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LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Bronny James continues to recover after going into cardiac arrest, his Southern California teammates have been at practice to prepare for a 10-day exhibition tour of Greece and Croatia that begins next week.
The tour will run from from Aug. 5-15 and see the Trojans visit Athens and Mykonos, Greece, and Dubrovnik, Croatia. Teams are allowed to go on a foreign tour once every four years under NCAA rules.
James was discharged from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Thursday and is resting at home, according to a statement from the hospital. His father, Lakers superstar LeBron James, also posted on social media that his family is “safe and healthy.”
Bronny James will continue to undergo tests to determine the cause of his cardiac arrest, which occurred Monday morning during a workout at USC’s Galen Center.
Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating, because of a problem with its electrical activity. While uncommon in young people, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes. Some studies have estimated one sudden cardiac death in 50,000 to 80,000 young athletes each year.
No information has been made public about what may have caused Bronny James’ cardiac arrest. But one of the most common causes in young athletes is an underlying problem with the heart’s structure, such as a genetic condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that leads to a thickened heart muscle more prone to irregular electrical activity. A more rare cause is commotio cordis, which occurs when someone receives a sharp blow to the chest during a specific part of the heartbeat’s cycle — what happened to Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin earlier this year.
James was the second high-profile USC basketball recruit to go into cardiac arrest in the last year. Vincent Iwuchuwku also was stricken during a workout last July, but the 7-foot-1 center returned to the court six months later and appeared in 14 games.
It’s too soon to know how James’ playing career could be affected, especially without a lot of information being made public. Various experts point to James’ quick move out of intensive care and being released three days later as encouraging.
The upcoming trip is important for the Trojans as James recovers. USC had the nation’s fourth-ranked recruiting class, including the top-rated player in guard Isaiah Collier.
James committed to the Trojans in May after the 6-foot-3 18-year-old became one of the nation’s top prospects as a two-way point guard for Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California.
He is the sixth McDonald’s All-American to come to USC since Andy Enfield became coach in 2013.
With his family fame and huge social media following, Bronny James also has the top name, image and likeness valuation in sports at $6.3 million, as estimated by On3.com. He is the oldest of LeBron and Savannah James’ three children.
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AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham and AP Health & Science Writer Lauran Neergard contributed to this report.
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When they were together in Detroit, Matt Patricia and Darius Slay did not get along, to the point where the Lions traded Slay to the Eagles for far less than a cornerback of Slay’s caliber is worth, just because Patricia was eager to get rid of him. So when Patricia joined the Eagles’ coaching staff this offseason, many questioned whether he and Slay could work together.
Slay says they can.
On Friday, Slay said that before the Eagles hired Patricia, they touched base with him and he gave it his blessing.
“We talked about it during the offseason,” he said, via NBCSportsPhiladelphia.com. “They called me, and I was like, ‘It’s cool with me because I want to do what’s best for the organization. I always tell guys, ‘We’re in a rented seat, nobody’s in this seat forever.’ So I said, ‘Y’all got to do what’s best for the organization, and they asked would I be cool with it, and I said yeah. Me and him talked man to man. We’ve got a great understanding. We both want to win, he’s here to help me get better, he wants to get better as a coach, so we’re in good hands right now.”
Slay said he and Patricia both want to win, and that’s what really counts.
“It took a lot for both of us to talk, so we did a great job,” he said. “We communicate every day, we talk every day, we’re just trying to build everything going forward because at the end of the day we want to win. That’s his main goal and that’s my main goal, and we’re going to continue to keep building. It’s a great understanding. We both talked it out as grown men. He’s a man, I’m a man, so we just handled it. We respect each other enough to put everything aside and let’s move forward and get better.” | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/darius-slay-says-hes-ok-with-matt-patricia-after-man-to-man-talk | 2023-07-29T11:01:15 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/darius-slay-says-hes-ok-with-matt-patricia-after-man-to-man-talk |
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Ezekiel Prancis-Ricci remembers the first Circus Juventas show he ever saw.
It was 2011. He was a couple of weeks away from starting first grade, sitting with his family under the circus school’s Big Top in Highland Park as the lights rose for “Grimm—Happily Ever After.”
“I remember, when I saw ‘Grimm,’ I turned to my mom and was like, ‘I wish real life were like this,” he said. “And here I am.”
Now, after more than a decade of circus classes, Prancis-Ricci, 18, is leading the cast of this year’s Circus Juventas summer show, “Excalibur,” in the role of King Arthur.
“Excalibur,” which retells the legend of Camelot, the Knights of the Round Table, and other Arthurian characters, runs for 16 performances from Friday, July 28, through Sunday, August 13. Tickets run from $25 to $50 and are available online at circusjuventas.org/summer-show-2023/ or by phone at 651-309-8106.
This year’s summer show, which highlights Circus Juventas’s top-level students, is one of the most complex the school has ever produced, artistic director and co-founder Betty Butler said. In one particularly ambitious scene, one performer is slated to shoot a flaming arrow — with her toes — while contorted such that her legs are behind her back and her feet are over her head.
In the weeks leading up to opening night, cast, coaches and crew have been rehearsing for nearly six hours every day.
“The intensity starts going up week by week by week, and now we’re at a level 12 right now because we have one week left to really finalize it,” Butler said. “There’s pressure, but it’s an exciting pressure.”
With so many moving parts, rehearsals have a buzzy, chaotic, invigorating energy.
On one end of the Big Top on a recent afternoon, Prancis-Ricci and other performers were falling backward out of windows — fake windows over large trampolines, naturally, which bounce them right back up the wall. Several yards away, a younger group of dancers were running through their choreography.
Meanwhile, on the main floor, coaches were spotting a group of aerialists rehearsing Spanish web, an act that requires performers to climb up a thick rope, wrap themselves in various patterns, and tumble downward in sync. It’s mesmerizing.
One of the performers on Spanish web is Phoebe Haas, 17, a senior at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. Haas, who specializes in aerial acts like trapeze and silks, began taking classes at Circus Juventas in third grade. This is her first summer show.
Circus Juventas works to prioritize safety above all else, which is especially important in aerial acts like Spanish web.
For Haas, who described herself as a quiet person for whom opening up to others can be difficult, this aspect of circus performance has helped her build up confidence outside the Big Top, too.
“I fall from however high up — and then I’m OK,” she said. “It’s very much making you know that, even if you do crazy things, you’ll be OK. … (Circus has) helped me get out of my comfort zone and do things that would normally be kind of scary.”
Circus has helped Prancis-Ricci discover new things about himself, too. He was also quite reserved as a child, he said — until he started circus clowning. People who knew him outside of circus were surprised to see his onstage knack for physical comedy and audience interaction, he said.
Last month, he performed alongside Circus Juventas professional program students at the Al Ringling Theatre at Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Prancis-Ricci, who recently graduated from SPCPA, plans to join the pro program full-time soon.
At the high-profile venue, Prancis-Ricci and fellow Circus Juventas performer Vincent Geruntho’s clowning skills were both particularly impressive, said Circus Juventas co-founder and executive director Dan Butler.
“They were every bit as good as any Cirque du Soleil clown I’ve ever seen,” Dan Butler said. “I was so proud.”
Olivia Monson-Haefel, 20, will perform alongside Prancis-Ricci in “Excalibur” as Guinevere. For her, the circus is a family affair: Her siblings Oliver, 18, and Simon, 16, are also in this year’s show, and their older brother is a Circus Juventas alumnus.
She specializes in contortion and handstand acts, and is currently enrolled in Circus Juventas’s professional program with the hopes of pursuing a career in circus performance.
“It’s my favorite thing in the world,” Olivia Monson-Haefel said. “You’re physically able to see yourself progress and get stronger. It feels so good.”
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What: Circus Juventas’ summer show, “Excalibur”
Description: With dragons, knights and magic — and impressive circus acts — the show follows the legend of King Arthur and the characters of Camelot.
When: 16 total performances, including matinee and evening shows, from Friday, July 28, through Sunday, August 13
Where: Circus Juventas Big Top, 1270 Montreal Ave., St. Paul
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As of December 31 the Miami Dolphins' odds of winning the Super Bowl, +2000, put them eighth in the league.
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- Odds to Win the AFC East: +275
- Odds to Win the Super Bowl: +2000
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- Miami won nine games against the spread last season, failing to cover eight times.
- The Dolphins and their opponents combined to go over the point total eight out of 17 times last season.
- Miami put up 364.5 yards per game on offense last season (sixth in ), and it ranked 18th on the other side of the ball with 337.8 yards allowed per game.
- The Dolphins went 6-2 at home last year and 3-6 on the road.
- Miami posted seven wins as the favorite in 10 games last season, and was victorious twice (in seven opportunities) as an underdog.
- The Dolphins were 3-3 in the AFC East and 7-5 in the AFC as a whole.
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- Tua Tagovailoa threw for 3,548 yards (272.9 per game), completing 64.8% of his passes, with 25 touchdowns and eight interceptions in 13 games last year.
- In the passing game, Tyreek Hill scored seven TDs, catching 119 balls for 1,710 yards (100.6 per game).
- In 17 games a season ago, Jaylen Waddle had 75 receptions for 1,356 yards (79.8 per game) and eight touchdowns.
- Raheem Mostert ran for 891 yards (55.7 per game) and three touchdowns in 16 games.
- As a key defensive contributor, Jalen Ramsey amassed 88 tackles, 4.0 TFL, two sacks, and four interceptions in 17 games for the Rams last year.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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** EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 8 P.M. **
RICHMOND, Va. -- A shower or thunderstorm will be possible this morning, mostly north of I-64.
Today will be muggy and very hot with highs in the mid to upper 90s. The heat index will hit at least 105, with the potential for some areas to exceed 110.
A batch of thunderstorms is expected late this afternoon into this evening. The storms will unleash torrential downpours. We are also under a slight risk (level 2 out of 5) for severe weather, with the main threat being damaging wind gusts. The highest chance of storms in the metro looks to be around 4-8 p.m.
Sunday will be muggy and not quite as hot with highs in the upper 80s to around 90. The feels-like temp will be 95-100. A few isolated storms are possible.
Next week will be less humid and cooler with highs in the mid to upper 80s.
In the tropics, a disturbance in the central Atlantic now has a high chance of development over the next several days. It is expected to curve to the north, and stay east of Bermuda. More info is in the CBS 6 Hurricane Tracker.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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Cleveland Police: 15-year-old mother, 1-month-old infant missing since July 27
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 6:25 AM EDT|Updated: 41 minutes ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland Police have asked for the community’s help in locating a 15-year-old mother and her 1-month-old baby.
Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said Amirah Jackson and her child, Amir, have been missing since July 27 and were last seen in the 9400 block of Harvard Avenue in the city’s Union Miles neighborhood.
Ciaccia said their family reported them as missing on July 28.
Anyone with information has been asked to call Cleveland Police at 216-621-1234 or 9-1-1.
This is a developing story. Return to 19 News for updates.
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President Biden publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a 4-year-old named Navy Joan Roberts, for the first time on Friday, capping a month of questions about why he had seemingly excluded the little girl from his tight family circle.
Roberts is the daughter of Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman who filed a paternity lawsuit against her child's father in 2019.
"Our son Hunter and Navy's mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," President Biden said in a statement to People magazine published on Friday evening.
President Biden Speaks Out on Hunter’s Daughter, 4, with Ark. Woman: ‘Jill and I Only Want What’s Best’ (Exclusive) https://t.co/9qlHMZXH7E
— People (@people) July 28, 2023
"This is not a political issue, it's a family matter," Biden said in the statement. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy."
President Biden is known for often speaking about his love of his family and grandchildren. Last year, Hunter Biden's eldest child, Naomi, was married at the White House in what was a lavish affair.
In early July, the New York Times profiled Navy, her mother, and some of the details of their child support settlement. The story drew attention to the fact that the president had never recognized his 4-year-old granddaughter.
Some GOP presidential contenders like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made jabs at the president for the omission.
Hunter Biden recently settled a lawsuit over his daughter
Hunter Biden has struggled with addiction. In his 2021 memoir, he blamed his addictions for his court battle over his daughter's paternity.
"It's why I would later challenge in court the woman from Arkansas who had a baby in 2018 and claimed the child was mine — I had no recollection of our encounter. That's how little connection I had with anyone," he wrote in his memoir. "I was a mess, but a mess I've taken responsibility for."
Hunter Biden was proven to be the child's father through a DNA test. He has recently settled a lawsuit for child support.
He has three older children, now in their 20s, as well as a 3-year-old son named Beau, who is often seen at the White House.
Hunter Biden has been the target of Republican attacks on the president because of his business dealings and legal issues.
He recently agreed to plead guilty to tax and gun charges in a deal that would allow him to avoid future prosecution. But that plea deal fell apart when the judge said she needed more information and wasn't ready to accept the deal he struck with the Justice Department.
The White House has refused to comment on whether Hunter Biden's legal troubles are a political liability for the president, describing them as personal matters, and saying only that the president loves his son and supports him as he tries to rebuild his life.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
Bet on tennis with BetMGM, the King of Sportsbooks!
Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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Browns Odds to Make Playoffs and Win Super Bowl
As of December 31 the Cleveland Browns' odds of winning the Super Bowl, +3500, rank them 14th in the league.
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Browns Super Bowl Odds
- Odds to Win the AFC North: +400
- Odds to Win the Super Bowl: +3500
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Cleveland Betting Insights
- Cleveland went 7-9-0 ATS last season.
- A total of eight Browns games last season went over the point total.
- Cleveland compiled 349.1 yards per game on offense last season, which ranked it 14th in the . On the other side of the ball, it ranked 14th, giving up 331.5 yards per contest.
- Last year the Browns were 4-4 at home and 3-6 on the road.
- As favorites, Cleveland was 3-4. When underdogs, the Browns were 3-6.
- The Browns were 3-3 in the AFC North and 4-8 in the AFC as a whole.
Browns Impact Players
- In 17 games last year, Nick Chubb rushed for 1,525 yards (89.7 per game) and 12 touchdowns.
- In the passing game, Chubb scored one touchdown, with 27 receptions for 239 yards.
- Amari Cooper had 78 catches for 1,160 yards (68.2 per game) and nine touchdowns in 17 games.
- Donovan Peoples-Jones had 61 catches for 839 yards (49.4 per game) and three touchdowns in 17 games a season ago.
- Deshaun Watson passed for 1,102 yards (183.7 per game), completing 58.2% of his passes, with seven touchdowns and five interceptions in six games.
- Myles Garrett had 60 tackles, 18.0 TFL, 16 sacks, and four passes defended last year.
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2023-24 Browns NFL Schedule
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President Biden publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a 4-year-old named Navy Joan Roberts, for the first time on Friday, capping a month of questions about why he had seemingly excluded the little girl from his tight family circle.
Roberts is the daughter of Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman who filed a paternity lawsuit against her child's father in 2019.
"Our son Hunter and Navy's mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," President Biden said in a statement to People magazine published on Friday evening.
President Biden Speaks Out on Hunter’s Daughter, 4, with Ark. Woman: ‘Jill and I Only Want What’s Best’ (Exclusive) https://t.co/9qlHMZXH7E
— People (@people) July 28, 2023
"This is not a political issue, it's a family matter," Biden said in the statement. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy."
President Biden is known for often speaking about his love of his family and grandchildren. Last year, Hunter Biden's eldest child, Naomi, was married at the White House in what was a lavish affair.
In early July, the New York Times profiled Navy, her mother, and some of the details of their child support settlement. The story drew attention to the fact that the president had never recognized his 4-year-old granddaughter.
Some GOP presidential contenders like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made jabs at the president for the omission.
Hunter Biden recently settled a lawsuit over his daughter
Hunter Biden has struggled with addiction. In his 2021 memoir, he blamed his addictions for his court battle over his daughter's paternity.
"It's why I would later challenge in court the woman from Arkansas who had a baby in 2018 and claimed the child was mine — I had no recollection of our encounter. That's how little connection I had with anyone," he wrote in his memoir. "I was a mess, but a mess I've taken responsibility for."
Hunter Biden was proven to be the child's father through a DNA test. He has recently settled a lawsuit for child support.
He has three older children, now in their 20s, as well as a 3-year-old son named Beau, who is often seen at the White House.
Hunter Biden has been the target of Republican attacks on the president because of his business dealings and legal issues.
He recently agreed to plead guilty to tax and gun charges in a deal that would allow him to avoid future prosecution. But that plea deal fell apart when the judge said she needed more information and wasn't ready to accept the deal he struck with the Justice Department.
The White House has refused to comment on whether Hunter Biden's legal troubles are a political liability for the president, describing them as personal matters, and saying only that the president loves his son and supports him as he tries to rebuild his life.
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Natural Fiber Welding lays off 10% of staff in restructuring
PEORIA — For the second time this year, Natural Fiber Welding has announced a staff reduction.
Wednesday's action follows a similar move in April, when the Peoria-based company laid off about 10% of its workforce.
An NFW spokesperson said Thursday that this week's staff reductions also affected about 10% of its workforce. The spokesperson said NFW has more than 200 employees in the Peoria area.
In a statement, the company said, "Today NFW took steps to restructure core operational units of the company, including reductions in staff." It added, "The reshaping follows new leadership joining the company in the spring of 2023 and reflects a continued focus on efficiency, quality and growth."
Related:This innovative business was born in Peoria. But its future here is not a given. Here's why
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A better chance for scattered weekend storms
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 5:58 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Dry dust from the Sahara kept us dry last week. It’s gone, giving us a better chance for scattered storms this weekend and next week. But storms will be hit-and-miss across the Suncoast, so some of us could see downpours, others may see little to nothing. Storms and lightning are possible at our beaches too. The higher chance for storms continues into the coming week as we start August.
In the tropics, a tropical wave is moving northwest in the Atlantic. This wave has a 70% chance of development over the next 7 days. But all indications are that the track of the storm will stay out in the middle of the Atlantic, far away from the United States.
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CANBERRA – Political instability in Niger resulting from a military takeover that deposed the president this week threatens the economic support provided by Washington to the African nation, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Saturday.
Members of the Niger military announced on Wednesday they had deposed democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum and on Friday named Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani as the country's new leader, adding Niger to a growing list of military regimes in West Africa’s Sahel region.
Blinken, who is in Australia as part of a Pacific tour, said the continued security and economic arrangements that Niger has with the U.S. hinged on the release of Bazoum and “the immediate restoration of the democratic order in Niger.”
“Our economic and security partnership with Niger — which is significant, hundreds of millions of dollars — depends on the continuation of the democratic governance and constitutional order that has been disrupted by the actions in the last few days,” Blinken said. “So that assistance, that support, is in clear jeopardy as a result of these actions, which is another reason why they need to be immediately reversed.”
Blinken stopped short of calling the military actions in Niger a coup, a designation that could result in the African country losing millions of dollars of military aid and assistance.
Speaking in Brisbane, Blinken said he had spoken with President Bazoum on Saturday but did not provide details. He cited the support of the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States and other regional entities in trying to bring an end to the unrest.
“The very significant assistance that we have in place that’s making a material difference in the lives of the people of Niger is clearly in jeopardy and we’ve communicated that as clearly as we possibly can to those responsible for disrupting the constitutional order and Niger’s democracy," Blinken said.
Blinken said the U.S. Embassy in Niger had accounted for the safety of all staff members and their families, while issuing a security alert advising U.S. citizens in the country to limit unnecessary movements and avoid areas impacted by the coup.
The military group that conducted the coup, calling itself the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, said its members remained committed to engaging with the international and national community.
“This is as a result of the continuing degradation of the security situation, the bad economic and social governance,” air force Col. Major Amadou Abdramane said in the video released by the coup leaders Wednesday. He said aerial and land borders were closed and a curfew was in place until the situation stabilized.
Bazoum was elected two years ago in Niger’s first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from France.
Niger is seen as the last reliable partner for the West in efforts to battle jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Africa’s Sahel region, where Russia and Western countries have vied for influence in the fight against extremism.
France has 1,500 soldiers in the country who conduct joint operations with Niger's military, while the U.S. and other European countries have helped train the nation’s troops.
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Winning Mega Millions numbers for Friday, July 28, 2023. Lottery drawing jackpot $1.05B
The Mega Millions jackpot surged past a billion dollars after no one matched all six numbers Friday night.
The jackpot rolled over to $1.05 billion, with a cash option of $527.9 million, pushing the jackpot to a tie for the nation's seventh largest jackpot ever and a tie for the fourth largest Mega Millions prize of all-time.
The next Powerball drawing grew again after nobody matched all six numbers from Wednesday night. Saturday's Powerball jackpot is worth an estimated $60 million, with a cash option of $31.1 million.
Mega Millions numbers:Results for Friday, July 28, 2023. Lottery drawing at $1.05B
Mega Millions numbers for 7/28/23
The winning numbers for Friday night's drawing were 5, 10, 28, 52, 63, and the Mega Ball was 18. The Megaplier was 5X.
Did anyone win Mega Millions last night, Friday, July 28th, 2023?
Nobody matched all six numbers to win the Mega Millions jackpot.
Four tickets matched all five numbers except for the Mega Ball worth $1 million. They were purchased in Arizona, California, New York, and Pennsylvania.
One ticket sold in Pennsylvania matched all five numbers except for the Mega Ball and added the Megaplier worth $5 million.
Mega Millions, Powerball:What to do if you win the jackpot
How many lottery numbers in Mega Millions do you need to win a prize?
You only need to match one number in Mega Millions to win a prize. However, that number must be the Mega Ball, worth $2.
What do I win if I get 2 lotto numbers on Mega Millions?
Matching two numbers won't win anything in Mega Millions unless one of the numbers is the Mega Ball. A ticket matching one of the five numbers and the Mega Ball is worth $4.
Powerball numbersResults for Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Lottery drawing jackpot at $60M
When is the next Mega Millions drawing?
Drawings are held two times per week at approximately 10 p.m. CT every Tuesday and Friday. You can watch drawings via YouTube.
How to play Mega Millions
Here's how to play Mega Millions:
Mega Millions numbers you need to know:Commonly drawn numbers could help you win July 28
Mega Millions lotto jackpot winners
Here is the list of 2023 Mega Millions jackpot wins, according to megamillions.com:
- $1.35 billion — Jan. 13; Maine.
- $20 million — Jan. 17; New York.
- $31 million — Jan. 24; Massachusetts.
- $31 million — Jan. 31; Massachusetts.
- $483 million — April 14; New York.
- $20 million — April 18; New York.
Top 10 Mega Millions lottery drawing jackpots
Here are the all-time top 10 Mega Millions jackpots, according to megamillions.com:
- $1.537 billion — Oct. 23, 2018; South Carolina.
- $1.35 billion — Jan. 13, 2023; Maine.
- $1.337 billion — July 29, 2022; Illinois.
- $1.05 billion — Jan. 22, 2021; Michigan.
- $1.05 billion — Aug. 1, 2023; TBD.
- $656 million — Mar. 30, 2012; Kansas, Illinois, Maryland.
- $648 million — Dec. 17, 2013; California, Georgia.
- $543 million — July 24, 2018; California.
- $536 million — July 8, 2016; Indiana.
- $533 million — Mar. 30, 2018; New Jersey.
Top 10 U.S. lottery drawing jackpots
Here are the nation's all-time top 10 Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, according to powerball.com:
- $2.04 billion, Powerball — Nov. 7, 2022; California.
- $1.586 billion, Powerball — Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee.
- $1.537 billion, Mega Millions — Oct. 23, 2018; South Carolina.
- $1.35 billion, Mega Millions — Jan. 13, 2023; Maine.
- $1.337 billion, Mega Millions — July 29, 2022; Illinois.
- $1.08 billion, Powerball — July 19, 2023; California.
- $1.05 billion, Mega Millions — Jan. 22, 2021; Michigan.
- $1.05 billion, Mega Millions — Aug. 1, 2023; TBD.
- $768.4 million, Powerball — Mar. 27, 2019; Wisconsin.
- $758.7 million, Powerball — Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
Bet on tennis with BetMGM, the King of Sportsbooks!
Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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BAGHDAD – The leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah said Saturday that if governments of Muslim-majority nations do not act against countries that allow the desecration of the Quran, Muslims should “punish” those who facilitate attacks on Islam's holy book.
The comments by Hassan Nasrallah came in a video address to tens of thousands gathered in Beirut’s southern suburbs to mark Ashoura, a Shiite holy day commemorating the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein.
Nasrallah often uses religious occasions to send political messages to followers, and on Saturday slammed recent incidents in which the Quran was burned or otherwise desecrated at authorized demonstrations in Sweden and Denmark.
He said Muslims should watch for the outcome of an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, scheduled to take place in Baghdad on Monday to discuss the organization’s response to the Quran burnings.
The organization and its member states should “send a firm, decisive and unequivocal message to these governments that any repeat of the attacks will be met with a boycott,” Nasrallah said. If they do not, he said, Muslim youth should “punish the desecrators.”
He did not elaborate what such a boycott and punishment should entail.
Members of the crowd, who carried banners with religious slogans alongside the flags of Hezbollah, Lebanon and Palestine, chanted, “Oh, Quran, we are at your service; Oh, Hussein, we are at your service.”
Shiites represent over 10% of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims and view Hussein as the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad. Hussein’s death in battle at the hands of Sunnis at Karbala, south of Baghdad, ingrained a deep rift in Islam and continues to this day to play a key role in shaping Shiite identity.
Millions of Shiite Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and around the world on Friday commemorated Ashoura, while Saturday marked the culmination of the observances in countries such as Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered in the Iraqi city of Karbala, where Hussein is entombed in a gold-domed shrine. In the streets of the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, mourners gathered to watch reenactments of the Battle of Karbala and Hussein’s death.
In the streets, young men clad in black and white slashed their heads with swords and knives to demonstrate their grief. Friends swabbed each other’s heads with tissues and handed each other water.
In Syria’s capital, Damascus, the crowds were mourning not only the death of Hussein but a deadly attack in the suburb of Sayida Zeinab, home to a shrine to Zeinab, the daughter of the first Shiite imam, Ali, and granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
A bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded there on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens more. On Tuesday, another bomb in a motorcycle had wounded two people.
