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eorna, Edinburgh, review - the city's hottest pop-up is to be found in a St James Quarter appliance shop
They’ve been popping up through the summer
“We’re not going into that laundrette for lunch, are we?”, said my husband.
Well, sort of, though you definitely can’t visit the St James Quarter branch of Miele to get your pants cleaned.
As well as washing machines, this German appliance manufacturer sells wildly expensive and slick-looking ovens, fridge freezers, microwaves and tumble dryers. These are what rich people own, instead of a Henry, with one eye scratched out, or the iron that dribbles onto the board.
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One day, my appliance ship will come in. I have my eye on one of those robot vacuum cleaners. The ones that dogs ride on in TikTok videos.
However, since they start at £759, I might just get the crumb-loving terrier instead.
When it comes to this eating experience, there’s a surprise.
At the back of the shop you’ll find a private dining room that seats 12 people at a communal table, alongside an open kitchen. This immaculate and cool room is where Brian Grigor, who has worked as head chef at Edinburgh’s Number One at The Balmoral, The Kitchin and Chez Roux, among other places, and his friend, sommelier Glen Montgomery, from Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, Heron et al, have popped up.
At the moment, their planned business is itinerant, though they already have the name eorna - the Scots Gaelic for barley - for their pending restaurant. Once the perfect property comes up, they’ll be opening a place in the Capital. For now, you’ll find them here, with the next date today, from 12.30pm until 3pm, and other weekly lunches in the offing. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.
We were slightly discombobulated on arrival, after walking through the shop, but Montgomery slipped glasses of Charles Heidsieck Champagne into our hands, along with a pair of their garden pea and Katy Rodgers Crowdie tartlets, which had crisp cases as thin as tissue paper and moussey light middles. Five courses to go.
We bagged our seats at the end of the table, and made pals with the two nice boys who were sitting in front of us.
The next dish was a beautiful-looking piece of Belhaven Smokehouse salmon, cured with Lind & Lime gin. The wedge of gummy fish had been prettified like a Victorian terrarium, as it featured tiny edible flowers, feathery dill, bits of pressed cucumber, a jade green puree and a beetroot one. We had a glass of light and flinty Chardonnay Dry River 2016 with this. They were joyous together.
Then, along with the Weingut Brundlmayer Riesling 2011, there was the crab, with a herby layer of meat on top of red tomatoes, as well as little nuggets, bollards and purees of the fruit around the sides. So juicy and sweet, with a lattice-like fan of dried seaweed on the top. A tribute to summer.
My favourite course was probably the loin of roe deer, with a glass of Chambolle-Musigny Les Bussieres 2012. This plate featured two tender ovals of pink meat, along with wilted chard, salt baked celeriac, discs of shaved truffle and a splash of mahogany jus.
I think Brian and Glen, who I am now calling Bren, might be geniuses. It’s been a while since I ate food of this standard. I wanted to tell everyone that this is my job. Lucky old me, with gravy round my mouth. Who cares that I’ll never be able to afford Miele’s vacuum cleaners, at least I get to eat all the delicious food.
The savoury bit of the journey was over, but there were still two puddings to come.
First, a pre-dessert, served in a little glass cup, with a meadowsweet panna cotta that had that almost medicinal taste of the foraged herb, and was topped by glossy cherries and flaked almonds.
I don’t know how Brian can cope with people disassembling his final creation, which we had with a Fritz Haag 2001 Riesling. “I can’t watch,” he said. It’s a perfect green apple, like something out of a fairy-tale. I wanted to put it on my other half’s head, then shoot it off. This was made from a chocolate-covered white chocolate mousse, which was surrounded by a swirl of toffee sauce, and blobs of apple puree.
Amazing wine, fantastic food. It’s odd that the good life is to be found in the rear of an Edinburgh appliance shop.
Well done Bren, let’s hope you find a permanent home soon.
Miele
243 St James Crescent
St James Quarter
Edinburgh
The Verdict
How much? Lunch for two, including matched wines, £190
Food 9/10
Ambience 8/10
17/20
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What To Know Today
A scorecard for community violence intervention. The Black-led Community Justice Action Fund, a violence prevention group that has pushed the White House for greater federal support for such efforts, released a new report looking at how 50 cities with the highest numbers of shootings in 2021 allocated federal funding. Among the findings:
- 64 percent of cities have invested money in street-based outreach that uses credible community messengers to mediate conflicts
- 42 percent invested money in mental health crisis response initiatives that send counselors in lieu of — or alongside — armed police officers to calls of people in crisis
- 42 percent have centralized offices of violence prevention
- 38 percent invested in a citywide, “whole-of-government” approach to violence prevention using a public health lens
- 24 percent invested in workforce development programs for people at a high risk of experiencing or committing gun violence
The report also identified a number of ways it believes cities are falling short in their CVI efforts. For example, it argues that while many municipalities are putting money to address root causes that are likely to lead to gun violence — like inequalities in education, health care, employment, and housing — only a handful direct that money specifically toward the neighborhoods facing the highest levels of gun violence. The report also argues that “none of the 50 rated cities have a discernible strategy to address the dearth of trauma care facilities in or near communities that experience the highest levels of gun violence.” More from The Trace: Yesterday, we published a piece looking at the difficulties some grassroots organizations have had tapping into federal community violence intervention grants.
“Use what they use”: Review shows gun marketing has evolved toward self-defense, militarization. Earlier this year, House Democrats introduced legislation directing the Federal Trade Commission to make and enforce rules to address deceptive or unfair advertising practice in firearm marketing. The bill and other actions like it comes as the CEOs of several gunmakers recently appeared before a House committee that later subpoenaed manufacturers like Smith & Wesson. A new in-depth investigation from USA TODAY reviewed thousands of gun ads over two decades and observed a slow shift toward self-defense messaging that began in earnest in 2011, two years into Barack Obama’s presidency. The article also helpfully takes stock of the gun control arguments against “toxic” gun advertisements and the industry’s defense of marketing they say is merely responding to popular consumer trends.
FedEx clarifies policy to prohibit shipping ghost gun parts. In June, UPS made clear it does not ship any unserialized ghost gun parts, and that such packages were subject to be destroyed. FedEx is now taking a similar approach after a push by the gun control group Giffords, according to Vice News reporter Keegan Hamilton.“FedEx is updating its Service Guide to make it clear that unserialized frames and receivers or other items that may be completed, assembled, restored, or otherwise converted to function as a firearm frame or receiver per federal regulation are prohibited with the new rule going into effect on Wednesday, August 24.”
After Buffalo, residents fight white supremacy with garden tools. The majority-Black East Side neighborhood where the May shooting took place has been shaped by decades of segregation. Like many neighborhoods that experience gun violence and segregation, it also has a lack of green space. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle spoke with Black residents there who are using gardening and greening as a way to reclaim their communities. “We’re guerilla gardeners,” said one. “I’m not going to live in blight anymore.”
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19,000+ — the share of personally made firearms, or ghost guns, that were recovered and traced by police agencies last year. By comparison, between 2016 and 2020, the agency traced about 5,150 such unserialized weapons each year. [ATF] | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/community-violence-intervention-scorecard/ | 2022-08-20T05:36:44Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/community-violence-intervention-scorecard/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Scots and Gaelic languages should be preserved just like Scotland's wildcats and crossbills – James Robertson
In August 2002 Itchy Coo, an imprint dedicated to publishing books in Scots for young readers, launched its first four titles at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Twenty years on, Itchy Coo has produced more than 80 titles, ranging from board books to graphic novels and collections of poems, fables, fairy tales and stories. The list includes many translations of works by the likes of Julia Donaldson, JK Rowling, Roald Dahl and Jeff Kinney.
As one of Itchy Coo’s founders as well as an editor and contributing author, I am of course pleased by the continuing success of the project. Not only has it put thousands of braw books into the hands of bairns, their families and their teachers, it has also challenged some deep-rooted negative perceptions of Scots, both within the education system and more generally across society.
This does not mean that the negativity − equating Scots with ‘slang’ or ‘bad English’, for example, or the vilification of individual writers or performers simply for using Scots − has entirely disappeared; nor does it mean that the loss of Scots vocabulary and idiom has not been substantial in many areas. Nevertheless, there are reasons to be hopeful.
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First, Scots is now widely accepted in Scottish schools, especially at primary level. This is a massive change from the experience of previous generations, who were ridiculed, written off and physically punished for using their first language in the classroom.
Nowadays, children are encouraged to read, write and recite in Scots, and quite apart from the pleasure they get from this − surely a key element in successful education − it has also given many reluctant learners the confidence to participate in class as well as improve their literacy competence.
Second, there has been a shift in official attitudes. The Scottish Government, Creative Scotland, Education Scotland and other public bodies have all developed Scots language policies, some it must be said with more enthusiasm and commitment than others.
In 2015 the Scottish Qualifications Agency developed the first-ever accredited, formally recognised Scots Language Awards, and in the same year the National Library of Scotland established and funded the post of Scots Scriever.
At Holyrood, MSPs often take the oath of allegiance in Scots or their own dialect of it. As with Gaelic, there is cross-party support for recognising both the historical and continuing significance of the Scots language to the nation.
Third, there has been a growing ownership of and pride in Scots among the substantial section of the population whose first language it is, whether they are Doric speakers, Shetlanders, Fifers or Glaswegians, and whether they use it some, most or all of the time.
In the 2011 Census, questions about people’s use of Scots were asked for the first time ever (questions about Gaelic were first asked in 1881). The results were remarkable, especially given that there is some confusion as to what constitutes Scots − speakers of the north-eastern variety, for example, often consider themselves speakers of Doric, not of Scots.
Some 1.5 million respondents, or 30 per cent of the population, said they could speak Scots, and 1.9 million said they could read, write, speak or understand it. It will be interesting to see whether these statistics have risen, declined or remained stable in the last ten years.
Legally, however, Scots does not enjoy the same status as Gaelic. In 2001, the UK Government ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in respect of both languages, but under part three of the charter for Gaelic and only under part two for Scots. The latter is predominantly a statement of objectives and principles, without explicit requirement for action, and this remains the case, although a Scottish Languages Bill, currently in its early stages at Holyrood, may alter that.
Yet even in the field of law things are changing. On at least three occasions in the 1990s and early 2000s sheriffs threatened those appearing before them with − ironically − contempt if they used the word ‘aye’ rather than ‘yes’ for the affirmative.
That stance would be difficult to sustain in today’s world. By contrast, earlier this year the Scottish Government unveiled its plans for a service to support children who are victims or witnesses of crime or who have committed offences. Modelled on the Scandinavian barnahus, the proposed service is to be called Bairns’ Hoose, a name which seems entirely appropriate but which I doubt would have been given serious consideration 20 years ago.
In countries around the globe, it is perfectly normal for people to be fluent in two or three languages, and these will usually include a ‘home’ language, a commonly used second language and a lingua franca, typically English.
Scots could and should sit comfortably in such an arrangement here, but this requires a major rethink about how as a society we enable and value language-learning in the widest sense.
Language is one of the fundamental signatures of both individual and societal identity. It is how we articulate our experience of the world and communicate that experience to others.
In 2010, Alexander McCall Smith, in the introduction to his story Precious and the Puggies, which he wrote specially for Itchy Coo, made this wise comment: “Every language has something to offer − a way of looking at the world, a story to tell about a particular group of people, a stock of poetry and song. The disappearance of a language is like the silencing of some lovely bird.”
The whole of humanity is diminished when a language dies, and we are not made more tolerant, open-minded, enquiring or adventurous by being monoglots.
Scots and Gaelic are Scotland’s responsibility and deserve, like our wildcats and crossbills, to be protected, encouraged and celebrated.
James Robertson is a writer, editor and translator. His latest novel, News of the Dead, recently won the 2022 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. For more information on Itchy Coo, visit www.itchy-coo.com
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WALLA WALLA, Wash.-
Multiple fire crew from Walla Walla Fire Department and Walla Walla Fire District 4 were dispatched to a residential fire at 2002 Glenn Erin Dr. just after 3:00 a.m. Friday morning.
We're told as fire crews arrive, they found a structure with recent fire damage fully engulfed in flames.
Fire fighters began using tactics to help extinguish the fire while searching the residence to ensure no one was inside.
Crews were able to get the fire under control by 4:00 a.m. and remained on scene to make sure no hot spots flared up.
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GRANDVIEW, Wash.-
From August 19-September 9th, Mainstreet Grandview Association is kicking-off a new community project. It's called PROJECT: WINDOW. It's a new art concept part of the upcoming Façade Improvement Program efforts throughout the city.
The first PROJECT: WINDOW installation, “Transformation: An Ode to A Small Town” will debut on August 19 as part of the city’s Summer Nights event. It'll be available for viewing until September 9.
“I’m hopeful we can also highlight the work of local artists who might not otherwise have the opportunity to showcase their work and ultimately encourage creative commerce and community participation. The goal is to create a win-win scenario for all involved.” states Grace Lieberman, Mainstreet Grandview Board Member and Design/Beautification Committee Co-Lead.
The unique installation is on display in the windows at 131 Division Street in Grandview’s downtown corridor. This installation serves as an example for future partnerships between local businesses and artists. It's part of a 3-phase approach to Mainstreet Grandview’s Façade Improvement Program.
PROJECT: WINDOW, was inspired by a Spokane-based non-profit, Terrain and their “Window Dressing” storefront program. The program fills vacant buildings and unused spaces with art, pop up events, or art-inspired businesses to add more color and life in its neighborhoods.
Rachel Santoy, Mainstreet Grandview Board Member and Design/Beautification Committee Co-Lead says, “the second and third phases require much more funding and will include items from simple cosmetic improvements like painting and signage to major renovation and restoration. We’re focused on one step at a time to make long-lasting change."
To find out more about Mainstreet Grandview’s Façade Improvement Program, please contact: Rachel Santoy, mainstreetgrandviewassn@gmail.com
A little about the sculptures and installations. Transformation: An Ode to A Small Town More than 100 cocoon-like sculptures made of plaster, paper-mache and other organic materials will demonstrate the power of reflection and growth.
“Unlike the butterfly, there’s no timeline for inner transformation," says the artist.
The Mainstreet Grandview Association, Mainstreet Grandview is a not-for-profit, in conjunction with Main Street USA. It works with local business owners, community members and local governments to keep the city vibrant and economically stable by stimulating its growth. Part of that includes revitalizing the downtown corridor.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 19, 2022) Darius Rucker greets athletes, families, and friends attending the opening ceremony for the 2022 DoD Warrior Games, August 19, 2022. The Warrior Games are composed of over 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veteran athletes, competing in 12 adaptive sporting events Aug. 19-28, 2022 at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Giselle Gonzalez)
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 19, 2022) Athletes, families, and friends of Team Navy attend the opening ceremony for the 2022 DoD Warrior Games, August 19, 2022. The Warrior Games are composed of over 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veteran athletes, competing in 12 adaptive sporting events Aug. 19-28, 2022 at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Albert Juarez)
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 19, 2022) Team Air Force celebrates during the opening ceremony for the 2022 DoD Warrior Games, August 19, 2022. The Warrior Games are composed of over 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veteran athletes, competing in 12 adaptive sporting events Aug. 19-28, 2022 at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Albert Juarez)
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Football Friday Night: 8-19-22
Published: Aug. 20, 2022 at 12:05 AM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Football Friday Night is BACK! Mohammad Ahmad and Ana Medina break down and recap an exciting series of finishes to open the high school football season.
Final:
Allen-County Scottsville 16
Logan County 26
Final:
Warren East 41
White House-Heritage (TN) 7
Final:
Spring Hill (TN) 14
Franklin-Simpson 31
Final:
Metcalfe County 12
Barren County 9
Final:
John Hardin 6
Glasgow 48
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Warren Central snaps losing streak, wins first football game since 2015
Published: Aug. 20, 2022 at 12:22 AM CDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - The streak is finally dead.
Warren Central and the Dragons football faithful can rejoice. After almost 2,500 days without a victory, Warren Central defeats Bullitt Central on the road, 13-0, to open the season with a commanding 1-0 start.
The Dragons took a 7-0 lead into the second half before scoring another touchdown to seal the shutout win. Warren Central hadn’t won a game since defeating Warren East, 23-12, at home on October 16, 2015.
Three more road games await the Dragons before their home opener against Russell County on September 23.
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It has possibly been there since the founding of Fergus Falls and definitely before the formation of Oak Grove Cemetery.
It may also be the largest tree in town, said local business owner and cemetery board member Buzz Lundeen. The massive cottonwood tree towers over the cemetery.
Unfortunately, the tree sustained a very nasty lightning strike that started a smoldering fire. Even by the morning of Aug. 17, it was still smoldering so the Fergus Falls Fire Department dispatched a fire truck to try to further douse the fire.
Fire Chief Ryan Muchow said they arrived at approximately 9:25 a.m., and cleared the scene at around 10:40 a.m.
“Some of it had been broken away from before, but that whole area, the bark had been burned off, but overall it was mainly just smoldering than any kind of flaming fire,” said Muchow.
Lundeen recounted how groups of children and families would congregate under the tree. Sometimes children would gather there in its massive shadow after school got out for the day.
On weekends, families would picnic during long hot summer days while enjoying a light breeze and the shade it provided.
It is unknown at this time if the tree will survive the strike, as its trunk was severely damaged.
Experts admit that sometimes trees can survive a lightning strike. Sometimes the bark of trees can explode from a strike, but typically the moisture content along with the general overall health of the tree will determine if it will survive.
According to MinnesotaSeasons.com, “The Plains Cottonwood is a large hardwood tree. It is the most massive tree in Minnesota. Mature trees in the state are usually 60 to 80 feet tall and up to 36 inches in diameter at breast height. Large individuals can reach over 130 feet in height. In favorable conditions it may last 80 to 90 years. Older individuals can survive up to 200 years. It rises on a single stem from a shallow, wide-spreading root system. The open trunk is short and massive. It often splits near the ground into two or more widely-spreading stems, creating an open, broad, irregular crown.”
Oak Grove Cemetery is home to many other cottonwoods, as well as maple, oak, boxelder and a few birch trees.
Oak Grove also remodeled the front entrance about a year ago with a new sign wall that welcomes visitors through a wrought iron gate.
According to their website, the approximately forty acre cemetery was established in 1873 by a group of civic minded citizens who realized the need for a non-denominational cemetery for the people of Fergus Falls and the surrounding area. They state they have operated continuously since that time as a non-profit association governed by a board of trustees, with current association manager Rod Berg, at the helm. | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/historic-tree-damaged-by-lightning/article_f0cd5d1e-1f0d-11ed-a76f-13d817eb1ae7.html | 2022-08-20T06:15:25Z | fergusfallsjournal.com | control | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/historic-tree-damaged-by-lightning/article_f0cd5d1e-1f0d-11ed-a76f-13d817eb1ae7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fergus Falls City Council Ward Three member and interim mayor, Justin Arneson along with Ward Four member, Karoline Gustafson, have decided not to file for reelection.
Arneson said the decision not to seek reelection for himself was a three-fold reason. First and most important, he said he had moved out of Ward Three, so he was no longer eligible to run in that ward.
Secondly, Arneson recently moved to Ward Four and did not want to run against a sitting council member.
Arneson also said with coaching his children in sporting activities, he would have less time to fully devote himself to being on the council. At the conclusion of his term in December of 2022, Arneson will have served two full terms.
Gustafson, who has served just one term on the council, said she feels privileged to have been on the council, but said she felt it was time to move on and also cited family obligations as a deciding factor.
By wards, here is the official rundown of who is running:
For Ward One, Krista Hagberg, the incumbent has filed to run for reelection, as her term expires in December. Recently announced before the deadline, Laura Job is running against Hagberg for the seat.
For Ward Two, incumbent Scott Kvamme is running for reelection, along with newcomer Mark Leighton. Leighton states that he is an independent business owner with a background of international SCUBA tours, advanced SCUBA, firearm education and training, banking, investments, financial planning, insurance, claims review, general construction and design contracting and business consulting.
Leighton said he is running to bring fiscal responsibility back to the city and would like to reduce burdensome regulations and ordinances in efforts to attract new businesses and citizens to Fergus Falls.
Ward Three is a crowded field, with three newcomers. Al Kremeier, funeral director and licensed insurance agent for about 28 years at Olson Funeral Home and owns a small granite business. Richard “Dick” Keeton, who served two terms on the council and was elected in 1992. Finally, Nate Kunde, operations manager at Otter Tail Power, has filed to run for the open seat.
Kremeier said he is running because he wants to get involved to get things back to the way it used to be. “I want to get involved with our city to help rejuvenate what we had, is what I’d like to see,” said Kremeier.
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Youth hockey has been steadily growing across the region, morphing from a mere sporting season into a high energy lifestyle that spans the entirety of each calendar year.
Northland Hockey Group operates across an eight-state region, offering AAA hockey clubs and tournaments to youth hockey players across the nation. Local youth hockey players have played on various NHG teams throughout the years, participating in four to five tournaments throughout the spring and summer months.
Some NHG teams consist of already-established rosters that carry over from the regular season. These teams host regular practices during the AAA season and continue to build their collective skills after the close of regular season. Other teams are well-established and invite players to join, while others yet are a collection of players who love the game and just want to be out on the ice — this summer’s 2009 Midwest Predators was one such team.
The Predators team came to fruition late in the 2021-22 postseason, when various PeeWee players expressed an interest in playing summer hockey after area NHG teams already had complete rosters.
Coaches Ryan Kantrud and Ben Schierer of Fergus Falls, with combined coaching experience at multiple levels of play, stepped up to the plate to enable their children the opportunity to participate in the NHG AAA program.
The coaches, along with many parents, agreed that the reason they enrolled their children was to provide additional opportunities for the boys to develop their skills with a team of players that they wouldn’t necessarily play with during regular season.
The Predators roster included players from four states — Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa and North Carolina. Due to logistics, regular practices were not feasible. The team met for the first time at their first practice — the day of their first game. They rounded out the four-tournament season with a total of four practices under their belt.
“It was a short learning curve,” Ben stated of the realities of coaching a team that had bare bones practice time. “We had to adapt to the kids’ strengths and weaknesses on the fly.”
Kantrud shared: “We definitely did not have the time to practice systems, so there was a bunch of fixing positioning expectations during the games.”
The expectation with such a diverse team was focused on gaining experience and building relationships.
“It was a perfect season,” shared Fergus Falls’ Annie Alt, parent of player, Cullen Alt. “It was a fun group of families.”
“Our expectations were exceeded by leaps and bounds,” shared Pierre, South Dakota’s Kelly Neddo, mother of players Jim and Gunner Neddo. “Our boys wanted to play hockey in the off-season, but learn from other coaches. They loved the idea of playing with kids from all different places and learning how to adapt.”
Beth Johnson of Roseau, shared that her son, Thorbjorn Johnson, grew in his self-confidence and trusting in his abilities and knowledge of the game, while giving him the opportunity to grow new friendships and find a new type of joy in the game. “He has played with the same group of kids since he was young in our small town, which is special in its own way, but we also wanted him to have some variety in the voices speaking into his hockey experience and development,” she explained.
Alex Bardykin made the trek to the Twin Cities from North Carolina for three of the four tournaments to capitalize on the opportunity to play hockey with his cousins, Ulysses and Franklin Schierer of Fergus Falls.
Additional players from Minnesota and Sioux City, Iowa, also played for the Predators with players ranging from Squirt to (incoming) Bantam-level players. Logan Schoon, who will be a first-year Bantam in the upcoming season, was the oldest member of the Predators team, with Gunner, a second-year Squirt, as the youngest.
Schoons learned of the opportunity, when teammate Cameron Peterson’s parents reached out. “Logan was on board right away and was very excited,” shared his mother, Melissa Schoon. “We went (into the season) knowing it was ‘for fun’ summer league with extra experience for our boys to continue to play hockey throughout the year.”
Players and parents alike enjoyed the families that ended the season together, with experiences and bonds that will not soon be forgotten.
“I was surprised at how well the team bonded together since we only met this summer,” shared Bardykin, a sentiment echoed by his mother, Stephanie.
Thorbjorn declared the highlights of his season as his breakaway goal to win the last game of the season and playing laser tag with his teammates between games. “I learned it is really fun to go join new groups to do things that you enjoy,” he explained.
Gunner realized throughout the season that “you have to work each period to your full potential if you really want to win,” with his favorite memory being closing out the season by throwing his gloves into the air along with his teammates, following their win.
“You have to work really hard,” Jim agreed.
Development, however, didn’t stop at the player level.
“We had a team that kept improving each tournament,” Kantrud layed out, stressing that not only did he see improvement in each player and in the team, but in his own coaching ability and confidence.
At the close of the 2022 NHG 2009 Midwest Predators season, one team with kids from across the country left the ice with smiles on their faces and memories that will last a lifetime. | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/sports/four-states-one-team-youth-summer-hockey-program-sees-wide-range-of-players/article_b69d595e-1fdb-11ed-8418-bf5ed3c723cd.html | 2022-08-20T06:15:37Z | fergusfallsjournal.com | control | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/sports/four-states-one-team-youth-summer-hockey-program-sees-wide-range-of-players/article_b69d595e-1fdb-11ed-8418-bf5ed3c723cd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: Justice Kauser Edappagath of the Kerala High Court has recused himself from hearing a petition filed by the survivor in the 2017 actress assault incident. Now, a new bench would consider the petition.
In her plea, the popular actress opposed the transfer of the trial to the Principal Sessions Court.
The case, which was considered by the Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court, had been transferred to the Ernakulam Special Additional Sessions Court in 2019 after the survivor requested for a woman judge. But now the case has been transferred to the Principal Sessions Court, as per an office memorandum issued by the High Court administrative wing. The survivor has questioned this, while saying it does not conform to provisions of the law.
Justice Kauser had been the Principal Sessions Judge, when the case was transferred from his court in 2019. Earlier, Justice Kauser had recused himself from hearing another petition by the survivor, alleging that the further probe into the case was being subverted and sought it to be held under the High Court supervision.
Meanwhile, Justice A A Ziyad Rahman has posted a plea by the survivor, alleging that the further probe was being subverted, to be considered after the Onam holidays.
The survivor's lawyer said that they are yet to receive the affidavit of actor Dileep, who had joined as party to the case. Her counsel also informed that a copy of the report submitted in court by the probe team on completion of the further investigation was also not received.
Meanwhile, the trial court has posted to August 24 the hearing on the petitions filed by the survivor and the prosecution against transferring the trial to the Principal Sessions Court. This was done while taking into account that the survivor had filed a petition in the High Court with the same demand.
The contempt of court plea filed by the defence against a private channel was also posted to August 24.
Amid this, the first accused Pulsar Suni has submitted a plea in the trial court while claiming that the survivor was trying to delay the trial proceedings and that he should be granted bail.
The court has also directed to issue notices to the government and a news channel over a plea filed by Dileep, alleging that probe officer Baiju Paulose was leaking the court document to the media. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/actress-assault-case-justice-kauser-withdraws.html | 2022-08-20T06:19:29Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/actress-assault-case-justice-kauser-withdraws.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: Police probe into the murder of hotel employee Sajeev Krishnan at a flat near Infopark at Edachira in Kakkanad on Tuesday is set to enter a crucial phase with the nabbing of two suspects from Kasaragod.
The cops plan to secure the custody of K K Arshad and K Aswanth and take them to the flat for examining evidence as soon as they are presented to the First-Class Magistrate Court at Kakkanad on Saturday.
Drug deals and consumption likely took place at the flat where the murder was executed. There are indications that attempts were made to destroy evidence post the incident. The cops are probing whether any external help was sought to commit the murder.
Police strongly suspect financial disputes over drug deals led to the murder of 22-year-old Sajeev, a native of Wandoor in Malappuram district. His body was found stacked into the sewage duct of the flat.
Arshad and Aswanth were brought to Kochi from Kasaragod on Friday night. Arshad is a native of Iringal in Kozhikode district and Aswanth belongs to Kozhikode.
The duo were in possession of drugs when they were detained from Manjeswaram in Kasaragod on Wednesday. The police charged a case there and remanded them in a special jail. Police seized MDMA, ganja, and hashish from Arshad.
After the court issued a production warrant, the Infopark police, who took possession of the accused from the Kasargod jail, brought them to Kochi late on Friday.
As per initial police inference Aswanth has no role in the murder.
The investigation is led by Thrikkakara Assistant Police Commissioner P V Baby and Infopark inspector Vipindas. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/infopark-murder-arshad-in-court.html | 2022-08-20T06:19:42Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/infopark-murder-arshad-in-court.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The ties between the Kerala State Government and the Governor are frayed with the latter often refusing to budge over the affairs of universities. Two higher education institutions in Kerala — Kannur University and the University of Kerala — are in the midst of the ongoing tussle between the Governor and the State administration.
In what may lead to yet another stand-off, the selection of a Senate representative to the Search Committee formed by the Governor for the appointment of Vice-Chancellor to University of Kerala has been omitted from the agenda of a special senate meeting scheduled on Saturday.
Only upon naming the senate representative can the VC appointment process, set in motion by the Chancellor, who is the Governor himself, be completed. The University's move is deemed a rebuff to Governor Arif Mohammad Khan.
The delay in naming the senate representative will defeat the entire purpose as the term of the Search Committee is only three months.
The Government is set to introduce an amendment bill to curtail the Governor's power in VC appointments in the next assembly session. The selection of the senate representative can be made only after the approval of bills to effect changes in the Search Committee structure and increase the strength of committee members.
A special senate meeting on July 15 proposed the name of Planning Board Vice Chairperson V K Ramachandran as the senate representative to the Search Committee. However, the official withdrew himself. Since the deadline for setting up the Search Committee expired, the Governor then formed a three-member committee by including only representatives of the Chancellor and the University Grants Commission. The notification, though, made it clear that the senate representative will be included in the Committee as and when the name for the post is finalized.
The election of the student representative to the syndicate and the allotment of a new self-financing course in an aided college are the only agendas in today's senate meeting. However, it’s not clear whether the selection of the senate representative and the motion against the Governor will be taken up for discussion as items outside the agenda. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/kerala-university-vs-governor-arif-mohammed-khan.amp.html | 2022-08-20T06:20:14Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/kerala-university-vs-governor-arif-mohammed-khan.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ernakulam: A special court on Saturday quashed the bail of all twelve accused in the lynching of tribal youth Madhu in Attappady.
The court cited that the accused had swayed the witnesses before pronouncing its order.
Madhu was allegedly beaten to death by a mob at Attappady on February 22, 2018.
He was tied up and beaten by a mob, who caught him from a nearby forest, accusing him of serial thefts.
The police have submitted a 3,000-page charge sheet before the court. There are 122 witnesses in the case.
(To be updated) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/madhu-lynching-case-updates.html | 2022-08-20T06:20:33Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/madhu-lynching-case-updates.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Palakkad: The probe into the murder of CPM local branch secretary Shahjahan has picked up the pace with the arrest of all suspects. Significantly, the police have now termed it a political murder rather than one caused by personal animosity as it was initially stated even as the accused averred they were CPM activists.
In its application filed before a court seeking custody of the accused, the police made it clear that the arrested, all BJP supporters, committed the murder with a political motive.
Though the First Information Report mentioned that the accused were BJP workers, the district police chief initially said reasons like personal enmity had led to Shahjahan’s murder. When asked about the political angle, he added the police were probing all the possibilities.
CPM district secretary E N Suresh Babu had come out in the open against the police stance. He criticized the police officer's hesitation in revealing that the accused were associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Meanwhile, the accused claimed they were CPM workers when produced before the court on Friday.
The Judicial First-Class Magistrate Court remanded the main accused Kalippara native Naveen (29), Kunnankad natives Sabareesh (30), Aneesh (29), and Sujeesh (27) in six days of police custody.
