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Make Barrass an All-Australian: Simpson
West Coast coach Adam Simpson says Tom Barrass deserves to be in the All-Australian team this year after producing a standout season in a defence under siege.
Barrass continued his sizzling form with a masterful display in Saturday night's 24-point western derby loss to Fremantle.
The 26-year-old tallied 20 disposals and 12 marks while keeping Fremantle forward Rory Lobb to just a single behind from seven disposals.
Barrass has been a rock in defence for West Coast all season, and his responsibilities have grown since Jeremy McGovern went down with broken ribs in round 14.
Simpson isn't normally one to make bold statements, so his public endorsement for Barrass as an All-Australian carries more weight.
"I am campaigning now officially for Barrass to be All-Australian," Simpson said.
"He's not just winning his position, he is dominating it as full-back. He was the highest ranked player today, again.
"He is in the prime of his career. He's a leader, plays the game the right way and has the balance between defending and going for his marks."
With Luke Shuey expected to relinquish the captaincy at the end of the season, Barrass is one of the leading contenders to take over.
West Coast (2-19) are 4.7 per cent above last-placed North Melbourne (2-19) as the race to avoid the wooden spoon goes down to the wire.
The Eagles take on Geelong at the Cattery on Saturday in what shapes as an ugly loss, while North Melbourne have a winnable game against Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium.
West Coast ruckman Nic Naitanui is no certainty to face the Cats, with the 32-year-old still sore following a disrupted season that has featured two knee injuries.
"He's playing because the club needs him, so we have to be careful not to put any unnecessary risk in his career, or next year," Simpson said.
"But he needs a good break, good pre-season and he'll come back next year ready to go."
Simpson was pleased with his team's fighting spirit against the Dockers, but he described the assignment against Geelong as a match that will put "hairs on your chest". | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11108945/Make-Barrass-All-Australian-Simpson.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-13T18:49:05Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11108945/Make-Barrass-All-Australian-Simpson.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
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://phl17.com/business/ap-business/amazons-ring-mgm-to-launch-show-from-viral-doorbell-videos/ | 2022-08-13T18:54:17Z | https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/amazons-ring-mgm-to-launch-show-from-viral-doorbell-videos/ | false |
WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 14, 2022
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AIR QUALITY ALERT
Air Quality Alert Message
Relayed by National Weather Service Eureka CA
1044 AM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON PDT SUNDAY FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN TRINITY COUNTY...
Due to persistent smoke from the Six Rivers Lightning Complex Fires,
the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District has issued
an Air Quality Alert in effect at least through noon PDT on Sunday
for much of the Trinity River Valley. This includes the locations of
Salyer, Burnt Ranch, Hawkins Bar and Junction City.
An Air Quality Alert means that air quality will be hazardous for
all groups of people. Everyone in these areas should limit the amount
of time they spend outdoors as much as possible. Keep windows closed,
do not run house fans that bring outside air indoors. Consider
leaving the area until smoke conditions improve if you have repeated
coughing, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, wheezing, chest
tightness or pain, palpitations, nausea, unusual fatigue, or
lightheadedness.
For more information, please visit the North Coast Unified Air
Quality Management District website at www.ncuaqd.org to access the
latest air quality alert.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Reporter Joshua Goodman traveled with his family to the Chautauqua Institution in western New York for a peaceful week away from the news. Instead, the news found him.
Goodman, an Associated Press correspondent for Latin America based in Miami, was attending a lecture by author Salman Rushdie on Friday when Rushdie was stabbed onstage.
The journalist said goodbye to his wife and asked her to pick up their two children before he began to work, equipped only with his mobile phone. He dictated words, took photos and sent video that told the world someone had attacked Rushdie, whose 1988 book “The Satanic Verses” was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims and led Iran’s then-leader to issue an edict calling for the author’s death.
It was a remarkable example of being in the right place at the right time to witness an unexpected event.
“It was very surreal is the only way you’d describe it,” Goodman said. “This was the last place you’d expect something like this.”
The institution is more than a century old, located over an hour away from the closest major city of Buffalo, N.Y. It is known for its summer retreats where visitors come for spiritual reflection and education. Goodman was one of 13 family members who rented a house on the grounds for the week. He left his computer behind and ignored emails.
Goodman, 46, learned to sail. On Thursday night, he and his family roasted marshmallows while watching a full moon rise over Lake Chautauqua.
Rushdie’s interview, advertised as focusing on the importance of persecuted writers having a place to work, was one of the week’s highlights. Goodman arrived at the outdoor amphitheater just as it was about to begin.
The threats against Rushdie — a $3 million bounty was placed on his head and he spent years in hiding — had not been forgotten. Some audience members joked nervously about not wanting to be in the front row. But there was very little security at a location where many families don’t even lock their doors at night, Goodman said.
Rushdie was seated and was being introduced when his attacker climbed onstage and began assaulting him. From his vantage point, Goodman said he wasn’t sure if Rushdie was being punched or stabbed, until he could see what appeared to be blood.
“There was a moment of shock,” he said. “Everyone in the audience was sitting in disbelief.”
When an officer with a police dog and others rushed toward the stage, Goodman realized what was happening and switched into reporter mode. He quickly sent an email to several of his editors at AP about what was happening and headed toward the stage himself.
Goodman lingered to take pictures and interview witnesses despite the institute’s staff saying he and all the audience members had to leave, he said. Goodman had covered protests before while stationed in Latin America, so scenes of violence were not foreign to him, but never in such a bucolic setting.
The AP sent an alert to its members about the news at 11:06 a.m. Eastern, followed by the first story six minutes later.
It was only after an hour of work that Goodman had the chance to reflect on what he said was one of the worst things he’d ever seen. “It was so callous and deliberate,” he said.
Goodman said he was sad for his children who, like many, are affected by bad news in the world. He had hoped for a week’s reprieve, and they had enjoyed their time in summer camp.
“I don’t take any satisfaction in witnessing tragedy,” he said. “I do take satisfaction in informing others.” | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/by-chance-ap-reporter-on-scene-to-witness-rushdie-attack/ | 2022-08-13T18:58:35Z | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/by-chance-ap-reporter-on-scene-to-witness-rushdie-attack/ | false |
Last month, a viral Twitter thread sparked fear and debate about the ways consumer data may be stored and shared by big-box stores, and how this could take on a new dimension in a post-Roe world.
It began when the user, Nicole, stated that on July 16 that they had received a package from infant formula company Enfamil after buying a pregnancy test from Walgreens with their rewards card.
Dear @Walgreens I received this package today a week after purchasing a pregnancy test at your store. I was asked to take the test by my doctor despite having no Fallopian tubes. 1/X pic.twitter.com/EZTsTPf7jd
— Nicole (@melancholynsex) July 17, 2022
The tweet included an image of a box that had various tubs of infant formula, a pacifier, and a box with the phrase, "Here's our first gift for the most important person in the world."
Nicole wrote they were asked to take the pregnancy test by a doctor, and they raised the issue of someone receiving this this type of package in states where abortion was now illegal.
What do you say to the women in states where abortion is now illegal? Are you trying to make a political statement or is this just a big money grab? 6/X @Walgreens @Enfamil
— Nicole (@melancholynsex) July 17, 2022
Nicole did not respond to NPR's request for comment. But several others responded to the original tweet with their own experiences of targeted marketing after purchases at other large chain stores. Some shared stories of receiving these types of packages in the wake of miscarriages.
In an email statement to NPR, a representative for Walgreens said: "The privacy of our customers is important to Walgreens. We did not provide individual customer purchase information to Enfamil."
So could an infant formula company feasibly get a customer's data and send them a package? The history of this kind of marketing is long, and the legality is complicated.
How it works
One of the most infamous examples includes a case from 2012, when a teenage girl's father found out his daughter was pregnant through advertisements from Target coupons before she had told him herself.
Alicia Solow-Niederman, an associate professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law, cites this as a landmark example in how valuable your purchase history and spending habits can be to a store, regardless of your search algorithms or online deliveries.
"Companies such as Walgreens, Target, really any organization, can amass profiles of the kinds of things that consumers in particular categories are likely to purchase," she said. "So, it may be that people who are pregnant are likely to purchase X, Y and Z bundle of goods, then the company can make an inference that, OK, well, because you bought X, Y and Z, you're probably like these other categories of people in a particular class, like pregnant women. And therefore, we're going to assume you are, and send you the targeted item."
In a statement to NPR, Reckitt, which produces the Enfamil formula, said it didn't have access to Walgreens' customer information. However, it said consumers may voluntarily opt in to receive marketing material, and that this can happen "through a third party who states that information will be shared."
Solow-Niederman said the fine print for many store rewards programs allowed corporations to collect and share consumer data and make inferences about targeted marketing items.
In most cases, signing up for a rewards program means you are agreeing to your data being collected and utilized in this manner, Solow-Niederman said, but she argued that another issue lay in the expectation for consumers to have the capacity to navigate this type of legal language on their own, a concern that scholars in data privacy and protection have been voicing for years.
"To my mind, the question is less, 'Did Target or Walgreens, or any company, say outright what their policies are?' and more, 'Is it reasonable for any individual to be expected to pass and read these policies, particularly in a world where, I don't know, I kind of rely on these companies to get things I need in basic life?'"
Now that some states may pursue criminal charges against those seeking information related to abortions, or abortions themselves, Solow-Niederman said this data may become valuable to more than just the stores trying to track your spending habits.
"Information can flow across contexts, including to law enforcement officials, including to doctors or medical providers, or in some states, private individuals who might have an interest in going after people suspected of obtaining an abortion," she said.
How to protect yourself
Solow-Niederman argues that the most effective solutions to these problems lie in broader legislation and stricter regulations surrounding data collection and storage.
"It's a systemic problem. And the ways to plug it are things like statutes that make it harder to share information with law enforcement for certain purposes, without proper warrants, without proper procedural protections, or on the companies that data minimization just collect less data or destroy it after a particular period."
Still, there are many ways that you can protect yourself and your data, regardless of where you live or where you shop.
"The first thing I always say when folks ask me this question is don't panic," said Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, a nonprofit organization that aims to protect basic rights in the digital age.
"I think a lot of what kind of gets us in trouble when we think about digital security is that we tend to get really overwhelmed really fast and throw up our hands and say, 'There's so many ways that my privacy is being invaded."
Greer said the steps you take should reflect your risk level, and there was no universal way to keep your data more safe. But there are some things you can do as starting points. Their first recommendation is an "app diet".
"Just pay attention to how many apps you have on your phone," they said. "The high likelihood is that most apps on your phone are collecting and storing some type of data on you. And that data could be used in ways that you haven't even begun to imagine."
Greer also emphasized the importance of having strong protections for accessing your phone, and utilizing a password manager to protect your accounts.
"The biggest mistake that many, many people are still making is using the same password for all their accounts or using face ID on their phone, which if you're worried about law enforcement, there's actually legal precedent to suggest that a law enforcement officer can force you to unlock your phone by holding it up to your face," they said." They can't force you to give them your passcode."
Their final suggestion is to seek out resources that don't store data, including search engines like DuckDuckGo, and end-to-end encrypted messaging services like Signal.
"This is the one that I think is just very relevant for a lot of people, because as reproductive healthcare becomes more and more criminalized, people are looking for information. People are scared. They want to know what their rights are and what type of healthcare they can access and where. And all of that involves searching on the internet."
Ultimately, Greer said that the most important privacy effort any consumer could make is to call their congressperson and let them know that legislation that protects digital privacy is an important issue.
"We need collective congressional regulatory action to make it so that it's illegal for companies to collect so much data about us in the first place," they said. "That's the only thing that's going to really protect people in the long run."
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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.koin.com/news/international/montenegro-mourns-after-10-are-killed-in-shooting-spree/ | 2022-08-13T19:07:47Z | https://www.koin.com/news/international/montenegro-mourns-after-10-are-killed-in-shooting-spree/ | true |
(The Hill) — The United States Postal Service (USPS) on Thursday proposed raising prices ahead of its peak season, a temporary adjustment it says will help handle the holidays.
Rates for priority mail, first-class services and ground shipping would increase by as little as 25 cents in some cases, and as much as $6.50 in others, according to a release.
The temporary increase, now pending approval by the Postal Regulatory Commission, would be in effect from Oct. 2 through Jan. 23.
The price hike would be part of the Postal Service’s 10-year plan to avoid some $160 billion in projected losses.
President Biden signed into law a reform bill for the USPS, a response to concerns that the mail-carrying service was operating at such a loss that it risked running out of funds by 2024.
The legislation eliminated a requirement that USPS pre-fund employees’ retiree health benefits, taking down what was a significant financial burden for the service.
Earlier this year, the USPS slowed delivery times for many of its first-class packages to cut costs.
In July, it ordered a fleet of new electric vehicles, transitioning about 40 percent of its vehicle operations to electric power. Though the price tag for purchasing new vehicles was high, the postal service lists the move as part of its plan to reduce costs over time. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/usps-plans-to-hike-prices-for-holidays/ | 2022-08-13T19:11:42Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/usps-plans-to-hike-prices-for-holidays/ | true |
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A Group of Community Members From AXIE INFINITY, the Largest NFT Game in the World, Announce The Acquisition of a Majority Holding of Fire-Tier NFTs for the Reigning BIG3 Champions TRILOGY Coached by Stephen Jackson
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the BIG3 announced that members of the Axie Infinity community – the token-based online video game– have purchased the majority of the Fire-Tier editions of Trilogy, receiving ownership-like value and utility in the 2021 BIG3 defending champions. This purchase is part of the BIG3's new model of ownership announced in April 2022, which leverages blockchain technology to sell NFTs offering ownership-like benefits. Other BIG3 FEAT owners include DeGods, Gary Vaynerchuk and VeeFriends, Bill Lee and MyDoge/DogeCoin, Krause House, and Snoop Dogg and PayPal Co-Founder Ken Howery.
"We are absolutely thrilled to have the Axie Infinity community, cloudwhite, Artic, Jihoz, Flying Falcon, baronar, Enjoi AxieChat, Coco Bear, RCTech, Aur, freak and AxieDAO on board with Trilogy," said BIG3 co-founder, Ice Cube. "Partnering with the largest NFT-based game in the world demonstrates BIG3's commitment to meaningful Web3. Hopefully, with the Axie community behind the team, Trilogy can pull out a win this weekend and go for the Championship 3-peat."
The BIG3 playoffs tip off at 4pm ET on August 14th at Amalie Arena and will see Trilogy take on Rick Mahorn's Aliens for a spot in the 2022 Championship Game in Atlanta, GA, on August 21. 3-Headed Monsters and Power will go head to head for the second Championship spot. The league will conclude the season with its first-ever Celebrity Game and Inaugural All-Star Game on August 21.
"We are coming together as a collective group of Axie community members to usher in a new era of fan engagement through the BIG3," said cloudwhite. "The culture and passion that has been curated around the BIG3 is something we believe in along with unlocking new opportunities for players and fans. We look forward to competing against the other Web3 community owned teams and bringing home some hardware."
Known for its in-game economy, Axie Infinity runs on the Ethereum blockchain with the help of Ronin, a sidechain that minimizes fees and transaction delays. It's primarily focused on turn-based battles, either against computer-controlled Axie teams or live opponents over the Internet.
To stay updated with the latest news about BIG3 FEATs join the Discord here. Playoffs, the Championship Game, the All-Star Game, and Celebrity Game will air on CBS and Paramount+, and tickets can be purchased here. For more information and to purchase tickets, go to BIG3.com and follow @thebig3 on twitter and instagram.
ABOUT AXIE INFINITY:
Axie Infinity is a game universe filled with fascinating creatures, Axies, that players can collect as pets. Players aim to battle, breed, collect, raise, and build kingdoms for their Axies. The universe has a player-owned economy where players can truly own, buy, sell, and trade resources they earn in the game through skilled-gameplay and contributions to the ecosystem.
ABOUT BIG3:
BIG3 (BIG3.com) is who we are, FIREBALL3 is what we play. It's not your grandfather's 3-on-3. The premier global BIG3 league features many of the greatest, most popular and skilled professional athletes of all time. Founded by producer, actor and music legend Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, the BIG3 combines highly competitive, physical, fast game experiences and incredible fan experiences.
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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, 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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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday that several of the denomination’s major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice in the wake of its multiple problems related to clergy sex abuse.
The SBC’s Executive Committee has received a subpoena, but no individuals have been subpoenaed at this point, according to the committee’s lawyers.
“This is an ongoing investigation and we are not commenting on our discussions with DOJ,” they said.
The statement from SBC leaders — including Executive Committee members, seminary presidents and heads of mission organizations — gave few details about the investigation, but indicated it dealt with widespread sexual abuse problems that have rocked the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.
“Individually and collectively each SBC entity is resolved to fully and completely cooperate with the investigation,” the statement said. “While we continue to grieve and lament past mistakes related to sexual abuse, current leaders across the SBC have demonstrated a firm conviction to address those issues of the past and are implementing measures to ensure they are never repeated in the future.”
There was no immediate comment from the Justice Department about the investigation.
Earlier this year, an SBC sex abuse task force released a blistering 288-page report from outside consultant, Guidepost Solutions. The firm’s seven-month independent investigation found disturbing details about how denominational leaders mishandled sex abuse claims and mistreated victims.
The report focused specifically on how the SBC’s Executive Committee responded to abuse cases, revealing that it had secretly maintained a list of clergy and other church workers accused of abuse. The committee later apologized and released the list, which had hundreds of accused workers on it.
A Guidepost spokesperson declined to comment on news of the DOJ probe.
Following the release of the Guidepost report, the SBC voted during its annual meeting in June to created a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse and launch a new task force to oversee further reforms. Earlier this week, SBC President Bart Barber, who also signed Friday’s statement, announced the names of the Southern Baptist pastors and church members who will serve on the task force.
Southern Baptist sex abuse survivor Christa Brown, who has long called for the SBC to do more to address sex abuse across its churches, celebrated the news of the DOJ investigation.
“Hallelujah. It’s about time,” Brown said in a Friday post on Twitter. ”This is what’s needed.”
Another survivor, Jules Woodson, went public with her abuse story in 2018 and has been pushing for reforms in the SBC ever since. On Friday, she reacted to the investigation news by tweeting, “May justice roll down!!!”
Oklahoma pastor Mike Keahbone, who serves on the Executive Committee and is the vice chair of the new abuse task force, said on Twitter that the investigation “is not something to fear … If there is more work to do, we will do it.”
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Crary reported from New York. Associated Press reporter Deepa Bharath in Los Angeles contributed.
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(NewsNation) — The man who allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie in the neck and abdomen has been charged with second-degree attempted murder and assault.
Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, was processed and transported to Chautauqua County Jail on Friday. Deadline reports he was remanded without bail, and that charges could be upgraded if Rushdie’s condition gets worse.
Authorities said Matar was born in the United States to Lebanese parents who emigrated from Yaroun, a border village in southern Lebanon, the mayor of the village, Ali Tehfe, told The Associated Press.
The stabbing happened at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York, where Rushdie was set to give a lecture.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storming the stage and begin attacking Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was then taken or fell to the floor.
According to New York State Police, Rushdie was transported by helicopter to the hospital. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose.
Event moderator Henry Reese, 73, a co-founder of an organization that offers residencies to writers facing persecution, was also attacked. Reese suffered a facial injury and was treated and released from a hospital, police said. He and Rushdie had planned to discuss the United States as a refuge for writers and other artists in exile.
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
Khomeini died the same year he issued the fatwa, which remains in effect. Iran’s current supreme leader, Khamenei, never issued a fatwa of his own withdrawing the edict.
Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment has lingered. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.
Rushdie dismissed that threat at the time, saying there was “no evidence” of people being interested in the reward. That year, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. The title came from the pseudonym Rushdie had used while in hiding.
The Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York, is known for its summertime lecture series. Rushdie has spoken there before.
“Banfield” spoke Friday with Mona Kolko, an eyewitness to the incident.
“People were horrified. It went from the noise of applause, 2,000 people clapping to people shouting, people hollering, people crying. Stunned. Shocked. What is going on here? What happened here? He is hurt. Something terrible is going on, and we are witnessing this horrible moment,” Kolko said.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Deshaun Watson apologized before his preseason debut with the Cleveland Browns and then got an earful from opposing fans.
Watson apologized Friday “to all the women I have impacted” after being accused by two dozen women of sexual misconduct during massage therapy sessions.
Potentially facing a year-long suspension, Watson publicly expressed remorse and contrition for the first time since he was accused of sexually harassing or assaulting the women during therapy sessions in 2020 and 2021.
He spoke before the team’s exhibition opener, a 24-13 victory at Jacksonville (0-2) in which Watson was roundly booed during three series of work. Fans in one end zone could be heard chanting vulgarities at Watson during his first drive.
The three-time Pro Bowler completed 1 of 5 passes for 7 yards in his first game action since Jan. 3, 2021, with Houston.
“I think he probably wants some throws back,” Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said. “Obviously playing football for the first time in a while, I thought it was important for him to get out there with his teammates in this scheme. I’m sure he had the butterflies and the jitters early. But I think he understands what he’s working through.”
Watson managed no first downs and 7 yards while playing without receiver Amari Cooper, running backs Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt, and offensive linemen Joel Bitonio and Jack Conklin. Starting center Nick Harris, who is replacing NFLPA president and salary-cap casualty JC Tretter, went down on the second play with a right knee injury.
Harris will have tests Saturday to determine the extent of his injury, Stefanski said.
Cleveland trailed 13-0 when Watson’s night ended. He spent much of the second half sitting on a cooler on the sideline and chewing gum. If he made any strides, they came before kickoff.
“Look, I want to say that I’m truly sorry to all of the women that I have impacted in this situation,” Watson said in the pregame interview. “The decisions that I made in my life that put me in this position I would definitely like to have back, but I want to continue to move forward and grow and learn and show that I am a true person of character and I am going to keep pushing forward.”
The team declined to make Watson available after the game.
Watson, who denied any wrongdoing while settling 23 of 24 civil lawsuits, is still facing league discipline. The NFL is appealing independent arbiter Sue L. Robinson’s six-game suspension. The retired federal judge concluded Watson violated the league’s personal conduct policy with “egregious” and “predatory” behavior. As part of her ruling, Robinson noted Watson’s lack of remorse.
The appeal is now with Peter C. Harvey, a former New Jersey attorney general appointed by commissioner Roger Goodell. In the meantime, Watson can practice and play. Stefanski said he wanted to get Watson preseason action despite the looming suspension.
“It’s been something that we’ve been talking about the last few months, weeks, just trying to figure out what the best path forward was for — not just for our quarterbacks — but for the entire team,” he said.
Watson jogged into TIAA Bank Field with a security guard at his side and later stopped to sign autographs following warmups. No protests against Watson were found outside the stadium, although several cars could be seen sporting unsavory messages ripping the embattled quarterback.
BETTER JAGS
Jacksonville played most of its starters and looked considerably better than it did in the Hall of Fame game last week in Canton, Ohio.
Trevor Lawrence completed 6 of 12 passes for 95 yards and a touchdown, a 9-yarder to Evan Engram on a fourth-down play.
“Overall, I thought we played pretty well those first three series,” said Lawrence, who didn’t face Cleveland’s star pass rushers Myles Garrett and Jadeveon Clowney.
Jaguars running back Travis Etienne played for the first time since suffering a foot injury last preseason and ran for 23 yards. He also had a 10-yard reception that set up a field goal.
The Jaguars scored on each of their first three possessions, significant signs of progress as new coach Doug Pederson leads another rebuild in Jacksonville.
PLAY OF THE GAME
Browns rookie Martin Emerson had the play of the game, ripping a pass from Jaguars receiver Jeff Cotton and taking it 74 yards the other way for a touchdown and a 14-13 lead in the second quarter. It was another moment for Emerson, a third-round draft pick who is pushing for playing time in a backfield that includes Denzel Ward, Greg Newsome and Greedy Williams.
FORD SHINES
Browns rookie running back Jerome Ford, a fifth-round pick from Cincinnati, had a standout night despite a late fumble. Ford ran for 57 yards and a touchdown and caught four passes for 46 yards and a score.
Ford is giving Cleveland another option in a crowded — and talented — backfield. Chubb and Hunt sat out, leaving D’Ernest Johnson to start. But Johnson fumbled on the second series, and Ford took over from there.
UP NEXT
Browns host Philadelphia on Aug. 21.
Jaguars host Pittsburgh on Aug. 20.
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(NewsNation) — The man who allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie in the neck and abdomen has been charged with second-degree attempted murder and assault.
Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, was processed and transported to Chautauqua County Jail on Friday. Deadline reports he was remanded without bail, and that charges could be upgraded if Rushdie’s condition gets worse.
Authorities said Matar was born in the United States to Lebanese parents who emigrated from Yaroun, a border village in southern Lebanon, the mayor of the village, Ali Tehfe, told The Associated Press.
The stabbing happened at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York, where Rushdie was set to give a lecture.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storming the stage and begin attacking Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was then taken or fell to the floor.
According to New York State Police, Rushdie was transported by helicopter to the hospital. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose.
Event moderator Henry Reese, 73, a co-founder of an organization that offers residencies to writers facing persecution, was also attacked. Reese suffered a facial injury and was treated and released from a hospital, police said. He and Rushdie had planned to discuss the United States as a refuge for writers and other artists in exile.
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
Khomeini died the same year he issued the fatwa, which remains in effect. Iran’s current supreme leader, Khamenei, never issued a fatwa of his own withdrawing the edict.
Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment has lingered. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.
Rushdie dismissed that threat at the time, saying there was “no evidence” of people being interested in the reward. That year, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. The title came from the pseudonym Rushdie had used while in hiding.
The Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York, is known for its summertime lecture series. Rushdie has spoken there before.
“Banfield” spoke Friday with Mona Kolko, an eyewitness to the incident.
“People were horrified. It went from the noise of applause, 2,000 people clapping to people shouting, people hollering, people crying. Stunned. Shocked. What is going on here? What happened here? He is hurt. Something terrible is going on, and we are witnessing this horrible moment,” Kolko said.
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Michael Beale: Seny Dieng equaliser sums up ‘crazy’ game
By PA Staff published
Queens Park Rangers boss Michael Beale thinks a dramatic stoppage-time equaliser from goalkeeper Seny Dieng at Sunderland summed up a “crazy game” at the Stadium of Light.
Beale watched his side fight back from two goals down to claim a point courtesy of late heroics, capped by Dieng becoming the first QPR goalkeeper to find the net.
Sunderland, unbeaten in three league games since returning to the Sky Bet Championship, went ahead in the 31st minute when Ross Stewart converted a rebound after Dieng had stopped Dan Neil’s effort.
Nine minutes later Stewart’s strike partner Ellis Simms, on loan from Everton, hit a deserved second when he poked a low finish beyond the visiting goalkeeper.
But after the restart QPR battled away and created more chances, only for Sunderland to stand tall until Ilias Chair curled in a precise free-kick inside Anthony Patterson’s top left corner with three minutes remaining.
And after Patterson had denied Sinclair Armstrong an equaliser, up went Dieng for a corner. The Swiss-born Senegalese goalkeeper saw a first header blocked and when the second delivery came in he was still there to head in.
Beale said: “On the amount of chances we created, good opportunities, I thought I would be talking about a lack of quality coming in here. We had Albert Adomah’s header, Lyndon Dykes’ chance, Jimmy Dunne’s …
“At half-time we had honest words, told them to live more dangerously, we played on the front foot and Ilias scores a great goal. We had that massive moment with Sinclair Armstrong and I thought the moment had gone but Seny had other plans. It was a great goal followed by a great save.
“When Seny went up an assistant said ‘are you happy?’ I said ‘I am not going to bring him back. When the goalkeeper goes up, who picks him up, he attacks both balls in. A crazy game.
“Seny is a modest young man, says a few words. What a magic moment for him. He is the first goalkeeper to score for QPR and the 900 or so fans who have made the round trip with the train strike, they get to say I was there. He has made a couple of great saves as well.”
Even after Dieng’s equaliser, Sunderland attacked and had the chance to win it but he made a stunning low save to deny Stewart adding a third. Elliot Embleton hit the bar with the rebound.
Sunderland boss Alex Neil, whose side have seven points from three games, said: “I might be pleased in the morning. I am not pleased at the moment.
“I am hoping one of our heads land on the ball. The only way to fix that is to get my goalkeeper to mark their goalkeeper, it’s numbers. It’s 10 versus 11. We just didn’t get our head on the game and if we do, we win the game. I have not been done by a goalkeeper before.
“Even then Ross has a chance with his left foot, the keeper makes a good save, Elliot hits the underside of the bar. When your luck is not in your luck is not in.
“We deserved to win the game. We played well first half, I thought we defended pretty well second half. I could see the game petering out. The problem we have is two transitions led to two chances, and they both ended up in the back of net.
“We will see thousands of games like that this season where we will end up winning the game. Not today.”
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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.
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AGNICO EAGLE PROVIDES AN UPDATE ON YEAR-TO-DATE EXPLORATION RESULTS: DETOUR LAKE RETURNING HIGH GRADE INTERCEPTS UP TO 2 KM AWAY FROM CURRENT OPEN PIT; EAST GOULDIE DELIVERING SOLID INFILL CONVERS...
(All amounts expressed in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted)
TORONTO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE: AEM) (TSX: AEM) ("Agnico Eagle" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on exploration activities at several projects and select mine sites. The Company's exploration focus remains on pipeline projects, near-mine opportunities and mineral reserve and mineral resource replacement and growth. Exploration highlights during the first half of 2022 include:
- Detour Lake – Conversion and expansion drilling continue to return promising results within and immediately adjacent to the current open pit, representing an opportunity to further optimize the recently updated mine plan. By the end of June 2022, more than 84,660 metres of drilling had been completed since the closure of the database in early February 2022 in connection with the most recent mineral resource estimate. Highlight intercepts of 1.1 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold over 55.9 metres at 354 metres depth and 1.4 g/t gold over 78.9 metres at 565 metres depth in hole DLM-22-425 in the Saddle Zone demonstrate the potential to deepen the pit and extend it further north. Step-out drilling returned 32.3 g/t gold over 4.8 metres at 955 metres depth in an intersection located more than two kilometres west of the open pit, demonstrating the potential for a significant extension of the deposit to the west that will be considered for underground mining opportunities
- Odyssey Underground Project at Canadian Malartic – Infill drilling continues to return strong results in the Odyssey South Zone, with recent results of 5.2 g/t gold over 17.0 metres at 359 metres depth. An initial mineral reserve estimate is expected at year-end 2022 and pre-commercial production from the Odyssey South orebody is expected to begin before the end of March 2023. Infill drilling also continues to return wide, high-grade intersections in the core of the East Gouldie deposit, with recent results including 4.9 g/t gold over 45.3 metres at 1,072 metres depth. Eastern extension and western extension of the deposit continues to be tested with recent results of 1.8 g/t gold over 62.9 metres at 1,580 metres depth, extending the zone 225 metres towards the west, filling the gap between the East Gouldie and the Norrie zones and providing potential for mineral resources addition
- Hope Bay – More than 46,000 metres of drilling have been completed year to date with seven drill rigs now operating at the Doris and Madrid deposits. Recent results at Doris confirm the potential to expand the deposit along strike to the north in the BTD Extension Zone and to the south in the Central and West Valley zones and demonstrate the potential for finding additional high grade fold-hinge structures below the historical zones with a recent intersection in the BTD Connector zone of 6.9 g/t gold over 32.2 metres at 495 metres depth
- Kirkland Lake Region – Following the merger with Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. (the "Merger") that closed on February 8, 2022, the extension of the ramp from Macassa is now allowing drilling of the Amalgamated Kirkland ("AK") deposit from underground to complement surface drilling and accelerate the infill drilling of AK. The Company believes ore could be sourced for the Macassa mill in early 2024, which could provide flexibility to the operations. Recent results include a highlight intercept of 8.1 g/t gold over 13.8 metres at 208 metres depth. Infill drilling has also been completed at the Upper Beaver deposit, with a recent highlight intercept of 8.8 g/t gold and 0.54% copper over 12.0 metres at 1,600 metres depth. The Company's internal study on Upper Beaver is expected to be updated in 2023 taking into consideration synergy opportunities from the Merger
"The Company's ambitious exploration program for 2022 is yielding exciting results. At Detour Lake, the step-out drilling suggests good potential for an underground operation and extensions to the current open pits. At Canadian Malartic, the step-out drilling continues to significantly extend the East Gouldie deposit to the east and the west. At Hope Bay, the drill results confirm the expansion of the Doris deposit at depth with wide high grade intercepts, well ahead of our expectations," said Ammar Al-Joundi, Agnico Eagle's President and Chief Executive Officer. "In addition, we continue to generate significant exploration results at producing assets including Fosterville, Meliadine, LaRonde and Kittila. With these positive results, we are adding $30 million dollars to our exploration budget in 2022 as we aim to accelerate the realization of the full potential of existing operations and key projects in the Company's pipeline," added Mr. Al-Joundi.
