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Director duo Akhil Paul and Anas Khan has joined hands with actor Tovino Thomas and producer Raju Mallyath after the super hit crime thriller ‘Forensic’. Their latest movie that has been titled ‘Identity’ has Madonna Sebastian playing the female lead.
The film bankrolled jointly by Raju Mallyath and Century Kochumon for the banner of Raagam Movie. ‘Identity’ is an action thriller which will be shot in multiple locations at Ernakulam, Bengaluru and Mauritius. The movie will hit the screens in 2023.
Forensic that was released in 2020 was written and directed by Akhil Paul and Anas Khan. Tovino had played the role of Samuel John Kattookkaran in the psychologic thriller. The audience too are thrilled when the makers of the hit movie is all set to return with another thriller. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/14/forensic-akhil-paul-anas-khan-forensic-tovino-thomas-madonna-sebastian.html | 2022-08-14T18:35:23Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/14/forensic-akhil-paul-anas-khan-forensic-tovino-thomas-madonna-sebastian.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
India celebrates its 75th Independence Day on Monday. As flags fly high and the spirit of India gains fervour, we look at some of the movies made in Mollywood set in the background of India's freedom struggle.
'1921'
Directed by I V Sasi, '1921' is a raw depiction of the Moplah Rebellion. Two men, corporal Khader (Mammootty) and Unnikrishnan, a hard line national (Suresh Gopi), join forces to fight the British troops in an uprising led by Variamkunnath Kunjahammad Haji ( T G Ravi). The movie is said to be one of the biggest films in Mammootty's career. As Kunjahammad Haji is seen as a controversial figure by some and a hero by others, the movie was acknowledged for not taking sides. It is also one of the films in Mollywood which displayed the brute force of the British empire at its peak. All the actors put up amazing performances in the film, which was peppered with hair-raising dialogues penned by T Damodaran.
'Kaalapani'
Directed by Priyadarshan, the movie opens our eyes to the sufferings of the political prisoners who are lodged in Andaman's notorious Cellular Jail (Kaalapani). The movie revolves around Govardhan, a doctor (played by Mohanlal), who is falsely accused of bombing a train and then exiled to Kaalapani for several years. The heartless warden David in 'Kaalapani' shadows the treatment by Britons in British-ruled India of Indians who opposed their regime. The movie is rated among the best movies set in pre-Independent India.
'Veeraputhran'
'Veeraputhran' directed by P T Kunju Muhammed narrates the tale of Mohammed Abdul Rahiman, an anti-colonial activist who was an influential force in fighting the British. As the president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee and an editor of a Malayalam daily, he tried to instill in nationalism among the masses. The failures and struggles as a leader and his sacrifice for the nation have been depicted in the movie, which is headlined by Narain.
'Kerala Varma Pazhasshi Raja'
The Mammootty-starrer, which was scripted by M T Vasudevan Nair and directed by Hariharan, is an epic historical drama. It revolves around the life of Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, the king who fought the British Raj, especially after the East India Company failed to follow a treaty which was signed for the welfare of his people. The big-budget movie depicted the heroism of the king who fought till his last breath. It went on to become a critical and commercial success.
'Iyobinte Pusthakam'
The movie set in a per-Independence era centres around a rich family, which owns tea plantations, led by the patriarch Iyob (played by Lal). The power-hungry ruthless man is an over-bearing influence on two of his like-minded sons. However, Aloshy, the youngest son played by Fahadh, is kind like his mother. Aloshy leaves the household due to the brutality of his brothers and joins the British Navy after several years. However, he is a man of a different sensibility and wants to become part of India's Independence struggle.
The entire setting depicting the equations of a family in a colonial period has been beautifully captured and is one of Amal Neerad's best works. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/14/movies-patriotism-india-freedom-struggle-mollywood-directors-mammootty-mohanlal.html | 2022-08-14T18:35:36Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/14/movies-patriotism-india-freedom-struggle-mollywood-directors-mammootty-mohanlal.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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How to Have a 50-Year Academic Career
Learning from my dad.
Much of the conversation swirling around academia this summer is about leaving academia. Amidst all this talk about higher ed and the Great Resignation, I’ve been thinking about the opposite. Call it “the Great Stay.”
What might be the conditions that encourage and enable us to remain in academia for decades and decades? I need to look no further than my dad to answer that question.
This summer, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies hosted a farewell dinner for my dad and three of his colleagues who also retired since the Covid summer of 2020. That dinner marked the end of my dad’s five-decade career teaching and researching topics of household and family demography, population dynamics, housing studies, and household forecasting.
What are the factors that contributed to his academic longevity? And what can we learn from his long higher education career that may help us join the Great Stay?
As I consider what the next 25 years of my academic career might look like, I’m hoping that writing this piece might help provide a roadmap for sticking around.
1 - Optimize for Curiosity over Careerism
Growing up, I never heard my dad talk about university and department politics. When he spoke about his work, it was about trends and ideas and how his research related to our lives. The organizational dysfunctions of academia are evergreen. There was never a golden age of the university, as each generation faces its own challenges.
A career-long focus on ideas and the creation and sharing of knowledge does not need to be confined to professors. Student insights and their research were always fundamental. Those working on the staff side of the faculty/staff divide enhance the opportunity to center our academic careers around learning and scholarship. Classrooms are not the only place where teaching happens, and peer-reviewed journals are not the only place where knowledge can be shared.
Throughout his career, my dad kept his curiosity about the interplay between demographic trends (migration, fertility, household formation, etc.) and housing dynamics. That curiosity was the throughline of his decades-long career, not titles, positions, or appointments. It is up to all of us to find and nurture our curiosities if we wish to sustain a lifetime spanning an academic career.
2 -Build Recognized Deep Expertise
Building nationally recognized expertise is a long-term proposition. It is the work year after year, decade after decade, that accumulates into domain knowledge valued by one’s academic peers and those outside of one’s discipline.
For my dad, that recognized deep expertise was in housing demography. Much of his academic career was spent collaborating with and training academics and non-academics in this area of research. His expertise was enhanced by a network of scholars at other institutions and organizations (such as the Census Bureau) and colleagues at his university with whom he could collaborate daily on shared research and writing.
The lesson here is building our own recognized expertise as a destination that does not come quickly. Plug away long enough at a set of questions and ideas; sooner or later, you’ve found that decades will have passed. View the job as developing deep expertise as a team sport rather than a sole endeavor, and you will seek out those who know more than you do at your institution and beyond.
3 - Embrace Non-Traditional Academic Roles
The second two-thirds of my dad’s academic career was not traditional. He shifted from a full-time faculty role to one as a research fellow. This change was partly brought upon by his desire to move from the Boston area to Montana and have a less frenetic and community-driven life.
Because of his recognized deep expertise and the network of close colleagues that he had developed, my dad could maintain his academic role at a distance from his university. Having helped build the Joint Center during his years at Harvard, he had a stable base from which to continue his research and writing. The fact that funders will underwrite the demographic housing research that my dad specialized in aided his ability to do that work from anywhere.
What I take away from my dad’s story is that there are many ways to have an academic career. Post-pandemic, there may be even more ways to constructively contribute to our institutions without needing to come to campus each day and outside of traditional academic titles and roles.
If you are at the point where you are thinking about leaving your current job, you may not need to leave academia -- or even maybe your institution. Focus first on where you can make a difference in your recognized area of expertise, and then try to find a way to mold the role around the life you want to have.
4 - Work Less
Maybe the internet and email and laptops and smartphones and Zoom have ruined everything. As a kid in the 1970s and 1980s, I have no memories of my dad working in the evenings, on weekends, or when on vacation. When he was home, which was each night, he was present.
The fact that we all seem to work all the time nowadays may contribute to the academic Great Resignation. It is worth asking how much of our constant work is necessary and how much is self-imposed. If we knew that getting less done this week, this month, and this year would lead to years more of productive contributions, would we accept that trade-off?
Say that we only have thirty years in us of intense academic work. Do we work full-time for 30 years and call it quits? Do we cram those 30 years of work into 15 or 20 and then resign in exhaustion - as many academics seem to be doing now? Or do we do what my dad did and spread those 30 years of intense work over 50 years?
Do we consider working part-time at some parts of our career as a goal? Can we find the confidence to take some breaks, do something different for a while, and then come back to what motivated us to become academics in the first place?
5 - Connect Outside Your institution
When I think about how academia was the family business, I don’t think about a single university. Instead, I think about all my friends that my dad had at his university and others and our family friends that worked for the government, nonprofit organizations, and the housing industry.
Colleagues who become friends sustain long-term careers. Academia may be unique among knowledge industries in that we benefit the most from what we share outside of the place that we work. Disciplines are made up of people, and knowledge in an academic specialty grows by conversation and collaboration.
The lifetime friendships with a network of widely dispersed colleagues I watched my dad build over the decades have always seemed to me as my dad’s most important academic accomplishment. It is an example I seek to replicate.
What advice might you have for creating a 50-year academic career?
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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), at the weekend, said the conviction of Corps Member, Christopher Adetuberu, arising from his involvement in cybercrime will serve as a deterrent to others.
While expressing disappointment over the development, the Scheme in a statement issued by its Spokesperson, Mr Eddy Megwa, in Abuja said the convict’s action was not a paradigm for other Corps Members “therefore does not represent the behavioural disposition of an average Corps Member.”
It described the convict’s conduct, as “a shameful act that is antithetical to the ideals and image of the National Youth Service Corps.
“While the Scheme unreservedly upholds the judgment of the court which doubtlessly will serve as a deterrent to other Nigerians of like minds.”
To this end, it urged Corps Members to exhibit at all times the ideals of patriotism, humility, selfless service, discipline, among others which the Scheme stands for.
It warned that Corps members who fall short of the law will not be shielded.
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Taraba Command says it is sustaining efforts at sensitization and enforcement of registration for unregistered motorcycle operators in the state.
This is contained in a statement by Corps Commander Selina Williams, the state Sector Commander on Sunday in Jalingo.
According to her, the move was part of the Command’s Strategy towards curbing criminal activities in the state.
Williams explained that the ongoing exercise was in compliance with the directives by the Acting Corps Marshal Dauda Biu to FRSC formations nationwide.
“Taraba Government had banned the use of motorcycles within the Jalingo metropolis of the State since 2012, rather they are operating in the outskirts of the metropolises and other local government areas.
“The command is clamping down on the unregistered ones having realised that criminal were using them to perpetrate evil activities in communities,” she said.
The sector Commander maintained that the Command would continue engaging the relevant stakeholders in this regards for total compliance aimed at improving the security situation of Taraba and Nigeria at large.
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An aspirant for the House of Representatives, Engineer Henrich Akomolafe, has appealed to the older generation in the country to relinquish power to the youths in order to reposition the country amongst comity of nations.
The aspirant made the plea in his message on the occasion of this year International Youth Day.
Akomolafe who is the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party for Ekiti South Federal Constituency 1 in next National Assembly elections, noted that his call became apposite in line with theme of this year International Youth Day: “Inter-generational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages.”
He said: “In previous years, the term intergenerational solidarity has translated into the idea that the older generation must not be challenged when they make claims that sometimes defy logic.
“In Nigeria, it is the blackmail intended to further keep the system skewed against young people.
“The older generation continues to hold firmly to its grip on power, they demand extensions to their years and age of service while youths remain largely unemployed, and struggle to make ends meet.
“The sad reality of the Nigerian youths is that when the Golden Fleece is found early enough, the system continues to fight against us via police brutality, unhealthy stereotyping and a generally non conducive environment.
“As the history books reflect, Nigeria’s glory years was in the hands of youth and its future is no doubt going to require strong support across generational divides to reach the ‘promised land’ we desire.
“Subsequently, I, on behalf of millions of teeming youths across the country ask that we be given the necessary support to grow and to exhibit our full potential towards improving the prospects of a potentially great country – Nigeria.
“And to youths across Nigeria, Solidarity is not fairness in a multi-complex system as Nigeria, hence, we must support ourselves and make realistic demands from politicians on inclusiveness and opportunities.”
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The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, on Saturday, commended the management of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), for the tremendous support provided to Lekki Port in meeting the project timelines.
Sambo, while speaking during his first official visit to the Lekki Deep Seaport, expressed delight at the pace and quality of work at the port site.
Recall that the Lekki Deep Seaport places Nigeria on the global list of nations with deep seaports and positions the country to maximize the comparative advantages that its maritime endowments and littoral assets confer.
The seaport also has super Post-Panamax state-of-the-art Ship to Shore (STS) cranes; 10 Rubber Tyred Gantries (RTGs) and the delivery of the second batch shipment critical to the commencement of operations comprising two STS Cranes with 115 packages of accessories and five RTGs with 270 packages of accessories.
However, ahead of the deep seaport completion and commencement of operations before the end of the year 2022, the minister tasked Nigerian Railway Corporation, NPA and Lekki Port to take urgent steps toward ensuring the deep seaport is linked by rail.
In his remarks, the managing director, NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko, said the deep seaport is close to becoming operational.
He said, “The fact is that the letter of intent between Lekki Deep Seaport and its financial partners was signed in April 2019 and by 2022 we are close to operationalization. This project symbolizes the possibilities that tenacity of purpose can actualize”.
He added that NPA remains unwavering in providing every support and facilitation necessary to ensure that the timelines for takeoff are met.
The Managing Director of Lekki Deep Seaport, Du Ruogang, while making a presentation to the Minister and his entourage disclosed that the construction works for phase 1 are nearing completion and are currently at about 96% completion.
“The Lekki Port team together with the Lekki Freeport Terminal (LFT) are working hard to ensure that construction is completed in September 2022 and thereafter port operations will start before the end of this year 2022.”
Highlighting the game-changing features, Ruogang stated further, “the port upon completion will have three container berths, three liquid berths and a storage yard with over 15,000 ground slots terminal designed to support a throughput of 2.7 million TEUs annually, a Dry Bulk Terminal with an available quay length of about 300m amongst other distinctive attributes.”
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Governor Sani Bello in a statement explained that the cabinet reshuffle is part of his administration’s efforts to achieving it set out objectives and to ensuring good governance.
He said Ministry of Works and Infrastructural Development is now to be headed by Muhammad Sani Lafiya, while Mamman Musa moves to Youth and Sports Ministry.
Mamman Musa was the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure while Muhammad Sani Lafiya was the Commissioner for Youth and Sports.
The governor reiterated that minor cabinet reshuffle will continue till the end of the present administration.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — It was a different type of tailgate at the Jack McClean Community Center Saturday afternoon.
Quest Diagnostics, holding their Tackle Your Testing day, used community partners to help families catch up on health checks and blood work.
"Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, just really your overall health. A lot of it really stems from not being able to see a doctor during the pandemic," former Florida State University and NFL football player Warrick Dunn said.
Bond Community Health, one of Saturday's clinic partners, says during the pandemic, they, like many other health professionals in the country, have seen a decrease in people coming to get tested.
"Some of the things we see the wide eyes for are, 'hey, you're pre-diabetic,' " Temple Robinson of Bond Community Health said.
According to the United States Census Bureau, a study by the the Harris Poll in 2021 showed that 27% of 1,093 adults postponed annual checkups.
Diagnostic lab Quest Diagnostics gives what they believe that reason may be.
"Easy question. Nobody wants to be around anybody so nobody wants to catch it. But you know what, COVID is still here with us, I think we look at it at a different light so to speak, most people are coming out know and getting back into the community," John Toye of Quest Diagnostics said.
To help drive home the point of the importance of testing and keeping up with health checkups, Dunn, who played in the NFL for 12 seasons with teams in Tampa Bay and Atlanta, stopped by to offer some words of encouragement.
"I think that it's important that we stress health. For me it's if you have a healthy mind and a healthier body you have healthier communities overall. So if we can have families that really think of the long term aspect of it, of their health," Dunn said.
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If legalized recreational marijuana doesn’t make the November ballot, the election in Arkansas could become pretty boring. But that doesn’t mean the elections everywhere will be.
The citizen-led marijuana amendment was denied entry to the ballot because the Arkansas State Board of Election Commissioners objected to its wording – in particular, that it did not specify whether there would be a limit on tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in edibles. THC is marijuana’s main intoxicant.
Responsible Growth Arkansas, the group pushing the proposed amendment, appealed the decision to the Arkansas Supreme Court, which on Thursday ordered the amendment to be conditionally certified while it conducts an expedited review by Aug. 25, the deadline for certification.
The Supreme Court tends to find reasons, good or not, to keep ballot initiatives led by citizens off the ballot. We’ll see about this one.
Another citizen-led amendment that would have removed Pope County as one of the state’s four locations for casino licenses also failed to make the ballot for two reasons. The commissioners didn’t like the wording, and its supporters didn’t collect enough signatures, according to Thurston’s office. The two strikes doomed it.
With those off the ballot, voters will be left with three proposed constitutional amendments referred by lawmakers.
Issue 1 would allow state legislators to call themselves into special session. Currently only the governor can do that.
Issue 2 would increase to 60% the percentage of voters needed to pass a state constitutional amendment. It also would do the same for initiated acts, which are laws initiated by citizens instead of passed by lawmakers.
Issue 3 would create the Arkansas Religious Freedom Amendment, which says state government could burden a person’s freedom of religion only if it demonstrates that doing so “is in furtherance of a compelling government interest; and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling government interest.”
More on each of those later.
As for the ballot slots occupied by people, there won’t be much drama in Arkansas’ state and national races. Republicans are the heavy favorite in the governor’s race and in all the statewide elections. No Democrat running for a statewide race has topped 40% since 2014. Republicans occupy 106 of the Legislature’s 135 seats, and they could occupy more after November – especially with the new district maps being drawn by Republicans.
Republicans also will dominate Arkansas’ congressional races. Sen. John Boozman and all four incumbent U.S. House members have poorly funded opponents. There is no plausible scenario – short of death – where they wouldn’t return to Washington, and even then, they probably would get the most votes.
Given all that, is there any reason to be interested in this year’s elections involving candidates? Sure there is. Local and school board races will be competitive. There’s also a race for an Arkansas Supreme Court seat between Justice Robin Wynne and District Judge Chris Carnahan.
Mostly, the races to watch will be those occurring in other states. Most congressional races elsewhere will be like Arkansas’ – certain to be dominated by one party. But there will be enough competitive races that we won’t know who controls the House and Senate until the votes are counted.
Ordinarily, the Republicans would be expected to do well. The party that loses the presidential election usually does better in the following midterms. Its voters are madder.
But this year everybody’s plenty mad. Many Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters will be extra motivated because the Supreme Court ended nationwide legalized abortion. The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s estate may turn up the volume on the Republican side.
Republicans likely will take the House. The Senate is more of a toss-up because 21 Republican-held seats are up for reelection but only 14 Democratic-controlled seats are.
How Congress looks in January will affect Arkansas’ congressional delegation personally. Being in the majority would mean they might get some things passed or, more likely, be in a much stronger position to oppose President Joe Biden. Staying in the minority would mean spending the next two years flying back and forth to Washington, D.C., mostly just to keep saying no.
That would get boring.
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Coal country is still reeling from Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) decision to back a sweeping climate and energy package that will accelerate the nation’s transition away from coal.
In the Mountain State, the once-burgeoning coal industry says it feels betrayed, displaced coal workers are celebrating the bill’s black lung benefits and Republicans seeking Manchin’s seat in 2024 are licking their chops.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes several Appalachia-centric measures, including subsidies to build renewable energy projects on former coal fields and the permanent extension of a tax on coal companies that funds benefits for miners suffering from black lung disease.
Advocates who fought hard for the black lung fund extension — they warned Manchin that the benefits were at risk when the excise tax expired last year — hailed its inclusion as a breakthrough victory for workers who don’t typically wield influence in Washington.
“We were surprised. We thought it’d be a four-year or 10-year [extension],” said Gary Hairston, a former West Virginia coal miner of 27 years who now leads the National Black Lung Association. “So, when we got it permanently, we might not need to worry about it no more.”
The coal industry, on the other hand, attacked Manchin for making the tax permanent and pushing policies to subsidize alternative energy sources. Leaders of Appalachian coal groups, including the West Virginia Coal Association, wrote in a recent letter that the excise tax will cost them tens of millions of dollars and hurt their ability to compete and keep energy costs stable.
“This legislation is so egregious, it leaves those of us that call Senator Manchin a friend, shocked and disheartened,” they wrote.
Backlash from the coal industry, conservative groups and GOP lawmakers has opened up an opportunity for political challengers ahead of Manchin’s upcoming reelection battle.
Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) is running television ads accusing the Democratic senator of crossing the state’s coal industry, an apparent signal that he plans to challenge him in 2024.
“Alex Mooney won’t let Joe Manchin and Joe Biden destroy our coal industry and devastate West Virginia,” the ad tells viewers.
Cecil Roberts, a longtime Manchin ally who leads the United Mine Workers of America, the nation’s largest coal miners’ union, called those critiques “absolute bull” in a recent statement.
He noted that the bill includes tax credits for carbon capture that could extend the life of coal plants and authorizes $4 billion in tax credits exclusively for companies that create new clean energy jobs in coal communities.
“I cannot understand how any politician who actually cares about working West Virginians and the quality of their lives can trash this bill,” Roberts said. “They should be thanking Senator Manchin, not attacking him.”
In a response to the West Virginia Coal Association, Manchin noted that the excise tax has consistently been extended at the same rate for nearly four decades and said that coal companies can take advantage of a $5 billion fund in the climate bill to boost their efficiency.
“The big pushback I’m getting from the coal operators right now is having to pay the black lung fund, and that’s a shame,” Manchin told reporters on a recent conference call.
Manchin added that despite his best efforts to boost coal, its prevalence has declined under both Democratic and Republican presidents, indicating that his state needs to take advantage of emerging energy technologies to keep up.
Hundreds of coal-fired power plants have shut down over the last decade amid the emergence of cleaner and more efficient energy sources, causing pain for Appalachia’s coal mining companies.
At its peak, the West Virginia coal industry employed more than 125,000 employees, a figure that dropped to less than 12,000 in addition to 36,000 independent contractors, according to estimates from the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training.
While they’ve been slow to adopt clean energy policies, West Virginia legislators in recent years passed bills to boost solar projects despite opposition from the coal industry.
The Nature Conservancy and West Virginia Chamber of Commerce released a survey last year finding that most West Virginians believe that the state should reduce its reliance on coal and shift to renewable energy sources, a significant shift in public opinion.
“This is a traditional energy state, but folks in West Virginia are also interested in looking at what the new energy economy can bring to the state in terms of jobs, and economic development and economic diversification,” said Thomas Minney, West Virginia state director at the Nature Conservancy.
As part of his climate deal, Manchin also secured an agreement from Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) that Democrats will pass legislation to expedite approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which spans hundreds of miles in West Virginia and Virginia.
Manchin says the natural gas pipeline, which has drawn opposition from local environmental and property rights advocates, would create 2,500 jobs in his home state and help make up for coal’s decline.
Still, it’s not clear whether deep-red West Virginia will embrace Manchin’s climate deal, given that his popularity soared around the time that he told Democrats he couldn’t support the $2 trillion Build Back Better Act.
From the first quarter of 2021 to 2022, Manchin’s approval rating shot up 17 points to 57 percent, the biggest increase among all senators over that period, according to Morning Consult. Nearly 7 in 10 West Virginia Republicans expressed support for the Democratic senator as he railed against his own party’s spending package. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/shocked-and-disheartened-how-coal-country-is-reacting-to-manchins-climate-deal/ | 2022-08-14T19:11:40Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/shocked-and-disheartened-how-coal-country-is-reacting-to-manchins-climate-deal/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – An unidentified man fatally shot himself after crashing a vehicle into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol early Sunday morning, authorities said.
The man drove his car into the barricade at East Capitol Street and Second Street around 4 a.m., U.S. Capitol Police said in a press release. The man exited the vehicle, which became engulfed in flames, officials said.
The man then fired several shots in the air, Capitol Police said, alerting officers to the scene. They were approaching the man when he fatally shot himself, authorities added.
No one else was hurt at the scene and Capitol Police noted that it does not appear officers fired their weapons.
Authorities said that the man apparently was not targeting any members of Congress, who are on recess until Sept. 13.
Investigators are currently looking into his background and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department is handling the death investigation.
The incident follows the attempted breach of the FBI field office in Cincinnati, which led to an hours-long standoff with a suspect, who was later killed by police.
The incident came after the FBI executed a search warrant at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, sparking heated rhetoric from his supporters. Republicans have decried the raid as a politically motivated stunt, with some calling for the FBI to be defunded. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/man-fatally-shoots-himself-after-crashing-into-capitol-barricade-authorities-say/ | 2022-08-14T19:12:10Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/man-fatally-shoots-himself-after-crashing-into-capitol-barricade-authorities-say/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
House and Senate Republicans are standing by their man, former President Donald Trump, following the FBI's execution of a court-approved search warrant on Mar-a-Lago last week. The GOP leadership including House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and a myriad of other Trump-supporting members of Congress have shifted the conversation away from Trump's potential criminal violations, and toward politicizing the move, the motives of the Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland, and whether the documents were, in fact, classified.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (D-N.Y.), the No. 3 Republican in the House leadership, on Friday called the FBI search a “complete abuse and overreach of its authority” and repeated unfounded claims that the agency protected Hillary Clinton, former FBI director James B. Comey and President Biden’s son Hunter, according to the Washington Post.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) echoed this rhetoric on Friday, tweeting: “Seven email chains from Hillary Clinton’s personal email were considered classified to the highest degree. Why didn’t the FBI raid her home?”
The FBI “raid is outrageous and unjust, but predictable,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tweeted on Monday. He doubled down on his stance on Saturday, when he called to “Repeal the Espionage Act.” He added: “It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment.”
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“I know doing this 90 days before an election reeks of politics,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Tuesday.
Merrick Garland “has a lot of questions to answer. … No one is above the law. Donald Trump is not above the law and Attorney General Garland is not above the law either,” Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said on “Statue of the Union” on Sunday.
“The raid of [Mar-a-Lago] is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tweeted.
“Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wrote.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) took aim at Merrick Garland: “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts and leave no stone unturned. Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar.” If Republicans do take control of the House in the next election, Rep. McCarthy is next in line to become speaker.
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When play begins Monday at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, Serena Williams, playing her second-to-last tournament of her career, faces 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu.
Williams, who is more than two decades older than her 19-year-old opponent, was the top-ranked player in the world when Raducanu was born in November of 2002.
The draw for the Western & Southern Open is out and all eyes are on one marquee first-round encounter...
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🇺🇸 @serenawilliams 🆚 @EmmaRaducanu 🇬🇧#CincyTennis
Raducanu, at a career-high No.10 among Hologic WTA Tour players, draws the unseeded Williams, 40, who has played only three matches in the past 13 months. It’s their first meeting and, quite possibly, their last.
Call it what you will -- the torch being passed, ships passing in the night -- it’s a wonderful contrast and should provide some good theater as the tennis world continues to celebrate Williams’ career.
