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This fall, Elisabeth Cher land joined the Maverick family as the new Direc tor of Choral Activities at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Cherland will be teaching music education classes along with conduct ing the three chorale ensem bles at CherlandMSU. hails from Re gina, Saskatchewan in Can ada, where her childhood was shaped by music per formance in all forms. “I’m a fourth generation choral conductor. It’s al ways been part of my life. I sang in my dad’s high school choir and I always loved that. I went to college on a violin scholarship, but my favorite time was in choir,” CherlandCherlandsaid. earned her masters in music education from Vandercook School of Music in Chicago. Her career includes seven years of public school teaching in Custer School District in South Dakota and Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Pe ter, Minnesota where she currently resides. “I articulated that I real ly wanted to be a director of choral activities in my own program, and realized that I would be pleased to do that in a variety of contexts,” said Cherland about apply ing for the position. The hiring process took place over the summer. Amy Roisum-Foley, director of bands in the music depart ment, was on the hiring committee. “One of the things that was really important to all of us was that, because the director of choral activities works with music educa tion majors, we wanted someone who has successful public school teaching expe rience in addition to teach ing at the college level. She came with the experiences that beautifully matched the job description,” said Roisum-Foley. “She brings a passion, a dedication to working with our students and making their experience positive, and she… fit.”
“The important part about [inaugurations] is we need to be grounded in our history and how we’re going to go forward based on the founda tion we have now,” said Inch. “I feel it’s a chance to affirm who we are as a university and to imagine what we want it toInchbe.”said some of his favor ite memories from the last year were Hockey Day Minnesota, attending the Frozen Four and the Homecoming bonfire. Inch noted that previously he was unable to attend campus events in California due to his hour-and-a-half commute. “I’m able to walk out of
CommunityjoinsDirectorChoralNewMSU with the President was event in leading to Inch’s inauguration ceremony.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 Home opener at Blakeslee Break out your wind breakers! 66˚ 88˚ ST UD EN T RU N NE WS SI NC E 19 26 MS UR EP ORTE R. CO M page 14 Students enjoyed pizza and conversation with Minnesota State University, Mankato’s President Edward Inch Tues day in the first event kicking off the president’s inaugura tion week on campus. Inch explained he views his upcoming inauguration as a celebration of what opportu nities MSU has to offer and what the university does as a whole while still valuing the campus culture.
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The United Prairie Bank Integrated Business Experi ence (IBE) celebrated its 10year anniversary Tuesday in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom as current and past Minnesota State University, Mankato students were cele brated for their accomplish ments.The United Prairie Bank IBE was designed for MSU students to experience re al-world entrepreneurial situ ations. This semester-long set of courses allows students in the program to work together to plan, launch and operate a full functioning business. Partnered with United Prairie Bank, the students cre ate then present their business plan to the bank in hopes of receiving a loan. Any profits made from their products are donated to charities of their choice. “It’s about giving our stu dents amazing learning expe riences and celebrating them tonight.” Brenda Flannery who was on the academic re design team (ART) who ini tiated the start up of the IBE program.Thenight highlighted the impact the IBE Program has Dr. Brenda Flannery, dean and professor of Management in the College of Business, shared the history of the The United Prairie Bank Integrated Business Experience at MSU along with showcasing past and present IBE students and their experience.
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Minnesota State University, Mankato recently hired Elisabeth Cherland to become the new Director of Choral Activities. Although Cherland did not enter the position with set plans for the choral program, there was an immediate oppor tunity for positive change. “We’ve actually returned to how things were pre-pandem ic. We had so many auditions this fall coming back from COVID that we re-created the University Chorale,” Cherland said.Previously, there were only enough students to fill Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. Cherland filled the vacancy left by Aaron Humble when he accepted a new position else where.“It’s always hard when you come in and someone was so well loved previously. I’m re ally grateful to Dr. Humble for setting up such a great program. Students are coming in ready and wanting to learn and make good music. He left it in such a good space and I’m looking forward to getting started,” Cherland said. Cherland also hopes to fea ture lesser known composers in upcoming programs. “I try to make sure there’s a variety of composers and make sure we have composers of color on all programs, as well featuring different styles and places that our music is coming from,” Cherland said. As she settles in, Cherland looks to the future of the cho ral “Iprogram.always love doing things for the second time. I can’t wait to start year two and year three, and have a solid sense of what the possibilities are. I’m so pleased to be here,” Cher landTheadded.three choral ensembles will perform Oct. 30 and Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. at St. John the Bap tist Catholic Church. Elon Musk will be able to include new evidence from a Twitter whistleblower as he fights to get out of his $44 bil lion deal to buy the social me dia company, but Musk won’t be able to delay a high-stakes October trial over the dispute, a judge ruled Wednesday. Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, the head judge of Delaware’s Court of Chancery, denied Musk’s request to delay the trial by four weeks. But she allowed the billionaire Tesla CEO to add evidence related to whis tleblower allegations by former Twitter security chief Peiter Za tko, who is scheduled to testify to Congress next week about the company’s poor cybersecu rityTwitterpractices.has sued Musk, ask ing the Delaware court to force him to go through with the deal he made in April to buy the company. Musk has coun tersued and a trial is set to start the week of Oct. 17. Musk’s legal team has ar gued that the allegations made by Zatko to U.S. officials may help bolster Musk’s claims that Twitter misled him and the public about the company’s problem with fake and “spam” accounts. Zatko, a well-known cybersecurity expert known by his hacker handle “ Mudge,” said he was fired in January af ter raising flags about Twitter’s negligence in protecting the se curity and privacy of its users. The judge’s ruling followed an hours-long hearing Tuesday at which attorneys for Musk and Twitter argued with each other about the merits of Za tko’s claims and the pace at which both sides are producing evidence ahead of the trial.
Twitter has argued for weeks that Musk’s stated rea sons for backing out were just a cover for buyer’s remorse af ter agreeing to pay 38% above Twitter’s stock price shortly be fore the stock market stumbled and shares of the electric-car maker Tesla, where most of Musk’s personal wealth resides, lost more than $100 billion of their
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PATRICKvalue.PLEUL • Associated Press Elon Musk will be able to include new evidence from a Twitter whistleblower as he fights to get out of his $44 billion deal to buy the social media company, but Musk won’t be able to delay a high-stakes October trial.
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Twitter’s attorneys sought to downplay the relevance of Za tko’s allegations to the merger dispute, arguing that an initial 27-page complaint he sent to Twitter and a later retaliation clam made no mention of the “spam bot” issues that Musk has given as a reason to termi nate the deal. Zatko “never said a word about spam or bots” until his July whistleblower complaint, said Twitter attor ney William Savitt.
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CHOIR from page 1 made in the Mankato com munity.Over the past decade the program has donated $106,090 to over 20 char ities, and put in a total of 10,100 service hours. Gross sales for the prod ucts sold was $241,725. During this time UPB dis tributed $136,203 in loans. In total there have been 836 students who have com pleted the IBE Program since launching 2012 and 44 com panies have been started. MSU alumni Brett Feld man, Lucas Arndt and Han nah Perez were in attendance to share how the program helped them transition into the real world of post gradu ation job Feldman,hunting.whonow works as a credit analyst manag er vice president, recalls his time in the IBE Program back when his team created Mav Fit. “It’s far more than a letter grade,” Feldman said. “From my experience in the bank ing industry working with loans, I can honestly say the IBE is very close to the real world and I am really proud to be a part of it.” Arndt was in the IBE pro gram during the fall 2017. “The IBE program taught me to be diverse and open to new things, to stay creative and curious and to always have that innovative mind,” ArndtOtherssaid.in attendance rep resented some of the char ities the IBE program fre quently donates to, such as Mankato Area Foundation and Greater Mankato Area United Way. “It’s always going to be about people, our students having an amazing learning experience, connecting our students with the communi ty, about our faculty work ing with teams,” Flannery said. “The sky’s the limit as to where the IBE program goes.”Anew program compo nent this year is that students completing the IBE Program will earn an IBE certificate that will appear on their transcript. Other plans men tioned were possibly taking this program to high schools and abroad.
Uvalde is off to a late start for school: Classes resumed weeks ago in many parts of Texas, where other districts en couraged students and teach ers Tuesday to show support by wearing Uvalde’s maroon colors. “We are all standing with you,” first lady Jill Biden tweeted.
GAY • Associated Press Students are escorted at Uvalde Elementary, now protected by a fence and Texas State Troopers, for the first day of school, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Uvalde. students go back to for 1st time since May
“Are we simply baby ma chines? Are you pregnant with a dead baby? Too bad. Raped at 11 by your grandfather and got pregnant? That’s just too bad,” Sen. Penry Gustafson said.Gustafson watched as the Senate’s longest serving wom an, Sen. Katrina Shealy said the 41 men in the Senate would be better off listening to their wives, daughters, mothers, granddaughters and nieces. “Yes, I’m pro-life. I’m also pro-life for the mother, the life she has with her children who are already born. I care about the children who are forced into adulthood, made up by a Legislature full of men so they can feel good about it,” Shealy said.Senators who support the ban said the state needs to show it values all life by taking advantage of the opening creat ed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Sen. Richard Cash compared abortion to slavery Tuesday, asking if “the human being in the womb is nothing more than the property of a woman?” “Does an unborn human being have the most fundamen tal civil right of all which is the right to life?” said Cash, who has made ending abortion his chief focus in five years in the Senate.The same bill without the ex ceptions appeared to fail in the more conservative state House last week before some Republi cans maneuvered through a se ries of votes to allow abortions for rape and incest victims up to the 12th week of pregnancy.
JEFFREY COLLINS • Associated Press Republican South Carolina Sen. Sandy Senn speaks about a bill banning abortion on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. The house debated on a ban that had exceptions for rape and incest.
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Ibarra’s older daughter, 9-year-old Aubriella Melchor, was in Robb Elementa ry during the shooting and seemed to drag out Tuesday morning as long as possible, taking longer than usual to get dressed and poking at her breakfast. When back-to-school shop ping rolled around, she didn’t want to go to Walmart, and the glittery pencils Ibarra bought to get her daughter ex cited didn’t work. “She kind of just played with her cereal,” Ibarra said after dropping her off. “She was thinking. I know she was scared.”
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On a morning that many Uvalde families had dreaded, a new school year began in the small South Texas town with big hugs on sidewalks, patrol cars parked at every cor ner and mothers wiping away tears while pulling away from the curb in the drop-off line. Mata was ready to return, this time with his own cell phone. His mother, Corina Co macho, had a tougher time let ting her child go back to class. “There’s a certain time he can get his phone out and text us he’s OK,” she said af ter walking him into a new school, Flores Elementary, and dropping him off behind doors with new locks. “That’s like, ‘OK, that’s good. Now I feel better.’”Outside Uvalde Elementa ry, teachers in matching tur quoise shirts emblazoned with “Together We Rise & Together We Are Better” gently led stu dents through a newly installed 8-foot (2.4-meter) fence and past a state trooper standing outside the front entrance. “Good morning, sun shine!” greeted one teacher. “You ready to have a good schoolRobbyear?”Elementary, where the attack unfolded on May 24, is permanently closed and will eventually be demolished.
