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In the spring of 2020, National Park Service personnel were preparing for an event President Donald Trump was holding with Fox News to address the nascent covid-19 pandemic from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, site of historic protests and inaugural concerts.
“As of now we’re looking at an event at base of Lincoln from 6-8 or so Sunday night. No event in chamber. I will see if that holds once POTUS is briefed later today,” Jeff Reinbold, the Park Service’s superintendent for the National Mall and Memorial Parks, wrote in an April 28, 2020, email to other agency officials.
By the next morning, the virtual “town hall” was no longer to be held at the base, the documents show. Trump’s two-hour sit-down with Fox News anchors would take place inside the memorial’s main chamber, on the landing in the shadow of the marble statue of a seated Lincoln. With the exception of an annual birthday tribute to Lincoln, federal regulations bar events from being held in that area.
The email is among hundreds of pages of newly released government documents that help fill in the picture of how officials from multiple government agencies worked to engineer the event at the Lincoln, one of the many norm-defying moments of the Trump presidency. They show that the Park Service provided security personnel at a cost of nearly $150,000 and that a U.S. Secret Service official apologized to colleagues for the planning process, calling it a “$#!t show.”
After the event, officials noted that the memorial itself — then 98 years old — had sustained scratches and gouges in its pink marble floor, according to a final memorandum.
In the end, the Trump-appointed interior secretary, David Bernhardt, relaxed the rules by finding that the venue was appropriate, given the president’s need to communicate with the American people during a “grave time of national crisis.” That finding has been previously reported.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice, a progressive group that acquired the documents through a public-records request, said she believes Bernhardt exceeded his authority and allowed Trump to use “the Lincoln Memorial as his stage set.”
“They’re trying to find a way, it looks like, to give him the chamber when there is no legal way to give him the chamber,” she said.
Verheyden-Hilliard’s group often litigates on behalf of those seeking access to public spaces, pressing the government to properly allow free-speech activities and protests along Pennsylvania Avenue and elsewhere.
Mike Litterst, a spokesman for the Park Service, did not address specific questions from The Washington Post. He said in a statement that the agency monitored the activity associated with the town hall, as it does any event not sponsored by the Park Service.
A spokesman for the Secret Service declined to comment. A Trump spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.
Bernhardt said in an interview that he stood by the decision and that government lawyers had approved it. At the time, federal officials and the nation were in the early stages of learning how deadly and transmissible the novel coronavirus was. Mass business closures enacted weeks before had forced layoffs. The unemployment rate had quadrupled.
“I felt that it was an important moment for the country,” Bernhardt told The Post.
On May 3, 2020, at the opening of the town hall, Trump greeted Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum by saying, “We never had a more beautiful set than this did we?” according to a transcript.
The hosts asked about criticism that had already surfaced about the use of the memorial as the site for the event.
“What can you criticize? It’s — I don’t think it’s ever been done, what we’re doing tonight here,” Trump said. “And I think it’s great for the American people to see.”
All presidents use national parks as backdrops for photo opportunities and promotional events, said Kristen Brengel of the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit organization that works to protect the national park system. For his 2009 inaugural, President Barack Obama hosted a concert on the steps of the memorial and was photographed in the chamber. Four years later, he gave a speech on the steps as part of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech.
But, by siting the town hall inside the memorial, with Fox News, Brengel said, the Trump administration held an event in defiance of federal regulations in a space that is hallowed ground to many Americans.
“This wasn’t a national emergency to do an event inside the Lincoln Memorial,” she said. “This was the commercial use of a park site in the middle of a pandemic.”
On April 28, the day before the event was announced, officials began sharing early information about it with one another, according to the documents. Reinbold told colleagues that it was being planned for the front steps of the memorial and directed a Fox News staffer to apply for the necessary permit.
Reinbold mentioned that the plans could change after they were presented to Trump that day.
Security personnel at the U.S. Park Police and the Secret Service began to make staffing considerations on short notice. A Park Police official justified the need to call in extra officers on the weekend by citing an emergency order issued weeks earlier allowing for “mission critical adjustments” to help the nation respond to the pandemic.
A Secret Service official helping to staff the event apologized for the process. “Sorry this is such a $#!t show. Will have answers shortly,” wrote the official, whose name is redacted in the documents.
The next day, with the event moved into the memorial’s chamber, Fox News would not need a permit after all, Reinbold wrote. He told colleagues it was out of his hands. “They are using the site as a venue and this is not a co-sponsored or NPS event in any way,” he wrote on April 29.
Trump and Fox announced that the event would take place four days later, on a Sunday evening.
Fox News began making arrangements. A Fox staffer sent Park Service officials a photo taken from the 1963 March on Washington, shot from behind Lincoln’s statue looking out at the entrance, that she hoped to replicate.
“We are also looking to achieve the camera shot in the attached picture,” she wrote on April 30.
An inscription marks the spot where King spoke, 18 steps from the top landing of the memorial.
On May 3, Bernhardt issued a “record of determination,” citing the growing pandemic and the need for the president to communicate with Americans as reasoning to allow the event. “In this grave time of national crisis, the Memorial is a uniquely appropriate place from which our President can communicate an official message to the American people,” Bernhardt wrote.
Verheyden-Hilliard rejected the idea that the interior secretary had such authority. “All they are really doing is putting window dressing on something that is clearly illegal,” she said.
In response to questions from The Post, Fox News Media said in a statement that the station had been approached by the Trump administration and “agreed to moderate the May 2020 event in an effort to provide critical information to the American public.”
“The location of the Lincoln Memorial was proposed by the administration and Fox News worked directly with the National Park Service to ensure the production followed every protocol to protect the space,” the company said.
A Park Service memo after the event said the production crew had “generally followed previously agreed to requirements.” But it also said: “Inside the Lincoln Chamber there are several scratches and gouges on the flooring. Photo documentation taken and referred to the park’s senior management.”
No photos of damage were among the documents released. Fox News said it was unaware of any damage. “At no point was the network made aware of any damages as a result of the event,” the company said.
Litterst said in the statement that the damage was “addressed in-house by the park’s conservators.”
In correspondence in the days after the event, about how to respond to reporters’ questions, Litterst made clear to colleagues that he did not want to give the impression that the agency would allow such an event to take place again: “I think it’s a good opportunity to slam the door on anyone who thinks they can make a similar ask to do an interview in the chamber.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/13/trump-lincoln-memorial-fox-town-hall/ | 2022-08-13T12:34:33Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/13/trump-lincoln-memorial-fox-town-hall/ | true |
OXFORD — There is one of the 21 competitors at the Rubato International Piano Competition who can look at the event’s street banners which say “Sweet Home Alabama” and can say that about himself.
Unlike the others who have traveled from across the country and around the world, he found this opportunity by traveling only a few hours north on a state highway.
Raymond Hou, 16, is a resident of Montgomery and a student at the Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School. He is the only competitor from Alabama who made it through the audition process to become part of the Rubato International Piano Competition at the Oxford Performing Arts Center.
Hou is no stranger to competition, having won 73 piano awards, including nine international honors, since he began playing at age 5.
The Spokane, Wash., native came to Montgomery with his family by way of Massachusetts 10 years ago.
“My family saw the kids of their friends and relatives playing and they wanted to introduce me to that as well,” Hou said. “Most Asians say their parents forced them into classical music. It’s a similar case for me, but the piano has grown on me. I definitely appreciate classical music a lot more than I ever would have. I’m grateful my parents forced me. I don’t regret it at all. I’m glad they did.”
Hou, like most his age, enjoys a looser style of music during his free time.
“I listen to hip-hop,” he said. “It’s something I can really vibe to. I like to feel the beat and the rhythm. It’s something I can chill to.”
He said he chance to compete in Oxford was an opportunity he could not miss.
“When they said, ‘Oxford, Alabama,’ I was so surprised,” Hou said. “This is the first international competition in Alabama and I thought, ‘This is a great opportunity. Of course, I’ll come.’ I’ve never actually been here, but it’s very nice here and a lot smaller than Montgomery. The people here are a lot nicer.”
Acknowledging this is the first Rubato held, Hou said the Oxford event compares in a positive way with other competitions in which he has participated.
“They are really trying their hardest,” Hou said. “The staff here are working their hearts out every night and the service has been super crazy, being the living embodiment of Southern hospitality. That’s what we should be showing these people coming from all over the world.”
The finals of the Rubato International Piano Competition will be held Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Oxford Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $15, $8 for children/students and will be available at the box office or online at oxfordpac.org. | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/oxford/alabama-pianist-finds-rubato-in-his-own-back-yard/article_ab054a00-1ad8-11ed-8f82-9fe405f8499c.html | 2022-08-13T12:37:56Z | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/oxford/alabama-pianist-finds-rubato-in-his-own-back-yard/article_ab054a00-1ad8-11ed-8f82-9fe405f8499c.html | true |
Angela Chevaux and her husband have made a good living in York, Pa. She's an insurance claims supervisor and he's in construction. But still, a recent inheritance from her father-in-law has been life-changing. He left them a retirement account, a life insurance policy, an annuity — and her husband and his brother inherited an old farmhouse in a secluded spot with a pond.
"We were able to buy the property — the other half — out from his brother at a decent price," Chevaux says.
She figures they paid about half what the appraised value would have been.
They're renovating the farmhouse to live in and are selling their own home, saying goodbye to 11 more years of payments.
"We'll be mortgage-free at [ages] 50 and 59!" she says with a laugh.
Her father-in-law also left Chevaux's 24-year-old son a money market account.
"He had given our son some money towards college before he passed," she says. "So then this allowed him to pay off the rest of his college debt."
Her son is a financial adviser and has invested the rest of his inheritance, with plans to use it to help buy a house.
The family's financial fortunes show one way that America's stark racial wealth gap has persisted — and even widened — over generations. White adults are more than twice as likely as Black and Latino households to get sizable financial help from parents or other elders. That's according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Dorothy Brown, a tax law professor at Georgetown University, wishes more white families would talk about these intergenerational benefits.
"Because you have Black Americans who are doing everything they were told is right and not getting ahead," she says. "And they're scratching their heads wondering, 'How come I'm not doing better than I am? How come I'm not doing better than the guy in the cubicle next to me?' "
The new poll finds 38% of white adults say they've gotten at least $10,000 in gifts or loans from a parent or older relative. Only 14% of Black adults receive similar gifts or loans. The share is 16% for Latinos and 19% for Native Americans.
Brown says this divide reflects generations of segregation and racism, especially in housing policies. Racially restrictive covenants barred white people from selling or renting their homes to African Americans or other minority groups. And Federal Housing Administration policies supported such restrictions.
"So if your grandparent got a home that was FHA insured, it was a result of their being white," she says. "You don't think about that, but it was."
The racial wealth gap is also evident in lots of other questions in the poll.
"When people talk about the American dream, it's here," says Robert Blendon, a Harvard professor emeritus of health policy who worked on the poll.
A large number of Black, Latino and Native American adults say they want to move to better housing and expect their children to go to college, but they don't have the money to pay for those things.
"These minority communities are ... going to have to borrow everything in a very risky environment for that," Blendon says, "and they don't have anything to at least help defray some of the costs."
What's at stake, he says, is the ability to make the choices that can help families, and future generations, move ahead.
For Black Americans, wealth is more likely to flow up
For African Americans, especially, tax expert Brown says the generational wealth transfer is actually more likely to go the other way — children helping parents who suffered under Jim Crow.
That's the story of Theodore Bailey, who's 76 and remembers a tough childhood in segregated Nashville.
"My father died when I was 3 years old," he says. "My mother was a single mother with four sons."
His dad died while he was a military cook in World War II, which led to a major break for Bailey. As a war orphan he was able to go to college on the GI Bill, and that launched a successful career as an engineer and missile designer. From early on, Bailey sent money to help his mother get by.
"I knew she was struggling, you know. And at the time, I didn't have a whole lot to spare, but I'd send her whatever I could," he says.
Now retired in Arizona, Bailey says he's always helped family. That includes supporting a brother who lost a job, sending grandchildren to college, and being there for others along the way.
"Oh," he says with a chuckle, "there's always cousins and nephews and things that want to borrow money, and a lot of times they don't pay back."
Research shows family help like this seriously depletes the wealth of college-educated Black Americans. Bailey says he's now having to cash out more of his IRA than he'd like to in this bad market, to meet his own expenses.
He's not sure how much there will be left to pass on to his children and grandchildren.
"I invested in them, putting them through college and so forth," he says. "I'm hoping they can take care of themselves."
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'Such culprits need to be kept behind bars till end of life': Special CBI court on Dhanbad judge murder case
CBI court on July 28 held autorickshaw driver Lakhan Verma and his associate Rahul Verma guilty of murdering 49-year-old additional sessions judge Uttam Anand
Pronouncing imprisonment till death to an autorickshaw driver and his accomplice in connection with the murder of a Dhanbad Court Judge last year, a special CBI Court in its order said "such culprit needs to be kept behind bars till the end of his life".
CBI court judge Rajni Kant Pathak on July 28 held autorickshaw driver Lakhan Verma and his associate Rahul Verma guilty of murdering 49-year-old additional sessions judge Uttam Anand.
Observing that "nobody can think that a judge of Jharkhand judiciary would be murdered in such a way. This incident shook not only the entire judicial fraternity of the country but on the citizen at mass level," the Speical CBI Court Judge Rajni Kant Pathak said a 'lenient view' in the case was ruled out.
Additional Sessions Judge, Dhanbad, Anand was hit by a heavy autorickshaw on July 28 last year at Randhir Verma Chowk close to district court while he was on morning jog at around 5.00 a.m. He died on the same day.
The Special CBI court in its order observed that after such an incident there was an atmosphere of fear among the family members of judicial officers and people who were compelled to think if this could happen to a judge how safe were ordinary citizens.
There is provision for only two punishments for murder—One for life and another for hanging (capital punishment), the Judge observed. However, he pointed out, that going by the decisions of the apex Court the case does not come under the purview of rarest of the rare and in his order said "in my opinion if convicts are awarded life imprisonment, he may be released from custody after 14 years or so, according (to) Jail Manual." The order therefore said: "But to the mind of this court such culprit needs to be kept behind bar till the end of his life. If released, it would send a wrong massage to society particularly those who witnessed such type of incident. Also they may commit the same offence again having no respect and regard for human life and law of the land."
"As observed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court life imprisonment without any remission till last breath can be imposed as substitution of death sentence. Accordingly, convicts Lakhan Kumar Verma and Rahul Kumar Verma are hereby sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life without any remission and commutation till last breath along with fine of Rs 20,000 for each convicts for the offence punishable u/s 302/34 of the IPC and in default of fine, the convicts aforesaid shall undergo simple imprisonment for one year," the order said.
The convicts were further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years with fine of ₹10,000 each for the offence under sections 201/34 of the IPC and in default of fine simple imprisonment for six months.
Both the sentences shall run concurrently, but the fines shall be recovered separately, the order said adding that half of the amount of fines recovered shall be paid to the family members of the deceased u/s 357 (1) (b) Cr.P.C. as compensation.
It said the compensation from fine amount does not seem adequate, specially when the victims are widow wife and minor children of the deceased late Judge Uttam Anand and added that victim "Kritee Sinha (informant) and the victim children of deceased should be compensated adequately u/s 357A Cr.P.C and under Victim Compensation Scheme of Jharkhand Government as the deceased was a sitting judge working under Jharkhand Government."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two Amazon-owned companies — Ring and Hollywood studio MGM — are teaming to create a TV show in the mold of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” using viral footage from Ring’s doorbell and smart-home cameras.
The half-hour show, called “Ring Nation,” will be hosted by actor and comedian Wanda Sykes and premier in syndication on Sept. 26, MGM said.
The studio noted audiences should expect to see the usual things that go viral — marriage proposals, neighbors saving neighbors and silly animals.
The series showcases Amazon’s fusion of its various business arms, this time to highlight what MGM called “interesting moments from communities across the country.”
“You have one company that owns two juggernauts and (has) just figured out how to leverage one against the other,” said Robert Passikoff, president of the brand research firm Brand Keys. He noted that unlike scripted movies or shows, a reality series using Ring footage will likely be cheaper to produce.
The show also presents a branding opportunity for the Seattle-based e-commerce and retail giant, which bought Ring in 2018 for $1 billion and has dealt with rounds of privacy concerns around Ring and its relationship with police departments across the country.
Last month, Amazon revealed it had provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission — all in response to emergency requests, according to the company.
MGM, which Amazon purchased for $8.5 billion, said in a statement Thursday that “Ring Nation” will offer audiences “daily dose of life’s unpredictable, heartwarming and hilarious viral videos” shared by people from their cameras.
“Many of these have been previously shared online,” Amazon spokesperson Nick Schweers said. “Others were sent directly to the team.” Ring Nation secures permissions for each video from the owner and anyone identifiable in the video, or from companies that hold the rights to the clips, he said.
Amazon’s deal to purchase MGM was closed earlier this year, though the Federal Trade Commission has said it still retains discretion to challenge it. Big Fish Entertainment, a production company owned by MGM, will also be part of the partnership. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/technology/amazons-ring-mgm-to-launch-show-from-viral-doorbell-videos/ | 2022-08-13T12:40:00Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/technology/amazons-ring-mgm-to-launch-show-from-viral-doorbell-videos/ | true |
Spain festival stage collapse kills 1
Strong winds caused chaos and damage to multiple structures at the Medusa Music Festival in Spain. At least one person is dead and several others injured.
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ASDA has released its budget range Just Essentials to mixed reactions. The new budget (Just Essentials) range was released in response to the cost of living crisis; the range includes household products (such as toilet rolls or kitchen rolls), meat, fruit, vegetables and frozen items (such as fish fingers or vegetables), snacks and breakfast items, to just name a few.
There was uproar at the initial release as customers thought the bright branding was embarrassing for those who wanted to save money. Here are some shopper's reactions:
Imogen says: "I don't have an issue with the packaging. I have an issue with people with less who are unable to afford to eat healthily and then are supposed to feel grateful for it."
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While Mands says: "So after seeing the #ASDA yellow package tweets... I am not a food snob. Their steak £2 omg delicious the cheese the kids' love, pizza kid's love"
ASDA responded to the allegations by saying people should not be "embarrassed for saving money". After ASDA addressed the social media complaints, we decided to check it out for ourselves. I set myself a budget of £10 to try and get Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
My experience
When I first arrived, I took a walk around the supermarket to check out where everything was. The bright labelling stood out and helped find things. Although it was brilliant, I felt like it looked like any other of Asda's packaging. Perhaps it would have taken me a lot longer if it had not been that colour, and I was in a rush.
I was really impressed by the prices and the range of products within the Just Essentials catalogue. From toiletries to treats, ASDA had it covered. There were, however, areas, such as breakfast items like cereal, where I thought they could do much better.
I started trying to get breakfast items, there is no exact science to this, and I think I could have got something a little more substantial for £5 more. However, I bought porridge for 70p, which I thought was good. I have it with bananas and milk, but you can add more or less at your discretion.
I then got some ham for a ham sandwich for £1.69. I thought it was pretty good, 400g worth as well. Of course, you might want to get crisps which you can get with the Just Essentials range for 82p.
Dinner is always the hardest, but Asda does a lot of frozen stuff and meat. I was thinking more about how much I could get, and I could get 20 sausages for £1.10 and a bag of mixed veg for 72p. Of course, you would need stuff like gravy or potatoes, but I did not manage to pick these up.
The variety of juices was notably disappointing, with only orange juice at the store I went to. Also, I thought more vegan and vegetarian products would be lovely, such as milk alternatives being included in the range. Similarly, I sympathise with those saying about the quality and health concerns, I cannot comment on the quality, but I can say the value is great!
Final thoughts
Overall, with my £10 budget, I was under, but I could have got a proper breakfast, lunch and dinner with a little bit more money. I would say it is worth going and having a look; you could be trimming the fat on your weekly shop.
I do not know, but I think I would go here instead of Lidl and Aldi; I think you can get a lot more and still have some of your favourite brands on the side. I do believe that although the marketing of the products is bold, it does make it easier for any shopper in a rush to get their shopping done.
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BENGALURU, India (AP) — India will miss its renewable energy target for the end of the year, with experts saying “multiple challenges” including a lack of financial help and taxes on imported components are stalling the clean energy industry.
The country has installed just over half of its planned renewable energy capacity, a high level parliamentary report found last week.
The target, set in January 2018, would have increased India’s renewable energy capacity to 43% of its current energy mix. The government now says it hopes to achieve the goal by mid-2023.
The shortfall is down to “inconsistent federal and state-level renewable energy policies, excessive custom duties on renewable energy related products as well as financing issues,” said Vibhuti Garg, an energy economist based in New Delhi, who added that the solar industry is particularly vulnerable to such roadblocks.
She added that “improving the financial health of government-owned power companies” would help build out renewable capacity in India. State-owned power companies have been struggling as a result of delays in government grants and consumer payments and the COVID-19 pandemic which led to shutdowns of energy-heavy industries.
India’s parliamentary committee stated that ministry-level approvals for solar projects take “an unduly long time” making it difficult for new solar parks to open.
It added that state-owned energy companies owe 117 billion rupees ($1.5 billon) to renewable energy generators and developers and the debt contributed to the slow buildout of clean energy.
The Indian government’s ministry of new and renewable energy, which is in charge of meeting the nation’s renewable energy targets, attributed the failure to meet targets to the COVID-19 pandemic.
India, the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide after China and the U.S., recently finalized its climate targets and pledged that 50% of power generation will be from clean energy sources by 2030. The country’s energy needs are expected to double by the end of the decade as the populations grows and the government seeks to improve living standards.
India’s climate targets were rated as “insufficient” by Climate Action Tracker, an organization which conducts independent scientific analysis to determine if a country’s ambitions are in line with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) or 2C (3.6F).
Other observers say that the failure to meet these targets is not as big a setback as it appears to be.
While the target won’t be achieved, “it has played an important role in directing India’s electricity and power generation systems towards renewable energy,” said Ashish Fernandes of Climate Risk Horizons, an organization which looks at the risks climate change poses to India’s economy.
He added that long-term agreements to purchase coal power has stopped federal and state energy companies from investing heavily in renewables.
“We need to start retiring old, expensive coal plants and replacing them with renewable energy. This can save energy companies and consumers a lot of money as well,” he said.
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New Zealand beats Windies by 90 runs, leads T20 series 2-0
The West Indies managed only 125/9 in reply of Kiwi’s mammoth total of 215/5
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Glenn Phillips struck a half-century from 33 balls to propel New Zealand to a 90-run win over the West Indies in the second Twenty20 international, clinching the three-match series with a 2-0 lead.
After reaching his fifth T20 half-century, Phillips went on to 76 from 40 balls and led New Zealand to 215-5 as it batted after winning the toss, exceeding the 185-5 that was a winning total in the first match of the series. His innings included six sixes and four fours.
The West Indies managed only 125-9 in reply, lacking the partnerships that underpinned a New Zealand total that was the highest by a visiting team against the West Indies in a T20 in the Caribbean.
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Phillips put on 71 for the third wicket with Devon Conway who made 42 from 34 balls and 83 with Daryl Mitchell who made 48 from 20.
The West Indies' best were stands of 35 for the seventh wicket between Romario Shepherd and Rovman Powell which began when the home team was 40-6 and the match probably was already lost. Hayden Walsh (10) and Obed McCoy (23) put on 38 in an unbroken stand for the last wicket.
Phillips put to good use his knowledge of conditions at Sabina Park, which is his home ground in the Caribbean Premier League.
“Coming back to Sabina Park is amazing. I've got great memories here,” Phillips said in a television interview. “Being able to get a 50 for my country over here in front of a crowd which I really love is definitely very special for me.
“Credit to the West Indies for the way they bowled up front with the new ball which was really, really good in terms of taking the pace off the ball when it was new and harder. As it got older the pitch became a bit nicer to bat on.” Seven West Indies wickets fell to spin bowlers, including the first four of the innings.
Mitchell Santner, who was Man of the Match for his 3-19 in the first match, took a wicket with his first ball and two wickets in his opening over to set back the West Indies' run chase.
Off spinner Michael Bracewell, who replaced fast bowler Lockie Ferguson in the New Zealand lineup, also took a wicket with his first delivery, dismissing captain Nicholas Pooran (1) as the West Indies slumped to 12-3 at the start of the fourth over.
Santner and Bracewell both finished with 3-15 while Ish Sodhi took 1-36. Tim Southee took the only wicket which fell to a fast bowler, removing Odean Smith at the tail and returning 1-34.
Shimron Hetmeyer was the first batsman not to fall to a spin bowler, run out by a direct hit at the bowlers end by New Zealand captain Kane Williamson. The West Indies were 28-5 at that point and couldn't recover.
“We just didn't show up today,” Pooran said.
“They batted us out of it and we couldn't see our way with the bat. We had to stay in the game. It just didn't start well for us. We are struggling but the more cricket we play our performance will grow.”
The final T20 will be played on Sunday at the same venue, followed by three one-day internationals.
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Frenkie de Jong has admitted that he could be ready to join Manchester United following his treatment by FC Barcelona in recent weeks.
The two clubs agreed an €85mn ($87mn) deal for the 25-year-old's transfer in July, yet De Jong refused to switch allegiances with United's lack of Champions League football and a desire to succeed at Camp Nou under Xavi Hernandez cited as his primary motives.
Elsewhere, however, it has also been suggested that a dispute over deferred pay was another reason for De Jong digging his heels in, and Barca's conduct regarding the matter has apparently upset the Dutchman to the extent of finally making him entertain a move to Old Trafford.
After agreeing a contract extension and pay deferral in October 2020, De Jong is set to earn €18mn ($18.4mn) next season and then €88.58mn ($90.2mn) over the last four years of his contract which ends in mid-2026.
On Monday, however, it was revealed how Barca had informed De Jong and his camp that the deal signed on the watch of current president Joan Laporta's predecessor Josep Bartomeu had allegedly thrown up evidence of criminal activity which has left all involved open to legal proceedings.
Barca want the current contract to be annulled and De Jong - in addition to three other players that also struck similar deals in Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Gerard Pique and Clement Lenglet - to refer back to their old arrangements.
With De Jong also verbally abused outside Barca's training ground on Wednesday, by fans who told him to accept the 50% pay cut that Laporta wants him to take in order to stay, and which a family source that spoke to Mundo Deportivo this week said the player has "o.oo%" intention of doing, tensions are reaching boiling point between the two parties.
The same paper said that De Jong believes Barca are running a media smear campaign against him. And on Saturday, rival publication SPORT allege that De Jong has finally admitted to his colleagues in the locker room that he could go to United after all.
