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Weird things happen in nature – or in a lab – that humans rarely see. But staff at a London-area conservation authority are getting an up-close look at these unusual specimens thanks to a program designed to help save endangered turtles.
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“We’ve been doing the spiny softshell turtle recovery work for a number of years, and this has been another very successful year,” Scott Gillingwater, a species-at-risk biologist, said, standing next to dozens of newly hatched turtles at the Upper Thames River Conversation Authority.
“But when you have large numbers of turtles and turtle hatchlings coming out of the lab . . . you end up with some animals that are not always normal or look like the others.”
The two-headed map turtle poked out of its shell at the conservation authority three days ago, Gillingwater said.
“Because we do bring in large numbers of eggs, not all of the turtles will hatch out normally,” he said. “Some will have odd shapes or additional limbs, and in the case of the map turtle, it ended up with two heads.”
The exact cause of the deformity is unknown, Gillingwater said, though his team was able to rule out variations in incubation temperature.
In nature, two-headed turtles are unlikely to live long, because the deformity makes it difficult to find food and retract into their shell for protection, he said, estimating their chances of survival in the wild at less than half of one per cent.
The turtle is one of few anomalies Gillingwater has encountered in his 28 years of monitoring and restoring various types of species.
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2021-08-20 01:44:54+00:00
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The Lake County Fire Protection District said the Cache Fire, which started in south Clearlake, has burned 83 acres and was 30% contained as of Thursda
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. (KTXL) — City officials want residents from two Clearlake mobile home parks to call them after a wildfire that started nearby burned down dozens of homes.
The Lake County Fire Protection District said the Cache Fire, which started in south Clearlake on 6th Avenue and Cache Street, has burned 83 acres and was nearly 40% contained as of Thursday.
According to officials, Lake County fire crews were headed to the scene of an oven fire when they first noticed smoke coming from the southeast section of the Clearlake area.
Mandatory evacuations are still in place for portions of south Clearlake and north Lower Lake.
Click or tap here for the latest information on evacuations and road closures. Lake County residents can also click or tap here to sign up for LakeCoAlerts from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin posted on Facebook Wednesday afternoon about evacuating elementary schools and a high school in the town of Lower Lake. Students were evacuated just after 2 p.m.
An evacuation shelter has been set up at the Twin Pine Casino & Hotel in Middletown.
The sheriff also said dozens of homes had been destroyed and at least one civilian had been injured.
“Due to the devastating nature of this type of incident we will not comment here on how many structures were lost until we can give a definite answer,” the Lake County Fire Protection District wrote Thursday.
CLEARLAKE, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 19: In an aerial view, burned mobile home are visible at the Creekside Mobile Home Park a day after being destroyed by the Cache Fire on August 19, 2021 in Clearlake, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
CLEARLAKE, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 19: In an aerial view, burned mobile home are visible at the Creekside Mobile Home Park a day after being destroyed by the Cache Fire on August 19, 2021 in Clearlake, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
CLEARLAKE, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 19: In an aerial view, burned mobile home are visible at the Creekside Mobile Home Park a day after being destroyed by the Cache Fire on August 19, 2021 in Clearlake, California. The fast moving Cache Fire destroyed dozens on homes on Wednesday afternoon an charred over 80 acres. The fire is 30 percent contained. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
CLEARLAKE, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 19: In an aerial view, a home is covered in fire retardant next to dozens of burned mobile homes at the Creekside Mobile Home Park a day after being destroyed by the Cache Fire on August 19, 2021 in Clearlake, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
CLEARLAKE, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 19: In an aerial view, fire retardant covers mobile homes at Cache Creek Mobil Home Estates a day after the Cache Fire moved through the area on August 19, 2021 in Clearlake, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Aerial photos taken by Getty Images photographer Justin Sullivan show the Creekside Mobile Home Park reduced to piles of ash and melted metal. Heaps of gray are separated by roads dusted in the distinct pink of fire retardant and the occasional home that is still standing.
City and fire officials want evacuees from Creekside Mobile Home Park and Cache Creek Mobil Home Estates to call them so they can make sure everyone made it out safely. Evacuees can call 707-994-8201, extension 107, to notify officials of their status and should say their space number if they have to leave a voicemail.
There will be a briefing at 5 p.m. at Clearlake City Hall regarding the fire, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said.
The cause of the fire has not been reported.
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23,000 people have been evacuated due to the Caldor fire, the Governors Office of Emergency Services said Thursday.
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PLACERVILLE, Calif. (KTXL) — The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said Thursday 23,000 people have been evacuated due to the Caldor Fire.
“It’s bigger — they’re saying it is bigger than the city of Sacramento,” said Melinda Muir, who is evacuating from the Caldor Fire.
For Muir and her family, coming close to wildfires is not unfamiliar to them. In 2016, they escaped the Sand Fire in Santa Clarita County. Now, Muir’s husband and five children are among the thousands of evacuees escaping from the Caldor Fire.
“We got here Tuesday morning at 1:30 in the morning,” Muir said. “Right now, it’s not anywhere near us — but you know, you never know if the wind shifts, we could be in trouble.”
As they settled down at an American Red Cross evacuation site near Missouri Flat Road in Placerville, Muir said care and compassion for others during this difficult time are being seen through organizations and good people.
“I’m struggling to find a place for all of my animals, and this couple just left a note on my car and stepped forward and took all of my animals, so I don’t have to separate them,” Muir said.
People like Veterans Outreach Program Specialist Tim Whalen, who travels to different encampments to provide veterans and their families resources, are quickly seeing the impacts these wildfires are having on local residents.
“There’s strong, positive thinking and then there’s the fear of the unknown, so it’s a big mixture and I’ve seen the extremes,” Whalen said.
As the number of evacuees grows, so do the number of questions, said the Red Cross of Northern California.
“I think the big thing they want right now is information,” Red Cross spokesperson Stephen Walsh said. “Everybody is asking, ‘When can I go home? When are we going to get information?’ But luckily, law enforcement comes to the shelters every day to give an update on the fire.”
One of the biggest obstacles during this fire season is having people understand why these evacuations are occurring in places where no fire is present at the time, California Highway Patrol officials said.
“Some of those questions are, ‘Why can’t I go? There’s no fire here. Why can’t I go up to where my house is?’ And the reason is because there could be something around the corner that you don’t know about,” CHP Chief Mike Dust said. “There’s fire apparatus, there’s hoses across roads, there’s downed power lines and power poles. There’s all kinds of things that need to be mitigated and restored before we can open those roads.”
In the meantime, families like the Muirs must cling on to hope once more.
“I have to trust that God is going to continue to be by me and walk beside me and not leave,” Muir said.
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The deadline to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan is approaching, and officials with the Pentagon say only 7,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul this week. That's much lower than the goal of evacuating 5,000 to 8,000 Americans and eligible Afghans per day.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The deadline to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan is approaching, and officials with the Pentagon say only 7,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul this week. That’s much lower than the goal of evacuating 5,000 to 8,000 Americans and eligible Afghans per day.
“We want to make sure we are taking care of those people who have helped us,” Rep. Rob Wittman said.
The Virginia Republican wants not only U.S. military and their families out safely, but the Afghan translators that helped over the last 20 years. He’s worried they won’t get out in time.
“There are so many SIV – Special Immigrant Visa – applications that the State Department is just overwhelmed,” Wittman explained.
Wittman says, in addition to Special Immigrant Visas, the humanitarian parole option could allow Afghan allies into the United States temporarily.
“We encourage everyone that is there in Afghanistan trying to get out to pursue both of those processes in unison,” he said.
U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, enters a plane evacuating people, at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. (Capt. William Urban/U.S. Navy via AP )
In this photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, civilians prepare to board a plane during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)
The Afghan flag remains on the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. The U.S. military has taken over Afghanistan’s airspace as it struggles to manage a chaotic evacuation after the Taliban rolled into the capital. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
The Pentagon says the Kabul airport is secure, but Nexstar’s Washington D.C. bureau asked Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby what they’re doing to make sure U.S. citizens and our allies can even get to the airport.
“There has been no hostile interactions between the Taliban and our forces,” Kirby said Thursday.
And Kirby adds they’ve made something clear to the Taliban.
“Any attack on our people and our operations at the airport will be met with a forceful response.”
For now, U.S. troops are still scheduled to be out of the country by Aug. 31. The Pentagon says any change to that deadline would require new conversations with the Taliban.
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Thursday night, Californians will hear from Republicans running to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, marking the third time they take a debate stage.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) – Thursday night, Californians will hear from Republicans running to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, marking the third time they take a debate stage.
Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, businessman John Cox and Assemblyman Kevin Kiley of Rocklin are slated to appear.
Inside California Politics did invite the polling front-runner, conservative talk show host Larry Elder, and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner but both declined our invitation.
Newsom was also invited to debate but declined.
“I’m on one question, should I be recalled? I’m not running against them, they’re running against each other,” Newsom said when asked why he declined. “They share a number of things in common, they all supported Donald Trump, and number two, they all want to eliminate mask mandates day one, they want to take us off the COVID cliff like that they took — well, like governors in places like Florida and Texas have taken those states off. This is a profoundly consequential election.”
Although the governor isn’t participating tonight, he is on the campaign trail and said President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be coming to California to campaign with him in a matter of weeks.
Those who are participating in Thursday’s debate will weigh in on the state’s most pressing issues such as homelessness and COVID-19.
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As the Caldor Fire continues to burn through El Dorado County, fire officials say they got an unexpected break but are concerned about the wind picking up as they head into Thursday evening.
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EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. (KTXL) – As the Caldor Fire burns through El Dorado County, fire officials say they got an unexpected break but are concerned about the wind picking up as they head into Thursday evening.
“The winds haven’t manifested to the levels that we anticipated, which is a good thing,” said Captain Keith Wade with the Sacramento Fire Department. “We are in red flag up to today and we thought we were going to get more significant wind activity.”
But as it approaches one week since fire crews started battling the Caldor Fire, Wade says there are still challenges up ahead.
“There’s significant topography challenges out in these areas with different canyons and drainage areas where the winds can shift causing issues for us,” Wade told FOX40. “So our firefighters need to remain safe out in this wildland arena.”
A lot of Thursday’s fire fighting efforts were focused along Mormon Emigrant Trail. Crews did their best to control the flames, but their biggest concern is keeping the fire away from Highway 50.
“Right now the focus is keeping this far south of Highway 50 and now we are able to with additional resources on scene,” Wade explained.
Crews are asking evacuated residents in the area to stay patient as they hope to get the fire under control.
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A standoff in Texas over new voting restrictions that gridlocked the state Capitol for 38 consecutive days ended Thursday when some Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C., dropped their holdout, paving the way for Republicans to resume pushing an elections overhaul.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A standoff in Texas over new voting restrictions that gridlocked the state Capitol for 38 consecutive days ended Thursday when some Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C., dropped their holdout, paving the way for Republicans to resume pushing an elections overhaul.
It abruptly and messily drew to a close one of the few — and lengthiest — quorum breaks in modern Texas history. Instead of a unified and celebratory return by Democrats, some members fumed and lashed out at their colleagues over what they criticized as breaking ranks.
Most of the more than 50 Democrats who bolted for the nation’s capital in July continue to stay away from the Texas Capitol, although Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan said enough were there to achieve a quorum, which in the House is 100 present legislators. Growing impatience among Republicans had led to escalating threats that missing lawmakers could face arrest, but officers never appeared to do more than leaving warrants at Democrats’ homes.
The few who returned to the Texas House defended their decision, saying they had successfully pushed Congress on voting rights legislation and pointing to the growing urgency of surging COVID-19 caseloads in Texas.
“Now, we continue the fight on the House Floor,” Democrats Garnet Coleman, Ana Hernandez and Armando Walle said in a joint statement.
Others did not hide their frustration.
“We were literally on caucus calls for 2 hours this morning and none of the defecting Democrats mentioned they were planning on helping the Republicans pass voter suppression bills. Guess what the other defecting Democrats have accomplished by going back—NOTHING!” Democratic state Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos tweeted.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott now has an opening to divert attention back to the Capitol and away from criticism and defiance by Texas’ largest cities and school districts over his handling of worsening COVID-19 numbers.
Abbott this week tested positive for COVID-19, although his office had said the 63-year-old governor has no symptoms.
It leaves Democrats much in the same position as when the holdout started: unable to permanently stop the GOP-controlled Legislature from putting new limits and rules over how more that 16 million registered voters can cast a ballot. And federal voting rights protections that Texas Democrats lobbied for while in Washington still face long odds of getting around GOP opposition in Congress.
Months of protests had put Texas Democrats at the center of a new national battle over voting. Republicans around the U.S. have rushed to enact new voting restrictions in response to former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Republicans are now back on a path to pass new elections laws in Texas before the current special session ends on Sept. 5.
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Buffers and line drivers are integrated circuit devices that isolate the input circuit from the output circuit. This reduces the load seen by the input circuit and enables signals to be sent on PCB or cables over longer distances with higher fan-out. Fan out is a description of the number of typical inputs an output is driving. Each input adds a capacitive load on the driving amplifier. As the capacitance gets higher, the peak current required to transition the voltage from one level to another gets higher. If this gets higher than the output can handle or the slope of the signal level changes gets too low, the circuit performance is compromised. Over and above this, the output may become overloaded, unstable or damaged. It is common to find buffers in clock trees on PCBs where low noise and high-speed logic signals are important. Buffers are also found in bus applications and in applications where digital I/O of a system is too weak to drive a load. Buffers also typically exhibit better ESD and latch up protection than the I/O directly on the microcontroller and are thus used to isolate and protect devices.
Line drivers are a special type of buffer that includes the ability to drive a transmission line or cable that may be quite long. They also may adapt the input logic format to the specific line driving standard. An example of this is an eSATA Redriver. These devices extend the distance supported by the SATA standard by buffering the differential current mode logic (CML) signals on their input and re-transmitting them as a corrected and compensated CML signal output. They incorporate an equalizer, a filter that compensates for the loss and distortion of a signal on a physical medium (cable or PCB traces) to enable the correct signal shape to be ultimately presented to the receiver.
Some buffers and line drivers convert from logic signal inputs to a high-speed serial output. The input may be a parallel bus to meet the high-speed data requirements. Cable drivers tend to output differential serial data signals at a standard that supports very high-speed data transfer on cable. This is particular true of high definition, and ultra high definition video systems. These can require more than 12GHz serial data streams sent over hundreds of meters of copper cable. CML is used in these applications because differential pairs of transistors require very little voltage swing to switch and so can operate much faster than voltage-oriented alternatives. This standard is used in interface standards like SDI and HDMI.
The global Buffers and Line Drivers market is valued at xx million US$ in 2018 is expected to reach xx million US$ by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of xx% during 2019-2025.
This report focuses on Buffers and Line Drivers volume and value at global level, regional level and company level. From a global perspective, this report represents overall Buffers and Line Drivers market size by analyzing historical data and future prospect. Regionally, this report focuses on several key regions: North America, Europe, China and Japan.
At company level, this report focuses on the production capacity, ex-factory price, revenue and market share for each manufacturer covered in this report.
The following manufacturers are covered:
Texas Instruments
Nexperia
NXP Semiconductors
ON Semiconductors
Allegro Microsystems
Diodes incorporated
Intel
Intersil
Maxlinear, Inc
Microchip Technology
Microsemi
Renesas Electronics
Stmicro electronics
Teledyne e2v
Toshiba
Segment by Regions
North America
Europe
China
Japan
South Korea
Segment by Type
BICMOS
Bipolar
CMOS
Others
Segment by Application
Buffer
Driver
Others
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A young man was killed and four other people were wounded in a shooting outside a Germantown Avenue barbershop early Thursday evening, and the bullet casings suggest two gunmen may have been involved.
The attackers are believed to have drove by the business and fired from a green car, police at the scene said. The car fled the scene, and it was not known as of 9 p.m. if anyone was in custody.
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A police cruiser was about a block away when the shooting occurred about 5:40 p.m.
A 28-year-old man who was shot once in the head died at a nearby hospital, police said.
The other victims were three men, ages 29, 41 and 62, and a 28-year-old woman.
The 62-year-old man was shot multiple times and remained in critical condition at a nearby hospital, police said.
A motive for the shooting, which took place in the 5100 block of Germantown Avenue, has not been identified yet by police.
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Question flag favourite must answer; revived contender’s moment of truth: AFL Blowtorch
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Just in time for the finals, it’s a chance for a flag contender to prove its flaw has disappeared. Plus the ‘very likely’ yet puzzling coach exit and Richmond’s cheeky last-round act.
Just in time for the finals, it’s the perfect chance for a flag contender to prove its flaw has disappeared.
Plus the ‘very likely’ yet puzzling coach exit and Richmond’s cheeky last-round act.
Every club’s burning question ahead of Round 23, as well as the Fox Footy Podcast ‘Cups’, tips and commentators for every Fox Footy game in our ultimate weekly preview: The Blowtorch!
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ROUND 23 GAMES (All times AEST)
WESTERN BULLDOGS v PORT ADELAIDE (Nathan Eagleton Cup)
Friday August 20, 7:50pm at Marvel Stadium
How to watch on Fox Footy: Channel 504 from 7pm, with Garry Lyon, Jonathan Brown, Nick Riewoldt, Kath Loughnan at the ground and Jon Ralph in the newsroom
Bulldogs’ burning question: Is this a season-ending trend or just a blip?
Geelong and Brisbane started poorly, Melbourne had a seven-week mid-year block where they won twice, and Port hasn’t beaten anyone in the top five; the Bulldogs were the only team without a poor patch in 2021, and they’ve timed their struggles poorly, putting their top four hopes at risk. Since Round 18, the Bulldogs are eighth for points from clearances (they were second between Rounds 1 and 17), and worst in the AFL from points conceded from clearances (first from Rounds 1 to 17) – and keep in mind they beat Melbourne in that period. If this midfield malaise continues, the Dogs look likely to face an elimination final, putting their season in serious jeopardy. If they can lift just in time, and knock off Port, they’ll be back among the top flag contenders.
Power’s burning question: Is this the moment they prove they can beat a fellow contender?
We’re back where we started. Remember six weeks ago when Port lost to Melbourne, and the storyline of ‘they can only beat teams below them, not the best’ returned? Well, since then the Power have beaten four teams outside of the top eight, plus GWS. In effect they’ve only done what everyone said they would do; the good news is beating all of the teams below you, when you’re in the top four, still gives you a chance to host a qualifying final. The Power are 0-4 against fellow members of the top five, with their best win this season (on quality of opposition) being the 10-point thriller against Sydney. Time to make that 1-4.
Port yet to beat a top 4 team | 00:37
RICHMOND v HAWTHORN (Tyrone Vickery Cup)
Saturday August 21, 1:35pm at the MCG
How to watch on Fox Footy: Channel 504 from 1:20pm, with Eddie McGuire, Mark Howard, Jason Dunstall, Jonathan Brown, Ben Dixon on the boundary and Tom Morris in the newsroom
Tigers’ burning question: Is making nine changes clever or cheeky?
Perhaps both. Richmond had nine inclusions when the team sheets were handed in on Thursday night, and if they don’t name Jake Aarts as the sub it could be ten changes all up. Only 11 times in VFL-AFL history has a team made more changes from week to week. Six of the outs were players who are ‘injured’ – but you can reasonably guess that the Tigers are being extra careful with some of them, given the premiers’ finals hopes are minuscule. Realistically it’s smart; there’s no reason to risk key players when their season is shot. Plus, finishing lower on the ladder always helps come draft time. But we’ve seen teams do this sort of thing before … no-one mention the t-word.
Hawks’ burning question: Can we actually learn anything from this purple patch?
It helps when you’ve got something to play for; we’ve heard multiple Hawthorn players talk about how they want to send Alastair Clarkson out on a high note, meaning they’ve truly been incentivised over the last few weeks amid what was otherwise a lost season. But keep in mind the cliche of a team building ‘momentum’ at the end of a season and it carrying into next year is just that – a cliche. Not a statistical fact. Remember how Adelaide went 3-0 late last year and looked OK against Richmond in the last round? They’re still 17th this year. If the Hawks are smart, and we think they are, they won’t get caught up in this little winning streak and assume everything is alright. They still need to get more young talent through the doors before their late-season games are truly important again.
Clarkson excited for next chapter | 03:00
SYDNEY SWANS v GOLD COAST SUNS (Nick Malceski Cup)
Saturday August 21, 1:45pm at Marvel Stadium
How to watch on Fox Footy: Channel 503 from 1:30pm, with Kelli Underwood, Leigh Montagna, Gerard Healy, Nick Dal Santo, Cam Mooney on the boundary and Tom Morris in the newsroom
Swans’ burning question: Is Kennedy the last player they could afford to lose?
Sydney suffered two key injuries during its win over North Melbourne last week to Josh Kennedy (hamstring) and Nick Blakely (leg). While the Swans do welcome back Callum Mills, Buddy Franklin and Jake Lloyd for this one, the loss Kennedy will be felt badly in a blow to their premiership hopes, with his return time frame unclear. It puts a huge onus on Mills and Luke Parker to grind away in the midfield – an area of the ground where they already aren’t particularly strong. Asked by North Melbourne great David Fox Footy’s First Crack if it’s the one injury that breaks their back, Saints legend Leigh Montagna said:
“It makes it much more difficult. Not finishing top four is going to hurt them in the end and now it’s going to make it even more difficult without their leader.”
Suns’ burning question: Is Stuart Dew really in trouble?
Given Caroline Wilson’s track record, especially this year with Alastair Clarkson, ears perked up in lounge rooms around the country when she told Footy Classified on Wednesday night that it’s “very likely” Dew won’t be coaching the Suns next season. “I’ve got a very strong view that I think (Suns chief executive) Mark Evans needs to act in the next three to four weeks – and if he doesn’t, I think the AFL will overshoot him and do it for him,” she said, citing the quick turnover of assistant coaches and the old chestnut of being concerned players will leave. But we’d like to point one thing out: the Suns have won seven games. They’ve done that twice in their history, back when Gary Ablett was either winning Brownlows or missing them because of injury. And this was a team so bad that they are still receiving AFL handouts to try and get them out of the cellar. Were we really expecting, no, demanding the Suns to be good in 2021? If Dew goes because of off-field concerns as cited by Wilson, that’s another story, but on the field it’s silly to suggest Gold Coast is underachieving so much that he has to be sacked.
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BRISBANE LIONS v WEST COAST EAGLES (Bradd Dalziell Cup)
Saturday August 21, 4:35pm at the Gabba
How to watch on Fox Footy: Channel 504 from 4:30pm, with Anthony Hudson, Garry Lyon, Nick Riewoldt, Alastair Lynch on the boundary and Tom Morris in the newsroom
Lions’ burning question: Are the Lions actually back?
The Lions are back in top four contention after a dominant win over Collingwood last weekend, putting up their biggest score the season (142 points). After an indifferent second half of the campaign, it feels like things are starting to come together for Brisbane … but are they actually? Saints great Leigh Montagna noted on Fox Footy’s First Crack that over its last night games, Brisbane have only played one current top eight side. Furthermore, since Round 8, the Lions have played just three sides currently in the top eight. Despite still being in finals contention, West Coast’s season is on thin ice and the losses of Josh Kennedy, Jeremy McGovern and Tim Kelly this week makes them even more vulnerable. If Brisbane is the real deal, it presents the perfect opportunity for them to make a statement on the eve of finals.
Eagles’ burning question: How should they handle the off-season?
Even if everything goes their way and they sneak into the finals, the Eagles won’t be doing any damage, given they’ve lost six of their last eight matches and have beaten just one top eight side (Port Adelaide, back in Round 3), not to mention their lengthy injury list. Their list management situation is one of the toughest in footy, because they’re becoming what you never, ever want to be – bad and old. You can afford to be bad and young, because you’re building, but when you’re as experienced as West Coast you can’t afford to delay; you have to make a call on whether to top up again and go for broke with this group, or lose a few experienced heads and maybe even trade some players out to inject draft picks and youth into the group. And if you get it wrong, you might not be back in the finals for a while.
Trade Talk: Tigers at centre of intrigue | 02:44
GEELONG CATS v MELBOURNE (Shannon Byrnes Cup)
Saturday August 21, 7:25pm at GMHBA Stadium
How to watch on Fox Footy: Channel 504 from 7:15pm, hosted by the Saturday Stretch team of Kath Loughnan, Brad Johnson, Jordan Lewis and Tom Morris in the newsroom
Cats’ burning question: How does the Stewart-less defence hold up against a contender?
Geelong have been hit as hard by injuries as any team this season. And perhaps none of their setbacks have been more significant than Tom Stewart’s season-ending foot issue in a massive blow to the competition’s second-best defence – largely led by the star backman. It left them looking under siege at times last week against the Saints as Max King threatened throughout the day without Stewart lurking to intercept. And the Cats face an even greater test this week against Melbourne – that despite not being renowned for its offence – have booted scoring totals of 100 plus in two of their last three games.
Demons’ burning question: Can Demons seal first minor premiership since 1964?
Melbourne will look to win its first minor premiership in 57 years when it faces the Cats on Saturday. Having rotated top spot on the ladder with the Western Bulldogs for most of the season, it’s only fitting that the Demons will be made to earn the title against one of their biggest rival threats for the flag in Geelong, who themselves could clinch the minor premiership themselves with a win. Saints great Leigh Montagna questioned on Fox Footy’s First Crack Melbourne should show all its cards against Geelong this week given they could meet them again in finals with much higher stakes. But North Melbourne champion David King doesn’t think it’s worth holding anything back against a rival contender: “Roll it out there, see where you sit. What happens if either team can blow the other one away by eight goals plus? You can rock the foundations of the opposition club.”
Scott resigned to GMHBA final fate | 02:02
CARLTON v GWS GIANTS (Kristian Jaksch Cup)
Saturday August 21, 7:40pm at Marvel Stadium
How to watch on Fox Footy: Channel 503 from 7:30pm, with Dwayne Russell, Dermott Brereton, David King, Sarah Jones on the boundary and Tom Morris in the newsroom
Blues’ burning question: Has the club treated David Teague fairly?
You suspect Teague doesn’t think so, telling reporters on Thursday: “Would I have loved some people from within the club to come out and back me up? Absolutely.” The senior coach has looked like a dead man walking for several weeks, all thanks to the review of the football department which heaped pressure on a side that was below expectations because of a tough fixture, then started to win games when the draw eased, but eventually crumpled. No matter the result on Saturday, if Teague is out, he’ll leave the Blues with the second-best winning percentage of any of their coaches since 2000. He had half a season as the interim boss, then a Covid year that few flourished in, and finally an injury-impacted 2021 – essentially, one full year to prove his worth. No-one’s saying he has done an incredible job but he hasn’t really had much of a chance to prove everyone wrong.
Giants’ burning question: Is team selection the biggest sign yet of future captaincy plans?
The Giants will welcome back Toby Greene from his one-match ban for their season-defining clash against Carlton where a win will seal a top-eight berth. But the more interesting aspect of selection was seeing skipper Stephen Coniglio listed as an emergency. GWS began its charge back into the 2021 season after Coniglio was struck down with injury in Round 3 as Greene assumed captaincy duties during a purple patch of form, leading to calls for the star forward to take on the role permanently. It’s fair to say you would want your skipper leading from the front in a crucial game such as this one, making team selection potentially telling in terms of who will be the Giants skipper in 2022.