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press South Carolina’s Senate de bate on an abortion ban that would no longer include excep tions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest started Wednes day with the chamber’s three Republican women taking a stand against a bill they said doesn’t respect women and doesn’t respect life. Republicans are facing off against each other over the ban. On one side is a core group that views any abortion as ending a life.On the other are conserva tives who have digested devel opments elsewhere since Roe v. Wade was overturned and say they don’t want 14-yearold rape victims to have to give birth, or force a mother to car ry to term a fetus unable to live outside the Senatorswomb.havebeen told the proceedings could last days. If the legislation is approved and signed into law, South Caroli na would join Indiana as states that have passed near-total abortion bans since the Su preme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. A first vote to try to add back the exceptions was reject ed 23-6. None of the Senate’s Democrats voted, refusing to help more moderate Repub licans and to keep the bill as strict as possible to try to defeat it. Democrats are not going to help Republicans out of a box of their own making by making “an awful bill a very bad bill,” Senate Minority Leader Brad Hutto said.
A large memorial of stuffed animals, victims’ photographs and crosses remains outside the scene of one of the deadli est mass shootings in U.S. his tory.Outside the other schools in Uvalde — which are only a short drive away — some add ed safety measures that the dis trict rushed to implement after the attack were incomplete. Security cameras are still in the works. New metal fencing surrounds some campuses, partially encloses others and isn’t up at all at Flores Elemen tary, where many Robb stu dents are enrolled this year. The attack lasted more than 70 minutes before police final ly confronted the gunman and killedThehim.delay infuriated parents and led to a damning report by state lawmakers. Now more police are on patrol, but dis trust is rampant. “There’s a big ol’ gap right here. Anyone can walk through,” said Celeste Ibarra, 30, pointing to the new bar rier around Uvalde Elementa ry while standing in her front yard across the street.
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Gilbert Mata woke up ex cited Tuesday for the first day of school since a gunman’s bul let tore through his leg three months ago in a fourth grade classroom in Uvalde. The 10-year-old has healed from his physical wounds, but burning smells still remind him of gunfire and the sight of many police officers recalls the day in May that an assailant killed 19 of his classmates and two teachers.
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“I want to know the reasons behind the decision” to release him, Mendicino said. “I’m ex tremely concerned with what occurred here. A community has been left reeling.” Sanderson and his brother Damien, 30, are accused of kill ing 10 people and wounding 18 in a string of attacks across an Indigenous reserve and in the nearby town of Weldon. Damien was found dead Monday, and police were inves tigating whether his own broth er killed him. Investigators have not given a motive for the bloodshed.
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As the manhunt dragged on for one of two brothers in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in Saskatchewan, the rampage raised questions Wednesday of why the suspect — an ex-con with 59 convictions and a long history of shocking violence — was out on the streets in the first place.Myles Sanderson, 32, was re leased by a parole board in Feb ruary while serving a sentence of over four years on charges that included assault and robbery. But he had been wanted by police since May, apparently for violating the terms of his release, though the details were not im mediately clear. His long and lurid rap sheet also showed that seven years ago, he attacked and stabbed one of the victims killed in the weekend rampage, according to courtCanadianrecords.Public Safety Min ister Marco Mendicino said there will be an investigation into the parole board’s assess ment of Sanderson.
Canada caught stabbing rampage suspect
The flag of Canada and the flag of Saskatchewan are at half-mast to show respect to the victims of the stabbing rampage that happened at James Smith Cree Nation and Welton at the City Hall of Melfort, in Saskatchewan.
As for what set off the vio lence, Arcand said: “We’re all looking for those same answers. We don’t know what happened. Maybe we’ll never know. That’s the hardest part of this.” Court documents said Sand erson attacked his in-laws Earl Burns and Joyce Burns in 2015, knifing Earl Jones repeatedly and wounding Joyce Burns. He later pleaded guilty to assault and threatening Earl Burns’Manylife.of Sanderson’s crimes were committed when he was intoxicated, according to court records.
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The Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service said nine of those killed were from the James Smith Cree Nation: Thomas Burns, 23; Car ol Burns, 46; Gregory Burns, 28; Lydia Gloria Burns, 61; Bonnie Burns, 48; Earl Burns, 66; Lana Head, 49; Christian Head, 54; and Robert Sanderson, 49, One was from Weldon, 78-year-old Wesley Patterson. Authorities would not say how the victims might be related. Mark Arcand said his half sister Bonnie and her son Greg ory were killed. “Her son was lying there al ready deceased. My sister went out and tried to help her son, and she was stabbed two times, and she died right beside him,” he said. “Right outside of her home she was killed by senseless acts. She was protecting her son. She was protecting three little boys. This is why she is a hero.”
Arcand rushed to the reserve the morning of the rampage. After that, he said, “I woke up in the middle of the night just screaming and yelling. What I saw that day I can’t get out of my head.”
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By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press my office and go to a bas ketball game or a volleyball game. It’s what makes cam puses special, being able to go around is a total experi ence,” said Inch. Inch noted the differences between interaction with stu dents this year are more opti mistic compared to last year when students arrived back to campus during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inch said he noticed how stu dents attitudes and demean ors changed once the mask mandate lifted last spring. “The mask mandate, while it was necessary, was a reminder that there is this pandemic that we have no control over that was gov erning much of our lives. This year, it’s completely different,” shared Inch. “It’s a whole different energy on campus this year com pared to last. You can’t walk around campus and not feel energized by that.” Freshman Carina Bieber dorf said she likes events that allow students to interact with the president. “It’s nice that [the pres ident] isn’t just a face, like ‘he’s the president and no one can talk to him,’” shared Bieberdorf. “If you have questions, you can talk to him about it. Junior Kaci Thurer came out to the event to enjoy food and meet new people. Thurer agreed with Bieberdorf on student inter actions with the president. “I think [these events] are really great so the president can hear directly from the students about what they want to talk about,” said Thurer. Freshman Sandrah Salim had a chance to speak with the president about chal lenges international students faced, something Salim ap preciated.“Events [where the pres ident can interact with stu dents] takes pressure off of [international students] since in class, we’re more focused on work. They’re interactive platforms for us,” said Salim. Inch said that the best part of his job is the inter actions that he has with students. Inch said he finds these events useful as he ap preciates sitting down and talking with students. “There’s different kinds of pressures and tensions stu dents face that I didn’t face and I want to understand those and figure out what our choices are and how we can help address those,” said Inch. “My job is to figure out how do we realign the uni versity’s resources and what we have to offer to meet those and what we need to reassess. At the end of the day, I believe [MSU] should help you achieve your educa tionalInch’sgoals.”inauguration cere mony will take place 3 p.m. Friday in Bresnan Arena.
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Ruins of a psychiatric hospital are seen after the Russian night shelling in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, early hours of Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2022. Shelling occured near Ukraine’s nuclear power plant.
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Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Don ald Trump, said Tuesday that he expects to be charged soon in a state criminal case in New York City. Bannon, 68, plans to turn himself in on Thursday, ac cording to a person familiar with the matter. The person in sisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. Bannon, who had pleaded not guilty, was dropped from the federal case when Trump pardoned him on his last day in office in January 2021. He is scheduled to be sen tenced in October and faces up to two years in federal prison.
University Archives is pleased to annnounce a new exhibit highlighting the University's rich inaugural traditions. On display in the Marilyn J. Lass Center for Minnesota Studies all hours Memorial Library is open.
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday, Sept. 6, that he expects to be charged soon in a state criminal case in New York.
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Shelling resumes near Ukraine nuclear plant, despite the risks
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Shelling resumed near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nucle ar power plant, with the war ring sides trading blame again on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency pressed for a safe zone there to prevent a catastrophe.
Russian forces fired rock ets and heavy artillery on the city of Nikopol, on the oppo site bank of the Dnieper River from Europe’s largest nuclear plant, regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said. “There are fires, blackouts and other things at the (plant) that force us to prepare the local population for the conse quences of the nuclear danger,” Reznichenko said. Officials in recent days have distributed iodine pills to res idents to help protect them in the event of a radiation leak. In Enerhodar, where the power plant is located, Dmytro Or lov, the pre-occupation mayor, reported the city had come un der Russian attack for a second time Wednesday and was with out“Employeespower. of communal and other services simply do not have time to complete emer gency and restoration work, as another shelling reduces their work to zero,” he said on the Telegram messaging app. Russian rockets on Wednes day hit Mala Tokmachka 90 kms (55 miles) northeast of Enerhodar, killing three people and injuring five.
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Beginning in November, the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max will be able to send SOS mes sages via a new satellite feature — a safety measure intended to let users request help when in remote areas without a wire less connection. All the iPhone 14 models will include a motion senor ca pable of detecting serious car crashes and automatically con necting to emergency services. With inflation still hovering at its highest level in 40 years, consumers have curbed their spending on many discretion ary items. That’s likely contributing to a recent decline in smartphone sales, although the iPhone has fared far better than competing Android devices. The dimming sales outlook prompted the research firm International Data Corp. to predict a worldwide decline in 2022 smartphone shipments of 6.5%, almost double the 3.5% decline it had estimated a few months ago. Despite that anticipated drop in sales, the average price for new smartphones is expect ed to finish this year about 6% higher than last year, IDC esti mated.Consumers have still been snapping up iPhones this year, even though Apple already charges among the industry’s highest prices. Apple sold an estimated 106 million iPhones through the first half of this year, an 8% increase from the same time last year, according to Canalys, another research firm. Forrester analyst Thomas Husson hailed the new lineup for its faster chips, improved design and “some incremental innovative features.” Apple shares edged up 1% in late afternoon trading. The company’s Apple Watch Series 8, meanwhile, will include a new temperature sensor intended to help women retrospectively track their ovu lation cycles in addition to the crash detection feature also de buting on the iPhone 14.
