bowled out for 245 with Renuka Singh taking four wickets and Dayalan Hemalatha bagging two. For the hosts, Danielle Wyatt top scored with 65 runs.
Earlier, Harmanpreet had rekindled the memories of 2017 World Cup with a magnificent 143 not out as Indian women amassed their highest ever overseas total of 333/ 5.
Harmanpreet smashed 18 fours and four sixes en route her 111-ball knock and also enjoyed a fine 112-run stand for the fourth wicket with Harleen Deol (58 off 72 balls).
She also added 50 with Pooja Vastrakar (18) and another 71 runs in four overs with Deepti Sharma (15 not out) for the unbroken sixth wicket stand.
However, it was in the last three overs in which Harmanpreet literally took the game away from England's grasp as a total of 334 being chased in a WODI looks improbable even though the pitch being a batting belter.
In the last three overs, Indian team scored 62 runs, courtesy its skipper, who was in imperious touch while reaching her fifth hundred in WODIs.
The innings had Harmanpreet's trademark slog sweeps over cow corner which fetched him a couple of sixes while there were disdainful sixes over cover region.
With the pitch offering little help for bowlers, hitting through the line was very easy and England's bowling attack did suffer a bit with only off-spinner Charlie Dean (1/39) ending with respectable figures.
The worst sufferer was debutant left-arm seamer Freya Kemp, who did decently till the end of her seventh over in which she had conceded only 28 runs.
However, in the last three overs, Harmanpreet hit her for boundaries to every single corner as Kemp ended with nightmarish figures of 1/82 at the end of 10 overs. It was the worst performance by an England women's team debutant.
Such was Harmanpreet's dominance that Deepti Sharma, who still holds the individual record (188) by an Indian batter in WODIs, was more of a spectator during their sixth wicket stand.
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Canterbury: Riding on skipper Harmanpreet Kaur's unbeaten 143, India crushed England by 88 runs in the 2nd Women's ODI here on Wednesday.
Chasing a target of 334, England were bowled out for 245 with Renuka Singh taking four wickets and Dayalan Hemalatha bagging two. For the hosts, Danielle Wyatt top scored with 65 runs.
Earlier, Harmanpreet had rekindled the memories of 2017 World Cup with a magnificent 143 not out as Indian women amassed their highest ever overseas total of 333/ 5.
Harmanpreet smashed 18 fours and four sixes en route her 111-ball knock and also enjoyed a fine 112-run stand for the fourth wicket with Harleen Deol (58 off 72 balls).
She also added 50 with Pooja Vastrakar (18) and another 71 runs in four overs with Deepti Sharma (15 not out) for the unbroken sixth wicket stand.
However, it was in the last three overs in which Harmanpreet literally took the game away from England's grasp as a total of 334 being chased in a WODI looks improbable even though the pitch being a batting belter.
In the last three overs, Indian team scored 62 runs, courtesy its skipper, who was in imperious touch while reaching her fifth hundred in WODIs.
The innings had Harmanpreet's trademark slog sweeps over cow corner which fetched him a couple of sixes while there were disdainful sixes over cover region.
With the pitch offering little help for bowlers, hitting through the line was very easy and England's bowling attack did suffer a bit with only off-spinner Charlie Dean (1/39) ending with respectable figures.
The worst sufferer was debutant left-arm seamer Freya Kemp, who did decently till the end of her seventh over in which she had conceded only 28 runs.
However, in the last three overs, Harmanpreet hit her for boundaries to every single corner as Kemp ended with nightmarish figures of 1/82 at the end of 10 overs. It was the worst performance by an England women's team debutant.
Such was Harmanpreet's dominance that Deepti Sharma, who still holds the individual record (188) by an Indian batter in WODIs, was more of a spectator during their sixth wicket stand.
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Antoine Jennings is a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, but 11 years ago he settled in Blue Springs, Missouri, where he served on the city's Human Relations Commission.
