CLINTON COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ)- The Clinton County Sheriff’s Department, with help from KSP executed a search warrant that led to the arrest of one individual near Albany.
The search warrant was executed on Friday, August 3rd at a residence located four miles west of Albany on Martha Stockton Rd.
During the search, authorities found several smoke pipes containing suspected marijuana and meth residue.
49 year-old LaDonna Kempton of Albany was arrested and charges with possession of a controlled substance 1st degree, 1st offense (methamphetamine,) and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Kempton was lodged in the Clinton County Jail.
CLINTON COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ)- Troopers execute a search warrant Friday, August 3rd that led to the arrest of two individuals in Clinton County.
KSP Troopers assisted the Clinton county Sheriff’s Department with the execution of the warrant six miles west of Albany on Cedar Hill Rd.
Troopers searched the residence and found several small bags of meth, digital scales, syringes, smoke pipes, liquid fire, lithium batteries, grinders, and several prescription pills.
27 year-old Bobby Kennedy and 30 year-old Amanda Newberry, both of Albany, were arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance 1st degree 1st offense, (drug unspecified,) unlawful possession of a meth precursor, 1st offense, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance, 3rd degree- drug unspecified, controlled substance endangerment to a child, 4th degree and trafficking in a controlled substance, 1st degree, 1st offense –(< 2 grams methamphetamine.)
Both Kennedy and Newberry were lodged in the Clinton County Jail.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)- Paul Miller Ford is bringing Ford Motor Company’s Drive 4 UR School program to Lexington in an effort to raise up to a maximum donation of $8,000 for Frederick Douglass High School.
Frederick Douglass will have the opportunity to raise $8,000 in a single day, offering up to $6,000 for standard test drives (up to 300 test drives) and up to an additional $2,000 for second test drives in a 2018 Fiesta (up to 200 additional test drives). For every person who test drives a new Ford vehicle at the high school on August 11th, Ford Motor Company will donate $20 to Frederick Douglass High School. If a second test-drive is taken in a 2018 Fiesta, Ford Motor Company will donate and additional $10 to the school for each of those test drives.
All funds will go toward the growth and support of the school’s football team.
The event will be held from 11am to 6pm at Frederick Douglass High School and will feature many vehicles from Ford’s impressive lineup, including the Kentucky-built 2018 Expedition. Volunteers from the dealership will be on site to assist and provide additional information regarding any of the Ford vehicles available for a test drive.
To participate in this exciting fundraising event and test drive your favorite Ford vehicle, please sign up at pmfdrive4urschool.com or visit Frederick Douglass High School at 2000 Winchester Road, Lexington, KY 40509, between 11am and 6pm on Saturday, August 11.
*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER WITH A VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE AND VALID AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE. Donation of $20 per valid test drive, up to 300 total test drives, for a maximum total donation of $6,000 per event. Limit one (1) donation per person and one (1) donation per household.
One of the businessmen accused in an investigation of widespread corruption in Argentina is admitting that he paid government officials for the awarding of public works contracts.
The case is based on an investigation by La Nacion newspaper into alleged corruption during the governments of former President Cristina Fernandez and her late husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner.
Juan Carlos de Goycoechea said Monday that he was forced to pay officials in Fernandez’s 2007-2015 administration in order to get government contracts.
Goycoechea is a former head of the Argentina branch of Spanish construction company Isolux Corsan.
His lawyer said the payments were for political campaigning.
A local judge has ordered the arrest of 12 business leaders and former government officials.
Fernandez was called to testify on Aug. 13.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Marshals, FBI, and U.S. Secret Service are asking for the public’s help in locating a Pennsylvania man wanted for threatening the president and other elected officials.
27-year-od Shawn Richard Christy, also has multiple state arrest warrants in Pennsylvania for burglary, probation violation, and failure to appear for an aggravated assault case. Christy has threatened to use “full lethal force on any law enforcement officer that tries to detain me.”
A federal warrant was issued June 19 for Christy in relation to Facebook threats to the Northampton County district attorney, stating, “Keep it up Morganelli, I promise I’ll put a bullet in your head as soon as I put one in the head of President Donald J. Trump.”