The other accused, Kunnankad natives S Vishnu (22), S Suneesh (23), N Shivarajan (32), and K Satheesh (Sajeesh-31), were sent to 14 days custody.
One of the accused, N Shivarajan, complained he was beaten up in police custody and was suffering from back pain as a result. He claimed before the media that the cops forced him to name his brother and that he was a CPM loyalist. Second accused Aneesh on Friday reiterated that they were all CPM workers.
Inquiry officer Deputy Superintendent of Police V K Raju said the probe into the case is progressing well, and there is no need for the police to resort to force. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/shahjahan-murder-palakkad-police-change-stance.amp.html | 2022-08-20T06:20:39Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/shahjahan-murder-palakkad-police-change-stance.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — Early Tuesday morning, No-Li owner John Bryant woke up to a call from Airway Heights police saying that their big beer box truck had been stolen.
He rushed to the brewery to find that the thief had stolen some equipment and the truck.
The thief drove through fields in the box truck and attempted to jump a ditch.
He got away, but Bryant says he is staying optimistic.
"There was some substantial damage (to the truck), but it's not going to stop us from operating or making amazing beer," Bryant told KREM 2.
Finding a lost dog is the best thing to come out of the robbery attempt.
Police found a husky in the field that the truck crashed in. The dog was malnourished and looked like it had been lost for a while.
"We all believe at the brewery that this dog had a purpose, and this dog was found because this person or people broke into our brewery, stole the truck, landed in this field where this dog was hiding out," Bryant said. "It would not have been found, it had been there a while if this wouldn't have happened, so we're looking for that silver lining."
Bryant said the dog ran to the police and stayed by their side until the police were ready to go. The truck had barely any damage done, and it's believed the suspect was not hurt in the crash.
Bryant told KREM 2 he's willing to forgive the thief.
"My whole thing is if you turn yourself in by tomorrow, I won't press charges. A lot of damage was done, but we'll let this go through. We just want you to turn yourself in, and we won't press charges."
The husky was brought to scraps and is getting treatment until Sunday.
Bryant and his staff believe the dog is a miracle.
He hopes the dog can find its owner or get adopted sooner than later. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/stolen-no-li-beer-truck-leads-police-to-dog-rescue/293-64202701-c567-41bd-9c51-447258b3f3dd | 2022-08-20T06:30:28Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/stolen-no-li-beer-truck-leads-police-to-dog-rescue/293-64202701-c567-41bd-9c51-447258b3f3dd | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE — The rumors are true. Lebron James will be in Seattle Saturday to take part in Jamal Crawford's basketball event.
It's James' first time in Seattle in more than 15 years. The Seattle Supersonic final season ended in 2008.
"SEATTLE LETS (sic) GET IT!!" James tweeted on Friday.
The Crawsover Pro-Am League has been going on all summer at Seattle Pacific University. Games on Saturday afternoon are set for 1, 2:30, 4 and 5:30.
A number of big-name guests with Washington state connections will be there Saturday, including Isaiah Thomas, Chet Holmgren, Dejounte Murray and Paolo Banchero.
This is the fifth weekend of games for the league, but "will be a day like we've NEVER SEEN," according to Crawford.
Thomas was born in Tacoma, attended high school in University Place, and played for the University of Washington Huskies before declaring for the draft in 2011. Thomas played for a number of NBA teams, and most recently was with the Charlotte Hornets for part of the 2022 season.
Banchero, an O'Dea High School star, played one season at Duke before he was drafted first overall by the Orlando Magic. The second pick from the draft -- Holmgren -- will also be playing on Saturday.
Holmgren was drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder after one season with the Gonzaga Bulldogs.
Murray played basketball at Rainier Beach High School and the University of Washington before going pro after one season. He played four seasons with the San Antonio Spurs before being traded to Atlanta.
Entrance is free to the public, but the venue will likely fill up quickly. Doors open at 11:45 a.m. according to the Crawsover Pro-Am League website. | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/lebron-james-crawsover-pro-am-league-seattle/281-ad61c6f6-e5c3-43a8-b67f-cf811b0c0cdc | 2022-08-20T06:30:34Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/lebron-james-crawsover-pro-am-league-seattle/281-ad61c6f6-e5c3-43a8-b67f-cf811b0c0cdc | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A family run Folkestone restaurant that began as a 'side hustle' during lockdown is celebrating two years in business. The Bao Baron is a popular Pan-Asian street food restaurant that started life as small pop up on the Harbour Arm.
The restaurant, now located on Guildhall Street, is run by local chef Greig Hughes and his partner Daisy Wootton, and it would be fair to say that their journey to get where they are today has been quite the rollercoaster. They started the business during the first lockdown when the world was plunged into uncertainty.
Greig said: "After years working in restaurants as a head chef I took a bit of a career break, and I took up a position as baker in Faversham for Wild Bread. After a few months I moved to Dockers in Folkestone, and I loved it.
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"I loved baking bread and at the time I didn't have any thoughts of going back to being a chef, but then the pandemic came along and I needed a way to bring in some more money."
Greig had been thinking about the idea of running a supper club, but he wanted the menu to be affordable and accessible to as many people as possible. He said: "I wanted to create something that people could afford to come to more than once.
"I was thinking about having a Bao Bun as the bread course on my supper club menu, and in the end decided to just do that as it was also something that we could offer easily as a takeaway option." From the tiny pop up location on the Harbour Arm the couple found the response was overwhelming, "We were selling around 300 buns in just a few hours" Greig said.
When the country was plunged into full lockdown the pair moved to premises on Tontine Street, and started a click and collect service. Greig said: "I think it was lockdown that really made us, we were offering something that was so different to other places in town.
"We had such high demand that people were placing their orders and booking their slot on a Thursday, ready to collect on the Saturday." As the restrictions started to ease and groups of people were allowed to meet Greig and Daisy moved into premises on The Goods Yard.
Greig said: "That is when things really went mental, we were making over 1,000 buns a week. At the time is was difficult to think about changing the menu because of the size of the kitchen, so we started to look around for larger premises."
It was then that the pair found the premises on Guildhall Street, which is somewhere that was not unfamiliar to Greig, he said: "I used to work in the premises we have now 13 years ago when it was a café. The landlord who took over the at the time still remembered me from then, so it does feel like it was meant to be."
The full menu can be found on The Bao Baron website HERE, where you will find the 'crowd pleasers' such as Katsu Sando, a homemade Japanese milk-bread sandwich that can be filled with chicken breast or aubergine. As well as the popular salt and pepper broccoli Bao, along with some new additions.
Greig said: "I have always felt that it is important to have a menu that caters to dietary requirements as much as possible, so half of our menu is vegan. We also have gluten free options, so there really is something for everyone."
The restaurant is very popular among its customers and has a 4/5 star rating on TripAdvisor. Here is what some of the recent visitors have had to say:-
"A stylish and relaxed decor with very friendly service greets you at The Bao Baron, as does a menu of extremely tempting and tasty looking menu. It does not disappoint." and "Friendly staff and food was out of this world highly recommend it."
"Visited with family today and we all really enjoyed the food. Korean fried cauliflower was delicious. Will definitely be back. "The team working there were attentive with knowledge and menu suggestions and the food/drink were unfaultable. Hats off to everyone who works there, great atmosphere and love the open kitchen."
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CARSON — The Galaxy rode the wild ride of MLS emotions on Friday night.
First, a two-goal lead had them feeling happy and smart, then a three-goal rally from the Seattle Sounders dampened the Galaxy’s spirits.
Fortunately for the Galaxy (10-11-4, 34 points), there is always a late plot twist and this time it came via a Seattle handball that led to Dejan Joveljic’s successful penalty kick to help the Galaxy earn a much-needed point in a 3-3 draw in front of 23,278 at Dignity Health Sports Park.
“We feel like it’s two points lost, but every point matters at this time,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said.
Just like in last week’s victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps, the Galaxy scored first, getting goals from Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez in the 10th minute and Victor Vazquez in the 42nd for a two-goal first half.
The second half, however, proved to be a different story as the Sounders (10-13-3, 33 points) scored three goals and appeared to be moments away from stealing the full three points and the win.
Kelyn Rowe scored in the 53rd minute, Raul Ruidiaz found himself unmarked approximately 8 yards out and converted an easy header to tie the score. In the 73rd minute, Jordan Morris gave the Sounders the lead on a simple tap-in after Galaxy goalkeeper Jonathan Bond had spilled a rebound.
“We still have issues organizing things, I felt like we were a little disconnected in our movements,” Vanney said. “I was still uncomfortable, coming in at 2-0.
“We came out in the second half even more disconnected than we were in the second half. They took advantage of it. I just felt we were, in trying to get to a position, are we pressing or sitting in a lower block? For stretches, the collective defending wasn’t good enough.”
Midway through the six minutes of stoppage time, Douglas Costa’s corner kick was handled in the penalty area. Referee Victor Rivas eventually took a look on video review and ruled it did, setting up the penalty kick.
Even in the extremely late stages of stoppage time, Douglas Costa gave the fans a thrill with a free kick that narrowly missed the upper corner. The crowd erupted as if it went in, showing just how close it was.
Newly acquired attacking midfielder Riqui Puig made his debut in the 62nd minute. A loud “We want Riqui” chant had started moments before he entered.
Despite the drama, the Galaxy still has not defeated the Sounders since 2018. During that time, the Galaxy is winless in the last nine (0-5-4) meetings. The point moves the Galaxy to 34 points, still in sixth place ahead of the rest of this weekend’s games.
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Idrique Carmichael #9 of Pasadena drops a pass behind Lazlo Haas #15 La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Idrique Carmichael #9 of Pasadena drops a pass behind Lazlo Haas #15 La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Jayden Northrup #2 of La Serna tackles Idrique Carmichael #9 of Pasadena in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Jayden Northrup #2 of La Serna tackles Idrique Carmichael #9 of Pasadena in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Nolan Laracuente #80 of La Serna catches a pass against Pasadena in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Cameron Mitchell #10 of Pasadena runs for yardage against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Idrique Carmichael, second from right, of Pasadena celebrates with teammates after catching a pass for a touchdown against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Head coach Dejuan Shamburger of Pasadena against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Head coach Dejuan Shamburger of Pasadena against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Quarterback Jake Long #6 of La Serna passes against Pasadena in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Cameron Mitchell #10 of Pasadena catches a pass for first down against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Cameron Mitchell #10 of Pasadena catches a pass for first down against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Head coach Dejuan Shamburger of Pasadena against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Owen Long #1 of La Serna runs for a first down against Pasadena in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Owen Long #1 of La Serna runs for a first down against Pasadena in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Owen Long #1 of La Serna runs for a first down against Pasadena in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Quarterback Indiana Wijay #2 of Pasadena scrambles against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Cameron Mitchell #10 of Pasadena catches a pass for a first down against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Idrique Carmichael #9 of Pasadena is tackled by La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Baylin Brooks #1 of Pasadena runs for a first down against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Idrique Carmichael #9 of Pasadena catches a pass for first down against Owen Long #1 of La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Idrique Carmichael #9 of Pasadena catches a pass for first down against Owen Long #1 of La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Quarterback Indiana Wijay #2 of Pasadena passes against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Cameron Mitchell #10 of Pasadena catches a pass for a first down against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Marlan Wilson #3 of Pasadena runs for a first down against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Marlan Wilson #3 of Pasadena runs for a first down against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Quarterback Indiana Wijay #2 of Pasadena is tackled by the La Serna defense in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Cameron Mitchell #10 of Pasadena catches a pass for a first down against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Baylin Brooks #1 of Pasadena runs for a first down against La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Cameron Mitchell #10 of Pasadena catches a pass for a first down against Aj Nambo #5 of La Serna in the first half of a prep football game at Maranatha High School in Pasadena on Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
PASADENA – The La Serna High football program is used to success. It’s been one of the most consistent programs the past several years with deep CIF-Southern Section playoff runs. Pasadena High has been known more for boys basketball. But that’s been changing as the Bulldogs football program has started to get attention the past few years. But experience is what mattered most on Friday night at the Lancers battled back for a thrilling 15-14 win in nonleague action.
That experience came in the form of 17 returning starters who didn’t let seven turnovers or a 14-2 halftime deficit rattle them. They came out in the second half and stifled a dangerous but inconsistent Bulldog offense, forcing four turnovers. Then, offensively, La Serna controlled the ball, keeping the Pasadena defense on the field for much of the third and fourth quarters.
La Serna trailed 14-2 and appeared close to cutting into the lead when it drove to the Pasadena 1 early in the third quarter. But Adrian Castro fumbled with Michael Liggins recovering. That didn’t rattle La Serna. On the next play, Owen Long intercepted an Indian Wijay pass and scampered into the end zone to cut the lead to 14-8.
La Serna then took the lead for good with 9:41 left in the fourth quarter after recovering a Cameron Mitchell fumble. A penalty put the ball at the Pasadena 20, Castro later plunged into the end zone to from a yard out to finish a four-play drive.
Pasadena had three more possessions to grab the lead but couldn’t score. Pasadena took over at the La Serna 33 with 2:55 left in the game and drove to the La Serna 19 where it faced a fouth-and-11. Wijay threw a prayer into the end zone but Jayden Northrup leaped up to intercept ending any hope of a Bulldogs comeback.
The Bulldogs defense could prove to be a force this season. It stifled the Lancers offense in the first half, holding it to only 87 total yards and picking off quarterback Jake Long four times. The Pasadena secondary also broke up several passes, a couple were nearly additional interceptions.
Michael Liggins picked off Long’s first pass of the game on the first offensive play for La Serna. After Pasadena was unable to convert that opportunity into a score, La Serna got the ball back but Long was intercepted on the subsequent drive by Sean Jones.
Pasadena was unable again to capitalize off the turnover and punted. The third interception though proved to be the breakthrough Pasadena needed. Long dropped back to set up a screen pass near midfield on a third-and-6 play early in the second quarter but the ball was tipped and ended up in the arms of James Buckley. A penalty gave Pasadena the ball at the Lancer 49.
Pasadena moved the ball down to the La Serna 14 but two penalties pushed the ball back to the 26 where the Bulldogs faced a second-and-22. Wijay dropped back and hit a wide open Idrique Carmichael in stride in the end zone to give Pasadena a 6-0 lead with 6:33 left in the second quarter.
La Serna cut the lead to 6-2 with 3:23 left before halftime when Elijah Garcia sacked Wijay in the end zone for a safety on a third-and-6 play at the Pasadena 12.
The Lancers promptly got the ball back at the Bulldog 46, threatening to take the lead. However, Carmichael intercepted Long’s pass on the next play and returned it to the La Serna 25. The Bulldogs quickly went to work and used a five-play, 25-yard drive to take a 14-2 lead when Marlan Wilson scored on a 4-yard run.
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LOS ANGELES ― After six innings of scoreless baseball, Trayce Thompson got the Dodgers on the board Friday night.
In the ninth inning, he kept the Miami Marlins off the board.
Thompson’s leaping catch at the fence in right-center field denied Nick Fortes a possible game-tying home run and helped preserve a 2-1 Dodger win. After the 395-foot flyout came to rest in the web of Thompson’s glove, even Fortes joined the announced crowd of 50,431 at Dodger Stadium in applauding the outcome.
“As an outfielder, any ball at the wall you can pull down, it’s a good feeling to help your pitcher out there,” Thompson said. “It felt good.”
Thompson guessed the ball would have hit the wall. In any case, it was the defensive highlight of the season for the 31-year-old outfielder, who was making only his eighth start of the season in center field.
Down 1-0, the Dodgers scored once in the seventh on an RBI double by Thompson, and once in the eighth on a mental error by the Marlins, to win the first game of a six-game homestand.
Mookie Betts (3 for 4) led off the eighth inning with a triple, prompting the Marlins to draw their infielders in with the score tied, 1-1. With one out, Will Smith hit a ground ball sharply to Marlins third baseman Jon Berti, who immediately looked home to throw out the breaking Betts.
Catcher Jacob Stallings, however, had followed Smith a few steps up the first-base line. Suddenly Berti had no throw, and Smith had a rare fielder’s choice RBI.
Thanks to Thompson’s catch, that proved to be the game-winning play.
Chris Martin (4-0) was credited with the win after pitching a scoreless eighth inning. Evan Phillips, pitching on a night off for closer Craig Kimbrel, escaped the ninth inning with his second save of the season. Manager Dave Roberts said Kimbrel was resting after pitching three times in the previous five days.
The ending upstaged a compelling pitchers’ duel between starters Tyler Anderson and Jesus Luzardo. The two left-handers traded zeroes for six innings, pitching masterfully out of what little trouble they faced.
Anderson threw more changeups (45) than fastballs (43). By allowing one run in seven innings, he lowered his ERA to 2.73. For the first six innings, he held one of the National League’s weakest lineups to three singles, three walks, and no runs.
“I didn’t feel like I had my best command and my best stuff,” Anderson said. “This was a day of trying to compete. Getting into situations where I walked some guys, or had some guys on, and didn’t feel like I was throwing great pitches.”
The score was 0-0 in the seventh inning when Jacob Stallings led off with a double to right-center field. Anderson came back to retire Charles Leblanc and Peyton Burdick, bringing up No. 9 hitter Jerar Encarnacion with two outs.
Anderson got ahead of the rookie left fielder 0-and-2, then left a knee-high changeup over the plate. Encarnacion smoked it to left field for a double, driving in Stallings to give Miami a 1-0 lead. Typically stoic, Anderson whacked his glove three times with his right hand after returning to the dugout bench.
“I think with two strikes, 0-2 (count), you don’t want to give up a hit,” Anderson said. “Even more frustrating was falling behind Stallings and throwing fastballs almost down the middle. They were away, but just throwing the same pitch eight times to try to get the leadoff guy out, not walk him.”
The 1-0 margin threatened to hold up because of Luzardo, who threw exactly 100 pitches over 6⅓ innings. He only once went to a 2-and-0 count, never 3-and-0. For all the strikes the Dodgers saw, they only mustered four hits against Luzardo. Only Betts’ double on the first pitch of the first inning went for extra bases.
Designated hitter Justin Turner led off the seventh inning with a single. With one out, the Marlins turned to right-hander Steven Okert to strike out Dodgers third baseman Hanser Alberto.
Thompson was up next. He lined an 0-and-2 pitch into the left field corner. Encarnacion threw wide of his cutoff man, allowing Turner to score all the way from third base.
“I believe in JT,” Thompson said. “JT’s fast.”
In his second stint as a Dodger, Thompson has quickly cemented a job as one of two backup outfielders along with recent acquisition Joey Gallo. His 32 hits have yielded 23 RBIs – fomenting the perception of clutchness and inspiring a few believers of his own.
“He’s been around for quite some time and really has an understanding of who he is as a big league ball player, and really has the ability to slow the game down,” Roberts said of Thompson, whose father (Mychal) and brother (Klay) forged careers in the NBA. “It’s probably in his bloodline.”
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"He has that ability to slow the game down." Dave Roberts on Trayce Thompson's impact, Tyler Anderson's outing and more. pic.twitter.com/Duf7qiefZe
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Eastern Niagara County Republicans will be voting Tuesday on their choice for a candidate for Congress in the upcoming midterm election.
Congressman Chris Jacobs announced he would not be seeking reelection after his decision to support gun control legislation, as well as the redistricting of congressional boundaries within New York state. The newly mapped 24th Congressional District starts in eastern Niagara County, curves around Rochester, and reaches the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in upstate New York. Two noteworthy candidates in this primary are sitting Congresswoman Claudia Tenney from New Hartford and attorney Mario Fratto from Geneva.
Tenney who is currently the representative of District 22 is still in the process of relocating within the boundaries of the new 24th District, and has said that while she is living at a rented house in Canandaigua, she is still in the process of looking for a new home to buy there. Tenney’s lack of prior locality has been a point that Fratto has regularly criticized her for. Despite this she feels that the similarities between the regions of this district and her previous one make her an ideal choice.
“I think that the issues, challenges, and strengths of this district match my strengths in Congress,” she said. “They need strong advocacy, and I think I’m the best person to do that.”
Tenney was elected to Congress in 2016, and prior to then she was a member of the state Assembly. She has also already received the nomination of the New York Conservative Party for the general election, as well as the endorsement of former president Donald Trump.
Fratto has been running for Congress as far back as when Jacobs still would have been his competitor. While Tenney is still staunchly conservative, Fratto has positioned himself further to the right of her, and has even accused her of not being as conservative as she claims, and is only running to stay a congresswoman.
“She’s running to stay in office, and it has nothing to do with representing the people,” Fratto said. “I’m running because I care about this area, and the people in it, and the reason she’s doing this is because she needs to keep her job.”
Both candidates have voiced their support of former president Donald Trump, though Tenney has received his endorsement for her campaign. Both have also criticized the FBI for the recent search warrant that was executed at Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.
“This seems more like a fishing mission,” Tenney said, “but we’ll have to know more when we see the affidavit.”
“If the FBI raided Barack Obama’s home a year and a half into the Trump presidency, and broke into his safe, I think there would be rioting in the street,” Fratto added. “People would be calling Trump a dictator and a tyrant, and would be seeking his removal from office immediately. The fact that this isn’t happening under Joe Biden tells you how much of a double standard there is.”
Both candidates have emphasized they believe the U.S. should crack down on illegal immigration, that the Second Amendment should be upheld, and that they are pro-life. However they have disagreed more clearly on the matter of supporting Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia.
“I’m very concerned about Russia taking over Ukraine, taking its resources, and committing violence against the Ukrainians,” Tenney said.
Tenney has emphasized her support of Ukraine, which included her support for funding various initiatives to supply the besieged nation, as well as supporting NATO allies like Poland citing the large amount of Ukrainian refugees they’ve taken in. Her main criticism of US/Ukrainian relations was that she believes that the Biden administration isn’t doing enough for Ukraine.
“I wish that we had a different president who wasn’t feckless and impotent regarding us on the world stage,” Tenney said. “If we had been strong, we might not have even seen an invasion of Ukraine.”
Fratto on the other hand, said that while he sympathizes with the situation the Ukrainians have been put in, the U.S. shouldn’t be prioritizing Ukraine’s wellbeing over its own citizens.
“I feel bad for the Ukraine,” he said. “But I don’t think we’re in a position to put them ahead of American interests. Sending $53 billion to help Ukraine is a slap in the face to all the Americans who are struggling.”
He said that America must resolve its own problems before it should think of funding foreign aid.
“It’s like when you’re on an airplane, and when the oxygen masks drop, and they tell you to put your own mask on first,” Fratto said. “Because you’re of no use to anyone if you don’t help yourself first. That’s how I view this situation.”
On the economy, Tenney said that tackling energy prices are key to resolving current problems with inflation.
“Energy has been the fulcrum driving the supply chain crisis,” Tenney said. “It’s been driving up the costs of making goods. Whether it’s trucking or shipping, everything has become more expensive because of the energy issues.”
Tenney feels that the best means to combat inflation is an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy that utilizes all energy sources, and that fossil fuel companies shouldn’t be vilified as part of a green energy initiative that’s being forced along too quickly. She also said that she is in favor of some government regulations in regards to consumer safety.
Fratto has said that he doesn’t think that the US should be spending more than it makes, and should cut unnecessary spending. He even said he supports going as far as abolishing some federal departments like the Department of Education, saying that it’s pushing a radical agenda.
“If we’re not spending, then we’re not devaluing the currency,” Fratto said.
In regards to how both candidates view each other, Tenney considers the various criticisms that Fratto has leveled against her as being slanderous. She said that Fratto doesn’t have the political experience that she has, and that she goes into transparent detail on explaining her votes in Congress when she makes them.
“I have thousands of votes with an excellent record, and huge endorsements including President Trump, the New York State Conservative Party, and nearly every major group that’s on the conservative side,” Tenney said. “I don’t think Fratto has much experience, I don’t think he’s got a good grasp of the issues. He isn’t talking about what he stands for other than smearing me, but I don’t think he’s fooling a lot of people.”
Citing Rep. Liz Cheney’s recent primary loss in Wyoming, Fratto also likened her to Tenney, saying both having an “F” Liberty Score from Conservative Review.
“Tenney and Cheney both have a 53% rating from them, which means they only vote the right way 53% of the time, and 47% they vote liberal,” Fratto said. “I’m a real conservative, I live in the district, and I don’t support the woke agenda being pushed by the radical left.”
When asked about Army Veteran Steven Holden who resides in Oswego, who is the Democratic contender the primary victor would face in the general election, Tenney said that she didn’t know him that well, but thought he seemed nice based on a brief interaction the two had when they met at the Wyoming County Fair.
“He seemed like a pleasant guy,” said Tenney. “His views seem to be very far-left, but we’ll have to deal with him when we get past the primary.”
Fratto also said that he didn’t know much about Holden, but that he and Tenney likely have a lot in common, and that if he does win the primary, then he won’t have to shift his messaging too much.
“I wouldn’t have to change anything.” Fratto said. “I would just be changing the name from Tenney to Holden.”
One other candidate is running in the Republican primary, George Phillips who has run against Claudia Tenney before, though he couldn’t be reached for comment.
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• CHEERS: It’s great to see so many local businesses taking advantage of the Niagara County Facade Program. The program provides funding to local businesses to make improvements to their buildings. Throughout the county, 173 local businesses were approved for awards, which can be up to $50,000 as a dollar-to-dollar match for what businesses are planning on putting down for their own projects. Among local projects are new awnings for the Palace Theatre and a new barn roof for Bob Hall of Halls Apple Farm, both in Lockport. The $5.2 million that was allocated for this program from Niagara County came from funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. The county had originally designated $3 million for the program, however, it added another $2.2 million due to heightened interest. We’ll see the positive results from the funding for years to come.
• CHEERS: The “Reelin’ for a Cure” fishing derby was back on the water at Wilson and Olcott harbors on Friday. Stephanie Pierleoni created the event in 2016, citing a love of fishing and three friends battling cancer. Since then, she says she has donated thousands to charities associated with battling female cancers. In fact, the first year of the derby, 10 boats participated. Forty-five were registered this year. Several have come from Ohio, Pennsylvania and even West Virginia.Every year, Pierleoni selects a new beneficiary of the derby proceeds. Past recipients have included American Cancer Society’s Wig Room, Look Good, Feel Better, and the Breast Cancer Network of Western New York, which supports metastatic cancer research. This year’s “cause” is the Ovarian Cancer Project. While you may have missed the fishing, there’s still an opportunity to help by making a donation at the Reelin’ for a Cure website.
• CHEERS: Here’s a hearty salute for Bob Ramos who’s set to turn 101 on Tuesday. The celebration started a week early as Congressman Brian Higgins came to the Falls to present him with six military medals to honor his service during World War II. The ceremony took place at the John Duke Senior Center at Hyde Park, with Ramos’ family, Mayor Robert Restaino, and many others present. There was also old photos of Ramos’ days in the U.S. Navy, a birthday cake, and an American flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol building in his honor. Higgins said he had previously met Ramos at the center’s annual summer picnic, where they talked about Ramos’ time in the Navy. “When I asked if he ever received his medals, Bob’s response was, ‘I don’t get medals,’ ” Higgins said. “Bob’s story serves as an important reminder of the sacrifices made to protect our freedom. We are eternally grateful for all his has given to our country and to this community.” We couldn’t agree more and were very happy to finally see him recognized.
• JEERS: When is Carl Paladino gonna learn? The Buffalo businessman and Republican candidate for Congress said in a recent radio interview that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “should be executed” for authorizing a search former President Donald Trump’s home — he did later clarify in the show that he wasn’t being serious. It’s nothing new for Paladino, in June, he shared a Facebook post suggesting that a racist mass shooting in Buffalo was part of a conspiracy to take away people’s guns. The same month, he apologized for a comment he’d made in an interview in which he said Adolf Hitler was “the kind of leader we need today” because of his ability to rally crowds. In 2016, Paladino made disparaging, inappropriate comments about then-President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. The act’s getting old. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/three-cheers-and-a-jeer/article_563d9914-2005-11ed-a2a9-3fe2ada9a49e.html | 2022-08-20T06:41:38Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/three-cheers-and-a-jeer/article_563d9914-2005-11ed-a2a9-3fe2ada9a49e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Buffalo Bills tight end Dawson Knox thanked fans for their support after the death of his brother, 22-year-old Florida International University football player Luke Knox.
“Thank you all for the outpouring of love and support for my family. Our hearts are broken but we know Luke is in a much better place now with his savior Jesus,” Dawson Knox tweeted. “We’ll celebrate his life at Christ Pres. Church tomorrow, visitation starting at 2pm and the service will start at 4pm.”
The Bills tight end also included the link to the livestream of his brother’s funeral and memorial services, which will take place in their home state of Tennessee.
Luke Knox spent four seasons at Ole Miss before transferring to FIU for his fifth year. The cause of his death was not disclosed.
“Words cannot express the heartfelt sorrow we feel because of the passing of our teammate and friend, Luke Knox,” FIU coach Mike MacIntyre said in a statement following the announcement of the 22-year-old’s death. “I had the honor of coaching Luke at Ole Miss and FIU. While I admired his passion for football, his genuine love for his family and teammates is what I will always remember. He had a special way of making everyone around him feel comfortable and confident.”
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin offered his condolences in a tweet Thursday: “I am very grateful for my personal relationship and time spent with Luke,” Kiffin wrote. “He was a tremendous teammate and an even better person who lifted up everyone around him.”
“We send our thoughts and prayers to Luke’s family, friends and teammates during this difficult time,” FIU athletics said in a statement. “Coaches and support staff have been reaching out to our football family and will continue to do so to ensure our student-athletes have the support they need.” | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/bills-dawson-knox-breaks-silence-on-brother-luke-knoxs-death/ | 2022-08-20T06:47:07Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/bills-dawson-knox-breaks-silence-on-brother-luke-knoxs-death/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Things got a little heated Friday between the Jets and Falcons during the teams’ joint practice at Gang Green’s headquarters.
“Our defense, their offense — a little skirmish,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said. “We settled it down and got a productive practice out of it.”
There were a few shoving matches between the Jets’ defensive line and Falcons’ offensive line. Then, a bigger fight erupted with Jets defensive lineman Bradlee Anae throwing some punches at a Falcons player. The two sides were separated and practice was stopped for a time while the coaches spoke to their teams.
“It was fine,” Falcons coach Arthur Smith told reporters. “You’re always going to have that. It’s like people [doing] a little peacocking as they’re running around each other. It was nothing.”
Saleh gave a good quote on Falcons second-year tight end Kyle Pitts: “He’s a ‘create-a-player’ on Madden. That’s exactly what you would look like. He’s going to be a dynamic football player for a long time.”
Saleh was sporting a T-shirt that said “60 percent” on it Friday. He explained the meaning behind the shirt.
“Everyone knows I kind of have an infatuation with the Navy SEALs. I have a lot of respect for them,” Saleh said. “They talk about fight or flight. Everybody’s flight or fight doesn’t kick in until you’ve achieved 40 percent of what you’re capable of. Everyone’s 40 percent is different. When you’re on the field and you feel like you’ve gone far enough, you’ve only accessed 40 percent of what you’re capable of and you’ve got 60 percent more. To get into it, you’ve got to go to a dark place and the darker you get the more you’ll access.”
Rookie CB Sauce Gardner got his first interception of training camp on Friday, and it came off his former college teammate Desmond Ridder, the rookie quarterback from Cincinnati. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/tensions-flare-up-during-jets-falcons-joint-practice/ | 2022-08-20T06:47:25Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/tensions-flare-up-during-jets-falcons-joint-practice/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Lagos-based man, Isma’il Alfa has dragged his estranged wife, Maryam Adam, to a Sharia Court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, seeking custody of their six-year-old son.