Based on positive exploration results in the first half of 2022, a supplemental exploration budget of $30 million has been approved – The Company has numerous mines and pipeline projects with excellent potential to replace and increase mineral reserves and has prioritized assessing the full potential of its portfolio through exploration (see the Company's news release dated February 23, 2022 for a breakdown of the 2022 exploration budget). Positive exploration results in the first half of 2022 support the focused addition of supplemental budgets at several projects. An update on selected exploration programs and budgets is set out in the sections below.
Targeting growth of the Company's mineral reserves and mineral resources at year-end 2022 from a record level at year-end 2021 – At December 31, 2021, Agnico Eagle's proven and probable mineral reserve estimate totaled approximately 25.7 million ounces of gold, consisting of 2.4 million ounces of gold of proven mineral reserves (38.7 million tonnes grading 1.92 g/t gold) and of 23.3 million ounces of probable mineral reserves (298.3 million tonnes grading 2.43 g/t gold.) This was an increase of approximately 1.6 million ounces of gold (7%) and a 10% increase in grade compared with the prior year. At December 31, 2021, prior to the Merger, Kirkland Lake Gold's proven and probable mineral reserves totaled approximately 18.9 million ounces of gold, consisting of 3.7 million ounces of gold of proven mineral reserves (81.7 million tonnes grading 1.41 g/t gold) and of 15.2 million ounces of probable mineral reserves (502 million tonnes grading 0.94 g/t gold).
For a breakdown of the Company's mineral reserves and mineral resources as at December 31, 2021 by deposit refer to the Company's news release dated February 23, 2022. For Detour Lake's mineral reserves and mineral resources as at March 31, 2022 refer to the Detour Lake section of this new release and the Company's news release dated July 27, 2022.
A wide selection of recent drill results is compiled in a table in the Appendix to this news release, while highlight intercepts are set out in the sections below. Drill hole collar coordinates for the holes in this news release are also set out in the Appendix.
ABITIBI REGION, QUEBEC
Agnico Eagle is Quebec's largest gold producer with a 100% interest in the LaRonde complex (which includes the LaRonde and LaRonde Zone 5 ("LZ5") mines), the Goldex mine and a 50% interest in the Canadian Malartic mine. The Company has a multi-decade track record of exploration success in the Abitibi region, building on the discovery in the 1980s of the world-class LaRonde gold-rich polymetallic volcanic massive sulphide deposit, which has served as an operations and exploration hub that provides operating synergies to the Company's nearby mines and allows for the sharing of technical expertise.
LaRonde Complex – Three Underground Development Drifts Progressing Westward from LaRonde 3 Infrastructure; Drilling on Level 9 Tests Vertical Extension of Zone 3-1; Infill Drilling Confirms Grade and Width of Zone 11-3; Drilling Shows Potential for Westward Extension of LZ5 Mineralization
At the LaRonde complex, the Company now expects to spend approximately $14.8 million in 2022 to drill 43,500 metres and to develop, extend or rehabilitate three new exploration drifts on levels 9, 215 and 290 West from the LaRonde 3 infrastructure towards the west below the LZ5 mine workings.
A total of 13,434 metres of definition and exploration drilling was completed in the first half of 2022, amid a challenging environment for diamond driller staffing and as new exploration drifts are being developed for future drilling.
In the track drift on Level 9, a second drill station has been completed and a drill rig is now operating and targeting the down-plunge extension of the historical Bousquet Zone 3-1.
In the exploration drift on Level 215, the development is progressing faster than budgeted with a total of 1,015 metres developed in the first half of 2022. The rehabilitation work is completed, and the drift is currently being extended further to the west. Considering the good progress being made, the Company has allocated an additional $2.9 million budget to extend the exploration drift compared to the original February budget. A first drill is expected to be mobilized into the drift in the second quarter of 2023. The exploration drilling program from the Level 215 exploration drift will test vertical extensions between 1.5 and 3 kilometres depth of several known mineralized zones — Zone 3-1, Zone 3-4, the Bousquet 1 mine and the LZ5 mine — as the drift is advanced to the west.
In the exploration drift on Level 290 West, development progressed by 136 metres during the first half of 2022 before being paused until year-end to focus on Level 215 and other priority developments in the mine.
At the LZ5 mine, Zone 5 was extended to the west during the first half of 2022, with recent drilling highlights that included: 2.4 g/t gold over 18.1 metres at 692 metres depth in hole BZ-2021-008; 1.4 g/t gold over 16.0 metres at 1,017 metres depth in hole BZ-2021-009; and 2.1 g/t gold over 17.5 metres at 841 metres depth in hole BZ-2022-001. These wide and low-grade intercepts show the potential for the vertical and westward extension of Zone 5 mineral reserves and mineral resources onto the Company's 100%-owned Ellison property, which is immediately adjacent to the infrastructure at the LZ5 mine.
In Zone LR11-3, which is located at depth in the past-producing Bousquet 2 mine, infill drilling was completed to validate historical results and infill the zone prior to development in the ore. Gold production from LR11-3 development ore is expected to begin in late 2022 and full production is expected to start in the first half of 2023.
Selected recent drill results from Zone LR11-3 and the LZ5 mine are set out in a table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal map below.
[LaRonde Complex – Composite Longitudinal Section]
Goldex – Exploration Continues to Expand South Zone; Drilling Ongoing into Mineralization Below the Deep 2 Zone and in the West Area
At the Goldex mine, the Company expects to spend approximately $5.6 million in 2022 for 45,300 metres of drilling comprised of 39,300 metres of conversion drilling and 6,000 metres of exploration drilling, focused on the South Zone, M Zone, West area and at depth in the Deep 3 Zone.
The main target of exploration at Goldex in 2022 is the South Zone, which is located in the volcanic rocks south of the Goldex main deposit. The South Zone gold mineralization is hosted in multiple quartz-biotite-sulphide veins that have higher grades than those in the primary mineralized zones at Goldex.
Seven drills are currently active on the property and have completed a total of 22,036 metres of capitalized definition drilling and 1,697 metres of expensed exploration drilling during the first half of 2022.
Recent results from the western extension of the South Zone in Sector 2 include a highlight of 14.7 g/t gold over 3.0 metres at 955 metres depth in hole GD96-002. In the eastern extension of the South Zone, in Sector 3, the conversion drilling program continues to return excellent results, including 4.1 g/t gold over 20.0 metres at 1,291 metres depth in hole GD128-057. The Company expects that the South Zone will be an important contributor to the replacement of mineral reserves at Goldex at year-end 2022.
Exploration is also being conducted to test the deposit at depth below the Deep 2 mine and in the West area.
Selected recent drill results from Goldex are set out in the table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal section below.
[Goldex Mine – Composite Longitudinal Section]
Odyssey Project – Infill Drilling Progressing in the Odyssey South Zone with Expectations of Initial Mineral Reserves to be Declared at Year-end 2022 and Pre-commercial Production to Begin before the end of March 2023 from an Underground Ramp; Infill Drilling at East Gouldie Continues to Confirm Grade and Width in the Core of the Deposit while Exploration Drilling Continues to Expand the Zone to the East and West; Underground Development and Surface Construction Progressing on Schedule and on Budget
At the Canadian Malartic mine, the Company expects to spend approximately $11.9 million (50% basis) in 2022 for 136,800 metres (100% basis) of exploration and conversion drilling focused on aggressive infill drilling of the East Gouldie deposit to improve confidence in the mineral resource, to continue the conversion of inferred mineral resources to indicated mineral resources and to refine the geological model. With ramp development continuing as part of the Odyssey mine project, Canadian Malartic GP (the "Partnership") is conducting underground conversion drilling from the ramp.
Twenty drills are currently active on the property, with four underground drills completing infill drilling on the Odyssey South deposit, 12 surface drills focused on infilling and expanding the East Gouldie mineralization and four drills active in regional exploration. The Partnership drilled 95,030 metres (100% basis) during the first half of 2022.
Underground development in the first half of 2022 completed 685 metres of ramp and 2,622 metres of lateral development, with the ramp now reaching a depth of 380 metres below surface.
Selected recent exploration drill results from Odyssey South, East Gouldie and the regional program on the wider Canadian Malartic property portfolio are set out in a table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal section below.
[Canadian Malartic Mine – Composite Longitudinal Section]
Odyssey South
Drilling from underground gradually increased during the first half of 2022 as ramp development provided access to new diamond drill bays to test the Odyssey South and Odyssey Internal zones. Recent results continue to confirm the grades of these zones and the Company expects that the core portion of the Odyssey South deposit will be classified as mineral reserves at year-end 2022, with pre-commercial production to begin before the end of March 2023. The new underground access also allowed for additional drilling into the Odyssey internal zones where recent results continue to better define the continuity of zones within the porphyry, which is expected to have a positive impact on the mineral resources update at year-end.
East Gouldie
With the continued success at infilling East Gouldie at 75-metre spacing in the core of the deposit, the Company expects a significant portion of the East Gouldie deposit to be classified as indicated mineral resources at year-end 2022.
Recent expansion drilling to the west at depth is producing positive results, with highlight hole MEX22-231 returning 1.8 g/t gold over 62.9 metres at 1,580 metres depth in the western extension of the East Gouldie deposit approximately 225 metres west of the current mineral resources outline (previously reported on July 27, 2022). This intercept is approximately halfway between the East Gouldie deposit and the Norrie Zone to the west and shows the potential for East Gouldie to connect with other mineral inventories in the Norrie and South Sladen mineralized zones that are not yet classified as mineral resources.
Regional Exploration
In regional exploration at Canadian Malartic, the Company is planning to spend approximately $4.1 million (50% basis) in 2022 on 21,900 metres (100% basis) primarily to expand mineralization towards the east in the East Gouldie horizon and the new Titan zone at depth on the Rand Malartic property. During the first half of 2022, 18,896 metres (100% basis) were completed on the Rand Malartic, East Amphi and Midway properties.
Rand Malartic
On the Rand Malartic property, the priority remains to test the eastern extension of the East Gouldie deposit while also testing the eastern extension of the Odyssey North and Odyssey South zones associated with porphyry mineralization within the Piché Group. As previously disclosed during the first quarter of 2022, the Partnership repurchased the 2% NSR royalty on the Rand Malartic property for $7 million.
Recent hole RD20-4677B has intersected a new mineralized porphyry intrusion, returning 1.6 g/t gold over 29.3 metres (core length) at 1,208 metres depth approximately 820 metres east of the easternmost limit of Odyssey South Zone mineral resources, demonstrating potential to discover "Odyssey North and South" style of mineralization as exploration drilling advances towards the east.
In the eastern extension of East Gouldie, previously reported hole RD21-4689AA intersected 3.1 g/t gold over 7.9 metres (core length) at 2,537 metres depth, making it the deepest and easternmost drill hole to date. This intersection extends the East Gouldie mineralized corridor eastward by 500 metres, to approximately 1,700 metres east of the current mineral resources outline. Mineralization remains open to the east.
East Amphi and Camflo
Elsewhere on the Partnership's 13,582 hectare land position, exploration continues with work testing the deep extension of the East Amphi deposit and the ongoing compilation of all historical information around the Camflo deposit on the Camflo property, which the Partnership acquired in 2021.
The Camflo property lies to the north of the Odyssey project and includes the past producing Camflo mine which had historical production of approximately 1.6 million ounces of gold.
The Partnership's initial evaluation of the Camflo property has identified porphyry hosted gold mineralization that could potentially be mined via an open pit. Additional studies are underway to evaluate this mineralization and additional potential mineralization in adjacent rock types. A follow-up exploration program is planned for Camflo in 2023.
ABITIBI REGION, ONTARIO
Agnico Eagle acquired the Detour Lake and Macassa mines on February 8, 2022 as a result of the Merger. With the inclusion of these two assets in its portfolio, the Company is now Ontario's largest gold producer. Furthermore, the proximity of these mines to the Company's operations located in the Abitibi region of Quebec provides operating synergies and allows for the sharing of technical expertise.
Detour Lake – Drilling Confirms a Broad Corridor of Mineralization Extending from the Main Pit Continuing Through to the Planned West Pit; Potential to Continue Growing "Out-pit" Mineralization Two Kilometres West of the Current Resource Pit
At the Detour Lake mine, the Company expects to spend approximately $35.8 million in 2022 for 194,000 metres of capitalized drilling to expand mineral resources at depth and to the west, and $10.1 million for 40,000 metres for exploration drilling to continue to investigate the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone to the east and west of the current pit's mineral resources.
During the first half of 2022 at Detour Lake, the Company completed 99 holes totalling 108,023 metres of combined capitalized and expensed drilling. Approximately 84,660 metres of the drilling completed in the first half of 2022 was not included in the latest mineral reserve and mineral resource update for Detour Lake, which utilized a database that closed on February 5, 2022.
Selected recent drill intercepts from Detour Lake are set out in a table in the Appendix and in the plan map and composite longitudinal section below.
[Detour Lake Mine – Plan Map and Composite Longitudinal Section]
During the first half of 2022, drill results inside and proximate to the Saddle and future West Pit areas continue to confirm the presence of a broad corridor of mineralization extending from the Main Pit and continuing through to the planned West Pit. Recent results have been positive and are expected to support further resource upgrades and the identification of new resources north and below the current resource pit shell.
Highlights from recent drilling inside and near the future West Pit area include: hole DLM21-348A, which intersected 1.0 g/t gold over 41.0 metres at 488 metres depth and 5.0 g/t gold over 4.6 metres at 614 metres depth; hole DLM22-414, which intersected 2.1 g/t gold over 27.4 metres at 561 metres depth; hole DLM22-425, which intersected 1.1 g/t gold over 55.9 metres at 354 metres depth and 1.4 g/t gold over 78.9 metres at 565 metres depth; and hole DLM22-450W, which intersected 19.9 g/t gold over 2.7 metres at 315 metres depth and 2.2 g/t gold over 21.0 metres at 548 metres depth.
Drilling in the westerly plunge of the deposit both below and west of the future West Pit has continued to return wide intervals inclusive of a higher grade portion that support the potential to continue growing the "out-pit" mineralization, which now extends two kilometres west of the current resource pit. Recent drill results include the intersection of a new mineralized zone south and below the western extent of the West Pit resources.
Highlights from recent drilling below and immediately west of the West Pit include: hole DLM22-404W, which intersected 2.3 g/t gold over 88.2 metres at 806 metres depth, including 3.6 g/t gold over 45.1 metres at 822 metres depth; hole DLM22-446, which intersected 1.0 g/t gold over 53.0 metres at 691 metres depth and 2.1 g/t gold over 37.0 metres at 739 metres depth; hole DLM22-451, which intersected 1.8 g/t gold over 22.3 metres at 684 metres depth, and 1.0 g/t gold over 71.0 metres at 753 metres depth; and hole DLM22-422W, which intersected 13.1 g/t gold over 9.2 metres at 689 metres depth.
Continued drilling along the West Pit Extension has been encouraging, with mineralization occurring both within the Chloritic Greenstone (CG) unit, a marker horizon associated with mineral reserves and mineral resources in both the Main Pit and West Pit, and within altered mafic pillow flows, below and footwall to the CG unit, which is similar in nature to the mineralized zones in the West Pit.
In the first half of 2022, drilling intersected wide zones of mineralization with some containing high grade inclusions. In addition to holes highlighted in the July 27, 2022 news release (DLM22-448, which returned 32.3 g/t gold over 4.8 metres at 955 metres depth and hole DLM22-453, which returned 6.0 g/t gold over 5.6 metres at 940 metres depth and 4.9 g/t gold over 3.7 metres at 1,019 metres depth), hole DLM22-469 intersected 5.8 g/t gold over 13.1 metres at 917 metres depth, including 24.5 g/t gold over 2.6 metres at 913 metres depth; hole DLM-22-471 intersected 0.9 g/t gold over 30.3 metres at 951 metres depth and hole DLM22-430A intersected 3.6 g/t gold over 7.3 metres at 669 metres depth.
Results obtained during the first half of 2022 after the closure of the database on February 5, 2022, combined with results during the second half of 2022, are expected to have a positive impact on the mineral reserves and mineral resources estimate for the open pit at year-end 2022.
In addition, continued success in extending the mineralized zone outside of the pit towards the west is expected to result in an initial mineral resource estimate at year-end 2022 that would be the basis for potential underground mining scenarios. As part of the ongoing optimization of the Detour Lake mine, an evaluation of the underground potential has been initiated and is expected to be completed by year-end 2023.
Regional drilling planned at Detour Lake for the remainder of 2022 includes targets further west along the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone and the West Pit Extension. These targets have been optimized by the completion of ground geophysical surveying in the second quarter of 2022 which surveyed a 105 kilometre grid west and north of Hopper Lake along main structural trends. Investigative drilling East of the Main Pit is also planned to gather new geological information at depth in relatively untested ground.
As set out in the news release of July 27, 2022, the Company increased the mineral reserves at Detour Lake by 38% as at March 31, 2022 compared to the mineral reserves as at December 31, 2021.
At March 31, 2022, the Detour Lake mine is estimated to contain proven mineral reserves of 77.6 million tonnes grading 1.12 g/t gold for approximately 2.8 million ounces of gold and probable mineral reserves of 757.5 million tonnes grading 0.72 g/t gold for approximately 17.6 million ounces of gold.
Detour Lake's measured mineral resources totaled 1.3 million ounces of gold (27.8 million tonnes grading 1.44 g/t gold) and indicated mineral resources totaled 12.9 million ounces of gold (562.3 million tonnes grading 0.71 g/t gold) at March 31, 2022. In addition, Detour Lake contained inferred mineral resources of 1.8 million ounces of gold (75.2 million tonnes grading 0.75 g/t gold) at March 31, 2022.
Macassa and AK Deposit – Underground Drilling at Macassa Intersects High Grade Gold Mineralization on Four Mine Levels; New Exploration Ramp Provides Platform to Test AK Deposit from Underground; AK Surface Drilling Completed to Support Underground Project Development
With the completion of the Merger, Agnico Eagle's land position in the Kirkland Lake area of northeastern Ontario is now centered around the Macassa mine and covers over 29,469 hectares (approximately 35 kilometres long by up to 17 kilometres wide) of this prolific mining district. The Company's assets within the camp include the Macassa mine, the adjacent AK deposit, the Upper Beaver and Upper Canada deposits farther east as well as several other occurrences and adjacent joint venture interests.
This year at Macassa, the Company expects to spend approximately $20.3 million to develop exploration drifts to support 99,850 metres of capitalized drilling to expand mineral resources and $18.9 million for 89,700 metres of exploration drilling to investigate the South Mine Complex and Main Break along strike and at depth as well as the development of an exploration drift to support drilling and access to the AK deposit.
In the first half of 2022, the Company completed approximately 49,578 metres of underground drilling at Macassa, using up to nine underground drills on the 3400, 5100, 5300 and 5800 levels.
Selected recent drill intercepts from Macassa and AK are set out in a table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal sections below.
[Macassa Mine and AK Deposit – Composite Longitudinal Section]
[AK Deposit – Composite Longitudinal Section]
Drilling from the 3410 Incline targeted an underexplored area of the '04/Main Break west of historic mining areas.
The 5100 level drill program is targeting the '04 Break west of the Amikougami Cross Fault where little historic drilling was completed. At the end of the second quarter, a total of 6,863 metres of drilling had been completed in 16 holes, with hole 51-656 returning 3.7 g/t gold over 2.3 metres at 1,506 metres depth.
Drilling on the 5300 level was focused on extending and infilling the South Mine Complex to the east, with 13,009 metres of drilling completed in 36 holes during the first half of 2022. This program continues to see favourable results from both the extension and infill drilling with highlights including: 62.7 g/t gold over 2.0 metres at 1,635 metres depth in infill hole 53-4587; 47.3 g/t gold over 2.0 metres at 1,834 metres depth and 41.8 g/t gold over 2.0 metres at 1,841 metres depth in infill hole 53-4581; 14.2 g/t gold over 2.0 metres at 1,659 metres depth in extension hole 53-4552; and 14.1 g/t gold over 2.0 metres at 1,784 metres depth in extension hole 53-4544. Development advanced 185 metres in the first half of 2022 and included the excavation of two diamond drill bays.
Drilling on the 5300 level was also focused on extending and infilling the Lower South Mine Complex and South Mine Complex West. During the first half of 2022, a total of 6,477 metres of drilling was completed in 14 holes into these two targets, with highlights that include: 12.2 g/t gold over 2.0 metres (core length) at 1,946 metres depth in hole 53-4578 in the Lower South Mine Complex; and 30.9 g/t gold over 2.1 metres (core length) at 1,639 metres depth in hole 53-4580 in the South Mine Complex West.
Drilling from the 5807 Decline mainly tested the Deep Main Break east of Shaft #4 below the Kirkland Minerals property. Exploration development continued to advance in the first half of 2022 with 120 metres completed. At the end of the second quarter of 2022, a total of 11,040 metres of drilling had been completed in 21 holes, with highlights that include: 17.5 g/t gold over 2.0 metres at 2,362 metres depth in hole 58-730; 20.5 g/t gold over 1.7 metres at 2,211 metres depth in hole 58-723; and 12.7 g/t over 2.0 metres (core length) at 1,831 metres depth in hole 58-721. Drilling into this target will continue for the remainder of the year as development continues.
AK Deposit
Following completion of the Merger, the Company initiated development of an exploration decline from the existing near surface ramp infrastructure at Macassa to provide platforms to test the AK deposit from underground.
Mineralization at the AK deposit is generally vertical and controlled by quartz-carbonate veinlet envelopes that pinch and swell vertically and laterally, varying from 1 to 15 metres in thickness with local high grade, visible gold intercepts.
Out of a planned 982 metres, a total of 809 metres of exploration ramp development has been completed to date, including the excavation of five new underground drill platforms.
An underground diamond drilling program commenced in May 2022 and, by the end of the second quarter of 2022, a total of 3,068 metres of drilling from three platforms had been completed, testing the continuity of the higher-grade area of the AK deposit. Recent highlights from this underground program include: 14.1 g/t gold over 6.5 metres at 222 metres depth in hole KLAK-010; and 23.9 g/t gold over 2.0 metres at 112 metres depth in hole KLAK-011. This phase of the underground program at AK is on schedule for completion late in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Resource conversion drilling was also conducted from surface into the AK deposit, with 48 drill holes totalling 12,692 metres completed during the first half of 2022.
The surface infill drilling confirmed the grade, continuity and thickness of the higher-grade portions of the mineralized panel at AK. Recent highlights include hole KLAKC22-162 returning 8.7 g/t gold over 7.6 metres at 146 metres depth; and hole KLAKC22-152 returning 12.9 g/t gold over 12.6 metres at 171 metres depth.
Several deeper holes drilled into AK from the surface also returned positive results, including: hole KLAKC22-163W2, which intersected 18.3 g/t gold over 2.4 metres at 407 metres depth; and hole KLAKC22-166W2, which intersected 13.0 g/t gold over 2.5 metres at 496 metres depth.
The recent drill results from surface and underground will provide additional information for the technical evaluation of the AK deposit with an expected inclusion of AK mineralization in the mine's mineral reserves in 2023.
Once drilling from underground is advanced at AK, the Company will consider developing into the AK deposit and conducting a bulk sample. The AK deposit has the potential to be beneficial to the Macassa mine operation by providing a near surface, ramp accessible source of ore to supplement underground production.
The further expansion potential of the AK deposit is now being assessed, as the elimination of property boundaries as a result of the Merger simplifies targeting and exploration in the eastern extension of the deposit.
Regional exploration will also benefit from the recent land consolidation resulting from the Merger. The historic Main Break deposit of Kirkland Lake, where over 25 million ounces of gold have been produced historically, is now consolidated from its most western known extension at Macassa to the past-producing Sylvanite mine.
The Company has applied to obtain an Exploration License of Occupation for the Toburn mine, the easternmost past-producer on the Main Break. If granted this exploration license will permit the Company to carry out a comprehensive interpretation of the Main Break orebody and identify exploration targets similar to the South Mine Complex-type mineralization east of current mining operations at Macassa.
Upper Beaver – Resource Conversion Drilling Completed and New Target Areas Being Tested Outside the Mineral Resources Footprint
The Upper Beaver deposit is a gold-copper rich orebody that contains both vein and replacement-style mineralization. It extends from surface to approximately two kilometres below surface and remains open at depth. Gold mineralization occurs either as free/visible gold that is relatively common throughout the deposit or associated with sulphides. Copper mineralization occurs predominantly as chalcopyrite and occasionally as bornite in disseminations or in stringers/stockwork veinlets.
A total of 30 holes for 14,292 metres were drilled at the Upper Beaver project during the first half of 2022.
Selected recent drill intercepts from Upper Beaver set out in a table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal section below.
[Upper Beaver – Composite Longitudinal Section]
The recently completed resource conversion drilling program at Upper Beaver achieved multiple objectives that will benefit the technical evaluation and mineral reserve and mineral resource update expected in 2023. Among them, the recent drilling filled in gaps in the eastern portion of the Footwall Zone mineralized corridor, located between 800 and 1,000 metres below surface. Highlight intercepts include 16.7 g/t gold over 7.0 metres at 865 metres depth in hole KLUB22-751W3 and 12.4 g/t gold over 9.0 metres at 920 metres depth in hole KLUB21-137W5.
An increase in mineral resources is expected from this newly drilled gap area where no information was available for previous mineral resource estimates for Upper Beaver.
In addition, all drill holes targeting the gap areas of the Footwall Zone provided the opportunity to add drilling intercepts in the main Porphyry Zone, resulting in tighter spacing and increased confidence in the shape and continuity of the zone. For example, hole KLUB22-137W5, reported above, also returned 5.0 g/t gold over 14.1 metres in the Porphyry Zone at 839 metres depth.
Deeper conversion drilling also returned results confirming grades and thicknesses for both the Porphyry and Footwall zones of the Upper Beaver deposit. Hole KLUB21-328W11 returned 4.7 g/t gold and 0.3% copper over 7.0 metres at 1,550 metres depth in the Porphyry Zone and hole KLUB21-328W15 returned 8.8 g/t gold and 0.5% copper over 12.0 metres at 1,600 metres depth in the Footwall Zone.
With the resource conversion drilling completed, the focus of drilling at Upper Beaver has shifted outside of the mineral resources footprint to identify areas of potential future mineral resource growth and two areas have already delivered promising results.
Approximately 500 metres east of the main Upper Beaver deposit, hole KLUB22-172E intersected veining and alteration typical of the mineralization observed at Upper Beaver and assays returned 3.6 g/t gold and 1.1% copper over 1.2 metres (core length) at 1,550 metres depth. Follow-up hole KLUB22-172W2 returned 11.3 g/t gold and 0.1% copper over 0.7 metres (core length) at 1,464 metres depth in the same area, and more drilling is underway to further assess this new discovery.
To the west and approximately 800 metres north of the main Upper Beaver deposit, hole KLUB22-768 intersected low-angle veining with visible gold returning 11.5 g/t gold over 5.5 metres (core length) at 618 metres depth and 51.5 g/t gold over 5.2 metres (core length) at 629 metres depth. This mineralization is interpreted as the possible faulted and offset extension of the known North Basalt zone. Exploration drilling is ongoing to define the geometry of this new mineralization.
Regional exploration activity in the greater Upper Beaver area includes diamond drilling, geophysical and geochemical surveying, mapping and prospection. The objective is to develop additional mill feed for a future Upper Beaver mining operation, which includes target areas such as Upper Canada, Anoki-McBean, Munro and Bidgood.
NUNAVUT REGION
Agnico Eagle has identified Nunavut as a politically attractive and stable jurisdiction with enormous geological potential. With the Company's Meliadine mine and Meadowbank complex (including the Amaruq satellite deposit), together with the Hope Bay project and other exploration projects, Nunavut is a strategic operating platform that builds on the Company's established infrastructure, access roads, procurement synergies and the region's tremendous geological potential, with the ability to generate strong gold production and cash flows over several decades.
Meliadine – Significant Exploration and Conversion Results from Pump Deposit Near Surface and Down-Plunge at Depth
The Meliadine property includes seven gold deposits, six of which are part of the current mine plan. Tiriganiaq is the largest of the deposits with a strike length of approximately 3.0 kilometres at surface and a known depth of 812 metres.
Exploration during the first half of 2022 at the Meliadine mine site and surrounding areas totaled 35,606 metres, with work focused on three areas: deep exploration and conversion drilling at the Pump deposit, infill drilling of inferred mineral resources at depth in the Wesmeg and Tiriganiaq deposits and exploration drilling at the F-Zone deposit.
Selected recent exploration drill intercepts from the Pump deposit at the Meliadine property are set out in a table in the Appendix and in the plan map and composite longitudinal section below.
[Meliadine Mine – Plan Map & Pump Composite Longitudinal Section]
During the first half of 2022 at the Pump deposit, the Company completed 51 holes from surface totalling 16,890 metres to convert and expand the mineral resources at the Pump South and North zones.
The positive results from infill drilling at shallow depth into the Pump South Zone are expected to convert a portion of inferred mineral resources into indicated mineral resources in the eastern (main) ore plunge. Highlights include: hole M22-3364, which intersected 6.5 g/t gold over 4.1 metres at 143 metres depth; and hole M22-3361, drilled 36 metres to the east, which intersected 11.7 g/t gold over 4.2 metres at 125 metres depth. Other notable infill drilling results include hole M22-3362, drilled 51 metres further east, which returned 6.4 g/t gold over 5.4 metres at 76 metres depth; and hole M22-3360, drilled 93 metres east of hole M22-3364, which returned 9.4 g/t gold over 3.0 metres at 87 metres depth.
Approximately 200 metres deeper down-plunge in the same gold-mineralized oreshoot, hole M22-3380A intersected 9.3 g/t gold over 4.2 metres at 328 metres depth. Hole M22-3382A, drilled 33 metres to the east, intersected 7.7 g/t gold over 5.0 metres at 321 metres depth and hole M22-3384, drilled 80 metres east of hole M22-3364, intersected 20.4 g/t gold over 3.7 metres at 339 metres depth. These holes are expected to convert inferred mineral resources located between two substantial areas of indicated mineral resources.
In 2021, the exploration drilling program identified an important mineral inventory at the limits of the mineral resource along the main plunge. This year's follow-up drilling program has confirmed the grade, thickness and continuity of this new mineralized zone. Hole M22-3391, which returned 18.8 g/t gold over 5.3 metres at 565 metres depth, is expected to extend the inferred mineral resources down plunge. Hole M22-3401, drilled into inferred mineral resources located 106 metres to the east, returned 10.1 g/t gold over 5.0 metres at 488 metres depth.
Drilling of the Pump North and Pump South targets is planned to resume next winter. An internal study is underway of the underground portion of the Pump deposit and is due for completion in early 2023.
Elsewhere on the Meliadine property in the first half of 2022, a total of 18,716 metres of exploration and conversion drilling was carried out in Tiriganiaq and Wesmeg deposits from the newly developed exploration drift as well as from surface in the F-Zone deposit.
Based on recent success of the exploration programs at Meliadine in the first half of 2022, $6 million of the additional $30 million in exploration expenditure will be dedicated to drill an additional 40,000 metres to support mineral resources to mineral reserves conversion and the addition of mineral resources in the extensions of the known deposits.
Meadowbank – Infill Drilling at Whale Tail Underground Confirms Grade and Width of Stopes with Underground Production to Ramp Up in the Second Half of 2022; Exploration Drilling in Gap Between IVR Pit and IVR Underground Returns Positive Results; Deep Drilling Campaign Underway Below Whale Tail, IVR and Mammoth
The exploration program at Amaruq in 2022 is budgeted at $19.5 million for a planned 61,800 metres of exploration and conversion drilling, with 31,996 metres of drilling completed during the first half of 2022.
The exploration drilling in 2022 has several objectives: completing definition drilling of mineral resources to allow evaluation for possible Whale Tail Pit extension at its western end toward the Mammoth prospect as well as extending mineral resources at depth in the Whale Tail, IVR and Mammoth deposits; below the IVR pit, testing a gap between the open pit and the underground mineral resources; and continuing delineation drilling in the underground mine in the Whale Tail deposit to confirm the final shapes of stopes as production will gradually ramp up in the second half of 2022.
Selected recent drill intercepts from the exploration and conversion drilling at Amaruq are set out in a table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal section below.
[Meadowbank Complex – Amaruq Composite Longitudinal Section]
Underground infill drilling in the Whale Tail deposit during the first half of 2022 has increased confidence in the geological modelling of the deposit and better defined the stopes that are scheduled for production during the second half of 2022.
