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Kanye West says he regrets the stressful situations he's put his ex-wife Kim Kardashian through due to his social media outbursts since their divorce in early last year, but he still believes he's doing right by their kids.
The rapper sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Good Morning America that aired on Thursday in which he discussed his relationship with Kardashian, their four children, the Gap, and his future political ambitions. In terms of his ex, West says he has a “new respect” for her, adding, “This is the mother of my children, and I apologize for any stress that I have caused, even in my frustration, because God calls me to be stronger. I need this person to be less stressed and of the best, sound mind, and as calm as possible to be able to raise those children at the end of the day.” But he also noted that he feels it's his responsibility “as a dad and as a Christian” to speak out about what he sees as right and wrong for his children. “I have a right to have a voice on what my kids are wearing, what they're watching, what they're eating,” he said. “I have a platform where I get to say what so many dads can't say out loud.”
West, who recently opened his own “gospel school,” Donda Academy, went on to say that he “absolutely” wants all of his children to attend. “I'm their dad. It has to be co-parenting. It's not up to only the woman. Like, men have a choice also. Men's voices matter,” the Grammy-winner said. According to him, the school gives “kids practical tools that they need in a world post the iPhone being created. So many schools are made to set kids up for industries that don't even matter anymore.” Whereas, West explained, Donda Academy is focused on the cultivation of “practical skills” such as engineering, computer programming, and farming. He added that the school also has tutors who focus on specific areas of study and could “actually turn your kids into, like, geniuses. And if your kids are geniuses...they're three grade levels ahead.” The rapper said the school is currently in its third year and has an enrollment of 82 students. Originally named the Yeezy Christian Academy, Donda Academy is located in Simi Valley, California and, according to the school's website, its mission is to help students “learn fundamentals, grow in their faith, and experience two enrichment classes.”
And while it may sound like he's already got plenty on his plate, West says despite failing on his first attempt, he still has some serious political aspirations. He explained while “that time wasn't in God's time,” he “absolutely” plans to run for president again at some point. The rapper pointed out that people mislabel him as a “radical” because of his faith in Christianity and his promotion of “the idea of family, the idea of God, the idea of protecting your children's innocence for as long as possible.” He continued, “When you remove the love and fear of God, you open up the love and fear of everything else. And it's easier to have sheep when people don't have God. It's easier to control the people if people are not controlled by God. Because then they can be controlled by how many likes they have or whatever's happening on their TikTok or how much money or the perception that people have.” He concluded, “But we only have one audience here and that audience is God. And He's watching us at all times. He's got my back.”
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Lea Michele said that motherhood forced her to reflect on her career and the single-mindedness with which she pursued success.
The actor appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show on Wednesday where she shared how out of balance her life felt before meeting her husband, Zandy Reich, and starting a family. “I just couldn’t see things clearly. It was all about my career,” she explained to host Drew Barrymore. “I've been so career focused my entire life I think to a fault.” She added, “I think that I had just this sense of drive that created a lot of blind spots for me in my life.” But all of that changed once she finally met the right person and felt ready to settle down. Michele continued, “When I met my husband, it was a real sense of grounding for me, and then having our son [Ever Leo] and experiencing the challenges that we did throughout the pregnancy was something that, unfortunately, created a stronger bond in us that I would never wish upon anybody, but it did.”
The Glee star and Reich got married in 2019, announcing their pregnancy shortly after in May 2020. Michele previously opened up about how difficult it was to conceive on an episode of Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt’s Instagram Live series, “Before, During & After.” “I had a very, very intense, very scary pregnancy,” she told Pratt. “I really withheld a lot of my experience from the people around me.” At age 30, Michele was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome and, as with many people who suffer from that hormonal disorder, struggled to get pregnant. And once she was finally able to, throughout her first trimester, the actor had bouts of heavy bleeding that led to her needing to stay on bed rest and take high doses of progesterone in order to help her body sustain the pregnancy. Even once they publicly announced the pregnancy, the actor confessed she “still was uncertain if the pregnancy was going to last...It was horrible. It was the lowest I’ve been in my entire life.”
Michele told Barrymore that the entire experience “transformed” her and made her all the more appreciative of everything she does have, such as her new role starring as Fanny Brice in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl after replacing Beanie Feldstein in July. “When you're given a great opportunity as I have been with this, which I'm so incredibly grateful for as a performer, as a person, I just feel like what I do now with this is on me and how I handled this,” she said. “I’m really ready to take all of this on and do a great show every night but also have fun with my cast, come home and celebrate with my family, which is something I never did before.” The actor concluded, “I’m really enjoying being able to open my eyes to everything that’s going on around me because it’s all good and if it’s not fun, then why do we do it?”
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle finally headed home to California this week after Queen Elizabeth's death extended their visit overseas.
The royal couple flew home from the UK on Tuesday following their mourning period, and one day after attending the late monarch's funeral service. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex happened to be in Europe at the time of her death as they were on a scheduled trip overseas to attend a number of events in support of the charities they work with, including the One Young World Summit and the lead-up celebrations for the Invictus Games taking place in Düsseldorf next year. So, when the queen suddenly took ill, Harry was able to rush from Scotland to be with the rest of his family. He and Meghan then stayed through Monday in order to attend the state funeral and committal service before Queen Elizabeth's private burial. In the lead up to the funeral, the Sussexes also attended a number of events in remembrance of the monarch. On September 10, they joined Prince William and Kate Middleton in greeting mourners and well-wishers gathered outside Windsor Castle to share their remembrances of the late royal.
In his first statement about his grandmother posted to the Archewell website following her passing, Harry highlighted the queen's commitment to serving the United Kingdom, writing, “In celebrating the life of my grandmother, Her Majesty The Queen—and in mourning her loss—we are all reminded of the guiding compass she was to so many in her commitment to service and duty. She was globally admired and respected. Her unwavering grace and dignity remained true throughout her life and now her everlasting legacy.” He also added on a personal note, “Granny, while this final parting brings us great sadness, I am forever grateful for all of our first meetings — from my earliest childhood memories with you, to meeting you for the first time as my Commander-in-Chief, to the first moment you met my darling wife and hugged your beloved great-grandchildren. I cherish these times shared with you, and the many other special moments in between. You are already sorely missed, not just by us, but by the world over.” Harry concluded, “Thank you for your commitment to service. Thank you for your sound advice. Thank you for your infectious smile. We, too, smile knowing that you and grandpa are reunited now, and both together in peace.”
While on this extended trip, Harry and Meghan left their two children, 3-year-old Archie and 1-year-old Lilibet, back home in Montecito with the Duchess's mother, Doria Ragland. The pair have been living in the ritzy California neighborhood popular with celebrities since 2020 when they officially stepped down from their positions as senior royals.
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“Jewelry has always been a big part of my life, but it evolved as my life evolved,” A$AP Ferg writes in Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History, out from Taschen next month.
A collection of nearly 500 photographs, the 388-page book recounts the history of hip-hop from the 1980s through today, told through the jewels and gems that adorned the genre’s biggest personalities—in image and rhyme. From Run-DMC’s gold rope chains to Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella pendant to Cardi B’s diamond-encrusted nameplate necklace, Ice Cold explores the relationship between ornamentation and identity through vivid images and thought-provoking personal essays from Ferg and pioneers including Slick Rick and LL Cool J.
Below, a look at some of the sparkling multi-finger rings, glistening gold grills, and other statement jewelry featured in the pages of Ice Cold:
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A military contractor known as "Fat Leonard," who fled before being sentenced to masterminding one of the largest bribery scandals in U.S. Navy history, was arrested in South America.
The U.S. Marshals said Leonard Francis was captured in Venezuela on Tuesday at the Caracas airport as he attempted to board a plane to Russia, the Associated Press reported.
In 2015, Francis pleaded guilty to bribing Navy officials with prostitution services and luxury hotels and also for overcharging the Navy $35 million to help service his ships, the Associated Press reported.
The U.S. Marshals said on Sept. 4, while on home confinement in San Diego, authorities were alerted that his GPS ankle monitor was being tampered with. When authorities made it to his home, they found his home empty.
According to the Associated Press, Francis was in home confinement because he was receiving medical care and he was cooperating with prosecutors.
The news outlet reported that by helping the prosecution, 33 of the 34 defendants had been convicted.
The U.S. Marshals and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service were offering a $40,000 reward for his capture.
No word yet on when he will be extradited, the Associated Press reported.
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Meta will decide in January whether to restore former President Donald Trump's Facebook account.
Nick Clegg, who serves as president of global affairs for the company, reportedly said at an event Thursday that a decision will be made by Jan. 7, 2023.
Trump was banned from Facebook for two years following the Capitol riots.
Politico reported that Clegg will make the decision after discussing it with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s board of directors.
“We will look at the signals related to real-world harm to make a decision," Clegg said, according to Politico.
Clegg did not give any indication whether he was leaning toward lifting Trump's ban or extending it.
Trump created his own social medial site, Truth Social, after being kicked off Facebook and Twitter in 2021.
The former president regularly posts comments and criticisms from his official account.
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SANDY, Utah (KSTU) — A man needs help finding the Good Samaritan who saved his life.
Yury Korkishko was in his backyard on Monday afternoon when he was stung by wasps and started suffering an allergic reaction.
“It was harder and harder to breathe,” said Korkishko.
While his wife, Lidia, was driving him to the hospital, Korkishko lost consciousness, forcing the couple to pull over and wait for an ambulance.
“I couldn’t do anything,” recalled Korkishko. “I was dead.”
Passing drivers stopped to get him out of the car. One woman happened to have an EpiPen on hand.
“She wasn’t afraid,” Korkishko said. “She did it and she saved me.”
The Korkishkos moved from Ukraine to Utah 30 years ago. They’re touched by all the people who jumped in to help.
“You don’t see that every day,” said Korkishko’s son, Alex. “You see all the chaos. Where we’re from, our city’s destroyed. But here, people love each other.”
Korkishko stayed overnight at Alta View Hospital and was discharged Tuesday afternoon. He said he was doing OK.
“At least I start to breathe, it’s very nice,” said Korkishko. “It’s better than alcohol.”
Now, the Korkishkos hope to track down the woman with the EpiPen who doctors say saved his life.
“I want to meet you at least to say thank you very much for everything,” said Korkishko.
“I hope you can come forward so we can thank you personally,” said Alex. “I get to live another year with my dad, so thank you.”
This story was originally reported by Emily Tencer on fox13news.com.
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Finding new vehicles and equipment to purchase for the last two to three years has been difficult for everyone, including the City of Alexander City.
City officials have been searching for a new bucket truck for the city’s light and power department as part of its fleet program. But none for purchase could be found, so city finance director Romy Stamps recommended a 60 month lease to the council at its Monday meeting.
“It has been very difficult to find things,” Stamps explained. “This is a lease with an option to purchase at the end.”
Council president Buffy Colvin announced to the council that with one month left in the fiscal year, the city had collected $150,000 more in business licenses for fiscal year 2022 than in 2021. Mayor Woody Baird said there were several job opportunities in the city including police officers, wastewater treatment plant operators and grass cutters.
Revenue officer Scotty Price said the city needs to address possible legal cannabis operations coming to the area. Price said at a recent conference the state is highly regulating the industry and if the city were to try to take advantage of having a facility, it first needed an ordinance on the books to address the issue.
Price said he had already been contacted by a business in Ohio who was interested. Councilman Scott Hardy said a local attorney and business owner had inquired about the matter with him.
In other action, the Alexander City City Council:
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• Approved minutes of the Sept. 12 meeting.
• Declared a narrow strip of property totaling 1.9 acres as surplus and no longer needed.
• Set two public hearings for 5:30 p.m. Oct. 3. One is for the rezoning of three parcels from B-2 to R-2 and the other is to hear public comments on the possible sale of the Bud Porch Center.
• Authorized a contract with the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department to house city inmates at the county jail at a rate of $50 per day per inmate.
• Approved Main Street’s BBQ and Brews event for Oct. 8 in downtown.
The next meeting of the Alexander City City Council is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3.
Cliff Williams is a staff writer for Tallapoosa Publishers.
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Sept. 21
• Wyndee Rebecca Walker, 44, of Alexander City was arrested for domestic violence.
• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.
• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.
• Burglary was reported in Alexander City.
• Harassment was reported in Alexander City.
• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.
• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.
Sept. 20
• James Romeo Dawson, 36, of Goodwater was arrested for domestic violence.
• Leaving the scene of an accident was reported in Alexander City.
• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.
• Criminal mischief was reported in Alexander City.
• Fraudulent use of a credit or debit card was reported in Alexander City.
Sept. 19
• Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle and theft was reported in Alexander City.
• Assault was reported in Alexander City.
• Leaving the scene of an accident was reported in Alexander City.
Sept. 18
• Zion Antwan Golson, 19, of Montgomery was arrested for failure to appear and possession of marijuana.
• Thomas Ray Waites, 57, of Rockford was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.
• Possession of marijuana and failure to appear was reported in Alexander City.
• Criminal mischief was reported in Alexander City.
• Driving under the influence of alcohol was reported in Alexander City.
• Leaving the scene of an accident was reported in Alexander City.
Sept. 17
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• Curtis Brown III, 33, of Alexander City was arrested for failure to appear.
• Theft was reported in Alexander City.
• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.
• Leaving the scene of an accident was reported in Alexander City.
• Assault with bodily fluids and assault was reported in Alexander City.
Sept. 16
• Calvin Junior Culpepper, 39, of Alexander City was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.
• Shawn Jorin Sewell, 51, of Adamsville was arrested for disorderly conduct and theft.
• Christian Kashun Tuck, 23, of Kellyton was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and possession of a pistol by a drunk or addict.
• Driving under the influence of alcohol was reported in Alexander City.
• Leaving the scene of an accident was reported in Alexander City.
• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.
• Animal running at large was reported in Alexander City.
• Leaving the scene of an accident was reported in Alexander City.
• Disorderly conduct was reported in Alexander City.
• Theft was reported in Alexander City.
• Theft was reported in Alexander City.
• Possession of a controlled substance and possession of a pistol by a drunk or addict was reported in Alexander City.
Sept. 15
• Wilburn Woods Sloan, 55, of Alexander City was arrested for obstructing government operations, possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
• Domestic violence and interference with a domestic violence emergency call was reported in Alexander City.
• Possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana was reported in Alexander City.
• Possession of a forged instrument was reported in Alexander City.
• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.
• Identity theft was reported in Alexander City.
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A quilt ten years in the making is now on display at the Alexander City Municipal Complex.
Last year after the creation of the tenth T-shirt for the annual Lake Martin Resource Association (LMRA) annual cleanup, a quilt was created to highlight the work of Stephens Elementary School students. The artwork for the shirts was an art project to help students get involved in cleaning up trash and learning what litter can do to Lake Martin.
“We have had 10 years of artwork and we are going to present a quilt to the school that has all 10 years of shirts in it,” LMRA’s John Thompson said. “Doing this for 10 years is special. The quilt is great. I can look and I remember every one of them.”
But Thompson had a problem. The quilt was large and there were few places to display it. Alexander City Mayor Woody Baird had been looking for things to display in the atrium of the city’s municipal complex.
Now the quilt lives on the wall of the atrium along with a display highlighting the mission of LMRA.
“I was wondering where to display this,” Thompson said. “Putting it here places it where so many more can see it. I’m pleased with the way that turned out.”
Baird said he and staff at the display had no issue displaying the quilt.
“This was such a great thing,” Baird said. “As soon as I saw the quilt, I was like everybody needs to see it.”
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Baird said the LMRA display is the beginning of a multitude of things to go up on the walls for the public.
“We have had some that are ecstatic about the display,” Baird said. “I think it's a great display. We are trying to figure out how to decorate all the way around in the atrium.”
Baird said during the move from the old city hall and the police department to the municipal complex many things were located that might have a place on the walls of the atrium such as photos of past mayors.
“We have a photo of T.C. Russell,” Baird said. “We are going to try to recover it.”
Baird said he has found maps on his travels and other artifacts, but the city is looking for more historical things to display and other organizations to possibly highlight in the atrium.
“We would like to show the history of the area,” Baird said. “We have a lot of wall here and can turn it into a museum.”
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UPDATE: Two American veterans and five British citizens who had been held by Russian-backed forces for months have been released as part of the prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine that was brokered by Saudi Arabia.
Family members of Americans Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, who were captured in June while fighting for Ukraine north of Kharkiv, confirmed they had been freed. British Prime Minister Liz Truss tweeted that five British citizens had been released. Additionally, three prisoners who are Moroccan, Swedish and Croatian nationals were released in the swap, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
"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," Truss said.
Drueke's aunt released a statement confirming the release of her nephew, 39, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Huynh, 27, of Hartselle, Alabama.
"We are thrilled to announce that Alex and Andy are free. They are safely in the custody of the US embassy in Saudi Arabia and after medical checks and debriefing they will return to the States. We deeply appreciate everyone's prayers and especially the close communication and support of our elected officials, Ukrainian Ambassador Markarova, and our members of the US embassies in Ukraine and Saudi Arabia and the US Department of State," said Diana Shaw, a spokesperson for both families and Dreuke's aunt.
The families did not know that the prisoner exchange was in the works.
The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the 10 freed prisoners were "released as part of an exchange of POWs between Russia and Ukraine" and taken to Saudi Arabia.
CNN previously reported that the two Americans were captured during a battle near Kharkiv. Their pro-Russian captors, the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), is a Russian-backed, self-declared republic that has governed a breakaway portion of Ukraine's Donetsk region since 2014.
Bunny Drueke, Alexander's mother, and Huynh's fiance, Joy Black, told CNN in June that selflessness and a love for the US fueled their loved ones' decision to go to Ukraine.
"He is one of the most loyal Americans you would ever hope to meet and he was proud to serve his country," Drueke said of her son. "He said, 'Mom, I really need to go and help fight in Ukraine because if Putin is not stopped there he is not going to be satisfied, he will become emboldened and eventually Americans will be threatened.'"
Black said at the time that her fiancé "didn't go there for selfish reasons or anything. He really had this gnawing at his heart and this big burden on him to go and serve the people however he can."
PREVIOUS STORY: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Geneva Convention -- the charter which sets out how soldiers and civilians are treated in wartime -- does not apply to two detained US citizens.
Two American volunteers fighting for Ukraine -- Alexander John-Robert Drueke, 39, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, from Hartselle, Alabama -- were taken into detention by Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk after being captured last week, according to Russian state media.
Peskov, during a regular call with journalists Tuesday, said the Geneva Convenction does not apply to the two US citizens. Peskov said the death penalty cannot be ruled out but this is a decision for a court. The Kremlin -- Peskov said -- does not have a right to interfere.
Russia does not know where the two American volunteers fighting for Ukraine are being held or who will be judging on their case, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN on Tuesday.
“I don’t know where they are being held and who is going to judge them. But the only thing that goes without saying is that they are going to be prosecuted and they will be able to stand in court,” Peskov said in a voice message.
According to Russian state media, the two American volunteers fighting for Ukraine were taken into detention by Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk after being captured last week.
US citizens Alexander John-Robert Drueke, 39, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, from Hartselle, Alabama, were interviewed by Russia's RT channel at a detention center in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on June 17, according to a report published on RT.
The two Americans went missing on June 9 during a battle north of Kharkiv and it was feared that they may have been captured by Russian forces, according to their families and a fellow fighter.
PREVIOUS STORY: Two Americans fighting alongside Ukrainian forces north of Kharkiv have been missing for nearly a week and there are fears that they may have been captured by Russian forces, according to their families and a fellow fighter.
The men are Alexander John-Robert Drueke, 39, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, from Hartselle, Alabama.
A man who is acting as the team's sergeant, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, provided CNN with photos of both men's passports and their entry stamps into Ukraine. The man said that their unit was fighting under the command of Ukraine's 92nd mechanized brigade on June 9, near the town of Izbytske.
Drueke and Huynh, he said, went missing during the battle and subsequent search missions failed to find any remains. A post on a Russian propaganda channel on Telegram the following day claimed that two Americans had been captured near Kharkiv. "It was absolute chaos," he told CNN. "There was about a hundred plus infantry advancing on our positions. We had a T72 firing on people from 30, 40 meters away."
Bunny Drueke, Alexander's mother, told CNN that "they are presumed to be prisoners of war, but that has not been confirmed."
She said the US Embassy to Ukraine has not been able to verify whether her son has been captured. "They have not been able to verify that he's with the Russians. All that they can verify is that he is missing at this point," she said. "They stay in close touch with me, and I have every confidence that they are working on the situation."
Huynh's fiance, Joy Black, told CNN, "We don't want to make assumptions about what might have happened at this time. Obviously they're looking at several scenarios. And one of them is that they might have been captured. But we don't have absolute confirmation of that at this time."
A US State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday that they "are aware of unconfirmed reports of two U.S. citizens captured in Ukraine."
"We are closely monitoring the situation and are in contact with Ukrainian authorities," the spokesperson said. "Due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment."
The White House said Wednesday that they can't confirm the reports, however, National Security Council coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that "if it's true, we'll do everything we can to get them safely home."
Both Bunny Drueke and Black told CNN that their last communication with their loved ones was on June 8, when the men told them that they would be going offline for a few days for a mission.
"It was a pretty normal conversation actually: I told him I was getting food with my friends at our favorite restaurant," Black said. "And he said, 'I love you very much.' And then he said, 'I'll be unavailable for two to three days.' Which I found out was for the operation they were doing."
They got engaged in March, not long before he left for Ukraine, she said.
"We didn't know if we wanted to get married or get engaged before he left. And we decided on just getting engaged so that when he came back we could get married and enjoy it and not be apart right after we got married."
Now, she said, she is "very fragile."
"Even though not great stuff has happened, I'm still very proud of Andy for being strong," she added.
Bunny Drueke said that she has "ups and downs."
"I'm trying to stay calm and brave, because losing everything will not help Alex in the least. So I'm just trying to stay calm," she said.
Drueke and Black later explained to CNN's Anderson Cooper in a joint interview on "AC360" Wednesday evening that selflessness and a love for the US fueled their loved ones' decision to go to Ukraine.
"He is one of the most loyal Americans you would ever hope to meet and he was proud to serve his country," Drueke said of her son. "He said, 'Mom, I really need to go and help fight in Ukraine because if Putin is not stopped there he is not going to be satisfied, he will become emboldened and eventually Americans will be threatened.'"
Fighting back tears, Black told Cooper that her fiancé "didn't go there for selfish reasons or anything. He really had this gnawing at his heart and this big burden on him to go and serve the people however he can."
"I know it's not a great situation, but I'm still very proud of him. I just want to see him back safely," she said.
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The DISCLOSE Act, a bill aimed at targeting dark money in political campaigns, failed on Thursday to overcome the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster in the Senate.
The procedural vote ended 49-49, with all Democrats present voting to advance the bill and all Republicans present voting against. Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin is out with Covid this week, though she tweeted that she supports the legislation, and Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho was also absent.
The legislation would require greater transparency into who is behind much of the secretive, often negative, campaign advertising. It would require most independent groups that pay for political advertising -- which is currently not required to disclose the names of donors -- to release the names of those who give donations of $10,000 or more.
President Joe Biden highlighted the legislation in remarks earlier this week.
"Ultimately this comes down to public trust," Biden said in a White House speech. "Dark money erodes public trust. We need to protect public trust and I'm determined to do that."
Similarly, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had insisted earlier this week they would bring the bill to the Senate floor to put GOP members on the record as lawmakers turn toward the midterm elections.
"This week, Republicans are going to have to take a stand on whether they want to fight the power of dark money or allow this cancer to grow even worse," he said.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island who is a major proponent of the legislation, told CNN on Wednesday that it is "totally important to get members on the record," even though the bill had very little chance of advancing.
The DISCLOSE Act first passed the House of Representatives narrowly in 2010 and failed twice in the Senate in 2012.
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Through the first two games of the season, the San Francisco 49ers have the number one ranked defense in the entire NFL. This unit has not missed a beat during this red hot start coming on the heels of three consecutive seasons where they finished with a top-five ranked defense.
Here is where the 49ers' defense ranks so far this season:
Passing defense - 1st
Rushing defense - 2nd
Total defense - 1st
Points allowed - 3rd
What's made this auspicious start even more compelling is that the 49ers still are not whole on that side of the ball. However, the return of Jimmie Ward is on the horizon and adding one of the best safeties in the NFL to a secondary that has already impressed figures to make this unit even more formidable.
Beyond that, perhaps Jason Verrett will make his return at some point as well and adds a veteran presence to a cornerback room that went from a question mark to one of the greatest strengths on the team.
There has been dominance at all three levels, but it all starts with the heart and soul of this team, the defensive line. The 49ers have flexed their depth on that unit as nine players have recorded snaps on the defensive line so far this season, and eight have recorded at least one pressure. Six of those eight have recorded multiple pressures. Nick Bosa has ten already on his own.
Bosa is a bonafide superstar, so his success comes as a surprise to nobody. What is encouraging, however are the flashes we are seeing from players like Charles Omenihu and Javon Kinlaw. They have eye-popping physical traits that are translating directly into production like this.
Another Charles Omenihu scissor swipe leading to a pressure pic.twitter.com/vGXcRIqS7w
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 21, 2022
Javon Kinlaw recorded a pressure on the very first snap of the game yesterday
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 12, 2022
Great hand placement on the outside shoulder of the LG before coming over the top with a swim move to disrupt this passing attempt by Justin Fields pic.twitter.com/DKdmmv56fj
To sum up just how dominant this group has been, the 49ers have recorded a pressure rate of 47% so far this season. That means opposing quarterbacks are being pressured on nearly half their dropbacks. However, the success up front goes beyond the pass rush, as the 49ers have allowed just 2.6 yards per carry which is the best mark in the NFL through two games.
The tandem of Arik Armstead and Kinlaw has made it extremely difficult on opposing offenses attempting to run between the tackles. In addition, Armstead and Kinlaw have been outstanding at eating blockers and filling gaps, which won't be reflected in a stat sheet but have a massive impact on the success of the league's best rushing defense.