De Jong is now "more open to change" than before it is said, and is also "very angry" with Barca who he thinks are pressuring him to leave.
On Friday, at his prematch press conference ahead of Saturday's La Liga opener against Rayo Vallecano, Xavi admitted that he doesn't "know what will happen between now and 31 August" when the transfer window closes as per De Jong's future.
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COMING INTO Season 10, only Nowee “Ryota” Cabailo remained with Onic PH.
One by one, the Filipino Hedgehogs that went all the way to the M3 finals departed the team. Some, like Allen Jedric “Baloyskie” Baloy and Gerald “Dlarskie” Trinchera, took their talents abroad. Others, like Karl Mico “Micophobia” Quitlong, were given new starts in competing teams.
Cabailo is the sole veteran in a new-look Onic, featuring Frince "Frinceee" Miguel Ramirez, Kenneth "Netskie" Barro, Stephen "Sensui" Castillo, Jefferdson "Kekedot" Mogol, Ralph "Rapidoot" Adrales, Landher "Der" San Gabriel, and Edgar "ChooxTv" Dumali.
For Ryota, seeing his former teammates who shared a deep bond with him leave him was a saddening experience.
“Noong una, syempre malungkot kase matagal ko na silang nakasama and expect ko sila na makakasama ko sa S10. Kapag nag-expect ka kase sobrang magiging malungkot, yun yung na-feel ko,” he told the press during the second day of the MPL-PH's Season 10.
And while it was a heartbreaker to see them leave, he was also proud to see them shine elsewhere.
“Syempre nagkahiwa-hiwalay kami, sa akin malungkot, pero habang nakahanap sila ng team, masaya ako para sa kanila kase nakakahanap sila ng team tapos mas tuloy-tuloy yung pangarap nila. Makapag-champion na sila masaya ako.”
Ryota added: “Yung unang naging MVP sina Hate, Mico, Baloy, syempre proud kami sa kanila kase hindi naman naiwan yung pinagsamahan namin. Sobrang close namin sa isa’t isa eh. Kapag may naka-achieve sa kanila, sobrang proud ako, masaya ako sa kanila."
Former assistant coach turned head coach Mark “Bluffzy” Reyes also shared the same sentiments.
“Sobrang proud ako sa kanila kase sa kabila ng nangyari na problema, tingin ko nasa mabuting kalagayan silang lahat and yung mga tao na yan sina Baloy, Mico, Coach Yeb [Denver Miranda], ang babait nila. Hindi ka nila ita-trato na assistant coach ka lang naman e," said Reyes. “Kung baga equal po sila, talagang family yung turingan namin sa lahat.”
Ryota and Bluffzy make predictions for MPL-Indonesia
With the majority of players from Onic PH taking their talents to Indonesia, both Ryota and Bluffzy are cheering their teammates on. In fact, they wanted an Onic Esports vs. EVOS Legends finals, pitting former Onic PH stalwarts Kairi “Kairi” Rayosdelsol and Gerald “Dlar” Trinchera.
“Ang gusto kong magtapat sa finals is Onic Indo vs. EVOS Legends. Kilalang-kilala ko si Kairi na sobrang gigil siya mag-champion and deserve naman niya tapos kay Dlar, since nakailang season na siyang first runner up, gusto niyang mag-champion. Gusto niyang patunayan yung sarili niya," said Ryota.
Bluffzy added: “Same thought. Onic ID vs, EVOS. Kase si Kairi yung competitiveness niya sobrang taas and si Dlar naman din po. Sila din yung hindi talaga titigil hangga’t makuha nila yung pangarap nila.”
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Enroll tide? War enrollment? Whatever your battle cry, there’s no question - Auburn is winning the battle for Alabama’s students.
For the sixth straight year, Auburn University was the most popular school in the state for Alabama undergrads in 2021, according to data from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
Auburn secured nearly 14,500 in-state undergrads last fall, an increase of roughly 200 students from the previous year. That’s about 1,100 more in-state undergrads than Alabama had enrolled in 2021, and that gap is growing.
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The University of Alabama once held a massive lead in in-state students, but that has changed dramatically over the last decade. A shift to out-of-state recruitment has caused UA’s in-state, undergraduate enrollment to decline from nearly 17,000 students in 2010 to a low of just over 13,000 in 2019.
UA’s in-state undergraduate enrollment dropped every year during that span, before reversing course in 2020. It again increased in 2021, but only by 85 students. For comparison, Auburn increased its in-state enrollment by 213 students from 2020 to 2021.
Between the two universities, Auburn was the more popular choice for students from 39 of Alabama’s 67 counties, or nearly 60% of counties. That number has completely flipped over the last decade. Use the animated map below to see how trends at the county level have shifted.
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Back in 2010, the University of Alabama was the school that held a 39-to-28 county lead. Since then, Auburn has rolled over the state like a, well, navy blue tide, surging westward.
Alabama has regained a couple of counties in the last few years, notably a swath of counties stretching east along the I-20 corridor from Birmingham to the Georgia state line. But Auburn’s lead remains strong.
You can see the number of students enrolled in either school from each Alabama county in the map below.
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Former Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett will plead guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Breonna Taylor .
Goodlett confirmed the plea with her attorney during an online court hearing Friday.
Taylor was fatally gunned down when Louisville, Kentucky, police officers executed a "no-knock" search warrant on her home shortly after midnight on March 13, 2020.
Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, said he thought they were intruders and shot at the officers, who returned fire with more than 25 bullets, killing Taylor.
Goodlett, who was not present during the incident, is being charged for her role in helping falsify an affidavit for the search into Taylor's apartment.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Aug. 4 that the Department of Justice has filed charges against four former and current Louisville police officers in connection with the death of Breonna Taylor. The charges include civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction offenses.
"The federal charges announced today allege that members of a Police Investigations Unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant of Ms. Taylor's home and that this act violated federal civil rights laws, and that those violations resulted in Ms. Taylor's death," Garland said in a news conference.
The federal charges against Goodlett, alongside former detective Joshua Jaynes and former sergeant Kyle Meany, allege they violated Taylor's Fourth Amendment rights when they sought a warrant to search Taylor's home while knowing they lacked probable cause, and that they knew their affidavit supporting the warrant contained false and misleading information and omitted other material information, resulting in her death.
Charges have also been filed against Brett Hankison, a former Louisville Metro Police officer. Hankison has been charged in a two-count indictment for deprivation of rights under color of law, both of which are civil rights offenses.
Hankison previously went to trial on state charges relating to the raid on Taylor's apartment and was found not guilty on all counts. He was charged with recklessly shooting into a neighboring apartment during the course of the raid that ended with the death of Breonna Taylor, but found not guilty on all three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree.
Jaynes' attorney, Thomas Clay, declined ABC News' request for comment. Attorney information for Meany and Hankison was not immediately available.
"Among other things, the affidavit falsely claimed that officers had verified that the target of the alleged drug trafficking operation had received packages at Ms. Taylor's address. In fact, defendants Jaynes and Goodlett knew that was not true," Garland said during a press conference.
Garland also alleged that Jaynes and Goodlett knew armed officers would be carrying out the raid at Taylor's home, and that conducting the search could create "a dangerous situation for anyone who happened to be in Ms. Taylor's home."
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There's a deadly battle taking place in the region. At the same time, progress is being made to clean up the territory's Mediterranean beaches as the people seek an escape from the violence.
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Pick the right question
Look for the right question, the answer will emerge
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“What story from your life would you offer, of a time you felt lost and found your way?”
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I am often able to stop a cascade of thoughts looking at Shel Silverstein’s delightful ‘Zebra Questions’ that is tagged to my softboard.
I asked the zebra/Are you black with white stripes?/ Or white with black stripes?/ And the zebra asked me,/ Are you good with bad habits?/ Or are you bad with good habits?/ Are you noisy with quiet times?/ Or are you quiet with noisy times?/ Are you happy with some sad days?/ Or are you sad with some happy days…/ And on and on he went./ And I will never ask a Zebra/ About stripes/ Again.
Much like the zebra stumps the boy, my spiralling thoughts are stymied, each time.
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It is true that we are looking for answers to questions of life, health, career, relationships or just, how to live a good life. Yet, today, I would like to focus on a bigger truth that I missed for a big part of life. That: it is the right question that will make me get to the answer that I really deserve to find. This meant that I needed someone intelligent, involved, and with enough interest in me to pose questions and listen, as I looked for an answer in the safety of their presence. This was never going to be easy, at least not frequently. Much later I realised that, in the absence of this person, when facing conflict and confusion, I can ask tough, logical, generative questions of myself to unravel a real solution.
To a great extent, self-awareness is hugely dependent on the quality of questions asked. Questions that do not carry the answer inside them, that allow for binaries to exist, that open up the space without confining or labelling a response. Let’s examine what makes a good question:
It is open ended: How are you feeling? instead of Are you feeling okay? How are you feeling allows you to explore beyond feeling-ok, It gives you enough space to confess that you may be feeling better or less than OK; it suggests no assumption on part of the listener and allows you to feel your way to the answer. Even while Are you Feeling ok is an innocent, habitual, even concerned question – the usage comes coupled with an assumption and is hence counterintuitive.
It avoids the ‘Why’: Imagine being asked: Why did you forget to send me a message? versus What made you forget to send me a message? Can you feel yourself tighten up to the first question, feeling defensive like being in an interrogation? The answer to the second will lead to a considered, undiluted response, detailing the reason and perhaps an apology. So instead of asking yourself, Why do I like it?, try asking, What do I like about it?
It ‘volunteers your experience’ and is generative: Many of us reach out to a guide, therapist or mentor expecting to be given the answer, a solution to the problem that we feel stuck in. A good mentor is a consummate listener and will invite you to speak, while they listen to your story. With gentle cues and questions, you will be encouraged to volunteer your experience (which includes your emotions around your experience). The questions emerge out of this space of fearless, unselfconscious sharing, and active listening. These are generative questions, an output of listening from the emerging field of the future. This level of listening and answering requires both to access open heart and intent — our capacity to connect to the highest future possibility that wants to emerge.
It makes you ‘introspect’: The truth in a question has to allow for the fact that we are never fully one or another. Our human condition, situation or feelings have many layers; and luckily as many words (and nuanced language) to get very close to describing it. There can indeed be nagging sadness to a moment of happiness. A question that allows for grey scales in-between black and white, that allows the possibility of a maybe, and sets off deep reflection is a good question.
As you reach out to seek deeper questions, you will start to enjoy facing questions, conversations and interviews that go beyond easy, superfluous answers, but take you into finding your uniquely personal answers.
As I finish this article, a newsletter that I subscribe to popped up in my inbox “What Story from your life would you offer, of a time you felt lost and found your way?”
The writer is an executive and life coach, mentor and writer. nivedita@lifealigncoaching.com
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‘The Humans’ movie review: Unsaid words and hidden emotions; a true-blue American horror film
An adaptation of a play by the same name, Stephen Karam’s directorial debut is a family drama that warps into an anxiety attack of sorts and lingers on in our minds
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The Humans is a movie that will have you Googling for its “ending explained” after you close the streaming platform tab. The top reviews on Letterboxd are not going to help either.
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An adaptation of a play by the same name, Stephen Karam’s directorial debut film opens on Thanksgiving Day, as Erik (Richard Jenkins) along with his severely-ill mother, Momo (June Squibb), and wife, Deirdre (Jayne Houdyshell) visit their daughter, Brigid (Beanie Feldstein), in her lower Manhattan apartment that she shares with her boyfriend Richard (Steven Yeun). They are also joined by Brigid’s younger sister Aimee (Amy Schumer) who is a lawyer in Philadelphia.
Stephen doesn’t bother to make the audience feel comfortable, and this sense of discomfort stems primarily from the camera’s movement which is far from conventional. For the most part, the camera is stationary and the actors are seen spilling in and out of the frame. We are used to the camera framing the actors and dictating movement, but Stephen steps aside from this convention completely, making the audience feel like voyeurs and succeeding in keeping them uneasy throughout.
Erik and Deirdre share the discomfort of the audience when they are exposed to unusual loud noises in the building... which Brigid attributes to her neighbour. However, the creaks in the walls, leaking steam pipes, and eerie narrow passageways dissuade the audience from believing Brigid.
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Not knowing the layout of the apartment and exploring it only when the camera moves, adds to the mystique, and in doing so, the apartment becomes a character reminiscent of the house in Mother! We are only let into the rooms when characters part ways in twos or threes to have hushed discussions about topics that weigh large over their lives, and the actors’ anxious body language throughout is indicative of impending doom. Unsaid words and hidden emotions start to weigh the environment down as the sun sets. Erik chugging a bottle of beer further pushes everyone’s emotional boundaries when he starts to talk about his regrets. They pull at each other’s heartstrings throughout the dinner and long-hidden resentments start to make their presence felt in the room.
As the director says in this interview with The Hindu, The Humans is a genre collision. What starts out as a regular family comedy soon warps into a psychological thriller that concludes with the unravelling of their respective selves. One cannot help but draw comparisons with Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby, another family drama that warps into an anxiety attack of sorts.
The Humans is also an astute commentary on the urban life of a middle-class American, and a life spent living in dingy apartments with the emotional vestiges of a city. This is especially highlighted when Erik recounts the events of 9/11 as he remembers them; memories that haunt him like faceless ghosts even after two decades.
Deirdre is the maternal figure disappointed with her children’s indifference to Christianity. Aimee, whose legal career is stagnant due to her health problems, is dealing with heartbreak and has to reconcile with the idea of living the rest of her life alone. All this while Momo sits in her wheelchair making sounds and muttering incoherent phrases to herself. Richard is recovering from his depression, while Brigid is forced to take up yet another humiliating job as she is not awarded the grants to pursue her dream musical career. The entire Blake household, over the course of the meal, is at once made to confront all their disappointments; a true-blue American horror film.
While the atmosphere of discomfort manages to hold the audience in the beginning, its grip loosens eventually despite an intrepid attempt at reeling us back in with the climax. Still, Stephen Karam’s debut lingers in the mind once you are done spending 107 minutes in the lower Manhattan apartment; for better or worse.
The Humans is currently streaming on MUBI
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The FBI recovered classified information in its search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago property this week. Unsealed court filings are offering clues about the investigation.
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R. Kelly accuser to give key testimony on trial-fixing charge
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago that starts Monday is in many ways a do-over of his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted the singer on charges that he produced a video of himself when he was around 30 having sex with a girl no older than 14.
There’s one big difference: This time, prosecutors say, she will testify.
Kelly goes into Chicago federal court already sentenced by a New York federal judge to 30-year prison term for a 2021 conviction on charges he parlayed his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Among the most serious charges the Grammy Award winner faces at his federal trial is conspiracy to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, including by paying off and threatening the girl to ensure she did not testify.
Testimony by the woman, now in her 30s and referred to in filings only as “Minor 1,” will be pivotal. The charges against Kelly also include four counts of the enticement of minors for sex — one count each for four other accusers. All are also slated to testify.
Even just one or two convictions in Chicago could add decades to Kelly’s New York sentence, which he is appealing. With the New York sentence alone, Kelly will be around 80 before qualifying for early release.
Prosecutors at the federal trial plan to play the same VHS tape that was “Exhibit No. 1″ at the 2008 trial. While it was the only video in evidence 14 years ago, at least three other videos will be entered into evidence at the federal trial.
Prosecutors say Kelly shot the video of Minor 1 in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 1998 and 2000 when she was as young as 13. In it, the girl is heard calling the man “daddy.” Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly had sex hundreds of times over the years in his homes, recording studios and tour buses.
Before the 2008 trial, Kelly carried a duffle bag full of sex tapes everywhere he went for years, but some tapes later went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg copies of some videos appeared on street corners across the U.S.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it.
On June 13, 2008, Kelly shut his eyes tight and bowed his head as jurors returned from deliberations. As a court official read the jury’s decision and it became clear Kelly would be acquitted on all counts, tears streamed down his cheeks and he said over and over, “Thank you, Jesus.”
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants in Chicago. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they have also denied any wrongdoing.
Double jeopardy rules bar the prosecution of someone for the same crimes they were acquitted of earlier. But that shouldn’t apply to the Chicago federal trial because prosecutors are alleging different crimes related to Minor 1, including obstruction of justice for fixing the 2008 trial.
Minor 1 first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly’s music. Soon after that meeting, Minor 1 told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
In the early 2000s, the aunt showed the parents a copy of a video she said depicted their daughter having sex with Kelly. When they confronted Kelly, he told them, “You’re with me or against me,” a government filing says.
The parents took it as a threat.
“Minor 1′s mother did not want to go up against Kelly’s power, money, and influence by not following what he said,” the filing adds.
Kelly told the parents and Minor 1 they had to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Minor 1, moving her around to different hotels.
When called before a state grand jury looking into the video, Minor 1, her father and mother denied it was her in it. Prosecutors say an attorney for Kelly sat in on their testimony and reported back to Kelly what they said.
Prosecutors from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office chose to push ahead with charges and to take the case to trial in 2008 despite what they knew was a major hurdle: their inability to call the girl in the video to testify.
Any confidence Kelly may have had of beating similar charges a second time were likely dashed when he learned Minor 1 was now cooperating the government. With more resources, federal prosecutors also boast conviction rates of more than 90% compared to around 65% for their state counterparts.
In 2008, his lawyers argued the man in the VHS video who appeared very much to be Kelly was not Kelly. They showed jurors that Kelly has a large mole on his back, then played excerpts of the video in which no mole was visible on the man.
One of Kelly’s attorneys, Sam Adam Jr., told jurors during closings that no mole on the man’s back meant one thing: “It ain’t him. And if it ain’t him, you can’t convict.”
Some 2008 jurors told reporters after the trial that they weren’t convinced the female in the video was who state prosecutors said she was.
That shouldn’t be an issue at the Chicago federal trial. Prosecutors say both the girl and her parents will testify.
What defense Kelly’s legal team will present this time isn’t clear.
The defense is likely to say Kelly’s accusers are misrepresenting the facts. Kelly was more blunt in a 2019 interview with Gayle King of “CBS This Morning,” saying about the women: “All of them are lying.”
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Heat builds next few days
Storm Team 12 Weather Alert Day- Sunday & Monday
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The heat will build through the weekend and last through Monday as the persistent dome of high pressure in the upper layers of the atmosphere takes residence over the Plains. Humidity will increase Sunday and Monday putting heat index values in the dangerous category and the reasoning for our Storm Team 12 Weather Alert.
Sunny and dry weather will also persist through Monday with the exception being a few showers ans storms in far western Kansas Monday night. High temperatures will reach the upper 90s to near 105 through Monday with a cold front promising heat relief by Tuesday and the rest of the week. This cold front will also bring a slight chance of rain and storms most likely Tuesday afternoon through the overnight, then dry weather returns Wednesday. Highs will be in the 80s and low 90s Wednesday through next weekend.
Wichita Area Forecast:
**Weather Alert: Dangerous Heat Sunday - Monday**
Today: Sunny. Wind: S 10-15. High: 100
Tonight: Clear skies. Wind: S 5-15. Low: 72
Tomorrow: Sunny and hotter. Wind: SW 10-15. High: 102
Tomorrow Night: Clear skies. Wind: S 5-10. Low: 73
Mon: High: 103 Mostly sunny.
Tue: High: 94 Low: 74 Partly cloudy; isolated afternoon storms.
Wed: High: 84 Low: 67 Cloudy to mostly sunny.
Thu: High: 88 Low: 63 Mostly sunny.
Fri: High: 91 Low: 65 Partly cloudy.
Sat: High: 92 Low: 67 Partly cloudy.
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CARLISLE, Pa. — One person was taken to the hospital after a shooting in Carlisle on Saturday morning.
Police say the shooting was an isolated incident and the victim was the intended target.
Carlisle Police were called to the scene of the shooting on the 100 block of North East Street on Saturday morning.
The suspect is not in custody at this time but police continue to investigate the incident.
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R. Kelly accuser to give key testimony on trial-fixing charge
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago that starts Monday is in many ways a do-over of his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted the singer on charges that he produced a video of himself when he was around 30 having sex with a girl no older than 14.
There’s one big difference: This time, prosecutors say, she will testify.
Kelly goes into Chicago federal court already sentenced by a New York federal judge to 30-year prison term for a 2021 conviction on charges he parlayed his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Among the most serious charges the Grammy Award winner faces at his federal trial is conspiracy to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, including by paying off and threatening the girl to ensure she did not testify.
Testimony by the woman, now in her 30s and referred to in filings only as “Minor 1,” will be pivotal. The charges against Kelly also include four counts of the enticement of minors for sex — one count each for four other accusers. All are also slated to testify.
Even just one or two convictions in Chicago could add decades to Kelly’s New York sentence, which he is appealing. With the New York sentence alone, Kelly will be around 80 before qualifying for early release.
Prosecutors at the federal trial plan to play the same VHS tape that was “Exhibit No. 1″ at the 2008 trial. While it was the only video in evidence 14 years ago, at least three other videos will be entered into evidence at the federal trial.
Prosecutors say Kelly shot the video of Minor 1 in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 1998 and 2000 when she was as young as 13. In it, the girl is heard calling the man “daddy.” Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly had sex hundreds of times over the years in his homes, recording studios and tour buses.
Before the 2008 trial, Kelly carried a duffle bag full of sex tapes everywhere he went for years, but some tapes later went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg copies of some videos appeared on street corners across the U.S.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it.
On June 13, 2008, Kelly shut his eyes tight and bowed his head as jurors returned from deliberations. As a court official read the jury’s decision and it became clear Kelly would be acquitted on all counts, tears streamed down his cheeks and he said over and over, “Thank you, Jesus.”
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants in Chicago. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they have also denied any wrongdoing.
Double jeopardy rules bar the prosecution of someone for the same crimes they were acquitted of earlier. But that shouldn’t apply to the Chicago federal trial because prosecutors are alleging different crimes related to Minor 1, including obstruction of justice for fixing the 2008 trial.
Minor 1 first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly’s music. Soon after that meeting, Minor 1 told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
In the early 2000s, the aunt showed the parents a copy of a video she said depicted their daughter having sex with Kelly. When they confronted Kelly, he told them, “You’re with me or against me,” a government filing says.
The parents took it as a threat.
“Minor 1′s mother did not want to go up against Kelly’s power, money, and influence by not following what he said,” the filing adds.
Kelly told the parents and Minor 1 they had to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Minor 1, moving her around to different hotels.
When called before a state grand jury looking into the video, Minor 1, her father and mother denied it was her in it. Prosecutors say an attorney for Kelly sat in on their testimony and reported back to Kelly what they said.
Prosecutors from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office chose to push ahead with charges and to take the case to trial in 2008 despite what they knew was a major hurdle: their inability to call the girl in the video to testify.
Any confidence Kelly may have had of beating similar charges a second time were likely dashed when he learned Minor 1 was now cooperating the government. With more resources, federal prosecutors also boast conviction rates of more than 90% compared to around 65% for their state counterparts.
In 2008, his lawyers argued the man in the VHS video who appeared very much to be Kelly was not Kelly. They showed jurors that Kelly has a large mole on his back, then played excerpts of the video in which no mole was visible on the man.
One of Kelly’s attorneys, Sam Adam Jr., told jurors during closings that no mole on the man’s back meant one thing: “It ain’t him. And if it ain’t him, you can’t convict.”
Some 2008 jurors told reporters after the trial that they weren’t convinced the female in the video was who state prosecutors said she was.
That shouldn’t be an issue at the Chicago federal trial. Prosecutors say both the girl and her parents will testify.
What defense Kelly’s legal team will present this time isn’t clear.
The defense is likely to say Kelly’s accusers are misrepresenting the facts. Kelly was more blunt in a 2019 interview with Gayle King of “CBS This Morning,” saying about the women: “All of them are lying.”
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7 notable product placement milestones in pop culture
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7 notable product placement milestones in pop culture
Nike sneakers’ at the premiere of Warner Bros “Space Jam: A New Legacy” at Regal LA Live on July 12, 2021
Over the past century or so, product placement has become a mainstay of movies and television. Just look at Nike’s partnership with 2021’s “Space Jam: A New Legacy.” According to a brand tracking agency, the brand received more than $94 million in advertising value generated from the movie, the most of any movie in 2021.
While some brands maintain incredibly strict standards for how their products can be used in media, there’s no denying the digital age presents more opportunities for strong product placement than in previous eras. Streaming, for instance, has made product placement more attractive, since it’s a type of ad that can’t be muted or skipped without users paying a premium to go ad-free. But as this form of advertising continues to evolve, it’s worth looking at precedents that led product placement to this point.
Giving Assistant compiled seven standout examples of product placement throughout media history, utilizing a variety of sources. It should be noted that not all products featured within the media are listed here. It can often be difficult to discern whether product placement was a stylistic choice for the creators, or whether it was a paid promotion. Therefore, paid product placement isn’t a requirement for inclusion on this list.
These examples were chosen to show a wide variety of media, as well as iconic product placements. The order has been determined based on the media’s initial release date.
From movies to video games and everything in between, here are seven notable product placement milestones.
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Around the World in 80 Days (1872)
The cover of the Hetzel edition of the novel Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
– Media type: Book
– Products featured: Shipping companies
Product placement in pop culture dates all the way back to the 1870s. In 1872, author Jules Verne published his now-iconic novel “Around the World in 80 Days.” It became a smashing success and was subsequently republished in newspapers and magazines in serial form. Once this began happening, companies lobbied to have their names added to the story. This placement was mainly pursued by shipping companies.
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The Garage (1920)
Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle in The Garage
– Media type: Movie
– Products featured: Red Crown Gasoline
The 1920 Buster Keaton and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle movie “The Garage” isn’t just known for being a silent comedy featuring two iconic early Hollywood actors. It’s also widely considered the first official product placement in film.
In the movie, the actors play mechanics and volunteer firemen who are faced with a series of disasters over the course of a single day, from destroying a client’s car to finding their own building on fire. The titular garage features ads for the real-life gasoline company Red Crown Gasoline. Look closely, and you can find ads for Red Crown Gasoline on the walls and equipment of the characters’ auto shop.
Universal Pictures
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Henry Thomas on the set of “E.T.”
– Media type: Movie
– Products featured: Reese’s Pieces
U.S. product placement reached new heights when Universal teamed up with Hershey’s to promote Steven Spielberg’s 1982 film “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” In one of the film’s most iconic scenes, young Elliot (Henry Thomas) coaxes the titular alien back to his house with a trail of one of the company’s products: Reese’s Pieces.