Isma’il, through his counsel, A. J. Liman, said that his wife left their matrimonial home with his child for three years, and had tried to bring them back, but to no avail.
Liman said that his client had gone to work and settle in Lagos, a development which now compelled him to seek custody of their son so that he could take proper care of him.
The defendant, Maryam, who lives within Kaduna metropolis, through her counsel, Yunus Jundullah, said that the issue of custody only comes when there is no marriage between the two people.
He stated that the complainant should wait for the court’s judgment, with regards to the issue of divorce being sought by the defendant.
The judge, Rilwanu Kyaudai, after listening to both parties, adjourned the case till August 23 for continuation.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the defendant had, on the same day, approached the court for divorce, saying she no longer loved her husband.
“He has kept to all his responsibilities as a man, but I don’t love him anymore, and I don’t want to disobey God by staying in the union.
“I am willing to pay back his bride price,” she said.
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US Customs and Border Protection officers in Ohio seized three shipments of counterfeit watches and jewelry worth an estimated street value of nearly $7 million, officials said.
The officers intercepted the shipments from Hong Kong in Cincinnati, CBP said in a news release earlier this month. They contained more than 800 knock-off Cartier bracelets and 13 Rolex watches. The bracelets were addressed to a private residence in Virginia and the watches to a business in Texas.
One of the packages had a declared value of $319, but had the jewelry been real it would have been worth more than $3 million, CBP said.
"CBP officers play a critical role in the Nation's efforts to keep unsafe counterfeit and pirated goods from harming the American public," Richard Gillespie, Cincinnati port director, said in the release. "This is yet another dramatic example of how CBP officers work every day to protect the American consumer, the US economy, and US jobs."
The CBP warned of a significant increase in counterfeit and pirated goods entering the US, fueled largely by the rapid growth of e-commerce.
"US consumers spend more than $100 billion every year on intellectual property rights (IPR) infringing goods, falling victim to approximately 20% of the counterfeits that are illegally sold worldwide," the CBP said in the release.
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Offensive woes haunt Tri-Valley against DeSales
DRESDEN — The Tri-Valley offense will need time to mature.
It was evident in the season opener on Friday night.
The young Scotties suffered through self-inflicted miscues, as three interceptions and two bad snaps thwarted any rhythm in a 28-0 setback to Columbus DeSales at Jack Anderson Stadium.
One of the bad snaps came on the opening drive of the game. The Scotties were facing a 3rd-and-1 at the DeSales 29-yardline when the snap rolled past quarterback Max Lyall. He jumped on it to secure a punt, but it was an ominous sign for the offense.
The Scotties were limited to only six total yards in the first half and didn't earn a first down until 4:45 left in the game.
Lyall finished just 7-of-20 for 31 yards, while no runner had more than 20 on the ground with Jayden Wallace carrying the ball seven times for 16 yards.
Tri-Valley coach Cam West understood there would be struggles, while knowing his team can learn from the film.
His Scotties head to Licking Heights for a Week 2 showdown next Friday.
"We have new guys in key positions and expected to have some mistakes. DeSales has three linemen and two linebackers that are as good, if not better, than any we will see all season," West said. "We did put some plays in that we didn't connect on. We didn't execute, and that was probably frustrating for our defense.
"Our guys saw a good team, a playoff team. They now understand what it takes to compete at that level."
The Tri-Valley defense did its part, besides a few big plays. The first one for the Stallions came on their opening drive when quarterback Avery Garlock found an opening on third-and-7 and outran the defense for a 57-yard yard touchdown. Joey Bangert added the first of four extra points for an early 7-0 lead at the 9:45 mark of the first quarter.
DeSales looked like it may run away early after intercepting Lyall for the first time on the ensuing Tri-Valley drive.
But, the Scotties defense forced a fumble that led to a punt, and on the next DeSales drive, Ashton Sensibaugh stuffed Garlock in the hole on fourth-and-1 to turn the ball over on downs.
That effort stood out to West, who praised his team's fight for all four quarters.
Garlock finished with 128 yards and three touchdowns and Caruso chipped in 103 yards for the Stallions, who only attempted 11 passes.
"I thought our defense was fantastic. They played with physicality, and we're going to see good things on film," West remarked. "This whole team fought to the bitter end. I've seen some groups fall down 14-0 then it's 40-0, but this group didn't do that. We learned about their attitude and effort, and those are things we can build on."
DeSales extended its lead late in the first quarter. Facing third-and-6, Garlock again found a seam and raced 53 yards for the score and a 14-0 advantage.
The Scotties' Drake Durst ended the next Stallions' drive with an interception deep in Tri-Valley territory, and another defensive stop later in the second quarter kept the Scotties within striking defense.
However, another offensive miscue put a damper on those defensive stops. Lyall was swarmed on a DeSales blitz, and the pass was tipped into the hands of Ty Neubert, who rumbled 20 yards for the pick six with 2:09 left in the half. Bangert's PAT made it 21-0, which was the score at the break.
Lyall's third interception of the game, which came at the DeSales 10 in the third, setup the Stallions' final scoring drive of the game. They covered 90 yards on nine plays, including a 40-yard connection between Garlock and Michael Walker that reached Tri-Valley territory. Caruso busted out for a 28-yard gain four plays later, leading to Garlock's 4-yard TD surge that pushed the lead to 28-0 with 1:21 left in the third.
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Cracked: Waterford 'D' stymies Ceramics in new stadium
McLUNEY — The nostalgia of the brand new turf and stadium created at Crooksville High School was electric, and the atmosphere and community presence of opening night was an event to be forever remembered.
A large crowd welcomed Division VII, Region 27 foe Waterford to their new digs, and the Wildcats spoiled opening night with strong defense in an 18-6 nonleague win.
It was the first time in more than 100 years the Ceramics haven't played at Village Park, its home in the village that became inoperable after electrical and lighting issues in 2021.
The Wildcats intercepted quarterback Trinton Cottrell three times and held the Ceramics offense to 114 yards of total offense as they defeated them for the second straight year in the season opener.
The Waterford offense was paced by Dylan Taylor, who found the end zone twice. Waterford has been nothing but dominant in Region 27, reaching five consecutive playoffs. It marked the second straight year they held the Ceramics to single digits in points.
“We just had moments where we thought we could get right back in the game and we failed to capitalize on those moments in the game,” said Ceramics Head Coach Gage Lotozo. “We knew with Waterford what we were in for. They are going to come at you with big backs, they tackle well and they are well coached. They have a fundamental program that has made them successful. When we fall behind to a team like them, it makes it challenging for ourselves. We committed penalties that ended promising drives and we have to get better.”
Crooksville defense responded on the first drive of the game, feeding off the intense crowd energy. Waterford quarterback Jake Pantelidis was stone-walled on the Ceramics 2-yard line by Andrew Willison. Crooksville’s offense then gave the ball back after Cottrell was intercepted by cornerback Mason Heiss at the Crooksville 25.
Running back Lane Cline then capped off a 4-play scoring drive, taking a short pass from Pantelidis and scampering 29 yards for the score at the 1:51 mark in the first. The extra point was bobbled and the ball thrown away, but it was 6-0, Wildcats.
The short down-and-distance plays plagued the next Ceramics drive after a pleasant run by running back Christian Browning. After failing short of the first down to end the first quarter, Lotozo’s Ceramics turned the ball over on downs at midfield to open up the second quarter.
Waterford continued to dominate up front with Taylor capping off a 10-play, 56-yard scoring drive as he bolstered himself in from the 2. It was 12-0 after Pantelidis’ run was stuffed short of the goal-line at 7:23 in the second.
The field was littered with yellow laundry on the Ceramics’ ensuing drive, a trend that continued throughout the game. The Ceramics had 11 penalties for 117 yards on the night — eclipsing their offensive production — most coming from questionable facemask penalties. Waterford had even more issues with penalties with 13 for 174 yards.
While the Ceramics failed to capitalize on those penalties, Waterford found ways to get the ball in the end zone. Nearing the end of the half, Pantelidis muffed a snap under center that was recovered by Ceramics defensive lineman Seth Dalrymple on the Wildcats 27. Crooksville couldn’t capitalize on good field position, again turning it over on downs. Waterford took a 12-0 lead into the half.
When the Ceramics needed a big play, their offense sputtered even more. With two holding penalties and one big loss, they were forced to punt.
Taylor made them pay, ending a 10-play scoring drive with a 10-yard run that saw him bust through the Ceramics' interior for the score. It put the Wildcats up three scores at 18-0 and all but vice-gripped the clock.
Crooksville didn't go quiet into the night, though.
After two personal foul penalties and two long runs by Cottrell, the hard-running quarterback found pay dirt to end the shutout with 10:55 left in the fourth. Cottrell’s two-point conversion run was short, making the score 18-6.
The Ceramics got another chance to climb back into the game after Cline’s fumble at the Waterford 34, but Crooksville’s offense failed to move the ball and cornerback Gaibe Ponchak picked off Cottrell at the Ceramics 45.
It was officially under wraps. Lotozo knows he has had to be the face of the evolution of the program, which continues with a 12-game losing skid.
“I have been on the forefront with our kids about change,” Lotozo said. “Our players are hurting right now after not winning tonight, but we can’t change that. The only thing we can focus on right now is tomorrow and how we respond. We have a young roster and have limited depth, but that’s not going to keep us from doing our best.”
The Ceramics get another chance to shake off a disappointing loss to an exciting week of football when they take on Fairfield Union. The Falcons were trounced by New Lexington, 41-14, in their opener.
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Week 1 Roundup: Maysville, Morgan, Philo win big
NEWTON TOWNSHIP — Visiting Meadowbrook entered the Maysville Athletic Complex with consecutive Muskingum Valley League-Small School Division titles to their credit.
The Panthers showed them that a third might be more difficult to manage this season, scoring five unanswered touchdowns in a 35-7 win in an MVL crossover on their home field.
Senior quarterback Alex Bobb accounted for a trio of touchdowns and Maysville scored the first 35 points, as they outgained the Colts, 356-182, and averaged 7.1 yards per play.
Bobb's 1-yard run and Sammie Scott's first of four extra points put the Panthers on the board in the first quarter, which was followed by Tyler Debolt's 44-yard scoring catch from Bobb later in the quarter.
Up 14-0, the Panthers added two more scores before the half on Wesley Armstead's 14-yard scoring toss on a trick play to Cohen Fink, and Bobb's 25-yard scoring strike to Hayden Jarrett.
Jarrett, a first-team All-East District pick as a junior, scampered 42 yards for a touchdown in the third to cap the scoring and force a running clock.
Bobb was 16-of-23 passing for 191 yards and ran three times for 30, while Jarrett tallied 78 yards on the ground on 11 carries. Debolt had a team-high 62 receiving yards on three catches; Armstead hauled in 6 for 55 and Jarrett 3 for 44, respectively.
Evan Dyer caught 7 passes for 48 yards for the Colts, who managed only 3.2 yards per play. Sam Bopp carried 20 times for 93 yards to lead the ground attack.
Morgan 54, River View 34: Wade Pauley had three rushing scores and Logan Niceswanger threw three TDs to propel the Raiders past the Black Bears in Friday's season opener.
Niceswanger finished 10-of-15 through the air for 193 yards and connected with Kole Searl, Carson Copeland and Mason Burnside on scores, while Copeland churned up 160 yards on 27 carries to go with two receptions for 58 yards to pace the winning effort.
Pauley added 50 yards on eight carries on the ground, while Searl caught three passes for 78 yards, as six Raiders had at least one catch.
Cruz Mobley had a 72-yard TD run and Jamal Watts scored a pair of TDs in the second half to highlight the River View effort.
West Muskingum 19, Lakewood 13: Ty Shawger scored the game-winning touchdown from a yard out in the third quarter, and the Tornadoes stopped the Lancers on a fourth-and-goal early in the fourth to secure a season-opening win.
West M led 13-0 in the first half. Jake Anton connected with Keegan Karns on a 4-yard score early in the second quarter, then Anton found Slater Sampsel for a 36-yard scoring strike to push the lead to 13-0 after a Silas Kuhn PAT.
The Lancers got on the board with just two minutes left in the first half then recovered West M's fumble on the opening kickoff of the third. Lakewood converted that turnover into another touchdown, tying the game at 13.
Philo 47, Athens 6: Six different Electrics scored, as the winners outgained the Bulldogs 396-100 in a victory at Sam Hatfield Stadium.
Drew Lincicome and Case Fink had rushing scores of 7 and 13 yards, respectively, in the first quarter. Braden Peyton made his first two extra points and went 5 of 7 on those on the night.
Blake Linkous stretched the lead to 20-0 with a 4-yard scoring scamper in the second quarter. Athens then got on the board when Landon Wheatley found Marcus Severs for a 30-yard TD, but Philo answered, as Demetrius Strickland found Cade Searls for an 8-yard score to extend the lead to 27-6 going into the half.
Lincicome added his second score of the night from 15 yards out in the third. Max Zimmerman also had a 7-yard TD run in the third, while Talon Preston raced 99 yards early in the fourth to cap the Philo scoring.
Preston finished with 112 yards on five carries, Lincicome had 57 yards on five totes, Linkous ran 10 times for 58 yards, and Zimmerman had 49 yards on seven attempts to highlight a balanced rushing attack. Strickland completed 4 of 5 passes for 51 yards, as Searls hauled in three of those for 51 yards.
Strickland also had an interception on defense, while Zack Savage nabbed two sacks and recovered a fumble and Michael Wood also had a sack for the defense, which only allowed three first downs and held the Bulldogs to 1-of-11 on third down.
Sciotoville East 52, Rosecrans 20: The Bishops hung in early in a long road trip to Scioto County, but the Tartans piled up 436 yards and scored 22 unanswered points to pull away in a nonleague win.
Rosecrans was within 22-14 after Brenden Bernath found Mikey Burkhart for an 8-yard touchdown pass, and then hit him with the two-point conversion pass, with 6:21 left before halftime.
But the Bishops' defensive woes continued, as Sciotoville quarterback Austin Baughman scampered in from the 9 with just 11 seconds left before halftime to send the Tartans to a 30-14 lead.
Rosecrans never got closer, as Baughman added a 1-yard TD pass to Matt Flannery with 7:24 left in the third, and Landehn Pernell added a 10-yard scoring run 5:54 later to push the lead to 46-14.
Bernath hit Nick Bernath for 32 yards with 11:47 left in the fourth to cap the Bishops' scoring.
Dylan Fitzgerald had 15 carries for 114 yards and Pernell and Cam Justice had 14 carries apiece for a combined 164 yards. Baughman also passed for 95 yards and 2 TDs.
Bernath was 17-of-26 passing for 171 yards and 2 TDs, with five receivers catching at least two passes. Burkhart and Hartman had four catches apiece.
Brody Zemba had 5 rushes for 66 yards for Rosecrans.
New Lex 41, Fairfield Union 14: The visiting Panthers built a 27-7 halftime lead in downing the rival Falcons.
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Can Scotland's high streets withstand the tightening grip of cost-of-living pressures?
On so many streets in the centre of Scottish towns and cities, the gleaming panes of shop, cafe and restaurant windows have been replaced with boarded-up facades, and gone from hives of activity to permanent hibernation.
Now, with an already-beleaguered but hugely important part of the economy facing the caustic combination of increased costs, including energy bills and wages, and consumers tightly reining in spend due to the cost-of-living crisis, how many more businesses will also close their doors for good in the coming six months, including the festive season and traditionally muted January?
This week saw the news of inflation heating up to 10.1 per cent, which exceeded expectations and “wiped out” a modest rise in the value of Scottish retail sales in August, which consequently “flatlined” in real terms, according to data unveiled the same day by the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and KPMG.
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We are living through a “hugely” challenging time for retail, SRC director David Lonsdale now says, adding that it follows two “incredibly” difficult years. “Once again, the industry is in the eye of the storm, facing into significant spikes in its own cost base, whilst customers’ disposable incomes are being eroded by inflation, most notably due to the spike in energy prices,” he said.
Some energy experts have warned the average annual household bill could top £5,000 by next spring. A separate report published late last month found the proportion of Scots that said they were struggling financially had more than doubled.
Mr Lonsdale said: “It seems somewhat perverse that retail and other consumer-facing sectors, which were amongst the most impacted by Covid, are once again and so quickly set to bear the consequences of this cost-of-living crunch. It may well be a third consecutive tough Christmas trading period for the sector.
“The costs crunch comes as retail destinations and city centres continue to struggle in terms of shopper footfall with fewer commuters and business travellers. The number of visits to stores has improved, but remains well shy of pre-pandemic levels, with Scotland rooted to the bottom of the UK footfall league table.”
The SRC and Sensormatic Solutions earlier this month announced Scottish retail footfall fell by 16.5 per cent in July, marking the third month in a row of suffering the weakest such figures in the UK. Mr Lonsdale warns: “If retail spending in city centres fails to fully recover, that could have implications for already gap-toothed high streets."
In terms of the pace of those gaps appearing, more than four shops a day on average disappeared from Scotland’s main retail locations in 2021, according to a report unveiled earlier this year by PwC and the Local Data Company. They found 1,424 chain shops were closed, with 673 opening, giving a net loss of 751, up from a net loss of 652 in 2020.
Acceleration
The study also noted the rate of closures hit the accelerator as pandemic-related state support was wound down, while a separate report flagged a near-50 per cent year-on-year jump in corporate insolvencies in Scotland in the second quarter of this year.
“With footfall low and costs rising, for those businesses already operating in survival mode following the pandemic, particularly in sectors like retail and hospitality, these are troubling times,” Richard Bathgate, chair of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 in Scotland and restructuring partner at accounting firm Johnston Carmichael, said at the time.
And now, Charandeep Singh, deputy chief executive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, says many businesses in town and city centres north of the Border, such as pubs, restaurants, music venues, nightclubs, hotels and wider hospitality, “have again reached a tipping point [while] others are staring down the barrel of potential jobs losses – and even permanent closure”.
In terms of the circumstances causing this, he states: “With chronic challenges in the supply chain, labour shortages, interest rates and inflation, rocketing energy prices have become an existential emergency right across the economy.
“Businesses are also facing increased pressure to increase wages to support workers through the cost-of-living crisis as well as having to pay more just to keep staff ... this is especially challenging for businesses that are already running on tight cost-to-profit margins.
“Businesses need immediate support from government now or many will not see out the end of this year, especially with energy costs increasing over the winter. This winter will be make or break for many firms that are already teetering on the edge.
Support
“The call from business is clear – the emergency UK Budget by the next prime minister must focus on bringing the cost of energy down for firms by lowering VAT on energy bills and introducing an energy price cap for SMEs, providing a similar level of support as that offered during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Also issuing a loud and further call for state support is Scottish Hospitality Group spokesman Stephen Montgomery, who says stratospheric energy bills are the biggest issue, with some firms facing 400 per cent jumps.
“Until somebody in government gets a grip of that and does something about it ... we are going to see some major small to medium-sized businesses take the option of closing before it’s too late for them,” he says.
He adds that hospitality is embedded in the heart of every single community… any footfall decline is going to have a major impact on every single bar and restaurant.
Mr Lonsdale said “fresh action is needed to bring footfall and energy back into our city centres”, via initiatives such as Glasgow City Council this week starting to post out to 85,000 less-well-off households a £105 pre-paid shopping card. He said the SRC supported such a move that “will provide a very timely £9 million fillip for shops in the city centre”.
However, any potential support is too late for McTaggarts cafe in Aberdour, Fife, which will shut for good on August 28 due to a staff shortage. “The shock of the decision has probably not hit us yet, it’ll only really be when we close the doors for the last time,” said John McTaggart. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business/can-scotlands-high-streets-withstand-the-tightening-grip-of-cost-of-living-pressures-3813185 | 2022-08-20T07:07:11Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business/can-scotlands-high-streets-withstand-the-tightening-grip-of-cost-of-living-pressures-3813185 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Seventeen months after the construction of a second transient training troops barracks started at Fort McCoy, the Army Corps of Engineers-managed project has surpassed 95 percent completion.
In an Aug. 19 report, Ken Green with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office at Fort McCoy said the construction of a second four-story barracks is 96 percent complete and remains on schedule.
The barracks, funded at $18.8 million in fiscal year (FY) 2020, resembles another barracks that was also built by current contractor L.S. Black Constructors that is adjacent to this project in the 1600 block at Fort McCoy’s cantonment area. The first barracks that was built by the same contractor was turned over to Fort McCoy’s Directorate of Public Works on April 1.
Green said Aug. 19 that current work more exterior concrete work, exterior grading, mechanical yard fencing is being installed, systems are being worked on, and much more. The current completion date continues to be set for December 2022, Green wrote in the update.
Large construction projects like this barracks project also contributes to the economic impact of local communities. Fort McCoy Garrison officials said Fort McCoy’s total economic impact for fiscal year FY 2021 was an estimated $1.93 billion, above the $1.479 billion reported for FY 2020, garrison officials announced.
Also for FY 2021, the economic impact for the fiscal year also included $39.4 million in military construction on post. For FY 2022, that figure should also be similar, officials said.
The Fort McCoy Executive Summary, available on the installation website, www.home.army.mil/mccoy, also shows the installation makes continuous improvements to provide a plethora of training capabilities for service members.
“Throughout the last decade, Fort McCoy experienced unprecedented facility modernization, training area development and expansion, increased training and customer support capability, and improved quality-of-life opportunities,” the summary states. “From unmanned aerial vehicles, to urban training facilities, to live-fire ranges and virtual-training environments, Fort McCoy is prepared to meet the training needs of the Army in the 21st century.”
The summary also states how Fort McCoy provides “full-scale support to its customers at each juncture of its training triad — transient, institutional and exercise. Transient training customers are those who are at the installation for a period of two weeks or less. Transient training is the foundation and building blocks on which individuals and units learn and hone warrior skills.” That is who these barracks will support.
Also, in the overview about the installation in the 2022-23 Fort McCoy Guide, it further details what the post has to offer.
“Fort McCoy’s mission is to strengthen Total Force Readiness by serving as a training center, mobilization force generation installation, and strategic support area. As a Total Force Training Center, Fort McCoy’s primary responsibility is to support the training and readiness of military personnel and units of all branches and components of America's armed forces. Fort McCoy is a Mobilization Force Generation Installation prepared to support contingency operations as ordered.
“As a world-class installation, Fort McCoy’s continuing goal is to provide excellent customer service and facilities and to enhance the quality of life for all who train, work, play, or live here,” the overview states. “The Fort McCoy community truly is unique, with active, reserve, and civilian components working together for the betterment of all facets of life at the installation.”
More updates on the FY 2020 barracks project will continue until its completion.
Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.
The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984.
Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on the Defense Visual Information Distribution System at https://www.dvidshub.net/fmpao, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”
Also try downloading the Digital Garrison app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base.
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Vanessa Bryant, widow of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, broke down at times Friday as she testified that she experiences panic attacks and anxiety over the possibility of seeing photos from the 2020 helicopter crash that killed her husband, their teenage daughter and seven others.
On the witness stand in her federal lawsuit against Los Angeles County, Vanessa Bryant recalled being at home with her family, breastfeeding her 7-month-old daughter Capri, when she learned of a Los Angeles Times report about county sheriff's deputies sharing the graphic photos.
"I just remember not wanting to react cause the girls were in the room," she testified, her voice rising with emotion. "I said, 'I can't do this.' ... And I bolted out of the house and I ran to the side of the house so the girls couldn't see me. I wanted to run... down the block and just scream. I can't escape my body. I can't escape what I feel."
Along with Chris Chester, whose wife and daughter also died in the crash, Bryant filed a federal civil lawsuit alleging Los Angeles County invaded their privacy and inflicted emotional distress by not properly containing the spread of the photos which, according to witness testimony, show not just helicopter wreckage but the mangled bodies of the victims.
Bryant admitted to being nervous on the stand and cried when talking about her late daughter Gianna. She had to gather herself when describing the day it took to find Gianna's body in the wreckage. She sobbed as she recalled looking at a secure NTSB website to identify clothing and other personal items of the victims.
Bryant recounted her interaction after the crash with Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who informed her that her husband and daughter had been killed. She broke down at times when recalling the events.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Bryant. Is there anything I can do for you?" Bryant recalled Villanueva asking.
"If you can't bring my babies back, then please secure the area. I'm concerned about paparazzi," she recalled telling him.
The sheriff assured her that he would, but he remained in the room, Bryant said. She urged him to leave and to handle her request immediately.
According to Bryant, Villanueva stepped out and returned, telling her he had secured a temporary flight restriction over the area through the Federal Aviation Administration.
Bryant testified that she had to remove comments from her Instagram feed after the images were distributed. Her attorney Luis Li displayed a comment sent to her shortly after the LA Times story published.
"Ima leak Kobe's body," said the message, which included helicopter and fire emojis.
Defense attorneys, in court filings, have indicated they plan to address Bryant's own Instagram posts, including one from Halloween in which she is dressed as Cruella de Vil, a villain depicted in Disney movies.
"They say there are five stages of grief: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Well, I'd like to add one more...revenge. -- Cruella," the caption reads.
Li asked Bryant about the post. She testified that the choice of costume was consistent with other Halloween outfits she has worn, including the Wicked Witch from "The Wizard of Oz" and Darth Vader.
Bryant said she dresses up as the bad characters to allow her girls to be the good ones.
Sheriff testifies he devised a 'bargain' to ensure photos were deleted
During cross examination, the defense sought to show that Bryant had other sources of stress beyond the photo controversy, including a lawsuit filed against her by her mother. Bryant testified that her mother "thought she was entitled to money."
Defense attorney Mira Hashmall told Bryant that her mother "accused you of fraud... elder abuse, that must have been stressful."
"It was definitely hurtful," Bryant said, adding that she also felt betrayed.
"I'm sure that was stressful," Hashmall asked.
"Yeah, it wasn't easy," Bryant replied, adding that the lawsuit was settled and it didn't cause the kind of lasting fear she has of the crash scene photos surfacing.
"That was a stress at the time, but my mother gave birth to me. She raised me. And like I said, it has been resolved," Bryant said of the lawsuit.
The defense pressed Bryant on whether her goal was for the photos to never be seen -- which the LA County claims its actions accomplished.
"I would have wanted someone to recover all the photographs and investigate" who shared what, Bryant said.
The first witness for the defense, Sheriff Villanueva, testified about the need for expediency in handling the leaked photos. He said that opening a formal investigation would invoke union legal rules that could involve attorneys and delays and allow more opportunity for the photos to spread.
"There's one way we're going to get them immediately," Villanueva said, referring to the crash scene, so he devised what he called a "bargain."
The deputies involved in the leak would prove the photos were deleted and get a note about their conduct in a performance log, Villanueva testified.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs sought to show that the handling of the episode limited internal affairs from later conducting an investigation into alleged wrongdoing.
"You can't have the accountability and (also) risk the photos getting out," Villanueva testified. "And we picked the right one."
Bryant had earlier testified that she lives in fear because a formal investigation could not confirm all crash site photos were accounted for and destroyed.
Law enforcement personnel described how they shared photos
The trial has so far seen testimony by several law enforcement personnel, including a deputy who testified he showed graphic images from the scene while at a bar, another deputy who said he shared photos while playing a video game, a deputy who sent dozens of photos to someone he didn't know, and a fire official who showed the images to other personnel during an awards ceremony cocktail hour.
Chester, who along with Bryant filed the suit, testified on Thursday, saying he lives in fear that the graphic photos taken of his loved ones' bodies may resurface one day.
Chester took the stand after several days of testimony from the law enforcement officials -- some of whom offered apologies, detailed the graphic nature of the photos, and explained why they were taken and shared and why orders were given to delete them.
Bryant has been in the courtroom listening to the testimony of every witness except the coroner. She walked out of the courtroom abruptly as a bartender testified about seeing photos.
Villanueva is expected to be followed on the stand by LA County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone.
Kobe Bryant, 41, and Gianna Bryant, 13, were among nine people killed in the January 26, 2020, helicopter crash on a hillside in Calabasas, California.
They were flying to a girls basketball game at Bryant's Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks when the helicopter went down, leaving no survivors.
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Former Garrison Commander, Col. Karen Hobart, speaks at the U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach change of command ceremony on Katterbach Kaserne, Aug. 19, 2022.
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Talking to a few folks around the MCC, there's a little bit of a buzz around Southridge.
They have several returning players, including the defense which is all seniors.
Could the Suns make some noise in the MCC and find their way to the state playoffs for the first time since 2016.
The players are believers.
"State champs and recognition, that's all I want," said Senior Lucien Cone. "I don't want recognition just for myself but for my team, for the up and coming team, for when we're gone and every year after."
James Rush, a Senior RB/LB agrees noting, "Everyone wants to win. Everyone is ready to win. We put in the work and time in the offseason and I'm really excited.
Trevor Hoopes says both the defense and offense are great, but their offense in particular is, "state champ level."
The players also praised their comradery saying that they've been together for several years and that's helped build a bond beyond football.
Coach Matt Johnson says their focus is getting better everyday and with the right process, the results will take care of themselves.
Still, "We want to prove a lot of people wrong," said Johnson. "There's a lot of people that still don't believe that we can be successful in this league. It's a super tough league and every game is hard. We want to prove the doubters wrong and prove the people that believe in us right."
Southridge won two of their first three games in 2021, but stumbled after that.
Johnson is hoping for better consistency with so many seniors.
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A pair of Central Washington standouts signed contracts to play professionally in Europe, the university announced Thursday.
Ellensburg’s own Kassidy Malcolm, the 2022 GNAC player of the year, joined Kara Trutnov in the Czech Republic. She’s eager to experience a new culture and find out how her Division II success translates to the international game.
“I think it’ll definitely be a big adjustment just because I have grown up here and this is all I’ve really known is Ellensburg,” Malcolm said. “It’ll be a hard experience but it’ll definitely help me grow as a person.”
She first became interested in playing overseas after speaking with Alexis Pana, another CWU standout who signed to play with Romania’s CSM Alexandria in spring 2021. Malcolm and teammate Kizzah Maltezo both signed with Pana’s agent, who helped Maltezo find a spot with CSM Alexandria.
The season begins in early October and Malcolm said she’s planning to fly out on September 18 after signing a contract on July 5. She’s spent time in Italy, Germany and Ireland but said she knows very little about the Czech Republic or the makeup of the team.
“Really I was open to go anywhere,” Malcolm said. “I really don’t know anything about the language so I think it would be kind of cool to try to learn as much as I can while I’m over there.”
Malcolm, who started her collegiate career as a volleyball player and made the All-GNAC Honorable Mention list as a sophomore, finished sixth all-time in scoring and rebounding for CWU basketball. She averaged 17.9 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game in her fifth and final season while shooting nearly 48% from the field and 40% from 3-point range.
Her versatility made her difficult to stop offensively, and she joined Zillah grad Samantha Bowman to form a dominant frontcourt for the GNAC tournament champions. They picked up the school’s first NCAA Division II West Region tournament win before falling to rival Western Washington.
“I feel like my experience has been a unique one,” Malcolm said of her career. “But I’m just beyond grateful and thankful for everything that has happened and the people who helped me get where I am today.”
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — The international jump up from Pan American to World competition proved to be a big one for Haiden Drury.
With limited opportunities.
The Toppenish graduate, who will start his sophomore year at Utah Valley University next month, fell in the single-elimination first round at the U-20 Greco-Roman World Championships on Friday.
Representing Team USA in the 63-kilo bracket, Drury lost 8-0 to Azerbaijan’s Ziya Babashov, who was a silver medalist three years ago at the U-17 World Championships.
