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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — A 12-year-old Little League World Series player from Utah was in critical condition Tuesday with what his family said was a head injury suffered when he fell off the top bunk of his bed at the dormitory complex.
Easton Oliverson is a pitcher and outfielder for the Snow Canyon team out of Santa Clara, Utah. The Little League World Series is set to begin Wednesday in Williamsport. His dad, Jace Oliverson, is an assistant coach on the team.
“I’ve always been a firm believer of prayer and the power that comes with it, and I feel like if people continue to rally around us that he will make a full recovery,” Oliverson told KSL-TV. “Right now it’s slow. They keep telling me it’s a cross-country race.”
Oliverson gave an update on his son’s condition through Facebook and said doctors told him his son had punctured an artery which caused bleeding on the brain and needed a piece of skull removed.
Oliverson and wife Nancy are with their son at the hospital.
The boy’s uncle has served as family spokesperson and told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Easton fell off the bed while he was sleeping and hit his head.
“We’re just at point now where he’s just in recovery,” Spencer Beck said in a phone interview. “The teammates heard him fall, thank goodness. When they got into surgery, the doctor talked to Jace and said had he not gotten into surgery but 30 minutes later, he would have been dead.”
Beck said Easton is still using a breathing tube.
Little League World Series officials released a statement Tuesday that said they spoke with the Oliverson family and “were pleased to hear that his medical team remains encouraged by his progress.”
The Santa Clara team was the first from Utah to make the Little League World Series. Snow Canyon is scheduled to play its first game Friday against the winner of teams from Massachusetts and Tennessee.
“As hard as it will be to not have Easton out there playing, they’re still from this community, this is still a historical moment for the state, for Little League and for our community,” Beck said. “We’re cheering them on and maybe they’ll have a little inspiration from Easton and they’ll go win it all. That would be awesome.”
The family has set up a Venmo account for the kid nicknamed “Tank” to help with bills and expenses.
“We want to make sure when Easton wakes up, he’s mentally there for us and can progress from there,” Beck said.
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WESTAMPTON, N.J., Aug. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Primepoint, a highly regarded payroll and HR technology company, has been named a New Jersey and a Philadelphia Top Workplace for 2022. This recognition is the result of strong values and a supportive culture.
The Top Workplaces are determined by anonymous employee surveys conducted by a third party, Energage, LLC. The survey measures items such as engagement, company values, innovation, and benefits.
Primepoint was recognized for being in the top 5% for Strong Values, Meaningful Work, Leaders In-The-Know, Employee Appreciation, and Work-Life Balance. Overall Primepoint was near the top of the list in both New Jersey and Philadelphia.
"Our employees come first. Success in their careers, work-life balance, and personal fulfillment is a priority to us," says Al Bothwell, Primepoint's CEO. "We're a family business at our core, and the supportive and caring environment that a family culture brings will stay with us no matter how much more we grow."
Primepoint started as a small, family operation 30+ years ago. Now, Primepoint has 70 employees and growing, services thousands of customers, and handles almost $7 billion in payroll annually.
Individuals interested in exploring employment opportunities with Primepoint should go to www.primepoint.com/career
About the company: Primepoint is a payroll processing & HR management system company offering advanced technology that integrates human resource management, payroll processing, time & attendance, employee scheduling, and employee self-service functionality for small, medium, and large organizations. The company is differentiated by its ability to partner with customers to develop tailored system implementations. Also, Primepoint has a different approach to customer service that creates the Primepoint Experience™ which provides a very high level of support for its customers ranging in size from a few employees to thousands. To learn more about Primepoint's services and the Primepoint Experience™ visit www.primepoint.com
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ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani is a target of the criminal investigation into possible illegal attempts by then-President Donald Trump and others to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia, prosecutors informed attorneys for the former New York mayor on Monday.
The revelation that Giuliani, an outspoken Trump defender, could face criminal charges from the investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis edges the probe closer to the former president. Willis has said she is considering calling Trump himself to testify before the special grand jury, and the former president has hired a criminal defense attorney in Atlanta.
Law enforcement scrutiny of Trump has escalated dramatically. Last week, the FBI searched his Florida home as part of its investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. He is also facing a civil investigation in New York over allegations that his company, the Trump Organization, misled banks and tax authorities about the value of his assets. And the Justice Department is investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters as well as efforts by him and his allies to overturn the election he falsely claimed was stolen.
Giuliani, who spread false claims of election fraud in Atlanta’s Fulton County as he led election-challenging efforts in Georgia, is to testify Wednesday before a special grand jury that was impaneled at Willis’ request. Giuliani’s lawyer declined to say whether he would answer questions or decline.
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade alerted Giuliani’s team in Atlanta that he was an investigation target, Giuliani attorney Robert Costello said Monday. News of the disclosure was first reported by The New York Times.
Speaking on a New York radio show Monday, Giuliani said he had been serving as Trump’s attorney in Georgia.
“You do this to a lawyer, we don’t have America anymore,” he said.
Earlier Monday, a federal judge said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before the special grand jury. Prosecutors have said they want to ask Graham about phone calls they say he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff in the weeks following the election.
Willis’s investigation was spurred by a phone call between Trump and Raffensperger. During that January 2021 conversation, Trump suggested that Raffensperger “find” the votes needed to reverse his narrow loss in the state.
Willis last month filed petitions seeking to compel testimony from seven Trump associates and advisers.
In seeking Giuliani’s testimony, Willis identified him as both a personal attorney for Trump and a lead attorney for his campaign. She wrote that he and others appeared at a state Senate committee meeting and presented a video that Giuliani said showed election workers producing “suitcases” of unlawful ballots from unknown sources, outside the view of election poll watchers.
Within 24 hours of that Dec. 3, 2020, hearing, Raffensperger’s office had debunked the video. But Giuliani continued to make statements to the public and in subsequent legislative hearings claiming widespread voter fraud using the debunked video, Willis wrote.
Evidence shows that Giuliani’s hearing appearance and testimony were “part of a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,” her petition says.
Two of the election workers seen in the video, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, said they faced relentless harassment online and in person after it was shown at a Dec. 3 Georgia legislative hearing where Giuliani appeared. At another hearing a week later, Giuliani said the footage showed the women “surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they are vials of heroin or cocaine.” They actually were passing a piece of candy.
Willis also wrote in a petition seeking the testimony of attorney Kenneth Chesebro that he worked with Giuliani to coordinate and carry out a plan to have Georgia Republicans serve as fake electors. Those 16 people signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors even though Joe Biden had won the state and a slate of Democratic electors was certified.
All 16 of those fake electors have received letters saying they are targets of the investigation, Willis said in a court filing last month.
As for Graham, attorneys for the South Carolina Republican have argued that his position as a U.S. senator provides him immunity from having to appear before the investigative panel. But U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May wrote in an order Monday that immunities related to his role as a senator do not protect him from having to testify. Graham’s subpoena instructs him to appear before the special grand jury on Aug. 23, but his office said Monday he plans to appeal.
May last month rejected a similar attempt by U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., to avoid testifying before the special grand jury.
Graham’s office said in a statement Monday that the senator disagrees with the judge’s interpretation of the provision of the Constitution he believes protects him from being questioned by a state official. His lawyers have said he was making inquiries that were part of his legislative duties, related to certification of the vote and to a proposal of election-related legislation.
But the judge wrote that that ignores “the fact that individuals on the calls have publicly suggested that Senator Graham was not simply engaged in legislative factfinding but was instead suggesting or implying that Georgia election officials change their processes or otherwise potentially alter the state’s results.”
In calls made shortly after the 2020 general election, Graham “questioned Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” Willis wrote in a petition.
Graham also “made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign,” she wrote.
Republican and Democratic state election officials across the country, courts and even Trump’s attorney general have found there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of his 2020 presidential election loss.
Trump-allied lawmakers were planning to challenge the tallies from several battleground states when Congress convened on Jan. 6, 2021, to certify the results under the Electoral Count Act, but after the Capitol attack that day Georgia’s tally was never contested.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has described his call to Raffensperger as “perfect.”
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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writers Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, and Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
257 PM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Trinity
and east central Houston Counties through 315 PM CDT...
At 256 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hudson, or 8 miles west of Lufkin, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Apple Springs and Centralia.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3142 9500 3141 9498 3141 9497 3138 9495
3138 9496 3136 9495 3135 9496 3134 9496
3134 9491 3133 9490 3130 9489 3128 9488
3126 9490 3125 9487 3122 9486 3114 9496
3123 9510 3143 9501
TIME...MOT...LOC 1956Z 220DEG 26KT 3133 9488
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas man remained jailed Sunday authorities accused him of making threats against a convention of young conservative activists held last month in Florida.
Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, 19, of San Antonio, was arrested earlier this month after FBI agents alleged he posted threats on social media to carry out a mass attack on the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit convention.
The event was held from July 22 through July 24 in Tampa. Turning Point is a Donald Trump-aligned group that organizes young people on college campuses into conservative activism.
FBI agents allege Velasquez posted on Instagram that the first day of the convention would be “the day of retribution the day I will have revenge against all of humanity,” according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in San Antonio.
Velasquez had bought a plane ticket to fly from Austin to Tampa on July 22 but canceled the ticket the night before his flight, FBI agents said.
According to the complaint, agents said they believed Velasquez had planned an attack similar to a violent rampage in 2014 in which Elliot Rodger, 22, killed six students and wounded more than a dozen others near the University of California, Santa Barbara, before killing himself.
The complaint did not clarify why the event was allegedly targeted, but Tampa police took the threat seriously and obtained an arrest warrant.
Velasquez was arrested in San Antonio and charged with making threatening interstate communications. He was also charged with possession of child pornography for images allegedly found on his phone.
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First Alert Forecast: rainy and stormy periods to continue into the new week
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - To no surprise, numerous showers and storms are tracking east across central and southwest MS this afternoon. Locally heavy downpours, lightning, and gusty winds are possible with any storms today. Activity on radar will continue into this evening and through the overnight hours at times as low temperatures drop back to the lower 70s.
Make sure to have an umbrella close by into the new work and school week. Monday’s forecast will also feature unsettled weather with deep moisture in place and a boundary draped overhead. Waves of rain and storms are likely at any point tomorrow. Localized flash flooding will also be a concern Monday, especially in spots prone to flooding with poor drainage or low lying areas. Storms that are slow movers and train over the same area could easily drop decent amount of rain within a short amount of time. Temperatures will be well below normal tomorrow in the upper 70s and lower 80s.
The threat of localized flash flooding will continue through about mid-week with more rounds of rain and storms likely. While rain remains possible towards the end of the week into next weekend, the chance will come down a bit as the front starts to wash away. Any showers would be more scattered about rather than widespread across the area.
Talkin’ Tropics: Now that Potential Tropical Cyclone 4 has fizzled out, our attention is now turning to the Atlantic. There is still a low chance for development over the next 5 days with a disturbance over the eastern tropical Atlantic. Some slow development is possible as it moves to the west.
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Amber Alert issued for 3-year-old Texas girl
(Gray News) - An Amber Alert has been issued for a 3-year-old Texas girl.
Lincy Guitry was last seen on Sunday at around 2:00 a.m. at her parents’ apartment complex in the 12800 block of North Borough Drive, Houston, Texas, according to the alert.
Lincy is described as having black hair and brown eyes, and is 3-feet tall. She was last seen wearing purple pajamas.
Authorities have identified the suspect as 50-year-old Holman Hernandez, according to the alert. He has black hair, brown eyes and is 5-feet, 4-inches tall.
The Houston Police Department tweeted that the suspect was believed to be in a 2007 gray Nissan Xterra with Texas license plate number NKD7882.
Houston TV station KPRC reports that Hernandez’s vehicle has been located in Houston, though Lincy and Hernandez have yet to be found.
Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to immediately call the Houston Police Department at 713-308-3600 or dial 911.
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Braves first. Ronald Acuna Jr. lines out to center field to Jake Meyers. Dansby Swanson singles to right center field. Austin Riley strikes out swinging. Matt Olson homers to center field. Dansby Swanson scores. Travis d'Arnaud walks. Vaughn Grissom called out on strikes.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Braves 2, Astros 0.
Astros third. Chas McCormick singles to shallow right field. Jake Meyers strikes out swinging. Martin Maldonado strikes out swinging. Chas McCormick steals second. Mauricio Dubon singles to shallow center field, advances to 2nd. Chas McCormick to third. Yuli Gurriel walks. Yordan Alvarez singles to center field. Yuli Gurriel to second. Mauricio Dubon scores. Chas McCormick scores. Alex Bregman flies out to deep left field to Marcell Ozuna.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Astros 2, Braves 2.
Astros eighth. Yordan Alvarez singles to center field. Alex Bregman walks. Yordan Alvarez to second. Kyle Tucker singles to right field, advances to 2nd. Alex Bregman to third. Yordan Alvarez scores. Fielding error by Guillermo Heredia. Jeremy Pena out on a sacrifice fly to center field to Michael Harris II. Alex Bregman scores. Chas McCormick called out on strikes. Jake Meyers walks. Martin Maldonado strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Astros 4, Braves 2.
Astros ninth. Mauricio Dubon singles to shallow center field. Yuli Gurriel singles to shallow center field. Mauricio Dubon scores. Yordan Alvarez strikes out swinging. Alex Bregman lines out to deep right field to Guillermo Heredia. Kyle Tucker grounds out to second base, Vaughn Grissom to Matt Olson.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Astros 5, Braves 2.
Braves ninth. Austin Riley grounds out to shortstop, Jeremy Pena to Yuli Gurriel. Matt Olson singles to center field. Travis d'Arnaud triples to deep right field. Matt Olson scores. Vaughn Grissom grounds out to shallow infield, Jeremy Pena to Yuli Gurriel. Travis d'Arnaud scores. Michael Harris II strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Astros 5, Braves 4. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Houston-Atlanta-Runs-17388260.php | 2022-08-21T21:24:35Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Houston-Atlanta-Runs-17388260.php | true |
Pete Carril, the rumpled, cigar-smoking basketball coach who led Princeton to 11 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, where his teams unnerved formidable opponents and rattled March Madness with old-school fundamentals, died Monday. He was 92.
Princeton released a statement from Carril’s family, which said he died “peacefully this morning.” It did not give a cause of death.
“We kindly ask that you please respect our privacy at this time as we process our loss and handle necessary arrangements. More information will be forthcoming in the following days,” the statement said.
Carril, a Hall of Famer, schooled his teams in a distinct and throwback brand of ball — the Princeton offense, a game marked by patience, intelligence, constant motion, quick passing and backdoor cuts that often ended in layups.
It was an offense that could be played at any level of basketball — as Carril proved when he left Princeton and joined the NBA’s Sacramento Kings as an assistant.
At Princeton, Carril’s offense was performed by players often dismissed or overlooked by some of the nation’s basketball powers. Come the NCAA Tournament, however, Princeton’s unforgiving discipline could offset the disparity of talent on the floor.
During Carril’s 29 seasons as the Tigers’ coach, the system worked splendidly. His teams won 13 Ivy League titles and posted a 514-261 record without the benefit of scholarship players. Its deliberate approach draining the high octane from many opponents, Princeton led the nation in scoring defense in 14 of his last 21 seasons, including the last eight in a run that ended in 1996.
He guided Princeton to the National Invitation Tournament championship in 1975 and was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997.
Basketball fans loved to watch the headaches Carril’s teams caused in March. That was certainly the case in 1989 for Georgetown’s John Thompson, the Hall of Fame coach sweating late in the game with his trademark towel draped over his shoulder.
Princeton gave a No. 1 seeded Georgetown team featuring Alonzo Mourning and Charles Smith all it could handle, and as a No. 16 seed was on the verge of a monumental upset. The Tigers had two shots in the closing seconds at sending Thompson and his team home but were denied, losing 50-49.
Carril’s final season in 1996 was highlighted by a first-round NCAA victory over defending champion UCLA, an outcome many consider one of the biggest surprises in tournament history.
Former Princeton athletic director Gary Walters was taught civics by Carril in the classroom and played on the hardwood under Carril in high school in Pennsylvania. He later served as an assistant coach to him at Princeton and was a lifelong friend.
“His adaptability as a coach and being able to put the pieces together in a constructive way, was very, very important,” Walters told The Associated Press on Monday. “He also understood the game so well fundamentally. Very few coaches had his ability to teach fundamentals.”
There was an outpouring of sympathy and praise on social media for Carril.
“I believe that in defining greatness in coaches u must determine if they get maximum out of their TEAM personnel,” ESPN sportscaster Dick Vitale tweeted. “PETE CARRIL is a prime example of a brilliant coaching mind that got max out of his talent. May Coach RIP !”
Peter Joseph Carril was born on July 10, 1930, to Spanish immigrant parents in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He played at Lafayette College under a venerable coach in Butch Van Breda Kolff. After an Army stint, Carril coached in high school in Pennsylvania in the 1950s and ’60s before getting a college head coaching job at Lehigh. He spent the 1966-67 season there, going 11-12, and then was on his way to Princeton.
Carril was more than a basketball coach. Friends and former players say he was intelligent, philosophical, a great judge of character, honest and caring. He was not the country-club type. He was down to earth, his attire simple: open-collared shirts, wrinkled sweaters, his thinning hair never quite combed. Occasionally, there would be a sport jacket.
On the court, Carril was demanding. He worked his players hard and sought perfection. It would not be unusual for him to sit on the bench with a 20-point lead and a pained look creasing his face following a bad pass, a turnover or missed layup. It was the craft, the process that mattered, never mind the score.
If asked, he would recall what his father had told him growing up in Bethlehem, one of the country’s steel capitals.
“When you lower your standards, they can turn around and attack you,” Carril said often.
Success on the court never changed Carril. He liked his cigars. He enjoyed a drink, a coffee or just chatting with people at Andy’s Tavern in Princeton, that is until it became a sushi bar in the 1990s. Conte’s Pizza remained one of his hangouts. He would occasionally stop at the Princeton basketball office to talk hoops with Mitch Henderson, who became Princeton’s coach in 2011.
After leaving Princeton, Carril jumped to unfamiliar ground — the NBA. He spent 10 seasons as a Kings assistant, helping coach Rick Adelman’s teams win two Pacific Division titles and a spot in the 2002 Western Conference finals.
He joined the Washington Wizards’ staff in 2007 and in 2009 returned to the Kings. He retired from coaching in 2011.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
318 PM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Nacogdoches County through 345 PM CDT...
At 318 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles southeast of Douglass, or 10 miles west of Nacogdoches, moving
northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Nacogdoches and Douglass.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3148 9479 3149 9481 3148 9482 3153 9487
3155 9490 3158 9489 3157 9492 3161 9492
3163 9494 3181 9468 3156 9457 3148 9478
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 245DEG 26KT 3157 9483
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Pumpkin spice products for any season
Each year as autumn comes around, the world eagerly awaits for coffee shops to rotate pumpkin spice flavors into the mix. However, you don’t have to wait for the fall to dive into your favorite pumpkin spice products. And this year, you may even want to pumpkin spice it up by adding some new products to your repertoire of favorites.
Whether you prefer coffee, tea, scented candles or something else, several fall products may quell your pumpkin spice sweet tooth or keep you coming back for something new to you.
Pumpkin spice products worth trying
- Pumpkin spice coffee: Coffee is the most classic pumpkin spice drink, with the pumpkin spice latte starting it all just a few short years ago. Now, you can use pre-flavored pumpkin spice coffees and creamers to make achieving the flavor even easier.
- Pumpkin spice syrup: Another common pumpkin spice option is using a syrup. Syrups and sauces are what most coffee shops use to flavor their drinks. You can use syrups and sauces to recreate your favorite pumpkin spice lattes if you have an espresso machine at home.
- Pumpkin spice tea: A good pumpkin spice option for non-coffee drinkers is tea. You can find pumpkin spice flavors in black and herbal teas or in specific tea drinks such as the chai tea latte.
- Pumpkin spice candles: If you don’t want to drink your pumpkin spice, a candle is a good way to get into the fall spirit.
- Other pumpkin spice products: You can also find pumpkin spice products such as air fresheners, clothing, foods, sweets, actual spices and more.
Best pumpkin spice coffee
Top pumpkin spice coffee
Door County Pre-Ground Seasonal Flavored Pumpkin Spice Coffee
What you need to know: This Wisconsin-made coffee includes pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg flavoring, and it comes pre-ground so you can start brewing right away.
What you’ll love: This bag of coffee includes eight ounces of ground coffee for a super affordable price. It’s a medium roast with a delicious autumn pumpkin spice flavor without being too overpowering. You can also buy this pumpkin spice coffee in decaf or whole-bean versions.
What you should consider: Buyers found the eight-ounce bag a little small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pumpkin spice coffee for the money
Eight O’Clock Ground Pumpkin Spice Flavored Coffee
What you need to know: This is a fairly tasty bag of pre-ground pumpkin spice coffee for how affordable it is, and it’s roasted in Maryland.
What you’ll love: This 11-ounce bag of coffee is a medium roast and includes flavoring notes of pumpkin, brown sugar, sweet cream and some unnamed spices. Eight O’Clock also provides charitable contributions to environmental causes and the communities of their farmers.
What you should consider: This brand doesn’t offer a decaf pumpkin spice coffee.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best pumpkin spice syrup
Top pumpkin spice syrup
Jordan’s Three-Pack Of Sugar-Free Pumpkin Flavored Skinny Syrups
What you need to know: This three-pack of pumpkin syrups includes pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin spice and pumpkin caramel flavors which can be added to nearly any drink.
What you’ll love: This delicious flavor pack offers more variety than getting a single pumpkin spice flavor. They also have zero calories and sugar. Each bottle is 12.7 fluid ounces, but a little goes a long way when using syrups.
What you should consider: Some didn’t like the sugar-free flavor of these syrups.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pumpkin spice syrup for the money
Torani Pure Made 16.5-Ounce Bottle Of Pumpkin Pie Sauce And Syrup
What you need to know: Torani’s classic pumpkin pie sauce offers a thick, creamy syrup that makes hot drinks such as coffee, chai or hot chocolate taste like fall.
What you’ll love: This bottle of pumpkin pie sauce is large enough to last you a while, and a small amount of it packs a flavorful punch. It’s made without artificial preservatives, colors or GMOs and this brand is a trusted standard in many coffee shops today.
What you should consider: This is much thicker than other syrups, and it can be hard to get it to mix well without adding some hot liquids.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best pumpkin spice tea
Top pumpkin spice tea
Vahdam India Pumpkin Spice Blend Herbal Tea Bags
What you need to know: If you’re looking for something different than coffee, this delicious herbal tea is great for mornings or nights, and it includes all-natural ingredients.
What you’ll love: This tea includes natural flavors such as pumpkin, turmeric, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon to give it a unique pumpkin spice flavor. Because it’s herbal, this tea doesn’t have any caffeine, making it less bitter than your average tea.
What you should consider: Some buyers were looking for something caffeinated.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pumpkin spice tea for the money
Tazo Pumpkin Spice Black Chai Tea Bags
What you need to know: This chai is affordable and offers a unique pumpkin spice flavor to the classic chai tea and chai tea latte.
What you’ll love: This includes 20 tea bags, each of which you can use to make two to three cups of tea. Chai is a black tea, so it has a good amount of caffeine. This product also goes great with some steamed milk, making it a tasty pumpkin spice chai tea latte.
What you should consider: This tea wasn’t a hit for those who don’t like chai tea.
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Best pumpkin spice candle
Top pumpkin spice candle
Sweet Water Decor Soy Scented Pumpkin Spice Candle
What you need to know: This fragrant candle is perfect for pumpkin spice lovers who want to enjoy the smell instead of the flavor.
What you’ll love: This candle is nine ounces and includes fragrance notes of vanilla, buttercream and autumn spices. It comes in a clear jar you can reuse after it’s done burning, and its overall design is subtle enough to fit in with any space.
What you should consider: Some thought it burned faster than the advertised 40-hour burn time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pumpkin spice candle for the money
Yankee Candle Spiced Pumpkin Large Jar Scented Single-Wick Candle
What you need to know: This huge 22-ounce scented candle offers around 110 hours of burn time and includes a natural fiber wick that burns consistently.
What you’ll love: This candle wax is paraffin-grade and offers natural scents such as baked pumpkin spice, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and brown sugar. This candle’s container is 100 percent recyclable and the company is partnered with TerraCycle.
What you should consider: This candle’s scent isn’t as high-quality as candles with natural fragrances.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The new federal government is set to review and “build on” a list of 63 “critical technologies in the national interest” laid out by the previous government in November last year.
The current list, covering domains like AI, quantum computing and robotics, was assembled late last year under a “blueprint” intended to protect and promote the development and use of certain technologies at a time of “intensifying geostatic competition” in the region.
Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic said a consultation would be run over the next six weeks to review the list of technologies.
“We know the development of critical technologies present enormous potential opportunities as well as risks for Australians,” Husic said in a statement.
“It is vital we understand and send a clear signal about what technologies we should be focusing on and where our strengths lie – and that is exactly what this consultation is all about.”
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Researchers at security vendor Sonatype say they have found 186 malicious packages in the npm Javascript library registry, which infect Linux hosts with crypto currency mining applications.
Sonatype said many of the packages, published by the same pseudonymous npm account, typo-squat to trick users of well-known software like React, using names like r2act.
The malicious packages download a malicious Bash shell script to fetch the Monero crypto mining code from the threat actor's server, Sonatype said.
Sonatype noted that another researcher, Hauke Lübbers, had spotted 55 malicious packages from the Python language PyPI registry also tried to download similar cryptomining scripts from the same server as above.
"Uff, the actor has uploaded 22 more packages since all others had been removed 35 minutes ago. That's one way for me to stay up to date on the latest hip python libraries i guess...", Lübbers said.
