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Mayville, New York, August 18
A man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges on Thursday during an arraignment hearing and was remanded without bail.
Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Rushdie, 75, on Friday just before the “The Satanic Verses” author was to deliver a lecture on stage at an educational retreat near Lake Erie.
Rushdie was hospitalised with serious injuries in what writers and politicians around the world decried as an attack on the freedom of expression.
Matar was arraigned at the Chautauqua County Courthouse on an indictment returned earlier in the day by a grand jury that charged him with one count of second-degree attempted murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison, and one count of second-degree assault. He has been in jail since his arrest and wore a gray-striped jumpsuit, a white COVID-19 face mask and his hands were shackled.
His next court appearance was scheduled for Sept. 22.
The attack came 33 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran’s supreme leader, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on Muslims to assassinate Rushdie a few months after “The Satanic Verses” was published. Some Muslims saw passages about the Prophet Muhammad as blasphemous.
Rushdie, who was born in India to a Muslim Kashmiri family, has lived with a bounty on his head, and spent nine years in hiding under British police protection.
In 1998, Iran’s pro-reform government of President Mohammad Khatami distanced itself from the fatwa, saying the threat against Rushdie was over.
But the multimillion-dollar bounty has since grown and the fatwa was never lifted: Khomeini’s successor, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was suspended from Twitter in 2019 for saying the fatwa against Rushdie was “irrevocable.” In an interview published by the New York Post on Wednesday, Matar said he respected Khomeini but would not say if he was inspired by the fatwa. He said he had “read a couple of pages” of “The Satanic Verses” and watched YouTube videos of the author.
“I don’t like him very much,” Matar said of Rushdie, as reported in the Post. “He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems.” Iran’s foreign ministry on Monday said that Tehran should not be accused of being involved in the attack. Matar is believed to have acted alone, police have said.
Matar is a Shi’ite Muslim who was born in California to a family from Lebanon.
Prosecutors say he travelled to Chautauqua Institution, a retreat 19 km from Lake Erie, where he bought a pass to Rushdie’s lecture.
Witnesses said there were no obvious security checks at the lecture venue and that Matar did not speak as he attacked the author. He was arrested at the scene by a New York State Police trooper after being wrestled to the ground by audience members.
Rushdie sustained severe injuries in the attack, including nerve damage in his arm, wounds to his liver, and the likely loss of an eye, his agent said. Reuters | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/salman-rushdie-attack-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-to-attempted-murder-assault-423030 | 2022-08-20T17:12:20Z | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/salman-rushdie-attack-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-to-attempted-murder-assault-423030 | true |
SCOTT SIMON, host:
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.
Americans use up about 20 percent of the world's resources. And you know who will use up most of them before they go? Baby boomers, the bumper crop of children born just after World War II but before The Beatles, is on its way to retirement, and they don't want to leave the stage.
They invest in fanny lips and Botox, gym memberships and erectile dysfunction drugs. And when they reach retirement age they may strip the Social Security cupboard bare - unless someone has an idea. An outrageous idea to avoid bankrupting the future, and the war between what he calls the un-greatest generation and generation whatever is at the heart of Christopher Buckley's latest novel, "Boomsday." Christopher Buckley joins us in our studios. Thanks so much for being with us.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY (Author, "Boomsday"): Thank you, Scott.
SIMON: And at the heart of this book is - I almost call it an interesting idea.
Mr. BUCKLEY: Yeah. At the heart of the book is someone's modest proposal that since the government refuses to do anything about reforming Social Security, which is going to become a pretty big crisis soon, starting in 2008 or 2011, that the government ought to incentivize suicide among boomers so that if you - if you agree to kill yourself at 65, say, you know, they'll eliminate death taxes and estate taxes and the kids can inherit it.
Slightly fewer incentives for doing it at age 70 and 75 and so on. But of course, this being in Washington, you've got to have a good euphemism so they come up with voluntary transitioning.
SIMON: And the idea winds up getting entrusted to your principal character, Cassandra Devine.
Mr. BUCKLEY: Yes. She is the 29-year-old female blogger whose idea this is. And she has a personal reason because she worked hard in high school and got herself into Yale. Not easy these days, as we read. And her father, it turns out, took her 529 where you put college tuition money and spent it on his dotcom startup.
So she ends up in the army in Bosnia, escorting congressmen on visits. So she has a very personal reason to be mad at our - my generation.
SIMON: How do you go about building a national consensus for transition?
Mr. BUCKLEY: Well, she puts it on her blog, and this being Washington, the idea sort of ricochets around until an ambitious congressman, actually senator, decides to make it the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, making it very clear that this is, as Cassandra calls it, not a serious proposition. It is - they call it a meta issue.
It's simply in the spirit of Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal" - remember in 1729 he wrote his "Modest Proposal," proposing that the Irish sell their children for food to alleviate their famine. The idea was simply to get this on the table. But being Washington, the thing starts to acquire a life of its own.
SIMON: There is a whole campaign that's drafted to, in a sense, derogate and demean people of a certain age.
Mr. BUCKLEY: Yes. The idea is to stigmatize retiring boomers. And so they come up with phrases for them like, resource hogs, and wrinklies...
SIMON: Wrinklies were the one that - yeah.
Mr. BUCKLEY: Now that's the one you were looking for.
SIMON: I'm afraid so. Yes.
Mr. BUCKLEY: Well, you've got it.
SIMON: Thanks very much.
Mr. BUCKLEY: Good fishing.
SIMON: And that's all part of a conscious campaign to kind of...
Mr. BUCKLEY: Sure.
SIMON: ... alter...
Mr. BUCKLEY: Sure.
SIMON: ...the thinking of the American people.
Mr. BUCKLEY: Sure. Make old people look bad.
SIMON: May I ask you, you have two teenage...
Mr. BUCKLEY: I have a 19-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son. And I look at them and I think, you know, they're going to be paying for my - because we're shoveling all this debt - very serious stead onto that generation, and they're going to spend a lot of their working lives paying for your and my gin and tonics on the golf course. So...
SIMON: They are in the book demonstrations on the golf course...
Mr. BUCKLEY: The book starts with the...
SIMON: ...and it gets ugly. Yeah.
Mr. BUCKLEY: A crowd starts attacking gated-boomer retirement communities and worse of all tearing up the golf greens, and that's when the government realizes it's serious.
SIMON: That's when they asked to intervene, I suppose so.
Mr. BUCKLEY: You gotta do something. You can't let that happen.
SIMON: I want to get you to read a section from your novel. Set us up a bit for us, about how this idea begins to take off in the campaign of Senator Randolph Jefferson of Massachusetts.
Mr. BUCKLEY: Randolph Jefferson. Well, he sort of hijacks the idea. But being a politician immediately starts diluting it and giving away chunks of it. He's trying to get elected president.
There's a group called ABBA, which is the American Baby Boomer Association. And they have split off from AARP, the American Association for Retired People, because they don't feel that AARP has been paying enough attention to the boomers. So they've - they're sort of a renegade lobby. And so Randy goes before the ABBA leadership and gives this speech.
Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life. He survived and saw through his presidency. He outlived many of his adversaries and contemporaries. Survived, but for what? Only to come down with Alzheimer's disease - to die a long lingering and inglorious death. Was this any way to go? I think the answer must be no. No way, no way at all.
Cass snuck to the edge as the curtain peer out of the audience. They were stone silent, eyes fixed on Randy. She couldn't tell what they were collectively thinking but they weren't coughing or fidgeting or furtively BlackBerrying. Randy continued.
My fellow Americans, we are all of us going to make the great transition. We can inject ourselves full of drugs, have doctors replace our organs, change our blood, become bionic Frankensteins. My fellow Americans, as Country Joe and the Fish, balladeers of our youth, put it so memorably, albeit in a slightly different context, whoopee, we're all going to die.
Indeed, so I put it to you. Why not do it the way we've lived our lives, on our terms. Why, I put it to you, not do it on our timetable? And finally, I put it to you, my fellow Americans, indeed, my fellow boomers, if we are going to make the ultimate sacrifice, isn't the least our government can do for us is to show a little gratitude?
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. BUCKLEY: Sometimes it's fun to write speeches.
SIMON: Now, you used to...
Mr. BUCKLEY: I used to write speeches at the White House for George Herbert Walker Bush when he was vice president.
SIMON: Do you have to get up and look at the world in a certain way when you write satire for a living?
Mr. BUCKLEY: Well, I think, you know, I think satire is just a way of looking at the world. I think, probably, in my case it comes out of the sense of helplessness and sometimes frustration. I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review, a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill. I'm not a killer. I'm more, I guess, in the - though I wouldn't put myself in the same league with the Monty Python guys, I saw an interview with Michael Palin once and he said, you know, we all had pretty comfortable upbringings. We were raised by loving parents in a middle-class households, so we're not brick throwers. We have a certain affection for the institutions that we mock.
So I think you can do it. And I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.
SIMON: Christopher Buckley, thanks very much.
Mr. BUCKLEY: Thanks for having me.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Demolition of a shuttered 19th-century church in Philadelphia has begun following a yearslong battle by some neighbors to save the crumbling structure.
Crews last week surrounded the 140-year-old St. Laurentius Church in the Fishtown neighborhood with scaffolding, fencing and barricades. Neighbors gathered Wednesday to get their final look, taking pictures and pointing to the huge cross, once affixed to the building, that lay against a fence, KYW reported.
“I don’t want to see a church, regardless of denomination, to come down,” Margaret Ann Ramsey told KYW. “It’s always been part of the area, so it’s sad, especially for the people who belong to this parish.”
Michael Johnson of HC Site Construction told WTXF-TV that the work to dismantle the 150-foot spires is being done by hand, with material dropped through chutes to the basement to prevent vibrations from truck activity.
The city's department of licenses and inspections issued a demolition permit almost a year ago, but officials said relocating utility poles and wires ringing the property took longer than expected. Crews also were told to wait until summer because of classes at a Catholic school next door, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
St. Laurentius is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, and the Philadelphia Historical Commission has ordered the developer to preserve or rebuild the church’s front face in any new development. A zoning permit for a proposed eight-story 49-unit multifamily residential building is being appealed, the newspaper reported.
The church was built in 1882 with the donations of Polish immigrants. In 2014, the archdiocese of Philadelphia announced its closure, citing “vertical cracks” and a “heavily deteriorated” facade that threatened collapse absent a $3.5 million restoration. Supporters said their estimates totaled only $700,000. The historical commission added the church to the city’s historic register in 2015.
Concerns arose in 2019, when pieces of the facade crumbled, in one case with 6,000 pounds (2,720 kilograms) of rock breaking off a spire, puncturing steel scaffolding and falling into a fenced safety zone around the church, prompting closure of the nearby school for two days.
The archdiocese spent $135,000 to stabilize the building, and city inspectors said it appeared to be in better shape, but later two engineers hired by the new owner concluded that St. Laurentius had decayed substantially, with one predicting “at least partial collapse" within a decade. A structural engineer hired by the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia said the building had remained standing despite dire assessments by a number of engineers.
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Rail strikes: Industrial action means fresh travel misery for passengers
It rounds off three days of disruption on the UK's railways, with strikes also taking place on Thursday, and walkouts happening on the London tube network yesterday, largely over pay and job security.
Saturday 20 August 2022 16:58, UK
Rail passengers are suffering fresh travel misery as tens of thousands of workers strike again in the long-running dispute over pay and conditions.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) and Unite walked out for 24 hours on Saturday, affecting Network Rail and a number of train companies across the country.
Only around half of the UK's rail network are open, with trains only running between 7.30am and 6.30pm.
Read more: Who is going on strike in August and for how long?
Major operators, including those that run cross-country services, such as London North East Railway and Avanti West Coast, are affected.
Some areas are expected to have no services all day.
It rounds off three days of disruption on the UK's railways, with strikes also taking place on Thursday, and walkouts happening on the London tube network yesterday.
A walkout on a large part of the London bus network also continued into its second day today.
Sunday morning train services will also be affected by the knock-on effect of today's action.
Unions have been calling for Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to return to the negotiating table to make improved offers on pay, and offer guarantees that no jobs will be lost, amid reports of proposed modernisation cuts throughout the network.
Mr Shapps has also been accused by the unions of supporting a practice known as fire and re-hire, which would see rail operators continue to let staff go, before taking them back on contracts with lower conditions than before, unless strike action is called off.
In turn, the transport secretary has called for union bosses to put the pay deals offered to their members, or get out of the way.
He tweeted: "I've written to [RMT General Secretary] Mick Lynch to urge him to put Network Rail's fair 8% pay rise offer to his members.
"RMT is prolonging these unnecessary strikes which are a kick in the teeth to workers who cannot get to their own jobs."
Mr Lynch told Sky News: "We'll keep going. Our members are very committed to the dispute. We'll keep going until we get an agreement that our members support and then they'll get to vote on what's on offer once we get a reasonable package.
"We are committed to this dispute, we've got no choice because we're under attack from the companies and from the government."
He added: "What you have with a trade union is the ability to bargain with your employer. If you're not bargaining in this society you're begging for a favour, and when you're begging you get nothing."
Manuel Cortes, TSSA General Secretary, added: "We very much hope that common sense will now prevail, and the Department for Transport train operators will make a revised offer, as we have heard nothing from them since their derisory and insulting 2% pay offer with more strings attached than a violin quartet many weeks ago.
"If they do, we will engage in further discussions with them at once. But for this to happen, Grant Shapps must either come to the table or give train operators the mandate to negotiate and break this impasse.
"We are continuing to engage with Network Rail and talks are ongoing. We hope the gap between us can soon be closed. But following more comments from the transport secretary this morning, it seems to us that Grant Shapps is willing to talk to everyone apart from our reps.
"Make no mistake, unless a negotiated settlement which is acceptable to our members is reached, this dispute will continue for as long as it takes."
Mr Shapps said: "It's clear, from their co-ordinated approach, that the unions are hell-bent on causing as much misery as possible to the very same taxpayers who stumped up £600 per household to ensure not a single rail worker lost their job during the pandemic.
"Sadly, union chiefs have short memories and will be repaying this act of good faith by ruining millions of hard-working people's summer plans." | https://news.sky.com/story/rail-strikes-industrial-action-means-fresh-travel-misery-for-passengers-12677136 | 2022-08-20T17:22:58Z | https://news.sky.com/story/rail-strikes-industrial-action-means-fresh-travel-misery-for-passengers-12677136 | false |
Wayfair is cutting about 870 employees, or 5% of its global workforce, as part of a plan previously announced by the home goods company to manage operating costs and realign its investment priorities after the pandemic.
With millions sheltering at home in 2020, the Boston company reported 55% sales growth as families spent heavily to furnish living rooms and other parts of the house. Last year, as more people ventured out, sales at Wayfair declined 3.1%.
Wayfair Inc. expects costs related to the job cuts to run between $30 million and $40 million in the third quarter, mostly related to employee severance and benefits.
The company said that it’s also in the process of making substantial cuts to third party labor costs as well.
Shares tumbled 13% in Friday morning trading. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/wayfair-cutting-about-870-jobs-or-5-of-global-workforce/ | 2022-08-20T17:23:02Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/wayfair-cutting-about-870-jobs-or-5-of-global-workforce/ | true |
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A respected snake researcher who had been making significant discoveries about the species since childhood has died after being bitten by a timber rattler.
William H. “Marty” Martin died Aug. 3 after being bitten the day before by a captive snake on the property at his home in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, according to his wife, Renee Martin.
Martin, who was 80 years old, continued to make arduous mountain hikes to document and count snake populations in remote sites, said Joe Villari, who manages the Bull Run Mountains Preserve in northern Virginia and would accompany Martin on his outings there.
“He was in his 80s, and he was hard to keep up with,” said Villari, who made it a point to join Martin on his semiannual treks to remote mountain dens where the snakes would live.
John Sealy, a rattlesnake researcher from Stokesdale, North Carolina, who knew Martin for more than 30 years, said Martin was perhaps the foremost authority on timber rattlers, a species he studied since childhood.
As a boy, Martin found a population of timber rattlers in the Bull Run Mountains that was previously unknown, and convinced a herpetologist to come out and verify the find.
Sealy said Martin was known throughout the community of snake experts for his field work and research, and his ability to find and document a species that makes itself hard to find.
“They're extremely secretive animals,” he said.
Deaths from snakebites are extremely rare; the Centers for Disease Control estimates they account for about five fatalities annually in the U.S.
Dan Keyler, a toxicology professor at the University of Minnesota and an expert on snakebites, said a second snakebite can be more dangerous than a first for some people and rattlesnakes can be more dangerous if they grow to a size that allows them to inject more venom. Age can also be a factor in a person's susceptibility.
Martin had been bitten before in his career, but recovered.
Villari said timber rattlers tend to be docile, avoid human contact and often won't bite even if they're accidentally stepped on.
“They save their venom for their prey,” he said. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/animals/snake-researcher-dies-rattlesnake-bite/67-02bb1501-52dd-44e6-9002-37cb702656a1 | 2022-08-20T17:33:53Z | https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/animals/snake-researcher-dies-rattlesnake-bite/67-02bb1501-52dd-44e6-9002-37cb702656a1 | false |
Gutfeld Brilliantly Dismantles Geraldo Rivera's Shaming of WY Voters for Kicking Cheney Out of Congress
Sure, she may have lost the GOP primary for her House seat by a whopping 37 points, but Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney is a modern-day colossus of democracy.
Just ask Cheney, who quite improbably compared herself to Abraham Lincoln in her concession speech. Of course, you didn’t need the candidate to fawn over herself, because the media was more than willing to do it for her.
Case in point: Geraldo Rivera, Fox News’ token lefty, who lauded Cheney’s “selfless courage” in running her campaign into the ground. It was enough that fellow Fox host Greg Gutfeld dismantled him for celebrating Cheney’s “selfish desires,” the ultimate cause of her loss.
On Tuesday night, shortly after it became clear Cheney would lose the race to challenger Harriet Hageman, Rivera took to social media to praise the defeated candidate, one of two RINOs on the Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee.
“Whatever your politics, we should all recognize Liz Cheney’s selfless courage in standing up to the Trump tidal wave,” Rivera said.
“Wyoming Republicans are going to end her Congressional career today, but nothing will wash away the role she played standing up for democracy and the Constitution.”
Whatever your politics, we should all recognize Liz Cheney’s selfless courage in standing up to the Trump tidal wave. Wyoming Republicans are going to end her Congressional career today, but nothing will wash away the role she played standing up for democracy and the Constitution
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) August 16, 2022
Of course, these aren’t necessarily the priorities of the Wyoming voters Rivera was implicitly shaming, as Gutfeld pointed out.
“[S]crew what millions of voters care about: crime, inflation, the border, bureaucracy & covid -we really should rally around a rich elite who’s settling an emotional score,” he wrote in response to Rivera.
“NO- her selfish desires killed her political career, as it should. its the opposite of selfless, & she paid.”
screw what millions of voters care about: crime, inflation, the border, bureaucracy & covid -we really should rally around a rich elite who’s settling an emotional score. NO- her selfish desires killed her political career, as it should. its the opposite of selfless, & she paid. https://t.co/gMSTCMSJBB
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) August 18, 2022
Precisely. Cheney thought the election was a referendum on Donald Trump’s position in the Republican Party. That’s not what people in Wyoming cared about, though.
The western state only sends one representative to the House. They have a variety of needs that have to be addressed, particularly regarding agriculture and fuel prices.
Instead, Cheney’s campaign was about three things: Donald Trump, Donald Trump and more Donald Trump.
If this were a nationwide popularity contest, that would have won the day. Cheney’s certainly become a sensation among media types, who are feting her for the time being because she’s a useful cudgel to use against the former president.
However, Cheney needed to win over Wyoming Republicans. Instead, she so alienated them that she couldn’t even manage 29 percent in what turned out to be a two-person race between her and Hageman.
This wasn’t about “selfless courage.” It was about selfishness and national profile, plain and simple.
Cheney has refused to rule out a run for president, which is a good sign she’ll be putting her hat in the ring in 2024. Let’s hope national Republicans feel the same way about her that Wyoming conservatives — and Greg Gutfeld — did.
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(NerdWallet) – Rising prices (i.e., inflation) are everywhere you look — on the news, at the pump and in the grocery store. We notice these changes when we reach for our wallets, but it’s difficult to grasp what an extra dollar here or several dollars there mean over the course of several weeks, months or an entire year.
With prices up 8.5% year over year, household spending — that’s yours and mine — stands to rise by several thousand dollars. Even with the Federal Reserve’s attempts to control inflation through interest rate increases, it’s unlikely these prices will fall dramatically. This climb isn’t just a tank of gas or a few additional dollars at the store. For some people, it could be an entire paycheck every month.
Using inflation and annual spending data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, we looked at how spending in 2022 will differ from 2020, the last full year when inflation was relatively stable. We chose a handful of categories that many, if not most, Americans spend money on, such as food and electricity. The inflationary impact is remarkable.
Household expenditures could rise by $11,500
In all of 2020, American households spent $61,300, on average. This number includes everything we spend our money on: housing, food, entertainment, clothing, transportation and everything else. In 2022, it stands to reach $72,900, a difference of more than $11,500 if consumers want to maintain the same standard of living. Keep in mind, this is an average, a number that represents an approximation across all Americans, but one that’s exact to a very few. Those who earn (and therefore spend) more will see more dramatic dollar increases. Those who earn less may see less dramatic dollar jumps, but the impact of these rising prices could be more significantly felt.
It’s worth calling out — spending was a bit unusual in 2020. People spent less on commuting, child care and entertainment, for example, and more on home improvements. It’s a safe assumption that people will spend less in certain categories this year too, if for no other reason than avoiding high prices. This is primarily why we think spending in 2022 will be more similar to 2020 than 2019, for example, another year for which such spending data was available.
We can all likely agree that $11,500 is a lot more money to spend in a single year, but grasping what big numbers like that mean in practice can be difficult. Per month, you’re looking at close to $1,000 more. For many people, this is an entire extra rent or mortgage payment.
Across all the spending categories we examined, groceries, shelter and gas stand to rise the most. Throughout all of 2022, if inflation doesn’t slow considerably, we can expect to spend $1,200, $1,400 and $2,500 more on these categories, respectively.
Click here for a table of all anticipated spending changes.
How this situation plays into the recession conversation
The Fed is attempting to bring prices down gently. By raising the interest rate at which banks borrow money, it can control demand in the economy, and with cooler demand comes lower prices. However, these changes can also trigger not-so-great effects such as higher unemployment and slowing the economy too much. It’s a balancing act.
Though a recession may sound scary (and a deep one is), a downturn may be necessary to get prices under control. And as tough as it is to stomach, that part is a good thing.
How to handle high prices and recession talk
Look at the big picture
As explained above, there is a silver lining to an economic downturn or recession — prices fall. While the Fed attempts to achieve this outcome with a minimally negative impact, doomscrolling news websites and listening to overly simplified hot takes on social media will do absolutely nothing to protect you. Keep calm. Bolster your emergency savings if you’re able, see if you can tighten up your budget and sit back. Even when it comes to your long-term investments, sometimes the best advice is to relax and do nothing.
Expect to see the effects of rising rates
If you were planning on buying a house or a car in the near future, expect to pay far more for those items if you’re taking out a loan. Banks and creditors pass along their increased rates from the Fed to you, the consumer. Monthly payments will be bigger (perhaps by hundreds of dollars) due to the one-two punch of higher prices and higher interest.
Don’t forget about credit cards — interest rates will climb here too. Now more than ever, do your best to pay off your balances each month. The compounding interest of credit card debt is already high enough to try to avoid, when possible.
Budget more for necessary goods and services, temporarily
Revisiting your budget in the current climate doesn’t only involve cutting things out, but figuring out how to accommodate spending more in certain categories. After all, you can’t go without things like groceries. In order to maintain the same volume of groceries you had last year or the year prior, you’ll need to find the extra money. If you didn’t have much wiggle room in your budget to begin with, consider what items you can go without or cut back on. Maybe you can get another year out of that winter coat or cut out one or two streaming services. Framing these as temporary sacrifices makes losing them easier.
METHODOLOGY
Some category definitions differ slightly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index to the Consumer Expenditure Survey. Care was taken to select the most comparable categories when exact matches weren’t available. For example, the CES measure of gasoline includes motor oil whereas the CPI does not.
Spending is based on the 2020 CES, the last year for which this spending data is available. The 12-month rate of inflation began its climb in April 2021, so comparing baseline 2020 spending to 2022 will best capture the effects of rising prices.
August through December 2022 spending estimates are based on available CPI data through July 2022, averaging the monthly changes in the first seven months of the year to arrive at a conservative estimate for the remainder of the year.
Monthly spending is based on an average flat rate throughout the year rather than estimated spending (with seasonal fluctuations) from month to month.
Consumer price indices were not available for the “household operations” category during the months of December 2021 through March 2022, and July 2022.
Spending data is from the Consumer Expenditure Survey based on questions asked of households for the 2020 year. When numerous people answer $0 for any single expense/category on the survey, the data is skewed and the average amount seems low. The selected categories in this analysis were chosen with this in mind, and they represent categories that most people spend money in. This survey is asked of “consumer units,” not individuals. This means, in most cases, that the expenses are attributed to a single person in the household, regardless of how many adults are present. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/got-an-extra-11500-youll-need-it-to-keep-up-with-2022-prices/ | 2022-08-20T17:44:22Z | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/got-an-extra-11500-youll-need-it-to-keep-up-with-2022-prices/ | false |
How does one "motivate" an underperforming rose bush? How about a "probation" garden? Or perhaps a shovel, placed ominously next to the disappointing plant?
These are techniques shared by competitive rose gardeners: folks who have turned their lives over to the blooms, and who travel around the country entering their prize specimens in flower shows.
Their stories are told in Otherwise Normal People, a new book by Aurelia C. Scott.
Clarence Rhodes, an award-winning rose breeder who has 250 bushes, joins Scott to talk to Melissa Block about the tricks of the trade, such as Bob Martin's shovel.
Martin swears the plant "perks right up," Rhodes says.
Rhodes and Scott also describe the rose-show environment, and how growers use Q-Tips to separate petals and otherwise primp their blossoms.
"Most of the people in [the book] are crazy about roses, and they love to compete, and they've managed to combine both of those obsessions," Scott says.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man is dead after being shot by his girlfriend's son following a fight Saturday morning, officials say.
San Antonio Police and the San Antonio Fire Department responded to the 100 block of La Manda Blvd for a shooting. Police said a woman and her boyfriend were hanging in the front yard of her home when her son pulled up. Police say the woman's son was upset the boyfriend was at the home.