On Friday, the Islamic State group — a Sunni militant group that often targets Shiites — claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying Thursday’s bombing came “during their annual polytheistic rituals.” The group’s extreme interpretation of Islam holds Shiite Muslims to be apostates.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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City of Mission unveils new sign that promotes ‘locks of love’
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A new attraction in the city of Mission’s Market Square was unveiled Thursday.
The sign allows people to place locks on it, similar to love lock bridges seen in popular tourist attractions.
“They get to put their locks on here,” Mission spokeswoman Kenia Gomez said. “It may be 50 years from now they come back, and their children get to see it. We know it's going to become a landmark — a tradition here in the city of Mission.”
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It’s home, sweet home for Ja’Tovia Gary.
Gary’s exhibition I Know It Was The Blood is part of the Dallas Museum of Art’s Concentrations series, now on view through Nov. 5.
Born and raised in Dallas, Gary studied theater at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in the Dallas Arts District. Upon graduation, she moved to New York City, earning degrees from Brooklyn College and The School of Visual Arts.
Using her theatrical studies as a foundation, Gary developed into an interdisciplinary artist who uses film, installation and language through a Black feminist lens to challenge the assumed neutrality of archival sources and the historical record.
Her work is personal, often inspired by her own family and centered on Gary’s philosophy of care.
“Her work is rooted in place, time and family forming a rich portrait of the Black American South, but it also transcends,” said Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, the museum’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and curator of this exhibition.
Walking into the exhibition is like walking into someone’s home. On a wall is a neon work, Citational Ethic, featuring a quote from Black feminist scholar Saidiya Hartman, “Care is the antidote to violence.” The piece is paired with a living room scene with La-Z-Boy recliner, a framed photograph of Gary’s mother, and a tower of three monitors.
“To me, this is a great companion piece for this piece which is called Precious Memories. This piece is sort of a surrealist reimagining of my childhood home,” Gary said.
The top monitor features Louis Armstrong performing When it’s Sleepy Time Down South along with other archetypes of Blackness. Gary interrupts these stereotypes by scratching, painting and etching into the surface of the film, a hallmark of Gary’s artistic practice. The middle monitor is footage from her stepfather’s funeral, depicting familiar and timeless rituals of grief. The third monitor shows a heavily pixelated pornographic film that is so distorted that no figures are apparent and only occasionally is there a sense that something explicit is happening.
Combined the works speak to the story people tell themselves about their lives, their communities, and their place in the world and how people cope with adversity.
“This entire installation is about the violence of the interior,” Gary said. “Whether we’re talking about the violence of a country, the violence of a community, or the violence of a family, how do we counter that with care?”
At the center of the exhibition is In my mother’s house there are many, many…, a sculpture commissioned by the Dallas Museum of Art that will become a part of the museum’s collection. The sculpture takes the form of an armillary sphere, an ancient device used across cultures to visualize the cosmos.
“Ja’Tovia looks to symbols of ancient knowledge of past cultures to celebrate not only her ancestors but also to point the way toward healing from collective trauma,” Brodbeck said.
The armillary sphere is motorized and covered in cotton balls, Gary’s way of reclaiming something associated with slavery and violent history.
“It is covered with thousands of cotton balls. My family is from Texas and Arkansas, and they used to chop cotton in order to put themselves through school and feed their family. So, cotton is very loaded, but it is also something that is very beautiful,” Gary said.
Projected onto the textured surface of the sphere are excerpts from Gary’s feature-length memoir film, Mitochondrial Montage. Gary interviewed family members, ex-boyfriends and lovers and even her therapist, but the strongest voices to come through the film are of her family’s matriarchs. Gary’s great aunt, Aunt Mae, can be heard throughout the film, talking about her own documentation of the family throughout the decades.
The work reflects the relationships and experiences that shaped her and pushed her forward into the world.
“Who are we in relation to our closest foundational relationships? Who would they say you are? Who are you in relationship to your mother and what has been passed down in blood?” Gary said. “And how can we counter the ancestral trauma with ancestral wisdom?”
The exhibition also features two paintings, Mama’s Babies and Daddy, Maybe. The mixed-media works are a new medium for the artist.
“This is my first painting. Well, there were a few before, but they were really trash, so I threw them away,” Gary said.
Both paintings feature broken frames, signaling Gary’s determination not to be constrained by labels or genres.
“I often characterize my practice as exploding frames so can we bring that ethos and move beyond genres and the impulse to index?” Gary said.
Together the five works celebrate the power of ancestral knowledge, creating an intimate homecoming as Gary’s first solo museum exhibition in Dallas.
“I am so happy to be home,” Gary said.
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STHS to host second annual health and wellness fair
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Tom Castaneda from South Texas Health System talks about the health and wellness fair, called Transform Your Life.
Castaneda says it's meant to encourage families to work out together. The event will host an entire day of activities and will be held at Quinta Mazatlan in McAllen. | https://www.krgv.com/videos/sths-to-host-second-annual-health-and-wellness-fair | 2023-07-29T11:11:03 | 0 | https://www.krgv.com/videos/sths-to-host-second-annual-health-and-wellness-fair |
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The numbers are in and things look surprisingly rosy for the U.S. economy:
The Federal Reserve is still cautious, but big brands – including Coca-Cola, Hilton and Visa — are singing praises to shoppers seemingly undeterred by companies' raising prices. What's more, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Barbie are enticing people to part with their money, bolstering local businesses.
Financial reports by corporations and government data have been painting a picture this month of insatiable American shoppers making companies positively exuberant.
This week, GDP or gross domestic product – considered the measure of economic growth – showed the U.S. economy grew at a rate of 2.4%, much higher than expected. What's fueling it is — you guessed it — spending. Brand after brand this week boosted their earnings forecasts for the year, calling consumers "resilient" in the face of higher prices.
The 'she-conomy' takes center stage
Americans have been scaling back in some categories, including clothing and furniture, but we're splurging on travel. We're also going out to eat, and see concerts and movies. You could call it the Barbie bump.
Plus, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé have been moving markets, quite literally. The Federal Reserve has tracked the striking effect of Taylor Swift's tour on host cities. One analysis estimates it could generate almost $5 billion in global revenue. When Beyoncé comes to town, hotels, hair stylists and bartenders all get a boost, according to Yelp.
Southwest Airlines this week reported record revenue. Hilton executives said people were spending more across all its hotels, from the humbler Garden Inn to the upscale Waldorf Astoria, with business travel picking up and overall demand exceeding available rooms. Hotel prices have been setting records too.
"Not to be a Pollyanna at all, it all feels pretty good. ... I think the rest of this year's going to be very solid," Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta told analysts on Wednesday. "And I think next year will be a darn good year."
Companies test price limits in a 'Hot Profit Summer'
Higher prices showed up as good news in corporate reports across the board. Among them was Hershey (whose brands include Reese's and Skinny Pop). The company said people were buying slightly fewer snacks and candies, but its profits rose almost 30% anyway. A similar thing happened at Procter & Gamble (which makes Tide detergent and Crest toothpaste) and Colgate-Palmolive.
Coca-Cola, like rival Pepsi, reported that shoppers remained loyal to brand-name soda despite several rounds of price hikes.
Corporate execs offered many explanations for those hikes, including higher wages and other costs, such as sugar and corn syrup. Chipotle said it was still spending more on beef, tortillas, salsa, beans and rice, and did not rule out additional price hikes later in the year.
Is a spending hangover on the way?
So how are shoppers paying for all of this? Part of it is going on credit cards; the Federal Reserve Bank of New York saying credit card debt is at a record high. Banks report families are dipping into or even draining their pandemic-era savings.
But there's more to the story: A lot of workers have gotten raises recently. For the first time in months, our wages are outpacing inflation, as employers continue to compete for workers. This, in fact, raises the specter of the notorious wage-price spiral, with companies citing higher labor costs as a major cause of higher prices, and then workers pointing to those rising prices as proof they need higher pay.
Still, it seems like the pace of those raises is slowing down, which could signal that the labor market is softening. This is good news for inflation – which is now at 3% versus last year's 9% – but not enough for the Fed to ease up. It raised interest rates again this week, to a 22-year high.
"Inflation has moderated somewhat since the middle of last year," Fed Chair Jerome Powell told reporters, explaining the decision. "Nonetheless, the process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way to go."
While the economy has remained strong amid months of interest rate hikes — and the unemployment rate near a record low at 3.6% — the effects of the Fed's actions could still be coming.
If they can cool off the economy just enough to stop companies from raising prices, but not so much that they lay off workers, the Fed will have achieved what economists call a soft landing.
"We're not there yet," said KPMG Chief Economist Diane Swonk. "The hope is certainly high that we could get there."
NPR's David Gura contributed to this report.
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T-storms developed Friday…
Another round of showers and t-storms rolled through the Coulee Region Friday evening. Large hail and gusty surface winds did some damage around the region.
Another warm afternoon…
Highs Friday managed to reach into the upper 80s with humidity still on the high side. Northeast winds kicked in, but the speeds were low, so it was a nice Friday. The weekend promises extremely pleasant weather.
Medium range trends...
Longer range forecasts will trend toward warmer than normal conditions for all but much of the northeastern and middle parts of the nation for the first week of August.
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President Biden publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a 4-year-old named Navy Joan Roberts, for the first time on Friday, capping a month of questions about why he had seemingly excluded the little girl from his tight family circle.
Roberts is the daughter of Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman who filed a paternity lawsuit against her child's father in 2019.
"Our son Hunter and Navy's mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," President Biden said in a statement to People magazine published on Friday evening.
President Biden Speaks Out on Hunter’s Daughter, 4, with Ark. Woman: ‘Jill and I Only Want What’s Best’ (Exclusive) https://t.co/9qlHMZXH7E
— People (@people) July 28, 2023
"This is not a political issue, it's a family matter," Biden said in the statement. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy."
President Biden is known for often speaking about his love of his family and grandchildren. Last year, Hunter Biden's eldest child, Naomi, was married at the White House in what was a lavish affair.
In early July, the New York Times profiled Navy, her mother, and some of the details of their child support settlement. The story drew attention to the fact that the president had never recognized his 4-year-old granddaughter.
Some GOP presidential contenders like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made jabs at the president for the omission.
Hunter Biden recently settled a lawsuit over his daughter
Hunter Biden has struggled with addiction. In his 2021 memoir, he blamed his addictions for his court battle over his daughter's paternity.
"It's why I would later challenge in court the woman from Arkansas who had a baby in 2018 and claimed the child was mine — I had no recollection of our encounter. That's how little connection I had with anyone," he wrote in his memoir. "I was a mess, but a mess I've taken responsibility for."
Hunter Biden was proven to be the child's father through a DNA test. He has recently settled a lawsuit for child support.
He has three older children, now in their 20s, as well as a 3-year-old son named Beau, who is often seen at the White House.
Hunter Biden has been the target of Republican attacks on the president because of his business dealings and legal issues.
He recently agreed to plead guilty to tax and gun charges in a deal that would allow him to avoid future prosecution. But that plea deal fell apart when the judge said she needed more information and wasn't ready to accept the deal he struck with the Justice Department.
The White House has refused to comment on whether Hunter Biden's legal troubles are a political liability for the president, describing them as personal matters, and saying only that the president loves his son and supports him as he tries to rebuild his life.
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bet365 bonus code PINEWS: Settle a $1 wager Saturday to earn $200 bonus bets
PINEWS is the bet365 bonus code to use when looking to unlock a bet $1 get $200 in bonus bets offer.
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Explaining more on the bet365 bonus code
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The five states you can redeem this welcome offer in are Iowa, Ohio, New Jersey, Colorado, and Tennessee.
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You can count on bet365′s app to have incredibly fast load times and be very clean to navigate. Their app also offers promotions such as their MLB early payout offer and multi-sport parlay profit boost.
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Taking a look at Saturday’s sporting slate for bet365 players
Odds are accurate as of time of publish from bet365 Sportsbook and are subject to change.
As mentioned atop this piece, there’s no shortage of sporting action to bet on when you combine MLB, UFC, and World Cup action.
But for this section, I’m choosing to focus on UFC 291, which has one of my most anticipated cards of the year headlined by Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje fighting in the main event.
Poirier enters the fight as the -150 priced favorite over Gaethje (+125). These two met back in 2018 with Poirier winning in a classic fight. But these fighters have both grown immensely since that encounter.
Their tale of the tape is nearly identical, with both being 34 years old and having stellar records. If you’re looking for an upset pick that isn’t too big of a long-shot, Gaethje’s price might be intriguing.
I fully anticipate this fight ending by KO as well, with Poirier at +135 to win by Ko and Gaethje priced at +210 to win by KO.
Other fights on the card include Alex Pereira vs Jan Blackowicz, Stephen Thompson vs Michel Pereira, and Tony Ferguson vs Bobby Green.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Historical Society is giving Hoosiers a chance to learn about the war, from fellow Hoosiers.
The week of July 24, 2023 marks 70 years since the armistace ending the Korean War.
Hoosier Voices from the Korean War will give visitors a look into the war through letters, photographs and words from Indiana veterans.
The educational event takes place from 2-3 p.m. Saturday, July 29. It is included with admission to the museum.
To reserve your tickets, click here. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/hoosier-voices-from-korean-war-indiana-veterans-education-america/531-1ad2ca5a-7340-42db-ad33-df1d6f9aa1c2 | 2023-07-29T11:14:00 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/hoosier-voices-from-korean-war-indiana-veterans-education-america/531-1ad2ca5a-7340-42db-ad33-df1d6f9aa1c2 |
DEAR AMY: My friend “Annie” and I are both in our mid-20s and love musicals. We decided to travel to New York in October to see a few shows.
The tickets were fairly pricey, so I was planning on saving money by staying with a friend who lives in the city. I thought my friend could probably make room for Annie, too.
After we agreed on the dates and shows, Annie sent me a screenshot with an order confirmation for her tickets, accompanied by a message saying she’d invited her husband and hoped that was okay.
I was frustrated. It was the first time in our planning she’d mentioned her husband coming. The way she did it really boxed me in.
Her husband and I are friends, but the past few times he joined us for shows he fell asleep and audibly snored.
If she had brought it up earlier, I would have pushed back.
I now have two questions: First, my friend can’t host three extra people in their tiny apartment.
Is it all right if I leave Annie and her husband to find a hotel on their own?
How do I express that even though I like her husband, I don’t always want him included on every trip; and that she needs to ask way earlier in the planning process if she wants to bring him?
– Broadway Blues
DEAR BROADWAY: Younger couples sometimes feel the need to do every single thing together (more seasoned couples offer one another more latitude), and I have a theory that “Annie’s” husband might have wheeled his way in, just as she was perusing the online theater seating chart for her ticket.
But even if Annie felt danced into a corner, she absolutely should have run this change past you before committing.
You fear that your friend’s choice has transformed your fun two-person Broadway weekend into a production of Sartre’s famous three-character play “No Exit” (“Hell is other people…”), but I hope you will take this as a valuable lesson to always communicate and clarify. (Trust me, this lesson is worth the price of a Broadway ticket.)
Tell her now, “I’m frustrated. I thought this was a two-person weekend. I like your husband, but now I feel like a third wheel. I really wish you had discussed this with me beforehand. Also, unfortunately there is no way my friend can squeeze in three extra people, so can you two find a place to stay?”
After telling her this, I hope you will simply will yourself into having a fun time in New York. If you let this frustration defeat you, the weekend really will have been a waste.
***
DEAR AMY: I am flabbergasted by the letter from “Disturbed” telling us about the wedding invitation she received that was asking for donations toward the honeymoon destination, the wedding cake, etc.
I hope most potential newlyweds would understand how off-putting it actually is.
I had a beautiful wedding and requested nothing from my guests, except their treasured attendance!
– Put Off
DEAR PUT OFF: Marrying couples may have misunderstood my off-repeated advice that they need to finance their own weddings.
(I never intended that their guests should pay.)
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MORE FROM ASK AMY:
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Ask Amy: My son’s wife made it clear he was too close to his mother and that it must stop
Ask Amy: Vietnam vet hopes to reconcile with his sister and her husband, who dodged the draft
Ask Amy: Life with a low-level pot dealer
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(You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.)
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Churchill Downs is preparing for races at the famed Louisville racetrack.
In a meeting presenting the second quarter earnings to investors, officials confirmed the fall meet will be at Churchill Downs.
Tickets are now on sale for the September Meet; the first race is at 5 p.m. on Sept. 14.
This comes after the spring meet moved to Ellis Park in western Kentucky. The relocation last month followed 12 horse deaths that happened at Churchill Downs since mid-April.
Churchill Downs also announced new safety initiatives and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority launched an investigation. That investigation is still underway as of this writing.
While several of the necropsies have been released, no discernible pattern has been identified.
To see the full September Meet schedule, click here. If you're interested in getting tickets early, you can do so here.
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The Giants completed their first week of training camp with a Friday night practice in East Rutherford and what an eventful (and successful) week it was for them.
At this time last week, the belief around the NFL was that the Giants would be going through most of training camp without star running back Saquon Barkley and that might cast a pall on coach Brian Daboll’s effort to get his team ready for a second straight playoff run in 2023. | https://www.nj.com/giants/2023/07/giants-training-camp-could-this-be-the-year-the-big-play-offense-returns.html | 2023-07-29T11:14:06 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/giants/2023/07/giants-training-camp-could-this-be-the-year-the-big-play-offense-returns.html |
2 years after a woman and her dog were slain in an Atlanta park, police renew calls for public help
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police have renewed calls for the public’s help to try to solve the gruesome stabbing death of a woman who was walking her dog at a popular park two years ago. Forty-year-old Katherine Janness was found just inside an entrance to Piedmont Park around 1 a.m. on July 28, 2021. She had been stabbed multiple times. Her dog, Bowie, was also found fatally stabbed nearby. Police Lt. Germain Dearlove issued an entreaty to the public Friday at a news conference. He urged anyone who may have seen or heard something suspicious related to the killing to report it to police. Police still do not have have a suspect despite having cast a wide net in the investigation. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/2-years-after-a-woman-and-her-dog-were-slain-in-an-atlanta-park-police-renew-calls-for-public-help/ | 2023-07-29T11:14:10 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/2-years-after-a-woman-and-her-dog-were-slain-in-an-atlanta-park-police-renew-calls-for-public-help/ |
A house in Howell that sold for $875,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Howell area in the past week.
In total, 23 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $559,235. The average price per square foot ended up at $300.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-howell-area-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T11:14:12 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-howell-area-july-17-23.html |
Donald Trump appeals judge’s decision to keep hush-money case in New York state court
By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court Friday to reverse a federal judge’s decision to keep his hush-money criminal case in a New York state court that the former president claims is “very unfair” to him.
Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan after U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein last week rejected his bid to move the case to federal court, where his lawyers were primed to argue he was immune from prosecution.
U.S. law allows criminal prosecutions to be moved from state to federal court if they involve actions taken by federal government officials as part of their official duties, but Hellerstein ruled that the hush-money case involved a personal matter, not presidential duties.
Trump’s appeal notice came at the end of another busy week of legal action for the twice-indicted Republican as he seeks a return to the White House in next year’s election. On Thursday, he was indicted on new criminal charges in a separate case in federal court in Florida involving allegations that he illegally hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the hush-money case and fought to keep it in state court, declined to comment on Trump’s appeal.
Trump pleaded not guilty April 4 in state court to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide reimbursements made to his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen for his role in paying $130,000 to the porn actor Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.
Cohen also arranged for the National Enquirer to pay Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her story about an alleged affair, which the supermarket tabloid then squelched in a dubious journalism practice known as “catch-and-kill.”
Trump denied having sexual encounters with either woman. His lawyers argue the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses and not part of any cover-up.
He is scheduled to stand trial in state court on March 25, 2024. In the meantime, his lawyers have asked the state court judge presiding over the case, Juan Manuel Merchan, to step aside, arguing that he’s biased in part because his daughter does political consulting work for some of Trump’s Democratic rivals. Trump has referred to Merchan as “a Trump-hating judge” with a family full of “Trump haters.” The judge has yet to rule on the request.
In seeking to try the hush-money case tried in federal court, Trump’s lawyers have argued that some of his alleged conduct amounted to official presidential duties because it occurred in 2017 while he was president, including checks he purportedly wrote while sitting in the Oval Office.
Moving the case from state court to federal court would have significant legal and practical consequences for Trump. In federal court, for example, his lawyers could then try to get the charges dismissed on the grounds that federal officials have immunity from prosecution over actions taken as part of their official job duties.
A shift to federal court would also mean a more politically diverse jury pool — drawing not only from heavily Democratic Manhattan, where Trump is wildly unpopular, but also from suburban counties north of the city where he has more political support. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/donald-trump-appeals-judges-decision-to-keep-hush-money-case-in-new-york-state-court/ | 2023-07-29T11:14:16 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/donald-trump-appeals-judges-decision-to-keep-hush-money-case-in-new-york-state-court/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tampa police are investigating a shooting that happened Friday night.
According to police, the shooting happened on East Shadowlawn Avenue near 36th Street.
At least one fatality has been confirmed. However, authorities said several people have been shot.
It is not unknown if the scene is still active as of this report.
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The Cult of Joey Flaphole bonds over tragedy, shared love of RAGBRAI nicknames
Heat, humidity, hills and headwind.
That was how the self-dubbed Cult of Joey Flaphole, a collective of Southerners with loads of cycling experience, described Friday’s 80-mile voyage from Tama-Toldeo to Coralville. And one more adjective, too — hell.
The group is made up of more than a dozen members wrangled together by Joseph Scott Murphey, a historical architect for the Department of Defense.
He goes by his first name as the so-called "cult leader" for one week every year, loading up friends and family from Arlington, Texas, as well as recruits from Florida, Georgia and Tennessee. Together, the Cult of Joey Flaphole navigates Iowa from river to river.
In Arlington, the group rides three times a week, Sharon Urquhart told the Press-Citizen Friday in Coralville.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, they take it easy, riding for about 18 miles in about 90 minutes. On Saturdays, they ride for roughly 30 miles.
Murphey and his co-worker Jodie Foster (not that one) unintentionally formed the group when they rode RAGBRAI in 2011. Murphey used a tent that had a peculiar flap hole that Murphey would peek his head through.
The nickname was born.
The group has nicknames for one another, from "To the Right MF’er" to "J’Mo" and "Lt. Dan," each with unique origins. Murphey’s wife, Paula, the managing editor of the Boy Scouts of Americ magazine “Scout Life,” was dubbed Lt. Dan because her e-bike “gives her magic legs," a reference to the 1994 movie "Forrest Gump."
Foster has a Ph.D. in economics, so he became "The Invisible Hand," the economic term for forces that drive the market.
The Miracle of the Flapsie and the memories of the past
Tragedy has followed the Cult of Joey Flaphole throughout the years, bringing the group closer on each ride.
Foster suffered a massive heart attack last year while training for RAGBRAI, but was on the seat again in time for the ride just a few weeks later. Though doctors had cleared him, Murphey said it was still incredible to have biking across Iowa as the other half of their duo for the 11th time.
Sadly, tragedy struck again Thursday night when Foster was pedaling alongside Murphey. His father had passed away, forcing Foster to cut his annual ride short.
By chance, Murphey had his vehicle, a lucky break after forgetting his shoes on day one of the 50th RAGBRAI. That meant the team could take Foster to the airport and fly him back to Texas.
It was a "Miracle of the Flapsie," Murphey said.
Murphey has battled through his own family heartbreak which happened nearly 30 years prior. His father passed away in 1994. Murphey took his dad along for one final ride in 2017, carrying his ashes with him on what he called Dad-BRAI. Murphey left his dad's remains in seven spots throughout the state, including Buddy Holly’s crash site in Clear Lake.
Fellow teammate Raul "Gorilla"endured his own medical problems before eventually passing in 2022. He bravely powered through RAGBRAI in 2018, one week after chemotherapy treatment for cancer. He passed away last year, just before RAGBRAI pedaled off. This year, Murphey left a small piece of Raul's bike to honor him. He's also referenced on this year's team jerseys.
“RAGBRAI was a huge part of (Raul's) funeral,” Murphey said. “At his service, they had his bike and his riding helmet and all of that sort of stuff.”
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A mother-son duo took different paths to RAGBRAI
Joey Murphey's sister-in-law, Amy Wright teaches English in Texas. She doesn’t like to be told what to do.
That stubborn attitude is exactly how she earned the "Move to the Right MF’er" nickname.
When she was a RAGBRAI “virgin” last year − how riders refer to first-timers − people would shout at her and tell her to move over. She hated it.
The rest of the group had a good time with her frustration, giving Wright her new nickname.
Wright's son, Charlie, first rode in 2019 as a high school student and had plenty of time to train. His impressive feat that first year was cruising across the state on a one-speed bike.
Murphey inspired Charlie Wright’s college essay by teaching him about the pain cave, where he says you should go when pain begins to creep in.
Charlie Wright has decorated his pain cave with lamps and settles in, allowing him to push on. That inspired 500-word essay earned him entry into Texas A&M University, instilling a useful mentality he leans on today.
“I related it to life and how you have hills and you have battles, but sometimes it’s just better to deal with it when you get there rather than look up at the hill and worry about it,” Charlie Wright said. “Keep your head down and get over it.”
Charlie Wright's significant college load left him well behind on training for his return to RAGBRAI in 2021, though he was eager to ride with his family. The statewide terk forced him to call on his pain cave yet again.
He does regular pushups and can run a mile and a half in 8:30, which meant RAGBRAI wasn't much of a challenge. Charlie Wright was drawn to the single-speed bike again, hoping to surpass Murphey’s personal record of four RAGBRAIs on a single-speed.
RAGBRAI's final leg on Saturday leads riders into Davenport, a 71-mile trek through Kinnick Stadium and Iowa City, West Liberty, Muscatine and Buffalo.
