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Over the centuries, Novels of Manners -- with their wit and acute observation -- have always illustrated people behaving badly. A quick flip through one of today's celebrity magazines will prove that, century to century, nothing changes. The social climbers, the gossips, the ruthless acquiring of a suitably endowed spouse -- all are as relevant and as fascinating today as in Jane Austen's portraits of small English villages. Beyond Jane Austen -- the true master -- here are three of my favorite example of Novels of Manners:
The Custom of the Country
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton, paperback, 368 pages, Penguin Classics, list price: $13
Undine Spragg -- the name says it all. In Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel, The Custom of the Country, a monster of a shallow social climber arrives from the rough, commercial Midwest to reside in a 'Looey' suite at a New York City Hotel and to look for a husband. Undine's ruthless quest leads her to trade up, first through the old guard Washington Square elite and then into the French nobility. Though she sacrifices a husband and a child to her ambition, no rank she achieves is quite good enough , and the novel ends with her absolute frustration in discovering that she will never be an ambassador's wife. A sharp portrait of the shifting rules of American society at the time, it is also timeless. Substitute names from today -- tabloid celebrities, annoying heiresses with their own clothing lines, political appointees with a keen nose for protocol -- and the book is more textbook than novel.
Cakes and Ale
Cakes and Ale, by W. Somerset Maugham, paperback, 320 pages, Vintage, list price: $14.95
For anyone who thrilled to the recent scandal of Oxford poets conducting smear campaigns, Cakes and Ale is a delicious, biting satire of the lengths writers will go to advance their reputations and burnish their images for posterity. A famous writer and his second wife need a biographer. The catch being that the writer's beautiful, unfaithful first wife, his true muse, is to be carefully written out. The writer they choose is a complete hack whose fine literary reputation was shamelessly built by courting critics with expensive lunches. The book was considered a scandalous and thinly-veiled portrait of Thomas Hardy; an idea Maugham slyly refuted by suggesting the names of two other writers who were equally in his mind. Writers behaving badly in wonderful country settings -- more proof that nothing changes.
Mapp & Lucia
Mapp & Lucia, by E.F. Benson, paperback, 315 pages, Prion, list price: $19.99
Mapp and Lucia is the third title in the series of six novels by British author E.F. Benson. Set mostly in Tilling, a fictionalized version of my home town of Rye, East Sussex. The widowed Lucia, a sophisticated summer visitor, arrives to rent a house from the town's leading light, Miss Mapp, and to battle for control of the local social life in the town of Tilling. The fete, the art show, and control over the gardener -- nothing is too petty to fight over, in a malicious war of attrition disguised as a friendly cup of tea.
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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
655 PM MDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 7 PM MDT this evening for a
portion of western Texas, including the following counties, El Paso
and Hudspeth.
Flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to
heed remaining road closures.
A Flood Watch remains in effect until 600 AM MDT Sunday for portions
of New Mexico and southwest Texas.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
758 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT THIS
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MIDLAND COUNTY...
At 758 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms have flooded
many roadways, including Midkiff & Wadley. Between 1.5 and 2 inches
of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is already occurring.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Midland, Midland International Air and Space Port, Midland
Airpark, Cotton Flat and Warfield.
This includes the following streams and drainages...
Monahans Draw and Midland Draw.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
The National Weather Service in Midland/Odessa has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
East Central Lea County in southeastern New Mexico...
West Central Gaines County in western Texas...
* Until 1015 PM MDT /1115 PM CDT/.
* At 702 PM MDT /802 PM CDT/, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms
producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2
inches of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Hobbs, Humble City, Monument, Nadine, Lea County Regional Airport
and Industrial Airpark.
Monument Draw and Seminole Draw.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
819 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge affecting Presidio
County.
Rio Grande below Presidio 5SE affecting Presidio County.
...The Flood Warning is cancelled for the following rivers in
Texas...
Rio Grande at Johnson Ranch affecting Brewster County.
.Thunderstorms have produced very heavy rainfall over the past few
days in Mexico over the Rio Conchos basin. As a result, very high
flows are coming out of the Rio Conchos into the Rio Grande at
Presidio. The flood wave is expected to crest at Presidio today,
and move downstream through Big Bend National Park Sunday.
Additional rainfall over the next few days could prolong the
flooding.
For the Rio Grande...including Presidio International Bridge,
Presidio 5SE, Castolon, Johnson Ranch, Boquillas...Minor flooding is
forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. Most flood related deaths
occur in automobiles. Do not attempt to cross water covered bridges,
dips, or low water crossings. Never try to cross a flowing stream,
even a small one, on foot. To escape rising water find another route
over higher ground.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued this evening at 930 PM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL TOMORROW EVENING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande below Presidio 5SE.
* WHEN...Until tomorrow evening.
* IMPACTS...At 9.0 feet (2.7 meters), the river reaches minor flood
stage, and low lying areas begin to flood.
At 11.0 feet (3.4 meters), minor flooding continues along the
river. Irrigation pumps may need to be removed. No threats to
residences or other structures are known to occur.
At 13.0 feet (4.0 meters), the river reaches moderate flood
stage. Farmland near the river will be inundated. Water may
begin flooding low lying areas of FM 170.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 11.4 feet (3.5 meters).
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 7:15 PM CDT Saturday was 11.5 feet (3.5 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 11.5
feet (3.5 meters) late this evening. It will then fall below
flood stage tomorrow morning.
- Flood stage is 9.0 feet (2.7 meters).
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
13.0 feet (4.0 meters) on 08/18/2022.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Sun Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 1am 7am 1pm 7pm
Rio Grande
Presidio 5SE 9.0 11.4 Sat 7pm 11.3 9.5 7.8 6.1
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio 5SE 2.7 3.5 Sat 7pm 3.4 2.9 2.4 1.9
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL TOMORROW AFTERNOON...
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge.
* WHEN...Until tomorrow afternoon.
* IMPACTS...At 12.0 feet (3.7 meters), the river reaches bankfull,
after which the flood plain between the levees begins to flood.
No damage is expected.
At 15.5 feet (4.7 meters), the river reaches minor flood stage,
and flooding between the levees occurs. No damage to structures
is expected.
At 20.0 feet (6.1 meters), the river reaches moderate flood stage,
inundating the plain between the levees. Erosion of the levees is
likely. Water may seep through the levees, flooding adjacent
farmland.
- At 7:15 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 18.2 feet (5.5 meters).
ending at 7:15 PM CDT Saturday was 19.1 feet (5.8 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
late tonight and continue falling to 8.7 feet (2.7 meters)
Thursday evening.
- Flood stage is 15.5 feet (4.7 meters).
18.2 feet (5.5 meters) on 08/18/2022.
Fld Observed Sun Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 1am 7am 1pm 7pm
Presidio Internation 15.5 18.2 Sat 7pm 16.7 13.9 12.1 11.6
Presidio Internation 4.7 5.5 Sat 7pm 5.1 4.2 3.7 3.5
...FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Warning is cancelled for
the Rio Grande at Johnson Ranch.
- At 7:15 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 10.2 feet (3.1 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 13.7
feet (4.2 meters) tomorrow afternoon.
Fld Observed Sun Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 1am 7am 1pm 7pm
Johnson Ranch 15.0 10.2 Sat 7pm 10.9 11.9 13.3 13.6
Johnson Ranch 4.6 3.1 Sat 7pm 3.3 3.6 4.1 4.1
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Skipper Rahul says there were no jitters despite top-order wobble as India notch up a comprehensive five-wkt win, chasing Zimbabwe’s 161; Samson and Shardul shine in ODI series-clinching victory
Sanju Samson en route his 43* at Harare on Saturday. Pic/AP; PTI
India’s top order wobbled a bit while chasing a small total, but captain KL Rahul said his side were not nervous as it notched up a comprehensive five-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the second ODI to clinch the series with one match remaining here on Saturday.
Chasing 162 to win, India were 97-4 at the end of the 14th over before Sanju Samson’s unbeaten 43 off 39 balls took the visitors home with 24.2 overs left.
KL Rahul
“We bat deep and it’s good for some of the guys to get time in the middle. We weren’t nervous,” Rahul said at the post-match presentation.
‘Zim have quality bowlers’
“They [Zimbabwe] have some quality bowlers and they bowled well against Bangladesh, I watched on the television. The bowlers did come hard, they’re tall and big and strong boys.
Shardul Thakur (left) celebrates a wicket with Axar Patel on Saturday. Pic/ICC
“Good challenge for us as batters, but we bat deep so it wasn’t a worry.”
Rahul promoted himself at the top of the batting order to open the India innings with Shikhar Dhawan, but was out for 1 in the second over of the run chase. “It didn’t work [on the changed batting order], I wanted to get some runs, but it didn’t happen. Hopefully in the next game,” he said.
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“We’re here to play good cricket and win. It’s a great turnout today, it’s a weekend, and wherever we go across the world we get good support from Indian fans, so thanks to them.”
Man of the match Sanju Samson said he enjoyed keeping wickets and contributing with the bat.
“Feels good to spend time in the middle. I took three catches, but I missed a stumping too; as ’keepers we’re used to listening to things we didn’t do well,” said Samson, who took three catches and scored an unbeaten 43.
For hosts Zimbabwe, it was their second successive loss and captain Regis Chakabva said his team has lacked in execution with both bat and ball.
Execution issue
“We had a really good fight in the field. We’ve struggled to pick early wickets in the last few games and we did that today,” Chakabva said.
“We fell short of runs on the board. Our execution lacked a little bit in the end, and we’re looking to score more runs. The bowlers came out charging and they tried to hit their lengths,” he added.
Brief scores
Zimbabwe 161 all out in 38.1 overs (S Williams 42, R Burl 39*; S Thakur 3-38) lost to India 167-5 in 25.4 overs (S Samson 43*, S Gill 33, S Dhawan 33; L Jongwe 2-33) by five wickets
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If the number of times they are in close calls over your stay it becomes very worrisome, it happens 3 times in 7 night stays. This week my door handle, fry drabinett, window knobbie. All things could turn of airconditionng e or not turn if left too easy at least that 1 item be able fix or have maintenance come over within an evening. No they want me 5 days waiting when only thing thing 20+ dollars The Zika virus now has a foothold in a U.S. territory. Puerto Rico is reporting at least 117 Zika cases, including at least five pregnant women. That's of special concern because of Zika's possible link to birth defects.
In Bayamon, a San Juan suburb, Monica Figueroa is waiting in line at a lunch truck. She's a nurse who works at a nearby clinic and she is pregnant — "about five months and a few weeks, something like that," she says in Spanish. Figueroa knows about Zika. She says she's wearing mosquito repellent but is not especially worried.
"No one seems to be paying much attention to it," she says.
Compared with other tropical diseases carried by mosquitoes, such as dengue or chikungunya, the symptoms of those infected with Zika are usually mild. Only about a fifth of those infected actually get sick. But at least one person with Zika in Puerto Rico has developed a neurological disorder, Guillain-Barre, which may be linked to the disease.
Zika is especially concerning for pregnant women because it may cause birth defects — in particular, microcephaly. Arlene Coto is in her last trimester and worried. She had just come from seeing her doctor.
"He says not to be alarmed," she says. Still, she's taking steps at home to protect her family from mosquitoes. "We have to fumigate and use repellent."
Like many in Puerto Rico, Coto doesn't have screens on her windows. That's something the island's government is working to address, with help from federal authorities. Puerto Rico is installing screens in the island's high schools and plans to make screens available for the homes of pregnant women.
"We have to do what we didn't do for 30 years in 45 days," says Dr. Johnny Rullan, Puerto Rico's former secretary of health. Rullan is an epidemiologist trained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is advising the government on its Zika response.
While Zika is new to Puerto Rico, the island has extensive experience with other tropical diseases, including dengue, which infects thousands of Puerto Ricans each year.
Faced with several dozen Zika cases, the island's government has done something it has never done with dengue. It has declared a public health emergency.
There's good reason for that, Rullan says. Pregnant women are being infected now.
"People don't understand that the battle is going to be in October," he says. "If babies start being born with microcephaly in October, November, December, we lost the battle. Prevention has to be nine months ahead."
More than 90 percent of pregnant women in Puerto Rico receive nutritional services though government-run centers, Rullan says. All these women will be screened for Zika, and any found to be infected will be monitored.
Rullan has closely followed the progress of one of the pregnant women infected with Zika.
"She will be tested at Week 16 with an amniocentesis," he says. "Every four weeks, she'll have a sonogram."
Puerto Rico isn't facing Zika alone. A team of stateside researchers has been dispatched from the CDC. In addition, the 70 employees of the CDC's Dengue Branch, which is located on the island, are now focused on Zika.
Dr. Dana Thomas, an epidemiologist with the CDC, is working in the office of Puerto Rico's secretary of health to monitor Zika's spread. When chikungunya hit the island in 2014, it was during the rainy season. Thomas says it took just four months for the disease to spread throughout Puerto Rico.
Because the majority of people don't show symptoms, Thomas says, tracking Zika is more problematic. The worst may still be ahead.
"We picked this up technically in our dry season," she says of the first Zika cases in Puerto Rico. "So the question is, 'What will happen in April or May as we have more rain and potentially more mosquitoes?' "
Complicating Puerto Rico's fight with Zika is the island's financial crisis. To deal with its massive debt, Puerto Rico has laid off thousands of public employees in recent years, including many in public health.
To help the island meet the challenge, the Obama administration is asking Congress for nearly $500 million. That's money that will be used to shore up the health care system and support Puerto Rico's fight against Zika.
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When you think of baseball, you might think of Cooperstown, N.Y. But it's San Pedro de Macoris, in the Dominican Republic, that's known as "the town where shortstops come from."
As of 2008, 79 boys and men from San Pedro had gone to the play in the major leagues -- including the likes of Sammy Sosa, Robinson Cano and Julio Franco.
Writer Mark Kurlansky examines the phenomenon in his new book, The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris. He says it was often a difficult transition for Dominican players, who started coming to the United States to play ball in 1958.
"They didn't recognize any of the food. It wasn't the kind of food they were used to. Julio Franco was sent to Montana and he didn't know to get a coat. He had never worn a coat. He's in the Rocky Mountains in the snow with no coat," Kurlansky tells NPR's Liane Hansen. "Jose Cano, Robinson Cano's father, who was a pitcher, told me about how he learned to really like Whoppers. He couldn't speak much English, so he'd just go in and order Whoppers. And he could never remember if Whoppers were Burger King or McDonald's. He'd always go into the wrong one and get dirty looks."
And then, there was the racism.
"It was very difficult for them to understand because, first of all, a lot of them were ... light-skinned and didn't consider themselves to be black," Kurlansky says. "So they'd go to minor league teams in the South, even in the early '60s, and they didn't think Jim Crow applied to them and got into a lot of difficulties -- not only with racists, but with the African-American players, who kind of resented this stand of 'I'm not really black.' You know, they thought they should have shown more solidarity with the black players, rather than insisting they were distinct from it."
But Kurlansky says the current notion that Dominican players are replacing African-American players "really is not true."
"If anything, it's the other way around. They're hiring Dominicans because they can't get enough blacks," he says. "I've talked to a number of ex-major leaguers who've worked on recruiting programs in inner cities -- you know, these programs are dying; they can't get people interested. People want to play football and basketball, where you can get to the big game and the big money a lot quicker than you can in baseball."
Although it may take longer to get to, there is definitely big money in baseball. The average salary for a major league player is $3 million a year, Kurlansky says. And the signing bonuses just keep getting bigger.
"It used to be a few thousand dollars, and now they're a few hundred thousand dollars. In 2008, Oakland signed a pitcher for $4.25 million -- 16-year-old pitcher; wasn't even a left-hander," Kurlansky says. "His family is OK now, no matter what happens. Obviously, Oakland has high hopes for his career, but even if he just is a complete bust, he's OK and his family's OK.
"But even, you know, these guys who sign for $200,000 -- you know, if you get $200,000, you've changed the life of everyone in your family. I mean, these people are living on hundreds of dollars a year. When you start talking about hundreds of thousands, that's huge."
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
902 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of southwest Texas and western Texas, including
the following counties, in southwest Texas, Pecos and Reeves. In
western Texas, Crane, Ector, Ward and Winkler.
* WHEN...Until 1215 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 902 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause arroyo and small stream
flooding. Between 0.5 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- This includes the following streams and drainages...
Hackberry Draw, Barrilla Draw, Pecos River, Sandia Creek,
Toyah Creek, Monahans Draw and Coyanosa Draw.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Monahans, Thorntonville, Grandfalls, West Odessa, Wickett,
Coyanosa, Royalty, Imperial Reservoir, B F Goodrich Testing
Track, Roy Hurd Memorial Airport, Monahans Sandhills State
Park and Penwell.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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UND Football Welcoming Challenge of Nebraska Week One
First time playing Big Ten Opponent since 1975
GRAND FORKS, N.D — North Dakota football opens up their season on the road against Nebraska.
It’s the first time the Fighting Hawks are playing a Big Ten opponent since 1975.
The capacity of Alerus Center is 21,000. At Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, it’s 90,000.
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WooSox Fall 5-1 to Rochester in Rain-Shortened Game
August 20, 2022 - International League (IL) - Worcester Red Sox News Release
WORCESTER, M.A. - The Rochester Red Wings (52-64) won a rain-shortened ballgame at Polar Park on Saturday afternoon, a 5-1 final over the Worcester Red Sox (59-57). The game was called after a two hour, seven minute rain delay before the bottom of the seventh.
Rochester jumped out to an early lead against WooSox starter Victor Santos, rallying for three runs in the third inning. After a leadoff walk, Andrew Stevenson lined a ball to right-center that got by Franchy Cordero, giving Stevenson an RBI triple. One batter later, Lucius Fox delivered a two-run homer to right to make it 3-0 Red Wings.
Santos allowed consecutive singles to start the fourth, and after an out, Stevenson ripped an run-scoring single to center. That was the final pitch thrown by Santos, who finished the day with the following line: 3.1 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 4 K.
Worcester got one back in the fifth on a Cordero sac-fly, giving him his sixth RBI in his last two games. Following the sac-fly, he was lifted from the game.
The run came off Nationals' top pitching prospect Cade Cavalli, who went five innings and struck out eight. The right-hander threw 109 pitches, the most by any pitcher in the International League this season.
Riley Adams reached second on a throwing error to start Rochester's sixth, got to third on a wild pitch and scored on a Nick Banks single, all in the span of four pitches.
The run was unearned off reliever Geoff Hartlieb, who tossed 2.2 innings-he was followed by Eduard Bazardo, who added a runless frame in the seventh through a light rain.
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As the seventh inning stretch began, the rain picked up, and the series entered its second rain delay of the week, eventually leading to the conclusion of the game.
The WooSox conclude the six-game series on Sunday at 1:05 p.m. at Polar Park against the Rochester Red Wings, affiliate of the Washington Nationals. On the mound, Brian Keller (3-4, 3.30) faces Daniel Ponce de Leon (0-2, 7.24). Radio coverage is live at 12:45 p.m. on 98.9 Nash Icon and the WooSox Radio Network, while television is live on NESN.
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The final verdict is in: Steig Larsson has posthumously proven himself to be one of the Greats of Mystery Fiction, taking his place in the pantheon along with other demi-Gods like Christie, Sayers, Hammett, Chandler, Robert Parker and his (still-breathing) fellow Swede, Henning Mankell. With the frantically awaited American publication of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the last novel in his The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, the soaring architectural ambition of Larsson's trilogy fully reveals itself. Once readers recover from the depression always attendant upon reaching the end of a superb story (and from the particular sadness here of knowing that Larsson, who died of a heart attack after turning in the manuscripts of his three mysteries, won't be writing any more) many of them will want to return to the first novel, to savor -- with the wisdom of the newly enlightened -- the earliest hints of the catastrophes to come.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest makes clear that all three of Larsson's novels ingeniously turn on the classic "locked room" mystery plot. In the debut thriller, our hero, disgraced business journalist Mikael Blomkvist, and our matchless heroine, Goth computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, joined forces to solve the decades-old disappearance of a young woman from an island off the coast of Sweden that was entirely sealed-off from the mainland. The second novel of the series, The Girl Who Played With Fire, found Lisbeth accused of a triple murder and holed up in her secret apartment, hiding out from the police and feeding the dogged Blomkvist clues to the background of the crimes via computer.
In this culminating novel, Salander is again at the still center of a force five horror: She lies immobile-but-still-texting in a locked hospital room. The indefatigable Salander is recovering from a bullet to the brain and a premature burial. Meanwhile, Blomkvist -- aided by some of his fellow journalists, rogue hackers and skeptical police detectives -- scurries around unearthing the dimensions of a monstrous Cold War-era scandal within the Swedish government whose long fallout has warped Salander into the Ms. Not Nice Girl loner she is today. (In a life-or-death courtroom scene late in the novel, the nonplussed 20-something-year-old Salander saunters before the judge wearing a frayed black leather mini skirt and a T-shirt that reads: "I AM ANNOYED")
Salander's gloriously anti-authoritarian personality is of a piece with the unapologetic feminist vision of Larsson's novels. Every positive character here, male and female, fights the good fight against the forces of misogyny -- both the everyday sexism that assumes female deference to be the default position in the workplace and the more violent eruptions that result in psychological and sexual abuse and, sometimes, even death. Larsson opens The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest with a short prologue about female warriors throughout history. Among the "warriors" in this tale are Blomkvist's sister, who is a lawyer specializing in women's rights cases, and Erika Berger, Blomkvist's longtime lover who has taken over the helm of a militantly old-boy newspaper. Clearly, however, it's Salander's own story -- stretching over the three books -- that's intended as the central saga.
Salander is a flawed-but-riveting modern-day Amazon who faces down the evils of the global sex trade and the blanketing indifference of a patriarchal government. Whenever feminist mystery writers (and fellow demi-Gods of the genre) Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton have gone explicit with the sexual politics in their novels, they've been slammed for being "preachy." No such complaints have been flung at Larsson. Perhaps overt feminism in detective fiction is more palatable coming from a man ... or from a Swede ... or ... who knows? The literary and political miracle here is that Larsson managed to create an unforgettably steely series that fixates on: "violence against women, and the men who enable it." As a mystery lover and a feminist, I'm grateful for the Salander novels and also saddened that Salander and Blomkvist won't be making any more citizen's arrests in the future.
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The heroine of Jane Smiley's latest novel, Private Life, lives with her husband at the naval shipyard on Mare Island, north of San Francisco. There, while in bed one evening in 1906, she feels the earth move -- and it has nothing to do with her husband. A lamp falls off the bedside table -- just minor damage. But, over on the mainland, all hell breaks loose as San Francisco collapses in the Great Earthquake and subsequent fire. Margaret Mayfield Early is a quiet woman who keeps her own counsel, a watcher rather than an actor in history's great dramas. It's appropriate that she lives in an insular place like an island, where she can hear of catastrophes taking place across the water but is only glancingly affected by them herself. The years roll on, and other events transpire: sailors leave Mare Island for service in World Wars I and II, and the Spanish flu epidemic and the Great Depression hit. Margaret lives, at a remove, through them all -- until one day she quietly realizes that the man she has spent most of her life married to is, at best, a fool; this time, the epicenter of the earthquake is in her brain.
Private Life is a powerful turn-of-the-last-century American novel in both chronology and style. It spans the decades from Margaret's childhood in Missouri after the Civil War up to the early years of World War II. Smiley has tried her hand at historical novels before (as well as an academic farce and even a suspense tale), but, at bottom, she has always been a master chronicler of the climate changes in relationships -- I think especially of her great, great novella, The Age of Grief.
Here, her compelling story about a long marriage has an Edith Wharton, Henry James feel of sinister delicacy about it. Margaret is afflicted by the same strain of paralysis that defines Newland Archer in Wharton's Age of Innocence. In the opening section of the novel, shrewd older women around Margaret conspire to orchestrate her marriage -- at the desperately ripe old age of 27 -- to Capt. Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early, a Navy astronomer in his 30s and the most famous man that their little Midwestern town has ever produced. Describing their courtship, Smiley's deadpan omniscient narrator says that Margaret felt "pleasing dread" at Capt. Early's approach, and their wedding was "quickly accomplished." What layers of meaning are freeze-dried into those compact phrases! By the time Margaret understands both the betrayals she has been subjected to and the true character of her husband, her feeble spirit of defiance has all but calcified.
Margaret and Andrew move to Mare Island immediately after the wedding because he's put in charge of the observatory there. Andrew has made a tentative reputation for himself with his theories about double stars. Soon he's filling up their small house with dusty piles of scientific journals, churning out boulder-sized books with titles like The Universe Explained, and engaging in one-sided debates with his nemesis, Albert Einstein. Reflecting on one of his manuscripts (which, of course, she has been expected to type) Margaret thinks: "What Andrew's theory was, precisely she could not herself have said, though she partially understood the second half of the second volume, which was that if they could harness the power of the Aether, they would be as gods ... [H]aving been left to think and think and think, Andrew had made up his mind that thinking was everything."
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Private Life is a wistful and beautifully observed novel about nice girls finishing last. Margaret always listened to her practical mother who opined that: "Romance ... was always the first act of a tragedy." But, as Smiley makes clear, relationships that don't have their roots in passion are capable of their own peculiar devastations of spirit.