Cincinnati: Scores | Order of play | draw
“To see her around in this U.S. swing is really inspiring,” Raducanu said in Toronto. “She keeps playing because she obviously loves the game. And I think that longevity of a career is something that a lot of the players, and me especially, we aspire to achieve as well.”
How will this must-see matchup play out? We provide the case for both players:
Advantage, Raducanu
This looks and feels like it will be a close one.
Williams won her first-round match at the National Bank Open last week in Toronto before losing to Belinda Bencic in the second round. Speaking of random draws, Raducanu had the misfortune to face defending Canadian Open champion Camila Giorgi in the first round and went quietly after an entertaining first set, 7-6 (0), 6-2.
Cincinnati draw: Raducanu faces Serena Williams in blockbuster opener
It’s been a disappointing season for the British teenager. Despite that career-high ranking, she’s 11-14 so far. Still, Raducanu produced some encouraging results a few weeks ago at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C., before falling in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Liudmila Samsonova.
“To have success at a young age, obviously you have to be really grateful because I’m doing what I love, but also I’ve reached success way earlier than I ever really would have thought I did," Raducanu said. “So I’m pretty proud of myself in that way.
“But it has been a tough year. I’ve definitely gone through and experienced a lot of challenges. To be fair, I’ve learned a lot from all of it.”
Both women will be highly motivated to win this marquee match, but I’m thinking there is one (incredibly obvious) factor in play here that will swing this one: age.
Williams is arguably the greatest women’s player ever, but at 40 she’s understandably a step or two slower. Raducanu is quick around the court and, like the past three women to defeat Serena (Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Harmony Tan and Bencic), there will be no sense of nostalgia, no respect for elders.
A year ago, Raducanu raced through US Open qualifying and into the quarterfinals, never facing a Top 40 player in seven victories. And then she drilled Bencic (No.12) and Maria Sakkari (No.18) on her way to the final against fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez. That experience, the ability to focus on a big target, to stay in the moment, will carry her through this one, too. -- Greg Garber
Advantage, Williams
Can Serena Williams, at the age of 40, playing in her penultimate tournament on the road to retirement, defeat the 19-year-old reigning US Open champion? It's Serena Williams. Of course she can.
I was in Toronto last week for the National Bank Open and observed Williams on the practice and around the grounds. I can confidently say the 23-time major champion is not just going through the motions as she readies to hang up her racquets after the US Open. She is focused and intent on winning matches. Never underestimate the pride of a champion.
Williams has been putting in the work, which was evident in her first-round win against Nuria Parrizas Diaz in Toronto. Compared to her three-set loss to Harmony Tan at Wimbledon, which was her first singles match in nearly a year, Williams showed big improvements in every facet of her game. Her movement and anticipation were quicker, her serve was firing more consistently and her patience was rock solid. All those hours on the practice court have shaken off more of the rust.
The key to victory will be to keep Raducanu at bay with her serve while mitigating the Brit's opportunities to expose her movement out wide. When it comes to experience, Williams has it in spades. In a career that has spanned nearly two-and-a-half decades, Williams knows multiple ways to win and has solved more puzzles than Raducanu has yet to face in her young career. She has seen every situation and every ball that can come across a tennis court hundreds of times.
Just as important as the quality of her game is the level of Williams' motivation, and there is zero doubt that it would be stratospherically high as she faces Raducanu. Aside and apart from just getting wins to build momentum and go deep at one of her final tournaments, Williams would love to get a marquee win. A win over Raducanu would be precisely that. -- Courtney Nguyen | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2742318/serena-williams-or-emma-raducanu-who-has-the-advantage- | 2022-08-14T19:13:14Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2742318/serena-williams-or-emma-raducanu-who-has-the-advantage- | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former President Donald Trump hired a lawyer—best known for representing rappers—to represent him in the 2020 election interference criminal inquiry in Georgia.
Last week Trump hired Drew Findling, an Atlanta-based lawyer who is known online as #BillionDollarLawyer and for representing a star-studded list of clients, including artists Cardi B, Migos, Waka Flocka Flame, and Gucci Mane.
The investigation is looking into potential 2020 election interference. Although Trump has not been named as a target of the Georgia probe, the Fulton County prosecutors have issued subpoenas to members of the former president's inner circle—Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and former Trump lawyers John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani are among them. Additionally, the slate of 16 alternate electors in Georgia could face charges.
On top of his background in criminal defense work, Findling's reputation runs deep in the rap community. “He’s the biggest lawyer in the game, man,” said Offset, a member of the group Migos and Cardi B's husband. As Findling told the New York Times, he remembered rapper 2 Chainz pointing at him and telling his wife: “See that guy right there? Honey, we don’t ever want to be in his office.”
In another strange twist to this hiring, Findling has been an outspoken critic of Trump. In 2017, after Trump dismissed Preet Bharara from his position as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Findling took to Twitter: “The POTUS firing SDNY US Attorney Preet Bharara is a sign of FEAR that he would aggressively investigate the stench hovering over this POTUS.”
In 2018, after the former president criticized Lebron James, Findling tweeted: “The racist architect of fraudulent Trump University criticizing Lebron, the founder of a free school for children.... POTUS pathetic once again!”
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Scathing criticism aside, now Findling will represent Trump, and he explained his choice to do so in a recent interview with the New York Times: “I do not believe that we choose our client or clients based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, political belief or the substantive issues involved in the crime…We have our personal lives and we have our personal politics, and I don’t apologize for my personal politics.”
“I may differ politically from many of my clients, but that doesn’t change my commitment to defend against wrongful investigations,” Findling's law firm said in a statement on Thursday. “In this case, the focus on President Trump in Fulton County, Georgia is clearly an erroneous and politically driven persecution and along with my office and co-counsel, I am fully committed to defend against this injustice.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/trump-hires-drew-findling-to-represent-him-in-georgia-election-interference-probe | 2022-08-14T19:13:20Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/trump-hires-drew-findling-to-represent-him-in-georgia-election-interference-probe | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Roll over Joyce Carol Oates, tell Quentin Tarantino the news.
Ringo Starr put down the drumsticks on Saturday and picked up his phone, much to the shock and awe of his two million Twitter followers.
The writer of “Octopus’s Garden” and “Don’t Pass Me By” was, by all accounts, trying to give a plug to the Blu-ray release of the Peter Jackson series Get Back. As such, he put the collection, still in cellophane, on the floor, took a picture, and added the word “YES” followed by his typical “peace and love” sign-off and a string of happy emojis. (And also broccoli. Ringo loves broccoli.)
For some reason, though, he included his feet.
Now, on the one hand (one foot?), it’s awesome, because Ringo is strolling around wearing personalized slides that say “PEACE” and “LOVE.” Always be branding!
But on the other hand (sigh, foot), Ringo, who has given the world nothing but joy for six decades, is just a human being, as we all are. And it’s arguably the case that his piggies weren’t quite camera ready. Before you can say honey don’t, take a look.
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Some of the responses were positive (“The feet that pounded out the beat!” one correspondent observed), and some seemed quite delighted (“for free!” was an alarmingly common reaction), but most seemed to suggest the image was ill-considered. (Alas, no one that I saw reacted with a cover version of “Old Brown Shoe.”)
Happily for all, it seems as if Ringo got a little help from his friends. He returned to Twitter three hours later looking far less like a caveman.
“Wow I just had a pedicure looking good,” he wrote, adding, of course, “peace and love” and another string of upbeat emojis.
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Hadi Matar, a twenty-four-year-old resident of Fairview, New Jersey, was arraigned on charges of second-degree attempted murder and assault with a weapon in a courthouse in Mayville, New York on Saturday. He was detained by police at the nearby Chautauqua Institution on Friday, after attacking celebrated author Salman Rushdie.
Prosecutors said that Rushdie was stabbed approximately 10 times, and that the attack was premeditated and targeted.
It is believed that Matar traveled by bus to the educational center in far Western New York, about a 45-minute drive from Erie, Pennsylvania, then purchased a ticket to see Rushdie speak.
A public defender entered the plea of not guilty on behalf of Matar, who will next appear in court on Friday.
Rushdie, who was airlifted to an area hospital after the attack, was taken off a ventilator on Saturday, and was able to speak, a positive sign of increased stability. “The road to recovery has begun,” Rushie's agent Andrew Wylie said in a text to the New York Times on Sunday. “It will be long; the injuries are severe, but his condition is headed in the right direction.”
On Friday the New York State police said there was no indication of a motive at the time.
In 1988, roughly a decade before Matar was born, Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, a magical-realist novel that some deemed blasphemous against Islam. One year later, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Rushdie, calling for Rushdie’s death. The author, a British citizen born to a Muslim family in India, went into hiding, eventually relocating to the United States where he attained dual citizenship in 2016.
In 1991 the Italian translator of The Satanic Verses was gravely injured in a stabbing attack in Milan, and the Japanese translator was killed at a college campus near Tokyo. (The case remains unsolved.) The Norwegian publisher of the book was shot three times in Oslo in 1993, surviving the attack. That same year, a mob set fire to a hotel in Sivas, Turkey where writer Aziz Nesin, who was working on a Turkish translation of the book, was attending a conference. Thirty-seven people died. Numerous bookstores were bombed in the U.K. for carrying the book and two in Berkeley, California. The offices of a small weekly paper in the Bronx, New York were destroyed after publishing an essay that condemned stores that refused to carry The Satanic Verses.
Rushdie, who was knighted in 2007, won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel Midnight’s Children. In addition to many other laurels, he was awarded the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism by Harvard University. Over time, Rushdie’s life appeared to take on some semblance of normalcy, even lampooning living under a fatwa on Curb Your Enthusiasm. The 75-year-old Rushdie has been married four times, most recently to author, actress, Top Chef host, and Star Trek: Enterprise guest star Padma Lakshmi.
President Joe Biden released a statement on Saturday, offering words of dismay about the attack, and praise for first responders. “Salman Rushdie—with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced—stands for essential, universal ideals. Truth. Courage. Resilience. The ability to share ideas without fear. These are the building blocks of any free and open society. And today, we reaffirm our commitment to those deeply American values in solidarity with Rushdie and all those who stand for freedom of expression.”
According to the Associated Press, an Iranian newspaper featured a picture of Rushdie on a stretcher with the headline “Satan on the path to hell.” The Iranian organization known as the 15th Khordad Foundation, which put a bounty on Rushdie's head worth $3 million, has declined to comment. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/salman-rushdie-improves-following-attack-suspect-charged-with-attempted-murder | 2022-08-14T19:13:32Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/salman-rushdie-improves-following-attack-suspect-charged-with-attempted-murder | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Jets remain hopeful quarterback Zach Wilson won’t be out for long as he’s set to undergo surgery on Tuesday in Los Angeles to repair a meniscus tear in his right knee.
“We’re optimistic, but he’s not out of the woods until they get in there and make the decision,” head coach Robert Saleh said Sunday.
The initial expectation is that Wilson, 23, will miss 2-4 weeks, The Post’s Brian Costello reported. The Jets open the regular season in four weeks against the Ravens.
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SEOUL, South Korea and LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - A new, five-month undercover investigation by Los Angeles-based Last Chance for Animals (LCA) and Seoul-based Animal Liberation Wave (ALW) has revealed stunning atrocities resulting from South Korea's continued dog meat trade.
LCA's and ALW's investigation, which concluded in June 2022, focused on South Korea's Seongnam Moran Market, known as the mecca of dog meat. Investigators uncovered the brazen work of "middle merchants" that travel by truck across South Korea, buying pet dogs from households, churches, and factories to be sold at auction houses. LCA and ALW investigations have proven dogs sold as carcasses in the Moran Market are being killed by electrocution, beating, and hanging, which is animal cruelty prohibited by South Korea's Animal Protection Act.
"The cruelty that these dogs continue to suffer is harrowing and heartbreaking," said Chris DeRose, President and Founder of LCA. "Drone footage captured slaughterers stabbing dogs repeatedly with electric prods. These dogs need our help. They need action. Seongnam City needs to take a decisive step toward preventing these heinous deaths by ending the sale of dog meat from Moran Market once and for all. Continued inaction is not acceptable."
LCA's and ALW's drone footage captured trucks delivering dogs to the Ansan slaughterhouse. Stuffed in small wire cages, dogs suffer from injuries, shortness of breath, and sudden changes in body temperature during transport. Through its investigation, LCA and ALW also confirmed there are 10 shops in Moran Market that sell "dog meat" or "Bosintang," which is dog meat soup. Behind the scenes, there is still a nationwide network of middle merchants, as well as illegal slaughterhouses, auction houses, and farms.
"Dogs bred on meat farms, and pet dogs all meet the same fate," said Jiyen Lee, Founder of ALW. "They are electrocuted. They are beaten. They are tortured. The world is now calling on South Korea to shut down these illegal slaughterhouses and the industry that perpetuates deplorable acts of violence on man's best friend. Our leaders must heed this call."
This 2022 LCA and ALW investigation followed a previous eight-month undercover investigation in 2021 that resulted in lawsuits filed against two slaughterhouses and an auction house in Yeoju in Gyeonggi Province. The slaughterhouses were shut down. The auction house owner was fined a meager $4,000 but continues to operate due to inaction by Yeoju City officials. Investigations have demonstrated that facilities involved in the dog meat industry can easily continue operating as their annual revenue far exceeds the fines they are charged when caught violating the law.
LCA and ALW are asking concerned citizens in the U.S. and abroad to sign a petition demanding an end to this brutality and calling on Shin Sang-jin, the Mayor of Seongnam City in South Korea, to permanently stop the sale of dog meat in the Seongnam Moran Market. The petition can be found by visiting: https://chng.it/zwSnrXkZHK
The undercover investigation video can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/iReegl91COI
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Despite escalating mortgage rates and slumping home sales in the second quarter of 2022, a greater number of metropolitan areas experienced double-digit annual price gains compared to the prior quarter, according to the National Association of Realtors’ latest quarterly report.
Eighty percent of the 185 tracked metro areas posted double-digit price gains, up from 70 percent in the first quarter of this year.
But in what could end up being good news, the Washington region was not among them.
Nationally, the median single-family existing-home price eclipsed $400,000 for the first time, rising 14.2 percent from one year before to $413,500. Year-over-year price appreciation eased slightly compared to the previous quarter’s 15.4 percent.
“Home prices have increased at a pace that far exceeds wage gains, especially for low- and middle-income workers,” said NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun. “Price deceleration inevitably followed the softening sales, providing well-positioned prospective buyers a small measure of welcomed relief. The recent dips in mortgage rates will bring additional buyers to market, especially in those places where home prices are still relatively affordable and where jobs are being added.”
In the Washington region, the median sales price – the point at which half of properties sell for more, half for less – stood at $626,700 for the quarter, up 9.7 percent from a year before.
The lower rate of appreciation likely is the result of the D.C. market entering a course correction earlier in the year than many other metros, owing to affordability issues that then were exacerbated by rising (if still moderate by historic norms) mortgage-interest rates and a general sense of skittishness about the economy.
Why might the local region’s lower rate of appreciation be a good thing? As was found during the 2006-07 boom and subsequent bust, those areas that tended to go up the most also tended to then lose the most value in the roller-coaster world of home sales. During that boom-bust cycle, the local region saw neither the off-the-charts price increases of places like Las Vegas and Tampa, nor the plunge that occurred after the good times went sour starting in 2008.
But back to 2022 . . .
Regionally, the South accounted for 44 percent of single-family existing-home sales in the second quarter and posted the largest price appreciation of 18.2 percent. Prices increased 12.7 percent in the West, 10.1 percent in the Northeast and 9.7 percent in the Midwest.
The top 10 metro areas with the largest year-over-year price gains all recorded increases greater than 25 percent, with seven of those markets located in Florida.
The big gainers include Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Ark.-Mo. (up 31.9%); Lakeland-Winter Haven, Fla. (31.4%); Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, Fla. (28.9%); North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, Fla. (28.8%); Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, S.C.-N.C. (28.5%); Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Fla. (28%); Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla. (27.8%); Punta Gorda, Fla. (27.4%); Ocala, Fla. (26.7%); and Ogden-Clearfield, Utah (25.5%). “The local job-market performance and supply availability are the clear distinguishing factors driving local-home price growth,” Yun added. “Job growth is positive and should be applauded, but supply restraints are creating unnecessary barriers to ownership opportunities.”
The 10 most expensive markets in the U.S., half of which were in California, included San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. ($1,900,000; up 11.8%); San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, Calif. ($1,550,000; 11.9%); Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, Calif. ($1,300,000; 17.2%); Urban Honolulu, Hawaii ($1,145,000; 17.3%); San Diego-Carlsbad, Calif. ($965,900; 13.6%); Boulder, Colo. ($933,400; 11.8%); Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, Fla. ($850,000; 28.9%); Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. ($825,700; 9.2%); Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash. ($818,900; 14.4%); and Boston-Cambridge-Newton, Mass.-N.H. ($722,200; 8.9%).
Two other metro areas from Virginia are included in the survey: The median sales price in Richmond stood at $391,900 in the second quarter, up 13.6 percent, and the median sales price in Hampton Roads was $336,400, up 16 percent.
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Just over three-quarters of unmarried mothers who gave birth in Virginia hospitals in 2021 had the paternity of their children established, an increase from 2020 and a positive step, state officials said.
The Virginia Paternity Establishment Program, or VPEP, offers unmarried parents the opportunity to establish paternity for newborn children. In 2021, more than 33,000 births in Virginia were to unmarried parents, and the commonwealth’s paternity-establishment rate climbed to 76 percent compared to 73.6 percent a year before.
Establishing paternity not only affirms a father’s legal rights and responsibility, but it also ensures the child has greater access to emotional support and other social and economic opportunities, officials said. VPEP also supports paternity establishment should unmarried parents decide later that they would like to add the father to the birth certificate.
“Research strongly indicates that children whose fathers are involved throughout childhood have more positive outcomes – economically, academically, behaviorally, socially and emotionally,” said Barbara Lacina of the Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS). “The child also has the opportunity for an expanded family support system that includes the father and the father’s side of his or her family.”
Each year, VDSS, VPEP and Veritas HHS recognize the top 10 Virginia hospitals with the highest rates of paternity establishment. The hospital achieving the highest rate in 2021 was Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center (MCRC) in Richmond, which tallied a rate of 88.31 percent.
“We are so proud of this accomplishment for MRMC Birthplace and the hard work of our unit,” said the Bon Secours director of women’s-health services, Amy Daly. “We want to thank Connie Vaughan, Krystal Cobb, Sharica Kennedy, Jocy Vuiller and Catherine Bowling for all their hard work. They work so hard every day and continue to be dedicated to our families by making sure they have the opportunity to establish paternity.”
Rounding out the top five were Inova Loudoun Hospital (85%); Lewis-Gale Hospital, Montgomery (83.1%); Stafford Hospital Center (83.1%); and Inova Fair Oaks Hospital (82.1%). Inova Fairfax Hospital ranked eighth on the list at 81.8 percent.
For information on the benefits of establishing paternity in Virginia, see the Website at dss.virginia.gov.
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Rubio, Warner send bipartisan request for info on Mar-a-Lago search
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent a private letter on Sunday to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home last week, Rubio's office told Axios.
Why it matters: The search, which led to the seizure of 11 sets of classified information from Trump's residence, has prompted separate calls for more information from Republicans and Democrats about the search and the contents in yielded.
- On Thursday the Department of Justice filed a motion to unseal parts of the search warrant. In remarks announcing the news, Garland said he had "personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant."
The big picture: The letter asks for all information regarding the rationale behind the search.
- “In his remarks, Attorney General Garland claimed there was a substantial public interest in the execution of an unprecedented search warrant on President Trump," Rubio said in a statement.
- "As such, the Intelligence Committee has asked the Department of Justice to share with us, on a classified basis, the specific intelligence documents seized from Mar-a-Lago," he added.
Our thought bubble, via Axios' Alayna Treene: This is the first bipartisan effort at oversight of the FBI’s search on Mar-a-Lago, and shows that members across the aisle are interested — even after the unsealing of the warrant — in more transparency from the DOJ over the rational for the search.
- The members of the Senate Intel committee are asking to review the documents in a classified setting, giving them greater to access to the materials that was unable to be shared with the public. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/14/marco-rubio-mark-warner-trumpfbi-search | 2022-08-14T19:42:16Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/14/marco-rubio-mark-warner-trumpfbi-search | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — A man drove his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol early Sunday and then began firing gunshots in the air before fatally shooting himself, according to police, who said he did not seem to be targeting any member of Congress.
The incident happened just before 4 a.m. at a vehicle barricade set at East Capitol Street NE and 2nd Street SE in Washington.
It comes at a time when law enforcement authorities across the country are facing an increasing number of threats and federal officials have warned about the potential of violent attacks on government buildings in the days since the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The attack is reminiscent of an incident when a man drove a vehicle into two Capitol Police officers at a checkpoint in April 2021, killing an 18-year veteran of the force. And many on Capitol Hill remain on edge after supporters of the then-president stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Authorities said the man, whose identity has not been released, crashed into the barricade and that as he was getting out of the car, the vehicle became engulfed in flames. The man then opened fire, firing several shots into the air as police approached.
Capitol Police said the man shot himself as the officers neared. He was later pronounced dead.
Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said officers did not hear the man say anything before he opened fire “indiscriminately” in the street with a handgun and walked toward the Capitol building. Authorities are investigating whether the man may have set his car on fire, the chief said, because the collision did not appear to cause the blaze.
Police officers at the scene saw the man fatally shoot himself as they approached, Manger said.
Investigators located addresses for the man in Delaware and Pennsylvania and have learned he had a criminal history in the past decade, though his motive remained unclear and he had no links to the Capitol, Manger said.
“We don’t have any information that would indicate his motivation at this point,” Manger said.
Police said “it does not appear the man was targeting any member of Congress” and that investigators are examining the man’s background as they work to try to discern a motive. Both the House and Senate are in recess and very few staff members work in the Capitol complex at that hour.
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U.S Air Force Senior Airman Andrew Watson, a fire protection specialist with the 182nd Civil Engineering Squadron, Illinois Air National Guard, poses for a portrait in Peoria, Illinois, Aug. 13, 2022. Watson borded for the rank of staff sergeant. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Avery Litton)
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A Soldier assigned to Alpha Company, 142nd Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 1st Armored Division Sustainment Brigade, greets his family for the first time after redeploying from the U.S. Central Command theater Aug. 11, 2022 at Fort Bliss, Texas. Alpha company served a nine-month rotation in support of Operations Inherent Resolve and Spartan Shield conducting sustainment operations that ensured the warfighter and supported troops in contact received the supplies and materiel they needed. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Jessica Rovero)
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In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Two years later, more than a million people have died in the United States from the disease. To put a face on this number and pay respect to the departed, NPR asked our audience to share songs that reminded them of a loved one lost to COVID-19. What follows are individual stories of those who have passed, those mourning them and the songs that continue to unite them.
My dad was a big lover of music. He would always share that, when he was younger, he either wanted to be a professional baseball player or a rock star. He loved The Beatles, and "Blackbird" was actually the song that my dad and I danced to at my wedding. I have had health challenges growing up — I use a wheelchair — so my parents had a little more stress and difficulty, I think, than most parents. He did everything in his power so that I could be independent, and I had the same opportunities that my sister had. He never treated us any differently from each other. He always supported us in every way, and I feel that's what that song signifies. —Jill Zamostny, daughter
He was the center of our family, so there's no better tribute, really. ... I think when he passed away, the adjective we received a lot from family and friends was his gentleness. He was just such a gentle, kind soul — he truly was. I think life is moving on for people, as it should, but I think people forget there have been over a million deaths. Let's not forget that. —Jessica Moreland, daughter
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Election not priority for Nigeria —Femi Emmanuel
The presiding pastor of the Livingspring Chapel International, Pastor Femi Emmanuel, has said that elections; controversies over a Muslim/Muslim ticket and the likes are not priorities for Nigeria now as a country, but how to re-organise it.
He noted that what the country needs right now is a good and God-sent leader, who understands the government, politics and traditions and could rescue the people from slavery.
Emmanuel, who also is the director, Directorate of Politics and Governance of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, spoke in Ibadan at the 2022 Femi Emmanuel Lecture Series held at the Dominion City Event Centre, Aduloju Bus Stop, Ibadan.
The theme of the lecture was ‘Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria: The Role of Christians in Politics.’
While charging Christians for active participation in politics, he said that the “unbalanced teachings and doctrines over the years that have totally removed the church community from political space is what we are suffering now.”
He emphasised that Christians had failed to understand their responsibility and the fact that they have a role to play in bringing to fruition their dream nation, saying “you can never change a system you are not involved in, but that was the impression we all grew with.”
“We have prayed long enough and God has answered our prayers a long time ago, but our failure to understand the key role we need to play in politics has brought us to this level,” he added.
He said the PFN had given him the mandate to coordinate Christians inclusion in the political space, adding that “by the grace of God the church will wake up.”
Speaking on the theme of the lecture, ‘Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria: The Role of Christians in Politics,’ the lead pastor of Trinity House Church, Lagos, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, noted that a good governance is a constructive cooperation between the different sectors, where the result is the efficient use of resources, responsible use of power and effective and sustainable service provision.
He said that a good governance emerges when the stakeholders engage and participate with each other in an inclusive, transparent and accountable manner to accomplish a better service that is free of corruption and abuse and within the rule of law.
Ighodalo, who bemoaned the state of the nation, said “democracy and good governance naturally should go hand-in-hand; unfortunately, this is not what we have experienced in Nigeria, especially since 1960 when we became a government of our own.
“We have not been able to achieve effectively the kind of good governance that we would have loved and appreciated.”
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He said: “Nigeria was designed to fail, but Nigeria will not fail. What is happening to Nigeria is not a mistake. It was preconceived, premeditated, pre organised and prearranged by British colonialists so that it does not survive, but Nigeria will be great again.”
He, however, enjoined Nigerians to rise up to decide the kind of country and leader they want.
He said the leader must be spiritual, fearful of God, disciplined, visionary, strong, capable, healthy, determined, energetic, focused, honest and sincere.
While Ighodalo lauded the effort of the convener, Pastor Femi Emmanuel, for his courage and determination at championing the course of Christian’s active participation in politics, he also charged Christians in the body of Christ to come on board to bring about the change.
In his contribution at a panel discussion at the event, the director of the Directorate of Politics and Governance, PFN, Oyo State, Dr Joshua Obasa called on fathers of faith in the country to bury their differences and come together to chart a new course for the nation.
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In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Two years later, more than a million people have died in the United States from the disease. To put a face on this number and pay respect to the departed, NPR asked our audience to share songs that reminded them of a loved one lost to COVID-19. What follows are individual stories of those who have passed, those mourning them and the songs that continue to unite them.
