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ROBERT E. SPANGLER, 77, of Huntington, companion of Ella Mae Means, died Thursday July 27, 2023 at the Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House of Huntington. He was a retired law enforcement officer. At his request there will be no funeral or visitation. Reger Funeral Home, Huntington, is assisting the family with arrangements. www.regerfh.com.
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Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 5:44 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
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Georgia Southern running back Jalen White (25) celebrates his touchdown with Georgia Southern offensive lineman Logan Langemeier (66) during the second half of an NCAA football against game James Madison in 2022 in Statesboro, Ga.
Editor’s note: This is the 10th installment of a 12-part series previewing Marshall’s football opponents for the 2023 season.
The Marshall and Georgia Southern football programs share history already, and that only stands to grow this season as the Eagles make the trip to Huntington on Nov. 11.
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As persistent triple-digit temperatures and dry conditions increase wildfire danger for much of the state, Texas A&M Forest Service urges Texans to be cautious with outdoor activities that create sparks.
High temperatures and increased wind speeds will support the potential for large wildfires that may be resistant to firefighters’ suppression efforts through the first week in August. The risk for wildfire activity will remain elevated during that time.
Areas at risk include North, Central and South Texas, the southern parts of East Texas, areas in the Rolling Plains near Wichita Falls and Abilene and areas in the Hill Country near San Angelo, Fredericksburg and San Antonio.
“With the recent uptick in wildfire activity, Texas A&M Forest Service has mobilized additional personnel and equipment to assist with response,” said Wes Moorehead, Texas A&M Forest Service fire chief. “State and local firefighters are prepared to respond quickly but we need Texans to be careful and prevent wildfire ignitions while conditions remain hot and dry.”
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In Texas, nine out of 10 wildfires are human-caused and preventable. The most common causes of wildfires during the summer months are debris burning and equipment use, which includes parking in dry grass and dragging trailer chains.
“Every year, Texans eagerly await the summer months when they can enjoy their favorite outdoor activities like camping, boating or grilling,” said Karen Stafford, Texas A&M Forest Service prevention program coordinator. “Unfortunately, these activities can also spark an unintended wildfire. It is important that everyone consider their surroundings and remember that simple preventative measures can keep a wildfire from igniting.”
Throughout the summer months:
• Always check with local officials for burn bans and other outdoor burning restrictions. Pay attention to local guidelines regarding open fires, campfires and outdoor activities that may pose a fire hazard. For burn ban information, visit https://tfsweb.tamu.edu/TexasBurnBans/.
• Park in designated spaces and avoid driving over and/or parking on dry grass. The heat from a vehicle can easily ignite the grass.
• When using a cooking fire or campfire, never leave it unattended. Always make sure it is completely out by drowning it with water, stirring it and feeling to ensure it is cold before leaving.
• When pulling a trailer, ensure the chains are properly connected and do not drag on the road as this can create sparks.
• If you witness suspicious behavior or signs of arson, immediately call the local authorities.
Stay wildfire aware. If a wildfire is spotted, immediately contact local authorities. A quick response can help save lives and property.
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When asked about goals for his rookie season, first-round pick Jalen Carter didn’t mince his words.
He’s aiming high.
“Yeah, I want to be Defensive Rookie of the Year,” Carter said on Friday. “I had a lot of goals. It changes every day, but the main goal is Defensive Rookie of the Year.”
The last defensive tackle to win Defensive Rookie of the Year was Aaron Donald back in 2014 so it doesn’t happen often. But there’s no reason to doubt Carter. The ninth overall pick is incredibly talented, in a great situation and he’s already off to a great start.
Sure, we’re just a couple days into training camp and the pads haven’t even come out yet … but Carter is already turning some heads. Even after just one day.
“We’re talking about him,” center Jason Kelce said. “I’ll be interested to look at the tape and see what it looks like and continue to watch him. It’s the first day so you try not to make … do not make first impressions the end all be all. The mark in this league is consistency.”
Sure. But Carter, 22, has flashed early in camp and that wouldn’t be possible had he returned to the NovaCare Complex out of shape. Head coach Nick Sirianni was pleased to announce on Wednesday that every player passed the conditioning test upon the Eagles’ arrival to camp and that included Carter.
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It’s especially notable in Carter’s case, though, because — right or wrong — there was a lot of talk during the pre-draft process about his poor performance at the Georgia pro day. That he looked gassed, out of shape.
“I didn’t hear much about that,” Carter said. “But I passed my conditioning test so I think my conditioning level is good.”
A lot of work went into that.
After the Eagles broke for the summer, Carter returned to his home state of Florida and called Hunter Wood of The Athlete Factory near Orlando. Wood once ran the strength program at Apopka High School early in Carter’s high school career but hadn’t worked with him since.
For four days per week during the summer, all the way up until the Thursday before training camp began, Wood helped Carter prepare for his rookie season.
“Orlando is like a zillion degrees,” Wood said to NBC Sports Philadelphia by phone on Friday afternoon. “If you can run in this, you can run in anything.”
That came in handy on a steamy day at Eagles training camp on Friday. Carter was ready.
During the summer in Florida, Carter typically worked out Monday through Thursday, with sessions normally beginning around 8:30-9 a.m. Two days outside, running and doing field work; two days inside and in the weight room.
Football is now a job for Carter. And he’s treating it like one.
“I think he’s obviously pretty motivated, super motivated right now,” Wood said. “I think he’s got some big goals ahead of him. He seemed like he was ready to go to me. There wasn’t a lot from my end, trying to push him and prod him. Nothing more than the typical coaching, get through tough things, that you have to do when you’re coaching athletes.
“But from my standpoint, you could tell that he’s super motivated, ready to go. And he has some big goals out in front of him and I think he’s ready to go and chase them down and get those things.”
Whenever Wood works with a professional athlete, he asks what the player wants to work on and he asks what the team wants. Then he creates a plan accordingly to target specific areas.
One area of focus for Carter this summer was hips and core strength. That’s such an important element of defensive line play in the NFL with the amount of torque needed inside, Wood explained. So, understanding what it takes to play D-line in the NFL, they spent a ton of time on core development and different planes of motion.
“He’s already obviously very powerful and quick and those type of things but we did try to make sure that he’s super explosive coming into camp,” Wood said. “He’s super fast. So continue to develop those types of things and the biggest thing was to make sure he was in shape coming back. Obviously, we wanted to make sure he put his best foot forward when he got back to camp. He showed up in shape, ready to go.”
If you spend any time talking to folks who have been around Carter, you start hearing about some impressive athletic feats, dating all the way back to his high school career.
Wood offered up one from this summer.
They were laser-timing 10-yard sprints because get-off is an important trait for pass-rushers in the NFL. According to Wood, Carter ran four consecutive 10-yard sprints all under 1.6 seconds, topping out at 1.569 seconds. That’s pretty incredible for a defensive lineman who is well over 300 pounds.
“He’s gifted, obviously,” Wood said. “But that was like, ‘holy cow!’”
To put those times into perspective, the fastest 10-yard split for a defensive tackle at the Combine this offseason was 1.64 seconds from Pittsburgh’s Calijah Kancey and the next closest was Clemson’s Bryan Bresee at 1.71 seconds. There were six receivers at this year’s Combine who ran a 1.57 or slower and none of them were anywhere near 300 pounds.
After a ton of work this offseason, Carter has kept it up since getting back to Philly.
The Eagles’ practices are shorter and less exhausting than the practices Carter went through at Georgia. So there’s a lot more on his shoulders as an individual to put the work in. Defensive coordinator Sean Desai said Carter has learned how to be a pro.
“He knows what it is in terms of the preparation for your mind and your body, off the field, in the weight room, in the training room, all that stuff,” Desai said. “He's embracing it and learning it, and he's doing a great job.”
Carter has also embraced many of the bells and whistles the NovaCare Complex has to offer to aid his body development and recovery. He works on his conditioning after every practice and has even started to utilize cryotherapy.
After a few months with Desai’s playbook in hand, Carter agreed that this defense suits his strengths.
“Coach [Tracy Rocker] wants us to fire off the ball,” Carter said. “And that’s something I like to do.”
Add all that to his natural ability and then a Defensive Rookie of the Year season doesn’t seem all that far-fetched.
When asked what it’ll take to accomplish that goal, Carter said he just needs to keep listening to his veteran teammates like Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham.
“He’s got some big goals ahead of him,” Wood said, “but I think he’s more than willing and able to accomplish whatever he sets out to do this year.”
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Although a Texas foundation is signing up volunteers for patrols at Temple and Salado high schools, officials with both districts say those efforts aren’t needed because they will have armed security or police officers on campus.
The Uvalde Foundation For Kids, a Texas-based nonprofit formed with the mission to end school violence, announced in a news release on Friday that it began its local recruitment for community volunteers to join its school patrols.
“Patrol volunteers are being sought and will undergo foundational training prior to the start of the academic year,” Daniel Chapin, the founder of The Uvalde Foundation For Kids, said in a news release. “Teams serve as an additional level of positive student and community engagement, while also as additional deterrents to potential dangers to students. Team members communicate through two-way radios and are trained in situational awareness and basic intervention techniques.”
The foundation identified Temple High School and Salado High School as two Bell County campuses where the volunteer school patrols would operate this fall but administrators from both districts told the Telegram how that won’t be the case.
“We won’t have voluntary patrols,” Temple ISD Superintendent Bobby Ott, who noted how the nonprofit reached out to the district months ago, said. “We are just using school resource officers and security officers at Temple High School.”
Those security guards were hired in response to Texas legislators passing House Bill 3 — legislation that requires armed security at each campus — and will be dispersed evenly between eight campuses: Meridith-Dunbar Early Childhood Academy, Cater Elementary, Hector P. Garcia Elementary, Kennedy Powell Elementary, Raye-Allen Elementary, Scott Elementary, Western Hills Elementary and Fred W. Edwards Academy.
Temple ISD will now have full-time, armed security guards at every campus as the district already had a school resource officer at Temple High School, Wheatley Alternative Education Center, Bonham Middle School, Travis Science Academy, Jefferson Elementary and Thornton Elementary.
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No partnership between Salado ISD and The Uvalde Foundation For Kids exists, district officials said.
Salado ISD Superintendent Michael Novotny noted the measures his district has taken to ensure campus safety, which includes allowing employees opting to participate in the School Marshal Program through the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement — an 80-hour training that allows employees to carry a firearm on campus upon completion.
“We added our first school resource officer four years ago through the village of Salado Police Department that was shared between our elementary, middle and high school,” he said. “But this past year, before House Bill 3 was even approved, we added two more school resource officers. So we had a school resource officer at every campus before it was required.”
However, Salado ISD, he emphasized, is always looking for opportunities to enhance that level of protection.
“We felt it was in our best interest to have our own department exclusively for our school district, so we hired a chief of police in April. He then worked on all the paperwork and filed it through the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement to officially establish it.”
The Salado ISD Police Department was approved in late May.
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Sean Desai wants to make this as challenging as possible.
He wants to overload guys’ circuits. He wants them to feel a little overwhelmed. He wants to throw everything at them and see how much they can handle.
Desai came out guns a-blazing in his first week as Eagles defensive coordinator, but there is a method to his madness.
“We're throwing a lot at them right now, and I kind of told them that,” he said. “I said it's kind of intentional from my perspective to challenge them a little bit and put a little pressure on them and then things will ease up.
“I believe in teaching on the field and learning that way and having guys learn through some mistakes.”
One school of thought is to bring young players along slowly. Give them a few pages of the playbook at a time, let them master that part of the defense, then give them a few more pages until they’ve picked up the whole scheme.
Desai doesn’t believe in taking things slowly.
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“I guess that's part of the art of coaching,” he said Friday. “In this role, that's part of the art. I think my philosophy is at least I'm open and honest with them from the beginning. They know what the expectation is, and they trust (the coaches), and they'll see over time that we're going to take care of them mentally, too, with the strain.
“The schedule helps them with the process that we do and how we install and the time that we have to walk through things and kind of talk through things, the meeting time that we have. I think they understand that, and I think they're going to really embrace it, and they are really embracing it. I'm really happy that they're doing that.”
One thing Desai has done is start out some of the young guys with the backups to reduce the pressure on them.
Kelee Ringo and Sydney Brown are working with the third defense and Jalen Carter with the second group, which gives the a chance to apply what they’ve learned without being out there feeling overwhelmed with the 1’s.
And the Eagles’ training camp schedule that Desai mentioned really gives young guys the opportunity to catch up if they find themselves falling behind on the field.
The first eight days of camp include just four short practices before the first back-to-back practice days next Thursday and Friday. The rest of the time they’re in meetings and film study.
This sort of mental work can help young guys handle the mental strain of “throwing a lot at them.”
Then again, Desai said as tough as he feels like he’s been, his players don’t necessarily agree. Which is a good sign.
“For me, I thought it was a lot, but a lot of the guys came back and told me it wasn't a lot, so I don't know,” Desai said with a laugh.
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A Temple man who refused to leave a convenience store was indicted this week for allegedly spitting on a police officer during his arrest.
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More than a dozen Temple ISD sixth- and seventh-graders spent their Friday with a smile on their face, as they pedaled their bicycles around the Temple High School parking lot.
Each of them had hand assembled their ride that morning through Workforce Solutions of Central Texas’ inaugural Wrenches to Wheels program — an initiative where industry professionals guided students on the building process for approximately three hours.
“I loved it,” Jeremy Stallings, a volunteer from East Penn Manufacturing in Temple, told the Telegram. “I have children of my own so anytime I can help others out I will. They’re our future so we have got to teach them.”
His favorite moment was watching those 20 students in attendance grin with excitement.
“That’s my biggest deal — to watch the kids smile when they get out there and actually ride the bike and get a feel for it,” Stallings, whose 6-year-old son attends Jefferson Elementary, said.
Without the guidance from volunteers like Stallings, Tristan Bailey, a 12-year-old Lamar Middle School student, emphasized how it would have taken him much longer to assemble the bicycle, which Workforce Solutions of Central Texas provided for free along with a tool kit.
“I’ve never built a bike before so it was fun hanging out with the other students and learning from the adults,” he said. “My favorite part about today was trying to get the handlebars on, because it was so tedious to turn the Allen wrenches. You’d have to stop every now and then because there was a metal bar in the way.”
Like Bailey, Jesse Green IV, a 13-year-old Bonham Middle School student, also enjoyed the opportunity to learn a new skill.
“Now, I plan on trying to learn how to ride it, because the last time I rode a bike was years ago and it had the training wheels,” he said as he packed up his new tools. “I’ve got terrible balance so it might take a while.”
Temple ISD Superintendent Bobby Ott was happy to see another initiative come to fruition through their partnership with Workforce Solutions of Central Texas and emphasized how blessed the district is to have that local support.
“Trade skills and working with your hands are essential to our future,” he told the Telegram. “Partnership opportunities like these really assist our students in practical hands-on learning experiences.”
Students enrolled in Copperas Cove ISD and Killeen ISD participated in previous weeks.
“As long as it happens, I’ll be here every year,” Stallings said. “I’m going to push for friends that work for other companies — that I know that weren’t here today — and I’m going to see if they’ll come out next time.”
Angie Solis, a volunteer with Panel Specialists, Inc. in Temple, has the same plan.
“Our CEO is big on helping out in the community, so he usually goes through and asks a few of us in the company if we want to participate in events like this,” she said. “We really didn’t know what we were going to walk into but it was definitely worth doing. I would do it again.” | https://www.tdtnews.com/news/central_texas_news/article_da60abb4-2d97-11ee-ba2d-13bfd0f26160.html | 2023-07-29T11:47:49 | 0 | https://www.tdtnews.com/news/central_texas_news/article_da60abb4-2d97-11ee-ba2d-13bfd0f26160.html |
A 56-year-old Temple man accused of shooting a firearm at a person who reportedly owed him money was indicted on a second-degree felony charge.
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ROSEBUD — Services for Frances Earlene King, 80, of McKinney will be 1 p.m. today at Cook-Gerngross-Green-Patterson Funeral Home in Rosebud.
Burial will be in Powers Chapel Cemetery near Rosebud.
Mrs. King died Wednesday, July 26, at her residence.
She was born Dec. 31, 1942, in Houston to James and Helen Tawater Crawford. She worked at First State Bank in Bellaire and Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Company in Richardson.
Survivors include her husband, Edward King; three daughters, Cindy Moriarity, Jennifer Kinney and Melissa Feland; two brothers, Robert Crawford and Kenneth Crawford; two sisters, Lynda Soward and Nancy Bertelson; and nine grandchildren.
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Cameron Yoe and Holland each placed a pair of players on the 2023 Texas Sports Writers Association’s all-state baseball teams, which were released this week, to lead a group of seven area representatives.
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Fruit and fruit juices are among the most refreshing and delicious things to enjoy in hot weather. So it’s probably no surprise that the new wave of Hazy IPAs are so popular. They’re occasionally called juicy IPAs, after all, and their flavors often remind us of orange or grapefruit juice. Hazy IPAs are relative newcomers to the brewing scene, but brewers have been using fruit to make beer for millennia.
One of the earliest known beverages made with fruit was found in Northern China and dated from 9,000 years ago: Pottery jars found in the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Henan province contained the residue of a mixed fermentation drink made with rice, honey and fruit.
Molecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern, from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, asked Dogfish Head Craft Brewery to re-create the drink. The result was Chateau Jiahu, brewed with orange blossom honey, muscat grape juice, barley malt and hawthorn fruit and then fermented on sake yeast. Although it’s no longer in production, you can still find bottles of it in stores, if you don your Indiana Jones fedora. But many other, more recent fruit beers are easy to find.
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Lambic brews originated around the 13th century in what today is Belgium, in the area around Brussels known as the Pajottenland. One type, gueuze, is made by blending a year-old lambic with a two- to three-year old versio, then bottling the mixture so it ferments a second time. But there’s also Kriek and Framboise, which are two of the most common lambics. Kriek is fermented the second time with cherries, traditionally sour Morello cherries, and Framboise with raspberries. The beers are still sour, but the intense fruit flavor balances that somewhat, and some modern producers add additional sugars to sweeten them further.
Authentic lambic can only be produced in Belgium, but brewers throughout the world make lambic-style beers.
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Another beer to try is gose, which originated in the small German town of Goslar, then rose to fame in Leipzig. What makes this sour wheat beer unique is its high carbonation and the addition of salt to the taste profile. The style almost died out, but has enjoyed a recent resurgence thanks to modern versions that include fruit.
Boonville’s Anderson Valley Brewing, for example, has an entire line of them, including a traditional take — The Kimmie, the Yink and the Holy Gose — and several fruited varieties such as blood orange, briny melon, cherry and framboise rose. And Southern California’s Lost Abbey has a line of Tiny Bubbles that includes brews with orange and guava, raspberries, and salt and lime.
Berliner Weisse
Dubbed the Champagne of the North, Berliner Weisse was born in Berlin, as its name suggests. This low-alcohol, lightly sour wheat beer was traditionally served with a sweet syrup, usually raspberry or woodruff flavor. You don’t see it as often in Berlin these days, but the beer has spread everywhere else, though modern versions ditch the syrup and instead add fruit before bottling or canning. Fort Bragg’s North Coast Brewing makes one with peaches and another with tart cherries.
Radlers
Radlers emerged a century ago in Bavaria, when innkeeper Franz Kugler created a refreshing drink he dubbed the Radlermass or “cyclist liter.” Fascinated by the growing popularity of the sport of cycling, Kugler had created a biking trail that led from Munich directly to — wait for it — his inn. But one busy day, he was so inundated with customers, he feared he would run out of beer, so he mixed it with lemon soda, and the Radler was born.
Today, many German and American breweries offer radlers — no mixing required — and it’s still a very refreshing drink. You may spot it in other flavors, too, such as grapefruit or raspberry.
Other fruit beers
Of course, any beer can have fruit (or anything else for that matter) added to it to enhance flavor. In those heady early days of craft beer, many brewers added fruit to amber ales to produce blueberry ale or raspberry ale, etc. Happily, that practice has grown more intentional and sophisticated with time.
The key to a great fruit beer is simple: It should harmoniously mix the beer and fruit, so you don’t lose the beerishness, but it still allows the fruit flavors to shine through. There are so many great, local fruit beers waiting to be discovered. Start with San Leandro’s 21st Amendment and its Hell or High Watermelon. Try Alameda’s Almanac Beer Co. and its Fruit Punch Sournova. Check out Windsor’s Barrel Brothers and its barrel-aged blonde sour ale, The Snozberries Taste Like Snozberries. Pick a fruit you love and start tasting.
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By ZOYA TEIRSTEIN, Grist
NEW YORK (AP) — In 2022, doctors recorded the first confirmed case of tick-borne encephalitis virus acquired in the United Kingdom.
It began with a bike ride.
A 50-year-old man was mountain biking in the North Yorkshire Moors, a national park in England known for its vast expanses of woodland and purple heather. At some point on his ride, at least one black-legged tick burrowed into his skin. Five days later, the mountain biker developed symptoms commonly associated with a viral infection — fatigue, muscle pain, fever.
At first, he seemed to be on the mend, but about a week later, he started to lose coordination. An MRI scan revealed he had developed encephalitis, or swelling of the brain. He had been infected with tick-borne encephalitis, or TBE, a potentially deadly disease that experts say is spreading into new regions due in large part to global warming.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of a collaboration between The Associated Press and Grist exploring the intersection of climate change and infectious diseases.
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For the past 30 years, the U.K. has become roughly 1 degree Celsius warmer (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) on average compared to the historical norm. Studies have shown that several tick-borne illnesses are becoming more prevalent because of climate change. Public health officials are particularly concerned about TBE, which is deadlier than more well-known tick diseases such as Lyme, due to the way it has quickly jumped from country to country.
Gábor Földvári, an expert at the Center for Ecological Research in Hungary, said the effects of climate change on TBE are unmistakable.
“It’s a really common problem which was absent 20 or 30 years ago,” he added.
Ticks can’t survive more than a couple of days in temperatures below zero, but they’re able to persevere in very warm conditions as long as there’s enough humidity in the environment. As Earth warms on average and winters become milder, ticks are becoming active earlier in the year. Climate change affects ticks at every stage of their life cycle — egg, six-legged larva, eight-legged nymph, and adult — by extending the length of time ticks actively feed on humans and animals. Even a fraction of a degree of global warming creates more opportunity for ticks to breed and spread disease.
“The number of overwintering ticks is increasing and in spring there is high activity of ticks,” said Gerhard Dobler, a doctor who works at the German Center for Infection Research. “This may increase the contact between infected ticks and humans and cause more disease.”
Since the virus was first discovered in the 1930s, it has mainly been found in Europe and parts of Asia, including Siberia and the northern regions of China. The same type of tick carries the disease in these areas, but the virus subtype — of which there are several — varies by region. In places where the virus is endemic, tick bites are the leading cause of encephalitis, though the virus can also be acquired by consuming raw milk from tick-infected cattle. TBE has not been found in the United States, though a few Americans have contracted the virus while traveling in Europe.
According to the World Health Organization, there are between 10,000 and 12,000 cases of the disease in Europe and northern Asia each year. The total number of cases worldwide is likely an undercount, as case counts are unreliable in countries where the population has low awareness of the disease and local health departments are not required to report cases to the government. But experts say there has been a clear uptick since the 1990s, especially in countries where the disease used to be uncommon.
“We see an increasing trend of human cases,” Dobler said, citing rising cases in Austria, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, and other European countries.
TBE is not always life-threatening. On average, about 10 percent of infections develop into the severe form of the illness, which often requires hospitalization. Once severe symptoms develop, however, there is no cure for the disease. The death rate among those who develop severe symptoms ranges from 1 to 35 percent, depending on the virus subtype, with the far-eastern subtype being the deadliest. In Europe, for example, 16 deaths were recorded in 2020 out of roughly 3,700 confirmed cases.
Up to half of survivors of severe TBE have lingering neurological problems, such as sleeplessness and aggressiveness. Many infected people are asymptomatic or only develop mild symptoms, Dobler said, so the true caseload could be up to 10 times higher in some regions than reports estimate.
While there are two TBE vaccines in circulation, vaccine uptake is low in regions where the virus is new. Neither vaccine covers all of the three most prevalent sub-types, and a 2020 study called for development of a new vaccine that offers higher protection against the virus. In Austria, for example, the TBE vaccine rate is near 85 percent, Dobler said, and yet the number of human cases continues to trend upward — a sign, in his opinion, of climate change’s influence on the disease.
In central and northern Europe, where for the past decade average annual temperatures have been roughly 2 degrees Celsius above pre industrial times (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), documented cases of the virus have been rising in recent decades — evidence, some experts say, that rising global temperatures are conducive to more active ticks. The parasitic arachnids are also noted to be moving further north and higher in altitude as formerly inhospitable terrain warms to their preferred temperature range. Northern parts of Russia are a prime example of where TBE-infected ticks have moved north. Some previously tick-free mountains in Germany, Bavaria, and Austria are reporting a 20-fold increase in cases over the past 10 years.
The virus’s growing shadow across Europe, Asia, and now parts of the United Kingdom throws the dangers of tick-borne disease into sharp relief. The U.K. bicyclist who was the first domestically acquired case of the disease survived his bout with TBE, but the episode serves as a warning to the region: though the virus is still rare, it may not stay that way for long.
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NBA star Steph Curry is motivating others to shoot their best shot in Apple TV’s Stephen Curry: Underrated.
The documentary film chronicles intimate details of Curry’s rise from in his own words “the undersized, scrawny kid that was just trying to figure out how to make it” to a four time NBA champion.
The documentary’s producers, “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler and Unanimous Media’s Erick Peyton, revealed the Golden State Warriors star wanted to pull the curtain on his personal life “to reframe the quote-unquote celebrity athlete documentary.”
“On the surface, someone could write this film off, but this is a film about the power of being seen,” Coogler told the Daily News.
He added: “That was the biggest thing I think that Steph did was allow himself to be open at a time when he was trying to accomplish so much that requires so much focus. Trying to take a team on a playoff run, trying to complete your undergraduate degree, trying to break a three-point record. All these things were happening while he was opening up his home and allowing us to follow him to games and film his children.”
The doc highlights several pivotal moments in Curry’s journey, including his three years at Davidson in his college days, a time where his athletic abilities were initially underrated. It’s a word the athlete now proudly embraces as a “badge of honor.”
“He knew who he was, so when he started to overcome people’s opinion, he stayed who he was,” Peyton noted. And so you start to use that as your superpower, as that chip on your shoulder to keep proving people wrong.”
Viewers get a chance to witness some of those victorious milestones, such as the moment he broke a record at Madison Square Garden, a celebration he shared with familiar faces.
“I think there’s a running thread in the film, the celebrity interactions with Steph. Lebron coming to his college game, [Kevin Durant] stopping by and showing love to him in the afterparty after the record is broken, Spike Lee’s interaction with him, Reggie Miller reading the profile.”
“You have athletes and celebrities who maybe have their own stories of being underrated at a time, but they’re not underrated anymore. We recognize their greatness. You’re seeing greatness respond and react and support other greatness. Other greatness being Steph.”
This is especially apparent in an unexpected scene where a historic greatness-to-greatness exchange took place following Curry’s Madison Square Garden victory.
“We didn’t know that Spike Lee would pull up to his Subway commercial shoot to have it autographed,” Coogler shared speaking of the time the “Do the Right Thing” director asked Curry to autograph a copy of the Daily News with an article headlined ‘Madison Steph Garden.’
“I went to go see Spike and I actually saw where he has that article in his office. It’s up on the wall. I think he has the stat sheet too. It was pretty crazy. I took a picture.”
In an interview with TODAY, Curry recalled scenes in the documentary that blew him away as well.
“Even I learned a lot about my own story, because you kind of hear from other people’s perspectives on how impactful it was.”
It’s an impact Coogler and Peyton both hope viewers experience.
“Stephen Curry: Underrated” is streaming now on AppleTV.
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Javon Freeman-Liberty stole the show for the Chicago Bulls in the NBA Summer League.
The Bulls came into Las Vegas with different priorities: scouting Dalen Terry’s growth and measuring up the potential of draft pick Julian Phillips and two-way rookie Adama Sanogo. But instead, all eyes were on Freeman-Liberty, a second-year guard out of DePaul who led the Bulls with 21.2 points per game.
Freeman-Liberty was the best shooter on the court for the Bulls, shooting 49.3% and finishing 12-for-26 on 3-pointers. His performance against the Sacramento Kings was a top highlight as he logged 28 points, six assists and zero turnovers in 31 minutes.
Freeman-Liberty was among the top five of summer league players in shooting percentage (49.3%), field goals (35) and scoring (106 points). He scored 24 on 8-for-16 shooting Saturday in the Bulls’ 90-85 victory against the Washington Wizards in their summer league finale. The Bulls finished 3-2
Freeman-Liberty looked set to step into a larger role for the Windy City Bulls this season following the departure of 2023 G- League MVP Carlik Jones, whose contract was converted to the Bulls roster at the end of last season. But is all this enough for Freeman-Liberty to earn a first-team contract?
It’s an unlikely track — but it’s the primary goal for a Chicago native hoping to make the roster of his hometown team.
A product of Young, Freeman-Liberty played his first two years of college at Valparaiso before transferring to DePaul. After going undrafted in 2022, Freeman-Liberty came off the bench for 11 of 17 appearances with the Windy City Bulls last season. But he made the most of that court time, averaging 18.4 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists on 49.8% shooting.
The most compelling aspect of Freeman-Liberty’s game is the way he attacks the rim — hard. He brings sharp downhill vision and a lack of hesitation, a crucial combination for any guard to get to the rim. Decisiveness has been a fatal flaw for young Bulls counterparts, such as Dalen Terry and Patrick Williams, but it didn’t seem to be a concern for Freeman-Liberty in Las Vegas.
The caveat, of course, is the circumstance. Summer league is an imperfect gauge of a player’s potential. The defense is less hardy, the opposition less experienced. Top draft picks such as Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson sat out the latter half of the tournament’s opening round, further reducing the level of competition even among the younger stars.
On paper Freeman-Liberty looks to be a viable guard option, but his best stats have been posted against a lower tier of competition.
Freeman-Liberty’s future is affected by another factor: Will the Bulls even need another guard?
As the roster stands, the main priority is securing more size at center and forward. But the Bulls also need to shore up the secondary rotation guard spots. At the end of the season, the goal for that position was clear: re-sign Ayo Dosunmu, who entered restricted free agency.
Dosunmu is another high-motor hometown standout with hefty NBA experience, and his $5.2 million qualifying offer is still a relatively inexpensive deal for a secondary guard.
The Bulls re-signed Coby White while swapping Jevon Carter for Patrick Beverley at guard and Torrey Craig for Derrick Jones Jr. at power forward. If they bring back Dosunmu and Jones, the Bulls will have only be two spots left, both of which will likely need to be focused on bulking up their rim protection and size in the paint.
Like Jones before him, the best option for Freeman-Liberty is likely a two-way contract. The Bulls have used only one of their three two-way contracts so far to sign Sanogo. And a two-way contract benefits the development of a player such as Freeman-Liberty, who could use a high volume of minutes in the G League to keep progressing while mixing in more frequently in practices with the first team.
Regardless of where he lands within the Bulls system, Freeman-Liberty clearly used summer league in the way it was intended — to prove he deserves a shot at the next level.
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For KWU, athletic competition extends to the classroom
Dustin Sahlmann is like any other coach: He wants his Kansas Wesleyan men’s volleyball team to be successful and works tirelessly to make it happen.
“My philosophy is I want our players to be competitive in three things — on the court, in the classroom and, once you leave here, in your job,” said Sahlmann who is entering his second season.
One takes immediate precedence, though.
“I think the easiest impact I can have immediately is in the classroom,” he said. “Obviously, I’ve got to build a roster and I’ve got to build talent. But if I can get their heads wrapped around what we’ve got to do on a daily basis in school — because we are student-athletes, not athlete-students — that can set the tone early.”
“If we’re going to talk about being at a place with high expectations, that has to correlate off the court in the classroom,” KWU Director of Athletics Miguel Paredes said. “That’s something we strive to do here, and it’s been going on for quite some time.”
Results show that it’s been successful.
• Twenty of 25 sports teams received NAIA Scholar Team recognition.
• 63.1 percent of student-athletes (350 total) had a 3.0 GPA or better for the spring semester; 233 had a 3.5 or better.
• Fourteen teams improved their cumulative GPA from 2021-22.
Sahlmann’s team raised its cumulative GPA by a department-best 0.56 during the 2022-23 school year. Overall, athletics finished with a 3.14 cumulative GPA.
“For us as coaches, as educators, we have the opportunity, the power to influence our students to always strive to be at their best. We’ve got to make sure that we’re doing our due diligence to help them prepare for what happens,” Paredes said. “The bad thing about sports is sports will retire you before you can retire it. I tell people I don’t have coaches; I have teachers.”
The department’s academic endeavors are led by Ryan Showman, who coaches the women’s basketball team and is assistant athletic director for student experience, a position he assumed in March 2021.
“It’s a long road, because I’m asking coaches to do different things,” he said. “I’m asking them to have meetings with me, I’m asking them to meet with their players who are struggling. I asked a lot of these coaches to be able to get where we are now.”
Showman established a committee of head coaches to help monitor things during the year. It featured a department-wide study hall with time requirements and tutor services. He also met individually with each head coach every two weeks to discuss academics.
“It was a lot of work for me, it was a lot for the other coaches, especially when they’re in season,” he said. “Now they know the expectations, they have owned their academic success.”
“At the end of the day, we’re producing individuals who can have great impact in a positive way on society,” Paredes said. “I think athletics is part of a life-learning tool to help individuals learn how to deal with adversity. How to deal with it correlates to how you learn in the classroom.”
KWU’s Albert Nelson Student Success Center, led by J.D. Koons, assistant vice president for student engagement and success, plays a vital role.
“It’s another resource for our student-athletes to be able to take proctored tests, review papers, help study, help with time management — anything and everything,” Showman said.
“To have that extra resource — not just a professor or a coach but someone else they can go to and get help — has been incredible. It’s very much an active part of what we’re doing academically.”
Sahlmann agrees.
“When I arrived, Coach Showman was fantastic with helping me navigate through how we were going to handle and approach things,” he said. “Having the Student Success Center and that support was huge.”