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Here come the A-listers! Matt Damon as well as 'Jay and Silent Bob' stars Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes arrive in Georgia for Bennifer's wedding
- Matt Damon, long heavily associated with Affleck and a co-Oscar winner with his fellow Massachusetts native for Good Will Hunting, was spotted
- Director Kevin Smith and actor Jason Mewes - famous for their pairing as 'Jay and Silent Bob' - were also spotted in Georgia for the party
- Already seen in Georgia are Ben's parents and all three of his kids. Also, there is Jennifer's mother, Guadalupe, her sister Lynda, and her twins Max and Emme
- Patrick Whitesell, executive chairman of Endeavor Talent Agency, which reps the actor, and actress wife Pia Miller, also landed near Riceboro in a private jet
- Not everyone close to Affleck is apparently in attendance, as brother and Oscar-winner Casey was spotted in Los Angeles earlier Saturday morning
- Among the other A-Listers expected to celebrate the couple include George Clooney, Jane Fonda, Renee Zellweger, and Jimmy Kimmel
Celebrities, including some of the groom's most famous pals, are out in full force in Georgia as Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez get set to tie the knot.
Matt Damon, long associated with Affleck and a co-Oscar winner with his fellow Massachusetts native for Good Will Hunting, was spotted getting out of a car with his wife, Luciana Barroso.
The couple arrived at an airfield near the site of the celebration aboard a private jet.
Director Kevin Smith and actor Jason Mewes - famous for their pairing as 'Jay and Silent Bob' - were also spotted in Georgia for the party.
Smith was seen at a Hertz rental pickup with his wife, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, as they headed for the festivities.
Celebrities, including some of the groom's most famous pals, are out in full force in Georgia as Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez get set to tie the knot
Matt Damon, long heavily associated with Affleck and a co-Oscar winner with his fellow Massachusetts native for Good Will Hunting, was spotted getting out of a car with wife, Luciana Barroso
The couple arrived to an airfield near the site of the celebration aboard a private jet
Affleck and Damon have been famously been known as the tightest friends in Hollywood since both broke out in the late 90s
Director Kevin Smith (pictured with his wife, Jennifer) and actor Jason Mewes - famous for their pairing as 'Jay and Silent Bob' - were also spotted in Georgia for the party
Affleck has starred with Smith and Mewes in at least seven different movies dating back to 1995's Chasing Amy, including a cameo in this year's Clerks III.
Smith was seen at the airport in his traditional outfit of an ice hockey jersey and jean shorts but he later posted a photo with Schwalbach Smith, Mewes, and his wife, Jordan Monsanto, in a white suit to go along with a white backward baseball cap.
He wrote: 'For those who say he always wears the same outfit... [Schwalbach], [Monsanto], [Mewes] and me, all cleaned up. This is as formal as I've been dressed since maybe my first communion when I was seven'.
Patrick Whitesell, executive chairman of Endeavor Talent Agency, which reps the actor, and actress wife Pia Miller, also landed near Riceboro in a private jet.
Among the other A-Listers expected to celebrate the couple includes George Clooney, Jane Fonda, Renee Zellweger, and Jimmy Kimmel.
Patrick Whitesell, executive chairman of Endeavor Talent Agency which reps the actor, and actress wife Pia Miller also landed near Riceboro in a private jet
Guests arrive in dark SUVs to board a bus on their way to Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's wedding ceremony in Riceboro, Georgia
Already seen in Georgia is Ben's parents and all three of his kids. Also, there is Jennifer's mother, Guadalupe, her sister Lynda, and her twins Max and Emme.
Not everyone close to Affleck is apparently in attendance, as brother and Oscar-winner Casey were spotted in Los Angeles earlier Saturday morning.
Casey was spotted leisurely buying a cup of coffee in Los Angeles this morning, despite the fact that his brother Ben will be tying the knot with Jennifer Lopez about 2,500 miles across the country in Georgia this evening. Casey appeared to tell TMZ that he has 'other things' to do.
Asked why he wasn't at his brother's wedding, Casey mumbles something that sounds like he says 'I have other things to do,' then would not clarify whether that was what he said.
The younger Affleck brother, 47, looked comfortable in a pair of baggy jeans and a blue hoodie, and even smiled for the camera as he picked up a cup from Starbucks and took a call on his cell phone.
It is unclear why Casey appeared in no rush to make it for his brother's big day — or to his mother, who was rushed to the hospital from Ben's Georgia estate yesterday after she reportedly fell off a dock and cut her leg.
Casey's presence in LA is especially puzzling as the brothers are well known for being close and have worked together on a number of movies across both of their Hollywood careers.
Despite his appearance in LA on the same day his brother is set to say his vows to Lopez — once again, Page Six previously reported Casey would in fact be attending the wedding.
Casey Affleck was spotted leisurely buying a cup of coffee in Los Angeles this morning, despite the fact that his brother Ben will be tying the knot with Jennifer Lopez about 2,500 miles across the country in Georgia this evening
It is unclear why Casey appeared in no rush to make it for his brother's big day, even as their mother was rushed to the hospital from Ben's Georgia estate yesterday after she reportedly fell off a dock and cut her leg
Casey's presence in LA is especially puzzling as the brothers are well known for being close and have worked together on a number of movies across both of their Hollywood careers
As guests flocked to Georgia for Ben and Jennifer's wedding this week, Casey appeared to be comfortable in LA.
He was spotted on Thursday night taking his girlfriend, Caylee Cowan, 24, out on the town on Thursday evening.
The couple celebrated Noah Tepperberg's birthday at LAVO Restaurant, where they were spotted sharing a smooch.
Casey had ample time to book a flight to Georgia for his brother's wedding, as the event has been in the works for four months.
Jennifer Garner was invited to attend the wedding of her ex-husband Affleck to Lopez this weekend.
The 50-year-old Alias actress declined, however, as she will be in Texas on a work assignment, Hollywood Life shared on Friday.
It appears as if Garner and Affleck, 50 - who were wed from 2005 until 2018 - are on good terms as they co-parent their three children Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Sam, 11.
The 13 Going On 30 star has 'wished' the couple 'the best' and is 'totally supportive of her kids being there,' the site said.
But she will not show which is understandable; the ex-wife does not usually attend her ex's wedding.
Wedding weekend: Lopez, 52, and Affleck are set to begin celebrating their marriage later today, with the main ceremony on Saturday and a family barbecue scheduled for Sunday; seen in 2021
A source told Terry Zeller's HollywoodLife that Garner was formally invited to the wedding of the year. But she said no.
Turns out the star will be in Texas for work.
'Jennifer Garner is hard at work on a project in Texas and won't be attending the wedding celebration, but she's been totally supportive of her kids being there and is really positive in general about the whole thing,' the insider said.
'There is nothing more important to her than her kids' happiness so the fact that they feel welcomed and at ease and have bonded with JLo and her kids is just the best thing she could ask for.'
A second source told the site Garner 'congratulated' Bennifer.
Stepmom: Lopez hugging Ben's eldest child Violet in Paris in July
'Ben will always consider Jennifer's family so of course, he extended an invitation,' the source maintained.
'Plus, Jennifer and Jen have become closer so JLo was fully supportive of inviting the mother of his kids.
'Jennifer knows they adore JLo and she's fully on board with them getting close with their new stepmom. Jennifer has wished them all the best and knows it will be a beautiful event.'
Affleck and beaming bride Jennifer Lopez shared a kiss atop the steps of his $8.9 million Georgia 'plantation' mansion on their wedding day that will feature a star-studded guest list and pork chops
Stunning photos obtained by DailyMail.com show the celebrity couple known as 'Bennifer' smooching as they hold their second wedding ceremony with loved ones on Saturday at Affleck's rural estate in Riceboro, a month after they secretly wed in a small Las Vegas service.
The pair's happy reunion comes 20 years after they first dated and got engaged, only to call off their wedding in the fall of 2003, blaming excessive media attention.
Photos show the happy couple on the steps of the Big House, a plantation-style mansion that is the focal point of the $8.9 million estate.
Lopez, already decked out in her stunning white gown, greets Affleck affectionately as he ascends the staircase. Following the early kisses and hugs, the couple headed into the home to prepare for the big ceremony.
The couple are now enjoying their evening celebrations. A fire truck was spotted arriving at the property shortly after 8pm, but onlookers say it did not have its lights or siren on, and there was no sense of urgency.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck (top) were caught sharing a kiss on the morning of their big wedding on Saturday
On the menu will be fried pork chops, rice, and vegetables, a staple of Puerto Rico, where Lopez's family hails from, along with other barbecue treats amid the sizzling 88-degree weather.
Also on the menu will be oven-roasted chicken and mac and cheese, as the couple is embracing Southern cuisine for their Georgia wedding.
After days of torrential rain, the couple caught a lucky break with the weather on Saturday. Though skies were overcast and temperatures sweltered in the 90s, storm clouds avoided the area.
Security was tight around the sprawling 87-acre property ahead of the ceremony. Large security gates were installed at the end of the four-mile road down to Affleck’s sprawling country estate several weeks ago.
On Saturday, a police car sat at the gates while guards busily handed out wristbands to all comers, their names checked and double-checked against the ‘Master Production’ list.
DailyMail.com has learned that an explosives permit for a fireworks display has been quietly secured with Affleck’s plantation-style home at its epicenter. Wedding bells were also set up ahead of the evening nuptials.
Low-flying aircraft, like drones and helicopters, have been warned not to fly within a three-mile radius of the venue due to the large fireworks show that is expected to close out the evening
Meanwhile, the river onto which the property backs are being patrolled by security boats.
An actual wedding bell was seen being set up at Affleck's $8 million Georgia mansion ahead of Saturday evenings nuptials
In addition to wedding bells to ring in Affleck and JLo's union, an explosives permit for a fireworks display was secured
A white grand piano was also seen at the lavish estate, suggesting live music was on the cards for Bennifer's big day
A white walkway has been set from the rear veranda of the Big House down to the water, where a marquee has been installed.
Lopez shared a big hug with one of the guests that arrived with Affleck, who hurried inside with a bag around his shoulder
After greeting the guests, Lopez followed suit and went back into the home to prepare for the ceremony
Security is tight at the perimeter of Affleck’s sprawling Riceboro, Georgia estate ahead of Saturday's wedding
Today a police car sits on the gates, while guards busily handed out wrist bands to all comers, their names checked and double-checked against the ‘Master Production’ list
Last minute supplies were still arriving Saturday morning with catering trucks and musical equipment disappearing down the tree-lined road
Workers manned the perimeter to ensure that nobody on the list slipped through the ring of steel surrounding the ceremony
Lopez and Affleck were secretly wed (above) in July at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas, an event they kept secret even from some close friends and family. On Saturday they will celebrate the union with a larger ceremony in Georgia
Exclusive pictures obtained by DailyMail.com show Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck arriving at a hospital yesterday afternoon as Ben's mother received stitches after an accident at her son's Georgia estate.
A source told DailyMail.com that Ben's mother, Christopher Anne Boldt, fell off a dock and cut her leg at the Riceboro property. Ben reportedly found her and called the ambulance.
JLo arrived carrying a Dior bag, downcast and wearing a summer dress after the medical emergency at the property where she and Ben are celebrating their lavish wedding this weekend.
Meanwhile, Affleck could be seen pacing and smoking a cigarette outside the building, casually dressed in a T-shirt and shorts, his baseball cap worn backward.
A source told DailyMail.com that the incident was 'not serious.'
Exclusive pictures obtained by DailyMail.com show Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck at the hospital Friday afternoon as Ben's mother received stitches after an accident at her son's Georgia estate
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Some scientists are taking a more radical approach to cooling the earth's climate, like dumping iron dust into the ocean, hoping to grow algae blooms that suck up carbon. Or putting a giant lens between the Earth and the sun to reflect some of the sun's rays away from Earth.
It's all part of a controversial field known as geoengineering, and science writer Eli Kintisch spent three years following the men and women who believe it can work for his new book, Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope -- or Worst Nightmare -- for Averting Climate Catastrophe.
Kintisch tells NPR's Guy Raz that many scientists see geoengineering as a sort of insurance policy. "We might face emergencies in the future which driving a Prius or putting up a windmill or putting up a solar panel will not answer," he says.
So, those scientists argue, we have to have backup plans.
One of those backup plans is known as the "Pinatubo Option." The name refers to a 1991 volcanic eruption that spewed more than 10 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. That blocked a small percentage of the sun's rays and cooled the planet by 1 degree Fahrenheit. One scientist imagines mimicking this volcanic cooling effect by spraying more sulfur dioxide at high altitudes.
"But cooling the planet with something like the Pinatubo Option doesn't address the underlying issues," Kintisch says. It also could have serious side effects.
"You might actually damage the ability of solar panels to take in energy, because you are blocking direct sunlight that those panels need to create energy," Kintisch warns. "So by doing geoengineering and removing direct sunlight from the planet's system, you're actually undermining the alternative energy we need to get off our fossil fuel addiction."
Another scientist is taking a different approach to geoengineering. Instead of looking to the sky for solutions, he's looking to the ocean. Victor Smetacek, a German oceanographer, is trying to cool the planet by growing carbon-absorbing gardens in parts of the ocean with little life.
In 2009, Smetacek and a team of Indian and German scientists added 6 tons of iron into a section of the Southern Ocean, which rings Antarctica, to see if they could get a massive bloom of algae to flourish. Algae growing in the ocean cools the planet by sucking in carbon dioxide. The team did get algae to grow, but it was the wrong kind of algae.
The 10-week experiment, called project LOHAFEX, is the world's largest geoengineering project to date, and, like many other geoengineering attempts, was controversial. Greenpeace and other environmental organizations demanded that LOHAFEX be stopped from the start, saying that pouring iron into the ocean amounted to pollution and violated international agreements. Some scientists feared the unintended side effects of the project.
"In the case of fertilizing the ocean," Kintisch explains, "you might create areas that are deprived of oxygen. You might alter ecosystems in ways you don't understand. You might actually create organisms in your algae patch that put up greenhouse gasses more potent than the carbon dioxide, like methane."
Despite the potential drawbacks of geoengineering, major science organizations such as the American Geophysical Union, the Royal Society in London, and the National Academy of Sciences have all called for more geoengineering research.
"It's a bad idea whose time has come," Kintisch says.
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Heatwaves, severe droughts cause Europe searing pain
* Heatwaves scorched Europe earlier than usual, especially in the southern, western and central parts. Multiple countries have reported record high temperatures.
* While global food and fuel prices have seen spikes since the Ukraine crisis intensified, the drought has dealt another blow to Europe's agriculture.
* This blazing summer has sounded a warning bell that mitigating global warming requires instant and serious implementation of green actions.
ROME, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Historic heatwaves and droughts have set the tone for Europe this summer, which has been gripped by blistering heat, devastating forest blazes, little precipitation and dried up rivers and lakes.
The prolonged extreme weather is taking a heavy toll on European countries, which are still beset by rising prices and energy crisis. Experts have warned of reduced agricultural output, hampered shipping and insufficient electricity production, among other challenges.
Climate change, a major cause of the extreme weather, has become a pressing issue to be dealt with more than ever, with Europe struggling to realize its green ambition without risking energy insecurity.
A woman pours water on her head during a heatwave in Athens, Greece, on June 22, 2022. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)
HOT DRY SPELL
Heatwaves scorched Europe earlier than usual, especially in the southern, western and central parts. Multiple countries, including Spain and Britain, have reported record high temperatures, while Portugal recorded a new high of 47 degrees Celsius in mid-July.
The Institute of Atmosphere and Climate Science of Italy's National Research Council said in early August that this year is on pace to be the hottest and driest year in Italy on record dating back to 1800.
Wildfires have become more frequent. This year, some 660,000 hectares of European land have been burned by large fires as of Aug. 13, a record high at this point of the year since data collection began in 2006, according to the European Forest Fire Information System.
Firefighters battle a wildfire in Cebreros, Castilla y Leon, Spain, July 21, 2022. (Junta de Castilla y Leon/Handout via Xinhua)
Aside from Mediterranean countries that are no new victims of fires in summer, such as Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, blazes have also ravaged central and northern Europe, damaging buildings and forcing people to flee their homes.
The early heatwaves have worsened the severe drought that began to trouble much of Europe since early 2022 due to persistent lack of precipitation.
Britain officially declared a drought across a large swathe of England. The source of the River Thames in the country has dried up further downstream, and major rivers that run through the European continent have seen water levels drop significantly, including the River Rhine.
Photo taken on Aug. 14, 2022 shows the view of a dried riverbed near the source of the River Thames, southwest of the town of Cirencester, Britain. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Xinhua)
In Slovenia, the drought has prompted restrictions on tap water usage and agricultural irrigation, and similar actions are underway in many other nations.
Recent data from the European Commission's Joint Research Center (EC-JRC) showed some 47 percent of the territory of the European Union and Britain in drought warning conditions and 17 percent in alert conditions.
The current drought could surpass the 2018 drought to be the worst in 500 years, Andrea Toreti, a senior researcher with the center, was quoted by media reports in August as saying.
Withered sunflowers are seen in Karst, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Aug. 16, 2022. (Photo by Zeljko Stevanic/Xinhua)
MULTIFACETED IMPACT
The heatwaves and droughts are creating a multifaceted impact on Europeans, experts have warned.
"Droughts have consequences on the ability of nature to function and provide society with the essentials for life. Biodiversity, particularly soil micro-organisms that maintain soil fertility, may struggle to recover, impacting next year's farming productivity," said Mike Rivington, a senior scientist at the James Hutton Institute in Britain.
Dutch media reported an increasing risk of salinization in the west of the Netherlands as rivers and lakes supply less fresh water. Lack of water and rising water temperatures have also brought about blue-green algae and contributed to fish death.
While global food and fuel prices have seen spikes since the Ukraine crisis intensified, the drought has dealt another blow to Europe's agriculture, with crop output to be reduced and food prices feared to be further increased.
Rising fertilizer prices, energy and feed costs are putting pressure on farmers, the German Farmers' Association told local media, adding that if it does not rain consistently soon, the yield of crops could be reduced by 30-40 percent.
In Greece, France, Italy and Hungary, the weather is expected to reduce the production of olive oil, wine, corn and animal feed. Hungarian Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy told local media in July that this year's damage caused by aridity to farmers was already double the total of the past 10 years.
Lowered water levels have also caused a headache for shipping, which has a ripple effect on the economy. Due to sizzling temperatures and lack of rain, the River Rhine -- one of the most important waterways in Europe -- is seeing ships "sailing with less than half the usual cargo volumes," local media reported.
Photo taken on Aug. 17, 2022 shows the bank of River Rhine in Dusseldorf, Germany.The water level of River Rhine has dropped due to high temperature and drought. (Xinhua/Ren Pengfei)
Fuel and raw materials including grain, chemicals, minerals, coal and oil products are all frequently shipped along the River Rhine. The curtailed water transport affects industrial production, and notably limited coal transport for coal-fired power plants, which have regained importance in the region in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The heat and droughts are making the energy crisis in Europe even more intractable, as they disrupt electricity production from hydro, nuclear and wind power plants. Hydropower was reduced in Italy, Spain and Norway, while several nuclear power plants were shut down in France.
"Energy production from run-of-river plants until the beginning of July was lower than the 2015-2021 average for many European countries ... The same decrease is true for hydropower reservoir levels," said a report published in July by the EC-JRC.
CLIMATE CHALLENGE
Climate change is a major factor behind this worrying situation, experts have noted, calling for an immediate global response to tackle the crisis.
"The record high temperatures we're expecting and experiencing are not surprising. Climate change is leading to changes in extreme temperatures, changes in the number of heatwaves around the world," Corinne Le Quere, a professor of Climate Change Science at Britain's University of East Anglia, told Xinhua.
The World Metrological Organization warned in July that heatwaves will occur more frequently into the 2060s.
According to a report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), temperatures will rise more quickly in Europe than elsewhere.
The IPCC expects a worrisome combination of climatic impact-driver changes by mid-century if global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius in the Mediterranean, such as temperature extremes, increases in droughts and wildfires, and less precipitation and snow cover.
This blazing summer has sounded a warning bell that mitigating global warming requires instant and serious implementation of green actions.
While drought mitigation strategies are of the utmost importance now, "further efforts are needed also for preventively adapting to the changing weather patterns by climate-proofing energy supply and applying sustainable solutions in agriculture," the European Commission said in its Drought in Europe report in July.
But the crux of the matter is to ensure Europe's energy security in its green transition bid, especially after the region experienced energy supply disruption amid the Ukraine crisis.
A dried corn field is seen as a severe drought hits France, in Puiseux-Pontoise, about 30 km northwest of Paris, France, Aug. 18, 2022. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)
The drought has forced some countries to turn to coal-fired stations to fill the green energy gap, analysts said, while warning of rising energy bills in Europe this summer.
"The changes in climate are happening faster than actions are being taken to adapt society to changes," said Le Quere.
Globally, "we need to get together to tackle climate change, because the global emissions have to be brought down to net zero for the climate to stabilize," but people also need to "find solutions that will make society work as the climate gets warmer and warmer until it stabilizes," said the professor.
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This interview originally aired on May 5, 2009.
Five years ago, novelist Ayelet Waldman sparked a controversy -- and wound up on Oprah to defend herself -- when she wrote in an essay that she loved her husband more than her children.
In her memoir Bad Mother, which was just released in paperback, Waldman details the fall-out of that essay, as well as what she calls "the perils and joys of trying to be a decent mother in a world intent on making you feel like a bad one."
Waldman is the author of Daughter's Keeper, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits and the Mommy-Track mystery series. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue and Parenting.
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Piers Morgan arrived on a private jet with Lachlan Murdoch to a hyped ad campaign rarely seen in Australia as News Corp promoted their $100 MILLION TV saviour. But just four months later no-one is watching, writes AMY HARRIS
- Outspoken British commentator Piers Morgan appears in Australia on Sky News
- Morgan enlisted by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for $100million in February
- His show debuted in April to 90,000 viewers but has sunk to 18,000
- Morgan said to be on 'performance-based' contract with 'get out' clauses
- Jeremy Kyle currently filling in for the controversial host while he is in the US
- References to 'Uncensored' have been quietly removed from Sky News website
Piers Morgan's Twitter handle could well sum up the British journalist's view on life: 'One day you're the cock of the walk, the next you're a feather duster'.
This quote is also an apt metaphor for a career that's seen the 57-year-old rise to the position of editor of News of the World at just 29, be sacked from rival tabloid the Daily Mirror for publishing fake photographs of British soldiers in Iraq - before securing a job on CNN in the U.S. - only to be axed three years into the deal in 2014 due to poor ratings.
He was then hired as Mail Online's editor-at-large, where Morgan maintained his well-read column while stepping back onto television with a fulltime hosting role on Good Morning Britain.
In 2021, Morgan stormed off the set and out of the job after he was confronted on air about comments he made regarding Meghan Markle following her controversial Oprah interview with Prince Harry.
But just one year later, Morgan finds himself under a new kind of pressure just six months after signing a monster $100million (AUD) deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
The word from Sky News' Sydney headquarters is 'Piers Morgan: Uncensored' - only launched in April - may ultimately be dumped from Australian screens due to poor ratings.
The show, which premiered in the U.S. on Fox, on the new British channel TVTalk, and on Sky News in Australia, initially attracted solid numbers on the back of a multi-million dollar advertising campaign and an interview with Donald Trump.
Piers Morgan's show is struggling in the ratings. He's pictured here with a cocktail in front of the Murdoch's private jet
Piers Morgan: Uncensored has sunk to a viewership of less than 100,000 in the UK and 18,000 in Australia
In Australia, 90,000 viewers tuned in to the first hour-long program, which airs from Sunday to Thursday at 9pm.
However, within just a few weeks those numbers had dropped significantly.
Shortly before Morgan's four-week long summer hiatus, which he announced to his Twitter followers in late July, Uncensored was drawing an average of just 18,000 viewers in Australia.
It's a slide mirrored in the UK viewing figures which have dropped by about 80% since its debut - from 317,000 to just 60,000.
Morgan has featured a number of high-profile names on his show including Cristiano Ronaldo
Piers was pictured leaving Lachlan Murdoch's private jet after arriving in Sydney for the 25th anniversary dinner in February (above)
Piers flew to Australia with Lachlan Murdoch (above, leaving the AU$90million Gulfstream G650)
Morgan's figures in Australia are dwarfed by his Sky News colleagues. Paul Murray's 'Paul Murray Live' regularly averages over 40,000 viewers per night.
Credlin, helmed by Tony Abbott's former chief of staff Peta Credlin, also easily out-performed Uncensored with a 35,000 nightly average.
For context, Sky News' free-to-air prime-time rivals Seven News and Nine News average about 900,000 viewers per night combined.
Now on a month-long break in the US where it's understood he is filming another season of his series Serial Killers, 'Piers Morgan's Uncensored' is not being shown on Sky News' Australian schedule despite remaining on air in the UK under fill-in host Jeremy Kyle.
Most promotional images of Morgan have been quietly removed from the Sky News' website.
Morgan's relative failure comes with a degree of irony given he was supposed to be the big-name replacement for Alan Jones, who was dumped by Sky News in November 2021 despite pulling an audience of 63,000.
Lauded as Sky News' antidote to 'cancel culture', Morgan kicked off his series with a sit-down with Donald Trump.
'I'm going to cancel the cancel culture,' he told Peta Credlin on Sky. 'I'm going to take those ultra woke lunatics head on.'
News Corp paid big money to promote the show (above is the ad near Sydney's Anzac Bridge)
Peta Credlin easily out-performed Uncensored with a 35,000 nightly average.