Highlights from this infill drilling include: hole AMQ-290-200-F1 returning 5.2 g/t gold over 7.2 metres at 285 metres depth and 5.5 g/t gold over 20.8 metres at 284 metres depth; hole AMQ-320-200-U1 returning 5.6 g/t gold over 27.0 metres at 305 metres depth; hole AMQ-320-201-U1 returning 3.4 g/t gold over 25.2 metres at 299 metres depth; hole AMQ-320-204-F1 returning 6.3 g/t gold over 20.0 metres at 314 metres depth; and hole AMQ-320-205-U1A returning 9.3 g/t gold over 21.2 metres at 282 metres depth.
Drilling into the gap between the IVR pit and the underground IVR mineral resources intersected significant mineralization that will likely contribute to increased mineral resources and the conversion of inferred mineral resources into indicated mineral resources in the upper portion of the underground IVR mineral resources. Highlights from this drilling include 6.8 g/t gold over 5.9 metres at 223 metres depth in hole AMQ21-2729, 5.3 g/t gold over 8.1 metres at 352 metres depth in hole AMQ21-2707A, 5.4 g/t gold over 9.5 metres at 296 metres depth in hole AMQ21-2745 and 20.3 g/t gold over 5.1 metres at 336 metres depth in hole AMQ21-2728A.
Drilling along the western limits of the IVR deposit resulted in highlights such as 13.5 g/t gold over 5.2 metres at 360 metres depth and 7.3 g/t gold over 3.3 metres at 401 metres depth in hole AMQ21-2690A. In the central portion of the IVR deposit, conversion hole AMQ21-2680 returned 6.0 g/t gold over 22.4 metres at 391 metres depth.
A deep drilling campaign began at Amaruq in late April with the objective of extending underground mineral resources under the Whale Tail, IVR and Mammoth known orebodies. To date, two deep holes at Whale Tail and two others at Mammoth were completed and intersected the targeted mineralized horizons, with all results pending. Drilling is also ongoing at IVR at depth where the deposit remains open.
Hope Bay – Drilling Tests Extensions of High-Grade Zones at Doris; Larger Production Scenarios Continue to be Evaluated
On February 18, 2022, the Company announced that it decided to maintain the suspension of production activities at the Hope Bay mine in order to dedicate the infrastructure of the Hope Bay site to exploration activities. Infrastructure work for water treatment and camp maintenance is also underway while the Company is studying larger production scenarios integrating the most recent results and the progress of the ongoing exploration campaign.
The exploration program is continuing to ramp up at Hope Bay, with 136 drill holes totalling 46,658 metres completed from surface and underground during the first half of 2022. Three drill rigs are now operating underground at the Doris deposit, three drill rigs are targeting deep extensions of the Doris deposit from surface and a seventh surface drill rig is operating at the Madrid deposit.
Doris Deposit
During the first half of 2022 at the Doris deposit, three drill rigs operating underground explored extensions of the BTD Extension, BTD Connector, Connector, Central and West Valley zones, and three drill rigs at surface tested deep extensions of the BTD Connector and BTD Central zones.
Selected recent drill intercepts from these zones extensions at Doris are set out in a table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal section below.
[Doris Deposit at Hope Bay Mine – Composite Longitudinal Section]
Drill results continue to demonstrate the excellent potential to grow the Doris deposit at depth below the dike in the BTD Extension and BTD Connector zones, and in the West Valley Zone above the dike to the south.
Drilling in the northernmost portion of the BTD Extension Zone has confirmed that the main hinge zone extends further north. Recent highlights include 20.9 g/t gold over 2.3 metres at 344 metres depth in hole HBDBE22-50888 and 20.9 g/t gold over 3.5 metres at 327 metres depth in hole HBDBE22-50886. Follow up drilling is ongoing in this area.
Drilling in the BTD Connector Zone has continued to confirm the northern and southern extensions of the West Limb and has extended the East Limb at depth. Recent highlights from BTD Connector include hole HBD22-036, which intersected 6.9 g/t gold over 32.2 metres at 495 metres depth, including 25.9 g/t gold over 5.0 metres at 494 metres depth; hole HBD22-030, which intersected 12.2 g/t gold over 7.1 metres at 492 metres depth; and hole HBD22-026, which intersected 20.4 g/t gold over 3.3 metres at 550 metres depth.
Drilling in the West Valley Zone has confirmed the extension of the zone by 77 metres to the south and above the dike, and the zone appears to continue into a gap of drilling immediately below the 210-metre level. Highlights from this drilling include; 25.4 g/t gold over 3.0 metres at 286 metres depth and 21.6 g/t gold over 3.1 metres at 292 metres depth in hole HBDWV22-50979; and 25.2 g/t gold over 3.4 metres at 250 metres depth and 14.1 g/t gold over 3.3 metres at 258 metres depth in hole HBDWV22-50953.
The results further demonstrate the potential to significantly grow the Doris mineral resources to support the development of additional underground exploration drifts and platforms to further confirm the size, shape and grade of these high-grade mineralized zone extensions.
During the second half of 2022 at Doris, work will continue extending the exploration drifts and investigating the deposit from underground and surface drill rigs.
Madrid Deposit
During the first half of 2022 at the Madrid deposit, one surface drill rig was in operation and mainly targeting the inflexion zone in the Naartok East area and the vertical extension of the Suluk zone.
The first result from the 2022 campaign at Madrid was from hole HBM22-040, which was drilled outside the Naartok East inflexion zone and intersected 7.0 g/t over 7.0 metres at 385 metres depth. Results from Suluk are pending.
During the second half of 2022, two drill rigs are planned to be in operation at Madrid targeting the Suluk vertical extension and the Naartok East Zone at greater depth.
The Suluk drilling will follow-up on two historical holes (HB03PMD225 and HBTMMSU-19-00023) that respectively returned 5.6 g/t over 9.0 metres at 540 metres depth and 10.8 g/t over 4.4 metres at 698 metres depth. These two holes are the deepest intersections of the Suluk Zone to date, and the zone remains open in all directions.
The Naartok East "below the dike" drilling will target areas below a barren (non gold-bearing) diabase dike where previous operators had ended their exploration holes. A recent reinterpretation of the geology at Naartok East and Naartok West suggests there is potential for near-surface gold mineralization to continue below the dike in a manner similar to the geological setting at the Doris deposit.
Selected recent drill intercepts from Madrid are set out in a table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal section below.
[Madrid Deposit at Hope Bay Mine – Composite Longitudinal Section]
Boston Deposit
The Boston deposit is located 60 kilometres south of the Doris processing facility and is accessible by helicopter support or via a winter trail for supply and has an airstrip for small fixed-wing aircraft.
At the camp, maintenance work is underway to refurbish the various facilities prior to resuming exploration drilling activities in the area in 2023.
The Boston deposit remains open in all direction with one of the best historical results at depth returning 56.6 g/t over 8.8 metres at 1,014 metres depth, demonstrating great potential to expand this high grade deposit further in all directions. There are also several near surface high grade occurrences that have not yet been drilled. Compilation and validation of the historical exploration database at Boston is underway, and the geological and structural models for the deposit will be updated to help generate new drill targets for the 2023 campaign.
Regional field exploration
This year's regional field exploration program began in early June, with geological teams set to evaluate more than 50 showings identified by previous explorers near current infrastructure in the northern portion of the Hope Bay property. The aim of the program is to increase understanding of the structural controls on mineralization and generate regional drill targets.
Exploration Plan and Budget
Based on recent success identifying deposit extensions and discovering new mineralized zones at depth in the Doris and Madrid deposits, the Company has allocated $24 million of the additional $30 million in exploration expenditure to continue drilling and development of exploration drifts at Doris in order to accelerate exploration from underground in the high potential areas that will ease future definition drilling for mineral resources conversion and mine development for future production resumption. The Company is now expected to spend approximately $56 million at Hope Bay in 2022 to develop new exploration drifts and for surface and underground exploration drilling at Doris and for surface exploration drilling on exploration at Madrid and other regional targets along the Hope Bay greenstone belt.
Exploration at Hope Bay is expected to continue through 2023 while larger production scenarios are being evaluated.
AUSTRALIA
Agnico Eagle acquired the Fosterville mine on February 8, 2022 as a result of the Merger. As the largest gold producer in the state of Victoria, Australia, the 100% owned Fosterville mine is a high-grade underground gold mine, located 20 kilometres from the city of Bendigo. The operation features low-cost gold production, as well as extensive in-mine and district scale exploration potential.
Fosterville – Exploration Ramp Completed Reaching the Robbins Hill Deposit; Drilling Extends the Lower Phoenix Zone
The Fosterville mine is hosted by Paleozoic rocks of the Bendigo zone. Gold mineralization is associated with high grade quartz lode within a wider refractory pyrite-arsenopyrite disseminated mineralization. The 2,857 hectare Fosterville mine property is surrounded by four exploration licences totalling 107,959 hectares and by 118,384 hectares of exploration (118,300 hectares) and mine (84 hectares) lease applications. The mineralization is hosted within the Fosterville and O'Dwyer's trends, which are parallel structures that host ore shoots associated with fold closures and multiple faulting and splay features.
Near mine exploration remains the main focus at Fosterville as the deposits remains open at depth, along plunge and laterally in the Lower Phoenix and Robbins Hill zones. A primary exploration objective at Fosterville remains to investigate for high grade quartz vein structures similar to the Swan Zone within the wider sulphide-mineralized envelope in the Lower Phoenix and Robbins Hill zones.
At the Fosterville mine in 2022, the Company expects to spend approximately $57.3 million for 234,000 metres of expensed and capitalized drilling and the completion of the Robbins Hill exploration ramp. During the first half of 2022 at the Fosterville mine, expensed exploration drilling totaled 26,957 metres and capitalized conversion drilling totaled 46,792 metres.
Recent results in the Lower Phoenix Zone from the Phoenix 3912 Drill Drive returned significant results in the down plunge extension of the zone. Close to the current limit of the mineral resources, hole UDH4378 returned 31.5 g/t gold over 8.0 metres at 1,581 metres depth, including 306.8 g/t gold over 0.7 metres at 1,583 metres depth. And approximately 81 metres away from the current mineral resources limit, hole UDH4372A returned 226.2 g/t gold over 1.4 metres at 1,716 metres depth, including 420.2 g/t gold over 0.8 metres, demonstrating the potential for the addition of mineral resources. Ongoing conversion and exploration drilling is aiming to fully replace the gold ounces mined out in 2022.
The decline into the Robbins Hill is now complete and is allowing access to drill into the mineral resources area. In the down plunge extension of the Robbins Hill, hole UDR003A returned 5.1 g/t gold over 6.1 metres at 1,377 metres depth, approximately 427 metres from the current mineral resource envelope, further demonstrating potential for the addition of mineral resources. Closer to the mineral resources area, hole UDR015 returned 68.0 g/t gold over 4.9 metres at 1,106 metres depth, including 390.2 g/t gold over 0.7 metres at 1,106 metres depth, approximately 75 metres away from the current mineral resources outline. The very high gold grades intersected in hole UDR015 down-plunge of the Robbins Hill mineral resources are due to the presence of visible gold in quartz vein mineralization — a style of mineralization similar to what is seen in the Swan Zone.
The ramp will now allow ongoing infill and expansion drilling with the objective of converting mineral resources into mineral reserves by year-end 2022.
Selected recent drill results from Fosterville are set out in the table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal sections below.
[Fosterville Mine – Composite Longitudinal Section]
[Lower Phoenix – Composite Longitudinal Section]
FINLAND
Agnico Eagle's Kittila mine in Finland is the largest primary gold producer in Europe. An underground shaft is under construction and is expected to be commissioned in late 2022 or early 2023.
Kittila – Drilling Confirms and Extends Main and Sisar Zones in Rimpi, Roura and Suuri Areas; Mineralization Confirmed in New Target Area Below Shaft Currently Under Construction
The Kittila mine and the Suurikuusikko property are hosted by Proterozoic rocks of the Svecofennian province. Gold mineralization is refractory with the gold occurring mainly associated with arsenopyrite and pyrite within the Suurikiisikko break. The large 20,466 hectare Kittila property hosts additional parallel structures that have similarities to the Suurikuusikko main break.
Near mine exploration remains the main focus as the deposit is open at depth and laterally and exploration drilling in recent years has succeeded in deepening the Kittila mineral resources limit by approximately 560 metres to 2,100 metres depth. A primary exploration objective at Kittila is to grow and develop the Sisar Zone as a new mining horizon parallel to the producing Main Zone.
At the Kittila mine in 2022, the Company expects to spend approximately $12.4 million for 69,600 metres of drilling focused on the Main zone in the Roura and Rimpi areas as well as the Sisar zone. The drilling includes 46,800 metres of capitalized conversion drilling at the mine and 22,800 metres of expensed exploration drilling. The expensed drilling is focused on targets beyond the current mineral reserve area, especially from 1,500 to 2,000 metres depth and at shallower depths in the area north of the mine.
During the first half of 2022 at the Kittila mine, exploration drilling totaled 35 holes (18,678 metres) and conversion drilling totaled 63 holes (21,518 metres).
Selected recent drill results from Kittila are set out in the table in the Appendix and in the composite longitudinal section below.
[Kittila Mine – Composite Longitudinal Section]
Deep exploration drilling is ongoing around hole ROD15-704D (reported in February 2016) in a target area located approximately 1,700 to 1,900 metres below surface in the Sisar Zone. In early 2022, drilling confirmed the potential to extend the gold mineralization in this target area, with highlight hole RIE21-700E returning two intercepts in the Sisar Zone of 6.3 g/t gold over 13.6 metres at 1,948 metres depth (released on February 23, 2022) and 5.7 g/t gold over 3.7 metres at 1,973 metres depth (released on April 28, 2022). Newly reported hole RIE21-700F intersected 3.0 g/t gold over 3.7 metres at 1,958 metres depth within the target area, further extending the Sisar zone at depth to the north.
At shallower depths in the northernmost portion of the Sisar Zone, hole RIE21-608 intersected 6.4 g/t gold over 4.9 metres at 1,067 metres depth, demonstrating the potential for further extension of the Sisar Zone to the north.
Exploration drilling completed in the first half of 2022 in the contact area between the Suuri and Roura areas extended gold mineralization down-plunge from the Suuri area within both the Main and Sisar zones. Highlights from this target area include: hole ROU21-600, which intersected 4.3 g/t gold over 6.0 metres at 1,046 metres depth in the Main Zone; hole ROU22-600, which intersected 7.0 g/t gold over 3.1 metres at 1,120 metres depth in the Sisar Zone; and hole ROU22-603, which intersected 5.3 g/t gold over 4.7 metres at 1,206 metres depth in the Sisar Zone.
Positive exploration results were also achieved further north in the Roura area. In the Main Zone, highlight intersections include 3.1 g/t gold over 7.7 metres at 1,058 metres depth and 4.8 g/t gold over 3.2 metres at 1,087 metres depth in hole ROD21-711B; 3.6 g/t gold over 6.2 metres at 1,057 metres depth in hole ROU22-605; and 3.7 g/t gold over 5.6 metres at 1,048 metres depth in hole ROD21-707. In the Sisar zone, hole ROD21-705 returned 5.2 g/t gold over 3.0 metres at 1,402 metres depth.
Exploration drilling is also ongoing in the deepest portion of the Suuri area in proximity to the proposed bottom of the new shaft currently under construction. In the Sisar Zone highlights from the first half of 2022 include 4.2 g/t gold over 4.7 metres at 1,121 metres depth in hole SUU22-600 and 3.8 g/t gold over 4.9 metres at 1,366 metres depth in hole SUU22-601. These intercepts have extended Suuri at depth, where mineralization in both the Main and Sisar zones remains open at depth and to the north and south.
MEXICO
Agnico Eagle's operations in Mexico have been a solid source of precious metals production (gold and silver) since 2009.
Pinos Altos – Drilling at Cubiro and Pinos Altos Deep Confirms and Extends High-Grade Gold Mineralization
At the Pinos Altos mine in 2022, the Company expects to spend approximately $4.3 million for 22,400 metres of drilling, including 17,400 metres of exploration expensed drilling and 5,000 metres of definition capitalized drilling.
Exploration drilling during the first half of 2022 focused on two targets: the Cubiro deposit, located nine kilometres northwest of the Pinos Altos mine site; and the deep extensions of the Cerro Colorado and Oberon de Weber zones at the Pinos Altos mine. The expensed exploration drilling totaled 7,671 metres and definition and conversion drilling totaled 2,238 metres.
At Cubiro, infill drilling was undertaken on the western part of the main Cubiro corridor. Exploration was also conducted to confirm and extend the North Cubiro structure laterally towards the southeast, leading to the discovery of a new mineralized ore shoot with a highlight result of 2.2 g/t gold and 24 g/t silver over 11.0 metres at 210 metres depth, including 10.0 g/t gold and 73 g/t silver over 2.7 metres in hole CBUG-22-175.
At the Pinos Altos Deep project, exploration holes were drilled in the vertical extension of the Cerro Colorado and Oberon de Weber zones, with the aim of extending structures at depth below the lowest production level. Highlights include 3.1 g/t gold and 301 g/t silver over 11.6 metres at 649 metres depth, including 4.1 g/t gold and 679 g/t silver over 5.8 metres at 648 metres depth in hole UG22-283.
Exploration at Pinos Altos will continue to investigate extensions of known mineralized zones and test new targets for the remainder of 2022.
Selected recent intercepts from drilling at the Cubiro deposit and the Pinos Altos Deep project at the Pinos Altos mine are set out in the table in the Appendix and in the plan map and composite longitudinal sections below.
[Pinos Altos Mine – Cubiro and Pinos Altos Plan Map]
[Pinos Altos Mine – Pinos Altos Composite Longitudinal Section]
[Pinos Altos Mine – Cubiro Composite Longitudinal Section]
La India – Drilling in Main Zone Shows Potential to Enlarge Open Pit to the West; Regional Exploration at La India Remains Focused on Chipriona Deposit and Other Sulphide Opportunities
At the La India mine in 2022, the Company expects to spend approximately $2.8 million for 13,000 metres of expensed exploration drilling near the mine and $3.0 million for 5,000 metres of expensed regional exploration drilling, field work including geological sampling, and new target generation.
Exploration drilling during the first half of 2022 had two objectives: testing the western extension of the Main Zone, with expensed exploration drilling totalling 5,412 metres (46 drill holes); and conducting infill drilling in the Chipriona deposit totalling 10,026 metres (58 drill holes). Regional exploration of early stage targets totaled another 5,038 metres (20 drill holes).
In the Main Zone, recent drilling has demonstrated a potential opportunity to enlarge the open pit towards an extension on the western fringe of the pit, with a recent highlight intersection of 1.1 g/t gold over 31.4 metres at 113 metres depth in hole INMRC22-2512.
Infill drilling at Chipriona continued to return high grade polymetallic mineralization throughout the deposit, with recent highlight intersections in hole CHP22-134 of 8.6 g/t gold, 452 g/t silver, 0.29% lead and 0.49% zinc over 14.5 metres at 139 metres depth, including 37.1 g/t gold, 1,520 g/t silver, 0.18% lead and 0.41% zinc over 3.0 metres at 134 metres depth. The Company is evaluating further drilling at Chipriona along strike to grow the mineral resources as it continues to study options to process sulphide ore at La India.
In regional exploration at La India, the Company continued to investigate for new oxide and sulphide mineralization targets including La Rocossa, Los Pinos, Ramona and Tres de Mayo.
Selected recent drill intercepts from the Main Zone and Chipriona deposit are set out in the table in the Appendix and in the plan map below.
[La India Mine – Chipriona Geology Plan Map]
Santa Gertrudis – Infill Drilling Program Targets Wide, Shallow Oxide Mineralization in Multiple Targets; Regional Exploration Grows Shallow Oxides and Investigates Potential for High-Grade Feeder System at Depth
At the Santa Gertrudis project in 2022, the Company expects to spend approximately $13.9 million for 43,150 metres of drilling, including 16,500 metres of infill drilling in the Cristina deposit and the series of deposits in the Zona Central trend as well as 26,650 metres of exploration drilling in several deposits including Amelia and Santa Teresa with a focus on growing mineral resources.
During the first half of 2022 at Santa Gertrudis, exploration drilling totaled 56 holes (26,780 metres) and infill drilling totaled 160 holes (14,712 metres).
Infill drilling completed in the first half of 2022 targeted shallow oxide mineralization in several deposits: Zona Central, Corridor Corral, Escondida, Greta and Cristina to advance scenarios to initiate mining in the oxide mineralization. Drilling at Cristina returned near-surface, broad intercepts of oxide mineralization. Highlights include 1.1 g/t gold over 54.8 metres at 59 metres depth in hole SG21-048 and 0.8 g/t gold over 34.0 metres at 45 metres depth in hole SG22-179.
Exploration drilling continued on several deposits during first half of 2022. At the Santa Teresa deposit, shallow oxide mineralization continued to grow with highlight results of 1.4 g/t gold over 9.6 metres at 123 metres depth in hole SGE22-567. At the Amelia deposit, exploration in the eastern, western and deep fringes of the deposit continued with highlight results of 5.3 g/t gold over 6.1 metres at 842 metres depth in hole SGE21-524. Elsewhere on the property, exploration continued to investigate for a high-grade feeder system below several shallow deposits including Toro, Centauro and Bertha with a highlight of 10.0 g/t gold over 6.1 metres at 72 metres depth in hole SGE21-525 in the Toro deposit.
Exploration at the Santa Gertrudis property for the rest of the year will continue the investigation by drilling of several targets generated by field work with the objective of growing the mineral resources while different scenarios for future project development are being considered.
Selected recent drill results from the Santa Gertrudis project are set out in a table in the Appendix and in the local geology map below.
[Santa Gertrudis Project – Local Geology Map]
About Agnico Eagle
Agnico Eagle is a senior Canadian gold mining company, producing precious metals from operations in Canada, Australia, Finland and Mexico. It has a pipeline of high-quality exploration and development projects in these countries as well as in the United States and Colombia. Agnico Eagle is a partner of choice within the mining industry, recognized globally for its leading environmental, social and governance practices. The Company was founded in 1957 and has consistently created value for its shareholders, declaring a cash dividend every year since 1983.
Further Information
For further information regarding Agnico Eagle, contact Investor Relations at info@agnicoeagle.com or call (416) 947-1212.
Forward-Looking Statements
The information in this news release has been prepared as at August 11, 2022. Certain statements contained in this news release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" under the provisions of Canadian provincial securities laws and are referred to herein as "forward-looking statements". All statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address circumstances, events, activities or developments that could, or may or will occur are forward looking statements. When used in this news release, the words "anticipate", "could", "estimate", "expect", "forecast", "future", "plan", "possible", "potential", "will" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements include, without limitation: the Company's forward-looking guidance, including metal production, estimated ore grades, recovery rates, project timelines, drilling results and life of mine estimates; the estimated timing and conclusions of technical studies and evaluations; the methods by which ore will be extracted or processed; statements concerning the Company's expansion plans at Detour, Kittila, Meliadine Phase 2, the Amaruq underground project and the Odyssey project, including the timing, funding, completion and commissioning thereof and production therefrom; statements about the Company's plans at the Hope Bay mine; statements concerning other expansion projects, recovery rates, mill throughput, optimization and projected exploration, including costs and other estimates upon which such projections are based; estimates of future mineral reserves, mineral resources, mineral production and sales; the projected development of certain ore deposits, including estimates of exploration, development and production and other capital costs and estimates of the timing of such exploration, development and production or decisions with respect to such exploration, development and production; estimates of mineral reserves and mineral resources and the effect of drill results on future mineral reserves and mineral resources; statements regarding the Company's ability to obtain the necessary permits and authorizations in connection with its proposed or current exploration, development and mining operations and the anticipated timing thereof; statements regarding operations at and expansion of the Kitilla mine; statements regarding anticipated future exploration; the anticipated timing of events with respect to the Company's mine sites; and statements regarding anticipated trends with respect to the Company's operations, exploration and the funding thereof. Such statements reflect the Company's views as at the date of this news release and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of factors and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by Agnico Eagle as of the date of such statements, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. The material factors and assumptions used in the preparation of the forward looking statements contained herein, which may prove to be incorrect, include, but are not limited to, the assumptions set forth herein and in management's discussion and analysis ("MD&A") and the Company's Annual Information Form ("AIF") for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with Canadian securities regulators and that are included in its Annual Report on Form 40-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 ("Form 40-F") filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") as well as: that governments, the Company or others do not take additional measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic or otherwise that, individually or in the aggregate, materially affect the Company's ability to operate its business; that cautionary measures taken in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic do not affect productivity; that measures taken relating to, or other effects of, the COVID-19 pandemic do not affect the Company's ability to obtain necessary supplies and deliver them to its mine sites; that there are no significant disruptions affecting operations; that production, permitting, development, expansion and the ramp up of operations at each of Agnico Eagle's properties proceeds on a basis consistent with current expectations and plans; that the relevant metal prices, foreign exchange rates and prices for key mining and construction supplies (including labour) will be consistent with Agnico Eagle's expectations; that Agnico Eagle's current estimates of mineral reserves, mineral resources, mineral grades and metal recovery are accurate; that there are no material delays in the timing for completion of ongoing growth projects; that seismic activity at the Company's operations at LaRonde, Goldex and other properties is as expected by the Company; that the Company's current plans to optimize production are successful; and that there are no material variations in the current tax and regulatory environment. Many factors, known and unknown, could cause the actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. Such risks include, but are not limited to: the extent and manner to which COVID-19, and measures taken by governments, the Company or others to attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19, may affect the Company, whether directly or through effects on employee health, workforce productivity and availability (including the ability to transport personnel to fly-in/fly-out camps), travel restrictions, contractor availability, supply availability, ability to sell or deliver gold dore bars or concentrate, availability of insurance and the cost thereof, the ability to procure inputs required for the Company's operations and projects or other aspects of the Company's business; uncertainties with respect to the effect on the global economy associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and measures taken to reduce the spread of COVID-19, any of which could negatively affect financial markets, including the trading price of the Company's shares and the price of gold, and could adversely affect the Company's ability to raise capital; the volatility of prices of gold and other metals; uncertainty of mineral reserves, mineral resources, mineral grades and mineral recovery estimates; uncertainty of future production, project development, capital expenditures and other costs; foreign exchange rate fluctuations; financing of additional capital requirements; cost of exploration and development programs; seismic activity at the Company's operations, including the LaRonde complex and Goldex mine; mining risks; community protests, including by First Nations groups; risks associated with foreign operations; governmental and environmental regulation; the volatility of the Company's stock price; and risks associated with the Company's currency, fuel and by-product metal derivative strategies. For a more detailed discussion of such risks and other factors that may affect the Company's ability to achieve the expectations set forth in the forward-looking statements contained in this news release, see the AIF and MD&A filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and included in the Form 40-F filed on EDGAR at www.sec.gov, as well as the Company's other filings with the Canadian securities regulators and the SEC. Other than as required by law, the Company does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements.
Notes to Investors Regarding the Use of Mineral Resources
The mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates contained in this news release have been prepared in accordance with the Canadian securities administrators' (the "CSA") National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101").
For United States reporting purposes, the SEC adopted amendments to its disclosure rules (the "SEC Modernization Rules") to modernize the mining property disclosure requirements for issuers whose securities are registered with the SEC under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), which became effective February 25, 2019. The SEC Modernization Rules more closely align the SEC's disclosure requirements and policies for mining properties with current industry and global regulatory practices and standards, including NI 43-101, and replace the historical property disclosure requirements for mining registrants that were included in SEC Industry Guide 7. Issuers were required to comply with the SEC Modernization Rules in their first fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, though Canadian issuers that report in the United States using the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System ("MJDS") may still use NI 43-101 rather than the SEC Modernization Rules when using the SEC's MJDS registration statement and annual report forms. Accordingly, mineral reserve and mineral resource information contained in this news release may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by United States companies.
As a result of the adoption of the SEC Modernization Rules, the SEC now recognizes estimates of "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources." In addition, the SEC has amended definitions of "proven mineral reserves" and "probable mineral reserves" in the SEC Modernization Rules, with definitions that are substantially similar to those used in NI 43-101.
Investors are cautioned that while the SEC now recognizes "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources", investors should not assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in these categories will ever be converted into a higher category of mineral resources or into mineral reserves. These terms have a great amount of uncertainty as to their economic and legal feasibility. Under Canadian regulations, estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, except in limited circumstances. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources", or "inferred mineral resources" that the Company reports in this news release are or will be economically or legally mineable.
Further, "inferred mineral resources" have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence and as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that any part or all of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category.
The mineral reserve and mineral resource data set out in this news release are estimates, and no assurance can be given that the anticipated tonnages and grades will be achieved or that the indicated level of recovery will be realized. The Company does not include equivalent gold ounces for by-product metals contained in mineral reserves in its calculation of contained ounces and mineral reserves are not reported as a subset of mineral resources.
Scientific and Technical Information
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release relating to exploration, mineral reserves and mineral resources have been approved by Guy Gosselin, Eng. and P.Geo., Executive Vice President, Exploration and Eric Kallio, P.Geo, Executive Vice President, Exploration Strategy & Growth, each of whom is a "Qualified Person" for the purposes of NI 43-101.
Additional Information
Additional information about each of the Company's material mineral projects as at December 31, 2021, including information regarding data verification, key assumptions, parameters and methods used to estimate mineral reserves and mineral resources and the risks that could materially affect the development of the mineral reserves and mineral resources required by sections 3.2 and 3.3 and paragraphs 3.4(a), (c) and (d) of NI 43-101 can be found in the Company's AIF and MD&A filed on SEDAR each of which forms a part of the Company's Form 40-F filed with the SEC on EDGAR and in the following technical reports filed on SEDAR in respect of the Company's material mineral properties: 2005 LaRonde Mineral Resource & Mineral Reserve Estimate Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. LaRonde Division (March 23, 2005); NI 43-101 Technical Report Canadian Malartic Mine, Québec, Canada (March 25, 2021); Technical Report on the Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves at Meadowbank Gold Complex including the Amaruq Satellite Mine Development, Nunavut, Canada as at December 31, 2017 (February 14, 2018); the Updated Technical Report on the Meliadine Gold Project, Nunavut, Canada (February 11, 2015); the Detour Lake Operation Ontario, Canada NI 43-101 Technical report as at July 26, 2021 (October 15, 2021); and the Updated NI 43-101 Technical Report Fosterville Gold Mine in the State of Victoria, Australia as at December 31, 2018 (April 1, 2019).
Note Regarding Drill Results Tables
The pierce points for the drill results in this news release are shown on accompanying composite longitudinal sections. The drill collar coordinates for each hole are set out in a table in the Appendix. Intercepts reported show uncapped and capped grades when appropriate over estimated true widths, based on geological interpretation that is being updated as new information becomes available with further drilling.
APPENDIX
Recent Selected Exploration Drill Results
LZ5 mine and Zone 11-3 at LaRonde complex
South Zone at Goldex
Odyssey South Zone and East Gouldie deposit at Canadian Malartic
Saddle, West Pit and West Pit Extension zones at Detour Lake
Macassa and AK deposit
Upper Beaver deposit at Kirkland Lake Regional
Pump deposit at Meliadine
IVR and Whale Tail deposits at Amaruq
Doris and Madrid deposits at Hope Bay
Fosterville
Main and Sisar zones in the Rimpi, Roura and Suuri areas at Kittila
Cubiro deposit and Pinos Altos Deep project at Pinos Altos
Main Zone and Chipriona deposit at La India
Santa Gertrudis
EXPLORATION DRILL HOLE COLLAR COORDINATES
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NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA) between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 3, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Carvana securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Carvana class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6457 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 3, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has weighed in on a civil lawsuit against two conservative political operatives accused of using robocalls to dissuade Black voters from taking part in the 2020 election.
The department said Friday that defense lawyers for the two men were misinterpreting the Voting Rights Act, although the department emphasized that it was not taking sides in the civil litigation and is not a party to the suit.
The robocalls falsely told voters that if they voted by mail, their information would be used by law enforcement to track old warrants and by credit card companies to collect debts — even by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to track people for mandatory vaccinations.
“Don’t be finessed into giving your private information to the man, stay safe and beware of vote by mail,” the automated recording said.
Political operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, a lobbyist, were sued in 2020 by a nonpartisan civil rights organization, The National Coalition on Black Civil Participation, and several individuals who received the calls in August 2020.
The Justice Department said Friday the plain language of the Voting Rights Act “prohibits threats of non-physical harm, as well as attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, whether they were racially motivated or not.”
In a federal court filing in Manhattan, Washington-based attorneys in the department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in New York said the Wohl and Burkman's defense misrepresented the scope of the Voting Rights Act in arguing the law doesn’t cover conduct that threatens economic or legal consequences that are unlikely to occur, conduct that does not target minority voters, or conduct that does not successfully dissuade voters from voting.
In all, nearly 85,000 robocalls were sent to residents of predominantly Black neighborhoods in New York, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Two years ago, Judge Victor Marrero ordered corrective calls to go out to nearly 30,000 recipients, saying the calls amounted to “electoral terror.”