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Oath Keepers list recently leaked
The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it be lieves currently work in law en forcement agencies — includ ing as police chiefs and sheriffs — and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military. It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The member ship information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Dis tributed Denial of Secrets. The data raises fresh con cerns about the presence of extremists in law enforcement and the military who are tasked with enforcing laws and pro tecting the U.S. It’s especially problematic for public servants to be asso ciated with extremists at a time when lies about the 2020 elec tion are fueling threats of vio lence against lawmakers and institutions.“Evenfor those who claimed to have left the organization when it began to employ more aggressive tactics in 2014, it is important to remember that the Oath Keepers have espoused extremism since their founding, and this fact was not enough to deter these individuals from signing up,” the report says. Appearing in the Oath Keep ers’ database doesn’t prove that a person was ever an active member of the group or shares its ideology. Some people on the list con tacted by The Associated Press said they were briefly members years ago and are no longer af filiated with the group. Some said they were never dues-pay ing members. “Their views are far too ex treme for me,” said Shawn Mo bley, sheriff of Otero County, Colorado. Mobley told the AP in an email that he distanced himself from the Oath Keepers years ago over concerns about its involvement in the standoff against the federal government at Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, among other things. The Oath Keepers, founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, is a loosely organized conspiracy theory-fueled group that re cruits current and former mil itary, police and first respond ers. It asks its members to vow to defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” promotes the belief that the federal govern ment is out to strip citizens of their civil liberties and paints its followers as defenders against tyranny.More than two dozen peo ple associated with the Oath Keepers — including Rhodes — have been charged in con nection with the Jan. 6 attack. Rhodes and four other Oath Keeper members or associates are heading to trial this month on seditious conspiracy charges for what prosecutors have de scribed as a weekslong plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power. Rhodes and the other Oath Keepers say that they are innocent and that there was no plan to attack the Cap itol.The Oath Keepers has grown quickly along with the wider anti-government move ment and used the tools of the internet to spread their mes sage during Barack Obama’s presidency, said Rachel Carroll Rivas, interim deputy director of research with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelli gence Project.
Names of hundreds of U.S. police chiefs, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that’s accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
Apple’s latest line-up of iP hones will boast better cam eras, faster processors, and a longer lasting battery — all at the same prices as last year’s models, despite inflationary pressure that has driven up the cost of many other everyday items. That pricing decision, re vealed Wednesday during Ap ple’s first in-person product event in three years, came as a mildManysurprise.analysts predicted Apple would ask its devout fans to pay as much as 15% more to help offset rising costs for many components. The hoopla surrounding Apple’s new iPhone 14 mod els is part of a post-Labor Day ritual the company has staged annually for more than a de cade. Wednesday’s event was held on the company’s Cuper tino, California, campus at a theater named after company co-founder Steve Jobs. After Apple CEO Tim Cook strolled out on stage, most of the event consisted of pre-re corded video presentation that the company honed during previous events staged during the pandemic. For several years, Apple’s new iPhones have mostly fea tured incremental upgrades to cameras and battery life, and this year’s models were no exception. Pricing for the standard iPhone 14 will start at $799; the deluxe iPhone 14 Pro Max will start at $1099. Among the latest improve ments is a 48-megapixel cam era in the Pro and Pro Max models that the company said will produce especially crisp pictures. The iPhone 13 versions of the Pro and Pro Max have 12-megapixel cameras. This year’s high-end models will also have always-on displays that stay lit even when the de vice is locked, a feature that has long been available on many smartphones powered by Google’s Android software.
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The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that’s accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple event on the campus of Ap ple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Ap ple’s newest models are going to be the same as last year.
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Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle returned to the White House on Wednesday for the unveiling of official portraits with a modern vibe: him standing expression less against a white background and her seated on a sofa in the Red Room wearing a formal light blue dress. “Barack and Michelle, wel come home,” President Joe Biden said before he invited the Obamas to the stage to unveil the portraits. Some in the audi ence gasped, others applauded. “It’s great to be back,” Obama said when it was his turn to speak. He praised Biden — his vice president — as someone who became a “true partner and a true friend.” The artist whom Barack Obama selected to paint his portrait says the “stripped down” style of his works helps create an “encounter” between the person in the painting and the person looking at it. Robert McCurdy likes to present his subjects without any facial expression and standing against a white background, which is how America’s 44th and first Black president will be seen here for posterity, in a black suit and gray tie. Biden and first lady Jill Biden invited Obama and the former first lady back to their former home to unveil their of ficial portraits. It was Mrs. Obama’s first visit since her husband’s presi dency ended in January 2017. Obama himself visited in April to help celebrate the anniversa ry of the major health care law he signed.Theformer first lady chose artist Sharon Sprung for her portrait.
A gold judicial collar made of glass beads that belonged to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being auctioned to benefit a charity, the first time any of the her signature neckwear will be available for purchase.
She had planned on having Mrs. Obama stand in the por trait, “to give it a certain dig nity,” but said the former first lady “has so much dignity that I decided to do it sitting just be cause ... it was too much look ing up at her. I’m that much shorter than her.”
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The portraits do not look like any others in the collection to which they will be added, in terms of style and substance. McCurdy told the White House Historical Association for the latest edition of its “1600 Sessions” podcast that his style is “stripped down for a reason.”He’salso done portraits of South Africa’s Nelson Mande la, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and the Dalai Lama, among others. “They have plain white backgrounds, nobody gestures, nobody — there are no props because we’re not here to tell the story of the person that’s sitting for them,” McCurdy said. “We’re here to create an encounter between the viewer and the sitter.” He compared the technique to a session with a psychiatrist in which the patient and doctor tell each other as little as pos sible about themselves “so that you can project onto them.” “And we’re doing the same thing with these paintings,” McCurdy said. “We’re telling as little about the sitter as possi ble so that the viewer can proj ect onto McCurdythem.”works from a photograph of his subjects, selected from hundreds of im ages. He spends a year to 18 months on each portrait and said he knows he’s done “when it stops irritating me.” Sprung, who also was in terviewed for the podcast, de scribed feeling as though she was in a “comedy sketch” when she met with the Obamas in the Oval Office. She kept sinking into the couch she sat on while they sat on sturdier chairs. Then the president “flicked” away the printed talking points she had handed out to everyone in the room. Then she just “went still” and had to “gasp for air a little bit” when someone else in the meeting asked her why she paints. Then she started to cry. “So who knows what put the interview over the top, but that’s how it went,” Sprung said.
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Sprung worked on the por trait for eight months, day and night, the most time she’s ever spent on a single painting. She worked entirely from photographs taken in various locations on the State Floor of the White House. Getting the dress just right was the hardest part, she said. “The color was so beautiful and I really wanted to get the strength of the color and the light,” said Sprung, who has done portraits of the late Rep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii, and Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Con gress. Recent tradition, no matter political affiliation, has had the current president genially host ing his immediate predecessor for the unveiling — as Bill Clin ton did for George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush did for Clinton and Obama did for the younger Bush.Obama’s portrait is destined for display in the Grand Foyer of the White House, the tradi tional showcase for paintings of the two most recent presi dents. Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s portraits currently hang there.
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The piece is part of a collec tion of about 100 items being sold in an online auction that begins Wednesday. It con cludes Sept. 16, just days be fore the two-year anniversary of the liberal icon’s death at 87.
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Former President Barack Obama kisses his wife former first lady Michelle Obama after they unveiled their official White House portraits during a ceremony for the unveiling in the East Room of the White House.
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In addition to the collar, the items being auctioned in clude a pair of Ginsburg’s op era glasses, a wooden gavel and artwork that hung in her Washington apartment. There are quirky items too. Her son, James, said in an in terview that in talking about the collection “it’s hard not to mention about the cake top per.”The fondant sculpture was commissioned by friends for one of the justice’s birthdays and depicts her standing in a judicial robe with her arms outstretched on the bow of a battleship dubbed “The Noto rious RBG,” the justice’s nick name. Ginsburg said it reminds him a little bit of a scene from the movie “Titanic.” The auction also includes other Ginsburg fashion piec es: a white handbag, a shawl, scarves and two sets of fishnet lace gloves. She began wearing gloves in the the late 1990s after undergoing colon cancer
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A collection of nearly 100 items is being sold in an online auction that begins Wednesday, Sept. 7 and runs through Sept. 16, including a gold judicial collar and a pair of black gloves owned by Ginsburg.
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Some students worry about finding the time to exercise with all their coursework and extracurriculars that they might be involved in. Carving out time to exercise doesn’t mean that one has to devote three hours a day to work on their health.
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A sticker that directs viewers to the PatriotFront website was found in Riverfront Park in Mankato. In the mid-90’s, a group known as Zero Tolerance began posting homopho bic fliers and other material around Minnesota State Uni versity, Mankato’s campus. The fliers, which often con tained disturbing imagery and violent threats, started in the fall of 1994 and contin ued into 1996. In addition to targeted harassment againts LGBTQ individuals, two bomb threats made against LGBTQ events were con nected to the group, includ ing one made during an event featuring lesbian comic Gail Hand.Unfortunately, local au thorities were dismissive of concerns by LGBTQ indi viduals over the appearance of the fliers in spite of the violent imagery contained in them.“This Zero Tolerance, whoever they are, has a right to their opinion and the right to express it,” said Jerry Huettl, the (then) Director of Mankato Public Safety told The Reporter back in 1995. “While the posters can be offensive, this group has the right to express where they disagree with [homosexuali ty.]”While Zero Tolerance’s campaign of terror only last ed a few years, a new threat has apparently come to Manakato this past year. This past year, reports on social media have been made of racist stickers being put up in Mankato parks. These stickers were appar ently placed by a member or members of a white suprem acist group known as Patriot Front, as the stickers con tain the URL to the groups website. Patriot Front is a fascist, white supremacist or ganization that formed in the wake of the Unite the Right rally that took place in 2017. According to current media reports, they appear to have about 200-300 members na tionally. In June of 2022, 31 of their members were arrest ed in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and charged with attempted riot. The event that they had apparently been hoping to disrupt was Coeur d’Alene’s LGBTQ pridefest. After Pa triot Fronts’ members were arrested, Coeur d’Alene’s po lice department began receiv ing a large volume of anony mous death threats. I,myself, was able to find three Patriot Front stickers in Riverfront Park the first time I took a walk to look for them. The stickers were
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If all a student can do is 30 minutes of exercise three to four times a week, students will still be able to see results in a matter of time. Exercise allows students to take a mental break from their studies. By stepping away from your textbooks it allows students to focus on themselves and let them get out of their own heads for a while.
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With how busy students can get, it’s important for students to take time to prioritize their physical and mental health. Physical ex ercise is important for students to partake in as there are several benefits from taking time out of their day to focus on themselves.