Respect the trenches pic.twitter.com/4kKu7uRg09
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 22, 2022
Kevin Givens and Hassan Ridgeway have both been huge pieces on the rotation on the interior as well.
Welcome to the Kevin Givens Show pic.twitter.com/0mQLAg4cQ7
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 20, 2022
Hassan Ridgeway has quietly been an extremely valuable piece of this defense through two games pic.twitter.com/1KHSe43s9H
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 21, 2022
The biggest surprise has been how outstanding Samson Ebukam has been defending the run. Ebukam ranks second among all edge defenders in the NFL in run stop win rate at 43%, and with reps like this, it is clear why that is the case.
Samson Ebukam is the most underrated signing of the John Lynch/Kyle Shanahan era
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 20, 2022
Week after week Ebukam is a disruptive force against opposing offenses pic.twitter.com/7X3wSshJS3
While the work up front has been exemplary, the contributions on the back end have been just as vital. The emergence of safety Talanoa Hufanga has been playing at a pro bowl level to start his second year in the NFL.
Hufanga displays tremendous instincts in the box and has one of the quickest triggers in the run game among anyone I've seen at his position around the league. Here are a couple of reps to illustrate just how disruptive Hufanga has been around the line of scrimmage.
— splash_cousin Film Burner (@splash_cousinV2) September 21, 2022
— splash_cousin Film Burner (@splash_cousinV2) September 21, 2022
The Seahawks offense only ran for 36 yards on an average of 2.6 yards per carry on Sunday
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 21, 2022
Great backside pursuit from Talanoa Hufanga here, but even more impressive is the way that four different 49ers defenders rallied to the ball to finish off this tackle pic.twitter.com/Yy3x7KIKyc
What has stood out, even more, is how stout Hufanga has been in coverage. On this rep, the 49ers defense is lined up in a quarters shell running a match zone. Mooney Ward, who is the boundary corner, passes the the receiver off to Hufanga as Tyler Lockett breaks towards the middle of the field.
As Hufanga picks up the wide receiver, he is able to diagnose where the ball is going and break on the spot to record a pass break up.
Was working on a cut up to highlight a Talanoa Hufanga PBU when I noticed something funny
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 21, 2022
Seattle’s offense ran this play with only 10 players on the field lol pic.twitter.com/cRMmXarbwI
And yes, you read that right. The Seahawks ran a play with only ten men on the field. Take a moment to soak that in; you've earned it after the last decade of matchups against Seattle.
Hufanga has also shown he can hold his own when left on an island with a tough assignment. Watch how Hufanga is able to undercut this route and get his hands on the ball to create a turnover when Tashaun Gipson reels this in for a pick.
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 22, 2022
The cornerback position has also been a massive asset for the 49ers, with Emmanuel Moseley and Mooney Ward forming quite the tandem on the outside. Mooney intercepted a pass in the red zone against the Seahawks, and Moseley has only allowed 25 receiving yards across 59 coverage snaps so far this season.
Rookie slot corner Samuel Womack has held his own in coverage while also impressing his ability to tackle in the open field. I was extremely impressed with a rep that Womack had against Seattle, where he stonewalls Seahawks tight end, Noah Fant, despite Fant having a head of steam as well as a near 60-pound size advantage.
Really impressed by this rep by Samuel Womack
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 21, 2022
49ers are in quarters with Womack to the field side
Watch how Womack covers ground & stonewalls a player in the open field who has a considerable size advantage
Noah Fant is listed at 6’4 250 lbs
Womack is listed at 5’10 189 lbs pic.twitter.com/k8LfIcNUGj
The linebackers have more than held their own as well. DeMeco Ryans coined the motto "SWARM" for this defense, which stands for Special Work ethic & Relentless Mindset. I chose a play that I thought perfectly illustrates that relentless mindset.
Watch how all three linebackers rally to the football to make this tackle and keep an eye on how much ground Azeez Al-Shaair covers.
The motto for the 49ers defense is SWARM (Special Work ethic & Relentless Mindset)
— Jordan Elliott (@splash_cousin) September 22, 2022
I can’t think of a better way to show that relentless mindset than the way that all of the linebackers rallied to the football to make this tackle
Look at how much ground Azeez Al-Shaair covered pic.twitter.com/TxZdK5Owxv
This group is stacked from the front seven to the back end, and we haven't even seen it peak yet in its final form. Forget all the noise about the quarterback position and the recent transition the NFL has made to favor a more offensive game. Elite defense still reigns supreme, and this group has all of the pieces needed to make a deep playoff run and beyond.
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It feels like Sunday Night Football is a week away. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather the 49ers play the 10:00 AM game instead of any other time slot. So, while we wait, let’s look at some of the news that’s 49ers-related as we wait for Sunday night.
The opposing head coach will tell you all you need to know about the 49ers. Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett raved about linebacker Fred Warner. The Niners have an impact player at each level, and it starts with Nick Bosa.
ESPN’s Seth Walder tweeted the leaders in pass rush win-rate along with which edge rusher is double-teamed the most. Unsurprisingly, no player is being doubled more than Bosa:
First win rate chart of the season!
— Seth Walder (@SethWalder) September 21, 2022
Double team rate at edge (x) by pass rush win rate at edge (y).
Traffic jam at the bottom courtesy of Micah Parsons at the top! pic.twitter.com/WXWhvjf443
Using PFF’s win percentage, Bosa ranks fifth after two weeks at 23.3%. So, despite seeing extra bodies, opposing offenses aren’t slowing Bosa down. Bosa is one sack behind Micah Parsons for the league lead and is tied for the lead in QB hits. Needless to say, he’s off to a stellar start.
Bosa wouldn’t get that opportunity to rush the passer if San Francisco struggled against the run. Per RBSDM, the Niners have allowed the fourth-lowest rushing success rate at 33.3%. Bosa, Javon Kinlaw, and Arik Armstead have been fantastic at taking on double teams and allowing the linebackers and safeties to make plays.
But Samson Ebukam is the unheralded piece on defense so far. Only one player has a higher run-stop win rate than Ebukam this season.
You can go down the list on the defensive line. I’d argue that if defensive tackle Kevin Givens played full-time, he’d be on this list. Basically, everyone who plays along the 49ers' defensive line makes plays. Kudos to Kris Kocurek.
Can the safeties keep it up?
PFF grades can be fluky, but the 49ers have the NFL's second and fourth-highest graded safeties. Are Geno Smith and Justin Fields top quarterbacks? Nope. Do the safeties and secondary benefit from a dominant defensive line? You bet. Still, you can only do what’s asked of you, and, so far, the safeties are making plays.
Gipson should have two interceptions. Playing behind this defensive line, he’ll have ample opportunities so long as he’s on the field. This week will be a tough challenge as Russell Wilson loves to extend plays and heave the ball down the field. But, if Gipson and Talanoa Hufanga can hold the fort down over the next two weeks while Jimmie Ward recovers, it’ll be one of the biggest surprises of the first month for this team.
Russell Wilson hasn’t put the ball in harm's way so far while being among the league leaders in average depth of target. Sunday night will be the biggest test yet for the Niners' new safeties.
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Every year Draper Media works to make the holiday season brighter for Delmarva's less fortunate children with the Bless Our Children campaign.
For more than a decade, Draper Media has teamed up with local residents to raise money to buy Christmas presents for needy children in our area. Through your generosity, so far we have raised a total of $337,014 for the 2022-23 holiday season. The money raised for Bless Our Children are distributed to charitable groups across the peninsula. These charities then buy toys for children they know are in need, making sure they have a present to open on Christmas morning that comes from the heart.
Your donations to the Bless Our Children campaign go toward children in need across Delmarva.
You can donate in one of two ways: send a check or money order to Bless Our Children, c/o Draper Media, 1729 N. Salisbury Blvd., Salisbury, MD 21801, or you can donate online. We are also asking businesses, groups, and organizations to help Bless Our Children by accepting the Mountaire Farms Bless Our Children Challenge of $1,000. As our thank you, we'll list your business, group, or organization on the Mountaire Farms Honor Roll in order of amount given in increments of a thousand dollars.
The Bless Our Children campaign is administered by Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. - Two people are facing numerous drug and weapon charges following a police chase that started in Milton and ended in Rehoboth Beach.
Police said that shortly before 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, a trooper on patrol in the Milton area observed a Nissan Altima traveling at a high rate of speed on southbound Coastal Highway north of Cave Neck Road.
The trooper attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the Nissan, but its driver 'accelerated away on southbound Coastal Highway, according to police.
Another trooper in the Lewes area was able to successfully deploy a tire deflation device to disable the Nissan. The vehicle came to a stop next to restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, and its two occupants, identified as driver Sarah Campbell, 27, of Dover, Del., and passenger Davonta Brown, 29, of Woodside, Del., were taken into custody.
Police said a search of the Nissan at the scene led to the discovery of approximately 140.15 grams of marijuana, approximately 0.56 grams of suspected heroin, a prescription pill, various items of drug paraphernalia, and a .22 LR handgun with an obliterated serial number. Computer checks of Brown revealed that he was a convicted felon prohibited from possessing a firearm.
Both Campbell and Brown were transported to Troop 7 and charged with the following crimes:
Sarah Campbell:
- Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony (Felony)
- Possession of a Firearm While Possessing a Controlled Substance (Felony)
- Possession With Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance (Felony)
- Possession of a Weapon With an Obliterated Serial Number (Felony)
- Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon (Felony)
- Disregarding a Police Officer Signal (Felony)
- Possession of Marijuana
- Possession of a Controlled Substance
- Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
- Numerous traffic offenses
Campbell was arraigned by Justice of the Peace Court #3 and committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $43,000 cash bond.
Davonta Brown:
- Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony (Felony)
- Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited
- Possession With Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance (Felony)
- Possession of a Weapon With an Obliterated Serial Number (Felony)
- Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon (Felony)
- Possession of Marijuana
- Possession of a Controlled Substance
- Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Brown was arraigned by Justice of the Peace Court #3 and committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $60,750 cash bond.
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DOVER, Del. - A Dover man has been arrested on weapons and drug charges following a traffic stop.
According to Dover police, a patrol officer saw Leroy Fleming, 39, driving in the area of West Division and South New streets Wednesday afternoon while using a cellphone. The officer stopped Fleming and detected an odor of marijuana coming from inside of the vehicle.
A search was conducted and officers found 200 grams of marijuana and a stolen .357 revolver, police said. Fleming was taken into custody without incident.
Fleming was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court #2 and committed to SCI on $108,000 cash bail on the following charges:
-Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited (2x)
-Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon
-Possession of a Stolen Firearm
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-Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
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DOVER, DE (Sept 22, 2022) – The Delaware Division of Public Health is sharing upcoming opportunities for individuals to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus. The current case count for the virus in the state is 35, including 23 cases in New Castle County, three cases in Kent County, and nine cases in Sussex County. Delaware continues to offer vaccinations to people at a higher risk of exposure.
Vaccine eligibility is being expanded to include all gay, bisexual and transgender or nonbinary persons having sex with men, or females having sex with gay, bisexual, non-binary, or transgender males. Delaware is also expanding vaccine eligibility to health care workers who are providing direct patient care to confirmed/suspected MPX cases in areas such as Emergency Departments, urgent cares, Federally Qualified Health Centers, DPH clinics, STI/HIV or sexual health clinics, and those at occupational risk such as laboratory staff that handle MPX specimens.
Vaccines remain available to those at highest risk including:
- Persons known or presumed to be exposed to someone with MPX in the last 14 days
- Certain individuals who have sex with men and who have had multiple sex partners within the past 14 days
- Those living with HIV or who are receiving HIV PrEP
- Immunocompromised persons (including those with cancer, solid organ or stem cell transplants, those taking immunosuppressive therapy, and individuals with autoimmune disease)
- Those treated for a sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the last six months
- Individuals traveling to an area with community spread of MPX cases.
- Those engaging in high-risk activities, including sexual practices, that increase exposure to MPX, such as:
- Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and have had multiple, or any, anonymous sexual partners in a social network experiencing monkeypox activity, this includes meeting partners through an online website, digital application (“app”), or social event (e.g., a bar or party)
- Transgender women or nonbinary persons assigned male at birth who have sex with men
- Sex workers (of any sexual orientation/gender)
- Staff (of any sexual orientation/gender) at establishments where sexual activity occurs (e.g., bathhouses, saunas, sex clubs)
- People who fall into any of the identified high-risk categories who are also experiencing homelessness or incarceration
Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not encouraging vaccination against monkeypox for the broader public or for everyone who is sexually active. Individuals should be aware that the vaccine, a two-dose series given 28 days apart, is not considered effective until two weeks after the second dose. Those at higher risk should continue using preventive measures and reduce engaging in high-risk behaviors both prior to, and after, vaccination to reduce the chance of continued spread of MPX in the community.
Eligible Delawareans may also receive monkeypox vaccinations at:
- Newark Urgent Care - Visit NewarkUrgentCare.org to view eligibility requirements and schedule an appointment. Vaccine clinics are on Thursdays, and there is no cost for the vaccine.
- Beebe Healthcare: Individuals can schedule an appointment at beebehealthcare.org/online-scheduling. Walk-ins will not be accepted.
- DPH clinics: Individuals can call the MPX hotline at 866-408-1899 for a screening evaluation. Walk-ins at DPH clinics will not be accepted. Monkeypox vaccinations at DPH clinics will continue to prioritize individuals at highest risk, as a result of confirmed or potential exposure to someone with MPX. As a result, your appointment may be scheduled a few days out.
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A class-action suit filed on Wednesday challenges Virginia’s implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
The suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia asserts that when parents challenge school plans for how to educate their children, hearing officers rarely side with parents.
The federal law details early invention, special education and other services that must be provided to eligible children and youth with disabilities to ensure they receive a proper education.
Parents who question services offered for their child can file a complaint and go before a judge, but the suit asserts that about two-thirds of hearing officers have never ruled in parents’ favor in the last 20 years.
The suit was filed by Trevor and Vivian Chaplick, the parents of a Fairfax County Public Schools student and founders of Hear Our Voices Inc., an advocacy organization for people with disabilities. It names the Fairfax County School Board and division Superintendent Michelle Reid, the Virginia Department of Education and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow.
The Chaplicks wanted their son, who “has faced significant challenges in his life including Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" and other disabilities, according to the suit, to be placed in a residential education facility, but the district rejected the idea that he needed to leave the division.
Despite a warning from a school system social worker that “they should not bother (with the case) because they ‘would lose,’” the Chaplicks went ahead with a due-process hearing. Their son was placed at a residential educational facility, but the school division doesn’t pay the facility costs, according to his parents.
The Chaplicks began investigating the state Department of Education, which Trevor Chaplick said hires, certifies, trains and pays the hearing officers annually, creating a temptation for the officers to rule in favor of the schools. He wants the state to create an independent commission without an economic interest in hearing outcomes.
The plaintiffs seek a declaration that the hearing officer system “deprives families of procedural due process," the complaint states. They also want the department to be found out of compliance with the federal law.
A spokesperson for the state Department of Education and a spokesperson for Fairfax County schools didn't immediately respond to the newspaper's requests for comment.
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Setting Up Your Closings Admin Account
For new accounts, you should have received an email that looks like this:
Copy the temporary password from the email and click on the HERE link in the email to access the GDM School/Org Closings system. It will take you to the below page where you will enter the email address where you received instructions and the temporary password you were given.
On the next page, you’ll be instructed to reset that temporary password:
Your new password must have:
- A minimum of eight characters
- At least one capital letter
- At least one number
- At least one special character
Resetting Your Closings Admin Account Password
You can reset your password easily through the original email you received when you set up your account or by clicking the Forgot Password button on the login screen.
Entering and Managing Closings
Once you’re signed in, you’ll be able to manage the closings status of your school(s) or organization(s).
Start by choosing the organization from the list.
The next page should look similar to this:
Use the top checkbox if your organization’s status is due to COVID.
You’ll want to set the first dropdown to set your organization’s status.
Next, pick a date for the closing.
If your closing is for a future date, choose “on” from the dropdown menu, then choose a date from the calendar.
If your closing is for several days, choose “Through” from the dropdown menu, then select the end date from the calendar.
If you aren’t sure how long you’ll need to set your organization’s status, select “until further notice” from the dropdown menu.
You’ll be able to preview your closings status in the box below the submit button:
You’ll also have the option to choose a secondary status. This list can help provide additional information about your organization’s status. Note: The options you see in the image below may not match what you see when you’re logged in.
Some locations will have the option to enter a unique secondary status.
You’ll need to set a date for the status to disappear. If you choose Today or Tomorrow, this date will be generated automatically. Otherwise, you’ll need to choose a date from the calendar.
Once you click on the blue Submit button, you’ll be taken to this page where you can see your current closings status on the right:
Click the red Back button to return to the home screen.
On the home screen, you’ll see the status of your organization on the right. If you manage more than one organization, you will need to enter the status for each individually.
To update a status, click on the organization name. You’ll need to first delete the organization’s existing status. Click the refresh button on your browser for the form to appear, then enter a new status.
On the station’s website, this is how closings will appear:
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DALLAS, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dallas market is home to a handful of Rally House locations, lending to a solid connection between the city's fans and this nationally recognized sports and merchandise retailer. That's why the company is happy to announce a new storefront in this famous Texas city - Rally House Preston Forest. With an impressive assortment of products and an ideal location only 15 minutes north of downtown, this store is sure to satisfy residents, visitors, and fans from all around.
Cities with numerous teams and an equally diverse fanbase deserve a trusted retailer like Rally House to provide all the apparel and accessories needed to show team spirit. "There are so many talented franchises and popular attractions around Dallas," describes District Manager Summer Cortez. "And Rally House Preston Forest is perfect for an area like this, as we have an expansive selection of team gear, localized merch, and much more for all the awesome fans in the vicinity!"
Those that visit Rally House Preston Forest will discover an extraordinary selection of gear for all their favorite professional organizations, like the Dallas Cowboys, Mavericks, and Stars, to name a few. There's also a multitude of collegiate programs in stock, such as the Texas Longhorns, Oklahoma Sooners, Texas A&M Aggies, and SMU Mustangs. Plus, this Rally House store only offers the best brands, like Nike, New Era, Adidas, Mitchell & Ness, and more.
Since Dallas boasts an enormous roster of sought-after attractions, eateries, and businesses, Rally House Preston Forest carries an ever-growing local assortment. Customers will get to show city and state pride with remarkable products for icons like Lone Star Beer, Don't Mess with Texas, and Whataburger.
Patrons will receive excellent customer service and a fun environment at Rally House Preston Forest. Still, many products are available at www.rallyhouse.com, with shipping options to any state. Additionally, store news and updates can be found at www.rallyhouse.com/rally-house-preston-forest or by following the store on Facebook (@RallyPrestonForest) and Instagram (@rallyprestonforest).
Rally House and Sampler Stores Inc. is a family-owned specialty boutique that offers a large selection of apparel, hats, gifts and home décor representing local NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams in addition to locally inspired apparel, gifts and food. Proudly based in Lenexa, Kansas, Rally House operates 125+ locations across 13 states.
CONTACT:
Summer Cortez, District Manager
scortez@rallyhouse.com
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Company ranked in a total of 54 reports across 11 categories, including Account-Based Advertising, Account-Based Analytics, Account-Based Orchestration Platforms, and Attribution
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Demandbase, the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands, announced today it has been recognized in 54 reports, including 42 grids across 11 different categories in the G2 fall 2022 reports. Recognition includes 39 as a leader, 13 as a high performer, and two in best relationship. The G2 Grid® Reports are a result of real user ratings and reveal which solutions have the most satisfied customers and largest market presence.
"Being recognized as a leader and improving our rankings across so many different categories is proof that Demandbase is the top choice for B2B companies," says Jon Miller, chief marketing officer at Demandbase. "We are constantly looking to improve and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our success really comes from customer accomplishments and it is always gratifying to see our customers using our platform to drive growth and telling their peers about their success."
In today's economic climate, Smarter GTM™ is not only the fastest path to growth, it is essential for survival. Companies need to be able to do more with less and that means they need to work smarter, not harder. The fall G2 rankings solidify Demandbase as the Smarter GTM™ solution for companies and once again showcase Demandbase as a leader in the B2B GTM industry.
Demandbase received highest rankings in the following reports:
- Enterprise Relationship Index for Account-Based Advertising
- Enterprise Relationship Index for Account-Based Analytics
- Enterprise Grid® Report for Account-Based Advertising
- Enterprise Grid® Report for Account-Based Analytics
- Enterprise Grid® Report for Account-Based Orchestration Platforms
- Enterprise Grid® Report for Attribution
- Mid-Market Grid® Report for Attribution
In all, Demandbase was recognized in the following 11 categories; Account Data Management, Account-Based Advertising, Account-Based Analytics, Account-Based Orchestration Platform, Account-Based Web and Content Experiences, Attribution, Buyer Intent Data Tools, Demand Side Platform (DSP), Market Intelligence, Marketing Account Intelligence, and Sales Intelligence.
To read current reviews, write your own review, and hear from active Demandbase users, visit G2's review page, https://www.g2.com/products/demandbase-abm-platform/reviews.
Demandbase is Smarter GTM™ for B2B brands. We help marketing and sales teams spot the juiciest opportunities earlier and progress them faster by injecting Account Intelligence into every step of the buyer journey and orchestrating every action. For more information about Demandbase, visit www.demandbase.com.
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- New buildout of GLP lab space with access to adjacent cGMP-certified lab marks 3rd expansion for Company in 2 years
- New facility allows ELEVAI to culture its proprietary exosomes for manufacture at scale
- Company intends to further double its lab space and headcount by the end of 2023 to satisfy growing demand and meet the company's market share projections
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ELEVAI LABS, INC., a science-based, data-driven regenerative aesthetic skincare company is pleased to announce it has completed the expansion of their Davis, California laboratory and office space to accommodate the recent growth in sales and the near-term product line expansion.
The Company's state-of-the-art lab and office space mark the 3rd expansion in 2 years, readying the company for further scalability to mass produce its first two SKUs under the E-Series umbrella; ELEVAI enfinity™ and ELEVAI empower™. The expansion effectively increases the Company's production capabilities by approximately 500% and allows for continued R&D on the next wave of medical aesthetic products the company is developing.
One section of the facility has been built and will operate under strict aseptic conditions following GLP (good laboratory practice) standards and is being used for cell culture and production of the company's proprietary stem cell exosomes for topical applications. The new facility also provides access to a cGMP (current good manufacturing practice) suite for ultra-pure, medical-grade research and development. This expansion will allow the company to expand upon its existing base of research and to further innovate as they aim to finish development and launch 3-4 new products in the next 6 months.
Some of the key features of this facility include 24/7 security, advanced climate control, increased cold storage, and additional cell culture and R&D suites to perform more research in-house. The space contains multiple cell culture suites containing biosafety cabinets and cell culture incubators, this expansion effectively doubles its tissue culture capacity. Capabilities of the expanded lab include large-scale culture of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and mass production of stem cell-derived exosomes, cryopreservation, cryostorage, various forms of microscopy and cell analysis, as well as significantly more cold storage and processing space.
The expanded lab space is managed by lab veteran, Matt DiBella, who has a background in biochemical engineering with over 5 years of experience as a lab manager with a focus on stem cell culture. Mr. DiBella will oversee the lab and is supported by a team of stem cell scientists mentored and trained by ELEVAI Lab's lead scientist and CEO, Dr. Jordan R. Plews. The Company has also recently partnered with UC Davis and CSUS to further grow its team and recruit some of the best and brightest minds the greater Sacramento area has to offer.
Matt DiBella, Lab Manager commented:
"After months of hard work, we are proud to have our new state-of-the-art lab up and running. With the increased lab space and the acquisition of new lab equipment, we're now able to increase our production by about 500%.
We continue to hire and are growing our team to support the new, larger lab space, and we are excited to be part of a growing community of science-based companies here in the Greater Sacramento region."
About ELEVAI LABS, INC.
ELEVAI LABS, INC. is a biotechnology company developing cutting-edge regenerative skincare applications. The company solves the unmet needs in the regenerative aesthetics space through a combination of cutting-edge science and next-generation consumer applications. ELEVAI Labs develops state-of-the-art topical aesthetic and medical-grade skin care for the physician-dispensed market, with a focus on leveraging a proprietary stem cell exosome technology. To find an authorized ELEVAI Skincare Professional follow this link How to buy – ELEVAI Skincare . For more information www.ElevaiLabs.com
For further information: Kendra Ciardiello, Associate Director, Contact@ELEVAILabs.com, 1-866-794-4940 CO: ELEVAI Labs Inc.
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Fort Knox Red Cross Service to Armed Forces volunteer Denise McGillen was surprised to discover she was the recipient of the 2022 Clara Barton Award for the Kentucky region at the Santa’s Workshop open house Sept. 21.
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Norfolk (September 19, 2022) BTCS(SW) Tom Dandes, USN (Ret.), Special Events Coordinator at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, reviews guidons on display aboard the decommissioned Iowa-Class Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64). The guidons were on display as part of the museum’s 21st Annual Chief Petty Officer Heritage Days event. The three-day event allows CPO selectees to receive history and heritage training at the museum and aboard the Battleship Wisconsin, and is hosted by the museum and area commands. The event is the largest and longest running of its kind in Virginia. (US Navy Photo by Max Lonzanida/Released).
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With rent up 25%, experts say staying put this year may be cheaper than moving
A longer lease term could lead to more affordable rent
InvestigateTV - Rent.com has reported a 25% increase in rent on one-bedroom apartments nationwide from the same time last year. As a result, experts said many renters may be looking for ways to cut costs.
Brian Carberry, managing editor for Rent.com said apartment rental prices may start to come back down, but it could take months because of current inflation rates.
In the meantime, Carnberry said if your lease is up for renewal, there’s a good chance you will see the price rise. He said this may be the time to stay put rather than looking for a new apartment.