The boyfriend and the son then got into an altercation. The victim left the location in his truck but the son followed him and they somehow crashed into each other.
When the two got out of their vehicles, they started fighting again and the son shot the boyfriend several times, police say.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Apple regularly issues updates to the software powering the iPhone, and sometimes it’s OK to dawdle when it comes to installing them. But that’s not the case with its latest — an upgrade that Apple released Wednesday to close a security hole that could allow hackers to seize control of iPhones and several other popular Apple products.
Security experts are warning that everyone with an iPhone should install the update as soon as possible to protect all the personal information many people store on a device that’s become like another appendage for many.
Without the latest update, a hacker could wrest total control of Apple devices, allowing the intruder to impersonate the true owner and run any software in their name.
The company also issued fixes to block the security threat on iPads and Macs. The flaw may already have been “actively exploited,” according to the company, which has had to fix other security problems with the earlier this year.
HOW DO I FIX THIS?
The good news? There’s an easy fix: you should be able to find easily. Start with the Settings app, the one with an icon featuring what looks like gears in an old watch. Go into the “General” section, then “Software Update.” The page you see will offer simple instructions or, if your device has already updated, a message to that effect.
The whole process typically only takes a few minutes, according to security experts. .
WHY IS UPDATING YOUR APPLE DEVICE SO URGENT?
Commercial spyware companies such as Israel’s NSO Group are known for identifying and taking advantage of such flaws, exploiting them in malware that surreptitiously infects targets’ smartphones, siphons their contents and surveils the targets in real time. It’s a risk that’s best to avoid.
WHY DOESN’T MY APPLE DEVICE DO THIS FOR ME?
Apple devices are set to automatic updates by default, but it can take some time before they get around to it. Updates also don’t usually trigger unless can be done and it usually won’t happen unless the iPhone is plugged into a power outlet at the time. It’s quicker just to check for the latest updates and do it manually.
DOES THIS MEAN APPLE ISN’T DOING A GOOD JOB PROTECTING ITS USERS?
No. The reality is that hackers are constantly looking for ways to gain unauthorized access to phones, tablets, computers, and other internet-connected devices for a wide range of malicious and illegal purposes. Apple’s products tend to be a prime target because they’re popular, making them an attractive target.
“Apple is no different to any technology company in that they’re constantly dealing with vulnerabilities,” said Jamie Collier, senior threat intelligence advisor for the cybersecurity firm Mandiant and an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. “This is really a function of the fact that they’re innovating. They’re constantly developing, they’re constantly improving services, improving their technology, improving their software. That means they’re constantly rolling out new things.”
WHAT APPLE DEVICES ARE AFFECTED?
The affected devices include the iPhone6S and later models; several models of the iPad, including the 5th generation and later, all iPad Pro models and the iPad Air 2; and Mac computers running MacOS Monterey. The flaw also affects some iPod models.
HOW DO I UPDATE IPADS AND MACS?
You can update your iPad using the same process outlined above: go to “Settings,” click “General” and click “Software Update.” On the Mac, go to “System Preferences,” then “Software Update.”
WHAT’S THE RISK THAT MY PHONE WAS COMPROMISED?
Unless you’re a journalist, political dissident or human rights activist, the chances are extremely low. The kinds of spyware created to exploit vulnerabilities of this type are expensive and typically reserved for targeted hacking.
“If you keep the systems updated, you’ll be absolutely fine,” Collier said. “Typically, when vulnerabilities in, say, phones and iPhones, for instance, are exploited, they tend to be pretty targeted, pretty focused on a small subset of individuals. So we’re unlikely to see anything that’s really widespread at this stage.”
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Celebrating Madras: 96-year old Goschen library hall
Has weathered the onslaught of time and it truly deserves some kindness now
The Goschen hall is a crinkly vintage paper inserted as a single-page pullout into a daily newspaper. Parked at Arunachalam Street in Chintadripet, the hall breathes the same air as three other emblems of the past — the May Day Park, Zion church and the Chintadripet fish market.
The other three have been brought up to date in the manner of news pages. The 1847-built Zion Church retains its gothic architecture, but a calculated restoration effort has replaced time-induced slovenliness with a nifty look. The fish market is trussed up in clothes best described as darned, one doing little justice to the sense of history. It should have evoked nostalgia better had it been left to continue in its ragged sweatshirt. However, the point that shines through is that it is not a victim of neglect — poor design choices may be, but not neglect. The May Day park has been smartened up.
In striking contrast, the Goschen hall wears a drab texture of the past, and looks weather-beaten. There is a vintage look that makes a structure tower over its neighbours, despite being diminutive. And then there is that look — somewhat similar to vintage paper texture — that makes a heritage structure invisible. The Goschen hall is beset with this evil, forgotten amidst the fast-paced daily life in Chintadripet.
The Goschen hall’s primary function has been that of a library, having been instituted as Rao Sahib P. Vijiaraguvulu Chetty’s public library. The foundation stone for the building was laid in 1926 by TE Moir, and the library was formally opened three years later, by Viscount Goschen. For this reason, the library and the hall came to be referred by by Englishman’s name too.
Goschen library hall has stayed true to the primary purpose for which it was created, and functions as a branch library.
After accounting for the fact that the reading habit is on the wane and people would rather thumb up and down a screen than through pages for gathering information, the Goshen library lacks expected patronage, attracting fewer readers than most other branch libraries.
The library is said to have an impressive collection of Tamil books across genres, and a modest number of English books. It seems reasonably well stocked on dailies, but that is however not helping it register more footfall.
As pointed out, the library is lost in what lies around it, and the ambience is far from inviting. Though the structure is still solid, its chunky pilasters looking robust, and its wooden and steel rafters firmly in place, its lack-lustre interior and exterior should hardly make it charming in the eyes of young readers. The least that could be done for the facility is give it a few coats of paint.
Goschen hall’s backyard is as ramshackle as it is spacious. The rest room is light years from being functional.
An official with the directorate of public libraries notes that the Greater Chennai Corporation has to undertake the renovation of this building, and that the civic body has pencilled in a plan for its renovation.
Goschen library hall: An allrounder
Though Goschen library was instituted as a library, it also doubled as a hall. As a hall, it displayed impressive versatility. While the hall was largely used for meetings. From reports handed down from the past, it sometimes veered from the standard script, sprining a surprise on residents in the process.
A report dated 16 November 1946 retrieved from The Hindu Archives seems to suggest that the Goshen hall would morph into a “museum of machines”.
The report notes that J P L Shenoy, Commissioner, Corporation of Madras had made a proposal for having a museum of machines at the Goschen library hall.
The Hindu report explains the rationale behind the move: Giving school children a peek into the functioning of various machines — automobiles, sewing machines and radios, to name a few — by displaying them “in whole and in sections, with necessary explanatory notes”.
It is however not clear if the proposal took off the ground. What is however evident is that Goschen library functioned as a generalist-specialist: It was a library that would assume an added character when the situation demanded it.
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Mitrovic’s 90th-minute goal helps Fulham beat Brentford 3-2
LONDON (AP) — Aleksandar Mitrovic’s 90th-minute header snatched Fulham a 3-2 win over local rival Brentford in the Premier League at a rocking Craven Cottage. The Serbia striker converted Kevin Mbabu’s cross to the far post just as Fulham looked to have squandered victory after surrendering a 2-0 lead established inside the opening 20 minutes. Marco Silva’s team sealed its first win of the campaign thanks to Mitrovic’s second goal of the season but also two disallowed goals from Ivan Toney. Toney did finally score a goal that counted by tapping home to level the score at 2-2 in the 71st minute. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/20/mitrovics-90th-minute-goal-helps-fulham-beat-brentford-3-2/ | 2022-08-20T17:55:38Z | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/20/mitrovics-90th-minute-goal-helps-fulham-beat-brentford-3-2/ | false |
Russian arms dealer Victor Bout has armed Islamic extremists and sold weapons to some of the Third World's most abusive and murderous dictators and warlords — and he's known for fueling both sides of conflicts.
His success is rooted in the legacy of the Cold War, whose messy unraveling left him with easy access to massive inventories of weapons and ammunition built up by the Soviets. We talk about Bout with journalists Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun, who've co-written a book about him: Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible.
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In his book The Happiest Man in the World, Alec Wilkinson chronicles the life of Poppa Neutrino. In 1998, Neutrino sailed a raft made of junk across the Atlantic. Now he's preparing for a solo journey across the Pacific. Wilkinson and Poppa Neutrino — the former William David Pearlman — talk with Renee Montagne about the book and the journeys.
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As the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare to move into Adelaide Cottage in Windsor this summer, members of the Royal family and undoubtedly excited about the arrival of their new neighbours.
However, not everyone is said to be over the moon about their move to Berkshire and that includes royal biographer Omid Scobie, OK! reports.
He said the relocation has "raised eyebrows" amid the cost of living crisis after Kensington Palace has seen extensive, and expensive, renovation recently.
Omid co-wrote Finding Freedom about Harry and Meghan which made explosive claims both in its 2020 first edition and in an updated version which came out last year.
He wrote in his Yahoo News column: "The Cambridge's time at KP [Kensington Palace] has come to an end after nine years. Later this month they will move to a new abode in Windsor, for a life "away from the goldfish bowl" in London."
"It's a decision that has raised a few eyebrows, particularly at a time when the country is dealing with a major cost of living crisis. Picking up a third home, especially when one of them cost the public so much to renovate, is hardly the norm for regular folk."
Kensington Palace has seen a number of renovations over the recent years, especially Apartment 1A where the Duke and Duchess reside.
In 2019 a new driveway was also installed at Kensington Palace at a cost of £1m. In 2014, the Sovereign Grant confirmed £4.5m of expenditure, plus the further £1m in 2019.
William and Kate will be moving into Adelaide Cottage this summer to be closer to the Queen but they will be privately renting the four-bedroom property as opposed to buying it.
Omid continues to write that the main issue he holds is when Meghan and Harry made a decision to move to the US after similar renovations to Frogmore Cottage - they received a huge backlash and fury and questions why William and Kate are not recieving the same treatment.
He wrote: "When the Sussexes announced they would be keeping Frogmore Cottage at their British base after moving to California, the chorus of fury was loud. This time, not so much."
The biographer continued to draw comparison between the couples writing that whilst Meghan and Harry were berated for their use of jets, people "turn a blind eye" when the Cambridge's choose to use a helicopter.
"[Helicopter trips] are not just an unfair cost to the public but also go completely against William's environmental concerns," he concludes.
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← A little of THR\nIn the meantie we die, so live fully now. You will only get so many chanes!! →\nIn this little country where life comes fast… so the sunshade that covers her like skin was the last day i’be felt love like we feel every night… now on our days that i try like my whole family do but every single time the time and everything will become what you cant’ escape from … and so we become the By all the laws of anything, Winston Chen should not have quit his well-paying, midcareer job at a software company at age 40. But one day he was watching a TED Talk, one of those popular online video presentations, delivered by a New York designer.
"He presented this absolutely irresistible idea," Chen says. "He said, 'Why don't we take five years out of retirement and spread them throughout your working life?' "
So Chen told his wife, then 39, about it. At first, convention held them at bay. "We feel the gravitational pull of what you should do as well as anybody," he says.
But two summers ago, they broke that gravitational pull. Chen took his family more than 3,000 miles away from Boston to Rødøy, a small granite island jutting from the Norwegian Sea north of the Arctic Circle. Chen's wife, Kristin Botnen, was born in Norway. But she says the move wasn't about returning home — or leaving home, either.
"For us, this was not an escape. We really liked our lives. But we still wanted a year where we could just do something completely different," she says.
Completely different. Winston and Kristin and their two kids, ages 4 and 6, used the daylight that burns into the wee hours to explore the island of fewer than 200 residents. In their home videos, they discover beaches so pristine, they look tropical — except the water is really cold.
They went out to fish for the big cod that roam the Barents Sea. They made chips by frying fish skin. They picked berries that bulged under the long Arctic sun and plucked eggs from seagull nests to cook for breakfast. It was wild, it was pristine. And then it got dark.
During the deep Arctic winter, the horizon held the sun down for months.
"I say the northern lights are the only consolation for the Arctic winter, which is otherwise dark and stormy and cold," Chen says.
"I don't think the cold got any of us," adds Botnen. "But the darkness — I think that could make any stable soul a little bit shaky."
To keep things stable, Chen mapped out an hourly schedule in a color-coded spreadsheet. It was basically a to-do list for his yearlong early retirement.
"I had oil painting, photography, blogging, learning Norwegian, learning how to play the ukulele, reading long books that I haven't had time to read," Chen explains.
And he also taught himself something new: He wrote an iPhone application that reads text out loud.
"Part of that was occupying my time when it got dark," he says, "so I wrote it without knowing that it would see the light of day."
But it did. Chen posted it on Apple's App Store under the name Voice Dream and people started buying it. Now selling more than 500 copies a week, at $10 each, it's sustaining the family on their return to Boston.
At home in their apartment, Botnen says the app did not make their Arctic adventure. "It's hard to measure success based on the end product," Botnen says, "because the process, and the year that we had, really was a good one."
A good year. A retirement year, inserted into their working ones. One year that helped them find unexpected riches, personal and professional.
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Andrew Tate, an influencer and former professional kickboxer known for his misogynistic remarks, has been banned from Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, confirmed to NPR that Tate had been banned from its platforms for violating its policies regarding dangerous individuals and organizations and hate speech. Tate, 35, had garnered 4.7 million followers on Instagram before Meta took down his official account.
TikTok told NPR that the company has permanently banned Tate's account.
"Misogyny is a hateful ideology that is not tolerated on TikTok," a spokesperson told NPR. "Our investigation into this content is ongoing, as we continue to remove violative accounts and videos, and pursue measures to strengthen our enforcement, including our detection models, against this type of content."
Tate drew internet fame after being removed from the show Big Brother in 2016 following a video that surfaced in which he allegedly attacked a woman, according to the BBC.
Tate claimed the video was "a total lie" that tried to make him look bad and was edited, the BBC reported.
The influencer was permanently suspended from Twitter in 2017 after tweeting that women who are sexually assaulted bear some responsibility, according to NBC News.
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Black couple sues after they say home valuation rises nearly $300,000 when shown by White colleague
A Maryland couple has sued a local real estate appraiser and an online mortgage loan provider, alleging that the housing appraisal they received was unfairly low due to their race, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, after a second appraisal returned a result nearly $300,000 higher.
Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott filed suit against 20/20 Valuations LLC, its owner Shane Lanham, and loanDepot.com on Monday, alleging the defendants 20/20 Valuations LLC and its owner "discriminated against Plaintiffs by dramatically undervaluing their home in an appraisal because of Plaintiffs' race and their home's location adjacent to a Black census block, notwithstanding that it is also located within Homeland, an affluent, mostly white neighborhood," and loanDepot.com discriminated against them by relying on that appraisal in denying their refinance loan.
According to the complaint, Connolly and Mott are Black professors at Johns Hopkins University who applied to loanDepot.com to refinance the mortgage on their four-bedroom home in Homeland, Maryland, a predominantly White Baltimore neighborhood.
Lanham's company, 20/20 Valuations, performed the appraisal for loanDepot and returned a valuation that was more than $75,000 below the conservative estimate of valuation which loanDepot had given the couple, according to the lawsuit. LoanDepot denied the couple the mortgage refinance because of the low valuation, according to the complaint.
"Plaintiffs were shocked at the appraisal and recognized that the low valuation was because of racial discrimination. They told this to their loanDepot loan officer and challenged the appraisal in a detailed letter," the suit reads.
Gabriel Diaz, an attorney for the couple, told CNN the lawsuit represents his clients' point of view.
Connolly and Mott later re-applied with another lender, and "whitewashed" their home, according to the lawsuit. This included removing photos of their Black family from the home, and having a White colleague present the property to the appraiser. The suit claims this valuation came back at $750,000, more than a quarter of a million dollars higher than 20/20 Valuations' appraisal of $472,000.
According to the lawsuit, Lanham allegedly used an appraisal method where he compared the couple's home to properties in a majority-Black local area, instead of the rest of Homeland.
"Defendant Lanham's decision to geographically limit the area from which he selected comparable sales reflected his belief that, because of their race, Dr. Connolly and Dr. Mott did not belong in Homeland, an attractive and predominantly white neighborhood, and that a home with Black homeowners located adjacent to a predominantly Black area is worth less than if it were in the whiter areas that he deemed 'the heart' of Homeland," the lawsuit alleges.
CNN has reached out to Lanham for comment.
Jonathan Fine, VP of Public Relations with loanDepot told CNN the company "strongly" opposes housing discrimination.
"While appraisals are performed independently by outside expert appraisal firms, all participants in the home finance process must work to find ways to contribute to eradicating bias," Fine said.
The couple allege that Lanham's "dramatically lower valuation reflected his beliefs that a Black family did not genuinely belong in Homeland and could not be the owners of a higher valued home."
"Lanham violated professional standards to devalue Plaintiffs' home because of these racist beliefs. Defendant loanDepot relied on Lanham's appraisal despite being informed that it was infected by discrimination and stopped answering or returning Plaintiffs calls once they challenged the appraisal on that basis," the suit states.
The couple is seeking damages and relief from Lanham, 20/20 Valuations LLC, and loanDepot for violations of the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and Maryland Fair Housing Laws, according to the complaint.
The couple's lawsuit is the latest example of the difficulties and discrimination some Black homeowners say they face.
Last year, a Black California couple filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco, arguing that racial discrimination played a role in the low valuation of their home.
Tenisha Tate-Austin and her husband became suspicious when the Northern California home they spent years renovating was valued by an appraiser far lower than they expected. When they asked for a second opinion, a White friend pretended to own their home and they removed all artwork and photos that could show that it belonged to a Black family. The new appraisal for their home in Marin County was more than $1.4 million and nearly half a million dollars higher than the previous estimate, they told CNN at the time. Earlier this year, the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in the case, which is still pending.
And in Indiana last year, when Carlette Duffy concealed that she was Black, she told CNN her home's appraised value more than doubled.
Home appraisals fall within the scope of fair housing and fair lending laws. More than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the racial homeownership gap is wider than ever. In 2021, for example, the Black homeownership rate was 44% while the White homeownership rate reached 74% according to the Census Bureau.
Homeownership is the primary contributor to multi-generational wealth building for Black and Brown households, according to research highlighted in a report from the National Association of Realtors (NARS).
But bias in home valuations limits the ability of Black and Brown families to see equitable financial returns associated with homeownership, the NARS report said.
"The goal with the lawsuit is to get a measure of justice for [Connolly and Mott] and what they experienced in the form of monetary compensation, but I think relatedly there is the question of education," Diaz told CNN.
"I think that this is an issue that is not properly understood, not widely understood. Hopefully, the case will allow people to understand and appreciate and also change the anger so that this doesn't happen to people going forward," Diaz said. | https://www.wesh.com/article/black-couple-sues-after-they-say-home-valuation-rises-nearly-300-000-when-shown-by-white-colleague/40944752 | 2022-08-20T18:13:56Z | https://www.wesh.com/article/black-couple-sues-after-they-say-home-valuation-rises-nearly-300-000-when-shown-by-white-colleague/40944752 | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Friends and fellow authors spoke out on Salman Rushdie’s behalf during a rally Friday on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library, one week after he was attacked onstage in the western part of the state and hospitalized with stab wounds.
Rushdie’s condition has improved, and, according to his literary agent, he has been removed from a ventilator.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Tina Brown and Kiran Desai were among those who shared wishes for a full recovery, told stories of Rushdie as an inspiration and defender of free expression, and read passages from his books, essays and speeches, including from “The Satanic Verses,” the 1988 novel that was condemned by some Muslims as blasphemous.
Rushdie spent years in hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his death, but had traveled freely over the past two decades.
The hourlong “Stand With Salman” gathering was presented in part by the library, by Rushdie’s publisher, Penguin Random House, and by the literary and human rights organization PEN America. Hundreds were in attendance, many affiliated with PEN, of which the 75-year-old Rushdie is a former president.
“He’s been a constant, indefatigable champion of words and of writers attacked for the purported crime of their work,” said the day’s first speaker, PEN CEO Suzanne Nossel. “Today, we will celebrate Salman for what he has endured, but even more importantly, because of what he has engendered — the stories, characters, metaphors and images he has given to the world.”
The rally did not include any new words from Rushdie, but Nossel said he was aware of the event and even made suggestions for what to read. Rushdie’s son Zafar Rushdie, who has been with his father, tweeted that “it was great to see a crowd gathered” outside the library.
“Stand With Salman” took place the day after a judge in Mayville, New York, denied bail to 24-year-old Hadi Matar, who has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault. While in jail, Matar told the New York Post that he disdained Rushdie as anti-Muslim and expressed admiration for the Ayatollah.
On Friday, other readers included the author and journalist Gay Talese, author and former PEN president Andrew Solomon, and the poet, lawyer and activist Reginald Dwayne Betts. Actor Aasif Mandvi read from Rushdie’s upcoming novel, “Victory City,” which he completed before the attack and includes the passage “I myself am nothing now. All that remains is the city of words. Words are the only victors.”
Eugenides, whose novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Middlesex,” remembered traveling to London in the early 1980s. Eugenides was 20 and Rushdie’s breakthrough novel “Midnight’s Children” had recently been published. He knew Rushdie lived there and decided he wanted to meet him. It was years before “The Satanic Verses,” and Eugenides found his name and address in the phone book.
“I took the tube out to his house. As it turned out, Salman wasn’t at home; he was in Italy, vacationing,” said Eugenides, who was greeted by Rushdie’s then-mother-in-law and left a note for the author.
“That was the world we used to live in,” Eugenides added. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/authors-and-friends-rally-and-read-for-salman-rushdie/ | 2022-08-20T18:15:17Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/authors-and-friends-rally-and-read-for-salman-rushdie/ | false |
Venice is a seductive city that has bewitched artists from all over the world. One writer who has settled in "the city on stilts" is the American author Donna Leon. The sinking Renaissance jewel is the backdrop of her "Commissario Brunetti" detective stories. Leon recently gave a visiting reporter a tour of her Venice. The story is part of a series, Crime in the City, about crime novelists and the places they and their characters inhabit.
Fifteen years ago — a decade after she made Venice her home — Donna Leon began killing people.
In Leon's Venice, the violence usually occurs at dawn. The first victim was in the dressing room of the opera house, La Fenice.
The body of the second victim "floated face down in the murky water of the canal ... close by, the bells of the church chimed four in the morning."
"These were the hours when, for Brunetti, the city became most beautiful, just as they were the same hours when he, Venetian to the bone, sensed some of her past glory."
The narrow alleys and wide squares of the Cannaregio district, where Leon lives, are also the world of Commissario Guido Brunetti. Happily married to a university professor of English literature (who is also a great chef), the fictional police detective is an intellectual and reflective man who visits museums and buys out-of-print books.
"He has a kind of love-irritation relationship with the city," Leon says of her main character. "His family's been here ever since ever since ever since ever. He knows the city. He has it imprinted in his head. He knows who to ask about anyone in the city. He leads a Venetian life. He leads a civilized, beautiful life."
It's the same life Leon leads. She sought refuge in the city of canals and bridges after having taught English literature in Iran, China and Saudi Arabia.
Translated into 20 languages, her books are international best-sellers. There's even a German Commissario Brunetti TV series.
Leon stresses there are two separate Venices.
One has quiet campielli (squares) and barges that deliver fruits and vegetables; that Venice belongs to Brunetti and its 60,000 other residents.
The other Venice is filled with the booming voices of tour guides with microphones and attracts up to 20 million tourists a year.
Leon agrees with Henry James' observation more than a century ago that "in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."
Leon describes a "Bermuda Triangle" of San Marco-Accademia-Rialto.
"Most tourists spend the major part of their time in that triangle," she says. "That's where it's very, very unpleasant to be at almost any daylight hour, at almost any time of the year," she says.
Even during Acqua Alta — the high waters that flood Venice in the winter.
Leon laments the disappearance of shops catering to residents — those that do shoe repair, zippers and buttons. And she feels the steady encroachment of their replacements: top-name designers like Dolce & Gabbana and Prada, and shops selling tourist kitsch — plastic gondolas, jester hats and masks made in Taiwan.
The creator of Commissario Brunetti sticks closely to the outskirts of the triangle, shunning its daily invasion by an average 150,000 tourists.
While doing errands in San Bortolo, she runs into an old friend she hasn't seen in years.
In this Venice, social interaction is intense.
"You cannot walk past someone you know like this and pretend not to see them," Leon says, "unless you're willing to suffer some sort of rupture in your relationship with them."
In a city where everyone walks, there are very few secrets.
"There are a lot of people here that I know that I don't know. I've seen them get older, I've them seen marry, I've seen them re-marry, I've seen them break legs, and then watched them walk again a year later. So many of these people I do know, but I don't know who they are."
These ordinary Venetians populate Brunetti's world. Leon devours Italian newspapers and fills her books with serious topical issues: a toxic waste cover-up, industrial pollution, the sex slave trade, illegal adoptions, blood diamonds and corruption in the Catholic Church.
The plots reflect her scorn for officialdom and often end ambiguously, with the guilty not brought to justice. She says this also reflects the society in which she lives.
"The Italians that I know are pretty cynical about any chance of justice in this country," Leon says. "People in other countries are surprised when people do bad things and get away with it. Italians aren't surprised at all. This is the way things are. And I think they are very realistic in accepting that."
Another characteristic of her adopted society, she says, is that this is a country without footnotes.
"A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative," Leon says. "And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact."
In her first book, Death at La Fenice, Leon describes Venice as "a provincial town where gossip was the real cult and where, had it not been at least a nominally Christian city, the reigning deity would surely have been rumor."
Leon's books have brought her fame and wealth, but she insists they'll never be translated here in Italy during her lifetime.
"I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person," she says. "The tenor of my life would change if these books were translated into Italian, because I'm completely anonymous here."
At the outdoor market at the foot of the Rialto, the woman known here only as a longtime American resident is warmly greeted in the local dialect.
"This is the real Venice. Venetian is music to me," she says. "I always feel very strongly at home when I come back and hear veneziano on the boats."
When we part, and she walks back home, it's clear Leon has the seaman's gait that Brunetti and all Venetians have — a gait acquired with the knowledge of centuries that the ground may be sinking below their feet.
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There are novels you should avoid if you need to accomplish anything major in the near future, or you've been assigned the task of watching small children in a swimming pool. Wilkie Collins' sublime thriller, published in 1860, is one of them. But if you enjoy losing yourself in suspense to a point of absolute compulsion that has you shunning friends and failing to reapply sunscreen — then you're in for a treat.