The brilliant best of Eddie Betts | 01:37
ST KILDA v FREMANTLE (Craig Callahan Cup, handed out by Ross Lyon)
Sunday August 22, 12:15pm at Blundstone Arena
How to watch on Fox Footy: Channel 504 from 12pm, with Dwayne Russell, Anthony Hudson, Jason Dunstall, Brad Johnson, Matthew Pavlich and Jon Ralph in the newsroom
Saints’ burning question: How many Saints are playing their last game for the club?
Several members of St Kilda’s side are out of contract and thus face uncertain futures at Moorabbin, most notably Seb Ross and Luke Dunstan, while the injured Jack Billings could also be on the move. Having heavily recruited experienced players from rival clubs in recent off-seasons, how the Saints tackle the 2021 summer from a list management perspective will be intriguing after a disappointing campaign. Do they prioritise the draft? Are they happy to let players walk to free up cash for the future? Whatever happens, this looms as potentially the last time we see several players don the red, black and white guernsey.
Dockers’ burning question: Could a 3-1 finish to the season convince Adam Cerra to stay?
The future of Dockers young gun Adam Cerra has been one of the most speculated topics of 2021, with his decision now reportedly down to two clubs: Fremantle and Carlton. In the latest update on Cerra’s situation, foxfooty.com.au senior reporter Tom Morris revealed on Fox Sports News’ AFL Tonight that the 21-year old is waiting on Carlton’s coaching call and would prefer ex-Dockers boss Ross Lyon not be at the helm – who he played 41 of his 76 games under. But could a 3-1 finish to the season be enough to convince Cerra to stay at Fremantle regardless? The Dockers have won two of their last three games, with victories coming over Richmond and West Coast to paint a bright future under Justin Longmuir. Further, Fremantle are still an outside chance of playing finals and finishing the season on a high could be enough make Cerra want to stick around at the rising club.
Lyon grilled over coaching future | 01:37
ESSENDON v COLLINGWOOD (Ricky Olarenshaw Cup)
Sunday August 22, 3:20pm at the MCG
How to watch on Fox Footy: Channel 504 from 3pm, hosted by Sarah Jones with Nick Riewoldt, Jordan Lewis, Nick Dal Santo at the ground and Jon Ralph in the newsroom
Bombers’ burning question: Surely they can’t miss the eight? Right?
Looking back, Anzac Day was the turning point for Essendon’s season. Ben Rutten’s side has been in every game since then – the big margins in their losses to Richmond and Geelong aren’t representative – while winning nine of 16, sitting eighth entering Round 23. All they need to do is repeat Anzac Day and beat a Collingwood side that has won just six games all season, kicking more than 12 goals just twice in three months. The Bombers have beaten the Magpies twice in a season just once in 16 years – that was 2017, when they achieved the feat on route to an elimination final against Sydney. They could set up the same thing in 2021.
Magpies’ burning question: Can they crush a Victorian rival’s finals dream for the second time in four years?
In the final round of the 2017 season, the equation for Melbourne was simple: beat Collingwood and play finals. Against all odds, the Magpies – who had endured a tumultuous season leading to its review that Nathan Buckley only just survived – ousted the Demons to see the Eagles claim eighth spot. There’s a feeling of deja vu this weekend as an underdog Collingwood outfit faces another Victorian rival in Essendon vying to seal its finals position. And which side is currently ninth? West Coast. The Magpies are arguably more up against it this weekend than they were against Melbourne in 2017 – a season where they had nine wins. But you have to wonder if Robert Harvey has made it Collingwood’s mission this week to end Essendon’s fairytale finals charge, just as they did to the Demons four years ago. While Collingwood have been one of the big disappointments of 2021, they’re playing more free-flowing footy under Robert Harvey, and under no pressure, could present a dangerous opponent for the Bombers.
Cale Hooker to hang up the boots | 00:39
ADELAIDE CROWS v NORTH MELBOURNE (Sam Gibson Cup)
Sunday August 22, 4:40pm at Adelaide Oval
How to watch on Fox Footy: Channel 503 from 4:30pm, with Brenton Speed, Dermott Brereton, Gerard Healy, Mark Ricciuto on the boundary and Jon Ralph in the newsroom
Crows’ burning question: Are we going to end 2020 with less optimism about them than we ended 2019?
No-one, except Port fans, wanted to see Adelaide go winless last year. In the end they didn’t, thanks to an excellent last month featuring a three-game winning streak – including a finals-shaping upset of GWS – and a last-round loss to eventual premiers Richmond where they were competitive for a half. Even though the Crows won the spoon, most felt OK about their future. Now they’ve flipped positions with North (who were 17th last year), having won just three of their last 17 games. They can’t finish last, but if they lose to David Noble’s side, you’d suggest experts will be expecting bigger things from North than from Adelaide in 2021.
Kangaroos’ burning question: Is this the best wooden spoon team in recent history?
They’re already in the mix, having won four games with a draw, and only two wooden spooners in the 16-team AFL era have won five games – Brisbane 2017 and Brisbane 1998. Both of those teams were back in the top four within two seasons, so that seems rather promising. Since the bye the Roos are 3-6 with a draw and a remarkably competitive percentage of 90.2, having greatly improved their defence. Another interstate win, combined with getting to select the best player in the draft this November, would turn what looked like a historically bad season into a rather promising one.
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Artist Chuck Close, seen in wall-sized image (C), has died at the age of 81
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Painter and photographer Chuck Close, who rose to acclaim with his photorealistic painting, died Thursday at the age of 81, US media reported.
Close's lawyer, John Silberman confirmed the artist's death to the New York Times, but could not immediately be reached.
Born in 1940 in the US state of Washington, Close was known for his gigantic portraits or self-portraits -- some of which were mosaics and others so detailed that they looked like photographs to the naked eye.
Among his subjects were former US president Bill Clinton, composer Philip Glass, rock legend Lou Reed and artist Cindy Sherman.
Exhibited in major museums, such as MoMA or the Guggenheim in New York, his works have also adorned the New York City subway.
Late in 2017, several women told US media that Close, who was handicapped and relied on a wheelchair due to spinal artery collapse, had asked them to undress and made unwanted advances and explicit comments when they visited his studio.
Following the allegations, the National Gallery of Art in Washington canceled a planned exhibition of his work, but other museums around the world displayed his outsized paintings.
Close denied the allegations, which came amid a wave of sexual misconduct revelations that swept through various industries.
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Locals in Indian-administered Kashmir say that a state-imposed climate of fear scares them from speaking out, two years after New Delhi brought the region under direct control
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Public protests in Indian-controlled Kashmir were once an almost weekly occurrence but two years after New Delhi imposed direct rule on the region, locals say arbitrary arrests and intimidation by security forces wielding batons and snatching phones have left many too scared to voice dissent.
A week before the region's partial autonomy was abolished, and as a massive troop deployment fanned out to help forestall a local backlash, "Rafiq" was one of thousands put in "preventative detention".
He believes he was arrested because in the past he had "protested against injustices".
Freed after a harrowing year behind bars, the 26-year-old -- too frightened to give his real name -- says he is a "broken man".
Echoing accounts from a dozen other Kashmiris told to AFP, he and 30 others were bundled onto a military aircraft to a jail hundreds of miles from his home where they were "abused and intimidated".
"A bright light was kept on all night in my cell for six months... It was hard to imagine that I would come out alive," he said.
He at least was finally released. Activists say that scores of other Kashmiris are languishing in India's notoriously harsh jails.
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Mother-of-five Tasleema hasn't seen her husband Gulzar Ahmed Bhat, who used to belong to a separatist group but left in 2016, in two years.
Initially when police and soldiers raided his home, Bhat was out. So they held his 23-year-old nephew until his uncle turned himself in.
"I almost beg for work to feed my children," a tearful Tasleema said, a young child on her lap.
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India has for decades stationed more than half a million soldiers on its side of divided Kashmir.
Activists say that scores of other Kashmiris are languishing in India's notoriously harsh jails Abid Bhat AFP/File
Its troops are fighting rebels demanding independence or a merger with Pakistan, which controls the western part of the region.
Saying it wanted finally to achieve peace, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government scrapped a section of the constitution guaranteeing the territory's partial autonomy in August 2019.
Kasmhiris now no longer have a locally elected government and are ruled by a lieutenant governor appointed by New Delhi.
A legislative blitz has seen new laws applied and others scrapped. There are now hardly any Kashmiri police officers or senior bureaucrats.
Changes in land ownership rules has sparked accusations of "settler colonialism" aimed at achieving an irreversible demographic shift in the Muslim-majority region.
Neither the Home Ministry in New Delhi nor the government's spokesperson in Kashmir responded to requests for comment from AFP for this article.
Many of the 5,000 officially arrested two years ago -- and scores more since -- were booked under the Public Safety Act, a "preventative detention" law allowing two years' imprisonment without charge or trial.
"In the majority of cases, preventative detention is little more than a tool used.. to silence dissent and ensure self-censorship," Juliette Rousselot from the International Federation for Human Rights told AFP.
India has also made sweeping use of vaguely-worded anti-terror legislation -- the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act -- which effectively allows people to be held without trial indefinitely.
Kasmhiris now no longer have a locally elected government and are ruled by a lieutenant governor appointed by New Delhi Abid Bhat AFP/File
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Authorities have raided homes, offices and premises of civil society groups, journalists and newspapers, confiscating phones and laptops.
One group raided was the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society.
"All the state institutions that are supposed to protect human rights and civil liberties have also been silenced now, made dysfunctional or threatened into capitulation," the group's head Parvez Imroz said.
Local journalists say they are under increased scrutiny. Photographers have been assaulted and foreign reporters are effectively barred from the region.
When shopkeepers attempted a shutdown in protest this month, police smashed locks to force them to open.
Young people say they are questioned and sometimes beaten up at checkpoints if encrypted apps like WhatsApp or Signal are installed on their phones.
Over a dozen government employees have recently been dismissed for "anti-national activities" or social media posts critical of the government.
While Indian-administered Kashmir used to see almost weekly protests, now they are fast becoming a thing of the past Rakesh BAKSHI AFP/File
Last month police were told to reject security clearance for government jobs and passports to those with past involvement in protests, stone-throwing or activities against "security of the state".
Violence has continued. This month a local official from Modi's party was killed along with his wife, while 90 suspected rebels have died in clashes so far this year.
But while there used to be almost weekly protests, which police would often respond to with tear gas and pellet-firing shotguns, now they are fast becoming a thing of the past.
Relatives and even neighbours of those who have protested in the past -- or just suspected of having done so -- are regularly pressed by police to give written promises to ensure they desist.
"I'm now forced to think of my family and relations before opening my mouth to say anything," said one young man, who spent a year in prison and whose father was made to sign one such undertaking.
"It has separated us. Solidarity with each other is no longer possible."
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Kenya's Court of Appeal will give its verdict on Friday on the president's controversial three-year quest to change the constitution, a ruling that could shake up the political landscape less than a year before elections.
President Uhuru Kenyatta argues his proposed modifications to the 2010 constitution will help end repeated cycles of election violence, a hot-button issue that has divided the political elite.
The reforms came about following a rapprochement between Kenyatta and his erstwhile opponent Raila Odinga and a famous handshake between the two men after post-election fighting in 2017 left dozens of people dead.
The so-called Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) seeks notably to dilute the current winner-takes-all electoral system blamed by Kenyatta for poll unrest, and create new posts including one of prime minister.
Election campaigns in the East African country are often fought between ethnically-based alliances and communal violence can flare, notably in 2007-8 when more than 1,100 people died.
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Kenyatta's proposed reforms were approved by parliament in May and were then due to be put to a referendum.
But just two days later, the Nairobi High Court ruled that they were illegal as the president did not have the right to initiate the process.
Kenyatta criticised the decision as "an attempt to stop the will of the people" and his government appealed.
Proponents of the BBI argue it will improve fairness in the electoral system and curb the violence.
Kenya was rocked by deadly post-election violence in 2017 YASUYOSHI CHIBA AFP/File
If adopted, new positions of prime minister and two deputies would be created and there would be a formal designation of the post of opposition leader.
The size of both houses of parliament would be expanded, while the Senate would have 50-50 representation between men and women.
Critics, including Kenyatta's deputy William Ruto, charge that the reforms are window-dressing.
The motive, they say, is to increase the number of senior officials who are using it to lay the groundwork for an alliance ahead of the August 9 elections.
Some detractors have also argued that they would further burden a country struggling under a $70-billion debt mountain. The changes would push up parliament's already sky-high wage bill while creating more opportunities for patronage and corruption, they say.
Under the BBI process, the president would remain head of government and commander-in-chief, while ministers would answer to a prime minister.
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Kenyatta cannot run for a third term in 2022 and his pursuit of the reforms with Odinga, a four-time presidential contender, has spurred speculation that he may seek to become prime minister in a power-sharing arrangement.
Kenyatta had initially anointed Ruto -- who has served as his deputy since 2013 -- as his successor but the pair fell out several years ago after the president moved closer to Odinga.
A seven-judge panel will rule on the appeal and also decide if the president could be sued while still in office for championing the changes.
The eagerly-awaited verdict -- which is nevertheless subject to appeal at the Supreme Court -- has a bearing on the election calendar.
If the BBI is again ruled illegal, the electoral process would follow its planned course.
"That would be the least disruption," Nic Cheeseman, a professor at the University of Birmingham in England, told AFP.
On the flipside, he said, approval of the BBI "would be the more destabilising option" because of questions about whether there would be time to introduce all the reforms by election day.
There are "quite significant implications here for the political system, for the elections timetable and also for the political alliances that will be competing in the election."
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Five days after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 2,200 people in Haiti, aid was arriving but officials were eager to not repeat the mistakes that followed a 2010 quake that devastated the Caribbean nation.
With almost 53,000 homes completely destroyed and more than 77,000 others damaged in Saturday's tremor, authorities have a massive group of people that will need extensive recovery help.
Yet, authorities intend to provide materials for locals to rebuild their collapsed houses, rather than set up the type of camps that popped up after the earthquake that killed over 200,000 in the capital Port-au-Prince.
"In order not to repeat the mistakes of 2010, there will be no distribution of tents, there will be no creation of camps," said Federica Cecchet, the deputy chief of the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Haiti mission.
Scores of survivors of the 7-magnitude quake 11 years ago spent years living in temporary camps, as the nation's rebuilding effort creaked forward.
More than 1.5 million Haitians were made homeless in that disaster, which also destroyed 60 percent of Haiti's healthcare system, leaving authorities and the international humanitarian community with a colossal challenge.
Instead, the emphasis will be in repairing and rebuilding people's homes after Saturday's disaster that killed at least 2,189 and injured over 12,200.
In addition to food, drinking water and emergency medical aid, Haiti disaster authorities have already sent plastic sheeting, boards and nails to the southwestern peninsula hard-hit by the 7.2-magnitude quake.
"We must not repeat the pitfalls of 2010 of having camps all over the place," said Jerry Chandler, head of the civil protection agency, noting the challenge of managing and ultimately shutting down what were supposed to be temporary sites.
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As recovery efforts continue in Haiti, which was already reeling from the assassination of its president a month ago, foreign aid has begun to arrive.
The United States has brought helicopters to continue medical evacuation efforts of the most critically hurt to specialized hospitals in the Haitian capital.
A field hospital will also be set up by the American army in the city of Les Cayes, one of the hardest hit areas.
"We do have air force medical personnel there helping assist," US General Hank Taylor said on Thursday. "We are bringing in one of our medical hospital capabilities and more to come today to be able to help."
The USS Arlington, a US Navy transport ship, and a British Navy boat will be deployed to Haiti to help respond to the disaster.
For its part, the European Union has mobilized 3 million euros (over $3.5 million) in aid, which comes on top of donations of material from some of its member countries.
In an effort to better manage the arriving aid, IOM has set up an online platform aimed at better organizing the distribution of donations.
"This allows a more equitable distribution of aid... so as to not always serve the same areas and avoid duplication," said Cecchet of IOM.
"We know very well NGOs are arriving, some even with private helicopters in certain areas of the country without the government knowing," she added.
Even before Saturday's powerful earthquake, Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries, was wracked by a mounting Covid-19 crisis and political chaos that culminated last month with the assassination of president Jovenel Moise.
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Baby greater sac-winged bats learn to control their vocal system by babbling, similar to human babies, scientists found
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Human babies are not the only babblers, said a study published Thursday, some bats are also very talkative in their infancy and even make sounds that recall the googoo-gagas of our own tots.
Babbling in human children is key to developing the careful control over the vocal apparatus necessary for speech.
The study published in the journal Science indicates the same is true for the greater sac-winged bat, or Saccopteryx bilineata, native to Central America.
"Human infants seem to babble on the one hand to interact with their caregivers, but they also do that when they're completely alone, seemingly happily just exploring their voice, and that's the same what our bats are doing," study co-author Mirjam Knornschild, behavioral ecologist at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, told AFP.
Bats communicate by ultrasound, sound waves at frequencies above human hearing, but they can also make sounds audible to people.
"It sounds like a high pitched twittering to our ears... it's melodic," said Knornschild, who has worked with bats since 2003.
Saccopteryx bilineata don't hide away in gloomy caves, but prefer to live in trees, making them easier to observe.
The babbling of 20 baby bats was recorded in Costa Rica and Panama between 2015 and 2016 by researcher Ahana Fernandez, also affiliated with the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, who spent hours with the bats in the forest.
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The mammals, like us, have a larynx, and start babbling about three weeks after birth, for about 7 to 10 weeks -- until they are weaned.
During this period, the bats spend around 30 percent of their days babbling, with sessions lasting on average about seven minutes, the researchers calculated.
But one bat babbled for a full 43 minutes, a long stretch considering adult communication generally lasts but a few seconds.
"That's something really, really peculiar that the other bat species that have been studied to date simply don't do," said Knornschild.
"They're very chatty."
The vocalizations were converted into images, called spectrograms.
"Each syllable has a very specific shape, so to say, and they are easy to distinguish by eye," Knornschild added.
The researchers analyzed more than 55,000 produced syllables, finding universal characteristics of babbling in human infants in the bats, such as repetition, lack of meaning, but also that the sounds followed a certain rhythm.
On top of that, like with humans, the learning curve is not linear.
Out of 25 syllables in the adult repertoire, young bats have not yet mastered all of them by the time they are weaned, suggesting that they continue to learn.
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The researchers were able to show that the young bats learned fairly early on a six-syllable song used by males to mark their territory and attract females.
"The pups listen to adult males singing and then imitate that song," Knornschild said.
Baby females also learn the song, even though they won't reproduce it as adults. But the study suggests learning it may help them judge the performance of their potential future partners.
Very few other species babble -- only some birds, two species of marmosets and perhaps some dolphins or beluga whales.
Why would certain animals need to develop in this way and others not?
"Navigating and communicating in a dark, 3d environment, seems to be a huge selective pressure for vocal learning," Knornschild said.
But no matter the reason, the researchers underscore that developing a complex vocal system opens a world of possibilities -- as demonstrated in humans, and now also in bats.
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Just as US forces struggle with the desperate evacuation from Afghanistan, Vice President Kamala Harris embarks Friday on a trip to Vietnam, site of perhaps an even more infamous American military debacle.
The Southeast Asia trip, also taking in Singapore and a virtual meeting with ASEAN regional representatives, was planned long before a Taliban victory last weekend triggered the US scramble from Afghanistan.
Harris has taken some flak, especially from right-wing commentators who see the choice of Vietnam as, at best, tone-deaf.
The writers of "Veep," a television comedy series satirizing a hapless vice president, "could not have scripted this better," tweeted Sean Spicer, a former White House press secretary for president Donald Trump.
But US officials emphasize that the choice of Vietnam concerns geo-political challenges to come -- not the distant trauma of 1975 Saigon, when US helicopters ferried final evacuees from the embassy roof, as Viet Cong troops advanced.
The vice president "is focused on the threats of the future, not of the past," said a senior White House official, who asked not to be named.
The official acknowledged that President Joe Biden's foreign policy focus is currently fixed on the crisis at Kabul airport, where a few thousand US troops are trying to evacuate potentially tens of thousands of US citizens and local allies.
But at a time when China is challenging US political sway and naval dominance in the Indo-Pacific region, Southeast Asia is "strategically important and economically important to this country. That hasn't changed with Afghanistan," the White House official said.
"We can do more than one thing at a time."
Officials expressed confidence that the debacle in Afghanistan will not harm allies' trust in US commitment to far-reaching strategic goals across Asia.
"We are confident that our partners throughout the Indo-Pacific see the United States as a steadfast partner. And that's certainly going to be one of the things the vice president emphasizes on this trip," an official said.
Harris, an Asian-American whose mother was of Indian origin, will be the first US vice president to visit Vietnam.
Before arriving in Hanoi late Tuesday, Harris will visit Singapore and meet, starting Monday, with President Halimah Yacob and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
She will also stop at the Changi Naval Base, where she'll address US sailors aboard the visiting USS Tulsa, underscoring American security commitments to Singapore.
Harris is set to hold Vietnamese government meetings on Wednesday and will attend the opening of a Southeast Asian regional branch of the US Centers for Disease Control.
The global response to the coronavirus pandemic is set to dominate a meeting of ASEAN nations that Harris will join.
In her final events on Thursday, Harris will meet civil society representatives in communist Vietnam to "underscore the importance we place on supporting civil society as a driver of social change," an official said.
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Sydney is reporting more than 600 cases each day -- straining contact tracing efforts -- and that number shows little sign of shrinking
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Sydney extended its two-month-old lockdown for another month and introduced a partial curfew Friday, as Australia's largest city struggled to contain a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the "difficult" decision, telling the city's population of five million it was time to "bunker down".
"Unfortunately the case numbers continue to grow," she said. "This is what life will look like for most of us until the end of September."
For much of the pandemic, Sydney saw very few virus cases.
But the city is now reporting more than 600 cases each day -- straining contact tracing efforts -- and that number shows little sign of shrinking.
Stay-at-home orders will now remain in place across the city until the end of September and residents in virus hotspots will also be subject to a nighttime curfew and limited to one hour of outdoor exercise a day.
Around 1,000 defence force personnel are helping police implement restrictions, as weary residents increasingly bend the rules.
Around 1,000 defence force personnel are helping police implement restrictions, as weary residents increasingly bend the rules Saeed KHAN AFP
With the number of deaths rising steadily and the virus spreading to regional areas, Australia is racing to get jabs in arms.
Just 30 percent of the population is currently fully vaccinated.
Meanwhile, there are growing concerns about vulnerable Aboriginal communities in the New South Wales Outback, where the virus is now spreading.
The entire population of Wilcannia -- a small dusty town ringed by several ancient Aboriginal sites -- have been asked to get tested after a funeral was identified as a potential super-spreader event.
A local health department spokesman told AFP officials were going door-to-door urging locals to get tested for the virus, while a sports field has been converted into a testing site.
Early in the pandemic, Wilcannia residents had put up signs on the town's limits asking travellers not to stop — fearing the virus could obliterate an already vulnerable community.
New South Wales authorities are also facing growing anger from other Australian states, where the virus cases linked to the Sydney outbreak have emerged.
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Afghan debacle set to cloud Merkel's final Putin visit
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow in the twilight of her reign on Friday, with Afghanistan set to be the final twist in their long and thorny relationship.
From alleged cyberattacks to the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, Merkel and Putin have rarely seen eye to eye during the chancellor's 16 years in power.
Her return to Moscow for what is likely a farewell visit comes on the anniversary of the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny -- which sent relations plunging to a new low as Germany pinned the blame on Russia.
Now, as Merkel prepares to bow out of politics following an election in Germany on September 26, the crisis in Afghanistan could be the latest subject to drive a wedge between the two leaders.
While Merkel has described the Taliban's return to power as "bitter", Russia has taken a more conciliatory tone.
Moscow is seeking contact with the Taliban, with top diplomat Sergei Lavrov calling it a "positive signal" that the Islamists are "declaring and in practice showing their readiness to respect the opinion of others".
The German leader will also travel to Ukraine on Sunday, for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) CHARLES PLATIAU POOL/AFP/File
The trip will be the 20th visit to Russia for Merkel, a Russian speaker who grew up behind the Iron Curtain in the former communist East Germany.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Afghanistan would "obviously" be up for discussion, along with Ukraine.
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The German leader will also travel to Ukraine on Sunday, where she will meet President Volodymyr Zelensky amid continued tensions over Moscow's troop build-up on Ukraine's borders.
Efforts to secure peace in Ukraine have been one of Merkel's flagship projects and she will want to avoid creating the impression that the peace process has "become a political zombie", Fyodor Lukyanov editor-in-chief of the Russia in Global Affairs magazine, told AFP.
Merkel may also seek to provide Ukraine with assurances over Nord Stream 2, the controversial gas pipeline set to double natural gas supplies from Russia to Germany.
The pipeline had been delayed due to objections from several EU countries and the United States for bypassing Ukraine's gas infrastructure, depriving the nation of badly needed transit fees.
But the United States and Germany struck a deal in July to allow its completion, including a promise of sanctions on Russia should it use energy as a weapon against Ukraine.
Seibert said the "still unresolved" Navalny case would also feature during talks on Friday and had placed a "heavy burden on the relationship with Russia".
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The Kremlin critic was treated in a Berlin hospital after mysteriously collapsing on an internal Russian flight last year, and was jailed when he returned to Russia in January.
To mark the Navalny anniversary, the Kremlin on Wednesday accused the German government of a "propaganda campaign" against Russia and said Berlin was "interfering in the internal affairs of our country".
Navalny, meanwhile, dictated an explosive letter from prison in which he called on global leaders to stamp out corruption and impose sanctions on members of Putin's entourage.
Other points of contention have included alleged espionage and cyber attacks, with Merkel declaring she was personally targeted by Russian hackers.
In a particularly dramatic case, a Georgian of Chechen origin was shot dead in broad daylight by a passing cyclist in a park in Berlin -- a murder that Germany has accused Moscow of orchestrating.
And just last week, a British man named as David S. was arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia in exchange for cash while working at the British embassy in Berlin.
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But despite the many tensions, Merkel has always sought to maintain a dialogue with Putin.
Lukyanov predicts that Putin will give Merkel a "warm reception".
Putin is expected to give Merkel a warm reception in what looks set to be their final official meeting Alexei Druzhinin SPUTNIK/AFP/File
"In a way, Merkel is close to him. The two of them have been through so much together," he said.
In previous meetings, the Russian leader has sought to charm the chancellor by giving her flowers or helping her into her coat.
But he also invited his huge black labrador Konni to a meeting in 2007 -- hardly a welcome gesture for Merkel, who has admitted being nervous around dogs.
"I trust her, she is a very open person," Putin has said of Merkel. The chancellor is not known to have made similar remarks about Putin.
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Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, left, will fight WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas, right, on Saturday in Las Vegas
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Manny Pacquiao says a change of opponent has not affected his training as he attempts to reclaim his world welterweight crown after a two-year absence from the ring on Saturday.