When I started working at Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church in Houston and met Vickey, the associate pastor, so that she could show me the ropes, I knew that we would be friends. Once we broke the ice and discovered that we both loved to cook and to eat good food, everything clicked and we found we had a lot of other things in common. Every time I hear the song "For Good" from Wicked, I think about my friend. Her outlook on life and the way she lived her faith will forever have an impact on me, and I am changed because I knew her. —Shannon Young, friend
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I’m going to Senate to fill missing link in Ebonyi South zone — Gov Umahi
Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi, has given reasons why he is interested in the Ebonyi South Senatorial race.
According to the governor, he is not going to the Senate to make more money or build new houses which he already has.
He maintained that he was going to the to fill the missing link in the zone in the National Assembly since the exit of Senator Sonni Ogbuorji, in 2019.
Umahi stated this at the weekend in Ogwuma Edda, Afikpo South local government area of the state while addressing the people after inspecting the area which was shattered by landslide.
“Let me see what another person will come to tell you. The man we sent to the Senate, the slide happened and he didn’t come to see you people, is it good?
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“When the time comes, remember I am your illustrious son and the next government will also be your illustrious son. In the equation of Ebonyi State, Edda is very important. Edda has men and women, Edda has one of the highest rate of communities or local government in the history of Ebonyi State.
“This is not the time of promises, let no one come and deceive you I will do this, I will do that. It is the one you see with your eyes that you will believe and I have done what you have seen for you people.
“When we come to campaign, your leaders will come together and I will stand and tell the next governor what he is going to do for Edda people.
“I am going to replace Ogbuoji in the Senate because after his good works, there is a missing link, there is a gap, I will fill that gap and I will also do my own tenure. We are not going to look for money or to build new houses because we already have all these things, it is to help the people,” he stated. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/im-going-to-senate-to-fill-missing-link-in-ebonyi-south-zone-gov-umahi/ | 2022-08-14T19:48:36Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/im-going-to-senate-to-fill-missing-link-in-ebonyi-south-zone-gov-umahi/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NAF airstrike kills terrorists at gathering in Niger
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) aircraft at the weekend struck a terrorists’ gathering at Kurebe in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State after intelligence revealed that the terrorists had assembled for an important meeting hosted by Aminu Duniya, a Boko Haram terrorist commander.
It was gathered that Aminu Duniya was said to have invited the terrorists to his enclave at Kurebe to the meeting which obviously attracted numerous terrorists who came in large numbers on their motorbikes.
Competent security sources revealed that the air strike was successful and resulted in the death of many terrorists, saying that it remained unclear if Aminu Duniya was also neutralized in the strike.
It should be noted that Kurebe is a known terrorists haven as the local inhabitants of Kurebe have since vacated the villages in and around the area after the terrorists drove them away in 2021.
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According to our source, the strike at Kurebe came barely hours after a coordinated joint air and ground operations, neutralized several terrorists operating around Damba – Galbi axis in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
“The activities of the terrorists continued to make life unbearable to locals in the area. So, when intelligence had revealed that the terrorists planned on overrunning a nearby village within the vicinity, the military saw that as an opportunity to surprise them”, the source added.
The source added that while Nigerian Army troops laid siege around the location, NAF aircraft were directed to the suspected location of the terrorists which was then attacked. Several terrorists were confirmed killed after the strike
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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Matt Taller, a security forces specialist with the 182nd Security Forces Squadron, Illinois Air National Guard, participates in an exercise called “Shoot, Move, Communicate” over drill weekend at the 182nd Airlift Wing in Peoria, Illinois, on Aug. 13, 2022. This training is part of the Security Forces annual weapons training plan, ensuring Airmen remain proficient in not only marksmanship, but how to move and communicate effectively when engaged with a target. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Jay Grabiec)
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SEOUL, South Korea and LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - A new, five-month undercover investigation by Los Angeles-based Last Chance for Animals (LCA) and Seoul-based Animal Liberation Wave (ALW) has revealed stunning atrocities resulting from South Korea's continued dog meat trade.
LCA's and ALW's investigation, which concluded in June 2022, focused on South Korea's Seongnam Moran Market, known as the mecca of dog meat. Investigators uncovered the brazen work of "middle merchants" that travel by truck across South Korea, buying pet dogs from households, churches, and factories to be sold at auction houses. LCA and ALW investigations have proven dogs sold as carcasses in the Moran Market are being killed by electrocution, beating, and hanging, which is animal cruelty prohibited by South Korea's Animal Protection Act.
"The cruelty that these dogs continue to suffer is harrowing and heartbreaking," said Chris DeRose, President and Founder of LCA. "Drone footage captured slaughterers stabbing dogs repeatedly with electric prods. These dogs need our help. They need action. Seongnam City needs to take a decisive step toward preventing these heinous deaths by ending the sale of dog meat from Moran Market once and for all. Continued inaction is not acceptable."
LCA's and ALW's drone footage captured trucks delivering dogs to the Ansan slaughterhouse. Stuffed in small wire cages, dogs suffer from injuries, shortness of breath, and sudden changes in body temperature during transport. Through its investigation, LCA and ALW also confirmed there are 10 shops in Moran Market that sell "dog meat" or "Bosintang," which is dog meat soup. Behind the scenes, there is still a nationwide network of middle merchants, as well as illegal slaughterhouses, auction houses, and farms.
"Dogs bred on meat farms, and pet dogs all meet the same fate," said Jiyen Lee, Founder of ALW. "They are electrocuted. They are beaten. They are tortured. The world is now calling on South Korea to shut down these illegal slaughterhouses and the industry that perpetuates deplorable acts of violence on man's best friend. Our leaders must heed this call."
This 2022 LCA and ALW investigation followed a previous eight-month undercover investigation in 2021 that resulted in lawsuits filed against two slaughterhouses and an auction house in Yeoju in Gyeonggi Province. The slaughterhouses were shut down. The auction house owner was fined a meager $4,000 but continues to operate due to inaction by Yeoju City officials. Investigations have demonstrated that facilities involved in the dog meat industry can easily continue operating as their annual revenue far exceeds the fines they are charged when caught violating the law.
LCA and ALW are asking concerned citizens in the U.S. and abroad to sign a petition demanding an end to this brutality and calling on Shin Sang-jin, the Mayor of Seongnam City in South Korea, to permanently stop the sale of dog meat in the Seongnam Moran Market. The petition can be found by visiting: https://chng.it/zwSnrXkZHK
The undercover investigation video can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/iReegl91COI
Founded in 1984, Last Chance for Animals is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating animal exploitation through education, investigations, legislation, and media attention. LCA believes that animals are highly sentient creatures who exist for their own reasons independent of their service to humans; they should not be made to suffer for the latter. LCA opposes the use of animals in food and clothing production, scientific experimentation, and entertainment and promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle and the ascription of rights to non-human beings.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Teddy Ray, a comedian and actor who appeared on the HBO Max series “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” has died, authorities confirmed on Saturday. He was 32.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office and the county’s coroner’s office confirmed that the death of the comedian, whose legal name was Theadore Brown, was reported Friday morning in the desert community of Rancho Mirage, the Los Angeles Times reported. Sheriff’s Sgt. Brandi Swan, who said deputies responded to a call about the death at a private residence, said that the cause of death was unknown.
Entertainment companies and some of Ray’s fellow comedians reacted with sadness to the news of Ray’s death.
“Teddy Ray was a hilarious and beloved performer,” TV network Comedy Central said in a Twitter statement. “He’ll be deeply missed by the entire comedy community.”
All Def Digital, a multi-platform media company that Ray had collaborated with, tweeted that it was “heartbroken” about the news of Ray’s death. “We will miss him every day but we know he will have Heaven laughing,” the tweet read.
Ray appeared as the bailiff on “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” appeared in the digital series Cancel Court, and was a stand-up comedian.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Anshu Jain, a former co-CEO of Deutsche Bank, has died, his family said in a statement Saturday. He was 59.
Jain died after a battle with duodenal cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 2017.
Jain was Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2015, where he helped build the firm’s global capital markets business. As Co-CEO along with Jürgen Fitschen, he was the first ever non-European to lead the German bank. Before that, he was appointed to Deutsche Bank’s Management Board in 2009 and ran the corporate and investment bank division from 2010.
“Anshu Jain played a key role in expanding Deutsche Bank’s position in our global business with companies and institutional investors,” said Alexander Wynaendts, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank. “Today, this is of strategic importance not just for Deutsche Bank, but for Europe as a financial center.”
After leaving Deutsche Bank, Jain served as president of New York-based financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald from 2017 until his death.
Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick said Jain “was the consummate professional who brought a wealth of experience and wisdom to his role as president.”
He began his career as an analyst in derivatives research at Kidder, Peabody & Co., then moved to Merrill Lynch, where he spent seven years setting up and then running the firm’s global hedge fund coverage group.
Jain was born in Jaipur, India, in January 1963. He received an MBA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was a lifelong vegetarian and loved wildlife photography, cricket and golf, according to his family’s statement.
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Byron Allen began his career as a standup comic and is now a media tycoon who owns dozens of outlets including the Weather Channel. He has recently added another network to his portfolio — the Black News Channel.
Allen is acquiring the assets of the Black News Channel after a bankruptcy court approved his $11 million purchase. Within 10 minutes of wiring the money, Allen said he changed the name of the station to theGrio — a West African term for a storyteller.
Allen, who owns 36 TV stations and 12 cable networks, wanted the channel to be a lot more inclusive, including its name.
"I never really quite thought it was a good idea, the Black News Channel," Allen said. "I don't think we need the Black News Channel. I think we need a good news channel."
The network has been a small startup that never ranked high in ratings, CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said on "Reliable Sources" Sunday, but it was "producing some great work."
Allen said the revived channel will focus on lifestyle, entertainment, news and sports. The channel will work with Historically Black Colleges and Universities to license more than 2,000 of their sporting events that will air on theGrio.
"That's going to help us to amplify the sporting events," Allen said. "And to help educate these kids at those schools."
Allen stressed there isn't enough diversity of ownership in the media industry — and it isn't just the Black community that's underrepresented.
"Women don't own these networks and they don't control their image and their likeness and how they're produced and depicted," Allen said. "Asian people are pretty much nonexistent in the media landscape in terms of how we're depicting them or even seeing. A lot of the Spanish language networks are owned by people who don't even speak Spanish."
And we can't ensure a "true democracy" until all of these communities have their voices heard, Allen said.
He added that startups like the Black News Channel need more support from Corporate America. Although major networks often take in more than a billion dollars a year from cable subscription fees, the Black News Channel received zero. Allen also said the channel's advertising revenue was less than $2 million.
"That means the chairman and CEO of every Fortune 500 company, their personal compensation, was more than all of the advertising on the Black News Channel," Allen said. | https://www.kitv.com/black-entertainment-mogul-calls-for-more-inclusion-in-news-and-media/article_5e9f1696-4338-508a-89af-5d801955a130.html | 2022-08-14T20:25:57Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/black-entertainment-mogul-calls-for-more-inclusion-in-news-and-media/article_5e9f1696-4338-508a-89af-5d801955a130.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“The Surprising History of the Slur Beyoncé and Lizzo Both Cut From Their New Albums”.
“The construction of a world based on lies is a key component of authoritarians’ takeover of democratic societies.”
“The fake electors are the entry point to Trump’s various efforts to pressure state officials into throwing out Biden’s win and to turn the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress into the denial – and not the certification – of Biden’s win.”
“Even before the COVID-19 vaccine was authorized, there was a plan to discredit it.”
“Many adult adoptees are tired of being rendered as products to prove a point. They challenge the argument that adoption is a simple, sacred and mutually beneficial solution to unplanned pregnancy.”
“It’s fit that Alex Jones is held accountable for the impact of his words. He used false statements of fact to paint his picture, and those false statements of fact caused harm. But I suspect that a vast judgment against Jones won’t have much value as a deterrent or proclamation of truth. Jones is loathsomely rich because people want to consume his art. His landscapes of hate and fear and mistrust resonate with a frightening number of Americans. The people who enjoyed his Sandy Hook trutherism didn’t enjoy it because it was factually convincing or coherent; they enjoyed the emotional state it conveyed because it matched theirs. The plodding technicalities of law are probably inadequate to change their minds.”
RIP, Olivia Newton-John, actor best known for Grease and pop singer of many #1 hits. Cancer truly sucks.
Go big or go home, Merrick Garland.
“As such, Hulu, a money-making streaming service with 45.6 million subscribers (as of April 2; we’ll get an update for the June quarter on Wednesday afternoon) and major ARPU (average revenue per user), could be lost to history. Sounds crazy, because it kind of is.”
“You’d think a platform made up of independent creators who were once like Barlow and Bear would stand by them in their time of strife, not abandon them. However, Barlow and Bear’s hubris might bring down future creators’ ability to create. If this project gets shut down, future ones might never get off the ground. Plus, fans don’t seem to like Barlow and Bear’s seeming disrespect for the female creators of the source material, Rhimes and Quinn.”
“How 2 DC Watchdog Groups Blew Open The Trump Administration’s Deleted Texts Scandal”.
“[H]ow abortion could and will be prosecuted in the United States, and how tech companies will be enlisted by law enforcement to help prosecute their cases.”
“But the gulf between Trump and the generals was not really about money or practicalities, just as their endless policy battles were not only about clashing views on whether to withdraw from Afghanistan or how to combat the nuclear threat posed by North Korea and Iran. The divide was also a matter of values, of how they viewed the United States itself.”
“You can depend on Pete Rose. He will always let you down.”
“As president, Trump approved a law increasing penalties for mishandling classified info. It could come back to bite him.”
RIP, Gene LeBell, actor, stuntman, and wrestler who faced off onscreen against Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Bruce Lee.
“Just a few hours shy of the deadline set in late July by hundreds of top female writers and showrunners on abortion safety protocols, most of Hollywood’s biggest studios and streamers today opted to sidestep specifics.”
“The former president was the most dangerous person in the world when he held power, and he never had respect for the rule of law.”
RIP, Anne Heche, Emmy-winning actor.
RIP, Lamont Dozier, Motown songwriter who penned hits for the Supremes, the Four Tops, the Isley Brothers, and more.
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FORD QUALIFYING RESULTS
7th - Cole Custer
8th - Brad Keselowski
10th - Ryan Blaney
15th - Chase Briscoe
16th - Todd Gilliland
17th - Joey Logano
18th - Chris Buescher
28th - Cody Ware
30th - Harrison Burton
32nd - Aric Almirola
33rd - Austin Cindric
34th - Michael McDowell
35th - JJ Yeley
36th - BJ McLeod
COLE CUSTER, No. 41 Jacob Construction Ford Mustang -- Qualified 7th
“It was nice to get a solid run. We were a little too tight in qualifying but I think that we had pretty good long-run speed in practice. I am looking forward to the race. We have a solid Mustang, so we just have to keep the track position. That is so big in these cars now. We have to stay up front and have some good pit stops and execute the race with no mistakes. This year has been interesting with things not going right. I think tomorrow is the day we can turn it all around.”
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· Kyle Larson clocked-in a lap of 23.042 seconds, at 117.177 mph, to capture the pole position for tomorrow’s Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway.
· This marks Larson’s third NASCAR Cup Series pole of the season, and thirteenth of his career in Cup
· Larson’s pole gives Chevrolet its sixth NASCAR Cup Series pole win of 2022; and 729th all-time in NASCAR Cup Series history.
KYLE LARSON, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1, Pole Winner Quick Quote:
WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU GOT IT ON THE QUALIFYING LAP?
“Even though I got into (turn) one too hard and a little bit sideways, I am imagining that is where I made up my time. Just getting in really deep and I think getting it under control before I got to the exit is probably where I made up the lap time. I don’t know though, it could be three and four. Who knows. But I felt like I got in deep, too deep for sure, but it worked out.
WELL, HOW ABOUT THAT WE SAW THE SAVE WE THOUGHT IT WAS A SAVE OVER HERE I GUESS IT WAS JUST A WAY TO GO QUICK AROUND RICHMOND NICE JOB
“Thanks! I definitely got in there a little too hot and got loose but I felt like I got through the center and off okay and made a decent three four was hoping to see something better than a teen on my dash and saw the flat and knew that was that was good enough. So happy! It’s cool to get a pole here at Richmond I was not expecting to do that. I didn't feel very good and practice so very happy with the hard work that everybody's been putting in on our on our Chevys Thanks everybody Hendrick Motorsports and Hendrickcars.com, Hendrick Automotive Group. So yeah, cool to get a pole now hopefully get all this media done quick and headed Knoxville to try and win another Knoxville Nationals.”
I CAN'T PROMISE THAT BUT YOU ARE HEADING OUT OF HERE TO GO DO THAT BETWEEN LEADING THIS FIELD TO GREEN TOMORROW. DOES THAT GET YOU PSYCHED UP? WHATEVER HAPPENS IN KNOXVILLE?
“Yeah, always anytime you're good at anything. It helps momentum and confidence.”
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START: 25TH
FINISH: 23RD
POINTS: 25TH
Quote: “You know, we didn’t really get the finish that we were hoping for tonight at Richmond, but at the end of the day, we were able to learn a lot and improve throughout the night. It’s not often that we can bring home a truck without a scratch on it at a short track, and we definitely needed that. This track is really tough, but I thought that I figured some of it out by the midway point in the race. We’ve got a few weeks to build on our notes for Kansas, and I’m really looking forward to going back there with my No. 24 team.”
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Tyler Ankrum recorded a 13th-place finish on Saturday night in his third start at Richmond Raceway. The driver of the No. 16 LiUNA! Toyota Tundra TRD Pro was tied for the 10th-most points earned among all drivers in the field and maintained the 12th position in the championship standings, while gaining five markers on 11th place.
The Californian posted the 11th-fastest time in pole qualifying on Saturday afternoon in his first qualifying laps at the three-quarter mile venue. Ankrum battled for a top-10 position in the opening moments of the 250-lap event, and took the 10th position by lap 27. Despite a loose condition on corner entry, and a tight condition in the center of the turns, Ankrum effectively conserved his tires on Richmond’s abrasive surface. That paid dividends in the back half of the first 70-lap stage as Ankrum took the ninth position on lap 42 and picked off three additional positions from laps 58 to 63. He was scored sixth to earn five points at the end of Stage 1 on lap 70.
Crew chief Scott Zipadelli and the HRE team gave Ankrum four tires, fuel, and a wedge adjustment during the caution flag pit stop. Ankrum restarted ninth on lap 81 and continued to run inside the top-10 for nearly the entirety of Stage 2. He collected another point in 10th place when the second stage caution flew at the completion of lap 140. A lack of forward bite and tightness in the center of the turns continued to plague Ankrum, and the No. 16 squad went to work on pit road to address the handling condition.
Ankrum received another batch of fresh tires and a track bar adjustment under the lap 141 caution. He restarted 10th on lap 151 and held that position until a caution flew on lap 215. The HRE team equipped Ankrum with their final set of fresh tires for the final 28-lap run to the finish. Ankrum restarted 10th on lap 223 and took the checkered flag in 13th position.
Tyler Ankrum Quote:
“We had really good long run speed the first half of the race, especially in Stage 1 with our LIUNA Toyota Tundra TRD Pro. We could really get off the corner well and made a bunch of ground late in a run. We just battled being tight in the center and keeping enough rear grip in the truck on exit. This is a difficult place to keep your truck consistent the entire night, but all the guys on this team worked hard and we’ll take advantage of this off time coming up and get ready for Kansas next month.”
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On a track that was as demanding and technical as any the USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series has competed on in 2022, Eddie Tafoya Jr. finished eighth in the main event last Saturday night at the Santa Maria Raceway. The finish allowed him to get closer to the drivers ranked second and third in the championship point standings.
Built in 1964, Saturday’s race was the first at the track in over a year. Race starved locals welcomed the return of the motorized action and the event was a complete sellout.
Tafoya, who lives in Chino Hills, California, kicked off his night with a fast lap of 14.288 in qualifying. That was the fifth quickest time in the 31-car field. The time placed him on the inside of the third row for the first 10-lap heat race. Early in the heat, the friendly driver slipped back to sixth. That was two spots out of the final transfer position. On a track that was proving hard to pass on, it took Tafoya until late in the race to get past the fifth-place driver. Once by, he dramatically closed in on the 4th place car. However, before he could get by and into the final transfer spot, the 10-lap race ended. Tafoya was one car length out of the final transfer.
The fifth-place finish in the heat race meant that Tafoya had to start the B Main. The top six cars in the 12-lap affair would advance to the night’s 30-lap A Main. Being that he was the fastest qualifying car in the B, the 25-year-old and his #51T started on the pole. That was especially important as the track was quickly deteriorating in turns one and two and passing was going to be at a premium. As soon as the green flag started the race, Tafoya removed any doubt that he would not be in the A main by running away from the remainder of the field. When he flew by the checkered flag at the end of the 12-lapper, “Mr. Smooth” was a full straightaway ahead of the second-place car.
For the main, Tafoya started on the inside of row four. He was seventh in the early going and stayed around that spot most of the race. In the end, he crossed the line in eighth, giving him seven top 10 finishes in the last seven USAC/CRA races.
Amid his best season in a sprint car to date, Tafoya shaved valuable points off the advantages of the drivers just ahead of him in the championship standings. Going into Santa Maria, he was 67-points out of second. He left the track only 47-points out of the runner up spot. In addition, he was 39-points out of third going into the show and came out of the event only 21 shy of the driver in third.
Tafoya returns to his home digs, Perris Auto Speedway, for the annual California Racer’s Hall of Fame Night on August 20. Gates will open at 5:00 p.m. with racing at 7:00.
Be sure to check out Tafoya’s brand new YouTube channel at the following link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxgMCW64p0uyBmOcKN7_bDQ.
If you or your company would like to be a part of the Specialty Fastener team’s 2022 season effort, please contact Eddie Tafoya Jr. via phone at (909) 393-3999 or by e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. He will be happy to talk to you and lay out the team’s 2022 plans.
Fans can follow Tafoya on Instagram @eddietafoya51. The same contact point can be used to purchase his great-looking shirts via mail.
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NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver Josef Newgarden pretty much has figured out World Wide Technology Raceway. In the space of five years, he’s won the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 three times. Going back to 1997, when Indy cars began racing at WWTR, no one else has won more than once at the egg-shaped oval. Considered a short oval by INDYCAR drivers, the track presents unique challenges: Turns 1 and 2 and different from Turns 3 and 4. It doesn’t seem to bother Newgarden – he’s dialed in at WWTR.
“You know, I love short oval racing. I really do,” said Newgarden. “I think World Wide Technology Raceway is a great track. It’s one of my favorite events that we have all year. It’s sometimes difficult to have confidence in your car because it is so fast, and the cornering speeds have a lot of high commitment. But as a driver we like those challenges of trying to find that confidence and edge over your competitors.
“I can’t really remember each of my WWTR victories in great detail. I do remember the first one in 2017 where Simon Pagenaud and I were racing really hard there. That one is really clear. I remember last year’s, for sure. I guess it’s the middle win that I can’t recall too well. We’ve run there in the day in 2020 and we’ve run there at night, which is the typical race weekend at WWTR. It is a challenge either way. Under the sun you lose a little grip, but at night you obviously gain more grip. You lose some confidence in the car during the day when you’re sliding around a bit. It’s one of those things where you have to tune around the handling depending on the conditions.
“Sometimes, close, hard racing is necessary to make a move happen or to pull off a pass. You try and assert yourself over another driver to gain a position, and there are no gimmes at WWTR. Sometimes you have to force the issue and that can create conflicts and flareups, but that is also exciting to watch when it happens. You 100 percent get that in St. Louis.”
It’s not surprising Newgarden has a strong fan base in the St. Louis region.
“We get a lot of fans that drive up from my hometown of Nashville. I drive up myself. It’s only four hours away, so not a bad drive at all. Short ovals are great events for fans because you can see the entire track. You don’t miss any of the action, and there is quite a bit of action in St. Louis. You get great pit exchanges when the tires start to fade, and guys come in early for the undercut or stay out longer for the overcut. You get that a lot at WWTR. It’s an interesting race to watch from a lot of different angles.
“The entire group at the facility have taken it up to today’s standards. It’s a beautiful track that is very fun to drive. The entire weekend is filled with activities off-track and other series on-track. They give you great value and do it as well as any track we go to. They knock it out of the park.”
In less than one week we’ll see if Newgarden needs to make room in his trophy case for a fourth Bommarito Automotive Group 500 trophy.
WWTR WINNERS
CART World Series
1997 -- Paul Tracy
1998 -- Alex Zanardi
1999 -- Michael Andretti
2000 -- Juan Pablo Montoya
IndyCar Series
2001 -- Al Unser Jr.
2002 -- Gil de Ferran
2003 -- Hélio Castroneves
NTT INDYCAR SERIES
2017 -- Josef Newgarden
2018 -- Will Power
2019 -- Takuma Sato
2020 -- Race 1: Scott Dixon; Race 2: Josef Newgarden
2021 -- Josef Newgarden
BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP 500 PRESENTED BY AXALTA AND VALVOLINE WEEKEND
The NTT INDYCAR SERIES brings the world to the St. Louis-Metro East region. Truly an international series: America’s best drivers competing against men and women from New Zealand, Spain, Australia, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Denmark, England, Canada and Switzerland. They are the cars and stars of the Indianapolis 500.
Bringing the St. Louis region to the world: Viewers from more than 200 countries will tune in to watch the Bommarito Automotive Group 500, the final oval track race on the 2022 NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule.
Two of American motorsports’ most recognizable names of all time – Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt – remain active in the sport today as team owners.
The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 presented by Axalta and Valvoline has produced many memorable moments, including Takuma Sato’s thrilling win over Ed Carpenter – the closest finish in WWTR history (by 0.039 sec.) -- in 2019. Only one driver has won the Bommarito Automotive Group more than once: Josef Newgarden is a three-time victor.
Tickets and weekend experiences are available at the WWTR ticket office, by calling (618) 215-888, or online at wwtraceway.com.
BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP 500 WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Friday, August 19
7:30 a.m. -- Parking lots open.
8 a.m. – Spectator gates open; Fan Walk open for paddock pass holders.
8 a.m. -- Indy Pro 2000 practice.
9 a.m. – INDYCAR garage and paddock opens for paddock pass holders.
9:15 a.m. -- Vintage Indy exhibition.
10 a.m. -- USAC Silver Crown Series practice.
10:45 a.m. -- Indy Pro 2000 practice.
12 p.m. -- NTT INDYCAR SERIES Bommarito Automotive Group 500 practice.
1 p.m. – Midway entertainment begins.
1:15 p.m. -- USAC Silver Crown Series practice.
2:10 p.m. -- Indy Lights Series practice.
3:15 p.m. -- NTT INDYCAR SERIES Bommarito Automotive Group 500 practice.
4:15 p.m. -- Coors Light Pole Night festivities begin.
4:30 p.m. -- USAC Silver Crown Series qualifying.
5:15 p.m. -- Indy Lights Series qualifying.
6:15 p.m. -- NTT INDYCAR SERIES Bommarito Automotive Group 500 qualifying.
7:50 p.m. -- Coors Light Pole Night qualifying awards.