On Thursday August 2nd, a 2012 Toyota Tundra was stolen in Poca, West Virginia. That vehicle was recovered Saturday night in Greensburg, Kentucky. Federal agents are considering Christy a suspect in this vehicle theft because Christy is believed to have abandoned a stolen 2008 Dodge Caravan in Nitro, West Virginia on Tuesday July 31st.
The U.S. Marshals have been attempting to capture Christy, who is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs approximately 160 pounds, is a white male with a light complexion, has a tattoo of a cross on his right upper arm, short dark blonde hair and a beard. Christy also speaks with a noticeable lisp and claims to be a survivalist. Christy is from McAdoo Pennsylvania.
Federal Agents are offering a cash award of up to $15,000 for information leading to the direct arrest of Christy. Any information will be considered confidential. Persons having information should contact the U.S. Marshals at 1-877-Wanted-2 (1-877-926-8332) or the F.B.I. at 215-418-4000. Christy should be consider armed and dangerous, individuals should not attempt to arrest Christy themselves.
ATAQ, Yemen (AP) – Secret compromises with al-Qaida in Yemen risk strengthening the most dangerous branch of the terror network that carried out the 9/11 attacks, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Rather than fighting or capturing the militants, the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition provided al-Qaida safe passage out of a string of cities and towns that it held – letting fighters retreat with their weapons, looted equipment and huge sums of cash, the AP found.
In “capturing” one stronghold after another, not a shot was fired, since vast convoys of militants already had retreated. Some militants were actually paid to withdraw, and hundreds more were recruited to join the coalition itself – even though it is backed by the United States
Demi Lovato has checked out of the hospital she was rushed to two weeks ago for a reported overdose.
A person close to Lovato said she was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles over the weekend. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person wasn’t allowed to speak publicly about the topic.
Lovato was hospitalized on July 24.
The 25-year-old broke her silence Sunday with a lengthy Instagram post, saying she remains committed to overcoming addiction.
“I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction. What I’ve learned is that this illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome and have not done yet,” she wrote. “I now need time to heal and focus on my sobriety and road to recovery. The love you have all shown me will never be forgotten and I look forward to the day where I can say I came out on the other side.”
Lovato thanked God, her fans, family, team and hospital staff in the post. She closed with: “I will keep fighting.”
The singer-actress, who hits include “Sorry Not Sorry” and “Skyscraper,” has spoken about her struggles with an eating disorder, self-mutilation, drugs and alcohol. She celebrated six years of sobriety in March but recently relapsed, revealing the news in the song “Sober,” released in June.
She has received support from fellow entertainers since she was hospitalized, including Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande, Ellen DeGeneres, Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake.
Actual 8th graders will be able to see the R-rated coming-of-age movie “Eighth Grade” in select movie theaters across the nation Wednesday.
The film’s distributor A24 says Monday that it’s hosting a night of free screenings in every state on August 8 and waiving the R-rating to allow kids of all ages to experience the film. There is at least one participating theater in each state.
The film from director Bo Burnham follows a shy 13-year-old girl in her last week of middle school and has been widely praised for its authentic depiction of being a young teenager in the social media age.
Burham has advocated that middle-schoolers see the film with their parents, telling The Associated Press in an interview last month , “I hope it gives kids an insight on parents and parents an insight on kids.”
The Motion Picture Association of America gave the film an R-rating for some language and sexual material. The rating calls for viewers under the age of 17 have to be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian, but theaters have discretion about whether they enforce the restriction.
The only remaining barrier to entry? Parents.
Movie legend Robert Redford, star of films like “All the President’s Men,” “The Natural” and “The Sting,” says his time in front of the camera has come to an end.
The Sundance Film Festival founder told Entertainment Weekly that he was serious back in 2016 when he said he was retiring from acting, and his role in “The Old Man and The Gun” would be his last.
The movie, about real-life bank robber Forrest Tucker, debuts Sept. 28. It co-stars Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits and Casey Affleck.
“I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting, and [I’ll] move towards retirement after this ’cause I’ve been doing it since I was 21,” Redford added. “I thought, ‘Well, that’s enough.’ And why not go out with something that’s very upbeat and positive?”
The Academy Award-winner said he was excited to play Tucker, who spent 60 years robbing banks and escaping from prison.
