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The New England Revolution and FC Cincinnati square off.
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FC Cincinnati (3-7-8) vs. New England Revolution (14-3-4)
Foxborough, Massachusetts; Saturday, 8 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE:
New England -125, FC Cincinnati +105BOTTOM LINE: FC Cincinnati and the New England Revolution hit the field.
The Revolution put together an 8-7-8 record overall in the 2020 season while finishing 2-3-5 in home games. New England averaged 1.4 goals on 5.9 shots on goal per game last season.
FC Cincinnati went 4-15-4 overall during the 2020 season while going 2-10-0 on the road. FC Cincinnati scored 13 goals a season ago, averaging 0.6 per game.
The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season. New England won the last meeting 1-0.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: New England: Carles Gil (injured), Luis Caicedo (injured).
FC Cincinnati: Maikel Van der Werff (injured), Zico Bailey (injured), Calvin Harris (injured).
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India-Australia Ties
By Dr D K Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JIMMC)
The Former Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbot, visiting India last week as the special envoy to finalise a Free Trade Agreement has sounded a dramatic message to China and the world. If what he said happens, it would mean a radical change for Indian economy and its role in the world. The statements made by Abbot should not be treated as a diplomatic nicety, but a sign of serious geo-political shift in the region.
Abbot said that a FTA between Australia and India would signal the ‘democratic world’stilt towards India away from China’. Furthermore, he emphasised in as opinion piece in an Australian daily, “Answer to almost every question about China is India.” There cannot be a greater compliment and support to India. But will it materialise?
Why does Australia come so strongly in favour of India? Australia was friendly with China. Abbot himself, when he was the Prime Minister, had signed a bilateral FTA with China in 2015. He had also spread the redcarpet to Xi Jinping in 2014 when the latter was on a state visit to Australia. Negotiations between India and Australia for a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement began in 2011, and got suspended in 2015: the same time as Australia concluded the Agreement with China.
The reasons for Australia’s change of stance are not far to seek. The principal one is the realisation of the western world, including Australia, is that they were propping up a dictatorial regime in China. In order to perhaps take advantage of cheap labour, tighter controls, and big population. The west invested heavily in China. They ignored the interface between politics and economy. As the economy grew, Beijing unfolded its political culture of authoritarianism at home and expansionism abroad. Its coercive positions became manifest. Abbot, perhaps was speaking for all the rich western democracies, when he said, “The basic problem is that China’s daunting power is the consequence of the free world’s decision to invite a communist dictatorship into the global trading network”.
Abbot accused China of exploiting the goodwill of the west. He demurred that China was under- cutting their industries and stealing their technologies. And by doing so, it became a more powerful competitor than the former Soviet Union. Beijing was rapidly developing its military to match the only super power. In the process, Beijing has been threatening and intruding into territories of its neighbours, itching to take over a democracy like Taiwan and so on.
On the bilateral front, Canberra was peeved by Beijing’s boycott of Australian products–coal,barley,wine and seafood. Chinadid it as it sensed Australia cosying up to the US and joining India and Japan to constitute Quad, an alliance aimed at checking Chinese hegemony in the region.
As a retaliation, Australia banned the Chinese telecom giant Huwai from communications infrastructure projects, outlawed Beijing covert interference in Australian internal politics. More annoying for Beijing perhaps was Australia demanding an independent investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, Australia was the first country in the world to make that demand. The relations between Australia and China have been ruptured beyond immediate repair. Although nothing is written in stone in international politics, confirming the diplomatic adage that, there are no permanent friends or enemies in world politics.Normalisation of relations between Australia and China is quite unlikely.
Australia is turning to India to replace China as the manufacturing hub of the world, and counter the biggest communist dictatorship by the biggest democracy of the world. Abbott’s prognosis is that the rise of China as the other super power while becoming increasingly belligerent, it is in order that India occupies a bigger position as a counter-weight to China. He further postulates that trade deals are used as political weapons. So a swift deal between Australia and India would signal to the world that democracies would support India vis-à-vis China.
Abbott’s hypothesis on India being the substitute for China for the western world provides a great scope for India. New Delhi should grab it with both hands and build its capacity and context accordingly. Only last year, the bilateral relations have been upgraded with a slew of agreements signed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison. The agreements are aimed at deepening the defence ties and expanding the trade.
There are a few sticking points in concluding an agreement. They are normal in any negotiations. New Delhi is particularly concerned about free trade in Australian farm exports. Likewise, Australia is concerned about Indian workers seeking less restrictive visas to their country. These reservations should be ironed out with mutual understanding and concessions. The Australian High Commission in India was hopeful that Abbot’s visit would “propel economic relationship to its full potential, to the mutual benefit of the Indian and Australian people”.
Now to deal with question whether this would materialise at all; whether India will be the answer to everything in China? It will depend upon how New Delhi reacts to such goodwill and the strategic shift shown by the west. New Delhi had misread the Chinese mind 70 years ago, as the west did recently. It is high time that the democracies of the world take on board the threat posed by China. New Delhi can no longer think of engaging and accommodating Beijing. It has to counter China in all areas of diplomacy, economy and defence.
In order to be able to checkmate China, New Delhi will have to do the following:First, it has to strengthen democracy, because there is a visible downslide in India. The institutions including Parliament are being compromised. The legal (majoritarianism) is confused as democratic. This distinction has to be recognised. Second, New Delhi has to put the economy back on track. Admittedly, covid pandemic disrupted the economies across the world, but Indian economy was in a downturn even before the pandemic. The political climate and trade regime have to be made conducive for trade creation and a clear diversion from China.
Third, New Delhi has to give up its balancing and non-aligned posturing in favour of joining the democracies of the world. Fourth, if New Delhi aspires to match Beijing, it has to look and become different from China. The fear is that the current regime in Delhi is quietly echoing Chines systems. New Delhi will have to stick to its civilisational values of liberty, equity, pluralism, solidarity in its foreign policy.
Australia’s offer is a historic opportunity. New Delhi should not miss as Nehru did with the American offer to become a permanent membership of the UNSC. Let us learn from the past and not repeat the monumental mistake. — INFA
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"Multimedia Reporter",
"Sean Philip Cotter Is A Reporter Covering Boston City Hall",
"The Mbta",
"A Bit Of Everything Else For The Boston Herald. A South Shore Native",
"He Previously Covered Quincy City Hall For The Patriot Ledger",
"Local Politics",
"Crime In Pennsylvania For The York Dispatch",
"Winning Awards For His Reporting At Both Papers. Sean'S A Graduate Of Syracuse University",
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District Attorney Rachael Rollins, the Boston Police Department brass and the cop unions have had their disagreements, but all were firmly on the same page against the decision by a judge to sentence an admitted would-be cop-killer to as little as five years behind bars.
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District Attorney Rachael Rollins, the Boston Police Department brass and the cop unions have had their disagreements, but all were firmly on the same page against the decision by a judge to sentence an admitted would-be cop-killer to as little as five years behind bars.
Tyler Brown, 42, pleaded guilty this week to a raft of charges in connection with shooting at a Boston Police officer last year, including armed assault with intent to murder. Rollins’ office recommended a sentence of 10 to 12 years behind bars, but Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders on Thursday went with just half of that: five to six years in state prison, the DA’s office said.
“The Boston Police Department is extremely disappointed in this sentence,” BPD Superintendent-in-Chief Greg Long said in a statement. “This sentence does not reflect the magnitude and seriousness of the offense committed by this individual. Acts of violence such as this in our city streets require and demand adequate accountability.”
Cops responding to a call for shots fired on Northampton Street when they found Brown, who matched the description of the shooter. When officers tried to talk to him, he chucked a bag at them and fled, according to authorities.
After police gave chase, he turned and tried to fire a .40 Glock pistol at “close range” at an officer, who was able to dive to safety. Brown then kept squeezing off rounds, eventually firing 13 bullets, authorities said.
Rollins’ office noted that Brown was already a felon, having been convicted of assault and battery with a knife and witness intimidation in 2014.
“I am disappointed in the sentence that was imposed,” Rollins said. “Members of law enforcement put their lives at risk every day to protect us. They serve us, at times being unfairly criticized for acts committed by officers a thousand miles away felt and witnessed around the globe.”
The Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association said in a statement, “To see a known felon show such callous disregard for the safety and security of the residents of Boston receive anything less than the maximum penalty or punishment allowed for anyone who literally tries to shoot and kill police officers on one of Boston’s busiest streets in broad daylight is not only a miscarriage of justice, but also an irrefutable insult to the brave men and women of the BPD.”
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New tyre pressure sensors are set to be introduced into Formula 1 next season, offering Pirelli greater visibility during races.
The Italian tyre manufacturer hit the headlines earlier this year following two high-speed failures at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Lance Stroll and Max Verstappen both crashed out of the race, the latter while leading with just a handful of laps remaining, while navigating the long front straight.
In both instances, the rear-left tyre gave way and speared them into the barrier.
Investigations were carried out and conclusions drawn, implying the failures were a result of teams pushing the envelope with their tyres.
That was vehemently denied by both Aston Martin (Stroll) and Red Bull (Verstappen) while others called for transparency over proceedings.
“After the investigation was concluded, we sent our report to the FIA,” explained Pirelli’s motorsport boss, Mario Isola.
“We don’t have the possibility to monitor and police the running pressures and the running conditions, simply because we don’t have a standard sensor at the moment.
“These will be implemented in 2022, but at the moment it’s a sensor that the data [is] coming from teams.
“So we have to rely on measurement that the FIA can do directly.”
Following the Azerbaijan drama, a new rear tyre was introduced in time for the British Grand Prix.
A new Technical Directive was also issued, clarifying the requirements of teams in the preparation of their cars and tyres.
Part of that was a lifting of the minimum pressure, a move which was unpopular with drivers.
“When we spoke to the FIA, and we explained the conclusion of our investigation, they decided to implement the Technical Directive,” Isola explained.
New checks and controls were introduced as a means of supplementing the existing policing of starting pressure, making it more difficult for teams to subvert the regulations.
“We make some assumptions on not only parameters,” Isola reasoned.
“It’s important that tyres are operated within these assumptions as any other part of the car.
“That’s why with this new Technical Directive, or upgraded Technical Directive, we are happy with the result.”
Pirelli has recently concluded development testing of its 2022-spec slick tyres, designed to fit the increased 18” wheels.
A further test at Magny-Cours will finalise the manufacturer’s wet range.
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Dries Vanthoor turned a sensational lap in 3:46.882 minutes on Thursday evening and planted his Porsche 911 RSR fielded by HubAuto Racing on pole position in the hotly contested GTE-Pro class. The Belgian, who is the brother of the Porsche works driver Laurens Vanthoor, came out on top against strong opposition from all works teams in the cutthroat hunt for top times. In the GTE-Am category, 911 racing cars will take up the race on Saturday at 4:00 pm from the first three grid spots. At the wheel of Dempsey-Proton Racing’s No. 88 entry, Porsche Young Professional Julian Andlauer from France was over half a second faster than Benjamin Barker in the identical car of GR Racing and Matteo Cairoli in Project 1’s No. 56 vehicle.
The so-called Hyperpole is the final qualifying session to secure the best grid positions for the 89th edition of the Le Mans 24-hour race. The six fastest cars from the previous day’s qualifying were eligible to compete in both classes. In favourable weather conditions with cool temperatures at sunset, the two factory-run Porsche 911 RSR went out on to the 13.626-kilometre racetrack as soon as the session began. With a 23-strong field from four classes, they had to get the cleanest possible lap with little traffic. Hence, the start of the final qualifying session turned hectic. All drivers immediately went in pursuit of the top time – with the associated high risk.
Under these circumstances, Kévin Estre experienced bad luck in the No. 92 car of the Porsche works team. The Frenchman went all-out on his first flying lap but had to radio the pits at about the seven-kilometre mark: “I’ve had a crash. I’m okay but I can’t continue. I’m so sorry!” Estre had lost control of the ca. 515 PS nine-eleven at the entrance to the famous Indianapolis turn and hit the barriers with the rear of his car. The damages to the vehicle prevented him from continuing. The Hyperpole session was stopped for around ten minutes due to the accident.
When the session restarted, Gianmaria Bruni planted the No. 91 sister car on P5. The Italian struggled with persistent understeer and was unable to tap the full potential of his 911 RSR. Meanwhile, Dries Vanthoor turned heads at the wheel of HubAuto Racing’s customer car: At his first Le Mans drive in a Weissach racing car, the Belgian set the fastest lap time in the GTE-Pro class in 3:46.882 minutes. The rivals from Ferrari and Corvette had no answer to Vanthoor’s time. “Pole position for HubAuto Racing in the GTE-Pro, and a grid lockout with Dempsey-Proton, GR Racing and Project 1 occupying the first three spots in the GTE-Am category – what a fantastic result for our customer teams,” said a delighted Pascal Zurlinden, Director Factory Motorsport. “We’re not satisfied with positions five and six for our works cars. Still, we’ll pull out all stops in the race. All in all, the results show very clearly that Porsche Motorsport’s customer squads always receive top-quality material which enables them to drive at the highest level!”
“The result of this qualifying feels like a double-edged sword for us. Congratulations to HubAuto Racing. They clinched pole position in the GTE-Pro class at their very first outing with the 911 RSR. And the car is new for Dries Vanthoor. A mega success,” states Alexander Stehlig, Head of Operations FIA WEC. “For us as the works team, the qualifying didn’t go as well. Kévin made a mistake during his first hot lap. He slid into the barriers and unfortunately had to abandon the session. Gianmaria Bruni’s car didn’t achieve what we’d hoped for either with fifth place. We now have some work ahead of us and we’ll do our homework so that we can perform better on Saturday.”
For the strong Porsche customer teams in the GTE-Am class, everything ran like clockwork. Porsche Young Professional Julien Andlauer, who had already left a lasting impression in the qualifying and free practice sessions, gave his rivals no chance. With a lap time of 3:47.987 minutes, the Frenchman was in a league of his own in front of home crowds. Britain’s Benjamin Barker ranked second in GR Racing’s 911 RSR just 0.573 seconds behind, with Matteo Cairoli in third, 0.889 seconds off class pole in the Project 1 car.
Hyperpole results
GTE-Pro class
1. Martin/Parente/D. Vanthoor (B/P/B), HubAuto Racing, Porsche 911 RSR #72, 3:46.882 minutes
2. Serra/Molina/Bird (BR/E/GB), AF Corse, Ferrari 488 GTE #52, 3:47.063 minutes
3. Milner/Tandy/Sims (USA/GB/GB), Corvette Racing, Chevrolet Corvette C8.R #64, 3:47.093 minutes
4. Calado/Pier Guidi/Ledogar (GB/I/F), AF Corse, Ferrari 488 GTE #51, 3:47.247 minutes
5. Lietz/Bruni/Makowiecki (A/I/F), Porsche GT Team, Porsche 911 RSR #91, 3:47.696 minutes
6. Estre/Jani/Christensen (F/CH/DK), Porsche GT Team, Porsche 911 RSR #92, no lap time
GTE-Am class
1. Andlauer/Bastien/Arnold (F/USA/D), Dempsey-Proton Racing, Porsche 911 RSR #88, 3:47.987 minutes
2. Wainwright/Barker/Gamble (GB/GB/GB), GR Racing, Porsche 911 RSR #86, 3:38.560 minutes
3. Perfetti/Cairoli/Pera (N/I/I), Team Project 1, Porsche 911 RSR #56, 3:48.876 minutes
4. Lacorte/Sernagiotto/Fuoco (I/I/I), Cetilar Racing, Ferrari 488 GTE #47, 3:49.387 minutes
5. Iribe/Millroy/Barnicoat (USA/GB/GB), Inception Racing, Ferrari 488 GTE #71, 3:49.477 minutes
6. Keating/Pereira/Fraga (USA/L/BR), TF Sport, Aston Martin Vantage AMR #33, 3:49.676 minutes
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Porsche customer teams tackle Le Mans from pole position in both GT classes
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Australian sportscar ace James Allen offers Speedcafe.com readers an exclusive peek behind the curtain as he competes in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The 25-year-old Gold rated driver is campaigning an LMP2 class Oreca 07 alongside ex-Formula 1 driver Will Stevens and Julien Canal for Panis Racing.
Allen made his Le Mans debut in 2017, finishing sixth overall and fifth in class. This year marks his fourth appearance at the French classic.
Thursday at Le Mans is a busy one with two practice sessions and Hyperpole, which we were lucky enough to make after qualifying.
Heading into the day we were looking to fill a few gaps in our data and understanding ahead of Saturday’s race. That saw me drive a stint in the car to get a feel for things before a new tyre run. It went well and it was definitely good to know that the pace wasn’t just in qualifying. FP3 was actually really nice.
After that I got a little much needed sleep before watching Will [Stevens] drive in Hyperpole. He definitely speaks his mind in terms of what he thinks is wrong with the car, and is very, very good at giving feedback. He’s very detailed and a nice person to talk to, we’ve built a really good relationship.
Between Will, Julien [Canal], and myself, we all generally want the same thing from the car at the end of the stint. We try and work towards the same driving style and the same feel in the car, which is very good.
Watching Will in Hyperpole, I was pretty relaxed because I knew the worst we could end up was sixth, but he did a really good job to get us up to third. So now we’ve only got two [LMP2] cars ahead of us.
After Hyperpole we had another practice session, but we didn’t get as much running as we’d have liked. A clutch problem meant we all only got three laps in the session, but I guess it’s better that happens today than on Saturday.
For now, it’s time to rest ahead of Friday. There’s no running tomorrow but we’ll be at the track to do interviews, have drivers’ briefing, and meet with the team to go through our strategy for the race. Maybe we’ll make some small changes to fix up some things on the car but we definitely don’t want to do anything drastic because there’s a big risk going into a 24-hour race.
James Allen
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It all started just after 9 a.m. Thursday when police say the man parked his car on the sidewalk just outside of the Library of Congress’ Jefferson Building.
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - A North Carolina man is in custody after police say he drove to Washington, D.C. and put parts of nation’s capital on lockdown by telling police he had a bomb.
The Gray Television Washington News Bureau was there when the truck that police say belongs to Floyd Ray Roseberry was towed away, hours after the standoff began.
It all started just after 9 a.m. Thursday when they say Roseberry parked his car on the sidewalk just outside of the Library of Congress’ Jefferson Building.
“The driver of the truck told the responding officer on the scene that he had a bomb,” explained Chief Tom Manger of the U.S. Capitol Police.
Law enforcement then evacuated the Jefferson Building and Cannon House Office Building. People in a second library building, the Madison Building, were told to shelter in place.
Roseberry posted a video on Facebook where he was seen holding what looks like a large canister. In the video, Roseberry also talked about wanting President Biden and other Democrats to leave office. He claimed that he wasn’t working alone and that there were four other explosive devices placed around Washington, D.C. Police say they found no evidence to support that claim.
After about a five-hour standoff, Roseberry gave himself up to police.
“We tried to negotiate with Mr. Roseberry,” explained Manger. “We first started doing that with a whiteboard writing messages back and forth...He got out of the vehicle and surrendered, and the tactical units that were close by took him into custody.”
Most lawmakers were not on Capitol Hill as it is August recess, so most of the people affected by the lockdown and evacuations where Capitol Hill or Library of Congress staff.
This is the second major security event to happen near the Capitol since the Jan. 6 riots. In April, a man drove into a Capitol barricade, then stabbed two officers before being fatally shot. Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans lost his life in that attack.
Capitol Police say investigators are working closely with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia to determine charges.
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We've waited 10 years for this
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After more than 10 years, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is getting a proper fishing mechanic as part of the iconic RPG's next-gen upgrade, Bethesda announced today during QuakeCon.
The exciting - no, relaxing - new feature was announced alongside Skyrim: Anniversary Edition, which bundles together more than 500 community mods and launches this November. But don't worry, you won't need to buy the Anniversary Edition to get fishing, as it's one of three features included in the also just-announced Skyrim next-gen upgrade, which will be free if you own Skyrim Special Edition on PC, PS4, or Xbox One. Skyrim: Anniversary Edition and the next-gen update will launch simultaneously on November 11.
To clarify, it sounds like fishing will only be available as a free upgrade if you own the Special Edition, so your base game from 2011 probably won't work. The update that adds fishing will also add a new survival mode and some new quests with Saints and Seducers. Fishing, the survival mode, and the new quests are all Creation Club content, which means they were developed by Bethesda Game Studios in collaboration with community creators. Since it's a little unclear whether the fishing mechanic was developed by Bethesda itself, an outside co-developer, or a member of the modding community, I've reached out to Xbox and Bethesda for clarification and I'll update this article if I hear back.
Regardless, I can't wait to go fishing in Skyrim. Jumping into rivers and grabbing fish with your bare ass hands is no look for a high elf (take note, Breath of the Wild).
If you want to make Skyrim look a little less 2011, you'd do well to check out our updated list of the best Skyrim mods available now.
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Prattville police have upgraded the charges for a man accused of causing the death of his stepdaughter.
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PRATTVILLE, Ala. (WSFA) - Prattville police have upgraded the charges for a man accused of causing the death of his stepdaughter.
Police say Michael Lynn Slayton, 58, was initially arrested on a domestic violence assault charge after police responded to an assault report on Aug. 13. That charge was upgraded to murder following the victim’s death.
According to court documents, the victim, Slayton’s stepdaughter, sent messages to friends and family on Aug. 12 that included a photo of serious injuries to her head and face. She said Slayton caused those injuries due to her “staying out too late.”
Investigators say the victim was found unresponsive at the scene the next day and taken to Baptist South in critical condition. According to the deposition, medical staff determined she had “severe hemorrhaging in her brain causing her to enter a vegetative state.”
Court documents state neurologists determined the victim was “clinically brain dead.” She was pronounced dead Tuesday.
Slayton is being held at the Autauga County Metro Jail on $250,000 bail.
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Iron Bridge – Huron Shores is pushing the Ontario government for help to repair roads and replace bridges in the municipality.
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Iron Bridge – Huron Shores is pushing the Ontario government for help to repair roads and replace bridges in the municipality.
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Council has passed a motion requesting that the Ontario Good Roads Association appeal to the province for funding programs targeting infrastructure improvements. Huron Shores is an OGRA member.
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The petition emerged from both local safety and economic needs. Municipal staff shared that their recent applications for infrastructure work were denied by the province, resulting in load limits on municipal bridges. According to staff, this has hindered farm operations, impaired the delivery of goods and services, and inconvenienced the travelling public.
In other council notes, Huron Shores has secured funding via the Canada Summer Jobs program for two summer municipal assistants. One hire will assist the public works department, with the other working with the fire department.
In a scheduling change, regular meetings of Huron Shores council will now be held on both the second and fourth Wednesday of each month, except in July, August and December. Those three months will host one session on the second Wednesday. Council meetings will continue virtually while current pandemic restrictions are in place.
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It's time to awaken your soul and stir the imagination of your family as Circus Extreme comes to Plymouth this September!
Merging modern and contemporary styles with extreme stunts and classic clown escapades, audiences will be amazed by the jam-packed production which features show-stopping performances that will have you on the edge of your seat.
Acts include the Ayala Troupe, who will be performing their award-winning high wire act - never before seen in the UK.
Direct from Columbia on the Wheel of Death is Duo Vanegas, debuting in the UK and proud to be presenting their incredible aerial manoeuvres, including their unbelievable high jumps and famous backflips.
Just back from its European tour, the EXTREMEÆ freestyle motocross team will be bringing its jaw-dropping stunts to the big top as the pilots fly through the air displaying cliff-hanger stunts, such as the superman and nac nac.
The stunt riding team will also be performing the Globe of Death. It's the most death-defying act ever completed, as the group experience G-force similar to that of a fighter pilot. Watch as they loop vertically and horizontally all while encased in a mesh sphere. This really is one for the petrol-heads!
World-famous Prince of Clowns Henry, a legendary figure in the circus industry, will be keeping the audience laughing throughout the show.
There will also be a jaw-dropping double act, featuring circus queen Laura Miller with an astonishing aqua aerial act, and whirlwind bounce ball juggler Tony Garcia. Watch the bad guy juggler merge his hand skills with energy and fire, together with a troupe of dancers performing their acts, all with unique twists.
On top of this, there will be death-defying airborne stunts, including the unmissable Aerial Duo Polischuk - one of the few acts in the world to perform these mid-air stunts. Look on in awe as they hold each other by their teeth high in the roof of the big top.
Circus Extreme really is an event with something for everyone. So, if you want to see one of the greatest shows of its time, make sure to get your tickets fast!
The show runs from Friday, September 10 to Sunday, September 26, 2021, with multiple shows every day.
The show will run for approximately two hours and is housed in the UK's largest socially distanced circus big top at Central Park, Plymouth (PL2 3DG). The big top is climate-controlled and features comfortable theatre-style seating.
There are some great discounts available when using the promo code 'BIKES' online and over the phone.
To find out more and book your tickets, visit circusextreme.co.uk or call the box office on 0203 375 3970.
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B.C. Wildfire Service says they’re seeing an increase in safety issues due to fatigue
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B.C. Wildfire Service says they’re seeing an increase in safety issues due to fatigue
Brentt Call, a firefighters with Utah Taskforce One, walks through a burned over area of the Bootleg Fire east of Klamath Falls as crews work to stop the largest wildfire in the United States so far this season. The Princess Patricia���s Canadian Light Infantry celebrated the regiment���s 107th birthday fighting the Thomas Creek fire on Aug. 10. (BC Wildfire)
Fatigue is setting in as wildfire crews continue to battle blazes across B.C., contributing to an increase in safety concerns.
Todd Nessman, manager of fire operations with B.C. Wildfire Service said in an Aug. 19 press conference that fatigue is something they take seriously.
“It’s been a long summer for many of our firefighters and staff supporting the efforts,” Nessman said. “With that increased fatigue we’re starting to see more safety concerns come forward — more slips, trips, falls, as well as other serious occurrences, are happening.”
RELATED: Community rallies for firefighter who lost Vernon-area home
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Nessman said the Wildfire Service is keeping a close eye on their crew numbers as many crew members will be heading back to post-secondary institutions in September.
“In terms of resources we have approximately 3,800 personnel out — 1,250 contractors are working, we have 520 out of province resources which include 240 military, 430 structure protection personnel and over 500 heavy equipment operators, 147 helicopters and 38 air tanker aircraft,” Nessman said.
Scattered rain and lower temperatures have helped crews make progress on wildfires across B.C., but Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth warned the province will need to remain vigilant in the weeks to come.
RELATED: State of emergency extended to end of August as wildfires ravage B.C.
“We’re nowhere near out of the woods and we need to keep working to support our firefighters and emergency management crews,” he said.
Those comments come as 258 wildfires burn in the province. While no active fires have experienced significant growth, the province is averaging five to 10 new fires a day with 54 in the last week. There are currently 75 evacuation orders affecting 6,126 properties and 122 evacuation alerts affecting 19,840 properties. Nine First Nations have passed emergency resolutions and 28 local governments are under states of emergency.
With thousands of homes evacuated, B.C. RCMP Staff Sgt. Jenelle Shoihet said 500 RCMP members are in communities impacted by wildfires and are conducting patrols to ensure no criminal activity is occurring in evacuated areas. To date, the RCMP have not seen any reports of looting or criminal activity in evacuated areas.
Shoihet encouraged evacuees to contact the RCMP if they have specific concerns about the security of their property.
B.C. Wildfire Service remains concerned about the Cariboo and Southern Okanagan where dangerous fire behaviour conditions continue. The B.C. Wildfire Service says the outlook ahead is ‘favourable’ with cooler temperatures and scattered precipitation on the way.
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Virtual event was shared online and at Salmar Classic Theatre Aug. 13 and 14
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Footage of Colin James rocking the Salmon Arm ROOTSandBLUES Festival Main Stage in 2018 was integrated with performances filmed for the 2021 Altered States II virtual concert that streamed on Aug. 13 and 14, 2021. (Jim Elliot/Salmon Arm Observer)
It may not have been the 29th annual ROOTSandBLUES organizers hoped for, but for the safety of concertgoers it was the festival that was meant to be.
On Friday and Saturday, Aug. 13 and 14, while the air in Salmon Arm was thick with the smoke of wildfires burning in the region, web browsers on about 4,500 computers and other electronic devices were alight with this year’s Salmon Arm ROOTSandBLUES presentation of its free Altered States II concerts. Both night’s shows were also screened for free at the Salmar Classic theatre.
The screenings included a welcome from Salmon Arm Mayor Alan Harrison, Salmon Arm Folk Music Society chair Kimm Magill-Hofman and Adams Lake Band Kukpi7 (Chief) Lynn Kenoras-Duck Chief, before delving into a select line-up of artists performing in studios in White Rock, Edmonton and Winnipeg for the ROOTSandBLUES audience. CBC Radio’s Chris Walker introduced each of the acts, while ROOTSandBLUES artistic director Peter North interviewed some of the artists.
“Those are always fun and all of the artists are veterans, even if they’re younger, they’ve got pretty full careers so they’ve got great perspective and stories to tell,” said North. “And then people like The Small Glories, they’re just full of chatter. Even if you’re not interviewing them, they provide lots of discourse between tunes.”