8 p.m. -- USAC Silver Crown Series driver introductions.
8:30 p.m. -- USAC Silver Crown Series Gateway 100 (80 laps, 100 miles).
11 p.m. – Track closed.
Saturday, August 20 – Bommarito Automotive Group 500 presented by Axalta and Valvoline
8 a.m. -- Parking lots open.
8:30 a.m. – Spectator gates open; Fan Walk open for paddock pass holders.
9 a.m. -- Vintage Indy exhibition.
9:45 a.m. -- Indy Pro 2000 practice.
10:15 a.m. – Midway entertainment begins.
11 a.m. – BMX Freestyle Team exhibition.
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Indy Lights driver autograph session (main stage on midway)
11:45 a.m. -- Indy Pro 2000 qualifying.
12 p.m. -- INDYCAR garage and paddock opens for paddock pass holders.
12-1 p.m. – SpeedFreaks Live! (main stage on midway) – INDYCAR drivers will participate 12-12:30 p.m. Indy Lights drivers will participate from 12:30-1 p.m.
12:30-1:30 p.m. – INDYCAR driver autograph session (main stage on midway).
1 p.m. -- BMX Freestyle Team exhibition.
1:15 p.m. -- Vintage Indy exhibition.
12:30-2 p.m. -- SpeedFreaks Live! Driver Interviews on midway stage.
2:15 p.m. -- Indy Pro 2000 Series race (45 laps).
3:15 p.m. -- Indy Lights Series race (75 laps).
4:45 p.m. – NTT INDYCAR SERIES Bommarito Automotive Group 500 driver introductions.
5 p.m. – Sixth annual NTT INDYCAR SERIES Bommarito Automotive Group 500 (260 laps).
7:30 p.m. -- BMX Freestyle Team exhibition.
7:45 p.m. -- Post-race track walk for fans and victory lane celebration (time approximate).
8 p.m. – post-race concert on midway stage.
11 p.m. – Track closed.
Schedule subject to change.
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The next event on the Grandview Speedway schedule is next Saturday, August 20, featuring the T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds and the T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman in another NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series double-header starting at 7:30 pm.
Pit gates will open at 4 pm. with grandstand gates opening at 5:30 pm. warm-ups will be starting at 6:30 pm. Adult grandstand admission is $18, while children ages 5 and under are admitted free of charge.
The 52nd annual Freedom 76 Modified Championship is the next big event on the schedule, coming up on Saturday, September 17. Lap sponsorships at $20 per lap are now available by contacting Tina Rogers, Tommy Kramer or announcer Jeff Ahlum at the track on race night.
Since the 1960’s, Grandview Speedway has been presenting exciting wheel to wheel NASCAR stock car racing every Saturday Night starting in April and running through September, plus special events. Grandview Speedway is located at 43 Passmore Road, Bechtelsville, Pa. 19505, just off Route 100, ten miles north of Pottstown, Pa.
Information is always available at www.grandviewspeedway.com or on Facebook, or by telephone at 610.754.7688.
52nd ANNUAL FORREST ROGERS MEMORIAL RACE SUMMARY – AUGUST 13, 2022
T.P. TRAILER NASCAR MODIFIED FORREST ROGERS MEMORIAL FEATURE FINISH (50 laps): BRETT KRESSLEY, Jeff Strunk, Craig Von Dohren, Doug Manmiller, Duane Howard, Ryan Lilick, Brad Grim, Ron Haring Jr., Ron Kline, Ryan Grim, Tim Buckwalter, Bobby Gunther-Walsh, Kevin Graver Jr., Eric Biehn, Carroll Hine III, John Willman, Mark Kratz, Justin Grim, Cory Merkel, Ryan Beltz, Craig Whitmoyer, Darrin Schuler, Jared Umbenhauer, Joe Funk, Jesse Leiby, Ray Swinehart, Btrett Gilmore, Mike Lisowski
DID NOT QUALIFY: Michael Storms, Dylan Swinehart, Brad Arnold, Steve Swinehart, Mike Tyson, Kevin Hirthler, Dan Waisempacher, Nate Brinker, WB James, Bobby Trapper Sr.
T.P. TRUCK EQUIPMENT NASCAR SPORTSMAN FEATURE FINISH (25 laps): STEVE YOUNG, Dylan Hoch, Mike Myers, Brian Hirthler, Hunter Iatalese, Ryan Graver, Zane Roth, Matt Clay, Lex Shive, Nathan Horn, Mike Schneck Jr., Nathan Mohr, Joey Vaccaro, Adrianna Delliponte, Kyle Smith, Jesse Landis, Decker Swinehart, Logan Bauman, Kenny Bock, Jimmy Leiby, Parker Guldin, Dakota Kohler, Zach Steffy, Kyle Hartzell, Mark Kemmerer
DID NOT QUALIFY: Jesse Hirthler, Bryan Rhoads, Mark Mohr, Michael Burrows, Mike Stofflet, Cody Manmiller, Nicholas Hamm
UPCOMING EVENTS –
Friday, August 19 – Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7 pm.
Saturday, August 20 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman – 7:30 pm.
Saturday, August 27 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman, Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7:30 pm.
Friday, September 2 – Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage – 7 pm.
Saturday, September 3 – T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman, Wingless Super Sportsman – 7:30 pm.
Saturday, September 10 – CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT - T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman – 7:30 pm.
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Burt Myers continued his hot streak Saturday night, and Jonathan Brown picked up his fifth win of the season as both drivers split the twin 50-lap races in the Brad's Golf Cars Modified Series.
In the first 50-lap race, Lee Jeffreys won the pole - and after the top-six qualifiers redrew for position, Jeffreys remained on the pole. Jason Myers and his brother Burt sat second and third, with Danny Bohn in fourth.
Burt Myers took the lead from Jeffreys with 20 laps left and led the rest of the way for his fourth win of the season, all since June 25.
"Just hard work," Burt Myers said. "We won two in our old car. We got really close, and we got this PSR and we've been on fire."
Burt Myers took second place early in the race and went side-by-side with Jeffreys before he made his move along the outside. The two cars clipped each other, and Jeffreys slid into the fence around turn 3. Burt Myers took the lead and led the rest of the way.
"It's not up to you to decide," Burt Myers said. "I kind of play it by ear. The restart before that, (Jeffreys) had a pretty good distance on me. The next restart, I got a better restart, so I was door-to-door with him. And when you go down into one door-to-door, it's worth a shot.
"So, if you're back a little bit you just gotta get back in line and wait for another restart. They said clear and I checked my spot man, and I was clear and I came down, and Lee did what he was supposed to and give me a shot."
There were four cautions.
"(Jeffreys) isn't happy with me for some reason. I don't know why. I don't know what I did wrong," Burt Myers said. "But in the second race he used me up pretty good. I'm not mad. We're happy with the result we had and look forward to the finale next week."
Also, Burt Myers picked up 88th win, six behind all-time leader Tim Brown, who's also the defending and 11-time champion. Brown, who hasn't won all season and has won at least one race in every racing season since 1993, leads the points chase with just next week's Carolina Farm Credit 150 left.
"This is the closest I've ever been," Burt Myers said of Tim Brown. "Tim got about a four- or five-year head start on me, so I'm fortunate to be this close. You know, it is what it is. We're just going to keep digging and try to win at least one more before the year's out."
After Burt Myers won the first 50-lap race, he drew 12 in the Madhouse Scramble. That inverted the field and put Jonathan Brown on the pole for the second race. Jonathan Brown took advantage and led every lap on his way to his fifth win of the season.
"We had a pretty good car in the first race, and me and Tim (Brown) just kind of got together and banged wheels. I ended up banging off the wall and losing the right-front tire, and then a shock, and all kinds of stuff," Jonathan Brown said. "I didn't realize we were on the pole for the second race. We just kind of threw some stuff at it and halfway eyeballed the tow and stuff.
"I told them we'll start, run a few laps and pull over. There's no need to ride around the back and tear the car up. We were backing up, and they said, 'Hurry up, you're on the pole.' And I had no idea, so a whole different mindset. I was like, 'Alright, we've got to get out front and maintain the best we can. We had a pretty decent car, I guess."
There were five cautions during the second 50-lap race, but Jonathan Brown was unfazed by it. He just kept getting good restarts and maintained his lead.
"I think everybody else was just really tight," Jonathan Brown said. "And my car was not. It was the exact opposite. It was really free, so I could get going and kind of get in there and roll the center really good between (turns) 1 and 2 and drive up off the bottom wheel straight. And I think that was the key to getting out front and giving me a decent gap there."
Jonathan Brown also picked up his 25th career win, tying him with Max Berrier for 18th place all-time in the Modified Series. It was also his first win since June 25.
"It feels good to be in Victory Lane again. It's been so long since I've been in Victory Lane," Jonathan Brown said. "It's the first time we've had this white car out, so we've had four of our five wins with this car. So, that's pretty awesome. But man, it just feels good to show up over here. You know, we're not really contending in the points or anything, but we're right there in striking distance if those guys have bad luck.
"But the main thing is just to win races for myself, my crew, my family, for all these fans. And that's the fun part. It's better than the checkered flag."
Tim Brown leads the points unofficially with 696 points, nine ahead of Brandon Ward. Chris Fleming is third with 654, followed by Jonathan Brown (644), Burt Myers (639), and Jason Myers (638).
Riley Neal crossed the finish line first in Saturday’s first 20-lapper for the McDowell Heating & Air Sportsman Series. However, Neal was disqualified after post-race technical inspection and was stripped of the win.
Chase Robertson was awarded the victory, followed by Zack Clifton and Wesley Thompson..
In the second 20-lap Sportsman race, Justin Taylor led from start to finish to win his third race of the season.
There was one caution on lap 11, but Taylor continued to lead Zack Clifton. Clifton finished runner-up, Tommy Neal was third, and Mitch Gales was fourth.
"I knew (with them) behind me it was going to be hard," Taylor said. "...I was hoping the 38 (Gales) could hang them out because they've got good race cars. I just wanted to get as far away as possible."
With one week left and double points next week, Tommy Neal leads the points chase unofficially with 682 points, 26 ahead of Taylor. Clifton is third with 652, Chase Robertson is fourth with 637, and Michael Adams if fifth with 609.
In the Law Offices of John Barrow Street Stock race, Zack Staley was leading after 11 laps and was declared the winner after the 20-minute time limit expired.
There were four cautions, including the lap after Taylor Robbins, Nate Gregg, Billy Gregg, and Bryan Sykes were all involved in a colossal wreck coming around turn 1.
Staley was declared the winner, his first of the season. Kevin Gilbert was runner-up, Christian Joyce was third, and Craig Hartless was fourth.
"I needed that so bad," Staley said. "I'm sorry for everybody who got stuck up behind me. I know I had the slower car. but I won the race."
In the Q104.1 Stadium Stock Series, A.J. Sanders, who is the points leader, continued his winning ways. He picked up his seventh win of the season after fending off runner-up Brandon Brendle, who is second in the points chase with one week left.
Chuck Wall was third and Blaine Curry was fourth. There were four cautions during the race.
"Nothing's ever easy when you've got Brandon Brendle, Chuck Wall, and Curry behind you," Sanders said. "I don't care who it is, it's not easy out here. When you start on the front row, the good Lord was with us tonight. I give Him all the praise every week."
"We've got one more to go," Sanders said. "I would love to have this championship. I'm getting old. Fifty-five, I mean 54 years old. I don't know how old I am. Seven wins, that's the most I've ever had.”
It's hard to believe but the final night of racing is scheduled for this Saturday night with champions crowned in all four divisions. In addition, there will be double points. The featured race is the Carolina Farm Credit 150 for the Brad's Golf Cars Modified Series that will use the double-file restart on cautions. Also on the schedule is a 40-lap race for the McDowell Heating & Air Sportsman Series, a 20-lap race in the Law Offices of John Barrow Street Stock Series, and a 15-lap race in the Q104.1 Stadium Stock Series.
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‘It hurts a lot’: Nonprofit works to restore abandoned graveyard for families
Nonprofit Friends of Eastern Cemetery tries their best to clean up the nearly 30 acre property each week but says they need more volunteers.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) -Eastern Cemetery on Baxter Avenue was abandoned decades ago.
A local nonprofit called Friends of Eastern Cemetery works to make sure no family is forgotten. Founder Andy Harpole said he started the nonprofit in 2013.
“The reason we do it is because all of the people here built the city into what it is for us,” Harpole said. “The promise that they were all given when they bought their plots here, the promise has been broken. We kind of feel like it is our responsibility to step up and fulfill it because that is ultimately what a community does.”
Friends of Eastern Cemetery work to clean up the roughly 30 properties each week. Harpole said it is getting harder to do that without volunteers. They spend Sundays working to mow the grass, restore headstones and take down overgrown weeds.
“Just generally try and maintain the property, so it doesn’t get too out of hand,” Harpole said. “Which, it still does. But we fight it as hard as we can. We do a little bit of everything out here. We cut the grass, trim around stones, take care of trees that fall down.”
Harpole said at one point they had events that brought over 500 volunteers. Now, he said they only get about five to 15 volunteers each week.
Friends of Eastern Cemetery is encouraging volunteers of all ages to join their effort.
“That’s what keeps me motivated because I want to help people like that,” Harpole said. “They shouldn’t have to come out here and not be able to find their loved one’s graves.”
Anna Dawson-Heightfelt said her family has 11 relatives buried there. She said she brings her children out to Eastern Cemetery every Sunday.
“Every Sunday, it is cemetery day,” Heightfelt said. “So we come up, we help out, we pass out waters. My great grandpa was buried here and my great grandma and her people. So we’ve got about four generations. It actually, it hurts a lot, because it’s somebody’s family member. It doesn’t matter if you know them or not.”
Heightfelt said she has visited the cemetery every Sunday since she was little.
”My mom and my dad and I would come up, and then it kind of turned into a big family ordeal with my kids coming up to learn,” Heightfelt said. “I want them to understand that it’s good to give back to the people that don’t have a voice. The people that have been forgotten.”
Volunteer days with Friends of Eastern Cemetery are every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
To learn more or donate to Friends of Eastern Cemetery, click or tap here.
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'Insecure,' '90210' actor Denise Dowse dies at 64
Actor Denise Dowse, best known for her role as Mrs. Yvonne Teasley in "Beverly Hills, 90210," has died.
"It is with a very heavy heart that I inform everyone that my sister, Denise Dowse has gone forward to meet our family in eternal life," her sister said on Dowse's Instagram page.
"Denise Yvonne Dowse was the most amazing sister, a consummate, illustrious actress, mentor and director. She was my very best friend and final family member. Denise loved all of you. I know that she is watching over us with all the love she has."
Dowse, 64, died after fighting a "virulent form" of meningitis, or an infection of the brain and spinal cord, her sister said.
Dowse’s most recent role was Dr. Rhonda Pine on HBO’s hit series "Insecure," but the actor has credits in more than 30 films and 85 TV shows, including her role as Mrs. Yvonne Teasley in "90210," according to Entertainment Weekly. She has also appeared in "Bio-Dome," "Pleasantville," "Ray" and "Coach Carter."
Actress Denise Dowse arrives at the 26th Annual NAACP Theatre Awards at Saban Theatre on November 21, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images)
Ian Ziering, who played Steve Sanders on "90210," called her death "insanely heartbreaking."
"Throughout all my years working on Beverly Hills 90210, my scenes with Denise will always be remembered with the utmost in respect for her talent, and fondness for the loving soul she was," Ziering said on Instagram. "Some of my heartiest off camera laughs were between she and I hammering out the the discipline her Mrs. Teasley would dish out to my Steve Sanders. My sincere condolences to her family, and all others who she was dear to. God bless you Denise, pay forward that Legacy Key." | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/denise-dowse-dies-insecure-90210 | 2022-08-14T20:51:27Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/denise-dowse-dies-insecure-90210 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Howard Stern reveals his father recently died at 99
Radio personality Howard Stern recently revealed that his father, Ben, died at the age of 99. Stern opened up about his father’s death in a recent interview with Dan’s Papers, an online newspaper serving the Long Island’s East End community in New York.
"I lost my father recently, he was 99 years old," Stern told the outlet. He provided no details about his father’s death or when it happened.
Stern was talking about his photography and painting skills. He said he recently started painting barns which helps him remember his father.
Rockville Centre, N.Y.: Howard Stern and his parents Ben and Ray in the backyard of their home in Rockville Centre, New York on September 23, 1993. (Photo by Ari Mintz/ Newsday RM via Getty Images)
"Not sure how old those barns were, but I feel like painting the barns is honoring him and all those growing older and then gone," he continued.
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According to Distractify, Stern and his father collaborated together on "The Howard Stern Show," a TV movie, and "Howard Stern on Demand." His father worked as a recording engineer, according to the outlet.
After Stern made the announcement, many people took to social media to offer their condolences.
‘Deepest condolences to Howard Stern and family on the loss of his father Ben," Brent Hatley, Stern's former senior producer, posted on Twitter. "Ben made me laugh so many times, he was funny without even trying."
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R. Kelly's Chicago trial: Motion filed to excuse potential jurors who've seen 'Surviving R. Kelly'
CHICAGO - Attorneys for R. Kelly have filed a motion in his Chicago trial to excuse potential jurors who have seen any portion of the docu-series "Surviving R. Kelly."
"Any potential juror who has watched any portion of this docuseries must be disqualified for cause, irrespective of whether he/she believes he/she can be fair, where too great a risk exists that such a juror would base his/her verdict on matters not introduced into evidence in the courtroom," the motion states.
R. Kelly's federal trial that starts Monday in Chicago is in many ways a do-over of his child pornography trial in 2008 in state court.
At that trial 14 years ago, jurors acquitted the singer on charges that he produced a video of himself having sex with a girl no older than 14.
But a big difference between that trial and the one starting in a federal courthouse in Chicago is that prosecutors say the female in the video will testify this time.
Among the charges Kelly faces is that he rigged the 2008 trial by paying off and threatening the girl to ensure she didn't testify.
The woman is now in her 30s.
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This isn’t what PGA Tour golfer Denny McCarthy had in mind when trying to hit the ball into the cup.
Yet McCarthy managed to bounce back for a birdie after his tee shot on the second hole of the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Sunday hit a spectator and wound up in the cupholder of the fan’s fold-up chair.
McCarthy, 29, was allowed to take a straight drop without being docked strokes, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and his second shot landed on the green nearly 33 feet from the hole. McCarthy sank the ensuing birdie putt.
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Revealing an airstrike over "beautiful" chocolate cake. A trespasser from China carrying flash drives and electronics. Cellphone photos of the "nuclear football" briefcase. And now, classified documents recovered during an FBI search.
Mar-a-Lago, the stone-walled oceanfront estate Donald Trump labeled the "Winter White House," has long been a source of headaches for national security and intelligence professionals. Its clubby atmosphere, sprawling guest-list and talkative proprietor combined into a "nightmare" for keeping the government's most closely held secrets, one former intelligence official said.
Now, the 114-room mansion and its various outbuildings are at the center of a Justice Department investigation into Trump's handling of presidential material. After an hours-long search of the property last week, FBI agents seized 11 sets of documents, some marked as "sensitive compartmented information" — among the highest levels of government secrets. CNN reported Saturday that one of Trump's attorneys claimed in June that no classified material remained at the club -- raising fresh questions about the number of people who have legal exposure in the ongoing investigation.
In many ways, Trump's 20-acre compound in Palm Beach, Florida, amounts to the physical embodiment of what some former aides describe as a haphazard-at-best approach by the former President to classified documents and information.
"Mar-a-Lago has been a porous place ever since Trump declared his candidacy and started winning primaries several years ago," said Aki Peritz, a former CIA counterterrorism analyst. "If you were any intelligence service, friendly or unfriendly, worth their salt, they would be concentrating their efforts on this incredibly porous place."
When Trump departed office in January 2021, it was Mar-a-Lago where he decamped, sore from a loss he refused to acknowledge. The club, with its paying members and large oil paintings of Trump as a younger man, was a welcome refuge.
It was also the destination for dozens of cardboard boxes, packed in haste in the final days of his administration and shipped in white trucks to Florida. People familiar with Trump's exit from Washington said the process of packing was rushed, in part because the outgoing President refused to engage in activities that would signal he'd lost the election. When it became clear he would need to leave the White House, items were quickly stowed away in boxes and shipped south without a clearly organized system.
"Trump kept a lot of things in his files that were not in the regular system or that had been given to him in the course of intelligence briefings," said John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser. "I can easily imagine in the last chaotic days at the White House, since he didn't think he was going to leave until the last minute, they were just throwing things in boxes, and it included a lot of things he had accumulated over the four years."
Some boxes, including some containing classified documents, had ended up at the club after Trump's presidency concluded. When federal investigators -- including the chief of counterintelligence and export control at the Justice Department -- traveled to Mar-a-Lago in June to discuss the classified documents with Trump and his lawyers, they voiced concern the room wasn't properly secured.
Trump's team added a new lock onto the door. But FBI agents returned to Mar-a-Lago last week to execute a search warrant on the property that identified three possible crimes: violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records.
The items taken away after Monday's search included a leather box of documents, binders of photos, "miscellaneous top secret documents" and "Info re. President of France," according to the search warrant. Trump and his allies have claimed he used his presidential prerogative to declassify the documents before leaving office, though haven't provided any evidence of a formal process taking place.
"My only surprise was that there wasn't even more taken to Mar-a-Lago," Bolton said.
A habit of defying norms
Last week was not the first time federal intelligence officials worried about how Trump was keeping the government's secrets. Nearly as soon as he took office, Trump demonstrated a willingness to flaunt protocols for guarding sensitive information.
In 2017, he spontaneously revealed highly classified information about an Islamic State plot to a group of Russian visitors, including the foreign minister, that the US had received from Israel. It caused deep anger in both countries' intelligence services.
When he was briefed by intelligence officials in 2019 about an explosion in Iran, he later tweeted out a highly classified satellite photo of the facility -- despite having heard officials' concerns beforehand that doing so could reveal American capabilities.
Trump preferred to receive intelligence updates electronically, according to his third chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, though he sometimes asked to keep physical documents from classified briefings.
"From time to time the President would say, 'Can I keep this?' But we had entire teams of people to make sure those documents didn't get left behind, didn't get taken up to the residence. He would use them. That was his right as the President of the United States," Mulvaney said.
Still, the tracking of records was not a priority for Trump, according to several former officials. When he asked to keep sensitive documents, officials sometimes became concerned at what would happen to the material. When he traveled, aides often followed close behind toting cardboard boxes where they'd collected stacks of papers Trump had left behind.
Mixing business with pleasure
At Mar-a-Lago, worries about Trump revealing top government secrets — accidentally or otherwise — were amplified. The facility acts as a pool club, spa, restaurant and clubhouse for its members and their guests; the gold-trimmed Donald J. Trump ballroom can be rented for weddings and other events.
While the Secret Service screens visitors for weapons and checks their names against a list, they are not responsible for protecting secret documents or guarding against potential interference.
Members flocked to Trump's club when he was in town as President, and rules enacted early in his tenure against taking photos in the dining room were not always strictly followed.
That became evident in February 2017, when Trump hosted the late then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan for dinner on the patio. After a North Korean missile launch interrupted the meal, Trump and Abe huddled with their national security aides in full view of other diners, who picked away at wedge salads with blue cheese while snapping photos of the leaders' impromptu crisis talks.
Later, Trump's aides insisted he had ducked into a secure room -- known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) -- to receive updates on the launch, and that he and Abe were simply discussing the logistics for their press statements.
Yet the flood of photos posted to social media by Mar-a-Lago members showed the two leaders poring over documents at their dinner table, along with aides working on laptops and Trump speaking on his cellphone. At one point, staffers used the flashlights on their cellphones to illuminate documents the leaders were reading.
Soon after, some new rules went in effect to limit who could be at the club when Trump was there. Reservations were required two weeks in advance, and new limits were placed on the number of guests that members were permitted to bring.
Trump returned to the Mar-a-Lago SCIF in spring 2017 to discuss launching an airstrike on Syria; at the time, he was hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for dinner. Later, he said he returned to the table to inform Xi of his decision as they ate the "most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen."
One of the concerns Trump's aides had at Mar-a-Lago was their relative inability to discern who exactly he was speaking with while he was there. Compared to the White House, with its strict access lists, it was sometimes unclear even to Trump's senior-most advisers who he'd come into contact with at the club.
Trump's second chief of staff, John Kelly, worked to limit who had access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago, though there was little expectation he or any other aide would be able to fully restrict the President's conversations with friends and paying Mar-a-Lago members. Kelly told associates at the time he was more interested in knowing who Trump was speaking with than preventing the conversations from happening.
Kelly also worked to implement a more structured system for the handling of classified material, though Trump's cooperation in the system was not always guaranteed.
Managing a variety of risks
While at Mar-a-Lago, Trump did not always use his SCIF when viewing classified documents, according to one person familiar with the matter. And his penchant for sharing what he knew with his interlocutors was a source of constant frustration.
"He was a difficult president to support in terms of trying to give him the information he needed while still protecting the way we collected it so that he wouldn't accidentally or otherwise speak off-the-cuff and mention something that an adversary could use to track down where we had an agent," said Douglas London, a former CIA counterterrorism official who served during the Trump administration.
London said it was ironic Trump kept classified documents since the former President "wasn't much of a reader."
Keeping classified information from Mar-a-Lago's members was one thing; keeping out potential security threats proved to be its own challenge.
In 2019, a 33-year-old businesswoman from Shanghai was arrested for trespassing on the grounds of Trump's club. At the time of her arrest, Yujing Zhang had in her possession four cellphones, a laptop, an external hard drive and a thumb drive. Prosecutors said they also found a trove of additional electronics -- including a signal detector to detect hidden cameras -- and thousands of dollars in cash in her hotel room.
Another Chinese national, Lu Jing, was also accused of trespassing at Mar-a-Lago later that year. Officials said during the incident, Lu was asked to leave by security before returning to the premises and taking photos.
It was never determined what either woman's motives were in trying to access the club. Lu was found not guilty; Zhang was eventually sentenced to eight months in prison.
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Former World No.1 Simona Halep stamped her return to the Top 10 with authority, as the Romanian claimed the title at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers for the third time in her career on Sunday.
2016 and 2018 champion Halep ended the run of first-time WTA 1000 finalist Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil in the championship match, prevailing 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 after an intense 2 hours and 16 minutes to capture her 24th career Hologic WTA Tour singles title.
With her latest victory in Canada, Halep has won a tournament three times for the first time in her career. However, this is Halep’s first triumph in Toronto -- her previous National Bank Open titles came at the Montreal site.
Top 10 beckons: After just over a year outside the Top 10, two-time Grand Slam champion Halep is projected to rocket from No.16 to No.6 on Monday’s rankings.
Halep's return to the topmost echelon is a reward for a stellar 2022, where she has won 38 matches, second only to World No.1 Iga Swiatek’s 49 match-wins for the year. This is her second title of the season, following a trophy at Melbourne Summer Set 1 in January.