I discovered The Woman in White a few years ago, when I was working on a gothic novel. I was first drawn in by its doppelgangers, creepy old house and escaped lunatic. But Collins went on to write The Moonstone, the first bona fide detective story, and while The Woman in White was published eight years earlier, its real interest lies in crime-solving. It consists of "testimony" from a series of witnesses who unite to unravel a knot of mystifying events. Most crime novels lose their appeal the instant the mystery is solved, but I sat down earlier this summer and lost another two days of my life luxuriating in Collins' excellently playful prose.
The first witness is Walter Hartright, a young drawing instructor hired to teach two sisters. He falls in love with the younger one, an heiress named Laura Fairlie, who's already engaged to be married. A strange witness surfaces — a woman who wears only white, and who physically is like a twin of Laura Fairlie — warning that Laura's fiance is in fact a ruthless criminal. And so the fun begins.
The plot of The Woman in White pivots on fraud and identity theft — modern problems that turn out not to be so modern after all, especially compared with the mid-19th century, before photography was widespread, when people had to rely on documents to prove who they were. But Collins' ingenious story isn't what finally makes this novel irresistible — it's his characters. The Woman in White contains one of the great literary villains: Count Fosco, a fat, ruthless, sinuously charming Italian who keeps birds and white mice as pets and pampers them as if they were his children. Even minor characters are sharply amusing: "Some of us rush through life; and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life ... a harmless old lady, who never by any chance suggested the idea that she had been actually alive since the hour of her birth."
The real heroine of The Woman in White isn't the innocent Laura Fairlie (who frankly is a bit dull) but her older half-sister, a poor and physically unattractive spinster called Marion Halcombe, whose daring and intelligence are the novel's real engines. Marion is the ultimate crime fighter, and the fact that she steals the show without being beautiful or rich is a tribute to Collins' forward thinking. The evil Count Fosco is so beguiled by Marion's cleverness that he falls half in love with her, and writes: "I lament afresh the cruel necessity which sets our interests at variance, and opposes us to each other. Under happier circumstances how worthy I should have been of Miss Halcombe — how worthy Miss Halcombe would have been of ME."
They're all worthy of a brainy, heedless summer read in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White.
You Must Read This is produced and edited by Ellen Silva.
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BROWNSVILLE – For the second time, voters in Cameron County rejected a proposition that would've put about $1 million in the county's pocket.
Judge Eddie Trevino said Wednesday the county is partly to blame for its failure to pass.
Only rural Cameron County residents were eligible to vote, and they struck it down. The proposition would've raised the sales tax by two cents.
The current rate in the rural county is 6.25, opposed to within city limits at 8.25.
It was voted down by about the same margin last November.
Treviño told CHANNEL 5 NEWS he is disappointed that the county is losing out on that money that would've been generated for the county.
"That money is allocated solely for the benefit of those individuals that live out in the rural areas," he said.
He believes the county didn't explain the measure well enough to voters.
"We cannot expand county funds either for or against something, so we probably didn't do a good job, and can do a better job of getting the information out to advise the (voters) what it's really for," Trevino said.
Voters may have confused the sales tax for a property tax, he said and didn't realize the measure called for something they are already doing every time they shop in the city.
"The cities get the benefit of that sales tax, whereas the mom-and-pop stores, that are on the outside of the cities in the county, that 2 percent sales tax that we were asking them to approve, would've gone right back to benefit them," he explained.
Cameron County Manager David Garcia said without the extra money, the county has to go back to searching for funds they can qualify for.
"Probably our first option is to try to get grants, and to see how we can partner with other entities," Garcia said.
The county wants to keep improving lighting and public safety in the rural areas, he added, but there isn't always enough money to go around.
Treviño said right now, it's too early to tell if the county will put this measure to a vote a third time.
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ORLANDO -- A pilot survived after the small plane he was flying ran out of gas and crashed in an Orlando, Florida neighborhood Friday.
A passing motorist captured video of the crash showing the plane nosedive into a street and slam into a brick mailbox before coming to rest, narrowly missing passing cars.
The pilot, Remy Colin, told ABC News it was supposed to be a test flight for the plane that had recently come out of its annual checkups.
Colin said he had been distracted by fixing the plane's faulty radio and failed to check his fuel level.
The plane ran out of gas and lost all power.
Colin said he did not see any other place where he could land, so he decided to sacrifice the plane and did his best not to injure anyone.
He said he suffered bruising, but was otherwise okay and he was the only one on the plane.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating the crash. | https://abc11.com/pilot-survives-plane-crash-orlando-florida/12146568/ | 2022-08-20T18:24:47Z | https://abc11.com/pilot-survives-plane-crash-orlando-florida/12146568/ | true |
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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Jacki Lyden.
Five hundred years ago, a German cartographer gave a name to the newly discovered landmass blocking Europe's western passage to Asia. He called it America. It was a nod to the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Surely, an honor like that could belong only to one of the greatest travelers in history, a selfless adventurer and a master of navigation and science.
Historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto would beg to differ. He presents the sobering account of the second-rate self-promoter in his new book "Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America."
Thanks for coming to the program.
Mr. FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO (Historian; Author, "Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America"): On the contrary, thank you.
LYDEN: Of course, we're referring to Vespucci here as Amerigo, but many of us in school will have learned the American pronunciation of Amerigo.
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Well, Amerigo is a good pronunciation because it sounds like America. But Amerigo is the correct pronunciation in the sense that that's the way Florentines pronounced it and Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine.
LYDEN: Amerigo Vespucci's reputation back in 1507 when the Americas were named was what? It seems to have been stellar at the time. What was he credited with discovering?
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: He was credited with just about the most fantastic achievement that you could have it at that time. He was credited with being equal to the greatest of the ancients. Particularly, he was specifically hailed by the people who bestowed his name on this hemisphere with being the new Ptolemy, the modern equivalent of the most famous and revered geographer of the Ancient world.
And you go to remember, this is the time of the Renaissance in Europe. So to be equal to the greatest of the ancients was just about the biggest career move you could make it at the time.
LYDEN: And yet, as a young man in Florence, you write that he was, in fact a huckster and even a pimp. Your line(ph) is Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to America with a pimp in his youth and a magus, a magician in his maturity.
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Yes, he's like what (unintelligible) nowadays. In modern America, we would think of the kind of spoiled college kid who's wasted his opportunities, wasted his education. And he resorts to making his living amongst the low-lifes of Florence. He becomes this sort of Mr. Fix-it of Florence. If you've got something shady, something dodgy that you want done, you go to Amerigo and you ask him to fix it for you. It's not just being a pimp. I mean, he was a pimp, you know, there are three letters addressed to him in his youth, which you can only interpret and expressed on rather unguarded language. People writing to him saying kind of - I'm paraphrasing here - thank you very much for what you did for me. I really like the brunette. Could you fix something up for me?
So he clearly is, you know, procuring myriad treasures, women(ph) of clients. But he's also dealing as a small-time commission agent in jewel deals. Just about everything that isn't quite crucial in Renaissance Florence Amerigo handled.
LYDEN: Let me ask you, how did Vespucci come to make this incredibly dangerous and difficult voyage of 1499?
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Historians always wondered why did Vespucci want to go and why did they want to take him because, you know, he knew nothing about the sea. The only voyage he's ever made as far as we learned in his life up to that time was from Florence to Barcelona, just across the short stretch of the Mediterranean. But one thing that Vespucci really did there was pearls, was jewels, especially pearl.
And in 1498, Columbus had discovered a really rich pearl fishery off the coast of Venezuela, and that's what the voyage of 1499 was bound for. They were going out there to see if they could get some of those pearls. And, by golly, they did. They came back with thousands of dockets worth of pearls, and Vespucci managed to pocket quite a few.
LYDEN: Well, what are Vespucci's claims to fame? Was it his uncanny ability to compute longitude to guide his travels? And you say that this was pure nonsense. You call it flimflam.
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Yeah, well, I mean, he did claim to be able to read longitude by celestial observations. In fact, he claimed to be able to do it by a method, which in theory was very well known at the time - the lunar distance method. But only in theory this is a great system, it requires instruments of tremendous accuracy in order to be able to make the right measurements in the first place.
So it's, practically, impossible if he could have made these calculations and did he aim the calculational longitude that he actually recalled and sailed wildly and accurately. It would have actually placed him several thousand miles west of the position that he was in when he took the measurement. There I'm afraid I can't go along with the view that Vespucci was, you know, sort of the prophet of the use of longitude.
LYDEN: But did he discover South America as a continent, which was his great claim?
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Columbus had beaten him to that discovery in 1498, and Columbus had actually accurately identified the southern part of the Western Hemisphere as a continental landmass of enormous proportions and he even called it something very close to calling it as a New World. He called it Another World. And one of Columbus' - few of his friends back in Spain beat Vespucci to the coining(ph) of the name New World.
So really Vespucci didn't actually achieve anything but contemporaries who admired him credited him with. He didn't really do anything that justified the greatness of his reputation except being an absolutely first-rate pompous(ph).
LYDEN: Well, I'd say that Amerigo Vespucci was perhaps the first great American salesman. And since this is a capitalistic society, perhaps he was the perfect person to have lent his name to our shores.
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: Sure, that's true. Yes, certainly the land of the sleek oil salesman in the hot star(ph) league. You know, maybe a pimp and a jewel agent doesn't have a bad patron saint. But, I mean, I do think that there's more to it than that. I mean, I think that America is, and one of the greatnesses of America is that you, you know, you kind of are allowed to reinvent yourself here. You are allowed to wipe your slate clean. Amerigo Vespucci, who was the greatest makeover artist of all time, isn't a bad namesake for this country.
LYDEN: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is the Prince of Asturias professor of history at Tufts University. His new book is titled "Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America" and he joined us from the studios of WCBE in Richmond, Virginia.
Well, thank you for brining Amerigo Vespucci back to life.
Mr. FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO: On the contrary, thank you very much for allowing me to be on the program, Jacki. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.apr.org/2007-09-08/new-book-sheds-light-on-explorer-vespucci | 2022-08-20T18:31:12Z | https://www.apr.org/2007-09-08/new-book-sheds-light-on-explorer-vespucci | false |
Leighton Clarkson free-kick earns Aberdeen victory at St Johnstone
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Leighton Clarkson’s stunning free-kick handed Aberdeen all three points in a hard-fought 1-0 victory at St Johnstone.
The on-loan Liverpool playmaker found the top corner with a superb 25-yard drive in the second half as the Dons climbed up to fifth in the cinch Premiership.
An Aberdeen win was probably the right result after Jim Goodwin’s side had further chances to add to their lead.
Saints struggled for penetration and this defeat saw them fall to third bottom in the top flight.
Aberdeen started brightly and, after Vicente Besuijen sliced an overhead kick well wide, Bojan Miovski had the ball in the net for the visitors when he headed in a Jonny Hayes cross from close range.
However, assistant referee Graeme Stewart immediately raised his flag for offside to cut the Dons’ celebrations short.
Aberdeen continued to look threatening on the attack and a low dangerous ball across the box was just out of reach of Miovski.
Going up against Aberdeen for the first time since ending his long association with the club earlier this summer, Andrew Considine was keen to make a good impression.
But the defender was a bit too eager when he collected a yellow card for clattering into the back of Besuijen.
Saints finished the half the stronger and worked Kelle Roos on a couple of occasions.
The Dutchman got down to Daniel Phillips’ low drive from the edge of the box before pushing away a fierce drive from Graham Carey.
Aberdeen turned the dial up in the second half and took the lead in the 56th minute through Clarkson.
The 20-year-old had gone close with a low drive just moments earlier, but there was no stopping his sublime free-kick.
Carey was penalised for bringing down Hayes 25 yards out and Clarkson lifted a stunning strike over the wall to find the top corner.
Aberdeen had their tails up and went looking for a second. Ross McCrorie had a left-footed drive pushed over by Remi Matthews before the former Rangers midfielder then lashed a half-volley just inches wide.
Saints boss Callum Davidson made a triple change, bringing on Stevie May, Murray Davidson and Max Kucheriavyi, but the visitors continued to press.
Miovski was denied by Matthews with a first-time shot from 12 yards after connecting with Hayes’ cut back.
Dons keeper Ross pulled off a good save to deny Jamie Murphy as the hosts searched for an equaliser before Aberdeen sub Shayden Morris fired wide from a good position.
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When Edwidge Danticat's parents left Haiti for a better life in the United States, she stayed in Haiti with her uncle Joseph, who eventually became like her "second father."
Joseph, whose remarkable life is at the heart of Danticat's new memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a Baptist minister who founded his own church and school in Port-au-Prince. A survivor of throat cancer, he used a mechanical voice box to communicate.
But at 81, he fled Haiti for Miami after a battle between United Nations peacekeepers and chimeres — gang members — put his life in danger. Joseph thinks he will be safe there, but instead his tragic stay in U.S. customs makes headlines around the world.
Danticat's memoir of her family tells the tale of two brothers — Joseph and Danticat's father, Mira — who, separated by distance, become like two fathers for Danticat. Her story weaves in rich details of growing up in Haiti, the sacrifices her family makes as immigrants in the United States and Haiti's growing political instability.
In a startling intersection of events, Danticat loses the two men she loves as she prepares for the birth of her daughter.
Danticat spoke with Jacki Lyden about her loving tribute to her father and her uncle.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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US Air Force targeted in ‘propaganda attack’ in Kuwait
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says it was the subject of a “propaganda attack” by a previously unheard-of Iraqi militant group that falsely claimed it had launched a drone attack targeting American troops at an air base in Kuwait.
The statement by the Air Force’s 386th Air Expeditionary Wing came hours after the group calling itself Al-Waretheen, or “The Inheritors,” put out an online statement on Saturday, claiming it had launched an attack on Aug. 12 targeting Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem Air Base.
The Air Force called it a “lie” and said “no such attack occurred.”
Satellite photos from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press since Aug. 12 showed no apparent damage at the base.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
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Why did Rangarajapuram and Madley subways guzzle rainwater?
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In November 2021 — one of the wettest Novembers in living memory — a good number of vehicular subways across Chennai suffered from “pleural effusion”, and none as alarmingly as the Rangarajapuram two-wheeler subway and Madley subway.
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When other subways were discharged and joined duty, these two were still parked in ICU, an extended stay being unavoidable. The “accumulated fluid” being copious, the drainage was exasperatingly slow.
The systems for stormwater management around these subways had been caught napping during the heavy rains, and they had ended up being guzzlers like Cana Alberano from the “Fairy Tail” animie series.
What happened?
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S Rajendran, chief engineer (general), who has handled many stormwater drain projects, remarks that in terms of depth, a vehicular subway would mark the lowest point in the area it is located, and rainwater runoffs would flow into the “trough”.
Usually, the first line of defence would be sufficient to clear these invading flood waters: In normal circumstances, the well or wells lodged in a vehicular subway’s bowels to take in the rainwater, and the pump house meant for pumping the water out and up to the stormwater drain systems above would be equal to the task.
During heavy rains, this arrangement could collapse like a pack of cards if the stormwater-drainage systems around the vehicular subway fail to deliver on their promise.
Rajendran notes that that is what happened in these subways, and the picture of inefficient drainage was starkly evident at the Ranjarajapuram subway.
Railway culvert 45
Rajendran notes that there was an evident reason for this failure.
“On the western side of the railway lines crossing the Rangarajapuram vehicular subway, there is Aziz Nagar, Subramanyapuram and Railway Border Road and the Arcot Road belt, which together constitute a huge rainwater catchment area. The rainwater has to “cross” the railway track (through available stormwater-carrying systems) and reach Mambalam High Road and go to Bazullah Road and Thirumalai Pillai Road and GN Chetty Road and reach Mambalam canal, in the process covering a distance of five kilometres.
Rainwater from this catchment area had only one culvert — railway culvert number 45 — to cross over and take this long course. This culvert is constricted, being just one-and-half feet to three feet wide, and two to three feet deep,” the chief engineer explains.
“Due to the magnitude of the rains last year, this culvert could not handle the influx of rainwater. The culvert is under the railways’ watch, and has to be maintained and desilted by them. There is a matrix of signalling cables on that section, making it vulnerable and dangerous, and any attempt by a GCC team to desilt the culvert could prove foolhardy.
Railways would obviously not allow GCC workers to desilt the culvert under the railway track,” Rajendran continues.
He notes that during the November 2021 floods, the Rangarajapuram subway acted somewhat like a culvert.
“But for the Rangarajapuram subway, people on the western side of the railway track would have been marooned. The two-wheeler subway had provided an unintended remedy. We pumped the stagnant rainwater to the other side — the eastern side of the tracks — where Mambalam High Road runs, and then Bazullah Road.
At that point of time, a flooded two-wheeler subway was not as significant as hundreds of houses being marooned,” Rajendran elaborates.
Rangarajapuram two-wheeler subway is one-kilometre from Duraisami Subway, and also one-kilometre away from Madley subway.
Madley subway
An almost similar situation showed up at Madley Subway.
“As West Mambalam was inundated, and the rainwater naturally flowed into Madley subway. We put huge pumps with capacities of 100 hp and 200 hp in Madely subway (as also in Rangarajapuram subway, and pumped out the rainwater). At Madley subway, the proximity to the Mambalam canal and the channels to that canal helped.”
The remedy
What are the remedial measures being taken by the Greater Chennai Corporation to ensure November 2021 does not repeat itself, at Rangarajapuram subway?
“Besides constructing stormwater drains along this course, we have identified two more railway culverts that were not used. We have discovered a more efficient way of using Culvert Number 44 and identified an abandoned culvert, which is Culvert Number 43. We have constructed all the drains leading to culverts 44 and 43. Apart from using the three culverts more efficiently — 43, 44 and 45 — we have undertaken work on constructing a drain to divert a part of the rainwater along the Railway Border Road, Kodambakkm railway station, Kodambakkam flyover, and towards Arcot Road, from where the rainwater would be directed into Trustpuram canal.
This drain work is proving to be challenging due to the narrowness of the service lane along the Rangarajapuram flyover,” he explains.
On dealing with inundation of Madley subway, Rajendran notes the stormwater drain networks being constructed in West Mambalam, particularly Ayodhya Road and Brindhavan Road, and the diversion of adjacent drains should address the problem.
“With construction of a skywalk over Madley subway under way in 2021, it was difficult to divert rainwater. With work on the skywalk on the Madley-subway section completed now, we would not face this problem. This time, we expect the Madley subway to not be inundated.”
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What is it that makes us who we really are: our life experiences or our DNA? Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were both born in New York City. Both women were adopted as infants and raised by loving families. They met for the first time when they were 35 years old and found they were "identical strangers."
Unknowingly, Bernstein and Schein had been part of a secret research project in the 1960s and '70s that separated identical twins as infants and followed their development in a one-of-a-kind experiment to assess the influence of nature vs. nurture in child development.
Now, the twins, authors of a new memoir called Identical Strangers, are trying to uncover the truth about the study.
'I Have a Twin'
In 2004, Paula Bernstein received a phone call from an employee of Louise Wise Services, the agency where she had been adopted. The message: She had a twin who was looking for her.
The woman told Bernstein her twin's name.
"And I thought, I have a twin, and her name is Elyse Schein," Bernstein says.
Schein, who was living in Paris at the time, had been trying to find information about her birth mother when she learned from the adoption agency that she had a twin sister.
The two women met for the first time at a cafe in New York City — and stayed through lunch and dinner, talking.
"We had 35 years to catch up on. How do you start asking somebody, 'What have you been up to since we shared a womb together?' Where do you start?" Bernstein says.
Separated at Adoption
Soon after the sisters were reunited, Schein told Bernstein what she had found out about why they were separated: They were part of a study on nature vs. nurture. It was the only study of its kind on twins separated from infancy.
Neither parents nor children knew the real subject of the study — or that the children had been separated from their identical twin.
"When the families adopted these children, they were told that their child was already part of an ongoing child study. But of course, they neglected to tell them the key element of the study, which is that it was child development among twins raised in different homes," Bernstein says.
A 'Practically Perfect' Study
Peter Neubauer, a child psychiatrist, and Viola Bernard, a child psychologist and consultant to the Louise Wise agency, headed up the study.
Lawrence Perlman, a research assistant on the study from 1968 to 1969, says Bernard had a strong belief that twins should be raised separately.
"That twins were often dressed the same and treated exactly the same, she felt, interfered with their independent psychological development," Perlman says.
Lawrence Wright is the author of Twins, a book about twin studies.
"Since the beginning of science, twins have offered a unique opportunity to study to what extent nature vs. nurture influences the way we develop, the people that we turn out to be," Wright says.
Wright notes that the Neubauer study differs from all other twin studies in that it followed the twins from infancy.
"From a scientific point of view, it's beautiful. It's practically the perfect study. But this study would never happen today," Wright says.
Finding the True Story
The study ended in 1980, and a year later, the state of New York began requiring adoption agencies to keep siblings together.
At that point, Bernstein says, Neubauer realized that public opinion would be so against the study that he decided not to publish it. The results of the study have been sealed until 2066 and given to an archive at Yale University.
"It's kind of disturbing to think that all this material about us is in some file cabinet somewhere. And really for ourselves, we had to figure out what the true story was," Bernstein says.
The sisters attempted to reach Neubauer, a distinguished and internationally renowned psychiatrist who serves on the board of the Freud Archives. Initially, he refused to speak to them.
No Remorse, No Apology
Eventually, he granted the women an unofficial interview — no taping or videotaping allowed.
Bernstein says she had hoped Neubauer would apologize for separating the twins. Instead, he showed no remorse and offered no apology.
Neubauer has rarely spoken about the study. But in the mid-1990s, he did talk about it with Wright, the author of Twins.
"[Neubauer] insisted that at the time, it was a matter of scientific consensus that twins were better off separated at birth and raised separately," Wright says. "I never found anything in the literature to support that."
The author also says Neubauer was "unapologetic" about the study, even though he admits that the project raised ethical question about whether one has a right to or should separate identical twins.
"It is very difficult to answer. It is for these reasons that these studies don't take place," Neubauer told Wright.
Wright says that no such study will ever be done again — nor should it. But he acknowledges that it would be very interesting to learn what this study has to teach us.
'Different People with Different Life Histories'
As for Bernstein and Schein, getting to know each other has raised its own questions.
"Twins really do force us to question what is it that makes each of us who we are. Since meeting Elyse, it is undeniable that genetics play a huge role — probably more than 50 percent," Bernstein says.
"It's not just our taste in music or books; it goes beyond that. In her, I see the same basic personality. And yet, eventually we had to realize that we're different people with different life histories."
As much as she thinks the researchers did the wrong thing by separating the twins, Bernstein says she can't imagine a life growing up with her twin sister.
"That life never happened. And it is sad, that as close as we are now, there is no way we can ever compensate for those 35 years," Bernstein says.
"With me and Paula, it is hard to see where we are going to go. It's really uncharted territory," Schein says. "But I really love her and I can't imagine my life without her."
Neubauer declined to be interviewed for this story. Of the 13 children involved in his study, three sets of twins and one set of triplets have discovered one another. The other four subjects of the study still do not know they have identical twins.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-7-9
(three, seven, nine)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-7-9
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Dance of the divine in sacred groves
Theyyams of Kerala’s Kaavus allow one to reach out to the divine directly, with humans performing the role of gods
North Kerala’s fast-vanishing Kaavus, or sacred groves, have been miniature rainforests that serve as an “intangible umbilical cord” connecting the flora, fauna and belief, marking an aesthetic symbiosis. These play an effervescent role in social life and maintain an ecological balance by being the fulcrum and venue of the Theyyam tradition.
These open places of worship are different from a temple that has to conform to a specific structure with a tank known as tirtha (holy water) and a ficus tree, all within the immediate vicinity of the idol and hemmed in by a compound wall. However, even an icon or structure is insignificant for a Kaavu. Devotees believe the spirits will oblige them if they make fervent prayers, and for this, one need not even go to the Kaavu.
The groves are an abode of several kinds of birds, mammals, reptiles and other beings. For example, nux vomica ( Strychnos nux-vomica), a tree known for absorbing harmful emissions, is commonly found in a traditional sacred grove, underscoring the kind of “cultural hybridisation” of nature and the local inhabitants, which Theyyam worship highlights.
Egalitarian tradition
Theyyam, an egalitarian tradition, allows one to reach out to the divine directly, as humans performing the role as if in a trance, engage in a straight dialogue with the devotees. The worship at most of the Kaavus is periodic, primarily conducted once a year with no quotidian rituals. While this make people be away from the groves the rest of the time, it allows the Kaavus to preserve their biodiversity and flourish, repairing the minor damage caused during the annual festivities.
However, many have recently started incorporating irrational improvements and constructions at the Kaavus in the name of renovation and gradually transforming them into temples, whether or not an idol is installed later. Thus, now few Kaavus exist pristinely, and many are losing their ecological equilibrium.
Of the Theyyams at the Kaavus, Neeli at Neeliyaarkottam at Mangattuparambu in Kannur is significant. This Kaavu is an exceptionally virgin 20 acres that preserves over 220 varieties of foliage and is the habitat for rare caterpillars, including of the southern birdwing, a large butterfly in the country. In addition, many birds roost here.
Mother Goddess
Neeli’s profile is based on the concept of the Mother Goddess. The story goes that for rejecting his romantic advances, the local ruler spread canards about Neeli’s morality and in a conspiracy, forced her father to kill her to uphold the land’s honour. Neeli hailed from the Pulaya community and lived near Kottiyoor, east of Kannur. Her soul caused mayhem to the culprits and went along with a sorcerer, Kaalakkaattu Namboodiri. On their way, the spirit desired to stay as a protector in a forest that later became Neeliyaarkottam, the abode of Neeli. People gradually started worshipping the spirit as Bhagavati, the Mother Goddess. Spirit worship is so deeply ingrained in the Theyyam concept, which is hailed for the deification of human souls and the consecration of gods.
At the Neeliyaarkottam, members of the Vannaan lineage, hailing from the Kaanoor Mangatan and Mangattu Mangatan families and formally honoured with the title Mangatan, alone can perform as Neeli. For several years, Dasan Peruvaan Mangatan from Kaanoor have been performing the role. The central presentations are during the evenings of every samkramam day (the last day of the Malayalam month). Neeli refrains from going deep into the forest and limits the performance to a particular area so as not to disturb the rare bio-network.
In addition, performances are done as public offerings for various reasons. One can make any request to their protective mother, the devotees say. And most such offerings are made by couples on being blessed with a child. Moreover, only one offer is accepted a day, thus facilitating more performance opportunities.