In a court filing Friday, lawyers for Wohl and Burkman defended the robocalls, saying they are protected by the First Amendment.
They called the content of the robocalls “substantially true” and said there was no evidence aside from “speculation and hearsay” to indicate that the robocalls influenced voting in the 2020 presidential election.
They defense said the calls didn't target specific races or ethnicities, and there was no evidence the men sought to induce or compel anyone not to vote.
However, the plaintiffs wrote in court papers that Wohl sent Burkman the voiceover in an email and wrote, “Attached is the audio file for the robo call. We should send it to black neighborhoods in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Richmond, Atlanta, and Cleveland.”
The defendants have both invoked their Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.
Christopher Dunn, legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, called the Justice Department filing “a welcome sign that the federal government is committed to defending voters.”
He added: “With all that is happening in our country now, it’s essential that voters be protected from intimidation and threats.”
Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Leticia James's office announced Friday a settlement with a company her office said made thousands of the robocalls.
The settlement calls for Message Communications to pay $50,000 in restitution to people who received the calls. The company must also send out a voter protection robocall approved by a nonpartisan voter rights organization. It will screen future customers and election-related robocalls in order to prevent intimidating messages from being sent.
An email message was left Friday with an attorney representing the company. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/08/13/justice-dept--weighs-in-on-2020-election-robocall-suit | 2022-08-13T19:43:16Z | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/08/13/justice-dept--weighs-in-on-2020-election-robocall-suit | false |
BJP cadre lob slippers at Finance Minister Thiaga Rajan’s car outside Madurai airport
‘Chief Minister M.K. Stalin should ask for an explanation from Mr. Thiaga Rajan’
Tension prevailed at the Madurai Airport on Saturday even before the body of soldier D. Lakshmanan could be brought for the wreath-laying ceremony. Some of the BJP cadre, who had gathered there, alleged that Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan had passed derogatory remarks against them.
The BJP worker alleged that Mr. Thiaga Rajan had passed the remarks, irked by the presence of a crowd of the party’s supporters. A verbal duel of sorts followed before personnel from army and police personnel intervened.
Following the wreath-laying ceremony, the BJP cadre hurled footwear at the official vehicle of Mr. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan. At least five BJP functionaries have been arrested following the incident, police said.
The incident occurred despite a large posse of police personnel having been deployed at the Madurai airport.
Separately, in a complaint lodged with the Madurai Police Commissioner, Madurai district BJP treasurer G. Rajkumar called for appropriate action against the Finance Minister.
‘BJP for peace’
Responding to a query on the incident, BJP State president K. Annamalai told reporters in Karaikudi that it was wrong to indulge in violence against the Finance Minister. The BJP, he said, has been propagating peace and development. The party has a rich tradition of respecting every citizen. Attacking or hurling footwear at the Minister's vehicle was condemnable. However, he said that according to the Madurai district BJP president P. Saravanan, it was the Minister’s provocative speech that had resulted in the incident.
As per protocol, after the government (i.e. the Minister, the Collector, MLA and other elected representatives) paid their respects to the martyr, political parties and leaders would be permitted to offer their homage to the departed soul.
The DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin should ask for an explanation from Mr. Thiaga Rajan on what happened in the airport and take action against him for his utterances, Mr. Annamalai demanded.
Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration P. Moorthy, in a statement, condemned the act of the BJP functionaries, who hurled footwear at the vehicle of Mr. Thiaga Rajan and said the DMK would press for legal action. Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, CPI (M) and Dravidar Kazhagam condemned the BJP for the incident.
In a statement, TNCC president K.S. Alagiri said: “Every action of the BJP is committed with political interests in mind. They must stop acting without tolerance or political decency. If these actions are going to continue, they will have to face the consequences,” he said.
CPI (M) State Secretary K. Balakrishnan said the BJP cadre sought to gain political mileage even with the death of a soldier. Dravidar Kazhagam president K. Veeramani called for vigilance to watch the actions of the BJP and RSS. Mr. Thiaga Rajan, who had attended a convocation ceremony in Madurai, told reporters that he was saddened over the demise of the soldier. “I was in touch with the officials in the Defence ministry over the last two days. I do not want to get involved in petty politics, when the country had lost a brave soldier.” he said.
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All-girls private school welcoming anyone who identifies as female
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - A Nashville all-girls private school is welcoming transgender students.
Harpeth Hall School, a private, college-preparatory school for girls, says anyone who identifies as female can apply to the school.
This week, school officials shared a statement that “Harpeth Hall is a girls school” and “any student who identifies as a girl may apply to our school.”
“To be one of the first single-sex schools to take a stance on it, you’re going to draw a lot of attention from that,” Courtney Vick, a 2008 graduate of Harpeth Hall, said.
WSMV reports the school is taking a step to include transgender individuals, which Vick supports.
“I do hope that some students who previously didn’t feel comfortable apply to Harpeth Hall now,” Vick said.
A spokesperson with Harpeth Hall said the school’s application process would remain the same, and it receives many applications each year for a limited number of openings.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 13, 2022
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JK Rowling shows support for Salman Rushdie, receives death threat after: ‘You’re next’
'Harry Potter' author JK Rowling is working with police over death threat
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has received a death threat after showing support for Salman Rushdie – who was attacked in New York right before giving a lecture.
Rowling took to Twitter Friday and wrote, "Horrifying news. Feeling very sick right now. Let him be ok."
After the supportive tweet, a Twitter user named Meer Asif Aziz replied with: "Don’t worry you are next."
Aziz is reportedly an Iran-backing Islamist extremist praising Rushdie’s attacker, according to the Daily Mail.
He also described himself on Twitter as a student, social, political and research activist, based in Karachi, and born in Pakistan in 1999. Aziz’s Twitter account has been deleted since.
Rowling has tweeted: "@TwitterSupport any chance of some support?" with a screenshot of the death threat.
She also updated fans with another tweet after that read: "To all sending supportive messages: thank you…Police are involved (were already involved on other threats)," followed by heart emojis.
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Rushdie was stabbed multiple times before a speech at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, on Friday. The attacker allegedly rushed onto the stage and stabbed him in the neck. Rushdie is undergoing surgery at a local hospital.
The author was last reported to be on a ventilator and unable to speak.
JK ROWLING BLASTS MASKED TRANS ACTIVISTS FOR ATTACKING FEMINIST PROTESTER
The man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie has been charged with attempted murder in the second degree along with second degree assault, reports said Saturday.
The 24-year-old Hadi Matar is being held in the upstate New York Chautauqua County Jail after he was transferred from New York State Police barracks in Jamestown following the Friday attack. Matar was scheduled to be arraigned Saturday.
ALLEGED SALMAN RUSHDIE ATTACKER CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER, HELD WITH NO BAIL
Meanwhile, Rowling has faced criticism from progressive pundits over her stance on transgenderism, particularly as it relates to children and women's opportunities, like sports.
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In 2020, Rowling made headlines when she tweeted: "If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth."
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WILKES-BARRE — A vehicle crash when Hope Lynn Remus was a teenager started a downward trend leading to a drug addiction and taking to the streets, her attorney said Thursday.
Remus, 50, of South Welles Street, Wilkes-Barre, appeared before Luzerne County Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. to be sentenced on a prostitution charge – her 14th conviction for prostitution dating back to the mid-1990s.
Wilkes-Barre police charged Remus in August 2018 during an undercover prostitution sting in the area of Academy and South Main streets.
Remus approached an undercover officer and offered to perform a sex act for cash, court records say.
When Remus entered the vehicle, the undercover officer identified himself as a police officer.
Remus pled guilty March 14 to prostitution but failed to appear for her sentencing hearing May 5.
She was captured June 5 and jailed at the county correctional facility.
Her attorney, Stephanie T. Fernandes, said Remus recently lost a family member as a reason she missed her sentencing hearing.
When she was jailed in June, Fernandes said Remus weighed 95 pounds but is doing much better.
Sklarosky noted most of Remus’ criminal history involved “self-destruction” type offenses.
Remus was sentenced to nine-months to two years in jail at the county correctional facility. She was given credit for 68 days time served and ordered by Sklarosky to perform 25 hours of community service.
Court records say Remus has 13 prostitution related convictions from 1997 through 2003. | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1569481/woman-sentenced-for-14th-prostitution-conviction | 2022-08-13T20:28:38Z | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1569481/woman-sentenced-for-14th-prostitution-conviction | true |
Man United routed 4-0 at Brentford despite Ronaldo starting
LONDON (AP) — Manchester United plumbed new depths with a 4-0 capitulation at Brentford to send Erik ten Hag’s team into meltdown after just two games of the Premier League season. Through a mixture of defensive ineptitude and Brentford’s opportunism, United was 4-0 down at halftime for the first time in a Premier League game. Mistakes by goalkeeper David De Gea gifted the first two goals to Josh Dasilva and Mathias Jensen, Ben Mee nodded in the third at a corner and Bryan Mbeumo hit a slick fourth on the counterattack on a chastening afternoon for the visitors. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/13/man-united-routed-4-0-at-brentford-despite-ronaldo-starting/ | 2022-08-13T20:29:38Z | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/13/man-united-routed-4-0-at-brentford-despite-ronaldo-starting/ | false |
For the first two centuries of U.S. history, outgoing presidents simply took their documents with them when they left the White House. The materials were considered their personal property.
But for the past four decades, every presidential document — from notebook doodles to top-secret security plans — is supposed to go directly to the National Archives as the material is considered the property of the American people.
So when former President Donald Trump left office on Jan. 20, 2021, all his records should have traveled from the White House to the National Archives, according to Jason Baron, who served as director of litigation at the National Archives for 13 years.
"No president has the right to retain presidential records after he or she leaves office," Baron said. "And so it is an extraordinary circumstance if presidential records are found in a former president's residence or anywhere else under his control."
But some records – both paper and electronic – were being kept at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Officials found 15 boxes worth of documents from Trump's property in January.
And on Monday, the FBI collected 11 more sets of documents, including four marked "top secret," three marked "secret" and three labeled "confidential." At least one set of documents was labeled "top secret/sensitive compartmented information." Those are the three separate levels for classified government documents.
The warrant that authorized the search said the FBI was investigating a number of possible crimes, including violations of the Espionage Act. Trump has not been charged with any crime and denies any wrongdoing.
Why can't presidents keep their documents these days?
The rules changed for one reason: Watergate.
When President Nixon resigned amid the 1974 scandal, he wanted to take his documents to his home in California — including his infamous tape recordings.
Congress realized it would not have access to that material, and they also feared it could be destroyed. So legislators passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act, which made all of Nixon's material public property.
However, that measure applied to Nixon only. In 1978, Congress passed the more sweeping Presidential Records Act that has been the standard ever since.
"Every president, when they leave office, those records that have been created by the president and his staff are presidential records that go to the National Archives," Baron said. "The owner is the American people."
This includes all presidential material, whether it's routine, unclassified notes or top-secret national security documents.
Before these laws, there were really no rules covering presidential records. Presidents just took what they wanted as they were leaving office.
"Early on, presidents like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were very attuned to their place in history and their legacy," said presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky, the author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution. "And so they were very thoughtful about maintaining their documents, cataloging their documents, and then, of course, sort of making sure that what remained was what they wanted to remain. So that also includes some erasure."
Also, presidential libraries did not exist until President Franklin Roosevelt opened his in 1941.
Trump's controversies with documents
Throughout his presidency, anecdotes surfaced about Trump's handling of documents. For starters, he did not like to read them, and there were reports that he would sometimes rip them up or even flush them down the toilet.
Trump spoke about, or put on Twitter, sensitive material that was believed to be classified. Such material was also reportedly shared with people who did not have the authorization to read it.
Before Trump, outgoing presidents have been described as fully cooperative with the records process, experts told NPR. Baron said he was only aware of minor episodes, where a former president might be asked to turn over a small gift he had received while in office.
There have been a few cases involving former presidential aides. In one instance, Sandy Berger, who had served as the national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, was accused of smuggling classified documents out of the National Archives in his pants. He was ultimately fined $50,000.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-5-4
(eight, five, four)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
8-5-4
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WASHINGTON (NEBRASKA EXAMINER) — The U.S. House on Friday cleared Democrats’ long-sought climate, health care and tax package, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature.
The roughly $750 billion measure is much smaller than the $2 trillion reconciliation package the House originally sent to the Senate in November. The final product left out dozens of provisions, including expanded child care tax credits and paid family leave, that many left-leaning Democrats believe are desperately needed.
But Democrats, including progressives, still championed the slimmed-down version of thebill before voting 220-207 along party lines to approve the package.
Debate on the bill Friday was part of a brief, one-day session for House members, who now will continue their August recess. Members aren’t expected to return to Washington, D.C., until Sept. 13.
Democrats repeatedly called the legislation “historic” and said it showed their party putting “people above politics.” The package would cap out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare prescription drugs at $2,000 annually beginning in 2025 and allow the federal government to negotiate some of the more expensive prescription drugs starting in 2026.
“This is landmark legislation that is going to help reduce costs for American families, while finally aggressively tackling the climate crisis,” Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., a New Jersey Democrat, said during floor debate.
“We simply cannot wait any longer to confront the climate crisis,” he said. “Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more extreme … and these extreme weather events cost families their loved ones, their homes and their livelihoods.”
Maine Democrat Rep. Jared Golden, the sole member of his party to vote against the larger package in November, announced Friday just ahead of the vote that he would support this version.
“It is fiscally responsible and is targeted on four key priorities: reducing the national debt and putting our country back on a fiscally responsible path, lowering the cost of prescription drugs and making health care more affordable, investing in an all-of-the-above energy strategy to significantly increase oil, gas, and renewable energy production to lower energy costs for Americans, and cracking down on the tax avoidance of billion-dollar multinational corporations,” Golden said in the statement.
GOP slams IRS funding
Republicans remained steadfastly opposed to the measure, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, saying it would raise the costs of energy and boost the number of Internal Revenue Service employees. The package would provide about $80 billion in funding for the Internal Revenue Service to boost tax enforcement, a change that Democrats argued during debate Friday would not affect Americans making less than $400,000 annually.
Michigan Republican Rep. Fred Upton weighed in against the bill, saying that while he’s no stranger to working on bipartisan legislation, he simply couldn’t support the package Democrats brought to the floor Friday.
“Our economy is in a fragile state as we emerge from this pandemic,” Upton said. “We’ve seen decades-high inflation that is crushing Main Street and squeezing the middle class.”
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who represents the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District, echoed that criticism about the bill’s timing. He said raising taxes would not help Americans who are already dealing with high prices, supply-chain issues and a recession.
“This reckless and partisan bill is bad for Nebraska families, bad for Nebraska businesses, and bad for America’s energy sector,” Bacon said. “We can’t keep asking the American taxpayers to shoulder the burden for the Democrats’ reckless spending.”
Bacon and Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., who represents eastern Nebraska’s 1st District, focused part of their post-vote statements on the bill’s funds to hire more help at the Internal Revenue Service. People who know the agency have said the bill would restore IRS staffing to levels from previous decades.
Flood said he “emphatically voted no on this” bill, and that he would “continue to push back on President Biden’s tax and spend agenda.”
“As the nation’s economy slides further into recession and inflation wreaks havoc on household budgets, congressional Democrats are only making life harder for working Americans who are trying to put food on the table and make a better life for their families,” Flood said.
Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., who serves Nebraska’s sprawling and largely rural 3rd District, wrote in a recent column to his constituents that people who are serious about reducing inflation understand “you can’t achieve this by spending hundreds of billions upfront and allowing deficit reduction to trickle in over the next decade.”
House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, rebuked Democrats for advancing the bill, speaking out against the energy, climate, health care and tax provisions. He also chastised Democrats for including the $80 billion to bolster staff and technology at the Internal Revenue Service.
“Let’s talk about these 87,000 IRS agents. You think of just about any NFL stadium in America filled completely with new IRS agents. That’s right, more than doubling the size of the IRS,” Scalise said.
House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth, a Kentucky Democrat, called Republicans’ statements about the IRS hiring 87,000 new agents “nonsense” and noted that the current IRS commissioner has said the agency won’t increase audits on people making less than $400,000 annually.
“It seems to me that Republicans just don’t want people to pay taxes, even if they’re owed,” Yarmuth said, noting that hundreds of billions of dollars in owed taxes go unpaid every year.
“This is an attempt to try to recover some of that money that is owed and is not being paid by taxpayers, who are in many cases cheating,” Yarmuth added.
Swifter House action
House debate on the measure was nowhere near as long or tedious as it was in the U.S. Senate, where members spent Saturday night into Sunday debating 37 amendments beforevoting 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie, to approve the package on Aug. 7.
The bill, primarily negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, would dedicate $370 billion to clean energy programs, including electric vehicle tax credits and tax incentives for energy companies to produce renewable energy.
It would provide $1.5 billion to the Environmental Protection Agency to help companies reduce methane, a greenhouse gas, and would impose a fee on companies for certain methane emissions.
As part of the deal with Manchin, the legislation requires the U.S. government to lease 2 million acres of federal land and 60 million acres of federal waters for oil and gas development in order to lease other federal lands and waters for solar or wind production.
The bill would boost funding for a federal trust fund thathelps coal miners diagnosed with black lung pay for their health care if the company they worked for doesn’t do so.
Virginia Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott lauded the provision during floor debate, saying that “extending the tax will protect the long-term sustainability of the black lung disability trust fund, while ensuring that the coal industry does not shift the cost of benefits from coal companies to miners, families, or the taxpayer.”
In other health provisions, the package would require pharmaceutical companies to pay rebates if they raise the cost of some prescription drugs within Medicare faster than inflation.
It would extend subsidies for three years for individuals who purchase health insurance as part of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, to stave off a price hike that was expected to begin at the end of the year. Those enhanced subsidies were first approved as part of Democrats’ COVID-19 bill last year and were set to expire.
Insulin cap in Medicare
The measure would cap the cost of insulin for Medicare recipients at $35, but wouldn’t apply a similar cap on co-pays for people with private health insurance after Republicans in the U.S. Senate successfully blocked that provision.
House Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, said he was “especially pleased” with the bill’s insulin provisions.
“Having experienced my late wife’s 30-year battle with diabetes, I’m especially pleased that this bill would cap insulin costs at $35 a month for those on Medicare,” Clyburn said. “This is a giant step forward, but we will continue to work to overcome the Republican opposition that blocked extending the same life-saving measures to those on private insurance.”
The bill would be fully paid for by instituting a 15% minimum tax on corporations with incomes more than $1 billion and a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks as well as by allowing Medicare to negotiate some prescription drug prices.
Democrats advanced the measure through the 50-50 Senate and the narrowly divided U.S. House by using the budget reconciliation process, a complicated path that requires the bill to comply with several rules.
Democrats used the same legislative process to approve their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package last year. Republicans used budget reconciliation to pass their 2017 tax bill. And the GOP tried to use it to repeal and replace Obamacare the same year, but didn’t have the votes in the Senate to pass their proposal.
Congress has used the process to enact 22 laws since 1980,according to the Congressional Research Service.
Nebraska Examiner political reporter Aaron Sanderford contributed to this report.
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Give your hair a sun-kissed glow with this unique highlighting technique
If you love highlights in your hair but prefer a more subtle look than can be achieved with traditional highlighting, you may want to give balayage a try. Instead of using foils, highlights are simply painted on the hair to give it a brighter effect that blends nicely with your hair’s primary color.
Another benefit of balayage is that you can do the process easily from the comfort of home. With a few tools and highlights in your preferred color, your hair will look like you just stepped out of the salon or off a plane after a week spent on a beach vacation.
Balayage versus foil highlighting
Traditional highlights are beautiful, but they aren’t for everyone. Wrapping strands in foil is required for processing, which can be tedious to do on your own hair at home. The resulting highlights are typically quite defined, making the contrast between the highlights and the natural hair color obvious. They are especially noticeable on darker hair tones.
The balayage technique simply requires “painting” a hair-lightening product on the hair using a hair dye applicator brush. This can be done free-handed or by dividing the hair into sections. The results are natural-looking highlights that create a brighter look that blends well with the rest of the hair.
Keep in mind that foil highlighting typically produces a higher lift than balayage. So if you want pronounced highlights, foil highlighting is probably your best option.
What do I need to balayage at home?
The right products will simplify your home balayage efforts and yield gorgeous results.
Hair lightener
The product you use to produce your highlights will determine the color and intensity of your results. While you can use permanent hair color, you’ll get the best results from a powdered lightener mixed with 20 or 30-volume developer. Hair lighteners are often referred to as hair bleaching products. Some popular colors for balayage are platinum, golden blonde and light brown, but the color you choose is a matter of preference.
You can purchase lighteners and developers separately, but kits for the balayage technique are available.
Application accessories
Before beginning the balayage process, be sure to have the accessories you’ll need on hand.
- A hair coloring cape to protect skin and clothing
- Hair dye gloves to protect hands from the bleaching chemicals
- Salon mixing bowls to prepare the lightener and developer
- Salon-style rat tail combs to section hair
- Hair clips to keep strands divided into sections and out of the way while applying the lightener
- Hair dye applicator brushes to paint on the lightener and blend it in
Balayage steps
The balayage process can vary, but there are a few basic steps to follow.
- Divide hair into sections. While this isn’t necessary, it produces the best results. Back, sides, front and top sections are ideal for even highlights.
- Place the sections in hair clips. This makes it simple to work on one area of the hair at a time.
- Mix the lightener and developer. Mixing it as soon as you are ready to apply it will keep the color fresh. Use a ration of 1-to-2 or 1-to-3.
- Apply the lightener. Begin with the back sections and work towards the sides. Do the front and top sections last.
- Allow the color to process. This typically takes around 45 minutes.
- Rinse thoroughly. Enjoy your new look.
Best products for home balayage
Wella ColorCharm Powder Lightener
This lightener powder seals in moisture to help prevent dry hair and breakage. The bright blonde color can lift up to seven shade levels. The powder formula is easy to mix. Sold by Amazon
Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Balayage for Blondes
A good choice for the budget-minded, Clairol’s balayage kit comes with everything you need to create nicely blended highlights, including lightening powder and developer, conditioner and an applicator brush. It’s one of the most affordable options we found. Sold by Amazon
Schwarzkopf BlondMe Premium Lightener and 30-Volume Developer
With a lift of up to nine levels, BlondMe lightener powder will give your mane vibrant yet natural highlights. It doesn’t have an off-putting odor, which appeals to many users. It comes with a bottle 30-volume developer, so you’ll have the key products you’ll need to give your hair a beachy vibe. Sold by Amazon
Wella ColorCharm 20-Volume Cream Developer
This versatile 20-volume developer works well for most lighters to give hair a sunny boost without being too light or brassy. The cream formula is easy to control during application. Sold by Amazon
L’Oreal Paris Oreor 30-Volume Creme Developer
If you want to take your balayage results to the next level, 30-volume developer will give you the lift you need. This formula has a creamy consistency for easy application. Sold by Amazon
Segbeauty Hair Dye Gloves, Set of 20
When you apply chemical lighteners at home, don’t forget gloves to protect your hands. Gloves that hold up well to chemicals and provide a comfortable, flexible fit like these are ideal. The pack includes 20 pairs. Sold by Amazon
YELEGAI Waterproof Hair Dye Cape
A short cape hair dye cape will protect your skin and clothing while allowing you more flexibility than a long cape to work on your hair. We like that this one is just the right size and is made with waterproof material that wipes clean with minimal effort. Sold by Amazon
Salon Supply Co Hair Dye Bowl and Whisk Set
Pour in the lightener and developer, stir them and you’re ready to create your balayage look. A bowl and whisk set makes it a snap to accomplish the mixing phase of the process. This must-have set includes three bowls and three whisks that you can reuse when updating your highlights. Sold by Amazon
Diane 8-Inch Carbon Rat Tail Comb
A rat tail comb is the perfect tool for separating strands and combing through them until they are smooth in preparation for the balayage technique. This classic comb is inexpensive and simple to use. Sold by Amazon
Thanks to the strong, slip-resistant grip, these 10 hair clips will easily hold hair strands in place while you paint color onto each strand. The design holds without leaving marks, creases or dents on the hair. Sold by Amazon
Paul Mitchell Pro Tools Sectioning Hair Clips, Set of 6
Made by a trusted band in salon-quality hair care products, these standard clips are durable and stay in place during processing and styling. The set includes six clips. Sold by Amazon
Framar Power Painter Hair Color Brush, Set of 2
It’s best to have at least two applicator brushes on hand when you do the balayage process to your hair. Framar’s two includes one for painting on highlighter and another for blending it to perfection. Sold by Amazon
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Match ends, AC Milan 4, Udinese 2.
Defending Serie A champions AC Milan got their new campaign off to a winning start with a 4-2 victory against Udinese.
In a thrilling first half, the San Siro was stunned when Rodrigo Becao headed the visitors in front from a corner.
Milan then equalised through a Theo Hernandez penalty, before Ante Rebic put the hosts ahead from 12 yards out.
On the stroke of half-time, however, Udinese were back on level terms thanks to Adam Masina's strong header.
Within seconds of the restart, Milan were leading again when goalscorer Masina failed to deal with Hernandez's cross and inadvertently knocked it back into the six yard box to allow Brahim Diaz an easy tap in.
Rebic scored his second goal - and Milan's fourth of the night - from close range after good work from Diaz to take the ball off Roberto Pereyra near the touchline.
Former Liverpool striker Divock Origi, who joined Milan on a free transfer from the Premier League side this summer, was brought on by boss Stefano Pioli to make his league debut in the closing stages.
Milan became Italian champions for the first time in over a decade last season, beating rivals Inter by two points, and are looking to lift back-to-back titles for the first time since 1992-93 and 1993-94.
Line-ups
AC Milan
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 16Maignan
- 2Calabria
- 20Kalulu
- 23Tomori
- 19Hernández
- 4Bennacer
- 33KrunicBooked at 34minsSubstituted forPobegaat 84'minutes
- 30MessiasSubstituted forSaelemaekersat 71'minutes
- 10DíazSubstituted forDe Ketelaereat 71'minutes
- 17da Conceição LeãoSubstituted forOrigiat 84'minutes
- 12RebicSubstituted forGiroudat 72'minutes
Substitutes
- 1Tatarusanu
- 5Ballo-Touré
- 7Adli
- 9Giroud
- 14Bakayoko
- 24Kjaer
- 25Florenzi
- 27Origi
- 32Pobega
- 46Gabbia
- 56Saelemaekers
- 83Mirante
- 90De Ketelaere
Udinese
Formation 3-5-2
- 1Silvestri
- 50Nascimento FrançaBooked at 34mins
- 17Nuytinck
- 18PérezBooked at 55minsSubstituted forEbosseat 67'minutes
- 93SoppyBooked at 9mins
- 37Pereyra
- 11Souza SilvaSubstituted forLovricat 76'minutes
- 6MakengoSubstituted forSamardzicat 76'minutes
- 3MasinaSubstituted forEboseleat 83'minutesBooked at 90mins
- 7SuccessSubstituted forGomes Betuncalat 67'minutes
- 10Deulofeu
Substitutes
- 2Ebosele
- 4Lovric
- 9Gomes Betuncal
- 14Abankwah
- 20Padelli
- 21Palumbo
- 23Ebosse
- 24Samardzic
- 28Benkovic
- 29Bijol
- 30Nestorovski
- 67Guessand
- 80Pafundi
- 99Piana
- Referee:
- Livio Marinelli
Match Stats
- Possession
- Home59%
- Away41%
- Shots
- Home14
- Away9
- Shots on Target
- Home5
- Away4
- Corners
- Home5
- Away1
- Fouls
- Home16
- Away13
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Second Half ends, AC Milan 4, Udinese 2.
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Davide Calabria (AC Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Foul by Sandi Lovric (Udinese).
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Foul by Pierre Kalulu (AC Milan).
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Brandon Soppy (Udinese) wins a free kick on the left wing.
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Attempt saved. Brandon Soppy (Udinese) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gerard Deulofeu with a cross.
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Fikayo Tomori (AC Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Foul by Beto (Udinese).
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Charles De Ketelaere (AC Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Foul by Roberto Pereyra (Udinese).
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Attempt missed. Sandi Lovric (Udinese) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Brandon Soppy.
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Festy Ebosele (Udinese) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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Divock Origi (AC Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.
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Foul by Festy Ebosele (Udinese).
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Foul by Divock Origi (AC Milan).
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Rodrigo Becão (Udinese) wins a free kick on the right wing.
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Foul by Divock Origi (AC Milan).
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Rodrigo Becão (Udinese) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., ("Cantor") a leading global financial services firm, sadly confirmed today that Anshu Jain, its President, died overnight after battling a serious illness. Mr. Jain joined the firm January 2017.
Mr. Howard Lutnick, Chief Executive Officer, commented, "It is with profound sadness that today we confirm Anshu's passing. Anshu was the consummate professional who brought a wealth of experience and wisdom to his role as President. He will be remembered as an extraordinary leader, partner, and dear friend who will be greatly missed by all of us and by all who knew him. On behalf of all our partners and employees, we extend our deepest sympathies to Anshu's family and wish them peace and healing during this difficult time."
About Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.
Cantor Fitzgerald, with over 12,000 employees, is a leading global financial services group at the forefront of financial and technological innovation and has been a proven and resilient leader for 77 years. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is a preeminent investment bank serving more than 5,000 institutional clients around the world, recognized for its strengths in fixed income and equity capital markets, investment banking, SPAC underwriting and PIPE placements, prime brokerage, asset management, commercial real estate and for its global distribution platform. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is one of the 24 primary dealers authorized to transact business with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. For more information, please visit: www.cantor.com.
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Abandoned puppy found with dog bed in dumpster, officials say
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - An investigation is underway after a puppy was found abandoned in a dumpster in South Carolina.
On Thursday, WHNS reports that environmental enforcement officers were called about a black and tan puppy, approximately 6 to 7 weeks old, inside a commercial dumpster in Spartanburg County.
Officials said the puppy is a shepherd and hound mix. They also found a dog bed inside the dumpster with the puppy.
A spokesperson for the county said the puppy was in fair condition and is on the rescue list at Greenville County Animal Care.
The Spartanburg County Environmental Enforcement is investigating the animal abandonment case and asked anyone with information to call 864-596-3582.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s health minister has accused Russian authorities of committing a crime against humanity by blocking access to affordable medicines in areas its forces have occupied since invading the country 5 1/2 months ago.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Liashko said Russian authorities repeatedly have blocked efforts to provide state-subsidized drugs to people in occupied cities, towns and villages.
“Throughout the entire six months of war, Russia has not (allowed) proper humanitarian corridors so we could provide our own medicines to the patients that need them,” Liashko said, speaking at the Health Ministry in Kyiv late Friday.
“We believe that these actions are being taken with intent by Russia, and we consider them to be crimes against humanity and war crimes that will be documented and will be recognized,” the minister said.
The Ukrainian government has a program that provides medications to people with cancer and chronic health conditions. The destruction of hospitals and infrastructure along with the displacement of an estimated 7 million people inside the country also have interfered with other forms of treatment, according to United Nations and Ukrainian officials.
The war in Ukraine has caused severe disruptions to the country’s state-run health service, which was undergoing major reforms, largely in response to the coronavirus pandemic, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade on Feb. 24.
The World Health Organization said it recorded 445 attacks on hospitals and other health care facilities as of Aug. 11 that directly resulted in 86 deaths and 105 injuries.
But Liashko said the secondary effects were far more severe.
“When roads and bridges have been damaged in areas now controlled by the Ukrainian forces… it is difficult to get someone who had a heart attack or a stroke to the hospital,” he said. “Sometimes, we can’t make it in time, the ambulance can’t get there in time. That’s why war causes many more casualties (than those killed in the fighting). It’s a number that cannot be calculated.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/ukrainian-minister-says-russia-blocking-access-to-medicines/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | 2022-08-13T21:20:36Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/ukrainian-minister-says-russia-blocking-access-to-medicines/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | false |
Abandoned puppy found with dog bed in dumpster, officials say
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - An investigation is underway after a puppy was found abandoned in a dumpster in South Carolina.
On Thursday, WHNS reports that environmental enforcement officers were called about a black and tan puppy, approximately 6 to 7 weeks old, inside a commercial dumpster in Spartanburg County.
Officials said the puppy is a shepherd and hound mix. They also found a dog bed inside the dumpster with the puppy.
A spokesperson for the county said the puppy was in fair condition and is on the rescue list at Greenville County Animal Care.
The Spartanburg County Environmental Enforcement is investigating the animal abandonment case and asked anyone with information to call 864-596-3582.
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Midway through his Lincoln on the Streets concert Friday night, Jamey Johnson brought opener Ella Langley back onto the stage to join him and his 10-piece band for a ‘60s psychedelic rock version of Tom Petty’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.”