Uff, the actor has uploaded 22 more packages since all others had been removed 35 minutes ago. That's one way for me to stay up to date on the latest hip python libraries i guess...
— Hauke Lübbers (@streamlin3d) August 17, 2022
Earlier on, code vulnerability research firm Snyk spotted 12 malicious PyPi packages from the same author aimed at compromising Windows hosts.
The packages, with names like "hackerfilelol", would attempt to download malicious files from the chat app Discord's content delivery network, the researchers said.
On execution, the malware would attempt to exfiltrate Google Chrome passwords, cookies, history and other data, as well as stealing Discord tokens and injecting a persistent malicious agent in the chat app process.
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WINFIELD, Ala. (WIAT) — An arrest has been made after the Winfield City Family Church was broken into and vandalized Sunday morning.
According to Winfield Police Department, the destruction of the church was ‘extensive.’ One room of the church was set on fire but didn’t cause a lot of damage.
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For all the changes wrought by the sexual harassment scandal that brought down former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, the Murdoch family that controls the network has held one goal paramount: to maintain continuity.
After a lawsuit filed by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson unleashed a wave of allegations, Ailes and a coterie of his associates were purged and a new day declared. But with few exceptions, the senior executives who led Fox News remain in place, notably Ailes' former chief deputy, Bill Shine. Rupert Murdoch, who sits atop parent company 21st Century Fox, elevated Shine this summer to co-president of the network.
The greatest threat to that continuity could lie in the lawsuit filed by suspended Fox News host Andrea Tantaros, who has sued Fox, Ailes and a raft of current Fox News executives, including Shine. In court papers to be filed Wednesday, her lawyers offer fresh support for her allegations. Especially notable are the elements involving Shine and other current Fox News executives who Tantaros accuses of acting to shut down her complaints.
The support comes in the form of a sworn affidavit from Tantaros' former therapist, Michele Berdy, who says Tantaros told her starting in 2014 that Ailes had degraded her, harassed her and retaliated against her for rejecting his advances. Berdy also says Tantaros told her contemporaneously about a series of futile exchanges with Shine starting in 2015 -- before Fox News raised objections over her planned book.
"I remember Andrea being shocked and devastated after a meeting with Mr. Shine in which he told her that she needed to stop complaining about Mr. Ailes' advances toward her, and his subsequent retaliation," Berdy states.
According to Berdy, Shine then told Tantaros that "she must forget what Mr. Ailes had done to her, instructing her, 'Don't fight this' because Ailes is 'a very powerful man.' " That account closely tracks the allegations in Tantaros' suit. Tantaros says as a result of rebuffing Ailes' advances, she was demoted from being a host of the 5 p.m. show The Five to being a host of the midday show Outnumbered, with a smaller audience, less promotion and less visibility.
A Fox News spokesperson said Wednesday in an email to NPR, "We stand by our earlier motion to compel arbitration."
In previous court filings, Ailes has denied all of Tantaros' allegations against him. Lawyers for Fox News have called her allegations baseless. Shine has previously denied any knowledge that Ailes harassed women. A parade of accusers came forward this summer after Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit to tell an outside law firm they had been harassed by Ailes.
This summer, former Fox News booker Laurie Luhn accused Ailes of psychological torture, using her career advancement to extort sex from her for years. After she accused Ailes of this behavior to Fox executives, Shine encouraged her to go home to Texas and referred her to a therapist there. Luhn was later hospitalized and tried to commit suicide. Shine has denied having reviewed her emails and contacts with other people while Fox News put her up in a New York City hotel during a particularly fraught period. She was secretly paid $3 million by Fox News in 2011 to settle her complaints against Ailes, a payment authorized by top network executives.
Luhn's account was first published in detail in New York Magazine. Fox News officials have confirmed to NPR that the payment was made but say executives believed Ailes' denials.
Fox News suspended Tantaros in March over her recent book, citing what it said was her failure to consult the network about the book and its provocative cover featuring Tantaros with her arms bound by ropes. Fox News lawyers have strongly suggested that her allegations against Ailes were recently concocted and made in retribution: "She never complained of any such conduct in the course of an investigation months ago."
Berdy's account in the court filing undercuts that claim. It also offers support for Tantaros' accusation that she complained of being repeatedly propositioned by Fox News' top rated host, Bill O'Reilly; that she had been targeted by the network's publicity chief, Irena Briganti; and that Shine's deputy, Suzanne Scott, had also not taken Tantaros' concerns seriously. Scott has been promoted to Shine's former position of executive vice president of programming and development, which oversees its opinion shows and much of the network's relationship with its talent.
Tantaros' attorney, Judd Burstein, says the sworn statement is the next best proof to actual audio recordings.
"It establishes that Andrea was raising her upset at these events years ago, when she was being victimized," Burstein told NPR. In court documents, Burstein goes further, alleging, "Dr. Berdy's affidavit unequivocally demonstrates that Mr. Shine and Mr. Ailes are not only misogynists; they are liars."
The papers to be filed by Tantaros' lawyers also include an email in early September from Berdy volunteering her account. Burstein says he was unaware that she could serve as a corroborating witness before her email.
In the Sept. 7 email, reproduced in the filing, Berdy wrote, "Dear Andrea, I know you're telling the truth — whatever your issues with me or our work together, if I can be of help in validating your claim, please get in touch."
The reception afforded the Tantaros lawsuit has until now served as a perplexing counterpoint to the reaction of the network's parent company to other allegations. In July, 21st Century Fox bought Ailes out for $40 million within two weeks of lawsuit filed by Carlson against Ailes — and Ailes alone. The company's top executives, Murdoch's sons Lachlan and James, offered contrition for the culture Ailes created, and authorized modest settlements to several woman who accused him. Carlson received a $20 million payout.
Lawyers for Fox News have dismissed Tantaros' legitimacy, however. "Tantaros is not a victim," they wrote in an Aug. 29 response to her lawsuit. "She is an opportunist." Fox News lawyers also called her a "wannabe," adding: "Tantaros's allegations about sexual harassment are a smokescreen to obscure her violation of her employment contract." Fox said she was suspended earlier this year over her failure to show executives her book, Tied Up in Knots, and its cover art. The book posits that modern feminism has failed women.
They say her contract requires prior review by executives, and Fox executives say that clause has never previously been broken by one of their personalities. Burstein has argued her failure to do so was not a material breach of the contract.
Instead, Tantaros alleges the flap over the book was ginned up because of the objections she raised about Ailes and about the behavior toward her of five other men at Fox. She also alleges in her suit that O'Reilly repeatedly propositioned her and invited her with a clear sexual intent to his Long Island, N.Y., home.
"Fox News masquerades as defender of traditional family values," Tantaros' legal team wrote in its colorful initial suit, "but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency, and misogyny."
Fox News says Tantaros participated only reluctantly and unhelpfully earlier this year in an internal review of her contentions.
Tantaros' lawsuit alleges tortious interference over the book, too, saying the network's public relations chief, Briganti, helped to sabotage its fortunes by preventing her from doing publicity for it. The book was published by an imprint of HarperCollins, a part of the greater Murdoch media empire.
Along with Ailes, Shine and Fox News itself, Briganti is also named as a defendant, as is the programming executive Suzanne Scott and Fox News' top lawyer, Dianne Brandi.
Fox News' lawyers have said they will address the specifics of Tantaros accusations in private arbitration, a closed forum where they believe the dispute rightly belongs. Lawyers for Ailes argued that the Carlson lawsuit should also be handled through arbitration with Fox, but the Murdochs settled with her before the case was fully heard.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. — KaVontae Turpin is making the most of his first chance to make a National Football League roster.
The Dallas wide receiver became the first player in nine seasons to have kickoff and punt return touchdowns in the same game, leading the Cowboys to a 32-18 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday night.
“My body’s still wild, but I’m still here trying to focus. I got this big opportunity, so I can’t really complain about it. I work through it," Turpin said.
Turpin signed with the Cowboys on July 28 after garnering MVP honors in the United States Football League this past spring. Before Turpin, the last player to run back a punt and kickoff in the same game — preseason, regular season or playoffs — was Detroit's Jeremy Ross on Dec. 8, 2013, against Philadelphia.
Coach Mike McCarthy said he has been impressed with Turpin since he has been in camp.
“Obviously, he had a very successful run there with the USFL, but really from the first day of practice, I mean, he came in and I was really impressed with the way he picked up the receiver play and the language," McCarthy said. "But you can see he’s dynamic in the return game. Two excellent big plays set the tempo.”
Turpin had six special teams touchdowns during his collegiate career at TCU, but he was dismissed in 2018 when he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend. He was initially suspended but then kicked off the team because the school was unaware of a previous assault case in New Mexico. Turpin pleaded guilty in the Texas case with a chance to clear the conviction from his record and attended an abuse intervention program.
After going undrafted in 2019, Turpin played in the indoor Fan-Controlled Football League, the Spring League and the European League of Football for three years before signing with the USFL. As a member of the New Jersey Generals, he led the league in receiving yards and had the lone punt return for a TD.
“It’s been a crazy year, you know. I’ve been playing football all year round, so I haven’t got a chance to get my body back," Turpin said. "I’m just happy for this opportunity the Cowboys gave me after the USFL to come out here and show everybody what I can do, prove to myself I belong in this league.”
After a 22-yard field goal by Dustin Hopkins gave the Chargers a 3-0 lead midway through the first quarter, Turpin returned the ensuing kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown.
Turpin got a nice wall of blockers in the middle of the field before getting into open space near the 40 and going untouched up the right sideline.
Dallas had a 29-10 lead at halftime after a pair of touchdowns in the final minute of the second quarter. That included Turpin's 86-yard punt return, where he eluded a tackle attempt from punt gunner Deane Leonard after fielding the ball, did a couple juke moves and then broke free for the score.
After two days of joint practices earlier in the week, both teams rested most of their starters. Dallas improved to 1-1 while the Chargers are 0-2.
Cooper Rush and Will Grier each directed first-half TD drives for the Cowboys, while Rico Dowdle and Malik Davis each had rushing scores. Dowdle finished as the game's leading rusher with 44 yards on 13 carries.
Easton Stick played the first half for the Chargers and connected with Joshua Palmer on a wide receiver screen for an 18-yard touchdown early in the second quarter to give the Chargers a short-lived 10-7 advantage. Palmer finished with three receptions for 75 yards.
“It was a really poor first half for us, about as poorly as you can play, and that really put us behind, overall," Chargers coach Brandon Staley said. “I didn’t like the way that that first half felt or looked. It was really in all three phases. When you have two turnovers and you give up two special teams touchdowns, that’s the way the score is going to look.”
LATE SCORE
Chargers' wide receiver Michael Bandy had eight catches for 69 yards, including a 1-yard TD late in the fourth quarter.
INJURIES
Chargers: RB Isaiah Spiller suffered an ankle injury during the second half and did not return.
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Cowboys: Finish the preseason at home against Seattle on Friday.
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Teen, 17, shot, killed while hosting party at Irvington, NJ home
IRVINGTON — A 17-year-old teenager was shot and killed at his home while hosting a party Friday evening, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.
Officials said the shooting took place shortly after 10 p.m. at the juvenile's home on the 100 block of Maple Avenue in Irvington. The victim was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene around 10:40 p.m.
NJ Advance Media reported that the victim was identified as Kansley Moneus. He was reportedly found in his backyard after a dispute with another male. Police were responding to a report of a noise complaint following the gunshots.
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force is investigating the fatal shooting. No arrests have been made.
Rick Rickman is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at richard.rickman@townsquaremedia.com
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Bennacer goal earns AC Milan 1-1 draw at Atalanta
Aug 21 (Reuters) - Italian champions AC Milan were held to a 1-1 Serie A draw at Atalanta on Sunday as Ismael Bennacer cancelled out a first-half goal by Ruslan Malinovskyi in Bergamo.
After an even start to the match, Atalanta midfielder Ruslan Malinovskyi broke the deadlock in the 29th minute with a powerful left-foot finish from the edge of the box.
Milan midfielder Bennacer scored the equaliser from a corner by Alexis Saelemaekers in the 68th minute, shooting through the Atalanta defenders and into the net off the post.
Milan host Bologna on Saturday and Atalanta travel to Verona on Sunday.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Midland has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Scurry County in western Texas...
North central Mitchell County in western Texas...
* Until 430 PM CDT.
* At 327 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast
of J B Thomas Reservoir, or 14 miles southwest of Snyder, moving
east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Colorado City Airport, Dunn, Ira and Cuthbert.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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WESTAMPTON, N.J., Aug. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Primepoint, a highly regarded payroll and HR technology company, has been named a New Jersey and a Philadelphia Top Workplace for 2022. This recognition is the result of strong values and a supportive culture.
The Top Workplaces are determined by anonymous employee surveys conducted by a third party, Energage, LLC. The survey measures items such as engagement, company values, innovation, and benefits.
Primepoint was recognized for being in the top 5% for Strong Values, Meaningful Work, Leaders In-The-Know, Employee Appreciation, and Work-Life Balance. Overall Primepoint was near the top of the list in both New Jersey and Philadelphia.
"Our employees come first. Success in their careers, work-life balance, and personal fulfillment is a priority to us," says Al Bothwell, Primepoint's CEO. "We're a family business at our core, and the supportive and caring environment that a family culture brings will stay with us no matter how much more we grow."
Primepoint started as a small, family operation 30+ years ago. Now, Primepoint has 70 employees and growing, services thousands of customers, and handles almost $7 billion in payroll annually.
Individuals interested in exploring employment opportunities with Primepoint should go to www.primepoint.com/career
About the company: Primepoint is a payroll processing & HR management system company offering advanced technology that integrates human resource management, payroll processing, time & attendance, employee scheduling, and employee self-service functionality for small, medium, and large organizations. The company is differentiated by its ability to partner with customers to develop tailored system implementations. Also, Primepoint has a different approach to customer service that creates the Primepoint Experience™ which provides a very high level of support for its customers ranging in size from a few employees to thousands. To learn more about Primepoint's services and the Primepoint Experience™ visit www.primepoint.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Aaliyah Manning’s dreams of becoming a psychologist ended abruptly during her freshman year at Potomac State in West Virginia when the cost of continuing her education became overwhelming.
“The money just wasn’t there,” she said. “I knew I wasn’t going to finish so I just had fun.”
After a year, Manning, 25, was back in the nation’s capital working fast food jobs. Now she lives largely on public assistance in a two-bedroom apartment with her boyfriend, his mother and his 9-year-old daughter from another relationship. She still has student debt and there’s a baby boy on the way.
She sees a brighter future for that baby, thanks to a landmark social program being pioneered in Washington. Called “Baby Bonds,” the program will provide children of the city’s poorest families with up to $25,000 when they reach adulthood. The money is to be used for a handful of purposes, including education.
“It would be such a different opportunity for him, a lot different than what I had,” Manning said of her soon-to-arrive baby.
In just over a decade, the Baby Bonds idea has moved from a fringe leftist concept to actual policy, with the District of Columbia as the first laboratory. Lawmakers from coast to coast are monitoring the experiment, one that proponents say could reshape America’s growing wealth gap in a single generation if instituted on a federal level.
One week after giving birth to her second child, a daughter named Kali, Aaliyah Wright told The Associated Press that she did not anticipate having much savings to help her children when they reached adulthood, especially with about $80,000 in student loan debt.
She and her husband, Kainan, are on Medicaid despite steady jobs (she’s a case worker at a nongovernmental organization and he’s a barber) and an estimated annual income of about $70,000.
Even at that income level, their new daughter still would qualify for the city’s Baby Bonds program, although at a lower level.
“At that stage of maturity and adulthood, that money can be a door opener to some pretty big things,” Kainan Wright said
Despite the name, the bonds are more accurately trust funds, designed to provide a boost of capital at a critical time in the lives of the country’s poorest children. At age 18, each enrolled child would receive a large lump sum payment that can be used to pay for higher education, invest in a business or make a down payment on a home.
“Think about all the things that people with money do to support themselves or what parents do for kids,” said Kenyan McDuffie, a District of Columbia Council member who pushed through Washington’s Baby Bonds program last summer. The clock started ticking in October and as of mid-August the city has so far identified 833 babies born since then who will receive up to $25,000 when they turn 18.
“Think about all those young folks who are going to be here in a city trapped in poverty, graduated from high schools turning 18,” McDuffie said. “And then having an account with money in it for them.”
It’s an expensive and long-simmering investment that by definition will take a generation of sustained political willpower to truly bear fruit. The district’s program will cost $32 million for the first four years alone.
The idea was originally proposed in 2010 by academics William Darity and Darrick Hamilton as a way to break the poverty cycle by giving children of poor families a chance to build long-term equity — either actual property, a stake in a business or the earning potential that comes from higher education.
It came to mainstream attention when Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., made it a centerpiece of his 2020 presidential campaign.
“I think it’s an idea that’s growing,” Booker told the AP. “And it’s a big idea. It’s on the level of Social Security. It’s on the level of Medicare. One generation would create a dramatic change.”
But for politicians, the price tag can be daunting. Booker’s national plan envisioned annual costs of $60 billion, something he proposes financing by raising taxes on the wealthy.
For now, the Washington experiment will be closely watched by other state and local governments, with Baby Bonds proposals recently emerging in Wisconsin and Washington state and Massachusetts studying the issue. California just created a more targeted version, with Baby Bonds funds specifically for children who lost parents to COVID-19.
Manning and her boyfriend, Darren Gibson, say the expectation that their child will be part of the district’s first Baby Bonds generation is a much needed injection of hope. Gibson, 26, left high school three credits short of graduation. Now he’s the sole earner for his growing household, making less than $10,000 per year as a videographer shooting music videos for local artists.
“It takes such a burden off my shoulders,” he said. Gibson said he will raise his son to make good use of that money when he matures. “It’s on me to work on him and make sure he follows his ambitions.”
The concept’s journey from academic thought experiment to on-the-ground policy received a major boost from the national conversation on poverty brought on by the pandemic. The economic iniquities exposed by COVID-19 fueled calls for a new approach to the cycle of generational poverty. And the Baby Bonds concept, already familiar from Booker’s campaign, gained fresh momentum with multiple proposals receiving serious consideration at a state level.
But most of them have failed to see daylight.
Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., made headlines in 2020 for backing a Baby Bonds proposal. But the Legislature stripped it out of his budget, and Murphy did not propose it again.
In June 2021, Connecticut’s legislature approved the country’s first state-level Baby Bonds program. But in May of this year, lawmakers, in coordination with the governor’s office, chose to delay the program’s start by two years.
That makes Washington, D.C., the first real test case.
Connecticut’s treasurer, Shawn Wooden, who championed the program, said he was surprised and disappointed by the delay in his own state but remains convinced that the policy’s time has come.
“There’s quite the level of interest in this, and always with these things we need what we call first movers,” Wooden said. For the concept to spread, “there needs to be success in Connecticut. There needs to be success in the District of Columbia.”
Wooden has discussed Baby Bonds with members of President Joe Biden’s domestic policy team. McDuffie’s office has fielded queries from multiple state governments.
The concept is new enough that it’s still being tinkered with in real time, with multiple models and internal debates among advocates on issues such as how best to determine eligibility. Washington’s program is so new that the 833 families who have qualified have not been informed yet and will not be until the city hires a fund manager.
Connecticut’s will automatically enroll any newborn from a family on the state’s Medicaid program. Booker’s proposal would have sidestepped that issue by granting every child born in the country a Baby Bonds fund and $1,000 in seed money. Then, all subsequent payments into the fund would have been heavily weighted toward poorer families.
Washington’s program is open to families on Medicaid who make less than 300% of the federal poverty line, meaning earnings of up to about $83,250 for a family of four. With those parameters, it is designed to benefit not only the impoverished but also families like the Wrights who might be considered lower-middle class.
At their income level, their daughter will receive closer to $15,000 instead of the $25,000 limit.
There is one inevitable quirk in the system: Any Baby Bonds program has to set a start date that excludes anyone born before it. In the case of the Wright family, Kali, would receive benefits but her older bother, Khaza, would not. Aaliyah Wright was fine with that.
“OK, so I know my future is set for one child,” said Wright. “So now I need to really focus on making things work for him.”
There are differences among plans in the size of the final payout. Booker’s proposal would have paid about $46,000 to children of the poorest families, while the district expects to pay out a maximum of $25,000. Connecticut’s plan would pay an estimated $13,000 — something Wooden described as “pretty much the floor” for a serious attempt at a Baby Bonds program.
Naomi Zewde, an assistant professor in health economics at the City University of New York who conducted a 2019 analysis of the concept, set the lowest impactful payment at $15,000.
“It has to be a sum of money that’s kind of outside what people would normally come across,” she said.
Zewde’s analysis suggested that a nationwide federal Baby Bonds program would massively reduce the racial wealth gap between white and Black Americans in a single generation, even as it boosted both races.
Currently the median wealth of young white Americans stands at $46,000, compared with $2,900 for Black Americans.
For a Baby Bonds program to succeed, it has to be on a national level and have strong popular support, advocates said.
Darity, a Duke professor who co-authored the original Baby Bonds proposal, points to Britain, which instituted a similar program called the child trust fund in 2005. But the program was discontinued and all future payments halted in 2010 in a government austerity campaign.
“I think the assessment in England was that they had not built grassroots support for the policy when they started it,” he said. “So there wasn’t any strong resistance to eliminating the plan.”
In the United States, the program already has been strongly endorsed by prominent liberal organizations such as the Urban Institute and Prosperity Now.
But there are detractors.
Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, said the one-way nature of the deposits, with no mechanism for the families themselves to add money, “does nothing to encourage the culture of savings.”
She added that the program could tie up millions that could be used to address immediate societal conditions that also help feed the cycle of poverty.
“A lot of these kids are still going to be stuck in bad schools,” she said.
Michael Strain, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, says Baby Bonds advocates will struggle to persuade lawmakers around the country to make such an expensive commitment. “I absolutely think it’s a hard sell,” he said. “The 18-year lag is less of a political obstacle than the price tag.”
Wooden rejected the perception of Baby Bonds as having no payoff for 18 years, saying the benefits will be immediate and measurable. That nest egg, he said, will inspire real-time changes in planning, academic achievement and overall ambition in both children and families.
“There is a high value that should be placed on hope,” he said. “We know what hopelessness looks like in our communities.
Manning, the young expectant mother in Washington, said the knowledge that the money was waiting for her son would change how her family talks about his future.
“It would be much more focused,” she said. “‘Do you know what you want to do? What are your plans?’”
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Mitch Albom was intent on chronicling the Tuesdays he spent with Morrie Schwartz, his favorite college professor who was facing Lou Gehrig's disease. Albom's only goal was to write a book to pay for Schwartz' medical bills.
But publisher after publisher rejected his book proposal. Some said Albom's story of reconnecting with his professor who was determined to teach a final class on life's lessons was too much of a "downer." But Doubleday took a chance 25 years ago this month and published Tuesdays with Morrie in a limited press run.
There were no reviews at the outset. And mixed reviews in the early days.
Eventually, readers spread the news by word of mouth. Albom made an appearance on Oprah. Doubleday says to date, Tuesdays with Morrie has sold nearly 18 million copies globally and has been translated into 48 languages. It's one of the best-selling memoirs in the history of publishing.
"I'm a much different person than I was when I first started visiting him," Albom told NPR. "And I'm happy to give him credit for that."
At its core, the memoir is about the power of relationship — between a professor and his student, between a man approaching his 80s and one not yet out of his 30s, and one whose accumulated life experiences can be passed down to a former student and then to the world at large, literally.
Schwartz established a rapport on Day One of class
To understand how their relationship developed, wind the clock back to the 1970s, when Albom was a freshman at Brandeis University. Arriving for sociology class, he saw a dozen or so students gathered and figured it might not be easy to cut such a small class and go unnoticed. But before he could sneak out, the professor called attendance in alphabetical order, beginning with Albom.
"Mitchell?" the professor asked.
Albom raised his hand.
"Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?"
"Mitch. My friends call me Mitch," he said.
"And, Mitch?"
"Yes?" Albom replied.
"I hope that one day you will think of me as your friend."
Albom stayed in that class and took every lecture Schwartz offered during his undergraduate years. They had lunch together, and Albom visited Schwartz' home. At graduation, he promised to stay in touch.
As often happens with such promises, life intervenes. There was not so much as a phone call or email from Albom to Schwartz in 16 years.
Nightline brought Schwartz back into Albom's life
Then, late one night in March 1995, Albom was channel surfing and heard Ted Koppel say something at the top of Nightline that got his attention:
"Who is Morrie Schwartz, and why by the end of the night are so many of you going to care about him?"
Koppel explained that Schwartz was terminally ill — a disease medically known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — but there was no curling up in the fetal position. Schwartz wanted to use whatever time he had left to teach about life to whoever would listen.
"When I saw Morrie on Nightline, the horror of the fact that he was going to die was mixed with the guilt that I felt over not contacting him for 16 years," Albom said.
So, he worked up the courage to call the professor he had called "Coach." He got through to his nurse, who handed Schwartz the phone.
"I said, 'Professor Schwartz, my name is Mitch Albom. I was a student of yours in the '70s. I don't know if you remember me.' And the first thing he said to me was 'How come you didn't call me 'Coach'?"
That's all Albom had to hear and soon reconnected with Morrie, the start of more than a dozen Tuesday sessions.
As he faced death, Schwartz offered lessons in life
Among Schwartz' regrets during his conversations with Albom was how young people grasped onto what he called "the major cultural values, like money status and power ... and then you find out it's not a good life. It's too empty. There's no real substantial meaning but by that time it's too late."