Although Spielberg initially hoped to feature M&M’s in the film, Universal turned to Hershey’s after Mars—the brand behind M&M’s—declined. Hershey’s eventually paid a million dollars for an “E.T.” tie-in marketing campaign, from posters to commercials. Before this early ’80s ad partnership, Reese’s Pieces faced declining sales. However, sales of the candy reportedly skyrocketed following the film’s release.
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Wayne’s World (1992)
Mike Myers (L) and Dana Carvey in a Wayne’s World sketch
– Media type: Movie
– Products featured: Doritos, Pizza Hut, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, and Reebok
“Wayne’s World” transformed from a recurring “Saturday Night Live” sketch to an iconic touchstone of ’90s comedy. It’s also memorable as the first major film to mock product placement while simultaneously showing it off.
In the film, Wayne (Mike Myers) and his pal Garth (Dana Carvey) fight to regain control of their public access TV show after it’s been bought by unscrupulous businessman Benjamin Kane (Rob Lowe). Benjamin makes a series of changes to their show, including the introduction of sponsors. In one memorable scene, Wayne says, “It’s like people only do stuff to get paid,” all while showing off a Pizza Hut box, a bag of Doritos, and a can of Pepsi. While product placement is still a major component of financing films, “Wayne’s World” didn’t let this practice off the hook easily.
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30 Rock (2006)
Actresses Tina Fey and Jane Krakowski (R) filming for “30 Rock” at Rockefeller Center
– Media type: TV show
– Products featured: Snapple, Verizon, General Electric, Kraft, Snapple, Dr Pepper, and many more
Tina Fey’s hit NBC sitcom “30 Rock” took the art of simultaneously featuring and mocking product placement to a new level over the course of seven seasons. In one 2007 episode, writers on the show’s fictional comedy series lamented the practice of featuring products in the series, before seamlessly praising the scene’s sponsor, Snapple.
In a 2008 episode, Liz Lemon asks “Can we have our money now?” after spending an entire scene expressing her love of Verizon products. Other notable sponsors included Kraft and Dr. Pepper. This long-running, on-the-nose method of product placement arguably changed the game when it came to advertising on television.
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Final Fantasy XV (2016)
Gamers playing the video game “Final Fantasy XV”
– Media type: Video Games
– Products featured: Cup Noodles
Square Enix’s “Final Fantasy XV” went above and beyond when it comes to video game product placement, incorporating sponsor Nissin’s Cup Noodles into multiple facets of the game. There are multiple dialogue scenarios mentioning Cup Noodles, entire missions related to Cup Noodles, and even Noodles-themed clothing items available for characters. Players can even eat the Cup Noodles within the game to power up.
While Nissin Cup Noodles brand themselves as “the original instant ramen” in the U.S., they’re even more popular in Japan, where “Final Fantasy XV” was created. There’s even an entire Japanese museum dedicated to the brand.
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DJ Khaled – No Brainer (2019)
DJ Khaled performing onstage at the BET Awards 2021 at Microsoft Theater
– Media type: Music
– Products featured: Belaire, Kandypens, Bumbu, Ciroc, Fashion Nova, D&G
When it comes to product placements in music videos, the 2019 video for D.J. Khaled’s “No Brainer” is no doubt one of the most infamous recent examples. The video doesn’t just feature fellow famous musicians Justin Bieber, Quavo, and Chance the Rapper; it also prominently features a whopping six brands throughout its 2-minute and 26-second runtime.
These brands run the gamut from vape manufacturer KandyPens to alcoholic beverage Bumbu rum to women’s online retailer Fashion Nova. While the number of product placements in “No Brainer” is significant, this isn’t a first for Khaled—he also includes product placements aplenty in other videos, like 2021’s “I Did It” and “Let It Go.”
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R. Kelly accuser to give key testimony on trial-fixing charge
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago that starts Monday is in many ways a do-over of his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted the singer on charges that he produced a video of himself when he was around 30 having sex with a girl no older than 14.
There’s one big difference: This time, prosecutors say, she will testify.
Kelly goes into Chicago federal court already sentenced by a New York federal judge to 30-year prison term for a 2021 conviction on charges he parlayed his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Among the most serious charges the Grammy Award winner faces at his federal trial is conspiracy to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, including by paying off and threatening the girl to ensure she did not testify.
Testimony by the woman, now in her 30s and referred to in filings only as “Minor 1,” will be pivotal. The charges against Kelly also include four counts of the enticement of minors for sex — one count each for four other accusers. All are also slated to testify.
Even just one or two convictions in Chicago could add decades to Kelly’s New York sentence, which he is appealing. With the New York sentence alone, Kelly will be around 80 before qualifying for early release.
Prosecutors at the federal trial plan to play the same VHS tape that was “Exhibit No. 1″ at the 2008 trial. While it was the only video in evidence 14 years ago, at least three other videos will be entered into evidence at the federal trial.
Prosecutors say Kelly shot the video of Minor 1 in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 1998 and 2000 when she was as young as 13. In it, the girl is heard calling the man “daddy.” Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly had sex hundreds of times over the years in his homes, recording studios and tour buses.
Before the 2008 trial, Kelly carried a duffle bag full of sex tapes everywhere he went for years, but some tapes later went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg copies of some videos appeared on street corners across the U.S.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it.
On June 13, 2008, Kelly shut his eyes tight and bowed his head as jurors returned from deliberations. As a court official read the jury’s decision and it became clear Kelly would be acquitted on all counts, tears streamed down his cheeks and he said over and over, “Thank you, Jesus.”
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants in Chicago. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they have also denied any wrongdoing.
Double jeopardy rules bar the prosecution of someone for the same crimes they were acquitted of earlier. But that shouldn’t apply to the Chicago federal trial because prosecutors are alleging different crimes related to Minor 1, including obstruction of justice for fixing the 2008 trial.
Minor 1 first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly’s music. Soon after that meeting, Minor 1 told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
In the early 2000s, the aunt showed the parents a copy of a video she said depicted their daughter having sex with Kelly. When they confronted Kelly, he told them, “You’re with me or against me,” a government filing says.
The parents took it as a threat.
“Minor 1′s mother did not want to go up against Kelly’s power, money, and influence by not following what he said,” the filing adds.
Kelly told the parents and Minor 1 they had to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Minor 1, moving her around to different hotels.
When called before a state grand jury looking into the video, Minor 1, her father and mother denied it was her in it. Prosecutors say an attorney for Kelly sat in on their testimony and reported back to Kelly what they said.
Prosecutors from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office chose to push ahead with charges and to take the case to trial in 2008 despite what they knew was a major hurdle: their inability to call the girl in the video to testify.
Any confidence Kelly may have had of beating similar charges a second time were likely dashed when he learned Minor 1 was now cooperating the government. With more resources, federal prosecutors also boast conviction rates of more than 90% compared to around 65% for their state counterparts.
In 2008, his lawyers argued the man in the VHS video who appeared very much to be Kelly was not Kelly. They showed jurors that Kelly has a large mole on his back, then played excerpts of the video in which no mole was visible on the man.
One of Kelly’s attorneys, Sam Adam Jr., told jurors during closings that no mole on the man’s back meant one thing: “It ain’t him. And if it ain’t him, you can’t convict.”
Some 2008 jurors told reporters after the trial that they weren’t convinced the female in the video was who state prosecutors said she was.
That shouldn’t be an issue at the Chicago federal trial. Prosecutors say both the girl and her parents will testify.
What defense Kelly’s legal team will present this time isn’t clear.
The defense is likely to say Kelly’s accusers are misrepresenting the facts. Kelly was more blunt in a 2019 interview with Gayle King of “CBS This Morning,” saying about the women: “All of them are lying.”
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The North West ANC’s elective conference was forced to be delayed following another application in the North West High Court to interdict the provincial conference.
The latest application came after disaffected party members from Matlosana, led by Tshepo Bosman, successfully interdicted members of the Interim Provincial Committee (IPC) from voting.
Commenting on the outcome of the High Court on Friday, ANC national executive committee (NEC) member Obed Bapela confirmed that another court challenge was pending saying they would also defend it in the High Court in Mahikeng.
The provincial ANC NEC deployee to North West said they would honour the ruling barring IPC members from voting.
“The court did not dissolve the IPC. It only decided that 20 of them should not vote during the conference. We therefore decided to honour the court decision and declare all of the non-voting delegates. They will, however, be allowed to stand for nomination as they met the threshold to be elected,” Bapela said.
On Friday, Judge Frances Snyman ruled in favour of Bosman and ordered the ANC and the IPC to pay his legal costs. While Bosman only sought an application against the IPC’s participation in the voting process, the new applicants want to interdict the conference itself. This after proceedings started in Rustenburg late yesterday following three postponements.
The 20 affected IPC members included five of the seven candidates for the powerful position of provincial chairperson. They are premier Bushy Maape, IPC coordinator Hlomani Chauke, Human Settlements MEC Nono Maloyi, Economic Development MEC Kenetswe Mosenogi and Finance MEC Motlalepula Rosho. The other contenders are former provincial chairperson and premier Supra Mahumapelo and former Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality mayor Themba Gwabeni.
Addressing the media, Bapela was adamant that the five, despite the adverse court ruling, do qualify to stand as candidates as they were duly elected by ANC branches and had met the party’s requirements.
Bapela, however, said he would table a letter to a closed session of the provincial ANC conference from acting secretary general, Paul Mashatile, on how to deal with future legal challenges against the governing party.
At the heart of the issues was that the ANC had two other provincial structures, Free State and Western Cape, which were also controlled by IPCs. The ANC expressed concern that the two provinces were likely to face similar litigations in the future.
The second legal challenge against the North West ANC delayed Deputy President David Mabuza’s opening address to the 9th provincial elective conference at the Rustenburg Civic Centre. Mabuza was initially scheduled to address at 9am but the conference had not yet started after lunch. The delay was also caused by the slow registration of delegates at the Olympia Stadium. | https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/another-group-goes-to-court-to-interdict-north-west-anc-conference-3a5ae81c-768e-4be8-a840-c952005be750 | 2022-08-13T14:50:43Z | https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/another-group-goes-to-court-to-interdict-north-west-anc-conference-3a5ae81c-768e-4be8-a840-c952005be750 | false |
YUMA, Ariz. — Arizona's governor on Friday announced plans to add 60 double-stacked shipping containers, reinforced with wire, "to immediately fill the gaps in the Yuma border wall."
Gov. Doug Ducey issued the executive order directing the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to immediately start work on the wall.
A release from Ducey's office says the shipping containers will reach about 22 feet high and the state-owned, 8,800-pound, 9-by-40-feet containers will be linked together and welded shut. The panels of the border wall constructed during the Trump administration are 30 feet high.
The cost for constructing the initial 1,000-foot barrier will be $6 million.
The construction of the barrier on federal land represents an affront to the White House in an ongoing political battle over border security. Representatives of the Ducey administration acknowledged they did not officially notify the federal government of the decision.
“Our hope is they will be paying attention to the news today,” said CJ Karamargin, spokesperson for Ducey.
Asked what happens if the federal government begins constructing its own planned barrier in the coming months, Karamargin said the containers “will remain as long as they need to be there.”
12 News has requested a response from the White House.
Arizona Director of Homeland Security Tim Roemer said closing key gaps on the border will allow federal border security officials to concentrate resources in other areas. He also believes the move will help funnel asylum seekers to ports of entry.
Just two days ago, Sen. Mark Kelly (D) met with the U.S. Border Patrol to discuss plans to finish closing gaps in the Yuma sector. Kelly told KAWC the Department of Homeland Security would begin securing contractors within a couple weeks to finish the Morelos Dam project.
“Closing these gaps will allow Border Patrol to work more efficiently to better protect Arizonans and keep our borders secure,” Kelly tweeted on Wednesday.
Construction began Friday morning on the gap in the border wall, Ducey said.
Emergency management contractor Ashbritt is constructing the barriers. The 25-person team includes heavy equipment operators, operation supervisors and a safety manager. The project will be completed over the weekend.
“Our border communities are being used as the entryway to the United States, overwhelming law enforcement, hospitals, nonprofits and residents,” Ducey said in a release. “It’s our responsibility to protect our citizens and law enforcement from this unprecedented crisis. With the resources and manpower in the right places, our Border Patrol and law enforcement will be better equipped to do their jobs well and prevent cartels from exploiting our communities. That’s exactly what our barrier mission will do."
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BIRMINGHAM, England, Aug 13 — Aston Villa striker Danny Ings and substitute Emiliano Buendia secured a 2-1 win over Everton as the hosts claimed their first three points of the new Premier League season in a physical encounter at a sweltering Villa Park on Saturday.
Having lost 2-0 at Bournemouth on the opening weekend, Villa’s manager Steven Gerrard restored centre back Tyrone Mings to the starting lineup and his side bounced back with an industrious performance, outmuscling an Everton team coached by Gerrard’s former England team mate Frank Lampard.
Ings gave the home side the lead in the 31st minute after good work down the right by Ollie Watkins, swiping the ball from in front of onrushing team mate Philippe Coutinho before cutting back onto his left foot and rifling a shot past Jordan Pickford.
Everton, who lost 1-0 at home to Chelsea last weekend, struggled to create many clear-cut chances and a tap-in by Buendia in the 86th minute looked to have sealed victory but a Lucas Digne own goal made for some nervous final minutes. — Reuters | https://www.malaymail.com/news/sports/2022/08/13/fired-up-villa-squeeze-out-2-1-home-win-over-everton/22680 | 2022-08-13T15:02:12Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/sports/2022/08/13/fired-up-villa-squeeze-out-2-1-home-win-over-everton/22680 | false |
The Imo State Police Command have raided bandits’ location at Obudi Agwa in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State and arrested six of them.
The arrest followed a distress call on 10th August 2022 that some of the bandits that escaped arrest during the Izombe and Agwa raid conducted by the Command’s Tactical Teams, were sighted to have regrouped, blocking the road along Obudi Agwa, stopping vehicles, searching the occupants and checking their phones to identify policemen in the vehicle for possible abduction.
The command in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Michael Abattam on Saturday said that the Command’s tactical teams immediately mobilised, joined by police operatives from Agwa Police station.
He said that they stormed the identified location at Obudi Agwa road, cordoned the area and arrested six bandits.
The bandits according to the Police Spokesman include a 30-year-old Mmadukaji Moses of Mgbala Agwa, wearing police operational vest suspectedly owned by one of the slain police officers in the Agwa Police Station attack.
Others are Chigozie Amanyere, 21 years of Umukpo Agwa; Ifeanyi Uche of Obudi Agwa; Uzoma Uche of Obudi Agwa; a 24-year-old Sopuruchi Anumodu and Chukwuma aged 30yrs.
He said that the operatives swiftly and tactically disarmed the bandits and recovered their weapons, which include one English-made automatic pump action gun, two locally made pistols, twenty live cartridges and fourteen sharpened machetes, to the station.
CSP Abattam said that in the course of interrogating the suspects, it was discovered that they are all natives of Agwa while the one who was putting on police operational vest, is undergoing further interrogation to confirm the source of the police vest adding that as soon as investigation is concluded, they will be charged to court.
The Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde while commending the officers for their proactiveness and prompt response, called on Hunters Association to collaborate with the police and other security agencies in giving information on criminal hideouts observed in the bushes.
He appealed to Imo people not to allow terrorists use their communities as safe haven to perpetrate heinous crimes but should rather report any suspicious activity observed within their neighbourhoods to the nearest police station or call the Command’s emergency numbers: 08034773600 or 08098880197.
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BREAKING NEWS: Iran-sympathizer Hadi Matar, 24, who attacked 'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie is charged with attempted murder and remanded without bail - as court officials BAN press saying the building is 'too small'
- Hadi Matar, 24, has been charged with attempted murder and second degree assault at Chautauqua County Jail
- Salman Rushdie, 75, may lose an eye after suffering severe nerve damage when a knife was plunged into his neck
- The author wrote the Satanic Verses, which sparked in a culture war in 1988 in Britain, leading to deadly riots
- He was issued a fatwa by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in February 1989 and went into hiding for years
- Press were banned from the court hearing, with officials claiming it is for the 'safety and security' and to ensure 'good running order of the facility'
The suspect accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie has been charged with attempted murder after being transferred to Chautauqua County Jail last night.
Hadi Matar, 24, has been charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree, and was arraigned on the charges last night at Chautauqua County Jail.
He has been remanded without bail, and was moved from the New York State Police barracks in Jamestown after the attack on Friday.
New footage shows the alleged attacker in the back of a state police car, with two officers in the front.
He can be seen looking away from the camera and appeared to be wearing a grey t-shirt – different to what he was wearing when he was arrested.
Rushdie, 75, was attacked by Matar as he got onto the stage to give a speech at the Chautauqua Institution.
He remains on a ventilator at UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pennsylvania, with his agent confirming that the nerves in his neck were severed in the attack, meaning that he could lose an eye.
Press are being banned from the first court appearance of Matar, with Chautauqua Country Warden Matthew Stuczynski claiming that the decision was down to ‘safety and security and good running order of the facility.’
Lucian Chalfen, spokesman for the New York State Unified Court System, claimed that the county jail is not set up for press attendance.
He added: ‘This is a town and village court, in that county the central location happens to be the jail. It is up to the Sheriff to accommodate if he can.’
Hadi Matar, 24, will appear in court after being moved from the New York State Police barracks in Jamestown after the attack on Friday
New footage shows the alleged attacker in the back of a state police car, with two officers in the front
Salman Rushdie, 75, was attacked by a Hadi Matar, pictured with Sheriff's deputies, who approached him from behind before stabbing him multiple times. The suspect was quickly pinned to the floor before being arrested
A Homeland Security Investigations Police officer enters the building where Salman Rushdie's alleged attacker Hadi Matar, lives in Fairview, New Jersey
Matar, a sympathizer of the Iranian regime, rushed onto the stage at the literary festival in upstate New York as Rushdie was announced.
British-born Booker Prize winning author Sir Salman Rushdie (pictured in 2019) got death threats and was issued a fatwah by Iran for his 1988 novel, the Satanic Verses. He has lived in the U.S. since 2000 and was today preparing to give a lecture about America being a haven for writers in exile
He reportedly stabbed him multiple times, before being pinned to the ground by horrified witnesses and was apprehended by a state trooper.
Matar was also understood to be using a fake drivers licence in the name of Hassan Mughniyah – names which are linked to infamous terrorist organization Hezbollah.
The group's current leader is named Hassan Nasralla, an one of the group's most notorious figures was Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a CIA-linked assassination in Syria in 2008.
The driver's license also included a reference to an address in West New York, New Jersey, less than three miles from his listed address in Fairview, New Jersey.
Matar, who police say gained access to the grounds with a pass, managed to walk off the stage before being restrained, as people rushed to assist Rushdie.
Witnesses to the stabbing say that the suspect wore black clothing and a black mask during the attack on The Satanic Verses author in Buffalo on Friday.
Since the 1980s, the IRGC have been linked to Hezbollah, offering training and funding to the primarily Lebanon-based terrorist organization. Hezbollah's logo is based on the IRGC's.
The fake driver's license that was found on 24-year-old Hadi Mater bore the name Hassan Mughniyah. Both, the first and second names are linked to infamous terrorist organization Hezbollah
One of the Hezbollah's most notorious figures was Imad Mughniyeh. He was killed in a CIA-linked assassination in Syria in 2008
The authors suspected attacker was pinned down by witnesses and security staff moments after the attack. Rushdie's son Zafar, 42, is aware of the incident
People rushed to assist the author after the attack, with the attacker being restrained by witnesses. The motive for the stabbing is currently unknown
Rushdie was issued a fatwa – a death sentence - in 1989 by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini after his book, the Satanic Verses, sparked and outcry with Muslims in Britain.
The book supposedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed and The Koran, with Khomeini calling for Rushdie's death, and also called for Muslims to point him out to those who could kill him if they could not themselves.
Authorities descended on the Fairview, New Jersey home of Matar hours after he allegedly attacked Rushdie onstage.
Rushdie has previously received death threats for his writing, with his book the Satanic Verses which supposedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed and The Koran.
He wrote the Satanic Verses, which resulted in a culture war being sparked in 1988 in Britain – with protests taking place in the UK along with book burnings.
Pakistan banned the book, and he was issued a fatwa – a death sentence - by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in February 1989.
Khomeini called for the death of Rushdie and his publishers, and also called for Muslims to point him out to those who could kill him if they could not themselves.
The fatwa, or 'spiritual opinion', followed a wave of book burnings in Britain and rioting across the Muslim world which led to the deaths of 60 people and hundreds being injured.
Rushdie was put under round-the-clock security from 1989 to 2002, at the expense of the British taxpayer, when a $3million bounty was put on his head.
He was forced to go into hiding for a decade with police protection, and previously said he received a 'sort of Valentines card' from Iran each year letting him know the country has not forgotten the vow to kill him.
In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.
Other's linked to the book have been attacked over the years, with Hitoshi Igarashi, who translated The Satanic Verses into Japanese, being stabbed to death on the campus where he taught literature.
His agent, Andrew Wylie, said that the author had suffered severed nerves and could lose an eye. he added that his liver was also damaged
State Trooper James O'Callaghan gave an update Friday evening following the stabbing
Medics rushed to the scene to take the author to hospital to treat his injuries. A Chautauqua Institution spokesperson, where the event was taking place, said: 'We are dealing with an emergency situation. I can share no further details at this time.'
Ettore Capriolo, the Italian translator of the book, was knifed in his apartment in Milan.
The novel's Norwegian publisher William Nygaard, was shot three times outside his home and left for dead in October 1993, but survived the attack.
In Turkey, the book's translator, Aziz Nesin, was the target of an arson attack on a hotel that killed 37.
Rushdie previously wrote a 655-page fatwa memoir, which was nominated for the UK's top non- fiction award, the Samuel Johnson prize.
During the fatwa he lived in permanent terror and at one point thought his ex-wife Clarissa Luard and their son Zafar, who was nine at the time, had been killed by assassins or kidnapped.
In 1998 Iran's reformist president relaxed the fatwa and said it had no intention of tracking Rushdie down and killing him.
The Index on Censorship, an organization promoting free expression, said money was raised to boost the reward for his killing as recently as 2016, underscoring that the fatwa for his death still stands.
New Jersey Police officers stand guard near the building where alleged attacker Hadi Matar, lives in Fairview, New Jersey
Dozens of onlookers quickly rushed to the stage to try to apprehend the suspect, and help Rushdie after he was attacked in front of hundreds
Blood was spattered on the wall behind where Rushdie had been attacked, with some also seen on a chair. New York State Police confirmed that Rushdie was stabbed in the neck
Rushdie was airlifted to hospital after receiving medical assistance from those at the event near Buffalo, in Upstate New York
He has has two children from his four marriages - his other son is called Milan - but has been linked with many other women including Indian model Riya Sen.
The author was knighted in 2007 in Britain 'for services to literature' by his friend, then Prime Minister Tony Blair.
His last piece of writing was about an assassination attempt, serializing a novella called The Seventh Wave on Sub Stack, which appeared to focus on spies and assassinations.
The White house have also condemned that attack on Rushdie, with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan calling it ‘reprehensible’.
In a statement he said: ‘Today, the country and the world witnessed a reprehensible attack against the writer Salman Rushdie.
‘This act of violence is appalling. All of us in the Biden-Harris Administration are praying for his speedy recovery.
‘We are thankful to good citizens and first responders for helping Mr. Rushdie so quickly after the attack and to law enforcement for its swift and effective work, which is ongoing.'
Event moderator Henry Reese, 73, a co-founder of an organization that offers residencies to writers facing persecution, was also attacked. He and Rushdie were due to discuss the United States as a refuge for writers and other artists in exile.
Reese was released from a hospital on Friday afternoon and in an emailed statement to the New York Times, he called Rushdie 'one of the great defenders of freedom of speech and freedom of creative expression.
'The fact that this attack could occur in the United States is indicative of the threats to writers from many governments and from many individuals and organizations.'
Governor Kathy Hochul called the attack on Rushdie 'heartbreaking' before confirming that he is 'alive', during and unrelated press conference.
She added that he is 'getting the care he needs at a local hospital', and that a state police trooper 'stood up and saved his life' after the attack.
One witness told the New York Times that Rushdie had been stabbed 'multiple times' and was lying in a pool of his own blood.
Muslim activists beat a burning effigy of Salman Rushdie in New Delhi after the book sparked outrage
Salman Rushdie (right) together with his fourth wife, model and Top Chef host Padma Lakshimi attending the Cannes Film Festival in 2004
Rita Landman offered her assistance after the incident, adding that he appeared to be alive and did not receive CPR.
Landman said: 'People were saying, 'He has a pulse, he has a pulse he has a pulse.'
Roger Warner of Cleveland, Ohio, was sitting on the front row when the attack took place, adding: 'He was covered with blood and there was blood running down onto the floor.
'I just saw blood all around his eyes and running down his cheek.'
Rushdie's London-based son Zafar, 42, is aware of the incident and his father has been seen being transported by air ambulance after the attack.
Thousands of people in the audience gasped at the sight of the attack and were then evacuated as his alleged attacker was taken into custody.
Senator George Borrello branded the attack as 'shocking' adding that there is 'no room' for 'beliefs that demand that you kill someone who disagrees with you'.
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Ben Higgins is taking his time enjoying the honeymoon phase of marriage.
The Bachelor alum, who wed Jessica Clarke less than a year ago in November 2021, revealed he isn't rushing to have kids anytime soon.
"We're excited for kids," Ben, 33, exclusively told E! News while promoting his Aug. 9 appearance on E!'s Celebrity Beef. "I believe that, God willing, we will have kids. But right now it's not a conversation we have often and it's not something I believe either of us are craving. You know, you hear the 'baby fever,' I don't know if either of us have baby fever right now."
In the meantime, Ben and Jessica are focusing on their roles as parents of a fur baby.
"We do have a kid," he added. "It's a puppy and we're trying really hard to make sure that puppy is the best puppy possible...We're making good progress."
The pair tied the knot in a romantic ceremony at The Estate in Cherokee Dock in Tennessee after three years of dating.
Bachelor Nation's Nick Viall, Becca Kufrin, Thomas Jacobs, Jared Haibon, Ashley Iaconetti and Wells Adams were all in attendance.
"I am so excited," Ben said at the time. "We have so much to look forward to. And I know we will have a beautiful marriage."
Ben recently revisited his and Jessica's big day in honor of her 27th birthday.
"Today is @jessclarke_ birthday!" he shared on June 19 with a collage of wedding photos. "She is joyful, beautiful, caring and most importantly loving to all. I get to experience her love everyday of my life and today I hope that we all can share some of that love back with her! Happy 27th Jessica! You are loved."