“It’s always going to be better for you to continue to rent where you are, to try to renew that lease, because your rate of increase is probably going to be a little bit less than it would be if you went out to try to rent somewhere new that you haven’t been before,” Carnberry said. “You’d likely have to pay more.”
Along with a potential increase in rent, the cost of moving, switching utilities, application fees and a security deposit will add to the overall price tag.
Carnberry suggested approaching your landlord to try to lock in a longer rental term along with a lower rate. Also, he said giving examples of how you have been a model tenant could help hold down prices.
If you are looking for a new rental, come prepared with references to prove that you are going to pay on time. This could be a boon when looking in a competitive market.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development website has resources to help you find affordable rentals in your area and could offer rental assistance to those in need.
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Setting Up Your Closings Admin Account
For new accounts, you should have received an email that looks like this:
Copy the temporary password from the email and click on the HERE link in the email to access the GDM School/Org Closings system. It will take you to the below page where you will enter the email address where you received instructions and the temporary password you were given.
On the next page, you’ll be instructed to reset that temporary password:
Your new password must have:
- A minimum of eight characters
- At least one capital letter
- At least one number
- At least one special character
Resetting Your Closings Admin Account Password
You can reset your password easily through the original email you received when you set up your account or by clicking the Forgot Password button on the login screen.
Entering and Managing Closings
Once you’re signed in, you’ll be able to manage the closings status of your school(s) or organization(s).
Start by choosing the organization from the list.
The next page should look similar to this:
Use the top checkbox if your organization’s status is due to COVID.
You’ll want to set the first dropdown to set your organization’s status.
Next, pick a date for the closing.
If your closing is for a future date, choose “on” from the dropdown menu, then choose a date from the calendar.
If your closing is for several days, choose “Through” from the dropdown menu, then select the end date from the calendar.
If you aren’t sure how long you’ll need to set your organization’s status, select “until further notice” from the dropdown menu.
You’ll be able to preview your closings status in the box below the submit button:
You’ll also have the option to choose a secondary status. This list can help provide additional information about your organization’s status. Note: The options you see in the image below may not match what you see when you’re logged in.
Some locations will have the option to enter a unique secondary status.
You’ll need to set a date for the status to disappear. If you choose Today or Tomorrow, this date will be generated automatically. Otherwise, you’ll need to choose a date from the calendar.
Once you click on the blue Submit button, you’ll be taken to this page where you can see your current closings status on the right:
Click the red Back button to return to the home screen.
On the home screen, you’ll see the status of your organization on the right. If you manage more than one organization, you will need to enter the status for each individually.
To update a status, click on the organization name. You’ll need to first delete the organization’s existing status. Click the refresh button on your browser for the form to appear, then enter a new status.
On the station’s website, this is how closings will appear:
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES OF ALL HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS...
.A long-period south-southwest swell is increasing surf heights
along south facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands. The swell is
expected to peak during the daylight hours today, and then slowly
lower from tonight through Friday.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
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Big Island prosecutors secured an indictment against Duncan Mahi, while a preliminary hearing was held across the island.
HILO, Hawaii (KITV4) -- It was an unnerving day in the courts on the Big Island and a big reason behind that has to do with a recent State Supreme Court decision.
Duncan Mahi is a repeat offender, according to court documents, having already been twice convicted of felony terroristic threatening in 2018.
Nonetheless, 52 year old Duncan Mahi appeared to face the charges of kidnapping, terroristic threats, sexual assault and meth trafficking.
In Kona, Mahi appeared before a judge for a preliminary hearing, where law enforcement personnel described arriving at Anaehoomalu Beach where Mikella Debina's boyfriend had been restrained with tape and zip ties.
Meanwhile in Hilo, an 11 count Grand Jury indictment was returned against Mahi. Why the 2 court procedures at the same time? On September 8th of this month, the Hawaii state supreme court, as deputy prosecutor Thomas Brady of the Honolulu office explained, made a controversial 3-2 ruling. .
"It's an important decision. What it basically did is it invalidated our way of charging cases by way of prelim hearings. And this was based on 40 years of practice that allowed us to go to prelim hearings," Brady explained, "So the net result is we have 168 felony cases is already charged in the system, that currently are invalidated and what we have to do is rush to go to grand jury to take care of these matters so that nobody is released."
And the release of Duncan Mahi, the Hawaii county prosecutor on the Big Island told KITV, was a matter they did not want to risk falling through the cracks.
So the two court procedures were held simultaneously. With168 felony cases in Honolulu county now in jeopardy, the Big Island has 220 felony cases that may need to be reindicted.
Thomas Brady is asking the state Legislature to hold a special session and draft a new law that would address the procedural restrictions of the Supreme court ruling, in what is known as the Obrerro case. Otherwise, alleged felons could be released if cases are not reindicted accordingly.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Jeremy Lee joined KITV after over a decade & a half in broadcast news from coast to coast on the mainland. Jeremy most recently traveled the country documenting protests & civil unrest.
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* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
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HONOLULU-HI (KITV-4) A Honolulu man who got his Identity stolen a year ago is a victim once again. This time the largest hospital in Hawaii is conducting an internal investigation into a possible case of ID theft this time to use its medical services.
The stolen identity nightmare for Phong Kha who runs his own auto body repair in mapunapuna began last July when his identity was taken. At that time, more than 20 thousand dollars from his bank account and credit cards were taken. Kha thought his nightmare was over until he got a call from Queen’s Medical Center.
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A Honolulu man who had his identity stolen a year ago is a victim once again.
This time the largest hospital in Hawaii is conducting an internal investigation into a possible case of ID theft this time to use its medical services.
The stolen identity nightmare for Phong Kha who runs his own auto body repair in Mapunapuna began last July when his identity was taken.
At that time, more than $20,000 was taken from his bank account and credit cards. Kha thought his nightmare was over -- until he got a call from Queen’s Medical Center.
"Yesterday, Queen's called me again to say someone using my name to check in to an ER room," says Kha. "The police department went with me to Queen's to verify who is using my name somehow Queens wouldn’t let the police and us to see because they said it violates the law. You know the guy is laying in the hospital but the police department couldn’t do anything because they can’t violate the rights. “
The Queen’s Health System issued this statement:
“Queen’s is conducting an internal investigation and is cooperating with the Honolulu Police Department. As always, the privacy, safety and well-being of all of our patients remain top priorities at The Queen’s Medical Center.”
The Honolulu Police Department says it is looking into this case and cannot comment.
And the Better Business has this advice if your identification is stolen.
To protect yourself, Roseann Freitas. Better Business Bureau Great West says, “Reach out to the credit bureaus, all three of them and put a freeze on your accounts so that no one can open accounts in your names because they always do credit checks also reach out to your own personal bank to let them know what’s happened and put a warning on your bank accounts.” Plus contact your credit card companies if your cards were stolen.
The Better Business Bureau advises that you go to IdentifyTheft.gov to help you recover after your identity has been stolen.
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Cynthia is an award-winning journalist who returned to Hawaii as an Anchor/Reporter/MMJ from Houston. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a B.A. and M.B.A. DM her on IG @CynthiaYipTV to share stories.
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Twice a year, the sun doesn't play favorites. Everyone on Earth is seemingly on equal status -- at least when it comes to the amount of light and dark they get.
We've entered our second and final equinox of 2022. If you reside in the Northern Hemisphere, you know it as the fall equinox (or autumnal equinox). For people south of the equator, this equinox actually signals the coming of spring.
Your location on the globe also determines whether you mark the day this year on Thursday, September 22, or Friday, September 23. People in the Americas will celebrate it on Thursday; time zone differences mean people in Africa, Europe and Asia will mark it on their Friday.
People really close to the equator have roughly 12-hour days and 12-hour nights all year long, so they won't really notice a thing. But hardy folks close to the poles, in places such as Alaska and the northern parts of Canada and Scandinavia, go through wild swings in the day/night ratio each year. They have long, dark winters and then have summers where night barely intrudes.
But during equinoxes, everyone from pole to pole gets to enjoy a 12-hour split of day and night. Well, there's just one rub -- it isn't as perfectly "equal" as you may have thought.
There's a good explanation (SCIENCE!) for why you don't get precisely 12 hours of daylight on the equinox. More on that farther down.
But first, here are the answers to your other burning equinox questions:
Where does the word 'equinox' come from?
From our CNN Fast Facts file: The term equinox comes from the Latin word equinoxium, meaning "equality between day and night."
Precisely when does the fall equinox happen?
The exact time depends on whom you ask. The equinox will arrive at 1:03 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) Friday, September 23, according to NASA and TimeandDate.com. However, it will be 1:04 UTC according to the Royal Museums Greenwich and the US National Weather Service.
For people in places such as Toronto and Washington, DC, that's 9:03 p.m. local time. It comes at 8:03 p.m in Mexico City and Chicago. Out West in San Diego and Vancouver, that means it arrives at 6:03 p.m.
But go in the other direction across the Atlantic Ocean, and the time change puts you into Friday. For residents of Madrid, Berlin and Cairo, it comes at 3:03 a.m. Friday. Going farther east, Dubai marks the exact event at 5:03 a.m.
For residents of Bangkok, it's 8:03 a.m. while Tokyo clocks in at 10:03 a.m. You can click here to see more cities (rounded down by one minute and adjusted for Daylight Saving Time).
Is the autumn equinox the official first day of fall?
Yes. Fall officially begins on the autumn equinox.
But there are actually two measures of the seasons: "the astronomical seasons" (which follow the arrivals of equinoxes and solstices) and what's called the "meteorological seasons."
Allison Chinchar, CNN meteorologist, explains the differences:
"Astronomical fall is essentially the time period from the autumnal equinox up to the winter solstice. Those dates can vary by a day or two each year," she says.
"Meteorological fall is different ... in that the dates never change and are based on climatological seasons rather than Earth's angle relative to the sun. These are perhaps the seasons that more people are familiar with," Chinchar says.
Meteorological seasons are defined as the following: March 1 to May 31 is spring; June 1 to August 31 is summer; September 1 to November 30 is autumn; and December 1 to February 28 is winter.
"This makes some dates tricky," Chinchar says. "For example, December 10, most people would consider winter, but if you are using the astronomical calendar, technically that is still considered autumn because it is before the winter solstice."
She said that "meteorologists and climatologists prefer to use the 'meteorological calendar' because not only do the dates not change -- making it easy to remember -- but also because it falls in line more with what people think traditional seasons are."
Why does fall equinox happen in the first place?
The Earth rotates along an imaginary line that runs from North Pole to South Pole. It's called the axis, and this rotation is what gives us day and night.
However, the axis tilts at 23.5 degrees, as NASA explains. That positions one hemisphere of the planet to get more sunlight than the other for half of the year's orbit around the sun. This discrepancy in sunlight is what triggers the seasons.
The effect is at its maximum in late June and late December. Those are the solstices, and they have the most extreme differences between day and night, especially near the poles. (That's why it stays light for so long each day during the summer in places such as Scandinavia and Alaska.)
But since the summer solstice three months ago in June, you've noticed that our days have been progressively becoming shorter in the Northern Hemisphere and the nights longer. And now here we are at the fall equinox!
What did our ancestors know about all this?
Long before the age of clocks, satellites and modern technology, our ancient ancestors knew a lot about the movement of the sun across the sky -- enough to build massive monuments and temples that, among other purposes, served as giant calendars to mark the seasons.
Here are just a few of the sites associated with the equinox and the annual passage of the sun:
• Stonehenge (United Kingdom): Many mysteries about these giant slabs remain, but we do know they were designed to mark the yearly passage of the sun. While aligned to highlight the summer and winter solstices, Stonehenge garners attention this time of year, too.
• Megalithic Temples of Malta: These seven temples on the Mediterranean island are some of the earliest free-standing stone buildings in the world, going back 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. At Hagar Qim and Mnajdra temples, the semicircular chambers are aligned so that the rising sun on an equinox is framed between the stones.
• Chichén Itzá (Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico): El Castillo, the famous pyramid at Chichén Itzá, puts on a striking show on the equinoxes. Constructed by the Toltec-Maya people between 1050 and 1300, the pyramid was built to cast a shadow during equinoxes on the northern balustrade of El Castillo. It looks like the form of a snake slithering down the stairs, and the ancient special effect is heightened by the heads of sculpted beasts at the base.
• Jantar Mantar (New Delhi, India): Much more recent in origin (1724 and 1730), these buildings from the end of the Mughal period are astronomical observatories.
What are some festivals, myths and rituals still with us?
All around the world, the fall equinox has weaved its way into our cultures and traditions.
In Greek mythology, the fall equinox marks the return of the goddess Persephone to the underworld for three months, where she is reunited with her husband, Hades.
Chinese and Vietnamese people still celebrate the Harvest Moon (also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival). Lanterns line the streets as people give thanks, watch the moon and eat. Round pastries called mooncakes are a Mid-Autumn Festival favorite. It's held on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month on the Chinese calendar. In 2022, it fell on September 10.
Great Britain's beloved harvest festivals have their roots in fall equinox since pagan times.
In Japan, Autumnal Equinox Day is a national holiday. In Japanese, it's known as Shubun no Hi (秋分の日), according to Coto Japanese Academy. The roots of the celebration are thought to go back to Shintoism and Buddhism.
Are the Northern Lights really more active at the equinoxes?
Yes -- they often put on more of a show this time of year.
It turns out the autumnal equinox and spring (or vernal equinox) usually coincide with peak activity with the aurora borealis.
These beautiful, fascinating geomagnetic storms tend to be most active in March and April and then again in September and October, according to 75 years of historical records analyzed by solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
So why isn't the equinox exactly equal?
It turns out you actually get a little more daylight than darkness on the equinox, depending on where you are on the planet. How does that happen? The answer is a bit complicated but fascinating.
As the US National Weather Service explains, the "nearly" equal hours of day and night are because of the complex way a sunrise is measured and the refraction of sunlight in our atmosphere.
This bending of light rays causes the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual position of the sun is below the horizon. The day is a bit longer at higher latitudes than at the equator because it takes the sun longer to rise and set the closer you get to the poles.
So on fall equinox, the length of day will vary a little depending on where you are. Here are a few breakdowns to give you an approximate idea:
• At or near the equator: About 12 hours and 6 minutes (Quito, Ecuador; Nairobi, Kenya; and Singapore)
• At or near 30 degrees latitude north: About 12 hours and 8 minutes (New Orleans, Louisiana; Cairo, Egypt; and Shanghai, China)
• At or near 60 degrees latitude north: About 12 hours and 16 minutes (Helsinki, Finland, and Anchorage, Alaska)
For the truly equal day/night split, you have to wait until days or even weeks after the official equinox. That day is called the equilux, and when it occurs depends on your latitude.
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Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an ex-Army reservist and US Capitol rioter who said January 6, 2021, was "exhilarating" and felt like "civil war" was sentenced on Thursday to four years behind bars.
"This is a significant sentence," District Judge Trevor McFadden said.
McFadden lambasted Hale-Cusanelli for his "sexist, racist and antisemitic comments" that the judge said motivated, in part, his actions that day.
Hale-Cusanelli, who was convicted in May of all five charges he faced, including the felony of obstructing an official proceeding, told the judge he "would never see my face again."
"I disrespected my uniform" on January 6, Hale-Cusanelli added, asking the judge for mercy. He also was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution.
During the riot, video shows Hale-Cusanelli yelling for the mob to "advance" before breaching the US Capitol himself, and later signaling for more rioters to join him inside. Hale-Cusanelli also tried to pull another rioter away from a police officer who was detaining the individual.
"You absolutely knew what you and others were doing," McFadden said Thursday, adding that Hale-Cusanelli lied during his testimony in trial when he claimed he didn't know Congress met in the Capitol, despite telling his roommate that he was just outside the House chambers during the riot.
McFadden repeatedly castigated Hale-Cusanelli for racist commentary that "normalizes violence," pointing to the recent increase of antisemitic violence in the US.
In their sentencing memorandum, prosecutors argued that Hale-Cusanelli should receive 78 months behind bars and pointed to his desire for a civil war and antisemitic conspiracies, saying that Jews controlled Democrats, President Joe Biden and all of government.
"It is well-established in the record at this point that Hale-Cusanelli subscribes to White Supremacist and Nazi-Sympathizer ideologies that drive his enthusiasm for another civil war and formed the basis of this Court's pretrial determination that Hale-Cusanelli was a danger to the community," prosecutor Kathryn Fifield wrote.
"What Hale-Cusanelli was doing on January 6 was not activism," Fifield added. "It was the preamble to his civil war."
During his trial, Hale-Cusanelli's defense attorney Jonathan Crisp told the jury that his client simply says these things to "agitate" others and "get attention." Hale-Cusanelli testified that he was half Jewish and not an anti-Semite.
In his sentencing memorandum, another attorney for Hale-Cusanelli, Nicholas Smith, wrote that his client's "upbringing was like something from Oliver Twist" and that he was raised by "effectively career criminals" and drug abusers. Smith, in his filing, asked that Hale-Cusanelli be sentenced to 20 months in prison with time served.
Jan. 6 committee witness gets probation
Stephen Ayres, who testified at one of the House select committee's public hearings, was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation and 100 hours of community service.
Ayres had pleaded guilty to one count of disorderly conduct in a restricted building in June and the government asked for two months' incarceration at sentencing.
District Judge John Bates at sentencing credited Ayres' testimony while deciding his sentence, saying that Ayres "has shown genuine remorse and regret and that includes testifying before the January 6th select committee."
"I want to apologize to you and the court and the American people," Ayres said during his sentencing hearing. "I went down there that day not with the intention to cause any violence or anything like that, but I did get caught up in all the stuff online, on Facebook, which ultimately I felt like was steering me in the wrong direction."
During the hearing in July, Ayres testified that he was "riled up" by then-President Donald Trump's speech and never planned to go to the Capitol but was "following what (Trump) said" during his Ellipse address.
"It changed my life, not for the good, definitely not for the better," he said. He added that he no longer believes Trump's lies about the 2020 election but warned that there are millions of people who still do, which poses a threat for future elections.
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The UK's game shows ranked
Game shows are a staple of much of our television consumption. How do they rank against each other?
For many a household they are immovable – firmly chiselled into the domestic routine.
And back in the day, when ‘streaming’ was just an educational term and smart TV was but a distant vision, you could set your clock by them.
The game show seems to occupy a special place in the viewing habits of the British public.
Parents who have long lamented their offspring’s entertainment choices can quickly morph into something resembling Darth Vader denied their regular fix of ‘Countdown’.
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Ever tried wrestling the remote off Granny when her favourite game show host is holding court on screen? Do so at your peril.
Whether you’re carried along on an irresistible wave of ‘I could do better’ or drawn in by the sense of kinship engendered by these programmes, there is no denying their appeal.
The UK’s most popular game show gets almost one million searches each year, according to new research.
Analysing the average number of yearly Google searches for more than 60 game shows on UK television, the study, commissioned by gaming experts Mahjong Challenge, revealed the top 10.
And the winner is……
Sitting in pole position – it’s not much of a conundrum – is ‘Countdown’ with more than 996,000 annual searches.
The words and numbers quiz challenge was the first programme to be aired on Channel Four back in 1982, and some four decades later is leading the pack in UK Google searches.
ITV’s ‘The Chase’, presented by Bradley Walsh, ranks next with 840,000 searches per year – twice the average of the top ten game shows.
The show sees contestants battle against a professional quizzer in an effort to win a cash prize, with some walking away with as much as £75,000.
And in third place? Is that your final answer? That’s right, it's the Rolls-Royce of the genre: ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ with 456,000 annual searches. Originally hosted by Chris Tarrant and later by Jeremy Clarkson, the show first aired in the UK in 1998.
Since then it has been screened in various guises in more than 120 countries in excess of 80 languages, making it one of the most successful game shows on television.
“Game shows have been a staple in many homes across the UK since the 1950s and some of the most successful game shows on TV originated here in Britain,” said a spokesperson for Mahjong Challenge (mahjong-challenge.com).
"It will be interesting to see how the popularity changes over the coming years though, since 75 percent of ‘Countdown’ viewers are in the 55 plus age range, whereas ‘The Chase’ has a wider target audience.
“Game shows face more competition than ever before to capture the attention of younger audiences, since they are used to having access to endless entertainment at the touch of a button through services such as Netflix and Prime Video.”
With 360,000 searches per year, ‘Catchphrase’ occupies fourth position in the table.
The show first aired in 1986 and is currently presented by Steven Mulhern. Contestants try to guess the correct catchphrase with the help of a photo or animation.
Following in fifth place is ITV’s quiz programme ‘Tenable’ hosted by Warwick Davis, where contestants try to find the top ten answers in a given category.
Mastermind
And no top ten would be complete without the BBC’s ‘Mastermind’, with its hallmark imposing black chair and ominous theme tune – the aptly named ‘Approaching Menace.’
Probably seen as the most intellectual British quiz show, the classic celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with question master Clive Myrie at its helm.
The show’s creator, Bill Wright, a former RAF gunner, drew on his experience as a prisoner of war in Germany in the Second World War to shape the programme.
His interrogators repeatedly asked him three questions – name, rank and number – which inspired the idea of asking contenders their name, occupation and specialist subject.
First aired on BBC One in 1972 and hosted by former journalist Magnus Magnusson, Mastermind has become something of a national institution complete with its famous catchphrase: “I’ve started so I’ll finish.”
UK game shows ranked
Rank UK Game Show Monthly Search Volume Yearly Search Volume
1 Countdown 83,000 996,000
2 The Chase 70,000 840,000
3 Who Wants to Be 38,000 456,000
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4 Catchphrase 30,000 360,000
5 Tenable 28,000 336,000
6 Mastermind 26,000 312,000
7 Blankety Blank 25,000 300,000
8 Tipping Point 22,000 264,000
9 Crystal Maze 21,000 252,000
10 Question of Sport 21,000 252,000
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So far today, KATC has heard from parents of students at schools in six parishes about lock-downs following threats.
We spoke with State Police, and troopers tell us that these are hoaxes being called in to schools across the country.
Over the past two weeks or so, schools in ten states have fallen victim to these hoaxes, in which a threat is called in against a high school. Today apparently was Louisiana's turn, troopers say.
Vermilion Superintendent Tommy Byler said he's been in contact with superintendents across the state, and estimates that schools in 15 to 20 parishes were hit by the hoax today.
Because we're talking about our children, though, all the threats were taken seriously and the school safety plans were implemented. When we spoke to Byler at about 1:45 p.m., his staff was wrapping up it's room-by-room clearance at two parish high schools.
To find a silver lining, having these hoax calls did give parishes a chance to drill and practice their safety plans, Byler said.
In Iberia Parish, two schools were cleared.
"There was a false alarm reported and law enforcement responded to the campuses of Westgate High and Delcambre High. Out of caution, the schools went into a soft lockdown. There were no incidents at any of these schools. All students and staff are safe," a release from Iberia Parish schools states.
In Morgan City, every school was placed on lockdown as a precaution, police said.
"Today, at approximately 1:00 p.m., the Morgan City Police Department received a call from a subject stating that there was an active shooter on the second floor of the school. The subject had mentioned Berwick Junior High School and then made reference to Berwick High School," a release states.
"Authorities with the Berwick Police Department were alerted to the situation when these schools were placed on lock down and cleared safe. All schools, both public and private, were also put on lock down in Morgan City when officers went to each school and cleared them safe. All schools have been released from lock down status and are back to normal activity," the release continues.
Police are investigating the origin of the calls, and MCPD promised to update everyone as information developed.
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WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took the stand Thursday at his defamation trial in Connecticut as he tries to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
More than a dozen family members of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the shooting also showed up to observe his testimony in Waterbury Superior Court, which is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Newtown, where the shooting occurred.
Plaintiffs attorney Christopher Mattei showed a video from Jones' Infowars web show in which he called the mass shooting “phony as a three-dollar bill" and called the parents of the victims “crisis actors.”
“Mr. Jones, if someone were to falsely claim that a group of families who had lost loved ones were actors and had faked the deaths of their loved ones, that would be a horrible thing to say, correct?” Mattei asked Jones before showing the video.
“In the context, it could be, yes,” Jones replied.
Jones was found liable last year by default for damages to plaintiffs without a trial, as punishment for what the judge called his repeated failures to turn over documents to their lawyers. The six-member jury is now deciding how much Jones and Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company, should pay the families for defaming them and intentionally inflicting emotional distress.
In often emotional testimony, family members have described enduring death threats, in-person harassment and abusive comments on social media. Some moved to avoid the abuse.
Jones has been in Connecticut this week in preparation for his appearance. He held a news conference Wednesday outside the courthouse, bashing the proceedings — as he has on his Infowars show — as a “travesty of justice” and calling the judge a “tyrant.” He made similar comments on his way into the courthouse Thursday.
“This is not really a trial,” he said. “This is a show trial, a literal kangaroo court.”
The plaintiffs attorneys began by asking Jones whether he believed Judge Barbara Bellis was a tyrant and whether he calls a lot of people tyrants.
“Only when they act like it,” he said.
Jones also was asked about a page on his Infowars site that called the trial a “kangaroo court” and advertisements on that page. He said the page was created by his staff, but called it a “good report.” He also was asked about daily profit reports. Jones said he could not answer that question, but denied he saw the trial as a marketing opportunity.
On his show, he has called the trial an attack on free speech and when asked Thursday how important he felt the proceeding was, he answered, “I think this is historic.”
Jones also said that credibility with his audience is not the most important thing to him. “It’s crushing the globalists,” he said.
Bellis began the day by going over the topics that Jones could not mention in his testimony: free speech rights; the Sandy Hook families' $73 million settlement this year with gun-maker Remington (the company made the Bushmaster rifle used to kill the victims at Sandy Hook); the percentage of Jones' shows that discussed Sandy Hook; and whether he profited from those shows or a similar case in Texas.
“This is not the appropriate forum for you to offer that testimony,” Bellis said. Jones indicated that he understood.