Sahlmann’s student-athletes are required to attend 10 hours of study hall each week; the number is reduced if they have a 3.0 GPA.
“It’s part of being in my program,” he said. “For me to enforce that, I’ve got to have the support of everybody else, and that’s easily done here.”
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By Sam Kemmis | NerdWallet
It’s not just you: Shopping for airfare is harder than ever. Choosing between basic economy and regular economy fares and navigating add-on fees makes booking more complicated, and that’s no accident. Airlines are harnessing lessons from a still-emerging academic field known as behavioral economics to nudge customers into spending more.
“Behavioral economics was developed by incorporating ideas from psychology into standard economic theories,” says Cait Lamberton, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. “If you see a deal that is available for only a short amount of time, and you pay more than you usually would, standard economics would say you’ve made an irrational decision. Behavioral economics says that no, what your brain is doing is responding to scarcity.”
These seemingly irrational choices are called “biases,” many of which can affect how we shop.
For example, “loss aversion” makes us hyper-sensitive to losing money and more likely to buy something like trip protection. The “decoy effect” makes us more likely to choose between two suboptimal options when a third, even worse option is presented. For example, airlines may offer a decoy like an expensive premium ticket with fewer amenities, which may make the cheaper premium ticket with more benefits look more appealing.
Airlines are well aware of these tendencies and how they drive our decisions. So to save money on flights, customers need to understand how the airfare shopping experience has been engineered to exploit our biases.
Don’t buy because everyone else is
Airlines will use a technique called “social proof” to upsell certain products, such as trip protection, by suggesting that many other travelers are adding it to their itineraries. Yet these marketing tactics don’t offer much real-world value for consumers, according to experts.
Lamberton explains that those messages during the checkout process, like the number of people who have insured their trip today, shouldn’t sway your decision to purchase because they often lack context. “Is that a lot of people or a few people?,” she says.
Be prepared for add-on fees
Another bias that should ring true for anyone trying to buy an airline ticket: “decision fatigue.” That is, we tend to make worse decisions when we have to make several of them in a row.
This airline or that? Early flight or later? Pay for a window seat? Pay now for a checked bag? Upgrade to premium economy? With each decision, our ability to make ideal choices diminishes.
“Once I’m four or five clicks into purchasing this, the price has changed completely,” Lamberton says, suggesting that airlines will withhold information until later in the process, when consumers are less likely to start over.
Indeed, a 2020 study published in Marketing Science found that customers made suboptimal decisions when prices were “dripped” throughout the checkout process, largely because of their unwillingness to start over.
Overcoming decision fatigue isn’t easy. Realizing a flight is more expensive than you imagined and then starting over takes time and energy, so consider booking flights at a time when you’re not in a rush and you can spend more time doing comparison shopping.
“If you want to overcome these biases, you will have to slow down and give yourself the space to pay attention to these things,” Lamberton suggests.
Know your preferences
Budget airlines like Spirit and Frontier offer rock-bottom fares while charging more for basic add-ons like carry-on bags and seat selection. Skipping the extra fees means forgoing amenities that many travelers consider vital.
The trick is to determine ahead of time what you really need. Otherwise, you could get swayed by the upsell.
“My doctoral advisor gave me a great piece of advice: Know your own utility function,” Lamberton says, referencing an economic term for the satisfaction you gain from a certain product. “You have to know what actually matters to you.”
For example, travelers with small children may be more willing to pay for seat selection to ensure the family sits together. For solo travelers, paying $15 to select a seat might not be worth it.
The same holds for basics like when to fly. An early flight might be cheaper, but how much is a few more hours’ sleep worth? The answer will vary from person to person, and even then, there are unconscious behaviors preventing us from making the best decision.
“We don’t know what we’re going to prefer in the future — we’re terrible forecasters,” Lamberton says. “I always think, ‘I won’t mind taking that 4:30 a.m. flight.’ But of course I do.”
As a general rule, if an airline seems to be pushing an option — whether it’s upgrading your seat or adding a bundle of benefits — go back to your original preferences. Do you need it?
If you take the time to evaluate your own biases and the airline’s incentives, you might realize you don’t need to pay as much to travel.
This article was written by NerdWallet and was originally published by The Associated Press.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Jorge Polanco spent plenty of time watching his teammates play while he was on the injured list for more than a month and a half, so he was well aware of how good rookie Edouard Julien had been performing at the plate.
That meant that when the Twins wanted to talk to him about a position switch, it didn’t come as such a surprise to the veteran infielder, who previously shifted from shortstop to second base.
“It wasn’t bad news,” Polanco said. “I’ve just got to get used to it, you know? Get used to playing third base, and hopefully, I’ll be good there.”
Polanco, who was activated from the injured list on Friday, started his first game at the hot corner since Aug. 14, 2016. It was his first game in the majors since June 8 when he suffered his second left hamstring strain of the season.
While on rehab with the Triple-A Saints, he started getting some reps in at third base, a position he has played at in just nine major league games.
As part of his transition, Polanco has been watching video of some Gold Glove third basemen, including Nolan Arenado, Manny Machado and newly-minted hall of famer Scott Rolen, as well as working with Saints defensive coach Tyler Smarslok and Twins infield/assistant bench coach Tony Diaz.
“I played some games over there. I’m not used to it because I haven’t been playing there in a long time. But I think I just need more reps,” Polanco said. “A lot of ground balls and I think I’m going to be good.”
To make room on the roster, the Twins optioned reliever Cole Sands, dropping down to 12 pitchers for the time being, a decision made in part because of an off day on Thursday and another one coming up on Monday.
That decision meant rookie Matt Wallner has remained on the roster for the time being. Wallner entered the day hitting .294 with a .988 OPS, making the most of his limited opportunities thus far in the majors.
“The longer we can carry all of these left-handed hitters and be able to stack them into that lineup right on through, the better — and Wallner’s definitely a big part of that conversation with the way he’s playing, especially the way he’s swinging the bat,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “There’s no denying the impactfulness of what he does at the plate right now.”
Floro joins Twins
Reliever Dylan Floro arrived in Kansas City, excited and ready to compete for a division title with his new teammates. The Twins swapped Floro for reliever Jorge López on Wednesday, in hopes that a change of scenery might help them both.
“It’s something new. It’s always something to look forward to,” Floro said. “They’re in first place right now, so we’re in the middle of a race, and I have a little bit of experience in that from back when I played with the Dodgers. So to get back into that, those are fun games, especially right down the end here.”
Floro entered the day with a 4.54 earned-run average in 39 2/3 innings this season, and Baldelli called him a “good, calm veteran presence and a guy that’s going to bring a lot to our bullpen.”
Briefly
Byron Buxton was not in the starting lineup on Friday after being reinstated from the paternity list. Baldelli said after sleeping in a hospital for the past few days and doing minimal activity, they wanted to give him an extra day off. The Buxtons welcomed their third son on Monday. | https://www.twincities.com/2023/07/28/jorge-polanco-returns-twins-opt-for-extra-position-player-for-time-being/ | 2023-07-29T11:50:07 | 1 | https://www.twincities.com/2023/07/28/jorge-polanco-returns-twins-opt-for-extra-position-player-for-time-being/ |
By Deb Balzer | Mayo Clinic News Network (TNS)
There is a growing body of evidence that shows ultraprocessed foods are not only unhealthy but increase the risk of cancers. The term ultraprocessed food was created as a way to categorize food, known at the NOVA classification. The system allows experts to better understand the health impact of different food categories.
Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Dawn Mussallem talks more about the connection of ultraprocessed food and cancer.
“The average American in the United States consumes at least 63% ultraprocessed foods,” says Dr. Mussallem.
She says vegetables only account for 12% of the average American diet – and half of those vegetables consumed are processed.
“We know that ultraprocessed foods are linked directly to premature mortality or deaths.”
They also are linked to colorectal, ovarian and breast cancer.
“Studies are showing us is that not only do the ultraprocessed foods increase the risk of cancer, but that after a cancer diagnosis such foods increase the risk of dying,” Dr. Mussallem says.
What qualifies as ultraprocessed food?
“Ultraprocessed foods would be things in a package — things like crackers, and pastries and cupcakes and muffins, processed meat,” she says.
They include ingredients you can’t bring into your own kitchen.
“With those ultraprocessed foods, you’re getting chemicals and additives that likely are very risky for cancer survivors,” says Dr. Mussallem.
Add plenty of fruits and vegetables to your diet. Eat whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds for optimal health benefits.
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The dust has started to settle in Queens, but these next few days are set to bring more uncertainty and more than likely, more player movement. At some point, it will be time to unpack what comes next for the organization, but right now, with the trade deadline only a few days away, the only thing the Mets can do is continue to play baseball.
After trading closer David Robertson just around midnight Thursday, the mood inside the locker room was a mix of shock, disappointment and relief. What the future holds for the team is unknown. There seemed to be some surprise at the fact that the return for Robertson was two teenagers instead of prospects who are knocking at the door of the big leagues, but ultimately, the Mets understand that it’s out of their hands.
“We can’t really control what’s going on in the front office,” said first baseman Pete Alonso. “The only thing we can control is winning ballgames. We want to win as many games as we can through the rest of the year. Just because we’re selling doesn’t mean we’re not going to put our best foot forward.”
This is the sentiment of the veteran leaders of the clubhouse. Those who are staying say it’s important to continue trying to win because they don’t want to backslide into a bad place. Losing creates bad habits and bad attitudes and acceptance of losses is even worse. The Mets currently have three rookies on the roster that they value highly and they don’t want them to operate under the assumption that losing is fine.
“They can call it selling, but I don’t think it’s one of those things where we’re like, “Oh yeah, we’re done,’” said shortstop Francisco Lindor. “With this group of guys, I don’t see it. Until we are in a position where we are not in reach of the playoffs, it won’t be a part of our mindset. However, you only hope that when they do make trades, we [come out] on the better side.”
Those who are expecting to be traded are still on board with the goal.
“My mindset was always, ‘Well we can still play good baseball if we lose pieces,’” said outfielder Mark Canha. “That’s kind of where my attention is and where it’s been. Keep playing good baseball and let the logistics take care of themselves. I told the guys that regardless of what happens over the next few days, let’s just win a lot of games and see what happens.”
The Mets won’t see the results of this return for years to come. Shortstop Marco Vargas and catcher Ronald Hernandez for a few years, since Vargas is 18 and Hernandez is only 19. Both are currently playing in the Florida Complex League, a rookie-level league that is often the first stop for foreign prospects in the States.
This has many fans panicked, wondering if it means the club intends to tear down and rebuild over the next five years. It’s likely more of a retool since the club still has so many key players under contract who expect to contend. Lindor isn’t about to waste some of his prime years on a rebuilding team. Edwin Diaz is coming back next year to help the Mets win a title, not to help them gain draft picks. Jeff McNeil signed a long-term contract that kicks in next season over the winter and Starling Marte is still under contract for two more seasons.
The Mets could trade pitchers Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer, which could mean that this is a larger rebuilding project than anticipated, but some of that might depend on the return. We’ll learn a lot about the Mets’ future plans and their timeline in the coming days.
This will go down as one of the more disappointing seasons in club history and in league history given the expectations and payroll — the highest baseball has ever seen — but the team on the field still has to play out the string and work toward making strides for the future even if they’re without Robertson and will soon be without guys like Canha, Brooks Raley and Tommy Pham.
“Roles change,” Lindor said. “We have to embrace the roles that we have and whoever comes into the clubhouse will know that we have to continue to win moving forward.”
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By EILEEN NG (Associated Press)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on Friday and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to cease capital punishment for drug-related crimes.
Activists said another execution is planned next week.
Saridewi Djamani, 45, was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking about 31 grams (1 ounce) of diamorphine, or pure heroin, the Central Narcotics Bureau said. It said the amount was “sufficient to feed the addiction of about 370 abusers for a week.”
Singapore’s laws mandate the death penalty for anyone convicted of trafficking more than 500 grams (17.6 ounces) of cannabis and 15 grams (0.5 ounces) of heroin.
Djamani’s execution came two days after that of a Singaporean man, Mohammed Aziz Hussain, 56, for trafficking around 50 grams (1.7 ounces) of heroin.
The narcotics bureau said both prisoners were accorded due process, including appeals of their convictions and sentences and petitions for presidential clemency.
Human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations have urged Singapore to halt executions for drug offenses and say there is increasing evidence it is ineffective as a deterrent. Singapore authorities insist capital punishment is important to halting drug demand and supply.
Human rights groups say it has executed 15 people for drug offenses since it resumed hangings in March 2022, an average of one a month.
Anti-death penalty activists said the last woman known to have been hanged in Singapore was 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen, also for drug trafficking, in 2004.
Transformative Justice Collective, a Singapore group which advocates for the abolishment of capital punishment, said a new execution notice has been issued to another prisoner for Aug, 3, the fifth this year alone.
It said the prisoner is an ethnic Malay citizen who worked as a delivery driver before his arrest in 2016. He was convicted in 2019 of trafficking around 50 grams (1.7 ounces) of heroin and his appeal was dismissed last year, it said.
The group said the man had maintained in his trial that he believed he was delivering contraband cigarettes for a friend to whom he owed money, and he didn’t verify the contents of the bag as he trusted his friend.
The High Court judge ruled that their ties weren’t close enough to warrant the kind of trust he claimed to have had for his friend. Although the court found he was merely a courier, the man still had to be given the mandatory death penalty because prosecutors didn’t issue him a certificate of having cooperated with them, it said.
“But how could he have cooperated if, as he told the police and the court, he had not even been aware that he was being used to deliver heroin?” the group said on Facebook.
The group said it “condemns, in the strongest terms, the state’s bloodthirsty streak” and reiterated calls for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
Critics say Singapore’s harsh policy punishes low-level traffickers and couriers, who are typically recruited from marginalized groups with vulnerabilities. They say Singapore is also out of step with the trend of more countries moving away from capital punishment. Neighboring Thailand has legalized cannabis while Malaysia ended the mandatory death penalty for serious crimes this year. | https://www.twincities.com/2023/07/28/singapore-hangs-first-woman-in-19-years-after-she-was-convicted-of-trafficking-31-grams-of-heroin/ | 2023-07-29T11:50:26 | 0 | https://www.twincities.com/2023/07/28/singapore-hangs-first-woman-in-19-years-after-she-was-convicted-of-trafficking-31-grams-of-heroin/ |
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You step off a sidewalk curb, land wrong after shooting a basketball or stumble on uneven ground. Your ankle pops, twists or crunches, and now you’re limping and sore. You may just have sprained your ankle.
An ankle sprain typically happens when you roll your ankle inward, which stretches or tears the ligaments supporting the outer part of the joint. An ankle sprain is the most common injury among athletes and active adults, but it can happen to anyone.
What to do immediately following a sprain
While common, if an ankle sprain isn’t treated properly, it can lead to chronic issues, such as ankle instability or pain, limited ability to return to sports and degenerative arthritis. Also, significant tendon or ligament injuries, cartilage damage or even fractures may be missed if a severe sprain isn’t properly evaluated.
If you’ve sprained your ankle, promptly begin following the “RICE” treatment to improve comfort, and minimize the risk of complications and long-term issues:
— Rest: Avoid any activity that causes pain in the ankle. Rest your ankle, and minimize walking for the rest of the day.
— Ice: Apply ice to the sore part of your ankle, typically for 15 minutes on and then 15 minutes off, as much as possible for the rest of the day. Continue with 15 minutes of icing three times a day until the pain and swelling subside. Don’t apply ice directly to your skin, and use a towel or cloth for protection.
— Compression: Using a compression sleeve, elastic bandage wrap or brace on the affected ankle can prevent excessive swelling, protect the area from repeated injuries and provide support. Some inflammation is needed for healing, but too much can be harmful.
— Elevation: Elevate your foot and ankle at or above the level of your heart as often as possible for the rest of the day. This will help control pain and decrease swelling.
Depending on the severity of your symptoms, for the first one to two weeks:
— Continue with RICE, gradually reducing the steps as pain and swelling decrease.
— Take over-the-counter medications, such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen or aspirin, if you can safely take them. To manage pain, consider applying topical medications or patches.
— Start resistance-free, nonweight-bearing, range-of-motion exercises, such as drawing each letter of the alphabet with your foot. Or move your ankle to the compass points: north to south and east to west. Maintaining this range of motion can help prevent long-term stiffness, reduce swelling and help the stretched ligaments heal. Keep motion within your pain-free zone to avoid making the injury worse.
— Gradually return to your normal activities as long as your pain doesn’t increase. At first, this includes walking short distances, such as to the bathroom, then progressing to your normal level of walking.
If there’s little or no improvement after the first week, consider consulting with a health care professional, such as a sports medicine specialist, your primary care provider or a physical therapist.
What to expect for recovery, additional treatment
Once you’ve passed the initial recovery period, further treatment depends on the extent of the injury. If it was a straightforward injury, didn’t require an evaluation and you did not have any setbacks, you can expect symptoms to last for 10 to 12 weeks as the ligament heals.
Once you’ve sprained your ankle, it’s more susceptible to future injury. An ankle sleeve or lace-up brace can provide added support and stability.