Now a Democratic candidate for the Missouri Senate's District 8, Jennings explained his position on accountability, bodily autonomy, the importance of getting to the polls and the special session currently underway in Jefferson City.
The Republican candidate, incumbent Sen. Mike Cierpiot (R-Lee's Summit), also was invited to participate in this interview. He declined.
- Antoine Jennings, (D-Blue Springs), candidate for the Missouri Senate from District 8
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480 MW of FlexPOWER Bundle now under contract
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned electric and natural gas utility in the United States, has reached an agreement with Kenlov Ashtrom Renewable Energy LLC (KARE), a subsidiary of Kenlov Renewable Energy and Ashtrom Renewable Energy, for the purchase of 180 megawatts (MW) of solar energy. The project, developed and originated by KARE's U.S. development partner, OnPeak Power, will provide CPS Energy with 180 MW of the full 305 MW from the Tierra Bonita solar farm once completed. Tierra Bonita will be located in West Texas in Pecos County.
As the second agreement tied to its FlexPOWER Bundle initiative, the KARE contract is part of the utility's goal to add up to 900 MW of clean, sustainable solar energy to its power generation mix. The agreement for the first 300 MW was signed in May 2022 with Consolidated Edison Development, Inc.
"I am extremely proud of the work the CPS Energy team has done to secure another 180 MW of solar for our growing community," said Rudy D. Garza, CPS Energy President & CEO. "This is an extremely critical step as we look ahead to how we're going to power our Greater San Antonio community for the future and prepare to replace aging plants."
"This represents a considerable achievement toward decarbonizing our power generation portfolio and advances our commitment to increase the quantity of clean, reliable solar energy in San Antonio," said San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg. "Diversifying our power generation strengthens our grid and ensures reliable power for our residents."
The KARE agreement is a 20-year contract with construction anticipated to begin next year.
"We are excited to partner with CPS Energy and start construction on the Tierra Bonita project in early 2023," said Yitsik Marmelshtein, CEO of Ashtrom Renewable Energy. "The agreement with CPS Energy is a landmark milestone for our development activities in the U.S. renewable energy sector, and it demonstrates our commitment to expand our renewable investments. We would like to thank CPS Energy for their commitment to the Tierra Bonita project and their trust in our group as a long-term business partner."
"It's an honor to have CPS Energy as a partner on the Tierra Bonita project," said Yossi Gvura, CEO of Kenlov Renewable Energy. "This long-term partnership will be the cornerstone to a project that will deliver green power to thousands of people and reduce carbon emissions in the San Antonio metropolitan area. I thank Mayor Ron Nirenberg and President & CEO Rudy Garza and look forward to helping them achieve their vision for San Antonio and CPS Energy."
"The FlexPower Bundle has been a great process for helping CPS Energy obtain competitive solutions to meet their growing and evolving energy needs," said Ingmar Sterzing, Managing Partner with OnPeak Power." As Texans with a long history of working with public power utilities, we are grateful for the opportunity to contribute and serve the community of San Antonio through the Tierra Bonita project."
The FlexPOWER Bundle initiative aims to further diversify CPS Energy's power generation mix, adding up to 900 MW of solar, up to 50 MW of energy storage and up to 500 MW of firming capacity. The bundle is part of the utility's wider plan to replace older generation with newer and cleaner technologies.
Launched in November 2020, a request for proposals for the FlexPOWER Bundle resulted in over 650 proposals from 100 companies across the U.S. and ten other nations, including Japan, England and South Korea. CPS Energy expects to finalize and award additional FlexPOWER Bundle contracts within the next few months.
In addition to the capacity replaced by FlexPOWER Bundle, the utility is also working towards replacing other aging units. The discussion surrounding future power generation is taking place through the utility's Rate Advisory Committee (RAC) meetings. More information on the process can be found on the RAC website.
