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How to Watch the Guardians vs. White Sox Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Josh Naylor and Andrew Vaughn will be among the star attractions when the Cleveland Guardians play the Chicago White Sox on Sunday at 2:10 PM ET, at Guaranteed Rate Field.
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Guardians vs. White Sox Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: NBCS-CHI
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Venue: Guaranteed Rate Field
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Guardians Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Guardians have hit 79 home runs this season, the lowest total in MLB action.
- Cleveland is 25th in MLB, slugging .384.
- The Guardians rank 14th in MLB with a .253 batting average.
- Cleveland has the No. 24 offense in baseball, scoring 4.2 runs per game (436 total runs).
- The Guardians rank 20th in baseball with an on-base percentage of .315.
- The Guardians strike out the least in MLB, averaging 6.9 per game.
- Cleveland's pitching staff ranks 28th in MLB with a collective eight strikeouts per nine innings.
- Cleveland has the seventh-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (3.88).
- Pitchers for the Guardians combine for the 17th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.275).
Guardians Probable Starting Pitcher
- Aaron Civale (4-2) gets the starting nod for the Guardians in his 13th start of the season. He has a 2.54 ERA in 71 2/3 innings pitched, with 54 strikeouts.
- His last time out came on Tuesday against the Kansas City Royals, when the right-hander went eight innings, surrendering one earned run while giving up five hits.
- Civale has recorded five quality starts this year.
- Civale is looking for his eighth straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.9 frames per appearance on the hill.
- In three of his 12 total appearances this season he has not surrendered an earned run.
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How to Watch the Marlins vs. Tigers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Spencer Torkelson will lead the Detroit Tigers into a matchup with Jon Berti and the Miami Marlins on Sunday at 1:40 PM ET, in the final game of a three-game series at LoanDepot park.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
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Marlins Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Marlins are third-worst in MLB action with 93 home runs.
- Miami is 22nd in baseball, slugging .397.
- The Marlins' .264 batting average is fourth-best in MLB.
- Miami has the No. 27 offense in baseball, scoring 4.1 runs per game (428 total runs).
- The Marlins' .320 on-base percentage ranks 14th in baseball.
- The Marlins strike out 8 times per game, the seventh-best mark in MLB.
- The 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Miami's pitching staff ranks fourth in the majors.
- Miami's 4.12 team ERA ranks 14th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Marlins combine for the 12th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.265).
Marlins Probable Starting Pitcher
- Jesus Luzardo (8-5 with a 3.22 ERA and 144 strikeouts in 120 1/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Marlins, his 22nd of the season.
- In his last time out on Sunday, the lefty went seven innings against the Colorado Rockies, giving up one earned run while surrendering four hits.
- Luzardo heads into the outing with 12 quality starts under his belt this season.
- Luzardo has put up 17 starts this season in which he pitched five or more innings.
- In four of his 21 total appearances this season he has not allowed an earned run.
Marlins Schedule
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Guardians vs. White Sox: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
Jose Ramirez and the Cleveland Guardians (52-53) will square off with Luis Robert and the Chicago White Sox (43-63) at Guaranteed Rate Field on Sunday, July 30. First pitch is set for 2:10 PM ET.
The Guardians are favored in this one, at -145, while the underdog White Sox have +120 odds to win. The matchup's over/under is set at 9 runs.
Guardians vs. White Sox Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: NBCS-CHI
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Venue: Guaranteed Rate Field
- Probable Pitchers: Aaron Civale - CLE (4-2, 2.54 ERA) vs Michael Kopech - CHW (4-9, 4.44 ERA)
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Guardians vs. White Sox Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
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Guardians vs. White Sox Betting Trends and Insights
- The Guardians have been favorites in 54 games this season and won 31 (57.4%) of those contests.
- The Guardians have gone 17-9 (winning 65.4% of their games) when playing as moneyline favorites of -145 or shorter.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 59.2% chance of a victory for Cleveland.
- The Guardians have a 3-4 record over the seven games they were a moneyline favorite in their last 10 matchups.
- In its last 10 outings (all 10 of them had set totals), Cleveland and its opponents combined to hit the over five times.
- The White Sox have been victorious in 23, or 34.3%, of the 67 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- This season, the White Sox have been victorious nine times in 30 chances when named as an underdog of at least +120 or worse on the moneyline.
- In nine games as underdogs over the last 10 matchups, the White Sox have a record of 3-6.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Chicago and its opponents are 5-5-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
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Marlins vs. Tigers: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
Luis Arraez will lead the charge for the Miami Marlins (56-49) on Sunday, July 30, when they square off against Spencer Torkelson and the Detroit Tigers (47-58) at LoanDepot park at 1:40 PM ET.
Bookmakers list the Marlins as -150 moneyline favorites, while giving the underdog Tigers +125 moneyline odds to win. The over/under is 7 runs for the matchup.
Marlins vs. Tigers Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV: BSFL
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
- Probable Pitchers: Jesus Luzardo - MIA (8-5, 3.22 ERA) vs Tarik Skubal - DET (1-1, 3.71 ERA)
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Marlins vs. Tigers Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
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Marlins vs. Tigers Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Marlins have won 31 out of the 48 games, or 64.6%, in which they've been favored.
- The Marlins have gone 21-5 (winning 80.8% of their games) when they have played as moneyline favorites of -150 or shorter.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that Miami has a 60% chance to win.
- The Marlins played as the moneyline favorite in seven of their last 10 games, and finished 2-5 in those matchups.
- Over its last 10 matchups, Miami and its opponents combined to hit the over on the run total four times (all 10 games had set totals).
- The Tigers have been victorious in 34, or 40.5%, of the 84 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- The Tigers have a mark of 24-29 in contests where oddsmakers favor them by +125 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Tigers have played as underdogs in seven of their past 10 games and have gone 2-5 in those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Detroit and its opponents are 4-5-1 when it comes to hitting the over.
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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Guardians vs. White Sox Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:08 AM EDT|Updated: 57 minutes ago
The Chicago White Sox (43-63) host the Cleveland Guardians (52-53) at 2:10 PM ET on Sunday.
The probable starters are Aaron Civale (4-2) for the Guardians and Michael Kopech (4-9) for the White Sox.
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Guardians vs. White Sox Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: NBCS-CHI
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Venue: Guaranteed Rate Field
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- Probable Pitchers: Civale - CLE (4-2, 2.54 ERA) vs Kopech - CHW (4-9, 4.44 ERA)
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Guardians Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Aaron Civale
- Civale (4-2) will take to the mound for the Guardians and make his 13th start of the season.
- The right-hander gave up one earned run and allowed five hits in eight innings pitched against the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday.
- The 28-year-old has pitched in 12 games this season with a 2.54 ERA and 6.8 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .212.
- He has earned a quality start five times in 12 starts this season.
- Civale has seven starts in a row of five innings or more.
- In 12 appearances this season, he has finished three without allowing an earned run.
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White Sox Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Michael Kopech
- Kopech (4-9 with a 4.44 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 97 1/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the White Sox, his 20th of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance came on Wednesday against the Chicago Cubs, when he went five innings, surrendering four earned runs while giving up nine hits.
- The 27-year-old has amassed an ERA of 4.44, with 9.9 strikeouts per nine innings in 19 games this season. Opponents are hitting .224 against him.
- Kopech is looking to secure his sixth quality start of the year.
- Kopech is trying for his third straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.1 innings per start.
- He has made three appearances this season in which he did not give up an earned run.
Michael Kopech vs. Guardians
- He will face a Guardians offense that ranks 24th in the league with 436 total runs scored while batting .253 as a squad. His opponent has a collective .384 slugging percentage (25th in MLB action) and has hit a total of 79 home runs (30th in the league).
- In seven innings over one appearance against the Guardians this season, Kopech has a 0 ERA and a 0.429 WHIP while his opponents are hitting .091.
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CHICO — For as long as they can remember, Cesare and Cosimo Brandizzi have been fascinated with flight. They’ve traveled around Europe, radiating out from their home in Rome, and regularly jet into Northern California to see relatives in Chico. During their visit this month, they volunteered as docents at the Chico Air Museum, following the footsteps of older brother Giovanni.
Giovanni Brandizzi studies aeronautical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute in New York. Two summers ago, he volunteered at the museum and, as a reward, flew around town in a local pilot’s plane. Cesare, 17, and Cosimo, 15, got their chance Thursday morning before their second-to-last shift.
Harold Schooler, who operates Schooler Flying Company out of Chico Regional Airport, took the teen brothers up in his 1929 biplane. The pilot and passengers all wore leather flight caps for protection from the elements in their open-air seats. After landing, the Brandizzis said the trip was better than they expected.
“Much better,” Cesare said.
The museum was happy to offer the opportunity.
“It’s always great to have brothers working here,” Docent Coordinator Mark Koch said during the flight. “They challenge each other a bit, keep an eye on each other. It’s wonderful when you get people from other countries — we don’t get them too often.
“They’re very good workers and friendly people, exactly what we can use here at the museum.”
Fellow volunteers agree. One approached their mother, Melissa Scheinuk, and praised the teens for their politeness. Ed Hudson, an adult docent, called them “amazing.”
“We had them do a small repair on our F-15 (fighter jet) one morning, and they spent the entire shift replacing a panel to the point where it almost looked like it was built for the aircraft,” he continued. “They shaped it, painted it, put in the right screws — and they did it pretty much on their own.
“Their love of aviation really shows.”
Chico connection
Scheinuk’s family brings her and her children to Chico. (Along with Giovanni, Cesare and Cosimo, there’s Lucrezia, who studies finance at Case Western University in Ohio.) Scheinuk hails from New Orleans, but her mother and sister moved here.
The brothers’ school in Italy requires community service. Looking for options while here in 2021, Giovanni found the Chico Air Museum and applied. He was 18 at the time and worked two months, coinciding with the museum’s reopening post-pandemic. This summer, for Cesare and Cosimo, the place made sense.
At home, Scheinuk said, “there’s nothing to do like this. It’s such an amazing opportunity. For them to just touch a big airplane is a big deal. And this (flight) is like off the charts.”
Along with the bits of maintenance and clean-up work, the Brandizzis conducted tours, particularly for children. Cosimo is particularly interested in aeronautical engineering, like his oldest brother — “in fact, I’ve designed airplanes at home,” he said, with physical models and on computer simulators. Cesare said he likes “the flying part and also the technical side.”
Schooler provided up-close exposure to “the flying part.” Around 8:30 a.m., they strapped into their seats and taxied from the rear of the museum onto the runway. They returned a half-hour later with broad smiles.
The flight culminated a month of new frontiers. They concluded their volunteering with a shift Friday, ahead of heading back to Rome with a deeper love of aeronautics — thanks to what Cesare called “a front view” of aviation.
From the museum, Cosimo said, “you can see so many planes a day take off” — to which Cesare added: “Also, you’re surrounded by so many pieces of history that it’s definitely an experience.”
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The House Republicans who craft the conference’s government funding bills are showing signs of frustration as hard-line conservatives pressure leadership for further cuts to spending that some worry could be too aggressive.
Some of the 12 Appropriations subcommittee chairs — the so-called cardinals — told reporters that they are struggling to see where those additional cuts could come from, as September’s shutdown deadline looms.
“I just don’t see the wisdom in trying to further cut to strengthen our hand. I don’t know how that strengthens our hand,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), a House Appropriations subcommittee chairman, said of conservatives’ push to further cut the already-scaled-back spending bills.
“I do think it puts some of our members in a very difficult spot, particularly those in tough districts, because they’re going to be taking some votes that become problematic,” he added.
The House left Washington for a long summer recess Thursday after being forced to punt a bill to fund agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.
Conservatives are dug in on their demand for steeper spending cuts, to the chagrin of moderates who are wary of slashing funding even more. The chamber has passed just one appropriations bill, funding military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The internal divisions are gripping the party as time is running out: The House has just 12 days in September to move the remaining 11 appropriations measures and hash out their disagreements with the Senate, which is marking up its spending bills at higher levels, setting the scene for a hectic fall that could bring the U.S. to the brink of a shutdown.
Those dynamics are putting GOP appropriators in a bind, leaving them searching for ways to appease conservative requests without gutting their spending bills.
“We’ve done a lot of cuts, a lot of cuts,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) told The Hill this week. “And so if it’s cuts just for cut’s sake, I don’t agree with it. But if it’s something that we can do without, that’s fine.”
‘Not a lot of wiggle room left’
Republican appropriators in the House announced earlier this year that they would mark up their bills for fiscal 2024 at fiscal 2022 levels, as leaders sought to placate conservatives who thought the debt ceiling deal struck by President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) earlier this year didn’t do enough to curb spending.
The Senate is crafting its bills more in line with the budget caps agreed to in the deal, but House Republicans are already fuming about a bipartisan deal in the upper chamber that would allow for more than $13 billion in additional emergency spending on top of those levels.
House GOP negotiators also said they would pursue clawing back more than $100 billion in old funding that was allocated for Democratic priorities without GOP support in the previous Congress.
While that move drew support from hard-line conservatives, the right flank was far from pleased when it heard appropriators planned to repurpose that old funding — known as rescissions — to plus-up the spending bills.
In a letter to McCarthy earlier this month, a group of hard-line conservatives called for all 12 appropriations bills to be in line with fiscal 2022 spending levels “without the use of reallocated rescissions to increase discretionary spending above that top-line.”
Otherwise, the 21 lawmakers threatened, they would vote against the measures. But that request could prove difficult for GOP appropriators to fulfill.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), chairman of the panel that proposes funding for the Department of State and foreign operations, said that appropriators are already “dramatically reducing spending,” suggesting that there are not too many remaining areas to trim from.
“My bill is below the 2016 levels,” he said, later adding, “When you’re below the 2016 level — and we’re still confronting China — I think there’s not a lot of wiggle room left.”
“It’s a challenge, but I think we’ll get through it. I really do,” he added.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who heads the subcommittee that oversees funding for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior, scoffed at the idea of even steeper cuts to his bill.
“Then you just drop it on the floor and stomp on it. What else do you do with it?” he told reporters. “You can’t make logical cuts in there.”
Republicans appropriators are voicing optimism that the conference will be able to sort out its differences on spending, but some also hope their levels will stick — even though they include rescissions.
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) — whose panel handles funding for the Department of Energy, which is proposing offsetting billions of dollars in spending with clawbacks — said it would be “extremely difficult” to craft his bill without the rescinded funds.
“And given our priorities in my bill, national defense with the nuclear weapons portfolio, nuclear cleanup, Army Corps including, all the community-directed fundings, I feel good about my bill, and I hope my numbers hold,” he said.
“Because it’s gonna have to be in negotiations with the Senate and the White House as well,” he added.
Womack — whose subcommittee crafts funding for the IRS and the Treasury Department — said he doesn’t think “moving the goalposts on these numbers is helpful in strengthening our ability to negotiate with the Senate.”
August preparations for a busy September
Frustrations among appropriators are bubbling up as Congress inches closer to the fall, when lawmakers are facing a Sept. 30 deadline to approve funding or risk a government shutdown.
With time running out, some House lawmakers say conversations may continue over the long August recess to try to hash out remaining differences.
“We’ll have to see,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said when asked about potential plans for talks between leaders and House Freedom Caucus members over the break. “I mean, we got a lot of work to do.”
“I think a lot of work [has] got to be done behind the scenes,” he said. “If not, you know, here — You gotta beg the question about whether we should be gone for six weeks. We should be getting our job done.”
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) echoed that sentiment, saying “I would think so” when asked if lawmakers will have conversations over the break.
Adding to the August workload, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) suggested earlier this week that bicameral negotiations could take place over the weeks-long recess as lawmakers stare down the shutdown deadline.
Not all Republicans, however, are viewing a shutdown as a risk.
During a House Freedom Caucus press conference this week, Good said “we should not fear a government shutdown,” claiming that “most of what we do up here is bad anyway; most of what we do up here hurts the American people.”
But that perspective does not jive with the view of McCarthy, who declared Thursday: “I don’t want the government to shut down.”
Multiple Republicans are ultimately expecting Congress to eventually pass what’s known as a continuing resolution (CR), or a measure that temporarily allows the government to be funded at the previous fiscal year’s levels, to prevent a lapse at the end of September.
But they also understand the task could be difficult in the GOP-led chamber, where Republicans aren’t happy about the idea of continuing funding at the current levels — which were last set when Democrats held control of Congress.
“I think there’s a very good chance that we’ll see a CR, but I know there’s a lot of work to get a CR done,” Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), another appropriator, said Thursday, noting there are “a lot of members that don’t want CRs that are tired of them.”
But Aderholt suggested a CR could notch sufficient GOP backing if there’s a larger plan in sight that the party can support.
“The Speaker’s been very good about having a plan,” he said, adding, “I think that’s what he’s good at, and I’m optimistic that he can come up with something.”
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) – You can give the fans and air conditioners a break today as the heat and humidity has moved out! The best day of the weekend is ahead for Sunday with some refreshing temperatures. Details are below…
It was a damp start to the weekend, but how much rain fell across Central New York Saturday? Click here to find out.
Cooler Sunday
Even with a good deal of sunshine today, we expect temperatures only to warm into the mid to upper 70s Sunday afternoon which will only be the third time we haven’t warmed to at least 80 degrees in Syracuse this month! The last time Syracuse felt a high below 80 degrees was all the way back on July 10th when the high only made it to 69 due to the rain and clouds that day.
More importantly, the dew points drop into the 50s which will feel very refreshing! Sunday certainly is the pick day for anything you may have planned outdoors this weekend.
Stays refreshing to end July & start August
It looks like this change to cooler and less humid air is going to last for several days too. There is another cold front coming through on Monday with a few showers and perhaps a thunderstorm during the late morning and afternoon. Highs to start the new week are near 75 with low humidity levels.
In the wake of this front is another pleasant, even slightly cooler air mass taking us into the middle of next week and the beginning of August.
The heat and humidity will be making a return for Thursday and especially Friday as winds shift to a southwest flow. This will bring the summer-like warmth back into central New York.
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MIDTOWN EAST, Manhattan (WABC) -- New York City is searching for more migrant housing locations after the Roosevelt Hotel completely filled up.
The Mayor's Office says more than 93,000 asylum seekers have come through the city's intake system since last spring.
On Sunday morning, asylum seekers could be seen leaving the Roosevelt and getting on MTA buses to head out to the Bronx.
Over the weekend, a line wrapped around Vanderbilt Avenue, as dozens of asylum seekers waited for a chance to get into the city's processing center at the Roosevelt Hotel.
Many cried out for the bare necessities, such as food, as they waited in the humidity and rain.
In the thick of sweltering heat, families boarded a bus provided by the city for some relief - one family from Ecuador still had some burning questions.
"I don't know where they will give us shelter," they said.
Their journey here hasn't been easy and many say this wasn't what they expected.
"It's just a little chaotic. I come into work today and you can't move. They're in front of the restaurant, they're sitting down. It's not their fault, but it's a little crazy," said Zelka Kalaj, a worker at a nearby pizzeria.
The city says more asylum seekers are expected arrive here throughout the next couple of weeks.
"Children and families continue to be prioritized and are found a bed every night. While we at least offered all adults a temporary place to wait off the sidewalks last night, some may have chosen to sleep outside and, in all honesty, New Yorkers may continue to see that more and more as hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive each day," the mayor's office said.
Officials are encouraging migrant to try to take placement outside the city once it becomes available.
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Sunday Weather At Your Fingertips
East Texas (KLTV/KTRE) - Happy Sunday, East Texas! We’ve got another very hot day in store for us as temperatures will rocket up into the upper 90s and lower 100s once again. Unfortunately, the muggy meter has been rising in tandem with our temperatures and now our heat index values will reflect that with “feels like” temps reaching upwards of 105° to 109°. Please take this heat seriously and drink lots of water throughout the day as well as watching children, pets, and the elderly closely. Dangerous heat persists well into the upcoming work week as higher pressure continues to build in directly overhead, leading to highs in a range of 100°-105° Monday through Wednesday. There is some potential light at the end of the tunnel, however, as our “heat dome” will begin to shift further west by this Thursday, which could allow a weak cold front or two to arrive sometime next weekend. In the meantime, please be safe with these hotter than average temperatures and be very mindful of any potential spark you may create as fire danger is currently fairly high for East Texas.
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How to Watch the Astros vs. Rays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Kyle Tucker and the Houston Astros will meet Yandy Diaz and the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday at Minute Maid Park, at 2:10 PM ET.
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Astros vs. Rays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: SportsNet SW
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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Astros Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Astros average 1.3 home runs per game to rank ninth in MLB action with 135 total home runs.
- Houston ranks 10th in MLB with a .417 slugging percentage.
- The Astros rank 16th in MLB with a .250 batting average.
- Houston has the No. 10 offense in MLB play, scoring 4.8 runs per game (504 total runs).
- The Astros' .319 on-base percentage ranks 15th in baseball.
- The Astros strike out 7.9 times per game to rank fifth in baseball.
- Houston's pitching staff ranks sixth in MLB with a collective 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Houston has a 3.81 team ERA that ranks third among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Astros have the 13th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.270).
Astros Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Astros are sending Brandon Bielak (5-5) to the mound for his 13th start of the season. He is 5-5 with a 3.62 ERA and 55 strikeouts through 69 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last appeared on Tuesday against the Texas Rangers, when he went 4 2/3 innings, allowing three earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Bielak has two quality starts under his belt this year.
- Bielak will try to secure his 10th game of five or more innings pitched this season. He averages 5.3 innings per appearance.
- He has had two appearances this season in which he held his opponents to zero earned runs.
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Washington (CNN) — A federal judge in Florida on Friday dismissed a $475 million defamation lawsuit former President Donald Trump brought against CNN that accused the network of defaming him by using the phrase “the big lie” and allegedly comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
District Judge Raag Singhal, a 2019 appointee of Trump’s, said that use of the phrase or similar statements are opinion that don’t meet the standard for defamation.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people. No reasonable viewer could (or should) plausibly make that reference,” Singhal wrote.
“Being “Hitler-like” is not a verifiable statement of fact that would support a defamation claim,” Singhal added.
The lawsuit is one of many Trump has filed against media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post, objecting to coverage during his presidency and in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election he lost to Joe Biden.
Trump had accused CNN of a “campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander” and of creating a “false and incendiary association” between him and Hitler.
“Like Trump and CNN personalities … the Court finds Nazi references in the political discourse (made by whichever ‘side’) to be odious and repugnant,” Singhal wrote. “But bad rhetoric is not defamation when it does not include false statements of fact.”
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement Saturday: “We agree with the highly respected judge’s findings that CNN’s statements about President Trump are repugnant.”
CNN declined to comment on the decision.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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Braves vs. Brewers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Austin Riley and the Atlanta Braves will look to out-hit William Contreras and the Milwaukee Brewers at Truist Park on Sunday at 1:35 PM ET.
The Braves are the favorite in this one, at -210, while the underdog Brewers have +170 odds to win. The over/under is 11.5 runs for the matchup (with -110 odds to go over and -110 odds on the under).
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Braves vs. Brewers Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:35 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
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Braves Recent Betting Performance
- In 10 games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Braves have a record of 5-5.
- When it comes to hitting the over, the Braves and their opponents are 5-5-0 in their last 10 games with a total.
- Bookmakers have not set a spread for any of the Braves' last 10 games.
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Braves Betting Records & Stats
- The Braves have been the moneyline favorite 89 total times this season. They've gone 58-31 in those games.
- Atlanta has gone 20-8 (winning 71.4% of its games) when it has played as moneyline favorites of -210 or shorter.
- The implied moneyline probablility in this matchup gives the Braves a 67.7% chance to win.
- Atlanta has combined with opponents to hit the over on the total 54 times this season for a 54-45-3 record against the over/under.
- The Braves have an 8-8-0 record against the spread this season.
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How to Watch the Braves vs. Brewers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Ronald Acuna Jr. and the Atlanta Braves meet William Contreras and the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday at 1:35 PM ET.
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Braves vs. Brewers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:35 PM ET
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
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Braves Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Atlanta Braves lead the league with 195 total home runs, averaging 1.9 per game.
- Atlanta leads MLB with a .495 slugging percentage this season, hammering out 383 extra-base hits.
- The Braves rank second in MLB with a .270 batting average.
- Atlanta scores the third-most runs in baseball (575 total, 5.6 per game).
- The Braves rank second in baseball with an on-base percentage of .339.
- The Braves strike out 8.2 times per game to rank sixth in MLB.
- The 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Atlanta's pitching staff ranks fifth in the majors.
- Atlanta has a 3.87 team ERA that ranks sixth among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Braves have the 15th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.273).
Braves Probable Starting Pitcher
- AJ Smith-Shawver makes his first start of the season for the Braves.
- The righty is pitching in his MLB debut. He's 20 years old.
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Braves vs. Brewers: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
Ronald Acuna Jr. and the Atlanta Braves (66-36), who are going for a series sweep, will host Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers (57-48) at Truist Park on Sunday, July 30. The game will begin at 1:35 PM ET.
The favored Braves have -210 moneyline odds against the underdog Brewers, who are listed at +170. The over/under for the matchup is set at 11.5 runs.
Braves vs. Brewers Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:35 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
- Probable Pitchers: AJ Smith-Shawver - ATL (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs Colin Rea - MIL (5-4, 4.53 ERA)
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Braves vs. Brewers Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
Here's a look at the odds, run line and over/under for this matchup available at individual sportsbooks.
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Braves vs. Brewers Betting Trends and Insights
- The Braves have been favorites in 89 games this season and won 58 (65.2%) of those contests.
- The Braves have a record of 20-8 when playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -210 or shorter (71.4% winning percentage).
- The bookmakers' moneyline implies a 67.7% chance of a victory for Atlanta.
- The Braves have a 5-5 record over the 10 games they were a moneyline favorite in their last 10 matchups.
- In its last 10 matchups (all 10 of them had set totals), Atlanta and its opponents combined to hit the over five times.
- The Brewers have come away with 25 wins in the 51 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- The Brewers have played as an underdog of +170 or more just one time this year and came away with a loss in that game.
- The Brewers have played as underdogs in six of their past 10 games and won two of those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Milwaukee and its opponents are 3-7-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
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Jul 29, 2023; Cumberland, Georgia, USA; Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. (13) runs against the Milwaukee Brewers during the eighth inning at Truist Park. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
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Jul 29, 2023; Cumberland, Georgia, USA; Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. (13) runs against the Milwaukee Brewers during the eighth inning at Truist Park. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
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Jul 29, 2023; Cumberland, Georgia, USA; Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. (13) watches after hitting a single against the Milwaukee Brewers during the first inning at Truist Park. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
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ATLANTA -- When folks were wondering whether Ronald Acuña Jr. might steal 50 bases this year, they should have used “before August” as a qualifier.
Acuña sparked yet another first-inning eruption and took another step toward a potential 40-40 season as the Braves rolled to an 11-5 win over the Brewers. The All-Star outfielder highlighted a three-hit night with a homer, tallied his 50th stolen base and neared the franchise record for first-inning runs.
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The window into Eva Mendes' world closed just a bit tighter over the past few years.
The reliably private actress, designer and mother of two was already not one to post hardly anything about her longtime partner, Ryan Gosling, or their two daughters, Esmerelda, 8, and Amada, 7. But after a stretch that was rough for almost everyone, and which at times saw the troll crowd out in full force, she pared back considerably on the Instagram content.
Not usually one to wade into the fray, in early 2021 Mendes clapped back at a commenter who had speculated that she wasn't posting much because she'd had "work done" and was unhappy with the results.