The Cheriya Veetu family of Anthoor owns the land hereditarily. Some years ago, a few family members planned to construct a temple and other buildings as in other Kaavus.
But fortunately, they honoured the environmentalists’ wish, and this rare grove has not vanished.
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Heidi Squier Kraft, author of a new memoir called Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital, served more than seven months as a clinical psychologist at a remote air base in western Iraq.
The book's title is based on two rules of war from the TV show M*A*S*H: (1) that young men die; and (2) that doctors can't change rule No. 1.
Kraft talks with Melissa Block.
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Opposing the plea filed by lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay seeking action against political parties for promising freebies during elections, the DMK said the petition is "politically motivated" as the petitioner belongs to a political party which was locked in a political battle during Punjab elections at the time of filing this PIL
MK Stalin and Supreme Court. File Pic
Welfare schemes provide uplift of weaker sections and cannot be described as "freebies", the DMK has told the Supreme Court.
Opposing the plea filed by lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay seeking action against political parties for promising freebies during elections, the DMK said the petition is "politically motivated" as the petitioner belongs to a political party which was locked in a political battle during Punjab elections at the time of filing this PIL.
It alleged the present petition lacks merit and is filed to settle political scores with another rival political party in Punjab.
"The yardstick to be applied for classifying a welfare scheme to be a 'freebie' cannot be so rigid that every service provided by the government to its citizens be termed as a freebie.
Also Read: Free education, healthcare not freebies, can eliminate poverty: Arvind Kejriwal
"If such a meaning is applied, it would render all government facilities such as education, healthcare to be freebies, which is unconscionable," submissions filed by senior advocate P Wilson on behalf of DMK, said.
The DMK said the plea, which is liable to be dismissed, is an assault on the Directive Principles of State Policy and is an attempt to change the fabric of this nation from socialist country to capitalist country.
It said that no legal order can be issued against the representatives of the people making promises or against a law-making body from making laws to comply with the Part IV of the Constitution.
Also Read: Let’s talk about freebies to big corporates: Congress
On Wednesday, the CJI observed that political parties and individuals cannot be prevented from making poll promises aimed at fulfilling the constitutional mandate and the term "freebie" should not be confused with genuine welfare measures.
It had on January 25 sought replies from the Centre and the Election Commission on the PIL, filed through advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, seeking direction to seize the symbol or deregister a political party that promises or distributes "irrational freebies" before polls, saying it is a "serious issue" as sometimes freebie budget goes beyond a regular budget.
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LONDON (AP) — Almost 2,000 workers at the U.K.’s biggest container port will launch an eight-day strike Sunday over a pay dispute, the latest industrial action to hit a growing number of sectors of the U.K. economy.
Workers including crane drivers and machine operators will walk off their jobs at Felixstowe port on England’s east coast, which handles around 4 million containers a year from 2,000 ships.
The strike comes as people across the U.K. faced travel disruptions Saturday for the third day this week as thousands of rail workers continued a summer of strikes to seek better pay and job security amid soaring food and energy price hikes.
Only around one in five U.K. trains were expected to run on Saturday, with some areas having no services all day. Soccer and cricket fans attending sports games, as well as tourists, were among those affected.
On Friday, most of London’s underground subway lines did not run due to a separate strike.
The Unite union alleges that Felixstowe port’s parent company, CK Hutchison Holding Ltd., prioritized profits instead of paying workers a decent wage.
Port authorities, for their part, said they were “disappointed” that Unite did not “come to the table for constructive discussions to find a resolution.”
Felixstowe handles almost half of the container freight entering the country. The strike could mean vessels have to be diverted to ports elsewhere in the U.K. or Europe.
Rail workers began a series of large-scale strikes that grounded national train travel in June, demanding better pay and working conditions as authorities try to reform the rail system, which has lost large chunks of its income due to the coronavirus pandemic and shifting commuting patterns.
More public- and private-sector unions are planning strikes as Britain faces its worst cost-of-living crisis in decades. Postal workers, lawyers, British Telecom staff and garbage collectors have all announced walkouts for later this month. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/workers-at-uks-largest-container-port-to-join-rail-strikes/ | 2022-08-20T19:02:07Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/workers-at-uks-largest-container-port-to-join-rail-strikes/ | true |
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MELIPEUCO, Chile (AP) — Mist suddenly arose from the Truful Truful River as it flowed below the snow-covered Llaima volcano, and Victor Curin smiled at the sun-dappled water spray.
A leader in one of the Indigenous communities by the river’s shores in the Chilean Andes, Curin took it as a sign that the waterfall’s ngen — its owner and protector spirit — approved of his visit and prayer that mid-July morning.
“Nature always tells you something, always answers,” said Curin, who works as a park ranger in Conguillio National Park, at the river’s headwaters. “Human beings feel superior to the space where they go, but for us Mapuche, I belong to the earth, the earth doesn’t belong to me.”
In the worldview of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous group and more than 10% of its population, a pristine river is home to a spiritual force to revere, not a natural resource to exploit.
That has led many Mapuche across Chile’s water-rich south to fight hydroelectric plants and other projects they see as desecrating nature and depriving Indigenous communities of essential energies that keep them from getting sick.
“Being part of nature, we cannot destroy part of ourselves,” said Lientur Ayenao, a machi or healer and spiritual guide who draws water from the Truful Truful for his ceremonies. “You have to keep the balance, and this is broken when one intervenes in natural spaces for a selfish purpose.”
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Some 200 miles to the south, another machi, Millaray Huichalaf, has led a sometimes-violent battle against hydroelectric plants on the Pilmaiquen River, which flows through rolling pastures from a lake in the Andes’ foothills.
After her resistance and cultural consultations with Indigenous communities, an energy company froze plans for a plant by a riverside sacred site and said it would return ownership of the land to the Mapuche.
But construction is continuing on another plant, so the fight isn’t over — just as it isn’t on the Truful Truful, where a proposed plant is under review.
“I am the river too, we’re as sacred as the river,” Huichalaf said as a thunderstorm pounded her wooden cabin. “At the same time as we’re fighting for the river, we’re in the process of territorial recovery and spiritual reconstruction.”
It’s on the question of rights over Indigenous land, a volatile issue in Chile’s politics, that spirituality gets entangled with ideology. Several Mapuche leaders say spirits appearing in dreams encourage the fight against capitalism in their ancestral territory.
Next month, Chileans will vote on a new and controversial constitution spotlighting Indigenous rights and land restitution. But they’re also dealing with growing violent attacks against agricultural, logging and energy industries, particularly in the Araucania region, including by some groups claiming Mapuche ancestral lands that were never fully conquered by the Spanish empire and only fell to the Chilean state at the end of the 19th century.
For most Mapuche, such violence further destabilizes the desired balance between people, the natural space they belong to and the spirits that inhabit it. A first step against it is to ensure non-Natives understand how nature matters to the Mapuche, Indigenous leader and mediator Andrés Antivil Álvarez said.
“The world is not loot. Everything that’s outside is also inside ourselves,” he said, sitting by the fire in his ruka, a traditional building outside his house near Araucania’s capital, a two-hour drive from the Truful Truful. “You have to understand that the spirit of this fire, present here, is as sacred as the Christ in a church.”
And trampling a crucifix — as some protesters did in 2019 mass uprisings — is as painful and evil as damming a river, he said. He cited as an example construction in the early 2000s of the Ralco dam, which flooded sacred compounds and generated an uproar that prevented similar massive projects and energized cultural resistance to smaller ones.
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Mapuche community members’ reverence is evident when they walk alongside rivers like the Truful Truful, whose name means “from waterfall to waterfall” in the Mapudungun language.
On a chilly afternoon, Ayenao approached the river’s largest waterfall, the proposed site of a new hydroelectric plant, with a bag of seeds in his pocket. That would be a reciprocity offering for the river’s ngen should Ayenao decide to draw water to treat his patients’ physical and spiritual ailments.
“Ngen existed before us and it’s they who allow us to live in a place. And there are some predominant ngen to whom we need to pray” like the Truful Truful’s, he said.
Failure to ask the ngen’s permission to approach the water, or to explain the need to do so, means transgressing on the space, alienating the spirits protecting it and making you, your family and even your animals sick.
But if the ngen permits it, then Ayenao can use the falling water’s distinctive “energy power” for healing purposes, either in riverside ceremonies or by taking large soda bottles full of it back to his house.
Relocated to Temuco when he was 6, Ayenao eventually moved to Santiago, Chile’s capital, to study and there got so sick he couldn’t walk or talk. His family realized the only remedy was to accept that the spirit of his great-grandmother, also a healer, was asking to come back in him.
He apprenticed for three years and returned to practice traditional medicine on a tiny plot of land in the broad valley downstream from the village of Melipueco, named for the union of the Truful Truful and three other waterways.
Now the spirit of a nearby river where a fish farm is planned has been asking in dreams for Ayenao’s help.
“The ngen asks me and demands of me that I need to protect it, and thus contribute to health,” said Ayenao, 28. “We as human beings … are the messengers of the ngen mapu to stop” the extraction and sale of natural resources.
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More spiritual guides like Ayenao are needed to remedy the loss of environmental, medicinal and linguistic knowledge caused by enforced assimilation policies in the past, when many Indigenous people grew up alienated from their roots in marginalized big-city settlements, said Artemio Huenupi, a Mapuche elder.
“Our wisdom is entirely based on the territory of nature. We live in this space to take care of it. It’s other cultures that say that they own the land,” he added, speaking in the small museum of Mapuche culture he curates in Melipeuco.
At a July nighttime village concert to raise funds for Ayenao’s thatched-roof gathering space, community members recounted how they have banded together to oppose a hydroelectric plant on the Truful Truful.
After nearly a decade of multiple environmental and cultural evaluations, as well as legal appeals, the plant has been temporarily blocked in court, said Claudio Melillan, a Melipeuco city councilor who recently returned to his ancestral lands for what he called “a stage of reconstruction” of his Mapuche identity.
The community hopes a final ruling will definitively scuttle the project, which threatens to harm the waterfall that’s considered a crucial source of spiritual energy, said Sergio Millaman, the attorney who won the latest appeal.
But some human impact is already evident, from an increase in tourism to the diminished flow compared with the powerful river many remember from their childhood.
Despite this winter’s abundant rain and snowfall, Chile is facing a worrisome climate change-driven drought, which has compounded tensions over water use, said Juan Pablo Herane, a hydrology expert with the Global Change Center at Santiago’s Catholic University.
In April, after more than a decade’s legal wrangling, the country’s water code was updated to better protect various rights including the use of water at its source for conservation or ancestral customs, said Juan José Crocco, an attorney specializing in water regulation and management.
It’s unclear, however, if a new constitution might alter that and how the code will be implemented in the case of hydroelectric plants that technically don’t extract water but reroute it to create energy, said Benjamín Bulnes, a water rights attorney who worked on the new code and has fished on the Pilmaiquen River.
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The first hydroelectric plant on the Pilmaiquen, built in the mid-20th century, sits across the road from a Mapuche-administered botanical garden spotlighting native trees.
A bitter battle under Huichalaf’s leadership started a decade ago to stop three other plants several miles downstream. Like Ayenao, she got seriously ill as a child in the nearby city of Osorno until her family realized it was an ancestor’s spirit wanting to come back in her as a healer.
During years of training to assume that role, she started having dreams about Kintuantü, a ngen living by a broad bend of the Pilmaiquen.
“I am a medium of energy. Through dreams and visions in trance, Kintuantü told me that I had to speak for him because he was dying,” Huichalaf said.
A plant would have raised the river right to the cliffside caves where the ngen lives. Atop the cliff is a Mapuche ceremonial compound, including a cemetery, from where souls are believed to travel via underground water flows through the caves, into the Pilmaiquen and on to eventual reincarnation.
Huichalaf led an occupation there. A private home burned down, and protesters clashed with police. More protests and lawsuits followed, dividing the Indigenous communities around the river.
Huichalaf was jailed for several months. But she said she doesn’t fear prison because she managed to save the site, where she gathers medicinal herbs and performs sacred ceremonies: “The ngen is still there.”
Statkraft, the Norwegian state-owned energy company that bought the Pilmaiquen projects, is working with the Chilean government to return ownership of the ceremonial compound. Construction was stopped after the company realized the proposed plant’s cultural impact was “unacceptable,” said Statkraft’s Chile manager, María Teresa González.
González said the company learned the importance of understanding the Indigenous worldview and engaging different communities from the start, and it’s doing just that with another plant being constructed on the Pilmaiquen.
But she condemned ongoing violence such as the recent burning of a truck carrying a half-dozen workers. Nobody has been charged in the late June attack.
For Huichalaf, the fight continues: “Our big goal is that the companies on the river will leave.”
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Back on the black volcanic field crossed by the Truful Truful, as a snowstorm approached a nearby peak with thousand-year-old araucaria trees, Curin defined his people’s goal in more essential terms.
“What does the Mapuche world fight for? What does the Mapuche world protect? Not a world of money,” he said. “Mapuche culture is very spiritual, very much of the heart. It’s not random that we’re still here.”
Then he knelt to sip from the river’s water and got back to his park ranger post.
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Father, son killed in Nagaroor accident
A father and a son were killed in an accident at Nagaroor on Saturday night.
The deceased were identified as Pradeep, 45, and Sridev, 5, of Mundaikonam, Nagaroor.
Pradeep’s elder son Srihari, 15, has been admitted to Government Medical College Hospital here with head injury, hospital authorities said.
The accident occurred around 8.15 p.m. Pradeep and his children were headed from Nagaroor in the direction of Kilimanoor to their home at Kallingal when their motorbike was hit by a SUV coming from the opposite direction.
The car was said to be speeding. Its occupants Shiraz and Jaffer Khan of Pallikkal, Madavoor, had been taken into custody, the police said. Their blood samples had been collected and sent for analysis.
The medical college hospital authorities said Sridev’s body was taken to SAT Hospital.
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There’s less than two weeks until the latest pause on federal student loan payments is set to expire on August 31.
No need to tell Cassie Smith.
The chance of restarted payments are “a looming rain cloud that sits over my head every day,” says Smith, 33, a college lecturer living in Austin, Texas with a $52,000 student loan debt on hold.
Smith is a Texas State University lecturer for students pursuing social work degrees. She took the job after years in the typically lower-paying social work field, watching some ex-colleagues drift to more lucrative paths, like real estate. Because she works for a public college, Smith believes she will eventually qualify for a program that wipes away the federal debt of public servants after at least 10 years of payments. But in the meantime, she’s felt squeezed by her monthly student loan bill — that is, until the freeze.
“The pause has meant everything. It’s shifted and reshaped a reality for me that I never dreamed possible,” Smith said. The pandemic-era pause that began in March 2020 and was extended by both the Trump and Biden administrations freed Smith from a $268 monthly payment. It’s enabled her to pay off credit card debts, her old car and sock away money for a down payment on a condominium – no small feat for a single woman living in an expensive city.
Still, she has a side job pet sitting and she’s about to start a new one as an elementary school mentor on the bet that student loan payments are resuming.
As Smith and the 43 million other student loan borrowers wait for answers from the Biden Administration about what’s next, a debate is unfolding about the potential economic impact officials’ decision — whether it’s to restart payments, extend the pause and/or offer broad-based debt cancellation. Some economists argue that student debt relief could boost inflation by freeing up cash for borrowers to spend. Other experts counter that student loan help would likely push borrowers to save the extra funds and pay down other debt.
When reached for comment Friday, the White House pointed to comments earlier this month from press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. There haven’t been any decisions yet on the pause or cancellation Jean-Pierre said during the Aug. 9 briefing. The president knows the financial “burden” loans can add. “He’ll have something before August 31st,” Jean-Pierre said.
Marc Goldwein, senior vice president at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, worries that more relief for borrowers could exacerbate the current inflationary environment.
“Two things can be true,” he said. “Debt cancellation or a debt pause is financially good for 13% of Americans,” who did take out student loans, he said. “But it’s economically bad for the 87% if American who don’t have student loans.”
By the fourth quarter of last year, there were approximately 43.4 million student loan borrowers, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That comes to 13% of America’s 332.4 million people, which includes children, according to the Census Bureau. The largest share of borrowers, just over a quarter, owe between $10,000 and $25,000, New York Fed data shows. In a sign of the pause’s impact, more than half of student loan balances have not declined from 2019 to 2021, researchers noted.
Americans had $1.59 trillion in student loan debt as of 2022’s second quarter, New York Fed debt statistics showed.
In the near term, pauses and cancellation could contribute to inflation because that’s freeing up cash to spend, Goldwein said. Farther on, it could undercut much of the hoped-for deficit reduction in the freshly-enacted healthcare, climate and tax package, he estimated.
“We are giving more money for people to spend than the economy can produce. When people’s wealth goes up, they tend to spend a portion of their wealth,” he said.
Resuming payments by themselves aren’t going to massively puncture inflation rates, Goldwein said. In some ways, there’s only so much Biden can do to fight inflation, Goldwein said — case in point, it’s the Federal Reserve, not the president, that sets interest rate policies. But for the things the Biden administration can to fight inflation now, this is big in his view.
“They can control how much people are spending literally next month,” Goldwein noted.
That’s an unnecessary threat to the economic security of too many people, said Alí R. Bustamante, deputy director, education, jobs & worker power at the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank.
Instead of sparking a spending spree, the pauses have been letting borrowers “pay off all their debts and to save,” he said. “What that actually looks like is improving their wealth and wealth is something that you can’t spend today or tomorrow. Wealth is something that you accumulate over time.”
There’s another way to think about the fairness argument on a portion of the population benefitting, Bustamante said. Higher education costs have climbed in the past two decades and “the reasons the student debt crisis exists are policy decisions” that shifted “higher education financing from states to families,” Bustamante said.
Furthermore, student debt cancellation could be especially important for Black households, Bustamante said. With the wealth gap compared to white households, Black borrowers have a greater chance to take on student debt and to borrow more money, he said.
If payments turn back on, New York Fed researchers said “many [borrowers] will decrease their balances.” But some could face delinquency or default. — just how many depends on the rules that follow, they said. If the payments resumed, New York Fed researchers estimated “lower-income, less educated, non-white, female and middle-aged borrowers will struggle more in making minimum payments and in remaining current.”
Indeed, borrowers are unevenly spread across the economy and income ladder – which adds to the complexity.
People in education and the health services industry, like Smith, were most likely to have student debt, with almost 25% owing student loans, according to the Employee Benefit and Research Institute. But fewer than 8% of workers in construction and mining, and less than 4% of people in agriculture had student loan bills hanging over their head, researchers said as they dissected 2020 Census data.
The payments may be harder to make in some industries than others. Almost two in ten workers in business and professional services had loans but their income averaged more than $84,000, researchers said. Meanwhile, people in education and health services, like teachers and nurses, earned approximately $64,500.
Payments should have resumed by now in Goldwein’s view. But with less than two weeks to go before the deadline and no clear answer from the administration, he thinks borrowers should get one final, brief extension with the clear message that payments are about to start.
The initial payment pause “was a very reasonable thing to do when the economy was in meltdown,” he said. But the picture has changed, he said, pointing to the jobs that keep getting added in the economy even as inflation runs hot. “There is no emergency right now that would require this pause to continue,” Goldwein said.
Borrowers at this point are less than one pay period away from possibly getting socked with payments by a president who made student loan debt cancellation part of his campaign, said Cody Hounanian, executive director of the Student Debt Crisis Center.
In a February survey by the organization, 92% of fully employed borrowers said they were worried about affording payments in the face of inflation.
Those results could likely be worse now, Hounanian said. “Turning on student loan payments at a time when millions of Americans say gas is too high and food is too expensive is a financial catastrophe,” he said.
Back in Texas, Smith was able to get a new car thanks in part to the freed-up income. As for her previous one, “I had basically driven it into the ground,” Smith said.
But now there’s a new car payment and the unexpected costs of paying for four new tires — all adding to the pressure that could get tighter with resumed payments. She says she gets frustrated jumping back and forth from trying to pay off debts, or building up savings.
Smith pushes back on the idea of loan forgiveness and pauses being unfair. So is underpayment of social workers, as well as the male-female pay gap, she said.
Snuffing debts, or at least pausing them more, could lighten the worries of so many cash strapped families now, she said.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Norman OK
117 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southwestern Knox
County through 200 PM CDT...
At 116 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 13 miles northeast of Girard to 9 miles north
of Swenson to near Old Glory to 6 miles east of Sagerton. Movement
was north and northeast at 20 to 25 mph. Locally heavy downpours can
also be expected.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Knox City.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3340 9999 3366 9999 3355 9981 3340 9965
TIME...MOT...LOC 1816Z 201DEG 18KT 3354 10057 3333 10027 3315 10002
3305 9984
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MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Norman OK
117 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southwestern Knox
County through 200 PM CDT...
At 116 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 13 miles northeast of Girard to 9 miles north
of Swenson to near Old Glory to 6 miles east of Sagerton. Movement
was north and northeast at 20 to 25 mph. Locally heavy downpours can
also be expected.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Knox City.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3340 9999 3366 9999 3355 9981 3340 9965
TIME...MOT...LOC 1816Z 201DEG 18KT 3354 10057 3333 10027 3315 10002
3305 9984
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Santander hit one of the Orioles’ five homers and drove in four runs, and Baltimore outslugged the Boston Red Sox 15-10 on Friday night.
Jorge Mateo, Adley Rutschman, Ryan Mountcastle and Ramón Urías also connected for the Orioles, who had combined to score three runs in their previous two games, both losses.
This time, the Orioles scored three runs in the second inning, three more in the third, four in the fourth and five in the fifth — after the Red Sox put up a five-spot in their half of the fifth to get within 10-9. Baltimore’s 15 runs were a season high, and the teams combined for 37 hits, with the Red Sox outhitting the Orioles 19-18.
“I was uneasy until two outs in the ninth inning,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “A game like this, it was obviously a weird night. You’re kind of expecting after a while for some things to happen that wasn’t going to go your way. You didn’t know what was going to happen. Fortunately for us, we pitched well the last three innings.”
None of Boston’s hits left the ballpark, while all but one of Baltimore’s homers came with at least one man on base. Mateo got the Orioles rolling with a two-out, three-run shot to left in the second off Kutter Crawford (3-5) that made it 3-2.
“There were some wild moments,” Mateo said through a translator. “I was just super happy for me and my teammates the way we were able to go out there and compete and just win the game in the end.”
Baltimore moved within 1 1/2 games of Tampa Bay for the final AL wild card spot.
Nick Vespi (5-0), the third of six Orioles pitchers, got the win, allowing one run in one inning.
Santander’s two-run shot to right in the third was his career-high 21st homer. He finished 3-for-5, adding a two-run double in the fifth.
Crawford allowed nine runs and 11 hits — both career highs — over 3 2/3 innings.
Boston scored five times in the fifth against reliever Keegan Akin on an RBI single by Eric Hosmer, a three-run double by Tommy Pham and another single by Alex Verdugo. All the runs were unearned because of errors by second baseman Rougned Odor and catcher Rutschman.
The Orioles rebuilt their lead in the bottom half against Ryan Brasier. Urías homered to straightaway center. Mountcastle and Austin Hays followed Santander’s double with RBI two-baggers of their own.
“They didn’t stop,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. “They were relentless. They hit everything — fastballs, breaking balls, cutters. We called it, they hit it. They are a really good club.”
EJECTIONS
Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts was ejected in the fourth inning after throwing his bat and arguing a called third strike. Cora was thrown out moments later during an animated argument with home plate umpire Todd Tichenor.
“I need to be quicker. I don’t want him to get thrown out,” Cora said.
MOVES
Red Sox: RHP Josh Winckowski was optioned to Triple-A Worcester.
Orioles: OF Kyle Stowers’ contract was selected from Triple-A Norfolk. He started in right field, batted fifth and went 2 for 5. … INF Richie Martin and LHP Vespi were also recalled from Norfolk. … RHP Logan Gillaspie was optioned to Norfolk. … INF Terrin Vavra was placed on paternity leave. … OF Brett Phillips was designated for assignment.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: LHP Matt Strahm (left wrist contusion) was activated from the 15-day injured list. … LHP James Paxton has a lat strain and will undergo an MRI on Saturday. … Pham left the game in the fifth with low back tightness.
UP NEXT
Red Sox: RHP Michael Wacha (7-1, 2.44 ERA) was reinstated from the IL on Sunday and threw seven scoreless innings with a season-high nine strikeouts against the Yankees that night.
Orioles: RHP Kyle Bradish (1-4, 6.38) has allowed nine runs over 7 2/3 innings with two walks and four strikeouts in his two starts against Boston.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Three years after a gas explosion ripped through a University of Nevada dormitory, hundreds of students will start moving into the remodeled building this week as a legal battle looms over more than $100 million in damages.
School officials likened the damage from the blast July 5, 2019, to that of an earthquake. They said at the time they were lucky no one was killed and only eight suffered minor injuries because the eight-story dorm was mostly empty over the holiday weekend.
A lawsuit filed in June by the University of Nevada, Reno's insurance company says the company that serviced the boiler is to blame, the Reno Gazette Journal reported. A status conference is scheduled Aug. 25 before Washoe District Court Judge Egan Walker.
Authorities said a pipeline in the boiler room filled air ducts and elevator shafts with gas, causing a massive explosion that rattled the campus, twisted metal, blasted appliances across rooms and broke windows.
More than 700 students had been living in Argenta Hall, the largest of nine dorms on the campus just north of Reno's downtown casino district. A neighboring dorm also was damaged and was closed for a year.
UNR President Brian Sandoval announced last week more than 700 students would begin moving into the remodeled dorm and dining hall ahead of the Aug. 29 start of the fall semester.
“Argenta is back,” Sandoval said during a reception to thank contractors, architects and university staff for helping to rebuild and for getting through the last three years.
UNR said the dorm explosion cost the university more than $130 million for repairs, remodeling, and alternate housing for students, which included refurbishing a tower of downtown Reno’s Circus Circus hotel-casino into a residence hall.
Other costs included extra security and transportation for students living in the hotel-casino, the loss of enrollment caused by the explosion and personal property lost by students and staff.
Zurich American Insurance Co., contracted by the state’s college system, has paid $124.5 million to settle various claims. It's now going after Battle Born Boiler and Mechanical, the service contractor that at the time maintained the residence hall heating systems, the Gazette Journal reported.
Court documents filed by the insurer accuse Battle Born of improper installation, repair and maintenance of the boiler and its parts, and knowingly violating safety codes. The suit says that Battle Born was careless and negligent enough to allow the explosion to occur.
Attorneys for Battle Born, which dissolved as a company in May, and its insurance company have denied any wrongdoing but have yet to file any detailed response.