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International sensations BANDALOOP and The Flying Espanas will headline 12-day Fringe
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rochester Fringe Festival has announced the full, curated lineup for the eleventh annual festival – more than 500 shows ranging from comedy, dance, kids' fringe, and multidisciplinary shows, to music, spoken word, theatre, and visual art & film – from Tuesday, September 13 – Saturday, September 24, 2022.
"We are absolutely thrilled to be able to offer such a diverse array of shows this year," says Rochester Fringe Festival Producer Erica Fee. "The energy felt throughout the city during the 12 days of Fringe is truly incomparable!"
Opening weekend will feature The Flying Españas in Flippin Metal Circus, an adrenaline-pumping WORLD PREMIERE from a renowned fifth and sixth-generation circus troupe who are widely accepted as having modernized the art of the trapeze.
The Fringe Finale Weekend will feature vertical performers BANDALOOP, who will use climbing technology to dance on the side of 21-story Five Star Plaza in downtown Rochester. California-based BANDALOOP has performed everywhere from the Seattle Space Needle and the New York Stock Exchange to Yosemite's El Capitan.
The festival's hub at One Fringe Place will be home to the Spiegelgarden and beautiful Spiegeltent. Cirque du Fringe: Afterglow, which runs all 12 nights of Fringe in the Spiegeltent, is an all-new WORLD PREMIERE from Las Vegas legends Matt Morgan and Heidi Brucker Morgan and featuring a cast of renowned international artists. In and around the Spiegeltent: Silent Disco returns for all four, weekend late-nights.
Late night weekend programming in the Spiegeltent will feature both a returning favorite – the hit Shakespeare-inspired, comedy show Shotspeare – and a brand-new, cabaret-style show: Late & Live, hosted by Fringe favorite and physical comedian Mark Gindick (Cirque du Soleil, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and The Late Show with David Letterman).
Four more free, outdoor events return this year: Fringe Street Beat, an epic breakdancing and all-styles dance competition; Pedestrian Drive-In, nightly films on the big screen; Kids Day; and Gospel Sunday, an afternoon of the best in local gospel music.
From its five-day debut in 2012, the 12-day Rochester Fringe Festival has become the largest multidisciplinary performing arts festival in NYS and one of the top three attended Fringe Festivals in the U.S. More than 500,000 people have attended nearly 4,000 performances and events at the Rochester Fringe Festival since its inception.
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Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of nuclear plant strikes
The Zaporizhzhia plant is the biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and in Europe.
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Kyiv and Moscow accused each other on Saturday of striking the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine, which has been shelled repeatedly in the past week.
Zaporizhzhia is the biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and in Europe.
The plant has been under Russian control since March, and Ukraine has accused Moscow of basing hundreds of soldiers and storing arms there.
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"Limit your presence on the streets of Energodar! We have received information about new provocations by the (Russian) occupiers," Ukraine's nuclear agency Energoatom said as it shared a message on Telegram from a local chief in Energodar city, where the plant is located.
The city remains loyal to Kyiv.
"According to residents, there is new shelling in the direction of the nuclear plant... the time between the start and arrival of the shelling is 3-5 seconds," the message said.
But pro-Moscow officials in the occupied areas in Zaporizhzhia region blamed Ukrainian forces for the shelling.
"Energodar and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant are again under fire by (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky's militants," said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Moscow-installed administration.
The missiles fell "in the areas located on the banks of the Dnipro river and in the plant", he said, without reporting any casualties or damage.
Areas occupied by Russia and those under Ukraine's control are divided by the Dnipro river.
Kyiv and Moscow have traded accusations over several rounds of shelling on the plant this month, raising fears of a nuclear catastrophe and led to an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday.
Ukraine said the first strikes on August 5 damaged a power cable and forced one of the reactors to stop working.
Then strikes on Thursday damaged a pumping station and radiation sensors.
Ukraine, backed by Western allies, has called for a demilitarised zone around the plant and for the withdrawal of Russian forces.
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BOSTON (AP) — The New York Yankees still have a double-digit lead in the AL East and a chance to coast into the postseason.
What they do once they get there could depend on whether closer Clay Holmes can straighten things out in time.
Staked with a lead from Aaron Judge’s 46th homer, the All-Star reliever walked back-to-back batters in the ninth and then gave up a tying single to J.D. Martinez on Friday night. Tommy Pham delivered the walk-off hit in the 10th to lead the last-place Red Sox to a 3-2 victory over the first-place Yankees and send New York to its eighth loss in nine games.
“He struggled with strikes there obviously. That’s a situation we’ve got to get the strike thrown,” Yankees manger Aaron Boone said. “It’s just a matter of getting him locked in mechanically and letting it rip.”
New York pitchers retired 12 straight Boston batters before Holmes walked two with one out in the ninth and then gave up Martinez’s single up the middle. Holmes was 4-0 with an 0.47 ERA and 16 saves in 17 tries on July 7; since then, he is 1-3 with four blown saves while giving up 11 earned runs in 11 innings.
Asked if Holmes would remain as closer, Boone said, “We’ll see.”
“I’ll try to put in him in the best positions to be successful. Some nights that will be the ninth,” Boone said. “But we’ll keep working with him. Got to get him consistent.”
Judge, who had his major league-leading 46th homer and 100th RBI in the third inning, reached base for the fourth time when he was walked to lead off the 10th. But Garrett Whitlock fanned Josh Donaldson and Gleyber Torres to end the threat.
In the bottom half, automatic runner Christian Arroyo took third on a groundout and then stayed there on pinch-hitter Reese McGuire’s bunt single. Pham, a trade deadline acquisition, punched one down the third-base line to spark a celebration in the sold-out crowd — or at least the portion trying to outshout the visiting Yankee fans.
“When they come into town, we expect this. We expect games like that,” said Red Sox manager Alex Cora, whose team has won its last three games against the Yankees in Boston. “They have an outstanding team, but we’ve played well against them the last three times.”
Cora insisted that he Red Sox, who are in seventh place and four games out in the race for three wild-card spots, still have a chance to make the playoffs.
“I’ve been saying that for a while,” he said. “Not too many people believe me. But I think the people that really matter, they believe it. That’s the people in here.”
Whitlock (3-2) struck out three and walked one in two innings.
Lou Trivino (1-7) allowed two hits and recorded one out for the Yankees, who lost their third straight game.
Judge hit the first pitch of the third inning 429 feet, over the Monster Seats and onto Lansdowne Street; he is on a pace to hit 66 home runs. He also walked twice and was hit by a pitch, reaching base at least three times for the fifth game in a row.
Jose Trevino had two hits, and Anthony Rizzo had a first-inning double to drive in Judge.
FOR STARTERS
Yankees starter Domingo Germán was charged with one run on five hits and two walks, striking out four in six innings.
Nathan Eovaldi dodged the loss when the Red Sox rallied in the ninth. He allowed two runs on eight hits and two walks, striking out three in six innings.
INFIELD SPRY
With Andrew Benintendi on first and Trevino at the plate, Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts let a popup drop, then flipped it to second base for the force out. The decision left Trevino at first instead of Benintendi, a faster runner.
SHORT HOPS
Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson threw out a ceremonial first pitch. … The Red Sox played a highlight video for Benintendi, a member of the 2018 World Series championship team. He had not played in Fenway Park since the Red Sox traded him to Kansas City before the 2021 season.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Donaldson shook it off after going over the dugout railing in pursuit of a foul popup. He remained in the game.
Red Sox: Kiké Hernández went 0-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout in a rehab appearance for the Double-A Portland SeaDogs. He batted second and played center field. He could rejoin the Red Sox as soon as Tuesday. … RHP Tyler Danish also appeared for Portland, allowing one run on one hit and two walks in one inning, striking out two.
UP NEXT
Yankees: RHP Frankie Montas (4-9) pitches for New York against Boston’s Kutter Crawford (3-4) in Game 2 of the three-game series.
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Fly Fishing Casts A Spell
INDIANA NATIVE Cari Ray, folk singer turned fly-fishing guru and host of the Fisher of Zen podcast, was revisiting her home waters and asked me to tag along. That’s how I wound up floating down Sugar Creek through the heart of Turkey Run State Park. On that particular morning, the water was so clear I could see bass and carp swimming around the rented canoe. Unfortunately, none seemed too interested in the faux fly flitting on the surface of the water at the end of my line. I was attempting to practice mindfulness—otherwise known as fly fishing.
The sport has steadily grown in popularity since A River Runs Through It introduced it to the public at large. During the pandemic, ever more folks donned waders and stood in the streams of America. Done in moving water, fly fishing requires mastering a unique casting technique, and, thus, patience and concentration.
Its zenlike aspect makes it ideal for easing worried minds. Becoming aware of the natural world around you, trying to achieve a perfect cast, then finally hooking and landing that elusive fish keeps you in the moment. Research out of Harvard found that fly fishing calms and clears the brain. Specifically, the repetitive motions in fly fishing initiate the “relaxation response.”
But Ray doesn’t need an Ivy League study to tell her that. “It’s really easy to get impatient when your fishing line gets knotted,” she says. “But what if you decide that untangling that snarled line is part of your mindfulness exercise? Ultimately, it’s your choice how you handle what can be considered stressful or annoying.”
Fly fishing forces you to give yourself grace. Instead of pausing at the apex of my cast, I rushed through the motion; where Ray’s line looked like a taut clothesline, mine had more twists and turns than an Appalachian road. I breathed deeply and tried again.
Admittedly, I felt pangs of jealousy as Ray hauled in one smallmouth after another, but as we pulled our canoe onto the shore, I felt more at ease mentally. I may not have caught a fish, but any anxiety continued downstream without me.
WHERE
Zionsville’s Eagle Creek is stocked with rainbow trout in the fall. Smallmouth bass and carp can be caught in the White River
(eaten, maybe not).
HOW
Orvis in Carmel (317-249-6000), FlyMasters in Castleton (317-570-9811), and Moving Water Outfitters in Zionsville (317-733-3014) offer fly-fishing classes.
WHAT
At a minimum, you need a fly rod and reel, flies, and leaders and tippets (lightweight lines that attach your heavier fly line to your rod and reel). Orvis’s Encounter Fly Rod Outfit ($198, orvis.com) is a great starter set. Waders are the next step. | https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/lifestyle/health/fly-fishing-casts-a-spell | 2022-08-13T15:19:32Z | https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/lifestyle/health/fly-fishing-casts-a-spell | true |
Peloton cutting over 700 jobs, raising prices on Bike+, Tread
Peloton is laying off 784 employees as the fitness giant looks to cut costs, improve efficiency and create positive cash flow, according to a Friday memo from chief executive officer Barry McCarthy. He emphasized that the company would continue to recruit top talent in key areas of need, such as software engineering.
In addition, the company has announced it will raise prices on its Bike+ and Tread products, significantly reduce its North American retail footprint and eliminate its final mile distribution network.
According to McCarthy, the price of the Peloton Bike+ in the United States will increase by $500 to $2,495, and the price of the Peloton Tread will increase by $800 to $3,495. Meanwhile, the shift from its final mile delivery to its third party logistics partnerships will reduce Peloton's per-product delivery costs by up to 50%.
A Peloton store in Walnut Creek, California, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. Peloton Interactive Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 8. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Peloton will provide updates on which retail locations will close in the coming months. While the company does not anticipate closing retail locations in calendar 2022, McCarthy said the timing is uncertain as Peloton begins negotiations to exit its store leases.
MEDITATION APP CALM LAYS OFF 20% OF WORKFORCE
The changes come after Peloton previously cut 2,800 jobs globally in February and announced an $800 million restructuring plan.
"These changes are essential if Peloton is ever going to become cash flow positive," McCarthy said. "Cash is oxygen. Oxygen is life. We simply must become self-sustaining on a cash flow basis."
In addition to the various changes, McCarthy said that Peloton will ask its corporate workers to return to the office three days per week starting Sept. 6 with a mandatory deadline starting Nov. 14.
"For those of you who don’t want to return to the office, we respect your choice," McCarthy added. "We hope you choose to stay, but we understand not everyone will."
As of the time of publication, Peloton shares have surged more than 9% during Friday's trading session. However, they are still down more than 60% year to date.
Peloton's latest layoffs follow job cuts last week at companies including Walmart, Oracle and Robinhood.
Other major companies that have either laid off employees or slowed or paused hiring include Meta, Twitter, Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, Victoria's Secret, 7-Eleven, Coinbase and Redfin.
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Kentucky will open the season one of six teams in the Southeastern Conference ranked in the USA Today Preseason Coaches’ Poll. The coaches considered Kentucky the 21st best team in the nation, grouped in with top-ranked Alabama, No. 3 Georgia, Texas A&M (No, 7), Arkansas (No. 23) and Ole Miss (24) from the powerful SEC.
A decade ago, when Mark Stoops took over a program that had fallen on tough times following a successful stint during the end of the Rich Brooks era, the Kentucky coach envisioned taking the program to new heights.
It took time and didn’t happen overnight, but Stoops began establishing a culture within the program. The foundation was built on physicality and toughness, creating a winning culture.
“There’s climate, and then there’s culture,” he said. “You can change a climate rather quickly, and a culture takes a long time to engrave, and if we do that and we do it correctly, then you can sustain the highs and the lows and the turnover, whether it’s players or coaches or anybody.
"So I don’t look at it like that. I always look at it like it’s an advantage, and I have great respect and appreciation for all the former players and coaches. But it just put us in a position to do what we’re doing now.”
Every student-athlete who has played under Stoops has had a big part in laying the groundwork for other teams to follow. Stoops hasn’t forgotten the sacrifices each team has made during a tenure that's nearing the end of its first decade.
“(We have) very strong leadership on this team, and that has a lot to do with the foundation of the players in previous years,” he said.
Stoops admitted his tenure has “gone by very fast at times and very slow at times” but “I feel very privileged to be here for nine years, going on 10, and really excited about this football team.”
“I really feel like our program is in a position that we’re very confident in what we’re going to do,” he said.
Looking back at the previous nine years, Stoops has enjoyed several milestones and has guided the Wildcats to a pair of double-digit win seasons, feats that were unattainable by his five predecessors.
“There are many good moments, many good moments. … In football and probably in most businesses, we learn by mistakes. Those scars really stick out to us. So we try not to ever let those same mistakes happen again. I remember a lot of those. I seem to remember those more than the wins.”
Two wins away from surpassing Paul “Bear” Bryant as the school’s all-time winningest football coach going into his 10th season, Stoops isn't satisfied and yearns for more.
“We certainly know we’re far from being where we want to be,” he said. “We want to continue to climb, continue to push, and constantly grow the program and take steps in a higher direction. That’s our plan, one day at a time.”
If the first nine years are any indication, the best is yet to come.
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Man wanted in Jahangirpuri case arrested
The accused has previous involvement in a murder case
A 38-year-old man, wanted in connection with the Jahangirpuri violence case, was arrested in north-west Delhi on Saturday, the police said.
The accused, identified as Sheikh Sikandar, a resident of Jahangirpuri, was absconding since the violence took place in April.
The police received a tip-off about the presence of a person suspected to be involved in the violence. “A trap was laid and he was arrested,” DCP (North West) Usha Rangnani said.
The police said that Sikandar has previous involvement in a murder case and has been registered at Jahangirpuri police station.
Jahangirpuri clashes broke out on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti in north-west Delhi’s Jahangirpur on April 16. Eight police personnel and a local were injured during the clash.
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We're now looking at two weather warnings running simultaneously on Sunday as Met Eireann have added a thunderstorm warning to the already extreme weather forecast.
From Sunday afternoon, "hit and miss thunderstorm activity along with hail and heavy downpours may lead to spot flooding and hazardous driving conditions," according to the national forecaster.
Thundery downpours are due to hit Cork after 8 pm on Sunday, with very heavy rain set to move easterly across the county overnight. The status yellow thunderstorm warning comes into place on 3 pm on Sunday until 3 pm on Monday.
Met Eireann's Status Yellow High-Temperature warning stays in place too, lasting until Monday morning.
It's to stay very hot and sunny on Saturday and Sunday with maximum temperatures generally of 27 to 30 degrees.
The warning notes impacts of the extreme heat including heat stress, high UV index and risk of water-related incidents.
Not only have we got a thunderstorm warning and a high-temperature warning, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine released a Condition Orange for the high risk of fire.
The warning on forest fires will last until Tuesday, as experts say a high fire risk has stemmed from "current weather patterns," noting that patches of plants including gorse and heather are considered "hazardous fuels."
The official fire danger notice against using barbeques or open fires while visiting forests and warns that vehicles must not be parked at site entrances or impede emergency service access to forest roads.
Fire risk is expected to peak on Saturday and Sunday.
As for the coming week, the current forecast looks like we could be seeing the return of some cooler, wetter weather once again.
Showers to continue into early next week, as temperatures start to drop below the 20-degree mark. Met Eireann says to expect a "much fresher" week with temperatures back into the teens and plenty more showers to look forward to.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
6-0-7-0, FIREBALL: 6
(six, zero, seven, zero; FIREBALL: six)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
6-0-7-0, FIREBALL: 6
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gas prices have dropped below $4 a gallon on average across the nation for the first time since early March as lower crude oil prices helped offset an increase in demand, analysts said.
AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $4.20, down 13 cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.20 a gallon on average a year ago at this time.
The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.97, down another 14 cents from last week — and falling below $4 for the first time since March 5. Drivers were paying $3.18 a gallon on average a year ago at this time.
Tracy Noble, spokesperson for AAA Mid-Atlantic, says analysts are “cautiously optimistic" that pump prices will continue to fall — particularly if there is no spike in the global price of crude oil — but cautions that the situation remains “very volatile." | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Gas-prices-below-4-per-gallon-for-first-time-17371485.php | 2022-08-13T15:49:35Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Gas-prices-below-4-per-gallon-for-first-time-17371485.php | false |
FBI break-in suspect Ricky Shiffer previously handled classified information for US Military: report
Ricky Shiffer spent three years in the Florida Army National Guard and five years posted on submarines in the Navy
The man accused of attempting to break into the FBI's Cincinnati field office on Thursday reportedly handled classified material for the U.S. Military while posted on submarines years ago, and the suspect was previously known to the FBI.
"The FBI previously received information about Ricky Shiffer, the individual who attempted to breach the Visitor Screening Facility at the FBI Cincinnati Field Office on August 11, 2022," an FBI spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement. "The information did not contain a specific and credible threat. However, multiple field offices made attempts to locate and interview Shiffer which were unsuccessful."
Ricky Shiffer, 42, spent five years in the U.S. Navy between June 1998 and June 2003, mostly aboard the USS Columbia, a Los Angeles-class attack submarine.
The suspect also spent three years in the Florida Army National Guard as an infantryman between May 2008 and May 2011, including a deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was honorably discharged in May 2011, according to his service record from the Department of Defense.
POLICE DIG INTO SUSPECTED EXTREMIST POSTS OF GUNMAN WHO ATTEMPTED TO BREACH CINCINNATI FBI OFFICE
During those combined eight years, Schiffer handled highly classified information, according to The Washington Post.
Authorities are looking into social media posts made on Shiffer's various accounts on Truth Social, a platform created by former President Donald Trump's media company; Facebook; and Twitter.
FBI AGENTS, GARLAND AND WRAY SEE INCREASED DEATH THREATS AFTER TRUMP MAR-A-LAGO RAID: SOURCES
Shiffer is suspected of posting extremist views on several social media platforms in which he encouraged his followers to "kill the F.B.I. on sight."
The 42-year-old, who reportedly wore body armor while armed with an AR-15 style rifle and nail gun, was shot and killed after he ended the pursuit by pulling over and engaging in a six hours-long standoff in a rural field in Wilmington, Ohio.
Shiffer is believed to have made a post on his Truth Social account 30 minutes into the standoff, during which he admitted to the attack.
"Well I thought I had a way through bullet proof glass, and I didn’t. If you don't hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I., and it'll mean either I was taken off the internet, the F.B.I. got me, or they sent the regular cops while," a post by an account using Shiffer's name stated Thursday.
The Thursday incident came after the FBI executed a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday.
Fox News has verified the posts, and law enforcement is working to confirm who owns the account.
"Truth Social does not tolerate violent threats or incitement on our platform. We work to immediately remove any such posts from Truth Social and cooperate with law enforcement," the Trump Media & Technology Group said in a statement to Fox News.
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The social media platform removed the posts and the account after the suspect was identified.
Shiffer also reportedly appears in a video posted to Facebook from a pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, and a post from a Twitter account using his name stated that he attended the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to the Post.
"Unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a Thursday statement. "Violence and threats against law enforcement, including the FBI, are dangerous and should be deeply concerning to all Americans. Every day I see the men and women of the FBI doing their jobs professionally and with rigor, objectivity, and a fierce commitment to our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution. I am proud to serve alongside them."
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Parts of Surrey without water during drought and heatwave
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People in parts of Surrey have no water or low pressure, on one of the hottest days of the year.
Thames Water said there were technical issues at Netley Mill Water Treatment Works and the fix was "taking longer than we hoped".
A spokesman apologised, adding: "We know how disruptive and worrying it is to be without water."
Jeremy Hunt, MP for South West Surrey, said old equipment was being replaced with new pipeline.
Posting on Twitter, he said teams were "working round the clock" to fix the issue.
It comes as an official drought was declared in Surrey and much of the south east, with an amber extreme heat warning in force.
The water firm's spokesman added: "We're very sorry. We are doing everything we can to get supplies back to normal as quickly as possible. Although we are making progress, we are sorry that this is taking longer than we hoped.
"Thank you for your patience while we work to fix this. We know how disruptive and worrying it is to be without water, especially in this hot weather."
Two bottled water stations have been opened at Cranleigh Leisure Centre in Village Way and at Surrey Hills Business Park.
There is a third station for customers travelling on foot only, at Gomshall Village Sports and Social Club in Queen Street.
Liberal Democrat county councillor for Cranleigh and Ewhurst, Liz Townsend, said elderly people were "stressed and worried" and had to make repeated trips to the water stations.
Thames Water said the bottled water was for "essential use" only and urged people to "be considerate and don't take more than you need".
The postcodes affected are GU5, GU6, RH4, RH5 and RH12.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country.
Samar, a former minister of women’s affairs and the first chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, left Kabul in July 2021 for the United States on her first trip after the COVID-19 pandemic, never expecting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to flee the country and the Taliban to take power for the second time soon after on Aug. 15.
“I think it’s a sad anniversary for the majority of people of my country,” Samar said, particularly for the women “who don’t have enough food, who do not know what is the tomorrow for them.”
A visiting scholar at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Kennedy School at Harvard, she has written the first draft of an autobiography and is working on a policy paper on customary law relating to Afghan women. She is also trying to get a Green Card, but she said, “I honestly cannot orient myself, where I am, and what I’m doing.”
She wishes she could go home — but she can't.
In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, she recalled a Taliban news conference a few days after they took power when they said if people apologized for past actions they would be forgiven.
“And I said, I should be apologizing because I started schools for the people?” said Samar, a member of Afghanistan's long persecuted Hazara minority. “I should apologize because I started hospitals and clinics in Afghanistan? I should apologize because I tried to stop torture of the Taliban? I should apologize to advocate against the death penalty, including (for) the Taliban leadership?”
“All my life I fought for life as a doctor," she said. “So I cannot change and support the death penalty. I shouldn't apologize for those principles of human rights and be punished."
Samar became an activist as a 23-year-old medical student with an infant son. In 1984, the then-communist government arrested her activist husband, and she never saw him again. She fled to Pakistan with her young son and worked as a doctor for Afghan refugees and started several clinics to care for Afghan women and girls.
Samar remembered the Taliban’s previous rule in the late 1990s, when they largely confined women to their homes, banned television and music, and held public executions. A U.S.-led invasion drove the Taliban from power months after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, which al-Qaida orchestrated from Afghanistan while being sheltered by the Taliban.
After the Taliban’s ouster, Samar returned to Afghanistan, moving into the top women’s rights and human rights positions, and over the next 20 years schools and universities were opened for girls, women entered the workforce and politics and became judges.
But Samar said in an AP interview in April 2021 — four months before the Taliban’s second takeover of the country — that the gains were fragile and human rights activists had many enemies in Afghanistan, from militants and warlords to those who wanted to stifle criticism or challenge their power.
Samar said the Afghan government and leadership, especially Ghani, were mainly responsible for the Taliban sweeping into Kabul and taking power. But she also put blame on Afghans “because we were very divided.”
In every speech and interview she gave nationally and internationally over the years, she said Afghans had to be united and inclusive, and “we have to have the people’s support. Otherwise, we will lose.”
As chair of the Human Rights Commission, she said she repeatedly faced criticism that she was trying to impose Western values on Afghanistan.
“And I kept saying, human rights is not Western values. As a human being, everyone needs to have a shelter … access to education and health services, to security,” she said.
Since their takeover, the Taliban have limited girls’ public education to just six years, restricted women’s work, encouraged them to stay at home, and issued dress codes requiring them to cover their faces.
Samar urged international pressure not only to allow all girls to attend secondary school and university, but to ensure all human rights which are interlinked. And she stressed the importance of education for young boys, who without any schooling, job or skill could be at risk to get involved in opium production, weapons smuggling or in violence.
She also urged the international community to continue humanitarian programs which are critical to save lives, but said they should focus on food-for-work or cash-for-work to end peoples' total dependency and give them “self-confidence and dignity."
Samar said Afghan society has changed over the past two decades, with more access to technology, rising education levels among the young and some experience with elections, t even if they weren't free and fair.
She said such achievements leave the possibility of positive change in the future. “Those are the issues that they (the Taliban) cannot control,” she said. “They would like to, but they cannot do it."
Samar said she hoped for eventual accountability and justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. “Otherwise, we feel the culture of impunity everywhere, everywhere -- and the invasion of Russia to Ukraine is a repetition of Afghanistan’s case," she said.
Her hope for Afghan women is that they can "live with dignity rather than being a slave of people.” | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/afghan-rights-leader-heartbroken-after-year-of-taliban-rule/R6XXRUTAWJFYVKVKMPRXZN6FOI/ | 2022-08-13T15:54:13Z | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/afghan-rights-leader-heartbroken-after-year-of-taliban-rule/R6XXRUTAWJFYVKVKMPRXZN6FOI/ | true |
Basavaraj Bommai launches Har Ghar Tiranga campaign
1.25 crore flags distributed for free across the State, says Bommai
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday launched the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign in Karnataka, on the steps of the Vidhana Soudha as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, and said the government had distributed 1.25 crore flags for free cost across the State.
“The tricolour is a symbol of national pride for the entire country. The programme envisages inspiring Indians everywhere to hoist the national flag at their home,” Mr. Bommai said.