"I'm posting less because I really want to be present for my family," the actress and designer chimed in. "My little ones need me and posting takes up too much time. As far as getting work done, I'll do that whenever I please. But no, that's not the reason. The reason is I personally cannot juggle family and social media."
Well, unless it's to call out the man in her life—"Mi Hombre, Mi Vida, Mi Amor"—who's definitely more than just Ken.
As her daughters got a bit older, Mendes—who welcomed both children without any follow-my-journey fanfare whatsoever—had seemed increasingly comfortable sharing at least a few details about her private world, such as when she divulged on The Kelly Clarkson Show in October 2019 that Gosling knew his way around the kitchen.
Looking at a photo of the two of them from the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where they were promoting the movie that brought them together, Mendes amusingly recalled, "That's literally me going, like, 'I'm not in love with him! I'm not in love with him! What? I'm not in love.'"
And when Kelly Clarkson fawned over how great Mendes looked in the shot, Mendes leaned over the couch, rested her chin in her hand, and sighed, "Look at him, though."
So...romance alive—check!
Not that it was news that Mendes was sprung on the Oscar-nominated actor, but the first rule of their relationship for years was that they didn't talk about their relationship.
They did go out—to parties and restaurants, of course, and it's practically mandatory in Los Angeles that actors hike—but the couple's visible public life since they met on the set of The Place Beyond the Pines in 2011 takes up a very tiny portion of the Cloud.
Though they mixed business with pleasure early on, once they had moved beyond the Pines, Mendes and Gosling quickly reverted to being one of the most elusive pairs in Hollywood, giving up nothing about their romance.
Knowing the cat would be out of the bag the second she stepped outside, Mendes steered clear of cameras for months leading up to the births of Esmeralda in 2014 and Amada in 2016, meaning no one outside the family's inner circle even knew that she was pregnant until about seven months along, both times.
Throughout, while he was as affable and meme-able as always, and sweetly acknowledged his children's arrivals, Gosling was reluctant to go into detail about Mendes.
"I know that I'm with the person I'm supposed to be with," he tersely told ET Canada in 2015. Asked what it was that drew him to her, he replied, "That she's Eva Mendes. There's nothing else I'm looking for."
They were on the same page about what they were looking for in an S.O., meanwhile, because Mendes told Women's Health in April 2019 that having kids was "the furthest thing from my mind," until she met the one person who fit the bill. "Ryan Gosling happened," she explained. "I mean, falling in love with him. Then it made sense for me to have...not kids, but his kids. It was very specific to him."
Then, of course, she was happily all in.
Ironically, in 2011, Gosling told The Times in London that he'd actually like to be making babies, but wasn't, so he'd just keep doing movies for the time being. He had Crazy, Stupid, Love, Drive and The Ides of March all come out that year.
"When someone comes along, I don't think I'll be able to do both and I'm fine with that," he added. "I'll make movies until I make babies."
And yet somehow, while making babies he also made The Big Short, The Nice Guys and La La Land, while Mendes hasn't been in a movie since Gosling directed her in Lost River, which they made in 2013 and was released in 2015.
Make no mistake, though, that's what Mendes wanted, and she has relished being a mom first and foremost.
"I don't like saying 'take me away,' but essentially that's what work does," the Hitch star told Latina in the summer of 2016. "I think it can be very, very healthy if it's something that feels worthwhile."
But "right now I feel very fortunate to be home with my kids. I feel so lucky, and I'm just taking advantage of that."
Still, Gosling, close to the vest as he may play it, astutely thought to give credit where it was due in a very public setting.
"I would like to try and thank one person properly and say that while I was singing and dancing and playing piano, and having one of the best experiences I ever had on a film," Gosling said in January 2017 while accepting his Golden Globe for lead actor in a musical or comedy for La La Land, "my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer.
"If she hadn't taken all that on so that I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me today—so," he looked intently into the camera, "sweetheart, thank you. To my daughters, Amada and Esmeralda, I love you." (And then he dedicated his award to the memory of Eva's brother, Juan Carlos Méndez Jr., who died in April 2016, 12 days before Amada was born.)
In the moment, that was an unprecedented glimpse behind closed doors from Gosling, who since he got together with Mendes has usually preferred to talk about literally anything other than his private life in interviews. Asked about Christmas presents for Mendes and the kids in 2016 on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Gosling charmingly pivoted to saying he wanted to get a new Roomba to help out his existing Roomba, because he felt so bad that the first one was always tirelessly cleaning.
So for the most part, they can rest assured that their love story remains all their own.
Mendes has seemingly been inclined to talk about family life a little more than she did when she was a brand-new mom.
In 2020, she took to Instagram to share a candid selfie of what "full on mom mode" really looked like mid-COVID-19 pandemic. "I've graduated from my man's sweats to a robe. All day. File under: stopped caring for now," she captioned the shot. "These days my kids are getting my full on attention. It's challenging for sure but they need me now more than ever."
That was still the case in 2023 when Mendes joked she'd become "a chauffeur, a water girl" and "a wiper-downer" when her two girls become "sweaty all over each other." Initially, she confided on a July 5 Instagram Story, "this summer was supposed to be easy. I was like, 'Bring boredom back.'"
The urge to connect with other moms is the real deal.
Though Mendes' Instagram has largely remained a Gosling-and-kids-free zone, she was inspired to crack the window into her home life open—because what mom can keep from sharing anecdotes about the gamut of child-raising experiences, from spit-ups and sleep schedules to Halloween and birthday parties, for long?
Clarkson asked Mendes when she realized, since pressing pause on acting, that she had picked "the way harder job?"
"Every day," Mendes replied. "And people are so sweet, they really try to, like warn you, prep you when you're pregnant—but nobody can prep you. Nobody. And nobody told me it was really going to be a job. And a job that I needed an incredible amount of skills for—like in different areas! A chauffeur, a cook, a personal assistant to an abusive boss," she deadpanned. "And they're not grateful! Oh my god," she turned to the audience, "do they get grateful? Does it happen at some point?"
And so Mendes and Clarkson, also a mother of two, had a good laugh about the joys and bittersweet hilarity of parenting. "And any other profession you would need to take a test, or pass tests," Mendes added. "The only test I had to pass was a pregnancy test."
Asked what was the most difficult part of it all, she said with a smile, "The amount of snacks I have to carry with me all day long...I even need to take food in the car to go to the market!"
Clarkson was feeling all of this. "We are going to get along so well on this playdate," she marveled.
But, as the ladies apologized to each other profusely for the reason why they had yet to have that playdate, they're both super busy.
In November 2019, Mendes celebrated the launch of her New York & Company Holiday Collection, the latest offering from her signature line, which she is also the face of—and E! News wanted to know if her daughters have inherited their mom's interest in fashion yet.
Clothing-wise, "I kind of let them do anything," Mendes told E! News during a sneak peek at her collection held at La Descarga, a Cuban-themed nightspot in Los Angeles.
"If they want to wear jammies to dinner, I let them do that," she shared, "as long as its appropriate to the weather outside. I kind of let them do whatever they want when it comes to how they're dressed. I never force them into a dress, I never do that. I just don't."
"Because," Mendes continued, "I remember that feeling and I didn't like it! And my mother forced me into dresses all the time—I mean, not physically forced." She laughed. "But she'd always be like, 'you have to wear a dress for this!' And I was like, 'I don't want to wear a dress for that!' So I don't push the dress, I just kind of go, 'What do you guys want to wear? Great.' Or, 'no it's too cold you can't wear that.' That's where I get strict."
Utterly relatable.
Mendes' mom (who is also Eva) remains one of her closest confidantes, meanwhile, and in hindsight the designer appreciates the style aesthetic that Eva Pérez Suárez was trying to pass on to her as a child. (Though she openly wished the elder Eva had saved more of her on-point pieces from back in the day.)
"We didn't have any money, so she was very limited," Mendes recalled. "But she never left the house without her hair set, lipstick—old school, you know? Always looked put together but really it was a hand-me-down or something she had for 20 years already, so she'd make it work by accessorizing it."
And now Mendes' business is helping women look—and, perhaps even more importantly, feel—put together.
She said that she and her mom were teaching her girls Spanish, and since her dad, Juan Carlos Méndez, "still doesn't even speak English," Esmeralda and Amada would also practice their español with their abuelo.
"He's been here for so long!" Mendes, whose parents emigrated from Cuba to Miami, where she was born, told E! News. "I remember thinking it was uncool when I was in high school and now I've totally crossed over and I'm like, 'Dad, this is so cool. This is pretty badass!'"
They usually celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas locally, and the Gosling family visits from Canada.
"And it's just a big fun party," Mendes described a typical Gosling-Mendes holiday extravaganza. "It kind of always feels like a holiday because we get together so often...but the traditions are pretty basic. It's just a lot of food, maybe someone gets mad at someone else, maybe someone ends up crying—and definitely ends up making up—and then we're celebrating."
She laughed at the thought. "That's pretty much it. And usually it's me and my sisters that fall into that category. Or me and my mom—I'll tell my mom she can't have a second serving and then she'll get mad at me...She can't have certain things for health reasons so I'll let her have a little bit and then that'll start something. But it's fun, it's what I call 'fun fighting.'"
It's more "like bickering," Mendes added. "There's always some kind of that, or someone shows up super late and someone gets mad at them because they missed the first portion of dinner, but it's so fun. It's just part of the holiday drama."
So that was the sort of stuff going on behind closed doors. But there's no need to hold your breath for a glowing Father's Day tribute to Gosling or the whole family wearing matching pajamas next to the Christmas tree. (Besides, Mendes told E! that, while matching for the holidays was adorable, she hadn't yet tried it at home.)
"I have always had a clear boundary when it comes to my man and my kids," Mendes explained to an Instagram commenter in April 2020 when asked, if she was so uncertain of what to post with the world gone haywire, why not just share some family photos? "I'll talk about them of course, with limits, but I won't post pictures of our daily life. And since my children are still so little and don't understand what posting their image really means, I don't have their consent. And I won't post their image until they're old enough to give me consent. As far as Ryan and I, it just works for us this way, to stay private."
Mendes and Gosling can't help that they simply like being at home with each other and their children.
"My kids are growing up so fast I need to keep an eye on the clock in a way I never used to," Gosling told British GQ in late 2021, time on his mind at a Tag Heuer event. (Fitting that Mendes gave him a watch for his first Father's Day.)
Mendes has talked about how agonizing it could be just leaving for work for the day because, as much as she enjoys producing her clothing line, those are hours spent away from the kids. "Oh my God, nobody warns you about the guilt that you feel when you do work!" she told E! News back in 2017. "I'm all for, obviously, taking care of myself—that's how I can take care of them, of course—but that guilt that's just kind of always there..." She sighed. "It's like, 'Ugh, this is going to be there forever now.'"
At least she and Gosling feel less as if they're just frantically trying to keep two humans clean and fed, rinse, repeat—but it's a process.
"We're just starting to get out of survival mode," Mendes told Women's Health in 2019.
In 2021, Gosling admitted to GQ that the girls' formative ages made it a "tough time" for them to be away from other kids and most family members during quarantine. "So, we did our best to entertain them. I think Eva and I did more acting in quarantine than we have in our whole careers."
Well, Mendes had told E! News pre-pandemic that she was open to getting back into the game, if she found the right project.
"I just think now that I'm older and that I'm a mother, I would obviously choose my roles differently," she said. "I'm just a walking example for these girls and I take that very seriously, so it would have to be something that feels appropriate and that would still be fun for me. It's a lot of parameters, you know? But yes, I would be very excited."
And though she couldn't predict that she'd one day be co-starring with her in-house leading man in a 24/7 production of "The Pandemic Chronicles," at the time Mendes was 100-percent down to work with Gosling again.
"My most fun experience was being on set with him when he was directing," she said. "It was really so creatively satisfying being in it together, and he's such an amazing director. I would love that experience again, for sure."
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A driver was trapped and had to be rescued from a vehicle following a scary collision in Philadelphia's Wissinoming neighborhood.
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Consumer demand for speed and convenience drives labor unrest among workers in Hollywood and at UPS
NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single-digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and television shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single-digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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Associated Press video journalist Leslie Ambriz contributed from Los Angeles.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Rockies vs. Athletics on July 30, 2023
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 6:50 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Player props can be found for Ryan McMahon and Brent Rooker, among others, when the Colorado Rockies host the Oakland Athletics at Coors Field on Sunday at 3:10 PM ET.
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Rockies vs. Athletics Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 3:10 PM ET
- Where: Coors Field in Denver, Colorado
- How to Watch on TV: SportsNet RM
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MLB Props Today: Colorado Rockies
Ryan McMahon Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -278)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -141)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +155)
McMahon Stats
- McMahon has 94 hits with 21 doubles, three triples, 16 home runs, 45 walks and 48 RBI. He's also stolen five bases.
- He has a .255/.337/.458 slash line so far this year.
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Jurickson Profar Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +180)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -145)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +155)
Profar Stats
- Jurickson Profar has 86 hits with 21 doubles, two triples, seven home runs, 40 walks and 36 RBI. He's also stolen one base.
- He has a .243/.325/.373 slash line so far this season.
- Profar brings a three-game streak with at least one hit into this one. During his last five outings he is batting .300 with a double, three walks and two RBI.
Profar Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: Oakland Athletics
Brent Rooker Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -125)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +360)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Rooker Stats
- Rooker has 71 hits with 13 doubles, a triple, 17 home runs, 35 walks and 47 RBI. He's also stolen two bases.
- He has a .248/.342/.479 slash line on the year.
- Rooker has recorded a base hit in three games in a row. During his last five outings he is batting .375 with a double, a home run, two walks and three RBI.
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Tony Kemp Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +140)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -130)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +900)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Kemp Stats
- Tony Kemp has 58 hits with 10 doubles, three triples, three home runs, 28 walks and 21 RBI. He's also stolen 12 bases.
- He has a .216/.300/.310 slash line on the year.
- Kemp brings a three-game streak with at least one hit into this contest. During his last five outings he is hitting .300 with two doubles and two RBI.
Kemp Recent Games
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Rockies vs. Athletics Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Colorado Rockies (40-64) bring a four-game losing run into a home contest versus the Oakland Athletics (30-76), at 3:10 PM ET on Sunday.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Rockies will send Ty Blach to the mound, while Luis Medina (3-7) will take the ball for the Athletics.
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Rockies vs. Athletics Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 3:10 PM ET
- TV: SportsNet RM
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Venue: Coors Field
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- Probable Pitchers: Blach - COL (0-0, 5.51 ERA) vs Medina - OAK (3-7, 5.50 ERA)
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Rockies Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Ty Blach
- Blach will get the start for the Rockies, his second of the season.
- The left-hander last pitched on Sunday against the Miami Marlins, throwing three innings without allowing a run.
- He has an ERA of 5.51, a 3.5 strikeout to walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.714 in eight games this season.
- He is looking for his fourth appearance in a row with no earned runs allowed.
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Athletics Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Medina
- Medina makes the start for the Athletics, his 11th of the season. He is 3-7 with a 5.50 ERA and 70 strikeouts over 70 1/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last appeared on Sunday against the Houston Astros, when he went five innings, allowing one earned run while giving up two hits.
- In 14 games this season, the 24-year-old has put up an ERA of 5.50, with 9 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are batting .254 against him.
- Medina has two quality starts under his belt this season.
- Medina will look to build upon a six-game streak of lasting five or more innings (he's averaging five frames per outing).
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in one of his 14 appearances this season.
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How to Watch the Royals vs. Twins Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Ryan Yarbrough will take the mound for the Kansas City Royals against Byron Buxton and the Minnesota Twins on Sunday at 2:10 PM ET.
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Royals vs. Twins Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
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Royals Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Royals' 96 home runs rank 27th in MLB this season.
- Kansas City ranks 27th in the majors with a .382 team slugging percentage.
- The Royals' .236 batting average ranks 23rd in the league this season.
- Kansas City is among the lowest scoring teams in baseball, ranking 29th with just 401 total runs (3.8 per game) this season.
- The Royals are among the worst in the league at getting on base, ranking last with an OBP of .295.
- The Royals rank 20th in strikeouts per game (8.8) among MLB offenses.
- Kansas City strikes out 8.1 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 25th in MLB.
- Kansas City pitchers have a combined ERA of 5.21 ERA this year, which ranks 28th in MLB.
- The Royals have a combined WHIP of 1.427 as a pitching staff, which is fifth-worst in baseball this season.
Royals Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Royals' Yarbrough (3-5) will make his seventh start of the season.
- The left-hander gave up one earned run and allowed six hits in six innings pitched against the Cleveland Guardians on Monday.
- He has earned a quality start two times in six starts this season.
- Yarbrough has four starts in a row of five innings or more.
- He has made 13 appearances and finished three of them without allowing an earned run.
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Royals vs. Twins: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
Kansas City Royals (31-75) will square off against the Minnesota Twins (54-52) at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, July 30 at 2:10 PM ET. Currently sitting at 29 steals, Bobby Witt Jr. will be looking to swipe his 30th stolen base of the season.
The Twins are the favorite in this one, at -185, while the underdog Royals have +150 odds to play spoiler. A 9-run total is listed for the game.
Royals vs. Twins Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
- Probable Pitchers: Kenta Maeda - MIN (2-5, 4.62 ERA) vs Ryan Yarbrough - KC (3-5, 4.70 ERA)
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Royals vs. Twins Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
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Royals vs. Twins Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Twins have won 41 out of the 68 games, or 60.3%, in which they've been favored.
- The Twins have gone 11-7 when they have played as moneyline favorites with odds of -185 or shorter (61.1% winning percentage).
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 64.9% chance of a victory for Minnesota.
- The Twins went 4-4 across the eight games they were moneyline favorites in their last 10 matchups.
- In its last 10 matchups, Minnesota and its opponents combined to hit the over seven times (all 10 of the games had set totals).
- The Royals have won in 28, or 30.1%, of the 93 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- The Royals have a mark of 11-31 in contests where sportsbooks favor them by +150 or worse on the moneyline.
- In 10 games as underdogs over the last 10 matchups, the Royals have a record of 3-7.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Kansas City and its opponents have failed to hit the over five times.
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Royals vs. Twins Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Kansas City Royals (31-75) will look to sweep the Minnesota Twins (54-52) at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, at 2:10 PM ET.
The Twins will give the ball to Kenta Maeda (2-5, 4.62 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 3 on the season, and the Royals will counter with Ryan Yarbrough (3-5, 4.70 ERA).
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Royals vs. Twins Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
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- Probable Pitchers: Maeda - MIN (2-5, 4.62 ERA) vs Yarbrough - KC (3-5, 4.70 ERA)
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Royals Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Ryan Yarbrough
- The Royals will send Yarbrough (3-5) out to make his seventh start of the season. He is 3-5 with a 4.70 ERA and 24 strikeouts over 44 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent time out came on Monday against the Cleveland Guardians, when the left-hander threw six innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing six hits.
- In 13 games this season, the 31-year-old has an ERA of 4.70, with 4.9 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are hitting .266 against him.
- Yarbrough has two quality starts under his belt this season.
- Yarbrough will look to pitch five or more innings for his fifth straight appearance. He's averaging 3.4 frames per outing.
- He has had three appearances this season that he held his opponents to zero earned runs.
Ryan Yarbrough vs. Twins
- He will face a Twins offense that ranks 17th in the league with 469 total runs scored while batting .237 as a unit. His opponent has a collective .413 slugging percentage (13th in MLB play) and has hit a total of 140 home runs (eighth in the league).
- Yarbrough has a 0 ERA and a 0 WHIP against the Twins this season in 1 2/3 innings pitched, allowing a .000 batting average over one appearance.
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Twins Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Kenta Maeda
- Maeda (2-5) will take the mound for the Twins, his 11th start of the season.
- The right-hander gave up one earned run and allowed six hits in 6 1/3 innings pitched against the Seattle Mariners on Monday.
- The 35-year-old has an ERA of 4.62 and 10.7 strikeouts per nine innings, with a batting average against of .254 in 10 games this season.
- He's looking to extend his two-game quality start streak.
- Maeda has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished one appearance without allowing an earned run in 10 chances this season.
Kenta Maeda vs. Royals
- The Royals have scored 401 runs this season, which ranks 29th in MLB. They have 835 hits, 22nd in baseball, with 96 home runs (27th in the league).
- The right-hander has allowed the Royals to go 3-for-23 with a home run and an RBI in seven innings this season.
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Cardinals vs. Cubs: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
As they go for the series sweep, Nico Hoerner and the Chicago Cubs (53-51) will take on Nolan Arenado and the St. Louis Cardinals (46-60) at Busch Stadium on Sunday, July 30. First pitch is set for 2:15 PM ET.
The Cubs are +120 moneyline underdogs in this matchup against the favorite Cardinals (-145). The contest's total has been set at 9 runs.
Cardinals vs. Cubs Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:15 PM ET
- TV: BSMW
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Venue: Busch Stadium
- Probable Pitchers: Steven Matz - STL (1-7, 4.34 ERA) vs Kyle Hendricks - CHC (4-4, 3.58 ERA)
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Cardinals vs. Cubs Betting Trends and Insights
- The Cardinals have entered the game as favorites 52 times this season and won 22, or 42.3%, of those games.
- When they have played as moneyline favorites with odds of -145 or shorter, the Cardinals have gone 15-19 (44.1%).
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 59.2% chance of a victory for St. Louis.
- The Cardinals did not win a game as the moneyline favorite over the last 10 games in four tries.
- Over its last 10 outings, St. Louis and its opponents combined to go over the run total four times (all 10 of the games had set totals).
- The Cubs have been victorious in 21, or 42.9%, of the 49 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- This season, the Cubs have been victorious 12 times in 21 chances when named as an underdog of at least +120 or longer on the moneyline.
- The Cubs have played as underdogs in four of their past 10 games and won each of those contests.
- Chicago and its opponents have combined to hit the over five times in the last 10 games with a total.
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Cardinals vs. Cubs Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The St. Louis Cardinals (46-60) carry a three-game losing run into a home matchup versus the Chicago Cubs (53-51), at 2:15 PM ET on Sunday.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Cardinals will send Steven Matz (1-7) to the mound, while Kyle Hendricks (4-4) will answer the bell for the Cubs.
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Cardinals vs. Cubs Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:15 PM ET
- TV: BSMW
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Venue: Busch Stadium
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- Probable Pitchers: Matz - STL (1-7, 4.34 ERA) vs Hendricks - CHC (4-4, 3.58 ERA)
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Cardinals Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Steven Matz
- Matz (1-7) will take the mound for the Cardinals, his 15th start of the season.
- The left-hander's last appearance was on Wednesday, when he threw six scoreless innings against the Arizona Diamondbacks while allowing five hits.
- The 32-year-old has pitched to a 4.34 ERA this season with 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings compared to 3.1 walks per nine across 22 games.
- In 14 starts this season, he's earned a quality start in one of them.
- Matz has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished eight appearances without allowing an earned run in 22 chances this season.
Steven Matz vs. Cubs
- The Cubs rank eighth in MLB with 514 runs scored this season. They have a .255 batting average this campaign with 119 home runs (17th in the league).
- The left-hander has faced the Cubs two times this season, allowing them to go 5-for-30 with two doubles, a triple and an RBI in 8 1/3 innings.
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Cubs Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Kyle Hendricks
- Hendricks makes the start for the Cubs, his 13th of the season. He is 4-4 with a 3.58 ERA and 46 strikeouts in 70 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Wednesday, the right-hander threw 6 1/3 innings against the Chicago White Sox, allowing three earned runs while surrendering four hits.
- The 33-year-old has an ERA of 3.58, with 5.9 strikeouts per nine innings in 12 games this season. Opposing hitters have a .236 batting average against him.
- Hendricks is looking to continue a second-game quality start streak in this matchup.
- Hendricks is seeking his third straight appearance lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.8 innings per start.
- He has had one outing this season that he held his opponents to zero earned runs.
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SYDNEY — The great booming sounds of South Americans beholding soccer relocated down the Australian East Coast from Brisbane to Sydney Sunday night, only this time they reached the kinds of delirious decibels only sports can make, the kind that go into ears and out from goose bumps.
LATE DRAMA 🇨🇴
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 30, 2023
MANUELA VANEGAS RECLAIMS THE 2-1 LEAD FOR COLOMBIA IN STOPPAGE TIME! pic.twitter.com/n5wlUodzO6
If you’ve never heard the kind of sound that can cause among Colombians, you should. And it came about 44 minutes after a marvel of a goal by a marvel of a teen that loosed a marvel of a sound in this marvel of an upset. Once the marvels finished piling up, the dazzling 18-year-old Linda Caicedo stood atop this World Cup, the shiniest announcement to date of her flowering stardom.
That meant Colombians got two raptures during their Sunday night, three if you count the national anthem, which some belted out with such oomph that it really did seem a lung or two might fall out. The Australia Bureau of Statistics reports from the 2021 census that 35,033 Colombia-born humans reside in Australia, and it seemed every last one of them had ventured to Sydney Football Stadium to make a majority among the 40,499 who saw Colombia, ranked No. 25 in the world, ascend to six points in Group H. That’s ahead of the three for Germany, ranked No. 2, and for Morocco, which scored a historic first World Cup win Sunday over South Korea, six days after losing 6-0 to Germany.
On a second straight night of roars from South Americans that sounded indiscernible from any men’s match, Germany looked the better side and had the more possession through a goalless first half and early in the second. A Colombian counter led to the ball caroming among players in the box.
That led to it caroming to Caicedo.
That led to the damnedest bedlam until later on.
Born in the town of Candelaria in the metro area of Cali, Caicedo brings another reminder of how the world continues to fashion little girls who grow up to cause big sounds. Now she fielded the ball on the left side of the box and put this move you wouldn’t want to try to solve on Germany’s Svenja Huth, who flew by. Another defender, Sara Dabritz, remained nearby on Caicedo’s left, but Caicedo let fly with a ball that rose and curled through the traffic, tucked itself inside the right post, dented the right side of the net and sent so much of the place into enviable hysteria.
ARE YOU SERIOUS LINDA CAICEDO?! 😱
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 30, 2023
What a goal for Colombia 🇨🇴🔥 pic.twitter.com/rR0absMYmt
Colombia held on a good while from there, its energy and intent clear and impressive, until the 88th minute when some German skill caused trouble. Dabritz sent a fine pass along the right to Lea Schuller, a substitute on in the 67th minute, who back-footed it quickly toward Lena Oberdorf, who eluded a defender and appeared smack in front of goalkeeper Catalina Perez. Perez, desperate, tripped Oberdorf, and the penalty went to German mainstay Alexandra Popp, who used the coolness gathered through her 33 years to slip it down the middle while Perez guessed and lunged to her left.
That left a draw most probable, until Colombia’s outstanding Mayra Ramirez made one last charge down the right, missing high and wide and falling into a heap on the grass, her energy clearly about all used up. The clock hit the allotted six added minutes but the referee allowed time for one last Colombia corner, and the night had one last astounding sound in it. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/30/colombia-beats-germany-womens-world-cup/ | 2023-07-30T13:14:48 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/30/colombia-beats-germany-womens-world-cup/ |
NEW YORK — The question is a delicate one, to be asked with great care, with all due respect to doubts he has heard before. Max Scherzer would never allow himself room to do something as human as getting old.
Another team, the Texas Rangers, expressed its belief in Scherzer when it agreed to acquire him from the New York Mets on Saturday night. The 39-year-old showed some faith in return, agreed to opt in to his $43 million player option for 2024.
So as Scherzer heads to Texas and continues to grimace and stomp and swear his way through the most inconsistent season he has endured in more than a decade, it is as understandable to wonder if age is catching up to him as it is unthinkable to him that you would consider the possibility.