But the jury had to be sent out of the courtroom several times while attorneys argued about the scope of Jones' answers.
“You're going to get your exercise today, for those of you who wear Fitbits,” the judge told jurors.
During the lunch break, Jones again complained to reporters about not being able to testify that he is “innocent," but said he does have some regrets about the content of his broadcasts dealing with Sandy Hook.
“I’ve said things I probably shouldn’t have said,” he added. “I didn’t realize the power I had. And I’ve seen the families, I’ve met some of the families. I think they’re real people. But it’s the media and the lawyers that keep bringing it up and misrepresenting what I said and what I did.”
Jones also has been found liable by default in two similar lawsuits over the hoax lies in his hometown of Austin, Texas, where a jury in one of the trials ordered Jones last month to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of one of the children killed. A third trial in Texas is expected to begin near the end of the year.
When Jones faced the Texas jury last month and testified under oath, he toned down his rhetoric. He said he realized the hoax lies were irresponsible and the school shooting was “100% real.”
Jones' shows had portrayed the Sandy Hook shooting as staged by crisis actors as part of gun control efforts.
Testimony at the current trial also has focused on website analytics data run by Infowars employees showing how its sales of dietary supplements, food, clothing and other items spiked around the time Jones talked about the Sandy Hook shooting.
Evidence, including internal Infowars emails and depositions, also shows dissention within the company about pushing the hoax lies.
Jones' lawyer Norman Pattis is arguing that any damages should be limited and accused the victims' relatives of exaggerating the harm the lies caused them.
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When it comes to how we can reach the climate goals the United States has set, many of us think about taking CO2 out of the air.
But new technologies are suggesting we pump CO2 underground instead. It is one of the techniques used in CCUS: Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, a process that has been around for decades as industries determine the best ways to use CO2 instead of emitting it into the atmosphere.
Recently, that research has focused on pumping CO2 into rocks thousands of feet underground.
“One of the true proven technologies for reducing carbon emissions in the air is CCUS,” said Fred McLaughlin, director of the Center of Economic Geology Research at the University of Wyoming. “It’s commercially viable; it’s been proven in many projects worldwide. The restraint to date has been the economics to make these projects go forward.”
McLaughlin and his researchers are looking at the viability of drilling up to 10,000 feet underground to see what rock formations might be able to hold the carbon. The gas is compressed into an almost-liquid form which fills in microscopic air pockets in the rock.
This technology has been used since the 1970s but on a small scale. Currently, there are CCUS sites in Illinois, Texas, North Dakota, and parts of the Southeast. The tricky part, though, is making it attractive to businesses.
Building the infrastructure for this work can cost a lot with little benefit to companies other than reducing emissions, so what McLaughlin and other researchers at the University of Wyoming are trying to do is find ways to make this more cost effective and attractive so industries feel incentivized to use it.
There are potential risks that are being studied as well. Since this all happens in wells that go deep underground, there is a chance for leakage, water contamination, and seismic activity, according to McLaughlin. After all, it involves displacing existing things to make room for more stuff thousands of feet below Earth’s surface.
Because of that the application and permitting process is rigorous and all things must be deemed safe before any type of storage can start. But with all the minds and potential behind this project, McLaughlin feels confident this could be a revolutionary way to tackle the issue of climate change.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Demonstrations in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old who died in police custody have taken a deadly turn since protests erupted over the weekend.
At least nine people have died as demonstrators and Iranian security forces have clashed, the Associated Press reported Thursday, which based the numbers on statements from Iran's state-run and semiofficial media.
The death of Mahsa Amini, who died last week as the country’s morality police were holding her for allegedly violating the country's strictly enforced dress code, has prompted worldwide protests.
On Wednesday, Iran shut down internet access for "security reasons," said Iran’s Minister of Communications Issa Zarepour, according to semi-official ISNA.
On Thursday, internet access again was shut down to prevent the protests from spreading, the Associated Press reported.
In response to Amini's death, Iran has received criticism from the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations, whose human rights office has called for an investigation, the Associated Press reported.
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House Dems close in on police funding bills despite tensions
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats worked to pass a long-sought policing and public safety package and overcome internal party differences on legislation they hoped to make central to their election-year pitch.
A procedural vote to start debate barely succeeded, 216-215, after Democratic leaders spent hours wrangling with progressives who were threatening to block the package. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California asked Democrats to hold the vote open, saying another GOP lawmaker was on the way, but Democrats gaveled it to a close.
Final votes were expected Thursday afternoon. Passage would send the bills to the Senate, where the legislation’s fate is uncertain.
The package would increase money for local police departments, including those with fewer than 125 officers, and provide aid for de-escalation training and mental health services. A priority is reducing fatal encounters between police and people with mental illness.
“The bottom line is that you can’t cut it or defund your way to safer communities and better police departments,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., one of the lead negotiators, said during debate. “It’s about investing to protect. We must always have the backs of those who risked their lives every day to protect us.”
A few progressive Democrats bemoaned what they said was the lack of accountability measures that party once sought after the police killing of George Floyd sparked protests against racial injustice.
Rep. Cori Bush, who rose to prominence as an activist leader in Ferguson, Missouri, after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, said the funding bill does little to address “the crisis of police brutality.” But she said she would vote for the others parts of the package.
The opposition came despite support from the legislation for top progressives Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Ilhan Omar D-Minn., who this week negotiated the package with Gottheimer, a New Jersey moderate. After a deal was announced Wednesday, Democratic leaders quickly moved to bring the bills to a vote.
To get more liberals on board, language was included that would allow the Justice Department to have discretion over which police departments are permitted to receive the grants. It would also allocate $50 million for data collection on police practices and community safety.
“With this package, House Democrats have the opportunity to model a holistic, inclusive approach to public safety, and keep our promise to families across the country to address this issue at the federal level,” Omar and Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in a statement.
A policing package that passed in the House in March 2021 went much further, including banning police chokeholds and altering so-called qualified immunity for law enforcement, which would make it easier to pursue claims of police misconduct. None of those provisions was included this time.
The new package, Gottheimer said, has the support and input of law enforcement groups like the National Association of Police Organization and the Fraternal Order of Police.
It was unclear whether the bills would win many Republican votes. Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., is a cosponsor of Gottheimer’s funding bill and urged for his colleagues to join him in supporting it.
“This is for our law enforcement men and women. This is for those small agencies,” said Rutherford, a former sheriff in Jacksonville. “We need to be able to help them out. And I can tell you the last 2 1/2 years has left law enforcement demoralized like never before I’ve seen it.”
But other Republicans called the Democrats’ package a last-ditch effort to win over voters in the November elections.
“Democrats are bringing out these bills today because we’re 46 days from a midterm election,” Rep. Pete Stauber R-Minn., said. “They want the American people to suddenly and miraculously believe that they care about the crime crisis plaguing our nation.”
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Associated Press reporter Kevin Freking contributed to this report.
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UNION COUNTY S.C. (WSPA) – A wanted woman has been arrested in Louisiana on Thursday following the death of a man in Union County.
Alexis Fiana Jones allegedly murdered a man on September 1.
According to deputies, Jones was charged with one count of murder and fled South Carolina during the investigation.
Deputies said Jones was arrested following a short vehicle pursuit on Thursday.
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Bartko Law Firm brings very early MSJ against Zazzle as to liability on all claims
in the case where it is alleged that Zazzle made hundreds of millions in profits
by stealing the software for one of its most popular fonts from famed designer
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Late last night, one of the world's leading graphic designers filed a very early motion for partial summary judgment—less than a month after the lawsuit was filed—against internet design and printing giant, Zazzle, Inc., in a case where she alleges that Zazzle cheated her business out of its intellectual property, which allowed Zazzle to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten profits.
Nicky Laatz, one of the leading custom premium font designers in the world, filed this action just less than a month ago, on August 24, 2022 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Zazzle fraudulently and secretly obtained the software for her Blooming Elegant Trio of fonts for use on Zazzle's website.
Link to lawsuit: https://www.bzbm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Laatz-v.-Zazzle-Complaint-8-24-22.pdf
Link to Motion for Summary Judgment Against Zazzle: https://www.bzbm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Laatz-v.-Zazzle-Ps-MSJ-09-21-2022.pdf
The case asserts that Zazzle instructed its senior network engineer to pose as an individual designer and obtain a single-user license for the Blooming Elegant Trio of fonts, but in reality the fonts were obtained for Zazzle's illegal use. Nicky Laatz further asserts that Zazzle then loaded the software onto its servers and made the fonts available to nearly 100 million Zazzle designers, users, and customers without permission or compensation to the designer.
Nicky Laatz offers licenses to these premium fonts for $17 per user on her website and $20 per user over Creative Market. The case asserts that her Blooming Elegant Trio of fonts quickly became some of the most popular fonts on Zazzle, the company was able to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from its illegal use of the fonts, and avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing fees, with zero compensation to Mrs. Laatz.
The suit seeks disgorgement of all of Zazzle's profits from the unlawful use of Laatz's hugely popular Blooming Elegant Trio of fonts, and recovery of the lost licensing revenue related to Zazzle making the fonts available to its nearly 100 million designer, users, and customers. Claims in the case include fraudulent misrepresentation and concealment, promissory fraud, intentional interference with contract, as well as copyright and trademark infringement.
"Zazzle's conduct against Nicky Laatz was brazen and without remorse. This is one of the clearest cut cases of fraud that I've ever seen in my more than twenty years of practicing law," said Ms. Laatz's lead trial counsel, Patrick M. Ryan of the Bartko law firm. "When I file a case like this one where the evidence of the Defendant's wrongdoing is conclusive from the start, I don't hesitate in bringing an early summary judgment motion on behalf of the victim," said Mr. Ryan. "I have previously successfully moved for summary judgement at the very start of cases on behalf of plaintiffs in federal court," said Mr. Ryan. "And here, because the evidence is so powerful and dispositive against Zazzle, our team is asking the Court to immediately find Zazzle liable for fraud, copyright infringement, and tortious interference, which will leave only the issues of damages and disgorgement of profits to be later tried to the jury." Mr. Ryan said: "Put simply, when you've got the goods against a bad actor like Zazzle, there's no reason to wait to present your case to the Court."
Zazzle, based in Menlo Park, is one of the most successful online marketplaces for designers looking to create and sell a wide range of customized items including invitations, business cards, holiday and greeting cards, clothing, art, and office supplies, to the public.
Zazzle is reportedly preparing for an IPO that would value it at up to $2 billion. Yet, while the company raked in millions in profits from the unauthorized use of Laatz's intellectual property for more than five years, she received not a single cent in royalties from Zazzle.
"Zazzle … is built on a lie that it supports, promotes, and fairly compensates artists and designers for their creative work. In reality, Zazzle's high valuation and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual profits are largely due to the intellectual property of designers whom Zazzle has stolen from and failed to properly compensate, if at all," according to the lawsuit filed on August 24, 2022.
Nicky Laatz, based in the UK, carefully created the Blooming Elegant Trio of fonts to be an extremely balanced and pleasing handwriting-style of fonts, and they are widely considered by designers to be among the best such fonts available. Indeed, their reputation and popularity was such that Zazzle actively marketed the fonts by name, and Blooming Elegant quickly became listed as the #2 script font by Zazzle starting over three years ago.
The complaint alleges that the Blooming Elegant Trio of fonts are the most popular fonts with Zazzle's most successful graphic designers who have their own online storefronts on Zazzle's website and whose work is featured among Zazzle's most popular designs and products.
The Blooming Elegant Trio proved extremely profitable for Zazzle. These fonts became the major design element in countless highly popular items by some of Zazzle's most successful designers, including ten of Zazzle's 24 most popular business card designs and many of its top wedding invitations. Several of Zazzle's highest-earning designers, who earn hundreds of thousands of dollars or more a year on Zazzle, relied on the fonts for a substantial portion of their product offerings.
Two years ago, in late August 2020, Laatz discovered the deception when a Zazzle user contacted her for assistance with using the fonts on the Zazzle website. Shocked, Laatz demanded that Zazzle cease offering her fonts to its designers and customers. She also demanded that Zazzle provide her with a full list of products designed on and/or sold through its website that used her fonts, and a complete accounting of the company's revenues and profits from the illegitimate use of her intellectual property.
Yet the company not only refused her demands, it continued to openly offer the Blooming Elegant Trio of fonts under their own name, for which Ms. Laatz has a registered trademark, until earlier this month., when Zazzle inexplicably replaced the Blooming Elegant Trio of fonts with cheap imitations, one of which was copied from Blooming Elegant itself – extending the harm to Zazzle's own designers and users who are also victims of the fraud.
Bartko, established more than 40 years ago, is a boutique law firm specializing in national and international complex litigation and investigations, as well as real estate and franchising transactions.
It is a 40-plus-lawyer firm dedicated to strategic cutting-edge representation of clients in California, nationally, and internationally. Bartko's practice areas include representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex business litigation, antitrust and competition claims, intellectual property litigation, trade secret litigation, anticounterfeiting, complex employment litigation, employment/labor strategic advice and collective bargaining, as well as real estate litigation, among others.
Bartko's lead trial counsel in this case is Patrick M. Ryan, who is one of the most successful trial lawyers in the United States. Recent victories include: (1) acting as co-lead counsel in defending Sutter Health from antitrust allegations by class action plaintiffs in the Northern District of California where, after a 5-week trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Sutter Health and against the plaintiffs who sought $411 million in damages, which would have been subject to trebling; (2) lead counsel for the plaintiff in a trade secret case in Santa Clara County, California, where he obtained a nearly $900 Million jury verdict on behalf of a major international technology company.
In 2020, Patrick was named a Top Trade Secret Lawyer for 2020 by the California Daily Journal. As a result of one of his jury verdicts, Bartko was ranked as Number 3 in the Top 100 Verdicts—published by The National Law Journal (June 2019)—and having the highest ranked intellectual property victory in the United States for that year. And the California Daily Journal's Top Verdicts publication named Patrick's case the highest Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets victory in California and the Number 2 highest judgment overall for 2019.
As part of his practice, Patrick helps businesses better protect their intellectual property and coordinates investigations into potential IP theft for companies accused of stealing trade secrets and for companies that might have been the victims of such theft. In this case, Patrick seeks to vindicate the rights of an important artist whose IP was stolen and exploited by Zazzle.
Co-counsel Stephen Steinberg is a trial lawyer at Bartko specializing in representing technology companies in disputes involving intellectual property and other complex business issues, including claims for theft of trade secrets, trademark and copyright infringement, and disputes involving startups and founders. He regularly represents both plaintiffs and defendants in such cases, and counsels companies on how to protect their intellectual property from competitors and how to avoid claims by competitors against them. He second-chaired the trial in the aforementioned trade secret case that led to a nearly $900 Million jury verdict that was ranked as one of the largest in 2019.
Co-counsel Chris Gribble is a trial lawyer at Bartko specializing in intellectual property and complex business litigation. His broader experience includes federal criminal defense, patent litigation, real estate litigation, environmental law, securities litigation, founder disputes, and corporate governance litigation. He has represented clients of all sizes across all subject matters through all stages of litigation. He has first-chair trial and arbitration experience and has been part of multiple trial teams both in California and out of state. Though underutilized in his daily practice, Chris has a master's degree in Chemistry from U.C. Berkeley.
Co-counsel Casey Mathews is a litigation associate at Bartko with extensive experience representing clients in a broad array of complex commercial litigation, including, among other areas, contract disputes and corporate governance litigation. He has represented a large range of clients through nearly all stages of litigation, from pleadings and dispositive motions through trial. He has particularly apt experience with claims for intentional interference with contracts, having conducted extensive research on the subject in connection with the drafting and publication of the third restatement of torts.
Seemingly in recognition of the serious nature of the case against it, Zazzle hired the law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, to try and defend its actions against Mrs. Laatz. According to its own website, "Quinn Emanuel is the one law firm in the world that major companies least want to see as opposing counsel…. Those interviewed were asked to name the law firm they least wanted to see as opposing counsel. Quinn Emanuel ranked number one as the most feared." (Emphasis added.) But Mrs. Laatz's lawyers have experience in dealing with Quinn Emanuel's tactics and look forward to vindicating her rights against Zazzle and its law firm. The Quinn Emanuel Lawyers arrayed against Mrs. Laatz are: Rachel M. Kassabian, Andrew H. Shapiro, Daniel C. Posner, and Olga Slobodyanyuk.
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Singer Associates Public Relations
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The Second Annual Show Includes Special Performances by Avril Lavigne, Shenseea, Ylona Garcia, and More! Plus A Special Appearance by Christian Siriano
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHO: Global online retailer of fashion, beauty and lifestyle products SHEIN with Avril Lavigne, Christian Siriano, Shenseea, Ylona Garcia of 88rising, and more!
WHAT: SHEIN, presents ROCK THE RUNWAY: SHEIN FOR ALL, an electrifying, non-traditional, hybrid fashion show that is set to music by global superstars and on-the-rise artists, mixed with high-energy choreography. The streaming-event will include performances by Avril Lavigne, Shenseea, Ylona Garcia of 88rising, Brooke Eden, Alexander Jean, Victoria Kimani, Owenn , The Future X, and Haley Reinhart. Award-winning fashion designer Christian Siriano will also be presenting his new collaboration with SHEIN's MOTF brand.
WHEN: September 25, 2022 at 2:00PM PST
WHERE: SHEIN's free app as well as SHEIN's official YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
WHY: As a one-stop destination for fashion lovers, SHEIN aims to serve everyone with fashion, music, and dance through this unforgettable special event, in celebration of #SHEINforALL! Find out more by visiting https://shein.com/campaign/fw22.
LINK TO PROMO IMAGE: RTR: SFA PROMO IMAGES
SHEIN is a global fashion and lifestyle e-retailer committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all. We use on-demand manufacturing technology to connect suppliers to our agile supply chain, reducing inventory waste and enabling us to deliver a variety of affordable products to customers around the world. From our global offices, we reach customers in more than 150 countries. To learn more about SHEIN, visit www.SHEIN.com.
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(WXMI) — A coalition of organizations throughout the state are calling for clean vehicles.
The group held a virtual news conference Thursday on their goal of eliminating sales of gas-powered vehicles by 2030.
"It's important to have a holistic approach to ensure the state continues its legacy as an automotive leader and that the transition happens in the most equitable and effective way," says Amy Rogghe, chair of the Michigan Electric Vehicle Alliance.
The coalition says Michigan, the state that “put the world on wheels,” should “remain in the driver’s seat” and incorporate sustainability into its overall infrastructure.
Health experts at the press conference addressed the adverse impacts of gas-powered vehicles, citing a report that lists Detroit as the country’s worst city for those with asthma.
"And unfortunately for decades, we've been building the cars and trucks that are contributing to asthma prevalence and asthma-related emergency department visits and asthma-related deaths," says Allergy Foundation of America Executive Director Kathleen Slonager.
The state of Michigan has placed significance in adopting an electric vehicle infrastructure. An agreement was reached to establish an “electric Route 66” near Lake Michigan, with plans to build an electric highway in Detroit.
RELATED: University of Michigan lab working to create safer electric vehicle batteries that last longer
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At least seven people have died and one was injured in El Salvador after rains triggered landslides, authorities said on Thursday.
Two adults and three children were killed when a landslide buried their house in the municipality of Huizucar, according to the country’s civil protection agency.
Authorities also reported two people died and a child was injured after a landslide covered a house in the town of Panchimalco, 18 kilometers (11 miles) south of San Salvador.
“We had an incident in Huizucar, where unfortunately five lives have been lost,” Civil Protection Director Luis Amaya said in an interview with local radio.
The Civil Protection unit maintains an orange alert in 29 coastal municipalities of the country and a yellow alert throughout the territory as rains continue to affect the country.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and current CEO Andy Jassy were ordered to testify in a probe of the e-retail giant’s Prime membership program, the Federal Trade Commission said late Wednesday.
The executives last month claimed the federal agency’s demand that they testify in the investigation of the sign-up and cancellation processes for its Prime program was “burdensome.”
Amazon said the FTC was seeking to “harass” both Jassy and former CEO Bezos by demanding they testify at an investigative hearing “on an open-ended list of topics,” and asked that their testimony be quashed or at least delayed until after all other company officials had given testimony.
The FTC rejected their argument, ordering Amazon to comply with its broad June 30 Civil Investigative Demand no later than Oct. 7.
“Amazon provides no reason why the Commission must accept anything less than all the relevant testimony it can obtain from these two witnesses,” the FTC order stated.
After the decision, Amazon said it was “disappointed but unsurprised the FTC largely declined to rule against itself, but we’re pleased that the agency walked back its broadest requests and will allow witnesses to choose their own counsel.”
“We are committed to engaging constructively with FTC staff, but we remain concerned that the latest requests are overly broad and needlessly burdensome, and we will explore all our options,” an Amazon spokesperson said.
Amazon said it has “cooperated with” the agency throughout the investigation, providing 37,000 requested documents. It further emphasized that an investigation like this would require interviews with scores of employees and that the agency’s demand is unreasonably broad.
The probe began in March 2021 over Amazon’s alleged violations of the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence (ROSCA) Act, with customers automatically enrolled in Prime subscriptions without their consent.
The agency expanded the investigation in June to include other services including Music, Audible, Kindle Unlimited and Subscribe & Save after an Insider article reported that the company’s customer retention and acquisition tactics were “deliberately confusing.”
The FTC order noted Amazon is one of the world’s foremost companies with net revenue of over $32 billion in 2021 and more than 1.6 million employees.
“By contrast, the FTC’s 2021 budget topped out at only $351 million, or slightly more than 1% of Amazon’s earnings,” the FTC added in a footnote to the main text.
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The son of a top Kremlin aide was duped by a Russian rabble-rouser into revealing that he would “obviously not” serve if drafted into Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Nikolay Peskov, the 32-year-old son of longtime Kremlin flack and Putin confidant Dmitry Peskov, refused the call of duty when he was prank-called by the hosts of Russian YouTube channel Popular Politics, according to Russian independent news site Insider.
Dmitry Nizovtsev, pretending to be a Russian recruitment officer, told Peskov he’d been drafted and needed to show up at a medical examination the next day.
“Obviously not,” the younger Peskov exclaimed.
“You must understand, if you know that I am Mr. Peskov, how wrong it is for me to be there,” he continued. “In short, I will deal with it on another level.”
The Peskov princeling’s outrage comes a day after Putin ordered 300,000 more troops called up for the grisly fighting in Ukraine — an expansion of the Russian strongman’s so-called “special military operation” in response to massive battlefield losses in the past month.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has been largely fought by soldiers from the country’s rural areas and satellite states. This week’s mobilization threatens to draw reinforcements from Russia’s more politically connected classes.
The country was rocked by protests Wednesday after the order came down. Thousands took to the streets in defiance of Russia’s anti-protest laws — and more took to the airports in an effort to leave the country before they could be called up to fight.
Peskov’s father, Putin’s longtime spokesman, told the Russian outlet Podyom that his son would make “only the right choice” if called to serve.
He accused Nizovtsev of selectively editing the call, and demanded he “lay out the entire conversation.”
Later in the recording, the younger Peskov did indeed tell the prank caller he wouldn’t be insubordinate.
“I’ll do what I’m told. If Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] says I need to go there, I will go.”
But, he added, “I’m not rank and file.”
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A space for conversation and debate about learning and technology.
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Looking for the Academic Analog to ‘Thank You for Your Servitude’
Are there nonfiction books on higher ed that are as funny as this book on the Trump presidency?
Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich.
Published in July of 2022.
Atlantic staff writer (and former NYTimes reporter) Mark Leibovich knows almost none of us wants to waste any more energy or time thinking about the Trump presidency. It would be hard to think of another industry in which fewer Trump supporters work than higher education.
For a quick aside, I Googled "most liberal industries," and the second result came back a 2014 Slate article titled Which Industries Are the Most Liberal and Most Conservative? That article reprints a graphic from a 2013 paper published in the American Journal of Political Science that shows how industries lean ideologically based on patterns of political contributions. The takeaway for us is that academia (no surprise) comes out the most liberal.
Why, then, should those of us in higher ed who have almost surely made up our minds about the Trump presidency read another book about the Trump presidency? You need to know something about Mark Leibovich's writing to answer that question.
Readers of his previous books know that Leibovich is a: uber-plugged in and b: super-funny. These two attributes serve the reader of Thank You for Your Servitude well. What Leibovich is after is not an exercise in original reporting. Instead, Thank You for Your Servitude is about the politicians that enabled the worst elements of Trump's behaviors, policies, and actions. Leibovich accomplished this goal by making those around Trump look not sinister but ridiculous.
Lindsey Graham and Kevin McCarthy are chief among the pitiful and tragic-comic characters who cast their lot with Trump. In their efforts to remain "relevant," both politicians abandoned first their values and then any claim to decency. In contrast to the bulk of the Republican Party, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, and the late John McCain come off as (complicated and flawed) heroes.
A few years ago, I wrote about Julie Schumacher's satirical academic novel, The Shakespeare Requirement. In that review, I asked, "Why do we love academia so much that we are willing to make fun of ourselves?" My answer was, "I'd say that it is a gift to take our work seriously, but ourselves not so much.".
I'd also say that humor is often the best way to understand something. We love funny books about academia like MOO, Dear Committee Member, Straight Man, and Wonder Boys because they allow us to explore our world in a way that nonfiction accounts do not.
Thank You for Your Servitude is nonfiction. And hilarious. Leibovich shows that it is possible to write about an event as horrifying as the Trump presidency and make it funny.
Where are the funny nonfiction books about higher ed?
Why have novelists cornered the market on humorous books about academia?
Do we have any examples of nonfiction books about colleges and universities that are likely to cause us to embarrassingly laugh out loud while listening to the audiobook version while walking across campus?
Thank You for Your Servitude was the political book I needed at this moment.
I'm on the lookout for its nonfiction analog set not in the swamp of politics but in the halls of academia. Can you offer any suggestions?
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The burn ban that has been in effect in Kittitas County since July will be canceled on Friday, September, 23.