Speaking at the function organised by the Kannada and Culture Department, the Chief Minister called upon the youth to come forward to build a strong and glorious India. “‘Country first, we come later,’ should be the motto,” he said, urging all to eschew narrow and selfish interests to serve the country.
The Chief Minister recalled the contributions of freedom fighters such as Kittur Rani Chennamma, Sangolli Rayanna, Mailara Mahadevappa, Sahukar Chennaiah, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had pledged to make India the strongest nation in the world.
Mr. Bommai mentioned that people were prepared to suffer and even die for the country during the freedom struggle. It was now the duty of all citizens to work unitedly for the country’s unity, he said and vowed to work for contributing $1 trillion from Karnataka in Mr. Modi’s goal of building a $5 trillion economy.
Earlier, Mr. Bommai hoisted the national flag at his residence and took to social media and wrote: “Partaking in Hon’ble PM @narendramodi Ji’s #HarGharTiranga campaign, hoisting the national flag at my residence in the presence of family members. Let us all join hands & make Har Ghar Tiranga a huge success by hoisting tiranga in our respective homes.”
The Har Ghar Tiranga campaign saw a good response in different parts of the State as all government offices, schools, colleges, and private establishments hoisted the tricolour on Saturday. Besides a large number of families too celebrated the occasion by hoisting the national flag on their premises. Tiranga yatras were also taken out on the occasion.
In Mysuru, the DAR, CAR, KSRP, and mounted police took out a procession to mark the occasion and rededicate themselves to uphold freedom and protect the rights of people. The Railways joined the campaign and 6,500 national flags were distributed to its employees as part of the campaign.
Complaint against protesters
As part of the celebrations, portraits of freedom fighters were displayed at the City Centre, a marketplace of Shivamogga city. A few people, who visited the place, objected to V.D. Savarkar’s portrait being displayed along with that of other freedom fighters. They wanted Savarkar’s photo to be removed as he had written mercy petitions to the British.
Later, a few BJP supporters gathered in front of the marketplace and staged a protest against the people who opposed Savarkar’s portrait. They wanted immediate arrest of those who wanted the removal of his photo. They also filed a complaint with the police in this regard.
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96% of drug cases end with no conviction: Anbumani
‘Policemen helping drug peddlers must be suspended’
PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday asked how the State could get rid of drug menace when 96% of drug cases end with no conviction. He said the police officials directly or indirectly responsible for helping drug peddlers should be suspended and replaced by talented officials.
In a statement, he pointed out that in a total of 102 cases related to drugs in Chennai between August 2020 and 2022, only four cases were solved, and 10 persons were convicted. “More than 200 persons accused in the rest of 98 cases have been released. This is a terrible example,” he said. He added that the steps taken by the police against drug-related crimes were ineffective and drug peddlers that they arrested simply got replaced by others.
“What is more shocking is that the police officials themselves have become hostile witnesses in many cases. The police have been responsible for criminals being relieved from these cases. How can drugs be removed from the society if the police are siding with the drug peddlers?” Dr. Anbumani asked.
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Salman Rushdie: Author believed fatwa was old and life relatively normal
By Nomia Iqbal in Erie, Pennsylvania & Paulin Kola in London
BBC News
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Salman Rushdie said he felt his life was "relatively normal" in an interview conducted just two weeks before he was stabbed on stage in the US.
The award-winning writer is in a critical condition after being attacked at an event on Friday.
He has faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims see as blasphemous.
There has been an outpouring of support, with the attack condemned as an assault on freedom of expression.
Mr Rushdie, 75, has been put on a ventilator, is unable to speak, and may lose one eye, his agent said.
Stern magazine had planned to publish its interview with the author next week, but brought it forward after the stabbing attack.
The magazine described how Mr Rushdie had arrived for the interview with no security at all, appeared relaxed as he said the Iranian fatwa was decades old.
Police detained a suspect named as Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey, shortly after he ran onto the stage and attacked Mr Rushdie and an interviewer at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state.
Mr Rushdie was stabbed at least once in the neck and in the abdomen, authorities said. He has sustained liver damage, too.
Police told a news conference that staff and audience members had pinned the attacker to the ground where he was arrested.
The interviewer who was with Mr Rushdie, Henry Reese, suffered a minor head injury and was taken to a local hospital. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution.
No motive or charges have yet been confirmed by police, who have said they want to examine a backpack and electronic devices found at the centre.
Two security officials were on duty at the centre - one making the subsequent arrest.
However, some of the visitors have questioned why security was not tighter for a man with a bounty of more than $3m on his head (£2.5m).
Members of the audience said the venue lacked basic security measures like bag checks and metal detectors.
Like other people planning to attend the author's lecture, Mr Matar had obtained a pass to enter the Chautauqua Institution grounds, the group's president said.
Fatwa never rescinded
Indian-born novelist Mr Rushdie shot to fame with Midnight's Children in 1981, which went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.
But his fourth book, published in 1988 - The Satanic Verses - forced him into hiding for nearly 10 years.
The surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous - insulting to a religion or god - and was banned in some countries.
A year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie's execution. He offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward in a fatwa - a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.
The bounty over Mr Rushdie's head remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.
There has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Mr Rushdie's stabbing. Iranian media described Mr Rushdie as an apostate - someone who has abandoned or denied his faith - in their coverage.
Mr Rushdie British-American citizen has become a vocal advocate for freedom of expression, defending his work on several occasions. He has also continued to write, with his next work due out in 2023.
- 14 hours ago | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62532200 | 2022-08-13T15:57:15Z | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62532200 | true |
Myanmar junta curbs political parties meeting foreigners
Political parties in Myanmar were scathing of the new edict
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Myanmar's ruling junta has moved to restrict political parties from meeting foreigners or international organisations ahead of an election expected next year.
The Southeast Asian nation has been plunged into turmoil and its economy is in tatters since a February 2021 coup which ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government.
The military alleged widespread voter fraud during November 2020 polls which Ms. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won in a landslide, although international observers said the election was largely free and fair.
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The junta-stacked Union Election Commission said Friday that the country's 92 registered political parties would have to ask for permission if they wished to meet foreign organisations or individuals.
"Political parties need to respect the law. If they fail to do so their party's registration will be dissolved," the commission said in a statement.
The body also accused foreign embassies and international non-governmental organisations of interfering in the 2020 polls resulting in fraud.
Political parties in Myanmar were scathing of the new edict.
Former NLD lawmaker Soe Thura Tun said it was undemocratic and did not respect the right to freedom of association.
"It's not appropriate to restrict them [political parties]," he told AFP Saturday.
Ko Ko Gyi, chair of the People's Party, said the announcement was unprecedented and did not bode well for the prospects of Myanmar's next election being a genuine exercise in democracy.
"We believe that their action will cause major damage to the Myanmar people and international community's trust in the upcoming election and democratic system," he told AFP on Saturday.
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the international community to reject the junta's "sham elections" planned for next year.
"They can be neither free nor fair under present conditions," he said at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations [ASEAN] foreign minsters' meeting in Phnom Penh, from which the junta's top diplomat was excluded over its failure to negotiate with its opponents.
Earlier this month, the junta extended a state of emergency by six months saying elections could only take place when the conflict-wracked country was "stable and peaceful".
It has previously said elections would be held and the state of emergency lifted by August 2023 — extending the initial one-year timeline it announced days after the coup.
Last year, it cancelled the results of the 2020 polls, saying it had uncovered more than 11 million instances of alleged voter fraud.
Ms. Suu Kyi has been detained since the coup and faces an eclectic raft of charges that could see her jailed for more than 150 years.
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96% of drug cases end with no conviction: Anbumani
‘Policemen helping drug peddlers must be suspended’
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PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday asked how the State could get rid of drug menace when 96% of drug cases end with no conviction. He said the police officials directly or indirectly responsible for helping drug peddlers should be suspended and replaced by talented officials.
In a statement, he pointed out that in a total of 102 cases related to drugs in Chennai between August 2020 and 2022, only four cases were solved, and 10 persons were convicted. “More than 200 persons accused in the rest of 98 cases have been released. This is a terrible example,” he said. He added that the steps taken by the police against drug-related crimes were ineffective and drug peddlers that they arrested simply got replaced by others.
“What is more shocking is that the police officials themselves have become hostile witnesses in many cases. The police have been responsible for criminals being relieved from these cases. How can drugs be removed from the society if the police are siding with the drug peddlers?” Dr. Anbumani asked.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — The City Of Charleston received The Vision of Tomorrow Award for the Goodwin Administration’s work to transform Slack Plaza, the “City Center,” to serve as a passive park, connect the downtown area, and offer a new venue to showcase arts and culture.
Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin said creating a true City Center has been a top goal since she took office in 2019. As plans went on, Charleston-area developers and business owners invested and planned for the city’s first Business Improvement District (BID). Projects included programming, public safety, beautification and economic development.
“It is an exciting time for Charleston,” Mayor Goodwin said. “But creating City Center was only part of the process. The key to ensuring the space’s success and bringing the vision to life – programming. We again, brought together the community – the BID, The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Charleston Creativity Connections, our Parks and Recreation Team, local musicians, and local artists – to plan programming for a wide variety of audiences.”
In addition to the investments made, money is pouring into the area from events at City Center, including the 2022 Sternwheel Regatta, which made a $31.5 million economic impact. Rainbow Pride of West Virginia’s Pride Parade and Festival, the largest pride festival in the state, also took place at City Center.
The Vision of Tomorrow Award honors cities that are “exceptionally forward thinking and visionary.” The award recipient is chosen by the West Virginia Municipal League Voting Committee. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-receives-the-vision-of-tomorrow-award-for-slack-plaza-transformation/ | 2022-08-13T16:08:56Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-receives-the-vision-of-tomorrow-award-for-slack-plaza-transformation/ | true |
(The Hill) – The likelihood of a “megastorm” occurring in California has doubled due to climate change, according to a new study published on Friday.
The study, published in the Science Advances journal, found an increased likelihood of runoff water occurring from harsher storms, creating the threat of debris flows and landslides later, according to a press release from the University of California, Los Angeles.
With every degree that the Earth gets warmer, the likelihood for a “megastorm” increases, too, the study found.
Researchers looked at two different scenarios using present climate models and high-resolution weather modeling. One scenario involved a long series of storms taking place during what scientists predicted climate conditions would be like between 2081 and 2100.
The other scenario predicted what it would be like if those storms took place in the current climate, according to the release.
In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, storms that took place toward the end of the century would see between 200 percent and 400 percent more runoff because of higher precipitation.
“There are localized spots that get over 100 liquid-equivalent inches of water in the month,” UCLA climate scientist and co-author of the research David Swain said in a statement regarding the end-of-the-century scenario.
“On 10,000-foot peaks, which are still somewhat below freezing even with warming, you get 20-foot-plus snow accumulations. But once you get down to South Lake Tahoe level and lower in elevation, it’s all rain. There would be much more runoff.”
The researchers also noted that the state risks a $1 trillion disaster. In addition, parts of major cities like Los Angeles and Sacramento would be underwater if the state endured the kind of flooding that took place during the Great Flood of 1862 in the current climate.
“Modeling extreme weather behavior is crucial to helping all communities understand flood risk even during periods of drought like the one we’re experiencing right now,” Karla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources, said in a statement.
“The department will use this report to identify the risks, seek resources, support the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, and help educate all Californians so we can understand the risk of flooding in our communities and be prepared.”
The department contributed some funding toward the study. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/climate-change-doubles-likelihood-of-megastorms-extreme-flooding-in-california-study/ | 2022-08-13T16:09:21Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/climate-change-doubles-likelihood-of-megastorms-extreme-flooding-in-california-study/ | false |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community where a coal plant is closing.
The transformative bill provides the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push. Among the many things it could do nuclear energy experts say is spur more projects like one Bill Gates is planning in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Gates’ company, TerraPower, plans to build an advanced, nontraditional nuclear reactor and employ workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.
Companies designing and building the next generation of nuclear reactors could pick one of two new tax credits available to carbon-free electricity generators, such as wind and solar. To ensure coal communities have a place in the energy transition, both tax credits include a 10-percentage point bonus for facilities sited where residents have relied on fossil fuel plants or mining— a “sizeable incentive” to locate them there, according to Matt Crozat, senior director for strategy and policy development at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
That could include towns in coal-dependent West Virginia, since the state eliminated a ban on nuclear power plants this year. Or in Maryland, where the state announced a partnership in June to look at repurposing a fossil fuel site for a small nuclear reactor. Or in Montana, where lawmakers are looking at advanced nuclear reactors as a possible replacement for coal boilers.
Staffan Qvist, an expert in energy systems analysis and decarbonization strategies, has extensively researched the feasibility of replacing coal plants with emissions-free alternatives in China and Poland. He found that coal plants often make ideal sites for advanced, high-temperature nuclear reactors.
“It’s a growing trend,” Qvist said, “now it’s being talked about everywhere.” Qvist is also founder of Qvist Consulting Limited in the United Kingdom. “You have a site, you have a grid connection. You have equipment that can remain in use, and you have a workforce that could be retrained.”
A design by NuScale Power is the first to be fully certified in the United States and the company is planning to begin operating a small modular reactor in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company’s chief financial officer, Chris Colbert, said former coal plants are ideal locations for advanced nuclear technology, in part because transmission lines are already in place.
Colbert also said he thinks potential customers will be more interested in the company’s small advanced reactors because of the incentives in the bill.
There are nearly $375 billion in climate incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act. Among them, there’s a new tax credit available to any carbon-free electricity generator. That includes new advanced nuclear reactors that begin construction in 2025 or later. Existing nuclear plants that expand their output could get credit for that additional electricity production. The credit is worth at least $25 per megawatt-hour for the first decade the plant operates, according to NEI, the industry’s trade association.
Or, owners of a new carbon-free electricity generator could take advantage of an investment tax credit, worth 30% of the amount they paid to build the facility.
The bill also has $700 million to produce the uranium fuel in the United States that many advanced reactors need. And there’s a tax credit for existing nuclear plants worth up to $15 per megawatt hour from 2024 to 2032. That’s enough of a boost that it’s highly likely no nuclear plants will close during that period for economic reasons, Crozat said. There are expanded options for how the credit can be used, with direct payments for certain owners, such as municipal utilities.
The incentives are a game changer for the nuclear energy industry, said Jacopo Buongiorno, professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Buongiorno has studied the future of nuclear energy in a carbon-constrained world.
“This is really substantial,” he said as he read the list of tax credits. “This should move the needle in terms of making these technologies economically viable right off the bat.”
Buongiorno liked that the credits are available to many carbon-free technologies.
“It’s not just nuclear, it’s not just solar, it’s all of the above, which is what we have been preaching as the right approach for decarbonization,” he said. “You need to sort of push everybody here.”
But Grant Smith, a senior energy policy adviser at the Environmental Working Group, said tax credits for small modular nuclear units is a waste of taxpayer dollars. They divert resources from commercially-viable emerging technologies, Smith said, and stokes “the continuing false narrative of cheap, easily-deployed nuclear technology that the sector has been spinning for decades.” Smith leads the nonprofit’s work on accelerating the transition to renewables.
Georgia has the only nuclear project currently under construction in the U.S. Two traditional large reactors were projected to cost $14 billion and are now expected to cost more than $30 billion.
Because of that, Buongiorno said he’d be shocked if there is another order for a traditional large reactor in the U.S. The perception of financial risk, or project risk overall, would be too high, he said.
There are roughly 40 serious concepts in development for the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors worldwide, Qvist said. China was the first to connect one of the next generation of reactors to its grid to produce about 200 megawatts of electricity. A high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor began operating last year.
Kairos Power has applied for a permit to construct a test reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. GE Hitachi is working on a reactor in Ontario, Canada, and if it’s successful, there’s a lot of interest in it in the United States, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, Qvist said.
The largest public power company in the U.S., the Tennessee Valley Authority, launched a program this year to develop and fund new small modular nuclear reactors as part of its strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The TVA is focused on GE Hitachi’s design.
At least a dozen advanced reactors are projected to come online in the 2020s.
“It’s not far off and it’s not speculative and it’s not on paper,” Qvist said. “There are actually a lot of things really happening.”
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Wildeman reported from Hartford, Conn. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/climate-bill-could-coal-communities-shift-to-nuclear/ | 2022-08-13T16:10:22Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/climate-bill-could-coal-communities-shift-to-nuclear/ | false |
Nurseries closed in East Lothian E. coli outbreak
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An outbreak of E.coli had led to the closure two nurseries in East Lothian.
The Pear Tree Nursery in Church Road, Haddington has been linked to 28 cases of the bug. Most cases are reported to be mild - with some children in hospital in a stable condition.
Pear Tree's Meadowpark location in the town was also closed as a precaution after symptoms were reported.
NHS Lothian said a source had not been found, but tests were being done to identify the strain of the infection.
The health board said cases had been confined to the nursery, households of the children and close contacts.
It has been working with the nursery for about 10 days.
Public health consultant Graham Mackenzie told BBC Scotland reports of a mild stomach upsets at the Meadowpark nursery had prompted authorities to shut the facility but that there was no indication yet that it was the E.coli infection.
Dr Richard Othieno, chairman of the incident management team, said: "We know that this will be an anxious time for many of those who are directly affected by the infection.
"We have written to parents and carers of the children and to staff at the nursery to provide the most up to date information and ongoing health advice.
"NHS Lothian has a robust surveillance system in place to identify E. coli cases which helped us to identify these cases early and put in place essential control measures to prevent further spread.
"This outbreak reinforces the importance of washing hands regularly, particularly before eating or preparing food, and after going to the toilet."
He said NHS Lothian had encouraged parents to keep their children away from others until a negative test for E. coli was confirmed.
What is E. coli?
Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria are found in the intestines of humans and animals. There are many different types, some are harmless and others can cause a variety of diseases.
The bacterium is found in faeces and can survive in the environment.
E. coli bacteria can cause a range of infections including urinary tract infection, cystitis (infection of the bladder), and intestinal infection.
E. coli infections can be serious and often cause severe diarrhoea, sometimes with blood in it, abdominal cramps and fever. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-62534816 | 2022-08-13T16:12:23Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-62534816 | true |
St Davids: Large fire spreads across corn fields, closing roads
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About 30 firefighters are tackling a blaze which has spread across five corn fields.
Police are asking people to avoid the area near Whitesands, in St Davids, Pembrokeshire.
Dyfed-Powys Police said numerous roads were closed, including both directions of the road between Nun Street (A487) and Hendre Eynon Caravan Site.
Emergency services were called to the scene just after 13:20 BST.
Crews from St Davids, Haverfordwest, Fishguard and Milford Haven were at the scene, with another crew on its way, and have been using 10 hose reel jets and beaters to put out the fire.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the fire was affecting six hectares of land, including an outbuilding containing cylinders.
St Davids Cathedral tweeted that the fire had broken out "on the old pilgrim's trail into the valley on the north side".
It added: "A brisk very warm northerly wind isn't helping."
A huge wildfire has started in St David’s.
— Peter Gillibrand (@GillibrandPeter) August 13, 2022
Thousands of pounds of crop being destroyed as I film.
Residents say they’ve never seen anything like it before - a result of our changing climate?
Luckily, Fire Service are dealing with it but it seems to be spreading faster. pic.twitter.com/vDvg1mMNLN | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62534738 | 2022-08-13T16:12:35Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62534738 | true |
MARION, Ind. — At approximately 1:07 a.m. Saturday, Marion police officers were dispatched to the area of the 2600 block of South Washington on a report of shots fired.
When officers arrived, they spoke to the reporting party who said they heard shots and saw vehicles parked in a driveway in which they have not seen before. The caller also told police the vehicles sped away from the area.
Officers were unable to locate anything at this location.
Then, at approximately 1:37 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 2600 block of South Adams on report of a possible shooting victim.
When officers arrived, they located people giving the victim CPR in the yard of the residence. Officers rendered aid until emergency services arrived. The victim was then transported to Marion Health where he was later pronounced dead.
The victim has been identified as Todd Gosha, 32 of Anderson. | https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/man-found-shot-in-marion-residence-yard-dies-at-hospital/ | 2022-08-13T16:13:22Z | https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/man-found-shot-in-marion-residence-yard-dies-at-hospital/ | true |
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CHICAGO – R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago that starts Monday is in many ways a do-over of his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted the singer on charges that he produced a video of himself when he was around 30 having sex with a girl no older than 14.
There’s one big difference: This time, prosecutors say, she will testify.
Kelly, 55, goes into Chicago federal court already sentenced by a New York federal judge to a 30-year prison term for a 2021 conviction on charges he parlayed his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Among the most serious charges the Grammy Award winner faces at his federal trial is conspiracy to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, including by paying off and threatening the girl to ensure she did not testify.
Testimony by the woman, now in her 30s and referred to in filings only as “Minor 1,” will be pivotal. The charges against Kelly also include four counts of the enticement of minors for sex — one count each for four other accusers. All are also slated to testify.
Even just one or two convictions in Chicago could add decades to Kelly's New York sentence, which he is appealing. With the New York sentence alone, Kelly will be around 80 before qualifying for early release.
Prosecutors at the federal trial plan to play the same VHS tape that was “Exhibit No. 1″ at the 2008 trial. While it was the only video in evidence 14 years ago, at least three other videos will be entered into evidence at the federal trial.
Prosecutors say Kelly shot the video of Minor 1 in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 1998 and 2000 when she was as young as 13. In it, the girl is heard calling the man “daddy.” Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly had sex hundreds of times over the years in his homes, recording studios and tour buses.
Before the 2008 trial, Kelly carried a duffle bag full of sex tapes everywhere he went for years, but some tapes later went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg copies of some videos appeared on street corners across the U.S.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it.
On June 13, 2008, Kelly shut his eyes tight and bowed his head as jurors returned from deliberations. As a court official read the jury’s decision and it became clear Kelly would be acquitted on all counts, tears streamed down his cheeks and he said over and over, “Thank you, Jesus.”
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants in Chicago. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they have also denied any wrongdoing.
Double jeopardy rules bar the prosecution of someone for the same crimes they were acquitted of earlier. But that shouldn't apply to the Chicago federal trial because prosecutors are alleging different crimes related to Minor 1, including obstruction of justice for fixing the 2008 trial.
Minor 1 first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly’s music. Soon after that meeting, Minor 1 told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
In the early 2000s, the aunt showed the parents a copy of a video she said depicted their daughter having sex with Kelly. When they confronted Kelly, he told them, “You’re with me or against me,” a government filing says.
The parents took it as a threat.
“Minor 1’s mother did not want to go up against Kelly’s power, money, and influence by not following what he said,” the filing adds.
Kelly told the parents and Minor 1 they had to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Minor 1, moving her around to different hotels.
When called before a state grand jury looking into the video, Minor 1, her father and mother denied it was her in it. Prosecutors say an attorney for Kelly sat in on their testimony and reported back to Kelly what they said.
Prosecutors from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office chose to push ahead with charges and to take the case to trial in 2008 despite what they knew was a major hurdle: their inability to call the girl in the video to testify.
Any confidence Kelly may have had of beating similar charges a second time were likely dashed when he learned Minor 1 was now cooperating with the government. With more resources, federal prosecutors also boast conviction rates of more than 90% compared to around 65% for their state counterparts.
In 2008, his lawyers argued the man in the VHS video who appeared very much to be Kelly was not Kelly. They showed jurors that Kelly has a large mole on his back, then played excerpts of the video in which no mole was visible on the man.
One of Kelly’s attorneys, Sam Adam Jr., told jurors during closings that no mole on the man's back meant one thing: “It ain’t him. And if it ain’t him, you can’t convict.”
Some 2008 jurors told reporters after the trial that they weren’t convinced the female in the video was who state prosecutors said she was.
That shouldn’t be an issue at the Chicago federal trial. Prosecutors say both the girl and her parents will testify.
What defense Kelly’s legal team will present this time isn’t clear.
The defense is likely to say Kelly’s accusers are misrepresenting the facts. Kelly was more blunt in a 2019 interview with Gayle King of “CBS This Morning,” saying about the women: “All of them are lying.”
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — More than a dozen people were injured -- four of them critically -- after a vehicle crashed into a northern Virginia pub and restaurant, according to authorities.
The crash at the Ireland’s Four Courts establishment, which happened early Friday evening, also caused a fire, which was soon extinguished, media outlets reported.
Authorities said eight people were taken to the hospital, while six others were treated at the scene and released, according to the Arlington County Police and the county fire department.
Mary Reilly, who works at the pub, said she was in the back of the building when “we all heard a bang, an explosion, so I just turned around and I saw all the debris coming towards the back of the pub."
About 30 patrons and staff members were in the pub at the time, and as “pure panic broke out,” Reilly said, people rushed out the back.
Arlington police spokeswoman Ashley Savage didn’t immediately provide details about the cause of the crash, which happened on busy Wilson Boulevard, a few miles from the District of Columbia line. The driver was among those taken to the hospital, Savage said.
While the building remained structurally sound, Savage said, it wasn’t clear when the pub would reopen. | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Va-police-Over-a-dozen-injured-when-car-crashes-17371545.php | 2022-08-13T16:14:42Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Va-police-Over-a-dozen-injured-when-car-crashes-17371545.php | false |
KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban security forces opened fire over the heads of women who staged a rare protest in Kabul on Saturday — a violent crackdown coming just two days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the group sweeping to power in Afghanistan.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
About two dozen women marched down a main street of Kabul chanting "bread, work, freedom," "we want political participation" and "no to enslavement."
The protesters unfurled a large banner announcing the anniversary of the Taliban's resumption of power as a day of solidarity with Afghan women. They also demanded the international community step up to help them.
"It was important because it's nearly the first anniversary of the Taliban rule and we wanted to say that we don't consent to this government," said one young woman who spoke to NPR after the protest. She requested anonymity so she couldn't be identified by Taliban authorities.
"After a year of this government, there is no change in the situation. We are showing that we won't stay silent," she said. "It's important to show the world that Afghans don't accept this. We will stand against injustice."
As the women marched, Taliban security forces began grabbing the phones and cameras of Afghan journalists and male international correspondents. They grabbed the phone of a boy on a bicycle who tried to take a photo.
Then, in what appeared to be a coordinated move, they opened fire in the air above the protesters, quickly dispersing them. Taliban security forces have used live fire to disperse protests in the past. But the fire this time was unusually intense: Multiple gunmen fired rapidly in the air, leaving bullet casings strewn across the street.
Several reporters were detained, and at least three remain in custody. Taliban security forces tried to find the owner of a camera they had confiscated by sending an image of the item across WhatsApp groups.