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Southeastern Rail has urged the public to only travel by train today (August 20) if absolutely necessary as further industrial action is set to cause widespread disruption across the network. This is the second bout of strike action from the RMT and TSSA unions to take place this week, and will impact the vast majority of Kent stations.
Limited services will run between London and Ashford , Dartford and Sevenoaks, while passengers are urged to seek alternate transport where possible. Where services are running, passengers have been warned to expect severe disruptions and are encouraged to plan their entire journey ahead of time.
In total, just 43 of the 180 Southeastern stations are to be in operation today. Stations found in areas such as the Medway towns, Tonbridge , Maidstone , Thanet , Canterbury , Folkestone and Dover will see no services at all today.
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No rail replacement buses will serve stations that are closed. Customers have also been warned that they may be unable to board trains at stations where a limited service is running, especially at locations such as Ashford and Ebbsfleet, and that the last trains back from London will be much earlier than usual.
Those that will be travelling tomorrow (August 21) have also been warned to expect severe disruption in the morning. Services will not run again until Network Rail staff begin their shifts on Sunday.
Kent’s open stations for Saturday, August 20
Ashford International
Chelsfield
Chislehurst
Dartford
Dunton Green
Ebbsfleet International
Elmstead Woods
Knockholt
Petts Wood
Orpington
Sevenoaks
The first and last train times for the Southeastern services that will operate from Kent are as follows:
Ashford - London St Pancras via Ebbsfleet International
First train from Ashford: 07:48, last train: 16:37
First train from Ebbsfleet International: 08:07, last train 17:05
First train from London St Pancras: 08:35 (to Ebbsfleet), 08:49 (to Ashford), last train: 17:33 (to Ashford)
Dartford - London Bridge via Woolwich
First train from Dartford: 07:46, last train: 17:16
First train from London Bridge: 08:08, last train: 18:04
Dartford - London Victoria via Bexleyheath
First train from Dartford: 07:37, last train: 17:37
First train from London Victoria: 07:54, last train:17:24
Dartford - London Victoria via Sidcup
First train from Dartford: 07:23, last train: 16:53
First train from London Victoria: 08:09, last train: 17:39
Orpington / Sevenoaks - London Victoria
First train from Orpington: 07:31, last train: 17:30
First train from Sevenoaks: 07:45, last train: 17:15
First train from London Victoria: 08:06 (to Orpington and Sevenoaks), last train: 17:06 (to Sevenoaks), 18:06 (to Orpington)
Tickets and refunds
Passengers who have already bought a ticket can apply for a refund if you do not travel. Daily ticket holders will be able to claim a full refund with no admin fee, while advance ticket holders can either apply for a full refund with no admin fee or return to the original retailer for an eVoucher.
Season ticket holders can use Delay Repay to claim a day travel back if they do not travel, while Flexi ticket holders can receive Delay Repay by ensuring their pass is activated for the day they're claiming.
With many ticket offices to be closed on these dates, tickets can be purchased online or from ticket vending machines at stations. For further details about the strike action and services that will be running, click here .
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Building from scratch is never a walk in the park - Nick Freer
Staying at my uncle’s house in southwestern France this week, somewhere on a line between Toulouse and Bordeaux, we recalled that it had been more than ten years since we had visited last.
At that time, my wife was pregnant with our first child, and I was trying to make a good fist of launching an agency and building a client base.
Early clients were something of a motley crew, including the British Council, Skyscanner, and a London law firm. The British Council was an unusual gig, supporting the culture and education body around its activities in Scotland, ghostwriting articles, producing videos, and editing a monthly newsletter.
I’m not sure I ever got to the bottom of the British Council’s true raison d’être or the politics at play, the world of soft power the organisation operates in is inherently opaque, and it’s not a client I would take on today. Back then though, I had a family to feed, rent to pay, and I was more of a gun for hire.
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Often in life, including in our working lives, you can chalk less positive episodes up to experience. For example, while the only in-house PR job I ever had was a low point in my career, on the plus side it brought me to Edinburgh where I met my wife, and it was the genesis for wanting to set up on my own.
When I moved to Edinburgh, I didn’t know a single person in the city, although I had family in Glasgow and the west. Professionally, and socially, I remember it being quite a difficult time, missing the cut and thrust of the PR world in London, and all the friends I mucked about with there. On reflection, I think I was probably quite depressed during that period.
However, I had learned my craft from some of the best in the business during a decade with one of Europe’s top agencies and, although I didn’t know it at the time, that experience combined with a determination to succeed put me in good stead. Making a few pals in the new neighbourhood also helped.
When you build something from scratch, it’s never going to be a walk in the park. The process is a valuable one though and, for me, you have to trust your instinct. And when you’re lucky enough to have the ear of advisers to support around opportunities and challenges along the way, that’s a good place to be.
Recently, I heard a CEO talk about how, “sometimes your tactics will dictate your strategy”, as opposed to the other way round. There is a lot of truth in this - when you throw things up and they stick, they become strategic fixtures.
Back in rural France, well and truly out in the sticks, we felt like we had gone back in time, which in a funny way we had without wifi for the week. That came as a shocker for our kids, who we may not have managed to get onto the plane if they had known in advance. While their expressions said zut alors, it was good to disconnect for a week before returning to the old routine. Très bien!
Nick Freer is the founding director of strategic corporate communications agency the Freer Consultancy
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Why Hibs are bringing in a sniper to East Mains as Rangers 'show of unity' recalled
Hibs manager Lee Johnson is looking for some sharpshooting to give his team a clinical edge but when he welcomes a bona fide sniper into the ranks over the next few weeks, it will have less to do with simply hitting the back of the net and more to do with imbuing his players with the level of resilience needed to meet the club’s overall targets.
“How do you build resilience? It’s experience, isn’t it?” said the Easter Road boss in the build-up to Saturday’s head-to-head with Rangers.
Relying on a squad with a youthful presence and newcomers with limited knowledge of the Scottish game and each other, he admits it is taking time to pull everything together but insists they are doing everything they can to accelerate the process.
“You can’t expect a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old from Portugal, for example, to come over and have the same resilience that you’ve got at your age with what you’ve been through in your life.
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“They have to learn these lessons and then they have to come back stronger. And when they do, and they win their next game against Livingston, for example, and get man of the match, you’ve gone through adversity and come through it.
“So, we need to keep working on it, trust it, trust the training.
“We do a speaker series where guys come in. I think we’ve got a sniper coming in in a couple of weeks which will be good. All these little things, it’s like drawing on anybody and everybody to try and give these lads that little bit more resilience.”
Hibs have already displayed some resolve, bouncing back from a disappointing Premier Sports Cup campaign and pulling late, late goals out of the bag in their opening two league matches against St Johnstone and then Hearts. But they came up short against their West Lothian opponents last week and are now looking to rebound positively when Rangers turn up in Leith.
“Listen, I think it keeps it fresh. In the past I’ve had the Red Arrows and the SAS come in [to speak to players and staff]. We’ve had Marcus Trescothick … anyone that we can get hold of really at a reasonable cost to try and inspire and keep it different.
“It’s a bit of schooling. I enjoy it, I think the staff enjoy it, and the players end up enjoying it as well. We have to create this growth mindset and this environment which is consistent.
“In terms of the sniper, it’s definitely about control, isn’t it?
‘It’s about slowing down the mind’s eye and concentration because this modern day young pup, let me tell you, is used to three-second entertainment on Instagram and they move on.
“To hold concentration isn’t the easiest thing to do for these younger guys.”
The hope this weekend is that Rangers, with a testing second leg Champions League play-off second-leg tie on Wednesday against PSV worth multi-millions, will be the ones struggling to focus. But even if Giovanni van Bronckhorst prioritises the trip to Eindhoven, Johnson says it would be foolhardy to expect a second-string Govan side to pose anything other than a challenge to his team at this juncture.
“You have to be respectful of the opposition’s threat. We would never not be diligent about the opposition. But it’s still about the lads’ attitude when they go out onto the pitch.
“I thought our attitude was poor in the first 30 minutes against Livingston. I thought it was excellent in the second half and it was one mistake that cost us.
“So I’m looking for that attitude and personality in the performance no matter who we are playing against.
“I want us to be able to have a team with a blank kit and everyone says ‘yeah, that’s a Hibs team’ because of a recognition of the way we play.
“If we get beat, we know why we’ve got beat. If we play well and win, we know why we’ve done it because there’s a philosophy and a consistency.”
Having overseen marginally more than a month of competitive action, with newcomers still to settle into the pack, Johnson concedes that developing and improving things on the field is very much a work in progress.
But he does not want his players to take to the field against Rangers or anyone else with any hint of an inferiority complex.
“You can’t make somebody fitter overnight and you’ve probably done all your tactical work aside from two or three little conversations. But you can give the lads confidence and our supporters can give them confidence.
“A player playing with confidence, you can get 15-20 per cent more out of them than one playing with fear. So we try to instil a lot of confidence in our lads.”
Rangers will arrive in Leith with three wins from three in their opening Premiership matches, having scored eight goals and conceded just one. But, with their vital European match finely balanced at 2-2 at the halfway stage, the timing of this encounter could make things slightly easier for the home side. And, Johnson knows how delicious victory would taste, having sampled it while playing with Kilmarnock.
“It’s an unbelievable experience. The second time I played against them was the ‘show of unity’, after Rangers got put into administration.
“I vividly remember it being one of the loudest atmospheres I’ve ever played in. Trying to tell your mate ten yards away to track a runner was nigh on impossible.
“We won that game 1-0, with Dean Shiels scoring.
“You want big games as a player. I look back at those games now and I just want to play.
“I’ve heard that [these games can be feisty]. I’m learning about these mini-rivalries that seem to be particularly hot in Scotland.
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Scottish rugby: Mismatch between expectations and reality is more evident than ever before
John Jeffrey, speaking as Scottish Rugby Union chairman, made it clear that not everything in the Murrayfield garden is quite as rosy as the chief executive Mark Dodson’s agm speech had suggested.
There are, JJ admitted, too many areas where failure is more usual than success now. In particular, something has gone badly wrong with age-group rugby. Whether the fault is to be found in the identification and selection of players, in their training and preparation, indeed in their rugby education, is a mystery, but the fact is that at under-20 level, we are not only behind Ireland and Wales, but also Italy and Georgia. Behind, below, and sinking.
It may be too soon, given its Covid-disrupted start, to judge if the SRU’s darling child, the Super6 semi-pro experiment, is going to provide an effective bridge between the amateur and professional games. All one can say is that if it’s a golden road to success, it’s not apparently one that any of the other top 12 rugby-playing countries has chosen to take.
JJ was fairly critical of the recent record of our two pro teams, though he did acknowledge that Edinburgh showed a marked improvement in Mike Blair’s first season in charge. He may have been a bit harsh. Of course it’s disappointing that both failed at the knock-stage of both the URC League and the two European Cups. At least they got that far. Edinburgh did indeed play some first-class rugby last season and even Glasgow, though overall very disappointing, had their moments. They did give quite a good account of themselves against La Rochelle, the eventual Heineken champions.
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Gregor Townsend’s Scotland team had what at best you might call a running-on-the-spot Six Nations. What we often seem to forget is that in a six-team league, there will always be more who are disappointed than happy. Just at present it is clear that France and Ireland are a cut above any of the other teams. Nobody can reasonably be surprised that they finished in the top two places. The real question was which of them would be the champions. Our own disappointment was at least equalled by England and Wales
The truth is that when England and France are both strong we are always likely to lose to them. This has also been the case, more often and not, with Ireland and Wales. The real charge against the SRU’s handling of the professional game arises from a comparison of Irish and Scottish rugby over the last 25 years.
There has also been criticism of the summer tour to Argentina, and certainly some of it is justified. It was more than disappointing to see what should have been a match-winning lead let slip in the last quarter-hour of the tour, though we should also recognise the quality and determination of Argentina’s recovery. I doubt if we would have lost from such a strong position at Murrayfield. Home advantage does often mean a lot.
We did come very close to success in Argentina, and the performance looks better still since Argentina’s crushing defeat of Australia last week. Moreover, Townsend had chosen to rest three of the 2021 Lions – Stuart Hogg, Chris Harris and Finn Russell, while Jamie Ritchie was still in recovery from the injury sustained against Engand in February. Given Ritchie’s importance to Scotland since the last World Cup, it’s possible – even likely – that both the Six Nations and the series in Argentina might have had a happier outcome if he had been in the team.
The truth is that for most of our rugby history there has been a mismatch between expectations and reality; and perhaps this is even more the case today. Whatever the SRU’s commercial success – a success both admirable and essential – it remains the case that the domestic game provides a very inadequate base for success. Nothing – not even the recent dismal record at age-group international level – makes this clearer than the need to scour England for players with a Scottish qualification, no matter how flimsy.
These are usually youngsters who have for one reason or another slipped through the net of the English system. Sometimes we may count ourselves dam lucky they have done so: Ali Price would be a case in point here. It is only occasionally that one is convinced that the player in question has always identified most strongly with Scotland. Of course many of those whom we used to call Anglo-Scots – dual-qualified youngsters – have served Scotland magnificently, but, again, Ireland don’t now seem to feel the same urgency to search so diligently for Anglo-Irish talent. Their domestic game produces sufficiently rich crops. | https://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-union/scottish-rugby-mismatch-between-expectations-and-reality-is-more-evident-than-ever-before-3812486 | 2022-08-20T08:13:03Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-union/scottish-rugby-mismatch-between-expectations-and-reality-is-more-evident-than-ever-before-3812486 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Controversial social media influencer and former reality TV star Andrew Tate was banned from Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram on Friday.
Tate, 35, was banned due to violations of Meta’s policies on dangerous organizations and individuals, according to the BBC. Before he was banned, Tate had over 4.7 million followers on his Instagram account, @cobratate.
The former kickboxing champion discussed the ban with popular Twitch streamer Adin Ross.
“I’m quite understanding of their position,” Tate said. “It’s not a big loss for me. It’s not something I use too often.”
“I’m kind of relieved because the real world is such a beautiful place. The less things on my phone and it’s just one less thing I have to look at. I’ll just get in my supercar and go for a drive.”
Tate told the Twitch streamer he doesn’t know why he was banned from the Meta platforms. But went on to say that he has “good people on the case” and that he trusts “Due process.”
Tate’s first rise into the limelight came when he appeared as a contestant on the UK version of “Big Brother” in 2016.
He was kicked from the show after a video emerged of him allegedly attacking a woman. Tate’s stance on the video is that it was edited and “a total lie trying to make me look bad,” as reported by the BBC.
In 2017, during the height of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, Tate was suspended by Twitter for saying that women should “bear responsibility” for being sexually assaulted.
Tate’s popularity grew amid outlandish comments about women’s intelligence, saying they’re “intrinsically lazy,” and is a strong proponent that men should have “authority” over a woman when in a relationship.
CBS News reported that an account associated with Tate was permanently banned from TikTok, as the company ramps up its efforts to remove videos of Tate’s hateful ideologies. His videos are being uploaded by various accounts not directly associated with Tate, with the #andrewtate having more than 13 billion views on TikTok.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Former Boston Red Sox star Bill Lee collapsed in the bullpen while warming up for a Savannah Bananas exhibition game Friday night, but the 75-year-old pitcher walked off the field with assistance.
“He was able to leave the stadium with medical attention and was taken to a local hospital,” team president Jared Orton said in an email to The Associated Press.
Lee, a member of the Red Sox Hall of Fame and fondly nicknamed “Spaceman,” was in the right-field bullpen when the episode occurred.
Lee has pitched for the Bananas, a popular club known for its bright yellow uniforms and entertaining antics on and off the field. There is another version of the Bananas in the Coastal Plain League, a college summer league.
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Friends and fellow authors spoke out on Salman Rushdie’s behalf during a rally Friday on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library, one week after he was attacked onstage in the western part of the state and hospitalized with stab wounds.
Rushdie’s condition has improved, and, according to his literary agent, he has been removed from a ventilator.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Tina Brown and Kiran Desai were among those who shared wishes for a full recovery, told stories of Rushdie as an inspiration and defender of free expression, and read passages from his books, essays and speeches, including from “The Satanic Verses,” the 1988 novel that was condemned by some Muslims as blasphemous.
Rushdie spent years in hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his death, but had traveled freely over the past two decades.
The hourlong “Stand With Salman” gathering was presented in part by the library, by Rushdie’s publisher, Penguin Random House, and by the literary and human rights organization PEN America. Hundreds were in attendance, many affiliated with PEN, of which the 75-year-old Rushdie is a former president.
“He’s been a constant, indefatigable champion of words and of writers attacked for the purported crime of their work,” said the day’s first speaker, PEN CEO Suzanne Nossel. “Today, we will celebrate Salman for what he has endured, but even more importantly, because of what he has engendered — the stories, characters, metaphors and images he has given to the world.”
The rally did not include any new words from Rushdie, but Nossel said he was aware of the event and even made suggestions for what to read. Rushdie’s son Zafar Rushdie, who has been with his father, tweeted that “it was great to see a crowd gathered” outside the library.
“Stand With Salman” took place the day after a judge in Mayville, New York, denied bail to 24-year-old Hadi Matar, who has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault. While in jail, Matar told the New York Post that he disdained Rushdie as anti-Muslim and expressed admiration for the Ayatollah.
On Friday, other readers included the author and journalist Gay Talese, author and former PEN president Andrew Solomon, and the poet, lawyer and activist Reginald Dwayne Betts. Actor Aasif Mandvi read from Rushdie’s upcoming novel, “Victory City,” which he completed before the attack and includes the passage “I myself am nothing now. All that remains is the city of words. Words are the only victors.”
Eugenides, whose novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Middlesex,” remembered traveling to London in the early 1980s. Eugenides was 20 and Rushdie’s breakthrough novel “Midnight’s Children” had recently been published. He knew Rushdie lived there and decided he wanted to meet him. It was years before “The Satanic Verses,” and Eugenides found his name and address in the phone book.
“I took the tube out to his house. As it turned out, Salman wasn’t at home; he was in Italy, vacationing,” said Eugenides, who was greeted by Rushdie’s then-mother-in-law and left a note for the author.
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Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he would soon file a “major motion” in connection with the FBI’s search on his Florida estate earlier this month.
Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform, alleging that his constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure were violated in the Aug. 8 Mar-a-Lago search.
Federal agents, acting on a search warrant, stormed Trump’s palatial estate as part of a probe into whether the 45th president illegally took classified material when he left the White House.
Agents left with 27 boxes of material, 11 of which contained classified documents which they suspect violate the Espionage Act and other statutes, according to federal authorities.
“A major motion pertaining to the Fourth Amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago, right before the ever important Mid-Term Elections,” Trump wrote in his Friday social media post.
“My rights, together with the rights of all Americans, have been violated at a level rarely seen before in our Country. Remember, they even spied on my campaign. The greatest Witch Hunt in USA history has been going on for six years, with no consequences to the scammers. It should not be allowed to continue!”
Trump’s announcement came a day after the federal judge who signed off on the search warrant moved to make parts of the affidavit that established probable cause for the search public, despite objections from federal prosecutors.
Prominent media outlets have argued that unsealing the document would enable the public to see if the search was justified.
Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a rare statement defending the feds in the wake of the search saying he would “not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked.”
Trump has argued that he used his presidential powers to declassify the seized materials before he took them home from the White House. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/trump-hints-at-legal-action-over-fbis-mar-a-lago-search/ | 2022-08-20T08:19:41Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/trump-hints-at-legal-action-over-fbis-mar-a-lago-search/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A 25-year-old wildland firefighter was killed after being struck by a tree while battling the Rum Creek Fire in Oregon, officials said Friday, marking the second fire personnel death in the state this month.
Logan Taylor of Talent, Oregon, was critically injured Thursday, according to a joint statement from the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Bureau of Land Management.
After learning of Taylor's injuries, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue airlifted Taylor out of the mountainous terrain to the Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford for treatment, according to the joint statement. Taylor succumbed to his injuries, despite lifesaving efforts from firefighters and EMS personnel assigned to the fire and medical staff, it said.
Taylor was the operator of Sasquatch Reforestation, an forestry department-contracted firefighting company.
"We are extremely saddened by the passing of Logan Taylor. This loss is deeply felt by our ODF family and throughout the wildland fire community as a whole," said Tyler McCarty, ODF Southwest Oregon District Forester. "Safety remains our top priority. ODF and our partners are committed to learning from this accident and to doing everything we can to reduce the risk of similar incidents occurring in the future."
"A loss of a firefighter's life impacts the whole firefighting community, and we send our condolences to the family friends and coworkers," said Elizabeth Burghard, BLM Medford District Manager said. "Safety is the number one priority for the BLM and our wildland firefighting partners. We want every firefighter to come home safely each day."
The Rum Creek fire, one of dozens of wildfires burning in Oregon, is about 30 acres in size, according to Jackson County Emergency Management. The blaze is located north of Galice, about 150 miles south of Eugene, in southern Oregon.
Last week, a 27-year-old firefighter, Collin Hagan, died when he was struck by a tree while battling the Big Swamp fire in southwestern Oregon.
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It didn’t take long for Benjamin Russell quarterback Gabe Benton to find a rhythm against Sylacauga.
By the end of the first half the junior had racked up 370 yards completing 12 of 16 passes and finding three different receivers on five touchdown passes. It was a performance first year Wildcat Coach Smitty Grider was not surprised at.
“He played like we expected,” Grider said. “He got the ball to our guys and allowed them to make plays.”
Grider was proud of the fact Benton put the ball in the hands of five different receivers on the night, going 16 of 23 for 423 yards through the air and a total of five touchdown passes.
“We got some guys at receiver that can really play,” Grider said. “If Gabe will distribute the ball like that, we are going to have a good season.”
Benton would connect with senior receiver Corri Milliner for three touchdown receptions of 22, 78 and 22 yards. Benton connected with Chris Foster for a 80 yard touchdown, La’Bronski McKinney for a 35 yard touchdown pass and Malcon Simmons for a 40 yard touchdown pass.
Millner would lead the receiving corp with six catches for 183 yards.
“The guys we knew who are playmakers on offense made plays,” Grider said. “We were physical on defense but I think we had some bad fits that allowed them to make some yards on a few running plays. We have got to clean that up.”
The Wildcats held Sylacauga scoreless in the first half going to the locker room up 34-0. The Wildcat defense mostly held Sylacauga in check. On six drives, the Wildcat defense forced three and outs three times and allowed a first down before a punt on another drive. Sylacauga did put one 12 play drive together but failed to make a 36 yard field goal.
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Grider sees room for improvement for his offense.
“We have to clean up several things,” Grider said. “We have to be able to run the ball effectively.”
In the first half the Wildcats only mustered 23 yards on eight carries.
Malik Maddox did turn things up in the second half on the ground. Maddox would carry the ball 16 times in the game, 12 in the second half for a game total 69 yards.
Grider told his team to relish in the victory a little.
“Overall, great night,” Grider told his team. “We got better from last week. We played together tonight. We played as a team. We pulled for each other. That is what I’m talking about, when you are happy for your teammate’s success, then we are going to have success.
I want you to enjoy it all the way to Sunday afternoon. Then we get to work again.”
The Wildcats travel to Central of
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Central Coosa head coach Shundell Russaw and his squad suited up for their first game under a new coach on August 19 when Verbena visited Rockford to open the 2022 season.
The Cougars clawed back against the Red Devils but eventually fell 36-8 at home to open the season 0-1.
Verbena marched down the field with screen passes and up the gut rushes for the first score of the game, with Central Coosa responding back with a successful drive of their own.
Quarterback Antoneo Grant caught the ball off of a kickoff and rushed it back to the Verbena 25 yard-line where the Cougars got to work.
Grant broke a few tackles on his way to an eight-yard gain while the team inched closer to the end zone, capping off the drive with a touchdown catch from wide receiver Damarkus Sandin, who left his defender laying in the grass with his hands on his helmet after a failed defensive effort.
The Red Devils offense got rolling in the second quarter as a kickoff was returned for a touchdown immediately after the Cougars’ scoring effort. Verbena stuck to the ground as yardage was chunked away on 15 and 20-yard rushes, eventually landing the team in the end zone twice in the quarter.
At the half, Central Coosa trailed the Red Devils 30-8. But heads didn’t hang for the Cougars, and hands weren’t resting on hips as a sign of defeat.
Central Coosa junior Cassidy Howard didn’t let the halftime deficit knock his confidence, as the agile running back made the most out of his second half carries with chunk plays after wrestling off would-be tacklers.
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“He’s a leader, and I challenge my guys to never give up at halftime,” Russaw said following the match.
Russaw said that he saw a lot of fight in his players, something his team can build on going forward.
“We gotta correct some fundamental things, but my kids never gave up," Russaw said. "We got a lot to be proud of. You can’t magically make a team win overnight, so we’re going in the right direction, and kids are buying in.”
Central Coosa defensive back Elijah Richardson made a highlight reel on the defensive side of the ball with a tipped interception at the start of the fourth quarter.
A teammate jarred the ball loose from a receiver and Richardson seized the opportunity, stretching out midair and grabbing the ball before it could reach the ground. It was Richardson’s first interception of the season after finishing the 2021 season with eight interceptions in nine games.
“I saw the ball was up and the dude was trying to catch it, so I hit him and the ball fell into my hands,” Richardson said.
“Getting better in practice, getting stronger, gotta develop as a team,” Richardson said, naming a few goals early in the season for this young Cougar squad.
The Cougars will travel to Talladega next week to face the 1A Talladega County Central Fighting Tigers. Last season, the Cougars ended their schedule with a 60-20 whopping of Talladega.
“Coosa football culture is changing, tonight we took a small step, keep practicing, they’ll take that big step,” Russaw said.
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Dadeville survived a first half war of attrition with visiting Comer to literally run away with the opening game of the year, winning 48-21.
“We scored a lot of points,” said head coach Roger McDonald. “We were pleased. We beat a heck of a football team.”
Senior DaQuan Doss dazzled in Dadeville’s first game, eclipsing well over 200 yards and scoring three times on the ground to give Dadeville a 1-0 start.
“He is as healthy as he has been,” McDonald said. “He played a great game.”
Six of Dadeville’s seven scores came on the ground, as the Tigers were able to mash away at Comer using McDonald’s signature run-first style offense.
“Offensive line did an exceptional job,” McDonald said. “We were able to knock ‘em out.”
The first half of the ball game featured just about every aspect of football one could ask for. Onside kicks, break away scores, and fourth down stops were all on display as Dadeville and Comer felt the other out early.
Freshman Brandez Eason got the scoring started for Dadeville, punching the ball in on the ground from one yard out. On the back of Doss, Dadeville rushed the ball down the throat of Comer to set up the score.
Comer turned around and did the exact same thing on its next drive, but missed the extra point, pushing the score to 7-6 with three minutes to play in the first quarter.
Doss got the ball in his gut on the next drive and was off to the races. The senior turned the corner on a rush and scored from 59 yards out to extend Dadeville’s lead to 14-6.
Again, Comer answered the score with a score of its own. The Tigers connected on a two-point conversion with a pop-pass to even the game at 14 apiece.
Not wanting to kick to the speedster Phil Dowdell of Dadeville, Comer elected to onside following the score. Comer bounced the kick to the second level and got a favorable roll and recovered to set its offense up around midfield.
Comer’s Kamore Harris scored on the ensuing drive, giving Comer its first lead of the game at 21-14.
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Eason followed with his second score of the game, squeaking in on Dadeville’s last full possession of the second quarter, tying the game at 21.
Driving the ball down the field with time winding down in the half, Comer got to around midfield before the Dadeville defense buttoned up and was able to force a turnover on downs with 29 seconds left to keep the score tied at 21 and send the game to halftime.
Opening the second half, Dadeville scored on the ground again. Converting on fourth and inches, Dadeville set up an end-around rush the next play to Dowdell that found the end zone.
On a fourth down play deep in Dadeville territory, Comer’s quarterback rolled left and tossed a pick to Jordan Rambo, earning Dadeville back-to-back stops for the first time in the game.
Dadeville managed to hold Comer scoreless in the third, taking its 28-21 lead to the final quarter.
A 50-plus yard punt return by Dowdell early in the fourth set Dadeville up on the doorstep of the end zone and put Doss in for his second rushing touchdown of the game later in the drive.
A second interception by Rambo allowed the home team to finally take control of the game and put it away. Up 35-21, Dadeville was in the driver seat and ready to take the win.
“In the second half we came out and got after them,” McDonald said. “That is our style, we are going to get you in the second half. “
The rushing attack for Dadeville surely paved the way for the victory with the three headed attack of Doss, Eason and Ivory Riggsbee able to run all over the Comer defense.
Doss added to his monster game late in the fourth, with a score from six yards out to push the score to 42-21.
The home field Tigers got one last touchdown in, as Dadeville found the end zone on a scoop-and-score as time expired.
The road does not get easier for Dadeville as the Tigers are set to face rival Reeltown, in Reeltown, next Friday.
“We got our backs against the wall with two potential 2A State Champions in back-to-back weeks,” McDonald said. “But we will practice hard and be ready.”
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Horseshoe Bend opened the season with a dramatic win Friday night over rival Wadley, led by standout defense in the fourth quarter.
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Horseshoe Bend opened the season with a dramatic win Friday night over rival Wadley, led by standout defense in the fourth quarter.
“I’m just so proud of our guys,” head coach Jeremy Phillips said. “They worked for this for months and months and months and finally the hard work is showing off.”
Horseshoe Bend got off to a fast start Friday night - forcing Wadley into a three-and-out on the first possession of the game, then scoring on its first offensive play of the game.
What looked like disaster quickly turned into six when freshman Braxton Wilson picked up a bad snap and took it to the end zone for a 45-yard touchdown.
Wilson had one thing on his mind when he found the ball in his hands.
“Just score,” Wilson said. “Just score. Take it as far as you can and if you score, you score. That’s seven points.”
That was all of the offense for the rest of the quarter.
Wadley scored early in the second quarter to finally get on the board. The Generals stood tall to force Wadley into a third-and-goal situation, but the Bulldogs punched it in.
Horseshoe Bend kept the lead after a bad snap on the extra point which held Wadley from tying the game.
The Generals countered the touchdown with one of their own on their next drive.
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Fullback Reed Goodwin had his number called and waltzed into the end zone for a 31-yard touchdown to extend the lead to 14-6.
The Generals opened the second half throwing an interception, but the Generals’ defense came to the rescue while the offense stalled, holding Wadley scoreless in the third quarter.
With Wadley inside the red zone it took a shot, and senior Gaines Thomas made an athletic play to pull down the pass for an interception and take it 30 yards the other way.
Wadley threatened again but the defense made another critical play, this time recovering a fumble after a bad toss.
With 2:37 remaining and in desperate need of a touchdown, Wadley once again took a shot with a deep ball. The pass was picked off by Kori Woods, and the Generals forced a turnover for the third consecutive drive.
But Wadley regained the ball with 55 seconds to play.
With one more stop necessary, the Horseshoe Bend defense was desperate to make that final stand.
The defense did not budge as Wadley turned the ball over on downs, making Horseshoe Bend the victors of the season opener and getting revenge for last season’s loss.
For Phillips, who told his players not to drench him with the water coolers postgame, it was an emotional, exciting night, but he expects these wins and wants it to become a normal occurrence at Horseshoe Bend.
“We’re to the point now we’re expected to win these games,” Phillips said. “I told the boys we aren’t doing that because we’re supposed to win this game, and I think that’s a tribute to the level our program has grown to since I’ve been here and every time we’re out here on this field we’re expecting to win.”
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Friday Night Wrap includes local scores, game stories and photo galleries from Thursday/Friday night games during the high school football season.