If they have any stress, it’s an opportunity for students to sweat their issues away. Listening to music that motivates students while they are working out can be an encouraging way to work out more, especially if students have a specially curated playlist they listen to only when working out. Exercising several times a week allows students to focus on their physical and mental health simultaneously. Students are often so fo cused on their studies that they don’t get the time to focus on them selves. Setting aside time to enjoy some physical activity allows students to not worry about their assignments. This, in turn, makes students’ mental health better as they can step away from their work. Exercise benefits students’ long term health, so it’s best for students to start now.Some students are worried about the expenses that come with exercising, such as finding a gym with a cheap membership plan. Students should take advantage of the opportunities that MSU has to offer. The Otto Rec Center is open seven days a week and has plenty of workout equipment. Students can lift weights, do cardio and rent racquetball courts. In Pennington Hall, there are several group exercise classes free of charge that are available to students. Most classes are a little un der an hour which doesn’t take a lot of time out of a student’s day. Students should take advantage of the opportunity of free gym and classes offered instead of spending money on a gym membership that is located off campus. Whether it’s a half hour of yoga or an hour and a half of strength training, students should take time out of their day to exercise to support themselves both physically and mentally. It’s one of the best things students can of the gains
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet next week in Uzbekistan for talks that could signal warming relations between two powers that are increasingly facing off against the West. The meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization — a political, economic and security forum that China and Russia dominate — comes at delicate times for both leaders, and it would be their second face-toface meeting this year. Putin is dealing with the eco nomic and political fallout of his war in Ukraine that has left Russia more isolated. Xi is fac ing rising tensions with the West over the status of Taiwan. He is also dealing with a slowing economy as he seeks a third fiveyear term as Communist Party leader. While he’s expected to secure it, that would represent a break with precedent.
ALEXEI DRUZHININ • Associated Press Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing. Putin and Xi will meet next week at a summit in Uzbekistan, a Russian official said Wednesday, Sept. 7.
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Russian Ambassador to Chi na Andrei Denisov told report ers that the two would meet at the organization’s summit in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on Sept. 15-16. “We are actively preparing for it,” Denisov was quoted by Russia’s state news agency Tass as saying. Then Putin confirmed it him self, telling top Chinese legisla tor Li Zhanshu at an economic forum in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok that “we will see each other with President Xi Jinping soon, I hope, in Samar kand,TheUzbekistan.”visittoUzbekistan, if it goes ahead, would be part of Xi’s first foreign trip in 2½ years. Xi has only left mainland China once — to make a one-day visit to the semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong — since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in late 2019.When asked about the trip, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a daily briefing Wednesday: “On your question, I have nothing to offer.”Moscow and Beijing have in creasingly aligned their foreign policies to oppose liberal dem ocratic forces in Asia, Europe and beyond, making a stand for authoritarian rule with tight borders and little regard for free speech, minority rights or oppo sitionThepolitics.Russian military held sweeping military drills that ended Wednesday in the coun try’s east that involved forces from China, another show of in creasingly close ties between the two. And on Tuesday, the Pen tagon said the Russian Ministry of Defense was in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea, a close ally of China, for its ongoing fight in Ukraine. Experts say the Russian and Chinese leaders may be hoping that another meeting with each other will help bolster their standing at home and abroad. For Putin, it’s an opportu nity to show that he still has powerful allies, said Alexander Gabuev, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for In ternational Peace. “How can you isolate Russia, when China stands back to back with it?” Gabuev said. For Xi, it could be a chance to be seen as standing up to West ern opposition to the Ukraine war and burnish his nationalist credentials at a time when rela tions with the U.S. have grown increasingly tense over trade and human rights issues.
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The miscommunication occurred Tuesday afternoon between a Northern Califor nia utility and the California Independent System Operator as the grid was perilously close to running out of energy, said Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of the CAISO. Mainzer told a briefing he did not know specifically how the miscommunication oc curred but he stressed the grid operator did not order rotating blackouts.TheCAISO was in the midst of a stage 3 alert and had ordered utilities to prepare to institute load shedding but did not proceed to the final order to doMainzerso. said he did not know how many customers were affected when the errant power shutoffs occurred. Amid the brutal Western heat wave, peak electricity demand Tuesday hit 52,061 megawatts, far above the pre vious high of 50,270 mega watts set on July 24, 2006. Mainzer said at approxi mately 5:45 p.m. Gov. Gavin Newsom triggered a wireless emergency alert system that sent messages to people’s cell phones urging them to turn off or reduce non-essential power. “Within moments we saw a significant amount of load reduction,” Mainzer said, add ing that it took the state back from “the edge.” The grid will need the same kind of response from consum ers Wednesday, only earlier, he said.
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Western states are struggling through one of the hottest and longest September heat waves on record. Temperatures began soaring last week and the Na tional Weather Service warned that dangerous heat could con tinue through Friday, despite some slight moderation. California’s state capital of Sacramento hit an all-time high Tuesday of 116 degrees (46.7 C), breaking a 97-yearold record. Sacramento County offi cials used the air-conditioned lobbies of some of their public buildings as cooling centers for people with nowhere else to go and offering free transpor tation for people who could not get there. Officials even handed out motel vouchers to some homeless people through a program they normally re serve for the winter, according to county spokeswoman Janna Haynes. “While a lot of people can stay home, a lot of people do not have a home to stay in,” Haynes said. In state office buildings, thermostats were being set at 85 degrees (29 C) at 5 p.m. to conserve electricity. Six places in the San Fran cisco Bay Area and central coast set all-time record max imum temperatures, including Santa Rosa with 115 degrees F (46 C). In neighboring Nevada, Re no’s 106 F (41 C) on Tuesday was its hottest day ever record ed in September and smashed the previous record for the date, 96 F (35.5 C) in 1944. It came within 2 degrees of the all-time high for any day or month of 108 F (42 C), set in July 2002 and equaled in July 2007, according to the Nation al Weather Service. In Utah’s Salt Lake City — a city at more than 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) elevation — temperatures were about 20 degrees higher than normal, hitting 105 F (40.5 C) on Tues day, the hottest September day recorded going back to 1874. Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
TIM MALONEY • Associated Press Dr Tim Maloney and Andika Priyatno work at the site in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. The remains, which have been dated to 31,000 years old, mark the oldest evidence for amputation yet.
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Operators of California’s electricity grid acknowledged Wednesday that a miscommu nication led to a small number of power shutoffs during a pe riod of great strain, even as the state faced another day of ex treme heat that could prompt much larger rolling blackouts.
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Most of California’s 39 million people are facing sweltering weather. On Tuesday, September 6, Sacramento hit an all-time high of 116 degrees (46.7 C), breaking a 97 year old record in the state.
The 31,000-year-old skele ton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is miss ing its left foot and part of its left leg reveal the oldest known evidence of an amputation, ac cording to a new study. Scientists say the amputa tion was performed when the person was a child — and that the “patient” went on to live for years as an amputee. The prehistoric surgery could show that humans were making medical advances much earlier than previously thought, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers were exploring a cave in Borneo, in a rainforest region known for having some of the earliest rock art in the world, when they came across the grave, said Tim Maloney, an archaeologist at Griffith University in Australia and the study’s lead researcher. Though much of the skele ton was intact, it was missing its left foot and the lower part of its left leg, he explained. After examining the re mains, the researchers conclud ed the foot bones weren’t miss ing from the grave, or lost in an accident — they were carefully removed. The remaining leg bone showed a clean, slanted cut that healed over, Maloney said. There were no signs of infec tion, which would be expected if the child had gotten its leg bitten off by a creature like a crocodile. And there were also no signs of a crushing fracture, which would have been expect ed if the leg had snapped off in an Theaccident.person appears to have lived for around six to nine more years after losing the limb, eventually dying from un known causes as a young adult, researchers say. This shows that the prehis toric foragers knew enough about medicine to perform the surgery without fatal blood loss or infection, the authors con cluded.Researchers don’t know what kind of tool was used to amputate the limb, or how in fection was prevented — but they speculate that a sharp stone tool may have made the cut, and point out that some of the rich plant life in the region has medicinal properties. Also, the community would have had to care for the child for years afterward, since sur viving the rugged terrain as an amputee wouldn’t have been easy. This early surgery “rewrites the history of human medical knowledge and developments,” Maloney said at a press brief ing.Before this find, the earliest example of amputation had been in a French farmer from 7,000 years ago, who had part of his forearm removed. Scientists had thought that advanced medical practices de veloped around 10,000 years ago, as humans settled down into agricultural societies, the study authors said. But this study adds to grow ing evidence that humans start ed caring for each other’s health much earlier in their history, said Alecia Schrenk, an anthro pologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who was not involved with the study.
ASSOCIATED PRESS mostly located on the backs of signs around Riverfront Park. One sticker I found included the racist phrase, “Not stolen, conquered” in reference to the barbaric theft of Native Ameri can lands by European settlers. The phrase itself is weird be cause if you conquered anoth er nation and took their lands, then logically wouldn’t you still be stealing from them? In legal terms it would be like a defen dant saying, “it wasn’t theft your honor, it was robbery!” I reported the stickers to the Mankato government website and received a follow up email a few days later that they had beenAsremoved.thesafety coordinator on the committee that organizes Mankatos LGBTQ pridefest, I find the presence of graffiti from an organization whose members have previously been arrested for attempting to dis rupt a LGBTQ pridefest so recently, somewhat disconcert ing. Especially since I spotted that graffiti in the very loca tion where Mankato’s pridefest has been held in recent years. (please note, any opinions in this column are my own and not intended to reflect the opin ions of anyone else or any or ganization.)
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This wanted poster provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Leon ard Francis, also known as “Fat Leonard,” who was on home confine ment, and allegedly cut off his GPS ankle monitor and left his home.
Four years ago, U.S. District Court Judge Janis Sammarti no feared Francis might run off when she turned down his lawyer’s request to allow him to be under house arrest with out round-the-clock security guards watching the ailing de fense contractor. At the time, Francis was cooperating with prosecutors as they pursued charges against dozens of Navy officials who accepted bribes in exchange for classified in formation that gave Francis’ ship servicing business in Asia an edge in getting military contracts. When asked about the bold escape Tuesday, his lawyer, Devin Burstein, who pushed for more leniency for his client, said: “At this time, I have no comment, sorry.”
Soldiers clear debris to search for survivors at an earthquake hit Moxi Town of Luding County, southwest Chi na’s Sichuan Province Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The earthquake reached 6.8 on the magnitude scale.
Fortunately further walks through Riverfront and other local parks have not revealed any further instances of Patriot FrontWhilegraffiti.the graffiti was swift ly removed and the follow up call I made to the Department of Public Safety was taken se riously enough by the officer I spoke with, I do still feel that there is a possibility here for history to repeat itself. I am not entirely certain at this point that the city is willing to see Pa triot Fronts’ activities as more serious than an issue of simple vandalism.Tothisdate, no one has been identified as a member of Zero Tolerance, in spite of the multi ple bomb threats that they end ed up making. I do not wish for another organization to have the opportunity to make a sim ilar campaign of terror against minorities here in Mankato. As such, I urge the Mankato city government and the De partment of Public safety to not repeat the mistakes they made with how they dealt with Zero Tolerance. Instead they must work swiftly to identify those who supporting Patriot Front locally in order to ensure that they do not have the opportu nity to mimic Zero Tolerances campaign of terror against oth er groups in the present.