Battle Born “is without sufficient information or knowledge with which to form a belief as to the truth or falsity of the allegations,” they said in an initial answer to the complaint filed on July 19. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Students-returning-legal-battle-brews-over-Reno-17386835.php | 2022-08-20T19:25:43Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Students-returning-legal-battle-brews-over-Reno-17386835.php | false |
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Strippers who would normally be entertaining patrons inside a Los Angeles topless bar were instead outside on the sidewalk picketing Friday.
For the last five months, picketing has become a common occurrence outside North Hollywood’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar. But now, with the backing of a major national union, they are one step closer to making history.
The dancers, alongside union members from the Actors Equity Association, gathered for a rally Friday as they make strides toward their goal of becoming the only unionized exotic dancers in the country.
“Many of us keep this profession a secret but today is a day of reckoning for this outdated modality,” said a speaker and dancer who identified herself as “Reagan.”
More than 50 supporters showed up to back the dancers with signs, buttons and chants.
Joel Cohen of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE Local 800) attended the rally to support the union effort.
“Everybody has the right to unionize and come together and request decent living standards and wages,” Cohen said.
Actors Equity Association (AEA) President Kate Shindle said the workers will soon vote to be represented by the AEA now that paperwork has been filed with the National Labor Relations Petition Board.
“We win the election, then comes the work of actually negotiating the contract,” Shindle said.
The union represents more than 51,000 actors and stage managers in live theaters, but for the first time, strippers could be included.
“We have things in common and those things are really important. (They are) for example, contract provisions that we know we already have in other contracts that can protect these workers,” Shindle said.
The dancers have accused the club’s management of taking money and allowing strippers to perform in unsafe working conditions. A dancer who goes by the name “Velveeta” believes performers won’t mind paying dues for better protection.
“It’s worth the 3%,” she said. “We are paying 50% right now.”
As noted by Deadline, this wouldn’t be the first time a group of dancers had attempted to become a union, or even succeeded at it. Strippers at the Lusty Lady in San Francisco formed a union in 1996 by becoming affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, though the Lusty Lady eventually closed in 2013, the outlet reported.
Now, the dancers at Star Garden could become the only unionized dancers in the country if they gain representation by the AEA.
Shindle feels the eventual vote will pass and the dancers will be back on stage, but this time with the union’s backing.
“[Management] work so hard to break solidarity,” Shindle said. “Fortunately this is a really powerful and passionate group of workers. I think they are going to have some things to say about that.” | https://wgntv.com/news/los-angeles-strippers-could-become-only-unionized-dancers-in-nation/ | 2022-08-20T19:27:34Z | https://wgntv.com/news/los-angeles-strippers-could-become-only-unionized-dancers-in-nation/ | false |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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Flood Advisory
National Weather Service New York NY
239 PM EDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Advisory is cancelled for a portion of southeast New York,
including the following county, Orange.
The heavy rain has ended. Urban and small stream flooding is no
longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to heed remaining
road closures.
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Gary Busey charged with sex offenses at Monster-Mania Con
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual offenses at a New Jersey fan convention this month.
Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment, Cherry Hill police said Saturday.
The charges stem from offenses at the annual Monster Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel on Aug. 12-14 in Cherry Hill, a Philadelphia suburb, police said.
Busey, who lives in Malibu, California, was scheduled as a featured guest for all three days of the event.
Police did not immediately respond to a message seeking details. It also wasn’t clear whether Busey has an attorney to comment on the charges, and a representative didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Saturday.
Busey is widely known as a character actor, largely in supporting roles, though he came to attention and was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for playing the title role in the 1978 film “The Buddy Holly Story.”
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MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Republicans on Saturday picked Rudy Yakym to replace U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski on the November ballot, after Yakym won the endorsement of the late Indiana congresswoman's husband.
Yakym will be a heavy favorite in the November election against Democrat Paul Steury, a high school science teacher from Goshen, and Libertarian William Henry. He will run both to complete Walorski’s term that ends this year and for a full two-year term. Both elections will be on the November ballot.
Yakym received the most votes Saturday from Republican precinct committee members for their party’s nomination in northern Indiana’s solidly GOP 2nd Congressional District. He won the general election ballot vacancy through the balloting process and the special election ballot vacancy via acclamation, Indiana Republican Party spokesman Luke Thomas said in an email.
Yakym, 38, is an executive with Elkhart distribution company Kem Krest and was a longtime political ally of Walorski, including working as finance director for her first winning congressional campaign in 2012.
He overcame a field of a dozen candidates, including derailing a political comeback bid by former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, whose 2020 reelection bid failed after he faced allegations that he drunkenly groped four women during a party.
Walorski’s husband, Dean Swihart, endorsed Yakym this past week for the Republican nomination, calling him “a political outsider who has what it takes to stand up to the Pelosi-Biden agenda.”
About 500 Republican activists were eligible to vote in the caucus Saturday.
Democrats now hold a narrow 220-210 majority in the U.S. House, with Walorski’s death giving it five vacancies.
Walorski, 58, was a passenger in an SUV with two members of her congressional office staff when it crossed the centerline of a northern Indiana state highway and collided with an oncoming vehicle on Aug. 3, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office said. The two staff members and the other driver were also killed.
Yakym portrayed himself as someone who would continue Walorski’s work on conservative causes.
He overcame criticism over his ties to Indiana’s Republican establishment, including work as a member of Gov. Eric Holcomb’s 2016 gubernatorial transition team and with Sen. Todd Young’s 2022 campaign finance committee. Holcomb also appointed Yakym to the state Judicial Nominating Commission, which selects finalists for appointments to the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Others in the Republican field to replace Walorski included former state Rep. Christy Stutzman, the wife of former U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, and state Rep. Curt Nisly, a hardline conservative who lost his reelection campaign in the May Republican primary. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Rudy-Yakym-gets-GOP-nod-to-replace-late-US-Rep-17386877.php | 2022-08-20T19:31:22Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Rudy-Yakym-gets-GOP-nod-to-replace-late-US-Rep-17386877.php | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first surprise, for the Finnish conscripts and officers taking part in a NATO-hosted military exercise in the Arctic this spring: the sudden roar of a U.S. Marine helicopter assault force, touching down in a field right next to the Finns’ well-hidden command post.
The second surprise: Spilling out of their field headquarters, the Finnish Signal Corps communications workers and others inside routed the U.S. Marines — the Finns’ designated adversary in the NATO exercise and members of America’s professional and premier expeditionary force — in the mock firefight that followed.
Finnish camouflage for the Arctic snow, scrub and scree likely had kept the Americans from even realizing the command post was there when they landed, Finnish commander Lt. Col. Mikko Kuoka suspected. “For those who years from now will doubt it,” Kuoka, modestly stunned by the outcome of the random skirmish, wrote in an infantry-focused blog recording the outcome, of an episode he later confirmed for The Associated Press. “That actually happened.”
As the exercise made clear, NATO’s addition of Finland and Sweden — what President Joe Biden calls “our allies of the high north” — would bring military and territorial advantages to the Western defense alliance. That’s especially so as the rapid melting of the Arctic from climate change awakens strategic rivalries at the top of the world.
In contrast to the NATO expansion of former Soviet states that needed big boosts in the decades after the Cold War, the alliance would be bringing in two sophisticated militaries and, in Finland’s case, a country with a remarkable tradition of national defense. Both Finland and Sweden are in a region on one of Europe’s front lines and meeting places with Russia.
Finland, defending against Soviet Russia’s invasion on the eve of World War II, relied on fighters on snowshoes and skis, expert snow and forest camouflage, and reindeers transporting weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in late February, along with his pointed reminder about the Kremlin’s nuclear arsenal and his repeated invocation of broad territorial claims stemming from the days of the Russian Empire, have galvanized current NATO nations into strengthening their collective defenses and bringing on board new members.
Finland — until 1917 a grand duchy in that empire — and Sweden abandoned longtime national policies of military nonalignment. They applied to come under NATO’s nuclear and conventional umbrella and join what is now 30 other member states in a powerful mutual defense pact, stipulating that an attack on one member is an attack on all.
Putin justified his invasion of West-looking Ukraine as pushing back against NATO and the West as, he said, they encroached ever closer on Russia. A NATO that includes Finland and Sweden would come as an ultimate rebuke for Putin’s war, empowering the defensive alliance in a strategically important region, surrounding Russia in the Baltic Sea and Arctic Ocean, and crowding NATO up against Russia’s western border for more than 800 additional miles (1,300 kilometers).
“I spent four years, my term, trying to persuade Sweden and Finland to join NATO,” former NATO secretary-general Lord George Robertson said this summer. “Vladimir Putin managed it in four weeks.”
Biden has been part of bipartisan U.S. and international cheerleading for the two countries’ candidacies. Reservations expressed by Turkey and Hungary keep NATO approval from being a lock.
Russia in recent years has been “rearming up in the north, with advanced nuclear weapons, hypersonic missiles and multiple bases,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said this month. “Russia’s threats, and Russia’s military build-up, mean that NATO is strengthening its presence in the north.’
Finland and Sweden would bring a lot to that mix. But they’re not without flaws.
Both countries downsized their militaries, cut defense funding and closed bases after the collapse of the Soviet Union lulled Cold War-era fears. As of just five years ago, Sweden’s entire tiny national defense force could fit into one of of Stockholm’s soccer stadiums, a critic noted.
But as Putin grew more confrontational, Sweden reinstated conscription and otherwise moved to rebuild its military. Sweden has a capable navy and a high-tech air force. Like Finland, Sweden has a valued homegrown defense industry; Sweden is one of the smallest countries in the world to build its own fighter jets.
Finland’s defense force, meanwhile, is the stuff of legend.
In 1939 and 1940, Finland’s tiny, miserably equipped forces, fighting alone in what became known as the Winter War, made the nation one of few to survive a full-on assault by the Soviet Union with independence intact. Over the course of an exceptionally, deathly cold winter, Finnish fighters, sometimes cloaked in white bedsheets for camouflage and typically moving unseen on foot, snowshoes and skis, lost some territory to Russia but forced out the invaders.
Finns were responsible for up to 200,000 fatalities among invading forces versus an estimated 25,000 Finns lost, recounted Iskander Rehman, a fellow at Johns Hopkins’ Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs..
It helped fuel a Finnish national credo of “sisu,” or grit. Finnish Winter War veterans were recruited for the U.S. Army’s winter warfare training, Rehman noted.
Finland’s constitution makes rallying to the national defense an obligation of every citizen. Finland says it can muster a 280,000-strong fighting force, built on near-universal male conscription and a large, well-trained reserve, equipped with modern artillery, warplanes and tanks, much of it U.S.
The U.S. and NATO are likely to increase their presence around the Baltic and Arctic with the accession of the two Scandinavian countries.
“Just looking at the map, if you add in Finland and Sweden, you essentially turn the entire Baltic Sea into a NATO lake,” with just two smaller bits of Russia lining it, said Zachary Selden, a former director of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s defense and security committee who is now a national security expert at the University of Florida.
Likewise, Russia will become the only non-NATO member among countries with claims to Arctic territory, and the only non-NATO member of the Atlantic Council, an eight-member international forum created for Arctic issues.
Selden predicts a greater NATO presence in the Baltics as a result, perhaps with a new NATO regional command, along with U.S. military rotations, although likely not any permanent base.
Russia sees its military presence in the Arctic as vital to its European strategy, including ballistic missile submarines that give it second-strike capability in any conflict with NATO, analysts say.
The Arctic is warming much faster under climate change than the Earth as a whole, opening up competition for Arctic resources and access as Arctic ice vanishes.
Russia has been building its fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers, aiming to escort expected future commercial shipping traffic through the melting Arctic, “as a way to create this toll road for transit,’ said Sherri Goodman, a former U.S. first deputy undersecretary of defense, now at the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute and at the Center for Climate & Security.
Goodman points to future threats NATO will need to be able to deal with as the melting Arctic opens up, such as the kind of shadowy, unofficial forces Russia has used in Crimea and in Africa and elsewhere, and the increased risk of a hard-to-handle Russian nuclear maritime accident.
NATO strategy increasingly will incorporate the strategic advantage Finland and Sweden would bring to such scenarios, analysts said.
Kuoka’s U.S. counterpart in NATO’s Arctic exercise this spring, Marine Lt. Col. Ryan Gordinier wrote in an email provided through Marine spokespeople that he and his Marines were “impressed” by the Finnish infantry’s ability to reach otherwise unreachable positions by foot, snowshoe and ski, and to move undetected over snow.
It “made us pause” — and likely would any real adversary as well, Gordinier wrote.
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Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, Lorne Cook in Brussels, Karl Ritter in Stockholm and Jari Tanner in Helsinki contributed to this report | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/finland-sweden-offer-nato-an-edge-as-rivalry-warms-up-north/ | 2022-08-20T19:34:37Z | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/finland-sweden-offer-nato-an-edge-as-rivalry-warms-up-north/ | false |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-8-7-8
(zero, eight, seven, eight)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-8-7-8
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Peoria police officer fires weapon at attacking dog
A Peoria police officer was attacked by a large dog on Friday.
During the attack, the officer used his gun to shoot at the dog twice. The dog, identified as a pitbull by police, ran away after being struck and was found dead near Warren Street and Adrian G. Hinton Avenue.
The Peoria Animal Welfare Shelter, known as PAWS, was alerted and came to the scene.
The dog bit the officer in the upper-right area of his thigh, but didn't penetrate the skin. There were no arrests made.
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The attack occurred after Peoria police arrived in the 1600 block of W. Aiken Avenue around 11:35 p.m. to assist with the retrieval of property.
According to the Peoria Police Department, officers heard the dog “acting aggressive inside the residence” before it came outside.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Norman OK
117 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southwestern Knox
County through 200 PM CDT...
At 116 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 13 miles northeast of Girard to 9 miles north
of Swenson to near Old Glory to 6 miles east of Sagerton. Movement
was north and northeast at 20 to 25 mph. Locally heavy downpours can
also be expected.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Knox City.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3340 9999 3366 9999 3355 9981 3340 9965
TIME...MOT...LOC 1816Z 201DEG 18KT 3354 10057 3333 10027 3315 10002
3305 9984
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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Elliott wins Cup pole at Watkins Glen International
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) - Chase Elliott won the NASCAR Cup pole on Saturday at Watkins Glen International, edging Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson for the top spot.
Elliott, a two-time winner at The Glen, turned a fast lap of 1 minute, 10.477 seconds around the 2.45-mile natural terrain road course. Larson, who won last year's race at The Glen, finished in 1:10.516, just ahead of Michael McDowell.
"I'm really proud of our team," Elliott said. "We'll try to give them a good run tomorrow."
William Byron was fourth and Tyler Reddick, winner of the past two road races on the Cup schedule, will start fifth as Chevrolet took four of the top five spots.
AJ Allmendinger was sixth, followed by Chris Buescher, Austin Cindric, Daniel Suárez and Kyle Busch.
Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr., battling for the final playoff spot with just two races left in the regular season, will start side-by-side in Row 13.
FILE - Alfa Romeo driver Kimi Raikkonen, of Finland, poses for a photo ahead of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia, March 14, 2019. Raikkonen will take a break from his retirement to return to racing this weekend in the NASCAR race at Watkins Glen. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
"Definitely not the day we wanted, for sure," Truex said. "We'll just keep working on it, battle and fight through it and get all we can like we always do."
Former Formula One champion Kimi Raikkonen, who came out of retirement for the chance to enter NASCAR'S top series, qualified 27th in his Cup debut. Raikkonen is driving for TrackHouse Racing and its Project91 program designed to raise NASCAR´s international exposure.
"I wish there were more laps to put everything together," Raikkonen said. "I thought I was pretty OK. It's good."
Joe Gibbs Racing's Christopher Bell blew the engine during practice in the No. 20 Toyota and will start at the back of the 39-car field.
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Leipzig crisis deepens with 2-1 loss at Union Berlin
BERLIN, Aug 20 (Reuters) - RB Leipzig slumped to a 2-1 loss at Union Berlin on Saturday to make it three straight Bundesliga games without a win as the crisis over their failed start deepens.
Union, who move into second place with seven points behind Borussia Moenchengladbach on goal difference, struck twice in six minutes with Jordan Siebatcheu in the 32nd and Sheraldo Becker in the 38th, scoring with two of their three shots on goal in the first half.
Leipzig had hit the post with Timo Werner early on but had to wait until the 83rd minute for Willi Orban to cut the deficit with a powerful header and trigger a late fight for Domenico Tedesco's team, however they failed to find an equaliser.
German Cup holders Leipzig, who lost the Super Cup to Bayern Munich last month, have drawn two and lost one of their three league games so far. They are in the group stage of the Champions League having finished fourth ahead of Union last season.
Union, unbeaten for a club record 10 consecutive league games stretching back to last season, have now put in their best ever start to a Bundesliga season.
Champions Bayern, on six points, are in action at VfL Bochum on Sunday. (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann Editing by Christian Radnedge) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11130335/Leipzig-crisis-deepens-2-1-loss-Union-Berlin.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-20T19:43:28Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11130335/Leipzig-crisis-deepens-2-1-loss-Union-Berlin.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Gunmen storm hotel in Somali capital, leave 20 dead
Islamic militants have stormed a hotel in Somalia's capital, engaging in an hours-long exchange of fire with the security forces that left at least 20 people dead, according to police and witnesses.
In addition, at least 40 people were wounded in the late Friday night attack and security forces rescued many others, including children, from the scene at Mogadishu's popular Hayat Hotel, they said Saturday.
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The attack started with explosions outside the hotel before the gunmen entered the building.
Somali forces were still trying to end the siege of the hotel almost 24 hours after the attack started. Gunfire could still be heard Saturday evening as security forces tried to contain the last gunmen thought to be holed up on the hotel’s top floor.
The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has ties with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest of its frequent attempts to strike places visited by government officials. The attack on the hotel is the first major terror incident in Mogadishu since Somalia's new leader, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, took over in May.
In a Twitter post, the U.S. Embassy in Somalia said it “strongly condemns” the attack on the Hayat.
“We extend condolences to the families of loved ones killed, wish a full recovery to the injured, & pledge continued support for #Somalia to hold murderers accountable & build when others destroy,” it said.
There was no immediate word on the identities of the victims, but many are believed to be civilians.
Mohamed Abdirahman, director of Mogadishu’s Madina Hospital, told the AP that 40 people were admitted there with wounds or injuries from the attack. While nine were sent home after getting treatment, five are in critical condition in the ICU, he said.
“We were having tea near the hotel lobby when we heard the first blast, followed by gunfire. I immediately rushed toward hotel rooms on the ground floor and I locked the door,” witness Abdullahi Hussein said by phone. “The militants went straight upstairs and started shooting. I was inside the room until the security forces arrived and rescued me.”
He said on his way to safety he saw “several bodies lying on the ground outside hotel reception.”
Al-Shabab remains the most lethal Islamic extremist group in Africa.
The group has seized even more territory in recent years, taking advantage of rifts among Somali security personnel as well as disagreements between the government seat in Mogadishu and regional states. It remains the biggest threat to political stability in the volatile Horn of Africa nation.
Forced to retreat from Mogadishu in 2011, al-Shabab is slowly making a comeback from the rural areas to which it retreated, defying the presence of African Union peacekeepers as well as U.S. drone strikes targeting its fighters.
The militants in early May attacked a military base for AU peacekeepers outside Mogadishu, killing many Burundian troops. The attack came just days before the presidential vote that returned Mohamud to power five years after he had been voted out. | https://www.wtae.com/article/gunmen-storm-hotel-in-somali-capital/40947353 | 2022-08-20T19:43:42Z | https://www.wtae.com/article/gunmen-storm-hotel-in-somali-capital/40947353 | true |
POLITICS
Tinubu supporters lying about my meeting with APC candidate – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said some comments being circulated about his meeting with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, are fake.
Tinubu on Wednesday visited Obasanjo at his penthouse residence within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Accompanied by Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Segun Osoba, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Nuhu Ribadu, and others, Tinubu had private discussions with Obasanjo.
While the duo of Tinubu and Obasanjo have kept sealed lips over what transpired at the meeting, different claims are being made in the media by those claiming to be inside sources.
But, Obasanjo expressed dissatisfaction with such “unauthorized report” of the discussion at his meeting with Tinubu and “the fake statements credited to him.”
In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi on Saturday, Obasanjo maintained that “the statements coming from those claiming to be supporters of Bola Tinubu are unhelpful.”
According to him, the discussion between the two of them was “more brotherly than political.”
The Balogun Owu added that at the request of Tinubu, he “agreed to no statement from either side.”
Speaking further, Obasanjo revealed that, “Those claiming to be insiders at the meeting issuing statement on the discussion and those crediting to me statement I had not made are enemies of the visitor and are not doing the visit any good.”
POLITICS
Obasanjo reveals his discussion with Bola Tinubu
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed the discussion he had with the 2023 presidential flag bearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu during their recent meeting.
Tinubu and some of his allies visited Obasanjo at his residence in Abeokuta on Wednesday.
Although the duo had kept mum over what played out at the meeting, it is speculated to be connected to the 2023 presidential election.
The ex-president who spoke at the inauguration of a 300-man planning committee on the installation of the new Olowu of Owu, Oba Saka Matemilola, said he told Tinubu that he had added two phrases recently used by the former Lagos Governor to Yoruba vocabularies.
He said: “We now have two vocabularies in the Yoruba dictionary, ‘Emilokan’ and ‘Olule’. These two vocabularies are now popularly used”.
“I asked Bola and he laughed. I said whether the vocabularies are good or bad, we have started using them.”
Recall that Tinubu had during an outburst prior to the APC primary election used the phrases while revealing that there was no way President Muhammadu Buhari would have emerged winner of the 2015 presidential election without his support.
POLITICS
2023: Atiku, Wike reconciliatory committee meets, defines framework for accord
Finally, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, Friday have opened discussions for peace and reconciliation in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.
The committee set up for that purpose consists members drawn from both Atiku and Wike’s strategic teams.
The meeting took place in Government House, in the state metropolis.
Those from the Atiku’s team comprised the Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri; Hon. Adamu Waziri and Hon. Eyitayo Jegede. While Wike’s team were former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke; former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke; former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko and former Governor of Gombe State, Dr. Ibrahim Dankwambo.
Briefing journalists at the end of the meeting, which lasted for about four hours, Governor Fintiri stated that talks were still ongoing to achieve desired objectives.
He expressed confidence that both teams would find a middle ground to ensure peace reigns in the party.
He added that Nigerians are waiting patiently for the PDP to clinch power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2023, and redeem the country from the bad governance brought about by the current federal government.
Further, Fintiri urged Nigerians to be patient and expressed optimism that at the end of the day, the committee would broker peace, unify the party and Nigerians will be happy for the PDP.
In his words, “We are aware that Nigerians are anxious and waiting for PDP to take over the government in 2023. We have met as leaders, members of the same political family and we have opened discussion. Work is in progress and we will continue.
“At the end of the day, we will broker peace and we will unify the party and Nigerians”.
On his part, the former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, also said the agreement by members of the committee to bring about unity in the party will be achieved soon.
Mimiko, disclosed that the committee will meet again to further deliberate on issues that need to be addressed.
“We have agreed that there is a need for us to enhance unity within our party. This is a reconciliation process, there are some issues out there which need further deliberation when the committee meets again.”
It would be recalled that Atiku and Wike had agreed to constitute the committee at a meeting they held in Abuja a few weeks ago at the residence of former Minister of Information and National Orientation, Prof. Jerry Gana as part of the framework for the resolution of their political differences.
However, at the end of the committee’s session, members of the committee met with Wike at his private residence in Rumueprikom to give an update on the progress made so far.
POLITICS
PDP accuses Uzodinma of sponsoring protest in Imo
The Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) in Imo State on Friday said the regime of Gov Hope Uzodinma has approached its expiry date and must give way to a PDP led-administration.
The opposition party alleged that the Imo State government through its sponsored protest is trying to hoodwink the people and divert attention from the woes and infamies of the wobbling regime.
In a statement signed by the Director-General, Imo PDP New Media, Collins Opurozor , the PDP said as long as God is still on the throne, Imo people will overcome Uzodinma.
The Party alleged that Imo State under Gov Uzodinma has continued to occupy the top positions in all indices of social malady, ranging from worsening ease of doing business to debilitating rural poverty and to the deteriorating rate of unemployment, which has ‘today risen to 83%’.
Recall that the Coalition For Justice, Peace And True Democracy, a socio-political pressure group, had called for the investigation of former Imo Governor, Emeka Ihedioha and three others over alleged sedition.
The group, during the protest in Owerri, the Imo capital, on Thursday, called for the investigation of former Imo Deputy Governor, Mr Gerald Irona.
They further called for the investigation of a former member of the House of Representatives, Mr Uche Onyeaguocha and his incumbent counterpart, Mr Kingsley Uju, who represents Ohaji-Egbema, /Oru West/ Oguta federal constituency.
The party while reacting to a protest held in Owerri described the exercise as s sponsored protest against PDP leaders.
PDP said, “It is mind-boggling that, after unleashing mass misery in Imo, this regime, just yesterday, deployed state resources, state authority, state appointees and other instruments of state power to stage a protest and blame key opposition leaders for the festering insecurity in the state.
“The PDP considers it deeply troubling that, instead of coming out clean over its role in the gruesome murder of no fewer than fourteen young men who had recently attended a traditional marriage ceremony at Awo-Omamma, this regime has unfortunately remained unrepentant and unapologetic, and has resorted to the most bizarre contrivances to eventually set the State ablaze.
“This a harrowing experience for Imo people to live under a regime which militia force known as Ebubeagu has been widely implicated in mass murders, armed robberies, arson and abductions.
“Curiously, Gov Uzodinma, till this moment, is yet to refute a very weighty allegation by the Senator representing his own senatorial district, who had accused him of creating and operating a deadly hit squad.
“The opposition party while encouraging the people of Imo State to keep the spirit alive, and discountenance this very last kick of a dying horse, being aware that this regime has approached its expiry date and must give way for a PDP led-administration for the good of the people.”
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – On Saturday, the American Cornhole League held its seventh stop of the Pro Shootout Series at Charles Koch Arena in Wichita.
Around 65 people competed for over $20,000 in prize money.
“We put them all in a bracket and they are trying to fight their way down from a field of 64 all the way down to the final four and once we get those final four for singles we hold those for broadcast,” said American Cornhole League Chief Marketing Officer, Trey Ryder.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
145 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Montgomery, west central Liberty and north central Harris Counties
through 215 PM CDT...