Friday’s featured game stories
Monrovia 36, Bonita 35: In the wildest game of the night, Monrovia won in overtime after the Bearcats missed a 35-yard extra point. Find out what happened.
Monrovia football holds on for wild overtime win after Bonita’s missed extra point
La Serna 15, Pasadena 14: The Bulldogs led comfortably early, but the Lancers came back to pull it off, and they did it despite having six turnovers.
Northview 10, Muir 0: The Vikings, who won the Division 10 championship last year, opened with a shutout win over the Mustangs.
Yorba Linda 28, Damien 19: The Spartans were hoping to start off right after going 3-7 last year, but visiting Yorba Linda was too tough.
West Ranch 61, St. Francis 41: The Golden Knights could keep up in the wild scoring loss to West Ranch. Find out what happened.
Thursday’s featured game stories
Bishop Amat 29, Valencia 6: Amat junior quarterback Richie Munoz and wide receiver Delano Franklin led the way, and the Lancers’ defense did the rest.
Bishop Amat football overcomes slow start before pulling away from Valencia
Chino Hills 13, Glendora 7: It wasn’t a great opening night for the Tartans, who struggled to move the ball and could only find the endzone once in a loss at home to the Huskies.
Chino Hills football opens season with impressive win over Glendora
Upland 21, La Habra 14: The Highlanders battled back, but the home Scots scored with 53 seconds left to take the lead for good. Tough start for La Habra, who started 0-5 last year and will host Bishop Amat next week.
Upland football team knocks off La Habra with score in final minute
WEEK 0 FINAL SCORES
Thursday’s scores
Bishop Amat 29, Valencia 6
Chino Hills 13, Glendora 7
Upland 21, La Habra 14
Cantwell Sacred Heart 38, Bassett 0
Bellflower 39, Pioneer 0
Friday’s scores
Monrovia 36, Bonita 35, OT
La Serna 15, Pasadena 14
West Ranch 61, St. Francis 41
Yorba Linda 28, Damien 19
South Hills 21, Diamond Ranch 7
Los Altos 14, Wilson 6
Northview 10, Muir 0
St. Paul 35, Vista 21
La Mirada 27, El Toro 24
California 34, Schurr 32
Yorba Linda 28, Damien 19
Kaiser 49, Arroyo 14
Rowland 34, Glenn 7
Sierra Vista 34, Gladstone 13
Whittier 15, Sonora 13
Hoover 70, Keppel -0
La Canada 56, Rosemead 26
Nogales 35, La Puente 7
South El Monte 13, Alhambra 12
San Dimas 59, Fullerton 3
Summit 42, Santa Fe 12
Alta Loma 20, West Covina 13
Canyon Springs 12, Arcadia 0
Francis Park 52, Pasadena Poly 7
El Rancho 26, Don Lugo 10
Pomona 26, El Monte 13
Gabrielino 14, Glendale 6
Walnut 35, Garey 0
Norwalk 55, San Marino 33
South Pasadena 28, Lincoln 7
Brentwood School 41, La Salle 7
La Sierra 32, Whittier Christian 18
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Makal (Malayalam)
This movie, directed by Sathyan Anthikad, revolves around the relationship struggles between a Gulf-returnee father (Jayaram) and daughter (Devika Sanjay). The arrival of a stranger into their lives is the turning point of the film, which was seen as a comeback film for 'Achuvinte Amma' actress Meera Jasmine after a gap of seven years. Jayaram plays the lead role in the film.
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Shamshera (Hindi)
Actor Ranbir Kapoor plays a dual movie in this period film, which is a tale of redemption and valour. Ranbir plays a Khameran tribesman, whose son Balli, (also played by the actor) is on a quest to avenge the death of his father while also saving his people. The movie also stars Sanjay Dutt and Vaani Kapoor/
The film is streaming on Amazon Prime
Heaven (Malayalam)
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Mumbai: The AR Rahman-composed 'Chola Chola' track from Mani Ratnam's upcoming epic period action film 'Ponniyin Selvan: I', which was released on Friday, has a rhythm rooted in the cultural of Tamil Nadu and is sung in praise of Aditya Karikalan, a Chola king and elder brother of Rajaraja Chola I.
The song brings back the combination of Mani Ratnam and Rahman, who have earlier given memorable soundtracks to Indian cinema with 'Roja', 'Iruvar', 'Dil Se...', 'Alaipayuthey' and 'Yuva', to name a few.
The song uses South Indian folk instruments in a big way with a prominent percussion section. Composer Vishal Mishra has gone behind the mic with Swagat Rathod to lend his voice to the lyrics of the veteran Mehboob.
The orchestra brings together the sound produced by three powerful forces: Chennai Strings, the A.R. Rahman Foundation-based Sunshine Orchestra and Budapest Art Orchestra.
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To the editor — About 10 years ago I attended a Water Law conference where a former Ecology expert said the Yakima River was 400% overallocated. Can someone explain to me why Ecology/Yakima County would allow a surfing park to go in when there is already a proven problem with availability of water in the Yakima Valley/Moxee area?
Landowners attending meetings described how their wells were going dry to local officials. They were ignored.
Yakima County now requires meters on new homeowner wells. Nationwide, America is ignoring water shortages with catastrophic results. Yakima County is doing the same.
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Happy Saturday! Here’s another edition of my weekend column for WPRI.com — as always, send your takes, tips and trial balloons to tnesi@wpri.com and follow me on Twitter and on Facebook.
1. There was at least one clear winner in our new WPRI 12/RWU Democratic primary poll — indifference. None of Rhode Island’s five candidates for governor are cracking 30%. A majority of voters have no favorite in the key down-ballot races. The 2nd Congressional District has its first open primary in 22 years, yet to date the only serious competition Seth Magaziner faces is from “undecided.” Former R.I. Democratic Party executive director Cyd McKenna is among those who think many voters are tuned out after the pandemic and the Trump presidency. “This is the first summer we’ve had since 2019 without mandates, without restrictions — people are living their best lives right now,” McKenna quipped on this week’s Newsmakers. “They’re out. They’re going to restaurants. They’re going to concerts. People are in a good mood.” 12 News political analyst Joe Fleming agrees, and is predicting voter turnout on Sept. 13 could be low. “No one’s paying attention to this election,” Fleming said on Newsmakers. Yet whether voters want to pay attention or not, the calendar isn’t changing; major decisions about Rhode Island’s future will be made 24 days from now by whoever bothers to show up and cast a ballot. The governor’s race could be a particularly wild ride, with three candidates all seeing a path to victory and knowing they can’t take anything for granted to win. Can any of them shake up the dynamic in their sleepy contest? And if turnout is low, who will have the best ground game to turn out their voters when many are staying home?
2. You can’t help but hear the confidence in the voices of those around Dan McKee these days as they assess the state of the Democratic primary. The WPRI/RWU poll puts McKee on top at 28%, and while that’s only a 3-point spread over Nellie Gorbea, it’s a marked improvement from the 20% support he had in the Globe poll released in June. McKee is heading into the final weeks of the race with the most cash on hand, the best-received TV ad, the power of incumbency, and an invaluable ally in the Laborers union’s Armand Sabitoni, who just plowed $500,000 into his own pro-McKee TV ad buy. The glass-half-empty narrative on McKee: after 17 months in office and a strong stretch of campaigning, he still hasn’t persuaded even one in three Democratic primary voters that their party’s incumbent governor deserves a full term. And that is where both Gorbea and Helena Foulkes still see a huge opportunity — particularly since the new poll shows neither one is as well known as McKee. Gorbea in particular has to be taken seriously by Team McKee in the waning weeks — she’s beating him among women, who may make up a larger-than-usual share of primary voters, and she remains within striking distance of the governor despite holding a lower-profile office and having far less money behind her. Some are writing off Foulkes, arguing that her failure to crack 20% support (or even 50% name recognition) after a seven-figure ad blitz shows her campaign doesn’t have a strategy to turn the first-time candidate into a governor. But Foulkes advisers and allies are adamant that voters are still just starting to tune in, so this is still “anyone’s race.”
3. Nobody likes hearing how much money matters in politics, but that distaste doesn’t make it any less true. Just look at Nellie Gorbea, who has built her public persona on a commitment to good government and clean elections — only to now embrace the “red box,” a tactic that ethics watchdogs call illegal and The New York Times calls “brazen.” Gorbea’s campaign is honest about why: they badly need a deep-pocketed outside group like Emily’s List to drop a six-figure sum in Rhode Island to help her counter the better-financed candidacies of Dan McKee and Helena Foulkes. The red box lets them send a direct signal to those organizations about what they could do to help. But there’s a cost: on Friday, Common Cause’s national arm told its 83,000 Twitter followers that Gorbea was trying “to bypass campaign finance law and coordinate campaign plans with independent groups, which is illegal.” To be clear, Gorbea’s campaign is only unique in its blatant use of a red box, not its desire for outside support. As mentioned above, McKee is benefiting from a half-million-dollar outlay by his allies at the Laborers union, while Foulkes has the backing of a super PAC which netted $20,000 from Nancy Pelosi this week. (As an aside, we sure are a long way from the days when then-candidate Seth Magaziner was calling for a “People’s Pledge” in the race for governor.)
4. Will the $60 million taxpayer subsidy for the Pawtucket soccer stadium emerge as a political issue in the coming months? New reporting continues to raise questions about whether the deal is good for state taxpayers, and the WPRI/RWU poll finds just 35% of Democratic primary voters support spending the money. Governor McKee cast the tie-breaking vote for the deal, and has no choice but to continue defending it; his Democratic rivals are trying to find a way to criticize McKee’s plan without seeming to abandon Pawtucket. But Republican gubernatorial candidate Ashley Kalus faces no such balancing act, and is making her oppositon clear. “There’s nothing that suggests that this is going to work out well,” Kalus told my colleague Chelsea Jones on Friday. “They’ve already come back and said that the projections that we started with aren’t going to be the projections. And you can blame a bunch of things, but the reality is that, the developers are one thing … but what matters is that this is public funds.” Pollster Joe Fleming thinks Kalus will keep up the drumbeat this fall, particularly if McKee is the Democratic nominee. “I think this is the issue that she can use in the general election, and really try to run with it and put it around Dan McKee’s neck if he’s the Democratic nominee,” Fleming said on Newsmakers.
5. Seth Magaziner’s rivals for the Democratic nomination in the 2nd Congressional District haven’t quite run out of time. But the hour grows late, with Magaziner at 37% in the WPRI/RWU poll. Winning barely one in three voters is hardly a ringing endorsement of the only sitting officeholder in the primary, but it still has the makings of a landslide when no Magaziner rival can escape single-digits in public polling. And now Magaziner is going to benefit from a $350,000 TV buy by the League of Conservation Voters on his behalf in the final two weeks. The other Democrats will have at least one more major chance to sway voters on Aug. 30, when they meet for a prime-time debate here on WPRI 12. But Magaziner’s team – and the DCCC – are already more focused on Republican Allan Fung than the intraparty squabble. The Fung team clearly remains confident about his position. This week he was once again hobnobbing with Kevin McCarthy, this time out in Wyoming, despite the predictable attacks from Democrats who say their relationship undermines Fung’s claims to moderation and independence from the Trump wing of the GOP. Notably, though, Magaziner and the Democrats so far aren’t using their financial firepower to try and tarnish Fung’s image with an early negative ad blitz before Fung gets on TV. And Fung isn’t using his own unopposed status in the GOP primary to go after Magaziner early, either.
6. Here’s a dispatch from my Target 12 colleague Steph Machado: “It’s been tricky to discern policy differences between the three Democrats running for mayor of Providence, but this week the voters saw a clear disagreement over a hot topic: rent control. Gonzalo Cuervo pitched a 4% cap on annual rent increases as part of a broader housing policy package, citing the skyrocketing rents in Providence as of late. Brett Smiley immediately said he opposes rent control, arguing it results in poorly maintained buildings and can hurt local landlords whose costs are rising due to inflation and tax hikes. Nirva LaFortune said she supports some sort of rent stabilization, but wouldn’t give a number for how much she would cap rent increases when asked by moderator Bill Bartholomew in the WPRO radio debate. New campaign finance reports show Smiley has a significant cash advantage for the final few weeks of the race, even after making a big TV ad buy. He has about $418,000 left in his campaign account, while LaFortune and Cuervo both have about $100,000. Neither LaFortune nor Cuervo had plans to go on the air with TV commercials when I asked this week, but they’ve had plenty of opportunities to get their ideas out there at increasingly frequent debates and forums. They’ll have a busy day on Tuesday: the mayoral candidates will speak at the Providence Rotary Club at lunchtime, then come to our WPRI 12 studios on Tuesday night for a live televised debate moderated by Tim White, Ted Nesi and me. Watch the debate Tuesday at 7 p.m. on Fox Providence or streaming on WPRI.com.”
7. For months, James Diossa was running unopposed for the Democratic nomination for general treasurer, as multiple formidable potential rivals took a pass on the race. Then Stefan Pryor jumped into the contest in May, and Diossa quickly went from the favorite to the underdog. The WPRI/RWU poll shows Diossa gained no advantage from his six months as the only Democratic candidate, and leads Pryor by just one point, 18% to 17%. The anemic support for both men reflects the fact that a stunning 61% of voters remain undecided with just a few weeks to go before the primary. Pryor has now established a clear financial advantage, with $262,000 in his campaign account on Monday, almost $100,000 more than Diossa. On top of all that, the Laborers union just wired $25,000 to a group called Democrats Serve PAC, which is now hitting Diossa with the first real TV attack ad of the cycle. Diossa backers have cried foul, arguing the commercial stretches the truth. But it’s clear the genial former Central Falls mayor has a fight on his hands against the ex-commerce secretary. Meanwhile, Republicans are hoping a nasty primary fight could offer an opening to their candidate, North Kingstown finance director James Lathrop.
8. The Democratic primary for lieutenant governor is a little less dull than the one for treasurer, with only a bare majority of voters undecided. Incumbent Sabina Matos leads the pack at 23%, with Deb Ruggiero at 14% and Cynthia Mendes at 9% — a decent lead for Matos, but hardly enough to rest easy. Matos emerged unscathed from last month’s debate on WPRI 12, and decided that was enough, declining an invitation for a second TV debate over on Kenney Drive. Her opponents are seeking to make that itself an issue in the race, with both Ruggiero and Mendes accusing Matos of ducking accountability. But there’s been no sign of wavering by the Matos team, and now she’s being buttressed by a $200,000 TV buy from a group affiliated with the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association.
9. Rhode Island’s housing crisis has put a spotlight on rising home prices, which got me wondering — what’s the most expensive home ever sold in the state? Not long ago I put the question to Kerry Park, spokesperson for the R.I. Association of Realtors, who reported the most expensive sale on record was 626 Bellevue Ave. in Newport, purchased for $30 million last September. The priciest listing at the time was on Block Island: 1776 Corn Neck Rd, on the market for almost $11 million.
10. A new study by the Economic Policy Institute suggests Rhode Island teachers are the least underpaid in the country — but they’re still underpaid.
11. In Massachusetts, the Democratic contest for Bristol County sheriff is starting to heat up ahead of the Sept. 6 primary. The three candidates — Attleboro Mayor Paul Heroux, Fall River attorney Nick Bernier, and former Somerset Police Chief George McNeil — met Wednesday on WBSM radio for what could be their only debate before voters pick one of them to face longtime Republican incumbent Thomas Hodgson in November. Debate moderator Marcus Ferro reports the three “had very little policy daylight between them,” and it was a civil exchange. But the tone of the race had shifted by Friday, when Bernier and McNeil sent a joint press release criticizing Heroux in response to a mailer sent by the mayor.
13. Another Bristol County race to watch: District Attorney Tom Quinn vs. challenger Shannon McMahon.
14. Is there a more pro-housing municipal leader in Rhode Island than East Providence’s Bill Fazioli?
15. All the news that’s fit to print: The New York Times has discovered New Bedford.
16. One year later, Americans have gotten few answers about the war in Afghanistan.
17. Rest in peace, Barbara Gibbs Barton.
18. Set your DVRs: This week on Newsmakers — Cyd McKenna, Jeff Grybowski and Joe Fleming join Tim White and me for a political roundtable. Watch Sunday at 5:30 a.m. on WPRI 12 or 10 a.m. on Fox Providence, or listen on the radio Sundays at 6 p.m. on WPRO. You can also subscribe to Newsmakers as a podcast on iTunes (or wherever you get your podcasts). See you back here next Saturday
Ted Nesi (tnesi@wpri.com) is a Target 12 investigative reporter and 12 News politics/business editor. He co-hosts Newsmakers and writes Nesi’s Notes on Saturdays. Connect with him on Twitter and Facebook | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/ted-nesi/nesis-notes-aug-20/ | 2022-08-20T09:15:54Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/ted-nesi/nesis-notes-aug-20/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Conductor-in-Residence scheme champions conductors from under-represented groups
Candidates should apply before 15 September 2022
A new Conductor-in-Residence scheme, launched by Guildhall Young Artists and Black Lives in Music, seeks to champion young conductors from under-represented groups.
The scheme will provide an opportunity for a young conductor to be resident with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO) for a year, working with LSSO students during the orchestra’s week-long Christmas, Easter and Summer holiday courses. The conductor will also be offered one-to-one mentor support from professional conductors.
The Conductor in Residence will be involved in all aspects of the orchestra, including attending audition panels and taking sectional rehearsals, as well as having the opportunity for a professional credit conducting the orchestra in concert. Applications are invited from individuals who have recently completed studies in conducting at undergraduate or postgraduate level, who are currently studying conducting at undergraduate or postgraduate level, or are studying conducting as part of their degree.
The successful applicant will receive an assistant conductor’s fee of £6,000, payable in three instalments. Candidates wanting to apply to the scheme should do so before the deadline on 15 September 2022.
Interviews will be held on 20 September and those invited to interview will be invited to attend the LSSO concert that evening at Barbican Hall.
Roger Wilson, Director of Operations at Black Lives in Music says: 'This is an excellent opportunity to nurture the diverse conducting talent that we should all wish to see on the podium. Black Lives in Music are confident this ground-breaking programme will help to shine a light on an often-overlooked career pathway in classical music. We’re pleased to be working alongside Guildhall Young Artists and the LSSO. It’s a tangible, empowering and impactful effort to level the playing field of opportunity for aspiring young conductors from all backgrounds and not just the privileged few.'
Photo: Otis Enokido-Lineham conducting the LSSO at the LSSO & CYM Anniversary Concert (2022). Photo by Kevin Leighton.
Authors
Hannah Nepilova is a regular contributor to BBC Music Magazine. She has also written for The Financial Times, The Times, The Strad, Gramophone, Opera Now, Opera, the BBC Proms and the Philharmonia, and runs The Cusp, an online magazine exploring the boundaries between art forms. Born to Czech parents, she has a strong interest in Czech music and culture. | https://www.classical-music.com/news/new-conductor-in-residence-scheme-champions-conductors-from-under-represented-groups/ | 2022-08-20T09:24:35Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/news/new-conductor-in-residence-scheme-champions-conductors-from-under-represented-groups/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi/Malappuram: The CBI has begun a preliminary probe into the arrest of Customs Superintendent at the Karipur Airport P Muniyappa while handing over smuggled-in gold to two passengers outside the airport.
Based on the preliminary inquiry report, a decision will be taken by the CBI whether to register a case against him.
The Kochi CBI unit is currently taking follow-up actions based on the report of the Malappuram Superintendent of Police in the matter.
This was for the first time that such a high ranking Customs Department official was directly involved in the smuggling of gold. This has led to the prompt taking up of preliminary investigation by the CBI.
In the preliminary investigation, the CBI is assessing Muniyappa's involvement in the gold smuggling, the source of cash and other valuables seized from him, and the details regarding the passports of passengers seized from his residence.
A day before the arrest, Muniyappa was in-charge of screening the baggage of passengers using X-ray images at the airport. But he could not give a convincing reply when questions were asked over why he allowed the smooth passage of some of the bags without checking on the day. But later, he landed in the police net with smuggled goods.
At a parallel level, two investigations __ the routine investigation by the Customs Department and another inquiry by the Vigilance wing attached to the Customs headquarters __ are going on.
Muniyappa was arrested on Thursday early morning when he tried to hand over the smuggled-in goods of 320 gm of gold and a cash of Rs.25000 to two persons hailing from Kasaragod outside the Karipur Airport. The goods were brought by the natives of Kasaragod in the Dubai flight that landed at the airport at 2.15 a.m.
Later, the police party, in a raid, seized a cash of Rs.442,980, 500 UAE dirhams and a number of passports of various flight passengers from Muniyappa's residence.
The investigating agencies have taken a serious view of the unearthing of passports of passengers from the custody of a Customs Superintendent.
No arrest for Muniyappa
As per the new rule, only those who smuggled-in gold valued more than Rs.50 lakh would be arrested.
Earlier, this limit was Rs.20 lakh. But from August 16, this limit was raised to Rs.50 lakh.
Any smuggled gold below the value of Rs.50 lakh can only be impounded. If the person caught is involved in any other major smuggling cases, then the investigating agencies can slap other stringent sections of law dealing with smuggling.
In Muniyappa's case, the seized gold was valued only at Rs.16 lakh. Hence, he will not be arrested. The seized gold will be impounded and a fine will be slapped on him. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/cbi-probe-arrest-customs-superintendent-karipur.amp.html | 2022-08-20T09:26:31Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/cbi-probe-arrest-customs-superintendent-karipur.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kollam: The Kollam district conference of the Communist Party of India (CPI) flagged the shortcomings of the second Pinarayi Vijayan Government.
During the second day of the conference on Friday, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister Veena George were singled out for harsh criticism by the delegates at the meet.
The performance of the current health minister was not up to the mark, the CPI district functionaries alleged.
The delegates also flayed the chief minister for his autocratic style.
During the tenure of the first Pinarayi Vijayan Government (2016-21) the health and the public works departments had shown remarkable progress. The progress made in the agricultural sector during the tenure of (former ministers) Mullakkara Ratnakaran and V S Sunil Kumar has come to naught, the CPI alleged.
Criticisms were also levelled against CPI Ministers P Prasad and J Chinchurani. Prasad is not taking any steps for the development of the agriculture sector, nor is he intervening in the administrative matters.
The finance department has put up a hurdle for the farmers’ pension fund and the Minister is not able to do anything over this.
Chinchurani was slammed for doing anything in favour of the party members.
The conference will conclude on Saturday.
CPI is a constituent of the Left Democratic Front which is running the Kerala Government.
Prakash Babu clarifies
CPI state assistant secretary K Prakash Babu, meanwhile, clarified that neither he nor the CPI were against the SilverLine project. Babu said this in the presence of state secretary Kanam Rajendran, while responding to the allegations that he was against the project. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/cpi-kollam-district-conference-potshots-state-govt.amp.html | 2022-08-20T09:26:33Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/20/cpi-kollam-district-conference-potshots-state-govt.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Massillon area real estate transfers July 23-29
Bethlehem Township
Day Lisa A & Jerry D from Lytle Craig, parcel 1100232 Safari Trl, $18,700.
Ehmer Joseph Loyal & Mayle Sydney M from Moore Jesse A, 223 Wooster St NE, $175,000.
Freese Nicholas R from Labus James C, 6000 Beth Ave SW #61, $1,000.
Vanest Cindy L & Danny W from Lucas Larry J & Donna L, parcel 1100280 Tanganyika Trl, $22,000.
Canal Fulton
Appleby Jacob L from NVR Inc D/B/A Ryan Homes, 3065 Bonita Cir SE, $287,745.
Bessette Karinne Diamond from Hanson Laurie A, 660 S Canal St, $152,500.
Medina North Court LLC from Cfo Realty Associates, 2260 S Locust St, $1,668,021.
Jackson Township
Benchmark Properties of Ohio Ltd from Fleck Rose M Trustee, 5070 Hills and Dales Rd NW, $236,000.
Brawley Cynthia M from Zimmerman Roy F & Weston Jyl A, 5130 Echovalley St NW, $215,501.
Castro Anthony J & Laura A from Connor Gary L & Judith L & Cristin R &, 7260 Charring Court Cir NW, $550,000.
Davis Dennis Samuel from Brundelet Martha Marie & Davis Dennis Sa, 621 Leecrest St NW, $80,000.
Gostlin Jeffrey A & Amanda from Warf Barbara A, 8471 Hearth Cir NW, $470,000.
Jones Jacqueline L from Decker Judith E, 8054 Cambridge Ave NW, $165,000.
Kappes Dustin M from Scarpino Rebecca A, 8624 Milmont St NW, $120,000.
Key Bank Na Trustee from Deville Hills & Dales LLC, 5995 Hawks Nest Cir NW 3C, $440,070.
Nassehi Fred F from Bartow Mary E Trustee, 4010 Lindbergh Ave NW, $268,950.
Ostrout Elvine from Deville Hills & Dales LLC, 5999 Hawks Nest Cir NW 3a, $387,710.
Papacostas George from Blackledge Todd Alan, 2711 Glenmont Rd NW, $565,000.
Plunkett Daniel from Meskiel Madeline, 6152 Drexel St NW, $239,000.
Rebescher Stefanie & Jarrod Aric from Montgomery Nathanael & Lauren, 5295 Limerick Ave NW, $279,900.
Reece Timothy J & Eliana I from Anderson James W & Karen A, 3445 Waterford Ave NW, $327,000.
Residential Solutions Inc from Chambers Margaret R, 4804 Drumcliff Dr NW, $152,000.
Residential Solutions Inc from Fagus Mark, 5222 Echovale St NW, $186,000.
Richardson Brian from Schmidt Norma L, 8895 Ontario St NW, $155,000.
Rowlance Susan B Trustee from Deville Hills & Dales LLC, 5997 Hawks Nest Cir NW 3B, $378,160.
Schorsten Christina from Peters Jenna M, 8036 Daytona St NW, $236,000.
Seiple Kathleen & Jill & Dummermuth from Retail Growth Properties LLC, 8193 Arlington Ave NW, $152,000.
Sich Daniel J & Sich Rosalie from Mospens Christina & Sich Rosalie, 4858 Crystal Lake Ave NW, $30,000.
Smith Ashley Danielle & Andrew Joe from Gostlin Jeffrey & Amanda, 7911 Laura Ave NW, $514,900.
Timmone Pablo I & Saulnier Nicole C from Teynor Timothy M & Therese M, 6932 Salerno St NW, $375,000.
Vuksanovich Nella from Walsh Mark W & Yongcha, 3738 Abbotsford BLVD NW, $181,280.
Westerholm John E from Mitzel Kelly A, 4758 Rohrway Ave NW, $182,500.
Williams Jess & Theresa from Rufener Melinda & Richard, 5384 Villarose Ave NW, $445,000.
Wolfe Dustin J & Jennifer E from Forbes Jeffrey S & Kristin, 3334 Anglo Cir NW, $355,000.
Lawrence Township
Porter Connie A & Edward L from Housley James R & Patricia J, 6201 Alabama Ave NW, $600,000.
Speck Curtis H & Elizabeth A from Brugh Donald E, 3416 Manchester Ave NW, $180,000.
Teston Robert E & Hargett Elise A from Prohibited LLC, 11937 Lockage Rd NW, $245,500.
Massillon
Adkins Melvin Jr from Sanders Mary Jo, 956 Carnation St NE, $170,000.
Armstead Breonna L from Habitat for Humanity East Central Ohio, 72 Marion Ave SE, $160,000.
Blackhawk Investments LLC from Kazar Steven P, 220 Rose Ave SE, $28,000.
Blackwood Justin Michael & Whitney from K S Yoak Enterprises LLC, 158 23rd St SE, $154,000.
Burke Ronald Lee Edward from Hestley Jacklyn M & Christopher, 56 10th St SE, $89,000.
Carriker Amy E & Slone Michael R from Carver Kevin & Renee, 445 25th St NW, $176,000.
Clapper Jeffrey D & Amy S from Johnson Jay E & Dawn E, 1322 11th St NE, $165,000.
Cole Amber R from Knetzer Properties LLC, 307 Underhill Dr SE, $100,000.
Cooper Matthew N & Sutter Jennifer D from Popa Daniel E & Bonnie L Ttees, 3081 Lincoln Way W, $75,000.
Delvalle Andee from Pape Logan S, 160 Page St NW, $145,000.
Durici Sokol & Lindsey from Kidd Esther J, 516 26th St SE, $35,000.
Dwyer Jon E & Robert from Dwyer Jon E & Robert & Cheryl A, 165 Lake Ave NE, $30,200.
Gravue Katie M from Williams Robert B III, 51 6th St SE, $80,000.
Hulbert Taylor Paul & Brigitte Lauren from KS Yoak Enterprises LLC, 815 Seneca St NE, $154,000.
Humerickhouse Russell E & Margaret A from Johnson Rebecca M, 2015 Cyprus Dr SE, $349,900.
Katsaras Christopher from Katsaras Chris, 25 State Ave NE, $29,300.
Kmetko Amanda from Lega Michael J, 1235 Main Ave W, $155,000.
Krites Rebecca from Long Tanner J & Jessica L, 4425 Samuel CT NW, $267,450.
Lippert Jr Robert L from Shuck Loomis A, 830 6th St SW, $36,000.
Longsworth Jason & Kathy A from Braun David Lee & Dana, 965 9th St NE, $132,000.
Medical Office Management Services from NVR Inc., A Virginia Corporation, DBA, 3575 Kenyon Creek Ave NW, $310,990.
Mull Tyler Lyn & Hansen Bianca from Chabot Henry J, 159 Lake Ave NE, $128,000.
Myers Arvine H III & Alyssa H from Myers Arvine H III & Michael G as Tenan, 38 5th St SE, $25,400.
NVR Inc D/B/A Ryan Homes from Lockhart A R Development Co, 1858 Fish Creek Cir NW, $59,000.
Ohm Brian & Rebecca from Hall Jase, 233 23rd St NW, $171,000.
Rauch Karen J from Ford Michael J, 322 Arthur St SE, $130,000.
Schlabach Steven L from Doering Paul K, parcel 604922 Thorne Ave NE, $17,500.
Tusc Investments Ltd from the First Church of Christ Scientist, 300 Lincoln Way E, $300,000.
Tusc Investments Ltd from the First Church of Christ Scientist, parcel 680725 3rd St NE, $300,000.
Williams Robert III from Daniels Jesse G & Mildred A Trustees, 22 Warwick Ave NW, $35,000.
Yoder Angela M from Guleff Sharon M, 171 Rolling Park Dr N, $1,000.
Zenallis Britney N from Henry Paul L & Paul J, 1537 Tremont Ave SW, $110,000.
Perry Township
Bickel Sarah from Keeton Naomi R, 1225 Western Ave SW, $150,000.
Bradle Property MGMT LLC from Thomas Barbara J, 2314 Nottingham St NW, $183,000.
Buckeye Property Investors Inc from Sullivan Sean P & Briana J, 226 Stewart Ave SW, $100,000.
Calzada Felix F from Elrod Seth A & Shanna N, 628 Meadowridge Ave NW, $239,900.
Darlington Brent W & Patricia K from JJK Investors LLC, 4737 Erie Ave SW, $186,000.
Douglass Jill M from Graham Nancy J, 1114 Manor Ave SW, $89,600.
Duke Diana Korin from Span Stephanie J., 1726 Jackson Ave NW, $190,000.
Gadow Bailey E & Bonsky Christian A from Map Services Neo LLC, 503 Manor Ave NW, $190,000.
Goshay Peter G & Allison R from Gibson Georgia, 5766 Longbrook St SW, $20,000.
Haney Jeffery v & Podis Jadee A from Hoalt Kristina L, 616 Manor Ave NW, $165,000.
