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Djokovic, the 12th seed, could not convert two break points in a 15-minute opening game of the fourth set. |
In front of the watching Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Nadal made him pay. |
The sweat-soaked two-time champion held, broke and held again for 3-0. |
However, back roared Djokovic with a break and was soon back on level terms at 3-3. |
In a roller-coaster of a set, Nadal broke for 5-3 causing Djokovic to angrily smash his racquet into his feet four times. |
He was even angrier minutes later when he squandered three more break points to allow Nadal to level the semi-final with an ace. |
Djokovic wasted another three break points in the eighth game of the decider. |
Nadal then squandered three break points in the 15th game before saving a match point in the 16th with a pitch-perfect drop shot. |
However, the pressure of serving second was relentless and Djokovic wrapped up victory in the 18th game when Nadal speared a forehand wide. |
For the second time in less than a decade, Ole Miss has a new official mascot. |
The school unveiled "Landshark Tony" on Saturday, eight years after replacing Colonel Reb with the much-maligned Rebel Black Bear. Landshark Tony draws its inspiration from the Rebels' so-called "Landshark Defense," with Ole Miss players often forming their hands in the shape of a shark fin in front of their helmets fo... |
The shark mascot also took the name "Tony" from the late Ole Miss linebacker Tony Fein, an Iraq War veteran who was the first to make the "landshark" gesture in 2008. The Landshark Tony mascot will wear the same No. 47 donned during his Rebels playing days by Fein, who died of a drug overdose in 2009. |
Colonel Reb stopped appearing on the Ole Miss sidelines in 2003, after the school made a conscious effort to move away from symbols related to the Civil War. The Black Bear mascot first appeared in 2010 following a vote by students, but had been universally unpopular with much of the Ole Miss fan base before being "ret... |
BACK IN TOWN: Scientists Hurlburt (left) and Maleki. |
The idea of a hurricane hitting New Orleans was certainly not absurd. |
“We have to make the decision 48 hours in advance and leave. That’s our rule, because if we wait until it’s any closer, we can’t get out of town,” added Soheila Maleki, Hurlburt’s wife. |
So on Saturday, Aug. 27, as Hurricane Katrina was still a category three storm and expected to hit hardest in Florida, Hurlburt made his 48-hour decision to stay in New Orleans and invited people to come over to the house for a hurricane party. |
Hurlburt broke his 48-hour rule the next morning after learning that Katrina hadn’t made the characteristic right-hand turn and was now headed straight for the Big Easy. |
After being blocked on U.S. Highway 11 by a burning car, Hurlburt turned around and got out on Interstate 10 — like everybody else. With the help of back roads and a GPS system, he made it to Little Rock in a little less than 14 hours. |
Why Little Rock? Hurlburt had worked at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences until 2001, when the USDA in New Orleans hired him. Maleki, who researches peanut allergies, was already employed by the federal agency’s office in New Orleans, but had been able to work from Little Rock. |
Hurlburt’s former colleague, UAMS microbiologist Mark Smeltzer, took him in. |
“We called Mark Smeltzer and said we were coming,” Hurlburt said. “We got in about 2:30 a.m. We stayed up the next 24 hours watching the hurricane tear up our city.” And — the worst part — watching the flooding on Tuesday. |
“Our house took 39 inches. The lab took about 8 feet because it is near the levee,” Hurlburt said. |
Smeltzer told Dr. Roger Rank, chairman of the UAMS microbiology department, that he would be happy to share some lab space with Hurlburt and Maleki. Dr. Martin Cannon, an immunologist in Rank’s department who had been collaborating with Maleki, also offered space. |
Hurlburt and Maleki now have appointments at UAMS as visiting scientists. |
With four people working in his lab right now, Smeltzer said it’s been tight at times, but it’s quite doable. And there are silver linings. |
Maleki said she and Cannon have wanted to write a grant together for some time. Her temporary relocation will make that easier. |
Cannon’s working on ways to urge the immune system to power up to attack cancer cells. Maleki’s goal in working with peanut allergies in his lab is to turn the immune system off. Cannon said the basic technologies between projects are similar; it’s just a matter of using different manipulations. Their collaborative gra... |
Hurlburt lost his post-doctoral fellow and technician to Katrina: They’ve either been reassigned or left his lab due to other responsibilities. He still has his graduate student from the University of New Orleans, and she is the only one working on his research project: How bacterial metabolites make farm-raised catfis... |
Hurlburt said though the bacterial strains he was working on are redundant with those in Smeltzer’s lab, his DNA constructs were lost in the hurricane. |
“I lost 500 varieties of peanuts, all kinds of peanut mutants,” Maleki explained of her research. |