According to a Kittitas County press release, current weather conditions have lowered fire danger to the point where the burn ban is no longer necessary.
The public is still urged to use caution if burning.
Those using state and federal lands outside of Kittitas County should contact the proper agency to determine if burn bans are still in effect in that area.
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The walk will start at the Cle Elum Ranger station and then caravan to two other sites where participants can observe and learn about spawning salmon.
All ages are welcome on the walk. Participants should dress for the weather, bring water and snacks, and be prepared to walk up to a mile.
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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is planning prescribed fires, dependent on conditions, on eastern Washington wildlife areas. The fires are scheduled to start in October.
According to a WDFW press release prescribed fires are a forest management practice used on public lands to reduce the risk of future wildfires by removing dead vegetation.
Prescribed fires are conducted when conditions allow, such as fall when temperatures are cooler and there is more precipitation.
The WDFW is planning to treat more than 700 acres in eastern Washington during its fall burn season. The burn areas are:
500 acres in the Colockum Wildlife Area south of Wenatchee.
200 acres in the Oak Creek Wildlife Area in Yakima County west of Naches.
Prescribed fires are monitored continuously and crews work to minimize smoke.
"In the long-term, the work will preserve ecosystems and continue to provide access to public lands," said Matt Eberlein, WDFW Prescribed Fire Manager.
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Man who allegedly plotted to murder his wife waives preliminary hearing, case heads to Grand Jury
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - A case involving a Bowling Green man accused of conspiring to murder his estranged wife is now headed to the Grand Jury.
Jeffrey Allan Young, 51, appeared in court on Wednesday, Sept. 21, where he waived his right to a preliminary hearing for conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation of murder charges.
The case will now go directly to a grand jury.
According to an arrest citation, a confidential informant was able to provide detectives with information and two audio recordings with Young from Sept. and Sept. 12 when Young allegedly sought out the confidential informant, to kill his wife after he spent time assuring their relationship looked like a healthy one from the outside, with the goal of not becoming a suspect.
Police said during the Sept. 6 recording, Young explains several ways he thought his plan for his wife to be murdered could play out.
Young was arrested on Sept. 13 and was released Sept. 14 on a $100,000 cash bond.
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International Peace Day: NSCDC boss urges Nigerians to embrace peace, unity
The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has called on Nigerians in all spheres to embrace, uphold and promote peace to enhance the growth and development of the Nation.
He gave this charge in his commemorative message for this year’s international day of peace with the theme: “End racism, Build peace,” by the United Nations, where member states were enjoined to mark the day with the aim of strengthening the ideals of peace globally.
Audi emphasised that the Nation can only progress politically, socially and economically when all citizens and leaders in various capacities exhibit tendencies that will promote peace, unity, equity and justice in all facets of human endeavour.
He warned that Nigeria is heterogeneous and the most populated country in Africa, therefore, citizens must endeavour to live in peace and avoid acts capable of dividing the country or causing disaffection among various ethnic, religious or political groups.
NSCDC Director of Public Relations, Mr Olusola Odumosu, in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, said, the CG stressed that embracing negative vices like tribal or ethnic discrimination, religious and political intolerance was inimical and detrimental to the stability and growth of the nation.
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He also warned against indulgence in criminal acts such as willful destruction of Critical National Assets and Infrastructure, ethnic agitations, religious bigotry, banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery and terrorism that promotes insecurity in the country.
The NSCDC helmsman stated that the Corps is determined and committed to peace and security of the country through the implementation of its statutory mandate.
He reiterated that conflicts should be avoided as much as possible because of its effects which include deaths, injuries, population displacement, destruction of assets and disruption of social and economic systems.
He advised on the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to resolve various disputes emanating from our day-to-day activities and interactions.
He noted that all efforts of the Corps and other security agencies to enforce law and order will amount to nothing if the public whom the agencies were established to serve fails to imbibe peaceful conduct in their daily life.
He advised citizens to approach the Peace and Conflict Resolution Unit of the Corps in all its formations nationwide to help resolve crises and conflicts through the ADR.
He called on parents, guardians, traditional, religious and political leaders, educational institutions, leaders of associations, Civil Society Organisations, pressure groups and trade unions to consider engagements in peace advocacies to entrench stability for development to thrive.
Consequent to the United Nation’s declaration of September 21 of every year as International Day of Peace also known as World Peace Day, the CG directed all state commands through the Peace and Conflicts Resolution Unit, to mark the global event significantly by organising programmes to sensitise members of the public on the importance of peace as a panacea for development.
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Zamfara State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called on people in the state to embrace peace and appealed to bandits to also lay down their arms and embrace peace.
The chairman of Zamfara NUJ, Mr. Ibrahim Musa Maizare made the call to commemorate this year’s International Day of Peace in the state.
In a statement signed by the council secretary, Mr. Ibrahim Ahmad Gada, he said the chairman urged working journalists in the state to remain committed to raising public awareness of the importance of peaceful co-existence.
Maizare noted that the theme for this year’s celebration: “End Racism. Build Peace” suggests the need to end all forms of discrimination among the human race adding that every individual should strive toward achieving a world where harmony wins over hostility.
“The year’s celebration is yet another opportunity to intensify the call on bandits and other criminal elements to lay down their arms and embrace peace.”
“I passionately appeal and beg armed bandits and other criminals to please embrace peace for more unity.”
He further appealed to the general public to always promote peaceful coexistence and shun any act capable of creating violence and disharmony in the state.
He assured that NUJ will continue to preach true peace through inclusiveness and cooperation among members, stressed the need for justice and unity among the society to achieve prosperity.
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Of the four valleys in the famed Valais region of Switzerland, Nendaz stands out as a place to bring the whole family. While all the areas boast incredible views, and world-class skiing and winter sports activities, Nendaz’s more approachable vibe is perfect for all ages, and an abundance of apartment rentals helps make it more accessible too. Plus, there’s plenty of experiences that will keep everyone engaged and active—not to mention well fed.
I flew nonstop to Switzerland on Swiss International Air Lines and arrived well-rested and ready to explore this incredible country. My trip started in Geneva where I took the train to Sion, followed by one of CarPostal’s trademark yellow buses to Nendaz as a guest of the region. Even though I was exhausted from the flight, I stayed awake throughout the entire journey. The views are that incredible. As you travel along Lake Geneva, vineyards start to emerge and it’s simply gorgeous to behold. (Insider tip: get a seat on the right-hand side for the best views.) Trains and buses are equipped to store skis making it super easy to travel with your own. Once on the bus, we passed by a couple of small villages before rolling into Nendaz at the base of the ski hill.
A charming little village, Nendaz is full of open-air venues and has a huge park. I arrived to paragliders landing everywhere around me—all you had to do was look up and you’d see people parachuting in the air. It was one of those unforgettable travel moments that destinations like this offer.
It also has the option of renting an apartment at a reasonable rate and cooking your own meals—there’s a great grocery store in town—and still having access to the higher price-point that Verbier commands just one valley over if you want a splash of glamour. (Verbier is where British nobility has been skiing ever since they started skiing and is now home to a vibrant party and après-ski scene.)
The largest ski resort in Switzerland
Overlooking the Rhone valley, you’ll have panoramic views of the Alps wherever you stay. Traveling alone, I stayed at the excellent four-star Hôtel Nendaz 4 Vallées & Spa, which boasts indoor and outdoor pools, hot and dry saunas with plunge pools, a kids spa area, and an infinity pool looking out over the valley—an amazing setting. The hotel lies in the heart of the Haute-Nendaz mountain station and the “4 Vallées” ski resort, the largest ski resort located entirely in Switzerland. With access to more than 256 miles of slopes and 66 lifts, winter sports fans couldn’t ask for a better place to suit up and ski or snowboard.
My first morning there, I slapped my skis on and took the beautiful new gondola up to the ski hill, which ends right in town. As you’re skiing over the edge, it feels like you’re skiing right into town. It’s an incredible feeling.
Next-level winter adventures off the slopes
But Nendaz is more than ski, ski, ski. Whether you’re a skier or not, there’s ample winter adventures to be had beyond the slopes. For one, Nendaz boasts one of the tallest ziplines in Europe, The Mont-Fort Zipline. (If you have a fear of heights, you might want to sit this one out.) You’re really on the top of the Alps.
Once you’re out and cruising, it’s exhilarating. When you sit down and put your weight and trust into the cable, it’s the scariest heart-dropping moment. You’re putting all your faith in the Swiss technology that made that happen. The operators count down from six to one and you go shooting down—about as fast as I’ve ever done anything. As you’re tearing down it, you can clearly see out hundreds of feet in every direction, with the Alps all around you. And the long ride affords you time to get over the adrenaline rush and enjoy the views and settings until you coast down to the end.
Snowshoe hikes and raclette over an open fire
For a fun and easy outing for the whole family, consider a guided Raclette and Raquette experience. A guide leads you on a short snowshoe walk into a wilderness area that’s protected against camping or hiking off trails. (Nature conservation is taken very seriously here to protect the wildlife and preserve the pristine nature of the area.)
Our guide brought his own firewood, broke out a massive roll of raclette cheese, and started a fire so it could melt the cheese. This is the traditional way of doing it; an open-fire approach is how it’s best served. He used a hand-carved knife from a found ibex antler. And he presented it with a beautiful bottle of Valais region white wine, made of the Fendant grape. They’re very proud of it being one of the oldest and best wine regions in Switzerland, and I understood why with each sip.
We also enjoyed a traditional Swiss energy snack of sausage made with apricot. It was deliciously fresh. Seeing apricot trees in full bloom with beautiful white flowers and then eating this felt extra special. And to top it off, the raclette, shaved off with our guide’s trusty knife, was served with the best bread I’ve had in years. Standing there in the fresh snow of the mountain with the warmth of the fire and the cheese perfectly melted was spectacular—a fantastic meal washed down with delectable wine.
The view from the highest peak
Of the show-stopping views all over the area, especially rewarding is Mont Fort, the highest peak in the Four Valleys area that’s easily accessible via a succession of cable cars and gondolas from Nendaz. When you get to the top, at an altitude of 11,000 feet, you’ll find 360-degree panoramic views of iconic Swiss peaks, including the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, the Grand Combin, among hundreds of others. Like so many experiences in Nendaz, it’s an unforgettable moment and one that you and your family will treasure.
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There’s good reason why the Glacier Express is often called “the window to the Swiss alps,” as I found out the moment I boarded on a recent voyage as a guest. With train cars featuring what are almost entirely glass ceilings, you can take in everything above and around you as you travel across Switzerland on this marvel of Swiss engineering and transportation. From picturesque valleys to the mountains rising on either side of the valley, the view, and the open-air feeling, is stunning in and of itself.
It’s nothing less than an amazing train. The Swiss transport system of course works like clockwork, whether you’re going a short distance from town to town or the full journey across the region, from Zermatt to St. Moritz. Train travel is especially popular throughout Switzerland thanks to a rail system, considered the best in Europe, that has excellent track records for punctuality and safety, offers incredible service—and can easily take you just about anywhere throughout the country.
Modern conveniences and ease of travel
Within the Swiss railway, the Glacier Express is an extra-special experience, enticing everyone from solo travelers to tour group and running for more than 90 years since its maiden voyage on June 25, 1930. Many visitors get on in the morning and get off in the afternoon. You can get from the top to the bottom of Switzerland in a couple of hours. While these distances may seem long to the Swiss, for a New Yorker like myself going skiing in Vermont is a five-hour drive in and of itself, so this was a welcome and fantastic way to see a beautiful swath of the country.
The safety and cleanliness make the journey even more appealing. I also got a strong data signal everywhere I went, so you can rest assured that you can be online, working, posting, or reading. A word of caution for workaholics: it’s hard to get much done when there are so many incredible scenes to view through the windows.
The slowest express train in the world
The Glacier Express takes your across 291 bridges, 91 tunnels, remote valleys, sheer rock faces, idyllic mountain villages—all in fabulous style and with incredible food to enjoy throughout. Billed as “the slowest express train in the world,” it zips across the country but also slows down so you can see, experience, and taste all the sites along the way.
In all, the full eight-hour journey goes across some 180 miles of terrain at around 24 miles per hour. A few highlights along the way include traveling over the justly famed Oberalp Pass with its sweeping views, the Landwasser Viaduct with its six arches spanning 65-feet each, and the two UNESCO World Heritage Sites known as the Rhaetian Railway in the Albula/Bernina Landscapes, a marvel of engineering erected more than 100 years ago, and the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch region
Top Glacier Express tips for travelers
Wear sunglasses
You’ll need them due to the train’s open sides and the reflection off the gorgeous rivers running alongside it, including the Rhône and Rhine, and the snowcapped mountains. A cross-country trail in Goms runs parallel to the tracks, and you’ll also see ski slopes above Andermatt, so keep your eyes peeled for alpine skiers going by in winter.
Style lovers
Check out the Excellence Class. It’s like First Class plus. The Excellence Class has 20 lounge seats, private access to the Glacier Bar, and an extensive gastronomy and wine program that’s included with your seat reservation. Exclusive to Excellence Class guests, the Excellence Class concierge serves drinks and food. Think Swiss International Air Lines’ First Class, featuring its SWISS Taste of Switzerland culinary program—Swiss cuisine, desserts, snacks, and wine and cheese pairings included.
When to go
Anytime is a great time to ride, and if you hop aboard in autumn, you’re in for a special Swiss treat. When I spoke with the concierge, she mentioned that’s her favorite time of year to be onboard, when the snow has started to fall on peaks of the Alps, and you’ll see the cattle outside the windows, fattened up from summer months, grazing and coming down the mountain for winter. It captures that classic Swiss image of cows ambling down the mountainside with bells around their necks.
Skip the packed lunch
Come hungry. There’s incredible food, prepared right then and there in the onboard kitchen for you, whether you opt for the dish of the day or a full-on four-course meal, made with cheeses, produce, and proteins straight from the mountain areas you’re traversing. Order it with a glass of Swiss wine and sit back and enjoy the Swiss wonder outside your window.
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As rains and floods continued to threaten communities across Puerto Rico on Thursday, citizens began to take stock of the destruction unleashed by Hurricane Fiona, which ripped through the island on Sunday, knocking out power and water to the majority of Puerto Rico’s residents.
By Thursday morning, authorities said they had restored power to nearly 500,000 of the island’s 1.47 million customers, but Puerto Rico’s governor Pedro Pierluisi warned it could be days before everyone has electricity. More than a 400,000 people in Puerto Rico remained without water service on Thursday as citizens spent hours in lines to fill jugs from water trucks and others scooped water from mountain runoff.
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which provides disaster recovery assistance and information, said this week that it has deployed additional teams of people to assist the hundreds of personnel already on the ground as the agency worked to assess the damages and determine what other resources are needed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has declared a public health emergency on the island and has deployed teams to the U.S. territory as well.
The National Weather Service reported on Wednesday that flooding continued to be a concern amid ongoing rainfall in the aftermath of the hurricane. Parts of the island had received more than 25 inches of rain, and more is expected in the coming days.
Governor Pierluisi said it would be at least a week before authorities have an estimate of the damage that Fiona caused, but described the destruction as “catastrophic,” especially in the island’s central, south, and southeast regions.
Authorities said Tuesday that at least 500 people remained in shelters across the island.
While Puerto Rico has thus far been the hardest hit, it’s not the only island in the Caribbean to see damage and devastation. The storm also forced more than 1,550 people to seek safety in shelters in the Dominican Republic, where it left more than 406,500 homes without power.
It hit the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday as a Category 3 storm, and it was strengthening into a Category 4 hurricane as it headed toward Bermuda, where it is expected to hit on Friday, according to the Hurricane Center.
How to help the people of Puerto Rico
For those watching the devastation from afar and wondering how to help, there are several notable organizations working to assist in the recovery efforts. Of course, there are major aid groups that swoop in after a crisis such as Red Cross, but there are also some grassroots efforts in Puerto Rico that are doing important work on the ground.
This female-led organization works to support women who are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Taller Salud also provides emergency management tools to the community and is donating food, water filters, and diapers in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.
Founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, SBP Puerto Rico works to help families repair and rebuild damaged homes. “Every day our team works simultaneously in 8 to 12 homes, driving forward recovery construction work . . . we do this through our construction model based on the Toyota Production System, trained AmeriCorps members, and passionate volunteers,” the organization explains on its website. SBP has helped more than 200 families and more will need assistance getting back into a safe and secure home following Hurricane Fiona. SBP is hoping to court volunteers as well as funding.
This useful resource provides Puerto Rican residents with free access to legal information so that they can be better informed about the legal routes available to them for obtaining assistance, including in the aftermath of a crisis or natural disaster such as Hurricane Fiona. For those who don’t have the means to hire an attorney, the hope is to provide people with clear and easy-to-digest legal information in the event they need to represent and advocate for themselves in a legal setting.
A San Jose, California–based nonprofit social club for Puerto Ricans, the Civic Club is raising money for solar lights as well as propane and gas generators for those in need in Puerto Rico. People can either donate funds or purchase items directly from a list outlined by the organization and send them to the provided address in Puerto Rico, where staff will be collecting and distributing them.
Created by Puerto Rican business leaders, PR x PR is a zero-overhead, 501c3 nonprofit that gives 100 percent of the donations it receives to communities in need. Aid efforts are focused on providing food, clean water, and energy.
Associated Press contributed reporting.
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You’ll find world-class skiing all throughout the Swiss Alps, but for a thrill-seeking skier like myself, it’s hard to beat the backcountry and off-piste terrain I was fortunate enough to cover in Engelberg as a guest there. Unlike much of the Alps, where on-piste skiing over groomed runs that are safe, maintained, and managed with Swiss perfectionism is the norm, the draw of Engelberg for me was the promise of unbeatable off-piste experiences, fresh powder, and guided backcountry explorations.
I flew nonstop to Switzerland on Swiss International Air Lines, landing well-rested and ready to explore this incredible country. Getting to Engelberg is an easy train ride away from Lucerne, a beautiful city that’s well-worth visiting. From there, you’ll climb up into the mountains past charming farms before arriving at Engelberg, a destination at the end of the road, high up in the mountains. The polished town lies among rugged mountains with peaks on every side of the valley.
It’s no wonder this town attracts travelers and is full of residents who are avid skiers. Even the abbot I met at the Benedictine Monastery Engelberg, and some of the monks who are in their 80s, are life-long skiers and mountain enthusiasts. The local monastery has been in existence for more than 900 years and is a fascinating place to visit—a treasure trove of cultural artifacts, it’s shaped the history of Engelberg over the centuries.
A stylish stay and the promise of fresh powder
The afternoon I arrived, clouds rolled in, and a buzzy energy was palpable in the air. Everybody was hoping for snow, including at my hotel. I stayed at the Kempinski Palace Engelberg at the foot of the Titlis mountain, from which you can see the Gross-Titlis-Schanze ski jump. The Kempinksi is housed in an impressive 1904 building that reopened in 2021 and was recently renovated. The historic accommodations were the perfect home base for my time in Engelberg.
While the building has Belle Époque-era charm, the rooms felt as crisp as can be with all the modern amenities to satisfy discerning travelers who demand the very best, right down to details like the up-to-date charging docks. I was picked up in a sleek, new Mercedes van, relaxed in the beautiful spa, which had a lengthy pool that was ideal for lap swimming, and savored a refined meal crafted with locally sourced cheese and meat.
The Kempinski’s Chef de Cuisine Joshua Lüscher prepared a six-course dinner of beautiful Swiss food, each course paired with a different delicious local Swiss wine. There was goat in just about every course: goat cheese and goat meat, goat milk ricotta, goat milk and curd, and goat cheese camembert. Even the wine, a Swiss white wine called Gissaheinet, had a goat on the label. Lüscher’s grandmother Frieda Dänzer was a former Swiss Olympic skier, and like most people I met in Engelberg, he’s a lifelong skier himself who was just as excited as we were for the coming snow.
The hotel also often collaborates with local farmers and Swiss winemakers. It’s a destination for local folks as well to enjoy après-ski cocktails, and there’s a pop-up fondue restaurant adjacent to a big park, Kurpark that was filled with newly made snowmen by the time we left.
Glorious, guided off-piste explorations
After a day where everything was tingling with the prospect of great skiing, finally, snow started to fall as I was going to bed. The town awoke to a completely different landscape, covered in snow. Even by 7 a.m., Engelberg was abuzz, with people walking around with skis on their shoulders. I couldn’t wait to get out there. But first, I had to meet my guide.
While off-piste skiing in the U.S. is still a relatively controlled experience within ski area boundaries, in Switzerland anything off the trails is fair game if you know what you’re doing. And since you’re likely on your own and in new terrain, you really need a guide to maximize the experience in a responsible manner. Guiding is taken very seriously in the Alps, where it involves years of training and is considered the pinnacle of worldwide guiding. With a guide you can fully explore the entire mountain thanks to their knowledge of where the best snow is going to be depending on the time and conditions, so you’ll be sailing over fresh, fluffy powder before the rest of the crowds have found it.
My guide for the trip was Daniel Perret, a UIAGM mountain guide from Engelberg Mountain Guide, who was as good of a skier as I’d ever skied with. He grew up locally, pioneered a lot of the region’s backcountry, developed a free ride map of Engelberg, and was full of insight and expertise on the area. And that was very much needed and dearly appreciated as the skiing was as intense as you can get. Imagine waist-deep powder, with fresh, cold snow snapping you in the face on every turn. One unforgettable run we had ended on a farm, requiring an invigorating 10-minute walk back to the gondola—worth every step. These are the kind of experiences that take a trip to the next level.
If you want the longest run and the best powder, it’s worth the extra work—but often that’s not needed, another benefit of going with a guide. Many farmers in Engelberg have private cable cars that get their cheese down to market or wood up the mountain in winter. My guide Daniel and his buddies have mapped out where some of these private cable cars are, so you can go up to the top of Engelberg on their cable cars. If you do end up at a farm—all in the pursuit of secret stashes of powder—farmers come out to crank up generators to get the cable cars running.
Take me to the top
Near the base of the mountain is where you’ll find the Stöckli Outdoor Sports ski center and a delicious curry restaurant. (Stöckli, a Swiss ski and apparel company, sponsors many Swiss World Cup skiers.) The gorgeous cable cars that take you to the top are all state of the art, ensuring a smooth ascent with unbelievable views. Engelberg Titlis features the world’s first revolving cable car which transports you from the middle station at Stand up to the summit station at 3,020 meters above sea level. Up top, you’ll be able to refuel at a fantastic Italian restaurant.
After an exhilarating day on the slopes, stop by the Chalet Après-Ski Bar, which is located at the bottom of the main lift. This low-key and locally beloved spot is a must after a long day on the hill—do not miss the opportunity to hear about all the epic lines skied that day from the area’s top skiers. We raised a glass to the magnificent mountains of Engelberg. I can’t imagine a prettier place in the world to ski.
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Ready for an adventure you’ll never forget? You can go to what feels like the top of the world, surrounded by raw Alpine beauty, in incredible style when you board the new Eiger Express gondola from Grindelwald Terminal to the Eigergletscher station. My trip started with a nonstop flight to Switzerland on Swiss International Air Lines, leaving me rested and eager to hit the ground running in this fantastic country. As a guest there, I was invited to experience the VIP Eiger Express, which is tricked out with eight red leather seats, all generously sized and able to rotate 360 degrees. That means views from every angle possible. And, in the middle of the gondola, a Champagne bar holds glasses, Champagne, wine, and snacks. (The new Grindelwald Terminal also has a Platinum Lounge where you can relax and enjoy complimentary coffee and things to nibble on while you wait.)
Sustainably Swiss
The Eiger Express among the highest cable cars in the world and minimally impacts the environment thanks to an innovative “tri-cable” system that uses less energy and only requires seven supports, meaning there’s no need to cut a path through the forest. Energy generated by the cable cars’ wheels turning heats the seats (windows are heated too so they don’t ice up or fog up to obscure the views) and the cars are wheelchair accessible allowing anyone to have this incredible experience.
Home to an abundance of restaurants, the brand-new Grindelwald Terminal is sustainably built too and the picture of Swiss efficiency. The building, all created with local wood and materials, shuttles some 3,000 to 5,000 people up the mountain hourly, with one gondola coming in and another going out. There are electric vehicle charging stations outside the terminal and its own hydroelectric station powers the cable network and trains, which also use regenerative braking to conserve energy.
The view from the top
You can ski from Eigergletscher station or transfer directly to get to the top of the Jungfraujoch, which is known as “The Top of Europe.” The entire trip takes a mere 45 minutes, with epic views all along the way. And the peak rewards you with more unbelievable, far-reaching views.
Step inside through the Ice Palace’s tunnels carved into the mountain. One highlight is the ice carvings, including a replica model of the mountain inside the mountain. Being in the heart of this living, breathing glacier is a remarkable thing to behold. And cap it all off with a great restaurant right at the top serving traditional Swiss dishes with a side of even more panoramic views, the Restaurant Crystal.
Along with a very mixed group consisting of many Indian and Brazilian visitors, I shared the marvel of looking out at the longest glacier in the Alps (even though the fog of that afternoon). Of the many things that make this place so special, you don’t have to be a thrill-seeker to get the experience. You can feel the sense of wonder and adventure without having to even take a step, while skiers and mountaineers use the access it affords as their point to peel off and head deep into the glacier and back country. On the way back, the clouds had cleared, the sun was out, and you could see for miles in every direction. It was truly awe-inspiring.
Locally sourced deliciousness
Sustainability makes many of the local restaurants stand out as well. At the boutique Hotel Glacier, located in the town of Grindelwald, the chef Robert Steuri creates three-, five-, and seven-course tasting menus using ingredients sourced within 20 miles of the hotel, including locally caught fish, and techniques such as fermentation, smoking, and dry-ageing.