Hunter Tyler W & Lincoln Amanda M from Fellows Ashley & Mathew, 3013 Maytime St NW, $141,500.
Katsaras Christopher from Katsaras Chris, parcel 4318264 Navarre Rd SW, $28,000.
Makowski Edward & Diane L from Finsel Susan L, 6191 Ridgewood St SW, $70,000.
Mcvay Avery T from Ehmer Joseph L, 1209 Saratoga Ave SW, $125,000.
Mogus Keith & Traci from Macris Rentals LLC, 6067 Longview St SW, $365,500.
Olivo Kaitlan Julane from Waicak Jeffery S, 234 Genoa Ave SW, $115,000.
Stedman Amy Rose from Young Dennis Lee Young Renee, 1650 Carmont Ave NW, $144,000.
Tusc Investments Ltd from F & v Realty Ltd, 3545 Lincoln Way E, $850,000.
Weyant Victor & Emily from Black Korey L, 4895 Fohl St SW, $408,000.
Wiseman Luke from Ott Donald A & Bracken-Ott Heather, parcel 10008388 Jackson Ave SW, $130,000.
Woodworth Amanda & Kirven Andrew from Helms Kimberly Rose, 1010 Summerdale Ave NW, $190,000.
Sugarcreek Township
Amstutz Lora from Raber Joshua J & Angela N, 13723 Elton St SW, $182,000.
Miller Brian E & Ervin A from Sauls Steven W & Aimee C, 11787 Dolway Ave SW, $350,000.
Stutzman Joas W from Evans Linda S, 124 7th Ave NW, $229,900.
Tuscarawas Township
Geis Morgan from Curie Connie Trustee, 923 Roseland Ave NW, $135,000.
Lega Michael & Katherine from Weaver Ann L, 1228 Deermont Ave NW, $250,000.
Washington Township
Gingerich Dannie E from the Huntington National Bank, 13017 Bayton St NE, $105,000.
Toussant Nick A & Deborah A from Bryan Raymond T, 11973 Lawford St NE, $120,000. | https://www.indeonline.com/story/news/2022/08/20/massillon-area-real-estate-transfers-july-23-29/65404234007/ | 2022-08-20T09:32:05Z | eonline.com | treatment | https://www.indeonline.com/story/news/2022/08/20/massillon-area-real-estate-transfers-july-23-29/65404234007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Five 49ers to watch against Vikings: From Jason Poe to Qwuantrezz Knight (paywall)
So pay attention not only to [WR Malik Turner]’s time on offense Saturday — he can obviously help himself by making some splash receiving plays — but also his special teams usage. Turner wasn’t in on punt coverage against the Packers, but some action there against the Vikings might give us a key 49ers roster clue.
“He’s a confident young man,” York said. “He carries himself with the right combination of sort of swagger and humbleness. I’m excited to see him. You talk about learning from mistakes, you look at another quarterback we drafted up high with Alex Smith (No. 1 in 2005). Alex went out there very early on not the most talented football team that I’ve seen, probably not the most talented team you’ve covered. I don’t think that we did Alex any service (by) getting him out there early in that situation.
Branch: How 49ers rookie Samuel Womack is winning fans: ‘Everybody knows his name now’ (paywall)
“His dad didn’t pull punches when Womack was growing up — “I would tell him, ‘Hey, man, you had a s—y game,’” — but he was also generous with affirmation. On Friday morning, hours before Womack’s two-interception debut, he told his son he would have a pick-six. Years earlier, when Womack insisted he would eventually earn a scholarship at Toledo, he supported his son’s desire to bypass smaller-school offers that would have eased financial stress.
“We told him, ‘OK, since you want go there, we’re going to behind you 100%,’” Sam Jr. said. “He said, ‘Dad, I’m determined. I’m going to make it.’ I said, ‘I know you are.’”
49ers re-enter national conversation as contenders for Super Bowl LVII
“… But he has a lower ceiling than Trey Lance. We’ve already seen it this preseason. Some of the plays that Trey makes, Jimmy just can’t make. He has a bigger arm, which can open up the playbook a little bit, and he’s very early in his maturation process. So, out of the gates, where you’re gonna set the bar is where the last guy was. If Trey Lance can be at least as good as Jimmy Garoppolo, they’re a serious playoff contender. If he can be better than Jimmy Garoppolo, which again the bar isn’t being set astronomically high, they are a serious Super Bowl contender assuming health along the other pieces of this roster.”
49ers joint practices with Vikings revealed these key weaknesses
“Like the Niners’ cornerback room, the offensive line is appearing to be pretty top-heavy, and that’s been exposed with right tackle Mike McGlinchey still working his way back from quad surgery last year.”
Why Browns must trade for Jimmy Garoppolo to replace QB Deshaun Watson: Lloyd (paywall)
“Brissett is a journeyman backup. He’s fine in small doses, but as someone who watched him closely when he was a starter for the Colts told me, the more he plays, the more he’s exposed. The Browns can’t risk their season to a backup.
Garoppolo’s worst season as a starter is better than Brissett’s best in terms of quarterback rating. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/20/23314020/49ers-news-vikings-preseason-game-backups-jason-poe-nick-bosa-trey-lance-nate-sudfeld-brock-purdy | 2022-08-20T09:38:41Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/20/23314020/49ers-news-vikings-preseason-game-backups-jason-poe-nick-bosa-trey-lance-nate-sudfeld-brock-purdy | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As Kent has endured a particularly hot and dry summer, vast areas of the county are to be impacted by hosepipe bans over the coming weeks. Two of the county’s key water suppliers have announced hosepipe bans for August, which will impact outdoor water usage for countless residents across Kent.
Earlier this week, Thames Water confirmed that they would be introducing a temporary use ban later this month on August 24. This news came just days after the hosepipe ban introduced by South East Water came into effect on August 12.
South East Water supplies numerous key locations across the county, such as Maidstone, Canterbury, Sevenoaks, Ashford and Tunbridge Wells. Meanwhile, Thames Water is the primary water supplier for Dartford.
Read more: The Kent stations that are open today amid further strikes
This means that only those Kent areas supplied by Southern Water and Affinity Water are to be unaffected by such bans. Southern Water supplies the Medway Towns, Gravesend, the Isle of Sheppey and Thanet.
While Southern Water has issued a temporary use ban within Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, no such ban has been announced for Kent. Affinity Water meanwhile supplies the likes of Dover, Folkestone and Hythe.
In a statement on their website, Affinity Water states: “You might have recently seen on the news that we've had the driest start to the year since 1976. You may be wondering how this will impact water resources and your water supply.
“At current levels, it's unlikely we'll need to introduce restrictions this year.” The water supplier did note however, that current groundwater levels are noticeably below average for this time of year, as such customers are asked to use their water efficiently.
Kent areas not impacted by hosepipe bans
Dartford
Dover
Folkestone
Gravesend
Hythe
Isle of Sheppey
Medway
Thanet
Customers in areas not directly affected by a ban are encouraged not to use their hosepipe at this time, and to use a watering can or water butt instead. When using a dishwasher or washing machine, it is advised to ensure such appliances are only being used for full loads.
It has also been encouraged to shorten your time in the shower, taking a four minute shower instead of a bath could save around 50 litres of water with each wash and if you do have a bath, try to use less water in it. Also while brushing your teeth, customers are urged to turn the tap off which could save around 6,500 litres of water a year.
Current forecasts for Kent show a varied mixture of weather conditions on the horizon. Further rain is set to bring much needed relief to our dry landscapes, while temperatures are expected to climb once again over the coming weeks.
Rules of a hosepipe ban
While a temporary usage ban is in place, you must not use a hosepipe that is connected to your main water supply. A ‘hosepipe’ means anything designed, adapted or used to serve the same purpose as a hosepipe.
Under this definition, garden sprinklers and irrigation systems (outside of exception) are considered hosepipes, as is anything that is connected to them, such as pressure washers. The following actions are prohibited during a hosepipe ban:
Watering a garden using a hosepipe
Cleaning a private motor-vehicle using a hosepipe
Watering plants on domestic or other non-commercial premises using a hosepipe
Cleaning a private leisure boat using a hosepipe
Filling or maintaining a domestic swimming or paddling pool
Drawing water, using a hosepipe, for domestic recreational use
Filling or maintaining a domestic pond using a hosepipe
Filling or maintaining an ornamental fountain
Cleaning walls, or windows, of domestic premises using a hosepipe;
Cleaning paths or patios using a hosepipe
Cleaning other artificial outdoor surfaces using a hosepipe.
Anyone found to be in violation of these restrictions is guilty of an offence. They could be prosecuted in a criminal court and handed a fine of up to £1,000 .
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-Jones at Watkins Glen International: The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Watkins Glen International this weekend for the fifth road course of the season. Erik Jones will make his fifth start at the track in the Cup Series on Sunday afternoon for the Go Bowling at The Glen. In his previous four starts at the track, Jones has two top-five finishes and three top-10 finishes with a career-best finish of fourth in 2019.
In addition to his Cup starts at the track, Jones has three Xfinity Series starts at the New York road course with a best finish of eighth in 2017. Jones also has one ARCA East start at the track in 2018 and finished 19th.
-Erik Jones Sightings: Fans attending Sunday’s race at Watkins Glen International will have several chances to see Erik Jones on Sunday, August 21, 2022.
- Ferris Display: Jones will be at the Ferris display in the Midway from 12:10 p.m. – 12:25 p.m. ET.
- US Air Force: Following his appearance at the Ferris display, Jones will make his way to the US Air Force display from 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET.
- Focused on Winning: FOCUSfactor will serve as the primary partner on Jones's Chevrolet Camaro for Sunday’s race at Michigan International Speedway.
- About FOCUSfactor: FOCUSfactor is sold at America’s leading retailers such as Costco, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS, The Vitamin Shoppe and Amazon.com. FOCUSfactor, America’s leading brain health supplement, is a nutritional supplement that includes a proprietary blend of brain supporting vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutrients. In December 2012, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued US Patent 8,329,227 covering FOCUSfactor’s proprietary formulation “for enhanced mental function”. The issuance of the patent marked one of the few times a patent has been issued for a nationally branded nutritional supplement. FOCUSfactor is clinically tested with results demonstrating improvements in focus, concentration and memory in healthy adults.
- From the Driver’s Seat: Talk about Watkins Glen and competing this weekend.
“Road courses have been a struggle for us this year for sure. The last few years I felt like I was decent at road courses and had been running okay, but with this new car, it’s a pretty big change. Just trying to figure out what the car wants, what it’s going to take to make it good and what makes me comfortable on the road courses. We’re still trying to learn that. I do like road courses, especially Watkins Glen. It’s probably my favorite road course of all the ones we go to. I’m looking forward to it and seeing what we can do and hopefully going and being competitive in out FOCUSfactor Chevy. It’s definitely been a big change with the Next Gen car on the road courses and how they handle. It's really changed the game a lot. I’ve been trying to learn that and figure it out, but I do enjoy the road courses.”
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Will Power scored the pole for Saturday’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World-Wide Technology Raceway on Friday with a two-lap average speed of 182.727 mph. Power scores his fourth pole of the season and ties Mario Andretti with 67 all-time career pole starts in IndyCar.
2022 Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson will start second on the grid in Saturday’s event. Ericsson, chasing his fourth career victory, had a two-lap average speed of 182.070 mph in the session.
Josef Newgarden rounded out the top three in qualifying with an average speed of 181.629 mph. The winner of four races in 2022 enters the St. Louis facility with an average finish of 9.1.
Scott McLaughlin and Alex Palou rounded out the top five qualifiers.
Streets of Nashville winner and runner-up in points Scott Dixon will start sixth.
Felix Rosenqvist was the only driver that did not finish the session due to a crash off of turn two. Rosenqvist’s No. 7 machine wiggled and spun around making slight contact with the inside tire barrier. He was later checked and released from the care center.
The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 will air live on USA and IndyCar Radio Network at 6:00 p.m. ET. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72181-indycar-will-power-claims-bommarito-automotive-group-500-pole-ties-mario-andretti-for-all-time-career-poles | 2022-08-20T09:50:17Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72181-indycar-will-power-claims-bommarito-automotive-group-500-pole-ties-mario-andretti-for-all-time-career-poles | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Charlotte Motor Speedway will be THE place to be when the biggest names in music and motorsports converge on America’s Home for Racing for a three-day weekend of fan-friendly fun, high-energy concerts and more, Oct. 7-9, ahead of the much-anticipated Bank of America ROVAL™ 400 NASCAR Cup Series showdown.
Multi-platinum recording artist and reality TV superstar Bret Michaels will kick off this year’s NASCAR homecoming at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday, Oct. 7. American rock band 3 Doors Down will headline a Saturday night party following the NASCAR Xfinity Series Drive for the Cure 250 on Oct. 8. Then GRAMMY-winning rap superstar Nelly will cap off the weekend with an infield pre-race concert ahead of the fifth running of the Bank of America ROVAL™ 400 on Sunday, Oct. 9.
“As one of the world’s preeminent entertainment venues, putting fans first and exceeding expectations is at the core of what we do every day,” said Greg Walter, executive vice president and general manager at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “What better way to welcome NASCAR fans from across the country and around the world than to Rock the ROVAL™ with a three-day showcase of A-list music acts, driver appearances and can’t-miss fun and excitement on and off the track? We could not think of someone better, with more positive energy, to have Nothing But a Good Time on our opening night than Bret Michaels - a man who is a fan favorite and who has become the one of the most popular faces of the Stadium Tour as well as a lifetime mega fan of NASCAR.”
Fan Fest, Bret Michaels Brings His “Parti-Gras” to NASCAR
One of music’s most iconic singer/songwriters, Bret Michaels is stepping out from his record-breaking Stadium Tour to bring his Parti-Gras to race fans kicking off the weekend with unrivaled fan fun at America’s Home for Racing on Friday, Oct. 7. With more than 100 million records and streams sold worldwide, the son of a veteran, music icon, TV star, creative entrepreneur and lifelong philanthropist will Rock the ROVAL™ with nothing but hits from his three decade music career during a 90-minute set.
“We’re throwing our own ‘Parti-Gras’ and we’re ready to rock the heart of NASCAR country,” Michaels said. “This show will be all about celebrating the fans and kicking the weekend off in a big way. We’ll be bringing all the Poison hits, giving 1000% on stage and have a little something for everyone – some rock, pop and country -- and I promise, we’ll have nothin’ but a good time!”
Michaels is scheduled to take the stage at 8:30 p.m.
3 Doors Down Headlines Saturday Entertainment
With more than 20 million albums sold worldwide, 3 Doors Down will bring its high-energy rock show to Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Fan Zone, serving as a night cap to the afternoon’s Drive for the Cure 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series donnybrook on Saturday, Oct. 8. The concert will include chart-toppers like “Kryptonite,” “Loser” and “Duck and Run,” which fueled the band’s debut album “The Better Life” to a seven-time platinum RIAA certification and launched the Mississippi band to stardom, and a bevy of more recent hits. The show is scheduled for an 8:30 p.m. start.
“3 Doors Down and NASCAR go way back,” said lead vocalist Brad Arnold. “Whether filming music videos with Dale Jr. and Tony Stewart or performing at tracks across the country, we’ve found there’s no bigger party than a NASCAR party, and we can’t wait to crank things up and Rock the ROVAL.”
Bret Michaels and 3 Doors Down join the previously announced infield pre-race concert by rap superstar Nelly to cap the biggest weekend ever of music at the Bank of America ROVAL™ 400. Nelly will rock the infield pre-race stage before Sunday’s pivotal Cup Series Playoff showdown.
In addition to A-list music acts on the Rock the ROVAL™ stage each day, the 10-acre Fan Zone will include driver appearances by some of NASCAR’s biggest names, interactive games and displays, food trucks, partner activations and more. More details on additional entertainment and attractions will be forthcoming.
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The Fan Zone will be open each day to fans with a ticket to any of the weekend’s NASCAR events Oct. 8-9, including Saturday’s Drive for the Cure 250 Xfinity Series race or Sunday’s pivotal Bank of America ROVAL™ 400 showdown. Tickets to the Bank of America ROVAL™ 400 start at just $49 for adults. Kids 12 and under get in for just $10 with an adult. For tickets, visit www.charlottemotorspeedway.
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Giancarlo Stanton’s much-needed return to the Yankees’ lineup is coming into focus.
After going through another pregame workout on Friday, Stanton was expected to begin a rehab assignment on Saturday with Double-A Somerset in Bowie, Md.
According to manager Aaron Boone, the plan was for Stanton to serve as the designated hitter on Saturday and Sunday, then return to The Bronx to face Luis Severino in a live batting practice session on Tuesday.
That would keep Stanton, who has been out since July 24 because of Achilles tendinitis, out of action for the Subway Series on Monday and Tuesday.
But if he continues to respond well to the increased workload, Stanton could be in play to rejoin the Yankees on Thursday, when they begin a 10-game road trip at Oakland.
When Stanton does return to the lineup, which has largely lacked a punch without him, he initially will be used strictly as a DH
“Then keep ramping him up in his pregame work and things like that to get to a point where he’d be an outfield option for us,” Boone said.
Aroldis Chapman walked back-to-back hitters on nine pitches for the second time in three games Friday night in the Yankees’ 4-0 loss to the Blue Jays.
Those ninth-inning walks loaded the bases with one out, though Ron Marinaccio cleaned up the mess by limiting the damage to just a sacrifice fly.
Chapman had appeared to be turning a corner before his last two outings.
“Chappy struggled tonight,” Boone said. “This was a rough one tonight. We gotta get after it with him to get him back in line to how he’s been.”
Severino will throw another bullpen session Saturday in advance of his live session on Tuesday, his first time facing hitters since hitting the injured list with a low-grade lat strain.
Though Severino is not eligible to be activated off the 60-day IL until Sept. 12, he is encouraged by how he has felt in his bullpen sessions and said he believes he could get big league hitters out right now.
“I don’t feel like I’m coming from any major injury,” he said. “My arm feels pretty good.”
Oswaldo Cabrera played his third different position in his third MLB game on Friday, starting in right field, a position he added to his repertoire earlier this year.
He played third base and shortstop in his first two games with the Yankees after being called up on Wednesday.
“I think one of his strengths as a player is just his maturity and his clock and way about him,” Boone said. “He’s turning himself into a really good player and I think he’s going to be a good player in this league for a long time.
“But the intangible things are really special with him.”
Clarke Schmidt helped the Yankees out of the bullpen earlier this year, but he is currently continuing to build up as the Yankees’ best starting pitching depth (which is thin) at Triple-A.
“Anytime that need comes up [in the bullpen], that’s always potentially in play,” Boone said. “But getting those starts and having that option there is important. But obviously we know he can impact us in the pen. So we’ll continue to talk through that, explore that, see what makes the most sense for us moving forward.”
Albert Abreu has struggled of late in the Yankees’ bullpen — with a 5.91 ERA over his last 10 ²/₃ innings — but he does not have any minor league options left.
“I think it comes down to his sinker command and throwing strikes early and building off of it,” pitching coach Matt Blake said. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/yankees-giancarlo-stanton-set-to-begin-rehab-assignment/ | 2022-08-20T09:51:53Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/yankees-giancarlo-stanton-set-to-begin-rehab-assignment/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
10 tbsp unsalted butter softened
½ cup confectioners' sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp almond extract
1½ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup mini chocolate chips
In a large bowl add butter, vanilla extract, and almond extract. Using a hand mixer, beat until light and fluffy. Add powdered sugar and continue beating on low until combined.
Add flour and beat on low, scrape down the bowl, and then continue beating until well combined. (You may need to use your hands to press dough together to form a solid ball of shortbread. If it seems too flaky just keep working the dough together, it will come together).
Fold in chocolate chips.
Shape the dough into a rectangle block using your hands, making it the same width as you want your cookies to be. Wrap in plastic wrap, firm up the sides and edges of dough by pressing on the counter.
Place dough in the refrigerator and chill for 2 hours.
Remove the cookies from the refrigerator and let them sit out on the counter for 10-15 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Using a sharp knife cut ¼ to ½ inch thick rectangles from the dough and place them on the parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
Bake for 5 minutes, rotate the baking sheet in the oven. Continue baking an additional 4-5 minutes, but do not over bake. Remove from the oven and let cool 2-3 minutes on the baking sheet.
Nutrition facts per serving-
Calories: 179, Carbs: 22g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 11g, Sodium: 7mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 5g | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/chocolate-chip-shortbread-cookies/article_259e7e72-1fbf-11ed-94de-5391a1eb03f7.html | 2022-08-20T09:52:21Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/chocolate-chip-shortbread-cookies/article_259e7e72-1fbf-11ed-94de-5391a1eb03f7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
While searching for interesting, new recipes I came across these fun facts about food for kids, but I think they're fun for adults too.
Enjoy!
Applesauce was the first food eaten in space.
Pistachios aren't nuts—they are actually fruits.
Broccoli contains more protein per calorie than steak! (But, you'd need to eat A LOT of broccoli 🙂)
Raspberries are a member of the rose family.
M&Ms are named after their creators: Mars & Murrie.
Potatoes were the first food planted in space. | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/cooks-corner/article_d6987eb8-1fbe-11ed-87be-230e18ec7684.html | 2022-08-20T09:52:27Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/cooks-corner/article_d6987eb8-1fbe-11ed-87be-230e18ec7684.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
8 oz cream cheese whipped
1 cup mayonnaise
2 cups shredded colby jack cheese
5 green onions chopped
1 cube crushed garlic
0.5 cup bacon chopped
Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl and stir well.
Serve immediately with chips, crackers, or your favorite vegetables.
Can be made in advance and stored in the refrigerator covered with plastic wrap. | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/million-dollar-cream-cheese-garlic-dip/article_4889c05e-1fbf-11ed-986a-e3d667e2a4bc.html | 2022-08-20T09:52:33Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/million-dollar-cream-cheese-garlic-dip/article_4889c05e-1fbf-11ed-986a-e3d667e2a4bc.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
1 clove garlic, minced
¼ teaspoon lemon zest
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
½ teaspoon honey
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper
3 tablespoons panko breadcrumbs
3 tablespoons finely chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 (1 pound) skinless salmon fillet, fresh or frozen
Olive oil cooking spray
Chopped fresh parsley and lemon wedges for garnish
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine mustard, garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, rosemary, honey, salt and crushed red pepper in a small bowl. Combine panko, walnuts and oil in another small bowl.
Place salmon on the prepared baking sheet. Spread the mustard mixture over the fish and sprinkle with the panko mixture, pressing to adhere. Lightly coat with cooking spray.
Bake until the fish flakes easily with a fork, about 8 to 12 minutes, depending on thickness. | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/walnut-rosemary-crusted-salmon/article_95ce2468-1fbf-11ed-8f75-cf753837b684.html | 2022-08-20T09:52:39Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/walnut-rosemary-crusted-salmon/article_95ce2468-1fbf-11ed-8f75-cf753837b684.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Savor the rest of the sweltering summer because this winter in Texas is going to be “colder than normal,” according to Farmers’ Almanac.
The Almanac, which has been predicting the weather outlook for farmers and gardeners for over 200 years, says to expect a “chilly” winter with “normal precipitation.” Cold temperatures are expected to arrive in the South in mid-to-late November, mid-to-late December, and early and late January.
The Farmers’ Almanac previously predicted Texas’ deadly winter storm in 2021, in which heavy snowfall, ice storms and bitter temperatures put an enormous strain on the state’s power grid, leaving millions without electricity. Over 200 people died.
For this year, North Texas could see the most potential for snow and ice storms throughout the season. The Almanac says that heavy snowfall is expected to reach North Texas by the first week of January, followed by “significant snows” from North and Central Texas by the second week.
While this winter “will be filled with plenty of shaking, shivering and shoveling,” most of the cold weather is expected to “rattle warm weather seekers in the Southeast and South Central states, but the real shivers might send people in the Great Lakes area, Northeast, and North Central regions hibernating.”
There are a lot of qualifiers to this: The Farmers Almanac forecasts are not necessarily accurate. Other forecasters have not yet made their predictions, so this one might be an outlier. That 2021 storm really was an unusual event. But look, we know that basically nothing was done to address the power grid failures from that year, and at this point we know how bad it can get. There’s every reason to feel anxiety about this, no matter what ends up happening. That’s as much a failure as the inaction on the grid itself is. And it’s on Greg Abbott. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106623 | 2022-08-20T09:55:11Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106623 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Years of legal trouble for a former Harris County civil judge have come to an end with three years probation.
Alexandra Smoots on Wednesday wept as Judge Chuck Silverman granted her deferred adjudication on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge — an offense stemming from her decision in August 2020 to fire a shotgun during an argument with her ex-husband’s girlfriend. The incident exacerbated a downward spiral marked by laundry list of personal woes, including a breast cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy treatment, infidelity, divorce, foreclosure on her home and a federal indictment for wire fraud.
The indictment prompted her suspension from the bench in the 164th District Court.
She pleaded guilty to the federal charges later in 2020 and the case in the 183rd District Court represented the last hitch to moving on.
Smoot’s fate in the assault case was expected to be decided Wednesday during a pre-sentencing investigation, but the judge told both parties that he had already settled on a punishment and the hearing would be a “waste of time.”
“I don’t think it’s a benefit to this court and society to idle along,” said Silverman, who addressed Smoots as judge throughout the appearance. “I would like everything to continue on the up for you.”
[…]
Smoots, first elected in 2008, can no longer practice law because of her felony convictions. She now works as a legal consultant, [her defense attorney Juanita] Jackson said.
Federal investigators caught wind that Smoots was siphoning campaign money from 2013 to 2018 to purchase a Zales engagement ring, two Prada handbags, and for mortgage payments and private school tuition for her two sons.
The jurist in that case, Lynn N. Hughes, sentenced her to the 36 days she had spent jailed for a bond violation connected to the assault charge, as well as three years of supervised release.
Prosecutors in that case requested a sentence within the guideline range of 18 to 24 months in prison, saying the defendant abused her power and authority as a sitting judge. It was not known what state prosecutors planned to recommend to the judge as a punishment.
As part of her probation, Smoots must undergo 80 hours of community service and have no drugs or alcohol. Anger management therapy is also part of the court’s conditions.
Smoots’ federal plea and sentence came in September of 2020, about a month after this incident. To be honest, I don’t remember reading about it at the time, but then we were all kind of busy around then. As I said before, I hope she is getting her life back in order, and I hope the next time I hear about her it’s for something positive. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106634 | 2022-08-20T09:55:19Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106634 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After a year is silence Ayanfe is back to show us that sometimes life and love can either be sweet or sour
Ayanfe Oluwashola popularly known as Ayanfe, is back with his craft and according to him, he is coming with a bang to thrill the industry.
Ayanfe, who discovered his music career whilst in the university with a famous band he formed, made the bold decision of pausing his education and chasing his dreams as a musical artiste full time, and within a short period, he dropped his first single in 2018 under his former label.
After releasing a series of singles, covers, and freestyles and perfecting his craft, luck shined upon Ayanfe in 2019 after releasing a cover to Davido’s RISKY. He later joined the DMW family under the management of Obama DMW and signed a record deal with the label in 2020.
His career has skyrocketed ever since and his first single under the DMW label in 2020 “Pretend” topped charts for weeks with the success, Ayanfe continued to release music with various artistes including, Mayorkun, Idowest, and Davido to name a few before dropping his first EP entitled, “All That Matters” in 2021.
Within a year after the release of his first EP, a lot happened and changed the artiste’s life. With the lessons learned, eye-opening experiences, and the understanding that life can unveil itself from different perspectives and corners, Ayanfe has realised that what can be sweet in a moment could also turn sour the next.
Turning his pain into art, and under new management, Apert Media /Alpha Nation, Ayanfe is set to release to the public his upcoming extended playlist spearheaded by his management to reintroduce the artiste in a new light.
The anticipated body of work entitled “Sometimes Sweet, Sometimes Sour” is consisted of four tracks, which have been greatly influenced by his personal life and love life. The EP, according to the artiste showcases his vocal range with songs that are alluring in delivering an experience that is sonically intense and lyrics that sweetly bounce off the rich instrumentals.
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SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, says going by what transpired during the meeting between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, Tinubu’s victory is assured in 2023…..
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A friend posted on Facebook recently that his five-year-old son inquired from him the meaning of ASUU and he mischievously responded that it was the name of a festival being held in Nigeria every five years!
Who, in all honesty, would blame my friend for his disingenuous disinformation to his son since we all know that strikes by university teachers in Nigeria, who operate under the name – Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) – are truly a five yearly affair!
It is in fact a relay race featuring ASUU, senior non- academic workers, their junior counterparts as well as anything – and everything – that goes by the name of workers unions, not only in Nigerian universities, but also polytechnics and colleges of education.
The sad reality is that Nigeria is yet to articulate what it wants from education and how it hopes to achieve its target in that sector. Some years back, ASUU published pictorial reports of how decrepit university campuses had become. What was seen broke the hearts of many: dilapidated chairs and tables, libraries with dated books, non-existent reagents in laboratories, hostel facilities that would be declared unfit for prisoners. It was, indeed, a tale of woes.
ASUU has for many years been in the trenches against governments, both military and civilian, to force attention to the disheartening environment in which they work, and the poor pay of its members, both of which have led to brain drain. But it seems that the more the government gives, the less it is able to meet the demands of the teachers. In other words, government intervention is never enough, and may never be enough. So, why not think of a way out?
The weapon of choice for lecturers so far seems to be strikes, long and debilitating strikes, after which each government accedes to their demands and enters into agreements which will mostly be breached by the government, and the lecturers will embark on another round of strikes three or four years down the line, most certainly within the five-year mark that my friend told his five-year-old kid. Quite poetic.
This sad cycle must not be allowed to continue. So, what do we do? The federal and state governments should hands off the running of universities. Simple. Minister of State for Labour, former activist Festus Keyamo SAN drew the ire of many during his recent television interview when he said that the government could not meet the financial demands of ASUU. According to him, the financial implication of the university lecturers’ demand is an injection of about N1.2 trillion into university education, a sum he believes that the government cannot afford, given current financial realities and the government’s commitments to other sectors of the economy. ASUU has disputed that figure but the indisputable truth is that the union wants more pay for its members and a better working environment, which boils down to more expenditure by the government.
May I suggest that Nigeria take a pause and look at how other countries have achieved industrial harmony in the education sector while not compromising on standards? The closest country to learn from is colonial Britain, from where Nigeria borrowed formal education.
How is education being funded in the United Kingdom? Is it the British government that pays the salaries of lecturers; provides funding for the purchase of books into libraries, from Cambridge to Manchester, Preston to London; desks and tables in classrooms, and hostels for students at ridiculous tuition fees as obtains in Nigeria? No! The UK government only provides grants and student loans, repayable by the beneficiaries in a long-term, borrower-friendly scheme. Each university then makes money to run itself through endowments and tuition fees, especially from foreign students. The UK system is not remarkably different in many other parts of the developed world even those places where university education is free. There is no free lunch anywhere, someone is paying for it somewhere. Even in Germany and Finland where education is free up to university levels, various shades of social insurance schemes are instituted to put the funding in the hands of the citizenry.
What currently operates in Nigeria is a feeding-bottle system where the kid that cries the loudest gets the most attention. ASUU’s struggle, though noble, is only to join National Assembly members, and other layers of government in howling, to get more from the national purse.
Of course, who would blame the university teachers when they observe that the monthly pay of a university professor in Nigeria is probably what politicians dash their numerous girlfriends after a night out. They have also observed how the government which says it is broke spends thoughtlessly on frivolities. So, ASUU members feel entitled to their share of the so-called national cake.