Haddad Maia, for her part, will make her Top 20 debut next week, with a projected ranking of No.16.
WTA 1000 expert: Halep has 185 match-wins at WTA 1000 tournaments, more than any other player. She has reached 18 WTA 1000 finals, tied with Serena Williams for the most finals since this level was introduced in 2009.
But this was Halep’s first WTA 1000 final since she won the 2020 Rome title just under two years ago. Despite that gap, Halep proved her experience at that level was second to none, holding off World No.24 Haddad Maia and improving to 3-1 against the rising Brazilian.
2⃣4⃣th career singles title ✔️
— wta (@WTA) August 14, 2022
9⃣th 1000 level crown ✔️
🇷🇴 @Simona_Halep is a CHAMPION once again! 🏆#NBO22 pic.twitter.com/GYv7dKqlfe
Tale of the match: In the closely-contested affair, Halep had two fewer winners than Haddad Maia, but she also had four fewer unforced errors despite nine double faults. Halep gritted out the victory after converting five of her 10 break points; Haddad Maia was 4-for-9.
Halep had four double faults in her opening service game, but she rebounded from an 0-3 deficit to sweep six games in a row for the one-set lead. Haddad Maia built another hefty lead in the second set, jumping out to 4-0, and this time the Brazilian held on to level the match.
After an early exchange of breaks in the third set, Halep found greater margin on her groundstrokes to ease ahead 4-1. As the set progressed, Halep stayed focused and aggressive when she needed to be, finding exceptional overhead winners en route to a love hold for 5-2.
Haddad Maia, the first Brazilian to reach the quarterfinals and beyond at a WTA 1000 event, exhibited strong play in the forecourt to hold for 5-3. But Halep was up to the task of serving out the match, opening that game with a divine passing winner as she went on to wrap up the title.
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CINCINNATI -- Last Tuesday, Emma Raducanu fell in her opening match at the National Bank Open in Toronto.
The next day, she was on the practice court.
“Wasn’t taking any time to reflect or mourn,” she told the press Sunday ahead of the Western & Southern Open.
For all the attention she receives, Raducanu has remained focused in her mission to grow as a tennis player. A mission that continues this week in Cincinnati, where she will take on 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams in the opening round.
Serena Williams or Emma Raducanu? Who has the advantage?
As you can imagine, a few eyeballs will be watching that one, and for Raducanu, this first (and likely last) matchup against Williams is a special one.
“It’s going to be an exciting match,” she said. “An amazing opportunity to play probably the best tennis player of all time. For our careers to have crossed over, I am really fortunate to get to play her, and whatever happens, I think it’s just going to be an incredible experience for me and something I think I will remember for the rest of my life.”
Raducanu was among the many players in Cincinnati getting ready for one of the biggest weeks of the year. Here’s a look at a few others we captured ahead of this WTA 1000 event:
Sloane Stephens
Like Raducanu, Stephens is a former US Open winner. Her path in Cincinnati won’t be an easy one. Her first-round opponent is Alize Cornet, who isn’t far removed from a Round of 16 appearance at Wimbledon, where she ended Iga Swiatek's 37-match win streak. As luck would have it, Swiatek will await the winner of this one.
Barbora Krejcikova
Krejcikova has fallen to No.19 in the world and heads into Cincinnati coming off a straight-sets loss against Karolina Pliskova in the opener in Toronto. Krejcikova’s first-round opponent will be Veronika Kudermetova, who has played strong tennis all season. Earlier this month, she reached the semifinals in San Jose, and before that, the quarters in Berlin and the final four in s’Hertogenbosch. The winner would face off against Karolina Muchova or Simona Halep, who Sunday in Toronto won her 24th career title.
Paula Badosa
This past week, Badosa fell in her opening match at the National Bank Open. Ranked No.3, she is looking to regain her form from earlier in the year when she won her second event of the season, in Sydney, and then went 7-2 in the back-to-back WTA 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami. Badosa has an opening-round bye and will face a qualifier in the Round of 32.
Iga Swiatek
Hard to believe with the season she has had, but Swiatek has gone three straight events without a title. Nonetheless, her stats are off the charts. She has a tour-leading six titles, all of which she won in succession. Swiatek, however, has not won a match in Cincinnati since 2019.
Naomi Osaka
Osaka heads into Cincinnati with health concerns. Last week, she pulled out of her opener against Kaia Kanepi with a back injury. “I felt my back from the start of the match, and despite trying my best to push through it I just wasn’t able to today," Osaka said afterward. Osaka is hoping to get back on track ahead of the US Open, where she is a two-time winner. She'll take on her friend Zhang Shuai in the first round. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2744199/photos-raducanu-prepping-for-serena-and-more-ahead-of-cincinnati | 2022-08-14T20:58:22Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2744199/photos-raducanu-prepping-for-serena-and-more-ahead-of-cincinnati | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) — Republicans are looking for a new sense of unity amid concerns that recent infighting, a series of divisive primaries and several high-profile Democratic political victories could erode what should otherwise be a promising chance at recapturing the House and Senate majorities this year.
Despite GOP leaders’ push to make the 2022 midterm elections a referendum on Democrats’ handling of everything from inflation to immigration, a messier picture has unfolded in recent weeks. High-profile primaries have yielded some deeply polarizing Republican nominees, while the party has been consumed by debates over the best way to counter Democrats’ recent political wins.
“I don’t think the message has been as sharp as it needs to be,” one longtime Republican strategist said. “It’s about drawing a clear contrast. Now, I think there are folks trying to do that. But some of the other stuff — the election denial stuff, abortion — it all kind of muddles the argument.”
Republicans are still favored to win back control of the House this year. While inflation cooled somewhat in July, it’s still abnormally high, and an economic recession remains a looming possibility. At the same time, Democrats are haunted by President Joe Biden’s dismal approval ratings and the underlying reality that the party in power tends to lose ground in Congress in midterm elections.
But there are also signs that the political landscape of 2022 may not be as bleak for Democrats as it once looked.
Recent polling shows Democrats making gains on the generic ballot, a key metric of voter preference. There’s also improving news on the economic front: U.S. employers added 528,000 jobs in July, erasing the losses from the COVID-19 pandemic, while there are signs that inflation may be beginning to ease.
Democrats also got a jolt of encouragement this month after Kansas voters rejected a proposed amendment clarifying that abortion rights are not protected in the state constitution, lending credence to Democrats’ hopes of making reproductive rights a pivotal midterm issue.
“It should help Democratic enthusiasm, and it should give Republicans some pause to ask themselves what’s going on in the rest of the country,” Doug Heye, a Republican strategist, said.
Democrats got another positive data point on Tuesday, when Democrat Jeff Ettinger came within 4 percentage points of beating Republican Brad Finstad in the special election to replace the late Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-Minn.) in a district that former President Trump won by 10 points.
The loss was still a disappointment for Democrats. But special elections are often seen as bellwethers for which party has momentum leading up to the November elections, and Democrats saw a similar result in the special election in Nebraska’s 1st District earlier this summer, giving the party hope that the political landscape may be shifting in its favor.
“… [What it] tells me is this idea that there is a lack of enthusiasm among Democrats, I think that’s a false narrative that is floating out in the ecosystem,” Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright said about the close primary race in Minnesota.
“But it also tells me is that there is a tremendous opportunity for us to expand our voting bloc in this election, and bring in some, I would say nontraditional allies and partners this election cycle and build on that,” Seawright added.
Seawright also pushed back against the idea that Democrats should anticipate “doom and gloom” with several months to come before the midterms.
He said that “most of the time when people anticipate these major waves in politics in the midterms, it’s because the other party have not been able to deliver on things that moved the needle with voters.”
He noted the American Rescue Plan as an example, where he said “there was not one single Republican who voted for it. But every single Republican around the country at the state and local level were taking credit for it. The old vote no and take the dough concept.”
The abortion issue, meanwhile, has driven a wedge between Republicans, many of whom have urged the party to shift away from hard-line positions and strike a more compromising tone out of concern that failing to do so could isolate the moderate voters who will play a critical role in deciding control of Congress this year.
The hope is that Republicans can shift the conversation away from the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 abortion rights case, and keep the focus on so-called kitchen-table issues, like inflation, gas prices and the threat of a looming recession.
“It’s not to say that critical issues like abortion won’t be central. But it’s going to be a collective understanding of these issues,” said Matt Terrill, a GOP strategist and former aide to ex-Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. “It’s about message discipline. You stay focused. It goes back to the economy, it goes back to inflation, it goes back to skyrocketing gas prices.”
Republican strategist Colin Reed acknowledged that Republicans are facing issues over the quality of their candidates, including some on the Senate side, some of whom are being out-fundraised by their Democratic opponents. He also advised candidates against focusing on the 2020 election.
“I’d say the biggest challenge is candidate quality … at least on the Senate side, and you’ve got lots of big and legitimate questions around a number of the leading Senate candidates in some of these key states,” Reed said.
“As it relates to the messaging, you know, elections need to be about the future, not the past,” he added. “And the Republicans need to be relentlessly prosecuting the first few years of the Biden administration, not rehashing or relitigating the events of the previous administration.”
It’s not as if Republicans haven’t found a clear rallying point. The FBI’s Monday raid on former President Donald Trump’s South Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, was met with near-universal condemnation and skepticism by Republicans, including Trump’s critics.
And every one of the Senate’s 50 Republicans voted on Sunday against a sweeping climate, tax and health care package that had long been pursued by Senate Democrats.
But that doesn’t mean that the primaries haven’t broadcasted divisions within the party, some of which have played in recent weeks in the gubernatorial primaries in Wisconsin and Arizona.
The GOP primaries for both races have been seen as a proxy war between former President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence. The two men have backed opposing candidates in both races, forcing Republicans to choose sides between the two.
Bill McCoshen, a GOP strategist in Wisconsin, voiced concerns last week about the negative nature of the state’s gubernatorial primary between candidates Tim Michels and former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, which featured negative campaigning.
“There’s five days left to go, and folks are getting concerned about whether we’ll be able to put the party back together next Wednesday,” he told The Hill ahead of the primary.
At the same time, Republicans have also shown that they can set aside their differences after turbulent primaries to focus on gaining momentum ahead of the general election.
In Pennsylvania, eight of nine GOP House lawmakers in the state said they would endorse gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano (R), who has been considered a controversial pick given that he’s pushed dubious claims about the 2020 election and has been subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.
After Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake won her primary last week, Gov. Doug Ducey (R), who had supported her primary opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson, said he would be supporting Lake’s election heading into November.
And over in Michigan, Rep. Peter Meijer (R) congratulated and wished his opponent, former Housing and Urban Development official John Gibbs (R), well during a GOP unity event in the state after losing his primary. Meijer was one of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach the former president, while Gibbs received Trump’s endorsement.
Instead, some Republicans are projecting confidence ahead of November even as Democrats seize key wins, like a sweeping reconciliation bill on health, climate and tax reform that is expected to be passed in the House and signed by President Biden.
Lauren Claffey Tomlinson, a GOP strategist, doesn’t see the legislation as a total slam dunk for Democrats.
“Democrats are going to be messaging on a long-term result that they say this will make an impact next year, this will make an impact in the long-term. But what Americans care about is what’s being done right now, what is the impact to my wallet right now because I can’t make rent. I can’t feed my family because of the grocery bills,” Tomlinson said.
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The US delegation is being led by Senator Ed Markey. Markey chairs the Senate Foreign Relations East Asia, Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Subcommittee.
Also along are Representative John Garamendi of the congressional Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group. plus 5 other members of Congress.
Will be meeting with Taiwan's President Tsai.
A US statement:
"Especially at a time when China is raising tensions in the Taiwan Strait and the region with military exercises, Markey leading a delegation to visit Taiwan once again demonstrates the United States Congress' firm support for Taiwan"
China's embassy in Washington:
"members of the U.S. Congress should act in consistence with the U.S. government’s one-China policy" and argued the latest congressional visit "once again proves that the U.S. does not want to see stability across the Taiwan Straits and has spared no effort to stir up confrontation between the two sides and interfere in China's internal affairs."
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China's 'activity' data for July is due today. Improvement in industrial production and retail sales is expected as the economy recovered from lockdowns in Q2. Improvement will be a positive impact for China trades (such as AUD).
This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.
The times in the left-most column are GMT.
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On a Monday morning, market liquidity is very thin until it improves as more Asian centres come online.
Prices are liable to swing around on not too much at all, so take care out there.
EUR/USD 1.0256
USD/JPY 133.46
GBP/USD 1.2135
USD/CHF 0.9415
USD/CAD 1.2775
AUD/USD 0.7120
NZD/USD 0.6452
Bitcoin is around USD24.3K
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Hundreds of Mexican military troops were flown into Tijuana on Saturday to beef up street patrols after armed gangs hijacked and burned at least a dozen vehicles in the border city, the latest in a wave of attacks hitting civilians across the country.
U.S. consulate staff were ordered to shelter in place Friday evening but no one was reported injured in the Tijuana hijackings that snarled traffic across the city and temporarily blocked access to one of the world’s busiest border crossings.
Roughly 350 national guard troops were flown in on Saturday to reinforce thousands of federal troops already in the state of Baja California, daily Reforma reported on its website.
Simultaneous hijackings occurred in four other cities in Baja and authorities arrested at least 17 people, Milenio TV reported. Tijuana is home to the San Ysidro-El Chaparral ports of entry, the busiest U.S. border crossing.
The disruptions in Tijuana follow attacks against businesses and civilians further along the border in Ciudad Juarez and the central state of Guanajuato the past week. The wave of violence now spreading to key manufacturing corridors is a major challenge to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s security strategy.
While so-called “narco blockades” have become common in states like Guerrero and Michoacan, where the Jalisco New Generation Cartel pioneered attacks on civilians over the past few years, this was the first time such tactics had been widely deployed in the major border city of Tijuana, said Vanda Felbab-Brown, an organized crime expert at Brookings Institution.
An escalating battle between Jalisco and the Sinaloa Cartel for control in the region could jeopardize new foreign investment, she said. Tijuana has seen horrific gang violence in the past, but not such disruptions directed at the general population.
“Companies are being affected. Foreign companies are being affected,” Felbab-Brown said in a telephone interview. “It’s blowing up in terms of people saying ‘Hey government, you have to protect us.’”
Lopez Obrador’s government has come under criticism for shying away from directly challenging criminal gangs, such as its release of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son in 2019 following unrest in Sinaloa after his capture.
The government has deployed thousands of members of the National Guard across the country, giving the public the sense that the streets remain militarized. And although the homicide rate has fallen, it remains near record highs.
Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero, in a video message directed at the criminal gangs she blamed for the hijackings, said the city wouldn’t shut down.
“We are not going to allow a single Tijuana citizen pay the consequences of those who didn’t pay their bills,” she said. “We ask that you make the people who owe you pay up, not the families and citizens who work.”
In a separate news briefing outside a military base in the city, Caballero said there were 3,000 federal troops in the state that would help 2,000 Tijuana police maintain order. She stressed no civilians had been hurt yet. “The problem is serious but it’s not that serious,” she said.
Several vehicles burned on Friday night blocked roads in two cities in Guanajuato state, Milenio reported. That’s also where gangs on Tuesday torched 25 Oxxo convenience stores owned by Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB.
In Ciudad Juarez, flights into the city were canceled on Friday, while classes and a soccer match were suspended along with shifts at manufacturing plants, Milenio reported.
Gang members fired on civilians Thursday night at a strip mall and gas stations in attacks that killed nine people. Among the dead were a child at a convenience store and four radio station employees transmitting outside a Little Caesars pizza shop.
The attacks were carried out by a local gang following a fight in a Ciudad Juarez prison where two were killed, Chihuahua attorney general Roberto Fierro said in a news briefing. Felbab-Brown said smaller gangs were increasingly mimicking the tactics of the Jalisco cartel.
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ANAHEIM ― Shohei Ohtani held a brief in-dugout meeting with Phil Nevin after the 10th inning of the Angels’ 5-3 victory over the Twins on Saturday night.
The inning ended when Ohtani was thrown out at first base. Minnesota Twins center fielder Byron Buxton dove to catch a low line drive hit by Luis Rengifo, then threw to first before Ohtani could slide in safely.
Nevin took responsibility for the inning-ending double play. The manager had called for Ohtani to steal second base with one out, anticipating that Rengifo would hit a ground ball ― or, failing that, be walked intentionally to bring up Taylor Ward.
Instead the Angels got no runs out of their first-and-third, one-out advantage.
“Shohei’s a smart guy,” Nevin said. “We discussed whether it was right to run him or not.”
Also?
“A teaching moment,” Nevin said, “because (Ohtani) didn’t touch second base on the way back, so even if (Magneuris) Sierra tags and scores, Sho’s going to be out because he didn’t touch second.”
TANGLED UP IN BLUE
Nevin played only 17 games for the Twins at the tail end of his career. Yet Nevin said his memories of his time in Minnesota are stronger than those of any other stop in his career, save his seven-season run in San Diego from 1999 to 2005.
The last of those 17 games happened to be Nevin’s only playoff appearance in 12 years as a player. He went 0 for 3 in an American League Division Series game against the Oakland A’s, which the Twins lost in a three-game sweep. Nevin never appeared in another major league game.
“I was a deadline trade,” Nevin recalled. “I loved my time over there. … It was my only opportunity to be in the playoffs as a player. I was teasing (Twins third baseman) Gio Urshela about picking 15 ― because I wore it there ― before they retire it.”
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Mike Trout took batting practice on the field for the second straight day, taking more swings than he did Saturday. Trout also ran on the field in addition to working out inside Angel Stadium, Nevin said. There is no timetable for Trout to face live pitching as he attempts to return from a costovertebral dysfunction. … Touki Toussiant is a candidate to start Wednesday’s game against the Mariners, Nevin said, but only if the right-hander isn’t needed for long relief in the meantime. Shohei Ohtani and Jose Suarez will start the first two games of the series. … Seattle will send right-hander Luis Castillo, left-hander Robbie Ray and right-hander George Kirby to the mound, in that order.
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Seattle (RHP Luis Castillo, 1-0, 1.84 ERA) at Angels (RHP Shohei Ohtani, 10-7, 2.68 ERA), Monday, 6:38 p.m., Bally Sports West
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GOP's New Mexico bet
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' campaign stop in New Mexico on Sunday is worth watching for two reasons: The state is one of the GOP's best opportunities to flip a Democratic governorship. And the Republican nominee has gotten this far without help from Donald Trump.
Why it matters: New Mexico has the largest share of Hispanic voters of any state in the country. Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is currently the nation's only Latina governor. But she's unpopular — and with Hispanic voters poised to continue their rightward shift, Republican Mark Ronchetti, a former TV meteorologist, is suddenly in play.
- He's well positioned after soundly defeating several MAGA allies in the GOP primary. Real Clear Politics shows Lujan Grisham's polling lead is within the margin of error.
- New Mexico has surpassed more traditional battlegrounds like Michigan and Pennsylvania on the GOP's radar due to the nomination of weak Republican candidates in those states.
The intrigue: Ronchetti has kept his distance from Trump, who is deeply unpopular in New Mexico, but is betting DeSantis will be a more popular surrogate.
- That's a risky bet: Ronchetti is a well-liked meteorologist and self-branded family man. DeSantis' harder-edged rhetoric may turn off some swing voters. Ronchetti will need to win over independents and even some moderate Democrats to prevail.
What they're saying: Ronchetti told Axios that Republicans can't win in New Mexico with harsh rhetoric about Hispanics and must focus on issues like crime and the economy to win over the state's swing Latino voters.
- "We have a lot of conservatives in this state, who are wondering, 'Can we build a movement to do this?' We can. But don't go out and start thinking that you can exclude people in your party," Ronchetti said.
The big picture: Crime and public safety have emerged as the top issues in the campaign, according to strategists involved in the New Mexico race.
- This month, Lujan Grisham released an out-of-context campaign ad accusing Ronchetti of wanting to "defund the police" based on debate comments criticizing Lujan Grisham's insufficient support for law enforcement. Ronchetti and the Republican Governors' Association hit back by calling her attack an outright lie.
- The state's Fraternal Order of Police, which hasn't endorsed anyone in the race, criticized the Democrat for misrepresenting Ronchetti's position.
Between the lines: Lujan Grisham has been beset with low approval ratings, staff upheaval and charges of hypocrisy.
- She initially drew praise for her handling of the pandemic but sparked outrage when she wagged her finger at a press conference at residents who weren't wearing masks.
- She was then slammed for buying jewelry after she ordered the closure of all nonessential businesses.
- Lujan Grisham once told a Democratic candidate to leave a lieutenant governor's race over allegations of workplace harassment, only to later pay out thousands of dollars to a former campaign staffer accusing her of sexual misconduct.
Multiple cabinet secretaries in the state's education, health and youth services departments have resigned or been fired in her four years in office as staff complained about the toxic environment of her administration.
The other side: David Turner, a spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association, said Republicans' claim they could flip New Mexico is "more bluster than substance."
- He said the DGA committed $2.5 million to help Lujan Grisham in May, and they expect her to win re-election.
- “Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has never been in a stronger position for re-election — her campaign has already raised a monumental $7.8 million to date," Dominic Gabello, senior campaign adviser to the governor's re-election campaign, told Axios.
Don't forget: Ronchetti won a contested GOP primary without any support from Trump.
- Before he ran for Senate in 2019, he said: "I'm a Christian conservative who used to be a Republican until the Orange One. I'm afraid that has taken a part of my soul, and that's not coming back." As a candidate, his campaign later said he was joking.
- In 2020, Ronchetti came within six points of defeating Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) even as President Biden carried New Mexico by 11 points. As a familiar face on New Mexico TV, he won over independent voters with a pragmatic campaign message. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/14/new-mexico-governor-republican | 2022-08-14T21:18:34Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/14/new-mexico-governor-republican | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A strong explosion at a fireworks storage area tore through a popular market in Armenia’s capital on Sunday, killing at least two people, injuring 60 others and setting off a large fire.
Firefighters labored into the night after the early afternoon blast at the Surmalu market to put out the blaze that sent a towering column of thick smoke over the center of Yerevan. Rescue workers and volunteers searched amid still-exploding fireworks for victims who might be trapped under slabs of concrete and twisted metal.
Emergencies Minister Armen Pambukhchyan said the ministry has received 20 reports from people who said they could not locate their relatives after the blast. Ten injured people and one dead victim were pulled from the rubble, according to the national health ministry, which also gave the casualty toll.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw two people pulled from the rubble — a woman with an injured leg and a young man who appeared to be unconscious.
The market, located 2 kilometers (over a mile) south of the city center, is popular for its low prices and variety of goods.
There was no immediate word on what caused the fireworks to ignite. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/strong-explosion-hits-market-in-armenias-capital/ | 2022-08-14T21:23:20Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/strong-explosion-hits-market-in-armenias-capital/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – We’re in for a busy storm season, according to the latest forecast by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In fact, meteorologists predict up to 20 named storms between now and the end of November.
Even though those storms have yet to form, we already know what they’ll be called if and when they do materialize.
The World Meteorological Organization already decided on a list of 21 names. When a tropical storm strengthens to wind speeds of 39 mph or higher, it gets a name from the list, starting in alphabetical order.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet but only 21 names chosen, seeing as the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are all left off because they aren’t common enough to be easily understood in local languages spoken in North America, Central America and the Caribbean (areas all affected by hurricanes).
We’ve already seen three named storms this season: Alex, Bonnie and Colin. The next three named storms would be Danielle, Earl and Fiona.
If a tropical storm strengthens into a hurricane (winds stronger than 74 mph), it keeps the same name.
In the event that this year’s hurricane season exceeds expectations and produces more than 21 named storms, additional names will be pulled from a backup list agreed upon by the World Meteorological Organization. The WMO used to use Greek letters after the primary list was exhausted, but said it caused too much confusion and abandoned the system in 2021.
The list of names cycles through and repeats every six years. Storms deemed particularly destructive have their names retired from the list of possibilities and replaced by another name starting with the same letter. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/2022-hurricane-names-are-set-heres-what-theyll-be/ | 2022-08-14T21:23:34Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/2022-hurricane-names-are-set-heres-what-theyll-be/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – While it was a dry evening on Saturday for many, some in Hampden County saw strong thunderstorms that caused isolated tree and power line damage.
The 22News Storm Team has the details on how thunderstorms can form so quickly.
There are three main ingredients you need for thunderstorm formation. Moisture, unstable air, and some sort of lift in the atmosphere. It all seems complicated, but on a warm summer day, you already have two of those, warm and moist air.
If it were to stay near the ground, that would be an unstable atmosphere, so there is the third ingredient. This all start to create an updraft, which is an upward current of warm and moist air. This will create the cloud we see in the sky and once there is enough water vapor, then the clouds start to produce rain and sometimes you can even see lightning and see thunder.
Once the updrafts, or upward current of motion stop, that’s when a storm starts to become weak. This will then give us less rain and eventually the clouds will clear leaving us with a sunny summer day again. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/explainer-how-thunderstorms-can-form-so-quickly/ | 2022-08-14T21:25:45Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/explainer-how-thunderstorms-can-form-so-quickly/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) — While thousands have been rushing to take to the skies for some long-awaited traveling, many flyers have faced frustrating flight delays and cancellations. Last weekend alone, a combined 13,500 flights were delayed and hundreds were canceled, upending travel plans for many.
Having your luggage lost, delayed, or damaged can only make the travel headache worse. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Transportation shows over 400,000 bags were mishandled by airlines in May – meaning they were lost, damaged, delayed, or stolen.
Luckily, federal officials say that equates to 0.56 bags per 100 handled by airlines. But if your bag is mishandled, it’s important to know what to do next.
Regardless of whether your bag has been damaged, delayed, or lost, the DOT and each airline say it’s important to report it as soon as possible. Many airlines require a claim to be filed within a certain number of hours or before you leave the airport.
Depending on what happens to your bag, you may be eligible to be reimbursed by your airline. The Transportation Department’s current regulations say airlines are required to compensate you if your luggage is damaged, delayed, or lost.
When it comes to damaged luggage on domestic flights, airlines are allowed to limit their liability in compensating you, with the maximum set at $3,800. Airlines are, however, permitted to pay more than the federal limit. On most international flights, the maximum liability is about $1,780.
If your luggage is damaged, the airline is responsible for repairing it or reimbursing you for the damages, or the contents that were within the bag at the time. There are, of course, caveats. If your bag was damaged before being given to the airline, or if it was damaged because you improperly packed it, the DOT says airlines aren’t responsible for repairing it or repaying you.
While standard wear and tear to your luggage can’t be considered damage, any damage to the wheels, handles, straps, or other parts of your luggage cannot be excluded from liability.
Some items, like those that are fragile or perishable, may be excluded from liability by an airline. On domestic flights, the DOT says airlines are not required to compensate you for items they’ve excluded. For example, Spirit Airlines does not cover items such as electronics and medicine.