Paul Murray remains the most popular figure on Sky News Australia despite earning a fraction of what Morgan is paid
Morgan boasted he would be; 'calling out extremists from all sides, not just in Australia but anywhere – and especially those who think cancel culture's a great idea and want to compel us all to lead their own dreary joyless lifestyles'.
Morgan began what was a lavish promotional push in February when he arrived in Australia via Lachlan Murdoch's private jet to attend the 25th anniversary party of Sky News at the Sydney Opera House.
Discussing the upcoming election, Morgan said he predicted Australians would 'elect the leader who they believe will move most swiftly to restore all freedom rights lost during the crisis, and who will be strong on national security,'.
Morgan's TV deal has a number of 'performance-based clauses' which allow News Corp to cut him loose say sources
Alan Jones made way for Morgan after he was dumped in November 2021
He later partied the night away with his new News Corp colleagues and followed it up with an appearance on Today opposite Karl Stefanovic (brother of Sky News breakfast anchor Peter Stefanovic) and Allison Langdon.
'Great to be back on breakfast TV again.. even if I did have to fly 10,000 miles to find a morning show that would let me express my opinions!' he later tweeted.
But despite the international promotional push, sources close to contract negotiations have told Daily Mail Australia that there were a number of 'performance-based' clauses built into Morgan's contract.
'Basically if the show doesn't rate, it allows (News Corp) to exercise one or more of those clauses and end the contract without having to pay the full terms,' said an insider.
'And it clearly isn't rating. So perhaps that's what Murdoch will now do.'
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
8-9-7
(eight, nine, seven)
¶ Ticket-holders with all three winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17387364.php | 2022-08-21T03:05:51Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17387364.php | true |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
03-38-43-44-48, Lucky Ball: 18
(three, thirty-eight, forty-three, forty-four, forty-eight; Lucky Ball: eighteen)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
03-38-43-44-48, Lucky Ball: 18
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
2-5-0-9
(two, five, zero, nine)
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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
743 PM MDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 745 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL OTERO AND NORTH CENTRAL HUDSPETH COUNTIES...
Flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to
heed remaining road closures.
A Flood Watch remains in effect until 600 AM MDT Sunday for portions
of New Mexico and southwest Texas.
The National Weather Service in Midland/Odessa has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northeastern Ector County in western Texas...
West Central Midland County in western Texas...
* Until 1145 PM CDT.
* At 846 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain moving into the vicinity of Odessa from the west. Very
heavy rainfall is expected, with amounts of 1 to 2 inches possible
in the warned area. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Odessa, West Odessa and Odessa Schlemeyer Field.
This includes the following streams and drainages...
Monahans Draw.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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Temperatures in much of America this summer have been hovering between inferno and sticky mess. Food writer Nigella Lawson offers cool and refreshing dishes to please the palate and cool the body.
Lawson recommends what she calls Cloudy Lemonade For A Sunny Day, from her latest book, Nigella Fresh. As she tells NPR's Steve Inskeep, the cooling drink's cloudiness comes from using the entire fruit, peel and all.
The recipe is straightforward: Put lemons, club soda and superfine sugar in a blender with ice, "and just blitz," Lawson says.
"I love a note of slight sourness and bitterness," she says, "because actually, something that is oversweet is not thirst-quenching."
Lawson's next suggestion often draws suspicion, she says: a watermelon and feta salad, with black olives. For inspiration, Lawson looked to the eastern Mediterranean, where coping with high temperatures is a way of life. It's common to see cooling watermelon paired with feta in Israel, Lawson says -- and her dish matches the sweetness of watermelon with the cheese's sharp saltiness.
"In life, balance is very important -- and it's something that I always feel evades us, mostly, in life," she says. So you may as well get it in the kitchen."
And instead of relying on Americans' usual sugar-heavy lineup of summer treats -- popsicles, pies and ice cream -- Lawson recommends using sour flavors, as well.
"What it does, is it makes a taste round, rather than one-dimensional," she says.
Lawson's other suggestions from her new book include Chilled Caramelized Oranges with Yogurt -- also known as arancia alla principessa; Red Currant Slush Sorbet; and Mint and Lime Cool Aid.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fast-food chain Wendy’s says it is pulling lettuce from sandwiches in its restaurants in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania after people eating them there reported falling ill.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday it is trying to determine whether romaine lettuce is the source of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 37 people and whether romaine used at Wendy’s was also served or sold at other businesses.
The CDC said one person was also sickened in Indiana. A message was left with Wendy’s about lettuce on sandwiches in that state.
The CDC said there is no evidence that romaine sold in grocery stores is linked to the E. coli outbreak. The agency also said it is not advising people to stop eating at Wendy’s or not to eat romaine lettuce.
Wendy’s says lettuce used in its salads is different and not affected by its decision to pull the lettuce from sandwiches. The company said it is cooperating with the CDC.
“As a company, we are committed to upholding our high standards of food safety and quality,” Wendy’s said in a statement. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/wendys-pulls-lettuce-from-sandwiches-amid-e-coli-outbreak/ | 2022-08-21T03:19:57Z | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/wendys-pulls-lettuce-from-sandwiches-amid-e-coli-outbreak/ | true |
Kei Kamara makes history, CF Montreal blow out Revolution
Romell Quioto netted a pair of goals and an assist -- and Kei Kamara made history -- as CF Montreal extended its unbeaten streak to seven games Saturday night, notching a 4-0 home victory over the visiting New England Revolution.
Quioto scored goals in the 39th and 55th minutes to pad the lead for Montreal (14-8-4, 46 points). The result was the largest margin of victory for the club on the season.
The Revolution (8-8-10, 34 points) saw their unbeaten run end at five matches. The Revs have struggled on the road this season, winning just three games away from New England.
New England mustered just one shot attempt in the first half. The Revs got off 10 in the second, but put just two of those tries on frame.
Meanwhile, Montreal had no problems scoring early and often, and put seven of its 18 shots on target. Kamara opened the scoring in the 26th minute, easily knocking in a ball with his left foot after receiving a feed from Quioto. Mathieu Choiniere was also credited with an assist on the goal, finding Quioto in the build-up.
For Kamara, the goal was his fifth of the season and the 135th of his career, making him the third all-time leading goal scorer in MLS history.
Kamara -- who passed Jeff Cunningham for the mark -- has played in the league since 2006 and has spent time with eight different clubs. The 37-year-old former Sierra Leone international trails only Chris Wondolowski and Landon Donovan in the record books now.
Quioto has now scored in three straight games and has 14 goals on the season, putting him in the thick of the Golden Boot race with Austin FC's Sebastian Driussi (17), FC Dallas' Jesus Ferreira (15) and FC Cincinnati's Brandon Vasquez (15). San Jose's Jeremy Ebobisse and Nashville SC's Hany Mukhtar have also each scored 14 goals.
Assisting on Quioto's two scores were Lassi Lappalainen and Samuel Piette. Quioto's first score was the 500th goal scored in club history for Montreal.
A sub in the 77th minute for Kamara, youngster Matko Miljevic scored on a penalty kick in the 91st minute for Montreal for his first goal of the season.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hit two more home runs Saturday night, boosting his total to 692 and moving him past Stan Musial into second place on the career list for total bases.
The 42-year-old Pujols connected for solo homers in the second and fourth innings against Arizona left-hander Madison Bumgarner. Pujols needs four more to tie Alex Rodriguez for the No. 4 spot all-time.
Pujols’ first homer of the game gave him 6,137 total bases. Musial, the Hall of Famer for the Cardinals, had 6,134. Hank Aaron holds the record with 6,856.
Pujols has been on a roll over the past month, batting .386 with five homers over his past 16 games coming into Saturday.
The 11-time All-Star drew a standing ovation before his first at-bat and the cheers grew even louder from both Cardinals and Diamondbacks fans as the three-time MVP rounded the bases.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WANE) – With less than two weeks to go until the start of the college football season, Indiana head coach Tom Allen is still weighing his options on the Hoosiers’ next starting quarterback.
Veteran Jack Tuttle and Missouri transfer Connor Bazelak are battling it out for top spot on the depth chart. During a press conference on Friday, Allen said he is basing his decision on the quarterback’s ability to command the offense, take care of the ball and presence in the locker room.
Indiana opens the season against Illinois on Sept. 2. | https://www.wane.com/college-sports/ius-allen-still-weighing-options-for-starting-quarterback/ | 2022-08-21T03:33:18Z | https://www.wane.com/college-sports/ius-allen-still-weighing-options-for-starting-quarterback/ | true |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
3-4-2, SB: 7
(three, four, two; SB: seven)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
3-4-2, SB: 7
(three, four, two; SB: seven) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Evening-17387437.php | 2022-08-21T03:36:57Z | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Evening-17387437.php | false |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
01-07-18-22-38, Mega Ball: 4
(one, seven, eighteen, twenty-two, thirty-eight; Mega Ball: four)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
01-07-18-22-38, Mega Ball: 4
(one, seven, eighteen, twenty-two, thirty-eight; Mega Ball: four) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-SuperLotto-Plus-game-17387440.php | 2022-08-21T03:39:18Z | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-SuperLotto-Plus-game-17387440.php | false |
The Museum Of Innocence
by Orhan Pamuk
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk describes The Museum of Innocence as a love story that "doesn't put love on a pedestal." His first novel since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006 is about one man's obsession with a beautiful young woman -- and the museum collection he dedicates to the affair that derailed his life. Set in Istanbul in the 1970s and 1980s, the novel focuses on "love in a semi-repressed society, where communication between men and women is limited, where sex outside of marriage -- especially before marriage -- is also a taboo," Pamuk tells NPR's Robert Siegel.
560 pages, $15.95, Vintage
A Good Fall
by Ha Jin
Ha Jin, who came to the United States from his native China in 1984, won a National Book Award in 1999 for his novel Waiting. A Good Fall, his first book of short fiction since 2000's The Bridegroom, gathers 12 stories set mostly in the Chinese immigrant community of Flushing, N.Y. Inhabited by the most recent Chinese arrivals, it’s a vibrant place that's also home to a lot of Koreans and European immigrants. In considering many generational perspectives in characters who are trying to discover their place in America, Jin shows how the new world can collide with the old in ways as slight and yet somehow tethered as the Internet.
256 pages, $15, Vintage
The Humbling
by Philip Roth
As NPR reviewer Heller McAlpin wrote in November 2009, Philip Roth's 13th book, The Humbling, is about an aging actor who loses his touch and retreats from his work, only to enter into an intense (and explicitly described) affair with a significantly younger lesbian. The Guardian condemned it as "scandalous frippery" (as perhaps only The Guardian would do), but other evaluations have been more positive, crediting the book for being provocative and thoughtful. Roth's story may be brief at 160 pages -- more a novella than a novel -- but he hasn't lost the ability to drive discussion.
160 pages, $14.95, Vintage
Pops
A Life Of Louis Armstrong
by Terry Teachout
Jazz icon Louis Armstrong didn't just leave behind a treasure-trove of musical recordings. He also documented hundreds of his private conversations on tape. Those recordings served as the basis for Terry Teachout's biography of the legendary musician, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Teachout, who played jazz professionally before becoming a full-time writer, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the chief culture critic of Commentary.
496 pages, $16.95, Mariner Books
A Fiery Peace In A Cold War
Bernard Schriever And The Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan
Twenty years after releasing his landmark account of the Vietnam War, A Bright Shining Lie, Sheehan is back with a new book, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War. It tells the story of the Cold War through the eyes of Air Force Gen. Bernard Schriever. Recruited to head up America's intercontinental ballistic missile program during the dangerously unstable early years of the Cold War, he was a quiet man who virtually created the concept of mutual assured destruction to keep the U.S. and Soviet Union balanced against each other.
576 pages, $16.95, Vintage
Charlotte Abbott edits "New in Paperback." A contributing editor for Publishers Weekly, she also writes the Follow the Reader blog about digital publishing issues.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
915 PM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of western Texas, including the following
county, Gaines.
* WHEN...Until 1115 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 915 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- This includes the following streams and drainages...
Seminole Draw.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of West Central Gaines County
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
03-38-43-44-48, Lucky Ball: 18
(three, thirty-eight, forty-three, forty-four, forty-eight; Lucky Ball: eighteen)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
03-38-43-44-48, Lucky Ball: 18
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida deputies had to pull a suspect out of a swamp after he tried hiding in a pond while fleeing from them, as seen on body cam video.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said Alunzo Devon Peoples, 23, of Gainesville fled from deputies Thursday morning when a deputy tried to pull his vehicle over due to a suspended license.
Peoples did a u-turn and tried to speed away while a deputy followed from a safe distance, according to deputies.
The sheriff’s office said the suspect continued making turns and ran through a red light before it drove over another deputy’s stop sticks on CR-304. This caused the vehicle to lose control and crash into a canal.
Peoples then abandoned the vehicle, prompting deputies to set up a perimeter and search for him.
The sheriff’s office said Peoples was found in a cypress pond 200 yards away from the crash site after a helicopter with the Volusia Sheriff’s Office spotted his heat signature from the air.
Flagler County marine deputies then deployed an airboat to find him.
Body cam video showed the deputies call out for Peoples, who told them he was coming to turn himself in. The deputies then asked him if he was injured as he was being handcuffed.
“Hey, chin up, everything’s done now,” one deputy said to Peoples. “Hey, no hard feelings. It is what it is. You got caught.”
The sheriff’s office said 2.56 gram of cocaine were found in a plastic bag that fell out of People’s vehicle while it was being towed away.
“We do not give up getting our man,” Sheriff Rick Staly added. “Fleeing from a deputy is never a smart move. You only go to jail tired and, in this case, muddy and wet! He also endangered our deputies and citizens with his reckless driving.”
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Ariel Lassiter scored a crucial goal in Inter Miami’s 2-1 victory over Toronto on Saturday.
Lassiter’s goal came in the 44th minute to put Miami (10-10-6) on top 2-1. Damion Onandi Lowe assisted the goal.
Miami also got one goal from Jean Mota.
Toronto’s (8-13-6) goal was scored by Lorenzo Insigne.
Toronto outshot Miami 16-8. Both teams had four shots on goal.
Drake Callender saved three of the four shots he faced for Miami. Alex Bono saved two of the four shots he faced for Toronto.
These teams take to the pitch again Saturday, with Miami visiting the New York Red Bulls while Toronto visits Charlotte FC.
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While the U.S. Supreme Court today is dominated by conservatives, it still abides by many of the landmark decisions written by the court's liberal icon, Justice William J. Brennan Jr., who retired in 1990 after 34 years of service.
This fall, a long-awaited biography, Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, is on the nation's bookshelves -- an account of Brennan's life, times and influence on the nation's highest court.
For those not familiar with Brennan's incredible record, let us recapitulate. As the conservative National Review put it in writing about the liberal justice: "An examination of Brennan's opinions, and his influence upon the opinions of his colleagues, suggests that there is no individual in this country, on or off the Court, who has had a more profound and sustained impact on public policy in the United States."
Brennan's legacy is spelled out in more than 1,300 legal opinions -- from Baker v. Carr, his opinion for the court establishing the "one person, one vote" principle in legislative apportionment, to his passionate dissents on the death penalty.
For reasons that even the book's authors cannot fathom, Brennan agreed in the mid-1980s to cooperate on a biography with Stephen Wermiel, then of The Wall Street Journal and now a law professor at American University. The justice asked for nothing in return, not even editorial control. Wermiel spent four concentrated years with Brennan while the justice was still on the bench. The biographer had unfettered access to Brennan's papers, and unparalleled access to the justice. Not only was Wermiel permitted to be something of a fly on the wall in the Brennan chambers, but the justice also sat for more than 60 hours of tape-recorded interviews.
Maybe because Wermiel had so much information, he couldn't seem to write the book and put the project aside for more than a decade. Eventually, he enlisted Congressional Quarterly reporter Seth Stern as a co-author.
Getting To Five
When the co-authors sat down to talk with NPR, the conversation immediately turned to Brennan's astonishing ability to figure out how to accommodate and explicate differing views to, as the justice often put it, "get to five," meaning get a court majority.
That skill, contrary to some popular perceptions, belied the stereotype of Brennan as a glad-handing and twinkling leprechaun. Brennan's power "wasn't his affability or his political skills, but his ability to accommodate concerns and his willingness to take half a loaf now and try to build upon that later," Stern says.
Wermiel cites as an example Brennan's effort to make gender discrimination illegal under the Constitution's guarantee to equal protection of the law. "He set his sights on treating gender discrimination the same way that race discrimination had been treated under the equal protection clause," says Wermiel, but "uncharacteristically, he failed initially. He didn't get a fifth vote."
Three years later, though, he tried again, using his nimble intellect to invent a new and "significant way of the court examining gender discrimination." As Wermiel observes, "It's in some ways a brilliant end product on his part because it accomplished what he set out to accomplish and it got a majority, and it's held beautifully."
And yet, Brennan himself didn't hire female law clerks for a very long time. In 1970, when Stephen Barnett, one of his former clerks, recommended a woman, he didn't pick her, and four years later when Barnett again recommended a woman, Brennan again said no.
"But instead of backing off a second time," says author Stern, "Barnett sent him a letter and said, 'With all due respect, Justice, you're a hypocrite. ... You could be sued on the very precedents that you helped craft.' "
To Brennan's credit, Stern observes, the justice, instead of getting angry, called up Barnett and said, essentially, "You're right." He hired Marsha Berzon, the woman Barnett had recommended. She is now a federal appeals court judge in California.
Personal Views And The Role Of Religion
Brennan's interviews with Wermiel show a man who defies, too, the stereotype of the liberal justice trying to impose his own personal views on the law, for Brennan's personal views were far more conservative than what he thought the Constitution required.
Behind the scenes, for instance, he was influential in formulating the legal principles that are the basis for Roe v. Wade, the court's abortion decision. But as Brennan told Wermiel: "Independently, as a private person and not required to make a decision, I would never have agreed that abortion is proper."
Brennan also was responsible for expanding First Amendment doctrine to allow more sexually explicit material. But he hated the stuff, and said he would never tolerate it in his home.
And even though he came to firmly view the death penalty as unconstitutional, he admitted that sometimes pained him. He admitted that in his private capacity, he thought "on more than one occasion, that bastard ought to hang."
Brennan's role as the court's only Catholic justice was a matter of some anguish for him. He resented being asked at his confirmation hearing whether he could abide by the laws of the United States and not the laws set down by the pope, and he resented the role in which he was cast for 30 years as the court's house Catholic. Whether it was other justices asking him if certain language was theologically correct, or the campaign by some critics to have him excommunicated, it all upset him.
A devout Catholic, Brennan, nonetheless, had few doubts about what he saw as the constitutional imperative for a high wall of separation between church and state.
He told Wermiel that the separation is needed to avoid "the risks attendant upon too cozy a relationship between church and state, and what it's done to break up ... societies like ours, long before our own.”
"I would hold that line [of separation] very firm," he said, "maybe more firmly than a lot of people, non-Catholics as well as Catholics."
Brennan insisted repeatedly that it was his job to separate Catholic doctrine from Constitutional doctrine. "The times that he would get the angriest at me in the interviews," says Wermiel, were "when I would say to him, 'Well, how can you possibly really separate your religious faith from your personal role as a Supreme Court justice?' And he'd get frustrated and say, 'I've told you time and again, my oath is to uphold the Constitution. I don't have an oath of allegiance to my church.' "
'Introverts Pretending To Be Extroverts'
Interestingly, even in his later years on the court, when conservatives often voted to reject his view of the law, Brennan still was pulling rabbits out of the hat on occasion, persuading his colleagues, forging agreement where others could not.
Though his Irish immigrant father had been the elected fire and police commissioner of Newark, Brennan, once he became a New Jersey judge, never voted in elections. He thought it would somehow make him invested in one party or the other, and he later became deeply concerned about the tone of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, an archconservative. In one of Wermiel's interviews, the justice observed that it is up to the Senate to prevent the confirmation process from being politicized.
"The whole business really ... talk about self-restraint ... has to rest on the senators who are conducting the process," Brennan remarked. "I deplore the excesses, but I don't see anything whatever that I or anyone else can do about it."
In the 1980s, Brennan graciously agreed to a lengthy series of interviews with this reporter. And while he was candid about his own shortcomings, he completely, though charmingly, resisted any introspection about himself. Wermiel said he, too, encountered that resistance.
Stern, who came to the project after Brennan's death, admits, "One of the great mysteries to me is why did this profoundly private man open up his entire life to a journalist. I mean, he had to have known the consequences of letting a journalist in the door. And yet that was his choice ... I don't know if there is an answer."
The answer, adds Stern, may have come from Brennan's daughter Nancy. "You know," she said, "we're a family of introverts pretending to be extroverts."
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PASOsafe is a volunteer-based organization that held its first-ever Safety Fest today in the downtown city park where people had the chance to learn more about safety in just about anything you can think of.
“This is really an example of how our community comes together and really wants to promote how important it is to be safe, that’s the main reason why we are all here and making it fun," said Gina Grieb, co-founder of PASOsafe.
The emergency, disaster, and safety preparedness event included local experts who are trained to help when the unexpected strikes.
“We are mainly focusing on like the average person what to do if someone goes into cardiac arrest," said the emergency medical technician, Sofia Terry.
The idea behind this event was also to train and educate the local community.
“It's so important especially for the kids, to leave with the idea that they can actively participate in safety. Safety is everyone’s responsibility not just our first responders," stated Mark Elterman, PASOsafe, co-founder.
“You know things happen. you know we’ve had earthquakes and fires and all the kinds of craziness we’ve had going on. we need to remember what to do," said Lisa Otte, Paso Robles resident.
It’s not a one-and-done event, the founders of PASOsafe said they hope to continue to do this event in the future and expand to nearby cities
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The jostling for workers is part of a global trend that has helped push up wages in New Zealand, posing a challenge to the fight on inflation by the central bank, which raised interest rates last week to their highest since Sept. 2015.
"These measures are about providing immediate relief to those businesses hardest hit by the global worker shortage," Immigration Minister Michael Wood said in a statement, adding that the holiday scheme targeted a doubling of intake.
Other steps include a relaxation of wage rules for skilled migrants in sectors such as care of the aged, construction and infrastructure, meat processing, seafood, and adventure tourism.
The visas of some onshore working holiday makers will also be extended by six months to retain workers now in the country, Wood added.
"Workforce challenges are being seen across skill levels and sectors," he said. "New Zealand is not alone in this."
The measures come as the jobless rate stood at 3.3% in the second quarter, when wages were also up 3.4% on the year, rising at their fastest in 14 years.
Last week, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand lifted the official cash rate by 50 basis points to 3.0%, in a seventh straight hike to rein in inflation.
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KIORA PHARMACEUTICALS INC Quarterly Report (Form10)
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Concern is growing for a missing Crail teenager who may have travelled to Edinburgh.
Jessica McMurray was last seen at around 2.15pm on Thursday August 11 when she left her address in the Fife village.
Police said the 17-year-old may have travelled to Edinburgh on Friday as they issued an appeal to the public.
She is described as 5ft 4ins tall and was last seen wearing blue denim shorts, a black Calvin Klein sports bra top and black high top Converse trainers.
Sergeant Andy Kirk confirmed Jessica has been missing before when she previously travelled to Glasgow.
He said: “Jessica has been missing before but it is unusual for her to go this long without contacting anyone and we are becoming increasingly concerned for her welfare.
“If anyone has any information regarding her whereabouts or has seen her, please contact police urgently on 101, quoting reference number 2074 of Thursday, 11 August, 2022.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/3613489/police-appeal-for-publics-help-to-find-missing-crail-teenager/ | 2022-08-21T04:19:33Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/3613489/police-appeal-for-publics-help-to-find-missing-crail-teenager/ | true |
Brendan Rodgers says Wesley Fofana was left out of the squad for Leicester’s defeat to Southampton because the Chelsea target was not in the right frame of mind to play.
The 21-year-old defender was conspicuous by his absence from the team sheet as the Foxes looked to seal their first victory of the season against winless Saints.
Fofana watched Saturday’s match alongside supporters at the King Power Stadium and saw James Maddison’s smart free-kick put Leicester ahead early in the second half.
But Che Adams’ introduction changed the dynamics, with the super sub lashing home a leveller before scoring a sublime scissor kick as Saints ran out 2-1 victors.
“Very disappointed with the result,” Leicester boss Rodgers said after a smattering of boos met the final whistle.
“We hope to make improvements from the last time we were here (against Brentford) in terms of managing the lead better and unfortunately we were unable to do that.
“I thought we started the game over so well and I think as soon as we went in front I think we showed a little bit of maybe that feeling where we’re at, maybe as a team and as a club, that desperation to get the result.
“Then we stopped doing what we’ve been really, really good at in that opening hour.
“In terms of Wesley, just a young player who is not quite in the right frame of mind at the moment to play.
“A lot going on behind the scenes, which I understand. It’s a difficult moment for him.
“He’s a good kid, he’s been great for us whilst he’s been here and at this moment it’s a difficult one for him.
“You can’t afford that… certainly playing a Premier League game if you’re not 100 per cent fully focused.”
There was no such issues in the visiting camp, with Saints again showing their new-found steely resolve.
Last week they recovered from a two-goal deficit to draw 2-2 with Leeds and on Saturday they bounced back to beat the Foxes.
“We had last year a game here where we also conceded a goal nearly at the same time and then we lost 4-1, I think,” Saints boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said.
“Today maybe when you want to speak about the difference it’s that there is a team that is super believing in what we’re doing and didn’t accept that we are not strong enough to take something here.