Ryan Hansen covers local government and crime for the Press-Citizen. He can be reached atrhansen@press-citizen.com or on Twitter @ryanhansen01. | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/entertainment/2023/07/28/the-cult-of-joey-flaphole-has-been-taking-down-ragbrai-since-2011/70490653007/ | 2023-07-29T11:14:18 | 0 | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/entertainment/2023/07/28/the-cult-of-joey-flaphole-has-been-taking-down-ragbrai-since-2011/70490653007/ |
A house in Lakewood that sold for $1 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Lakewood area in the past week.
In total, 21 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $450,095. The average price per square foot ended up at $271.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-lakewood-area-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T11:14:18 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-lakewood-area-july-17-23.html |
Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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Swedish mining firm Boliden is exempted from paying compensation for toxic spill in Spain in 1998
By DAVID BRUNAT
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Sweden’s mining firm Boliden has been exempted from paying 89 million euros, or about $98 million, in compensation for the cleaning of a toxic sludge spill that occurred in 1998 in southern Spain. A court in the city of Seville delivered the verdict on Friday. The ruling dismissed claims by the regional government of Andalusia, which demanded that Boliden pay for the environmental cleaning operation following the breakage of a polluting pond at a mine in Aznalcóllar that was managed by the Swedish company at that time. The Aznalcóllar disaster is, in terms of volume, the second worst toxic spill in Spain’s history. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/swedish-mining-firm-boliden-is-exempted-from-paying-compensation-for-toxic-spill-in-spain-in-1998/ | 2023-07-29T11:14:22 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/swedish-mining-firm-boliden-is-exempted-from-paying-compensation-for-toxic-spill-in-spain-in-1998/ |
There may be a coastal shower this morning with temps starting out around 80, but most of the rain will arrive by lunchtime and last throughout the day. Eventually storms will move inland slowly with highs rising to the low to mid 90s. Feels like temperatures will be around 105 degrees.
This weather pattern will stay with us throughout much of the week with storms arriving before noon and persisting throughout the evening before moving eastward.
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A house in Sewell that sold for $540,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Washington Township in the past week.
In total, 27 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $371,299, $210 per square foot.
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Blinken says US economic support for Niger is at risk as military takeover threatens stability
By BRIAN P. D. HANNON and ROD MCGUIRK
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Political instability in Niger resulting from a military takeover that deposed the president this week threatens the economic support provided by Washington to the African nation, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Saturday.
Members of the Niger military announced on Wednesday they had deposed democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum and on Friday named Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani as the country’s new leader, adding Niger to a growing list of military regimes in West Africa’s Sahel region.
Blinken, who is in Australia as part of a Pacific tour, said the continued security and economic arrangements that Niger has with the U.S. hinged on the release of Bazoum and “the immediate restoration of the democratic order in Niger.”
“Our economic and security partnership with Niger — which is significant, hundreds of millions of dollars — depends on the continuation of the democratic governance and constitutional order that has been disrupted by the actions in the last few days,” Blinken said. “So that assistance, that support, is in clear jeopardy as a result of these actions, which is another reason why they need to be immediately reversed.”
Blinken stopped short of calling the military actions in Niger a coup, a designation that could result in the African country losing millions of dollars of military aid and assistance.
Speaking in Brisbane, Blinken said he had spoken with President Bazoum on Saturday but did not provide details. He cited the support of the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States and other regional entities in trying to bring an end to the unrest.
“The very significant assistance that we have in place that’s making a material difference in the lives of the people of Niger is clearly in jeopardy and we’ve communicated that as clearly as we possibly can to those responsible for disrupting the constitutional order and Niger’s democracy,” Blinken said.
Blinken said the U.S. Embassy in Niger had accounted for the safety of all staff members and their families, while issuing a security alert advising U.S. citizens in the country to limit unnecessary movements and avoid areas impacted by the coup.
The military group that conducted the coup, calling itself the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, said its members remained committed to engaging with the international and national community.
“This is as a result of the continuing degradation of the security situation, the bad economic and social governance,” air force Col. Major Amadou Abdramane said in the video released by the coup leaders Wednesday. He said aerial and land borders were closed and a curfew was in place until the situation stabilized.
Bazoum was elected two years ago in Niger’s first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from France.
Niger is seen as the last reliable partner for the West in efforts to battle jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Africa’s Sahel region, where Russia and Western countries have vied for influence in the fight against extremism.
France has 1,500 soldiers in the country who conduct joint operations with Niger’s military, while the U.S. and other European countries have helped train the nation’s troops.
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BALTIMORE — Yankees pitcher Carlos Rodon spent a few minutes Friday afternoon relaxing at his locker stall in the air-conditioned visiting clubhouse at Oriole Park before heading outside to endure 97 and muggy for the team stretch.
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader urges Muslims to ‘punish’ Quran desecrators if governments fail to do so
By ABBY SEWELL
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BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says that if governments of Muslim-majority nations do not act against countries that allow desecration of the Quran, Muslims should “punish” those who facilitate attacks on Islam’s holy book. Hassan Nasrallah called on Muslims to monitor a scheduled meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Baghdad on Monday. He said the organization should “send a firm, decisive and unequivocal message to these governments that any repeat of the attacks will be met with a boycott.” Nasrallah spoke in a video address on Saturday to thousands gathered in Beirut’s southern suburbs to mark Ashoura, a Shiite holy day commemorating the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/lebanons-hezbollah-leader-urges-muslims-to-punish-quran-desecrators-if-governments-fail-to-do-so/ | 2023-07-29T11:14:35 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/lebanons-hezbollah-leader-urges-muslims-to-punish-quran-desecrators-if-governments-fail-to-do-so/ |
Residents without power prepare for extreme heat, try to keep food from spoiling
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SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (WXYZ) — Some people in metro Detroit are estimated to be in the dark until Sunday as many are bracing for extreme heat Friday.
The timing of the storm was not ideal and could be potentially dangerous for people who lost power after storms Wednesday.
Cleophus Henley, who lives on Magnolia Avenue in Southfield, spent his morning cleaning up tree limbs.
Henley says he does have a bigger concern. His electricity is out, which means the refrigerator isn’t running.
“I did a lot of fishing this year. I caught all that fish, cleaned it up and got it in the freezer, and don’t want it to get ruined. So, I got to make a decision between today and tomorrow,” Henley said.
Henley’s wife Linda has been trying to keep electronics charged. For now, she’s using her car.
“Got to charge it up to stay in contact with relatives,” Linda Henley said.
Linda Henley says she watched the storm closely. It was fast and the winds were intense.
Her faith in the power grid wasn’t as strong as her husband’s.
“As soon as I turn around, it went out just like that. Well, here goes the power, and I am not expecting it to come on anytime soon,” Linda Henley said.
Redford resident Michelle Beauchamp says DTE Energy always tends to show up too late in this neighborhood. She doesn’t have a generator or anywhere else to go.
“This is just not right. It’s not fair. It’s 90 degrees outside. It’s not fair,” Beauchamp said.
She says by Friday, all her food will likely spoil.
“What am I going to do?” Beauchamp said.
Bob Burr was hoping to save his food, but his generator is just not the little engine that could.
“I ordered another one that will start the refrigerator,” Burr said.
As Cleophus Henley mentioned, there are decisions to make and sometimes, you have to get creative.
“Right now, I just got a cooler with ice and water,” Cleophus Henley said.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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Relief from heat wave is on the way for Northeast and mid-Atlantic, but southern areas remain at risk
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN
(CNN) — The brunt of extreme heat that has been choking the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions this week is expected to end late Saturday, but many in southern US are set to endure suffocating temperatures for a few more days as heat-related deaths rise.
Various heat alerts persist for millions stretching from Missouri to Virginia and New Jersey, but most of them are expected to expire Saturday night. During the day, temperatures will not let up.
“Many places are set to break their temperature records for daytime highs as well as warm nighttime lows through Saturday morning,” the National Weather Service said, adding that some areas in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic can expect their highest temperatures so far this year.
The dangerously high temperatures have proven deadly in Arizona, Illinois and Texas as the expansive heat wave spread across much of the country, with humidity also playing a role in exacerbating the physical impacts on humans, animals and plants.
Experts agree that human-induced climate change is a main factor leading to record high temperatures, and scientists say July will be the planet’s hottest month on record.
Heat indexes – a measure of what the temperature feels like on the skin when accounting for relative humidity – are expected to hover around 100 and 110 degrees Saturday over parts of the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
But relief is on the way for some: On Sunday, a cold front will progress through the mid-Atlantic, ultimately ending the heat wave for much of the East Coast.
Meanwhile, the Southwest is expected in a heat wave for several days before some ease sets in. Phoenix may end its dayslong streak of highs above 110 degrees on Sunday, while Las Vegas is expected to see highs exceeding 100 degrees into early next week. Another heat wave is expected to build early next week across the South and Gulf Coast.
Here’s how the heat has been impacting communities across the country:
• Heat-related deaths rise in US: In Illinois, a 53-year-old woman died Thursday in her Peoria apartment, which didn’t have air conditioning because power had been disconnected there, the Peoria County coroner’s office said. She died from “an exacerbation of her chronic medical conditions due to the excessive heat in the apartment,” the coroner’s office said. In Texas, a 66-year-old woman died early Tuesday from the extreme heat after being taken to a hospital from her apartment in North Richland Hills, police said.
• Arizona county prepares for deaths overflow: Arizona’s Maricopa County has added 10 refrigerated containers to handle a possible overflow of heat-related deaths. The containers haven’t been needed yet, but the medical examiner’s office is over its normal capacity, a county spokesperson told CNN affiliate KTVK/KPHO. The county, home to the state’s most populous city, Phoenix, had already reported 25 heat-associated deaths so far this year as of Monday. Dozens of other deaths were under investigation for a potential link to heat.
• Heat alerts: Washington, DC, and parts of Maryland and Virginia along with St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, are under an excessive heat warning Saturday. Philadelphia, New York City, and Newark, New Jersey, are under heat advisories.
The extreme heat has taken a toll on animals in Tennessee this week. Authorities rescued 21 dogs from a garage and a concrete shed-like structure on the premises of a Lawrenceburg home that’s “unfit for human or animal lodging” the Lawrence County sheriff said. Temperatures in the area were in the 90s, and the dogs had no food or water. The dogs were removed from the property and received treatment.
In Arizona this week, some cactuses have died at a Phoenix botanical garden from soaring temperatures, and officials in the state also were reporting emergency room visits for extreme heat burns after people fall to the ground.
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Todd and Julie Chrisley’s living conditions in prison are a ‘nightmare,’ according to their kids
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
(CNN) — Former reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley are enduring prison conditions their children describe as “inhumane.”
In the latest episode of her podcast “Unlocked w/ Savannah Chrisley,” Savannah Chrisley, 25, and her brother Chase Chrisley, 27, discussed how their parents are doing since they began their prison sentences.
The two were convicted last year of conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in loans. The “Chrisley Knows Best” stars and their accountant, Peter Tarantino, were also convicted of several tax crimes.
Todd Chrisley is serving a 12-year sentence at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Pensacola, Florida, while Julie Chrisley was sentenced to seven years. She was sent to the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Lexington in Lexington, Kentucky.
Savannah noted that her brother had just visited their father and “you got to hear about the cluster of everything going on at his facility.”
“It’s a nightmare,” Chase said.
“Now they both have no air conditioning,” he continued. “They’re both in states where it gets to be 100+ degrees, and there’s no air conditioning.”
He also corrected his sister when she said “rattlesnakes just casually slithering on the floor in front of her” in reference to their mother’s imprisonment, with him saying that it was another type of poisonous snake.
Savannah then alleged that the facilities where her parents are serving their time has issues with asbestos, black mold and lead-based paint, though she seemed doubtful that the general public would care.
“I mean, Chase, it is prison so we’re not going to sit here and act like it should be the Four Seasons,” she said. “It’s prison, so people don’t have any sympathy for it.”
She also claimed that the facilities were hiding the problems when inspectors came since officials receive prior notification of such visits.
A spokesperson for the the Bureau of Prisons told CNN in a statement that they would not comment on “anecdotal allegations,” adding “for privacy, safety, and security reasons we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any specific adult in custody (AIC) or group of AICs.”
“We can assure you all AICs have unlimited access to drinking water and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is monitoring the ventilation at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Pensacola and the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Lexington, as one of our highest priorities is the safety of BOP employees and AICs,” the statement read. “Every BOP facility, including FPC Pensacola and FMC Lexington, has contingency plans to address a large range of concerns or incidents, including ventilation temperatures, and is fully equipped and prepared to implement these plans as necessary.”
Their adult children, who were also featured on the show, have been sharing periodic updates about their parents’ lives behind bars since January.
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US national parks are crowded – and so are many national forests, wildlife refuges, battlefields and seashores
By Emily Wakild
(CNN) — Outdoor recreation is on track for another record-setting year. In 2022, US national parks logged more than 300 million visits – and that means a lot more people on roads and trails.
While research shows that spending time outside is good for physical and mental health, long lines and gridlocked roads can make the experience a lot less fun. Crowding also makes it harder for park staff to protect wildlife and fragile lands and respond to emergencies. To manage the crowds, some parks are experimenting with timed-entry vehicle reservation systems and permits for popular trails.
For all of their popularity, national parks are just one subset of US public lands. Across the nation, the federal government owns more than 640 million acres (2.6 million square kilometers) of land. Depending on each site’s mission, its uses may include logging, livestock grazing, mining, oil and gas production, wildlife habitat or recreation – often, several of these at once. In contrast, national parks exist solely to protect some of the most important places for public enjoyment.
In my work as a historian and researcher, I’ve explored the history of public land management and the role of national parks in shaping landscapes across the Americas. Many public lands are prime recreational territory and are also becoming increasingly crowded. Finding solutions requires visitors, gateway communities, state agencies and the outdoor industry to collaborate.
Alternatives to national parks
The US government is the nation’s largest land manager by far. Federal property makes up 28% of surface land area across the 50 states. In Western states like Nevada, the federal footprint can be as large as 80% of the land. That’s largely because much of this land is arid, and lack of water makes farming difficult. Other areas that are mountainous or forested were not initially viewed as valuable when they came under US ownership – but values have changed.
Public lands are more diverse than national parks. Some are scenic; others are just open space. They include all kinds of ecosystems, from forests to grasslands, coastlines, red rock canyons, deserts and ranges covered with sagebrush. They also include battlefields, rivers, trails and monuments. Many are remote, but others are near or within major metropolitan areas.
Many people who love hiking, fishing, backpacking or other outdoor activities know that national parks are crowded, and they often seek other places to enjoy nature, including public lands. That trend intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic, when lockdowns and social distancing protocols motivated people to get outside wherever they could.
The rise of remote work has also fueled a population shift toward smaller Western towns with access to open space and good internet access for videoconferencing. Popular remote work bases like Durango, Colorado, and Bend, Oregon, have become known as “Zoom towns” – a fresh take on the old boomtowns that brought people west in the 19th century.
With these new populations, gateway communities close to popular public lands face critical decisions. Outdoor recreation is a powerful economic engine: In 2021, it contributed an estimated US$454 billion to the nation’s economy – more than auto manufacturing and air transport combined.
But embracing recreational tourism can lead local communities into the amenity trap – the paradox of loving a place to death. Recreation economies that fail to manage growth, or that neglect investments in areas like housing and infrastructure, risk compromising the sense of place that draws visitors. But planning can proactively shape growth to maintain community character and quality of life.
Broadening recreation
People use public lands for many activities beyond a quiet hike in the woods. For instance, the Phoenix District of the federal Bureau of Land Management operates more than 3 million acres across central Arizona for at least 14 different recreational uses, including hiking, fishing, boating, target shooting, rock collecting and riding off-road vehicles.
Not all of these activities are compatible, and many have not traditionally been rigorously managed. For example, target shooters sometimes bring objects like old appliances or furniture to use as improvised targets, then leave behind an unsightly mess. In response, the Phoenix District has designated recreational shooting sites where it provides targets and warns against shooting at objects containing glass or hazardous materials, as well as cactuses.
Skiing also can pose crowding challenges. Many downhill skiing facilities in the West operate on public land with permits from the managing agency – typically, the US Forest Service.
One example, Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area is a nonprofit ski slope 16 miles from Boise, Idaho. Demand surges on winter weekends with fresh powder, creating long lift lines and crowded slopes.
The mountain is open for 12 hours a day, and Bogus Basin uses creative pricing structures for lift tickets to spread crowds out. For example, it draws younger skiers with discounted night skiing and retired skiers during the week. As a result, the parking lot only filled up once in the 2022-2023 season.
Local governments can help find ways to balance access with creative crowd management. In Seattle, King County launched Trailhead Direct to provide transit-to-trails services from Seattle to the Cascade Mountains. This approach expands access to the outdoors for city residents and reduces traffic on busy Interstate 90 and crowding in trailhead parking lots.
Other towns have partnered with federal land agencies to maintain trail systems, like the Ridge to Rivers network outside Boise and the River Reach trails near Farmington, New Mexico. This helps the towns provide better nearby outdoor opportunities for residents and attract new businesses whose employees value quality of life. Creating corridors from the “backyard to the backcountry,” as the Bureau of Land Management puts it, can help create vibrant communities.
A less-extractive view of public lands
For many years, Western communities have viewed public lands as places to mine, log and graze sheep and cattle. Tensions between states and the federal government over federal land policy often reflect state resentment over decisions made in Washington, D.C. about local resources.
Now, land managers are seeing a pivot. While federal control will never be welcome in some areas, Western communities increasingly view federal lands as amenities and anchors for immense opportunities, including recreation and economic growth. For example, Idaho is investing $100 million for maintenance and expanded access on state lands, mirroring federal efforts.
As environmental law scholar Robert Keiter has pointed out, the U.S. has a lot of laws governing activities like logging, mining and energy development on public lands, but there’s little legal guidance for recreation. Instead, agencies, courts and presidents are developing what Keiter calls “a common law of outdoor recreation,” bit by bit. By addressing crowding and the environmental impacts of recreation, I believe local communities can help the U.S. move toward better stewardship of our nation’s awe-inspiring public lands.
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Adidas clearing out more Yeezy shoes in second wave
By Parija Kavilanz, CNN
New York (CNN) — Adidas is releasing a second wave of Yeezy shoes into the market as it moves to clear out the inventory of its defunct collaboration with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
The sportswear company had been under pressure from investors to determine what to do with the merchandise after Adidas, in 2022, terminated its partnership with Ye because of his offensive and antisemitic remarks.
Adidas disclosed in May that it would sell the remaining Yeezy stock “and donate money to the organizations that are helping us and that was also hurt by Kanye’s statements.”
The company had previously said it expected to lose $1.3 billion in revenue this year because it was unable to sell the designer’s Yeezy clothing and shoes. But strong sales so far of leftover Yeezy inventory is helping it to recoup some of its losses, the company said.
The latest round of Yeezy product clearance following the May release of unsold merchandise will be made available to shoppers through August in the US and worldwide with Adidas committed to donating a “significant amount to selected organizations working to combat discrimination and hate, including racism and antisemitism.”
The merchandise includes 2022 products from the Yeezy brand that will be sold online only..
–CNN’s Jordan Valinsky contributed to this story
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Wage growth cools in a positive sign for the Fed
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Washington, DC (CNN) — Wages gains cooled in the second quarter, showing some easing of inflationary pressures, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday.
Wages and benefits paid to US workers rose 1% in the second quarter from the prior one, a slightly weaker pace than the 1.2% gain in the first three months of the year.
The Employment Cost Index, a comprehensive report on employers’ compensation costs, advanced 4.5% in the second quarter from a year earlier, a slower pace than the 4.8% rise earlier in the year.
The weaker wage figures are a positive sign for the Federal Reserve, which is trying to cool the economy and bring the labor market into better balance to fight inflation still running well above the central bank’s 2% target.
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Barbie is a hit and all kinds of business are hopping on the bandwagon
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN
New York (CNN) — During its first few days in theaters, “Barbie” raked in $337 million globally in the box office, the largest opening weekend of 2023 so far. But even before the numbers came in, “Barbie” was a merchandising hit.
The film had been generating hype for months, thanks to a star-studded cast, beloved director, dazzling aesthetic — and a seemingly endless array of Barbie-themed merchandise.
In June, brand strategist Moshe Isaacian started keeping track of the official partnerships on Twitter. A scroll through his thread shows, among other things: A gaming console, pair of shoes, hotel, house, insurance commercial, a candle, rugs, nail polish, roller blades, a toy car, a lunchbox, dog apparel, a toothbrush and several other items emblazoned with the Barbie logo, awash in hot pink.
Isaacian has posted about roughly 50 partnerships. That’s, almost literally, the half of it: Mattel, maker of the iconic toy, has made over 100 brand deals for the movie, which is distributed by Warner Bros. (CNN and Warner Bros. are both owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.)
For marketers, “Barbie” has turned into a massive opportunity: A rosy, fizzy way to get new customers – of all ages – and stay culturally relevant. That’s always a good opportunity, but especially so in the current environment, where even seemingly benign marketing campaigns can be controversial.
And it’s not often that so much attention is focused on a single event, like a movie premier.
“We live in such a fragmented world, that it is really hard for events to break through the clutter,” said Tim Calkins, associate chair of the marketing department at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. “These shared moments, when they really catch on, have enormous power.”
The Barbie effect
For some bars and restaurants, Barbie mania has led to a rush of patrons.
In the spring, when Barbie memes started leaving their glittery trail across the internet, the team at Wunder Garten, a beer garden and event space in Washington, DC, started to take notice.
Around that time, it started planning Barbie parties: Celebrations with themed cocktails, pink food and plenty of opportunities to show off Barbiecore outfits in the Instagram-friendly venue, including life-size hot pink Barbie and Ken boxes.
“We were expecting a very big turnout, and we got a very, very big turnout,” said Leana Chavez, assistant manager at Wunder Garten.
Meanwhile, retailers have used partnerships to boost product sales.
Candle maker Homesick has been selling a Barbie Dreamhouse candle with notes of sweet peony, rose bush and pink jasmine, among other scents. The candle drove a 39% increase in sales in June, year-over-year, according to Lauren McCord, General Manager of Homesick. And most of that came from new customers: Over 70% of Dreamhouse purchases were made by new clients.
The Barbie brand is particularly powerful because it appeals to multiple generations, noted Christie Nordhielm, an associate teaching professor of marketing at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
By marketing Barbie products to adults, large retailers may be able to get them to buy similar products for kids.
“Parents, or possibly other family members, will gatekeep on whether this product comes in,” she said. With Barbie products that appeal to grown-ups, marketers are “getting that interactivity between adults and children, that bonding,” which can also be used as a selling point.
Gap may benefit from this aspect of the marketing. The clothing retailer offers a Barbie line that includes Gap and Barbie branded t-shirts, jackets and more, for both kids and adults. A Gap spokesperson noted that the collection “has been killing it across all categories.” The relationship between Gap and Mattel runs deep: On Wednesday, Gap announced that its new CEO will be Richard Dickson, who currently serves as Mattel’s president and chief operating officer.
In retrospect, and with huge box office numbers under its belt, it seems clear why so many companies would want to work with “Barbie.” But partner products were conceived and launched well before the movie premiered, when there was a possibility that it wouldn’t be so well received. During that period of uncertainty, they may have been soothed by the sheer volume of partnerships.
In other words, if “Barbie” was a flop, they’d all go down together.
Strength in numbers
There are plenty of ways for “Barbie” to have gone wrong.
The doll itself has a spotty history, and with its inhuman proportions has been accused of upholding unrealistic beauty standards. Plus, movies in general are not a safe financial bet: Aside from breakthroughs like “Barbie” and Oppenheimer, box office sales have been disappointing, making a sluggish return after pandemic-era theater closures.
And there was no guarantee that people would like the movie. Some might still see Barbie as anti-feminist, or anti-male, and the movie as little more than a major corporate effort to boost the doll’s sales. Others may have been turned off by the relentless marketing, especially for a movie with a message that (spoiler alert) people don’t need to buy products to feel good about themselves. And then there’s the fact that “Barbie” was directed by a woman and marketed to women, which can inspire online trolling.
For brand partners, “there was some risk that this movie might be a total bomb,” said David Reibstein, professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school. But that risk was “dampened by the fact that others are doing it. And so if we look bad, well, we’re not alone.”
But while there have been calls to boycott the film, they don’t seem to have gotten much traction. Now, with everything coming up Barbie, marketers may lose out by staying away.
“I think there is a risk of not doing it,” Reibstein said. “If you happen to be a retailer and you see the other retailers doing it, you sort of feel like you need to be on the bandwagon… and not miss whatever Barbie wave there might be.” At this stage, that may mean using the success of “Barbie” to market pre-existing hot pink products.
But with everyone going in, it becomes even harder to stand out.
This Barbie is just like all the others
If your promotion is too similar to another, “it’s going to limit the lift that you get, because it’s just more of the same,” said Northwestern’s Calkins. Once you see one Barbie-pink nail polish, for example, you probably won’t be wowed by another.
Isaacian, who started the Twitter thread, thinks Mattel has been strategic in choosing its partners, even though there are so many.
“They’ve really done a good job of making almost all parts of the movie feel tangible,” he said.
For Reibstein, the collaboration that stood out was the Airbnb Malibu Dreamhouse. Staying at the Dreamhouse is free, but Airbnb only made it available for two nights in July.
Prior to those dates, model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen shared photos of herself and her family in the Instagram-friendly house, including one boomerang video of her in a hot pink outfit and Ken-inspired roller blades.
Nordhielm pointed to Cold Stone Creamery’s Barbie pink cotton candy ice cream as a standout. “It”s a happy product, it’s a family product,” she said.
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Americans are spotting more sharks in the water. Here’s why that’s a good thing
By Christina Maxouris, CNN
(CNN) — It’s that time of year again: the thick of summer when sharks have caught America’s attention.
Unwanted interactions and shark sightings have made national headlines, and shark bites in popular tourist destinations have prompted temporary closures. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul deployed dozens of shark-monitoring drones to parts of the state after Long Island authorities repo rted five non-fatal shark bites over two days.
