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Jason Aldean will never forget the evening of Oct. 1, 2017.
In a new documentary, the country music singer, 45, looks back at the mass shooting that took place that night at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas.
Aldean was on stage performing when a gunman opened fire. "When I turned around, my bass player was just looking at me like a deer in the headlights," he recalled per a press release for the documentary, which is titled 11 Minutes. "And my security guy was on stage at that point, telling me to get down, waving me off the stage."
Aldean, his band and his crew were unharmed. However, 58 people were killed that night and more than 800 were injured.
In the documentary, Aldean reflects on feelings of survivor's guilt. "It's hard not to feel a little guilty," he said. "I mean, those people were there to support us."
The four-part docuseries features first-person narratives from concertgoers, officers of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, hospital trauma teams, first responders and FBI agents. It also includes police bodycam footage and cell phone videos from that night.
Storme Warren, a SiriusXM host and festival emcee, recalled how strangers helped one another during that time.
"It's important that people know the truth out of respect for those we lost, out of those who were injured, those who are still mentally and physically scarred … that everybody's spirits and legacies remain intact," Warren said. "That friendships made that night in those 11 minutes were made for a reason. The story, to me, wasn't about a shooter. It was about people helping each other."
11 Minutes premieres on Paramount+ Sept. 27
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Dunfermline Athletic sit two points clear and unbeaten at the top of League 1 after six matches played.
There is still a long way to go between now and the end of the season, but it has been a promising start in what could still be a very difficult division.
The most recent win over Queen of the South was one of their most impressive so far.
🎥 Watch the goals from yesterday's 2-0 victory over Queen of the South.
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— Dunfermline Athletic (@officialdafc) September 3, 2022
With last weekend’s match away to Clyde postponed, Dunfermline now focus their attention on an old rival this weekend.
Courier Sport looks at that and three other Pars matches between now and fireworks night that stand out.
Falkirk (H) League 1, September 12
As Falkirk are now into their fourth season in League 1, following their relegation in 2019, the clubs have not faced each other in a league match since April of that year.
Falkirk ran out 1-0 winners on that day but Dunfermline won a League Cup group-stage match between the sides 2-0 the following year.
Alongside Kelty Hearts, this was the fixture that everyone was looking for when they dropped in June.
The Kelty game was for its historical significance, this one is due to the intense rivalry – though it has sometimes gone beyond the pale.
Now managed by John McGlynn, the Bairns are expected to challenge for the title this season.
It has not gone fully to plan so far, with three recent consecutive wins were sandwiched between two defeats and a draw.
Celtic B (H) SPFL Trust Trophy, September 24
This tournament isn’t the priority this season but manager James McPake, as is his nature, has said he is in this competition to win it.
He is also looking forward to facing his friend Darren O’Dea in the opposition dugout.
McPake knows the Lowland League side are not to be underestimated and are currently on a run of six undefeated, scoring 14 without reply in their last three.
Rangers B showed how difficult an opponent the elite youngsters in the country can be with a 4-0 rout of Dumbarton in the previous round.
McPake also said this match could have extra importance for giving some players returning from injury some game time – for example, Craig Wighton.
Others a rest from league duty given the small squad size.
FC Edinburgh (H) League 1, October 15
Not many would have picked this one out, even a few weeks ago, but the fact is right now FC Edinburgh are the closest challengers to the Pars.
They are on 12 points, two off the top and one ahead of Montrose and Airdrie who they leapfrogged last weekend with an astounding 6-0 victory.
Alan Maybury’s newly promoted side were overturned easily by Dunfermline at Meadowbank Stadium at the start of August – when Dundee United loanee Chris Mochrie scored on his debut.
But the capital side have since won four from five.
With Queen of the South, Montrose and Kelty up next for Edinburgh, they could yet be within touching distance, at the least, come this match in mid-October.
Falkirk (A) League 1, November 5
Remember, remember what I said earlier – these meetings were the first both sets of fans, and some neutrals, were looking for when the fixtures were announced.
Just what form both sides will be in by this point will be anyone’s guess, but no matter what it will again be highly anticipated.
For the Pars faithful it will be the first opportunity to visit the Falkirk Stadium since a 4-2 win back in December 2018.
Though a while away yet the thought of the Pars taking a strong, vocal support to Grangemouth while top – or challenging at the top – of the league is a tantalising one.
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The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Monday launched a housing scheme in which nearly 8,500 flats are on offer for the lower income group (LIG) and economically weaker section (EWS) categories in Narela on a “first-come-first-serve” basis.
The urban body is offering 5,850 LIG flats in Narela’s sector G-7 priced at ₹22.80 lakh and 2,880 EWS flats in Sectors A1 to A4, priced between ₹10.75 lakh to ₹12.42 lakh.
A senior DDA official said the flats offered in this scheme are part of the urban body’s unsold inventory which has found few takers in the previous schemes.
“There is no deadline for this scheme. It is a running scheme. There are more flats in Narela than we have offered in this scheme. We are first going to observe the public response to this scheme, based on which we will take a decision on whether to offer more flats,” said the senior DDA official.
In the first phase of the scheme, a total of 1,281 flats — 509 LIG and 772 EWS — will be available on a “first-come-first-serve” basis.
Meanwhile, the urban body has also implemented its previously announced relaxation in norms for the allotment of EWS houses.
The relaxation mainly involves doing away with the condition that the applicant’s annual individual income should be less than ₹3 lakh. Instead, the EWS flats will now be allotted on the basis of the annual family income being less than ₹10 lakh.
Individuals will be allowed to check the details of the houses including its location and layout plan on the DDA’s website, following which, interested applicants will have to deposit ₹10,000 as application money for EWS flats, and ₹15,000 in the case of LIG flats.
Through its latest scheme, the urban body looks to dispose of its unsold housing inventory that has accumulated due to the poor performance of its previous housing schemes, since 2014.
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A Bharatiya Janata Party corporator from Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad and her husband’s desire to have a male child after 15 years of marriage has landed them in jail and lifted the lid off a thriving child trafficking racket in the State.
Vineeta Agarwal, 44, and her husband, Krishna Murari Agarwal, 51, were arrested on August 29 after the Government Railway Police (GRP) recovered from their house a seven-month-old child who had been kidnapped from a platform on Mathura railway station on August 24. The police said the couple had paid ₹1.80 lakh for the infant as they wanted to have a male child even though they had an adopted daughter.
The accused told the police that a doctor couple from Hathras — Dr. Prem Bihari, 38, and his wife Dr. Dayawati, 38 — ran a child trafficking racket and conned them into adopting a kidnapped child.
According to acquaintances of the Agarwals, the couple had been facing pressure to have a child since their marriage in 2007.
“The dream of having a child ended when Vineeta had a fall while dancing at a religious ceremony and had to undergo a hysterectomy. Left with no other option, the couple decided to adopt a child,” said a close relative of the couple. They then adopted a girl, but they still yearned for a son, the relative said.
‘Search for a brother’
“Vineeta and Krishna Murari loved their daughter, who wanted a brother who could tie her a ‘rakhi’. With the festival of Raksha Bandhan fast approaching, the couple decided to fulfil their daughter’s wish,” another relative said.
“Krishna Murari had heard of the doctor couple and approached them to adopt a son,” the relative said. The doctors then handed over a boy to Mr. Agarwal a week before Raksha Bandhan. However, during medical check-up, the Agarwals learnt that the child was extremely sick and returned him, the relative said.
“The doctors then called Vineeta on August 26 and gave her another boy,” the relative said.
Mr. Agarwal, a lawyer who practises in a local court, told the police that the doctor couple had introduced him to a man whom they claimed was the boy’s father.
The police, however, found it hard to believe that despite being a lawyer Mr. Agarwal thought that “buying a baby” was legal and he hadn’t committed a crime.
Mohammad Mustaque, Superintendent of Police, GRP (Agra), who had constituted a six-member team to solve the kidnapping case, said the doctor couple owned two hospitals in Hathras.
Apart from the Agarwals and the doctor couple, the police have arrested six others in the case: Deep Kumar, 40, who kidnapped the child, and Poonam Devi, 43, Manjeet, 43, and Vimlesh, 38, who worked as auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs).
Mr. Mustaque said Mr. Kumar was nabbed after CCTV footage at Mathura railway station clearly showed him snatching the child, Sanjay, who was sleeping next to his mother, Radha, a resident of Parkham village in Mathura district. During interrogation, Mr. Kumar said that he had been a part of the child trafficking racket for the past four years.
The police said the doctor couple had invited about 1,000 ASHA workers, ANMs and Health Department employees for the inauguration of their hospitals and enlisted them to look for childless couples and those seeking a male child.
“They were also tasked with identifying unmarried women who got pregnant and failed to get an abortion. They would then buy babies from such women,” Mr. Mustaque said.
According to the police, the doctor couple has sold at least 12 kidnapped children over the past few years. The district administration has sealed the couple’s hospitals and the police are trying to trace the abducted children.
‘Wait for male heir’
Meanwhile, the residents of Katra Pathanan in Firozabad are of the opinion that the Agarwals deserve punishment.
“Their family has waited for years for a male heir. Mr. Agarwal’s brother already has two daughters... they wanted a son to take the family’s legacy forward,” said a man who owns a shop near the Agarwals’ home.
According to jail officials, Mr. Agarwal believes that “even if I am released, society will not let me live in peace. They will call me a ‘ baccha chor (child lifter)’”.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety.
No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the edge of space. The rockets are now grounded pending the outcome of an investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The New Shepard rocket was barely a minute into its flight from West Texas when bright yellow flames shot out from around the single engine at the bottom. The capsule’s emergency launch abort system immediately kicked in, lifting the craft off the top. Several minutes later, the capsule parachuted onto the remote desert floor.
The rocket came crashing down, with no injuries or damage reported, said the FAA, which is in charge of public safety during commercial space launches and landings.
Blue Origin's launch commentary went silent when the capsule catapulted off the rocket Monday morning, eventually announcing: “It appears we've experienced an anomaly with today's flight. This wasn't planned."
“Booster failure on today’s uncrewed flight. Escape system performed as designed,” the Kent, Washington-based company tweeted close to an hour later.
The company later said the rocket crashed.
The mishap occurred as the rocket was traveling nearly 700 mph (1,126 kph) at an altitude of about 28,000 feet (8,500 meters). There was no video shown of the rocket — only the capsule — after the failure. It happened around the point the rocket is under the maximum amount of pressure, called max-q.
The rocket usually lands upright on the desert floor and then is recycled for future flights.
The webcast showed the capsule reaching a maximum altitude of more than 37,000 feet (11,300 meters). Thirty-six experiments were on board to be exposed to a few minutes of weightlessness. Half were sponsored by NASA, mostly from students.
It was the 23rd flight for the New Shepard program, named after the first American in space, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the ninth flight for this particular rocket-capsule pair, which was dedicated to flying experiments.
Blue Origin's most recent flight with paying customers was just last month; the ticket price hasn’t been released. Bezos was on the first New Shepard crew last year. Altogether, Blue Origin has carried 31 people on 10-minute flights, including actor William Shatner.
The rocket should have launched nearly two weeks ago, but was grounded until Monday by bad weather.
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Human trafficking sting results in 160 arrests, including high school teacher, Disney employee
POLK COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) – Authorities in Florida arrested 160 people during a seven-day long undercover human trafficking sting.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said the operation, called “Fall Haul 2,” began Aug. 30.
Detectives said the total of charges stemming from the operation included 52 felonies and 216 misdemeanors.
The sheriff’s office said one of the most notable arrests was of 41-year-old Cameron Burke, a computer technician for Oak Ridge High School in Orange County. Detectives said Burke was out on bond for having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student that began in 2020.
Other notable arrests included a deputy chief of a Georgia police department, a high school math teacher, a bellhop employed by Disney and a freelance photographer often contracted by Disney.
The oldest of the arrests is 64, while the youngest is 19 years old, according to officials.
Out of the 160 arrests, 15 people were from states other than Florida, and one was from Puerto Rico.
Of the people who were arrested, police say 26 of them said they were married.
Detectives also said they seized cocaine, heroin, meth, MDMA and marijuana from those they arrested as well.
Multiple agencies participated in the operation, including several police departments, social service organizations, and members of the state’s Department of Children and Families.
The sheriff’s office said they identified two trafficking victims and another five victims. All prostitutes taken into custody were offered services by the social services organizations at the operation.
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CHEYENNE (WNE) — Documents charging a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper with three felony counts of first-degree sexual assault with physical force have been filed in Laramie County District Court.
Sgt. Gabriel Lee Testerman was arrested Aug. 30 by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office, according to a Highway Patrol news release sent out that day.
The WHP apparently learned about a pending Cheyenne Police Department investigation involving Testerman on May 2, and he has been on administrative leave since then, the Highway Patrol said.
Testerman’s arraignment is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Sept. 19 in front of Laramie County District Judge Thomas Campbell. Testerman waived a preliminary hearing that had been scheduled for Sept. 7, automatically binding the charges over from Laramie County Circuit Court.
If convicted, Testerman faces up to 150 years in prison. Each count of first-degree sexual assault carries a possible sentence of five to 50 years of incarceration, a fine of up to $10,000 or both, according to court papers.
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Both redacted and un-redacted affidavits of probable cause, which describe the details of the case, are currently in a confidential court file.
The case is being prosecuted by Sweetwater County and Prosecuting Attorney Daniel E. Erramouspe and his office.
A motion filed Aug. 29 by Laramie County District Attorney Leigh Anne Manlove asking for Erramouspe’s appointment said her office had “determined there are multiple conflicts of interest” that prevented its staff from prosecuting the case.
Laramie-based attorneys Tom Fleener and Devon Petersen entered their appearance for Testerman on Aug. 31, according to court documents.
Testerman bonded out of jail following an Aug. 31 initial appearance, according to a jail official. His bond had been set at $100,000 cash or surety.
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Met Police firearms officer who fatally shot Chris Kaba suspended from duty
The firearms officer who fatally shot Chris Kaba in south London a week ago has been suspended from duty, the Metropolitan Police said.
Mr Kaba, 24, who had been due to become a father, was killed while unarmed on September 5 following a police pursuit of his car which ended in Streatham Hill.
His Audi was hemmed in by two police vehicles in Kirkstall Gardens, a narrow residential street, and one round was fired from a police weapon.
Chris Kaba was shot by armed officers (Family handout)
Mr Kaba’s family had called for the officer involved to be suspended, and on Monday evening Met Police Assistant Commissioner Amanda Pearson confirmed the force had done so.
She said: “This decision has been reached following careful consideration of a number of factors, including the significant impact on public confidence, and in light of the Independent Office for Police Conduct announcing a homicide investigation.
“Our thoughts and sympathies remain with Mr Kaba’s family and friends.
“We understand how concerned communities are, particularly black communities, and thank those who are working closely with our local officers.”
Ms Pearson had said on Friday that the officer involved was not currently on operational duties and their work status would be “carefully considered going forward”.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he supported the Met’s move to suspend the officer.
Mr Khan said: “I welcome this decision and am in regular contact with the IOPC and the new Commissioner.
“My thoughts remain with Chris Kaba’s loved ones at this intensely difficult time as the IOPC continue their independent homicide investigation.”
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Will Jaaskelainen eyeing AFC Wimbledon debut against Northampton By Press Association September 12 2022, 3.40pm Will Jaaskelainen (right) joined Wimbledon on a one-month deal (Anthony Devlin/PA) [[title]] [[text]] An error occurred. Please try again. [[success]] Email address Sign up AFC Wimbledon will have Will Jaaskelainen in the squad to face Northampton after he signed on a one-month contract. The 24-year-old will provide cover for goalkeeper Nathan Broome, who suffered a foot injury earlier this month. Jack Currie has been struggling with a shoulder injury but could be available for the Dons. Alex Woodyard, who has yet to play this season after suffering a calf injury, remains sidelined. Aaron McGowan and Ben Fox remain major doubts for Northampton. Danny Hylton and Akin Odimayo may return after being doubts for Saturday’s postponed game at Walsall. Josh Eppiah is still looking for a first appearance of the season and Jonny Maxted is back after illness. The Cobblers are fifth in Sky Bet League Two after four wins from their opening seven games. Already a subscriber? Sign in [[title]] [[text]] Close More from Sport Antonio Conte visited Buckingham Palace to pay his respects to the Queen Teenage midfielder Adam Wharton signs new five-year Blackburn contract Emma Raducanu wins opener in Slovenia as opponent Dayana Yastremska retires My son’s life cannot be put in danger – Chris Eubank Sr in Conor… Which sporting events have been affected following the death of The Queen? Darragh Lenihan to miss Middlesbrough’s game against Cardiff Andy Murray feels Davis Cup offers opportunity to pay tribute to the Queen Emilio Gay hits fine century as Northamptonshire dominate Surrey on day one 5 things we learned as the US Open crowns two young champions in New… Cole Stockton expected to return for Morecambe against Sheffield Wednesday More from The Courier Blairgowrie and the Queen: Union flag, Afghan landmine and an idol for the young 0 King Charles pledges to 'seek always' the welfare of Scotland in first Holyrood appearance The Queen lies at rest in St Giles amid a sense of history being… Stores and businesses to be closed on the day of Queen's funeral How have Falkirk started their season ahead of reviving their rivalry with Dunfermline? 0 Elderly St Andrews residents 'heartbroken' at being forced to leave their homes 0
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democrats who run state government celebrated while announcing that tax-rebate checks — totaling more than $1.2 billion — on Monday began heading to 6 million taxpayers.
Rebates on income and property taxes are part of a $1.83 billion inflation-relief package built into this year’s budget.
“Everyone knows inflation is a global problem with local consequences,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a Chicago news conference. “Prices at the pump and at the supermarket have taken Illinois families on a roller-coaster ride over the past months. It’s exactly the kind of thing that responsible government should help our residents with and we have, starting today.”
With eight weeks remaining before the November election, the timing is perfect for Pritzker, Comptroller Susana Mendoza, who shared Monday’s spotlight, and virtually every member of the General Assembly. Rebates will arrive by mail or direct deposit in the closing days of the campaign season, when voters make up their minds.
Individual taxpayers making less than $200,000 will receive a $50 rebate, with $100 to couples filing jointly earning less than $400,000, Revenue Director David Harris said. Taxpayers will also receive $100 for claimed dependents, up to three. Property tax rebates will be equal to the amount a homeowner claimed as a credit on income tax returns last year, up to $300, Harris said.
The rebates are the capstone to the effort begun last winter by Pritzker, and beefed up by legislative Democrats, to fight near-record inflation, which ran as high as 9% this year. Other initiatives include a six-month freeze on an increased motor fuel tax, a year-long suspension of the sales tax on groceries, and a back-to-school sales tax holiday on classroom supplies during August. At the same time, more than $1 billion is put aside for future emergency expenditures.
“We’ve done something very historic. … And if I had to, in this case, sum it up into kind of two words, I would probably say ‘Cha-ching!’” said Rep. Will Davis, a Homewood Democrat who helped negotiate the package.
Pritzker’s fourth budget is extraordinary in Illinois history, particularly given the state’s woeful economic condition during a 2015 to 2017 spending stalemate between legislative Democrats and an intransigent ex-Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
But despite all the bluster about fiscal discipline and spending sanity, Pritzker and Democratic lawmakers couldn’t pull off the massive tax-savings plan without playing an old game in the Capitol — borrowing from a fund set aside for a special purpose and which has a separate funding stream.
To backfill money lost to the road fund from the freeze on motor fuel taxes, officials took $140 million from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank fund. Financed by a separate 1.1-cents-per-gallon gas tax, property owners who have cleaned up sites where leaking fuel tanks threatened the environment are already owed at least $900 million, so the diversion of money puts them further behind, advocates said.
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Entergy crews are working to find the cause of an approximately hour-long power outage Monday that affected more than 15,000 customers in Ascension and East Baton Rouge parishes, with most of the outages reported in Ascension.
The power outages were reported at about 1 p.m. Monday, with power restored in those areas by about 2 p.m., said David Freese, senior communications specialist with Entergy.
Seven Ascension Parish public schools in the area of the outage lost power during the incident; all schools had power again at about 2 p.m., the school system reported.
"We had an issue on the transmission system, the large infrastructure of high-voltage poles and wires that provides power to the distribution system," Freese said.
"The utility crews were able to get it resolved and are canvassing the system to determine the cause, working to keep it from happening again," he said.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott will need surgery for a fractured bone in his throwing hand sustained in the season opener and will miss multiple weeks.
The quarterback got hurt in the fourth quarter of the Cowboys’ 19-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night. Prescott’s right hand made contact with rushing linebacker Shaquil Barrett when throwing a pass.
Prescott said he initially thought he had just jammed a finger, like he has many times before, but realized on the next play that he couldn’t grip the football.
After initially being checked on the sideline, he jogged to the locker room and had X-rays. Backup Cooper Rush finished the game.
“I’ve hit my hand on helmets or bodies a lot in my career and never had anything, maybe a jammed finger and actually thought that is what it was,” Prescott said. “Told the trainers the same thing, I can’t grip (the ball), I feel like if you yank it, I’ll be OK. Came in and got X-rays, and things are different.”
Prescott said he will see a doctor Monday and have surgery after that. He said he was told after the X-rays that the injury “was much cleaner than it could have been.”
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said the injury is above his thumb, and behind the joint, and he pointed to an area between his own thumb and wrist.
Prescott’s 2020 season ended in the fifth week because of a gruesome ankle injury. He returned last season to throw for 4,449 yards and 37 touchdowns as the Cowboys won the NFC East before losing their first-round playoff game to San Francisco at home.
The 29-year-old Prescott said he got into the best shape of his life going into this season, his seventh in the NFL.
When there appeared to be a setback in practice last week, Prescott blamed a change in cleats for soreness in his surgically repaired ankle.
Prescott and the Cowboys are dealing with a bigger issue now, after losing the season opener without scoring a touchdown.
“To be very candid with you, all of that takes a backseat to the fact that as we go forward here for the next few weeks, we’ll be going forward without Dak,” Jones said. “That’s foremost on my mind.”
Jones reiterated that while Prescott will be out “several games,” he would not be out for the season.
Asked to characterize his emotions, Prescott said while disappointing and unfortunate, injuries are not necessarily anything he can control.
“Obviously going to miss some time and not be there for my team, and that’s what hurts more than more than anything especially after the start that we just put out there,” Prescott said. “Wanted to be able to respond and not necessarily having that opportunity for several weeks, yeah, it’s unfortunate. But I’ll do what I’ve always done any time adversity comes, take it on headfirst and I’ll give my best and I’m sure I’ll come out of this thing better.”
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BLUFF CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – A suspect is in custody after the Bluff City Police Department (BCPD) executed a warrant Sunday and found more than a pound of meth and thousands of dollars in cash.
According to a release from the BCPD, officers and Sullivan County deputies executed the arrest warrant on Travis Hunter Wilson at a home in the 500 block of Ridgeview Circle.
The release states that while authorities were at the home, they found a “Bushmaster AR-15 rifle” and a loaded Glock 19 pistol. Officers also found “several items indicative of a drug operation as well as a locked safe.”
A search warrant was obtained for the safe, and the BCPD reports the following items were found inside:
- $7,372 in cash
- 1.2 pounds of methamphetamine
- 200 fentanyl pills
- Suboxone (amount not specified)
The BCPD reports Wilson was arrested and charged with the following:
- Felon in possession of a firearm
- Possession of a firearm in commission of a dangerous felony
- Methamphetamine for resale
- Maintaining a dwelling where drugs are sold
- Sale of Schedule I, III and VI drugs
- Drug paraphernalia
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A threat to shoot people at Orefield Middle School led to the closure of Parkland School District buildings last Thursday and Friday, South Whitehall Township police said.
Township police Monday afternoon released more information about the specific threat made toward Parkland’s Orefield Middle School. The incident prompted the cancellation of in-person classes and district transportation last Thursday and Friday. The Parkland High School football team, however, played Friday night’s game versus Freedom High School at the Bethlehem Area School District Stadium.
South Whitehall Township Police Chief Glen Dorney said in Monday’s statement that at about 8:20 p.m. Sept. 7, an unknown person made a threat on Pennsylvania’s Safe2Say Something system to come to Orefield Middle School on Thursday, Sept. 8 to “shoot people.” The threat then prompted Parkland School administration to close school Thursday, Sept. 8 in an abundance of caution and hold a virtual learning day Friday, Sept. 9, Dorney said.
Despite the threat directed at Orefield Middle School, district officials decided to close all schools since the district’s bus depot is located in Orefield. Drivers were told not to come in for their safety, he said.
Due to the passage of time and lack of additional threats, in-person school and busing then resumed Monday. Security was beefed up with several additional police officers at all district schools. The Upper Macungie Township Police Department and Pennsylvania State Police also provided additional officers and troopers at district schools in Upper Macungie and North Whitehall townships.
The investigation into who made the threat is ongoing, and additional police resources will be made available to help safeguard schools, Dorney said.
The chief credited the law enforcement response and coordination with state police; Upper Macungie Township Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with the Parkland School District’s administration, as being “tremendous.”
“It is the joint goal of the Parkland School District and law enforcement partners to provide a safe and healthy environment for students and staff within all district schools,” Dorney stated.
Those with information about last week’s threat are asked to call the South Whitehall Township Police Department at (610)-398-0337 or email pdinfo@swtpd.org. Students additionally are being encouraged to utilize the Safe2Say app to provide information that could aid in the investigation.
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ATLANTA, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ) today reported preliminary month-end assets under management (AUM) of $1,416.0 billion, a decrease of 2.3% versus previous month-end. The firm experienced net long-term inflows of $2.7 billion in the month. Non-management fee earning net outflows were $0.7 billion and money market net inflows were $2.5 billion. AUM was negatively impacted by unfavorable market returns which decreased AUM by $30 billion. FX decreased AUM by $7.2 billion. Preliminary average total AUM for the quarter through August 31 were $1,429.7 billion, and preliminary average active AUM for the quarter through August 31 were $969.1 billion.
1 Preliminary – subject to adjustment.
2 Passive AUM includes index-based ETF's, UIT's, non-fee earning leverage, foreign exchange overlays and other passive mandates. Active AUM are total AUM less passive AUM.
About Invesco Ltd.
Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ) is a global independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. With offices in more than 20 countries, our distinctive investment teams deliver a comprehensive range of active, passive and alternative investment capabilities. For more information, visit www.invesco.com/corporate.
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tempur Sealy International, Inc. (NYSE: TPX, "Company" or "Tempur Sealy") announced today that it will participate in a fireside chat at the Piper Sandler Growth Frontiers Conference on September 14, 2022.
Date: September 14, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. CT
Presenter: Scott Thompson, Chairman, President and CEO
The fireside chat is being webcast and will be accessible on the Company's investor relations website at investor.tempursealy.com. Time listed is subject to change.
About Tempur Sealy International, Inc.
Tempur Sealy is committed to improving the sleep of more people, every night, all around the world. As a leading designer, manufacturer, distributor and retailer of bedding products worldwide, we know how crucial a good night of sleep is to overall health and wellness. Utilizing over a century of knowledge and industry-leading innovation, we deliver award-winning products that provide breakthrough sleep solutions to consumers in over 100 countries.
Our highly recognized brands include Tempur-Pedic®, Sealy® and Stearns & Foster® and our popular non-branded offerings consist of value-focused private label and OEM products. At Tempur Sealy we understand the importance of meeting our customers wherever and however they want to shop and have developed a powerful omni-channel retail strategy. Our products allow for complementary merchandising strategies and are sold through third-party retailers, our 650+ Company-owned stores worldwide and our e-commerce channels. With the range of our offerings and variety of purchasing options, we are dedicated to continuing to turn our mission to improve the sleep of more people, every night, all around the world into a reality.
Importantly, we are committed to carrying out our global responsibility to protect the environment and the communities in which we operate. As part of that commitment, we have established the goal of achieving carbon neutrality for our global wholly owned operations by 2040.
Investor Relations Contact
Aubrey Moore
Investor Relations
Tempur Sealy International, Inc.
800-805-3635
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2022 40 Under 40
About the program
Don’t call them rising stars: These 40 luminaries have already ascended. CEOs, presidents, founders, mayors and other top execs make up this constellation. They were nominated by their colleagues and peers and selected through a rigorous review process by Crain’s Detroit Business reporters and editors. Keep your eyes on the sky: We expect they’ll be shining for years to come.
Join us in saluting our annual class of 40 Under 40. Crain's will toast this year's honorees at a celebration 6-9 p.m. Nov. 10 at the 16th floor event space at One Campus Martius. Register here.
What do Obama, Eminem and Lin-Manuel Miranda have in common? They made Crain’s 40 Under 40
Career advice from this year’s 40 Under 40
Photography by Nic Antaya | Photographed at Detroit Opera House and The Fillmore Detroit
Steve Jbara
Founder and President, Grand Rapids Gold; CEO, Atomic Honey Advertising; Chief Strategy Officer, Air Company; Co-owner and co-CEO, Green Door Distilling; Chief Strategy Officer
WaitTime
Blake Kolo
Executive Vice President, Chief Business Officer and Head of Investor Relations
United Wholesale Mortgage
Eric Makhni
Medical Director of Patient Reported Outcome Measures and Attending Orthopedic Surgeon, Henry Ford Health; Team Physician
Detroit Lions and Oakland University Athletics Department
Brittany Morales Westerman
Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Operations
365 Retail Markets
Nishtha Sareen
Interventional Cardiologist and Medical Director of the Women's Heart Clinic
Ascension Providence
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ARLINGTON, TX (Silver Star Nation) – A few hours after Sunday night’s crushing defeat at the hands of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott spoke to the media about the game and, more importantly, about the injury he suffered in the 4th quarter.
Prescott hit his throwing hand on the hand of one of the Tampa Bay defenders, resulting in a broken bone behind this thumb. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told media members immediately after the game that Prescott will require surgery and will miss several weeks of the NFL season.
Prescott said he thought it was a jammed finger at first but quickly realized that he could not grip the ball over on the sidelines.
He vowed to fight back from this injury just as he as in previous seasons, including the 2020 campaign when he suffered a serious break in his leg.
The doctors should determine on Monday how long Prescott will need to recover from the hand surgery that is expected to happen as early as Monday afternoon.
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The first three weeks of the high school football season are in the books, and Bryant finally was tested.
Our No. 1 overall team won again, but Little Rock Parkview gave the Hornets all they could handle before falling 20-10 Friday night at War Memorial Stadium. Parkview remains No. 1 in Class 5A.
In another big game, Lake Hamilton defeated Little Rock Christian, 34-19, to move up from No. 3 to No. 2 in Class 6A. Little Rock Christian falls from No. 2 to No. 5 in the classification.