What stunned Albom during his Tuesday visits was how others who came to cheer up Schwartz often left his office an hour later in tears because Schwartz turned the tables on them and asked them about their problems — their love life, divorce or job.
"'I don't understand — you're the one who's dying, why don't you accept their sympathy? Why are you spending time advising people on THEIR lives,' " Albom recalled. "And he said, 'Mitch, why would I ever take from people like that? Taking just makes me feel like I'm dying. Giving makes me feel like I'm living.' "
That's when the trajectory of Albom's life started to change from someone he described as a "self-absorbed 100-hour-a-week journalist to someone asked to speak at funerals and hospice groups."
Albom said that line from Morrie — that giving makes you feel more alive than taking — was the beginning of his philanthropic work.
Schwartz' final request
Today, Albom still writes sports columns and does a daily radio show, but his passion is the work he does with an umbrella charity organization in Detroit and the monthly visits he makes to the orphanage he runs in Haiti.
"We have 60-plus kids," he said. "Many of them come up here. I have one with me right now, a 7-month-old. I'm changing diapers in my 60s."
When the baby had arrived at the orphanage, Nadie was suffering from severe malnutrition, so Albom brought her to Michigan where he hopes he and others who are helping can nurse her back to health in three months and return her to Port-Au-Prince.
The last Tuesday Albom visited Schwartz ended up being days before the professor's death in November 1995. Schwartz asked his student to visit his grave, have a sandwich and bring a blanket.
"He wanted me to talk to him at his grave. And I said, 'You want me to sit at your tombstone and talk to the air like a crazy person?' And he said, yes, just like we're talking now," Albom said.
"'Well, Morrie it's not going to be like we're talking now because let's face it you won't be able to talk back,' " he recalled. "And he looked at me as if I were being very naive. And he said, 'Mitch, I'll make a deal after I'm dead. You talk, I'll listen.' "
Then as now, Albom talks and Schwartz listens.
And as the last four words of Tuesdays with Morrie say: The teaching goes on.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jake Fraley had three RBIs and scored four times to power the Cincinnati Reds to a 9-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.
Fraley led off Sunday by grooving an 0-2 curveball from Zach Thompson (3-10) 341 feet to right for his seventh homer and fourth in six games. He walked in three of his next four plate appearances, and also drove in two runs with a single off the right-field wall in the sixth.
“He is locked in,” Reds manager David Bell said of Fraley. “You can see he has a really good approach at the plate. Great idea of the strike zone."”
Cincinnati took two of three from Pittsburgh, which has dropped eight of 10.
Reds left-hander Mike Minor (2-10) won for the first time since June 13, despite surrendering five runs on nine hits. Minor gave up two in the first, but was handed back a 3-2 lead when Mike Moustakas hit a two-run home run in the third that went 416 feet and landed in the final row above the wall in right.
Moustakas was 5 for 14 in his first series back from a calf injury, and has 12 home runs and 20 RBIs in 31 career games at PNC Park.
“Happy to be playing again and having fun out there again. ... I like the way I see the ball here. The right field feels like it's right there," he said.
Fraley scored the third of four runs off Manny Bañuelos in the sixth, stealing second after his two-run single before going home on a triple from Jonathan India. Donovan Solano capped the outburst with an RBI single, making it 7-2.
Thompson was replaced by Bañuelos after using 78 pitches to get through five innings, allowing three runs on eight hits with five strikeouts and three walks.
Minor’s outing ended on a two-out, two-run double from Tucupita Marcano in the sixth. Jason Delay drove in Marcano with a single off Ian Gibaut, cutting the deficit to two.
“Felt like we threw some good pitches away to him and then we tried to go front-door slider and I missed down the middle. Then he gets the hit down the line because we weren't really playing him there," Minor said of the Marcano double. "He hits the ball down the line and gets a triple out of it, scores some runs and acts like he's a really good hitter. ... It was just a stupid pitch.”
Fraley scored for a fourth time on a single from Solano in the eighth. An RBI single from Nick Senzel then pushed the lead to four.
ROSTER MOVES
Pirates: LHP Cam Vieaux was selected from Triple-A Indianapolis. … RHP Yohan Ramirez was optioned to Indianapolis. … C José Godoy was designated for assignment.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: RHP Hunter Greene threw a bullpen Sunday. The rookie, who has been out with a strained right shoulder since Aug. 1, is expected to throw another bullpen in Philadelphia on Wednesday. ... INF Matt Reynolds left the game after the seventh inning with hip soreness.
Pirates: 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes (back spasms) could return Tuesday after having a full workout Saturday.
UP NEXT
Reds: RHP Luis Cessa (3-1, 5.50 ERA) will go Monday in the first of a four-game set at Philadelphia. He has made 34 straight relief appearances since his last start, which came April 14 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Noah Syndergaard (7-8, 3.95) gets the ball for the Phillies.
Pirates: RHP Roansy Contreras (3-3, 4.02) will start Monday to kick off a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves. He'll face Jake Odorizzi (4-5, 4.15).
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United has made a slow start to life under Ten Hag, losing its first two games of the Premier League season, including a 4-0 humiliation at Brentford last weekend.
Much of the attention around the difficulties at Old Trafford has focused on Ronaldo, who reportedly wants to leave the club in search of Champions League football.
United's all-time top goalscorer Rooney expressed his belief that his former team-mate Ronaldo should be left out of the side, having previously said he thinks the club should agree to sell the Portugal international.
"The first priority is, against Liverpool, to just compete and have a go," he wrote. "Do that and the fans will accept it, even if United get beaten. Play like they did against Brentford, and United will suffer an even worse result than their 5-0 defeat by Liverpool last season.
"I don't expect that to happen, by the way – I can't see United winning, but I believe there'll be a reaction and they'll lose by the odd goal, or even snatch a draw.
"But I wouldn't play Cristiano Ronaldo, and I wouldn't play Marcus Rashford. If I was in Ten Hag's position my main concern would be getting energy on the pitch, and United's failure to recruit a No 9 means they relied on Ronaldo against Brentford, even though he hadn't trained a lot with the team. He looked like he needs time to get match fit.
"As for Marcus, I think he needs to do a lot of soul-searching and figure out what he wants, for his own good, before anything else. Because watching him is a real concern: he looks like he wants to be anywhere but on a football pitch. I haven't seen him smile on the field for a long time. His performances have dipped – he hasn't been selected by England for more than a year.
"I'm coming from a place of wanting the best for him. He's a lovely kid and a local lad who came through the ranks at United, who everyone wants to see doing well.
"But you look at the difference between Marcus now and when he first came into the team: the passion he showed, the smile on his face when he scored. It's night and day."
Rooney, whose D.C. United team suffered a 6-0 defeat at home to Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer on Saturday, also gave his opinion on United's impending signing of Casemiro from Real Madrid.
The Red Devils have been linked with a move for Frenkie de Jong from Barcelona throughout the transfer window, but turned their attention to the Brazil international last week, agreeing a deal in principle with the European champions for a fee of around £60million (€70.7m).
Rooney is not sure if the 30-year-old is what his former club needs, though admitted he is a talented player.
"Casemiro will not be eligible to face Liverpool, which is a pity because he will undoubtedly improve United," he wrote. "He's a good player. I've played against him and he'll bring a bit of character, a bit of work rate, but is he exactly what United need? I'm not sure.
"This goes back to the need to look to the future. Ideally, they should be signing players in their early to mid-twenties, and Casemiro is similar to Christian Eriksen – someone who has been a good player, but are they going to help the club move forward? Frenkie de Jong, Ten Hag's principal midfield target, would be a better fit.
"The Casemiro deal seems to have come from nowhere, and looks a reactive signing – I'd be surprised if he was a player identified as a priority to bring in when Ten Hag arrived. It looks like, having been unable to sign De Jong, United just reacted to Casemiro being available." | https://www.beinsports.com/au/premier-league/news/rooney-urges-ten-hag-to-drop-ronaldo-for-live/1935787 | 2022-08-21T22:07:59Z | https://www.beinsports.com/au/premier-league/news/rooney-urges-ten-hag-to-drop-ronaldo-for-live/1935787 | true |
2 men arrested in sex trafficking sting operation, sheriff’s office says
CASEVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) – Two separate arrests were made on felony charges for sex crimes following a human trafficking sting operation in Michigan.
Authorities arrested 66-year-old Dennis Bales and 70-year-old Dale Ignash on Aug. 17 on suspicion of sex crimes and using a computer in the commission of a crime.
The operation followed another Huron County sex sting in July, according to WNEM.
The operation happened out of an undisclosed location in Caseville Township, which used internet sex and prostitution sites, Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson said.
“They would literally ‘shop’ these sites, then reach out believing they were communicating and arranging a meeting with an underage sex participant; however, they were actually reaching out and communicating with our tri-county team,” Hanson said.
When the suspects arrived at the undisclosed location, young deputy sheriff decoys were used to satisfy the suspicions and curiosities of the suspects, Hanson stated.
Both suspects acknowledged wanting to have sex with an underage male, Hanson said.
A 68-year-old man who was an acquaintance of Bales was released after being detained. He could face charges, Hanson said.
Several items of evidence were seized by officers during the operation such as cell phones, cash and vehicles.
The Huron County Prosecutor’s Office formally charged both men with three felony sex charges involving minors. They were arraigned Aug. 18.
Bales’ bond was set at $200,000 cash. Ignash has been released on bond.
Bales’ bond was likely amended due to him having past sex-related convictions that have him on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, according to Hanson.
This incident did not involve actual teens forcibly being human trafficked for sex, according to Hanson. However, residents are asked to be on the lookout for this type of activity and report it to their sheriff’s office or local police.
Plans are underway for another operation to occur in the future, Hanson said.
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Couple threatened with fine when their Golf GTI was caught speeding... while they were 1,500 miles away on holiday in Spain
- Gary Thornburn and Clare Beards left their car at Manchester Airport Terminal 3
- They used the official meet and greet firm to make sure it was looked after
- Their car was caught speeding at 55 in a 30 zone - two days after they left it
- The couple were on holiday in Murcia, Spain for 13 days from August 3
A couple were baffled when they were threatened with prosecution after their Golf GTI was caught speeding - while they were over 1,500 miles away on holiday in Spain.
Gary Thornburn and Clare Beards left their car at the meet and greet at Manchester Airport on August 3 before travelling to Murcia in southern Spain for 13 days.
The couple from Leeds were shocked when they received a prosecution notice after returning to the UK on August 16.
The letter, which dated from August 10, said their white Golf GTI was caught driving at 55mph in a 30 zone along Alan Turing Way in Manchester.
Pictures showed a car with the same number plate committing the offence on August 5 - two days after Gary and Clare left their car at the airport.
Gary Thornburn and Clare Beards (pictured at the back of the photo) were baffled when their Golf GTI was caught speeding while they were over 1,500 miles away on holiday in Spain
Manchester Airport said the car remained at the safe compound by meet and greet staff for their duration of the trip so couldn't have been used to commit the offence.
They added that the key was stored securely and the car must have been a different one.
Gary told the Manchester Evening News: 'I knew they take the cars off site to somewhere else but you don't think you'll be accused of speeding 11 miles away from the airport.'
'We opened the post and my wife came in and said I had a speeding fine from the August 5 but I said it can't have been either of us as we were away then.
'We had dropped the car off at Terminal 3 on Wednesday 3rd at around 10pm. I knew they would transport it elsewhere to a safe location. We used the official meet and greet firm as we wanted to make sure the car was looked after because it was very expensive.
The image on the left shows a car with the same registration plate committing the offence; on the right is Gary and Clare's white Golf GTI
'I wouldn't have ever thought somebody would've been driving around in it going at such a speed. It's a criminal offence and extremely dangerous going 55mph in a 30 zone.'
They contacted the police to tell them they were in Spain and couldn't have been driving the car when the offence was committed.
They are waiting to hear back.
Gary and Clare left their car at the meet and greet in Manchester Airport before jetting off to Murcia in Spain for 13 days
A spokesman for Manchester Airport said: 'We are aware that a customer who booked Meet & Greet car parking at Manchester Airport has received a notice of intended prosecution from Greater Manchester Police, which relates to an alleged speeding offence that took place while they were on holiday.
'We understand this would be distressing for the customer concerned, and launched an immediate investigation after being notified.
'This investigation has indicated the car that was booked in with us remained in a secure storage area until it was collected by the customer on their return.
'The key to the vehicle was also securely stored throughout.
'Further investigations indicate the vehicle shown in the speed camera image is different to the one that was left with us.
'While the customer concerned has not made a complaint to Manchester Airport, we have made several attempts to speak with them directly, in order to share our findings and remain eager to do so, as well as assisting the police in any enquiries they wish to make into the matter.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In the bloody years when killings peaked in New York City, Detective Louis Scarcella built a reputation for closing cases.
A second-generation cop who smoked cigars, ran marathons, worked a side job at a Coney Island amusement park and jokingly put “adventurer” on his business card, the now-retired sleuth has been frank about lying to suspects, even praying with them, to elicit information. In the 1980s and ’90s, he got confession after confession. Prosecutors got conviction after conviction.
But in the past nine years, nearly 20 murder and other convictions have been tossed out after defendants accused Scarcella of coercing or inducing false confessions and bogus witness identifications, which he denies. The same prosecutor’s office that won those convictions ended up repudiating most of them.
Yet the Brooklyn district attorney has stood by many other cases the detective worked on. For the first time, prosecutors are now retrying one of those long-ago cases.
“This defendant is still guilty,” prosecutor Chow Yun Xie said at the retrial of Eliseo DeLeon, who says he is innocent. DeLeon’s murder conviction was overturned in 2019 after he spent 24 years behind bars.
With a verdict due Aug. 31, the retrial illustrates the tricky line the Brooklyn district attorney’s office has been walking through a decade of doubts about the work of a onetime star detective.
Scarcella worked homicides as they soared to over 2,200 a year citywide in 1990. There were under 500 last year.
After retiring in 1999, he told the “Dr. Phil” show that he’d done “whatever I have to do within the law” to get confessions or cooperation.
“The bad guys don’t play by the rules when they kill Ma and Pop,” he said. “I don’t play by the rules, but I play within the moral rules and the rules of the arrest in Brooklyn.”
Years later, the DA’s office became known for its Conviction Review Unit, which has scrutinized hundreds of cases and agreed to exonerate over 30 people after individual investigations. (Additionally, 90 drug convictions were dropped en masse because of police corruption allegations unrelated to Scarcella.)
So far, 17 people in cases involving Scarcella have effectively been cleared when prosecutors disavowed convictions or declined retrials after judges overturned guilty verdicts.
In two other cases — including DeLeon’s — convictions have been overturned, but prosecutors are fighting to restore them. Prosecutors have also concluded that convictions should stand in dozens of other Scarcella-related cases, though some defendants are trying to persuade courts otherwise.
“In every case involving this former detective, CRU exhaustively reviewed all evidence, and the decision as to whether to vacate or uphold the conviction is based on the facts of the individual case, mindful of past findings regarding Scarcella’s conduct,” DA Eric Gonzalez’s office said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Prosecutors say Scarcella and his partner played only a minor role in DeLeon’s case. And prosecutors emphasize that two eyewitnesses — the victim’s wife and a stranger — returned to court 27 years later to identify DeLeon anew as the killer of victim Fausto Cordero.
“We were compelled to present that evidence” again, the DA’s office said.
A would-be robber shot Cordero as he headed home from a 1995 religious confirmation party with his wife and other relatives, including the couple’s 7-year-old son. A tip led police to DeLeon, then 18. Detective Stephen Chmil was assigned to the case, and his partner, Scarcella, got involved.
Just how involved is a key issue in the retrial.
Case paperwork shows that Scarcella accompanied Chmil and co-lead Detective Anthony Baker to arrest DeLeon. As they took DeLeon to a police station, he said he was out of town when the shooting happened.
At the stationhouse, Scarcella was on hand as DeLeon was read his rights, paperwork shows. But there’s dispute over whether the detective participated in an interrogation that, police and prosecutors say, produced a confession documented in a few brief sentences. DeLeon says detectives made it up.
When Baker and some prosecutors later turned on a video camera, DeLeon asked for a lawyer to “make sure that my situation is right.”
“I’m not going to just go and be a fool, put myself on tape and say I did something I didn’t do. I’m not stupid,” he said in the video, which jurors at his initial trial weren’t allowed to see.
Scarcella testified last month that he didn’t remember the case but believes he wasn’t at the interrogation, though Baker said Scarcella was there but said nothing, and Chmil said his partner wasn’t the type to stay mum.
DeLeon’s lawyers don’t buy that Scarcella was a bit player.
“Everything in this case has been tainted” by Scarcella and Chmil, defense attorney Cary London said in a summation last month. He argued that the confession was fabricated and that the witness identifications were inaccurate and questionably obtained.
Xie said that the case “withstood the test of time” and that the focus on Scarcella and Chmil was misplaced.
The verdict is up to Judge Dena Douglas, who is hearing the case without a jury.
Scarcella and Chmil, also retired, have now spent years defending their investigations as court hearings and news stories picked apart their cases. Their lawyers say that the investigators used techniques that are legal and endure today and that prosecutors signed off on every homicide arrest and vetted all the evidence.
“The detectives worked diligently to apprehend the correct perpetrator and stand by their work,” attorneys Alan Abramson and Joel Cohen said in a statement to AP.
At DeLeon’s retrial, Scarcella made clear he isn’t second-guessing himself.
“You prided yourself on being a good homicide detective in the ’80s and ’90s?” London asked.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian rights campaigner said that Israel tried to summon him for questioning on Sunday, as it pressed ahead with a crackdown on Palestinian rights groups based in the West Bank.
European and U.S. diplomats have pushed back against the claim by Israeli officials that the targeted groups are linked with terrorism.
The apparent Israeli order for Shawan Jabarin to report to a military prison followed a widely criticized raid last week on six Palestinian civil society organizations in the occupied West Bank. Nine European countries, using uncharacteristically blunt language, called the raid “not acceptable,” while the U.S. expressed concern.
Jabarin, who is director of one of the targeted groups, Al-Haq, said on Sunday that he received a five-minute “threatening call” from Israel’s Shin Bet security service ordering him to go to the Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank. He said an officer threatened arrest, interrogation and “other things” if he did not comply.
“I will not change my mind, but if he wants to arrest me then he can surely do it as an occupying power,” Jabarin said. He said he invited the officer to the Al-Haq office and that he demanded the summons to be sent officially through lawyers, not over the phone.
The Shin Bet did not respond to a request for comment.
Israel last year outlawed six rights groups, including Al-Haq, claiming they have ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP is a secular, left-wing movement with a political party as well as an armed wing that has carried out deadly attacks against Israelis. Israel and the U.S. have labeled the PFLP a terrorist organization.
The rights groups deny the Israeli allegations. Jabarin called the claims of PFLP ties “utter nonsense and complete lies.” Nine European countries have also rejected the Israeli charges, citing a lack of evidence.
Despite the criticism, Israeli soldiers last Thursday entered the West Bank city of Ramallah in an armored convoy and blew up the front doors of the Palestinian groups’ offices. Soldiers seized documents, computers, and broke furniture and appliances before sealing the entrances.
The nine European countries — Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden — stepped up their criticism of Israel over the weekend, saying the latest raids are “part of a worrying reduction of space for civil society” for Palestinians.
“These actions are not acceptable,” they said in a joint statement, adding they have seen no evidence of extremist links.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price last week said Washington was “concerned” about the raids and closures but Israel had pledged to provide additional information. Western diplomats visited one of the offices hours later in a show of support for the outlawed groups.
The groups raided include Al-Haq, a veteran, internationally respected Palestinian rights group; Addameer, which advocates for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel; Defense for Children International-Palestine; the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees; the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, and the Bisan Center for Research and Development.
On Sunday, some 45 Israeli and Jewish advocacy groups issued a statement in solidarity with the targeted Palestinian groups.
“Defense of human rights is not terrorism,” the statement said. “We repudiate these baseless declarations and call on the international community to pressure Israel to revoke its decision.”
Major Israeli human rights groups, including B’Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, as well as the liberal pro-Israel group J Street, were among the signatories.
Rights defenders have described the raid as part of a decades-long crackdown in the occupied territories on political activism.
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LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — The cinderblock home with a tin roof that Erline Castel and Dieunord Ernest rented was among the more than 130,000 houses damaged or destroyed by a powerful earthquake that struck southern Haiti last year, killing more than 2,200 people.
In the days after the magnitude 7.2 quake hit, they gathered sheets, tarpaulins and wood and made a shelter for themselves and their three children. More than a year after the Aug. 14, 2021 quake, the family is still living in the same makeshift tent like hundreds of others, and still wondering if anyone will help them.
If recent history is any guide, few people will.
The Associated Press visited several camps surrounding the southern coastal city of Les Cayes, which was one of the hardest hit areas, and over and over again people complained that no government official had visited them despite repeated promises that they would come to help.
As the family waited for help, Ernest died of prostate cancer last year. So today, Castel is alone, fighting for her family’s survival like many struggling to restart their lives after the quake.
On Thursday morning, she tried to get her 9-month-old daughter to suckle. But after a year of surviving on scraps in a makeshift camp, Castel had no milk. The tiny girl, Wood Branan Ernest, fell asleep during her failed attempt.
“I don’t have anything to provide for them,” Castel said.
What’s worse, others are victimizing the quake victims.
In one camp, friends of the property owner are trying to take back the land where the refugees settled. Thugs have ripped apart the shacks, thrown rocks at families and tried to set the camp on fire twice in recent months.
The camp, like several others, also floods quickly when it rains, forcing hundreds to flee to higher ground as they watch their belongings get drenched.
“I don’t know how long I can continue like this,” said Renel Cene, a 65-year-old who lost four children in the earthquake and once toiled the nearby fields of vetiver, a plant whose roots produce an oil used in fine perfumes.
Families walk to get well water, sometimes letting the sediment settle before drinking it. Many have no work. They rely on the neighbors for their only meal of the day.
Those living in the camps say they’ve heard on the radio that local government officials have met with international leaders about the post-earthquake plights, but they question if they’ll ever be helped.
“So far, it’s all been promises,” said 55-year-old farmer Nicolas Wilbert Ernest. “I don’t know how long I have to wait.”
On the earthquake’s anniversary, a group of government officials held a press conference describing the advances of the administration of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who began leading the country shortly after President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated on July 7, 2021.
The government says it has planted 400 tons of beans, cleaned 10,000 meters of canals, distributed 22,000 bags of fertilizer and donated more than 300,000 baskets filled with basic goods. It has provided $100 each to vulnerable people in tens of thousands of homes across the south. The state also opened a temporary bridge over the Grande-Anse River in early August.
But UNICEF warned last week that more than 250,000 children still have no access to adequate schools and that the majority of 1,250 schools destroyed or damaged have not been rebuilt. It noted that a lack of funds and a spike in violence have delayed reconstruction.
Increasingly powerful gangs have seized control of the main road leading from the capital of Port-au-Prince to Haiti’s southern region, disrupting efforts to provide food, water and other basic goods to those in need.
A lot of organizations have been forced to pay bribes to avoid staff being kidnapped while driving to the south.
Cindy Cox-Roman, CEO of Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit HelpAGE USA, said there is “a great feeling on the part of people there that they’re alone in this.”
Cassendy Charles, emergency program manager for the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Mercy Corps, estimates it could take five years for the region to fully recover from the earthquake. The organization has been forced to use boats and planes to ferry supplies to the south, but even that is complicated because the port is located by the Cite Soleil slum, where more than 200 people are believed to have been killed recently as rival gangs fought over territory.
“The situation is volatile,” he said.
Meanwhile, double-digit inflation has deepened poverty. Marie Dadie Durvergus, a kindergarten teacher who lives with her two children in one camp, said a bag of rice that cost 750 gourdes ($6) last year now costs 4,000 gourdes ($31).
Berline Laguerre, a former street vendor who once sold used clothes, said the money she had saved to buy more clothes went to feed her children. There was nothing left over to send them to school or buy them uniforms or books.
“And the kids are asking me, ‘Mom, when am I going back to school?’ My friends are going, ‘What about me?’” she said.
On a recent morning, Laguerre stood in line with other people in front of tent #8, where Bauzile Yvenue was making sweet coffee for neighbors in need, a system that has become key to survival.
“I can’t do this every morning, but the days I do it, it makes me feel good that I’m able to share coffee with my neighbors,” said the 48-year-old mother of two.
But a moment later, she said she worries that her 14-year-old daughter could be raped at the camp. Rape was a common occurrence at similar camps that proliferated after the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 300,000 Haitians.
Jocelin Juste became the informal manager of Camp Devirel after the most recent big quake. He and other self-appointed leaders have written dozens of letters by hand and visited local nonprofits to try and catch the attention of government officials.
“We are doing everything we can to survive,” he said.
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There is no dispute about some evidence in the trial of two men accused of eagerly wanting to kidnap Michigan’s governor: They enjoyed getting high.
From start to finish, the jury repeatedly has heard about marijuana in the case of Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., who are charged with conspiring to abduct Gretchen Whitmer as part of an anti-government uprising in 2020.
It has been cited by defense lawyers to reinforce their depiction of Fox and Croft as “big talkers” who sometimes said outrageous things when they had been smoking pot. Marijuana use by adults has been legal in Michigan since 2018.
A jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will hear closing arguments Monday, when defense lawyers will likely talk about it again.
Defense attorney Joshua Blanchard set the tone soon after jurors settled into the box on Aug. 10, saying Croft was “frankly high on marijuana all the time” and was described by some as a “stoner pirate kind-of whack nut” in a tri-cornered colonial hat.