It was followed by Johnson’s biggest hit, “In Color,” on which he asked the 2,500 or so on Centennial Mall to sing the final chorus by themselves. Then he turned the show into country jukebox Friday night, tearing through a half dozen cover songs, each given a distinctive twist by the deep-voiced Alabaman and his band.
That run began with Toby Kieth’s “I Love This Bar,” fulfilling a promise Johnson made to Keith to play his songs while he recovers from cancer, then George Strait’s “Give It Away” and Billy Joe Shaver’s classic “I’m Gonna Live Forever.”
A banjo picked up the ending of that number, segueing into a rapid-fire take on Tom T. Hall’s “Faster Horses” that was punctuated by horn flourishes ala Elvis Presley’s Las Vegas big band. Jerry Reed’s “Eastbound and Down” got even faster before Johnson slowed things down with a dramatic telling of David Allan Coe’s “The Ride,” a tale of hitching a ride with the ghost of Hank Williams.
Somehow fittingly, the concert ended with a Johnson song, the gospel number “Lead Me Home,” which brought the show full circle to its opening, showcasing his evocative songwriting and the band.
The show opened with “Keeping Up with the Jonesin’” and a horn punched “Ray Ray’s Juke Joint,” a pair of songs from 2006’s “The Dollar” before hitting the autobiographical “Between Jennings and Jones.”
Then the normally taciturn Johnson went on a bit of a rant about the KZKX radio personalities who, he said, had a “pep rally” on stage in introducing the band. Country radio stations, Johnson said, are all the same to him – “none of them play my music, so why should they be on my stage talking to you?”
Back to the show, he featured the band on stretched out versions of songs like the honky tonk weeper “Cash My Checks,” which ended with Johnson deftly, if quietly on acoustic guitar joined by the organ. The solo then passed to one of the electric guitars, then to the steel guitar and finally, the horns and second electric joined as the song - or ending – built to a high volume crescendo.
Similarly, “High Cost of Living” got a spin that came very close to soul music, complete with a sax solo in the middle.
Those variations in songs – no Johnson setlist is identical to the previous show or the last time he played in a city – and in emphasis – he was clearly showcasing the band Friday - are what makes Johnson so captivating live that he can get away with releasing and performing little to no new material for the last decade.
He’s played Lincoln three times in the last four years. Each show has been different and each has been excellent and memorable for different reasons – Friday’s for the covers, the musicality and the radio rant.
Blackberry Smoke preceded Johnson with a well received hour of their Southern rock that, even without the cover they played, always establishes them as sons of and heirs to Lynyrd Skynyrd.
L. Kent Wolgamott, the recipient of the 2018 Mayor’s Arts Award, has written about arts and entertainment for Lincoln newspapers since 1985, reviewing thousands of movies and concerts and hundreds of art exhibitions.
It was another lovely Lincoln performance from Bonnie Raitt, who cycled through her hits, played the new record and connected the audience through her music and words, spoken and lyrics.
A tour bus belonging to rapper Machine Gun Kelly was the target of vandals during a stop in Omaha for a concert Thursday night at the CHI Health Center.
Country musician Jamey Johnson performs during Lincoln on the Streets Aug. 12. Lincoln on the Streets was headlined by Grammy nominated country musician Jamey Johnson and featured special guests Blackberry Smoke and Ella Langley. | https://journalstar.com/entertainment/music/jamey-johnson-goes-country-jukebox-at-lincoln-on-the-streets-friday/article_b2f8d0d3-f5b6-5ada-8a05-64cc65641df2.html | 2022-08-13T21:22:50Z | https://journalstar.com/entertainment/music/jamey-johnson-goes-country-jukebox-at-lincoln-on-the-streets-friday/article_b2f8d0d3-f5b6-5ada-8a05-64cc65641df2.html | false |
analysis: Oscar Piastri's reported F1 move to McLaren reveals major issues at Alpine
By Michael DoyleOscar Piastri's announcement that he will not take a seat at Alpine in 2023 has sent Formula 1 into a spin and highlighted a major problem with a team struggling to break through.
Alpine was left needing a new driver after their two-time world champion Fernando Alonso announced he was heading to Aston Martin next year.
The team then announced that Piastri, their 21-year-old reserve driver, would take the step up to join Esteban Ocon as a driver for 2023.
But just hours after the team's announcement, Piastri sensationally rejected the claim and said he would not drive with them.
Reports suggest Piastri has signed a deal with McLaren to take fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo's seat, but no announcement has been made.
Alpine's embarrassment has been clear after losing two drivers in the space of 24 hours, with team principal Otmar Szafnauer scathing over the Australian's lack of loyalty to a team that has guided him through the junior ranks.
"I expected more loyalty from Oscar than he is showing," he told Spanish publication El Confidencial.
"I started in 1989 in Formula 1 and I've never seen anything like this. And it's not about Formula 1, it's about integrity as a human being.
"For me, the way I grew up, I don't need to sign a piece of paper and then have someone say, 'you're lying, because you signed this'."
On face value, Szafnauer is portraying a man angered by the disrespect of an ungrateful youngster who has not yet raced in F1.
But look a little closer and it comes across as a public relations stunt to hide Alpine's colossal mismanagement of one of the sport's hottest prospects.
Szafnauer admitted he was shocked by Alonso's defection, saying Alpine was in discussions with the Spaniard about a new contract.
That means Alpine's perfect scenario was having Alonso and Ocon as drivers for next season, leaving Piastri to spend at least another year as a reserve driver.
No riches, no fame and no racing.
Piastri, knowing his value, rightfully looked elsewhere to see if any other teams wanted to have a driver who has won the Formula 2, Formula 3 and Formula Renault championships in the last three seasons.
It appears Piastri has found a team that sees his value.
It is a major shock to Alpine, who is spending another season in the middle of the grid.
Despite years of promise, the team owned by French manufacturer Renault have never really been able to mix it with Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.
The embarrassing defections of Alonso and Piastri last week add to a growing list of those who have ditched the team.
Under their old banner Renault, Ricciardo left them at the end of 2020 while the Red Bull team dumped them as their engine supplier following the 2018 season.
Szafnauer, who took on the role of team principal this year, has the monumental task of lifting this team to the heights it so desperately wants to achieve.
It is a task that seemingly no longer involves Piastri and needs to start with a look inward to see what's driving talent away from the team. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-14/oscar-piastri-f1-move-mclaren-reveals-major-issues-alpine/101321218 | 2022-08-13T21:30:27Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-14/oscar-piastri-f1-move-mclaren-reveals-major-issues-alpine/101321218 | false |
MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The man accused in the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime, as the renowned author of “The Satanic Verses” remained hospitalized with serious injuries.
An attorney for Hadi Matar entered the plea on his behalf during an arraignment in western New York. The suspect appeared in court wearing a black and white jumpsuit and a white face mask, with his hands cuffed in front of him.
A judge ordered him held without bail after District Attorney Jason Schmidt told her Matar took steps to purposely put himself in position to harm Rushdie, getting an advance pass to the event where the author was speaking and arriving a day early bearing a fake ID.
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“This was a targeted, unprovoked, preplanned attack on Mr. Rushdie,” Schmidt said.
Public defender Nathaniel Barone complained that authorities had taken too long to get Matar in front of a judge while leaving him “hooked up to a bench at the state police barracks.”
“He has that constitutional right of presumed innocence,” Barone added.
Matar, 24, is accused of attacking Rushdie on Friday as the author was being introduced at a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute, a nonprofit education and retreat center.
Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, and was on a ventilator and unable to speak, his agent Andrew Wylie said Friday evening. Rushdie was likely to lose the injured eye.
The attack was met with shock and outrage from much of the world, along with tributes and praise for the award-winning author who for more than 30 years has faced death threats for “The Satanic Verses.”
Authors, activists and government officials cited Rushdie's courage for his longtime advocacy of free speech despite the risks to his own safety. Writer and longtime friend Ian McEwan called Rushdie “an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world,” and actor-author Kal Penn cited him as a role model “for an entire generation of artists, especially many of us in the South Asian diaspora toward whom he’s shown incredible warmth.”
President Joe Biden said Saturday in a statement that he and first lady Jill Biden were “shocked and saddened” by the attack.
“Salman Rushdie — with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced — stands for essential, universal ideals,” the statement read. “Truth. Courage. Resilience. The ability to share ideas without fear. These are the building blocks of any free and open society.”
Rushdie, a native of India who has since lived in Britain and the U.S., is known for his surreal and satirical prose style, beginning with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel “Midnight's Children,” in which he sharply criticized India's then-prime minister, Indira Gandhi.
“The Satanic Verses” drew death threats after it was published in 1988, with many Muslims regarding as blasphemy a dream sequence based on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, among other objections. Rushdie's book had already been banned and burned in India, Pakistan and elsewhere before Iran's Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death in 1989.
Khomeini died that same year, but the fatwa remains in effect. Iran’s current supreme leader, Khamenei, never issued a fatwa of his own withdrawing the edict, though Iran in recent years hasn’t focused on the writer.
Investigators were working to determine whether the assailant, born a decade after “The Satanic Verses” was published, acted alone.
District Attorney Schmidt alluded to the fatwa as a potential motive in arguing arguing against bail.
“Even if this court were to set a million dollars bail, we stand a risk that bail could be met,” Schmidt said.
“His resources don’t matter to me. We understand that the agenda that was carried out yesterday is something that was adopted and it’s sanctioned by larger groups and organizations well beyond the jurisdictional borders of Chautauqua County,” the prosecutor said.
Authorities said Matar is from Fairview, New Jersey. He was born in the United States to Lebanese parents who emigrated from Yaroun in southern Lebanon, the mayor of the village, Ali Tehfe, told The Associated Press.
Flags of Iran-backed Shia militant group Hezbollah and portraits of leader Hassan Nasrallah, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his late predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and slain Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani are visible across the village, which also has a small Christian population.
Journalists visiting the village Saturday were asked to leave. Hezbollah spokespeople did not respond to inquiries about Matar and the attack.
Iran’s theocratic government and its state-run media assigned no motive for the attack. In Tehran, some Iranians interviewed by the AP praised the attack on an author they believe tarnished the Islamic faith, while others worried it would further isolate their country.
An AP reporter witnessed the attacker stab or punch Rushdie about 10 or 15 times. Dr. Martin Haskell, a physician who was among those who rushed to help, described Rushdie’s wounds as “serious but recoverable.”
Event moderator Henry Reese, 73, suffered a facial injury and was treated and released from a hospital, police said. He and Rushdie had planned to discuss the United States as a refuge for writers and other artists in exile.
A state trooper and a county sheriff’s deputy were assigned to Rushdie’s lecture, and state police said the trooper made the arrest. But afterward some longtime visitors to the center questioned why there wasn’t tighter security given the threats against Rushdie and a bounty of more than $3 million on his head.
The stabbing reverberated from the tranquil town of Chautauqua to the United Nations, which issued a statement expressing Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ horror and stressing that free expression and opinion should not be met with violence.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After the publication of “The Satanic Verses,” often-violent protests erupted across the Muslim world against Rushdie, who was born to a Muslim family and has long identified as a nonbeliever, once calling himself “a hardline atheist.”
At least 45 people were killed in riots over the book, including 12 people in Rushdie’s hometown of Mumbai. In 1991, a Japanese translator of the book was stabbed to death and an Italian translator survived a knife attack. In 1993, the book’s Norwegian publisher was shot three times and survived.
The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, which included an around-the-clock armed guard. Rushdie emerged after nine years of seclusion and cautiously resumed more public appearances, maintaining his outspoken criticism of religious extremism overall.
In 2012, Rushdie published a memoir about the fatwa titled “Joseph Anton,” the pseudonym Rushdie used while in hiding. He said during a New York talk that year that terrorism was really the art of fear.
“The only way you can defeat it is by deciding not to be afraid,” he said.
The Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York, has served for more than a century as a place for reflection and spiritual guidance. Visitors don’t pass through metal detectors or undergo bag checks, and most people leave the doors to their century-old cottages unlocked at night.
The center is known for its summertime lecture series, where Rushdie has spoken before.
At a Friday evening vigil, a few hundred residents and visitors gathered for prayer, music and a long moment of silence.
“Hate can’t win,” one man shouted.
Italie reported from New York. Associated Press journalist Kareem Chehayeb contributed to this report from Beirut. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/prosecutor-stab-attack-on-salman-rushdie-was-preplanned/article_a0b5e8fd-1611-5d25-9161-bc67f1c05764.html | 2022-08-13T21:31:43Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/prosecutor-stab-attack-on-salman-rushdie-was-preplanned/article_a0b5e8fd-1611-5d25-9161-bc67f1c05764.html | false |
HIGHLANDS COUNTY, Fla. — A man and woman were arrested in the murder of a 3-year-old child Saturday, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.
Authorities say 33-year-old Monica Williams and Daquan Lindsey, 25, were the caregivers of Brandy Crews.
Police explained that Crews was brought to a hospital on Aug. 9 unresponsive and with severe head injuries. Police say the child had multiple cuts, burns and injuries all over her body in various stages of healing.
The 3-year-old died from her injuries on Friday.
Williams and Lindsey also face child abuse and child neglect charges for a young boy in their care, while that child's injuries are not life-threatening, he has been removed from the home, authorities wrote in a statement.
Police say two additional children under the age of 14 were also removed from the home. In total, there were four children living in the residence.
This is an ongoing investigation, according to authorities. Williams and Lindsey remain in the Pinellas County Jail, records show.
Police say due to the confidential nature of the case, no information that can identify the remaining children will be released, including the address of the victims and the relationship of the caregivers to the children. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/brandy-crews-monica-williams-daquan-lindsey-child-murder-st-pete/67-311c722c-874b-446f-ada2-500656067922 | 2022-08-13T21:34:07Z | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/brandy-crews-monica-williams-daquan-lindsey-child-murder-st-pete/67-311c722c-874b-446f-ada2-500656067922 | true |
CHICAGO, Ill. — The preseason is in full swing for the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Chiefs lost their first preseason game to the Chicago Bears 19-14 but individual performances are much more important than the final score in the preseason.
Here are some observations from the Chiefs’ first preseason game.
Offense is still rolling with new weapons
Mecole Hardman, Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Travis Kelce, Blake Bell, Michael Burton and Isiah Pacheco all touched the ball on the Chiefs’ first drive of the game.
The offense also did not lose any yardage on the drive either.
In a Patrick Mahomes offense that has thrived on spreading the ball around, they looked well continuing to do so with a few new weapons.
As the first-team offense sees more reps, it will be seen how well this new cast can gel.
The rookies can play
The rookie who flashed the most was defensive end George Karlaftis.
The first-round pick got consistent pressure in his pass rush and got a sack. Although it was against the second-team offensive line, it is still noteworthy for the big man to do it in a real game.
Trent McDuffie and Joshua Williams started at cornerback with McDuffie taking reps at punt returner as well.
Safety Bryan Cook is made some plays as well, notably a big hit on a punt return on special teams.
Corner Jaylen Watson made some plays on defense as well while fifth-round tackle Darian Kinnard did not look too well in pass coverage.
Linebacker Leo Chenal played almost the entire game on special teams and on defense and showed his run-stopping prowess all game long. His pass coverage needs work but for the Chiefs to keep him in the game for as long as they did means they likely want him to just get more reps for him to develop.
One rookie who did not see much time on the field was running back Isiah Pacheco who received a few touches in the first quarter but was taken out early: an indication that he is a valuable piece to the Chiefs’ offense.
Also, a valuable piece is rookie receiver Skyy Moore who caught three catches for 23 yards and fielded punts as well. Moore could be an immediate contributor to this offense.
Justin Reid is the backup kicker
Safety Justin Reid has made quite an impression Chiefs Kingdom since he signed to the team.
His eccentric personality and role as a leader of the defense made him easy to root for and his kicking skills make that even easier.
After kicking a 65-yard field goal in practice, Reid got to hit the Chiefs’ final extra point of the game and it split the uprights beautifully.
The best moment of a preseason game comes in good fun.
The Chiefs host the Washington Commanders next Saturday for their next preseason game starting at 3 p.m. | https://www.ksn.com/sports/chiefs/three-takeaways-from-chiefs-preseason-loss-vs-bears/ | 2022-08-13T21:34:34Z | https://www.ksn.com/sports/chiefs/three-takeaways-from-chiefs-preseason-loss-vs-bears/ | true |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
2-5-3-1
(two, five, three, one)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
2-5-3-1
(two, five, three, one) | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17371759.php | 2022-08-13T21:36:13Z | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17371759.php | false |
HONOLULU (AP) — The candidates running in Saturday’s primary election to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. David Ige include a former first lady, a retired mixed martial arts champion and a congressman who moonlights as a Hawaiian Airlines pilot.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Kaiali‘i Kahele’s decision to run for governor has opened up his congressional seat representing rural Oahu and the Neighbor Islands. In the U.S. Senate, incumbent Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz is also up for reelection and is facing a primary challenge from a little-known candidate.
Hawaii is a vote-by-mail state so voters have been mailing their ballots and placing them in drop boxes across the islands since late last month. Election clerks in each county have made a few voter service centers available for people registering to vote at the last minute or voting in person.
In the governor’s race, the leading Democratic candidates are Kahele, former Hawaii first lady Vicki Cayetano and Lt. Gov. Josh Green. On the Republican side, former Lt. Gov. James R. “Duke” Aiona, retired MMA fighter BJ Penn and Honolulu City Councilperson Heidi Tsuneyoshi are in the running.
Ige has served two four-year terms and is ineligible to run again. The winner of the Democratic primary would be the favorite to win the general election in the liberal state.
Many voters say Hawaii’s high housing costs are a top issue for them. The median price of a single-family home is over $1 million in Honolulu, Maui and Kauai counties.
Cayetano said she would build rent-to-own housing and work with the counties to streamline requirements impeding affordable housing construction. Green said he would issue an executive order to eliminate red tape and streamline approvals and enforce existing laws to shut down illegal vacation rentals. Kahele said he would build targeted workforce housing and impose a vacancy tax.
Aiona said he would eliminate the state Land Use Commission, which he blamed for slowing housing development.
Herbert Rowland, an Oahu construction worker, said he likes Green’s plans for tacking Hawaii’s housing problem and homelessness.
“I’m from this island, been here all my life. I don’t want my children to move off this island because it’s too expensive and they can’t find a house,” Rowland said while holding a Green campaign sign and waving at passing cars in Honolulu.
Large numbers of travelers and “overtourism” overwhelming popular sites are another major issue. Annual visitors to Hawaii hit a record 10 million in 2019. Numbers plummeted early during the COVID-19 pandemic but have since come roaring back.
Green proposed charging all travelers over the age of 12 a $50 fee. He said this would raise $350 million to $400 million that the state could use to restore parks, shorelines and build housing. Cayetano endorsed such a fee and said eliminating illegal vacation rentals was a good first step.
Kahele said Hawaii needs to reimagine tourism with a focus on Indigenous knowledge, the aloha spirit and culture.
Aiona said fees would be good if they’re used to maintain parks and trails but he urged caution because the higher costs could deter visitors who fuel Hawaii’s economy.
Kahele and Cayetano questioned income Green received while lieutenant governor from a limited liability company called Green Health International LLC. Green, who has continued in his emergency room doctor side job while lieutenant governor, said the money was for work he performed as a physician.
Kahele drew attention this year for his own side job as a Hawaiian Airlines pilot and his heavy use of proxy voting in Congress. Like everyone who’s voted by proxy, he submitted a required letter attesting he was “unable to physically” vote at the Capitol. He cited “the ongoing public health emergency.”
Mona Chang Vierra, a teacher, principal and educator, said she liked Cayetano’s business experience and her commitment to the community. Over 34 years, Cayetano built the biggest laundry services provider in Hawaii, serving hotels and hospitals on three islands. She resigned as president in February.
“She’s highly successful. Built her business from the ground up,” Chang Vierra said.
Cayetano became first lady in 1997 when she married then-Gov. Ben Cayetano during his first term in office.
In U.S. House races, state Rep. Patrick Pihana Branco and former state Sen. Jill Tokuda are among six candidates competing for the Democratic nomination for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. Kahele, the incumbent, decided to run for governor instead of seeking reelection, leaving the position up for grabs.
Among Republicans, former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst and businessman Joe Akana and business owner Joseph Webster are seeking the job.
In the 1st Congressional District, attorney and political newcomer Sergio Alcubilla is challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. Ed Case in the Democratic primary. Conrad Kress, Patrick Largey and Arturo Reyes are competing for the Republican endorsement.
In the U.S. Senate race, Schatz is being challenged in the Democratic primary by Steve Tataii, a conflict resolution consultant. Tataii made an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2016.
In the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, state Rep. Bob McDermott is among five Republicans seeking his party’s nomination. | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/hawaii-voters-picking-nominees-in-race-to-succeed-gov-ige/ | 2022-08-13T21:48:23Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/hawaii-voters-picking-nominees-in-race-to-succeed-gov-ige/ | true |
Jennifer Lopez tells Britney Spears to 'stay strong' amid feud with Keven Federline
Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline having been feuding back and forth on social media, and their kids are caught up in the drama
Jennifer Lopez is showing her support for Britney Spears.
On Friday, Lopez took to her Instagram story to share Spears' now-deleted Instagram post where she is embracing her "freedom" and "independence" post conservatorship.
"Stay [strong]," Lopez wrote adding a muscle emoji. Spears quoted Lopez in her Netflix documentary, "Halftime." She also shared an image with Spears from the early 2000s.
"You look right down that camera and tell every little girl in the world to get loud and never ever back down to giving light to injustice," Lopez said in the documentary, which resonated with Spears.
BRITNEY SPEARS, SAM ASGHARI SLAM EX KEVIN FEDERLINE OVER CLAIMS THAT THEIR KIDS ARE AVOIDING HER
"I'm here to share that freedom is a state of mind," Spears wrote in her now-deleted Instagram post.
Lopez's support comes on the heels of Spears' public battle with her ex-husband Kevin Federline.
Federline, 44, shared three old videos showing Spears scolding their two sons: Sean, 16, and Jayden, 15. Spears and Federline married in October 2004 after dating for nearly 10 months. Their divorce was finalized in July 2007.
BRITNEY SPEARS, SAM ASGHARI SLAM EX KEVIN FEDERLINE OVER CLAIMS THAT THEIR KIDS ARE AVOIDING HER
Spears has not yet addressed the footage, but her attorney, Mathew Rosengart, shared a statement with Fox News Digital, slamming Federline for posting the videos and for his explosive interview with The Daily Mail.
"Britney Spears is a brilliantly talented, extremely hardworking icon, who is rightfully beloved and respected by millions around the world," Rosengart told Fox News Digital. "The same, unfortunately, cannot be said about Mr. Federline, who for reasons that are inexplicable, decided to give a gratuitous interview that has hurt the mother of his children."
He continued: "Britney has faithfully supported her children and she loves them dearly. Whether he realizes it or not, Mr. Federline has not only violated the privacy and dignity of the mother of his children, he has undermined his own children, whose privacy he should protect… Mr Federline's ill-advised decision to post an old video of his 11 and 12 year old children was cruel, bottom of the barrel stuff. It was abhorrent."
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Rosengart noted that Spears will "not tolerate bullying in any area."
"We urge Mr. Federline to act with a measure of grace and decency and to cease from publicly discussing private matters, which benefits no one," he concluded.
In the videos posted by Federline, Spears was seen scolding her sons. "This is my house," she told them. "If I want to come in here and give you lotion for your face because it’s coarse … y’all better start respecting me, are we clear?"
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In a second video, Spears was seen yelling at her oldest son, Sean, for not wearing shoes inside a store. "Have you lost your f–king mind? Have you lost your f–king mind?" she yelled from the passenger seat of the car.
Federline's Instagram post was in response to Spears' since-deleted post in which she said her sons decided not to visit her during her conservatorship and it "knocked the breath out of me." | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-britney-spears-stay-strong-amid-feud-keven-federline | 2022-08-13T21:55:41Z | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-britney-spears-stay-strong-amid-feud-keven-federline | false |
Jan Longone, a curious, cordial and diligent food scholar who started a mail-order cookbook business from her Michigan basement that led to friendships with towering culinary figures like Julia Child and grew into one of the nation’s great cookbook collections, died Aug. 3 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was 89.
The death, at a hospice center, was confirmed by her husband, Daniel Longone.
Jan Longone’s career had the most practical of beginnings. In the 1950s, when she and her husband were both in graduate school at Cornell University, where she studied Chinese history and he studied chemistry, some fellow students invited them to a dinner party where they served the Indian food they had grown up eating.
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The students asked Ms. Longone to reciprocate with a typical American meal. She realized she had no idea what that might be or how to prepare it, so she went to a library and discovered the vast world of cookbooks.
That trip led to a lifetime of collecting food-related books and ephemera, including pamphlets about Jell-O, instructions for kitchen appliances and the nation’s first cookbook, “American Cookery,” written by Amelia Simmons and published in 1796. That book’s 47 pages contain recipes for pumpkin pie and the first pairing of cranberry sauce to complement roast turkey, Thanksgiving stalwarts that endure today.
She also secured an 1871 text believed to be the nation’s first Jewish cookbook.
Ms. Longone had a fondness for charity and community cookbooks from the 1800s and early 1900s, which she thought painted a picture of the nation’s scientific advancement, immigration patterns and cultural shifts.
Although her collection was largely Eurocentric and missed elements of the American immigration story, it included the only original copy of the first known American cookbook by a Black woman. Food scholars had long believed that distinction belonged to “What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking,” published in 1881. But then a West Coast bookseller called Ms. Longone and asked her if she might want a fragile 39-page book by Malinda Russell, “A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen,” printed by a newspaper in Paw Paw, Michigan, in 1866. She paid $200.
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Janice Barbara Bluestein was born July 31, 1933, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. Her parents were Ukrainian immigrants and secular Jews. Her father, Alexander Bluestein, was a restaurant equipment sales manager. Her mother, Edith (Gropman) Bluestein, made the family table, which was often filled with classic Ashkenazi dishes, the center of their domestic life.
Janice met Daniel Longone when they were teenagers who spent their summers swimming at Revere Beach, near Boston. “I splashed her, and she turned around and said, ‘You’ll be sorry,’” her husband said. They married in 1954, after she graduated from what was then Bridgewater State Teachers College (now Bridgewater State University) with a bachelor’s degree in history.
Daniel Longone, a wine aficionado, soon became an enthusiastic partner in his wife’s literary pursuits. The two searched out small bookstores on their summer drives from their home near the University of Michigan, where Daniel Longone was a professor, to Massachusetts, and later during extensive travels to Europe.
In 1972, Jan Longone realized that she could sell some of their acquisitions and began the Wine and Food Library, a mail-order bookshop. Her reputation grew along with her collection. James Beard became a regular customer. Before long, the basement of their modest house was full of books that became the nexus of a growing culinary movement.
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“Every day I would get a phone call saying, ‘James Beard told me to call you. Julia Child told me to call you. Craig Claiborne told me to call you,’” she said in a 2012 interview with the weekly magazine Concentrate.
She sold literary works from the likes of author M.F.K. Fisher (whom she knew, of course) and less ostentatious books, like “Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book” (1950). She had a particular fondness for Gourmet magazine, which started when her husband gave her a copy of the first Gourmet cookbook, followed by a $50 lifetime subscription. Over the years, they collected every issue, save the rare March 1941 edition.
Ruth Reichl, who presided over Gourmet from 1999 until Condé Nast shuttered it in 2009, said Ms. Longone was one of the first to understand the power of history told through the lens of cooks.
“She knew the value of looking at cookbooks unmitigated by a historian’s perspective,” Reichl said.
Ms. Longone’s collection, nearly 25,000 items strong, became the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan and the antecedent for dozens of other culinary libraries. It also powered the development of academic food studies programs.
“Other libraries were uninterested in collecting food materials, but she knew exactly what she had and why it mattered,” Marion Nestle, a professor at New York University, wrote in an email. “I was awe-struck meeting her and wanted all that for NYU.” Nestle would go on to establish the nation’s first food studies program, which draws heavily on the collection of food and cookery materials at NYU’s Fales Library.
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Ms. Longone also influenced a new generation of booksellers who, like her, realized the importance of cataloging rare and essential works about cookery and drink.
“Her legacy is vital to my existence,” said Celia Sack, owner of San Francisco bookstore Omnivore Books.
Ms. Longone had a significant influence on modern American restaurant culture, especially in the late 1970s and ’80s as it threw off the constraints of continental cuisine and began to develop a more eclectic, regional and adventurous style.
She was a yenta to chefs, passing on her vast food knowledge and connecting them to one another before Instagram provided a space to network and allowed them to search the web with a few keystrokes for a particular style of cooking.
Using material from her collection, Ari Weinzweig opened Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor and its mail-order artisan food business in 1982 with Paul Saginaw.
“I knew relatively very little about food, and we were about to start selling artisan cheese and smoked fish, so I needed to learn,” he said. “As a history major, going to Jan’s basement to look at books was way more exciting for me than going to a candy store.”
Without that basement of books, chef Rick Bayless said, he might not have had his career. In the late 1970s, he had taken a year off from writing an anthropology dissertation to teach cooking classes. He turned to Ms. Longone for help.
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“She would lead you down the rickety back stairs to her basement with all these dehumidifiers going and these metal racks full of books, and you could spend as long as you wanted there,” he said. “I thought I had struck gold.”
She told the editor of The Ann Arbor Observer about Bayless and his classes, and the subsequent article launched his cooking career.
Ms. Longone founded the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor in 1983 as a way to bring together people interested in the study of culinary history and gastronomy. She was a founding member of the American Institute of Wine & Food and was on the editorial board of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. She also hosted “Adventures in Gastronomy,” believed to be the first food show on public radio, and was a judge for numerous cookbook awards.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by her brother, Bernard Bluestein. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/13/metro/jan-longone-influential-scholar-food-history-dies-89/ | 2022-08-13T21:55:41Z | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/13/metro/jan-longone-influential-scholar-food-history-dies-89/ | true |
Dalit boy dies after being assaulted by teacher in Rajasthan school
He had drunk water from an earthen pot allegedly reserved for teachers from higher castes
A nine-year-old Dalit boy died on Saturday, 24 days after he was assaulted by a teacher in his school in Jalore district of Rajasthan for allegedly touching a pot of drinking water.
The boy was under medical care at Ahmedabad in Gujarat. He was taken there after he did not respond to treatment in Jalore and Udaipur.
The incident took place at a private school, Saraswati Vidya Mandir, in Surana village on July 20, when the teacher, Chhail Singh, took exception to the student of Class III, Inder Meghwal, touching the earthen pot and drinking water from it.
Inder’s father Deva Ram alleged that Mr. Singh severely beat his son and threw casteist slurs at him.
Inder was first taken to the district hospital in Jalore, from where he was referred to Udaipur. The doctors there detected damage to his ear nerves. When the child’s condition deteriorated, he was taken to Ahmedabad for treatment by specialists. Inder did not respond to the treatment and died due to the internal injuries, doctors said.
After Mr. Dev Ram reported the matter to the police, a case was registered under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act at the Sayla police station. Mr. Singh was detained and was being interrogated till late on Saturday night.
Superintendent of Police, Jalore, Harsh Vardhan Agarwalla, who visited Surana village and met the family of the deceased, said the investigation was in progress and the allegation of assault with the casteist angle was yet to be confirmed.
The school also has a big tank from which the students and the teachers of all communities drink water.
However, Mr. Deva Ram said the earthen pot was reserved for the teachers belonging to higher castes.
Inder touched the pot by mistake and drank water from it when he was thirsty. Mr. Singh noticed it and assaulted the boy, according to the complaint submitted to the police.
The Education Department has also started an investigation into the matter. The chief block education officer has formed an inquiry committee, which will visit the school. The investigation was entrusted to panchayat elementary education officer Ashok Kumar Dave.
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Actor and comedian Teddy Ray dies in Southern California
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Teddy Ray, a comedian and actor who appeared on the HBO Max series “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” has died, authorities confirmed on Saturday. He was 32.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office and the county’s coroner’s office confirmed that the comedian, whose legal name was Theadore Brown, was found dead at a private residence on Friday morning in the desert community of Rancho Mirage, the Los Angeles Times reported. Sheriff’s Sgt. Brandi Swan told the newspaper that the cause of death was not known.
Entertainment companies and some of Ray’s fellow comedians reacted with sadness to the news of Ray’s death.
“Teddy Ray was a hilarious and beloved performer,” TV network Comedy Central said in a Twitter statement. “He’ll be deeply missed by the entire comedy community.”
All Def Digital, a multi-platform media company that Ray had collaborated with, tweeted that it was “heartbroken” about the news of Ray’s death. “We will miss him every day but we know he will have Heaven laughing,” the tweet read.