The Filipino boxing icon faces WBA champion Yordenis Ugas at Las Vegas's T-Mobile Arena in a bout that was put together after his initial opponent, Errol Spence Jr., suffered an eye injury.
The abrupt withdrawal of Spence, the unbeaten IBF and WBC champion, has deprived the 42-year-old Pacquiao of another superfight at the tail-end of his glittering career.
It also means Pacquiao, who has not fought since beating Keith Thurman for the WBA title in July 2019, has had to recalibrate his training to account for the fact that he will now be taking on a right-handed opponent rather than a southpaw.
Pacquiao (62-7-2, 39 knockouts) played down the impact of the tactical readjustment as he prepares for the 72nd fight of a professional career that began in 1995.
"It only took me two days to adjust to fighting Ugas," Pacquiao said. "I have fought a lot of right-handed fighters before.
"It would have been harder switching from preparing for a right hander to a southpaw. Most of my opponents have been right-handed, so there's nothing to worry about."
The hastily rearranged bout also gives Pacquiao a chance to settle a score.
Pacquiao was controversially stripped of his WBA title on grounds of "inactivity" earlier this year despite the global disruption to boxing caused by the pandemic.
The WBA instead handed the belt to Ugas, a fact that rankled Pacquiao.
"I didn't like that someone took my belt without challenging me in the ring," Pacquiao said. "Both of us are champions, but we'll see who has the belt after Saturday."
Pacquiao will start as a heavy favorite to reclaim the title in what could easily turn out to be his final fight.
While Pacquiao retains enough residue of the talent that made him the most thrilling fighter in boxing at his peak, Father Time remains an ever-present threat for a boxer into his 40s.
"I don't know if this is going to be my last [time in the ring], we are going to see fight by fight," said Pacquiao.
"I feel young right now. I enjoy training camp and I'm excited to sacrifice and be disciplined every day to prepare for a fight like this."
Pacquiao's long-time trainer, Freddie Roach, says there has been no sign of a drop-off in his protege's ferocious work ethic at their Los Angeles training base.
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Pacquiao still attacks his gruelling morning roadwork in the hills above the California metropolis, and in a recent workout at Roach's Wild Card gym, twice floored a sparring partner.
"We've had a good training camp and Manny has worked really hard for this fight," Roach said.
"Putting a sparring partner on the canvas was a motivation for all of us. We're going to bring that into this fight.
"His work ethic today is as good as it was 20 years go ... I'm expecting this fight to end in a knockout the way he has been looking."
In the opposite corner, meanwhile, Ugas is quietly plotting an ambush despite also having to readjust his training camp.
The 35-year-old Cuban (26-4, 12 knockouts) had initially been due to face Fabian Maidana on Saturday's undercard but agreed to step in to face Pacquiao after Spence's withdrawal.
"This has been a long road for me," Ugas said. "Obviously it is short notice that I learned I was fighting Pacquiao, but I'm thankful for the opportunity and I'm ready to take advantage of it.
"There are no excuses heading into this fight. I've been in this position taking a short-notice fight before, although obviously never against a fighter the caliber of Pacquiao.
"I'm certain that he cannot knock me out. I have prepared for 12 hard rounds. If this is Pacquiao's final fight, then he's going to be up against a guy who brought his best."
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The dog days of summer have not been the “thing” this summer. Our temperatures have been running below normal and we have been wet. Yet, the hot sultry dog days of summer are here! Not so much hot temperatures as it is really all about the deep tropical air we have been dealing with all summer.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The dog days of summer have not been the “thing” this summer. Our temperatures have been running below normal and we have been wet. Yet, the hot sultry dog days of summer are here! Not so much hot temperatures as it is really all about the deep tropical air we have been dealing with all summer.
Feel-like temperatures have been topping out between 105-112° and there will be only subtle shifts over the next two afternoon’s.
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Both Friday and Saturday will see sunny, steamy starts. Starting around 75°, lunch time temperatures will reach to near 90° and from there heat indices will be +100° throughout the remainder of each afternoon. This will likely prompt Heat Advisories both afternoons by the National Weather Service.
Scattered storms will load up Exact Track 4D each afternoon with the better chances of storms Friday.
Weekend plans for the beach? Go early and remember, when “Thunder Roars, head indoors”.
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Graham Media Group is currently seeking a Vice President and General Manager for its WJXT/WCWJ duopoly in Jacksonville, FL. The VP/GM will report to the President/CEO and is responsible for the entire WJXT/WCWJ media hub, our fully local station (WJXT) with no network affiliation, as well as our CW affiliate, WCWJ. THE Local Station (WJXT) dominates in news and is the most watched television station in the diverse and growing Jacksonville market (43), reaching 757,000 TV homes. In addition to delivering a variety of local programs, documentaries and specials, our website, News4Jax.com is the No. 1 source for local news and information, distancing itself from all other local media including newspapers.
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Graham Media Group is currently seeking a Vice President and General Manager for its WJXT/WCWJ duopoly in Jacksonville, FL. The VP/GM will report to the President/CEO and is responsible for the entire WJXT/WCWJ media hub, our fully local station (WJXT) with no network affiliation, as well as our CW affiliate, WCWJ. THE Local Station (WJXT) dominates in news and is the most watched television station in the diverse and growing Jacksonville market (43), reaching 757,000 TV homes. In addition to delivering a variety of local programs, documentaries and specials, our website, News4Jax.com is the No. 1 source for local news and information, distancing itself from all other local media including newspapers.
If you are a dynamic leader of people with a strong work ethic and the highest standards of integrity and are looking for your next challenge, we want you!
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Qualifications
Areas of focus:
News and programming: Excellent understanding and success working with a diverse news staff. Experience developing strong, successful newscasts, from a viewer/user and cost standpoint. Knowledge and ability to negotiate anchor/talent contracts and syndicated programming contracts.
Television and digital media sales: Ability to lead the station’s sales management team, including, but not limited to, a thorough understanding of Nielsen and Comscore ratings, sales inventory management and pricing, marketing, working with the National Rep firm and overall client relations.
Engineering/IT: Experience with capital budgets, long-term capital forecasts and overall station facility needs. Overall understanding of physical plant issues, news gathering equipment and general industry trends.
Creative services: Experience in branding, marketing and social media strategy for the station and its execution on all platforms. Overall understanding of promotional plans and campaigns for local/network programming in addition to production and outside media budgets.
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Business: Experience in developing, reviewing, and understanding the station monthly operating results, operating budgets and forecasts (monthly and three-year projections). Ability to present the station budget and related financial information to GMG Corporate in an organized and thorough manner.
Station personnel: The station has approximately 184 employees. Proven leadership and interpersonal skills required with demonstrated experience as an empathetic, forward-looking individual. Excellent written and oral communication skills required.
Community: Ability to work closely with a vibrant and diverse local community and special interest groups to understand how the station can best serve their needs. Community outreach experience is essential.
College degree in related field strongly preferred. Prior General Manager experience preferred.
Overall: Must have an unwavering passion for local television and digital media.
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Competitive salary based on experience; bonus opportunity as well as Long Term Incentive plan; comprehensive benefits.
To apply, please send resume to: Careers@grahammedia.com
Graham Media Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In addition to complying with the requirements of federal law, GMG will comply with applicable state and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination.
Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-employment drug screening, investigative background check, employment/education verifications and reference checks.
As a condition of employment, GMG requires that all newly hired employees be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by the first day of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law, unless you qualify for a medical or religious accommodation.
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Graham Media Group is comprised of seven local media hubs, Graham Digital and Social News Desk, delivering local news, programming, advertising solutions and digital media tools for television, online, mobile, OTT, podcasts and audio devices. We are dynamic, local brands that extend well beyond the traditional TV set. Our work helps inform, celebrate and knit together the communities we serve.
GMG operates in six states: KPRC–Houston, WDIV–Detroit and WSLS–Roanoke (NBC); KSAT–San Antonio (ABC); WKMG–Orlando (CBS); WJXT–Jacksonville (fully local), and WCWJ–Jacksonville (CW). Based in Detroit, Graham Digital is a digital media and technology development group widely recognized as a leading industry innovator.
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A Jacksonville nursing home facility is facing a $10 million federal lawsuit after a former employee who is openly gay says he was repeatedly harassed by three employees and forced to resign after he filed complaints with upper management.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville nursing home facility is facing a $10 million federal lawsuit after a former employee who is openly gay says he was repeatedly harassed by three employees and forced to resign after he filed complaints with upper management.
“It felt like hell. It felt very uncomfortable,” said Daniel Vernon. “Every day, I came into work. I was not happy.”
Vernon, a certified nursing assistant, said the harassment happened at the Life Care Center of Jacksonville facility in the Baymeadows area.
“I’ve been with the company for 11 years, and at other locations, I was treated like family. But when I came to Jacksonville, it was different,” Vernon said.
Vernon said he repeatedly endured verbal harassment from three female coworkers.
“Slurs and words would make me very uncomfortable,” Vernon said. “I would report it, but nothing was done about it.”
Vernon and J. Eric Jones, his attorney, say reporting the acts of sexual orientation harassment led to retaliation by a nursing home manager who, according to a federal lawsuit against the nursing home, forced Vernon to resign and then threatened to call police on him when a patient came over to Vernon and asked him if he was okay.
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“I was like, why you would call police? I’m not doing any harm. I was just talking to a patient. And he just kept saying, ‘You need to get out. Just go. Hurry up and leave. I’m calling the police.’”
Jones says his client’s statements have been validated by coworkers who were aware of what Vernon was going through.
“Witnesses and text messages have said he was experiencing a horrible, harassing and intolerable work environment,” Jones said.
The attorney feels his client’s case will be heard in front of a federal jury, pointing to a Supreme Court ruling from last year that found it was illegal to discriminate or retaliate against a person because of their LGBTQ status.
Frieda Saraga is the founder of the Jacksonville chapter of the PFLAG -- an organization of members of the LGBTQ community and their parents, families and allies. Saraga reviewed Vernon’s case and wanted to send a message to people who think it’s OK to demean and criticize people who are gay.
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“All people are equal. All people are the same. We were all born the same. It’s not a choice. It’s just who they are,” Saraga said.
Life Care Centers of America released a statement that reads: ”We have recently been made aware of a lawsuit filed against our facility by a former associate. Due to the pending legal action, we cannot provide specific information on this matter.”
Vernon is now employed at another healthcare facility where he says he loves the environment and that both his coworkers and management have been very respectful.
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 file photo, a for sale sign stands in front of a house in Westwood, Mass. Mortgage rates were mixed this week and barely changed after rising for the first time last week following six weeks of declines. Average rates for home loans remain historically low at under 3%. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021 that the average for the 30-year mortgage eased to 2.86% from 2.87% last week. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates were mixed this week and barely changed after rising for the first time last week following six weeks of declines. Average rates for home loans remain historically low at under 3%.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average for the 30-year mortgage eased to 2.86% from 2.87% last week. The benchmark rate, which reached a peak this year of 3.18% in April, stood at 2.99% a year ago.
The rate for a 15-year loan, a popular option among homeowners refinancing their mortgages, edged up to 2.16% from 2.15% last week.
Uncertainty over the fast-spreading delta coronavirus variant and its potential effect on the economic recovery has been a backdrop in recent weeks, suppressing mortgage rates. The worry is that the resurgent virus could discourage people from going out and spending and trigger another round of shutdowns or other restrictions.
In a positive development, a government report Thursday showed that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fourth straight time to a pandemic low. The 29,000 decline in claims, to 348,000, was the latest sign that the U.S. job market is rebounding from the pandemic recession as employers boost hiring to meet a surge in consumer demand.
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The Shohei Ohtani road show heads to Cleveland after the two-way superstar thrilled opposing crowds in Detroit.
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Los Angeles Angels catcher Max Stassi, from left, Brandon Marsh and Shohei Ohtani (17) celebrate after beating the Detroit Tigers 13-10 in a baseball game in Detroit, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
A look at what’s happening around the majors on Friday:
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WHAT WILL SHOHEI DO NEXT?
The Shohei Ohtani road show heads to Cleveland after the two-way superstar thrilled opposing crowds in Detroit.
Ohtani’s Los Angeles Angels — whose playoff chances are slim at one game over .500 — will play two games at the Indians' home ballpark before both teams head to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the Little League Classic on Sunday night.
After that, LA travels to Baltimore for a three-game series against the major league-worst Orioles that’s expected to include Ohtani’s next mound start — perhaps a rare opportunity for Baltimore fans to feel some buzz.
Against Detroit, Ohtani had his longest mound start of the season, winning his fourth consecutive start with an eight-inning performance on Wednesday night. He also hit a towering, 430-foot homer — his major league-leading 40th of the season — that Tigers fans waiting for Miguel Cabrera to hit No. 500 couldn't help but admire.
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Ohtani followed it up with a 2-for-3 day as the Angels rallied from an eight-run deficit to beat the Tigers on Thursday.
OPTIMISM IN HOUSTON
Astros manager Dusty Baker has reasons to feel good about his AL West-leading club even after an uninspired seven-game trip.
Houston went 3-4 on the road against the Angels and Royals and begins a weeklong homestand on Friday by hosting division rival Seattle. The Astros lead Oakland by 2 1/2 games, which hasn't escaped Baker's notice.
“I’ve been scoreboard watching every day,” Baker said. “Scoreboard watching is something I do between innings when I’m not thinking about what to do. We’re just looking forward to the finish line. We have a ways to go, and we haven’t played our best ball yet.”
One thing that's making Baker sanguine about the future is having Aledmys Díaz in the lineup. Díaz went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs, including the go-ahead single in the 10th inning of a 6-3 win at Kansas City on Thursday.
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“You can tell what (Díaz) means to this club (by looking at) the six weeks he was out,” Baker said.
SUB-BASEMENT
The major league-worst Baltimore Orioles haven't even come within two runs of a win in the past week.
The Orioles dropped their 15th straight game on Thursday, falling 7-2 to the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays. And most of them haven't been close.
According to ESPN Stats & Info, the Orioles are the first team since 1900 to lose 15 straight games by multiple runs. The closest Baltimore got was a 6-4 loss to Detroit on Aug. 12.
The Orioles have been outscored 138-42 during the skid, allowing an average of 9.2 runs per game.
After dropping four at Tampa Bay by scores of 9-2, 10-0, 8-4 and 7-2, Baltimore hosts another first-place team for a three-game series this weekend: NL-East winning Atlanta.
The Arizona Diamondbacks had the worst record in the majors for much of the season, but Baltimore now owns that distinction. Arizona is coming off a three-game sweep of Philadelphia and has won six of seven overall.
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OCTOBER PREVIEW
Brandon Lowe knows this weekend may not be the last time the Rays face the Chicago White Sox in 2021.
The AL Central leaders visit the AL East leaders for a three-game series starting Friday.
“This is going to be kind of what we’re looking at postseason-wise, I feel like,” Lowe said. “You know the White Sox are going to make it, we feel like we’re going to make it. I think the games are going to be a little bit tougher, it’s going to be a little bit lower-scoring ballgames but it’s going to be a hard-fought battle for the whole series.”
Tampa Bay has won 11 of 14, and perhaps a playoff preview could lure a few more fans to Tropicana Field. In their four-game sweep of Baltimore, the Rays drew a total of 22,754 paying customers — an average of 5,689 per game.
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A 32-year-old Ponte Vedra Beach man was arrested Wednesday and accused of soliciting a minor for sex, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.
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ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – A 32-year-old Ponte Vedra Beach man was arrested Wednesday and accused of soliciting a minor for sex, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office said on its official Facebook page that the arrest was part of an undercover investigation. It said a detective created a post on social media, indicating they were a 13-year-old girl.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the suspect went into “explicit detail” on the sexual acts he wanted to perform and asked to meet.
The Sheriff’s Office said the man traveled from Ponte Vedra to a predetermined location and that Tracy Shackelford was arrested without incident.
Shackelford is now shacked up in the St. Johns County jail on charges of traveling to meet a minor, attempted lewd and lascivious battery, soliciting a minor for sex, and unlawful use of a two way communication device.
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An Arizona state senator who resigned after being arrested early this month on child molestation charges has been indicted.
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018 file photo, then-Rep. Tony Navarrete, D-Phoenix, waits with Arizona House members receiving mandatory sexual harassment and other ethics issues training on the House floor at the capitol, in Phoenix. Currently, an Arizona State Senator, Navarrete has been arrested on suspicion of charges accusing him of sexual conduct with a minor, police said Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
PHOENIX – An Arizona state senator who resigned after being arrested early this month on child molestation charges has been indicted, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office announced Thursday.
The indictment charges Tony Navarrete with six felony counts related to sexual contact he's accused of having with a boy. He's charged with one count for alleged contact with a second boy.
Navarrete is a Democrat who represented parts of west Phoenix and Glendale. He resigned from the Senate on Aug. 10. He released a statement that day saying, “I adamantly deny all allegations that have been made and will pursue all avenues in an effort to prove my innocence.”
The first victim, a now-16-year-old boy, told Phoenix Police detectives that Navarrete molested him starting when he was 12 or 13 years old and continued until he was 15. A police probable cause statement said he admitted the crimes in phone call with the boy recorded by police.
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He was arrested Aug. 5 and released on $50,000 bond two days later. A prosecutor said at his initial court appearance that he faced a mandatory minimum of 49 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will chose a replacement to serve the remainder of his Senate term.
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A photo posted to Reddit shows a woman lying on the ground at the new monoclonal treatment site in downtown Jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A photo spreading on social media shows people sick with COVID-19 lying on the floor of the downtown Jacksonville library while waiting for antibody treatment.
Toma Dean, the women seen in the photo in the yellow dress, contacted News4Jax on Thursday evening, saying she’d been suffering with COVID and pneumonia for two weeks and that she’d been in and out of emergency rooms.
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The Fleming Island resident said when her 16-year-old son took her to the library for treatment Wednesday, she could barely stand.
“I was bad. Very bad shape. Lightheaded. Dizzy. Shortness of breath,” she said. “I couldn’t stand at all.”
Dean said she had just left Baptist hospital, where an emergency room doctor advised her to get the monoclonal antibody treatment. With her son by her side and not a wheelchair in sight, Dean said she first sat, then laid on the floor.
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“I was so sick it didn’t even matter,” Dean said. “I just thought I could roll. I just wanted to get to therapy because I thought I’m either going to die -- be hospitalized, die, or I’m going to make it through those doors.”
Dean said the staff at the library was excellent, and they scrambled to get wheelchairs to the library. The treatment itself was quick, and Dean said she felt better already. She said she was not vaccinated for COVID.
“If you have it, I advise you to go get this therapy, go take advantage of the resources out there. Get vaccinated. It may not be the first thing that you want to do, but it’s better than the end result,” Dean said.
Since that photo was posted Wednesday night it’s been shared hundreds of times and it also prompted a change at the treatment center.
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Now the city has added wheelchairs, seating and more ways for patients to alert someone if they need help.
Workers at the site say you feel too sick, you need to go to the hospital. The treatment is for people in the early stages of COVID-19.
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The Taliban say they will be a new, moderate ruling group in Afghanistan. United Nations officials and international experts say that seems unlikely.
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Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
The Taliban say they will be a new, moderate ruling group in Afghanistan. United Nations officials and international experts say that seems unlikely.
With warnings of food shortages and a weakened economy, generous international aid enjoyed by the previous government will be sorely missed. The most important issue for Americans now is the ongoing evacuation.
Nancy Soderberg, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and current director of the Public Service Leadership Program at the University of North Florida, is concerned for the Afghan people as the Taliban takeover continues. She doesn’t believe Taliban claims of change.
“They’re saying they (women) could still go to school and work, but, in Sharia law, no one really knows what that means, but we know who the Taliban are,” Soderberg said. “They ruled Afghanistan in the 90s until 2001, were horrific. They beheaded people. They wouldn’t let women go to school or work -- they had to be at home, fully covered. Dancing was outlawed. Music was outlawed, and the country was just imploding.”
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Implosion is one of the descriptions for what’s happened in the past two weeks when American troops withdrew. Now, evacuation of Americans and allies has produced images of chaos and tragedy.
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, born in Jacksonville, served in Afghanistan a decade ago.
“We look like we were not prepared. Something as important as policy for getting African interpreters out. You know, this is not normal emigration. This is a situation that we knew was coming, and we should have had those kind of policies in place already,” Hodges said.
U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott have called on the defense secretary to explain military equipment left behind in Afghanistan. They’re concerned it can fall into the hands of Taliban or their terrorist allies. They want a full account of that equipment.
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News4Jax asked retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph DiSalvo, who lives in Northeast Florida, about it.
“A couple of things. You have no option. With 20 years of training, assist and equip, that mission, there’s so much equipment there it’d be impossible to recollect it now,” DiSalvo said. “With all due respect to the senators, there’s no way in heck they’re going to be able to account for all equipment. It’s impossible.”
The Taliban, so far, have not given specifics on how they plan to lead other than to say they will be by Islamic law.
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Japanese actor Sonny Chiba, who wowed the world with his martial arts skills in more than 100 films, including “Kill Bill,” has died.
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FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2003, file photo, Japanese actor Sonny Chiba arrives for the premiere of the film "Kill Bill: Volume 1" at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Chiba, known in Japan as Shinichi Chiba, who wowed the world with his martial arts skills, acting in more than 100 films, including Kill Bill, has died late Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. He was 82. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
TOKYO – Japanese actor Sonny Chiba, who wowed the world with his martial arts skills in more than 100 films, including “Kill Bill,” has died. He was 82.
Chiba, known in Japan as Shinichi Chiba, died late Thursday in a hospital near Tokyo where he had been treated for COVID-19 since Aug. 8, Tokyo-based Astraia, his management office, said in a statement Friday. It said he had not been vaccinated.
Chiba rose to stardom in Japan in the 1960s, portraying samurai, fighters and police detectives, the anguished so-called “anti-heroes” trying to survive in a violent world. He did many of the stunt scenes himself.
His overseas career took off after his 1970s Japanese film “The Street Fighter” proved popular in the U.S.
American director Quentin Tarantino listed the work as among his “grindhouse,” or low-budget kitsch cinema, favorites.
Tarantino cast Chiba in the role of Hattori Hanzo, a master swordsmith in “Kill Bill.”
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Chiba appeared in the 1991 Hollywood film “Aces,” directed by John Glen, as well as in Hong Kong movies.
Chiba’s career also got a boost from the global boom in kung fu films, set off by Chinese legend Bruce Lee, although critics say Chiba tended to exhibit a dirtier, thug-like fighting style than Lee.
“A true action legend. Your films are eternal and your energy an inspiration. #SonnyChiba #RIP,” American actor Lewis Tan said on Twitter.
New York-based writer and director Ted Geoghegan called him “the great Sonny Chiba.”
“Watch one of his films today,” Geoghegan tweeted, followed by images of a fist and a broken heart.
Other fans mournfully filled Twitter threads with clips of his movies and photos.
Born in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, Chiba studied at Nippon Sport Science University trained in various martials arts, earning a fourth-degree black belt in karate.
Chiba set up Japan Action Club in 1980, to develop a younger generation of actors, including protege Hiroyuki Sanada, who is among Hollywood’s most coveted Japanese actors, landing roles in “The Last Samurai” and “Rush Hour 3.”
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Chiba is survived by his three children, Juri Manase, Mackenyu Arata and Gordon Maeda, all actors. A wake was canceled as a pandemic measure, and funeral arrangements were still undecided, his office said.
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(Tel-Aviv, Israel – August 19, 2021) – REE Automotive Ltd. (NASDAQ: “REE”), an innovator in e-mobility which recently started to trade on Nasdaq, today announced that its REEcorner™ technology was awarded £12.5 million GBP funding from the UK government as part of a £41.2 million GBP investment, coordinated through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC). The investment is in line with the UK government’s ambition to accelerate the shift to zero-emission vehicles and de-carbonize the UK’s transport networks. The award funding follows an intensive vetting and selection process from which REE’s project and three other transformational projects were selected amongst dozens of companies. Together, the 4 projects could save nearly 32m tons of carbon emissions, which is equivalent to the lifetime tailpipe emissions of 1.3m cars. The investment will help drive energy-saving technology across a wide range of vehicles and propel forward a green economic recovery.
The UK funds will allow REE to facilitate commercial production of its breakthrough REEcorner™ technology and ultra-modular electric vehicle platforms, including engineering design, validation, verification and testing, and product homologation.
REEcorner™ technology packs critical vehicle components (e.g. steering, braking, suspension, powertrain, and control) into a single compact module located between the chassis and the wheel, thus enabling fully-flat EV platforms. REE’s ultra-modular EV platforms are designed to offer enhanced payload capacity by providing more room for carrying passengers, cargo, and batteries and enhanced body design flexibility and autonomous capability.
Ian Constance, Chief Executive at the APC said: “These projects tackle some really important challenges in the journey to net-zero road transport. They address range anxiety and cost, which can be a barrier to people making the switch to electric vehicles and they also provide potential solutions to the challenge of how we decarbonize public transport and the movement of goods. By investing in this innovation, we’re taking these technologies closer to the point where they are commercially viable, which will strengthen the UK’s automotive supply chain, safeguard or create jobs and reduce harmful greenhouse emissions.”
Minister for Investment Lord Grimstone said: “By investing tens of millions in the technology needed to decarbonize our roads, not only are we working hard to end our contribution to climate change, but also ensuring our automotive sector has a competitive future that will secure thousands of highly-skilled jobs. Seizing the opportunities that arise from the global green automotive revolution is central to our plans to build back greener, and these winning projects will help make the widespread application and adoption of cutting-edge, clean automotive technology a reality.”
Mike Charlton, REE’s COO: “REE is honored to have been selected as the recipient of the UK funding to support REE investment in the UK automotive ecosystem following an extensive vetting and selection process. The opening of our Engineering Center in the UK in February this year reaffirms our commitment to the region and is in line with our plans for the mass production of our breakthrough REEcorner and electric vehicle platform technology. The UK is an ideal location for a pioneering automotive company like REE thanks to the country’s commitment to vehicle electrification which dovetails with our vision of propelling a zero-emissions, greener future for our generation and those to come.”
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On Thursday, 19th August 2021, the Minister of Finance, Nicolas Kazadi, was hosted on CNBC Africa’s Power Lunch by Wole Famurewa to discuss the DRC’s COVID-19 response, vaccinations, and projections for the economic recovery.
The DRC is committed to ensuring the situation is managed promptly. “Vaccination is indispensable in order to begin easing restrictions and opening the economy,” said the Minister. The Congolese government has mobilized 250 million USD and ordered more than 30 million vaccine doses such as Johnson and Johnson, AstraZeneca, and others. The DRC Government has received the new batch of vaccines and the number of those who are being vaccinated throughout DRC is steadily rising in all the hospitals. Despite the reports of hesitation towards taking the vaccine, the Minister of Finance stressed that the Congolese government’s priority is massive deployment and awareness.
Regarding the economy, DRC had a 1.7% GDP growth rate at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and is among the most resilient economies. For the next couple of years, growth estimations are at 4.9% for 2021 and 5.6% for 2020. With the rapid deployment of vaccines, the recovery trajectory should be maintained.