“I don’t feel like that’s the reason. The only thing age has done is I’ve lost some [velocity],” Scherzer said last week, ahead of agreeing to be traded Saturday. “But at the expense of top-end velo, I have more pitches than ever. I’m able to execute things at a higher rate than ever, so I feel like I’m able to make up for that deficiency with experience and an arsenal.”
“Deficiency,” in Scherzer’s case, is relative. His average fastball velocity is 93.9 mph, according to FanGraphs, down from 95.0 at the peak of his powers. But Scherzer, who dominated despite a tendency to allow more homers than most, is allowing homers at a higher rate than ever and is striking out batters at a lower rate than he has in 10 years. It all adds up to an 4.01 ERA that is his highest since 2011.
“It’s not all health. Right now, I’m healthy. That’s why I wish I could tell you — I mean, there was a streak in there where I was battling a back ailment. It was hard to get through some of those starts. I wasn’t really myself,” Scherzer said. “But outside of that, I’ve been good to go.”
At most this year, Scherzer has bumped starts back a day or two, though he may have been aided in avoiding the injured list by his 10-game foreign substance suspension. But he said far from being a concern or an explanation, his durability remains one of his greatest strengths.
“I haven’t been on the IL this year, knock on wood. As much as you can sit here and say I’m not consistent, tear my season apart — and it’s all fair game; I’m completely accountable for that. At the same time, you have to peek your head around the corner and say, ‘Look, starting pitchers are getting hurt left and right, and I’m avoiding the IL,’ ” Scherzer said. “I’m making my [starts]. It could be worse.”
Scherzer, an outspoken critic of the pitch clock, said he thinks the new rules are having “some role” in pitcher injuries. But asked if he sees it as an explanation for his relative inconsistency, he was forceful.
“I absolutely will not use the clock as an excuse,” he said.
But if not offering excuses, Scherzer certainly seems to be seeking answers. Answers are the one thing he always seemed to have — and they would come quickly. When his fastball was leaking in one start, he would fix that in his between-starts bullpen session and show no such tendency in his next. This year, when Scherzer struggled to deliver biting change-ups in one start, he made a tweak that eventually took the slice out of his trademark slider in a later one. When he fixed that, the fastball didn’t land.
“Answers are coming — it’s just that, every time you make one tweak, another thing pops up. That’s what’s been frustrating. I fixed my slider, and all of a sudden I can’t get up and in,” Scherzer said. “The weirdest thing for me about this year is that it’s the best my curveball has ever been. I’m throwing the most I’ve ever thrown, best performance I’ve ever had, I can locate the curveball better. I look at the season and think, there’s a positive.”
Scherzer is right. He is throwing his curveball 11.7 percent of the time, the second-highest mark of his career. He added that pitch to his arsenal years ago, to help him beat left-handers. As he has honed it this year, he has watched opponents accumulate an .866 OPS against his slider. In his career, hitters have a .503 OPS against that pitch.
“So you have to sit there and say: ‘Was the curveball at the expense of the slider? What’s going on with the change-up? What’s going on with the cutter?’ You can have one part of your game look great, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to pitch better,” Scherzer said. “Frustrating for sure.”
However creaky he might feel these days, Scherzer now finds himself thrown into another pennant race with a legitimate contender. He has accumulated nearly a full season’s worth of starts in October alone. Some would say those innings take a toll and might consider the notion that, after all that, a little inconsistency makes sense. Max Scherzer is not one of them. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/30/max-scherzer-mets-season-rangers-trade/ | 2023-07-30T13:14:54 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/30/max-scherzer-mets-season-rangers-trade/ |
Consumer demand for speed and convenience drives labor unrest among workers in Hollywood and at UPS
NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single-digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and television shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single-digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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Associated Press video journalist Leslie Ambriz contributed from Los Angeles.
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Fever vs. Storm: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:36 AM EDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
On Sunday, July 30, 2023 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the Indiana Fever (6-18) will be attempting to stop a three-game losing streak when hosting the Seattle Storm (5-19). It will air at 4:00 PM ET on ESPN3, FOX13+, and Prime Video.
In this article, you can find the spread and odds across multiple sportsbooks for the Fever vs. Storm matchup.
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Fever vs. Storm Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN3, FOX13+, and Prime Video
- Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
- Arena: Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Fever vs. Storm Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Check out the odds, spread and over/under for this WNBA matchup posted at multiple sportsbooks.
Fever vs. Storm Betting Trends
- The Fever have won 13 games against the spread this season, while failing to cover nine times.
- The Storm have covered 12 times in 23 matchups with a spread this season.
- Indiana has not covered the spread when favored by 3.5 points or more this season (in one opportunity).
- Seattle has an ATS record of 11-8 when playing as at least 3.5-point underdogs this season.
- So far this season, 12 out of the Fever's 23 games have hit the over.
- So far this year, 11 out of the Storm's 23 games with an over/under have gone over the point total.
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Consumer demand for speed and convenience drives labor unrest among workers in Hollywood and at UPS
NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single-digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and television shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single-digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
___
Associated Press video journalist Leslie Ambriz contributed from Los Angeles.
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Five people shot in Michigan
LANSING, Mich. (WILX/Gray News) - Five people were shot in Lansing, Michigan, WILX reports.
Lansing Police officers responded to a shooting in the 1300 block of W. Holmes Road around 1:00 a.m. on Sunday.
When officers arrived, they found a large crowd of people and multiple shooting victims.
The Lansing Fire Department responded to treat and transport several of the victims to a local hospital. Due to the size of the crowd, the Lansing Police Department requested assistance from neighboring jurisdictions.
Five shooting victims were identified ranging in age from 16 to 26 years old. Two of the victims are listed in critical condition.
Police detained several suspects and recovered multiple firearms from the scene.
This is an active investigation and Lansing Police Detectives and Crime Scene Investigators are at the scene working to determine the events which led up to the shootings.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Detectives are hoping that a cell phone found at the scene of a deadly shooting in Frankford can help in their investigation.
The 22-year-old victim was shot multiple times just before 9:30 p.m. Saturday on the 1300 block of Arrott Street.
Responding officers rushed him to the hospital but he did not survive.
A handgun was found at the scene along with the phone.
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Happy Sunday! Finally getting a little bit of relief from the heat today as temperatures dip back to the upper 80s this afternoon. Humidity will also be a lot lower for the start of the work week. We have partly cloudy skies today with some slight rain chances through the afternoon. Monday, we will be a bit drier and slightly cooler with highs in the mid 80s. Enjoy the slightly cooler temperatures while we have them, as the 90s and that humidity move back in at the end of the week.
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The House Republicans who craft the conference’s government funding bills are showing signs of frustration as hard-line conservatives pressure leadership for further cuts to spending that some worry could be too aggressive.
Some of the 12 Appropriations subcommittee chairs — the so-called cardinals — told reporters that they are struggling to see where those additional cuts could come from, as September’s shutdown deadline looms.
“I just don’t see the wisdom in trying to further cut to strengthen our hand. I don’t know how that strengthens our hand,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), a House Appropriations subcommittee chairman, said of conservatives’ push to further cut the already-scaled-back spending bills.
“I do think it puts some of our members in a very difficult spot, particularly those in tough districts, because they’re going to be taking some votes that become problematic,” he added.
The House left Washington for a long summer recess Thursday after being forced to punt a bill to fund agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.
Conservatives are dug in on their demand for steeper spending cuts, to the chagrin of moderates who are wary of slashing funding even more. The chamber has passed just one appropriations bill, funding military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The internal divisions are gripping the party as time is running out: The House has just 12 days in September to move the remaining 11 appropriations measures and hash out their disagreements with the Senate, which is marking up its spending bills at higher levels, setting the scene for a hectic fall that could bring the U.S. to the brink of a shutdown.
Those dynamics are putting GOP appropriators in a bind, leaving them searching for ways to appease conservative requests without gutting their spending bills.
“We’ve done a lot of cuts, a lot of cuts,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) told The Hill this week. “And so if it’s cuts just for cut’s sake, I don’t agree with it. But if it’s something that we can do without, that’s fine.”
‘Not a lot of wiggle room left’
Republican appropriators in the House announced earlier this year that they would mark up their bills for fiscal 2024 at fiscal 2022 levels, as leaders sought to placate conservatives who thought the debt ceiling deal struck by President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) earlier this year didn’t do enough to curb spending.
The Senate is crafting its bills more in line with the budget caps agreed to in the deal, but House Republicans are already fuming about a bipartisan deal in the upper chamber that would allow for more than $13 billion in additional emergency spending on top of those levels.
House GOP negotiators also said they would pursue clawing back more than $100 billion in old funding that was allocated for Democratic priorities without GOP support in the previous Congress.
While that move drew support from hard-line conservatives, the right flank was far from pleased when it heard appropriators planned to repurpose that old funding — known as rescissions — to plus-up the spending bills.
In a letter to McCarthy earlier this month, a group of hard-line conservatives called for all 12 appropriations bills to be in line with fiscal 2022 spending levels “without the use of reallocated rescissions to increase discretionary spending above that top-line.”
Otherwise, the 21 lawmakers threatened, they would vote against the measures. But that request could prove difficult for GOP appropriators to fulfill.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), chairman of the panel that proposes funding for the Department of State and foreign operations, said that appropriators are already “dramatically reducing spending,” suggesting that there are not too many remaining areas to trim from.
“My bill is below the 2016 levels,” he said, later adding, “When you’re below the 2016 level — and we’re still confronting China — I think there’s not a lot of wiggle room left.”
“It’s a challenge, but I think we’ll get through it. I really do,” he added.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who heads the subcommittee that oversees funding for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior, scoffed at the idea of even steeper cuts to his bill.
“Then you just drop it on the floor and stomp on it. What else do you do with it?” he told reporters. “You can’t make logical cuts in there.”
Republicans appropriators are voicing optimism that the conference will be able to sort out its differences on spending, but some also hope their levels will stick — even though they include rescissions.
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) — whose panel handles funding for the Department of Energy, which is proposing offsetting billions of dollars in spending with clawbacks — said it would be “extremely difficult” to craft his bill without the rescinded funds.
“And given our priorities in my bill, national defense with the nuclear weapons portfolio, nuclear cleanup, Army Corps including, all the community-directed fundings, I feel good about my bill, and I hope my numbers hold,” he said.
“Because it’s gonna have to be in negotiations with the Senate and the White House as well,” he added.
Womack — whose subcommittee crafts funding for the IRS and the Treasury Department — said he doesn’t think “moving the goalposts on these numbers is helpful in strengthening our ability to negotiate with the Senate.”
August preparations for a busy September
Frustrations among appropriators are bubbling up as Congress inches closer to the fall, when lawmakers are facing a Sept. 30 deadline to approve funding or risk a government shutdown.
With time running out, some House lawmakers say conversations may continue over the long August recess to try to hash out remaining differences.
“We’ll have to see,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said when asked about potential plans for talks between leaders and House Freedom Caucus members over the break. “I mean, we got a lot of work to do.”
“I think a lot of work [has] got to be done behind the scenes,” he said. “If not, you know, here — You gotta beg the question about whether we should be gone for six weeks. We should be getting our job done.”
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) echoed that sentiment, saying “I would think so” when asked if lawmakers will have conversations over the break.
Adding to the August workload, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) suggested earlier this week that bicameral negotiations could take place over the weeks-long recess as lawmakers stare down the shutdown deadline.
Not all Republicans, however, are viewing a shutdown as a risk.
During a House Freedom Caucus press conference this week, Good said “we should not fear a government shutdown,” claiming that “most of what we do up here is bad anyway; most of what we do up here hurts the American people.”
But that perspective does not jive with the view of McCarthy, who declared Thursday: “I don’t want the government to shut down.”
Multiple Republicans are ultimately expecting Congress to eventually pass what’s known as a continuing resolution (CR), or a measure that temporarily allows the government to be funded at the previous fiscal year’s levels, to prevent a lapse at the end of September.
But they also understand the task could be difficult in the GOP-led chamber, where Republicans aren’t happy about the idea of continuing funding at the current levels — which were last set when Democrats held control of Congress.
“I think there’s a very good chance that we’ll see a CR, but I know there’s a lot of work to get a CR done,” Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), another appropriator, said Thursday, noting there are “a lot of members that don’t want CRs that are tired of them.”
But Aderholt suggested a CR could notch sufficient GOP backing if there’s a larger plan in sight that the party can support.
“The Speaker’s been very good about having a plan,” he said, adding, “I think that’s what he’s good at, and I’m optimistic that he can come up with something.”
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with children's book author Matt de la Peña about summer reading recommendations for kids of all ages when they complain, "I'm bored!"
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with children's book author Matt de la Peña about summer reading recommendations for kids of all ages when they complain, "I'm bored!"
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An accused murderer in Las Vegas is also accused of living with the body for two months, believing the female victim could come back from the dead, police said Friday.
Officers took George Bone, 31, into custody Wednesday after discovering Beverly Ma’s body during a welfare check in the 5300 block of Railroad River Avenue near Lindell Road and Eldorado Lane, they said.
Bone told officers he knew Ma was dead and what caused her death and based on those statements, police took Bone into custody, Lt. Jason Johansson said Wednesday. Police suspect Bone strangled Ma in May, documents said.
On Wednesday, police received a 911 call from a family member who said Bone had told her Ma “was in the closet and had been there for two months,” documents said. Police found Ma’s body in the closet shortly after.
A family member told police Ma and Bone were friends and that she was not close with family, documents said. Police said Ma and Bone met in high school and moved in with each other last summer.
A witness told police they entered the home on Wednesday after seeing an unusually high air conditioning bill, police said. Bone led her upstairs to the body, documents said.
“She noticed a cooler against the bedroom closet door and the bottom of the door had a towel, which covered the gap,” police said. “George told her that she can open it and see.”
Bone told police Ma had died sometime in May, police said. On May 4, dispatchers received a 911 call from Ma and heard a man and woman screaming at each other, they said. Police responded that day and knocked on the door but no one answered, they said. Investigators suspect Ma died that day.
“Bone went about living at the house with Beverly deceased in the upstairs closet for the next two months and began ordering several items on Beverly’s Amazon account using her funds for his own gain,” police said. “When asked why he didn’t call for help, Bone’s response was ‘I was afraid of going back to jail… for being found with a dead body.” Bone admitted that his behavior since the death of Beverly Ma was ‘not normal.’ When asked why he placed a cooler in the master bedroom near the closest, Bone stated that he put it there so that he would be alerted if Beverly rose from the dead like the movie ‘The Grudge.’”
Even though Ma was believed to have been deceased, someone texted from her phone in late July, saying she could not attend a July 4 party because she “wanted to be sober, not travel and not be around people,” police said.
Bone was being held at the Clark County Detention Center without bail.
In 2013, Bone took an Alford plea on a charge of attempted lewdness with a child under the age of 14, records showed. An Alford plea is similar to a no-contest plea, where a defendant accepts prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him or her but does not admit guilt.
In 2012, Henderson police initially arrested Bone on charges of sexual assault and lewdness with a child stemming from allegations a teenager made about an assault two years prior when she was 11, documents said.
The student told a school employee that Bone had “inappropriately touched” her while he was living in a home with her, documents said.
In addition to an open murder charge, Bone also faces a charge of failing to register as a sex offender, records showed. Bone is listed in the Nevada Sex Offender Registry under a different address than where police responded on Wednesday, records showed.
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The first time Nicola Veitch went to a soccer game, she danced on the field in a white lab coat alongside a colleague inside a giant tsetse fly costume. Most of the fans applauded. Some were baffled.
Neither was auditioning to be the new team mascot.
Rather, Veitch, who's a lecturer in parasitology at the University of Glasgow, put on this somewhat weird performance as a pilot for sleeping sickness street theater — using a theatrical event to teach people about a disease that affects about 1,000 people each year in Africa.
In Malawi's two endemic districts where the disease is spread by local tsetse flies, the number of people falling ill from sleeping sickness has declined in recent years, but cases still persist. Last year, there were only 40 cases across the country. But Veitch points out the disease is "often unpredictable," which means that the possibility of resurgence remains a persistent threat.
More than a year after that Scottish match, the group brought the theatrical event to soccer games in Malawi where people cheered while learning about how to protect themselves from this tiny killer. Veitch calls it an innovative intervention in remote, hard-to-reach communities with few smartphones.
At the time of the performance, she says a clinical trial was underway for a new drug that "seems to be very promising in terms of treating sleeping sickness." If successful, people with the disease could take the medicine at home instead of relying on the current method of treatment for late-stage sleeping sickness — the intravenous administration of a toxic drug that often leads to complications and is occasionally fatal itself. The new drug would represent "a massive change," she says. But in the meantime, knowledge is one of the best ways to fight the disease, and the performance seemed to offer the spectators important information.
idea that
Sleeping sickness is found in communities in Malawi that border nature or game reserves. Those areas were where the performances were held. "So we are targeting the people that are really affected," says Janelisa Musaya, a parasitologist involved in the project and the associate director of the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, instead of "just throwing the message all over the country." In other words, she says, it's a way of allocating resources wisely.
Targeting a 'hypnotic' parasite
Sleeping sickness, also called African trypanosomiasis, is caused by a parasite. "It almost looks like a worm," says Veitch. But it's not a worm. It's a single-celled protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma.
The parasite relies on the tsetse fly to shuttle it around. When an infected fly bites someone, the parasite can slip into their bloodstream. It causes a little trouble there, says Musaya, "but when it crosses the blood-brain barrier and goes to the central nervous system, it can affect your sleeping cycle. That's why it's called the sleeping sickness." (The disease is often confused with malaria since the symptoms of fever and lethargy are similar.)
When Veitch looks down the microscope at the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, she says, "it's very hypnotic the way it moves and quite beautiful. I think that only a parasitologist can say that."
That beauty was what got her thinking several years back about alternative ways to inform people about the disease — which many people in Malawi are still not aware of, Veitch says. She has a family member who works for SURGE, a Scottish art, theater and circus organization that runs an annual performance festival that brings cutting edge work to the streets and spaces of Glasgow. The sketches tend to be short, sharp, and interactive, she says.
One year, Veitch was drawn to an outside act that had repurposed an ambulance to teach people how to respond to someone having a cardiac arrest through engaging movement and comical water balloon antics. "And I thought to myself, we could be using street theater to engage people with parasitology," she says. So she approached SURGE and said, "We could maybe work together on something to do with parasites. I think we could create something really cool."
Veitch isn't alone in her thinking. A few years back, the World Health Organization published a report on the role that the arts — including theater — can play in improving our physical, social, and psychological health and well-being, a particular concern in under-resourced countries.
Arts activities facilitate social interaction, says Nisha Sajnani, the co-director of the Jameel Arts and Health Lab at New York University, who wasn't involved in the sleeping sickness project. She adds that performance is just the right platform and artform to "increase a sense of self-efficacy — a feeling of being able to do something about a problem."
Veitch's conversation with SURGE kickstarted a multiyear effort for her and her colleagues in Scotland and Malawi, including an arts and theater group called Voices Malawi that educates people about various illnesses, including COVID-19 and malaria and that uses street theater as a teaching mode.
First, the team had to dream up a way to depict sleeping sickness through street theater. Musaya was excited to get involved. After studying sleeping sickness for 15 years, there was still a missing link for her — "how do we educate the community not to get infected?" She hoped this theatrical foray might provide an answer.
Bwanalori Mwamlima, senior health promotion officer in the Rumphi district of Malawi, says that developing the performance was an act of co-creation among scientists, health workers, performing artists and individuals who'd survived the disease. He explains that the messages they wanted to communicate were, "How is it transmitted? What are the [symptoms]? How can it be prevented? And what are the current interventions?"
Tsetse fly theater has its Malawi premiere
When the show rolled out in Malawi in the fall of 2022, here's what it looked like.
Communities were told that local football and netball teams would descend upon a particular field to play. Then, the day of the event, the performers (a team of nurses, clinicians, students and researchers) drove through town in a truck with music blaring. That got people to leave their homes and follow the truck to the edge of a soccer field. "We wanted to gather a crowd," says Veitch.
Before the soccer game, they offered their theatrical vision of sleeping sickness — mainly visual with some narration. They gave red t-shirts to the audience and asked them to put them on to simulate the human bloodstream. The performers who were dressed as scientists in white lab coats waded into the crowd, each one carrying a giant net. "They were supposed to be scientists looking for infection," says Veitch.
Once the crowd was sufficiently warmed up, the person dressed as the tsetse fly emerged. (The fly costume was made in Scotland by the costume designer regularly employed by SURGE. She'd made outfits for "all sorts of weird and wonderful performances," says Veitch, but this was her first tsetse fly — which had massive wings and limited vision for the person inside the fly's head, so you "need someone to be at your side when moving around.")
The fly threw beach balls into the crowd, representing the infectious parasite, which audience members batted around.
The beach balls were different colors, a metaphor for the way in which the parasite changes its outer protein coat to evade the human immune system. "It's very difficult to create a vaccine to something that undergoes this variation," says Veitch.
The people dressed as scientists ran around to catch the balls of infection in their nets. And finally, they brought out a large net, enveloping the giant fly, escorting it offstage and bringing the performance to a close. In reality, this net is highly effective at attracting tsetse flies because of its blue color and the bottle of urine-smelling liquid placed beside it. "It's just a simple bit of material that has insecticide" in it, Veitch says.
But sometimes people in nearby villages take down the nets stationed in game reserves because they don't know what they are or why they're there. Therefore, "one of the ideas behind the performance," says Veitch, "was to get people to really consider they're very effective at catching tsetse. And if you leave them up, it's beneficial to everybody and that will prevent disease." In addition, by showing researchers helping to capture the parasites, the performers hoped to demonstrate to the public that scientists and their work can be trusted.
Afterward, spectators received additional guidance during a question and answer session. They asked what differentiates a tsetse fly from a housefly (its size, color, and resting wing position), how long it takes for symptoms to appear (typically 2 to 4 weeks) and perhaps most important, how to prevent getting bitten in the first place (avoid nature reserves; don't wear blue or black, which attracts the flies; wear long sleeves; apply insect repellent).
Musaya hopes the audiences walked away with an improved understanding of the disease and how they would contract it. "Many people who attended the performance said they didn't know about the disease," Veitch says. "They had heard of tsetse, but didn't know of the disease it carried, and didn't know of the symptoms to look out for."
"There's something about the dramatizing of the concept that increases the understanding," she explains.
Mwamlima, who dressed up as the tsetse fly for one of the performances in Malawi, was surprised by the success of the theatrical approach, "considering that this is the first time to bring theater performances to teach science," he says. "So I wasn't sure whether it would work," but he's glad that it seemed to. Evaluations showed the audiences were engaged and felt confident asking questions. But long-term, Veitch says they'll know if the performance was successful "if more tsetse nets are left in place and if more people come forward for diagnosis and treatment."
In addition, the medical professionals and researchers, many of whom had never done anything like this before, found this to be a meaningful way to connect with communities. "It really improved people's confidence in terms of thinking about public engagement," Veitch says, "and they would do it again."
"It's a great example of how participatory theater offers a compelling, energizing, pleasurable way of bringing people together to clarify community concerns, feel empowered to make a difference, problem solve," says NYU's Sajnani.
"I think it's a remarkable approach," agrees Kartik Sharma, the founder of the organization Public Arts Health & Us, which translates health and environment research into film and art, including theater pieces. He wasn't associated with the sleeping sickness project. Sharma argues that a performance "converts research into something which people can see and feel in a more personalized way." The result, he says, is that "you can actually use it the next day in your life. So I think it's a very powerful strategy."
For those who missed the show, Veitch says that video recordings will be used as part of Malawi's mobile cinema program, which ranges from big televisions on the back of land rovers to large screens set up next to marketplaces and other public gatherings. It's a common way to publicize health messages in Malawi. The goal, says Veitch, is to "extend the legacy of what we've been doing."
However, despite all the fanfare and promise of the program, Veitch, who says she wasn't into soccer when this program began, admits that she's still not a football fan.
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Persian-American Chef Nasim Alikhani has published her first cookbook, based on her highly acclaimed restaurant in Brooklyn. She brought the feast to Los Angeles for a recent series of pop up dinners.
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An archeological dig in Turkey has uncovered artifacts dating back 1,000 years By Peter Kenyon Published July 30, 2023 at 7:02 AM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:27 In Turkey, what started out as an exploration of a Roman garrison has uncovered artifacts dating back to the time of the Assyrian empire. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2023-07-30/an-archeological-dig-in-turkey-has-uncovered-artifacts-dating-back-1-000-years | 2023-07-30T13:16:42 | 1 | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2023-07-30/an-archeological-dig-in-turkey-has-uncovered-artifacts-dating-back-1-000-years |
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of California, Berkeley, digital forensics expert Hany Farid about a recent political ad that used an AI-cloned vocal clip.
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NIAMEY, Niger — Thousands of supporters of the junta that took over Niger in a coup earlier this week marched through the streets of the capital, Niamey, on Sunday waving Russian flags, chanting the name of the Russian president and forcefully denouncing former colonial power France.
Russian mercenary group Wagner is already operating in neighboring Mali, and Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to expand his country's influence in the region, but it is unclear yet whether the new junta leaders are going to move toward Moscow or stick with Niger's Western partners.
Days after after mutinous soldiers ousted Niger's democratically elected president, uncertainty is mounting about the country's future and some are calling out the junta's reasons for seizing control.
The mutineers said they overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, who was elected two years ago in Niger's first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from France, because he wasn't able to secure the nation from growing jihadi violence. But some analysts and Nigeriens say that's just a pretext for a takeover that is more about internal power struggles than securing the nation.
"Everybody is wondering why this coup? That's because no one was expecting it. We couldn't expect a coup in Niger because there's no social, political or security situation that would justify that the military take the power," Prof. Amad Hassane Boubacar, who teaches at the University of Niamey, told The Associated Press.
He said Bazoum wanted to replace the head of the presidential guard, Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, who also goes by Omar and is now in charge of the country. Tchiani was loyal to Bazoum's predecessor and that sparked the problems, Boubacar said. The AP cannot independently verify his assessment.
While Niger's security situation is dire, it's not as bad as neighboring Burkina Faso or Mali, which have also have been battling an Islamic insurgency linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Last year Niger was the only one of the three to see a decline in violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
Niger until now has been seen as the last reliable partner for the West in efforts to battle the jihadists 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 the Nigeriens, and the United States and other European countries have helped train the nation's troops.
Some taking part in Sunday's rally also warned regional bodies who have denounced the coup to stay away. "I would like also to say to the European Union, African Union and ECOWAS, please please stay out of our business," said Oumar Barou Moussa who was at the demonstration.
"It's time for us to take our lives, to work for ourselves. It's time for us to talk about our freedom and liberty. We need to stay together, we need to work together, we need to have our true independence," he said.
Conflict experts say out of all the countries in the region, Niger has the most at stake if it turns away from the West, given the millions of dollars of military assistance the international community has poured in. On Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the continued security and economic arrangements that Niger has with the U.S. hinged on the release of Bazoum — who remains under house arrest — and "the immediate restoration of the democratic order in Niger."
France on Saturday suspended all development aid and other financial aid for Niger, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "France demands an immediate return to constitutional order under President Mohamed Bazoum, who was elected by the Nigeriens," it said.
The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country's democratically elected government. On Sunday, the West African regional bloc, known as ECOWAS, is holding an emergency summit in Abuja, Nigeria.