About CPS Energy
Established in 1860, CPS Energy is the nation's largest public power, natural gas, and electric company, providing safe, reliable, and competitively-priced service to more than 907,526 electric and 373,998 natural gas customers in San Antonio and portions of seven adjoining counties. Our customers' combined energy bills rank among the lowest of the nation's 20 largest cities – while generating $8 billion in revenue for the City of San Antonio for 80 years. As a trusted and strong community partner, we continuously focus on job creation, economic development, and educational investment. We are powered by our skilled workforce, whose commitment to the community is demonstrated through our employees' volunteerism in giving back to our city and programs aimed at bringing value to our customers. CPS Energy is among the top public power wind energy buyers in the nation and number one in Texas for solar generation.
About KARE
KARE is a Texas based Independent Power Producer focused on the development, construction and long-term management of utility scale solar facilities in the US market. Our mission is to become a major renewable energy producer and to serve our stakeholders by providing solar energy at a competitive price, while preserving our shareholder's vision and values to reduce carbon emissions, to connect to our community by creating jobs and to enable a world of new opportunities as we build a better future together.
About Ashtrom Renewable Energy
Founded in 1963, the Ashtrom Group is the leading construction and real estate group in Israel, with operations in more than 20 countries around the globe, the Ashtrom group is a publicly traded company since 2014 and is among the TA-35 index (35 biggest public companies in Israel) with a market cap of approx. USD 2.5 Billion. The Ashtrom Group has a deeply ingrained tradition of entrepreneurship and innovation, reliability and professionalism, based on the highest uncompromising standards and high long-term financial robustness. Ashtrom Group is involved with development and construction of large-scale real-estate projects (commercial, industrial, residential etc.), infrastructure projects (roads, bridges, ports, etc.), concessions (PPP, BOT, PFI), and other large-scale projects. The chairman of Ashtrom Group is Rami Nussbaum and the group's CEO is Mr. Gil Gueron.
Managed by Mr. Yitsik Marmelshtein, Ashtrom Renewable Energy is the renewable energy arm of the Ashtrom Group, which views the energy field as one of the Group's principal growth engines in the coming years. Ashtrom Renewable Energy is active in a number of geographical markets with the emphasis on the USA, Europe and Israel.
About Kenlov Renewable Energy
Kenlov Renewable Energy is an Independent Power Producer (IPP) focused on mature technologies such as onshore wind, solar and storage projects in Europe and the US. Kenlov Renewable Energy is the right partner of choice for developing early-stage renewable energy projects, creating better outcomes for developers, investors and the planet. Kenlov Renewable Energy takes a dynamic and hands-on approach to unearth early-stage projects and maximize their potential. We have a team of established in-country managers and a lean management structure that connects developers directly with decision-makers. Managed by Mr. Yossi Gvura, Kenlov leadership and teams throughout Europe and the United States, currently have 1.5GW of assets under development and a further pipeline of more than 2.5GW.
About OnPeak Power
OnPeak Power, LLC (OnPeak) is an industry leading privately held renewable energy company based in Austin, Texas. OnPeak specializes in renewable energy project development and asset optimization. OnPeak is a full cycle development company performing site identification, origination, and development through construction and into operations. OnPeak Power developed a 255MW project currently in operation and is actively developing over 1.6 GW of early to mid-stage solar projects for the North American Market.
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Don Cheadle Producing an Adaptation of Image Comics’ Rogues Gallery
War Machine actor Don Cheadle’s MCU future includes Secret Invasion, Armor Wars, and (probably) at least one of the new Avengers movies coming out in 2025. Regardless, he’s making time to visit another comic book universe as well. Deadline is reporting that Cheadle’s production label, This Radicle Act, is developing a new TV show based on Image’s Rogues Gallery.
Writer Hannah Rose May and artists Justin Mason and Declan Shalvey started publishing Rogues Gallery earlier this year. The series follows Maisie Wade, an actress who plays the titular superhero on a TV series called Red Rogue. When Maisie’s sudden departure from the series leads to its cancellation, her fans are anything but happy. But when they lock her inside her own house and begin terrorizing her by dressing up as Red Rogue’s villains, life imitates art as Maisie tries to find a way to survive.