DRC is also actively working towards sustainable and private sector-led economic growth through the IMF allocated $1.5 billion Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). The funds will go towards strengthening the international reserves and increasing public investments. This will help stimulate growth and catalyze sustainable development (infrastructure, development bank, vaccine acquisition, etc.).
The Minister, Mr. Nicolas Kazadi, continued on the US-DRC partnership, stating that the sectors to invest in are education, health care, reducing conflict, new opportunities for the economy, energy in terms of climate, and governmental reforms. The DRC is also engaged in the MCC (Millennium Challenge Corporation) Initiative, which is a catalyst in blended finance transactions and will better position the country to mobilize private capital for the public good through Prosper Africa.
The structural reform agenda has been taken up in order to facilitate investments in the private sector. Some of the reforms include improving the business climate, reinforcing accountability mechanisms in the financial sector, fighting against corruption, and strengthening transparency specifically in the mining sector. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has been adopted and the State has committed to a beneficial ownership registry, as well as a disclosure of mining contracts. The tax contribution from this sector has also increased the public fund. The Finance Minister says, “Partnering with other sectors, such as agriculture, is essential to diversify the economy”.
According to the Minister of Finance, Nicolas Kazadi, “If we need to attract more investors, we need more transparency”. He concluded with the Africa Business Forum (AFB) which will be held in the upcoming weeks. This forum will link the mining sector with producers on the value chain regarding raw materials.
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In-depth environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Intelligence reports mark the latest addition to Advisory Division’s suite of resources
August 2021: Oxford Business Group (OBG) has expanded its portfolio of research tools to include a suite of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Intelligence reports.
Produced by OBG’s Advisory Division, the new reports are a reflection of both the growing importance that firms are attaching to ESG as they plot their recovery from the impact of Covid-19 and growth and rising interest from investors.
The reports will shine a spotlight on what countries, governments, and companies are doing to meet ESG standards at a time when business ethics and social responsibility are increasingly shaping the global corporate agenda.
The key role that the Covid-19 pandemic has played in fuelling appetite for ESG investment will be a major focus. Here, OBG’s reports will consider the improvements in ESG compliance evident among companies in emerging markets, often as a result of measures introduced to maintain business continuity, while analysing the part that they are likely to play in driving the sustainable recovery.
In its coverage, OBG will also analyse the performance of ESG-rated stocks and bonds against their competitors, amid rising awareness that the adoption of ESG principles is now generating real shareholder value and facilitating access to capital.
The move underway among regulators to introduce mandatory ESG and sustainability reporting requirements for listed companies will also be examined.
Oliver Cornock, OBG’s Editor-in-Chief, said the new reports and other ESG-led content would meet rising demand among business leaders and decision-makers for topical information at a time when the pandemic had forced many companies to rethink how they operate.
“Recognition among the global business community of the benefits of ESG principles has been growing, underscored by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while many of the new ways of working witnessed over the past 16 months, such as accelerated digitalisation, a greater emphasis on employee well-being and reductions in carbon footprint, dovetail with the broader increased focus on sustainability and social responsibility,” he said. “At Oxford Business Group, we have always been committed to shedding light on untapped opportunities in long-term and sustainable investment and these new trends have generated a multitude of untold stories with huge potential. I’m delighted that we now have a designated platform where we can offer subscribers valuable insight into these exciting developments and start important ESG-related conversations on an international level.”
The ESG Intelligence reports form part of a series of tailored studies which OBG is currently producing with its partners, alongside other highly relevant, go-to research tools, including a range of country-specific Growth and Recovery Outlook articles and interviews.
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Shared Information about the developments at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication
New Delhi, August 19: The Director-General of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Prof. Sanjay Dwivedi, made a courtesy call on Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Om Birla on Thursday. During the meeting, he briefed the Speaker of the Lok Sabha about the current academic activities and developmental work of the institute and presented a copy of the special issue of IIMC’s research journal ‘Sanchar Madhyam’ focused on the topic ‘100 Years of Media Education in India’.
Prof. Dwivedi informed Mr. Birla about new experiments conducted by IIMC in the field of media education during the COVID period. Prof. Dwivedi also addressed the institute’s future goals with the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
Mr. Birla also expressed his gratitude to the Indian Institute of Mass Communication for naming its library after Pt. Yugal Kishore Shukla, India’s first Hindi journalist. Shri Birla said that this library of IIMC is the country’s first memorial in the name of Pt. Shukla, the pioneer of Hindi journalism. Prof. Sanjay Dwivedi deserves credit for this.
The Speaker of the Lok Sabha said that the Indian Institute of Mass Communication has yet to go further amidst the challenges of Corona. IIMC should now try to establish itself at the global level in the field of mass communication education.
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SOUTH DENNIS, Mass. (WFLA) — A Massachusetts man claimed his $500,000 lottery winnings one day before it was set to expire.
Leonard Thomas won the Powerball draw on August 19, 2020, but was completely unaware of his riches.
“I heard about a Powerball ticket expiring on the radio and then my nephew told me,” he said. “I play at that store and have a plastic sleeve that I keep my tickets in. When I heard about the expiring ticket, I looked through the tickets in the sleeve and found a Powerball ticket from August 19, 2020. I had it scanned at a convenience store and the clerk indicated that I had to go to the Lottery to claim the prize.”
Thomas took his dog Mariah to claim his prize at the Mass Lottery headquarters and says he plans on using the winnings to buy a small house or year-round cottage.
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Virus variations compete for supremacy and the stronger and most resistant forms are the ones that take over and become the most common strains.
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At least two new COVID-19 variants have hit the United States and they could be worse than the delta variant in their infectiousness and ability to stand up to vaccines, according to a top medical authority.
The lambda variant, along with another one so new it doesn’t even have a Greek letter name yet, are the causes of concern, according to Dr. Gregory Poland, director of the Vaccine Research Group at the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. So far, the new variant has been called B.1.621.
There now are about 1,500 known cases of the lambda virus mutation in the United States, Dr. Poland said to WPIX.
“What makes it dangerous is that it’s highly infectious and can resist some of the vaccine-induced immunity and spread easily between people,” he said.
Virus variations compete for supremacy and the stronger and most resistant forms are the ones that take over and become the most common strains. With relatively few U.S. cases so far, Dr. Poland said it’s not yet clear that lambda will supplant the delta variant sweeping so much of the country. But he pointed out that lambda is now responsible for about 88% of all COVID-19 cases in Peru “and has really started to spread through South America.”
The B.1.621 variant was discovered early this year in Colombia.
“It recently caused an outbreak in a nursing home in Belgium and killed seven people that were fully vaccinated,” Dr. Poland told PIX11. “What is concerning about [it] is that it is now 9% of the cases that have been seen in Miami, Florida.”
Those new variants could spread to the New York City area and the rest of the country. Current vaccines, of course, were not designed to fight the variations that previously didn’t exist. Ideally, we would have new vaccines to battle these variants instead of the plan to provide booster shots of the current vaccine. But Dr. Poland is doubtful that new vaccines can be available in time.
These are precarious times, Dr. Poland stressed. The pandemic is far from over and the ongoing mutations may present big problems.
“If you are unvaccinated you now enter the most dangerous phase of the pandemic for your health and your family’s health,” he said. “We’re paying the price for the relatively large segment of our population who won’t wear a mask and who won’t get vaccinated.”
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John Job's guest column on Rodney Crowell who performs a free concert in Oak Ridge on Saturday night at A.K. Bissell Park.
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In 1993, at the nadir of a long tailspin marked by drug abuse, alcohol, and a fading career, Johnny Cash teamed up quite unexpectedly with a punk music producer named Rick Rubin, and they made a record Johnny had wanted to do for a long time. Just him and his guitar, doing a mix of his own songs and covers of songs he admired. Unadorned. No band or orchestration. No backup singers. Just Cash.
The project, called “American Recordings,” came out in April 1994, with the haunting songs “The Beast in Me” by Nick Lowe and “Bird on the Wire” by Leonard Cohen. With the three volumes that followed before the singer’s death in 2003, plus two more posthumous volumes, “American Recordings” saved Cash from dying in pathetic obscurity. Instead, Cash cemented his claim on American cultural immortality in a way nothing short of Divine Proclamation could have.
But a month before that first Rubin-produced record was released, Cash showed up in Austin, Texas to turn the South-by-Southwest music festival on its head.
1994 was just the eighth edition of SXSW, back before it had an international reputation. (This year’s was the 35th edition.) Cash arrived in Austin straight from a tour in Australia with Kris Kristofferson. In addition to a surprise 30-minute show at Austin’s infamous punk venue, Emo’s, a show that is unequaled as a legend in Texas music history, Cash also gave a shockingly personal and honest keynote address at the newly-constructed Austin Convention Center.
In his off-the-cuff speech, Johnny Cash spoke of how he had gone through a process of renewal, rediscovery, and redemption. “It’s like a new life for me. I wish every artist could experience what I’ve experienced in the last year.”
“To get back into your world of music and find that you love it more than you thought you did. ... I love this business, and I love the people in it. I’m a big fan of really great writers, and now I’ve got songs from everybody. Rodney Crowell wrote a song for me ...”
Boom, goes the dynamite.
Rodney Crowell has issued 18 studio LPs in his songwriting and singing career. In addition to two Grammy Awards, he has the Americana Music Association's lifetime achievement award sitting on his bookshelf. For songwriting, of course.
Crowell's poetry is substantial and enduring, like a mansion in New Orleans that's withstood a century of hurricanes.
Crowell has had more No. 1 songs on the country music charts than a spider has legs. He's in the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In the annals of Americana, he's in the same league as Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Mary Gauthier, John Hiatt, Joe Ely, and Jim Lauderdale. Or maybe they're in his league.
That Crowell was in Emmylou Harris's band for a number of years doesn't hurt either. If he walked on stage unannounced at the Austin Music Awards, he'd get a standing ovation. Instantly. And if he gave the keynote address at SXSW, everyone in the seats would be busy taking notes.
So, this fountain of knowledge and experience on how to write songs people remember the rest of their lives will be standing behind a microphone right in front of you at A.K. Bissell Park on Saturday evening, Aug. 21, to prove everything I've said is completely true.
In ways no one else who has performed at Summer Sessions ever has, Rodney Crowell is going to get right inside your head. Right inside your heart.
One thing I like about Rodney is that we're the same age. I mean, when I address an interview question to Ketch Secor or Sierra Hull or Mollie Tuttle, I have to convince them that I can understand them across a multi-decade age difference. But I'm within a year or two of Rodney Crowell's age, so wavelength isn't a problem.
Another likeable quality is that Rodney used to be Cash's son-in-law. Crowell's take on Cash's "I Walk the Line," called "Walk the Line, Revisited," is one of the best examples of his brilliance, alternating stanza vocals with Cash himself.
"I'm back on board that '49 Ford in 1956 / Long before the sun came up, way out in the sticks / The headlights showed a two-lane roadway back up in the pines / The first time I heard Johnny Cash sing 'I Walk the Line.'
"I keep a close watch on this heart of mine / I keep my eyes wide open all the time …"
Cash said his first producer, the Sun Records legend Sam Phillips, always used to say "What else ya got?" After every show, every studio take, every thought … "What else ya got?" It was Phillips' way of getting Cash to try something new.
"You see," Cash said at SXSW, "I found that the joy of learning and doing something new, and doing something that really feels right, right here and right here and right here, has got nothing to do with age, grandchildren."
Amen, Johnny Cash.
So, what else ya got, Rodney Crowell?
A new album, for one thing. Released just two weeks ago, "Triage" is already No. 6 on the Top 50 Albums chart compiled by the Americana Music Association.
I don't know that this record is expressly shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it'd feel untrue if he said it wasn't. It's a sobering title. The meaning of triage had become the background hum to the incessant barrage of COVID-19 hysteria. Who is too far gone to be treated, chosen by chance to be left behind? Who can be saved? It's like the whole world has been triaged in the last two years, and the process isn't finished.
But ironically, the t10 songs on "Triage" were written before COVID-19 monopolized our conscience. And they were released in late July, right as the delta variant took over the monopoly. You just can't escape it.
In "Something Has To Change," the album's most talked-about song, Crowell writes: "Where life has a purpose, faith has a voice / We can't live in fear like this, and in trembling rejoice / Am I ready for times like these? Emphatically no / Though I did see this coming, a long time ago."
Reviews of "Triage" have been unanimously glowing, with quotes like "... Intimate and often hypnotic," "Rodney Crowell's songwriting prowess knows no bounds," and "... from the pen of an expert wordsmith who infuses wrenching truths onto flowing melodies."
Yeah, he does all that. But what I like about Crowell, especially as he gets older, grayer, and more serious, is that every note, every breath, every word, and every thought in his songs counts, and it's fascinating how he can take you along for the ride.
That's what real artists do.
Crowell and his band, with the Alex Leach Band opening, play the second installment of the ORNL-FCU's 2021 Summer Sessions on Saturday, Aug. 21, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Oak Ridge.
John Job is a longtime Oak Ridge resident and regular contributor to The Oak Ridger.
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YWCA Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley has launched the new Office on Violence Against Women-funded Justice for Families Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Center for families who have experienced domestic violence.
"To safely provide this service, YWCA renovated space within the YWCA Oak Ridge building with new security system, office space, kitchenette, accessible bathrooms, waiting room for parents, and more to ensure the space is safe for all families receiving services," a news release from the organization stated.
You can hear about these programs and tour the new space Wednesday Aug. 25. The program begins at 4:30 p.m. Small group tours will be from 4:45 until 6:30 p.m.
YWCA Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley is also expanding its signature violence prevention program, Gamechangers, to Oak Ridge and Anderson County. Gamechangers, also funded by the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women, pairs adult male volunteer mentors with a small group of middle-school-aged boys to educate the young men on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, consent, bystander intervention and so much more.
YWCA Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley also has new domestic violence services and partnerships with the Department of Children’s Services and the Anderson County Family Justice Center.
Refreshments will be available. Social distancing and masks are also required within the YWCA Oak Ridge facility.
The event is open to the public. RSVP to Karlyn Reel at kreel@ywcaknox.com by Tuesday, Aug. 24.
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Explore Oak Ridge will host the 2nd annual Cars for Canines event on Saturday, Aug. 21, at Melton Lake Park, 697 Melton Lake Drive, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
"The event will consist of a car show, sponsored by Summer Knights Cruisers, food trucks, live music, vendors, demonstrations and pet friendly fun all to benefit the Oak Ridge Animal Shelter and Anderson County Humane Society," a news release stated.
This event is free and everyone is welcome – including your four-legged friends.
"Grab your family and furry friends and head down to the waterfront for a day of fun," the release stated.
Car show registration is $20 and begins at 10 a.m. All classic cars, hot rods and motorcycles are welcome to enter. Awards will be given to the top 25 vehicles and door prizes will be given during the event for registered vehicles.
Demonstrations by Dock Dogs and Sit Means Sit will occur throughout the day. Food trucks including Forks on the Road, Hawg Dawgs, CJ’s Tacos, Smoking Good Times BBQ and Sno Biz will be set up along the Melton Lake Peninsula. Crafter’s Brew will also be set up for those over the age of 21.
Veterinarian for the Oak Ridge Animal Shelter, Matt Jinks, will be on-site offering reduced cost rabies shots and microchips during the event. Rabies shots will be $10 and microchips will be $20 per animal while supplies last. Dogs need to be on a leash and cats in a carrier.
“We’re excited for this to be our second Cars for Canines event. Last year, we had a turnout of nearly 2,000 people, which led to six pet adoptions and a donation of $1250 to the Oak Ridge Animal Shelter and Anderson County Humane Society,” Hannah Fatheree, event manager for Explore Oak Ridge, stated.
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Sherry Browder writes a guest column on her work with the Department of Energy and how it has impact her life, as well as the state.
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Tennessee is home to a diverse set of cultural touchstones, from the Grand Ole Opry to Memphis barbecue. Talked about less but vitally important to the state’s economic engine is Oak Ridge, created by the federal government to conduct research to bring an end to World War II. Once a Secret City, it’s now renown globally and stands as a point of pride. Since the 1940s the U.S. Department of Energy has grown its presence in Oak Ridge, in the process sustaining a diverse and highly skilled workforce, enabling small and large business to flourish, and contributing to major innovations that keep our country safe, our environment cleaner and our country on the forefront of scientific leadership.
Take it from someone who has spent three decades working on, in and around Oak Ridge and the numerous missions housed in the complex: DOE’s presence is an economic boon for the state. And I’m proud to have been a part of it.
In the early days, environmental issues were more of an afterthought than focus, until federally enacted laws intended to clean up water, air, and waste from hazardous materials were passed. In 1989, DOE created the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (later given its current name, the Office of Environmental Management) and hired me, a civil engineer. I was the first employee who transferrred into this brand new organization.
It was great to tell my parents that I had this exciting new job; less great to break it to them that I’d be living in Knoxville, not in Middle Tennessee, which had always been home. Little did I know then that not only had DOE handed me the opportunity of a lifetime, entrusting me with multi-million dollar budgets and oversight of projects implementing the new laws governing hazardous waste, but my mentors placed me squarely in the center of DOE missions that continue to contribute to Tennessee's economic development, improve our environmental quality, advance science, and protect our country.
While DOE’s impact on my life cannot be measured or overstated, the agency’s impact on the state of Tennessee is not only quantifiable, it’s beyond expectation. Tennessee’s gross domestic product increased by approximately $4.2 billion as a result of overall spending by DOE and its contractors.
It’s hard to believe when I put on my 1989 hat that today, nearly 43,000 full-time jobs are supported by DOE activities. I may have been among the first in the modern era to work at DOE in an environmental capacity, but I will not be the last.
If you’re saying to yourself: this is great for people with a highly specified skill set, think again: DOE and its contractors procured approximately $940 million in various goods and services from Tennessee businesses in 2020, generating about $108 million in state and local taxes. A portion of these tax dollars enable the city of Oak Ridge to provide critical infrastructure to support DOE missions, as well as fund education and schools.
With support and encouragement from my father and the fathers of my two best friends, and ultimately, DOE, I became a civil engineer in an era when the profession wasn’t common for women. I especially chose civil as my discipline after a chat with my Dad, because “it was something I could see.” While transportation was my initial emphasis, environmental cleanup has become my heartfelt passion.
The entire Oak Ridge Reservation is a special place to me, but it’s more than that. Without a doubt, Oak Ridge provides worldwide benefit. And in doing so, has tremendous local impact. It’s time for Oak Ridge to claim its rightful place among Tennessee’s other icons.
Sherry Browder is president of Pro2Serve and is past chair of the East Tennessee Economic Council.
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The city of Indio launched a web portal Thursday with highlights of its 2021-22 fiscal year budget. The "Budget-In-Brief" portal was created in the interest of making the information easier to find and digest, and an alternative to downloading a massive file, according to the city.
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The city of Indio launched a web portal Thursday with highlights of its 2021-22 fiscal year budget.
The “Budget-In-Brief” portal was created in the interest of making the information easier to find and digest, and an alternative to downloading a massive file, according to the city.
“Most people just don’t have the time to dig through such a large document, so this makes it easier,” city spokeswoman Brooke Beare told City News Service.
The new portal offers readily obtainable details that are contained within the 238-page budget document, also available online. It can be accessed at the City of Indio’s website.
“This year, we added a more visually friendly demographics page for those interested in learning about the community,” said Assistant City Manager Rob Rockwell. “Effective municipal budget documents contain more than just numbers; they convey a story about where a city has been and where it intends to go.”
“A well-prepared budget serves as a visionary document, as well as an informational one, and the city believes that the 2021-22 adopted budget document realizes both of these objectives,” he said.
The $187.5 million appropriations plan, which is roughly 18% larger than the 2020-21 budget, was adopted unanimously by the Indio City Council on June 16.
According to the Budget-In-Brief, 49.6% of the city’s budget goes to police, fire, senior and teen services, as well as public works and other needs. The portal shows $35.7 million allocated to the Indio Police Department; $17.2 million for the Fire Department and emergency medical services; $7.3 million for the Public Works Department; and $1.6 million for the Economic Development Department.
The fiscal year ends on June 30, 2022.
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Those wanting to ‘take back control’ of their democracies would do well to begin with trade and investment agreements - especially in times of global pandemic.
Negotiated in secret, they are tools to transfer power and resources from people to transnational corporations – who are often the only ones in the room.
A total of 90 percent of the meetings that took place during the new European Union-United States trade talks replacing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) were with lobbyists.
This series of articles has been published in partnership with Dalia Gebrial and Harpreet Kaur Paul and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in London. It first appeared in a collection titled Perspectives on a Global Green New Deal.
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As well as lowering tariffs, trade deals seek to bring down ‘non-tariff barriers’ and achieve ‘regulatory coherence', almost always promoting a race to the bottom on worker’s rights and environmental and food standards.
Public services are also under threat, as the corporate lobby pushes for liberalisation of all services unless explicitly exempted, including future services.
The attack on public services has a particular impact on women, because they are the main users and workers in many of these sectors, and because they remain the main providers of unpaid labour at home or in the community which complements public services.
The deals often include ‘standstill’ or ‘ratchet’ clauses, meaning that once a sector has been liberalised, it’s extremely difficult to go back.
Trade agreements usually include Investor State Dispute Settlements (ISDS), which allow corporations to sue governments for loss of profits, including potential loss of future profits. Governments do not have the reciprocal right to sue corporations.
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By the end of 2018, states worldwide had been ordered or agreed to pay investors USD$88 billion in disclosed ISDS cases.
Research by the Transnational Institute and CEO and reported by openDemocracy has found that law firms are preparing for a ‘wave’ of such lawsuits in the post-pandemic era, as corporations sue governments for emergency measures brought in to protect populations from the coronavirus.
Measures that could face legal challenges include the state acquisition of private hospitals; steps introduced to ensure that drugs, tests and vaccines are affordable; relief on rent, debt and utility payments; and action taken to provide clean water for handwashing.
To date, no other trade and investment agreement has triggered more investor-state lawsuits than the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) – which has been described as ‘the world’s most dangerous investment treaty’.
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An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows an Indian Air Force plane evacuating people from the Afghan capital of Kabul.
Verdict: False
The photo, which dates back to 2013, shows people being evacuated in the Philippines after a devastating typhoon.
Fact Check:
The U.S. has been racing to evacuate American citizens and Afghan allies from Afghanistan since the Taliban took over the country, CNN reported. On Thursday, the Pentagon said the U.S. had gotten over 7,000 people out via aircraft from Kabul since Saturday, according to CNBC.
Other countries, including Germany, Spain, Turkey and India, have also evacuated people from Afghanistan in recent days, according to Reuters. The Aug. 16 Facebook post claims to show a picture of hundreds of people being airlifted out of Kabul by the Indian Air Force, saying, “IAF C 17 with 800 people airlifted…that’s a record. That’s a train load almost. The previous highest was 670. This is from Kabul Airport this morning.”
However, a reverse image search traced the photo back to 2013, multiple years before the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan began. It appears on the Pacific Air Forces part of the U.S. Air Force’s website, where the caption describes it as showing hundreds of Filipino residents being evacuated after the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan.
“More than 670 Tacloban residents sit on board a C-17 Globemaster III before being evacuated to Manila following Super Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines Nov. 17, 2013,” the caption of the photo reads, in part. “The C-17 is deployed from the 535th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, to Clark Air Base in the Philippines in support of Operation Damayan, a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief effort.”
Super Typhoon Haiyan, considered one of the most powerful tropical cyclones to make landfall ever recorded, killed over 6,000 people, CNN reported in December 2013. It also left some 1.9 million people homeless and over 6 million displaced, according to BBC News. (RELATED: Did The Taliban Shoot Down 2 US Aircraft And Kill 34 Soldiers In Afghanistan?)
The U.S. provided about $87 million in disaster relief aid in response to Super Typhoon Haiyan, according to a 2014 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report. During its response to the typhoon, the U.S. military evacuated over 21,000 people and distributed over 2,400 tons of relief supplies, per the CRS report.
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The Pfizer–BioNTech and Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccines have been found at least initially to effectively protect against the fast-spreading Delta coronavirus variant, but the level of immunity is waning over time, according to a study led by the University of Oxford.
The results supported similar observations seen in Israel, which began administering third Pfizer doses last month to counteract a surge in infections of the Delta variant.
Researchers at UK’s University of Oxford conducted in partnership with the country’s Office for National Statistics concluded that two vaccine doses are still the most effective way to ensure protection against the COVID-19 Delta variant, but that their effectiveness is reduced after a few months. The Delta variant has caused sharp rises in infections in many countries, including some with relatively high vaccination coverage such as the UK.
“Whilst vaccinations reduce the chance of getting COVID-19, they do not eliminate it. More importantly, our data shows the potential for vaccinated individuals to still pass COVID-19 onto others, and the importance of testing and self-isolation to reduce transmission risk,” said Koen Pouwels, senior researcher in Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Population Health.
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The study researched the effectiveness of vaccines in a large community-based survey of randomly selected households across the UK, where PCR tests were performed irrespective of symptoms, vaccination and prior infection. One result showed that Delta infections after two vaccine doses had similar peak levels of virus to those in unvaccinated people; in comparison, peak virus levels in those infected post-vaccination with the Alpha COVID-19 variant were much lower.
Another key finding suggested that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have greater initial effectiveness against new COVID-19 infections, but that it declined faster compared with two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab. However, over a time period of four to five months, effectiveness of both vaccines was found to be similar. Vaccine effectiveness was also generally higher at ages between 18 and 34 years old.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was found to be 92% effective in preventing people from developing a high viral load in their tests 14 days after the second dose. But the vaccine’s effectiveness fell to 90%, 85% and 78% after 30, 60 and 90 days, respectively. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was 69% effective against a high viral load 14 days after full vaccination, falling to 61% by 90 days.
Sarah Walker, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and chief investigator for the COVID-19 infection survey, said: “We don’t yet know how much transmission can happen from people who get COVID-19 after being vaccinated – for example, they may have high levels of virus for shorter periods of time.
“But the fact that they can have high levels of virus suggests that people who aren’t yet vaccinated may not be as protected from the Delta variant as we hoped. This means it is essential for as many people as possible to get vaccinated – both in the UK and worldwide,” Walker added.
An Israeli study released Wednesday showed that a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine was found to be 86% in people aged over 60. Some 1.1 million Israelis have already received a third jab, and on Thursday, a government panel recommended that booster shots be offered to all Israelis over the age of 40.
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Tucson police say charges are pending against the impaired driver of a vehicle that hit a pedestrian in a convenience store parking lot who later died from his injuries.
Police identified the victim of Tuesday night's collision at a Circle K on East Grant Road as 29-year-old David Lamberto.
An initial investigation determined that Lamberto had been sitting, squatting and acting erratically in the parking lot before he was struck at about 8:30 p.m., police said in a statement Thursday.
The blue 2007 Ford 500 hit him when it turned into the parking lot and proceeded to drag him as it pulled into a parking lot.
Lamberto was taken to Banner University Medical Center where he later died.
Police at the scene determined the driver was impaired at the time, police said.