The Delaware trucker’s girlfriend confirmed Croft’s regular marijuana use during her brief appearance in the witness chair. An investigator was asked Friday to read aloud a text message he had sent to an informant who was inside the group of extremists.
“Too much pot,” John Penrod of the Delaware state police said.
Prosecutors have presented evidence of Fox saying he wanted to “hog-tie” Whitmer and even take her out to Lake Michigan in a boat. Croft wrote on social media about hanging governors for treason.
Their attorneys are arguing entrapment by government agents, not some type of diminished capacity defense. But Henry Scharg, a Detroit-area lawyer, said references to marijuana can be an effort to show a jury that their judgments were very cloudy.
“You’re in an altered state. When you say things, you don’t really mean it,” said Scharg, who’s not involved in the trial. “I don’t think it’s a really strong defense, but sometimes you’re looking for a juror as a holdout, something to rest their position on. Throw it out. Maybe the fish will bite.”
Indeed, this is the second trial for Fox and Croft after a jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. Two other men were acquitted, while two more pleaded guilty and testified for the government.
Fox’s attorney, too, has referred to marijuana when questioning witnesses about key moments in 2020.
Dan Chappel, the most important FBI informant in the case, recalled how he and Fox drove to Elk Rapids, Michigan, to scout Whitmer’s lakeside vacation home. He said Fox smoked marijuana throughout the day, even sharing with a stranger while assessing things at a Birch Lake boat launch.
“Adam Fox routinely smoked marijuana in your presence, true? At almost every meeting you were at, correct?” Christopher Gibbons asked.
“He did smoke, yes,” Chappel replied.
Croft, 46, is from Bear, Delaware. Fox, 39, was living in the basement of a vacuum shop in the Grand Rapids area.
Prosecutors haven’t made much of their drug habits. Mark Schweers, an undercover FBI agent who posed as a like-minded rebel, said marijuana was smoked when he met with Fox and members of a paramilitary group.
“Did you use marijuana?” Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher O’Connor asked.
“That would not be permitted,” said Schweers, who drank beer instead.
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NEW YORK (AP) — “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter insisted Sunday that he’ll still be rooting for CNN even after his show was canceled this week, but stressed that it was important for the network and others to hold the media accountable.
CNN gave Stelter the chance to host a final episode of the 30-year Sunday morning program on the media even after it was learned this week that he and the show would be exiting — a gesture that’s relatively rare in television.
Stelter said that it was not partisan to stand up for decency, democracy and dialogue.
“It’s not partisan to stand up to demagogues,” he said. “It’s required. It’s patriotic. We must make sure we don’t give platforms to those who are lying to our faces. But we also must make sure we are representing the total spectrum of debate and representing what’s going on in the country and the world.”
It was Stelter’s most direct reference to what is believed to be the reason for his demise; CNN hasn’t talked publicly about it. Since he started this spring, new CNN chief executive Chris Licht has made clear he wants to tone down opinion, particularly as it made Republicans resistant to the network.
Stelter, who wrote a book about Fox News Channel and was frequently critical of Fox, was a lightning rod for conservatives’ complaints.
Some of his final “Reliable Sources” guests were more direct. Eric Deggans, NPR television critic, said he hopes CNN will continue to give viewers context and not be reduced to false equivalency. “Just the facts” isn’t enough, he said.
“Will CNN have the courage to do that?” Deggans asked. “I hope so.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Eight years ago, Paul O’Neill was thanked by the Yankees for his contributions to their dynasty with a plaque in Monument Park.
On Sunday, the Yankees retired his No. 21 — the 23rd player or manager in the franchise to have that happen.
This ceremony was slightly different from others.
Because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19, O’Neill couldn’t interact with any current New York players in the dugout. And with the Yankees stuck in a 4-14 rut, there were noticeable boos for managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner and general manager Brian Cashman during the 33-minute ceremony.
New York’s first jersey retirement ceremony since 2017, when Derek Jeter’s No. 2 was honored, had the usual video tributes and messages, gifts and an acceptance speech.
During his roughly eight-minute speech, the 59-year-old O’Neill — an All-Star right fielder and now a popular team announcer — thanked the fans numerous times. He opened by saying: “You Yankee fans have obviously been practicing and it sounds great still today.”
A four-time World Series champion as a Yankee, O’Neill was nicknamed “The Warrior” by late owner George Steinbrenner. “The fans remember the teams that win and we won,” O’Neill said. “And we won a lot.”
O’Neill hit .303 with 185 homers and 858 RBIs for the Yankees from 1993 to 2001. He was a four-time All-Star with the team and won the 1994 AL batting title during a strike-shortened season.
He wore No. 21 for his entire big league career, starting as a rookie with the Reds in 1985.
“That’s why I’m celebrating this day, because this is the biggest dream that I’ve ever had in my life,” O’Neill said in his speech.
Former trainer Gene Monahan was there, along with teammates Tino Martinez, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera.
Six minutes into the ceremony, O’Neill stood next to his wife and family to unveil his retire number in Monument Park. He was brought on to the field in a golf cart as highlights played on the videoboard — including his final home game in Game 5 of the 2001 World Series and his running catch to end Game 5 of the 1996 World Series.
Then there were brief video messages from Jeter, Joe Torre, David Cone and Don Mattingly, along with a message from Roberto Clemente Jr., the Hall of Famer’s son and a former Yankee Spanish-language announcer.
“Obviously, Paul is a central figure in one of the many great times in Yankee baseball and dynasties,” manager Aaron Boone said before the Yankees faced Toronto, adding, “It’s fun to know Paul in a friendly, even silly guy that sometimes is a contrast with who he was in between those lines.”
Steinbrenner gave O’Neill a framed plaque of his jersey; other gifts included a custom wine bottle with his No. 21, a framed jersey signed by current Yankees and a water cooler, a nod to his tendencies to slam water coolers in the dugout.
The signed framed jersey was the closest thing O’Neill had to any interaction with New York’s current roster because of his vaccination status; unvaccinated personnel are barred from interaction with any players on the bench or in the locker room.
O’Neill has called games on the YES Network from his Ohio home since the pandemic 2020 season. In an interview with NJ Advance Media published Saturday, O’Neill said of his vaccination status, “I’d rather not discuss that.”
Since O’Neill retired after the 2001 World Series, the only New York player to wear No. 21 was reliever LaTroy Hawkins at the opening of the 2008 season, but he switched back not too long after the season started.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Panola County in northeastern Texas...
Southeastern Rusk County in northeastern Texas...
Northwestern Shelby County in eastern Texas...
* Until 500 PM CDT.
* At 408 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast
of Minden, or 18 miles southeast of Henderson, moving northeast at
25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Carthage, Beckville, Pinehill, Minden, Mount Enterprise, Gary City,
Dotson, Woods, Lawsonville and Fairplay.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately.
Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can
hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Watch is cancelled for Palo Duro Canyon.
The Flood Watch is cancelled. Flooding is no longer expected to pose
a threat.
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Mitch Albom was intent on chronicling the Tuesdays he spent with Morrie Schwartz, his favorite college professor who was facing Lou Gehrig's disease. Albom's only goal was to write a book to pay for Schwartz' medical bills.
But publisher after publisher rejected his book proposal. Some said Albom's story of reconnecting with his professor who was determined to teach a final class on life's lessons was too much of a "downer." But Doubleday took a chance 25 years ago this month and published Tuesdays with Morrie in a limited press run.
There were no reviews at the outset. And mixed reviews in the early days.
Eventually, readers spread the news by word of mouth. Albom made an appearance on Oprah. Doubleday says to date, Tuesdays with Morrie has sold nearly 18 million copies globally and has been translated into 48 languages. It's one of the best-selling memoirs in the history of publishing.
"I'm a much different person than I was when I first started visiting him," Albom told NPR. "And I'm happy to give him credit for that."
At its core, the memoir is about the power of relationship — between a professor and his student, between a man approaching his 80s and one not yet out of his 30s, and one whose accumulated life experiences can be passed down to a former student and then to the world at large, literally.
Schwartz established a rapport on Day One of class
To understand how their relationship developed, wind the clock back to the 1970s, when Albom was a freshman at Brandeis University. Arriving for sociology class, he saw a dozen or so students gathered and figured it might not be easy to cut such a small class and go unnoticed. But before he could sneak out, the professor called attendance in alphabetical order, beginning with Albom.
"Mitchell?" the professor asked.
Albom raised his hand.
"Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?"
"Mitch. My friends call me Mitch," he said.
"And, Mitch?"
"Yes?" Albom replied.
"I hope that one day you will think of me as your friend."
Albom stayed in that class and took every lecture Schwartz offered during his undergraduate years. They had lunch together, and Albom visited Schwartz' home. At graduation, he promised to stay in touch.
As often happens with such promises, life intervenes. There was not so much as a phone call or email from Albom to Schwartz in 16 years.
Nightline brought Schwartz back into Albom's life
Then, late one night in March 1995, Albom was channel surfing and heard Ted Koppel say something at the top of Nightline that got his attention:
"Who is Morrie Schwartz, and why by the end of the night are so many of you going to care about him?"
Koppel explained that Schwartz was terminally ill — a disease medically known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — but there was no curling up in the fetal position. Schwartz wanted to use whatever time he had left to teach about life to whoever would listen.
"When I saw Morrie on Nightline, the horror of the fact that he was going to die was mixed with the guilt that I felt over not contacting him for 16 years," Albom said.
So, he worked up the courage to call the professor he had called "Coach." He got through to his nurse, who handed Schwartz the phone.
"I said, 'Professor Schwartz, my name is Mitch Albom. I was a student of yours in the '70s. I don't know if you remember me.' And the first thing he said to me was 'How come you didn't call me 'Coach'?"
That's all Albom had to hear and soon reconnected with Morrie, the start of more than a dozen Tuesday sessions.
As he faced death, Schwartz offered lessons in life
Among Schwartz' regrets during his conversations with Albom was how young people grasped onto what he called "the major cultural values, like money status and power ... and then you find out it's not a good life. It's too empty. There's no real substantial meaning but by that time it's too late."
What stunned Albom during his Tuesday visits was how others who came to cheer up Schwartz often left his office an hour later in tears because Schwartz turned the tables on them and asked them about their problems — their love life, divorce or job.
"'I don't understand — you're the one who's dying, why don't you accept their sympathy? Why are you spending time advising people on THEIR lives,' " Albom recalled. "And he said, 'Mitch, why would I ever take from people like that? Taking just makes me feel like I'm dying. Giving makes me feel like I'm living.' "
That's when the trajectory of Albom's life started to change from someone he described as a "self-absorbed 100-hour-a-week journalist to someone asked to speak at funerals and hospice groups."
Albom said that line from Morrie — that giving makes you feel more alive than taking — was the beginning of his philanthropic work.
Schwartz' final request
Today, Albom still writes sports columns and does a daily radio show, but his passion is the work he does with an umbrella charity organization in Detroit and the monthly visits he makes to the orphanage he runs in Haiti.
"We have 60-plus kids," he said. "Many of them come up here. I have one with me right now, a 7-month-old. I'm changing diapers in my 60s."
When the baby had arrived at the orphanage, Nadie was suffering from severe malnutrition, so Albom brought her to Michigan where he hopes he and others who are helping can nurse her back to health in three months and return her to Port-Au-Prince.
The last Tuesday Albom visited Schwartz ended up being days before the professor's death in November 1995. Schwartz asked his student to visit his grave, have a sandwich and bring a blanket.
"He wanted me to talk to him at his grave. And I said, 'You want me to sit at your tombstone and talk to the air like a crazy person?' And he said, yes, just like we're talking now," Albom said.
"'Well, Morrie it's not going to be like we're talking now because let's face it you won't be able to talk back,' " he recalled. "And he looked at me as if I were being very naive. And he said, 'Mitch, I'll make a deal after I'm dead. You talk, I'll listen.' "
Then as now, Albom talks and Schwartz listens.
And as the last four words of Tuesdays with Morrie say: The teaching goes on.
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Full transcript: Dr. Deborah Birx on “Face the Nation”
▶ Watch Video: CDC revamp comes at an “inflection point” for agency, Birx says
The following is the full transcript of an interview with Dr. Deborah Birx, former President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response coordinator, that aired Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022, on “Face the Nation.”
MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning, Dr. Birx.
FORMER WHITE HOUSE CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE COORDINATOR DR. DEBORAH BIRX: Good morning, Margaret. Great to be with you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You know, this was an incredible acknowledgement by the CDC Director just a few days ago about the agency that she runs and Dr. Walensky said to CDC employees “To be frank,” quote, “we are responsible for some pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes, from testing to data to communications. This is our watershed moment.” And she outlined these proposed changes to institutional culture, accountability, communication, timeliness. Do you agree, doctor, with her diagnosis?
DR. BIRX: Well, I’m thrilled that she had Jim Macrae and did this work, because a lot of directors would have just tried to tweak, and tweaking the agency at this point was not going to be successful. This is an inflection point. I think she recognizes that, and I think she- we all should be proud as Americans, that the Director was willing to do this hard work to find the issues, and now they have to be fixed.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And they have to be approved still by the HHS Secretary. I mean, do you think that it is enough for a bureaucracy to try to fix itself, or does Congress need to step in and legislate here?
DR. BIRX: Well, there’s certain things that Congress needs to do and thank you for recognizing that. And frankly, that’s why I wrote the book, it has 11 pages of what Congress needs to do. And the number one thing is to stop trying to create a parallel data system. In many countries, the public health system and the clinical system are one. In our country, they have been separate, and it has failed us. And there is a way to really get real-time data from our clinical care system, from our hospitals, from our clinics, and from our laboratories. And rather than creating a parallel system, it all starts with the data, and they need to create a public-private partnership between our clinical care systems and laboratories and- and the CDC and- and ASPR and NIH so that the data is available in real-time.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And that is one of the chief criticisms that you had. I mean, back in January of 2021, when we spoke, I remember you saying you didn’t trust the CDC data that you were getting during the Trump administration. You said the ethnicity and race of COVID fatalities sometimes was delayed as many as 30 days and you started going to the hospitals to try to get that data. So if Dr. Walensky is saying that this is a problem, how does she actually fix it? Are you saying that the government can’t do it alone, that it needs private industry to step in?
DR. BIRX: Yes, and that was the way we were able to get the data. First and foremost, in March of 2020, all of our data that I used to warn Americans of who was at risk for severe disease, hospitalization, and deaths came from our European colleagues. That in itself should be an indictment of our system. Secondly, throughout this- throughout the time, reporting was coming in extraordinarily slow from hospitals through a system that CDC had created. And I know this created controversy, but for three months, I asked the CDC to fix its system and develop a partnership with clinics and hospitals and laboratories, and they wouldn’t. And so that’s why I asked all the hospitals to start reporting and they did. And so I think sometimes we hold ourselves back. The private sector is willing to help us, you know, they- they have people working in these communities. They want everyone to do well to thrive and survive. And so I think we’re just not tapping into the system that the United States utilizes for healthcare delivery and because of that, there’s extraordinary delays, and critically, there’s incomplete data. And so decisions are made, and this is another issue I’ve had with the CDC. I’ve asked them over and over again, if you’re going to issue guidance, like five days in return to work in a mask, show the data transparently that you utilized to come to that decision. Because I think when Americans saw that it was a very small number, that they would have really reconsidered those guidelines. And so you really need the information. Americans are smart, they can process the information, give them all of the data.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sorry, to pick up on what you just said, you are saying that the current CDC guidance of being able to return to work after five days if you wear a mask is based on flawed data?
DR. BIRX: Well, it’s- it’s based on what we call in medicine, a convenience data set, rather than all Americans. We’ve had millions and millions of infections, and we could have tracked Americans over that time period. The federal- the federal government was sending out tests. So we could have said to people, test on day three, test on day six, test on day nine. They would have seen that the antigen test was still positive in most cases out to 9, 10 and 11. And we have to assume, until we have better data, that you’re infectious if your antigen test is positive. So we had, and I think this is the problem, they’re not willing to accept that what we have as data that we can interpret and really talk to the American people. I’ve studied- I’ve worked on pandemics—
MARGARET BRENNAN: But why would the CDC- why would the CDC do that? Are you suggesting that there is a concern here due to the worker shortage or political interference? Why would they tell people to return to- to work if there’s no way they’d actually have cleared the virus within a short period of time?
DR. BIRX: Well, there definitely was a worker shortage. But I think when we have that happen, we have to be very clear. We can say to people, we think you’re still shedding some virus and that’s why we’re telling you to wear a mask, and a crude indication that you’re still shedding virus is your antigen test. And so we’re really not using the tools that we have to ensure Americans can both survive and then thrive. And we do have tools. We have so many better tools now.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I raise political interference, because as you know, during the Trump administration, and you felt some of this, that was one of the criticisms, that there was political interference with the doctors and with the science. But when it comes to the CDC advice, I mean, if you go through it, people may forget we- we had field hospitals in the middle of Central Park and refrigerator trucks moving dead bodies. We’ve come a long way here, but the CDC guidelines on masks was wrong. It was wrong when it came to the tests they were trying to create and deploy. They were telling people to take their temperature, not realizing there was asymptomatic community spread. Are we at the point where you cannot rebuild public trust? I mean, is the agency worth reforming?
DR. BIRX: Well, the way you rebuild public trust is be transparent. And I think that’s in the report: better data, better accountability, better transparency. But they also have to believe, and this gets to the culture piece, people can understand complicated issues. It’s your job as a public health official. That’s what public and public health means. Your job is to take complex situations and data, and create graphs so that people can understand why you are making those recommendations. Recommendations that are created out of lack of transparency, and out of a black box where you can’t really follow the logic is what leads to fracturing and trust. And you really have to work to reestablish that. It can be done, but they have to change how they collect data, how they present data, and how they communicate to the American people.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So there is supposed to be a new booster coming soon, that will help protect against new variants like Omicron. Who should get that booster shot?
DR. BIRX: Well, I think we, again, have to be very transparent about what we know. We have to be able to say we didn’t study asymptomatic spread and so we don’t know if these boosters protect against asymptomatic spread or not and we don’t know if they do protect how long they protect. And I do believe early on the shots do protect against infection, but it’s time limited. Unlike the pox viruses that we’re talking about in monkeypox and that vaccine, which induces what we call almost sterilizing immunity, so you never get infected for long periods of time, these COVID vaccines can’t do that. They can protect against severe disease and hospitalization. But even from Delta and Omicron, it’s clear that that wanes. And so that’s why these boosters are so critical and that’s why we ought to be having age-specific recommendations for these vaccines, because they’re critically needed in certain age groups to protect against severe disease and hospitalization and deaths.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about monkeypox. It was first detected in May in this country. Now it’s a public health emergency and there are reports of it spreading among children, particularly in the state of New York right now. As parents send their kids back to school, what do they need to know?
DR. BIRX: Well, I think what was so disturbing to me about monkeypox is a lot of the issues that got us into the ditch with COVID were repeated. Those mistakes were repeated with monkeypox: not adequate testing early on, not making tests available in every community that you knew was at risk. I mean, we had the roadmap of who was at risk. We should have immediately made it- tests available through the gay and bisexual network. They are very responsible people. They’re very knowledgeable about prophylactics and preventing disease, because they’ve been doing it for decades. This is a highly informed group. If they had communicated to that group, if they had provided testing, if they had provided vaccines to all of them in May, we wouldn’t have this problem in August. And so five months have gone by. Just like what happened with COVID, lack of preparation, lack of engagement, lack of utilization of the tools that we had in real-time to prevent this 14,000, and probably it’s well over 20,000 now. And remember, it can be spread, yes, skin-to-skin, but it can also be spread through clothing and linen. And so that’s- we just have to tell people, if you have any kind of lesion, please get tested. Because you can spread it unknowingly to your household. You can spread it unknowingly to your family members. You can spread it unknowingly to your friends and to your children. And I worried about- in long-term care facilities because it could – excuse me – also spread in long-term care facilities because of laundering. We should know right now, is monkeypox killed in cold water, or do you need to wash the clothing and everything in hot water? I mean, these are practical solutions that the American people need.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And before I let you go, I want to ask you about the vaccine because you said there is one available. The CDC director said this week, we don’t yet know how well this vaccine will work in this particular outbreak. What do people do with that?
DR. BIRX: Well, the way you figure out if it works or not as you collect data. So if we had been immunizing the gay and bisexual network where we first saw the disease in Europe, beginning of May, and prevented the spread in that network, we wouldn’t have 14,000 cases right now. So that’s how you do public health. You utilize your tools, and you collect data on the population level. Again, not convenient samples, not 10 people or 100 people, but 100,000 people, a million people and we have that capability. It’s the 21st century. We know how to collect data and make it anonymized. We have been doing this for decades in Africa. I can tell you of the 18 million people on treatment in Africa whose virally suppressed in real time. So you know, it can be done. We need to translate what we’ve learned of how to actually combat epidemics in real time to America. I realize we haven’t had to do it for a century. But we know what works because we’ve been doing it elsewhere for many, many years, and we know how to work with communities. We know how to translate data into action. And I think what keeps getting missed is implementation, implementation, implementation.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Dr. Birx, thank you for your time this morning.
DR. BIRX: Thank you, Margaret. Always good to see you. | https://www.wsgw.com/full-transcript-dr-deborah-birx-on-face-the-nation/ | 2022-08-21T22:50:49Z | https://www.wsgw.com/full-transcript-dr-deborah-birx-on-face-the-nation/ | false |
At a Tampa Bay Buccaneers preseason game, frustrations boiled over, leading to a brawl between two female fans. One was put into a headlock during the intense altercation.
There is often no greater indication that football has returned to prominence than fans fighting in the stands. Beer is heavily sold at football events, and whenever there's alcohol involved, there's a chance that frustrations can boil over, which is what happened in this Buccaneers game.
The woman executing the headlock even added punches to her assault before security guards stepped in. However, it took full intervention for the brawl to stop as the one fan continued to throw punches even after the guards arrived.
The fan who continued to throw punches was escorted out by security while the other returned to her seat. It's unclear if she was also removed from the game as the video ended.
Will this be Buccaneers shot-caller Tom Brady's last year?
Tom Brady shocked the world when he called it quits on a 22-year Hall of Fame career this offseason. However, he shocked the world again when he decided to return to the NFL after little more than a month.
There's always been speculation about which year might be his last, especially after he turned 40, though that was five years ago. Now that he did officially retire, the questions are more persistent. Is this going to be his final run?
No one really knows. NFL analyst Rich Eisen seems to believe it will be. Only Brady truly knows. One thing that might determine if this is the Buccaneers' last shot with Brady is how well they do.
They won the Super Bowl in his first year with the team and were bounced from the NFC Divisional Round last season. That premature exit might have driven him to come out of retirement for another run.
If they win another Super Bowl, Brady will likely be motivated to continue playing. The split decision comes when they fail to reach that goal again. Nonetheless, losing has never discouraged the veteran quarterback.
He might not be willing to push for a 24th NFL season, but his desire to win could very well do just that. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-watch-female-buccaneers-fans-getting-squabble-results-one-getting-put-terrifying-headlock | 2022-08-21T22:55:03Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-watch-female-buccaneers-fans-getting-squabble-results-one-getting-put-terrifying-headlock | false |
WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
641 PM EDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 645 PM EDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However gusty
winds are still possible with this thunderstorm.
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MOSCOW — The daughter of an influential Russian political theorist often referred to as “Putin’s brain” was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow, authorities said Sunday.
The Moscow branch of the Russian Investigative Committee said preliminary information indicated 29-year-old TV commentator Daria Dugina was killed by an explosive planted in the SUV she was driving Saturday night.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the bloodshed gave rise to suspicions that the intended target was her father, Alexander Dugin, a nationalist philosopher and writer.
Dugin is a prominent proponent of the “Russian world” concept, a spiritual and political ideology that emphasizes traditional values, the restoration of Russia’s power and the unity of all ethnic Russians throughout the world. He is also a vehement supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move sending troops into Ukraine.
The explosion took place as his daughter was returning from a cultural festival she had attended with him. Russian media reports cited witnesses as saying the SUV belonged to Dugin and that he had decided at the last minute to travel in another vehicle.
The car bombing, unusual for Moscow, is likely to aggravate tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Denis Pushilin, president of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, the pro-Moscow region that is a focus of Russia’s fighting in Ukraine, blamed the blast on “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to kill Alexander Dugin.”
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied Ukrainian involvement, saying, “We are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and definitely not a terrorist state.”
Political analyst Abbas Gallyamov, a former speechwriter for Putin, called the attack “an act of intimidation” aimed at Kremlin loyalists.
To them, he said, “this is a symbolic act, demonstrating that hostilities have been confidently transferred to the territory of Russia, which means that this is no longer an abstract war that you watch on TV,” he said. “This is already happening in Russia. Not only Crimea is being bombed, but terrorist attacks are already being carried out in the Moscow region.”
While Dugin’s exact ties to Putin are unclear, the Kremlin frequently echoes rhetoric from his writings and appearances on Russian state TV. He helped popularize the “Novorossiya,” or “New Russia” concept that Russia used to justify the 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and its support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
He promotes Russia as a country of piety, traditional values and authoritarian leadership, and disdains Western liberal values.
His daughter expressed similar views and had appeared as a commentator on the nationalist TV channel Tsargrad, where Dugin had served as chief editor.
Dugina herself was sanctioned by the United States in March for her work as chief editor of United World International, a website that the U.S. described as a disinformation source. The sanctions announcement cited a United World article this year that contended Ukraine would “perish” if it were admitted to NATO.
In an appearance on Russian television just Thursday, Dugina said, “People in the West are living in a dream, in a dream given to them by global hegemony.” She called America “a zombie society” in which people opposed Russia but could not find it on a map.