The return of the Taliban to power ended four decades of conflict and has largely made the country secure. But they have dramatically curbed women's rights, preventing most girls from attending secondary school, banning women from traveling alone and making it difficult for them to work.
They've also cracked down on those criticizing their rule, which has chiefly been women demanding their equal rights.
Meanwhile, sanctions have paralyzed the economy and plunged the country into a major humanitarian crisis with many Afghans going hungry. Major aid groups and human rights organizations have pleaded with the international community not to forget the plight of ordinary Afghans, and to allow commerce and trade to continue.
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DENVER (AP) — Longtime minor leaguer Wynton Bernard singled, stole a base and scored in his major league debut, helping the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 on Friday night.
Brian Serven homered, Dinelson Lamet (1-1) pitched a perfect seventh inning for the win and Carlos Estévez worked the ninth for his second save.
The 31-year-old Bernard toiled in the minors for more than 10 years and 863 games before having his contract selected by Colorado on Friday. He made it a memorable debut when he helped spark a seventh-inning rally that put the Rockies in front for good.
Bernard received a loud ovation when he stepped to the plate for the first time in the bottom of the third. He grounded out to second, but received more love from the crowd.
“I never had anything like that,” he said. “That was incredible.”
Bernard was taken in the 35th round of the 2012 draft and spent three seasons in the Padres’ minor league system. He also played in the minors for Detroit, San Francisco and the Chicago Cubs, along with stints in the Mexican Winter League, Venezuelan Winter League and independent ball. And, he played for the Brisbane Bandits of the Australian Baseball League.
In 10 minor league seasons, he hit .286 with 50 homers and 226 stolen bases. His first stolen base in the majors had a big impact.
Bernard legged out an infield single after Sam Hilliard started the inning with a double off Chris Devenski (2-1). Bernard stole second, went to third on Charlie Blackmon’s RBI single and scored on a sacrifice fly.
“I want to do everything I can to help the team win,” Bernard said. “So in a big situation like that, to come through for the team, it was huge.”
Diambondbacks starter Zach Davies needed just five pitches to get through the first inning, and only had two baserunners — a walk and an error — through three innings. Colorado got to him in the fourth with a walk, an infield single and a two-run double by Elehuris Montero.
Serven tied it with his fifth home run of the season leading off the fifth, the last for Davies. He allowed three runs on three hits and struck out two in five innings.
Arizona had built a 3-0 lead with a run in the second and a double by Cooper Hummel that brought home two in the fourth. Rockies starter Antonio Senzatela didn’t give up another after that and left after allowing three runs on five hits in six innings.
“We scored some runs and we were ahead 3-0 and Zach was doing a really nice job,” manager Torey Lovullo said.
FLIGHT DELAY
The Diamondbacks had a mechanical issue on their charter plane on Thursday that delayed their departure from Arizona for seven hours. The team didn’t arrive in Denver until early Friday morning.
Lovullo said the travel issues weren’t a factor Friday night.
“I gave the boys the afternoon off and we stayed off the field,” he said. “We all knew what happened last night. We were talking about and we put it to bed you’re ready to go.”
LOVULLO OUT SATURDAY
Lovullo will be away from the team for Saturday night’s game to attend the memorial service for the wife of Arizona general manager Nick Hazen, Nicole Hazen, who passed away earlier this week from glioblastoma.
Bench coach Jeff Banister will serve as the interim manager.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Diamondbacks: RHP Kenyan Middleton (right ankle strain) threw 38 pitches in a live batting practice session on Friday. Middleton left Arizona’s July 25th game against San Francisco in the ninth inning and was placed on the 15-day injured list.
Rockies: Placed OF Yonathan Daza (left shoulder dislocation) and catcher Elias Díaz (left wrist sprain) on the 10-day injured list. Daza was injured making a diving catch of Nolan Arenado’s line drive in the first inning of Thursday’s game against St. Louis. Catcher Dom Núñez was recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque and RHP Jordan Sheffield was designated for assignment.
UP NEXT
The Diamondbacks will send RHP Zac Gallen (7-2, 3.12) to face Rockies RHP José Ureña (1-3, 4.63) on Saturday night in the second game of the three-game series.
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The founder and leader of Action Grace Chapel, Pastor Hammond Love has denied claims that his recent actions on social media are fueled by heartbreak.
Despite being divorced from his gospel singer ex-wife Obapaa Christy, Pastor Love has been accused of showing obsession and failing to get over his marriage which ended in 2019.
But speaking in an interview with Mama Radio, Pastor Love said he is immune to heartbreak and therefore cannot be tagged as suffering from one.
“Of all the areas in Kumasi, Bantama is the oldest and that is where I grew up. Over there one cannot suffer a broken heart because we do things on our own terms,”
“The name is Loverboy or Pastor Love. I’ve always had Loverboy inscribed at the back of all my cars. It doesn’t mean I chase after women but it means I appeal to women. I man who is the taste of all woman cannot be a victim of a broken heart because once you leave us someone is ready to have us,” he added. | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/entertainment/I-am-a-Bantama-loverboy-Pastor-Love-denies-suffering-heartbreak-1602350 | 2022-08-13T16:21:24Z | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/entertainment/I-am-a-Bantama-loverboy-Pastor-Love-denies-suffering-heartbreak-1602350 | true |
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An Australian tourist was arrested after he was caught riding his moped through the ancient ruins of Pompeii, Italy.
The ‘barbarian’, reportedly 33 years old, was detained by security after traveling about a mile around the world-famous archaeological park.
The tourist claimed he was unaware that he was not allowed to drive through the 2,000-year-old site, which was famously destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79.
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The park said in a statement: “The route followed is a dirt road outside the old city walls, used by all-terrain vehicles for excavation work.
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The episode lasted only “a few minutes thanks to the efficient work of guards and cameras,” who then detained him until police arrived.
The Australian man, who was called a ‘barbarian’ by Italian media, later apologized for the incident. Authorities believe he entered the site illegally through the service entrance, which is used by maintenance vehicles.
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Dressed in a hoodie and flanked by his wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, at a convention center in Erie, Fetterman discussed his stroke and threw jabs at his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, in front of an energized crowd his campaign said exceeded 1,300 people.
The lieutenant governor briefly paused in the middle of several sentences and sometimes repeated words. In an interview last month with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he said he was working with a speech therapist and insisted he had "nothing to hide" regarding his health.
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"Tonight, for me, it's about being grateful," he said.
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Fetterman's campaign chose Erie because its voters are notorious for being unpredictable and indicative of statewide margins. Donald Trump won Erie County in 2016 before it swung to Joe Biden four years later. The county was decided both years by fewer than 2,000 votes.
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"Fetterman has spent more time here as an elected official than anyone I can remember since he first ran for Senate in 2016," he added, referring to Fetterman's first campaign for a U.S. Senate seat.
Fetterman's campaign expressed enthusiasm after the event, with a spokeswoman, Emilia Rowland, telling ABC News she thought the lieutenant governor "sounded great" and that the campaign had hoped for a turnout of "500 at best."
Liz Allen, president of the Erie City Council, said she was "impressed."
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Povich (2-0), who the Orioles acquired from the Minnesota Twins in the trade of All-Star closer Jorge López earlier this month, allowed just three hits and two walks in six innings while striking out seven.
Reliever Jean Pinto pitched the final three innings, allowing a hit and walk while striking out two.
Aberdeen (64-41 overall, 21-18 second half) scored in five different innings and added multiple runs in four.
Billy Cook (3-for-5) led the way with a double, home run and two RBIs. Darell Hernaiz (two hits) tripled and drove in two, while Heston Kjerstad, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 draft, also tripled and drove in two.
Collin Burns added two hits, including a double and RBI, while Davis Tavarez (double) and TT Bowens each had an RBI. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/sports/cng-ag-sp-ironbirds-friday-0812-20220813-ayjfi5daxnf37la4folgci5efe-story.html | 2022-08-13T17:08:30Z | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/sports/cng-ag-sp-ironbirds-friday-0812-20220813-ayjfi5daxnf37la4folgci5efe-story.html | true |
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There was praise from Iran's strongly conservative press for the attack on world-renowned author Salman Rushdie, which has left him on a ventilator. Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah has denied any knowledge.
Iranian media marked the knifing of Salman Rushdie in rural New York as front page news 33 years after Iran's clerical leadership placed a fatwa on Rushdie's head
Iran's religious-leaning newspapers on Saturday heaped praise on the attacker who seriously wounded author Salman Rushdie a day earlier.
The 75-year-old writer, who was the subject of a 1989 Iranian death fatwa for perceived blasphemy in his novel "The Satanic Verses," was badly wounded in an attack on Friday.
While there has been no official reaction from Iran to the stabbing, the hardline Kayhan newspaper praised the assailant, a 24-year-old man from Fairvew, New Jersey who was charged Saturday with attempted murder and is being held without bond, prosecutors in Chautauqua County, New York said.
The paper, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, wrote that the suspect deserved "a thousand bravos."
Khamenei has himself refused to revoke the fatwa, or edict, against Rushdie and has been quoted as saying that the "arrow" shot by his predecessor who issued it will one day hit the target."
The Asr Iran news site on Saturday carried that quote, while, the Khorasan daily carried the headline: "Satan on the way to hell."
An official from Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah on Saturday said the group had no additional information on Rushdie's stabbing.
"We don't know anything about this subject so we will not comment,” the official told the Reuters news agency, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Rushdie was due to deliver a lecture on how the United States offers asylum for artists in exile when the stabbing took place at the Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles (88 kilometers) southwest of Buffalo in New York state.
A man ran to the stage as Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture, before attacking him and stabbing him repeatedly, witnesses said.
Audience members ran to the stage and took the suspect to the ground, before a trooper arrested him. A doctor in the audience administered medical care until emergency first responders arrived.
Rushdie still had a pulse and did not require cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after the attack but was being treated on a ventilator afterward.
There are fears that he could lose one eye. Rushdie also suffered from severed nerves in his arms, and from damage to his liver during the attack.
Rushdie spent years in hiding after Iran's late leader Grand Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or edict, that called for Rushdie's death.
Some Muslims considered his book, "The Satanic Verses," to be disrespectful of Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.
Questions have arisen over the level of security for the event, given the threats against Rushdie and the fact that he had bounty on his head.
Akbar Ahmed, chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, DC. He said, "There's no other reason this young man did what he did. He thought he was doing something on behalf of his culture and his faith." Ahmed added, "It's easy to understand where this is coming from, and that is why this is such a terrible and tragic event."
In a recent, yet-to-be-published interview with the German news magazine Stern, Rushdie said his life was now "relatively normal" having lived more openly in recent years.
Rushdie has received worldwide accolades for his work, including winning the Booker Prize in 1981 for his book Midnight's Children. As one of Britain's most esteemed authors, he was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature.
Rushdie was born into an Indian Muslim family and identifies as an atheist. He obtained US citizenship in 2016 and lives in New York City.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute.
They are badly outdated — deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck — and do not produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results are accurate.
What to do about them is another story.
The long-running drama includes previous allegations of bid-rigging, voting machine companies claiming favoritism and a secretary of state who is noncommittal about having a new system in place for the 2024 presidential election.
Local election clerks also worry about the influence of conspiracy theorists who have peddled unfounded claims about voting equipment and have been welcomed into the debate over new machines.
“It would be a travesty to let a minority of people who have little to no experience in election administration tear down an exceptional process that was painstakingly built over many, many years,” Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court Lynn Jones told state officials in a meeting this summer. “And for us to throw it out of the window because of unfounded theories is mind-boggling.”
The uncertainty is playing out against a backdrop of attacks on the integrity of elections, fueled by former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and promoted by a web of his allies and supporters. Some of those same supporters have been trying to convince election officials across the country that they should ditch machines in favor of paper ballots and hand-counts.
Whatever success they have had so far has been limited primarily to GOP-dominated rural counties. But in Louisiana, a heavily Republican state that Trump won by nearly 20 percentage points, they have managed to insert themselves into an already long-delayed process of choosing a new statewide voting system.
Louisiana officials have been trying for at least four years to replace their outdated touchscreen voting machines. Although some counties in four other states still use the machines, Louisiana is the only one where they are in place statewide — some 10,000 in all.
The machines’ main problem, aside from their age and the challenge of finding replacement parts, is that votes are recorded electronically without a paper record of each voter’s selections. That means if a result is in dispute, there are no individual paper ballots to review to ensure the outcome was accurate. Under a new state law, Louisiana’s next voting system must have a paper trail of ballots cast so election results can be properly audited.
“The problem in Louisiana is that if someone were to allege the voting machines had been hacked, there would be no conclusive evidence to rebut that,” said Mark Lindeman, director of Verified Voting, which tracks the use of voting equipment in the United States. “It leaves election officials to prove a negative.”
While election clerks agree the machines are antiquated and there is a need for a paper record, the equipment does not appear to have caused any major problems in recent years.
In 2018, the nation’s top homeland security and cybersecurity officials urged states to replace any remaining voting systems without a paper trail to improve security and increase public confidence. Congress allocated $805 million before the 2020 election to help states pay for security upgrades, including new equipment.
Louisiana officials, in a 2018 report to the federal agency disbursing the money, said they planned to use the state’s share to cover the costs of “a new electronic voting system” and noted the state had already begun the procurement process.
But that same year, the contract was voided amid allegations of bid-rigging. In 2021, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin shelved another replacement attempt after the process was challenged by voting machine companies that claimed favoritism for the state’s current vendor, Dominion Voting Systems.
Following the 2020 presidential election, Dominion was ensnared in a web of conspiracy theories pushed by Trump and his allies, claiming their voting machines were rigged to steal the election. The company has pushed back, filing defamation lawsuits against conservative media outlets and Trump allies, including MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
The false claims have taken root in conservative communities, where local officials have been pressured to stop using computer equipment for casting and counting ballots. Nearly two years after the last presidential election, no evidence of any widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines has surfaced, and courts have rejected dozens of court cases filed by Trump and his allies.
Last December, Phil Waldron — a retired Army colonel who circulated a PowerPoint presentation offering suggestions for how to overturn the 2020 election — was invited to speak to the commission tasked with recommending the new voting system for Louisiana. Waldron gave a 90-minute presentation focusing on counting paper ballots by hand, according to The Washington Post.
More recently, Lindell, one of the most prominent supporters of ditching election machines and counting every ballot by hand, traveled to Baton Rouge to testify before the same commission.
At a June meeting at the Capitol, Ardoin set aside rules limiting public testimony to three minutes per person so Lindell could address the commission at length. During his 17-minute address, Lindell detailed his national quest against “corrupted” voting systems and “stolen” elections.
“We lose everything if we keep even one machine moving forward,” Lindell told the commission. He went on to describe Louisiana as “the tip of the spear” in his efforts to end the use of voting machines across the country.
At the meeting, multiple clerks said they were opposed to what Lindell was advocating — having every voter fill out a paper ballot and having every ballot counted by hand, a process that would involve tens of thousands of ballots in the most populous counties.
“Don’t mistake not wanting to go back to a pen-and-paper as not wanting to have an auditable vote trail,” said David Ditch, the clerk of court for Iberia Parish. “Everybody — every political persuasion and everybody that comes into my office — says the same thing, ‘We love the way we vote now. We just wish we had something to prove it in the end.’”
The commission ultimately voted to recommend the use of either hand-marked or machine-marked ballots or a combination of the two, and for the state to keep electronic tabulators for counting ballots. Commissioners, including Adroin, voted in favor of machine-scanned vote tallies — not hand-counts.
The next move is Ardoin’s.
A Republican first elected in 2018, he has defended the state’s elections as secure even as he has handed a megaphone to some of the most prominent election conspiracy theorists.
In response to written questions, his office said Ardoin was “currently reviewing the commission’s recommendations and will work with his staff as those recommendations relate to the next steps in acquisition of a new voting system.”
When asked whether the goal was to have a new voting system in place before the 2024 presidential election, Ardoin’s office said it was “difficult at this time to say what the timetable will be” but that two years is “probably the closest estimate.”
At a gathering in July of the nation’s top state election officials, Ardoin raised the issue of hand-marked paper ballots while dismissing hand-counting as something that would “extend elections over years.”
His remarks prompted a fellow Republican, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, to tell the group that he had once served as an international observer in Russia and had seen hand-counting up close.
“If you’d like to have an orientation about how that goes, that is the easiest way to cheat that you can introduce to anybody,” Merrill told attendees. “I can assure you that’s not a direction that you want to go. The people that are promoting that are ignorant or ill-informed, period.” | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/conspiracies-complicate-voting-machine-debate-in-louisiana/ | 2022-08-13T17:16:00Z | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/conspiracies-complicate-voting-machine-debate-in-louisiana/ | false |
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The mayor of a southwestern Louisiana city and parish is back after a 21-day stint from an in-person rehab program where he was getting treatment for alcohol addiction and post traumatic stress disorder.
The Lafayette City Council and Parish Council were notified Friday morning via email from City-Parish Attorney Greg Logan that Mayor-President Josh Guillory was back in town. Friday’s announcement comes 18 days after the initial statement about his plan to seek treatment was issued, news outlets reported.
The mayor-president, who has been in office since January 2020, served in the military in Iraq, where he “fought on the front lines in active combat.” In a news release, Guillory said he had turned to alcohol to relieve stress at the end of the day and that had begun to interfere with interpersonal relationships, particularly with his family.
Jamie Angelle, Guillory’s deputy chief of staff and spokesperson, said Guillory is scheduled to return to his office on Monday. Angelle said Guillory would address the public during a news conference sometime next week.
During his time in rehab, questions were raised about who would be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Lafayette government. When Guillory left, the city said he would remain in authority over parish and city government. Through arrangements with the rehab facility, Guillory had access to a computer and internet service and was able to review and sign contracts, ordinances and other documents, the city said. Attorney General Jeff Landry was asked to weigh in on the matter but had not, as of yet, released an opinion. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Lafayette-Mayor-President-completes-21-day-rehab-17371606.php | 2022-08-13T17:20:19Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Lafayette-Mayor-President-completes-21-day-rehab-17371606.php | false |
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal regulators who want to enforce new vessel speed rules to help protect rare whales can expect some pushback from ship operators.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the new proposed rules, which are designed to protect the last remaining North Atlantic right whales, last month. The rules would expand seasonal slow zones off the East Coast, and require more vessels to comply with the rules.
The agency's National Marine Fisheries Service is holding a series of informational meetings on the new rules, including one scheduled for Aug. 16. Some shipping and maritime groups said they have concerns the rules could make their jobs more difficult or less safe.
The American Pilots' Association is concerned the new rules would make operations more hazardous for pilot boats, said Clayton Diamond, executive director of the group. Pilot boats transport maritime pilots to and from larger ships, often in bad weather and at carefully calculated speeds, Diamond said.
“We think that the NOAA/NMFS proposal to apply the speed restriction to pilot boats is unwise and unsafe,” Diamond said, adding that the group “strongly” supports protecting marine mammals.
The agency isn't commenting on industry concerns during the rulemaking process, said Allison Ferreira, a NOAA spokesperson.
“We take all comments into consideration in the development of final regulations,” Ferreira said.
Another group, the Chamber of Shipping of America, is also concerned that slowing down in bad weather could be dangerous for ships, said its president, Kathy Metcalf. Metcalf said the group “welcomes any new proposals as long as they are based on the best available facts.”
The whales number less than 340 and have been declining in population in recent years. They were once numerous off the East Coast, but were decimated during the commercial whaling era. More recently, warming oceans and changing availability of food have emerged as new challenges.
Two of the biggest threats the whales face are ship collisions and entanglement in fishing gear. Previous rule changes intended to aid the whales in recent years have focused heavily on the American lobster fishing industry.
NOAA is also taking written public comments on the proposed ship rules until Sept. 30. The final rule would follow the public comment process. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Some-ships-push-back-at-rules-requiring-slowdown-17371578.php | 2022-08-13T17:21:08Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Some-ships-push-back-at-rules-requiring-slowdown-17371578.php | false |
Oklahoma Tourist Center dedicates garden to Rosie the Riveters
It was a celebration of the women who came together when America needed them most.
It was a celebration of the women who came together when America needed them most.
It was a celebration of the women who came together when America needed them most.
The Oklahoma Tourist Center dedicated a garden to Rosie the Riveters.
It celebrated the women who came together when America needed them most.
In the 1940s, many men enlisted in the military, leaving a gaping hole in the industrial labor force. Rosie the Riveters played integral roles in filling those gaps.
"The job was shooting and bucking rivets," said Bertha Owen, Rosie the Riveter ’44.
Owen served in 1944 at the Douglas Airplant. Today, the Air and Space Forces Association honored her and countless others, keeping the spirit of ’45 alive at the garden dedication.
They recognized the achievements of the men and women who fought in World War II and joined the modern-day Rosie’s at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex.
"We have a significant amount of women that work at Tinker Air Force Base right now that are really fulfilling the legacy of what the Rosies did back in WWII," said Jeffrey James, AFA Gerrity 215 chapter president.
On Friday morning, Owen cut the ribbon to the garden. Right beside her were the women she inspired.
"Well, I think it's wonderful that it's still being taken care of, that women are still doing it," Owen said.
The garden is part of a nationwide program that honors Rosies everywhere. | https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-tourist-garden-rosie-riveters/40887830 | 2022-08-13T17:21:19Z | https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-tourist-garden-rosie-riveters/40887830 | true |
Man City earns 2nd win by thrashing Bournemouth 4-0 in EPL
MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Erling Haaland might not hog all of Manchester City´s goals this season, after all.
Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne and Phil Foden were City's scorers - along with an own-goal - in a 4-0 win over Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday, with Haaland barely getting a sight on goal at Etihad Stadium.
The Norway striker scored both of City´s goals in its opening-weekend 2-0 win at West Ham but was mostly crowded out a week later as Bournemouth sat deep with plenty of men behind the ball in a match that resembled an attack vs. defense training exercise.
City´s midfielders reaped the benefits of the extra focus on Haaland.
Gundogan´s goal did involve City´s new star striker, with Haaland holding off his marker with his back to goal and clipping a ball through to the Germany midfielder. Gundogan´s left-footed finish found the bottom corner in the 19th for his 50th goal for City.
De Bruyne scored the pick of the goals, the playmaker cutting inside on a counterattack led by Foden in the 31st, beating a defender and bending his shot with the outside of his right foot into the far corner.
Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Bournemouth at Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
De Bruyne returned the favor for Foden six minutes later, slipping a brilliant pass through the legs of a defender and into the path of his teammate, who took a touch and fired in a deflected shot that beat goalkeeper Mark Travers.
Haaland´s best chance fell in the 73rd when he mishit a first-time shot wide from Jack Grealish´s cut-back. The striker was substituted moments later.
The scoring was completed by Jefferson Lerma, who unwittingly turned a cross from Joao Cancelo into his own net from inside Bournemouth´s six-yard box.
It was a wake-up call for Bournemouth after the promoted team started the season with a surprisingly comfortable 2-0 win over Aston Villa last weekend.
City manager Pep Guardiola again chose to start with Bernardo Silva on the bench. The Portugal midfielder has been linked with a move to Barcelona and didn't start against West Ham, either.
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Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne, right, duels for the ball with Bournemouth's Marcus Tavernier during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Bournemouth at Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne, right, celebrates with Manchester City's Phil Foden after scoring his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Bournemouth at Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Manchester City's Erling Haaland reacts during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Bournemouth at Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Manchester City's Erling Haaland, left, and Manchester City's Julian Alvarez clapping their hands during the substitution during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Bournemouth at Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Manchester City's Ilkay Gundogan applauds to the fans after substitution during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Bournemouth at Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Manchester City's Ilkay Gundogan celebrates with teammates after scoring his side's opening goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Bournemouth at Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11108747/Man-City-earns-2nd-win-thrashing-Bournemouth-4-0-EPL.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-13T17:22:23Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11108747/Man-City-earns-2nd-win-thrashing-Bournemouth-4-0-EPL.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Newcastle United were indebted to goalkeeper Nick Pope after the Magpies came away with point following a goalless draw at the Amex.
Pope made impressive saves to keep out both Adam Lallana and Solly March in the second half on an afternoon where Kieran Trippier and Fabian Schar also made goalline clearances to frustrate Brighton.
Here are five things we learned from the 0-0 draw.
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Newcastle escape with a point
As impressive as Newcastle's opening day win against newly-promoted Nottingham Forest was, this was the real test. Brighton also got their season off to a winning start, defeating Manchester United at Old Trafford, and the Seagulls have long caused Newcastle problems at home in the Premier League. In fact, the Magpies had never previously won a top-flight fixture at the Amex.
It was Brighton's first home game of the campaign and this felt like a better gauge of where Newcastle were at against a side who finished above the black-and-whites in the table last season. As Callum Wilson put it, Newcastle's most dominant performance in years against Forest meant 'nothing' if Newcastle did not build on it at Brighton.
However, it was energetic Brighton who were the better side in stifling heat. As well as being indebted to goalkeeper Nick Pope for a string of important saves, Newcastle also had Kieran Trippier to thank for, somehow, clearing Solly March's effort off the line in the 33rd minute and Fabian Schar for doing likewise to keep out Joel Veltman's drive late on. Brighton had seven times as many shots on target as Newcastle's sole effort yet, somehow, the visitors escaped with a valuable point.
Nick Pope is man of the moment
Nick Pope amusingly found himself trending on Twitter on the eve of this game after Newcastle supporters hijacked a Burger King poll, but thousands of users were tweeting his name for an altogether different reason on Saturday afternoon. After enjoying a comfortable debut against Nottingham Forest on the opening day, Pope kept Newcastle in this game a week later.
Having made important saves to keep out Leandro Trossard and Adam Lallana in the first half, Pope produced a stunning stop after the break to deny Lallana once more from close range after the attacking midfielder got his head on the end of Solly March's cross. Pope later followed that save up with another superb stop to deny March from close range.
It was an afternoon where Pope really did prove his worth. As former Burnley team-mate Stephen Ward previously told ChronicleLive: "Popey saves the unsaveable".
Newcastle need more firepower
For all the modest possession Newcastle enjoyed at the Amex - it has been a long time since Newcastle even had 46% of the ball in this fixture - the Magpies lacked a cutting edge in the final third. Allan Saint-Maximin was booked for diving midway through the first half while Miguel Almiron curled a shot over the bar when he should have at least hit the target from a decent angle. Nothing was quite clicking up top. Even when Callum Wilson had the ball in the back of the net, the striker was penalised for a high boot.
The closest Newcastle ultimately came to scoring was when Dan Burn headed over from Kieran Trippier's corner midway through the second half when the former Brighton man should have at least forced Robert Sanchez into a save. In an effort to try and impact the game, Howe threw on Sean Longstaff, Jacob Murphy and Chris Wood, but Newcastle simply need more in the final third after failing to force Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez into a save of note.