Investigators say the driver's impairment and the pedestrian's erratic behavior are major contributing factors in the collision.
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The driver's name has not been released.
“The investigation is ongoing and charges are pending at this time,” police said Thursday.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a court ruling with potentially broad implications for U.S. immigration cases, a federal judge in Nevada found that a criminal law that dates to 1929 and makes it a felony for a person who has been deported to return to the United States is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno, in an order issued Wednesday, found the law widely known as Section 1326 is based on “racist, nativist roots” and discriminates against Mexican and Latinx people in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
“Anybody who works in federal courts knows the statute,” Franny Forsman, retired longtime chief of the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Nevada, said Thursday. “There really are a large number of cases that have been brought over the years under that section. They’re mostly public defender cases.”
Section 1326 of the Immigration and Nationality Act makes it a crime for a person to enter the U.S. if they have been denied admission, deported or removed. It was enacted in 1952 using language from the Undesirable Aliens Act passed by Congress in 1929. Penalties were stiffened five times between 1988 and 1996 to increase its deterrent value.
Forsman said she expected the government will appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
But Julian Castro, secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Biden Administration, tweeted that he doubted the Justice Department would want to defend a law with “an incredibly racist history.”
Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou and an aide did not immediately respond to messages about the ruling.
Forsman called Du’s order groundbreaking for its thoroughness. Du, a Vietnamese immigrant, was nominated to the federal bench by President Barack Obama and sworn in in 2012.
“I think it will have implications because it’s going to be difficult to get around her reasoning,” Forsman said of the court order. “It’s a little hard to get around a statute that was called the ‘Wetback Act’ by the people enacting it.” The derogatory term often refers to Mexican migrants who have entered the country illegally, but it's also used to disparage all Hispanics.
Du said she considered written and oral arguments and expert testimony about the legislative history of the law from professors Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien of San Diego State University and Kelly Lytle Hernández of the University of California, Los Angeles.
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“Importantly, the government does not dispute that Section 1326 bears more heavily on Mexican and Latinx individuals,” the judge said in her 43-page order dismissing the June 2020 criminal indictment of Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez.
Carrillo-Lopez was arrested in Nevada in 2019 after having been deported in 1999 and again in 2012, according to prosecutors. His federal public defender, Lauren Gorman in Reno, did not immediately respond Thursday to an email.
The judge said she saw no publicly available data about the national origin of people prosecuted under Section 1326, but cited U.S. Border Patrol statistics showing that more than 97% of people apprehended at the border in 2000 were of Mexican decent, 86% in 2005, and 87% in 2010.
“The government argues that the stated impact is ‘a product of geography, not discrimination,’ and that the statistics are rather a feature of Mexico’s proximity to the United States, the history of Mexican employment patterns and the socio-political and economic factors that drive migration,” Du wrote. “The court is not persuaded.”
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Law enforcement officials have completed their investigation into whether a U.S. Senate candidate and former State of Alaska official illegally obtained a fishing license for a sportfishing event two years ago and turned it over to a special prosecutorial branch of the Department of Law, an official said Thursday.
Kelly Tshibaka, a former commissioner in the state Department of Administration and a Republican candidate for Senate, received the license during an event on the Kenai River in 2019.
Records show she received the permit in August 2019, eight months after she moved to Alaska to take the commissioner’s job, the Anchorage Daily News has reported. To obtain a resident fishing license, state law says the person must have lived in the state for 12 consecutive months before applying for a license.
Tshibaka signed the license application, acknowledging she had read the rules for residency. She also indicated on the license that she was a resident for 15 years, 8 months.
A person could be fined up to $300 for knowingly violating the law on fishing licenses, a misdemeanor.
“After a thorough investigation by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers into the media reports regarding Mrs. Tshibaka the investigation has been completed and will now be reviewed by the Alaska Department of Law’s Office of Special Prosecutions,” Department of Public Safety spokesperson Austin McDaniel said in an email to The Associated Press.
When asked if it were unusual to involve the special office, he said in a follow-up email that law enforcement regularly works with prosecutors when building cases.
“Due to the circumstances involved with this investigation, the Alaska Wildlife Troopers requested an independent review of the case by the legal experts at the Alaska Department of Law,” McDaniel said.
Tim Murtaugh, a senior adviser to Tshibaka’s campaign, said she attended the 2019 Kenai River Classic in her capacity as commissioner.
He said her confirmation hearings were public and it was well-known she had just returned to the state.
“The event organizers asked if she had a current fishing license, and when she said she didn’t, they issued her one,” Murtaugh said in an email to the AP.
“The form was filled in for a license that expired after one day, going from August 22nd to the 23rd, which is only available to non-residents. This shows clear intent to purchase a non-resident license, not a resident license,” he said.
Tshibaka announced her resignation from the state on March 29, the same day she said she would challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
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Murkowski, who was critical of former President Donald Trump, was censured by the Alaska Republican Party, which later endorsed Tshibaka in the race. Trump also has endorsed Tshibaka.
Murkowski has not announced whether she will seek reelection next year. However, last month Kevin Sweeney, a consultant to Murkowski’s campaign, said she had raised about $1.15 million in the second quarter of this year and had $2.3 million on hand.
That, Sweeney said, “strongly positions” Murkowski for a reelection bid.
Murkowski on Monday declined to discuss reelection plans.
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — DeWanna Bonner scored a season-high 31 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the Connecticut Sun beat the Minnesota Lynx 82-71 on Thursday night.
Bonner made 10 of 11 free throws — and Connecticut went 23 for 25 from the line — to help reach 30 points for the first time this season. It was her fifth double-double.
Jonquel Jones added 20 points and seven rebounds for Connecticut (17-6) despite being in foul trouble. The Sun turned it over 17 times but outrebounded the Lynx 31-23.
Sylvia Fowles led Minnesota (13-9) with 18 points and 12 rebounds. Layshia Clarendon added 15 points and Napheesa Collier scored 11.
Connecticut continues its five-game homestand on Tuesday against Las Vegas in a battle for sole possession of first place. Minnesota lost back-to-back games against Connecticut following an eight-game winning streak.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese actor Sonny Chiba, who wowed the world with his martial arts skills in more than 100 films, including “Kill Bill,” has died. He was 82.
Chiba, known in Japan as Shinichi Chiba, died late Thursday in a hospital near Tokyo where he had been treated for COVID-19 since Aug. 8, Tokyo-based Astraia, his management office, said in a statement Friday. It said he had not been vaccinated.
Chiba rose to stardom in Japan in the 1960s, portraying samurai, fighters and police detectives, the anguished so-called “anti-heroes” trying to survive in a violent world. He did many of the stunt scenes himself.
His overseas career took off after his 1970s Japanese film “The Street Fighter” proved popular in the U.S.
American director Quentin Tarantino listed the work as among his “grindhouse,” or low-budget kitsch cinema, favorites.
Tarantino cast Chiba in the role of Hattori Hanzo, a master swordsmith in “Kill Bill.”
Chiba appeared in the 1991 Hollywood film “Aces,” directed by John Glen, as well as in Hong Kong movies.
Chiba’s career also got a boost from the global boom in kung fu films, set off by Chinese legend Bruce Lee, although critics say Chiba tended to exhibit a dirtier, thug-like fighting style than Lee.
“A true action legend. Your films are eternal and your energy an inspiration. #SonnyChiba #RIP,” American actor Lewis Tan said on Twitter.
New York-based writer and director Ted Geoghegan called him “the great Sonny Chiba.”
“Watch one of his films today,” Geoghegan tweeted, followed by images of a fist and a broken heart.
Other fans mournfully filled Twitter threads with clips of his movies and photos.
Born in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, Chiba studied at Nippon Sport Science University trained in various martials arts, earning a fourth-degree black belt in karate.
Chiba set up Japan Action Club in 1980, to develop a younger generation of actors, including protege Hiroyuki Sanada, who is among Hollywood’s most coveted Japanese actors, landing roles in “The Last Samurai” and “Rush Hour 3.”
Chiba is survived by his three children, Juri Manase, Mackenyu Arata and Gordon Maeda, all actors. A wake was canceled as a pandemic measure, and funeral arrangements were still undecided, his office said.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former fiancee of Larry Elder said Thursday that the conservative radio talk show host now running for governor in California showed her a gun during a heated argument in 2015.
Elder, widely seen as the leader in the Republican field running to replace Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in next month's recall election, issued a statement saying “I have never brandished a gun at anyone." Elder, who is seeking to become California's first Black governor, noted that he grew up in South Los Angeles, an area with high violent crime.
“I know exactly how destructive this type of behavior is,” he said.
Alexandra Datig's accusation, first reported by Politico, comes with less than four weeks until the Sept. 14 election and at a time when mail-in ballots already have arrived at voters' homes. Elder said he intended to “stay focused on the issues” that inspired the recall drive by Republicans upset with Newsom's progressive policies and handling of the pandemic.
Datig, 51 and a longtime Los Angeles resident, said she worked on Elder's show and they lived together during their 18-month romantic relationship from 2013 to 2015,. A letter and other records provided by Datig to The Associated Press – including an April 6, 2015, email in which she wrote about the collapse of their engagement — sketched a portrait of an emotionally abusive relationship in which Elder routinely was using medicinal marijuana to excess.
Datig claims Elder was high during the 2015 argument and went to a cabinet where he kept his gun “and made sure it was in my view.”
“He did not point it at me, but he wanted to make sure that I knew that he was checking" to see it was loaded, she told the AP.
Threatening another person with a firearm could be a criminal offense but Datig said she never reported it to police.
Elder did not specifically address that claim about cannabis use in questions submitted to his campaign by AP. His statement in response to Datig’s claims of abuse referred broadly to “salacious allegations.”
“People do not get into public life precisely because of this type of politics of personal destruction. I am not going to dignify this with a response — it’s beneath me,” Elder wrote. A short time later he tweeted: “They’re coming at me with every dirty trick because they know what’s coming on September 14."
Datig supports one of Elder’s Republican rivals, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer. Earlier this week Faulconer began targeting Elder for criticism and specifically questioning his attitudes about women, noting among other things that Elder had written that employers should be able to ask women if and when they plan to get pregnant.
“Larry Elder doesn’t have the judgment or character to lead our state,” Faulconer said in response to Datig’s allegations.
Another Republican in the race, state Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, said in a statement that he found Datig's claims disturbing.
“I believe that any woman who comes forward deserves to be heard, and Ms. Datig’s deeply troubling account should be treated with the utmost seriousness. Mr. Elder should be given every opportunity to respond,” he said.
Elder entered the race in July and Datig said she waited until now to come forward because she initially didn't think he would be competitive.
“I didn’t take it seriously but when Larry started to trend and become the frontrunner, I became extremely concerned,” she said.
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The documents provided by Datig described months of emotional distress from the unraveling romantic and business relationship. “I feel trapped and afraid,” she wrote in the mail.
Datig also provided the AP with a copy of a confidentiality agreement she signed in 2014 barring her from speaking about the “personal and business affairs” of Elder and his business, Laurence A. Elder & Associates, Inc. She said she was breaking it to go public with her accusations.
A March 31, 2015, letter from her attorney to Elder asked for $6,000 in monthly support for Datig for one year, to cover expenses including rent, car and health care costs. She also asked for $195,000 for public relations, marketing and other services she said she provided for his show.
The two ultimately signed an agreement on April 13, 2015, for Elder to pay Datig $20,000 and cover the cost of her $5,000 legal retainer and $185 to dry clean her wedding dress. Elder agreed he and his assistant would sign a nondisclosure agreement regarding anything to do with Datig, that he would write her a letter of recommendation for her work product, and that they two would “halt mutual insults."
Datig refers to herself as a sex trafficking survivor and has publicly disclosed working for so-called former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, who was convicted in the mid-1990s of running a high-priced call-girl ring, a conviction that was later overturned. Fleiss was later sentenced to federal prison for cheating on her taxes and laundering call-girl profits. In a 2013 interview with KCAL-TV, Datig described becoming an informant on Fleiss.
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Two teenagers were facing murder charges for a street-racing crash that killed three people and critically injured a fourth in a Los Angeles suburb, authorities said Thursday.
Hamlet Aghajanyan, 19, of Burbank and a 17-year-old boy were taken into custody Thursday, police said.
Aghajanyan has been charged by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office with three counts of murder and one count of reckless driving, Burbank police said in a statement. He remained jailed on a $6 million bond.
The other youth, whose name wasn't released, was at a juvenile detention facility and prosecutors will determine whether to charge him with murder and reckless driving, police said.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the two had legal representation.
Authorities contend that Aghajanyan was driving a Kia and racing the other boy's Mercedes-Benz on Aug. 3 in Burbank when the Kia broad-sided a Volkswagen that was trying to make a turn.
The impact tore the Volkswagen in half and flung three people from the car. Killed at the scene were Jaiden Johnson, 20, of Burbank; Natalee Moghaddam, 19, of Calabasas and Cerain Baker, 21, the son of actor and comedian Tony Baker.
A fourth person in the car was hospitalized with critical injuries.
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WHAT WILL SHOHEI DO NEXT?
The Shohei Ohtani road show heads to Cleveland after the two-way superstar thrilled opposing crowds in Detroit.
Ohtani’s Los Angeles Angels — whose playoff chances are slim at one game over .500 — will play two games at the Indians' home ballpark before both teams head to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the Little League Classic on Sunday night.
After that, LA travels to Baltimore for a three-game series against the major league-worst Orioles that’s expected to include Ohtani’s next mound start — perhaps a rare opportunity for Baltimore fans to feel some buzz.
Against Detroit, Ohtani had his longest mound start of the season, winning his fourth consecutive start with an eight-inning performance on Wednesday night. He also hit a towering, 430-foot homer — his major league-leading 40th of the season — that Tigers fans waiting for Miguel Cabrera to hit No. 500 couldn't help but admire.
Ohtani followed it up with a 2-for-3 day as the Angels rallied from an eight-run deficit to beat the Tigers on Thursday.
OPTIMISM IN HOUSTON
Astros manager Dusty Baker has reasons to feel good about his AL West-leading club even after an uninspired seven-game trip.
Houston went 3-4 on the road against the Angels and Royals and begins a weeklong homestand on Friday by hosting division rival Seattle. The Astros lead Oakland by 2 1/2 games, which hasn't escaped Baker's notice.
“I’ve been scoreboard watching every day,” Baker said. “Scoreboard watching is something I do between innings when I’m not thinking about what to do. We’re just looking forward to the finish line. We have a ways to go, and we haven’t played our best ball yet.”
One thing that's making Baker sanguine about the future is having Aledmys Díaz in the lineup. Díaz went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs, including the go-ahead single in the 10th inning of a 6-3 win at Kansas City on Thursday.
“You can tell what (Díaz) means to this club (by looking at) the six weeks he was out,” Baker said.
SUB-BASEMENT
The major league-worst Baltimore Orioles haven't even come within two runs of a win in the past week.
The Orioles dropped their 15th straight game on Thursday, falling 7-2 to the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays. And most of them haven't been close.
According to ESPN Stats & Info, the Orioles are the first team since 1900 to lose 15 straight games by multiple runs. The closest Baltimore got was a 6-4 loss to Detroit on Aug. 12.
The Orioles have been outscored 138-42 during the skid, allowing an average of 9.2 runs per game.
After dropping four at Tampa Bay by scores of 9-2, 10-0, 8-4 and 7-2, Baltimore hosts another first-place team for a three-game series this weekend: NL-East winning Atlanta.
The Arizona Diamondbacks had the worst record in the majors for much of the season, but Baltimore now owns that distinction. Arizona is coming off a three-game sweep of Philadelphia and has won six of seven overall.
OCTOBER PREVIEW
Brandon Lowe knows this weekend may not be the last time the Rays face the Chicago White Sox in 2021.
The AL Central leaders visit the AL East leaders for a three-game series starting Friday.
“This is going to be kind of what we’re looking at postseason-wise, I feel like,” Lowe said. “You know the White Sox are going to make it, we feel like we’re going to make it. I think the games are going to be a little bit tougher, it’s going to be a little bit lower-scoring ballgames but it’s going to be a hard-fought battle for the whole series.”
Tampa Bay has won 11 of 14, and perhaps a playoff preview could lure a few more fans to Tropicana Field. In their four-game sweep of Baltimore, the Rays drew a total of 22,754 paying customers — an average of 5,689 per game.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The former school resource officer accused of hiding during a South Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead will have to convince a jury that he wasn't criminally negligent, a judge ruled Thursday.
Broward Circuit Judge Martin Fein declined to dismiss the child negligence charges against former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson, the Sun Sentinel reported.
Peterson, 58, had worked as a school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time of the February 2018 shooting, has been charged with 17 counts of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors have said that Peterson failed to come to the rescue as Cruz was making his way through the school’s hallways. The law that Peterson is accused of breaking specifically applies to caregivers, but defense attorneys argued during a hearing Wednesday that a law enforcement officer doesn’t fit the legal definition of a caregiver.
Prosecutors are arguing that school resources officers are inherently different from other law enforcement officers and should be considered caregivers.
Fein ruled that a jury can decide whether a school resource officer should be considered a caregiver and noted that a jury instruction will be included to that effect.
Cruz faces the death penalty if convicted in the Valentine’s Day 2018 massacre in which 17 people were slain and 17 others were wounded. Cruz’s lawyers have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence, but prosecutors are insisting that his fate be decided by a jury trial.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Seattle Storm are heading to the White House to celebrate their 2020 WNBA championship.
The team was formally invited by President Joe Biden to visit Monday afternoon. The Storm play at the Washington Mystics on Sunday.
“I think for a very long time, up until 2016, going to the White House was an honor. It wasn't necessarily political. It was to meet the president of the United States. The person who holds that office acknowledging your team's success,” said Seattle guard Sue Bird, who will be making her third trip to meet a president. “It was an incredible honor. Even when you watch a movie like ‘Forrest Gump,’ I'm dating myself a little bit, you understand in that movie what an incredible honor it was. It wasn't political. I think that all shifted in 2016.”
With former president Donald Trump out of office, Bird said she was happy to be going back. Many WNBA players including Bird have been outspoken in their embrace of social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, which Trump characterized as violent, radical ideology. Trump was also critical of Bird's fiancee, U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe.
“Now that it's back in a place where it's considered an honor and you're recognized by the highest office in the country is exciting, it's fun,” Bird said. “It's not just about meeting the president or hopefully the vice president is there. It's about the whole experience of being in the White House. Having a day that's about your team and celebrating what you've accomplished.”
In addition to her two previous White House visits, Bird has been invited three other times after winning championships — once with UConn and twice with the Storm — but couldn't attend.
The Storm, who have won four titles, will be joined by the team's ownership group and WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert. The team last visited the White House in 2011.
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No NBA or WNBA team has visited the White House since the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 — Barack Obama's last year in office.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts says he’s feeling “really, really good” and is eager to return soon to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup from a stint on the injured list with right hip inflammation.
The All-Star outfielder has been on the IL since Aug. 8. He was diagnosed with a bone spur in his hip and recently received a second cortisone injection.
“It's the first time I've felt normal in a long time,” Betts said Thursday after a workout on the field before the Dodgers hosted the New York Mets. “There's no pain at all. Hopefully, I can stay on this path.”
Betts said his hip had been bothering him since the start of spring training in February. He described the pain as being so intense that it “locked me up pretty good.”
“I hope it just can get through the season and let it heal and not have to worry about it anymore,” he said.
Manager Dave Roberts said Betts could potentially return as early as next week. The Dodgers visit NL West rival San Diego for a three-game series starting Tuesday and return home next Friday to host Colorado. Roberts said Betts would decide whether or not he needs a rehab assignment first.
“Maybe just a couple at-bats and we'll go from there,” Betts said. “I would like to at least get hot, then cool off, then get hot and get back running around just to make sure. I don’t want to go out there and have to come out of the game.”
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Michael and Sydney Hursa, the couple behind new sweets delivery brand, Synful Eats, walk us through a day in their very sweet life.
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New York City and Hamptons-based brand, Synful Eats, was conceived during the pandemic by entrepreneur Beth Kojima and talented chefs and husband-and-wife team Sydney and Michael Hursa. Sydney had trained under chefs like Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Daniel Humm while Michael spent the last seven years as a sous chef at Le Bernardin by Eric Ripert. The three collaborators got to talking and realized there was a huge opportunity to introduce Mike and Sydney’s talents to the world by delivering their signature sweet treats to doorsteps in New York City in the Hamptons (further expansion plans are underway too). The brand launched three weeks ago offering 12 individually-wrapped products in beautiful packaging: four types of cookies (Peanut Butter S’mores, Quadruple Chocolate Chip and Berry Oat), four types of bars (Chocolate Chip Cookie & Brownie, Dulcey & Tahini Brownie, Toffee Blondie and Berry Oat & White Chocolate Blondie) and four types of Synfilleds (their signature product which combines a cookie and molten goddess into a cake form). With a devoted early following, the brand is off to a delectable start and with fall fast approaching, the team is focused on private events and partnerships. To sign up for a delivery, check out their website.
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Accessories brand Rothy's celebrated the launch of its new shoes and bags in style with a chic summertime dinner in Bellport, New York.
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Accessories brand Rothy’s arrived in Bellport, New York for a memorable dinner on Friday, August 13. Notable locals like Tom Cashin and Jay Johnson, Kristy Hurt, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Nicolas Mirzayantz, Elliott Puckette and Hugo Guinness, Elizabeth Callender, Michelle Smith and Angela Westwater and David Meitus arrived at a bay-front home to celebrate the sustainable and washable brand’s new driving shoes and bags. Showing off their Rothy’s Sneakers, Flats, Drivers and Loafers, which are made from a signature thread produced from single-use plastic water bottles, guests enjoyed white wine and mezcal cocktails and mingled on the sweeping porch. A dinner of lobster rolls, peach and burrata salad, steak and fruit cobbler delighted partygoers who lingered on the lawn all evening following a brief introduction by Rothy’s head of sustainability, Saskia van Gendt.
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Dorinda Medley did not return for the most recent season of The Real Housewives of New York City after about five years on the Bravo show
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RHONY Alum Dorinda Medley on Whether She'll Return to the Show: 'Never Say Never'
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However, during an appearance on PEOPLE Every Day, she told host Janine Rubenstein that there could be a future for her on RHONY, noting that executive producer Andy Cohen previously referred to her departure from the show as a "pause."
"Never say never, right?" she said. "He did call it a pause didn't he?"
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Medley went on to reflect on what she would do differently if she were to make a return.
"I think you have to be your authentic self, warts and all," she said. "I think, if people love me for it, they hate me for it, I tell it like I see it. I don't lie. It is what it is.
"And quite frankly, it may take a while to come up, but I'm usually right," she added.
Medley said she remains in touch with "pretty much all" of her former costars, sharing that she recently connected with both Luann de Lesseps and Leah McSweeny. Her other costars from her last season on the show include Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan and Tinsley Mortimer, who has also exited the series.
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Medley — whose memoir, Make It Nice, hit shelves on Tuesday — first revealed that she wouldn't be returning to RHONY in an August 2020 Instagram post.
"What a journey this has been. I have laughed and cried and tried to Make it Nice..." she wrote at the time. "But all things must come to an end. This was a great outlet for me to heal when my late husband Richard passed away. I have met so many interesting people and learned so much about myself, about life and about women along the way."
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Lil Nas X is happier than ever in his new relationship.
The 22-year-old Grammy winner shared a few details about his romance in an interview with Brockhampton's Kevin Abstract for VMan magazine published Thursday, saying that it feels like "one of the best" relationships he's had yet.
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However, the singer is staying mom on his new love interest's identity.
When Abstract, 25, asked about his dating life, the "Industry Baby" singer shared that he was "actually about to go on [a date] right after this interview."
While Lil Nas X said that he usually goes on nighttime dates, the upcoming outing would be a bit out of the ordinary: "This is actually probably the first daytime date I've done in a minute," he said.
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The "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" singer then revealed that while he and his current boyfriend met "around the time" of his Saturday Night Live performance in May, they "just started dating maybe two weeks ago."
"I feel like this is one of the best [relationships] yet," he told Abstract. "I'm really happy about it, and it all just feels natural. It's effortless."
Lil Nas X told Variety just last week that he may have found "the one" in his current boyfriend.
"I've had some good boyfriends and some bad ones. A lot of them were emotionally unavailable or had a lot of insecurity and whatnot," he said in an interview for the outlet's Power of Young Hollywood issue.
"I've found someone special now," he said. "I think this is the one. I can't explain it — it's just a feeling."
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The "Old Town Road" singer also opened up about his dating history in his conversation with Abstract. When asked when he had his first boyfriend, Lil Nas X said he was "maybe 18 or 19."
"It was very late, like, in college. I don't even know if you can say 'boyfriend' if it's very much a 'nobody knows about it, down low,' situation," he explained.
While his relationships have inspired his songs "to a certain extent," Lil Nas X said he hasn't written any about that particular relationship.
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PEOPLE can confirm that Peter Gallagher is joining the cast of Grey's Anatomy next season, playing Dr. Alan Hamilton — a medical professional with ties to the title heroine's mom, Dr. Ellis Grey (Kate Burton).
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Grey's Anatomy will have a new doctor in the house when it returns for its 18th season next month.
Peter Gallagher is joining the cast, PEOPLE can confirm, playing Dr. Alan Hamilton — a medical professional with ties to the title heroine's mom, Dr. Ellis Grey (Kate Burton).
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Deadline was first to report the news.
The actor, who turned 66 on Thursday, will appear in the season premiere of Grey's, slated for Sept. 30, where he'll meet Meredith (Ellen Pompeo).
Gallagher's character just might be the key to Burton's return to the series, which was announced earlier this month. Dr. Ellis Grey famously died back in season 3 after suffering from Alzheimer's, but later appeared to Meredith in a dream during season 15, which aired in 2019.
Burton is slated to reprise her role in multiple episodes, including the season 18 kickoff.
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Gallagher has been working in Hollywood for more than four decades now, with memorable roles on stage (like 2015's On the Twentieth Century, opposite Kristin Chenoweth) and screen (American Beauty, Palm Springs, and Burlesque, to name a few).
He's best known to television fans for playing Sandy Cohen on The O.C., and has also recurred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Californication, Covert Affairs, The Gifted, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, and Grace and Frankie over the years.
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Meanwhile, production on Grey's Anatomy season 18 began earlier this month, as documented by Pompeo, 51, in a video shared on her Instagram Story.
Pompeo has starred as the titular doctor in Grey's Anatomy for the entirety of its 17-season run, but has expressed uncertainty about her future with the show in recent years. "This year could be it," she told Variety in October, ahead of the season 17 finale. The show was renewed for season 18 in May.
As for acting roles after Grey's (whenever that is), the Golden Globe nominee admitted this month that she'd be fine hanging up her acting hat when the long-running ABC series takes its final bow.
"I'm not saying I'll never act again, I very well may, but I'm not super excited about continuing my acting career," she said on the Ladies First with Laura Brown podcast.
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Captain Lee Rosbach appears to be missing in the latest trailer for the upcoming season of Below Deck.