At 144 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Porter Heights, or near Spring, moving northeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Southeastern Conroe, Humble, The Woodlands, Spring, Kingwood, Oak
Ridge North, Shenandoah, Splendora, Patton Village, Roman Forest,
Woodbranch, Cut And Shoot, Plum Grove, Woodloch, The Woodlands
Pavillion, Chateau Woods, Splashtown, Porter Heights, New Caney and
Porter.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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 3002 9529 3004 9550 3017 9552 3037 9541
3019 9507
TIME...MOT...LOC 1844Z 215DEG 7KT 3014 9533
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by heavy rainfall.
* WHERE...Portions of southwest Texas and western Texas, including
the following areas, in southwest Texas, Chinati Mountains and
Presidio Valley. In western Texas, Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson,
Ector, Gaines, Howard, Loving, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Reeves
County Plains, Scurry, Ward and Winkler.
* WHEN...Through Sunday morning.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. Low-water
crossings may be flooded. Extensive street flooding and flooding
of creeks and rivers are possible.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Showers and thunderstorms will produce heavy rain this
afternoon and overnight leading to areas of flash flooding.
An additional 1 to 2 inches of rain with locally higher
amounts is possible.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
...FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...
* WHERE...Portions of southeast New Mexico and southwest Texas,
including the following areas, in southeast New Mexico, Central
Lea County, Eddy County Plains, Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy
County, Northern Lea County and Southern Lea County. In southwest
Texas, Davis Mountains, Davis Mountains Foothills, Eastern
Culberson County, Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet, Guadalupe
and Delaware Mountains, Marfa Plateau and Van Horn and Highway 54
Corridor.
* WHEN...Through late tonight.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
5-8-1
(five, eight, one)
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5-8-1
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MIAMI (AP) — A former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela's socialist government not only did no apparent work, but also channeled a large chunk of the money to a yacht company on behalf of a fugitive billionaire, according to new allegations in a civil suit.
The accusations against former Congressman David Rivera come in a new filing Friday in New York federal court by opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who now control the U.S.-based affiliates of the South American nation's state oil company.
Rivera’s Interamerican Consulting was sued in 2020 by PDV USA — a Delaware-based affiliate of Venezuelan-owned Citgo. It alleges Rivera performed no work for the $50 million contract he signed in 2017 for three months of “strategic consulting” meant to build bridges with key U.S. stakeholders.
The same contract has been the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Miami looking into, among other things, whether Rivera failed to register as a foreign lobbyist as required bv law.
Rivera has not been charged with any crime, but the new filings give a detailed look at his dealings with Venezuela's state-run oil industry and how he allegedly spent the money he received.
Around the same time Rivera was hired, Maduro's government had launched a charm offensive to curry favor with the Trump administration. It initially avoided outright criticism of the new U.S. leader and even donated $500,000 to his inaugural committee through Citgo.
The new court filing is based on evidence only recently uncovered by PDV USA’s attorneys, including 18,000 text and WhatsApp messages from Rivera’s phone and statements he made during a two-day deposition in July.
Rivera received only $15 million of the original amount, but the new filing says he spent part of that on unexplained payments to a convicted drug trafficker and to a company managing yachts on behalf of a Venezuelan TV magnate wanted for arrest by U.S. authorities.
“Mr. Rivera never provided any services to Citgo and, it appears, never intended to do so,” according to the filing by PDV USA. “Instead, the true purpose of the agreement was to cover up illicit transactions.”
Rivera did not reply to a request for comment, but he has maintained his innocence and has countersued PDV USA alleging breach of contract and unjust enrichment for its failure to pay $30 million he says he is still owed.
According to the filing, in one exchange of messages with Raul Gorrin — a Maduro insider who owns Venezuela's largest private TV network — Rivera discussed trying to set up a meeting between Venezuela's foreign minister and executives from the U.S. oil company Exxon.
The new filing cites a message in which Rivera and Gorrin texted one another that “the concert ticket is $15, not 20, as we said last night" — wording PDV USA's lawyers call a “clear reference to a bribe."
“At deposition, Mr. Rivera was unable to explain what this text message meant, and testified that he did not remember attending any concerts at that time," PDV USA stated in its filing. It did not say who a bribe might have been meant for and the meeting never took place.
Rivera had asked the court to shield his communications with Gorrin, who the U.S. alleges was the mastermind of a conspiracy to siphon $1.2 billion from PDVSA. Gorrin is a lawyer, though not licensed to practice in the United States, and a judge in June ruled that Rivera's communications with him did not meet the threshold for attorney-client privilege and must be handed over as part of what's known as discovery.
Of the $15 million that Rivera received, about 75% was transferred to other individuals, according to the new filing. Around $3.75 million was transferred to a Miami company, Interglobal Yacht Management. Rivera claimed the money was an expense for services under the contract. PDV USA alleges instead it was used to pay for maintenance on one of Gorrin's superyachts.
Similar amounts went to Esther Nuhfer, who is described as a longtime political associate of Rivera, as well as Hugo Perera, a Miami developer who pleaded guilty to tax fraud in a massive drug-smuggling case in the 1990s against the feared Cali Cartel.
Rivera testified that the payments were referral fees and for assistance he received as part of the consulting contract, according to PDV USA.'s account. But the new anti-Maduro management claims PDV USA never gave Rivera permission to outsource the work, as was expressly required by the consulting agreement.
To justify the large payments, PDV USA alleges Rivera created "phony contracts” backdated to March 20, 2017 — the day before the consulting agreement took effect.
Interglobal declined to sign the backdated contract, saying it had not performed that sort of subcontractor service.
"In short, PDV USA received nothing from Interamerican in exchange for making payments of $15 million," the plaintiffs allege. “Most of that sum was transferred to third parties that are either indicted fugitives from justice or under criminal investigation in connection with those payments.”
The filing also alleges that other payments, deducted as expenses by Interamerican, were in reality moved between accounts controlled by Rivera. The new filings allege that Rivera's own accountant testified in a deposition after meeting with criminal investigators from the Internal Revenue Service that he believed his client had committed tax fraud.
The consulting contract had all the hallmarks of a sham, according to PDV USA. Rivera's Interamerican made just $9,500 in the year prior to signing the multi-million deal.
The lawsuit claims the company then controlled by Maduro loyalists hired Interamerican out of the blue, without due diligence, and that Rivera never met in person with anyone from Citgo or PDV USA while supposedly working on its behalf. Instead, he filed two “deficient and incoherent” progress reports of the seven he was required to submit.
“The written record is bereft of any evidence that Interamerican performed any of the contracted services,” PDV USA argues in the new filings. “There is not a single email, a single PowerPoint presentation, a single outline, a single memorandum, a single calendar entry, or anything else suggesting that Interamerican ever performed any of the services.”
Rivera served a single term in Congress, in 2011-2013, and during that time honored Venezuelan exiles fleeing socialist rule and cosponsored legislation seeking to withhold funding from the Organization of American States until it confronted then President Hugo Chávez for allegedly violating Venezuela’s constitution.
While serving as a state legislator, he shared a house in Tallahassee with now-Sen. Marco Rubio, who was the state House speaker at the time. He has been embroiled in several election-related controversies since then, including orchestrating the stealth funding of an obscure Democratic candidate to take on his main rival in a South Florida congressional race. Last year, he was fined $456,000 for violating campaign finance laws in connection to that plot.
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In the 13th century, a "silly" person was someone who was blessed. And a "deer" was any four-legged land animal.
But by the late 1500s, silly people had declined to fools, and hunters long knew that deer were mammals whose heads would be prized on their walls.
In his new book, Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning, Sol Steinmetz traces the origin of these words — and many others — using historical, cultural and literary anecdotes. Steinmetz, a lexicographer and dictionary editor, spent years following the evolution of words. Semantic Antics delves into how even the most basic words — including balloon, hobby and kid — came to their present-day meanings.
Steinmetz says words develop in a number of ways: their meanings can narrow or broaden, or be distorted, upgraded or extended. "Litter," for example, meant "bed" in the 1300s, but over the years, it narrowed to mean bedding for animals. And Steinmetz says "business" used to refer to being busy, but it gradually broadened to encompass many kinds of occupations.
Susan Stamberg spoke with Steinmetz about some of the strange ways the English language has evolved over the centuries.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
159 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...The Flood Warning continues for the following river in Texas...
Nueces River near Tilden affecting McMullen County.
For the Nueces River...including Cotulla, Tilden, Three Rivers,
Mathis, Bluntzer, Calallen...Major flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/crp.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...
* WHAT...Major flooding is occurring and major flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Nueces River near Tilden.
* WHEN...Until further notice.
* IMPACTS...At 20.0 feet, major flooding below Cotulla to below
Tilden occurs, and cuts off extensive portions of the flood plain,
requiring wholesale evacuation of livestock from the area. Roads
and bridges near the river flood severely. Hunting cabins, pump
jacks, tank batteries, irrigation pumps and any equipment in low
areas near the river flood.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1:30 PM CDT, Saturday the stage was 21.3 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
early Wednesday morning.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (1 pm)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu
Nueces River
Tilden 14.0 21.3 Sat 1 pm 18.8 16.6 14.9 13.1 11.4
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- Following his traditional crowning as Zulu king, Misuzulu kaZwelithini vowed to foster unity and do away with the divisions that have seen others vying for his throne.
- He warned that attempts by his siblings to dethrone him were part of a more extensive scheme to sow divisions within the Zulu nation.
- The ceremony attended by foreign dignitaries and cabinet ministers also drew former health minister Zweli Mkhize, suspended ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and former SAA boss Dudu Myeni from their political wilderness.
Misuzulu kaZwelithini believes attempts by his siblings to unseat him as Zulu king are part of an underhanded scheme meant to sow division within the Zulu nation.
Despite a last-ditch attempt to interdict the process on Saturday, his traditional coronation in Nongoma, KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday went off without a glitch.
During his first public address after the kraal-entering ceremony performed as a right of passage in crowning him as Zulu king, known as ukungena esibayeni, Misuzulu said:
The Nazareth Baptist Church, Shembe, has been divided since the death of its leader Vimbeni Shembe in 2011. Mduduzi Shembe and his uncle Vela Shembe have been at loggerheads fighting for supremacy.
After a five-year court battle in 2016, the High Court in Durban finally ruled that Vela Shembe was the rightful leader of the Nazareth Baptist Church - but despite the ruling, fighting for the church’s leadership is still ongoing.
READ | EXPLAINER: King Misuzulu and Prince Simakade: Who is the king of the Zulu nation?
"We are aware of this, and I caution you that following today’s event, we ought to pursue unity and not divisions," said Misuzulu.
He advised “when those purporting to be the rightful kings” approach his subjects, they should “lend them an ear but don't take the hide of what they preach”.
Mocking his detractors, Misuzulu said President Cyril Ramaphosa had already awarded him a certificate recognising only him as the rightful king.
“I asked [AmaZulu traditional prime minister Prince] Mangosuthu Buthelezi if it has ever happened before that a president issue a certificate only for it to be retracted, and he [Buthelezi] said it has never happened in his 90 plus years of life,” said Misuzulu.
The king's sentiments come after some senior members of the royal family announced Prince Buzabazi, the third-born son of the late King Goodwill Zwelithini and Queen Buhle Mathe of Kwadlamahlahla Royal House in Nongoma, as their preferred choice for the heir to the Zulu kingdom.
The announcement was made by the brothers of the late king at a media briefing in Fourways, Johannesburg on Thursday.
Buzabazi is not the only candidate to be put forward. A week ago, a faction of the AmaZulu royal family crowned Prince Simakade as King of the Zulu nation in a traditional ceremony.
The ceremony took place a week ago at the Enyokeni royal palace, where Prince Simakade also performed the kraal-entering ceremony.
However, his gathering had a small turnout when compared to the thousands who made their way to the KwaKhangelamankengane Royal Palace on Saturday for Misuzulu’s ceremony.
It was a showcase of Zulu regalia and traditional weapons as attendees came dressed in their most extravagant outfits while brandishing handcrafted weapons replicating those used for hunting or during wars in the past.
The large crowds were mostly made up of izintombi (Zulu maidens) and amabutho (Zulu regiments) as well as community members from far and wide across the country.
National government officials, including Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu and Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu, also attended.
The traditional coronation also drew former health minister Zweli Mkhize, suspended ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and former SAA boss Dudu Myeni from their political wilderness.
Former health minister Zweli Mkhize has also made an appearance with Magashule’s son and the suspended SG. #Misuzulu @TeamNews24 @News24 pic.twitter.com/Vt9Zj9kZsg
— Juniour Khumalo (@JKwritingz) August 20, 2022
Members of the KwaZulu-Natal government led by newly elected ANC provincial chairperson Siboniso Duma were present in their numbers.
There was also a sizable delegation from eSwatini representing King Mswati lll, Misuzulu’s uncle, as he was unable to attend the ceremony. Other foreign kingdoms represented were those from Malawi, Zambia, and the DRC, among others.
Earlier in the day, princesses Ntandoyenkosi Zulu and Ntombizosuthu Zulu-Duma brought an urgent application to halt the ceremony.
They argued that, given the Supreme Court of Appeal had granted on Friday an application by King Zwelithini’s first wife Sibongile Dlamini-Zulu challenging the late king’s will, the traditional crowning ceremony should not go ahead pending the finalisation of the appeal.
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In the past decade, traditional baby products have skyrocketed in price, with some strollers and cribs retailing for thousands of dollars. But many new parents are finding their good intentions have turned into overpriced and unnecessary house clutter.
Steve Inskeep talks to author Pamela Paul about her new book, Parenting Inc.
Paul says she was determined not to fill her house with baby junk. Then she had her baby.
"I have baby gear coming out of every closet, and I really found myself overwhelmed with products," she says.
In her book, Paul describes how companies have convinced parents to pay so much for baby goods.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
152 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central
Montgomery, south central San Jacinto and northwestern Liberty
Counties through 215 PM CDT...
At 152 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Splendora, or 8 miles southwest of Cleveland, moving northeast at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Cleveland, Splendora, Patton Village, Roman Forest, Woodbranch and
North Cleveland.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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 3016 9518 3026 9534 3052 9519 3038 9493
TIME...MOT...LOC 1852Z 212DEG 19KT 3028 9519
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Baylor
County through 215 PM CDT...
At 150 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles east of Millers Creek Reservoir. This storm was nearly
stationary. Other storms are beginning to form near Seymour. Locally
heavy downpours are likely too.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 40 to 45 mph.
Seymour.
LAT...LON 3340 9936 3353 9942 3361 9922 3340 9906
TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 246DEG 3KT 3341 9928
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southwestern Knox
County through 230 PM CDT...
At 156 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 5 miles north of Guthrie to 16 miles west of
Benjamin to 4 miles southeast of O'Brien. Movement was northeast at
15 to 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
Munday, Knox City, Benjamin and Rhineland.
LAT...LON 3340 9999 3381 10000 3357 9953 3340 9964
TIME...MOT...LOC 1856Z 209DEG 14KT 3370 10035 3353 10008 3334 9978
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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In 2019, over two dozen Texas congregations partnered with the nonprofit Just Texas: Faith Voices for Justice and declared their spaces are Reproductive Freedom Congregations. This new classification was created as a first step to unraveling the stigma surrounding reproductive health issues within faith communities.
Since then, these congregations have worked with their communities to provide spiritual counsel and create programs that help Texans access reproductive health care, including abortions, both within and outside of the state.
Now, nearly two months after the Supreme Court released its ruling for Dobbs v. Jackson, which ends the constitutional right to an abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade, these faith communities are facing new challenges.
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NEW YORK (AP) — How much does it pay to hide the photos of your family at your home, or anything else that shows your race? If you’re Black and trying to find out how much your house is worth, one family suggests it could be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A couple in Baltimore is suing an appraiser and a mortgage lender, alleging their home was severely undervalued because they are Black, blocking them from refinancing their mortgage. The couple says a separate appraisal, done after “whitewashing” the place by removing family photos and having a white colleague stand in for them, pegged the home’s value higher by $278,000.
The two “were shocked at the appraisal and recognized that the low valuation was because of racial discrimination,” according to the suit filed earlier this week in U.S. District Court in Maryland.
Officials at the lender accused in the case, loanDepot, declined to discuss the allegations. But in a statement, the publicly traded company said it strongly opposes bias. “While appraisals are performed independently by outside expert appraisal firms, all participants in the home finance process must work to find ways to contribute to eradicating bias.”
The appraisal company in the case, 20/20 Valuations, could not be immediately reached for comment. Neither it nor the individual appraiser named in the suit has lawyers listed yet in the court filings.
The situation began last year, when two professors at Johns Hopkins University, Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott, wanted to do the same thing millions of others across the country were doing. They hoped to take advantage of low interest rates and refinance their mortgage and a home-equity loan.
The couple had bought their four-bedroom home in 2017 for $450,000 and had made several upgrades to it. They remodeled their club room for $35,000, for example. They also invested in a tankless water heater, recessed lighting and other improvements that the family’s lawyers say raised the value of the home.
That would be on top of the general rise that home prices enjoyed in the area and across the country between 2017 and 2021.
The couple applied in mid-2021 with loanDepot, which initially approved them for a 2.25% interest rate, pending an appraisal to ensure the home was worth enough in case of a default. A loanDepot lending officer told the family a “pretty conservative” estimate was $550,000, according to the suit.
But the appraiser from 20/20 Valuation, who was hired by loanDepot, said the home was worth only $472,000, according to the complaint. That’s less than what the couple paid for the home and pushed loanDepot to call to say it would not extend the loan, according to the complaint.
The suit alleges that while researching other homes to benchmark against the plaintiff’s home, the appraiser ignored nearby sales in majority-white areas, similar to the plaintiff’s, that had higher values. Instead, the complaint said he included lower-valued homes and ones in areas with more Black residents.
Later that year, the couple learned the government assessed the value of their home at $622,000. After that, they tried for another loan. This time, they conducted an experiment where they replaced family photos with ones borrowed from white friends and colleagues. They even brought in new artwork, including a vintage print featuring a “white pin-up model.” And they made sure not to be home during the appraisal, with a white colleague there instead to greet the appraiser.
After that, the home appraised for $750,000, or 59% more than the appraisal from less than seven months earlier.
“It’s shocking to a lot of people that a home should be an objective valuation, but when the appraiser appraises it believing it’s a Black-owned home, it gets one value, and suddenly it’s worth 50% more when the appraiser believes it’s a white-owned home,” said John Relman of the Relman Colfax law firm that’s representing the plaintiffs.
“You have two eminent professors at Johns Hopkins. They did everything they were told to do,” Relman said. But “appraisal discrimination is so nuanced and so pernicious that it literally follows them into this predominantly white neighborhood. And they, unlike their neighbors, can’t access the value that’s rising and that they should benefit from.”
The U.S. housing industry has a long history of racial discrimination, one that helped build the racial wealth gap and one that carries through today. Last year, on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, President Joe Biden said he was launching an interagency initiative to combat bias in home appraisals.
It’s a history with which the plaintiffs are well aware. Connolly has written a book about how property ownership helped set the terms of Jim Crow segregation between the early 1900s and the 1960s. Mott has written about African-American and American literature and history. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/homeowning-while-black-md-couple-alleges-bias-in-appraisal/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-20T20:20:58Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/homeowning-while-black-md-couple-alleges-bias-in-appraisal/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
Hey Adam Silver, you seeing this?
Seattle is open for business.
Just ask the hundreds of overnight campers who hunkered outside Seattle Pacific University’s Royal Brougham Pavilion on a balmy Friday night.
The line began outside the pavilion’s main doors and snaked down Third Ave. West past a construction site behind the building and extended along West Ewing St.
They arrived at 4 p.m. Friday once their pied piper Jamal Crawford — aka the Godfather of Seattle Basketball — announced via Twitter that LeBron James was returning to Seattle for the first time in 15 years.
They’re a little rowdy, restless and ready to rekindle the city’s 41-year relationship with the NBA that prematurely ended in 2008 when your predecessor David Stern rubber-stamped the Sonics’ move — many in this crowd would say heist — to Oklahoma City.
“I was 11 when they left,” said 25-year-old Derek Hong who lives in Lynnwood. “I remember going to their games on $10 tickets. My dad would take me. I loved going to those games. I remember watching rookie KD (Kevin Durant). I miss those days and it would be really fun to experience that again.”
It’s hard to believe it’s been 14 years.
In the absence of an NBA team to cheer on during winter and spring, Seattle sports fans satiate their hoops fix with the Storm’s WNBA games and a handful of free-admission games at The CrawsOver Pro-Am League featuring local players sprinkled over the summer calendar.
And every so often, an A-list basketball star arrives — think Durant and Kyrie Irving in 2013 or Trae Young three weeks ago — that sends the basketball community into a frenzy.
But Friday night surpassed all of that. This was next-level, new-age mania mixed with an old-school lovefest that erupted into an epic and unprecedented hoops carnival.
It had the organic feel of the early stages of CHOP’s three-week occupation forming across a few blocks in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in 2020 without the serious undertones of the nation’s racial awakening and before it became violent.
The crowd also matched the size seen this summer at music festivals and neighborhood gatherings, such as Capitol Hill Block Party and Fremont’s Solstice Parade.
But basketball?
“Us camping out basically shows the NBA that we’re passionate about our basketball,” said 26-year-old Murtada Al-Harab who lives in Mukilteo. “We actually care. We’d love a team back. Us being out here for 24 hours shows that we’re passionate fans and we deserve a team.”
Hey billionaire investors interested in buying a NBA team, you seeing this?
While you were sleeping, a hoops festival raged all night in Seattle.
They brought beverages, blankets and boom boxes. They sat in lawn chairs and La-Z-Boys sprawled on the sidewalk amid camping tents and air mattresses.
Connor Fredericksen, 27, who lives in Capitol Hill, was one of the first on site along with his buddies.
“Instead of paying $10,000 to sit courtside somewhere, I’ll be able to sit courtside here,” he said. “If I got to wait 24 hours to not have to pay a dime, then that’s what I’m going to do.”
What better way to spend a Friday night than sleeping on the street with hundreds of hoops-crazed fans?
“This is date night,” said 27-year-old Camila who sat near the front of the line with her boyfriend Zack. “It was definitely his idea, but I’m here to support him because I know it means a lot. And a free LeBron game is something to be excited for. I love LeBron.”
Fans dressed in James’ No. 23 Cleveland Cavaliers and No. 6 Los Angeles Lakers jersey came with their kids and dogs. They played board games and corn hole and streamed movies on their phones and laptops to pass the time.
External chargers were a hot commodity and the pizza-delivery guys made occasional stops, as did SPU security and Seattle police.
Around midnight, someone set up a basketball hoop under a streetlamp and games of 3-on-3 and 1-on-1 entertained the crowd for hours.
Hey Crawford, you seeing this?
They came from Portland, Port Angeles, Yakima and Spokane.
Some were drawn to see local hoops stars Isaiah Thomas, Dejounte Murray, Paolo Banchero, MarJon Beauchamp and Tari Eason.
Others wanted to get their first up-close look at Jayson Tatum, the 24-year-old Boston Celtics star, who had never played in Seattle before Saturday.
“I drove here from Eastern Washington with my family on my three-day weekend because of the rumors that LeBron would be here,” said 33-year-old Jay Davis. “This morning as I was hitting the road, I saw Isaiah Thomas was confirmed. Right as I crossed over I-90 to I-5, I was checking my phone and saw that Bron was confirmed I was kind of mad because I knew this would be the fallout.
“I knew this would happen. So I dropped off my 4-year-old son with some family and then camped overnight with his mom. Either way, I’m happy LeBron is here, but wherever he goes he attracts a big crowd.”
No kidding.
By 7 a.m. the line extended a half mile to Nickerson Marina and an estimate from an SPU official put the crowd at 1,000 or so. Those near the back feared they wouldn’t get inside of the 60-year-old gym with a 2,650 capacity.
The first of four games is 1 p.m. and James is expected to headline the finale at 5:30 p.m.
Hey NBA deniers, you seeing this?
Forget the rhetoric. Nothing says basketball bonanza like an impromptu overnight block party.
What took place in the dark on this strip of sidewalk on the north side of Queen Anne Hill is as important as any Save Our Sonics rally or the behind-the-scenes exchanges between city leaders and NBA powerbrokers.
It was organic, spontaneous and visceral. It came out of nowhere. And it was building for years.
Crawford did this with a big assist from his basketball buddies, most notably James.
Of course, there are countless others who made significant contributions over the years.
Tim Leiweke deserves kudos for help building the $1.15 billion Climate Pledge Arena, which has seemingly put Seattle, along with Las Vegas, as one of the most likely destinations should the NBA expand from 30 to 32 teams.
But this grass-roots movement began decades ago with OG fans like Kris Brannon aka ‘The Sonics Guy’ and Lorin ‘Big Lo’ Sandretzky. They would have loved this.
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'Nothing prepares you for losing a child': Mother's warning after small change to baby's eye turned out to be cancer that killed him
- Baby Ted Neal died at 16 months of cancerous tumour in one of his sinuses
- Mother Jessica, 35, felt something was wrong - a week later Ted's face changed
- She's glad she took him to hospital when she did as it gave eight happy months
- Extremely rare illness did not even have a name till January this year
A mother is urging parents to 'trust your instincts' after a tiny change to her baby son's eye turned out to be a rare cancer which he died of just months later.
Parents Jessica and Lee Neal, 35 and 38 respectively, noticed son Ted's face swelled while they were on holiday.
They thought he had rubbed sand into his eye at the beach - but Jessica had a gut feeling something wasn't right.
Tests revealed the eight-month toddler had a cancerous tumour in one of his sinuses - so rare, in fact, that it didn't even have a name until January 2022.
The cancer tragically spread to his brain and down his spinal cord. Ted died on April 9 2022, aged 16 months.
Jessica Neal (right) had a bad feeling when she spotted a small change in baby Ted (left). At 11 months, he was diagnosed with an extremely rare tumour in his sinus - and died months later
Ted had suffered from unspecified sarcoma, which has now been named as mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, in his ethmoid sinus.
Chemotherapy and surgery were unable to save the toddler.
But Jessica is glad she trusted her instincts and went into the hospital when she did.
Jessica is glad she trusted her instincts and went into the hospital when she did - as it gave her eight more happy months with baby Ted (pictured) than she had expected
She says it gave her eight more happy months with him.
Jessica, a product developer, from Calverton, Nottingham, explained: 'I'm so glad I trusted my instincts as I think we would have lost him sooner if I hadn't.
'It gave us that eight months with him.
'His eye hadn't swelled that much when I took him in but I just had a feeling and within a week his face had completely changed and we had the diagnosis.