Friday night’s lineup included performances by artists Ben Sures, William Prince, Brent Parkin and The Small Glories, with Jon & Roy closing out the night. Saturday’s lineup included Blue Moon Marquee, Jesse Roper and Celeigh Cardinal. Closing out Altered States II was ROOTSandBLUES veteran Colin James, whose skilled musicianship was on display through footage from his 2018 Main Stage performance, as well as in-studio acoustic renditions of some of his classics played just for this year’s ROOTSandBLUES audience.
“I was happy with the performances too, I thought there was a good variety there…,” said North, who was not only impressed with the line-up but the overall quality the Altered States II package. “I was really happy with the way we integrated the archival footage of Colin James from the Main Stage and what he gave us doing those new versions of those acoustic tunes, and having the little introductions to them. I thought that was a nice way to go out.”
Read more: Live Nation Canada to require vaccination proof or negative test at concerts
Read more: Salmon Arm ROOTSandBLUES Festival to play the Salmar Classic
While this year’s performers may not have been able to hear the applause and cheers of their audience, many who caught the show commended the musicians and the overall weekend presentation on the ROOTSandBLUES Facebook page, with some fans sharing photos of themselves watching and enjoying the event.
“I think what we did online measured up against anything else that was out there very positively,” said North. “It was a job well done by all the participants.”
As with last year, the decision to do another virtual ROOTSandBLUES Festival was driven by uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Altered States II is still available to view on the Salmon Arm ROOTSandBLUES website.
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A car driving double the speed limit on Highway 97 in Spallumcheen netted a Salmon Arm man a $483 ticket and his vehicle was impounded for seven days. (Vernon RCMP photo)
A couple of heavy-footed drivers were curbed in Spallumcheen Wednesday night.
RCMP in the North Okanagan stopped not one, but two vehicles travelling what they called “excessively excessive” during speed enforcement on Highway 97A.
A 30-year-old Salmon Arm man was pulled over after a calibrated laser caught him driving 211 kilometres an hour, over double the 100 km/hr speed limit, around 8:30 p.m. Aug. 18.
Police said the vehicle was travelling northbound and approached them at an incredibly high rate of speed and stopped the driver near Eagle Rock Road.
The man was left with a $483 violation ticket for excessive speeding, and had his vehicle impounded for seven days.
Later that night, a vehicle travelling at 170 km/hr was stopped by officers on Highway 97A near Greenhow Road. That driver, an 18-year old West Kelowna man, was also given a $483 violation ticket and had his vehicle impounded for seven days.
“The Vernon North Okanagan RCMP remains committed to ensuring the safety of our roadways,” RCMP media relations officer Const. Chris Terleski said. “Speeding is a leading cause of deaths on B.C. roads and exceeding the speed limit puts yourself and others at risk. Driving at this speed is incredibly dangerous and there is absolutely no tolerance for it.”
READ MORE: No injuries as Vernon car heads over embankment
READ MORE: Vernon RCMP seek wanted man
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Tolko Industries began with operation at Lavington Planer Mill, now an internationally known company
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Tolko Industries began with operation at Lavington Planer Mill, now an internationally known company
John (from left), Brad and Al Thorlakson of Vernon-based Tolko Industries gather at the Lavington Planer Mill where it all began for the company 65 years ago in 1956. (tolko.com)
The core values – safety, respect, progressiveness, integrity, open communication, profit – remain in place today for Vernon-based Tolko Industries.
It’s the values that have helped shape the company, but the biggest reason for its long-term success has been its people. Tolko people, says the company, are known throughout the industry for their hard work, commitment to getting the job done, and working safely.
Tolko celebrates 65 years in operation in 2021.
“I think it’s an amazing accomplishment and our employees have played a crucial role in Tolko’s success,” said current president and CEO Brad Thorlakson, who grew up around the Lavington Planer Mill in the North Okanagan and has seen many ups and downs in the industry. “It’s extremely rewarding to see this company flourish into an international business within my lifetime.”
Diversity is also stressed at Tolko. In its products, markets, operating areas, and in its people. The diversity helped the company get through tough times when one product sector could be struggling but another is doing well.
And with that diversity, Tolko can offer customers standard lumber products, oriented strand board, plywood, and other value-added products, wood pellets, engineered wood products, and more.
“We are a generational family company with deep roots, and I am extremely proud of our 65th milestone,” said Thorlakson. “I’m confident we will successfully manage our way through to many more anniversaries thanks to the great work of our employees, our diversity, and everyone’s commitment to excellence.”
Tolko’s roots are embedded with the Lavington mill which began in 1956. A historic article on the company can be found on its website, tolko.com, featuring Brad, his father Al and uncle John.
The company will be adding an anniversary video to its Our History page shortly that celebrates some of its milestones over the past 65 years.
READ MORE: Vernon-based Tolko returns to Louisiana to build second sawmill
READ MORE: Tolko walks back plans for cutblock above Greater Vernon water source
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82.9 per cent of British Columbians have at least one dose, 74 per cent are fully vaccinated
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82.9 per cent of British Columbians have at least one dose, 74 per cent are fully vaccinated
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2020, file photo, medical personnel don PPE while attending to a patient (not infected with COVID-19) at Bellevue Hospital in New York. Workers in New York City-run hospitals and health clinics will have to get vaccinated or get tested weekly under a policy announced Wednesday, July 21, 2021, to battle a rise in COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
B.C.’s case count continues to climb with 689 new infections and two new deaths reported Thursday, Aug. 19.
RELATED: B.C. reports 553 new COVID cases, 1 death as new outbreak declared at Site C
Interior Health still leads the province with 278 new infections, followed by Fraser Health with 219, Vancouver Coastal with 123, Island Health with 42, and Northern Health with 27. The two new deaths occurred in Interior Health and Northern Health.
Hospitalizations have also increased. Of the 5,982 active cases in B.C., 121 individuals are in hospital with 56 in intensive care.
There is one new outbreak at the Heritage Village long-term care facility in the Fraser Health region. The outbreak at Discovery Harbour long-term care facility in the Island Health region has been declared over. There are now 11 active outbreaks at long-term care homes in the province.
As cases continue to increase, vaccination rates remain stalled around 82.9 per cent with at least one dose and 74 percent are fully vaccinated.
A recent report from the B.C. COVID-19 Modelling Group says B.C. will need to increase vaccination rates to 90 per cent and enact increased COVID-19 safety protocols to avoid a record surge of new infections in the fall.
RELATED: Experts warn B.C. on track to exceed record highs of new COVID-19 infections come fall
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Recreation Services hosting reboot and block party Sunday at Performing Arts Centre parking lot
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A bouncy castle will be part of the festivities at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre parking lot Sunday, Aug. 22, as Greater Vernon Recreation Services hosts a Community Reboot and Block Party from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Morning Star - file photo)
Originally it was planned as a post-COVID celebration and to coincide with the first day of registration for fall programs.
Now, Greater Vernon Recreation Services’ Community Reboot and Block Party Sunday, Aug. 22, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Vernon Performing Arts Centre parking lot (3800-33rd Street) is a chance for the community to share time and be together again as the region deals with the current wildfire situation along with COVID’s impact.
Recreation Services acknowledges that impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are still occurring and that people in our community have experienced great loss with the current wildfire situation.
“We believe this is a chance to draw community members together and share our continued progress through B.C.’s Restart Plan,” Recreation Services customer service manager Leah Walker said. “Given the continually evolving wildfire situation in the North Okanagan and throughout the Interior of B.C., we also believe this is an opportunity to offer residents, neighbours and visitors a community activity to take their minds off the stresses of the fires.”
The block party will feature the Polson Artisan Night Market (transitioned to a daytime Sunday market at the centre parking lot), food trucks, Boys and Girls Club of the Okanagan, Vernon Winter Carnival Society, musical entertainment provided by the Downtown Vernon Association, the 2022 BC Winter Games, and Recreation Services.
There will be a kids’ zone with a bouncy castle and road hockey, as well as cards to sign to show appreciation for local volunteers and firefighters.
Recreation Services is also hosting a Toonie Swim from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 22, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Fall registration begins online and in-person Aug. 22 at 8 a.m., at the Vernon Recreation Centre. You can check out a list of program offerings in the guide in Thursday’s edition of the Morning Star.
READ MORE: Community rallies for firefighter who lost Vernon-area home
READ MORE: 5 more Westside Road homes significantly damaged due to White Rock Lake wildfire
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People sit in a German Bundeswehr airplane at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, as the federal armed forces evacuates German citizens and local Afghans who worked for Germany. (Bundeswehr via AP)
A small group of Vancouver-based Afghan-Canadians are scrambling to help their countrymen and women after the fall of Kabul.
Shortly after U.S. forces withdrew from the country and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled, the Taliban swept into Kabul Aug. 15. Thousands of Afghans who were once promised safety by foreign governments were left stranded in the country, vulnerable and unable to escape.
Former Afghan journalist Zahra Hashemi, who left Kabul for Vancouver six years ago, immediately formed a group amongst her friends to assist both refugees and Afghans stuck in the country. She said one of her concerns is how the federal government is identifying the 20,000 refugees it promised to bring into Canada.
SEE ALSO: Afghans protest Taliban in emerging challenge to their rule
Women and children are at particular risk , she said, adding she has family and friends in the country.
“To be honest, they are terrified.”
To make matters worse, Hashemi said the media isn’t portraying an accurate image of what’s happening on the ground.
“They’re trying to normalize the existence of the Taliban in Afghanistan but it’s not actually like that,” Hashemi said, adding that the terrorist organization is going “door-to-door” and harming people.
SEE ALSO: Diplomats, troops and refugees arrive in Canada as flights resume from Afghanistan
“I received voice messages from not my family, but my friend’s family, they were begging their uncles to come and take them because the Taliban just took one of their family members. She was like 13, 14 years old. It’s terrifying. I’m talking about it and I’ve got goosebumps.”
Speaking to photographs and videos of Afghan’s clinging to American planes as they left Kabul, Hashemi said the memory of Taliban control in 1996 is still fresh.
SEE ALSO: US officials say 7 killed in Kabul airport evacuation chaos
“They don’t trust them because they have the experience. This is what happened last time when the Taliban took over. They were OK for a month or so but then they started to show their real faces. It’s something they have experienced and that’s why they are terrified.”
Hashemi said her small group, which was only formed on Sunday, are looking to expand. Many of the Afghans applying to become a refugee don’t speak English, and Hashemi said her group needs help assisting Afghans through the process.
Another focus of the group, she said, is assisting refugees once they arrive to Canada.
“Canada is not prepared for this many refugees because there was a decision made very quickly by the government. We’re trying to participate in this process and do as much as we can here because we cannot do anything in Afghanistan.”
To help Hashemi and her group, email samanahashimi4@gmail.com.
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Salmon Arm took on a orange-yellow-brown hue due to the smoke and ash in the air from nearby wildfires on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (Lachlan Labere-Salmon Arm Observer)
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
I’m hearing this a lot as we try to get through one of the hottest, driest, smoke-filled wildfire seasons (aka summer) in recent memory.
Amid this, we’ve learned we’re being thrown into another federal election.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s seeking a new mandate from Canadians.
Whoever is elected to lead the country, let’s hope they give more weight to preparing for the worst.
As I write this column, the wildfire smoke-filled sky has turned a discomforting orange-yellow-brown hue. It’s 30 C and the outside air quality index (AQI) rating is 203. Good air quality has an AQI rating from 0 to 50.
I expect, for many, concern around air quality is secondary to the cause: the 270 wildfires burning in the province (as of Aug. 15). A priority for the BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) was the 62,273-hectare White Rock Lake wildfire.
Mark Healey, the BCWS incident commander for the White Rock Lake fire, recently said this has been the most volatile season he’s ever seen, calling it not a wildfire season, but a catastrophic event.
Read more: Significant structure loss on Westside due to White Rock Lake wildfire
Read more: Evacuation order issued for neighbourhoods southeast of Falkland
Let that set in. He’s not talking about one specific incident, one particular fire. He’s talking about the summer as a whole, no doubt starting with the “heat dome” in late June that shattered temperature records and was linked to the death of more than 700 people in B.C. Other wildfire related tragedies have occurred since, including the losses at Lytton and destruction at Monte Lake.
Wildfires are currently ravaging other parts of the country and the world. The fire situation in Greece has been referred to as a “natural disaster of unprecedented proportion.” In total, wildfires burning in Siberia are said to be greater in size than all the other wildfires currently burning on the earth combined.
Though wildfires have occurred historically, this year’s in particular are said to have been exacerbated by human-caused global warming. In a recent report, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a bleak picture, warning extreme weather will be more frequent. In addition to taking immediate action to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the IPCC said we also need to invest in climate adaptation. You know, prepare for the worst.
I don’t expect going to the polls ranks high right now among British Columbians. But it is an opportunity to make sure politicians know what needs to be done. Taking action as recommended by the IPCC likely won’t stop wildfires from happening in coming years. However, it is better to do something with hope for the future than it is to continue dragging our heels while hoping for the best.
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Putman Investments says it will purchase Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us Canada from affiliates of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited
The Ancaster, Ont.-based investment company did not reveal the value or terms of the deal.
Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us Canada employs almost 5,000 people between its Vaughan, Ont. head office and 81 stores in 10 provinces.
Family-owned Putman Investments is run by Doug Putman, who owns Sunrise Records and Entertainment Limited and purchased HMV in 2019.
Last year, he purchased recently closed DavidsTea locations and began planning to open his own tea chain called T. Kettle.
Fairfax acquired Toys “R” Us Canada in 2018 for $300 million as the company was filing for bankruptcy in the U.S.
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Quebec’s minister for the fight against racism is denouncing protesters who he said wore yellow stars at a protest earlier this week against the government’s vaccine passport system.
People protested Tuesday outside a Montreal-area gym where vaccine passports were being tested ahead of the generalized rollout scheduled to begin Sept. 1.
Several media reports indicated some protesters outside the gym wore a yellow star on their shirts, which is a symbol Jews were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Benoit Charette told reporters Wednesday there is no link between the requirement to show proof of vaccination during a pandemic and the symbol of the Nazi era, adding the protesters were indirectly guilty of antisemitism.
The protest was condemned by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and by the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
CIJA vice-president Eta Yudin said comparing the yellow star with the COVID-19 vaccine passport is deeply offensive to those who were forced to wear the star in Europe during the Second World War era.
“Education is part of the solution,” Charette said. “I’m not sure they clearly know the importance of the symbol. Maybe they think they can do a quick link. If they do know the real symbol of this, the gesture is even more outrageous.”
Sarah Fogg with the Holocaust museum invited protesters to visit the exhibitions at the institution.
“These measures are put on by our government to make us safe, keep us healthy,” Fogg said about COVID-19 health orders. “Measures like the yellow star were really designed to isolate, humiliate, persecute and eventually murder Jews. They cannot be further apart.”
—The Canadian Press
RELATED: Live Nation Canada to require vaccination proof or negative test at concerts
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(Contributed) Conservative candidate Tracy Gray’s election signs were found vandalized on Thursday morning, Aug. 19. (Contributed)
It’s only a few days into the 2021 Canadian federal election campaign and a local candidate’s signs have already been vandalized.
Conservative Party candidate for Kelowna-Lake Country Tracy Gray found her signs scrawled on with spray-painted expletives endorsing the Green Party of Canada on Thursday morning. Some of the vandalism also attacked Gray’s recent vote against Bill C-6, which would’ve banned conversion therapy.
“These signs were paid for with donations made by everyday Canadians, and put up by hard-working volunteers from across Kelowna-Lake Country,” said Adam Wilson, a member of Gray’s campaign, in an email to local media.
Wilson also mentioned vandalizing and removing signs is a criminal act and said he hopes other candidates won’t have to deal with the same thing over the coming weeks.
Kelowna-Lake Country Green candidate Imre Szeman condemned the act, calling it inappropriate and something that “cannot in any way, shape, or form be condoned.”
”In an election campaign, the open exchange of ideas between candidates is what’s essential. Acts of vandalism like this get in the way of this — they impede discussion and sow distrust,” said Szeman.
Szeman plans to get in touch with Gray regarding the incident as soon as possible.
Similar instances of vandalism occurred during the 2019 federal election campaign in the Central Okanagan. Kelowna-Lake Country Liberal candidate Stephen Fuhr had his signs defaced, as did People’s Party of Canada candidate Allan Duncan in the Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola riding.
Election day is Sept. 20.
READ MORE: Meet the candidates: Kelowna-Lake Country
READ MORE: Meet the candidates: Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola
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B.C. Wildfire Service says they’re seeing an increase in safety issues due to fatigue
Brentt Call, a firefighters with Utah Taskforce One, walks through a burned over area of the Bootleg Fire east of Klamath Falls as crews work to stop the largest wildfire in the United States so far this season. The Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry celebrated the regiment’s 107th birthday fighting the Thomas Creek fire on Aug. 10. (BC Wildfire)
Fatigue is setting in as wildfire crews continue to battle blazes across B.C., contributing to an increase in safety concerns.
Todd Nessman, manager of fire operations with B.C. Wildfire Service said in an Aug. 19 press conference that fatigue is something they take seriously.
“It’s been a long summer for many of our firefighters and staff supporting the efforts,” Nessman said. “With that increased fatigue we’re starting to see more safety concerns come forward — more slips, trips, falls, as well as other serious occurrences, are happening.”
RELATED: Community rallies for firefighter who lost Vernon-area home
RELATED: Planned ignition near Falkland helps mitigate White Rock Lake wildfire growth
Nessman said the Wildfire Service is keeping a close eye on their crew numbers as many crew members will be heading back to post-secondary institutions in September.
“In terms of resources we have approximately 3,800 personnel out — 1,250 contractors are working, we have 520 out of province resources which include 240 military, 430 structure protection personnel and over 500 heavy equipment operators, 147 helicopters and 38 air tanker aircraft,” Nessman said.
Scattered rain and lower temperatures have helped crews make progress on wildfires across B.C., but Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth warned the province will need to remain vigilant in the weeks to come.
RELATED: State of emergency extended to end of August as wildfires ravage B.C.
“We’re nowhere near out of the woods and we need to keep working to support our firefighters and emergency management crews,” he said.
Those comments come as 258 wildfires burn in the province. While no active fires have experienced significant growth, the province is averaging five to 10 new fires a day with 54 in the last week. There are currently 75 evacuation orders affecting 6,126 properties and 122 evacuation alerts affecting 19,840 properties. Nine First Nations have passed emergency resolutions and 28 local governments are under states of emergency.
With thousands of homes evacuated, B.C. RCMP Staff Sgt. Jenelle Shoihet said 500 RCMP members are in communities impacted by wildfires and are conducting patrols to ensure no criminal activity is occurring in evacuated areas. To date, the RCMP have not seen any reports of looting or criminal activity in evacuated areas.
Shoihet encouraged evacuees to contact the RCMP if they have specific concerns about the security of their property.
B.C. Wildfire Service remains concerned about the Cariboo and Southern Okanagan where dangerous fire behaviour conditions continue. The B.C. Wildfire Service says the outlook ahead is ‘favourable’ with cooler temperatures and scattered precipitation on the way.
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A Merritt city councillor has been charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm.
The charge against 44-year-old Mike Bhangu comes following a June 29 incident. The B.C. Prosecution Service approved the charge on Aug. 16.
Interviewed by Merritt radio station Q 101.1 following the charge, Bhangu said the allegations are untrue and connected to an “uninvited individual” entering his home and allegedly refusing to leave.
On Aug. 18, Bhangu wrote on his Facebook page, “Well, I know what happened and there is much more to the story. Stand with me. I’ll share more in time. And I encourage everyone to follow this story. If this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.”
Bhangu is set to appear in provincial court in Merritt on Sept. 14.
Black Press Media has reached out to Bhangu and the City of Merritt for further information.
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On the way to Kamloops residential school, healing journey also aimed at bringing awareness
Greg Taypotat, who is supporting his sister Shayna Taypotat and her daughter Gracie while Shayna carries out A Walk To Healing For All, holds two white eagle feathers which signify change. Shayna, pictured in Salmon Arm, is walking from Kahkewistahaw First Nation in Saskatchewan to the Kamloops Indian Residential School to bring awareness to the 215 children whose remains were confirmed there in May. (Martha Wickett - Salmon Arm Observer)
June 23. The day Shayna Taypotat began a journey of healing.
Twenty-nine-year-old Shayna is from the Kahkewistahaw First Nation, about 160 kilometres east of Regina, Sask.
When she heard about the remains of 215 children at the Kamloops residential school, “it shattered my entire world,” she said Aug. 18 in Salmon Arm, her voice unsteady with emotion. “Because these are Indigenous people… I have a daughter here and I couldn’t imagine. I can’t. I was the first generation not to attend.”
After she recovered from the initial shock of so many children being found at one school – a number she believes will never be a true picture, according to accounts from people who attended about how some children died – she was inspired to do a healing walk.
On June 23 she began ‘A Walk to Healing for All’ from Kahkewistahaw First Nation to Kamloops residential school.
Going through Sicamous and Salmon Arm on Aug. 17 and 18, she spoke about her wish to bring people together and to bring awareness to residential schools. Her older brother Greg joined her along the way and her daughter Gracie walks with her some days.
She and Greg joke with each other during the interview; they agree humour is essential to their lives.
Greg went to residential school, as did his father.
“As a child growing up, my old people they didn’t talk about this,” he said, pointing out that “nothing brought out things till the 215.”
“My own father, I don’t remember him telling me ‘I love you.’ That goes back to how they (residential schools) wanted to kill the Indian in the child. That’s where that goes back to. So I didn’t get that love, that hug.”
Greg, who excelled as an athlete growing up, said the walk has helped him to understand his father better, how he was a strong, healing man.
Greg and Shayna say the walk has brought them and their family closer together. Other family members will meet them in Kamloops.
“My family being together brings me lots of healing. That’s what we all need, being together,” Shayna remarked.
She emphasizes the impact of finding the remains of 215 children in Kamloops.
“215 was a wake-up call for me – for everyone.”
As she walks, Shayna said she prays for all the children.
“Every child matters. Every child in the world. Every individual. We were all children at one point. So I’ve been praying for everyone. Even the future generations to come in the world. Everyone. Everything I’ve been praying for. The Earth, the water, the plants, everything in the world.”
Read more: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in Kamloops
Read more: Caravan bound for former residential school finds show of support in Salmon Arm
Read more: Three Feathers Walk stops at Pierre’s Point with a message of hope
Read more: Walking Our Spirits Home from Kamloops provides path to healing
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Four of the five largest school districts in Florida are now defying an executive order by Gov. Ron DeSantis barring them from imposing strict mask mandates in schools. Orange County may join that list when the school board convenes next Tuesday.
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Hillsborough and Miami-Dade counties became the third and fourth school districts in Florida to adopt stricter mask mandates Wednesday, a day after school boards in Broward and Alachua counties faced threats of severe penalties for defying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration.
The Hillsborough County school board, which oversees the state’s third-largest district with more than 206,000 students in the Tampa area, voted 5-2 to adopt a 30-day mask mandate with a medical opt-out for students, teachers and staff. Most school districts have adopted optional mask policies or given options to parents to easily opt out of requirements.
Also Wednesday, the Miami-Dade school board passed a similar mandate with a medical exemption by a 7-1 vote. In Miami-Dade, Florida’s largest school district with 334,000 students, a task force of medical experts recommended students be required to wear masks when they return to classrooms next week.
In Broward County, the state’s second-largest district with 261,000 students, two teachers and an assistant teacher died from COVID-19 last week.
Despite this pressure, the Alachua County School Board, which serves nearly 30,000 students in the Gainesville area, voted Tuesday night to extend its mask mandate for another two months. Alachua’s mandate requires a doctor’s note, violating the governor’s executive order to let students opt out without requiring any medical recommendations, referrals, or permissions, the station reported.
Orange County may join the list of districts defying an executive order by Gov. Ron DeSantis banning schools from imposing mask mandates unless parents can opt-out of the requirements.
Orange County School Board Chair Teresa Jacobs said the school board will discuss the issue when it convenes next Tuesday.
Jacobs has lamented being in a position of having "no viable option" to implement a mask mandate that did not include the opt-out clause for parents. She said it was "the worst feeling I've ever had being in elected office."
Jacobs, who served as Orange County's mayor from 2010 to 2018, appears to be pivoting on the issue in comments she made during a school board COVID-19 safety protocol work session held on Thursday.
Orange County is of the nation's largest school districts and the fourth-largest in Florida.
Board members in Hillsborough and Palm Beach counties took action Wednesday after seeing the numbers of COVID-19 cases spike in those districts.
The school year there began a week ago and already thousands of children are being sent home because teachers and classmates are infected with the delta variant of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, a Florida judge ruled that a lawsuit filed by parents who are challenging Governor DeSantis' executive order banning student masks mandates in schools can move forward. The order clears the way for a three-day hearing next week on whether to block enforcement of the law.
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If you're a guest of Carnival Cruise Line and achin' for some bacon alongside your eggs and toast, you'd better plan ahead.
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If you're a guest of Carnival Cruise Line and achin' for some bacon alongside your eggs and toast, you'd better plan ahead.
Carnival has temporarily moved to an every-other-day bacon schedule fleetwide, citing supply issues.
"We purchase thousands and thousands of pieces of bacon every week, and our suppliers -- the people that supply us and the cruise industry – are having some challenges sourcing bacon for our ships at the moment," said the cruise line’s brand ambassador John Heald in a Facebook video. "Every other day, the bacon is going to go on a ‘bacation.’"
Earlier this year, economists warned of a possible shortage of a variety of pork products, such as hot dogs and bacon.
There had been a shortage of hogs for over a year and the problems are connected to the pandemic. Several processing plants and farms shut down due to outbreaks. Other facilities that remained open had to deal with staffing issues, also related to the pandemic.
With supply chains already stressed, experts did not anticipate the problems to be fixed over the summer months as more and more people were expected to be reconnecting with friends and family over the grill.
On top of that, the demand has also caused prices for pork to go up, for individual consumers and for the wholesale market.
According to NationalHogFarmer, the retail pork price set a new record high in July. Using data from the Livestock Marketing Information Center, the site reports that July’s price was 1.2% above the prior month and 10.1% above last year.
For now, Carnival says the pork shortage only applies to bacon and the rationing is intended to be implemented for one week. Breakfast sausage and ham will still be available every day.
"This is not a cutback; this is just a genuine problem that we as a company have," Heald added.
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Peppa Pig, a wildly popular porcine with her own TV show and videos, showed up Thursday at what will be the Peppa Pig Theme Park in Winter Haven.
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A superstar, at least in the eyes of millions of little kids, made a guest appearance in Winter Haven on Thursday. Peppa Pig, a wildly popular porcine with her own TV show and videos, showed up at what will be the Peppa Pig Theme Park.
"My two girls are preschool, and they are over the top excited over Peppa Pig," said the park’s spokesperson, Kelly Hornick.
The new five-acre park is right next to Legoland Florida on Cypress Gardens Boulevard and is owned by the same parent company, Merlin Entertainment. It's being built to appeal to preschoolers and their slightly older siblings.
Right now, the areas are blocked out for attractions like ‘Daddy Pig’s Roller Coaster’ and ‘Peppa Pig’s Balloon Ride,’ but there is still a lot of work to do.
Along with attractions, there will be rest areas like ‘Muddy Puddles.'
"We have slides and pop-jets for the kids to run around and get wet," explained Keith Carr, who heads up the park’s design and construction.
Although an exact date has not been announced, the park is expected to open before next April.
LINK: For information about annual passes and other deals visit https://www.peppapigthemepark.com/florida/.
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On the 30th anniversary of the last hurricane to make a direct hit on New England, the region warily braced Thursday for Tropical Storm Henri as it gathered strength and headed for the northeastern U.S.
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On the 30th anniversary of the last hurricane to make a direct hit on New England, the region warily braced Thursday for Tropical Storm Henri as it gathered strength and headed for the northeastern U.S.
Forecasters said Henri will likely strengthen into a hurricane in the Atlantic as it approaches southern New England early next week, with the first coastal impacts possible on Sunday.
Henri was expected to become a hurricane offshore late Friday along a path that will likely take it parallel to the East Coast. Its center was forecast to approach parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Cape Cod, and the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard by Monday.
Exactly 30 years ago Thursday, Bob made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane in 1991 with sustained winds of 90 miles per hour and wind gusts up to 138 mph. At least 17 people were killed in the storm, the costliest in New England with more than $1.5 billion in property damage — nearly $3 billion in today’s dollars.
The National Weather Service warned of the potential for damaging winds and widespread coastal flooding from Henri. Authorities urged people to secure their boats, fuel up their vehicles, and stock up on canned goods in case the storm makes a direct hit.
Meteorologists said Henri’s track remained uncertain, with some models suggesting it might pass offshore and others putting it over Cape Cod or even Boston, possibly as a Category 1 hurricane.
New Englanders had to begin thinking about Henri even as the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred lashed the region, unleashing drenching rains that stranded drivers as floodwaters swamped their vehicles.