Here are the updated rankings:
OVERALL
- Bryant
- Conway
- Cabot
- Pulaski Academy
- Lake Hamilton
- Bentonville
- Fayetteville
- Little Rock Parkview
- Wynne
- Arkadelphia
CLASS 7A
- Bryant
- Conway
- Cabot
- Bentonville
- Fayetteville
CLASS 6A
- Pulaski Academy
- Lake Hamilton
- Greenwood
- Little Rock Catholic
- Little Rock Christian
CLASS 5A
- Little Rock Parkview
- Wynne
- Joe T. Robinson
- Shiloh Christian
- Farmington
CLASS 4A
- Arkadelphia
- Ashdown
- Malvern
- Warren
- Harding Academy
CLASS 3A
- Prescott
- Booneville
- Charleston
- Rison
- Gurdon
CLASS 2A
- Hazen
- Mount Ida
- Bigelow
- Marked Tree
- Carlisle
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tom Brady as the first 45-year-old starting quarterback in NFL history looked quite a bit like the younger versions.
Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys were left with an old, familiar feeling that isn’t quite so fuzzy.
Brady and Mike Evans connected on a punctuating touchdown, Leonard Fournette ran for 127 yards, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers dominated the Cowboys 19-3 in a season opener Sunday night.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after the game Prescott needs surgery for a fracture near the thumb on his throwing hand and will miss multiple weeks, a season-altering blow for the defending NFC East champs.
A rough night for Prescott got worse after his right hand struck a defender when throwing a pass in the fourth quarter. He was checked on the sideline before jogging to the locker room.
The latest injury came almost two years after the compound fracture of Prescott’s right ankle on the same field, a gruesome injury that ended his 2020 season in Week 5.
“It’s very disappointing, but injuries happen,” Prescott said. “Can’t necessarily control it. Obviously going to miss some time, not be there for my team. And that’s what hurts more than anything.”
Brady was in control throughout despite an extended break during training camp to attend to personal issues. The seven-time Super Bowl champ got a big assist from the defense in Todd Bowles’ debut as Tampa Bay’s coach following three seasons as defensive coordinator.
“I always play the game for my team, my teammates and the organization,” Brady said. “Just being around them is something I always enjoy. It keeps me very grounded, very humble. I feel like just one of the guys. Not many places where I can go where I feel like just one of the guys, but the locker room’s definitely one of those places.”
The Cowboys and Bucs had the top two offenses in the NFL last season, which started with Tampa Bay’s 31-29 win at home over Dallas when Brady and Prescott combined for seven TDs passing. Only one offense showed up this time.
Dallas drove 54 yards to a field goal on the first possession, but didn’t score again while finishing with its second-fewest points in an opener. The Cowboys lost to New Orleans 28-0 in 1989 — Jerry Jones’ first game as owner.
Julio Jones had a 48-yard catch in the two-time All-Pro’s Tampa Bay debut to set up one of four first-half field goals from Ryan Succop, who had five attempts before the break without a punt from the Bucs.
Brady, who improved to 7-0 against the Cowboys, was 18 of 27 for 212 yards with an interception that didn’t amount to much because Prescott and receiver Noah Brown couldn’t connect on an easy third-down throw near midfield early in the fourth quarter.
The Cowboys did nothing to quiet questions about the receiving group behind CeeDee Lamb, the third-year player who is the new No. 1 target after the offseason trade of Amari Cooper.
Lamb had two catches for 29 yards while drawing most of the attention. Noah Brown had five catches for 68 yards, while Prescott finished 14 of 29 for 134 yards with an interception that set up one of the first-half field goals.
The gap in receiving depth was clear, with Evans and Chris Godwin both having catches of at least 20 yards in the first quarter before Godwin had to leave with a hamstring injury.
The Cowboys stayed close in the first half only because of two sacks from reigning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Micah Parsons. Both forced field goals, and Succop missed one of the tries.
Devin White matched Parsons with two sacks of Prescott as the Cowboys lost to the Bucs at home for just the second time while coach Mike McCarthy dropped to 0-3 in openers with Dallas.
Bowles is 1-0 with the Bucs after taking over when Bruce Arians retired and moved to the front office.
“I think it was just about being dominant,” White said. “We wanted to set a tone for him as a head coach, for us as a defense as a whole. I think it was a great thing. We still have some things. We left a lot of plays out there.”
Fournette had 40 of the 79 yards on the drive that ended with Brady’s 5-yard scoring pass to Evans for a 19-3 lead.
ROOKIE LINEMEN
Dallas first-round pick Tyler Smith was the first rookie in franchise history to start an opener at left tackle. The Bucs also had a rookie starter in left guard Luke Goedeke, a second-rounder. Both teams entered the opener with questions up front because of injuries and personnel changes.
The injuries mounted, too. Dallas left guard Connor McGovern didn’t return after injuring his right ankle on the first series. Tampa Bay left tackle Donovan Smith exited in the second quarter with an elbow issue and also was ruled out.
INJURIES
Bucs: Godwin’s hamstring injury came after he entered the game with an uncertain status because of his recovery from a knee injury. … Cowboys S Jayron Kearse, who was questionable coming with a neck issue, left in the second half with a knee injury. … Dallas DE Tarell Basham was sidelined by a thigh injury. Cowboys S Jayron Kearse, who was questionable coming with a neck issue, left in the second half with a knee injury.
UP NEXT
Buccaneers: At NFC South rival New Orleans next Sunday. One of these teams has either won or shared the past five division titles.
Cowboys: Defending AFC champion Cincinnati visits next Sunday. Dallas opens with three of four games at home.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers defense began the season Sunday looking like a vulturous force, and reigning Defensive Player of the Year T.J. Watt was the chief disruptor.
Then Watt walked off injured in the fourth quarter, his left arm hanging limply at this side, casting serious doubt on when Pittsburgh might look so fearsome again.
Watt suffered a pectoral injury in the fourth quarter of a 23-20 overtime win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.
The Steelers didn’t provide many details after the game. Coach Mike Tomlin said only that “T.J. has been evaluated with an upper-body injury.”
The 27-year-old Watt got hurt in the waning minutes of regulation. He bull-rushed his way past Cincinnati right tackle La’el Collins — ripping Collins’ helmet off in the process, a penalty that gave the Bengals a first down — and then jumped on top of Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. Burrow ducked under Watt and managed to get the ball away, and Watt’s left arm went motionless as Burrow eluded his grasp.
Watt was greeted by Dr. James Bradley, the team physician, as he made his way off the field. He went straight to the locker room and did not return. Pittsburgh later ended a three-game losing streak to the Bengals on the final play of overtime.
The three-time All-Pro did not address reporters postgame, though he was in the locker room. He is expected to undergo further testing and evaluation on Monday.
“I’m not going to speculate what’s going and how bad the injury is,” defensive tackle Cam Heyward said. “But you know having T.J. out there definitely benefits us. He’s a leader. He’s a defensive player here. However long it takes, other guys are going to step up.”
One of the NFL’s elite edge rushers, Watt was at his disruptive best in Cincinnati, sacking Burrow once and picking off a pass in the first quarter that set up Mitch Trubisky’s 2-yard TD pass to Najee Harris to give Pittsburgh a 17-3 lead.
Losing Watt would be a huge blow to the Steelers, who will have to rely on their defense while trying to get their offense on track. Watt tied the NFL single-season sacks record with 22 1/2 last season despite missing two games.
If Watt tore his pectoral muscle, he likely would miss extended time and potentially the season. His older brother J.J. Watt tore a pec in the middle of the 2019 season while playing for Texas and missed two months. Heyward, his longtime teammate, missed the second half of the 2016 season after tearing a pec, and former Steeler defensive end Stephon Tuitt missed the final 10 games of the 2019 season after tearing a pec in a win over the Chargers.
The Steelers are thin behind Watt at outside linebacker. Alex Highsmith — who also left the game on Sunday with an injury — is the only other outside linebacker on the roster who has spent extended time in Pittsburgh.
The Steelers acquired backup Malik Reed in a trade with Denver last month and claimed Jamir Jones off waivers on Sept. 1 after he was released by Jacksonville a day earlier. Jones did spend a few months with Pittsburgh in 2021 before being released last September.
Jones and Reed were credited with three combined tackles against the Bengals.
Watt has been durable during his five-year career, missing just three games due to injury. With him, the Steelers have a defense with elite players at all three levels, in Watt, Heyward and safety Minkah Fitzpatrick. Without him, Pittsburgh’s offense under first-year quarterback Mitch Trubisky might need to accelerate the learning curve.
That might be difficult without Harris, who left in the fourth quarter after injuring his left foot. The foot was heavily wrapped postgame. Backup Jaylen Warren, who earned the job after a stellar training camp, ran for 7 yards on three carries in his NFL debut.
The Steelers host New England (0-1) next Sunday.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — A U.S. veteran gets a surprise of a lifetime.
U.S. Army Specialist Robert Buck (Ret.) lives in Kansas. He and his wife were shocked Monday morning when the Helping a Hero Program handed them a special key to a house that will soon be built for them.
“It’s incredible. Me and my wife are very much looking forward to it,” Buck said.
The announcement came during a fundraiser at the World War I Museum.
Helping a Hero, Lee Greenwood, George Brett and Tate Stevens were on hand to help deliver the surprise to the Bucks.
The house will be built specifically for Buck to allow him to live in it and also adapt to his current needs.
“We have adaptive homes that we build for our wounded warriors because if he’s been wounded badly, there’s a chance he won’t exist very well in a home that doesn’t have expanded countertops, places he can get his wheelchair into a shower, just reach into cabinets to get something he needs,” Greenwood said.
The Helping a Hero organization is based in Houston. It has already built more than 100 homes in 24 states to thank veterans for the sacrifices they’ve given.
“Our soldiers are being wounded on the war of terror, and it came about on the anniversary of 9/11. It’s important for all of us to recognize we should never forget those who are killed and injured, innocent citizens, over 3,000, on the attack on America, which is why we have now wounded warriors across the country,” Greenwood said.
Helping A Hero provides support programs such as marriage retreats, caregiver retreats, recreational activities and emergency needs grants.
“This is probably something with our current situation, we’d never be able to afford a house. This is overwhelming, really. It’s going to be really helpful,” Buck said.
During the event, Helping a Hero also honored Kansas Senator Roger Marshall, Former Kansas City Royals star George Brett, and country music artist Tate Stevens with the Lee Greenwood Patriot Award. The honor recognizes leaders who support America’s veterans and military.
Learn more about the Helping a Hero organization and how you can nominate a veteran to receive a house on the charity’s website, helpingahero.org.
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Human trafficking sting results in 160 arrests, including high school teacher, Disney employee
POLK COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) – Authorities in Florida arrested 160 people during a seven-day long undercover human trafficking sting.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said the operation, called “Fall Haul 2,” began Aug. 30.
Detectives said the total of charges stemming from the operation included 52 felonies and 216 misdemeanors.
The sheriff’s office said one of the most notable arrests was of 41-year-old Cameron Burke, a computer technician for Oak Ridge High School in Orange County. Detectives said Burke was out on bond for having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student that began in 2020.
Other notable arrests included a deputy chief of a Georgia police department, a high school math teacher, a bellhop employed by Disney and a freelance photographer often contracted by Disney.
The oldest of the arrests is 64, while the youngest is 19 years old, according to officials.
Out of the 160 arrests, 15 people were from states other than Florida, and one was from Puerto Rico.
Of the people who were arrested, police say 26 of them said they were married.
Detectives also said they seized cocaine, heroin, meth, MDMA and marijuana from those they arrested as well.
Multiple agencies participated in the operation, including several police departments, social service organizations, and members of the state’s Department of Children and Families.
The sheriff’s office said they identified two trafficking victims and another five victims. All prostitutes taken into custody were offered services by the social services organizations at the operation.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tom Brady as the first 45-year-old starting quarterback in NFL history looked quite a bit like the younger versions.
Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys were left with an old, familiar feeling that isn’t quite so fuzzy.
Brady and Mike Evans connected on a punctuating touchdown, Leonard Fournette ran for 127 yards, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers dominated the Cowboys 19-3 in a season opener Sunday night.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after the game Prescott needs surgery for a fracture near the thumb on his throwing hand and will miss multiple weeks, a season-altering blow for the defending NFC East champs.
A rough night for Prescott got worse after his right hand struck a defender when throwing a pass in the fourth quarter. He was checked on the sideline before jogging to the locker room.
The latest injury came almost two years after the compound fracture of Prescott’s right ankle on the same field, a gruesome injury that ended his 2020 season in Week 5.
“It’s very disappointing, but injuries happen,” Prescott said. “Can’t necessarily control it. Obviously going to miss some time, not be there for my team. And that’s what hurts more than anything.”
Brady was in control throughout despite an extended break during training camp to attend to personal issues. The seven-time Super Bowl champ got a big assist from the defense in Todd Bowles’ debut as Tampa Bay’s coach following three seasons as defensive coordinator.
“I always play the game for my team, my teammates and the organization,” Brady said. “Just being around them is something I always enjoy. It keeps me very grounded, very humble. I feel like just one of the guys. Not many places where I can go where I feel like just one of the guys, but the locker room’s definitely one of those places.”
The Cowboys and Bucs had the top two offenses in the NFL last season, which started with Tampa Bay’s 31-29 win at home over Dallas when Brady and Prescott combined for seven TDs passing. Only one offense showed up this time.
Dallas drove 54 yards to a field goal on the first possession, but didn’t score again while finishing with its second-fewest points in an opener. The Cowboys lost to New Orleans 28-0 in 1989 — Jerry Jones’ first game as owner.
Julio Jones had a 48-yard catch in the two-time All-Pro’s Tampa Bay debut to set up one of four first-half field goals from Ryan Succop, who had five attempts before the break without a punt from the Bucs.
Brady, who improved to 7-0 against the Cowboys, was 18 of 27 for 212 yards with an interception that didn’t amount to much because Prescott and receiver Noah Brown couldn’t connect on an easy third-down throw near midfield early in the fourth quarter.
The Cowboys did nothing to quiet questions about the receiving group behind CeeDee Lamb, the third-year player who is the new No. 1 target after the offseason trade of Amari Cooper.
Lamb had two catches for 29 yards while drawing most of the attention. Noah Brown had five catches for 68 yards, while Prescott finished 14 of 29 for 134 yards with an interception that set up one of the first-half field goals.
The gap in receiving depth was clear, with Evans and Chris Godwin both having catches of at least 20 yards in the first quarter before Godwin had to leave with a hamstring injury.
The Cowboys stayed close in the first half only because of two sacks from reigning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Micah Parsons. Both forced field goals, and Succop missed one of the tries.
Devin White matched Parsons with two sacks of Prescott as the Cowboys lost to the Bucs at home for just the second time while coach Mike McCarthy dropped to 0-3 in openers with Dallas.
Bowles is 1-0 with the Bucs after taking over when Bruce Arians retired and moved to the front office.
“I think it was just about being dominant,” White said. “We wanted to set a tone for him as a head coach, for us as a defense as a whole. I think it was a great thing. We still have some things. We left a lot of plays out there.”
Fournette had 40 of the 79 yards on the drive that ended with Brady’s 5-yard scoring pass to Evans for a 19-3 lead.
ROOKIE LINEMEN
Dallas first-round pick Tyler Smith was the first rookie in franchise history to start an opener at left tackle. The Bucs also had a rookie starter in left guard Luke Goedeke, a second-rounder. Both teams entered the opener with questions up front because of injuries and personnel changes.
The injuries mounted, too. Dallas left guard Connor McGovern didn’t return after injuring his right ankle on the first series. Tampa Bay left tackle Donovan Smith exited in the second quarter with an elbow issue and also was ruled out.
INJURIES
Bucs: Godwin’s hamstring injury came after he entered the game with an uncertain status because of his recovery from a knee injury. … Cowboys S Jayron Kearse, who was questionable coming with a neck issue, left in the second half with a knee injury. … Dallas DE Tarell Basham was sidelined by a thigh injury. Cowboys S Jayron Kearse, who was questionable coming with a neck issue, left in the second half with a knee injury.
UP NEXT
Buccaneers: At NFC South rival New Orleans next Sunday. One of these teams has either won or shared the past five division titles.
Cowboys: Defending AFC champion Cincinnati visits next Sunday. Dallas opens with three of four games at home.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Albert Pujols hit his 697th home run, moving past Alex Rodriguez into fourth place on the career list and doing it in dramatic fashion with a ninth-inning drive that rallied the St. Louis Cardinals over the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 Sunday.
The NL Central-leading Cardinals trailed 2-1 when Pujols connected for a two-run drive. Pujols had tied Rodriguez with a home run Saturday night.
Pujols trails Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) on the all-time homer chart.
“There’s impressive and then there’s unbelievable,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “What we’re witnessing right now is legendary. You have to take a step back from managing the game and take it all in. It’s amazing.”
In his chase for 700 homers, the 42-year-old Pujols has 21 games left in his 22nd and final season in the big leagues. He’s hit 18 home runs this year.
“This opportunity only comes once and it’s something that’s a gift God has given me and I try to take advantage of it every single day,” Pujols said. “I’m not only making memories for me but for the fans, my family and people who love me.”
“At the end of the day, it’s pretty awesome and we’re playing great baseball and have a great group of teammates,” he said.
The Cardinals went to the ninth inning trailing 2-0 but scored four runs off Chase DeJong (4-2).
Tommy Edman and Corey Dickerson led off with back-to-back doubles to produce the first run. Pujols followed with his homer to put the Cardinals on top.
One out after Pujols connected, Tyler O’Neil hit a solo shot to cap St. Louis’ big inning.
The Cardinals won on a day when first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and third baseman Nolan Arenado, two NL MVP candidates, got the day off.
De Jong entered the game with a 19-inning scoreless streak.
“Really poor execution falling behind to a really good hitter,” De Jong said of Pujols’ home run. “I left a fastball over the middle of the plate. It should’ve been down. Stuff that was supposed to be up was down, and stuff that was supposed to be below the zone stayed in the zone. That’s on me completely, and I have got to execute better in key situations like that.”
Greg Allen’s two-out home run in the bottom of the ninth drew the Pirates within 4-3. Ryan Helsley then got Ben Gamel to fly out for his 16th save.
Chris Stratton (8-4) retired both batters he faced.
The Cardinals had been shut out on three hits through the first eight innings but rallied for their eighth win in their last 11 games. The Pirates missed a chance to win their first series since sweeping Milwaukee from Aug. 2-4.
Edman had two hits to run his hitting streak to 13 games.
Mitch Keller pitched seven scoreless innings for the Pirates, allowing just two singles. He struck out six and walked three.
The Cardinals’ Jose Quintana pitched one-run ball over 5 1/3 innings. It was his first start against the Pirates since they traded him to St. Louis on Aug. 1.
Rookie Jack Suwinski homered in the seventh to give the Pirates a 2-0 lead. Oneil Cruz drove in the game’s first run with a grounder in the third.
ANOTHER WINNING SEASON
The Cardinals clinched their 15th consecutive winning season Saturday night with a 7-5 victory over the Pirates. That ties the franchise record set from 1939-53.
SHELTON EJECTED
Pirates manager Derek Shelton was ejected by home plate umpire Clint Vondrak in the third inning for arguing a checked-swing third strike on Bryan Reynolds. It was Shelton’s four ejection of the season.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: Off Monday before opening a three-game home series with Milwaukee on Tuesday. LHP Jordan Montgomery (8-3, 3.08) will start for St. Louis. He is 5-0 with a 1.45 ERA in seven starts since being acquired from the New York Yankees in a trade.
Pirates: Open a four-game series at Cincinnati on Monday with RHP Bryse Wilson (2-8, 6.11) facing LHP Mike Minor (4-10, 5.70). Wilson is 0-2 with a 6.85 ERA in his last five games.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Emmanuel Obeng-Dankwa is worried about making rent on his New York City apartment, he sometimes holds off on filling his blood pressure medication.
“If there’s no money, I prefer to skip the medication to being homeless,” said Obeng-Dankwa, a 58-year-old security guard.
He is among a majority of adults in the U.S. who say that health care is not handled well in the country, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The poll reveals that public satisfaction with the U.S. health care system is remarkably low, with fewer than half of Americans saying it is generally handled well. Only 12% say it is handled extremely or very well. Americans have similar views about health care for older adults.
Overall, the public gives even lower marks for how prescription drug costs, the quality of care at nursing homes and mental health care are being handled, with just 6% or less saying those health services are done very well in the country.
“Navigating the American health care system is exceedingly frustrating,” said A. Mark Fendrick, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design. “The COVID pandemic has only made it worse.”
More than two years after the pandemic’s start, health care worker burnout and staffing shortages are plaguing hospitals around the country. And Americans are still having trouble getting in-person medical care after health centers introduced restrictions as COVID-19 killed and sickened millions of people around the country, Fendrick said.
In fact, the poll shows an overwhelming majority of Americans, nearly 8 in 10, say they are at least moderately concerned about getting access to quality health care when they need it.
Black and Hispanic adults in particular are resoundingly worried about health care access, with nearly 6 in 10 saying they are very or extremely concerned about getting good care. Fewer than half of white adults, 44%, expressed the same level of worry.
Racial disparities have long troubled America’s health care system. They have been abundantly clear during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Black and Hispanic people dying disproportionately from the virus. Black and Hispanic men also make up a disproportionately high rate of recent monkeypox infections.
Fifty-three percent of women said they are extremely or very concerned about obtaining quality care, compared to 42% of men.
While Americans are united in their dissatisfaction with the health care system, that agreement dissolves when it comes to solutions to fix it.
About two-thirds of adults think it is the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage, with adults ages 18 to 49 more likely than those over 50 to hold that view. The percentage of people who believe health care coverage is a government responsibility has risen in recent years, ticking up from 57% in 2019 and 62% in 2017.
Still, there’s not consensus on how that coverage might be delivered.
About 4 in 10 Americans say they support a single-payer health care system that would require Americans to get their health insurance from a government plan. More, 58%, say they favor a government health insurance plan that anyone can purchase.
There also is broad support for policies that would help Americans pay for the costs of long-term care, including a government-administered insurance plan similar to Medicare, the federal government’s health insurance for people 65 or older.
Retired nurse Pennie Wright, of Camden, Tennessee, doesn’t like the idea of a government-run health care system.
After switching to Medicare this year, she was surprised to walk out of her annual well-woman visit, once fully covered by her private insurance plan, with $200 worth of charges for a mammogram and a pap smear.
She prefers the flexibility she had on her private insurance plan.
“I feel like we have the best health care system in the world, we have a choice of where we want to go,” Wright said.
A majority of Americans, roughly two-thirds, were happy to see the government step in to provide free COVID-19 testing, vaccines and treatment. Roughly 2 in 10 were neutral about the government’s response.
The government’s funding for free COVID-19 tests dried up at the beginning of the month. And while the White House says the latest batch of recommended COVID-19 boosters will be free to anyone who wants one, it doesn’t have money on hand to buy any future rounds of booster shots for every American.
Eighty percent say they support the federal government negotiating for lower drug prices. President Joe Biden this summer signed a landmark bill into law allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. The move is expected to save taxpayers as much as $100 billion over the next decade.
“Medication costs should be low, to the minimum so that everyone can afford it,” said Obeng-Dankwa, the Bronx renter who has trouble paying for his medication. “Those who are poor should be able to get all the necessary health they need, in the same way someone who also has the money to pay for it.”
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The poll of 1,505 adults was conducted July 28-Aug. 1 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
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By ERIC TUCKER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers dismissed as a “storage dispute” the former president’s retention of top-secret documents at his Florida home, urging a judge Monday to keep in place a directive that temporarily halted key aspects of the Justice Department’s criminal probe.
The Trump team referred to the documents that were seized as “purported ‘classified records,’” saying the Justice Department had not proven that the materials taken by the FBI during its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago were classified or remain so now. The lawyers also asserted there is no evidence that any of the records were disclosed to anyone and argued that Trump, as a former president, had an “unfettered right of access” to presidential documents.
“This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is both unprecedented and misguided,” they wrote. “In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records.”
The 21-page filing underscores the significant factual and legal disagreements between lawyers for Trump and the U.S. government as the Justice Department looks to move forward with its criminal investigation into the retention of national defense information at Mar-a-Lago and into the potential obstruction of that probe. Department lawyers in their own filings have rejected the idea that the documents, many of them classified at the top-secret level, belonged to Trump or that Mar-a-Lago was a permissible place to store them.
Setting the stage for possible further delays to the investigation, the Trump team also said it opposed the candidates the Justice Department proposed for an independent arbiter who is to be tasked with reviewing the documents seized during the FBI’s search. The Justice Department has not yet weighed in on the two candidates submitted by Trump lawyers.
The investigation hit a roadblock last week when U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted the Trump team’s request for the appointment of the arbiter, also known as a special master, and prohibited for now the department from examining the documents for investigative purposes.
The Justice Department has asked the judge to lift that hold and said it would contest her ruling to a federal appeals court. The department said its investigation risked being harmed beyond repair if that order remained in place, noting that confusion about its scope had already led the intelligence community to pause a separate national security risk assessment.
But Trump’s lawyers said in their own motion Monday that Cannon should not permit the FBI to resume its review of classified records. It said the government had unilaterally determined the records to be classified but had not yet proven that they remain so.
“In opposing any neutral review of the seized materials, the Government seeks to block a reasonable first step towards restoring order from chaos and increasing public confidence in the integrity of the process,” the lawyers wrote.
In the meantime, both sides on Friday night each proposed different names of candidates who could serve in the role of a special master, though they disagreed on the exact scope of duties the person should have. Cannon has said the yet-to-be-named arbiter would be tasked with reviewing the documents and weeding out from the investigation any that could be covered by claims of either executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.
The Justice Department recommended either Barbara Jones, a retired judge in Manhattan who has served as special master in prior high-profile investigations, or Thomas Griffith, a retired federal appeals court jurist in the District of Columbia who was appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush. The department said in its proposal that the special master should not have access to classified documents, or be empowered to consider claims of executive privilege.
On Monday, the Trump team told the judge that it was objecting to both of those candidates but said it was not prepared to say why publicly at the moment.
Trump’s lawyers have proposed either Raymond Dearie, a retired judge in the federal court based in Brooklyn, or prominent Florida lawyer Paul Huck Jr. The lawyers said the arbiter should have access to the entire tranche of documents and should be able to evaluate executive privilege claims.
In its filing Monday, the Trump team again voiced a broad view of presidential power, asserting that a president has an “unfettered right of access” to his presidential records and absolute authority to declassify any information without the “approval of bureaucratic components of the executive branch” — though it did not say, as Trump has maintained, that he had actually declassified them.
The Justice Department has said Trump had no right to hold onto the presidential documents. And the criminal statutes the department has used as the basis of its investigation, including one criminalizing the willful retention of national defense information, do not require that the records be classified.
In any event, the Justice Department says more than 100 documents with classification markings were found in last month’s search. It has made public a photograph that agents took inside Mar-a-Lago showing the cover pages of a smattering of paperclip-bound classified documents, some marked as top-secret.
The order from Cannon, who was appointed to the federal bench by Trump two years ago, was easily the most consequential of her brief judicial career and has elevated her public profile.
Earlier this month, a Houston woman was arrested on allegations she made threats against Cannon as the judge mulled the special master question. Tiffani Shea Gish left a series of threatening, profanity-laced voicemails for Cannon, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in Texas.
Last week, a judge ordered Gish be held in jail pending trial. A federal public defender listed for her did not immediately return a message seeking comment on Monday.
Trump, who often spends time at his various properties, was at his Virginia golf club Monday.
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Apple's MacBooks are some of the very best laptops you'll find on the market right now, and have claimed multiple spots on our list of the best laptops for the year. The one major drawback of these sleek Apple laptops is that they're expensive, and Apple rarely offers discounts on its own products. But today only, Best Buy is offering a rare chance to pick one up at a discount. For a limited time, you can save up to $400 on select MacBook Pro models.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Freight railroads and their unions are facing increasing pressure from business groups and the White House to settle their contract dispute before Friday's looming strike deadline.
The pressure stems from concerns that halting railroad deliveries of raw materials and finished products that so many companies rely on would be, in the words of the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an “economic disaster.”
A White House official said President Joe Biden and members of his cabinet were in touch with the unions and railroads Monday as part of their efforts to avert a strike. And for the second time in the past week, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh sat down at the negotiating table Sunday to urge the parties to reach a deal. Walsh postponed a planned to trip to Ireland this week to remain close to the talks.
A Labor Department spokesperson said Monday that it’s crucial that the parties remain at the negotiating table and come to an agreement because “a shutdown of our freight rail system is an unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people.”
Suzanne Clark, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Monday that “a national rail strike would be an economic disaster — freezing the flow of goods, emptying shelves, shuttering workplaces and raising prices for families and businesses alike.”
The chamber joined a number of other business groups, including a coalition of 31 agricultural shipping trade groups, in sending letters to Congress urging lawmakers to be prepared to step in and block a strike if the two sides can't reach an agreement by the end of the week. The chamber said if it comes to that, Congress should impose the terms recommended by a Presidential Emergency Board that Biden appointed this summer.
The Association of American Railroads trade group put out a report last week estimating that shutting down the railroads would cost the economy $2 billion a day.
The coalition negotiating on behalf of the nation's biggest freight railroads — including Union Pacific, CSX, Norfolk Southern, BNSF and Kansas City Southern — has announced eight of the 13 tentative agreements needed to avert a strike by some 115,000 rail workers.
The deals that have been announced so far have closely followed the Presidential Emergency Board’s recommendations that called for 24% raises over five years, $5,000 in bonuses and one additional paid leave day a year. But the two biggest unions representing conductors and engineers have been holding out because they want the railroads to go beyond those recommendations and address some of their concerns about strict attendance policies and working conditions.
The railroads have said they would begin curtailing shipments of hazardous materials and some other goods Monday in advance of a possible work stoppage at the end of the week. That would ensure that containers of those dangerous goods aren't left stranded along the tracks.
The heads of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division union that represents conductors, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union that represents engineers, criticized that decision as a move to increase pressure on shippers and Congress to intervene.
The federal law governing railroad contract talks won't allow a strike or lockout before Friday.
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Evers, Michels agree to just one debate in governor’s race
Published: Sep. 12, 2022 at 2:58 PM CDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican challenger Tim Michels have agreed to debate just one time ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
The debate will be Oct. 14, hosted by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, held in Madison and broadcast statewide. Both campaigns put out a joint statement announcing the agreement on Monday.
In 2018, Evers debated then-Gov. Scott Walker twice in October.
Michels, co-owner of construction company Michels Corp., debated his Republican challengers twice this summer. One was in a traditional debate format and the other was a town hall where questions came from people in the audience.
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Twitter whistleblower bringing security warnings to Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who is warning of security flaws, privacy threats and lax controls at the social platform, will take his case to Congress on Tuesday.
Senators who will hear Zatko’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee are alarmed by his Twitter allegations at a time of heightened concern over the safety of powerful tech platforms.
It’s Zatko’s second Capitol Hill appearance, and in some ways a 21st-century echo of his first. In 1998, he testified before a Senate panel along with fellow members of a hacker collective who warned about the security dangers of the then-emerging internet age.
Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert, was Twitter’s head of security until he was fired early this year. He has brought the stunning allegations to Congress and federal regulators, asserting that the influential social platform misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control millions of “spam” or fake accounts.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the panel, has said that if Zatko’s claims are accurate, “they may show dangerous data-privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.”
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter. The Tesla CEO is trying to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company; Twitter has sued to force him to complete the deal. The Delaware judge overseeing that case ruled last week that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
The allegation that Twitter engaged in deception in its handling of automated “spam bot” accounts is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter deal.
At the same time, many of Zatko’s claims are uncorroborated and appear to have little documentary support. In a statement, Twitter has called Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
Also on Tuesday, Twitter’s shareholders are scheduled to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk. The vote is something of a formality given that the deal is on hold while the court case plays out. But if the measure passes as expected, it would also pave the way for a Musk takeover should Twitter prevail in court.
Zatko also filed complaints with the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among his most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
The SEC is questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. Twitter uses counts of its presumably real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up about 90% of its revenue. The “spam bots” have no value to advertisers because there’s no person behind them.
San Francisco-based Twitter has an estimated 238 million daily active users worldwide. The company says it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Zatko’s 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
It accuses CEO Parag Agrawal and other senior executives and board members of making “false and misleading statements to users and the FTC” about these issues. Twitter denies those claims and said that Zatko was fired in January for “ineffective leadership and poor performance.” Zatko’s attorneys say the performance claim is false.
Twitter also hinted that Zatko’s complaint might be designed to bolster Musk’s legal fight with the company. Twitter called Zatko’s complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and lacks important context.”
News of Zatko’s complaint surfaced on Aug. 23, almost two months before the Twitter-Musk trial is scheduled to begin. . One of Zatko’s attorneys has said “he’s never met Elon Musk. Doesn’t know Elon Musk. They know people in common.”
The company also says it has significantly tightened security since 2020.
Among Zatko’s specific allegations:
— The company had such poor cybersecurity that it easily could have been exposed to outside attacks or attempts to siphon off its internal data.
—The company lacked effective leadership, with its top executives practicing “deliberate ignorance” of pressing problems. Zatko described former CEO Jack Dorsey as “extremely disengaged” during the last months of his tenure, to the point where he wouldn’t even speak during meetings on complex issues. Dorsey stepped down in November 2021.
—That Twitter knowingly allowed the government of India to place its agents on the company payroll, where they had “direct unsupervised access” to highly sensitive data on users. It makes a parallel but less detailed accusation that Twitter took funding from unidentified Chinese entities who may have gained access enabling them to access the identities and sensitive data of Chinese users who secretly use Twitter, which is officially banned in China.
Better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” Zatko, 51, first gained prominence in the 1990s. He was the best-known member of the Boston-based collective L0pht, which pioneered ethical hacking, embarrassing companies including Microsoft for poor security. His work raised awareness in the computing world that forced such major companies to take security seriously. He co-founded the consultancy @Stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.
Zatko later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Google. He joined Twitter at Dorsey’s urging in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach involving hackers who broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls, including Musk, in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas coach Steve Sarkisian on Monday would not give any hint who will be the No. 21 Longhorns' starting quarterback this week for a matchup with UTSA, and insisted that injured Quinn Ewers and top backup Hudson Card are “day-to-day.”
But there are signs it could be the No. 3 redshirt freshman Charles Wright on the field when the Longhorns (1-1) face the Roadrunners (1-1).
Ewers left the game with an injured shoulder after a hard hit at the end of the first quarter in Saturday's 20-19 loss to Alabama. Ewers had his left arm in a sling after halftime and Card finished the game despite obviously limping with an ankle sprain in the second half.
Sarkisian said after the game that Ewers had a sprained clavicle and would undergo further tests, but he did not elaborate in his weekly news conference on either quarterback's situation. Nor would he say who took snaps with the No. 1 offense in practice Sunday and Monday morning.
“That's for me,” Sarkisian said.
“I know you guys are going to want an exact timetable," he said. “I'm going to tell, you know, they are day-to-day. I really don't know. We are going to have to monitor them every morning.”
And then there's Wright, who was the No. 3 on the sideline against Alabama.
“We know that Quinn’s hurt. Hudson has his ankle. We have to get Charles up to speed and have him comfortable with everybody in the offense,” Texas running back Bijan Robinson said. “We’re going to make sure he’s right and that he understands the situation that he might be put in.”
Sarkisian said freshman Maalik Murphy, who reported to campus in January and took part in spring drills, has not been healthy but did not elaborate.
For Texas, injury problems potentially go even deeper. Defensive back and kick returner D'Shawn Jamison left the Alabama game with a leg injury.
Sarkisian would only say none of the injuries requires surgery.
Sarkisian also said Robinson, who was favoring his right shoulder after taking several hard hits, was day-to-day. But the running back said he expects to be practicing again by midweek and be ready to play the game.
Losing both Ewers and Card would be a blow to an offense that started fast against Alabama. Ewers passed for 134 yards in the first quarter before he was injured.
Card was the starter for the first two games of 2021 and filled in well behind Ewers against Alabama. Wright lingered around the offensive sideline huddles but never took the field.
“Charles was next man up,” Sarkisian said. "I give Charles a lot of credit. He’s made leaps and bounds from a year ago. I think he’s got a good grasp of our offense, a good understanding of managing things. I think he’s thrown the ball much better, much more accurately, and is a lot more confident, which is needed at that position.”
Another option would be to use running back Roschon Johnson in a “Wildcat” formation where he takes a direct snap. Johnson was a quarterback in high school and Texas used the formation with success in a season-ending win at Kansas State last year.
“Whatever we ask him to do, he does it,” Sarkisian said "I think he’s more than equipped to handle the Wildcat.”
UTSA coach Jeff Traylor said he expects any quarterback on the field will be ready to run Texas' game plan.
“Sark can coach now," Traylor said. "There’s no telling what we’re going to see Saturday.”
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans put together a great three quarters Sunday to build a big lead before falling apart late and settling for a 20-20 tie with the Indianapolis Colts.
Despite the collapse, the Texans are encouraged by their performance and believe they’ll be able to build on the many good things they did in the opener as they try to improve on last year’s 4-13 season.
“It’s a different team,” receiver Brandin Cooks said. “The work that we’ve been putting in over the summer and the spring has showed up. But obviously, there’s some more to go. We’re going to keep pushing, keep knocking at that door, and keep getting better every single week. I love what we’ve got, no doubt.”
Houston led by 17 after three quarters, but couldn’t do anything after that. They got the ball first in overtime, but had to punt and had a second chance in OT after the Colts missed a field goal.
On that drive, the Texans faced fourth-and-3 from the Indianapolis 49 and coach Lovie Smith chose to punt instead of going for it with 26 seconds left in the extra period.
Smith, who is in his first season as the team’s head coach after David Culley was fired after one season where the team went 4-13, defended his decision not to go for the win.
“It’s not like we were playing our best defense at the time,” Smith said. “We were drained ... that’s how it goes. In an ideal world, you don’t want a loss, you want a win, but if you can’t get the win, sometimes you settle for the tie.”
It was the first tie in franchise history.
Quarterback Davis Mills threw for 240 yards and two touchdowns before losing a fumble late as he continues to develop in his second NFL season.
“We didn’t finish the way we need to. Davis is a part of that,” Smith said. “Looking at it on the other hand, for us to be able to get that lead, Davis had to do some good things. So, we’re going to build on those good things, going to learn an awful lot from this game, but we’ll recover.”
Houston’s defense looked much improved from the group that ranked 31st in the NFL last season.
Defensive end Jerry Hughes had two sacks and an interception in his debut with the Texans after spending the past nine seasons with the Bills.
Rookie Derek Stingley, the third overall pick in this year’s draft, started and played well. He finished with seven tackles and knocked down a pass in the end zone in the fourth quarter.
WHAT’S WORKING
If you focus on the first three quarters, there is plenty that is working on this team. The defense was swarming to the ball, forcing turnovers and making big stops.
Mills was decisive and consistent and looked as if he’d taken a step forward from a subpar rookie season. Cooks continues to be a leader on the offense and had seven receptions for 82 yards.
Linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill picked up where he left off last season when he led the team with a career-high 106 tackles by getting 18 tackles and defending a pass in the opener.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The running game couldn’t do much despite the addition of rookie Dameon Pierce. They managed a paltry 77 yards rushing after ranking last in the NFL in 2021 by averaging 83.6 yards a game.
STOCK UP
Tight end O.J. Howard, who was a late addition to the team after signing on Sept. 2, caught TD passes on his only two catches Sunday to help Houston build the lead.
STOCK DOWN
Pierce had a lot of hype entering the opener after the fourth-round pick used a great camp to earn the starting job. But he managed just 33 yards on 11 carries Sunday, showing he might need some time to adjust to the NFL.
INJURIES
No injuries were reported this week.
KEY NUMBER
2 — Number of touchdowns Houston’s defense limited the Colts to on five trips inside the red zone, highlighted by Jonathan Greenard dropping Nyheim Hines for a 2-yard loss on fourth-and-2 from the 2 in the second quarter.
NEXT STEPS
The Texans will need to learn how to finish and get their running game going if they hope to beat Russell Wilson and Broncos on Sunday in Denver.
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Federal officials issued a public health alert over concerns of ground beef products in HelloFresh meal kits.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Saturday that ground beef products in meal kits shipped to consumers between July 2 and July 21 may linked to an E. coli outbreak.
The agency said a recall wasn't being issued because the products are no longer available for purchase. However, the USDA is concerned that some customers may have the ground beef in their freezer if they did not cook the meal kit's food right away.
The ground beef subject to concern comes in a 10-ounce plastic vacuum-sealed package labeled "GROUND BEEF 85% LEAN/15% FAT" with codes “EST#46841 L1 22 155” or “EST#46841 L5 22 155” on the side of the packaging. It also bears “EST.46841” inside the USDA mark of inspection and on the plastic ground beef package.
The USDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are still investigating the outbreak and believe that the beef produced at one particular establishment is behind several reported illnesses.
The E. coli strain behind the outbreak is O157:H7. E. coli infection can cause severe symptoms, including bloody diarrhea, intense stomach cramps and, in rare cases, kidney failure.
Recall Alert
Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them and should throw them away.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A month after losing one nearly $50 million verdict, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is set to go on trial a second time for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax and causing several of the victims’ families emotional and psychological harm.
A six-member jury with several alternates in Connecticut will begin hearing evidence Tuesday on how much Jones should pay the families, since he already has been found liable for damages to them. The trial is expected to last about four weeks.
Last month, a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $49.3 million to the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, one of 26 students and teachers killed in the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Jones’ lawyer has said an appeal is planned.
The Connecticut case has the potential for a larger award because it involves three lawsuits — which have been consolidated — that were filed by 15 plaintiffs, including the relatives of nine of the victims and a former FBI agent who responded to the school shooting.
Jones, who runs his web show and Infowars brand in Austin, Texas, also faces a third trial over the hoax conspiracy in another pending lawsuit by Sandy Hook parents in Texas.
Here is a look at the upcoming trial in Waterbury, Connecticut, about 18 miles (29 kilometers) northeast of Newtown. Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, which has filed for bankruptcy protection, is also a defendant.
WHY ARE THE SANDY HOOK FAMILIES SUING JONES?
The families and former FBI agent William Aldenberg say they have been confronted and harassed in person by Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy. They also say they have endured death threats and been subjected to abusive comments on social media.
Some of the plaintiffs say strangers have videotaped them and their surviving children. And some families have moved out of Newtown to avoid threats and harassment.
“I can’t even describe the last nine and a half years, the living hell that I and others have had to endure because of the recklessness and negligence of Alex Jones,” Neil Heslin, Jesse Lewis’ father, testified during the Texas trial.
The Connecticut lawsuit alleges defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and violations of the state Unfair Trade Practices Act. The families claim when Jones talked about Sandy Hook, he boosted his audience and raked in more profits from selling supplements, clothing and other items.
The families have not asked for any specific amount of damages, some of which may be limited by state laws. There are no damage limits, however, under the Unfair Trade Practices Act.
In all the Connecticut and Texas cases, Jones and his lawyers repeatedly failed to turn over records as required to the families’ attorneys. In response, judges handed down one of the harshest sanctions in the civil legal world — they found Jones liable for damages by default without trials.
WHAT DOES ALEX JONES SAY?
In a reversal from what he said on his show for years following the shooting, Jones now says he believes the massacre was real. But he continues to say his comments about the shooting being a hoax involving crisis actors to encourage gun control efforts were protected by free speech rights.
During a deposition in the case in April, a defiant Jones insisted he wasn’t responsible for the suffering that Sandy Hook parents say they have endured because of his words.
He also has said the judges’ default rulings against him — finding him liable without trials — were unfair and suggested they were part of a conspiracy to put him out of business and silence him.
“If questioning public events and free speech is banned because it might hurt somebody’s feelings, we are not in America anymore,” he said at the deposition. “They can change the channel. They can come out and say I’m wrong. They have free speech.”
At the Texas trial, however, Jones testified that he now realizes what he said was irresponsible, did hurt people’s feelings and he apologized.
WHAT IS EXPECTED AT THE TRIAL?
Judge Barbara Bellis, who found Jones liable for damages, will oversee the trial. She is the same judge who oversaw Sandy Hook families’ lawsuit against gun maker Remington, which made the Bushmaster rifle used in the school shooting. In February, Remington agreed to settle the lawsuit for $73 million.
The trial is expected to be similar to the one in Texas, with victims’ relatives testifying about the pain and anguish the hoax conspiracy caused them and medical professionals answering questions about the relatives’ mental health and diagnoses.
Jones also will be testifying, said his lawyer, Norman Pattis.
“He is looking forward to putting this trial behind him; it has been a long and costly distraction,” Pattis wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
Evidence about Jones’ finances is also expected to be presented to the jury.
Jones testified at the Texas trial that any award over $2 million would “sink us,” and he urged his web show viewers to buy his merchandise to help keep him on air and fight the lawsuits.
But an economist testified that Jones and his company were worth up to $270 million. Jones faces another lawsuit in Texas over accusations that he hid millions of dollars in assets after families of Sandy Hook victims began taking him to court.
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January 6 committee set to meet in person on Tuesday as it debates whether to invite Trump and Pence to appear
By Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel, Zachary Cohen, Gloria Borger and Sara Murray, CNN
As the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack nears its final chapter, members plan to meet in person on Tuesday and one of the most pressing questions they’ll address is whether the committee should formally request that former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence appear before them.
Such appearances are exceedingly rare in US history. According to multiple sources, the committee does not expect either man to testify, but some members and staff believe the invitations should be extended for the record.
“How do you create a historic record without including formal requests for the two top witnesses,” said one source familiar to the committee’s work.
Members of the committee, including Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, have consistently said they’d like to hear from Pence and would welcome Trump’s testimony should he offer it on their terms but internal discussions about formally reaching out to both men has intensified in recent weeks now that the panel’s investigation will soon come to an end, the sources said.
Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, a member of the panel, told CNN, “Just speaking for myself, I would like to hear from both of them. Whether we actually will is a separate question.”
Whether the panel decides to call Trump or Pence could prove to be an important data point should the committee ultimately opt to submit a criminal referral for Trump — something members of the panel say they expect to seriously consider, while such a move would be largely symbolic in nature.
“I tend to think that you will see us seriously have that debate, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we do criminal referrals,” committee member Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois told CNN in a recent interview. “I do think that as we come to the end of the investigation, we’ve already presented a lot to say there is some criminal culpability here.”
Regardless of whether the committee issues referrals, the former President already faces potential legal jeopardy on a variety of fronts. The Justice Department is probing the handling of classified documents after Trump left office; federal investigators have steadily expanded their probe into the Capitol riot and the events leading up to it; and Trump is at the center of a criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
In addition to discussing the path forward on Trump and Pence, the panel is expected to use Tuesday’s meeting to continue to plan its next round of hearings, and work on its final report that is expected in December, sources tell CNN.
The committee also has to decide what to do about the five Republican lawmakers who have refused to cooperate with subpoenas: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
It continues to debate whether to subpoena other high-profile individuals, including Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
With just a few months left before the year’s end, multiple sources acknowledged to CNN the committee does not expect it will ever hear from the Trump allies who have fought subpoenas such as Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino.
There are also several investigative threads that remain open-ended but with limited time left, the committee is now deciding what to prioritize, sources tell CNN. That includes issues related to the US Secret Service, the sources said.
“We are in active deliberation and discussion about how to tie up loose ends in the investigation and then present a powerful report and set of recommendations to the Congress and the people,” Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a member of the committee, told CNN, acknowledging that whether to call Trump and Pence is on that list of loose ends. “The chair and the committee will have to work together to come to decide about what to do about people who haven’t testified so far.”
Changing landscape
One factor weighing on members as they approach the September session is they realize the political landscape has shifted dramatically since its last hearing on July 21 — which took place before the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and pre-dated several significant escalations in the parallel criminal investigations focused on efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And as committee members return this fall — even with a series of blockbuster hearings under its belt — the bar for its work to break through is exponentially higher.
In light of recent events, one source familiar with the committee’s planning said members and investigators are “taking some time right now to assess what makes the most sense” in terms of how best to proceed and “weave a coherent narrative.”
“I mean, the country now understands all of the essential elements of the plot to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and install Donald Trump as president for another four years,” Raskin said. “There has been there’s been a lot of developments in terms of the Department of Justice and its own investigations, but of course that’s on a separate track from us.”
Multiple sources involved in the committee’s work said they hoped its hearings and work helped generate public pressure and momentum — and led to the intensifying of the various criminal investigations into January 6. The committee has already begun handing over transcripts to the Justice Department, and DOJ has begun subpoenaing a wide array of Trump allies for information, including anything they’ve provided to the committee.
Investigators working on criminal probes have viewed some of the panel’s final actions as breadcrumbs for prosecutors, whose work will continue, according to a person familiar with the matter.
While the committee’s recent request for a voluntary interview with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich may not ultimately lead to his testimony, the committee’s letter to Gingrich expounded on little-known details about his alleged role in the fake elector plot and his efforts to push election lies about Georgia. Both topics are avenues of interest for federal prosecutors, as well as an Atlanta-area district attorney investigating Trump.
New investigative leads
Even as the committee deliberates on these matters, it is also continuing to pursue new leads, plan more hearings, and write a final report. The plans for what to include in potentially two more hearings this month still remain in flux, sources say.
“I believe that we need to have at least one, if not two final investigative hearings that will supply information in a number of areas where mystery lingers and then I think we need to have a final hearing that will canvass our recommendations and explain why we think certain changes are necessary in order to prevent electoral sabotage and political violence in the future,” Raskin said.
In terms of areas where “mystery lingers,” the panel has asked the National Archives and Records Administration if any of the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago are relevant to its investigation, sources say. It continues to investigate document destruction in the Trump White House sources close to the investigation tell CNN, and has even asked witnesses about whether Meadows, who stopped cooperating with the committee, burned documents in his West Wing office fireplace.
Because the Justice Department is conducting an ongoing investigation, both the National Archives and the January 6 committee have no window into exactly what the DOJ found during the Mar-a-Lago search, according to sources familiar.
Separately, the committee has asked the National Archives for the electronic communication Meadows handed over, but because that includes a large number of texts and emails, the agency is still processing. The committee doesn’t know yet whether there is anything new, or this just duplicates what he already gave them, according to those sources.
Investigators have also learned new information about the deletion of Secret Service text messages around the Capitol attack even if those messages have not been recovered, which sources say could appear in upcoming hearings.
“It’s not clear that they are recoverable at this point. But we’re, we’re not giving up,” one source said. Referring to the texts the source added, “That’s not the only kind of evidence that exists.”
Kinzinger told CNN that members of the panel believe that former Secret Service agent Tony Ornato was personally involved in efforts to discredit the testimony of Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson while he was still at the agency, and said unnamed Secret Service officials and others simply adopted his side of the story.
“I just think it’s so important to keep in mind that, through quote, anonymous sources, which we believe to be actually Tony Ornato himself, he pushed back against Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony and said, it’s just not true and Tony will testify under oath. And then of course, has not come in to testify under oath,” he told CNN.
CNN has reached out to the Secret Service for comment on this story.
“Mr. Ornato plans to continue cooperating in the investigations related to the events of January 6,” his counsel, Kate Driscoll of law firm Morrison & Foerster, told CNN.
Hutchinson testified back in June that Ornato witnessed an altercation between Trump and his Secret Service detail over wanting to go to the Capitol on January 6. The panel has spoken with Ornato over the course of its investigation, but not since Hutchinson’s public testimony.
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17-year-old girl missing from Oklahoma for 10 months found in Ohio
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) – A teen from Oklahoma who had been missing for the last 10 months was found in Ohio Monday, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Shawna Justice, 17, was reported missing to the Woodward County Sheriff’s Office in December of 2021.
The Akron Police Department and USMS joined the investigation last week and found the girl in Akron on Sept. 12, 2022.
“The speed at which the investigation developed over the last week, and a recovery was able to happen in this case was exceptional,” U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott said in a news release. “Our officers should be commended for recovering this child swiftly and safe.”
Officials said an “adult relative” of Shawna was also arrested on outstanding warrants during the teen’s recovery, adding that further charges are pending investigation.
The teen will be kept in Ohio until authorities from Oklahoma can pick her up.
Anyone with information on a missing or endangered juvenile is asked to call the U.S. Marshals at 1-866-492-6833. Callers can remain anonymous.
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Country music star injured after tour bus overturns in crash
CAMPBELL COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) – A country music star was injured after his bus overturned in Tennessee on Friday, according to authorities.
Musician John Michael Montgomery was traveling with his team on the way to a concert in North Carolina when the accident happened, he said in a statement.
The 2001 Prevost Featherlite was driving on I-75 near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line when it hit the embankment and overturned, according to the report. WVLT reports the right lane was closed for a few hours as crews worked to overturn the vehicle.
Montgomery said he suffered broken ribs and minor cuts due to the accident but is doing well. Others on the bus are also recovering from injuries, he said.
Montgomery released a statement addressing the accident:
Yesterday we had a serious accident on the way to a concert in North Carolina. Everyone that was on the bus is recovering from their injuries.
Despite some cuts and broken ribs, I am doing well. I will take some time over the next couple of weeks to heal and be back on the road soon. I am grateful to the medics and highway patrol for their quick response to this difficult situation. Thanks to everyone for their concerns.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Target Laboratories, Inc., a privately-held biotechnology company developing intraoperative molecular imaging agents to target and illuminate cancer during surgery, today announced publication of results from the Phase 3 006 Study of CYTALUX (pafolacianine) injection for intraoperative imaging of folate receptor positive ovarian cancer in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The research article reports that use of CYTALUX during ovarian cancer surgery demonstrated identification of additional ovarian cancer that was not identified with conventional means and not otherwise planned for resection. 150 patients in the safety analysis set received a single infusion of CYTALUX, resulting in 109 patients with folate receptor positive ovarian cancer comprising the full analysis set for efficacy. In 33% of patients*, near-infrared imaging with CYTALUX identified additional lesions which would have been left behind (P < 0.001, 95% CI [0.243, 0.427]). The rate was higher, at 39.7%, among patients who underwent interval debulking surgery (95% CI [0.270, 0.534]).
"This pivotal study indicates that CYTALUX may offer an important real-time adjunct to current surgical approaches for ovarian cancer," said Chris Barys, President and Chief Executive Officer of On Target. "We are grateful to the study participants and investigators for their important role in this research and are committed to continuing to pioneer the use and study of intraoperative molecular imaging to increase detection of malignant lesions during surgery."
"There are many limitations to current operative approaches of visual inspection and palpation, and I am encouraged that, in this clinical trial, near-infrared imaging with CYTALUX identified additional lesions in 33% of participants which would have been left behind," said Janos L. Tanyi, MD, PhD, an associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and principal investigator of the Phase 3 trial. "These results further the evidence that intraoperative molecular imaging may help surgeons achieve complete surgical resection of cancer."
* N=36 out of 109 folate receptor positive ovarian cancer patients. CYTALUX USPI describes the proportion of patients in which CYTALUX identified additional lesions in the "intent-to-image set" regardless of ovarian cancer status (N=36 out of 134, 27%)
About On Target Laboratories, Inc.
On Target Laboratories discovers and develops targeted intraoperative molecular imaging agents to illuminate cancer during surgery. Their molecular imaging technology, based on the pioneering work of Philip S. Low, PhD, Purdue University's Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, are comprised of a near-infrared dye and a targeting molecule, or ligand, that binds to receptors overexpressed on cancer cells. The imaging agents illuminate the cancerous tissue, which may enable surgeons to detect more cancer that otherwise may have been left behind.
CYTALUX, the Company's first product, received FDA approval for ovarian cancer in November 2021. CYTALUX targets folate receptors commonly found on many cancers, such as ovarian cancer. A single dose of the agent is administered via intravenous infusion prior to surgery to help the surgeon identify additional malignant tissue during the operation using a near-infrared imaging system. For more information visit www.ontargetlabs.com and www.cytalux.com.
CYTALUX Indication
CYTALUX is an FDA-approved optical imaging agent indicated in adult patients with ovarian cancer as an adjunct for intraoperative identification of malignant lesions.
Important Safety Information
Infusion-Related Reactions
Adverse reactions consisting of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, flushing, indigestion, chest discomfort, and itching were reported during the administration of CYTALUX. Your doctor may treat you with antihistamines and/or anti-nausea medication.
Pregnancy
CYTALUX may cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. There are no available human data to evaluate for a drug-associated risk of major birth defects, miscarriage, or other adverse maternal or fetal outcomes. Contact your healthcare provider with a known or suspected pregnancy.
Folate Supplement Usage
Folic acid may reduce the detection of cancerous tissue with CYTALUX. Patients should stop taking folate, folic acid, or folate-containing supplements 48 hours before administration of CYTALUX.
Risk of Misinterpretation
Errors may occur with the use of CYTALUX. Sometimes cells may light up even if they are not cancerous or those that are cancerous may not light up. Also, cancerous or non-cancerous cells from other areas may light up, such as areas of the bowel, kidneys, lymph nodes, and inflamed tissue.
Adverse Reactions
The most common side effects of CYTALUX reported in clinical trials were nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, flushing, indigestion, chest discomfort, itching, and allergic reaction during administration or infusion.
Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of CYTALUX. For more information, ask your healthcare provider.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to On Target Laboratories at 1-844-434-9333 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
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Country music star injured after tour bus overturns in crash
CAMPBELL COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) – A country music star was injured after his bus overturned in Tennessee on Friday, according to authorities.
Musician John Michael Montgomery was traveling with his team on the way to a concert in North Carolina when the accident happened, he said in a statement.
The 2001 Prevost Featherlite was driving on I-75 near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line when it hit the embankment and overturned, according to the report. WVLT reports the right lane was closed for a few hours as crews worked to overturn the vehicle.
Montgomery said he suffered broken ribs and minor cuts due to the accident but is doing well. Others on the bus are also recovering from injuries, he said.
Montgomery released a statement addressing the accident:
Yesterday we had a serious accident on the way to a concert in North Carolina. Everyone that was on the bus is recovering from their injuries.
Despite some cuts and broken ribs, I am doing well. I will take some time over the next couple of weeks to heal and be back on the road soon. I am grateful to the medics and highway patrol for their quick response to this difficult situation. Thanks to everyone for their concerns.
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LANSING – To better help fight the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for bivalent COVID-19 vaccine for booster doses. This was followed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendation for use of the Pfizer bivalent booster vaccine for ages 12 and older and the Moderna bivalent vaccine for ages 18 and older.
“This is great news as we go into the fall and winter when we expect cases of COVID-19 to increase,” said Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) chief medical executive, in a press release. “COVID-19 vaccines remain our best defense against the virus, and we recommend all Michiganders stay up to date.”
The bivalent boosters target two strains of COVID-19 – the original strain of the virus and the most widely-spread Omicron variants (BA.4 and BA.5).
Midland County Medical Director Dr. Cathy Bodnar is optimistic about the bivalent boosters and their impact on the fight against COVID-19.
“It’s a good match for the strains that are currently circulating,” she said. “I think the expectation is it will be more effective.”
Both the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent boosters are now available for Midland residents through the Midland County Department of Public Health. The booster will be available during the department’s weekly clinics, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Sept. 13, 20 and 27. To reduce wait times, recipients are encouraged to schedule an appointment to receive the vaccine or boosters by calling 989-832-6665 or visiting https://www.co.midland.mi.us/HealthDepartment/ClinicServices/Immunizations/COVIDVaccineInformation.aspx
Individuals ages 12 and older who have received their primary series of vaccines or monovalent booster doses at least two months ago are eligible to receive one Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 booster. The Moderna bivalent booster is approved for individuals ages 18 years and older who have received their primary series of vaccines or monovalent booster doses at least two months ago.
Individuals may choose to receive either the Pfizer or Moderna bivalent booster, regardless of which primary series vaccine or original booster dose they’ve received. Influenza vaccines, which are now available in Michigan, can also be co-administered with the COVID-19 bivalent booster doses. Older formulations of booster doses will no longer be available to persons 12 and older as the FDA has removed authorization for those boosters.
To date, nearly 6.8 million Michiganders ages 5 and up have gotten at least their first dose of COVID-19 vaccines.
Bodnar encourages Midland County residents to stay up to date on vaccinations in accordance with their ages and medical history.
MDHHS encourages Michigan residents to pay attention to local guidance as some communities may be at a higher risk of COVID-19 transmission.
As of Sept. 1, Midland County has a medium risk of community transmission, according to MI Safe Start Map. Bay, Gladwin and Isabella counties have low community transmission while Saginaw has high community transmission.
Through the summer, Bodnar had heard health experts predict a surge of COVID cases in the fall; now those predictions have been tempered.
“Barring a new variant, we’re hoping we won’t see that surge that was predicted,” Bodnar said.
Bodnar reported that Midland County saw an uptick in COVID cases since the start of school more than two weeks ago. She said the increase was not unexpected, nor was it as high as the May increase. Currently, the largest school outbreaks in Midland County schools include one school with 41 cases and another with 31 cases, according to Bodnar.
Hospitals are doing well in Midland County, according to Bodnar. The region's seven-day average hospitalization rate for COVID patients as of Aug. 30 is 5.2%.
“In terms of the severe outcomes, we’re seeing a lot more cases, but we’re not seeing a lot of hospitalizations or deaths,” Bodnar said.
To schedule a primary or booster dose of the COVID vaccine, visit vaccines.gov.
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When Dow High freshman Sophia Lee heard her mother shrieking, she knew that either something awful or something awesome must have happened. Fortunately, it was the latter.
And, according to Lee, it wasn’t just awesome. It was surreal.
Lee, who recently turned 15, is one of the top young girls’ golf players in the area, and, last Thursday, she shot her first-ever hole-in-one at the Redwing Invitational in St. Johns. She used a 9-iron to ace the 110-yard 12th hole at The Emerald Golf Course – although she admitted that she initially didn’t even realize what she had done.