“This was very, very good to watch from everybody and a big compliment to the group, how it was working during the week because it’s not a coincidence.”
It was an impressive team effort completed by Adams.
“He didn’t train until Thursday (due to a groin injury) and it was too risky to let him start,” Hasenhuttl added.
“But I think he also did in the last game a good job when he was on the pitch, so we just have to get a few minutes.
“It was fantastic, a fantastic reaction and happy to have him and happy to have a bench where you can change things” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3613906/its-a-difficult-moment-for-him-wesley-fofana-not-ready-to-play-for-leicester/ | 2022-08-21T04:21:29Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3613906/its-a-difficult-moment-for-him-wesley-fofana-not-ready-to-play-for-leicester/ | true |
Arsenal cruised to the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 win at Bournemouth.
Martin Odegaard’s early double put the Gunners in control and William Saliba added a third with his first goal for the club.
Odegaard had put Arsenal clear inside the opening 11 minutes, the first time the Norway international has scored twice in a match since playing for Stromsgodset in October 2014.
It is the first time in 18 years that Arsenal have started the season with three wins, and victory took them above north London neighbours Tottenham who had beaten Wolves earlier in the day.
Harry Kane kept Spurs on a Premier League roll as his historic header gave Antonio Conte’s side a 1-0 win.
The England captain struck from close range in the second half to score for the 185th time in the Premier League – the most a player has scored for one club in the competition.
Kane’s header took him above Sergio Aguero to fourth in the league’s all-time list of scorers and gave Spurs seven points from their opening three games.
With former Brazil striker Ronaldo in attendance at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, it was Kane’s 250th goal in all competitions for Spurs, with Jimmy Greaves’ record of 266 surely under threat this season.
His goal was also Tottenham’s 1,000th at home in the Premier League.
Fulham beat local rivals Brentford 3-2 in their first Premier League meeting, with Aleksandar Mitrovic claiming a last-minute winner at Craven Cottage.
Mitrovic headed home Kevin Mbabu’s teasing far-post cross after Brentford – who had two disallowed goals from Ivan Toney – fought back from being 2-0 down inside the opening quarter.
Toney saw two fine finishes ruled out for offside, only to make it what he thought would be third time lucky when he tapped home to level the scores at 2-2 in the 71st minute. Christian Norgaard had earlier pulled one back on the stroke of half-time.
But Mitrovic had the last word after earlier strikes from Bobby Decordova-Reid, inside 45 seconds, and Joao Palhinha after 20 minutes.
Wilfried Zaha’s double gave Crystal Palace a first win of the season as Aston Villa were beaten 3-1 at Selhurst Park.
Zaha swiftly cancelled out Ollie Watkins’ early opener before converting on the rebound after his second-half penalty was saved by Emiliano Martinez.
Substitute Jean-Philippe Mateta grabbed the clincher with his first touch 19 minutes from time.
Demarai Gray grabbed a late equaliser as Everton snatched their first point of the season with a 1-1 draw at home to Nottingham Forest.
Gray latched on to a long ball with just two minutes remaining to give the Goodison Park faithful something to cheer about.
Brennan Johnson had put newly-promoted Forest ahead just seven minutes earlier against the run of play.
Leicester, who were without Chelsea target Wesley Fofana, lost 2-1 at home to Southampton.
Substitute Che Adams’ stunning scissor-kick six minutes from time sealed Saints’ first victory of the season as Fofana watched from the stands.
Leicester took a 54th-minute lead through James Maddison’s free-kick, but Adams came off the bench to inspire Saints to victory. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3614035/arsenal-breeze-past-bournemouth-to-go-top-of-the-premier-league/ | 2022-08-21T04:22:09Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3614035/arsenal-breeze-past-bournemouth-to-go-top-of-the-premier-league/ | true |
CHARLESTON, Staten Island (PIX11) — Firefighters were battling a blaze that spread to multiple homes in a Staten Island neighborhood Saturday night, officials said.
The fire started on the first floor of a two-story home at 82 Pitney Avenue in the Charleston section just before 10 p.m., FDNY officials said.
The fire then spread to two more homes at 84 Pitney Avenue and 86 Pitney Avenue, according to the FDNY. Crews were still working to extinguish the fire as of 11 p.m.
The fire triggered a large response from the FDNY. In total, 33 units and 138 fire and EMS members were at the scene, officials said.
No injuries were reported as of Saturday night. | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/staten-island/fire-spreads-to-multiple-homes-in-staten-island-neighborhood-fdny/ | 2022-08-21T04:26:43Z | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/staten-island/fire-spreads-to-multiple-homes-in-staten-island-neighborhood-fdny/ | true |
Airdrieonians beat Alloa 2-0 to go top of the cinch League One table.
Gabby McGill set the hosts on their way six minutes before half-time and substitute Callum Gallagher wrapped things up late on.
Dunfermline slipped to second place on goal difference after being held to a goalless draw at Kelty Hearts, who battled to a first point of the season but stay bottom.
Clyde suffered a first league defeat after they were beaten 2-1 at Montrose.
The Gable Endies took the lead through Rory McAllister’s header in the 28th minute.
Jordan Allan had Clyde level four minutes into the second half, but Kerr Waddell soon nodded the hosts back in front.
Queen of the South got their first league victory as they came from behind to win 4-1 at Peterhead.
Defender Max Gillies put the home side ahead after just two minutes.
Queen of the South, though, had turned the match around by half-time with goals from midfielder Josh Todd and forward Connor Murray.
Ruari Paton added a third just after the hour mark, with Murray getting another in with a free-kick during stoppage time.
Falkirk sit fourth after a 3-0 2 win at Edinburgh City with goals from Callumn Morrison, Gary Oliver and Rumarn Burrell. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3613747/airdrieonians-take-over-at-the-top-after-beating-alloa/ | 2022-08-21T04:28:18Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3613747/airdrieonians-take-over-at-the-top-after-beating-alloa/ | false |
Rochdale caretaker manager Jim McNulty was proud of his players despite losing 3-0 at Swindon.
Dale, who sacked boss Robbie Stockdale on Thursday, remain the only side in the Football League yet to pick up a single point this season.
But McNulty said: “wish we could have done something better than we did but it was so difficult.
“The last day and a half have been crazy, we were in scramble mode and today was a free hit.
“I told the players ‘I expect nothing of you apart from trying your best’.
“I have been out there like those guys have plenty of times and we knew what to expect but everything was just condensed and difficult.
“I am proud at least of what the players tried to do, disappointed with the scoreline, but proud of the lads in certain phases.
“It comes down to confidence and it is hard for me to truly know where all the players’ brains are at because it has been a strange day or so.”
Jacob Wakeling opened the scoring after just 26 seconds when he pounced on an underhit back pass from Ben Nelson and calmly slotted in at the near post.
Wakeling could have had a second straight after as Jonny Williams played him in, but Ethan Ebanks-Landell’s challenge denied him.
Rochdale almost struck back on the half hour mark when Abraham Odoh crossed across goal but just beyond the outstretched Toumani Diagouraga.
Only five minutes into the second period Swindon added a second, as Wakeling rounded Richard O’Donnell and Williams usurped the 20-year-old to tap into an empty net.
Louis Reed took aim with a free-kick on the edge of the box after 67 minutes and his dipping effort flashed just wide of the bottom corner.
Harry McKirdy wrapped it up with nine minutes to play as Ricky Aguiar found him unmarked in the box and he tucked it beyond O’Donnell.
Swindon manager Scott Lindsey gave credit to his team’s defensive work in their win.
Lindsey said: “I thought that how we pressed was impressive.
“I know the first goal was a mistake, but he doesn’t make that mistake if he’s not pressed and Wakeling just never stops running.
“He will score goals based on how hard he works. He is like the Duracell Bunny.
“Running all over the pitch, if a packet of crisps blows across the pitch, he will chase it.
“When you are a possession based team you play with a bit more swagger when you are winning and when you are goals up.
“When you aren’t winning games, you do get anxious and I just wanted the players to express themselves and stick to the plan.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3613966/rochdale-caretaker-jim-mcnulty-proud-despite-heavy-defeat-at-swindon/ | 2022-08-21T04:33:23Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3613966/rochdale-caretaker-jim-mcnulty-proud-despite-heavy-defeat-at-swindon/ | false |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
01-07-13-28-40-45
(one, seven, thirteen, twenty-eight, forty, forty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $1,200,000
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
01-07-13-28-40-45
(one, seven, thirteen, twenty-eight, forty, forty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $1,200,000 | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17387502.php | 2022-08-21T04:41:28Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17387502.php | true |
You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. | https://sportspyder.com/mlb/philadelphia-phillies/articles/40472100 | 2022-08-21T04:48:45Z | https://sportspyder.com/mlb/philadelphia-phillies/articles/40472100 | false |
KENDALLVILLE — A fatal car accident that killed both parents, leaving four children behind, was the most-read story of the week on kpcnews.com.
The parents who died from injuries sustained in a wreck on Aug. 4 leave four children behind, says information provided on a Go Fund Me page created for the family of Lonnie and Breanna Bright.
The Brights, Lonnie, 43, and Breanna, 33, died after sustaining blunt force trauma injuries in the wreck, which occurred east of Orland on S.R. 120 near C.R. 850W.
Mrs. Bright was declared dead at the scene by a representative of the Steuben County Coroner’s Office. Mr. Bright died Monday in Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, where he was lifeflighted from the scene of the wreck along with 5-year-old daughter Journey.
Mrs. Bright’s brother, Heath Perrine, started the Go Fund Me page and has provided updates on that site, https://gf.me/v/c/gfm/breanna-bright-perrine-lonnie-bright.
The story picked up more than 5,000 views online.
The Top 10 most-read stories of the week for Aug. 11-17 were:
1) Fatal wreck leaves four children without parents — 5,155 pageviews
2) ‘This is the biggest (theft case) Butler’s ever had’ — 2,006 pageviews
3) Feds, local police raid Wawaka homes — 1,657 pageviews
4) Former EDC director arrested for nudity — 1,367 pageviews
5) U.S. 6 railroad crossing to be reconstructed — 1,004 pageviews
6) The Vault opens as social house — 922 pageviews
7) Man facing multiple charges after theft at Butler construction site — 912 pageviews
8) Hoover admits to murder — 826 pageviews
9) Debra Adkins (obituary) — 784 pageviews
10) City man charged with felony neglect — 688 pageviews
Over on the KPC News Facebook page, posts about grain bin training for local firefighters and a followup with State Sen. Sue Glick about the special legislative session were the top posts of the week:
Aug. 15: (Shared from The Star) With harvest season on the way Ashley Firefighters hosting beneficial training session — 2,807 people reactions, 16 reactions, eight shares
Aug. 15: (Shared from The News Sun) Abortions rights Hoosiers didn’t like S.B. 1. Anti-abortion Hoosiers didn’t like S.B. 1, either. In the middle was Sen. Sue Glick, trying to thread a needle on this generation’s most controversial issue as not just the state, but the nation, watched Indiana — 2,623 people reached, one like, one share
Over on the individual newspaper Facebook pages, posts about a fish kill at Clear Lake, grain bin training with the Ashley Fire Department, railroad work in Butler and a new lantern parade coming to Kendallville were the top posts of the week:
Aug. 15: (The Herald Republican) It would appear low oxygen levels at Clear Lake has led to a fish kill/die off, officials say — 2,196 people reached, 16 reactions, 15 shares, 15 comments
Aug. 15: (The Star) Ashley Fire Department hosting a grain bin training Sept. 10 for area fire departments — 3,515 people reached, 90 reactions, 24 shares
Aug. 11: (The Star) Railroad work on U.S. 6 in Butler will cause traffic issues next week. A detour is in place — 2,656 people reached, 25 reactions, 38 shares, 18 comments
Aug. 16: (The News Sun) Kendallville is trying out a new event this fall, with a Main Street lantern parade scheduled for dusk on Friday, Oct. 28 — 9,029 people reached, 164 reactions, 65 shares, 32 comments | https://www.kpcnews.com/columnists/article_40881a87-e31a-5062-88c8-97720614f596.html | 2022-08-21T04:50:40Z | https://www.kpcnews.com/columnists/article_40881a87-e31a-5062-88c8-97720614f596.html | true |
You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. | https://sportspyder.com/mlb/houston-astros/articles/40472330 | 2022-08-21T04:51:17Z | https://sportspyder.com/mlb/houston-astros/articles/40472330 | false |
Canada beats Finland 3-2 in OT for 19th world junior title
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) - Columbus Blue Jackets center Kent Johnson scored at 3:20 of three-on-three overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over Finland on Saturday night for its record-extending 19th world junior hockey title.
Johnson tucked home his own rebound after Canada blew a two-goal lead in third period. The Canadians were 7-0 in the postponed event.
After being credited with just 13 shots over the first two periods, the Finns launched 17 shots on net in the third, with Aleksi Heimosalmi and Joakim Kemell scoring to send it to overtime.
The Canadians had plenty of chances to bury the Finns, but went 0 for 7 on the power play in regulation.
Joshua Roy and William Dufour scored for Canada, and Dylan Garand made 29 saves. With two assists in the game, Mason McTavish was the tournament´s top scorer, with eight goals and nine assists. He was the tournament MVP.
But McTavish´s finest moment was clearing what looked to be a tournament-winning effort from Topi Niemela off the goal line just seconds before Johnson notched the deciding goal.
Canada celebrates defeating Finland during overtime in the gold medal game at the world junior hockey championship, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022 in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
In the third-place game, Sweden beat the Czech Republic 3-1.
Isak Rosen, Fabian Lysell and Linus Sojodin scored for Sweden and Jesper Wallstedt made 27 saves.
"You strive to win the last game," said Rosen, a Buffalo Sabres prospect. "Of course we wanted the gold, but better bronze than nothing."
Michael Gut scored for the Czech Republic and Tomas Suchanek stopped 20 shots.
The tournament originally opened Dec. 26 in Edmonton and Red Deer. Rising COVID-19 cases among players and officials caused the forfeiture of games and the event was halted after just four days.
Finland goalie Juha Jatkola, left, tries to stop Canada forward Kent Johnson from scoring during overtime IIHF world junior hockey championship gold medal game action in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
Finland goalie Juha Jatkola, top, and defenseman Ruben Rafkin react after losing to Canada after the gold medal game at the world junior hockey championship, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022 in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada forward Mason McTavish celebrates defeating Finland in the gold medal game at the world junior hockey championship, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022 in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
Finland defensemen Joni Jurmo, left, and Kasper Puutio react after losing to Canada during overtime IIHF world junior hockey championship gold medal game action in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada celebrates the win over Finland during overtime of the world junior hockey championship gold medal game in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday Aug. 20, 2022. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada celebrates the win over Finland during overtime of the world junior hockey championship gold medal game in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday Aug. 20, 2022. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
Finland players sit dejected after losing to Canada after the world junior hockey championship gold medal game in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday Aug. 20, 2022. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada goalie Dylan Garand makes a save during third-period IIHF world junior hockey championship gold medal game action against Finland in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
Finland's Elliot Desnoyers (19), Aleksi Heimosalmi (21) and Eemil Viro (6) celebrate a goal against Canada during the third period of the world junior hockey championship gold medal game in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday Aug. 20, 2022. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada's Mason McTavish (23) crashes into Finland's goalie Juha Jatkola (31) during the second period of the world junior hockey championship gold medal game in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday Aug. 20, 2022. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada forward William Dufour, center, celebrates his goal with teammates forward Joshua Roy, left, and defenseman Olen Zellweger during the second period of the gold medal game at the world junior hockey championship against Finland, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022 in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada celebrates a goal against Finland during the first period of the world junior hockey championship gold medal game in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday Aug. 20, 2022. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11131131/Canada-beats-Finland-3-2-OT-19th-world-junior-title.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-21T04:53:43Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11131131/Canada-beats-Finland-3-2-OT-19th-world-junior-title.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
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Struggling Crawley likely to retain place after McCullum backing
LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - England are likely to persist with opener Zak Crawley in the second test against South Africa after coach Brendon McCullum threw his weight behind the struggling opener.
Crawley managed scores of nine and 13 in the series opener at Lord's, in which South Africa triumphed inside three days by an innings and 12 runs.
The 24-year-old, who averages 26 after 26 tests, is now without a half-century in his last 14 innings, which has prompted calls for him to be dropped.
McCullum dismissed suggestions that the Kent batsman could benefit from a break.
"That's not how I think," McCullum, whose coaching philosophy, dubbed 'Bazball', includes steadfast backing of the players, was quoted as saying by the BBC.
"We want to keep giving guys opportunities, then their skill and talent can come out.
"We have to be really positive around the language we use with him and be really consistent with the selections around that, to keep giving guys opportunities."
Despite the deflating loss at Lord's, England's first under McCullum, the coach said "selection loyalty" was crucial for him.
"Not only does it build loyalty from guys in the side, it also builds loyalty from guys on the outside, because they know when their opportunity does come they will be afforded the same loyalty."
Crawley smashed a career-best 267 against Pakistan at Southampton in 2020 but has yet to cross 50 since his century against West Indies in March this year.
McCullum put Crawley's match-winning ability over consistency to justify his faith in the batsman.
"We have some players that have been put in those positions because they have certain skillsets," said the former New Zealand captain.
"I look at a guy like Zak and his skillset is not to be a consistent cricketer.
"He's not that type of player. He's put in that situation because he has a game which, when he gets going, he can win matches for England."
The second test in Manchester begins on Thursday. (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11131231/Struggling-Crawley-likely-retain-place-McCullum-backing.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-21T04:57:19Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11131231/Struggling-Crawley-likely-retain-place-McCullum-backing.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Bikers are raising money to help people with breast cancer through a scavenger hunt that took place across the Miami Valley Saturday.
The motorcycle scavenger hunt, “Bikin’ for Boobies,” is put on each year by Buckeye Harley Davidson in Dayton to raise money for the Pink Ribbon Girls.
“Everybody knows somebody that suffers from it and we always need help,” Buckeye Harley Davidson Marketing Director Amanda Clay said. “I lost a family member and Pink Ribbon Girls were incredible for it, so donating back to a cause that has done wonderful things is great.”
Bikers headed out to popular and historic sites around the Miami Valley to see what group could complete the most challenges.
“They have a blast,” Clay said. “We have some people that come back every year and love it.”
Chris Ney and his friends make up one of the groups that participate each year.
“We have fun donating to the cause and everything,” Ney said. “I mean, it doesn’t cost much, and it gets us out. We can hang out with each other, a bunch of friends and stuff like that.”
Since the event started several years ago, it’s raised $60,000.
All of that money helps the Pink Ribbon Girls provide meals, cleaning services, support and transportation to people going through breast cancer treatments.
“We have to be able to give more and not have somebody take an RTA bus to an appointment, they need to have transportation, so that’s how all that came into place,” Pink Ribbon Girls Ambassador Maribeth Schindler said.
This year, Ney and his group took home first place for visiting 30 out of 36 scavenger hunt locations, but he said that’s not what this event is about.
“The important thing is we’re able to raise money for a good cause,” Ney said.
Last year, the scavenger hunt raised $3,000 for Pink Ribbon Girls. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/bikers-raise-money-to-support-people-with-breast-cancer/ | 2022-08-21T04:59:23Z | https://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/bikers-raise-money-to-support-people-with-breast-cancer/ | true |
Toward the end of her ego-shredding new memoir, Art and Madness, Anne Roiphe tells the jaw-dropping story of the day her first child was born. It was 1960, and a snowstorm was raging in New York City. Roiphe, nine months pregnant, has shuffled over to a Third Avenue repair store to pick up her husband's typewriter. That husband, a playwright named Jack Richardson, is snug at home, sleeping off a night out on the town. Roiphe wants him to have his typewriter nearby, should inspiration strike when he awakens. So she picks the machine up at the store, balances its weight against her swollen belly and starts trudging through the snow, 15 blocks back to their apartment. On the way, her water breaks. She reaches a pay phone and calls her husband. He doesn't wake up to answer. No taxis are around, so Roiphe stumbles on, all the way to the hospital, typewriter clasped like a religious relic in her arms.
I say that anecdote is "jaw-dropping" because it is — viewed through the feminist-inflected lens of 2011. But here's how powerful a writer that masochistic young woman came to be. Because even as we contemporary readers may be tsk-tsking over Roiphe's martyrdom, she also transports us deep into the mindset of a handmaiden of literature, circa 1960. Reading that passage, I was anxious at the thought of Roiphe going into labor in a snowdrift; but, because of how she draws me into the story, I was simultaneously anxious about that damn typewriter and wondering if maybe Roiphe shouldn't have dropped it off for safekeeping with the doorman at her apartment house before she lumbered on alone to the hospital.
Art and Madness is a particularly hard-boiled addition to a distinct subgenre of female autobiography — memoirs written by women who came of age in the 1950s and who sublimated their own ambitions by attaching themselves to literary men. I'm thinking of testaments like How I Became Hettie Jones by the eponymous former wife of LeRoi Jones, later Amiri Baraka; Manhattan, When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell; and the especially magnificent Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson, onetime girlfriend of Jack Kerouac. Educated at Seven Sisters colleges or their like, these young women wanted to live for Art — which, in the 1950s translated into living for a man who thought of himself as an artist. They found a place for themselves in the New York boho scene of the time, pouring drinks or tending to the other appetites of the resident drunken geniuses. Roiphe, who married right after graduating from Sarah Lawrence and was divorced from her playwright about six years later, was a smart party girl in the Norman Mailer, George Plimpton literary lion pack. Analyzing the marriage of Doc Humes (who co-founded The Paris Review) and his wife, Roiphe coldly illuminates the 1950s allure of the Great Man:
[H]e was a writer, a famous writer, with famous writer friends and that made him special, far more appealing than a banker or a lawyer. ... He was an artist and she would bear his children and wash his clothes and care for him because there lay her own immortality, there lay her own contribution to the great effort to speak the truth, to shape the words, to write the novel that by existing would justify the human endeavor. ... I know this because I felt it too, all of it.
Art and Madness is presented in shards of memories dating mostly from the 1950s and early '60s. Roiphe evokes the limited courage of her younger self: She was gutsy enough as a college girl to drive alone into New York to perch herself on bar stools at writers' hangouts like The West End, but not yet brave enough to respect her own talent. What especially sets Art and Madness apart from its autobiographical sorority sisters is its mercilessness. After Roiphe describes her husband leaving her for good, she says: "I have no pity for her, the still-young woman helping her fleeing husband pack his shirts into a suitcase. ... I have no pity for that about-to-be-divorced woman who had been ready to live off the written words of someone else."
Searing words that attest to the courage Roiphe eventually did discover in herself, thanks, in part, to the second women's movement. And yet, reading Roiphe's tough comments, I can't help but feel that she's still lugging around more than her share of the historical burden.
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. | https://www.apr.org/arts-life/2011-03-15/anne-roiphes-1950s-feminism-in-art-and-madness | 2022-08-21T05:01:25Z | https://www.apr.org/arts-life/2011-03-15/anne-roiphes-1950s-feminism-in-art-and-madness | false |
It takes a deft hand to do justice to the ordinary. Most novelists don't even bother to try, which is why most novels are about a rip in the fabric of the routine. It's tough to find fiction ambitious enough to tackle the story of a run-of-the-mill job, a hum-drum family; but, if the mundane matters to you, then Stewart O'Nan is your man.
His 2007 novella, Last Night at the Lobster, chronicled the final shift at a chain restaurant that is shutting down, and it's the best story I've ever read about the meaning of commonplace work in people's lives. A few years earlier, O'Nan wrote a quietly best-selling novel called Wish You Were Here about a squabbling family gathering for its yearly vacation in the first summer after the death of its patriarch of the clan (though O'Nan would never resort to a pompous word like "patriarch"). Now, O'Nan has written a sequel to that earlier novel, called Emily, Alone, and it's a moody, lightly comic and absolutely captivating rendering of that most un-sensational of subjects: widowhood and old age.
You don't have to have read Wish You Were Here first before diving into Emily, Alone; I know because I read the novels in reverse order. Book reviewer responsibility aside, I read the earlier novel because I craved more time in the world that O'Nan has created here — the diligently achieved and now-fading upper-middle-class world of Emily Maxwell from Pittsburgh. Decades ago, Emily managed the class climb into the country club world of Pittsburgh by marrying Henry Maxwell. When this novel opens, Henry has been dead for over 10 years, and Emily, now 80, fervently wishes to hold on to her dignity as loneliness and death close in.
But, because Emily, Alone is written by O'Nan and not, say, Tolstoy, Emily's confrontations with the Infinite occur as she's carrying on with everyday chores: clearing out her messy basement; fighting off a cold and self-pity. In the first beautifully detailed chapter of the novel, Emily and her prickly sister-in-law, Arlene, drive off (oh so slowly) — as they do every week — to the Tuesday morning two-for-one breakfast buffet at the Eat 'n Park Restaurant. When they finally get there, Arlene keels over at the steaming hot breakfast bar, badly smacking her head on the sneeze guard. She has had some sort of a "spell" that requires her to remain in the hospital for a few days — and O'Nan does a wonderful job of evoking the excitement that this change in their shared schedule brings to Emily's life. Her daily visits even to the "oatmeal bareness" of the hospital afford conversation and community, and because the laid-up Arlene was always the driver, Emily now has to steel herself to pilot Arlene's bulky Taurus through the decaying streets of once familiar Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Eventually, Emily gets so cocky that she buys herself a new four-wheel-drive Subaru.