Dugina, “like her father, has always been at the forefront of confrontation with the West,” Tsargrad said Sunday.
An unknown Russian group, the National Republican Army, claimed responsibility Sunday for the bombing, according to a former Russian lawmaker, Ilya Ponomarev. The AP could not verify the existence of the group. Ponomarev, who left Russia after voting against its annexation of Crimea in 2014, made the statement to Ukrainian TV. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2526220/car-blast-kills-daughter-of-russian-known-as-putins-brain.html | 2022-08-21T22:59:05Z | https://www.abqjournal.com/2526220/car-blast-kills-daughter-of-russian-known-as-putins-brain.html | false |
LILLE, France (AP) — Kylian Mbappe scored after just eight seconds of play to claim the joint-fastest goal in the history of the French league on Sunday.
Mbappe found the net at the start of a 7-1 win for defending champion Paris Saint-Germain over Lille on Sunday.
The visitors needed just four passes from kickoff to score as Lionel Messi hit a superb ball over the top for Mbappe, who cleverly lobbed Lille goalkeeper Leo Jardim.
PSG coach Christophe Galtier gave credit to his technical staff and to the club's Under-19 team.
From kickoff, Neymar played the ball back before receiving it again and passing to Messi, who spotted Mbappe’s run and had the technical brilliance to exploit it.
“Our Under-19 team did it in the youth league against Salzburg,” Galtier told a news conference. “We showed it to the players. They were OK to try it. So, we worked on it in training and it was very well executed tonight.”
The French league tweeted that Mbappe’s goal ties midfielder Michel Rio who also needed just eight seconds to score for Caen against Cannes in 1992.
French sports paper L’Equipe was more cautious, calling it the fastest goal since Rio’s with Mbappe’s goal closer to nine seconds, it said. The French league started in 1932.
Galtier was referrring to Edouard Michut’s goal in a 3-1 loss to Salzburg in the youth league in March. Michut needed 11 seconds to score according to PSG’s official website.
The French coach also said that his staff studied similar kickoff routines in the German, English and Spanish leagues, mentioning Bournemouth and Rayo Vallecano as teams that scored such goals.
Mbappe had a hat trick while Neymar scored two goals and provided three assists against Lille as PSG extended its perfect start to the season with three wins from three games.
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(The Hill) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday cleared Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in adolescents, paving the way to expand eligibility for the fourth shot available in the United States.
The two-dose regimen utilizes protein-based technology previously leveraged in vaccines to combat other viruses, offering an alternative for Americans skeptical of Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA technology.
Providers can begin administering the vaccine to people aged 12 through 17 after a sign off from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has already authorized the vaccine’s use for adults. The two doses are given three weeks apart.
“Having more vaccine options for use in both adults and adolescents, like the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted will hopefully help increase vaccination rates, particularly as we prepare for ongoing surges of COVID-19 with the start of fall and the back-to-school season,” Novavax President Stanley Erck said in a statement.
“We hope that our vaccine, developed using an innovative approach to recombinant protein vaccine technology, may have a special role in adolescent vaccination based on parents’ and caregivers’ familiarity with protein-based vaccines used in other disease areas,” he added.
The FDA granted emergency use for adolescents after the company said its trial of 2,247 adolescents showed a primary efficacy of 78 percent.
But Novavax conducted the trial last year, when the Delta variant was predominantly circulating in the United States. The White House has continued urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted amid the spread of the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of omicron, but questions remain as to how the mutations could impact the vaccine’s efficacy.
The FDA authorized Novavax’s vaccine for adults last month, which was followed by the CDC’s blessing nearly a week later.
White House coronavirus response coordinator Ashish Jha said on Wednesday that regulators are expected to approve updated COVID-19 vaccine doses in “a few short weeks” for everyone over the age of 12. The shots are designed to target the two omicron subvariants currently circulating.
Novavax’s COVID-19 shot helps prevent severe illness by injecting the human body with doses that contain the coronavirus spike protein.
The company inputs genetic code that creates the spike protein into an insect virus, which replicates after infecting moth cells. The manufacturer then purifies and extracts the replicated spike proteins and injects them into humans.
The process only requires regular refrigeration, compared to Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines which require storage in colder temperatures. Those vaccines contain genetic instructions for human cells to create the spike protein and defend against future infections. | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/fda-authorizes-novavax-covid-vaccine-for-adolescents/ | 2022-08-21T23:03:41Z | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/fda-authorizes-novavax-covid-vaccine-for-adolescents/ | true |
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jake Fraley had three RBIs and scored four times to power the Cincinnati Reds to a 9-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Fraley led off Sunday by grooving an 0-2 curveball from Zach Thompson 341 feet to right for his seventh homer and fourth in six games.
He walked in three of his next four at bats, and also drove in two runs with a single off the right-field wall in the sixth.
Cincinnati took two of three from Pittsburgh, which has dropped eight of 10.
Reds left-hander Mike Minor won for the first time since June 13, despite surrendering five runs on nine hits. | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/ap-sports/fraley-tallies-3-rbis-scores-4-times-reds-top-pirates-9-5/ | 2022-08-21T23:03:53Z | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/ap-sports/fraley-tallies-3-rbis-scores-4-times-reds-top-pirates-9-5/ | false |
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis voiced worry Sunday about the situation in Nicaragua, where police detained several Roman Catholic clergy, including a bishop, critical of President Daniel Ortega’s administration.
Calling for “open and sincere dialogue,” the pontiff made his first public comment on the Friday raid of Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Alvarez’s residence. The detention of him and an unknown number of priests came amid worsening tensions between the church and a government increasingly intolerant of dissent.
Francis told thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his customary Sunday noon remarks that he was closely following with “worry and sorrow” events in Nicaragua that involve “persons and institutions.” He didn’t mention the detentions.
“I would like to express my conviction and my hope that through means of open and sincere dialogue, one can still find the bases for respectful and peaceful co-existence,” the pope said.
Before Friday’s pre-dawn raid, Nicaraguan authorities had accused the bishop of “organizing violent groups” and inciting them “to carry out acts of hate against the population.”
The National Police confirmed the detentions, saying the operation was carried out to allow “the citizenry and families of Matagalpa to recover normalcy.” It didn’t cite specific charges.
“For several days, a positive communication from the Matagalpa diocese was awaited with a lot of patience, prudence and sense of responsibility, that never materialized,” the statement said. “With the continuation of the destabilizing and provocative activities, the aforementioned public order operation became necessary.”
Álvarez was held under guard at a house in Managua and allowed to meet with relatives and Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the police statement said. The police didn’t name the priests who were taken into custody.
Álvarez has been a key religious voice in discussions of Nicaragua’s future since 2018, when a wave of protests against Ortega’s government led to a sweeping crackdown on opponents.
Ortega’s government arrested dozens of opposition leaders last year, including seven potential presidential candidates. They were sentenced to prison this year in quick trials closed to the public.
Ortega has contended the pro-democracy protests were carried out with foreign backing and with the support of the Catholic church.
The former Marxist guerrilla infuriated the Vatican in the 1980s, but gradually forged an alliance with the church as he moved to regain the presidency in 2007 after a long period out of power.
But days before last year’s presidential election that resulted in Ortega winning a fourth consecutive term, he accused the Central American nation’s Catholic bishops of having drafted a political proposal in 2018 on behalf “of the terrorists, at the service of the Yankees.” He also contended the bishops weree “also terrorists.”
In March, Nicaragua expelled the papal nuncio, the Vatican’s top diplomat in Nicaragua.
The government has shut eight Matagalpa province radio stations, seven of them run by the Catholic church. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/pope-voices-worry-over-bishops-detention-in-nicaragua/ | 2022-08-21T23:04:28Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/pope-voices-worry-over-bishops-detention-in-nicaragua/ | false |
(The Hill) – Former NBA star Dennis Rodman reportedly said he is traveling to Russia to help secure the release of WNBA player Brittney Griner, who was recently sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison for possessing cannabis oil cartridges.
Rodman, who previously inserted himself into US-North Korea diplomacy, told NBC News on Saturday he secured permission to travel to Russia and is “trying to go this week.”
The U.S. State Department has a do not travel advisory in effect for Russia, which also warns Americans in the country to leave immediately.
The Hill has reached out to the State Department for comment on Rodman’s plans.
The Biden administration is currently negotiating the release of Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, having reportedly proposed an exchange involving Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Rodman, a hall-of-famer who played for several NBA teams, including time with the Chicago Bulls alongside Michael Jordan, has visited Russia before and once called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “cool guy.”
In 2014, Rodman took credit for the release of Kenneth Bae from North Korea, a nation he visited multiple times despite high tensions with the U.S. Rodman once called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a “friend.”
The former NBA player told NBC News on Saturday that he “knows Putin well” and was confident he could negotiate with the Russian leader.
Griner was arrested by Russia in February as tensions between the Russian government and the U.S. spiked over the pending invasion of Ukraine. The US has officially declared Griner as being wrongfully detained.
The WNBA star pled guilty to carrying the cannabis oil cartridges, but argued she packed them into her suitcase by mistake and had no criminal intent.
Griner has appealed the nine-year sentence a judge handed down this month. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/dennis-rodman-says-he-is-heading-to-russia-in-push-to-release-brittney-griner/ | 2022-08-21T23:08:50Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/dennis-rodman-says-he-is-heading-to-russia-in-push-to-release-brittney-griner/ | true |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
538 PM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Caddo
Parish, southeastern Harrison and northeastern Panola Counties
through 630 PM CDT...
At 537 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Elysian Fields, or 13 miles southeast of Marshall, moving northeast
at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Shreveport, Greenwood, Blanchard, Waskom, Mooringsport, Deberry,
Elysian Fields, Front, Spring Ridge, Cross Lake, Jonesville, Midyett,
Deadwood, Bethany and Caddo Lake.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3213 9413 3235 9437 3278 9389 3244 9372
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 235DEG 23KT 3243 9416
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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31-year-old man shot in north Lincoln parking lot
August 21, 2022 2:07PM CDT
LINCOLN, Neb. (Aug. 21, 2022 – KOLN) -Lincoln Police were called to a parking lot near the 4400 block of N. 27th Street after a shooting on Saturday.
According to LPD, officers were called to the area around 11:00 p.m. A 31-year-old man was shot at several times by an individual who was known by the victim. One of the shots hit the victim in the leg.
The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
No arrests have been made. LPD is investigating this incident. | https://www.kfornow.com/31-year-old-man-shot-in-north-lincoln-parking-lot/ | 2022-08-21T23:11:20Z | https://www.kfornow.com/31-year-old-man-shot-in-north-lincoln-parking-lot/ | false |
First lady Jill Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 and will leave South Carolina, where she had isolated since vacationing with President Joe Biden, and rejoin him at their Delaware beach home, her office said Sunday.
The White House announced on Tuesday that the 71-year-old first lady, who like her husband has been twice-vaccinated and twice-boosted with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, had tested positive for the coronavirus. She first had symptoms on Monday.
The 79-year-old president recovered from a rebound case of the virus on Aug. 7.
Jill Biden was prescribed the antiviral drug Paxlovid and isolated at the Kiawah Island vacation home for five days before receiving negative results from two consecutive COVID-19 tests, spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said. Jill Biden planned to travel to Delaware later Sunday. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/coronavirus/jill-biden-tests-negative-for-covid-19-will-go-to-delaware | 2022-08-21T23:11:45Z | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/coronavirus/jill-biden-tests-negative-for-covid-19-will-go-to-delaware | false |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
458 PM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Marion,
Harrison, northwestern Panola, northeastern Rusk and southeastern
Gregg Counties through 600 PM CDT...
At 457 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles southwest of Tatum, or 12 miles northeast of Henderson, moving
northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Longview, Marshall, Kilgore, Hallsville, Tatum, Harleton, Lakeport,
Easton, Scottsville, Nesbitt, Rolling Meadows, Monroe, Darco,
Stewart, Chalk Hill and Oak Hill.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3216 9458 3241 9487 3279 9451 3253 9417
TIME...MOT...LOC 2157Z 228DEG 24KT 3227 9463
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Shipley firm receives £200k funding boost for space technology development
Shipley based electronics business Slipstream Engineering Design has been given £200K funding to develop technology for use in space.
Shipley based electronics business Slipstream Engineering Design has been given £200K funding to develop adaptable radio technology for use in space.
The business has become one of just five organisations in the UK, and the only one in Yorkshire, to receive a share of £1million from the Space to Innovate Campaign’s Bravo Drop funding.
Dr. Mike Roberts, Slipstream Engineering Design technical director and co-founder, said: “The Space to Innovate Campaign aims to find and fund solutions to major space hurdles to promote space resilience and operational effectiveness. Bravo Drop is the second ‘challenge drop’, which invited innovators to submit technologies and solutions to help overcome specified challenges.
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The U.S. is facing a shortage of 300,000 teachers, according to the The National Education Association. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with three former teachers to get insight into the teacher shortage.
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The U.S. is facing a shortage of 300,000 teachers, according to the The National Education Association. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with three former teachers to get insight into the teacher shortage.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — San Angelo Police Department has sent an alert out, asking everyone to avoid Martin Luther King Drive and 24th/25th Street near Stardust Mobile Home due to a structure fire.
The cause of the fire as well as when the fire will clear is currently unknown. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/local-news/sapd-warns-of-area-avoidance-due-to-structure-fire/ | 2022-08-21T23:27:59Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/local-news/sapd-warns-of-area-avoidance-due-to-structure-fire/ | true |
9 people arrested after disturbance at Kentucky State Fair, authorities say
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) - Nine people have been arrested following an incident that occurred at the Kentucky State Fair Saturday night, authorities said.
Kentucky State Police (KSP) officers made eight arrests and the Kentucky Fair Board police made one.
Three arrests were adults and six were minors, according to a news release sent by KSP.
All the people arrested are from the Jefferson County area. Charges include disorderly conduct, menacing, possession of stolen property and possession of a handgun.
Around 9:20 p.m., KSP received a report of a disturbance in front of the Midway Area on the fairgrounds. As a safety precaution, the fair made the decision to close early.
Several guests that attended the fair Saturday night believe they heard gunshots.
The early stages of the investigation revealed a group of people “caused panic with noise-making devices,” the release said.
Those “devices” are what let fair-goers believe shots were fired, KSP said.
At this time, KSP said they have not found evidence that a weapon was fired during the incident.
The investigation of the incident is ongoing.
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Leon Vitali, the Barry Lyndon actor who became one of Stanley Kubrick’s closest associates, has died at the age of 74.
Vitali died on Friday in Los Angeles, his family told The Associated Press.
Though Vitali was often described as Kubrick’s assistant, Tony Zierra’s 2017 documentary Filmworker shed light on Vitali’s enormous and largely unsung contributions to the work of one of cinema’s greatest figures from The Shining through Eyes Wide Shut.
He did everything from casting and coaching actors to overseeing restorations. Vitali even once set up a video monitor so that Kubrick could keep an eye on his dying cat.
Film-maker Lee Unkrich tweeted: “Completely heartbroken to hear about the passing of Leon Vitali.
“He helped me enormously with my Shining book and I’m gutted that he won’t see it. He was a sweet, kind, humble, generous man and a vital part of Stanley Kubrick’s team.”
Before meeting Kubrick, Vitali was a rising actor in England, appearing in several British television shows including Softly, Softly, Follyfoot, Z Cars and Notorious Woman.
In 1974, he got his biggest break yet when he was cast in Barry Lyndon as Lord Bullingdon, the son-in-law of Ryan O’Neal’s title character.
Vitali was so fascinated by Kubrick and his processes that he made an unusual decision: He gave up on acting and devoted himself entirely to the famously demanding director for over two decades.
His next Kubrick credit was as “personal assistant to the director” on The Shining, though that is only part of the story — Vitali famously helped cast four-year-old Danny Lloyd to play Danny Torrance and Louise and Lisa Burns as the creepy Grady twins (citing Diane Arbus as inspiration).
“I made one truly, truly radical change in my life and that was when I said, ‘I’m more interested in that’ than I was in the acting,” Vitali told the Associated Press in 2017.
“That’s the biggest conscious decision I’ve ever made. There were some sacrifices, but there were gains too.”
After Kubrick’s death in 1999, Vitali oversaw restorations for many of Kubrick’s films. He received a Cinema Audio Society award for his work.
Vitali later worked with director Todd Field on his films Little Children and In the Bedroom.
Before making the documentary, Zierra said that he and many Kubrick-obsessed fans knew Vitali for his performances in Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut, in which he played Red Cloak, and as a key member of Kubrick’s inner circle.
When they finally met Vitali to make the film, they were struck by “his kindness, humility and the fascinating scope of his story”.
Zierra is working on a director’s cut of Filmworker that will include new footage that he and Vitali wanted in the film, but could not get done in time for its Cannes debut in 2017. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3615580/barry-lyndon-actor-and-kubrick-associate-leon-vitali-dies-aged-74/ | 2022-08-21T23:33:15Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3615580/barry-lyndon-actor-and-kubrick-associate-leon-vitali-dies-aged-74/ | false |
Texas man accused of threatening conservative convention
Posted/updated on: August 21, 2022 at 5:35 pmSAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas man remains jailed after being accused by authorities of making threats against a convention of young conservative activists held last month in Florida. Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, from San Antonio, was arrested earlier this month after FBI agents alleged he posted threats on social media to carry out a mass attack on the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit convention. The event was held from July 22 through July 24 in Tampa. Turning Point is a Donald Trump-aligned group that organizes young people on college campuses into conservative activism. The 19-year-old was arrested by authorities in San Antonio and charged with making threatening interstate communications. An attorney for Velasquez didn’t immediately reply to an email seeking comment. | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1155518 | 2022-08-21T23:37:52Z | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1155518 | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Benintendi hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the seventh inning and the New York Yankees got a win they desperately needed, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 Sunday to avoid a four-game sweep.
On the day Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was booed while the team retired the No. 21 of former star Paul O’Neill, the AL East leaders won for just the 10th time in 30 games since the All-Star break. They top the division by eight games over Toronto.
“No secret what we’re going through,” manager Aaron Boone said. “That was a big blow in an important game.”
After New York’s frustrations reached the point of ace Gerrit Cole punching the dugout roof twice and Boone pounding his hand on the podium during a postgame news conference Saturday, the Yankees’ only qualms were with Toronto starter Alek Manoah.
In the fifth, Manoah plunked major league home run leader Aaron Judge in the left elbow with a sinker. Judge glanced at Manoah as Cole started yelling and a few other Yankees came over the dugout railing.
“When your dude gets hit, usually it gets your attention,” said a much calmer Boone. “So I don’t think it was intentional but it kept everyone’s focus and we moved on from it.”
Judge, who is 1 for 16 with six strikeouts against Manoah, also did not believe it was intentional.
“It was the heat of the moment,” Judge said. “Nobody likes to get hit.”
Cole was intercepted by bench coach Carlos Mendoza before reaching the umpires. During the commotion, Judge and Manoah, who were teammates in the All-Star Game last month, appeared to diplomatically discuss the pitch.
“It was just one too many (dustings) for my taste,” Cole said.
Manoah said the plunking was unintentional and more a result of his struggles to command his sinker in recent starts.
“I made a pitch, obviously it hit Judge,” Manoah said. “Obviously I looked at him and I said, ‘man I’m not trying to do that.’ I think he understood that. I think if Gerrit wants to do something, he can walk past the Audi sign (in front of the Yankees dugout) next time.”
The Yankees came back quickly after Wandy Peralta walked ninth-place hitter Jackie Bradley Jr. to force in the tying run in the top of the seventh.
Jose Trevino beat third baseman Matt Chapman’s off-balance throw for an infield hit and was sacrificed to second. Benintendi hit a long foul ball, then sent a slider from Adam Cimber (9-5) into the second deck in right field.
Benintendi, who also doubled, hit his fourth homer of the season. It was his first home run since June 20, more than a month before Kansas City traded him to New York.
“That was big time,” Judge said.
Benintendi’s drive also occurred a day he struggled to field Alejandro Kirk’s two-run double to left field in Toronto’s four-run fifth on Saturday.
“The start he hasn’t been great personally a lot worse than obviously I wanted to be,” said Benintendi, who is batting .211 with New York after hitting .320 with Kansas City.
Anthony Rizzo scored on a throwing error by Toronto left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr in the first. and DJ LeMahieu hit a go-ahead RBI single in the fourth.
Whit Merrifield hit a bizarre home run in the Toronto fourth on a ball that twice bounced on the fence before going over. The Blue Jays had won four in a row.
Lou Trivino (2-7) got the final seven outs.
New York starter Nestor Cortes allowed one run and three hits in six innings. He struck out five.
Manoah allowed two runs, one of them earned, and four hits in six innings.
GOOD DEED REWARDED
Mike Lanzillotta, the Blue Jays fan who caught Judge’s homer on May 3 in Toronto and gave it to 9-year-old Derek Rodriguez, watched the game from the Judge’s Chambers in right field.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: OF/DH George Springer didn’t start for the third straight game after fouling a ball off his knee while going 5 for 5 in Thursday. He singled as a pinch-hitter in the seventh… LHP Tim Mayza (dislocated right shoulder) threw 10 pitches in his first rehab appearance for Triple-A Buffalo Friday.
Yankees: OF/DH Giancarlo Stanton (left Achilles tendinitis) went 0 for 3 as the DH in his first rehab game for Double-A Somerset on Saturday night and was expected to get three to five at-bats Sunday. Stanton will work out Monday afternoon in New York and face RHP Luis Severino (right lat strain) in live batting practice Tuesday but is unlikely to play in the Subway Series. … RHP Clay Holmes (back) threw 10 pitches in a bullpen session, a day after playing catch for the first time since going on the IL Wednesday. … LHP Zack Britton (left elbow) threw 18 pitches in a bullpen session Saturday at the team’s spring training complex in Florida. … RHP Albert Abreu (right elbow inflammation) was placed on the IL and RHP Luke Bard had his contract purchased from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. … LHP Scott Effross (shoulder stiffness) was unavailable.
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Blue Jays: open a three-game series in Boston Tuesday.
Yankees: RHP Domingo Germán (1-2, 4.45) opens the Subway Series at home on Monday night against Mets RHP Max Scherzer (9-2, 2.15), who is going for his 200th career win.
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PARAMUS, N.J. — Texas A&M senior Sam Bennett won the men’s US Amateur on Sunday, building a 5-up lead over Ben Carr and holding on for a 1-up victory at Ridgewood Country Club.
Bennett is No. 3 in the world amateur ranking and had to get past three straight players ranked in the top 10 to reach the championship match.
It was tighter than he would have wanted.
Bennett was 3 up after the first 18 holes and won two more holes early in the afternoon to seize control. Carr kept chipping away and pulled within one hole with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 17th.
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“I got off to a hot start, then after lunch, he started dropping in putts and chips from everywhere,” Bennett said. “It made me nervous. I got pretty tight.”
Needing to win the 18th to extend the match, Carr missed the fairway to the right and came up short. He chipped to 8 feet. Bennett was on the green and had two putts from 12 feet to win. He lagged it within inches for the win.
“Luckily, I was able to finish it off with a good iron shot,” Bennett said.
Bennett is exempt into the Masters, US Open and British Open next year.
“It means everything,” Bennett said about the victory. “It’s a dream cone true. It means a lot to hold that trophy.”
Carr is a fifth-year senior at Georgia Southern.
“I’m OK,” Carr said. “Congrats to Sam. He’s an awesome player. We had a great battle out there.” | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/21/sports/texas-ams-sam-bennett-holds-beats-georgia-southerns-ben-carr-capture-mens-us-amateur-title/ | 2022-08-21T23:39:25Z | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/21/sports/texas-ams-sam-bennett-holds-beats-georgia-southerns-ben-carr-capture-mens-us-amateur-title/ | false |
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3 dead, 2 seriously injured in vehicle crash involving Indiana State University football players
Three Indiana State University students died and two were seriously injured after their vehicle ran into a tree in western Indiana early Sunday morning, according to the school and local law enforcement.
The five passengers included several football players, the school announced Sunday.
"As we are waiting on additional details from authorities investigating this accident, our hearts go out to the families and friends of the students involved," Deborah Curtis, the university's president, said in a written statement.
The accident happened before 2 a.m. in the small town of Riley, about 10 miles from the university's campus in Terre Haute.
The Vigo County Sheriff's Office said the vehicle was on fire by the time deputies arrived.
"Two of the occupants were able to be freed from the vehicle and were transported for medical treatment with serious injuries," the sheriff's office said. "Unfortunately, the driver and two other occupants were pronounced deceased on the scene."