If your sprain was significant, especially if it prompted you to see a health care professional, you may experience a slower, longer recovery that could include:
— A brief period of immobilization and nonweight-bearing with crutches or a knee scooter
— One to two weeks of protected weight-bearing in a tall walking boot
— Physical therapy to help increase stability, strength and balance
— Possible ankle surgery
If your health care professional suspects the injury requires surgery, you’ll undergo X-rays and possibly an MRI to determine the extent of the damage. Then you’ll be evaluated by a surgical podiatrist or orthopedic surgeon to discuss your injury and surgical options.
You may need surgery if there is:
— Evidence of a complete rupture of one or more of the lateral ankle ligaments requiring repair
— History of repeated sprains and a determination that ligament reconstruction is needed
— An associated injury, such as a partially or completely torn tendon, a fracture, or damage to cartilage in the ankle joint
While an ankle sprain is relatively common, most of the time it heals, and patients and athletes recover with little intervention. Thoroughly addressing any issues early can help you return to your best activity level.
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Alecia Gende, D.O. , is a sports medicine specialist in La Crosse and Onalaska, Wisconsin.
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DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government wants to raise the fuel economy of new vehicles 18% by the 2032 model year so the fleet would average about 43.5 miles per gallon in real world driving.
The proposed numbers were released Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which eventually will adopt final mileage requirements.
Currently the fleet of new vehicles must average 36.75 mpg by 2026 under corporate average fuel economy standards adopted by the administration of President Joe Biden, who reversed a rollback made by former President Donald Trump.
The highway safety agency says it will try to line up its regulations so they match the Environmental Protection Agency’s reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But if there are discrepancies, automakers likely will have to follow the most stringent regulation.
In the byzantine world of government regulation, both agencies essentially are responsible for setting fuel economy requirements since the fastest way to reduce greenhouse emissions is to burn less gasoline.
“I want to make clear that EPA and NHTSA will coordinate to optimize the effectiveness of both agency standards while minimizing compliance costs,” NHTSA Acting Administrator Ann Carlson said.
A large auto industry trade group which includes General Motors, Toyota, Ford, Stellantis and others said requirements from the agencies should be lined up. “If an automaker complies with EPA’s yet-to-be-finalized greenhouse gas emissions rules, they shouldn’t be at risk of violating CAFE rules (from NHTSA) and subject to civil penalties,” John Bozzella, CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, said in a statement.
However the alliance has said the EPA’s proposed cut in carbon emissions will require a huge increase in electric vehicle sales that’s not attainable by 2032. The EPA says the industry can reach the greenhouse gas emissions goals if 67% of new vehicles sold in 2032 are electric. Currently, EVs make up about 7% of new vehicle sales.
NHTSA said its proposal includes a 2% annual improvement in fuel mileage for passenger cars, and a 4% increase for light trucks. It’s proposing a 10% improvement per year for commercial pickup trucks and work vans. Automakers can meet the requirements with a mix of electric vehicles, gas-electric hybrids and efficiency improvements in gas and diesel vehicles.
The agency says the new regulations will save more than $50 billion on fuel over the vehicles’ lifetimes and save more than 88 billion gallons of gasoline through 2050 if NHTSA’s preferred alternative is adopted. The standards would cut new-vehicle fuel consumption nearly in half by the 2035 model year, and benefits will exceed costs by $18 billion, the agency said.
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Make no mistake about it. Jaren Hall knows his place on the Vikings’ depth chart.
Never mind that the 25-year-old rookie quarterback has already impressed early in training camp at TCO Performance Center.
Never mind he threw a perfectly placed ball to receiver Lucky Jackson during Thursday’s practice, then followed it up by dropping a dime to receiver Thayer Thomas later in the workout.
And never mind that he continued to showcase his arm talent on Friday, demonstrating what made the Vikings take him in the fifth round of the draft this spring.
The only thing Hall is focused on this summer is learning from the Vikings’ two veteran quarterbacks, starter Kirk Cousins and backup Nick Mullens.
“I’m trying to get some experience and take advantage of all the reps I can watch,” Hall said. “Just learn from Kirk and Nick.”
In other words, as much as he prides himself on his competitiveness, Hall isn’t thinking about supplanting Cousins or Mullens. Not that he even could at the moment. He still has so much to learn from both players, and he’s taking the long view as he tries to carve out a niche for himself in the NFL.
“No expectations,” Hall said. “The goal is to get better and add value to the team somehow. Just soak it all up as much as possible, then carry it over to next year.”
The biggest challenge for Hall is the verbiage that comes with learning the offense. This isn’t college where play calls often are relayed from the sidelines with relative ease. This is the big leagues where play calls are nothing more than word salad that wouldn’t make any sense to the average person.
“Just understanding how Kirk and Nick both take in those words,” Hall said. “That’s the biggest difference for me right now. The football is pretty much the same. Just calling the plays in the huddle is something I’m getting used to.”
There’s a scene in the Netflix docuseries “Quarterback” during which Cousins is filmed listening to his own voice on his drive home. It’s something Cousins actually learned from Mullens, and not surprisingly, Hall has taken that page out of their book this summer.
“I’ve tried doing that ever since I got here,” he said. “There’s a lot of verbiage in the offense. We have a lot of different play calls. It’s all about repping it in my head, so I can get used to calling it out.”
It will be interesting to follow how much progress Hall makes in training camp. He currently is being limited to a handful of 11-on-11 snaps per practice, with Cousins and Mullens getting most of the reps.
No complaints from Hall, though, as he has continued to learn from afar.
“You see how well they work together,” Hall said. “It’s a pretty cool dynamic to come into as a young guy.”
As for competing for the playing time at some point, Hall dodged the question as best he could. He knows if he continues to do his job, everything else will take care of itself.
“No thoughts about that from me,” Hall said with a smile. “My only focus right now is understanding this offense. Just get a grasp of it because until I do that there’s no conversation whatsoever about that other stuff. I’ve got to prove that I can run the offense, and I’m still in that stage right now.” | https://www.twincities.com/2023/07/28/vikings-rookie-jaren-hall-learning-from-kirk-cousins-and-nick-mullens-not-trying-to-take-their-spot/ | 2023-07-29T11:50:50 | 1 | https://www.twincities.com/2023/07/28/vikings-rookie-jaren-hall-learning-from-kirk-cousins-and-nick-mullens-not-trying-to-take-their-spot/ |
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The Mega Millions jackpot grew to a whopping $1.05 billion after no ticket matched all six numbers in Friday night's draw. The last winning ticket was sold on April 18.
The next drawing for the grand prize, which is currently equal to the fourth-largest Mega Millions jackpot to date, is on Tuesday. A lump-sum payment would be an estimated $528 million.
Friday's jackpot was $940 million, and had been growing steadily, finally passing the $1 billion mark after 29 straight draws without someone matching all six winning numbers.
Just last week, a winning ticket for a $1.08 billion Powerball drawing was sold in Los Angeles, but the winner is still unknown.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions are slim — just about 1 in 302.6 million.
The largest Mega Millions winning jackpot was sold in South Carolina in 2018 — a massive $1.537 billion.
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She's one of India's biggest Barbie fans. When Vichitra Rajasingh was growing up, family and friends helped her build her collection of Barbie dolls until she had almost 80 of them. She once owned a Barbie camper, a speedboat, supermarket and post office. The mermaid Barbie and scuba-diving Barbie were her favorites.
Since her family ran a hotel, they put the dolls on display in the lobby in the late '90s. On Rajasingh's 14th birthday, her parents painted her room bright pink and hired artists to draw her favorite Barbie dolls on the walls.
All her Barbies were blond. She says she didn't like the Indian ethnic ones that came on the local market.
Living the pink life
"My love for the color pink began with my childhood passion for Barbie," she says. "And now it's become my identity." For her, the color represents love, joy, femininity and playfulness, everything she once associated with Barbie, she says.
Today Rajasingh lives in the southern Indian city of Madurai, where she drives a pink mini-Cooper and runs a bakery and lives in an apartment that are dominated by that color.
When the Barbie movie released in India on July 21, she gathered a bunch of friends, "everyone dressed to the nines in pink," and watched it on the day of its release. "I loved the movie. It was fun to watch and brought back many joyful childhood memories," she says.
While she no longer has her huge doll collection — having long since given it away to family and friends — Rajasingh is still a Barbie lover. She bakes six or seven Barbie-themed cakes a week, with an actual doll at the center of a cake that serves as her frothy dress, constructed around her in a swirl of sugar and cream.
Rajasingh saw Barbie as an aspirational figure — and grew up admiring the doll's freedom, confidence, globe-trotting lifestyle and even her arched feet in sassy stilettos.
But for others in India, Barbie has a far more complicated legacy.
The pressures Barbie can bring
Shweta Sharan, a writer who lives in Mumbai, admits to being conflicted about whether or not to watch the movie with her 13-year-old daughter, Laasya, who until a year ago ardently loved Barbie but then outgrew playing with dolls.
"I am aware that these dolls have many complicated associations," Sharan says. "Watching my daughter love a doll that looked nothing like her — with blond hair, blue eyes, perfect breasts — I worried if she would always strive to be someone else and feel inadequate."
These worries are valid in the opinion of ElsaMarie DSilva, a social entrepreneur from India and an Aspen fellow. "While Barbie is almost universally loved among girls of all ages, many do aspire to look like her, unconsciously pressurizing young girls to conform to unrealistic body shapes and expectations," she says — a common criticism aimed at Barbie.
Indian Barbie is not a rousing success
Mattel did make an effort to adapt the doll for an Indian market. When Mattel launched Barbie in India in 1991, it was the familiar Western-looking blond-haired blue-eyed Barbie. Then in 1996, they rolled out Indian Barbie, with brown skin. She came either wearing a bright sari or a salwar kameez — a knee-length tunic over fitted trousers.
But the Indian Barbie was not popular. "Indian kids gravitated toward the white-skinned Barbie instead of the brown-skinned one because light-skinned women were considered more beautiful in India and an automatic choice," DSilva says.
She points out how even in Indian clothes, Barbie still had a body that did not represent real women in India or anywhere else — she was way too tall and way too thin.
Priti Nemani, an Indian American attorney living in Chicago, analyzed why Barbie failed so spectacularly in the Indian market in a research paper published in 2011. In addition to the unrealistic, impossibly thin appearance of the doll, she points out how other cultural factors were at play.
"We weren't seeing Indian features on Barbie," she says. "We were seeing white Barbies dipped in brown. And even those brown Barbies didn't last long on the shelves. The latest versions of the Indian Barbie have much lighter skin tone.
Meanwhile, even though blond Barbies sold well, Ken tanked in India. "Indian parents who wouldn't want their daughters in romantic relationships at such an early age weren't going to buy the boyfriend," Nemani says.
In spite of her initial misgivings, Sharan enjoyed the Barbie movie with her daughter, now 13, who especially liked the feminist overtones. Laasya loved the beginning, when they were told "Barbie has a great day everyday. Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him."
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There are other issues about Barbie in India. For many kids, the doll is too expensive.
Ankita Apurva, 26, a writer who grew up in a farming family in Ranchi, a city in the Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, recalls a childhood bereft of Barbies.
Her parents, who struggled to pay for a good education that they hoped would be her armor against bullying and discrimination, could not afford to buy their daughter a Barbie.
"They weren't in a position to splurge on fancy dolls like a Barbie," she says. She recalls feeling inferior for not owning one of these expensive dolls that would help her connect with other Barbie owners in her circle. It was especially hard for her at lunch when girls would boast about how many dolls they owned.
"I believe that even if children from marginalized communities manage to enter [private] institutions [for the privileged], there are certain social, cultural and economic symbols which are consciously and subconsciously deployed to mark them out, and Barbie, as loved as it is, is definitely one of them," she says.
Over the years, Apurva's family has grown stronger financially. When she saw the global resurgence of interest in Barbie now, she didn't feel angry or alienated, but it did bring back memories of desperately wanting to fit in – and not just because she didn't have a Barbie.
"Growing up, I rarely felt represented in literature or media. If pens or cameras turned toward us, they inadvertently counted us as data: dead bodies of farmers or survivors of violence of umpteen kinds."
As a girl from a farming family in Jharkhand, Apurva felt invisible. And so, she decided to express those emotions. She wrote a poem that she posted on Instagram, not to shame anyone who is privileged enough to own a Barbie but to comfort those who, like her, may have felt left out.
Here are some excerpts:
"Here's to the girls who do not get the Barbie craze,
...
girls who had parents who could not
or did not or choose not
to get them Barbie dolls
...
it's okay,
to not relate to any of it
...
what is not okay are friends ...
who intentionally make you
feel low by asking how many Barbies
you owned as a kid even as they
know you weren't privileged enough
to have them.
...
you are also not "too much" ...
if you feel
that Barbie is a colonial icon
legitimizing racial supremacy
while being a 'white feminist' trope
...
and once again
remember,
you are everything,
they are just Ken
Kamala Thiagarajan is a freelance journalist based in Madurai, Southern India. She reports on global health, science, and development, and her work has been published in the New York Times, The British Medical Journal, BBC, The Guardian and other outlets. You can find her on twitter @kamal_t
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A mosquito tested positive Wednesday for West Nile virus in Twin Falls County. The mosquito was found 7 miles northwest of Buhl at the river’s edge and the county line.
The Twin Falls County Pest Abatement District warn residents to act now to avoid catching the disease.
“Now is the time to reduce mosquito habitat on your property and avoid mosquitoes when they are most active at dusk and dawn,” Aaron Ursenbach with the pest abatement district said in a press release.
If you have something that needs to be treated you can visit the district website at www.tfcpad.org.
Public Health officials remind residents to protect themselves and their families from mosquito bites by doing the following:
- Using insect repellent with an EPA-registered active ingredient like DEET, especially at dawn and dusk when mosquitos carrying the virus are most active
- Wearing loose-fitting clothes with long sleeves and pants
- Installing screens on all windows and doors
- Checking for, and draining, any standing water around your home every three to six days. This includes clogged rain gutters, pools, bird baths, old tires and other outside water features
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“West Nile virus can be painful and uncomfortable,” Tanis Maxwell, from the South Central Public Health District, said in a press release. “In some cases, people can develop serious, and even fatal, health side effects from the disease. Reducing your risk of bites also reduces your risk of catching this disease.”
Typical symptoms of the virus include fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, and rash. People over 50 years old, with serious medical conditions, are at greater risk for serious illness from the virus. More severe infections may involve the central nervous system.
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An Oregon judge has denied a motion to modify the conditions of the release of Minidoka Brad Calbo, who is facing felony charges in that state.
Circuit Court Judge Sheryl Bachart shot down the motion that would have allowed Calbo to return back to work in Jerome, frequenting the same workplace as the woman who told police in early June that Calbo had momentarily strangled her and committed other acts of violence.
After being released from jail, Calbo had a no-contact order placed against him.
The victim was in favor of allowing the motion, saying that Calbo was extremely intoxicated at the time of the incident and that she didn’t feel threatened by him.
In addition, the three-part motion heard by Bachart could have allowed Calbo to go to the victim’s residence for property maintenance, as long as he did not have direct contact with the victim, and Calbo could have been allowed to have contact with the victim for purposes of drug/alcohol treatment, and for counseling.
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Had the judge approved the motion to modify Calbo’s release agreement, Jerome Commissioner Charlie Howell said commissioners wouldn’t legally have been able to stop Calbo from coming to work, despite his legal problems, although “we would probably try to visit with him, to have a conversation.”
Having a sit-down meeting with Calbo is what commissioners have been seeking since Calbo’s release, but so far that has not taken place. Howell believes Calbo is now living in southern Idaho but is unsure of his intentions.
The woman said in a motion filed with the court that she looked forward to Calbo returning to his job.
The situation with Calbo is awkward, Howell said, because both commissioners and the office of the prosecuting attorney are elected positions.
Commissioners in June hired a local law firm Williams Meservy & Larsen to help them navigate the situation.
Howell said that commissioners have been in close contact with the law firm and “wore them out” with questions.
If things aren’t worked out, some recourse might be available to the county once Calbo has been absent 90 days, he said, although he was unsure of the exact procedure. Idaho Statutes discuss the removal of prosecuting attorneys through a grand jury.
Another possibility for removal from office Jerome residents started a recall petition, although by Idaho Code it appears a recall vote couldn’t take place until November.
Deputy Prosecutor Sam Beus has stepped up to help fill the void in Calbo’s absence, Howell said.
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Age: 40
Height: 5 feet, 8 inches
Weight: 165 pounds
Sex: Male
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Wanted for violation of conditions of release on the charges of possession of methamphetamines, unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Bond: $75,000
The Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Office asks that anyone with information please call 208-735-1911 or Crime Stoppers at 208-343-2677, where they can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward. Tips can be made at www.343cops.com or download P3 Tips on your mobile phone. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls-county-most-wanted/article_daa4a6fa-2d8f-11ee-a1ee-47b60e8f8764.html | 2023-07-29T11:51:24 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls-county-most-wanted/article_daa4a6fa-2d8f-11ee-a1ee-47b60e8f8764.html |
How to Watch NASCAR, F1, IndyCar & More: Auto Racing Streaming Live - Saturday, July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 5:44 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Need more auto racing in your life? Well, you're in luck. The race slate on Saturday, July 29 includes Formula 1, Formula E, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series, and NHRA Drag Racing action that can be watched on Fubo. For a complete list, along with information on how to watch or live stream it all, check out the article below.