They therefore yell and turn their backs on classes until the government is blackmailed into acceding to their demands.
As a friend once quoted a Northerner public officer under whom he worked as a youth corps member, when my friend expressed concern that government money was being frittered away: akoi kudi manna; akoi kudi falafala, meaning: there is money, lots of it (in the government purse), the public officer told my friend.
Once ASUU’s current demands are met, it will be a miracle if the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) does not start its own, followed by the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU), the junior counterpart of SSANU! University education in Nigeria is in peril if the government continues to run university education, because every sector’s gaze is on oil earnings.
Yet, as attributed to 19th Century Native American leader, Chief Seattle: “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.”
Oil earnings are not a gift from our ancestors, but a trust in our hands for our children. They are not supposed to be exhausted – even touched – by our generation but to be invested in long-yielding investments for the next generations.
Unfortunate, the 1999 Constitution — that discredited document, again! — provides for the federal and the state governments to meet every month to share proceeds from oil sales. The beneficiaries then return to their states and federal offices on a spending binge, buying exotic vehicles for civil servants, traditional rulers, throwing cash gifts at neighboring countries and other frolics. It is from these oil earnings that civil servants are paid, and university teachers demand more pay. There is no thought for how each agency of government can be self-sufficient and contribute into the national purse. There is no thought for tomorrow, it will take care of itself.
British universities run two academic sessions in a year in a creative bid to boost income. Their Nigerian counterparts deny students admission and tell applicants to reapply next year! This is because their salaries are not being paid from tuition fees and other earnings by the universities but an entitlement from the government. Middle class Nigerians who, seeing that the dreams of their children to become medical doctors would be truncated by the Nigerian system, struggled and sent their wards to countries in the former soviet bloc. They pay between $4000 and $7000 yearly, apart from accommodation fees and living costs. The affluent send their children to schools in the United States, UK and Canada where tuition fees start from around $25,000 With the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, countries like Poland, Romania and Georgia have thrown their doors open for foreign students fleeing Ukraine to transfer to their countries. What are Nigerian universities doing? Nothing! They will rather have the students who were already in Years Three, Four and Five to return home and sit for UTME all over! The only possible reason for this attitude is that Nigerian universities depend on government for funding and think of no creative way to boost income.
Akoi kudi manna; akoi kudi falafala!
Oluyinka Olujimi, a former newspaper editor, contributed this piece through, y2olujimi@yahoo.com
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Congenital tuberculosis was previously thought to be rare but recent changes in the epidemiology of TB have resulted in an increased risk. Fewer than 300 cases have been reported worldwide. In Nigeria, many cases of congenital tuberculosis had been reported.
Unfortunately, affected infants usually present with non-specific signs and symptoms, hence a high index of suspicion is required to make a diagnosis.
A case in 2012 was a 12-week-old male child that was admitted to the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH) with complaints of difficulty with breathing and poor weight gain from birth, cough of nine weeks duration, swelling of the left side of the neck of nine weeks duration, fever of 10 days duration and passage of frequent watery stools of two days duration.
His mother had a cough from the 5th month of pregnancy that was treated with unknown drugs bought over the counter. The cough resolved four weeks before delivery. Delivery was supervised by a traditional birth attendant.
The baby had not received any immunization. He was predominantly breastfed for four weeks, and then supplementary feeds with infant formula were added.
In Zaria, a case of a five-day-old baby who was managed for pneumonia with antibiotics for two weeks without improvement and was discharged home on parental request. At seven weeks, the baby failed to thrive. It was only then that TB was suspected and a diagnosis made on screening.
In Nigeria, these are the tip of the iceberg of babies born with Tuberculosis, the leading cause of death from infectious diseases globally, with an estimated 10.0 million new cases in 2017 and 1 million of which were in children under age 15. In many cases, however, the seeds of tuberculosis (TB) may be sown while still inside the womb or during delivery.
“Some children are born with tuberculosis. If a pregnant woman has TB, she can pass it to her unborn baby through the placenta, “says Dr Johnson Babalola, Programme Manager, Oyo State TB and Leprosy Control Programme. He spoke at a 3-day review meeting for media professionals in Oyo State, organized by USAID Breakthrough Action Nigeria.
He added, “a newborn that breaths in or ingests infected fluid from the birth canal or inhales infected droplets that have been coughed or sneezed into the air by family members or nursery personnel, can also get infected with TB.”
Dr Babalola said although transmission of TB from mother to child is rare, most children with a TB infection don’t become ill unless it becomes a disease. Symptoms of TB disease in a newborn include fever, reduced energy, poor feeding and difficulty breathing. These typically develop during the second or third week of life.
Over time, such children may have a delay in weight gain and physical growth (failure to thrive). Its complications also include meningitis and ear infections resulting in seizures, deafness, and death.
According to him, “After a baby inhales TB bacteria, they settle and grow in the lungs. They can then move through the bloodstream to the kidneys, spine, and brain. This is especially dangerous, particularly to babies and young children.”
He said untreated TB represents a greater hazard to a pregnant woman and her unborn baby because infants born to women with untreated TB have lower birth weight than those born to women without TB aside from other complications of the infection when it turns out to become a disease and such is not detected early and treated.
He declared that a pregnant woman should start treatment as soon as TB is suspected and the drugs used in the initial treatment do not appear to have harmful effects on the unborn baby both for her health, her baby and her close contacts.
“Left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year,” he added.
Nevertheless, Dr Babalola declared that the commonest route by which an individual contacts TB is through breathing in air that has TB germs. The air gets infected when a person with TB disease of the lung coughs, laughs, talks or sneezes.
Sneezing, unlike coughing, laughing or speaking transmits more of the germ. A person with active TB disease can release between zero and 200 TB germs during a speech; up to 3,500 TB germs from a cough and between 4,500 and 1 million TB germs from a sneeze.
Howbeit, Dr Babalola said the likelihood of transmission of TB is dependent on the infectiousness of the person with TB, the environment in which exposure occurred, the duration of exposure, and the immune status of the exposed person.
Individuals also at high risk for TB disease, he listed as people with HIV infection, babies and young children, elderly people, people who inject drugs, and people who are sick with other diseases that weaken the immune system.
Others include people who were infected with TB in the last two years, people who were not treated correctly for TB in the past and contact with TB patients like households, health staff and staff of prisons.
Dr Babalola stated that a high index of suspicion is required for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in pregnancy just as screening for tuberculosis should be part of the routine prenatal care at the slightest suspicion of tuberculosis.
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TWO pilots are believed to have fallen asleep and missed their landing during a flight from Sudan to Ethiopia on Monday, according to a report by commercial aviation news site Aviation Herald.
The incident took place on board an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 en route from Khartoum to Addis Ababa, the report said, “when the pilots fell asleep” and “the aircraft continued past the top of descent.”
Data obtained by the website indicates that the aircraft was cruising at 37,000 feet on autopilot when it failed to descend at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, its scheduled destination, on August 15.
Air traffic control were apparently unable to reach the crew despite making several attempts at contact.
However, an alarm was triggered when the plane overshot the runway and continued along the route.
The aircraft subsequently began to descend, landing safely around 25 minutes later.
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADSB) data shows the aircraft overflying the runway, before beginning its descent and maneuvering for another approach.
“We have received a report which indicates Ethiopian flight number ET343 en route from Khartoum to Addis Ababa temporarily lost communication with Addis Ababa Air Traffic Control on 15 August 2022,” reads a statement issued by Ethiopian Airlines on Friday.
“The flight later landed safely after communication was restored. The concerned crew have been removed from operation pending further investigation.
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“Appropriate corrective action will be taken based on the outcome of the investigation. Safety has always been and will continue to be our first priority,” the statement said.
Aviation analyst Alex Macheras has since taken to Twitter to express his shock at the “deeply concerning incident,” which he suggests may have been the result of pilot exhaustion.
“Pilot fatigue is nothing new, and continues to pose one of the most significant threats to air safety — internationally,” he tweeted on Thursday.
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Foreign airlines to blacklist Nigeria by December over trapped funds —NANTA
•Nigerians will soon be flying out from neighbouring countries —Foreign Airlines Association
FOREIGN airlines operating into Nigeria have concluded plans to blacklist the country should the Federal Government fail to remit their over $600 million trapped in the Central Bank of Nigeria.
This indication followed announcement earlier made by Emirates airlines to stop its operations into Nigeria effective September 1st, 2022 to protest its accrued revenue amounting to $85 million stuck in Nigeria.
Information gathered by Saturday Tribune has shown that the pull out of Emirates may be the beginning of the total collapse of the country’s international air transport as majority of the airlines have given the government up till December to release their trapped funds or have them withdraw their services from Nigeria.
Confirming the development to the Saturday Tribune, the president of the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA), Mrs Suzan Akporiaye said that some of the affected foreign carriers had already informed her of plan to shutdown their operations in Nigeria as a way of avoiding a further increase in the amount of their trapped funds.
According to Akporiaye: “I don’t know whether the government wants the situation to be so bad that the airlines have to stop flying to Nigeria, this is just the beginning, Emirates just started it but there are plans from other airlines from information reaching me, other foreign airlines are planning the same thing. Like I said you wouldn’t blame them, some of the airlines are saying that if by December there is no improvement that they will stop flying into Nigeria, but does our government want to wait for that to happen before they start running around.
“Emirates attributed reasons for its suspension of flights to the lack of improvement in the situation. Nobody is talking to the foreign airlines, even the minister of aviation is not talking to them to even let the airlines know if the government is doing something to mitigate what is going on. It’s a sad situation that we shouldn’t have allowed to get to this stage.”
Speaking on the announcement by Emirates to suspend flights into Nigeria, the NANTA president expressed reservations about the lack of patience displayed by the UAE airlines before deciding to pull its operations out of the country.
She, however, push the blame on the federal government.
Her words: “Emirates is right, they are a business entity. if they are not getting their funds they have every right to take whatever decision they want to take. I would have wished that they were a little bit more patient just like some other airlines that have told me that that they will hold on and be patient till the end of the year and that if nothing happens that they will stop flying, that is the aspect I felt Emirates should have followed because of the relationship and because of the fact that they know it is not a deliberate act by Nigeria not to pay their money, then again, it’s not their fault in any way, as a matter of fact it’s actually the fault of the Nigerian government.
“Remember the Bilateral Air Service Agreements (BASA) signed between the foreign countries of the airlines and Nigeria says the airlines must be able to repatriate their funds unhindered and Nigeria as a country has not been complying with that and because Nigeria is not complying with that part of the BASA agreement, the airlines have every right to take any step they want to take even to the extent of stopping their flights into and out of Nigeria, yes they do.
“We have failed in our own part of the agreement, we need to accept that it is the fault of the Nigerian government as it is but then they have to quickly come out to mitigate the crisis that is looming and staring us in the face. In fact, we are already in the crisis, we are touching it already as it is and how can they address this, is that let the government put the airlines’ funds on their priority list. So as it is now, we all know there is a global crisis no doubt and Nigeria like every other country is not exempted. Ours is just a peculiar case because of our population and Nigerians really travel and so ours will always be worse than any other country, look at the statistics, it’s not only Nigeria that has airlines’ trapped funds, it’s just that Nigeria has the highest so it’s a global crisis everywhere. What the government should do is to put the airlines funds on the priority list, call them for a meeting and let them know this is what you are about to do, telling them you will be able to get them certain percentage of their trapped funds and if the airlines hear this from government they will soft-pedal.”
Akporiaye while talking on why the airlines need to be placed on the priority list premised her position on the fact benefits inherent in having foreigners coming to invest and do business in Nigeria as such foreigners come to spend foreign currency and not Naira.
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“Let me mention here, one of the reasons why we need to place the airlines on the priority list is because we need the foreigners to begin to come to Nigeria, we have forex crisis no doubt and when foreigners come in either as visitors, businessmen or as investors, whichever way they are not going to be spending Naira but dollars. So aviation is an avenue for Nigeria to be receiving foreign currencies no matter how small but at least it’s coming in. So if they don’t place them on the priority list all the foreign carriers will stop flying into Nigeria, meaning no foreigner will come into Nigeria to spend foreign currency in our country, no investor will be able to come and invest in foreign currency and when foreign investors come in they spend foreign currencies and not Naira. So we need these investors to continue to come in even it may be the Nigerians in diaspora coming to establish one investment or the other, we need them to continue to come in. The only window we need to have to continue to get foreign currencies into our economy is to keep aviation open and let the airlines continue to fly in. Once that is not there then you have automatically shut down the window.”
Supporting the foreign carriers, another travel expert who spoke under the condition of anonymity declared: “I have predicted this trend and it will continue. The Federal Government of Nigeria should ensure that it honours international commitments and repatriate blocked airline sales proceeds from Nigeria. Airlines are not charities and have high operational costs. According to reports Emirates Airlines have taken a wise and risk-averse decision and other airlines will implement different measures to mitigate their risks and financial exposure in this market.”
This is just as the cleaning house for the international airlines around the globe, International Air Transport Association (IATA) blamed the federal government for failing to heed its warnings on the subsequent negative effects the continued withholding of the airlines’ funds will have on Nigerians.
According to the IATA’s Regional Vice-President for Africa and the Middle East Kamil Alawahdi: “This is airline money and its repatriation is protected by international agreements in which Nigeria participates. IATA’s many warnings that failure to restore timely repatriation will hurt Nigeria with reduced air connectivity are proving true with the withdrawal of Emirates from the market. Airlines cannot be expected to fly if they cannot realize the revenue from ticket sales.
Loss of air connectivity harms the local economy, hurts investor confidence, impacts jobs and people’s livelihoods. It’s time for the Government of Nigeria to prioritize the release of airline funds before more damage is done.”
Among the over 27 foreign carriers operating into Nigeria include British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Lufthansa, KLM/ Air France, Delta Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Emirates, Qatar Airways, South African Airways, Ethiopian Airline, Egypt Air and many others.
The total pullout of the foreign airlines may mean cutting the country from the major parts of the world where Nigerians enjoy traveling to for either business, pleasures and even medical tourism.
Consequences
Chairman of Association of Foreign Airlines Representatives in Nigeria (AFARN).
Mr Kingsley Nwokeoma, told Saturday Tribune on Friday that the consequence of the blacklist will be Nigerians having to go to neighbouring countries to fly out to other parts of the world.
“This has been a recurring decimal in the industry. The implications are: that more airlines will decrease frequencies as some have done already, and others might also stop their operations in Nigeria.
“The consequences will be (Nigerian) air travellers will have to go to neighbouring countries to travel to various climes,” he said.
Economy class ticket on Lagos/London route N2.3m
There is fire on the mountain for Nigerian air travelers on both local and international routes as both local and foreign carriers have further increased their fares.
Saturday Tribune on Friday found that for British Airways, an economy class ticket between Lagos and London route that used to attract between N350,000 and N500,000 has now skyrocketed to N2.3 million while an upper class cabin ticket is now sold for N5.3 million.
Virgin Atlantic is also around that range. The high fares are however not limited to the foreign routes as even a one hour flight from Lagos to Abuja, for example has also increased to N200,000 or more as against the former N25,000 to N50,000.
The high fares particularly on the international routes has led to a sharp decline in the numbers of Nigerians traveling out as attested to by the near half empty departure hall of the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport contrary to the usual heavy presence of passengers that used to abound there.
Many of the aviation stakeholders spoken to by the Saturday Tribune have attributed the unaffordable fares to many reasons ranging from the high price of aviation fuel, devaluation of the Naira, to the lack of foreign exchange.
In his reaction, Director at the Zenith Travels and a member of Aviation Round Table (ART), Mr Olumide Ohunayo traced the exorbitant fares on the international routes in particular to some measures so far taken by the foreign carriers to cushion the effects of their over $600 million funds trapped in the Central Bank of Nigeria which they could not repatriate to their home countries.
Olumide declared: “The concurrent increase in the price of aviation fuel, Jet A1, the fallen value of the Naira and the withholding of the foreign airlines money by the CBN have all come together to make the fares out of Nigeria higher than normal.
“The airlines have brought in some checks that if you are flying from outside into Nigeria, you can no longer buy their cheap tickets from Nigeria, you can only buy their tickets from outside and when you are buying from outside, it’s those crazy fares you will see and if you are in Nigeria, it’s those crazy fares you will see. That’s what they have done to safeguard themselves to cushion the effects of these triple issues that have bedeviled the foreign airlines in particular now.
“What it says is that if you have to fly now you must have adequate cash liquid to fly and if you have anybody outside Nigeria coming in, you cannot buy internally you have to buy dollars to send outside to buy those tickets and that is the situation we have found ourselves. What will happen is that like today, we have seen that Emirates has stopped flying, we are to see some airlines reducing their frequencies and capacities and might cut down on some routes to Nigeria and might have total stoppage as Emirates has just done today even the oil marketers supplying them aviation fuel are not accepting Naira from them. That’s where we are now.”
In his own comment, the managing director of Centurion Aviation Security and a onetime military commandant of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Group Captain John Ojikutu, retired, who described what has been happening as nothing unexpected in view of the rise in the price of aviation fuel and the sharp difference between the values of the Naira to the Dollar.
He blamed the domestic airline operators for failing to comply with an earlier directives as far back as two decades ago that the local airlines fares on the domestic routes should be factored along the Dollar/Naira rates.
“What is happening in the commercial aviation sector is not unexpected if the operators have been watching the trends of the fuel prices and the dollar/naira rates since the year 2000. None of them took note of the former Federal Civil Aviation Authority’s (FCAA), now Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) directive in 1989/90 that air fares should be factored along the dollar/naira rates. About that time when fuel was being refined locally and dollar/ naira rate was $/40, average air fare was between N3,800 to N4,000.
“Since the advent of the civil administration in 1999/2000, we have been importing fuel and the prices have steadily been increasing from N80 to N120, N180, N200 per liter and now close to N900 and at the same trend, the dollar/ naira rate has increased from N180/$ to now N700/$. All these did not happen this year but over 20 years. Most of the airlines operators today are just about 10 years in operation except Aero. What were their business plans before they came in?”
Suggesting the way out, Ojikutu called on those in government to stop the corruption and stealing surrounding crude oil exportation and importation of fuel and the prompt commissioning of the Dangote Refineries that was to come into operation in 2019 and postponed now to 2023.
“Sell out the four NNPC Refineries to willing but credible foreign or local companies to stop the wastages of funds for the repairs that has been going on in the last 20 years. Repair the pipelines that are supplying fuel from the Atlas Cove and the NNPC deports to the airports and stop the bridging of the supply with truck tankers; direct the operators to open forex domiciliary account with the CBN where all their forex earnings MUST be deposited and the naira equivalent given to them which can be returned whenever the needs arise. No operator should benefit from the forex domiciliary account except it has deposit in it and the dollar/naira rates are increasing and not curtailed.”
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I’m committed to raising over one million young leaders by 2030 —Ijeoma Okoye, writer, publisher, founder of YAMA
Ijeoma Dicta Okoye is a writer, publisher, book consultant and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Creative Writers and Influencers Network (CWIN) and Young and More Africa (YAMA). In this interview by KINGSLEY ALUMONA, she speaks about her experience with underemployment, journey into writing and publishing, youth empowerment, among other issues.
Growing up, did you imagine becoming who you are today?
Writing has always been a part of me. However, I started utilising my writing skills in my adulthood − a path I had to take after having a taste of the labour market after my diploma programme. I never knew I was going to become a writing expert and consultant. In fact, my age-long dream was to be a lawyer but after trying to get my dream course, I settled for Mass Communication where I obtained a diploma and then English Language where I obtained a degree.
I grew up not paying attention to my writing skill until I became broke to a point of receiving a salary of N6,000. This was an experience that taught me a lesson. I started looking deep within myself to see what I can do. It was in the process of self-discovery that I found out that I could actually do something with my writing skills. Today, I consult for corporate firms and professionals, working with them to birth quality content and books.
You just graduated from the university about one year ago, and you pride yourself as an online business strategist, book consultant and editor, writing coach and publisher. How was this possible within this short period of time?
I graduated from the university in 2021 (thanks to ASUU and COVID-19), but I was already building a business around my skill as at then. In fact, by the time I graduated, I had written 10 books — both in print and digital formats, worked with over 50 authors, and trained over 5,000 writers. I had also hosted a good number of events both virtually and physically. So, you see, I did not start building a brand and business when I graduated. I was already an established business owner before graduating.
You are the founder of Creative Writers and Influencers Network (CWIN). Tell us about it.
Creative Writers and Influencers Network (CWIN) is Africa’s leading writing and business community set up to help writers, authors, business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals become profitable by using viable new media tools and models to boost their income and grow their influence, create more profitable streams of income using their intellectual property, and build businesses around their knowledge.
The CWIN community was formally launched in October 2018 — the same period I launched my writing career. Our community of nearly 50,000 members is the result of this huge vision. We have moved from being just a community to becoming a leading digital media company offering writing, publishing and innovative solutions to personal, business and corporate brands, organisations and entrepreneurs.
Good to hear that CWIN Africa has expanded its reach. How were you able to achieve this?
As an entrepreneur, I am excited about solving problems. This has made me consciously build CWIN Africa and championed a host of initiatives. In over three years of starting out, we have become a recognised community and brand. Today, we have served clients in various countries including Nigeria, Zambia, Liberia, the USA, Canada and others.
The first-ever digital platform for creatives is being built by CWIN Africa. Creators by CWIN Africa is a digital media platform aimed at helping underserved creatives in Africa and beyond showcase their works and earn from their skills. We just unveiled this project to the public and beta test is set to commence.
Writing and publishing are tough businesses in Nigeria, giving lack of encouragement and funding on the part of the writer, and bad economy and piracy on the part of the publisher. How do you think these depressing situations could be addressed?
Writing and publishing are not as tough as we think. The issues of poor funding, piracy and restriction of publishing rights by publishing firms are becoming a thing of the past with the emergence of self-publishing. It is easier to have your work published without breaking the bank or waiting for traditional publishing firms to accept your manuscript. You can publish your book as a digital copy or in print format with your budget.
So, the issue is not writing and publishing the book but marketing and selling it. A lot of writers and authors get it wrong in this stage, which makes them believe that writing and publishing are not profitable. This was the reason I had to write my fourth book in print, ‘What Highly Paid Writers Know’. It is a book that captures the mistakes writers, authors and online business owners make when it comes to marketing and selling their offers.
How can young writers who do not have the moral and financial support be encouraged to keep up with their dreams?
Every established writer was once an amateur writer. For me, I did not have the opportunity to develop my writing skills as a young girl. This is why young writers and creatives should be given all the support they need to grow. Parents should also look out for creative talents in their children and help them harness such. I am glad we are championing the drive for this through our Kiddies Mentorship Training and Scholarship Programmes at CWIN.
Talking about the CWIN Writing Scholarship — the need to help more persons actualise their writing goal despite the financial inclinations, birthed the scholarship programme. CWIN Writing Scholarship Scheme is a corporate social responsibility (CSR) fully funded by CWIN Africa to help intentional persons kick-start their writing careers. So far, we have supported four writers who have gone ahead to write their books and launch their writing career and online business.
Aside from being the CEO and founder of CWIN Africa, you are also the project director of Young and More Africa (YAMA). What is your drive in leading this movement?
In 2020, at the peak of the pandemic, I had the lead to officially launch the Young and More Africa project to help more young people discover the potential in them and strive to live it while they are young. I wanted to set up a network that gathers young people from all walks of life to share thoughts and ideas on how they can effect change in their immediate environment and impact lives using what they have. Today, I look back at this project and I am amazed at the reach of our impact just in two years.
In two years, YAMA has become Africa’s largest network of young change-makers from all over Africa and beyond. In two years, we have hosted three editions of the world-class YAMA Convention attracting industry leaders and experts from far and near. Finally, in two years, the YAMA has become a stand-alone initiative and have partnered with the United Nations to drive for the actualisation of SDG 1 (No poverty), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Development), and SDG 17 (Partnership for the goals).
YAMA is on a mission to impact and raise one million young leaders by the year 2030. I am very intentional about this date which is why we launched the #Impact10000Youths campaign. This global movement is here to lead the way when it comes to youth empowerment and development. We are here to change the narratives
This year’s YAMA Convention was on the lips of everyone who attended it. How were you able to assemble such notable speakers and panellists?
Wow. Up till now, I am still getting feedback from delegates of the YAMA Convention 2022 held in Lagos. Our speakers were John Obidi, Mike Oladipo, Babatunde Akin-Moses, Stephen Fii, Airemionkhale Esther, Chinaza Favour, Winner Ezekiel made the event a memorable one. The goal of the event was to have top industry experts share practical experience and conversations on digital economy, business, and personal development with the delegates. We are glad this was achieved. We look forward to more impactful conversations and events in the future.
As someone who has achieved a lot at a young age, what would you say drives you, and your mission in life. And where do you see yourself in five years?
I believe that for the world to attain growth and sustainability on all levels there must be an expression of the full potential of all generations. So, being a young person is just a stage of my life that I am fully utilising. This is why I am most excited about the theme for this year’s International Youth Day, with the theme: ‘Intergenerational solidarity: Creating a world for all ages’. You see, whether you are young or old, the world needs you. You do not have to allow your age to restrict you.
I have a strong passion for growth and excellence, and this has been a major driving force. I am on a mission to raise a rare breed of writers and young leaders who will transform the world with their pens and voices. I am taking this one step at a time and hope to see a better version of myself in the next five years.
What are the major challenges you face juggling all these engagements? And how do you manage the stress that comes with them?
It has not been easy combining family, studies and life in general with business, but I have learnt one thing which is: ‘Always pay attention to what matters to you’. I have been able to beat stress and live healthily because I mastered how to give time for what is important. I would rather catch a sleep than hang out for unnecessary conversations. I would rather have chat time with my family than go partying. It boils down to knowing your priority and giving the right attention to it.
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My mother in-law called me thief, almost got me lynched —Husband
•He contributes nothing, while I spend N30,000 on our children’s food, pay their fees —Wife
A woman, Dolapo Akingbade, has told Grade A Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State that is was no longer interested in her marriage to her husband, Dayo Akingbade, on the accounts that he was irresponsible and constantly shirked his responsibilities towards her and their three children.
Dolapo stated that no wedding ceremony held between her and her husband, adding that he didn’t pay a dime as her dowry.
The plaintiff explained that she was responsible for their children’s feeding which she said was N30, 000 per month.
Dolapo further stated that her husband made her shoulder the demands of their children’s education.
According to her, she moved out of their matrimonial home almost two years ago because she was frustrated.
Dolapo pleaded with the court, if her prayer of divorce was answered, to grant her custody of their three children, but make her husband responsible for their upkeep.
She also entreated the court to restrain him from coming to harass or fight her at her place of abode or work.
Dayo pleaded not liable to the all the charges brought against him by the plaintiff.
Dolapo in her evidence said, “My lord, I don’t want to have anything to do with my husband again. I moved out of his house almost two years ago because he frustrated me.
“My husband started displaying his act of irresponsibility from the outset of our relationship. Dayo didn’t carry out the normal marital rites on my behalf. He paid nothing as my dowry.
“I bore my husband three children, but he doesn’t know how they are fed or trained in school.
“I enrolled our first and second children in a public school so as to reduce the cost of their formal training. I only pay for their books and examination.
“The third is in a private school and her tuition fee is N10, 000 per term.
“My lord, I spend almost all the proceeds from my business to feed our children every month as a result of the high cost of foodstuff. Feeding our children cost me N30,000 every month.
“He has not given the children a dime since we all moved out of his house.
“I plead with this honourable court to end our relationship, grant me custody of our children and make my husband solely responsible for their upkeep.
“I further pray the court to restrain him from coming to harass, threaten or fight me both at my dwelling place and work place,” she stated.
Dayo giving his testimony, told the court, “My lord, Dolapo and I held an introduction ceremony before she moved into my house. Her family members and mine were present.
“Dolapo lied that I’m irresponsible. Her aim is to gain the court’s favour.
“My wife is a prostitute. She was in the habit of bringing her lovers who were rich and influential to our matrimonial home.
“She got worse despite my showing displeasure at her immoral lifestyle. She flaunted her indecent acts in my face.
“I got fed up with her one morning and told her I was no longer interested in our marriage. I took the drastic step because living with a promiscuous woman is like signing one’s death warrant.
“My mother in-law rather than feel embarrassed about her daughter’s shameful practice, to my chagrin, came to our house to pack her daughter’s belongings out of my house.
“Dolapo and one of her lovers took to threatening me after she left my house. They went as far as getting me arrested and detained by the police.
“I decided I would give our children money every weekend for their upkeep, but was almost lynched the first weekend I paid them a visit at my mother in-law’s house.
“She raised a false alarm and shouted that I was a thief as I walked into her compound. I would have been dead by now.
“I have since stopped going to my mother in-law’s house to avoid being lynched.
“I’m concerned about our children’s welfare and I’m ready to give the three of them N12,000 for food every month.
“My lord, I pray that you rule that our children spend their weekend and holidays with me.
The court president, Mrs S.M Akintayo, after she had listened to both parties, adjourned the case till August 29.
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Happy Saturday! We are kicking the weekend off with temperatures in the 70s and plenty of cloud cover. There will be a few showers in the area this morning, but the better chance of rain will come this evening. Locally heavy rain will be possible, especially in communities that picked up a lot of rain on Friday. High temperatures will remain on the cool side, topping out in the low to mid-80s.
Rain chances will stick around tonight as a warm front lifts to the north. Low temperatures will range from 67-72 degrees.
Sunday will feature another round of off and on showers as moisture remains in place across the Tennessee Valley. Locally heavy rain and a few strong storms with gusty winds will be the primary concern for Sunday. High temperatures will once again top out in the low to mid-80s.
A few showers will linger into Monday morning before drier air moves back into the area. Tuesday through Friday will be mainly dry, with only a few showers possible in the higher terrain throughout the week. Temperatures will make a run at the 90-degree mark by the end of next week.
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Dambudzo Marechera, the Zimbabwean writer whom the Bard of Isara referenced as being “bohemian in temperament”, is long dead and buried. But his House of Hunger, tempting and arresting in its poetic quality and representation of squalor and utter chaos, is, as a character said in the English poet T.S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, “not worth forgetting.” Marechera, the rascal from Zimbabwe whose waywardness easily outclassed anything Nigeria’s Ayinla Omowura, the late apala maestro could ever dare to come up with—Marechera hauled plates at people during an award ceremony– does not call up images of Nigeria’s current “mad man singer” (by self-description), Habeeb Okikiola, alias Portable, the Zazu exponent. Marechera was an actual genius; he was insanely talented and his art was world class. He is the writer that comes to mind this week as I ponder the poverty, squalor and degradation in which vast populations of Nigerians remain trapped.
Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari is the global capital of poverty, a verdict that is not surprising given that Nigeria is also one of the three most terrorized countries of the world, the global capital of open defecation and out-of-school- children, and the country with the world’s worst electricity access. Surely no indictment can be more severe. Nigeria has become a house of hunger in very literal terms and I wonder why 2023 should be an invitation to greater hunger.
Hunger—and I mean the raw flesh of hunger—stalks the land with greater ferocity than the “murderers’ hand lurking in the shadows” which in Oswald Mtshalli’s Nightfall in Soweto “strikes down the helpless victim.” With only 16 out of Nigeria’s 36 state governments paying the N30,000 minimum wage signed into law in 2019, it’s a no-brainer that millions of households are in the firm grip of despair. When hunger enters the stomach, say the Yoruba, no other matter finds its way in, which is why the people pray that we may have a hand to take to the mouth. In Ikorodu, Lagos State where this writer is from, it is customary to pray for people to be able to “find money in the middle of money” (m’owo naarin owo),but we all know that it is only people like the politicians in agbada, killer herders fed to bursting by terrified families, the religious charlatans called G.Os, ritual killers and the irredeemably corrupt oil (wo)men pick currency notes amidst currency notes and purchase jewellery with sums that can conveniently feed entire clans. Indeed it seems that to actually “m’owo naarin owo,” you have to be involved in fraud of some kind, like the Nollywood whore who claims to have bought two Range Rovers in one month by selling amala in Lekki when those who have been selling amala before her mother was born and are better known across the length and breadth of town can hardly afford the 1999 Toyota Camry.