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Bravo's Emmy-nominated reality series Below Deck is back for its ninth season, and there appears to be high drama on the high seas
Below Deck is back this October for its ninth season — but wait, where's Captain Lee Rosbach?
The long-running reality star appears to be missing at the beginning of Bravo's Emmy-nominated reality series' new installment, according to a trailer released by the network on Thursday.
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"I have a condition," he can be heard telling first officer Eddie Lucas when the clip begins. "The whole boat is your ballgame now."
"F--- my life," Lucas responds.
In Lee's place, a new captain — Captain Sean Meagher — steps in to oversee the superyacht "My Seanna" as it navigates the stunning waters of St. Kitts in the Caribbean.
Eddie Lucas Eddie Lucas | Credit: Laurent Bassett/Bravo
Save for Lucas and chef Rachel Hargrove, Meagher's got a fresh crop of yachties to manage, including new chief stewardess Heather Chase, stews Jessica Albert and Fraser Olender and deckhands Jake Foulger, Rayna Lindsay and Wes O'Dell.
"We're leaving the dock with a new captain and new crew," Lucas says. "Tensions are high."
Part of those tensions are between Lucas and Hargrove, who have leftover ill feelings from last season. "Alarming things were said on your behalf, viciously attacking my integrity and character," Hargrove tells Lucas at one point during a heated sit-down between the two.
"Come back to me, Captain Lee. Come back to me, my boat daddy," Lucas joking pleads in the trailer.
Captain Lee Rosbach Credit: Laurent Bassett/Bravo
Lucky for Lucas — and Below Deck fans — Lee does return this season. "Might be a little late, but I'm definitely back," he says in the clip.
With him, he brings his beloved no-nonsense attitude, hilarious quips and stack of pink slips.
"If I have to do your job, what do I need you for?" he tells his crew by trailer's end, before saying, "pack your bags."
RELATED: Kate Chastain Jokes That New Chief Stew Katie Is Showing Her What She Could've Gotten Away
Below Deck is currently Bravo's most-watched franchise, with three installments currently rotating on the network (and more on the way).
The series scored its first-ever Emmy nominations this year, for outstanding unstructured reality program and outstanding picture editing for an unstructured reality program.
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Chuck Close's attorney, John Silberman, confirmed his death to PEOPLE
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Famed artist Chuck Close, who late in his career faced sexual harassment allegations, has died. He was 81.
Close's attorney, John Silberman, confirmed his death to PEOPLE. His cause of death was not clear, though The Washington Post reported that he suffered from congestive heart failure.
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Known for his photorealistic portraits Close began using art as a way to navigate a learning disability. As a student at the University of Washington and Yale, he found inspiration in the paintings of Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning.
In the mid-1960s, he taught painting at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his first solo exhibition at the campus in 1967. The exhibition featured paintings of male nudes.
One of his most well-known pieces is a black-and-white self portrait from 1968, titled Big Self-Portrait. In the painting, a young Close holds a cigarette between his lips as he stares back at the viewer through thick black-rimmed glasses.
Big Self-Portrait Credit: BRUCE BISPING/Getty
In 2017, the artist was accused of sexually harassing several women at various times between 2005 and 2013, according to the New York Times. Some of the women had allegedly come to his studio to pose for him.
In December of that year, he acknowledged his previous actions during an interview with the NYT, saying: "If I embarrassed anyone or made them feel uncomfortable, I am truly sorry, I didn't mean to. I acknowledge having a dirty mouth, but we're all adults."
In light of the allegations, the National Gallery of Art in Washington canceled a display of his work, according to The Washington Post. However, other museums across the globe continued to show his paintings.
Close was also diagnosed in 2013 with frontotemporal dementia — which is an uncommon brain disorder that causes the frontal and temporal lobes to shrink and can impact personality, behavior and language, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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Prior to his dementia diagnosis, he was diagnosed with spinal artery collapse in 1988, which left him nearly completely paralyzed from the neck down, the Washington Post reports. He spent years regaining his ability to paint and spent the rest of his life using a wheelchair.
In addition to painting himself, Close also created portraits of other artists and friends. He only once painted a portrait of someone outside his immediate circle, according to the NYT.
In 2006 he painted a portrait of former President Bill Clinton, who had awarded him a National Medal of Arts in 2000, the newspaper reports.
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Tencent acquired a minority stake in PhonePe as part of the company’s $700 million funding round announced in December 2020
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PhonePe plans to use the $50 million funding received from Chinese conglomerate Tencent for its overseas acquisition and to support its Singapore office operations, according to a source close to the development. While all PhonePe employees are based in India, the company has a small team in Singapore looking after legal and M&A proceedings, the source added.
Tencent has acquired a minority (1.8 per cent) stake in PhonePe as part of the company’s $700 million funding round which was announced in December 2020. PhonePe has been in talks to acquire content and app discovery platform Indus OS (registered name - OSLabs) for $60 million since May 2021. However, the deal could not be completed because of the objection raised by existing investors, Affle Global and Ventureast. The existing investors value Indus OS at $90 million, while PhonePe had offered to acquire about 90 per cent stake in the company for $60 million. Since then the deal has been in a legal tussle.
“The case is expected to be closed in a few months. Companies had a court hearing a few months back and they both also participated in an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) in July, which was mandated by the Singapore High Court,” the source told BusinessLine. In July 2021, Affle Global claimed to have gotten a favourable ruling from Singapore HC. However, PhonePe refuted the claim at that time and said that no final ruling has come out yet.
“In addition to IndusOS, PhonePe had also acquired MapMyIndia in the past. This acquisition is being used to power the PhonePe store feature which helps users discover nearby stores. It is similar to Google Maps but it is built for the local audience,” the source added.
Synergies
Indus OS has built Indus App Bazaar which has a portfolio of 4 lakh localised Indian apps, making it an Indian alternative to platforms like Google PlayStore and AppStore. PhonePe is looking to integrate the Indus App Bazaar in PhonePe Switch, which hosts m-sites (mobile sites) for a variety of apps like Myntra, Zivame, Grofers, Netmeds etc.
The Indus OS acquisition can potentially strengthen the super app ambitions of PhonePe. Currently, PhonePe has expanded into a majority of verticals encompassing all things money. It allows users to send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, pay at stores, make utility payments, buy gold and make investments. PhonePe forayed into financial services in 2017 with the launch of Gold, which enabled users to buy 24-karat gold on its platform.
Since then, the company has launched several mutual funds and insurance products like tax-saving funds, liquid funds, international travel insurance, and Corona Care, a dedicated insurance product for the Covid-19 pandemic among others. PhonePe also launched its Switch platform in 2018, enabling users to place orders on 600 apps directly from within the PhonePe mobile app. PhonePe claims to be accessible at 20 million merchant outlets across 12,000 towns and 4,000 talukas nationally.
PhonePe is also the market leader in terms of UPI transactions. The NPCI data for the month of July 2021 showed that the company holds about 46% per cent of the market share by transaction volume. Media reports have claimed that PhonePe’s Indian competitor Paytm is also planning to launch its super app by the end of this year.
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Flipkart Wholesale, the digital B2B marketplace of Flipkart, has announced plans to triple its geographical footprint in India to 2,700 cities. Launched in September 2020, Flipkart Wholesale claims to have witnessed strong growth in the first half of 2021 led by the adoption of e-commerce by retailers and kiranas.
E-commerce adoption by kiranas on Flipkart Wholesale is said to have doubled in January-June this year compared to last year. Further, this vertical is projected to see 180 per cent growth in July-December 2021, as against the same period last year.
The company's supplier base is expected to grow 58 per cent in 2021, which will further boost the local business ecosystem as well as livelihoods. The company recently rebranded its Best Price cash-and-carry business, which it acquired from Walmart India in 2020.
Adarsh Menon, Senior Vice-President, and Head-Flipkart Wholesale, said, “We launched Flipkart Wholesale with an aim to bring prosperity to the B2B retail ecosystem and solve local pain points of kiranas across the country. Despite challenges induced by the pandemic, we have seen a strong response from kiranas who are now realising the benefits of digitisation and warming up to e-commerce as the go-to means of purchase.”
Serving kiranas
Flipkart Wholesale witnessed 17 per cent growth in its kirana customer base in January-June 2021 compared to the same period last year. The kirana customer base is projected to further grow by 33 per cent in July-December 2021, compared to the same period last year.
Flipkart Wholesale enables kirana stores to get access to product assortment, credit offers, payment options, and end-to-end service via feet-on-street associates, app, and cash-and-carry stores. The rebranding to Flipkart Wholesale is said to be seamless for kiranas, who will enjoy the same convenience as before. With this, all Best Price touchpoints will now be Flipkart Wholesale, making it an eminent omni-channel B2B player.
Flipkart Wholesale leverages the Flipkart Group’s experience to better serve kiranas and retailers who are increasingly adopting e-commerce as their preferred mode of purchase. Flipkart Wholesale serves over 1.5 million members across the country, which include kiranas, HoReCa (hotels, restaurants, and cafeterias), and O&I (offices and institutions).
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The study confirms observers’ fears that the enumeration faced insurmountable barriers to an accurate count.
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Prior to the 2020 U.S. census, many observers feared that large segments of the population would be undercounted. Those fears appear to have been realized, according to a UCLA analysis of the census data.
The study, conducted by the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, found that in Los Angeles County, residents in some neighborhoods were much more likely than others to be excluded from the 2020 census. Specifically, the research (PDF) concluded that — at the census-tract level — undercounts were most likely in areas where the majority of residents are Hispanic or Asian, have lower incomes, rent their homes or were born outside of the U.S.
Paul Ong, a research professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Jonathan Ong of Ong and Associates, a public-interest consulting firm, combed through data published Aug. 12 by the U.S. Census Bureau.
“The results are, unfortunately, consistent with our worst fear that the 2020 enumeration faced numerous potentially insurmountable barriers to a complete and accurate count,” Paul Ong said.
The research team compared the information to earlier population estimates drawn from the census bureau’s American Community Survey to determine whether and where the 2020 enumeration appeared to undercount or overcount the population within each neighborhood in Los Angeles County.
A key difference between the American Community Survey and the 2020 census, Paul Ong said, is that the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected data collection for the census. Previous research showed that disruption was particularly pronounced in disadvantaged neighborhoods. That appears to have created a “differential undercount,” meaning that some populations were more likely than other groups not to be counted. That, in turn, means that the scope of ethnic diversity and demographic change in cities like Los Angeles could be significantly underestimated, he said.
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Based on comparisons between the latest census data and the most recent American Community Survey estimates, the UCLA study found that in Los Angeles County:
Predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods are most likely to have the largest undercounts in the census.
Neighborhoods with the greatest percentage of people living below the poverty line were most likely to have undercounts.
Neighborhoods with larger percentages of renters, as opposed to homeowners, were more likely to have undercounts.
Census tracts in which most people are U.S.-born were more likely to be accurately counted than predominantly immigrant neighborhoods.
The pandemic wasn’t the only factor that hampered data collection for the 2020 census. The effort was also adversely affected by the Trump administration’s highly publicized push to include a citizenship question on the questionnaire. Although that effort was ultimately unsuccessful, Paul Ong said the controversy may have depressed participation among immigrants, whether they were undocumented or not.
“The findings indicate that the needless politicization of the 2020 enumeration seriously dampened participation by those targeted by the Trump administration,” he said.
Problems with the self-reporting aspect of the census placed greater pressure on the subsequent on-the-ground outreach in which census-takers canvassed nonresponding households. The success of that follow-up drive will not be known until a post-census analysis is conducted, which is scheduled for 2022.
The UCLA analysis is consistent with results from previous studies that have shown undercounts likelier to occur in disadvantaged communities. How residents are counted is important because census results influence legislative redistricting and government spending, which means the results can have serious political and economic implications.
“Given the analysis, it is imperative that we address the inequality in the census to ensure fair political representation in redistricting,” Paul Ong said.
Unlike previous corrective efforts, which address census undercounts based on national statistics and results from a comparatively small number of districts, the UCLA research relied on data specific to each neighborhood. As a result, Paul Ong said, the new approach should be more accurate and precise, and it could ultimately help officials understand how to adjust population statistics to account for the differential bias in completing the 2020 census and future counts.
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge
Undercounts are of most concern, but the technique could also help identify overcounts, which are rarer but can occur. Military redeployments may lead to overcounts, for example; other situations include some students who get counted twice while splitting time between home and college, and miscounts of people with second homes or people who experience a stay in a nursing home while also holding a permanent residence.
Ong & Associates, of which Paul Ong is the founder, provided services pro bono for the study.
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The Saitama Toyopet Green Brave SUPER GT team has announced that Kohta Kawaai will skip this weekend's Suzuka race after testing positive for COVID-19.
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Kawaai's place aboard the team's GT300 class #52 Toyota GR Supra GT300 alongside Hiroki Yoshida will be taken by series veteran Taku Bamba, who will make his first SUPER GT start since 2018.
A statement from the team said Kawaai is currently recovering at home and that the rest of the team members' PCR tests came back negative.
Japanese Formula 4 graduate Kawaai made his SUPER GT debut last year for the Saitama Toyopet squad, scoring two wins alongside Yoshida to finish second in the GT300 drivers' standings behind Kondo Racing Nissan pair Joao Paulo de Oliveira and Kiyoto Fujinami.
The duo currently lie third in this year's standings after three races with two third-place finishes at Okayama and Motegi.
Bamba, 39, meanwhile returns to the team he raced for full-time in 2017 and '18 before being replaced for 2019 by Yoshida. Prior to that, he was a GT300 champion in 2011 with the Goodsmile Racing team.
Due to his time out of the series, Bamba will have to pass SUPER GT's 'rookie test' in Saturday's free practice session, which essentially means completing 10 consecutive laps at a particular speed.
Yoshida and Bamba go into this weekend's race carrying 66kg of success ballast, courtesy of the 22 points scored by the team so far.
The two crews that jointly lead the standings, Naoya Gamou/Togo Suganami (LEON Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3) and Katsuyuki Hiranaka/Hironobu Yasuda (Gainer Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3) both carry 75kg of extra weight.
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Mick Foley has come to the defense of CM Punk following comments made by WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns. Here's what Foley said.
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Wrestling legend Mick Foley is sticking up for CM Punk following comments made by WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns.
Punk has been the talk of the wrestling world lately. While nothing has been announced, Punk is expected to make an appearance tomorrow night (Aug. 20) at AEW Rampage: The First Dance. This episode of Rampage will be held inside the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Reigns recently had an interview with Ariel Helwani for BT Sport. When Helwani mentioned that Punk has long been a detractor of part-timers taking the spotlight from full-time workers in the wrestling industry, Reigns had the following response.
“… I think, man, those statements are coming from bitter people. Who possibly thought they were better than they really were. When it comes down to it, CM Punk was not as good or as over as a John Cena. Wasn’t as good or as over and moved the needle, like The Rock.”
Mick Foley took to his Twitter account and made it clear that he disagrees with Reigns and feels Punk was as good and as over as he said he was.
CM PUNK WAS DAMN GOOD, AND DAMN OVER.
With one interview he changed the course of the wrestling business. He had great matches with a wide variety of opponents on a nightly basis.
When/if he returns to wrestling, he will once again be damn good and damn over. @CMPunk https://t.co/di1QS7qkZq — Mick Foley (@RealMickFoley) August 19, 2021
“CM PUNK WAS DAMN GOOD, AND DAMN OVER. With one interview he changed the course of the wrestling business. He had great matches with a wide variety of opponents on a nightly basis. When/if he returns to wrestling, he will once again be damn good and damn over.”
If all indications are correct, we won’t have to wait long to see just how much of a needle-mover Punk is in 2021. He hasn’t been involved with a wrestling promotion since 2014. His stint on WWE Backstage was through FOX, not WWE.
Who do you agree with on the popularity ceiling of CM Punk, Mick Foley or Roman Reigns?
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Barristers for Jeff Browne backer Francis Galbally and Collingwood met in the Supreme Court via video link on Friday morning.
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Mediation has been recommended by a Supreme Court judge in the battle over whether lawyer and Jeff Browne backer Francis Galbally can use a list of Collingwood members’ personal details to contact them.
Barristers for Galbally and the club met in the Supreme Court via video link on Friday morning to dispute whether a law would be broken if Galbally decided to use a members’ register to contact them about a potential board spill at the club’s upcoming annual general meeting.
Collingwood president Mark Korda (left) and challenger Jeff Browne. Credit:The Age
Galbally has requested Collingwood provide him with a list of the club’s members to verify the signatures in a petition to spill the Magpies board.
The Magpies on Friday, represented by barrister Banjo McLachlan, said they understood their obligation to provide Galbally with that register, but were worried that they could be liable under another law in the Corporations Act if Galbally chose to contact members.
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ABC RN Breakfast show host Fran Kelly and Marion Frith, a former speechwriter and journalist turned novelist, discuss love, luck and weathering ‘really friggin’ serious’ moments.
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Marion’s three children were young when we met. Being a step-parent was an exciting thing to embark on. It’s a lovely relationship, and a complex one: a shout-out to all the step-parents out there. The payoff is we have a great relationship and I’ve now got five grandkids.
I’ve done the show for 17 years and she listens to it every morning. She has been very supportive, which you need when you’re doing breakfast radio. It’s a punishing schedule that dominates the rhythm of the home. I came to journalism late in life, but Marion came up through those old-school newsrooms and has never lost that passion. So I’ll get home and she’ll say, “Oh, I thought you were really easy on so-and-so”, or “Why did you let that go so long? It was dull.” Occasionally she’ll text me on air, “Keep going with this one.” She has good instincts. Is it always welcome? Well, I can take it or leave it: I’ve got the power over the mic.
Fran: We’ve been together coming up for 30 years now. We met on an assignment and became friends first. I was very attracted to Marion’s energy and her humour. She’s daring, she’s a “don’t die wondering” kind of person.
Fran Kelly (left) and Marion Frith: “Marion will text me on air, ‘Keep going with this one.’ She has good instincts. Is it always welcome? Well, I can take it or leave it.” Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
Political journalist Fran Kelly, 63, has hosted the ABC’s RN Breakfast show since 2005. Her partner Marion Frith, 65, a former speechwriter and journalist, had a brush with death in 2015 and has just written her first novel.
I’m quite balanced and Marion’s more passionate and impulsive. When she was mosaicing the wall in our garden, she’d walk in from work in her business suit and go out and mix the cement in those clothes. I’m like, “What are you doing?” I’m the opposite. I have an outfit for all occasions. She’ll start painting without putting down a drop sheet, then there will be paint on the new marble kitchen and I’ll go, “Really? You didn’t think about that?”
“It’s a lovely relationship, and a complex one: a shout-out to all the step-parents out there. The payoff is we have a great relationship and I’ve now got five grandkids.”
In 2015, Marion got sepsis and it was very scary. She was in Melbourne getting ready for her daughter’s wedding. I was in Sydney, planning to come down on the weekend. I was on air doing an interview when I got a text saying, “I’m going into ICU.” I panicked. I managed to call her during a break. The doctor took the phone and told me it was serious, really friggin’ serious. I got there as soon as I could.
Marion was determined to go to the wedding. She’s very driven. Her specialist said, “Well, you can go to the wedding and your family might not have you for very long, or you can do as I’m telling you and stay in hospital.” In the end, she was allowed to go for three hours. One of the nurses in ICU used to be a hairdresser and she came in specially to do Marion’s hair. So Marion arrived at the wedding in her hospital garb with this lovely hairdo.
She was very sick for a year. Moments like that make you think about the life you’ve led and still want to lead. We talked a lot about that together, and cried about it. She’s recovered since and written a children’s book and now a novel [Here in the After, out September 1], which I’ve come to see is a relentless and hellish process. I have no desire to ever do it.
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On June 23, 2001 he went to the pub and confided to a bouncer: “I’m going to neck myself.” It was the anniversary of Maria James’ funeral.
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Within three days the government announced a $50,000 reward - the quickest ever recorded. This was because police feared the offender could strike again. Today, with shopfront CCTV, phone records and modern forensics, the murder would have been solved in days. Back then it was a case littered with false hope and dead ends. Phil Cleary didn’t know Maria James but is desperate to know if there is a link to the murder of his sister Vicki, stabbed to death seven years later. Vicki’s murderer, Peter Keogh, was only convicted of manslaughter after claiming he was provoked, an obscene conclusion that blamed the victim for her death. Keogh would serve less than four years. Killer Peter Keogh. Keogh had been Vicki’s partner and began to stalk her after the relationship ended. At 7am on August 26, 1987, he went to the Coburg kindergarten in Cameron Street to lay in wait for an hour until Vicki arrived for work.
When she pulled up he attacked, first trying to strangle her, slashing her face (classic hate injuries), then stabbing her repeatedly in the abdomen, leaving her bleeding to death in the gutter. Keogh is a suspect in the Maria James case and Phil Cleary believes he will speak at the inquest for his dead sister and hundreds of other family violence victims. Eighteen months after the James murder, when police issued an image of the offender (resembling Keogh) two women rang Crime Stoppers nominating him, adding he attacked their sister with a knife. This victim was Judy McNulty - Keogh’s alibi witness who now believed he was guilty. The tip was not passed on to Homicide. The police identikit that prompted two women to nominate Keogh as the killer. Credit:Victoria Police If it had been, Cleary contends, Keogh would have been charged with his latest knife attack and become a major focus of the James investigation. Forewarned, he says, Vicki wouldn’t have formed a relationship with him.
Keogh is not the only person of interest. There were dozens, with the list now whittled down to less than 10. One is local priest Father Anthony Bongiorno. Both Bongiorno and Keogh were falsely cleared by DNA tests - only for police to later find the sample was from another crime. There was the slightest glimmer of hope when the bloodstained quilt, misplaced by police for decades, was found. If the offender left a DNA trace it could be a breakthrough, but for a host of scientific reasons it is a long shot. Like so many leads, it may lead nowhere. James’ son Adam says he told his mother days before the murder that he was molested by the priest.
Police have been told James planned to confront Bongiorno on the day of the murder. More than 30 years after the killing, a witness has come forward to say that on the day of the killing he saw a man matching Bongiorno’s description entering the church grounds with blood on his face. Despite the blanket publicity, he didn’t at the time connect the bloodied man with the murder less than 100 metres away. I spoke to Bongiorno hours after the murder, who described how he told James’ eldest son, Mark, that his mother was dead. “We both had a bit of a sob together,” he said. Bongiorno died of natural causes in 2002.
James remained close to her ex-husband, and they spoke regularly about their children, yet she did not share her suspicions on Bongiorno. She was bashed three times and her throat cut. Her wrists were bound in front and her body covered by more than 60 nicks and cuts. She was moved three times and a coffee table overturned and broken. Police said she was tortured, “obviously by a maniac”. The injuries were not consistent with an offender who wanted to silence his victim but one who attacked with venom, determined to hurt and humiliate; a power crime. On the day of the murder Bongiorno was happy to be photographed by the press - a massive risk if he was seen leaving the bookshop after the murder. Father Anthony Bongiorno outside the bookshop. Credit:The Age
The man believed to be the killer was seen running across High Street. But the church is on the same side as the bookshop, which means if it was Bongiorno he crossed the busy street not once but twice. But by taking that route he would have avoided running past the Catholic school, where he was well known. The initial police profile of the killer was someone who knew Maria James, lived locally, had an explosive temper and a hatred of women. After interviewing witnesses police released a description of a man seen running across High Street. He was paunchy, about 167 centimetres, with dark hair and wearing light grey trousers. Photofit of the man seen running across High Street. Credit:Victoria Police James told friends she was seeing a man named Peter. Police were to find three Peters who knew her. None were Peter Keogh. Police received four separate tips that Keogh was the murderer. He fitted the description, was 167 centimetres, hated women, had an explosive temper, had a prior for tying up females and an obsession with knives.
Within days of the James murder, a local florist told police an unidentified man bought carnations to be delivered to the bookshop, asking her to write the card. Keogh was borderline illiterate. Two women who experienced his violence also received flowers from him – always carnations. He lived in the area and was a regular at the Junction Hotel, just up the road from the bookshop. Years earlier he attacked a man in the bar with a broken glass and was sentenced to one month’s jail. Interesting but not compelling. In fact, no one confirmed James and Keogh ever met. Yet there were plenty who suspected the brooding former meatworker.
Twelve years after the James murder he dated a Junction Hotel bar staffer (he subsequently tried to burn her house down). Three times a regular at the bar warned her, saying Keogh “killed the girl at the bookshop”. Another said: “He did Maria James, she was his missus.” On June 23, 2001, he went to the pub and confided to a bouncer: “I’m going to neck myself.” It was the anniversary of Maria James’ funeral. He drove to his Mansfield Street home, put a hose into the car and gassed himself, a bottle of bourbon his only companion. Maria James’ bookshop was one from the corner of Mansfield Street. Vicki Cleary confided to a friend that Keogh had threatened “I will do to you what I did to the woman in the bookshop”. Even counsellors need counsellors and when psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs needed to talk she turned to her mentor, Dr Jim Goulding.
Days after the bookshop murder, she rang to discuss one of her clients: Peter Keogh. Peter Keogh, aged 19. “She said, ‘I know that bastard did it. He told me he was going to get her’,” Goulding recalled. If Hobbs was right, it would mean Keogh knew James. But both Hobbs and Goulding are now dead. Goulding tipped off police and in August 1980 Keogh was interviewed by Homicide detectives. His girlfriend, Judy McNulty, provided an alibi that was later discredited. Homicide detective Frank Bellesini wasn’t part of the bookshop team but when he heard a witness describe a suspect as having a limp, he nominated Keogh.
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A form of meditation in the sea, free-diving is on the rise. No surprise, given the times.
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Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size There’s whale song in the ocean today, carrying miles and miles. Bella Massey breaks the surface of the water, droplets of salty ocean cascading down her neoprene hood, and smiles. “Can you hear it?” she marvels. “Amazing.” I duck my head underwater, the seaside apartment blocks of North Bondi disappearing, the world I know vanishing, and pause a few metres down, just hanging there in the cold, clear water, listening. And there it is. Faint, but it’s there. The sound of whale song, gentle and soothing. The ocean’s radio, broadcast from who knows where. Welcome to free-diving, the extreme sport that isn’t really extreme at all. You hear about extreme sports and you picture adrenalin junkies, groups of dudes in flat-brimmed caps fist-bumping and yelping as they throw themselves off buildings or twist dirt-bike throttles. Contrast that with the act of diving
underwater with no assistance, with no air tanks or flotation devices or other outside help, just you and the ocean and the desire to push your body’s limits and go deep. This is about discovering the power of your body, and even more so, the power of your mind. And it’s rapidly gaining popularity. “The ocean is a great healer,” says Massey, an enthusiast and instructor who runs the Sydney-based free-diving school Immersia. “For a lot of people, the appeal of free-diving is not diving to 60 metres, the appeal is putting on these long, beautiful fins, moving through the water like a mermaid – there’s something quite otherworldly about it. I think it has also been boosted by this cultural movement towards mindfulness and meditation, people building a regular meditative practice into their lives.” “The thing about free-diving is you’re not relying on any gear, you’re not relying on any external factor... You’re completely in control of your own body.” Massey, 30, is the Aussie coastal cliché: tall, blonde, athletic, with the permanent healthy glow of someone who just got out of the ocean. She took up free-diving after she moved from England to Australia – where, she says, she had visions of being a “blonde surfer babe” – and discovered the beauty of the underwater landscape, the feeling of connecting with the world while at the same time gaining freedom from it.