So far, Image has released three issues of Rogues Gallery, the latest of which hit stores today. A trade paperpack collecting the first four issues will go on sale on December 7. May is producing the TV series through her own Weird Neighbour Productions banner. Cheadle will also serve as a producer alongside This Radicle Act president Karyn Smith-Forge.
RELATED: Image Comics’ Eight Billion Genies Optioned by Amazon
Rogues Gallery is one of several Image Comics properties with a live-action film or TV adaptation in the works. Over the past year alone, studios have ordered new projects based on titles like Eight Billion Genies, Nocterra, Hardcore, and Bitter Root. Right now, it doesn’t look like Cheadle’s company has a network or even a showrunning team in mind for Rogues Gallery. However, This Radicle Act has a first-look deal with Industrial Media, which (according to Collider), has developed shows for a variety of different platforms, including HBO, Netflix, and ABC.
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CAPE COD (WPRI) — Two orphaned coyote pups found abandoned earlier this year have returned back to the wild.
The first pup was found off of a busy roadway in Smithfield back in April and was brought to the Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island for treatment.
The female pup was eventually transferred to the Cape Wildlife Center, which specializes in raising orphaned coyotes. She arrived at the center soon after it took in a male pup who was inadvertently mistaken as a lost German Shepherd puppy.
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The orphaned pups were eventually introduced in an effort to help them maintain their wild instincts, according to the center.
The two have been inseparable ever since and made “impressive strides” throughout their time at the center.
“[Since] they’ve had each other as companions, they have remained wild and weary of humans,” the center explained.
Both pups were released Wednesday after spending six months together at the center.
The center said they were released as a unit to “increase their survival rate in the wild.”
“While some coyotes may choose to part ways after release something tells us these two may be bonded for life,” the center said.
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Police: Former employee stole more than $500,000 from church over 5-year period
VERO BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – Police in Florida charged a woman with fraud after they said she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from a church she worked at for five years.
The Vero Beach Police Department said Deborah True turned herself in at the Indian River County Jail on Monday. She was charged with one count of organized fraud over $50,000. She has since been let out on bond and is awaiting trial.
The Vero Beach Police Department said in a Facebook post that they were contacted by the Diocese of Palm Beach for a fraudulent bank account and misappropriation of funds that occurred over the last few years at the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Vero Beach.
The police department then opened up a nine-month-long fraud investigation, eventually leading to the arrest of True, the church’s former parish administrator.
During the investigation, police discovered True and Richard Murphy, a former church pastor, opened a bank account in 2012 in the name of the Holy Cross Catholic Church. They found the account was also hidden from the Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach.
Police said bank records showed nearly $1.5 million of parishioners’ donations were deposited into the account since 2015.
Investigators said True used over $500,000 of the deposited funds to pay off personal lines of credit from 2015 to 2020. An additional $147,000 was withdrawn from the account and deposited in True’s checking account, according to police.
It was also determined Murphy, the former pastor, had also personally benefited from the money in the account.
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") are investigating the proposed merger of iStar Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: STAR) with Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE) pursuant to which iStar shareholders will end up owning approximately 37% of the combined company directly. KSF is seeking to determine whether the merger and the process that led to it are adequate, or whether the merger undervalues the Company.
If you believe that this transaction undervalues the Company and/or if you would like to discuss your legal rights regarding the proposed sale, you may, without obligation or cost to you, e-mail or call KSF Managing Partner Lewis S. Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com) toll free at any time at 855-768-1857, or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-star/ to learn more.
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MAYOR ARREGUÍN TO SIGN AGREEMENT WITH SPIN ELECTRIC SCOOTERS, TEAMSTERS LOCAL 665
Published: Sep. 21, 2022 at 8:32 PM CDT|Updated: 15 minutes ago
Workers Excited to Affiliate with Union, Bargain First Contract
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, September 22 at 1:00 PM PST,Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín will sign an agreement between Spin Electric Scooters and Teamsters Local 665. The agreement will legally formalize the company's decision to voluntarily recognize the union as the exclusive collective bargaining representative for the Spin workers in the City of Berkeley.