“My legit reaction was complete straight-face. I was just standing there, and my mom was going crazy,” Lee said, adding with a laugh, “One of my teammate’s dad said he thought someone must have died out there, because my mom was screaming so loud. It was just so much fun. I never thought I’d get a hole-in-one.
“ … Honestly, I did not even see the ball go in the hole, because the hole was uphill,” she added. “Everybody was screaming and clapping, and I was just in shock. I was so happy, but I don’t think I showed any emotion. It just felt so surreal. It’s a moment I will never forget, and it’s not a moment I can ever replace.”
Already this season, Lee has shot a 6-over-par 78 to win Dow’s own Frank Altimore Invitational at Currie Golf Course. She followed that with a top-five 79 on Thursday in St. Johns, leading the Chargers to a second-place team finish in the tournament.
Lee’s best score in a nine-hole round is a 1-over-par 37, which she shot at Midland Country Club, and the 78 she shot at Currie matches her best 18-hole score.
“For this year, my goal is to shoot par over 18 holes. That’s my biggest goal,” she said.
Chargers’ coach Matt Schurman said Lee might have an outside shot at reaching that goal this season.
“It could be possible for her to shoot par, but she would have to knock six strokes off (her best score). I think probably 74 or 75 by the end of this year is definitely a possibility for her,” Schurman said. “She’s been right around the 78 to 80 mark all season.”
Earlier this season, Lee also finished first at a Saginaw Valley League match at Mount Pleasant Country Club and at the Freeland Invitational held at Vassar Golf and Country Club, while taking second at the pre-SVL meet held at The Fortress in Frankenmuth and tying for second at the SVL jamboree held at Currie.
“Probably one of the biggest things with Sophia is her composure. She doesn’t get rattled very often, if at all. She’s very calm and collected out there, and she knows the game, and she knows her game, which helps keep her calm and focused,” Schurman noted.
“ … And she just has experience. She has a lot of tournament experience playing on her own, and I think that has helped with her success,” he added. “She knows what she’s capable of doing.”
Lee said she began playing golf at the age of three but didn’t make it a priority until several years later.
“I never really took it seriously. My family has a history of playing golf, but I really just did it for fun at first,” she said. “Then, I started playing (competitively) in fifth grade, and I loved it. It was so much fun. I did volleyball and figure skating for years, but I just knew that golf was a more realistic sport for me to play than those others.”
Lee admitted that, at first, golf was tough for her to master. But after some expert coaching, plenty of practice, and some parental encouragement, she has blossomed in recent months, also winning the Great Lakes Bay Junior Golf Championship at Midland Country Club this past summer.
“I had an amazing coach, (MCC professional) Jim Deiters, and I wanted to work with him all the time. … Then, this summer, my parents told me that if I work really hard, I have the true talent to be good. But they’re my parents, so you kind of think they’re just saying that because they love you,” she noted.
“But then, this summer, I saw some of the other competition out there, and I thought, ‘Wow, maybe I can do this. I want to know what more I can do in this sport,’” she added.
Lee, whose favorite course is The Fortress, said one thing she really enjoys about golf is that every round is unique. Asked what she thinks she needs to work on most, she replied, “Everything.”
“I definitely want to work on staying true to myself and staying calm on the course during rough matches and never giving up,” she said. “ … Every day, I find something new that I need to change or work on and put more time into.”
As for the strongest part of her game? “My putting,” she said immediately. “I love to putt.”
Schurman agreed that Lee’s short game has played a big role in her success.
“You can bomb a drive out there, but if you can’t work around the greens and putt, your scores are definitely going to go up,” he said. “Her drives are very powerful and long, and her short game is great. I think she’s a phenomenal talent, so it’s hard for me to break down her game.
“Obviously, everyone can get better, and she’s still so young,” he added. “I think she has the potential to become one of the greats ever to play at Dow High. She’s very capable of getting there.”
Looking ahead, Lee said she would love to qualify for and compete in the Division 2 state final.
“That is actually a big goal of mine. I’m really, really working hard to make it to state and, hopefully, play well and meet some amazing girls,” she said.
Schurman, whose Chargers currently sit in second place in the SVL standings behind Grand Blanc, said he likes Lee’s chances of meeting that goal.
“I think she has a good chance to make it to state, whether it’s her as an individual or with us making it in as a team,” he noted.
Asked about Lee as a person, Schurman had nothing but good things to say about his star-in-the-making.
“She’s great, her personality and character. She’s a very humble freshman girl,” he said. “She was even embarrassed that her mom wanted to take a picture of her after the hole-in-one. It’s very easy for a young kid to get caught up in, ‘Hey, look at me and the great things I’m doing,’ but that’s not her at all.
“Sophia is very humble. If she does something great, she’s like, ‘Yeah, that’s what I’m supposed to do,’” he added with a chuckle.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Kansas City coach Andy Reid looked slightly perplexed during Sunday’s postgame press conference when asked why his quarterback Patrick Mahomes is so good in season openers.
Reid didn’t notice any difference.
“He’s pretty good all the time,” he said with a slight grin. “We’re lucky to have him.”
Mahomes threw for 360 yards and five touchdowns, Clyde Edwards-Helaire caught two touchdown passes and the Chiefs rolled to an impressive 44-21 road win over the Arizona Cardinals in the opener for both teams.
The game was never in doubt after the opening minutes, with Mahomes picking apart the Cardinals’ defense with his usual array of good decisions and deft passing touch. The quarterback was playing his first NFL game against Kliff Kingsbury, who coached Mahomes in college at Texas Tech and now leads the Cardinals.
The student put on quite a show for his mentor: The 2018 MVP threw three touchdown passes on Kansas City’s first three drives.
After his fourth touchdown, he turned toward the Cardinals’ sideline for a little trash talk, holding up four fingers to remind them of the damage he had already caused against the Arizona defense.
Mahomes said no matter how successful he becomes, he’ll always feel like the underdog. He’s now 5-0 in season openers, throwing 18 touchdowns and zero interceptions.
“I’m just a guy from Texas Tech they said couldn’t play in the NFL,” Mahomes said. “I’ve always had that mindset of proving we’re the Kansas City Chiefs, we still can win the AFC Championship, win the AFC West and win the Super Bowl.”
Tight end Travis Kelce caught eight passes for 121 yards and a touchdown. It was his 30th career game with at least 100 yards receiving. Kansas City outgained Arizona 488 yards to 282. Mahomes completed 30 of 39 passes.
“We always believed we were going to go out there and put on a show,” Mahomes said. “Guys did that.”
The onslaught started in a hurry.
Kansas City jumped out to a 7-0 lead on the opening drive, capping an 11-play, 75-yard march with a 9-yard touchdown pass from Mahomes to Kelce. The Chiefs pushed ahead 14-0 later in the first on a nifty play from Mahomes, who threw an underhanded shovel pass to Edwards-Helaire for the 3-yard score.
The Chiefs led 23-7 by halftime after Harrison Butker, who missed part of the first half with a left ankle injury, made a 54-yard field goal with two seconds left in the second quarter.
Kansas City — which is trying to make the AFC title game for a fifth straight season — had a 37-7 advantage by the fourth quarter.
It was a rough start for Arizona, which also suffered through a brutal ending to 2021. The Cardinals have lost six of seven games dating to last season, including the playoffs.
“They beat us in every way,” Kingsbury said. “There is no denying it, no hiding from it. We didn’t execute in any phase and they played at a high level.”
Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was playing his first game since being rewarded with a $230.5 million, five-year contract during the offseason. He finished 22-of-34 passing for 193 yards and two touchdowns, though much of that production came when the Chiefs already had control of the game.
“You can either start sulking about it or look in the mirror for what it is,” Murray said. “It’s a long season. We got punched in the mouth. How do you respond?”
The Cardinals came into Week 1 missing some of their best players. Three-time All-Pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins was suspended for the season’s first six games after violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug policy. Star defensive lineman J.J. Watt was inactive because of a calf injury.
SAFETY KICKER
Butker left the game in the first quarter because of an ankle injury, so the Chiefs turned to safety Justin Reid to handle the job.
He actually did OK.
Reid was made 1 of 2 attempts on extra points and also blasted a kickoff through the back of the end zone for a touchback. The safety was prepared for his role as the emergency kicker: He made an extra point during a preseason game.
Butker returned late in the second quarter.
READY TO GO
Mahomes completed touchdown passes on the first three drives of Kansas City’s season. He’s the second quarterback to do that since at least 1991. The other was Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers in 2011.
INJURIES
Chiefs: RG Trey Smith (ankle) left the game in the first half and didn’t return. … CB Trent McDuffie (hamstring) left the game in the second half. … Mahomes fell on his left wrist during the first quarter, which is his non-throwing arm. The quarterback said he was sore, but postgame tests didn’t reveal any structural damage.
Cardinals: Arizona entered the game with a banged-up roster, especially considering this is the first week of the season. WR Rondale Moore (hamstring), CB Trayvon Mullen (toe), OL Justin Pugh (neck) and Watt were all inactive because of injuries.
UP NEXT
Chiefs: Host the Chargers on Thursday night.
Cardinals: Travel to face the Raiders next Sunday.
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JAN MOIR: 25 years on from Diana, the rituals of royal death remain the same... If grief is the price we pay for love, then public exposure at times of peak personal grief is an unfortunate part of the royal bargain
Another death in the House of Windsor, another long walk in public behind the flag-draped coffin of a much-loved mother, another sad day in the history of this family.
Yesterday, the Queen’s four children walked through Edinburgh behind the hearse carrying their beloved Mama on one of her last journeys.
And as they slow-marched through the silent streets of the Scottish capital, it brought to mind another September funeral a long time ago.
The deaths of Elizabeth II and Princess Diana may be a quarter-century apart, but many watching this melancholy progression were reminded that the rituals of royal death remain the same.
On that morning in 1997, it was the Windsor men who walked through London behind Diana’s coffin. Many years later, Prince Harry would claim that the ordeal damaged him for life.
He has been vocal with his criticism that no child should have been asked to do what he did, to have his ‘grief observed by thousands of people.’
He was just 12 years old at the time, and looked tiny and vulnerable in his grown-up lounge suit. Perhaps he is right – and we certainly live in more enlightened times when it comes to the provision of mental health safeguards for all ages.
Yet different standards are demanded of royal mourners. If grief is the price we pay for love, as the Queen once famously said, then public exposure at times of peak personal grief is an unfortunate part of the royal bargain.
Unlike the little prince, Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward may have age and wisdom on their side, but the ordeal must have been no less painful.
Another death in the House of Windsor, another long walk in public behind the flag-draped coffin of a much-loved mother, another sad day in the history of this family
Earl Spencer (4th left) Prince William, Prince Harry and The Prince of Wales (far right) watch the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales, leave Westminster Abbey following her funeral
Yesterday, the Queen’s four children walked through Edinburgh behind the hearse carrying their beloved Mama on one of her last journeys
As the procession wound through the medieval heart of the city, from the palace of Holyrood up the cobbled hill to the cathedral of St Giles, the four of them marched in lockstep behind the cortege, their gazes trained forward like gundogs, a certain grim resolution in every difficult step.
There was Charles staunchly shuffling onwards, his hand on his ceremonial sword; Anne rinsed out by grief and suddenly looking older; Edward pale and hollowed-eyed.
The three of them were in military uniform; baled up in gold braid and ribbons like gift-wrapped emissaries from the army of late-life orphans; each of them sorrowing under their gilt-edged caps and complicated epaulettes.
Prince Andrew, the only one of the quartet to have actually served on active duty in a war, was not in uniform. ‘That is because he is no longer a working royal,’ whispered James Naughtie, who was providing the live narration for Scotland: A Service For HM The Queen (BBC1). We all know that is true and also not true, but it was a nice bit of treacled tact from a broadcaster not always known for his diplomacy.
Undaunted, burly Andrew marched onwards past the whisky bars and the fudge shops of the Royal Mile, his bare head and plain clothes a mark of disgrace and a symbol of the riven relationship with his family and the narrowing of his life as a royal.
Did he deserve such a public walk of shame? It is hard to imagine it is what his mother would have wanted.
Earlier in the programme there had been interviews with ordinary Scots who had met the Queen. It was absolutely lovely.
There was a man called Hector, an engineer on the Forth Road Bridge. A secretary who was invited to the opening of the bridge just because she was a local. And those who remembered the Queen coming to Dunblane in the aftermath of the school shooting tragedy. Someone spoke of HM’s ability to ‘personify a nation’s feelings’ in a way that represent us all.
King Charles III and other members of the royal family hold a vigil at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, on Monday
‘We all felt uplifted,’ said another contributor.
Scotland did not expect to have a starring role in the death of the Queen, but the country looked beautiful when her cortege first began the long journey to London, when it moved from the Highlands of Balmoral to the lowlands over the weekend.
Now it was Edinburgh’s turn to put on a show, and the city did not disappoint. On this sunny but saddest of September days, a stiff breeze blowing in from the River Forth ruffled the crimson cassocks of the assembled clergy, fluttered the eagle feathers tucked into the Balmoral caps of the Royal Company of Archers and rippled across the bearskins of the Queen’s Guard.
Yesterday’s entire procession was poignant but beautiful; the swinging sporrans, the muffled drums, the pageantry played out against the medieval architecture of the Old Town.
The only thing that spoiled it was James Naughtie, who noted the silence and solemnity of the crowds gathered on the Royal Mile, but just wouldn’t stop talking.
He chuntered on about John Knox and delivered a history lesson to viewers who were witnessing history for themselves. We didn’t need him going on about the ‘difficult and bloody upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries that meant so much to the Queen’.
What? We were also informed that St Giles was a ‘centrifugal building,’ directed to note ‘the unicorn that sits atop the Mercat Cross’ and even told what the gathered crowds were thinking.
‘They are touched by the knowledge this is a sight they won’t see again,’ he pronounced, rather pompously. Were they?
How could he have known? Off with his microphone, if not his head.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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US Marshals rescue 14 missing or endangered children
NEW ORLEANS (WAFB/Gray News) – Officials recovered 14 missing children in Louisiana and made eight arrests as part of Operation Summer Knights.
The U.S. Marshals Service Eastern District of Louisiana New Orleans said the investigation ran from April 30 to Aug. 31.
One of the children rescued was a 13-year-old girl who ran away in July and was believed to be with an 18-year-old whom she met on social media.
Another person rescued was a 17-year-old boy who told authorities he was kidnapped from his home and was being held for ransom.
Officials also said they recovered two 12-year-old girls who had run away together and were in the company of adult males, possibly planning on leaving the state.
U.S. Marshals also rescued a 15-year-old pregnant teen who said she was planning on relocating to Texas.
The New Orleans Police Department, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, and several other agencies were also involved in Operation Summer Knights.
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U.N. investigator says Facebook provided vast amount of Myanmar war crimes information
GENEVA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The head of a U.N. team of investigators on Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook has handed over millions of items that could support allegations of war crimes and genocide.
The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) aims to build case files for proceedings in national, regional or international courts. It was established in 2018 by the U.N. Human Rights Council and began work the following year.
"Facebook has shared with the mechanism millions of items from networks of accounts that were taken down by the company because they misrepresented their identity," Nicholas Koumjian, head of the IIMM, said in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Myanmar is facing charges of genocide at the UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) over a 2017 military crackdown on the Rohingya that forced more than 730,000 people to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.
Facebook, whose parent company changed its name to Meta Platforms Inc META.O last year, could not immediately be reached for comment. The company has previously said it was working with the IIMM. In 2018, U.N. human rights investigators said the social media site had spread hate speech that fueled the violence. Facebook has said it is working to block hate speech.
With the Facebook items and other pieces of information from over 200 sources, the mechanism has prepared 67 "evidential and analytical packages." These packages are intended to be shared with judicial authorities, including the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the ICJ, Koumjian added.
The ICC has also opened a case looking at deportation and other crimes against humanity in relation to Rohingya refugees who were forced into ICC member state Bangladesh.
Myanmar denies genocide and says its armed forces were conducting legitimate operations against militants.
SPECIAL REPORT-New evidence shows how Myanmar's military planned the Rohingya purge
(Reporting by Emma Farge and Stephanie van den Berg in Geneva Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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HOUSTON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weatherford International plc (NASDAQ: WFRD) ("Weatherford" or the "Company") received a five-year framework agreement from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ("ADNOC") to provide directional drilling and logging-while-drilling services. The contract is currently valued at over $400 million and ADNOC has an option to extend the contract for an additional two years.
The Weatherford Drilling Services portfolio includes a suite of technology that combines world-class services, real-time information analysis, and innovative drilling tools to maximize efficiency in any environment. Deploying these service and technology offerings will add value to ADNOC's drilling operations by minimizing OPEX, reducing risks, and optimizing production. These benefits are mission-critical to ADNOC's near- and long-term goals.
Girish Saligram, Weatherford President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are thrilled about this award as it showcases our commitment to creating value for every customer through our differentiated technology and services. Our field-proven directional and logging-while-drilling services and technology will support ADNOC in expanding its operations and achieving its production goals. Our manufacturing facility in Abu Dhabi will further bolster its In-Country Value Program—an initiative Weatherford has supported since the beginning. We look forward to delivering successful outcomes to one of our long-time energy partners."
Weatherford delivers innovative energy services that integrate proven technologies with advanced digitalization to create sustainable offerings for maximized value and return on investment. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation. The Company operates in approximately 75 countries with a global talent network of approximately 17,500 team members representing more than 110 nationalities and 350 operating locations.
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WASHINGTON — Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who is warning of security flaws, privacy threats and lax controls at the social platform, will take his case to Congress on Tuesday.
Senators who will hear Zatko’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee are alarmed by his Twitter allegations at a time of heightened concern over the safety of powerful tech platforms.
It’s Zatko’s second Capitol Hill appearance, and in some ways a 21st-century echo of his first. In 1998, he testified before a Senate panel along with fellow members of a hacker collective who warned about the security dangers of the then-emerging internet age.
Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert, was Twitter’s head of security until he was fired early this year. He has brought the stunning allegations to Congress and federal regulators, asserting that the influential social platform misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control millions of “spam” or fake accounts.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the panel, has said that if Zatko’s claims are accurate, “they may show dangerous data-privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.”
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter. The Tesla CEO is trying to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company; Twitter has sued to force him to complete the deal. The Delaware judge overseeing that case ruled last week that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
The allegation that Twitter engaged in deception in its handling of automated “spam bot” accounts is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter deal.
At the same time, many of Zatko’s claims are uncorroborated and appear to have little documentary support. In a statement, Twitter has called Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
Also on Tuesday, Twitter’s shareholders are scheduled to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk. The vote is something of a formality given that the deal is on hold while the court case plays out. But if the measure passes as expected, it would also pave the way for a Musk takeover should Twitter prevail in court.
Zatko also filed complaints with the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among his most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
The SEC is questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. Twitter uses counts of its presumably real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up about 90% of its revenue. The “spam bots” have no value to advertisers because there’s no person behind them.
San Francisco-based Twitter has an estimated 238 million daily active users worldwide. The company says it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Zatko’s 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
It accuses CEO Parag Agrawal and other senior executives and board members of making “false and misleading statements to users and the FTC” about these issues. Twitter denies those claims and said that Zatko was fired in January for “ineffective leadership and poor performance.” Zatko’s attorneys say the performance claim is false.
Twitter also hinted that Zatko’s complaint might be designed to bolster Musk’s legal fight with the company. Twitter called Zatko’s complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and lacks important context.”
News of Zatko’s complaint surfaced on Aug. 23, almost two months before the Twitter-Musk trial is scheduled to begin. . One of Zatko’s attorneys has said “he’s never met Elon Musk. Doesn’t know Elon Musk. They know people in common.”
The company also says it has significantly tightened security since 2020.
Among Zatko’s specific allegations:
— The company had such poor cybersecurity that it easily could have been exposed to outside attacks or attempts to siphon off its internal data.
—The company lacked effective leadership, with its top executives practicing “deliberate ignorance” of pressing problems. Zatko described former CEO Jack Dorsey as “extremely disengaged” during the last months of his tenure, to the point where he wouldn’t even speak during meetings on complex issues. Dorsey stepped down in November 2021.
—That Twitter knowingly allowed the government of India to place its agents on the company payroll, where they had “direct unsupervised access” to highly sensitive data on users. It makes a parallel but less detailed accusation that Twitter took funding from unidentified Chinese entities who may have gained access enabling them to access the identities and sensitive data of Chinese users who secretly use Twitter, which is officially banned in China.
Better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” Zatko, 51, first gained prominence in the 1990s. He was the best-known member of the Boston-based collective L0pht, which pioneered ethical hacking, embarrassing companies including Microsoft for poor security. His work raised awareness in the computing world that forced such major companies to take security seriously. He co-founded the consultancy @Stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.
Zatko later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Google. He joined Twitter at Dorsey’s urging in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach involving hackers who broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls, including Musk, in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin.
AP technology writers Frank Bajak in Boston and Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.
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- Completed 50 resource expansion and infill diamond drill holes at Lemhi totaling 12,168 metres;
- Lehmi drill program designed to extend the known mineralization, typically consisting of high-grade lenses within a broad lower grade zone;
- Five additional diamond drill holes completed at the Beauty zone totaling 721 metres;
- Engaged Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc., a tier 1 engineering firm to complete a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") specific to the Lemhi Gold Deposit;
- Secured a reverse circulation ("RC") drill from Specialized Drilling Corp. to complete a Phase III - 6000 metre resource expansion and classification drill program at the Lemhi Gold Deposit with some additional drilling at the Beauty zone; and
- Completed quarterly surface and groundwater water sampling and flow measurements.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Freeman Gold Corp. (TSXV: FMAN) (OTCQX: FMANF) (FSE: 3WU) ("Freeman" or the "Company") is pleased to report it has successfully completed the Phase II diamond drill program consisting of 12,168 metres in 50 holes as part of a resource expansion program at its 100% owned Lemhi Gold Deposit, Idaho, USA. A total of 46 of these drill holes were designed to test mineralization on strike to the east and west of the known deposit (expansion holes) and four were infill holes in known areas to improve the resource confidence in zones where only historical drill holes exist. An additional five holes totaling 721 metres were drilled at the newly discovered Beauty zone (see Figure 1).
The expansion holes ranged from 40 to 90 metres to the east or west of existing drilling where gold mineralization was intersected. These particular areas were previously modelled as unmineralized due to lack of drill density in the initial maiden mineral resource estimate ("MRE"). The current MRE comprises an Indicated Mineral Resource of 22.94 million tonnes at 1.02 g/t Au for 749,800 oz of gold, and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 7.68 million tonnes at 1.01 g/t Au for 250,300 oz of gold (refer to press release dated July 8, 2021). The MRE covers a surface area of 400 by 500 metres and extends down to a depth of 180 metres below surface. The resource expansion holes that form the bulk of the current Phase II drill program are designed to extend this current resource both along strike and at depth.
Paul Matysek, Executive Chairman, commented, "The diamond drilling program was designed to confirm the continuity and increase the size of the Lemhi Gold Deposit. The planned drill holes stepped out up to 90 metres along strike, adding approximately 20% to the known mineralized strike length. Intersecting gold mineralization in these areas will have a direct impact on increasing the in-pit gold resource. Furthermore, many of these zones that have been drilled lie within the ultimate pit shell, meaning any ounces that are added in these zones will be accretive to the overall resource."
As of August 31, 2022, a total of 50 new drill holes have been completed at Lemhi for a total of 12,168 metres. These holes have been primarily designed to test on strike extensions of the known resource as well as infill in certain parts of the gold deposit. In particular, the drill program has focused on areas currently modelled as pit waste due to a lack of drill data. All ounces added in these areas, even if close to the cut-off grade, will add value to the project as they come from zones in the resource shell that would result in an upgrade to resources. An additional 25 holes or approximately 5,000 metres have been planned as part of the Phase 3 RC drill program.
Currently 45 drill holes from the project have been logged, sampled and sent to the laboratory. It is estimated that samples for all 50 holes will be at the laboratory by the end of month and analytical results are presently pending for many of the holes. It is anticipated that the complete set of analytical results will be received by the end of Q4.
All drill core samples are sent to ALS Global Laboratories (Geochemistry Division), an independent and fully accredited laboratory (ISO 9001:2008) for analysis for gold by Fire Assay and multi-element Induction Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy (select drill holes), in Vancouer, Canada. Freeman has a regimented Quality Assurance, Quality Control (QA/QC) program where at least 10% duplicates, blanks and standards are inserted into each sample shipment. The Company also collects RQ and SG and full geological logging.
Freeman Gold Corp. is a mineral exploration company focused on the development of its 100% owned Lemhi Gold property (the "Project"). The Project comprises 30 square kilometres of highly prospective land, hosting a near-surface oxide gold resource. The pit constrained National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43- 101") compliant mineral resource estimate is comprised of 749,800 oz gold ("Au") at 1.02 grams per tonne ("g/t") in 22.94 million tonnes (Indicated) and 250,300 oz Au at 1.01 g/t Au in 7.83 million tonnes (Inferred). See the NI 43-101 technical report titled "Maiden Resource Technical Report for the Lemhi Gold Project, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA" with an effective date of June 1, 2021, and signing date of July 30, 2021, as prepared by APEX Geoscience Ltd. and F. Wright Consulting Inc. available under the Company's profile on SEDAR (www.sedar.com). The Company is focused on growing and advancing the Project towards a production decision. The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Dean Besserer, P.Geo., VP Exploration of the Company and a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43- 101.
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William Randall
President and Chief Executive Officer
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains "forward‐looking information or statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws, which may include, but are not limited to statements relating to further exploration and the Company's future business plans. All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts that address events or developments that the Company expects to occur, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words "expects," "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "projects", "potential" and similar expressions, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could" or "should" occur. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ from those in the forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking information reflects the Company's views with respect to future events and is subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. The reader is urged to refer to the Company's reports, publicly available through the Canadian Securities Administrators' System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) at www.sedar.com for a more complete discussion of such risk factors and their potential effects. The Company does not undertake to update forward‐looking statements or forward‐looking information, except as required by law.
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GERMANTOWN, Tenn., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., or MAA (NYSE: MAA), today announced that MAA senior management will participate in a round table presentation at the Bank of America 2022 Global Real Estate Conference. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at approximately 2:10 p.m. Eastern Time.
A live webcast of the company's presentation will be accessible through the "Corporate Profile" section of the "For Investors" page of MAA's website at www.maac.com on the day of the event.
The webcast replay will be accessible within 24 hours after the conclusion of the live event through December 13, 2022 on the "News & Events" section of the "For Investors" page of MAA's website.
About MAA
MAA is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) and member of the S&P 500. MAA owns or has ownership interest in apartment communities primarily throughout the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. focused on delivering strong, full-cycle investment performance. For further details, please refer to the "For Investors" page at www.maac.com or contact Investor Relations at investor.relations@maac.com.
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Warriors' guard Steph Curry says government rebuffed offer to help gain Brittney Griner's release
Everyone knows Steph Curry is hard to stop on the court.
He also knows his voice can't be stopped regarding social and legal justice, including Brittney Griner's detainment in Russia.
Curry, in a Rolling Stone October issue cover story, published on Monday, said the Biden administration rebuffed his offer to help with efforts to gain the Phoenix Mercury All-Star's release.
Griner was convicted on drug smuggling charges and sentenced to nine years on Aug. 4. She was arrested for being caught with cannabis oil cartridges at a Moscow airport security on Feb. 17, and was deemed wrongfully detained by the Biden administration in May.
When Griner was in pretrial detention, Curry said he reached out to his contacts in the Biden administration, and he said they rejected his extended olive branch amid Russian prison-swap negotiations.
"They were telling us, 'Don’t say anything,'" Curry said.
Read more: Brittney Griner’s lawyers appeal nine-year Russian prison sentence
The NBA front office was initially in lockstep with the U.S. government about keeping its players mum regarding Griner's case. But the league's players and coaches, including the Phoenix Suns, have been vocal about Griner since May.
Curry began discussing his views about Griner's case during an on-air ESPN interview with Malika Andrews in June, in which he said, "It’s an unfortunate situation, it’s a tragedy. … She needs to be home.”
Curry added that the government's resistance to his offer galvanized him to briefly wear her Mercury jersey onstage at this 2022 ESPY Awards ceremony, which he hosted in July.
He stood alongside WNBA All-Stars Nneka Ogwumike of the Los Angeles Sparks and Griner's teammate Skyler Diggins-Smith to give a short speech to push for Griner's freedom.
According to the Rolling Stone article, Curry said his 'contacts in the Biden administration rebuffed an offer to help.
"They were telling us, 'Don't say anything,''' the article quotes him as saying.
Curry also revealed in the Rolling Stone issue "one of his biggest career regrets" was not boycotting a game in 2014 amid allegations of racism against the former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling.
“One of my biggest regrets is not boycotting the game,” Curry said. “That was a moment to leverage beyond anything we probably could have said.”
Chris Paul was with the Clippers at the time when they faced the Warriors in the 2014 Western Conference playoffs first-round series. Four days before Game 5, the NBA was rocked by a leaked audio recording published by TMZ on which Sterling told his then-girlfriend to not bring her Black friends to Clippers home games.
The Clippers and Warriors contemplated boycotting Game 5 in Oakland, but Curry ultimately said he deferred to the Clippers' leader, Paul, after discussing their unified player response twice. Curry said he and his Warriors teammates wanted to walk off the court after the jump ball. But the Clippers united at mid-court and threw off their t-shirts with their team logo worn inside out before playing the game. Sterling was banished by the then-new commissioner Adam Silver and forced to sell the franchise.
Lastly, in the cover story's preview article, Curry spoke with rap megastar Snoop Dogg about this summer's Kevin Durant trade rumors, including his trade request to the Suns.
Curry said despite winning the title, he would've been willing to reunite with Durant, even if it meant trading much of their roster after Golden State won the title in June.
After Curry and Durant were teammates for three years, Durant left the Warriors to sign as a free agent with the Brooklyn Nets in 2019. Golden State won two consecutive titles with Durant in 2017 and 2018, and he was the finals MVP in both series.
Curry, who called Durant a "misunderstood" personality, cited Durant's expectations for his preferred new team were unrealistic based on Brooklyn's high trade price for him.
“Man, he thinks that they’re gonna go to teams — like if he went to Phoenix — that they’re gonna be the same team if he’s there,” Curry said.
But Curry and Snoop agreed that Durant was better off staying in Brooklyn.
Suns general manager James Jones recently told The Republic, in commingint about Durant,said he likes the Suns' roster the way it stands. He added that talks with Brooklyn never were serious about Durant because it was apparent the Nets always wanted to keep him.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz began building their argument Monday that his birth mother’s alcohol abuse left him with severe behavioral problems that eventually led to his 2018 murder of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Paul Connor, a Seattle-area neuropsychologist, said medical records and testimony by prior witnesses show that Brenda Woodard drank and used cocaine throughout much of her pregnancy before Cruz’s birth in 1998. Woodard, a Fort Lauderdale prostitute, gave up the baby immediately after to his adoptive parents, Lynda and Roger Cruz. Woodard died last year.