It may feel like you’ve been hearing about these large creatures more often this summer, and that just might be the case. Experts say that while estimating population numbers is difficult, there are signs that some shark populations off US coasts are slowly rebounding after decades of dramatic declines – the result of longtime conservation efforts across the country that are beginning to pay off.
“Sharks are coming back. Their numbers are growing,” said Dr. Bob Hueter, chief scientist for OCEARCH, a nonprofit ocean research and education organization. “They’re not overpopulated, they’re not even probably close to what they were back in the 1940s and 1950s. But they are making a comeback.”
But do more sharks make American beaches more dangerous?
Actually, no. But it will take some getting used to, experts said.
Here’s what to know.
Are there more sharks in American waters than the past few decades?
Experts, cautiously, believe so.
Up until the late 1960s, shark numbers remained relatively stable off US shores before they began to drastically plummet as a result of overfishing, bycatch, destruction of habitats and declines in some shark species’ prey.
By the late 1980s, roughly two-thirds of shark populations in American oceans had vanished, said Hueter, who has been studying sharks for more than five decades.
Hueter was among the conservationists who pushed for shark protections including the 1993 Fishery Management Plan for Sharks of the Atlantic Ocean, which set up restrictions around all US Atlantic federal shark fisheries and became the base for many rules still in place today. It also prohibited shark finning – the hunting of sharks for their fins. The practice was later banned across the United States. In 1997, the US established the prohibited shark species group, which barred the possession, sale and purchase of several shark species, including white and sand tiger sharks. More than a dozen shark species remain on that list. And protections like the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 helped restore the animals sharks feed on, including gray seals in the Northwest Atlantic where white shark populations are, as one outlet put it, “surging.”
“These measures were put into place and now here we are 30 years later, and we are seeing the resurgence of not only the white shark but also many of the other species,” Hueter said. “The fact is, we’re resetting our oceans and we’re restoring ecological balance by bringing these animals back.”
But before our collective sigh of relief, it’s worth noting sharks are not out of the woods by any means.
Globally, their numbers remain grim.
A 2021 study found over a third of sharks, rays and chimeras, a type of fish, are threatened with extinction, and in many parts of the world, sharks are still overfished. Every year, humans kill 73 to 100 million sharks for their fins, according to the Shark Research Institute.
How do we count sharks?
It’s really, really hard.
Methods like tagging or collecting information from fishermen have their limitations: Some sharks may get tagged because they swim closer to the surface than others that prefer deeper waters, and reports from fishermen may be biased, since they often travel to locations with plenty of fish, said Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the University of Florida.
Information can also come from surveying those who are regularly keeping an eye out on the waters, like lifeguards and pilots.
“We’ve looked at lifeguard sighting records over the last 25 years and we’ve noticed in the last 10 years, numbers of shark sightings have gone up,” said Chris Lowe, director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach.
“I’ve talked to pilots, either helicopter or fixed-wing pilots, that have been flying over Southern California for decades,” he said. “They all tell me they have never seen more sharks in their life than they have in the last eight to 10 years.”
Do more sharks = more bites?
First, let’s get one thing out of the way: The risk of being bitten by a shark remains exceptionally, remarkably, incredibly low. (Seriously, your chances are 1 in more than 3 million.)
Sharks simply are not interested in eating humans.
“If sharks … wanted to bite people, I think we’d probably have about between 10 and 20,000 shark bites a day,” said Naylor. “But they spend their entire time trying to avoid us.”
Between 2012 and 2021, there was an average of about 76 unprovoked shark bites across the globe annually, less than 8% of which were fatal, according to data from the International Shark Attack File. (Researchers place an emphasis on the unprovoked bites because they make up the overwhelming majority of bites, and can shed light on sharks’ behavior. They include accidental bites when sharks are hunting for fish in waters with low visibility. About 60% of all bites the ISAF records are in low-visibility waters, Naylor has said.)
And though there are more sharks in the water and more Americans flocking to beaches because of warming temperatures, last year saw a decrease in unprovoked shark bites, tying with 2020 – when many beaches closed due to Covid-19 – for the fewest number of incidents in the past decade.
So while sharks and Americans may be coming more in contact with each other, the rate of shark bites – in other words, their frequency – has not gone up. (And it can stay that way, Naylor said, if people practice simple precautions and stay aware of their surroundings.)
To test that theory, researchers from the Shark Lab flew drones over 26 southern California beaches once a month for roughly two years and noticed something striking: People and sharks were, more often than not, swimming peacefully just feet away from each other.
“At those sites, people and sharks were together 97% of the days that we surveyed. On a given survey day, there were probably half a dozen to a dozen times when a juvenile white shark was within 60 feet of a person in the water,” said Lowe, who co-authored the study.
Not a single bite was reported in that time period, the study says, proving more sharks do not have to mean a higher bite rate.
So, how can we best coexist?
Information is power. The more people know about where sharks are and how they operate, the less likely they are to get bitten, scientists say.
Drones, like those deployed across New York beaches, are among the most helpful bite-prevention tools and can help inform beach crowds when sharks are circling nearby, experts say.
But there are also individual measures anyone can take to keep safe. Stay in clear water and avoid areas with low visibility. And if you see schools of fish (especially if they’re jumping out of the water), get out of the water or move further away to avoid any accidents.
“We have to change our approach to using the ocean because we’ve had 50 years of the oceans being not what they should be, with less sharks, less fish,” Hueter said. “As we put things back, we have to recalibrate our understanding of what the ocean is.”
“You have to think of going into the ocean like you go into a national park, where there’s bears or mountain lions and take the proper precautions,” he added. “Having said that, your risk is still incredibly low of ever having a problem. You might see a shark go by, if you do, just remain calm and enjoy the view because you may never see that again.”
So instead of fearing them, cheer them on – but maybe from a distance.
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‘I thought I was going to lose my life’: Jadarrius Rose describes being attacked by police dog in Ohio
By Isabel Rosales and Zoe Sottile, CNN
(CNN) — Jadarrius Rose, the unarmed Black man who was attacked by a police dog in Ohio on July 4, described being “terrified” and fearing for his life during the assault in an interview with CNN.
Rose, 23, was driving a commercial semi-truck when he failed to pull over for an inspector trying to stop him for a missing mud flap, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol case report and footage released by the agency.
When Rose kept driving, the inspector called for backup. Then, video released by authorities shows police pursuing Rose, who does eventually pull over but does not exit the truck.
Rose told CNN that he first called his mother from the truck. “She told me if I know I didn’t do anything wrong, to pull over, so that’s what I did,” he said. Looking in his rearview mirror, he saw responding police officers “had guns pointed at me, so I didn’t feel safe at all.”
He then called 911 to ask what he should do. “I was just trying to figure out if they could help me,” he said. “I was scared, i didn’t understand why they had guns pointed at me, I didn’t know the reason for them pulling me over at the time.”
Rose, still on the phone with 911, said he drove back on the highway, continuing what became a three-county pursuit.
Rose said the 911 operator instructed him to follow officers’ directions, so he ultimately pulled over and exited the truck with his hands up. He said that while a state trooper instructed him to walk toward him, a police officer from the Circleview Police Department told him to “stay on the ground or you’ll get bit” – conflicting instructions that left him unsure what to do.
“I just stopped in the middle, because I didn’t know what was gonna happen,” he said. “I was afraid that something would happen, and it did happen.”
Despite repeated warnings from a state trooper to not release the K-9, former officer Ryan Speakman turned the dog on Rose. It’s not clear if Speakman heard the trooper’s warnings.
Video shows that at the moment of the dog attack, Rose was on his knees.
Speakman was fired by the Circleville Police Department after a review of the incident.
“When the dog was biting me I just was terrified,” Rose said. “I thought I was going to lose my life. I was in pain. I really couldn’t see what the other officers was doing because the dog was biting me and I was just in fear of my life. And I just was screaming in pain, and I just didn’t want to die. Like, I didn’t want to die in the hands of police.”
Ben Crump, a prominent civil rights attorney who has previously represented Randy Cox, Ajike Owens, and the family of George Floyd, is representing Rose.
Describing the video showing the dog attack Rose, Crump said, “He’s trying to do whatever he can do to survive the stop. That’s what Black people want to do when they interact with police, just survive.”
“He’s putting his hands up, he’s trying to do everything they said, he’s trying to do everything they tell him to do, putting your hands up is the universal sign of surrender, but yet that officer still orders the dog to attack him.”
Crump and Nana Watson, president of the Columbus branch of the NAACP, both reflected on the optics of a dog being unleashed on a Black man.
“This harkens back to the 1960s when unarmed Black people, who are not a threat at all, to the police, are still attacked by police dogs,” said Crump. “It’s disturbing that this officer did that in light of all the cameras that he knew was out there.”
A police review board is investigating the incident. Its findings are expected to be released next week, the mayor and police chief said.
‘What if I’m next?’
For Rose’s mother Carla Jones, his frantic phone call immediately summoned images of other Black people who have been the victims of police violence.
“I was nervous out of my mind,” she told CNN. “I was scared that he was gonna be killed.”
“I thought about Tyre Nichols,” she said, referencing the Black driver who died after being beaten by Memphis police in January. Crump is also representing Nichols’ family.
“I was like, I don’t wanna lose my son,” Jones said. “I thought about that incident. What if I’m next?”
Crump also pointed out the parallels between Rose’s case and Nichols’. Rose is originally from Memphis, he said.
“It’s the fear of most Black people in America, that when the police pull them over, that it’s possible that they could be the next hashtag,” said the attorney. “And the fact that they live in Memphis, Tennessee, where Tyre Nichols, an unarmed black motorist was completely compliant, but yet he got brutalized to the point of where he lost his life.”
Crump said the Rose family is exploring legal remedies, including suing the Circleville Police Department.
The Circleville PD fired Speakman 22 days after the July 4 incident, following a Use of Force Review Board investigation.
Chief Shawn Baer said in a statement that Speakman’s actions “did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers.”
In the same statement, the department said it’s “policy for the use of canines was followed in the apprehension and arrest.”
Rose was treated for dog bites at a hospital and didn’t need stitches, he told CNN. He’s seeing a psychologist to help process that day.
He has been charged with failure to comply, a felony. The family hopes the charge will be dropped. Rose was also terminated by Western Express, the trucking company, on the day of his arrest, according to Crump.
“Jadarrius Rose represents many young Black men in America,” the lawyer said. “Trying to do the right thing, trying to be gainfully employed, trying to just mind his business, but yet, why would they pull those many guns on him over a missing mud flap?”
Jones said that above all else, she is “grateful” that her son survived.
“So thankful that my son is still living because he could have went another way – he could have been another tale,” she said.
“So I’m thankful and I’m just grateful to God, that God kept him.”
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Prigozhin celebrates Niger coup, says his Wagner group can help
By Tim Lister, CNN
(CNN) — While the international community, including many African states, have condemned the coup in Niger, Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has his own take.
In a long message posted to social media, Prigozhin blamed the situation in Niger on the legacy of colonialism and alleged, without evidence, that Western nations were sponsoring terrorist groups in the country. Niger was once a French colony and, before this week’s putsch, it had been one of the few democracies in the region.
Prigozhin still appears to be at large despite leading an armed rebellion against the Kremlin in June.
The short-lived uprising ended when Prigozhin and his troops agreed to head to Belarus but the militia leader was seen in St. Petersburg on Thursday meeting with an African dignitary on the sidelines of a summit between African nations and Russia.
Prigozhin’s missive was also something of a business proposition. He said that his private military company, Wagner, was capable of dealing with situations like that playing out in Niamey, the Nigerien capital. Hundreds of Wagner contractors are in neighboring Mali, at the invitation of the country’s military junta, to confront an Islamist insurgency that is strongest in the area where the borders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger meet.
“What happened in Niger has been brewing for years,” Prigozhin said. “The former colonizers are trying to keep the people of African countries in check. In order to keep them in check, the former colonizers are filling these countries with terrorists and various bandit formations. Thus creating a colossal security crisis.”
Prigozhin then continued with his typical sales pitch.
“The population suffers. And this is the (the reason for) love for PMC (private military company) Wagner, this is the high efficiency of PMC Wagner. Because a thousand soldiers of PMC Wagner are able to establish order and destroy terrorists, preventing them from harming the peaceful population of states,” he said.
A number of CNN investigations, and others by human rights groups, have established Wagner’s involvement in and complicity with atrocities against civilian populations in Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic, where they have been employed to assist local defense forces against rebellions and insurgencies, and suppress opposition.
Prigozhin’s comments on Friday were at odds with the view of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which called for the “prompt release” of President Mohamed Bazoum by the military.
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Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton apologizes for derogatory comments, calls it a ‘mistake’
By Jacob Lev, CNN
(CNN) — Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton apologized for his critique of the team’s previous coach and staff, calling it a “mistake.”
On Thursday, Payton told USA Today that his predecessors had done “one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL.”
But speaking to reporters during training camp on Friday, Payton said: “I had one of those moments where I still had my FOX hat on, and not my coaching hat on.
“And, you know, I said this to the team in the meeting yesterday. We’ve had a great offseason relative to that. And I’ve been preaching that message, and here I am, the veteran. You know, stepping in it.
“It was a learning experience for me. It was a mistake, obviously. I needed a little bit more filter … I said what I said, and obviously I needed a little bit more restraint, and I regret that.”
The 59-year-old Payton worked as a broadcaster for FOX last season. He was hired this past offseason by the Broncos, succeeding former head coach Nathaniel Hackett. Last season, Hackett was let go by the team after a 4-11 record under him.
Payton added he would apologize to New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh and offensive coordinator and former Broncos head coach Hackett at “the right time.”
“I think the world of Robert (Saleh). I know him. I don’t know Nathaniel (Hackett). But at the right time. Listen, it certainly will bring more interest in the game when we play them, but that seems like years from now. But I’ll handle it the right way,” he said.
The Jets are scheduled to play the Broncos in Denver in week 5.
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Evian Championship: Carlota Ciganda disqualified after refusing to add slow play penalty to scorecard
By Jack Bantock, CNN
(CNN) — Spanish golf star Carlota Ciganda was disqualified from the Evian Championship on Friday after refusing to add a two-shot slow play penalty to her scorecard.
Having started from the 10th tee, the 33-year-old was finishing her second round at the par-five 9th hole when she was penalized two strokes by rules officials in accordance with the LPGA Tour’s Pace of Play Policy, an LPGA spokesperson said in a statement to CNN.
The penalty would have lifted Ciganda’s score up to three-over 74 for the round and six-over par overall, which would ultimately have seen the world No. 31 fall short of the five-over par cut line at the major in Evian-les-Bains, France.
Yet after her appeal to rules officials was “heard and denied,” Ciganda did not add the two shot penalty and – having left the recording zone – was subsequently disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard, the LPGA spokesperson said.
“Ciganda was allowed an appeal with the advance and lead rules officials before returning her scorecard, which was heard and denied. Therefore, a two-stroke penalty was upheld,” the statement said.
“Ciganda opted not to add the two-stroke penalty to her signed scorecard. She was told that leaving the official recording area with a signed score lower (without the penalty strokes) would lead to disqualification, and left on her own accord.”
The Spaniard’s group, which included Anna Nordqvist and Celine Herbin, had been warned that they were out of position at the second-to-last hole and – having failed to make up the time – were put on the clock at the penultimate hole, the spokesperson added.
In a story posted to Instagram on Saturday, Ciganda said rules officials had claimed she took 52 seconds to putt, which she disputed, adding that the group behind “were not even on the tee.”
“Very poor performance from the LPGA rules official, they don’t understand what professional golf is about,” wrote Ciganda, a two-time LPGA Tour winner and a five-time Solheim Cup player.
“They only look at their stopwatch like if 20 seconds is going to make a difference. I had family and friends watching and they all said it was impossible I took that long to hit that putt!
“Yesterday was tough out there with windy conditions and difficult pins and I wish everyone gets treated the same and they don’t pick on the same players all the time! That’s all!”
CNN has reached out to the LPGA for comment on Ciganda’s Instagram post.
Slow play has been a topic of controversy in professional golf this year, with American golfer Patrick Cantlay’s time over shots at several PGA Tour events sparking debate among fans and players alike.
Under the R&A and USGA’s Rules of Golf guidance, “a round of golf is meant to be played at a prompt pace.” That pace is set at 40 seconds to play a stroke, with an extra 10 seconds afforded under various circumstances, such as the first player to play a shot on a par-3 hole or on the green respectively.
“The player should usually be able to play more quickly than that and is encouraged to do so,” the guidelines state, with golfers that exceed 40 seconds – “bad time” – “informed as soon as practicable” by a tournament official.
While the first “bad time” offense goes unpunished, one and two-stroke penalties are awarded for second and third violations respectively.
France’s Celine Boutier took a one-shot lead into Saturday’s third round as she chases a dream first major title at her home tournament. The 29-year-old shot 69 to edge ahead of Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit and Japan’s Yuka Saso.
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Sweden qualifies for Women’s World Cup knockout stages with thumping win over Italy
By Matias Grez, CNN
(CNN) — Sweden advanced to the knockout stages of the Women’s World Cup thanks to a thumping 5-0 win over Italy.
A disjointed Sweden needed a 90th-minute winner to edge past South Africa in its opening Group G match, but the team looked back to its best at times against Italy as three late first-half goals ended the game as a contest.
After battling well for much of the opening 45 minutes, Italy’s resistance was finally broken six minutes before half time as Amanda Ilestedt, who recently signed for Arsenal Women, lost her marker to head home from a corner kick.
That goal opened the floodgates for Sweden, which doubled its lead five minutes later through Fridolina Rolfö after yet more sloppy Italian defending from a corner. Stina Blackstenius then made it 3-0 in stoppage time, tapping home after a sweeping Swedish attack.
A corner kick proved to be Italy’s undoing for a third time just five minutes into the second half. It was Ilestedt again who stole in at the near post to head past goalkeeper Francesca Durante for her second of the match.
Sweden added more gloss to the scoreline in injury time through Rebecka Blomqvist, who latched onto a long pass and calmly slotted the ball past the onrushing Durante.
There are only a select number of teams in Australia and New Zealand that could take the US’ crown and Sweden, ranked third in the world, is one of them.
This group has regularly felt the pressure of being labeled the country’s ‘Golden Generation’ and came so close to living up to that moniker two years ago, losing to Canada in the gold medal match at the rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games.
But Saturday’s win over Italy marks Sweden’s biggest victory at a Women’s World Cup since it beat Japan 8-0 in 1991.
Sweden reached the semifinals at Euro 2022 and the World Cup four years ago in France, and this performance firmly puts the team back on track to emulate or even better previous results.
Despite the heavy defeat, Italy still has an excellent chance of qualifying for the round of 16. Victory over South Africa would ensure its place in the knockout stages, but a draw would also be enough should Sweden beat Argentina as expected.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
In the Truist Atlanta Open semifinals on Saturday, Aleksandar Vukic takes on Ugo Humbert.
Humbert carries -160 odds to win a spot in the final with a win over Vukic (+125).
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 61.5% chance to win.
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Aleksandar Vukic vs. Ugo Humbert Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Vukic took down Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4.
- Humbert advanced past Alex de Minaur 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 34 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Vukic has played 24.6 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches) and won 51.5% of them.
- In his 21 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Vukic has played an average of 23.8 games (22.8 in best-of-three matches).
- Humbert has averaged 24.8 games per match (22.5 in best-of-three matches) in his 40 matches played in the past year across all court types, while winning 51.0% of the games.
- Humbert has averaged 24.1 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set through 25 matches on hard courts in the past 12 months, winning 51.7% of those games.
- Vukic and Humbert have not played each other since 2015.
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Bengals Odds to Make Playoffs and Win Super Bowl
As of now the Cincinnati Bengals have the fourth-best odds in the league to win the Super Bowl, listed at +900.
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Bengals Super Bowl Odds
- Odds to Win the AFC North: +150
- Odds to Win the Super Bowl: +900
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Cincinnati Betting Insights
- Cincinnati compiled a 12-2-1 record against the spread last season.
- Last season, the combined scoring went over the point total six times in Bengals games.
- Cincinnati totaled 360.5 yards per game on offense last season (eighth in ), and it ranked 16th defensively with 335.7 yards allowed per game.
- The Bengals had a 6-1 record at home and were 6-3 away last season.
- When underdogs, Cincinnati picked up only one victory (1-1) versus its 11-2 record when favored.
- The Bengals were 8-3 in the AFC, including 3-3 in the AFC North.
Bengals Impact Players
- Joe Burrow threw for 4,475 yards (279.7 per game), completing 68.3% of his passes, with 35 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 16 games last year.
- Also, Burrow rushed for 257 yards and five TDs.
- Joe Mixon rushed for 814 yards (58.1 per game) and seven touchdowns in 14 games.
- Mixon also had 60 catches for 441 yards and two TDs.
- In the passing game a season ago, Ja'Marr Chase scored nine TDs, hauling in 87 balls for 1,046 yards (87.2 per game).
- In the passing game, Tee Higgins scored seven TDs, hauling in 74 balls for 1,029 yards (64.3 per game).
- Logan Wilson had one interception to go with 123 tackles, 3.0 TFL, 2.5 sacks, and four passes defended last year.
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Titans Odds to Make Playoffs and Win Super Bowl
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 5:23 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Tennessee Titans at the moment have +6600 odds of winning the Super Bowl.
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Titans Super Bowl Odds
- Odds to Win the AFC South: +325
- Odds to Win the Super Bowl: +6600
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Tennessee Betting Insights
- Tennessee put together an 8-6-0 ATS record last year.
- The Titans and their opponents combined to go over the point total five out of 17 times last season.
- Tennessee was a bottom-five offense last year, ranking third-worst with 296.8 yards per game. Defensively, it ranked 23rd in the (351.6 yards allowed per game).
- The Titans posted three wins at home last year and four on the road.
- Tennessee won only twice as favorites (2-3) and went 4-5 as underdogs.
- The Titans were 3-3 in the AFC South and 5-7 in the AFC as a whole.
Titans Impact Players
- Derrick Henry ran for 1,538 yards (96.1 per game) and 13 touchdowns in 16 games last year.
- Henry also had 33 receptions for 398 yards and zero TDs.
- Ryan Tannehill threw for 2,536 yards (211.3 per game), completing 65.2% of his throws, with 13 touchdowns and six interceptions in 12 games.
- On the ground, Tannehill scored two touchdowns and picked up 98 yards.
- In the Cardinals' passing game a season ago, DeAndre Hopkins scored three TDs, catching 64 balls for 717 yards (79.7 per game).
- In 16 games played with the Texans, Chris Moore had 48 receptions for 548 yards (34.3 per game) and two touchdowns.
- In 17 games last year, Kevin Byard recorded 106 tackles and four interceptions.
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What's in a name? A whole lot, just ask these stars.
While we love learning our favorite celebrity couple is expecting, there's nothing quite as thrilling as finding out the name they give their newest addition (especially when people like Khloe Kardashian make us wait nine months for the big reveal). Though some monikers tend to be more surprising than others, just ask Alabama Barker.
When Travis Barker revealed he wants to name his and pregnant Kourtney Kardashian's son Rocky Thirteen, the 17-year-old couldn't help by roast her dad. "That's so bad," she recently told him during Complex's "GOAT Talk" video series. "Let's see how that goes when he's at school."
The inspiration? Well, "Rocky George played guitar for Suicidal Tendencies," the Blink-182 drummer explained. "And 13 is just the greatest number of all time."
For her part, Alabama also had some interesting suggestions. "Audemars, Milan, f--kin' Patek," she shared, seemingly referencing luxury watches before adding, "I also like Cloud—like, something weird."
And tbh, we'll be on cloud nine when Kourtney welcomes her fourth baby, her first with Travis.
Until then, perhaps these stars and their kids can help inspire a name for baby Kravis. After all, X Æ A-12 Barker has a nice ring to it, don't you think? And there are plenty more to choose from.
Keep reading to revisit Hollywood's most unique baby names and learn the special meanings behind them...
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If you love online shopping, good news! The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale is in full swing, and we're here to give you all the tips and tricks to getting the best deals. The sale will last all the way through August 6th, and you can score discounts on your favorite brands for anything from fashion to beauty to home.
This guide is specifically for shoppers who are on the hunt for sales on their next everyday handbag, go-to sunglasses, or favorite pair of earrings. Nordstrom has some of the best brands for bags and accessories like Coach, Kate Spade, Herschel Supply Co, Prada, Ray-Ban, Cult Gaia, AllSaints, Madewell, Kendra Scott, BaubleBar, Quay and more. You don't want to miss out because a good accessory makes all the difference in an outfit.
You only have a few more days to shop the biggest Nordstrom event of the year, and items are already starting to sell out, so you better get on it. Read on for the best deals on bags and accessories you can score at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale.
Kate Spade Medium Roulette Pebble Leather Crossbody Bag
The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale has a ton of great deals on handbags just like this Kate Spade leather crossbody bag. This bag has a simple, elegant look with plenty of room to fit your belongings.
Madewell Medium Transport Leather Tote
If you hate trying to fit all your things in a tiny purse, you should think about getting a tote bag. This Madewell tote is a great everyday bag that has a medium size capacity, big pockets inside and outside, and two detachable straps.
Cult Gaia The Gaia's Ark Mini Top Handle Bag
Grab the famous Cult Gaia handbag but in two vibrant summer colors to add to your favorite going-out ensemble.
AllSaints Evaline Tassle Crossbody
This AllSaints crossbody is great if you want a more unique silhouette with tons of space for your everyday bag. It still has a sleek, minimalist style that will compliment any look. Plus, it's 50% off!
Herschel Supply Co. Alexander Zip Tote
A big tote bag is a must if you are doing any sort of beach trips or quick weekend getaways this summer. This Herschel bag is made of a durable, recycled material and has a large capacity and a water-sealed closure. Plus, this tote comes in three bright summer colors.
Coach Polished Pebble Leather Crossbody Bag
This Coach leather bag has a sleek and elegant look with a simple, yet stylish 90s-inspired design. It comes with two straps, and the crossbody strap is removable.
Treasure & Bond Oval Buckle Leather Belt
Don't forget to grab a belt to complete your outfit, and this one from Treasure & Bond will also add a fun pop of color.