Three weeks before he faced sentencing, the Malay sian defense contractor at the center of one of the biggest bribery investigations in U.S. military history made an es cape as stunning and brazen as the case itself: U-Haul trucks were seen at his home in a tony San Diego neighborhood before Leonard Glenn Fran cis, known as “Fat Leonard,” snipped off his ankle monitor and disappeared. Nearly a doz en U.S. law enforcement agen cies were searching for Francis on Tuesday. But officials ac knowledged he may already be in Mexico, and possibly on his way back to Asia.
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Footage circulating online showed residents of the central city of Wuhan, where the pan demic is believed to have orig inated in late 2019, chanting “lift the lockdown, refuse to be tested” at police. The restrictions have prompted protests online and in person, rare in China’s tight ly controlled society where the all-powerful Communist Party can easily sentence people to months or years in prison on loosely defined charges.
The death toll in this week’s earthquake in western China has jumped to 74 with another 26 people still missing, the gov ernment reported Wednesday, as frustration rose with uncom promising COVID-19 lock down measures that prevented residents from leaving their buildings after the shaking.
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The 6.8 magnitude quake that struct just after noon Mon day in Sichuan province caused extensive damage to homes in the Ganze Tibetan Autono mous Region and shook build ings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 mil lion citizens are under a strict COVID-19Followinglockdown.thequake, police and health workers refused to allow anxious residents of apartment buildings out, add ing to anger over the govern ment’s strict “zero-COVID policy” mandating lockdowns, quarantines and other restric tions, even while the rest of the world has largely reopened.
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After a stunning 2021 season, go ing 18-3-2, Minnesota State University, Mankato’s women’s soccer team is back in full swing, looking to repeat last year’s successes.TheMavericks started their regular season Aug. 26, at Missouri Southern, with a 3-1 win. Having played two games since, the team’s most current record stands at MSU’s2-1.most recent game on Sunday was against the number one team in the nation, Grand Valley State. The team took a road trip over to Allendale, Mich igan to face their biggest challenge early in the season. Katie Brown, a fifth year attacking midfielder for the Mavericks, shared her thoughts a few days before the game. “If we can put up a fight against a team like them, I think we stand a good chance against pretty much any team,” said Brown.Fight is just what they did, as No. 19 ranked MSU shut out No. 1 ranked GVS, with a late goal in the second half, scored by Jenny Vetter. With an equal amount of 18 shots for both teams, it was overall an evenly matched game. However, the final score being 1-0, handed the Lakers their first regular season loss since the Maver icks beat them in 2019. MSU’s women’s soccer team is set up for a successful remainder of the season, as their biggest obstacle was conquered when they defeated Grand Valley State. The Mavericks are now preparing for their first home game of the season against Wayne State College at 3 p.m. tomorrow at The Pitch. MSU is hoping for the same outcome as last year, having beat WSC 2-1. Brian Bahl, MSU’s women’s soccer head Coach, spoke on the confidence he has for his team this season. “This team has tremendous potential, but I think we’re still trying to find out who we are exactly,” Bahl said. “If we can figure that out and hopefully start meshing a bit more, I think the sky’s the limit for this team.” Win or lose, the Mavericks have made it clear that the team is all about family. Ashlyn Watt, a sophomore hold ing midfielder, touched on what drew her to play for MSU. “Everyone is so family
The Autumn Wind is a Maverick, bus tling in from the woods as the Minnesota State Mavericks gear up for their home opener against the University of Minne sota Duluth Bulldogs on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 6 p.m. in front of the home crowd at Blakeslee Stadium. This year the Mavericks are deter mined to seek revenge after last year’s 30-10 defeat which sent them packing in front of the Bulldog Faithful. In that contest, the UMD Bulldogs would jump out in front early, leading 14-3 courtesy of the UMD Bulldogs of fense going into the locker room. The Mavericks would try to rally a sec ond-half comeback but ultimately were unsuccessful.Thistime, however, the Mavericks have the home field advantage as the Herd is ready to bring the noise for their homeFollowingopener. a thrilling victory against the Bemidji State Beavers, the Mavericks look to start distancing themselves from the pack and extend their winning streak. Head Coach Todd Hoffner said that they still have a long way to go as a team “We won which is what’s important, we did enough to win, but need to be better. It is still early and the only way to get better is through practice and game experience.”Thedefense put on a stellar sec ond-half performance after generating an interception by sophomore Jacob Daulton and a forced fumble caused by senior Alijah McGhee who returned it for a touchdown.Anotherthing also highlighted in last week’s contest was the debut of the two QB systems that Hoffner alluded to as a possibility in both training camp and last week. Sophomore Hayden Ekern would start the first half and be replaced by fellow Sophomore Mitch Randall in the second“Theyhalf.both did a solid job. Unfor tunately, they both threw interceptions during their reps. But as game managers and guys who need to lead the offense and help make plays, they are great,” said Hoffner Entering this contest, the UMD Bull dogs are not an opponent to be taken lightly. This season, they started with a convincing 31-21 victory over Saint Mary’s University and are looking to build a moment as they prepare to travel down south. A handful of players remain from last year’s matchup; however, the eyes will be on the many under center. During the bout with SMU, starting QB Garret Olson was pulled for Sophomore Logan Graetz who proceeded to will the UMD Bulldogs to victory courtesy of a strong defense. It is still unclear who will be given command, it is difficult for the Mavericks to prepare for the Saturday matchup. “Just remaining focused and need to defend Blakeslee. Big plays on both sides. We have a talented and gifted team across the field, so it’s just coming prepared.” Said Hoffner. With the countdown to the 6 P.M. kickoff on Saturday, all eyes are on the Mavericks looking to defend their terri tory as the UMD Bulldogs come to town.
The Mavericks will kick off the home opener at Blakeslee Stadium this Saturday at 6 p.m. against the UMD Bulldogs.
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The clock is ticking for La mar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens.The star quarterback said Wednesday that Friday would be the cutoff point at which ne gotiations for a contract exten sion would need to be set aside before the start of the regular season. He’d indicated previ ously there could be some sort of deadline, and that he hoped to have a deal done before the season, but now he’s clarified the timetable he’s working with. “The end of this week,” Jackson said when asked when his deadline is. “Friday. Friday.” Jackson didn’t offer many more details about the status of contract talks, and that’s consis tent with his posture on the topic this whole offseason. He’s enter ing his fifth-year option season, and after that, the Ravens can always use the franchise tag to keep him. So in theory it’s not a big deal if extension talks drag on to next offseason — unless something happens to him this year like a major injury. Jackson, who is representing himself in contract talks, didn’t sound too concerned about that risk.“It was a pretty big risk last season, the year before. I wasn’t thinking about contract negotia tions around that time,” he said. “This season, it’s going to be the sameJacksonthing.”did go down with an ankle injury that caused him to miss the final four games of last season, but all indications are that the 2019 league MVP is at full strength entering Sunday’s opener on the road against the New York Jets. It sounds as if Jackson’s teammates are largely in the dark about how contract talks are progressing. “He doesn’t really talk about it, so it hasn’t really been a dis traction. I think it’s definitely in teresting how it’s going, for sure, but nobody knows what’s going on,” cornerback Marlon Hum phrey said. “Hopefully they can get done pretty soon here, but I have no doubt he’ll be here for his whole career, so I’m excited about that, being his teammate for a long time.”
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Photos by Dylan Engel • The Reporter minded and welcoming, espe cially when I first came here,” saidFifthWatt.year, Brown added that, “We really pride our team on not only our athletic ability and talent, but really the culture that we cultivate. We play for each other.” Brown and Watt both said that another part of what makes the team stand out and excel is the stress they place on unity and fun. Having pre-game rituals is key for the Mavericks. One of the things the team does before every game is huddle up and synchronize their feet to the warm up music. “We also have all of these pregame chants that we do and we have to reference ‘Jersey Shore,’” said Brown. “We’re a very superstitious team.” Whatever superstitions the soccer team needs to partake in before each game seems to be working, as they have started out the season strong.
So, obviously, I’m very hopeful, and I know everyone is really hopeful to get it done. But the focus remains on the football. Lamar’s that way, coaches and players are all that way.”
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While it may seem unlike ly that the Ravens would lose Jackson after this season, it’s still noteworthy that these ne gotiations aren’t done yet, es pecially now that Kyler Murray — drafted a year after Jackson — has received his big new deal.
The Jets are planning to start former Baltimore standout Joe Flacco at quarterback this week, so if Jackson and the Ravens don’t agree on an extension, the spotlight could quickly turn to other storylines.
“It’s business, so it’s just been business the whole process,” Jackson said. “Just taking it a day at a time. Whenever we meet, we meet, stuff like that.” Earlier this week, coach John Harbaugh sounded confident that this issue isn’t hurting Jack son’s“He’sfocus.hopeful to get a new contract. We’re hopeful to get him a new contract. But all the rest of it is business,” Harbaugh said.“There’s nothing other than coming to something that’s mu tually agreeable. That’s the way that all of these deals are done.
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34 years later, agent Drew Rosenhaus isn’t slowing down
By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer
“The fundamentals for me are always tremendous amount of research, realistic expecta tions, complete transparency with my clients and fight for every cent,” Rosenhaus told the AP Pro Football Podcast. “Those are consistent in every negotiation. However, each ne gotiation is intricate. ... every negotiation is different. “An unrestricted free agent is different than a contract ex tension for a star player like Rob Gronkowski. It’s a dif ferent negotiation than an upand-coming young player. I negotiate every contract myself, whether it’s an undrafted free agent, a practice squad player, or the superstars that we work was only 22 years old when he became an NFL agent and established Ro senhaus Sports Representation in 1988. The agency has negoti ated more than 1,100 contracts worth more than $8 billion just sinceBecause2004. general managers have different styles and pref erences, there are various chal lenges in negotiating with some teams as opposed to others. “I enjoy working with someone like Bill Belichick for the simple reason that I’ve ne gotiated contracts with Bill for more than three decades so I know him,” Rosenhaus said. “We have a working history.” Rosenhaus knew at a young age that he wanted to become an agent. He grew up near the Miami Dolphins practice facil ity and his late father, Robert Rosenhaus, was friends with some of the players. “I would sit down and eavesdrop on their conversa tions,” Rosenhaus said. “I fell in love with the NFL and NFL players and knew that I wanted to grow up and be their friend, like my dad, and do something professionally that I could help them.”He tutored and became close friends with future Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin during their time together at the University of Miami and that helped him earn respect among the Hurricanes. Many of the top players from Miami have become his clients. Rosenhaus started his agen cy with his brother, Jason, during his second year at Duke Law School. His first client was Robert Massey, a defensive end selected in the second round of the 1989 draft. Robert Bailey, a client who was a fourth-round pick in 1991, now is a partner at theRosenhausagency. represents more than 100 players currently in the NFL, including Tyreek Hill, D.J. Moore, Darren Waller, Aaron Jones, Chris Olave, Dar ius Slay and Jordan Poyer. He’s repped Hall of Famers Warren Sapp and Terrell Owens plus other stars including, Chad Johnson, Frank Gore, LeSean McCoy and Plaxico Burress. After the Dolphins ac quired Hill from the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this year, Rosenhaus negotiated a deal that made him the highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history. Hill received a $130 million, four-yearRosenhausdeal. is recognized as one of the best agents in the business. He has appeared on the cover of “Sports Illustrat ed”, made a cameo appearance in “Jerry Maguire” and played himself in the HBO series, “Arli$$.”Butthat hasn’t changed his approach.“I’vealways wanted to be the best at whatever I did,” Ro senhaus said. “The more you do this job, the more humble you become and realize how much further you have to go.” There is no room or time for complacency.Thegroundbreaking ruling that went into effect last year enabling college athletes to profit from use of their name, image or likeness has increased the demand for agents and allowed them to work with younger athletes.