However, in a televised address Saturday, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Toumba, one of the soldiers who ousted Bazoum, accused the meeting of making a "plan of aggression" against Niger and said it would defend itself.
Niger experts say it's too soon to know how things will play out.
"Tensions with the military are still ongoing. There could be another coup after this one, or a stronger intervention from ECOWAS, potentially military force, even if it is difficult to foresee how specifically that may happen and what form that may take," said Tatiana Smirnova, a researcher at the Centre FrancoPaix in conflict resolution and peace missions.
"Many actors are also trying to negotiate, but the outcome is unclear," she said.
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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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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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People have asked me what I've learned so far through this series. Have I gotten any clarity on what makes up my own spiritual identity? And the answer is, not really. I'm still in the research phase of this project. I'm still collecting experiences and perspectives and I imagine I'll keep doing that forever, but it's too early to draw any definitive conclusions — except for one.
I believe each and every one of us is capable of making our own meaning. Some of us do that by living according to a set of religious principles. Or by feeling the beauty and sanctity of nature. Or by choosing to see spiritual connections in what others might call mere coincidence.
I don't need anyone to validate those experiences for them to be meaningful to me. But according to Lisa Miller, a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, having a spiritual life is good for your mental health.
Miller is a psychologist and has dedicated most of her career to the study of neuroscience and spirituality. Her newest book is called The Awakened Brain, and in it she makes some really bold claims about how holding spiritual beliefs can decrease our rates of anxiety and depression and generally make us most likely to lead happier lives. I can hear your skepticism already! I get it. I'm a spiritually inclined kind of person but it's still hard for me to understand how, scientifically speaking, believing in something bigger than yourself can make you healthier and happier.
I needed to understand how Miller came to these conclusions. But before she got to the actual science, she told me a story.
It was the mid '90s. Miller was in the early stages of her career and working at a residential mental health facility in New York City. After she'd been there a few months, Yom Kippur rolled around — the day of atonement, considered the most significant of the Jewish religious holidays. One of the older male patients with severe bipolar disorder asked if there were any plans to mark the day. The doctor in charge shrugged his shoulders and said, no — there's no service planned. The patient walked out of the room with his shoulders slumped and Lisa, who is Jewish, saw an opportunity.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Lisa Miller: I approached the unit chief and said, "I'm certainly not a rabbi, but I've been to two-and-a-half decades of Yom Kippur services. I'd be happy to facilitate if that might be OK with you." So I showed up on Yom Kippur and the patients had arrived early to the kitchen, which was to be our sanctuary. The fluorescent lights were quite strong and as we crowded around the linoleum table there was an extraordinary feeling of specialness.
As we started the prayers that we all knew from our childhood, joining together saying in Hebrew the prayers of Yom Kippur, I looked over and noticed that as the gentleman with bipolar was davening, he could not have been further from explosive. He was holding our group in the cadence of the prayers and we were actually following him.
I took a pause and I said, "I feel so grateful to be here today in our Yom Kippur ceremony. Would anyone like to say anything?" We went around the table and the first person to speak was a very otherwise withdrawn woman with recurrent depression. She said, "You know, I always knew on Yom Kippur we could ask for forgiveness. But sitting here now with you all, I'm aware that we can be forgiven. God can forgive us." And she looked liberated.
As I looked around the table at the patients, whatever their symptoms had been yesterday, they were free in that moment. They were free of suffering. They were free of the characteristic patterns that had dragged them down in a way that was equal and opposite to their main symptoms. And so I thought a mental health system minus spirituality made no sense, and that became my life's work, to understand the place of spirituality in renewal, in recovery, in resilience, and to put this in the language of science.
Rachel Martin: What happened when you brought these kinds of questions to your peers, to the other people in your scientific community? Like when you said for the first time, "Hey, I think we need to look at the effect of spirituality on mental health." What did people say to you?
Miller: Well, the vast majority were very respectful, nodded, and didn't pick up the thread. Some of them would say, "That's not psychology, that's not psychiatry." And in fact, I remember early on giving a grand rounds presentation and I opened up saying, "I'm going to speak today about a body of data using nationally representative samples on spirituality and mental health with all the gold standard methods." And about 10 people got up and walked out. It was absolutely not of interest.
Martin: Using the gold standard, what did that mean in terms of the experiments you were running and the studies and the data you were collecting? How did you make sure that it would hold water in the scientific community?
Miller: If I were to characterize the first five years of my investigation, I would say I used the data sets that everyone else knew and trusted. I only asked one new question, which was: "What's the impact of spirituality on the DSM diagnosis of addiction and depression?" The findings were jaw dropping.
The protective benefit of personal spirituality, meaning someone who says their personal spirituality is very important, is 80% against addiction. They have 80% decreased relative risk for the DSM diagnosis of addiction to drugs or alcohol.
Martin: Wait, so someone who self-identifies as having a meaningful spiritual life is 80% less likely to get addicted to drugs or alcohol than someone who says they don't?
Miller: Yes.
Martin: Wow. And how can you prove that it is a spiritual life that is doing that and not some external factor? Because you heard this from other critics, too, some of your peers said you can't attribute that to spirituality, it's gotta be some other social conditioning.
Miller: Well, that's a very important point because in every study we controlled for all of the usual interpretations about this being social support or having resources. So we plugged into our equation every other possible explanation that was generally taken in mental health to explain the road to depression. And nonetheless, it actually turned out that the more high risk we are, the more that there's stress in our lives, the more that we might be genetically at risk for depression, the greater the impact of spirituality as a source of resilience as preventative against major depression.
Martin: What does that look like in the brain?
Miller: One of the most beautiful findings in my 20 years as an investigator was from an MRI study conducted together with our colleagues at Yale Medical School. We looked at people of many different faith traditions and the first finding was that there is one neuro seat of transcendent perception and we share it. Now there's human variability of course, and we can strengthen components.
Martin: How are you actually doing that with people? Are you asking your subjects to pray? What are the spiritual inputs that are going into them so that you can measure it on their brains?
Miller: The very specific prompt was, "Tell us about a time where you felt a deep connection to God, your higher power, the source of life." Everyone had a story like that and as they told their story, we recorded them and it was then played back in their ears while they were inside the scanner.
Martin: Ah, they heard themselves recounting their spiritual experience.
Miller: It was tailor made to their own moment.
Martin: And you saw their brains light up?
Miller: Oh yes. Connecting to these memories, the bonding network comes up online just as when we were held in the arms of our parents or grandparents.
Martin: Wait, when you say the bonding network you mean you can literally see that the brain will respond to spiritual stimuli in the same way that it does to a hug from a family member when you're a baby?
Miller: Precisely.
Martin: Can you tell me how this manifests in the real world? I'm thinking about this anecdote you include in the book about a client of yours. A girl you refer to as Iliana.
Miller: Iliana adored her father, I mean, he was the sun and the moon and the stars to her. They were so close. And one night two men who her father knew, came into his corner store, robbed him and murdered him. And she was devastated. This was a grief that was so deep. She simply could not free herself from the grief that was shackling her heart.
One day, Iliana skips into my office. There's a levity and joy. She plops into the seat and says, "Dr. Miller, you're never gonna believe this. My cousin and my cousin's girlfriend chaperoned me so I could go to a party and I met the most wonderful boy. We talked so long, it must have been 20 minutes. He was so polite and so kind. But here's the best part, his name." Which was the same very usual name as her father.
She said, "Don't you see? My father sent him. My father is looking out after me." And from that day on she was in the world of the living. What changed everything for Iliana was the awareness that her father walked with her. She maintained a deep transcendent relationship with her father, as most people around the world do.
Iliana trusted her deep inner knowing that this was far too probabilistic to have happened by chance. That this very rare name held both by this new boy and her father could possibly mean nothing.
Martin: Can I ask, what are you thinking as you hear this? I mean, are you thinking that is just a crazy coincidence, but if she needs to believe that this is a sign from God, who am I to tell her otherwise? Because it seems to be working.
Miller: Well, at the time, that was certainly the most common interpretive framework amongst psychologists and psychiatrists. But I could see plain as day that this was a tremendously sacred moment. This was a living miracle. This was a gift.
For me to have treated it like some kind of cultural diversity variable or that it's just the meaning she makes would've actually taken all of the energy and spirit out of that transformative awakening moment. I joined her.
Now I did that authentically because it was my view as well that this is far too nonprobabilistic to have happened by chance, that there are very few people by that very same name and that the first boy she met in a year and a half since her father's passing should have the name of the father. It was a synchronicity. There was a deeper meaning being revealed.
Martin: When you're talking to people who aren't scientists, someone who's skeptical, someone who doesn't have faith, who doesn't have what they define as a spiritual life, what do you want them to take away from your research and your message?
Miller: I've given a number of talks to audiences who, prior to seeing the science, would not necessarily consider themselves spiritual people. And, in fact, I oftentimes hear from people who consider themselves skeptics and very left-brained and when they see the peer reviewed science that says we're naturally spiritual beings, that when we cultivate our spirituality we're 80% less likely to be addicted, 82% less likely to take our lives, it speaks to the left side of their brains long enough that it quiets down the skepticism.
In other words, three cheers for the skeptic. Here is published, peer reviewed science for skeptical audiences to begin to explore, to be curious about our spiritual nature. You know, at the inner table of human knowing we all have an empiricist, a logician, an intuitive, a mystic, and a skeptic. And the skeptic is very welcome, but the skeptic is not the bouncer at the door.
It is not scientific to put a skeptic as a bouncer at the door. It is not more rigorous to toss out an idea before being examined in every way. We are wired to be able to investigate. So I simply say to the biggest skeptic of all, you are most welcome to your own inner table of inquiry, but be sure to invite everyone else.
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Consumer demand for speed and convenience drives labor unrest among workers in Hollywood and at UPS
NEW YORK (AP) — Drastic changes in consumer demands are driving labor unrest in diverse industries upended by technology. Hollywood actors and writers and UPS delivery drivers are among workers fighting for better pay and working conditions. And they want consumers to understand what it takes to meet rising expectations for speed and convenience. The central issues are that workers are overworked and underpaid. Screenwriters say they are expected to create scripts for the streaming era faster for less pay. UPS drivers say forced overtime got out of hand as online shopping accelerated and delivery exploded. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid part-time or contract forces.
High winds stall efforts to tow a burning cargo ship packed with cars off northern Dutch coast
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch authorities say high winds in the North Sea are delaying efforts to tow a burning cargo ship carrying thousands of new cars to safety off the coast of the Netherlands. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management says the ship, the Fremantle Highway, is unlikely to be moved in the coming days due to the weather. The ship was floating north of a chain of Dutch islands on Sunday. The Fremantle Highway is transporting 3,783 new vehicles, including 498 electric vehicles, from the German port of Bremerhaven to Singapore. The cause of the fire has not been determined.
India cuts rice exports, triggering panic-buying of food staple by some Indian expats in the US
NEW YORK (AP) — Hoping to stave off inflationary pressures on a diet staple, the Indian government is banning exports of non-Basmati white rice varieties. It's triggering worry among the Indian diaspora in the United States that access to a food staple from home might soon be cut off. Some rushed to supermarkets to stock up, stacking carts with bags and bags of rice. In some places, lines formed outside some stores as panic buying ensued. An earlier than expected El Niño brought drier, warmer weather in some parts of Asia and is expected to harm rice production. But in some parts of India, where the monsoon season was especially brutal, flooding destroyed some crops, adding to production woes and rising prices.
More Trader Joe's recalls? This soup may contain bugs and falafel may have rocks, grocer says
NEW YORK (AP) — Trader Joe's is recalling a broccoli cheddar soup that may contain insects and cooked falafel that may contain rocks, about one week after the grocery chain recalled two cookie products over similar concerns. The soup recall impacts Trader Joe's Unexpected Broccoli Cheddar Soup with "Use By" dates ranging from July 18 to Sept. 15, according to a Thursday announcement from the company. On Friday, the grocer announced that Trader Joe's Fully Cooked Falafel sold in 35 states and Washington, D.C., was also under recall. In each case, "there was an issue in the manufacturing processes in the facilities," a Trader Joe's spokesperson says. Customers with the recalled products should throw them away or return them to any store for a full refund.
Historically Black fraternity drops Florida for convention because of DeSantis policies
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The oldest historically Black collegiate fraternity in the U.S. says it is relocating a planned convention in two years from Florida because of what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration's "harmful, racist and insensitive" policies towards African Americans. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity said this week that it would move its 2025 convention from Orlando. The convention draws between 4,000 and 6,000 people and has an economic impact of $4.6 million. The decision comes after the NAACP and other civil rights organizations this spring issued a travel advisory for Florida, warning that recent policies are openly hostile to African Americans and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
US price and wage increases slow further in the latest signs of cooling inflation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Signs that inflation pressures in the United States are steadily easing emerged Friday in reports that consumer prices rose in June at their slowest pace in more than two years and that wage growth cooled last quarter. Together, the figures provided the latest signs that the Federal Reserve's drive to tame inflation may succeed without triggering a recession, an outcome known as a "soft landing." A price gauge closely monitored by the Fed rose just 3% in June from a year earlier. That was down from a 3.8% annual increase in May, though still above the Fed's 2% inflation target.
Adidas to release second batch of Yeezy sneakers after breakup with Ye
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Adidas is releasing a second batch of high-end Yeezy sneakers after cutting ties with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. The German sportswear brand is trying to unload the unsold shoes while donating to groups fighting antisemitism. The online sale, to start Wednesday through Adidas smartphone apps and its website, follows an earlier set of sales in May. Adidas cut ties with Ye in October after he made antisemitic and other offensive remarks. That left Adidas holding $1.3 billion worth of unsold Yeezys and searching for a responsible way to dispose of them. Part of the profits from the sales will be donated to groups fighting antisemitism.
Stock market: Wall Street returns to rallying following reports on profits and inflation
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street got back to climbing following more encouraging profit reports and the latest signal that inflation is loosening its chokehold on the economy. The S&P 500 rose 1% Friday to close out its ninth winning week in the last 11. The Dow added 176 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq climbed 1.9% as Big Tech stocks led the market. Stocks have been rallying on hopes high inflation is cooling enough to get the Federal Reserve to stop hiking interest rates. A report Friday said the Fed's preferred measure of inflation slowed last month by a touch more than expected.
With one eye on China, Japan backs Sri Lanka as a partner in the Indo-Pacific
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi says that Sri Lanka's strategic location in the Indian Ocean makes it a key partner in realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific. The minister is in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, where he met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe and his counterpart Ali Sabry. The Japanese-led initiative aims at building security and economic cooperation but is also geared toward curbing an increasingly assertive China. It includes Japan's assistance to emerging economies, support for maritime security, the provision of coast guard patrol boats and equipment, and other infrastructure cooperation. Last year, Sri Lanka defaulted on its public debt of about $51 billion - much of it owed to China.
Germany used to be the world's export powerhouse. Now, it's not growing. What happened?
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The German economy is still failing to grow. The country that should be the industrial powerhouse for all of Europe is struggling with high energy prices, rising borrowing costs and a lagging rebound from key trading partner China. Official figures released Friday show economic output stagnated in the April-to-June quarter. That follows a decline in the first three months of the year and last three months of 2022 as the energy shock from Russia's war in Ukraine echoed through Europe's largest economy. It comes after the International Monetary Fund forecast that Germany would be the only developed economy to shrink this year.
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CANBERRA, Australia -- 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 at about 11 p.m. Friday near Lindeman Island, a Great Barrier Reef tourist resort, exercise director Australian army Brigadier Damian Hill said.
A search involving U.S., Canadian and Australian personnel was underway to find the crew members 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 Saturday morning but had restarted limited activity later in the day. Australia had grounded its Taipan fleet as a precaution, Hill said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Brisbane for a meeting Saturday and is due to travel with Marles to north Queensland today 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."
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 proved 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 tail rotor blades. A year later, 27 Taipans were grounded because of a problem with doors.
DEFENSE COOPERATION
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 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.
Austin and Blinken, and their Australian counterparts, Marles and Wong, agreed to cooperate on Australia producing Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems by 2025, a communique said.
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.
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Nearly two years after 10 people were crushed to death during the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival, no charges have been filed — even though some people, including event workers, expressed safety concerns.
Pinpointing “who exactly caused those deaths is not an easy question to answer,” said Sandra Guerra Thompson, a criminal law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
“It’s a very difficult thing to say, unless you have some kind of clear evidence that somebody in charge, whose job it was to ensure safety and who should have known better, failed to take action,” she said.
A nearly 1,300-page report on the investigation into the tragedy released by Houston police Friday said contract worker Reece Wheeler told authorities that he saw a crush of people and warned an event organizer that people could die, shortly before rapper Travis Scott went onstage.
In the report, investigators wrote that Scott said he did see one person near the stage getting medical attention, but said that overall, the crowd seemed to enjoy the show. He said he did not see any signs of serious problems, nor did he hear anyone tell him to stop the show.
Hip-hop artist Drake, who also performed, told police it was difficult to see from the stage what was going on in the crowd and that he didn’t hear anyone call for the show to stop.
Despite no charges being filed, more than 500 lawsuits have been filed over the deaths and injuries at the concert, including many against concert promoter Live Nation and Scott. Some of those suits have since been settled.
Those who were killed ranged in age from 9 to 27, and all 10 people died due to compression asphyxia, according to medical examiners.
In June, a Texas grand jury declined to indict six people in the case, including Scott. Prosecutors said, then, that the circumstances of the deaths limited what charges they were able to present, eliminating potential counts such as murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Thompson said the sheer number of people involved in putting on the event, the large scale of it, and the high bar for proving criminal negligence or recklessness are challenges for prosecutors in cases like this.
“It goes back to, who knows what’s going on, is that being communicated?” she said. “Were they being told that people have died, and they still wanted the concert to go on? Or, were they being told that ‘Hey, some people are getting hurt, which might not be that unusual at an event like that?”
Assistant Harris County District Attorney Alycia Harvey said after the grand jury declined to issue indictments that prosecutors were left with only possible counts of endangering a child in connection with the deaths of the two youngest concertgoers, ages 9 and 14.
Scott’s lawyer, Kent Schaffer, has said that the performer was not responsible for the tragedy.
“He never encouraged people to do anything that resulted in other people being hurt,” Schaffer said.
Scott has previously said he was unaware of the deaths until after the show. He has since created what he called Project HEAL, a $5 million initiative that includes funding for an effort to address safety challenges for festivals and large-scale events.
The police report said Scott told investigators that around the time Drake came onstage he was told to end the show after the performance, but that no one told him of an emergency.
Following the tragedy, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott formed a task force to study concert safety, and to recommend crowd control and security measures during mass gathering.
The task force in April 2022 reported that people without tickets entered the outdoor festival area hours before the performances began, overwhelming staff and leading to a variety of injuries. It also concluded that the process for issuing permits for mass gatherings is inconsistent statewide.
The task force recommended creating a command center that is authorized to pause or cancel a show in response to safety concerns.
“Sometimes, sadly, industries learn safety practices following disasters,” said Thompson, the law professor. “The standards for live concerts like this, I would imagine, are going to change.”
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Official tells AP that Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in August
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in early August seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia's war on the country. That's what an official told The Associated Press on Saturday night. The kingdom and Kyiv did not immediately acknowledge the planned talks. The official says the summit will be held in the city of Jeddah. The official says the summit will include Ukraine, as well as Brazil, India, South Africa and several other countries. The official added that a high-level official from U.S. President Joe Biden's administration also is expected to attend. Russia is not invited. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as no authorization had been given to publicly discuss the summit.
An overnight drone attack on Moscow injures 1 and temporarily closes an airport
Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic in and out of one of four airports around the Russian capital. The Russian Defense Ministry said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed and crashed in the Moscow City business district. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the facades of two buildings. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials. No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, Tass said.
Trump, amid legal perils, calls on GOP to rally around him as he threatens primary challenges
NEW YORK (AP) — At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump on Saturday ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. At a rally in Pennsylvania, he also threatened to primary Republican members of Congress who fail to focus on investigating Democratic President Joe Biden and urged them to halt Ukrainian military aid unless the White House cooperates with investigations into Biden and his family. The comments came two days after federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against the former president and GOP frontrunner as part of the case that accuses him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club.
Supporters of Niger's coup march through the capital waving Russian flags and denouncing France
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Thousands of supporters of the junta that took over Niger in a coup earlier this week have marched through the streets of the capital, Niamey, waving Russian flags, chanting the name of the Russian president and forcefully denouncing former colonial power France. Russian mercenary group Wagner is already operating in neighboring Mali and Moscow would like to expand its influence in the region. Meanwhile, some people are calling out the junta's reasons for seizing control. The mutineers said they overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum because he wasn't able to secure the nation from growing jihadi violence. But some analysts and Nigeriens say that's just a pretext for a takeover that is more about internal power struggles than securing the nation.
Consumer demand for speed and convenience drives labor unrest among workers in Hollywood and at UPS
NEW YORK (AP) — Drastic changes in consumer demands are driving labor unrest in diverse industries upended by technology. Hollywood actors and writers and UPS delivery drivers are among workers fighting for better pay and working conditions. And they want consumers to understand what it takes to meet rising expectations for speed and convenience. The central issues are that workers are overworked and underpaid. Screenwriters say they are expected to create scripts for the streaming era faster for less pay. UPS drivers say forced overtime got out of hand as online shopping accelerated and delivery exploded. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid part-time or contract forces.
Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over 'harmful' materials
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing "harmful" materials to minors. U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law on Saturday. The law was set to take effect Aug. 1. It also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request they be relocated to areas children can't access. The ruling comes as lawmakers in a number of conservative states are pushing for measures making it easier to ban or restrict access to books.
Water is refreshing in the heat, right? In parts of Florida this past week, not so much
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — When the ocean gets really hot, it's less refreshing. Earlier this week, sea surface temperatures rose above 100 degrees Fahrenheit at a spot off Florida's southern tip. In the prolonged heat wave smothering the Southwest, pools are so hot that they don't offer enough relief. One woman threw blocks of ice into her pool to lower the temperature. This is happening when large swaths of the United STates are suffering through a heat wave. Scientists recently declared that July was the hottest month ever recorded for the globe. Luckily in Florida, a storm finally helped sea surface temperatures fall where they were extremely high.
China says US military aid to Taiwan will not deter its will to unify the island
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an "ammunition depot" after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei. Taiwan said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores. China's Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday opposing the military aid to the self-ruled island, which China claims as its own territory. Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office, said no amount of military spending will shake China's "firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland." China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Taiwan has never been governed by China's ruling Communist Party.
Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The collapse of the Black Sea grain deal and a series of missile strikes on Ukrainian grain silos and ports have left farmers with few options to export their grain — and all of them are getting more expensive. The agricultural company Ivushka, in a southern Ukraine village, was struck by three Russian cruise missiles in mid-July. Much of the grain stored there was burned in the explosions, and they hope to save the rest before it rains. The Ukrainian harvest is at its lowest levels in a decade, and the new risks mean Ukrainian farmers are likely to think hard about how much to plant in coming seasons — or whether to plant at all. That will raise food prices around the world.
'The Few, the Proud' aren't so few: Marines recruiting surges while other services struggle
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Marine Corps leaders say they'll make their recruiting goal this year, at a time when the active-duty Army, Navy and Air Force expect to fall short. All the services have struggled in the tight job market to compete with higher-paying businesses for the dwindling number of young people who can meet the military's physical, mental and moral standards. So how are the Marines doing it? Recruiting leaders say a key to their success is the emphasis the Corps puts on selecting top-performing Marines to fill recruiting jobs. That's along with efforts to increase the number of recruiters, extend those who do well and then speed their return to high schools, where in-person recruiting stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The following marriage license applications were recorded July 18-24 in the Sebastian County Clerk's Office.
July 18
Johnny Lynn Esner, 75, Muldrow, Okla., and Reba Jean Barnes, 77, Fort Smith
Jacob Austin Humphries, 29, and Marielle Amelia De Mondesert, 28, both of Chicago
Kevin George Gentry, 42, and Trina Louise Harvell, 56, both of Vian, Okla.
July 19
Timothy Paul Robinson, 69, and Janet Lewis, 64, both of Fort Smith
Andre Dvaugn Cheeks, 35, and Summer Dawn Parks, 29, both of Fort Smith
Alejandro Salvador Ortiz, 24, and Ebely Guadalupe Rodriguez Flores, 24, both of Van Buren
Nicholas Michael Sanchez, 35, andRicardo Prieto-Palacios, 21, both of Albuquerque, N.M.
July 20
Charles Edward Harris Jr., 54, and Theresa Louise Deeter, 52, both of Noble, Okla.
Matthew Thomas Manning, 30, and Brittany Louise R. Mizell, 28, both of Fort Smith
Lawrence Talbert Woosley Jr., 23, and Emily Elizabeth Rhea, 26, both of Greenwood
July 21
Roni Joe Robinson, 47, Wister, Okla., and Christa L Seitz, 45, Spiro, Okla.
Valentin Loredo Uribe, 28, and Elizabeth Aurora Armenta, 28, both of Fort Smith
Doyle M. Fuller, 46, and Bousha Rene Strandgard, 46, both of Fort Smith
Renzo David Ruiz Vidal, 46, and Betsy Yuliana Quijandria La Rosa, 43, both of Van Buren
Virgil Wayne Wald, 71, Fort Smith, and Gail Ruth Watson, 67, Lavaca
Scott Ashton Beesley, 20, Spiro, Okla., and Racee Lynette Henderson, 22, Warner, Okla. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/40-apply-for-marriage-licenses-in-sebastian-county/ | 2023-07-30T13:18:57 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/40-apply-for-marriage-licenses-in-sebastian-county/ |
TOKYO (AP) — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.
On Saturday, when the flag was returned to him from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 years, Mutsuda, now 83, said: “It’s a miracle.”
The flag, known as “Yosegaki Hinomaru,” or Good Luck Flag, carries the soldier’s name, Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, and the signatures of his relatives, friends and neighbors wishing him luck. It was given to him before he was drafted by the Army. His family was later told he died in Saipan, but his remains were never returned.
The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Its meaning was not known until it was identified by the family earlier this year, said museum director Steve Banta, who brought the flag to Tokyo.
Banta said he learned the story behind the flag earlier this year when he was contacted by the Obon Society, a nonprofit organization that has returned about 500 similar flags as non-biological remains, to the descendants of Japanese servicemembers killed in the war.
The search for the flag’s original owner started in April when a museum visitor took a photo and asked an expert about the description that it had belonged to a “kamikaze” suicide pilot. When Shigeyoshi Mutsuda’s grandson saw the photo, he sought help from the Obon Society, group co-founder Keiko Ziak said.
“When we learned all of this, and that the family would like to have the flag, we knew immediately that the flag did not belong to us,” Banta said at the handover ceremony. “We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.”
The soldier’s eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when Banta, wearing white gloves, gently placed the neatly folded flag into his hands. Two of his younger siblings, both in their 80s, stood by and looked on silently. The three children, all wearing cotton gloves so they wouldn’t damage the decades-old flag, carefully unfolded it to show to the audience.
“After receiving the flag today, I earnestly felt that the war like that should never be fought again and that I do not wish anyone else to go through this sadness (of separation),” Toshihiro Mutsuda said.
The soldier’s daughter, Misako Matsukuchi, touched the flag with both hands and prayed. “After nearly 80 years, the spirit of our father returned to us. I hope he can finally rest in peace,” Matsukuchi said later.
Toshihiro Mutsuda said his memory of his father was foggy. However, he clearly remembers his mother, Masae Mutsuda, who died five years ago at age 102, used to make the long-distance bus trip almost every year from the farming town in Gifu, central Japan, to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, where the 2.5 million war dead are enshrined, to pay tribute to her husband’s spirit.