In Worcester, Massachusetts, the region’s second-largest city, a woman and her two young children had to be carried out of their stalled car by a Good Samaritan after waters rose to the vehicle’s windows.
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Anatara Motiwala Marwah’s baby shower this week saw the Kapoor cousins all dressed up and ready to celebrate. While lehengas were the popular choice among the girls, the oldest of the group, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, chose to go a different route for the occasion—a pale pink embroidered anarkali. The actor has been loving the fit and flare silhouette lately, and even chose to wear a pale blue Anamika Khanna number for her sister Rhea Kapoor’s wedding last week. Statement jewellery has been Kapoor Ahuja’s go-to for styling her anarkalis, and this time, the 36-year-old chose a regal choker to go with her Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla outfit. Scroll ahead to check out her OOTD.
Sonam Kapoor completed her look with a kundan choker + earrings set
Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla has always been a favourite for Sonam Kapoor Ahuja. Her pale pink anarkali came with full sleeves, a V-shaped neck, and a matching embroidered dupatta that she draped over her shoulders. Doused in tone-on-tone chikankari embroidery, the pastel anarkali also featured delicate sequin work. Kapoor Ahuja opted for contrasting kundan + emerald jewellery with her outfit. The statement choker added a pop of green to her monochrome look, and matching earrings, a diamond ring, and a scalloped embroidered potli bag completed the ensemble. Makeup-wise, the actor went for lined eyes, tinted cheeks, and nude lips. Middle-parted hair in soft waves topped off the look.
Sonam Kapoor Ahuja’s pale pink anarkali is an outfit that is apt for a number of occasions, from at-home festivities to intimate mehandis. Pair with statement jewellery to dress up the understated anarkali. Scroll for out edit of pieces to recreate the effortless look.
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OnlyFans will ban sexually explicit content starting in October, prohibiting the very material that has made the platform popular, especially in the last year-plus that much of the world has been locked down.
In a statement provided to TechRadar and widely disseminated online, OnlyFans stated that the platform is adopting the changes “to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers”.
“In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines. Creators will continue to be allowed to post content containing nudity as long as it is consistent with our Acceptable Use Policy,” the statement reads.
OnlyFans did not comment beyond the statement, nor clarify its position on non-sexual nudity; the company’s Acceptable Use Policy only prohibits public nudity if it was recorded in or broadcast from regions or countries in which such nudity is illegal.
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“Effective 1 October, 2021, OnlyFans will prohibit the posting of any content containing sexually-explicit conduct. In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines. Creators will continue to be allowed to post content containing nudity as long as it is consistent with our Acceptable Use Policy.
These changes are to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers.
We will be sharing more details in the coming days and we will actively support and guide our creators through this change in content guidelines.
We remain dedicated to our community of 130 million users and over 2 million creators that have earned over $5 billion on our platform.
OnlyFans remains committed to the highest levels of safety and content moderation of any social platform. All creators are verified prior to being able to upload any content to OnlyFans, and all uploaded content is checked by automated systems and human moderators.
As part of our commitment to safety and transparency, we are releasing our first Monthly Transparency Report for July 2021.
https://onlyfans.com/transparency/july2021 ”
OnlyFans ban could end the platform’s massive growth seen during pandemic
OnlyFans’ content creators don’t just post adult and sexually explicit material, as musicians and other artists have used the platform to charge fans for access to photos, videos, and other content, but it’s unquestionable that the site became known largely for the former.
It’s also indisputable that the site’s popularity exploded during the pandemic: OnlyFans parent company Fenix International released its strategic report up to November 2020 stating that total creator count leapt from 348,000 in 2019 to over 1.6 million toward the end of 2020, with fan numbers jumping from 13.4 million to 82 million. The company raked in £1.7 billion (around $2.32B/ AU$3.24B) in payments from fans, compared to £238 million ($324M / AU$454M) up to the same point in 2019. Given OnlyFans takes a 20% cut of that, its income rose from £44M to £283M, according to Musically .
Since then, that number has grown to 130 million users, as per OnlyFans’ statement above. Those additional numbers include creators who have used the online platform as a source of income while global lockdowns have disrupted other industries, like retail, food, and hospitality. Banning sexually explicit content will also effectively kick off creators of adult material who were relying on the platform for income.
Online response has been a mix of critics decrying OnlyFans for abandoning creators of sexually explicit content who had been central to its growth, along with bemusement that the platform is turning its back on its biggest appeal (and revenue stream).
But banning sexual content closes a crucial revenue stream for some in a time of crisis, says Dr Barbara Brents, a sociology professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and an expert on the sex industry and sexual commerce.
“During the pandemic, a lot of people’s selling of sexual services have come to depend on online platforms,” Dr Brents told TechRadar over a phone call. “ There’s all sorts of ways in which people have bought and sold intimacy and connection, and OnlyFans has been one of those ways that people could make a living and to shut this off like this, the people who depend on that are unable to make an income.”
Online services empower sex workers with a level of safety and physical control over screening clients, and it helps that OnlyFans in particular is easy to use for creators and consumers and didn’t rely on many third parties, encouraging independent business. When one service gets cut off, sex workers will transition to another, but not easily.
“Sex workers are resilient and many will [move on to another platform] but it’s not easy, and when you lose your source of income like this, you sort of lose your ability to invest in the next thing,” Dr Brents said. “The sex workers with the most resources and the most ability do so.”
It’s unclear exactly how much of OnlyFans’ creators and fans use the platform to make and consume sexually explicit content, and we can only wait for October to see how much of the site’s community leaves following the ban. But we can turn to history – even recent history – to see how other sites and platforms have fared after booting adult content, though it's the sex workers and independent creators who have suffered most.
OnlyFans: the latest platform partially grown by sex workers to then ban sex workers
OnlyFans is far from the first platform to grow thanks to communities creating and sharing sexually explicit material before banning that content for a handful of reasons. For the most part, these sanitization efforts are made to comply with policies from even larger platforms, but like in OnlyFans’ case, have also been done to satisfy the demands of financial institutions.
One of the most well-known examples is Tumblr, which banned adult and not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content in December 2018 – reportedly as a long-delayed condition of its acquisition by Yahoo in 2016, but also after its iOS app was banned following the discovery of child pornography images on the site. This was perceived as a betrayal by adult content creators, who had built communities on the platform, as well as the LGBTQ community that had thrived on sharing adult content, as reported by Vice . After a mass exodus of users, the site was sold in 2019 for $3 million, a fraction of the $1.1 billion price Verizon paid to acquire it in 2013, per The Verge .
In the same year, online marketplace Craigslist shut down its personal ads section, which was a crucial platform for organizing adult erotic exchanges and meet-ups, including sex work – a move Craigslist made in response to the passage of the controversial anti sex trafficking FOSTA and SESTA bills. That shuttered another conduit that sex workers used to safely coordinate with clientele online, as well as shutting down a queer connection space, as The Washington Post reported. Another site, Backpage, was similarly pressured into closing in 2019, according to the Slate .
On the financial side, crowdfunding and payment platforms like Patreon and PayPal have frozen funds or canceled accounts used by sex workers, per The Daily Dot . Over the years, banks have closed accounts of porn stars, as Chase did in 2014, as Buzzfeed reported, which is one of the more popularized incidents of financial institutions restricting adult content creators – when romance and erotic writers were banned from their platforms in 2012 by PayPal, the payment service pointed to Visa and Mastercard, which pointed to federal government regulations, Engadget wrote.
OnlyFans is just the latest in a long line of online platforms restricting and banning adult content and sex work in the last decade. While the internet has changed in that time, it’s increasingly shaped only by a handful of colossal corporations across the content, service, and financial industries rather than content creators and consumers.
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OnlyFans will ban sexually explicit content starting in October, prohibiting the very material that has made the platform popular, especially in the last year-plus that much of the world has been locked down.
In a statement provided to TechRadar and widely disseminated online, OnlyFans stated that the platform is adopting the changes “to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers”.
“In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines. Creators will continue to be allowed to post content containing nudity as long as it is consistent with our Acceptable Use Policy,” the statement reads.
OnlyFans did not comment beyond the statement, nor clarify its position on non-sexual nudity; the company’s Acceptable Use Policy only prohibits public nudity if it was recorded in or broadcast from regions or countries in which such nudity is illegal.
The full statement reads:
“Effective 1 October, 2021, OnlyFans will prohibit the posting of any content containing sexually-explicit conduct. In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines. Creators will continue to be allowed to post content containing nudity as long as it is consistent with our Acceptable Use Policy.
These changes are to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers.
We will be sharing more details in the coming days and we will actively support and guide our creators through this change in content guidelines.
We remain dedicated to our community of 130 million users and over 2 million creators that have earned over $5 billion on our platform.
OnlyFans remains committed to the highest levels of safety and content moderation of any social platform. All creators are verified prior to being able to upload any content to OnlyFans, and all uploaded content is checked by automated systems and human moderators.
As part of our commitment to safety and transparency, we are releasing our first Monthly Transparency Report for July 2021.
https://onlyfans.com/transparency/july2021 ”
OnlyFans ban could end the platform’s massive growth seen during pandemic
OnlyFans’ content creators don’t just post adult and sexually explicit material, as musicians and other artists have used the platform to charge fans for access to photos, videos, and other content, but it’s unquestionable that the site became known largely for the former.
It’s also indisputable that the site’s popularity exploded during the pandemic: OnlyFans parent company Fenix International released its strategic report up to November 2020 stating that total creator count leapt from 348,000 in 2019 to over 1.6 million toward the end of 2020, with fan numbers jumping from 13.4 million to 82 million. The company raked in £1.7 billion (around $2.32B/ AU$3.24B) in payments from fans, compared to £238 million ($324M / AU$454M) up to the same point in 2019. Given OnlyFans takes a 20% cut of that, its income rose from £44M to £283M, according to Musically .
Since then, that number has grown to 130 million users, as per OnlyFans’ statement above. Those additional numbers include creators who have used the online platform as a source of income while global lockdowns have disrupted other industries, like retail, food, and hospitality. Banning sexually explicit content will also effectively kick off creators of adult material who were relying on the platform for income.
Online response has been a mix of critics decrying OnlyFans for abandoning creators of sexually explicit content who had been central to its growth, along with bemusement that the platform is turning its back on its biggest appeal (and revenue stream).
But banning sexual content closes a crucial revenue stream for some in a time of crisis, says Dr Barbara Brents, a sociology professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and an expert on the sex industry and sexual commerce.
“During the pandemic, a lot of people’s selling of sexual services have come to depend on online platforms,” Dr Brents told TechRadar over a phone call. “ There’s all sorts of ways in which people have bought and sold intimacy and connection, and OnlyFans has been one of those ways that people could make a living and to shut this off like this, the people who depend on that are unable to make an income.”
Online services empower sex workers with a level of safety and physical control over screening clients, and it helps that OnlyFans in particular is easy to use for creators and consumers and didn’t rely on many third parties, encouraging independent business. When one service gets cut off, sex workers will transition to another, but not easily.
“Sex workers are resilient and many will [move on to another platform] but it’s not easy, and when you lose your source of income like this, you sort of lose your ability to invest in the next thing,” Dr Brents said. “The sex workers with the most resources and the most ability do so.”
It’s unclear exactly how much of OnlyFans’ creators and fans use the platform to make and consume sexually explicit content, and we can only wait for October to see how much of the site’s community leaves following the ban. But we can turn to history – even recent history – to see how other sites and platforms have fared after booting adult content, though it's the sex workers and independent creators who have suffered most.
OnlyFans: the latest platform partially grown by sex workers to then ban sex workers
OnlyFans is far from the first platform to grow thanks to communities creating and sharing sexually explicit material before banning that content for a handful of reasons. For the most part, these sanitization efforts are made to comply with policies from even larger platforms, but like in OnlyFans’ case, have also been done to satisfy the demands of financial institutions.
One of the most well-known examples is Tumblr, which banned adult and not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content in December 2018 – reportedly as a long-delayed condition of its acquisition by Yahoo in 2016, but also after its iOS app was banned following the discovery of child pornography images on the site. This was perceived as a betrayal by adult content creators, who had built communities on the platform, as well as the LGBTQ community that had thrived on sharing adult content, as reported by Vice . After a mass exodus of users, the site was sold in 2019 for $3 million, a fraction of the $1.1 billion price Verizon paid to acquire it in 2013, per The Verge .
In the same year, online marketplace Craigslist shut down its personal ads section, which was a crucial platform for organizing adult erotic exchanges and meet-ups, including sex work – a move Craigslist made in response to the passage of the controversial anti sex trafficking FOSTA and SESTA bills. That shuttered another conduit that sex workers used to safely coordinate with clientele online, as well as shutting down a queer connection space, as The Washington Post reported. Another site, Backpage, was similarly pressured into closing in 2019, according to the Slate .
On the financial side, crowdfunding and payment platforms like Patreon and PayPal have frozen funds or canceled accounts used by sex workers, per The Daily Dot . Over the years, banks have closed accounts of porn stars, as Chase did in 2014, as Buzzfeed reported, which is one of the more popularized incidents of financial institutions restricting adult content creators – when romance and erotic writers were banned from their platforms in 2012 by PayPal, the payment service pointed to Visa and Mastercard, which pointed to federal government regulations, Engadget wrote.
OnlyFans is just the latest in a long line of online platforms restricting and banning adult content and sex work in the last decade. While the internet has changed in that time, it’s increasingly shaped only by a handful of colossal corporations across the content, service, and financial industries rather than content creators and consumers.
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OnlyFans will ban sexually explicit content starting in October, prohibiting the very material that has made the platform popular, especially in the last year-plus that much of the world has been locked down.
In a statement provided to TechRadar and widely disseminated online, OnlyFans stated that the platform is adopting the changes “to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers”.
“In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines. Creators will continue to be allowed to post content containing nudity as long as it is consistent with our Acceptable Use Policy,” the statement reads.
OnlyFans did not comment beyond the statement, nor clarify its position on non-sexual nudity; the company’s Acceptable Use Policy only prohibits public nudity if it was recorded in or broadcast from regions or countries in which such nudity is illegal.
The full statement reads:
“Effective 1 October, 2021, OnlyFans will prohibit the posting of any content containing sexually-explicit conduct. In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines. Creators will continue to be allowed to post content containing nudity as long as it is consistent with our Acceptable Use Policy.
These changes are to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers.
We will be sharing more details in the coming days and we will actively support and guide our creators through this change in content guidelines.
We remain dedicated to our community of 130 million users and over 2 million creators that have earned over $5 billion on our platform.
OnlyFans remains committed to the highest levels of safety and content moderation of any social platform. All creators are verified prior to being able to upload any content to OnlyFans, and all uploaded content is checked by automated systems and human moderators.
As part of our commitment to safety and transparency, we are releasing our first Monthly Transparency Report for July 2021.
https://onlyfans.com/transparency/july2021 ”
OnlyFans ban could end the platform’s massive growth seen during pandemic
OnlyFans’ content creators don’t just post adult and sexually explicit material, as musicians and other artists have used the platform to charge fans for access to photos, videos, and other content, but it’s unquestionable that the site became known largely for the former.
It’s also indisputable that the site’s popularity exploded during the pandemic: OnlyFans parent company Fenix International released its strategic report up to November 2020 stating that total creator count leapt from 348,000 in 2019 to over 1.6 million toward the end of 2020, with fan numbers jumping from 13.4 million to 82 million. The company raked in £1.7 billion (around $2.32B/ AU$3.24B) in payments from fans, compared to £238 million ($324M / AU$454M) up to the same point in 2019. Given OnlyFans takes a 20% cut of that, its income rose from £44M to £283M, according to Musically .
Since then, that number has grown to 130 million users, as per OnlyFans’ statement above. Those additional numbers include creators who have used the online platform as a source of income while global lockdowns have disrupted other industries, like retail, food, and hospitality. Banning sexually explicit content will also effectively kick off creators of adult material who were relying on the platform for income.
Online response has been a mix of critics decrying OnlyFans for abandoning creators of sexually explicit content who had been central to its growth, along with bemusement that the platform is turning its back on its biggest appeal (and revenue stream).
But banning sexual content closes a crucial revenue stream for some in a time of crisis, says Dr Barbara Brents, a sociology professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and an expert on the sex industry and sexual commerce.
“During the pandemic, a lot of people’s selling of sexual services have come to depend on online platforms,” Dr Brents told TechRadar over a phone call. “ There’s all sorts of ways in which people have bought and sold intimacy and connection, and OnlyFans has been one of those ways that people could make a living and to shut this off like this, the people who depend on that are unable to make an income.”
Online services empower sex workers with a level of safety and physical control over screening clients, and it helps that OnlyFans in particular is easy to use for creators and consumers and didn’t rely on many third parties, encouraging independent business. When one service gets cut off, sex workers will transition to another, but not easily.
“Sex workers are resilient and many will [move on to another platform] but it’s not easy, and when you lose your source of income like this, you sort of lose your ability to invest in the next thing,” Dr Brents said. “The sex workers with the most resources and the most ability do so.”
It’s unclear exactly how much of OnlyFans’ creators and fans use the platform to make and consume sexually explicit content, and we can only wait for October to see how much of the site’s community leaves following the ban. But we can turn to history – even recent history – to see how other sites and platforms have fared after booting adult content, though it's the sex workers and independent creators who have suffered most.
OnlyFans: the latest platform partially grown by sex workers to then ban sex workers
OnlyFans is far from the first platform to grow thanks to communities creating and sharing sexually explicit material before banning that content for a handful of reasons. For the most part, these sanitization efforts are made to comply with policies from even larger platforms, but like in OnlyFans’ case, have also been done to satisfy the demands of financial institutions.
One of the most well-known examples is Tumblr, which banned adult and not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content in December 2018 – reportedly as a long-delayed condition of its acquisition by Yahoo in 2016, but also after its iOS app was banned following the discovery of child pornography images on the site. This was perceived as a betrayal by adult content creators, who had built communities on the platform, as well as the LGBTQ community that had thrived on sharing adult content, as reported by Vice . After a mass exodus of users, the site was sold in 2019 for $3 million, a fraction of the $1.1 billion price Verizon paid to acquire it in 2013, per The Verge .
In the same year, online marketplace Craigslist shut down its personal ads section, which was a crucial platform for organizing adult erotic exchanges and meet-ups, including sex work – a move Craigslist made in response to the passage of the controversial anti sex trafficking FOSTA and SESTA bills. That shuttered another conduit that sex workers used to safely coordinate with clientele online, as well as shutting down a queer connection space, as The Washington Post reported. Another site, Backpage, was similarly pressured into closing in 2019, according to the Slate .
On the financial side, crowdfunding and payment platforms like Patreon and PayPal have frozen funds or canceled accounts used by sex workers, per The Daily Dot . Over the years, banks have closed accounts of porn stars, as Chase did in 2014, as Buzzfeed reported, which is one of the more popularized incidents of financial institutions restricting adult content creators – when romance and erotic writers were banned from their platforms in 2012 by PayPal, the payment service pointed to Visa and Mastercard, which pointed to federal government regulations, Engadget wrote.
OnlyFans is just the latest in a long line of online platforms restricting and banning adult content and sex work in the last decade. While the internet has changed in that time, it’s increasingly shaped only by a handful of colossal corporations across the content, service, and financial industries rather than content creators and consumers.
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No. 12 West Virginia women’s soccer opened the fall season up with a smashing 4-0 win over Buffalo at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium on Saturday. The Mountaineers were dominant from whistle to whistle, maintaining 66 percent possession throughout the contest. WVU notched two goals in each half from both veterans and newcomers — but still, […]
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No. 12 West Virginia women’s soccer opened the fall season up with a smashing 4-0 win over Buffalo at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium on Saturday.
The Mountaineers were dominant from whistle to whistle, maintaining 66 percent possession throughout the contest. WVU notched two goals in each half from both veterans and newcomers — but still, Coach Nikki Izzo-Brown walked off the pitch unsatisfied.
“It’s 90 minutes of West Virginia soccer, I thought we played 45. We’re not a young team anymore, we have to set the tone,” she said. “We have to execute just our jobs, and I thought in the first half, it wasn’t as sharp as we could have been.”
After a few attempts on net from WVU, Julianne Vallerand put the first score on the board with an easy finish off an assist from freshman winger Dilary Heredia-Beltran 25 minutes into the game. The junior forward Vallerand made the start at striker for the first time in her career, after making appearances at both fullback and wing in her first two seasons.
The veteran presence stayed strong through the first half when Lauren Segalla notched her first goal of the year in the 31st minute after tapping in a ground cross from left back Mackenzie Aunkst — a junior setting up a senior.
“Every forward wants to get that monkey off their back and they got it early,” Izzo-Brown said. “And we got a shut-out, so I’m pleased with that. Really, no mistake cost us.”
A pair of new faces added insurance in the second half, starting with graduate transfer midfielder Maya McCutcheon. The former Oklahoma Sooner made a run into the box and composed herself for an unassisted curling finish to put WVU up by three.
Freshman Rhea Kijowski sealed the deal for WVU in the 87th minute, putting away a pass from fellow freshman Leah Sparacio to give the final insurance goal to the Mountaineers. In total, five freshmen contributed minutes to the Mountaineers, including two starters in Heredia Beltran and Annika Leslie.
“Dilary, she’s a very dynamic player and she’s somebody that we know is very capable of doing her job at a very high level,” Izzo-Brown said. “And again, coming here and playing here is different. She represents US Soccer at the youth national level, but you know what, it doesn’t matter when you come here, you’ve gotta grind and you’ve gotta figure it out.”
Kayza Massey got the start in goal and played the first 72 minutes. She wasn’t tested much, though, making just one save before Izzo-Brown sent Maddie Murphy out to finish the final 18 minutes. Murphy finished the clean sheet with one more save for WVU.
Unfortunately for the Bulls, goalie Emily Kelly made just one save on the five shots on net she faced in the contest.
This Mountaineer victory was the first athletic event on campus without a capacity limit since the end of the men’s and women’s 2019-20 basketball seasons. WVU pulled in a capacity of 708 fans — not nearly a program record, but not out of the ordinary for an early-season clash — and Izzo-Brown was happy to see some fans back in the stands.
“It’s been real tough,” she said. “I just think everybody to get out and enjoy a good soccer game on a good night, I think we need a lot of those.”
WVU gets its chance on a quick turnaround, as the schedule is back to its normal two-games-per-week cadence. The 12th-ranked Mountaineers look ahead to Sunday, when they face No. 4 Virginia at 2 p.m. ET at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. That game will be shown on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
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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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Actress Shilpa Shetty Kundra will be performing a 'kanjak pooja' for contestant Arshiya after her dance act on Vaishno Devi in the dance reality show 'Super Dancer Chapter 4'.
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Actress Shilpa Shetty Kundra will be performing a 'kanjak pooja' for contestant Arshiya after her dance act on Vaishno Devi in the dance reality show 'Super Dancer Chapter 4'.
Shilpa says she is an ardent worshipper of Goddess Durga and thus she performed this ritual.
She says: "I am very spiritual and a devoted Devi bhakt. I have had the opportunity to visit the Vaishno Devi temple once and the experience was very inspiring. After seeing this act today, I want to perform a 'kanjak pooja' for Arshiya."
Her performance left an everlasting impact on all the judges. Besides Shilpa, Anurag Basu and Geeta Kapur were also impressed by her dance moves.
Geeta Kapur highly praised the act and says: "I have never been to Vaishno Devi temple, but really wish to go there someday. This was a very beautiful performance and it deserves a 'Sajdaa' (praise)."
Furthermore, Anurag Basu highly appreciated the choreography and praised her guru Anuradha for being such a good storyteller. He said, "I was so lost in the story, it was just amazing."
'Super Dancer Chapter 4' airs on Sony Entertainment Television.
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Broccoli, spinach, cabbage, and dried beans are filled with important nutrients and are really affordable. Stocking up on canned and frozen versions of these vegetables can lead fewer trips to the grocery store, and even more savings.
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The green giant is as nutritious as it is versatile. "Broccoli is a cheap vegetable and it provides many nutrients including antioxidants, vitamins A and C, fiber, folate, vitamin K, and potassium," Dr. Lisa Young, PhD, RDN, tells Parents. Eat it steamed, cooked, in your salads, or to add a serving of veggies to your favorite comfort foods.
You can also opt for frozen broccoli, which is as nutritious and will last you longer. "A bag of 10oz generic brand frozen cut broccoli costs around $1.00 and contains the same amount of vitamins and minerals as fresh broccoli crowns," Melissa Mitri, MS, RD of wellness product review site Wellness Verge, tells Parents.
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The first few weeks of class can be an anxiety-inducing time for some children, but these programs can help inspire excitement for all the new experiences ahead.
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The first few weeks of class can be an anxiety-inducing time for some children, but these programs can help inspire excitement for all the new experiences ahead.
Just like adults often get Sunday "scaries" before heading back to work on a Monday, your kids might be feeling that same uneasy mix of anticipation and anxiety before going back to the classroom this month.
But from shopping for new supplies to talking about all the friends they'll inevitably enjoy reuniting with, there are plenty of ways to help kids focus on the positives and overcome their fears, experts say.
Sucheta Connolly, M.D., a child psychiatrist and director of the Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the University of Illinois in Chicago, tells Parents that it's helpful to talk openly and excitedly to your child about their new routine. She says that parents of younger kids can role-play scenarios they might encounter in school with puppets, dolls, or stuffed animals to quell anxiousness, such as meeting the teacher for the first time.
But as Jodi Musoff, M.A., M.Ed., an education specialist at the Child Mind Institute in New York, explains, kids of all ages tend to be very easy to inspire. Musoff says they'll often take the lead from people around them, so if you're excited about the new school year, they will be too.
One way to convey and share that excitement? Sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and tuning into programming that touches on back-to-school lessons or themes. Here are seven titles that are sure to get your little one pumped to start learning again.
1. Sesame Street
There's a reason Sesame Street has stood the test of time for the five decades. The PBS franchise is equal parts upbeat and educational—and tackles back-to-school nervousness in a few episodes. For instance, in the episode "First Day of School With Cookie Monster," Cookie Monster thinks his teachers won't like him. Kermit and other friends save the day by helping him see there's nothing to fear.
PBS, ages 2+
2. CoComelon
This musical Netflix series, of which you can stream three seasons so far, is all about new, exciting experiences. The main character, J.J., learns letters, numbers, animal sounds, and more.
Netlix, ages 2+
3. We the People
Check out Netflix's series of 10 animated, civics-themed music videos, created by Chris Nee (Doc McStuffins) and co-produced by the Obamas' Higher Ground production company. The series features musicians like Janelle Monáe, H.E.R., Adam Lambert, Brandi Carlile in videos that focus on a variety of topics like the Bill of Rights, taxes, or federal vs. state power. The main message: By learning more about the U.S. government, kids can get involved, take action, and make a difference.
Netflix, ages 8+
4. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
This PBS Kids classic series frequently explores back-to-school themes—and learning to conquer nerves. In this episode, "Daniel is a First Day Friend," Daniel shows Jodi around the classroom, walking with her as they look for something Jodi knows to help her feel better in this new place.
PBS, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, ages 2-4
5. The Healing Powers of Dude
This Netflix show is perfect for middle schoolers who might find themselves in the same boat as Noah, an 11-year-old boy with social anxiety disorder. The show follows Noah's journey, which includes gaining support from his emotional support dog, Dude, as well as friends and family.
Netflix, ages 8+
6. Bubble Guppies
The much loved Nick Jr. and Amazon Prime Video kids' series features a fantastic episode—episode 1, season 3—in which the Bubble Guppies help kids find their cubbies and nap mats. And in the song "Get Ready for School," Molly assures viewers, "Don't be scared. It's okay. The teacher will show you the way." The Bubble Guppies help kids find their cubbies and nap mats.
Nick Jr., Amazon Prime Video, ages 1-7
7. Mystery Lab
Middle schoolers can join host Felipe Castanhari as he makes science, history, mysteries and marvels intriguing—and sometimes funny—in this Brazilian educational series that features English subtitles. Kids will learn the facts behind historical events like the Great Plague and modern science like artificial intelligence, firing them up to soak up even more knowledge in the classroom.
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The CDC advised that all students in grades K-12 wear masks, regardless of vaccination status. Now, as some schools roll out their policies that run counter to this guidance, while also enforcing antiquated dress codes, parents are calling out administrators' hypocrisy.
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The CDC advised that all students in grades K-12 wear masks, regardless of vaccination status. Now, as some schools roll out their policies that run counter to this guidance, while also enforcing antiquated dress codes, parents are calling out administrators' hypocrisy.
Late last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) both recommended that all students in grades K through 12 wear masks, regardless of vaccination status. This guidance came down just as COVID-19 cases began spiking around the country as a result of the more transmissible Delta variant.
Many school districts have said they will require masks for students this fall, but some states—such as Arkansas, Vermont, Arizona, and Texas—are doing the exact opposite by enacting laws that bar school districts from mandating masks, reports a CNN analysis.
Now, parents in these school districts are voicing their concerns and pointing out the hypocrisy of schools enforcing antiquated dress codes but refusing to mandate masks.