Quay Australia High Key 51mm Aviator Sunglasses
We are still in the height of summer, and that means you need to have a good pair of sunglasses on hand. Quay Australia is known for their high quality and affordable shades just like these rose gold aviators.
Prada 54mm Cat Eye Sunglasses
There are so many sunglasses from top brands that you can score big deals on like this cat-eye pair from Prada.
Ray-Ban 51mm Clubmaster Sunglasses
You can shop sunglasses without checking out Ray-Ban, and luckily, the Nordstrom Anniversary has great pairs to choose from. These 50s-inspired shades have the Ray-Ban signature look, and you don't want to miss out.
Kendra Scott Layla Drop Earrings
There are plenty of deals on quality jewelry at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale from brands like Kendra Scott. Get these elegant mother of pearl or turquoise magnesite earrings before they sell out.
BaubleBar Set of 3 Bracelets
Don't forget to grab some cute summer accessories like these bracelets from BaubleBar.
Monica Vinader Siren Mini Nugget Pendant Necklace
Monica Vinader is another great brand you can find at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale with great deals like this pendant necklace that will become your next go-to accessory.
Eric Javits Sunshade Straw Fedora Hat
You need a good sun hat to protect your face when you're out lounging by the pool or having a picnic at the beach. This cream straw hat will do exactly that and won't take away from your outfit like some other hats may do.
BLISSY Assorted 9-Pack Silk Scrunchies
These scrunchies are made of the same soft, hypoallergenic silk as BLISSY's top rated pillow cases, so you know they'll help to protect your hair way more than normal hair ties. This pack comes with nine scrunchies of three sizes.
When is the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale?
The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2023 dates are:
July 11: Early Access to shop the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale for Icon status Nordstrom card members.
July 12: Early Access to shop the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale for Ambassador status Nordstrom card members.
July 13: Early Access to shop the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale for Influencer status Nordstrom card members.
July 17: The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale opens to everyone.
When does the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale start for everyone?
Everyone can shop the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale online starting at 9:01 p.m. PT on July 16/12:01 a.m. ET on July 17. You can shop in store during regular store hours starting on July 17.
When does the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale end?
The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale ends for everyone at 11:59 p.m. PT on August 6/2:59 a.m. ET on August 7.
Do you need a Nordstrom Card for the Anniversary Sale?
You don't need to be a Nordstrom cardholder to shop the deals at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. However, early access is granted to Nordy Club members based on their shopping status, so members have first dibs on the best deals before they sell out.
How often is the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale?
The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale only happens once a year usually during the middle of the summer. The sale lasts for almost a month for cardholders and just a little over two weeks for regular shoppers. And even thought Nordstrom has a ton of great sales throughout the rest of the year like Black Friday and 4th of July, the Anniversary Sale has exclusive deals you can only get during this special sale event. So don't miss out on these one-of-a-kind deals.
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If you're relaxing at home in the comfort of air conditioning right now, you might as well do some shopping, right? There are so many sales and deals on fashion, beauty, home, and wellness products from Amazon right now. However, these prices won't be here forever. If you see an amazing deal, shop before it disappears. It's so frustrating when I contemplate buying something on sale, ponder the purchase, and it's back at full-price by the time I'm ready to shop. Do not make that same mistake.
These flared leggings are on sale for 61% off. Score this top-rated electric toothbrush for just $20. Snuggle up with a soft blanket that has 118,400+ 5-star Amazon reviews before this $10 price tag disappears. Start making your own juices with this machine that's only $32 right now.
Looking for more Amazon deals? Keep on reading.
The Best Amazon Deals
Sunzel Flare Leggings
You will want to live in these flared leggings. This comfy style comes in 3 inseam lengths and 20 colors. The Sunzel Flare Leggings have 3,800+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Cicy Bell Womens Casual Blazers
Throwing on a blazer is the easiest way to bring your outfit together. This one comes in 24 colors and has 13,100+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Bedsure Purple Fleece Blanket
A plush blanket is a purchase you will never regret. This top-rated fleece blanket has 118,400+ 5-star Amazon reviews. It comes in 8 sizes and 30 colors.
Keurig K-Mini Plus Single Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker
Ditch the expense of getting coffee from your local barista and get yourself a Keurig instead. This single serving coffee maker is so easy to use, it's quick, and it has 26,300+ 5-star Amazon reviews. There are several colors to choose from too.
Arvazallia Hydrating Argan Oil Hair Mask and Deep Conditioner for Dry or Damaged Hair
I've been using this deep conditioner treatment once every other week for a few months. It detangles my hair and makes it incredibly soft and shiny. The Arvazallia Hydrating Argan Oil Hair Mask and Deep Conditioner has 37,800+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Brita Water Filter Pitcher for Tap and Drinking Water with 1 Standard Filter
The space-efficient Brita pitcher fits perfectly on refrigerator shelves. This slim water pitcher has a 6-cup capacity and a filter that lasts for 2 months. It has 12,100+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
INSIGNIA 32-inch Class F20 Series Smart HD 720p Fire TV
Watch your favorite shows and movies with this Fire TV that's 47% off right now. This model has 5,600+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Ninja BL770 Mega Kitchen System
Make smoothies, dough, and more with this powerful blender system. It comes with a blender pitcher, processor bowl, and two to-go cups with lids. The Ninja BL770 Mega Kitchen System has 29,600+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Shark ION Robot Vacuum for Carpet AV751 Wi-Fi Connected
Instead of vacuuming carpets and hardwood floors yourself, let this robot vacuum do all the work for you. It has a 120-minute runtime and it's Alexa-compatible. The Shark ION Robot Vacuum has 10,400+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Jisulife Portable Neck Fan
If you want a fan, but you don't feel like holding it, this neck fan is just what you need. It comes in a handful of colors and it has 25,600+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Sperax Treadmill-Walking Pad-Under Desk Treadmill-2 in 1 Folding Treadmill
Having trouble making it to the gym? Bring the gym to you. This treadmill/walking pad is easy to store since it folds up. The treadmill has a digital display for you to safely rest your phone and a remote to control the speed. The Sperax Treadmill-Walking Pad has 1,200+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Fullstar Vegetable Chopper
If you loathe chopping vegetables or if you just want to get more done faster, you need to check out the Fullstar Vegetable Chopper. It has 47,800+ 5-star Amazon reviews, and it's basically multiple products in one because of the attachments that come with it.
You can use a small blade to dice soft fruits and vegetables or a large blade for hard fruits and vegetables. You can spiral vegetables with another attachment and you can use a ribbon blade for super thin slices. This product is incredibly easy to use, simple to clean, and it's on sale right now.
BMJL Women's Athletic Shorts
As soon as you try on these high-waisted running shorts, you'll want a pair in every color. There are 30 to choose from, by the way. The BMJL Women's Athletic Shorts come in sizes ranging from XS to 3X. This customer-loved style has 5,300+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Ewedoos Womens Tennis Dress
Tennis, anyone? This exercise dress is perfect for tennis, pickleball, or golf. It's made from cooling, stretchy fabric and it has a built-in bra and short. Plus, it has pockets. Even if you don't play sports, this is a perfect "throw on and go" outfit for summer. There are 11 colors to choose from. The Ewedoos Womens Tennis Dress has 3,300+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
WHOUARE 4 Pack Biker Yoga Shorts
Four pairs of biker shorts for just $32!? Nope, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. This is just such a good deal on a top Amazon product. This bundle has 5-star Amazon reviews and there are 24 color combinations to choose from.
QCen Juicer Machine
Instead of buying expensive fresh juices, make your own with the QCen Juicer Machine. It's easy-to-clean since all the removable accessories are dishwasher-safe. This top-rated Amazon pick has 2,800+ 5-star Amazon reviews and it comes in 5 colors.
Niceday Steppers for Exercise
If you want to exercise at home, but you're short on space, this stepper is your compact solution. It doesn't take up much space and it comes with resistance bands.
MLVOC Travel Pillow 100% Pure Memory Foam
Relax while you travel with this must-have set. It comes with a 100% pure memory foam pillow, earplugs, and a light-blocking eye mask. These bundles come in 5 colors and have 20,400+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
7AM2M Sonic Electric Toothbrush with 6 Brush Heads
This electric toothbrush lasts for 90 days after charging it just once. It's also waterproof, which is perfect for the shower. There are several colors to choose from. This toothbrush has 13,700+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Shy Velvet Women's Summer Dress
This easy, breezy dress is perfect for summer. You will look put together and feel comfortable in this lightweight, breathable fabric. The Shy Velvet Women's Summer Dress comes in 18 colors.
Bitvae Water Dental Flosser, 3 Modes 6 Jet Tips Cordless Teeth Cleaner Picks for Cleaning, IPX7 Waterproof , USB Rechargeable
Recently, I started using the Bitvae Water Dental Flosser and I'm amazed/grossed out when I look in my sink after. It gives such a thorough cleaning. I use it on the lowest setting, but there are three strengths to choose from. It comes with 5 replaceable tips, so you'll be stocked up. Or you can split them up with a family member. It even comes with a tongue scraper attachment, which is another one of those gross, yet satisfying experiences. It has a great battery life and it can last up to 40 days with just one charge.
The Bitvae Water Dental Flosser has 4,700+ five-star Amazon reviews and it's 58% off right now. I've been smiling so much more since I started using this and you will too!
Automet 2 Piece Outfits
Polished meets comfy with these chic two-piece sets, which come in many colors with short-sleeve and long-sleeve options.
Vivohome Electric Portable Compact Countertop Automatic Ice Cube Maker Machine
This easy-to-use ice machine is an essential. You can make 26.5 pound of ice in a 24-hour period. This machine works efficiently and quietly in just 6 minutes. You can choose between small and large cubes. Another great thing about the Vivohome Ice Cube Maker is that it is self-cleaning. There are 10 colors to choose from. Amazon shoppers left 6,100+ 5-star reviews for this portable ice cube maker.
Anrabess Women’s Summer Loose Kimono Maxi Dress
A wrap dress is one of those universally flattering looks that you need in your closet. This maxi has 1,700+ 5-star reviews and it comes in 30 gorgeous prints.
Shapermint Compression Wirefree High Support Bra
You don't need wire to get support. The Shapermint Compression Wirefree High Support Bra gives support without discomfort that comes with conventional bras. It comes in 8 colors with sizes ranging from small to 4X. This bra has 13,600+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Yeokou Women's Cotton Linen Short Overalls
Overalls are making a comeback, for sure. Wear these over a bralette, swimsuit, or t-shirt. There are 13 colors to choose from.
Lolong Womens Stretch Tank Top
This tank is a true wardrobe essential. It is truly the perfect layering piece, made from comfy, breathable, high-quality fabric. The Lolong Womens Stretch Tank Top comes in 27 colors, ranging from bright to neutral. It has 8,800+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Beshon Power Strip Surge Protector, 5Ft Extension Cord, 6 Outlets with 3 USB Ports
You can never have too many outlets or charging ports. This 5-foot cord is an essential for home and travel. You can also get this in 10-foot and 15-foot lengths too. It has 3,400+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
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Tatis homers to lead the Padres to a 7-1 win over the Rangers
Posted/updated on: July 29, 2023 at 4:37 amSAN DIEGO (AP) — Joe Musgrove pitched six strong innings on the night his boyhood hero, Jake Peavy, was inducted into the Padres’ Hall of Fame, Fernando Tatis Jr. homered and San Diego beat the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 7-1 on Friday night.
Musgrove (10-3) was facing the Rangers for the first time since throwing the first no-hitter in Padres history, in just his second start with his hometown team, on April 9, 2021, at Texas. Musgrove won for the ninth time in 10 decisions by holding Texas to four hits while striking out five and walking two.
Musgrove grew up a Padres fan in suburban El Cajon and idolized Peavy, who won the 2007 NL Cy Young Award. Musgrove began wearing Peavy’s No. 44 after he was traded to the Padres before the 2021 season.
The Rangers, managed by former Padres skipper Bruce Bochy, lost for the fifth time in seven games but kept a two-game lead over Houston.
“I was excited, man,” Musgrove said. “A lot of adrenaline. Obviously Peavy’s night … throwing in front of Boch for the first time in my career. A lot of San Diego legends in the house. I was really motivated and excited about this outing. I was honored to be able to throw on this night.”
The Rangers added a bit of drama when they loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth and Luis Garcia walked Marcus Semien. Garcia then struck out former Padres player Travis Jankowski to end it.
Tatis homered to right-center off Dane Dunning (8-4) with one out in the fifth, his 18th, to give the Padres a 3-0 lead. He added an RBI single during the four-run sixth.
The Padres, who have underwhelmed despite having baseball’s third-highest payroll, also got RBIs from two of their other stars, Juan Soto and Manny Machado. Soto hit an RBI single in the first and Machado had a sacrifice fly in the third and a two-run single in the sixth. Gary Sanchez added an RBI double in the sixth.
It was one of the top wins of the season for the Padres, who had World Series aspirations coming into this season but have been mired in fourth place in the NL West and well back in the wild-card race.
“Everyone’s starting to realize where we’re at in the season and the sense of urgency we’ve got to have,” said Musgrove, who helped lead the Padres to the NL Championship Series last year. “The attitude and the mentality and the aggressiveness tonight on the basepaths, at the plate, really good defense all around, that’s the kind of baseball we’ve got to play down the stretch.
“Like I told the guys after the game, we’ve two months left here to determine our future here for the rest of the season. If we’re going to go out, we’ve got to go out on our terms playing baseball the way that we play the game.”
The Padres were coming off a dismal series against the Pittsburgh Pirates, who are last in the NL Central, before getting a strong outing from Musgrove.
“He’s really good, he’s really tough,” Bochy said. “He’s having another good year and you have your hands full with him. He pitched a really nice ballgame for them. They pitched well today, they got the hits, we didn’t.”
NICE PLAY
Machado made a sensational play at third to end the seventh when he dove to his left to snag Leody Taveras’ grounder and threw him out while on his backside. First baseman Jake Cronenworth held onto the throw and then fell over.
“Throw my glove out there, caught it. I know the guy was fast so I was just trying to get it over there as quick as possible,” Machado said.
HALL OF FAME
Peavy was inducted into the Padres Hall of Fame along with former owner John Moores during a pregame ceremony. It was under Moores’ ownership that the Padres built Petco Park in downtown San Diego.
RANGERS PROSPECTS
Wyatt Langford, the fourth overall pick in this year’s draft, made his professional debut Friday night with the ACL Rangers in a game at the ACL Mariners in Peoria, Arizona. He started in left and batted third. Others making their debuts in that game were 1B Anthony Calarco (undrafted free agent), 2B Devin Hurdle (undrafted free agent) and RF Quincy Scott (ninth round).
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rangers: Placed All-Star C Jonah Heim on the 10-day injured list with a strained tendon in his left wrist. He came out of a game at Houston on Wednesday after hurting his wrist on an awkward swing in the fourth inning. Mitch Garver started Friday night.
Padres: With a 7-0 lead, Soto was removed for a pinch-hitter in the eighth. He’s been bothered by a finger injury since spring training and the Padres were awaiting results of an MRI. Manager Bob Melvin said he thinks Soto’s finger is getter better but he stung it a few times. Second baseman Ha Seong-Kim also came out after tweaking his back on a slide. Melvin said there’s a good chance Soto and Kim will be in the lineup Saturday night.
UP NEXT
Texas LHP Martin Perez (8-3, 4.91 ERA) and Padres RHP Yu Darvish (7-7, 4.80) are scheduled to start Saturday night.
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“My joke,” the mystery writer Joseph Hansen remarked in an interview, “was to take the true hard-boiled character in an American fiction tradition and make him homosexual.”
Only one year after the Stonewall riots, it was a risky time to write about such a character. All states except Illinois still criminalized homosexuality. Not until 1973 did the American Psychiatric Association stop classifying it as a mental disorder. After writing other books whose gay themes forced him to use a pseudonym for an illicit press, it took Hansen three years to find a publisher before Joan Kahn, the legendary crime fiction editor at Harper & Row, accepted “Fadeout.”
George Baxt had published his first campy novels about Pharoah Love, a Black gay detective in theatrical Greenwich Village, but while they received encouraging reviews (and some abuse), the books were not written with the same talent or ambition as Hansen’s. Baxt portrayed gay characters in what reviewers and readers seemed to regard as a safely “gay” environment. Hansen wrote about “ordinary” Americans who happened to be gay.
Although not as famous as he ought to be, Hansen has long been acclaimed. In 1992, the Private Eye Writers of America awarded him The Eye, the group’s lifetime achievement award. That same year he received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Mystery for the last Brandstetter novel, “A Country of Old Men.”
The Brandstetter series is now in development for Netflix, and the entire canon is being reprinted by Syndicate Books (distributed by Soho Press). The publisher, Paul Oliver, sums up why he is excited to publish them: “They’re soulful, poetic books that manage the neat trick of coolly delivering West Coast noir combined with a tender portrait of a community struggling for basic rights.” The struggle lives on, and so does the talent of Joseph Hansen.
“He was going to be a nice man,” Hansen said about his protagonist, “a good man, and he was going to do his job well.” Instead of a cynical ex-cop turned tough-talking private eye, Brandstetter is respected and professional, a death claims investigator for an insurance company. He never blusters.
A century ago, on July 19, 1923, Joseph Hansen was born in Aberdeen, S.D. When he was 13, his family moved to California. This lush habitat had already begun to evolve a unique literary genus by 1936: the Southern California private eye. Dashiell Hammett had written the single Sam Spade novel, “The Maltese Falcon,” and other books. Raymond Chandler was busily typing the pulp stories that he would weave together into the first Philip Marlowe novel, “The Big Sleep,” in 1939.
Unlike Spade, Brandstetter is trustworthy and articulate. Unlike Marlowe, he doesn’t regard women with fear and disgust, that antonym of chivalry running through pulp fiction. Unlike Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer, Brandstetter has a past and a rounded identity. Unlike Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, he is surrounded by nourishing human connections — friends, family, colleagues, even former stepmothers.
Hansen, who died in 2004, didn’t like categories and didn’t fit into many. His work was not overtly autobiographical, although he used some of his own experiences from activism and journalism, says his former agent, Stuart Krichevsky. Brandstetter drives a beloved Jaguar, for example, but his creator didn’t drive. When Krichevsky visited L.A., he had to pick up Hansen at home. “Joe liked to ride out to Marina del Rey and look at the water while we ate and talked about books.” Brandstetter attends to his clothing and grooming and notices details of other people’s, but Hansen “dressed in an ordinary, rather unassuming way,” says Krichevsky.
When Krichevsky arrived in his driveway, Hansen seldom referred to the world beyond the door that he closed behind him. Gay himself, he had an open marriage with a lesbian, Jane Bancroft. “Here was this remarkable person who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with,” Hansen said later. “We were married 51 years. So something was right about it, however bizarre it may seem to the rest of the world.”
Not for Hansen the first-person mask of Chandler and Macdonald. He wrote about Brandstetter in a close, informal third person. Hansen was unpredictable — old-fashioned in some ways, even as an activist. He didn’t like the term “gay” and preferred to describe himself as “homosexual.” He regarded some of the activists of his era with admiration, some with scorn.
Gradually Hansen overcame more barriers. In 1973, he submitted a Brandstetter story to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, where the editor replied that its readers were “not ready for homosexuality.” A full 16 years later, the magazine finally published a Hansen story about a different gay character. “I was pleased,” Hansen said later, “because it meant I had broken down a literary barrier against me and my kind.”
Among the many virtues of his books is how they capture a time — the 1970s and ’80s. The clothes are worthy of “The Mod Squad,” and the theater seats have those little metal ashtrays in the arm. When Brandstetter visits a TV studio for evidence, he notices that the news stories are all “typed down half the page in capital letters.” A woman has “television teeth.” He “crossed the uneven bricks of the courtyard under a dark, spreading oak whose dry leaves crackled beneath his shoes.” Even the bricks are given an adjective that helps us feel them beneath our feet.
Hansen anchors characters in convincing surroundings and has their consciousness arise from a body experiencing ordinary life — hunger, sexuality, fear, but also tired feet or too-cold air conditioning in a car. Thus he conjures a suspenseful story not with thriller gimmicks but through our sense that a truly embodied character can get hurt.
Perhaps the most autobiographical aspect of Hansen’s writing is his caressing of the details of everyday life. Despite opposition and trauma, he seems to have enjoyed being alive. Like Dickens, he imbues characters with some of his own vitality, which was not about to be smothered by anti-gay bias.
This may be one way Hansen helped inspire some of the contemporary gay novelists who proudly claim him as an ancestor. Of course mystery writers offer clues, writes Michael Nava, creator of the acclaimed Henry Rios mystery series, “but the masters also plant clues about the greater mysteries of all human motivation that, in the end, create morally complex and ambiguous stories in which murder is only the tip of the iceberg. This is what Hansen does.”
Michael Sims has written extensively about the history of crime fiction. His recent books include “Arthur and Sherlock” and “The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries.”
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Large swaths of the world are sweltering amid a scorching hot summer. July is shaping up to be the Earth’s hottest month in recorded history, with heat waves expected to become more frequent and unrelenting.
“Our bodies are well adapted to be able to acclimate to heat under the right circumstances.”
Becoming more accustomed to hotter temperatures, though, takes time. And it shouldn’t be attempted by going out in the heat and doing too much too quickly. “Someone who is exposed to a high heat index and is not acclimated will not have these adaptive measures in place and can suffer significant heat-related illness,” Wheat said.
Here are some safe ways to train your body to do better in the heat:
Getting used to heat
The best way to build up your body’s tolerance is by exposing yourself safely to short bouts of heat and humidity and gradually increasing the length of exposure, a process known as heat acclimatization, said W. Larry Kenney, a professor of physiology and kinesiology at Penn State.
Allowing your body to experience heat through these repeated and controlled exposures, especially if you’re doing physical activity, can trigger physiological adaptations that improve your ability to withstand hotter temperatures and can help lower the risk of heat-related illness and death, he said.
For one, the body’s plasma volume expands, increasing blood volume, he said. That means your heart doesn’t have to work as hard and your body has more fluid to support sweating, a critical function to keep you cool, he said. As your body becomes more accustomed to heat, you should also be able to sweat more efficiently and retain electrolytes better.
Some hallmarks of heat acclimatization include maintaining a lower heart rate and core temperature, as well as sweating more, particularly on your arms and legs, Kenney said.
“People who live in hot environments for most of their lives are already acclimatized,” he added. But those who live in cooler environments can get there with some training. It can typically take about a week or two to become fully acclimatized, experts say.
“If you wait until the heat wave is upon us and it’s extremely severe, it’s probably too late and people should try to stay in air-conditioned environments,” Kenney said. “The best way to safely tolerate those heat wave conditions would be to prepare for them by heat acclimating ahead of time.”
How to build heat tolerance
Before starting, bear in mind that your body’s ability to adapt can be affected by a variety of factors including age, underlying medical conditions and whether you’re taking certain medications. Improving your fitness and staying well hydrated can also help you better tolerate heat, said Rebecca Stearns, chief operating officer of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut.
Here’s how experts suggest building tolerance:
1. Ease in. For people starting at a lower baseline fitness level and whose bodies aren’t adapted at all, Kenney recommends starting with 10 to 15 minutes on the first day and adding five minutes each subsequent day or every other day. Make sure you’re only attempting a low level of physical activity, such as walking.
“You can’t go out on that first hot day and jog around the block for half an hour,” he said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health also provides recommended acclimatization schedules for people who work outdoors.
2. Move around. It’s important to do physical activities during these heat exposures because it can help maximize the effects, Stearns said.
“The degree to which you become heat acclimatized is going to depend on the amount of stress and the intensity of the exercise session that you’re doing,” she said.
3. Listen to your body. “If their body starts to tell them, ‘I’m overheating. I’m feeling unwell,’ it’s better to stop because your ability to gut it out really can’t overcome physiology,” Kenney said.
There are heat and humidity levels that people cannot physiologically adapt to even if they’re healthy, said Kenney, who has studied those limits. His peer-reviewed research findings suggest that the limit for young healthy people is around a wet bulb temperature of 88 degrees Fahrenheit, or 88 degrees at 100 percent relative humidity.
4. Rest. Remember your body needs time to recover from heat stress, ideally by sleeping in a cool environment, Stearns said. Without these recovery periods, your body can become less resilient to heat during later exposures and you could be increasing your risk of heat illness, she said.
Air conditioning is your friend, even if you’re trying to get your body used to the heat.
“A lot of people are under the impression that if you regularly stay in air conditioning, that’s a negative adaptation to heat waves,” Kenney said. “It’s really the safest way to get through heat waves, and it’s certainly possible to spend most of your time in air-conditioned environments and still acclimate yourself to the heat by going out periodically.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/07/29/how-to-become-heat-tolerant/ | 2023-07-29T11:20:29 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/07/29/how-to-become-heat-tolerant/ |
For decades, the brutalist headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services has been considered one of Washington’s biggest eyesores — lampooned in news articles, skipped on Capitol Hill tours, even mocked by its own leaders in interviews.
“Hey, there. Be nice,” the Cabinet agency said Tuesday. “They call this concrete chic and we’ve been serving looks to the American Public since 1976.”
Hey, there. Be nice. They call this concrete chic and we’ve been serving looks to the American public since 1976. 😎 https://t.co/0n2Iv6mL2y
— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) July 24, 2023
The agency’s response — amplified by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, the agency’s top lawyer, Samuel R. Bagenstos, and other HHS staff — spoke to a tension familiar to many Washingtonians. Government workers are proud of the work they do, but they are sometimes touchy about where they do it.
Few D.C. buildings are judged more harshly than the health agency’s 803,555-square-foot headquarters — home to officials who oversee about $1.7 trillion in federal spending through programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act — particularly when compared with the elegant U.S. Capitol that sits just up the hill. Some longtime officials are still abuzz about a 2014 BuzzFeed News story that ranked the Hubert H. Humphrey Building as the third-ugliest government building in the city.