A similar ethos welcomed me during my stay in nearby Interlaken at the Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa, which bills itself as “the Grand Dame of Swiss luxury hotels.” It’s indeed a fabulous, 150-year-old hotel with classical styling and contemporary touches, and a spa that blows your socks off, featuring a huge pool, week-long wellness programs, and products like creams and serums crafted from Swiss ingredients.
The hotel also boasts a hyper-local regional menu, in its new restaurant Radius, helmed by Swiss chef Stefan Beer, who doesn’t source food further than 25 miles from the hotel, employing the goods of local farmers, fishermen, and beekeepers in his inspired cuisine. In town, there are also several great options for authentic dining, including Brasserie 17, a lively local gathering spot with six beers on tap, and the more refined gastronomy on offer at Hotel and Restaurant Salzano.
Ice adventures and peaceful lake outings in Interlaken
A short train ride from Jungfrau, Interlaken is nearby many beautiful landscapes, including Schilthorn and multiple other mountains. In summer, it’s highly traveled due to its picturesque lake, and great restaurants, nightlife, and outdoor festivals. Visiting in winter provides a more special experience, in my opinion, an ideal stop for a couple of days if you’re skiing around Switzerland. You’ve pretty much got the place to yourself, and there are many excursions to take advantage of here.
Water lovers are in for a thrill here, too, even in the winter season. I went with Hightide Kayak School for serene winter kayaking on Lake Brienz. The beauty of the experience is hard to put into words. Covered in a gorgeous white layer of snow, the whole area was as silent as can be. You see your breathe in the air, yet you’re warm from the dry suit you have on. It’s nothing less than an entrancing winter scene as you glide across the lake, below nearby eagles’ nests and past historic monasteries. Elsewhere on a lake cruise on Lake Thun, you’ll find five castles (such as Oberhofen Castle and Hünegg Castle) lining the shores. It was an unforgettable way to bask in this wonderful winter destination.
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The Second Annual Show Includes Special Performances by Avril Lavigne, Shenseea, Ylona Garcia, and More! Plus A Special Appearance by Christian Siriano
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHO: Global online retailer of fashion, beauty and lifestyle products SHEIN with Avril Lavigne, Christian Siriano, Shenseea, Ylona Garcia of 88rising, and more!
WHAT: SHEIN, presents ROCK THE RUNWAY: SHEIN FOR ALL, an electrifying, non-traditional, hybrid fashion show that is set to music by global superstars and on-the-rise artists, mixed with high-energy choreography. The streaming-event will include performances by Avril Lavigne, Shenseea, Ylona Garcia of 88rising, Brooke Eden, Alexander Jean, Victoria Kimani, Owenn , The Future X, and Haley Reinhart. Award-winning fashion designer Christian Siriano will also be presenting his new collaboration with SHEIN's MOTF brand.
WHEN: September 25, 2022 at 2:00PM PST
WHERE: SHEIN's free app as well as SHEIN's official YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
WHY: As a one-stop destination for fashion lovers, SHEIN aims to serve everyone with fashion, music, and dance through this unforgettable special event, in celebration of #SHEINforALL! Find out more by visiting https://shein.com/campaign/fw22.
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PARKERSBURG-Nancy Carol Rasmussen, 76, of Parkersburg, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, at the Pinnacle Specialty Care in Cedar Falls, of natural causes. The public is invited to join the family at a graveside gathering at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 24, at Oak Hill Cemetery in Parkersburg. Memorials may be directed to the family. Redman Funeral & Cremation Services in Parkersburg is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.redmanfuneral.com.
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The city of Alden received a Branching Out grant in the amount of $4,322. The money is being used to purchase and plant 25 trees at various locations in the community. On Tuesday, city officials, city employees, Martin Marietta employees and Alden Elementary fifth grades planted 13 of the 12 trees.
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Kurt Knudson addressed the Iowa Falls City Council at their monthly meeting Monday about an ordinance allowing ATVs, UTVs and golf carts to be legally used within the Iowa Falls city limits.
On July 1, the state law changed stating, “All-terrain vehicle (ATV) and utility terrain vehicle (UTV) users will now be able to ride in any of Iowa’s 99 counties, with a few restrictions: ATVs and UTVs have a speed limit of 35 mph; all ATVs and UTVs must have operational headlights, tail and brake lights, horn and rearview mirrors; and they must be operated by a person who is at least 18 years old with a valid driver’s license and carrying valid proof of insurance.”
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An open house at Edgewood Saturday will showcase a new collage picture wall in the main meeting room and renovated bathroom on the main floor, both made possible by last year’s Barlow Challenge matching funds. The total amount raised for the project was $19,000.
The wall collage is made up of old photos, enlarged and sharpened by Lindsay’s Photography, and matted and framed by Vest’s Décor and More. The bathroom was renovated by Wiese Construction, RD's Plumbing, Swart Electric and King Flooring.
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PARKERSBURG-Nancy Carol Rasmussen, 76, of Parkersburg, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, at the Pinnacle Specialty Care in Cedar Falls, of natural causes. The public is invited to join the family at a graveside gathering at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 24, at Oak Hill Cemetery in Parkersburg. Memorials may be directed to the family. Redman Funeral & Cremation Services in Parkersburg is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.redmanfuneral.com.
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There won't be many people within the state that believe Iowa Falls-Alden can hang with fourth-ranked West Marshall.
The visiting Trojans have put together another strong outfit and enter Friday's game with records of 4-0 overall and 1-0 in Class 2A District 7 following last week's 28-7 win over Chariton.
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Nothing short of a perfect game will be enough for AGWSR Friday night as they travel to Grundy Center. The second-ranked Class A runner-up Spartans are 4-0 on the season and looking to be every bit as good they have been the last three seasons when they finished as the Class A State runner-up.
Whether they play perfectly or not, Cougar head coach James Koop expects a better performance.
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Just a week after facing one top-10 opponent, South Hardin has to take on another highly rated foe.
Aplington-Parkersburg has opened the season 4-0 for the first time since 2010 and has done so in impressive fashion. The No. 8 Falcons defeated Denver 21-0 and the week before, laid the hammer on Jesup with a 72-19 score. In four games, A-P has outscored their opponents 175-50.
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In order to upset a top-10 team, Ellsworth Community College was going to have to be on top of their game and at full throttle. The hosts were without their leading hitter, Louise Lion, and were just outmanned.
It took ninth-ranked Kirkwood Community College just an hour to dispatch the Panthers in the 25-10, 25-12, 25-20 sweep in Iowa Falls.
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Rasmus Hojgaard fires record-equalling 62 to lead French Open
Dane Rasmus Hojgaard equalled the Le Golf National course record in the company of compatriot and 2018 Ryder Cup-winning captain Thomas Bjorn to set a hot pace in the Cazoo Open de France.
On a day when the closing stretch saw some of the Scots in the field stumble, three-time DP World Tour winner Hojgaard yet again underlined his talent by carding a nine-under-par 62.
The sparkling effort, which contained ten birdies, earned him a two-shot lead over Swede Alexander Bjork, with home player Paul Barjon further shot back.
Newly-crowned Italian Open champion Bob MacIntyre fared best among the Scots with a 67, which left him sitting inside the top ten.
Craig Howie (68) and Scott Jamieson (69) are also both handily-placed, but, not for the first time in recent seasons, the day belonged to one of the Hojgaard twins.
“First of all, it’s not that easy,” 21-year-old Rasmus told Sky Sports Golf in reply to being told that he’d made his day’s work look effortless. “But today was very good.
“To be fair, I didn’t feel I was that good off the tee, but I felt like my approach play was very good today alongside a very good putter. I holed a few long putts out there, but you have to do that to shoot nine-under.”
The pick of his work with the flatstick was a 72-footer for a birdie at the par-4 fourth while he also knocked in a 21-footer at the last.
Like MacIntyre, Hojgaard is being strongly tipped to be on Luke Donald’s European team for next year’s Ryder Cup in Rome.
“No, it’s not something I think of when I am playing,” he said of that possibility. “It is obviously something everybody is talking about off the golf course, but I just tried today to go out and play as good as I could.
“I feel like I have been playing devent the last few weeks, just made too many mistakes. My goal this week was to limit the mistakes out there.”
Bjorn led Europe to a thumping win over a strong US side in the Ryder Cup at this venue and Hojgaard said he is enjoying the challenge it presents.
“I think it is quite cool to have a course where you have to think your way round a bit and that’s what this course gives you,” he observed. “It tests you in all parts of your game.”
MacIntyre birdied three holes around the turn and had moved to five-under before finding water with his tee shot at the 16th, where he did well to limit the damage to a bogey.
“It was good,” said the Scot of his day’s work. “I got it going through the front nine and I was looking for a bit more on the back nine, but the way I finished there was poor.
“The finishing holes are absolutely brutal, there’s just water everywhere. It’s daunting; it’s in your head. All you can do is commit to the shot you’ve chosen and see where it ends up and that’s all I am trying to do.”
Howie and Jamieson were both bogey-free for their rounds until finishing with double-bogey 6s, a visit to water up the left off the tee then a three-putt taking the shine off the former’s day.
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A revitalized but embattled President Biden took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, riding the momentum from his recent domestic policy wins, yet clearly struggling to hold Western alliance together in the face of fresh nuclear threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
At a time of such extraordinary global peril, the substance of Biden’s speech was precisely what the moment required: a reassertion of America’s global leadership, an assurance to our allies that we are committed to meeting the challenges of the 21st century, and a warning to our adversaries that we will not abandon our mission to defend democracy worldwide.
While the address was a rhetorical success, it remains to be seen whether Biden will be able to turn these reassuring words into meaningful action, amid fears of a looming global recession and doubts over America’s capacity to lead the world, given the threats posed to our own democracy here at home.
That aside, one of the most important elements of Biden’s speech was his declaration that America is committed to defending democracy and human rights wherever they are threatened.
The president underscored the United States’ devotion to upholding the “stable and just rules-based order” that has prevailed since the end of World War II – and more specifically, to supporting Ukraine, securing a free and prosperous Indo-Pacific, and advancing peace in the Middle East.
To that end, President Biden promised that the United States would lead the global effort to “defend and strengthen democracy” around the world. Yet, the breakdown in America’s own democratic norms and values complicates our capacity to fulfill the president’s pledge.
Earlier this month, Biden proclaimed in Philadelphia that “equality and democracy are under assault” here at home and denounced roughly one-third of Americans as “MAGA Republicans,” calling them a “threat to this country.”
In his address on Wednesday, Biden used the oft-repeated theme of “democracy vs. autocracy” to reference the West’s battle with Russia. But as long as the world watches America fight this same battle internally, the United States won’t be able to reclaim its role as the standard-bearer of democracy globally.
That being said, as Vladimir Putin continues waging his unjust and inhumane war in Ukraine, it was important for President Biden to reassure both our allies and Ukraine that the United States will not abandon the fight against Putin’s tyranny.
However, as Western nations – especially in Europe – bear the brunt of exponentially rising energy costs due to Russia’s energy embargo designed to weaken support for Ukraine, questions linger over Biden’s ability to keep NATO united on Russian sanctions as Winter approaches.
At the same time, while it was important for Biden to deliver a sharp rebuke of Putin for causing food shortages in the global south, there is no indication that the president’s message made inroads in the that region, which largely refuses to support sanctions against Russia or condemn the invasion of Ukraine.
In addition to calling out Russia on Wednesday, Biden also took the critical step of addressing China, who is perhaps our most significant and capable adversary.
Biden made great strides to convey that the United States was not seeking a “new Cold War” with China, nor are we demanding that other countries choose between the two superpowers.
The president also did not shy away from taking the Chinese government to task for their human rights violations, as well as their Belt and Road Initiative, which infamously saddles low-income countries with debt for nefarious purposes
Relations between the U.S. and China are perhaps at the lowest point since their normalization in 1979. Thus, it was crucial for the president to explicitly state that the United States does not seek conflict, while also calling the Chinese government out for their human rights violations and militarism over Taiwan.
Biden’s pledge at the U.N. that America would defend democracy everywhere was in line with his comments on Taiwan earlier this week, when he answered “yes” when asked if he would send U.S. forces to defend the island in the event of an invasion.
However, going forward, Biden faces the larger challenges of developing a China policy that deepens our economic ties with Asian nations, expands U.S. deterrence power in the Indo-Pacific region, and uses smart diplomacy to positively influence China’s behavior.
In addition to addressing Russia and China, Biden made an important effort on Wednesday to reinforce America’s commitment to engendering global prosperity.
Biden urged all nations to follow the U.S. and its G7 allies in working to advance economic equality in Africa, negotiate debt forgiveness for low-income countries, and develop “rules of the road” to improve cooperation on the technological challenges of the 21st century.
He also emphasized America’s steadfast commitment to combatting the global threat of climate change – including rejoining the Paris Accords – while also working to assist other countries with health care, food security, and human rights.
Ultimately, as global security and prosperity hang in the balance, Biden was right to use his U.N. address to pledge strong American leadership.
That being said, the core argument of Biden’s speech – that America is ready to resume its role as the standard-bearer of global democracy – might have carried more weight if our own democratic foundations weren’t in such great jeopardy here at home.
Douglas Schoen is a longtime Democratic political consultant.
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Karl Dorrell has memories as a player and a coach with UCLA, but a trip down memory lane doesn’t appear to be on the agenda for him this week as coach of the Colorado Buffaloes.
The Buffaloes came up winless in nonconference play and Buffs fans are grumbling for a change going into Saturday’s Pac-12 opener against the Bruins in Boulder, Colorado.
Dorrell preached a sense of urgency and improvement during his weekly press conference Monday, a day after Colorado athletic director Rick George released a statement addressed to “Buffalo Supporters.”
George stated that he can “recognize and understand” the fans’ disappointment and frustrations but never mentioned a change in direction away from Dorrell.
“(George) is all in, just like I am all in,” Dorrell said. “We know our fans are disappointed. We are just as disappointed. … I know we can get better and I know we will get better but that’s all part of it.”
Dorrell has mentioned a number of different areas that can help steer the program in the right direction and help earn another victory over his alma mater.
Making sense of the team’s quarterback situation is probably among the highest priorities. The Buffaloes (0-3) used three quarterbacks, including sophomores J.T. Strout and Brendon Lewis, in their last outing against Minnesota.
Strout and Lewis were with the Buffaloes last season but there’s some talk of freshman Owen McCown potentially starting this week.
“I thought he came in when (Minnesota’s) backups were in and played well,” Dorrell said of McCown. “I was really encouraged by that. We are going to turn over every stone about this quarterback position in trying to figure out what’s best for us moving forward.”
UCLA coach Chip Kelly and the Bruins (3-0) are already familiar with Lewis, who was sacked three times in the Bruins’ 44-20 victory in November at the Rose Bowl.
The uncertainty at the quarterback position could work in the Buffaloes’ favor, as Kelly made note of all three having played last week and preparing a plan for each quarterback.
Since 2015, the home team has won each game in the series between the Bruins and Buffaloes.
In Dorrell’s Colorado coaching debut to kick off the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, the Buffaloes earned a 48-42 victory over the Bruins . After a 4-2 season, Dorrell was named the conference’s coach of the year.
If Dorrell is unable to produce a result similar to 2020 against the Bruins, it could lead to his last season in Colorado.
“We been through this before,” Dorrell said. “I’ve been through this before. It’s part of the job and you know when you get into coaching that there are risks. … it comes down to honing in on what you know best … there’s a lot of football left.”
Dorrell has in fact been through this before while leading the Bruins for five seasons. In 2007, the Bruins finished 6-6 overall and 5-4 in the conference before he was fired by then-athletic director Dan Guerrero. The former Bruins receiver finished his Westwood coaching tenure with a 35-27 overall record and 24-18 in the Pac-10.
Dorrell made it clear he isn’t looking to make excuses for the slow start this season, but the Buffaloes are coming off an offseason that saw some of their top playmakers leave for other programs through the transfer portal and changes to his offensive staff.
Dorrell fired offensive coordinator Darrin Chiaverini in November. Chiaverini is now working as an offensive analyst for the Bruins.
“That doesn’t help me right now with what we have going forward,” Dorrell said about the offseason. “Those are consolations I don’t want to think about. We want to be in the moment with this team. We have a game this Saturday against UCLA and we need to get our football to be as good as it can be.”
With UCLA’s announced move to the Big Ten Conference, Dorrell hasn’t bothered to put much thought into the nostalgia of this potentially being UCLA’s final trip to Colorado for an extended period of time.
“I’m not even thinking about those things, to be honest,” Dorrell told reporters Monday. “I’m concerned about this moment and what I’m doing after this press conference – which is getting right back in the film room and finding ways to play better so we can get a win. … I got so much work that’s important now.”
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Donavyn Pellot announced he verbally committed to the Bruins on Wednesday. Pellot is listed as a 3-star athlete by 247sports.
Pellot is a running back and safety at Silverado High in Las Vegas. In four games, he has 237 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 24 carries. As a receiver, he has 299 yards and four touchdowns on 12 receptions. Pellot also has 18 tackles and an interception this season.
Last season, the 6-foot-1, 190-pounder led Silverado to an undefeated season and Class 4A championship, with 1,229 all-purpose yards and 17 touchdowns on offense and 66 tackles and two interceptions on defense.
UCLA at Colorado
When: 11 a.m. Saturday
Where: Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado
TV: Pac-12 Networks
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A 33-year-old Westminster man was charged Thursday, Sept. 22 with punching a flight attendant in the back of the head during a flight from Mexico to Los Angeles on Wednesday, authorities said.
Alexander Tung Cuu Le could face a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison if convicted as charged of interference with flight crew members and attendants, Ciaran McEvoy, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
Le was scheduled to make his first court appearance in Downtown Los Angeles Thursday, McEvoy said, where he may enter a plea to the charge.
The attack, aboard American Airlines Flight 377 from San Jose del Cabo, was caught on video by a passenger, who provided it to KTLA. It shows the passenger rushing a flight attendant and hitting him in the back of the head after the attendant had turned and began walking away.
Several passengers witnessed the assault and helped to pin Le down near the back of the airplane following the attack, McEvoy said. Le’s hands and legs were cuffed and flight attendants had to use seatbelt extenders to keep him restrained to a seat.
The episode began about 20 minutes after takeoff, when Le left his seat as flight attendants were doing food and beverage service. He allegedly grabbed one of the attendants by the left shoulder and asked for coffee, McEvoy said. He then grabbed both of the attendant’s shoulders from behind and walked to the front of the airplane after the attendant turned around in a defensive posture.
Later, Le took a seat near a wall dividing the first-class cabin from the main cabin, McEvoy said. A different flight attendant asked Le to return to his seat, but Le allegedly stood up in a fighting posture with closed fists.
Le took a swing, but missed, McEvoy said. When the flight attendant turned to report Le’s behavior to the pilot, Le rushed the attendant and threw another punch.
He was taken into custody after the aircraft landed at LAX.
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Its a sparse calendar today, with nothing to shift around forex too much upon release.
Its also a market holiday in Japan. Thank goodness the authorities there got their yen intervention out of the wwat so they can have a long weekend.
Isn't it funny how the folks telling us, over and over, to trade the yen on fundamentals.
Bought.
The.
Yen.
Go figure.
This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.
The times in the left-most column are GMT.
The numbers in the right-most column are the 'prior' (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where is a number, is the consensus median expected.
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CHICAGO (CN) — The Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Thursday challenging Chicago's infamous parking meter privatization deal, in the latest of several legal attempts to oust a billion-dollar corporation that has made street parking spots in the Windy City some of the most expensive in the country.
In some parts of downtown, rates can run as high as $7 an hour. But this wasn't always the case.
Before 2008, street parking in most Chicago neighborhoods had cost 25 cents per hour for decades. But 14 years ago the City Council, at the urging of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley, sold the city’s street parking meter system to the private company Chicago Parking Meters LLC for $1.15 billion. Rates in most areas quadrupled to $1 per hour in 2009, and have only increased since then. Free parking hours in the city also shrank after the deal was struck, and meters began appearing on what had previously been free parking streets.
For CPM, mostly owned by Morgan Stanley but with healthy investment from the Emirati oil industry, the contract was a clear win. Street parking generates millions in profits per year, and by 2019, CPM had made back its initial $1.15 billion investment plus $500 million in profit on top. But for regular Chicagoans, particularly the city's low-income residents, it was such a bad deal that the Better Government Association called it a "lesson in 'worst practices.'"
It wasn’t a short term deal, either. The concession agreement CPM signed with the City Council won’t expire until 2084.
Unsurprisingly, the contract has faced several legal challenges since it went into effect. The most recent was in June 2021, when three Chicago residents represented by the law firm Despres, Schwartz and Geoghegan sued CPM in Northern Illinois District Court. They claimed CPM's control of the parking meters was an illegal monopoly that violated federal antitrust law.
"CPM has obtained an unlawful monopoly for an unreasonable 75-year period over the lease of parking spaces in a fixed number and at fixed rates and without active regulation by the City, without regard to consumer preferences for alternative forms of transportation," the 2021 complaint states.
That complaint, like those that came before it, failed. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly tossed the suit in January. The Bill Clinton appointee did not dispute that CPM has monopoly control over the city's parking meters in his ruling, but instead found that Chicago's municipal government was well within its rights to turn over the parking meters to a private company.
"Nothing in the text of the [Illinois Municipal Code] suggests that the city is required to own and operate parking meters on public streets," Kennelly wrote.
To back up his opinion, Kennelly invoked both the legal doctrine of state action antitrust immunity, which says that the federal government must respect state-level legislation that willingly allows for seemingly monopolizing conduct, as well as the Illinois municipal code. The code allows municipalities to manage and control their own parking meters, and also to "enter into contracts dealing in any manner with... the leasing of space on, or in connection with, parking meters for advertising purposes."
"The state action immunity doctrine shields state action from federal antitrust liability if the challenged conduct is 'clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed as state policy,'" Kennelly wrote. "This immunity extends to a municipality if its 'anticompetitive activities were authorized by the state pursuant to state policy to displace competition with regulation or monopoly public service.'"
The plaintiffs in the suit, unsatisfied with Kennelly's ruling, appealed the case in February. After several months of waiting, attorney Thomas Howard Geoghegan appeared before the Seventh Circuit on Thursday morning to plead his clients' case. As in the initial complaint, Geoghegan claimed CPM's concession agreement with the city violated antitrust law.
"This is a monopoly. It is a violation of the Sherman Act," Geoghegan said.
He faced almost immediate resistance from U.S. Circuit Judge Diane Wood, a Clinton appointee and one of the three judges sitting on the morning's panel. Wood said she was "dubious" that the contract was actually a monopoly, pointing out that there were other parking options in Chicago besides CPM's meters, like garage parking and non-CPM parking lots.
"There are many other options," Wood said.
Geoghegan retorted that Kennelly himself had not contested the monopoly claim. He also said that unlike private garages or parking lots, CPM's parking meters in Chicago were ubiquitous. For anyone looking to park their car on city streets, he said, there were no other options.
"Everyone has to use the Chicago Parking Meters system sooner or later who has a car in the city of Chicago," Geoghegan said.
He also pointed out that the length of the contract was a factor to consider - 75 years is a very long life for a contract, enough time that people may be born, live and die having never known any other alternative. This point was questioned by U.S. Circuit Judge David Hamilton, a Barack Obama appointee. He asked if the contract would still be monopolistic if it lasted only five years.
Geoghegan conceded that a five-year contract may not constitute a restraint of trade as defined by federal antitrust law, but he urged the panel not to get bogged down in hypotheticals and legal formalism.
"It's about the economic reality," he said. "We have alleged that the city has no effective control over this [contract]. It's not able to regulate it."
While he further conceded that Chicago does still retain some regulatory authority on paper - such as setting the parking rates and expanding the number of meters in the system - any attempt to cut the system's profitability for CPM could result in penalties and fees that city couldn't afford. He also said that CPM still has the "nuclear option." Per the contract, if the city's actions reduce the value of the agreement by 25% or more, CPM can choose to terminate the agreement and demand payment for the rest of its projected 75-year profitability.
"That's billions of dollars. Billions of billions," Geohegan said.
CPM's attorney Linda Coberly from the law firm Winston & Strawn did not argue that the stipulations of the contract were harsh. Instead, she simply pointed out these were the stipulations the city agreed to when it signed the deal.
"It is expensive. That's the deal the city chose to strike," Coberly said. She argued that while it may seem unfair, there was nothing illegal per se with CPM's contract.
"Is it your bottom line... just that unfortunately the city just cut a very bad deal for itself back when it decided to contract with CPM?" Wood asked her upon hearing this argument.
"If it was a bad deal, that's a political problem. That's not an antitrust problem," Coberly responded.
The panel of judges, rounded out by U.S. Circuit Judge Amy St. Eve, a Donald Trump appointee, took the case under advisement following the arguments. The judges did not say when they intended to issue a ruling.
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(CN) — Pit bull owners urged a federal appeals court Thursday to resurrect their suit claiming their constitutional rights are violated by an Iowa city’s ordinance banning possession of the dogs within the city.
Counsel representing the dog owners argued before a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit that the city’s evidence of disproportional danger from pit bulls is not supported by science.
The city, meanwhile, told the judges it has evidence that pit bulls were responsible for more attacks and bites, which declined after the ordinance was passed.
Council Bluffs, a city of 62,000 on the state’s western border, passed an ordinance in 2005 that outlaws the possession or sale of pit bulls, which are described as “any dog that is an American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier,” or any dog with a majority of the physical traits of one more of those breeds.
Several owners of pit bulls sued the city in federal court claiming the ordinance violated their constitutional rights of due process and equal protection. The dog owners questioned the city’s statistics and the validity of the city’s use of visual inspections to determine whether a dog is a pit bull.
U.S. District Judge John Jarvey dismissed the suit on summary judgment, which the dog owners appealed to the Eighth Circuit, asking that the lower court decision be reversed and the case remanded for trial.
Attorney David Lopez of Husch Blackwell in Omaha, counsel for the dog owners, told the St. Louis-based appeals court the record in this case has overwhelming expert testimony there is no rational justification for enforcement of the ban.
