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Airplane manufacturer Daher recently unveiled its all-new $3.5 million aircraft — the Kodiak 900.
The backcountry plane builds upon the company's robust Kodiak 100 with upgraded technology and comfort.
The Kodiak 900 is estimated to cost $300-$400 per hour, which is less than competing planes like the PC-12.
French airplane manufacturer Daher just unveiled its new rugged, backcountry plane — the single-engine Kodiak 900 turboprop.
Daher chief demo pilot and sales & marketing director Mark Brown told Insider that the plane builds upon the company's Kodiak 100 bush plane.
The Kodiak 100 was actually first produced by manufacturer Quest Aircraft Company in 2007, but the planemaker was bought by Daher in 2019.
The Kodiak 100 is a true "hardcore" bush plane that is designed to land on any surface, including mud, sand, gravel, and water, and can tackle rough missions that require flying in extremely remote places with little to no infrastructure.
Over the years, Brown said a market need opened for an aircraft with the same off-road capabilities as the Kodiak 100, but with less focus on its bush features.
"The Kodiak took the course of a Jeep or Range Rover that started their history maybe with military service or being off-road centric, and then high-net worth people started seeing these cars as really cool and liked the concept of being able to drive anywhere," Brown said.
He said that people started buying those cars, and they started getting nicer, which is how the evolution of the Kodiak 100 to the Kodiak 900 happened.
Specifically, the Kodiak 900 took the robust features of its predecessor and combined that with the luxury and speed of the French-made TBM 960.
The result is a more refined, modern plane that can still tackle rugged landing strips made of things like gravel, grass, and sand.
"Say there is a lodge with a 2,000-foot landing strip and they need to get people from Anchorage to the lodge, that would be a good mission for the Kodiak 900," he said.
He said the multi-role design makes the “beefy” plane perfect for backcountry flying, like in the remote Alaskan wilderness or Australian Outback.
In Alaska, in particular, there are 6 times as many pilots per capita as any other US state. The bush pilots regularly fly to hard-to-reach places to deliver goods and mail.
Brown said that because the Kodiak 100 has been popular for these types of flights, the Kodiak 900 will be a more modern, yet still incredibly reliable, option for operators looking to upgrade.
However, Brown explained the plane is more intended to land on "unimproved" runways made of asphalt or concrete.
It is not meant to land anywhere like the Kodiak 100 but is designed for shorter takeoff and landings under 1,500 feet.
Moreover, the plane cannot be fitted with skis, and Daher does not have float options. Brown explained third party companies would need to design and sell floats for the aircraft.
Despite the fewer bush features, the Kodiak 900 still offers owners improved speed, cargo space, comfort, safety, and technology compared to the Kodiak 100 and other rugged planes, like the 70-year-old De Havilland Beavers and Otters that frequent the Alaskan skies.
Specifically, the plane, which is powered by a Pratt & Whitney PT6A-140A engine, can cruise at 210 nautical miles, carry 3,700 pounds of cargo, and seat nine people, including a pilot and eight passengers.
This means the Kodiak 900 can reach places faster for lower costs. Brown compared the new plane to the popular PC-12 aircraft made by Swiss planemaker Pilatus.
He said the $6 million PC-12 is "more airplane than needed" in many cases, and is extremely costly and complex for operators, costing $1,200+ per hour.
The $3.5 million Kodiak 900, on the other hand, will only cost companies an estimated $300-$400 per hour, mostly because of its 9% lower fuel consumption compared to competitors.
Brown also explained the "overbuilt" plane is strong with reduced maintenance costs. Combining this with lower fuel consumption means there is more profit opportunity for operators.
Moreover, the Kodiak 900 is unpressurized, unlike the PC-12. The plane's cruising sweet spot is 10,000-12,000 feet, so passengers would still feel comfortable.
However, the aircraft can fly up to 25,000 feet and the Kodiak 900 has supplemental oxygen for those flights. According to Brown, the unpressurized cabin makes the plane less complex, reduces metal fatigue, and lowers its overall operating costs.