Hurlburt and Maleki have made some 15 trips down to New Orleans to survey the damage, deal with insurance and to recover as many lab materials as possible. Their stocks of bacteria, DNA, antibodies, human serum was normally stored at -80, -20, or 4 degrees Celsius; after Katrina hit, they sat in 100 plus degrees Fahren... |
“We have to test everything that we brought out to see if it works,” Maleki said. “It will take us six months to a year to test everything. Plus I’ve got over 30 collaborators all over the world that we provide services for and do parts of projects that they’re working on … .” She can’t send them any significant amount... |
The government had predicted Hurlburt, Maleki and their colleagues at the USDA in New Orleans would be able to return to their research there in August, but the couple has their doubts. |
Until then, they will have a home at UAMS. Aside from losing valuable and irreplaceable samples and research materials, though, they both said it’s just not the same. |
Dorothy Miles is a broadcast journalist for KUAR-FM. |
Going home for the holidays is a wonderful idea, in theory and in practice. It's getting there that's the stuff of nightmares. |
Sure, we all want to be with our families on Thanksgiving, gathered round the dinner table, enjoying a feast, sharing some laughs and reminiscing. But at what cost? For most Americans, the cost is a trek that makes the Oregon Trail look like a stroll through Central Park. |
Just to get to security!? No thanks! Thanksgiving Eve is the rare time when your dad's advice to get to the airport 12 hours before your flight makes sense. Goodness gracious. And this is just one airport. The TSA projects 24 million will travel through airports this week, a six percent increase from last year. |
And these people are getting a "head start" by getting on the road Tuesday. Head start... good one! AAA is projecting that 50.9 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this Thanksgiving, the highest travel volume since 2005. If you wanted a true head start, hopefully you got on the road last Tuesday. |
But hey, it's the most wonderful time of the year, provided you don't blow your brains out before it even gets started. |
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ALSIP, Ill. -- A suburban mother is searching for the stranger who saved her son's life. |
Mary Graham brought her kids to the Subway in Alsip Tuesday around 7 p.m. |
2-year-old Noah was strapped in his stroller, eating pieces of a sandwich and Doritos when he started choking. |
Security video from the Subway shows Mary’s 9-year-old daughter Madilyn running to the counter for help. |
A customer in a black shirt and grey pants runs back and jumps into action. |
“He came over right away and took over took my son straight out of that stroller bent him over his leg started pressure on his belly and patting him on his back,” Mary says. |
In the process of helping Noah, the toddler vomited on the Good Samaritan’s pants and himself. |
Mary took her son in the restroom to clean him off and by the time she got out, the man was gone. |
Mary shared her story on Facebook in an effort to find the man who helped her son. With more than a thousand views, she's hoping someone will recognize him so she can say thank you. |
“He didn't find my wallet. He saved my son's life he deserved a hug and a thank you,” Mary says. |
The Subway owner and manager say they've seen this customer in here before, but that he's not a regular. |
They're hoping he comes back so they can help him get in touch with this mother. |
Police in Manchester, New Hampshire, have arrested a man they say fought with officers as they tried to stop him from drinking in public. |
Dennis Burke, 49, yelled profanities at the officers while walking near Veteran's Park Tuesday afternoon. The officers advised that using profanities in a public area could get him arrested. |
During that time, Burke sat on a bench and was approached by a man who gave him a beer. Officers told Burke he would be issued a summons if he opened the beer. Burke argued with the officers, so one of the officers tried to take the beer. |
Burke then allegedly clenched his fists and shoved the officer. The officer shoved back, causing Burke to trip over the bench. Officers arrested Burke, who resisted the arrest. |
He was transported to police headquarters, where he again tried to fight with officers as they removed a sting from his pants. Police ultimately used a Taser on Burke. |
He was charged with two counts simple assault, resisting arrest, obstructing government administration and disorderly conduct. He is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. |
A man who has had extensive contact with local law enforcement was arrested Wednesday night after he allegedly assaulted two people at a transient camp. |
A Grass Valley Police officer was flagged down in the 200 block of Sutton Way a little before 9 p.m. by a person reporting a woman covered in blood, yelling about having been attacked, said Sgt. Dan Kimbrough. |
The woman had a “significant” amount of blood on her, Kimbrough said, adding that she had been trying to stop the bleeding by pressing a shirt to the wound, which was on the back of her head. |
Witnesses said the woman and a man were at a transient camp in the area when a second man, identified as Geppetto Caravaggio Krug, walked through. An argument began, for unknown reasons, and Krug reportedly grabbed a stick or a branch and hit the other man in the back. |