The rule is slightly different for international flights: airlines are responsible for all items they agree to transport, regardless of if the passenger disclosed it.
Airlines are also responsible for finding your luggage if it doesn’t arrive at your destination. You should file a baggage claim with the airline as soon as possible, the DOT advises, and stay in close contact with the airline afterward.
Following the same maximum liability for damaged luggage, the DOT requires airlines to compensate you for “reasonable, verifiable, and actual incidental expense” you may face while waiting for your bags.
If you fly with Delta, for example, and paid for a checked bag, you may be eligible for a travel voucher for the amount you paid if you don’t receive your bag within 12 hours of a reported delay. For the first five days that your bag is delayed, Delta will, generally, provide a reimbursement of $50 a day if you had to make purchases.
In the worst-case scenario where your luggage is missing, your airline has to compensate you for your bag’s contents, subject to depreciation and the maximum liability of $3,800, according to the DOT. You should also be refunded for any fees you paid to have the airline transport the bag.
Airlines may require you to prove the costs of the items within the lost luggage. Taking photos of your bag and the contents inside could be helpful to both find the bag or prove the value of its contents later.
While most airlines will call your luggage “lost” between 5 and 14 days after your flight, it can vary from one to another. Other factors, such as whether your flight was domestic or international, if more than one airline was responsible for the flight, and the airline’s ability to search for the luggage, can impact whether your luggage is declared lost.
An airline that “unreasonably refuses” to declare your bag lost after “an unreasonable period of time” could face federal enforcement action, according to the DOT. Consumer complaints can be filed with the DOT online.
Travel insurance and some credit cards may also help cover the costs of lost or delayed luggage. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/luggage-damaged-delayed-or-lost-while-flying-you-may-be-eligible-for-a-reimbursement/ | 2022-08-14T21:25:46Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/luggage-damaged-delayed-or-lost-while-flying-you-may-be-eligible-for-a-reimbursement/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – An unidentified man fatally shot himself after crashing a vehicle into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol early Sunday morning, authorities said.
The man drove his car into the barricade at East Capitol Street and Second Street around 4 a.m., U.S. Capitol Police said in a press release. The man exited the vehicle, which became engulfed in flames, officials said.
The man then fired several shots in the air, Capitol Police said, alerting officers to the scene. They were approaching the man when he fatally shot himself, authorities added.
No one else was hurt at the scene and Capitol Police noted that it does not appear officers fired their weapons.
Authorities said that the man apparently was not targeting any members of Congress, who are on recess until Sept. 13.
Investigators are currently looking into his background and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department is handling the death investigation.
The incident follows the attempted breach of the FBI field office in Cincinnati, which led to an hours-long standoff with a suspect, who was later killed by police.
The incident came after the FBI executed a search warrant at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, sparking heated rhetoric from his supporters. Republicans have decried the raid as a politically motivated stunt, with some calling for the FBI to be defunded. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/man-fatally-shoots-himself-after-crashing-into-capitol-barricade-authorities-say/ | 2022-08-14T21:25:52Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/man-fatally-shoots-himself-after-crashing-into-capitol-barricade-authorities-say/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When Carnival Splendor returns to Australia in just a few weeks, lucky guests booked on her first sailing Down Under since the industry-wide shutdown will be able to enjoy a free extra day aboard.
The cruise line has decided to restart Carnival Splendor‘s operations from October 1, 2022, rather than the original planned sailing date of October 2, 2022.
Carnival Splendor to Restart a Day Early
The Concordia-class ship is spending the summer season offering 7-night roundtrip Alaska sailings from Seattle, but is scheduled to depart Seattle to head south on September 6, 2022. A 24-night itinerary will reposition Carnival Splendor to Sydney, Australia, calling on amazing ports in Hawaii and Fiji along the way.
It has been planned that the ship’s first departure from its Australian homeport was to have been on Sunday, October 2, 2022, a 3-night “Getaway” cruise to nowhere, without any ports of call. Now, the cruise line is extending the voyage by setting sail on Saturday, August 1, instead.
“The extension of this cruise is a thank you to our most dedicated guests – those who jumped at the opportunity to welcome Carnival Splendor back with our first passenger cruise in over two years!” said Kara Glamore, president of Carnival Cruise Line Australia. “We can’t wait to celebrate with them onboard and welcome the return of fun to Aussie waters.”
Instead of being simply a cruise to nowhere, the itinerary will now include visiting Moreton Island, Queensland.
Booked guests are being contacted about the departure date change. There is no change to existing cruise fares for current reservations.
If guests are unable to accommodate the earlier departure, they are being offered either a full refund of their booking, or a future cruise credit they will be able to redeem on a sailing of their choice.
Carnival Splendor in Australia
Carnival Splendor began sailing in Australia in 2019, the largest ship the cruise line has ever positioned in the Australian market.
Carnival Splendor weighs in at 113,300 gross tons, measuring 952 feet long, with 13 passenger decks filled with fun. The ship can host 3,012 guests at double occupancy, and as many as 3,948 passengers when fully booked. An international crew of 1,150 officers and crew members offer spectacular service to all aboard.
Carnival announced Carnival Splendor‘s repositioning from North America to Australia in February 2018, with the ship beginning year-round service from Sydney in December 2019. Prior to that major repositioning, the ship underwent a drydock and multiple upgrades to better suit the Australian market.
Carnival Splendor was sailing a variety of Australian itineraries in March 2020 when the industry-wide pandemic shutdown began. At first, the vessel remained in the region in the hopes that cruising would restart.
As it became clear that Australian authorities preferred stricter measures on cruise travel, however, and sailings remained paused, Carnival Cruise Line announced in February 2022 that Carnival Splendor would return to North America to restart sailings in a different region.
The vessel was the last ship in the Carnival fleet to restart passenger operations when she finally began sailing again, welcoming guests in Seattle on May 2, 2022, for the beginning of her Alaska season.
Once that Alaska season concludes in early September, Carnival Splendor will return to Australia, offering eager travelers a range of 3-11 night itineraries with a diverse array of itinerary options, all sailing roundtrip from Sydney. Destinations include New Zealand, the amazing Great Barrier Reef, and many other outstanding ports of call. | https://www.cruisehive.com/lucky-carnival-cruise-line-guests-get-free-extra-day-onboard/79013 | 2022-08-14T21:26:35Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/lucky-carnival-cruise-line-guests-get-free-extra-day-onboard/79013 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie is “on the road to recovery,” his agent confirmed Sunday, two days after the author of “The Satanic Verses” suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in New York.
The announcement followed news that the lauded writer was removed from a ventilator Saturday and able to talk. Literary agent Andrew Wylie cautioned that although Rushdie’s “condition is headed in the right direction,” his recovery would be long. Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and in an eye that he was likely to lose, Wylie had previously said.
“Though his life changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty & defiant sense of humour remains intact,” Rushdie’s son Zafar Rushdie said in a Sunday statement that stressed the author remained in critical condition. The family statement also expressed gratitude for the “audience members who bravely leapt to his defence,” as well as police, doctors and “the outpouring of love and support.”
Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called “a targeted, unprovoked, preplanned attack” at western New York’s Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center.
The attack was met with global shock and outrage, along with praise for the man who, for more than three decades — including nine years in hiding under the protection of the British government — has weathered death threats and a $3 million bounty on his head over “The Satanic Verses.”
“It’s an attack against his body, his life and against every value that he stood for,” Henry Reese, 73, told The Associated Press. The cofounder of Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum was on stage with Rushdie and suffered a gash to his forehead, bruising and other minor injuries. They had planned to discuss the need for writers’ safety and freedom of expression.
Authors, activists and government officials cited Rushdie’s bravery and longtime championing of free speech in the face of intimidation. Writer and longtime friend Ian McEwan labeled Rushdie “an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists” and actor-author Kal Penn called him a role model, “especially many of us in the South Asian diaspora.”
“Salman Rushdie — with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced — stands for essential, universal ideals,” U.S. President Joe Biden said in a Saturday statement. “Truth. Courage. Resilience. The ability to share ideas without fear.”
Rushdie, who was born in India to a Muslim family and has lived in Britain and the U.S., is known for his surreal and satirical prose, beginning with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children,” in which he sharply criticized then-Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Infused with magical realism, 1988’s “The Satanic Verses” drew ire from some Muslims who regarded elements of the novel as blasphemy.
They believed Rushdie insulted the Prophet Muhammad by naming a character Mahound, a medieval corruption of “Muhammad.” The character was a prophet in a city called Jahilia, which in Arabic refers to the time before the advent of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula. Another sequence includes prostitutes that share names with some of Muhammad’s nine wives. The novel also implies that Muhammad, not Allah, may have been the Quran’s real author.
The book had already been banned and burned in India, Pakistan and elsewhere when Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death in 1989. Khomeini died that same year, but the fatwa remains in effect — though Iran, in recent years, hadn’t focused on Rushdie.
Iran’s state-run newspaper, Iran Daily, praised the attack as an “implementation of divine decree” Sunday. Another hardline newspaper, Kayhan, termed it “divine revenge” that would partially calm the anger of Muslims.
Investigators were trying to determine whether the suspect, born nearly a decade after the novel’s publication, acted alone. A prosecutor alluded to the standing fatwa as a potential motive in arguing against bail.
“His resources don’t matter to me. We understand that the agenda that was carried out yesterday is something that was adopted and it’s sanctioned by larger groups and organizations well beyond the jurisdictional borders of Chautauqua County,” District Attorney Jason Schmidt said.
Schmidt said Matar got an advance pass to the event where the author was speaking and arrived a day early bearing a fake ID. The judge ordered Matar held without bail.
Public defender Nathaniel Barone complained that authorities had taken too long to get Matar in front of a judge, leaving him “hooked up to a bench at the state police barracks,” and stressed that Matar had the right to presumed innocence.
Barone said after the hearing that Matar has been communicating openly with him and that he would try to learn whether his clinet has psychological or addiction issues.
Matar was born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Yaroun in southern Lebanon, village mayor Ali Tehfe told the AP. Flags of the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hezbollah, along with portraits of Hezbollah and Iranian leaders, were visible across Yaroun before journalists visiting Saturday were asked to leave.
Hezbollah spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment. Lebanon’s top Shiite Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Kabalan vilified Rushdie in a speech Sunday without directly endorsing the attack, saying the author was “the cheapest and worst personality to deal with history and heritage by fabricating lies and hypocrisies.”
In Tehran, some Iranians interviewed by the AP praised the attack on an author they believe tarnished the Islamic faith, while others worried it would further isolate their country.
A state trooper and a county sheriff’s deputy were assigned to Rushdie’s lecture, and police said the trooper made the arrest. But afterward, some longtime visitors to the bucolic vacation colony questioned why there wasn’t tighter security given the history of threats against Rushdie.
On Friday, an AP reporter witnessed the attacker stab or punch Rushdie about 10 or 15 times. Reese, the moderator, told CNN he initially thought the attack was a prank.
News about the stabbing has led to renewed interest in “The Satanic Verses,” which topped bestseller lists after the fatwa was issued in 1989. As of Sunday morning, the novel ranked No. 11 on Amazon.com’s list.
One of Rushdie’s ex-wives, the author and television host Padma Lakshmi, tweeted Sunday that she was “relieved” by Rushdie’s prognosis.
“Worried and wordless, can finally exhale,” she wrote. “Now hoping for swift healing.”
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Italie reported from New York. Associated Press journalists Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran; Kareem Chehayeb and Bassem Mroue in Beirut; Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Jill Lawless in London and Julie Walker in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/salman-rushdie-on-the-road-to-recovery-agent-says/ | 2022-08-14T21:27:32Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/salman-rushdie-on-the-road-to-recovery-agent-says/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'Move to higher ground now': Another flash flood warning issued for Cameron Peak burn area
Update, 2:35 p.m. Aug. 14: Another flash flood warning is in effect for portions of Larimer County Sunday as thunderstorms continue to impact the Cameron Peak Fire burn area.
The latest warning includes Rustic and Red Feather Lakes, including gulches along Colorado Highway 14 near and above Rustic as well as the Poudre River, Pingree Hill, Goodell Corner and Bellaire Lake.
Between 0.4 and 0.6 inches of rain has already fallen in the warning area as of about 2:30 p.m.
Rain is expected to cause small creeks, streams and ditches to flash flood. Rock slides and debris flows across rural roads are also expected.
The warning is in effect until 5:30 p.m.
Original story: A flash flood warning is in effect for central Larimer County, including portions of the Cameron Peak Fire burn scar, until 2:45 p.m. Sunday.
"If you're in the area of Miller Fork, The Retreat, Lookout Mountain, Crystal Mountain in the Cameron Peak burn scar, move to higher ground now! Heavy rain is impacting the area, and flash flooding is expected to begin shortly," the National Weather Service in Boulder warned in a tweet.
More:Signing up for these Larimer County emergency alerts could save your life
Thunderstorms have already produced up to an inch of rain in portions of the warning area as of about 12:20 p.m., according to the flash flood warning issued by the weather service.
That rain is expected to cause "extensive and severe flooding" as well as rock slides and debris flows within the Cameron Peak Fire burn area, including Miller Fork, Black Creek and The Retreat.
"Move to higher ground now," the warning stated. "Act quickly to protect your life. This is a life threatening situation!" | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/08/14/flash-flood-warning-issued-for-cameron-peak-fire-burn-area-sunday/65403139007/ | 2022-08-14T21:27:48Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/08/14/flash-flood-warning-issued-for-cameron-peak-fire-burn-area-sunday/65403139007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – Former President Trump on Sunday called on the FBI to return documents reportedly seized at Mar-a-Lago that are protected by attorney-client and executive privileges.
“Oh great!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged ‘attorney-client’ material, and also ‘executive’ privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken,” Trump continued.
“By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken,” he added. Thank you!”
Citing unidentified sources familiar with the investigation, Fox News on Saturday evening reported that the FBI seized five boxes that included information covered by attorney-client privilege as part of its extraordinary search at Trump’s Florida property on Monday. The network also reported its sources said some records could be covered by executive privilege.
The unsealed search warrant revealed agents were authorized to seize any documents or records with classified markings or related to the “transmission of national defense information or classified material” as part of the FBI’s investigation into whether Trump violated the Espionage Act and other federal statutes by retaining records at his Florida resort.
An attached property receipt also unsealed Friday indicates the FBI seized 33 items from Mar-a-Lago, including 11 sets of classified items.
Trump has defended himself previously by claiming he declassified the documents.
Attorney-client privilege enables communications between an attorney and their client to remain private during an investigation, while executive privilege allows the president to keep some communications private from the other two branches of government.
But the latter privilege is not absolute. During the Watergate scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Nixon that executive privilege cannot be used to withhold evidence “demonstrably relevant in a criminal trial.”
Trump has used the defense before in efforts to block records from being turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot in a separate probe. A federal appeals court in December denied Trump’s claims of executive privilege to block the National Archives from turning over those records.
The Hill has reached out to the FBI and Department of Justice for comment. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/trump-calls-for-return-of-privileged-documents-reportedly-seized-at-mar-a-lago/ | 2022-08-14T21:28:01Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/trump-calls-for-return-of-privileged-documents-reportedly-seized-at-mar-a-lago/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has been named a “Salute to Excellence” award winner for the Bank’s communication around its Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), programme by America’s largest organisation of journalists and media professionals of colour.
The National Association of Black Journalists cited the Bank’s excellence in online media relations and marketing about the landmark initiative, also known as TAAT.
The online campaign featured the impact of TAAT delivering climate-smart agricultural technologies to millions of African farmers, helping African nations grow more food.
The awards were announced over the weekend at a gala event during the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Bank’s Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Dr Beth Dunford, said “This recognition from the National Association of Black Journalists comes at a time when African and global food security are at risk due to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“Our Bank communications help tell the world, through the stories of African farmers participating in the TAAT programme, that Africa has solutions to boost its food production and reduce dependence on grain imports from the Black Sea region.”
Dunford added, “The Salute to Excellence award also honours Bank staff, consultants and partners working within these communities to improve the quality of life for the people of Africa. Their expertise helped shape our communications campaign.”
In July, the Bank’s Board of Directors approved $30 million in new financing for the TAAT programme, which overall aims to increase Africa’s food output by 100 million tons and lift 40 million people out of poverty by 2025.
The Bank’s digital campaign showcases some of the millions of African farmers benefitting from TAAT-funded, climate-adapted wheat, maize and other certified seed varieties, fertilisers and technical support since the programme started in 2018.
The AfDB said the campaign’s lead video looks at TAAT operations in Sudan and Ethiopia, where government-led collaboration with the Bank and partners is scaling up wheat production to record-breaking levels.
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In Ethiopia, TAAT helped seed companies to produce and distribute enough heat-tolerant, certified wheat varieties and helped farmers to expand production across more areas last season, allowing Ethiopia to grow enough of the grain to eliminate wheat imports for the first time in modern history.
“The country’s embrace of TAAT should see Ethiopia export wheat in 2023”, the AfDB added.
The National Association of Black Journalists’ Salute to Excellence award is the third international communications recognition for the Bank’s TAAT initiative.
TAAT earned a “Gold Stevie” – first place – for “Best Documentary” from the International Business Awards, as well as a “Communicator Award of Distinction” for online video from the New York-based Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts.
“We intend for TAAT to produce more success stories, as we scale it up to have a central role in the Bank’s $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility.
“The Facility is the Bank’s bold response to help African nations produce more food to mitigate the impacts of Russia’s war in Ukraine on global food systems, rising prices across the continent, and climate change,” said Dr Martin Fregene, the Bank’s Director for Agriculture and Agro-Industry.
“We believe communications is key to informing African governments, our stakeholders and investors about the impact of the Bank’s programmes in the communities we serve,” Fregene added.
The Bank was also nominated for a Salute to Excellence Award in the competition’s “online commentary” category for a selection of published op-eds authored by Bank President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina, Vice President Dunford and former Acting Vice President Wambui Gichiri.
The Salute to Excellence Awards recognises journalism and communications that best cover the Black experience or address issues affecting the Black community worldwide.
The National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ Convention & Career Fair is the premier conference for journalism education, career development, networking, and industry innovation, attracting leaders and influencers in journalism, marketing and communications, media, technology, business, health, arts, and entertainment.
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For the first time in the political history of Bauchi State, ethnic minority groups across the state unanimously applauded the achievements of the Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir led PDP administration in the past three years and thereby endorsed him for reelection come 2023.
The group under the aegis of Development Associations of Ethic Minorities of Bauchi State stated that, “It is our conviction that government is all about the delivery of the much needed dividends of democracy to the people and the administration of Sen. Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has since provided that, given the number of projects, programmes and policies it has initiated and executed within the space of three years”.
“We therefore, wish to use this opportunity to reiterate our total and unalloyed support to the PDP led administration in Bauchi State under the able leadership of His Excellency, Sen. Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, whose leadership and developmental strides remain unbeatable,” it added.
The Ethnic minority groups therefore called upon other good people of Bauchi State to be mindful of the tremendous achievements recorded so far by the administration, and join them so that collectively play a role in making sure that the administration continues with the laudable programmes being executed in an effort to forge the state ahead.
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Spokesperson of the group, Dabo Yakubu Dabs, President of Jarawa (Afizere) Cultural and Community Development Association, Bauchi State who read the text of the press briefing to journalists on Sunday explained that the group has followed with keen interest, the trend of events by the administration before it came to the conclusion of exhibition of support.
The group particularly lauded the administration for the arrest and prosecution of some youths in connection with the crises which took place in Yelwa Kagadama, Gudum Fulani all within Bauchi metropolis and Warji Village, stressing that it is believed that taking such measures will serve as deterrent against future reoccurrence.
In the fight against banditry and kidnapping, the group lauded the government for distributing a number of units of brand new JAC pickup vehicles to the army, Police and other security agencies to support in the campaign which is in addition to the logistic support given to the local hunters, vigilante groups and other relevant stakeholders in the state who are into collaboration with the security agents in the state to fight against the menace of banditry and kidnapping.
The group took time to commend the administration for the various landmarks recorded in physical and human development which has positive impact on the people of the state with special attention on rural communities where the ethnic minorities are found.
According to the Spokesperson of the group, it is expected that the Bala Mohammed led administration should be given another four years to enable it complete the good works it started.
Leader of the ethnic minorities, Samuel J Haruna stressed that members of the group are now enjoying government attention as many of them have been appointed as political aides in the administration as well as membership of boards and commissions.
The ethnic minorities are found in Alkaleri, Dambam, Dass, Tafawa Balewa, Bogoro, Toro and Warji LGAs in Bauchi state and have before now been relegated to the background. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/ethnic-minorities-applaud-bauchi-gov-endorses-him-for-reelection/ | 2022-08-14T21:28:35Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/ethnic-minorities-applaud-bauchi-gov-endorses-him-for-reelection/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson will have arthroscopic surgery on his injured right knee Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Wilson suffered a bone bruise and torn meniscus during the Jets’ second offensive series Friday night in their preseason opener at Philadelphia.
The procedure to repair the meniscus, which will be performed by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Neal ElAttrache, will determine how long Wilson will be sidelined. Wilson is currently expected to be out two to four weeks based on initial tests, but there’s a chance he could be out longer depending on the condition of the knee when ElAttrache operates.
“We’re optimistic,” coach Robert Saleh said Sunday after practice. “But he’s not out of the woods until they get in there and make the decision.”
Saleh said Wilson was traveling to Los Angeles on Sunday to prepare for the procedure.
“And then,” Saleh said, “we wait.”
It was initially feared that Wilson suffered a serious — and potentially season-ending — injury when he went down as he tried to juke past the Eagles’ Nakobe Dean. He appeared to injure his knee when planting — without contact — to cut on Philadelphia’s grass field.
Tests after the game indicated the ACL was intact, and an MRI on Saturday morning revealed the bone bruise and torn meniscus.
“Obviously after the game, you could tell he was a little down. But I think considering what happened, I think we got pretty good news,” backup quarterback Joe Flacco said of Wilson. “So I think he’s been in better spirits today.”
There remains a chance Wilson could be play in the season opener against Baltimore on Sept. 11. But the Jets would also want to guard against the second-year quarterback rushing back.
“That’s all going to depend on what happens here with the surgery and the feedback we get from the doctors,” Saleh said, “and gathering all the information before we even come remotely close to making that decision.”
Otherwise, Flacco, who ran the first-team offense Sunday and has had a solid camp, would start in Wilson’s place against his former team — and perhaps beyond.
“When you’re the backup, your emotions are up and down during the course of a game, things like that,” the 37-year-old said. “But yeah, it’s a transition, it’s a difference a little bit. But I think definitely because I’ve had the ability to play so much football that you kind of fall back into sync and get back in rhythm pretty quickly.”
Flacco started one game last season after Wilson was sidelined with a sprained PCL in his right knee. He went 24 of 39 for 291 yards and two touchdowns and no interceptions in a 24-17 loss to Miami in Week 11.
“He’s a pro, he’s a veteran,” Saleh said. “He’s been there, he’s done that. He’s a Super Bowl MVP. He’s a world champion. He’s gotten the big contracts. He’s pretty much checked almost every box you can check. He knows how to play the game. He’s very calm. He’s collected.”
BROWN IN TOWN
GM Joe Douglas said offensive tackle Duane Brown was expected to arrive at the team’s facility to officially sign with the Jets on Sunday night.
Brown agreed to a two-year deal worth $22 million Thursday, a few days after Mekhi Becton, the expected starter at right tackle, was likely lost for the season with a knee injury.
Saleh confirmed Brown, a five-time Pro Bowl selection, will play left tackle for the Jets. George Fant, initially tabbed as the starter on the left side, will slide to the right side.
Saleh previously raved about Fant’s play at left tackle, saying he is “much more comfortable” at that position. But the coach said Sunday that Fant should make a smooth transition to right tackle, which is where he practiced.
“For George, his curse is also a blessing in that he’s extremely versatile, very athletic,” Saleh said. “He’s tremendously talented. And so to give him the opportunity to go play right tackle, obviously he’s a competitor — he just wants a home — but at the same time, he’s the ultimate team guy.”
NOTES: Saleh said Becton, who has a small fracture in his right kneecap, is also visiting ElAttrache for a consultation before determining whether he’ll have surgery. … RB Ty Johnson (hamstring) returned to practice. … CB D.J. Reed (hamstring), S Lamarcus Joyner (illness), DE Vinny Curry (hamstring), CB Brandin Echols (hamstring), OL Conor McDermott (ankle) and OL Chuma Edoga (undisclosed) all sat out.
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A home on View Street in Providence was damaged following a small fire Sunday afternoon.
Battalion Chief Joe Paiva tells 12 News the flames started in a dumpster outside the house around 12:30 and then spread up the side of the building.
Paiva says they are still working to determine the cause of the fire, but said it looks like the owners were doing renovations to the house.
No one was inside the home at the time of the fire and there were no injuries reported. | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/providence-home-damaged-in-home/ | 2022-08-14T21:29:44Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/providence-home-damaged-in-home/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Teofimo Lopez made a triumphant return to the ring, stopping Pedro Campa in the seventh round Saturday night at Resorts World Events Center.
Lopez made his debut as a 140-pound junior welterweight in his first fight since suffering the only loss of his career.
Moments after putting Campa on the canvas at the start of the seventh, Lopez (17-1, 13 KOs) obliterated his outmatched opponent with a flurry of punches, prompting referee Tony Weeks to stop the fight at the 2:14 mark.
“I am grateful for this, I have returned,” Lopez said.
Campa dropped to 34-2-1.
The 25-year-old Lopez looked much more like the promising young fighter who captivated the world when he beat Vasily Lomachenko to claim the unified lightweight championship in 2020.
Campa, who relies on a straight-forward approach and hard-firing punches, struggled to land much, as Lopez stayed active throughout the fight and displayed impeccable defense.
On the attack, Lopez was much faster and crisper with his punches, landing 52% of his power punches, per CompuBox.
“I got to work a little bit more on some things, but overall it was good,” Lopez said of his performance. “It’s been a while. There was a lot on my mind. I nearly almost died (in) the last fight, so that was weighing on my mind, I had to clear it out.
“Going in there, I’m not afraid to die, but the last thing I want to do is not have my son have a father.”
It was only nine months ago Lopez hit a career low when he lost as a huge favorite to George Kambosos Jr. by split decision.
But the loss to Kambosos in New York City on Nov. 27 was later overshadowed by the news he fought with a condition called pneumomediastinum and had extensive air in the retropharyngeal space, per a report by ESPN, something he didn’t learn about until after suffering his first-ever loss.
“That was weighing on my mind, but I had to get that guy out, somehow, someway,” the Brooklyn fighter said.
Leading up to the seventh, Lopez was the aggressor, staying in pursuit and consistently peppering Campa’s face while absorbing shots and shaking off apparent ring rust.
Lopez appeared to back off in the fourth and fifth a bit, perhaps logging rounds while preserving energy, but returned to an active role and landed several combinations in the sixth.