Ray appeared as the bailiff on “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” appeared in the digital series Cancel Court, and was a stand-up comedian.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Teddy Ray, a comedian and actor who appeared on the HBO Max series “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” has died, authorities confirmed on Saturday. He was 32.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Office and the county's coroner's office confirmed that the comedian, whose legal name was Theadore Brown, was found dead at a private residence on Friday morning in the desert community of Rancho Mirage, the Los Angeles Times reported. Sheriff's Sgt. Brandi Swan told the newspaper that the cause of death was not known.
Entertainment companies and some of Ray's fellow comedians reacted with sadness to the news of Ray's death.
“Teddy Ray was a hilarious and beloved performer,” TV network Comedy Central said in a Twitter statement. “He'll be deeply missed by the entire comedy community.”
All Def Digital, a multi-platform media company that Ray had collaborated with, tweeted that it was “heartbroken” about the news of Ray's death. “We will miss him every day but we know he will have Heaven laughing,” the tweet read.
Ray appeared as the bailiff on “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” appeared in the digital series Cancel Court, and was a stand-up comedian. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Actor-and-comedian-Teddy-Ray-dies-in-Southern-17371873.php | 2022-08-13T22:14:50Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Actor-and-comedian-Teddy-Ray-dies-in-Southern-17371873.php | true |
PFL play-offs: Dilano Taylor upsets Rory MacDonald in Cardiff
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Dilano Taylor upset the odds in Cardiff as he stunned Rory MacDonald to reach the Professional Fighters League (PFL) welterweight play-off final.
In the promotion's first-ever UK show, the Jamaican, 25, knocked out Canada's MacDonald in the first round with a crushing right hand.
Taylor was only added to the card three days ago as a replacement for Magomed Umalatov, who failed to obtain a visa.
He will face Sweden's Sadibou Sy in the final in November.
Sy defeated Carlos Leal by unanimous decision to end the Brazilian's 11-fight win streak earlier in the night.
The PFL differs from other promotions such as the UFC in that fighters compete while earning points in a seasonal format, where the top four fighters from each weight division progress to the play-off semi-finals.
The eventual winner secures the division's title and a $1m prize.
MacDonald, 33, is a former Bellator champion, UFC title challenger and was the pre-fight favourite but never managed to impose himself on Taylor.
Taylor extends his professional record to 10 wins and two defeats following the biggest victory of his career.
"I already knew I had power in my right hand, I just kept my feet moving and kept the jab pumping," said Taylor.
"I don't know how it goes [against Sy] but I'm intrigued. I'm just going to celebrate this moment right now."
Delija and Scheffel to meet again
The heavyweight final will be contested by Croatia's Ante Delija and Brazil's Matheus Scheffel.
Delija, 32, beat Renan Ferreira in the first round via some vicious ground and pound, while Scheffel, 29, stopped Juan Adams in the third following a series of left hooks.
The pair have already met this year in April with Delija, who is cornered by MMA legend Mirko Cro Cop, winning via a second-round knockout.
Delija will be hoping to go one better than last season, when he lost in the final to Bruno Cappelozza.
Elsewhere, Ireland's Nathan Kelly silenced the crowd by submitting Wales' Ben Ellis in the first round, and home favourite Joshua O'Connor beat Emran Sakhizada by rear-naked choke in the third round to extend his professional record to 2-0.
The PFL's second UK show takes place next Saturday in London, where Manchester's Brendan Loughnane faces Chris Wade in the featherweight semi-finals.
Two-time champion Kayla Harrison also takes on Martina Jindrova in the women's lightweight semi-finals.
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Tory members still prefer Johnson to Truss and Sunak by a long way
Despite being forced to stand down after a wave of ministerial resignations, Boris Johnson is still the top choice for prime minister among members of his own party, new polling suggests.
Saturday 13 August 2022 22:59, UK
Most Conservative Party members still prefer Boris Johnson over either of the two candidates vying to take over as prime minister, a new poll shows.
In a head-to-head vote, 63% of party members chose the prime minister compared with 22% for Liz Truss, Opinium found.
When asked about Mr Johnson versus Rishi Sunak, 68% went for the PM, with 19% opting for his former chancellor.
Among the general public, however, the results were reversed, albeit over much smaller margins.
Just less than a third (31%) would choose Ms Truss over Johnson, who attracted 26% support.
With Mr Sunak it was much closer, with 32% backing him, against 31% for Mr Johnson.
In terms of who is likely to win the leadership race, Ms Truss, the foreign secretary, has a 22-point lead over Mr Sunak, the research suggest.
The survey found 61% support for Ms Truss, compared with 39% for Mr Sunak.
Almost three in ten members (29%) said they had already voted, while a further 47% said they would definitely be casting their ballot.
Only 19% are yet to decide who to back, Opinium found.
It means that for Mr Sunak to be successful, he would have to win the votes of all those who remain undecided, as well as a significant proportion of those yet to vote.
Ms Truss is mostly attracting support from older members of the party, the research found.
She has a 40-point lead among those aged over 65, while among the under-50s, she is eight points behind Mr Sunak.
The main reasons members gave for backing Ms Truss were that she was seen as more honest and trustworthy (14%), and that she remained loyal to Mr Johnson (10%).
A further 8% were impressed with her plans for tax cuts and believe she is a better bet on the economy.
Those supporting Mr Sunak chose the same reason - his perceived economic competence.
That accounted for 22% of votes for the former chancellor, while 10% believe he is the most competent and intelligent.
The next leader of the Conservative Party and Mr Johnson's successor as prime minister will be announced on 5 September. | https://news.sky.com/story/tory-members-still-prefer-johnson-to-truss-and-sunak-by-a-long-way-12672651 | 2022-08-13T22:24:36Z | https://news.sky.com/story/tory-members-still-prefer-johnson-to-truss-and-sunak-by-a-long-way-12672651 | false |
The National Transportation Safety Board said that it was investigating the crash of the Mooney M20K plane.
— Associated Press
Judge sentences boat pilot to 18 years for 3 smuggling deaths: The smuggler who was at the helm of an overloaded 40-foot vessel that capsized off Point Loma, Calif., last year, causing three migrants to drown and sparking a chaotic rescue effort, was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison. Antonio Hurtado, 40, was illegally shuttling 32 migrants into the United States aboard the aging trawler-style boat the morning of May 2, 2021, when the vessel drifted onto the rocks below Cabrillo National Monument and broke apart. He pleaded guilty in April to felony charges of attempted human smuggling resulting in death and attempted human smuggling for financial gain.
California governor proposes extending nuclear plant's life: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday proposed extending the life of the state's last operating nuclear power plant by five to 10 years to maintain reliable power supplies in the climate change era. The proposal to keep the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant running beyond a scheduled closing by 2025 gave new urgency to a decades-long fight over the seismic safety of the site. And critics depicted Newsom's plan as a huge financial giveaway for plant operator Pacific Gas & Electric, while warning it would gut environmental safeguards. The seaside plant midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco produces 9 percent of the state's electricity.
— From news services | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2-killed-when-small-plane-crashes-on-roadway-in-illinois/2022/08/13/ad2c61a6-146b-11ed-aba1-f2b7689c0492_story.html | 2022-08-13T22:26:47Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2-killed-when-small-plane-crashes-on-roadway-in-illinois/2022/08/13/ad2c61a6-146b-11ed-aba1-f2b7689c0492_story.html | true |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch financial prosecutors say they detained a man suspected of involvement in “concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering” through the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash.
The 29-year-old man was arrested Aug. 10 in Amsterdam, the financial prosecution service FIOD said in a statement Friday. The suspect’s identity was not released, in line with Dutch privacy regulations.
Mixing services combine various digital assets, including potentially illegally obtained funds and legitimately obtained funds, so the holders of illegally gained assets can obscure the origin of stolen funds.
FIOD’s Financial Advanced Cyber Team launched an investigation into Tornado Cash in June.
The team said in a statement that Tornado Cash “has been used to conceal large-scale criminal money flows, including from (online) thefts of cryptocurrencies.”
It said some of the suspected criminal funds were stolen by hackers with links to North Korea.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Treasury Department slapped sanctions on Tornado Cash, which has allegedly helped to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019.
At the time, Tom Robinson, co-founder of Elliptic, a blockchain analysis firm, said “it should be noted that there are legitimate uses of mixers such as Tornado, such as to preserve financial privacy.” | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/dutch-arrest-man-linked-to-currency-mixer-tornado-cash/ | 2022-08-13T22:27:06Z | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/dutch-arrest-man-linked-to-currency-mixer-tornado-cash/ | true |
EDMONTON, Alberta — Wyatt Kaiser and Carter Mazur each scored twice and the United States beat winless Austria 7-0 on Saturday to improve to 3-0 in group play in the world junior championship.
The U.S. will finish Group A play Sunday against Sweden.
Also Saturday, Canada faced the Czech Republic in Group A, and Germany played Switzerland in Group B. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/us-beats-austria-7-0-improves-to-3-0-in-world-junior/2022/08/13/6f290af8-1b50-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html | 2022-08-13T22:27:42Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/us-beats-austria-7-0-improves-to-3-0-in-world-junior/2022/08/13/6f290af8-1b50-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html | true |
Sadness of Britain's foremost Catholic duke as he gives up eight-year battle to save his marriage of more than three decades
- After 34 years of marriage, the Duke of Norfolk has confirmed his divorce
- Edward Fitzalan-Howard said both he and Georgina were splitting 'amicably'
- The couple married in 1987 and have five children, now aged between 24 and 33
- The Queen is said to be a close friend of both the Duke and the Duchess
- Duke will keep Arundel Castle, 1,000-year-old ancestral home in West Sussex.
After 34 years of marriage, the Duke of Norfolk has confirmed his divorce has been finalised, saying: 'It's just terribly sad.'
The staunchly Roman Catholic Duke, Edward Fitzalan-Howard, said both he and Georgina had tried to save the union but they were splitting 'amicably' now their children are adults.
Speaking to The Mail on Sunday, the Duke – who will eventually have the job of organising Prince Charles's coronation – said: 'By God we tried. For the sake of the family, and because we are Catholic, we really, really tried everything. It proved completely impossible and we had to move on.
'The final divorce bit was instigated a year ago and now it's finally come through. It's just terribly sad, but we have to move on for the sake of the children – we can't go on putting them through this.'
Duke Edward Fitzalan-Howard and Duchess Georgina Fitzalan-Howard at the Festival of Speed at Goodwood, Surrey on 13 Jul 2003. After 34 years of marriage they have confirmed their divorce
The Duke with his new partner, Chica Herbert
The Duke, who is worth £100 million, will also keep Arundel Castle, the 1,000-year-old ancestral home in West Sussex
The Duchess, 60, has kept the couple's Angmering Park House and 100 acres of the estate, which forms a small part of 16,000 acres owned by the Duke on the South Downs.
He lives less than two miles away at Peppering Farm, a property which was once occupied and decorated by the Duchess during one of their trial separations.
The Duke, who is worth £100 million, will also keep Arundel Castle, the 1,000-year-old ancestral home in West Sussex.
The couple married in 1987 and have five children, now aged between 24 and 33. They separated in 2011, much to the sadness of close friends and family, and the split was said to be so acrimonious that they missed the Royal Wedding of William and Kate to avoid being in the same room as each other.
By 2016 they were back together, just before the wedding of their eldest son Henry, who will one day take on the prestigious title of 19th Duke of Norfolk.
The Queen, a close friend of both the Duke and the Duchess, was said to be delighted at this reconciliation, while the Catholic Herald ran an article praising their decision to stay together.
The couple married in 1987 and have five children, now aged between 24 and 33. They separated in 2011, much to the sadness of close friends and family, and the split was said to be so acrimonious that they missed the Royal Wedding of William and Kate to avoid being in the same room as each other
But last year the Duke said the reunion had been short-lived and he was now in a new relationship.
At the time, the couple maintained they had no plans to divorce and, as recently as April this year, the Duke would only go as far as to say their future was 'uncertain'.
But now the Duke – who is regarded as the most senior lay member of the Catholic Church in Britain – has revealed the divorce papers were signed in June.
He added: 'Since the divorce, to be truthful, there's no sharing. The castle is mine now, for family and weekends. Her area of influence is just Angmering House.
'The financial settlement was agreed a long time ago, but since then we reconciled – now it's been put into action after all.
'The biggest hardness is just the sadness of the two of us not succeeding in making it work. That's the biggest sadness, honestly. There wasn't one thing that broke us – we tried and tried and tried, over eight years.
'We really have given it our best shot, there's no doubt about it. It's completely amicable and terribly sad.'
The Duke is now in a relationship with Francesca Herbert, mother of socialite Frankie Herbert and ex-wife of Harry Herbert whose father, the 7th Earl of Carnavon, was the Queen's closest confidant. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109269/Sadness-Britains-foremost-Catholic-duke-gives-eight-year-battle-save-marriage.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-13T22:28:16Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109269/Sadness-Britains-foremost-Catholic-duke-gives-eight-year-battle-save-marriage.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
(iSeeCars) — Used car prices are up 10.9 percent over last year as the microchip shortage continues to impact the automotive industry, according to iSeeCars.com’s latest analysis of over 1.8 million used car sales in July. This is slightly up from a 10.5 percent increase in June and marks the second month of slight increases after four months of slowing price growth.
“Used car prices remained steady in July compared to June, and both months marked the first time in 2022 that saw a decrease in price for some used car models,” said iSeeCars Executive Analyst Karl Brauer. “We are also continuing to see a significant increase in demand for used electric and hybrid cars as a result of high gas prices, with the average cost of electric vehicles increasing by 56.7 percent and hybrid cars increasing by 30.5 percent compared to last year.”
Although the average used car has significantly increased in price, iSeeCars’s analysis also found some vehicles have decreased in price or have lower-than-average increases, providing savings opportunities for consumers in the market for a used car. “This is good news for used car shoppers, and suggests a sufficient number of used cars are starting to enter the market after being far short of used-car demand for well over a year,” said Brauer.
Top 10 Used Cars With the Greatest Price Increases
The top ten vehicles with the greatest price increases have price changes from 2.5 to 4.0 times the average vehicle’s price increase and are primarily alternative-fuel vehicles with hybrid and electric cars accounting for eight vehicles on the list.
The used car with the greatest price increase is the Nissan LEAF, which has risen in price by 43.8 percent compared to last year. “The price increase for the Nissan LEAF, which was once the highest depreciating car on the market, is likely due to heightened gas prices as well as the heightened desirability for the redesigned 2018 model that offers increased range and is now coming off lease to enter the used car market,” said Brauer.
Two additional electric cars make the list include the Tesla Model S and Chevrolet Bolt. “Demand for used versions of the Model S waned in recent months as consumers embraced the more affordable Model 3 and the Model X SUV, but the long wait times for new versions of the Model S, which include March 2023 as the earliest availability for the base model, have driven consumers to the used market,” said Brauer. “The Chevrolet Bolt’s affordability, plus heightened interest in all electric vehicles, has led to its steep used car price increase.”
Five hybrid vehicles make the list including the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, the Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid, the Toyota Prius, the Toyota Avalon Hybrid, and the Lexus ES 300h. “Hybrid vehicles are in high demand due to soaring gas prices, with the hybrid category as a whole increasing in price by 30.5 percent,” said Brauer. “Hybrid sedans have seen a resurgence in popularity after falling out of favor when consumers previously embraced hybrid SUVs, again reflecting hese sedans’ more affordable price and fuel-efficient drivetrains.”
The Fiat 500x subcompact SUV also makes the list. “The Fiat 500x is one of the most affordable SUVs on the market, with an average price of $21,407, making it attainable for drivers seeking affordable and fuel-efficient transportation,” said Brauer.
The Porsche Cayenne luxury midsize SUV rounds out the list. “The wait time for a new version of the Porsche Cayenne is over a year, sending buyers who want this luxury SUV to the used car marketplace,” said Brauer.
Used Car Price Increases By Bodytype and Fuel Type
iSeeCars further analyzed used car prices by looking at the price increases in July 2022 compared to July 2021 by body style and fuel type.
The three bodytypes that have the largest price increases are hatchbacks, sedans, and wagons respectively. “Hatchbacks, sedans, and wagons have the lowest average prices among all bodytypes, confirming the heightened demand for affordable transportation as used car prices remain elevated,” said Brauer. “Additionally, coupes and trucks were the first segments to see big price increases more than a year ago, so their increase over the past 12 months is smaller relative to other body types, while minivans have similarly not seen as big of an increase in demand compared to other segments.”
Electric and hybrid vehicles had used car price increases well above the average for all fuel types. “The rapid increase in gas prices over the past few months has led to a surge in demand for hybrid and electric vehicles,” said Brauer. “Additionally, more electric vehicles entering the new car market, increasing consumer acceptance of these vehicles, and improvements in EV charging infrastructure has further heightened interest for used electric vehicles.”
Top 10 Used Cars With Price Decreases and the Smallest Price Increases
The top ten vehicles with the smallest price differences over the past year are primarily trucks and sports cars. Five used vehicles have actually decreased in price compared to last year, with four of the vehicles coming from Nissan and its luxury extension INFINITI.
The full-size Nissan Armada has the greatest price decrease compared to last year, costing $3,022 less in July 2022 over July 2021. “The Nissan Armada is one of the slowest-selling vehicles in the segment, and the demand for this fuel-hungry vehicle has likely dropped further amid high gas prices,” said Brauer.
Two American sports cars make the list, including the second-ranked Chevrolet Camaro and the sixth-ranked Ford Mustang. “Sports cars were among the vehicle segments that saw the earliest price increases during the pandemic, so their year-over-year price increases aren’t as dramatic as other vehicle segments because prices for them were already high in July 2021.”
Five pickup trucks make the list, including the third-ranked Nissan Titan, the fourth-ranked Nissan Titan XD, the seventh-ranked Ford F-150, the ninth-ranked Honda Ridgeline, and the tenth-ranked Toyota Tundra. “The Nissan Titan and its XD heavy-duty-ish model are the slowest-selling trucks in the full-size segment, and the Honda Ridgeline is among the slowest-selling in the compact/midsize truck segment, reflecting low demand in the used vehicle marketplace,” said Brauer. “Conversely, the Ford F-150 and the Toyota Tundra are popular pickup trucks and reflect the low year-over-year price increases for the pickup truck segment because their prices were already elevated in July 2021.”
Two luxury vehicles round out the list: the INFINITI QX60 midsize SUV and the Volvo S90 midsize sedan.”The INFINITI QX60 is one of the slowest-sellers in the luxury midsize SUV class, while the Volvo S90 had steadily declined in sales since its debut in 2017,” said Brauer.
Used Car Price Increases By City
iSeeCars looked at the top 50 most populous metro areas to see which metro areas had the smallest and largest increase in pre-owned car prices in July 2022 compared to July 2021.
Oklahoma had the smallest change with a decrease of 1.5 percent, while New York had the greatest used car price increase at 18.1 percent.
Why Are Used Cars So Expensive? Chip Shortage Explained
The prices of used cars are still high as overall demand continues to exceed supply. After microchip suppliers paused production in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic slowdown caused automakers to order fewer computer chips while demand for personal electronic devices increased. As demand for new vehicles recovered, microchip factories became overwhelmed. Automakers were forced to stop new vehicle production due to a supply chain shortage of microchips and semiconductors. As a result of the production disruptions, more car buyers bought used cars due to a scarcity of new cars. There was also increased demand for used cars when many consumers moved away from cities and required personal vehicles. The heightened demand was coupled with reduced supply at dealerships as less people were trading in their old cars, leading to a shortage of used cars. The resulting shortage has caused record high prices for used cars.
And it’s not just used cars that are experiencing price hikes. New car prices have risen too, with the average new car transacting above sticker price. Car companies have also slashed incentives due to the shortage of new cars, which has elevated the average price paid for new cars and caused buyers to pay over MSRP.
“Used car prices are still significantly higher than they were a year ago, but they have remained constant over the past few months,” said Brauer. “Buyers who are looking for a used car deal are more likely to find one on a pickup truck or SUV while prices for fuel efficient and alternative fuel vehicles show no signs of dropping in the near term. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/automotive/used-car-prices-rise-in-july-demand-remains-high-for-fuel-efficient-vehicles/ | 2022-08-13T22:31:01Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/automotive/used-car-prices-rise-in-july-demand-remains-high-for-fuel-efficient-vehicles/ | false |
RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Power Consumption Dropped By Up to 30%
Resident Twitter leaker @kopite7kimi updated the public with new power consumption expectations for the upcoming RTX 4080 and RTX 4070. The wattage of the RTX 4070 has gone down a bit, to 285W from a previously projected 300W. The RTX 4080's power consumption target meanwhile plummeted to just 320W, matching the RTX 3080's official TBP. Previous rumors suggested it might have a 450W TBP for the xx80 series GPU.
We don't know why the power expectations have gone down so unexpectedly, especially with the RTX 4080. However, Kopite posted another tweet around the same time, saying the high 40-series power consumption has become problematic, resulting in a reduction of power output to Ampere levels. Presumably, clock speeds and performance may have been adjusted as well.
We don't know Kopite's sources directly, but we can presume from this data that Nvidia's engineers have been desperately trying to get these rumored ultra-high power consumption figures to work on the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 but found the TSMC 5nm silicon didn't behave as desired at these extreme watts and amps.
As usual, apply liberal helpings of salt as there's no official word on any of this stuff yet. Kopite does have a strong track record for being an accurate leaker, however, and there have been leaks of Ada's high power consumption running for a long time. Some of that might be speculation thanks to the introduction of the new 600W 16-pin power connector , and there's still a chance Nvidia's 40-series GPUs will go back up in power consumption.
The lowered power consumption could be good or bad news for gamers. On one side, the lower wattage will reduce the TBP of the top-tier GPUs by a considerable amount, making them much easier to cool and thereby reducing system heat and noise levels as well.
On the other side, a 29% reduction in power use on the RTX 4080 could substantially reduce GPU performance. That's the problem with early rumors and leaks. Nvidia is also working to determine the best clock speeds, voltages, and power levels for its new Ada architecture, so everything is still in a state of flux.
That's part of why we've long been skeptical of claims that Nvidia's Ada Lovelace GPUs could use as much as 600W of power. That's a massive increase compared to Ampere. There will undoubtedly be some custom designs that push the new GPUs to the limit, but just because the new PCIe 5.0 12VHPWR 16-pin connector can pull up to 600W doesn't mean cards that use it will draw that much power. We should get official confirmation of the RTX 40-series GPU specs in the near future when it's officially announced, judging by the increasing rate of leaks happening right now.
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One killed, dozens injured as high winds cause stage collapse at Spain festival
One person was killed and dozens were injured when high winds caused part of the main stage to collapse at a dance music festival near the Spanish city of Valencia early on Saturday, emergency services said.
Other infrastructure was also damaged when gusts battered the Medusa Festival, a huge electronic music festival held over six days in the east coast town of Cullera.
Thirty-two people were taken to hospital and three remained there on Saturday afternoon, regional health authorities said.
Organizers said they were cancelling the rest of the festival for the safety of attendees.
"We are completely devastated and saddened at what happened this morning," organizers said earlier on the festival's Facebook page, adding that "extreme" weather conditions had caused damage to various infrastructure on the festival site.
"At around four in the morning unexpected and violent strong winds destroyed certain areas of the festival, forcing management to make the immediate decision to vacate the concert area to guarantee the safety of attendees, workers and artists," organizers said.
The festival, where French DJ David Guetta was due to play on Saturday, had DJs scheduled to play throughout the night on Friday across five stages. DJ Miguel Serna was on the main stage for his 3 to 4 a.m set when the incident occurred.
"It was a tense few minutes, I've never experienced anything like it before," he wrote on Instagram.
"The tragedy happened just at the end of my session on the main stage, just below it, which was the most affected (area). It was a few moments of horror, I am still in shock."
National weather agency AEMET said there had been "strong gusts of wind and a sudden rise in temperatures" during the night, with gusts of 82 km/h (51 m.p.h.) recorded at Alicante airport in the Valencia region.
"Suddenly there was a lot of wind, very hot air, all the sand started to move, we saw tents flying," one festival attendee, named only as Laura, said.
"People started to come from the concerts and according to what they told us, parts of the stage, wood, were blown away, it was chaos."
National broadcaster TVE showed images of strong gusts of wind battering against people's tents and festival awnings in the middle of the night, as people shielded their eyes from the sandstorm-like conditions.
"We are in a state of shock because we were 30 metres away (from the stage). It could have been me, it could have been anyone," Jesus Carretero, who was at the festival with his brother, told TVE.
(Additional reporting by Jessica Jones and Elena Rodriguez; Writing by Jessica Jones; Editing by Kirsten Donovan, Ros Russell and Frances Kerry)
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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, 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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Returning Super-Staters and Power Five recruits headline this year's crop of talent in Class A. Plus, which team is in the driver's seat to win it all?
Defending champion: None
Gretna defeated Omaha Westside in the championship game at Memorial Stadium but an NSAA ruling stripped the Dragons of the title.
Gretna is in a good position to contend again this season, returning half of its starting lineup, including first-team Super-Staters Zane Flores and Mason Goldman. Flores will lead a high-scoring offense that includes electric wide receivers such as Joe Roll, Tyson Boganowski and Blayke Moore.
Korver Demma is a name to watch at defensive end, while Ethan Stuhr and Riley Egenberger are ready to step up at linebacker. There are plenty of starting spots up for grabs, but having the best quarterback in the state will always keep the Dragons in contention no matter the opponent.
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Bellevue West (10-2, A state semifinals, No. 4 final ranking): The Thunderbirds graduate some of their top college football prospects in school history, but there's no slowing down this offensive juggernaut. Junior quarterback Daniel Kaelin is ready to lead this team, and his two top wide receivers (Dae'Vonn Hall and Kyrell Jordan) are also major Power Five recruits.
Creighton Prep (7-3, A state first round, No. 8): A veteran group returns for Prep this season, and the Junior Jays will be a force up front. Nebraska commit Sam Sledge and Princeton commit Rocco Marcelino will anchor an offensive line that could be the best in the state; North Dakota State commit Marty Brown will rack up the yards at running back.
Elkhorn South (9-2, A state quarterfinals, No. 5): Nebraska commit Maverick Noonan is a returning Super-Stater and will lead the Storm on both sides. With only six returning starters, there will be plenty of new faces for Elkhorn South this fall, but the talent is certainly there.
Lincoln Southeast (5-5, A state first round, unranked): The Knights return the bulk of their starting lineup, including Nebraska commit Gunnar Gottula on the offensive line. The Southeast defense is full of big, fast athletes, and all-city running back Max Buettenback will lead the offensive effort. Developing a passing attack will be key to the Knights' success, too.
Millard South (9-1, A state first round, No. 3): The Patriots will have to reload after losing an all-time senior class, but there's still plenty of talent to keep them in the Class A mix. Cam Kozeal showed his skills as a dual-threat quarterback in limited action last season, while Lance Rucker and Brock Murtaugh will be key two-way players.
North Platte (7-4, A state quarterfinals, No. 9): North Platte is simply loaded with talented seniors this season. Kolten Tilford and Brock Roblee combined for over 1,600 rushing yards last season and will form the best one-two punch in all of Class A. Add in a big, experienced offensive line, and the Bulldogs are primed for another playoff run.
Omaha North (6-6, A state semifinals, No. 6): The Vikings pulled off a legendary playoff upset last season, but they won't be sneaking up on anyone this time around. Sophomore lineman Tyson Terry is a major Power Five target, running back Te'shaun Porter will roll up the yards and a big senior class is ready to step up right away.
Omaha Westside (12-1, A state runner-up, No. 2): After three consecutive appearances in the Class A title game, Westside will be a favorite to win it all once again. Junior Anthony Rezac is one of the most electric quarterbacks in Class A, and the same goes for running back Jahmez Ross. Several transfers will boost an already talented roster, too.
Key games
A19: Bellevue West at Creighton Prep.
A26: Omaha Westside at Creighton Prep, Elkhorn South at Lincoln Southeast.
S2: Millard South at Elkhorn South.
S9: Bellevue West at Omaha Westside, Creighton Prep at Gretna.
S23: North Platte at Kearney.
S30: Bellevue West at Gretna, Lincoln Southeast at Lincoln Southwest.
O13: Millard South at Omaha Westside.
O21: Lincoln East at Gretna, Omaha North at Elkhorn South.
Players to watch
QB Zane Flores, Gretna (6-3 | 190 | Sr.): Flores' senior year could be a historic one. The returning Super-State quarterback is 2,405 yards away from the all-time Class A passing record, and he threw for over 2,800 yards a year ago. The Oklahoma State commit has improved in every season.
DE/WR Malachi Coleman, Lincoln East (6-4 | 195 | Sr.): With the help of jaw-dropping plays on both offense and defense a year ago, Coleman shaped himself into a top-100 national recruit. He's a constant touchdown threat due to his elite speed offensively, while his long arms and quick moves will allow him to pile up the sacks defensively.
OL/DL Sam Sledge, Creighton Prep (6-4 | 270 | Sr.): A first-team Super-State selection last year, Sledge is certainly one of the most dominant linemen in the entire state. Sledge will be a rare four-year starter at Creighton Prep, and while his college future is along the offensive line, he'll put together some defensive snaps too.
DL/OL Maverick Noonan, Elkhorn South (6-5 | 240 | Sr.): Few players can rush the quarterback with the efficiency that Noonan has. His powerful frame, quick hands and pass-rushing moves often get him into the backfield within seconds, while the Nebraska football commit is also a talented offensive lineman as well.
WR Dae'Vonn Hall, Bellevue West (6-2 | 185 | Jr.): He might only be a junior, but Hall is ready for the big time. He can both box out defenders for short receptions and sprint past them for big plays — and he's got a lot of Power Five schools calling.
DL/OL Tyson Terry, Omaha North (6-3 | 280 | So.): An exciting freshman season at defensive tackle elevated Terry's status along recruiting trails, and he followed it up with a Class A heavyweight state title in wrestling. He's one of the strongest, toughest linemen in the state as a sophomore.
DB/WR Caleb Benning, Omaha Westside (5-11 | 185 | Jr.): The lone sophomore to be a first-team Super-State pick last year, Benning is the definition of a lockdown corner. His speed and ball skills keep him step for step with wide receivers at all times, and he's also an exciting talent when he sees the field on offense.
OL/DL Gunnar Gottula, Lincoln Southeast (6-6 | 285 | Sr.): A second-team Super-State selection a year ago, Gottula is one of Class A's best offensive tackles. The NU football commit often shuts down opposing pass rushers with ease and plans to rotate in along the defensive line this season.
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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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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ elections director says the state will go along with a request for a hand recount of votes from every county after last week’s decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights, even though there was a 165,000-vote difference and a recount won’t change the result.
Melissa Leavitt, of Colby in far western Kansas, requested the recount and declined to comment to reporters Friday evening, citing work obligations. But she said on an online site raising funds for a recount that she had “seen data” about the election. Her post was not more specific, and there is no evidence of significant problems with the election.
Baseless election conspiracies have circulated widely in the U.S., particularly among supporters of former President Donald Trump, who has repeated false claims that he lost the 2020 election through fraud.
Kansas law requires Leavitt to post a bond to cover the entire cost of the recount. Bryan Caskey, state elections director for the Kansas secretary of state’s office, said it would be the first recount of the votes on a statewide ballot question in at least 30 years.
Caskey said the work won’t begin without a guarantee that Leavitt can cover the cost.
“Normally, they reinforce the Election Day results,” Caskey said about recounts. “We stand by the results and will do the recount.”
Also seeking a recount is state Sen. Caryn Tyson, who is trailing state Rep. Steven Johnson in the Republican primary for state treasurer by about 400 votes out of nearly 434,000 cast. She is asking for a hand recount in about half the state’s 105 counties.
Voters last week rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have allowed the conservative, Republican-controlled Legislature to further restrict or ban abortion. It failed by 18 percentage points.
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The comedy world has lost a rising star.
Teddy Ray, a comedian who was featured on the HBO series Pause with Sam Jay and the Comedy Central show How to Be Broke, has died just two weeks after his 32nd birthday.
The Riverside County, Calif. coroner's office confirmed to E! News that the performer, whose real name is Theadore Brown, died on Aug. 12 at a private residence in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
A police spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times that that morning of Aug. 12, deputies responded to a call about a death at a home in the desert town. The spokesperson added, "The cause of death isn't known." The case remains under investigation, the coroner's office said.
E! News has reached out to the police for comment and has not heard back.
Comedy Central paid tribute to Teddy, who was from the city of Gardena, on Twitter on Aug. 12. "Teddy Ray was a hilarious and beloved performer," the channel's message said. "He'll be deeply missed by the entire comedy community."
Teddy's final Instagram post, shared on July 30, was about his birthday. "Pulling up on 32 like…." he wrote, alongside a photo of himself inside a car. "Lord I thank you for another lap around this hot ass sun."
Following his death, comedian Katt Williams commented on his post, calling him "brilliant" and adding, "So sorry. Love u." Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson also commented, "Heartbroken. Gonna miss you teddy."