The argument continued, Kimbrough said, and Krug then grabbed a rock and hit the woman in the back of the head with it. Krug then reportedly fled the scene. |
The woman was taken to Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital for treatment. Her condition was unavailable. |
Police officers subsequently located Krug at a different transient camp, off Loma Rica Drive, Kimbrough said. |
Krug, 46, was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury and one count of battery causing serious injury. He was being held in county jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. |
In April 2016, Krug was charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon after an altercation outside the Grass Valley library. Krug reportedly approached another man, from whom he reportedly had stolen something, and threatened him. He then allegedly threw a rock that hit a bystander, injuring him. He subsequently ple... |
Two people have been killed and at least 30 injured after an explosion in a port city in China. |
The blast in Ningbo south of Shanghai knocked down buildings and left streets littered with damaged cars and debris. |
The early morning explosion struck a riverfront neighbourhood in one of the country's busiest ports. |
Firefighters traced the blast to a hole in the ground where a toilet had been but the cause still was under investigation, state television said. It gave no indication whether the explosion site was inside a building. |
Two people were killed and two more seriously injured while at least 30 others were taken to hospitals. |
Sunday's blast knocked down residential buildings but they were vacant and in the process of being demolished, a news report said. It added there might have been people in the area collecting scrap for recycling. |
Bystanders said the explosion might have been caused by a gas pipeline that was damaged during demolition work, but the Ningbo gas company said it had no lines in the area. |
Photos showed an injured woman being carried away on a man's back and what appeared to be the body of man lying in the debris of a wrecked building. |
Video clips on multiple websites showed a white cloud of smoke rising above the explosion site and rolling across nearby buildings. |
Blondie’s husband Dagwood has his priorities in order. |
What it’s about: Liz Lemon once said, “I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.” Ever since a compulsive gambler slapped some meat between two hunks of bread so he didn’t have to leave the blackjack table (possibly an apocryphal story), sandwiches have been comfort food... |
Strangest fact: You can put anything between two slices of bread, including bread. Such is the brief ingredient list of the toast sandwich, which is a buttered slice of toast between two slices of toasted bread. Try to contain your shock upon learning that this extravagance of blandness was produced by Great Britain. |
For those who want slightly more variety but no less starch, several sandwiches are topped with french fries, including South Africa’s take on the hoagie, the gatsby; Springfield, Illinois regional favorite the horseshoe, in which any kind of meat is topped with cheese and fries; Pittsburgh’s similar primanti; Clevelan... |
For those on the all-carb diet, the Chip Butty is highly recommended. |
Wikipedia itself is not safe from such lofty, incorrect claims, as the entry for open-faced sandwich on this list contains the baffling three words: “see also pizza.” We assume that’s vandalism, and will be cleaned up by the time you read this. |
Thing we were unhappiest to learn: Besides “see also pizza”? While we want to believe in our heart that there’s no such thing as a bad sandwich, the British (again, surprise!) have other ideas. While British Rail has been defunct for nearly 20 years, “British rail” is still slang for a stale, unappetizing sandwich, in ... |
If cartoons have taught us anything, it’s that dogs love sandwiches bigger than their heads. |
Minneapolis is home to the jucy lucy, a cheeseburger with cheese baked into the meat. Louisville has the hot brown, an open-faced turkey and bacon with mornay sauce. Richmond, Virginia’s sailor is pastrami, knockwurst, swiss, and mustard on rye. Chicagoans enjoy Italian beef (just what it sounds like), while Portland, ... |
Also noteworthy: The rest of the world makes some pretty great sandwiches too. Italy’s carrozza is a grilled cheese sandwich, except fried instead of grilled; The choripán is a staple throughout Latin America, with chorizo sausage on a crusty roll; Vietnam’s bánh mì shows a French colonial influence, filling a baguette... |
Further down the wormhole: This list of sandwiches leads to more specific ones including lists of American sandwiches, general bread dishes, and submarine sandwich restaurants. The latter contains a list of sub shop chains familiar and obscure, and a link to another list, of fast food chains that are no longer with us.... |
Lush landscaping greets you, as you enter this pristine Mediterranean-style home! Truly an entertainer’s dream, with a drive-through garage & open concept floor plan. Trey ceilings & recessed lighting throughout. Chef’s kitchen, complete with custom cabinetry, backsplash, exposed wood beams & a breakfast bar overlookin... |
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