The school has offered counseling services for students, faculty, and staff in the wake of the tragedy. It has also postponed a women's soccer match that was scheduled for Sunday afternoon. | https://www.wisn.com/article/indiana-state-university-football-players-deadly-crash/40950650 | 2022-08-21T23:40:38Z | https://www.wisn.com/article/indiana-state-university-football-players-deadly-crash/40950650 | false |
>> FIVE ON YOUR MONEY. THIS MORNING, PAYING FOR THAT COLLEGE DEGR.EE >> COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ARE BOOSTING TUITION, MAKING THAT DREAM A LITTLE DAUNTING. HERE’S WHAT WERE TALKING ABOUT. BOSTON UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCED ITS LARGEST TUITION HIKE IN 14 YEARS. BOSTON COLLEGE IS RAISING THE TOTAL COST BY MORE THAN 3.5%. FINANCIAL ADVISOR PAUL LANE FROM ARMSTRONG ADVISORY GROUP JOINS US NOW. PAUL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. WHAT DO YOU TELL PARENTS ABOUT SAVING FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILENDR? >> REALLY, WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS SAVE EARLY AND OFTEN. 529’S ARE A GOOD WAY TO SAVE FOR YOUR CHILD’S COLLEGE. STARTING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IS THE BEST WAY TO GO. I WOULD EMPHASIZE THAT THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE WORLD IS -- EINEISTN SAID THAT THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE WORLD IS COMPOUND INTEREST. >> FOR IF YOUR CLDHI IS JUST A FEW YEARS AWAY FROM COLLEGE, WHAT CAN YOU DO? >> THE LESS TIME THERE IS, THE MORE CONSERVATIVE YOU WANT TO BE WITH YOUR MONEY. I WOULD HATE TO TELL SOMEONE TO PUT $10,000 INHE T MARKET AND THEN IT DROPS 10% A THENDY HAVE $8,500 ALL OF A SUDDEN. THE CLOSER YOUR CHILD IS TO COLLEGE, THE MORE CONSERVATIVE YOU WANT TO BE WITH THE MONEY, AND THE FARTHER AWAY, THE MORE AGGRESSIVE YOU CAN BE. >> IT IS A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW THAT A COLLEGE DEGERE SEVERAL YEARS FROM NOW COULD BE NEARING $500,000. ARE THERE ANY TIPS FOR AVOIDING PAYING THE FULL COST OR ARE YOU ON THE HOOK? >> A LOT OF THE TIMES, YOU WILL BE ON ETH HOOK, BUT MAKE SURE YOU EXPLEOR SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES THE COMMUNITY MAY HAVE OR JUST IN THE GREATER WORLD. THERE’S A LOT OF SCHOLARSHIPS. FOR THE MOST PART, WHIT COLLEGES LIKE BOSTON COLLEGE CHARGING $80,000, IT IS QUITE CONCERNING. SO THE SOONER YOU CAN SAVE THE BETTER, BUT ALSO LOOKING AT LENDINGPT OIONS AND SCHAROLSHIPS IS A GOOD WAY TO GO. >> THAT’S A FLUL TIME JOB TOO, FILLING OUT THAT FORM. OUTSTANDING FEDERAL STUDENT LOAN DEBT IN THIS COUNTRY IS AROUND $1.6 TRILLION. HOW DO YOU HELP PEOPLE MANAGE THE COST OF COLLEGE AFTER THEY’VE TAKEN ON THOSE LOANS? >> YOU WANT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT TIMES OF LOANS YOU ARE TAKING OUT. UNDERSTA TNDHE INTEREST RATES YOU ARE BEING CHARGED. WE UNDERSTAND INTEREST RATES HAVE RISEN RECENTLY. WE ARE IN AN FLINATIORYNA PERIOD, SO WE WANT TO LOOK AT REFINANCING THOSE TO LOWER INTEREST RATES, AND UNDERSTAND WHAT PAYMENTS YOU CAN STAND TO HOLD ON A MONTHLY BASIS. UNDERSTAND YOUR DEBT EXPOSURE. THE AVERAGE STUDENT LOAN BALANCES ARE INCREDIBLY CONCERNING. >> PAUL LANE OF
Student loan announcement to come in 'next week or so,' Education secretary says ahead of deadline
Updated: 4:30 PM CDT Aug 21, 2022
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday that Americans can expect a decision from the Biden administration on student loans in the "next week or so" as a pause on federal student loan payments is set to expire on Aug. 31.With some 10 days to go, Americans have been left guessing whether President Joe Biden will extend the current moratorium or, perhaps, forgive some of their debt."We've been talking daily about this, and I can tell you the American people will hear within the next week or so from the President and the Department of Education on what we're going to be doing around that," Cardona told NBC's Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press."He did not elaborate on the details, saying he would not get ahead of the announcement."I don't have any news to announce today," he said.The White House has previously said that Biden will have something to announce ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline.Payments have not been required on most federal student loans since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., greatly affecting the economy.Biden has extended the pause four times, most recently in April, arguing that it was necessary to allow federal student loan borrowers to get back on their feet.Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers and advocates have been urging Biden to broadly cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt per borrower, but the president has consistently pushed back on canceling that much.Along with potentially extending the pause, the White House has suggested Biden is considering canceling $10,000 per borrower, excluding those who earn more than $125,000 a year — something he had campaigned on in 2020.Biden has canceled more student loan debt than any other president, with his administration authorizing the cancellation of nearly $32 billion in loans largely for borrowers who were defrauded by their for-profit colleges and for permanently disabled borrowers.
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday that Americans can expect a decision from the Biden administration on student loans in the "next week or so" as a pause on federal student loan payments is set to expire on Aug. 31.
With some 10 days to go, Americans have been left guessing whether President Joe Biden will extend the current moratorium or, perhaps, forgive some of their debt.
"We've been talking daily about this, and I can tell you the American people will hear within the next week or so from the President and the Department of Education on what we're going to be doing around that," Cardona told NBC's Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press."
He did not elaborate on the details, saying he would not get ahead of the announcement.
"I don't have any news to announce today," he said.
The White House has previously said that Biden will have something to announce ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline.
Payments have not been required on most federal student loans since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., greatly affecting the economy.
Biden has extended the pause four times, most recently in April, arguing that it was necessary to allow federal student loan borrowers to get back on their feet.
Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers and advocates have been urging Biden to broadly cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt per borrower, but the president has consistently pushed back on canceling that much.
Along with potentially extending the pause, the White House has suggested Biden is considering canceling $10,000 per borrower, excluding those who earn more than $125,000 a year — something he had campaigned on in 2020.
Biden has canceled more student loan debt than any other president, with his administration authorizing the cancellation of nearly $32 billion in loans largely for borrowers who were defrauded by their for-profit colleges and for permanently disabled borrowers. | https://www.wisn.com/article/student-loan-announcement-to-come-august-2022/40950575 | 2022-08-21T23:41:19Z | https://www.wisn.com/article/student-loan-announcement-to-come-august-2022/40950575 | true |
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed she has not heard from suspended Labour MP Dr Gaurav Sharma in almost a week and acknowledged that he is not her priority right now.
Speaking to TVNZ's Breakfast show this morning, Ardern said this was a sad set of circumstances for her and the Labour Party caucus.
"This is a member of our team. We also put forward mediation to try and resolve the issues - but you can see from the actions, there has been an unwillingness to engage.
"I still, for instance, haven't had any response to my phone calls or messages after the caucus decision was made."
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Advertise with NZME.Sharma was suspended last Tuesday after serious bullying allegations he made against fellow MPs. It was a unanimous vote.
Ardern was speaking from flood-stricken Nelson early this morning, where she will survey the damage caused by heavy rain last week and the impact it has had on local residents.
Decked in a rain jacket, she acknowledged that there were other priorities to deal with at the moment - and Sharma was not one.
"I shouldn't be here talking about the actions of an individual MP right now," she said.
"There are people who have lost their homes. This is not the most important thing for them (Caucus) and I can tell you, it is not the singular focus for me."
Asked whether she had faith in Sharma at this point, Ardern smiled slightly, before saying: "Well...I think you would've seen from our actions that at every stage, we've tried to leave the door open."
She was also asked about Sharma's future in the party and whether or not he would be expelled.
Ardern said that decision - including her own take on the issue - would be one for caucus to discuss and decide accordingly.
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Advertise with NZME."They're feeling really disappointed," she said.
Tuesday's suspension came after the Hamilton West MP took his concerns and claims about bullying within the Labour Party to the media, which included a column he wrote for the Herald.
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A woman died on a hike at Oregon’s popular Multnomah Falls after falling 100 feet, officials said.
First responders were sent to the Multnomah Falls-Larch Mountain Trail at 1:15 p.m. Friday to attend to a woman suffering from life-threatening injuries. After hiking over a mile, Corbett Fire District firefighters found the woman near Wiesendanger Falls; good Samaritans were administering CPR, but the woman was declared dead at the scene.
According to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, the woman had been hiking with friends when she slipped and fell about 100 feet. She suffered a fatal head injury.
Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge is the “most visited natural recreation site in the Pacific Northwest,” per the U.S. Forest Service, with over 2 million visitors each year. Due to its popularity, timed permits are required from May 24 to September 5 to access the site.
The woman’s identity is being withheld until next-of-kin notifications are made. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Woman-dies-on-hike-at-Multnomah-Falls-17388068.php | 2022-08-21T23:52:15Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Woman-dies-on-hike-at-Multnomah-Falls-17388068.php | false |
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...
Northeastern Borden County in western Texas...
Northwestern Scurry County in western Texas...
* Until 745 PM CDT.
* At 609 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...
Fluvanna.
This includes the following streams and drainages...
Gavett Creek, Bull Creek, Deep Creek, Fivemile Creek, Crooked
Creek, Gopher Creek, Little Bull Creek, Mesquite Creek and Mooar
Creek.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The father of the Little League World Series player who seriously injured his head when he fell out of his top bunk in the dorms said there is a chance his son can make a full recovery when he returns home to Utah.
“I’m just grateful that he’s still alive because I was pretty much told he had a zero percent chance to live,” Oliverson said. “We feel very fortunate.”
Easton Oliverson, a pitcher and outfielder for the Snow Canyon team out of Santa Clara, Utah, suffered the injury Monday.
“There is a chance of a full recovery,” Oliverson said. “It’s just a matter of how long and the therapy that he’s going to receive. We’re just asking for prayers. Continuous prayers.”
The Snow Canyon team, the first ever from Utah to make the Little League World Series, was eliminated from the tournament on Sunday with a 10-2 loss to the team from Iowa.
Oliverson said the traumatic week “most definitely played a part” in the two losses.
“I feel bad that this incident with East had to happen and it kind of put a damper on their week,” Oliverson said. “It was the first time Utah’s ever been here, done that. It’s a big deal, especially in Utah.”
The Oliverson family has kept Easton’s condition continuously updated on social media with photos of the boy — in a wheelchair and wearing baseball T-shirts — posing for pictures with his family and friends. He watched the team’s first Little League World Series game from his hospital bed dressed in his team gear. Easton can communicate with his parents and a video attached to a recent post also showed him drinking and feeding himself.
“We want to show that modern-day miracles can still happen,” Jace Oliverson told the AP. “Our message the whole time is to remind people that we have a loving, Heavenly Father and a savior who wants us to be happy. If we just go to them in prayer, anything is possible, and we’re seeing that with Easton.”
The family has set up a Venmo account for the kid nicknamed “Tank” to help with bills and expenses.
Mark Ence, the manager for Snow Canyon, representing the Mountain Region, FaceTimed with Easton on Friday.
“I’m not familiar with the recovery process of that sort of injury,” Ence said. “But he definitely is improving and the family wanted to let everyone know that they are grateful for the thoughts and prayers and they feel like the prayers are working.”
Oliverson wore team identification badges for himself and Easton as Snow Canyon walked into Historic Bowman Field for the MLB Little League Classic between the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles.
Oliverson held hands with his 10-year-old-son Brogan, who took big brother’s roster spot in the Little League World Series. Brogan wrote “Go Tank” on his cleats during games.
“We just want to relax and have some fun,” Jace Oliverson said before the MLB game. “It’s been a crazy week.”
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
527 PM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Franklin, northern
Morris, Titus, western Camp and southeastern Red River Counties
through 630 PM CDT...
At 527 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Leesburg, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Mount Pleasant, Pittsburg, Leesburg, Boxelder, Mount Vernon, Omaha,
Us 259 And I 30 Intersection, Wilkerson, Cookville, Scroggins,
Newsome, Purley, Winfield, Talco, Miller's Cove, Rocky Mound,
Hopewell, Harts Bluff, Monticello and Roeder.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3329 9531 3355 9492 3336 9475 3331 9473
3331 9470 3326 9465 3324 9465 3290 9515
3300 9515 3297 9517 3296 9517 3296 9520
3308 9531
TIME...MOT...LOC 2227Z 235DEG 23KT 3304 9507
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The squeals, claps and cheers exploded the second Nic walked into the nurses station.
“Is he here? Nic’s here? Hey, Nic’s here!”
Several more nurses, smiling, with hands clasped together, stream in from around the labor and delivery floor at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown.
He’s swarmed as he rushes from nurse to nurse, matching their frenetic energy while searching for snacks and scratches.
Nic, the three 3-year-old goldendoodle, is a rock star.
After a minute, nurse Amy Smith, typing at her desk, looked down: “Nic, do you want to chart with me?”
Nic immediately flopped his two front paws on the desk and looked on while the other nurses squealed again.
“That’s so cute!” one shouted.
Yes indeed. It really really was.
At least once a week, Nic or one of his fellow volunteer therapy dogs visit the hospital, purportedly to bring joy to healing patients.
But most doctors, nurses and techs love the pups, too.
“We have been focusing on our pet therapy teams visiting with staff during 2022,” said Jan Brown, the hospital’s volunteer services coordinator. “Leadership came to me and asked if we could make that happen to boost morale and help relieve stress.”
Medical tech Diamond Hodges, 27, agrees.
“We need you on this floor every day!” Hodges told Nic as she scratched him behind the ears on the surgery floor.
Nic and the other therapy dogs (and their volunteer handlers, of course) still visit patients.
Nic in fact leapt right into the hospital bed with heart patient Gene Meyers, 83, from Smyrna. And Meyers loved it: “I’ve had dogs all my life,” Meyers said while patting Nic’s furry backside. “This is great.”
So, quick question: Would your dog be really great at this? Think you’d love to have your pooch visit patients and staff?
If so, there are organizations that can certify your pet to become a therapy dog. Two of them are Pet Partners and Therapy Dogs International.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court on Sunday agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court’s order requiring that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.
A subpoena had instructed the South Carolina Republican to appear before the special grand jury on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May last Monday denied Graham’s request to quash his subpoena and on Friday rejected his effort to put her decision on hold while he appealed. Graham’s lawyers then appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
On Sunday, a three-judge panel of the appeals court issued the order temporarily pausing May’s order declining to quash the subpoena. The panel sent the case back to May to decide whether the subpoena should be partially quashed or modified because of protections granted to members of Congress by the U.S. Constitution.
Once May decides that issue, the case will return to the 11th Circuit for further consideration, according to the appeals court order.
Graham’s representatives did not immediately respond Sunday to messages seeking comment on the appellate ruling. A spokesperson for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis declined to comment.
Willis opened the investigation early last year, prompted by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. During that conversation, Trump suggested Raffensperger could “find” the votes needed to overturn his narrow loss in the state.
Willis and her team have said they want to ask Graham about two phone calls they say he made to Raffensperger and his staff shortly after the 2020 general election. During those calls, Graham asked about “reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” Willis wrote in a petition seeking to compel his testimony.
Graham also “made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign,” she wrote.
Republican and Democratic state election officials across the country, courts and even Trump’s attorney general found there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of the election.
During a hearing earlier this month on Graham’s motion to quash his subpoena, Willis’ team said Graham may be able to provide insight into the extent of any coordinated efforts to influence the results of the 2020 general election in Georgia.
The U.S. Constitution’s speech or debate clause protects members of Congress from questioning about official legislative acts. The 11th Circuit court instructed May to determine whether Graham “is entitled to a partial quashal or modification of the subpoena” as a result.
Graham’s attorneys have argued that the calls were made as part of his legislative duties and that provision gives him absolute protection from having to testify in this case.
In her order last week, May noted that the clause doesn’t protect actions that are political rather than legislative. Even if she accepted that the calls were “comprised entirely of legislative factfinding,” and thus protected, “there would still be significant areas of potential testimony related to the grand jury’s investigation on which Senator Graham could be questioned that would in no way fall within the Clause’s protections,” she wrote.
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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...
Northeastern Borden County in western Texas...
Northwestern Scurry County in western Texas...
* Until 745 PM CDT.
* At 609 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...
Fluvanna.
This includes the following streams and drainages...
Gavett Creek, Bull Creek, Deep Creek, Fivemile Creek, Crooked
Creek, Gopher Creek, Little Bull Creek, Mesquite Creek and Mooar
Creek.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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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NEW YORK (AP) — Eight years ago, Paul O’Neill was thanked by the Yankees for his contributions to their dynasty with a plaque in Monument Park.
On Sunday, the Yankees retired his No. 21 — the 23rd player or manager in the franchise to have that happen.
This ceremony was slightly different from others.
Because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19, O’Neill couldn’t interact with any current New York players in the dugout. And with the Yankees stuck in a 4-14 rut, there were noticeable boos for managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner and general manager Brian Cashman during the 33-minute ceremony.
New York’s first jersey retirement ceremony since 2017, when Derek Jeter’s No. 2 was honored, had the usual video tributes and messages, gifts and an acceptance speech.
During his roughly eight-minute speech, the 59-year-old O’Neill — an All-Star right fielder and now a popular team announcer — thanked the fans numerous times. He opened by saying: “You Yankee fans have obviously been practicing and it sounds great still today.”
A four-time World Series champion as a Yankee, O’Neill was nicknamed “The Warrior” by late owner George Steinbrenner. “The fans remember the teams that win and we won,” O’Neill said. “And we won a lot.”
O’Neill hit .303 with 185 homers and 858 RBIs for the Yankees from 1993 to 2001. He was a four-time All-Star with the team and won the 1994 AL batting title during a strike-shortened season.
He wore No. 21 for his entire big league career, starting as a rookie with the Reds in 1985.
“That’s why I’m celebrating this day, because this is the biggest dream that I’ve ever had in my life,” O’Neill said in his speech.
Former trainer Gene Monahan was there, along with teammates Tino Martinez, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera.
Six minutes into the ceremony, O’Neill stood next to his wife and family to unveil his retire number in Monument Park. He was brought on to the field in a golf cart as highlights played on the videoboard — including his final home game in Game 5 of the 2001 World Series and his running catch to end Game 5 of the 1996 World Series.
Then there were brief video messages from Jeter, Joe Torre, David Cone and Don Mattingly, along with a message from Roberto Clemente Jr., the Hall of Famer’s son and a former Yankee Spanish-language announcer.
“Obviously, Paul is a central figure in one of the many great times in Yankee baseball and dynasties,” manager Aaron Boone said before the Yankees faced Toronto, adding, “It’s fun to know Paul in a friendly, even silly guy that sometimes is a contrast with who he was in between those lines.”
Steinbrenner gave O’Neill a framed plaque of his jersey; other gifts included a custom wine bottle with his No. 21, a framed jersey signed by current Yankees and a water cooler, a nod to his tendencies to slam water coolers in the dugout.
The signed framed jersey was the closest thing O’Neill had to any interaction with New York’s current roster because of his vaccination status; unvaccinated personnel are barred from interaction with any players on the bench or in the locker room.
O’Neill has called games on the YES Network from his Ohio home since the pandemic 2020 season. In an interview with NJ Advance Media published Saturday, O’Neill said of his vaccination status, “I’d rather not discuss that.”
Since O’Neill retired after the 2001 World Series, the only New York player to wear No. 21 was reliever LaTroy Hawkins at the opening of the 2008 season, but he switched back not too long after the season started.
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New York Times report: ‘American Dream’ is being ‘distorted — particularly by Republicans of color’
Ulloa said Republicans are trying to gain votes by arguing the American dream is under attack
The New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa published an article Sunday about how the term "American dream" has become distorted by minority Republicans.
"A touchstone of political and social discourse, the nearly 100-year-old phrase "the American dream," is being repurposed — critics say distorted — particularly by Republicans of color," read the subtitle of Ulloa's piece.
"For decades, politicians have used the phrase 'the American dream' to describe a promise of economic opportunity and upward mobility, of prosperity through hard work," she wrote.
"Now, a new crop of Republican candidates and elected officials are using the phrase in a different way, invoking the same promise but arguing in speeches, ads and mailings that the American dream is dying or in danger, threatened by what they see as rampant crime, unchecked illegal immigration, burdensome government regulations and liberal social policies," Ulloa continued.
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Ulloa wrote, "Many of these Republicans are people of color — including immigrants and the children of immigrants, for whom the phrase first popularized in 1931 has a deep resonance."
"To politicians of old, 'the American dream' was a supremely optimistic rhetorical device, albeit one that often obscured the economic and racial barriers that made achieving it impossible for many," she continued.
Now, however, Ulloa argued, "To the Republican candidates embracing it today, the phrase has taken on an ominous and more pessimistic tone." She compared the Republican congressional candidates' message to former President Donald Trump, who announced that "the American dream is dead" during his first campaign launch in 2015.
"In the same way that many Trump supporters have tried to turn the American flag into an emblem of the right, so too have these Republicans sought to claim the phrase as their own, repurposing it as a spinoff of the Make America Great Again slogan," Ulloa wrote.
TRUMP'S ‘FIERCIST CRITICS’ GUILTY OF THE VERY VIOLATION OF NORMS THEY ACCUSE HIM OF: JARED KUSHNER
The writer admitted that former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton also campaigned on the American dream being in jeopardy, but argued that "what has changed is that some Republicans now cast the situation more starkly, using the dream-is-in-danger rhetoric as a widespread line of attack, arguing that Democrats have turned patriotism itself into something contentious."
"Television ads for more than a dozen Republican candidates in statewide, House and Senate campaigns — more than half of whom are people of color — cite the phrase, according to AdImpact, the ad-tracking firm," Ulloa wrote.
"The Republicans relying on the phrase show the extent to which the party is diversifying its ranks and recruiting candidates with powerful come-from-behind stories," she acknowledged.
However, she cited some who accuse these Republicans of color of "distorting" the American dream.
"But historians and other scholars warn that some Republicans are distorting a defining American idea and turning it into an exclusionary political message," she wrote before quoting associate professor of political science at Fordham University Christina Greer who claimed, "The Republican Party is using it as a dog whistle. They are saying here is the potential of what you can have, if we can exclude others from ‘stealing it’ from you."
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Government committed to developing temples in State: Deputy CM K. Narayanaswamy
Participating in the Maha Kumbhabhishekam ritual, Mr. Narayanaswamy said he prayed for the well-being of the State and its people
Deputy Chief Minister K. Narayanaswamy on Sunday said that the State government was committed to developing Hindu temples and promote religious harmony.
Participating in the Maha Kumbhabhishekam ritual at the famed Varasiddi Vinayaka Swamy temple at Kanipakam, Mr. Narayanaswamy said he prayed for the well-being of the State and its people.
He appreciated the donors who came forward for the reconstruction of the Kanipakam temple, famous for the Aksharabhyasam (initiation of alphabets).
Minister for Forests and Energy Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy said the reconstruction works at the temple would be completed shortly.
Tourism Minister R.K. Roja said darshan of the temple deity gave positive energy to the visitors. Later, the temple priests presented portraits of the presiding deity and prasadam to the Ministers.
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Fisher excels in debut, Canha 2 HRs, Mets rally past Phils
By AARON BRACY
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nate Fisher pitched three scoreless innings of relief in his major league debut after working at a bank a year ago, Mark Canha hit two homers and drove in five runs and the New York Mets rallied past the Philadelphia Phillies 10-9. Canha’s second homer was a go-ahead drive in a three-run ninth. Brandon Nimmo also went deep for the NL-East leading Mets, who took three of four in the series to finish the regular season with a 14-5 mark against the Phillies. New York upped its lead over second-place Atlanta to four games. Fisher allowed one hit while striking out one and walking two. The 26-year-old lefty was working at the First National Bank of Omaha in his Nebraska hometown last year before resuming his professional baseball career. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/21/fisher-excels-in-debut-canha-2-hrs-mets-rally-past-phils/ | 2022-08-22T00:26:00Z | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/21/fisher-excels-in-debut-canha-2-hrs-mets-rally-past-phils/ | false |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Ryan Pepiot celebrated his 25th birthday in style Sunday, getting the best of a matchup with All-Star and Cy Young Award candidate Sandy Alcantara to lead a 10-3 victory over the Miami Marlins.
Pepiot, in just his seventh career start, held the Marlins to two runs on four hits as Los Angeles won its ninth consecutive home game. Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy hit a home runs and Will Smith drove in three runs for the Dodgers.
In a season where he has dominated opponents, Alcantara was no match for the Dodgers. Alcantara’s 3 2/3 innings were a season low, while his six runs and 10 hits allowed were season highs. The right-hander had one walk and five strikeouts.
On July 19, Alcantara threw a scoreless second inning at Dodger Stadium in his second-All-Star Game appearance.
Mookie Betts led off the game with a single and scored on Smith's two-out hit. The Dodgers made it 3-0 in the second when Bellinger followed a two-out triple from Joey Gallo with his 17th homer.
Bellinger entered with just two hits in his previous 22 at-bats and sat out three of the prior six games.
The Dodgers made it 4-0 in the third on an RBI single from Muncy.
Miami's JJ Bleday walked to lead off the fourth before Lewin Diaz hit his first home run of the season.
Smith's ground-rule double in the fourth gave the Dodgers a 6-2 advantage and ended Alcantara's game.
Alcantara (11-6) has now given up at least four runs in two of his last three starts and is 2-3 in his last eight starts.
After struggling with his control at the start of his major league career, Pepiot (2-0) gave up two walks with seven strikeouts over six innings. He got some help from his defense with Gallo throwing out a runner at home plate from left field in the first inning and making a diving catch in the third.
The Dodgers made it 7-2 in the seventh inning on Muncy’s 16th home run of the season. Bleday hit his fourth home run of the season for the Marlins in the eighth.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (back) will not have to go on a minor league rehab assignment, according to manager Dave Roberts. Kershaw has a bullpen session and a simulated game scheduled before he is activated from the IL. … RHP Blake Treinen (shoulder), who hasn’t pitched since April 14, is targeting a Sept. 2 return.
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Marlins: RHP Pablo Lopez (7-8, 3.83 ERA) will pitch in the opener of a three-game series at Oakland on Monday.