U.S. Circuit Judge James Loken, a George H.W. Bush appointee, raised questions about separation of powers if the courts can override decisions by cities, and he posed a hypothetical of a public initiative on banning pit bull dogs.
“If the question came down to whether the owners are afraid of pit bulls, and they voted for a ban, and the people have spoken," the question is whether the courts can overrule that, Loken said. “I think it’s a legitimate question. Can the people say, ‘We don’t want your scary pets in our presence?’”
Even a ban approved in a public referendum should be open to challenge in court using scientific evidence, Lopez said. Otherwise, he argued, judicial rational basis review would be transformed into a rubber stamp.
Sara Bauer, assistant city attorney for Council Bluffs, said the city’s ordinance was prompted by evidence from city records that pit bulls are disproportionally responsible for more attacks. The city’s evidence and the science of dog breeds may not be precise, but she argued that is not the standard under rational basis review.
“There is some support for breed standards,” she said. “A behavior characteristic in a breed is heritable.” But while the science is in flux and much is not known, “We know setters set, retrievers retrieve, and fighting dogs fight partly due to behavior genetics.”
The dog owners argued in a brief filed with the Eighth Circuit that pit bulls are no more or less dangerous than other breeds of dog, that neither the breed nor its physical characteristics are predictive of a dog’s propensity to bite, and that the city’s use of visual inspections to identify dogs as pit bulls is inherently unreliable.
In its brief, the city argued that the “industry standard” defined in the ordinance as being established by the American Kennel Club or the United Kennel Club for identifying dogs is by using visual inspection and comparing the dog’s characteristics to published breed standards.
Other members of the panel included U.S. Circuit Judges Duane Benton, appointed by George W. Bush, and Jonathan Kobes, appointed by Donald Trump.
The judges did not indicate when they would issue a ruling.
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CHICAGO (CN) — A federal appeals court on Thursday heard arguments in the case of a man who owns banned automatic weapons parts and claims the court should either rule he is allowed to own them because he bought them before they were regulated or that he should be given a grace period to register them and make his ownership legit.
The firearm components in question are known as drop-in auto sears, or just auto sears, which according to court documents were invented in the mid-1970s. Part of a gun’s trigger mechanism, they essentially convert a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic machine gun by allowing it to fire more than one bullet with a single pull of the trigger.
The federal government began requiring machine guns to be registered and taxed starting with the National Firearms Act in 1934. In 1968, the Gun Control Act expanded the NFA’s reach, at which point auto sears technically fell under the definition of a machine gun.
In 1981, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms specifically classified auto sears as machine guns and codified their regulation as such for registration and taxation purposes, but the ruling did not apply to those manufactured before November of 1981.
Then, in 1986, Congress passed the Firearm Owners Protection Act, which added to federal gun laws that it is illegal to transfer or possess a machine gun with two exceptions, one being that the prohibition does not apply to machine guns legally owned before the law took effect in May of that year.
An Illinois man, known in court documents only as John Roe, bought an unregistered auto sear in 1979. He made no attempt to register the part until 2021, when he sued then-acting ATF Director Marvin Richardson and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on the basis that his auto sear should be grandfathered as legally owned because he bought it before 1981, or that he should be given an amnesty period under ATF rules to legally register it.
In a brief filed with the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, his lawyer, Thomas Maag, says that then-President Donald Trump’s 2018 move to ban bump stocks—another firearm component that effectively converts a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic machine gun—triggered Roe to investigate the legality of his auto sear.
The Trump administration banned bump stocks in response to the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which the 64-year-old shooter used rifles outfitted with bump stocks to fire on crowds at a country music festival from a nearby hotel window. The shooting—which resulted in 58 civilian deaths, the death of the shooter by suicide, and two more civilian deaths in 2019 and 2020—stands as the deadliest mass shooting event in U.S. history.
U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert tossed Roe’s lawsuit in January for failure to state a claim, essentially finding that there is “no legal way to remedy plaintiff’s inability to sell or legally possess” the auto sear under relevant authorities, prompting Roe's appeal.
Maag reasserted to the Seventh Circuit panel on Thursday that Roe’s ownership of his auto sear should be grandfathered as legal, or the court should make the attorney general and ATF hold a limited amnesty period to allow him to make it legal.
U.S. Circuit Judge Diane Wood was skeptical that the court could create any kind of amnesty period or change the ATF’s decision about machine gun regulation. As for the attorney general, she told Maag that he may be out of luck there as well, because “we don’t tell the Department of Justice who they can prosecute.”
Maag also argued that the regulatory scheme could be unconstitutional, as federal agencies cannot say one day that owners do not have to register auto sears, then the next day change the rules and not give owners an opportunity to legally register them.
If you’re going to criminalize possession of auto sears, Maag said, “somebody at some point must give him some chance to register.”
“Why?” asked Wood, a Bill Clinton appointee. “Maybe what the law is saying is ‘it’s a contraband item,’" and that’s that.
DOJ attorney Steven Hazel said it is an “extraordinary” argument to claim that a single sentence from an editor’s note to the 1981 ATF ruling undoes the fact that it has been illegal to possess an auto sear since 1968.
U.S. Circuit Judge David Hamilton, also a Clinton appointee, pushed back, saying, “I understand you’re saying it was illegal when he got it…but that didn’t seem to be the government’s view in 1979.”
Wood, who called the ATF’s 1981 ruling “cryptic,” put forth that it seemed a bit roundabout to interpret the ruling as saying all auto sears are now machine guns and they all are now illegal.
“Don’t you think that’s indirect at best?” she said.
U.S. Circuit Judge Amy St. Eve flatly asked Hazel what Roe’s options are at this point. Hazel responded that he can either destroy the auto sear or abandon it to the ATF.
When the George W. Bush appointee asked Hazel if Roe risks prosecution if he turns over the auto sear to the ATF, Hazel said it’s possible he would not be, given ATF’s interest in getting people to abandon them.
The government’s attorney added that, if Roe is worried about prosecution, he can always just destroy the device.
Maag said at the top of arguments Thursday that Roe is proceeding anonymously to avoid possible self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment, but Wood and Hamilton questioned whether he is entitled to do so, with Hamilton calling it a "heads I win, tails you can't catch me" approach.
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This was on CNBC but I wanted to highlight it as US equities stage a bit of a comeback (S&P 500 decline down to 13 points).
Each week the American Assocition of Individual Investors surveys members on how they're feeling about the market. They've only hit 60% bearish four times previously: Twice in 1990, once in 2008 and once in 2009.
This week is the fifth time:
Sentiment is extremely negative on this and similar measures of institutional sentiment. We're also in the worst seasonal week of the year.
The way I see it, we're either going to see a Black Friday like implosion in markets or we're close to the bottom. I don't think it's the time to buy yet but if bonds stabilize in the next few days, we could have a rally.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (CN) — Indiana’s near-total ban on abortions has been temporarily suspended pending a final decision on whether it violates the state’s constitution.
Monroe County Circuit Court judge Kelsey Hanlon on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction requested by a coalition of local abortion providers, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU in a suit against several state officials. The injunction suspended enforcement of a law, passed in August, which criminalized abortions in Indiana with limited exceptions for rape, incest and serious risks of harm to expectant mothers.
The law would subject abortion providers who do not comply with its rules to fines of up to $10,000 and felony charges, under which they could be imprisoned for up to six years.
Those rules permit abortions within 10 weeks of fertilization in cases of rape and incest, along with cases of lethal fetal anomalies and situations where the mother faces lasting harm or death if the fetus is not aborted. Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, abortion providers the Women’s Med Group Professional Corporation, Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, All-Options Inc. and doctor Amy Caldwell argued that the law made abortion procedures unfairly difficult to obtain even when patients qualified for those exceptions, especially since the ban requires that they be performed in hospitals.
According to a report the state published this year, only a tiny fraction of abortions in Indiana in 2021 were performed in hospitals– just under 1.6%. Over 98% were performed at the plaintiffs’ facilities, all of which would be forbidden from performing abortions under the ban.
The plaintiffs have also argued that the ban’s life-of-the mother exceptions are too vague, leaving physicians to guess at whether they could face felony charges for performing an abortion.
Hanlon found that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on one of their constitutional claims, under the state constitution’s privacy guarantee, but not on claims that the ban discriminates against abortion providers under the constitution’s guarantee of equal privileges and immunities.
"Even if S.B. 1 is viewed as treating abortion clinics... differently from and less favorably than hospitals and ASCs [ambulatory outpatient surgical centers], any differential treatment would be reasonably related to inherent characteristics that distinguish those classes. Post-Dobbs, and absent protection of abortion by the Indiana Constitution...there is no requirement that the State codify and recognize abortion clinics as a separate classification of medical facility," Hanlon wrote, referring to the Supreme Court's June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturning the federal right to abortion.
The plaintiffs withdrew a third claim, under the constitution’s guarantee of open courts, earlier this week.
Hanlon also found that the ban had the potential to cause irreparable harm to the plaintiffs, though she hedged a little on the question of the public interest.
“The Court must consider the constitutional rights of Indiana women and girls, but the Court cannot and should not disregard the legitimate public interest served by protecting fetal life,” she wrote. “The Court specifically acknowledges the significant public interest in both.”
Nevertheless, Hanlon wrote, the public’s interest was still better served by preserving the status quo established by Roe v. Wade until the constitutional questions were settled.
“We are grateful that the court granted much needed relief for patients, clients, and providers,” the plaintiffs said in a joint statement. “Indiana lawmakers have made it abundantly clear that this harm, this cruelty, is exactly the reality they had in mind when they passed S.B. 1. There are 1.5 million people of reproductive age in the state of Indiana, and every single one of them deserve the right to make their own decisions about their bodies, families, and futures.”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita issued his own statement on the topic.
"We plan to appeal and continue to make the case for life in Indiana,” the statement said. “Our office remains determined to fight for the lives of the unborn, and this law provides a reasonable way to begin doing that."
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NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit found that the appellate court lacks jurisdiction to consider whether a Louisiana federal court properly denied the state’s emergency motion to vacate a permanent injunction that halted the enforcement of a law that would have required abortion doctors to have active admitting privileges within 30 miles of the facility where the abortions are performed. The circuit court does not have jurisdiction over interlocutory orders continuing or refusing to dissolve or modify injunctions.
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(CN) — With Russia mobilizing hundreds of thousands of reservists and doggedly escalating the war with its neighbor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging world leaders to severely punish Russia economically, put its leaders on trial for war crimes and strip it of its veto power at the United Nations Security Council.
But Zelenkskyy's appeal on Wednesday to the U.N.'s 77th General Assembly also exposed how divided the world has become. While many of the chamber's delegates stood up to applaud at the end of his speech, many other delegates, mostly from the developing world, remained seated.
It is also highly unlikely his demands will be carried out by the U.N. Security Council because Russia and China, a growing ally of the Kremlin, are permanent members. The two superpowers are drawing closer together as the United States and its allies openly declare Beijing and Moscow enemies. Many scholars believe the world has entered a new Cold War.
It was the first face-to-face meeting of the General Assembly in three years due to the coronavirus pandemic and it highlighted the precarious state of the world, which is racked by the war in Ukraine, climate change, superpower conflict, ideological divides, famine, soaring prices and various regional conflicts. Amid so much turmoil, the U.N. itself is coming under fire as an institution due to its inability to solve global problems.
Ghana's president, Nana Akufo-Addo, summed up the gloomy mood with a speech in which he said it was doubtful any generation had ever witnessed “such a perfect storm of global economic chaos, a war with global consequences, and an unwillingness or inability to find a consensus to deal with the catastrophe.”
He said the war in Ukraine was causing widespread economic problems and soaring inflation in Africa. “Every bullet, every bomb, every shell that hits a target in Ukraine, hits our pockets and our economies in Africa,” he said.
The war in Ukraine, now raging for 211 days, is threatening to take on global dimensions after Russian President Vladimir Putin mobilized 300,000 reservists on Wednesday to fight in Ukraine and prepared to officially annex large swaths of Ukrainian territory now occupied by Russian troops.
While in the West the war in Ukraine has come to be seen as the most urgent problem facing the planet, many developing countries view the war differently and have refused to go along with Western sanctions on Russia.
In many parts of the world, Western arguments about Russia's violations of international law ring hollow in the wake of U.S., NATO and European military interventions in countries like Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.
Western leaders, though, urged all nations to show more solidarity with Ukraine and condemn Russia.
In his speech, French President Emmanuel Macron said countries cannot remain neutral over Russia's aggression, which he characterized as a new form of “imperialism”
“They are wrong; they are making a historic error,” Macron said about neutral countries. “Those who are keeping silent today are, in a way, complicit with the cause of a new imperialism.”
He said the world was at risk of splitting over the war and that unless Russia was stopped other “wars of annexation” may occur.
“On the 24th of February this year, Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, through an act of aggression and invasion and annexation, broke our collective security,” Macron said. “It deliberately violated the U.N. Charter and the principle of sovereign equality of states.”
Yet with Russia and Ukraine showing no willingness to stop fighting and negotiate, it appears the war will only intensify with the approach of winter as both sides try to claim victory on the battlefield before Ukraine's snows and cold set in.
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FALL IS HERE!
- David Karnes
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Good Thursday. FINALLY!!!! Fall officially begins at 9:04 eastern, but I'm not scared to say it... IT'S FALL! And our first fall front is moving through now. It has been bringing clouds and even a few areas of rain east of Chattanooga. This evening temps will start dropping rapidly. Most of the evening will be dropping through the 70s, ultimately bottoming out in the low to mid-50s by Friday morning.
Friday will be incredible all day long. Skies will be mostly sunny. The humidity will be MUCH lower, and temps will be in the mid-70s.
Saturday and Sunday another front will move through. It does look like we will have mostly cloudy skies both days of the weekend, and we may even get a few showers Saturday and Sunday. Anything we get, however, will not cause you to cancel any weekend plans. Temps this weekend will be a little warmer in the low 80s.
Behind the next front, we will have a long period of awesome. Each day will be in the mid to upper 70s. Lows will be in the low 50s, and the humidity will remain low. We may see some clouds moving in late week depending on the track of the tropical system which will soon be named "Hermine".
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The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development released the state-wide unemployment numbers for August, which show that every county in the state lowered their rate of unemployment.
Eighty-nine of the state's 95 counties saw recorded rates below 5%, while the remaining six counties came in with rates higher than 5%, but less than 10%.
Williamson County’s unemployment rate was the lowest in Tennessee during August. At 2.3%, the county’s rate dropped by 0.3 of a percentage point from its July figure of 2.6%.
Cheatham County came in with the state’s second-lowest rate for the month at 2.5%, a 0.3 of a percentage point drop when compared to the previous month.
Perry County recorded the state’s highest jobless number for the month at 5.6%. Its new rate accounted for a 0.7 of a percentage point drop from its July rate of 6.3%.
Bledsoe County had the second-highest jobless rate in August at 5.4% but its rate dropped by 0.7 of a percentage point for the month. With the third-highest rate, Shelby County’s new figure of 5.3% was down 0.7 of a percentage point from its July rate.
Statewide, seasonally adjusted unemployment did inch up in August. It was the first increase after three consecutive months of a steady rate. It went from 3.3% to 3.4% between July and August.
Nationally, seasonally adjusted unemployment increased slightly between July and August, up 0.2 of a percentage point to 3.7%.
County unemployment rates are not seasonally adjusted to account for different impacts on the workforce.
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President Joe Biden participated in a briefing Thursday afternoon on the situation in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Fiona and announced he was authorizing 100% federal funding for debris removal, search and rescue and power restoration as a result of the storm.
During the briefing, which took place at FEMA's Region 2 Office at One World Trade in New York City, Biden said he wanted to "make sure the people of Puerto Rico have everything, everything that they can possibly need," adding, "We are with you. We are not going to walk away. We mean it."
"We're all in this together," he added. "We don't view this as some distant problem."
Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and other Puerto Rican officials participated in the briefing virtually. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell briefed the President in person, with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams also on hand. Biden has been in the city this week to attend the United Nations General Assembly and other events.
The President also thanked first responders, noting the trauma they experience and the challenges posed by experiencing so many disasters in the last five years.
The meeting comes as Fiona -- the first major hurricane of this year's Atlantic season that's currently a Category 4 -- continues to move north toward Bermuda. It's projected to eventually move up to Canada.
The hurricane watch for Bermuda has been upgraded to a hurricane warning. And Canadian forecasters are saying Fiona is likely to be Canada's strongest storm, warning that it could be Canada's version of Hurricane Sandy, which pummeled the northeastern coast of the United States in 2012.
The storm has killed at least five people across the Caribbean: one in Guadeloupe, two in Puerto Rico and two in the Dominican Republic.
Hurricane Fiona comes almost exactly five years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, a storm that caused an extended blackout across the island and lasting damage to infrastructure.
As of Thursday, 495,000 -- or 38% -- of customers have electricity in Puerto Rico, according to LUMA Energy, which operates the island's power grid. Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo said Thursday that 890,000 customers, or 67% of all users, now have running water.
On Wednesday, Puerto Rico Housing Secretary William Rodriguez said in a video that more than 800 people are currently in shelters with about 40 shelters spread across the island.
The President approved a major disaster declaration for the island on Wednesday, directing federal aid for local recovery efforts in areas affected by Hurricane Fiona.
The move allows residents to access grants for temporary housing and home repairs as well as low-interest loans to cover uninsured property losses.
Adams has also deployed staff from city agencies to Puerto Rico to help officials surveying damage.
Pierluisi joined Criswell to survey storm damage on an aerial tour of Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The governor had said ahead of the tour on Wednesday that he expected to speak with the President this week.
Forecast models also show a developing storm system poised to be named Hermine could pose a threat to the Gulf Coast by next week.
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I am often asked to speak on current events and I understand why but I am not an expert on everything. If something is beyond my area of expertise, I know there are better people who can speak to a given issue. I know that sometimes (often) it is better to listen than to speak. And yet. Sometimes, it’s important to acknowledge an issue we should all be paying attention to. (And yes, there are many, many things we should be paying attention to right now— Puerto Rico dealing with the aftermath of hurricanes and failed infrastructure, millions and millions of people in Pakistan displaced by global warming and flooding, the fuel shortage, protests and instability in Haiti, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and on and on it goes. Thankfully, we can do multiple things at once.)
On September 13th, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman was arrested in Tehran by the Iranian morality police (literally) and taken to a “guidance center.” Her crime? “Improper hijab,” which is to say a small section of her hair was showing.
Mahsa Amini was a vibrant, healthy young woman who, according to reports had a stroke and a heart attack a few days after her arrest. An autopsy also showed that she suffered head injuries consistent with being hit in the head though, as you might expect, Iranian police are denying any wrongdoing or that she was injured in their custody.
At least five protestors have been killed but protestors are undeterred. Women and men have taken to the streets. Women are burning hijabs, cutting their hair, and publicly defying the oppressive laws they have been forced to live with for decades.
Foreign governments have offered tepid condemnatory statements seeking accountability but there is no such thing as accountability in a totalitarian regime. Mahsa Amini’s name, her death, they will not be forgotten, but there is little hope that she and her loved ones will receive any justice. She is not the first woman to die in Iranian police custody, nor will she be the last.
The news of Amini’s death has stayed with me since I learned about it over the weekend. Senseless is the word that keeps running through my mind. Outrageous is another word. Amini should never have been arrested in the first place. There should not be an entire law enforcement system, in any country, dedicated to policing women’s clothing, or any other aspect of women’s lives. A young woman should be able to emerge from a train station and go about her business, instead of knowing freedom for the last time.
We often say that none of us are free until all of us are free, and that tenet indisputably extends beyond America’s borders. Women are not free when their bodies are legislated, whether we are talking about reproductive freedom or gender expression or how we clothe ourselves and move in public and private spaces. We can respect other cultures as feminists while acknowledging practices that are unequivocally unacceptable which the Islamic Hijab Rules absolutely are.
The very, very least we can do from this distance is acknowledge what is happening in Iran. We can continue to pay attention, amplify credible information, and stay informed. We can say Mahsa Amini’s name, rage about her senseless murder, and listen to people who have useful perspectives on Iran and the country’s treatment of women. You might start with Masih Alinejad, Roya Hakakian, and Nazanin Boniadi. In the meantime, her name was Mahsa Amini. She was 22 years old. She was murdered. May her death be the catalyst for long needed change.
This essay was originally published on Roxane’s Substack, The Audacity. Photo by Zoe on Unsplash.
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In 2004, psychologist Barry Schwartz wrote a book that introduced a new idea into culture: The Paradox of Choice. The subtitle: Why More Is Less.
It was a terrific idea. The main point was that the abundance of choices that have sprung up in modern marketplaces (for goods, services, lifestyles) is a source of anxiety. That anxiety is particularly acute, Schwartz argued, for maximizers, people who consistently seek out the optimal outcome in any situation. Perfectionists. Satisficers, on the other hand, (a term introduced by economist Herbert Simon in 1956) engage in a kind of rough cost/benefit analysis and settle for an option they will be satisfied with. Good enough.
The proliferation of options in various merchandise categories is often used as an example of the paradox. There are over 80 brands of bottled water in the US. Hundreds of colas and other flavored soft drinks. How about the bread aisle? So many choices!
The supermarket alone must be a nightmare!
But, is it?
Think about the way you shop in grocery stores. Do you bring a list of things you need? What do you write on that list? Many (most?) of us prepare something like this:
- Milk
- Bread
- Eggs
- Soup
- Bacon
- Potato chips
- Veggies
And, most of us shopping in our regular supermarket know precisely where to find each of these items. Not only that; most of us know exactly where our favorites are in every aisle. Our carts almost go there on automatic pilot! I don’t need to stand in front of the bread display, scanning every option before making a selection. My brain is focused on one thing: where’s the Levy’s?
We also didn’t need to write down the specifics for each category on our list. We already know which brand of milk or soup we want because we’ve already established favorites in each of those categories. Even “veggies” really only consists of a few favorite kinds. How often do you peruse the rutabagas? Me either.
With the exception of extreme maximizers (those poor souls!), we all establish favorites in each of our retailing categories to simplify our lives. That’s the “job” of favorites: to eliminate the vast majority of choices that the marketplace presents in favor of the ones I’ve already decided upon. Constantly choosing among a wide range of options is very “expensive” for our brain: it uses a lot of cognitive energy. Literally. Favorites streamline the world. Choices made. No anxiety. No paradox.
This is what makes walking the aisles of an American supermarket such a dizzying experience for new arrivals from other countries. (It’s even tough to move to a new city and to have to familiarize yourself with new store layouts!) The overwhelming array of possibilities… unfiltered by the pre-existing set of choices we old hands at shopping have made… is enough to drive new shoppers out of stores in an anxious sweat! That where the paradox of choice shows itself in its full glory! But after a while, we all settle on a set of favorites that make the world a lot more manageable.
Managing choices isn’t just limited to shopping. What TV shows or networks do you watch? How about websites? Music? What about the route you take to work every day? These are all “markets” for your time and attention— options to be considered— that you “resolve” (consciously, or not) and then move on.
Favorites are our way of living the lives we “choose” to live (again, either consciously or not) without constantly having to make new decisions about everything we do every day.
Understanding the rules that govern your choices of favorites is one of the most interesting ways to uncover how your decision-making actually processes work. How persistent are your favorites? Which ones? Which ones aren’t? How did they become favorites? How open are they to influence by others? Whose influence? Who are your real “influencers”? What makes them influential? These are the kinds of questions that can lead to revealing insights about yourself and your world.
Thinking about your favorites and the processes that made them so is a “sneaky” way of understanding the fabric of your everyday life. Instead of asking yourself direct, abstract, questions like, “Who am I?” or “Why do I do what I do?” you use your own favorites and choices as clues to understanding yourself-in-action. And, after all, those action do speak louder…
In the end, the more you understand your favorite things and the ways they become favorites, the more you get to decide if they’re really what you want your life to be like.
Tom Guarriello is a psychologist, consultant, and founding faculty member of the Masters in Branding program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. He’s spent over a decade teaching psychology-based courses like The Meaning of Branded Objects, as well as leading Honors and Thesis projects. He’s spearheaded two podcasts, BrandBox and RoboPsych, the accompanying podcast for his eponymous website on the psychology of human-robot interaction. This essay was originally posted on Guarriello’s Substack, My Favorite Things.
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Laura Ljungkvist finished art school in Stockholm in 1988, and in 1993 moved to New York City. As a new illustrator back then, editorial work was the easiest work to get, so she bought a bunch of magazines and started making calls and dropping off portfolios on “drop-off days.” She started getting assignments right away, and her first big job was The New Yorker. “They asked me to make sketches for their ‘Goings On Around Town’ section, and they ended up buying 20+,” she recalls. “That was a good day!”
From there, it just continued—as did the development of her linear style, which she discusses below.
How, and why, did your linear style evolve?
Sweden, where I came from, is a very “small market” for an illustrator. It’s easy to get “overexposed” when you’re hot; therefore, you need to be able to do many different styles. While here in New York, I quickly learned that there are so many illustrators that it’s imperative that you have your own personal style that sets you apart. I had some “one-line illos” in my portfolio when I came and those were the ones clients responded to and wanted, and soon my portfolio consisted of only “one-liners.” Then I started evolving, adding shapes of color in the background, with the black line crossing over, completing the objects.
What books have you done?
I have been really, really fortunate. Working and getting a lot of exposure, even here your style gets “worn out,” and when other artists [mimic] your style, you need/have to move on. And the world I work in is always looking for something new, and one day you are not “up-and-upcoming” anymore. The word experienced isn’t necessarily a compliment.
Eventually editorial work stopped. At the point, it wasn’t really challenging me anymore. Then I got the idea that I wanted to do children’s books! And it was a case of being “at the right place at the right time” that my first book was published.
To date I have written and published 13 books (I illustrated one for another author). My claim to fame is a series of four for Viking Children’s Books: Follow the Line.
Your swirling linear graphics always seemed made for textile designs. When did you start your line of products?