None of these events is rendered "cute." O'Nan's glory as a writer is that he conveys the full force of the quotidian without playing it for slapstick or dressing it up as Profound. Listen to his language. About Emily's weekly phone conversations with her middle-age children and college-age grandkids, O'Nan says:
"Her sole wish, now, was to be closer to them. It was hard to follow their lives from a distance, to send out cards and letters and presents, to call week after week and then receive in return only the barest of news, grudgingly given and heavily censored."
And here's O'Nan describing Emily trying to fasten a necklace without her late husband's help:
"On formal occasions like tonight [Henry] would stand behind her like a valet ... She'd find him admiring her in the mirror, and while she discounted his adoration of her beauty — based, as it was, on a much younger woman — she also relied on it, and as time passed she was grateful for the restorative powers of his memory."
With economy, wit and grace, O'Nan ushers us into the shrinking world of a pleasantly flawed, rather ordinary old woman and keeps us readers transfixed by the everyday miracles of monotony.
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. | https://www.apr.org/arts-life/2011-03-22/the-joy-of-the-mundane-in-emily-alone | 2022-08-21T05:02:51Z | https://www.apr.org/arts-life/2011-03-22/the-joy-of-the-mundane-in-emily-alone | false |
Standing atop La Bajada, looking to the north and west, the vast, undulating plateau stretches out toward the horizon before dipping down toward the Rio Grande at Buckman Canyon.
Within the wild, free-range area known as Caja del Rio, are 104,000 acres loosely overseen by the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service and the State Land Office. Therein lies a treasure trove of historical and cultural significance linked to Indigenous, traditional Spanish and Mestizo lineages, as well as English-speaking settlers — a truly unique cultural crossroads of the Southwest over many generations.
The dry-land farming techniques developed and perfected many centuries in the past continue to be used by land-based communities today, and still intrigue study by archeologists and water conservationists alike.
Its denizens include bears, cougars and other carnivores, as well as elk, mule deer and big horn sheep. Collared lizards and rattlesnakes rule the turf, and the skies are filled with raptors. It is a critical wildlife habitat and corridor.
The area is sacred to the Tesuque, Cochiti and Santo Domingo pueblos, with ties to the territory going well back into time.
Yet this rugged landscape on Santa Fe’s doorstep, so steeped in local history, culture and natural resources, suffers from continued encroachment. The well-publicized vandalism of La Cieneguilla petroglyphs is but one example. Poaching is prevalent. The land has become a dumping ground for humanity’s waste of all kinds.
A community cleanup day last year sponsored by local conservation groups filled and hauled off two large, roll-off dumpsters in a matter of hours. Caja del Rio has become a drinking and party headquarters, with stacks of wooden pallets already set for the next, destructive bonfire. Off-road vehicle use churns the dusty ground into rutted shambles.
The disrespect for the area cannot and must not continue. It is why the Santa Fe City Council recently joined the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the Native American Fish & Wildlife Society and the Santa Fe County Board of Commissioners in passing a resolution seeking greater protection of this fragile and significant landscape.
This is an area that can be a tremendous boon to New Mexico, providing wonderful recreational, educational and spiritual opportunities for all.
We must zealously and conscientiously protect, preserve and conserve this Northern New Mexican jewel for our communities and the generations to come.
To learn more about the protection of Caja de Rio, check out the Caja del Rio Coalition’s website at cajadelrio.org. This diverse coalition is made up of tribal and spiritual leaders, Hispano traditional land stewards, conservationists, sportspeople and local elected leaders, among others.
Carol Romero-Wirth represents District 2 on the Santa Fe City Council. Renee Villarreal represents District 1 on the council. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/city-of-santa-fe-supports-protecting-the-caja/article_0670f7ce-1f3c-11ed-aa1d-e756af9374ac.html | 2022-08-21T05:03:03Z | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/city-of-santa-fe-supports-protecting-the-caja/article_0670f7ce-1f3c-11ed-aa1d-e756af9374ac.html | false |
Grandfather, 79, killed walking dog; police name person of interest
GARY, Ind. (WLS) - An Indiana family is mourning the death of a beloved father and grandfather as police search for the deadly shooting suspect.
A small memorial of chalk drawings marked the spot where 79-year-old Cornelius Olive was shot and killed while walking his granddaughter’s dog, Kenzo.
“It’s sad he died doing something that he did every day, which was walking my dog,” said his granddaughter, Kamarie Caldwell.
After hearing gunshots Wednesday night, Caldwell says she went outside their Gary, Indiana, home to find her grandfather lying in a pool of blood.
“I’m a medical assistant, so my first thought was maybe I can save him. So, I went in the house and grabbed a towel, and I kept telling the operator he was still breathing,” Caldwell said.
Unfortunately, Cornelius Olive died on the pavement.
“The last picture that I have in my mind is watching the blood just run from the back of his head over to the sidewalk and looking at his face. I pulled up, and the dog was still sitting there between his legs,” said his daughter, Kimberly Olive.
Police say 24-year-old Tyree Gaines is considered a person of interest in the 79-year-old’s death. He allegedly sent multiple threating emails to Gary City Hall and neighboring communities.
Police believe Gaines is unstable, and he is considered armed and dangerous. He is described as a Black male who is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 115 pounds.
Anyone who sees Gaines or has information about his whereabouts is urged not to approach him but instead call 911.
Copyright 2022 WLS via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wafb.com/2022/08/21/grandfather-79-killed-walking-dog-police-name-person-interest/ | 2022-08-21T05:07:53Z | https://www.wafb.com/2022/08/21/grandfather-79-killed-walking-dog-police-name-person-interest/ | true |
A man is recovering at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center from serious injuries after a one-car crash in Concord, Vermont.
Vermont State Police say Randall Savage, 37, of Groveton, New Hampshire drove off of North Concord Road just after 7:00 p.m. Friday into a wooded area. He was found trapped in his car at the bottom of an embankment, and a helicopter brought him to DHMC.
Investigators say Savage had been arguing with another person about ten minutes before the crash at Barney’s Store in Concord, which is a few miles from the crash scene. Someone called police to intervene in the dispute, but Savage drove away before troopers arrived.
Police don’t know why he crashed and are looking into the cause. They’re asking you to call the VSP St. Johnsbury barracks at (802) 748-3111 if you saw anything. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/groveton-nh-man-severely-hurt-in-concord-vt-crash/ | 2022-08-21T05:19:49Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/groveton-nh-man-severely-hurt-in-concord-vt-crash/ | false |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Padres are giving reliever Josh Hader a break from the closer role after ninth-inning meltdowns on Thursday and Friday resulted in San Diego losses.
Padres manager Bob Melvin said before Saturday’s game against the Washington Nationals that the left-handed Hader would be given time to try to work out his issues.
“We will probably give him a break from that (closer) in the interim here, let him work on some things,” Melvin said. “But, our best team, obviously, is with Josh Hader in the closer’s role and that’s why we got him. So, we will give him a little break for now.”
Melvin said the Padres closer role would be based on matchups game by game, basically closer by committee. With Hader out as closer for now, the role will may likely be shared by Padres right-handers Luis Garcia and Robert Suarez and lefties Adrian Morejon and Nick Martinez.
At 66-56, San Diego enters Saturday’s game battling for the third and final National League wild-card spot. Since the trade deadline, the Padres are 6-10, and 25-32 in their past 57 games.
Hader, who was acquired from Milwaukee on August 1st for four San Diego players, including then Padres closer Taylor Rogers, ha struggled since the move. He has been on the mound when the game-winning run for the opponent has scored in each of his last three appearances, and he has allowed six runs in 3 1/3 innings with San Diego.
“There’s a standard that I hold myself to and that’s not result-based, but more executing pitches and getting into a place where I feel dominant,” Hader said after Friday night’s outing in which he failed to record an out while walking a batter, making a throwing error and surrendering a two-run homer to rookie Alex Call. “All the external things don’t affect anything. I go and do my work … just continue to move forward, learn from the mistakes.”
After bursting onto the scene a few years ago for his ability to pitch effectively in just about any relief situation, even going multiple innings at times, Hader had been used pretty almost exclusively as a ninth-inning closer with the Brewers since 2020, at his request. The Padres put him in on Thursday with runners on base, which he rarely did the last few years in Milwaukee.
This season, Hader (2-5) has 63 strikeouts in 37 1/3 innings with 29 saves and a 5.30 ERA in 42 games.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/sports/ap-sports/padres-give-hader-break-closer-role-after-shaky-outings/ | 2022-08-21T05:28:55Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/sports/ap-sports/padres-give-hader-break-closer-role-after-shaky-outings/ | false |
How a humpback whale superhighway is offering warnings about climate change
Rising ocean temperatures mean the thousands of whales who travel through the "blue corridor" may soon be unable to get enough food for their long migration north.
Sunday 21 August 2022 05:31, UK
During winter Australia's east coast becomes a migratory superhighway for humpback whales, a so-called "blue corridor".
Between 30,000 and 40,000 whales make the annual journey from Antarctica to the top of Australia.
A 3,700 mile roundtrip where they socialise and breed in warmer water.
From barely a few hundred eastern Australian humpbacks left in the 1960s, the population is now thriving.
It's an extraordinary recovery for a species almost wiped out by commercial whaling. It was banned in Australia in the 1970s.
Dr Wally Franklin and his late wife Dr Trish Franklin dedicated their lives to studying the humpbacks at Hervey Bay in Queensland, founding a non-profit research organisation called The Oceania Project.
"It was a remarkable experience to watch the eastern Australian humpback whales recover and begin using Hervey Bay," he said.
Sky News joined Dr Franklin on a tourist boat heading out from the bay.
"There's no other place in the world where you get mature females using the bay to look after the young the way it happens here in Hervey Bay," he said.
It's a unique location where the whales are protected by the largest sand island in the world - K'gari (previously called Fraser Island).
Scientists estimate that since the end of commercial whaling this humpback population has been increasing by up to 11% every year.
However, they don't know whether the numbers will remain stable or start to fall as the impact of climate change and global warming take effect.
One of the main concerns is food supply. Whales feed on Southern Ocean krill, small shrimp like crustaceans. As ocean temperatures rise the availability of krill is changing. Without it these giant mammals can't get enough food and energy for their long migration north.
Griffith University marine scientist Dr Olaf Meynecke said: "We are worried that the animals are starting to starve. But we don't know yet."
Dr Meynecke expects "dramatic" changes in the ocean environment over the next decade and says whales are an early warning of what's to come.
"They are our sentinel species, through them we can find out what is happening in Antarctica and what will happen to other species that depend on that region."
The whales are already adapting by having their calves further south. Scientists suspect they don't have enough energy to make it to their old breeding grounds.
The mass migration is also reaching Australia around two weeks earlier than usual. If there isn't enough krill in Antarctica it's possible the whales may be heading north earlier to feed on other fish as they make their way to Australia.
Off the Gold Coast, Dr Meynecke and Griffith University Phd student Sarah McCulloch collect samples of whale skin, scooping it up from the sea after the whales breach.
They analyse it back in the lab for viruses and bacteria.
Drones are also used to monitor the whales and keep track of their condition.
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With a new generation of scientists working on humpbacks, Dr Wally Franklin can take life a little easier these days.
Dr Franklin and his late wife spent half of their 60 years together studying whales.
Trish was the principal scientist and photographed more than 3500 whales, individually identifying them by their markings.
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Some whales have been visiting Hervey Bay annually for more than 20 years. To Dr Franklin they are old friends.
As the late afternoon wind picks up in the bay and tourists stroll along the pier, Dr Franklin recalls the heady days of the couple's pioneering research.
"Every moment I spend with the whales at Hervey Bay is time I'm spending with Trish and remembering those amazing magic moments we had together for over 30 years, just getting a glimpse into the incredible world of these whales."
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The show investigates how global warming is changing our landscape and highlights solutions to the crisis. | https://news.sky.com/story/how-a-humpback-whale-superhighway-is-offering-warnings-about-climate-change-12677484 | 2022-08-21T05:29:30Z | https://news.sky.com/story/how-a-humpback-whale-superhighway-is-offering-warnings-about-climate-change-12677484 | false |
Truss talks up chances, but former cabinet ministers question her plans - all while Labour takes huge poll lead
In the week Labour revealed its plan to help on energy bills, a poll for Opinium shows Sir Keir Starmer's party opening up an eight-point lead over the Conservatives - with data also revealing Labour's energy plan is supported by more than 60% of the country.
Sunday 21 August 2022 06:26, UK
Liz Truss has renewed optimism about her chances of getting into Downing Street next month - despite former Tory cabinet ministers pouring cold water on her plans.
Ms Truss, who is leading the race to become the next Conservative leader by a significant margin, has continued her economic push, saying there is "too much talk that there's going to be a recession".
The rate of inflation in the UK reached 10.1% last week, while the economy shrank by 0.6% in June and is expected to continue on a downwards trajectory.
The foreign secretary has told The Sun on Sunday that there needs to be a "level of ambition" when it comes to turning the tide on the grim economic forecast.
She promised a "small business and self-employed revolution" to help turn things around, adding: "Those are the future big companies we need to develop - and why shouldn't Britain have the next Google or the next Facebook? Why shouldn't it be a British company?"
"It's about that level of ambition. There is too much talk that there's going to be a recession. I don't believe that's inevitable. We can unleash opportunity here in Britain."
However, despite her economic optimism, former cabinet members from her own party have expressed "jitters" over her plans to the Observer.
It's after Michael Gove said Ms Truss was taking a "holiday from reality" and that he was supporting Rishi Sunak in the contest.
One unnamed former minister told the paper they were "worried" about the prospect of Ms Truss being handed the keys to Number 10, adding: "Members are going one way with Liz, the country at large, the other."
Another said: "If she carries on with full-on culture wars and the anti-woke stuff, as well as the economic stuff, she will just come across as Boris without the charm.
"Then she will turn off people in the blue wall."
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, who is widely tipped to become Ms Truss's chancellor, wrote for Mail+ saying there are plans to help people with energy bills this winter - after her camp came under fire for failing to address the crisis.
He wrote: "I understand the deep anxiety this is causing. As winter approaches, millions of families will be concerned about how they are going to make ends meet.
"But I want to reassure the British people that help is coming."
However, Mr Kwarteng stopped short of announcing any specific help that Ms Truss's team would offer.
It comes after Labour's costed plan to freeze the energy price cap won public acclaim last week, which in turn has given the party a huge poll boost.
A poll for Opinium shows Sir Keir Starmer's party opening up an eight-point lead over the Conservatives, with data also revealing Labour's energy plan was supported by more than 60% of the country.
The survey of 2,001 adults this week gave Labour a 39% vote share to the Conservatives' 31%.
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BURKHARDT, June E.
Age 95, passed away on August 18, 2022. Funeral Services to be on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, from 12-1PM at Brown Dawson Flick Funeral Home, Hamilton, OH.
BURKHARDT, June E.
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Adam Hochschild frames his pensive narrative history about the first World War with accounts of his own walks through what once was the Western Front. He describes it as "a thin band of territory, stretching through northern France and [a] corner of Belgium [that] has the greatest concentration of young men's graves in the world."
Amid the cemeteries and the monuments, the undetonated explosives and helmets, belt clips and other rusted metal — some half-million pounds of which continue to be unearthed from farmers' fields every year -- Hochschild stumbles upon something singular. A few miles outside of the Flemish town of Ypres, he spots a homemade, chest-high wooden cross, and next to it, blown over by the wind, a small potted fir tree with some silver balls attached. This ragged tribute stands in memory of the impromptu Christmas Truce of 1914, when thousands of British and German soldiers and officers put down their arms, traded cigarettes and canned food, and even staged soccer matches in no man's land. Hochschild says this is the one monument along the entire Western Front "celebrating anyone for doing something other than fighting or dying."
Hochschild's new book, To End All Wars, can be thought of, in metaphorical terms, as something like both a traditional war monument and that pacifist Christmas tree. His book traces the wellsprings of the fervent patriotism that seemed to instantly materialize in Great Britain in the summer of 1914, as well as the patchy but persistent British resistance to the war.
"By conflict's end," Hochschild says, "more than 20,000 British men of military age refused the draft. ... More than 6,000 served prison terms under harsh conditions: hard labor, a bare-bones diet, and a strict 'rule of silence.' " This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else. As he demonstrated in his last book, Bury the Chains, about the 18th-century movement to end slavery in Great Britain, Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged.
Although Hochschild doesn't aim to write yet another comprehensive history of World War I, the military aspect of his narrative is undeniably gripping. Other historians have discussed the horrors that innovations like barbed wire, tanks and chlorine gas wrought on a British army that, in the early years of the war, still placed its highest confidence in horses and lances.
But, through eye-witness accounts and official correspondence, Hochschild makes a reader feel anew the shock of modern technological warfare. The much less familiar World War I story that Hochschild uncovers is that of the resisters. To his credit, Hochschild renders the pacifists' tales no less compelling than those of the soldiers in the trenches. It's an oddity of history — and a boon to Hochschild's narrative — that some of the most vocal critics of the war were closely related to its most ardent supporters. Suffragist and pacifist Charlotte Despard was the sister of Sir John French, commander in chief on the Western Front. The famous Pankhurst family of suffragists was so torn apart by vicious disagreements about the war that its matriarch, Emmeline, broke off all contact with her pacifist daughter, Sylvia.
The price others paid for resisting was, of course, even harsher. Hochschild writes that in 2006, the British government granted a blanket posthumous pardon to more than 300 executed World War I soldiers who had refused to fight.
In To End All Wars, Hochschild gives readers much more than an account of dissension in the trenches and on the British home front. He enlarges on the deeper question that has engrossed him throughout most of his writing: Namely, what does it take for a person to shake off the shackles of conventional wisdom and think for him or herself? What punishments does society mete out? What apologies does posterity sometimes offer to those courageous enough to see things differently?
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School shootings in the United States more than tripled in 2021–22 school year, a new report reveals
School gun violence incidents in the United States almost quadrupled in the 2021 to 2022 school year, with 59 people killed in that time.
Key points:
- The new report recommends firearm storage laws and "school-based intervention" to prevent gun violence on school grounds
- It also says arming teachers and holding active shooter drills could traumatise students
- 19 students and two teachers were killed at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas earlier this year
A report released by nonpartisan group Everytown for Gun Safety revealed there were 193 gun violence incidents in school grounds between August 1, 2021 and May 31, 2022.
In the previous school year there were 62 incidents.
Before last year, the previous high was in 2018–19, with 75.
There have so far been 674 mass shootings in the US in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which tracks every shooting incident across the country.
Everytown has tracked every documented time a firearm was discharged inside or into a school building, or on school grounds, since its founding in 2013.
The report also found there were four "key facts" about school "shooting incidences":
- Those firing guns on school grounds often had a connection to the school, with 60 per cent of school-age shooters current or former students
- The guns were predominantly coming from home, family or friends, rather than purchased by the shooters themselves
- There were almost always warning signs, with 100 per cent of shooters showing concerning behaviours and at least one person aware of the plan ahead of time in 77 per cent of incidents
- Gun violence disproportionately impacted non-white students
Everytown's report recommended "school-based intervention", including crisis assessment programs, security upgrades and a trusting school climate.
It also called for secure firearm storage laws, raising the age to purchase semi-automatic firearms and requiring background checks "for all gun sales".
"These solutions form a thorough strategy by providing points of intervention at each level of a shooter's escalation to violence and by creating a system where people with dangerous histories cannot easily access guns," the report read.
"Our leaders must take responsible action to keep our schools safe; this report offers them a framework for doing so."
It also noted actions like arming teachers and school security officers and holding active shooter drills could harm and traumatise students.
The founder of gun violence advocacy group Moms Demand Action, Shannon Watts, said gun violence in schools "is preventable".
"We don't have to live like this, and our children and educators should never die like this," she said.
"The best way to prevent gun violence in schools is to prevent children from accessing firearms in the first place, and to implement comprehensive policies that identify and support students in crisis.
"We must demand common sense holistic, data-driven solutions that will protect our children and communities."
'The gun industry has flooded our neighbourhoods'
The report followed testimony by the chief executives of two US gun-makers to a US House of Representatives committee last month on mass shootings at a Texas school and a New York supermarket.
Sturm, Ruger & Co Inc and Daniel Defense Llc chief executives defended their business.
A report released by the committee showed that five major gun manufacturers have generated over US$1 billion in revenue from the sale of assault-style rifles in the past decade.
"The gun industry has flooded our neighbourhoods, our schools, even our churches and synagogues, and gotten rich doing it," committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, said in her opening statement.
A total 19 students and two teachers were killed and 17 others wounded at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24.
The 18-year-old shooter entered through an unlocked side door and barricaded himself inside a classroom for an hour before being killed.
A damning 80-page report released after the shooting found all levels of law enforcement "failed to prioritise saving innocent lives".
"At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training," the report said.
According to the report, the gunman fired approximately 142 rounds inside the building and it was "almost certain" that 100 shots came before any officer entered.
The commander of a Border Patrol tactical team waited for a bullet-proof shield and working master key for the classroom, which may have not even been needed, before entering the classroom.
No-one assumed command despite scores of officers, including Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, being on the scene.
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SAN DIEGO — Juan Soto and Josh Bell homered against their former team, leading the San Diego Padres to a much-needed 2-1 win over the Washington Nationals on Saturday night.
“It felt really good. I put in a lot of work ... hopefully the next 50 at-bats are better than the first 50,” Bell said of breaking his slump to start his tenure with the Padres. “It is fun playing against those guys (Nationals) over there. It’s a lot more fun now that I have gotten a hit against them. It got to the point where I felt myself pressing.”
The Padres had lost four of five, including the first two in the series, mostly because of their struggling offense.
“We really needed this win really bad to get back on track and get the team going,” Soto said. “Just the way we won today, we had a lot of traffic the whole game. It is a good way to start going.”
Even though San Diego scored just two runs, it was enough to back the strong pitching by starter Joe Musgrove, who allowed one run and four hits in six innings with seven strikeouts.
“One swing of the bat changes the game,” San Diego manager Bob Melvin said. “Now we have guys throughout the lineup that can do that. When you have good pitching and you are getting shut down a little bit, one mistake can be a game changer.”
San Diego’s bullpen also stepped up, keeping the Nationals scoreless over three innings. Adrian Morejon (3-0) earned the win by pitching scoreless seventh and eighth. Luis Garcia earned his third save of the season, pitching a scoreless ninth despite giving up a hit and hitting a batter. Earlier Saturday, San Diego gave Josh Hader a break from closing duties due to his recent struggles.
“We were trying to get two (innings) out of Morejon and close with Garcia today,” Melvin said. “It may look different tomorrow, but it worked today.”
The Nationals jumped out to a 1-0 lead after a solo homer by Lane Thomas (2 for 4) off Musgrove, who didn’t figure in the decision.
Musgrove started the season 8-0 and has gone 0-6 in his last 10 starts beginning on June 23rd.
“This time of the year it is starting to feel like every game is a must-win game,” Musgrove said. “We haven’t been playing our best baseball, really all year. We haven’t put it all together for a consistent stretch in time. It’s definitely not for a lack of effort.”
San Diego wasted a prime scoring chance in the bottom of the first with bases loaded on three walks against Washington starter Josiah Gray. However, Bell struck out swinging to end the inning and extinguished the Padres’ threat.
Gray worked five innings, allowing one run and four hits.
The Padres loaded the bases again in third inning with two outs, but Gray got out of it by getting Ha-Seong Kim to hit a hard line drive to left for the third out.
HADER DEMOTED AS PADRES CLOSER
Hader will not be the closer for the Padres after ninth-inning meltdowns on Thursday and Friday night led to losses.
“We will probably give him a break from that (closer) in the interim here, let him work on some things,” Melvin said before the game. “But, our best team, obviously, is with Josh Hader in the closer’s role and that’s why we got him. So, we will give him a little break for now.”
Melvin said the Padres closer role would be based on matchups game-by-game, basically closer by committee. The closer role in the short-term will likely be shared by Padres’ righties Luis Garcia and Robert Suarez and lefties Adrian Morejon and Nick Martinez.
PADRES CALL UP AZOCAR AND DESIGNATE MAZARA
On Saturday, the Padres recalled OF Jose Azocar from Triple-A El Paso and designated OF Nomar Mazara for assignment. Mazara filled in adequately as the team’s everyday right fielder during parts of the first half, but with the return of OF Wil Myers from injury, followed by the acquisition of OF Juan Soto, Mazara no longer had a path to starting games. Azocar was deemed more versatile off the bench than Mazara.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: LHP Drew Pomeranz (flexor tendon surgery) is expected to return from the 60-day IL in early September. Pomeranz made his fifth rehab appearance on Aug. 19, pitching a scoreless inning for Triple-A El Paso.
UP NEXT
LHP Patrick Corbin (4-16, 6.96) starts for the Nationals on Sunday against the Padres LHP Sean Manaea (6-6, 4.83).
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Robert Jay Lifton wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his life when he left the Army in 1954 after serving in the Korean War. He was living with his wife in Hong Kong and was about to return to the U.S. to pursue a predictable career. Instead, the psychiatrist made a last-minute decision to stay in Hong Kong — and it changed everything.
Since then, his work has delved deep into the complications of human behavior, even inspiring a new field known as psychohistory. He's explored the darkest chapters of the human experience, including China's experiment with mind control, the victims of the atomic bomb, the veterans of the U.S. war in Vietnam and the Nazi doctors who sent millions of Jews to the gas chambers.