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- Game Time: 11:30 AM ET
- TV Channel: CBS Sports Network
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- Series: NHRA Drag Racing
- Game Time: 12:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
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Watch Formula E: Hankook London E-Prix
- Series: Formula E
- Game Time: 12:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: CBS
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Watch NASCAR Cup Series: Cook Out 400 - Qualifying
- Series: NASCAR Cup Series
- Game Time: 12:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: USA Network
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Watch NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series: Henry 180
- Series: NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: NBC
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Watch NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series: Road America 180
- Series: NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: NBC
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Watch NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Worldwide Express 250
- Series: NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
- Game Time: 7:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Make sure you're following along with racing action all year long on Fubo and ESPN+!
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This column is about how we make decisions about public policy. I will include examples from our extreme weather, sometimes called climate change, and capitalism, but it is about us. It is time for us to face the fact that a planet-warming trend is making our lives difficult.
Climate scientists, those researchers who tell weather predictors how to predict the weather, began speculating in the late 1950s that the 21st century might be warmer. Still, it wasn’t until 1988 that alarming warnings were noticeable. Variations in weather patterns were common knowledge as soon as humans lived for any length of time and could communicate. Travelers reported facts about different climates when they went for long distances.
By the time scientists could worry about climate change, we knew that the sun sent cycles of varying amounts of energy toward our planet, and sunspot activity played a role.
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Science can identify a phenomenon to be studied. Eventually, it can say why it occurs and how harmful (or beneficial) the occurrences may be. After a time, research can suggest and prove how to reduce or stop harm. However, only cooperative public and private action can implement those measures. In other words, it is up to us.
Federal incentives to increase renewable production have prompted a rush of companies looking to produce power in southern Idaho.
Social scientists often refer to a person’s knowledge of self vs. their understanding of the collective. Asian cultures and their inhabitants are known for their thoughtfulness toward the collective. In the United States, we lean into the part of our history that broke away from the collective norms of Europe. With the increased speed of communications in our modern world, our attitudes have begun to fall into a much more comprehensive range of examples of individualism and collectivism. Most of us are somewhere in the middle of the range.
The rationale behind the capitalist economic system is that individuals can use their own or someone else’s monetary, physical, or intellectual resources to gain ... more. That behavior is baked into our DNA. Humans only thrive when they overcome challenges. The conception of the common arises from humanity’s skill at cooperation. We are born to thrive with individual and collective effort.
A recent headline printed by the Idaho Capital Sun highlights that we have not used our skills to accept the science behind the fact that our climate is causing human problems and that everything we create has a lifespan and must be replaced. The July 24 headline was, “Winter is coming, and the U.S. grid remains vulnerable to power plant failures.”
Public policy is the area where individualism and collectivism collide. The knowledge and skill someone brings to the table may determine their influence, but the weight of that influence must be with an eye toward the common good.
Current weather disasters and a change in the amounts of water, heat, and cold uprooting people who cannot survive where they have thrived in the past demonstrate our failure to act effectively as soon as there were signs of change. The fact that the means of distributing electrical power from any source is inadequate is another failure.
For decades, our military has studied possible security threats due to predicted climate change. Still, public debate has centered around whether the idea was accurate. Individual economic concerns derailed the general discussion. Capitalists that we are to our roots, we resisted spending our resources to strengthen the common.
Yes, we want our investment portfolio to grow. Yes, we hate to think about paying any more taxes. Yes, some prefer spring and summer or fall and winter. We hate to see waves of immigrants invading from the southern hemisphere. We seem to have forgotten that only we can prevent forest fires.
These two situations were quickly put aside as someone else’s problem. It was easy to ignore impending harm because we were not observing it. Short-term economic realities overruled long-term risk management for businesses, governments, and individual investment portfolios.
Now, the southwest faces water curtailments, the warmer oceans produce increasingly extreme weather events, and landscapers and nurserymen everywhere are bemoaning “strange” winter and summer weather patterns. Ignoring the potential needs of others has caused individual distress.
Linda Brugger of Twin Falls is retired from the Air Force Reserve and a leaning Democrat. She can be reached at IdahoAuthor@outlook.com. | https://magicvalley.com/opinion/column/brugger-how-we-harm-ourselves-when-we-ignore-others/article_991115c4-2c14-11ee-b61b-ef9a65ed2a83.html | 2023-07-29T11:52:03 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/opinion/column/brugger-how-we-harm-ourselves-when-we-ignore-others/article_991115c4-2c14-11ee-b61b-ef9a65ed2a83.html |
While the mental health struggles of teens today are attributed to various causes, one neglected contributor is the burden of excellence. With college admission rates reaching all-time lows in recent years and the rising cost of secondary education, high school students feel more pressure than ever to overextend themselves to impress admissions officers and meet the expectations of parents stressed about the cost of their child’s college education.
Any student with dreams of attending an elite institution knows gaining admission requires not only stellar grades and test scores, but also impressive extracurriculars, demonstrated interest, leadership experience, and essays that highlight individuality and passion.
Since the adoption of test-optional applications, standing out in a sea of overly qualified candidates is harder than ever, requiring a commitment and ambition that can spiral even the most exceptional student into burnout. To be competitive, students must not only stretch themselves thin by filling their limited free time with internships, sports and clubs — but go above and beyond to earn coveted leadership positions.
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And they can’t forget to make time for studying, because even in the most difficult courses their school has to offer, their grades must remain in the top percentile of their graduating class.
The crushing reality for thousands of these students awaits in the spring of their senior year, when selective colleges dole out forthright rejections to 17- and 18-year-olds who believed their hard work would earn them a spot at the college of their choosing. These teenagers might earn scholarships to their safety schools, but in the face of failure, even fully paid tuition can feel like a mere consolation prize.
Most of these students have been told their entire lives that they are gifted; that their unparalleled intelligence will bring them success. So they work tirelessly throughout high school to maintain that status. To live up to the expectation that was set for them as young as elementary school. And they truly believe that the only way they can live up to their potential and make their loved ones proud is by becoming the perfect student so they can get into the perfect school to prove to themselves that all of the late-night studying was worth it.
So when this plan for perfection goes awry, these students feel lost.
High school students do not deserve to shoulder the immense burden of impossible expectations. There is no perfect student, there is no perfect college, and every child deserves to enjoy their youth. But in a country where college tuition is more expensive than ever, far surpassing inflation-adjusted rates, teenagers are finding it more difficult to make the most of their youth because of the societal pressure to overload their schedules with college courses and fight for limited spots at highly selective universities.
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While there is great value in saving money and learning, too often young students, particularly high-achieving ones, are put in the unfair position of trying to balance unrealistic obligations. Rather than place the burden of college affordability on the youth of our country, we should fight for reform at the source. Colleges must be held accountable for tuition inflation with government-regulated tuition caps, parents must help their kids make decisions with their mental health in mind, and adolescents must focus more on making time for being a kid, because they’ll have plenty of time to be an adult in just a few years.
Perhaps my experience is just that: an experience specific to me. Perhaps I am the only high school graduate who feels as if she allowed her youth to slip through her fingers in her efforts to be the perfect student and the ideal college candidate. Maybe I am the only one who wishes she would have shielded herself from burnout and taken time to relax and enjoy the time she had with the people she loved.
But even if I am alone, I hope I can encourage any younger students who find themselves consumed by the stress of exceeding expectations to relax and cherish the last years of their childhood. Because now that I have only a few weeks left in the town I’ve spent my entire life, I wish I wasn’t so eager to grow up all those years ago. | https://magicvalley.com/opinion/local-commentary-and-we-wonder-why-today-s-teens-are-mentally-stressed/article_71c911e8-2c1d-11ee-99ad-137d854bce4e.html | 2023-07-29T11:52:09 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/opinion/local-commentary-and-we-wonder-why-today-s-teens-are-mentally-stressed/article_71c911e8-2c1d-11ee-99ad-137d854bce4e.html |
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man who confessed to five bank robberies last year, including one bank he robbed twice, has been sentenced to more than two years in prison. Jason Smeltzer made off with a total of less than $4,000 during the five robberies over five weeks in early 2022. The 41-year-old who once served as a confidential informant for Albuquerque police said he needed money to buy drugs to feed his fentanyl addiction. He had no weapon but handed notes to tellers claiming he was a vigilante helping law enforcement and asking that they "please" place bills in an envelop. He was arrested hours after the last heist.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man who confessed to five bank robberies in Albuquerque last year — including one bank he robbed twice as part of what he said were desperate attempts to feed his fentanyl addiction — has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.
Jason Smeltzer, 41, made off with less than $4,000 total from the the five robberies, which took place within 6 miles (10 kilometers) of each other over five weeks in early 2022, court records show.
Each time, the unarmed Albuquerque man who once served as a confidential informant for the city's police handed notes to tellers claiming he was a vigilante helping law enforcement and asking that they "please" place bills in an envelope, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
Assistant federal public defender Dennis Candelaria had argued Smeltzer be sentenced to only 18 months in prison partly because he had no adult criminal record, a lengthy work history and was actively involved in many community activities. He said Smeltzer had been suffering from a drug addiction for years trying to ease pain from an injured knee and that he was committed to rehabilitation.
In addition to being a confidential police informant, Candelaria said Smeltzer had participated in the FBI program for cyber security. He didn't provide any additional details.
"Fentanyl took total control of his life," Candelaria wrote in a pre-sentencing document.
"In many ways, Mr. Smeltzer is the typical bank robber. He is robbing a bank to buy drugs for his addiction. However, unlike the typical bank robber, we can look past his actions and see an individual that never intended to harm anyone," Candelaria said.
Smeltzer "committed each of these bank robberies by passing a note and requesting the teller to 'please' place money in an envelope," he said.
From Jan. 20-Feb. 23, 2022, Smeltzer stole a total of $3,856 from the four banks on the city's northeast side, including just $136 from one. The most was $1,180 the second time he robbed the same credit union on San Mateo Boulevard in mid-February.
Acting on a call to a national tip line, FBI agents and police arrested him leaving his Albuquerque home in a car with his mother hours after the final robbery on Feb. 23.
An FBI agent said in an affidavit that Smeltzer confessed to all of the crimes and told authorities he was using the money to buy drugs for his fentanyl addiction.
"He also advised Agents he wrote the demands notes and he always asked for money politely," the agent wrote in the affidavit last year.
In one case, the note he handed a teller claimed "I am that vigilante that helps law enforcement take down drug dealers." Another said he was a vigilante "helping the police catch drug dealers and stop overdoses," according to court documents.
The latter also said, "Thank you, truly I am grateful. I will repay."
Smeltzer pleaded guilty to five counts of bank robbery on March 22. On July 18, U.S District Judge Judith C. Herrera sentenced him to 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. | https://www.kanw.com/new-mexico-news/2023-07-29/ex-new-mexico-police-informant-headed-to-prison-after-admitting-5-bank-robberies-to-feed-addiction | 2023-07-29T11:52:19 | 1 | https://www.kanw.com/new-mexico-news/2023-07-29/ex-new-mexico-police-informant-headed-to-prison-after-admitting-5-bank-robberies-to-feed-addiction |
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How to Watch NASCAR, F1, IndyCar & More: Auto Racing Streaming Live - Saturday, July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 5:44 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Need more auto racing in your life? Well, you're in luck. The race slate on Saturday, July 29 includes Formula 1, Formula E, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series, and NHRA Drag Racing action that can be watched on Fubo. For a complete list, along with information on how to watch or live stream it all, check out the article below.
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Watch Formula 1: Belgium Grand Prix - Sprint Shootout
- Series: Formula 1
- Game Time: 5:55 AM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Watch Formula 1: Belgium Grand Prix - Sprint
- Series: Formula 1
- Game Time: 10:25 AM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Watch Formula E: Round 15: London - Race
- Series: Formula E
- Game Time: 11:30 AM ET
- TV Channel: CBS Sports Network
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Watch NHRA Drag Racing: DENSO Sonoma Nationals - Qualifying
- Series: NHRA Drag Racing
- Game Time: 12:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
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- Series: Formula E
- Game Time: 12:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: CBS
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Watch NASCAR Cup Series: Cook Out 400 - Qualifying
- Series: NASCAR Cup Series
- Game Time: 12:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: USA Network
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Watch NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series: Henry 180
- Series: NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: NBC
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Watch NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series: Road America 180
- Series: NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: NBC
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Watch NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Worldwide Express 250
- Series: NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
- Game Time: 7:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Make sure you're following along with racing action all year long on Fubo and ESPN+!
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On July 29, 1957, Jack Paar made his debut as host of NBC's "Tonight" show.
In 1959, the Isley Brothers recorded "Shout."
In 1965, The Beatles' second film, "Help," had its royal premiere at London's Pavilion Theatre.
In 1966, Bob Dylan was involved in a motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York. He suffered critical injuries and took months to recover.
In 1973, Led Zeppelin's safe deposit box at The Drake Hotel in New York was robbed. The band lost $180,000 in concert receipts from two shows at Madison Square Garden.
In 1974, Mama Cass Elliott was found dead in London. It was rumored that the former Mamas and Papas lead singer choked on a ham sandwich, but a coroner ruled she had suffered a heart attack. She was 30.
In 1987, Ben and Jerry's began selling Cherry Garcia ice cream, in honor of Grateful Dead singer-guitarist Jerry Garcia.
In 1996, actor Martin Lawrence was arrested at the airport in Burbank, California, after police found a loaded handgun in a suitcase he was taking on a flight to Phoenix.
In 2000, actor Brad Pitt married actor Jennifer Aniston in Malibu, California. They separated after four and a half years of marriage.
In 2006, actor Pamela Anderson and musician Kid Rock were married in St. Tropez, France. They both filed for divorce four months later.
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Today in History: July 29, Prince Charles marries Lady Diana
Today in History
Today is Saturday, July 29, the 210th day of 2023. There are 155 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On July 29, 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in a glittering ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
On this date:
In 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
In 1914, transcontinental telephone service in the U.S. became operational with the first test conversation between New York and San Francisco.
In 1921, Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
In 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency was established. Jack Paar made his debut as host of NBC's "Tonight Show."
In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA.
In 1967, an accidental rocket launch on the deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen.
In 1968, Pope Paul the Sixth reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance against artificial methods of birth control.
In 1980, a state funeral was held in Cairo, Egypt, for the deposed Shah of Iran, who had died two days earlier at age 60.
In 1986, a federal jury in New York found that the National Football League had committed an antitrust violation against the rival United States Football League. But the jury ordered the N-F-L to pay token damages of only three dollars.
In 1994, abortion opponent Paul Hill shot and killed Dr. John Bayard Britton and Britton's escort, James H. Barrett, outside the Ladies Center clinic in Pensacola, Florida.
In 1999, a former day trader, apparently upset over stock losses, opened fire in two Atlanta brokerage offices, killing nine people and wounding 13 before shooting himself to death; authorities said Mark O. Barton had also killed his wife and two children.
In 2016, former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson was given an additional 40 years in prison for trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars for killing his third wife.
Ten years ago: The U.S. launched a fresh bid to pull Israel and the Palestinians into substantial negotiations with a dinner meeting in Washington hosted by Secretary of State John Kerry. The FBI said authorities had rescued 105 young people and arrested 150 alleged pimps and others in a three-day sweep in 76 cities.
Five years ago: President Donald Trump tweeted that he was willing to see the government shut down over border security issues, including money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Pitcher Sean Newcomb of the Atlanta Braves was within one strike of a no-hitter before Chris Taylor singled for the Los Angeles Dodgers. After the game, the 25-year-old Newcomb apologized for racist, homophobic and sexist tweets he had sent as a teenager; he described the tweets as "some stupid stuff" he said with friends.
One year ago: Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America. Kentucky's governor said at least 16 people there had died. Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured after the fall of Mariupol, the city where troops famously held out against a monthslong Russian siege. Will Smith again apologized to Chris Rock for slapping him during the Oscar telecast, saying that his behavior was "unacceptable."
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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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How to Watch NASCAR, F1, IndyCar & More: Auto Racing Streaming Live - Saturday, July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 5:44 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Need more auto racing in your life? Well, you're in luck. The race slate on Saturday, July 29 includes Formula 1, Formula E, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series, and NHRA Drag Racing action that can be watched on Fubo. For a complete list, along with information on how to watch or live stream it all, check out the article below.
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Auto Racing Streaming Live Today
Watch Formula 1: Belgium Grand Prix - Sprint Shootout
- Series: Formula 1
- Game Time: 5:55 AM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Watch Formula 1: Belgium Grand Prix - Sprint
- Series: Formula 1
- Game Time: 10:25 AM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Watch Formula E: Round 15: London - Race
- Series: Formula E
- Game Time: 11:30 AM ET
- TV Channel: CBS Sports Network
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Watch NHRA Drag Racing: DENSO Sonoma Nationals - Qualifying
- Series: NHRA Drag Racing
- Game Time: 12:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
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Watch Formula E: Hankook London E-Prix
- Series: Formula E
- Game Time: 12:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: CBS
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Watch NASCAR Cup Series: Cook Out 400 - Qualifying
- Series: NASCAR Cup Series
- Game Time: 12:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: USA Network
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Watch NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series: Henry 180
- Series: NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: NBC
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Watch NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series: Road America 180
- Series: NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: NBC
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Watch NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Worldwide Express 250
- Series: NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
- Game Time: 7:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — 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 new cooperation on guided weapon production follows a trilateral partnership announcement in March that will see Britain provide Australia with a fleet of eight submarines powered by U.S. nuclear technology.