“The thing that really got me about him — which I hope the film shows — is he robbed 17 banks and he got caught 17 times and went to prison 17 times,” Redford said. “But he also escaped 17 times. So it made me wonder, ‘I wonder if he was not averse to getting caught so he that could enjoy the real thrill of his life, which is to escape?’”
Redford, 81, has been acting for 60 years — it’s possible he might continue directing. He won an Oscar for the first movie he directed, 1980’s “Ordinary People.”
He also directed “Quiz Show,” “A River Runs Through It” and “The Horse Whisperer,” among other films.
MONROE, N.C. (AP) – Authorities say a teenager who held up a North Carolina lemonade stand for $17 is still at large. They’re hoping to track him down through surveillance footage and possible DNA and fingerprint tests.
Union County Sheriff’s Office Spokesman Tony Underwood said Monday that investigators are still looking for the suspect, who the 9-year-old lemonade vendor said pointed a black gun at him and took his cash box.
Underwood says deputies have asked neighbors to check their home cameras for clues. He says a camouflage hat and BB pistol found nearby may be checked for fingerprints and DNA.
The stickup happened Saturday steps from the boy’s home in Monroe, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Charlotte.
Neighbor Kelly Smith says the boy opened his stand at the neighborhood pool Sunday.
The U.N. Security Council adopted new guidelines Monday to try to speed the delivery of humanitarian aid to North Korea, where the U.N. says around 10 million people need food and other assistance and about 20 percent of children are stunted because of malnutrition.
The Netherlands, which chairs the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against North Korea, said none of the 15 council members objected to the proposed guidelines by the deadline on Monday afternoon. The guidelines will now be sent to all 193 U.N. member states.
Tough U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea in response to its escalating nuclear and ballistic missile programs exempt delivery of humanitarian aid.
But U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock told U.N. members following his trip to North Korea last month that one effect of sanctions has been “quite substantial delays” in procurement, shipping and delivery of aid supplies which are exempt from sanctions.
With a population of about 25 million, North Korea faces chronic food woes as well as shortages of drugs and medical equipment, including that needed to treat tuberculosis, which has plagued the country.
The guidelines recommend that governments and NGOs submit requests for exemptions in a letter containing 10 specific elements.
Those range from providing detailed descriptions and quantities of the items to be imported, to naming all parties involved in the transfer of goods and showing what measures ensure that the aid is “used for the intended purposes and not diverted for prohibited purposes.”
They say the sanctions committee will try to process exemption requests as quickly as possible.
“We are glad that the Security Council agreed on the guidelines, and we hope they provide clarity on delivering humanitarian aid to the North Korean people without violating the sanctions,” the Netherlands’ deputy ambassador, Lise Gregoire-van Haaren said. “Our ultimate goal is the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and the sanctions are very important to that end.” –
The United States’ effort to try to ensure that humanitarian aid doesn’t face unnecessary obstacles in getting to North Korea follows the June summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un aimed at getting North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal.
A U.S. official stressed last week that the United States will enforce all U.N. sanctions on North Korea “until we achieve the final, fully verified, denuclearization of North Korea.”
The guidelines are “solely intended” to establish a clear process for the Security Council sanctions committee “to review legitimate humanitarian exemption requests and guard against any activities that would undermine existing Security Council resolutions,” said the official, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.
A New Jersey woman who thought she was helping a down-and-out man pay for his gas station food ended up footing the bill for country music star Keith Urban.
Ruth Reed says she met Urban at a Medford Wawa ahead of his concert Friday night in Camden.
Substitute teacher Reed says she had made a resolution to help Wawa customers and jumped at the chance when the man ahead of her was short a few dollars.
Reed says he thanked her and said his name was Keith. When she remarked that he looked like Keith Urban, he said he was.
Not believing him, Reed asked his body guard to confirm she was talking to the musician.
She says, “It was then I realized what an idiot I was.”
“Mission Impossible: Fallout” is number one in the box office this past weekend. Actor Sir Patrick Stewart is returning to “Star Trek”, and Singer Demi Lovato released a statement on her Instagram on Sunday, thanking god, family, hospital staff and fans for love and support. These topics and more Hollywood gossip in What’s Poppin’!