In its report titled 2022 Nigeria Poverty Assessment, the World Bank said in March that the number of poor Nigerians is projected to hit 95.1 million this year. Indeed, appalled by the trouble in the land, the Edo State chapter of the Coalition of Registered Political Parties (CRPP) recently raised the alarm over the plight of the masses toiling under excruciating economic conditions. Per its chairman, Dr. Samson Isibor: “The unemployment market is over 70 million. Insecurity is becoming a daily occurrence, killer herdsmen are everywhere in our forests and we cannot travel anyhow, anywhere because the fear of herdsmen and kidnappers is the beginning of wisdom. Our farmers cannot assess their farm, which is leading to high cost of food.” Isibor asked the state governor to sign the anti-grazing bill into law and ban the various unions inflating the cost of food and services.
In my area of residence, I am told, street girls in agro (desperation) can be had for just N500. These days if there are 20 people by an ATM, only about five may be collecting anything beyond N5,000. Educated people in suits are surviving office hours on roast corn, and as a matter of fact somebody I know recently had to park his car somewhere on the way home on account of exhausted fuel. Across the land, millions of girls have been reduced to a morsel of bread, opening themselves up to a festival of diseases for a pittance, and merely scratching the surface of existence. Young men embrace crime with gusto. Shopping malls where previously we only picked up electronics or basics like toothpaste have become brothels in broad daylight. The prostitution bed is the bare floor behind the cars parked by owners still selecting their needs.
Just how does a man feel when to eat he takes out a loan from shylock banks because his wages have been on holiday for five months? The town is hard. And let’s not pretend that the deprivation in the land has not reached columnists, one of whom recently, for the first time in many years of married life, learnt that the customary 12kg gas cylinder could be half-filled. Amidst the chaos of struggle, an individual sent a picture of herself detained in a hospital bed for failing to pay a N9,000 balance following appendicitis surgery, and saying that a former intern had suggested contact. As there was N8,000 left in some account, this writer forwarded it hoping that she would be allowed to go home and praying for the quickest of recoveries. Alas, it was all scam: the picture sent was actually that of a Nigerian girl trafficked to Russia for prostitution and rescued by an NGO. You can look up the story on naijagists.com. This incident actually closed a chapter opened many decades ago of giving audience to total strangers. Writers own no mint.
And now to the point of this intervention: there’s terrible hunger now, but worse is in the offing if this land is not restructured and returned to its First Republic ways. As per 2023, there’s a real prospect of eating lemon grass unless Nigerians choose wisely. The politicians are sounding very philosophical now, just like Dwight D. Eisenhower sounded when he spoke about humanity’s misplaced priorities: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.” But it’s all artifice. The contenders intend to win elections by distributing huge sums to traditional rulers, opinion moulders and other big people. The money will be enough to see these lucky ones through the next eight years of torture. As for the masses, they will only get N5,000-N10,000, and then they will eat grass.
“I couldn’t have stayed in the House of Hunger where every morsel of sanity was snatched from you the way some kinds of birds snatch food from the very mouths of babes,” the protagonist in House of Hunger says. Why should Nigerians?
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Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Imo State, Prince Marshal Okaforanyanwu, in this interview by JOHNKENNEDY UZOMA, holds that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have no interest of the common man and advocates a return to parliamentary system of government. Excerpts:
How prepared is your party SDP in the forthcoming election?
The SDP is fully prepared. We have our presence everywhere in the country and we are working to ensure that we record victory everywhere. We have senators who defected to the SDP. We have some members of the House of Representatives and the House of Assembly in various states who have joined SDP. So as we speak, we have serving senators, House of Representatives and House of Assembly members. The fact is that we are poised to take over the stage. Of course, SDP is the third largest party in Nigeria and about the oldest outside Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). SDP is the second oldest party in Nigeria and for us to continue to navigate around the corridors of power up till date, it means something is in the offing for us. A lot of parties have been deregistered yet we maintained the stage and we are still moving on. I have operated as the state chairman of the party just for a few months now, yet I have been able to field candidates for every senatorial, House of Representatives and House of Assembly positions. We have a very good prospect in future. We are strong and ready and by 2024 we are going to run for the governorship of Imo State and we are going to take over the Imo Glass House.
Political parties have started jostling for votes after the rounds of primary elections. What does that portend for Nigeria?
It’s a routine. We have performed the political rituals by completing and concluding our various primaries in the 18 registered political parties under INEC supervision, but there are more to it; especially about the larger Nigerian and political parties being properly taken care of. The more to it is this: you and I know that there is abject poverty in the land. People are now feeding from mouth to ground – this is following the spiritual interpretation of Mr. President. He moved Nigerians ‘from top to bottom’. We are at the bottom. The spiritual implication is that everybody is on the ground. So nothing is moving and if you want to get it right, just like the youths are agitating, the Civil Society groups are advocating that there should be proper election. If every Nigerian wants to choose who they are sure can perform, their duty is to register. If you and I can register and have our PVC, if our votes can count, we can change the narrative. Most of us we want a better Nigeria. This is not the Nigeria we met. This is not the Nigeria of our dream.
The PDP and APC disappointed the people of the S/East; do you think the zone can still actualise their presidential bid through Peter Obi?
Obviously I wouldn’t want you to be silent about other sons of the region that are also contesting, because Peter Obi is not the only person running for the position of the presidency of the country from the zone. However, I know that people are seeing him as being more vibrant. The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) also has a presidential candidate Umeadi. I think if Peter Obi can practice what he is preaching, I believe a lot of people will be there for him. The South-East has been disenfranchised before now and we have been robbed for too long because of the quest to have a shot at the presidency of the country. That has triggered the unrest in the South-East. It was the same thing that triggered the call for a referendum because our people feel that they are being marginalised or shortchanged because the Igbo are nowhere in the scheme of things. When you look through the face of leadership sequentially from the presidency to vice president, attorney general, Chief Justice of Nigeria and other principal officers that hold the nation, you cannot find an Igbo man. Unfortunately it is said that we have Wazobia which literally spells out that there are three major tribes in Nigeria. But the two other major tribes out of the three have emasculated the other one and decided to keep it by the wayside as if they are not part and parcel of the sovereignty of the country.
So if we are being denied the right or privileges in Nigeria, we will ask for it. Most political voices have it that they would not want to separate from Nigeria. But if you don’t want somebody to separate, you must allow that person to have a share of the national cake. Whereby you say that an Igbo man cannot become the president of this country, those who decided to make a change inevitable should expect the other side. In all ramifications the South East has all it takes academically and in every other ramification to govern this country. But unfortunately the PDP and the APC denied us the opportunity of fielding a candidate through their platforms. But in SDP, I wouldn’t fail to tell you that I reached out to some of our young vibrant men including Mr. Peter Obi and Senator Anyim Pius Anyim to come and run under our party but they refused. They felt they needed political parties that have resounding names and decided to go to them. Otherwise SDP opened its flanks for an Igbo man to be a presidential candidate. I reached out to many of them. I even spoke to Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, even our national chairman met Chief Iwuanyanwu to show that SDP was open and would accommodate the people from the South-East.
Ideologically that is why our people decided to join the party because it spread out to accommodate us but unfortunately when we reached out to our illustrious sons who have what it takes to run for the presidential seat, some of them showed interest and suddenly made a u-turn. I cited the example of Peter Obi, who claimed that there were a lot of court cases, but unfortunately he did not know that the Labour Party had three court cases. The Labour Party has three executive arms, three chairmen and they all produced their presidential candidates. I heard one has conceded its own, remaining one. If that one wants to play a spoiler game, anything can happen. Without being the case, he chose to go to the Labour Party for reasons best known to him but fortunately SDP has its own presidential candidate, senatorial candidates, House of Representatives candidates and House of Assembly candidates. But talking particularly as it concerns an Igbo man, political marriages are not yet over. But in as much as we have our candidate, we will still support him because if by tomorrow Peter Obi calls for a unity of purpose to fight one political beast, the party will be ready to join hands to make sure Nigeria is redeemed and recover because nobody is happy with the present situation of things in Nigeria.
Nigerians have called security experts to assist in tackling insecurity in Nigeria. What is your view?
I am completely in support of the call. You know how long it took President Buhari to think about the security architecture which is manned by his kinsmen. The Chief of Army Staff is from the North; most of the Service Chiefs are from the North, yet insurgency is gaining ground every day. If you hear Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State shouting on top of his voice, calling on the Federal Government to assist him to quell the rampage of the Fulani and the crises they are causing in his, it is for the same reason. Unfortunately, the Federal Government has continued to label the security situation as farmers/herders clash. Why are you calling it farmers/ herders clash when the two never cohabited? The herders rove around the nation and most of the villages sacked, they rename and take over and nobody is saying anything. They even hoist their flag with a name trying to make sure that the existing name they met before sacking that village no longer exists. It is a clear land grabbing and complete take over. And when Governor Ortom continued to cry that the foreign Fulani want to take over Nigeria, it is not far from the truth because other areas have started experiencing that. If you remember, there was shooting at a church at Oraifete in Anambra State and it was blamed on one drug baron. At the end of the day, it turned out that the alleged drug baron had no hand in the matter. A similar case happened at Owo in Ondo State, where gunmen invaded a Catholic Church killed worshipers. This to me is ethnic cleansing and nobody has been convicted. It appears that the government has hands in it otherwise the same vigour and strength they apply in arresting criminals should apply in arresting the gunmen.
What are your views on the directive by the Nasarawa State governor to his citizens to carry arms to defend themselves?
It is unfortunate but do you blame the man? Before your eyes, your people are murdered and you are helpless. Sometimes, the remains of the murdered ones are not given befitting burial. It’s really disheartening. No state governor will seat back to watch his people being murdered every day and would not want to do anything. The Nasarawa State governor is being overwhelmed and he knows that the security situation has equally overwhelmed President Buhari. That must be why he resorted to the last option by signing it into law that his people should carry arms to defend themselves; and that they should be licensed to protect themselves since the security agencies cannot. So what is left for them is to find a means to protect themselves. What he is doing is making a move so that people will not start reading meanings that he is liaising with the bandits and criminals to slaughter his people. Maybe for one reason or the other, even his political opponents could use that against him. So he did the right thing by invoking such powers bestowed on him by the constitution that his people should carry arms so that they can defend themselves. If the bandits know that in each house they are going to attack there is AK47 rifle, they will be cautious themselves and it will reduce criminality because where every person is carrying arms, every person becomes a prey. Every person will stand on the same pedestal. So you don’t blame him.
The situation of the Nigerian national economy is worrisome and there appears not to be any reprieve because of continued borrowing by the Federal Government. What do you think this portends for our economy now and in future?
We have seen countries plunged into that kind of debt. Sri Lanka is one of them. A lot of countries have been plunged into overwhelming debts, and it is difficult to come out of it. President Buhari does not care what happens to us. The irony is that their children are not in the country and are happy enjoying themselves outside. If you look at the whole thing, it is no longer a laughing matter. Their actions seem deliberate. They want to make sure they exterminate sections of the Nigerian society.
How can you continue to borrow and borrow endlessly? I also blame the National Assembly for some of these things because if they refused, or opposed some of these senseless loans, the borrowing would not have taken place. And most of these loans are not plunged into any infrastructural deficit or to enhance the growth of the economy. Most of this money is borrowed for stipulated projects. It is a very funny policy. In fact I don’t know where President Buhari is taking the country to. Well, I am not surprised because he taken Nigeria from top to bottom and he will not leave until everyone is on the floor. I am not an advocate of borrowing without policies of how the economic situation would be remedied. Today a dollar is about N710 to the naira. It was the same dollar he met at N180. He promised to make N100 to $1, but he succeeded in making sure that the dollar exchange loan is above what it used to be, which is at 180 to 700.
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We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics —Obasanjo
NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse.
“Yesterday, I received a visitor. I told the visitor: ‘You have introduced new vocabulary into Yoruba political dictionary. Emi lo kan; eleyi; o lu’le. He [Tinubu] laughed. I said I didn’t know if these new vocabularies are good but I know we will be using them,” Obasanjo declared amid laughter by his audience.
Obasanjo said this while addressing a gathering at the inauguration of a 300- man committee for the installation of new Olowu of Owu, Oba (Professor) Saka Adelola Matemilola, held in Abeokuta, on Thursday.
He hinted that Tinubu burst into laughter when he told him about these three sentences.
“These vocabulary are now popularly used. I told Bola and he laughed. I said whether the vocabularies are good or bad, we have started using them,” Obasanjo said.
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The Federal Government of Nigeria is singing that oil theft in the country has reached alarming proportions. The government raised the song of lamentation through the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva. I think we should echo the song seriously with the hope that there would be a reprieve. There are two main verses of the song by our government. They are that: Thieves are stealing a whole 400,000 barrels of oil per day and, secondly, because of this, we cannot now meet our 1.8 million barrels per day quota allotted us by OPEC. It’s a sad song, a song of lamentation of the loss of country, loss of values of innocence and loss of life and livelihood. This song says our country is teetering at the precipice, dangling between life and death.
Oil theft in massive proportions as we have it in Nigeria today is making the scourge look like a game of death. Nigeria and its bumbling economy are the sure puns and victims. Oil theft is now the southern Nigerian counterpart of the northern Nigerian terrorism. They are both well-orchestrated, have super dudes in the know, are fatal and are seemingly intractable. This end-game has left Nigeria to steadily ooze to her inevitable end after her arteries and veins have been indiscriminately perforated. These veins and arteries bear oil with the country’s heart works – the blood which is our national life.
The thieves are steadily ruining our national economic life. They crudely shave our heads and leave us helpless, bleeding and battered. Who are these barbers from hell that lack the fine touch and smooth glide of the real barbers? Who are those experts that can decipher which pipeline carries what product and at what time, temperature, and to where? How do these unauthorised people get access to the inner recesses of our privacy unhindered? Why are we allowing this unfettered, unmitigated rape? Is it that in truth, there is nothing we can do to stop this economic sabotage? There are arms and legs to this and I still believe that the man who carries the oil from the attic is not as much a thief as the man who helps him to place it on the ground.
Recently, the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Limited, Mallam Mele Kyari, was in Delta State with a Federal Government delegation led by Chief Sylva. They parleyed with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. Kyari said oil vandals had dealt with Nigeria so much that they now need the support and “buy-in of the Delta government.” The Federal Government had just realised that “stopping oil theft requires the concerted efforts of the federal and state governments; oil companies and security agencies.” The NNPCL boss told Okowa that Nigeria was losing $1.9 billion monthly. “This has done extensive damage to the environment and losing $1.9 billion every month is colossal, considering the nature of the global economy at the moment.” Mallam Kyari, there’s no time the loss of an amount as humongous as $1.9 billion is not colossal except, perhaps by Nigerian standards.
The delegation was in Imo State to see Governor Hope Uzodimma with the same message. The delegation said “as a country, we can hardly meet our OPEC production quantum of 1.99 million barrels per day with our current production level of 1.4 million barrels per day which is currently being threatened by the activities of these economic saboteurs.” Sylva said oil theft had reached the level of “a national emergency because the theft has grown wings and reached a very bad crescendo.” He also expressed concern that “the menace had persisted in spite of the efforts by the federal and state governments to arrest it.” So, the new approach is to involve the host communities. And the Nigerian Army, through General Lucky Irabor, said when government, stakeholders and communities get “involved to a reasonable percentage,” they should “leave the rest for the Army.”
The timing of this awakening by our Ogas at the top is a pointer to our level of seriousness to fight the scourge. Nigeria has not just dipped in its OPEC expectations nor has it just waned before the very eyes of the watching world. Mr. Tony Elumelu raised his concerns in March this year. Businessman Elumelu sounded alarmed and surprised like a mother whose ears were full about her child’s unwholesome exploits. He had tweeted: “And speaking of security, our people are afraid. Businesses are suffering. How can we be losing over 95 per cent of our oil production to thieves? Why are we paying taxes if our security agencies can’t stop this?” When Elumelu spoke, the figures of the stolen oil had not reached the 400,000 barrels figure that the government had released.
Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) founded in 2004 “to support those affected by the extractive industry and weak governance” has seen it all in the Niger Delta. One of its officials, Alexander Sewell put the amount of oil stolen in Nigeria in 2021 at 220,000 barrels per day on average. Sewell however cautioned that “there are no tools to measure production in Nigeria, or even to know what is being transported along the pipelines, nor what is actually reaching the oil terminals.” He also hinted that since there are no tools to properly measure oil production and export in Nigeria, the figure by the government might be slightly higher than the reality. “The only way to get an idea is to look at exports,” Sewell explained to Le Monde in an interview that if Nigerian production averages 1.4 million barrels per day and up to 20 per cent of the total production is stolen, then “the government’s figures are higher than the reality, which is probably a bit lower.”
From whichever prism it is viewed including Sewell’s, stealing 20 percent of our 1.4 million daily exports is still a huge disservice. 280,000 barrels of oil at the current rate would amount to a substantial amount for a struggling country like ours. Therefore, there are causes for concern in and around the oil producing areas and the entire country. The acute environmental degradation leading to the loss of flora and fauna apart, the cost in terms of human life makes the stoppage of the blatant robbery a very urgent task. We have had enough of the lethargy and verbal victories. In April when one illegal refinery went up in flames in Imo State, more than 100 people lost their lives. The president gave an order then that culprits in the crime must “all be apprehended and brought to justice.” Months after that presidential charge, there are no reports that anyone has been charged for the heinous crime against the Nigerian state, humanity and the environment. Instead, the country is just lamenting the increasing stealing of Nigerian oil.
A study the SDN conducted in 2012 revealed that “75 percent of stolen oil was shipped out of Nigeria.” Not many are sure this isn’t still the case now, considering the arrest of a tanker said to have the capacity to convey three million barrels of oil on Thursday. That tanker was loaded in Nigeria and had evaded the Nigerian authorities. However, the Nigerians reached out to Equatorial Guinea where it was nabbed. This underscores the enormity of the problem in our hands.
Stealing of oil is not for the uninitiated. It is also not for the lily-livered. It also involves a strong team of well-coordinated networks of military and civilian accomplices, foreign and local. So it’s a turf for the tough. But are we that weak or we have just left our flanks open?
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Love is one of the most beautiful things that ever happened to humanity. The ability to love and to be loved is a priceless gift that should be appreciated by everyone.
It is often said that it is possible to give without loving but it is impossible to love without giving. Seeing love birds around who care for each other is always an amazing sight but seeing them share a mutual gift or items makes the sight a more pleasurable one.
Having mutual gifts as love birds helps reassure both parties of the sincerity of their love, it serves as a form of bond, especially in a long-distance relationship, it is a public show of affection and it helps in making the cord of love stronger.
If you’re in love and you have been thinking of a mutual gift for you and your lover then this article is definitely a must-read for you.
Check out mutual gifts you and your partner can get as love birds.
1. Couple’s pyjamas
A mutual gift you can get for yourself and your special one is a couple’s pyjamas. If you like, you can have it customized and if not, you can maintain the design on it. You both wearing this pyjamas to bed or around the home helps in building a stronger connection and intimacy.
Especially during times when you and your lover are miles apart, seeing and wearing these pyjamas constantly reminds you of them and helps keep your love alive.
2. Customized mugs
Getting customized mugs for yourself and your lover as a mutual gift is a great option. These customized mugs can be in form of Kissing mugs or it can carry you and your lovers’ pet names.
3. Jewellery set
An amazing set of jewellery is another mutual gift that love birds can get for each other. There are different types of jewellery sets love birds can get which can be customized to suit your taste.
4. Bathrobe
A lovely and fashionable bathrobe is another amazing mutual gift that love birds can get for themselves. Picking a unique colour of bathrobe will surely be perfect wear for you and your lover.
5. A couple split blanket and sheet set
Sleeping on a couple split blanket and sheet is sure a romantic and uncommon gift for love birds. Having your special duvet made for you and your lover is another amazing mutual gift you and your loved one can have in common.
As a bonus, you can check out the benefits of kissing
6. Friendship lamps
Love develops from friendship, thus getting a friendship lamp is a unique and uncommon gift you and your lover can get. A friendship lamp is mostly used for long-distance relationships. These kinds of lamps are meant to be a source of communication between lovers or friends staying apart.
7. Customised sweatshirts
A customized sweatshirt will surely make you and your lover get the attention of people, especially in public places. You can get this sweatshirt to celebrate wedding anniversaries and even birthdays.
8. Cologne
We all love to smell nice, and having a shared cologne is a sweet gift you should consider for you and your spouse. You can get a brand of cologne that has similar products for both males and female.
9. Toothbrushes
This might seem weird and common but the value of gifts is not really about the size or how expensive it is but the sincerity of the heart that matters.
Getting couples tooth brushes is another amazing gift you and your partner can share together.
Check out other gifts you can get for your loved ones without breaking the bank
10. Customized T-shirts
Popular and trendy gifts most love birds get for each other are customized T-shirts or polo.
Getting a unique design of t-shirts for you and your lover is another great idea.
In all, the greatest gift you can give to your lover is pure and unwavering love.
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Missouri’s sweeping elections law will soon face two lawsuits challenging its constitutionality.
The law, like many passed by the legislature this year and signed into law by Gov. Mike Parson, is set to go into effect on Aug. 28.
Meeting during several days in Jefferson City, a collaboration including Missouri Faith Voices, the NAACP and labor leaders say they intend to fight the law through not only litigation, but also by still getting out the vote despite the changes they said will make it more difficult to cast a ballot.
“The reality is that hundreds of thousands of Missourians will be left without the ability to participate in the democracy that they pay into in the form of their taxes, in the state that they live in communities where we grow our children, where we go to work and where we pray,” said Nimrod Chapel Jr., president of the Missouri NAACP.
According to Denise Lieberman, director and general counsel of the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, the lawsuits will be filed next week. She says they will also be seeking an expedited review and a preliminary injunction to stop the law from going into effect while the case is underway.
One of the lawsuits will be against the portion of the law requiring a government-issued photo-ID to vote. The other will be against measures included within the law concerning voter registration and other engagement processes, such as making it illegal to be paid for registering people to vote.
“This measure will effectively silence and starve voter registration activity in the state of Missouri by organizations who work with communities who are already marginalized,” Lieberman said.
Lieberman says the law’s broad scope warrants multiple lawsuits.
“We are bringing these cases both on behalf of voters who stand to be impacted and harmed by the photo-ID provisions as well as the civic engagement organizations that stand to have those activities criminalized,” Lieberman said.
In addition to the litigation, the Rev. Darryl Gray, executive director of Missouri Faith Voices, said in the meantime, they intend to continue voting engagement. That includes the establishment of more photo-ID assistant sites.
“Our job is to basically get the people in these places so that the Voter Protection Coalition and other organizations can help to get those documents,” Gray said.
Gray says they did receive a commitment from Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft to provide members of his staff to go to these assistant sites to help with that process as well as providing financial assistance for people to get the documents they need.
Despite those commitments and meeting with them, Gray said they made their positions clear with Ashcroft.
“We made it very clear to him that we disagree with him. We're glad he came, but we still disagree,” Gray said.
Ashcroft has joined fellow Republicans in repeatedly speaking in support of the law. Many of the additions to the bill, Ashcroft said, makes voting in Missouri more secure than before, such as banning private dollars from going to election authorities and giving Ashcroft’s office the authority to audit voter rolls to ensure their accuracy.
At the time of his signing of the law, Parson said it was probably one of the most important pieces of legislation the state has passed in a long time.
Besides the photo-ID assistant sites, the coalition said they will also continue to register people to vote, increase voter participation within their communities and congregations and distribute a toolkit they created to help faith leaders to accomplish these tasks.
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BEIJING, Aug. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "'Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China.' These lyrics succinctly capture the fundamental reason why China has achieved unprecedented progress in human history," Argentine Ambassador to China, Sabino Vaca Narvaja told the Global Times in an exclusive interview.
The Ambassador said one thing that impressed him the most in China was the moment when he heard the song "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" at Tiananmen Square one early morning at a ceremony marking the centenary of the founding of the CPC in 2021, because the lyrics also expressed his true feelings. Narvaja said he was impressed by China's admirable economic, technological, and social development particularly in relation to people's livelihoods over the last decade, especially in its efforts to reduce poverty and address the inequities brought about by development.
When speaking of the ambassador, many Chinese people are instantly curious about his Chinese name, Niu Wangdao. Why does an ambassador from Latin America have such a bookish Chinese name? How does his Chinese name Niu Wangdao express his feelings and thoughts about China?
Narvaja told the Global Times that before coming to China, he had noticed that many Chinese immigrants in Latin America gave themselves a Spanish name to facilitate communication with the locals, which he believed is a friendly move. Therefore, after coming to China as ambassador, he decided to take a Chinese name to express his goodwill to China. So, the name "Wangdao" occurred to him.
He revealed that he chose this name for two reasons. First, it was from the name of Chen Wangdao - the first person who translated The Communist Manifesto into Chinese. "I am very interested in how China integrates its own theories with Marxism, which is what you call the 'Sinicization of Marxism.'"
The Argentine diplomat recalled that Chen Wangdao played an important role and has historical significance in China and for the CPC. Chen and other young people at that time launched an ideological debate, thus creating the prelude to a major change in China.
Additionally, "dao" is also the abbreviation of "Taoism" in Chinese traditional culture. In Narvaja's view, "Wangdao" also has the meaning of "focusing on the road underfoot," which also coincides with his interest in exploring the developmental paths of various countries.
Narvaja was born in Cuba where he spent his childhood before returning to Argentina after finishing primary school.
"My experience in Cuba was my first approach to communism, and it also made me understand communism differently from many Westerners. So I always say, you have to experience it firsthand to really understand communism and socialist systems," he said.
His interest in communism, which was "ignited" by Cuba, further grew in the research and exploration of China, because in his opinion, China is one of the most successful socialist countries. After returning to Argentina, he studied a lot of courses related to China ranging from China's national conditions and economy to China's development model. He even studied China in graduate school.
"Long before I came to China as an ambassador, I had started researching this eastern country. I'm particularly interested in how the country has made such marvelous achievements in such a short period of time, especially since the CPC came to power in China." He told the Global Times that he has published many academic works on China's development, the latest of which is on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Narvaja became the Argentine Ambassador to China in April 2021. In just a little more than a year since his arrival, he has traveled to more than 20 provinces in China and said that he was "deeply impressed" by the diversity and rapid development of China, which has also helped him accumulate rich firsthand information for his exploration and research on China.
"I used to study the BRI, but now I have become a participant in promoting Argentina's participation in the BRI. It was very exciting for me because I could see my ideas slowly become reality," he said.
"Under the leadership of the CPC, China's economic and social development in the last decade has been admirable," the ambassador noted to the Global Times, when talking about his experience of visiting various places in China.
He stressed that China's development and change have been remarkable over the last decade under the leadership of Xi Jinping, especially in the field of science and technology. "China has been at the forefront of the world in electronic communications, 5G, and other fields. The aircraft carriers' development has made breakthroughs, and it has also made breakthroughs in the field of aviation." Among the series of changes in China, the diplomat particularly appreciated China's effort in poverty alleviation. "It is an extremely positive thing to lift hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty, which is not only of great significance to China, but also a major contribution to the world," he said.
In his view, this showed that China began to solve the problem of imbalanced development after a period of rapid development, through means such as making use of the development of the eastern coastal areas to drive the prosperity of the relatively underdeveloped western region of the country.
"I see the great determination of the Chinese government and President Xi to reduce inequality and address the imbalance of development. Development always brings about the gap between the rich and the poor, but China is working very hard to solve it. This is very meaningful work," he said.
Narvaja told the Global Times that he has had many memorable experiences during his time as an ambassador in China, but the most memorable was hearing the lyrics "Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China" in July 2021.
"I was in Tiananmen Square on July 1, 2021, while participating in a ceremony marking the centenary of the founding of the CPC. I remember that morning, there were chants of 'without the Communist Party, there would be no new China' all over the square. This song strongly grabbed my attention," the Argentine diplomat recalled.
"I especially like this line of lyrics, because it explains why China has made such unprecedented achievements in human history, and why China has changed from a feudal society to an advanced country."
These lyrics have since often echoed in Narvaja's mind. In February, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez was invited to visit China. After the meeting between President Xi and President Fernandez, Narvaja, who listened to the conversations between the two leaders on China's development and cooperation, once again thought of the lyrics "Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China."
"I have met President Xi a few times before, and I think he is a very kind, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable person. So I couldn't help but read the lyrics to him, 'Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China.' He smiled at me very happily. I was also very happy because I expressed my truest feelings," Narvaja recalled to the Global Times with a smile.
The ambassador stressed that it is a misconception that a particular development model can be used universally. He said that what development model a country should adopt is determined by that country's own history and its people.
"Demonizing communism is essentially reviving the misconceptions of the Cold War, which artificially divided the world into 'good' and 'bad.' It's downright wrong and it's sparking conflicts," said the ambassador. "For human beings, there is nothing better than diversity. We should respect the different political and organizational forms in different countries. Only in this way will the world be more diverse and people's minds become richer."
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Happy Saturday morning! It's a pleasant start to the morning under mainly clear skies. Expect a mix of sunshine and clouds today with a few scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. It'll be seasonably hot and humid with high temperatures in the low 90's. Heat indices may climb to around 102 degrees this afternoon, especially in areas that don't get cooled down from any rain. Low temperatures will be in the low 70's. Sunday will bring more sunshine, plus summer heat and humidity. A few pop-up showers and storms are possible again on Sunday afternoon. High temperatures will be in the low 90's.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The newly released Netflix documentary about the catfishing scandal involving Hawaii's own Manti Te'o, is already taking the world by storm.
The two-part series, 'Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist' has many voicing their support for the Heisman Trophy finalist.
Robby Toma, Te'o's longtime friend and former football teammate at both Punahou and Notre Dame, is also featured in the film.
"It was frustrating the last ten years because I know he wanted to deal with the criticism and everything on his own," explained Toma. "So, when he asked me if I could help him, there wasn't even a second guess in my head. I said of course, just let me know when the interview needs to start. Just to be able to help him tell his story, it definitely meant a lot."
From his Laie upbringing, to his rise to fame at Notre Dame, the documentary also details the backlash the football star faced after his online relationship, turned out to be a hoax.
Toma said he and Te'o had a conversation about their concerns the day before the documentary came out.
"I knew Manti didn't want people to feel bad for him. He just wanted to share his story. I think the producers and everyone involved in the film did a great job of him telling his story,"
The documentary made it's debut in Hawaii on Monday night, and has already been a huge success.
Toma said many of his old teammates, coaches, and supporters from when he played football have reached out.
"I think the timing of it was perfect because had he done it maybe ten years ago, people might not have understood the magnitude. Also Ronaiah went through that change, he fully made that transition. So, when you see it on screen you can kind of understand a little bit better," said Toma. "I think as a society, we're a little more understanding of mental health issues now. Especially at the end of it when Manti was really emotional and forgave Ronaiah, that just speaks volumes of him."
Toma said as for what's next, he believes Te'o will encourage others, particularly athletes who are battling mental health issues.
"Mental health is real, and Manti showed his faith and his compassion towards others and I think he's going to help a lot of people,"
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