Teddy was also known for appearances on Wild 'n Out and the improv comedy courtroom show Cancel Court, and for co-hosting the MTV comedy clip series Messyness with Tori Spelling, Olympian Adam Rippon and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi.
"Love you Teddy," Snooki wrote on her Instagram Story on Aug. 13.
Insecure creator Issa Rae also paid tribute to Teddy, sharing a photo of him with a white heart emoji on her Instagram Story. Her media company, Hoorae, also honored the late comic. "Rest in Power to our longtime creative collaborator and friend, Teddy Ray," read a message on the group's Twitter page. "Grateful for the energy you always brought to our projects and sets!"
—Reporting by Meriam Bouarrouj | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1341975/comedian-teddy-ray-dead-at-32 | 2022-08-13T23:14:02Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1341975/comedian-teddy-ray-dead-at-32 | false |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 14, 2022
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AIR QUALITY ALERT
...OZONE ACTION DAY...
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued
an Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth area for Sunday,
August 14, 2022.
Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing
high levels of ozone air pollution in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
on Sunday. You can help prevent ozone pollution by sharing a
ride, walking, riding a bicycle, taking your lunch to work,
avoiding drive-through lanes, conserving energy, and keeping your
vehicle properly tuned.
For more information on ozone:
Ozone: The Facts (www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/ozonefacts)
Air North Texas: (www.airnorthtexas.org)
EPA Air Now
(www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action.local_state&STATEID=45&TAB=0)
Take care of Texas (www.takecareoftexas.org)
North Central Texas Council of Governments Air Quality
(www.nctcog.org/trans/air/index.asp)
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
258 PM PDT Sat Aug 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of San Bernardino and
Riverside Counties through 400 PM PDT...
At 258 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles south of Twentynine Palms, moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of San Bernardino and
Riverside Counties.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3408 11603 3407 11600 3403 11600 3404 11573
3400 11570 3382 11579 3384 11605 3389 11617
3409 11616 3410 11604
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 270DEG 10KT 3400 11605
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Five years ago this week, hundreds of people from more than 38 states and four countries stormed Charlottesville in a demonstration of rage and violence. Many bore insignia honoring Nazism and the Confederacy. They performed Nazi salutes and chanted hateful slogans. They scapegoated immigrants, Blacks and Jews. Some said they wanted to start a race war. Their actions injured scores of people and resulted in the murder of a young woman.
“Charlottesville” became shorthand for hateful extremism in America. Despite its connection to the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution, “Charlottesville” came to symbolize a revival of fear about the horrors of Jim Crow and the Holocaust. President Joe Biden would cite “Charlottesville” as the turning point in his decision to run for president.
I was not yet living in Charlottesville in 2017, but — being a descendant of survivors of American slavery and European pogroms — I felt solidarity with the fear and anger. The invasion exposed a seething hostility that threatens democracies around the world. Beyond the risks of rival political tribes treating each other as existential threats, we have also seen a pummeling of democratic culture and institutions. American laws and norms have been shattered, undermining the electoral infrastructure of our republic. The Jan. 6 insurrection exacerbated the danger and sense of alarm. It would be negligent to disregard the possibility of fascism in America or to fail to protect our democracy from this ascendant anti-democratic movement.
I moved to Charlottesville to be part of the solution. As dean of the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, my colleagues and I prepare students for leadership to serve our divided world. My daily commute retraces the path marched by the torch-carrying white nationalists five years ago. On moonlit evenings, I imagine the terror of students who were menaced by the “river of flames” on campus. I also think about our graduates who were hiding for safety beneath their desks in the U.S. Capitol while it was under attack. I tell my students that there is nothing inevitable about our democracy, nor its demise. Our imperfect, monumental experiment in self-government has always been a work in progress. The prospect of future progress depends on us, on the choices we make, and the courage of our pro-democracy response.
The urgency of response cannot be overstated, yet a feeling of overwhelm impedes us. Here is a place to start.
First, choose hope over despair. We lament our species’ perennial cruelty, inhumanity and myopic greed, and yet our heartbreak is overshadowed by wonder at feats of collective genius and creativity. As dire as things appear, we have endured worse, and we are still here.
Don’t surrender to the paralyzing seduction of fear. Instead, invest in hope as the hypothesis of human progress. One benefit of critically studying unvarnished history — sadly under attack at present — is the value of perspective. Narcissistic politics can be overcome. Mortal enemies can reconcile. Institutions can be repaired. Public policy can successfully address global challenges. People can heal and evolve.
Second, choose action over outrage. Instead of succumbing to media bait designed to provoke reaction, usually disgust or fury, we can take constructive steps. Do research and stay informed with verified facts. Register to vote and vote. Help others register to vote. Support a candidate with a donation or volunteering. Write to elected officials. Join or plan a demonstration. Call out bad behavior to maintain standards of integrity and accountability. Work for an elected official. Become an appointed or elected official. Remember that state and local offices are disproportionately influential for gerrymandering, voting rules, education and other matters critical to our political future.
Third, focus on people rather than their politics. We almost always share more in common with people than we realize, yet our politics tend to divide and dehumanize us. Each of us can exercise leadership wherever we are to create the norms and behaviors we want at home, at work, in our classrooms and neighborhoods, online, and for this country. Let’s not forget our humanity nor the inevitably multidimensional humanity of others. Talk to people. Listen with humility. Beware of biases. Share our truths. Beyond politics, we can build compassionate communities that empower all people to thrive.
Finally, don’t wait for someone else to lead. The world is judging this American experiment, and the consequences of failure would be grave. There will be times when despair, outrage and politics overwhelm confidence in a democratic future. You can add a chapter in the pro-democracy playbook being written. Together we can lead with determined hope, dedicated action and devotion to our common humanity.
Ian H. Solomon is dean of the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. | https://www.dailypress.com/opinion/vp-ed-column-solomon-0814-20220813-4tx26bfzyfdvjiykuoynnhxtd4-story.html | 2022-08-13T23:26:58Z | https://www.dailypress.com/opinion/vp-ed-column-solomon-0814-20220813-4tx26bfzyfdvjiykuoynnhxtd4-story.html | true |
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Police are searching for a man who punched a woman multiple times on Wednesday, according to a statement from San Francisco Police Department.
On Wednesday, August 10 just before noon, officers with SFPD’s Richmond Station were called to 26th Avenue and Geary Boulevard to a report of a battery.
After officers arrived on scene, they found a woman who told them that she was walking down Geary Boulevard when an unknown man walked in front of her and punched her multiple times. The woman sustained non-life threatening injuries during the assault.
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Officers searched for the suspect but were not able to locate him. Anyone who has information about this incident is asked to call the SFPD Tip Line at 1-415-575-4444 or Text a Tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD. You can choose to remain anonymous. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/police-searching-for-suspect-in-richmond-district-attack/ | 2022-08-13T23:27:55Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/police-searching-for-suspect-in-richmond-district-attack/ | true |
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — A loud “boom” heard across areas of northern Utah was likely a meteor, officials said Saturday.
Reports of the loud noise circulated at about 8:30 a.m., with people from Orem to southern Idaho posting that they heard the “boom,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox tweeted that his office confirmed it was not related to any seismic activity or military installations.
The National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City office wrote in a tweet that its lightning detection mapper likely picked up the meteor’s trail flash, which officials said seemed to be confirmed by witness video in Roy.
South Salt Lake resident Wendi Melling was just heading out the door Saturday morning when she heard the noise, which she described as a “loud deep booming sound” followed by a few seconds of rumbling.
“I thought I heard something fall in the house. I have since searched the house top to bottom and the only thing I’ve found was one slat from our wooden fence that had fallen, so that’s a relief,” Melling wrote in a Facebook message.
“It did sound similar to sonic booms I’ve heard before, followed by a short incident of a sound similar to low rolling thunder,” Melling continued. “This rumbling noise that followed the boom was maybe on 3-4 seconds.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/officials-loud-boom-heard-in-north-utah-likely-a-meteor/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-13T23:44:35Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/officials-loud-boom-heard-in-north-utah-likely-a-meteor/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
(The Hill) — Two top Democrats wrote to the director of National Intelligence on Saturday to request a damage assessment and review be conducted after the unsealed search warrant on Friday revealed classified and top secret documents had been taken by FBI officials during their search at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Oversight Committee, and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines asking for a damage assessment to be conducted in addition to a classified briefing “on the conduct of the damage assessment.”
Earlier this week, Trump announced that the FBI had executed a search warrant at his Florida residence and The Washington Post reported that officials were looking for documents, including nuclear weapons information that would have been classified.
The search warrant was unsealed Friday, indicating that officials believed Trump may have violated several laws, including the Espionage Act. It is not clear if documents pertaining to nuclear weapons were among the items seized by officials.
An unsealed search warrant showed that 33 items had been taken by the FBI, including “various classified/TS/SCI documents,” referring to secret/sensitive compartmentalized information
“Former President Trump’s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk. This issue demands a full review, in addition to the ongoing law enforcement inquiry,” Schiff and Maloney wrote.
Republicans have urged the Justice Department to be more transparent about the search, with some going further and calling it political persecution against Trump. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday introduced articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The Hill has reached out to the office of the Director of National Intelligence for comment. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/top-democrats-request-damage-assessment-review-of-documents-taken-at-mar-a-lago/ | 2022-08-13T23:50:29Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/top-democrats-request-damage-assessment-review-of-documents-taken-at-mar-a-lago/ | true |
MISSOULA — Wide receiver has been one of those positions for the Montana Grizzlies with familiar faces like Samori Toure or Samuel Akem starring for many seasons. But this year, the pass catchers are led by a few vets, with others looking step up both at receiver, but also at tight end.
Mitch Roberts and Malik Flowers enter their senior seasons as the veterans in the receivers room.
They're a couple of players who had to work their way into playing time over the last couple of years, but now find themselves leading this younger group.
"I'm kind of taking on that leadership role and helping some of the young guys," Roberts said. "But the nice thing with our group is everyone seems to learn pretty quickly and get a grasp on things so just helping the younger guys out a little bit and it's been clicking pretty good."
Roberts was second on the team in receiving yards a year ago with 683 and he led the team in catches with 55, one of which was a touchdown. Flowers — who has been a preseason All-American pick at kick returner — caught 14 passes for 210 yards and two scores
So receiver is a position where newer faces will be tasked with stepping up.
Sophomore Junior Bergen (21 catches, 230 yards, one score) is back to receiver full time after filling in at running back last year, but fellow sophomore Ryan Simpson (19 receptions, 247 yards) also began to crack the rotation last year.
The depth doesn't get much older from there, as sophomores Aaron Fontes and Keelan White (22 catches, 156 yards) also saw some playing time a year ago and are expected to compete in 2022, while freshmen Nick Williams, Drew Deck, and Washington transfer Camden Ver Strate also could find themselves in the mix.
So with inexperience comes plenty of opportunities for younger players to step up.
"What stands out about this group is everyone is just willing to make plays," Roberts said. "Go up and make a big grab on our defense and we're just willing to compete each and every day. Our defense is always pushing us to get better and we have one of the best defenses to compete against every day so it's great."
Montana's tight ends are a different story.
Led by 2021 breakout star Cole Grossman, UM also brings production back from the likes of junior Joey Elwell and sophomore Erik Barker. Grossman finished with 36 receptions for 463 yards and five touchdowns while Elwell had a pair of scores and Barker also caught a touchdown pass in 2021.
Plus, the Grizzlies get a boost with seasoned vet Matt Rensvold back from a long layoff after missing last year and most of 2019 with injury. Rensvold has three career touchdowns at Montana but played in just three games in 2019, his last on-field action coming on Sept. 14, 2019 against Oregon.
"It's awesome," Grossman said of the group. "We're really close, all brothers, and it's just cool to be in an environment where we all like each other and there's no differences between anybody and we all want each other to succeed more than ourselves so it's pretty cool."
Helping with blocking is a priority for this group as they work with a younger offensive line, while also remaining a threat in the passing game, as Grossman did a year ago down the second half of the season.
"Just a lot of drill work," Grossman said. "Making sure you're catching the ball, blocking with pass (protection), everything, so I think we do about every drill a receiver does and every drill a lineman does so it's pretty cool. I love the position. It's multi-facet."
Griz running backs on the 2022 roster by number
Wide receivers
No. 2, Sawyer Racanelli, R-SO, 6-foot-3, 210 pounds, Brush Prairie, WA
No. 3, Nick Williams, R-FR, 6-foot-5, 195 pounds, Oceanside, CA
No. 4, Ryan Simpson, R-SO, 6-foot-6, 210 pounds, Bozeman, MT
No. 5, Junior Bergen, SO, 5-foot-11, 175 pounds, Billings, MT
No. 6, Keelan White, R-SO, 6-foot-2, 190 pounds, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
No. 9, Drew Deck, R-FR, 5-foot-9, 160 pounds, Kalispell, MT
No. 14, Aaron Fontes, SO, 6-foot-1, 170 pounds, Oxnard, CA
No. 18, Sam Alford, FR, 6-foot-3, 190 pounds, Park City, UT
No. 19, Malik Flowers, R-SR, 6-foot-2, 200 pounds, Fontana, CA
No. 20, Brady Lang, R-FR, 6-foot-1, 175 pounds, Bozeman, MT
No. 24, Camden Ver Strate, R-SO, 5-foot-8, 170 pounds, Cheney, WA
No. 29, Tanner Huff, R-FR, 6-foot-0, 170 pounds, Butte, MT
No. 80, Mitch Roberts, R-SR, 6-foot-1, 200 pounds, Missoula, MT
No. 82, Ian Finch, FR, 6-foot-3, 195 pounds, Missoula, MT
Tight ends
No. 11, Cole Grossman, R-SO, 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, Vancouver, WA
No. 81, Matt Rensvold, R-JR, 6-foot-4, 250 pounds, Polson, MT
No. 84, Joey Elwell, JR, 6-foot-3, 245 pounds, Meridian, ID
No. 85, Micah Ashton, R-FR, 6-foot-5, 237 pounds, San Diego, CA
No. 86, Joe Weida, FR, 6-foot-4, 225 pounds, Missoula, MT
No. 87, Jake Olson, R-FR, 6-foot-7, 251 pounds, Butte, MT
No. 88, Erik Barker, SO, 6-foot-4, 238 pounds, Keizer, OR
No. 89, Peyton Brammer, R-FR, 6-foot-5, 220 pounds, Brush Prairie, WA | https://www.kxlf.com/sports/big-sky-conference/montana-grizzlies/montana-grizzlies-position-preview-wide-receivers-tight-ends-aiming-to-take-next-step | 2022-08-13T23:52:57Z | https://www.kxlf.com/sports/big-sky-conference/montana-grizzlies/montana-grizzlies-position-preview-wide-receivers-tight-ends-aiming-to-take-next-step | false |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s health minister has accused Russian authorities of committing a crime against humanity by blocking access to affordable medicines in areas its forces have occupied since invading the country 5 1/2 months ago.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Liashko said Russian authorities repeatedly have blocked efforts to provide state-subsidized drugs to people in occupied cities, towns and villages.
“Throughout the entire six months of war, Russia has not (allowed) proper humanitarian corridors so we could provide our own medicines to the patients that need them,” Liashko said, speaking at the Health Ministry in Kyiv late Friday.
“We believe that these actions are being taken with intent by Russia, and we consider them to be crimes against humanity and war crimes that will be documented and will be recognized,” the minister said.
The Ukrainian government has a program that provides medications to people with cancer and chronic health conditions. The destruction of hospitals and infrastructure along with the displacement of an estimated 7 million people inside the country also have interfered with other forms of treatment, according to United Nations and Ukrainian officials.
The war in Ukraine has caused severe disruptions to the country’s state-run health service, which was undergoing major reforms, largely in response to the coronavirus pandemic, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade on Feb. 24.
The World Health Organization said it recorded 445 attacks on hospitals and other health care facilities as of Aug. 11 that directly resulted in 86 deaths and 105 injuries.
But Liashko said the secondary effects were far more severe.
“When roads and bridges have been damaged in areas now controlled by the Ukrainian forces… it is difficult to get someone who had a heart attack or a stroke to the hospital,” he said. “Sometimes, we can’t make it in time, the ambulance can’t get there in time. That’s why war causes many more casualties (than those killed in the fighting). It’s a number that cannot be calculated.” ___ Full coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine ___ Follow Gatopoulos at https://twitter.com/dgatopoulos and Arhirova at https://twitter.com/h_arhirova | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ukrainian-minister-says-russia-blocking-access-to-medicines/ | 2022-08-13T23:56:14Z | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ukrainian-minister-says-russia-blocking-access-to-medicines/ | true |
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National Tattoo Removal Day: 9 epic tattoos that will leave you shocked and laughing at the same time
National Tattoo removal day is celebrated on August 14th. Those who regret their tattoos can surely consider getting rid of them on this day. Here is a list of hilarious tattoos that you would never want to have on your body. Check the list out and let us know in case you are inspired to get a funny one just for the laughs.
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- National Tattoo removal day is celebrated on August 14th.
- Tattoos are often used as a form of expression.
- However, some tattoos can end up looking way different than what we asked for.
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Loud ‘boom’ heard in Utah likely a meteor, officials say
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) - A loud “boom” heard across areas of northern Utah was likely a meteor, officials said Saturday.
Reports of the loud noise circulated at about 8:30 a.m., with people from Orem to southern Idaho posting that they heard the “boom,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox tweeted that his office confirmed it was not related to any seismic activity or military installations.
The National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City office wrote in a tweet that its lightning detection mapper likely picked up the meteor’s trail flash, which officials said seemed to be confirmed by witness video in Roy.
South Salt Lake resident Wendi Melling was just heading out the door Saturday morning when she heard the noise, which she described as a “loud deep booming sound” followed by a few seconds of rumbling.
“I thought I heard something fall in the house. I have since searched the house top to bottom and the only thing I’ve found was one slat from our wooden fence that had fallen, so that’s a relief,” Melling wrote in a Facebook message.
“It did sound similar to sonic booms I’ve heard before, followed by a short incident of a sound similar to low rolling thunder,” Melling continued. “This rumbling noise that followed the boom was maybe on 3-4 seconds.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kbtx.com/2022/08/13/loud-boom-heard-utah-likely-meteor-officials-say/ | 2022-08-13T23:57:30Z | https://www.kbtx.com/2022/08/13/loud-boom-heard-utah-likely-meteor-officials-say/ | true |
RICHMOND, Va. — Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. are the favorites as they battle for position to make NASCAR’s playoffs, but in a season when there have already been 15 race winners, they are far from the lone contenders.
Other non-winners include 2012 series champion Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace, last weekend’s runner-up at Michigan, and 14th-place Erik Jones. After Richmond, the series moves to the road course at Watkins Glen and finishes the regular season at the superspeedway that is Daytona.
Truex appears to have an edge on Richmond’s 0.75-mile oval, having won three of the last six races here, but Blaney led 128 laps in the spring and has two consecutive top-10 finishes on the D-shaped layout.
Truex doesn’t plan to change anything in his approach.
“We go race the best we know how. And, you know, hopefully you put ourselves in a position to win and do all the right things,” he said. “It’d be disappointing with the season we’ve had to not make it.”
Blaney also declined to lament the fairness of the playoff format and said he hopes to continue the improvements he’s made in his last two races here.
“I was proud of the progress we made here in the spring, the progress we continue to make at this racetrack, and I think we’ve built on it even more. Hopefully it shows, you know, in the race.”
Truex and Blaney both reached the second round of qualifying Saturday, but Kyle Larson won the pole with a lap at 117.177 mph. Truex will start sixth, Blaney 10th.
The race winner most in danger of being bumped is Kurt Busch, who will miss his fourth consecutive race because of a concussion sustained in qualifying at Pocono on July 23. Busch has dropped from 14th to 20th while sidelined.
The 15 winners include five first-timers, and Kevin Harvick said the win-and-you’re-in idea makes it exciting for race winners, but the notion that Blaney or Truex could be knocked out of the playoffs while near the top of the point standings is problematic.
“I think there has to be more weight put on all 26 weeks and the things that you do from a fairness to a team standpoint,” he said,
Harvick ended a 65-race winless drought last week at Michigan.
KBM FUTURE
Kyle Busch still doesn’t have a contract with Joe Gibbs Racing for next season, but the two-time series champion says while his immediate future is up in the air, he’s got a much better handle on his long-term plans.
“I would like it to not have to go through this again,” Busch said of contract negotiations. “I’ve got six, seven, maybe eight more years. If I play all this out perfectly, (son) Brexton and I will share a truck when he turns 16 years old, when he’s 16 and 17. And then it’s his when he’s 18 and I’m done, I’m out.”
STRUGGLING CHAMP
Truex (2017) and possibly Kurt Busch (2004) aren’t the only former champions who could miss the playoffs.
Keselowski has struggled since leaving Team Penske after last season to take an ownership role with Jack Roush and RFK Racing. He’s 28th in points with just three top-10 finishes. His standing includes a 100-point penalty he incurred in March for modifying a single-source part on the Next Gen car.
ODDS AND ENDS
There were 16 different winners last season, but only 14 before the playoffs began. Denny Hamlin and Bubba Wallace both notched victories during the postseason. ... Larson won 10 times, and the championship, last season. He’s won just once this year. ... Kyle Busch leads active drivers with six Richmond victories. Denny Hamlin has four, Harvick and Truex three each and Keselowski, Joey Logano and Kurt Busch each have two.
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Train drivers' union boss under fire for comparing proposed anti-strike laws to Nazi Germany
- Mick Whelan accused govtof taking UK back to Germany and Italy in 1930s
- Grant Shapps hit out at Whelan, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef
- Shapps separately accused Mick Lynch of peddling Kremlin propaganda
Militant union bosses have been accused of taking leave of their senses after one compared proposed anti-strike laws to Nazi Germany.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps hit out after Mick Whelan, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, accused the Government of taking the UK back to Germany, Spain and Italy in the 1930s.
Mr Whelan, whose union staged another 24-hour strike yesterday, told Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘We are virtually in what was happening in Germany, Spain and Italy in the mid-30s where you removed the right to strike, removed the right to protest, removed the right to complain, you challenged lawyers, you threatened union leaders. We are very much moving into a world I don’t think we want to be in.’
Mick Whelan, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, accused the Government of taking the UK back to Germany, Spain and Italy in the 1930s
Separately, Mick Lynch, boss of the RMT union, told the New Statesman magazine how the EU had provoked ‘trouble’ in Ukraine and also claimed ‘there were a lot of corrupt politicians in Ukraine’.
‘And while they were doing that, there were an awful lot of people [in Ukraine] playing with Nazi imagery and going back to the [Second World] war, and all that,’ he said.
Sources close to Mr Shapps, who is planning to introduce new laws requiring minimum service levels during strikes, said both men had ‘taken leave of their senses’.
The Transport Secretary added: ‘Between Mick Lynch’s peddling of Kremlin propaganda and Mick Whelan’s absurd and offensive comments, the union mask has well and truly slipped.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109501/Train-drivers-union-boss-fire-comparing-proposed-anti-strike-laws-Nazi-Germany.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-14T00:01:13Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109501/Train-drivers-union-boss-fire-comparing-proposed-anti-strike-laws-Nazi-Germany.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Just got DITCHED! Bride-to-be flees her fiancé at Heathrow Airport taking his luggage and £5,000 cash just moments before they were due to board flight to Rome wedding
- British man was 'totally' in bits after being abandoned by fiancee at Terminal 5
- He went to the toilet and returned to find lover had vanished with all their cases
- Metropolitan Police have confirmed 'enquiries continue' but no arrests yet made
- Do you know the jilted fiancé? Email laurence.dollimore@mailonline.co.uk
A cruel bride-to-be has abandoned her fiancé at the airport, allegedly robbing him of his suitcases and £5,000 cash.
A British man was said to be 'totally in bits' after his soon-to-be wife vanished with his belongings while he went to the toilet at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
The couple, in their 40s, had got engaged a day earlier, reported the Sun, and told check-in staff at the west London airport that they were heading to Rome to get hitched.
The unnamed man, who eventually called in police, said she had taken off with £5,000 he had gifted her for the wedding.
A Met Police spokeswoman confirmed to the Sun that they were investigating.
She added: 'Enquiries continue. No arrests have been made at this time.'
A British man was said to be 'totally in bits' after his soon-to-be wife vanished with his suitcases while he went to the toilet at Heathrow's Terminal 5. (Pictured: Terminal 5 in July, 2022)
The couple in their 40s had planned to wed in Rome before the bride-to-be vanished with her fiance's belongings and cash (stock image)
One onlooker said: 'He was in bits — totally inconsolable. Apparently, they'd only met very recently and he'd fallen head-over-heels for her.
'He'd proposed a day earlier and she'd accepted.'
They said they had planned to marry in Rome and were about to fly there when 'she did a runner while he went to the loo and vanished with all their belongings.'
The witness said staff 'looked everywhere for her' but that 'she was nowhere to be found.'
They added: 'In the end, the police were called. Even her name was in doubt by then.'
It is not yet clear whether the woman left the airport or flew to another country. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109589/Just-got-DITCHED-Bride-flees-fianc-Heathrow-Airport-taking-luggage-5-000-cash.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-14T00:02:08Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109589/Just-got-DITCHED-Bride-flees-fianc-Heathrow-Airport-taking-luggage-5-000-cash.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Diamondbacks blow open close game in 7th to beat Pirates 9-3
PHOENIX (AP) - Emmanuel Rivera homered and hit a two-run double in the seventh inning to help blow open a close game, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-3 on Thursday.
Rivera started the season with Kansas City before being traded to Arizona at the deadline for right-hander Luke Weaver. Rivera, who homered in his third game with the Diamondbacks, added a solo shot off JR Brubaker in the fourth inning Thursday.
"We´re still in that stage where we´re going to continue to work with him and guide him, push him in the right direction, but it was awfully nice that he had some success today," Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. "There were some key moments and he was the right guy in the right spot."
Trailing 3-2 in the seventh, Arizona tied it on Alek Thomas' bases-loaded groundout off Chase De Jong (4-1). Rivera followed with his double off Yerry De Los Santos and Daulton Varsho hit a three-run double high off the wall in center to put Arizona up 8-3.
Rivera added a double in the eighth inning to finish 3 for 4.
"I feel like I´ve been here years now and I´m adapting myself very well with the teammates on the team," Rivera said through a translator.
Arizona Diamondbacks' Emmanuel Rivera (15) celebrates as he arrives at home plate on his home run as umpire Erich Bacchus, right, looks on during the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Kevin Ginkel (1-0) got two outs in the seventh inning for his first win since 2019.
Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly had been sharp recently, going 4-0 with a 1.49 ERA his previous seven starts.
The Pirates scored three runs off the right-hander in the fourth inning on two softly hit balls.
Ke'Bryan Hayes scored from third base Tucpita Marcano's grounder, sliding just under the tag when Arizona first baseman Christian Walker threw home. The play was upheld after a long review.
Greg Allen followed with a run-scoring bloop single and Marcano came all the way around from first when Allen was caught in a rundown. Allen made it back to first base when Walker threw to second and had no one behind him.
"We scored because we ran the bases really well. We paid attention," Pirates manager Derek Shelton said. "Marcano made a really nice read going there, and then (Allen) did a nice job when Walker vacated. So, we ran the bases really well. It´s just after that, we couldn´t get much going."
Kelly allowed three runs on four hits and struck out six with three walks in five innings.
"Those games that you´re going to be off, which are going to happen throughout the course of the season, it´s nice to know that just because you give up the runs, doesn´t mean you´re automatically going to lose the game," Kelly said.
BRUBAKER'S DAY
Brubaker gave up four runs in six innings his last start against Milwaukee, but was sharp early against the Diamondbacks.
The right-hander didn't allow a hit until Rivera led off the fourth with a homer to deep left-center. Carson Kelly followed with a run-scoring single to cut Pittsburgh's lead to 3-2.
Brubaker allowed two runs on four hits and struck out six with three walks in five innings.
UP NEXT
Pirates: RHP Bryse Wilson (2-6, 5.86 ERA) has gone 2-2 with a 3.34 ERA in six starts since being called up from Triple-A Indianapolis heading into Friday's start at San Francisco.
Diamondbacks: RHP Zach Davies (2-4, 4.03) will try to win for the first time since May 13 against the Chicago Cubs when he pitches the opener of a three-game series with St. Louis Friday.
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Pittsburgh Pirates' Ke'Bryan Hayes (13) scores a run as Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Carson Kelly, left, gets the ball late during the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Oneil Cruz fields a ground ball hit by Arizona Diamondbacks' Alek Thomas before throwing to first base for an out during the third inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Carson Kelly (18) makes a catch on a foul ball hit by Pittsburgh Pirates' Bligh Madris as third baseman Emmanuel Rivera (15) backs up the play during the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher JT Brubaker throws a pitch against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the first inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Oneil Cruz, left, is picked off at first base as Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Christian Walker (53) applies a tag during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gang riot inside a border prison that left two inmates dead quickly spread to the streets of Ciudad Juarez where alleged gang members killed nine more people, including four employees of a radio station, security officials said Friday.
The surge in violence recalled a far more deadly period in Juarez more than a decade earlier. Mexico's powerful drug cartels commonly use local gangs to defend their territory and carry out their vendettas.
The federal government’s security undersecretary, Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, said the violence started inside the state prison after 1 p.m. Thursday, when member of the Mexicles gang attacked members of the rival Chapos.
Two inmates were killed and 20 injured.
Then suspected gang members outside the prison began burning businesses and shooting up Ciudad Juarez.
“They attacked the civilian, innocent population like a sort of revenge,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said. “It wasn’t just the clash between two groups, but it got to the point in which they began to shoot civilians, innocent people. That is the most unfortunate thing in this affair.”
Mejía said four employees of MegaRadio who were broadcasting a live promotional event outside a business were killed in the shooting.
Chihuahua state Attorney General Roberto Fierro Duarte said that a boy wounded in a shooting at a convenience store died later at the hospital, two women were killed in a fire at another gas station convenience store and two other men were shot elsewhere in the city.
Fierro said 10 suspects had been arrested.
Targeting civilians is not unheard of. 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.
Ciudad Juarez has long had a reputation for violence. Gangs like those involved in the riot often serve as proxies and street-level enforcers for Mexico's powerful drug cartels who aggressively exert control over the border crossing routes they need to move their product to the United States.
While still high, murders in recent years were well below what they were more than decade ago — about 1,400 last year compared to more than 3,600 in 2010 — according to data from Molly Molloy, a retired border specialist at the New Mexico State University Library, who has tracked the city's homicide data for many years and posts regular updates to her Frontera List.
Authorities said Juarez appeared calm Friday, but the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez moved all of its classes online Friday as a precaution.
The violence came two days after drug cartel gunmen burned vehicles and businesses in the western states of Jalisco and Guanajuato in response to the arrest of a high-ranking cartel leader. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/gang-violence-leaves-11-dead-in-mexican-border-city | 2022-08-14T00:17:11Z | https://www.ksby.com/news/national-news/gang-violence-leaves-11-dead-in-mexican-border-city | false |
Bank of England chief would be 'open to review' of its mandate on inflation policy after criticism from Liz Truss
- Liz Truss criticised the Bank of England chief for being slow raising interest rates
- Mr Bailey, who is the Bank's governor is open to review the institution's remit
- The bank hiked interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent the most in 27 years
Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey has said he would be 'open to a review' of its mandate to target inflation, following searing criticism from Liz Truss.
The Tory leadership frontrunner has previously lashed out at Mr Bailey, who has been the Bank's governor since 2020, for his slow response in raising interest rates to rein in spiralling prices.
Now Mr Bailey has reportedly admitted it could be 'the right thing' to review the institution's remit.
Lizz Truss (pictured) lashed out at Mr Bailey for his slow response in raising interest rates to rein in spiralling prices
A source told the Telegraph that in a telephone call with Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, Mr Bailey acknowledged that the Bank's mandate has not been formally examined since it became independent in 1997.
'He said that he would be open to a review, independence is important, but we haven't had a review since independence and therefore it is probably the right thing,' according to the source.
This month, the Bank hiked interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent – the largest increase for 27 years. However, critics believe it should have acted faster.
Raising interest rates is a key way to slow the pace at which prices are rising.
Inflation hit 9.4 per cent in June and the Bank has already warned it could pass 13 per cent this year.
Ms Truss has said she intends to review the Bank's mandate if she becomes PM to 'make sure it is tough enough on inflation'. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109597/Bank-England-chief-open-review-mandate-inflation-policy-Liz-Truss-criticism.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-14T00:21:32Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109597/Bank-England-chief-open-review-mandate-inflation-policy-Liz-Truss-criticism.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Torres, Gallese lead Orlando City over Red Bulls 1-0
Facundo Torres scored early and goalkeeper Pedro Gallese made it stand up as Orlando City blanked the New York Red Bulls 1-0 on Saturday.