It’s been three years since the record-breaking musical “Hamilton” opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The show continues to draw sold out audiences to performances across the nation with its revolutionary re-telling of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton’s life.
The smashing success of the show has created a reputation known to many.
But here are some facts that you might not know about the show and its continued following of devoted fans.
It almost never came to be. Miranda was getting ready to take off for vacation after writing and starring in his first Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “In the Heights,” which opened in 2008.
While browsing an airport bookstore, he came across Ron Chernow’s biography on Alexander Hamilton. He was immediately infatuated with Hamilton’s life story and set out to tell the story in his now iconic hip-hop style after realizing nobody else had done it yet.
Writing the musical took Miranda seven years, he told CNBC. One number, “My Shot,” took him a full year to write and perfect, he added. The visionary said in an interview with the Smithsonian that he’d write at the piano, make a loop of the recording, and proceed to walk around until he crafted the right lyrics to go with the track.
But as they say, anything good is worth waiting for. The show made its world premiere off Broadway at New York’s Public Theater in downtown Manhattan. The critical acclaim and buzz that followed led to a reported $32 million in advance ticket sales and months of sold-out performances.
“Hamilton” has shattered box office records. Last year it brought in nearly $3.8 million in a single week, making it the highest gross ever by a Broadway show for a one-week period, according to Broadway News. The staggering figure could in part be attributed to the increased price of a premium ticket, which Variety reported was $1,150 for the holiday week that set the record. But that top-level price tag pales in comparison to resale prices, which have hit has high as $10,000, according to the Seattle Times.
But don’t let those prices scare you off too quickly, because it is possible to score the best seats in the house for $10. All it requires is a whole lot of luck. 46 seats in the first and second rows of the Richard Rodgers Theater are made available for every show through a digital lottery. Just go to the Broadway lottery page or the Hamilton app, put in your information before the deadline, and patiently wait. This same opportunity is available with the Chicago production and the national touring performances as well.
Title-I eligible high schools across the nation are further exploring American history with the help of “Hamilton”. The Gilder Lehrman Institute partnered with the producers of the hit musical and the Miranda family to create the Hamilton Education Program. Through the educational initiative, students are invited to see a private matinee performance of the show during a school day for the low cost of $10. Leading up to this, teachers are provided documents and resources from the Institute in order to introduce students to people and events from the founding era. The students then learn how Miranda incorporated primary documents into his own music in the show.
Armed with this knowledge, they do as Miranda did and create performance pieces from what they learned about this historic period. The day of the show, students are treated to a Q&A with cast members and then select students are invited to showcase the performance pieces they created in a theater full of peers. According to its website, the educational initiative is set to run through 2020 and will eventually reach nearly 250,000 students.
Since opening on Broadway three years ago, “Hamilton” has launched several additional companies of the hip-hop showstopper both nationally and internationally. In addition to its home in New York City, “Hamilton” has two national touring companies and residencies in both Chicago and London’s West End.
Last year, Miranda announced “Hamilton” will play a limited three-week run in Puerto Rico beginning January 2019 at the University of Puerto Rico’s campus in San Juan. And to make things even more exciting, Miranda shared that he would be reviving his Tony-nominated performance in the title role for those few weeks. Miranda told “Good Morning America” that the idea of bringing the show to Puerto Rico, where both his parents are from, is to try and raise millions for the Flamboyan Arts Fund, which he helped create. According to its website, the fund, which will be the recipient of all proceeds from the three weeks of shows, “…is an initiative dedicated to preserving, amplifying, and sustaining the arts in Puerto Rico by supporting all facets of the arts community including music, theater, visual arts, dance, literature, and youth arts education.” Through the Hispanic Federation, Miranda has already helped raise more than $35 million for recovery efforts on the island following the destruction left behind by Hurricane Maria in 2017, he told “GMA.”
“Hamilton” is sung straight through from beginning to end, and the soundtrack — with more than two-hours of hits — continues to receive warm reception. Since its September 2015 release, it has sold well over one million copies, according to Billboard magazine. It also received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
But music from the show didn’t stop there. In December 2016, the Hamilton Mixtape was released. The 23-track album was composed of select covers from the show’s hits sung by rappers and musicians including John Legend, Queen Latifah, John Legend, Wiz Khalifa, Sia, Alicia Keys, and Chance The Rapper.