The shrine is controversial, as it includes convicted war criminals among those commemorated. Victims of Japanese aggression during the first half of the 20th century, especially China and the Koreas, see Yasukuni as a symbol of Japanese militarism. However, for the Mutsuda family, it’s a place to remember the loss of a father and husband.
“It’s like an old love story across the ages coming together … It doesn’t matter where,” Banta said, referring to the Yasukuni controversy. “The important thing is this flag goes to the family.”
That’s why Toshihiro Mutsuda and his siblings chose to receive the flag at Yasukuni and brought the framed photos of their parents.
“My mother missed him and wanted to see him so much and that’s why she used to pray here,” he said. “Today her wish finally came true, and she was able to be reunited.”
Keeping the flag on his lap, he said, “I feel the weight of the flag.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/ap-its-a-miracle-say-family-of-japanese-soldier-killed-in-wwii-as-flag-he-carried-returns-from-us/ | 2023-07-30T13:18:58 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/ap-its-a-miracle-say-family-of-japanese-soldier-killed-in-wwii-as-flag-he-carried-returns-from-us/ |
WASHINGTON -- Justice Samuel Alito claims Congress lacks the power to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court, making him the first member of the court to take a public stand against proposals in Congress to toughen ethics rules for justices in response to increased scrutiny of their activities beyond the bench.
"I know this is a controversial view, but I'm willing to say it. No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court -- period," Alito said in an interview he gave to the Wall Street Journal opinion pages. An account of the interview, which the paper said took place in early July in New York, was published Friday.
Democrats this month pushed Supreme Court ethics legislation through a Senate committee, though the bill's prospects in the full Senate are dim.
All federal judges other than the justices already adhere to an ethics code that was developed by the federal judiciary. But the Supreme Court's unique status -- it's the only federal court created by the Constitution -- puts it outside the reach of those standards that apply to other federal jurists.
Democrats first sought to address that after ProPublica reported earlier this year that Justice Clarence Thomas participated in lavish vacations and a real estate deal with a top Republican donor -- and after Chief Justice John Roberts declined to testify before the committee about the ethics of the court.
Since then, ProPublica also revealed that Alito had taken a luxury vacation in Alaska with a Republican donor who had business interests before the court. The Associated Press reported in early July that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, aided by her staff, has advanced sales of her books through college visits over the past decade.
The 73-year-old Alito, who joined the court in 2006, has rejected the idea that he should have disclosed the Alaska trip or stepped away from cases involving the donor, hedge fund owner Paul Singer. Alito penned his own Wall Street Journal op-ed, which was published hours before ProPublica posted its story.
Alito said that he is unwilling to leave allegations unanswered, though he acknowledged judges and justices typically don't respond to their critics.
"And so at a certain point I've said to myself, nobody else is going to do this, so I have to defend myself," he said in the newest column.
While no other justice has spoken so definitively about ethics legislation, Roberts has raised questions about Congress' authority to oversee the high court.
In his year-end report in 2011, Roberts wrote that the justices comply with legislation that requires annual financial disclosures and limits their outside earned income.
"The Court has never addressed whether Congress may impose those requirements on the Supreme Court. The Justices nevertheless comply with those provisions," Roberts wrote.
The justices have so far resisted adopting an ethics code on their own, although Roberts said in May there is more the court can do to "adhere to the highest standards" of ethical conduct, without providing specifics.
The column is co-written by James Taranto, the paper's editorial features editor, and David Rivkin, a Washington lawyer. Rivkin represents Leonard Leo, the one-time leader of the conservative legal group The Federalist Society, in his dealings with Senate Democrats who want details of Leo's dealings with the justices. Leo helped arrange Alito's trip to Alaska.
Rivkin, in a letter Tuesday to leading Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the request was politically motivated and violates Leo's constitutional rights. Rivkin also wrote that a congressionally imposed ethics code for the Supreme Court would falter on constitutional grounds.
Separately, Rivkin represents a couple whose tax case will be argued before the court in the fall.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.
Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.
The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what’s called a blue moon.
“Warm summer nights are the ideal time to watch the full moon rise in the eastern sky within minutes of sunset. And it happens twice in August,” said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise.
The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project.
Masi will provide a live webcast of Tuesday evening’s supermoon, as it rises over the Coliseum in Rome.
“My plans are to capture the beauty of this … hopefully bringing the emotion of the show to our viewers,” Masi said in an email.
“The supermoon offers us a great opportunity to look up and discover the sky,” he added.
This year’s first supermoon was in July. The fourth and last will be in September. The two in August will be closer than either of those.
Provided clear skies, binoculars or backyard telescopes can enhance the experience, Espenak said, revealing such features as lunar maria — the dark plains formed by ancient volcanic lava flows — and rays emanating from lunar craters.
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the August full moon is traditionally known as the sturgeon moon. That’s because of the abundance of that fish in the Great Lakes in August, hundreds of years ago.
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FAYETTEVILLE -- Beginning Tuesday, Arkansas law enforcement officers will have a new tool to help enhance safety by utilizing automated speed enforcement cameras in interstate work zones, according to a news release from the state Highway Department.
The law passed by the state legislature earlier this year allows for the use of automated speed cameras to capture pictures of speeding vehicles in interstate work zones. Information regarding the speeding vehicle will then be transmitted to an officer stationed downstream, who will then have the authority to issue a warning or citation.
"This technology will help save lives," said Arkansas Department of Transportation Director Lorie Tudor. "I want to thank the Arkansas State Legislature and the Governor for enacting this law in the interest of worker and motorist safety across the State."
The technology is solely used to assist officers in enforcing speed limits in interstate work zones. It will not be used to issue tickets by mail. An officer must be present for a warning or ticket to be issued. Signs will alert drivers when they are entering a work zone that may have automated speed enforcement cameras in use. The law stipulates that data captured from these devices shall not be retained except when it is used to issue a warning or citation.
"With the ongoing shortage of law enforcement officers, this technology will help supplement our existing officers' efforts to keep Arkansas roadways safe," said Arkansas Highway Police Chief Jeff Holmes. "The automated camera's presence in the work zone means we can have an officer stationed downstream to safely perform traffic stops outside of the work zone, keeping everyone safer." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/cameras-coming-to-interstate-work-zones/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:09 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/cameras-coming-to-interstate-work-zones/ |
A blockbuster new research paper on college admissions confirms in dramatic detail what nearly everyone has long suspected: The elite admissions game is played on a tilted playing field that gives students from wealthy families substantially higher odds of admission than less-privileged students with similar academic credentials.
But it also reflects a kind of artificial scarcity of slots at the top schools. As one of the authors, David Deming, observes in his newsletter, every year there are 30,000 to 35,000 students with scores of either 1550 (on the SAT) or 34 (on the ACT), but there are only 20,000 slots in these 12 schools. At the same time, globalization and the rise of a global middle class have only increased the level of international interest in the crown jewels of the American higher education system.
There is a relatively simple way to reduce the tensions and build on one of America’s great national strengths: Make these schools larger. And the main obstacle to doing that isn’t necessarily some quasi-conspiratorial effort to preserve exclusivity. It’s the much more banal force of NIMBYism.
Harvard, for example, has expanded its campus footprint aggressively in Boston in recent years because that’s where it’s been able to get permission to grow. But the historic center of the university is in Cambridge, on the other side of a river, so the expansion doesn’t include new dorms for undergraduates or the larger class sizes they could accommodate. Yale, located in much poorer and more growth-friendly New Haven, has built new residential colleges and expanded admissions.
Dartmouth’s administration developed an ambitious plan to create new transitional housing while existing dorms were renovated, allowing for greater enrollment — but it was squashed by faculty opposition to the location, more than a mile from the existing center of campus. Why not build someplace closer? Because closer housing sites “have a degree of complexity which makes them difficult to unlock,” a Dartmouth vice president told the local Valley News. Translation: It would be more expensive and time-consuming to build near the center of town.
Thus the quintessential local issue of zoning squabbles ends up generating a national scarcity of elite college admissions slots, fueling zero-sum competition and ultimately reducing America’s ability to increase global “exports” of its best-in-class high-end higher education product.
In a 2008 paper on land use trends, economists Ed Glaeser and Bryce Ward looked at towns that include a top-50 university. They found that in the 1990s, such university towns became sharply more hostile to permitting new housing — an unintended, under-discussed and unconsidered shift in US higher education policy that’s made it harder for universities to expand along with population.
The national and even global significance of US colleges and universities is yet another reason why state governments ought to take a larger role in land-use policy and overrule local stakeholders. It is entirely understandable that longtime residents of Hanover, Princeton or Cambridge might oppose new dorms because they will bring more traffic and less parking. What’s harder to understand is why economic-development officials in New Hampshire, New Jersey or Massachusetts aren’t advocating more vigorously for campus expansion and all the new jobs it would bring.
Quality universities are engines of economic development, and both their teaching and research missions are inherently tied to specific locations. Letting them grow where they already are — and allowing new complementary residential and commercial development near campus — is too important to allow the people who happen to live close-by have veto power over the whole thing.
So am I saying that the key to redressing this longstanding social, economic and educational injustice is … zoning reform? Not even I would go that far (though as I like to point out, better zoning can help solve a lot of problems). Still, over and above all the other questions around the future of US higher education, one thing is clear: There is an oversupply of highly talented students. America’s best schools should expand to accommodate them — and the states in which they are located ought to make the policy changes needed to let them grow.
Elsewhere in Bloomberg Opinion:
• Colleges Should Bring Back Testing Requirements: Michael R. Bloomberg
• America’s Educational Superpower Is Fading: Adrian Wooldridge
• Wesleyan Won’t Be the Last University to Ban Legacy Admissions: Stephen L. Carter
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(1) Schools in the Ivy League are (from north to south) Dartmouth, Cornell, Harvard, Brown, Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Penn.
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Matthew Yglesias is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A co-founder of and former columnist for Vox, he writes the Slow Boring blog and newsletter. He is author, most recently, of “One Billion Americans.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Chatter on one of Prabha Rao’s WhatsApp groups exploded last week when India announced that it was severely curtailing some rice exports to the rest of the world, triggering worry among the Indian diaspora in the United States that access to a food staple from home might soon be cut off.
As in any crisis situation — think bottled water and toilet paper— some rushed to supermarkets to stock up, stacking carts with bags and bags of rice. In some places, lines formed outside some stores as panic buying ensued.
But Rao, who lives near Syracuse, New York, was reassured when the proprietor of her Indian market sent out an email to customers to let them know there was no need to worry: There was an ample supply of rice.
At least for now.
An earlier than expected El Niño brought drier, warmer weather in some parts of Asia and is expected to harm rice production. But in some parts of India, where the monsoon season was especially brutal, flooding destroyed some crops, adding to production woes and rising prices.
Hoping to stave off inflationary pressures on a diet staple, the Indian government earlier this month imposed export bans on non-Basmati white rice varieties, prompting hoarding in some parts of the world.
The move was taken “to ensure adequate availability” and “to allay the rise in prices in the domestic market,” India’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution announced July 20. Over the past year, prices have increased by more than 11%, and by 3% over the past month, the government said.
Non-Basmati white rice constitutes about a fourth of the rice exported by India.
“On WhatsApp, I got a lot of messages saying that rice was not going to be available. I think there was a lot of confusion in the beginning because, as you know, rice is very important for us,” Rao said.
“When we first heard the news, there was just mild confusion and people started panic buying because they thought that it may not be available,” she said.
There are scores of different varieties of rice, with people having their preference depending on taste and texture. India’s export ban does not apply to Basmati rice, a long-grain variety that is more aromatic.
The ban applies to short-grain rice that is starchier and has a relatively neutral flavor — which Rao says is preferable in some dishes or favored in specific regions of India, especially in southern areas of the country.
At Little India, a grocery store in New York City’s Curry Hill neighborhood in Manhattan, there was no shortage of Basmati rice and other varieties.
That wasn’t the case at other Indian groceries.
On its Facebook page, India Bazaar, an Indian grocery chain in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, told customers not to panic. “We are working hard to meet all our shoppers’ demands,” the post said.
Customers cleared shelves and waited in long lines to stockpile bags of rice, reported NBC Dallas affiliate KXAS.
“They really wanted to purchase ten, 12, 15 bags,” India Bazaar’s president, Anand Pabari, told the station. “It was a really crazy situation.”
India’s move came days after Russia backed out of a deal to allow Ukrainian wheat safe passage through the Black Sea, prompting warnings that the action could lead to surging prices.
Some economists say the ban might further hurt food supplies around the world, and some governments have urged the Indian government to reconsider the export ban.
At least in the United States, the supply of imported rice from India may not yet be a problem — despite the panic buying — but a long-term ban would certainly deplete that stock.
Roa says she and others will just have to adapt by purchasing rice grown in the United States or imported from other countries.
“I might have to substitute Basmati rice,” she said, “but it doesn’t taste that good, especially with South Indian dishes.”
A U.S. resident for three decades, Rao said she is accustomed to improvising.
“When we first came here, there was not even that much rice from India,” she said. “So I’ve learned to substitute, and I’m fine with the other brands that we get.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/business/ap-india-cuts-rice-exports-triggering-panic-buying-of-food-staple-by-some-indian-expats-in-the-us/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:12 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/business/ap-india-cuts-rice-exports-triggering-panic-buying-of-food-staple-by-some-indian-expats-in-the-us/ |
LOS ANGELES — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/30/rent-apartment-construction-renting-affordability/be7d0dea-2ed0-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html | 2023-07-30T13:19:14 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/30/rent-apartment-construction-renting-affordability/be7d0dea-2ed0-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html |
Creating a community theater production of "Cinderella" "starts with a wish," says Eric Wells, who is directing the Fort Smith Little Theatre summer musical. On top of that, layer "colorful characters, beautiful music, wonderful dancing and magic on and off stage," and what you get, he says, is "an experience no one will forget."
"I am a sucker for a fairy tale," adds Wells, who is often seen performing at FSLT. "And finding a show that is loved by so many people in different generations and bringing it to life on our stage is a dream come true."
Wells assembled a cast of 27 -- "a great mix of veterans and new people" -- and then the magic began. FSLT veteran George Mann is the music director, Wesley Fox is choreographer, and designer Janet Renwick says costumes have required more than 400 yards of fabric.
"The challenge of creating the onstage transformation into Cinderella's ballgown was exciting to me from the beginning," she adds. "And nothing says 'ballgowns' more than Cinderella!"
"When you start with a bare stage and watch as the set is built, costumes are made, props added, music, choreography, and lines all come together, it is so beautiful," Wells enthuses. "Our ballroom scene looks like it came straight out of a storybook!"
"Cinderella has always been my favorite princess, and I'm the weirdo who would rather be the Fairy Godmother than the princess," says Shannon Stoddard, another FSLT veteran. "It's literally been a dream role for years! I mean, who wouldn't want to help someone make their dreams come true?!"
"Cinderella has always been a dream role of mine," agrees FSLT newcomer Allie Gooden of Alma, who plays the unappreciated stepchild whose wishes come true. "I absolutely adore Julie Andrews, who originated this role in 1957. I grew up listening to and watching so many of her performances and films. I've always wanted to play one of the roles she's performed, so the chance to play a role that she originated is an incredible honor.
"I haven't been in any shows since high school, but when I saw FSLT was putting on 'Cinderella,' I knew I had to audition."
"My favorite moment in the show is the 'Impossible/It's Possible' scene where I meet Cinderella, and we create all the magic," adds Stoddard. "Allie is so wonderful to work with and play off of! I can't wait to experience that magic with all the kids in the audience watching -- that will make it feel even more magical!"
Actors and director agree there's more to "Cinderella" than just ballgowns and glitter, however.
"As a teacher -- about to start year 14 -- I often feel like a Fairy Godmother as I help students achieve their dreams," muses Stoddard. "I'm always telling them to believe in themselves and follow their dreams. In the show, I am teaching Cinderella to be able to make her dreams a reality. She has to take responsibility for it; you can't just sit around and wait for things to happen for you. Once she is willing to take responsibility, I help her out with a little magic. Unfortunately, I can't do magic like the Fairy Godmother -- but I can help others believe in themselves!"
"I hope that audiences admire the emphasis upon hope in the musical," agrees Gooden. "Yes, Cinderella had help from the Fairy Godmother, but her unrelenting belief in the power of impossibilities is what leads to her happily ever after."
"I think that is what audiences will be talking about when they leave the theater," says Wells. "The wondrous experience that is Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Cinderella' that blows them away, and the theme of Cinderella of taking control of your destiny and making your dreams come true can resonate in the generations of yesterday, today, and tomorrow."
"I hope audiences feel inspired to make their own dreams come true," Stoddard concludes. "I know it's cheesy, but it's true!"
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'Cinderella'
WHEN -- 2 p.m. July 30; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 2-5; 2 p.m. Aug. 6; again Aug. 10-12
WHERE -- Fort Smith Little Theatre, 401 N. Sixth St.
COST -- $20; half-price kids' tickets Aug. 3 & 10
INFO -- 783-2966 or fslt.org
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Even as more indictments of former President Donald Trump loom, 2024 voters may be leaning his way. Many recent polls have the former president running even with President Joe Biden or taking the lead. Trump’s ability to weather his legal storms have led to comparisons with other politicians who have run for office, often successfully, in the midst of legal troubles. The comparisons matter — but what’s most important for understanding the current moment is the dynamic that links the many examples: us-versus-them.
Let’s start at the top. Many people know the story of Boston Mayor James Curley, so popular among the voters that in the 1940s he ran the city for five months from a federal penitentiary. Trump had barely taken office when the comparisons to Curley began. As the former president’s legal difficulties have mounted, they’ve come creeping back. Small wonder. Curley, an ardent New Dealer, was thoroughly corrupt, but whenever another investigation loomed, he appealed to his supporters’ sense of grievance, insisting that the Republican establishment was only going after him because he gave voice to the city’s despised Irish Catholics.
Then there’s Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, who resigned as mayor of Providence in 1984 after he kidnapped his ex-wife’s boyfriend and burned him with a cigarette and a hot log from a fire (in front of a police officer and a judge, no less). A decade later, Cianci stood for election again. By that time, nearly two dozen of his associates had been convicted of corruption. No matter. Cianci successfully styled himself the anti-establishment candidate. According to biographer Mike Stanton, an internal poll found about a quarter of the electorate so dedicated that they’d vote for him even if, as one aide put it, “He robbed a bank at gunpoint.” Cianci won.
In Gore Vidal’s splendid novel 1876, a character is asked to explain the affection voters often lavish upon politicians they know to be corrupt. He replies: “Because they’d do the same thing if they dared but they don’t dare because they know they’d be caught and they know he’ll never be caught!”
In other words, the miscreant is seen by supporters as more scamp than scoundrel. Perhaps that’s why, as Curley’s biographer Jack Beatty suggests, the four-term mayor (and one-term governor) was so popular in part because of his talent for making corruption cute. He would say things like “I never took a quarter from anyone who couldn’t afford it.” The masses adored him.(1)
And that’s the point: The masses. Popular celebration of embattled political candidates is often about class resentment: the workers versus not so much the bosses as the Brahmins. The intellectuals. Thus the belief that the candidate is “one of us” — after all, he’s got the right enemies. The anthropologist Hugh Gusterson describes the feedback loop: “[U]niversity-educated cosmopolitans react to nationalist populists with condescension, which drives the latter deeper into populism, which increases the cosmopolitans’ disdain for them.”
Quite apart from other issues at stake in an election, the disdain is felt as a wound. Small wonder, then, that populist voters so often refuse to abandon a candidate beset by legal troubles. They’re not so much voting for him as they are against the elite — the elite they think has caused both their own difficulties and his.
This dynamic isn’t seen only on the right, or among the White working class. After Representative William Jefferson, a Black Louisiana Democrat, was indicted on corruption charges in 2007, inner-city voters continued to cheer him on. Wrote the Los Angeles Times: “He is treated like a rock star by his supporters, often arriving at venues to standing ovations.” There, too, the public response was us-versus-them, particularly because Jefferson’s legal troubles arose not long after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Here’s the New York Times: “Mr. Jefferson is not blamed for the ruined black neighborhoods, but the United States government — his prosecutor — is.” To his constituents, the embattled member of Congress remained “a godly man persecuted by a racially biased government.” (He lost his reelection bid.)
Other Black politicians — Marion Barry for one; Alcee Hastings for another — have won election after successfully persuading voters that the feds came after them because of their skin color. As a practical matter, they played the same card as Curley and Cianci and so many others: “They hate me because I’m one of you.”
Why do such strategies work? Because of the same forces that lead large numbers to support the miscreants in the first place. The other side — whoever they are — is guilty of pretty much everything. That’s how we got into this fix in the first place. They hate us; so, of course, they hate those we support.
Which brings us back to Trump.
How the former president became a working-class hero is an issue to be tackled by some sharper social analyst than I. The point is, that’s how many see him. He embodies an us-against-them quality, a sense that “they” would never go after one their own this way. (Which is why Hunter Biden has proven so animating to the right.) The less voters trust the government, the less they’ll trust prosecutors who accuse their hero of crimes. That’s the wave Trump is riding; but he certainly didn’t invent it.
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(1) The epigram “He may be a crook, but he’s our crook” — often cited as having been said of Curley — seems to be a variant of a line in a 1957 column by humorist Herb Caen, who was writing about Jimmy Hoffa.
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Yale University, he is author, most recently, of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”
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Even if you don’t know Gouverneur Morris’s name, you probably know his words. You may even have been forced to memorize a string of them in school, which start: “We the People of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union …”
He was also disabled. Two major accidents in his life left him with a severely impaired right arm and an amputated left leg.
While his disabilities have never been a secret to historians, they are also not common knowledge and came as a surprise to Jennifer W. Riess, an attorney in London when she learned about it during a talk by scholar Thomas A. Foster.
“I’ve always been interested in early American history, and I’d never heard of any disabled early Americans before,” Riess, who has a form of cerebral palsy, told The Washington Post. She eventually left her job to get a PhD in history and during the pandemic read all of Morris’s diaries, which had recently been digitized, “from a disability perspective.” She surmises that his physical struggles influenced his empathy for women, enslaved people and the poor.
Morris was born into a life of privilege on a family estate in New York now occupied by the Bronx, the son of a judge and grandson of a colonial governor. College students tended to be younger back then, but Morris was really young when, at only 12 years old, he started studying at Kings College, now Columbia University. By 22, he had undergraduate, graduate and law degrees. (Scholars today generally pronounce his first name like the word “governor.”)
It was during a visit home from college at 14 when he acquired his first disability, after a large kettle of boiling water fell on him. His right side was severely burned, and his right arm had “all the flesh taken off,” as one colleague wrote years later.
“We don’t know exactly what that means, but clearly having a significant amount of flesh your arm is going to create mobility issues in that limb,” Riess said. Morris often concealed his right arm in portraits.
The second injury, a carriage accident, happened in 1780, while he was in his late twenties and serving in the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. His left foot was crushed, and soon his leg was amputated below the knee. He wore a series of wooden prosthetic legs, one of which a museum still preserves. These were large, probably uncomfortable and would have given him the gait of someone with an above-the-knee amputation now, according to historian Jennifer Van Horn.
Morris later served at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, where he famously railed against the Three-Fifths Clause, which counted enslaved people as only three-fifths of a person, challenging his fellow delegates: “Are they men? Then make them citizens and let them vote.”
During George Washington’s presidency, Morris served as a finance minister and a diplomat to France, where he earned a reputation as a ladies’ man, carrying on love affairs with a number of women, including the French writer Adélaïde Filleul. He later became a U.S. senator for New York and was one of three men who drew Manhattan’s street grid. Morris married late in life, at 57, to a distant relative of Thomas Jefferson; they had a son before he died, in 1816, at age 64.
A lot of the Founding Fathers, like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, kept letters and diaries knowing they would someday be read by scholars, and that awareness affected what and how they wrote about their lives. Their accounts can be stuffy, guarded, self-flattering. But that is not the case with Morris, Riess said.
“Gouverneur Morris’s diaries are very frank about things that one wouldn’t want to put into the public,” she said and laughed. He writes a lot about bodily functions and sexuality, including descriptions of his, uh, concern for the pleasure of his various romantic partners.
What they didn’t appear to include, at first, were mentions of disabilities. “I’m not an amputee, but I was having major musculoskeletal problems at the time,” she said, “and I was thinking, ‘I’m in constant pain, how can he not be commenting on his?’”
There were a lot of mentions of gout, a form of arthritis common among wealthy men at the time that causes swollen joints. Most historians have taken this “at face value,” Riess said, but upon closer inspection, she realized the symptoms he described were more consistent with the physical issues common among amputees than they were of gout, like musculoskeletal pain and ulcers on his “stump,” as he called it.
Riess is clear that she doesn’t want to diagnose Morris. “He may have had gout, or it may be that he felt it more socially acceptable to describe his musculoskeletal pain as gout.”
In other entries, Morris describes trying to get more comfortable prosthetics to relieve the pain from his ulcers, so he had at least some awareness of pain caused by his disability, but, Riess said, “whether he had this physio-therapeutic sense that possibly pain in his good leg was related to the amputation, I don’t know.”
He also describes how others interacted with him, and how his disability set him apart from the other privileged White men in his social sphere. In a 1790 entry, he says that everyone from aristocrats to the enslaved “don’t know what to make of me.”
Riess is now exploring how his “difference” may have expanded his worldview.
“He had a different lived experience than [other Founding Fathers] because of his embodiment,” she said, “and I think we should be able to read some of the things he’s done with that in mind.”
Take his opposition to the Three-Fifth Clause, which most northern constitutional delegates supported as a compromise with southern states. More than other Founders, Morris empathized with enslaved people, recognized their capacity to be part of a self-governing society, and confronted the enslaver, who, he said, “goes to the coast of Africa, and in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondages.”
Morris’s choice of spouse may provide another example of his acceptance of difference. Ann Cary “Nancy” Randolph was raised wealthy on a Virginia plantation before her life was turned upside down by scandal. In 1792, when she was 18, she became pregnant by her brother-in-law, and, according to court testimony, took herbs to induce a second-trimester abortion. Neither Randolph nor her brother-in-law were ever charged with a crime, but her reputation, and marriage prospects, were ruined. She lived for a decade as an outcast before moving to Connecticut for housekeeping work. While at a boardinghouse in New York in 1808, she met Morris. They married the next year when she was 35, Morris being fully aware of the scandal and not appearing to mind.
Her “difference” was fine with him, their marriage by all accounts a loving one.
“I don’t want to essentialize Morris as only a disabled person, because he was so much more than that. He was amazing,” Riess said. “But in how we think about how he came to be that kind of person, we need to think about his embodiment.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/30/we-the-people-constitution-gouverneur-morris-disability-pride-month/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:17 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/30/we-the-people-constitution-gouverneur-morris-disability-pride-month/ |
Emily Dickerson’s most treasured possession is a ring her grandmother gave her, filled with her father’s ashes. She almost never takes it off.
But one day earlier this month, she looked down at her left hand and realized her irreplaceable cremation ring was gone, probably for good.
Dickerson was nearing the end of a week-long trip to San Antonio with her school choir and band when she lost her ring. After performing in several locations, the roughly 200 students on the trip spent the day at McGee Beach in Corpus Christi on July 7. They were told to leave their belongings behind at the hotel or on the charter bus, which Dickerson did.