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.
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The Cincinnati Reds presented manager David Bell with a three-year contract extension and his team gifted him with a heart-throbbing 6-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers Friday night in Dodger Stadium.
Cincinnati had an early 3-0 lead and a late 6-2 lead but hung by their fingernails to beat the National League West’s first-place team for the third time in four games.
The Reds used a pair of home runs, three double plays and an ugly relief pitching appearance to get it done.
With their seventh win in nine games, the Reds moved back to within a half-game of the Milwaukee Brewers, 10-7 losers Friday in Atlanta.
Back when each league had only two divisions, the Reds were in the National League West. They might wish they were still there because they are 15-8 this season against NL West teams.
The game began with LA’s missile-throwing rookie Bobby Miller, 6-1 when the game began firing a 102 mph fastball past Elly De La Cruz.
A few minutes after that it was Cincinnati 3, Los Angeles 0. De La Cruz tripled into the right field corner and scored on TJ Friedel’s ground ball.
Matt McLain pulled a hustle-double to right and Jake Fraley clanked one off the right field foul pole, a two-run homer.
When Jonathan India singled the Reds had hit for a team cycle.
Then the bats went silent, and the Dodgers tried to peck away at Reds starter Brandon Williamson.
They put their leadoff batters on base in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth. But the Reds turned double plays in the third, fifth and sixth to snuff rallies.
The Dodgers did score in the first on a walk to Freddie Freeman and J.D. Martinez’s double. And they scored in the fourth on a leadoff double by Amed Rosario and a two-out single by No. 9 hitter Miguel Rosario.
After scoring three in the first, the Reds had only two hits from the second through the sixth and it stayed 3-2.
Then LA relief pitcher Yency Almonte made a not-so-grand entrance for the seventh. He retired Joey Votto and then the wheels flew off in every direction.
Spencer Speer homered down the left field line and it 4-2. Tyler Stephenson singled. Will Benson walked. Almonte threw a wild pitch and De La Cruz was walked intentionally to fill the bases.
Almonte then hit Friedl with a pitch, forcing in a run, and walked McLain to force in another.
And the Reds had what they thought was a comfortable lead … until the Dodgers came to bat in the bottom of the seventh and Lucas Sims retired nobody as the Dodgers scored three to pull back to within one, 6-5.
Pinch-hitter David Peralta doubled to right. Sims walked pinch-hitter James Outman on four pitches and Mookie Betts on a full count to fill the bases. Ian Gibaut replaced Sims and Freeman singled for two runs.
Gibaut retired the next two, but Rosario singled home another run and it was 6-5 with two on. Alex Young rushed in from the bullpen to face Max Muncy and he lined one to the warning track that was chased down by Friedl.
The Dodgers threatened in the eighth. Peralta singled with one out. The Reds should have turned their fourth double play on Outman’s grounder, but shortstop De La Cruz couldn’t extract the ball from his glove.
Bell brought in closer Alexis Diaz to face Bett and Outman stole second, putting the potential tying run in scoring position.
Diaz hung a slider and Betts crushed it for what would have been a home run but it curved foul. Diaz the coaxed and inniing-esnding ground ball to leave it at 6-5.
Diaz was forced to face one of the most dangerous segments of LA’s batting order in the ninth — Freeman, Will Smith and Martinez.
Freeman lined hard to left, Smith flied to deep left and it ended when Martinez hit a two-hopper to second baseman McLain and Diaz had his 31st save in 32 opportunities.
It was Cincinnati’s 44th one-run game and it is 23-21.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The city of San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation into a giant "X" sign that was installed Friday on top of the downtown building formerly known as Twitter headquarters as owner Elon Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.
The X appeared after San Francisco police stopped workers on Monday from removing the brand's iconic bird and logo from the side of the building, saying they hadn't taped off the sidewalk to keep pedestrians safe if anything fell.
Any replacement letters or symbols would require a permit to ensure "consistency with the historic nature of the building" and to make sure additions are safely attached to the sign, Patrick Hannan, spokesperson for the Department of Building Inspection said earlier this week.
Erecting a sign on top of a building also requires a permit, Hannan said Friday.
"Planning review and approval is also necessary for the installation of this sign. The city is opening a complaint and initiating an investigation," he said in an email.
Musk unveiled a new "X" logo to replace Twitter's famous blue bird as he remakes the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday.
Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla, has long been fascinated with the letter X and had already renamed Twitter's corporate name to X Corp. after he bought it in October. One of his children is called "X." The child's actual name is a collection of letters and symbols.
On Friday afternoon, a worker on a lift machine made adjustments to the sign and then left.
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The Mega Millions jackpot grew to a whopping $1.05 billion after no ticket matched all six numbers in Friday night's draw. The last winning ticket was sold on April 18.
The next drawing for the grand prize, which is currently equal to the fourth-largest Mega Millions jackpot to date, is on Tuesday. A lump-sum payment would be an estimated $528 million.
Friday's jackpot was $940 million, and had been growing steadily, finally passing the $1 billion mark after 29 straight draws without someone matching all six winning numbers.
Just last week, a winning ticket for a $1.08 billion Powerball drawing was sold in Los Angeles, but the winner is still unknown.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions are slim — just about 1 in 302.6 million.
The largest Mega Millions winning jackpot was sold in South Carolina in 2018 — a massive $1.537 billion.
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CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — For a single, unthinkable moment last summer, the Chautauqua Institution was a hostile place for the freedom of expression that has been its hallmark for 150 years: As Salman Rushdie was about to speak, an audience member leapt onto the stage and stabbed the celebrated author more than a dozen times.
By the next day, Chautauqua Institution President Michael Hill recently recounted, the decision had been made not only to resume programming, but to “double down on what Mr. Rushdie stands for, what our speakers and preachers and artists stand for — which is the free exchange of ideas and the belief that society is stronger when we do that.”
A year later, Rushdie, blinded in one eye by the assault, is recovering from the attack. The Chautauqua Institution is recovering, too.
Programming and revenue for the arts and intellectual retreat in the rural southwest corner of New York was disrupted for two seasons by COVID-19. Then the attack further shattered the return to normal that regular visitors had so craved.
With a new nine-week summer season now under way, well-tended gardens are in bloom and rocking chairs are back out on the porches of Victorian- and cottage-style homes.
Security has been strengthened, though the gated compound remains open to anyone who buys a pass to enter.
“We look at the work that we do under a different lens since” the stabbing, Hill said during an interview in his office, which overlooks Bestor Plaza, a lush expanse of greenery anchoring the 750-acre (303-hectare) grounds. “The attack was an attempt at silencing, which underscores the need for institutions like ours to not stay silent.”
As an institution, Chautauqua defies easy explanation.
“NPR camp for grown-ups” is the description preferred by Erica Higbie, who owns a house on the grounds.
Located on the shore of Chautauqua Lake, the institution is a self-contained community with lecture halls, houses of worship, cafes, shops, a library, post office and bookstore, along with private homes, rentals and the Athenaeum Hotel, which served as former President Bill Clinton’s executive mansion for a week in 1996 as he prepared for his debate with Republican challenger Bob Dole.
Aside from boating and golf, the 4,400-seat, open-air amphitheater is a main draw, with a summer entertainment lineup this year offering concerts by Diana Ross and Bonnie Raitt, ballet and theater productions and performances by the house Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
But for Higbie and many others, the primary appeal exists in the institution’s 19th Century beginnings as a summer educational experiment in which daily lectures are curated around weekly explorations of anything from politics to infrastructure and faith to friendship.
“I am a lecture junkie,” Higbie said from her porch as people navigated the grounds on foot, bikes and scooters. The speed limit for the rare vehicle traffic is 12 mph. The retired teacher takes in a daily morning lecture and may hear two more in the afternoon at the amphitheater and the Hall of Philosophy.
Through the decades, Susan B. Anthony advocated for women’s rights at the institution and President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his 1936 “I Hate War” speech in the amphitheater. Former Vice President Al Gore spoke about the climate crisis and Supreme Court Judges Robert H. Jackson and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are among countless others who have offered insights.
Rushdie’s appearance came during a week last year exploring home as “a place for human thriving.”
Henry Reese, co-founder of the City of Asylum Pittsburgh, was about to interview “The Satanic Verses” author about violence against writers when Rushdie was attacked as the men sat in armchairs on the amphitheater’s sunken stage.
Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death, was stabbed in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye. Reese suffered bruises and a gash to his forehead.
With alleged assailant Hadi Matar awaiting trial in a nearby courthouse, Reese is scheduled to return to the institution on the anniversary of the attack, Aug. 12. His appearance is expected to kick off a week exploring freedom of expression, imagination and the resilience of democracy. Republican strategist Karl Rove and Democratic strategist David Axelrod are among other invited guests.
It would have been out of character for the institution to do anything but pick up where it left off after the assault, regular guest lecturer Eboo Patel said.
“Not a single artist or speaker canceled,” Patel, founder of Interfaith America in Chicago, said by phone.
“Chautauqua recognizes that it has a responsibility to its own community, honestly to American civilization and the human spirit, and it’s back up in 24 to 48 hours. That’s stunning,” he said.
Property owners differed on how far the institution should go to ensure personal safety, said Higbie, the president of the Chautauqua Property Owners Association.
“Everybody was in shock for a long time,“ Higbie said.
Visitors say they notice more security and protocols at events. Amphitheater patrons can bring only clear bags inside, for example, and may be scanned or asked to walk through a weapons detector.
Even so, “I never hesitated for a minute” to return, said Michael Crawford of Washington, D.C., as he chatted with Mary Pat McFarland of Philadelphia. The two sat on one of the red benches placed around the grounds to invite discussion.
A handful of musicians with violins, guitars and a small harp played an impromptu jam session beneath a tree nearby.
Hill said he sees his role as “teeing up” issues for engagement, so shying away from difficult ones would be a disservice at a time when civic discourse is in short supply.
“It’s about bringing divergent viewpoints for people to digest,” Hill said. “For us to have made the decision to stop bringing speakers who may be controversial in any way would have been for us to stop doing our mission.”
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
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UTSAV 2023 to bring “Festival of Colors” to downtown Rochester Saturday
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Families across Southeast Minnesota are invited to take part in a downtown Rochester celebration Saturday afternoon.
It’s called UTSAV, and it’s being put on by Indian Cultural Association of Minnesota in partnership with Rochester Downtown Alliance and Destination Medical Center.
The fun will begin with a 5K Run/Walk at Soldiers Field at 3:30 p.m.
Then, the Festival of Colors event will take over Peace Plaza between 4:30 and 8:30 p.m.
There will be a DJ, flash mob, food, and a color splash.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle Scout, Katherine Paul. All her tours, including one headlining across North America, were canceled and she feared her ascending music career might be over.
She got a day job at a nonprofit and returned to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s homelands in Western Washington. But as Paul, or KP to her friends, spent time in the cedar forests and walked along the Skagit River, she turned to her guitar to deal with the isolation and stress. Those snippets, recorded on her phone, provided the foundation for what would become songs on her powerful, grunge-soaked new record “The Land, The Water, The Sky.”
“I feel like if the pandemic hadn’t happened, I probably wouldn’t have made this record,” said KP, who writes the songs, sings and plays guitar in the band that was the only Native American artist at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this month.
“I spent a lot of time outside. I spent a lot more time than normal going on hikes, being part of the land,” she continued. “It’s not like I never do that stuff but it brought me back to a place where this is who I am.”
The new record, which came out in February, helped launch what has probably been the most successful year so far for Black Belt Eagle Scout. The band toured Europe and will go to Australia later this year. Two of her songs, “Soft Stud” from an earlier record and “Salmon Stinta” from her latest, appear this season on the television series “Reservation Dogs.”
Reservation Dogs Music Supervisor Tiffany Anders said she was introduced to the band’s music by the show’s creator, Sterlin Harjo, when they started working on the second season.
“It’s always been important for us on this show to include Native American artists, but beyond representation, Black Belt Eagle Scout’s music is beautiful and emotional, and fits these characters, their world and landscape — and the vibe of the show,’” she said in a statement.
Then there was Pitchfork, a three-day festival that is a significant milestone for indie musicians. The festival is held every year in Chicago’s Union Park and this year’s headliners included Bon Iver, Big Thief and The Smile, which has members of Radiohead.
She admitted stepping on that stage last weekend was nerve-wracking given her high hopes for the show, a feeling compounded by concerns that storms could scuttle their performance. But as she launched into the blistering set of mostly new songs in front of thousands of eager fans, KP found solace in her guitar. She launched several long jams that were punctuated by her twirling her jet-black hair around to the point it obscured her face.
“It was totally a moment,” she said with a laugh.
“I kind of cried after we played because it felt so meaningful,” she added. “Like, I’ve always wanted to play this music festival. I remember trying to play one of the years before the pandemic when I was touring and it didn’t happen. This year, I was just so stoked to play.”
Reaching Pitchfork has been a long journey for the 34-year-old artist, who is a member of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and left her home on the reservation in LaConner, Washington, when she was 17 to attend Lewis & Clark College in Oregon and play rock music.
Growing up on the reservation off the Washington coast on islands in the Salish Sea, she drummed and sang cultural songs. As a teenager, she discovered local Pacific Northwest bands like Mount Eerie and the sounds of the Riot Grrrl movement and played one of her first gigs at a small bar called Department of Safety. She moved to Portland, Oregon, due to its outsized role in the indie scene that featured bands like Sleater-Kinney and quickly immersed herself in the music scene playing drums and guitar.
She joined an all-female outfit whom she met at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland. She went on to play a lot of small, basement shows with bands like Genders — whose wolf tattoo she still has on her left arm.
But she wanted to write her own songs and formed Black Belt Eagle Scout in 2013. Her early music was defined by her ethereal singing about love, friendship and healing — often only accompanied by minimal guitar strumming. But she did rock out on songs like “Soft Stud,” which featured searing solos.
“She is a really an authentic musician and she carries a lot of power on stage with her presence and sound,” Claire Glass, who plays guitar in the band and first saw KP seven years ago.
KP has said her Native American identify has always been present on her records. But her latest music paints a more vivid picture of life on the Swinomish reservation. There are references to chinook salmon, which are traditionally fished, and a powwow dance.
“I started thinking of feeling grateful for the life that I have been given; this place that I’m from; how much the land, the water, the sky means to me — being surrounded by it,” KP said of writing the song ”Don’t Give Up.” “It has so much more meaning because the land, that’s where my people are from.”
Her songs aren’t meant to directly confront issues like the crisis of missing and murdered Native American women or tribes’ forced relocation. It’s not the way she writes songs. Instead, she envisions them connecting with people, drawing more Native Americans to indie rock shows in places like Minneapolis, which has a vibrant Native American community, and inspiring young Native Americans to connect with her after shows.
“Isn’t me like being here existing with my music good enough? Can’t I just be who I am?” she asked, adding she doesn’t need to speak out from stage about these issues because being Native often means she is already wrestling with them. A judge, for example, ruled in March that BNSF Railway intentionally violated the terms of an easement agreement with the tribe by running 100-car trains carrying crude oil over the reservation.
“As a Native person, you know someone who is missing. Your tribe is trying to get your land back. Those are topics that are part of your every day life,” she said. ”I care about those things deeply but there are certain ways in which my music is, maybe not as direct, but it can be healing.”
KP also doesn’t want to be seen just as a rock musician or as a Native artist. “I am a musician who happens to be Native, but I am also a Native musician … I think I am always both,” she said.
Her latest record aims to show that.
“I kind of had in the back of mind, just kept thinking what would Built to Spill do,” KP said of the guitar-heavy, indie-rock band from the Pacific Northwest. “I’ve gone on tour with them and seen their three guitars at one point playing together and how they overlap and all these other things.”
It’s also a more collaborative effort with more musicians playing on the record— a departure for KP, who is accustomed to doing everything herself. A cellist who played with Nirvana, Lori Goldston, is featured on several songs, as are two violinists, as well as a saxophone and mellotron player.
Takiaya Reed, a first-time producer who is also in a doom metal band, described the experience of working on the record as “beautiful and amazing” and said the two bonded over their love of punk. Reid also brought her classical training and love of “heavier sounds” to the studio.
“We approached it fearlessly. It was wonderful to be expansive in terms of sonic possibilities,” she said.
KP also wanted to find a place for her parents, whom she had grown especially close to during the pandemic, to play on the record. She chose the song “Spaces,” which she described as having a “healing vibe.” Her dad, who is one of the main singers at the tribe’s cultural events, embraced the idea of lending his powerful powwow chant to the song. Her mom sang harmonies.
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
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He will serve a year in Lake County Community Corrections, six months in Kimbrough Community Corrections and two and a half years’ probation.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Four air crew members were missing after an Australian army helicopter ditched into waters off the Queensland state coast during joint military exercises with the United States, officials said Saturday.
The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter went down near Lindeman Island, a Great Barrier Reef tourist resort, at about 11 p.m. Friday, exercise director Australian Army Brigadier Damian Hill said.
A search involving U.S., Canadian and Australian personnel was underway to find the crew who are all Australian men, officials said.
Debris that appeared to be from a helicopter had been recovered, Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Douglas McDonald said.