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“The biggest change is that college players are now pro fessional players,” Rosenhaus said. “They’re hiring agents for marketing and endorsements, and it’s really a free-for-all in college football. And for me now, we actually have signed players as young as incoming freshmen to NIL deals to rep resent“Sothem.it’sa big change. ... and, hopefully we can guide them to be successful with life af ter football, whether it’s in the NFL or otherwise.” With three children under the age of 7 at home and anoth er son on the way, Rosenhaus has plenty to balance.
“I got my work cut out for me in and out of the office,” he said with a smile.
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CHRIS SZAGOLA • Associated Press A’ja Wilson earned WNBA MVP honors for the sec ond time in her young career Wednesday.The26-year-old Las Vegas Aces forward received 31 of 56 first-place votes from a media panel. Seattle forward Breanna Stewart was second, garnering 23 first-place votes and finish ing 32 points behind Wilson, who had 478 points. Wilson also won the award in 2020 and is the seventh play er to win it more than once.
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Drew Rosenhaus is one of the most successful NFL agents, adapting to dealing with new league executives and an ev er-evolving college landscape to stay relevant after more than 30 years in the game. In a growing industry — more than 800 agents are listed on the NFL Players Association directory — the 55-year-old Rosenhaus abides by a founda tion that has made him one of the best in the business.
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“I just did not imagine this. I called my parents last night, and I was like ‘You can’t tell anyone, but like, we did it,’ and they just started screaming like they did the first time,” Wilson said. “It was just a feeling that just never gets old. I’m so glad that they’re able to enjoy this moment with me ... because without them, there’s no me. This was definitely a top-three exciting moment.” She averaged 19.5 points and 9.4 rebounds this season while shooting 50% from the field and had 17 double-dou bles. She led the league in blocks per game with 1.9. The award was announced one day after Wilson helped the Aces reach the WNBA Fi nals by knocking out Stewart and the Storm. Wilson also earned Defensive Player of the Year honors this year. She’s the fifth player to win both awards in the same season; the last to do it was Lauren Jackson in
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Las Vegas Aces forward A’ja Wilson (22) smiles while walking off the court after winning Game 3 of a WNBA basketball semifinal playoff series against the Seattle Storm, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022, in Seattle.
Sarkisian trek from Bama built pipeline to aid Texas rebuild Turners turn it around, Dodgers rally to beat Giants
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Steve Sarkisian left his job as an Alabama assistant to be the head coach at Texas in January 2021 and quickly blazed a 735mile trail from Tuscaloosa to Austin for others to follow. The core of his offensive coaching staff made the trek and a handful of players look ing for fresh starts or more playing time have been trick ling in ever since. Sarkisian has three top assistants who were on the Alabama sideline when the Crimson Tide won the 2020 national championship. Is he building Alabama West? The early returns — a 5-7 season in 2021 — have so far been rather un-Bama like.
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Keilan Robinson may be the fastest player on the team, but he’s third on the depth chart behind preseason All-American Bijan Robinson and Roschon Johnson. His biggest contributions so far have come on special teams, with a blocked punt last season and blocked punt return for a touchdown last week against ULM.Texas expected to have to impact players from Alabama this season: tight end Jahleel Billingsley and wide receiver AgiyeBillingsleyHall. caught 17 pass es and three touchdowns last season, but he’s serving a sixgame NCAA suspension for an undisclosed violation that Sarkisian said occurred while at Alabama.Hallwas one of the top re ceiver recruits in the country but caught just four passes last season as a freshman and was suspended by Saban in
Trea Turner doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth af ter being hitless in his first four at-bats. Austin Barnes, who reached on an infield single, scored for a 4-3 lead. Freddie Freeman walked and Trea Turner took third on a wild pitch by Zack Littell (2-3) to set up Muncy, whose blast into the right-field pavil ion made it 7-3. Muncy went 3 for 4 a day after hitting two homers in a 6-3 win. “I wanted to get the ball in the air on that one. We have the fastest guy in baseball on third base,” Muncy said, refer ring to Trea Turner. The Dodgers took their first lead, 3-2, on Justin Turner’s three-run homer in the fifth.
Texas has three former Al abama players on the roster this season. All were once high ly-coveted recruits out of high school and Texas has proven an attractive landing spot, al though none has made a major impactTailbackyet.
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Sarkisian and the Longhorns (1-0) have a chance to make a statement Saturday. The No. 1 Crimson Tide (1-0) play on the road against their future SEC opponent, which is hoping the success Sarkisian experienced in Tuscaloosa can finally rub off in Austin.
Sarkisian often credits Ala bama’s Nick Saban as a major force in restoring his coach ing career after he was fired at Southern California mid way into the 2015 season and went into alcohol rehabilitation treatment. Working under Saban first as an analyst in 2016 and then returning as Alabama offensive coordinator in 2019 and 2020 allowed Sarkisian an insider’s view of what Saban demands from his staff, as well as what he could demand from himself. Sarkisian has said quite frankly that Saban saved his career.“Iowe so much to him, and I will never, ever forget that he and Ms. Terry have been tremendous in my life and my wife’s life and what they’ve done for us on and off the field, I owe them a great deal,” Sark isian said at Big 12 media days in July.The praise continued this week as Sarkisian prepared to face his former mentor for the first time from the opposite sideline.“We could be up here for hours talking about things that I learned from him ... and what he’s done for guys like myself,” Sarkisian said, also recalling the sting of Saban’s rebukes when something went wrong. “If he’s yelling at you, you probably didn’t reach a level of expectation. When you can meet his expectations, you are doing something right.” Sarki sian said. “I loved my time with him.”And when it was time to build his own staff, Sarkisian wanted assistants forged from the same fire that shaped him. Texas offensive line coach Kyle Flood, special teams and tight ends coach Jeff Banks and quarterbacks coach A.J. Mil wee all followed Sarkisian from Alabama to join his rebuild. This group of coaches left a program that won eight South eastern Conference champi onships in the 13 years since Texas last won the Big 12. Al abama has won six national titles since 2009. Their first season in Austin produced the program’s first six-game losing streak in 65 years. “Patience” was the word aroundSabancampus.this week praised his former assistant and has called Sarkisian one of the fin est coaches he’s ever had on his staff. “I think he’s a very bright guy, very well organized,” Sa ban said. “He did an outstand ing job when he was here.” Saban shrugged off a sugges tion that having so many for mer Alabama staffers at Texas would give the Longhorns an advantage in drawing up their game“We’veplan. seemed to play sev eral teams now that kind of know us, but you act like we don’t know them,” Saban said. “So just because somebody knows you when they play you, doesn’t mean they’re going to beat you.”
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Saban is 25-2 against former assistants. Both losses came last season, to Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M and Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs in the nation al championship game.
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At left, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian walks on the field before an NCAA college football game against Iowa State, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, in Ames, Iowa.
Max Muncy took things into his own hands with the Los Angeles Dodgers trailing 2-0. He beat the shift with a bunt, bringing Justin Turner to the plate — and Turner re sponded with a three-run ho mer.Muncy added his own three-run blast in the eighth to help the Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 7-3 on Wednesday. The NL West lead ers reduced their magic num ber to six games. The Dodgers could clinch a postseason berth Friday in San Diego. “We’re obviously winning a lot of baseball games, but we still got to get some guys back to health, number one, and we’re still in the mode of try ing to get some guys on track,” manager Dave Roberts said.
The haunting return of pumpkin spice: what’s the hype?
The leaves are still green, but pumpkin spice lattes are here and Hobby Lobby is probably setting up its Christmas decora tions.As of Aug. 30, Starbucks has re-released its signature pump kin spice drinks that are a sta ple of stereotypical white female culture. Yet, they might be onto something.Withthe addition of Star bucks in the Centennial Stu dent Union at Minnesota State University, Mankato, students have had a chance to test out the craze, myself included. Now, I am a serious connois seur of coffee and an obsessor over the Special-K Pumpkin Spice cereal, so I have some qualifications to be gauging the drink.Infact, I light pumpkin can dles year round and have a fan tastic pumpkin bread recipe at home.Iordered a hot latte, cupped the drink in my hands, took a sip ... And concluded that I might just be in love with anything pumpkin. Pumpkin spice is not just about the flavor; it is about the fall experience. It is about roaming spirit Halloween, and purchasing a can of bubble-gum pink hair spray just because you want to know how you’d look with that color. It is about wearing a blanket with holes for your eyes to class. It is about free candy, because there is nothing a college student loves more than free food. The scent of pumpkin spice can trigger a sense of nostalgia when students jumped in piles of leaves and poured over Hal loween costume magazines. Frankly, simply the aesthetic of a scarf, a beanie and a pump kin spice latte are the serotonin boost students may need in the midst of getting back into the swing of school. A coffee break with friends can be an easy ac tivity to sneak in between classes that still allows students to cry over their textbook later that night.Additionally, lattes provide the caffeine students need to make up for the lack of sleep the previous night and prevent stu dents from yawning so often in class.The lack of yawning can be a great way to impress teachers in those tough 8 a.m. lectures. Don’t let the spooky truth that pumpkin spice flavoring may not even include actual pump kin deflate the joy. Although the drink may be a stereotype, keep in mind that things that are popular are usually popular for a reason, and drink on. Indulge in pumpkin spice air fresheners, energy drinks and yogurts. The flavor is not around all season, so jump on the band wagon as it drives through a cornfield and soak up those au tumn college days that students can look back on. Might as well burn through those dining dollars on the big gest craze of the season: pump kin spice.