What Parents Are Saying About Enforcing Dress Codes Over Mask Mandates
Becky Bracken, a Phoenix-based mom of a sixth grader, took to Facebook on August 15 to share in a private post that there had been a positive COVID test in her daughter's class. "Only TWO of her teachers are wearing masks," noted Bracken. "She woke up Saturday with the sniffles. Couldn't find a test anywhere. Finally scored a home test which was given to me by a pharmacy tech without a mask."
She then shared a screenshot of the email she sent to her daughter's school. "My kid is 10, can't be vaccinated, wears her mask, and is going to miss another year of school because the same district that won't let girls wear spaghetti straps doesn't have the wherewithal to take basic safety measures."
Screenshot of email Credit: Courtesy of Becky Bracken
A mom from Tennessee who sees the situation much like Bracken went viral last week for an email she sent to her school district. After Republican Governor Bill Lee enacted a statewide policy making masks optional, the mom who is going by Wendy (for privacy reasons) wrote to the school board of East Hamilton High School, where her daughter is starting her senior year.
"As the parent of a daughter at East Hamilton, I find the school's dress code policy to be misogynistic and detrimental to the self-esteem of young women," she noted. "Rather than shaming young women into covering their shoulders (and other parts of their body), I believe we should empower female students to have agency over their own bodies and to wear clothing that is comfortable for them and contributes to their ability to enhance their learning experience."
She continued, "In light of the opt-out option related to the recently announced mask mandate, I can only assume that parents are now in a position to pick and choose the school policies to which their child should be subject. As someone who holds a strong commitment to my feminist ideals and my desire to raise my daughter to be a strong and empowered woman able to make choices for herself, I find that the school's dress code does not align with my belief system. I therefore intend to … send my daughter to school in spaghetti straps, leggings, cut offs, and anything else she feels comfortable wearing to school."
Screencaps of the email were shared on social media by local news outlet the Tennessee Holler.
People on Instagram and Twitter applauded the mom, similarly furious about the double standard.
Twitter user @NoellevrSchultz wrote, "Schools should start waking up to the insane double standards they seem intent on implementing. The hypocrisy is mind-numbing."
Instagram user @emilyinyourphone reposted the thread, writing, "Parents need to make this a thing."
And The Lily spoke to another Tennessee parent Mari Smith who said she was awed by Wendy's email. She noted that she was most incensed by "the idea that they can't enforce kids wearing a mask that keeps other kids safe, but they are happy to send a kid home when a girl's shorts are too short."
Bracken couldn't agree more. "Our schools started three weeks ago, and COVID is running rampant," she tells Parents.com. "Schools have all kinds of random requirements. Laura's school doesn't allow spaghetti straps or bare midriffs. The fact that they would have a dress code mandating what girls can wear but not mandating masks is just almost unbearable hypocrisy."
Where Parents Plan to Go From Here
Both Bracken and Tennessee mom Wendy say they have not received responses from their daughters' school districts. But they, like many parents, are determined to continue speaking out on the issue.
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Despite Mom's "tough love" letter posted to Facebook nearly six years ago, social media is still buzzing about it. And as you can probably imagine, the debate is heated.
Call it the forever-viral Facebook post. Heidi Johnson posted a letter she wrote to her son on Facebook nearly six years ago, and it's still making headlines and dividing the web.
Her son, Aaron, was 13 when she wrote the letter, and she wasn't all that happy with how he was acting. Teenagers, of course, can be naturally rebellious as they test boundaries and gain more independence from their caregivers. But Johnson thought her son was taking things too far and decided to give him, what she believed, a much-needed reality check.
"Dear Aaron, since you seem to have forgotten that you are only 13 and I'm the parent," Johnson starts. "I guess you will need a lesson in independence. Also, as you threw in my face that you are making money now, it will be easier to pay back all the items I bought you in the past."
Johnson goes on to tell Aaron that he will need to start contributing to household expenses, including rent ($430), electricity ($116), Internet ($21), and food ($150).
"Also, you will now need to empty the trash on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, as well as sweep and vacuum those days," Mom continues.
Johnson also added bathroom cleanings and meal prep to her son's to-do list.
"If you fail to do so, I will charge you a $30 maid fee for every day I have to do it," Johnson writes. "If you decide you would rather be a child again instead of a roommate, we can negotiate terms."
In a follow-up note, Mom clarified that she meant to only show the post to her friends but accidentally made it public. But she wasn't upset about it. "It's out there, and I am not ashamed of what I wrote," she wrote.
Johnson understands teenagers push their boundaries, but still defended her strategy. "He will be a legal adult in roughly four years," she wrote. "I cannot send this child into college or the workforce with the attitude of 'I'll get to it when I get to it' when a superior tells him to get a job done."
Apparently, the whole thing didn't hurt their relationship.
"And, you know what... this hasn't hurt our relationship. He and I still talk as openly as ever. He has apologized multiple times," Johnson says.
People are still commenting on the original post. Many of the comments are applauding Mom.
"I absolutely love this, and I agree that tough love should be used as a tool when needed," one person said this week. "You go, mom. Teach him something before someone does, and I promise him this it won't be so nice," wrote someone else. "Kudos to you, mom," another person commented.
But not everyone was into it.
"Does your kid even talk to you anymore?" one person asked. But Aaron himself chimed in, "Funnily enough, I do still talk to my mom."
"While I do not know everything about this situation, this method of 'teaching your child a lesson' can be very harmful to the child and their relationship with their parent," someone commented. "In essence, this letter is telling the child that if they do not comply to the demands of their parent, they will not be provided shelter, food, and are essentially in debt for their parents choosing to have and raise them."
But Aaron jumped to his mom's defense. "My mom and I have a great relationship. I hold nothing against her," he replied, acknowledging that his 13-year-old self was pretty tough to deal with.
It appears all is good between Johnson and her (now more mature) son. Every parent-child relationship is different, though most experts generally recommend against airing issues with your children on social media.
If this parenting strategy doesn't appeal to you, but you still to help your teen bridge a particularly trying phase, experts share these tips:
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Nose-picking isn't just gross—it's potentially harmful for children. Here's how to stop the bad habit once and for all.
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Nose-picking isn’t just gross—it’s potentially harmful for children. Here’s how to stop the bad habit once and for all.
As every parent knows, children sometimes do the grossest things—including picking their nose. Thankfully, "as kids get older, it becomes less socially appropriate, so if they do it, it tends to be more in private and less frequent," says Leah Alexander, M.D., a pediatrician and consultant for Mom Loves Best.
In the meantime, it's best to stop your kid's nose-picking habit in its tracks. Not only is it embarrassing for parents (especially if it happens in public!), but picking your nose too frequently can have some harmful side effects. These include nasal scratches, nose bleeds, and the spread of germs and infections—yikes!
So why do children pick their nose, and how do you get them to stop? We spoke with experts to understand this common childhood phenomenon.
Why Do Kids Pick Their Nose?
From a young age, kids will pick or poke at their noses for various reasons. Toddlers tend to do this when discovering their bodies, says Jaime Friedman, M.D., a San Diego-based pediatrician and American Academy of Pediatrics spokeswoman. "They find a hole, so they want to explore it."
Older kids may pick their noses to clear out mucus that may be bothering them. "Many kids don't regularly clear their nose by blowing it, so mucus collects and gets dry," says Nina Shapiro, M.D., a pediatric ENT at the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and author of The Ultimate Kids' Guide to Being Super Healthy. She explains that the mucus can cause itching and congestion, causing kids to pick it out. And because the irritation from the picking causes more mucus to build up, the cycle just repeats.
Kids may also pick their nose if it's a bit itchy, adds Dr. Shapiro, which tends to happen with seasonal allergies. Sometimes the nose-picking can be subconscious, and kids don't even realize they're doing it.
Consequences of Picking Your Nose
In most cases, nose-picking is harmless, and it typically bothers the parent more than the child. But this bad habit can also have some harmful consequences. "Sharp fingernails can lead to nasal scratches and even nose bleeds," says Dr. Shapiro. In fact, nosebleeds are most commonly caused by nose-picking in kids ages 3 to 10 years old.
Perhaps more concerning, nose-picking can introduce germs and bacteria into the body. "Dirty fingers in the nose are a great way for kids to not only pick up germs and get sick, but to also spread germs," says Dr. Friedman. Adds Dr. Shapiro: "Especially as we are seeing more and more respiratory illnesses in kids, including COVID-19, it's a risky endeavor to stick fingers in a nose these days."
In rare cases, there's also a possibility that nose-picking can cause an infection. "We all have bacteria that hangs on our hands and the fingers, and a child can introduce that inside the nose and potentially end up with a bacterial infection," says Dr. Alexander.
How to Stop Your Child From Picking Their Nose
Young kids might not realize that nose-picking is inappropriate and unsanitary, so parents should be sensitive when helping them nip the habit. They should never embarrass or shame their child.
To minimize picking, explains Dr. Shapiro, parents can teach their kids about nose-blowing and general hygiene practices; this education can start as early as age two or three. "Parents can teach kids about handwashing, and that putting unwashed hands in a nose can lead to the spread of infections," she says. "If they must pick their nose, they need to wash their hands before and after." Dr. Shapiro also recommends nasal saline spray or drops for noses that are particularly dry or crusty.
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Snuggle up on the couch (and squeeze some quality family time in) with these expert-curated flicks and shows.
From leaf-peeping to apple- and pumpkin-picking, autumn is filled with activities you and your kids can't help but look forward to year after year. But while the fall months are ideal for revisiting favorite family routines, it's also a perfect time to start new ones.
And with so many new shows and movies premiering these next few months, cozying up on the couch with your kids might be the best (and most comfortable) way of doing just that.
After all, watching television and movies as a family is a pastime that spans generations, points out Titania Jordan, Bark's Chief Parent Officer and author of Parenting in a Tech World.
"Whether it's our grandparents regaling us with memories of Ed Sullivan or our eyes peeled with the anticipation of a space shuttle launch, there's just something about watching TV as a family that invites meaningful conversations and creates lasting memories," Jordan explains.
She adds that it's sometimes easier for parents to talk about certain real-life situations (say, when someone at school is being bullied or a friend's grandparent has passed) when the scenario is being displayed on-screen. "[These programs] get kids to respond and open up in a way that takes the pressure—and focus—off of them."
But as Betsy Bozdech, Executive Editor, Ratings and Reviews, at Common Sense Media acknowledges, while it's wonderful to enjoy "watch together" TV and movies, with a multitude of streaming options, there's almost too much great content out there (and some not-so-great programs), which makes narrowing down your choices a daunting task.
Here are five family-friendly shows and movies premiering this fall that entertainment experts are already getting excited about. As a reminder, most of these shows and movies were unrated when this article was published, so be sure to check sites like Common Sense Media for more in-depth parental guides once the premiere date is closer.
1. Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.
In the late '80s and early '90s, families watched Neil Patrick Harris as a medical prodigy in ABC's Doogie Howser, M.D. Now, Disney is bringing the franchise back with a reboot starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Lahela "Doogie" Kameāloha, a 16-year-old Harvard Medical school grad running ship in a Hawaii-based hospital.
Bozdech is looking forward to reviewing the show, which is set in Hawaii. It was developed by Kourtney Kang (How I Met Your Mother, Fresh Off the Boat) who drew inspiration from her childhood.
Streaming September 8 on Disney+
2. The Wonder Years
Another beloved late '80s and early '90s program, The Wonder Years, is being rebooted by executive producers Lee Daniels (Empire, Precious), Fred Savage, and Saladin Patterson. This time around, the show center son a Black family in Montgomery, Alabama in the same 1960s period the original show (starring Savage) took place in. Don Cheadle stars as the narrator and Elisha "EJ" Williams is the main character.
Streaming September 22 on ABC
3. Ron's Gone Wrong
20th Century Studios and Locksmith Animation's new collaboration tells the story of Barney, a middle schooler who's struggling in his social life, and his new digital device "Best Friend out of the Box," Ron, is glitchier than your worst Mercury-in-retrograde nightmare. The trailer makes it clear that the film will crack parents and kids up while celebrating friendship.
In theaters October 22
4. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Parents who grew up fans of the original 1980s franchise will be psyched to share their love of the supernatural comedy with the next generation. Ghostbusters: Afterlife—directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air), the son of Ivan Reitman, who helmed the original flicks—follows the story of Egon's grandkids who move into a decaying farmhouse in Oklahoma and quickly learn about their Ghostbuster grandpa's legacy. Lots of familiar faces will turn up in this iteration as well as Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, and Mckenna Grace.
In theaters November 11
5. Encanto
If you and your kids are head over heels for the music of Moana, Hamilton, and In the Heights—and let's be honest, who isn't?—then mark your calendars for the release of Lin-Manuel Miranda's new collab with Disney, which will also be their 60th animated feature. Set in Colombia, Encanto follows a family in which everyone has magical powers—with the exception of Mirabel. But as it turns out, she's the only one who can save her loved ones' powers when they end up under threat. The flick is directed by Byron Howard and Jared Bush, co-directed and co-written by Charise Castro Smith and features music written by Miranda.
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Who remembers a time not so long ago when sending kids off to school was a joyous occasion? Sure, you felt jittery about whether they'd like their teachers, get along with other kids, find the lunchroom okay, or, gulp, pick up lice. But in general, sending 'em out the door with a brand-new lunch box and sneakers, fresh binder, and a clean shirt, called for a photo op, and a mini-celebration that you'd conquered the school supply list. Meanwhile, the day stretched out ahead of you with thoughts of a quiet coffee, and an uninterrupted shower.
Today felt very different when my four children, ages 3, 8, 10, and 13, started school in a state with no mask mandate amid a global pandemic. Our Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, has banned mask mandates, making it unlawful for schools to enforce the wearing of face coverings, which instead, are "strongly encouraged" where we live, but not required. This, as COVID-19 cases in Florida surge, making national headlines, and giving parents like me a reason to lose sleep at night.
Early this morning, watching my oldest get on the middle school bus should have felt exciting. My baby's last year of middle school! Instead, I battled pangs of fear as I watched the big, yellow clunker head out of our community. She's vaccinated, which I thought would give me confidence heading into the new school year. But with recent CDC data showing even fully-vaccinated individuals can get infected—and spread the virus—I felt queasy all day. My husband and I asked her to wear a mask in accordance with the latest CDC recommendations, but the truth is, she's 13. And I get it—who wants to wear a face mask when you're 13? The reality is, she'll likely do what her friends do, and remember, the teachers can't force her to mask up.
Next to leave the house were my elementary school-aged kids. At orientation, many families skipped masks, while others, like us, wore them dutifully. Since my younger kids aren't old enough to get vaccinated yet, they know our rule is to mask, and thankfully, they don't fight me. Meanwhile, some teachers were even unmasked—and you can't ask if they're vaccinated, nor does our school district require teachers to get the potentially life-saving pokes. The good news? One of my children's teachers had parents fill out a form stipulating if we want our little ones to wear masks, with the promise our wishes would be enforced in class.
Finally, my smallest school-bound kiddo headed off to preschool. Since the facility is private, teachers are required to wear masks, but not to get vaccinated. Kids 5 and under are not required to wear masks, though, which I'll admit makes sense to me as the mom of a toddler. Sometimes he won't agree to eat dinner, let alone wear a mask for three hours straight! Sadly, worrying will come with the territory during his first year at school—and no, not just that he'll suffer a potty accident!
All in all, the circumstances under which we are sending the most precious people in the world off to school are far from ideal. And how are we here again? Except unlike last year, I'm anxious that with no mask mandate even in our high-transmission area, it'll be even harder to protect my family. This is especially true since there is no remote option in our district—unlike last year. To be fair, I strongly feel kids can't go another year without in-person learning, and experts agree school should be considered essential, even as the pandemic rages on.
Bottom line: I won't be sleeping easy anytime soon, and anxiety is eating me up during my waking hours, too. My only comfort is that statistics say kids are unlikely to get very sick with COVID, but you still hear scary stories of severe cases. And it's hard not to worry since you can never escape pandemic chatter, from online headlines to talk in the school drop-off line. I don't often get a mental break, and with the reading into every cough and sniffle—it's exhausting!
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This past year has cranked up the stress and anxiety for most families. Fortunately, you can take steps to be the champion of calm in the household, teaching your children important skills that will help now and in the future. Parents.com's "Ask Your Mom" columnist, Emily Edlynn, Ph.D., shares how.
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This past year has cranked up the stress and anxiety for most families. Fortunately, you can take steps to be the champion of calm in the household, teaching your children important skills that will help now and in the future. Parents.com's "Ask Your Mom" columnist, Emily Edlynn, Ph.D., shares how.
I have three kids who are 5, 4, and 9 months old. My middle child has seemed very stressed this past school year, frequently complaining about stomachaches and headaches and having trouble sleeping. She also has angry outburst when she feels panic coming on. Not only do I want to help her through her stress, but I have concerns that it is impacting my baby since he is often around her. How can I help relieve the anxiety in my family and create a calmer household? Stressed Out
I guarantee you are not alone in needing a calmer household, especially after this last year of parenting in what felt like a dystopian movie. The kids are still reeling. We are still reeling. And it's not over. The communal stress of the last 18 months has taken a toll on every single parent and child I know, as families have faced the most significant challenges of modern family life.
With three kids under age six, you did not need a pandemic for a stressful household! I appreciate you reaching out because as unattainable as calm can feel amid the chaos, it's so important for every one's well-being. Let's break it down into two parts: how you can help your middle child, and what you can do generally to achieve a less stressed family and household.
Signs of Stress in Kids
Your middle child is indeed showing hallmark signs of being overwhelmed by stress. We often separate physical and emotional symptoms as two different processes (biological and psychological) but the reality is they are highly interconnected. Children are prone to developing headaches and stomachaches when stressed, especially when they are still building skills to understand emotions, and how to better express them.
Trouble sleeping and angry outbursts can also be signs that the demands of a child's circumstances exceed their abilities to cope. At age 4, your daughter is at the developmental starting point of emotion regulation coming from within rather than relying solely on adults. Because she is so young, she needs the adults around her to do what we call co-regulation: help from you and other calmer grown-ups to soothe herself. Find calming strategies that work for her, and do them with her when possible. She will become more independent with time and practice.
Stress and the Family
You have good insight that sister's stress likely affects the baby, but possibly in a different way than you think. Even if the baby seems the most vulnerable, he might actually be the most protected. Babies are most affected by their primary caregivers' stress and how that might get in the way of caregivers' responsiveness. You staying as calm and responsive as possible with him is a significant buffer for the impact of his sister's strong emotions. With that said, your daughter's strong emotions likely affect your own stress levels since you know, you are human.
Steps to a Calmer Household
This is where the goal of a calmer household becomes so important. You and any other adult in the home set the tone of the household, so your level of calm has to take priority. The first step is to consider what you need to more effectively manage your own stress levels as a parent of three young children. I'm guessing at least one answer is breaks from being this parent. Look to your support system for the sake of your family unit: where can you get some relief? Even if it's finding opportunities to be with one or two children instead of all three (especially after this last year of so much togetherness), it changes up the dynamic and can relieve your load.
Beyond prioritizing your stress relief, you can see this challenging time as an opportunity to implement strategies and systems for the whole family that teach how to value and experience calm. Some options:
Do yoga together: There are some fun and engaging yoga videos geared toward children for free on YouTube. Practicing body movement with breathing can be a fun way for children to reap benefits of this practice while wrapped in fun.
There are some fun and engaging yoga videos geared toward children for free on YouTube. Practicing body movement with breathing can be a fun way for children to reap benefits of this practice while wrapped in fun. Family breathing moments: Even for one to three minutes, practice different ways of deep breathing all together (kids like creative ways to think about deep breaths, like blowing out candles, or cooling down hot cocoa breaths). Maybe make it part of a routine, like before digging into lunch (or once everyone is digesting).
Even for one to three minutes, practice different ways of deep breathing all together (kids like creative ways to think about deep breaths, like blowing out candles, or cooling down hot cocoa breaths). Maybe make it part of a routine, like before digging into lunch (or once everyone is digesting). Schedule a family quiet hour (or half hour if your kids have trouble with a whole hour). You could schedule it during the baby's nap and make it a calming hour for the senses. Turn down lights, arrange some candles, light some incense, and have quiet activity choices like reading or coloring. You could even have corners of the house, or their rooms, set up with a favorite blanket and comfort items as their own little safe and cozy spaces. Remember, this is for you too, so pick your own calming activity and enjoy the quiet!
To include teaching with these approaches, explain to your children how calming our bodies can help us deal better with big feelings. When we take steps to relax our bodies, we can cope more calmly with problems that come up, including with each other, and everyone ends up feeling better. Doing these calming activities regularly can also help us sleep better and feel less worried overall.
Observation After the Calm
Once you feel like you are better able to prioritize your stress and be the champion of calm in your household, monitor how your middle child seems to be responding. Do you a notice a decrease in her headaches, stomachaches, problems sleeping, and angry outbursts? If not, you may need to branch out to a professional with expertise in young children. Often for this age group, which is highly sensitive to their caregivers, helping the parent helps the child. But if problems persist, you and she may need more expertise to more adequately support her specific needs.
The Bottom Line
I know it can be hard to believe when in the trenches of parenting young children that it gets easier, but it does. This is a season of parenting that can feel like it's lasting a lifetime, until it's over, and then it feels like a lifetime ago. In the meantime, to help you thrive instead of barely survive, aiming for a calmer, less stressed household is a valuable goal that can have a payoff for both parents and children that truly does last a lifetime.
Submit your parenting questions here, and they may be answered in future 'Ask Your Mom' columns.
Emily Edlynn, Ph.D., is the author of The Art and Science of Mom parenting blog and a mother of three from Oak Park, Illinois. She is a clinical psychologist in private practice who specializes in working with children and adolescents.
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One mom decided to invite Bigfoot to her daughter's sixth birthday party and a hilarious video shows just how scared the young guests were.
When planning her daughter, Blaynee Mae's, sixth birthday party, Brett McPherson decided to go for an unexpected twist. Instead of hiring an actor to play a typical child birthday trope (like a clown or a Disney character), the mom chose to go for something a bit more, um, intimidating?
McPherson and her family were spending time in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, and to honor the area's local lore, McPherson decided to hire an actor to dress as Bigfoot. And when the character arrived outside the window, the children attending the birthday party were terrified—and we can't blame them! Despite the balloons in her hand and tutu costume, the unexpected party guest did look pretty scary.
A viral video from the party shows the children absolutely freaking out as "Bigfoot" approaches. The children are screaming and crying. But the adults at the party? They're finding the humor in the situation. You can hear them laughing in the background. "We never ever expected this reaction," the mom wrote in the video. "I don't know if the adults laughed louder or the kids screamed louder."
"That time we hired Bigfoot to come surprise our birthday girl and it epically went wrong!!!" the mom wrote in an Instagram post featuring the video.
Mrs. Bigfoot, who is also known as Cinnamon, certainly gave the children at the party a major fright—but the good news is, the party wasn't ruined. Thanks to some comforting from the parents in attendance (who were quick to prove Cinnamon's good nature by giving her hugs), the children eventually warmed up to the character.
Of course, we can totally see why the kids were so scared of the character. Bigfoot is definitely not what you think of when you think of cozy kid companions. But then again, clowns aren't exactly comforting figures either, and we seem to have accepted them as children's birthday party mainstays. "We just thought, I mean she came with balloons and a bow and a tutu, so I thought, 'Oh this will be cute and fun,'" McPherson told 2 News Oklahoma. "Well my kids did not have that reaction."
But despite being surprised by the kids' reaction, McPherson added that, at the end of the day, Cinnamon was a welcome addition to the party—though likely not one who will be invited back.
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By Patricia Mukhim
“The HNLC was responsible for the elimination of several business persons; of bank robberies and kidnappings. Those were meant to send a chill down the spine of others so that they comply to extortion demands.”
August 15, 2021 is a landmark in the history of Meghalaya. It was a day when the keepers of law decided to retreat to a corner and allow the youth who were fired by rage, frustration, belligerence all the transferred variety that shoots up rapidly like uncontrolled blood pressure to vent their rage. One can imagine the situation. It has all the makings of an urban legend. The more one listens to narratives dished out by excited raconteurs who have come out of their homes after a lockdown hiatus and have just felt the winds of freedom blow across, the more adrenalin courses through our blood.
Indeed the fateful incident of Friday the 13th will be locked in our memory banks for a long time. Millions of people across the globe suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia, or a fear of the unluckiest day on the calendar, Friday the 13th. But no one really knows the origin of that fear. So let’s leave it at that! It was the events that played out on Independence Day, (Sunday) which portend dark days ahead for Meghalaya. Sunday was when the slain HNLC leader, Cheristerfield Thangkhiew was to be buried. It is ironic that a person who questioned India’s claim over the Khasi-Jaintia land and who had for decades sent out warnings that people should not observe the two national holidays of January 26 (Republic Day) and August 15 (Independence Day) should be buried on that very day. Talk about karma!
The Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) has, for decades beginning 1990’s to about 2004 considered itself the sole custodian of resentment against the Indian state which it considers an alien coloniser. This is a privilege they believe frees them from accountability and gives them justification to extort money from the business community of Meghalaya. For nearly three decades Cheristerfield Thangkhiew was the master strategist of the Organisation and its founder General Secretary. Those who have come over ground confide that it was Cheristerfield took all the important decisions on behalf of the Organisation and we know what those decisions were. The HNLC was responsible for the elimination of several business persons; of bank robberies and kidnappings. Those were meant to send a chill down the spine of others so that they comply to extortion demands.
When Cheristerfield surrendered in 2018, not a single criminal case was filed against him and his other colleagues. This must be one of the most fatal decisions of Government of India’s surrender policy then. And that two surrendered militants would successfully contest elections is also a reflection of the exaggerated sanctity of elections in India. Actually election subordinates democracy to the tyranny of representation. There is nothing sanctimonious or democratic about hardened militants joining politics – many of them without even going through the process of re-socialisation and re-adoption into civil society (because militants violate the laws and live by their own laws). It is no accident that insurgent organisations are outlawed. It is intuitive that the HNLC Chairman, Julius Dorphang even after his surrender and his election as an MLA, believed he could live by his own rules and rape a minor girl, for which he is facing imprisonment today!
While the police action of killing Cheristerfield is condemnable in the harshest terms, we cannot choose to forget that in his own time he caused the death of many innocent people. But of course the public mood is not easily tamed, especially for a highly charged, emotionally volatile crowd. What became a Black day for Meghalaya is that the Police on account of their own actions had to retreat into their barracks on August 15. A senior police officer said the bike rally in Mawlai and the funeral procession that violated all Covid norms and for which anyone else could have been booked under the Disaster Management Act, was allowed free rein, ostensibly for the youth to vent their anger. This seems to be the new model of policing in Meghalaya.
But what took the cake that day was when some masked men who were part of the solidarity group trespassed into the Police Outpost at Mawlai, Mawkynroh, vandalised the gate, made off with a Scorpio vehicle and with INSAS assault rifles and then drove away boldly without police putting up any resistance. After their joyride, with one masked person in the front seat brandishing the weapon in an act of mockery against the state – the hotheads set the Scorpio ablaze. That was actually an act of terror and the perpetrators should have been booked under relevant sections of law including the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
Unfortunately while those cops who fled the scene have been booked, the perpetrators are still at large. The tragedy here is that these were not ordinary constables. They are a special force – the SF -10, who as we are well aware are tested to the maximum for their endurance. They are trained in various mind games to help them deal with militants. They are a strike force – commandos – but that they should abandon their weapons and run for cover shows a complete loss of morale, perhaps brought on by lethargy inherent in the system. These series of actions in fact represent the nadir of Meghalaya’s governance. After this we can only sink lower.
What is puzzling is the action of the State Government following this incident. A naïve Chief Minister, Conrad Sangma “appealed” to those who stole the rifles to quietly hand them over to the Dorbar Shnong and their names would not be revealed, nor would any action be taken against them. Perhaps the CM forgets he has to follow the Indian Constitution at all times because he has sworn by it, and that Constitution clearly says that entering a police outpost with the intention to vandalise and steal weapons and a vehicle violates several legal provisions that cannot be easily condoned. One is unsure if the entire cabinet is privy to this act of political naivety. It, in fact, resembles schoolyard bravado.
It is a fine thing for Conrad Sangma to reach the summit of his aspirations – to be Chief Minister at a young age. But governance isn’t easy and leadership is much more than running the day to day business of government. Leadership is to rise to the occasion during a crisis. That’s when leadership is tested and the CM has failed this litmus test miserably. The Taliban-like image of August 15 has spread like the pandemic across the country and the globe and everyone wonders what the government was doing to allow this, not on any day but on Independence Day! Sometimes one wonders who the CM’s closest advisers are. They don’t seem to comprehend that he is not running a tribal council but a government in a state of the country which is also the world’s largest democracy. Mr CM, that Scorpio episode is no innocent prank; it’s part of a carefully thought-out strategy and you have been outwitted.
What is a grave tragedy is the quiet acquiescence of the regional party MLAs who seem to have become victims of their own success even when their narrative has run its course.