Brutalist-style buildings dot the Washington skyline, with many built between the 1950s and 1970s as federal jobs boomed and agencies ran out of space. And those buildings’ designs were, well, by design: The federal government was instructed to construct offices that “reflect the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the American National Government,” according to a 1962 government report delivered to President John F. Kennedy by the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space.
But as the health agency’s hulking headquarters slowly emerged in the early 1970s, it developed a reputation that might surprise Washingtonians today: It was considered too opulent.
Designed by famed architect Marcel Breuer and intended to house what was then known as Department of Health, Education and Welfare, or HEW, critics repeatedly questioned whether the building was too luxurious for workers overseeing the nation’s safety-net programs. President Richard M. Nixon’s first HEW secretary ordered workers to reconsider their design for the building in 1969, saying that its $40.5 million price tag was too high; four years later, HEW officials would kill plans to build squash courts and a sauna inside their in-progress headquarters.
The reports angered members of Congress, who worked several blocks away in offices that felt increasingly cramped compared with the eight-story building rising nearby at 200 Independence Avenue SW.
“I am almost ashamed to let somebody walk through that thing, where the head of the welfare money sits as he administers his agency,” said Rep. Teno Roncalio (D-Wyo.), who chaired a 1975 congressional hearing in which he and other lawmakers said the spacious building was being wasted on bureaucrats and proposed taking it for themselves.
The health agency successfully fended off Congress, and in 1977, its headquarters was dedicated to Hubert H. Humphrey Jr., the longtime senator and former vice president who would soon die of cancer. The dedication ceremony prompted public assessments that tended toward raves — if not rapture.
“The windows are deep set, shielded from sun and glare, and the concrete surfaces textured and grooved to age and weather well,” Sarah Booth Conroy wrote in the Nov. 5, 1977, issue of The Washington Post, praising the newly designated Humphrey Building’s “combination of sun and shadow.”
The agency’s top official offered a more critical review. “There were leaks all over,” Joseph A. Califano Jr., HEW’s then-secretary, told a Post reporter, adding that his predecessor had begged officials to deal with the building’s rat problem.
Recent staff members have similar frustrations. More than a dozen current and former officials vented to The Post this week about the Humphrey Building’s patchwork and mismatched carpet, scarce natural light and confusing layout. The pest problem that plagued the building in its earliest days hasn’t gone away: One former official described trapping about a half-dozen mice, often herding them into offices that were empty during the first year of the pandemic.
The building’s woes have even helped Obama and Trump health officials find common ground.
“It’s so ugly, it’s beautiful,” said Andy Slavitt, who led the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services during the Obama administration and has publicly lamented that the building’s narrow windows prevented its occupants from seeing the U.S. Capitol across the street.
“As former HHS Chief of Staff, I’d like to formally endorse the Humphrey building’s candidacy” as Washington’s ugliest building, Brian Harrison, a former Trump official and current Texas state lawmaker, echoed in a tweet. “#BrutalismIsUgly.”
Biden officials this week tried to mount a defense worthy of the fortresslike building they have occupied.
“So it’s gray on the outside but explore inside,” Sarah Lovenheim, who served as HHS assistant secretary for public affairs before stepping down in January, wrote in a text message, touting the building’s “state-of-the-art TV studio,” art from children around the world and other enticing visuals. “HHS was rated the #2 fed agency to work at last year by the Partnership for Public Service so whatever your architectural preference, it’s getting a whole lot right on the inside.”
Within the Humphrey Building, “there’s a bunch of beautiful people doing beautiful things,” added Kamara Jones, the current assistant secretary for public affairs who helped coin the agency’s “concrete chic” tagline. “Their work has resulted, at least at one point, in the lowest uninsured rate in history. The successful launch of [mental health hotline] 988 … vaccines, tests and treatments to fight against covid … there’s a lot of beauty inside the building that I wish people would focus on.”
On Wednesday, several staffers standing outside their aesthetically challenged headquarters mustered up some praise for it.
“I think it’s a functional building. There’s light inside and the interior is actually much better designed than you would anticipate,” said Emily Evans, who works in the agency’s policy and research office.
“I actually do really enjoy working in the Humphrey Building. I find it convenient and like working with my colleagues,” added Marilyn Cabrera, a senior equity coordinator at the agency. “When I saw the tweet, I [thought], ‘I guess it is kind of sad-looking, but I don’t feel sad when I’m here.’ ” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/29/hhs-ugly-buildings-dc-brutalist/ | 2023-07-29T11:20:32 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/29/hhs-ugly-buildings-dc-brutalist/ |
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. — He’s been called a “big teddy bear,” a gruff “football coach” and a “cowboy” who needs to be put out to pasture. But one thing Gen. Michael A. Minihan is not: shy.
With China.
Two years from now, maybe.
“I hope I am wrong,” he informed them in a January memo that went viral after one of its recipients leaked the document online. “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”
Minihan’s combustible rhetoric, including a directive for personnel to sharpen their marksmanship skills and “aim for the head,” is red meat for the China hawks in Congress who fear the United States is woefully underprepared should a conflict erupt in that part of the world. It has disturbed some in the Pentagon, however, as the general’s assertiveness has felt startlingly at odds with the Biden administration’s carefully calibrated attempt to reset relations with Beijing. Senior officials nonetheless have stuck by him — and he has pressed forward with an ambitious plan to “explode” into the Pacific in the event of a war.
This profile of Minihan, 56, is based on interviews with the general and 11 others, including members of his staff and Pentagon officials. Some spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer frank assessments of how Minihan’s candor has affected views of him.
At his headquarters in Illinois, Minihan said he “wasn’t being cutesy” with his bellicose memo but stressed that it was meant for an internal Air Force audience, not public consumption.
“There can be no ambiguity on what my expectations are,” Minihan said. “I’m not trying to be somebody that I’m not, nor am I trying to use theater or a pedestal. I’m simply trying to make sure that my command is ready to win if called upon.”
‘Lima Foxtrot Golf’
At 6-foot-5, the silver-haired Minihan cuts an imposing figure. But away from a microphone, he often seems more like a quirky father figure, associates say. The general fires off dad jokes, drives a dented 1966 Chevrolet pickup truck to work, and enthusiastically brags about his wife, Ashley, and their three adult children.
“Mini has a heart of gold,” Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the Air Force chief of staff, said as Minihan was promoted two years ago and assigned to lead Air Force Mobility Command, which oversees the service’s fleet of cargo and tanker planes and the personnel who fly and maintain them. “He’s kind of like a big teddy bear for those that know him.”
Minihan was selected for the job after 10 years in the Pacific, a tenure that included a posting as the No. 2 officer at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, which coordinates military operations spanning thousands of miles from the Aleutian Islands to Australia. Brown, since nominated to be Biden’s next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recalled taking an interest in Minihan’s elevation after watching how he led a sensitive mission into North Korea to recover the remains of American troops who’d gone missing during the war decades ago.
Upon arriving in Illinois, Minihan leveled with his staff about who he was, staff members said. In a one-page handout, the general told his subordinates that he loved surfing and checklists, considered himself a “natural disrupter,” and had learned “the air is thin and there are no parachutes at this level” once you become a general. He concluded with the phrase, “LIMA FOXTROT GOLF,” meaning let’s f---ing go.
The general took charge of Air Mobility Command two months after the haphazard U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan, in which the Air Force’s fleet of C-17 jets and the airmen who flew them were pushed to the brink of exhaustion. While they saved 124,000 people from Taliban subjugation, 13 U.S. troops and 170 Afghans were killed in a suicide bombing just outside the international airport in Kabul. Bearing witness to the carnage and desperation left some of his airmen struggling, he said.
Minihan resolved that he needed to set an example, that it was okay to seek help. He reached out to a mental health professional and shared the decision widely. “Warrior heart. No stigma,” he tweeted in January 2022, along with an image of a calendar showing his appointment. It led to the three most uncomfortable days of his career, as he processed some of the challenging moments he has experienced, Minihan said.
“What I discovered is that when you pack a body on ice in the back of C-130 and it smells horrific, and you can’t wash it off you, that’s something to deal with,” he said, misty-eyed. “When you’re in the Pentagon on 9/11, that’s something to deal with. When your squadron is supporting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2003 to 2006, and your squadron moves hundreds of angels [deceased U.S. troops] … there’s something to talk about.”
Minihan told The Washington Post that one of the most frequent observations he heard from airmen who participated in the evacuation of Afghanistan is that they wish they had known how difficult the conditions would be so they could have better prepared. He feels obligated to make sure they know now “what it’s really going to be” if a conflict breaks out.
“When you are put in situations where you are facing the realities of the gap of what you have versus what you wish you had, that gap is filled with courage and tenacity,” Minihan said in the interview. “And preparing our team to fill that gap on enormous scale is critically important.”
‘If this comes across as harsh, good’
It is this mind-set that appears to have influenced the general’s grab-you-by-the-lapels style.
Speaking last fall at an Air Force conference, Minihan told a crowd of hundreds of airmen, defense contractors, and civilian officials that he wants his team to “fly it like we stole it.” He went on to deliver a rousing speech and said that “nobody is going to care” what the U.S. military’s plans are for 10 years from now if it loses a war tomorrow.
“Lethality matters most!” he told the crowd. “When you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better! Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger.”
Minihan followed up by releasing a 20-page “Mobility Manifesto” that was both urgent and irreverent. “If you are easily offended by intentional crass, please stop reading now,” he wrote in the opening. The document goes on to criticize “excuse-laden admiration for the status quo” and declare that air mobility forces were in “crisis.” While U.S. airmen are the best in the world, he wrote, there is “significant risk” in inaction that requires “revolutionary” moves to ensure that the Air Force can continue to do its part.
“If this comes across as harsh, good,” Minihan wrote. “We are not looking for blue skies or smooth air. We are looking to deliver.”
Weeks later, Minihan’s memo predicting war within China drew international attention. He ordered airmen to get their personal affairs in order and to “fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most.”
“Aim for the head” when doing so, he directed.
The Pentagon distanced itself from the remarks, while China’s state-run Global Times cited analysts decrying what they called the U.S. military’s prevalence of “super-hawkish war maniacs.”
One influential retired general, Barry McCaffrey, tweeted that Minihan needed “to be placed on terminal leave,” effectively fired, after showing bad judgment and “cowboy aggression.” Lawmakers hawkish toward Beijing defended the general, with Rep. Michael Gallagher (R.-Wis.), chairman of the House Select Committee on China, saying Minihan should be “commended for directing his Airmen to take the threat seriously and preparing with the urgency that the situation demands.”
One senior U.S. defense official said that he was incredulous upon learning about the memo and wondered whether Beijing would see it as escalatory. Another defense official said Minihan retains the confidence of senior leaders, adding that “when we lose trust in leaders, we remove them from command.”
Brown, now awaiting confirmation to become the Joint Chiefs chairman, told Military.com that he was “disappointed” in aspects of Minihan’s memorandum, but agreed with his sense of urgency.
Minihan’s approach has had impact within an organization that spent the last 20 years flying cargo planes to and from war zones where the airspace was largely uncontested, the general’s staff said. Minihan often makes the point that in any conflict with China, which has developed a sophisticated arsenal of missiles, those lumbering planes would be at much greater risk of coming under attack.
Brig. Gen. Corey Simmons, Minihan’s former chief of staff, compared the general to a “football coach” insisting on holding difficult practices so that game days are easier. Minihan, he said, has directed airmen to prepare for a potential conflict with China with “specificity,” and is “insatiable” in looking for improvement.
“He made the news, right? Not a secret,” said Simmons, the commander of the 618th Air Operations Center at Scott. “That’s internal communication to his team. That was the coach telling his team the expectations for what he wanted to do and that this was real.”
Col. James Young, vice commander of the 618th, said that Minihan also has pressed the Air Force to more fully incorporate cargo aircraft and aerial refuelers in combat exercises. Historically, Young said, there has been a metaphorical “fairy-dusting” of mobility forces in large training missions, with assumptions made they would be safe in a conflict so they could get out of the way and let fighter jets train.
“It was almost like he lit a firecracker and said, ‘Hey, did you read the NDS?’ ” Young said, referring to the U.S. national defense strategy, which identified military competition with China as a primary concern.
Maj. Gen. Darren Cole, a senior officer on Minihan’s staff, said that the two-year timeline for war with China that the general laid out “never” comes up internally. But the sense of urgency, Cole said, does all the time.
“He is way out of ahead of where a lot of people are,” Cole said. “Getting people to realize the world has changed and our operational environment has changed has, I think, been a big undertaking.”
Minihan, for his part, bubbles with enthusiasm when describing experiments his airmen are undertaking. For two weeks in July, thousands fanned out across the Pacific as part of the exercise Mobility Guardian, delivering troops, fuel and supplies while stress-testing the limits on what the aircraft and personnel can do. The idea, he said, was to make sure the Air Force can forcefully and rapidly project power if needed.
Minihan spent eight days circulating the region, including four overnights in a C-17 as it made long flights across the pretend battle space. U.S. personnel used Kadena Air Base in Japan, Clark Air Base in the Philippines, Andersen Air Force Base in Guam and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, adding extra external fuel tanks on some aircraft and wearing electronics to assess human performance in the face of exhaustion.
“We’re looking at everything we can do to buy down the risk of coping with fatigue,” Minihan said.
Flat maps of the Pacific do not do justice to the “tyrannies of distance” there, Minihan said. He wants his organization assessing where they can accept additional risk, what equipment already is available that might help, and whether any new technology needs to be developed.
“I, like everybody else, don’t think this war is inevitable,” Minihan said. “ … But, you know, the deterrent factor is born from readiness — as is the decisive victory.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/29/michael-minihan-china-war/ | 2023-07-29T11:20:33 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/29/michael-minihan-china-war/ |
For the first time in a while, the nation — and its policymakers — can step out of crisis mode. This is an ideal moment for President Biden and Congress not just to take a victory lap but also to start tackling the United States’ long-running challenges.
Mr. Biden is eager to take credit for this Goldilocks economy. The latest data show government investments in infrastructure and manufacturing are helping, but they are modest so far in a $25 trillion economy. The Federal Reserve’s aggressive battle against inflation has played a bigger role. But the largest factor of all appears to be an economy returning to normal after three years of turmoil. Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell used the words “normal” or “normalization” nine times in his news conference Wednesday to characterize everything from supply chains to the job market.
Americans are starting to notice the improvement. Sentiment has jumped in recent weeks. People are finally putting the pandemic behind them and allowing themselves to embrace fun and optimism again. This is the summer of Taylor Swift, friendship bracelets, European vacations and “Barbie” movie laughs. It’s a comeback era.
It’s especially pronounced how much the United States bounced back vs. the rest of the world. China’s economy is sluggish, Germany’s is barely out of a recession, and Britain still has inflation near 8 percent. In the United States, the comeback has been so strong that growth is nearly back to its pre-pandemic trend. It’s a similar story for middle-class wages, which are close to the pre-pandemic trend even after adjusting for the recent inflation shock.
That doesn’t mean the country lacks problems. Lower-income households still feel higher costs, a reminder that the inflation battle isn’t over. Owning a home remains out of reach for many, and credit card debt is at a record high. Beyond economics, the ongoing GOP assaults on abortion, LGBTQ+ rights and basic facts about slavery are another reminder of how far from normal some aspects of life remain.
Even so, the country’s late good fortune offers its leaders an opportunity to take a breath and address some long-term national problems. At the top of the list are the $32 trillion national debt and immigration. Addressing these would set up the United States for stronger growth in coming decades. It would also prove to the world that American leaders are still capable of fixing tough problems.
- D.C. Council reverses itself on school resource officers. Good.
- Virginia makes a mistake by pulling out of an election fraud detection group.
- Vietnam sentences another democracy activist.
- Biden has a new border plan.
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Social Security won’t be able to pay full benefits as early as 2034. Simple changes now — mainly increasing taxes on the wealthy and slowing their benefit growth — would save the program for all, especially the lower- and middle-class Americans who really need it. We spelled out other ways to stabilize debt over the next decade — a mix of careful spending trims and tax modifications — in a recent series. Failure to act would mean the U.S. government would spend a growing amount on interest costs, reducing the government’s and the private sector’s ability to make investments in the future.
Meanwhile, immigration has been a top issue for 20 years. As baby boomers retire, the United States needs more workers. There has been an encouraging uptick in people entering the labor force again, especially women of color, but more workers are needed. The United States is in a global war for talent. Mr. Biden’s plans to build more factories at home are already being delayed citing a shortage of skilled construction workers. Congress is overdue for a major upgrade to immigration policies. In the meantime, Mr. Biden is right to utilize every power he has to let in more legal immigrants through asylum and parole.
The country has seen a remarkable economic comeback. Now it’s time to aim higher. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/29/economy-comeback-no-recession/ | 2023-07-29T11:20:33 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/29/economy-comeback-no-recession/ |
New research on Meta — better known as Facebook — seemed to absolve social media sites from responsibility for the nation’s fractured politics. In fact, the new research offers only one sure conclusion: There is no “one weird trick” to fix political polarization.
The experiments, conducted in the months surrounding the 2020 election and with Meta’s permission, showed that changes to the algorithm within that time period did little to alter people’s beliefs. The studies looked at what happens when “reshared” posts are hidden from view; when Instagram and Facebook feeds are displayed in reverse chronological order rather than curated by the algorithm; and when material from “like-minded” sources is reduced by one-third. Attitudes, it turned out, didn’t change much: The anti-immigrant user largely stayed anti-immigrant, while crusaders for covid-19 restrictions lost none of their gusto. The likelihood that users would vote didn’t change, either.
None of this, however, means social media doesn’t matter in the country’s politics. The experimental tweaks did change, considerably, the content to which users were exposed. And one study discovered that, under the standard Facebook setup, Facebook looks dramatically different to liberals and conservatives. Liberals see a mix of sources on the left and right, whereas the news that conservatives see trends ideologically homogenous — more likely to be rated false by the platform’s third-party fact-checkers. Conservatives are, as one researcher put it, “far more siloed in their news sources,” a reality that is “driven in part by algorithmic processes.”
Also, in the experiment in which the researchers reduced material from sources who shared users’ views, the scientists found that those users engaged more with the “like-minded” content that remained.
Together, these findings suggest a possible conclusion less favorable to Meta: When the data for these studies was being collected after months of election-related conversation and years of online habits building and communities coalescing, it was already too late. People’s political beliefs might already have been baked in, with social media sites one of the many actors doing the baking. There’s also no discounting the way living in the world of the like, retweet and viral video has shaped the behavior of politicians and plebeians alike.
The notion that Meta and its peers are solely responsible for national polarization and division has always been a straw man. But the idea that these platforms have nothing to do with our divisions is just as dubious.
- D.C. Council reverses itself on school resource officers. Good.
- Virginia makes a mistake by pulling out of an election fraud detection group.
- Vietnam sentences another democracy activist.
- Biden has a new border plan.
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What the new studies show is that altering or altogether scrapping today’s algorithms won’t magically fix the country’s problems. The 12 studies still to come from this collaboration might offer some more insight into what will help. But so will continued research — conducted as platforms, ideally, make continued changes. Meta should open its inner workings even wider to academic insight; other platforms, including those such as Twitter and Reddit that have recently restricted research access, should join in.
Researchers haven’t yet seen, for instance, the consequences of disfavoring posts that cause outrage; they haven’t seen the outcomes produced by “bridging systems,” algorithms that boost posts that appeal to diverse audiences. They have more to learn about the impact of third-party fact-checks, community notes on Twitter (now X) and other interventions designed to fight misinformation. And they haven’t seen what occurs when a site gives users themselves more control over what they see — as Meta plans to do with its microblogging app, Threads.
This week’s studies aren’t an excuse for platforms to stop encouraging healthier atmospheres. They’re a reason to keep going, so academics can keep studying. Maybe, with enough effort over enough time, something will actually change. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/29/meta-algorithm-studies-polarization-science/ | 2023-07-29T11:20:49 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/29/meta-algorithm-studies-polarization-science/ |
Supporters of LGBTQ students in Amherst, Massachusetts, are calling for more transparency about how the district is handling an investigation.
In May, allegations surfaced in the high school student newspaper that counselors at the Amherst Regional Middle School school failed to protect LGBTQ students.
Several staff members were put on leave. The district launched an investigation and soon after, Michael Morris, the superintendent, went on leave for health reasons. He recently returned to work.
Katharine Waggoner, a parent in the district, helped organize a rally on Friday to support LGBTQ students in the district.
"The idea is to really put a spotlight on the need for honoring, celebrating and repairing harm," she said.
Waggoner said organizers also are trying to push the school committee to be more forthcoming about who is being investigated and whether it includes superintendent Morris.
She said she was reassured by an interview the committee chair gave to MassLive, in which he said the investigation — including a conversation with Morris — is still ongoing. | https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2023-07-29/lgbtq-supporters-in-amherst-mass-seeks-more-transparency-in-school-investigation | 2023-07-29T11:20:52 | 0 | https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2023-07-29/lgbtq-supporters-in-amherst-mass-seeks-more-transparency-in-school-investigation |
President Biden publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a 4-year-old named Navy Joan Roberts, for the first time on Friday, capping a month of questions about why he had seemingly excluded the little girl from his tight family circle.
Roberts is the daughter of Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman who filed a paternity lawsuit against her child's father in 2019.
"Our son Hunter and Navy's mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," President Biden said in a statement to People magazine published on Friday evening.
President Biden Speaks Out on Hunter’s Daughter, 4, with Ark. Woman: ‘Jill and I Only Want What’s Best’ (Exclusive) https://t.co/9qlHMZXH7E
— People (@people) July 28, 2023
"This is not a political issue, it's a family matter," Biden said in the statement. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy."
President Biden is known for often speaking about his love of his family and grandchildren. Last year, Hunter Biden's eldest child, Naomi, was married at the White House in what was a lavish affair.
In early July, the New York Times profiled Navy, her mother, and some of the details of their child support settlement. The story drew attention to the fact that the president had never recognized his 4-year-old granddaughter.
Some GOP presidential contenders like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made jabs at the president for the omission.
Hunter Biden recently settled a lawsuit over his daughter
Hunter Biden has struggled with addiction. In his 2021 memoir, he blamed his addictions for his court battle over his daughter's paternity.
"It's why I would later challenge in court the woman from Arkansas who had a baby in 2018 and claimed the child was mine — I had no recollection of our encounter. That's how little connection I had with anyone," he wrote in his memoir. "I was a mess, but a mess I've taken responsibility for."
Hunter Biden was proven to be the child's father through a DNA test. He has recently settled a lawsuit for child support.
He has three older children, now in their 20s, as well as a 3-year-old son named Beau, who is often seen at the White House.
Hunter Biden has been the target of Republican attacks on the president because of his business dealings and legal issues.
He recently agreed to plead guilty to tax and gun charges in a deal that would allow him to avoid future prosecution. But that plea deal fell apart when the judge said she needed more information and wasn't ready to accept the deal he struck with the Justice Department.
The White House has refused to comment on whether Hunter Biden's legal troubles are a political liability for the president, describing them as personal matters, and saying only that the president loves his son and supports him as he tries to rebuild his life.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2023-07-28/biden-has-a-7th-grandchild-but-hes-never-acknowledged-her-until-now | 2023-07-29T11:20:54 | 1 | https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2023-07-28/biden-has-a-7th-grandchild-but-hes-never-acknowledged-her-until-now |
CANBERRA, Australia — The United States will expand its military industrial base by helping Australia manufacture guided missiles and rockets for both countries within two years, the allies announced on Saturday as they ramped up defense cooperation to counter China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific.
The greater integration of U.S. and Australian militaries was announced after annual talks between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken and their Australian counterparts, Defense Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
They agreed to cooperate on Australia producing Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems by 2025, a communique said.
U.S. companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin only established an Australian enterprise to build such weapons last year. That followed the drain on Western countries’ munitions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Austin said the move on missiles would strengthen the two allies’ defense industrial base and technological edge.
“We’re racing to accelerate Australia’s priority access to munitions through a streamlined acquisition process,” Austin told reporters in Brisbane, Australia.
Marles welcomed U.S. support to achieve Australian missile production within two years.
“We are really pleased with the steps that we are taking in respect of establishing a guided weapons and explosive ordnance enterprise in this country,” Marles said.
The two governments also agreed to upgrade joint military facilities in Australia and to increase U.S. nuclear submarine visits as the United States increases its focus on the South Pacific.
The region came to the forefront of the U.S. competition with China for influence last year, when Beijing signed a security pact with Solomon Islands and raised the prospect of a Chinese naval base being established there.
Austin became the first U.S. defense secretary to visit Papua New Guinea and Blinken visited New Zealand and Tonga before they arrived in Australia.
Saturday’s meeting was overshadowed by the loss of an Australian Army helicopter with four air crew late Friday, during military exercises with the U.S. off the northeastern coast of Australia.
U.S., Australian and Canadian militaries are taking part in the search for potential survivors near Whitsunday Islands off the Queensland state coast.
Austin and Marles will travel to north Queensland on Sunday to inspect Talisman Sabre, a biennial military exercise between the two countries that this year includes 13 nations and more than 30,000 military personnel. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/29/australia-austin-blinken/39ed07a4-2e00-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-29T11:20:55 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/29/australia-austin-blinken/39ed07a4-2e00-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
The 2024 presidential race, nominally a battle to shape the country’s future, is increasingly being consumed by a roiling debate over reexamining, redefining and reimagining its past.
On July 21, GOP presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) defended his state’s new history standards, which suggest slavery had benefits for some enslaved people. Hours earlier, Vice President Harris had traveled to Jacksonville, Fla., to condemn those standards as “propaganda.” Four days later, President Biden proclaimed a national monument for Emmett Till, a Black teen brutally murdered in 1955, using the occasion to condemn “darkness and denialism” from those seeking to “bury history.”
Other Republican campaigns, including that of former president Donald Trump, have since entered the fray, attacking DeSantis while espousing many of the same ideals he has pushed about how history should be framed on issues of race.