The Taipan was taking part in Talisman Sabre, a biennial joint U.S.-Australian military exercise that is largely based in Queensland. This year’s exercise involves 13 nations and more than 30,000 military personnel.
Defense Minister Richard Marles said the helicopter ditched, which refers to an emergency landing on water.
“Defense exercises, which are so necessary for the readiness of our defense force, are serious. They carry risk,” Marles told reporters in Brisbane. “As we desperately hope for better news during the course of this day we are reminded about the gravity of the act which comes with wearing our nation’s uniform.”
Hill said the exercise was postponed on Saturday morning but had restarted limited activity later in the day. Australia had grounded its Taipan fleet as a precaution, Hill said.
It was the second emergency involving an Australian Taipan this year, after one ditched into the sea off the New South Wales state coast in March. That helicopter was taking part in a nighttime counterterrorism training exercise when it ran into trouble. All 10 passengers and crew members were rescued.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Brisbane for a meeting on Saturday and is due to travel with Marles to north Queensland on Sunday to see the exercise.
Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid tribute to the missing air crew at the outset of a meeting with their Australian counterparts, Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
“It’s always tough when you have accidents in training, but … the reason that we train to such high standards is so that we can be successful and we can protect lives when we are called to answer any kind of crisis,” Austin said.
“Our guys tend to make this look easy and they make it look easy because they’re so well exercised and rehearsed and trained, and this is unfortunately a part of that, what it takes to get them to where we need them to be,” Austin added.
Blinken said, “We’re so grateful to them for their dedication, for their service, for everything they’ve been doing to stand up for the freedom that we share and that is what unites us more than anything else.”
Marles thanked the United States for their contribution to the search and rescue effort.
The missing helicopter had just dropped off two Australian commandos before it hit the water, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Australia announced in January that its army and navy would stop flying the European-built Taipans by December 2024, 13 years earlier than originally planned, because they had proven unreliable. They will be replaced by 40 U.S. Black Hawks. Marles said at the time the Lockheed Martin-designed Black Hawks “have a really good proven track record in terms of their reliability.”
Australia’s Taipans had been plagued by problems since the first helicopter arrived in the country in 2007.
Australia’s entire fleet of 47 Taipans was grounded in 2019 to fix a problem with their tail rotor blades. A year later, 27 Taipans were grounded because of a problem with doors.
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
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He will serve a year in Lake County Community Corrections, six months in Kimbrough Community Corrections and two and a half years’ probation.
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HUARINA, Bolivia (AP) — A 70-year-old man’s feet sink into the soil as he passes abandoned boats where there used to be the water of Lake Titicaca. The highest navigable lake in the world has receded to what Bolivian authorities say are critically low levels due to a persistent drought.
“It’s completely dry,” Jaime Mamani said in exasperation while walking along the new shoreline in Huarina, a farming town 70 kilometers (43 miles) west of La Paz where he is a community leader.
The National Service of Naval Hydrography declared an alert this week for the iconic lake after its surface fell 2 centimeters (0.8 inches) below the drought warning stage, or 3,807.8 meters (12492.7 feet) above sea level. But the agency says this is just the beginning of a situation that is worrying Indigenous Aymara communities that rely on the lake for their livelihoods and fear the dry spell could permanently impact the region’s flora and fauna.
The hydrology unit of Bolivia’s navy warned that water levels could reach historically low levels in the coming months. By December, there is a “high probability” Lake Titicaca will be 64 centimeters (more than 25 inches) below the drought alert level, breaking a low water record set in 1998 by 33 centimeters (almost 13 inches).
“In three months, the water has decreased by 30 centimeters (11.8 inches), and considering that radiation is much stronger during this time of the year … we expect it to keep decreasing,” Carlos Carrasco, a hydraulic engineer for the hydrography service said.
The drought is the result of a combination of factors, including natural phenomena like La Niña and El Niño, which arrived unusually early this year and have been particularly strong due in part to climate change, according to Lucía Walper, who heads up the Hydrological Forecasting Unit at Bolivia’s National Meteorology and Hydrology Service.
But the vast lake is vital for this region of the Bolivian highlands, where hundreds of Aymara rural communities have relied on the blue body of water for millennia to practice subsistence farming and raise livestock.
Authorities in the Peruvian city of Puno also issued a warning about the declining water levels and expressed concern about the potential impact on tourism.
“We’re reaching a critical point. There will be a significant loss of water,” said Juan José Ocola, president of the Binational Authority of Lake Titicaca. The lake serves as the border between Bolivia and Peru.
Mateo Vargas, 56, a fisherman who has lived off the Lake Titicaca for 28 years, said he used to catch “lots” of fish daily. Now he considers himself lucky if he can catch six.
Vargas’ wife, Justina Condori, shares his concerns.
“The fish have vanished,” Condori, 58, said, predicting there will be famine if the current conditions persist.
Condori makes a living by renting boats to tourists. She worries fewer people will come to visit the lake, which at an elevation of 3,810 meters above sea level, is the largest body of freshwater in the Andes mountain range.
Evidence of the receding lake is seemingly everywhere. Women who sell fried fish and other snacks by the lake face rising costs for ingredients. Those who make a living transporting people from one side of the lake to the other are altering their routes because their rafts and boats no longer reach their usual docks.
Livestock farmers who rely on the plants that grow on the shores of the Titicaca to feed their animals are also seeing their livelihoods threatened.
The economic hardship is causing many residents of Huarina to migrate to other areas of the country, leaving behind mostly older townspeople, Mamani said. The waters of the Titicaca have always been shallow around the town, so the drought is even more visible there.
“There is a detriment to the economy of the inhabitants of the region,” he said.
Vargas, the fisherman, is also concerned about what the declining water levels will mean for the future.
“It looks like it will continue to decrease, day by day,” he said. “We’re worried because if we continue like this, what’s going to happen to our children?”
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
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He will serve a year in Lake County Community Corrections, six months in Kimbrough Community Corrections and two and a half years’ probation.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Salvage crews were preparing Saturday to tow a car-carrying cargo ship that has been burning for days to an anchor point in the North Sea after flames and smoke on board subsided, the Dutch government said.
Fire erupted in the Fremantle Highway late Tuesday night near a chain of islands in the northern Netherlands and has been blazing ever since. The ship is carrying 3,783 new vehicles, including 498 electric vehicles, the company that chartered the vessel said.
One crew member died and others were injured after the fire broke out on the ship that was heading from Bremerhaven in Germany to Singapore. The crew was evacuated in the early hours of Wednesday. The cause of the fire has not been established.
Measurements Friday showed that heat, flames and smoke had subsided enough for salvage experts to board the ship for the first time and establish a strong towing connection with a tugboat, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said.
It will be towed, likely over the weekend, to a new position 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the island of Schiermonnikoog , the ministry said in a statement. The timing of the operation that is expected to take 12-14 hours depends on smoke development and weather, the ministry added. The aim is ultimately “once conditions on board allow,” to tow the ship to a port, though the destination has not yet been decided.
The ministry said the ship is stable and intact below the waterline.
The burning vessel is close to the shallow Wadden Sea, a World Heritage-listed area that is considered one of the world’s most significant habitats for migratory birds. It’s also near the Netherlands’ border with Germany, whose environment minister, Steffi Lemke, has warned of “an environmental catastrophe of unknown proportions,” if the ship were to sink. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/ | 2023-07-29T11:56:23 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/ |
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
Indiana hopes to make a good first impression to travelers headed south on Interstate 65 with a striking rest stop featuring wind turbines, pu…
He will serve a year in Lake County Community Corrections, six months in Kimbrough Community Corrections and two and a half years’ probation.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — 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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Associated Press writers Anmar Khalil in Karbala, Iraq, and Hassan Ammar in Beirut contributed to this report. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-lebanons-hezbollah-leader-urges-muslims-to-punish-quran-desecrators-if-governments-fail-to-do-so/ | 2023-07-29T11:56:24 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-lebanons-hezbollah-leader-urges-muslims-to-punish-quran-desecrators-if-governments-fail-to-do-so/ |
How to Watch NASCAR, F1, IndyCar & More: Auto Racing Streaming Live - Saturday, July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 4:44 AM MDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Need more auto racing in your life? Well, you're in luck. The race slate on Saturday, July 29 includes Formula 1, Formula E, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series, and NHRA Drag Racing action that can be watched on Fubo. For a complete list, along with information on how to watch or live stream it all, check out the article below.
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Watch Formula 1: Belgium Grand Prix - Sprint Shootout
- Series: Formula 1
- Game Time: 5:55 AM ET
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Watch Formula 1: Belgium Grand Prix - Sprint
- Series: Formula 1
- Game Time: 10:25 AM ET
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Watch Formula E: Round 15: London - Race
- Series: Formula E
- Game Time: 11:30 AM ET
- TV Channel: CBS Sports Network
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Watch NHRA Drag Racing: DENSO Sonoma Nationals - Qualifying
- Series: NHRA Drag Racing
- Game Time: 12:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
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Watch Formula E: Hankook London E-Prix
- Series: Formula E
- Game Time: 12:00 PM ET
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a 4-year-old girl fathered by his son Hunter with an Arkansas woman, Lunden Roberts, in 2018.
“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,” Biden said in a statement. It was his first acknowledgement of the child.
“This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter,” he said. “Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
Hunter Biden’s paternity was established by DNA testing after Roberts sued for child support, and the two parties recently resolved outstanding child support issues. The president’s son wrote about his encounter with Roberts in his 2021 memoir, saying it came while he was deep in addiction to alcohol and drugs, including crack cocaine.
“I had no recollection of our encounter,” he wrote. “That’s how little connection I had with anyone. I was a mess, but a mess I’ve taken responsibility for.”
An attorney for Roberts did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The president, who has made a commitment to family central to his public persona, has faced increasing criticism from political rivals and pundits for failing to acknowledge the granddaughter. According to a person familiar with the matter, he was taking the cue from his son while the legal proceedings played out. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private matters.
Hunter Biden has four other children, including a son, Beau, born to his wife Melissa Cohen in 2020. He was named after the president’s late son who died of cancer in 2015, leaving behind two children.
Biden’s grandchildren have played a distinctive role in his presidency, often accompanying the president or first lady on trips and making regular visits to the White House. The president has also credited his grandchildren with persuading him to challenge then-President Donald Trump for the White House in 2020.
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
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He will serve a year in Lake County Community Corrections, six months in Kimbrough Community Corrections and two and a half years’ probation.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Pentagon official has attacked this week’s widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs, calling the claims “insulting” to employees who are investigating sightings and accusing a key witness of not cooperating with the official U.S. government investigation.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s letter, published on his personal LinkedIn page and circulated Friday across social media, criticizes much of the testimony from a retired Air Force intelligence officer that energized believers in extraterrestrial life and produced headlines around the world.
Retired Air Force Maj. David Grusch testified Wednesday that the U.S. has concealed what he called a “multi-decade” program to collect and reverse-engineer “UAPs,” or unidentified aerial phenomena, the official government term for UFOs.
Part of what the U.S. has recovered, Grusch testified, were non-human “biologics,” which he said he had not seen but had learned about from “people with direct knowledge of the program.”
A career intelligence officer, Kirkpatrick was named a year ago to lead the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, which was intended to centralize investigations into UAPs. The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies have been pushed by Congress in recent years to better investigate reports of devices flying at unusual speeds or trajectories as a national security concern.
Kirkpatrick wrote the letter Thursday and the Defense Department confirmed Friday that he posted it in a personal capacity. Kirkpatrick declined to comment on the letter Friday.
He writes in part, “I cannot let yesterday’s hearing pass without sharing how insulting it was to the officers of the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community who chose to join AARO, many with not unreasonable anxieties about the career risks this would entail.”
“They are truth-seekers, as am I,” Kirkpatrick said. “But you certainly would not get that impression from yesterday’s hearing.”
In a separate statement, Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough denied other allegations made by Grusch before a House Oversight subcommittee.
The Pentagon “has no information that any individual has been harmed or killed as a result of providing information” about UFO objects, Gough said. Nor has the Pentagon discovered “any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”
Kirkpatrick wrote, “AARO has yet to find any credible evidence to support the allegations of any reverse engineering program for non-human technology.”
He had briefed reporters in December that the Pentagon was investigating “several hundreds” of new reports following a push to have pilots and others come forward with any sightings.
Kirkpatrick wrote in his letter that allegations of “retaliation, to include physical assault and hints of murder, are extraordinarily serious, which is why law enforcement is a critical member of the AARO team, specifically to address and take swift action should anyone come forward with such claims.”
“Yet, contrary to assertions made in the hearing, the central source of those allegations has refused to speak with AARO,” Kirkpatrick said. He did not explicitly name Grusch, who alleged he faced retaliation and declined to answer when a congressman asked him if anyone had been murdered to hide information about UFOs.
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
Indiana hopes to make a good first impression to travelers headed south on Interstate 65 with a striking rest stop featuring wind turbines, pu…
He will serve a year in Lake County Community Corrections, six months in Kimbrough Community Corrections and two and a half years’ probation.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — 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 new cooperation on guided weapon production follows a trilateral partnership announcement in March that will see Britain provide Australia with a fleet of eight submarines powered by U.S. nuclear technology.
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.
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
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He will serve a year in Lake County Community Corrections, six months in Kimbrough Community Corrections and two and a half years’ probation.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Santander said it felt like a playoff game at Camden Yards.
A few more performances like this, and the Baltimore Orioles will be there.
Santander homered off Tommy Kahnle in the ninth inning to give the Orioles a 1-0 victory over New York on Friday night, spoiling Aaron Judge’s return for the Yankees. Judge walked three times in his first game back from a toe injury, but the Orioles kept New York off the scoreboard with a spectacular defensive effort.
In the eighth inning alone, Santander made a lunging, sliding catch in right field, and second baseman Adam Frazier made a diving stop on Anthony Rizzo’s grounder with a man on second.
“Great defense, great pitching, that’s how we win baseball games,” Santander said.
Orioles rookie Grayson Rodriguez pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings, going toe to toe with New York’s Gerrit Cole, who went seven. Félix Bautista (6-1) struck out two in a scoreless ninth. Kahnle (1-1) couldn’t match that in the bottom half, allowing Santander’s one-out drive that went well beyond the fence in right-center field.
The Orioles remained 1 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay atop the AL East, and they now lead the last-place Yankees by nine.
The game was delayed 2 hours, 32 minutes by rain, but that did little to dampen the enthusiasm of a crowd that included a mix of Yankees fans cheering Judge and Orioles fans embracing their first-place team.
“Right before the start of the game, it felt like a playoff game,” Santander said. “That’s good to have those fans to support us. Hopefully they can continue to do that.”
Judge lined out to right field on the first pitch to him in the first, but he reached base the other three times he came up.
Anthony Volpe was robbed twice by stellar Baltimore defense. Third baseman Ramón Urías made a diving stop on his one-hopper in the fifth. In the eighth, Volpe led off with a fly to right that Santander reached out and caught before sliding on his stomach across the grass.
New York eventually had two on and two out that inning when Rizzo’s grounder looked headed to right field. Frazier’s diving play prevented that.
“Defense won us the game,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “Adam Frazier, diving play off Rizz. Santander with a great diving catch. We turned some double plays.”
Each team had only four hits. Rodriguez was one of Baltimore’s prized prospects, and after being sent back to the minors for a bit, he may be finding a groove.
“I just love his delivery right now and the tempo of his delivery,” Hyde said. “Just really, really competitive.”
DEADLINE OUTLOOK
Orioles general manager Mike Elias said it’s no secret that the Orioles are working on potentially adding pitching upgrades at the trade deadline. He said the team has the wherewithal to make “good baseball trades” even if it means adding payroll.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Orioles: Elias said he hopes OFs Cedric Mullins (right adductor groin strain) and Aaron Hicks (left hamstring strain) can return and play a large part of August. … Elias said LHP John Means (left elbow UCL surgery) and RHP Mychal Givens (right shoulder inflammation) will probably be pitching in games in the Florida Complex League in the early part of August.
UP NEXT
Baltimore’s Tyler Wells (7-5) takes the mound against New York’s Clarke Schmidt (6-6) on Saturday night. Schmidt will be on extended rest, having last pitched July 21.
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
Indiana hopes to make a good first impression to travelers headed south on Interstate 65 with a striking rest stop featuring wind turbines, pu…
He will serve a year in Lake County Community Corrections, six months in Kimbrough Community Corrections and two and a half years’ probation.
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The Mega Millions jackpot grew to a whopping $1.05 billion after no ticket matched all six numbers in Friday night's draw. The last winning ticket was sold on April 18.
The next drawing for the grand prize, which is currently equal to the fourth-largest Mega Millions jackpot to date, is on Tuesday. A lump-sum payment would be an estimated $528 million.
Friday's jackpot was $940 million, and had been growing steadily, finally passing the $1 billion mark after 29 straight draws without someone matching all six winning numbers.
Just last week, a winning ticket for a $1.08 billion Powerball drawing was sold in Los Angeles, but the winner is still unknown.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions are slim — just about 1 in 302.6 million.
The largest Mega Millions winning jackpot was sold in South Carolina in 2018 — a massive $1.537 billion.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — United States midfielder Savannah DeMelo can speak some Portuguese and may be able to put it to use in the Women’s World Cup.