As citizens we are made to feel that Meghalaya is now a private limited company, governed by the rules of pure business and where profits are all that matter. This private company with only 40 shareholders (not sure if Adelbert Nongrum is a shareholder) is running the show and running it with the ineptitude of a bad CEO. Officers working for the company get their salaries and perks anyway. The company has to develop roads and create infrastructure to promote its business. It also has to allow some of the crumbs to find their way to healthcare and education for the workers and their families who are needed to sustain the company.
But let these 40 people now in the government turned private company remember that defeat is the distance between a bed time story and a wake-up call. The former starts with, “Once upon a time;” and lulls the voter to sleep. The second is an energiser that announces a new dawn! Don’t live with the illusion that you will sit on those comfortable chairs in 2023.
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By Joshua Rynjah
In recent days there have been many shocking events in the state which have created fear and chaos both in the lives and in minds of the people of the state. However, there is another shocking incident which has gone unnoticed or even if it was noticed it has gone ignored and it has not been given enough attention. This incident received widespread attention in Garo Hills, where it took place, but it seems that the people of other districts of the state or even of the state capital are not aware of it or have not given it too much thought. This incident is the sexual abuse of a minor girl by a Catholic priest, Fr James Paranathu. The incident took place on July 24, 2021 and the Priest fled after committing the crime but was arrested on August 11, 2021.
This incident is important in many aspects. First and foremost, it is a heinous crime against an innocent child, and the perpetrator must be punished as per law; it is the betrayal and abuse of trust placed by the child and family on the priest. The other aspect of this case is that it is connected to the large-scale child abuse committed by priests that has plagued the Catholic Church all over the world. In most cases the perpetrators are simply transferred to another country; they escape arrest, trials, and punishment but they continue abusing children and others. In most cases the crime is also hidden and never made public even when the victims and the children have testified to being abused. This has been observed in Kerala and other states in the country. It is to be seen if this case in our state reaches its logical conclusion as per law or if it will be swept under the carpet and hidden from the public.
The other point I would like to raise is that there has not been any public condemnationof this crime or even public appraisal of this case by the relevant government authorities, i.e the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR). The only government coverage I could find online was the press report of this crime given by the East Garo Hills SP and the demand for an Action Taken Report given the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to the SP of the concerned district. (Once again this is only an online mention of this request by the NCPCR so I cannot verify it from the State Government or the SCPCR).
A disturbing fact that I came across is that the accused Priest, Fr James Paranathu, is a member of the Juvenile Justice Board of Meghalaya, and he represents South Garo Hills and by default he is also a member of the State Childline Advisory Board of Meghalaya. I wonder if his membership in such government appointed committees has any connection to the lack of state government appraisal on the criminal case and lack of coverage of this disturbing crime. Furthermore, there are other members of the same church who are also part of the various government committees that he is part of and once again I do not know if this has anything to do with the lack of government or public coverage of this crime. (These facts are available online from the state government websites).
Many organisations, religious and secular, and many religious members of different faiths from Meghalaya had publicly condemned the death of Father Stan Swamy while in custody. But there seems to be a lack of public condemnation in Meghalaya of this crime of child abuse and a lack of public support for the child and the family. I think the public deserve to know the stance of the Catholic Church with regards to this case of child abuse by a member of its faith. The Congregation of Christian Brothers in India (CCBI) made its stance clear in the sexual abuse accusations levied against its members in 2018 in Meghalaya. At that time the CCIB had instituted an internal inquiry into the accusations, but the findings are yet to be made public. I have read many enlightening articles, published in The Shillong Times, written by religious members of the church in which they highlighted important issues ranging from education to culture to politics and militancy. I hope that they will also enlighten the public on this heinous crime that has taken place.
The final point that I would like to make is that this case is also related to the current affairs of militancy that is taking place in Meghalaya. At present we have one surrendered HNLC leader who has been booked under POCSO and is awaiting sentencing. I hope that the judicial system in its wisdom will serve justice to the minor who suffered at his hands and also spare future generations of minors from the same fate. It is to be noted that this HNLC surrendered leader has not faced any other legal charges of murder, extortion, kidnapping, terrorism etc which were related to his activities in the banned terrorist organization. This absence of legal persecution of crimes is part of the ‘Militants Surrender Package’. This surrendered leader of HNLC is being tried in court solely under POCSO i.e as a child rapist and the SCPCR filed two FIRs under POCSO with regards to his crime as a child rapist. (This information is also available in the public domain.)
It is not yet known publicly if Fr James Paranathu will be tried under POCSO. I have yet to come across any public government notification from the SCPCR or State Social Welfare Department on the same. This is my humble observation. But I also want to strongly put forth one point that in both cases of the paedophile priest and the paedophile militant, the innocence of children has been abused, the suffering of children is before us, the future life of children is at stake. If we fail them now then we betray them; we betray justice; we betray ourselves; our beliefs, our conscience and our future generation will be watching and observing how leaders and elders of our society decide on the fate of the innocent.
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SHILLONG, Aug 19: With the objective to promote financial education, the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Kiang Nangbah Government College, Jowai, organised a webinar virtually in collaboration with National Centre for Financial Education (NCFE), a body promoted by RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA.
Close to 500 students, and 45 teaching staff and two non-teaching staff participated in the webinar on August 17, which covered some crucial topics under one of NCFE’s key initiatives called Financial Awareness and Consumer Training (FACT) — ‘Identity Theft Protection’, ‘Responsible Use of Credit Card’, ‘Education Loan Borrowing Principles’, ‘How to Avoid Impulse Buying’, ‘Let’s Go Cashless’ and ‘How to Set Financial Goals’. FACT is a programme which aims to provide financial education to young graduates and postgraduates, on topics relevant to them, which will positively impact their financial well-being.
The welcome speech during the webinar was given by Dr. EM Blah, Principal of Kiang Nangbah College, Jowai. Dr. Sudipto Ghosh, NCFE, was the resource person of the webinar.
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A nearly two-year-long deadlock has ended over the appointment of a set of new judges to the Supreme Court. Word going around is that India could expect to have three new women judges at the apex court and the first woman Chief Justice there a while later from among this list. These are welcome developments and the last word on the appointments is expected from the Centre soon.
When Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde retired recently — from where the present CJI NV Ramana took off — he had visualized a scene of the nation having a woman as Chief Justice in the near future. One of three new women judges stands a chance to be the CJI, though for a short term in view of the age constraint. While there is wide media blitz about this, a question that could arise is, why had no woman ever become CJI in the past 70 years of Independent India; and this, even as women have been accorded equal rights and a few women had become judges at various levels. Of significance is Pakistan where the judiciary is perceivably more independent which is set to have its first woman judge next month and a woman CJI could be a reality there too in later years.
The judicial system in India famously has its flaws. The vacancies in the judiciary are many and crores of undecided cases have clogged the justice dispensation system. A national judicial services commission to draw in the best brains to the judicial system remains a far cry even though the second UPA government had taken a decision, which was sadly not followed up by the two terms of the Modi government. The nearly two years’ delay in processing the names for the Supreme Court vacancies was caused by a stand taken by Justice R Nariman as a member of the Collegium since 2019 that a consensus is not possible as long as two senior-most judges – one each from Karnataka and Tripura – were not named first in the list. The issue apparently had political overtones. It is good that the issue was overcome. It is hoped that there will be no further delay in making the final decisions, so that the judiciary’s work could be carried forward in a smoother manner. It is also important that, considering the heavy backlog of cases at various levels, the rest of the judge vacancies too are filled without further delay.
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Editor,
The editorial “Crisis of governance” and the special article “Fragility and stabilization of terror” (ST August 2021) are timely and appropriate. Both the editorial as well as the special article by Maitshaphrang Khongwir have dealt with the current crisis in parts of Shillong Urban Agglomeration in totality and have factually brought out the facts and both are a rational assessment of the situation and failure of governance of the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance led by the National Peoples’ Party under the leadership of Conrad K Sangma. It is a shame for the MDA government not to be able to control law and order only in 11 percent of the Shillong Urban Agglomeration area where only 11% of the population of the city resides. As a result it has caused unnecessary inconvenience to the rest of 89% of the population of the city. The government lost control because it was busy pursuing other matters. As the editorial aptly put it “Crisis of governance is visible in the deterioration of moral standards in the political and administrative system. It happens when there is all-pervasive nepotism, corruption, misappropriation of state funds, absence of transparency and accountability in public administration, lack of respect for the rule of law and the complete lack of ethical behavior in public life. When the political system has lost public confidence and when the institutions that constitute the core of democratic governance structure are imperiled, we have crisis of governance.”
Last time I had mentioned that due to insensible lockdowns, business opportunities lost were to the tune of Rs 11,000 crore. This time for five days from August 13, the loss of business opportunities in the two commercial hubs of the city, namely Iewduh and Khyndai Lad works out to Rs 45 crore due to the illogical curfew while data for other areas of Shillong Urban Agglomeration are not available. Who will pay for this loss? Certainly not the Government of Meghalaya but the taxpayers!
The Government has failed to learn from history about insurgency in the last two decades. According to South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), of the 610 terror attacks in Meghalaya in the last 2 decades (2000 to 2021) the fatalities were 30% civilians, 12 % security forces, 55% terrorist/insurgents/extremists and 3% were non-specified fatalities. The number of killings is 79.35 % in Garo Hills, 16% in Khasi Hills, 5% in Jaintia Hills and 2% in Ri Bhoi. Out of 610 fatalities 79% were in Garo Hills, 14% in Khasi Hills, 5% in Jaintia Hills and only 1% in Ri Bhoi. From 2018 to 2021(13th August) out of 9 fatalities 33% were civilians, 22% security forces and 45% were terrorists/insurgents/extremists. Of these fatalities 78% were in Garo Hills and 22% were in Khasi Hills. It is time the MDA government learns what history tells us and takes appropriate action to secure its citizens
Yours etc.,
V K Lyngdoh,
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Palm oil plantations at what cost?
Editor,
I write in response to the approval and implementation of the National Mission on Edible Oils. This mission plans to introduce, promote and assist in the cultivation and production of Palm Oil in the states of the North East and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Palm oil is an extremely valuable product. It is used in almost everything that we use in today’s modern world. However, the cost of its production, both monetary and environmentally, does not justify the means to this end.
It is a hugely destructive plant. The best example of destruction and chaos of this plantation is Indonesia which produces almost 80% of the world’s palm oil. There the forests and bio-diversity has been completely destroyed to make way for these plantations. The home of the Orang-utans, the closest relatives of us humans have been destroyed and they are now living in crowded reservations and animal shelters. Palm oil cultivations are also hugely water dependent.The natives of the islands are also suffering with constant droughts, forest fires, man and animal conflict, decreased income levels and lower standards of living.
Do we want this to be the fate of our people? While huge corporations like Patanjali make profits by exploiting our native land, we the people will be left with nothing. While they drain the resources of native lands, we are left to suffer the consequences of drought and water shortage. It must be mentioned that people of Meghalaya still lack potable water in their households and our rivers are being polluted at a terrible rate including the picturesque Umngot river which would also be “dammed”.
Not to be unduly suspicious but why has the Union Government (led by the “supreme leader”) awarded the Patanjali Group (led by Baba Ramdev) such a valuable contract? Why is this mission being implemented only in the North East and the Andaman and Nicobar islands where a majority of the population is indigenous and aboriginal? And why is this being announced when the region is under violent clashes and still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic? Is anyone going to oppose this? Are we going to offer up the region to these destructive forces?
The Chief Minister of Meghalaya seems to be quite ecstatic with this proposal. Only time will tell if the State and the region will choose greed, destruction and death or sustainable development and the protection of indigenous wildlife and human life.
Yours etc.,
W. Sohtun,
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United Nations, Aug 19: Pakistan-based terror groups like LeT and JeM continue to operate with both impunity and encouragement, India told the UN Security Council on Thursday, calling on it not to take a “selective view” on the scourge of terrorism and to have the courage to call out the “double speak” of those who extend state hospitality to individuals who have innocents’ blood on their hands.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, chairing a high-level United Nations Security Council briefing on ‘Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts’ held under India’s current presidency of the UNSC, said the heightened activities of the proscribed Haqqani Network justifies this growing anxiety. “In our own immediate neighbourhood, ISIL-Khorasan (ISIL-K) has become more energetic and is constantly seeking to expand its footprint. Events unfolding in Afghanistan have naturally enhanced global concerns about their implications for both regional and international security,” he said.
“Whether it is in Afghanistan or against India, groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) continue to operate with both impunity and encouragement,” Jaishankar said. It is therefore vital that the Security Council “does not take a selective, tactical or complacent view of the problems we face,” the External Affairs Minister said. “We must never countenance sanctuaries for terrorists or overlook their raising of resources,” he said.
Without naming Pakistan, where proscribed UN terrorists and terror groups enjoy safe havens and state support, Jaishankar said: “when we see state hospitality being extended to those with innocents’ blood on their hands, we should never lack the courage to call out their double-speak.”
He also drew parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the scourge of terrorism, telling the powerful 15-nation UN body that “let us always remember that what is true of Covid is even more true of terrorism: none of us are safe until all of us are safe.”
Pakistan-based Hafiz Saeed, a UN designated terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, has been convicted for 36 years imprisonment in five terror financing cases. He is serving a jail sentence at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore for his conviction in terror financing cases. Saeed-led Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD) is the front organisation for the LeT which is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans. In 2019, the United Nations designated Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist”.
India’s most wanted terrorist Azhar has been charge-sheeted in several cases from the 2001 Parliament attack to the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing. (PTI)
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Two "unruly passengers" were arrested Tuesday at Nashville International Airport after police said they refused to wear masks onboard their flights.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Two “unruly” passengers were arrested Tuesday at Nashville International Airport after police said they refused to wear masks onboard their flights.
A warrant states airport police responded around 5:30 a.m. to gate C10, where a man, identified as 33-year-old Artur Grigoryan, would not wear his mask while on an American Airlines flight. The flight was delayed, as he was removed from the plane.
Artur Grigoryan (Courtesy: Metro Nashville Police Department)
Officers said they also received a call the night prior about Grigoryan, who had refused to wear a face covering onboard a Spirit Airlines flight and called the crew “vulgar names.” He was denied any future flights with Spirit Airlines, as a result.
Police said Grigoryan was also caught stealing sandwiches and a soda from the Green Beans Coffee Shop at the airport, while waiting to board the American Airlines flight. The owner of the shop chose not to prosecute Grigoryan for the theft.
Grigoryan was arrested and booked into the Metro jail on a charge of disorderly conduct.
In a separate incident later that same morning, a warrant states airport police responded to a report from Southwest Airlines about a passenger onboard one of their flights to Washington D.C. refusing to wear a mask. The pilot had turned the plane around, as a result.
James Swafford (Courtesy: Metro Nashville Police Department)
The passenger, identified by police as 24-year-old James Swafford, was removed from the plane. He became aggressive toward officers and used profanity in front of other passengers, causing a disturbance, according to investigators.
Swafford was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct.
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NORTH WOODMERE, NY — A North Woodmere woman, believe to be Long Island’s oldest resident, celebrated her 110th birthday on Thursday. Henrietta Dobin was joined at The Bristal Assisted Living facility by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Dobin doesn’t let her age stop her; she worked at the Nassau County Museum of Art until the […]
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NORTH WOODMERE, NY — A North Woodmere woman, believe to be Long Island’s oldest resident, celebrated her 110th birthday on Thursday.
Henrietta Dobin was joined at The Bristal Assisted Living facility by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Dobin doesn’t let her age stop her; she worked at the Nassau County Museum of Art until the start of the COVID pandemic. Now she creates art, plays bridge and Bingo and takes in “Dr. Phil,” “Wheel of Fortune,” “Antiques Roadshow” and “Jeopardy!” on TV.
She doesn’t have a secret for the long life she’s lived.
Dobin met her late husband at a party in 1930. They were married for 60 years.
The pair lived through the Great Depression.
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FINANCIAL DISTRICT, Manhattan — Doctors drained fluid from a man’s brain during emergency surgery after the man was injured in a Manhattan hatchet attack, court documents revealed. The man was left unable to walk as of Wednesday because of the severity of the injuries from the Sunday attack. Prosecutors charged alleged attacker Aaron Garcia with […]
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FINANCIAL DISTRICT, Manhattan — Doctors drained fluid from a man’s brain during emergency surgery after the man was injured in a Manhattan hatchet attack, court documents revealed.
The man was left unable to walk as of Wednesday because of the severity of the injuries from the Sunday attack.
Prosecutors charged alleged attacker Aaron Garcia with attempted murder, assault and menacing during his Thursday arraignment.
Garcia allegedly first threatened a man inside a bank on Broadway.
“I should f—ing kill you,” he allegedly said to a man around 4:05 a.m.
A little more than an hour later, Garcia allegedly repeatedly struck a different man in the bank repeatedly with the hatchet, prosecutors said.
Video shows a man at an ATM when an attacker comes from behind and swings at him. The bloody victim was knocked to the floor at one point.
Garcia allegedly smashed the screens of the ATMs.
The victim did not know Garcia, according to the criminal complaint. He told officials on Wednesday that he gets dizzy after slight exertion because of his injuries.
Investigators also connected Garcia to an Aug. 3 incident on South Street. He allegedly kicked someone in the face at the time.
Garcia was scheduled to return to court on Aug. 23.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry Elder, a talk radio host and a leading Republican candidate in California’s recall election, denies his ex-fiancee’s accusation that he once displayed a gun to her during a heated 2015 argument. Alexandra Datig worked on Elder’s show when they were engaged and lived together. In documents provided to The Associated Press, Datig described an emotionally abusive 18-month relationship with Elder. She said she never reported the gun incident to police and moved out after they agreed on a financial settlement. In a statement Thursday, Elder said he “never brandished a gun at anyone.” He didn’t address her other claims. Elder is among 46 candidates in the election that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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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. His office says he died in a hospital while being treated for COVID-19. Chiba rose to stardom in Japan in the 1960s, portraying samurai, fighters and police detectives, doing many stunt scenes himself. His overseas career took off after “The Street Fighter” proved popular in the United States. American director Quentin Tarantino listed the work as among his “grindhouse” favorites and cast him as master swordsmith Hattori Hanzo in “Kill Bill.” Chiba’s career was also boosted by the boom in kung fu films, set off by Chinese legend Bruce Lee, although with a dirtier fighting style.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the former school resource officer accused of hiding during a Florida mass school shooting will have to convince a jury that he wasn’t criminally negligent. The Sun Sentinel reports that Broward Circuit Judge Martin Fein declined to dismiss the child negligence charges against former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson. Peterson 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 and faces a possible death sentence if convicted.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Wildlife Troopers have completed their investigation into whether a U.S. Senate candidate and former state official illegally obtained a fishing license for a sportfishing event two years ago. Troopers turned the investigation over to a special prosecutorial branch of the Department of Law. Kelly Tshibaka is a Republican candidate running for Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s seat who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump. She had only lived in the state eight months when she received the license, not 12 as required by law. Her campaign adviser says the license was only good for one day and the intent was clear to get a nonresident license.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge in Nevada has issued a ruling with potentially broad implications for U.S. immigration cases. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno 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. Her 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. Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou in Nevada didn’t immediately respond to messages about whether the government will appeal.
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - A North Carolina man is in custody after police say he drove to Washington, D.C. and put parts of nation’s capital on lockdown by telling police he had a bomb.
The Gray Television Washington News Bureau was there when the truck that police say belongs to Floyd Ray Roseberry was towed away, hours after the standoff began.
It all started just after 9 a.m. Thursday when they say Roseberry parked his car on the sidewalk just outside of the Library of Congress’ Jefferson Building.
“The driver of the truck told the responding officer on the scene that he had a bomb,” explained Chief Tom Manger of the U.S. Capitol Police.
Law enforcement then evacuated the Jefferson Building and Cannon House Office Building. People in a second library building, the Madison Building, were told to shelter in place.
Roseberry posted a video on Facebook where he was seen holding what looks like a large canister. In the video, Roseberry also talked about wanting President Biden and other Democrats to leave office. He claimed that he wasn’t working alone and that there were four other explosive devices placed around Washington, D.C. Police say they found no evidence to support that claim.
After about a five-hour standoff, Roseberry gave himself up to police.
“We tried to negotiate with Mr. Roseberry,” explained Manger. “We first started doing that with a whiteboard writing messages back and forth...He got out of the vehicle and surrendered, and the tactical units that were close by took him into custody.”
Most lawmakers were not on Capitol Hill as it is August recess, so most of the people affected by the lockdown and evacuations where Capitol Hill or Library of Congress staff.
This is the second major security event to happen near the Capitol since the Jan. 6 riots. In April, a man drove into a Capitol barricade, then stabbed two officers before being fatally shot. Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans lost his life in that attack.
Capitol Police say investigators are working closely with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia to determine charges.
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Illinois State Police charged two men with armed robbery and unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle after a Wednesday robbery of a DeKalb gas station, according to an ISP news release Thursday.
Police responded to reports of an armed robbery at the eastbound Interstate 88 DeKalb Oasis 7-Eleven Mobil gas station at about 2:30 a.m., police said. The two suspects, later identified as Kevin D. Bland Jr. and Benny N. Smith had already fled the scene in a 2003 White Dodge Caravan when police arrived, the report said.
Shortly after, an ISP trooper spotted the suspects' vehicle traveling east near North Aurora on Interstate 88 and attempted to stop the vehicle, police said. The suspects continued driving on Interstate 88, pursued by police, until the vehicle stopped in a ditch near milemarker 124.25 in Naperville, the report said. Bland and Smith got out of vehicle and fled on foot, but were eventually taken into custody in Warrenville, according to reports.
Bland, 22 of Chicago, and Smith, 27 of DeKalb, were arrested after the incident and taken to the DeKalb County Jail where they were held until their bond court appearance Thursday, where bond was set at $150,000/10% to apply for Bland and $75,000/10% to apply for Smith. No further information was available late Thursday.
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"No parent should ever bury their child," Elizabeth French said through tears. "But my daughter wanted to make a difference. She believed in her job."
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Ella French was 8 months old, wearing a "serious and solemn face," when Elizabeth French, who would take her in first as a foster child and later adopt her, met her.
"I knelt down because she was so small," the mother said in an interview at her home after her daughter, a Chicago police officer, was shot to death during a traffic stop in West Englewood.
"And I tell people I must have passed a test because, all of a sudden, this huge, gigantic smile appeared on her face. After that, I was in constant prayer that she would be able to stay with me."
Becoming Ella French's mother, she said, will always be one of the proudest moments of her life.
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A top Chinese official says 'all-round efforts" are needed to ensure Tibetans speak Chinese and share the 'cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation."
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China pushes adoption of language, cultural symbols in Tibet
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Wang Yang, third of left, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is escorted by officials as he visits to a museum period of the ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Tibet liberation, in Lhasa in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. The top Chinese official said Thursday that 'all-round efforts' are needed to ensure Tibetans speak standard spoken and written Chinese and share the 'cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation.' (Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via AP) Associated Press
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Wang Yang, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), center, waves as he arrives in Lhasa to attend the ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Tibet liberation, in Lhasa in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. The top Chinese official said Thursday, Aug. 19, that 'all-round efforts' are needed to ensure Tibetans speak standard spoken and written Chinese and share the 'cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation.' (Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via AP) Associated Press
BEIJING -- A top Chinese official said Thursday that 'all-round efforts' are needed to ensure Tibetans speak standard spoken and written Chinese and share the 'cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation.'
Wang Yang made the remarks before a handpicked audience in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the home of Tibet's traditional Buddhist leaders, at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Chinese invasion of the vast Himalayan region.
China's ruling Communist Party says it 'peacefully liberated" Tibetan peasants from an oppressive theocracy and restored Chinese rule over a region under threat from outside powers.
Critics say such moves toward cultural assimilation spell the demise of Tibet's traditional Buddhist culture and that Tibet was effectively independent for most of its history.
China has highlighted its efforts to boost the economy in the region and condemned the exiled Dalai Lama as a separatist.
Wang, who is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee - the apex of party power - and who oversees policy toward ethnic minorities, said 'separatist and sabotage activities committed by the Dalai (Lama) group and hostile external forces have been crushed.'
Since 1951, Tibet has 'embarked on a path from darkness to brightness, from backwardness to progress, from poverty to prosperity, from autocracy to democracy, and from closeness to openness,' Wang said.
Wang said Tibetans had been included in representative bodies. The region hosted close to 160 million tourists last year, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, China limited entrance to Tibet by foreigners.
'Only by following the CPC leadership and pursuing the path of socialism, can Tibet achieve development and prosperity,' Wang was quoted by Xinhua as saying.
The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 following an abortive uprising against Chinese rule and his supporters have documented human rights abuses in Tibet related to an ongoing security crackdown.
'Judging by developments in Tibet over the past 70 years, the Tibetan people have no cause for jubilation, as Chinese policies have turned Tibet itself into an open-air prison with restrictions on all aspects of Tibetan life," the U.S.-based International Campaign for Tibet said in a statement.
'After 70 years of oppression, the only thing the Tibetan people need 'peaceful liberation' from today is China's brutality," the group said.
As China tightens its hold over Tibet, questions are arising over the future of its diaspora community. China has refused any contact with the self-declared Tibetan government in exile and the Dalai Lama has long separated himself from politics.
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- 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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Obtaining two vaccine doses remains the most effective way to ensure protection against the COVID-19 Delta variant of concern dominant in the UK today, according to a study from the University of Oxford.
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Conducted in partnership with the Office of National Statistics (ONS) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), the study found that with Delta, Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines still offer good protection against new infections, but effectiveness is reduced compared with Alpha.
Two doses of either vaccine still provided at least the same level of protection as having had COVID-19 before through natural infection; people who had been vaccinated after already being infected with COVID-19 had even more protection than vaccinated individuals who had not had COVID-19 before.
However, Delta infections after two vaccine doses had similar peak levels of virus to those in unvaccinated people; with the Alpha variant, peak virus levels in those infected post-vaccination were much lower.
Professor Sarah Walker, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and Chief Investigator and Academic Lead 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.’
Other key findings from the study:
A single dose of the Moderna vaccine has similar or greater effectiveness against the Delta variant as single doses of the other vaccines.
Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech have greater initial effectiveness against new COVID-19 infections, but this declines faster compared with two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca.
Results suggest that after four to five months effectiveness of these two vaccines would be similar – however, researchers say long-term effects need to be studied.
The time between doses does not affect effectiveness in preventing new infections, but younger people have even more protection from vaccination than older people.
Dr Koen Pouwels, senior researcher in Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Population Health, said: ‘The fact that we did not see any effect of the interval between first and second doses, and the greater effectiveness of having had two doses, rather than one dose, supports the decision to reduce this to eight weeks now Delta is the main variant of concern in the UK.
‘However, 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.’
This study from the COVID-19 Infection Survey is the largest to evaluate, and directly compare, the real-world effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines against all infections, including those without symptoms, after the Delta variant has dominated. It is the first to show how protection against COVID-19 infections changes over time following second vaccinations in a large group of adults from the general population.
About the study
Released today as a pre-print, the study compares protection from infections from COVID-19 vaccines before and after 17 May 2021, when Delta became the main variant in the UK. It also looks in detail at how effectiveness changes over time as well as other factors like previous infection. Researchers analysed 2,580,021 test results from nose and throat swabs taken from 384,543 participants aged 18 years or older between 1 December 2020 and 16 May 2021, and 811,624 test results from 358,983 participants between 17 May 2021 and 1 August 2021.
The COVID-19 Infection Survey will continue monitoring the pandemic in the UK on a weekly basis to look for early warning signs of rising infection rates in different regions, sub-regions, and demographic groups, as well as continuing to compare the effectiveness of different vaccines and monitor the impact of immunity on protection against COVID-19.
Professor Sarah Walker said: ‘Without large community surveys such as ours, it is impossible to estimate the impact of vaccination on infections without symptoms – these have the potential to keep the epidemic going, particularly if people who have been vaccinated mistakenly think they cannot catch COVID-19. We are very grateful to all our participants for giving up their time to help us.’
Ruth Studley, Deputy Director for Infection Survey Analysis at ONS, said: ‘I’m delighted to be working in collaboration with such an excellent team at Oxford, who inform our work and put the data from our survey to such invaluable use. There’s still a lot for us to learn about COVID-19, but this kind of research is key to informing how we continue to navigate our way through the pandemic. Participants on the Covid Infection Survey have helped us to learn a huge amount about the virus and I would like to thank them all for their continued participation – we are very grateful.’
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A consortium of seven UK-based organisations, including Oxford University, have signed a memorandum of understanding to combine ambitions to develop world-leading prototype solid-state battery technology, targeting automotive applications.
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Solid-state batteries offer significant potential advantages over conventional lithium-ion batteries and could be transformational in meeting the UK’s net zero commitments through the electrification of transport. The successful outcome of the collaboration would be to harness and industrialise UK academic capability to produce cells using highly scalable manufacturing techniques that leapfrog the cost-effectiveness and performance achieved elsewhere.
The consortium comprises the following world-leading organisations in battery research, development and manufacturing:
Faraday Institution – the UK’s independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research, which has led the consortium’s formation and will lead its development.