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“If people can’t use it, we just ask that they pass that food on to somebody that they know that can use it,” said Anderson. There are many other oppor
to. They work to end hunger through community partner ships.Students are also not obli gated to grab all the food that is
Starbucks’ new location on campus makes it easier for students to participate in sharing the pumpkin spice experi ence and nostalgia this season - students can buy a drink for friends or snap a photo to flex.
“So mainly it’s dividing out the food planning where it’s going to go and allocating all of our different resources to ensure that we’re doing the best of our abilities.”
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The autumn farmers market this upcoming Monday will provide fresh fruits and veggies for MSU students to combat the food insecurity and for those wanting to try some new produce.
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rity and need meals. Assistant Director for Stu dent Activities for Community Engagement, Karen Anderson, spoke on what kinds of foods said Anderson. “It really all de pends on what Second Harvest Heartland has an abundance of because they are looking out for the enteric state of Minnesota.”
“Oh, I can’t wait to sit down in that theater,” says Rian John son, whose “Glass Onion” will premiere, like “Knives Out,” at the Princess of Wales Theatre. “Above everything else, the movie is designed to be a good time with a crowd in a theater. September 10th can’t get here soon enough.” While the top European fes tivals like Venice and Cannes derive much of their glow from their otherworldly glamour, Toronto — where the public can actually get tickets — finds considerable power in the buzz generated from the critics, jour nalists and moviegoers attend ing. In the cacophony of the rapid-fire fall-festival circuit that goes from Venice to Tellu ride to Toronto, responses from TIFF audiences often speak loudest.Toronto’s top award isn’t a juried prize but an audience award as voted on by attend ees. Past winners (“Belfast,” “Nomadland,” “JoJo Rab bit”) nearly always go on to be nominated for best-picture at the Oscars, if not win it. This year, several past winners will be returning, including Peter Farrelly, who’ll premiere his Vietnam War tale “The Great est Beer Run Ever” four years after “Green Book” was a surprise smash at TIFF; Mar tin McDonagh, back with the friendship-fallout “The Ban shees of Inisherin” following 2017′s “Three Billboards Out side Ebbing, Missouri ”; and “La La Land” director Damien Chazelle, who will be in Toron to to talk about (but not screen) his upcoming Hollywood tale “Babylon.” Tyler Perry has been to Toronto once before — to help promote another TIFF award-winner, “Precious,” in 2009. But he’ll be coming for the first time as a director, premiering his “A Jazzman’s Blues,” a decades-spanning drama about a young Black jazz singer. It comes from the first screenplay Perry wrote 26 years“Thisago.is a totally new situ ation for me. I feel incredibly honored,” says Perry. “‘Diary of a Mad Woman,’ my first film, I didn’t direct because I didn’t know how. It took all of these films and all of these tele vision episodes to really under standPerry’sfilmmaking.”filmisfor Netflix, as is Johnson’s after it paid $450 million for the rights to two “Knives Out” sequels. A num ber of the premieres at TIFF come from streaming services, including Amazon Prime Vid eo’s “My Policeman” (the fall’s other Harry Styles film, about a gay romance in 1950s En gland); Apple TV+’s “Cause way,” starring Jennifer Law rence as a rehabbing soldier; Netflix’s “The Good Nurse,” with Eddie Redmayne and Jes sica Chastain; and “Wendell & Wild,” Henry Selick’s stop-mo tion animation that reteams Jordan Peele and Keegan-Mi chael Key, also for Netflix. But a lot of the top premieres make compelling cases for the theatrical experience. Nicholas Stoller’s “Bros,” starring and co-written by Billy Eichner, is in a different conversation with the movies, but one no less pas sionate about them. The first major studio gay rom-com, Universal Pictures’ “Bros” is filled with jokes and commen tary about Hollywood’s poor LGBTQ history of inclusion and depiction. It’s also an in creasingly rare thing: a comedy for the big screen.
“For some reason, every one just decided one day that comedy didn’t work in theaters anymore. But it’s not true. Or I don’t think it’s true,” says Stoller. “If a comedy works, if it’s really funny, it works in theaters. People want to go. Universal gets this. They’re not doing this out of charity. They are excited that it’s good for the LGBTQ community but they’re like, ‘We can make money on this. This is a genre that works in movie theaters, we just have to make them.’”
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“Sundance’s decades of leadership, championing artis tic discovery and independent expression, was a landmark catalyst in my life,” said Her nandez in a statement. “Nearly 30 years ago, looking for direc tion and curious, I went to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time. I immediately con nected with its mission, and it changed my life.” “It’s a full circle moment as Eugene has been inextrica bly connected to Sundance for more than 25 years, ever since he came to the Festival in the mid-1990s to build Indiewire, an online community for indie film,” said Vincente in a state ment. “He’s been at the fore front of supporting indepen dent artists and deeply invested in the careers of storytellers and the field as a whole.” “For almost three decades, Eugene has been working on a path with many of the same values and objectives in mind,” said Robert Redford, founder of the Sundance Institute. “I’m so pleased to have him serve as our festival director, helping to support a generation of artists, and taking us into the next de cade of Sundance’s story.”
New York Film Festival executive director Eugene Hernandez attends the 47th annual Chaplin Award Gala honoring Cate Blanchett in New York on April 25, 2022
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“I’ve watched people watch the trailer and some people cry — from a trailer,” says Hudlin. “What I hope people respond to is that they feel inspired. Sid ney’s a life that you think you know, because he’s been a part of our lives our whole life, but when you reveal the details of his life, it’s give you a new per spective. By taking him of the pedestal, you actually admire him even more.”
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After two editions much di minished by the pandemic, the 47th Toronto International Film Festival is set to roar back to life beginning Thursday with a lineup crowded with much-an ticipated titles, including Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” and Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King,” starring Viola Davis.After two lean and largely virtual pandemic festivals, this year’s TIFF will again be a fullscaled omnibus of upcoming fall movies. Some kinks are still being worked out; digital tick eting woes have plagued festi val-goers in the days leading up to TIFF, the largest film gather ing in North America. But for some, returning to the teeming theaters of Toronto will be as cozy and warm as putting on a cherished cable-knit sweater.
Netflix via AP After three years as the fes tival director of the New York Film Festival, Eugene Hernan dez has been tapped to lead the Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Institute announced Wednesday that Hernandez will become the festival’s fourth director in its nearly four-decade history, in addition to heading the insti tute’s year-round public pro gramming.Before trading Lincoln Center for Park City, Utah, Hernandez will remain with the New York Film Festival through its upcoming edition, which kicks off Sept. 30. He will start his new position with Sundance in November, but 2024′s Sundance — its 40th — will be his first to lead.
FRANK AUGSTEIN • Associated Press Harry Styles already has an enviable acting resume for a newcomer, from Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” to the up coming “Don’t Worry Dar ling” and “My Policeman.” But the pop star said Monday at the Venice International Film Festival that, with acting, he often feels as if he has “no idea what I’m doing.” Styles’ arrival on the Lido, where “Don’t Worry Darling” is having its world premiere Monday night, has been one of the most anticipated events of a festival full of stars. At a press conference before the premiere, Styles was peppered with questions about his fans, his career and whether or not he would work with director Olivia Wilde again — neither of which he answered. “I think it’s fun to get to play in worlds that aren’t nec essarily your own. This world that is supposedly so perfect, it’s really fun to play pretend in there,” Styles said. Styles took several days off from his Madison Square Gar den appearances to attend the “ Don’t Worry Darling ” pre miere in Venice, with Wilde and co-stars Pine and Gemma Chan.He added: “I think the fun part is you never know what you’re doing. Music I’ve done for longer, but what I like about acting is I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.
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Truss, 47, took office earlier in the day at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, when Queen Eliz abeth II formally asked her to form a new government in a ceremony dictated by centuries of tradition. It was the first time in the queen’s 70-year reign that the handover of power took place at Balmoral, rather than Buck ingham Palace in London. The ceremony was moved to Scotland to provide certainty about the schedule, because the 96-year-old queen has experi enced problems getting around that have forced palace officials to make decisions about her travel on a day-to-day basis. Ukrainian President Volody myr Zelenskyy received a call from Truss on her first day. She spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden,Zelemslyytoo. wrote on Twitter: “I was the first among foreign leaders to have a conversation with the newly elected British Prime Minister, Liz Truss. I in vited her to Ukraine. I thanked the people of Britain for their leadership in the military and economic support of Ukraine.” Biden, who worked closely with Johnson in confronting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was quick to congratulate Truss.“I look forward to deep ening the special relationship between our countries and working in close cooperation on global challenges, including continued support for Ukraine as it defends itself against Rus sian aggression,” he said on Twitter.
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Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately faced up to the enormous tasks ahead of her: curbing soaring prices, boost ing the economy, easing labor unrest and fixing a national health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages.Truss quickly began ap pointing senior members of her Cabinet as she tackles an inbox dominated by the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which threatens to push energy bills to unafford able levels, shuttering busi nesses and leaving the nation’s poorest people shivering at home this winter.
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Johnson, 58, became prime minister three years ago after his predecessor, Theresa May, failed to deliver Britain’s depar ture from the European Union. Johnson later won an 80-seat majority in Parliament with the promise to “get Brexit done.
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Truss became prime minister a day after the ruling Conserva tive Party chose her as its leader in an election where the party’s 172,000 dues-paying members were the only voters. As party leader, Truss automatically be came prime minister without the need for a general election because the Conservatives still have a majority of lawmakers in the House of Commons. But as a national leader se lected by less than 0.5% of British adults, Truss is under pressure to show quick results. Truss has also pledged to in crease U.K. defense spending to 3% of gross domestic product from just over 2% — another expensive promise. Rebecca Macdougal, 55, who works in law enforce ment, said outside the Houses of Parliament that time will tell whether Truss can turn things round.“She’s making promises for that, as she says she’s go ing to deliver, deliver, deliver,” Macdougal noted. “But we will see in, hopefully, the next few weeks there’ll be some an nouncements which will help the normal working person.”
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Truss — Britain’s third fe male prime minister — named a top team diverse in gender and ethnicity, but loyal to her and her free-market politics. Kwasi Kwarteng becomes the first Black U.K. Treasury chief, and Therese Coffey its first fe male deputy prime minister. Other appointments include James Cleverly as foreign sec retary and Suella Braverman as home secretary, responsible for immigration and law and order.Making her debut speech outside her new Downing Street home in a break between torrential downpours, Truss said she would cut taxes to spur economic growth, bolster the National Health Service and “deal hands on” with the energy crisis, though she of fered few details about how she would implement those poli cies. She is expected to unveil her energy plans on Thursday. British news media reported that Truss plans to cap energy bills. The cost to taxpayers of that step could reach 100 bil lion pounds ($116 billion). “We shouldn’t be daunt ed by the challenges we face,” Truss said in her first speech as prime minister. “As strong as the storm may be, I know the British people are stronger.”