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“The thing about free-diving,” she says, “is you’re not relying on any gear, you’re not relying on any external factor. What you’re tuned into is, what’s my heart doing, what are my lungs doing, what do I feel, what does that mean, how do I interpret what I’m feeling, and therefore how do I judge when I go back to the surface or go deeper? “You’re completely in control of your own body.” Free-diving can be a competitive sport, or it can be a pleasurable pastime. There are those who seek to compete as divers, to break records, to plunge to
incredible depths and hold their breath for a phenomenal amount of time; there are those who free-dive to forage for underwater delicacies such as sea urchins and abalone; then there are those who use free-diving purely to relax, to explore the world in a new way, to clear their minds, exercise their bodies and just duck underwater. Little wonder this sport has become so popular during the past 18 months of stress and unpredictability. Here is an activity that directly challenges those feelings, that forces participants – if they’re doing this properly, if they’re slowing their heart rates and focusing on their breathing – to shed the concerns of the outside world and focus purely on the water, on the depth, on their heartbeat, on their breath. Loading “It’s total silence,” says Massey, who can frequently be found plunging into the cool, clear depths of the ocean at Ben Buckler Point, just off North Bondi. “Of course there are always sounds – you can hear boats, you can hear little critters doing their thing on the reef – but internally you have to reach this quiet, quiet point where you’re literally just listening to your own heartbeat and to the needs of your own body. “And you only get a few seconds of it [when you dive], so you have to give it everything you possibly can. What you can’t be doing is thinking about the bill you need to pay, or someone you need to email back. Instead you’re thinking about, what is the light doing on the surface of the water? What kind of fish is that? What’s in that hole?”
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For a free-diver, each journey underwater is a micro-meditation. It requires total awareness of your body. A dive begins by hanging there on the surface of the water, “breathing up”, preparing to submerge. There’s only one way to slow your heart rate and that’s to remain calm and still and focus on air going in and air going out, air going in and air going out, until you reach that point of perfection and you make the decision to draw in one, long, last breath. And then you dive. Here’s a quick exercise. Hold your breath and time yourself. Hold it for as long as you can. You might last 30 seconds, maybe a minute, perhaps even longer. Now, know this: the urge to breathe that you just felt doesn’t mean you were running out of oxygen. “When oxygen is consumed, the muscles release carbon dioxide,” explains Gary Housley, a professor of physiology at UNSW. “That CO2 builds up, and at the brain stem there are neurons there that sense the increase in carbon dioxide level, and they cause this profound conscious drive, this need to breathe. And it’s very hard to overcome that.”
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The thing is, though, it can be overcome. By the time enough carbon dioxide has built up that your body triggers a need to draw breath, you still have a lot of oxygen left. Massey, for example, says her urge to breathe typically kicks in at about one minute into her breath-hold; at that point she knows she still has about three to four minutes before she is at risk of serious hypoxia, or oxygen starvation. The world record for breath-holding is an astonishing 11 minutes and 35 seconds. The deepest anyone has dived underwater without the assistance of scuba tanks, weights or other mechanical apparatus is 131 metres. With weighted sleds and flotation devices, free-divers have gone 214 metres into the ocean. So, try that breath-hold again, armed with this knowledge. Know that you have vast reserves of oxygen even though your body is telling you to breathe, and see the difference that knowledge makes. I can almost guarantee that your second breath-hold will be longer than your first. And now take that sensation, that success, that mastery of your body’s functions, and multiply it. You’re beginning to understand the attraction of free-diving. Lisa Zhang, 33, is a Sydney-based architect who has found solace in free-diving during the pandemic. She has found not just a social outlet, forming a group of like-minded friends, but a way to challenge and test herself. “It’s a bit of fear,” says Zhang, speaking to me during lockdown from her home in eastern Sydney. “It’s a bit of pressure to perform when you dive. I’ve also always found it really difficult to switch off in my life. With work – I mean, I finish work, but I don’t actually switch off. I don’t stop thinking about it. So being in that zone [while free-diving], it’s really taught me to meditate a bit better.” Zhang reflects the new wave of recreational divers who are challenging the perception of this as an extreme sport dominated by men. She first tried free-diving a few years ago, but didn’t find the social outlet she has now. “It was more of a boys’ club. The boys would go out spear-fishing, and that’s not something I would do. Now though, I guess, my whole group of dive friends is all women.”
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“It was more of a boys’ club,” she says of her early attempts. “The boys would go out spear-fishing, and that’s not something I would do. Now though, I guess, my whole group of dive friends is all women. And that’s been really good, there’s not that kind of pressure, per se, to keep chasing numbers. It’s been a really supportive, community vibe.” Loading This sport, of course, can be extreme, and it can be dangerous. Those who seek to push their limits sometimes push too far. The greatest danger for a free-diver is hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the bloodstream, which can cause a “samba”, a loss of motor control, or even a blackout. At that point, if there is no rescue procedure in place, the result is death – which is why divers should learn how to do it safely before trying it, follow the rules and always go out with a “buddy”. “You can hear boats, you can hear little critters doing their thing on the reef, but internally you have to reach this quiet, quiet point,” says Bella Massey. Credit:Ewan Donnachie Back out in the water, Massey pulls her mask down over her face and prepares for another dive, to explore the underwater world, to thrill to it. “It’s not so much about pushing yourself, it’s about finding a deep, deep, quiet place. That’s one of the things I love about free-diving – you can’t look at someone and say, ‘You would be a good free-diver because you’re a good runner, or a good swimmer, or you lift weights.’ It’s not about that. It’s about who can tap into the quiet of their mind, who can send themselves almost to sleep with calming thoughts, with careful breathing. “This sport has unlocked in me something I’d never been able to put my finger on. And it is the greatest thing I have ever found.”
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Two people are feared dead after a car struck a pole and burst into flame on a busy inner-city road.
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Two people are feared dead after a car struck a pole and burst into flame on a busy inner-city road.
A police spokeswoman said it appeared a vehicle was travelling south along Flemington Road near the Royal Women’s Hospital, toward Grattan Street, when it struck a curb and crashed into a pole, about 9.50am on Friday.
Police are currently at the scene of a fatal collision on Flemington Road, Parkville. Credit:Jason South
“At this stage it is believed two people, the driver and a passenger, are deceased,” they said.
“It is not believed the incident is [counterterrorism] related or that there is any ongoing threat to the community.
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Intelligence from the now-defunct online black market site Silk Road, shut down by US authorities in 2013, has seen Victoria Police carry out raids across the state.
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A record $8.49 million in cryptocurrency has been seized by police investigating drug trafficking on the dark web.
The seizure, an Australian record, was led by detectives from Victoria Police’s Criminal Proceeds Squad and saw raids carried out at properties across metro and regional Victoria on Thursday. An estimated $13.1 million worth of assets - including property and vehicles - have been seized.
Two people were arrested - a 31-year-old woman from Kinglake, and a 30-year-old man from Preston. Both were interviewed by police and released pending further inquiries. The woman was charged with possessing cannabis and bailed to appear before court in March.
Commander Mick Frewen from Victoria Police Crime Command. Credit:Victoria Police
The arrests and search warrants were part of an investigation into drug trafficking on dark web platform Silk Road dating back to 2012, police said on Friday.
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As he prepares for his final match as a Hawk, the four-time premiership coach says a year off is firmly on the agenda but admits decisions can change quickly.
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Burgoyne is heading into retirement although is likely to have an important role to play in Indigenous affairs off the field, while Clarkson has a key decision to make.
Clarkson, after 17 years in charge, completed his final weekly press conference on Friday at a windswept and wet Waverley Park, where he and Shaun Burgoyne took a trip down memory lane ahead of their final match in Hawthorn colours, against Richmond at the MCG on Saturday.
Alastair Clarkson has declared his “sincere intention” is to have a year off from coaching but says a final decision won’t be made for a couple of weeks.
However, Clarkson, who will be paid out the final year of his contract with the Hawks worth about $900,000, having been replaced by Sam Mitchell, could also take the year off - something he said he was seriously considering.
“I am a little bit embarrassed to talk about it to be fair because whatever has been said in the last three or four weeks has changed so much. Whatever you say, you just can’t take it as gospel,” he said.
“My sincere intention, at this point in time, and has been for the last four to six weeks, now that I am no longer coaching Hawthorn, I want to have a spell from the game and to see what that rest will do for me, whether it will reignite some real passion to get involved in the game again or actually take the opportunity to go overseas.
“It’s a little bit difficult at the moment given the [pandemic] environment … take the opportunity to go overseas and explore some things, do some things that my wife and I have never done before because we have been so heavily involved in footy and see where the next chapter of our life takes us.”
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In this episode, we look at the conservative outback town that became home to a family of Tamil asylum seekers, then fought to keep them there.
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In this episode of Good Weekend Talks, we look at Biloela, the tiny Queensland town thrust into the spotlight after embracing a family of Sri Lankan asylum seekers as their own.
Anne Hyland, a senior writer with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, argues that the town’s resistance to the detention of the Murugappan family has put Australia’s border control policy on the international map. She visited the remote town – 150 kilometres south of Rockhampton, with a population of just under 6000 – for our cover story this week: “From Biloela with love: How a conservative community in outback Queensland – and the family they’re fighting for – changed the national conversation on refugees.”
Anne is joined on the podcast by Biloela resident Angela Fredericks, one of the women who has led the campaign to keep Sri Lankan refugees Nades and Priya Murugappan and their daughters Kopika and Tharnicaa in Australia.
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Intelligence from the now-defunct online black market site Silk Road, shut down by US authorities in 2013, has seen Victoria Police carry out raids across the state.
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A record $8.49 million in cryptocurrency has been seized by police investigating drug trafficking on the dark web.
The seizure, an Australian record, was led by detectives from Victoria Police’s Criminal Proceeds Squad and saw raids carried out at properties across metro and regional Victoria on Thursday. An estimated $13.1 million worth of assets - including property and vehicles - have been seized.
Two people were arrested - a 31-year-old woman from Kinglake, and a 30-year-old man from Preston. Both were interviewed by police and released pending further inquiries. The woman was charged with possessing cannabis and bailed to appear before court in March.
Commander Mick Frewen from Victoria Police Crime Command. Credit:Victoria Police
The arrests and search warrants were part of an investigation into drug trafficking on dark web platform Silk Road dating back to 2012, police said on Friday.
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Nine-year-old Omar Kahil, an only child who lives in Greenacre, has been playing basketball with his imagination since police requested the hoops from his local park be removed during lockdown
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Two big-time Australian basketball players are finding hoops for the backyard of a nine-year-old boy from Sydney’s south-west, who has had to play the sport with his imagination since police requested the hoops from his local park be removed during lockdown.
The Herald met Omar Kahil, an only child who lives in Greenacre, earlier this week at his local park following reports the council had removed its basketball hoops in an attempt to limit people gathering during the outbreak.
Omar Kahil at Northcote Park in Greenacre. Credit:James Brickwood
His story caught the attention of two Australian NBA championship players: Andrew Bogut, who spent most of his career in the United States, and Matthew Dellavedova, who now plays for Melbourne United and won bronze with the Boomers in Tokyo.
Bogut, who played for the Milwaukee Bucks and Golden State Warriors, told the Herald he and Dellavedova, who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, were joining forces to contact the Kahil family after reading of Omar’s plight.
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Two people are feared dead after a car struck a pole and burst into flame on a busy inner-city road.
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Two people are feared dead after a car struck a pole and burst into flame on a busy inner-city road.
A police spokeswoman said it appeared a vehicle was travelling south along Flemington Road near the Royal Women’s Hospital, toward Grattan Street, when it struck a curb and crashed into a pole, about 9.50am on Friday.
Police are currently at the scene of a fatal collision on Flemington Road, Parkville. Credit:Jason South
“At this stage it is believed two people, the driver and a passenger, are deceased,” they said.
“It is not believed the incident is [counterterrorism] related or that there is any ongoing threat to the community.
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Designer Kit Willow is joining the growing fashion resale market by finding new homes for pre-loved KitX creations.
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The pervasive scent of camphor, BO and regret once permeated attitudes towards secondhand clothing but Australian designer Kit Willow is joining the growing list of luxury labels blocking their noses and airing pre-worn dresses in the fashion resale market.
The aesthetically conscious activist has launched the KitXchange for her brand KitX, in a grassroots attempt to quench Australian shoppers’ appetite for disposable fashion.
Kit Willow wearing the handwoven Eye Cat Print shirt from the KitX Spring/Summer 2018 collection that will be available in her new online resale boutique. Credit:Dominic Lorimer
“The amount of energy that goes into fashion development is enormous,” Willow said. “From agriculture, freight, dyes, knitting it, weaving it, selling it, getting it to the makers, shipping it… it’s huge. Just to wear it once or twice and then throw it away.”
“With KitXchange, I never want to see a KitX garment in landfill. There is always someone who will find it and love it. It’s about loving longer.”
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2021-08-20 02:21:43+00:00
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Experts say small inducements rather than lottery tickets may be key to driving up vaccination rates as one shire enacts its own incentive strategy.
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A coastal Victorian council is offering free movie tickets, coffee, doughnuts and sausages to residents who get vaccinated.
The Bass Coast Shire in the state’s south-east is teaming up with local businesses to offer the inducements in the hope of becoming the first region to reach an 80 per cent vaccination rate.
The campaign, launched on Friday, comes as experts suggest text message reminders, sausage sizzles, convenient booking systems and colourful sticking plasters may be more useful in getting people vaccinated than expensive lotteries or cash payments.
With the nation’s vaccine rate sitting at 26.88 per cent, the federal opposition has been pushing for $300 incentive payments for Australians to get vaccinated while the Grattan Institute made news earlier this month by calling for a $10 million weekly lottery to get people jabbed.
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Lotteries, movie tickets and ‘vaccine sausages’: Which incentives work?
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Submissions to a parliamentary inquiry have revealed hundreds of sexual harassment complaints at WA mining sites including five accusations of rape.
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BHP has sacked 48 employees in the past two years over sexual harassment complaints at its fly-in, fly-out camps as the regulator slammed WA’s mining industry for its ad-hoc reporting of assaults.
In a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into sexual harassment against women in the FIFO workforce, the mining giant – which employs 13,500 people in WA – revealed between July 2019 and June 2021, five employees had alleged they had been raped and 13 indecently assaulted.
BHP has committed $300 million to improving safety at its sites since 2019. Credit:WAtoday/Supplied
The serious complaints were among 73 recorded incidents of sexual harassment made to the company’s confidential reporting arm, EthicsPoint, over the same period.
“This includes inappropriate comments of a sexual nature, unwelcome comments about looks or dress, inappropriate ‘jokes’, ‘wolf whistles’, unwelcome touching, requests for massage, sending inappropriate text messages or images, staring or leering, or persistent requests for personal information or dates or other unwanted advances,” BHP wrote in its submission, made public on Thursday.
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BHP sacked 48 workers over sexual harassment claims, FIFO inquiry reveals
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Masks will be mandatory outside the home, except for exercise, across NSW while a 9pm to 5am curfew will be introduced in Sydney’s 12 local government areas of concern.
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Greater Sydney’s lockdown has been extended until the end of September while a 9pm to 5am curfew will be introduced from Monday in the city’s 12 local government areas of concern.
Face masks will also be mandatory outdoors, except when exercising, when you leave home across the state, including in regional NSW, which remains in lockdown until August 28.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Friday described them as “final measures” to drive COVID-19 cases down.
The local government areas of concern are Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta, Strathfield, and the Penrith suburbs of Caddens, Claremont Meadows, Colyton, Erskine Park, Kemps Creek, Kingswood, Mount Vernon, North St Marys, Orchard Hills, Oxley Park, St Clair and St Marys.
Starting at 12.01am on Monday, August 23, a curfew will be in place from 9pm to 5am in the LGAs of concern to help reduce the movement of young people. This does not apply to authorised workers, for emergencies or medical care.
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On June 23, 2001 he went to the pub and confided to a bouncer: “I’m going to neck myself.” It was the anniversary of Maria James’ funeral.
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Within three days the government announced a $50,000 reward - the quickest ever recorded. This was because police feared the offender could strike again. Today, with shopfront CCTV, phone records and modern forensics, the murder would have been solved in days. Back then it was a case littered with false hope and dead ends. Phil Cleary didn’t know Maria James but is desperate to know if there is a link to the murder of his sister Vicki, stabbed to death seven years later. Vicki’s murderer, Peter Keogh, was only convicted of manslaughter after claiming he was provoked, an obscene conclusion that blamed the victim for her death. Keogh would serve less than four years. Killer Peter Keogh. Keogh had been Vicki’s partner and began to stalk her after the relationship ended. At 7am on August 26, 1987, he went to the Coburg kindergarten in Cameron Street to lay in wait for an hour until Vicki arrived for work.
When she pulled up he attacked, first trying to strangle her, slashing her face (classic hate injuries), then stabbing her repeatedly in the abdomen, leaving her bleeding to death in the gutter. Keogh is a suspect in the Maria James case and Phil Cleary believes he will speak at the inquest for his dead sister and hundreds of other family violence victims. Eighteen months after the James murder, when police issued an image of the offender (resembling Keogh) two women rang Crime Stoppers nominating him, adding he attacked their sister with a knife. This victim was Judy McNulty - Keogh’s alibi witness who now believed he was guilty. The tip was not passed on to Homicide. The police identikit that prompted two women to nominate Keogh as the killer. Credit:Victoria Police If it had been, Cleary contends, Keogh would have been charged with his latest knife attack and become a major focus of the James investigation. Forewarned, he says, Vicki wouldn’t have formed a relationship with him.
Keogh is not the only person of interest. There were dozens, with the list now whittled down to less than 10. One is local priest Father Anthony Bongiorno. Both Bongiorno and Keogh were falsely cleared by DNA tests - only for police to later find the sample was from another crime. There was the slightest glimmer of hope when the bloodstained quilt, misplaced by police for decades, was found. If the offender left a DNA trace it could be a breakthrough, but for a host of scientific reasons it is a long shot. Like so many leads, it may lead nowhere. James’ son Adam says he told his mother days before the murder that he was molested by the priest.
Police have been told James planned to confront Bongiorno on the day of the murder. More than 30 years after the killing, a witness has come forward to say that on the day of the killing he saw a man matching Bongiorno’s description entering the church grounds with blood on his face. Despite the blanket publicity, he didn’t at the time connect the bloodied man with the murder less than 100 metres away. I spoke to Bongiorno hours after the murder, who described how he told James’ eldest son, Mark, that his mother was dead. “We both had a bit of a sob together,” he said. Bongiorno died of natural causes in 2002.
James remained close to her ex-husband, and they spoke regularly about their children, yet she did not share her suspicions on Bongiorno. She was bashed three times and her throat cut. Her wrists were bound in front and her body covered by more than 60 nicks and cuts. She was moved three times and a coffee table overturned and broken. Police said she was tortured, “obviously by a maniac”. The injuries were not consistent with an offender who wanted to silence his victim but one who attacked with venom, determined to hurt and humiliate; a power crime. On the day of the murder Bongiorno was happy to be photographed by the press - a massive risk if he was seen leaving the bookshop after the murder. Father Anthony Bongiorno outside the bookshop. Credit:The Age
The man believed to be the killer was seen running across High Street. But the church is on the same side as the bookshop, which means if it was Bongiorno he crossed the busy street not once but twice. But by taking that route he would have avoided running past the Catholic school, where he was well known. The initial police profile of the killer was someone who knew Maria James, lived locally, had an explosive temper and a hatred of women. After interviewing witnesses police released a description of a man seen running across High Street. He was paunchy, about 167 centimetres, with dark hair and wearing light grey trousers. Photofit of the man seen running across High Street. Credit:Victoria Police James told friends she was seeing a man named Peter. Police were to find three Peters who knew her. None were Peter Keogh. Police received four separate tips that Keogh was the murderer. He fitted the description, was 167 centimetres, hated women, had an explosive temper, had a prior for tying up females and an obsession with knives.
Within days of the James murder, a local florist told police an unidentified man bought carnations to be delivered to the bookshop, asking her to write the card. Keogh was borderline illiterate. Two women who experienced his violence also received flowers from him – always carnations. He lived in the area and was a regular at the Junction Hotel, just up the road from the bookshop. Years earlier he attacked a man in the bar with a broken glass and was sentenced to one month’s jail. Interesting but not compelling. In fact, no one confirmed James and Keogh ever met. Yet there were plenty who suspected the brooding former meatworker.
Twelve years after the James murder he dated a Junction Hotel bar staffer (he subsequently tried to burn her house down). Three times a regular at the bar warned her, saying Keogh “killed the girl at the bookshop”. Another said: “He did Maria James, she was his missus.” On June 23, 2001, he went to the pub and confided to a bouncer: “I’m going to neck myself.” It was the anniversary of Maria James’ funeral. He drove to his Mansfield Street home, put a hose into the car and gassed himself, a bottle of bourbon his only companion. Maria James’ bookshop was one from the corner of Mansfield Street. Vicki Cleary confided to a friend that Keogh had threatened “I will do to you what I did to the woman in the bookshop”. Even counsellors need counsellors and when psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs needed to talk she turned to her mentor, Dr Jim Goulding.
Days after the bookshop murder, she rang to discuss one of her clients: Peter Keogh. Peter Keogh, aged 19. “She said, ‘I know that bastard did it. He told me he was going to get her’,” Goulding recalled. If Hobbs was right, it would mean Keogh knew James. But both Hobbs and Goulding are now dead. Goulding tipped off police and in August 1980 Keogh was interviewed by Homicide detectives. His girlfriend, Judy McNulty, provided an alibi that was later discredited. Homicide detective Frank Bellesini wasn’t part of the bookshop team but when he heard a witness describe a suspect as having a limp, he nominated Keogh.
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has extended the lockdown for Greater Sydney until the end of September amid a number of new restrictions following 642 new cases and four deaths on Friday.
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has extended the lockdown for Greater Sydney until the end of September after NSW recorded 642 local COVID cases and four deaths on Friday.
The Premier said the new restrictions - including mandatory outdoor masks across NSW unless exercising and a curfew in Sydney’s west and south-west - was based on a sudden escalation in cases and police feedback.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian arrives at the daily health briefing on Friday. Credit:James Brickwood
As Greater Sydney’s lockdown nears the end of its eighth week, four deaths were recorded: a woman in her 80s who was a resident at Wyoming aged care facility and is the fourth death from that cluster, a man in his 70s who acquired his infection at St George Hospital, a man in his 80s who is the second person to die after acquiring an infection at Nepean Hospital and a woman in her 80s from south-west Sydney.
Deputy Premier John Barilaro has revealed high case numbers have continued to be recorded in the state’s west, with 27 new cases in the Western NSW Local Health District, including 21 in Dubbo and two in Bourke. An additional three cases were recorded in Wilcannia, in the Far West district.
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The game was tight from start to finish with neither side relenting to a series of momentum swings, but it was the Dogs to ultimately hold on to produce one of a string of memorable wins in the 2016 season.
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It was a magnificent contest by two outstanding sides with no more than 10 points separating them for most of the game. Both were unrelenting in their attack on the ball and under incredible pressure they somehow produced great skills.
Truck-loads of plaudits have covered the Western Bulldogs in recent years so it is difficult to find new ones for their gripping three-point win over Port Adelaide.
There were heroes, and those who could have been in Port‘s side who were left to ponder how this match got away from them - it wasn’t for a lack of courage.
Jackson Trengove of the Power competes in the ruck with Tom Campbell. Credit:Getty Images
Port played as if their season was on the line, and it was - they are now 5-7 - like they were this round last year on their way to finishing ninth. Given they have now lost their five matches against teams in the top-eight, and in the run home play Hawthorn (home), North Melbourne (Etihad), GWS Giants (home), Sydney Swans (SCG) and Adelaide (home), their 2016 prospects are waning.
Based on the past decade of finals, Port now need to win at least seven of their remaining 10 matches.
Doubt surrounded the Bulldogs because of their poor and infrequent road trips, but they showed from the opening moments when Luke Dahlhaus goaled they were ready to produce their best. And when the talented midfielder was forced out of the game soon after with a knee injury, it was obvious the Dogs’ resolve would be severely tested.
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Experts say small inducements rather than lottery tickets may be key to driving up vaccination rates as one shire enacts its own incentive strategy.
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A coastal Victorian council is offering free movie tickets, coffee, doughnuts and sausages to residents who get vaccinated.
The Bass Coast Shire in the state’s south-east is teaming up with local businesses to offer the inducements in the hope of becoming the first region to reach an 80 per cent vaccination rate.
The campaign, launched on Friday, comes as experts suggest text message reminders, sausage sizzles, convenient booking systems and colourful sticking plasters may be more useful in getting people vaccinated than expensive lotteries or cash payments.
With the nation’s vaccine rate sitting at 26.88 per cent, the federal opposition has been pushing for $300 incentive payments for Australians to get vaccinated while the Grattan Institute made news earlier this month by calling for a $10 million weekly lottery to get people jabbed.
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2021-08-20 02:22:26+00:00
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Boris Johnson has used a phone call with Scott Morrison to urge him to commit to net zero emissions, while Angus Taylor has hit back at similar pressure from the US.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged Scott Morrison to commit to an emissions reduction target of net zero, echoing recent calls from the United Stated for Australia to make more ambitious climate commitments.
Mr Johnson and Mr Morrison spoke on Thursday night Australian time, with the British Prime Minister stressing to his counterpart the importance of “global action on climate change” ahead of his country hosting the COP26 United Nations climate summit in Glasgow in November.
Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson spoke on Thursday night. Credit:Sydney Morning Herald
“This includes setting ambitious targets for reaching net zero and increasing climate financing,” Downing Street’s readout of the call stated.
Mr Morrison’s current stance is the government would “preferably” achieve net zero by 2050 but he has avoided a hard deadline.
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The lesson from this terrible year - and from 1666 - is that leaders who wait too long to make tough decisions are soon overwhelmed.
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If there is a single lesson to be had from what is turning out to be an awful year, it is that responsible governments and authorities can’t afford to dally over the most serious decisions.
Shilly-shally about locking down against a resurgent virus - as Gladys Berejiklian did for many days with the support of Prime Minister Scott Morrison - and the virus takes charge.
Ignore calls to place a “ring of steel” around a city like Sydney and sure enough, country cities and towns are soon filling their little hospitals.
The medical world, it happens, has known ever since 1666, when a small village in England sealed itself off to avoid spreading the bubonic plague to neighbouring towns, that hard and sharp lockdowns are the most effective means of handling epidemics, short of mass vaccinations. More of which later in this column.
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Jennifer Aniston’s stand on vaccination is the perfect example of what a lot of us are thinking about our own social circles.
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While we share the same skill set – sunbathing and making margaritas without sugar syrup –Jennifer Aniston has never really done it for me as a celebrity. A bit beige and doesn’t stand for anything. Not anymore – suddenly Aniston has me intrigued.