Connor, testifying by Zoom, told jurors that people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder show at a young age problems with motor skills, impulse control, socializing and paying attention — problems previous defense testimony showed Cruz had.
Cruz’s preschool teachers testified he couldn’t run without falling or use utensils. He was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as a young child and teachers testified that he was extremely anxious and had trouble making friends.
At 5, tests showed Cruz had impairments in 10 intellectual categories including memory, reasoning, language and impulsivity, Connor said. Court records and earlier testimony showed he would have frequent outbursts in class and at home. By middle school, he was making threats.
Connor said he measured Cruz’s IQ at 83, which he said matches the slightly below average intelligence many people with fetal alcohol issues often score. He said IQ tests conducted throughout Cruz’s life found similar results, including one done recently by a prosecution expert.
Under cross-examination by lead prosecutor Mike Satz, Connor conceded he is not board certified in his field but said such certification is voluntary and only a state license is required to practice. He also conceded that he almost always testifies on behalf of the defense in fetal alcohol cases, not prosecutors. He will continue testifying Tuesday.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to murdering 14 students and three staff members and wounding 17 others as he stalked a three-story classroom building with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle on Valentine’s Day 2018. His trial is only to decide whether the former Stoneman Douglas student is sentenced to death or life without parole. For the seven-man, five-woman jury to impose a death sentence, the vote must be unanimous.
Satz finished his primary case last month. He played security videos of the shooting and showed the rifle Cruz used. Teachers and students testified about watching others die. He showed graphic autopsy and crime scene photos and took jurors to the fenced-off building, which remains blood-stained and bullet-pocked. Parents and spouses gave tearful and angry statements about their loss.
In an attempt to counter that, assistant public defender Melisa McNeill and her team have made Cruz’s history their case’s centerpiece, hoping at least one juror will vote for life.
After the defense concludes its case in the coming weeks, the prosecution will present a rebuttal case before the jury’s deliberations begin.
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GOLDSBORO, N.C (WTVD) -- A Goldsboro man has been arrested and charged with indecent liberties with a child.
Goldsboro Police said they got a report on Aug. 25 about a 10-year-old boy victimized by a "known offender."
After an investigation, police took out a warrant on Thursday for Rodney Levon Robinson, 27, of Goldsboro.
Robinson was arrested Friday and charged with one count of indecent liberties with a child.
Robinson was given a $25,000 secured bond and had a first court appearance on Monday.
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The Branch will be anchored by Commercial Real Estate icon, Cindy Hill
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Equity Union's CEO, Harma Hartouni, announced the addition of its seventh branch, to be located at 4404 Riverside Drive in Toluca Lake.
The Toluca Lake branch will cater to an upscale clientele, providing advanced technology and multiple private offices. The interior design of the office will serve all types of agents, those who want to come in, and those who prefer to work remotely, providing their clients with high-quality service.
Several industry veterans with over 30 years of real estate experience have already signed on to join the branch, and have patiently waited with the desire to work at this location. This includes one of Los Angeles' most successful commercial real estate agents, Cindy Hill. "Cindy is an icon in Los Angeles and the Commercial Real Estate industry specializing in multi-family sales. She has personally represented clients in over $1 Billion in sales volume and is a household name in Burbank and beyond" said Harma Hartouni, CEO, Equity Union. This branch will be a central location servicing not only Toluca Lake and Burbank, but the surrounding east valley area.
The branch will be led by Tom Barseghian, who has an exceptional reputation in real estate. Tom's knowledge, experience and passion to help others further elevates Equity Union as it continues its expansion with top tier new locations.
Equity Union currently has offices in Sherman Oaks, Encino, Woodland Hills, Brentwood, Palm Springs and Palm Desert, as well as plans to announce a Santa Clarita location in the coming days. With these additional locations, Equity Union will operate 8 branches by the end of 2022.
About Equity Union: Founded by Harma Hartouni, groundbreaking REALTOR® and inspiring author of the memoir Getting Back Up, Equity Union was created to be a completely unique real estate company. With an unparalleled commitment to service, integrity and excellence, we're ready to both inspire your vision and help you bring it to life.
About Harma Hartouni: Harma Hartouni is a self-made entrepreneur and developer, owns a real estate company employing hundreds of residential and commercial real estate agents in Southern California. Among awards and recognition received, The National Association of REALTORS® named Harma one of their top "30 Under 30" brokers in the country, and the Los Angeles Business Journal has recognized him as one of their "40 Under 40" Most Influential Business Owners.
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The Gateway Technical College Ad Hoc Presidential Search Committee has announced four finalists to replace outgoing Gateway Technical College President and CEO Bryan Albrecht.
The finalists to take over the reins of the college when Albrecht retires this fall include:
- Aliesha Crowe, Ed.D., who now serves as vice president, Academic Affairs, for Northwood Technical College in Rice Lake.
- Bradley Piazza, Ph.D., who now serves as vice president, Academic Affairs, Waukesha County Technical College, Pewaukee.
- Ritu Raju, Ph.D., who now serves as vice president, Academic Affairs, Tarrant County College’s Northeast Campus, Hurst, Texas
- Kathryn Rogalski, Ed.D., who now serves as vice president, Learning, at Northeast Technical College in Green Bay.
“The Ad Hoc Presidential Search Committee was very pleased with the high quality of applicants,” said Scott Pierce, Gateway Technical College Board of Trustees member and chairman of the ad hoc presidential search committee.
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“We were especially pleased with the volume of applicants that came from all across the country and outside the United States.”
The candidates
Raju has served as vice president for Academic Affairs at Tarrant County College’s Northeast Campus in Hurst, Texas, since 2020. Prior to joining TCC, Raju served as dean for Advanced Manufacturing at Houston Community College, Houston, Texas (2019-2020), and division chairperson for Speech, Communication and Sign Language School at HCC (2015-18). Raju earned her doctorate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University.
Piazza has served as vice president, Academic Affairs at Waukesha County Technical College, Pewaukee, since 2016. His previous roles include dean of Business at WCTC (2007-16) and assistant dean of Business at UW-Parkside (2001-07). Piazza earned his doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the UW-Madison.
Rogalski has served as vice president, Learning, for Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Green Bay, since 2018. Prior to that, she served as the dean of Business and Social Science at Harper College in Palatine, Ill. (2014-17), and associate dean of Social Sciences at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Ill. Rogalski earned her doctorate in Adult and Higher Education from Northern Illinois University.
Crowe has served as vice president, Academic Affairs, for Northwood Technical College in Rice Lake, since July 2021. Her previous roles include vice president, College Advancement at Northwood (2019-21), executive director of Institutional Advancement at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire (2014-19). Crowe holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development from the University of Minnesota.
Community sessions
Each candidate will have a day in September to visit the Gateway community. Forums open to Gateway staff, students and the public will also be held for each candidate, where they will answer questions which must be submitted in advance by the end of the day Sept. 16.
Pierce strongly encouraged participation in the open forums, which will help to decide the college’s next leader.
“We will be seeking feedback from those who participate as ad hoc committee members further screen the finalist applicants in preparation for their interview with the full board,” said Pierce.
“We are excited about the finalists and we are confident the faculty and staff, students and our communities will be pleased with the final selection of our next president.”
Dates for those visits are as follows:
- Sept. 20: Raju will hold sessions on the Kenosha Campus starting at 9:30 a.m., and at the Racine Campus at 2:30 p.m.
- Sept. 21: Piazza will hold sessions on the Kenosha Campus at 9:30 a.m., and the Racine Campus at 2:30 p.m.
- Sept. 27: Rogalski will hold sessions on the Kenosha Campus at 9:30 a.m., and the Racine Campus at 2:30 p.m.
- Sept, 29: Crowe will host sessions on the Kenosha Campus at 9:30 a.m., and the Racine Campus at 2:30 p.m.
Seating is limited, so those interested are asked to RSVP. Further information on each candidate, RSVP forms, forums and question submission forms can be found at www.gtc.edu/presidential-search.
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BERLIN (AP) — Nine nations bordering the North Sea announced plans Monday to massively increase offshore wind power in the coming decades as part of an effort to combat climate change and become independent of fossil fuel imports, particularly from Russia.
German officials said members of the North Seas Energy Cooperation aim to expand wind power generation in the region to 76 gigawatts by 2030.
Subsequent targets are for 193 gigawatts of wind power in the North Sea by 2040 and 260 gigawatts by mid-century. Germany’s Economy and Energy Ministry said current generation capacity in the region is less than 20 gigawatts.
The countries that agreed to those goals include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The United Kingdom, whose territory is surrounded by the North Sea and which has significant offshore wind plans of its own, is not a member of the group since leaving the European Union in January 2020.
Last month, seven European countries bordering the neighboring Baltic Sea committed themselves to a seven-fold increase of offshore wind power production there by 2030.
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- Completed 50 resource expansion and infill diamond drill holes at Lemhi totaling 12,168 metres;
- Lehmi drill program designed to extend the known mineralization, typically consisting of high-grade lenses within a broad lower grade zone;
- Five additional diamond drill holes completed at the Beauty zone totaling 721 metres;
- Engaged Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc., a tier 1 engineering firm to complete a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") specific to the Lemhi Gold Deposit;
- Secured a reverse circulation ("RC") drill from Specialized Drilling Corp. to complete a Phase III - 6000 metre resource expansion and classification drill program at the Lemhi Gold Deposit with some additional drilling at the Beauty zone; and
- Completed quarterly surface and groundwater water sampling and flow measurements.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Freeman Gold Corp. (TSXV: FMAN) (OTCQX: FMANF) (FSE: 3WU) ("Freeman" or the "Company") is pleased to report it has successfully completed the Phase II diamond drill program consisting of 12,168 metres in 50 holes as part of a resource expansion program at its 100% owned Lemhi Gold Deposit, Idaho, USA. A total of 46 of these drill holes were designed to test mineralization on strike to the east and west of the known deposit (expansion holes) and four were infill holes in known areas to improve the resource confidence in zones where only historical drill holes exist. An additional five holes totaling 721 metres were drilled at the newly discovered Beauty zone (see Figure 1).
The expansion holes ranged from 40 to 90 metres to the east or west of existing drilling where gold mineralization was intersected. These particular areas were previously modelled as unmineralized due to lack of drill density in the initial maiden mineral resource estimate ("MRE"). The current MRE comprises an Indicated Mineral Resource of 22.94 million tonnes at 1.02 g/t Au for 749,800 oz of gold, and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 7.68 million tonnes at 1.01 g/t Au for 250,300 oz of gold (refer to press release dated July 8, 2021). The MRE covers a surface area of 400 by 500 metres and extends down to a depth of 180 metres below surface. The resource expansion holes that form the bulk of the current Phase II drill program are designed to extend this current resource both along strike and at depth.
Paul Matysek, Executive Chairman, commented, "The diamond drilling program was designed to confirm the continuity and increase the size of the Lemhi Gold Deposit. The planned drill holes stepped out up to 90 metres along strike, adding approximately 20% to the known mineralized strike length. Intersecting gold mineralization in these areas will have a direct impact on increasing the in-pit gold resource. Furthermore, many of these zones that have been drilled lie within the ultimate pit shell, meaning any ounces that are added in these zones will be accretive to the overall resource."
As of August 31, 2022, a total of 50 new drill holes have been completed at Lemhi for a total of 12,168 metres. These holes have been primarily designed to test on strike extensions of the known resource as well as infill in certain parts of the gold deposit. In particular, the drill program has focused on areas currently modelled as pit waste due to a lack of drill data. All ounces added in these areas, even if close to the cut-off grade, will add value to the project as they come from zones in the resource shell that would result in an upgrade to resources. An additional 25 holes or approximately 5,000 metres have been planned as part of the Phase 3 RC drill program.
Currently 45 drill holes from the project have been logged, sampled and sent to the laboratory. It is estimated that samples for all 50 holes will be at the laboratory by the end of month and analytical results are presently pending for many of the holes. It is anticipated that the complete set of analytical results will be received by the end of Q4.
All drill core samples are sent to ALS Global Laboratories (Geochemistry Division), an independent and fully accredited laboratory (ISO 9001:2008) for analysis for gold by Fire Assay and multi-element Induction Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy (select drill holes), in Vancouer, Canada. Freeman has a regimented Quality Assurance, Quality Control (QA/QC) program where at least 10% duplicates, blanks and standards are inserted into each sample shipment. The Company also collects RQ and SG and full geological logging.
Freeman Gold Corp. is a mineral exploration company focused on the development of its 100% owned Lemhi Gold property (the "Project"). The Project comprises 30 square kilometres of highly prospective land, hosting a near-surface oxide gold resource. The pit constrained National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43- 101") compliant mineral resource estimate is comprised of 749,800 oz gold ("Au") at 1.02 grams per tonne ("g/t") in 22.94 million tonnes (Indicated) and 250,300 oz Au at 1.01 g/t Au in 7.83 million tonnes (Inferred). See the NI 43-101 technical report titled "Maiden Resource Technical Report for the Lemhi Gold Project, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA" with an effective date of June 1, 2021, and signing date of July 30, 2021, as prepared by APEX Geoscience Ltd. and F. Wright Consulting Inc. available under the Company's profile on SEDAR (www.sedar.com). The Company is focused on growing and advancing the Project towards a production decision. The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Dean Besserer, P.Geo., VP Exploration of the Company and a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43- 101.
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William Randall
President and Chief Executive Officer
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains "forward‐looking information or statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws, which may include, but are not limited to statements relating to further exploration and the Company's future business plans. All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts that address events or developments that the Company expects to occur, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words "expects," "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "projects", "potential" and similar expressions, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could" or "should" occur. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ from those in the forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking information reflects the Company's views with respect to future events and is subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. The reader is urged to refer to the Company's reports, publicly available through the Canadian Securities Administrators' System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) at www.sedar.com for a more complete discussion of such risk factors and their potential effects. The Company does not undertake to update forward‐looking statements or forward‐looking information, except as required by law.
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In a counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces have claimed swaths in the east of the country, dealing a heavy blow to Russian forces as the war marks 200 days.
Greg Myre is a national security correspondent with a focus on the intelligence community, a position that follows his many years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the globe.
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Idaho's near-total abortion ban is one of the most austere in the country. It's already having a ripple effect in neighboring Washington state. Some Idaho lawmakers are trying to push it even further.
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Idaho's near-total abortion ban is one of the most austere in the country. It's already having a ripple effect in neighboring Washington state. Some Idaho lawmakers are trying to push it even further.
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Billy Napier Talks South Florida & Gouraige and Shorter on the Mic
Monday, September 12, 2022
BILLY NAPIER: When you're presented with challenges and adversity in life, I think that there's opportunity, and it's important that we operate in truth, that we keep it technical.
You know, when you try to help the players maintain perspective. I think that it's very important that you take full advantage of the things that come with an experience like this. It gives you a chance to recenter and certainly evaluate where you're at as a team.
So it's important to adjust, to adapt, to evolve, and certainly I've seen just in the few days here this group is sticking together. There's a certain loyalty that comes with this game, and I love how this group wants to do their job for the team. They want to do it better for the team.
So I think the big focus for our team is to get consumed with improvement, right? With our process, our routine, and execution. How can we improve in terms of how we execute?
So I challenged the staff to let's do our best work for the players, the level of detail that we can offer the players throughout the week -- meetings, walk-throughs, and practice -- and try to position in better place as we approach Saturday.
South Florida comes to town. Very familiar with Jeff Scott. As he's building a program, obviously inherited a little bit of a tough dynamic there being year one and COVID. But Jeff's a bright young coach, and his team is playing extremely hard. You can see the effort.
You can see the toughness, the week 1 to 2 improvement, certainly some of the changes they made on the staff from a defensive standpoint.
So Jeff's growing that program up, and certainly you can see it on the film. Tons of respect for what he's doing and how they're doing it.
They've got some really good players. I think there's probably 15 transfers in the two deep to go along with a lot of really good returning players here.
So there will be a lot of challenges that come with playing South Florida.
What questions do we have here?
Q. You guys obviously strive to win them all, but are growing pains like the other night somewhat inevitable when you're in a rebuilt like this first year?
BILLY NAPIER: You don't get them back. That's what losing does to you. It makes you very aware that you don't get back -- there's no redos. You don't go back and fix those things.
It causes you to have a different perspective, I think as a coach and as a player. I think everybody in the organization taking ownership in their role, maybe what could I have done better throughout the week, that could have impacted the outcome.
It's critical that you learn from mistakes. I think it's critical that you have integrity, that you tell the truth, and you make the necessary changes. Then, hey, look, you've got to turn the page. I think part of this game is -- teaches you a lot of lessons, and quickly you've got to get focused on the next task. Certainly that's what we're going to try to do.
Q. Did you hear Anthony speak? After the game.
BILLY NAPIER: I did not.
Q. Because he took an incredible amount of accountability for the loss. How do you take that and translate that into improvement?
BILLY NAPIER: I think it just shows you what type of kid you're dealing with here. This is a guy who's got character. One of Anthony's special traits is he is a loyal guy. You're talking about a guy that really has a heart to do his job for his teammates, and I think that's one of the things that's going to make him a special player.
There is just one page in the -- one chapter in the book about Anthony Richardson. He has an opportunity. You know, he had one on Sunday. I told him, look, get up Sunday morning, pick the pen up, and write a great page in the chapter of this part of your life and this part of your career. Still a young player. I'm excited to be a part of that and to observe that. He's a special kid.
Q. Billy, you talked about earning the right to win a game. Would you define what you think is earning the right? It's a pretty cool statement, but how do you define that?
BILLY NAPIER: Well, I think it's about kind of our formula to win. What's worked for us in the past, right? The top of that list is own the ball, attack the ball.
If you just want to take a bird's eye view of the game, that's where we didn't earn the right to win.
If you include the turnover on downs stat, we turned the ball over four times to their one, right, so we're minus three. We didn't play on conversion downs on offense. Had to kick a couple of field goals in the fringe so the four-point play red zone part of the field we weren't very efficient, so we didn't do enough on offense to win the game.
When I say earn the right to win, I'm talking about our formula and how we win. We play complementary football, and there were parts of our team where we didn't earn the right to win. It's that simple.
Q. You've known Jeff for a while. When you think back on your time together at Clemson, what jumps out?
BILLY NAPIER: Jeff's a football guy. He's been in football families the entire time. His dad, obviously, Brad Scott was a phenomenal coach and a great mentor to me early in my career.
Jeff's got great character. He was raised the right way. He has care for young people. He's in the game for the right reasons. I think he's got a program there where they're trying to impact people and use the game in a positive way.
He's got a great offensive mind. He's very organized, very much a CEO, got a good business mind, and a guy that I think is one of the bright young coaches in the game.
Jeff's been successful at all stops here, right? Certainly he's in the process of building a program there in South Florida.
Q. Brad was where?
BILLY NAPIER: He was at Clemson as a coordinator/assistant coach when I first got to Clemson as a graduate assistant.
Q. How is Jack Miller's status and some of the other injuries?
BILLY NAPIER: Yeah, Jack is making progress. He's not quite ready for action, but he's in the process, getting closer. He's kind of moved in the next stage there of return to play.
As far as other injuries are concerned, we'll give you that update on Wednesday.
Q. And your defensive line rotation, just how are you feeling that's coming along at this point?
BILLY NAPIER: I thought we took a step forward in this past game. I thought some of the young players really -- you saw week 1 to week 2 improvement, and you think about for them in their career it was game one to game two improvement. So we're starting to get better play from some of that second tier.
I thought Gervon in particular really was significantly better in the game. When I say that, I'm talking about alignment, discipline, fundamentals. Across the board there we were much improved.
Q. Anthony talked in the first game about just kind of being jittery and his emotions getting to him, and then last Saturday he said after the game that kind of his confidence got shot. How much is that something that he still needs to work on, you work on with him, just between the ears moving on to the next play?
BILLY NAPIER: I think it's part of being a young player. It's part of being a guy who's not very experienced. I would say that we're all that way, right? As a young coach, as a young position coach, you're that way, right? As a young play caller, you're that way. As a young head coach, you're that way.
Remember when you were getting your start in the profession? That's reality here. Anthony's a young player. He's getting his first opportunity to be the guy. I just think this is part of the story. This is part of his growth.
And he'll use that. This guy's a competitor. He's motivated, and I think he's going to take full advantage of the experience he's had, both good and bad so far. Again, it's important to evaluate each game and each performance and each play independent of the outcome. Are you doing everything that you were supposed to do the right way?
Sometimes you get a great outcome and you didn't do what you were supposed to do. Sometimes we sack the quarterback and we busted the coverage over here and we could have gave up a touchdown. So sometimes I think in this game you can get two consumed with the result. What you've got to do is control the things that you can control, get consumed with preparing, and go execute and do your job for the team.
Q. You've talked a lot about operating in truth. What does that look like? How important is that for the players, especially coming off a loss and not lying to themselves about something in the game?
BILLY NAPIER: It comes back to really evaluating the game independent of the result. Is the effort good? Are the fundamentals good? Is the communication where it needs to be? If we're having execution issues, why?
I think each individual player, each position group, each unit, right? What is each part of the organization relative to is preparing for the game throughout the week.
So many people contribute to a football team, so a loss gives you a chance to hit the reset button, recenter. Everybody kind of gets hit in the gut, and I think sometimes it's healthy.
The key is that you don't waste it, right? That's when I say operate in truth. I say, hey, let's call it exactly like it is. What caused us to get the result that we had there, and what can we do to position our team.
Myself, what do we need to do to position our team for success in the future?
Q. Was part of Anthony's struggles were opponent dictated Saturday night?
BILLY NAPIER: That's a good question. I think a lot of Anthony's issues are he can fix. I would say that most football games are that way to some degree. You're going to run into a really good player and a matchup. You're going to have a matchup issue one side of the ball or the other on special teams. But most games are lost; that's reality.
I think the big thing here is there's lots of plays where he can do better and there's lots of plays where a lot of players on our team can do better, right? I think Anthony is the quarterback, so everybody likes to talk about the quarterback.
But everybody can do better. There's certain players who played better than others, and they know who they are. What I see is all very correctible.
Now, there are a handful of four or five plays in the game where we didn't put the players in a sound concept, right? When I come back in and I'm evaluating the staff, that's what I'm looking at. Are we in a sound play? When we walked in the room today, did we have the answer? We can say, hey, if we'd have done this, we'd have been fine.
A few too many of those in the game for me. Four or five, that's too many. I don't want any of those, right? But I do think that there's opportunity for Anthony to play well in the game if he executes at a higher rate.
Some of that has to do with other players around him playing better, and I think that's usually the case. When he plays good, it probably has to do with some of the players around him playing well too.
Q. If that number is zero, do you win the game? Instead of four or five.
BILLY NAPIER: Probably not. Yeah. I think we made a few too many mistakes. Not only did we turn the ball over, they were significant. They were immediate points. There's a compound effect to that.
Most turnovers on average turn into about three points, if you just do the research. When they're seven or lead to seven, there's a compound effect of that and the momentum that comes from that.
You think about, I think it's 16-7 with three minutes to go in the second quarter on the first one, and then it's a tie game in the third quarter there with the second one.
So those -- if we don't have that, we don't have the fourth downs that we're going for and we don't end up -- we're playing with a lead and the game's completely different.
Got to earn the right to win, right? Turning the ball over, that's not part of the equation.
Q. You talked a lot about the family approach and environment as well as handling adversity. When that was tested on Saturday, how do you feel the team responded, especially when it comes to supporting Anthony?
BILLY NAPIER: Couldn't be better. I think I can't compliment the guys enough on that. They've been great. I think sometimes the kids are more resilient than the adults are, truth be known.
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Vote for the Battle Creek Enquirer Athlete of the Week - Week of Sept. 10
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Callie Slayton
Harper Creek Girls Swimming
Callie Slayton helped Harper Creek to a big week, defeating rival Marshall in a dual and topping host Alma in a quad over the weekend. Slayton won the 200 freestyle and finished first in the 500 free in the competitive match with Marshall. She was also part of winning relays in the 200 free and the 400 free.
Aiden Moore
Lakeview Boys Cross Country
Lakeview's Aiden Moore is closing in on the school record in cross country as he took first at the Lakeview Invitational on Saturday in a time of 15:55.6. Former teammate Parker LaGro holds the school record, set last year, of 15:52. Behind Moore's first place, Lakeview finished fifth at its home meet.
Landon Bennett
Athens Football
Landon Bennett helped Athens roll to a 72-0 win over Burr Oak as he had a school record seven touchdowns in the game, including three on offense, three punt returns for scores and an interception for a touchdown. Bennett finished with 167 yards on just eight carries and finished with 335 all-purpose yards.
KeyShaun Matthews
Harper Creek Football
KeyShaun Matthews scored three different ways for Harper Creek in a 28-0 win over Jackson Northwest. Matthews had a punt return for 57 yards for a touchdown, added a short catch for a score and had a touchdown run from his running back spot.
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By CAROLYN THOMPSON
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New York is poised to strengthen its oversight of private and religious schools following years of complaints that thousands of children are graduating from ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools lacking basic academic skills, including the ability to read English.
A Board of Regents committee unanimously approved guidelines Monday to make sure instruction at the state’s private and religious schools is equivalent to that of its public schools.
The rules would apply to all of New York’s 1,800 nonpublic schools but would have the greatest impact on the ultra-Orthodox schools, called yeshivas, some of which provide rigorous religious instruction but little or no teaching in secular subjects like English, math, science and history.
Defenders of the schools say parents have the right to send their children to programs consistent with their beliefs and traditions. As the Regents met Monday, protesters assembled outside, some with signs reading: “We will sit in jail rather than change our childrens education.”
Many yeshivas in New York state are modern Orthodox schools that provide a full secular curriculum along with religious studies. But there have been complaints that some yeshivas run by strictly observant Hasidic Jews were not meeting basic academic standards.
A New York Times investigation published Sunday cited instances of English teachers speaking only Yiddish to students, teachers using corporal punishment and graduates who said they were woefully unprepared for life or employment outside of their communities.
Virtually all of the Hasidic boys who took state standardized math and reading exams in 2019 failed, the report said.
A final vote is scheduled for Tuesday on new Board of Regents rules that would give private schools multiple pathways to show they meet a longstanding legal mandate to provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to that of a public school. Among the criteria is that primary subjects be taught in English.
“We are trying to obviously adhere to the law but also create some flexibility around that as well,” state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa said.
State education officials have spent years trying to strike a balance. An initial set of guidelines released in 2018 was struck down by a state judge who said they were not implemented correctly. The department reviewed about 350,000 public comments following the release of the latest proposal and made adjustments in response, authorities said.
“The regulation respects that parents have a constitutional right to send their children to an independent school and that we respect the worldviews of the schools and their communities,” assistant commissioner Christina Coughlin said.
The group Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools, which represents yeshivas, said families choose to pay for private or religious schools because they believe in their educational approach.
“A government checklist, devised by lawyers and enforced by bureaucrats, hampers rather than advances education,” the group said in an email. “Parents in New York have been choosing a yeshiva education for more than 120 years, and they are proud of the successful results, and will continue to do the same, with or without the blessing or support of state leaders in Albany.”
Under the rules, a school can demonstrate equivalency, for example, by using state-approved assessments or operating a high school registered by the Board of Regents. It also can be reviewed by the local school district.
Groups representing Roman Catholic and Christian schools said they are confident their schools meet the substantially equivalent standards.
Naftuli Moster, who founded a group to improve secular standards at yeshivas, said he worried the schools would use the issue of cultural sensitivity to exploit loopholes without clearer guidance on how the regulations will be enforced, something the state is expected to address in the next few months.
“How you teach it or what you incorporate into the teaching is not what matters,” Moster said by phone. “It’s objective whether you teach science. There’s no Jewish science. It’s objective whether you do or do not teach social studies.”
Private schools that fall short of the threshold will be given time to adjust their instruction, state education officials said.
But those that may refuse to comply could lose state funding and their standing as a school with the state. Parents who continue to send their children to such a school could find themselves in violation of the state’s compulsory education law requiring that children between the ages of six and 16 be provided with a program of instruction, either at a public school or elsewhere.
Daniel Morton Bentley, a lawyer for the state Education Department, said Friday that much of the public pushback has focused on “philosophical opposition to state regulation of nonpublic schools,” which he said is required by law and not changed by the Regents’ action.
Public school districts would be required to complete initial reviews of nonpublic schools within their boundaries by the end of the 2024-25 school year.
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Thompson reported from Buffalo, N.Y. Associated Press reporter Michael Hill contributed from Albany, N.Y.
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Shifting demographics in suburban Atlanta prompt GOP to head north
Georgia’s Republican Party is relying on voters in the state’s northern mountain region as Atlanta suburbs become more diversified. Northern Georgia, which voted Andrew Clyde and Marjorie Taylor Greene into Congress, remains majority Republican.
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When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made one of his first general election campaign swings in August, he went straight to the modern heartland of the state’s Republican Party.
It wasn’t Buckhead, the glitzy Atlanta neighborhood where Governor Kemp lives in a governor’s mansion dwarfed by other nearby estates. And it wasn’t suburban Cobb County, once the bastion of Newt Gingrich.
Instead, Governor Kemp kept going north, deep into the Georgia mountains that have become one of the most Republican areas in the country over the past three decades. He stopped at a gas station turned coffee shop in Toccoa to urge people to “turn out an even bigger vote here in this county and in northeast Georgia than we’ve ever seen before.”
“Ask your kids, your grandkids, your friend’s kid, are they registered to vote?” Governor Kemp told attendees. “If they’re eligible, and they’re not, we got to get them registered, and we’ve got to go tell them to pull it for the home team.”
The emphasis on this rural region represents a notable shift in the GOP’s strategy in Georgia. The party grew into a powerhouse in Georgia once it began combining a strong performance in the Atlanta suburbs with growing dominance in rural areas. But that coalition has frayed in recent years as voters in the booming Atlanta region rejected the GOP under former President Donald Trump, turning this one time Republican stronghold into the South’s premier swing state.
A 41-county region, including some distant Atlanta suburbs encroaching into north Georgia, now has as many GOP voters as the core of metro Atlanta, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Those changing dynamics have intensified pressure on Governor Kemp to maintain – or strengthen – his support in rural mountainous communities like Toccoa to offset losses closer to the capital city.
Governor Kemp won the governor’s office in 2018 by defeating Democrat Stacey Abrams by just 1.4 percentage points. As the two wage a rematch for the job this year, early summer polling found a close race, with some suggesting Governor Kemp has a narrow advantage.
But his reliance on voters like those in Toccoa is driving the party further to the right.