She forgot, however, to remove her four rings, including her father’s cremation ring, a sweet 16 ring, a promise ring from her boyfriend and a birthstone ring from her grandmother. Once she realized she was still wearing them, it was too late to go back on the bus.
“I was afraid they were going to fall off in the ocean,” said Dickerson, who sings in the chorus.
She hatched a backup plan — which she later came to deeply regret.
Each student was given a boxed lunch from Subway, so she decided to stash her rings in the box while she swam. Amid the rush to load everyone back on the bus, though, Dickerson forgot about her rings — which, along with the Subway box, ended up in the trash.
“There were so many of us that anything we did took quite a bit of time,” she said.
It wasn’t until the group stopped at a restaurant for dinner two hours later that Dickerson noticed her bare fingers. Her stomach went into knots.
“I was in a sheer panic,” said Dickerson, who sprinted to the bathroom to call her mother.
Dickerson was “bawling hysterically,” said her mother, Tina Koch. “It was heart-wrenching.”
Although Dickerson was devastated to have lost all four rings, she was most distraught about her silver-band cremation ring, given to her by her paternal grandmother when she was 10, a few years after her father died in 2013.
“It means so much to her. This is all she has of him,” said Koch, who reassured her daughter that accidents happen and that she would do everything she could to try to track down the rings.
It was a Friday evening, and Koch quickly called the Corpus Christi Parks and Recreation Department — which had just closed for the weekend. Koch left a desperate voice mail explaining her daughter’s predicament.
“I had no anticipation of anyone calling me back,” said Koch. “It was truly just hope.”
Laura Perez, the parks operation supervisor, listened to the voice mail first thing on Monday morning.
“You could hear the heartache about what had just happened to her daughter,” said Perez. “It was just a mom doing what moms do.”
While Perez always makes an effort to track down lost items when she gets calls from the public, she is especially adamant about trying to find sentimental trinkets and heirlooms that can’t be replaced. Her grandmother recently died, she said, and she could imagine how devastated she would be if it were her own cremation ring that was lost.
“I’m going to do my best to see if we can find this ring for this little girl,” she recalled thinking.
Still, Perez knew the chances were slim. By the time she heard Koch’s message, it was 8:30 a.m. The trash in the dumpster near the beach is usually picked up by 8 a.m.
Perez called the staff working at the section of beach where the group had been and was shocked when they told her the dumpster was still full.
“I’m on my way,” she told them.
When Perez arrived, she rolled up her sleeves and got to work. Two other city workers, Jesse Martinez and Robert Trevino, joined her.
The three of them jumped in, and for more than three hours, they sifted through about four tons of trash in a 40-yard dumpster. It contained three days’ worth of garbage that had been baking in the nearly 100-degree heat over the weekend.
“We went through every bag,” said Perez.
They sifted through sticky soda cans, remnants of half-eaten fast food, empty ice cream wrappers and twisted sunscreen bottles.
Hours into the search, they spotted a Subway box, then another. Soon they saw hundreds of them in a bag, and they knew they were close.
They began opening each individual box. Then, much to their relief, suddenly they hit pay dirt.
“It was in the last bag we went through,” Perez said, adding that when they finally found the ring, “I was so excited to let her know.”
Perez called Koch to deliver the good news, saying: “You won’t believe it.”
Koch was in tears.
“Honestly, I had no words,” Koch said.
As the two chatted on the phone, Koch told Perez she was so happy she was able to find “the most important one.” Perez was puzzled, as she didn’t realize there was more than one missing ring.
Although Koch reassured Perez that the other rings were replaceable, she insisted on going back to find all of them.
“I won’t promise you anything, but I’m going to give it a whirl,” she said.
Since they had already pinpointed which bag contained the subway boxes, it took less than half an hour to locate Dickerson’s three remaining rings. Koch was doubly delighted — and stunned by the effort.
“We’re talking about four rings in a hot, nasty dumpster,” Koch said. “I’m blown away. I don’t have enough praise for these people.”
Dickerson was overjoyed.
“It was astonishing,” she said. “I’m very grateful.”
The whole Parks and Recreation Department was thrilled about the extreme undertaking of their colleagues and the unlikely find.
“We all have those mementos or things that mean a lot to us,” said Robert Dodd, the department director. “I lost my dad four years ago, and I have some of his jewelry. I know how much that means to me, and I know how much it means to this young lady.”
Perez shipped the four rings to Dickerson’s home, and “I was so happy to get them back,” she said, noting that she will no longer travel with her rings in the future.
In addition to teaching her a valuable lesson about protecting her keepsakes, Dickerson said she was struck by the overwhelming kindness.
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Michigan shooting injures 5, 2 critically; several persons of interest in custody
Multiple firearms recovered after 5 shot in large crowd in Lansing, Michigan
A shooting in Lansing, Michigan, early Sunday wounded five people, two of them critically, authorities said.
Officers responded around 1 a.m. to gunfire in the 1300 block of West Holmes Road and found multiple shooting victims among a large crowd of people, the Lansing Police Department said in a statement emailed to told Fox News Digital.
Lansing firefighters rushed several victims to a local hospital. Police requested assistance from neighboring jurisdictions, due to the size of the crowd.
The victims, who were not publicly named, ranged in age from 16 to 26 years old, police said. Two victims were in critical condition.
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Multiple firearms were recovered from the scene and police took several persons of interest into custody.
No further details about the persons of interest, the extent of the victims’ injuries and their current conditions were immediately provided.
Detectives and crime scene investigators are at the scene working to determine the circumstances that led to the shooting.
Authorities asked anyone with information about the shooting to contact Detective Sergeant Kyle Schlagel at (517) 483-6885, the Lansing Police Department at (517) 483-4600, Crime Stoppers at (517) 483-7867 or send a private message through the Lansing Police Department Facebook page. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-shooting-injures-5-2-critically-several-persons-interest-custody | 2023-07-30T13:19:19 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-shooting-injures-5-2-critically-several-persons-interest-custody |
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country’s democratically elected government just as the coup leaders met with senior civil servants to discuss how they would run the country and as the U.S. and the European Union threatened sanctions against the regime.
Brig. Gen. Mohamed Toumba, one of the soldiers who ousted President Mohamed Bazoum on Wednesday, told state television that the junta met with civil servants on Friday and asked them to continue their work as usual following the suspension of the constitution. “The message given was not to stop the processes underway, to keep on with things,” said Brig. Gen. Toumba.
“Everything that must be done will be done,” he said, signaling the intention of the regime led by Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, who also goes by Omar, to remain in power.
After its meeting on Friday, the African Union Peace and Security Council said it was concerned by the “alarming resurgence” of coups that undermine democracy and stability on the continent. It asked the soldiers to “return immediately and unconditionally to their barracks and restore constitutional authority, within a maximum of fifteen (15) days.”
Bazoum, whose condition and that of his officials remains unknown since the government was overthrown, should also be released immediately and unconditionally, the AU said. Failure to do so would compel the bloc to take “necessary action, including punitive measures against the perpetrators.”
On the streets of the Nigerien capital Niamey on Saturday, things appeared to be returning to normal, though many in the international community were still on lockdown with hotels full of foreigners, many given instructions not to leave.
Locals say they’re waiting to see what unfolds, with many still in support of Bazoum who has not yet resigned. “I’m with him, he does a good work. (But) what can we do?” said Mohamed Cisse, a street seller. “This is (the new leader’s) time, Bazoum’s time is over,” he said.
Tchiani, the junta leader and commander of Niger’s presidential guard, is close to former Nigerien president Mahamadou Issoufou, who stepped down in 2021 after a decade in office. Tchiani’s takeover of power will reinforce speculation that Issoufou is behind the coup, said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a German think tank and consultancy.
The U.S. threatened to halt its economic support to Niger while the European Union announced the immediate indefinite suspension of budgetary support and security assistance.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is in Australia as part of a Pacific tour, estimated America’s economic and security partnership with Niger at hundreds of millions of dollars and said its continuity depends on “the continuation of the democratic governance and constitutional order.”
“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 said.
While there are no signs of the junta backing down amid growing international pressure, analysts called for synergy in the interventions of the international community and continental organizations such as the AU and the regional bloc of ECOWAS, which is scheduled to meet over the coup on Sunday.
A successful coup in Niger and the sanctions in the aftermath could cause more hardship for millions of poor and hungry people in West Africa and could further threaten international relations with the region, which is seeing a resurgence of coups in recent years, according to Idayat Hassan, senior Africa program fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“A non-reversal of the coup also means that we are defining a new world order in West Africa in particular as you are pitching the west and other countries against few military regimes which may be backed by Russia,” said Hassan.
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Asadu reported from Abuja, Nigeria. Baba Ahmed in Bamako, Mali contributed. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-african-union-gives-15-day-ultimatum-to-niger-junta-to-end-regime-but-soldiers-seek-continuity/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:19 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-african-union-gives-15-day-ultimatum-to-niger-junta-to-end-regime-but-soldiers-seek-continuity/ |
Philanthropic Educational Organization
P.E.O. Chapter CD in Bella Vista presented a Project for Continuing Education grant to Dana L. White.
PCE grants are awarded to eligible candidates to help them continue their career goals following a pause in their education. White will graduate in May with a Master's Degree in Special Education from Xavier University. If you know of a woman who could use financial aid returning to school, contact P.E.O. www.peointernational.org.
Bella Vista Photography Club
The winning photos from the July Challenge "Street Photography" by members of the Bella Vista Photography Club include Mickey Arlow's image of Downtown Chicago, which earned first place, Jan Halgrim's capture of Diego Rivera's America exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art earned second place and Maggie Arquelles' photo of downtown Chicago won third place.
Village Lake Writers & Poets
The Village Lake Writers & Poets is currently negotiating a merger with the Ozark Writers League. The joining of the two organizations will help expand their ability to support the local writing community.
The Ozark Writers League has been an active organization for over 40 years, serving well beyond the Missouri Ozarks into Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indiana and beyond. The OWL is a 501c3 nonprofit organization in good standing with the IRS, incorporated in the State of Missouri.
Nothing will change for current critique groups. A paid membership to Village Lake Writers and Poets should transfer to an Ozark Writers League membership for the remainder of the year, then you may renew your membership through OWL. Membership fees are comparable at $31 per year and include free admission to both a spring and fall conference. For more information, see their website: ozarkswritersleague.com.
The Village Lake Writers & Poets website will remain active through the end of July. After that, VLWP will dissolve the 501c3 and non-profit corporate status and revert to a social group.
If you donated to VLWP this year, the organization says you should still be allowed to deduct anything donated from January until July 31, 2023, but suggests checking with your tax advisor. The VLWP social media presence on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter belongs to founder Joanie Roberts, who will decide whether or not to continue supporting those sites as well as the Gmail account. Direct any questions to VLPW president Donna Hanson bvvillagewriters@gmail.com.
Mutual UFO Network
The Northwest Section of Arkansas Mutual UFO Network will meet on Saturday, July 22 from 10 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. at the Fayetteville Municipal Airport at Drake Field 4500 S. School Ave. Fayetteville.
The Agenda will include Arkansas UFO/UAP case reports, review of the Pathways to Disclosure Project, UFO/UAP book reports and a special presentation on the Newcomer's Guide to MUFON.
All members, guests and anyone with a genuine interest in the UFO /UAP phenomenon are welcome to attend. The meeting room will be open at 9:30 a.m. for early arrivals who can explore the section library.
For additional information, call or text (479) 422-9586.
Civil War Roundtable
The Bella Vista Civil War Roundtable will conduct its August meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 3 at Cooper Chapel, 504 Memorial Drive in Bella Vista.
The speaker for the meeting will be Dr. Brooks Blevins of Springfield, Mo., who teaches in the history department of Missouri State University.
Much of Blevins' research and published works focus on the history of the Ozark region. He is the author of the three volumes including "A History Of the Ozarks," "Up South In the Ozarks," as well as other books and numerous articles.
Dr. Blevins' presentation will be "Before The Firing Squad: Major Enoch Wolf (CSA) and Civil War Retribution." It will relate the experiences of an officer in Ford's Missouri Cavalry Battalion in battle and in captivity in a union prison in St. Louis.
Prior to the meeting, the Bella Vista Historical Museum will host a book signing with Dr. Blevins at 4:15 p.m. The museum is located at 1885 Bella Vista Way.
Earlier that day Dr. Blevins will read from and have a signing for his new book "Up South In the Ozarks" at 2 p.m. at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale.
For further information, contact President Chuck Pribbernow at cnpribb@yahoo.com.
10th Al-Anon Summertime in The Ozarks Convention
"Serenity in the Storm" is the anchor for the 2023 Al-Anon Annual Summertime in the Ozarks Convention in Eureka Springs. It will take place August 18-20 at the Best Western Inn of the Ozarks and Convention Center, 207 W. Van Buren (Hwy 62), Eureka Springs.
This annual convention began as a local initiative in 2012 by members of two Al-Anon Family Groups (AFGs) in Eureka Springs. The one-day conference has grown to a three-day affair. In addition to Al-Anon, Alateen, and AA speakers in English and Spanish, there will be workshops and fellowship time. Drawings for elaborate baskets will take place before each speaker. Door prizes are also available.
Accommodations information and reservations can be made by calling (479) 253-9768.
Save $5 per registration and pay $30 with an early bird discount by registering before August 11 at midnight. Afterward, registration is $35 for August 18-20. Alateen registration fee is $2.
Visit summertimeintheozarks.org to register online, print a paper registration form or contact your district or group representative for registration forms. Contact kimballvickie@gmail.com with your questions or concerns. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/club-news/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:21 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/club-news/ |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday opposing the military aid to Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
“No matter how much of the ordinary people’s taxpayer money the … Taiwanese separatist forces spend, no matter how many U.S. weapons, it will not shake our resolve to solve the Taiwan problem. Or shake our firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland,” said Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.
“Their actions are turning Taiwan into a powder keg and ammunition depot, aggravating the threat of war in the Taiwan Strait,” the statement said.
China’s People’s Liberation Army has increased its military maneuvers in recent years aimed at Taiwan, sending fighter jets and warships to circle the island.
On Sunday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it tracked six Chinese navy ships near the island.
Taiwan’s ruling administration, led by the Democratic Progressive Party, has stepped up its weapons purchases from the U.S. as part of a deterrence strategy against a Chinese invasion.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Taiwan has never been governed by China’s ruling Communist Party.
Unlike previous military purchases, the latest batch of aid is part of a presidential authority approved by the U.S. Congress last year to draw weapons from current U.S. military stockpiles — so Taiwan will not have to wait for military production and sales.
While Taiwan has purchased $19 billion worth of weaponry, much of it has yet to be delivered to Taiwan. Washington will send man-portable air defense systems, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, firearms and missiles to Taiwan. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:27 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ |
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombian police arrested the president's son Saturday as part of a high-profile money laundering probe into funds he allegedly collected from convicted drug traffickers during last year's presidential campaign.
President Gustavo Petro, a former rebel who rose through Colombia's political ranks as an anti-corruption crusader, said he wouldn't interfere with the investigation.
"As an individual and father, it pains me to see so much self destruction and one of my sons going to jail," Petro said in an early morning message on X -- the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. "As president of the republic, I've assured the chief prosecutor's office that it will have all of the guarantees so it can proceed according to the law."
The arrest of Nicolas Petro is a major blow to the government, which has been buffeted by conservative attacks from day one at the same time it has struggled to maintain bipartisan support for Colombia in the U.S., a longtime ally in the war on drugs and fight against illegal armed groups.
The investigation stems from shocking declarations made by Nicolas Petro's ex-wife, Daysuris del Carmen Vasquez, to local media outlet Semana earlier this year.
In the extended interview, Vasquez detailed how she was present at meetings when her husband arranged a donation of more than around $150,000 from a politician once convicted in Washington of drug trafficking and who was seeking the Petro campaign's support to resume his political career.
She said the president was unaware of his son's dealings and the money he collected in his campaign's name was kept inside a safe inside the couple's home in the coastal city of Barranquilla.
Nicolas Petro has denied his ex-wife's claims as unfounded.
The chief prosecutor's office said in a statement Nicolas Petro and his ex-wife were taken into custody on orders of a court in Bogota early Saturday. It said once brought before a judge, prosecutors would seek their provisional detention as it investigates the two for money laundering. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/colombian-presidents-son-jailed/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:28 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/colombian-presidents-son-jailed/ |
Congrats to Adam Doctoroff for finishing in first place at the in-person Boswords Summer Tournament last weekend, and to Paolo Pasco for winning the online version of the same tourney. The in-person event also featured six (!) finalists instead of the standard three — consider me a big fan of that. It makes it more like the final event of a 100-meter dash at the Olympics. I placed 19th out of more than 300 competitors online, and that was with a painful careless typo in puzzle 4. But them’s the breaks in online puzzle tournaments. The puzzles themselves were all really good ones, and you can purchase them for at-home solving here.
In other news, thank you to Hayley Gold and Will Nediger for having me on as a guest on their cryptic crossword stream on Twitch last week. We and several other friends got to co-solve a trio of cryptics, a couple of which were variety cryptics from several years back. I don’t consider myself an expert cryptic crossword solver, but it was fun to tackle these puzzles with a team.
Four pairs of exams cross each other in the grid:
- 22A: [In a puzzling way] is ENIGMATICALLY with a circled GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) and 24D: [Muscle bending a digit] is TOE FLEXOR with a circled TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). They cross at the T.
- 73A: [Detailed record of software errors] is BUG REPORT with a circled GRE (Graduate Record Examination) and 44D: [Something raised during a homecoming?] is GARAGE DOOR with a circled GED (General Educational Development test). They cross at the E.
- 76A: [2019 documentary about a nontheistic religious organization that’s “putting up a hell of a fight” for justice and equality, per the film’s tagline] is “HAIL SATAN” with a circled LSAT (Law School Admission Test) and 49D: [Is difficult to lift, exaggeratedly] is WEIGHS A TON with a circled SAT (it no longer stands for anything, but it originally stood for Scholastic Aptitude Test). They cross at the S.
- 114A: [Actress who played Samantha Jones on “Sex and the City”] is KIM CATTRALL with a circled MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) and 81D: [Took away (from)] is DETRACTED with a circled ACT (like the SAT, this no longer stands for anything, but it used to stand for American College Test). They cross at a T.
Take the intersections of those four pairs of crossing exams and you get TEST, which is the final Across answer at 123A: [Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what’s spelled out by their intersections]. To keep things symmetrical, I stuck an extra theme answer in the bottom-left corner at 121A: [Get ready for a 123 Across] which is PREP.
The first thing I think of while looking back at this puzzle is, “What a strange grid.” It’s not unusual to use left-right mirror symmetry, but two vertical stacks of nine-letter answers in the middle is out of the norm for me. There are also 136 answers, well below my usual 144 for a 21×21 puzzle, and the arrangement of black squares … does it look like a deer staring at you from up close? That’s what it looks like to me. It’s unsettling. But that’s left-right symmetry; it’s the Rorschach test of crosswords. Hopefully this puzzle was less stressful for you than actually taking one of the eight standardized tests in the theme (or the Rorschach test).
Some other answers and clues:
- 70A: [Small unit of en___y] is ERG. An odd clue where the answer got chopped out of the clue mid-word, though I’ve done this a few times before, like [H___ing organ] for the answer EAR or [L___s gather here] for EAVE.
- 102A: [What a kitty may dip into a water bowl to taste the water] is PAW. You spend 16 years watching your own cat do this and it goes into your crossword. That’s just what happens.
- 39D: [Timothy Leary’s drug] is LSD and, in the symmetrical spot, 41D: [Timothy Leary’s deg.] is PHD. It amused me how I could clue both of these answers with nearly the same wording.
- 56D: [Rock band whose name is two letters off from their 2005 album “Oh No”] is OK GO. They’re well-known for producing elaborately choreographed one-take music videos, like this one and this one and this one and many others.
- 99D: [Be happy or grumpy in a cast, say] is EMOTE. The clue has a “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” vibe if you read it aloud.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in early August seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia’s war on the country, an official said Saturday night. The kingdom and Kyiv did not immediately acknowledge the planned talks.
The summit will be held in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as no authorization had been given to publicly discuss the summit.
Those taking part in the summit will include Ukraine, as well as Brazil, India, South Africa and several other countries, the official said. A high-level official from U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration also is expected to attend, the official said. Planning for the event is being overseen by Kyiv and Russia is not invited, the official said.
Details regarding the summit, however, remain in flux and the official did not offer dates for the talks. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the summit, said the talks would take place Aug. 5 and 6 with some 30 countries attending, citing “diplomats involved in the discussion.”
Saudi officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press, nor did Ukraine’s Embassy in Riyadh. News of the summit comes after U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan visited the kingdom on Thursday.
The official who spoke to the AP said the summit would be the next step after talks that took place in Copenhagen in June.
Saudi Arabia’s hosting of the talks come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in May attended an Arab League summit in Jeddah to press those nations to back Kyiv. Arab nations largely have remained neutral since Russia launched the war on Ukraine in February 2022, in part over their military and economic ties to Moscow.
Saudi Arabia also has maintained a close relationship with Russia as part of the OPEC+ group. The organization’s oil production cuts, even as Moscow’s war on Ukraine boosted energy prices, have angered Biden and American lawmakers.
But hosting such talks also help raise the profile of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has sought to reach a détente with Iran and push for a peace in the kingdom’s yearslong war in Yemen. However, ties also remain strained between Riyadh and the West over the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, which U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Prince Mohammed ordered.
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Madhani reported from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-official-tells-ap-that-saudi-arabia-will-host-ukrainian-organized-peace-summit-in-august/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:34 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-official-tells-ap-that-saudi-arabia-will-host-ukrainian-organized-peace-summit-in-august/ |
SCOTTSVILLE, Va. — Two hundred years ago, it was tobacco. The long, flat-bottomed batteau invented to transport the crop down the James River turned Scottsville into one of the biggest port cities in the early 19th-century Virginia.
The James River Batteau Company offers both midday and sunset cruises in its batteau, paired with charcuterie boards, local history lessons and live music. Since co-owners Will Smith and Will Cash founded the tour company at spring’s start last year, they’ve been booked just under capacity with tourists from Charlottesville, Richmond, Washington and beyond.
“Where I really think the future of tourism in Albemarle County and Charlottesville is the merger of the raw beauty of this area with its unique history,” Smith told The Daily Progress on a recent Thursday evening drifting down the James. “This is a story of a small town that’s got a lot to offer, and we’re bringing the town’s history and heritage to life.”
Bringing history to life
That history begins with European immigrants in the 18th century trying to make their fortunes in tobacco. Settlements expanded from the already-saturated Tidewater into the Piedmont, where space and rich soil for tobacco were abundant.
“The problem is, we’ve moved out to the middle of nowhere, which is what Scottsville would have been by then,” Smith said. “Some people suggest that Scottsville is still in the middle of nowhere, depending on what your perspective is.”
Settlers of the Piedmont got creative with how to transport the cash crop back to Richmond for export: At first, it was by rolling giant barrels of tobacco one by one down the roads. When that proved detrimental to the quality of the crop, they turned to the river.
Construction of the batteau’s predecessor, the double dugout canoe, demanded all the old-growth trees in the area be cut down. That deforestation led to Scottsville’s biggest flood to date. Far surpassing the size of a modern day flood, which might submerge a parking lot and give Scottsvillians a day of fishing from the railroad tracks, the 1771 disaster destroyed all of the canoes in one night.
“But there’s good news,” Smith said, as his modern-day batteau-goers sat, transfixed at his storytelling. “Amherst County, Virginia, has a long history of producing ingenious young men — you have three of them on board with you today.”
Those three young men — not to be confused with Smith, Cash and Luke Johnston onboard — would go on to invent the design for the batteau. Steering the boat from its rear sweep at the stern, Smith pointed out the vessel’s key features: a flat bottom, pointed ends and accompanying long cedar poles, which Cash and Johnston used to propel the craft forward.
The batteaux would go on to revolutionize the tobacco industry and river commerce, bringing wealth, whiskey and the windows of Monticello to the James’ upriver cities. In the modern day, the cargo looks different: up to twelve tourists, buckets of ice for bring-your-own beverages, dripping candles and charcuterie boards.
Modern-day beginnings
Smith, Cash and Johnston have known each other their whole lives. Smith and Johnston were next-door neighbors in grammar school, and all three were friends in high school. Smith’s start with batteaux began even earlier, when his father built the family’s first batteau the very year Smith was born.
“I don’t think he ever thought it was going to be a career path,” Smith said. His father, an industrial arts teacher, built the boat with his students and, in 1987, began participating in the James River Batteau Festival, an annual celebration of batteaux and batteau history. As many as 25 boats travel the 120 miles from Lynchburg to Richmond over eight days, during which the batteaumen share food, songs and stories — and sleep in tents on their boats.
Smith grew up watching his dad at the festival and learning to love batteaux for himself.
“You could imagine as a kid this is like a playground, especially at night out here when the lightning bugs are dancing around in the trees,” Smith said. His first batteau after graduating high school was a “sinking mess,” but Smith and his friends took it out to the festival anyway, spending entire nights bailing it out.
“We’re all 18, 19, and testosterone is pouring out of the boat in every direction,” Smith said. “What has gone from this slightly ‘Lord of the Flies’-on-the-James-River experience has turned into my high school friends’ reunion.”
Smith, Cash and Johnston have been part of the Batteau Festival for 17 years. After that first sinking batteau they built the “Harvest Moon,” one of the two boats now used for the tour company.
“We’ve kind of been scheming on it forever,” Cash said, referring to the company. Working in hospitality and tourism gave Cash and Smith the experience to finally make it happen in 2022. They scoured the internet and Virginia’s historical societies to prepare a story for the tours, which last April through October.
Smith and Cash built their second batteau after the first season proved successful, drawing tourists including Richmonder Lisa Freiman and her out-of-state family from New Haven, Connecticut. In a “staycation” of sorts, Freiman wanted to explore the local area and its history.
“I didn’t even know Scottsville existed,” Freiman said.
Putting Scottsville on the map
Smith said the company is profitable and is booked roughly 85% most days with visitors from Charlottesville, Richmond, Washington and even farther afield. It’s nothing compared to the booming wine country in the surrounding area or the theater and book festivals in downtown Charlottesville, but the tour company is driving business at other spots in Scottsville, such as the local brewery and restaurants.
“People are coming to Scottsville, a place they’ve never heard of or seen,” Cash said. “Then they leave our tours and go spend money in town.”
Laura Mays, a local business owner in Scottsville, echoed Cash’s sentiments. Scottsville has always been a river economy, but tourism has picked up in the past decade through word of mouth and day-trip advertising from the Chamber of Commerce, she told The Daily Progress.
“There’s a lot that goes on here,” said Mays, who has lived in Scottsville her whole life. “It’s a quiet, small town that appeals to people from the busier areas.”
Former Mayor Nancy Gill said she has met tourists visiting from across the country and even abroad. One man hailing from Ireland stopped in Scottsville on a bike trip from Boston to Miami. After Gill introduced him to some locals, he stayed in town for another week.
“I’m hoping that as we move forward, we maintain that small-town quality that makes this place a very interesting and somewhat magical place for people to visit,” Gill told The Daily Progress. “But at the same time, we need to be very thoughtful about growth.”
“What I’m seeing, and I think it’s very healthy, is businesses more or less promoting tourism through what they do,” Gill said. Having done the batteau tour multiple times herself, Gill said the James River Batteau Company has “hit upon a winning business.”