One year after the Hamilton Mixtape was released, Miranda announced that the anticipated Hamilton Mixtape Vol. 2 was scrapped and would instead be replaced with Hamildrops – artistic collaborations dropped one at a time month-by-month over the course of a year. Of the tracks that have been released so far, some have been songs that were cut from the show, or the first drafts of tracks that ended up making the show but underwent significant changes. Artists that have taken part in these Hamildrops include The Decemberists, Aloe Blacc, Ben Platt, and “Weird Al” Yankovic.
The posthumous celebrity of Alexander Hamilton will continue to grow beyond biographies and a musical. The show has brought so much attention to Hamilton that Miranda and his producer Jeffrey Seller are conceptualizing and putting together an interactive and immersive pop-up museum called Hamilton: The Exhibition.
The exhibit will be housed in a specially-constructed, all-weather structure approximately the size of a football field, according to a press release from the City of Chicago. David Korins, the set designer for the musical, is creatively directing this expansion of Hamilton Inc.
An audio tour narrated by Miranda will lead visitors through the experiential journey of the Secretary of Treasury’s life complete with an “…interactive mix of in-depth scenography, lighting, sound, multimedia and music.” The debut of the attraction is set for April 6 on Chicago’s Northerly Island.
Miranda might need some more shelf space
“Hamilton” is one of the most decorated shows currently playing on Broadway. The show, which brought to light a widely-unknown story in history, made some history of its own when it received a record breaking 16 Tony Award nominations in 2016. It took home 11 wins from those nominations, including the Tony Award for Best Musical.
In addition to this, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, seven Olivier Awards, a Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album, and countless accolades from organizations and publications like Billboard and Rolling Stone. Just last month, the Kennedy Center Honors announced that “Hamilton” creators would receive a special award at the upcoming celebration. This will be the first time in the 41-year history of the honors that a work of art will be recognized rather than an individual. This will also make the four creators (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andy Blankenbuehler, Alex Lacamoire, Thomas Kail) the youngest to receive a Kennedy Center honor.
Yup, you read that right. Last month reports came out that “Hamilton” might be coming to your local movie theater or streaming site. Several movie studios are reportedly in bidding wars for the movie rights to the musical. Among the interested parties is Warner Bros., which recently acquired the film rights to “In the Heights” for $50 million.
But unlike “In the Heights,” which will be a screen adaptation of the production, “Hamilton” will be a live recording of the musical from 2016 when Miranda was still starring in the title role. But according to the Wall Street Journal, the sellers are asking that the recording not grace screens until 2020 or 2021, allowing the show to still only be seen onstage for at least two more years.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – An investigator says the pilot declared an emergency but didn’t state the nature of his problem before a Cessna nosedived into a Southern California parking lot, killing all five people on board.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s Albert Nixon said he didn’t know Monday how much time elapsed between the distress call and the crash.
Nixon says the Cessna 414 struck four vehicles when it came down Sunday in a Santa Ana parking lot. Nobody on the ground was hurt.
The five victims included three co-workers at a Northern California real estate company and two of their family members.
The NTSB and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the cause of the crash.
CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago’s mayor says one lesson from a wave of weekend violence is that people who live in neighborhoods where the shootings occurred have to be willing to name potential suspects.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel held a news conference with Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson Monday to address the violence. Police say at least 11 people were killed and about 70 were wounded over the weekend.
Emanuel says residents must be willing to “speak up” and help identify suspects. Johnson echoed that, saying there are often people who know who pulled the trigger but don’t go to police.
Emanuel and Johnson say the weekend shootings were concentrated in just a few neighborhoods on Chicago’s West and South Sides, in areas where street gangs are entrenched.
Johnson says the shootings “are not random” and are “fueled by gang conflicts.”
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) – Attorney General Andy Beshear and his Office of Special Prosecutions announced the indictment of a Boyd County man on sodomy and sexual abuse charges.
63-year-old Timothy Ray Sr., of Catlettsburg, was indicted Aug. 1 by a Boyd County grand jury on one count of first-degree sodomy and five counts of first-degree sexual abuse, for crimes that occurred between 1994 and 2015.