Lifton tells NPR's Rachel Martin that as his subjects changed, he changed, too — from the detached psychiatrist and to the impassioned activist. Now 85, he re-examines his life's work in a new memoir, Witness to an Extreme Century.
Chinese Mind Control
One phenomenon Lifton explored early on was China's experiment with so-called "thought reform" in the 1950s. He first encountered the mind control techniques in returning American prisoners of war.
"But I came to realize that had been a kind of export version, and the main use of thought reform was on the Chinese population," Lifton says. "It was practiced in special institutions — so-called 'revolutionary colleges' — in regular universities, in places where people worked, in neighborhoods ... it penetrated the entire Chinese population."
Lifton was fascinated by the Chinese Communist Party's systematic effort to alter peoples' opinions. As he studied mind control in China, Lifton saw parallels to what was happening in the U.S. with the rise of McCarthyism.
"People would come to see us from the United States, and they would tell us these horror stories about McCarthyism control and how people were now concerned about the magazines they were subscribed to or what they said in public," he says. "I had the feeling the whole world had gone mad!"
Hiroshima Survivors
Lifton's research in Hong Kong helped him to find a professional identity on global scale, doing studies that combined individual psychology and larger historical forces. Without knowing it, he was at the forefront of a new type of psychiatry.
Lifton's next topic of study brought him to Hiroshima, Japan, where he spoke with survivors of the atomic bomb. One story he remembers well is that of a historian who lost his wife and many other family members in the bombing.
"Soon after the bomb fell, he looked over the whole city from the outskirts and he thought Hiroshima had disappeared," Lifton says. "This left an enormous impression on me."
The idea of an entire city vanishing from a single weapon haunted Lifton for years, leading him to advocacy work in the anti-nuclear movement.
Nazi Doctors
Lifton says perhaps the most difficult series of interviews he conducted were with Nazi doctors.
"My previous work had all been with survivors," he says. "But I came to think, as I gravitated toward a Holocaust study, that it was very important to study the psychology of perpetrators."
Lifton never excused the actions of those he spoke with, but he says they did come to recognize their humanity.
"These were, unfortunately, human beings who were capable of evil," he says, "and that had to be part of my story."
The interviews led Lifton to describe a phenomenon he called "doubling," where the Nazi doctors formed two separate selves to reconcile their actions.
"One of those selves could allow them to go back for weekends or leaves to Germany from Auschwitz and be ordinary husbands and fathers, while doing the work of killing in Auschwitz five or six days a week," Lifton says. "I was forced to look at the complexity of human beings and the degree to which ordinary human beings could be socialized to evil."
Studying Himself
After a lifetime writing about the survivors of horrific events, Lifton himself became the subject of study for his memoir.
"It was difficult," Lifton says, "but it came to be quite satisfying. When one writes a memoir, one perhaps gives a more orderly narrative to one's life than it actually had — or at least than it actually seemed to have at the time."
In the end, Lifton says, writing his memoir helped him find lost moments and experience them again in a powerful way.
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In summer of 1897, a group of New York kids found a headless torso floating in the East River. At first, the police thought it was a prank being played by medical students, who were known to leave cadaver fingers and limbs lying around just for laughs. But the next day, the lower torso and hips of that beheaded half-corpse washed up along the Harlem River, and it became clear that the wounds were the work of a malicious amateur.
Who cracked the case? Who scrambled facts, myth and suspicion through that boiling New York summer?
According to Weekend Edition's literary detective Paul Collins, it was Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, two newspapers that took a summer murder and turned it into one of the first great newspaper wars.
Collins tracks the progress of that war in a new book, The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that the papers were actually quite helpful in solving the case.
He says New York World reporter Ned Brown provided one of the case's big breaks when he noticed an anomaly: The recovered body was very muscular, but the hands were smooth.
"It didn't seem like someone who was doing what one would usually associate with manual labor and [Brown] eventually realized that where he had seen that was actually in the bathhouses in New York, with the masseurs who really had to put a lot of physical effort in but they kept their skin quite soft," Collins says. "And he started asking around at some of the bathhouses if any of their employees were missing."
In fact, one employee was missing. His name was William Guldensuppe and his death was eventually attributed to his lover, Augusta Nack, and Martin Thorn, a rival for Nack's affections.
And while the World managed to provide the first big break, the Journal aided in its first big arrest.
"The first arrest in the case was basically attempted by two Hearst reporters who jumped onto a moving carriage on Ninth Avenue," Collins says. "As it turned out, they actually needed a policeman to back them up ... they weren't really that good at arresting people."
What A Murder Mystery Did For Journalism
The struggle to beat the other paper to the story also led to new journalistic practices, many of which are still used today. Take, for example, Hearst's "wrecking crew" or what we think of today as team reporting.
"What Hearst figured out was if you sent 10 [or] 20 people onto the scene; if you had artists there; if you had people interviewing members of the crowd — families, any expert that they could grab — you could not only generate one big story, you could generate five or six and spread them across the entire front page," Collins says. "So he really pioneered this approach of blitzing a story."
Meanwhile, Pulitzer was pushing the idea that news could also be entertaining.
"Instead of running lots of stories on the latest tariff bill," Collins says, "[Pulitzer] would run things about celebrities, about sports, about crime, and he put in things like a comic section."
Collins says that because of the innovations and changes of that era, it was in some ways a golden age for journalism. But considering the popularity of yellow — or questionable — journalism, that designation should be taken with a grain of salt.
"Yellow journalism actually brought an extraordinary amount of energy and liveliness to reporting," he says. "They took the news and they made it compelling. They actually made it entertaining. By the same token, I think the tragedy of yellow journalism is they took news and they made it an entertainment — and we've had to live with that, too."
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It's summertime, that time out of time, when the heat, the air and the stillness at certain good times of day make for easy reading. With a little luck and perseverance you might carve out some hours to keep company with some new books.
Whether you approach summer reading as a picnic, barbecue, smorgasbord, buffet or sit-down dinner, these books will leave you hungry for more — in the best sense of the words.
Miss New India
By Bharati Mukherjee; hardcover, 336 pages; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, list price $25
Miss New India, Bharati Mukherjee's latest novel, gives us a picture of India as we've never truly seen it before, as a country as up-to-date — and as traditional — as any place in the world. Mukherjee employs a classic plot: A village girl goes to the big city, where she throws off most of the old ways and discovers her new identity. In this case, the village girl is Anjali Bose, a Bengali girl from a less-than-thriving town in central India who rejects her family's plan for an arranged marriage after suffering rape and humiliation by a suitor.
Anjali feels as though she is "part of the bold new India, an equal to anywhere, a land poised for takeoff," and the metaphor seems apt; with the help of an expatriate teacher, she leaves home and heads to Hindi-speaking Bangalore. Her new home, a call-center metropolis, sports a breed of men and women who are her contemporaries, yet whose English she can scarcely understand. But she turns all of her energy into becoming a new person, settling in to a rented space in the sprawling, decaying home of an elderly British matron and finding a new life as "Angie."
Around her, all of her call-center friends work hard to sound American and hip as hell, while "Angie" struggles to keep up with them. Novelist Mukherjee captures the drama of her protagonist's life with ease, making a thoroughly American novel about her former home that proves (with serious dramatic verve and passion) that going home again may be difficult for any of us.
Three Stages Of Amazement
By Carol Edgarian; hardcover, 304 pages; Scribner, list price: $25
In what may well be the most serious and the most entertaining domestic novel of the year, San Francisco writer Carol Edgarian delivers a new turn on Tolstoy's old chestnut: "Happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." She calls her book Three Stages of Amazement and sets it in San Francisco toward the end of the "dot com" craze. We meet Lena Rusch, an appealing but harried mother of two whose surgeon husband has been trying, with middling success, to found his own medical device company. The novel deftly dramatizes questions about the essence of married life and throws in a mystery about Lena's origins for good measure. But there's no mystery as to how Edgarian keeps us going — deep insight into human behavior, coupled with the right language to describe it.
The Astral
By Kate Christensen; hardcover, 320 pages; Doubleday, list price: $25.95
"Love" and "aging" are the operative themes in award-winning novelist Kate Christensen's new book, The Astral. Christensen's main character, a once well-known poet named Harry Quirk, has reached his late 50s and finds himself at the end of both his marriage and his rope. Luz, Henry's wife of many years, mistakenly believes he has cheated on her and has thrown him out of their apartment in an old Brooklyn building that has the same name as the novel. We ramble around the neighborhood with Harry, who drinks sorrowfully, rolls around on his bike in search of a new place to live and tries to write a long narrative poem with the title — you may have guessed it — "The Astral."
As the novel shifts into a higher gear, Harry tries desperately to keep the peace with his lesbian daughter, who lives as a "freegan" in Brooklyn, where she forages food and such from local Dumpsters. With his daughter, he endeavors to save his son from the clutches of a Long Island Christian cult. Meanwhile, Harry himself is seeking some sort of transcendence in life, the same kind he hopes for in poetry. Good luck, Harry. (But how fortunate dear Harry is to be created by a writer as gifted as Kate Christensen, who knows her men better than some male writers believe they know their women!)
All The Time In The World, New And Selected Short Stories
By E. L. Doctorow; hardcover, 304 pages; Random House, list price: $26
The conventional wisdom about short fiction tells us that where novels open time up, short stories compress it — and reveal something new to us about the main character and the world along the way. Much-lauded novelist E.L. Doctorow works with that convention in his new collection of stories, All the Time in the World, allowing us the sense that by the end of any of his short pieces he will reveal new things to us about the character's life, and with a little luck, about our own.
The situations in the collection are varied; in "Willi" an old man recalls the murderous family incident in his childhood that changed his life forever, while "Wakefield" introduces us to a conventional suburban commuter who decides he is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. "The Writer in the Family" is the most traditional of the stories, and in many ways the most resonant, because it gives a sharp account of how a budding artist, residing normally in the bosom of his family in the Bronx, discovers his great powers.
But these stories also work on another level by revealing news not just about the world, but also about the mysteries that lie at the heart of human behavior. In doing so, they bring us near to the resonance at the heart of ordinary life. In the title story, set in Manhattan, the narrator notices the beauty in the everyday with a sharpness that makes every page a revelation:
A shaft of sunlight lights up the street from a crack in the black sky. The clouds blow off, the air is all at once warm and humid ... water drips from the apartment house canopies, gurgling rivulets run along the curbstone. I feel as if I've risen from one element to another ...
Read these fine stories, and you may find you'll have that same feeling.
Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories, 1963-1973
By Kurt Vonnegut; hardcover, 848 pages; Library of America, list price: $35
I didn't know what was going to happen when I opened the pages of the Library of America's reissue of Kurt Vonnegut's novels. So much of what I remembered as the really great stuff of my early reading days just hasn't held up the second time around. But here's Vonnegut with all his breezy pessimism — or should I call it pessimistic breeziness? — that, in spirit, calls up the spirit of Mark Twain.
Most of Vonnegut's novels seem just as vital, perhaps more so, than the first time I picked them up. Choose your own favorite. I elected to reread Slaughterhouse-Five, which is included in the collection, along with God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle and some of Vonnegut's better-known short stories. First published in 1969, Slaughterhouse introduces us to a World War II veteran named Billy Pilgrim. Pilgrim is a survivor of the monstrous Allied firebombing raid on Dresden, where he was interned as a German POW in the spring of 1945.
He suffers what we now recognize as PTSD, and, as he describes it, has come "unstuck in time." Unstuck, indeed! The novel swings with great panache back and forth between Billy's youth, his wartime encounters with death and destruction and his post-war life — a life spent not only on Earth in mental hospitals but also on the planet Tralfamador, where, as he tells us, he will enjoy a good part of eternity having been scooped up and taken there by a crew from an intergalactic spaceship.
Zooming back and forth in time in a novel that swings back and forth from realism to science fiction and back again, Billy's cracked vision of war and peace helps us see ourselves in our own place in time a little more clearly than we might have before. This is a wonderfully understated little satire. And, over 40 years after its initial publication, we can still respond to its cry for sanity and appreciate Vonnegut's famous four-word refrain signifying the trivial and the devastating passage of all things: "and so it goes."
Picnic, barbecue, smorgasbord, buffet, sit-down dinner — all here in this Vonnegut retrospective, perfect for summer reading.
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This interview was originally broadcast on July 19, 2010. Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food is now available in paperback.
Writer Paul Greenberg has been eating fish caught in local waters since he was a kid growing up in Connecticut. Most of the fish he caught himself — but occasionally, he would visit the fishmonger in his hometown and purchase wild fish, fresh from the sea.
But when he visited fish markets as an adult, he realized that the types of fish for sale had changed. Instead of a variety of wild-caught fish, Greenberg saw four varieties of fish — salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna — that seemed to consistently be on fishmongers' shelves, despite having little to do with the waters adjacent to his local fish market.
In his new book, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, Greenberg investigates how those four fish came to dominate the seafood market, and examines how the wild fish industry has changed in the past three decades as the business of fishing became more industrialized.
"Fish were different 35-odd years ago, when I was a kid, and I would often visit fish markets no matter where I was," he explains to Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "By and large, what we would see would be entirely wild fish. Forty-odd years ago, everything we ate from the sea was wild. Pretty much everything. Today almost half of what we eat is farmed. So it's a huge, huge shift."
Interview Highlights
On domesticating wild fish
"The way humans have used fish, we started inland and moved further and further offshore. Salmon represent that first step. Salmon spawn in freshwater rivers. They're nearby. And we have this very close interaction with them where we live. So they were one of the first fish that we really hit hard with industrialization. Dams and pollution and all of these different things caused wide-scale extirpation of salmon, particularly Atlantic salmon, throughout their range. And now what we've seen is, salmon was really the first large-scale domestication project for the fish that we eat. There are many more farmed salmon in the world than wild salmon, and it's a kind of replacement of a wild-food system with a domestic-food system that has started to kind of be kind of a model moving forward."
On the salmon's diet, and how it's changed
"What do salmon eat? Well, on the farm what they eat is other fish. And where do those fish come from? The wild. So the global catch right now in the world is 90 million tons, which is a lot. It's equivalent to the human weight of China removed from the sea every year. A third of that is what they call forage fish — herring, anchovies, little things like that. And incidentally, the weight of all of those taken out of the sea every year would be the equivalent of the human weight of the United States taken out every year. Those are harvested every year. They're made into feed pellets. And in the early days of aquatic agriculture, the feeding was extremely inefficient, there wasn't a great deal of care to make sure the salmon actually ate what they were fed. So there was a lot of waste, and I think in 2000, the journal Nature published a study that the fish-in, fish-out ratio ... could be as much as three pounds of wild fish to make one pound of salmon. ... That's a pretty screwy equation. Why are we coming up with a net marine protein loss?
"But to its credit, the salmon industry took this very seriously. ... It's also an economic factor for them — it's expensive buying all of that feed — and over the years, they've instituted a selective breeding program with salmon, mostly in Norway. They took the 40 original salmon strains in all of these different rivers in Norway, and they crossed them and they recrossed them, and they came up with eventually with a salmon that required half the original feed of the original wild variant. ... But the industry keeps growing. So while per-fish efficiency is better, the overall footprint of the salmon industry is just bigger and bigger."
On cod (and the fish stick)
"What cod represents is sort of this epic industrial move to the continental shelves, where, beginning around the Middle Ages, huge aggregations of cod were found, first off of Europe. But then people ... would posit that that's what brought the Vikings to the New World in the first place. There were these huge amounts of cod on the Grand Banks in Canada and then off of Massachusetts. They sort of represent the industrialization of fishing. If all of that cod hadn't been found, I don't think we'd have a fish stick today. And it's the sort of re-imagining of fish — not as this local, artisan product but as this mass-scale, industrial thing that fills up our supermarkets and our fast-food restaurants."
On tilapia vs. other fish (and beef)
"I think it's kind of a neutral fish. Tilapia — because they don't eat a lot of fish meal, they don't fit the omega-3 profile that so many nutritionists say we should be having. That said, as a form of protein, it's better — I think — to eat a low-fat fillet than a big chunk of beef or even pork or chicken. It's just leaner. ... Overall, I eat tilapia. In the profile of food we have to eat out there, I think it's certainly a better choice than beef."
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In the summer of 1893, President Grover Cleveland disappeared for four days to have secret surgery on a yacht. It was the beginning of his second term as president and the country was entering a depression, a delicate time in which a president's health was inextricably linked to that of the nation. So Cleveland decided to keep the surgery a secret — and so it stayed for years.
Today, that secret is the subject of Matthew Algeo's new book, The President Is a Sick Man. Algeo tells NPR's Steve Inskeep about the presidential illness that launched a cover-up:
"Shortly after he took office for the second time in 1893, he noticed a little bump on the roof of his mouth," Algeo says. "Around June ... he had noticed it had grown quite large. And the doctor diagnosed it as cancer, [saying], 'It's a bad looking tenant, and I would have it evicted immediately.'"
Cleveland worried that news of his diagnosis would send Wall Street — and the country — into a panic. According to Algeo, that wasn't an unreasonable concern.
"It would be a big deal today," he says. "It was an even bigger deal then because at the time there was a stigma attached to cancer. Newspapers would call it 'the dread disease.'"
So Cleveland decided to have the tumor secretly removed. The plan was for the president to announce he was taking a friend's yacht, the Oneida, on a four-day fishing trip from New York to his summer home in Cape Cod.
"And it was on that yacht that this operation was performed," Algeo says. "They assembled a team of six surgeons. [It] took about 90 minutes. They used ether as the anesthesia and they removed the tumor along with about five teeth and a large part of the president's upper left jawbone."
The surgeons managed to extract the tumor through the president's mouth, which meant there was no noticeable scarring and the president's trademark mustache was left untouched — key conditions for keeping the public in the dark.
Algeo says the operation was an extraordinary achievement in American medicine.
"The doctors took incredible risks. I mean, it was really foolhardy," Algeo says. "I talked to a couple of oral surgeons [while] researching the book, and they still marvel at this operation: that they were able to do this on a moving boat; [that] they did it very quickly. A similar operation today would take several hours; they did it in 90 minutes."
The 'Press' Gets The Scoop
Even back in 1893, Algeo says, it was pretty unusual for the president to disappear for four days, so it wasn't long before people started talking.
Two months after the president's "fishing trip," Philadelphia Press reporter E.J. Edwards published a story about the surgery which he had confirmed with one of Cleveland's doctors. The president flatly denied Edwards' story and even went so far as to launch a smear campaign to discredit the reporter.
"So nobody believed E.J. Edwards," Algeo says. "He was dismissed as a disgrace to journalism."
Edwards' story may never have made its way into history books if one of Cleveland's doctors, William Williams Keen, hadn't eventually come forward.
"Twenty-four years after the operation — when all the other principals were dead — there were only three witnesses left to the operation," Algeo says. "And [Keen] decided it would be the right thing to do to publish an article to explain what really happened and to vindicate E.J. Edwards."
The closest Cleveland ever came to confessing to the surgery was in a letter he wrote to a friend after the first doctor talked to Edwards. It reads, "The report you saw regarding my health resulted from a most astounding breach of professional duty on the part of a medical man ... I tell you this in strict confidence for the policy here has been to deny and discredit this story."
Illness Policy At The White House
According to Algeo, the story of Grover Cleveland's secret tumor is part of a long history of cover-ups when it comes to presidential illness.
In 1919, Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke and was more or less incapacitated for the last 18 months of his second term; Warren Harding covered up his heart disease; John F. Kennedy hid his Addison's disease; and when Ronald Reagan underwent operations for cancer while in office, his wife, Nancy, insisted that the word "cancer" not be used in any official statement or release.
"Even as late as the 1980s this idea of the president having cancer carried some sort of stigma with it," Algeo says.
And while today it may seem even more impossible for a president to just disappear and have a major operation without anyone knowing about it, Algeo says it's actually much easier than you'd think.
"Apparently, there is a fully equipped operating room on Air Force One," he says. "So if a president did want to disappear for a little bit and have an operation, it actually might be easier to do today than it was in 1893."
Chances are, compared to that yacht, Air Force One would also offer a smoother ride — assuming, of course, that there's no turbulence.
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Lincoln, Neb. — West Gate Bank announces the promotion of Emily Phelps to the title of assistant vice president, branch manager at the 8400 Eagle Crest location and Kenzie Meyer to the title operations specialist.
Phelps began her West Gate Bank career as a teller in 2010 and has been promoted several times over the years. In her new role as branch manager of the West Gate Bank branch at 8400 Eagle Crest, Phelps will be responsible for developing and maintaining business relationships with customers, providing personal service to meet their financial needs and coaching her staff to achieve customer service and sales goals.
Phelps serves as the junior achievement coordinator for the bank, assists with the in-school savings programs at Lakeview and Wysong Elementary Schools, and serves on the board of directors for Willard Community Center.
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Meyer joined West Gate Bank in 2014 as a part-time teller at the 27th & Cornhusker location, holding a variety of positions in retail. In 2019, she joined the operations team. With her promotion, Meyer will continue to provide support for all areas of operations and compliance including wire processing, check review, foreign currency, CIP and BSA.
Kenzie Meyer is located at West Gate Bank Center at 6003 Old Cheney Road and can be reached at 531-289-3834 or kmeyer@westgate.bank.
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Casey Affleck tried to explain why he bailed on Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's wedding, and his reason was quite the yawner.
TMZ obtained video of the 47-year-old actor Saturday morning in L.A. on a Starbucks run. Casey, Ben's little brother and only sibling, was on the phone holding a Venti-sized cup of coffee and tall-sized cup of water as he walked out of the joint and headed to his car.
In the video, the videographer asks Casey why he's not in Georgia with Ben, Jen and the rest of their friends and family. Casey, strutting around in jeans, a hoodie and messy hair, wasn't in much of a talkative mood but he did utter something to the effect that he "fell asleep."
The videographer seemed shocked at the answer so, for good measure, he asked Casey again if falling asleep is really the reason why he's not attending the wedding. Casey doesn't say much else except "Thank you dude" before closing the door and going on his way.
For what it's worth, Casey had been hinting, however slightly, that this was going to be the case. He was spotted with his girlfriend, Caylee Cowan, on Thursday without any sense of urgency, as Affleck and Lopez's friends and family members descended on Georgia for the couple's second wedding at Ben's estate in Riceboro, Georgia.
Ben and Casey's mother, Christopher Anne Boldt, arrived earlier this week. Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso, also arrived ahead of the nuptials.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The offensively challenged New York Yankees made plenty of noise Saturday.
Just not with their bats.
Ace Gerrit Cole twice banged the dugout roof, shouting in frustration and getting booed after a rough inning. After a 15th loss in 19 games, 5-2 to Toronto, manager Aaron Boone pounded the podium with his right hand while talking about his team’s struggles.
“We can ask all these questions in regards (to our slump) until we’re blue in the face,” Boone said. “We got to go out and do it. I got to quit answering questions about this date and this perplexion. We got to play better, period. And the great thing is right in front of us. It’s right here and we can fix it.”
“It’s there and we can run away with this thing and we got the dudes in there to do it and we got to do it,” he said.
The AL East-leading Yankees fell to 9-20 since entering the All-Star break with a 64-28 record. After holding a 15 1/2-game bulge on July 8, their margin over second-place Toronto is down to seven games.
The Yankees have lost six straight series for the first time since 1995, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Held to just 21 runs in its last 11 games, New York will try to avoid a four-game sweep on Sunday.
Cole (9-6) hadn’t allowed a hit before the Blue Jays scored four times in the fifth. After he issued a walk to Danny Jansen and misplayed a grounder, Alejandro Kirk capped the burst with a two-run double that left fielder Andrew Benintendi couldn’t quite catch.
When the inning ended, fans booed Cole and television cameras picked up the right-hander, yelling, and punching the bottom of the dugout roof with both hands.
Cole blamed himself for the walk and fielding lapse.
“I feel bad about it if we weren’t in the rut that we were, but I’d still feel bad about it,” he said.
The reaction from portions of the crowd of 45, 538 were similar to Cole with boos increasing after Toronto went ahead and intensifying after the final out.
“We’re not winning,” said slugger Aaron Judge, who batted third for the fourth time this year. “I think anytime you don’t win boos are warranted.”
Jackie Bradley hit a two-run, go-ahead double down the left-field line, the ball bouncing off the wall and past Benintendi when he tried to field the carom. Bradley delivered after Santiago Espinal got Toronto’s first hit, a double two pitches after missing on a close two-strike pitch.
Raimel Tapia reached on an infield hit by beating shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s throw and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached when Cole slightly slipped in front of the mound fielding the ball. Cole’s misstep allowed Guerrero to beat the throw and the original call was overturned when Toronto challenged.
“Obviously, I’m thinking trying to think double play,” Cole said. “I’m not 100% sure, but I got to try to at least give it a look. “
Kirk then gave the Blue Jays a 4-1 lead when he lined a double to left-center. Benintendi was playing slightly in, raced back, attempted a diving catch and the ball eluded his glove before center fielder Estevan Florial fielded it and threw out Guerrero to prevent a third run from scoring.
Matt Chapman added a solo homer in the ninth as the Blue Jays won their fourth straight. Toronto is 13-6 in the Bronx since the start of last season.
“He was dealing, no-hitter through four and then I think we were grinding him out good enough to get his pitch count up and kind of strung it together there,” Toronto interim manager John Schneider said.
Florial hit an RBI single in the second and Gleyber Torres homered in the eighth as the Yankees got nine hits but went 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position.