'Suddenly he was started on chemotherapy and our lives had changed.
'He battled so hard and he was such a happy boy though it all.
'Sadly he lost his life when the cancer spread to his brain but we'll have those eight months of memories forever.'
Jessica and Lee, a learning mentor, first became worried when they noticed Ted's eye was misshapen while they enjoyed a family break in Wales.
Jessica said: 'I couldn't put my finger on what was different about it, it wasn't inflamed or sore, but it was starting to look like it was protruding.
'I think we would have lost him sooner if I hadn't [gone to hospital]', Jessica, 35, said of Ted
'Throughout the week it was gradually becoming more obvious and when I pointed it out to Lee and he could see it too.
'When we got home, we took him to the emergency department at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, really hoping that we were overreacting.
'I was expecting them to tell us nothing was wrong - but they didn't.
'As parents it's the worst thing you could find out, and the unknown type of sarcoma is incredibly rare and so is where it was in Ted's body, so finding out it's not going to be easy to treat is the worst thing.
'There's no known treatment plan and there's no known process.'
Ted underwent six rounds of chemotherapy which shrunk the tumour and he had an operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital to remove most of it in December 2021.
'They took out as much as they could,' Jessica said.
'He seemed to be doing really well.
'They had to lift off his face to take out the bones around his eye and on the right side of his nose.
'We had him home ten days after which was amazing.'
Ted was able to spend Christmas at home with his brothers Ben, 16, and Charlie, 14.
The tot went in for further chemotherapy in the New Year and his parents started to spot a lump on his forehead.
'I wasn't really worried about it at first- I thought it was just a virus,' Jessica said.
'But they couldn't work out what it was.'
An ultrasound showed it was Ted's brain pushing forward, due to a gap in his skull which had been removed during surgery.
'He had to be rushed for emergency surgery to have a drain put in to relieve the pressure,' Jessica said.
'We were actually told he was cancer free at that point.
'But Ted started to go down hill and doctors were desperately trying to work out why.'
In March 2022 a test revealed the cancer had spread to his brain and down his spinal cord.
'I was really shocked,' Jessica said.
'We just weren't expecting it.
'It was like a layer of sand had covered his brain.
'They put a port in his brain for chemotherapy to make him comfortable but we were told there was nothing more that could be done.
'It was devastating.'
Doctors stopped the chemotherapy and Ted passed away ten days later on April 9 2022.
'It was so sudden and horrific,' Jessica said.
'Nothing prepares you for losing a child.
'But we've kept busy and set up a charity in his honour to help families with a seriously ill child or bereaved family have a peaceful getaway.
'We're doing a walk for Ted every year on the day he died to raise money.
'I have so many happy memories from the last eight months Ted was with us- even though it was tough.
'I would urge anyone to trust their instincts if they think something is wrong.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill, A.J. Brown, Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp and even Christian Kirk are among the wide receivers who reset the market for just how well the NFL pays the best at that position this year.
Now comes the tough part: Proving they’re worth all those millions.
Hard work piling up lots of catches, yards and touchdowns and helping their teams win matters most.
Nobody knows that better than these receivers whose bank accounts now are bulging. Adams, who talked for years about being the NFL’s highest-paid receiver, can’t wait to show he deserves the record-setting $140 million deal Las Vegas gave him.
“For me, I attack it,” Adams said. “I’m in the business of maximizing everything I do, so I’m definitely looking forward to, like I said, leaving my footprint, doing everything I can to hopefully allow this team to win a lot of games.”
Adams’ production certainly shows he’s worth the Raiders giving him a five-year deal. Adams has led the NFL with the most catches (432), yards receiving (5,310) and touchdown receptions (47) over the past four years.
San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan said the only other option to writing a very large check is drafting a player, which is certainly cheaper. The risk is what scouts and coaches saw on tape of a player in college doesn’t always translate to the NFL.
“The guys that usually you can count on are the guys who have done it at this level, and that’s why you have to pay for it,” Shanahan said. “And you have to hope the character and what they’re made of and what really drives them will continue to get what they put on tape.”
That’s why the pay scale for NFL wide receivers skyrocketed this year with teams signing eight to contracts worth at least $72 million each and three of those reached $100 million or more. Adams set the new standard with Hill and Brown all getting deals worth at least $100 million.
Hill topped the guaranteed money Adams got after being traded by Green Bay to Las Vegas. Miami guaranteed the Cheetah $72.2 million after being traded by Kansas City for an NFL-high $30 million average per year. Hill is coming off a season where he caught 111 passes for 1,239 yards and nine touchdowns.
He’s trying to be a veteran leader for the Dolphins by embracing being called out by first-year coach Mike McDaniel for any mistakes.
“If Coach is calling out like, the fifth, sixth receiver who’s barely getting reps, he’s going to feel some type of way,” Hill said. “But if he’s able to call me out and then call that guy out again, that guy is going be like, ‘OK, he’s calling out ‘Reek’ so I need to pick up my (game).′”
Stefon Diggs just missed the $100 million receiver club with his $96 million contract keeping him in Buffalo. The exploding receiver market didn’t help Buffalo, which knew Diggs deserved a new deal even with two years left on his original contract. And Diggs insists the money only motivates him more.
“I want to prove that I’m one of the best receivers in the league,” Diggs said. “I’m a part of one of the best teams in the league and I’m chasing. I’m back chasing again. I love to chase, though because you have something to work for or look forward to each and every day.”
These deals rewriting the receiver market make Kenny Golladay’s $21.1 million salary cap hit look like a good value for the New York Giants, though his 2021 production with just 37 catches for 521 yards and no touchdowns shows the gamble teams are taking.
The NFL has 14 wide receivers averaging $20 million this season, while Seattle’s D.K. Metcalf gets $31 million in cash this season.
Metcalf joined Kupp and others with three-year deals that could get them another big payday. Metcalf plans to work more on being a leader now that he is secure with his contract, and Seattle coach Pete Carroll is thrilled to have someone he calls a star on the rise signed through 2025.
“This young man is a cutting-edge performer in all ways, the way he applies himself, his expectations, the way he’s willing to work, and there is nothing that he’s not willing to do to get to the best of his abilities and potential,” Carroll said. “But it’s not just about football, and it’s not just about sports. It’s about how he attacks everything that he’s going for.”
Exactly what the Seahawks — and others — are paying big money to see.
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AP Pro Football Writer Josh Dubow and AP Sports Writers John Wawrow, Dan Gelston, Tim Booth contributed to this report.
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Lyle Link left his father's farm after deciding that picking corn and shoveling manure wasn't for him. He met his future wife, Marion, at church and never looked back. Now 90, Link describes the life they lived together and his heartache now that she's gone.
Link grew up on his family's dairy farm in Wisconsin. But, as he told his granddaughter, he never quite fit in.
"My father believed that any man that needed a vacation should get a different job, because for him, those 110 acres was the whole world and he needed nothing else," he says. "But farming wasn't for me."
"I wasn't happy picking corn or shoveling manure, although milking cows was good because I could sing opera ... and that was great."
"It sounds like you were the black sheep," his granddaughter, Carly Dreher, says.
"Yeah, I drove my poor father nuts. He couldn't understand me. I remember his saying one day, 'Son, you cannot think the thoughts you think.' My brother was totally a farmer. He never made another footstep that my father hadn't made before, and I couldn't walk in my father's footsteps to save my soul. So, the day came I left."
When Link met his future wife, he said to her, "Someday I'm going to ask you to marry me," he says. "And I took her hand and it went from there."
The Links lived a life full of adventure, he says. It started with a drive across the country on their honeymoon.
"I had a '36 Chevy and I was able to lay a mattress in the back seat," Link says. "We spent our first night in that car on a bluff over the Mississippi River. My father, by the way, did not approve of that kind of outrageous living.
"But I was willing to break new ground," Link tells Dreher. "And your grandma really was ready to break new ground."
Marion Link died Nov. 4, 2007, at the age of 87.
Link says he doesn't know why he loved her so much. "It was something I couldn't help. We have been in love for almost 70 years. And she now died.... And all I can say is that life was so beautiful.... "
"Is," his granddaughter interjects.
"It is so beautiful," he continues. "I'm terribly, terribly lonesome."
Asked if he has any regrets, Link says, "No, lived a wonderful life.
"I think when we got married, we made all new tracks and we never stepped in any old tracks. I want you to do the same thing," he tells Dreher. "Live with courage."
Produced for Morning Edition by Nadia Reiman. The senior producer for StoryCorps is Michael Garofalo.
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Tyler Alexander buckles down, Tigers get key hits to even series against Angels
Detroit — The Saturday attendance at Comerica Park was 23,581 — thousands more of which, certainly, came to see Shohei Ohtani than, say, Victor Reyes and Kody Clemens.
But Reyes, with a two-out, go-ahead single and a key diving catch, and Clemens, with a double and single coming off the bench for an injured Jonathan Schoop, helped lead the Tigers to a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels to even the three-game series at a one-run win apiece.
Tyler Alexander (3-7) gave up three runs on six hits through three innings and appeared headed for a short day, until he was nearly flawless over the next three innings. From the third through the sixth, he allowed a single base runner, and no runs, retiring nine in a row at one point.
The Tigers' bullpen did the rest, with Alex Lange, Joe Jimenez and Gregory Soto combining for three hitless innings to close out the game.
The game was tied at 3 through three innings, with Jeimer Candelario's sacrifice fly scoring Eric Haase, who led off the third with a double.
Then, in the fifth, Candelario drew a one-out walk, and Clemens, in his second at-bat since coming in for Schoop after he left with a right ankle injury, singled off Angels left-handed start Reid Detmers. Tucker Barnhart followed with a strikeout for the second out, before Reyes drilled a two-out RBI single to center.
It was the second hit of the game for Reyes, who also singled in the second — when the Tigers had five hits, including two doubles, and a walk, but only scored two runs.
But Schoop, whose RBI drove in Harold Castro for the Tigers' first run, went home on Barnhart's single to right. He was thrown out by right fielder Taylor Ward. The throw beat Schoop by a wide margin, but he attempted to tap dance around catcher Max Stassi, who applied the tag. Schoop laid on the ground for a few moments, clutching his right ankle, limped off the field and immediately went down the dugout tunnel with Tigers' head athletic trainer Doug Teter. That was the end of Schoop's day.
The Tigers threatened to only score once on the five hits, but Willi Castro got a two-out, bases-loaded walk.
Clemens was one of three Tigers with two hits, lining a double down the line in right in his first at-bat, off Detmers (4-4).
Riley Greene also had two hits for the Tigers, who had 11.
Alexander allowed the three runs on seven hits in six innings, striking out two. Lange got two strikeouts in his perfect seventh inning, Jimenez got two in his perfect eighth inning, and Soto went unscathed in the ninth for his 23rd save of the season. Soto was helped out by first baseman Harold Castro, who made a great over-the-shoulder catch for the first out, and Soto also worked around a one-out walk.
Soto got Stassi to hit into a double play to end the game, 6-4-3.
The Tigers and Angels will wrap up the series at 1:40 p.m. Sunday, with an intriguing pitching matchup — Ohtani, who limped off the field after fouling a ball off his foot Saturday, against Eduardo Rodriguez, who is making his first start since May after leaving the Tigers for several months for a personal family matter.
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MADISON, Ill. (AP) — IndyCar points leader Will Power won the pole for the Saturday night race at World Wide Technology Raceway and tied Mario Andretti for series pole record.
The 67th pole of Power’s career was won Friday on the short oval outside St. Louis. The Australian turned a lap at 183.089 mph to easily earn the top starting spot for the critical race in the IndyCar championship fight.
Power goes into Saturday night clinging to a six-point lead in the standings over Scott Dixon, and seven drivers are separated by only 59 points. In all, 11 drivers remain mathematically eligible to win the championship with three races remaining.
Power’s fourth pole of the season was the one he’s been chasing since 2020, when he finally realized that Andretti’s mark was within reach.
“It’s something I’ve had my eye on for a while. I think when I got to 60, I was like ‘This could be possible,’” Power said. “It’s definitely a big box to tick.”
Andretti expects the record to soon fall. Two weeks ago at Nashville, Dixon won for the 63rd time to pass Andretti for second on the all-time list.
“He’s tied now, but he’ll break the record because he wants it bad and knows how to do it,” Andretti wrote on Twitter.
But now that Power has tied the record, he’s turning his attention solely toward the championship fight.
“I’m not feeling any relief because I’m so focused on the race and the championship. I can think about that later and feel good about it,” Power said. “Right now it’s just so important to have a good car in the race and have a solid day.”
Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, who held the points lead for six races this season, qualified second for Chip Ganassi Racing.
“I think I’ll do everything I possibly can to try and win this championship,” said Ericsson, who is third in points and trails Power by 12.
Ericsson was followed by Power’s teammates at Team Penske, Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin. Newgarden is the defending race winner and 22 points behind Power in the standings in fourth.
IndyCar champion Alex Palou qualified fifth for Ganassi and was followed by teammate Dixon in sixth. Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren SP was seventh as the top seven drivers in the standings swept the top seven spots — four Chevrolets to the three Hondas from Ganassi.
“I think a lot of the time you’re going to find yourself racing people that you’re actually fighting the championship with,” O’Ward said ahead of qualifying. At 59 points out, he said his goal is clear: “I need to win. I need to win races in order to be able to have a chance.”
Takuma Sato of Dale Coyne Racing qualified eighth and said after his run he’s working on a deal to return to the team next season.
“I think everyone is happy with where we are, but a lot of things have to be done before we tick the box,” Sato said. “It would be a pity if we stop. We want to build up with this team, it’s small, but it’s a great competitive team and I’d love to continue to keep it together.”
The four-car Andretti Autosport lineup qualified ninth through 12th and was led by Romain Grosjean, who made his oval debut at Gateway a year ago. Devlin DeFrancesco was 10th and followed by Alexander Rossi and Colton Herta.
DeFrancesco, a rookie, tested at Gateway last week in preparation for the race and said his comfort level on ovals has dramatically improved since the start of the season. He also said he doesn’t know why he’s in the rumor mill as a driver about to lose his job.
“I have a multi-year deal with Andretti Steinbrenner Racing. I have no idea where the rumors are coming from,” DeFrancesco said. “What I know if I have a multi-year contract.”
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DETROIT — Tyler Alexander pitched six strong innings and the Detroit Tigers’ bullpen finished off a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday afternoon.
Los Angeles’ Reid Detmers (4-4) took the loss, allowing four runs on 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Unlike Friday’s game, which the Angels won 1-0 in two hours and 15 minutes, hits and runs were common for both teams in the early innings.
Shohei Ohtani led off the game with a double and scored on Luis Rengifo’s base hit, and the Angels took a 2-0 lead in the second on Andrew Velazquez’s homer.
The Tigers scored twice on five hits and a bases-loaded walk in the second inning, and could have had more if right fielder Taylor Ward hadn’t thrown Jonathan Schoop out at the plate. Schoop injured his right ankle on the slide and was replaced by Kody Clemens.
Adell put Los Angeles up 3-2 with a sacrifice fly in the top of the third, but Jeimer Candelario had one of his own in the bottom of the inning.
Victor Reyes gave the Tigers a 4-3 lead with an RBI single off reliever Jaime Barra in the fifth.
LOST COUNT
The Tigers had a runner on second with two out in the third inning when Tucker Barnhart hit a groundball to Velazquez at short. Instead of making the easy throw to first, Velazquez threw to a startled Rengifo at third. Luckily for Velazquez, Mike Trout prevented any further damage with a leaping catch of a line drive.
SILENT SOUND
Technical problems knocked out the Comerica Park sound system for a couple of innings, leaving the game without walk-up music, batter announcements or big-screen entertainment between innings. Normal sounds resumed in the fifth inning.
UP NEXT
The teams are scheduled to finish their weekend series Sunday, although rain is in the forecast all day. Ohtani (10-7, 2.69 ERA) will face Eduardo Rodriguez (1-3, 4.38), who was reinstated from the restricted list Friday after being away from the team since early June to deal with family problems.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
248 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH
SUNDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...Palo Duro Canyon.
* WHEN...From 7 PM CDT this evening through Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Low-water
crossings may be flooded.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Moderate to perhaps heavy rainfall over the southern Texas
Panhandle, may lead to excessive runoff in areas of complex
terrain, such as Palo Duro Canyon.
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
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Security Services Condemn ‘Borderization’ Along Tskhinvali Occupation Line
The State Security Service of Georgia (SSG) told Civil.ge on 20 August that the borderization process reported by media taking place near Okona village, Kareli Municipality, and Gremiskhevi village, Dusheti Municipality, is a “continuation of the illegal process that started in April 2021.”
“The hotline has been activated and the European Union’s Monitoring Mission has been notified about the illegal so-called cases of borderization. The information has been shared with the co-chairs of the Geneva International Discussions (GID),” the SSG denoted.
According to the agency, “all facts of illegal borderization are discussed at the meetings of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM), as well as at [GID].”
Per the SSG, “the illegal borderization process complicates the daily life of locals and damages the security environment, for which the occupation regime is fully responsible.”
Also Read:
- Tskhinvali Opts to Open Crossing Points on a Monthly Basis
- Tskhinvali Reduces Georgian Ex-Military’s Sentence to 3.8 Years
- Georgian Citizen Detained Near Tskhinvali Occupation Line Released
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said in an interview Thursday that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) “would not become the nominee if she were to run” for president after the Wyoming lawmaker acknowledged earlier this week she was considering a presidential bid.
“I don’t think someone who is seen outside the Trump circle would have any realistic chance of becoming the nominee in 2024, barring something I can’t foresee at this stage,” Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, told the Deseret News. “If he doesn’t run again, I think it’ll be people who either were supporters of his or people who didn’t say much about him and then would be open to become the nominee.”
“I’m not going to encourage anyone to run for president. I’ve done that myself, and that’s something I’m not doing again. I don’t know if she really wants to do that. She would not become the nominee if she were to run. I can’t imagine that would occur,” he also said.
The Utah senator, who voted in favor of impeaching Trump following the Capitol riot similar to Cheney, also said he appreciated her courage for sticking to conscience given the risk and consequences her deviation with former President Trump and much of the Republican Party posed for her.
“I salute her courage. You wouldn’t call it courage, by the way, if there were no consequence for doing what you think is right. She did what she thought was right. I believe she was right,” he told the Deseret News.
Cheney acknowledged in an interview on NBC News’s “Today” show earlier this week that she was considering a presidential bid, remarks that came one day after she lost her primary to attorney Harriet Hageman (R).
The Wyoming lawmaker drew the ire of Trump after she pushed back against his baseless allegations about the 2020 election and for later serving on a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Trump endorsed a primary challenger to her as a result, successfully ousting the three-term incumbent.
“That’s a decision that I’m going to make in the coming months, and I’m not going to make any announcements here this morning. But it is something that I am thinking about, and I’ll make a decision in the coming months,” Cheney said when asked if she was considering running for the presidency. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/hill-politics/romney-cheney-would-not-become-the-nominee-if-she-were-to-run-for-president/ | 2022-08-20T20:41:42Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/hill-politics/romney-cheney-would-not-become-the-nominee-if-she-were-to-run-for-president/ | false |
Texas National Guard Locks Border Gate, Then Border Patrol Throws It Open to Let Illegal Immigrants Stream Through
In an incident replete with symbolism, a video shows Biden administration agents opening a gate that the Texas National Guard had closed to keep illegal immigrants out of the country.
Fox News reporter Bill Melugin shared the video Wednesday on his Twitter account.
“For the first time, we witnessed the TX National Guard close & lock a gate on private property at a major crossing area in Eagle Pass, denying entry to migrants who just crossed illegally & expected to be let in. Border Patrol then came w/ a key & let them in for processing,” he said in his first tweet.
“This was the moment Border Patrol arrived with the key and let the migrants in. The landowner allows both TX DPS/National Guard and Border Patrol to work here. The gate has always been left open in the past. TX is now closing it, & migrants have to wait for BP to be let in,” Melugin added.
This was the moment Border Patrol arrived with the key and let the migrants in. The landowner allows both TX DPS/National Guard and Border Patrol to work here. The gate has always been left open in the past. TX is now closing it, & migrants have to wait for BP to be let in. pic.twitter.com/AR4S9Vn3qH
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 17, 2022
Melugin said federal agents have long opened such gates for illegal immigrants, but Texas is no longer standing by to watch it happen.
“Border Patrol opening gates etc to allow migrants in is not new. They have to process migrants on U.S. soil per federal law. What’s new is TX is now closing the gate & denying entry at this major crossing location. Always open in months past,” he said in a follow-up tweet.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reacted to the video in a tweet.
“Unbelievable. While Texas secures the border, the federal government is enabling illegal immigration. Biden’s open border policies caused this crisis. The federal government must do its job & fix it,” the Republican tweeted.
Unbelievable.
While Texas secures the border, the federal government is enabling illegal immigration.
Biden’s open border policies caused this crisis.
The federal government must do its job & fix it. https://t.co/4yqR8uQMo8
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 17, 2022
The video was released as the flow of illegal immigrants into America has swamped border states and is on track to hit a record 2 million by the end of the federal fiscal year on Sept. 30, according to The Wall Street Journal.
So far this fiscal year, the Border Patrol has made 1.81 million arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to data from Customs and Border Protection. That already eclipses the record of 1.66 million set in the previous fiscal year.
“What will it take for Joe Biden to address the devastation and death at the southern border he created with his open border agenda?” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement Monday.
“Voters know this is Biden’s border crisis and they will make Democrats face the consequences in November,” she said.
Joel Villarreal, mayor of Rio Grande City, Texas, said a new plan needs to be developed to secure the border, according to Fox News.
‘”You cannot have one state or a few municipalities deal with the brunt of this immigration,” Villarreal said. “We have to find a plan — a national plan.”
“And by the way, border communities are in favor of securing the border,” he added.
The mayor said President Joe Biden should take the first step.
“If you’re the president, call the governor, sit down and have a conversation,” Villareal said, adding that failure to collaborate means “we’re going to continue to have this divide about immigration and border security.”
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
302 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Montgomery, western Liberty and northeastern Harris Counties through
330 PM CDT...
At 301 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
East Little York / Homestead, or near Aldine, moving north at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Humble, Near Northside Houston, Aldine, Northside / Northline,
Kingwood, Greater Greenspoint, Spring, northeastern Greater Heights,
The Woodlands, Greater Fifth Ward, Oak Ridge North, Bush
Intercontinental Airport, Eastex / Jensen Area, The Woodlands
Pavillion, Hunterwood, El Dorado / Oates Prairie, Hidden Valley,
Independence Heights, Settegast and Atascocita.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2978 9522 2980 9541 3017 9549 3012 9507
TIME...MOT...LOC 2001Z 191DEG 21KT 2989 9528
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central
Nacogdoches, central Shelby, northern San Augustine and northwestern
Sabine Counties through 345 PM CDT...
At 303 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Melrose, or 14 miles east of Nacogdoches, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Center, San Augustine, Tenaha, Melrose, Patroon, Shelbyville,
Martinsville, Bland Lake, Neuville, Chireno, Hurstown, Denning,
James, Sexton, Jericho, Calgary, Arcadia and Jordans Store.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3143 9443 3158 9454 3196 9422 3157 9384
TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 238DEG 28KT 3155 9441
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central Panola,
central Rusk and southeastern Gregg Counties through 345 PM CDT...
At 304 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Henderson, moving northeast at 20 mph.
Longview, Henderson, Carthage, Tatum, Beckville, Joinerville,
Pinehill, Turnertown, Lakeport, Easton, Chapman, Monroe, Fairplay,
Stewart, Brachfield, Chalk Hill, Church Hill and Oak Hill.
LAT...LON 3246 9471 3242 9470 3243 9468 3242 9468
3241 9467 3240 9464 3240 9460 3217 9435
3200 9486 3214 9499 3215 9499
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 231DEG 18KT 3212 9487
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Not everyone has a professional-looking background for video calls. If you want to mask the area behind you from people on Zoom video calls, you can blur the background. This keeps the focus on you and hides things in the background.
As its name suggests, the feature only blurs the background. Outlines of objects and people in the background will be visible even if you use this feature. That’s why we’ll also show you how to use Zoom’s virtual background feature to completely hide your background during video calls.
Who Can Use Zoom’s Blur Background Feature
Zoom will show the blur background option to you if your computer meets a few minimum requirements. First, you should check if you have a version of Zoom that supports blurred backgrounds. Here’s a quick list of the minimum required versions to help you with that:
- Windows: 5.5.0 (12454.0131) or newer
- macOS: 5.5.0 (12467.0131) or newer
- Linux: 5.7.6 (31792.0820) or newer
- Android: 5.6.6 (2076) or newer
- iOS: 5.6.6 (423) or newer
You can quickly check the version of the Zoom desktop client by clicking your profile picture in the top-right corner, and going to Settings > Help > About Zoom. If you have an older version of the app, you should update Zoom to the latest version by going to Profile Icon > Check for Updates.
On smartphones, you can go to the App Store or Google Play store, search for Zoom, and update it from there.
Zoom also lists a few minimum system requirements for the virtual background feature and notes that these apply to the blurred background option too. You can check if your device meets these system requirements on Zoom’s website. There are different specifications for those who plan to use a green screen, so be sure to check that too.
Finally, your device requires a functioning webcam to be able to use the blur background feature on Zoom.
How to Blur Background on Zoom for Windows, Mac, and Linux
The blur background feature can be set up before you start a Zoom call. On Zoom’s desktop app, you can click the Settings icon below your profile picture to get started. In the left sidebar, select Background & Effects.
Click the Virtual Background tab and select Blur. This will blur your background and you should be able to see a preview of the effect in the video preview pane above the Virtual Backgrounds tab. If everything went well, you should be in focus and a blurred image should be behind you.
Alternatively, you can choose a different virtual background such as San Francisco, Grass, or Earth. These are pre-installed and you can easily access them without any more steps. You also have the option of using a custom background image in Zoom.
In the same Virtual Backgrounds tab in Zoom settings, click the + icon on the right side, above the scroll bar. Now you can select either Add Image or Add Video, and choose a custom background for all future meetings.
It’s also worth noting that you can set up a blurred background or a virtual background even after starting a Zoom meeting. To test this out, you can open Zoom and click the New Meeting option.
Once the meeting has begun, click the up arrow icon next to the Start Video button. Select Blur My Background to add a simple blur effect. You can also select the Choose Virtual Background option and add an image or a video background to your video call.