Beshear’s office said Ray’s indictment superseded a 2015 indictment and included additional charges involving minor children. Based on the severity of the felony charges, a jury could recommend Ray serve a 65 year prison sentence.
Ray is being held in the Boyd County Detention Center and scheduled to be arraigned in Boyd Circuit Court Aug. 17, 2018, at 11 a.m. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
As chair of the Kentucky Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention Board, Beshear works with Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky with funding from the Child Victims’ Trust Fund to help train parents, caregivers, advocates and law enforcement on how to make the internet safer for children and protect children from sexual abuse.
Kentuckians interested in supporting the fund can visit icareaboutkids.ky.gov or designate a portion of their state income tax refund by simply checking the box on the return form.
Over the last two and a half years, Beshear’s Cyber Crimes Unit has removed a record number of child predators from Kentucky communities.
Beshear said that Kentuckians have a moral and legal duty to report any instance of child abuse to local law enforcement or to Kentucky’s Child Abuse hotline at 877-597-2331 or 877-KYSAFE1.
Over the course of her career, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has collaborated with some of the most famous photographers of our time.
However, when Vogue was on the hunt for someone to shoot the singer for its coveted September issue, the singer pushed for a 23-year-old up-and-comer, Tyler Mitchell, to get the job.
Calling him “brilliant,” the 36-year-old explained to the magazine that she wanted to ensure a new perspective was being shown to Vogue readers, as no other Vogue cover in history had been shot by an African-American photographer.
“Until there is a mosaic of perspectives coming from different ethnicities behind the lens, we will continue to have a narrow approach and view of what the world actually looks like,” she said. “It’s important to me that I help open doors for younger artists. There are so many cultural and societal barriers to entry that I like to do what I can to level the playing field, to present a different point of view for people who may feel like their voices don’t matter.”
Mitchell, a Brooklyn-based artist, has been floored by the attention his work has received, tweeting that he’s cried three times already since the cover image was published.
“For so long, black people have been considered things,” he told the magazine of his history-making turn as a Vogue cover photographer. “We’ve been thingified physically, sexually, emotionally. With my work, I’m looking to revitalize and elevate the black body.”
He also noted how special it was to shoot the singer, who headlined the first concert he ever attended.
“You’d imagine someone as famous as Beyoncé to be protective of her image, but she was really an open book — and that’s exactly what you want as a photographer,” he added.
Here are five other things to know about Mitchell.
1. He has a clear style and vision: In a December 2017 interview with The New York Times, Mitchell explained what he looks to do when he’s at work.
“I depict black people and people of color in a really real and pure way,” he said. “There is an honest gaze to my photos.”
2. The Vogue shoot is not his first high-profile gig: Mitchell, an Atlanta native who studied film and television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, may have made history by shooting the September issue of Vogue, but he has plenty of experience working with other publications. Mitchell’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, i-D Magazine, Dazed, and The FADER, according to his website.
“I think magazines are a great way to be like, ‘This is important enough to be published on the printed page,’” he told the Times.
3. He’s a go-getter: After Mitchell spent six weeks in Cuba for a documentary photography program, he self-published a book, “El Paquete,” containing his photos of Havana’s architecture and skateboarding culture. Skateboarding, he told Vogue, was what got him interested in photography to begin with.
“Of course there’s the surface-level cool and rebel spirit about skateboarding,” he said, “but the thing that makes skaters like artists runs deeper than that: It’s not a sport that’s built on competition, it’s one that thrives on community.”
4. He’s a filmmaker, too: In addition to capturing still images, Mitchell works as a filmmaker. The Times noted that he created and starred in a short for American Eagle that dropped early last year.
“I do look at myself as a black American and equally as a symbol at the center of this country,” he said. “I had never considered myself an American Eagle model, but what made it interesting was to twist the cultural conversation about what the brand stands for and turn it on its head.”
5. He is social media and tech-savvy: “I’m definitely a YouTube-generation kid,” Mitchell told Vogue. “I learned how to make movies and how to edit that way. I quickly formed my point of view.”
He also sees the value of social media, preferring to curate his portfolio on Instagram — where he has more than 109,000 followers — rather than signing with a creative agent.