As a result, the Kodiak 900 fits a market niche between the old Kodiak 100 and the more expensive PC-12, giving operators a good low-cost, short-mission option.
"Operators needed more speed or space than the Kodiak 100 could give them, but did not need the complexity or cost of the PC-12 or King Air, so that's where the Kodiak 900 comes in," Brown said.
"For operators in Alaska, which only have five to six months to make all of their money during the summer, the airplane can make them a lot more because it's cheaper to operate and it can still fly a 100-150 nautical mile mission nearly as quick as the PC-12," he continued.
Daher opened its order book for the Kodiak 900 on July 25 and Brown confirmed the company has a handful of preorders but did not name specific operators.
He said the plane's $3.5 million price tag comes well-equipped with six passenger seats, de-icing capabilities, air conditioning, and supplemental oxygen, among other features.
According to Brown, the Kodiak 900 is good for medical evacuations because it is large enough to fit two stretchers and a nurse station.
Moreover, the aircraft is faster than a helicopter, which is commonly used in places like Alaska, but cheaper than a jet.
Government entities have also taken interest in the plane for special missions, Brown told Insider.
Buyers can expect a modern cabin onboard the Kodiak 900. Specifically, the plane has reclining seats with dual armrests, car-style seatbelts, headrests, USB charging ports, and cup holders.
The seats have been specially designed to be easily removed or added to the aircraft depending on need. For example, if an operator wants more cargo space, they can remove the seats using two simple latches.
Or, the seats can be adjusted to face each other so business passengers can talk while flying. They can also all face forward in a commuter configuration, according to Brown.
Meanwhile, the Kodiak 900 has an external cargo compartment in the belly of the plane. A rear hatch flips down so operators can easily load long items, like lumber, fishing poles, skis, and snowboards, adding to the plane's versatility.
On the fixed landing gear are "wheel pants," which are robust enough to stand on.
Brown said the aircraft can land on sand and gravel without worrying about debris getting stuck in the wheel pants, which was rigorously tested by the company and the Federal Aviation Administration.
The most important improvement on the Kodiak 900 is modern safety. Specifically, the cockpit has a synthetic vision system that displays a topographic map to pilots, which is useful when flying in the dark or through clouds.
"If there's a giant mountain in front of you that you can't physically see with your eyes, you can actually see it on the Garmin screens in the cockpit, so it's like eyes outside," Brown said.
Moreover, the plane's innovative "discontinuous leading edge" wing design helps pilots better control the aircraft and avoid stalls and spins.
Brown said the plane is good from a pilot’s perspective because it is safe and efficient.
"The plane is extraordinarily stable and can fly at extremely low speeds for an airplane of its size," he said. "It's nice on the controls, easy to fly, and the reliability is unmatched."
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A police officer has been hurt after a BMW mounted the pavement in an incident on Saturday morning.
Officers in Derry are appealing for information following the ‘vehicle pursuit’ in the city’s Waterside area.
A spokesman said that an 8.45am, officers on duty on Spencer Road were alerted to a grey BMW 3 Series. The police say an officer “signalled for the vehicle to stop, however, the driver made off at speed, mounting a footpath, in the direction of Simpsons Brae”.
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A number of people were in the area at this time, but, “fortunately there have been no reports of any injuries”, the PSNI added.
The police statement said: “The vehicle was then driven on to Duke Street, across Craigavon Bridge and on to Abercorn Road. An investigation is underway to locate the driver of the BMW 3 Series and the vehicle.”
Superintendent Willy Calderwood said: “The reckless and dangerous actions of the BMW driver, in what was an attempt to evade police, resulted in one of our officers sustaining what we believe to be a minor leg injury after he was struck by the BMW. We are thankful no one else was injured.
“As our investigation continues, I want to make a number of specific appeals. Were you in the area this morning and witnessed what occurred? Did you see the Grey BMW 3 Series, or capture footage of its movements? The car may be missing a front registration plate and has damage to its front windscreen.”