Although Newcastle are fishing in a very small pool, a new addition in the final third is a must in the final 19 days of the window. Howe admitted ahead of this game that Newcastle were 'no closer' to doing just that but the head coach added that 'hopefully the next week or so might be different'.
Sven Botman assured on his full debut
Sven Botman got the briefest taste of life in the top-flight when he made his Premier League debut as a substitute deep in stoppage time on the opening day. On Saturday, the Dutchman experienced the real thing from that start ahead of schedule.
Eddie Howe initially planned to ease the new arrival in, starting the campaign with Dan Burn and Fabian Schar as his first-choice centre-back pairing, but the Newcastle boss always insisted Botman was 'ready' to play after an impressive pre-season. So when Matt Targett was ruled out of the game with a dead leg, Botman got his chance as Burn moved across to left-back, a position he played on a number of occasions for Brighton.
Such a reshuffle can disrupt a settled backline, but Botman was assured, making a crucial block in the early stages to deflect Leandro Trossard's effort behind. Burn, meanwhile, filled in expertly on his return to the Amex and made an important intervention to keep out Danny Welbeck's shot with a sliding challenge in the 68th minute.
A very different mood in the away end
The last time Newcastle played at the Amex, back in November, Graeme Jones was in interim charge; Ciaran Clark and Isaac Hayden were still starters; and Jacob Murphy and Matt Ritchie were playing as converted wing-backs. Clearly, a lot has changed in the 280 days since - in so many ways.
Eddie Howe had not even been appointed as the club's new head coach when he shook hands with Dan Ashworth, who was Brighton's technical director at the time, on the way to his seat that night not knowing that the pair would be colleagues one day. Signing players like Sven Botman felt a world away for relegation-threatened Newcastle then. Indeed, at one point the away end even chanted: 'We're f------ s---' that night. In contrast, nine months on, Newcastle supporters quipped: 'Dan Burn - he left 'cos you're s---!'
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Mexican border cities hit by burning vehicles, blockades
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Mexicali, Rosarito and Ensenada were hit by gang violence that included vehicles being set ablaze and road blockades.
The U.S. Consulate in Tijuana instructed its employees "to shelter in place until further notice" around midnight because of the violence.
It was the third time this week Mexican cities have seen widespread arson and shootings by drug cartels. The gangs appear to be targeting stores, vehicles and innocent bystanders in response to disputes or attempts to capture gang members.
Tijuana officials said vehicles had been burned at about 10 points around the city, and Mayor Montserrat Caballero blamed it on disputes between drug gangs.
Caballero issued a public appeal to "organized crime," the term used in Mexico for drug cartels, to stop the growing trend of targeting innocent civilians.
"Today we are saying to the organized crime groups that are committing these crimes, that Tijuana is going to remain open and take care of its citizens, and we also ask them to settle their debts with those who didn´t pay what they owe, not with families and hard-working citizens."
The extent of the violence was still unclear Saturday. Late Friday, the U.S. Consulate General in Tijuana said in a statement that it "is aware of reports of multiple vehicle fires, roadblocks, and heavy police activity in Tijuana, Mexicali, Rosarito, Ensenada, and Tecate."
The mayor's comment about remaining open was an apparent reference to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, where some classes and public events were cancelled after similar violence on Thursday.
Alleged gang members went on a shooting spree in Ciudad Juarez, killing nine people, including four employees of a radio station, after a fight between rival gangs at a local prison left two inmates dead.
On Tuesday, drug cartel gunmen burned vehicles and businesses in the western states of Jalisco and Guanajuato in response to an attempt to arrest a high-ranking cartel leader of the Jalisco cartel.
The area around Tijuana, which borders southern California, is a lucrative drug-trafficking corridor long dominated by the Arellano Felix cartel but which has since become a battle ground between various gangs, including the Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels.
Speaking about the Ciudad Juarez violence Thursday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said: "They attacked the civilian, innocent population like a sort of revenge. It wasn´t just a clash between two groups, but it got to the point where they began to shoot civilians, innocent people. That is the most unfortunate thing in this affair."
Four employees of the MegaRadio station who were broadcasting a live promotional event outside a pizza store in Ciudad Juarez were killed in the shootings.
Such random violence is not without precedent in Mexico.
In June of last year, a rival faction of the Gulf cartel entered the border city of Reynosa and killed 14 people the governor identified as "innocent citizens." The military responded and killed four suspected gunmen.
And cartels in Mexico frequently hijack vehicles and burn them to distract police or prevent them from pursuing gunmen. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11108883/Mexican-border-cities-hit-burning-vehicles-blockades.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-13T17:24:21Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11108883/Mexican-border-cities-hit-burning-vehicles-blockades.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Senate members want key posts filled at once in MKU
Key posts such as the Registrar, Controller of Examination and others in Madurai Kamaraj University should have full time officials and the concept of giving in-charge positions should not be encouraged on a long term basis, said members at the Senate meeting held in the university here on Friday.
The Vice-Chancellor J. Kumar chaired the meeting where Syndicate members Thangaraj, Nagarathinam and others participated.
Soon after the meeting commenced, many members expressed disappointment over the non-issuance of the agenda copy to them in advance. Some of them also raised their dissent over not being heard by the administration.
At one point, a senate member Velankanni Joseph said that they should be treated with dignity by the MKU administration. He said that many issues, which required discussion at the Senate meeting, were passed without hearing to the members.
This was unbecoming of the administration, they charged and went on complaining that the VC, who has an engineering background, should not head the university, which has arts and science colleges under its fold. However, Dr. Kumar intervened and said that the appointment had been made as per the UGC norms.
Another senate member Christiana Singh wanted permission to be granted to qualified faculty members in autonomous colleges for guideship like in other universities. She also urged to enhance the number of seats for courses, which had higher demand in the colleges.
Many members raised the issue of promotions not being given to assistant professors in government aided colleges since 2006. However, there was no response from the VC or the Syndicate members following which they demanded a proper answer and action without further delay.
The meeting passed important resolutions without debate and the members expressed their displeasure.
Media persons were also not given the agenda copy. The officials at the Public Relations Department in the university said that they were unaware and assured to take up the grievance with the VC.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — As officials in some parts of rural Nevada vow to bypass voting machines in favor of hand counting ballots this November, the Nevada secretary of state’s office is proposing statewide rules that would specify how to do it, including requiring bipartisan vote counters, room for observation and how many ballots to count at a time.
On Friday, four voting rights groups came out against the proposal, calling it an “admirable attempt to ensure higher standards” for counting votes by hand, but urging the secretary of state to prohibit the practice outright, noting that the push for hand-counting stems from “unfounded speculation” about voting machines.
“The regulations are not enough to address the underlying accuracy issues and remediate the legal deficiencies of hand count processes,” the groups Brennan Center, All Voting is Local, ACLU Nevada and Silver State Voices said in a statement Friday.
Both voting rights groups and hand-count proponents spoke at an online hearing Friday, the first meeting convened to discuss the regulations. Voting rights groups lobbied to prohibit hand-counts, while voting machine skeptics, a majority of the speakers, said the proposed regulations were a power grab meant to sabotage hand-counting.
The debate over how to regulate hand-counting comes after a push for the method in some conservative rural parts of the state where election misinformation has grown.
Mark Wlaschin, deputy secretary of state for elections in Nevada, said the regulations have been in the works for nearly a year and don’t come in direct response to events in Nye County, where the county clerk responsible for administering elections resigned last month after election conspiracies led to a successful push to hand-count votes. Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske is the lone elected statewide official who is a Republican.
Wlaschin said the rules would help counties that opt to switch to hand-counting systems, preventing clerks from having to draw up rules from scratch. They would also create a uniform structure so the state can ensure the counting is valid. If a county wants to switch to hand-counting, he said, “at least now it’s not going to fall on the clerk to (conduct) a year of research in developing a template of his or her own.”
Nye County is one of the first jurisdictions nationwide to act on election conspiracies related to mistrust in voting machines. Nevada’s least populous county, Esmeralda, used hand-counting to certify June’s primary results, when officials spent more than seven hours counting 317 ballots cast.
Proponents of hand-counting have described the old-fashioned method as a way to address distrust in elections, especially unproven claims that voting machines are prone to hacking and are untrustworthy. Experts say hand-counting is not only far more time consuming but opens the process to more errors.
At the center of the push is Mark Kampf, the new interim Nye County clerk who has repeated the lie that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. He wrote the framework of a new vote-counting plan that would transform elections in his rural county with the help of Jim Marchant, a Republican secretary of state candidate and leader of the “America First” coalition of candidates who deny the validity of the 2020 election results. At a February candidates forum, Marchant told a crowd “Your vote hasn’t counted for decades.”
In an interview during his first full day in office Monday, Kampf declined to discuss his belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, saying his views about that election are not relevant to his new job. Instead, he outlined his plan for paper ballots that are the exact same as current mail-in ballots, in-person signature verification and a camera livestream set up alongside poll watchers so others can see the voting process as well.
Alongside the hand-count will be a parallel tabulating process that uses the same machines currently used to count mail-in ballots.
Kampf said at that time that he agreed with some of the state’s proposed hand-counting rules, but on Friday he urged officials to scrap the regulations, parts of which he said create an “incredible undue burden.”
Kampf was among many who exceeded the two-minute limit, speaking for over 30 minutes. He said Nye County should be exempt from the regulations because of its plan for a parallel voting tabulation process.
Wlaschin asked if the parallel voting process would be phased out in favor of solely counting votes by hand.
Kampf, who was appointed as interim clerk and is on the ballot for a four-year term, answered: “Like in any system transition process, if it doesn’t work — and I fully anticipate that we can get it to work — and I hope we can prove to you and to those who are doubting and have significant doubts that it can work, that you’d make that decision at that point in time.”
Absent from the regulations is any enforcement if a county fails to follow the rules. Part of ensuring compliance falls on the secretary of state’s office, Wlaschin said, and part of that falls on the county clerks.
Nearly every other Nevada county plans to stick with machine counting.
Humboldt County Clerk Tami Rae Spero read the hand-count regulations and thought of what resources that would take in her rural county of about 17,000.
The teams of four and table spacing requirements would help a hand-count run smoothly, but she wondered where would she find the needed space and bipartisan personnel.
“Let’s just hope we don’t actually ever have to,” she said.
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Va. police: Over a dozen injured when car crashes into pub
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Authorities in northern Virginia say more than a dozen people were injured — four of them critically — after a vehicle crashed into a pub and restaurant. Arlington County officials said the crash happened early Friday evening at the Ireland’s Four Courts establishment. The crash also caused a fire that was soon extinguished. Authorities say eight people were taken to the hospital, while six others were treated at the scene. Details on the crash cause weren’t immediately provided. A police spokeswoman says the driver was among those taken to the hospital. The crash happened on a busy thoroughfare a few miles from the District of Columbia line. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/13/va-police-over-a-dozen-injured-when-car-crashes-into-pub/ | 2022-08-13T17:27:22Z | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/13/va-police-over-a-dozen-injured-when-car-crashes-into-pub/ | true |
CM inaugurates lake restoration, storm drain projects in Kolathur
Stalin asks officials to complete the work before onset of northeast monsoon
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Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurated projects worth ₹12.30 crore to restore Kolathur lake and to build stormwater drain network on Saturday. He inaugurated the completed projects worth ₹5.63 crore.
An official release said that Mr. Stalin inaugurated work on the 880m stormwater drain running from Jamaliya neighbourhood to Cooks Road in Kolathur constituency being constructed at a cost of ₹4.27 crore and a 260m stormwater drain in Thiru. Vi. Ka. Nagar zone for ₹3.10 crore. He inaugurated stormwater drain project worth ₹23.70 crore on Paper Mills Road in Thiru. Vi. Ka. Nagar zone. He urged the officials to complete the work before the onset of the monsoon.
He inaugurated a tennis court built at a cost of ₹60.32 lakh in a government primary school in Srinivasa Nagar and four operation theatres in upgraded government suburban hospital in Periyar Nagar at a cost of ₹2.75 crore and an RTPCR facility built at a cost of ₹1 crore.
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The water capacity in Kolathur lake will be increased and the banks of the lake stretching for 510m will be strengthened, a boundary wall for 120m will be built and 170m canal will be built along with a 400m walkway for the public will be built at a cost of ₹7.30 crore and a 240m long stormwater drain network will be built at a cost of ₹5 crore in Selvi Nagar, Mahathma Gandhi Nagar, Mahaveer Nagar and Kannagi Nagar, the release said.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister handed over book bags to 209 students of the Arulmigu Kapaleeswarar Arts and Science College.
He presented cheques worth ₹10,000 each to 450 students as fees from his personal funds.
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MILAN (AP) — The leader of Italy’s Democratic Party warned Saturday of the threats that Italy’s right-wing nationalistic parties pose to European democracy in a video released in multiple languages, and promised that his party would keep Italy at the center of the European Union if it wins the country’s early parliamentary election next month.
The video by Democratic Party leader Enrico Letta comes days after the leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, did a multilingual video of her own to dispute suggestions that her election as premier would endanger democracy in Italy and threaten the management of EU pandemic funds. Meloni, whose party controversially uses the symbol of a flame borrowed from a neo-fascist party, said in an Aug. 10 video that the Italian political right has “unambiguously” condemned the legacy of fascism.
At the moment, the center-left Democratic Party and the Brothers of Italy are the leading parties in opinion polls going into Italy’s Sept. 25 parliamentary election. Neither looks assured of having enough votes to govern alone.
While the right-wing has created a solid coalition, bringing together Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini’s right-wing League party and Silvio Berlusoni’s center-right Forza Italia party, the left has been foundering in this election campaign.
Letta’s deal with a would-be kingmaker fell apart within a day and his relationship with former Premier Matteo Renzi, who heads a tiny but potentially influential party, soured when Renzi maneuvered him out of the job of premier in 2014.
Letta underlined the danger to European solidity posed by vetoes and demands of unanimity posed by right-wing leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who he noted is “a friend and ally of the Italian right.” Orban has used these tools to “defeat sanctions against Russia and on migration issues,” Letta said.
Letta also said the right-wing had not supported the EU pandemic funds in the European Parliament, and that Italy’s right-wing had voted against a new treaty between France and Italy aimed to put the ties at the same level as the historic Franco-German relationship that has been the engine of post-war European peace and prosperity.
“Europe has always been part of our DNA, because we believe that cooperation between countries and finding common solutions is better than finding solutions that are only national or nationalistic,’’ Letta said.
Letta launched the video in French, Spanish and English on Italy’s Ferragosto weekend holiday, when most Italians are enjoying beach or mountain vacations to mark the Aug. 15 Feast of the Assumption. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/italys-letta-italian-right-wing-threatens-europe-democracy/ | 2022-08-13T17:43:05Z | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/italys-letta-italian-right-wing-threatens-europe-democracy/ | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Toobin, who rejoined CNN as a legal analyst after stepping away in the wake of exposing himself to colleagues in a Zoom call, said Friday that he was leaving the network after 20 years.
Toobin announced the move in a tweet, saying he was glad to spend his last day on the air with friends Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon.
“Love all my former colleagues,” he wrote.
Toobin was fired by The New Yorker magazine in 2020 after the news came out that he was spotted masturbating on a Zoom call with magazine employees. Toobin said he didn’t realize his camera was on, and apologized for the incident.
CNN brought him back on the air eight months after the incident took place.
Toobin had been with CNN since 2002 and is the author of several books, most recently “True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump,” published in August 2020. His 1996 book, “The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson,” was adapted into an FX series. | https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/two-years-after-zoom-incident-jeffrey-toobin-leaving-cnn/ | 2022-08-13T17:43:14Z | https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/two-years-after-zoom-incident-jeffrey-toobin-leaving-cnn/ | true |
CETINJE, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro declared three days of national mourning Saturday, a day after 10 people, including two children, were killed in a daylight attack by a 34-year-old gunman who police said had recently exhibited a “change in behavior.”
The attacker used a hunting rifle to first shoot to death two children, 8 and 11, and their mother, who lived as tenants in his house in the western city of Cetinje’s Medovina neighborhood. He then walked to the street and randomly shot 13 more people, seven of them fatally. The gunman was shot dead later after a gunbattle with police.
Police investigating the rampage issued a statement Saturday saying it was still unclear what motivated the gunman — identified only by his initials, V.B. But they said people close to the attacker said he had recently started exhibiting a “change in behavior but nothing that indicated he could commit such a crime.” The attacker had an appointment to see a mental health care specialist but went on the rampage prior to it.
The police statement also said the law enforcement officers sent to the scene came under fire from the attacker and responded by firing at him at least 20 times and seriously injuring him.
“It is still being investigated if he died as the result of the serious injury (by police) or as the result of being shot at by a local citizen,” the statement said.
The prosecutor coordinating the investigation, Andrijana Nastic, told journalists Friday that the gunman was killed by a passerby and that a police officer was among the wounded. She said nine of those killed died at the scene and two died at a hospital.
Witnesses of the attack were struggling Saturday to come to terms with the carnage. They described scenes of chaos and horror as the gunman unleashed his fury on innocent people just going about their daily business on a warm summer afternoon.
“You could hear women crying, people shouting in panic that a man has a weapon and is indiscriminately shooting around. I heard gunshots,” said witness Milena Stanojevic. “I’ve seen a lot of crying, tears and sadness and today, silence and disbelief.”
Cetinje, a city of 17,000 people and the seat of Montenegro’s former royal government, is 36 kilometers (22 miles) west of Podogrica, the current capital of the small Balkan nation.
Four of the wounded were transferred to the Clinical Center in Podgorica for surgery and were still in intensive care Saturday, according to its chief neurosurgeon, Dr. Ivan Terzic. Two others suffered less severe injuries and were recovering at a hospital in Cetinje. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/montenegro-mourns-after-10-are-killed-in-shooting-spree/ | 2022-08-13T17:43:18Z | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/montenegro-mourns-after-10-are-killed-in-shooting-spree/ | false |
Kevin De Bruyne stars as Manchester City crush Bournemouth
By PA Staff published
Kevin De Bruyne scored the pick of the goals as Premier League champions Manchester City crushed promoted Bournemouth 4-0.
City went ahead with 19 minutes gone when Erling Haaland, who had only five touches in the entire first half on his home debut, slid Ilkay Gundogan in to score, and De Bruyne extended their lead 12 minutes later with a stunning finish.
The Belgium international turned provider eight minutes before the break when he played in Phil Foden to all but put the game beyond the Cherries.
😝😉☝🏼 pic.twitter.com/zZbKK7SBIG— Kevin De Bruyne (@KevinDeBruyne) August 13, 2022
City eased through the second half, during which Jefferson Lerma’s 79th-minute own goal extended their lead as they cruised to victory.
Former City frontman Gabriel Jesus endeared himself to Arsenal’s fans with a double in a 4-2 win over Leicester.
Summer signing Jesus needed just 23 minutes to mark his home debut with a goal when he curled a shot over goalkeeper Danny Ward, and he doubled his tally nine minutes before the break when he headed home after Jamie Vardy could only help on Gabriel Martinelli’s corner.
Ward denied the Brazilian a hat-trick seconds later, but the Foxes’ fortunes failed to improve with half-time fast approaching when referee Darren England awarded a penalty for Aaron Ramsdale’s challenge on Vardy, only to change his mind after being advised to review his decision.
Two games. Two wins.— Arsenal (@Arsenal) August 13, 2022
William Saliba’s 53rd-minute own goal briefly gave Leicester hope, but Granit Xhaka restored the Gunners’ advantage within two minutes when Ward collided with team-mate Wesley Fofana as he attempted to collect a cross and dropped the ball at the midfielder’s feet.
James Maddison’s drilled 74th-minute strike again brought City back into it, but Martinelli made it 4-2 within seconds.
Kyle Walker-Peters snatched a point for Southampton as they came from behind to draw 2-2 with Leeds.
The visitors got their noses in front a minute into the second half when Rodrigo tapped home Jack Harrison’s cross, and he made it 2-0 on the hour when he stabbed Pascal Struijk’s header across the line.
Outstanding finish, @KWPeters 🙌 pic.twitter.com/dPg5PpGGbb— Southampton FC (@SouthamptonFC) August 13, 2022
Saints’ substitute Joe Aribo reduced the deficit within three minutes of his introduction and Walker-Peters levelled with nine minutes remaining.
Substitute Emiliano Buendia proved to be Aston Villa’s match-winner as Steven Gerrard got the better of former England team-mate Frank Lampard.
Buendia’s strike five minutes from time handed Villa a 2-0 lead over Everton after Danny Ings had opened the scoring and, although the visitors pulled one back courtesy of Lucas Digne’s own goal, a late blitz failed to yield an equaliser.
Aleksandar Mitrovic passed up a golden opportunity to fire promoted Fulham to victory at Wolves when he saw his second-half penalty saved by Jose Sa.
Mitrovic, who was later involved in an angry bust-up with Morgan Gibbs-White, was handed his chance with nine minutes remaining after Bobby Decordova-Reid had been brought down by Rayan Ait-Nouri, but Sa saved the Serbia international’s spot-kick with his legs to earn his side a 0-0 draw.
Pascal Gross was similarly wasteful as Brighton’s home clash with Newcastle ended in stalemate.
The German miskicked in his attempt to convert Kaoru Mitoma’s 85th-minute cross to let the Magpies off the hook.
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Seven-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi was omitted from the 30-man list of nominees for the prestigious award on Friday for the first time since 2005.
The Argentina great edged out Poland striker Robert Lewandowski for the Ballon d’Or last year but wasn’t nominated this time after an underwhelming first season at Paris Saint-Germain.
The 35-year-old forward also won the prize in 2019 — it was not held in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Neymar also missed the cut this time.
Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappé, Karim Benzema, Erling Haaland and five-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo were all included, as were Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mané, Kevin De Bruyne, Harry Kane and Son Heung-min.
The list features six Manchester City players: Phil Foden, Joao Cancelo, De Bruyne, Riyad Mahrez, Bernardo Silva, and new signing Haaland (formerly Borussia Dortmund).
Liverpool also has six nominees: Trent Alexander-Arnold, Luis Diaz, Fabinho, Darwin Nunez, Salah and Virgil van Dijk.
Mané, who helped Senegal win its first African Cup before leaving Liverpool for Bayern Munich, is included, as is Bayern teammate Joshua Kimmich.
Benzema leads a group of six Real Madrid players. The others are Casemiro, Thibaut Courtois, Luka Modric, Vinicius Junior and new signing Antonio Rudiger.
The other nominated players are Sébastien Haller (Ajax), Rafael Leao and Mike Maignan (both of AC Milan), Christopher Nkunku (Leipzig), and Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus).
The award will be presented on Oct. 17.
Among changes announced in March, the award is now being awarded based on performances over the course of a regular European season, rather than a calendar year. A reduction in the number of voters was among other changes, with the goal of streamlining the process. Voters also will no longer consider a player’s career accomplishments.
France Football magazine has given out the award to men every year since 1956 and to women each year since 2018, though both were canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic.
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“The CAT is back. Le CAT est de retour.” The bilingual marketing for the high-speed ferry is unavoidable as I plot my 10-day trip to Nova Scotia. But why is it called the CAT? Cats hate water, don’t they?
The CAT’s high speed means that the 98 nautical-mile passage from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth takes only 3½ hours, crossing the Gulf of Maine, one of four distinct bodies of water that surround the Canadian maritime province. The others are the Bay of Fundy, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and, of course, the Atlantic Ocean. With a resulting 10,000 miles of coastline, Nova Scotia is billed as “Canada’s Ocean Playground,” and no place in the province is more than 50 miles from the coast. My intention is to test the waters.
Will they be healing waters? Given the war in Ukraine and other despondency-inducing current events, I feel a bit like the narrator Ishmael in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” To escape the “November in my soul,” he seeks “the watery part of the world.” I’ve always found solace in swimming and boating, indeed all aquatic pursuits, and the waters don’t have to be warm (as they surely aren’t in Nova Scotia) to be therapeutic.
The CAT arrives in Yarmouth shortly before 6 p.m. Actually, it’s 7 p.m., I belatedly realize. We’ve lost an hour traveling from the Eastern to the Atlantic time zone. The place I’ve booked for the night is a couple of hours away, along what’s called the Yarmouth-to-Halifax “Lighthouse Route.” The rental cottage is not coastal but lakeside; in Nova Scotia even the land’s interior boasts bodies of water. There are over 6,000 lakes with surface areas greater than 2.5 acres, according to the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Climate Change.
The often-memorable names for Nova Scotia’s bodies of water reflect the land’s settlement history: From the First Nation Mi’kmaq word Kejimkujik (meaning “tired muscles from canoeing”) to the French Barachois (coastal lagoon) to the Scottish Loch.
Most of the lakes are glacial in origin. As recently as 15,000 years ago, the land that the British would christen with the Latin equivalent of “New Scotland” lay under ice up to a mile thick. The now-liquid lake over which our cottage is perched lies in the wonderfully named Whynotts Settlement, just outside the old port town of Lunenburg. Established in 1753 by Britain to assert control over land claimed by both Indigenous people and the French known as Acadians, Lunenburg has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for retaining the original layout and appearance of its British colonial settlement.
After a good night’s rest on the soothing shores of the small lake, my wife, Pat, and 25-year-old son Thomas (visiting from Hawaii) want to see the 1800s vernacular architecture for which the Lunenburg waterfront is famous. The picturesque fishing village of Blue Rocks, less than four miles seaward, also beckons. Then we head further up the coast toward Halifax, where another fishing village, Peggy’s Cove, is so picturesque that it’s typically clogged with tourists.
Just a few miles farther, but far from the crowds, we reach the secluded waterfront cottage that we have booked for a full week — our lily pad from which to make exploratory hops. The water here is known as the Northern Arm, a jagged inlet off the Atlantic Ocean. The cottage has a dock for boating and swimming, which floats up and down with the incoming and outgoing tides. To paddle around, we rent a canoe. At the property’s entrance is Black Duck Run, which feeds into the Northern Arm. But at high tide, the creek flows upstream, as if backward, and broadens into a brackish pond.
The tide differential averages 3 to 4 feet, and the water is chilly, somewhere in the 60s. But I find it slightly less chilly if I take a dip as the tide goes out. Still, I stay in the water only a few minutes, just long enough to swim to a rock outcropping revealed at low tide. Later in the day, as the rock becomes even more exposed, it serves as a favorite perch for a loon.