“Just got to have a little better energy in the dugout to kind of push each other a little bit,” Judge said.
Before allowing four runs, Cole allowed two baserunners through the first four and was aided by defensive plays from Judge in right and rookie third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera.
Judge made a running catch to prevent a double by Bo Bichette in the second with his left shoulder crashing into the fence. Cabrera dove face first into the tarp in foul territory to snag Bradley’s popup and completed the play after his head hit the padding along the side wall.
Toronto starter Mitch White allowed one run and seven hits in four innings. Adam Cimber (9-4) was awarded the win and Yimi García got his first save.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: OF/DH George Springer didn’t play for the second straight game after fouling a ball off his knee while going 5 for 5 in Thursday. Springer was available as a pinch-hitter and hopes to play Sunday. … RF Teoscar Hernández was lifted after fouling a ball off his foot in the eighth.
Yankees OF/DH Giancarlo Stanton (left Achilles tendinitis) was expected to get three to five at-bats in two rehab games for Double-A Somerset on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Stanton could return as the DH as soon as Tuesday after facing RHP Luis Severino (right lat strain) in live batting practice. … 3B Josh Donaldson (stomach bug) was a late scratch from the lineup. … RHP Clay Holmes (back) played catch for the first time since going on the IL Wednesday and said he is feeling better. … Severino threw 25 pitches in a bullpen session after throwing 30 pitches Thursday.
UP NEXT
Toronto RHP Alek Manoah (12-6, 2.71 ERA) opposes New York LHP Nestor Cortes (9-4, 2.74) on Sunday. It will be a special day at Yankee Stadium when former star outfielder and current team announcer Paul O’Neill has his No. 21 retired during an on-field ceremony.
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Darya Dugina, daughter of Putin ally Alexander Dugin, reportedly dead in Moscow car explosion
Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian public figure Alexander Dugin, has reportedly died in a car explosion near Moscow.
Andrey Krasnov, the head of the Russian Horizon social movement, told Russian news agency TASS that Mr Dugin was likely also a target.
"Yes, a very adverse event. I knew Darya personally," Mr Krasnov said on Sunday.
"This was the father's vehicle. Darya was driving another car but she took his car today, while Alexander went in a different way.
"He returned, he was at the site of the tragedy. As far as I understand, Alexander or probably they together were the target."
The car exploded near Bolshiye Vyazemy village in the Moscow region, law enforcement agencies told TASS earlier on Sunday.
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CALHOUN, La. (AP) — A new winemaking operation has become an off-the-beaten-path destination in Northeast Louisiana.
Thirsty Farmer Winery and Vineyard in Calhoun offers locally crafted wines, eats and live Saturday entertainment. Owned by Michael and Savannah Ray, the family-owned operation opened its doors on June 4, attracting over 1,000 people.
Michael Ray said the couple decided to go into the winemaking business following a trip to wine country in California in 2015. Initially in San Francisco for a continuing education course for Savannah, Ray said the two trekked to Napa Valley and Sonoma County where another education awaited.
“Sonoma really changed my mind about what grape growing was,” Ray said. “It wasn’t about winemaking at that point, it was about seeing these guys growing grapes. They were farmers and it just so happen that we got row crop here. Cotton, corn and everything else but these guys were farming grapes. It just changed my mind about what they meant and what it could be.”
Ray said he tried his hand at growing grapes soon after returning to Calhoun, planting over 150 vines. However, Ray said he still had a lot to learn, accumulating little knowledge from the Internet and other local grape growers.
“I found out really quickly that I had put the wrong grapes in the ground and they were eventually going to get sick,” Ray said. “I thought, ‘Well there’s no way they’ll get this diseased that everybody’s telling me about.’ It’s call Pierce’s disease and three years later, they did. I cared for them for three years, got them trained and had them growing the way they needed to grow and they set fruit on year three.”
Despite not yet being able to harvest, Ray said he and his wife continued to learn the business. The two eventually enrolled into the Distilling and Viticulture Program at Grayson College in Denison, Texas.
The winery currently produces six crafted wines, most of which feature fruits other than grapes, such as their peach wine.
Thirsty Farmer Winery and Vineyards offers six crafted wines.
One of their more popular wines, “Crush,” incorporates raspberry and strawberry. “Bubbles,” the winery’s rosé, is produced from Zinfandel grapes and a red blend, called “5:04,” is 70% cabernet. Their Lomanto varietal is produced from grapes which, according to Ray, can grow well in the Louisiana climate.
The winery hosts “Wineaux Ramble,” a weekly live concert which features local talent, on Saturdays. It also pairs the crafted wine with foods such as charcuterie boards. Currently held in the new tasting room, Ray said when cooler weather permits, the concerts will move to the winery’s outdoor space.
Ray referred to the responses to the winery and its products as “overwhelming.” He said the Saturday concerts attract large crowds every week.
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CALHOUN, La. (AP) — A new winemaking operation has become an off-the-beaten-path destination in Northeast Louisiana.
Thirsty Farmer Winery and Vineyard in Calhoun offers locally crafted wines, eats and live Saturday entertainment. Owned by Michael and Savannah Ray, the family-owned operation opened its doors on June 4, attracting over 1,000 people.
Michael Ray said the couple decided to go into the winemaking business following a trip to wine country in California in 2015. Initially in San Francisco for a continuing education course for Savannah, Ray said the two trekked to Napa Valley and Sonoma County where another education awaited.
“Sonoma really changed my mind about what grape growing was,” Ray said. “It wasn’t about winemaking at that point, it was about seeing these guys growing grapes. They were farmers and it just so happen that we got row crop here. Cotton, corn and everything else but these guys were farming grapes. It just changed my mind about what they meant and what it could be.”
Ray said he tried his hand at growing grapes soon after returning to Calhoun, planting over 150 vines. However, Ray said he still had a lot to learn, accumulating little knowledge from the Internet and other local grape growers.
“I found out really quickly that I had put the wrong grapes in the ground and they were eventually going to get sick,” Ray said. “I thought, ‘Well there’s no way they’ll get this diseased that everybody’s telling me about.’ It’s call Pierce’s disease and three years later, they did. I cared for them for three years, got them trained and had them growing the way they needed to grow and they set fruit on year three.”
Despite not yet being able to harvest, Ray said he and his wife continued to learn the business. The two eventually enrolled into the Distilling and Viticulture Program at Grayson College in Denison, Texas.
The winery currently produces six crafted wines, most of which feature fruits other than grapes, such as their peach wine.
Thirsty Farmer Winery and Vineyards offers six crafted wines.
One of their more popular wines, “Crush,” incorporates raspberry and strawberry. “Bubbles,” the winery’s rosé, is produced from Zinfandel grapes and a red blend, called “5:04,” is 70% cabernet. Their Lomanto varietal is produced from grapes which, according to Ray, can grow well in the Louisiana climate.
The winery hosts “Wineaux Ramble,” a weekly live concert which features local talent, on Saturdays. It also pairs the crafted wine with foods such as charcuterie boards. Currently held in the new tasting room, Ray said when cooler weather permits, the concerts will move to the winery’s outdoor space.
Ray referred to the responses to the winery and its products as “overwhelming.” He said the Saturday concerts attract large crowds every week.
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OTHO, Iowa (AP) — Otho’s town motto is “Friends and neighbors working together.” For the last several years, the Otho Betterment Committee has looked for different ways to exemplify that in the small Webster County town.
Recently, with the help of some neighbors, the committee set up a Little Free Library and Little Free Pantry near Otho City Hall.
“I had seen some other ones online, the libraries especially,” Betterment Committee President Missy Ewing told the Fort Dodge Messenger. “There’s a couple in Fort Dodge and we’ve seen one at Twin Lakes, so I just thought it would be a fun idea to have one here.”
The Little Free Library movement started in Wisconsin in 2009. According to the official website, a Little Free Library is a “‘take a book, return a book’ gathering place where neighbors share their favorite literature and stories.” Anyone can stop by and pick up a book, or leave a book.
Ewing decided to enlist the help of her parents, Larry and Lynn McBride, of Coalville, to build the pantry boxes. The McBrides not only built the boxes, but donated them as well.
To kick off the initiative, Ewing filled the pantry with a variety of nonperishable food items. The library was stocked with children’s books and DVD movies donated in memory of George and Candy Bartlett.
The library and pantry have been up for about two weeks now, Ewing said.
“Every day I come by here, they’re stocked and there’s new stuff that’s been added,” she said. “We’ve had a really good response. On the second day, I came in to look and there was already additional food other than what I had put in.”
Some Otho neighbors may also leave fresh produce from their gardens in the pantry, Ewing added.
Residents who need a little hand-up are encouraged to take what they need from the pantry, while those who may have extra are encouraged to donate to help their neighbors.
“I think it helps, especially for people who can’t get into town,” Ewing said.
The Little Free Pantry is also completely anonymous.
“Somebody could come here if they need something, and nobody would care or nobody would say anything,” Larry McBride said. He added that though the pantry is located in Otho, nearby neighbors are also welcome to use it.
Eventually, the Betterment Committee will stock personal hygiene items, toilet paper and feminine products in the pantry, Ewing said.
“We can benefit from this for years,” she said. “It makes me feel good that it is being used.”
Ewing said she hopes that the Little Free Pantry and Little Free Library in Otho will inspire other area small towns to do something similar.
“We have a lot of retirement homes,” she said. “A lot of people are on a limited income and most of them don’t have vehicles.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Family-builds-and-stocks-free-library-pantry-in-17380535.php | 2022-08-21T06:34:42Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Family-builds-and-stocks-free-library-pantry-in-17380535.php | true |
Labour’s rise and a push to increase tuition fees feature among the nation’s papers.
The Observer reports the Labour party has seen a bounce in the polls as senior Tories warn of potential consequences of a Liz Truss premiership.
The Foreign Secretary has pledged to stop the exodus of doctors from the NHS if she becomes prime minister, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
Elsewhere, The Sunday Times leads with a push from university bosses to raise tuition fees closer to the £24,000-a-year average that foreign students pay.
The Sunday Express says Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged businesses to prepare for the “mighty” Pacific trade deal, which he says “will mean lower prices on our supermarket shelves”.
The Independent dedicates its front page to a story on a “prison where Ukrainians vanish”.
And the Daily Star Sunday says the former bodyguard of Diana, Princess of Wales, believes “British agents may have accidentally caused her death”. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3614161/what-the-papers-say-august-21/ | 2022-08-21T06:39:18Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3614161/what-the-papers-say-august-21/ | true |
Cost of raising a child grows to more than $300,000
(CNN) - The cost of raising a child through high school has gone up, thanks to inflation.
For a married, middle-income couple, it now takes on average $310,605 to raise a child born in 2015 through the age of 17. That comes out to more than $18,000 a year on average.
The Brookings Institution came up with the estimate based on numbers for a couple with two children from the U.S. Agriculture Department.
The price tag includes a range of child expenses, including food, healthcare, clothing, childcare and activities.
Back in 2015, a federal government projection put the total child-raising cost at more than $233,000.
A senior fellow at Brookings suggests many couples will take more time to consider whether to have a first or second child.
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Port of Felixstowe strike will cost us a stack of money - haulier
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Workers in Felixstowe, Suffolk, are striking in a row about their pay, with eight days of industrial action at the UK's largest container port. What could it mean for those reliant on goods coming in to the port?
Why is the strike happening?
About 2,550 people work at the Port of Felixstowe, which is the UK's biggest container port, handling 48% of container trade.
About 1,900 Unite members walked out from 07:00 BST for eight days, after rejecting a 7% pay offer from Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company, which operates the port.
The offer also includes a one-off £500 payment.
Unite says the pay offer is "significantly below" the rate of inflation but the port insists it is a "very respectable offer".
What will it mean for businesses?
"About 30% of our business is at Felixstowe, so it's going to have a huge impact," says Paul Day, managing director of haulage company Turners of Soham.
The Cambridgeshire company moves about 500 containers out of the port every day.
"We might be able to keep operating for two or three days but I can't see we'll be able to after that," he says.
"It will cost us a stack of money, but all I can do is optimise what we can do and try to minimise the damage - but the damage is coming."
Derek Hailstone, co-owner of Mick's Cycles, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, says the majority of his stock comes in through Felixstowe.
The company has been trading in the Suffolk town since 1970.
"The strikes have the potential to affect us, as most of our stock comes into the UK through Felixstowe," he says.
"A lot will depend on how much stock is already being held in Felixstowe and whether that can come out of the port."
He says the key factor for his business would be whether the shipments headed for Felixstowe can be diverted to other ports around the UK.
"If they divert to other ports, then we'll be OK," he says.
Haydyn Rowlandson, traffic operator for Openultra haulage company, based in Felixstowe, says collecting deliveries from other ports would mean additional costs for customers.
"Vessels are being diverted to ports such as Southampton but, clearly, if we have to go there, it significantly changes the rate of the job," he says.
"One collection would cost hundreds of pounds more as there is extra wear and tear, the additional fuel and driver hours."
But the looming strike is already having an effect on business.
"We have had to stand vehicles down, we have had to stand drivers down and the workload has been minimal in comparison with the last few weeks," he says.
"Customers are ringing us up on a daily basis and asking if we know what is happening.
"They're taking a hit, we are taking a hit - and the country is taking a hit, too."
What will it mean for shoppers?
James Hookham, director of Global Shippers Forum, says: "We are just entering peak season for consumer goods movements in UK international trade and transport.
"From now on, ships will be arriving from the Far East in increasing numbers, with containers of goods destined for retail outlets and online distribution centres to be ready for the three peaks in retail sales - Halloween (half-term holidays), Black Friday (last weekend in November) and Christmas."
He says a prolonged strike "has the potential to disrupt the UK's consumer supply chains at a critical period".
"These containers are moving aboard some of the biggest ships in the world - think Ever Given - and are moving in such numbers and frequency that other routes or transport modes (overland by rail from China to Europe, or by air cargo) simply don't have the capacity to handle these numbers, at such short notice," he says.
"Consumer prices are already rising due to the dramatic increases in shipping rates experienced since mid-2020.
"Further disruption in the UK will add to these cost pressures, although temporary unavailability of some goods may be the first noticeable effect to consumers."
What does the union say?
Unite says eight days of strike action at the port will run until 29 August.
Its general secretary Sharon Graham says: "Felixstowe docks is enormously profitable. The latest figures show that in 2020 it made £61m in profits. Its parent company, CK Hutchison Holding Ltd, is so wealthy that, in the same year, it handed out £99m to its shareholders.
"So they can give Felixstowe workers a decent pay raise. So they should do so. It's clear both companies have prioritised delivering multi-million pound profits and dividends rather than paying their workers a decent wage."
She says the union is "entirely focused on enhancing its members' jobs, pay and conditions and it will be giving the workers at Felixstowe its complete support until this dispute is resolved and a decent pay increase is secured".
What does the port say?
"I think we've made a very respectable offer," says Paul Davey, spokesman for the port.
"The 7% plus £500 means this year it's an increase of between 8.1% and 9.6% depending upon the category of worker at the port, and I think at a time when the average pay increase in the country is 5% - we've got a shrinking economy, we're going into recession - as a country I think that's a very fair offer indeed.
"Unite head office have refused the pay deal on behalf of their employees locally. We know a lot of the employees locally would be quite happy to accept that."
The Bank of England has warned the UK will fall into recession in the final three months of this year when inflation is set to hit more than 13%.
He says some shipping companies have brought forward shipment dates while others have delayed them to avoid the strike period.
He adds: "It will have an impact - it won't be catastrophic.
"It's not great news for the logistics and the supply chain but they will work around it. There won't be shortages of goods or anything like that."
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Inishowen, Donegal: Ireland's poitin republic
By Niall Glynn
BBC News NI
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County Donegal is best known for its spectacular countryside, unspoiled beaches and relaxed pace of life.
However, in the 19th Century the county, in the north-west corner of Ireland, was at the centre of an illegal trade in what is sometimes called Irish moonshine.
Distilled from barley, poitin is a strong, clear alcoholic spirit, first outlawed in the 17th Century.
While it was ever-present across Ireland since first being produced hundreds of years earlier, poitin production reached its peak in the early 19th Century, with thousands of gallons being made annually after taxes on whiskey were increased.
The Inishowen Peninsula in northern Donegal was part of which would be labelled the "poitin republic", from where the illegal spirit would be smuggled to Belfast, Dublin and even Scotland.
"People decided: 'Why pay the tax when we can do this ourselves?'," says author and historian Seán Beattie of the Donegal Historical Society.
"Inishowen was ideal for it - it was hard to get to; there were very few police barracks.
"So it became a thriving, illegal place for making poitin.
"There are records of shiploads being shipped off from the harbour in Culdaff to Scotland."
'Reputation for quality'
So prevalent did it become that the commissioner for customs and excise in Dublin called the area around Urris the "poitin republic".
"A huge trade developed, a massive trade," says Mr Beattie.
"Places like Moville and Culdaff and Clonmany all had piers and barley was imported from Scotland in huge quantities.
"Then the poitin was exported to Scotland and sent on to Dublin, Belfast by boat and other counties in Ulster.
"They invented a brand of poitin called Inishowen, which had a reputation for quality so was very marketable."
So popular was the illegal whiskey that a formerly-successful legal distillery based in the area - Leathem's - went out of business.
Mr Beattie says the trade was comparable with that of drugs such as cocaine nowadays.
"Why are drugs criminals successful? Because there's a demand for it and there was a huge demand for poitin," he says.
"People took it when they had the opportunity of getting it cheaper and paying no tax on it."
'Developed a skill'
While consumers were drawn by the price and strength of poitin, the money that could be made from it attracted producers.
"It was income for a family," says Mr Beattie.
"Most families were very, very large, living on a patch of ground, so if you could get into the poitin business and grow a bit of barley or leased land and rent it, it could increase your income.
"It was a very simple process - the big problem making it was the smoke, you could see the smoke going up in the hills, that's why remote areas were so successful.
"It was mostly poor rural areas of Donegal, they could grow barley there and also import it cheaply and as time went on they developed a skill and became good at it."
However, success for the producers meant lost income for the government and a response was inevitable.
"When the government discovered they were losing vast amounts of money they sent in the army and that then escalated the whole situation and you had a cutter on the [River] Foyle to block it and try to stop it," says Mr Beattie.
"From 1814 to 1818 the government clamped down really hard and invented something called townland fining.
"What they did was if a piece of equipment like a still or even a bit of a still was found in a townland, they couldn't honestly say who was the distiller, but what they did was they fined everybody in the townland.
"Then of course people couldn't pay their fines so the next stage was the army would move in and the police and they'd round up livestock and put them into pounds and that in turn generated huge poverty and hardship for people.
"The fines were huge - in the parish of Culdaff alone in 1815, 248 people were fined a total of £6,000 - a lot of money and they couldn't afford to pay it, leading to confiscations and the landlords didn't get paid as well so there'd be huge social problems all round."
The townland fines were criticised by church leaders, both Catholic and Protestant.
Pamphlets were issued by churches criticising the revenue officers, who in turn issued pamphlets criticising the churches and accusing them of supporting poitin trade.
"Landlords were also accused of encouraging poitin making, because people who made poitin made money and they could pay their rents," says Mr Beattie.
'Daddy of all whiskey'
There were also, of course, health implications of drinking a spirit with an alcohol content that could be anything from 40 to 90%, with some people recorded as going mad from drinking too much poitin.
While the government clampdown had an effect in suppressing the trade to an extent, it kept going on for most of the 19th Century, interrupted by the famine.
In the early 1890s it flared up again, sparking the Catholic Pioneer movement and temperance initiatives from Protestant churches.
Poitin stills continued to be seized across Ireland throughout the 20th Century.
However, in 1997 it was legalised and in 2008 was awarded an EU geographical indication, meaning it can only be produced on the island of Ireland.
It has enjoyed something of a renaissance as a result and while there are those who argue legal poitin is something of a contradiction in terms, others say the spirt is the "daddy of all whiskey".
Whatever the case, in the 19th Century at least, the epicentre of the trade was in the rugged north of Donegal.
- 20 September 2020 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62590485 | 2022-08-21T06:44:32Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62590485 | true |
No two countries are experiencing the global financial crisis in the same way. And according to author Michael Lewis, you can tell a lot about each country by looking at its problems — and how they're being dealt with.
To research for his new book, Boomerang, Lewis went on what he has called a "financial disaster tour." He surveyed some of the most financially challenged countries in the world, from Iceland and Ireland to Greece and the United States.
As he tells NPR's Lynn Neary, Lewis found a fatal flaw deeply ingrained in each country's culture — which he says helps to explain how they lost their economic way when they were offered cheap credit.
"You can think about the credit bubble as one giant temptation that was laid before the developed world," Lewis says. "Anybody who wanted to borrow basically could, in virtually unlimited sums. And given that temptation, different countries wanted to do different things with the money."
Interview Highlights
On Iceland
"Fishing has been a source of wealth there. And they've used the wealth to buy lots of education — it's a highly educated population. And then you've got a problem. You've got a bunch of highly educated people who are left to fish."
"When all of a sudden their banks were offered unlimited credit by the rest of the world, every young Icelander was offered the opportunity to essentially become an investment banker."
"The losses were just breathtaking — you know, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in banking losses, for every man, woman and child in Iceland."
"Essentially what had happened is, the men in the society — the fishermen — had told the women they knew what they were doing. And for a brief period, they looked like they were successful. When I walked in, the women were busy taking back the country from the men."
"They basically walked away from most of their debts. So, they've kind of gone on their way."
On Ireland
"The Irish, left alone in a dark room with a pile of money, wanted to buy Irish land. And they drove the prices up absurdly. But nobody said it. They all sort of kept mum."
"Ireland is the nation on Earth that seems most willing to suffer to repay its debts to others. I think anybody who's been in an Irish family can explain this. There's a kind of suspicion of happiness and a respect of suffering."
"There was a moment, just after Lehman Brothers failed, when Ireland really could have walked away from its obligations — justifiably. It wasn't the Irish government that borrowed all this money; it was Irish banks."
"The Irish banks could have been allowed to fail; they could have at least said to the bondholders, 'We're not repaying you.' And the Irish government made a decision to basically nationalize this obligation. And the amazing thing is that the Irish people did not protest. The Irish people just said, 'Yep, we have to pay it back.' "
On Greece
"Greece is in some ways the mirror image of Ireland. Because in Ireland, the banks sunk the country; in Greece, the country sunk the banks."
"What happened in Greece — when the Greek people were left alone in a dark room with a pile of money — what they really wanted to do was bloat the state. Because they had this very perverted relationship to their own government — it was a kind of pinata filled with goodies that everybody got a crack at."
"And the Greek state borrowed huge sums of money to do things like run the world's most unprofitable state railroad, and pay people huge sums of money not to show up to their job, their government job — I mean, enormous graft and corruption. All the Greek people basically participated in this event."
"And yet, when they're called out on it, when they're told, you know, it's time to pay — they're furious. They took to the streets instantly. They're rioting; they're rioting, basically, against their own culture, in some ways. Their response is, 'We don't want to change; we don't want to pay back the money.' "
"The IMF and the European Union has been in Greece, trying to reform Greece. There are actually Germans in Greece, trying to collect taxes from Greeks — who don't pay their taxes, don't want to pay their taxes, don't have a culture of paying taxes."
"The problem with Greece: It's a very deep problem, it's a moral problem — a moral, cultural problem. There's no real sense of civil society. It's sort of every man for himself."
"And nobody actually trusts the state enough to give their money to the state. And their mistrust of the state is actually very justified. When you're robbing the state with one hand, it's hard to justify handing the state money with the other, because you see how corrupt it is."
On the United States
"A few months ago, Standard and [Poor's], the credit-rating agency, downgraded U.S. Treasury bonds. When that happened, the markets responded by buying Treasury bonds. The fear that created caused a stampede into Treasury bonds."
"It's like a monster walked into the room, and half the people in the room went to kind of hug the monster."
"What that tells you is that the financial crisis in this country is not going to strike first at the level of the federal government, because it's the last thing people are going to lose faith in — that we can get into even worse straits than we are now, and people are going to be willing to lend to us at very low rates."
"The federal government has the ability to push its problems down to the states. The states — like the state I live in, California — have enormous ability to push [their] financial problems down to the level of the city."
"Cities, at the local level, are in crisis. In California, there are cities that are bankrupt, there are cities that are on the verge of bankruptcy."
"And the way this crisis is going to express itself is much like Greece: It's going to be a gut check about what kind of civic life we want. Do we want to live in a city where there's just a skeletal staff, and the fire department and police department is inadequate and so on — or a city that actually walks away from its debt obligations.
"I think lots of cities are going to be facing that question — and some are right now."
"It's pretty clear that the sense of common purpose is fraying. There's less of a sense that we're all in this together, and more of a sense of every man for himself."
"What this creates is kind of a life-raft mentality, with shrinking provisions. People look at each other and evaluate each others' behavior more harshly."
"One day, Indiana may wake up and say, 'We're not paying for New Jersey anymore.' Or, people in California who are in solvent communities will wake up and say, 'We're not paying for Vallejo, or San Jose, or Oakland anymore, because they behaved badly.' I think what's happening is a kind of fragmentation."
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The track comes from Dua Lipa's self-titled debut album, which came out in June. Its chorus lays out three post-breakup rules: Don't pick up the phone; don't let him in; don't be his friend.
"They're not necessarily rules I've been able to stick by," Lipa admits. "But [they're] rules that I feel like it's important to be able to tell yourself, to tell your friends... There's a reason people break up, and it's probably the same reason why you shouldn't get back together."