Dodgers: LHP Julio Urias (13-6, 2.40) will take the mound in the opener of a three-game home series against the Milwaukee Brewers.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Shane Langeliers got three hits, including Oakland's first triple after a strange 81-game drought without a three-bagger, and the Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 5-3 Sunday.
No team in major league history had gone longer without a triple since 1901 until Langeliers, a catcher, hit an RBI drive in the eighth inning. He had two triples this season in Triple-A.
JP Sears (5-0) allowed one run, on Mitch Haniger's homer, in five innings. Six A's relievers held the lead for the team with the worst record in the AL.
Seattle, near the top of the wild-card standings, lost for the second straight day to the A's. Cal Raleigh had two doubles for the Mariners.
Luis Castillo (1-1) failed to reach the seventh inning for the first time in four starts since being traded from Cincinnati to Seattle. He yielded four runs and eight hits in five innings.
Seth Brown, who hit Oakland's previous triple on May 18, doubled and scored on Sean Murphy’s single in the first. A double by Langeliers keyed a two-run second.
Haniger’s fifth homer made it 3-1 in the third. Oakland added a run in the sixth when Tony Kemp dragged a bunt single and later scored on Stephen Vogt’s single.
Raleigh had an RBI pinch-hit double and Julio Rodriguez singled home a run in the seventh.
The Mariners stranded runners on the corners in the eighth inning, which ended with A’s left-hander Sam Moll coaxing a groundout from Dylan Moore.
Raleigh again doubled with one out in the ninth inning, but Austin Pruitt recorded the final two outs for his first save in two opportunities.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mariners: LF Sam Haggerty was scratched from the lineup with left shoulder discomfort. Haggerty aggravated this ailment a couple of days ago, manager Scott Servais said. Moore, who would have started at second base, occupied left field instead while Adam Frazier filled in at second. Haggerty entered the game as a pinch-runner in the eighth.
A’s: CF Ramon Laureano is still “moving forward pretty quickly” in his recovery from a strained left oblique, manager Mark Kotsay said. Laureano, who hasn’t been in a game since Aug. 14, played catch on Sunday, one day after taking 10 swings with no ill effects ... OF Skye Bolt missed his second start in a row with left knee soreness but felt fit enough to enter the game in the eighth. ... RHP Brent Honeywell’s minor league injury rehabilitation assignment will intensify Tuesday when he becomes available to pitch in relief for Triple-A Las Vegas. Honeywell is on the injured list with a stress reaction in his right elbow.
UP NEXT
Mariners: Following Monday’s scheduled off-day, the Mariners face Washington on Tuesday to open a six-game homestand.
Athletics: Host Miami on Monday, with Adam Oller of the A’s opposing right-handed counterpart Pablo Lopez.
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Patrick Cantlay won another thriller Sunday in the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship, getting a great bounce on the 17th hole that set up a short birdie and led to a 2-under-par 69 and a one-shot victory over Scott Stallings.
Cantlay became the first player to win the BMW Championship back-to-back since the FedEx Cup began in 2007. This was on a different course and he didn’t have to go six playoff holes. He also doesn’t have the FedEx Cup lead going to the finale next week in Atlanta.
All that mattered was winning at Wilmington (Del.) Country Club, but he needed a little help.
He was tied for the lead on the 420-yard 17th hole when he decided to hit driver, and he feared his tee shot would get hung up in a series of bunkers down the right side. But the ball landed short of the last one, took a big hop over the sand, and tumbled through the first cut and into the fairway just 64 yards from the hole.
“I hit a lot of solid shots and got a lot of good breaks,” Cantlay said. “That break was something I was not expecting. It was big for me to take advantage of it.”
That he did. Cantlay hit a spinner that skipped and stopped 5 feet from the flag, holed the birdie putt for the lead and then found the green on No. 18 from a fairway bunker.
A year ago, he made one clutch putt after another about an hour down the road at Caves Valley and beat Bryson DeChambeau. That gave him the top seed at the Tour Championship, which comes with a two-shot margin before the tournament starts, and Cantlay won the FedEx Cup and its $18 million prize with a one-shot win over Jon Rahm.
This time, he goes into the FedEx Cup finale as the No. 2 seed, meaning he will start next week two shots behind Masters champion Scottie Scheffler.
Scheffler put on a late charge with three birdies in a four holes and was one shot behind. But he missed a 4-foot par putt on the final hole for a 70, and it looked like it might cost him.
Xander Schauffele, playing in the final group with Cantlay, had a 7-foot birdie putt. If he made it, Schauffele would have finished alone in third, moving Scheffler to fourth. That would have made Cantlay the top seed. But the putt slid by on the right. Schauffele had a 71.
U.S. Amateur: Texas A&M senior Sam Bennett built a 5-up lead over Georgia Southern’s Ben Carr and held on for a 1-up victory at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J.
Bennett, No. 3 in the world amateur ranking, was 3 up after the first 18 holes and won two more holes early in the afternoon to seize control. Carr kept chipping away and pulled within one hole with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 17th.
“I got off to a hot start, then after lunch, he started dropping in putts and chips from everywhere,” Bennett said. “It made me nervous. I got pretty tight.”
Needing to win the 18th to extend the match, Carr missed the fairway to the right and came up short. He chipped to 8 feet. Bennett was on the green and had two putts from 12 feet to win. He lagged it within inches for the win.
PGA Tour Champions: Padraig Harrington won the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in Endicott, N.Y., for his second victory of the year.
Harrington closed with a 5-under 67 at En-Joie Golf Club for a three-stroke victory over Mike Weir and Thongchai Jaidee.
European tour: Maximilian Kieffer closed with a 6-under 66 to win the rain-hit Czech Masters for his first European tour title.
Kieffer finished one shot ahead of overnight leader Gavin Green at the Albatross Golf Resort near Prague with a 16-under 200 total. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Golf-roundup-Patrick-Cantlay-wins-BMW-17388472.php | 2022-08-22T00:29:08Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Golf-roundup-Patrick-Cantlay-wins-BMW-17388472.php | false |
Crystal Palace are eyeing a move for out-of-favour Leicester midfielder Boubakary Soumare, with Dennis Praet also set to leave the King Power Stadium
- Leicester's Boubakary Soumare is a target for Patrick Vieira at Crystal Palace
- Soumare has struggled to make an impact since joining the the club last year
- The 23-year-old made just 12 league starts for the Foxes last season
- Brendan Rodgers' side have made just one signing so far this summer
Patrick Vieira's Crystal Palace are keen on a move for Leicester City midfielder Boubakary Soumare.
Soumare has struggled to make an impact at the club after arriving from Lille last summer for £23million, and Leicester would be happy to allow him to leave should an offer meet their valuation.
Making twelve league starts and contributing just one assist last season, Soumare struggled to adapt to life in the Premier League, and increasingly found himself left out of Brendan Rodgers' matchday squads as the season went on with the club narrowly missing out on European football.
Boubakary Soumare endured a difficult debut season at the King Power Stadium
Monaco had previously been interested in offering the Frenchman a lifeline earlier this summer, but Leicester's determination to recoup the considerable fee they had paid for the PSG academy graduate appears to have quelled the Monegasque's interest.
Meanwhile midfielder Dennis Praet may also be on his way out of the club, with Bruges interested in completing a deal for the 28-year-old.
The Belgium international spent last season out on loan in Italy at Torino, and has fallen down the pecking order in Leicestershire though he did make a brief cameo in the club's defeat to Arsenal earlier this month.
Dennis Praet may also be on his way out of the club, with Belgian champions Bruges interested in signing the midfielder
But legendary striker Jamie Vardy has committed his future to the club, signing a deal until 2024
Leicester have endured the quietest transfer window of any Premier League team so far this season, with backup goalkeeper Alex Smithies being the only new signing at the club.
Despite the disappointing lack of new arrivals, Leicester have managed to secure a contract extension for Jamie Vardy, with the 35-year-old signing a deal that will keep him at the King Power stadium until 2024.
Vardy had emerged as a shock transfer target for Erik ten Hag's Manchester United, with the Dutchman looking to strengthen his forward line amidst speculation that Cristiano Ronaldo is prepared to leave the club.
Speculation is ongoing with regards to the future of both Wesley Fofana and Youri Tielemans, with both players being linked with moves away from Leicester.
Leicester pair Wesley Fofana (left) and Youri Tielemans (right) were left out of the starting XI in Saturday's defeat to Southampton
Fofana is a top target for Chelsea, but Rodgers has held firm on his insistence that the Stamford Bridge club must meet their £80million pound valuation for the 21-year-old before any prospective deal can go ahead.
Tielemans has just one year remaining on his current deal, and is said to be a target for Mikel Arteta's Arsenal, though the club have yet to lodge a bid.
Both players were left out of the starting eleven as Rodgers' side fell to a defeat against Southampton on Saturday. Speaking about their absences, the Leicester boss told Sky Sports: ‘One, a change in system and two, I mentioned in the week, we’re coming into a Premier League game and maybe we’ve got players who are maybe not quite in the right frame of mind.
‘You can’t carry them, or certainly we can’t. So yeah, that’s the reason for the changes.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11132691/Leicester-face-transfer-misery-Crystal-Palace-eyeing-Boubakary-Soumare.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-22T00:32:45Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11132691/Leicester-face-transfer-misery-Crystal-Palace-eyeing-Boubakary-Soumare.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (WETM) – In the last ten laps of the race, Larson pulled into first and won the race. This marked a sweep of the weekend for Larson and his second win of the Cup Series Race at Watkins Glen International in two years.
With the threat of thunderstorms, race officials announced the race would be delayed by at least half an hour. The August 21 race originally set for 3:00 p.m. was precluded by the Xfinity Series Race on Saturday. Kyle Larson won after the two front-runners—Ty Gibbs and William Byron—made contact with less than five laps to go.
Earlier on Saturday, Chase Elliott won the Cup pole, edging Larson for the top spot. Larson won the Cup Series at WGI in 2021.
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There is no dispute about some evidence in the trial of two men accused of eagerly wanting to kidnap Michigan’s governor: They enjoyed getting high.
From start to finish, the jury repeatedly has heard about marijuana in the case of Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., who are charged with conspiring to abduct Gretchen Whitmer as part of an anti-government uprising in 2020.
It has been cited by defense lawyers to reinforce their depiction of Fox and Croft as “big talkers” who sometimes said outrageous things when they had been smoking pot. Marijuana use by adults has been legal in Michigan since 2018.
A jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will hear closing arguments Monday, when defense lawyers will likely talk about it again.
Defense attorney Joshua Blanchard set the tone soon after jurors settled into the box on Aug. 10, saying Croft was “frankly high on marijuana all the time” and was described by some as a “stoner pirate kind-of whack nut” in a tri-cornered colonial hat.
The Delaware trucker’s girlfriend confirmed Croft’s regular marijuana use during her brief appearance in the witness chair. An investigator was asked Friday to read aloud a text message he had sent to an informant who was inside the group of extremists.
“Too much pot,” John Penrod of the Delaware state police said.
Prosecutors have presented evidence of Fox saying he wanted to “hog-tie” Whitmer and even take her out to Lake Michigan in a boat. Croft wrote on social media about hanging governors for treason.
Their attorneys are arguing entrapment by government agents, not some type of diminished capacity defense. But Henry Scharg, a Detroit-area lawyer, said references to marijuana can be an effort to show a jury that their judgments were very cloudy.
“You’re in an altered state. When you say things, you don’t really mean it,” said Scharg, who’s not involved in the trial. “I don’t think it’s a really strong defense, but sometimes you’re looking for a juror as a holdout, something to rest their position on. Throw it out. Maybe the fish will bite.”
Indeed, this is the second trial for Fox and Croft after a jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. Two other men were acquitted, while two more pleaded guilty and testified for the government.
Fox’s attorney, too, has referred to marijuana when questioning witnesses about key moments in 2020.
Dan Chappel, the most important FBI informant in the case, recalled how he and Fox drove to Elk Rapids, Michigan, to scout Whitmer’s lakeside vacation home. He said Fox smoked marijuana throughout the day, even sharing with a stranger while assessing things at a Birch Lake boat launch.
“Adam Fox routinely smoked marijuana in your presence, true? At almost every meeting you were at, correct?” Christopher Gibbons asked.
“He did smoke, yes,” Chappel replied.
Croft, 46, is from Bear, Delaware. Fox, 39, was living in the basement of a vacuum shop in the Grand Rapids area.
Prosecutors haven’t made much of their drug habits. Mark Schweers, an undercover FBI agent who posed as a like-minded rebel, said marijuana was smoked when he met with Fox and members of a paramilitary group.
“Did you use marijuana?” Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher O’Connor asked.
“That would not be permitted,” said Schweers, who drank beer instead.
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EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams get MARRIED at California's Sunstone Winery after three-year engagement
- Couple wed Saturday at the Sunstone Winery near Santa Barbara, California
- A number of her Modern Family costars were at the event
- They included Sofia Vergara, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Julie Bowen and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
- Hyland and Adams were initially slated to wed in August of 2020, but delayed the proceedings due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Sarah Hyland and boyfriend Wells Adams are married.
The Modern Family beauty, 31, and the Bachelor in Paradise personality, 38, exchanged vows Saturday at the Sunstone Winery near Santa Barbara, California.
The actress, who played Haley Dunphy on the ABC series from 2009-2020, was supported by costars Sofia Vergara, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Julie Bowen and Jesse Tyler Ferguson at the event. About 150 people were in attendance.
The latest: Sarah Hyland and boyfriend Wells Adams are married, as the Modern Family beauty, 31, and the Bachelor in Paradise personality, 38, exchanged vows Saturday at the Sunstone Winery near Santa Barbara, California
Hyland looked lovely in a shoulder-less white wedding gown with diamond earrings and her brown tresses parted. Adams donned a navy blue suit with a matching tie and his curly locks neatly styled on top.
The couple was seen weeping as they traded vows at the altar, as Ferguson officiated over the proceedings.
They were initially slated to wed in August of 2020, but delayed the proceedings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, Adams told People that he and Hyland were aiming to wed in 2022, and were 'gonna go to Vegas or the courthouse' if pandemic-related delays ensued.
'We were supposed to get married obviously last year, that didn't happen,' he told the outlet. 'We were supposed to get married this year, that didn't happen.
The celebrity couple shared a kiss on their much-anticipated wedding day in California
The happy couple gazed into one another's eyes on the sunny summer day
Hyland looked lovely in a shoulder-less white wedding gown with diamond earrings and her brown tresses parted
The couple was seen weeping as they traded vows at the altar, as Ferguson officiated over the proceedings
'So now we are hoping next year, or we're gonna go to Vegas, or the courthouse, I don't know - well, we're not going to do those last two things, but I don't know. 2022 has got to be our year, right?!'
Adams, who rose to prominence appearing on ABC romance shows such as The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise, had been linked to Sarah since October of 2017, a few months after Sarah and Shadowhunters actor Dominic Sherwood parted ways after more than two years together.
They got engaged in July of 2019 while on a Fiji getaway, as Adams dropped to one knee on the shore front and popped the question in a moment Hyland said was beyond joyous.
'That can't eat, can't sleep, reach for the stars, over the fence, world series kind of stuff,' she said in a caption accompanying the shot of the magic moment.
The happy couple looked at one another on their special day, as Hyland carried a bouquet
The couple, who got engaged in July of 2019 while on a Fiji getaway, beamed on their wedding day
The duo embraced in front of family and friends at the romantic event at the winery
Vergara, 50, appeared on Instagram Saturday and shared limited snippets of the star-studded event, as she brought her 30-year-old son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara as a plus one to the romantic affair.
She took to social media to upload multiple outtakes from the day's activities, and she looked stunning in each one.
The fashionista wore a long dress with a bold black and white floral pattern and a billowing ruffled skirt.
The duo shared a kiss as Ferguson looked on at the event, which was attended by about 150 people
The pair was posed on a platform which was flanked by flowers at the winery
The couple held hands with one another as they walked together on the special occasion
The actress played Haley Dunphy on the ABC series from 2009-2020
Hyland last month said she didn't 'think a lot is going to change' after the nuptials
Always glamorous, the bombshell teamed the ultra feminine look with a pair of towering black platform heels. The Colombian-born beauty showed off her ample cleavage in the eye-catching number, which was sleeveless.
The frock cropped just high enough for her to be able to flaunt her stunning footwear, which complemented her look perfectly.
The America's Got Talent superstar wore her honey-hued locks in a center part and ironed straight.
The actress noted that she and Adams 'are practical,' 'own a house together' and 'have our dogs together'
She noted that they have 'been celebrating this journey of life supporting one another for almost five years now'
Last year, Adams said that he and Hyland were aiming to wed in 2022, and were 'gonna go to Vegas or the courthouse' if pandemic-related delays ensued
He said at the time, 'We were supposed to get married obviously last year, that didn't happen. We were supposed to get married this year, that didn't happen'
Hyland's Modern Family costar Ariel Winter, 24, wore a long green gown to the proceedings. She rounded out her ensemble with gold strappy heels with her red locks down and parted at the high-profile event
Sofia Vergara, 50, wore a long dress with a bold black and white floral pattern and a billowing ruffled skirt
Winter and Modern Family costar Nolan Gould, 23, sat with one another at the proceedings
Among the multiple snapshots was a glossy, sepia-colored image of the entertainer with several other guests.
She cuddled up for Instagram with Gould, 23, who rose to fame playing her step-grandson Luke Dunphy on Modern Family.
In a caption Vergara wrote to her 26.5 million followers, 'Summer wedding!!' and in a separate post she typed, '#sarahandwells wedding.'
Hyland's Modern Family costar Ariel Winter, 24, wore a long green gown to the proceedings. She rounded out her ensemble with gold strappy heels with her red locks down and parted at the high-profile event
Guests: The 31-year-old actress held the ceremony at a California vineyard and invited former costar Sofia Vergara, 50, who brought 30-year-old son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara as a plus one
Photo-op: Sofia took a moment to pose with friend Stephanie Hart Levinson on the happy couple's special day
All these years later: She cuddled up for Instagram with Nolan Gould, 23, who rose to fame playing her step-grandson Luke Dunphy on Modern Family
Hyland in July chat with People about married life, noting, 'I don't think a lot is going to change.'
'We are practical,' she said. 'We own a house together. We have our dogs together, and we've been celebrating this journey of life supporting one another for almost five years now.
The actress said that she was planning the event 'one step at a time' and didn't 'really have a lot of time to think about it,' adding that she was 'really excited to be able to - on paper, officially - start our family.'
When you got it, flaunt it: The Colombian-born beauty showed off her ample cleavage in the eye-catching number, which was sleeveless
Special moments: Sofia was joined by former Modern Family costar Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Wedding-ready: Always glamorous, the bombshell teamed the ultra feminine look with a pair of towering black platform heel
Picture-perfect: Jesse Tyler Ferguson flashed a huge smile as he posed in a dark blue suit with a white shirt underneath
Remarking on whether she'll change her name Hyland told E! News, 'My mom didn’t take my father’s last name, so that’s never been a thing for me.'
She elaborated: 'I do like being called "Mrs. Adams" when we’re on vacation and stuff, and if the reservation's under his name, I'm like, "Oh my god, I'm so cute." But I don’t know. Haven’t decided on it.'
And she gushed to the publication about her pre-wedding bachelorette trip, 'The wildest thing that happened was that we were dancing on tables singing musical theater.'
Such fun: Sofia posed up for the cameras with Jesse and his husband Justin Mikita
Preparation: In December 2020 the actress teased a potential wedding dress option as she shared a photo online
Celebration: This summer the couple was able to enjoy a bridal shower in June, as well as their bachelorette and bachelor parties
Exciting: Adam and his friends soaked up the sun in matching festive bachelor party shirts
Demonstrating her playful personality she added, 'I did the entire Chicago soundtrack by myself. Is that sad or is that everything? I think it's everything.'
Vanessa Hudgens was part of her wedding party. When she was formally asked to be a bridesmaid she took to Instagram to share the invite box.
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Pumpkin spice products for any season
Each year as autumn comes around, the world eagerly awaits for coffee shops to rotate pumpkin spice flavors into the mix. However, you don’t have to wait for the fall to dive into your favorite pumpkin spice products. And this year, you may even want to pumpkin spice it up by adding some new products to your repertoire of favorites.
Whether you prefer coffee, tea, scented candles or something else, several fall products may quell your pumpkin spice sweet tooth or keep you coming back for something new to you.
Pumpkin spice products worth trying
- Pumpkin spice coffee: Coffee is the most classic pumpkin spice drink, with the pumpkin spice latte starting it all just a few short years ago. Now, you can use pre-flavored pumpkin spice coffees and creamers to make achieving the flavor even easier.
- Pumpkin spice syrup: Another common pumpkin spice option is using a syrup. Syrups and sauces are what most coffee shops use to flavor their drinks. You can use syrups and sauces to recreate your favorite pumpkin spice lattes if you have an espresso machine at home.
- Pumpkin spice tea: A good pumpkin spice option for non-coffee drinkers is tea. You can find pumpkin spice flavors in black and herbal teas or in specific tea drinks such as the chai tea latte.
- Pumpkin spice candles: If you don’t want to drink your pumpkin spice, a candle is a good way to get into the fall spirit.
- Other pumpkin spice products: You can also find pumpkin spice products such as air fresheners, clothing, foods, sweets, actual spices and more.
Best pumpkin spice coffee
Top pumpkin spice coffee
Door County Pre-Ground Seasonal Flavored Pumpkin Spice Coffee
What you need to know: This Wisconsin-made coffee includes pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg flavoring, and it comes pre-ground so you can start brewing right away.
What you’ll love: This bag of coffee includes eight ounces of ground coffee for a super affordable price. It’s a medium roast with a delicious autumn pumpkin spice flavor without being too overpowering. You can also buy this pumpkin spice coffee in decaf or whole-bean versions.
What you should consider: Buyers found the eight-ounce bag a little small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pumpkin spice coffee for the money
Eight O’Clock Ground Pumpkin Spice Flavored Coffee
What you need to know: This is a fairly tasty bag of pre-ground pumpkin spice coffee for how affordable it is, and it’s roasted in Maryland.
What you’ll love: This 11-ounce bag of coffee is a medium roast and includes flavoring notes of pumpkin, brown sugar, sweet cream and some unnamed spices. Eight O’Clock also provides charitable contributions to environmental causes and the communities of their farmers.
What you should consider: This brand doesn’t offer a decaf pumpkin spice coffee.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best pumpkin spice syrup
Top pumpkin spice syrup
Jordan’s Three-Pack Of Sugar-Free Pumpkin Flavored Skinny Syrups
What you need to know: This three-pack of pumpkin syrups includes pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin spice and pumpkin caramel flavors which can be added to nearly any drink.
What you’ll love: This delicious flavor pack offers more variety than getting a single pumpkin spice flavor. They also have zero calories and sugar. Each bottle is 12.7 fluid ounces, but a little goes a long way when using syrups.
What you should consider: Some didn’t like the sugar-free flavor of these syrups.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pumpkin spice syrup for the money
Torani Pure Made 16.5-Ounce Bottle Of Pumpkin Pie Sauce And Syrup
What you need to know: Torani’s classic pumpkin pie sauce offers a thick, creamy syrup that makes hot drinks such as coffee, chai or hot chocolate taste like fall.
What you’ll love: This bottle of pumpkin pie sauce is large enough to last you a while, and a small amount of it packs a flavorful punch. It’s made without artificial preservatives, colors or GMOs and this brand is a trusted standard in many coffee shops today.
What you should consider: This is much thicker than other syrups, and it can be hard to get it to mix well without adding some hot liquids.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best pumpkin spice tea
Top pumpkin spice tea
Vahdam India Pumpkin Spice Blend Herbal Tea Bags
What you need to know: If you’re looking for something different than coffee, this delicious herbal tea is great for mornings or nights, and it includes all-natural ingredients.
What you’ll love: This tea includes natural flavors such as pumpkin, turmeric, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon to give it a unique pumpkin spice flavor. Because it’s herbal, this tea doesn’t have any caffeine, making it less bitter than your average tea.
What you should consider: Some buyers were looking for something caffeinated.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pumpkin spice tea for the money
Tazo Pumpkin Spice Black Chai Tea Bags
What you need to know: This chai is affordable and offers a unique pumpkin spice flavor to the classic chai tea and chai tea latte.
What you’ll love: This includes 20 tea bags, each of which you can use to make two to three cups of tea. Chai is a black tea, so it has a good amount of caffeine. This product also goes great with some steamed milk, making it a tasty pumpkin spice chai tea latte.
What you should consider: This tea wasn’t a hit for those who don’t like chai tea.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best pumpkin spice candle
Top pumpkin spice candle
Sweet Water Decor Soy Scented Pumpkin Spice Candle
What you need to know: This fragrant candle is perfect for pumpkin spice lovers who want to enjoy the smell instead of the flavor.
What you’ll love: This candle is nine ounces and includes fragrance notes of vanilla, buttercream and autumn spices. It comes in a clear jar you can reuse after it’s done burning, and its overall design is subtle enough to fit in with any space.
What you should consider: Some thought it burned faster than the advertised 40-hour burn time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pumpkin spice candle for the money
Yankee Candle Spiced Pumpkin Large Jar Scented Single-Wick Candle
What you need to know: This huge 22-ounce scented candle offers around 110 hours of burn time and includes a natural fiber wick that burns consistently.
What you’ll love: This candle wax is paraffin-grade and offers natural scents such as baked pumpkin spice, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and brown sugar. This candle’s container is 100 percent recyclable and the company is partnered with TerraCycle.
What you should consider: This candle’s scent isn’t as high-quality as candles with natural fragrances.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
707 PM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT THIS
EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN BORDEN AND NORTHWESTERN SCURRY COUNTIES...
At 707 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...