For Thomas, who is a big-wave surfer on Oahu’s North Shore, the water is never too cold as long as he’s surfing. So he takes the car and heads for a surfboard rental place on Lawrenceville Beach, a few miles northeast of Halifax. Afterward, he reports that the waves are just “okay” (compared with Hawaii), but still interesting and fun: A beach not of sand but of pebbles and cobbles, framed by pines instead of palms.
For Pat and me, our exhilarating waterborne adventure will be rafting the Bay of Fundy’s tidal bore as it roars up the rivers feeding the bay. Thomas will join us, of course, anticipating an adrenaline rush similar to surfing. We make reservations for a two-hour tour the next day on the Shubenacadie River, on the opposite, northern side of Nova Scotia from our cottage, but only about an hour’s drive away.
Boarding the inflatable raft, equipped with a powerful outboard motor, is timed to the low tide that afternoon. It’s so low that the riverbank is a mud flat, and we slip and slide our way to the water. Our raft is one of three, with each holding a maximum of eight people, plus a guide manning the outboard. As we motor downriver, two bald eagles soar above us.
The Bay of Fundy, known for the world’s most extreme tide fluctuations, is shaped like a long funnel. As the incoming tide is forced into the bay’s ever narrower, shallower upper reaches, it collides with and reverses the river currents running downstream. The result is a huge cresting wave called a tidal bore — from the old Norse word “bara,” meaning “first wave.”
The guide at the raft’s helm expertly heads into the wave’s face, then zooms back and forth, creating the sensation of riding a very bumpy roller coaster. Everyone gets splashed, even soaking wet; some scream with delight; no one falls overboard, though that often happens (why life jackets are required). The standing waves are equivalent to a class-three-or-four white-water rapid.
Sharing our raft are giddy members of a bachelor party joking with the groom while firmly clasping the bouncing boat’s safety lines. Pat, speaking from experience, joins the banter: “Marriage is like riding the tidal bore, up and down and wildly unpredictable.” At trip’s conclusion, shivering, we’re offered outdoor showers to wash off the mud before changing into dry clothes. Hot water spraying from the shower head has never felt so good.
Thrills can best be savored in retrospect, so the next couple of days at our waterfront cottage seem especially restful and reflective. Relaxing in an Adirondack chair overlooking the dock, I can’t help but hear Otis Redding playing in my mind: Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun/I’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ comes…. I also reflect upon the notion of Lebenskunst (“the art of living well”), since the cottage owners are Swiss German.
The water here is never the same. When the prevailing southwesterly winds align with the rising tide, the surface texture ripples, no longer smooth. There’s even an occasional whitecap. And the blue water always changes its hue, gradually, then suddenly, depending on the color of the sky and angle of light. When fog slides in from the sea, the rocky shoreline’s sharp shapes soften, as if covered by a wedding veil.
To stretch our legs, we hike the trails at nearby Polly’s Cove (adjacent to Peggy’s Cove). Where land and sea meet is always striking, but the rugged beauty here can make other coastlines seem ho-hum. Narrow but well-worn paths weave through a landscape of heath and coastal barrens, a colorful carpet of wildflowers and evergreens made into dwarf-like shrubs by constant exposure to salt spray and wind. We maneuver around (sometimes over) huge boulders — what geologists call “erratics,” deposited by retreating glaciers — interspersed with freshwater bogs and fens. At the trail’s terminus are towering cliffs from which we look down at ocean swells crashing against the rocky shoreline.
Though we feel like we never want to leave our waterfront cottage here near Polly’s Cove, other waters beckon — in particular, the Bras d’Or Lake at the very tip of Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island. There, the pristine water’s shores so enchanted the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, reminding him of his native Scotland, that he built a grand summer home and research facility, which he used to test man-carrying kites and hydrofoil boats.
Though called a lake, it is actually an estuary with two narrow entrances to the Gulf of St. Lawrence as it meets the North Atlantic. A canal at the lake’s southern end, built in the 1860s for shipping traffic, also connects to the sea. In 2011, UNESCO designated Bras d’Or a Biosphere Reserve.
Today, the lake is a well-known destination for sailing enthusiasts, so we charter a 42-foot catamaran for a few hours on the water. The captain, who grew up here and custom-designed the boat himself, says to think of the 424-square-mile lake as “an inland saltwater sea.” Because of its protected nature and shallow depths, he’s been told that the summer waters are counterintuitively “the warmest north of the Carolinas.”
I want to test the proposition by jumping in the lake. Instead, Pat, Thomas and I join the captain for drinks on his boat’s dock in the village of Baddeck, where the eponymous river joins Bras d’Or. Several drinks, for it happens to be my birthday. From him, I learn more about the waters of Nova Scotia, so much more that I’d have to write a longer story. Or better, come back soon to Nova Scotia.
Nicklin is a writer based in Maine and Virginia. Find him on Twitter: @RoadTripRedux.
If You Go
What to eat
Shaw’s Landing
6958 Prospect Rd., West Dover
902-823-1843
Located in a charming fishing village near Peggy’s Cove, with a casual oceanfront atmosphere, Shaw’s logo boasts “Beer and Lobster. Enough Said.” But its extensive menu offers much more, including seafood chowder, Digby scallops, calamari, fish cakes, pickled herring and pan-seared haddock. Open daily noon to 7 p.m. Entrees from about $8.
The Freight Shed Waterside Bistro & Market
2 Jones St., Baddeck
902-295-1389 ·
Located on the wharf on the shores of the Bras d’Or Lake, the restaurant is a favorite for visitors and natives alike. The menu offers everything from seafood linguine, smoked salmon bagels, crab cakes, seared fresh haddock and steamed mussels to gourmet grilled-cheese and burgers. Open daily 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Entrees from about $13.
What to do
Tidal Bore Rafting Resort
12215 NS-215, Urbania
902-400-0104
One of a number of outfitters offering tidal bore rafting adventures around the Bay of Fundy. 2.5-hour tours from about $54 per person 12 and over, about $49 per child ages 6 to 11, ; 4-hour tours about $73 per person 12 and over and about $67 per child ages 6 to 11. Reduced rates for groups of eight or more. Open May to October. Book online to choose extreme, high, or regular tides. Includes flotation gear and post-tour hot showers. Also available are lodging options and venues for special events.
East Coast Outfitters
2017 Lower Prospect Rd., Lower Prospect
902-852-2567
Outdoor resource center features half-day, full-day and sunset sea kayak lessons and guided tours. Individual equipment rentals are available for experienced paddlers. Rental rates for single kayaks range from about $31 for 2 hours to about $62 for full day; double kayak, about $39 to $76 and canoes from about $23 to $70. Canoes may be taken off-site. Stand-up paddleboards also available, from about $27 to $58.
East Coast Surf School
4348 Lawrencetown Rd., East Lawrencetown
902-449-9488
This surf school is located just steps away from the waves at Lawrencetown Beach. Open daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Daily lessons by ISA certified instructors are available; surfboard and wet suit rentals included. Group surf lessons from about $58 per person, beginner lessons from about $66 per person, private lessons from about $82 per person. Surfboard and wet suit rentals about $19 per day.
Sailing CBI (Cape Breton Island)
2 Jones St., Baddeck
902-567-1492
The sailing charter is a 42-foot catamaran called Cape Bretoner 1, docked at the Baddeck Community Wharf. Overnight, single and multiday charters available; two-hour evening charter from about $385 for a private group charter of up to 6 people, with $35 per additional guest to a maximum of 12. Cottage rentals are also offered. Available June to October.
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(NEXSTAR) – We’re in for a busy storm season, according to the latest forecast by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In fact, meteorologists predict up to 20 named storms between now and the end of November.
Even though those storms have yet to form, we already know what they’ll be called if and when they do materialize.
The World Meteorological Organization already decided on a list of 21 names. When a tropical storm strengthens to wind speeds of 39 mph or higher, it gets a name from the list, starting in alphabetical order.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet but only 21 names chosen, seeing as the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are all left off because they aren’t common enough to be easily understood in local languages spoken in North America, Central America and the Caribbean (areas all affected by hurricanes).
We’ve already seen three named storms this season: Alex, Bonnie and Colin. The next three named storms would be Danielle, Earl and Fiona.
If a tropical storm strengthens into a hurricane (winds stronger than 74 mph), it keeps the same name.
In the event that this year’s hurricane season exceeds expectations and produces more than 21 named storms, additional names will be pulled from a backup list agreed upon by the World Meteorological Organization. The WMO used to use Greek letters after the primary list was exhausted, but said it caused too much confusion and abandoned the system in 2021.
The list of names cycles through and repeats every six years. Storms deemed particularly destructive have their names retired from the list of possibilities and replaced by another name starting with the same letter. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/2022-hurricane-names-are-set-heres-what-theyll-be/ | 2022-08-13T17:53:38Z | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/2022-hurricane-names-are-set-heres-what-theyll-be/ | false |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute.
They are badly outdated — deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck — and do not produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results are accurate.
What to do about them is another story.
The long-running drama includes previous allegations of bid-rigging, voting machine companies claiming favoritism and a secretary of state who is noncommittal about having a new system in place for the 2024 presidential election.
Local election clerks also worry about the influence of conspiracy theorists who have peddled unfounded claims about voting equipment and have been welcomed into the debate over new machines.
“It would be a travesty to let a minority of people who have little to no experience in election administration tear down an exceptional process that was painstakingly built over many, many years,” Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court Lynn Jones told state officials in a meeting this summer. “And for us to throw it out of the window because of unfounded theories is mind-boggling.”
The uncertainty is playing out against a backdrop of attacks on the integrity of elections, fueled by former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and promoted by a web of his allies and supporters. Some of those same supporters have been trying to convince election officials across the country that they should ditch machines in favor of paper ballots and hand-counts.
Whatever success they have had so far has been limited primarily to GOP-dominated rural counties. But in Louisiana, a heavily Republican state that Trump won by nearly 20 percentage points, they have managed to insert themselves into an already long-delayed process of choosing a new statewide voting system.
Louisiana officials have been trying for at least four years to replace their outdated touchscreen voting machines. Although some counties in four other states still use the machines, Louisiana is the only one where they are in place statewide — some 10,000 in all.
The machines’ main problem, aside from their age and the challenge of finding replacement parts, is that votes are recorded electronically without a paper record of each voter’s selections. That means if a result is in dispute, there are no individual paper ballots to review to ensure the outcome was accurate. Under a new state law, Louisiana’s next voting system must have a paper trail of ballots cast so election results can be properly audited.
“The problem in Louisiana is that if someone were to allege the voting machines had been hacked, there would be no conclusive evidence to rebut that,” said Mark Lindeman, director of Verified Voting, which tracks the use of voting equipment in the United States. “It leaves election officials to prove a negative.”
While election clerks agree the machines are antiquated and there is a need for a paper record, the equipment does not appear to have caused any major problems in recent years.
In 2018, the nation’s top homeland security and cybersecurity officials urged states to replace any remaining voting systems without a paper trail to improve security and increase public confidence. Congress allocated $805 million before the 2020 election to help states pay for security upgrades, including new equipment.
Louisiana officials, in a 2018 report to the federal agency disbursing the money, said they planned to use the state’s share to cover the costs of “a new electronic voting system” and noted the state had already begun the procurement process.
But that same year, the contract was voided amid allegations of bid-rigging. In 2021, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin shelved another replacement attempt after the process was challenged by voting machine companies that claimed favoritism for the state’s current vendor, Dominion Voting Systems.
Following the 2020 presidential election, Dominion was ensnared in a web of conspiracy theories pushed by Trump and his allies, claiming their voting machines were rigged to steal the election. The company has pushed back, filing defamation lawsuits against conservative media outlets and Trump allies, including MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
The false claims have taken root in conservative communities, where local officials have been pressured to stop using computer equipment for casting and counting ballots. Nearly two years after the last presidential election, no evidence of any widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines has surfaced, and courts have rejected dozens of court cases filed by Trump and his allies.
Last December, Phil Waldron — a retired Army colonel who circulated a PowerPoint presentation offering suggestions for how to overturn the 2020 election — was invited to speak to the commission tasked with recommending the new voting system for Louisiana. Waldron gave a 90-minute presentation focusing on counting paper ballots by hand, according to The Washington Post.
More recently, Lindell, one of the most prominent supporters of ditching election machines and counting every ballot by hand, traveled to Baton Rouge to testify before the same commission.
At a June meeting at the Capitol, Ardoin set aside rules limiting public testimony to three minutes per person so Lindell could address the commission at length. During his 17-minute address, Lindell detailed his national quest against “corrupted” voting systems and “stolen” elections.
“We lose everything if we keep even one machine moving forward,” Lindell told the commission. He went on to describe Louisiana as “the tip of the spear” in his efforts to end the use of voting machines across the country.
At the meeting, multiple clerks said they were opposed to what Lindell was advocating — having every voter fill out a paper ballot and having every ballot counted by hand, a process that would involve tens of thousands of ballots in the most populous counties.
“Don’t mistake not wanting to go back to a pen-and-paper as not wanting to have an auditable vote trail,” said David Ditch, the clerk of court for Iberia Parish. “Everybody — every political persuasion and everybody that comes into my office — says the same thing, ‘We love the way we vote now. We just wish we had something to prove it in the end.’”
The commission ultimately voted to recommend the use of either hand-marked or machine-marked ballots or a combination of the two, and for the state to keep electronic tabulators for counting ballots. Commissioners, including Adroin, voted in favor of machine-scanned vote tallies — not hand-counts.
The next move is Ardoin’s.
A Republican first elected in 2018, he has defended the state’s elections as secure even as he has handed a megaphone to some of the most prominent election conspiracy theorists.
In response to written questions, his office said Ardoin was “currently reviewing the commission’s recommendations and will work with his staff as those recommendations relate to the next steps in acquisition of a new voting system.”
When asked whether the goal was to have a new voting system in place before the 2024 presidential election, Ardoin’s office said it was “difficult at this time to say what the timetable will be” but that two years is “probably the closest estimate.”
At a gathering in July of the nation’s top state election officials, Ardoin raised the issue of hand-marked paper ballots while dismissing hand-counting as something that would “extend elections over years.”
His remarks prompted a fellow Republican, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, to tell the group that he had once served as an international observer in Russia and had seen hand-counting up close.
“If you’d like to have an orientation about how that goes, that is the easiest way to cheat that you can introduce to anybody,” Merrill told attendees. “I can assure you that’s not a direction that you want to go. The people that are promoting that are ignorant or ill-informed, period.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/conspiracies-complicate-voting-machine-debate-in-louisiana/ | 2022-08-13T17:58:50Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/conspiracies-complicate-voting-machine-debate-in-louisiana/ | true |
(KTLA) — Single heterosexual men are having a hard time on the dating scene.
According to a study by Psychology Today, “younger and middle-aged men are the loneliest they’ve ever been in generations, and it’s probably going to get worse,” and it’s due to a variety of reasons.
Men now make up 62% of dating app users, which reduces their chances of making a match. This means women have plenty of men to choose from, so they’re more likely to ghost someone.
Another reason is healthy relationship standards have changed. The study says women are looking for someone who is emotionally available, a good communicator, and shares similar values.
The third reason is that men need to address a “skills deficit.”
The study claims many young men are not being taught early on how to treat women correctly.
“The problem for men is that emotional connection is the lifeblood of healthy, long-term love,” the study said.
However, all hope is not lost.
While algorithms on dating apps and websites are becoming increasingly more complex, it could lead to greater matches. The study found that the dating app Hinge found that 90% of users rated their first date positively, with 72% indicating wanting a second date through the app’s beta trials.
The author of the study advised that men who are having issues in the dating world should go to therapy to address the “skills gap” in order to connect with a future partner. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/single-men-are-the-loneliest-theyve-been-in-generations-study-says/ | 2022-08-13T18:14:35Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/single-men-are-the-loneliest-theyve-been-in-generations-study-says/ | false |
LAS VEGAS — The most “restless” summer monsoon season in a decade became deadly Thursday, as intense lightning and thunderstorms flooded parts of southern Nevada and a leaky ceiling forced table games to stop at one Las Vegas Strip casino.
A man's body was found Friday by public works crews and firefighters removing debris from a flood channel near the Las Vegas Boulevard resort area where a person died about midnight despite being pulled by firefighters from floodwaters, Deputy Clark County Fire Chief Billy Samuels said. The Clark County coroner did not immediately report the identities or causes of death in either case.
Water also flowed through a parking structure flood channel near The Linq hotel and High Roller observation wheel, and social media posts showed water leaking from the ceiling onto gambling tables at the Planet Hollywood resort.
No other injuries were reported. Officials with Caesars Entertainment Inc., owner of both properties, did not immediately respond to messages about damage.
The overnight storm was similar to another that swept through Las Vegas two weeks earlier, late July 28.
Friday dawned to clear skies, but the National Weather Service reported thunderstorms by afternoon north and east of the Las Vegas Valley. It said heavy downpours, frequent lightning and gusty winds would be possible with any storms
A flash flood watch was in effect through the day for southern Nevada and neighboring counties: Mohave in northwest Arizona and San Bernardino in California.
Meteorologist Brian Planz said about 1.25 inches (3.2 centimeters) of rain fell overnight in some areas west of the Las Vegas Strip and near the city of Kingman in northwest Arizona.
One gauge in Arizona’s Hualapai Mountains logged almost 2.5 inches (6.3 centimeters) of rain on Thursday, Planz said, and some Mohave County desert roads prone to flash flooding became impassible because of running water.
Social media video showed water above hubcaps of cars in some Las Vegas intersections and washing into the doorway stairs of a bus plowing through flooding.
Winds were not a widespread factor late Thursday, but the weather service recorded a gust of 64 mph (103 kph) at North Las Vegas Airport. No damage was reported.
Planz said 0.58 inch (1.47 centimeters) of rain was recorded at the official measuring spot at Harry Reid International Airport, bringing the total to 1.28 inches (3.25 centimeters) during the June 15 to Sept. 30 monsoon season.
“That makes this the wettest monsoon season in ten years,” the weather service said over a Tweet chart labeled “Restless 2022 Monsoon.” It tallied 3.63 inches (9.2 centimeters) of summer rain in the region in 2012, but only a trace in 2020.
The Las Vegas area usually receives about 4.2 inches (10.7 centimeters) of rain per year.
Planz said forecasts call for more storms through next week, fueled by warm air and moisture drawn north from the Gulf of California.
“There’s really no sign of the monsoon letting up anytime soon, so we’re going to continue to see the chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms each afternoon and evening,” Planz said. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/las-vegas-flooding/507-ca847b48-9abc-44be-a0ee-07109edc011b | 2022-08-13T18:17:47Z | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/las-vegas-flooding/507-ca847b48-9abc-44be-a0ee-07109edc011b | false |
AUSTIN, Texas — The family of a Texas soldier who was sexually harassed and killed at a military base near Killeen in 2020 filed a lawsuit Friday seeking $35 million in damages from the U.S. government.
The lawsuit says 20-year-old Vanessa Guillen was the victim of sexual harassment, abuse, assault, rape, sodomy and wrongful death.
An investigation by military officials into the death of Guillen, who was killed by a fellow soldier at U.S. Army base Fort Hood, found that she was also sexually harassed and that leaders failed to take appropriate action.
The lawsuit describes two instances in which Guillen was harassed during her time as a soldier and Guillen's suicidal thoughts as a result of coping with the harassment, which she told family that she did not report for fear of retaliation.
“This will be an opportunity for every victim to feel not only like they have a voice but that they can be made whole,” said Natalie Khawam, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Guillen family.
Guillen's sister, Mayra, tweeted about the lawsuit Friday evening saying that her family's fight for justice was not over.
"The nightmare is still persistent today but a promise is a promise," Mayra wrote.
The lawsuit follows a decision Thursday by a three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stating that an Army colonel could proceed with a lawsuit against a former Air Force General over a sexual assault allegation. The court found that a law baring service members from seeking damages over injuries during service did not apply.
Guillen was declared missing in April 2020. Her remains were found that July, when the soldier accused of killing Guillen died by suicide following a confrontation with officers. A civilian faced charges for allegedly helping Spc. Aaron Robinson dispose of Guillen’s remains.
Guillen's death and claims by her family that she was harassed and assaulted at the Texas base sparked a social media movement of former and active service members who came forward about their own experiences in the military with the hashtag #IAmVaessaGuillen. State and federal lawmakers have since passed legislation in honor of Guillen that removed some authority from commanders and gave survivors more options to report. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/national/military-news/vanessa-guillen-35-million-dollar-lawsuit/285-b871997f-cb9e-43cf-adc1-f2071e95f070 | 2022-08-13T18:18:05Z | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/national/military-news/vanessa-guillen-35-million-dollar-lawsuit/285-b871997f-cb9e-43cf-adc1-f2071e95f070 | false |
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Angela Chevaux and her husband have made a good living in York, Pa. She's an insurance claims supervisor and he's in construction. But still, a recent inheritance from her father-in-law has been life-changing. He left them a retirement account, a life insurance policy, an annuity — and her husband and his brother inherited an old farmhouse in a secluded spot with a pond.
"We were able to buy the property — the other half — out from his brother at a decent price," Chevaux says.
She figures they paid about half what the appraised value would have been.
They're renovating the farmhouse to live in and are selling their own home, saying goodbye to 11 more years of payments.
"We'll be mortgage-free at [ages] 50 and 59!" she says with a laugh.
Her father-in-law also left Chevaux's 24-year-old son a money market account.
"He had given our son some money towards college before he passed," she says. "So then this allowed him to pay off the rest of his college debt."
Her son is a financial adviser and has invested the rest of his inheritance, with plans to use it to help buy a house.
The family's financial fortunes show one way that America's stark racial wealth gap has persisted — and even widened — over generations. White adults are more than twice as likely as Black and Latino households to get sizable financial help from parents or other elders. That's according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Dorothy Brown, a tax law professor at Georgetown University, wishes more white families would talk about these intergenerational benefits.
"Because you have Black Americans who are doing everything they were told is right and not getting ahead," she says. "And they're scratching their heads wondering, 'How come I'm not doing better than I am? How come I'm not doing better than the guy in the cubicle next to me?' "
The new poll finds 38% of white adults say they've gotten at least $10,000 in gifts or loans from a parent or older relative. Only 14% of Black adults receive similar gifts or loans. The share is 16% for Latinos and 19% for Native Americans.
Brown says this divide reflects generations of segregation and racism, especially in housing policies. Racially restrictive covenants barred white people from selling or renting their homes to African Americans or other minority groups. And Federal Housing Administration policies supported such restrictions.
"So if your grandparent got a home that was FHA insured, it was a result of their being white," she says. "You don't think about that, but it was."
The racial wealth gap is also evident in lots of other questions in the poll.
"When people talk about the American dream, it's here," says Robert Blendon, a Harvard professor emeritus of health policy who worked on the poll.
A large number of Black, Latino and Native American adults say they want to move to better housing and expect their children to go to college, but they don't have the money to pay for those things.
"These minority communities are ... going to have to borrow everything in a very risky environment for that," Blendon says, "and they don't have anything to at least help defray some of the costs."
What's at stake, he says, is the ability to make the choices that can help families, and future generations, move ahead.
For Black Americans, wealth is more likely to flow up
For African Americans, especially, tax expert Brown says the generational wealth transfer is actually more likely to go the other way — children helping parents who suffered under Jim Crow.
That's the story of Theodore Bailey, who's 76 and remembers a tough childhood in segregated Nashville.
"My father died when I was 3 years old," he says. "My mother was a single mother with four sons."
His dad died while he was a military cook in World War II, which led to a major break for Bailey. As a war orphan he was able to go to college on the GI Bill, and that launched a successful career as an engineer and missile designer. From early on, Bailey sent money to help his mother get by.
"I knew she was struggling, you know. And at the time, I didn't have a whole lot to spare, but I'd send her whatever I could," he says.
Now retired in Arizona, Bailey says he's always helped family. That includes supporting a brother who lost a job, sending grandchildren to college, and being there for others along the way.
"Oh," he says with a chuckle, "there's always cousins and nephews and things that want to borrow money, and a lot of times they don't pay back."
Research shows family help like this seriously depletes the wealth of college-educated Black Americans. Bailey says he's now having to cash out more of his IRA than he'd like to in this bad market, to meet his own expenses.
He's not sure how much there will be left to pass on to his children and grandchildren.
"I invested in them, putting them through college and so forth," he says. "I'm hoping they can take care of themselves."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2022-08-13/heres-one-reason-why-americas-racial-wealth-gap-persists-across-generations | 2022-08-13T18:22:55Z | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2022-08-13/heres-one-reason-why-americas-racial-wealth-gap-persists-across-generations | true |
UTAH (KTVX/NEXSTAR) — An extremely loud boom was heard throughout Utah Saturday morning, shaking homes and alarming Utahns throughout the state.
At this time, neither the Salt Lake City Police Department, nor the Hill Air Force Base just north of the city, know what caused the boom. But the National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City division has suggested a meteor as the most probable cause.
The two reddish pixels shown over Utah’s Davis and Morgan Counties in the image below (from the GOES-17 geostationary lightning mapper) are not associated with evidence of thunderstorm activity in satellite or radar, NWS said on Twitter.
Rather, those are “likely the meteor trail/flash.”
NWS later shared a video from a Utah resident that appeared to show the meteor streaking across the sky, further confirming the theory.
University of Utah Seismograph Stations (UUSS) had also confirmed that the boom was not due to an earthquake.
Following Saturday morning’s “boom,” concerned Utahns have taken to social media to share videos that captured the concerning sound — including this clear, but expletive-laden example — or simply to offer their theories on the cause.
“People of Utah, I’ve watched enough Ancient Aliens to know a alien spacecraft sonic boom when I hear one,” one Twitter user joked.
“WHAT WAS THAT?!?” asked another. “The whole house shook with a loud boom.”
“Call me a conspiracy theorist but that BOOM just felt all over Utah was not natural. Has to be some sort of Government experiment,” someone else wrote.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox, too, claimed he heard the boom while out on a jog, but backed the NWS’ meteor theory.
“We have confirmed it was not seismic/earthquake and not related to our military instillations. This is likely the best theory,” Cox said, referring to a video he retweeted from the NWS which pointed to a meteor.
KTVX has reached out to multiple state agencies regarding the incident, and will provide updates as they are confirmed. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/whole-house-shook-loud-boom-heard-in-utah-possibly-a-meteorite-video-shows/ | 2022-08-13T18:23:34Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/whole-house-shook-loud-boom-heard-in-utah-possibly-a-meteorite-video-shows/ | true |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-4-5-1
(three, four, five, one)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-4-5-1
(three, four, five, one) | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17371645.php | 2022-08-13T18:29:44Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17371645.php | false |
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