How to Blur Zoom Background on Android, iPhone, and iPad
If you are using the Zoom mobile app, you can blur the background after starting a new meeting. On Apple devices such as iPhones or iPads, start a new Zoom meeting and tap the More button in the bottom-right corner. Select Backgrounds & Effects and tap Blur to blur your background.
You can also select other virtual backgrounds on this page or tap the + button to add a custom background via your mobile device.
On Android smartphones, you can start a new Zoom meeting and press the More button in the bottom-right corner. Then select Virtual Background and choose Blur. You can also pick one of Zoom’s default backgrounds or use the + button to add custom backgrounds.
If the effect doesn’t apply immediately, you can press the Stop Video button and tap Start Video to make it work.
Once you’ve exited a Zoom meeting on Android or iOS devices, you can tap the More button in the bottom-right corner of the app’s home screen and go to Meetings. Hit Keep Virtual Background For and select All meetings to retain your Zoom virtual background in all future meetings.
Keep Video Conferencing Fun
Video conferencing doesn’t have to be totally boring. You can make a custom background in Zoom or Google Meet to make your meetings far more interesting. This will prove to be a great conversation starter and the best part is that it doesn’t require technical know-how either.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds like Maryland and Massachusetts when they have fielded moderate candidates who could appeal to voters in both parties. With Democrats facing headwinds this year, Republicans had hoped that strategy could pay off yet again.
But Republican voters have nominated loyalists of former President Donald Trump in several Democratic states, including Maryland and Connecticut, making the GOP’s odds of winning those general election races even longer. Massachusetts will face its own test next month as GOP voters decide between a Trump-backed conservative and a more moderate Republican for the party’s gubernatorial nominee.
“It can’t continue,” said former Connecticut U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, a moderate Republican and Trump critic, referring to the GOP choosing pro-Trump candidates. “One of the things that will happen is that a lot of the Trump candidates who won the primary will lose the general election. And there are a lot of unhappy Republicans who hold office now who believe that the Senate now is in jeopardy of staying Democratic.”
Trump’s influence was on full display earlier this month when his last-minute endorsement helped propel Leora Levy, a member of the Republican National Committee who opposes abortion rights, to victory in a Republican U.S. Senate primary in Connecticut over the party’s endorsed candidate, former House Minority Leader Themis Klarides. Klarides supports abortion rights and said she didn’t vote for Trump in 2020.
“Sad day for CT …,” tweeted Brenda Kupchick, the Republican first selectwoman of Fairfield and a former state representative, after the Aug. 9 race was called for Levy. Days earlier, after Trump endorsed Levy on speakerphone at a GOP picnic, Kupchick tweeted, “How is that helpful in the general election in CT?”
Kupchick’s tweets sparked criticism in both GOP camps. Trump supporters accused Klarides of not being a “true conservative.” Moderate Republicans predicted that Levy’s nomination ensured Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal would sail to victory in November, despite a Quinnipiac poll in May registering his lowest job approval since he took office in 2011.
The last Republican to represent Connecticut in the U.S. Senate was Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who served from 1971 to 1989, though Connecticut has elected a moderate Republican governor as recently as 2006, with M. Jodi Rell.
Levy, who has never before served in elective office, contends her message of controlling high inflation and energy prices, stopping “government intrusion between parent and child” and addressing crime will resonate with a wide range of voters.
A similar dynamic has unfolded in liberal Maryland, where Dan Cox, a far-right state legislator endorsed by Trump, won the Republican primary for governor over a moderate rival backed by outgoing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, a Trump critic. And in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, Republican voters casting ballots in the state’s Sept. 6 gubernatorial primary will choose between Geoff Diehl, a Trump-backed former state representative, and Chris Doughty, a businessman with moderate views. Centrist Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, a Trump critic, decided against seeking a third term.
The Democratic nominees in Maryland and Massachusetts are viewed as strong favorites to flip the governor’s mansions in those states.
Trump’s backing has propelled his candidates to victory in top races in battleground states, too, boosting Democrats’ optimism of winning the general election. In Arizona, former TV news anchor Kari Lake, who has said she would not have certified President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, defeated lawyer and businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson, who had been endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence and outgoing GOP Gov. Doug Ducey. In Wisconsin, Trump-backed businessman Tim Michels beat former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, who had been endorsed by Pence and the state party. Both Michels and Kleefisch, however, falsely claimed the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
In Connecticut, Levy’s nomination is already being used as a rallying cry for Democrats, who contend she’s out of the mainstream for a state where Republicans are outnumbered by unaffiliated voters and by Democrats. Aside from opposing abortion rights — reversing her position years ago of supporting abortion rights — Levy has spoken out against job-related COVID-19 vaccine requirements and transgender rights. Levy effusively thanked the former president during her acceptance speech, promising, “I will not let you down.”
A day after the primary, Blumenthal’s campaign sent out a fundraising message that warned, “The primary results are in, and I’m officially facing off against Trump’s hand-picked candidate in the general election — a radical Republican who will be nothing but a rubber stamp on Mitch McConnell’s disastrous agenda.”
Levy, in turn, has tied Blumenthal to Biden, casting him as a “rubber stamp” for the Democratic president’s “failed policies” as president and blaming Blumenthal for playing a “a key role in creating virtually every challenge our country faces today.”
“Dick Blumenthal wants this election to be a referendum on a President. Donald Trump is not on the ballot in November, but Joe Biden is,” she said in a news release issued after the primary.
Shays, who now lives in Maryland, said he believes an endorsement by Trump is disqualifying. He said he contributed to the campaign of Wes Moore, the Democrat running against Cox in Maryland, and would vote for Blumenthal if he still lived in Connecticut.
“I will vote against anyone who seeks the support of Donald Trump because that tells me so much about their character and what they intend to do if elected. That’s the bottom line to me,” Shays said.
Ben Proto, chair of the Connecticut Republicans, dismissed any suggestion that the primary victory by Levy signaled a political evolution within the state GOP. Rather, he said, the party this year has “candidates across the board who hold different opinions on particular issues.”
But what they have in common, he said, is the goal of getting inflation under control, making Connecticut more affordable, addressing crime and allowing parents to be the “primary stakeholder” in their children’s lives.
“At the end of the day, the issues that are important to the people of the state of Connecticut, we’re pretty solid on,” he said.
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Technology is ever-changing — and changing ever faster. But what happens when the rate of technological change becomes so fast that the fundamental nature of what it means to be human changes, too?
Inventor, technologist and futurist Ray Kurzweil talks with host Ira Flatow about the idea of the "singularity" — what happens when technology advances so much that it's impossible to predict what happens next. Will artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and biotechnology be able to completely reshape what it means to be human?
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Food fanatics are in for a treat as Treorchy food and drink festival launches for the first time this month. The event will take place in and around the Parc & Dare, with further stalls in the Boys & Girls Club, the market and the library car park.
The family festival will take place on the bank holiday Saturday, August 27, and be open from 10am until 5pm, with barbecues and live music events available in local pubs in the evening. Many south Wales businesses are set to attend, with a variety of Welsh and global products available from multiple stalls to support Treorchy's first food and drink festival.
We have listed some of the Welsh venders that you can expect to see at Treorchy's food and drink festival. You can get more articles like this and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
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For those with a the sweet tooth
Craving a gooey chocolate brownie, some sugary doughnuts or traditional welsh cakes? Look no further as the delicious dessert stalls have you covered. This year we see the return of local favourites and newbies to the street.
Tom Baker Brownies
Home to delicious sweet treats, Tom Baker Brownies makes homemade brownies, cookie bars, custard slices, carrot cake, lemon cheesecake and so much more.
Dinky Donuts
You can't go wrong with a classic. Dinky Donuts are a staple in every festival and even better alongside a drizzle of Nutella. The stall will also provide a selection of drinks from classic coffees - hot and iced- to a variety of cold drinks.
Eleri's Welsh Cakes
Eleris Welsh Cakes is a family affair, created by a Penarth couple who moved to the East Midlands and discovered the delicious Welsh delicacy weren't readily available in the supermarkets. Naming the business after their daughter Eleri, they have since been making a variety of traditional and contemporary flavours, from Biscoff and chocolate orange to candyland.
Marie Cresci Cheesecakes
A staple in many food festivals and farmers markets, Marie Cresci Cheesecakes has been supplying homemade cheesecakes since 2017. Their mini portions are the perfect bite with many flavours to choose from - many people rave about their Caramac and salted caramel cheesecake.
Exotic Fruits Cardiff
If you're after something healthier to fix that sweet tooth, look no further than Exotic Fruits Cardiff. Expand your taste pallet and experience a variety of fruit you wouldn't find in your local supermarket. Try yellow dragon fruit, pink guava, apple bananas, snake fruit, jelly coconut, golden kiwi, kumquats, haden mango and many more.
The great Treorchy bake off
Want to take it a step further? You can even enter a baking competition which will be held in the library. All cakes must be home cooked - no cheating with shop bought goods - and entered by 10am. All cakes will then be pay as you feel and the money raised will go to a selected charity.
For savoury lovers
You won't be hungry at the food festival with the multiple hearty food options to pick from in Treorchy. Venders from all over south Wales are setting up camp for the day to offer the best of Welsh and global cuisine. Here are a couple of options to choose from:
Welsh Italian Pizza Co.
Try the artisan, hand-stretched, wood-fired pizzas with multiple toppings to choose from. Welsh Italian Pizza Co. started in 2015 and has since been serving their Neapolitan pizzas in festivals, weddings, parties and other events across south Wales.
Cliff's Bowls 'N' Rolls
What's a food festival without a classic burger van with a twist? Cliff's Bowls 'N' Rolls sells a variety of burgers, hot dogs, chips, jacket potatoes, curry, breakfast rolls/trays, fresh fairground donuts and has a daily specials board. They also sell hot and cold drinks, including shmoo milkshakes.
Send Noods
The perfect South East-Asian cuisine will be at Treorchy on bank holiday Saturday. Experience big bold flavours from a variety of classic dishes, from a choice of ramen bowls, skewers to the classic katsu chicken curry - Send Noods won't leave you hungry.
Grazeful Feasts
The Bridgend based company creates a variety of sweet and savoury graze platters. Choose from fruit, picky bits, a selection of cheese and crackers to cold meats - there's a platter available for everyone's needs.
Something a little different
Explore the global condiments., spices and spreads at Treorchy food festival. From Welsh classics to Caribbean twists, there's something new for everyone to try and buy.
Little Grandma's Kitchen
This is your one stop shop for all your Welsh artisan chutney, marmalade, curd, preserves, mustard and spreads. The St Clears based company recently won the LUXlife Jam & Preserve Maker 2021 Wales - and their Strawberry & Prosecco Preserve has won the Fruit Preserve of the Year. So, this is a must try at the food festival.
Chilli Rogues
In 2019, Chilli Rogues was set up by two lifelong friends who are passionate about showcasing chillis from around the world. They sell chillies when they are in season, but also sell super hot chilli salt, chilli stocks, whole dried chillies and flake packs. They're also known to sell chilli ice cream, which is truly a taste sensation with each mouthful.
Earl's Kitchen
The father and daughter team will bring you their gourmet Caribbean cooking sauces. The Wales Food Award Finalist 2022 will bring their classic sauces which are perfect on dishes like skewers, stir fries, tacos and much more.
Enjoy the best from local breweries and distilleries
Settle your thirst with a wide selection of alcoholic and soft beverages during the bank holiday Saturday. Experience the best of what Welsh businesses have to offer.
Spirit of Wales
The Newport based company offers authentic Welsh gin, vodka and distilled rum. Enjoy tasters of their Dragon's Breath Spiced Rum, Steeltown Welsh Vodka and Steeltown Welsh Gin - each honouring the steel, coal, and mining industries that built Wales.
Barry Island Gin
The independent business that recently won the Great Taste 2021 award and Gin Guide 2022 award will be selling their Barry Island Gin and Barry Island Rum in Treorchy on the bank holiday Saturday. Enjoy balanced gin that's "been made with love" in their custom bottles.
Austringer Cider
The family run cider maker from Afan Valley will join the food festival, selling their multi-award-winning cider. The Welsh company is also known for their 100% fresh pressed juice which will help settle your thirst in the heat.
2 Dudes
From a business that started over lockdown by selling drinks over the garden wall in Treorchy, 2 Dudes now has its own venue and delivers specialist beer, lagers and ciders all over south Wales.
Little Goat Brewery
The independent brewery based in south Wales was established in 2018 by a father and son-in-law with over 50 years experience of home brewing. It is known for its great selection of bottled beer, from IPA, stout, to golden and pale ale.
Treat yourself to some local products
It's not all about food this bank holiday, Treorchy food festival will also host some stalls from local businesses, selling creative art pieces, jewellery and so much more.
Tia Robbins Art
The Bridgend based company sells a variety of personalised gifts, home decor, Welsh gifts and cake accessories which are all made through laser engraving and cuttings.
We'd Rather Lather
After some new smellies? The handmade soap is naturally sourced, sustainably packaged and vegan friendly. Choose from a rage of soaps, shampoo bars, body scrubs and bath products - the options are endless.
Seren Fach
The family business has been based in Treorchy for the last 33 years. The baby boutique has everything you need for a little one, from baby handmade pram cosytoes and swaddle blankets to essential accessories.
Nerys Griffiths Jewellery
Treat yourself to stylish handmade sterling silver jewellery from Nerys Griffiths. She has a range of deisngs of charm bracelets, curve bracelets, charm rings, earrings and necklaces to choose from. You can even purchase items from The Welsh Collection, which includes a dragon or daffodil charm bracelet and a daffodil necklace.
Live after five
What is a food festival without live music and bands in the local pubs? The Prince of Wales, Hot Gossip and The Lion will feature live music and bands in the evening. The Miners Arms will host a family fun day between 2pm - 7pm, which will include a free entry for all, a free barbecue, bouncy castle, soft play and face painting.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
207 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central
Montgomery, south central San Jacinto and northwestern Liberty
Counties through 230 PM CDT...
At 205 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Splendora, or 9 miles southwest of Cleveland, moving northeast at 20
mph. Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud near Cut and Shoot,
though, no tornadoes are expected to develop from this.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Cleveland, Splendora and North Cleveland.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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 3021 9519 3028 9529 3049 9520 3036 9494
TIME...MOT...LOC 1905Z 217DEG 18KT 3028 9522
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...
* WHAT...Major flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Nueces River Near Three Rivers.
* WHEN...From this evening until further notice.
* IMPACTS...At 38.0 feet, Water approaches the base of homes in
Kellner Camp along County Road 336.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1:15 PM CDT, Saturday the stage was 16.6 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
this evening and continue rising to a crest of 37.6 feet
early Monday morning. The river will start to fall late
Monday morning.
- Flood stage is 25.0 feet.
Fld Observed Forecasts (1 pm)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu
Nueces River
Three Rivers 25.0 16.6 Sat 1 pm 36.2 37.3 35.1 31.0 26.8
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
409 PM EDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Herkimer County through 445 PM EDT...
At 409 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Cedarville, or near Ilion, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Ilion, Herkimer, Mohawk, Frankfort, Middleville, Cedarville,
Elizabethtown, Jersalem Hill, West Frankfort, Spinnerville, Corrado
Corners, Cedar Lake, Farrel Corner, Countryman, North Ilion, Gulph,
South Ilion, Kelhi Corners, Chepachet and Columbia Center.
People attending Herkimer County Fair should seek safe shelter
immediately!
This includes Interstate 90 near exit 30.
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.
LAT...LON 4312 7516 4320 7509 4310 7485 4289 7506
4291 7510 4288 7513 4291 7520 4305 7522
TIME...MOT...LOC 2009Z 209DEG 11KT 4298 7516
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Madison County in central New York...
North central Chenango County in central New York...
* Until 515 PM EDT.
* At 423 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Earlville, or
near Hamilton, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Hamilton, Lebanon, Earlville, Madison, Poolville, Pecksport,
Solsville and Hubbardsville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman's diamond wedding ring, a family heirloom, is back on her finger after a man with a metal detector responded to her social media plea for help and found it at the bottom of the ocean.
Francesca Teal told The Boston Globe that she was tossing a football with her husband this month at North Beach in Hampton, New Hampshire, when the ring that once belonged to her great-grandmother slipped off her finger.
They couldn't find the ring in the water after hours of searching, the 29-year-old from Groveland said.
Teal posted about the ordeal on Facebook and asked anyone who might frequent the beach with a metal detector to be on the lookout. Her post was shared thousands of times and got the attention of a man named Lou Asci.
Asci, 60 of Marshfield, put on a wetsuit and headlamp and went into the water searching for the ring with his metal detector. The first two days he went looking, he had no luck.
“I don’t take failure all too well,” Asci told the newspaper. “I wanted to go back and give it one last shot.”
That's when he found the ring buried beneath the sandy ocean floor, he said. He sent Teal a picture, writing in a message: “Please tell me this is the ring so I can finally get off this beach.”
Asci returned the ring to Teal's home, and her husband got on one knee to place it back on her finger.
"I have been so overwhelmed by the kindness of strangers this past week," Teal wrote on Facebook. “It has been so amazing to witness humanity in this positive way & has brought so much faith to myself & others." | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Metal-detecting-stranger-retrieves-woman-s-ring-17386960.php | 2022-08-20T21:03:24Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Metal-detecting-stranger-retrieves-woman-s-ring-17386960.php | false |
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DETROIT (AP) — Tyler Alexander pitched six strong innings and the Detroit Tigers' bullpen finished off a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday afternoon.
The Tigers had lost two straight and 10 of 12.
Alexander (3-7) allowed three runs on seven hits and a walk in six innings, notching his first win in eight starts this season. Detroit's bullpen then pitched three hitless innings, with Gregory Soto throwing the ninth for his 23rd save.
Los Angeles' Reid Detmers (4-4) took the loss, allowing four runs on 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Unlike Friday's game, which the Angels won 1-0 in two hours and 15 minutes, hits and runs were common for both teams in the early innings.
Shohei Ohtani led off the game with a double and scored on Luis Rengifo's base hit, and the Angels took a 2-0 lead in the second on Andrew Velazquez's homer.
The Tigers scored twice on five hits and a bases-loaded walk in the second inning, and could have had more if right fielder Taylor Ward hadn't thrown Jonathan Schoop out at the plate. Schoop injured his right ankle on the slide and was replaced by Kody Clemens.
Adell put Los Angeles up 3-2 with a sacrifice fly in the top of the third, but Jeimer Candelario had one of his own in the bottom of the inning.
Victor Reyes gave the Tigers a 4-3 lead with an RBI single off reliever Jaime Barra in the fifth.
LOST COUNT
The Tigers had a runner on second with two out in the third inning when Tucker Barnhart hit a groundball to Velazquez at short. Instead of making the easy throw to first, Velazquez threw to a startled Rengifo at third. Luckily for Velazquez, Mike Trout prevented any further damage with a leaping catch of a line drive.
SILENT SOUND
Technical problems knocked out the Comerica Park sound system for a couple of innings, leaving the game without walk-up music, batter announcements or big-screen entertainment between innings. Normal sounds resumed in the fifth inning.
UP NEXT
The teams are scheduled to finish their weekend series Sunday, although rain is in the forecast all day. Ohtani (10-7, 2.69 ERA) will face Eduardo Rodriguez (1-3, 4.38), who was reinstated from the restricted list Friday after being away from the team since early June to deal with family problems.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
407 PM EDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of south central
Madison and north central Chenango Counties through 430 PM EDT...
At 407 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
South Lebanon, or 7 miles southwest of Hamilton, moving northeast at
15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Eaton, Hamilton, Sherburne, Lebanon, Otselic, Georgetown, Earlville,
Smyrna, Poolville and South Lebanon.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4264 7568 4275 7577 4289 7558 4270 7544
TIME...MOT...LOC 2007Z 243DEG 11KT 4274 7565
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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SAKS — Quarterback Sean Parnell, running back Rickey Garrett and wide receiver Jalen McCants may be gone, but Saks proved Friday night it still has plenty of offensive firepower in a 41-15 season-opening victory over Ohatchee.
Quarterback Gavin Doss, running back Dorrien Walker and wide receiver Jakari Streeter introduced themselves to the crowd at Jack Stewart Field, and it’s safe to say the trio made a good first impression
Doss, a junior making his first varsity start at quarterback, finished with 13 carries for 185 yards and two touchdowns.
After Saks forced Ohatchee to turn the ball over on downs with less than 30 seconds to go in the first half, Doss turned in the biggest play of the game, going 84 yards on the next play to give the Wildcats a 21-7 cushion headed into the locker room.
“It gave us a lot of momentum, and to be honest with you, I was very close to just taking a knee and going to halftime,” Saks coach Jonathan Miller said. “But, I just thought, heck, we’re going to take a shot and see if we can pop one or maybe have a big gainer and get one more play in scoring range.
“When you’ve got guys that do things with the ball in their hands, you give them a chance to make a play.”
Doss’ first touchdown run of the night came from 21 yards out and got Saks on the scoreboard in the first quarter. On his final offensive play of the night, he threw a 33-yard touchdown pass to Streeter, who finished with two catches for 37 yards and three carries for 66 yards.
Walker carried the ball 14 times for 105 yards and scored touchdowns on runs of 2 and 4 yards.
—Nicholas Mixson scored Saks’ final touchdown of the night on a 6-yard run.
—Ohatchee was hit hard by the injury bug. Senior Devin Howell and junior Jesse Baswell didn’t play, and seniors Bryce Noah and Tyler Waters left with injuries. Noah carried the ball nine times for 49 yards and completed 3 of 4 passes for 83 yards before exiting. Waters scored the game’s first touchdown on a 1-yard run.
—Ohatchee’s Jake Roberson, a member of a large and promising sophomore class, entered at quarterback after Noah left the game. He scored the game’s final touchdown on a 5-yard run and successfully converted the ensuing two-point conversion run. He also hauled in a 54-yard reception from Noah earlier in the contest.
—Miller on Saks’ offensive line: “We had a lot of yards rushing, and they were a big reason why.”
—Ohatchee’s coach Chris Findley on his large sophomore class: “We thought that they were going to have to get some playing time this year, and they kind of got thrown in the fire pretty hardcore tonight. And it may be that going forward, they may get a trial by fire.”
—Saks (1-0) travels to Sylvania next Friday, while Ohatchee (0-1) hosts Wellborn.
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Social critic Thomas Frank examines the modern conservative movement and its excesses in his new book, The Wrecking Crew. Conservative politicians complain that big government does not work, writes Frank — then they get elected and prove it.
Frank's previous books are What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America and One Market Under God. The founding editor of The Baffler and a contributing editor at Harper's, Frank writes the 'Tilting Yard' column for The Wall Street Journal.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
345 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central
Brewster County through 430 PM CDT...
At 344 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 28
miles east of Persimmon Gap, or 31 miles southwest of Sanderson,
moving north at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of east central
Brewster County.
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 2968 10280 3006 10294 3011 10264 3010 10263
2975 10259 2975 10262 2973 10262 2973 10266
2975 10267 2970 10270
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 168DEG 17KT 2978 10272
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED...
* LOCATIONS AFFECTED
- Brownsville
- Harlingen
- La Feria
* WIND
- LATEST LOCAL FORECAST: Below tropical storm force wind
- Peak Wind Forecast: 10-20 mph with gusts to 30 mph
- THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY THAT INCLUDES TYPICAL FORECAST
UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Wind less than 39 mph
- The wind threat has decreased from the previous assessment.
- PLAN: The sustained wind should remain less than tropical
storm force. Conditions may still be gusty.
- PREPARE: Listen for any instructions from local officials.
- ACT: Ensure emergency readiness should the forecast change.
- REALIZED IMPACTS: Being Assessed
- Little to no additional wind impacts expected. Community
officials are now assessing the extent of actual wind
impacts accordingly.
* STORM SURGE
- No storm surge inundation forecast
UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Little to no storm
surge flooding
- The storm surge threat has remained nearly steady from the
previous assessment.
- PLAN: There is little to no threat of storm surge flooding.
Rough surf, coastal erosion, and life-threatening rip
currents are possible.
- PREPARE: Little to no preparations for storm surge flooding
are needed.
- ACT: Follow the instructions of local officials. Monitor
forecasts.
- POTENTIAL IMPACTS: Little to None
- Little to no potential impacts from storm surge flooding.
* FLOODING RAIN
- LATEST LOCAL FORECAST:
- Peak Rainfall Amounts: No additional significant rainfall
forecast
UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Little or no
potential for flooding rain
- The flooding rain threat has decreased from the previous
assessment.
- PLAN: There is little or no potential for flooding rain.
- PREPARE: Little to no preparations are needed to protect
against flooding rain at this time.
- ACT: Monitor for changes to the forecast.
- Little to no potential impacts from flooding rain.
* TORNADO
- Situation is unfavorable for tornadoes
UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Tornadoes not expected
- The tornado threat has remained nearly steady from the
- PLAN: Tornadoes are not expected. Showers and thunderstorms
with gusty winds may still occur.
- PREPARE: Little to no preparations needed to protect
against tornadoes at this time. Keep informed of the latest
tornado situation.
- ACT: Listen for changes in the forecast.
- Little to no potential impacts from tornadoes.
* FOR MORE INFORMATION:
- https://ready.gov/hurricanes
- Raymondville
...TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT...
- South Padre Island
- Peak Wind Forecast: 20-30 mph with gusts to 40 mph
- LATEST LOCAL FORECAST: Localized storm surge possible
- Peak Storm Surge Inundation: The potential for around 1
foot above ground somewhere within surge prone areas
- Window of concern: through Sunday morning
UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Potential for storm
surge flooding greater than 1 foot above ground
- PLAN: Shelter against storm surge flooding greater than 1
foot above ground.
- PREPARE: All flood preparations should be complete. Expect
flooding of low-lying roads and property.
- ACT: Stay away from storm surge prone areas. Continue to
follow the instructions of local officials.
- POTENTIAL IMPACTS: Unfolding
- Potential impacts from the main surge event are unfolding.
- Port Isabel
- Port Mansfield
- Peak Wind Forecast: 20-30 mph with gusts to 35 mph
- The wind threat has remained nearly steady from the
- McAllen
- Edinburg
- Weslaco
- Peak Wind Forecast: 10-15 mph with gusts to 25 mph
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For more than five generations, Patrick Tracey's family has been plagued by what he calls "a perfect storm of schizophrenia." In his new book, Stalking Irish Madness, he traces his family lineage — and the roots of the disease — all the way back to Ireland.
"Unlike those Irish Americans who dig after genealogical clues," Tracey writes, "I have no sentimental attachment to my forebears. Instead, I feel I'm chasing much bigger game here, stalking the madness that stalks my family in a direct line down to — but not including — me."
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