Smith and Cash aren’t the only ones tapping into the James River for recreation. On any given day there are plenty of kayakers, fishers and tubers floating in its waters. The batteaumen scheduled their cruises around the busiest times on the river, learning quickly that Kid Rock blasting on a Saturday afternoon would kill the tranquil experience they were trying to create.
“This area’s got lots of outdoor recreation potential, but it’s also got lots of really unique history,” Smith said. “So we’re trying to bridge some of that, tell a story while keeping people outside.”
First full-time batteaumen in 150 years
As part of that story, Smith and Cash pay homage to the original batteaumen, who were often enslaved Black people and freedmen.
“Tobacco would turn Virginia into a powerhouse of early America, and these men’s role in that often goes untold,” Smith said.
The work of batteaumen was difficult, with long hours in the hot sun spent poling their boats through shallow, snagging parts of the river. It took up to a week to transport thousands of pounds of tobacco to Richmond, and multiple weeks to travel back upriver.
But as many batteaux would make the journey at the same time, there are stories of a community forming on the James — a community Smith and Cash have also found growing up around batteaux.
“A lot of our good friends, we might not be home for Christmas, but we would always be home for the Batteau Festival,” Smith said.
Now, they’ve opened up that community to the public, and they’re not done yet. The company is planning a “farm to batteau” experience later this year, where they’ll cook over a wood fire built right in the boat itself, much like batteaumen used to do.
As ever, the local history will remain an integral part of their tours. While not in any textbooks he has read, Smith said he believes the region’s settlement cannot be understood without first understanding the early economy and batteaux.
Then there’s the pure serenity of the cruises, an appeal for even those who don’t care for the history. Easy conversation over Smith’s guitar, the occasional sighting of a black bear swimming along or a bobcat chasing a fawn into the river water, the smooth white oak of the batteau. The speckled river rippling in the path of the boat, propelled by Cash and Johnston, their beige Crocs flexing on the boards.
The quiet, open feeling as the light fades and the batteaux head upriver, right into the sunset. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/07/30/exchange-batteau-company/366c7cfc-2ed9-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html | 2023-07-30T13:19:37 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/07/30/exchange-batteau-company/366c7cfc-2ed9-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html |
The following divorces granted were recorded July 20-26 in the Benton and Washington county clerks' offices.
BENTON COUNTY
22-1611. Bobby Bittle v. Stacie Subbert Bittle
22-1854. Souksanh Chanthalangsy v. Viengkhong Chanthalangsy
22-1916. Sarah Goldfain v. Eric Goldfain
23-10. Katherine Pasciak v. Stephen Pasciak
23-91. Eric Sutton v. Leah Sutton
23-136. Maurice Bowie v. Maya Bowie
23-288. Tiauna Young v. Robert Young
23-372. Lester Nye v. Julie Nye
23-431. Heather Hillis v. Stevan Hillis
23-464. Joseph Roberts v. Sarah Roberts
23-520. Ana Felix Santiago v. Jonathan Planas Ortiz
23-653. Stephanie Brust v. Brent Brust
23-679. Sheyenne Murray v. William Murray
23-711. Ciara Thompson v. Jamar King
23-782. Bernice Williams v. Geoffrey Williams
23-808. Amanda Browning v. William Beasley
23-837. Andrea Martinez Soto v. Jorge Morales
23-845. Andrea Seltz v. Corey Seltz
23-849. Andrew Rice v. Cody Carroll
23-875. Nicole Ertrachter v. Jason Ertrachter
23-889. Clara Villalon v. Cristian Olive Verdin
23-910. Christy Hutchenson v. Joe Slocum
23-921. Christy Park v. Everett Park
23-934. Kristina Snow v. Brent Snow
WASHINGTON COUNTY
23-31. Natalie Bailey v. Thomas Bailey
23-198. Amelia Williams v. John Williams
23-296. Andrew Klingerman v. Micah Raab
23-498. Elorah Ragsdale v. Bailey Ragsdale
23-615. Heron Bruhin v. Anya Bruhin
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Three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, Russian authorities said, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure of traffic in and out of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow’s vulnerability to attacks as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime” and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack “insignificantly damaged” the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the airspace over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed to all aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street to traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
Without directly acknowledging that Ukraine was behind the attack on Moscow, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian airforce said that the Russian people were seeing the consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“All of the people who think the war ‘doesn’t concern them,’ it’s already touching them,” spokesperson Yurii Ihnat told journalists Sunday.
“There’s already a certain mood in Russia: that something is flying in, and loudly,” he said. “There’s no discussion of peace or calm in the Russian interior any more. They got what they wanted.”
Ihnat also referenced a drone attack on Russian-occupied Crimea overnight. Moscow announced Sunday that it had shot down 16 Ukrainian drones and neutralized eight more with an electronic jamming system. There were no casualties, officials said.
In Ukraine, the air force reported that it had destroyed four Russian drones above the country’s Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Information on the attacks could not be independently verified.
Meanwhile, two people were killed and 20 wounded by a Russian missile strike late Saturday evening on the city of Sumy in northeast Ukraine. A four-story building belonging to a vocational college was hit, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said. Local authorities said that dormitories and teaching buildings were damaged in the blast and the fire that followed.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Four days earlier, two drones struck the Russian capital, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry’s headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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An federal judge in Arkansas temporarily blocked a state law that would have made it a crime for librarians and booksellers to give minors materials deemed “harmful” to them — a move celebrated by free-speech advocates, who had decried the law as a violation of individual liberties.
Article 1 would have made it a criminal offense to knowingly provide a minor with any material deemed “harmful” — a term defined by state law as containing nudity or sexual content, appealing to a “prurient interest in sex,” lacking “serious literary, scientific, medical, artistic or political value for minors” or deemed “inappropriate for minors” under current community standards.
Plaintiffs also challenged Article 5, which would have allowed anyone “affected by” material in a particular county or municipal library to challenge the “appropriateness” of the material.
The plaintiffs argued that the law would force librarians and booksellers to make an impossible choice: Remove books that some might deem offensive to young readers from their shelves, create secure, adult-only spaces for those books, ban minors from their facilities altogether — or expose themselves to criminal charges or fines.
In his injunction, Brooks said the law “would permit, if not encourage, library committees and local governmental bodies to make censorship decisions based on content or viewpoint,” in violation of the right to free speech under the Constitution. He agreed with the plaintiffs that the state’s definition of “harmful” materials was overly vague.
The judge also denied the state’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed Act 372 into law in March, making Arkansas the latest state to introduce criminal charges for librarians or booksellers over material deemed harmful or obscene.
The offices of Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) and Sanders did not immediately respond to a request early Sunday for comment. Griffin told the Associated Press in an email Saturday that his office would be “reviewing the judge’s opinion and will continue to vigorously defend the law.”
Act 372 would make “furnishing a harmful item to a minor” a class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.
The injunction noted that Arkansas already has a law that makes it a crime to provide obscene materials to minors. However, librarians and other people working in museums, libraries or schools were protected from prosecution even if they disseminated material “claimed to be obscene,” as long as they acted “within the scope of [their] regular employment.”
Act 372 removed that protection, signaling “a fundamental change in how librarians are treated under the law,” according to the injunction.
The ACLU of Arkansas, which jointly filed the suit against Act 372, celebrated the court’s decision in a statement on Saturday and said the victory was part of a broader battle to defend freedom of speech and thought. “The question we had to ask was — do Arkansans still legally have access to reading materials? Luckily, the judicial system has once again defended our highly valued liberties,” ACLU of Arkansas Executive Director Holly Dickson said in the statement.
In his injunction, Brooks also referred to the wider implications of Arkansas’ law, quoting “Fahrenheit 51,” a novel about an American society run by authorities that burn books to control people’s access to information and knowledge. “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches,” the judge wrote, citing the author Ray Bradbury.
The suit challenging Act 372 named Arkansas’ 28 elected prosecuting attorneys, as well as the western county of Crawford and its county judge, Chris Keith, as defendants, contending that they would be responsible for enforcing the law.
The lawsuit names Crawford County as a case study in how the law could be used to curtail constitutionally protected rights to access certain materials. The county has since last year been gripped by a dispute over the placement of LGBTQ+ children’s books inside library branches. According to the complaint, after the books were moved to dedicated areas in the adult books sections, the county defended its right to protect “children from exposure to materials that might harm their innocence.” The county also said Act 372 could make it “necessary to continue modifying and changing the library system’s policies and procedures,” hinting at possible future crackdowns, per the complaint.
Plaintiffs in the suit included Hayden Kirby, a 17-year-old resident of Little Rock who frequents the Central Arkansas Library System, another plaintiff. In a statement, Kirby said the law would “restrict the spaces I’ve accessed freely throughout my life.”
“I want to fight for our rights to intellectual freedom and ensure that libraries remain spaces where young Arkansans can explore diverse perspectives,” she added.
Sophia Nguyen and Hannah Natanson contributed to this report. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/30/arkansas-book-ban-judge-injunction/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:43 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/30/arkansas-book-ban-judge-injunction/ |
'Dungeon of the Endless'
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The discovery of four dead women in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City was shocking news in 2006.
But as the years passed, the public’s attention and fear faded, and the case of the “Eastbound Strangler” – so named for the direction the victims’ heads were facing – remained unsolved.
The arrest earlier this month of a man charged with killing three women whose remains were found on a Long Island beach in 2010 has breathed fresh life into another long-dormant case with obvious parallels; the Gilgo Beach serial killings involve a total of 11 victims, most of whom were young, female sex workers. Yet the recent breakthrough, and the rekindling of public interest, only highlights a painful truth: Many similar cases – like the one in Atlantic City -- remain open.
The FBI would not say how many killings of sex workers in the U.S. remain unsolved. Media accounts and statements from local authorities show a long trail of open cases, from nine women whose bodies were found along highways in Massachusetts, to 11 found dead in New Mexico, and eight more found amid the crawfish farms and swamps of southern Louisiana. The killings of other sex workers in Chicago, New Haven, Connecticut and Ohio, among other places, also remain mysteries.
From the days of London’s Jack The Ripper in the 1880s, serial killers, particularly those preying on sex workers, have often gotten away with it, in part because their victims were easy targets living on the margins of society.
Gary Ridgway, the so-called Green River killer convicted of 49 killings in Washington state, said at during a 2003 court hearing in which he pleaded guilty that he chose sex workers as victims because he knew they would not be missed quickly, if at all.
“I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught,” he said.
Two women were out for an afternoon walk near Atlantic City in November 2006 when they found a body in a ditch. They called police, who quickly found three others nearby.
The $15-a-night motel in Egg Harbor Township behind which the four bodies were found is long gone. It was torn down in an attempt to clear a seedy area known for crime, drugs and disturbances – and the murders of Barbara Breidor, 42, Molly Jean Dilts, 20, Kim Raffo, 35, and Tracy Ann Roberts, 23.
Because it is near the ocean, like Gilgo Beach, the location has prompted much speculation by amateur detectives about a single killer, but some other online sleuths have pointed out that oceanside areas are often the remotest locations after hours on the densely packed East Coast. Gilgo Beach is about 3.5 hours drive from Atlantic City.
Gone in New Jersey are the four small wooden crosses someone erected on the site, along with the folded-up paper note bearing a Biblical quote promising justice that someone left there on one of the anniversaries of the discovery of the bodies.
For families left behind, each new day without word in the case of their loved one brings fresh pain.
“I kind of lost hope that anyone was even searching for the killer anymore,” said Joyce Roberts, whose daughter Tracy Ann was one of the four Atlantic City-area victims. “The first six months, the prosecutor did get on the phone with me and told me they were working on it.
“Then it just fell off the radar,” she said. “It was like nobody cared anymore.”
That is a sentiment echoed by Phoenix Calida, a former sex worker from Chicago who now advocates for them through the Sex Workers Outreach Project.
“Police departments often refer to it as an ‘NHI’ case: No humans involved,” she said. ”You feel like the only way you’ll be remembered is when they catch the serial killer who killed you, and then they’ll make five movies about him and no one will remember your name.”
Massachusetts State Police are investigating “nine unsolved homicides possibly committed by the same person,” said David Procopio, a spokesperson for the agency. He said two additional missing persons cases may be homicides related to the other nine.
Gilbert Gallegos, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said the New Mexico cases remain actively investigated, with “multiple detectives” working them. The 11 victims were all involved in drugs and prostitution, police said.
A reward of $100,000 has been offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case, which involved two victims who were just 15 years old.
Despite the decade-long efforts of a local, state and federal task force, Louisiana has at least eight unsolved apparent homicide cases involving sex workers between the ages of 17 and 30. Their bodies were found in marshy areas in Jennings, a small town in the area known as Cajun Country, between 2005 and 2009.
Prosecutors in New York’s Suffolk County investigating the Gilgo Beach cases have been in touch with multiple law enforcement agencies, but District Attorney Ray Tierney would not say which ones.
“Everything is being examined and looked at, and this is an active investigation,” said Anthony Carter, Suffolk County’s deputy police commissioner. He would not say if his agency was investigating any connection between Heuermann and the Atlantic City murders.
Atlantic County Prosecutor William Reynolds said the four cases from the drainage ditch outside Atlantic City remain active, with detectives assigned to them, but would not say how many. He declined comment on the Long Island case “as we are not involved.”
Joyce Roberts, the victim’s mother, said no one from law enforcement has called her since the arrest was made in the Long Island cases.
Police in Las Vegas, where Heuermann owns a time share, said they are investigating whether Heuermann may be involved in cases involving the killings of sex workers there.
In the months immediately after the bodies’ discovery near Atlantic City, the local prosecutor’s office and a dozen other law enforcement agencies had 140 people assigned to the cases, Ted Housel, who was prosecutor at the time, said in 2008. By the first anniversary, the total had fallen to 85, and those investigators were also working other cases.
Calida, the former sex worker from Chicago, said women involved the sex trade are frequently robbed by people who know they’re carrying cash, and are sometimes coerced into sexual activity by police in return for not being arrested.
She said an attacker “knows you can’t or won’t report it. You’re an easy target and they know it.”
Three of her friends who were also sex workers in Chicago also turned up dead.
“You see someone, you become friends with them and then one day they’re suddenly just not there,” she said. “We’d all go out asking around and looking for them, and then a few days later a body would be found. There’s always this specific fear that it’s a serial killer. Sometimes we never even get a body back to bury. And we wonder: Will law enforcement take it seriously because it’s ‘just another sex worker?’”
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AP writers Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque; Steve LeBlanc in Boston; Julie Walker and Robert Bumsted in Suffolk County, New York; Sara Cline in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this story.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) —
A 9-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother have been called as witnesses in a criminal case against their mother after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army.
Lidia Prudovskaya and her two children were summoned by investigators in the northern Russian region of Arkhangelsk on Friday to give testimony in the case, Russian news outlet Sota reported.
Prudovskaya previously faced administrative charges on similar allegations after sharing anti-war posts on Russian social media platform VKontakte in September 2022.
Discrediting the Russian military is a criminal offense under a law adopted after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. The law is regularly used against Kremlin critics.
In April, Russian authorities petitioned to restrict the parental rights of a single father convicted of discrediting the army following an anti-war sketch drawn by his daughter at school.
Alexei Moskalyov, 54, was sentenced to two years in prison for social media comments he had made criticizing Moscow’s war in Ukraine, while his daughter Maria was placed in an orphanage.
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been charged with conspiracy against the state and calls for insurrections among other offenses, the public prosecutor said Saturday.
The announcement comes weeks after Sonko was convicted on separate charges of corrupting youth and sentenced to two years in prison, which ignited deadly protests across the nation.
Prosecutor Abdou Karim Diop made the announcement on state television, a day after Sonko’s lawyer said he was taken into custody for questioning at the police courthouse in the capital, Dakar.
In June, Sonko was acquitted on charges of raping a woman who worked at a massage parlor and making death threats against her. But he was convicted on a lighter sentence of corrupting young people, which includes using one’s position of power to have sex with people under age 21. Corrupting youth is a criminal offense in Senegal that is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to more than $6,000.
The conviction led to deadly clashes across the country between Sonko supporters and police, where at least 23 people were killed and dozens injured.
Sonko placed third in Senegal’s 2019 presidential election and is popular with the country’s youth. His supporters maintain the charges against him are part of a government effort to derail his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.
Sonko’s ongoing legal battles may bar him from running. Once in prison, he can ask for a retrial for his June conviction.
Saturday’s charges are separate, said the public prosecutor. The accusations include calling an insurrection, criminal conspiracy to commit terrorism, compromising public security and theft.
It is unclear what led to the charges. Sonko has mostly stayed in his house since being sentenced to prison.
In a tweet posted shortly before his arrest on Friday afternoon, Sonko said a team of soldiers were breaking down the door following an altercation with secret service agents who were taking videoing him.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The four women whose bodies were found in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City in November 2006, in the order that they were identified:
TRACY ANN ROBERTS, 23. Grew up in New Castle, Delaware. As a teenager, Roberts dropped out of high school and briefly studied to become a medical assistant. She lived in Philadelphia before working in strip clubs in and around Atlantic City, but drug use took a toll on her appearance, and club owners stopped hiring her. She began selling sex on the streets, where co-workers called her “the young one” or “the pretty one.” She lived in the same run-down area of seedy rooming houses as Raffo, whom she had befriended on the streets. Wearing a red hooded sweat shirt and a black bra, her body had been in the ditch anywhere from a couple of days to a week. She had a young daughter, grown now, who is about to earn a graduate degree in economics.
BARBARA V. BREIDOR, 42. Raised in Pennsylvania, rented a house in Ventnor, just outside Atlantic City. A cousin recalled her as “a very fun, happy girl” who was always smiling and joking around when she was young. She ran her family’s Boardwalk jewelry store and worked as a cocktail waitress at the Tropicana casino before a longtime drug problem worsened and pushed her into prostitution. She and a boyfriend had a daughter in 1997, which they asked her relatives in Florida to raise. Breidor briefly attended Penn State University and liked to watch the History Channel. Prosecutors said she had a “lethal” level of heroin in her system at the time of her death. Authorities were unable to determine how she died. Wearing blue jeans and a long-sleeve zippered shirt, she had been in the ditch at least two weeks.
MOLLY JEAN DILTS, 20. Grew up in Black Lick, Pennsylvania. She, too, had a young child that she asked relatives to care for. A former fast-food cook, she had never been arrested for prostitution in Atlantic City, although numerous streetwalkers said they saw her working in the sex trade as well in the short time between her arrival here and her death. They said she called herself “Amber” or “Princess” on the streets. A friend told The New York Times that Dilts cried a lot and spoke of considering suicide. Her body showed no traces of drugs, but she had been drinking just before her death. Clad in a denim miniskirt, a bra and mesh blouse, Dilts was believed to have been in the ditch the longest, for up to a month. “I want everyone to know Molly was a good woman and a good mother,” her father, Verner Dilts, told a Pittsburgh newspaper shortly after her death.
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Dear Abby: About 10 years ago, I visited my oldest and dearest friend, who I see a few times a year. The last time, her husband, who I've also known for years and who I thought was a friend, started teasing me. I can take a joke, but the teasing got mean. Eventually he stopped, and I continued my visit.
I was really angry at him, but because I didn't want to involve my friend, I sent him an email. I told him I thought his teasing went too far and to please not do it again. He never replied. Now when I visit my friend, her husband is never there. He stays away. I haven't seen him in years.
My friend makes silly excuses why he isn't at home when I visit. In fact, the last time I went I saw him driving away when I drove up! I don't hold a grudge against the guy. I think it's sad that he has to run away. Should I say something?
-- Perplexed In California
Dear Perplexed: No. You dealt with your friend's husband appropriately without involving his wife. Enjoy your visits with her, and do not drag her into this. I see no reason to raise the subject. Your problem is solved.
Dear Abby: I'm a gentleman who would like to date more than I do. I want to ask a woman in my church choir out for coffee or lunch on a Sunday afternoon. But I get so nervous I get knots in my stomach. I know dating is one of the things I need to leave in God's hands and have His help in getting over the nerves.
I like my friend in the choir a lot. I think she's a wonderful and caring person. I want to get to know her better because, even though we've said "Hi" and "Bye" and exchanged glances during choir practice on Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings, I don't know her heart and what makes her tick. Can you offer some advice?
-- Painfully Shy In Missouri
Dear Painfully Shy: Start treating the woman as you would a friend rather than a love interest. Asking a fellow choir member to join you for coffee afterward or for a lunch could be a healthy, nonthreatening beginning of a relationship. (Notice I didn't use the word "romance.") Because you want to get to know her better, summon your courage and let her get to know you better. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Dear Abby: I have a friend I occasionally meet for breakfast. She always stops someplace en route and brings takeout coffee into the restaurant. I am often kept waiting because she's in a drive-thru getting that drink. I find it embarrassing that she joins me with drink in hand from elsewhere. How should I handle this?
-- Embarrassed In The East
Dear Embarrassed: Ask your friend why she does it. It's possible she simply doesn't like the coffee that restaurant serves, although she does enjoy their food and your company. I don't think you should tell her it embarrasses you, because it is really no reflection on you. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/friends-teasing-spouse-ducks-out-during-visits/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:57 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/friends-teasing-spouse-ducks-out-during-visits/ |
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police arrested the president’s son Saturday as part of a high-profile money laundering probe into funds he allegedly collected from convicted drug traffickers during last year’s presidential campaign.
President Gustavo Petro, a former rebel who rose through Colombia’s political ranks as an anti-corruption crusader, said he wouldn’t interfere with the investigation.
“As an individual and father, it pains me to see so much self destruction and one of my sons going to jail,” Petro said in an early morning message on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “As president of the republic, I’ve assured the chief prosecutor’s office that it will have all of the guarantees so it can proceed according to the law.”
The arrest of Nicolas Petro is a major blow to the government, which has been buffeted by conservative attacks from day one at the same time it has struggled to maintain bipartisan support for Colombia in the U.S., a longtime ally in the war on drugs and fight against illegal armed groups.
The investigation stems from shocking declarations made by Nicolas Petro’s ex-wife, Daysuris del Carmen Vasquez, to local media outlet Semana earlier this year.
In the extended interview, Vasquez detailed how she was present at meetings when her husband arranged a donation of more than 600 million pesos (around $150,000) from a politician once convicted in Washington of drug trafficking and who was seeking the Petro campaign’s support to resume his political career.
She said President Petro was unaware of her son’s dealings and the money he collected in his campaign’s name was kept inside a safe inside the couple’s home in the coastal city of Barranquilla.
Nicolas Petro has denied his ex wife’s claims as unfounded.
The chief prosecutor’s office said in a statement that Nicolas Petro and his ex-wife were taken into custody on orders of a court in Bogota around 6 a.m. local time Saturday. It said that once brought before a judge, prosecutors would seek their provisional detention as it investigates the two for money laundering. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-son-of-colombias-president-arrested-as-part-of-money-laundering-probe/ | 2023-07-30T13:19:58 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-son-of-colombias-president-arrested-as-part-of-money-laundering-probe/ |
While most media attention regarding legal issues focuses on the Supreme Court, the vast number of federal cases never reach it. District and circuit court judges — as well as federal judges on specialty courts (e.g., U.S. trade courts, federal claims courts, bankruptcy courts) — do the lion’s share of the judicial work. (The Supreme Court’s 2022 end-of-year report found there were 4,900 filings in the 2021 term but, at the high court, only “70 cases were argued and 63 were disposed of in 58 signed opinions” with seven per curiam opinions.)
And while no one doubts the importance of the Supreme Court, its nine justices are a fraction of the 890 authorized judicial positions. As of July 27, 69 vacancies existed in the federal judiciary, with 27 pending nominees. President Biden last week announced his 36th round of judicial nominations, totaling 180 judges in slightly over 2½ years. Of those, 140 have been confirmed.
During Donald Trump’s four years as president, three justices were confirmed to the Supreme Court, 54 to federal circuit courts, 174 district court judges and three to the U.S. Court of International Trade — a total of 234. If Biden were to fill all vacancies (without others opening), his four-year total would exceed Trump’s.
But what is significant is the sort of judges Biden is appointing. And I’m not merely referring to ideological outlook and experience. According to a report on diversity of the federal bench by the American Constitution Society, Biden has gotten confirmed a far higher percentage of women (67.14 percent) than Trump (23.9 percent) or, for that matter, President Barack Obama (41.95 percent). (Overall, 66 percent of Biden’s nominees have been people of color, according to the White House.)
A stunning 30 percent of Biden’s confirmed judges have been African American (including one Supreme Court justice), in contrast to a paltry (3.85 percent) under Trump and 17.93 percent (still in excess of the percentage of Black people in the population) under Obama. Biden has appointed more African American women to circuit court seats than all previous presidents combined.
The comparison for Hispanics is likewise dramatic: Biden 15.71 percent, Trump 3.85 percent and Obama 9.73 percent. Biden has seated doublethe percentage of Asian American judges that Trump or Obama did. With the federal bench heavily dominated by former prosecutors, Biden set out to name more public defenders. “In total, Biden has nominated 41 public defenders to the federal bench, including 12 to the nation’s appellate courts, according to the Alliance for Justice,” according to Reuters. He has also named a number of prominent civil rights attorneys to judicial posts, including Dale Ho, Julie Rikelman, Tiffany Cartwright and Jessica Clarke.
And despite all that, the federal bench remains overwhelmingly White (roughly 68 percent) and male (approximately 62 percent). That tells you how dismally non-diverse the federal bench has been since the Constitution’s inception. (The first Black male district judge was not appointed until 1937; the first female Black judge not until 1966.)
Certainly, there has been progress, even before Biden. “The first woman was appointed to the federal judiciary in 1928, when 217 men held that position. By 1950, there were still only three female federal judges. That rose to 46 in 1980. And by July 1, 2022, there were 424 women on the federal bench – nearly one-third of all federal judges (30%),” the American Bar Association reported. However, given that more than 48 percent of law school students have been women since 2000, and more than 50 percent since 2016, progress has not been swift. (Law firms are worse; less than a quarter of equity partners were women as of 2020.) However, there is no doubt that Biden, more than any other president, is contributing to the diversity of the bench.
If future presidents are as committed to diversity as Biden is (and, unless there is a total revolution in the GOP, if the future presidents have a Democratic majority in the Senate), eventually, the federal bench will look like the rest of America.
Congress could speed up the process by, among other things, authorizing more federal judgeships — and timing the new seats to give both parties a shot at nominations. It’s not like federal judges are underworked. To the contrary, federal courts have been plagued by delays and backlogs for years.
In that vein, Sens. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) and Todd C. Young (R-Ind.) introduced a bill in July 2021 to create 77 new federal district seats, the exact number recommended a few months earlier by the Judicial Conference of the United States, a nonpartisan policymaking body for the federal judiciary. Half would come on Jan. 21, 2025, and the other half on Jan. 21, 2029. The bill died with that Congress.
This March, the Judicial Conference recommended Congress “create two permanent judgeships in the courts of appeals, and 66 permanent district court judgeships, convert seven temporary district court judgeships to permanent status, and extend two existing temporary district court judgeships for an additional five years.”
It might be unrealistic to expect House Republicans to agree to anything regarding the smooth operation of the federal courts, especially if they (reasonably) fear a Democrat might be in the White House in 2025. However, Democrats again should consider a bipartisan measure in the Senate. If it passes, they could search for a handful of House Republicans who might go along with the effort.
The statistics paint a stark picture. In a diverse country of more than 330 million people, the federal bench is too small — and certainly too White and too male. Biden should be commended for what he has done, but he and subsequent presidents need Congress to create more seats to fill. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/biden-federal-judiciary/ | 2023-07-30T13:20:01 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/biden-federal-judiciary/ |
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of "a crippling funding crisis" that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said Friday.