In a diversifying state, north Georgia is overwhelmingly white. While Democrats attack and Republicans fret over abortion restrictions in the suburbs, there’s little public wavering in the mountains. Voters love guns so much that they cut out the middleman and chose gun dealer Andrew Clyde as one of north Georgia’s two very Trumpy members of Congress. The other member? Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“It reflects a lot of the country right now, in the sense that it’s very populist, very close to the vest, very isolated in the sense of distrust of government, very strong-willed, mountain Appalachian-type individuals that are very self-sufficient,” said former Rep. Doug Collins, the Republican who preceded Mr. Clyde in representing northeast Georgia’s 9th Congressional District.
Kathy Petrella, a Clarkesville retiree who was visiting the state Department of Driver Services in early September in Toccoa, said she’s a “true blue conservative.”
“It means I don’t believe in the government telling me anything I have to do, except law and order,” said Ms. Petrella, who cites her Christian faith as an important anchor of her political affiliation and fears a decline into “communism.”
Lee MacAulay of the north Georgia town of Cleveland, also visiting Toccoa, said she believes Trump won the 2020 election and calls President Joe Biden “a ridiculous joke” and “an idiot.”
“I was a Trumper,” Ms. MacAulay said. “I am a Trumper.”
Jay Doss, a Toccoa lawyer, said he feels “working-class people are benefited more by the conservative party” and that “I just feel that less government is better for everybody.”
There was once another conservative tradition in north Georgia – in the Democratic Party. While there were always some Republicans, a legacy of white mountaineers who backed the Union over the Confederacy in the Civil War, they won few elections.
“It used to be slap Democrat. If you ran Republican, you could not get elected. Now, if you run Democrat, you ain’t got a chance much of getting elected,” said Stephens County Commissioner Dennis Bell, a Republican who owns Currahee Station, the coffee shop where Governor Kemp campaigned in Toccoa.
That Democratic lineage, nourished by the 1930s-era New Deal, produced former Gov. Zell Miller, a proud son of the mountains and titan of Georgia Democratic politics a generation ago.
Mr. Miller rode high in the 1990s as a Democrat who combatted crime and overhauled welfare, while creating lottery-funded college scholarships. Mr. Miller even squeaked out a reelection victory in the 1994 “Republican Revolution” that vaulted Newt Gingrich to U.S. House Speaker.
That year, Mr. Miller actually lost his home region to Republican Guy Millner, a self-financed millionaire businessman. But Mr. Miller lost by fewer than 4,000 votes across north Georgia, and Mr. Millner’s strength in suburban Atlanta wasn’t enough, leaving the Republican 32,000 votes short statewide.
By 2004, as a U.S. senator, Mr. Miller was giving the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention that renominated George W. Bush. By then, Mr. Miller had written “A National Party No More,” a book that blamed his own party for abandoning Southern conservative Democrats.
“Obviously, southerners believe the national Democratic Party does not share their values,” Mr. Miller wrote in the 2003 book. “They do not trust the national party with their money or the security of the country.”
North Georgia was 19% of Mr. Millner’s vote in 1994. It was 26% of Governor Kemp’s vote in 2018. Some of that is due to population growth, but reflects a partisan shift to Republicans. Mr. Millner won less than 51% of the vote in the region. Governor Kemp won almost 72%.
Democrats, enduring steep decline, grew demoralized. June Krise, who then chaired the Democratic Party in north Georgia’s White County, remembers crying when the county probate judge, clerk of court, and sheriff all switched to run as Republicans.
“‘If we don’t switch, we will lose because the Republicans are going to run somebody against us,’” Ms. Krise remembers the men telling her. “And guess why they were going to lose. Barack Obama was the Democratic nominee for president.”
Republicans say formerly Democratic voters gravitated to their party because of cultural issues, but those who study the electorate note white voters are much more likely to be Republican, and Appalachia made a hard turn against Mr. Obama, the nation’s first Black president.
“The Republican Party has now started organizing itself, I think, to be more in line with the white people who are there – more rural, less urban-interested, even less suburban-interested, in terms of the state party,” said Bernard Fraga, an Emory University political scientist. “And that’s looks more like North Georgia in a lot of ways.”
This story was reported by The Associated Press.
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For nearly two years, bloody conflict has raged in northern Ethiopia. Is the Tigrayan rebels' offer to take part in ceasefire talks with the Ethiopian Government cause for hope?
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Jacob Elordi has been cast as Elvis Presley alongside Cailee Spaeny as his wife in Sofia Coppola's biopic Priscilla... after Austin Butler played the singer
Jacob Elordi has been cast as Elvis Presley in the forthcoming biopic Priscilla.
The news about the 25-year-old performer was revealed by several sources on Monday, and Variety reported that Cailee Spaeny is set to play the late musician's former wife.
The forthcoming feature is currently set to be directed by Sofia Coppola, who will also pen the project's screenplay and serve as one of its producers.
Leading man: Jacob Elordi has been cast as Elvis Presley in the forthcoming biopic Priscilla. The forthcoming feature is currently set to be directed by Sofia Coppola, who will also pen the project's screenplay
According to Deadline, the filmmaker met with several performers before selecting Elordi as the movie's lead.
It was also reported that Spaeny, however, was always the director's first choice to play Priscilla.
The movie will be based on the 77-year-old media personality's biography Elvis And Me, which was originally published in 1985.
The book became a New York Times bestseller upon its release and also sold well internationally.
Starring role: The news about the 25-year-old performer was revealed by several sources on Monday, and Variety reported that Cailee Spaeny is set to play the late musician's former wife
The biography was adapted into a television film three years later, with Susan Walters and Dale Midkiff portraying the writer and singer, respectively.
Variety reported that physical production is scheduled to commence in Toronto this coming fall.
Plot details about the forthcoming feature are currently being withheld from the public.
A potential release date for the upcoming biopic has not been revealed as of yet.
Future project: A potential release date for the upcoming biopic has not been revealed as of yet; director Sofia Coppola is seen in March
Elordi previously dressed up as Elvis for Halloween in 2020 and shared a shot of himself in costume to his Instagram account at the time.
The Euphoria actor was also joined by his then-girlfriend, Kaia Gerber, who went as Priscilla that year.
The former couple eventually separated, and she later began seeing Austin Butler, who starred as the Suspicious Minds singer in the recently-released and much-celebrated biopic Elvis.
Not the first time: Elordi previously dressed up as Elvis for Halloween in 2020 and shared a shot of himself in costume to his Instagram account at the time
The Baz Luhrmann-directed feature made its debut at the most recent Cannes Film Festival, which took place in May.
The movie, which also starred Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker, later had its wide debut in the United States this past June.
The biopic was an immediate hit with critics and currently holds a 78% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie was also successful with audiences and grossed just over $280 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
Switching partners: The former couple eventually separated, and she later began seeing Austin Butler, who starred as the Suspicious Minds singer in the recently-released and much-celebrated biopic Elvis
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Bayern Munich will host familiar opponents Barcelona in their second group stage match in the 2022-23 Champions League on Tuesday. Both teams are unbeaten in their respective domestic leagues and will be looking to get a statement victory in the bag after the German club won both meetings last year.
Bayern Munich are yet to lose a game this season but have drawn two out of their last three games. The Bundesliga giants beat Inter 2-0 in their first group match to begin their campaign on a winning note.
Barcelona have won their last five matches including a 5-1 victory over Viktoria Plezn. Former Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski has been in excellent form in front of goal, with four goals in his last two outings, including a hat-trick in the Champions League opener.
GOAL brings you details on how to watch the game on TV in the UK, U.S. and India as well as how to stream it live online.
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Bayern Munich vs Barcelona date & kick-off time
How to watch Bayern Munich vs Barcelona on TV & live stream online
In the United States (U.S.), the game can be watched live and on-demand with fuboTV (start with a free trial). New users can sign up for a free seven-day trial of the live sports streaming service, which can be accessed via iOS, Android, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and Apple TV as well as on a web browser.
Viewers in the U.S. can also watch the game live on TV on CBS Sports.
In the UK, BT Sport 4 is showing the game between Bayern Munich and Barcelona on TV, with a live stream available through the BT Sport app.
Fans in India can catch Bayern Munich vs Barcelona on the Sony Sports Network.
Bayern Munich squad & team news
Bayern boss Julian Nagelsmann will be without Kingsley Coman and Bouna Sarr for their Champions League clash against Barcelona. Both players have been sidelined due to injuries.
Aside from the injured duo, Nagelsmann has a full squad to choose from. The Bayern boss has confirmed that Marcel Sabitzer will partner Joshua Kimmich in midfield and Lucas Hernandez will also be given a place in the starting line-up.
Barcelona squad and team news
Sergi Roberto missed Barcelona's game against Cadiz but has been included in the 25-man squad that has travelled to Germany.
Xavi is set to face a selection dilemma as he has a full-fit squad to pick his starting lineup from. Robert Lewandowski is set to lead the line for Barcelona against his former club for the first time.
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CMSD CEO Eric Gordon to step down, will not seek reappointment
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - CMSD CEO Eric Gordon will be stepping down at the end of the 2022-23 school year, according to district officials.
Gordon was named CEO of the district in June of 2011, according to district spokesman Thomas Ott.
Gordon said the ‘timing and conditions were right’ for a new school leader in a letter to the community.
“I will forever be proud of the work we have done over the past 11 years at CMSD and grateful for the role each of you has played in the District’s progress that I have every reason to believe will continue in the year ahead,” Gordon said. “While the decision to leave CMSD was not an easy one for me, the time and conditions are right for the Mayor and Board to identify a CEO to lead the District’s long-term recovery from the pandemic and to build on the gains we achieved during a remarkable and historic period in K-12 education.”
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb shared his gratitude for Gordon’s service to the district in a comment.
“Eric is a true leader who puts the needs of students and families first,” Bibb said. “He has had a tremendous impact on Cleveland’s young scholars and future leaders, and there is no doubt he will continue to guide and inspire those around him. We wish Eric all the best in his next chapter.”
Anne Bingham, the Cleveland Board of Education Chairperson, said the board will work closely with Gordon to ensure a ‘smooth leadership transition’ this spring, and will work with Bibb in the search for the district’s next leader.
This story is ongoing and will be updated as more details are released.
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BERLIN — Nine nations bordering the North Sea announced plans Monday to massively increase offshore wind power in the coming decades as part of an effort to combat climate change and become independent of fossil fuel imports, particularly from Russia.
Subsequent targets are for 193 gigawatts of wind power in the North Sea by 2040 and 260 gigawatts by mid-century. Germany’s Economy and Energy Ministry said current generation capacity in the region is less than 20 gigawatts.
The countries that agreed to those goals include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The United Kingdom, whose territory is surrounded by the North Sea and which has significant offshore wind plans of its own, is not a member of the group since leaving the European Union in January 2020.
Last month, seven European countries bordering the neighboring Baltic Sea committed themselves to a seven-fold increase of offshore wind power production there by 2030.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weatherford International plc (NASDAQ: WFRD) ("Weatherford" or the "Company") received a five-year framework agreement from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ("ADNOC") to provide directional drilling and logging-while-drilling services. The contract is currently valued at over $400 million and ADNOC has an option to extend the contract for an additional two years.
The Weatherford Drilling Services portfolio includes a suite of technology that combines world-class services, real-time information analysis, and innovative drilling tools to maximize efficiency in any environment. Deploying these service and technology offerings will add value to ADNOC's drilling operations by minimizing OPEX, reducing risks, and optimizing production. These benefits are mission-critical to ADNOC's near- and long-term goals.
Girish Saligram, Weatherford President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are thrilled about this award as it showcases our commitment to creating value for every customer through our differentiated technology and services. Our field-proven directional and logging-while-drilling services and technology will support ADNOC in expanding its operations and achieving its production goals. Our manufacturing facility in Abu Dhabi will further bolster its In-Country Value Program—an initiative Weatherford has supported since the beginning. We look forward to delivering successful outcomes to one of our long-time energy partners."
Weatherford delivers innovative energy services that integrate proven technologies with advanced digitalization to create sustainable offerings for maximized value and return on investment. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation. The Company operates in approximately 75 countries with a global talent network of approximately 17,500 team members representing more than 110 nationalities and 350 operating locations.
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Third quarter 2022 cash dividend of $0.165 per share
TEMPE, Ariz., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: BHE) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.165 per share, payable on October 14, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 30, 2022.
About Benchmark Electronics, Inc.
Benchmark provides comprehensive solutions across the entire product life cycle by leading through its innovative technology and engineering design services, leveraging its optimized global supply chain and delivering world-class manufacturing services in the following industries: commercial aerospace, defense, advanced computing, next generation telecommunications, complex industrials, medical, and semiconductor capital equipment. Benchmark's global operations include facilities in seven countries and its common shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BHE.
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ATLANTA, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ) today reported preliminary month-end assets under management (AUM) of $1,416.0 billion, a decrease of 2.3% versus previous month-end. The firm experienced net long-term inflows of $2.7 billion in the month. Non-management fee earning net outflows were $0.7 billion and money market net inflows were $2.5 billion. AUM was negatively impacted by unfavorable market returns which decreased AUM by $30 billion. FX decreased AUM by $7.2 billion. Preliminary average total AUM for the quarter through August 31 were $1,429.7 billion, and preliminary average active AUM for the quarter through August 31 were $969.1 billion.
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2 Passive AUM includes index-based ETF's, UIT's, non-fee earning leverage, foreign exchange overlays and other passive mandates. Active AUM are total AUM less passive AUM.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkshire Bancorp Inc. (OTCQB: BERK) reported today that the New York State Department of Financial Services has approved the previously disclosed application submitted by TBB Investments LLC ("TBB Investments"), an entity formed by certain individuals and entities that collectively own more than 90% of the common stock of BERK, to acquire ownership of 100% of the outstanding common stock of BERK through a merger of a wholly-owned subsidiary of TBB Investments with and into BERK. The potential acquisition had previously been approved by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the approval by New York's Department of Financial Services was the last remaining regulatory approval needed to allow TBB Investments to proceed with the potential transaction.
Prompt public notice will be given if the potential transaction occurs. BERK has been informed that TBB Investments has not yet determined whether to proceed with the acquisition of the remaining BERK shares, but that the determination will be made shortly. Under Delaware law, no action would be required by the Board of Directors of BERK or the stockholders of BERK (other than TBB Investments) to authorize TBB Investments' acquisition of 100% of the outstanding common stock of BERK.
If the transaction occurs, it is anticipated that the holders of BERK common stock outstanding immediately prior to the transaction, other than TBB Investments and its subsidiary, would become entitled, subject to surrender of their BERK shares (together with certain other required documentation), to receive, as merger consideration, a cash payment for their shares in an amount to be determined by TBB Investments based on advice of its independent financial advisor. Alternatively, such holders would be entitled to exercise certain appraisal rights under Delaware law. It is expected that following any such transaction, the BERK common stock would no longer be publicly traded
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How Many Sizes of a Basketball Size Should I Need by LetsGolfNow Sports? �There are more people who can watch baseball sports games in front of you 8 out of people from among these. These were then collected throughout all the time intervals and summarizations are described based upon gender (male athletics) and. DOWNS-SOLINGTON DEM A 02 EUR DEROMA D07 MIL MIADE POL You can now download Apple's iOS 16. Here's what changes are ahead
Apple on Monday released its next-generation mobile software, iOS 16, with new features that allow users to personalize their iPhone lock screens and change how they text friends through iMessage.
Among the most anticipated changes is the ability to edit and unsend recently sent iMessages, or mark the messages as unread if users want to revisit them later. Recipients will receive an alert that the original message was edited or deleted, and it only works if both parties are running iOS 16. Apple previously said this was among the most requested features among users.
But perhaps the biggest change is the interactive lock screen. It now features custom fonts, new photo effects, personalized wallpapers and widgets that add information at a glance. Widgets include calendar events, battery life, alarms, Apple Watch Activity rings and the weather, as well as the ability to track "live" activities, such as an Uber ride's progress, updates on a sports game or food deliveries. (Android introduced an interactive lock screen last year).
There are also options to create multiple lock screens with different backdrops that can be switched throughout the day. Users can browse wallpapers with suggested images from a user's photo library, and notifications will now appear at the bottom of the screen so they're not in the way.
The updated software works with any iPhone model dating back to the iPhone 8, released in 2017. Apple previously teased the features in June at its annual developer's conference.
Last week, Apple unveiled its new iPhone 14 lineup, among other devices. For customers not convinced to trade in their old iPhones for a relatively incremental upgrade — especially amid fears of a looming recession — downloading iOS 16 could breathe new life into their smartphones.
With the new updates, users will also be able to share browser Tabs with groups and find more filters for its Focus app — such as not silencing preferred apps and messages from certain people. Apple is also offering the option to use the Fitness app for movement monitoring without an Apple Watch for the first time.
And the most fun feature of all may be the ability to cut out the subject from an image or its background and drop it elsewhere, such as into iMessage.
To download the new software, visit the Software Update section in Settings. However, the first version of next-generation mobile software updates can often contain bugs; users may want to back up important photos or files before downloading or hold off until the second version rolls out, likely in the upcoming weeks.
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On Your Side Podcast: Christmas shopping and the supply chain
It could be a rough holiday season
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- It’s that time of year when folks start looking forward to Halloween, Thanksgiving, and of course Christmas. As for Christmas, shopping for that perfect gift may be the furthest thing from your mind right now. But in today’s world, it should be at the top of your list. Apparently, retailers are facing some big inventory challenges and looking to move product and that could mean big savings for consumers.
So, today we’re talking to Adam Davis. He’s the managing director for Wells Fargo Retail Finance. What he has to say will probably change the way you do your holiday shopping.
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Higher interest rates leading to spike in online loan scams: Higher prices are affecting just about everything we buy, including housing and transportation. The Feds recently raised interest rates to slow down borrowing which will hopefully bring down prices for consumers. And that makes the perfect opportunity for scammers to take advantage of you. So today, we’re talking to Zulfikar Ramzan. He’s the Chief Scientist at Aura which is an online security company that helps prevent consumers from being scammed online. He tells us his company has seen a dramatic uptick in loan and interest rate scams tied to inflation. He’ll also tell us how the scams work and what you need to look out for to keep from getting ripped off.
Inside a scammer’s “Bible” to ripping off victims: How would like to get into the mind of a scammer? You can. A Nigerian conman has flipped sides and is sharing many of his untold secrets with David McClellan of Social Catfish, a website dedicated at preventing romance scams. The scammer exposes all the do’s and don’ts of using the “Romance Scam” in order to dupe lonely women. All the details are in a manual referred to as a “Scammer’s Bible” to ripping off victims. McClellan tells On Your Side how exactly what’s in the manual so victims know what to look out for. Click here for more info
The reason spam texts are increasing: Robocalls are becoming less of a threat to consumers. And the dreaded rings from unknown numbers are dropping. But according to a new report, the number of robot texts flooding phones is skyrocketing. So, today, we’re talking with Teresa Murray. She is a consumer watchdog for Arizona Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, and she helps On Your Side break down whether recent laws to crack down on robo callers and now text scams are working. We also talk about how to protect yourself from scammers who hide behind phone calls and text messages.
Overcoming Travel Frustrations: The pandemic crushed the airline industry and prevented many travelers from flying. But it seems that has all changed. A new report indicates a lot more people are flying and even driving to destinations. However, travelers say they are frustrated with airlines, with 80 percent of passengers saying they’ve had a recent negative experience. On this episode we’re talking to Tim Rossman. He’s an industry analyst with Bankrate.Com, and his new report reveals some stunning numbers when it comes to how many people are traveling these days and what affect it’s having if you’re trying to get somewhere.
Consumers and Small Claims Court: Have you ever been ripped off by someone and were so mad you wanted to take them to small claims court? It happens all the time, and many people decide not to go through with it because they don’t know how the process works. But going through the court process is easier than you think. That’s why we’re talking to the Honorable Gerald Williams. He serves as Justice of the Peace for one of Maricopa County’s precincts. He’ll break down all the do’s and don’ts of filing a small case lawsuit and offer helpful tips to get your case heard.
Fourth of July Food Prices: The United States will be turning 246 years old on July 4th. To celebrate, many of you out there will probably have some kind of get-together that will no doubt involve food. But food prices on this 4th of July are up 11 percent. And depending on what you plan on cooking for the holiday will really affect your wallet. So today, we’re talking to Karol Flynn. She’s the Food and Agribusiness Industry Advisor for Wells Fargo. She tells us what 4th of July food items you might want to avoid due to their sharp increase in price and what other items you might want to consider that won’t break the bank for your holiday party. Spoiler alert: Shrimp is cheap!
Credit Card Crunch: A new report says nearly 75 percent of Americans have needed credit card debt advice. However, half of them never sought out that advice. And because of that, many consumers found themselves digging deeper and deeper into debt. So, today, we’re talking to Jim Triggs of Money Management International. It’s a non-profit organization that helps consumers navigate through the tough financial world by empowering and helping people to stabilize their money matters .
Overstock Issues: Supply chain problems have been persistent, but now retailers have a new problem of having too much...of the wrong stuff. On this episode, we are talking with Leslie Bush, a marketing professor at Arizona State University. She breaks down what’s behind the change in consumer behavior and what it means for your next shopping trip.
How much money you need to retire: A million dollars sounds like a lot of money and it is. But these days, is it enough money for you to retire? Years ago, a million dollars to save for retirement was always a goal for many. But not anymore. Experts say to live comfortably, you have to raise the bar and put more money away. So, we’re talking to Stewart Willis. He’s a financial expert with Asset Preservation Tax and Retirement. He tells us how much we need to retire, how much we should have in our retirement accounts right now depending on age and other financial tips to keep you fiscally sound.
The (still) red hot real estate market: The real estate market is still red hot, but mortgage interest rates are going up. On this episode, we’re talking with Trevor Halpern, a Phoenix-based real estate agent, about what’s happening in the market, if there is a slowdown in home sales on the horizon, and how much competition buyers will face in the coming months.
Budgeting for a wedding: May through October is the most popular time of the year to get married. And people are spending and bucks to tie the knot. A recent report indicates couples spent $28,000 on average on their wedding last year. And this year, it will be even more expensive. So, today we’re talking to Stephanie Gilmore, who is the Regional Banking District Senior Manager with Wells Fargo. She has some great ideas and tips to keep your wedding costs down so you don’t start off in debt.
Computer Chip Shortage: Arizona is poised to become the semiconductor capital of the West and possibly the United States. The Copper State currently has 200 semiconductors companies and more are being built. On the 3 On Your Side podcast, we’re talking to Tracey Latham. She currently is the U.S. Small Businesswoman of the Year for Arizona and owns a company that relies heavily on semiconductors. She tells us why is Arizona being chosen and what it will mean for the state’s economy and labor force.
Full-time Retirement? Maybe Not: Many folks look forward to retirement. And then when that time comes and they leave their job, they find themselves, well...kind of bored. But some people, as well as companies, have found a solution that benefits both the company and the retiree. It’s called “phased retirement.” On this episode of the 3 On Your Side podcast, we talk with Zanzibar Vermiglio of Zanzibar Enterprises about why human resource directors like the idea of phased retirement. We’ll also discuss why many retirees are deciding to “unretire.”
College Scams: It’s that time of year when college acceptance letters are starting to pour in for parents and their children. It sounds exciting, and scammers know that. With all the hype, it’s the perfect time for conmen to take advantage and try to dupe potential victims when they least expect it. So, we’re talking to Beau Friedlander. He’s an award-winning publisher who’s been writing about cybercrimes and scams for 10 years. He tells us what to look out for when it comes to enrolling students into college because the scammers will target you over the Internet, through the mail and even over the phone. MORE INFO: https://link.chtbl.com/CCUnCylF?sid=3onyourside
Cashing in on collectibles: From coins to toys and trading cards, most collectors think their collections will pay off. Ismat Mangla from Magnify Money joins us to break down who is collecting what, how much they’ve spent along the way, and whether the collections ever pay off.
The best (and worst) frequent flyer programs: It looks like people are flying more these days, and that’s raising airfare. In fact, in March, airfare went up more than 5 percent, marking the third largest jump in 20 years. To bring the cost of airfare down, many travelers rely on frequent flyer programs. But some are better than others. On this episode, we’re talking to Jill Gonzalez with WalletHub, who evaluated frequent flyer programs for each airline. She’ll break down all the flyer programs to let you know how you can get the most out of each one. MORE INFO HERE
Paying off your student loans: Forty-six million Americans are in debt due to student loans, with those debts totaling more than $1.8 trillion. That works out to the average borrower owing more than $35,000. How do you even start to pay something like that down? On this episode, we’re talking to Andrew Pentis with Student Loan Hero and Lending Tree. He’ll break down which states have the biggest loans, which universities carry the most student debt, and more importantly, how to pay off your loans.
Surprise charges; kids & credit: Have you ever spotted a surprise charge on your credit or debit card? Is your kid to blame? A new LendingTree survey reveals almost half of parents say they’ve caught their children secretly spending. Others knowingly allow their children to borrow their cards, and regret it. In this episode, we’re talking with Matt Schultz, the chief credit analyst at LendingTree about how to teach children about credit.
Jet Fuel Prices: We’re all well aware of the spike in gas prices and how it’s affecting your wallet. But what does it mean for airfare? Just like cars, airlines need fuel for their planes. So, how is the Russian Ukraine war affecting what you pay for airfare. For the answer, we’re talking to Scott Keyes of Scott’s Cheap Airfare. He’s an airline analyst and he’ll tell us what to expect regarding your upcoming vacations and how oil prices could play a major factor in what you pay for airline tickets. [More info: www.scottscheapflights.com]
Car Buying Tips: The chip shortage for new cars is still ongoing. So, how long will it last and how is it affecting consumers as well as car dealers? Today, we’re talking to Karl Brauer. He’s an auto analyst with Iseecars.com and he’s also worked for Kelly Blue Book, Auto Trader, and Edmunds. Due to the chip shortage, he’ll tell us what new cars are hottest on the market. What used cars are persuading consumers to buy in this time of uncertainty and what used cars last the longest.
Pain at the Pump: The cost of gas is going up. So, today Patrick De Haan is joining us. He’s the head of petroleum analysis for Gas Buddy and he has the reasons behind what’s driving gas prices. Is there any relief on the horizon, particularly since Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine? De Hann says get ready, and $4.55 a gallon is very possible for Arizonans. Head to gasbuddy.com to find the cheapest gas near you.
Maximizing Your 401(k): Many companies offer their employees a 401(k) plan to help prepare for their retirement years. However, many workers choose not to enroll, and they are leaving money on the table. A lot of money. On this episode, we’re talking to Ted Schmelzle, a retirement expert from Securian Financial who tells us why it’s throwing away money if you don’t contribute. Plus, he gives tips to grow your money faster.
Salary Negotiations: People are leaving their current jobs in numbers we haven’t seen before. It’s referred to as the “Great Resignation.” But when you’re offered a new job, how do you bring up the topic of salary without being awkward? And how do you comfortably ask for a dollar amount that works for you? Today, we’re talking to Andres Lares. He runs a company called Shapiro Negotiations Institute, a firm that has represents everyday workers and even NBA teams. He explains how to ask for the proper salary or even a raise at your current job.
Love and money: Valentine’s Day is here and “Love is in the Air.” Or is it? A recent report by Personal Capital reveals 57% of U.S. adults ay the pandemic has increased financial stress in their relationship. Today, on the 3 On Your Side podcast, we’re talking to Krista Aliga, a financial advisor with Personal Capital. She explains why money is causing some people to fall out of love and what steps you can take to get make things right.
Saving on Super Bowl food: The big game is almost here, so it’s time to plan for your big Super Bowl spread. But your game day meals and snacks are going to cost you a lot more this year. So today, we’re talking to Karol Flynn with Wells Fargo. She’ll help show you the best buys when it comes to Super Bowl food, plus some great tips to save the next time you head to the store.
Elevating your resume: Looking for a job? Then you’ll need a great resume to stand out from the other candidates. On this episode, we’re talking to Jeff Hyman, author and CEO of Recruit Rockstars. He has great tips to spice up your resume and land the job you want.
Maximizing your credit card perks: How many credit cards do you have? Whatever the number, your cards may have perks you don’t even know about. About 30 percent of Americans who have rewards cards have made no effort to take advantage of their points or perks that they may have. On this episode, we’re talking with Doug Milnes, Chief Financial Analyst with MoneyGeek.com. He has some surprising information when it comes to you and your credit cards.
Tax filing season is here: It’s almost tax time, and if you’re like millions of Americans, you’re expecting a refund. In this episode, Gary Harper and Susan Campbell talk with Mark Steber, the Chief Tax Information Officer at Jackson Hewitt, about new deductions, changes this tax season, and potential IRS delays.
2022′s economic outlook: When it comes to the economy, what can we expect in 2022? Inflation is increasing at a pace we haven’t seen in 40 years, consumer prices are higher, and interest rates are inching up. On this episode, we talk with Greg McBride, Chief Financial Analyst for BankRate.com. He outlines what he see in 2022′s economy, whether we will see it blossom, or if it will cost us more money.
Gym Memberships: We find ourselves in a new year as 2022 is officially here, and one popular New Year’s resolution is to get into better shape. But is joining a gym the right decision? And if you do join, what should you know when it comes to contracts and how much you pay? Today, we’re talking to Jim Bathurst. He’s a fitness trainer from Nerdfitness and he’s in the business of getting people into shape and losing weight. He’ll break down the do’s and don’ts of joining a gym and what you need to look out for.
Holiday gift returns: The hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping is in full swing and a lot of purchases will be made online. But what do you do if someone gives you an online gift and you need to return it? It may be difficult or impossible. Today, we’re talking to Jill Emanuel. She’s a certified financial coach with Fiscal Fitness. She’s been helping consumers to save money and navigate through complicated topics for years. She has all the do’s and don’ts of returning holiday purchases successfully.
Dangerous toys: Holiday shopping is in full swing, and for kids, toys are at the top of the list. But be careful because some of those toys could be dangerous. Today on the 3 On Your Side podcast, Gary and Susan talk with Hannah Rhodes. She’s a Consumer Watchdog associate with the Arizona PIRG Education Fund. From counterfeit toys to smart toys and toys that are too noisy, she is breaking down exactly what to look out for to keep your family safe this holiday.
Is insurance bundling the way to go?: One expense many consumer have, but don’t pay attention to, is insurance. Home, auto, renter, and more, there’s insurance for just about everything. Does it really save? And how much can you save if you bundle? On this episode, we’re talking to Mark Fitzpatrick from Money Geek. They have dozens of experts who analyze all kinds of statistics and crunch the latest numbers. They found bundling could save you a bunch of money.
Setting and achieving your 2022 financial goals: We’re coming up on the end of the year soon and that means 2021 will officially be in the history books. Looking back, how do you think you did financially? Did you start a retirement fund or savings account? If you have a 401(k), did you increase how much you contribute and are you satisfied financially? 3 On Your Side’s Gary Harper talks to Leslie Tayne. She’s an author of a bestselling book regarding finances. She’s also an attorney who specializes in consumer and debt resolution. She talks about what financial goals you should have in mind to make 2022 one of your best years ever.