She was probably talking about her gardener and not lifelong pals when she told InStyle magazine she’s “lost people from her weekly routine” because they were unvaccinated, but the gist of what Aniston was prepared to say publicly about a pandemic “moral obligation” has power.
Enjoying sunbathing and making margaritas (without sugar syrup) was all the writer had in common with Jennifer Aniston. Until now.
“There’s still a large group of people who are anti-vaxxers or just don’t listen to the facts,” she said. “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion – but a lot of opinions don’t feel based in anything except fear or propaganda.”
As Melbourne clocks up more than 200 days of lockdown amid constant pleas for people to get vaccinated, the Aniston stand is the perfect example of what a lot of us are thinking about our own social circles.
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The undeniable legacy of lockdowns is the normalisation of the police and the military in our lives.
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In my eleventh day of hotel quarantine, I have no complaints. The challenges for physical and mental health are obvious, and those are for each individual to cope with. A nurse is at the other end of the phone if I need someone, other than family and friends, to talk with.
Using hotels for this purpose has been deemed a least-worst solution to the need to isolate returned international travellers. It might be overkill in my case – I have been working in a COVID bubble in Japan since July 19 reporting on the Olympics, submitted 23 negative COVID tests in the 25 days prior to entering hotel quarantine in Sydney and two more since – but the blunt instrument of quarantine is obviously one thing that has kept Australia’s infection rate lower than most of the world’s. The current outbreak, of course, is believed to have started from a leak out of hotel quarantine operations, which emphasises both the flaws and the necessity of this model.
Lockdown is normalising the presence of police and the defence force in Austrralian lives, Credit:Kate Geraghty
While the overall principle is sound, the improper, politically motivated use of institutions and symbols of authority to enforce it leaves me with increasing concerns as I peer out through the tunnel of my lockdown into yours. If I wanted to join you and left my room, caught the lift and tried to exit, I would quickly realise that I am not a guest but an internee.
At the start of the hotel quarantine process, when you walk through Sydney Airport and board your hotel-bound bus, you realise that you have passed into the hands of the state police and the Australian Defence Force. Suddenly, everyone is wearing a uniform. My escorts were friendly and polite, but I didn’t quite grasp that I was under armed guard until it had already started.
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Now that the two joint practice sessions with the Las Vegas Raiders have wrapped up, we've learned more about the L.A. Rams from the quarterback to defense.
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Now that the fights have settled (perhaps for now), it’s time to unpack what we’ve learned even more about the Los Angeles Rams following the two joint practices.
Obviously, there’s a lot of fight in the Rams. But there are other takeaways we’ve discovered in the last two days outside of the jawing and flying fists from both them and the Las Vegas Raiders.
Here’s a further breakdown of what we’ve discovered about L.A.:
The Rams Add to Their History of Joint Practice Fights
Anyone who attends a dual practice during the month of August probably has to brace themselves…all hell is likely to break loose.
And in the case of the Rams, the latest scuffles with the Raiders adds to this: A history of joint practice scrap fests. According to the Los Angeles Times’ Gary Klein, the Rams have gotten into practice fights with everyone they’ve scheduled a joint session with. This includes via Klein:
2017: Former Rams cornerback Trumaine Johnson started a fight with Chargers wide receiver Dontrelle Inman in what became their version of “Fight for L.A.“
August 7: Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald getting into a brief scuffle with Dallas Cowboys offensive guard Connor Williams.
And now, the fracas that took place in Thousand Oaks this week with the Raiders.
Maybe a question to ask moving forward is: Will the Rams schedule future joint practices? Or just stick with hitting themselves?
Fight, fights, fights. An interesting two days of Rams-Raiders joint practices. So what did the Rams get out of it? pic.twitter.com/lrc98KCVNZ — Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) August 19, 2021
Matthew Stafford is Quick to Redeem Himself
The new Rams quarterback is clearly his own worst critic.
In the first practice, Matthew Stafford admitted to the L.A. media “I made a couple of poor decisions that I wish I had back. That’s practice,” after throwing three interceptions against the Raiders, which can be heard near the 30 second mark of the Monday post practice presser video seen below.
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One of the recipients of a Stafford pass? Former Ram Cory Littleton. If anything, Stafford had this positive from joint session No. 1: A lob to Cooper Kupp.
Head coach Sean McVay, though, drew zero concern for the interceptions saying he liked how Stafford aggressively tries new things out. He added that two of the takeaways were off of tipped passes.
But did things come out much differently in joint practice No. 2, with ESPN Rams reporter Lindsey Thiry noticing a more crisp Stafford.
Rams offense looking much sharper in team period today than yesterday. Matthew Stafford completed a deep pass to Van Jefferson on the sideline, also has had some laser throws to Cooper Kupp through the middle. — Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) August 19, 2021
Time to Take Van Jefferson Seriously
The second-year pro was so sharp, Rams team reporter Stu Jackson mentioned him in No. 1 and No. 2 of his “10 Observations” released Thursday afternoon. Jefferson impressed on one particular deep pass.
Matthew Stafford launches a deep ball down the ride sideline to Van Jefferson, who makes the impressive catch. Great ball tracking by Jefferson on an equally impressive throw. — Stu Jackson (@StuJRams) August 19, 2021
Raiders reporter Vincente Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal noted that Jefferson beat Nevin Lawson on that pass, forcing the Raiders to place a different CB on the former Florida Gator. Jefferson even caught that pass on a bad arm, per L.A. radio personality from Sirius XM Nick Hamilton.
Van Jefferson participating today, has a soft brace over his arm. — Nick Hamilton (@NickHamilton213) August 19, 2021
A Different A’Shawn Robinson is a Good Thing for the Rams Defense
It’s one thing to discover a changed A’Shawn Robinson from the 6-foot-4, 335-pound trench menace to a slimmer 6-foot-4, 308-pounder.
But when the All-Pro and heart of the defense Donald notices the changes coming to fruition, that’s when you know Robinson has become one to watch on the defense.
“He looked strong and looked explosive today,” Donald told reporters on Thursday, seen and heard near the 14:40 mark of the video below. “He was stout on his double teams. He had some good rushes today. That’s a guy who’s been improving a lot in camp.”
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If Robinson is fast and explosive like how A.D. described, then this defensive line already looks quicker than last year. A scary sight for teams that have to prepare for them and the league’s best defense from 2020. Speaking of the defense…
Defensive Standards are High, Ramsey Says
Even after ranking first overall, plus showing against the Chargers that the defense can thrive with a rookie and undrafted lineup, cornerback Jalen Ramsey says that this unit can still improve.
“All aspects (need to be worked on), just because our standards are so high,” Ramsey said after the Thursday session to reporters. “It’s not like we’re out here doing terrible or doing bad, but our standards are so high that anything below being elite is not enough.”
Two notable defensive stops captured on social media? One involved David Long Jr. denying six on this red zone pass.
And on Thursday, linebacker Troy Reeder punched this ball out to force the incompletion.
But, the Rams will aim to make more plays like that on Saturday night.
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He created a multi-billion dollar franchise, which has spawned multiple television shows, films, video games, comic books and more. Who was Gene Roddenberry?
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August 19, 2021, is the day on which millions of “Star Trek” fans worldwide celebrate the centennial of the birth for their franchise’s creator — Gene Roddenberry. Like most famous people who are remembered on anniversaries, there have been many stories published about Roddenberry.
As expected, StarTrek.com shared a story that detailed his life as a pilot, police officer, and writer in just a few paragraphs. IndieWire published an article that addressed Roddenberry’s “glorious future.” Deadline released news that there will soon be a film about Roddenberry, produced by his son, Rod.
Even as attractive as they are, it might be constructive to go back and look at some of the thoughts from those people who knew him best. Those folks who worked with “the Great Bird of the Galaxy” talked a lot about the man. The following are some of the interesting quotes and thoughts from people fans know about Eugene Wesley Roddenberry.
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The man cast to play Captain James T. Kirk has himself lived a long and prosperous life. In 2017, Shatner spoke with IGN about his days on set with Roddenberry.
“Gene was a typical writer in that he lived in his head a lot,” Shatner told writer, Scott Collura. “It’s my view that people write — professional writers, people who do a lot of writing, sit in their office, their chair, wherever they’re writing, and are by themselves and living in their head. And they may do so because they’re not adept at dealing with people. So they make fiction.”
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Mr. Bennett was the person that Paramount Pictures brought in after “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” proved to be not as successful and profitable as they wished. Many, including The Hollywood Reporter, wrote that Bennett saved the franchise. Because of his role, he and the Great Bird did not see eye-to-eye, which caused Roddenberry to “stew and scheme,” according to writer Jack Klause.
Those interactions would not be forgotten. Years later, Bennett made his opinion clear:
“I did not like Gene Roddenberry, he did not like me … I found him to be egocentric and difficult to work with,” Bennett said in 2012 at a live event, which SyFyWire reported on. “That does not diminish his contribution, his genius, and that special ability that Gene had which I would call promotional genius. He knew how to take things and make them instantaneously important.”
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Much has been written about how “Star Trek” affected Goldberg, including the story of how she reacted to seeing Nichelle Nichols on television for the first time.
Another story is how Goldberg got herself the role of Guinan on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” thanks to the help of LeVar Burton and a phone call to Roddenberry himself.
“I think … in my head… now that they thought ‘this bitch is crazy — she is never going to come do this show,’” Goldberg said in a video interview with the Television Academy. “So I go, and Gene Roddenberry says to me, ‘OK. You have to explain this to me.’ I said ‘What?’ He said, ‘Why do you want to do this?’”
“I said, ‘Gene, do you know that before Lt. Uhura, Black people didn’t exist in the future?’ He said, ‘What?’ I said ‘No, no. It’s true. No science fiction existed with us in any of the movies. We’re just not there. This is the first time we appear in the future.’”
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As many are aware, Sir Patrick Stewart was not Roddenberry’s favorite choice to portray Jean-Luc Picard. In a video interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Stewart shared a memory of what Roddenberry must have been thinking when they were both on set together.
“Gene would come down to the set… two or three times during the week, and he would sit in the director’s chair and watch what we were doing,” said Stewart. “And occasionally I would catch him looking at me, and I know … I know that he was thinking ‘What the hell is this guy doing on my show?’”
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Fans know her best as Dr. Katherine Pulaski on “The Next Generation,” but she also appeared on “The Original Series.” She appeared in two episodes — “Return to Tomorrow” and “Is There in Truth No Beauty?”
Muldaur spoke with Mark D. Altman and Ed Gross for their “The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History Of Star Trek – The First 25 Years” book. What she had to say about Roddenberry summarized what many thought — and still think of him.
“A lot of people try to diminish the genius in order to put themselves up there, and I have said to them, don’t ever forget his genius, because none of us would be here without him, period,” said
Muldaur. “That’s just the way it is whether you like it or you don’t like it. He created this. There is no question in my mind that Roddenberry is a genius.”
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Early in the morning of December 6, 2017, Rodney “Cockeye” Stepp was shot and killed in his driveway in Martin County, Kentucky. His friend Elwood “Woody” Six was arrested on the scene and charged with second-degree manslaughter, a charge that was later upgraded to first-degree manslaughter, WYMT reported at the time. Six pleaded not guilty and said the shooting was an act of self-defense.
The case is being explored on A&E’s “Accused: Guilty or Innocent?” which documents cases from the perspective of the accused, including their defense, trial and how their family is handling the process. The second season’s premiere episode, titled “Best Friend Killing or Self-Defense?” follows Six after he is charged with his friend’s shooting death.
Heavy spoke with Six’s defense attorney Brandis Bradley about the trial, the case and the latest with Six.
Stepp Was Shot & Killed in His Driveway by Six After the 2 Spent the Day Christmas Shopping
The court heard that on December 5, 2017, Six agreed to take Stepp Christmas shopping in the afternoon because his friend had been drinking and was unable to drive himself, Bradley shared with Heavy. Six, 66 at the time, was more than just a friend to Stepp, 46; he was also the first cousin of Stepp’s father, who’d passed away in recent years.
The two spent the afternoon and evening running errands and after several stops, they arrived back at Stepp’s house just before 3 a.m. on December 6. According to Bradley, the evidence showed that the two had been arguing on-and-off throughout the day as Six was trying to get Stepp to stop drinking while Stepp was angry with him for nagging.
The tension kept rising between the two and Stepp was aggressive and threatening toward Six while he got in his truck to leave, Bradley told the court during Six’s trial. The situation escalated and Six shot Stepp once. The prosecution argued during the trial that the angle of the shooting and the bullet’s entry meant that Six was likely still in his truck during the shooting, Bradley explained.
She also told Heavy the defense’s position was that her client knew his friend was armed and Stepp reached for his pocket, causing Six to shoot him in self-defense. On the 911 call, Six could be heard saying that Stepp had him by the throat and wouldn’t let him go and that he was afraid Stepp would kill him, Bradley shared.
After hearing the arguments from the prosecution and the defense, the jury found Six not guilty of manslaughter but convicted him on the reckless homicide charge. According to Kentucky law, that charge means “with recklessness he cause[d] the death of another person.”
A Police Officer Pulled Over the Pair Shortly Before the Shooting & Said Stepp Was Angry
During Heavy’s interview with Bradley, she revealed that there was an interesting exchange between Stepp and a police officer the night of the fatal shooting. Stepp made a “Cockeye Live” video on Facebook from Walmart while Six waited in the vehicle and after he left the store an employee called the police.
Bradley said the Walmart employee reported that Stepp was “highly intoxicated” and they weren’t sure if he was driving, so they gave authorities a description of his vehicle. Three minutes later, a police officer saw the vehicle and it crossed the double line on the highway, so he decided to stop them and see if the “highly intoxicated” man from Walmart was driving.
Bradley told Heavy that Six, who was the one behind the wheel, had been telling Stepp to cut back on his drinking and Stepp became angry and agitated so Six decided to plug in his phone and play some gospel music. She said he crossed the double line as he was searching for the cable to connect his phone to the stereo system.
According to Bradley, the police officer wrote in his incident report after the traffic stop that Stepp was belligerent, angry and cussing about the situation. Since Six was the one driving and completely sober, the police officer simply issued a citation for crossing the double line and for failing to produce proof of insurance for the vehicle, which belonged to Stepp and his wife.
That evidence showed Stepp had the capacity to become angry while drinking, despite the prosecution calling Six’s neighbor to testify that Six, not Stepp, had a reputation in the community for being violent. This testimony really affected Six’s wife Joann, Bradley told Heavy but said she hopes the show will help people see Six in a more compassionate, sympathetic light.
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Not only did the Bulls not make the playoffs this season, but they also had to watch from home as former first-round pick, Bobby Portis, won the championship.
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Not only did the Chicago Bulls not make the playoffs this season, but they also had to watch from home as one of their former first-round picks, Bobby Portis, won the title.
The 26-year old, who spent three and a half seasons in the Windy City, played a contributing role on this year’s Milwaukee Bucks team, the eventual champions.
Portis averaged 8.8 points and 5.5 rebounds across 20 playoff games, including a crucial 22-point performance in Game Five of the second round against Atlanta.
But it wasn’t until Tuesday that Bulls fans were reminded of the forward’s, now an NBA champion, connection to the team.
He took to Twitter to respond to a thread centered on the failed efforts of Chicago’s last regime, headlined by Gar Forman and John Paxson:
The downfall of GarPax 2012 Draft: Marquis Teague
2013 Draft: Tony Snell
2014 Draft: Doug McDermott
2015 Draft: Bobby Portis
2016 Draft: Denzel Valentine
2017 Draft: Lauri Markkanen
2018 Draft: Wendell Carter / Chandler Hutchinson 99%+ of us could've done a better job drafting. — Chicago Bulls Rumors (@chicagobullsbot) August 17, 2021
Portis simply replied to the thread with an absolute, leaving no doubt of his intention, or wiggle room for interpretation:
Only downfall I see was trading me..I’m a champ now though..✌🏾 https://t.co/lwoGfcIgmN — Bobby BP Portis (@BPortistime) August 17, 2021
The Bulls traded Portis, along with Jabari Parker, to the Washington Wizards at the trade deadline in 2019, for recently departed forward Otto Porter Jr.
He left the franchise after 221 appearances, and career averages of 9.7 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game.
Is that truly the biggest draft mistake made by the Chicago Bulls front office’s predecessors though?
Denzel Valentine Was a Bigger Miss Than Portis
From the list provide by Chicago Bulls Rumors (@chicagobullsbot) on Twitter, Portis isn’t even top-three in regards to draft misses by Forman and Paxson.
Most fans would point to Denzel Valentine, who the team took with the 14th pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, as the most recent draft bust in the Windy City.
With comparisons to three-time champions Danny Green and Draymond Green out of college, it’s safe to say the (now) 27-year old has come up short.
Valentine played 232 out of 383 possible games with the Bulls over five seasons, as he missed one year (2018-2019) entirely due to an with an ankle injury.
No one can predict season-ending injuries, but the Michigan State product has more lowlights than highlights from his four seasons in the NBA.
As the age-old saying goes, availability is the best ability.
If we’re taking that into account, then there are far worse outcomes than drafting Bobby Portis, an ironman by comparison.
New Bulls Regime has Pulled Off a Quick Turnaround
For all the waste that was laid by the Chicago Bulls’ past regime, credit to Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversely, who’ve done as quick of a 180 degree turn as fans could hope for, and effectively, too.
That much is apparent in their swift and strategic plays for All-Stars like DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vucevic. As well as young stud point guard Lonzo Ball.
Chicago looks to have a winning product ready for the 2021-2022 season, whether that means the play-in tournament or an actual playoff run in the East.
That’s more than you can say for the tail end of the Forman and Paxson regime, the dark days after Derrick Rose and Jimmy Butler’s departures.
Now, Arturas Karnisvoas and Marc Eversley have set the Bulls up for a new era of basketball in the Windy City.
One that, presumably, will not include Bobby Portis, first-time NBA champion.
61 days until next season’s start. Buckle up, Chicago Bulls fans.
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Rodney “Cockeye” Stepp, 46, was shot and killed in his driveway in Martin County, Kentucky, in the early hours of December 6, 2017. Police officers who responded to the scene arrested Stepp’s friend Elwood “Woody” Six. Six was charged with second-degree manslaughter but it was later enhanced to first-degree manslaughter, according to WSAZ.
A&E explores the case for its show “Accused: Guilty or Innocent?” and follows Six in the months and weeks building up to his trial as viewers are presented with the question of whether Stepp’s shooting death was an act of self-defense. Viewers watching the show will be wondering, where is Elwood “Woody” Six today?
Six Was Found Guilty of Reckless Homicide & Charged With 1 Year in Prison But Will Likely Be Released on September 1, 2021
Six was in jail for five months after his arrest because it took some time to get the money for his bond, Bradley told Heavy, so when he was taken into custody after the verdict on July 2, 2021, he already had five months served. Despite receiving a one-year sentence, most inmates only serve about seven-and-a-half months due to good time credit, Bradley shared. Six, now 70, will likely be released on September 1, 2021.
Since Six did not receive a longer sentence, he was not transferred to state prison and public records show he is serving the remainder of his sentence in the Johnson County jail, also known as the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center.
A major COVID-19 outbreak in Kentucky has Bradley worried for her client. Although he’s been vaccinated, she told Heavy, “I just want to get him out of there.” The jail has had some positive cases and they’ve been put in isolation, she added, but she won’t be able to rest until Six is back home with his family.
Bradley Said They Decided They Will Not Be Appealing the Verdict
Kentucky is a “stand-your-ground” self-defense state, which is a self-defense law that allows individuals to protect themselves “against the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by the other person” in public. While some states are clear that individuals must also “retreat to safety” before using force, Kentucky’s stand your ground law does not include that duty and allows individuals to use force, even deadly force, without trying to retreat.
That’s why Bradley said she was confident the jury would acquit but she told Heavy that she spoke to jurors after the verdict and they said it had been a compromise, with many feeling like something had to be done because of Stepp’s death. That’s why they opted for the “lowest conviction with the lowest punishment,” she explained. The reckless homicide verdict meant that the jury felt Six overreacted and it caused Stepp’s death despite the stand your ground law.
Because of this, she told Heavy she thinks they have the grounds to appeal but after discussions with Six and his wife Joann, they decided not to file an appeal. She said Six didn’t want the case “hanging over his head” for several more years and just “wants to put it behind him.”
Six Has Taken the Verdict Well & Spent His Time in Jail Helping the Other Inmates as a ‘Father Figure’
Six took the verdict well, Bradley told Heavy. “He was the one calming me down,” she said, and he was “ready to accept whatever came his way.” Six’s wife Joann took it a little harder because she worried about him being in jail, especially as he suffers from Parkinson’s disease and has diabetes.
Bradley said she’s made it a point to visit Six in jail at least once a week while Joann has been able to speak to her husband via video call from the jail’s lobby. “His spirits are good,” Bradley said, and Six sees himself as a “positive influence on the boys in jail” and a sort of “father figure.”
She said her hope is that the “Accused: Guilty or Innocent?” episode will help to clear Six’s name and some of the misconceptions around the case. “The rumors about what happened have been so wild and far-fetched,” Bradley explained, and the show will help to clarify what happened. While Six still hasn’t had contact with his daughters, Bradley is hopeful that the episode will lead to positive developments.
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"Teen Mom OG" alum Mackenzie Standifer Edwards seemed to hint about her exit from the MTV reality show in a new post shared to Instagram.
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“Teen Mom OG” alum Mackenzie Standifer Edwards seemed to hint about her exit from the MTV reality show in a new post shared via Instagram stories on August 19. The Tennessee resident posted a quote that talked about being “not embarrassed” about what happened in the past.
“I’m not embarrassed about anything I went through,” the message said. “What may be ‘tea’ for you, is a testimony for me. Move along.”
The message was originally posted by the IG page Seekproverbness. The account boasts 60,000 followers and self-identifies as “Momma.”
The quote, which was originally posted on July 25, said people should, “sip on this,” in the caption. They also shared a quote from Revelation 12:11, a reference to the King James Bible, which reads: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
Standifer occasionally shares cryptic quotes to Instagram stories. In June, she posted a message that hinted at heartbreak. “We’re all damaged. It’s how we still love with a broken heart that matters,” said the message, originally created by Ohkay Designs.
Some fans wondered if there were problems in Standifer’s marriage to Edwards after she posted a message about self-empowerment. “…she remembered who she was and the game changed,” Mackenzie shared via Instagram on April 30.
Standifer & Edwards Were Dismissed From ‘Teen Mom OG’
Standifer, 24, and Edwards, 33, were fired from “Teen Mom OG” in March 2021 after Edwards’ parents — Jen and Larry Edwards — got into a fight with Maci Bookout’s husband, Taylor McKinney.
Bookout and Edwards, who first appeared on “16 and Pregnant” together, share 12-year-old son Bentley together.
Edwards and Standifer tied the knot in 2017. They welcomed two children together: Jagger, 2, and Stella, 1. Like Edwards, Standifer has an older son from a previous relationship, 7-year-old Hudson.
After all the Edwards were fired, Standifer said they were released from the show so Bookout could control her storyline.
“Nothing happened, literally, nothing. We just got a call yesterday from [producers] Morgan [J. Freeman] and Larry [Musnik] at MTV,” Standifer told Without a Crystal Ball.
“Maci’s agent went above their heads and went to Viacom and said that they wanted to focus on all of Maci’s abilities and whatever she does and that we took up the time on the show that she could be using to show all that.”
Standifer & Edwards Don’t Want to Return to ‘Teen Mom OG’
During her Without a Crystal Ball interview, Standifer said she and her husband weren’t interested in returning to the MTV series.
“They said that when [Maci] didn’t fulfill her obligations or, like, basically didn’t have enough content that they call us back,” she told Without a Crystal Ball in March.
“Ryan was just like, ‘Don’t. We’re gonna move on. We’re gonna live our lives,” she continued. “We’re gonna do our jobs and, you know, have a normal life. Like, don’t waste your time or your breath coming back.’”
Since they were fired, Standifer revealed she was working on a fitness program for her followers and Edwards told The Sun he’s going to repair dune buggies.
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It makes perfect sense that Christina Haack would own an incredibly enviable home. Check out photos of the HGTV star's sweet new digs and to-die-for ocean views.
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Things are going swimmingly for Christina Haack, who has a beautiful new place to call home.
In July, the 38-year-old Flip or Flop star purchased her new $10 million mansion, which includes five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, according to media reports. The residence is in Dana Point, located in Orange County, Calif.
As seen in the below photos of the gorgeous estate, the abode spans more than 6,000 square feet and boasts gorgeous views of the Pacific Ocean. Additional amenities include a movie theater, game room, glass balconies, outdoor fire pit, and pool and spa.
In April, Christina listed the Newport Beach, Calif. home she had previously shared with ex-husband Ant Antstead for $6 million. TMZ reported in June that the place had ended up selling for $5.35 million.
Her property purchase isn't the only exciting aspect of the home-renovation expert's life. Christina and new boyfriend Joshua Hall were seen enjoying some PDA during a romantic night out at Mastro's Ocean Club restaurant in Newport Beach on Friday, Aug. 13.
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Demi Lovato explained that fiancé Max Ehrich was "holding me back” in some ways from being their true self. Now, the singer can stand on "my own two feet” and stop “ignoring” who they really are.
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Sorry not sorry, but Demi Lovato has only gotten more confident since breaking things off with fiancé Max Ehrich.
In retrospect, the "Cool For the Summer" singer says ending their two-month engagement to the actor might have been the "best thing" to ever happen to them.
Demi, who split with Max in September 2020, spoke with Kate Sosin of The 19th Represents Summit this week about their journey of self-exploration after coming out as non-binary in May, at which time Demi changed their pronouns.
The 29-year-old artist said the pandemic "had everything to do with it," because at the start of the global lockdown in March 2020, they were "starting to identify as non-binary."
However, that's when things started heating up with Max: "Then I met someone and I got into this straight relationship, and that was great, but that led me to ignoring all the parts of myself that I didn't think were digestible for my partner at the time, who ended up becoming my fiancé."
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Demi Lovato explained that fiancé Max Ehrich was "holding me back” in some ways from being their true self. Now, the singer can stand on "my own two feet” and stop “ignoring” who they really are.
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Watch : Demi Lovato & Noah Cyrus Hold Hands at Theme Park
Sorry not sorry, but Demi Lovato has only gotten more confident since breaking things off with fiancé Max Ehrich.
In retrospect, the "Cool For the Summer" singer says ending their two-month engagement to the actor might have been the "best thing" to ever happen to them.
Demi, who split with Max in September 2020, spoke with Kate Sosin of The 19th Represents Summit this week about their journey of self-exploration after coming out as non-binary in May, at which time Demi changed their pronouns.
The 29-year-old artist said the pandemic "had everything to do with it," because at the start of the global lockdown in March 2020, they were "starting to identify as non-binary."
However, that's when things started heating up with Max: "Then I met someone and I got into this straight relationship, and that was great, but that led me to ignoring all the parts of myself that I didn't think were digestible for my partner at the time, who ended up becoming my fiancé."
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