The political and pedagogical firefight encapsulates a broader debate that has erupted across the country about what to teach about race, history and the intersection of the two. It underscores how the nation’s metastasizing culture wars — now firmly ensconced in the nation’s classrooms — have broadened to strip Americans of a shared sense of history, leaving many to view the past through the filter of contemporary polarization.
“Most of our prior arguments were about who to include in the story, not the story itself,” said Jonathan Zimmerman, a University of Pennsylvania professor who studies the history of education. “America has lost a shared national narrative.”
The conflict has intensified in recent years as America’s historical record on race has increasingly become a battleground for partisan squabbling. It has cost educators their jobs and forced others to self-censor, sent the textbook publishing industry into meltdown and reshaped how students learn about race and racism in classrooms nationwide. As the tensions have spilled from local school board meetings to state legislatures to the White House and now the campaign trail, history has become a defining topic for contenders angling for the presidency.
DeSantis, whose “anti-woke” agenda has put Florida at the forefront of revising how Black history is taught, has come under fire for supporting a set of standards for middle school instruction that include teaching “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
As DeSantis has tried to clarify his position amid a broader campaign reset this past week, the bipartisan condemnation offered an indication that his push may be running into turbulence. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who has hailed his African American family’s journey “from cotton to Congress” while extolling the American history that made such upward mobility possible, condemned DeSantis’s argument about the supposed benefits received by enslaved people.
“There’s no silver lining in slavery,” said Scott, who is also seeking the GOP presidential nomination, suggesting that DeSantis should consider clarifying his position. “People have bad days. Sometimes they regret what they say.”
Harris, usually on the opposite side of Scott on matters of racial history and justice, also chastised the Florida governor. Shortly after learning of the standards, she made an impromptu trip to Jacksonville to slam what she called “revisionist history” being peddled in classrooms.
“This is unnecessary, to debate whether enslaved people benefited from slavery. Are you kidding me?” she said July 21, two days after the Florida Department of Education unveiled its new standards. “Let us not be distracted by what they’re trying to do, which is to create unnecessary debates to divide our country.”
DeSantis’s aides snapped back against his critics in both parties, alleging that politicians had taken the proposal out of context and noting that other educational programs also say enslaved people developed skills that they used after the Civil War — at least those who survived slavery and attained some measure of freedom.
The spectacle riveted James Whitfield, a Black Texas principal who recently lost his job for allegedly promoting critical race theory — which some Republicans have turned into a catchall term for lessons about race deemed politically motivated. The furor over the depiction of slavery recalled the competing visions of American history that he says led to his dismissal.
“It just made me think of how divided we are,” Whitfield said.
Those divisions have only grown sharper as both parties seek to rally their bases by defending their preferred takes on U.S. history.
While Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was able to parlay angst over schoolroom instruction into a GOP victory in 2021, polling suggests that the views on Black history embraced by DeSantis and other Republicans may be out-of-step with the broader electorate.
Just over half of all adults and about three-quarters of Black adults said they were either “extremely” or “very” concerned about states stopping public schools from teaching about the history of racism in America, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll conducted this spring.
Still, the partisan split in the polling — Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say the legacy of slavery does not affect Black people today, for example — suggests why the issue has become a dominant theme in the contest to secure the GOP presidential nomination.
Eighteen largely Republican-led states have passed laws or enacted policies since 2021 that circumscribe what educators can say about race, history and racism, according to an Education Week tally. Many of the measures are broad, outlawing instruction that could make children feel uncomfortable due to the color of their skin.
A handful of states — most notably Florida — are scrutinizing or rejecting classes and textbooks for what conservatives charge are inappropriate mentions of race. This January, Florida repudiated a pilot Advanced Placement course in African American history, alleging that it lacked “educational value.”
And some blue states are passing laws that take education on race and history in the opposite direction. Since 2019, at least four reliably Democratic states have enacted legislation mandating classes in African American, Latino and Puerto Rican studies.
It all portends hopeless bifurcation, Zimmerman said, suggesting that America is becoming a place where what students learn about the country’s past will depend whether they live in a conservative or liberal state.
Several of the candidates vying for the presidency have pledged to use the power of the executive branch to create new national standards for how schoolchildren are taught about race.
Trump, for example, has warned about “pink-haired communists teaching our kids” and pledged to cut federal funding for schools that teach critical race theory or other “inappropriate” topics about racism.
While debates over how to teach American history are not new — pressure from liberal activists in 1950s and 1960s led to the inclusion of more women and people of color in school lessons, for example — the fight has become particularly fraught in recent years, as a growing number of scholars and politicians seek to draw a more direct link between the past and the present. Much of the fight can be traced to the early days of Trump’s first presidential campaign, when his nostalgic “Make America Great Again” pledge emerged against the backdrop of a burgeoning racial reckoning sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Conservatives contend that instruction on race and history has shifted since then to reflect liberal ideologies and values in ways inappropriate to the schoolhouse. They have advocated returning to a more traditional way of teaching American history, one less critical of the nation’s past flaws and less explicit about linking current inequalities to past injustices.
In Florida this year, volunteers for the right-leaning Florida Citizens Alliance spent weeks combing through social studies textbooks before presenting their findings to the state Education Department. In a 29-page report, the group’s members wrote that textbooks focused too much on slavery and the struggles of Native Americans and Black people — and did not mention “contributions affiliated with white people.”
Keith Flaugh, co-founder and CEO of the Florida Citizens Alliance, said his group’s analysis proves modern-day education means teaching “our kids that our country has been very oppressive.” Speaking of DeSantis, he added: “It’s the reason we’re supportive of what the governor has been doing.”
Officials, educators and activists on the other end of the political spectrum argue that advancing a more comprehensive and accurate record of American history is imperative to addressing the nation’s inequities.
“While darkness and denialism can hide much, they erase nothing,” Biden said Tuesday at an event for the new Emmett Till monument, noting the symbolism of Till’s mother opening her son’s casket to show the world his mutilated body. “For only with truth comes healing, justice, repair and another step forward toward forming a more perfect union.”
Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, an advocacy group that has a Black History Now initiative, said America’s racial history is being used as a tool to determine who should have power in the country and which communities are prioritized.
The dueling American histories “are about not just what has happened, but what we do about it going forward,” he said. “If you can tell a story that removes the harm that has been done, if you can tell a story that removes the violence, that removes the disenfranchisement, that removes the targeting of certain communities — then what you do is you change the way we believe we have to deal with it.”
Trump campaigned in 2015 and 2016 with the MAGA slogan that nodded to a period before a more diverse and racially conscious set of actors began reshaping the nation’s culture. During his presidency, he embraced of some of the views espoused by white nationalists wishing to honor — or reestablish — that bygone era from America’s more racially homogenous and stratified past.
Among Trump’s most striking proposals was one for a “National Garden of American Heroes” filled with statues of historical figures of his choosing, including former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and evangelical leader Billy Graham. The proposal, which included five Black Americans, was in part a response to the movement to remove Confederate statues across the country.
Events during Trump’s presidency — including a deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the murder of George Floyd and the publication of the New York Times’s 1619 Project reexamining the role of slavery in America’s founding — propelled the country toward a cultural conflagration over the idea that America’s history of systemic racism was still affecting minorities today.
That concept gained broad national appeal in the aftermath of Floyd’s death, as communities and companies sought to grapple with the idea of ongoing institutional oppression of Black Americans. Various institutions embraced the Black Lives Matter movement and sought to take actions aimed at acknowledging and curing past injustices. The movement was especially potent among liberals, and then-candidate Biden reoriented much of his campaign in the summer of 2020 to focus on “equity.”
In recent months, Biden and Democrats have rekindled some of their public passion over race issues. The move has been welcomed by some advocates, who say Democrats began paring back their race-conscious agenda in the aftermath of Youngkin’s win in 2021, amid a backlash against calls to “defund the police” and the Black Lives Matter movement in general.
A string of recent activity — from Supreme Court decision striking down college affirmative action programs to mass shootings by white supremacists to book bans by some Republican officials — has propelled the issue back to the forefront of Democratic agenda.
With Republican presidential candidates locked in a crowded primary race in which they are aiming to appeal to the base voters loyal to Trump, both sides see a potential political upside to exhuming the most contentious portions of the country’s history.
In some cases, the debate is taking place literally in the public square.
After the 2020 protests over Floyd’s murder, more than 160 Confederate memorials were removed, relocated or renamed, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Still, a January 2022 report found that there were still 723 monuments and 741 roadways dedicated to Confederates, as well as hundreds of schools, counties, parks, buildings and holidays.
The framing of public and historic spaces is particularly important at a time of disunity over the evolving school curriculums, said Brent Leggs, executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, which is working to preserve or designate historic Black homes, churches, statues and other landmarks
“There are states that can remove history from a textbook, but they can never destroy the physical places where history happened,” Leggs said. “Historic preservation is all the more important at this moment in our history, and through our work, we can ignite both a cultural reckoning and cultural renaissance.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/29/fight-america-racial-history/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:01 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/29/fight-america-racial-history/ |
Hurricanes, earthquakes and an outbreak of a fast-spreading coral disease have wreaked havoc on the coral reefs that protect Puerto Rico’s shores in recent years. Now, the federal government has for the first time allocated disaster relief funding to help rebuild coral reefs in San Juan Bay.
The restoration project will protect about 800 structures in nearby communities, officials say, and help insulate island residents from the effects of future storms.
Healthy reefs serve as rich marine habitats that also protect coastal areas. But even before severe weather further damaged the bay’s reefs, Puerto Rico’s corals were beset by a variety of contagious diseases that discolor and even kill them. The most recent, stony coral tissue loss disease, has spread to reefs around the island, killing up to 50 percent of corals in some spots.
In 2021, Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi (D) declared an ecological emergency because of the coral disease; this year, he declared a state of emergency related to coastal erosion.
The restoration project involves creating a system of hybrid reefs that include both cement structures and native living corals. An artificial reef will also be constructed near Condado Beach, a popular tourist destination that has been a hot spot for drownings because of rough surf and strong riptides.
Beachgoers won’t be the only ones to benefit: Coral reefs are prized habitats for marine life, and Puerto Rico’s reefs protect commercial fish as well as nesting endangered sea turtles. During nesting season, leatherback turtles return to beaches along the bay to lay eggs.
Conservationists and scientists have long advocated reef restoration as part of federal disaster risk reduction policies, and in recent years FEMA has increasingly embraced nature-based hazard mitigation practices. But agency officials say this is the first time it has allocated a hazard mitigation grant to restore a natural resource to protect survivors after a disaster.
“This historic obligation will undoubtedly open the door for similar initiatives that address the effects of climate change and its impact on communities,” said José G. Baquero, FEMA’s federal disaster recovery coordinator for Puerto Rico, in the statement. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/07/29/fema-coral-reef-rebuild-puerto-rico/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:07 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/07/29/fema-coral-reef-rebuild-puerto-rico/ |
Senator calls for probe after one of Hunter Biden’s lawyers allegedly lied about her identity
'There needs to be accountability,' Sen. Pete Ricketts told Fox News Digital
FIRST ON FOX: A GOP senator is calling for a disciplinary inquiry into Hunter Biden’s legal team after a judge accused one lawyer of lying about her identity to court officials.
"I’ve heard from countless Americans who are concerned our justice system is being weaponized against President Biden’s political opponents while his son gets preferential treatment," Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"There needs to be accountability for any misconduct or favoritism, including Hunter Biden’s own legal team. Faith in our justice system has been gravely damaged by the Biden administration’s mishandling of recent cases and restoring its integrity is essential."
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika released an order this week threatening sanctions against Hunter Biden’s lawyers after accusing Latham & Watkins lawyer Jessica Bengels of having "misrepresented her identity and who she worked for in an attempt to improperly convince the Clerk's Office" to remove a key document from the ongoing criminal tax case involving President Biden’s son.
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Bengels called the clerk’s office "pretending" to be associated with lawyers linked to the House Republican Ways & Means Committee, which has also been investigating Hunter Biden, the order said. Hunter Biden’s legal team said it was "an unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication between a staff member at our firm and employees of the Court."
Ricketts called on courts in both New York and Washington, D.C., where Hunter Biden’s lawyers are licensed to practice, to launch an ethics investigation into Bengels and lead lawyer Christopher Clark.
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"I write to you regarding the apparent unethical conduct of members of the New York State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. As you know, the cornerstone of the legal profession is ethics. All legal professionals, lawyers and non-lawyers alike, are expected to maintain strict standards for the protection of colleagues, clients, and the court," Ricketts wrote in a letter sent Friday.
"I am asking both the New York Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Department and the District of Columbia’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel to take swift action to examine the actions of attorneys Christopher Clark and Jessica L. Bengels."
The letter came after a plea agreement between Hunter Biden and U.S. attorneys fell apart this week.
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"While the exact details of this matter are uncertain, it appears an ethical line was crossed," Ricketts said of the misrepresentation accusations. "Regardless of whether or not it was Ms. Bengels or another staff member at Latham & Watkins who called the clerk, the circumstances surrounding the incident demand an investigation.
"Furthermore, it was the responsibility of Biden’s lead lawyer, Christopher Clark, to ensure his team conducted themselves in a manner consistent with the Rules of Professional Conduct. It is the responsibility of courts, legislatures, and state bars to ensure that members of the profession adhere to the Rules of Professional Conduct."
"Therefore, I ask both the New York Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Department and the District of Columbia’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel to open investigations into the conduct of both Christopher Clark and Jessica Bengels." | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senator-probe-hunter-bidens-lawyers-allegedly-lied-identity | 2023-07-29T11:21:07 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senator-probe-hunter-bidens-lawyers-allegedly-lied-identity |
There is news that a Republican Congressman has bipartisan support for a bill that would extend the lease for the land in and around RFK Stadium to be used by the District. For many Washington sports fans — snap the fingers — that means the Washington Commanders will one day play there. The name has changed. The owner has changed. The mayor is on board. There’s so much romance woven into the relationship between that team and that plot of land. If the politics are removed, let’s go!
Oh, and two high-ranking Commanders officials hosted a fundraiser for a Maryland official who is running for U.S. Senate. And the governor of Virginia appeared at Commanders training camp, signing autographs for fans.
Presto! Josh Harris has been owner of the team for just more than a week, and he’s already in position to woo all three jurisdictions into bidding against each other to be the home of whatever replaces FedEx Field.
Easy, now. This process is back to ground zero, as it should be. This process is going to take a long time, as it should. This process can’t be based on romance. It has to be based in reality. Everyone calm down for a minute.
Here’s something to like about what Harris said last week, in an interview with The Post’s Nicki Jhabvala, about the stadium process: “We don’t really have answers coming in right now.” And from Mitchell Rales, one of Harris’s top partners: “We have no idea where we’re going to build the stadium.”
There’s something admirable about billionaires admitting they don’t have all the answers. The answers, at the moment, are unknowable.
That doesn’t mean the news this week wasn’t intriguing. But before we get to that, a reminder: Whether the Commanders’ new stadium ends up in the District, Maryland or Virginia, if it’s built with significant taxpayer funds, it’s a bad deal.
“There’s strong agreement among economists who have studied stadiums that stadiums are poor public investments,” said J.C. Bradbury, an economist at Kennesaw State University who has spent much time studying stadiums. “That’s something that has been consistent from the old super-stadiums like RFK to the newer constructions like Camden Yards — or even newer than that. It’s something that’s near universal.”
As this discussion develops, keep that thought close at hand. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is enthusiastically backing the RFK site for a new stadium. Friday morning, she appeared with “The Sports Junkies” on 106.7 The Fan touting the site as the best fit for the Commanders, pulling on all those heartstrings. The team’s Super Bowl runs came when it played there. This would be a mixed-use project that helps develop an underused section of the city. On and on.
But there is just a giant cart before this horse. For a couple of reasons.
First, the District needs to make sure it keeps the teams it has before it woos the teams it doesn’t. It should worry about the neighborhoods that exist and are struggling before it imagines transformations elsewhere. Monumental Sports and Entertainment owner Ted Leonsis wants the city to help with upgrades to Capital One Arena, a venue that was once credited with reviving the Chinatown area downtown.
Have you been there recently? It’s … edgy. The pandemic hit the neighborhood, and hard. The Capitals and Wizards provide 82 nights of regular season activity. Throw in preseason games for both, Georgetown men’s basketball games and concerts, and you’re looking at more than 100 dates that should help the neighborhood thrive. Take them away, and it’s a wasteland. As far as sports franchises go, that should be the District’s Priority No. 1.
According to Bradbury, most studies show that when an area develops around one arena or stadium, the money it attracts merely comes from another part of the city. “It’s just reallocated local consumption,” he said. More than that: Football stadiums are particularly lousy at bringing a return on their investments because they simply aren’t occupied as much. Yes, a first-class football stadium might have helped the District land matches in the 2026 men’s World Cup or the Taylor Swift Eras tour this summer.
So maybe, maxed out — 20 or 25 dates a year? That’s not enough to put a financial burden on citizens to help provide a stage for a private business. A private business which should be treated as a civic trust, sure, but not so much so that it receives significant public subsidies.
“That’s not a legitimate function of government,” said Bradbury, the economist. “Our justifications for funding these are wrong. We need to stop doing it. It’s one of those things like, everyone used to smoke. Now, people don’t think about it. It’s a changing of attitudes. It’s not the job of governments to fund these things.”
Which is why it’s silly for anyone to stump for any stadium site at the moment. How can you endorse such a plan when there’s no clarity what sort of funding Harris and his partners would want, or how much any potential jurisdiction could and would provide? It’s in new ownership’s interest to investigate prospects in Maryland — where Commanders team president Jason Wright and head of public affairs Joe Maloney raised funds for Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) — and Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) may be able to spur support in the legislature now that Daniel Snyder no longer owns the team. Due diligence doesn’t happen in a week.
In her radio appearance Friday, Bowser not only stumped for the legislation introduced by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) — a measure that would extend the lease for the use of the federally owned land at the RFK site to the District for 99 years — but said she expected to be able to work with the D.C. Council on pushing it forward.
The Council member who represents Ward 6, where RFK sits, is Charles Allen (D). He was pointed in a message sent to constituents Thursday night.
“Nothing I see in the legislation would require the stadium to be part of any development package, but it seems to leave it open along with a much broader range of activities,” Allen wrote. “As far as I can tell, it ultimately leaves the final debate where it should be — among DC residents. And as you probably can guess, my stance remains unchanged: I don’t support building a costly and rarely used NFL stadium at that site, and I really don’t support a stadium that requires substantial District tax dollars.”
The way things moved over the course of the past week seemed fast. The reality is: This is just the start. Nostalgia makes the RFK site attractive and exciting. But nostalgia can’t drive a deal. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/29/rfk-stadium-commanders/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:13 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/29/rfk-stadium-commanders/ |
Adam Mosseri was on a family vacation in Italy last November when he learned he’d have to go toe-to-toe with Elon Musk. The mercurial Musk had just taken over Twitter. Amid the ensuing chaos, Mosseri’s boss at rival Meta smelled opportunity.
Move fast and beat Musk: The inside story of how Meta built Threads
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It was nighttime in Italy, and Mosseri spoke softly to avoid waking his sleeping wife. The group discussed Twitter-like features they could add to existing apps, including Instagram.
Zuckerberg, however, had a different idea: “What if we went bigger?”
By the time the call ended well after midnight, Mosseri had a mandate to build a stand-alone app to compete with Twitter — and a knot in his stomach.
“Oh God, we’ve got to figure this out, because [Zuckerberg is] very excited about this,” Mosseri recalled thinking. “Sometimes you can tell when he kind of gets his teeth into something.”
Just seven months later, Meta unveiled Threads, a project that has shocked even its creators with its instant success. Launched a week early to capitalize on Twitter’s high-profile stumbles, including Musk’s decision to cap the number of tweets users could view each day, Threads drew more than 100 million users in its first five days — making it, by some estimations, the most successful social media app launch of all time.
Threads’ long-term success is not assured. Weeks after its July 5 launch, analytics firms estimated that the app’s usage dropped by more than half from its early peak. And Meta has a long history of copycat products or features that have failed to gain traction (along with a few, like Instagram Stories, that have thrived).
Still, its promising start has reinvigorated a company battered by layoffs, scandals and competition from TikTok for younger users. And the story of Threads’ creation, as recounted to The Washington Post by Mosseri and six other current and former employees, is being hailed by Meta leaders as a new path forward at a time when its ambitious, expensive push to build a virtual-reality-powered “metaverse” is sputtering and employee morale is flagging.
With a mandate from Zuckerberg to take a big risk, Mosseri assembled a lean, engineer-heavy team of fewer than 60 people to hack together a bare-bones app on a breakneck timetable more reminiscent of a start-up than an entrenched tech giant. Speaking to investors this week after Meta reported strong earnings, Zuckerberg held up Threads as vindication of his “year of efficiency,” in which he sheared tens of thousands of jobs in a bid for more agile teams that would ship products quickly.
That Threads was created by such a small group in such a short amount of time has become something of a marvel inside Meta, according to current and former employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, as well as private messages viewed by The Post. Many see its quick rise as a reminder that well-executed product launches might not need all the bureaucratic trappings that a company with some 66,000 employees had grown accustomed to.
“Quick execution. Nothing fancy,” one person wrote on Blind, an anonymous workplace app. “Just solid engineering that most of our ICs [individual contributors] can do but unfortunately are shackled.”
Now that Threads’ daily users have plummeted, the team behind it faces a new test: turning a bare-bones Twitter clone into a thriving social network with its own identity and staying power.
‘Do the simple thing first’
Meta has long viewed Twitter as a competitor: Zuckerberg reportedly tried to buy the platform in 2008 for $500 million. But while Twitter captured the cultural and political zeitgeist, its business — with 237.8 million daily users and $5 billion in annual revenue — remained a fraction of Zuckerberg’s empire, and never posed a serious threat.
“They haven’t been the business we thought they might,” Mosseri said.
But once Musk took over Twitter, embarking on what Mosseri called “high-risk” decisions like limiting the reach of posts for users who hadn’t paid for verification, company executives inside Meta pounced.
Zuckerberg wanted Threads up and running by January, less than two months after greenlighting it. Mosseri, who oversaw the work along with longtime product leader Connor Hayes, tempered the CEO’s expectations, saying they first needed to assemble the right team.
Over the next few months, the pair recruited an engineer-focused group, prioritizing people “willing to be scrappy, and sort of just crank through a bunch [of tasks] really quickly,” Mosseri said. He drew workers from Messenger, Instagram and Facebook.
Twitter attorney Alex Spiro earlier this month accused Meta of poaching Twitter employees to help create its “copycat” app so rapidly. But no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee, according to Meta spokesman Andy Stone.
Initially, the team carried just two product managers and one or two designers alongside dozens of engineers — a flatter and more coder-dominated group than most Meta product teams, Mosseri said. (At launch, it had grown to three product managers, three designers and 50 coders.) Instead of 30-minute presentations on a single design decision, typical at Facebook and Instagram, “It would be like, ‘Here are six things we need to go through this week.’”
The process was a manifestation of what has been a divisive era at Meta, as it shed more than 20,000 workers in layoffs designed to return the business to what Zuckerberg has called “a more optimal ratio of engineers to other roles.”
To keep things moving, the Threads team punted thorny decisions and eschewed difficult features, including private messages and the ability to search for content or view the feeds of people you don’t follow. The company also opted not to launch in the European Union, where regulators are preparing to enforce new rules next year requiring tech companies to provide more information to regulators about their algorithms.
“You do the simple thing first,” Mosseri said. “And I think that also helps reduce the scope, because often what happens is scope creep and you want to add all these things because they’re all great.”
Threads isn’t the first product Meta has hustled to market for competitive reasons.
In 2020, it spun up a short-form video product, Instagram Reels, to vie with TikTok, said Sam Saliba, a former global brand marketing lead for Instagram. Meta launched its rival service at a moment when TikTok was politically vulnerable: President Donald Trump was seeking to ban the app or force a sale, citing national security concerns about the company’s Chinese ownership.
“They saw that as an opportunity to kind of launch quickly and get out the door and then build and iterate,” Saliba said. “When it launched it was like a barely minimal product, like really thin.” (Meta spokeswoman Seine Kim said the company worked on Reels for over a year.)
Meta hopes Threads can steer clear of the political quagmires that have made Twitter and other social media platforms so controversial. Mosseri stirred debate earlier this month when he said Threads would not actively “encourage” politics and “hard news,” because the extra engagement is not worth the scrutiny.
Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg later elaborated in an interview that the company would likely not add specific news-focused product features, but would give more users control over what they see. Zuckerberg, for his part, has proudly welcomed some of his favorite mixed martial arts athletes to the platform.
But if Threads takes off, the company might find it impossible to avoid the sort of politically charged decisions that have made operating Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp so challenging.
Some of Threads’ most influential early adopters were journalists and media organizations sharing the kind of breaking news that generates partisan reactions. Politicians such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and several Republican presidential hopefuls, including Mike Pence, were also quick to join the platform.
Meta can’t just “wish away” political discourse if it hopes to serve users fleeing from Twitter, said Yael Eisenstat, vice president at the Anti-Defamation League and a former senior Facebook policy official. She criticized the company’s approach of prioritizing a rapid launch over careful consideration of the ways Threads could be exploited for hate speech, harassment or political misinformation.
“I really at some point thought that we had finally moved on from this whole ‘move fast and break things’ mentality,” Eisenstat said, referring to a famous internal motto from Facebook’s earlier days. “If there’s any company that should have learned the lessons of the real damage that can be done by not building in the proper safety mechanisms, privacy assurances, and integrity products, it should be Meta.”
Meta’s Kim responded, “Our industry leading integrity enforcement tools and human review are wired into Threads.”
‘Are we sure about these numbers?’
When Musk announced July 1 that Twitter would temporarily limit the number of tweets users can read per day to combat an influx spam and bots, Meta took notice. Whereas new apps often face launch delays as the team works out kinks, Mosseri and company decided to move up Threads’ launch date by about a week. (Two weeks later, Mosseri would announce a measure to fight an influx of spam attacks on his own platform.)
After realizing the app would drop into some international app stores before it was live, Meta pivoted again, shaving another few hours off its launch.