At least 38 of the 86 countries where the program operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon -- including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and West Africa, Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a news conference.
He said the program's operating requirement is $20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between $10 billion and $14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years.
"We're still aiming at that, but we have only so far this year gotten to about half of that, around $5 billion," Skau said.
He said humanitarian needs were "going through the roof" in 2021 and 2022 because of the covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its global implications.
"Those drivers are still there," he said, "but the funding is drying up. So we're looking at 2024 [being] even more dire."
Skau said conflict and insecurity remain the primary drivers of acute hunger around the world, along with climate change, unrelenting disasters, persistent food price inflation and mounting debt stress.
The food program is looking to diversify its funding base, but he also urged the agency's traditional donors to "step up and support us through this very difficult time."
Skau said in March, the World Food Program was forced to cut rations from 75% to 50% for communities in Afghanistan facing emergency levels of hunger, and in May, it was forced to cut food for 8 million people -- 66% of the people it was assisting. Now, it is helping just 5 million people, he said.
In Syria, 5.5 million people who relied on the program for food were already on 50% rations, Skau said, and in July, the agency cut all rations to 2.5 million of them.
In the Palestinian territories, the program cut its cash assistance by 20% in May and in June. It cut its caseload by 60%, or 200,000 people. And in Yemen, he said, a huge funding gap will force the food program to cut aid to 7 million people as early as August.
In West Africa, where acute hunger is on the rise, Skau said, most countries are facing extensive ration cuts, particularly the program's seven largest crisis operations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
He said cutting aid to people who are only at the hunger level of crisis to help save those literally starving or in the category of catastrophic hunger means that those dropped will rapidly fall into the emergency and catastrophe categories.
"Ration cuts are clearly not the way to go forward," Skau said.
He urged world leaders to prioritize humanitarian funding and invest in long-tern solutions to conflicts, poverty, development and other root causes of the current crisis. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/funding-drop-hurts-un-relief/ | 2023-07-30T13:20:04 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/funding-drop-hurts-un-relief/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday signed a law moving the official Christmas Day holiday to Dec. 25 from Jan. 7, the day when the Russian Orthodox Church observes it.
The explanatory note attached to the law said its goal is to “abandon the Russian heritage,” including that of “imposing the celebration of Christmas” on Jan. 7. It cited Ukrainians’ “relentless, successful struggle for their identity” and “the desire of all Ukrainians to live their lives with their own traditions, holidays,” fueled by Russia’s 17-month-old aggression against the country.
Last year, some Ukrainians already observed Christmas on Dec. 25, in a gesture that represented separation from Russia, its culture and religious traditions.
The law also moves the Day of Ukrainian Statehood to July 15 from July 28, and the Day of Defenders of Ukraine to Oct. 1 from Oct. 14.
The Russian Orthodox Church, which claims sovereignty over Orthodoxy in Ukraine, and some other Eastern Orthodox churches continue to use the ancient Julian calendar. Christmas falls 13 days later on that calendar, or Jan. 7, than it does on the Gregorian calendar used by most church and secular groups.
The Catholic Church first adopted the modern, more astronomically precise Gregorian calendar in the 16th century. Protestants and some Orthodox churches have since aligned their own calendars for the purpose of calculating Christmas and Easter.
Ukraine’s religious landscape has fractured for years. There are two branches of Orthodox Christianity in the country, one aligned with the Russian church, even as it enjoys broad autonomy, the other completely independent of it. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the branch that is separate from the Russian church, announced earlier this year that it was switching to the Revised Julian calendar, which marks Christmas on Dec. 25.
Its leadership last year allowed believers to celebrate the holiday on Dec. 25.
Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti reported on Saturday that the rival Orthodox Church, which is aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church, vowed to continue observing Christmas on Jan. 7.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Saturday that the move “is a sign of something that has been happening for centuries” and that “has to do with the relations between the Catholic church and the Orthodox one.”
Zelenskyy on Saturday traveled to the war-torn Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, which Russia has illegally annexed, but only partially occupies, and met with members of the country’s Special Operation Forces. Zelenskyy noted in an online statement that Saturday marks their official day of recognition and also the anniversary of the deadly attack on the Olenivka prison in the Russian-held part of the region in which dozens of prisoners of war were killed.
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of the attack, with both sides saying that the assault was premeditated in a bid to cover up atrocities. A United Nations fact-finding mission requested by Russia and Ukraine was sent to investigate the killings, but the team was disbanded in January 2023 due to security concerns.
Zelenskyy described the attack as one of Russia’s “most vile and cruel crimes” in a video statement Saturday.
In a separate Telegram statement, he hailed the soldiers in the Donetsk region for “bringing closer the day when all our land and all our people will be free from the occupiers” and underscored the Special Operations Forces’ role in the recent retaking of the village of Staromaiorske in the area.
His visit to the east comes just days after Western and Russian officials said that Kyiv’s forces intensified attacks in the southeast of the country as part of Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Putin said Saturday that the intensity of Ukrainian atacks along the front line has gone down “compared to two days ago.” He reiterated that Russian forces are successfully repelling all attacks and in some parts of the front line are even mounting successful counteroffensive operations.
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Litvinova reported from Tallinn, Estonia. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-ukraine-moves-official-christmas-day-holiday-to-dec-25-denouncing-russian-imposed-traditions/ | 2023-07-30T13:20:05 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-ukraine-moves-official-christmas-day-holiday-to-dec-25-denouncing-russian-imposed-traditions/ |
There’s a lot to be said about the blockbuster paper released this week showing how egregiously the most elite colleges skew toward the children of the rich — and how much this matters.
Yes, probably all of the above. But admissions data that Harvard researchers collected from hundreds of schools suggests that, even accounting for factors such as test scores and application numbers, kids hailing from the very top 1 to 2 percent of the income distribution are more likely to be admitted to the “Ivy Plus” (Ivies plus Stanford, University of Chicago, MIT and Duke). This is thanks to preferences for legacies and athletes, and the somewhat mysterious tendency of very rich kids to get higher ratings from admissions officers on nonacademic factors than lower-income kids with comparable test scores. Whether this represents schools trying to cultivate a great-books-night-at-the-yacht-club vibe for their campuses, deans selling spots to big donors, or admissions officers star-struck by the ultrawealthy, it’s crass and unworthy of any institution that aspires to greatness.
Second observation: This matters. Kids who attend Ivy Plus schools don’t actually end up earning all that much more on average than those who attend selective public universities, but they are significantly more likely to end up in the top 1 percent of earners. And while it would be nice to think this is because the schools hoover up all the best talent, we already know they’re admitting a bunch of rich kids who probably wouldn’t get in if they were merely middle class. It appears that at least a chunk of that earnings premium exists because their graduates are more likely in elite graduate and professional programs, and jobs with high-paying employers such as McKinsey and Goldman Sachs, who recruit heavily at Ivy Plus schools.
Third observation: This snobbery is worse in some parts of the job market than others. Six of nine Supreme Court justices got their undergraduate degrees from Harvard, Princeton or Yale; a seventh went to Columbia. A quarter of the Senate attended an Ivy Plus school — about the same ratio you’ll find in the newsrooms of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
On the other hand, only one of America’s 10 biggest companies, Amazon, is helmed by an Ivy Plus graduate, which is roughly the same proportion you’ll find across the Fortune 500. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Post.) This is disproportionate, but much less so than in the parts of the economy where prestige substitutes for reliable output measures. It seems telling — and damning — that an elite undergraduate degree is more valuable in politics, journalism, law or MacArthur “genius grant” competition than it is in running a successful business that provides valuable goods and services to customers.
Fourth observation: Yell all you want about the mammonite vulgarity of Ivy admissions procedures, the selfishness of rich parents or the moral corruption of a self-perpetuating elite, but we all deserve a share of the blame.
I mean, please do yell about this, because it obviously should stop. Jonathan Meer, an economics professor at Texas A&M, recently told me an enraging story about watching an outstanding student with great board scores, a prestigious internship and sterling undergraduate research credentials get rejected from every PhD program the person applied to. When Meer made some quiet inquiries, he was told that the problem was not the student but the school: “We don’t know what a 4.0 means in your program.”
If you are not bright enough to figure out how to assess a bright student from an unfamiliar school, then you are obviously not bright enough to teach elite PhDs. But of course they could figure it out; they just don’t bother. This same process, writ large, deprives talented kids of opportunities they deserve — and deprives the rest of us of the fruits of their potential.
But it’s not enough to complain about moral turpitude or call for Harvard to reform itself. We’re the ones who made Harvard and its brethren synonymous with prestige; we’re the ones who created the incentives to sell some of that prestige out the back door. We could have pushed schools to lean harder on harder-to-game grades and test scores instead of letting them craft “holistic” systems that favored rich people. Better yet, we could have chosen our elites from a broader range of schools, rather than outsourcing the creation of our elites to some unknown bureaucrats in Ivy League admissions offices. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/college-admissions-elite-ivy-rich/ | 2023-07-30T13:20:07 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/college-admissions-elite-ivy-rich/ |
July 30
Sunday Music -- John Severs, 1 p.m., Terra Studios in Durham. Free. usingart.org.
Summer Art Classes -- 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. July , Terra Studios in Durham. Free. usingart.org.
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July 31
Monday Night Trivia -- 6:30 p.m., Bakery District in Fort Smith. Free. bakeryfs.com.
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Aug. 1
Dewey's Cafe Artist -- Gary Udouj, through August, Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
Season Ticket -- Featured spice: Herbs de Provence, Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
Back to School Educator Tours -- 9 a.m., 1 p.m. & 3 p.m., U.S. Marshals Museum. $5. Register at usmmuseum.org.
Fish of Arkansas -- With Arkansas Game & Fish, 1 p.m., Fort Smith Miller Library. Free. 646-3945.
Guided Tours -- By appointment, Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Free. 784-2787 or email education@fsram.org.
Fort Smith Museum of History -- 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 320 Rogers Ave. $4-$8. fortsmithmuseum.org.
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Aug. 2
Bags at the Bakery Cornhole -- 6:30 p.m., Bakery District in Fort Smith. Free. bakeryfs.com.
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Aug. 3
Drop In & Draw -- 1-3 p.m., Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Free. fsram.org.
Movie Night at the Bakery -- With the Fort Smith International Film Festival, 6:30 p.m., The Bakery District in Fort Smith. Free. bakeryfs.com.
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Aug. 4
Face Planter Class -- 11:30 a.m. Aug. 4 or Aug. 5, Terra Studios in Durham. $35. usingart.org.
First Friday Film -- "While the City Sleeps" (1956), 2 p.m., Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
Opening Reception -- For Margaret Speer Carter's "An Artist's Journey," 5-7 p.m., Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Free. fsram.org.
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Aug. 5
Potluck Craft Day -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Fort Smith Dallas Library. Free. 484-5650.
Game Day Saturday -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Fort Smith Miller Library. Free. 646-3945.
Book Signing -- With author Harold Trisler, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., U.S. Marshals Museum. Free. usmmuseum.org.
Bookish Story Time -- 11 a.m., Bookish at The Bakery District in Fort Smith. Free. bakeryfs.com.
Craft Closet Cleanout -- 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
RAM Saturday -- Make-and-take projects, noon-3 p.m., Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Free. fsram.org.
Back to the '80s -- A trivia & costume contest, 1-3:30 p.m., Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
-- Becca Martin-Brown
bmartin@nwaonline.com | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/fyi-calendar-an-artists-journey-opens-aug-4-at/ | 2023-07-30T13:20:10 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/fyi-calendar-an-artists-journey-opens-aug-4-at/ |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday pushed back against Australian demands for an end to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s prosecution, saying the Australian citizen was accused of “very serious criminal conduct” in publishing a trove of classified documents more than a decade ago.
Australia’s center-left Labor Party government has been arguing since winning the elections last year that the United States should end its pursuit of the 52-year-old, who has spent four years in a British prison fighting extradition to the United States.
Assange’s freedom is widely seen as a test of Australia’s leverage with President Joe Biden’s administration.
Blinken confirmed on Saturday that Assange had been discussed in annual talks with Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Brisbane, Australia.
“I understand the concerns and views of Australians. I think it’s very important that our friends here understand our concerns about this matter,” Blinken told reporters.
“Mr. Assange was charged with very serious criminal conduct in the United States in connection with his alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of our country,” he added.
Wong said Assange’s prosecution had “dragged for too long” and that Australia wanted the charges “brought to a conclusion.”
Australia remains ambiguous about whether the United States should drop the prosecution or strike a plea bargain.
Assange faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents in 2010.
American prosecutors allege he helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.
Australia argues there is a “disconnect” between the U.S. treatment of Assange and Manning. Then-U.S. President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s 35-year sentence to seven years, which allowed her release in 2017. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-us-secretary-of-state-tells-australia-that-wikileaks-founder-is-accused-of-very-serious-crime/ | 2023-07-30T13:20:12 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-us-secretary-of-state-tells-australia-that-wikileaks-founder-is-accused-of-very-serious-crime/ |
At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. But he’s more interested in the 80-year-old president’s accomplishments than his age.
Voters like him were a key piece of Biden’s winning 2020 coalition, which included majorities of young people as well as college graduates, women, urban and suburban voters and Black Americans. Maintaining their support will be critical in closely contested states such as Nevada, where even small declines could prove consequential to Biden’s reelection bid.
His 2024 campaign plans to emphasize messages that could especially resonate with young people in the coming weeks as the anniversary of the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act approaches in mid-August. That legislation includes provisions that the White House will embrace to argue that Biden has done more than any other president to combat climate change.
Such efforts, however, could collide with Biden’s personal reality — like when he recalled that, while attending a St. Patrick’s Day parade at age 14, he appeared in a photo with President Harry S. Truman.
“Purely by accident — I assume it was an accident — the photographer from the newspaper got a picture of me making eye contact with Harry Truman,” Biden said to chuckles last week at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington.
In 2020, 61% of voters under age 30 — and 55% of those between 30 and 44 — supported Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of the electorate.
It’s an age group with which Republicans hope to make inroads. Former President Donald Trump, who is the early front-runner in the GOP presidential primary and is only 3 1/2 years younger than Biden, said Friday, “We are hitting the young person’s market like nobody’s ever seen before.”
Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign, referred to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement in arguing that “young people are acutely impacted by the issues front and center in this election, driven by the extreme MAGA agenda.” He said that included inaction on climate change, gun violence and student debt.
“We will meet younger Americans where they are and turn their energy into action,” Munoz said in a statement.
That might not defuse questions about age, though, when it comes to Biden or Trump.
“There’s a frustration and exhaustion that they feel with the rematch,” Terrance Woodbury, co-founder & CEO of the Democratic polling firm HIT Strategies, said of young voters.
“That’s more of a problem than either of those two candidates individually, is that a system can just keep reproducing,” Woodbury added. “And I think a lot of people just find that untenable.”
An April poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 25% of Democrats under 45 said they would definitely support Biden in a general election, compared with 56% of older Democrats. A majority of Democrats across age groups said they would probably support him as the party’s nominee, however.
Biden’s campaign is relying heavily on the Democratic National Committee, which during last year’s midterms, hired campus organizers in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and other battleground states and offered weekly youth coordinating meetings to encourage in-class contacts and “dormstorms.” The DNC sees young people as some of the most critical voters it will need to reach in 2024 and promises “significant investments” to mobilize them. Plans are underway to expand on its work last cycle, including trainings it held on how best to turn out voters.
The Republican National Committee is trying to use Biden’s age against him, posting online videos of Biden seeming frail or making verbal gaffes, such as when he declared in June “God save the queen,” nearly nine months after the death of England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Rodriguez shrugged off online attacks, “People can make all the hit pieces and memes and TikToks all they want.”
A starker contrast might be between the president and rising Democrats such as 46-year-old California Rep. Ro Khanna and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 41, one of Biden’s primary rivals in 2020. Neither seriously entertained running for the White House in 2024 and have backed Biden’s reelection.
“The only thing that really matters is your ability to do the job,” Buttigieg, who was 37 when he launched his 2020 presidential bid, said recently on CNN. Khanna told Fox News Channel that age will “obviously” be a 2024 factor, but suggested that Biden’s staff “overprotects” him and “the more he’s out there, the better.”
Other top young Democrats have lined up to back Biden. Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost, who was elected to Congress last year at 26, is on the Biden campaign’s advisory board, as is Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, 44. New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, 33, recently endorsed Biden.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a progressive who says strong turnout among young voters helped him win a runoff election this spring, said Biden’s policies transcend his age. Johnson noted that the president’s work “around climate justice speaks not just to this generation, but generations to come.”
“The excitement that I believe that we’re going to have is going to speak to the incredible work and organizing that we are committed to doing as a party,” said Johnson, 47. “And we’re looking forward to working with the president over the course of his next four years.”
Still, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, acknowledged that even the president’s supporters understand how demanding the White House can be.
“People worry about Joe Biden. They worry like you would worry about a beloved father or grandfather,” said Weingarten, 65. “What you normally hear from Democrats is this sense of, ‘OK, I just want him to be OK.’ And you’re hearing just the consternation of, ’This is a hard job.’”
Biden said he “took a hard look” at his age while deciding to seek a second term. But he’s also tried to suggest his age and experience are assets rather than liabilities by joking repeatedly about them. That’s a departure from 2020, when Biden called himself a “transition candidate” and pledged to be a “bridge” to younger Democrats.
Santiago Mayer, the founder of Voters of Tomorrow, which has 20-plus chapters nationwide and works to increase political engagement among young voters, argues that Biden is not defying his past promise by running for reelection, but keeping it.
“He just needs more time,” said Mayer, who graduated from California State University at Long Beach in May. “I think the second term is a very important part of that pledge. He’s building a progressive future for young people and he can’t actually pass the baton until that’s done.”
One key policy piece of Biden’s efforts to appeal to young voters, providing student debt relief, was recently struck down by the Supreme Court. The White House has launched a new effort, but it will take longer.
“Of course it’s going to dampen some of that because people are disappointed,” Weingarten said of the ruling’s effect on enthusiasm for Biden. But she said the decision could also motivate young Biden supporters anxious show their support for the president’s alternative plan.
“It is also about the fight,” Weingarten said “not just about the results.”
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AP polling director Emily Swanson in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/30/biden-2024-campaign-oldest-president-young-voters/32c3ae20-2ed6-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html | 2023-07-30T13:20:14 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/30/biden-2024-campaign-oldest-president-young-voters/32c3ae20-2ed6-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html |
July 30
Sunday Music -- John Severs, 1 p.m., Terra Studios in Durham. Free. usingart.org.
Mountain Street Stage -- Greenland Station Bluegrass, 2 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
"Sweeney Todd" -- Presented by Arts One Presents, 2 p.m., Pat Ellison Performing Arts Center at the Don Tyson School of Innovation in Springdale. $20-$35. Final performance. artsonepresents.org.
"Legends From the Fairy Tale Academy" -- Presented by Northwest Arkansas Audio Theater, 2 p.m. at The Medium in Springdale. $5-$10. Final performance. Search NWAAT on Facebook.
"Cinderella" – 2 p.m. July 30; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 2-5; 2 p.m. Aug. 6; again Aug. 10-12, Fort Smith Little Theatre, 401 N. Sixth St. $20; half-price kids' tickets Aug. 3 & 10. 783-2966 or fslt.org.
"It Shoulda Been You" -- A musical farce where a wedding goes wildly awry, 2 p.m., Arkansas Public Theatre at the Victory in Rogers. $25-$55. Final performance. arkansaspublictheatre.org/tickets.
Family Art -- With UA School of Art, 2-4 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Southern Storytellers -- An Arkansas storytelling event featuring Mary Steenburgen and Qui Nguyen, 3 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Sold out. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Black Apple Birthday Bash -- 6-8 p.m., Black Apple Hard Cider, downtown Springdale. Search Black Apple on Facebook.
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July 31
Drop-In Tour: Collection Highlights -- 11:30 a.m. Monday, Thursday & Sunday, 2 p.m. Saturday, Garrison Lobby at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Drop-In Tour: Architecture -- 1 p.m. Monday, Thursday, Sunday, Garrison Lobby at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Stitch Together -- For those who crochet, knit or do other needlework, 1-2:30 p.m., Rogers Public Library. Free. rogersar.libcal.com.
Yoga at FPL -- 6 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Monday Night Trivia -- 6:30 p.m., Bakery District in Fort Smith. Free. bakeryfs.com.
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Aug. 1
Dewey's Cafe Artist -- Gary Udouj, through August, Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
Season Ticket -- Featured spice: Herbs de Provence, Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
Fish of Arkansas -- With Arkansas Game & Fish, 1 p.m., Fort Smith Miller Library. Free. 646-3945.
BPL in the Community -- At National Night Out with the Bentonville Police Department, 5-8 p.m., Memorial Park in Bentonville. Free. bentonvillelibrary.org.
Terrific Tuesday Nights -- Amazing Animals with Reptile Refuge, Backyard Buddies, Greedy Goats & more, 5-8:30 p.m., Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville. Free. bgozarks.org.
Mindfulness Meditation -- 5:30 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. Register at faylib.org.
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Aug. 2
Little Sprouts -- A botanic themed story and activity time for preschoolers, 10:30 a.m., Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville. $10. bgozarks.org.
Drop-In Tour: Big Picture -- Art, architecture and nature, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Friday & Saturday, Garrison Lobby at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Drop-In Tour: 3 in 30 -- 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Garrison Lobby at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Under the Covers Book Club -- 1 p.m., Bella Vista Public Library. Free. bvpl.org.
Elemental Flow Yoga -- With Whitney Vogler, 5 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Achieve It -- Disability Rights, 5:30 p.m., Rogers Public Library. Free. rogersar.libcal.com.
UA Press Author Spotlight -- Brooks Blevins, author of "Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins," 6 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Sci-Fi Book Club -- 6 p.m., Bella Vista Public Library. Free. bvpl.org.
Young at Heart Book Club -- "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby, 6 p.m., Bentonville Public Library. Free. bentonvillelibrary.org.
Books & Brews -- "Crying in H Mart" by Michelle Zauner, 6 p.m., Nomads Trailside in Fayetteville. Hosted by Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Bags at the Bakery Cornhole -- 6:30 p.m., Bakery District in Fort Smith. Free. bakeryfs.com.
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Aug. 3
We're Hooked -- A crafting club, 1 p.m., Bella Vista Public Library. Free. bvpl.org.
Gallery Conversation -- "In Exaltation of Flowers" by Edward Steichen, 1 p.m., Early American Gallery at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Scribblers & Scribes -- 2 p.m., Bella Vista Public Library. Free. bvpl.org.
Author Talk -- And book signing, with Brooks Blevins, author of "Up South in the Ozarks," 2 p.m., Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. Free. shilohmuseum.org.
Intro to Karate -- 5 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Neurodiverse Night -- 5-8 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Free with exhibition ticket. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Cocktail Tour -- Schools of Art, 6 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $20. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Movie Night at the Bakery -- With the Fort Smith International Film Festival, 6:30 p.m., The Bakery District in Fort Smith. Free. bakeryfs.com.
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Aug. 4
Yards & Yards of Yard Sales -- Aug. 4-6, all over Eureka Springs. View the map at YardsYards.com.
Face Planter Class -- 11:30 a.m. Aug. 4 or Aug. 5, Terra Studios in Durham. $35. usingart.org.
Art Trail Tour -- Sculpture & Nature, 1 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
Exhibition Tour -- "Architecture at Home," 2 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
First Friday Film -- "While the City Sleeps" (1956), 2 p.m., Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
Opening Reception -- For Margaret Speer Carter's "An Artist's Journey," 5-7 p.m., Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Free. fsram.org.
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Aug. 5
Super Saturday -- Artsy Crafty, 10 a.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Introduction to Genealogy -- 10 a.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
RPM Spinners -- A crafting club, 10 a.m., Bella Vista Public Library. Free. bvpl.org.
Backyard Throwdown -- With cornhole, bocce ball, croquet, horseshoes, giant water pong, Kan Jam, ladder toss and more, 10 a.m.-noon & 6-9 p.m., Jones Center in Springdale. $25 per team of two. thejonescenter.net/summer-city.
Potluck Craft Day -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Fort Smith Dallas Library. Free. 484-5650.
Game Day Saturday -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Fort Smith Miller Library. Free. 646-3945.
Bookish Story Time -- 11 a.m., Bookish at The Bakery District in Fort Smith. Free. bakeryfs.com.
Craft Closet Cleanout -- 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
Back to the '80s -- A trivia & costume contest, 1-3:30 p.m., Fort Smith Main Library. Free. 783-0229.
Drop-In Artmaking -- 1-4 p.m. Saturday & Sunday, Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
End of Summer Celebration -- 2-4 p.m., Rogers Public Library. Free. rogersar.libcal.com.
Poetry As Performance -- With Laura Lee Washburn, 2-4 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. Register at faylib.org.
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Aug. 6
Author Talk -- With Jerry Robinson, author of "Bankruptcy of Our Nation," 2 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
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Kids Fiber Art Camp -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. daily, July 31-Aug. 4, Ozark Folkways in Winslow. Ages 7-14. $125. ozarkfolkways.org.
"Faces of Figment" -- A new immersive exhibition featuring the imagined portraits of Drew Gentle, through Aug. 6, TheatreSquared in Fayetteville. Presented by Art Ventures. Free. www.artventures-nwa.org.
"Hang" -- With sculptures by John Eck (Kansas City), Ben Edwards (Bentonville), Landon Perkins (Bella Vista) Chris Vanndy (Tulsa) and Isaac Younis (Bella Vista), opening reception 6 p.m. July 13, Gallery on 6th in Bentonville. Open through Aug. 20. Email kate@galleryon6thbentonville.com.
"Constructions, Carvings, & Curiosities" -- A new Art Ventures exhibition by artist Frank Goff, through July 21, Faulkner Performing Arts Center on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. Free. artventures-nwa.org.
"Diego Rivera's America" -- Envisioning America from both the U.S. and Mexico, through July 31, Crystal Bridges Museum. $12. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
"Organic Abstractions" -- By Jeffry Cantu, through Aug. 31, Startup Junkie in Fayetteville. Hosted by Art Ventures. Free. www.artventures-nwa.org.
"Flagged for Discussion" -- A focus exhibition that embraces disparate representations of the United States flag from across time, posing questions and creating space for conversation within the gallery, through Sept. 25, Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
"Dear Friend" -- A focus exhibition featuring a selection of artworks created by artist Leah Grant and local community members in 2022 as part of the museum's CB to You Mobile Art Lab program, through Nov. 27, Lower Lobby at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
"Seeing One Another" -- "New Views on the Alfred Stieglitz Collection," through Jan. 1, Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
"Architecture at Home" -- Five prototypes for homes intended to spark a dialogue about contemporary housing, through March 6, 2024, Orchard Trail at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
"Trace Me Back" -- An experiential installation by Marie Bannerot McInerney, through April 22, Contemporary Gallery at Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335 or crystalbridges.org.
-- Becca Martin-Brown
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who’s in, who’s (maybe) out and who’s still working on making it:
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump’s public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump’s top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis’ campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state’s first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump’s U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley’s campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors” and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy’s campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek’s Kitchen Cabinet” to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn’t, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
Trump’s vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party’s first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage.”
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez’s campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been “a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers.
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Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/30/republican-presidential-debate-2024-election-qualified-candidates/279e757a-2ed1-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html | 2023-07-30T13:20:20 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/30/republican-presidential-debate-2024-election-qualified-candidates/279e757a-2ed1-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html |