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Lainey Wilson is having a breakout year as she tops the Country Music Association Awards nominations in her first year as a nominee, earning nods in six categories including album of the year, female vocalist of the year and song of the year. Wilson is only the fourth artist in the history of the CMAs to earn six nominations in her first year, following Glen Campbell, Brad Paisley and Kacey Musgraves. She’s also up for new artist of the year, music video and musical event. “This is my first time being cordially invited to the CMA Awards and what a wonderful invitation it is,” Wilson said in a statement. “It has been such a challenging but beautiful journey up until this point and to see the country music com munity and the incredible fans be so receptive to me and my music is such a blessing. I’m so grateful for this moment.” Other leading nominees include Ashley McBryde, Car ly Pearce, Chris Stapleton and writer-producer Shane McAnally, who all have nom inations in five categories. The CMA Awards, host ed by Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning, will air on Wednes day, Nov. 9 on ABC. “There is a whole lot of love, respect and admiration between the artists in these cat egories. We do a good job of challenging one another and raising the bar, all while cheer ing each other on. We all work hard and do our best to per form our asses off. Thank you for recognizing our work, for listening and for loving coun try music,” McBryde said in a statement.Wilson’s 2021 album “Sa yin’ What I’m Thinkin’” last year earned her critical acco lades, spurred on by the suc cess of her country radio No. 1 hit “Things a Man Oughta Know.”Hernext album, “Bell Bot tom Country,” is due out in October.Reigning CMA entertainer of the year Luke Combs is back in the top category, alongside Miranda Lambert, Stapleton, Carrie Underwood and Mor gan Wallen. This is Wallen’s first nomi nation in the category.
“Music has been the driving force of my life since I started chasing this dream as a 17 year old, and what I’ve learned since then is that people make the music mean what it it does. None of this matters without the songwriters who pour their hearts out alongside me, the co-producers who help give life to our words, and — most im portantly — the fans who find themselves in those words,” Lambert said in a statement. McBryde and Pearce share four nominations for their hit duet “Never Wanted To Be That Girl,” which they cowrote with McBrydeMcAnally.andPearce also are in the running for female vocalist of the year, alongside Lambert, Underwood and Wil son.
By LYNN ELBER Associated Press Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the ceremo ny’s producers are predicting a conflict-free zone, unlike the Oscars show that was marred by an on-stage slap. Thompson said the con frontation last March in which Will Smith attacked presenter Chris Rock over a joke direct ed at Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, was both unsettling and avoidable.“Itkind of just threw the en tire world off guard, basically, and that won’t happen again,” Thompson told The Associat ed Press. “Even if I am roasting (someone), it shouldn’t come across as any sort of malice.” If a joke ends up stinging, he said, an apology and conversa tion may be in order. But Rock — who “doesn’t have a mean bone in his body,” Thompson said — or any other comic shouldn’t expect a reaction like Smith’s to a quip. A first-time Emmy host, the veteran “Saturday Night Live” cast member is following in the footsteps of other “SNL” col leagues including Michael Che, Colin Jost and Andy Samberg. Thompson said he slept on the offer before saying yes. The ceremony airs 8 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 12, on NBC and will stream live on Peacock, with dramas “Suc cession” and “Squid Game” and comedies “Ted Lasso” and “Hacks” among the leading nominees.“It’sa huge deal, and it’s not necessarily something that I want to drop the ball on. So I was like, ‘Let me sit with this,’” he said. After talking with pro ducers, he knew that he want ed to do it and the approach to take.“This should be a night of appreciating artistry and cre ativity and removing the stress of it all out. I get it — it sucks to lose, and everybody’s pick ing outfits and trying to do the red carpet thing,” Thompson said “But at the same time, it’s an awesome thing to be in the room on Emmys night, and I don’t want that to get lost in the stress.” Reginald Hudlin and Ian Stewart, returning as executive producers for the ceremony, consider Thompson perfect for the“Hejob. is beloved, and from the time we announced him there’s been nothing but pos itive responses,” Hudlin said. “He has these great connec tions with everyone, and we’re going to maximize those con nections.....He’s the unofficial mayor of Hollywood.” Stars taking part in the Em mys needn’t worry about being in the line of comedic fire with Thompson, Stewart said. “If you went to Kenan’s house for a party, you know it’s just going to be a fun, easy time with a lot of laughs,” he said. “There’s nothing that can be in any way aggressive or acerbic. He’s not that man.” Viewers have come to know Thompson’s style from “SNL,” where he’s a regular part of music video send-ups and plays vivid characters in cluding the spotlight-hogging host of “What Up With That.” He also starred in “Kenan.” Is there a part of him as a performer he’s eager to show case on the Emmys? “How quick I can be on my toes,” he replied, then turned the ques tion“Weoutward.know the people who are in the categories,” he said, but there could be the welcome surprise of, say, a legendary ac tor in “Weattendance.shouldbe aware, and point that out and celebrate them,” he said. “I really want the commu nity aspect of it all to be in the forefront.” Asked if he’ll take part in any musical numbers, Thomp son said it’s more than likely. “I think we need to open with a bang.... (and) there’s some some ideas cooking on that level. But whatever it is, it has got to be tight, and it can’t seem like it’s just there to fill time,” he said. “We have their (viewers) attention. It’d better be worth having.
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Tilda Swinton, right and Joanna Hogg pose for portrait photographs for the film ‘The Eternal Daughter’ during the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022.
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Joanna Hogg was extreme ly nervous about showing her mother her latest film, “The Eternal Daughter.” The writer-director of “The Souvenir” films had, again, mined her own life for material and inspiration. Here she want ed to make something about a woman about her age, in her 60s, and her mother on a trip together. It would be a ghost story, in a way, with conversa tions about memory, regret, life andButhappiness.shenever got the chance to talk it over with her mother, who died while Hogg was ed iting the film. And she’s feeling a bit fragile a few hours before its world premiere at the Ven ice International Film Festival, sitting beside her star and life long friend Tilda Swinton, who plays both the mother, Rosa lind, and the daughter, Julie. Hogg is not the only one feeling this way, either. This is the kind of film that gets under your skin. And no one is quite sure if they’ll make it out of the interview with dry eyes. “Maybe we’ll all just have a cry together,” Hogg said. “I have tissues!” Swinton re sponded, handing one to Hogg and one to this reporter. “She was so looking for ward to seeing this film. She loves ghost stories — loved ghost stories,” Hogg said. “I was never brave enough to tell her what the film was about. But she probably knew because she was very intuitive.” It’s something Hogg had been mulling for many years.
Playwright Ken Ludwig poses for a portrait in his home, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, in Washington. Ludwig has revisited one of his most beloved plays and flipped the characters’ genders.
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Playwright Ken Ludwig isn’t a fan of seeing his old shows, no matter how success ful they’ve become. It makes him feel like he’s not moving ahead.But Ludwig has lately found an ingenious way to look back and forward at the same time. He’s revisited one of his most beloved plays and flipped the characters’ genders. “Lend Me a Soprano” in verts Ludwig’s madcap screw ball comedy “Lend Me a Ten or” by having women take the three lead parts, a change he initiated so that a whole new raft of comedians could shine. “I have a responsibility, I think, and the joy of saying, ‘All this comic talent out there, male and female, why not make this now, at this moment in my life, into a play about three very strong, competitive, interesting, tough women?’” “Lend Me a Soprano” makes its world premiere this fall at the Alley Theatre in Houston, and the two-time Tony Award nominee Lud wig has been rewriting during rehearsals, tweaking the lan guage to accommodate his changes.“You may change lines, you may try to get laugh lines to be better lines. You may endow the characters maybe with a little deeper backstories. But if you’ve got that strong struc ture, you’re OK. So I haven’t had to change the structure of this play as I’ve adapted it into a play about women.” The plot revolves around an opera company’s attempt in 1934 to corral a hard-drinking, lascivious opera star into per forming the lead role in “Pagli acci” for a one-night-only gala. Chaos ensues when he is mis takenly believed to have died and an impersonator must be found to keep the show from cancellation.Inthenew play — running Sept. 16-Oct. 9 — the manager of the opera is now a woman, as is her mousy but determined assistant and the eagerly await ed diva soprano. Ludwig has been surprised to find that he hasn’t had to overhaul the di alogue.“Ikept looking to say, ’Well, maybe these speeches should be expressed differently be cause women don’t always talk the same way. What surprised me is how often they do,” said the Washington, D.C-based playwright. “I think it says something about our common humanity.” Rob Melrose, the artistic director of the Alley Theatre, said Ludwig has written a dif ferent kind of comedy with a more poignant end. “‘Lend Me a Tenor’ was already a good play. And I think he’s im proved upon it significantly.” This is not the first time Ludwig has returned to his fa mous play. He wrote “Tito’s Revenge,” a sequel set two years after “Lend Me a Ten or,” borrowed some characters for “A Comedy of Tenors,” and went into the original to replace blackface with clown makeup. “I did it wrong the first time and got it right the second,” he said. Ludwig has had a busy several months, with the new show in Texas, back-to-back shows at Chichester Festival Theatre in England — a crack ling revival of “Crazy for You” and his adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” — and a new opera he wrote during the pan demic, “Tenor Overboard,” for the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York. “I haven’t seen my home in ages. I’m just constantly on the road going from one to the next working on them and for a playwright, that’s just heav en. It’s just like the luckiest guy in theHe’sworld.”alsojust finished fastpaced comedy “Moriarty” for Cleveland Play House, which features the characters Sher lock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Five actors account for some 40 roles in the play. Slated for next year, it is a return to the great detective that Ludwig first explored with “Basker ville.”
There was a false start in 2008, but then she was emboldened by Swinton’s portrayal of the mother, Rosalind, in “The Souvenir” films. They wanted to go deeper into this woman who was a child in England in World War II. In “The Eternal Daughter,” Julie would take her mother back to the large estate where she lived during the war, now a hotel, and ask her about her memories with the idea that it would become a film. The initial conceit was for Swinton to play Julie and to cast another, older actor for Rosalind. But Swinton had another idea: What if she just played both? “It became a completely dif ferent film,” Swinton said. “It was not about a relationship between two people. It was about something much more profound and mystical and psychiatric and painful. It be came much deeper.” Swinton, whose mother died a decade ago, talked often with Hogg about surviving that loss. Then Hogg suffered the same after the shoot. Though her mother was in her early 90s, it came as a surprise. “As I was making it, I was wondering how I would be able to show it to her,” Hogg said, wiping away tears. “As a daughter I’m sitting here still feeling very guilty about what I’ve done, that somehow I’ll be struck by lightning, that I’ve done something bad.” That anxiety that she felt then and is feeling even more deeply now became part of the fabric of the film. Julie too feels guilty for wanting to make a film about her mother and says that it feels like trespassing. It’s something Swinton can relate to as well.
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