Oxford University – that leads the Faraday Institution’s solid-state battery project (SOLBAT) and provides the necessary scientific understanding to the consortium.
Britishvolt – the UK-based Gigaplant developer, with a site in NE England.
E+R (Emerson & Renwick) – a world leading designer of manufacturing equipment.
Johnson Matthey – a global leader in sustainable technologies and the UK’s leading battery materials business.
UK Battery Industrialisation Centre – the pioneering battery manufacturing development facility to enable UK battery manufacturing scale-up and facilitate upskilling in the battery sector.
WMG, University of Warwick – leaders in battery R&D and initial scale-up capability, as well as academic and apprenticeship skills development.
The preliminary design for a prototyping facility has been developed. Sources of funding are currently being sought.
Minister for Investment Lord Grimstone said: ‘Collaboration between industry, government and our world-leading academic institutions is putting the UK at the forefront of global efforts to develop innovative automotive technologies, such as solid-state batteries.
‘It is the work of our internationally-renowned research and development base, like those brought together by this consortium, that will give us the tools needed to forge a strong and sustainable future for the automotive sector and increase our contribution to combatting climate change.’
Professor Peter Bruce, Principal Investigator of SOLBAT, comments: ‘It’s fantastic to see the culmination of combined UK academic strength in solid-state battery research come to fruition. I’m proud that the work of the Faraday Institution SOLBAT project, led by Oxford University, will make a significant contribution to the UK’s green energy revolution.’
‘I am delighted to be able to announce the formation of this unique consortium for the advancement of solid-state battery prototyping that includes leading UK-based organisations at many stages in the value chain,” said Professor Pam Thomas, CEO of Faraday Institution. “Our leadership in this venture signals a move towards a role that the Faraday Institution will increasingly play as a trusted convener of significant partnerships between UK industry and academia as a route to commercialise breakthrough science emerging from our research programmes to maximise UK economic value.’
Solid-state batteries (SSBs) offer significant potential advantages over existing lithium-ion battery technologies, including the ability to hold more charge for a given volume (leading to increased electric vehicle (EV) range) and reduced costs of safety-management. Early deployment of SSBs is likely to be in consumer electronics, niche automotive applications and unmanned aerospace, before being used in broader EV markets. The Faraday Institution forecasts that, in 2030, SSBs are likely to take a 7% share of the global consumer electronics battery market and a 4% share of the EV battery market . Global SSB revenues from sales to EV manufacturers are expected to reach $8 billion by 2030 and then grow rapidly to 2040 and 2050 when the market is expected to become extensive.
However, there are fundamental scientific challenges that need to be addressed before high power SSBs with commercially relevant performance can be realised. The Faraday Institution’s SOLBAT project has made considerable progress in addressing these challenges over the last three years.
The construction of the one-of-a-kind facility being developed by the collaboration will enable SSB technology to emerge from UK university laboratories. It will allow larger cells to be produced using scalable manufacturing techniques that will be improved iteratively through deep investigation of the causes of problems that emerge during manufacture and testing of prototype batteries. This will leverage the collective knowledge of Faraday Institution SSB researchers and the industrial partners.
Christian Gunther, CEO, Battery Materials at Johnson Matthey comments, ‘The realisation of a prototype solid-state battery cell will be a great achievement for the UK battery industry, and this consortium will be a critical enabler for delivering this milestone. Delivering enhanced range and safety over traditional lithium-ion battery technologies will be a key driver for battery electric vehicle adoption, supporting the transition to a net zero future.’
Dr Allan Paterson, Chief Technology Officer, Britishvolt comments, ‘Solid-state is the holy grail of battery solutions. Solid-state batteries have the potential to increase energy density significantly over battery technology available today and could dramatically, and positively, change the world of electric vehicles. Britishvolt will be at the forefront of commercialising this step change over the coming years. This collaboration, which includes major global industrial leaders such as Johnson Matthey and academic leadership from University of Oxford, underscores another key objective in our technology roadmap – home grown intellectual property.’
Ian Whiting, Commercial Director at UKBIC added: ‘Our newly opened national battery manufacturing scale up facility is already contracted to scale new cells and battery packs by companies basing their manufacturing centres in the UK. It’s a really exciting time for this fast-growing industry. We’re scaling technologies that will be the core products of the UK’s emergent Gigafactories. But we need to think even further ahead and solid-state battery technology is going to be a big part of that. This collaboration is what is needed to give the UK the edge it needs in creating a centre of excellence for solid-state batteries and we’re excited to be part of it. The bringing together of academic and industrial know how in this space is key to unlocking Britain’s electrified potential.’
David Greenwood, Professor of Advanced Propulsion Systems, and CEO of WMG High Value Manufacturing Catapult comments: ‘Early forms of solid-state battery are already around us, but we have yet to see solutions which are both mass-manufacturable and meet the performance and cost targets for future transport applications. There remains huge opportunity for innovation in this space, and this initiative will provide the route for the UK to fast-track candidate technologies to industrialisation.’
Andrew C Jack, Sales Director, E&R Group comments, ‘E&R Group are delighted to be contributing our world renowned engineering expertise working in partnership Faraday and the wider consortium on this exciting development for next generation battery production for the UK.’
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Peacock has announced that the updated "Punky Brewster," starring Soleil Moon Frye, won't continue beyond this year's 10 episodes.
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The show that taught 1980s kids not to hide in an abandoned old refrigerator — or, at the very least, learn CPR in case one of your friends does sneak into one of those scary old latch iceboxes — will not continue with its revival. The updated “Punky Brewster,” which Peacock brought back as part of the streamer’s first-year lineup, will not be renewed for more episodes.
Peacock debuted all 10 episodes of the new “Punky Brewster,” featuring original star Soleil Moon Frye (who also served as an executive producer), on Feb. 25. The show reunited Frye as Punky with her old friend Cherie (Cherie Johnson), and updated her story to focus on Punky raising her three kids after separating from her husband (Freddie Prinze Jr.). A photographer like her foster dad Henry in the original series, Punky brings a foster child, Izzy (Quinn Copeland), into her home.
“Punky Brewster” is the third series to last just a season on Peacock, following sci-fi drama “Brave New World,” which also wasn’t renewed after a single season, and the late night talk show “Wilmore,” which ended its run after a single cycle of 11 episodes.
“‘Punky Brewster’ was a beloved series that tackled meaningful storylines with so much heart,” said Lisa Katz, President, Scripted, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. “It was a bright light for so many viewers and we are forever grateful to Universal Studio Group, the producers, the cast and crew and especially to Soleil Moon Frye for reigniting the Punky Power within everyone.”
Peacock’s other initial comedies have all been renewed: “Saved by the Bell,” “Rutherford Falls” and “Girls5eva.” (Peacock also has the original comedy “A.P. Bio,” returning for a fourth season; it originally aired on NBC.)
In her Variety review of “Punky Brewster,” Amber Dowling had mixed feelings about the show’s narrow storytelling but in the end wrote, “there’s plenty of original Punky charm to go around. Cynics may cringe at an adult woman boasting about her ‘Punky power’ years later, but Frye’s pure commitment to joy (not to mention physical comedy) is as infectious as ever.”
Noah Cottrell (Diego), Oliver De Los Santos (Daniel) and Lauren Lindsey Donzis (Hannah) also starred in the series, which came from both the UCP and Universal Television divisions of Universal Studio Group. Steve and Jim Armogida (“School of Rock,” “Grounded For Life”) wrote and executive produced the series, while original series creator David Duclon (“Punky Brewster,” “Family Matters,” “Silver Spoons”) and Emmy-winning producer Jimmy Fox (“The Arrangement,” “United Shades of America”) of Main Event Media were also EPs with Frye.
The original “Punky Brewster” ran for four seasons between 1984 and 1988 — two seasons on NBC, and two seasons in first-run syndication. It also spawned the animated series that was also titled “Punky Brewster” and featured the same cast — but then also a mischievous flying creature named Glomer who joined Punky on adventures. The 1980s were wild.
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“Annette,” the film written and scored by brothers Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks that won Leos Carax the best director at the Cannes Film festival, is unorthodox, so it may be fitting that it got its Los Angeles premiere at the Hollywood Forever Ceremony Aug. 18.
The titular character of the film, a baby girl born to singer Ann (Marion Cotillard) and comedian Henry (Adam Driver), is embodied by a lifelike, uncanny puppet.
“We think we found a really modern way of doing movie musicals. That’s a talent that we feel is something special,” Russell Mael told Variety at the L.A. bow. “To be able to create, in this day and age, a movie musical done in a way that’s non-traditional.”
“[Carax] has such a strong visual sense, and such an amazing imagination, that a lot of times there were things way beyond what we would have even considered possible in a film,” Ron Mael added. The brothers were glad to entrust their screenplay to someone else: “We would have to give up maybe eight years of making music in order to be a director on a film that would be of this kind of quality. So we’ll leave it to other people like Leos Carax.”
Russell and Ron Mael of Sparks attend the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Annette’ at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on August 18, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Michael Buckner for PMC
“Leos has such a meticulous and exacting vision that you are really, ultimately, just a splotch of paint,” said Simon Helberg, who plays the conductor in the film. Carax gave Helberg several weighty tasks, including difficult gestures (“I had to tell him you can’t play the piano without hands, which I think shocked him”), an intense fight scene (“There’s Adam Driver, the actor who I’ve admired for ever and ever … and there’s Adam Driver, the tall former Marine”) and even trying to sing underwater. “Thinking ‘I don’t know if this is possible’ is something I felt throughout most of the film,” Helberg said. “And I think that really does create an environment for people to be at their most creative. It is literally a sink or swim moment.”
“It was very easy,” Cotillard said about acting opposite the artificial child. “The first time I saw her, her emotion was there. Even when she was not moving her face. And all the different ages [she grows through] — I thought it was so powerful, what it tells about the movie, and the relationship this kid has with her parents who are not in a good place in their lives. They’re going to harm the person they love the most, and they’re going to manipulate her. So having this special kid was really a genius idea.”
Devyn McDowell attends the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Annette’ at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on August 18, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Michael Buckner for PMC
Devyn McDowell, the 7-year-old actor who plays the human version of Annette, was well-prepared for her first-ever red carpet, drawing fistfuls of glitter from her pocket and throwing them in the air as she posed for the cameras. “I’ve never learned so much about being in the zone,” she said of what Driver taught her when they shot the film’s final ballad, “Sympathy for the Abyss.” She also told Variety about the future of her career: “I’m probably most excited [for] when I get Oscars and I get my own star [on the] Hollywood Walk of Fame.”
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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
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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.
“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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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Six University of Kentucky football players have been charged with first-degree burglary, with one also accused of first degree
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The release stated that on March 6 three individuals entered a private party uninvited at a residence and were asked to leave. They became upset and threatened to return, the release added, and came back a short time later with additional individuals.
They forced their way inside and one suspect was observed pointing a firearm at a victim, the release stated.
Kentucky's athletic department said in a statement that: “The institution and athletics department take these matters very seriously. We are closely evaluating this issue before determining next steps.”
All six players were part of the 2020 recruiting class with McClain, Tisdale and Williams seeing action in many of Kentucky's games last fall.
McClain rushed 16 times for 62 yards in 11 contests. Tisdale had 20 tackles and nine assists in 10 games, while Williams had three stops in nine contests.
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PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Dry and windy weather dogged firefighters’ efforts to contain destructive fires that are devouring the bone-dry forests of
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Fire managers were rushing resources to the fire growing on steep slopes in a forested region southwest of Lake Tahoe. More than 650 firefighters and 13 helicopters were assigned to the blaze, and air tankers from throughout the state were flying fire suppression missions there as conditions allowed, authorities said.
“The hope is with the additional resources and personnel on scene, we can really start to build that box around this fire and start the containment," said Keith Wade of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Evacuees from the Caldor Fire found refuge in places like the Green Valley Community Church in Placerville, west of the fire, where they set up tents and trailers in a parking lot. Adrian Childress, 7, painted pictures to pass the time and a special tent was set up for people who wished to pray.
In Omo Ranch, close to where the fire started, a bulldozer ripped out trees to build a fire line and stop the blaze from spreading south.
While nearly the entire town evacuated, Thurman Conroy and his wife, Michele, stayed behind to protect their house and their business, Conroy General Store. But they were prepared to flee if the fire gets too close.
“The fire wants us bad because it’s made every attempt it can to get out of that canyon and up this way,” Thurman said. “So they keep beating it down. And it’s just ... it's resilient, it’s stubborn, it won’t go away. That’s all we can do.”
California’s fires were among 104 large, active blazes Thursday in 12 states, mostly in the West, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. Those fires combined have scorched nearly 4,000 square miles (10,360 square kilometers).
Climate change has made the West warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and wildfires more destructive, according to scientists.
Drought, heat, low humidity and winds have left California vegetation ready to burn this summer. More than two-dozen new fires erupted Wednesday alone. All but two were quickly contained.
One small but destructive blaze burned through a mobile home park and reduced an estimated 50 homes to ashes in Lake County, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of San Francisco. Elsewhere in the northwestern region of the state, two big fires continued to burn in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
Meanwhile, Pacific Gas & Electric said Thursday that it had restored power to nearly 50,000 Northern California customers whose power was shut off Tuesday to prevent new fires from being ignited if electrical lines were damaged during high winds. The utility said it found at least 10 instances of weather-related damage, including four that potentially could have caused fires if the utility hadn't de-energized power lines.
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Caption Firefighter Paul Schlange, left, confers while fighting the Caldor Fire on Hazel Valley Road east of Riverton, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Firefighters confer while fighting the Caldor Fire on Hazel Valley Road east of Riverton, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Firefighters refill water while fighting the Caldor Fire on Hazel Valley Road east of Riverton, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Central Calaveras firefighter Ryan Carpenter extinguishes flames from the Caldor Fire on Hazel Valley Road east of Riverton, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Central Calaveras firefighter Ryan Carpenter extinguishes flames from the Caldor Fire on Hazel Valley Road east of Riverton, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption People sit under a tent at the the Green Valley Community Church evacuation shelter on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Placerville, Calif., as the Caldor Fire continues to burn. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Vehicles are parked at the Green Valley Community Church evacuation shelter on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Placerville, Calif., as the Caldor Fire continues to burns. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Adrian Childress, 7, opens a tent flap at the the Green Valley Community Church evacuation shelter on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Placerville, Calif., after his family fled the Caldor Fire. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Julie Price points while talking to another evacuee at the Green Valley Community Church evacuation shelter on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Placerville, Calif., after fleeing the Caldor Fire. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Adrian Childress, 7, paints at the the Green Valley Community Church evacuation shelter on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Placerville, Calif., after his family fled the Caldor Fire. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Twins Myles Muir, 7, and Matthew Muir, 7, from left, blow bubbles at the the Green Valley Community Church evacuation shelter on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Placerville, Calif., after their family fled the Caldor Fire. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Cats Mia and Kesh, from left, rest at the Green Valley Community Church evacuation shelter on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Placerville, Calif., as the Caldor Fire continues burning. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Grayson Howard plays the guitar while helping friends who evacuated to the the Green Valley Community Church evacuation shelter on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Placerville, Calif., as the Caldor Fire continues to burn. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) Credit: Ethan Swope Credit: Ethan Swope
Caption Fire retardant coats a fire truck after the Cache Fire on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, in Clearlake, Calif. The blaze destroyed dozens of homes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Credit: Noah Berger Credit: Noah Berger
Caption Firefighter Bryan Eisenbeisz extinguishes hot spots at Cache Creek Mobile Home Estates where the Cache Fire leveled dozens of homes on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, in Clearlake, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Credit: Noah Berger Credit: Noah Berger
Caption Sheriff's Deputy McCabe searches Cache Creek Mobile Home Estates where the Cache Fire leveled dozens of residences on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, in Clearlake, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Credit: Noah Berger Credit: Noah Berger
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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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Caption This Sept. 30, 2008, photo shows Japanese actor Sonny Chiba in Osaka, western Japan. 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. (Kyodo News via AP) Credit: Uncredited Credit: Uncredited
Caption In this June 1998, photo, Japanese actor Sonny Chiba waves from a horseback in Kanazawa, west of Tokyo. 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. (Kyodo News via AP) Credit: Uncredited Credit: Uncredited
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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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AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Supreme Court has declined to block restraining orders against Gov. Greg Abbott’s mask mandate ban.
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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:
— U.S. schools open amid record coronavirus delta wave
— Maine Sen. Angus King tests positive for virus
— Africa WHO official knocks nations that 'hoard' vaccines
— 4 of Florida's 5 largest school districts to require masks
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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — More than 3,000 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards have been confiscated at cargo freight facilities at the Anchorage airport as they were being shipped from China.
Officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized the cards in the last week as they arrived in small packages.
An agency spokesperson said there were between 135 to 150 packages found in Anchorage, all sent by the same person in China. Each package contained a small number of the fake cards, between 20 to 90 cards.
A high volume of counterfeit vaccination cards have been detected nationwide.
Another 3,600 fake cards were found recently at cargo facilities in Memphis. Federal law enforcement officers are investigating.
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HONOLULU -- Organizers of the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii said Thursday this year’s contest will be postponed to February because of increasing COVID-19 cases in the state.
On Thursday, the state’s seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases hit 713, up 56% from two weeks ago.
A statement on the group’s website said COVID-19 in Hawaii is worse now than it has been at any point during the pandemic. The race had been scheduled for Oct. 9.
The Ironman competition is considered one of the most important Ironman triathlon events. Participants swim 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers), ride bikes for 112 miles (180.3 kilometers) and then run a marathon, which goes for 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers).
Organizers rescheduled the contest last year too, only to later cancel it completely because of ongoing coronavirus concerns and the risks of international travel. It was the first time in the triathlon’s four decade history that the event wasn’t held.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says all teachers, educators, support staff and volunteers in K-12 schools must be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The announcement was made Thursday amid a surge in coronavirus cases in the state and as hospitals near capacity.
Teachers are the latest to be added to the growing statewide vaccine mandate, which also includes health care workers and state employees. They must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18 or six weeks after a COVID-19 vaccine receives full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, whichever is later.
“There are those who will disagree with the actions I’m taking today,” Brown, a Democrat, said during Thursday’s press conference. “But school is starting across the state and COVID-19 poses a threat to our kids. Our kids need to be protected and they need to be in school. And that’s why I’m willing to take the heat for this decision.”
In addition, Brown announced weekly testing for health care workers will no longer be an option for those who want to avoid vaccination. The only opt-out of the requirement is either a medical or religious exemption.
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ATLANTA — Georgia’s Republican governor issued an executive order Thursday banning cities from requiring businesses to enforce local pandemic restrictions.
But what impact, if any, the measure would have on new mask requirements in Atlanta, Savannah and other cities was not clear.
At a news conference, Gov. Brian Kemp said his order will prevent local governments from forcing businesses to be the city’s mask and vaccine police. He said he was concerned about measures in Atlanta and Savannah. Both cities have mask requirements, but it was not immediately clear that either would be affected by the governor’s order.
The order comes amid an explosion in COVID cases in the state.
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TOPEKA, Kan. — Officials in some Kansas communities are battling a rise in COVID-19 cases by mandating masks for kids, issuing emergency orders and requiring vaccines.
The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Kansas has risen over the past two weeks from 605 new cases per day on Aug. 3 to 797 new cases per day on Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
In the Lawrence area, Douglas County leaders approved a health order Wednesday that will require children ages 2 to 12 to wear masks while in indoor public spaces. The decision followed four hours of public comment that included jeering and interruptions from a largely maskless crowd, the Lawrence Journal-World reports.
In the Wichita area, hospital status was changed to critical Wednesday, as about 150 COVID-19 patients fill beds there, The Wichita Eagle reports.
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DENVER -- Colorado U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper announced Thursday that he has tested positive for a “breakthrough” case of COVID-19.
The first-term Democrat issued a statement saying he tested positive after experiencing mild symptoms and is self-isolating at the direction of the attending physician for the U.S. Congress, Dr. Brian P. Monahan.
Infections and illnesses can happen even after being vaccinated. Experts say vaccination could help make any illnesses less severe. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that newer versions of the coronavirus could be a factor in “breakthrough” cases.
Hickenlooper, 69, is a former brewpub entrepreneur, Denver mayor and two-term governor who defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner in the 2020 election.
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CLAYTON, Mo. — A judge on Thursday issued an order barring St. Louis County from enforcing a mask mandate while a lawsuit against it is litigated.
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page issued the mandate last month, prompting the County Council to vote to rescind it. Page maintained that the mask requirement nonetheless remained in effect.
Circuit Judge Ellen “Nellie” Ribaudo then issued a temporary restraining order, finding that the state was likely to prevail in its argument that current law gives the council the authority to terminate the mask requirement. That order was in effect only until a decision was made on a preliminary injunction.
Ribaudo was critical of some who had claimed victory after the temporary injunction was issued.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee hospitals warned Thursday that the intensive care units are full in nearly every hospital in the state’s major metropolitan areas.
The Tennessee Hospital Association said in a statement that the hospitals with full ICUs are the same ones that normally accept transfers of sicker patients from smaller hospitals.
Hospital officials are pleading with Tennesseans to get vaccinated and wear masks.
Meanwhile, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona warned Tennessee in a letter sent Wednesday that Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order allowing parents to opt their children out of mask mandates might violate federal law.
Separately, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt School of Medicine report released Thursday found that hospitalizations have increased more than tenfold in a little more than a month, the fastest rate of increase seen during the pandemic.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s top prosecutor on Thursday sued the state’s capital city over a school mask mandate that officials allege violates state law.
The city of Columbia’s school mask order conflicts with a state budget requirement that went into effect July 1 and bans school districts from using appropriated funds to require face coverings, State Attorney General Alan Wilson said in a complaint filed with the South Carolina Supreme Court.
The lawsuit comes as average daily cases of COVID-19 have risen by more than 60% over the last two weeks, with hundreds of students across the state already required to quarantine for exposure to the virus.
Earlier this month, Columbia’s city council ratified an ordinance mandating the use of masks in the city’s elementary and middle schools for at least the beginning of the school year.
The Republican attorney general said days later that the emergency ordinance should be “rescinded or amended," but city leaders said the mandate doesn’t violate state law because city, not state, funds are being used.
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey will require all teachers, school administrators and other staff who have not been vaccinated to produce twice-weekly negative COVID-19 tests once schools reopen and resume in-person classes on Sept. 6, the president said.
Speaking following a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said universities would also demand regular PCR tests from unvaccinated students and teaching staff.
People who have not been vaccinated and want to travel on buses and planes or to go to concerts, theaters and cinemas will also face mandatory COVID-19 testing, Erdogan added.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the tests would be conducted free-of-charge at state-owned hospitals.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says unvaccinated students and those who don’t disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status will be required to get tested for the coronavirus twice a week.
In a message to the community, the university says 87% of students have attested they are fully vaccinated. Those who become fully vaccinated and report their status to the university will no longer have to face twice-weekly testing.
The move comes as the state witnesses its worst levels of transmission of the virus in months.
North Carolina on Thursday registered more than 7,000 daily COVID-19 cases, the highest in seven months. More than 3,000 people are hospitalized in the state with COVID-19, the most since Jan. 28.
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PHOENIX — A northwestern Arizona school district has banned employees from discussing vaccination status or mask- wearing with students.
The Mohave Daily News reports the governing board for the Colorado River Union High School District made the decision this week. The edict carries no repercussions for administrators, staff and teachers who violate it. That will be up to the district’s superintendent, who supported the motion.
The school board’s gag rule is rare. Vaccines and masks remain contentious topics across Arizona as students return to school.
On Thursday, the state reported 3,546 confirmed coronavirus cases and four more deaths.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — U.S. Sen. Angus King of Maine tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday, a day after he began feeling ill, his office announced.
King, an independent, says he’s definitely “not feeling great” but doing better than if he hadn’t been vaccinated.
“I am taking this diagnosis very seriously, quarantining myself at home and telling the few people I’ve been in contact with to get tested in order to limit any further spread,” King said in a statement.
The 77-year-old King says throughout the pandemic, he’s worked to protect himself, family and staff through masks, social distancing, a “work-from-home mindset. ” He’s used Zoom meetings and, until recently, was driving instead of flying to Washington, D.C.
He urged people to follow guidance from health professionals and “get vaccinated if you haven’t been.”
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SEATTLE — Authorities say there are more people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Washington state than at any time during the pandemic.
Cassie Sauer, president of the Washington State Hospital Association. says there were 1,240 people with coronavirus in state hospitals. The previous highest number was about 1,100 in December.
Sauer says until the recent uptick in cases and hospitalizations due to the delta variant, the COVID-19 hospitalization rate in the state had been holding steady at 300 to 350 people. The numbers began increasing in early July and have been doubling about every two weeks.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Four of the five largest school districts in Florida are defying an executive order by Gov. Ron DeSantis barring them from imposing strict mask mandates in schools.
Board members took action Wednesday after seeing the numbers in Hillsborough and Palm Beach counties. School began a week ago and already thousands of children have been sent home because teachers and classmates are infected with the delta variant of the coronavirus.
Veterans Affairs Dr. J. Stacey Klutts says it’s necessary to wear masks indoors and avoid large group gatherings. He says unprotected students sitting for hours in classrooms could rapidly spread infection.
Statewide, Florida reported 23,335 new infections for Tuesday, according to the CDC. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services dashboard reported 17,096 hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients.
DeSantis, a Republican, also is in an escalating power struggle with the Democratic White House. After President Joe Biden ordered possible legal action Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department raised the possibility of using its civil rights arm against Florida and other states that have blocked public health measures meant to protect students.
Caption This 2021 photo provided by Children’s Health shows Francisco Rosales, 9, and his mother, Yessica Gonzalez, in the intensive care unit at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. The day before he was supposed to start fourth grade, Francisco was admitted to the hospital due to severe COVID-19, struggling to breathe, with dangerously low oxygen levels and an uncertain outcome. (Adriana Lantzy/Children’s Health via AP) Credit: Adriana Lantzy Credit: Adriana Lantzy
Caption Broward County Schools Interim Superintendent Dr. Vickie L. Cartwright greets students Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2021 in at North Lauderdale Elementary School. More than 261,000 Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) students headed back to school to begin the 2021/22 school year. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) Credit: Joe Cavaretta Credit: Joe Cavaretta
Caption A COVID-19 testing tent is setup in front of Les Grands Magasins department store, in Paris, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant) Credit: Adrienne Surprenant Credit: Adrienne Surprenant
Caption A sign on the door in reference to a health pass needed to enter, at a store, in Paris, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant) Credit: Adrienne Surprenant Credit: Adrienne Surprenant
Caption FILE - In this June 18, 2021, file photo, U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, speaks at Acadia National Park in Winter Harbor, Maine. King tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, a day after he began feeling under the weather, his office announced. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) Credit: Robert F. Bukaty Credit: Robert F. Bukaty
Caption Visitors wear face coverings, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, in Portland, Maine. COVID-19 continues to spread in Maine at increasing rates due to the highly transmissible delta variant. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Credit: Robert F. Bukaty Credit: Robert F. Bukaty
Caption People wait during the vaccination process as Gov. John Bel Edwards tours the University of Louisiana campus vaccination site as part of the university's Shot for $100 campaign, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Lafayette, La. (Scot Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP) Credit: Scott Clause Credit: Scott Clause
Caption FILE - In this June 28, 2021, file photo Oregon Gov. Kate Brown visits the Bly Fire Camp, on the southern edge of the Bootleg Fire, in Klamath County, Ore. Oregon's governor said Friday, Aug. 13, 2021 she will send up to 1,500 National Guard troops to hospitals around the state to support healthcare workers as the COVID-19 surges amid the rapid spread of the Delta variant. The first group of 500 Guard members will be deployed next Friday to serve as material and equipment runners in the most stricken hospitals and to help with COVID-19 testing. (Arden Barnes/The Herald And News via AP, File) Credit: Arden Barnes Credit: Arden Barnes
Caption Fifth grader Karson Spencer waits in his car to enter Wayman Tisdale Fine Arts Academy on the first day of school Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP) Credit: Mike Simons Credit: Mike Simons
Caption A man poses for a souvenir photo with his face positioned on a superhero cutout with a hashtag that reads in Spanish: "I've been vaccinated", during a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 for people between the ages of 18 to 29, in Mexico City, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Credit: Eduardo Verdugo Credit: Eduardo Verdugo
Caption Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks to reporters following a news conference, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Reynolds lashed out at President Joe Biden Thursday after he ordered his education secretary to explore possible legal action against states that have blocked school mask mandates and other public health measures meant to protect students against COVID-19. Reynolds, a Republican, has signed a bill into law that prohibits school officials from requiring masks, raising concerns as delta variant virus cases climb across the state and schools resume classes soon. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Credit: Charlie Neibergall Credit: Charlie Neibergall
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The area around Hite's Cove was the site of a hard rock gold mining operation in the mid-19th century.
The bodies were transported to the coroner’s office in Mariposa for autopsies and toxicology exams, Mitchell said.
The State Water Resources Control Board said Thursday it was testing waterways in the area for any toxic algae blooms.