The U.S. plays Portugal on Tuesday to wrap up the tournament’s group stage, and a fter a disappointing 1-1 draw against the Netherlands, the Americans needs a win. At stake is both the top spot in Group E and also a much-needed boost to team confidence.
That’s where DeMelo can help.
The 25-year-old’s dad, Robert, is from Portugal and had a successful career as a player in that country before becoming a coach. DeMelo has dual citizenship and understands Portuguese.
“I’ll definitely be listening for it,” she laughed.
DeMelo made her first international start for the United States against Vietnam in the group opener, a 3-0 victory for the Americans.
Prior to the World Cup, DeMelo had played in only one other match for the United States: she was a substitute in the team’s send-off match against Wales in San Jose in early July. DeMelo, who plays for Racing Louisville FC in the National Women’s Soccer League, was the first U.S. player since Shannon Boxx in 2003 and third overall to be named to the World Cup roster without any previous appearances for the national team.
U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski started DeMelo in the both of the American’s World Cup matches. She played both opening halves before being subbed off for veteran Rose Lavelle, who has been playing limited minutes for the United States because of a knee injury suffered in April.
The journey from being named to the team to getting a start in the World Cup has “been a crazy roller coaster of emotions,” said DeMelo.
“But I think I’ve had a lot of great people, including the girls on the team, who have been super helpful with getting me acclimated to the team,” she said. “And I’m just super grateful to be here.”
The United States may need to switch up its tactics against Portugal.
The Americans are tied on points with the Netherlands in Group E and have an advantage over the Dutch on goal difference. The top two teams in the group advance to the knockout round.
But the results haven’t been as emphatic as they were in 2019, when the U.S. opened with a 13-0 victory over Thailand and went on to win their second straight World Cup title, and fourth overall.
The United States trailed the Netherlands by a goal in the first half before Lindsey Horan scored a game-tying header in the 62nd minute.
One reason for the less-than-dominant play could be inexperience. DeMelo is among 14 U.S. players appearing in their first World Cup.
Fellow midfielder Andi Sullivan, who is also making her tournament debut, said it takes some adjustment to play together as newcomers.
“That’s definitely a challenge that we’re going through, is that we just kind of came together,” Sullivan said. “It’s not like a team that you’re training with all year round, constantly. You’re in and out all the time. So I think you’re constantly adjusting.
“But the way that you get in sync is we watch a lot of stuff together, we communicate constantly. We’re very direct when something’s not going the way we want it to go,” Sullivan added. “You have to be direct and clear and honest and loud.”
DeMelo is also among six players at the World Cup who play for Racing Louisville. Among the Racing Louisville representatives are Ary Borges, who scored a hat trick for Brazil in its 4-0 victory over Panama to start the tournament.
DeMelo, who said her father never pushed her into soccer growing up, could have played for Portugal at the senior level.
“It could have been an option,” she said, “but I think my heart was always with the United States.”
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The highway was closed between Route 2 exit in Lowell and U.S. 30 exit near Merrillville between 12:20 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., state police said.
Cody Rosenthal, 27, of Crown Point, was identified as the driver in the crash, police said.
Indiana hopes to make a good first impression to travelers headed south on Interstate 65 with a striking rest stop featuring wind turbines, pu…
He will serve a year in Lake County Community Corrections, six months in Kimbrough Community Corrections and two and a half years’ probation.
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This summer, I traveled to Montreal to do one of my favorite things: Listen to live music.
For three days, I wandered around the Montreal Jazz Festival with two buddies, listening to jazz, rock, blues and all kinds of surprising musical mashups.
There was the New Orleans-based group Tank and the Bangas, Danish/Turkish/Kurdish band called AySay, and the Montreal-based Mike Goudreau Band.
All of this reminded me how magnificent music has been in my life — growing up with The Boss in New Jersey, falling in love with folk-rockers like Neil Young, discovering punk rock groups like The Clash in college, and, yeah, these days, marveling at Taylor Swift.
Music could always lift me up and transport me. It's the closest I've ever come to having a religious experience.
The body and brain on music
This got me thinking: Why? Why does music do that?
So I called up some experts to get their insights on what underlies this powerful experience.
"Music does evoke a sense of wonder and awe for lots of people," says Daniel Levitin, a neuroscientist at McGill University who scans the brains of people while they listen to tunes.
"Some of it is still mysterious to us," he says, "But what we can talk about are some neural circuits or networks involved in the experience of pleasure and reward."
When you're listening to music that you really like, brain circuits involving parts of the brain called the amygdala, ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens come on line, he explains. These are the same areas that get activated if you're thirsty and you have a drink, or if you're feeling "randy and have sex."
That triggers the production of brain chemicals that are involved in feelings like pleasure.
"It modulates levels of dopamine, as well as opioids in the brain. Your brain makes opioids," he says.
Neurons in the brain even fire with the beat of the music, which helps people feel connected to one another by literally synchronizing their brain waves when they listen to the same song.
"What we used to say in the '60s is, 'Hey, I'm on the same wavelength as you man,'" Levitin says. "But it's literally true — your brain waves are synchronized listening to music."
Music also has a calming effect, slowing our heart rate, deepening our breathing and lowering stress hormones. This makes us feel more connected to other people as well as the world around us, especially when we start to dance together.
"Those pathways of changing our body, symbolizing what is vast and mysterious for us, and then moving our bodies, triggers the mind into a state of wonder," Dacher Keltner, a University of California, Berkeley, psychologist, told me.
"We imagine, 'Why do I feel this way? What is this music teaching me about what is vast and mysterious?' Music allows us to feel these transcendent emotions," he says.
Emotions like awe, which stimulates the brain into a sense of wonder, help "counter the epidemic of our times, which is loneliness," Keltner says. "With music, we feel we're part of community and that has a direct effect on health and well-being," which is crucial to survival.
That could be why music plays such a powerful role in many religions, spirituality and rituals, he says.
A rocker weighs in
All this made me wonder: Do musicians feel this way, too?
"Yeah, I definitely experience wonder while playing music on a regular basis," says Mike Gordon, the bass player for the band Phish.
He suddenly vividly remembers dreams and doesn't want to be anywhere else, he says.
"It's almost like these neural pathways are opening. And it's almost like the air around me crystalizes where everything around me is more itself," Gordon says. "I develop this sort of hypersensitivity, where it's now electrified."
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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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She's one of India's biggest Barbie fans. When Vichitra Rajasingh was growing up, family and friends helped her build her collection of Barbie dolls until she had almost 80 of them. She once owned a Barbie camper, a speedboat, supermarket and post office. The mermaid Barbie and scuba-diving Barbie were her favorites.
Since her family ran a hotel, they put the dolls on display in the lobby in the late '90s. On Rajasingh's 14th birthday, her parents painted her room bright pink and hired artists to draw her favorite Barbie dolls on the walls.
All her Barbies were blond. She says she didn't like the Indian ethnic ones that came on the local market.
Living the pink life
"My love for the color pink began with my childhood passion for Barbie," she says. "And now it's become my identity." For her, the color represents love, joy, femininity and playfulness, everything she once associated with Barbie, she says.
Today Rajasingh lives in the southern Indian city of Madurai, where she drives a pink mini-Cooper and runs a bakery and lives in an apartment that are dominated by that color.
When the Barbie movie released in India on July 21, she gathered a bunch of friends, "everyone dressed to the nines in pink," and watched it on the day of its release. "I loved the movie. It was fun to watch and brought back many joyful childhood memories," she says.
While she no longer has her huge doll collection — having long since given it away to family and friends — Rajasingh is still a Barbie lover. She bakes six or seven Barbie-themed cakes a week, with an actual doll at the center of a cake that serves as her frothy dress, constructed around her in a swirl of sugar and cream.
Rajasingh saw Barbie as an aspirational figure — and grew up admiring the doll's freedom, confidence, globe-trotting lifestyle and even her arched feet in sassy stilettos.
But for others in India, Barbie has a far more complicated legacy.
The pressures Barbie can bring
Shweta Sharan, a writer who lives in Mumbai, admits to being conflicted about whether or not to watch the movie with her 13-year-old daughter, Laasya, who until a year ago ardently loved Barbie but then outgrew playing with dolls.
"I am aware that these dolls have many complicated associations," Sharan says. "Watching my daughter love a doll that looked nothing like her — with blond hair, blue eyes, perfect breasts — I worried if she would always strive to be someone else and feel inadequate."
These worries are valid in the opinion of ElsaMarie DSilva, a social entrepreneur from India and an Aspen fellow. "While Barbie is almost universally loved among girls of all ages, many do aspire to look like her, unconsciously pressurizing young girls to conform to unrealistic body shapes and expectations," she says — a common criticism aimed at Barbie.
Indian Barbie is not a rousing success
Mattel did make an effort to adapt the doll for an Indian market. When Mattel launched Barbie in India in 1991, it was the familiar Western-looking blond-haired blue-eyed Barbie. Then in 1996, they rolled out Indian Barbie, with brown skin. She came either wearing a bright sari or a salwar kameez — a knee-length tunic over fitted trousers.
But the Indian Barbie was not popular. "Indian kids gravitated toward the white-skinned Barbie instead of the brown-skinned one because light-skinned women were considered more beautiful in India and an automatic choice," DSilva says.
She points out how even in Indian clothes, Barbie still had a body that did not represent real women in India or anywhere else — she was way too tall and way too thin.
Priti Nemani, an Indian American attorney living in Chicago, analyzed why Barbie failed so spectacularly in the Indian market in a research paper published in 2011. In addition to the unrealistic, impossibly thin appearance of the doll, she points out how other cultural factors were at play.
"We weren't seeing Indian features on Barbie," she says. "We were seeing white Barbies dipped in brown. And even those brown Barbies didn't last long on the shelves. The latest versions of the Indian Barbie have much lighter skin tone.
Meanwhile, even though blond Barbies sold well, Ken tanked in India. "Indian parents who wouldn't want their daughters in romantic relationships at such an early age weren't going to buy the boyfriend," Nemani says.
In spite of her initial misgivings, Sharan enjoyed the Barbie movie with her daughter, now 13, who especially liked the feminist overtones. Laasya loved the beginning, when they were told "Barbie has a great day everyday. Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him."
Barbie inspires a poem
There are other issues about Barbie in India. For many kids, the doll is too expensive.
Ankita Apurva, 26, a writer who grew up in a farming family in Ranchi, a city in the Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, recalls a childhood bereft of Barbies.
Her parents, who struggled to pay for a good education that they hoped would be her armor against bullying and discrimination, could not afford to buy their daughter a Barbie.
"They weren't in a position to splurge on fancy dolls like a Barbie," she says. She recalls feeling inferior for not owning one of these expensive dolls that would help her connect with other Barbie owners in her circle. It was especially hard for her at lunch when girls would boast about how many dolls they owned.
"I believe that even if children from marginalized communities manage to enter [private] institutions [for the privileged], there are certain social, cultural and economic symbols which are consciously and subconsciously deployed to mark them out, and Barbie, as loved as it is, is definitely one of them," she says.
Over the years, Apurva's family has grown stronger financially. When she saw the global resurgence of interest in Barbie now, she didn't feel angry or alienated, but it did bring back memories of desperately wanting to fit in – and not just because she didn't have a Barbie.
"Growing up, I rarely felt represented in literature or media. If pens or cameras turned toward us, they inadvertently counted us as data: dead bodies of farmers or survivors of violence of umpteen kinds."
As a girl from a farming family in Jharkhand, Apurva felt invisible. And so, she decided to express those emotions. She wrote a poem that she posted on Instagram, not to shame anyone who is privileged enough to own a Barbie but to comfort those who, like her, may have felt left out.
Here are some excerpts:
"Here's to the girls who do not get the Barbie craze,
...
girls who had parents who could not
or did not or choose not
to get them Barbie dolls
...
it's okay,
to not relate to any of it
...
what is not okay are friends ...
who intentionally make you
feel low by asking how many Barbies
you owned as a kid even as they
know you weren't privileged enough
to have them.
...
you are also not "too much" ...
if you feel
that Barbie is a colonial icon
legitimizing racial supremacy
while being a 'white feminist' trope
...
and once again
remember,
you are everything,
they are just Ken
Kamala Thiagarajan is a freelance journalist based in Madurai, Southern India. She reports on global health, science, and development, and her work has been published in the New York Times, The British Medical Journal, BBC, The Guardian and other outlets. You can find her on twitter @kamal_t
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson has helped create two milestones at the Women’s World Cup.
With her 48th-minute goal in the tournament opener against Norway, she led the co-host Football Ferns to their first win in six trips to the Women’s World Cup. She’s also one of at least 95 out members of the LGBTQ+ community competing in this year’s tournament, according to a count being kept by Outsports, a website that covers the LGBTQ+ sports.
The Ferns were greeted with a fan-made sign at their next match in Wellington: “Gay for soccer, gay for Wilkie,” it read.
The 95 out participants make up roughly 13% of the 736 total players at the Women’s World Cup, more than doubling the 40 players and coaches Outsports counted in 2019.
The 2023 tournament also is hosting the first openly trans and non-binary player in either a men’s or Women’s World Cup, Quinn of Canada.
“Last World Cup was so big, especially with the visibility of the U.S. women’s national team winning and (Megan Rapinoe) fighting with (Donald) Trump. So I think that was a huge year for LGBTQ+ visibility,” said Lindsey Freeman, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
“It’s just the ad hoc, fun culture of women’s soccer that you’re seeing in this World Cup,” said Freeman, who is in New Zealand conducting research on the topic.
Jim Buzinski, co-founder of Outsports, agreed. “In the Western world, it’s such a non-issue that it really just doesn’t get talked about,” he said. “And I think that’s in a good way.”
VISIBILITY
Prior to the start of the tournament, FIFA designated eight socially conscious armbands team captains could wear throughout the Women’s World Cup. The decision came after “One Love” armbands were denied to men’s teams in Qatar in 2022.
The armbands being used this year include anti-discriminatory sayings and multiple colors, but the rainbow version Germany wanted to use is not allowed. None of the available options explicitly mention LGBTQ+ rights.
The decision has led many players to express their support in more creative ways across Australia and New Zealand.
New Zealand midfielder Ali Riley was interviewed on the official Women’s World Cup broadcast after her team’s upset of Norway. Her painted fingernails, left hand in the colors of the pride flag and right hand as the trans flag, were clearly visible as she held her head and fought back tears.
“She’s such an advocate and she’s definitely someone who uses her platform in such a positive way. We are all so proud of her and the way she represents the LGBTQ+ community,” teammate CJ Bott said. “Good on her. We’re all backing her, and we all back the community as well.”
The Philippines, making its Women’s World Cup debut, took home its own historic win over New Zealand 1-0 thanks to the foot of Sarina Bolden. Bolden’s Instagram bio reads, “i just wanna have fun n b gay.”
Irish star Katie McCabe wowed fans with a goal directly from a corner kick. She’s also made tabloid news for her relationships with other players.
Thembi Kgatlana, who has scored in the tournament for South Africa, has a patch of her hair dyed rainbow colors.
“My personality is very big for me, and my hair has become a part of my personality,” Kgatlana said. “And I did this rainbow because I want to represent all the people that are part of the LGBTQ and cannot talk while in countries where they’re oppressed.”
FAN EXPERIENCE
Kristen Pariseau and her wife started a U.S. women’s national team supporters group on Facebook ahead of traveling to this year’s Women’s World Cup. Aside from some hateful users she blocked, it’s been “super LGBT friendly.”
She and her wife did not go to Qatar for the 2022 men’s World Cup to avoid referencing each other as friends and receiving questions on their sexuality. In New Zealand, she said she’s met many same-sex couples at games and while traveling around the country.
“Everywhere you turn, it’s like, ‘Oh, my wife, my girlfriend.’ It’s been so welcoming and open,” Pariseau said. “In a way, it is kind of cool to be where there’s a lot of other people like you.”
Kelsie Bozart took her own pride flag armband to the United States’ second match in Wellington, along with a pride scarf.
“If you look back a couple years, I feel like it just wasn’t really talked about or there just wasn’t much of a presence,” Bozart said. “But moving forward I feel like, especially for the U.S., they’ve done an amazing job of just incorporating pride and LGBTQ.”
NOT UNIVERSAL
Though this year’s tournament has highlighted vast gains for the LGBTQ+ community in women’s soccer, advocates feel there is still work to be done.
According to Buzinski and Outsports, there were at least 186 LGBTQ+ athletes at the Tokyo Olympics. Women outnumbered men by a 9:1 ratio. There also were no confirmed out players at the 2022 men’s World Cup.
“I think women’s sports have always been open,” Denmark striker Pernille Harder said, adding that there are many role models for women who want to come out.
Freeman said it would be good to see men feel the same level of comfort.
“What can happen in the women’s game, I would love to spill over to the men’s game,” she said. “Because obviously, there’s way more queer players in the men’s game and it’s just not safe for them to come out.
“If you want to say that you’re in an inclusive space, you really have to be an inclusive space,” Freeman added. “And I think that that includes also holding the World Cup in places where it’s fine to be a queer person.”
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Max Ralph is a student in John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.
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Contributing reporters included Joe Lister in Wellington and Rafaela Pontes in Auckland, students in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State, and Clay Witt in Sydney, Australia, a student at the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.
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