Teamsters Local 665 represents over 5,000 members throughout the Bay Area in a wide variety of industries. For more information, go to https://www.teamsters665.org/.
The above press release was provided courtesy of PRNewswire. The views, opinions and statements in the press release are not endorsed by Gray Media Group nor do they necessarily state or reflect those of Gray Media Group, Inc.
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WASHINGTON — Conservative activist Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has agreed to participate in a voluntary interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, her lawyer said Wednesday.
Attorney Mark Paoletta said Thomas is “eager to answer the committee’s questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election.”
The committee has for months sought an interview with Thomas in an effort to know more about her role in trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn his election defeat. She texted with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and contacted lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin in the weeks after the election.
Thomas's willingness to testify comes as the committee is preparing to wrap up its work before the end of the year and is writing a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection. The panel announced Wednesday that it will reconvene for a hearing on Sept. 28, likely the last in a series of hearings that began this summer.
The testimony from Thomas — known as Ginni — was one of the remaining items for the panel as it eyes the completion of its work. The panel has already interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and shown some of that video testimony in its eight hearings over the summer.
The extent of Thomas' involvement ahead of the Capitol attack is unknown. In the days after The Associated Press and other news organizations called the presidential election for Biden, Thomas emailed two lawmakers in Arizona to urge them to choose “a clean slate of Electors” and “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure.” The AP obtained the emails earlier this year under the state’s open records law.
She has said in interviews that she attended the initial pro-Trump rally the morning of Jan. 6 but left before Trump spoke and the crowds headed for the Capitol.
Thomas, a Trump supporter long active in conservative causes, has repeatedly maintained that her political activities posed no conflict of interest with the work of her husband.
“Like so many married couples, we share many of the same ideals, principles, and aspirations for America. But we have our own separate careers, and our own ideas and opinions too. Clarence doesn’t discuss his work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work,” Thomas told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview published in March.
Justice Thomas was the lone dissenting voice when the Supreme Court ruled in January to allow a congressional committee access to presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes relating to the events of Jan. 6.
Ginni Thomas has been openly critical of the committee's work, including signing onto a letter to House Republicans calling for the expulsion of Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois from the GOP conference for joining the Jan. 6 congressional committee.
CNN first reported that Thomas agreed to the interview.
It’s unclear if the committee's hearing next week will provide a general overview of what the panel has learned or if it will focus on new information and evidence, such as any evidence provided by Thomas. The committee also conducted several interviews at the end of July and into August with Trump’s Cabinet secretaries, some of whom had discussed invoking the constitutional process in the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office after the insurrection.
Cheney, the committee's Republican vice chairwoman, said at the panel’s most recent hearing in July that the committee “has far more evidence to share with the American people and more to gather.”
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Respite has come the way of Nigerian students stranded in war torn Ukraine as Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO), Okada, near Benin, Edo state has concluded plans to absolve them.
The vice chancellor of the institution, Professor Lawrence Ezemonye who disclosed this in Okada during a birthday lecture in honour of the Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, stated that the university had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two universities in the Eastern European country to absorb students who are out of school as a result of the ongoing war against Russian.
Professor Ezemonye, however refused to disclose the total number of affected students but said that the exchange programme is aimed at exposing the students to formidable learning experiences targeted at producing global leaders.
He said: “We have signed an MOU with two Ukrainian universities to absorb students of the universities displaced by the dispute between Ukraine and Russia.”
He added that the exchange of students with the foreign institutions was in line with the effort at intensifying the internationalisation of the pedagogical profile through partnerships.
He described Chief Igbinedion as an asset to Nigeria whose contributions to national development, especially in the education sector, had opened up vista for private institutions.