The Department of Defense is prohibiting personnel from using geolocation features on their devices while serving in certain locations after concerns that the information transmitted from such devices was jeopardizing the security of American forces around the world, including those deployed in classified or sensitive areas.
The new policy, which is effective immediately, follows reports from earlier this year that some wearable electronic devices, like the popular Fitbit, can convey users’ GPS coordinates in the form of publicly available online maps that display the most frequently trafficked routes of users who allowed their location to be shared.
“The rapidly evolving market of devices, applications, and services with geolocation capabilities presents a significant risk to the Department of Defense personnel on and off duty, and to our military operations globally,” the department said in a statement on Monday. “These geolocation capabilities can expose personal information, locations, routines, and numbers of Department personnel, and potentially create unintended security consequences and increased risk to the joint force and mission.”
In January, a 20-year old Australian student named Nathan Ruser was exploring the online maps from Strava’s Global Heatmap when he found the location of U.S. troops inside Syria.
“The biggest concerns with the data is firstly it allows an unprecedented look at the geographic build of a lot of these bases,” Ruser told ABC News in January. “You can see the supply lines, you can see the patrol routes in some cases, and you can see the infrastructure within the bases. But more than that, one of the most important and disturbing elements of the map is that it’s possible to establish an understanding of how the base works.”
Journalists quickly started using the Global Heatmap to identify what they believed to be the locations of other U.S. personnel, including a suspected CIA base near Mogadishu, Somalia, and U.S. troops operating in the Sahel region of Africa.
At the time, the Pentagon insisted that the classified or sensitive locations of U.S. service members had not been compromised by the data. But Defense Secretary James Mattis immediately ordered a review of the Pentagon’s policies to see if there needed to be additional guidance or a new policy altogether.
The ban, announced on Monday, prohibits Department of Defense personnel “from using geolocation features and functionality on government and non-government-issued devices, applications, and services while in locations designated as operational areas.”
Operational areas mostly consist of sensitive overseas locations where U.S. personnel are deployed.
Applicable devices include fitness trackers, smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and related software applications, according to a copy of the policy memo sent from Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan to top DoD leadership last week. Shanahan’s memo also gave the military’s combatant commanders guidance on how to seek authorization for the use of geolocation features should they deem it necessary.
Notably, the policy’s language allows service members to continue tracking their workouts on a device like a Fitbit, as long as the geolocation feature is turned off.
Pentagon spokesperson Col. Rob Manning told reporters on Monday that the new policy ensures “we’re not giving the enemy an unfair advantage,” while at the same time “keeping pace with technology.”
“It’s a necessary evolution,” he added.
Those who violate the ban on geolocation features will be dealt with on a case by case basis depending on the severity of the infraction, Manning said.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – In preparation for construction and demolition to kick into high gear next month, the Lexington Center and Rupp Arena will hold a surplus materials and salvage auction on Friday, August 17th at 10:00 a.m.
Items for sale include: remaining pieces of the original Rupp Arena court (used 1976-2000), Rupp Arena concourse signage, light fixtures, desks and cabinets, office chairs, display cases, large rolling carts, concession equipment, various hardware, machinery and equipment, snow salt dispenser, 20 ft. Christmas tree and much more.
The auction, to be conducted by Bluegrass Auction, will be held in back of Rupp Arena, underneath the Jefferson St. bridge, in the Manchester Street Lot.
Interested parties can stop by for inspection from Monday, August 13, 2018 until day of sale. All items are sold as-is with no warranty implied.
For more information, call (859) 233-4567 or visit www.lexingtoncenter.com
MANCHESTER, Ky. (WTVQ) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has announced that the Leslie County Fiscal Court will receive $23,494 in County Road Aid emergency funds.
These funds will be used for slide repairs on Amanda Drive (CR 1262) located 0.047 miles northwest of Army Trail Road (mile point 0.047), making it safer for cars, school buses and other vehicles that rely upon this highway.
The Leslie County Fiscal Court is responsible for administering the work.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – The Republican Party of Kentucky has announced White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the headline speaker at this year’s annual Lincoln Dinner.
The event will take place at the Hilton in downtown Lexington on Saturday, August 25.
Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor and Kentucky political consultant, will emcee the event.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Governor Matt Bevin and Congressman Andy Barr are also expected to speak at the event.