The couple were known to be avid hikers. Their friend, Mariposa real estate agent Sidney Radanovich, said Gerrish was a San Francisco-based software designer who, with his wife, “fell in love with the Mariposa area” and bought several homes there, a residence for themselves and rental investments.
"They were such a loving couple. They loved each other quite a bit," Radanovich told the San Francisco Chronicle. "He loved showing the baby all sorts of things and explaining them to her."
The sheriff’s office was investigating the deaths along with the California Department of Justice.
Sheriff Jeremy Briese said chaplains and staff were counseling family members.
“My heart breaks for their family,” he said.
The remote area where the bodies were found had no cellphone service, Mitchell said. The hiking trail ran through an area of forest known particularly in springtime to have spectacular wildflower displays.
Caption Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese gives an update on the investigation into the deaths of three family members and their dog in the Hite Cove area of the Sierra National Forest in Mariposa County, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. Investigators are considering whether toxic algae blooms or other hazards may have contributed to the deaths of a Northern California couple, their baby and the family dog on a remote hiking trail, authorities said. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP) Credit: Craig Kohlruss Credit: Craig Kohlruss
Caption A remote canyon area northeast of the town of Mariposa, seen on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, is reported to be the area where a family and their dog were found dead on Tuesday, the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office said. Investigators are considering whether toxic algae blooms or other hazards may have contributed to the deaths of the Northern California couple, their baby and the family dog on a remote hiking trail, authorities said. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP) Credit: Craig Kohlruss Credit: Craig Kohlruss
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MASON, Ohio (AP) — No Novak, no Roger, no Rafa doesn’t mean winning his second Western & Southern Open championship will be easy for top-seeded Daniil
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Osaka repeatedly punched her left thigh with her left wrist and talked loudly to herself, trying to get herself going, but she was impassive as she shook hands at the net with the giddy Teichmann.
Top-ranked Ash Barty rolled through the first 10 games of her match with defending champion Victoria Azarenka in a 6-0, 6-2 win to reach the women’s quarterfinals.
“I think sometimes the scoreline in tennis can fool you,” Barty said. “Though it seemed like a quite convincing scoreline in the match, each and every game had crucial poits and I was able to win most of those.”
Former tournament women's champion Karolina Pliskova advanced with a 6-4, 7-6 (5) win over Jessica Pegula.. Olympic champion and third-seeded Alexander Zverev also moved on, beating Guido Pella 6-2, 6-3, while Roland Garros-finalist and second-seeded Stefano Tsitsipas was pushed by Lorenzo Sonego to three sets before prevailing, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
Medvedev bounced back up after a nasty fall early in the second set and went on to close out the win.
“You can’t see this on video, but my racket got between my legs and hit the back of my calf,” Medvedev said. “I don’t know how that happens. I actually have a bruise on my calf. A bruise is a bruise. It’s nothing serious.”
The second-ranked Russian, the winner last week in Toronto, won when Dimitrov double-faulted on match point. Medvedev has been on the court for only 2 hours, 28 minutes while winning his first two matches in straight sets after a first-round bye.
Medvedev is the first player not named Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Andy Murray to crack the top two since July 18, 2005. Injuries and other issues kept Djokovic, Federer and Nadal from competing this year.
While his matches have been short, Medvedev feels winning will go a long way.
“The more matches I can win in these two tournaments that are similar to New York, the more confidence you have,” he said. “Confidence is the big key. It’s good coming there knowing that you’re capable of playing good. Now, I know it’s possible. A Grand Slam is a Grand Slam. They’re tough. Opponents want to beat you. You hope you show your best tennis.”
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Caption Grigor Dimitrov, of Bulgaria, reacts against Daniil Medvedev, of Russia, during the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/Aaron Doster) Credit: Aaron Doster Credit: Aaron Doster
Caption Naomi Osaka, of Japan, serves to Jil Teichmann, of Switzerland, during the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Credit: Darron Cummings Credit: Darron Cummings
Caption Grigor Dimitrov, of Bulgaria, returns to Daniil Medvedev, of Russia, during the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/Aaron Doster) Credit: Aaron Doster Credit: Aaron Doster
Caption Jil Teichmann, of Switzerland, returns a shot to Naomi Osaka, of Japan, during the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Credit: Darron Cummings Credit: Darron Cummings
Caption Naomi Osaka, of Japan, serves to Jil Teichmann, of Switzerland, during the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Credit: Darron Cummings Credit: Darron Cummings
Caption Naomi Osaka, of Japan, returns a shot to Jil Teichmann, of Switzerland, during the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Credit: Darron Cummings Credit: Darron Cummings
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Washington Football Team Names Jason Wright As 1st Black Team President
[caption id="attachment_898854" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Source: George Gojkovich / Getty[/caption] The Washington Football Team has made a historic hire in naming its newest team president, the first Black man to hold the position for an NFL team. Jason Wright, a former player in the league, joins a team that is still attempting to correct course of its decades-old racist team name after finally discarding the nickname this year. Wright’s came as something of a surprise Monday morning (August 17) during a segment of Good Morning America in an exclusive chat with former NFL star and host, Michael Strahan. Wright, 38, will become the league’s youngest team president along with the distinction of being the first Black president within the league. Text “RICKEY” to 71007 to join the Rickey Smiley Morning Show mobile club for exclusive news. (Terms and conditions). The incoming Washington Football Team president comes with intimate knowledge of the game having played seven seasons as a running back with stints in San Francisco, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Arizona. He was a standout player for Northwestern University where he earned a psychology degree and went on to attend the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he obtained an MBA. Ahead of the Washington role, Wright worked for the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, becoming a partner with that outfit. In his own words, Wright told Strahan of what he hopes to bring to the Washington front office as the season looms just ahead. “Part of what excited me about taking this role — we had a phrase when we played that said, ‘you don’t talk about it, you be about it,’ — and I think what I’ve seen from Dan and Tonya Snyder in the hiring of coach Rivera and some of the decisions they’ve made, to have an independent investigator come in around the sexual harassment allegations, there are actual shifts in action to suggest it’s a new day, and that’s why I’m excited to take this on,” Wright shared. With the news going wide, reactions on Twitter are still developing, of course with the requisite racist trolls doing their usual bit. We’ve got reactions from all sides below. https://twitter.com/WashingtonNFL/status/1295329649573146624 https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1295324859317329921 — Photo: Getty
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The active workplace outbreak at Costco in Eugene grows by four cases.
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There were six active outbreaks reported for the week ending Sunday, Aug. 15 in Lane County and 74 active outbreaks across the state, the Oregon Health Authority’s weekly COVID-19 data and outbreak report shows.
Six active outbreaks in Lane County senior living facilities
The report shows another weekly increase of active COVID-19 outbreaks in senior and congregate living settings with 74 active cases. That's 22 more cases than the week of Aug. 2 and 41 more than the week of July 26.
There have been 666 cases and 24 deaths in the 74 active outbreaks. That's an increase over the week of Aug. 2's 393 cases and 13 deaths in 52 active outbreaks.
To date, 15,882 cases and 1,401 deaths have been associated with congregate care settings.
There are six active outbreaks in those facilities in Lane County:
Churchill Estates Assisted Living in Eugene with three cases since Aug. 5.
Avamere Riverpark of Eugene with five cases since Aug. 3.
Avamere Rehabilitation of Eugene with six cases since July 26.
Spruce Point Memory Care in Florence with 37 cases since July 15.
Gateway Living in Springfield with 41 cases and three deaths, since July 8. That is an increase of seven cases and one death in the past week.
The Springs at Greer Gardens in Eugene with three cases, since July 22.
Resolved (not active) Lane County senior living facility outbreaks
These are the Lane County resolved (not active) outbreaks in care facilities, senior living communities and congregate living settings with three or more confirmed COVID-19 cases or one or more COVID-19 related deaths, according to the Oregon Health Authority. The data, listed in alphabetical order, does not provide when a facility is removed from the active outbreak list:
Avamere Rehabilitation of Eugene:
Two outbreaks: Five cases first reported Dec. 7, 2020 and two cases and one death first reported March 5, 2021.
Two outbreaks: Five cases first reported Dec. 7, 2020 and two cases and one death first reported March 5, 2021. Avamere Rehabilitation of Junction City: 15 cases and one death, first reported June 14, 2021.
Avamere Riverpark of Eugene: 141 cases and nine deaths, first reported Oct. 2, 2020.
Bayberry Commons Memory Care: Four cases, first reported Nov. 23, 2020
Cascade Manor: Five cases, one death, first reported Nov. 10, 2020.
Churchill Retirement Assisted Living: Seven cases, first reported Dec. 20, 2020.
Creswell Health and Rehabilitation Center: 53 cases, four deaths, first reported Oct. 31, 2020.
Creswell Health and Rehabilitation Center: One case, one death, first reported March 15, 2021.
ElderHealth & Living:
Three outbreaks: Five cases, first reported Sept. 24, 2020; 27 cases and five deaths, first reported Nov. 25, 2020; and seven cases, first reported April 6, 2021.
Three outbreaks: Five cases, first reported Sept. 24, 2020; 27 cases and five deaths, first reported Nov. 25, 2020; and seven cases, first reported April 6, 2021. Eugene Hotel Retirement Community: 13 cases and one death, first reported Nov. 13, 2020.
Evergreen Independent Living: One case and one death, first reported Feb. 18, 2021.
Evergreen Memory Care: 40 cases, 13 deaths, first reported Aug. 25, 2020.
Farmington Square - Eugene: 23 cases, seven deaths, first reported Sept. 22, 2020.
Fox Hollow Residential Care Community:
Two outbreaks: One case, one death, first reported on Dec. 1, 2020; and five cases, first reported Jan. 25, 2021.
Two outbreaks: One case, one death, first reported on Dec. 1, 2020; and five cases, first reported Jan. 25, 2021. Gateway Gardens: 13 cases, two deaths, first reported March 24, 2021.
Gateway Living:
Two outbreaks: 13 cases, first reported Sept. 23, 2020; and 13 cases, first reported Nov. 26, 2020.
Two outbreaks: 13 cases, first reported Sept. 23, 2020; and 13 cases, first reported Nov. 26, 2020. Gateway Living: Four cases, first reported April 12, 2021.
Good Samaritan Society - Eugene Village: Four cases, first reported June 18, 2021.
Green Valley Rehabilitation Health Center: Two outbreaks: 12 cases, first reported Nov. 3, 2020; and 12 cases, first reported Dec. 31, 2020.
Hillside Heights Rehabilitation Center:
Two outbreaks: 55 cases and six deaths, first reported Oct. 22, 2020; and one death, first reported Jan. 8, 2021.
Two outbreaks: 55 cases and six deaths, first reported Oct. 22, 2020; and one death, first reported Jan. 8, 2021. Holly Residential Care Center: Four cases, first reported Dec. 25, 2020.
Lone Oak Assisted Living Facility: Five cases, first reported April 12, 2021.
Magnolia Gardens Memory Care: 24 cases, three deaths, first reported May 27, 2021.
Marquis Springfield: 71 cases, four deaths, first reported Dec. 10, 2020.
McKenzie Living: Six cases, first reported Dec. 1, 2020.
McKenzie Living Eugene: Three cases, first reported May 7, 2021.
Northwest Memory Care - Florence: Three cases, first reported Oct. 18, 2020.
Oaktree Residential Living: 27 cases, five deaths, first reported Feb. 22, 2021.
The Rawlin at Riverbend: 49 cases, eight deaths, first reported Dec. 10, 2020.
Regency Florence: Four cases, first reported Feb. 17, 2021.
River Grove Memory Care: 13 cases, first reported June 28, 2021.
Sheldon Park Assisted Living: 23 cases, four deaths, first reported Nov. 24, 2020.
South Hills Rehabilitation Center: 18 cases, first reported Nov. 17, 2020.
Southtowne Living Center: 32 cases, nine deaths, first reported Nov. 17, 2020.
Spring Valley Assisted Living: 15 cases, three deaths, first reported Nov. 9, 2020.
The Springs at Greer Gardens: Two outbreaks: Seven cases, one death, first reported Nov. 19, 2020; and nine cases and one death, first reported April 5, 2021.
Timber Pointe Senior Living: Four cases, first reported Oct. 2, 2020.
Valley West Health Care Center: Eight cases, first reported Sept. 21, 2020.
Waterford Grand Assisted Living: Three cases, first reported April 1, 2021.
Waterford Grand Memory Care: Three cases, first reported July 30, 2020.
Workplace outbreak at Costco grows by four cases
The report shows 98 active workplace outbreaks statewide for facilities with at least 30 workers and at least five cases. That’s up from 75 active outbreaks the previous week.
To date, there have been 128 deaths and 25,216 cases associated with all Oregon workplace outbreaks reported so far.
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Oregon has paid out less than half of the money it set aside for landlords through a state rent assistance fund approved by lawmakers last December.
As of Aug. 11, landlords had received $55.6 million from the state through the Landlord Compensation Fund to cover the missed rent of tenants who have struggled to keep up with payments during the pandemic.
That is roughly 46% of the $121 million the state has committed.
Connor McDonnell, a spokesperson for Oregon Housing and Community Services, the state agency overseeing the fund, said public housing authorities are now processing payments within 1 to 2 months and the state expects the money to be paid out by the end of September. By paying landlords, the state hopes to keep renters impacted by the economic and public health crisis in their homes.
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However, the fund was plagued by technical issues and delays after state lawmakers allocated $150 million to it in December.
Applications for the first round of funding opened in February, but landlords immediately ran into software issues applying for funding. Oregon paid $353,765 to software vendor Allita 360 to implement a centralized application system for the program.
The software issues, which prevented landlords from uploading required documentation, led to processing delays for the fund’s first round and caused the state to push back the program’s second and third rounds of funding.
Nearly all of the first round funding has now been paid out, but only 61% of second round funding and 15% of third round funding has been distributed, according to the state. Applications for the third round of funding closed June 23.
Those funds will cover 80% of past-due rent. State lawmakers have also agreed to pay the remaining 20%, but those payments won’t start until later this year.
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While the Landlord Compensation Fund was seeded with state money, the state’s $204 million Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which opened in May, is federally funded and applications for that program can be initiated by tenants to cover past-due rent and up to three months of future rent.
The state paid another $395,482 to the same software vendor, Allita 360, to implement a separate application system for that rent assistance program. But that system, too, has been plagued by software problems, and the state has similarly had issues getting the money out the door.
Nearly 26,000 Oregon households have requested a total of $185 million in rent and utility assistance through the program. Less than 9% of those applications had been processed as of Monday, with only $13.4 million distributed to 2,232 households. However, the state has picked up its pace over the last several weeks.
Oregon renters have until Feb. 28, 2022, to repay overdue rent accumulated between April 2020 and June 2021. Renters who are continuing to struggle to pay their bills are protected from eviction for 60 days after they apply for rent assistance and notify their landlords. Multnomah County approved a 30-day extension to those protections last month for a total of 90 days.
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The marquee home weekend for the Ducks, the two-time regular-season conference champions, will be the week of Feb. 23-27 when Oregon hosts USC and UCLA at Matthew Knight Arena.
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The Pac-12 Conference on Thursday announced its weekly matchups and site designations for the men's conference basketball teams for the coming season.
The marquee home weekend for the Ducks, the two-time regular-season conference champions, will be the week of Feb. 23-27 when Oregon hosts USC and UCLA at Matthew Knight Arena.
Oregon finished percentage points ahead of USC last season for the conference title. UCLA advanced to the Final Four last season despite being a No. 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament and returns its roster nearly intact.
The Ducks will travel to Los Angeles to face the Trojans and Bruins the week of Jan. 12-16. That trip comes the week after Oregon plays at Oregon State the week of Jan. 5-9. The Beavers visit Matthew Knight Arena the weekend of Jan. 26-30.
Will Richardson and Eric Williams Jr. will be the only returning starters for Oregon coach Dana Altman in the 2021-22 season. Oregon also returns N'Faly Dante and Franck Kepnang from last year's team that reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament before losing to USC.
The Ducks added a number of talented transfers in the offseason, including De'Vion Harmon from Oklahoma, Quincy Guerrier from Syracuse and Jacob Young, the younger brother of former Oregon star Joseph Young, from Rutgers.
Oregon has also added junior college standout Rivaldo Soares, and a freshman class headlined by former Crater High star Nate Bittle and Isaac Johnson, who will be debuting for the Ducks after spending the past two years on a Mormon mission. Bittle and Johnson are both 6-foot-11 as are Dante and Kepnang.
Oregon will open conference play Dec. 5 with a home game against Arizona State before traveling to Stanford on Dec. 12. Those two games were previously announced by the Pac-12 Conference.
Oregon will host Colorado and Utah the week of Dec. 29-Jan. 2 and travel to Colorado and Utah the week of Feb. 2-6. The Ducks have never won at Colorado.
The Washington schools visit Matthew Knight Arena the week of Jan. 19-23 with the Ducks in Washington the week of March 2-5 to conclude regular-season play.
California and Stanford will visit Matthew Knight Arena the week of Feb. 9-13, one week before the Ducks visit the Arizona schools. Arizona does not play at Matthew Knight Arena this season, and Oregon does not play at California as the conference plays a 20-game Pac-12 schedule.
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It hasn’t taken new defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter long to become enamored with one of the young stars he inherited when former DC Andy Avalos left for Boise State.
Second-year freshman inside linebacker Noah Sewell, the 2020 Pac-12 defensive freshman of the year, has been a standout performer during the first two weeks of fall camp.
“I think Noah’s practicing as good as anybody on our defense right now,” DeRuyter raved. “Every time we turn that tape on, whether it’s guys making strip attempts to take the ball away, whether it’s guys pursuing the football, whether it’s guys finishing a tackle, he’s almost always on the example tape. I think it’s just a really nice testament to him and (co-defensive coordinator/inside linebackers coach Ken Wilson) getting him to that point.”
As a true freshman, the 6-3, 251-pound Sewell led the Ducks in tackles last season with 45 and led all Pac-12 freshmen in tackles for loss (6.5) and sacks (2.0).
Of course, DeRuyter knew all this when he took the Oregon job in December. Watching it live in the spring and again now, remains impressive.
“The intensity with which he practices at really sets a high standard for everybody else and sets that bar where everybody has to go play at his level,” DeRuyter said.
Sewell was one of four Oregon players named to the preseason watch list for the 2021 Polynesian college football player of the year award, the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame announced Thursday.
Junior defensive tackle Popo Aumavae, junior right tackle Malaesala Aumavae-Laulu and sophomore outside linebacker Mase Funa are also on the watch list.
Former Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota was the inaugural recipient of the award in 2014, and Penei Sewell — Noah Sewell’s older brother — won in 2019. Oregon is the only program in the nation with multiple winners.
Freshman RB McGee turning heads
Oregon has a solid 1-2 punch at running back with veterans CJ Verdell and Travis Dye back.
Those two fourth-year juniors have combined for 4,363 rushing yards, 1,003 receiving yards and 34 touchdowns in their careers.
But the Ducks also have some freshmen who’ve been impressive during camp, including Seven McGee, who had a few electrifying moments during the Ducks’ scrimmage last Saturday.
“I love that kid,” offensive coordinator Joe Moorhead said. “Excited about football, appreciative to be here every day, incredibly talented. … He’s very dynamic, very explosive, very fast, does a great job catching the football. He’s had a very good camp so far and has an incredibly high ceiling.”
Moorhead said the 5-9, 181-pound McGee reminds him of current Arizona Cardinals running back Chase Edmonds, who he coached at Fordham.
“Just physicality, mentality wise, explosiveness,” Moorhead said. “He’s kind of built the same.”
Along with McGee, freshmen Byron Cardwell has had his moments too, as has Trey Benson, who is working his way back to 100% from a 2020 knee injury.
But looking good in camp and being ready to perform in games are two different things, Moorhead reminded.
“I think it would be a bit speculative at this point,” said Moorhead when asked if his freshmen were ready to step in on game day. “From a talent standpoint, absolutely, but it’s different out there (at practice) when the whistle blows and you can restart the play and then when you’re in there (points at Autzen Stadium) and there’s no lifeguard on duty.”
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“You can’t just talk about football. You’ve got to get out and experience it. You have to create that pressure situation for them to be able to experience it.”
— DeRuyter talking about taking live reps in scrimmages and practices.
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There was a distinct feeling of excitement this week for local high school athletes and coaches as the fall sports season got under way with the first day of practices Monday.
Gone were the masks, social distancing and other measures that were put in place last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead it was largely back to normal for prep athletes participating in football, soccer, volleyball and cross country.
"It feels good. We're getting closer," said Thurston athletic director Justin Starck, who also coaches the school's football team. "We still have to do contact tracing and things like that, but for the most part things feel normal."
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown's executive order mandates that masks be worn in all indoor settings to help battle the COVID-19 Delta variant, but it makes an exception for individuals who are "practicing or playing a competitive sport at any level." That means outdoor sports are free to play and practice as they have in the past; indoor sports, such as volleyball, will be able to compete without masks but athletes will need to wear face coverings while sitting on the bench or not directly competing.
Starck noted that all high school athletes will be subject to the mask mandate while they are in locker rooms, weight rooms or other indoor facilities, or when they are traveling together by bus to away contests. Spectators will need to wear face coverings while indoors but not at outdoor contests, and there are currently no plans to restrict capacity at sporting events this fall, meaning there should once again be full stands cheering for local prep athletes.
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"The kids are excited for a regular season, to play a full season and have fans back this fall," said Starck, whose team won back-to-back Class 5A state championships in 2018 and 2019. "I think we're going to be OK. We've got some good kids out and we've got a really big senior class."
North Eugene girls soccer coach Brandy Wormdahl has seen the excitement firsthand as her program drew one of its biggest turnouts ever. The Highlanders played an abbreviated season in the spring, but her players are hungry to play a full schedule this fall after advancing to the 5A state semifinals in 2019 and the quarterfinals the year before.
"I have one of the biggest groups I've ever had," Wormdahl said. "I'm not sure if it's because of COVID, but I have 35 girls out this year. It's been awesome so far. It's nice to feel a little bit normal.
"There are no restrictions and things are pretty much back to normal for now. But as you know, things can change week to week."
Wormdahl said one of the most enjoyable parts of practice has been seeing the smiles on her players' faces again.
"I'm excited and the kids are too," she said. "It's funny to see the kids' faces again since last year they were all masked. I'm like, 'Oh, that's what you look like!' I haven't seen their faces in so long."
Over at Willamette, boys soccer coach Jason Burke brings back a veteran group that went 9-0-1 during the abbreviated spring season.
So far, the team's practices have gone smoothly and players are excited for what is shaping up to be a mostly normal campaign. The Wolverines went through maskless practices all week in anticipation of a successful fall season.
"We are a soccer powerhouse in the region," Willamette athletic director Thomas Armstrong said. "Our boys were the only undefeated soccer team in 5A last spring and we are really excited about this season. Jason Burke is ... a great guy and leader, very well known and respected in the area."
Sheldon volleyball coach Martine Wodke has faced a few more challenges than her outdoor coaching peers, but she said numbers are still up in the program and enthusiasm is high among her athletes.
"We've had great turnout," she said. "I've talked with some other high school coaches and everybody has a lot of players this year. We've got the highest numbers we've had in a while."
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The Irish went 9-1 during the spring, but without playoffs or a state tournament the season lacked a sense of finality.
"We lost some wonderful seniors and I'm very sad that they didn't get to compete at state," Wodke said. "But our younger players have continued growing and I'm very excited about this season."
Wodke said that 4J school district policy only allows athletes to remove their face coverings indoors if they are fully vaccinated, so the team's practices still have a bit of a 2020 feel. That rule may evolve as the school year goes on, but for now the Irish are still masking up.
"My understanding of the rule is that they're saying if you're on the vaccinated list, that's when you can remove your mask," she said. "So we still have a lot of players wearing masks."
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With the Kwis Fire near Oakridge nearly 80% contained, fire crews have moved resources to the larger Gales and Ninemile fires in the Middle Fork Complex.
While the immediate fire danger in Oakridge and Westfir has reduced, Lane County spokeswoman Devon Ashbridge said residents should stay vigilant in case conditions worsen.
"We still have six weeks of fire season left, so it's really important that residents especially in Oakridge and Westfir continue to be ready, continue to monitor fire conditions," Ashbridge said. "And know that we may need to increase evacuation levels at some point, depending on how the fires move."
The Middle Fork Complex began July 29 with 12 fires, thought to be started by lightning although official cause has not been determined, in the Willamette National Forest around Oakridge. All but three have been contained, and fire officials returned control to the national forest.
The Kwis Fire, 3 miles east of Oakridge along Salmon Creek Road, posed the most danger to people, but has been kept at 1,482 acres since Saturday. Crews are continuing to mop-up the fire and complete alternate containment lines. Containment is currently at an estimated 79%, according to complex's spokeswoman Lori Wisehart.
Shelter closures
The county and Red Cross shelter opened in Pleasant Hill High School was closed Tuesday in response to the Level 2 "Be Set" evacuation notices from the Kwis Fire being downgraded to Level 1 in parts of east and north Oakridge.
The emergency shelters for pets at Greenhill Humane Society in Eugene and the livestock shelter at the Lane Events Center have been closed. Animals were reunited with their owners, Ashbridge said. She added that those three shelters would be ready to reopen if the need arises due to fires.
"We want to make sure that we're ready but also preserving our volunteers so that we're not burning them out in case there comes a very urgent need later in fire season," Ashbridge said.
The large animal and livestock shelter at the Lane Events Center had housed 50 chickens, 10 geese, eight ducks and two sheep, Ashbridge said.
Oakridge will be having a virtual briefing of the complex at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, which anyone by Facebook live stream at the page "Middle Fork Complex Fire."
Focus on Gales and Ninemile fires
The complex's response team, which includes the U.S. Forest Service, state and other fire agencies, has been shifting resources to the larger Gales and Ninemile fires, which are a combined 12,126 acres, located further north of Oakridge.
The first priority has been ensuring the safety of a small number of people living to the west and northwest of the Gales Fire, Wisehart said.
The entire complex is at 7% containment, but Wisehart said there's no estimate on containment of the Gales and Ninemile fires since there hasn't been a long-standing containment line yet.
"We're still trying to find an anchor and flank around the fire, that containment line started to build around the edges from a solid and safe anchor point," she said. "So we're making good progress, getting that containment line prepared. First removing the vegetation mechanically, then burning it out."
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While the fire has grown each day, the past two days have seen very little growth for the Gales and Ninemile fires, with about 150 acres of increase between Wednesday and Thursday, Wisehart said.
The emphasis has been on the northwest side of the fires, and crews have been fighting the northeast side of the fires where it recently grew into a pocket of heavy timber, Wisehart said.
Firefighters also are working along road systems south and east of the fires while scouting for opportunities to connect roads via ridgetops or other natural features to secure fire lines.
Wisehart said there's no estimated date for containment of the Gales and Ninemile fires.
She added that fire officials are keeping an eye on potential winds blowing to the east that come to the region in September and are preparing for areas it might blow fires to.
"It is going to be a longer duration fire given the size of it, the complexity of terrain, where we are in the season, and how resources are spread regionally due to all the fires."
The Knoll Fire, located 7 miles northeast of the McKenzie Bridge, had been handled by the Middle Fork Complex, but has since been returned to management by the Willamette National Forest. It is currently at 544 acres with 60% containment.
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With the start of classes just a few days away, the Eastern Illinois University campus is buzzing with activity.
Above, Shameerah Kates, left, helps her daughter, Aniyah Smith, of Chicago move into EIU's Taylor Hall ahead of the start of classes on Monday, Aug. 23.
Right, senior Reed Axthelm relaxes and watches his soccer teammates play soccer volleyball on Thursday. Members of the men's and women's soccer teams used the activity to build support ahead of the upcoming season. The men have a game at 3 p.m. Saturday.
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The union representing clerical and building service workers used the return of Eastern Illinois University students to campus Thursday to bring attention to its ongoing contract negotiations.
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CHARLESTON — The union representing clerical and building service workers used the return of Eastern Illinois University students to campus Thursday to bring attention to its ongoing contract negotiations.
The union, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 981, is seeking wage increases to offset the rising cost of living and insurance premiums, local president Renee Kerz said.
Since the group's last protest, which took place before the June meeting of the Eastern Illinois University Board of Trustees, a federal mediator has begun aiding communication between the union and EIU officials.
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“The mediator is coming in to try and help us reach a middle ground,” said Renee Kerz, president of the local union.
The workers took a “hit” during the budget impasse in 2015, which caused layoffs and pay cuts. Several workers still have not been hired back after the layoffs.
“Eastern really was in real financial crisis and we understood that,” said Natalie Nagel, the AFSCME representative of local 981. “Now our folks have some ground to make up. A lot of them, probably the majority of them, are taking home less today than they did 10 years ago.”
“That was a big dent for employees on this campus,” said Kerz.
Attempts to contact the university officials Thursday for comment on the ongoing negotiations were unsuccessful.
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The last open house of the summer will take place this Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., including live music, a presentation, and activities for all ages.
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CHARLESTON — The Five Mile House will conclude its open house season on Sunday.
The last open house of the summer will take place this Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., including live music, a presentation, and activities for all ages.