He explained that the chancellor’s annual birthday lecture was designed to acknowledge “a great mind whose great vision birthed the pioneer private university in Nigeria and also provide a platform through which strategic and policy issues germane to national development could be discussed and proffer solutions”.
“Our drive to being a leading centre of development – enhancing knowledge production, capacity-building, scientific innovations and breakthroughs through a coupling of local and global network and synergies remain on course,” he said.
Also speaking, the deputy chancellor, Chief Lucky Igbinedion pledged is unflinching support to the university in achieving its vision of providing quality education and pace setting among private universities in the country.
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An elder statesman and former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), Mr Edward Ehimwenma Osifo has lamented over the lingering strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
According to him, the strike which he said was in bad faith, is making Nigeria a mockery of itself.
Commenting on the protracted strike in Igbanke, Orihionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State, Elder Osifo, advised the Federal Government to strongly insist on its labour policy of ‘no work, no pay’ to serve as a deterrent to any future decision of the union.
While sympathising with members of ASUU, the pioneer Bendel State chairman of UPN and former Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources in the defunct state appealed to the union to be patriotic to Nigerians by suspending their seven month’s old industrial action.
The appeal, he explained, had become necessary as it would go a long way in helping to restore sanity to the nation’s ivory towers.
“The lingering ASUU strike bothers me and our children’s education whose universities have been adversely affected since February 14, 2022.
“I see the ASUU body being made up of some unpatriotic Nigerians who ought to show exemplary sympathy for the students and the country in this time of need since one does not need to be told that Nigeria is at war on many fronts coupled with serious economic and security challenges.
“In these hard times, Nigerians are expected to be patriotic and not allow self-interest to divide us.
“Nigeria is in a serious economic dilemma that the revenue realised from production is used to pay salaries and service other recurrent expenditure while capital projects are executed through funds borrowed,” the legal icon said.
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- EDITORIAL: The Worsening Oil Theft
- Insist on ‘no work, no pay’ policy to ASUU to curb future strike, former UPN scribe tells FG
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Three students of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Igbariam campus, Anambra State were on Saturday found dead in the hostel.
A source identified the students as Obidiaso Chidera (200 level Political Science), Mercy (200 level Pharmacy) and Emmanuella (200 level Business Administration).
The cause of their deaths was not clear as of press time, but some people on campus suspected murder, as they were locked in their room from outside.
A source said, “The students were locked up in the apartment. When we got access to the apartment, we found them lifeless with two of them on their beds in the room, while the third lifeless body was found in the kitchen.”
The management of the institution, while confirming the incident, said the death of the students came as a shock.
The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Dr Harrison Madubueze, in a statement made available to Nigerian Tribune in Awka, on Saturday, said, “The university management received with rude shock the news of the death of three of our students. At the moment, the date, time and manner of their death are still uncertain.
“However, the security operatives are investigating the matter and at the appropriate time, they will make the findings public.”
Madubueze said the university was not aware that any of its students in the second-year class and above were still within the University environment.
“This is because the institution closed on Wednesday 24th August 2022 after the second-semester examination and will resume on October 1st, 2022,” he said.
ALSO READ FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
- EDITORIAL: The Worsening Oil Theft
- Three female students found dead in Ojukwu Varsity hostel
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The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) will soon inaugurate the Smart Schools being established at the cost of N21.6bn across the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Smart School programme was initiated by the Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, as model schools that states and other stakeholders could replicate as part of efforts to provide a conducive learning environment and infrastructure in the country.
The project involves building and equipping the schools across the country with modern instructional and vocational materials.
UBEC as an intervention agency wants to set a new standard on how school buildings and public infrastructures should be.
The UBEC boss, speaking on the preparation for unveiling of the schools, said the commission had commenced the development of course outline and contents for the training of education managers, teachers, technical support personnel and other stakeholders for the schools and e-learning programmes.
ALSO READ FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
- EDITORIAL: The Worsening Oil Theft
- UBEC set to unveil smart schools
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