Fluvanna.
This includes the following streams and drainages...
Gavett Creek, Bull Creek, Deep Creek, Fivemile Creek, Crooked
Creek, Gopher Creek, Little Bull Creek, Mesquite Creek and Mooar
Creek.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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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Amber Alert: Police say 2 girls abducted in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – An Amber Alert has been issued for two missing children in Kansas City.
Police are trying to find Marlaya Owsley, 7, and Cassiah Owsley, 4.
Authorities have identified Jordan Owsley, 27, as the suspect in their abduction.
Owsley, the girls’ biological father, left the scene of a homicide in the 1300 block of 89th Street in a white KIA Optima with Missouri license plate VF2E2B, according to the Amber Alert.
Marlaya and Cassiah were in the vehicle, according to the alert.
The alert says the suspect “allegedly shot and killed a person associated to the mother, and forcibly abducted the children.”
Authorities said Jordan Owsley is armed with a gun.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Kansas City Police Department at 816-234-5043 or dial 911.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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RIP CURRENT STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
655 PM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
A Moderate Risk of Rip Currents will persist overnight into
Monday. Swimmers should continue to exercise caution if entering
the water.
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CONWAY, Ark. (KSNW) — A Kansas American Legion Rider has died in a motorcycle crash while on his way to The American Legion Legacy Run.
Jeremy Ehart, the Department of Kansas Commander, shared the news on the Department of Kansas American Legion Facebook page.
It is with a heavy heart I announce a dear friend and fellow Kansas American Legion Rider Dave Schoonover from Hutchinson Chapter #68 passed away this afternoon from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was in route to the National Legacy Run, this cause was his passion and he was heavily involved in it. Please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers as they go through this difficult time.”
Jeremy Ehart
The 1,200-mile American Legion Legacy Run ride left from the USS Alabama Memorial Park in Mobile, Ala., on Sunday, Aug. 21 and will travel through Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois before winding up at American Legion Post 434 in Oak Creek, Wis. on Thursday, Aug. 25.
According to the Arkansas State Police, 60-year-old Dave Schoonover, of Hutchinson, was headed east on Interstate 40 in Conway, Ark., on a 2012 Harley-Davidson.
The accident report states that road conditions were wet and that Schoonover was in the left lane when he left the roadway and hit a cable barrier on the left shoulder. He died at the scene. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/kansas-american-legion-rider-dies-in-motorcycle-crash-on-way-to-national-legacy-run/ | 2022-08-22T01:06:20Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/kansas-american-legion-rider-dies-in-motorcycle-crash-on-way-to-national-legacy-run/ | true |
Unfortunately, the work week will start with unsettled weather — showers and storms are expected. Monday isn’t a total washout, but as the system slowly approaches the area, expect periods of rain and thunderstorms to develop.
Some of these storms could produce heavy downpours, gusty winds, and hail. Localized flooding is a possibly too. Temperatures are forecasted to remain in the upper 70s.
On Tuesday, expect slightly better conditions, but there’s still a chance of some isolated showers. The entire system slowly moves offshore, but not far enough offshore that we are in the clear.
The day will be a blend of clouds and of some sun at times with an isolated shower or two. Temperatures are forecasted to be in the low to mid 80s.
The remainder of the week looks fairly dry; the only trouble day looks to be Friday as spotty thunderstorms could ignite ahead of the next frontal system. Temperatures are expected to climb into the upper 80s. | https://pix11.com/weather/downpours-gusty-winds-hail-possible-to-start-work-week-in-ny-nj/ | 2022-08-22T01:46:13Z | https://pix11.com/weather/downpours-gusty-winds-hail-possible-to-start-work-week-in-ny-nj/ | false |
The Nebraska soccer team picked up its first win of the season Sunday, defeating Oklahoma 2-1 at Hibner Stadium.
The Huskers put together a more complete performance compared to their opener — a last-minute loss to San Diego State on Thursday — by putting 12 shots on goal and stifling the Sooners' offense.
Nebraska's defense Sunday was strong, needing to call on goalkeeper Sami Hauk just three times. She made two saves — the other was Bri Amos' 27th-minute goal.
Oklahoma led 1-0 until the 56th minute when Eleanor Dale started her goal tally for the year, nodding an Abbey Schwarz cross into the back of the net to tie the match.
Freshman Sadie Waite scored her first collegiate goal on a rebound to give the Huskers the lead in the 64th minute.
Last season, Nebraska fell to its former conference foe 1-0 in double overtime in Norman. The Huskers now lead the all-time series, 14-5-2.
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Former Husker goalkeeper Makinzie Short made 10 saves for the Sooners.
Nebraska outshot Oklahoma 22-7 in the match.
The Huskers (1-1) return to action to host Arizona at 7 p.m. Thursday. The homestand will continue into the weekend, too, when Nebraska hosts Weber State on Sunday. | https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/soccer/nu-soccer-picks-up-first-win-of-season-with-late-goal-against-oklahoma/article_ccf896bf-00a1-557d-8d85-6725984b4ddd.html | 2022-08-22T01:53:43Z | https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/soccer/nu-soccer-picks-up-first-win-of-season-with-late-goal-against-oklahoma/article_ccf896bf-00a1-557d-8d85-6725984b4ddd.html | false |
Exports up 3.9 pct during first 20 days of Aug.; trade deficit widens
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports rose 3.9 percent on-year in the first 20 days of August on robust demand for petroleum products and autos, but the country saw its trade deficit widen on soaring fuel costs, data showed Monday.
The country's outbound shipments stood at US$33.4 billion in the Aug. 1-20 period, compared with $32.2 billion a year earlier, according to the data from the Korea Customs Service.
Imports jumped 22.1 percent on-year to $43.6 billion during the cited period, resulting in a trade deficit of $10.2 billion. The trade deficit was larger than a shortfall of $3.6 billion the previous year.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A 29-year-old man was found dead in his apartment in St. Petersburg at 4:45 p.m. Friday, police say.
Authorities arrived to Casa Grande Apartments on 39th Avenue North when they found Larry Jarrell dead in his apartment, St. Petersburg Police Department said in a news release.
Law enforcement says his death was suspicious, and with the results of an autopsy report and further investigation, they determined that the incident was a homicide.
Police initially identified Rhiannon Cole Spicer as a person of interest, and when she turned herself into custody at around 9:15 p.m. Sunday, authorities charged her with 2nd degree murder.
The 24-year-old woman reportedly lived with Jarrell at the apartment and was in a domestic relationship with him. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/crime/larry-jarrel-found-dead-st-pete-apartment/67-b18edf36-ea35-4e39-a64c-79cf4ae1f370 | 2022-08-22T01:58:05Z | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/crime/larry-jarrel-found-dead-st-pete-apartment/67-b18edf36-ea35-4e39-a64c-79cf4ae1f370 | false |
WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
757 PM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 8 PM CDT this evening for portions
of Garza and Kent Counties.
The heavy rain has ended and additional flooding is no longer
expected to pose a threat. Please continue to heed remaining road
closures. Additional rain may move into the area later tonight,
which could exacerbate flooding concerns again.
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Updated August 21, 2022 at 9:20 PM ET
Three law enforcement officers in Crawford County, Arkansas, have been placed on leave after a video shared on social media shows them beating and restraining a man in a parking lot. State police will investigate the incident, the governor said.
In the video, a law enforcement officer repeatedly and brutally punches the man and slams his head against the cement ground several times. Another officer is seen kicking the man's lower body repeatedly while a third officer is seen holding the man down.
Two of the officers are deputies with the Crawford County sheriff's office and the third is an officer with the city of Mulberry Police Department, law enforcement confirmed.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson confirmed that state police will investigate the "arrest incident."
"I have spoken with Col. Bill Bryant of the Arkansas State Police and the local arrest incident in Crawford County will be investigated pursuant to the video evidence and the request of the prosecuting attorney," he said in a tweet.
Crawford County Sheriff James Damante had said in a statement hours prior that his office had requested a state investigation, adding that the two deputies involved in the incident have been suspended "pending the outcome of the investigation."
"I hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter," Damante said in the statement posted to Facebook.
In a separate statement from Mulberry Police, the department confirmed that the incident captured on video involved one of its officers, who it said has since been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of a state police investigation.
"The City of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department takes these investigations very seriously and holds all their officers accountable for their actions," officials said in the Facebook post. "We will take the appropriate actions at the conclusion of the investigation."
Law enforcement did not confirm when or where the incident occurred, but local media report it happened Sunday at a convenience store in Mulberry.
A user named Naomi Johnson uploaded a video of the incident to TikTok that she also shared on Twitter, and said: "my sister witnessed this today." Johnson's video appeared to have been removed from TikTok on Sunday evening.
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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
On a reporting trip to Moscow last month, I stopped by the American embassy for a meeting. It's a big compound smack in central Moscow. Inside is the warren of reception rooms and offices you would expect and desks, lots of desks, lots of which are now sitting empty. Sixty State Department employees were forced to leave Russia last week. That's on top of more than 700 diplomatic staff getting cut last summer. NPR's Lucian Kim reports on the costs of America's shrinking diplomatic presence.
LUCIAN KIM, BYLINE: Last week, the 60 U.S. diplomats and their families boarded a charter plane in Moscow and left Russia maybe forever. They were the latest casualties in tit-for-tat expulsions that saw the same number of Russians kicked out of the U.S. after a former Russian intelligence officer was poisoned in England. But after they left, some of the American diplomats left a video message online.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking in Russian).
KIM: In Russian and in English, they told personal stories about their first encounters with Russians or what they did in the embassy. Maria Olson, the embassy's spokeswoman, was among them.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
MARIA OLSON: I'm departing here very sad at having to leave my friends and my colleagues, including my Russian colleagues, who are very professional and very invested in trying to build better U.S.-Russia relations.
KIM: The latest round of expulsions split up families, sent home Ambassador Jon Huntsman's personal interpreter and wiped out the entire political section. While these diplomats will eventually be replaced, former Moscow Ambassador James Collins says it's bound to hurt relations with Russia.
JAMES COLLINS: The capacity for misunderstandings across a range of issues are mounting. We are basically addressing that issue by further reducing our ability to talk to Moscow. And I think this is a big mistake.
KIM: The massive reduction in diplomatic staff and the closure of the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg have also led to problems for ordinary Russians. The official wait time to get an interview for a tourist or business visa is now more than eight months, and Russians are flocking to other European capitals to apply for U.S. visas there. That's created an opportunity for Daniil Sergeyev, who runs a Moscow visa agency.
DANIIL SERGEYEV: (Through interpreter) Our clients aren't concerned about worsening relations. Maybe they first went to America as a student, then with their parents, and now they want to visit Disneyland with their kids. They just want to be tourists.
KIM: Sergeyev says he hasn't heard of anybody getting a tourist visa in Moscow since last summer. He's advising clients to try U.S. consulates in Helsinki, Prague or Seoul depending on what part of Russia they live in. But not everyone can afford an extra trip just to get a visa, so many young Russians look for a piece of America in the U.S. embassy.
(SOUNDBITE OF HORN HONKING)
KIM: While outside Moscow traffic snarls past, inside the American center, there's the institutional feel of a high school anywhere in America. On Tuesday evening, there were three things going on simultaneously - an English class, a lecture on Siberian tigers and an informal award ceremony for college students finishing a course on environmental awareness...
(APPLAUSE)
KIM: ...Complete with a pizza party.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CAN'T STOP THE FEELING!")
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: (Singing) Dance. Dance. All those things...
KIM: Yekaterina Petrunina is one of the students.
YEKATERINA PETRUNINA: I think that we must not go back to Cold War reality. And most young people, especially who study at university and who have a certain level of education - they believe that our countries, Russia and the United States, should not be enemies.
KIM: One day in the not-too-distant future, Petrunina hopes to visit America despite all the difficulties. Lucian Kim, NPR News, Moscow. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.apr.org/2018-04-11/americas-shrinking-diplomatic-presence-in-russia-comes-at-a-cost-for-both-countries | 2022-08-22T02:16:36Z | https://www.apr.org/2018-04-11/americas-shrinking-diplomatic-presence-in-russia-comes-at-a-cost-for-both-countries | true |
PALM HARBOR, Fla. (WFLA) — An 11-year-old boy from Lutz died after being hit by a pickup truck driving on the sidewalk on Sunday.
According to a release from the Florida Highway Patrol, a pickup truck pulling a boat trailer was heading north on US-19 south of Grand Cypress Boulevard at around 5:30 p.m. when traffic began to slow down. The pickup swerved to avoid hitting another car and traveled onto the shoulder of the road.
FHP said the car then hit a child on a bicycle that was riding in the opposite direction on the sidewalk. The 11-year-old was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
The driver of the pickup was a 21-year-old man from Tampa. He and his 57-year-old passenger were not hurt in the crash. | https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/11-year-old-boy-dies-after-being-hit-by-pickup-driving-on-sidewalk-in-palm-harbor/ | 2022-08-22T02:21:15Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/11-year-old-boy-dies-after-being-hit-by-pickup-driving-on-sidewalk-in-palm-harbor/ | true |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
824 PM CDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...The Flood Warning continues for the following river in Texas...
Nueces River near Three Rivers affecting Live Oak County.
For the Nueces River...including Cotulla, Tilden, Three Rivers,
Mathis, Bluntzer, Calallen...Major flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/crp.
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Moderate flooding is occurring and major flooding is
forecast.
* WHERE...Nueces River near Three Rivers.
* WHEN...Until Wednesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...At 36.0 feet, Several homes flood in the River Creek
Acres Subdivision, five miles southeast of George West. Widespread
flooding cuts off and potentially drowns livestock. Roads and
bridges near the river flood and are impassable. There is
significant additional lowland flooding above this level. Flow
reaches Antelope Lane in the J.I. Hailey Subdivision at Jones
River bend.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 PM CDT Sunday, the stage was 34.6 feet.
- Forecast...The river is forecast to crest near 35.9 feet
early Monday afternoon. It will then fall below flood stage
early Wednesday afternoon.
- Flood stage is 25.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (7 pm)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Nueces River
Three Rivers 25.0 34.6 Sun 7 pm 35.1 30.2 22.7 14.1 7.7
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL TOMORROW AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* 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 8:15 PM CDT Sunday the stage was 16.7 feet (5.1 meters).
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 8:15 PM CDT Sunday was 18.1 feet (5.5 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
late tonight and continue falling to 9.2 feet (2.8 meters)
Friday evening.
- Flood stage is 15.5 feet (4.7 meters).
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
18.2 feet (5.5 meters) on 08/18/2022.
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Mon Mon Mon Mon
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 1am 7am 1pm 7pm
Rio Grande
Presidio Internation 15.5 16.7 Sun 8pm 16.5 13.5 11.6 11.0
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio Internation 4.7 5.1 Sun 8pm 5.0 4.1 3.5 3.4
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BEIJING, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new vlog series of China Factory Story, Fenjiu, Soul of Chinese Liquor, has recently been released. This is the first piece of this 10-episode vlog series, which is jointly produced by the National Brand Project Office of Xinhua News Agency, China Economic Information Service and Fenjiu Group.
The 10 episodes tell Fenjiu's liquor-making stories, from raw grain in green production base, a bottle of fragrant Fenjiu on the table, clear karstic water sources 800 meters underground, to modern workshops adopting time-honored techniques, which all speak of Fenjiu's craftsmanship, pursuit for excellence with a pragmatic approach, and spirits of staying true to tradition and innovation in brewing mild aromatic Baijiu.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Tesho Akindele scored his first goal of the season and it came in the 89th minute off his own deflected shot to send Orlando City SC to a 2-1 victory over Charlotte FC on Sunday.
Neither team scored until Ercan Kara connected for his team-high eighth goal of the season, giving Orlando City (10-10-6) a 1-0 lead in the 62nd minute.
McKinze Gaines pulled Charlotte (10-15-2) even four minutes later with his first goal this season.
Charlotte goalkeeper Kristijan Kahlina got a hand on Akindele’s first shot on goal, but the ball bounced right back to him and his second shot was true.
Orlando City beat an expansion team on the road for the first time in its history after going 0-5-4 in its previous nine tries.
Pedro Gallese saved two shots for Orlando City. Kahlina finished with five saves for Charlotte.
Also, Orlando City announced that forward Alexandre Pato will undergo exploratory surgery on his right knee on Sept. 9 in his native Brazil. A recovery timeline for the 32-year-old is unknown.
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After burning for more than four months outside of Las Vegas, the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire complex is now 100% contained, fire managers announced Sunday.
The Hermits Peak Fire started April 9 and the Calf Canyon Fire started April 19. The two blazes later merged and became the largest wildfire in state history.
Both started as Forest Service burns that got out of control, prompting the federal agency to temporarily suspend such burns.
The total containment means that a control line has been completed around the fire’s perimeter, which can be expected to stop the fire’s spread.
“Before a fire is declared ‘out,’ it must first be contained, then controlled,” fire managers said in a news release. “There is still ongoing suppression repair, burned area emergency response (BAER), flooding mitigation and monitoring activities to be completed.”
Fire officials said monsoon rains are part of the reason they don’t expect any future growth.
The fire reached 341,735 acres in size. There are still 470 members of fire personnel assigned to the blaze.
New Mexico had a frenzied and deadly fire season. An elderly couple died in the McBride Fire in Ruidoso in the spring, and three Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies and a Bernalillo County firefighter died in a helicopter crash after fighting a fire in July.
There have also been deaths in Las Vegas from flash floods. The fire complex outside of town charred soil and trees, and the burned mountain slopes repelled water and caused flooding downstream. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2526233/calf-canyon-hermits-peak-fire-100-contained.html | 2022-08-22T02:51:07Z | https://www.abqjournal.com/2526233/calf-canyon-hermits-peak-fire-100-contained.html | true |
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Shea Langeliers got three hits, including Oakland's first triple after a strange 81-game drought without a three-bagger, and the Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 5-3 Sunday.
No team in major league history had gone longer without a triple since 1901 until Langeliers, a catcher, hit an RBI drive in the eighth inning. He had two triples this season in Triple-A.
Langeliers hit a drive off the left-field wall to end the spell.
“I got lucky there,” he said. “It kicked really far off the wall. So I just got to keep running.”
JP Sears (5-0) allowed one run, on Mitch Haniger's homer, in five innings. Six A's relievers held the lead for the team with the worst record in the AL.
Seattle, near the top of the wild-card standings, lost for the second straight day to the A's. Cal Raleigh had two doubles for the Mariners.
Luis Castillo (1-1) failed to reach the seventh inning for the first time in four starts since being traded from Cincinnati to Seattle. He yielded four runs and eight hits in five innings.
“I wasn’t 100% in rhythm the whole day,” Castillo said through an interpreter, Mariners third base coach Manny Acta.
The Mariners went 5-4 on their three-city trip.
A’s manager Mark Kotsay credited his players for doing “a phenomenal job of taking away what Castillo gives you. And you saw that right out of the gate.”
Kotsay was ejected in the seventh inning by umpire Bill Miller for arguing on a half-swing.
“I was a little amped up over the checked-swing call,” Kotsay said. “I lost the fact that these guys are human and they make mistakes. My frustration got the best of me, let’s just say that, and he did the right thing by ejecting me.”
Seth Brown, who hit Oakland's previous triple on May 18, doubled and scored on Sean Murphy’s single in the first. A double by Langeliers keyed a two-run second.
Haniger’s fifth homer made it 3-1 in the third. Oakland added a run in the sixth when Tony Kemp dragged a bunt single and later scored on Stephen Vogt’s single.
Raleigh had an RBI pinch-hit double and Julio Rodriguez singled home a run in the seventh.
The Mariners stranded runners on the corners in the eighth inning, which ended with A’s left-hander Sam Moll coaxing a groundout from Dylan Moore.
Raleigh again doubled with one out in the ninth inning, but Austin Pruitt recorded the final two outs for his first save in two opportunities.
Seattle manager Scott Servais praised his team for rallying, but acknowledged the Mariners lacked the truly big hit.
“Offensively, we talk about ‘when you come back, make the comeback,''' he said.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mariners: LF Sam Haggerty was scratched from the lineup with left shoulder discomfort. Haggerty aggravated this ailment a couple of days ago, Servais said. Moore, who would have started at second base, occupied left field instead while Adam Frazier filled in at second. Haggerty entered the game as a pinch-runner in the eighth.
A’s: CF Ramon Laureano is still “moving forward pretty quickly” in his recovery from a strained left oblique, Kotsay said. Laureano, who hasn’t been in a game since Aug. 14, played catch on Sunday, one day after taking 10 swings with no ill effects ... OF Skye Bolt missed his second start in a row with left knee soreness but felt fit enough to enter the game in the eighth. ... RHP Brent Honeywell’s minor league injury rehabilitation assignment will intensify Tuesday when he becomes available to pitch in relief for Triple-A Las Vegas. Honeywell is on the injured list with a stress reaction in his right elbow.
UP NEXT
Mariners: Following Monday’s scheduled off-day, the Mariners face Washington on Tuesday to open a six-game homestand.
Athletics: Host Miami on Monday, with Adam Oller of the A’s opposing right-handed counterpart Pablo Lopez. | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/langeliers-ends-as-81-game-triples-drought-in-win-over-ms/281-4f377248-a051-4726-bd47-64da15db5580 | 2022-08-22T02:53:05Z | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/langeliers-ends-as-81-game-triples-drought-in-win-over-ms/281-4f377248-a051-4726-bd47-64da15db5580 | false |
Time for homegrown passenger transportation App
Sunday August 21 2022
A bicycle, a motorcycle, or a car can be someone’s dream to better his or her life. In a place like Tanga City, we have bicycle taxis. When we were growing up, there were stories of people who started as bicycle taxi riders, and over time they graduated to own fleets of cars.
There is a story of a young man (whom I know) who has been working very hard using a Boda Boda (motorcycle taxi). He used to work such long hours to better his life. He started saving his money to upgrade his business into an uber driver. He spent about two years saving the money and finally shifted from bodaboda into the car taxi business via taxi-hailing apps.
His dream came true three months ago after he imported a car for the taxi business.
When he received his car, he was very excited and started working using the taxi-hailing app to make a living. His dream is to save money again so that with time he will purchase another car for taxi services, and later on buy a lorry for the goods transport business.
He is now devastated as the taxi app he is using has introduced some changes by accepting only corporate clients (pay by using cards only). I can guess in the last few years ago, many people have bought cars to work with Uber or Bolt.
Note that, initially, this young man intended to work with Uber, the world’s number one passenger requesting taxi services app. Very unfortunately, in April this year, as his car was on the way coming, Uber stopped offering car taxi services in Tanzania.
He was a bit frustrated, thanks to the existence of other taxi-hailing apps like Bolt, the then main competitor of Uber. Recently, Bolt has also announced changes for its car services by only being available for corporate passengers.
The advantage of the taxi apps, was the low and affordable prices for passengers.
On the other hand, people with cars could easily get into business via the applications. Therefore, the applications have been of great help to both passengers and operators who can earn a living.
Uber was founded in 2009 in America by Canadian tech guru, Garrett Camp, while Bolt, originally Taxify, was founded in 2013 by a 19-year-old high school student, Markus Villig in Estonia (Northern Europe). The business model for both is simple- aggregate taxis into one platform.
Today, millions of passengers depend on the two apps for easy and convenient transport. This means that in Tanzania now, they are offering limited services.
This is a sad story, which hopefully, the regulators can short out. Every challenge is also an opportunity. There have been some homegrown apps offering similar services, unfortunately, they are less known.
Branding and positioning your goods and or services in the market at times mean the whole world. The point here is after a brand has sunk into people’s minds and hearts, competitors have to work harder for theirs to be noticed.
In 2017, Tigo Tanzania launched Twende App to compete with Uber and Bolt, but it has not picked up the pace.
The same for the numerous locally made car taxi apps.
One of the biggest problems in Africa is that businesses compete with each other even where they are supposed to collaborate. For example, if all the Uber and Bolt drivers in Dar es Salaam come together, get a developer to make an Uber app like, and market it as much as possible their problems would be solved.
For now, as the two leading taxi brands scale down operations, the people to suffer most are the passengers. I can see the return of the normal and high taxi prices we used to hire.
Saumu Jumanne is an Assistant Lecturer, Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE) | https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/oped/time-for-homegrown-passenger-transportation-app-3921560 | 2022-08-22T02:57:43Z | https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/oped/time-for-homegrown-passenger-transportation-app-3921560 | false |
Former WBAL-TV reporter Omar Jimenez will co-anchor the CNN show Early Start beginning Monday, Jimenez announced Sunday on Twitter.
Early Start begins at 5 a.m. on weekdays. Jimenez will be joined by co-anchor Christine Romans in his first time anchoring for CNN.
Jimenez was a reporter at WBAL-TV, Baltimore’s NBC affiliate, from 2015 to 2017, according to the station’s website.
At WBAL-TV, he received an individual Emmy nomination for his general assignment coverage and covered the trials of the police officers charged with Freddie Gray’s death, according to CNN’s website. Jimenez joined CNN affiliate Newsource in 2017 and became a CNN correspondent in 2019.
While covering protests following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, Jimenez was handcuffed and detained by Minneapolis police while on-air along with other members of his CNN crew. His team was first placed in a police van and then sat on the ground while handcuffed, according to an interview Jimenez gave to CNN anchors. Jimenez later covered the trial of the former police officer convicted of Floyd’s murder. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-ci-omar-jimenez-anchor-cnn-show-20220822-lztha2e6mvckbofg32lzfxq5qi-story.html | 2022-08-22T03:19:11Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-ci-omar-jimenez-anchor-cnn-show-20220822-lztha2e6mvckbofg32lzfxq5qi-story.html | true |
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