“Little by little those punches are gonna add up and eventually it’s gonna hurt them,” Lopez said. “It may not do it right away, but in due time it’ll get them out.
“This is a blessing, man. Time is something we don’t get back.”
Earlier, Xander Zayas (14-0, 10 KOs) stopped Elias Espadas (22-5) in the fifth round, delivering a devastating right hook to the jaw to claim the vacant WBO NABO junior middleweight title.
The 19-year-old from Puerto Rico was dominant from the start, scoring a knockdown in the first round, then using sharp combinations to wear down Espadas over the next three rounds before ending the fight with 2:36 left in the fifth round.
Per CompuBox, Zayas, who threw 60 punches per pound, landed 42% of his power punches while 27 of the 86 punches he landed were to the body. | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/teofimo-lopez-stops-pedro-campa-in-7th-in-return-to-ring/ | 2022-08-14T21:29:53Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/teofimo-lopez-stops-pedro-campa-in-7th-in-return-to-ring/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(KTLA) – Family and loved ones are preparing to say goodbye to actress Anne Heche as doctors plan to remove her from life support after finding acceptable recipients for her donated organs, according to TMZ.
Heche was involved in a fiery crash in which her speeding vehicle apparently slammed into a Los Angeles home on Aug. 5. Witnesses recorded video of Heche speeding through city streets before crashing into the two-story home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. The crash resulted in a house fire.
The 53-year-old actress suffered traumatic injuries that left her in a coma and medically “brain dead,” her representatives said.
A spokesperson for Heche and her family released a statement Friday that announced her passing.
“While Anne is legally dead according to California law, her heart is still beating, and she has not been taken off life support so that One Legacy can see if she is a match for organ donation,” the statement read.
For the last several days, doctors at Grossman Burn Center in West Hills have been keeping her on life support in hopes of finding suitable organ recipients for her organs.
On Sunday, TMZ reported that recipients had been found and doctors were preparing to remove the actress from life support to begin the process of removing and transplanting her organs.
A native of Ohio, Heche first came to prominence on the NBC soap opera “Another World” from 1987 to 1991. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role.
Heche has worked consistently in smaller films, on Broadway, and on TV shows in the past two decades. She recently had recurring roles on the network series “Chicago P.D.” and “All Rise,” and in 2020 was a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.”
Law enforcement sources told TMZ that Heche was under the influence of cocaine and possibly other drugs at the time of the crash.
On Friday, after news of Heche’s condition was released, police said they no longer plan to pursue a case against her.
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BREWSTER, Ohio (WJW) — The search is on for two escaped kangaroos in Northeast Ohio following multiple sightings.
The first call came into the Brewster Police station Thursday night after someone spotted a baby kangaroo, Chief Nathan Taylor said. Then another person stopped at the station Saturday with a video of an adult kangaroo crossing State Route 93 (as seen above).
So far, the search for the animals has proved fruitless, but Taylor said they have a general idea of where they may be after there was a sighting of one in town.
“Never dreamed I’d run into this in my career,” Taylor admitted. “We believe they just escaped from somewhere.”
Police are planning to continue the search through the night as the animals are nocturnal.
Those who spot the kangaroos are asked to not approach and to call the police. While kangaroos, which hail originally from Australia, are not known to attack humans, they can be quite aggressive.
“That’s our biggest fear right now, we don’t want people to start hunting them,” Taylor said. “If people can stay in the area and keep an eye [on the kangaroo], please do that, but do not approach.”
Taylor said that anyone who may have lost a kangaroo should reach out to police immediately.
“If anyone has information, I don’t care, I just want these things safe and the people safe,” he said.
Brewster police can be reached at 330-830-4272. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/police-searching-for-2-escaped-kangaroos-in-ohio/ | 2022-08-14T21:48:42Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/police-searching-for-2-escaped-kangaroos-in-ohio/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
London: Harry Kane headed a last-gasp equaliser to earn Tottenham Hotspur a barely-deserved 2-2 draw in a feisty Premier League derby at Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday.
Reece James seemed to have sealed the points for the hosts with a 77th-minute strike but Kane rose to head home a corner in the sixth minute of stoppage time.
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel and his Spurs counterpart Antonio Conte, a former Chelsea boss, were both shown red cards after the final whistle as tempers boiled over on a sweltering afternoon in west London.
Centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly marked his home debut in style by volleying Chelsea in front from a corner in the 19th minute and the hosts totally dominated the opening period.
Chelsea remained in the ascendancy in the second half and should have had the points wrapped up but were rocked when Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg equalised in the 68th minute.
Tuchel was furious that the goal was allowed, believing Kai Havertz had been fouled in the build-up and clashed with Conte.
Havertz then spurned a glorious chance to put Chelsea back in front but the hosts did reclaim their lead in the 77th minute when James fired past Hugo Lloris from a pass by Raheem Sterling -- a goal that sent Tuchel joyfully racing down the touchline.
Tottenham, who began the season in an optimistic fashion, could have had few complaints if they had gone home empty-handed but Kane's late intervention means they have four points from two games, the same as Chelsea.
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New York: Anshu Jain, Deutsche Bank's former India-born co-CEO, who played a crucial role in the development of the German bank, has died after a nearly five-year battle with cancer.
Deutsche Bank said in a statement Saturday that it mourns the death of its former Co-CEO Anshu Jain, who passed away in the early hours of Saturday at the age of 59 after a long, serious illness.
Jain was diagnosed with duodenal cancer in 2017.
Duodenal cancer is a mass of irregular, fast-growing cells in the first portion of the small intestine.
Jain died in London, where he had been living for the past few years.
We are deeply saddened that our beloved husband, son, and father, Anshu Jain, passed away overnight, his family said in a statement.
The family said Jain outlived his initial diagnosis by four years through a combination of exhaustive personal research, tactical skill, amazing caregivers, and sheer force of will.
There are few reliable statistics for life expectancy for stomach cancer in the third, fourth, and fifth years because so few people survive these milestones. To his last day, Anshu stood by his lifelong determination to not be a statistic'," the family said.
Born in Jaipur, Jain received his Bachelor's degree in Economics, with honors, from the University of Delhi and his MBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He was among the growing number of Indian-origin executives assuming leadership roles at global corporations when he became the Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank in 2012, having first joined in 1995 to build the bank's nascent markets business.
Jain started his career at Wall Street, working at financial major Merrill Lynch. Deutsche said that Jain played a crucial role in the development of the bank and was instrumental in building the company's global capital markets business.
He was appointed to Deutsche Bank's Management Board in 2009 and was responsible for the Corporate and Investment Bank division from 2010. From 2012 to 2015, he was Co-CEO.
Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing said "anyone who worked with Anshu experienced a passionate leader of intellectual brilliance. His energy and loyalty to the bank left a great impression on many of us. Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his wife, his children and his mother. We will honour his memory."
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank Alexander Wynaendts paid tribute to Jain's achievements, saying he played a key role in expanding Deutsche Bank's position in its global business with companies and institutional investors.
Today, this is of strategic importance not just for Deutsche Bank, but for Europe as a financial centre," Wynaendts said.
The bank said that Jain's contribution to Deutsche Bank and the industry was recognised with numerous awards worldwide.
The TERI Technical University in New Delhi awarded him an honorary doctorate and the London Business School made him an Honorary Fellow. In 2010 and 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Risk magazine, in 2012 he was named Global Indian of the Year by the Economic Times of India, and in 2014 he was honoured by the Jewish Museum of New York.
Describing himself as an "Indian with a British passport who works for a German bank", Jain had said at the Jewish Museum's annual high-profile gala in 2014 that he had learnt a lot from New York's Jewish community when he first arrived in the city after completing business school at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Besides his contributions to the bank, he supported animal welfare projects in his native India and in South Africa.
After departing Deutsche Bank, Jain had joined leading global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald in 2017 and served as its President.
Cantor Fitzgerald sadly confirmed that Jain died overnight after battling a serious illness.
Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick said that Jain was the consummate professional who brought a wealth of experience and wisdom to his role as President. He will be remembered as an extraordinary leader, partner, and dear friend who will be greatly missed by all of us and by all who knew him.
The organisation said that among many other accomplishments throughout the entire group of companies, Jain was instrumental in building and cultivating Cantor Fitzgerald's advisory and sales and trading businesses and played a fundamental role in directing the investment bank's Executive Committee.
Cantor noted that Jain was widely recognised for building Deutsche Bank's markets business and for helping transform it into a global universal bank with a leading investment banking franchise.
Prior to that, he held various roles at Merrill Lynch and Kidder, Peabody & Co. He served on the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and, as an ardent conservationist, worked with global environmental and wildlife conservation groups.
Jain is survived by his wife Geetika Jain and two children. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/08/14/deutsche-bank-co-ceo-anshu-jain-dies.amp.html | 2022-08-14T21:54:32Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/08/14/deutsche-bank-co-ceo-anshu-jain-dies.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Indian billionaire stock investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala known as "India's Warren Buffett" passed away on Sunday. He was 62.
Jhunjhunwala died early this morning due to a cardiac arrest, a source in his newly set up airline said. He had not been keeping well for the last few months because of a kidney ailment. He was seen on a wheelchair at recent public events.
He is survived by his wife and three children.
Big Bull of Dalal Street
A trader, investor and entrepreneur, Jhunjhunwala, was known as the 'Big Bull of Dalal Street' for his successful investments in stock market. With an estimated net worth of around $5.8 billion (about Rs 46,000 crore), Jhunjhunwala was the 36th richest billionaire in India, according to Forbes' 2021 listing. The Chartered Accountant managed his own portfolio as a partner in his asset management firm, Rare Enterprises.
Born on July 5, 1960 in a Rajasthani family, Jhunjhunwala grew up in Bombay, where his father worked as a Commissioner of Income Tax. He graduated from Sydenham College and thereafter enrolled at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Diverse portfolio
He began investing with Rs 5,000 in 1985 while still in college when the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark index Sensex was at 150; it now trades at over 59,000.
He had investments in more than three dozen companies, the most valuable being watch and jewellery maker Titan, part of the Tata conglomerate. His portfolio included companies like Star Health, Rallis India, Escorts, Canara Bank, Indian Hotels Company, Agro Tech Foods, Nazara Technologies and Tata Motors.
He was also the chairman of Hungama Media and Aptech and sat on the board of directors of firms such as Viceroy Hotels, Concord Biotech, Provogue India and Geojit Financial Services.
His 5.05 per cent holding in Titan alone is worth over Rs 11,000 crore. His largest holding is in Aptech Ltd (23.37 per cent), followed by Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd (17.49 per cent), Metro Brands (14.43 per cent), NCC Ltd (2.62 per cent) and Nazara Technologies Ltd (10.03 per cent).
He earned his first big profit in 1986 when he bought 5,000 shares of Tata Tea at Rs 43 and the stock rose to Rs 143 within three months. In three years, he earned Rs 20-25 lakh.
His privately-owned stock trading firm Rare Enterprises derived its name from the first two letters of his name and that of his wife Rekha, who is also a stock market investor.
Akasa Air launch
He recently teamed up with ex-Jet Airways CEO Vinay Dube and former IndiGo head Aditya Ghosh to launch Akasa Air -- India's newest budget carrier. The airline began commercial operations this month with its maiden flight from Mumbai to Ahmedabad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted his condolence to the veteran investor's family.
"Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was indomitable. Full of life, witty and insightful, he leaves behind an indelible contribution to the financial world. He was also very passionate about India’s progress. His passing away is saddening. My condolences to his family and admirers. Om Shanti." Modi tweeted. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/08/14/indian-billionaire-rakesh-jhunjhunwala-dies-at-62.amp.html | 2022-08-14T21:54:45Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/08/14/indian-billionaire-rakesh-jhunjhunwala-dies-at-62.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Why do I always find things to do late at night?
If last-minute tasks are preventing you from going to bed, you might have revenge bedtime procrastination.
Life is busy and there are usually multiple things that we could be doing at any particular time. In this case, perhaps chipping away at an endless to-do list is leading to a late bedtime. An alternative possibility is that a hectic day can result in the desire to take time out for ourselves once the working day has finished. Perhaps we call friends or catch up on TV shows rather than sleep.
This latter possibility has been referred to as ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’, which stems from a Chinese saying reflecting an absence of free time due to our hectic and stressful working lives. This is not a phrase used widely within scientific literature – although there are studies focusing on bedtime procrastination more generally – which suggests that this is associated with poor self-regulation and missing out on sleep.
Given this, it might be worthwhile considering different techniques that can be used to reduce procrastination. A review of the literature highlighted different interventions for reducing procrastination more generally, including those focusing on developing self-regulation (for example, setting a bedtime and developing time-management skills) and cognitive-behavioural techniques (challenging those thought patterns that could be maintaining the procrastination).
These techniques now need to be further tailored specifically for sleep procrastination to be most effective for those who are missing out on their Zzzs.
Read more:
- Why do we sleep?
- Why do I always get an energy crash in the afternoon?
- Why do I always come up with my best ideas when I’m trying to get to sleep?
- What happens in my body when I don’t get enough sleep?
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Authors
Alice is a Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths. She has contributed to several diverse research areas, including the longitudinal associations between sleep and psychopathology, behavioural genetics, sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrome. In addition to her scientific contributions she also excels in the public engagement of science. She has published two popular science book (Nodding Off, Bloomsbury, 2018 and Sleepy Pebble, Nobrow, 2019). She regularly contributes articles to the media and has had her work published in outlets including the Guardian, GQ UK, Sud Ouest, Slate Fr, Independent.
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Confused about inflation? You're not alone.
Inflation is, paradoxically, both incredibly simple to understand and absurdly complicated.
Let's start with the simplest version: Inflation happens when prices broadly go up.
That "broadly" is important: At any given time, the price of goods will fluctuate based on shifting tastes. Someone makes a viral TikTok about brussels sprouts and suddenly everyone's gotta have them; boom, sprouts prices go up. Meanwhile, sellers of cauliflower, last season's trendy veg, are practically giving their goods away. Such fluctuations are constant.
Inflation, however, occurs when the average price of virtually everything consumers buy goes up. Food, houses, cars, clothes, toys, etc. To afford those necessities, wages have to rise, too.
It's not always a bad thing. In the United States, for the past 40 years or so (and particularly this century), we've been living in an ideal low-and-slow level of inflation that comes with a well-oiled consumer-driven economy, with prices going up around 2% a year, if that. Sure, prices on some things, like housing and health care, are much higher than they used to be, but other things, like computers and TVs, have become much cheaper — so the average of all the things combined has been relatively stable.
Still with me?
All right, let's cut to today, and why inflation is all over the news.
When 'inflation' is a bad word
Inflation becomes problematic when that low-and-slow simmer gets fired up to a boil. That's when you hear economists talk about the economy "overheating." For a variety of reasons, largely stemming from the pandemic, the global economy finds itself at a rigorous boil right now.
Economists use two main gauges to track inflation in the United States, and while both eased between June and July, they're still near their highest level in four decades.
The Consumer Price Index for July rose 8.5%. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, which the Federal Reserve prefers, rose 9.8% in July from the same period a year earlier.
And here's where Econ 101 merges a bit with Psych 101. There's a behavioral economics aspect to inflation, where it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. When prices go up for a long enough period of time, consumers start to anticipate the price increases. You'll buy more goods today if you think they'll cost appreciably more tomorrow. That has the effect of increasing demand, which causes prices to rise even more. And so on. And so on.
That's where it can get especially tricky for the Fed, whose main job is to control money supply and keep inflation in check.
How'd we get here?
Blame the pandemic. And Russia's war on Ukraine.
In the spring of 2020, as Covid-19 spread, it was like yanking the plug on the global economy. Factories around the world shut down; people stopped eating at restaurants; airlines grounded flights. Millions of people were laid off as business disappeared practically overnight. The unemployment rate in America shot up to nearly 15% from about 3.5% in February 2020.
It was the sharpest economic contraction on record.
At the same time, the Fed implemented emergency stimulus measures to keep financial markets from tanking. The central bank slashed interest rates to near zero and began pumping tens of billions of dollars every month into the markets by buying up corporate debt. In doing so, the bank likely prevented a full-on financial meltdown. But keeping those easy-money policies in place over the past 20 months has also fueled — you guessed it — inflation.
By early summer 2020, demand for consumer goods started to pick back up. Rapidly. Congress and President Joe Biden passed a historic $1.9 trillion stimulus bill in March that made Americans suddenly flush with cash and unemployment assistance. People started shopping again. Demand went from zero to 100, but supply couldn't bounce back so easily.
Turns out that when you pull out the plug on the global economy, you can't just plug it back in and expect it to start humming at the same pace as before.
Take cars, for example. Automakers saw the Covid crisis beginning and did what any smart business would do — shut down temporarily to mitigate losses. But not long after the pandemic shut factories down, it also drove up demand for cars as people worried about exposure on public transit and avoided flying. Automakers (and car buyers) had whiplash.
Cars require an immense number of parts, from an immense number of different factories all around the world, to be built by highly skilled laborers in other parts of the world. Getting all of those discreet operations back online takes time, and doing so while keeping workers from getting sick takes even more time.
Economists often describe inflation as too much money chasing too few goods. That's exactly what happened with cars. And houses. And Peloton bikes. And any number of other goods that became hot ticket items.
How's the supply chain involved in all this?
"Supply chain bottlenecks" — that's another one you see all over, right?
Let's go back to the car example.
We know that high demand + limited supply = prices go up.
But high demand + limited supply + production delays = prices go up even more.
All modern cars rely on a variety of computer chips to function. But those chips are also used in cellphones, appliances, TVs, laptops and dozens of other items that, as bad luck would have it, were all in high demand at the same time.
That's just one example of the disconnect in the global supply chain. Because new cars have been slow to roll in, used car demand shot through the roof, which drove overall inflation higher. In some cases, car owners were able to sell their used cars for more than what they paid for them a year or two prior.
What happens next?
Prices and wages could be starting to ease, but will likely remain elevated for some time. For how long, and by how much, depends on countless variables across the globe.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine dashed hopes that prices would come down significantly in 2022.
The conflict has upended commodity and oil markets, driving up prices of food and gasoline around the world. That's compounding supply chain headaches, leading to further shortages of critical food items and oil.
Lockdowns in China earlier this summer, meanwhile, left the world's largest seaport essentially at a standstill. Corporations bear some blame as well, as many big companies have been raising prices to protect their profit margins.
And there's no telling what kind of new shocks — a resurgent Covid variant, a massive shipping container getting stuck in a waterway, a natural disaster — could set back progress.
There's no single government or central bank that can fix the inflation resulting from those global disruptions.
But central banks are doing what they can. In the United States, the Fed began raising rates in March by a quarter of a percentage point — its first increase since 2018 — and have since raised rates four times this year. There's no sign that they'll stop anytime soon.
When money becomes more expensive to borrow, that can take the heat off price increases and bring the economy back down to that nice, gentle simmer. Or so the Fed hopes. Its biggest challenge is to deploy interest rate hikes at a pace the economy can tolerate — raising them too much, or too quickly, would risk collapsing demand, which could derail economic growth or even cause a recession.
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A Brooklyn dad was critically wounded trying to shield his family from a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem on Sunday, while a pregnant borough woman also shot in the attack had to undergo an emergency C-section.
The badly hurt patriarch, Shia Hersch Glick of Williamsburg, “was shot in the neck while shielding his wife and kids,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer at an unrelated press conference in New York City.
Glick — “cancer survivor beloved by all in the community” — is in critical condition on a respirator but expected to survive, Schumer said. The man’s son suffered less severe injuries when he was shot in the right arm, according to local Israeli hospital officials.
Meanwhile, the injured unnamed 35-year-old mom-to-be underwent an emergency C-section after being shot in the abdomen, said Dr. Alon Schwartz of Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center to i24 News.
“The baby is intubated in the neo-natal intensive-care unit — ventilated and intubated and in serious condition, also,” Schwartz said.
A fifth American — Menachem Palace, 22, also of Brooklyn — was among the total eight people shot, too, the Times of Israel reported.
The group was on a bus headed to a religious site known as David’s Tomb at the time.
““I looked to my right, next to the window I was sitting next to, and I saw that it was completely smashed. I quickly ducked down and saw blood on my shoulder,” Palace said.
“From all the adrenaline, I didn’t notice that a bullet went into my shoulder.”
Two Israeli brothers identified by news media as Elazar, 19, and Dovi, 16, were among the gunshot victims, as well. The siblings reunited at the hospital hours later, according to reports.
“My two brothers were together last night, waiting for the bus,” their older brother Yair told Channel 13, according to Times of Israel.
“Elazar helped a woman get on the bus, and my 16-and-a-half-year-old brother Dovi was still at the bus stop when the shooting started,” Yair said.
“Dovi called himself and told [the family] that they were both hit by a bullet, that he was conscious and that he was quite well. It calmed us down.”
The shooter — 26-year-old East Jerusalem resident Amir Sidawi — took a cab to the police station later Sunday and turned himself over to cops, the report said.
Cabbie Shalom Harush said he had no idea he was driving an alleged terrorist at the time.
“It’s not a good feeling,” he told Walla News. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/nyc-dad-shia-hersch-glick-critically-hurt-shielding-kids-in-jerusalem-attack/ | 2022-08-14T22:25:19Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/nyc-dad-shia-hersch-glick-critically-hurt-shielding-kids-in-jerusalem-attack/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A man shot and killed himself after driving into a vehicle barricade near the US Capitol Building early Sunday morning, US Capitol Police said.
The incident happened shortly after 4 a.m. ET, when the man drove his car into a barricade at East Capitol Street and Second Street. He then exited his car, which became "engulfed in flames," and fired several shots into the air, Capitol Police said in a statement.
He then fatally shot himself when authorities approached him. There were no additional injuries and the man's name was not immediately released, according to the statement.
"At this time, it does not appear the man was targeting any Members of Congress, who are on recess, and it does not appear officers fired their weapons," the statement read. "Our investigators are looking into the man's background."
DC's Metropolitan Police Department is handling the death investigation, the statement said.
US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger declined to release the name of the man during a news conference later Sunday, saying his family had not yet been notified.
Manger added that the man had a criminal history from "over the past 10 years or so," but that there was no information to indicate motive and "no political ideology that we're aware of at this point."
Capitol Police are looking through security videos of the incident for more information on any possible intentions, the chief said.
Manger said no other weapons were found on scene, and that the only identifiable items remaining in the car in question were aerosol cans, which caught on fire shortly after the driver crashed into the barricade. The DC Fire Department is investigating whether the man started the fire himself, the USCP chief added.
Though Manger said that the USCP has taken increased precautions in recent days following threats to other law enforcement agencies, he said the force will not be adjusting the size of its presence at the Capitol in response to Sunday's incident.
"I think that what we have in place is adequate for now," he told reporters.
This story has been updated with additional reporting. | https://www.kitv.com/man-fatally-shoots-self-after-crashing-car-into-barricade-near-us-capitol-building/article_655a88ea-9642-51a0-911f-a5ac67b4f9e1.html | 2022-08-14T22:25:24Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/man-fatally-shoots-self-after-crashing-car-into-barricade-near-us-capitol-building/article_655a88ea-9642-51a0-911f-a5ac67b4f9e1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Prospects for Innovation QNS, the unimaginatively named but humanely conceived mixed-use complex planned in Astoria aren’t dead yet.
The development team of Silverstein Properties, Kaufman-Astoria Studios and Bedrock Real Estate need zoning changes to proceed with the $2 billion project. It would bring new apartments, stores, cafes, cultural facilities and a public park to five blocks of what’s now an under-utilized Astoria backwater.
Queens Brough President Donovan Richards rejected the plan last week, citing now all-too-common gripes that it would “drastically” change the neighborhood’s character, draw higher-income residents and thus drive out current residents.
Among other changes, Richards wants Innovation QNS to make 50% of 2,845 apartments “affordable” rather than 25% as the developers offered.
But Richards has no official say on the rezoning, which must be approved or rejected by the City Council.
Sources said that Council member Julie Won, who represents the district, has asked the developers to adopt Richards’ conditions.
But there might be room for compromise. Richards praised many of the plan’s other features, such as the open public space and community facilities. The developers previously scaled down several of 12 planned buildings among other changes in response to neighborhood objections.
Meanwhile, the City Planning Commission is likely to bless the plan in the coming weeks.
The person missing from the drama so far is Mayor Eric Adams, who has opposed “gentrification” in too many other worthy proposals that went down to defeat. Maybe this will be the one to change his mind. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/nycs-astoria-2b-redevelopment-plan-has-hope-despite-pushback/ | 2022-08-14T22:25:32Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/nycs-astoria-2b-redevelopment-plan-has-hope-despite-pushback/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Happy Sunday! The rest of the day will feature mostly sunny skies with a few passing clouds. Temperatures will hold steady in the 80s before falling into the 70s after sunset. Tonight will feature partly cloudy skies with low temperatures ranging from 66-70 degrees.
Monday will be the hottest day of the week as highs reach the 90s across much of the valley. There will be a few pop-up showers possible, but most of us will remain dry.
Temperatures will fall back into the mid-80s on Tuesday as a cold front drops to our south. Humidity levels will be lower, making for another pleasant mid-August day.
Wednesday through Saturday will feature below-average temperatures as highs reach the low to mid-80s each afternoon. Unsettled weather will begin Wednesday as a trough of low pressure moves into the area. Widespread rain will be possible, especially across North Georgia and Alabama. Rain chances will continue to hang around Thursday through the weekend as plenty of moisture parks over the Tennessee Valley.
For the latest, download the Local 3 Weather app. | https://www.local3news.com/local-weather/unsettled-pattern-returns-mid-week/article_a5a1cf36-1ae5-11ed-8b7a-733cd85c7cad.html | 2022-08-14T22:28:03Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-weather/unsettled-pattern-returns-mid-week/article_a5a1cf36-1ae5-11ed-8b7a-733cd85c7cad.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERWICK, Pa. (AP) — One person was killed and another 17 people injured when a vehicle struck a crowd gathered at a Pennsylvania bar for a fundraiser for victims of a house fire that killed 10 earlier this month; the man police say was the driver was arrested shortly afterward in the beating death of his mother nearby.
The crash occurred at about 6:15 p.m. Saturday outside the Intoxicology Department bar in Berwick, which had been scheduled to hold an all-day fundraising event to benefit victims of the Aug. 5 blaze, that killed seven adults and three children in Nescopeck.
Pennsylvania State Police identified the driver as 24-year-old Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes of Nescopeck. He was arraigned early Sunday morning on two counts of criminal homicide.
Shortly after the crash was reported, troopers were called about a man “physically assaulting" a woman less than a mile away in Nescopeck. Troopers arrived to find that Sura Reyes had been arrested by local police and a woman was dead.
Luzerne County Coroner Francis Hacken confirmed Sunday that the victim, Rosa D. Reyes, 56, of Nescopeck — dead of multiple traumatic injuries after being struck by a vehicle and then assaulted with a hammer — was the mother of suspect Sura Reyes.