I found these two platforms—Society6 and Redbubble—that let you as an artist apply your patterns to different kinds of products. I have always been fascinated by patterns (an art teacher I once had said I “have a fear of empty space”) and I have a library of a million that I have done that I put into my illustration work, but that are just crying out to be placed on products.
You’ve done books, illustration, film titles, etc.—does this physical medium suit you better, or is it one of the many media you enjoy?
I have been so tremendously fortunate in my career, doing so many different thing. As an example—designing a town that you put together after punching out shapes that come on boards in a box. This was an assignment from MoMA. I might have had a sleepless night or two, but I enjoyed building in 3D enormously. I love a challenge!
What are your favorite items?
They all inspire me! I love to adjust my patterns to fit them. But I have a favorite pattern—it’s actually an illustration in black and white, a very graphic map of the city of Stockholm that was an editorial, full-spread assignment ages ago.
What do you see as coming next?
I think you mean what do you hope comes next?
I have written my first “big people” book about dogs. I have multiple children’s book ideas in my drawer. (One is out with editors now.) More products! I used to teach illustration at a college in Stockholm, and that is something I’d like to do again. It would be a dream to have my own product line! I hope to be challenged with new things.
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Featured Image: Zody’s Discount Department store (sign), Designer: Deborah Sussman, 1971
The expansiveness of graphic design is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the vastness of the graphic design world is indicative of the rich and beautiful works that have been created in media across the globe for centuries. But on the other, how in the hell do we preserve, document, and share it all?
This was the central question graphic designer and design educator Louise Sandhaus began asking eight years ago, propelling her to start plotting what would one day become the People’s Graphic Design Archive. With the help of Briar Levit, Brockett Horne, Morgan Searcy, and support from Stephen Coles and Kate Long from The Letterform Archive, Sandhaus was able to turn what she calls a “crazy idea” into a critical, first-of-its-kind tool for preserving graphic design history.
The result is a crowd-sourced virtual archive of inclusive graphic design history, and a community-driven open access collection of anything that can be considered graphic design. The platform can be searched through key words and tags, with results organizable by “Contribution Date,” “Item Date,” “Most Discussed,” or “Most Viewed.” Anyone can create a PGDA account to submit works to the archive— in fact, Sandhaus implores you to do so.
To celebrate the PGDA’s official launch earlier this month, I spoke to Sandhaus about her journey with the project, the future of the platform, and how the public can continue to support its mission.
(This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.)
How did you come up with the concept for the People’s Graphic Design Archive?
The original concept for what is now The People’s Graphic Design Archive came out of my books, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design and A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer. I saw what was being preserved in archives, and realized there was so much incredible material that I came across in my research but there was no place for this material to go. I was frustrated. I could see inklings of other things that should be researched, but there’s not enough time, and not enough researchers. And even if you cover all this material, most of the time, there’s no place where it’s going to be preserved where people are going to know about it.
I remember sitting in a meeting at LACMA in 2014 (they had this community of curators and design historians I was a part of), and I realized, Oh my god, there’s so much more they could collect! But how would they even know about it? What am I going to do? That’s when the idea dawned on me for a crowd-sourced virtual collection.
What was the development process like for the project?
I spent years trying to conceptualize it, prototyping it with students, seeing how we might digitize an archive, seeing if there was public interest. We did this graphic design roadshow in 2017, where we invited the public to bring in examples of graphic design that they thought were part of canonized graphic design history, and should be preserved and shared— kind of like Antiques Roadshow.
I also got together with a former student of mine, and the founder of BIPOC Design History, Silas Munro. We both had these big ideas for design history, but we needed support; we needed people to talk to. So we formed something called “Design History Fridays,” and invited people that we knew were also working in this realm of design history who might want to have a conversation and support each other. It was through that group that Brian and Brockett came forward.
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Designer: Joe Allen Hong
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Taking on a project of this magnitude can be incredibly daunting. How were you able to plow ahead for eight long years to bring your vision for the PGDA to life?
There’s this tenaciousness that takes over you. You keep the blinders on, you see the possibility but you can’t get paralyzed by what it’s going to take. It’s also about not being afraid to fail. If it didn’t work, it didn’t work!
When I saw the platform Fonts in Use I realized, Oh, it can be done! It’s a crowd-sourced, virtual collection. That’s when we approached them about whether they could build a custom platform for us, and that’s when it became possible.
I know down the line, we’re going to hit all kinds of craziness in terms of the extent of endless space for all of the data. We’re realizing the practicalities, but none of them are out of reach. The thing that we have to do is get the word out so that people know, Oh, this exists, and I can decide what should be part of graphic design history. Graphic design history is not this complete story. There are endless stories.
Designer: Cameron Ewing
2010
What are some of the main features of the PGDA people should know about?
On the site right now, under “Resources,” there are various tutorials and how-to guides so that we can facilitate people who are interested in adding to the archive, or uncovering the history in their community, or documenting someone that they know, and they think there should be a record of their work. We have “how to do an oral history fast and easy,” “how to document work fast and easy,” and more.
One of the things that I panicked about originally was the idea of preserving the work of someone like Gere Kavanaugh; she’s now in her late 90’s. I have recordings from her, but those need to be shared! How are those accessed by other people? How is her story about her career and work preserved? I realized that there were tons of other people who have made incredible things, and we need to encourage people to actually document that work and the story. But if it seems daunting, if somebody is looking at 10 boxes of work, and they’re like, “Oh my god, I don’t even know where to begin; I don’t have enough time,” we can provide resources that say, this is easy. Here’s what you need to do; 1-2-3, that’s it!
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One of the main things that we’re doing to show people that it’s easy, and that they can dip their toe in anywhere, are more of these roadshows. People bring a treasure, or a few treasures that they think should be shared. We’re not interested in it being worth something in terms of monetary value— we’re interested in what it’s worth to the history of graphic design.
We have people at the roadshows from the community that might know about this material, so they can help fill in the information. Then we show people how to add it to the archive, so in this festive way, they learn that the archive even exists! They can bring in material, and add to that history, and hopefully they continue to add more and share it with others. We just had one at the Torn Apart exhibition at the Pacific Design Center in LA. People brought incredible stuff!
We’ve also had so much outreach from different communities who want representation on the PGDA, so we have what we call Add-A-Thons. We ask ourselves what’s missing, and notice gaps like Latinx design, for example, so now we’re working with Roman Shahada to figure out how to do a Latinx Add-A-Thon. Maybe someone who is working on Southeast Asians graphic design history will want to do an Add-A-Thon, or maybe they want to do a roadshow! So we’re coming up with these different kinds of instruments to encourage people to make it festive, and to concentrate on areas of design that a community wants to see more representation of in the archive.
circa 1978
From Power to the People
Do you have a review process in place to check submissions to the archive?
We have somebody in a moderation role, but as long as a submission is graphic design, we just push the button to upload it. Let’s say somebody submitted a picture of a chair, and we’re not seeing it as graphic design— we still want to make sure we’re not overlooking something, so we would write to that person and say, “Can you help us understand how you see this as graphic design?”
If there’s something that we want to have a record of, but we know that some people may find it offensive, we try to do two things. First, we window shade it to identify it, and then we also suggest that the photo used is low resolution, so that there’s a record of the work, but it can’t be used to celebrate it.
We also ask people to use their real names. If someone uses an alias, it feels less like they’re participating together with us in this community. But we do understand occasionally somebody does need to use an alias— let’s say if they’re in a certain country, like North Korea or Iran, they might need to add anonymously. We understand that there might be those situations.
Designer: Mark Morris
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What are your goals for the PGDA?
This is supposed to be a community archive— it’s “The People’s”— so hopefully, we will one day have the structure in place for the people to also be moderating it. Right now, we don’t mean to seem like we own the archive, but I know it appears that way. We welcome anybody who wants to jump in here and work with us, and eventually figure out how the community is actually able to run this.
What are the best ways for people to support the PGDA?
Sign up for our newsletter! Create an account! Or throw a few dollars our way, or even more than a few dollars; we welcome that! The other thing that we have that we’re hoping people contribute to is our blog. Anybody can write for our blog!
For those submitting work to the archive, one thing that is vital— and the only way that this becomes a rich resource— is through tagging. How the work may be seen as meaningful depends on the tag, as well as how the work comes up in a search. It takes a lot of imagination. The richer the tagging, the more useful the archive becomes. Our hearts fall when people submit things— which we’re so happy about— but then they didn’t tag it. We’ll have to figure out how to encourage people to do it as we go along.
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circa 1968
Why is a platform like the PGDA so vital?
People want to see themselves in design. They want their own stories and their own lineage that shaped design in their minds to be part of this. There are people like Karina Kent and Emory Douglas whose work was overlooked for so long, but was meaningful to so many, and yet so many people didn’t know about their contribution. So how many more people who have created work of significance aren’t recognized, or aren’t known about?
We hope that people use it as a resource to tell stories. To curate items in a way that creates new ways of thinking about the relevancy of this history. It becomes the ingredients that generate other creative work.
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American Airlines officials confirmed that a flight attendant was assaulted by a passenger on board one of its commercial planes on Wednesday.
American Airlines flight 377, with service from San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, to Los Angeles International Airport, was en route when the incident happened.
CNN reported that a video posted to social media showed a passenger approach a flight attendant and then punch them before other passengers were heard gasping in reaction.
American Airlines said in a statement, "Acts of violence against our team members are not tolerated by American Airlines." The statement said, "The individual involved in this incident will never be allowed to travel with us in the future, and we will work closely with law enforcement in their investigation."
Law enforcement met the flight when it landed at the gate and removed the passenger. The passenger was arrested, according to a public information officer with the U.S. Attorney's Office Central District of California. Their office is working with the FBI on the case.
American Airlines said, "We thank our crew for their quick action and professionalism to ensure the safety of their fellow team members and customers on board." The statement said, "Our thoughts are with our injured flight attendant, and we are ensuring that they and their fellow crew members have the support they need at this time."
Julie Hedrick, national president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), said, "This violent behavior puts the safety of all passengers and crew in jeopardy and must stop." Hedrick said, "APFA fully supports the affected crew members and will do all possible to ensure that the passenger faces prosecution to the fullest extent of the law."
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OREGON, Ohio — An Ohio oil refinery was shut down Wednesday after two people died in the massive fire on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for British Petroleum told the Associated Press that the fire occurred at its Husky Toledo Refinery in the city of Oregon, just outside Toledo.
According to the news outlet, the company said that the two workers were initially injured in the blaze but later succumbed to their injuries.
In a video provided to CNN, Ryan Rohm told the news outlet that he began noticing black smoke rise from the refinery around 7 p.m., adding an explosion also shook the ground and houses nearby.
During a Wednesday night speech on the House of Representatives floor, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur offered her condolences to the families of Ben and Max Morrissey, the two men who died in the fire.
"Madam Speaker, I rise today with deep sadness to pay tribute to two highly skilled U.S. steelworkers, brothers Ben and Max Morrissey, who tragically lost their lives at the British Petroleum refinery in my hometown," Kaptur said as she addressed lawmakers. "Yesterday, while on the job at the BP-Husky plant in Oregon, Ohio, their lives were cut short in a horrific explosion. Responsible citizens, husbands and fathers who performed America’s essential work that drives progress and our American way of life forward."
The company spokesperson said the fire was extinguished around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday and the refinery was "safely shut down," NBC News reported.
The cause of the fire has not been released, the Associated Press reported.
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A federal class-action suit has been filed against the Virginia Department of Education and Fairfax County School Board claiming they are violating the rights of disabled students under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
The plaintiffs in the case — the parents of an anonymous Fairfax County student and their nonprofit, Hear Our Voices, an organization focused on supporting disabled and special needs students — argue that VDOE and the Fairfax school board “have actively cultivated an unfair and biased” hearing system to oversee challenges to local decisions about disabled students.
The parents claim that state hearing officers, who are responsible for holding impartial hearings to resolve disagreements over issues related to special education services, have ruled disproportionately against parents for two decades.
Between 2010 and 2021, Virginia parents who initiated a due process hearing “received a favorable hearing” in only 13 of 847 cases, the lawsuit says.
“Moreover, during the last twenty years approximately two thirds of the hearing officers have never ruled in favor of parents, not even once,” the plaintiffs wrote. “Even worse, in Northern Virginia, 83% of hearing officers never once ruled in favor of parents over the eleven-plus years from 2010 to July 2021.”
The low success rate for parental challenges in Virginia “is a glaring outlier compared to other states,” where studies have found rulings in favor of parents hovering around 30%, the lawsuit says.
Charles Pyle, a spokesperson with the Virginia Department of Education, said in an email that the department does not comment on pending litigation, but is “committed to ensuring that students with disabilities receive all services and supports that they are entitled to under federal and state law.”
Fairfax County Public Schools did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trevor Chaplick, the father of the Fairfax student, said the lawsuit was brought forward to reveal the “deeply troubling ruling record” of Virginia’s hearing officers against parents of disabled children.
“The parents of disabled and special needs children deserve a better fate from the Virginia public school system,” said Chaplick in a statement.
The Chaplicks allege that the Department of Education developed a roster of “school-friendly” hearing officers, allowed local education agencies to communicate improperly with hearing officers, hired officers who were biased due to financial interests and declined to certify new officers for more than a decade.
The Civil Rights Clinic of Georgetown Law School, the law firm of Susman Godfrey, LLP, and Merritt Law, PLLC, are representing the family. The case is being heard in the Alexandria Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
“Children with disabilities and their families deserve ‘a life like yours,'” said Aderson Francois, director for the Georgetown Civil Rights Clinic, in a statement. “This lawsuit is the first step in making sure that the commonwealth of Virginia provides these children with an education that meets their needs.”
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Prince William County has delayed the next public hearing on the proposed PW Digital Gateway data center complex.
The Board of County Supervisors was scheduled to review a Comprehensive Plan amendment for the proposal at its Oct. 11 meeting, but board Chair Ann Wheeler has temporarily pulled the hearing.
Wheeler said the delay was to clear up confusion about the amendment process, the applicants and the properties included in the proposal.
She said the hearing has been pushed “a few weeks,” but no firm date has been decided. She said it would be rescheduled before the end of the year.
The postponement came the day after the Planning Commission briefly reopened its debate of the project but ultimately stuck with its recommendation for approval.
During its meeting Wednesday night, the panel discussed a perceived lack of transparency around the 5 a.m. vote on Sept. 15 -- a vote to recommend approval that included several last-minute changes.
Following a marathon public hearing, the commission voted 4-3-1 to recommend approval of a Comprehensive Plan amendment that would serve as a guideline for the overall development.
The project, which proposes 27.6 million square feet of data centers across 2,100 acres along Pageland Lane, has quickly become the most controversial and contentious local land-use proposal in decades. Opponents and proponents have launched personal attacks against each other, and it has spawned recall efforts against Gainesville Supervisor Pete Candland and Board Chair Ann Wheeler and a federal lawsuit against Candland.
The vote to recommend approval included several changes outlined in a Sept. 9 letter to the Planning Commission from representatives of Compass Datacenters and QTS Realty Trust Inc., the companies planning to develop the area.
The letter included calls for removing a stretch of protected wildlife corridor, reducing an open space area and loosening proposed stormwater regulations.
The letter was not discussed during the staff presentation to the Planning Commission, and several commissioners said they had not seen it before the vote. Furthermore, opponents of the project said the changes weren’t publicly available until after the meeting.
Coles Commissioner Joseph Fontanella Jr. opened discussion Wednesday by saying the panel had the option to reconsider its original motion, amend it or rescind the recommendation.
He said he’s “more a believer of people making mistakes than having a conspiracy theory.”
“That letter, I think, got lost in people’s emails,” Fontanella said.
Commissioners said they each received more than 1,000 emails prior to the meeting about the project.
“In my view, if it was to be considered in the meeting, it should have come from the planning staff,” he said. “I’m just putting this out on the table here because I think we have a problem to address.”
Neabsco Commissioner Qwendolyn Brown, who made the motion to recommend approval and include the changes requested in the letter, said, “This letter was not some clandestine document.”
Brown has been the target of criticism online and at Wednesday’s public comment for her motion.
“This letter was not just pulled out of our hat like a rabbit,” she said. “There’s some misinformation that this letter was a surprise and it was not.”
Interim Planning Director Rebecca Horner, who was out of the office when the letter came in and the Planning Commission voted, said the only staff copied on the email were her and planner Alex Vanegas.
Horner said staff likely would not have emphasized it to the Planning Commission because it was not from an applicant specifically tied to the Comprehensive Plan amendment.
“We would consider this a comment letter just like any other comment letter we receive from the public,” she said. “It would not be a typical process for us to forward it to anybody because we don’t do that with other comment letters.”
Brentsville Commissioner Tom Gordy said that if the changes to the plan requested were to be considered, county staff should have been given the opportunity to review them and provide input.
“It completely changed the [application],” he said. “Unfortunately we’re at a time in our culture where confidence in our institutions is at an all-time low, and I don’t think we did ourselves any favors.”
Gainesville Commissioner Richard Berry said he met with landowners two days prior to the vote, and they made no mention of the letter, which he called “very troubling.”
Horner said although the Planning Commission recommendation incorporated the letter, the staff report prepared for the Board of County Supervisors might not agree with all the proposals.
No action was taken to change the recommendation adopted on Sept. 15.
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If you hear rumbling coming from the Nokesville area this weekend, don’t worry.
It’s just the Americans in Wartime Experience’s annual “Tank Farm” event, which will feature over 50 military vehicles on display both Saturday and Sunday.
The open house is held at 13906 Aden Road in Nokesville from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. both days.
Military tanks and armored vehicles will be on display and some will be driven. Over 200 living historians will help to add context to the event.
Also included are K9 demonstrations, veteran interviews, living history unit displays and reenactments, historical displays, children’s activities and flame thrower demonstrations. Food trucks will be available on site.
The event is open to the public free of charge, but donations and pre-registration are requested. Visit www.americansinwartime.org/open-house-2/ for more information and to register.
The event is part of the Americans in Wartime Experience’s effort to build a museum in the Dale City area of Prince William County. The museum will tell the stories of American men and women who have served in the military from World War I to the present.
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The pandemic continues to roll through Arlington’s population, but at least for the moment, the days when it held the potential to overtax public-health facilities seem to be in the rear-view mirror.
“There’s still a lot of COVID out there, but fortunately we have more tools at our disposal to both prevent and treat,” Dr. Reuben Varghese, the county government’s public-health director, said in a Sept. 20 update to County Board members.
For the preceding four weeks, Arlington had been in the “Low” threat category as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which looks primarily at a community’s ability to withstand a surge in cases that might potentially overwhelm treatment facilities.
“We’re doing quite well” in that regard, Varghese said, while also pointing out that by the CDC’s old standard (level of community transmission), Arlington would still be ranked in the “High” category.
Through Sept. 10, Arlington had recorded nearly 33,500 confirmed cases of COVID for the year, mostly at the start of the year but still nearly double the 17,400 cases recorded in all of 2021. But most of those cases were less severe, owing to evolving variants that have shown the propensity to move easily from person to person while not inflicting the carnage that was seen earlier in the pandemic.
County health officials report 55 deaths so far in 2022 owing to COVID, but the death figures remain the subject of controversy as it is almost impossible to differentiate between those who died directly of COVID and those who died of something else but may have had COVID in their system at the time. (There were 102 COVID-related deaths in Arlington in 2021 and 181 – from a much lower level of reported cases – in 2020.)
The 33,498 cases reported to date in 2022 probably significantly undercount the actual number of people who were afflicted with the virus, some on multiple occasions, since much testing is now being done at home, if it is being done at all, and is not necessarily being reported to health officials.
“We’re, of course, not capturing all of the cases,” Varghese said.
In terms of vaccination rates, Arlington officials report that 85.5 percent of eligible county residents have had at least one COVID vaccination and 77.4 percent have had at least two. About 35,000 eligible county residents have opted not to get vaccinated, according to county data.
Among adults, the lowest rate of vaccination among eligible individuals is found in the 25-to-35 and 85-and-older groups. Vaccination rates of children 5 to 11 years old also are running below the overall average, as well.
While Varghese doesn’t rule out a surge as more residents spend more time indoors in coming months, for the moment, based on current CDC scoring, all of Northern Virginia, suburban Maryland and the District of Columbia is in the “Green” – lowest – level of threat.
“Let’s hope that [continues] for as long as possible,” Varghese said.
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He’s been out of elected office since 2015, but Walter Tejada continues to make contributions across the region.
Tejada, one of Virginia’s appointees to the board of directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, recently starred in an authority video highlighting Hispanic Heritage Month.
“Such a wonderful video – I’ve gotten a multitude of positive comments,” Tejada said of the effort, which aims to promote the airports authority as a strong place to work.
Tejada, a native of El Salvador, was elected to the County Board in 2003 during a special election necessitated by the death of board member Charles Monroe. He won a full four-year term later that year and was re-elected in 2007 and 2011, chairing the board for two one-year stints.
Tejada in 2016 was appointed by Gov. McAuliffe as one of Virginia’s board members on the airports authority. He currently co-chairs the Dulles Corridor and Sustainability committees.
He has proved “a strong voice and leader,” said Chryssa Westerlund, the authority’s executive vice president and chief revenue officer.
Tejada’s current term on the authority board will expire in November 2024, at which point Gov. Youngkin will have the chance to fill the slot.
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In the current political environment, which is most charitably described as fractured, how about embracing an effort to celebrate a pending electoral centennial that, one hopes, all Virginians could rally behind?
The names of Sarah Lee Fain of Norfolk and Helen Timmons Henderson of Buchanan County may not necessarily be familiar across the commonwealth, but they hold an important place in the Old Dominion’s political history. In November 1923, Fain and Henderson became the first two women elected to the House of Delegates, a body (as its members will frequently note) that is the linear descendant of the oldest legislative panel in what was then described as the New World.
Their election came just three years after women in Virginia won the right to vote under the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (albeit an amendment that the Virginia legislature didn’t itself get around to passing until 1952). And unlike cases elsewhere, neither was the wife or widow of a prominent male political figure; each won election based on her own talents and political acumen.
Henderson, who earned the distinction of being the first woman to ever preside over the House of Delegates, died in 1925 toward the end of her first term, although her daughter later would win the seat. Fain easily won two additional two-year terms, according to Encyclopedia Virginia, then stood down. More women would follow, consistently if somewhat infrequently, in the House of Delegates, although it would not be until 1979 (!) that Virginia elected its first female state senator, when Republican Eva Scott moved up from the House of Delegates.
Today, 11 of 40 state senators and 36 of 100 delegates are female, putting Virginia in the middle of the pack nationwide in percentage terms, according to data from the Center for American Women and Politics.
We bring all this up in an effort to perhaps prod some at the state level to start the ball rolling on a celebration of Fain, Henderson and, as an adjunct, those women who followed them in the General Assembly. With the 100th anniversary of their election on the near horizon, the 2023 General Assembly should pass the necessary legislation or resolution to get things moving.
And perhaps to show that bipartisanship does still exist in the Old Dominion, why not designate Republican Winsome Sears (Virginia’s first female lieutenant governor) and Democrat Eileen Filler-Corn (first female Speaker of the House of Delegates) to collaborate on leading the effort?
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Sailors first created the line-crossing ceremony as a way to see if their shipmates were worth their salt on long voyages. Nowadays, the tradition is still celebrated onboard cruise ships and cargo vessels when they cross the equator and the international date line.
As Carnival Splendor crossed the international date line on Wednesday, guests onboard celebrated the special occasion for themselves. As she crossed, the Carnival cruise ship skipped a full day, turning Wednesday to Friday.
Carnival Splendor on Transpacific Sailing
Carnival Splendor recently concluded her season in Alaska on September 6, where she spent the summer sailing in colder climates from Seattle, showing guests everything the state has to offer. Now, she is on her way to warmer temperatures as she sails to Australia.
Wednesday, September 21, marked a special occasion for guests and crew onboard as the Concordia-class cruise ship crossed the International Date Line. The vessel is sailing westward in the Southern Ocean after visiting Hawaii between September 12 and 15, where she visited Honolulu, Kona, Hilo, and Maui.
Crossing the internationally recognized calendar boundary means the 113,300 gross tons Carnival Splendor skipped a full day of the week – turning Wednesday into Friday for all on board.
“This is a special voyage, and crossing the International Dateline is a fun milestone to share along the way with our guests and crew as we make a truly momentous return trip to beautiful Sydney,” said Captain Francesco La Fauci.
“Sydney is my favorite city, and embarking soon on my 40th year at Carnival Cruise Line, I am so happy to be sailing there with Carnival Splendor and her crew family so we can continue serving one of the most spectacular ports in the world.”
Guests onboard celebrated the fun-filled ceremony on the open decks. They are now part of the “Order of Neptune” and can officially call themselves Golden Shellbacks, sailors that crossed the International Date Line.
Homeporting Year-Round In Australia
As Carnival Splendor continues her voyage to Australia, before she arrives down under, the ship will call in Fiji, with stops in Suva and Port Denarau. She will then arrive in Sydney on September 30, marking the first time in 1000 days that a Carnival cruise ship makes a call in the country.
From Sydney, Carnival Splendor will be sailing a series of cruises varying in length from 3-to 11-day long. This includes a 10-day cruise to the Great Barrier Reef, which will call in Airlie Beach, Cairns, Port Douglas, Willis Island, and Moreton Island, Australia.
On November 21, Carnival Splendor will be one of the first cruise ships to return to New Zealand on a ten-night cruise to Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Fjordland National.
Two Carnival cruise ships will be based in Australia this year. On November 6, Carnival Cruise Line’s newest cruise ship, Carnival Luminosa, will arrive in Brisbane, Australia, for a series of cruises in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
Currently, Carnival Luminosa is still in dry dock as she is transformed from a Costa cruise ship to a Carnival Cruise Line ship. She has already received her new livery, and Carnival registered the vessel in the Bahamas in preparation for her repositioning in the coming weeks.
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