The Five Mile House is at the intersection of Westfield Road and Route 130.
The Motherlode trio will open the day, playing in the Commodore Davis barn from 1 to 2:30 p.m., followed by a presentation by Tom Vance.
Vance will talk about the process of building the Commodore Davis barn itself, showing photos.
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The Five Mile House spinners will demonstrate and instruct on spinning wool, showing several designs.
Children's activities and their wagon gift shop can be found on the lawn.
The house is gearing up for its fall festival on Oct. 2 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Oct. 3 from 1 to 4 p.m.
The Five Mile House has held open houses every other weekend throughout the summer, providing a venue for musicians and a free space for vendors to sell goods.
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GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are asking the public for information about a Hungarian man whose vehicle was found at Grand Canyon National Park. The family of 45-year-old Gabor Berczi-Tomcsanyi reported him missing to Las Vegas police. Authorities determined he recently traveled to the Grand Canyon as part of a larger trip to the U.S. Southwest. Rangers at the Grand Canyon located his vehicle parked at a visitor center on Aug. 9 with his belongings inside. A park spokeswoman says ground and aerial searches have turned up no sign of him so far. Investigators say they believe the now-missing man arrived at the Grand Canyon’s South Rim on July 19.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the former school resource officer accused of hiding during a Florida mass school shooting will have to convince a jury that he wasn’t criminally negligent. The Sun Sentinel reports that Broward Circuit Judge Martin Fein declined to dismiss the child negligence charges against former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson. Peterson 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 and faces a possible death sentence if convicted.
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By Whitney Wild, Lauren Fox, Daniella Diaz and Annie Grayer, CNN
A man with a history of supporting former President Donald Trump and who has said “all Democrats need to step down” was arrested Thursday after an hours-long standoff near the US Capitol during which he claimed to have an explosive device.
Police have identified the suspect as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of Grover, North Carolina. The incident prompted multiple buildings in the area to be evacuated Thursday as authorities responded to an “active bomb threat investigation,” the US Capitol Police wrote on Twitter.
USCP said in a news release later Thursday that no bomb was found in Roseberry’s truck but that he did possess suspected bomb-making material. DC Police said in a tweet that the vehicle he was driving had been “cleared,” and that road closures near the scene have now been lifted. USCP Chief Tom Manger, who told reporters on Thursday that authorities couldn’t yet identify a motive, said that so far there is “no indication” Roseberry was acting with others.
Roseberry had been live-streaming from the scene, Manger said. A roughly half-hour Facebook video showed him inside a truck, holding a cannister that he said was a bomb and speaking about a “revolution.” The video and Roseberry’s Facebook profile have since been removed.
On Roseberry’s now-removed Facebook page, he frequently made pro-Trump posts and posted videos from Trump’s “Million MAGA March” on November 14.
In video posted Thursday, Roseberry called himself a “patriot.” He said he doesn’t care if Trump ever becomes president again but also that he thinks “all Democrats need to step down.”
Roseberry’s son, Christopher Roseberry, told CNN on Thursday that he didn’t fully understand what motivated the actions of his father and that he didn’t know about his plans to go to Washington.
“He was home last night and I guess my stepmom woke up this morning and he was gone,” Christopher Roseberry told CNN. “It was just a normal day, but it’s not.”
Christopher Roseberry said his father expressed political frustrations with him after the November election. “Since Biden got elected he’s just been like, man … he doesn’t like change, I reckon. … I tried to tell him … ‘Who cares what goes on up there in DC? Worry about what you’ve got down here.’ I tried to tell him that and he’s like, ‘No, I’m sticking up for my country. We need to get the country back to the way it was,'” he said.
He said his father did not mention violence though, adding, “He just said, ‘I want to make a change.'”
Roseberry’s mother recently died, which his son said may have added to his frustration. Manger mentioned the loss during an earlier news conference, adding, “there were other issues that (Roseberry) was dealing with.”
Multiple buildings evacuated
Roseberry drove a black pickup truck onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress at 9:15 a.m. ET, claiming he had a bomb and displayed what looked like a detonator to the officer on the scene, according to the chief.
Negotiators were in communication with Roseberry and were trying to come to a “resolution,” Manger told reporters at a press conference earlier Thursday near the Capitol.
The pickup truck Roseberry drove to the scene does not have license plates, sources told CNN.
Two Library of Congress buildings — the Jefferson and the Madison — and the Cannon House Office Building were evacuated earlier Thursday due to a suspicious vehicle in the vicinity, according to alerts sent to staffers viewed by CNN.
Staffers in the Madison and Jefferson buildings on Thursday were alerted by email to remain calm and relocate — and not to exit toward First Street. Those in Cannon were advised to relocate to the Longworth House Office Building using the Capitol’s underground tunnels.
The Senate and House are not in session, and most lawmakers are not currently in their offices.
The Supreme Court was also evacuated on the recommendation of US Capitol Police, according to a spokesperson for the court, which is closed to the public because of Covid-19.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thanked the officials who responded to the incident in a statement later Thursday, writing: “The immense gratitude of the Congress is with all law enforcement officers who today and all days sacrifice to keep the Capitol Complex and those within it safe.”
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the bomb threat on Capitol Hill, according to a White House official, who said the President “is receiving regular updates from law enforcement” on the matter.
Officials sound alarm over online rhetoric
Officials have been sounding the alarm over online extremist rhetoric that is strikingly similar to the buildup to the January 6 Capitol insurrection, with increasing calls for violence linked to conspiracy theories and false narratives.
CNN reported last week that Homeland Security Intelligence chief John Cohen said that although the conspiracy theories vary, there has been an ongoing narrative focused on the false premise that the presidential election was illegitimate. That narrative is paired with an increase in calls for violence to rectify the situation.
“It’s very similar to the stuff we saw prior to January 6,” said Cohen, the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis senior official performing the duties of the under secretary. But the comments have stopped short of specific dates and threats, he noted.
Nonetheless, the department recently issued a new terrorism bulletin warning the public about increasingly complex and volatile threats days after it alerted state and local authorities to an increase in calls for violence online tied to election-related conspiracy theories. The bulletin highlighted the potential for violence surrounding the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, as well as upcoming religious holidays.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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It’s been a month since England dropped most of its coronavirus restrictions, a move that was welcomed by much of the country’s hard-pressed business sector but criticized by thousands of scientists as a “dangerous and unethical experiment.”
In an open letter published in the Lancet medical journal, they argued that a rising number of Covid-19 cases, the new Delta variant and the fact that a large part of the UK population was not yet fully vaccinated made the move too risky.
But the government was determined to push ahead.
It removed all limits on mixing and allowed venues like nightclubs and sports stadiums to open at full capacity starting on July 19. Face masks are no longer required apart from in a few specific locations, such as airports and hospitals. And as of Monday, fully vaccinated people are no longer required to quarantine after coming into contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus.
A month on, it’s becoming clear that while vaccination works, the reopening has come at a cost.
“The UK is averaging around 90 deaths a day from Covid. Our reopening has been far from an unqualified success,” said Kit Yates, co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath.
While the death toll is much lower than it was at the peak of the pandemic, when as many as 1,300 people were dying every day, experts like Yates say it’s still unnecessarily high.
And with roughly 800 Covid-19 patients ending up in hospital each day, the UK’s public health system is once again under pressure and unable to provide non-emergency care at the level that is needed, Yates said.
“There isn’t capacity to carry out all the routine treatment that’s necessary. As a result people are missing out on lifesaving treatment,” he said.
The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment has risen to 5.5 million in July from 4.4 million in February 2020, according to NHS Providers.
“If there was one lesson I wish other countries would take from watching the UK’s attempt to reopen is that vaccines are not the whole solution to the problem,” Yates told CNN.
“Yes, they make a huge difference, but if you want to keep on top of this disease then you need to back vaccines up with other tried and tested public health measures: Mask mandates in indoor public spaces, ventilation in schools and work places, a functioning, locally-driven test, trace and isolate system in combination with support for isolation,” he added.
Cases dropped, then rose again
Epidemiologists expected the reopening would lead to an increase in the number of people becoming infected with the coronavirus — but this didn’t happen, at least not immediately.
While the number of new cases increased just before the restrictions were lifted, it went down in the first few weeks after the reopening. This unexpected drop was likely down to the fact that contacts between people didn’t increase as rapidly as some predicted, and because the Euro 2020 football tournament, which led to a spike in cases, ended on July 11.
“Thankfully, although technically we’ve lifted restrictions, the UK looks a very different place than it did before the pandemic. My workplace is still practically deserted. It’s quite clear that people are not behaving as they were before the pandemic,” said Mark Woolhouse, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh.
“There’s an awful lot of scope for people to change their behavior more to allow more transmission of the virus in the future. Whether they will, we don’t know — predicting people’s behavior in the face of an unprecedented pandemic is a fool’s game, really,” he said.
The spike in cases before the reopening meant a large number of people were in quarantine after coming into contact with someone who tested positive. More than 2 million people were “pinged” by the track and trace app in July alone, according to the NHS.
On top of that, the school summer vacation got underway in England on July 16.
Christina Pagel, director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit at University College London, said it has now become clear that schools played an important part in the overall picture, adding that cases in children have been halving every week since the beginning of the holidays.
But while the overall infection levels dropped in the first few weeks after the reopening, they have started creeping up again.
“In the last two weeks, cases in adults have started going up again, and more than you would know just from looking at the numbers, because they’re kind of masked by the big drops in cases in children,” Pagel said.
She said the increase in cases is worrying, because July and August are precisely the months when it should be easier to keep infection levels down.
“We’re still in a situation where we have a lot of cases and a lot of poor health from Covid, so I think there is kind of a bit of trepidation about what happens when we go back to school in September,” she said.
While hospitalizations in the UK are on the rise, the proportion of people who end up in hospital now is much lower than it used to be, thanks to vaccination.
“In January, before the vaccination program really got into full swing we were maybe seeing upwards of 10% of cases going on to be hospitalized. Now that figure is down to between 2% and 3%, so vaccines are making a huge difference,” Yates said.
The data also shows that while overall vaccination rates matter, the key is in the detail.
The UK has fully vaccinated 60% of its total population, according to Our World in Data, while in the US, that figure stands at 51%, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the overall rate is similar, the US has more unvaccinated elderly people who are more vulnerable to the disease.
“In the over-50s, in our vulnerable populations, we have 90% to 95% fully vaccinated. And that’s making a really big difference. So we do have a lot of hospitalizations, but it’s nowhere near as high as it could be,” Pagel said, referring to the UK population.
“And if you look at places like Florida, which is seeing unsustainable hospitalizations, this is because they have a higher number of people who are still vulnerable, so even though they have high vaccination rates overall, it’s not helping them as much because of how its distributed in their population,” she added.
According to the Florida Department of Health, 79% of people aged between 60 and 64 and 86% of people above the age of 65 have been vaccinated.
Kids on the front line
In England, next month’s return to school is a major risk, because most kids won’t be vaccinated against the disease.
The UK medicines watchdog, the MHRA, has approved the Pfizer and Moderna shots for children and teenagers aged 12 and above, but only clinically vulnerable teenagers have been able to get the shots so far.
The government said Sunday that 16- and 17-year-olds will be offered the vaccine by next week, but there has been no announcement on inoculation for younger children.
“We will see lots of students meeting up indoors in schools at which few or no mitigations have been put in place … we should expect to see further rises in transmission when this happens, which will inevitably lead to more cases, more hospitalizations and tragically more deaths,” Yates said.
Deepti Gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecturer in machine learning at Queen Mary University of London, has long been critical of the government’s approach to the reopening, arguing that the plan put children at unnecessary risk.
“They may not individually get hospitalized or die at the same rate, but if enough of them get infected, then a large number will still get hospitalized and sadly, some will die. And they do get long Covid,” she said, pointing to data released by the Office for National Statistics earlier this month, which showed that 34,000 kids aged 17 and under are suffering from long Covid, with 22,000 of them saying their illness is having an impact on their day-to-day activities.
“These are not mild cases … 7,000 have had persistent symptoms for more than one year. That’s not mild,” she said.
Pagel said that while schools don’t appear to be major drivers of new infections when overall community transmission levels remain low, they become a problem when Covid levels are higher — as they are right now in the UK.
“Every other high income country is doing at least one of three things … they are either vaccinating adolescents, or they’re keeping in mitigation (measures) in schools such as masks and social distancing, isolation and (investing in) ventilation, or they’re keeping community transmission low … most of them are doing two of those things. We’re not doing any of them,” she said.
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It’s been a month since England dropped most of its coronavirus restrictions, a move that was welcomed by much of the country’s hard-pressed business sector but criticized by thousands of scientists as a “dangerous and unethical experiment.”
In an open letter published in the Lancet medical journal, they argued that a rising number of Covid-19 cases, the new Delta variant and the fact that a large part of the UK population was not yet fully vaccinated made the move too risky.
But the government was determined to push ahead.
It removed all limits on mixing and allowed venues like nightclubs and sports stadiums to open at full capacity starting on July 19. Face masks are no longer required apart from in a few specific locations, such as airports and hospitals. And as of Monday, fully vaccinated people are no longer required to quarantine after coming into contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus.
A month on, it’s becoming clear that while vaccination works, the reopening has come at a cost.
“The UK is averaging around 90 deaths a day from Covid. Our reopening has been far from an unqualified success,” said Kit Yates, co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath.
While the death toll is much lower than it was at the peak of the pandemic, when as many as 1,300 people were dying every day, experts like Yates say it’s still unnecessarily high.
And with roughly 800 Covid-19 patients ending up in hospital each day, the UK’s public health system is once again under pressure and unable to provide non-emergency care at the level that is needed, Yates said.
“There isn’t capacity to carry out all the routine treatment that’s necessary. As a result people are missing out on lifesaving treatment,” he said.
The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment has risen to 5.5 million in July from 4.4 million in February 2020, according to NHS Providers.
“If there was one lesson I wish other countries would take from watching the UK’s attempt to reopen is that vaccines are not the whole solution to the problem,” Yates told CNN.
“Yes, they make a huge difference, but if you want to keep on top of this disease then you need to back vaccines up with other tried and tested public health measures: Mask mandates in indoor public spaces, ventilation in schools and work places, a functioning, locally-driven test, trace and isolate system in combination with support for isolation,” he added.
Cases dropped, then rose again
Epidemiologists expected the reopening would lead to an increase in the number of people becoming infected with the coronavirus — but this didn’t happen, at least not immediately.
While the number of new cases increased just before the restrictions were lifted, it went down in the first few weeks after the reopening. This unexpected drop was likely down to the fact that contacts between people didn’t increase as rapidly as some predicted, and because the Euro 2020 football tournament, which led to a spike in cases, ended on July 11.
“Thankfully, although technically we’ve lifted restrictions, the UK looks a very different place than it did before the pandemic. My workplace is still practically deserted. It’s quite clear that people are not behaving as they were before the pandemic,” said Mark Woolhouse, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh.
“There’s an awful lot of scope for people to change their behavior more to allow more transmission of the virus in the future. Whether they will, we don’t know — predicting people’s behavior in the face of an unprecedented pandemic is a fool’s game, really,” he said.
The spike in cases before the reopening meant a large number of people were in quarantine after coming into contact with someone who tested positive. More than 2 million people were “pinged” by the track and trace app in July alone, according to the NHS.
On top of that, the school summer vacation got underway in England on July 16.
Christina Pagel, director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit at University College London, said it has now become clear that schools played an important part in the overall picture, adding that cases in children have been halving every week since the beginning of the holidays.
But while the overall infection levels dropped in the first few weeks after the reopening, they have started creeping up again.
“In the last two weeks, cases in adults have started going up again, and more than you would know just from looking at the numbers, because they’re kind of masked by the big drops in cases in children,” Pagel said.
She said the increase in cases is worrying, because July and August are precisely the months when it should be easier to keep infection levels down.
“We’re still in a situation where we have a lot of cases and a lot of poor health from Covid, so I think there is kind of a bit of trepidation about what happens when we go back to school in September,” she said.
While hospitalizations in the UK are on the rise, the proportion of people who end up in hospital now is much lower than it used to be, thanks to vaccination.
“In January, before the vaccination program really got into full swing we were maybe seeing upwards of 10% of cases going on to be hospitalized. Now that figure is down to between 2% and 3%, so vaccines are making a huge difference,” Yates said.
The data also shows that while overall vaccination rates matter, the key is in the detail.
The UK has fully vaccinated 60% of its total population, according to Our World in Data, while in the US, that figure stands at 51%, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the overall rate is similar, the US has more unvaccinated elderly people who are more vulnerable to the disease.
“In the over-50s, in our vulnerable populations, we have 90% to 95% fully vaccinated. And that’s making a really big difference. So we do have a lot of hospitalizations, but it’s nowhere near as high as it could be,” Pagel said, referring to the UK population.
“And if you look at places like Florida, which is seeing unsustainable hospitalizations, this is because they have a higher number of people who are still vulnerable, so even though they have high vaccination rates overall, it’s not helping them as much because of how its distributed in their population,” she added.
According to the Florida Department of Health, 79% of people aged between 60 and 64 and 86% of people above the age of 65 have been vaccinated.
Kids on the front line
In England, next month’s return to school is a major risk, because most kids won’t be vaccinated against the disease.
The UK medicines watchdog, the MHRA, has approved the Pfizer and Moderna shots for children and teenagers aged 12 and above, but only clinically vulnerable teenagers have been able to get the shots so far.
The government said Sunday that 16- and 17-year-olds will be offered the vaccine by next week, but there has been no announcement on inoculation for younger children.
“We will see lots of students meeting up indoors in schools at which few or no mitigations have been put in place … we should expect to see further rises in transmission when this happens, which will inevitably lead to more cases, more hospitalizations and tragically more deaths,” Yates said.
Deepti Gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecturer in machine learning at Queen Mary University of London, has long been critical of the government’s approach to the reopening, arguing that the plan put children at unnecessary risk.
“They may not individually get hospitalized or die at the same rate, but if enough of them get infected, then a large number will still get hospitalized and sadly, some will die. And they do get long Covid,” she said, pointing to data released by the Office for National Statistics earlier this month, which showed that 34,000 kids aged 17 and under are suffering from long Covid, with 22,000 of them saying their illness is having an impact on their day-to-day activities.
“These are not mild cases … 7,000 have had persistent symptoms for more than one year. That’s not mild,” she said.
Pagel said that while schools don’t appear to be major drivers of new infections when overall community transmission levels remain low, they become a problem when Covid levels are higher — as they are right now in the UK.
“Every other high income country is doing at least one of three things … they are either vaccinating adolescents, or they’re keeping in mitigation (measures) in schools such as masks and social distancing, isolation and (investing in) ventilation, or they’re keeping community transmission low … most of them are doing two of those things. We’re not doing any of them,” she said.
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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. His office says he died in a hospital while being treated for COVID-19. Chiba rose to stardom in Japan in the 1960s, portraying samurai, fighters and police detectives, doing many stunt scenes himself. His overseas career took off after “The Street Fighter” proved popular in the United States. American director Quentin Tarantino listed the work as among his “grindhouse” favorites and cast him as master swordsmith Hattori Hanzo in “Kill Bill.” Chiba’s career was also boosted by the boom in kung fu films, set off by Chinese legend Bruce Lee, although with a dirtier fighting style.
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(CNN) — El noreste de Estados Unidos sentirá los impactos de la tormenta tropical Henri, que tal vez incluso toque tierra, sugieren los modelos computarizados de pronósticos. Pero si realmente llegara a tocar tierra, esto no sucedería hasta el domingo hacia el lunes, y pueden cambiar muchas cosas en ese período.
“El punto más importante aquí es que todavía es demasiado pronto para saber exactamente qué tan cerca estará el centro de Henri de la costa de Nueva Inglaterra”, dice el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC, por sus siglas en inglés).
Incluso si Henri no llega a la costa, la marejada de la tormenta podría causar olas altas y corrientes de resaca potencialmente mortales.
Sin embargo, el pronóstico oficial del NHC afirma que es posible que toque tierra en Nueva Inglaterra, desde Connecticut hasta Maine.
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre un tornado, una tormenta tropical y un huracán?
“Se debe señalar que a medida que Henri gana latitud y se mueve cerca de Nueva Inglaterra, se espera que el campo de viento se expanda”, dice el NHC en su última actualización. “Por lo tanto, se recuerda a los usuarios que no se concentren en los puntos exactos del pronóstico, ya que los impactos se extenderán lejos del centro”.
El NHC también señala que es probable que este fin de semana se requieran alertas y advertencias para ubicaciones dentro del cono. Es posible que se emitan mañana.
El modelo europeo prevé una tormenta más débil con los mayores impactos en Cape Cod, Nantucket y Martha’s Vineyard.
El modelo estadounidense acerca el centro de la tormenta a la costa. Esto haría que los impactos fueran más grandes desde el este de Long Island hasta Maine.
Sigue la trayectoria de Henri en tiempo real
No ayuda que los modelos de pronóstico del tiempo parezcan estar desordenados en lo que respecta a la trayectoria prevista de Henri.
Massachusetts, que podría recibir un impacto directo, puede esperar vientos dañinos, marejadas ciclónicas y lluvias fuertes, entre otros potenciales peligros.
“Ten en cuenta que las mareas serán astronómicamente altas este fin de semana a lo largo de ambas costas”, dice el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (NWS, por sus siglas en inglés) en Boston. El momento es importante porque las mareas de la fase lunar ya serán más altas de lo normal, por lo que cualquier marejada ciclónica por encima de eso podría desencadenar una mayor inundación costera. “La trayectoria nos dirá en última instancia qué línea costera está en mayor riesgo (si la costa este o la sur) o si ambas estarán en riesgo”, dijo el Boston NWS.
Se espera que los vientos con fuerza de tormenta tropical en la costa de Massachusetts comiencen el domingo por la mañana, por lo que el NWS insta que se hagan todos los preparativos necesarios antes de ese momento.
Aunque los modelos pueden variar sobre cuáles serán los impactos exactos de Henri, siempre es mejor estar preparado en caso de que las tormentas azoten el terreno.
Los impactos probables de Henri
“Generalmente, con las tormentas tropicales el mayor impacto es el de las lluvias que causen inundaciones”, dijo Margaret Curtis, meteoróloga del NWS en Portland, Maine.
Gracias a los remanentes de la tormenta tropical Fred, sobre gran parte de Nueva Inglaterra caerán lluvias fuertes hoy. También hay posibilidades de lluvias adicionales en gran parte del noreste este fin de semana, por lo que las inundaciones serán una preocupación incluso antes de que la tormenta tropical Henri potencialmente golpee el área. Pero Curtis explica que también hay otras preocupaciones.
Aumenta la probabilidad de una temporada de huracanes por encima del promedio, según la NOAA
“En la costa, el oleaje alto y los embates fuertes pueden generar inundaciones y erosión costeras”, dijo Curtis.
Y el oleaje alto, así como las corrientes de resaca, no se limitarán solo al noreste. Comunidades costeras desde Carolina del Norte hasta el Atlántico de Canadá podrían experimentar “olas y corrientes de resaca potencialmente mortales”, según el NHC.
Here are the 11 am AST Key Messages on Tropical Storm #Henri. The storm is expected to be near southern New England on Sunday and Monday, and interests there should monitor its progress. See https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB for details. pic.twitter.com/NdPbRtlJNA — National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 19, 2021
Se espera que se realicen lanzamientos adicionales de globos meteorológicos en gran parte de la costa este. Estos lanzamientos brindan información adicional sobre cómo podría influenciar la atmósfera en la trayectoria pronosticada de Henri.
“Los aviones cazadores de huracanes que toman muestras de la atmósfera alrededor de la tormenta probablemente desempeñarán un papel más importante que los lanzamientos adicionales para ganar precisión y confianza en los próximos resultados del modelo”, dice Chad Myers, meteorólogo de CNN. “Es demasiado pronto para determinar qué hará la tormenta a esta hora, pero que toque tierra como un huracán y luego el centro se detenga sobre la tierra provocando tremendas inundaciones parece ser el peor de los escenarios en algunos de los resultados del modelo actual”, explica.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry Elder, a talk radio host and a leading Republican candidate in California’s recall election, denies his ex-fiancee’s accusation that he once displayed a gun to her during a heated 2015 argument. Alexandra Datig worked on Elder’s show when they were engaged and lived together. In documents provided to The Associated Press, Datig described an emotionally abusive 18-month relationship with Elder. She said she never reported the gun incident to police and moved out after they agreed on a financial settlement. In a statement Thursday, Elder said he “never brandished a gun at anyone.” He didn’t address her other claims. Elder is among 46 candidates in the election that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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If you’re planning to travel to Mexico, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The basics
Mexico is open to travelers. There is no need to provide a negative PCR test or quarantine on arrival, though most resorts ask guests to fill out health questionnaires.
The land border between Mexico and the United States is closed for nonessential travel through at least August 21. However, air travel is allowed.
American travelers should remember they will need a negative Covid-19 test result taken 72 hours or less before travel to return to the US. The US Embassy says results for PCR and antigen tests are reliably available within 72 hours in Mexico.
As of August 19, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed Mexico’s travel advisory rating at level 3 — “high” risk. Level 4 is “very high” risk. The CDC advises travelers to be fully vaccinated before traveling to Mexico.
What’s on offer
You’ll find incredible food, sensational beaches, quaint towns and historical remains. While the beach resorts around Cancun attract the bulk of visitors, those who want more than a fly and flop go for Mexico City’s cultural heft, the coastline of Baja California and traditional towns such as Oaxaca.
Who can go
Mexico has some of the world’s loosest border restrictions with anyone allowed to travel by air for business or leisure.
What are the restrictions?
Travelers to the country must complete a health declaration form and scan the QR code it generates on arrival. There is no need to take a test before departure or undertake any form of quarantine. Those concerned they may have symptoms should ask for the Sanidad Internacional health organization.
The land border with the United States remains shut to all but essential travel. People trying to enter through the southern border with Guatemala and Belize may also be denied entry for nonessential travel.
What’s the Covid situation?
Mexico has had around 3.15 million cases of Covid-19 and about 250,500 deaths as of August 19 (although some believe the actual numbers are higher). President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has come under fire for taking a laissez-faire approach to the virus. Restrictions have not been far reaching and life has gone on as normal for many, which critics say has led to high death and infection rates.
As of August 19, Mexico had administered almost 78.8 million doses of vaccine, or about 61 doses per 100 people. Cases have been spiking dramatically in recent weeks, back up to levels that even surpass what was seen in January.
What can visitors expect?
Mexico has a four-tier traffic light system of restrictions, with red signifying maximum restrictions, orange limiting capacity in public spaces and at work to 30%, yellow allowing for all work to resume and public gatherings to take place, and green meaning there are no restrictions in place. See a color-coded map here.
As of August 19, most states were categorized as orange or red. Only one state — Chiapas — was green.
Quintana Roo, where popular tourist destinations Cancun and Playa del Carmen are located, was listed as orange. Baja California Sur, home to Cabo San Lucas, was also orange. Mexico City was listed as red.
Visitors are likely to find situations differ depending on where in the country they travel, with local restrictions and curfews varying. See the Local Resources section of the US Embassy website for specific information.
Useful links
Sanidad Internacional
Covid-19 government page
US Embassy in Mexico
Our latest coverage
Find out how Mexico is trying to balance its health needs vs. an economy heavily dependent on tourism by clicking here.
Ever wondered what it was like to move to Mexico in a pandemic? Kim Kessler did. So did this adventurous couple, who booked an Airbnb together for several months despite being virtual strangers.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge in Nevada has issued a ruling with potentially broad implications for U.S. immigration cases. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno 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. Her 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. Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou in Nevada didn’t immediately respond to messages about whether the government will appeal.
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Afghan refugee Fahim Jamil is living the American dream after being forced to flee his country 20-years ago, but the co-owner of Casa Maria Mexican Grill in Watson can't stop thinking about his homeland
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Afghan refugee worries about family left in the Taliban takeover
WATSON - Afghan refugee Fahim Jamil is living the American dream after being forced to flee his country 20-years ago, but the co-owner of Casa Maria Mexican Grill in Watson can't stop thinking about his homeland
"I was shocked. I was shocked about how they took over," Jamil said.
Afghanistan was under Taliban control in just 11 days, and most of Jamil's family is still there.
"90% of my family is left overseas, in Afghanistan, and they have no hope," Jamil said.
He's not able to easily reach them by phone, and when he does, he's worried it might be the last time.
"When we always hang up the phone, we always say we love each other, we're going to miss you," Jamil said.
Jamil's especially concerned with reports about Taliban rebels going door to door looking for women and kidnapping them.
"These ladies are going to get pulled in the streets, get raped and the kids are going to get murdered," Jamil said.
Jamil says America welcomed him with open arms, and he can't say enough about what this country has done trying to liberate its people.
"I, as Afghan American, I appreciate everyone's service. It was not for waste. We appreciate you guys, but this is a war of our home, and our people need to stand up and fight for it,"
And Jamil's worries are mounting after not being able to reach his family by phone in Afghanistan for the last several days. He says he won't get much rest until he does.
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