Torres staked Orlando City (10-10-6) to a lead in the 17th minute with his fifth goal of the season. Júnior Urso and Alexandre Pato notched assists on the score.
Gallese made one save to help end a three-match losing streak. Orlando’s last win was a 1-0 decision over Inter Miami on July 9. Orlando had gone 0-3-2 since then..
Carlos Miguel Coronel failed to make a save for the Red Bulls (10-9-7).
New York outshot Orlando 15-2, but both teams only had one shot on goal.
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KATY, Tex. – A Houston-area organization and numerous volunteers came together to renovate a home for two brothers who lost their parents.
“I love it,” said Jaylan Gray. “I’m speechless, way more than we asked for. Completely grateful.”
Twenty-two-year-old Jaylan and his brother Julian, 12, got a tour of their newly renovated home on Friday.
The last few years have been tough after both of their parents and grandfather passed away.
Jaylan promised his mother he would take care of Julian.
“[I] try my best to keep him in check, make sure he doesn’t get in trouble, and make sure he’s loved,” said Jaylan.
Their previous home was severely damaged by Hurricane Harvey and the 2021 freeze.
“At one point, I was just done with the house. I was ready to sell it at one point. It was too much weight on my shoulders. I couldn’t do it,” said Jaylan.
Disaster rebuild organization, Katy Responds, and countless volunteers stepped in to help.
“There’s just no way they could’ve lived in it and probably would’ve never fixed it,” said Executive Director Ron Peters.
Peters says they remodeled the entire home in three months.
Additionally, Lakewood Church furnished the home.
“I want you to have a safe place to live. I want you to be able to not worry about your home, for a few years,” said Peters. “This is what we do. It’s hard work. It’s non-profit work, but it’s why we do it is for those guys.”
Jaylin and Julian are now ready to start a new chapter in their lives.
“It makes me so happy to see that there’s good people. I just like the way we’ve been treated. I didn’t think anything good would happen,” said Julian.
Katy Responds was created in 2018 and has worked on about 160 homes.
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By STEVE OVERBEY
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jordan Montgomery pitched six strong innings for second straight scoreless outing for his new team, Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado both homered, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-1. St. Louis, which has won 11 of 14, pushed its lead over Milwaukee in the NL Central to 1 1/2 games. The Cardinals won their ninth straight at home. Victor Caratini had three hits and an RBI for Milwaukee. Montgomery (5-3), acquired from the New York Yankees in a trade for outfielder Harrison Bader on Aug. 2, allowed four hits, struck out eight and walked two. Ryan Helsley got the last six outs for his 12th save in 15 opportunities.
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Loud ‘boom’ heard in Utah likely a meteor, officials say
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) - A loud “boom” heard across areas of northern Utah was likely a meteor, officials said Saturday.
Reports of the loud noise circulated at about 8:30 a.m., with people from Orem to southern Idaho posting that they heard the “boom,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox tweeted that his office confirmed it was not related to any seismic activity or military installations.
The National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City office wrote in a tweet that its lightning detection mapper likely picked up the meteor’s trail flash, which officials said seemed to be confirmed by witness video in Roy.
South Salt Lake resident Wendi Melling was just heading out the door Saturday morning when she heard the noise, which she described as a “loud deep booming sound” followed by a few seconds of rumbling.
“I thought I heard something fall in the house. I have since searched the house top to bottom and the only thing I’ve found was one slat from our wooden fence that had fallen, so that’s a relief,” Melling wrote in a Facebook message.
“It did sound similar to sonic booms I’ve heard before, followed by a short incident of a sound similar to low rolling thunder,” Melling continued. “This rumbling noise that followed the boom was maybe on 3-4 seconds.”
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Queens Park Rangers goalkeeper Seny Dieng headed in a dramatic equaliser after Sunderland had looked on track to hit top spot in the Sky Bet Championship.
Ross Stewart and Ellis Simms scored for the second Saturday in a row to put Sunderland on track for three points only for QPR to hit back late on and earn a point.
QPR looked like having no answer to their first-half goals in the 31st and 40th minutes, until Ilias Chair curled in a brilliant free-kick with three minutes remaining for QPR.
And when Dieng charged upfield for a stoppage-time corner his initial header was blocked, only for him to turn in a second opportunity when a ball came back into the box.
Even then Sunderland could have won but the Hoops goalkeeper made a late save to deny Stewart a second goal that would have sealed the points.
Both Sunderland and QPR had made decent starts to the season and, after midweek outings in the Carabao Cup, there was familiarity about how the two teams lined up.
Sunderland boss Alex Neil reverted to the team that started at Bristol City a week earlier, while QPR manager Michael Beale made three changes to last Saturday’s team that beat Middlesbrough.
There was soon a change for Neil to think about. When Albert Adomah left his foot in on Dan Ballard, the former Arsenal defender had to be replaced with just nine minutes on the clock following lengthy treatment.
Adomah was in the thick of the action and wasted a fantastic chance to put QPR ahead with quarter of an hour approaching. The ex-Middlesbrough man directed a header wide from inside six yards after he had been picked out by Olamide Shodipo.
Before that Sunderland showed great hunger in front of a passionate crowd. Simms went close to finishing off a good move but Dieng was on hand to hold in the centre of goal.
That chance arrived from Stewart’s knock-down following Alex Pritchard’s cross, and then the latter curled an effort from the edge of the area wide seconds later.
Sunderland were bright, looked hungry and got the goal their fans were hoping for just after half an hour – and it was Stewart who obliged.
When he flicked Dan Neil’s crossfield pass on to Jack Clarke there was still plenty work to be done. Clarke found Pritchard, whose run and pass led to Neil forcing a low save from Dieng and Stewart was first to react with a predatory strike from the rebound.
Nine minutes later Sunderland had a second. When Stefan Johansen knocked the ball away when he tackled Pritchard, it fell invitingly for Simms to poke a finish low and powerfully beyond Dieng.
QPR made a bright start to the second half and should have pulled one back when substitute Tyler Roberts pulled an effort wide from a central position.
After that QPR kept probing and when Chair’s curling free-kick found its way in late on, the stage was set for Dieng to charge upfield for a corner and seal a dramatic point.
Even if he had to make one last save at the other end from Stewart when Sunderland also hit the bar from Elliot Embleton. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3591070/qpr-goalkeeper-seny-dieng-heads-home-dramatic-late-equaliser/ | 2022-08-14T00:30:43Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3591070/qpr-goalkeeper-seny-dieng-heads-home-dramatic-late-equaliser/ | false |
Davis Keillor-Dunn scored a hat-trick but an added-time goal from Rosaire Longelo meant Burton’s trip to Accrington finished as a thrilling 4-4 draw.
Burton took the lead on 10 minutes when Stanley debutant Baba Fernandes was judged to have tripped Gassan Ahadme in the area. Keillor-Dunn sent Lukas Jensen the wrong way for Albion’s first goal of the campaign.
It was two on 17 minutes when Victor Adeboyejo chested the ball down for Keillor-Dunn in the area and he fired home.
Burton made it three on 50 minutes when Jonny Smith’s ball across the face of goal was tapped home at the far post for Keillor-Dunn’s treble.
Stanley gave themselves a lifeline on 52 minutes when Sean McConville’s cross was headed home by Joe Pritchard.
It was 3-2 on 57 minutes when Tommy Leigh sent McConville clean through and he chipped keeper Viljami Sinisalo.
Burton made it 4-2 on 81 minutes when Joe Powell headed against the post and Ahadme fired the rebound into the empty net.
Josh Woods headed home on 90 minutes for Stanley and then Burton failed to clear their lines in injury time and Longelo, in the 96th minute, forced the ball home at the far post. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3591091/davis-keillor-dunn-hits-hat-trick-as-burton-draw-thriller-at-accrington/ | 2022-08-14T00:31:33Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3591091/davis-keillor-dunn-hits-hat-trick-as-burton-draw-thriller-at-accrington/ | false |
Danny Schofield secured a first win as Huddersfield boss with a 3-1 victory over Stoke.
The visiting Potters endured a frustrating opening period with Lewis Baker denied from the penalty spot and Jacob Brown striking the post in quick succession.
The hosts gradually grew into the fixture and took the lead when Yuta Nakayama marked his home league debut with a goal.
Baker made amends for his miss with a pinpoint strike early in the second half to get the visitor’s level.
His team-mate Dwight Gayle had an effort ruled out and allowed Huddersfield to take advantage.
Substitute Duane Holmes provided two late assists, teeing up Danny Ward and Jordan Rhodes to secure a much-needed victory for the West Yorkshire side.
After suffering three successive defeats to open his Huddersfield reign, Schofield rang the changes and switched to a back-five system.
The Terriers’ tactical tweak paid dividends as they frustrated a Stoke attack fronted by Brown and Gayle.
But their persistence looked set to be rewarded inside 20 minutes when referee Matthew Donohue pointed to the spot, penalising a Josh Ruffels high boot on a stooping Josh Laurent.
However, the normally reliable Baker – a Stoke figurehead since his January arrival – had his low strike from 12 yards saved well by Lee Nicholls to his left.
In the same passage of play, Brown escaped free of his marker in the penalty area only to have his effort strike the foot of the post.
The Potters’ top scorer from last season had another chance to grab the opener after the half hour mark, but he neglected to tee up a teammate and instead blazed a shot wide.
Stoke’s profligacy in front of goal was punished by the hosts prior to the interval when Connor Taylor misjudged his header from a Sorba Thomas corner.
Japanese international Nakayama – signed from PEC Zwolle this summer – arrived late at the far post and capitalised on Taylor’s error to power his header home in the 40th minute.
After the restart, a more vibrant Potters side re-emerged as they quickly set out to rectify their first half shortcomings and they were soon rewarded just over 10 minutes in.
As the ball propped up invitingly outside the area, former Chelsea midfielder Baker caressed an accurate strike from 20 yards beyond a helpless Nicholls.
Gayle thought he had completed the comeback for the visitors, but he was adjudged to have strayed offside before converting.
With 13 minutes remaining, Ward handed Huddersfield the advantage with a calm finish.
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Danny Cowley praised his Portsmouth side for a professional performance as they claimed a 2-0 League One win at Cheltenham.
A brace from Colby Bishop was enough to seal their first league win of the season, leaving the Robins pointless after three games.
“I thought it was a professional performance and we were well organised,” Cowley said. “It’s a nice feeling for a manager.
“It’s difficult to criticise the players because it was such a hot day – the hottest I’ve known in 15 years of management.
“To be four games in and unbeaten represents a good start. And we’ve hardly conceded a chance in three games, so that’s pleasing.”
Cowley took the opportunity to make all five substitutions in the heat and he is happy with the depth in his squad.
“The games are coming thick and fast so you need a good squad and a good squad brings competition for places,” he said.
“Now we can use five subs, football is more of a team game than ever and we have confidence in our bench. We call them the cavalry.”
Summer signing from Accrington, Bishop opened the scoring after half-an-hour, finishing from close range after Michael Morrison nodded Michael Jacobs’ cross down.
Portsmouth started the second half strongly and after 10 minutes of resistance, Cheltenham conceded a penalty with Ryan Jackson tripping Jacobs in the box.
Bishop stepped up to convert the ball from the spot to make it four goals for the season in all competitions.
Cheltenham boss Wade Elliott is confident his players can turn things around after a disappointing start to their second season back in League One.
“The message to the players is don’t get despondent, don’t let your chins hit the floor, all you have to do is keep delivering performances,” Elliott said.
“You can’t do anything about where the ball breaks or bounces, but scrap, fight, stay in games.
“We’ve had similar runs before and we are three games in. We have had similar runs where we know in this league we might go spells without wins.
“All you can do is concentrate on performances, stay in games and what we’ve done in the past is slowly turn it around.
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100 YEARS — 1922
Escape from the North Bend jail
Three Marshfield prisoners get away Sunday
Pry open the bars at the window — were all held on charges of drunkenness
Three prisoners broke out of the city jail at North Bend early Sunday morning. They were prisoners who were being held by the Marshfield officers. Night Officer Higley had a rather busy time arresting drunks and packing them to the North Bend jail.
One prisoner was in a cell and could not get out. The others were in the corridor. They were Walter Smith, who had been taken up because he had too much to drink, a man known as “Sam the Sailor,” who has frequently been arrested for drinking, and Leo Knox, who was drunk and when searched had only 50 cents in his pockets. George Jorgenson was also in the place but had reached a point of intoxication where the prospects of escape did not appeal and he preferred to sleep.
The prisoners had taken apart one of the bunks and with a two by four timber thus secured pried apart the bars over the window and broke the glass. Smith, Knox and the sailor all got out through the window.
As none of the men who escaped were held on serious charges, no particular effort was made to hunt them when the jail breaking was discovered Sunday morning.
Since the Marshfield city hall burned the prisoners from there have been taken to the jail in North Bend.
Want fairgrounds filled for a park
Make athletic field of old race track district
Matter of financing to be arranged soon — have to wait for bridge work
Tentative plans for converting the old race track and fair grounds into a fine athletic field are being considered by a number of Marshfield men and will likely result in the district being filled by the Port of Coos Bay dredge during the winter months so that it can be made available next spring.
The matter was taken up last fall by local men who raised a fund to provide a temporary field for the Marshfield high school football team. However, the Coal Bank inlet bridge is out of repair and a dredge could not be taken into Coal Bank inlet within pumping distance of the area.
Let bridge contract
Judge Wade and the county court are now figuring on awarding the contract for the new highway bridge across Coal Bank inlet this fall so that work can be started about the first of the year. As soon as this is done, the dredge can be taken in and the work begun.
Would divide cost
The tentative plan provides for cooperation between the Marshfield school board, the city council and the port commission in doing the work.
The improvement will provide an athletic field for track, baseball and football for the students, something they haven’t had and which is a severe handicap in athletic training.
The city of Marshfield owns the tract and the filling would not only make the area usable but in addition to the athletic field would provide additional space for an auto ground and other public uses.
Coquille is to be 50 years old
Celebration to be held at county seat August 30
Old pioneers will be called together to celebrate the event — expect big gathering
COQUILLE — The people of Coquille are planning to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the city. The date set for the celebration is Aug. 30 and unless the plans are changed it will be held at that time.
The plan is to have a gathering of the old timers of the county. Special invitations will be sent to all of the old settlers of Coos county and a general invitation extended to the public.
Everyone who is a resident of the county will wear a ribbon. There will be different colored ribbons. Those who have been in the county fifty years will wear a gold ribbon and there will be other colors to distinguish those who have lived in the county forty, thirty and twenty years.
The plans for the celebration are in the hands of the Women’s Club of Coquille and the Commercial club.
50 YEARS — 1972
South Slough studied as ‘fragile region’
CHARLESTON — Oregon Coastal Conservation and Development Commission (OCCDC) members and Coos County officials today toured portions of South Slough recommended to be set aside as a so-called “ecologically fragile” area.
Port of Coos Bay president Robert Younker, OCCDC executive committee member, said some 3,000 acres and two miles of waterway stretching between Valvino Island and South Slough Bridge have been proposed as a wildlife sanctuary and natural area by a Charleston land use study committee.
OCCDC executive director Jim Ross said the tour of the South Slough area had been requested by the Coos County Planning Commission. Commission approval of private development of several areas along South Slough has been sought, according to assistant county planner Robert Bailey.
Ross said OCCDC staff planners are currently working on a program to identify all such “fragile” areas along the Oregon coast. “These so-called fragile areas,” Ross explained, “are locations where there is environmental concern for balance between conservation and development.”
He added that efforts would be made to set aside such “fragile” areas from private development. “Our definition of “fragile” would imply that development would cause irreparable damage to the environment,” noted Ross.
Rumors fly: Oakland may terminate agreement with CB-NB Athletics
Are the Oakland Athletics about to terminate their working agreement with Oregon Coast Baseball, proprietors of the Coos Bay-North Bend Athletics in the Class A Northwest League?
That’s the rumor being circulated about the circuit, from Seattle to Lewiston, to Spokane, Walla Walla and Tri-City; but not in the Bay Area.
Club officials have said, according to an informed source in Walla Walla, that Oakland will withdraw its working agreement at the end of this season.
“I know nothing of the sort,” countered Norm Koselke, administrative assistant in the minor league department for the Athletics’ organization in Oakland Tuesday. “As far as I know, we’ll be in Coos Bay-North Bend next year.”
John Claiborne, Director of Minor League Operations for the American League club, was unavailable for comment.
Curly Leininger, general manager of CB-NB, wasn’t fazed a bit by the rumor.
“I kinda surmise that they’ll pull out,” he said, hinting that all is not rosy and compatible between OCB and Oakland. “I’d e glad if they did.”
Past performances by Oakland — and Kansas City, the former home of the major league Athletics, would indicate that the “marriage” is about to be annulled. In years previous, the Athletics had a three-year agreement with Tri-City before withdrawing; then later had a three-year commitment with Lewiston before ceasing operations.
The present working agreement is reaching the end of its third season between Oakland and Coos Bay-North Bend — they went to the altar in 1970 in bringing professional baseball to Southwestern Oregon for the first time.
Should the Athletics pull out of Coos Bay-North Bend, they can hardly be faulted, for two specific reasons: attendance is lagging, woefully, and the playing surface/overall facility at the city-owned North Bend Municipal Ballpark is the worst in the Northwest League (granted the facility is unfavorable compared with Sick’s Stadium in Seattle and Fairgrounds Stadium in Spokane, both capable of seating over 10,000 fans, but it can be improved, greatly).
In each of the past two seasons, Coos Bay-North Bend, with a maximum seating capacity of 800, has been at the bottom in attendance figures; as of July 31 of this year, the A’s have drawn 6,221 customers for 16 home dates, or an average of 388 fans per game. The next lowest club, attendance-wise in the league is Lewiston, with an average of 976 per game.
McKay handcuffs A’s as Seattle wins, 5-4
SEATTLE — all good things must come to an end — and so it was Friday night as the Seattle Rainiers put a stop to Coos Bay-North Bend’s five-game win streak by handing the Athletics a 5-4 setback in a Northwest League contest at Sick’s Stadium.
Jeff McKay, former Marshfield High School star, put the stopper on the Athletics as he came on to relieve starter Juan Gomez with three runs across and no one out in the eighth and held the A’s to two hits and no runs while striking out three batters in the last two innings to record his tenth save of the season.
20 YEARS — 2002
Shrine Game marks 50th year
Four players and a coach from the South Coast will take part Saturday in the 50th annual East-West Shrine Game at Baker.
Reedsport quarterback Chad Harrington, Brookings-Harbor running back David Chesterman, Powers running back Frank Adamek and Douglas kicker/wide receiver Kyle Bachmeier are among the 30 players on the West squad for the All-Star game. Siuslaw coach Tim Dodson is helping coach the West team.
The annual event draws players from Class 3A, Class 2A and Class 1A and is one of the largest annual fun-raisers for the 19 Shriners children’s hospitals in North America.
Bandon safe as southern Oregon burns
Florence fire makes record
Winds were the major threat to fire crews still struggling Friday to contain what has become the largest active wildfire in the nation and also the largest in state history.
In Curry County, a pre-evacuation notice was posted to make sure residents are ready to leave on a moment’s notice if the Florence Fire, now at more than 330,000 acres, moves closer to a few dozen homes scattered along the river canyons near the ocean in the southwest corner of Oregon.
“This does not mean the residents are asked to leave, but that each resident is prepared to leave immediately if notified,” said Curry County Sheriff Kent Owens.
The fire is now the largest on record, exceeding the Tillamook Fire, which burned 311,000 acres in 1933 in the northwest corner of the state.
Winds were increasing Friday, along with the risk the Florence Fire could intensify and race toward the coast, said Carol Tucco of the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, which oversees fire management.
More than 5,000 firefighters are at the blaze, which covers about 463 square miles in southwest Oregon and Northern California. Although favoraele weather limited the fire’s advance in the Agness area, east winds gusting to 40 mph and temperatures in the 90s gave the blaze new vigor in the steep hills and valleys east of Brookings near the California border.
“Unfortunately, this thing is getting ready to blow up,” Owens said. “It’s been sort of idling the last few days. But with the wind change, it could go into high gear.”
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By AARON BRACY
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A knee injury to Zach Wilson in Friday night’s preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles has turned the Jets’ high hopes for their second-year quarterback into concern.
Wilson hurt his right knee in the first quarter of the Jets’ 24-21 preseason victory. After going back to pass with 4:29 left in the period, Wilson was flushed out of the pocket and scrambled to his right for 7 yards, but went down after the play. He appeared to injure his knee when planting to cut on Philadelphia’s grass field.
After being checked by trainers, Wilson limped to the sideline on his own power before heading to the locker room.
After the game, Jets coach Robert Saleh said the initial tests on Wilson showed the ACL “is supposed to be intact,” but the team is waiting for the MRI on Saturday.
“I’m always concerned until you get the final evaluation,” Saleh said.
Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts looked sharp, completing all six of his pass attempts for 80 yards and a touchdown while playing just one series.
There is optimism this year for the 23-year-old Wilson, who was drafted No. 2 overall last year. He had an up-and-down rookie season, throwing nine touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 13 games, but went without an interception in his final five games.
Wilson was shaky in his first series against Philadelphia’s starters, going 1 for 3 for 10 yards with an interception. Eagles linebacker Kyzir White stepped in front of Wilson’s intended pass for wide receiver Corey Davis and returned it 27 yards to the Jets 20 on what appeared to be a poor read by the New York quarterback. Wilson’s first pass of the game was a badly thrown out-route intended for rookie first-round pick Garrett Wilson.
Wilson struggled with accuracy last season, ranking last in the league in completion rate (55.6%) and passer rating (69.7). His decision-making and accuracy had looked better this summer during training camp.
Before his injury, Wilson was sharper in his second series, albeit against Philadelphia backups. He connected with tight end Tyler Conklin for 4 yards and then hit wide receiver Elijah Moore for 9 yards, finishing 3 for 5 for 23 yards and an interception.
On the play in which he was hurt, a first down from the New York 42-yard line, Wilson faked a handoff to running back Michael Carter on a play-action pass play but was forced to scramble after defensive lineman Tarron Jackson beat right tackle Max Mitchell around the end.
With Eagles first-round rookie defensive tackle Jordan Davis in hot pursuit, Wilson tried to juke past linebacker Nakobe Dean but went down after being barely touched by Dean.
Asked if Wilson should have run out of bounds, Saleh said, “One hundred percent.”
Saleh stood nearby while trainers attended to Wilson.
“He got a little greedy there,” Saleh said.
Wilson was not available for comment.
“He’s in good spirits, a little frustrated obviously,” Saleh said. “As good as you can be in this situation.”
Saleh said he uttered “a lot of swear words” when Wilson went down. The Jets coach didn’t blame the injury on the turf, but mentioned it was new sod that he said was just laid down on July 29. He said the issue with new sod, which he said can be loose, is determining the proper cleats to wear.
It’s the same knee that Wilson suffered a sprained PCL in Week 7 against New England last year. He was sidelined four games before returning and playing the rest of the season.
“It sucks, obviously,” wide receiver Braxton Berrios said. “We’re hoping for the best.”
The Jets also have 37-year-old quarterback Joe Flacco, but he was not in uniform for the game as a handful of veterans did not play in the preseason opener.
“Joe is a phenomenal football player,” Saleh said. “He’s having a great camp.”
Jets fourth-stringer Chris Streveler, a 2019 Grey Cup champion with the CFL’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers, threw two TD passes, including a go-ahead 5-yard toss to Calvin Jackson Jr. with 16 seconds left. Streveler, who previously spent time in the NFL with Arizona, Baltimore and Miami, had not taken a snap in offensive team drills in camp this summer before playing against Philadelphia.
Unlike Wilson, Hurts got out of the game apparently unscathed — though he took a vicious helmet-to-helmet, out-of-bounds hit by linebacker Quincy Williams that left Philadelphia coach Nick Sirianni livid.
“Egregiously awful; he knows better,” Saleh said.
Said Sirianni: “I was more mad at the situation, not Saleh.”
Hurts popped right up after the play.
“You definitely don’t want to take hits, especially late hits, but it happens,” Hurts said. “I’m healthy.”
After making the playoffs in the first season under Sirianni last year, there is great hope in Philadelphia for more progress this season. The hottest topic in town is whether Hurts can elevate his game to a level that would allow the Eagles to make a deep playoff run.
A second-round pick, Hurts is entering his third season and second as a full-time starter. He showed his dual-threat ability last season, passing for 3,144 yards and rushing for team-bests of 784 yards and 10 touchdowns. But he was 26th in completion rate (61.3 percent) and 22nd in passer rating (87.2), and his accuracy and arm strength have been targets for skeptics. An up-and-down training camp only has fueled the ire of Hurts’ doubters.
But Hurts came out firing on all cylinders in his first opportunity to show his progress in a live games after an offseason full of work, hitting wide receiver Quez Watkins for 28 yards down the right sideline on the game’s first play. He connected with his next four passes before finishing a perfect passing drive with a 22-yard touchdown strike to tight end Dallas Goedert.
“We talk about the importance of explosive plays and we came out of the gate with an explosive play,” Hurts said. That can get a drive going.”
Hurts looked impressive without even targeting his new No. 1 receiver, A.J. Brown, whom the Eagles acquired in a draft-day trade with the Tennessee Titans and promptly signed to a four-year deal with $57 million guaranteed.
Hurts’ lone drive wasn’t without concern, though, as he was leveled with a hard hit from Williams despite being clearly out of bounds after scrambling for no gain. Williams was flagged for unnecessary roughness, and Sirianni tore off his headset and screamed toward the Jets bench while standing nearly 20 yards on the field.
Philadelphia’s opening drive wasn’t a good sign for a revamped Jets defense that finished 2021 last in total defense and scoring defense, 30th in pass defense and 29th against the run. New York made several additions to bolster its defense, including selecting cornerback Sauce Gardner No. 4 overall and defensive lineman Jermaine Johnson No. 26 in the first round of this year’s draft. But the Jets defense put up little resistance to Hurts and the Eagles.
SANDERS SOLID
Eagles RB Miles Sanders caught two Hurts passes for 20 total yards during the opening drive. Pass receiving is an area of improvement for Sanders, who is in the final season of a four-year deal. He has rushed for 2,439 yards and nine touchdowns in 40 games.
COLE, DOUGLAS TABBED
Former Eagles defensive linemen Trent Cole and Hugh Douglas will be inducted into the club’s hall of fame on Nov. 27 when they host the Green Bay Packers, the team announced. Cole had 85½ sacks in 10 seasons with the Eagles, and Douglas had 54½ in six years.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Jets: OL Conor McDermott (left ankle sprain) is out 1 to 2 weeks. … RT Mekhi Becton was sidelined after suffering a knee injury in practice that is expected to cost him the season. Becton, a 2020 first-round pick, missed all but the first game last season after dislocating his right kneecap and suffering cartilage damage in the opener.
Eagles: C Jason Kelce had elbow surgery earlier this week, and his streak of starting 122 consecutive regular-season games could be in jeopardy when the season opens. Rookie Cam Jurgens took Kelce’s place. … Starting offensive linemen Jordan Mailata and Andre Dillard played the first series after missing practices recently because of concussions. … Running backs Boston Scott (concussion) and Kenneth Gainwell (hip) didn’t play. … G Landon Dickerson (sore foot) didn’t play and was replaced by Sua Opeta. … WR Greg Ward (toe), DT Javon Hargrave (toe sprain) and S Jaquiski Tartt (personal reasons) were out.
UP NEXT
Jets: Host the Atlanta Falcons in the second of their three preseason games on Aug. 22 in preparation for the season opener on Sept. 11 against Baltimore.
Eagles: At the Cleveland Browns on Aug. 21 in the second of three preseason games to get ready for the season opener on Sept. 11 at Detroit.
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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.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
501 PM MST Sat Aug 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern La Paz,
west central Yuma and southeastern Imperial Counties through 600 PM
MST/600 PM PDT/...
At 500 PM MST/500 PM PDT/, Doppler radar was tracking a strong
thunderstorm near Martinez Lake, moving south at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Areas of blowing dust may also develop.
Locations impacted include...
Yuma, Martinez Lake, Fortuna Foothills, Blaisdell, Kinter, Andrade,
Winterhaven and Araby.
This includes the following highways...
AZ Interstate 8 between mile markers 1 and 15.
CA Interstate 8 between mile markers 89 and 96.
AZ Route 95 between mile markers 29 and 47.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3265 11468 3270 11473 3272 11472 3273 11476
3301 11461 3303 11443 3269 11426 3264 11453
TIME...MOT...LOC 0000Z 358DEG 16KT 3294 11456
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 13, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Southeastern Imperial County in southeastern California...
* Until 915 PM PDT.
* At 516 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to 1.5 inches of rain have
fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible in
the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
mainly rural areas of Southeastern Imperial County
This includes the following highways...
CA Route 78 between mile markers 45 and 54.
Ogilby Road Between Route 78 and Interstate 8.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.
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NEW YORK (AP) — San Diego Padres dynamo Fernando Tatis Jr., one of the brighest, freshest stars in all of Major League Baseball, was suspended 80 games on Friday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.
The penalty imposed by MLB was effective immediately, meaning the shortstop cannot play in the majors this year for the postseason-contending Padres. He will miss the remaining 48 regular-season games this season and the first 32 next year.
MLB said the suspension — making Tatis one of the most prominent players penalized for PEDs — also will knock him out of playing for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic.
Flashy at the plate and in the field, the 23-year-old Tatis was an All-Star last season when he led the National League with 42 home runs. He had not played this season after breaking his wrist in the offseason, but was expected to rejoin the Padres next week to boost a lineup that recently added star outfielder Juan Soto.
MLB said Tatis tested positive for Clostebol, a performance-enhancing substance.
In a statement released by the players’ union, Tatis said he was “completely devastated” and apologized to Padres management, his teammates, MLB and “and fans everywhere for my mistake.”
“It turns out that I inadvertently took a medication to treat ringworm that contained Clostebol,” he said. “I should have used the resources available to me in order to ensure that no banned substances were in what I took. I failed to do so.”
“I have no excuse for my error, and I would never do anything to cheat or disrespect this game I love,” he said.
Freddy Galvis and Dee Gordon are among the major leaguers previously suspended for using Clostebol, an anabolic steroid that can be used for ophthalmological and dermatological use. It is also banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and Olympic gold medal winning cross-country skier Therese Johaug was suspended in 2016 after testing positive for it.
Johaug, one of Norway’s most decorated female cross-country skiers, tested positive for the steroid clostebol. The Norwegian ski federation said the drug came from a lotion given to her by team doctor Fredrik Bendiksen to treat sunburn on her lips during high-altitude training in Italy in August.
Players who test positive for PEDs are ineligible for the postseason that year.
Tatis became one of the biggest MLB players suspended for PEDs since testing with penalties started in 2004, joining Alex Rodriguez (2014 season), Manny Ramirez (50 games in 2009 and 100 games in 2011), Robinson Canó (80 games in 2018 and 2020 season) and Miguel Tejada (105 games in 2013).
Tatis had been on the injured list this season after breaking his left wrist — believed to be in December in a motorcycle accident in the Domincan. He had surgery in mid-March.
On Aug. 6, Tatis began a minor rehabilitation assignment with Double-A San Antonio. He was 2 for 9 with a double and a triple in four games.
“We were surprised and extremely disappointed to learn today that Fernando Tatis Jr. tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance in violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Prevention and Treatment Program and subsequently received an 80-game suspension without pay,” the Padres said in a statement. “We fully support the program and are hopeful that Fernando will learn from this experience.”
The Padres traded for Soto earlier this month in hopes of making a run deep into October. They had hoped a roster that included Soto, Tatis and fellow slugger Manny Machado could give them a better chance at the first World Series championship in team history — now, they’ll have to make that try without one of those key pieces.
Tatis won’t be able to play for the Dominican Republic in the WBC next March. Dominican fans had been salivating at the prospect of a bruising lineup that included Tatis, Soto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Rafael Devers and José Ramírez.
The penalty will cost Tatis about $2.9 million.
Tatis will forfeit $1,510,989 of his $5 million salary this year, covering the final 55 days and 48 games of the season. He will lose approximately $1.39 million of his $7 million salary for the first 32 games of next season, with the exact number to be determined by how many days he misses.
“There is nowhere else in the world I would rather be than on the field competing with my teammates,” Tatis said. “After initially appealing the suspension, I have realized that my mistake was the cause of this result, and for that reason I have decided to start serving my suspension immediately. I look forward to rejoining my teammates on the field in 2023.”
“I have taken countless drug tests throughout my professional career, including on March 29, 2022, all of which have returned negative results until this test,” he said.
The penalty was announced shortly before the Padres played at Washington. San Diego began the day at 63-51 and holding the final of the three NL wild-card spots.
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