Geisinger Medical Center said it received 15 patients after the crash, and five remained in critical condition while three were listed in fair condition, a hospital spokesperson said Sunday morning. Seven patients had been treated at hospitals and released.
Trooper Anthony Petroski III told reporters at a midnight news conference that Sura Reyes was not currently a suspect in the fire, the cause of which remains under investigation.
“This is a complete tragedy in a community where there's already been tragedy,” Petroski said. “We are going to do our job to the best of our abilities to conduct a thorough investigation not only for the families but the community members. They're already hurting."
Sura Reyes was denied bail and remained in Columbia County prison pending an Aug. 29 preliminary hearing. Wilkes-Barre newspapers reported that he said only “Sorry" in response to reporters' questions as he was taken from Shickshinny police station. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had a lawyer to comment on his behalf.
The first funerals for victims of the fire were held Friday, and more were scheduled for Sunday and Monday.
The bar called the events an “absolute tragedy” and said on its Facebook page that they will be closed until further notice and would like privacy “while we grieve add try to process the events that occurred.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/1-dead-17-hurt-in-crash-during-pa-fundraiser-for-fire-victims/article_a9cbd65e-1bfa-11ed-b76c-ef41dcab8393.html | 2022-08-14T22:28:13Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/1-dead-17-hurt-in-crash-during-pa-fundraiser-for-fire-victims/article_a9cbd65e-1bfa-11ed-b76c-ef41dcab8393.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MAYVILLE — Salman Rushdie is “on the road to recovery,” his agent confirmed Sunday, two days after the author of “The Satanic Verses” suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in New York.
The announcement followed news that the lauded writer was removed from a ventilator Saturday and able to talk. Literary agent Andrew Wylie cautioned that although Rushdie's “condition is headed in the right direction,” his recovery would be long. Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and in an eye that he was likely to lose, Wylie had previously said.
“Though his life changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty & defiant sense of humour remains intact,” Rushdie's son Zafar Rushdie said in a Sunday statement that stressed the author remained in critical condition. The family statement also expressed gratitude for the “audience members who bravely leapt to his defence," as well as police, doctors and “the outpouring of love and support.”
Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called “a targeted, unprovoked, preplanned attack” at western New York's Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center.
The attack was met with global shock and outrage, along with praise for the man who, for more than three decades — including nine years in hiding under the protection of the British government — has weathered death threats and a $3 million bounty on his head over “The Satanic Verses.”
“It’s an attack against his body, his life and against every value that he stood for,” Henry Reese, 73, told The Associated Press. The cofounder of Pittsburgh's City of Asylum was on stage with Rushdie and suffered a gash to his forehead, bruising and other minor injuries. They had planned to discuss the need for writers' safety and freedom of expression.
Authors, activists and government officials cited Rushdie's bravery and longtime championing of free speech in the face of intimidation. Writer and longtime friend Ian McEwan labeled Rushdie “an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists” and actor-author Kal Penn called him a role model, "especially many of us in the South Asian diaspora.”
“Salman Rushdie — with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced — stands for essential, universal ideals,” U.S. President Joe Biden said in a Saturday statement. “Truth. Courage. Resilience. The ability to share ideas without fear.”
Rushdie, who was born in India to a Muslim family and has lived in Britain and the U.S., is known for his surreal and satirical prose, beginning with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel “Midnight's Children,” in which he sharply criticized then-Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Infused with magical realism, 1988's “The Satanic Verses” drew ire from some Muslims who regarded elements of the novel as blasphemy.
They believed Rushdie insulted the Prophet Muhammad by naming a character Mahound, a medieval corruption of “Muhammad.” The character was a prophet in a city called Jahilia, which in Arabic refers to the time before the advent of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula. Another sequence includes prostitutes that share names with some of Muhammad’s nine wives. The novel also implies that Muhammad, not Allah, may have been the Quran's real author.
The book had already been banned and burned in India, Pakistan and elsewhere when Iran's Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death in 1989. Khomeini died that same year, but the fatwa remains in effect — though Iran, in recent years, hadn’t focused on Rushdie.
Iran’s state-run newspaper, Iran Daily, praised the attack as an “implementation of divine decree” Sunday. Another hardline newspaper, Kayhan, termed it “divine revenge” that would partially calm the anger of Muslims.
Investigators were trying to determine whether the suspect, born nearly a decade after the novel's publication, acted alone. A prosecutor alluded to the standing fatwa as a potential motive in arguing against bail.
“His resources don’t matter to me. We understand that the agenda that was carried out yesterday is something that was adopted and it’s sanctioned by larger groups and organizations well beyond the jurisdictional borders of Chautauqua County,” District Attorney Jason Schmidt said.
Schmidt said Matar got an advance pass to the event where the author was speaking and arrived a day early bearing a fake ID. The judge ordered Matar held without bail.
Public defender Nathaniel Barone complained that authorities had taken too long to get Matar in front of a judge, leaving him “hooked up to a bench at the state police barracks,” and stressed that Matar had the right to presumed innocence.
Barone said after the hearing that Matar has been communicating openly with him and that he would try to learn whether his clinet has psychological or addiction issues.
Matar was born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Yaroun in southern Lebanon, village mayor Ali Tehfe told the AP. Flags of the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hezbollah, along with portraits of Hezbollah and Iranian leaders, were visible across Yaroun before journalists visiting Saturday were asked to leave.
Hezbollah spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment. Lebanon’s top Shiite Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Kabalan vilified Rushdie in a speech Sunday without directly endorsing the attack, saying the author was “the cheapest and worst personality to deal with history and heritage by fabricating lies and hypocrisies.”
In Tehran, some Iranians interviewed by the AP praised the attack on an author they believe tarnished the Islamic faith, while others worried it would further isolate their country.
A state trooper and a county sheriff’s deputy were assigned to Rushdie’s lecture, and police said the trooper made the arrest. But afterward, some longtime visitors to the bucolic vacation colony questioned why there wasn’t tighter security given the history of threats against Rushdie.
On Friday, an AP reporter witnessed the attacker stab or punch Rushdie about 10 or 15 times. Reese, the moderator, told CNN he initially thought the attack was a prank.
News about the stabbing has led to renewed interest in “The Satanic Verses,” which topped bestseller lists after the fatwa was issued in 1989. As of Sunday morning, the novel ranked No. 11 on Amazon.com's list.
One of Rushdie's ex-wives, the author and television host Padma Lakshmi, tweeted Sunday that she was “relieved” by Rushdie's prognosis.
“Worried and wordless, can finally exhale," she wrote. "Now hoping for swift healing.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/salman-rushdie-on-the-road-to-recovery-agent-says/article_92015486-1bff-11ed-91b9-efbe03b2fa97.html | 2022-08-14T22:28:19Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/salman-rushdie-on-the-road-to-recovery-agent-says/article_92015486-1bff-11ed-91b9-efbe03b2fa97.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Army Soldiers participate in Forces Command Best Squad Competition's aquatic event, at Abrams Fitness Center, Fort Hood, Texas, August 12, 2022. The Best Squad Competition reinforces fundamental Soldier skills and squad level tactics. (U.S. Army video by Pvt. Alejandro Carrasquel) | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/854161/us-army-forces-command-best-squad-competition | 2022-08-14T22:28:26Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/854161/us-army-forces-command-best-squad-competition | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Emmy-winning actress Mary Alice Smith, who played Leticia “Lettie” Bostic in “A Different World” and Effie Williams in the 1976 musical “Sparkle” died of natural causes Wednesday, July 27, 2022, in New York City at the age of 85.
She starred in “A Different World” for two seasons and played Ellie Grant Hubbard on “All My Children” in the 1980s.
Other major roles included Oracle in “The Matrix Revolutions” and the same role in the video game “Enter the Matrix.”
She was also featured in the films “Malcolm X,” “Down in the Delta,” “The Inkwell,” and more.
Smith was born in Indianola, Mississippi, and started acting at a young age in her hometown. She left an elementary school teacher career and returned to acting in the 1960s, participating in community theater and stage productions in Manhattan’s East Village.
She made her transition from film to tv in 1974 with her debut in “The Education of Sonny Carson,” and appeared in the television series “Police Woman,” and “Sanford and Son.” She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for 1993’s “I’ll Fly Away.” She also won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in the 1987 production of August Wilson’s “Fences.”
She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2000 and retired from acting in 2005.
Sources:TMZ, The Shade Room, Variety | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/living_it/emmy-tony-winning-actress-mary-alice-smith-dies-of-natural-causes-at-85/article_bcbca1ba-1c06-11ed-bf88-ffe616ff2b6c.html | 2022-08-14T22:32:38Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/living_it/emmy-tony-winning-actress-mary-alice-smith-dies-of-natural-causes-at-85/article_bcbca1ba-1c06-11ed-bf88-ffe616ff2b6c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
St. Louis American staff
Soles4Souls and St. Louis-based Caleres recently provided new shoes for homeless children who attend Saint Louis Public Schools. The partners are collaborating to provide Caleres shoes to 4,000 students during the Fall 2022 semester.
The shoe initiative is the result of a $1 million donation from the Caleres Cares Charitable Trust to Soles4Souls’ 4EveryKid program, which provides new, branded athletic shoes to children experiencing homelessness across the United States.
The first round of this donation took place July 28, and a deluge two days earlier and floods did not stop the effort.
140 pairs of shoes and 324 pairs of socks were distributed at a back-to-school resources distribution event at Gateway 180 Shelter.
Deidra Thomas-Murray, SLPS Homeless and Foster Care liaison, says the new shoes have an immediate impact on the lives of the students.
“The gift of shoes meets their immediately needs. It helps with the tangible need for shoes and the intangibles of self-esteem. The partnership (between Soles4Souls and Caleres) speaks volumes for Saint Louis Public Schools students and families,” she said.
Soles4Souls President and CEO Buddy Teaster assisted at the St. Louis event.
“We are honored to work again with the Saint Louis Public Schools with our 4EveryKid program. This year, in partnership with Caleres, we will be able to bring new shoes to thousands of kids experiencing homelessness in St Louis. And we look forward to continuing to serve more kids in the future,” he said.
Thomas-Murray says the new shoes steer children into positive peer interaction, improved attendance and reduces ridicule.
“It creates a celebratory climate. Our students dance, sing, and smile upon receipt of new shoes. It is as if we can literally hear their hearts saying, ‘Thank you!’”
Soles4Souls turns unwanted shoes and clothing into opportunity by keeping them from going to waste and putting them to use.
Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, the organization repurposes product to supply its micro-enterprise, disaster relief, and direct assistance programs.
With international locations and warehouses across the not-for-profit Soles4Souls has distributed more than 73 million pairs of shoes and pieces of clothing in 129 countries since 2006.
Visit soles4souls.org for more information. | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/caleres-soles4souls-right-fit-for-some-slps-students/article_5ddaf3d6-1bf2-11ed-9bfe-fb3681b585e4.html | 2022-08-14T22:32:44Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/caleres-soles4souls-right-fit-for-some-slps-students/article_5ddaf3d6-1bf2-11ed-9bfe-fb3681b585e4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
State-controlled Russian media outlet TASS reported over the weekend that the head of the North American Department at the Russian foreign ministry said possible seizure of Russian assets by the United States will destroy Moscow's bilateral relations with Washington.
Also that diplomatic ties would be badly damaged and could even be broken if Russia is declared a state sponsor of terrorism.
Info via Reuters. More Russian whining at the link. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/weekend-moscow-warns-of-end-to-russia-us-relations-if-assets-seized-20220814/ | 2022-08-14T22:33:40Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/weekend-moscow-warns-of-end-to-russia-us-relations-if-assets-seized-20220814/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Good Sunday evening! Expect a mainly dry evening with a stray shower possible near the coast. Skies should clear up through tonight with slightly lower humidity around. Low temperatures will get a chance to cool down to the upper 60's to low 70's by Monday morning. Another drier day is on tap Monday with only an isolated chance for a shower or rumble of thunder during the afternoon, especially at the coast. High temperatures will climb into the low 90's. It'll be seasonably hot and beautiful accompanied by a mix of sunshine and clouds.
Moisture gradually creeps back into the region beginning on Tuesday. That means rain and thunderstorm opportunities follow suit and increase each day. Tuesday and Wednesday should feature high temperatures in the lower 90's and afternoon scattered rain and storms. By Thursday, wetter weather will settle in which may last through the weekend. High temperatures by then should be in the upper 80's to near 90 degrees. | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/sunday-evening-first-to-know-forecast-08-14-22 | 2022-08-14T22:36:20Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/weather/sunday-evening-first-to-know-forecast-08-14-22 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Rose Bowl legends and leaders unite at the ‘Party of the Century’ to celebrate stadium’s centennial
The celebration helped the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation complete a $40 million Centennial Fundraising Campaign after raising $2.1 million during Saturday’s event.
The Rose Bowl is on the goal line of celebrating its 100th anniversary So it was fitting that legendary athletes like Vince Young, Bill Walton and Warren Moon traded in their game day uniforms for 1920s garb – a Hawaiian shirt in Walton’s case – to celebrate the stadium’s centennial during the “Party of the Century” on Saturday, Aug. 13.
Since its construction in 1922, the Rose Bowl has served as home to Olympics, Super Bowls, World Cup games, concerts, and many others memorable events that live on in the minds of millions who have stepped foot in the stadium over the decades.
This weekend’s affair, originally scheduled to occur in April 2020 before being postponed multiple times due to the coronavirus pandemic, featured an auction with one-of-a-kind items — like a Key West vacation, a private jet ride to play golf in Pebble Beach and a VIP Coldplay Experience — which all helped the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation complete a $40 million Centennial Fundraising Campaign after raising $2.1 million during Saturday’s event.
“The Rose Bowl is magnetic for huge moments and tonight is no different,” said Dedan Brozino, chief development officer and president of the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation. ”Turning 100-years-old anywhere is pretty awesome and the fact that this place is doing it in such a vibrant way with such a strong heartbeat is special.”
But because the bowl finds itself in “the most aggressive sports entertainment marketplace in the world,” Brozino added from the Rose Bowl’s red carpet, “it’s going to take a village of people from around the country that have an emotional tie to this place to really make sure that the next generation enjoys it the way that we all remember.”
Fortunately for stadium stewards, the Rose Bowl is backed by a village like no other, evident by Saturday’s star-studded list of attendees.
Holly Rowe shows her Charleston dance moves on the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Orlando Pace and his wife Carla Pace arrive on the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Cade McNown arrives at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Wayne Cook and wife Sue Cook on the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Lincoln Kennedy walks the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Stan Verrett arrives on the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Josiah Johnson is interviewed at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
ESPN’s Emmy award-winning sports reporter Holly Rowe served as the Master of Ceremonies while city leaders mingled with the likes of Orlando Pace, Keyshawn Johnson and Ann Meyers Drysdale.
Young tossed autographed footballs from the stage to successful auction bidders, including Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathyrn Barger, who said earlier in the night that she looked forward to breaking bread with friends while supporting the Rose Bowl.
Barger was joined by a myriad of elected representatives who were among the estimated 1,250 in attendance on Saturday.
Vince Young and wife Candice arrive on the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Warren Moon arrives at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Ann Meyers Drysdale arrives on the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Tiffeny Parker arrives on the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Keyshawn Johnson arrives on the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Rob Riggle and Kay Asia arrive at the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
J. C. Watts and wife Frankie Watts on the red carpet at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
“It’s unbelievable to see this many people show up in support of the 100th anniversary,” said Craig Washington, vice president of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses. “The stadium means so much to me and to the city.”
As a young child growing up in Pasadena, Washington explained Saturday, he’s witnessed some incredible games in the Rose Bowl, whether it be the Turkey Tussles of years past or the “Game of the Century” between Texas and USC in 2005.
“I had the fortunate opportunity to be on the field and to be able to see and feel that electricity that was in the stadium,” Washington said. “Every play mattered and that’s the essence of the Rose Bowl.”
The feeling in the stadium on Saturday was almost as electric this weekend thanks to music from Matt Mauser and the Pete Jacobs Band who kept guests entertained well into the evening hours.
Bill Walton, right, talks with guests at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Guests arrive at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Sue and Steve Wilder in front of the Rose Bowl at the Party of the Century, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Craig Washington, Vice President of the Tournament of Roses, left, greets Raphael Henderson and his wife Tyra Henderson at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Attendees on the Rose Bowl field at the Party of the Century, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Steve Garvey is interviewed as his wife Candace Garvey holds a microphone at the Party of the Century at the Rose Bowl, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The event celebrated moments of the venue’s global history while generating support to preserve and enhance its future as a national historic landmark. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)
Dressed in rose red, longtime resident Pierre Dupuy found himself near the dance floor in shock on Saturday shortly after a friend called in a favor.
“I can’t believe I’m standing in the middle of the Rose Bowl right now,” Dupuy said, detailing he received a call about 48 hours prior to bring his 1920s Ford Model TT car down to the stadium on Saturday.
“I threw on my vest and my bowtie, having no idea what I was coming down to.,” Dupuy said. “And here I am in this beautiful gala for the 100-year anniversary of the Rose Bowl. And, I mean, this is my hometown, this is where I’ve lived all my life for 63 years… So here I am. What could be better?”
“Hopefully, that’s kind of an indicator of what the next 100 years will be,” Brozino added. “This has been a generational place. And we want tonight to reflect the fact that we’re getting ready for that next generation so they can enjoy this beautiful stadium like we all did.”
President of the Rose Bowl Operating Company Steve Haderlein said a few minutes later while on the red carpet with his wife that the Rose Bowl gives Pasadena name recognition.
“It’s the story that’s been told a million times: you say you’re from Pasadena and their minds immediately go to the Rose Bowl,” Haderlein said. “In fact, we were in Edinburgh, Scotland, and I was wearing a Rose Bowl hat and somebody pointed out: ‘I was just at a music festival there.’”
And while the stadium was originally built as a place for football, city leaders in Pasadena love to hear these anecdotes because they believe the Rose Bowl needs to attract music and soccer events if it hopes to last another century.
Councilman Steve Madison explained why on the red carpet Saturday, pointing to “significant challenges” relating to finances and the competitive marketplace of entertainment venues throughout Southern California.
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When the Postal Service asked Rafael López to design a commemorative stamp representing Latin American culture in the United States, he knew exactly what to show: a mariachi band.
And he knew just one stamp was not going to be enough.
"The contribution of mariachi music is huge. We cannot just recognize it with one stamp. We need to create at least a series of five," the Mexican American artist told NPR at the launch this month in the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum.
"So I went back to the director and I said, what if we actually have five different musicians? You can't fit five of them in one little step. I don't think that's enough honor, you know, to mariachi music."
It's the first time a mariachi band is featured on U.S. stamps, according to the Postal Museum. And for some in the Latino community, it's recognition of how their heritage and culture are part of the American fabric. López himself splits his time between San Miguel de Allende in Mexico and San Diego, California.
He used his upbringing in Mexico City as part of the inspiration for the stamps, especially the band members and the vibrant colors that fill the stamps, which have an initial print of 18 million sets.
López said he wanted to put the focus on the features of the characters depicted on the stamps, leaving a non-descript background with the pastel-colored homes of Mexican antiquity.
"The background is very simple. It just resembles some kind of a Mexican town," he said. "But if you see it very closely, it's just like color shapes. And I wanted to pay focus on the actual expression of the singers."
The features López focused on were more passionate expressions made by those musicians at the height of their harmony. The faces of the band members compete for space on the stamps with their uniforms and instruments.
"They're beautiful uniforms, those Charro outfits," López said.
The centerpiece is the leader of the group, a violinist holding her instrument in her left hand and her sombrero in the right as she belts out her operatic ballads. López set that up by design.
"I love when a female mariachi singers are out there. I also wanted it to be center stage, and I just wanted also to have a little bit of variety, you know, that you can tell that not only is she very talented with the violin, but she can also put it down and just belt away a great song."
The creative process was not quick
It took two years of development before the set launched. Each stamp is priced at 60 cents and will carry on a cultural legacy forever.
The depictions of the band members comes from a long list of approved models, images and illustrations provided by the Postal Service.
But when one of the models became unavailable, López used his nephew's face to create the musician holding the vihuela — a stringed instrument that resembles a guitar.
"I said, ask your brother to take photos of different angles of your face and you pretend to be playing the violin," López said. "And after about 30 or 40 photos, I picked the best one."
Mariachi comes to life at the museum
López was not the only artist at the launch event.
Cañas y su Mariachi de Oro filled the museum's halls with music, entertaining visitors and volunteers. The five-piece band, based in Northern Virginia, played favorite pieces like Cielito Lindo and El Mariachi Loco Quiere Bailar, but the crowd of mostly families were wowed when the Pajaritos a Bailar slowly transitioned to a rendition of Baby Shark.
José Cañas, the guitarist and lead singer of the group, told NPR he's happy to see a band like his on U.S. stamps.
"Es un honor para nosotros," he said. It's an honor for us.
López said rhythms and beats of the music — playing in an institution of American history — are key to a great mariachi sound anyone can enjoy, regardless of whether they understand Spanish.
"Before you know it, everybody's celebrating life and patting each other in the back. So there's that universal quality that the mariachi music has that you just can't help but feel."
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Sadowitz had been due to play two nights at The Pleasance at Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Friday and Saturday. However last night’s show did not go ahead with the venue saying his material "does not align with our values".
Sadowitz, 61, later said on Twitter: "Did a show last night, 75 mins, thought it went well. Didn't see any walkouts.
"Today I'm told my show's been cancelled. Great stuff. I'm truly sorry for everyone who travelled to see the show tonight."
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The Pleasance Theatre Trust said the second performance had been cancelled "with immediate effect".
It said in a statement: "Opinions such as those displayed on stage by Sadowitz are not acceptable and The Pleasance are not prepared to be associated with such material."
Director, Anthony Alderson, added: "The Pleasance is a venue that champions freedom of speech and we do not censor comedians' material.
"While we acknowledge that Jerry Sadowitz has often been controversial, the material presented at his first show is not acceptable and does not align with our values.
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Davy Zyw, 34, was diagnosed with MND in 2018. In the time since, he has dedicated himself to raising money and awareness for MND causes including the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, which is dedicated to funding research into finding effective treatment and a cure for MND.
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MND kills a third of people within a year, and more than half within two years of their diagnosis.
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Speaking after completing the epic ride, he said: “We are battered but not broken, after close to 20 hours in the saddle cycling 265 miles across the toughest terrain Scotland had to offer.
“The High 5 takes in the highest road climbs, over 19000 feet - this physical challenge pushed us to the edge of our capabilities. The road was long, and many of the hours were dark, but it was the climbing which stretched us, the Lecht in 31C particularly taxing.
“But wow, we were sustained and fuelled by our dedication to this cause and the incredible support we have received.
“The High Five is complete but my battle against MND continues, fortified by the steadfast support of so many who blieve, like me, that this disease isn’t incurable, but underfunded.”
Davy Zyw’s team included twin brother Tommy Zyw; brother Sorley Richardson; and friends Craig Paul, Dan Elswood, Malcolm Holwill, George Besant, Chris Asquith, Murray Buchan and Ryan Brennan.
My Name’5 Doddie Foundation is a UK charity on a mission to end Motor Neuron Disease.
It was set up in 2017 following the MND diagnosis of founder Doddie Weir, who earned 61 caps for Scotland, toured with the Lions in South Africa and won championships with both Melrose and Newcastle Falcons.
In a video made this week, Weir described Davy’s efforts as “truly amazing” and urged people to support Davy however they can.
In July, Weir received an honorary degree from Abertay University in recognition of his "tireless advocacy" to improve the lives of those living with motor neuron disease MND.
The 52-year-old father-of-three was accompanied to the ceremony at Dundee's Caird Hall by his wife, Kathy.
During an emotional speech, Weir said he "never thought for a minute" he would be celebrating his silver wedding anniversary the following week.
He said: “I'm totally flabbergasted why I'm still here. A couple of years ago I celebrated my 50th which was quite a big steppingstone.
“I think the reason is when people are told they have MND, basically they are told they have one or two years to live, and you follow that because that's the norm. So for me to be six years in is quite unbelievable."
He then addressed students at the ceremony, saying: "Six years later, still fighting, still pushing for that cure, and still winning with every new day.
“If things don't go your way, don't give up. Instead, use your tremendous energy and brains, try again.
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The last 18 months have seen many of us welcome a new four-legged friend into our homes, as the Kennel Club saw dog ownership rise by nearly eight per cent over 2020.
But with 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your perfect pup.
Those with active lifestyles might want to consider a larger dog, while somebody with allergies will be looking for a hypoallergenic dog.
There’s even academic guidance to seek out, with Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ ranking breeds by instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt.
One dog that often appears at the top of people’s canine wishlists is the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel – they are one of the UK’s most popular breeds and have a range of positive attributes that make them a great family pet.
Here are 10 fun and interesting facts about the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
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Although this will mean fun in the sun for humans, dogs are easily affected by heat and these rising temperatures bring risk of dehydration and heatstroke.
So, it’s important we give our pets extra TLC this summer with careful preparation and forward planning.Caroline Spencer, animal behaviourist with online pet food providers Bella & Duke, has shared her top 10 tips below for keeping your furry friend safe and cool in the sun.
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Caroline explained: “Summer provides great opportunities for an array of bonding activities, but it is important that amongst all the fun, we take the necessary precautions to ensure our pets safety first, particularly when life-threatening scenarios are at risk.
“Like humans you can never be too prepared when getting our companions ready for summer fun, set aside plenty of time to plan your journeys so you and your pet can enjoy the warm weather to the fullest potential.”
1. Stick to the shade
Heat stroke can easily be induced by direct sunlight, so if you are in outside areas, make sure your dog can sit in the shade. Most dogs will naturally orientate to shadier spots, but it’s good to keep an eye on your dog to make sure they have not gone astray into the sun. Signs of heat stroke to look out for are excessive panting, drooling, reddened gums, dullness or loss of consciousness.
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2. Water, water, everywhere
Like humans, dogs sweat and lose water, mainly through the glands in their paws. They can lose up to one litre of water per day and the more water they lose, the higher the chances of overheating. Have multiple water stations spread equally around your home during summer to safeguard your dog from overheating and dehydration. Switch their food to wet dog food to ensure extra water intake, carry a water bottle for them when going outside or for a walk.
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3. Leave the car at home
There is no safe time to leave a dog alone in the car, but particularly in the summer months, the temperature in your car rises above what the temperature outside is. In a car, dogs can develop heatstroke in just 15 minutes. Even with water and open windows, cars are not a safe space for dogs in the summer.
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4. Beware the beach
Long walks on the beach are a big no for your pup, but sunbathing while your dog goes for a swim is a great way to keep your pet cool. Dogs have sensitive feet that can burn or get injured if the ground they are walking on is too hot, so if on the beach don’t let your dog walk on the hot sand for too long. However, a refreshing dip in the cool water can work wonders to bring down your dog’s body temperature. Not all dogs will like swimming in water but encourage them to try it when you can and don’t leave them unsupervised.
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