Hanging Christmas lights safely: Christmas is almost here, and that means trees and lights! But that combination can be dangerous if you display your lights the wrong way. To keep you safe, we’re talking to John DeCosmo, an expert who knows all about fixing broken lights and hanging them safely.
Choosing a bottle of wine for your holiday party: The holidays are quickly approaching, which means a lot of you might be going to a holiday party. And wine is one of the more popular items that party-goers bring. But what kind of wine? How much should you spend? And what’s a good brand to take with you? In this 3 On Your Side Podcast, we’re talking with Keith Beavers. He’s a self-described “wine geek” who’s been in the wine retail industry in New York for more than a decade. He talks Wine 101 and give us some down to earth tips for choosing a bottle of wine that will make a statement without breaking the bank.
Gift Cards: Americans are sitting on billions of dollars in unused gift cards, so are they really a good gift to give? On this episode, we’re talking with Ted Rossman, a senior industry analyst at CreditCards.com, about spending those unused gift cards. He also has some ideas about what to do with gift cards to stores or restaurants you’ll never visit.
An $859 Billion Holiday Season: The holiday season is almost here and consumers are expected to spend, spend, spend. The National Retail Federation is predicting holiday sales during November and December could balloon to $859 billion. On this episode, we talk with Katherine Cullen, the senior director of industry and consumer insights at NRF, about supply chain challenges, tracking down the perfect gift, and why so many Americans are shopping early.
Supply chain issues & when relief may come: Ongoing supply chain issues seem to have almost paralyzed consumer goods across the country. From canned goods, to computer chips to auto parts, you name it, and they all seem to be hard to come by. But what’s causing the kink in the supply chain and when will we see relief? On this episode, we talk to Bill Thayer. He’s an expert in logistics, retail, and e-commerce, and he’s also CEO of Fillogic, a company that specializes in transporting goods from Point A to Point B. He has some interesting insight about what’s going on with America’s supply chain and when it may end.
Getting the best car insurance for you: When it comes to saving money, your car insurance premiums should be at the top of your list. Yet, nearly half of consumers have failed to comparison shop to see if they can get a better deal. That’s what we’re talking about on the 3 On Your Side podcast. We talk to Mark Fitzpatrick with MoneyGeek.com who will show you how to shop for car insurance and get the best rate.
Car Rental Tips: The cost of renting a car has sky-rocketed over the last year and a half. In fact, in Hawaii, travelers were shelling out $4,000 a week just to rent a car once they flew in for their vacation. On this episode, Gary Harper is talking to Willis Orlando, an analyst with a travel website called Scott’s Cheap Flights which investigates travel costs like renting a car. He’ll explain why car rentals have become so ridiculously high and when rental rates will come down.
Avoiding holiday financial hangover: Nearly half of Americans carry some kind of credit card debt, with an average balance of $6,200. Unfortunately for many consumers, that amount will increase come the holidays. So in this episode, Gary is talking to Kelsa Dickey, a certified financial coach who’s been helping to dig people out of debt for years. She’s going to tell us what we can to starting today in order to avoid a financial hangover after the holidays.
Beware of flooded cars for sale: Thank goodness Hurricane Ida is behind us, but she left a path of destruction. In fact, Ida left $95 billion worth of damage in Louisiana and surrounding states and much of that destruction was caused to cars. Unfortunately, many of those water damaged vehicles will be cleaned up and sold to unsuspecting consumers around the nation. Today we’re talking to Patrick Olsen from Carfax. Carfax has access to around 20 billion records for vehicles, and they collect the information from around 100,000 different sources to determine if a car has been in an accident, if the odometer has been rolled back, or in this case, if the car you’re thinking of buying has been waterlogged from a hurricane.
Sextortion Alert: It is a form of internet bribery that has victimized countless people. The elements are intriguing. They involve romance, photos, lies, and eventually money. A lot of money. Gary Harper is talking to Nate Warfield a former internet hacker who eventually used his skills to help people and companies to protect themselves while online. Warfield is here to tell us about something called “sextortion” and what you need to do to protect yourself against it.
FEMA COVID-19 Funeral Assistance: Nearly 600,000 Americans have lost their lives to Covid-19. It’s terrible news, and many loved ones paid out of pocket for those funerals. But why? Particularly when the federal government has set aside money to pay for those services. On this episode, Gary Harper is talking to Ed Michael Reggie, CEO of Future Factory and a known consumer advocate and expert in the funeral industry. He explains details of the program and says many people just don’t know about it and what is needed to qualify.
The Supermarket Guru: In this episode, Gary Harper is talking about something that affects nearly everyone across the nation and that’s rising food prices. To break things down, Gary talks to Phil Lempert who’s known as the “Supermarket Guru.” Lempert is an author, speaker and one of the leading experts in the nation when it comes to following food trends.
Skyrocketing Rent: Rent is increasing, not only in Phoenix, but all across the nation. On this episode, Gary Harper is joined by Jeff Andrews with Zumper, an apartment rental website that monitors rental trends. Andrews says national rent went up 12% since this time last year, and there’s no indication of going down. Andrews explores the reasons behind the jump. Gary is then joined by 3 On Your Side producer Warren Trent to discuss home rental scams they’ve covered and tips for consumers to avoid from being ripped off.
Great Resignation: In this edition of the 3 On Your Side Podcast, Consumer Investigator Gary Harper talks about something that’s being referred to as the “Great Resignation.” Apparently, more people are leaving their jobs now than ever before. But what is driving the mad exodus of leaving careers and starting a new one?
A Raging “Scamdemic”: For this edition of the 3 On Your Side Podcast, Gary Harper talks to Jack Caporal, an analyst and writer with The Ascent and The Motley Fool research team who has gathered statistics regarding COVID-19 fraud cases. Arizona consumers have been swindled out of nearly $10 million with an average loss of $325. Caporal uses a term “Scamdemic” while referring to the COVID-19 scams. Since the beginning of the pandemic, American’s have filed over a half-million COVID-19 fraud reports totaling over $480 million according the Federal Trade Commission. Arizona ranks No. 13 in the U.S. when it comes to COVID-19 fraud cases, California tops all states with COVID-19 fraud losses totaling more $65 million.
Protecting Your Privacy: Gary Harper and Susan Campbell offer tips to consumers help them protect their privacy in only a matter of seconds. Lending their expertise on privacy is Thomas Germain, a technology writer at Consumer Reports. This 3 On Your Side episode wraps up with Gary and Susan offering tips for consumers to help avoid falling victim to a common trick crooks use to steal your money, The Overpayment Scam.
Don’t get boxed in with your move: When it comes to moving, it is among the most complained about industry’s 3 On Your Side get emails about. To help expose the pitfalls, Gary Harper and Susan Campbell talk to Ryan Charles, from a company called Hire a Helper who sheds light to help consumers from getting ripped off during their move. Gary and Susan wrap up this podcast segment talking about the pitfalls of buying sight unseen vehicles online.
Used car prices going through the roof: If you’re thinking about buying a new vehicle, you might want to pump the brakes. Used car prices are through the roof with new cars often getting full sticker prices on the lot. Emilie Voss is from Carfax and talks to Gary Harper and Susan Campbell about the rising used car prices and what consumers need to know so they don’t get taken for a ride. This 3 On Your Side Podcast ends with Susan and Gary answering questions they frequently get from consumers about balance billing complaints.
Beware of Contracting Scams: This is the season where monsoons can bring damaging winds and rains for countless citizens. Summer is also a time when scammers often show up after a storm offering repair deals that are too good to be true. Jeff Wills, is Chief of Investigations at the Arizona Registrar of Contractors who talked to Susan Campbell and Gary Harper about the Red Flags consumers need to be mindful of as scammers show up unannounced after a storm looking to separate you from your hard earned money. This episode wraps up with Susan and Gary discussing complaints 3 On Your Side often receives about different types of payment scams. For example, viewers tell us they may get a phone call from someone who they believe is their utility company, threatening to shut off their utility if they don’t pay a certain amount of money immediately. It’s a common scam consumer frequently fall victim to.
Deals Take Flight: As summer travel takes flight, 3 On Your Side’s Gary Harper and Susan Campbell talk to Scott Keyes, founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights. Keyes offers tips for consumers to help them find post-pandemic travel deals. The episode concludes with Gary and Susan answering viewer questions about Renters Rights. Information consumers need to keep in mind when it comes to landlord tenant disputes.
Navigating the Hot Housing Market: Susan Campbell and Gary Harper take you on a house hunt with Phoenix, Arizona based real-estate agent Trevor Halpern from Halpern Residential. Halpern helps buyers and sellers navigate the ultra-competitive housing market. 3 On Your Side frequently receives numerous emails from disappointed consumers about things not covered by their Car or Home Warranty. The episode concludes with Susan and Gary offering tips consumers should keep in mind before agreeing to pay thousands of dollars for a Car and/or Home Warranty.
Saving $1,000 on Any Salary: If you have a desire to learn how to save $1,000 on any salary, Gary Harper and Susan Campbell have the answer. On this edition of the 3 On Your Side Podcast, they talk to Deacon Hayes, a financial expert and founder of Well Kept Wallet, a financial education company that strives to enlighten consumers across the globe through a personal finance curriculum. This episode concludes with Gary and Susan answering viewer emails about their decisions to help the environment by adding Solar panels to their homes. While there are consumers pleased with going solar, there are things consumers need to keep in mind when deciding if they should buy or lease solar panels. For example, leasing solar panels can last up to 25 years, with escalating monthly payments.
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My grandmother Mamie never gave me the exact recipe for her peach cobbler.
It was the presentation that mattered most. What I remember now is the dessert’s golden goodness scooped into Grandmama’s precious wedding china, set down on her embroidered Madeira tablecloth. What I remember is the way she taught my cousins and me to lightly starch, then pleat, then press, then tuck, then fan the cloth — just so — into her crystal. What I remember is the way the pristine linen stood at elegant attention in her water goblets.
“Ooooh, that’s it! You’ve got it, dearheart,” she’d exclaim, her voice a melody. As if you’d conquered the world.
I don’t remember my paternal grandmother Dorothy’s recipe for deviled peas. I knew better than to ask.
Instead, I remember carefully spooning the warm soup at her table: tender spring peas and mushrooms swimming in rich cream, slivers of boiled egg floating on the surface. What I remember is the cornbread, thick slices of tomatoes slathered with mayonnaise, the chicken thighs and drumsticks fried to perfection in platters at the table’s center. For all of her decorum, I also remember her bare feet, electric blue pedicure, her cherished silver anklet accented with a thin dime.
“Doris!” “Dee!” “Mama!” “Big Mama!” we’d squeal in delight over her food, also knowing better than to gobble or slurp. What was her secret?
“I put my big toe in it,” she’d say in her throaty voice, making us wonder if she had, in fact, dipped her toe into the dish.
I remember: These beautifully complex and vastly undervalued women. Their Opium, Chanel No. 5 and Youth Dew, their pearls and diamonds, their Daniel Green open-toe slippers (beige or black for everyday wear, gold for occasions at home). Their insistence on ceremony; on immaculate homes and manners; on the silverware, crystal, flowers and fine china that made a lady’s dinner table a much-desired destination.
Thank you, Lord, I remember: Washing and drying — by hand — a seemingly endless parade of precious Noritake plates, bowls, teacups and saucers after my parents entertained at home in Brewton, Ala. When I placed them back into their positions in my mother’s china cabinet, I imagined selecting my own formal china one day. I imagined having a table to sit at the head of; dressed in something chic; serving something mouthwatering; encircled by love; admired for my hospitality, like my mother and father, like my grandparents.
My family sees entertaining — and accessories that go with it — as an indication of taste, of hospitality, of manners, of respect and esteem. It is their use that makes them an instrument and vehicle for joy. Any hour can become a party and every guest is a star, one of a chosen few invited to gather in the circle. In my family, the tiniest moments become momentous occasions because of how much intention goes into planning, presenting and plating the details. It’s why I invested in a set of Sheila Bridges’s Harlem Toile de Jouy-patterned Wedgwood china for entertaining.
If my grandmothers had been born in a different time:
Maybe Mamie Davis would have headlined the Fillmore as a professional soprano instead of leading summer singalongs with her grandchildren.
Maybe Dorothy Hill would have founded and ruled an empire instead of her women’s group (the Sentimental Club) and a household on Fleming Lane.
Instead, they poured their style, their creativity, their love and their subverted dreams into their families, their faith, their homes. Mixed them into their food, and its presentation.
Outside their circles they might not have been recognized as extraordinary, but in the domestic realm, they were queens. They taught me that homekeeping, entertaining and feeding others can be where creativity flourishes, unimpeded by the outside world’s shortsightedness, small-mindedness, racism and judgment. For them, it had to: Bearing the gifts that their ancestors gave, they were raising children in the Jim Crow South’s belly.
See? their grasp of an aesthetic that has no hashtag seemed to say.
We do this, too.
We are this, too.
We deserve this, too.
My grandmothers’ insistence on doing common things in uncommon ways became recipes they passed to my parents and then to me, ones that I am still mastering: for creating, curating and sharing joy.
Buying the accoutrements that accessorized this lifestyle appeared to be a secret language of the affianced and their personal trousseaus. My hometown home goods store, the Treasure Chest, displayed its fine-china place settings at a grand table in the shop’s center. Would I be a Wedgwood wife, I wondered? Or maybe a Lenox lady, I thought, as I peered at the tiny cards announcing local brides and their wedding dates. If this was a tradition one waited their proper turn for, I held my breath in hungry anticipation.
I continued to make GrandMamie’s peach cobbler, Big Mama’s silky deviled peas, Aunt Inez’s Creole oyster dressing, Tee Meriel’s decadent chocolate cake, Paw Paw’s party punch — and each time, these much-loved ones who have passed away spring back to life. Paper plates might make the cleanup convenient afterward, but they don’t quite cut it. Those meals deserve more, I decided. I deserve more.
I’d been shortchanging myself, stuffing my hopes into an imaginary hope chest for “someday” and settling for what was practical. I longed to sit at a table worthy of my grandmothers’ approval — with or without a husband. What exactly was I waiting for? If I survived the pandemic, I wanted to do so in style.
In a fit of pique, I bought my first set of fine china. That pattern, Harlem Toile de Jouy, was designed by acclaimed interior designer Sheila Bridges.
Bridges knows something about intentional design as well as incorporating cherished traditions. The women in her family collected Wedgwood Jasperware, she says during our Zoom conversation, and she started collecting too.
“We would complement each other’s collections,” Bridges says. “It was a way of sharing this joy of collecting. And it was a connection that my mother and I had, even though we weren’t in the same city.”
This year, Bridges collaborated with Wedgwood to release a collection of Harlem Toile de Jouy bone china. The pattern, which she created 17 years ago and has appeared on wallpaper, upholstery fabric, clothing and other accessories, reimagines traditional French toile with people of color, in color.
“I loved French toiles. I love the storytelling aspect of them, but I couldn’t connect with all of the toiles that I constantly saw when shopping for clients or looking for my own home,” she says. “So I decided to create something more reflective of my own point of view and my politics, my interests.”
The collection serves up an almost subversive counternarrative, boldly centering and celebrating Black hair, food, beauty and athleticism.
Inside a soup bowl, for instance, a jaunty rooster and watermelon appear, challenging stereotypes used to demean Black people (and serving as a nod to the farm and watermelon-eating chickens Bridges once owned).
“When I’m designing wallpaper or china, I get a chance to share a very different perspective and tell a different story. Not many people are telling our stories, or if they are being told, they’re told from a lens that is very different than our own,” Bridges says. “I think particularly as Black women, it’s important for us to share our own stories. And so for me, that’s part of the legacy.”
“So much of it also has to do with the iconography of what we’re used to seeing,” she says. “None of us really think about how it affects Black people to continually see the same images over and over again, particularly when we’re not represented in those images or not represented in a positive way.”
“We frolic, too,” Bridges says. But, we agree, that narrative has been missing from the conversation.
My grandparents are long gone now. Only in adulthood did I learn they swallowed disappointments, reinvented themselves despite their own regrets, and rebounded from mistakes. Retaining their hold on happiness helped them to survive, then thrive. Lipstick, earrings, how to set a proper table — these niceties were not respectability politics. Maybe those routines were their armor, those rituals their weapons in a world that often renders Black people — particularly Black women — invisible and defenseless.
Maybe it was a way of redirecting their righteous indignation at the world they inhabited.
They didn’t speak of babies buried. Of promises broken. Of secrets locked in their hope chests, of dreams folded away in tissue paper with other souvenirs. Of who they might have been. Of suffering that could not be made palatable.
They instructed me, instead, to make the very best of whatever life served me, down to teaching me how to hand-dye fabric and perfect my walk.
“Do you know how to stroll?” Grandmama asked, her eyes twinkling, the summer I wanted to be beautiful.
“If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready,” Big Mama warned on my way to college.
They’d loved, they’d lost, they’d lived and overcome. In Lower Alabama parlance: They got where they wanted to go without driving, they knew when something in the milk wasn’t clean, and they knew more than one way to break a dog from sucking eggs. No matter what, their souls would not be broken; their existence kneaded my sensibilities like pie dough.
They taught me to invest in joy — to let it radiate from my pores and inform everything I do — because they knew I’d need the strength it imparts to fight battles of my own. An hour at their table, a weekend with them, surrounded by light, laughter, love and lots of good food, gave us all strength to face whatever waited for us outside their embrace.
For me, investing in this china — while, yes, a bit of indulgent retail therapy — was also a way to unapologetically celebrate myself even when society doesn’t. My parents, who reared me to do that, approved.
“It shows facets to your personality that maybe you don’t realize are there. It’s bold and makes a statement about life,” my mother says. “You don’t have to sit back and wait for someone to do something for you. You can do it yourself.”
On my yellow Harlem Toile teacup, a bald, lithe, finely dressed Black woman high-kicks over a log. She simultaneously outruns and hurdles over obstacles while challenging conventional beauty standards. Like me. Like every woman in my family, maybe like every Black woman I’ve ever known.
“One of the challenges of being a Black person, a Black woman, an entrepreneur, is I always feel I have to prove myself all over again,” Bridges tells me. If only she worked hard and long enough, she believed, eventually she could “coast.” But that hasn’t happened.
“Kicking over the log and outpacing the horse was very much my life for decades,” she says. “It’s important for us, first of all, to experience joy and to take care of ourselves so we can take care of each other.”
“That’s been a really hard thing to learn how to do over the years. And I think so many of us are just used to just kicking that log and we don’t take the time to experience the joy that we really deserve. So I’m trying very hard now,” Bridges says.
If the pandemic ever really ends, I’ll serve supper for a chosen few. I want them to revel in the hard-won joy served, immaculately, at each place setting. I want to sop up conversation and laughter.
I want candlelight to set my guests’ faces aglow. I want the flowers and food to be eclectic and Southern, a riot of flawless flavor and color. I want the tableware to make the distinct music only my elegant Harlem Toile de Jouy china and silverware make. I want the linen to stand at starched attention in my crystal. I want the peach cobbler to make guests hum and rock with joy.
“Ooooh, that’s it! You’ve always had it, dearheart,” I wish my Grandmama would say.
And I want y’all to wonder how in the world I could possibly have made deviled peas so delicious.
But don’t dare ask.
Alexis E. Barton is a journalist in Birmingham, Ala.
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In a counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces have claimed swaths in the east of the country, dealing a heavy blow to Russian forces as the war marks 200 days.
Greg Myre is a national security correspondent with a focus on the intelligence community, a position that follows his many years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the globe.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) announced today that its 2021 Schedule K-3 is available online. Unitholders requiring this information may access their Schedule K-3 at https://partnerdatalink.com/Summit. SMLP will also mail a 2021 Schedule K-3 to any unitholder making a request for a physical copy. For additional information or assistance, unitholders may also contact Partner DataLink via email at SummitK1Help@deloitte.com or via phone at (855) 375-4158, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CST, or visit SMLP's website at www.summitmidstream.com under "Investors >> K-1 Tax Information."
A limited number of unitholders (primarily foreign unitholders, unitholders computing a foreign tax credit on their tax return and certain corporate and/or partnership unitholders) may need the detailed information disclosed on Schedule K-3 for their specific reporting requirements. To the extent Schedule K-3 is applicable to your federal income tax return filing needs, we encourage you to review the information contained on this form and refer to the appropriate federal laws and guidance or consult with your tax advisor.
About Summit Midstream Partners, LP
SMLP is a value-driven limited partnership focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets that are strategically located in the core producing areas of unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in the continental United States. SMLP provides natural gas, crude oil and produced water gathering, processing and transportation services pursuant to primarily long-term, fee-based agreements with customers and counterparties in six unconventional resource basins: (i) the Appalachian Basin, which includes the Utica and Marcellus shale formations in Ohio and West Virginia; (ii) the Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations in North Dakota; (iii) the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado and Wyoming; (iv) the Fort Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett Shale formation in Texas; and (v) the Piceance Basin, which includes the Mesaverde formation as well as the Mancos and Niobrara shale formations in Colorado. SMLP has an equity method investment in Double E Pipeline, LLC, which provides interstate natural gas transportation service from multiple receipt points in the Delaware Basin to various delivery points in and around the Waha Hub in Texas. SMLP also has an equity method investment in Ohio Gathering, which operates extensive natural gas gathering and condensate stabilization infrastructure in the Utica Shale in Ohio. SMLP is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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Third quarter 2022 cash dividend of $0.165 per share
TEMPE, Ariz., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: BHE) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.165 per share, payable on October 14, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 30, 2022.
About Benchmark Electronics, Inc.
Benchmark provides comprehensive solutions across the entire product life cycle by leading through its innovative technology and engineering design services, leveraging its optimized global supply chain and delivering world-class manufacturing services in the following industries: commercial aerospace, defense, advanced computing, next generation telecommunications, complex industrials, medical, and semiconductor capital equipment. Benchmark's global operations include facilities in seven countries and its common shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BHE.
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New Zealand scraps almost all COVID restrictions as pandemic concerns decline
New Zealand begins removing COVID restrictions nearly 2 years after they went into effect
New Zealand scrapped mask wearing rules and vaccine mandates on Monday, bringing an end to some of the toughest COVID-19 pandemic rules in the world about two years after they were put in place.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a weekly news conference that it was time to safely turn the page on the country's COVID-19 management and live without the extraordinary measures it previously used.
"Finally, rather than feeling that COVID dictates what happens to us, our lives, and our futures, we take back control," Ardern said.
HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN SUITCASE BOUGHT AT AUCTION IN NEW ZEALAND
"For the first time in two years we can approach summer with the much needed certainty New Zealanders and business need, helping to drive greater economic activity critical to our economic recovery," she added.
All mask wearing requirements were removed, except in healthcare and aged care facilities. Only COVID-19 positive individuals will be required to isolate for seven days, while household contacts no longer need to, the government said in a statement.
All government vaccine mandates will also be scrapped on Sept. 26, Ardern said, adding that employers will now decide whether or not they require their workforce to be vaccinated.
The government will also remove all vaccination requirements for incoming travellers and air crew.
NEW ZEALAND'S DEATH RATE FROM COVID AT RECORD HIGH IN WAKE OF OMICRON WAVE
New Zealand's swift response to the pandemic, tough pandemic rules, and its geographic isolation kept it largely free from the virus until the end of last year.
The government dropped its zero-COVID policy this year once the population was largely vaccinated. Since then the virus has been allowed to spread. There has been 1,950 deaths and about 1.7 million confirmed COVID-19 cases.
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The national boutique coffee chain now has three stores in The Golden State
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Rock Coffee Bar, a national boutique coffee chain founded in Portland, Oregon, is opening a new Drive-Thru only store in Escondido, California. With more than 100 stores across seven states, this is Black Rock's third location in the San Diego area following the openings in Oceanside and Vista.
Known for its premium roasted coffees, teas, smoothies and flavorful Fuel®️ energy drinks, Black Rock Coffee Bar is set to open on Friday September 16th at 1906 East Valley Parkway in Escondido. To celebrate its grand opening, Black Rock Coffee Bar will offer all customers free 16 oz. drinks all day on September 16th at this location. The store opens just in time for customers to enjoy Black Rock's delicious lineup of Fall drinks including a fan favorite, the Pumpkin Blondie.
"We are excited to add another store in the San Diego area," said Josh Pike, CEO of Black Rock Coffee Bar. "Escondido is a diverse, vibrant community with just the right mix of small-town friendliness and big-city buzz, and we look forward to our baristas serving great coffee and providing a fun, high-energy experience for the community."
This Drive-Thru only location brings to the community Black Rock's updated branding, signage and building design. Drawing from it's past while incorporating a clean modern feel, customers can still count on exceptional customer service and industry-leading speed of service when ordering their favorite drinks.
Founded in 2008 in Portland, Oregon, an area of the Pacific Northwest known for its coffee excellence, Black Rock Coffee Bar continues its rapid expansion through the west and into the sunbelt, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Texas and Washington. The boutique coffee chain recently was named the Fastest Growing Private Company in Oregon and SW Washington in 2021 by the Portland Business Journal. Most recently, Black Rock Coffee Bar ranked 837th among America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. Magazine's 5000 Annual List.
The Black Rock culture prides itself on providing opportunities for young people to learn how to lead, run a business, and develop people skills.
Black Rock Coffee Bar is a national boutique coffee shop that is known for its premium roasted coffees, teas, smoothies and flavorful Fuel® energy drinks. Founded as a family owned and operated business in Oregon in 2008, Black Rock Coffee Bar has grown to more than 100 retail locations in seven states. The Black Rock culture prides itself on not only being a positive force for the communities it serves, but also the team members that fuel their locations day in and day out. An important aspect of their team mission is to recognize those that go above and beyond by displaying the 4G's of Black Rock – grit, growth, gratitude and grace.
For more information, visit https://br.coffee/
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Manifest, the top sustainable ecommerce fulfillment provider in the US, announced the publication of an 11 page market analysis including carbon footprint measurement from core clients Definite Articles, PiperWai, SUAVS, Thousand Fell, and TopFoxx. This highlights the increasing consumer requirement for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands to demonstrate a clear pathway towards achieving personal sustainability goals. The market analysis indicates that this now impacts the entire supply chain, and predominantly the click-to-deliver segment that Manifest is responsible for.
Customers are begging for brands to become more responsible with their sustainability practices.
Brands are begging for easy and impactful ways to meet their customers' new personal sustainability requirements.
Manifest, founded by one of the Cofounders of ShipBob along with many early employees from ShipBob, provides sustainable packaging and clear data to show DTC brands and their customers exactly how they offset their carbon in the process. Manifest focuses on DTC brands that procure between 1,000 and 100,000 domestic-US orders per month. Brands that have adopted Manifest early span from newly launched VC-funded brands to newer DTC brands launched by repeat-Founders. The door is also wide open to the more matriculated high-growth DTC brand.
The Manifest executive leadership team includes:
George Wojciechowski, CEO & Cofounder
George Wojciechowski is a Cofounder and CEO at Manifest. Prior to launching Manifest, George cofounded ShipBob, a predominant name in the global ecommerce fulfillment space. George has held several roles in various investment communities including Goldman Sachs, among others.
Bob Sixsmith, VP Operations & Cofounder
Bob Sixsmith is a Cofounder and VP of Operations at Manifest. Prior to launching Manifest, Bob was an Operations Leader at ShipBob, first as the General Manager of their Los Angeles fulfillment center and in additional Senior Management roles spanning Project Management and Operations Management. Prior to ShipBob, Bob was at Groupon. He has a BA from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Max Stevens, VP Fulfillment & Cofounder
Max Stevens is a Cofounder and VP of Fulfillment at Manifest. Prior to launching Manifest, Max spent 6 years at ShipBob serving in both Director of Operations and Director of Fulfillment roles. Max has a BA from The University of Kansas and an MBA from the University of Illinois.
Peter Hillowe, VP Marketing
Peter Hillowe is the VP of Marketing at Manifest. Prior to joining Manifest, Peter served X Delivery as their Head of Marketing. Peter has been an Operating Advisor for PAKA Apparel. Pete has also served ONELIVE as their Director of Marketing, and 237 Global as their VP of Operations. Peter has a BA from the College at Oneonta and an MBA from Syracuse University.
Over twenty reports from predominant research firms indicate that customers are more inclined to shop from brands that clearly connect the dots between sustainability metrics. These metrics should be focused on product packaging and shipping; with a clear line to resolving their personal sustainability goals. "We've done this before, we're doing it again, and now we've made it more sustainable" said CEO & Cofounder at Manifest, George Wojciechowski. "Every part of our community is built on the belief that sustainable commerce needs to be more accessible to brands and ultimately their customers."
"Partnering with Manifest for PiperWai's fulfillment has been an eye-opening experience. Their team not only delivers an above-average merchant experience that matches our high-standard for logistics performance; they also provide easy-to-digest carbon footprint data that is important to both us and our customers" said Sarah Ribner, Cofounder of PiperWai.
"The future of fulfillment is here" said VP of Marketing at Manifest, Peter Hillowe. "The needs of our merchants and their customers force us to live in the present. What's always worked no longer works for the new breed of sustainability-driven Founder/CXOs. Manifest is focused on building a story that speaks directly to them in the ways they prefer to be spoken to by way of content consumption. It's a welcome challenge that a new cohort of talent is being drawn to - myself included. Big fundraising checks and relatively high revenue is magnetizing the younger-skewing generation away from blue-chip and SaaS technology. It's been uplifting to see the new breed of go-to-market professionals completely reinvent the buying experience".
Visit https://manifest.eco/sustainable-commerce-101/ to read the full market analysis.
Manifest provides sustainable ecommerce fulfillment. Oversized 3PL models produce too much waste and resort to cutbacks on the client experience. Manifest illustrates the future of fulfillment by providing biodegradable packaging and clear data to show brands exactly how we offset their carbon footprint. The future roadmap of Manifest is focused on validating a methodology for sustainable commerce with its partner network including higher education institutions, supply chain infrastructure, and commerce infrastructure.
Peter Hillowe, VP of Marketing
peter@manifest.eco
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday:
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., up $2.20 to $72.36.
The pharmaceutical company received U.S. approval for a psoriasis treatment.
Gilead Sciences Inc., up $2.73 to $68.01.
The drug developer announced agreements to settle patent disputes over HIV treatments.
Yum Brands Inc., up $1.17 to $117.26.
The owner of KFC and Taco Bell announced a new $2 billion stock buyback plan.
SVB Financial Group, down $16.82 to $406.15.
Investors were disappointed by the bank’s latest update to its financial forecast.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., down $2.69 to $90.24.
The drug developer gave investors a potentially discouraging update on the development of a hemophilia drug.
Chevron Corp., up $2.53 to $162.50 Energy companies gained ground along with rising U.S. crude oil prices.
Newmont Corp., up 78 cents to $43.95.
The gold producer gained ground as prices for the precious metal edged higher.