The colorful, all-female video for "New Rules" went viral when it was released in early July, garnering praise from fellow musicians Lorde, Charli XCX and Tegan and Sara, among others. Since then, it's gained 67 million views.
The video depicts Lipa and her girlfriends hanging out at a sleepover. In a series of dance routines, they brush each other's hair, apply lipstick for each other and — most importantly — intervene when any of the girls considers reuniting with an ex.
"What I wanted to convey in this video is the unity and togetherness of women supporting each other, helping each other and looking after each other in a situation," Lipa says.
If there's one message she'd like to send to heartbroken or single women trying to find love, she says, it's simple: Be yourself.
"Everyone is so special in their own way," she says, "and someone is going to fall in love with them just the way they are, and they shouldn't change a single thing about it."
Web intern Karen Gwee contributed to this story.
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Sherwood's Ivy Grace Collins nailed seven serves in a row in the first set of the Lady Eagles' match against Trinity Christian Saturday at Sherwood. The Lady Eagles were up 7-5 when Collins' run started, but up 14-5 when Trinity actually got a stop.
ALBANY — The Sherwood Christian Academy Lady Eagles swept the Trinity Christian Lady Lions of Griffin in straight sets Saturday afternoon in both the varsity and junior varsity games.
Setter Ivy Grace Collins helped pushed the Lady Eagles ahead with seven straight serves for points to give Sherwood a 14-5 lead. Arianna Whitmire served three aces in the first set and Hayden Walker led the scoring to give the Lady Eagles a 25-10 win in set one.
In set two, Lucy Wright was the leading scorer and had nine serves for points in a closer match. The set was tied 20-20 but the Lady Eagles pulled away at the end and Wright nailed the final serve just inside the line for the final point.
The final set was all Sherwood as Hayden Walker opened the set with 11 straight points, including eight aces at the Lady Eagles jumped out to an 11-0 lead. Alex Collins scored the final three points, including an ace at the end to make the final 25-10.
In the JV match, the Lady Eagles won in straight sets as well, 25-15 and 25-21. Jordyn Gibson led the way for the Lady Eagle JV with 11 serves in a row and 10 kills on the day.
The middle school and Junior varsity teams will play Lee County Monday in Leesburg and then the Lady Eagles will travel across town to face Byne Christian on Thursday.
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Lok Sabha member Parvesh Verma Saturday demanded the Kejriwal government roll back an August 5 circular which the BJP leader said aims to cancel the admission of children in the 'economically weaker section' (EWS) and 'disadvantage group' categories in unaided schools over the past seven years.
As per the circular issued by the Education Department, all admissions taken after 2016-17 in the offline mode under the two categories will not be recognised by the Delhi government.
The MP attended a meeting organised the Co-ordination Committee of Public Schools (CCPS) where he raised the issue and discussed with the parents the problems being created by the Delhi government's recent decisions.
"The Delhi government has issued this circular in 2022 with the goal of cancelling the admissions taken by children in the past seven years, thereby, hurting their education and pushing their future into disarray," the CCPS said in a statement.
"Till now in several private schools in the national capital, if seats in the classes above the second grade remained empty in schools then the students were allowed to take offline admission in them," it added.
Varma also slammed the Delhi government and asked it to ensure the education of these children does not get hampered in this tussle.
"The Delhi government had asked schools to display the number of vacant seats in each class on notice boards, a process which was being followed by the private schools. These vacancies also used to get verified by concerned officials from the Delhi government," he added.
"The Delhi government should rollback the circular immediately. It keeps on releasing big advertisements in which it keeps on appreciating itself but does not seem concerned at all about the education of children. With steps like these the dream of parents to get their children educated in public schools will remain a dream and never get fulfilled," Singh said.
He also alleged that the condition in schools run by the Delhi government is pathetic and except 30-40 of them "there are not even basic amenities available in the other schools".
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Shiv Sena MLA and former Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray has sought to know what did the rebel legislators achieve by "backstabbing" the party leadership when it supported them in every possible way.
He made the remarks on Saturday at a public rally in Jalgaon, the Assembly constituency of rebel Sena leader and present state minister Gulabrao Patil.
In June this year, Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde and 39 other legislators revolted against the party leadership, leading to the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, which comprised the Sena, NCP and Congress.
Shinde was sworn in as the chief minister on June 30 along with BJP's Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy. CM Shinde recently expanded his cabinet, inducting nine ministers each from the Sena and the BJP.
“We gave them tickets, made efforts to get them elected and supported them in every possible way. Why did they backstab us? What did they achieve by being traitors?” Aaditya Thackeray asked.
“Whatever they have got, they got it for themselves. They have not given anything back to the people,” claimed the MLA, who is the son of former CM Uddhav Thackeray. In the Shinde-led ministry, Gulabrao Patil has retained charge of the water supply and sanitation department, which he held in the previous MVA government.
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In Focus: Red Lake AmeriCorps Director Looks to Keep Ojibwe Language Alive
After four years, Ojibwe language camps have returned to the Red Lake Nation. Conducted by Vickey Fineday, a Red Lake citizen and AmeriCorps member, the purpose of the camp is to not only teach the Ojibwe language, but keep it alive.
Understanding a person often goes past the occasional “hello,” or in this case, “boozhoo.” Ojibwe language camps in the Red Lake Nation have taken place across the tribal land this past month and focus on what the language means to the people who speak it.
The language camps originally only took place in Ponemah for the first seven years until 2018. Upon starting up the camps again, Fineday decided to expand the experience, now holding a day in each of the Red Lake Reservation’s districts.
The language camps are open to people who are Red Lake band members and to those who are not. By doing so, this expansion allows an understanding of this culture from the people who attend the camps.
Fineday said that between 25 and 60 people attended the camp throughout the three-day sessions. Next week will be the final camp of the year and will take place in Little Rock.
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Aussie cricketer Peter Siddle and wife Anna Weatherlake have reportedly called stumps on their marriage after five years.
Siddle and Weatherlake tied the knot in 2017 after getting engaged in 2015 following several years of dating.
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The Daily Telegraph reported that Weatherlake has moved on with Victorian builder Nick McKimm, after images emerged on social media of the pair soaking up the European sun.
McKimm and Weatherlake posed for a number of loved-up photos as they relaxed with friends on the Greek islands.
The 37-year-old former Australian fast bowler got engaged to Weatherlake just after Siddle won the 2015 Sheffield Shield with Victoria.
As Weatherlake explained at the time, Siddle employed his dogs to help him pop the question.
“Every night before bed we take the collars off our dogs, so I started taking Oscar’s off and there was a diamond ring hanging from the end of it. I couldn’t believe it,” Weatherlake said.
“I didn’t even realise, I went to pass the collar to Sids to put on the bedside table and he just stared at me and the collar and then I noticed it.’’
The pair’s relationship hit some turbulence a number of years ago when Siddle’s struggles with alcohol threatened to derail his life.
Speaking on Neroli Meadows’ Ordineroli Speaking podcast in 2020, Siddle revealed the toll his drinking habits was having on his life and relationships.
“I was partying too hard, and it was getting out of control,” he said.
“All my relationships that were real close to me, I was just in a way lying to them all.”
He made the decision to quit the booze and celebrated eight years of sobriety at the time of the interview.
But not before he almost lost his relationship with Weatherlake following actions he labelled “disgusting”.
“I’d got myself in some bad situations that could’ve cost myself a relationship with my now-wife,” he said.
“She comes home to my place with someone else in the room with me, I don’t remember much because I was in the state I was in pretty much every weekend.
“’We needed to talk and that was when I broke down. Yes, I’d f***ed up, but I knew that I wanted her to be in my life.
“I begged her to death, but also, I knew things had to change then.
“I was living two lives in a way. I was living the party boy life and trying to be a cricketer.
“Not just a cricketer who rocks up on the weekend and plays 40 overs and then hangs out with the boys. I was an Australian cricketer, at the time pretty much close to the peak of my powers, and I was throwing it all away.”
Siddle recounted his early days as an Australian Test cricketer, saying his alcohol struggles stemmed from that period of his life.
“(I was a) young man, on good money, money I’d never thought I’d be able to earn and just pretty much pissing it up against a wall to an extent,’ Siddle said.
He went on to say his decision to drop the drink saved him from being “sacked from cricket before I got to 30”.
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Scottish Lib Dems: Humza Yousaf should rip up NHS plan and start again
The Scottish Government should “rip up” it’s NHS recovery plan and start again, the Scottish Lib Dems have said.
Last year, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Health Secretary Humza Yousaf unveiled the plan, which pledged to spend £1 billion improving healthcare in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
An analysis by the Scottish Lib Dems looked at the state of the NHS in the past compared to the most recent figures.
It showed that A&E waiting times have worsened in the past year, from 76.5% of people waiting less than four hours before being admitted or discharged in August last year to 67.9% in the most recent figures.
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The party also found the number of cancer patients waiting longer than 62 days for treatment was 76.9%, the worst on record, in the first quarter of this year, compared to 83.1% between July and September last year.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton urged the Scottish Government to go back to the drawing board with its plans.
“I look at these healthcare statistics with increasing despair,” he said.
“The NHS was hit hard by Covid-19 and it needs support to rebuild and tackle long backlogs for treatment.
“The package that the SNP offered our NHS a year ago was dismal.
“These figures show that one year on, there has been no recovery, only more pressure, more stress and more suffering.
“Mr Yousaf needs to rip up his failed plans and start again.
“People should be able to access care swiftly and close to home. In many cases it is literally a matter of life and death.
“Scottish Liberal Democrats want to see those working on the frontlines given a greater say in how we equip and transform our health service to bounce back from the horrors of Covid-19 and 15 years of SNP misrule.”
The Lib Dems have repeatedly called for a burnout prevention strategy for NHS staff, a health and social care staff assembly and a recruitment campaign.
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “Like health services across the UK and around the world, the impact of the pandemic has put huge pressure on NHS Scotland, which is still facing its most difficult challenge ever in its 74-year history.
“Our Recovery Plan looks to drive improvement across our services and will be reviewed regularly and reported on annually to ensure actions and outcomes are delivered. Given the scale of the pressure it is rightly a 5 year Recovery Plan.
“We have set out ambitious waiting times targets to address the backlog of planned care and are working hard with NHS Boards to maximise capacity in order to meet these.
“We recognise the impact long waiting times can have on patients and have given Boards and clinicians more flexibility to manage waiting lists, with a focus on treating the most clinically urgent patients and eliminating long waits.
“Scottish A&Es have outperformed the rest of the UK for seven years despite the extreme pressures posed by the pandemic. Occupancy and staffing pressures remain high and continue to impact the delivery of emergency services.
“We are investing £50 million to drive down waiting times through our Urgent and Unscheduled Care Collaborative programme, including further development of Flow Navigation Centres in every board to ensure rapid access to a clinician and scheduled appointments, where possible.”
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Camila Alves McConaughey collects pottery.
The 40-year-old Brazilian model, designer and lifestyle blogger - who has Levi, 14, Livingston, nine, and Vida, 12, with Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey - has revealed some fun facts about her, including her penchant for pottery and table settings.
She told Us Weekly: "I love to collect pottery and table settings, like plates and bowls."
It's no surprise that Camila's favourite room in the pad she shares with her 'Magic Mike' actor spouse and their brood is the kitchen.
Elsewhere, she also revealed that she is unable to drink coffee and instead opts for tea, while her "go-to liquor is tequila".
Meanwhile, Matthew previously revealed he and his wife are "getting a little bit better" at finding time for themselves since the pandemic.
The 52-year-old actor and his family were quarantined at home with his 90-year-old mother Kay, and the loved-up couple have had to work hard to build "some structure".
He said: "Sometimes you go through the day and you got the kids’ remote schooling, you get everyone set up, you’re doing meals and running around.
"I’m doing my work, she’s doing hers, and sometimes it’ll be at 9:30 at night or 10 o’clock when we actually look at each other and go, ‘Oh, hi, how are you?’
“But she’s really good at scheduling and we’re getting a little bit better at creating some structure, not only for the kids but for us and saying, ‘Hey, from this time to this time don’t come knocking on the door. We’re gonna have our time.’” | https://nordot.app/933967375566192640 | 2022-08-21T07:42:21Z | https://nordot.app/933967375566192640 | false |
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Strike at Port of Felixstowe Set to Upend Supply Chains
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,(Bloomberg) -- Site of the last attempted invasion of England, the coastal town of Felixstowe is about to absorb another shock from the sea. Only this time the problem will be with foreign ships that don’t come ashore.
Starting Sunday, about 2,000 dockers at the Port of Felixstowe will go on strike for eight days, halting the flow of goods through the UK’s largest gateway for containerized imports and exports.
Handling about a third of Britain’s total container volume and an even bigger share of direct trade with Asia, the east coast settlement of about 25,000 people is the economic equivalent of the neighboring US ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach or the European Union’s premier trade hub in Rotterdam.
Shipping lines plan to reroute cargo around the picket line, adding time and cost. A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s No. 2 container carrier, said last week that two ships will skip usual stops and unload Felixstowe-bound consignments at continental ports before sending them on when the strike ends. Another will switch to DP World Ltd.’s London Gateway, the UK’s third-busiest port.
The strike could disrupt more than $800 million in trade, according to Russell Group, a data and analytics company. Though it’s too soon to evaluate any wider hit to growth, companies are anticipating longer delivery times and higher expenses that can only hurt Britain’s inflation-ravaged economy.
“It’s probably going to be an expense that we end up paying in the same way there were lots of knock-on costs of the ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal,” said Gary Grant, founder of The Entertainer, a toy retailer with goods currently bound for Felixstowe. “It’s just a risk of being in business. You just have to get on with it and try to sell more toys.”
Heading into the disruption, Felixstowe, owned by Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison, had begun to ease congestion that built as the Covid crisis roiled world trade, a trend reflected in reduced dwell times for containers, according to supply-chain visibility platform FourKites Inc.
A strike will likely reverse that progress, it said, citing similar labor actions in ports such as Melbourne and Montreal that boosted shipment durations from 15% to 50%.
Flexport Inc., a digital freight platform, estimates that it could take 24 days to clear cargo backlogs from the strike. The ripple effects could worsen congestion far from the UK, it said, citing Felixstowe’s 15 weekly services of container ships and truck-carrying ferries serving mainland Europe and Asia.
Among the biggest categories of imports through Felixstowe, located in the county of Suffolk some 70 miles from London, are furniture, computers and auto parts, according to OEC data. Another key import via the port is apparel, particularly from India, based on figures from San Francisco-based Flexport.
The port ran a trade deficit in May, with exports of £861 million ($1.02 billion) and imports totaling £3.84 billion, indicating its status as a linchpin in supplying UK retailers. Shortages of some goods could become an issue were the dispute to continue into the autumn, when shops begin stocking up for the holiday season.
Dockworkers at the Port of Liverpool, an important hub for trans-Atlantic trade, have also authorized a strike as inflation erodes incomes while shipping lines reel in record profits.
Disruption to the UK economy goes far beyond the maritime sector, however, with national rail and London subway workers staging pay protests last week and postal staff at Royal Mail Plc due to begin a series of walkouts on Friday. Airport and airline employees are also locked in disputes, while even barristers and nurses have staged walkouts or are planning strike votes.
Londoners Working From Home Again as Tube Strike Hobbles City
While the effect of the Felixstowe action alone might be negligible for gross domestic product given that it’s happening mid-quarter, with time for the bottlenecks to ease, “it may be that the overall impact of labor disruptions acts as a drag to GDP,” according to Flexport economist Chris Rogers.
China is the largest market for goods flowing into and out of Felixstowe, according to OEC data.
With a recession already looming, industry group Logistics UK is urging all parties at the port to negotiate a settlement. It also says the nation’s supply chain remains “resilient, and can find alternative routes when issues occur, to alleviate potential disruption.”
But that’s not exactly what you hear from DP World, which operates the UK’s No. 2 container port, Southampton, in addition to London Gateway. The Dubai-based company says it has little ability to handle additional cargo should shipping lines try to divert more vessels to its terminals.
“We shall of course do everything we can to support the UK supply chain, although it should be understood that we are currently delivering record volumes and there is minimal spare capacity,” it said by email last week.
‘No Winners’
The Port of Felixstowe meanwhile said Friday that the Unite union had rejected a plea to call off the strike and resume negotiations after spurning a proposed 8% pay hike.
“The port regrets the impact this action will have on UK supply chains,” it said, adding that “there will be no winners” from the confrontation.
The failed invasion of Felixstowe during the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1667 was repelled in less than a day in what became known as the Battle Of Landguard Fort.
A speedy resolution to the town’s latest maritime confrontation is looking far less likely.
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The life expectancy of Native Americans in some states is 20 years shorter than the national average.
There are many reasons why.
Among them, health programs for American Indians are chronically underfunded by Congress. And, about a quarter of Native Americans reported experiencing discrimination when going to a doctor or health clinic, according to findings of a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Margaret Moss, a member of the Hidatsa tribe, has worked as a nurse for the Indian Health Service and in other systems. She now teaches nursing at the University of Buffalo.
She says she has seen racism toward Native Americans in health care facilities where she's worked, and as a mom trying to get proper care for her son.
Once, when she was on a health policy fellowship with a U.S. Senate committee, Moss' son had a broken arm improperly set at a non-IHS health facility in Washington, D.C.
She asked the physician about options to correct it, but he told her it was fine, she said. "Even when I, as an educated person using the right words, was saying what needed to happen, [he] didn't want to do anything for us, even though we had a [health insurance] card."
Moss then reluctantly pulled out a business card with the Senate logo, she recalled, and was instantly transformed in the doctor's eyes from "this American Indian woman with my obviously minority son" to someone he could not afford to dismiss.
"It wasn't until the person ... felt they could get in trouble for this ... then the person did something," said Moss. "I felt like it was racism. Not everybody has a card they can just whip out."
She says she feels discrimination is more overt, "in areas where American Indians are known about," like the Dakotas and parts of the American Southwest, but also exists in places without big tribal populations.
In the NPR poll, Native Americans who live in areas where they are in the majority reported experiencing prejudice at rates far higher than in areas where they constituted a minority.
In places where there are few American Indians, Moss says, "people don't expect to see American Indians; they think they are from days gone by, and so you are misidentified. And that's another form of discrimination."
Health care systems outside the Indian Health Service generally see very few Native American patients, because it's so hard for American Indians to access care in the private sector. A lot of that has to do with high poverty and uninsured rates among American Indians, who also often live in rural areas with few health care providers.
"The strikes against people trying to get care are huge: geographic, transportation, monetary," Moss says.
A persistent myth inside and outside Indian Country is that Native Americans get free health care from the federal government.
"I hear that all the time," says Moss, sighing.
The federal government promised to take care of Native Americans' health when it signed the treaties in which tribes gave up almost all of their land.
"Unfortunately, they have not kept up their end of the bargain," Moss says.
Congress has long failed to allocate enough money to meet Native American health needs. In 2016 it set the Indian Health Service budget at $4.8 billion. Spread across the US population of 3.7 million American Indians and Alaska Natives, that's $1,297 per person. That compares to $6,973 per inmate in the federal prison system.
Moss says the IHS can be less an aid to people than another bureaucratic barrier. "It is highly complicated," Moss says, "even if you took out the racism, perceived or real."
The IHS isn't insurance. It's more like the Veterans Administration, running clinics and hospitals where its members can get care. But the IHS is far smaller than the VA.
Federal funding is also supposed to pay for care in the private sector that IHS hospitals can't provide. But, quoting a sardonic joke familiar to many in Indian Country, Moss says it's well known that "you'd better get sick by June, because there won't be any more money, or it's life and limb only, those are the things that would be authorized."
Anna Whiting Sorrell, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in northwest Montana experienced that firsthand. The IHS picked up part of the tab for her hernia surgery at a hospital outside of the IHS a couple of years ago, but when it was time to schedule follow-up appointments, Sorrell was out of luck.
"It got denied. My follow-up got denied," Sorrell says. "[The hospital] didn't even ask if I was willing to pay," she says, and that felt like discrimination. "They would assume that other non-Indians would pay for it themselves, why do we as Indian people not get to make those decisions ourselves?" Sorrell asks.
She felt like she was falling through a crack in the health care system at a particularly poignant time.
"I was 57 years old. My mom died at 57," Sorrell says. In Montana, the life expectancy for Native American women is 62, that's 20 years less than for non-Native American women. The life expectancy for Native American men in Montana is 56.
With help from her tribe, Sorrell eventually got her follow-up care, but her journey from diagnosis to actually getting surgery took years, and the University of Buffalo's Margaret Moss says a lot of Native Americans just give up.
"That is the idea out there in Indian Country ... , 'I'm not even going to try, because it's not going to happen.' Or they hear so many stories of people who did try, and it didn't happen," Moss says.
That means a lot of American Indians simply put up with what she calls, "tolerated illness.
"They say they're fine, but they're not," Moss says, and their health problems often progress until it's too late for treatment to help.
Anna Whiting Sorrell, a health care administrator for her tribes, says she is optimistic that the Affordable Care Act will make a big difference for Native Americans. It gives lower-income people access to affordable insurance coverage outside the IHS. Many Natives Americans who weren't eligible for Medicaid before the ACA now are, too.
Moss is more skeptical that the ACA will make a big difference, in part because of entrenched institutional discrimination toward Native Americans in healthcare.
"Until attitudes change," Moss says, "we're still going to be in a sad situation."
Our ongoing series "You, Me and Them: Experiencing Discrimination in America" is based in part on a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. We have previously released results for African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, whites and women.
You can follow Montana Public Radio's Eric Whitney on Twitter: @MTPRND
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Man arrested for ‘human smuggling’ in Mohave County
Published: Aug. 19, 2022 at 9:03 AM MST
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A California man was arrested in Arizona for allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants in his vehicle.
Ricardo Escamilla, 53, from Huntington Park, California was stopped around 1:30 a.m. Aug. 17 on Highway 95 near Aztec Road. According to police, several Hispanic subjects were in the back of Escamilla’s vehicle trying to conceal themselves.
The subjects told police they had entered the country illegally, Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said. Escamilla reportedly picked them all up in Phoenix to be transported to California.
MCSO said Escamilla was an illegal immigrant himself, having previously been arrested and deported.
Escamilla faces eight counts of human smuggling, MCSO said.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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* Until 445 AM CDT.
* At 135 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
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* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
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Finding an IT training provider used to seem very difficult. When an app such as SkillWheel launched its beta version during SAPPWEFRIAY Barcelona … this all changed. The new market tool made possible during a time frame limited to 4 hours is to facilitate interactions with exhibites in Barcelona (in September this time as there [read more…]/Finding+IT-train|21\">…] Read the whole ...\nThe BPO services "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." Those words were uttered to wild applause in the cafeteria of Folsom Prison, a maximum security facility northeast of Sacramento, Calif. on Jan. 13, 1968.
Johnny Cash played a lot of prison concerts during his career, though he never did hard time himself. His daughter Tara Cash Schwoebel says her father's interest in prisons went back to his days serving in the U.S. Air Force in Germany in the early 1950s. That's when he saw the noir crime drama Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison.
"I think that's where all of this kind of grew from," Schwoebel says. "He was just moved by the film."
Cash wrote the song "Folsom Prison Blues" in 1955; it was his first big hit. But by 1968, he hadn't had a hit in several years. He'd become notorious for missing concert dates, and because of an addiction to prescription pills, he was usually out of it when he did show up.
When he arranged the date at Folsom, Cash at least knew he'd have a captive audience. "One thing he liked about playing prisons: If he did something the audience didn't like, they couldn't leave," W.S. "Fluke" Holland, Cash's drummer at the time, says. Holland didn't expect much would come of the two sessions the band played that day.
"I told everybody it won't sell enough to pay for the expense of going out with the recording equipment," Holland recalls. "That shows how wrong I was."
When the album At Folsom Prison was released the following May, it topped the Billboard country charts and Cash's career took off again. He recorded another best-selling album from San Quentin Prison in 1969. Schwoebel says her father continued to perform in prisons around the country and use his celebrity to speak out on behalf of prisoners.
"I think it really spoke to his rebellious side," Schwoebel explains. "He really had a passion for standing up for these people who were locked up, you know, and treated so poorly."
In 1972, Cash testified at a U.S. Senate subcommittee on prison reform. Among other proposals, he called for keeping minors out of jail and focusing on rehabilitating inmates.
"Between the attention that he created through his performances and being seated at the Senate, he created a lot more awareness," Schwoebel says.
Johnny Cash never saw the transformation he had hoped to see. He eventually refocused his energies on other causes, like helping the families of police officers who had been killed in the line of duty. In the 50 years since At Folsom Prison was recorded, the percentage of Californians in state prisons has nearly doubled.
Today, in the cafeteria at Folsom Prison, inmate Andrew Clayton plays guitar as part of a California prison program that provides training in music, painting and other creative pursuits: He's the lead guitarist with Blind Justice, one of the penitentiary's in-house bands. Country music isn't his thing, but he still finds Cash's connection with Folsom inspiring.
"Just the fact that he played here, and I'm playing here," Clayton says, "I feel like I'm part of something special."
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Midland/Odessa has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Crane County in western Texas...
Ector County in western Texas...
West Central Midland County in western Texas...
Northeastern Ward County in western Texas...
* Until 445 AM CDT.
* At 135 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Odessa, West Odessa, Penwell, Pleasant Farms and Odessa Schlemeyer
Field.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
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