That night, a “core group” worked together at Meta headquarters while Mosseri and other team members chatted on an internal messaging forum, watching the sign-ups pour in. Mosseri recalled astonished team members asking, “Are we sure about these numbers? Can someone double-check that the logging isn’t messed up?”
As the number of sign-ups blew past the team’s expectations, they started throwing out predictions of how high it might go, Mosseri said. Their giddiness was tempered when the avalanche of users triggered roughly a dozen severe technical glitches on the first day.
Still, the aggressive timeline seemed to pay off: The next morning, Zuckerberg publicly touted the apps’ early success, saying it “feels like the beginning of something special.”
For the first time in years, Meta had a viral hit on its hands — the first one built internally since the original Facebook app.
Inside the firm, there was jubilation and perhaps relief, current and former employees said. Rank and file workers flooded Blind with analyses of the app’s initial success in messages viewed by The Post.
Still, getting users to log in to a Twitter alternative is one thing. Getting them to stick around is another — as Mastodon, Bluesky and any number of start-ups can attest.
By the end of last week, third-party analytics services began reporting steep drops in Threads’ engagement. On Google’s Android platform, it was down from a high of 49 million daily users on July 7 — nearly half that of Twitter — to just 12.6 million on July 23, according to estimates from Similarweb.
While Mosseri didn’t confirm those numbers, he said it’s normal to see a “novelty spike’” when a buzzy social experience launches. “I think things weren’t as amazing as people were saying when we were at the peak, and it’s certainly not as bad as people are saying now that we’re stabilizing.”
Threads’ unexpected popularity prompted Mosseri to cut short another Italian vacation last week to handle a deluge of requests and concerns from other Meta teams, such as communications and policy. He said he wants to keep the core Threads team insulated so they can focus on adding the features users expect from a full-service social app.
Asked what he sees as the key to Threads’ long-term success, Mosseri didn’t offer the sort of big-picture vision he has become known for at Meta. Instead, he pointed to four short-term priorities: helping users build their lists of people to follow, improving the algorithms that decide what users see, giving users a way to see posts only from people they follow, and figuring out how to let people message each other.
“Lots of basics like that really need to get fixed — and fixed quickly,” he said.
Five days after Mosseri spoke with The Post, Threads rolled out numerous new features, including a feed that shows users posts only from the people they follow.
Meanwhile, the internal excitement about Threads has validated advice Mosseri said he received from Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom soon after Mosseri replaced him in 2018: Often, the best way to boost morale — even in a company battered by missteps and layoffs — is simply to deliver functional products.
“You’re focusing a lot on talking to everyone,” Mosseri recalled Systrom telling him. “Just make sure you ship things that work and then everything will be easier, I promise.”
Gerrit De Vynck contributed to this report. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/29/meta-threads-mark-zuckerberg-rival-twitter-musk/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:29 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/29/meta-threads-mark-zuckerberg-rival-twitter-musk/ |
There he was.
“The last time he showed up this late, salmon were also late, and the salmon were late this year as well,” said Candice Rusch, a spokesperson with Explore.org, the site that runs the 24/7 live cameras at Katmai National Park. “What we’ve been seeing in Alaska is that the salmon run has been trending later into July, which means for bears like Otis waiting longer to eat that salmon.”
Wild bears like Otis are supposed to return to the salmon run in late June, not July, but rising temperatures and overfishing are in part delaying the arrival of the salmon, Rusch said. This puts the bears in a time crunch, having to eat food in less than the usual six months they’d have to take bulk up before winter time.
“Things like rising ocean temperatures, overfishing, all of these things that are going to affect our marine life, are going to affect bears like Otis and all of the bears at Katmai National Park pretty directly,” Rusch said.
What makes the situation more critical is that Alaska’s Bristol Bay is the world’s last sockeye salmon run for bears like Otis, Rusch said, which she said makes it crucial to take action to conserve it. As ocean waters warm, less and less salmon are returning to open sea, which means there are fewer available to feed animals and humans. Those that do return to high sea are dying as marine heat waves driven by climate change continue to alter their ecosystem.
Bears, which also eat sedges and clams, migrate to open meadows in spring and early summer to feed and dig for food on the nearby mud flats. They eat salmon from streams during the last part of the summer and through fall, according to the National Park Service.
480 Otis is particularly famous thanks to the increasingly popular Fat Bear Week competition. Created in 2014, Fat Bear Week is March Madness meets Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest, but for bears. At the end of the summer, Katmai National Park staff and Explore.org pit 12 park bears against each other online in a single-elimination bracket tournament.
The internet is presented with before and after photos of the contenders, showing bears right after they’ve emerged from hibernation, often very lean, then again in the final weeks before they hibernate again, by then much fatter. Fans then vote on which bear has the more impressive weight gain until one bear takes the title of Fattest Bear on Fat Bear Tuesday. Otis is a regular fan favorite of the competition, and has won the crown four times, including in 2021. At roughly 27-years-old, he’s also one of the oldest bears at the park.
“A bear that’s around 30 years of age is approaching what would be the equivalent of a 100-year-old person,” said Mike Fitz, Fat Bear Week creator and Explore.org resident naturalist. “Most bears don’t have the fortune of living that long.”
Since the park’s so called live “bear cams” were turned on June 16, fans had been waiting for Otis to make an appearance. As weeks passed and more prominent fixtures were spotted, like last year’s semifinalist 435 Holly, fans were starting to worry that Otis may not return.
On the afternoon of July 26, just a few hours before he was spotted, Rachel Wanamaker noted Otis’s absence in the Fat Bear Week Bracket Tournament Facebook group, the most prominent online gathering place for fans of the park’s bears.
There were reasonable explanations, Wanamaker said, like the lower than normal salmon count, or the fact that he could be elsewhere in the park. But the live camera chats were starting to fill up with worries, prayers and tributes to the bear.
“What he was doing in the meantime, I don’t know,” Fitz said. “It looks pretty obvious to me that he wasn’t fishing somewhere else because he’s pretty thin.”
Then, as if on queue, the former champ appeared. Pure elation followed, with dozens of posts and hundreds of comments. “I was prepared mentally for him to not show up but the sheer joy in the first few sighting posts were overwhelming,” one group member wrote. “Long live Otis, King of Brooks Falls.”
“For a lot of people, it was quite joyous for them to see him return,” Fitz said.
Breaking news: 480 Otis is back! 🎉 (You can breathe again.)
— Katmai National Park (@KatmaiNPS) July 28, 2023
480 Otis has returned to Brooks River and he's catching fish at the falls. 🙂🐟
Even at his age, he's still expertly catching fish and continues to surprise us. 👑 🐻
Photo credit: NPS Photo/F. Jimenez pic.twitter.com/6c5BIvoeVk
While fans may have been unsure, Fitz wasn’t surprised to see the bear’s return. Also true to form, Otis reemerged emaciated with vertebra sticking out of his back and hip bones protruding. Fitz said it’s likely that Otis emerged from his den and spent time in another part of the park before heading to Brooks Falls.
Bears start leaving their hibernation dens as early as March and as late as June, Fitz said.
“He showed up this year extraordinarily skinny,” Rusch also noted.
Within thirty minutes of his return to the river, Otis was catching fish. Fitz said that’s part of what fans love about him. “We’ve seen in the past that he is adaptable and he’s a survivor,” Fitz said. “People can really relate to his work ethic and his ability to make a living despite the challenges that he continues to face.”
If we want to continue watching Otis and other bears return to Katmai National Park every year, it’s critical to protect the environment and its marine life, Rusch said.
“Climate is one ecosystem, not just Alaska,” Rusch said. “It’s the whole world that it’s tied together in this problem.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/07/29/otis-alaska-bear-salmon-climate-change/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:35 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/07/29/otis-alaska-bear-salmon-climate-change/ |
If you have scrolled through TikTok in July, there is a fair chance you’ve heard the rallying cry of Cittadini Non Distratti, an Italian organization whose name translates to “Undistracted Citizens.”
‘Attenzione, pickpocket!’ Crime-stopping tips from TikTok’s favorite watchdogs.
Citizen patrols in Venice have turned calling out criminals into the meme of the summer
Cittadini Non Distratti is one of several European anti-pickpocketing groups run by volunteers who film and call out thieves. The organization shares videos of criminals online and sends them to local police departments in an effort to combat what they see as a rampant spike in stealing after the coronavirus pandemic. Their videos show pickpockets covering their faces and running in the opposite direction, trying to make their way out of frame with snagged goods.
“We want to protect all of the tourists and let them know what is happening in Italy,” Poli told The Washington Post in an interview.
Her videos have spawned thousands of parodies and even a remixed TikTok song, (Poli says she is not a fan.) But she hopes more awareness can minimize harm and reduce tourists’ losses. “If you are pickpocketed and you don’t go immediately to the police, the thief will stay free,” she said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/attenzione-pickpocket-meme-videos-catch-thief/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:41 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/attenzione-pickpocket-meme-videos-catch-thief/ |
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down their school's race-conscious admissions plan as violating the Constitution, the board of North Carolina's flagship, public university has voted to strictly bar the use of "race, sex, color or ethnicity" in admissions and hiring decisions.
The board of trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approved the resolution Thursday, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported.
In a pair of decisions announced June 29, court majorities struck down affirmative action in college admissions, ruling against UNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard University, the nation's oldest public and private colleges, respectively.
"I'm confident that we're taking all the necessary steps to fully comply" with the decisions, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz told the audience at the board's meetings this week in what was the first in-person board gathering since the rulings.
Still, while schools nationwide are now looking for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies, the resolution tells UNC-Chapel Hill administrators that certain methods are now off-limits.
The resolution, initially approved by the board's audit committee Wednesday, promises not to grant "preferential treatment" to any individual or group on the basis of race. The school also must not establish "through essays or other means" any regime premised upon "race-based preferences" in hiring and admissions.
Board member Ralph Meekins urged, without success, for members to postpone the vote, saying the resolution "goes well beyond the Supreme Court ruling."
Earlier Thursday, Trustee John Preyer criticized how UNC-Chapel Hill handled the litigation brought several years ago by a conservative group that accused the school's undergraduate admissions policies of discriminating against white and Asian students.
A trial judge in 2021 upheld the school's actions, leading to appeals.
"This is a moment of humility," Preyer said. "For nine years, we've spent in the neighborhood of $35 million to lose a high-profile case. Why did we do that? Was that the right thing to do?"
The trustees discussed this week other ways to comply with last month's UNC-Chapel Hill ruling, which found the school's consideration of race in admissions violated the Constitution's equal protection clause.
"What we're trying to do is be proactive with this and make sure that we're in compliance and that we're providing equal protection," Trustee Marty Kotis said. One school administrator mentioned Wednesday having an internal diversity, equity and inclusion audit but did not provide details.
Guskiewicz announced three weeks ago that the school would offer free tuition to students whose families make less than $80,000 annually. The program, which could help expand diversity efforts, is being paid for with private funds. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/college-in-nc-wont-factor-in-race/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:46 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/college-in-nc-wont-factor-in-race/ |
Whenever anyone asks whether I’m done having children, my answer is: “Yes, but … .” That’s because, although my husband and I have two young children, we also have six potential babies. The latter are embryos created years ago through in vitro fertilization and now frozen in liquid nitrogen in a Maryland lab.
Why many IVF patients worry about the antiabortion movement
While I mostly feel like our family is complete, I haven’t been able to bring myself to decide what to do with those frozen bundles of our DNA. The decision has become even more fraught since last year when the Supreme Court stripped away the federal right to an abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. It’s unclear how Dobbs could affect autonomy over the estimated 1.5 million frozen embryos nationwide, but it’s a worry.
“What happens in three to four years when [lawmakers have] done what they can to restrict abortion. Where do they go next? The rights of embryos, IVF” and genetic testing, says Barbara Collura, president and chief executive of Resolve: The National Infertility Association.
The doctors, scientists, patients and advocacy groups I interviewed said their biggest fears rest in the ambiguity in the wording of restrictive abortion measures. They’re worried about the potential for poorly worded language that could intentionally or even unintentionally curtail rights over embryos.
“It’s still very murky,” says Sean Tipton, the chief advocacy officer for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, or ASRM. “We can’t provide assurance that legislators won’t take rights away and treat a fertilized egg as human, but what we do have is time.”
Donating embryos
The Pew Research Center reports that one-third of U.S. adults have used fertility treatments or know someone who has, and at least 1 million babies have been born in the United States since 1996 thanks to assisted reproductive technology involving embryos or eggs in a lab.
If patients don’t want to use their embryos, the options are to destroy them, donate them to someone else or donate them for scientific research. I’ve always assumed that my husband and I would donate any of our unused embryos for medical research. But Dobbs has made a logistically and emotionally onerous process even more difficult, if not impossible for some.
“So often people think, ‘Oh, I’ll just donate [unused embryos] for research,’” says Vickie Schafer, a psychologist outside of Austin who counsels women dealing with issues around reproduction, “and then there’s the reality that it’s pretty hard.”
There’s effectively no federal funding for embryonic research, which means there are a limited number of private labs seeking the specific kinds of frozen embryos that come from an IVF cycle. The patients, not their fertility clinics, are responsible for finding and contracting with these private research institutions. One major destination for embryos has long been the RENEW Biobank at Stanford University.
Before the Dobbs decision, RENEW was taking embryos from every state except Louisiana. Since then, officials there say, RENEW will accept embryos without question from only seven states: California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Illinois and Nevada. All other states require a case-by-case review.
RENEW officials say they don’t want to violate the law in another state; there’s also a question of whether an embryo donor from outside California could be liable for violating their home state’s laws. It’s had an impact.
“The volume of embryos donated to research has been reduced significantly” since Dobbs, says Liesl Nel-Themaat, IVF laboratory director for Stanford Medicine Fertility and Reproductive Health. “And that means we have less inventory to provide to scientists that are requesting embryos for research.”
Stanford’s careful legal route stems from the patchwork of laws and uncertainty since the Dobbs decision. Legislators in Kansas and other states have considered legislation that would make destroying embryos illegal. And in Tennessee, a recording obtained by ProPublica featured an antiabortion activist telling Republican lawmakers last year that they should wait two to three years before talking about “IVF, and how to regulate it in a more ethical way.”
In a statement to The Washington Post, Lila Rose, founder and president of the antiabortion organization Live Action, said: “Children are a gift. Tragically, IVF turns them into a product to be created, sold, and destroyed.” She added: “At the moment of fertilization, a unique and genetically distinct human life comes into existence. … Everyone who cares about defending the dignity of human life should be deeply concerned about the practice of IVF and oppose this unethical practice.”
But Tipton, who was sounding alarm bells last year, says he feels better today. He attributes that in part to the 2022 elections when voters in states such as Kansas and Kentucky rejected antiabortion measures, which in his view suggests a “dwindling appetite” for the more extreme personhood laws that define life at the time of conception and potentially implicate the embryos created through IVF.
For now, “every patient, everywhere in the country has full dispositional authority over their own reproductive tissues,” Tipton says, except in Louisiana, where embryos have had personhood status since 1986.
Some lawmakers who back personhood measures may not realize the full implications of the proposals, says Kaylen Silverberg, a reproductive endocrinologist and the medical director at Texas Fertility Center in Austin. Silverberg, who said he has cared for lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, also lobbies for ASRM.
During a recent trip to D.C., he spoke with “one of the most conservative members of Congress” who was considering promoting a personhood statute. Silverberg depicted a scenario where an embryologist accidentally drops a dish of embryos and destroys its contents. “Is my embryologist going to be charged with murder, manslaughter?’” he asked the lawmaker, who in turn was “flabbergasted” because he hadn’t realized the measure’s full implications.
For patients, an emotional choice
For those whose embryos are in storage, the challenges are more than legal.
“Patients go through such an emotional roller coaster, going through infertility treatment, and when it’s been concluded it gives them a lot of peace knowing the embryos will be used to help other people to be able to have children in the future and contribute to scientific research instead of having to discard them,” Nel-Themaat says.
To move forward with fertility treatments, let alone IVF, “takes a massive amount of fortitude,” says Silverberg, who has seen patients mortgage their homes and get extra jobs to pay for the process. And after all that, many people go through multiple failed rounds of IVF and are left without any embryos.
“Then you have someone who has gone through the procedure, maybe they’ve been successful or maybe they have not, and they just don’t have it in them to face any more disappointment. And now they’re faced with the decision of what to do with extra embryos. This is gut wrenching,” he says. “Lawmakers don’t understand what they’re putting people through.”
Grief is at the center of the intense and complex emotions around embryo disposition, says Emma Basch, a psychologist in D.C. who counsels people struggling with infertility.
“To make a decisive action on what to do with these embryos that they fought so hard to get can feel like a significant loss,” Basch says. That’s been compounded in the past year with many women confronting their belief structures, trying to reconcile feeling that embryos are “my babies” while also being “staunchly pro-choice.”
I had hoped that in writing and reporting this piece, my decision would crystallize. If only it were that easy. Mostly, though, I’ve come to understand why the choice has been so agonizing and why I sometimes feel half-pregnant.
For now, I’ve decided that I’ll pay for at least another year to store my embryos in Maryland. At the same time, I’m grateful that I live in a state where I’ll be able to choose their fate for at least the foreseeable future. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/07/29/dobbs-abortion-ivf-embryos-impact/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:47 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/07/29/dobbs-abortion-ivf-embryos-impact/ |
WASHINGTON -- Congress approved a thorough revamp of the troubled U.S. organ transplant system Thursday, providing health officials with the authority to break monopoly control of the way kidneys, livers, lungs and other organs are delivered to sick patients.
For 37 years, one nonprofit organization, the United Network for Organ Sharing, has held the federal contract to run the system, relying on a 1984 law that blocked almost all competition. With a unanimous vote Thursday night, the Senate rewrote the law to let the federal Health Resources and Services Administration break that stranglehold and solicit bids from other for-profit and nonprofit groups.
The House approved the same measure Tuesday, and President Joe Biden is expected to sign it.
The expected law holds the promise of significant changes to the hidebound transplant system, which has been beset for years by long waits for organs, patient deaths, lack of accountability, poor oversight and widespread technological problems.
After new contracts are awarded, the Richmond, Va.-based network may lose its power to set policy, operate the system's complex technology and hold transplant hospitals and organ-collection agencies to account -- though the United Network for Organ Sharing has vowed to try to remain part of the system.
"Today is a monumental day in the effort to improve the organ donation and transplantation system for Americans and their families who are counting on transplants to save their lives," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which has been investigating the transplant system for three years.
Exactly how the Health Resources and Services Administration plans to redesign organ transplantation is still being worked out. The agency announced its intention to overhaul the system in March and went to Congress for the authority it needed.
Administrator Carole Johnson released a statement after the vote saying "we commend bipartisan leaders in the House and Senate for passing legislation to give the Health Resources and Services Administration stronger tools to execute this vision."
Nearly 104,000 people are on the waiting list for organs in the United States, and 22 die each day when compatible kidneys, livers, lungs, and hearts cannot be found in time. A record 42,887 transplants were performed in 2022, but research and government reports show that many thousands more could be done if the system functioned smoothly.
The Senate Finance Committee investigation revealed in August 2022 that 70 people had died and 249 developed disease after mistakes in the screening of organs, and the United Network for Organ Sharing was not holding members of the system accountable.
Organs were lost in transit or not collected. The U.S. Digital Service called in 2021 for the complete overhaul of the technology that powers the system and the end of the network's monopoly, citing aged software, periodic system failures, mistakes in programming and overreliance on manual input of data.
At the same time, research has shown, more than 21% of kidneys collected in 2020 were not transplanted, and the Health Resources and Services Administration, which partly funds the United Network for Organ Sharing, was faulted for weak oversight of the nonprofit.
The network did not oppose the legislation.
"UNOS is committed to modernizing and reforming the nation's organ donation and transplant system and working with Congress to achieve measurable results for patients," the organization said in a statement released Thursday evening.
Under a separate administrative change approved in 2019, the 56 nonprofits that collect organs around the country and send them to transplant centers will have to meet strict performance benchmarks by 2026 or lose their lucrative federal contracts as well. Many have underperformed for years without penalty.
"At long last, Congress has succeeded in untangling years of deadly errors in the organ industry to give patients a better shot at lifesaving care and root out corruption," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who has been looking into the transplant system since 2005. "Americans in need of organ donations, especially rural residents and people of color, will be greatly benefited by these changes." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/congress-oks-plan-to-rewrite-transplant-law/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:52 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/29/congress-oks-plan-to-rewrite-transplant-law/ |
There’s a reason runners refer to the treadmill as the “dreadmill.” The exercise machine provides limited visual stimuli and is typically located in a gym or basement, which can be a stuffy, uninviting place to run. Clocking mile after mile in the same place, especially for a long run, can mean an hour or more of boredom.
There are, however, benefits to running on the treadmill, running coaches and exercise scientists say. The record-breaking temperatures and the poor air quality from the Canadian wildfires this year have made running outside risky or outright dangerous at times. Treadmills allow runners to keep training despite inclement or hot weather.
“Treadmills are misunderstood by a vast majority of the people,” said James McKirdy, a running coach. “Having that option is important and can be pivotal in the success of someone’s goals.”
We asked running experts about the effectiveness of treadmill running and how to get the most out of those workouts.
Is running on the treadmill as effective as running outside?
There are subtle differences with running on the treadmill, but it is largely as effective as training outside, experts say.
While energy consumption is “very, very slightly lower,” in treadmill running, the differences are minor, said Bas Van Hooren, a competitive runner and researcher at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. At speeds of up to 16 kilometers per hour, which is roughly a six-minute per mile pace, treadmill running results in similar oxygen costs and heart rate compared to outside running, he said.
The slight difference in energy consumption, though, can add up if you do the majority or all of your training on a treadmill, Van Hooren added.
The treadmills themselves may also have limitations. Some can only go up to a certain speed, and others, whether because of quality or wear and tear, can display inaccurate paces on the screen, McKirdy said.
Do I have to use the incline?
Some runners put treadmills at a 1 percent incline in an effort to match the energy costs of running outdoors, but that isn’t necessary, said Van Hooren, who has been a co-author on reviews on treadmill running. Keeping your treadmill at a zero percent incline is fine.
Increasing the incline on treadmills can be useful, though, for hill repeats or to mix up your workouts.
“Hill workouts might be easier on treadmills, because if you’re doing it outside, it might take a long time to get down the hill,” said Olympian Kim Conley, a running coach. “But on a treadmill, you can go as long as you want or short as you want on your recovery.”
How does the treadmill affect my running form?
Experts recommend taking at least a few minutes to familiarize yourself with running on a treadmill.
Unlike outdoor runs where you’re propelling yourself off the ground, the belt is moving under you on a treadmill, said Andrew Schille, a clinical research coordinator at the Emory University Sports Performance and Research Center.
People who are not accustomed to treadmill running may adopt a slightly higher step frequency and land a bit more toward the front of their foot compared with the heel of their foot, Van Hooren said.
The stiffness of the treadmill makes a difference. It may affect how you run and even your foot strike, Van Hooren said. The stiffer and less springy treadmills are more comparable to running outside on pavement.
To measure the stiffness of a treadmill, bounce a ball on the concrete and measure the bounce height with a camera — try the slow motion mode on your phone, Van Hooren recommends. Then bounce the ball on a treadmill and compare the height.
You can also base it on how much you feel you’re sinking into the treadmill, said Sarah Dillon, an assistant professor in physiotherapy at the University of Limerick’s School of Allied Health.
On a very stiff treadmill, runners typically will adopt more of a heel strike, which may take a bit more load off the Achilles’ tendon but increase the load on the knee, Van Hooren said. Conversely, on a bouncier treadmill, runners will use more of a forefoot strike, which puts more load on the Achilles’ tendon but less load on the knee, he said.
The science suggests, however, that it doesn’t matter if you’re adopting a forefoot or heel strike, Van Hooren said. “At least for energetics, you’re using the same energy cost, regardless of whether you are adopting a heel strike or forefoot strike,” he said.
Why does treadmill running feel harder than running outside?
The physiological demands of running on the treadmill and outside are similar, but the perceived effort of treadmill running can be higher, experts say.
In a 2019 review, Van Hooren and his co-authors speculated on the reasons runners prefer outdoor running.
It could be partly because runners have greater control over their speed and the ability to stop moving, they wrote. They also have a lower risk of falling than on the treadmill. It might also be because, the authors wrote, our body temperature during treadmill running increases because of less air flow.
What types of workouts should I do on the treadmill?
Conley, who has an online coaching service and competes at an elite level, recommends workouts that may be easier on a treadmill, such as speed or hill workouts.
Kelly Walsh, a 37-year-old marathoner and ultramarathoner based in Nashville who is coached by Conley, got into treadmill running during the pandemic. When her area gym shut down, Walsh bought a treadmill and would use it when it got cold outside.
Treadmill running allows her to take the mental strain out of speed work or hill repeat sessions, she said. The treadmill, with its set speed, also prevents her from running too fast on easy runs, said Walsh, who has a personal best of 3 hours 56 minutes 3 seconds in the marathon.
Here is one workout Conley suggested to Walsh:
- 15-minute warm-up at 6 mph (10 minutes per mile)
- 10 repetitions of 90 seconds at 7 mph (8:34 per mile pace) with a 4 percent incline, followed by 90 seconds at 6.3 mph (9:31 per mile pace) with no incline
- 15-minute cooldown at 6 mph
How can I make treadmill running less boring?
Focusing on something else can help make treadmill running more enjoyable.
Put a shirt or towel over the clock on the treadmill. Watch a movie or TV show. Take a virtual class. Listen to a podcast or music that matches the tempo that you’re running.
You can also use treadmill runs as a way to test different types of fuel without worrying about being outside and not having access to a restroom. Walsh experiments with different gels and breakfast before running on the treadmill “just to make sure it sat well with my stomach,” she said.
Just remember, treadmill running counts as part of your training. “Miles are miles, and we all have to do our best to get them in when we can,” Walsh said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/07/29/treadmill-running-workout-tips/ | 2023-07-29T11:21:53 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/07/29/treadmill-running-workout-tips/ |