Stellantis NV, up 52 cents to $13.93.
United Auto Workers on strike at the carmaker’s casting plant in Indiana have reached a tentative deal.
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Hillary Clinton on Sunday said there are “lessons still to be learned” from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, noting the country’s unity following the terrorist attacks.
“We have also, I think, been reminded about how important it is to try to deal with extremism of any kind, especially when it uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals,” Clinton said during an interview with co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” on the 21st anniversary of the attacks.
“So I’m one who thinks that there are lessons still to be learned from what happened to us on 9/11 that we should be very aware of, during this time in our country and the world’s history.”
President Biden, Vice President Harris and other senior officials traveled to remembrance ceremonies at the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sunday morning.
Clinton at the time of the attacks served as a U.S. senator from New York and years later served as secretary of State during the Obama administration, managing the country’s foreign policy during U.S. interventions in the Middle East spurred by the attacks.
The ex-first lady reflected on the country’s response to the attacks on CNN, lauding former President George W. Bush’s commitment to helping rebuild New York after the collapse of the Twin Towers.
“I feel grateful that we were able to come together as a country at that really terrible time,” Clinton said. “We put aside differences. I wish we could find ways of doing that again.”
She added that she hopes the country could unite again, touting Biden’s legislative record on issues like climate change, health care and gun violence.
“We are in a funny position, Dana, because there’s a small but very vocal, very powerful, very determined minority who wants to impose their views on all the rest of us,” Clinton told Bash.
“And it’s time for everybody regardless of party to say, no, that’s not who we are as America,” Clinton added.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man was arrested on a federal child pornography charge Monday after raping a child on video, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
A DOJ release said the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children got a tip about an online storage account called “Satans Child” that had child pornography on it.
Investigators traced the “Satans child” account to Miguel Diaz Gonzalez, 40, of Orlando, which allowed them to search his home for evidence.
The DOJ said after confirming that Diaz Gonzalez used the account, investigators executed a search warrant on the account itself, discovering a video in which Diaz Gonzalez is seen raping an 8-year-old that was in his care at the time.
Diaz Gonzalez was charged with production of child sex abuse material. If convicted, he could face up to 30 years in federal prison for the crime.
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Pleasant stretch of weather develops this week
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A cold front will move across the Carolinas tonight, bringing isolated rain and storms at times. Dry weather develops for the rest of the week, with cool mornings and warm afternoons. The weekend looks to remain pleasant and dry overall, with chances for rain toward the coast.
- Tonight: isolated rain or storm, with a cold front moving through.
- Tuesday: Mostly sunny skies and less muggy conditions.
- Cool mornings and warm afternoons continue this week.
A cold front will move across the region tonight, bringing the chance for isolated rain and storms, with overnight low temperatures cooling into the lower 60s for the piedmont, and lower 50s in the mountains.
Mostly sunny skies develop for Tuesday, with afternoon high temperatures ranging from the lower 80s in the piedmont, to around 70 degrees in the mountains.
Pleasant weather continues Tuesday through Friday, with cool mornings and warm afternoons, with mostly sunny skies. Morning low temperatures will range from the upper 50s to lower 60s for the piedmont, to upper 40s and lower 50s in the mountains. Afternoon high temperatures will be in the low to mid 80s for the piedmont, with low to mid 70s in the mountains.
The weekend looks pleasant, with mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies, and high temperatures ranging from the low to mid 80s in the piedmont, and highs in the low to mid 70s for the mountains.
The App State vs. Troy football game at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone is looking nice for the 3:30pm Saturday kickoff, with temperatures in the upper 60s for tailgating, around 74 degrees at kickoff, and around 70 degrees for the end of the game, under mostly sunny skies.
Tropical Update: We are monitoring two weather disturbances that have a low chance of becoming tropical in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Otherwise, there are no threats to the U.S. or the Caribbean.
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Enjoy the pleasant weather ahead!
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Week one of the NFL is going to come to a close Monday night and the main event of the weekend, Sunday Night Football, was lackluster for the Blue and Silver after the Dallas Cowboys fell to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Even though the Cowboys are starting off on a not-so-fun note, especially with quarterback Dak Prescott getting injured during the SNF matchup, they’re still the favorite when it comes to people searching them up.
Google Trends tweeted, “Tonight is the final matchup of the first week of the @NFL season. What states are showing search interest in your team?”
The graph above shows that the Dallas Cowboys are the most searched team in America, solidifying their nickname of being America’s Team. Seven states, including Texas, of course, searched up the Cowboys the most.
Other popular teams from Google search during week one were the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots, and more.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Chipmaker Micron's planned $15 billion investment in a new factory in the company's hometown of Boise will help protect the United States from the vulnerabilities of a globalized semiconductor market, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday.
“It is time to get America making things again, with American parts and American labor,” Granholm told a crowd of about 250 guests and Micron workers invited to a tent-covered dirt field for a ceremonial groundbreaking. The event included setting off a ground-clearing explosion far from the crowd that emitted red, white and blue smoke.
The U.S. and Europe are pushing aggressively to build chipmaking capacity and reduce reliance on producers that are now mostly based in Asia. Semiconductor businesses have also been trying to diversify their operations to avoid bottlenecks caused by problems — such as a natural disaster or pandemic lockdown — in a specific region.
Micron officials said that the high desert, sagebrush steppe area east of Boise is expected to have the largest chipmaking cleanroom, or fab, in the U.S. by the end of the decade, covering 600,000 square feet (55,000 square meters) and creating 17,000 jobs. Construction is expected to start in 2023, with some cleanroom working space ready by 2025 and expanding in phases.
Micron is among the nation’s largest chipmakers, with product development sites in five other states and eight countries. Research and development is centered in Boise.
Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron's president and chief executive officer, said the company is committed to investing in the Idaho community — with an emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education in both K-12 and higher education. He said the company would focus on reaching underrepresented and rural school populations.
Micron “will inspire young minds to build the STEM skills they need to succeed in our technology-based world,” he said.
In recent years, state Republican lawmakers have caused dismay among Idaho's business community by launching attacks on public education spending, which succeeded in 2021 with a $2.5 million cut to universities despite a budget surplus.
Micron officials late last year announced plans to build a 500-worker, memory design center in Georgia, partly to take advantage of that area's education system. That sent tremors through Idaho's business and political landscape.
But earlier this year, lawmakers approved a record $300 million boost to education. And earlier this month, lawmakers added another $410 million from a budget surplus in a legislative special session that was called due to high inflation.
“We really needed this (semiconductor plant) in the U.S. and not overseas,” said Republican state Sen. Scott Grow, who attended Monday's groundbreaking ceremony and has helped push through legislation beneficial to Micron. “To get a big outfit like this, and to get enough workers, we have to do all we can here in Idaho to help provide that kind of education so this can continue to grow, and they don't have to just bring in people from out of state."
Several chipmakers last year signaled an interest in expanding their American operations if the U.S. government is able to make it easier to build chip plants. Samsung said in November it plans to build a $17 billion factory outside of Austin, Texas, and Intel broke ground last week on a $20 billon new computer chip facility in Ohio.
Micron's $15 billion investment was made possible by last month’s passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, a $280 billion bill aimed at bolstering U.S. competitiveness against China and avoiding another chip shortage like the one that derailed the auto and tech industries during the pandemic. The law sets aside $52 billion to bolster the semiconductor industry that, due to COVID-related supply chain constraints, has struggled to manufacture the chips.
Besides the CHIPS law, Micron also benefits from property tax breaks in Idaho. And lawmakers earlier this year passed legislation, signed by Republican Gov. Brad Little, that eliminates sales taxes on expensive equipment Micron will have to buy to produce the chips.
Of the 17,000 expected jobs, 2,000 will be employed directly by Micron, and 15,000 are expected to come from other companies working in support of the new plant.
LaMarr Barnes, chief executive officer of Tokyo-based Kurita, said this company will bid to help create the supply of ultra-pure water needed for chipmaking. If successful, he expects to hire several hundred workers for the Boise area.
“We'd love to be able to do the work for this new fab, and if we do, we'd have to hire quite a bit of engineering staff," he said.
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Research of a wild primate shows maternal effects key to gut microbial development
The bacteria that reside in the human gut ("the gut microbiome") are known to play beneficial and harmful roles in human health. Because these bacteria are transmitted through milk, mothers can directly impact the composition of bacteria that their offspring harbor, potentially giving moms another pathway to influence their infant's future development and health. A study of wild geladas (a non-human primate that lives in Ethiopia) provides the first evidence of clear and significant maternal effects on the gut microbiome both before and after weaning in a wild mammal. This finding, published in Current Biology, suggests the impact of mothers on the offspring gut microbiome community extends far beyond when the infant has stopped nursing.
A research team co-led by Stony Brook University anthropologist Dr. Amy Lu, and biologists Dr. Alice Baniel and Dr. Noah Snyder-Mackler at Arizona State University, came to this conclusion by analyzing one of the largest datasets on gut microbiome development in a wild mammal.
"Early life gut microbial development is known to have a large impact on later life health in humans and other model organisms," said Lu, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University. "Now we have solid evidence that mothers can influence this process, both before and weaning. Although we're not 100% certain how mothers do this, one possible explanation is that they transfer specific bacteria to their offspring."
The research team used high throughput DNA sequencing to identify and characterize the bacteria residing in the guts of young geladas, and identified 3,784 different genetic strains of bacteria belonging to 19 phyla and 76 families. However, this diversity was not equally distributed across the developmental spectrum: similar to what is seen in humans, younger infants had the least diverse microbial communities that gradually became more diverse as they got older. These changes reflected what the infant was eating, specifically when they switched from consuming milk to consuming more solid foods. These diet-focused bacteria actually help infants process foods—for instance, milk glycans, which cannot be digested without the help of bacteria.
However, it was the team's findings of strong maternal effects on the infant gut microbiome both before and after weaning that was the most groundbreaking.
"Infants of first-time moms showed slower development of their gut microbiota, meaning that their guts were specialized toward milk digestion for longer compared to kids from other moms. This may put offspring of newer moms at a slight developmental disadvantage," said Baniel. "In addition, even after infants were weaned, their microbiome community was more similar to mom's than to other adult females in the population, suggesting that mom's may be sharing microbes with their offspring."
According to Snyder-Mackler, "these early life changes might have far-reaching consequences–impacting the health and survival of these offspring once they become adults."
Future work from this research team will focus on examining how differences in the gut microbiome during infancy influence other aspects of development, such as growth, the maturation of the immune system, or the pace of reproductive maturation. Because they are continuing to study the same infants as they age, they expect to eventually be able to link the infant gut microbiome and the early-life maternal effects to health, reproduction, and survival in adulthood.
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Johnny Pinchback spent 27 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit.
"It was hell, right here on Earth," he said. "Pure hell."
Pinchback was convicted of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to 99 years in prison.
"Man, it is very hurtful, very painful," he continued. "A whole bunch of guys that were sent there for rape crimes and child molestation, that couldn't defend themselves — they were raped themselves, beat up and raped themselves, and so many of them killed themselves."
Thanks to DNA evidence and the Texas Innocence Project, Pinchback has been a free man for 11 years but says his readjustment into society has been its own challenge.
"After I got out, you know, I was lost, man," Pinchback said. "When I got out, it was a shock, man. It was a cultural shock."
Despite how tough his experience has been on his psyche, Pinchback says formal therapy didn't work for him.
"They sent a few of us to it," he said. "We were like, 'Man, we do counseling and do therapy for each other.' And that's what we did."
Chantal Fahmy is a University of Texas San Antonio professor and has spent her career studying the formerly incarcerated.
She says reentry into society is its own punishment and takes a toll mentally.
"Their education really hasn't changed all that much. So, it's not like they're attaining these jobs that they weren't able to get prior," she said. "They're ineligible for a lot of forms of public assistance, like welfare. They're alienated from mainstream life, period."
A study from the University of Chicago compares the mental toll of being wrongfully imprisoned to the anguish suffered by military veterans and torture survivors.
Researchers say common effects among the exonerated include severe PTSD, persistent personality changes, depression and complex feelings of loss.
Fahmy says the resources specifically for exonerees are very limited, but for anyone leaving prison, family support can have a positive impact.
"When you have a solid support system in both of those ways, whether it's from family or whether it's from friends, your mental health is better," she said.
Anna Vasquez spent 13 years behind bars for a crime that never happened.
She and three other women were charged with gang raping two children, and their story was featured in the documentary "Southwest of Salem."
Ultimately, their conviction was thrown out due to inaccurate scientific testimony and an admission by the accuser that her father forced her to make false allegations.
Vasquez now serves as the director of outreach for the Innocence Project of Texas and says she hopes she can be that resource for people in her position.
"I think it brings them some comfort," she said. "You know, when I speak to them, it's not coming from an attorney, or a paralegal, you know, it is somebody that has actually been there, going through what they're going through. … It's just hard to relate to somebody that has never been in prison."
As technology has advanced, exonerations have become more common.
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, more than 3,000 people have been wrongly convicted and exonerated since 1989, amounting to 25,000 years lost behind bars.
"I'm still a work in progress, you know?" Vasquez said. "Actually, yesterday, it was my brother's, I guess, death anniversary. I don't know how I should say that, but it makes me mad when I think about [the fact] I only had two years with him. It's anger, frustration. Unbelievable that something like this could happen."
Those 3,000 people who have now been exonerated are also reintegrating into society while dealing with unimaginable trauma and potential mental health challenges.
"Talking about your feelings or your emotions in prison was not to be done, you know?" Vasquez said. "You hid under a cover and you cried. So, the way that I coped with it was, I was hopeful. But I will not tell you that I didn't have my bad days. And you know, I was depressed, but I always seem to pick myself up."
Pinchback says the time he spends with other people who have been wrongfully convicted is his own kind of therapy.
"I've got another friend about 10 minutes from here," he said. "He did 31 years wrongfully convicted, and sometimes we'll joke around and stuff like that about prison we'll be joking and stuff like, 'Hey man, I'm going to the commissary today. Would you bring me three soups?' … Then we'll say, 'Hey man, it is a blessing for that to be behind us.'"
Pinchback and Vasquez regularly speak to law students and tell their stories to make that story less common.
"That's my job," Pinchback said. "It's my job until I die, man, until I can't do it no more. It's my job."
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, September 12, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Diego CA
227 PM PDT Mon Sep 12 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Southwest California, including the following
county, San Bernardino.
* WHEN...Until 430 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 227 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain
has fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
I-15 Between Victorville And Barstow and Hwy 247 Between
Lucerne Valley And Barstow.
- https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Central Los Angeles County
* IMPACTS...Heavy rainfall could trigger shallow debris flows in and
near recent wildfire burn scars. Some low-water crossings may
become impassable.
heavy showers and thunderstorms. This will cause urban and
small stream flooding.
Acton, Palmdale, Littlerock, Valyermo, Angeles Crest Highway
between Mount Wilson and Mount Waterman, and the northwest
portion of the Bobcat Fire burn scar
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Move away from recently burned areas. The rain will likely trigger
shallow mud and debris flows, minor rock falls, and flooding capable
of localized damage, especially in steep terrain in and near burn
scars.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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Third quarter 2022 cash dividend of $0.165 per share
TEMPE, Ariz., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: BHE) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.165 per share, payable on October 14, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 30, 2022.
About Benchmark Electronics, Inc.
Benchmark provides comprehensive solutions across the entire product life cycle by leading through its innovative technology and engineering design services, leveraging its optimized global supply chain and delivering world-class manufacturing services in the following industries: commercial aerospace, defense, advanced computing, next generation telecommunications, complex industrials, medical, and semiconductor capital equipment. Benchmark's global operations include facilities in seven countries and its common shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BHE.
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Participants Invited to Booth 423 to Learn How IoT Data Can Improve their Top and Bottom Line
BOSTON and DALLAS, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As restaurants and foodservice companies strive to improve performance despite inflation and labor shortages, technologies are helping reduce both risk and costs. At the same time, operators are increasing their operational efficiency, and enhancing their customer experience.
These technologies include the Open Kitchen® Internet of Things (IoT) platform from Powerhouse Dynamics. In conjunction with The Middleby Corporation, they are an official co-sponsor of FSTEC, taking place Sept. 19-21 at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas.
The firm's leaders will be on hand to discuss their solutions, and how they're used by the nation's top brands, at Booth 423. They will also participate in Branded Strategic Hospitality's Innovation Forum, "It's Time to Play … Food Service Feud!" on Tues., Sept. 20 at 11 am CT.
"Business intelligence from IoT data is becoming a critical asset for restaurants striving for a comeback," said Jay Fiske, President of Powerhouse Dynamics. "This information empowers them to preempt safety, operational, and equipment issues while raising profits."
Powerhouse Dynamics' equipment agnostic Open Kitchen IoT platform offers real-time control and visibility into energy management, task management, food safety, and equipment health. By connecting their ovens, freezers, refrigerators, dishwashers, fryers, HVAC, and more, restaurants can automate much of their operations and access a plethora of actionable data across their portfolio. These automation capabilities advance their agility and speed—whether sharing recipes across ghost kitchens, providing a consistently comfortable and efficient environment for guests and staff, or monitoring HACCP compliance.
Open Kitchen also integrates with Bluezone® by Middleby, which uses UV technology to kill up to 99.9995% of airborne viruses indoors—providing extra reassurance to diners and staff as winter approaches.
Individuals who would like to learn more at FSTEC should contact Drew Holst, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, at drew@powerhousedynamics.com.
Founded in 2009 and acquired by The Middleby Corporation in 2019, Powerhouse Dynamics of Newton, MA is the leading provider of "Internet of things" (IoT)-based solutions to connect, analyze and control equipment to deliver enterprise-wide operational efficiencies. The company and its leaders have received many honors, including a 2022 Maverick Award from Inspire Brands®, Inc. as its most innovative supplier. To learn more, visit powerhousedynamics.com.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities in Las Vegas have identified a man who was killed and a patrol officer who was wounded in an exchange of gunfire during a foot chase following a weekend vehicle stop.
The Clark County coroner said Gabriel Herrera Charles, 27, died after being shot in the torso and police said Officer Tierney Tomburo returned home to continue treatment of injuries she received in the shooting about 1:15 a.m. Saturday.
Police Capt. Carlos Hank said in a video statement the shooting happened when a person ran from an SUV that had been stopped near Flamingo Road and University Center Drive.
Hank did not provide details including the reason for the traffic stop, the number of other people in the vehicle and whether anyone was arrested or faced criminal charges.
The coroner's office said Charles' hometown was not known. His death was ruled a homicide.
Tomburo is 24 and has been employed by Las Vegas police since 2020, the department said in a statement. It said she was placed on administrative leave pending district attorney and departmental reviews of the shooting.
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ALLEN PARK -- The Philadelphia Eagles had the league’s top-ranked rushing attack last season. There was no mistaking what they wanted to do when they came to Detroit. Yet the Lions still allowed 236 yards on the ground that day, a bottom-five performance by the club in the last decade.
Dan Campbell warned his team they better tighten up in the rematch on Sunday.
“If I’m them, I’m doing the same thing,” the head coach said last week. “(Philadelphia’s thinking they’re) going to come back and attack you the same way and see if you’ve fixed any of your problems. They’ll have a couple of tweaks here and there, but I mean, I would fully expect them to come in and see if we’ve fixed our problems.”
How prescient.
The Lions played much better overall on Sunday, but still fell 38-35 largely because they remained without solutions for a running game they knew was coming. Philadelphia pounded them for another 216 yards on the ground, the third-best effort by any team in Week 1. Running back Miles Sanders led the way with 96 yards on just 13 carries, although quarterback Jalen Hurts was the real catalyst. He ran for 90 yards -- the best output by any quarterback on the opening weekend of the season -- while picking up two key fourth downs on the ground, one of which scored a touchdown, the other of which iced the game with 66 seconds left.
Even though the Lions had all offseason to install a new scheme, and knew exactly what was awaiting them in Week 1.
So what exactly happened?
“Just don’t think we were all on the same page at every level in the run game,” edge defender Austin Bryant said. “I don’t think they were more physical than we were in the run game, even though the stats may show that they were more physical. But if you look at the tape, we (didn’t) get knocked back We’re building a wall. It’s just a fit here, a fit there (that’s off).
“I think it was just a little bit of imbalance between each level. That’s what kinda gave them the upper hand in the run game. But I don’t think we were out-physicalled at all.”
Assignment issues are certainly better than talent issues, because you can’t teach the latter. Based on the Lions’ postgame film sessions, they do believe blown assignments at every level of the defense were the culprit. They ran stunts where someone forgot to stunt. They had edge defenders crashing inside. There were at least three plays where someone who was supposed to fit the run up front had instead rolled 10 yards from the play.
Those issues created seams in the defense, and a guy like Hurts doesn’t need much to find daylight.
“We had situations where somebody didn’t do their job here, didn’t do their job there,” Bryant said. “Every now and then, it caught up to us. Sometimes it didn’t affect us, but sometimes it did.”
Hurts affected Detroit, that’s for sure. He opened the game by running for 35 yards on his first series, then added a fourth-down touchdown run before putting the game on ice with a fourth-and-1 sneak with 66 seconds left. He was also highly effective evading the rush, including three times when pressured by rookie Aidan Hutchinson. Hurts turned one of those scrambles into 16 yards on third-and-15.
But it wasn’t just Hurts either. Sanders pounded the ball across the plane on third-and-goal, then bounced a third-and-2 run to the left for 25 yards in the waning seconds. Detroit allowed seven conversions on 10 third- and fourth-down runs overall, two of which came with 10-plus yards required for a conversion.
“It’s always one guy,” Campbell said. “We have a guy (out of place). We’re in the hole, (but) we stop our feet and lunge at the ball carrier. And then certainly the quarterback, I mean, he was a huge part of that. Everything runs through him, and we didn’t do a great job of bottling him up.”
True. Then again, the Lions knew this was coming too. They still couldn’t stop it.
Campbell is stressing to players the importance of doing their jobs heading into the Week 2 matchup against Washington, and not freelancing out of position.
“It can be hard sometimes, especially in a game like that, where we need somebody to make a play, we need some type of spark,” Bryant said. “Guys maybe will reach sometimes to be that spark or make that play, but at the end of the day, you don’t want to do anything you haven’t practiced before. I think if we just do our jobs, like Dan alluded to, we’ll be fine, you know?”
The good news: The Lions won’t have to face another truly mobile quarterback until Josh Allen comes to town on Thanksgiving. That gives the club a couple months to iron out the missed assignments before one of the planet’s best dual-threats gets to take a swing at that defense on the national stage.
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Apple's new iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus may look similar to last year's iPhone 13 line, but there are a lot of new changes on the inside. The iPhone 14 line includes new sensors for car-crash detection, a photo processing method called Photonic Engine, the removal of the physical SIM card slot for US phones and improvements to both the rear and front-facing cameras. The most notable swap, however, are the phone line's sizes: the Mini version is no longer offered as part of the iPhone 14 range, and instead the standard 6.1-inch phone ($799 £849, AU$1,399) arrives alongside a Plus model with a 6.7-inch display, starting at $899.
Apple isn't done with the iPhone 13 yet though -- the company will continue selling both the iPhone 13 and 13 Mini in its store with a modest price drop. The iPhone 13 line now starts at $599 for the Mini and $699 for the standard iPhone 13.
We've outlined in the chart the features of the iPhone 14 line against the iPhone 13 line, so you can compare the phones directly. The biggest deciding point could be the phone size: If you want a Mini phone then the iPhone 13 Mini is your only option. Similarly, if you want a larger phone and don't want to spend over $1,000 for the iPhone 14 Pro Max, then the iPhone 14 Plus would be your pick. If deciding between the similarly-sized iPhone 13 and the iPhone 14, you should check if the iPhone 14's new features and improved camera are worth the extra $100 for you.
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Photos showed a tearful Princess Royal lost in thought... at last we see the real Princess Anne - full of love for her Mama
Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be another one of those ‘The Queen Who Met Me’ pieces. Although I did meet her once, at the 150th anniversary of the Journalists’ Charity, of which she was patron.
I was in a receiving line, along with other ambassadors for the charity, standing next to my old mate Nick Ferrari, the peerless LBC radio breakfast show presenter.
Nick, an ardent monarchist, was so overcome with excitement at meeting Her Maj that he actually curtsied. He squatted so low that I worried he might have trouble getting up again.
The Queen had that effect on people. Even though I’ve never been much of a royalist, it was an honour to shake her hand. I remember thinking how much she reminded me of my own mum. Same height, similar demeanour, some of the same facial expressions.
It was an impression that only increased, every time I saw the Queen on TV, as they both got older and entered their tenth decade.
I was in a receiving line, along with other ambassadors for the charity, standing next to my old mate Nick Ferrari, the peerless LBC radio breakfast show presenter
Mum was a couple of years younger, but they were from the same generation and at least superficially cut from the same cloth. Although from vastly different backgrounds, they shared many attributes — love of family and country, selflessness and a wicked sense of humour.
Even though my father’s job took her to America 46 years ago, Mum never gave up her British citizenship and made it home as often as she could. Like most of those who had endured the deprivations and dangers of World War II, she admired the Royal Family in general and the Queen in particular.
When Mum died in March, I had to dash the 3,800 miles to Detroit. Fortunately, I made it in time to spend precious hours at her bedside before she passed away peacefully.
So I can understand what the Queen’s children went through as they raced to Balmoral. At least Charles and Anne were with her at the end.
What made me think back to Nick’s reaction on meeting the Queen was that picture of Anne curtsying as her mother’s coffin was carried into the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.
To my mind, it was the most poignant and moving image of the past, terribly sad few days. It illustrated a side of the Princess Royal that we have rarely, if ever, seen before.
The Queen had that effect on people. Even though I’ve never been much of a royalist, it was an honour to shake her hand. I remember thinking how much she reminded me of my own mum. Same height, similar demeanour, some of the same facial expressions
Her face was racked with grief, understandably, after having endured not just the difficult days since her beloved Mama died, but an agonising six-hour road trip behind the royal hearse from Balmoral. The Queen had specifically requested that the Princess accompanied her on her final journey, an indication of the towering regard in which she held her daughter.
Photographs taken en route show a tearful Anne, lost in thought. It was not the Princess to whom we have become accustomed over the years.
We are used to seeing her with her game face on, faithfully carrying out an exhausting schedule of public engagements — more than any other member of the family. Occasionally, the mask has slipped, for instance when telling over-intrusive photographers to ‘Naff ’orf’.
But I can’t recall ever seeing her display much emotion. She’s tougher than the rest.
She has never succumbed to the temptation of indulging in self-serving, soul-searching television interviews or collaborating on tell-all memoirs.
Mum was a couple of years younger, but they were from the same generation and at least superficially cut from the same cloth. Although from vastly different backgrounds, they shared many attributes — love of family and country, selflessness and a wicked sense of humour.
Heaven knows she must have been horrified when her late sister-in-law co-operated with Andrew Morton and sat down to spill the beans with the BBC’s Martin Bashir. We can only imagine how appalled she must be at the money-grubbing antics of her ingrate nephew Harry and his ghastly bit-part actress wife.
In yesterday’s Daily Mail, royal confidant Gyles Brandreth revealed that Anne was shocked when Charles effectively told Jonathan Dimbleby in 1994 that their mother was remote and uncaring.
She leapt to the Queen’s defence, insisting: ‘I’m not going to speak for anyone else but I simply don’t believe there is any evidence to suggest that she wasn’t caring. It beggars belief.
‘I don’t believe any of us, for a second, thought she didn’t care for us in the same way any other mother did.’
It is not recorded what she said to her brother behind closed doors, but ‘Naff ’orf’ would likely have been the half of it.
So it was heartening to read Nick Constable in The Mail on Sunday reporting that Charles and Anne are now closer than ever.
I claim no special insight into the royals, but those who are in the know say the Princess was the constant in the Queen’s life, especially since Prince Philip died.
We are used to seeing her with her game face on, faithfully carrying out an exhausting schedule of public engagements — more than any other member of the family. Occasionally, the mask has slipped, for instance when telling over-intrusive photographers to ‘Naff ’orf’
That figures, certainly based on my own experience. There’s a bond between mother and daughter that a son, no matter how close to his mum, simply can’t replicate.
From the moment my father died 27 years ago, my younger sister Vivienne became my mother’s rock. Her strength and stay, so to speak.
In later years, as Mum’s health deteriorated, they moved in together. Viv became her full-time carer, at the same time as holding down a responsible job. When Covid kept us apart for more than 18 months, I was comforted to know that Viv was looking after Mum, beyond the call of duty.
OK, so we were separated by nearly 4,000 miles. But even if Mum had lived 400 yards away from me in London, I still couldn’t have cared for her in the same way only a daughter could.
I’m sure the Queen adored her four children equally, but she is lucky to have had a daughter with whom she shared not only her love of horses and the countryside, but was also someone who could share her more intimate concerns and confidences.
King Charles III knows he can depend on his sister’s undying support as he faces the multiple challenges ahead in his new role as sovereign.
Similarly, I’d like to think that my mother’s passing brought my sister and me closer together, too. I will be eternally grateful for everything Vivienne did for Mum, just as I am sure Charles hugely appreciates Anne’s devotion to their dear Mama.
To have such wonderful sisters is to be truly blessed. Just don’t expect me to curtsy.
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U.N. investigator says Facebook provided vast amount of Myanmar war crimes information
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GENEVA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The head of a U.N. team of investigators on Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook has handed over millions of items that could support allegations of war crimes and genocide.
The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) aims to build case files for proceedings in national, regional or international courts. It was established in 2018 by the U.N. Human Rights Council and began work the following year.
"Facebook has shared with the mechanism millions of items from networks of accounts that were taken down by the company because they misrepresented their identity," Nicholas Koumjian, head of the IIMM, said in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Myanmar is facing charges of genocide at the UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) over a 2017 military crackdown on the Rohingya that forced more than 730,000 people to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.
Facebook, whose parent company changed its name to Meta Platforms Inc META.O last year, said that they support international efforts for accountability for the crimes committed against the Rohingya.
"(We) have made voluntary, lawful disclosures to the U.N.'s investigative mechanism as well as disclosures of public information to The Gambia" which has filed the ICJ genocide case, Miranda Sissons, director of human rights policy at Meta, said in an e-mail.
In 2018, U.N. human rights investigators said the social media site had spread hate speech that fueled the violence in Myanmar. Facebook has said it is working to block hate speech.
With the Facebook items and other pieces of information from over 200 sources, the mechanism has prepared 67 "evidential and analytical packages." These packages are intended to be shared with judicial authorities, including the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the ICJ, Koumjian added.
The ICC has also opened a case looking at deportation and other crimes against humanity in relation to Rohingya refugees who were forced into ICC member state Bangladesh.
Myanmar denies genocide and says its armed forces were conducting legitimate operations against militants.
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(Reporting by Emma Farge and Stephanie van den Berg in Geneva Editing by Matthew Lewis)
((Stephanie.vandenBerg@thomsonreuters.com;))
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