The police added that anyone with information can call 101, quoting reference number 487 27/08/22 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at www.crimestoppers-uk.org/. A report, they said, can also be made online using the non-emergency reporting form via www.psni.police.uk/makeareport/.
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It's a balmy Bank Holiday! Leeds and Reading festivalgoers bask in 25C heat with more sunshine and above average temperatures on the way throughout the weekend and into next week
- The weekend will stay dry in most of the UK with top temperatures in the mid 20s as high pressure stays
- Millions of people are travelling the country to get to Leeds and Reading festivals and Notting Hill Carnival
- Weather will stay settled this week before turning by next weekend, meaning wind and rain on the way
- The good weather is great news for holidaymakers but does nothing to ease parts of the UK out of drought
Britons are looking forward to a balmy bank holiday weekend with temperatures set to peak in the mid-20s as revelers at Leeds and Reading festivals enjoy 25C heat.
Latest forecasts show the UK will remain dry this Bank Holiday, providing some final good weather before the return of schools at the start of September.
Festivalgoers in Leeds and Reading are enjoying Celsius temperatures in the mid-20s with no wellies or mud in sight.
There's good news for everyone in the UK into next week too, as temperatures will warm before slightly more unsettled weather arrives from the west next weekend.
Widespread sunshine on Sunday and Monday will only be dampened by isolated showers on Saturday, in 'average' conditions that holidaymakers can rely upon, the Met Office said.
For the tens of thousands of festivalgoers and attendees expected at London's Notting Hill Carnival, dry weather will be a relief as Britons enjoy the end of summer with no coronavirus curbs.
But for the ten regions in drought, weather will remain 'very, very dry', the Met Office forecasts.
And motorists are being warned to expect considerable disruption as millions take to the roads. Two million people are expected to celebrate Notting Hill Carnival in London alone.
Festivalgoers arrived at Leeds Festival this morning, dressed for warm weather and ready for a weekend of partying
Western-inspired outfits were a common scene as people arrived on Friday, ready for dozens of artists to take to the stage
Leeds revelers have already enjoyed top temperatures of 25C, and will continue to enjoy a burst of sunshine at the end of summer
Revelers during the Leeds Festival 2022, which is currently taking place at the city's huge Bramham Park
The UK's drought at lest means festivalgoers do not have to worry about mud ruining their outfits - with many friends turning up in matching co-ords
It may be hot at Leeds, but regular attendees at music festivals know that solid footwear is one of the most important things to have
A Met Office spokesperson told MailOnline: 'For much of the UK, high pressure will dominate the Bank Holiday weekend.
'We will see plenty of dry weather and sunny spells over the next few days. On Saturday, The UK will be mainly dry, with maybe a risk of just one or two showers.
'It will be a bit cloudier in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with a risk of patchy rain across western Scotland.
'Maximum temperatures will be about 25C, so it will be feeling pleasant in the sunshine.'
Turning to Sunday, maximum temperatures remain at 25C. The spokesperson said: 'It will be dry overnight into Sunday. There is a risk of one or two showers on Sunday, and it will again be cloudier in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
'On Bank Holiday Monday, there is a bit of a split between the south west and north east. It will be cloudier overall but the best of the sunshine will be seen in western areas such as Wales.
'Further north-east it will be cloudier with a higher risk of showers, particularly in the north east of England.
'Temperatures will be a bit chillier in the north under the cloud, we're looking at in the teens to low 20s, but we will still see high temperatures of up to 25C in the south east and south west.'
If this happens, it will make the UK as hot as Lisbon, Portugal.
Tens of thousands of revellers will attend the Reading and Leeds festivals between Friday and Sunday, with the rapper Dave and the Arctic Monkeys among the headliners.
Meanwhile, the Notting Hill Carnival in west London will return from Saturday to Monday for the first time since the pandemic, with two million people expected to celebrate.
Ashnikko (Ashton Nicole Casey, 26) performs on the BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage on Day 1 of Leeds Festival
As well as sunglasses and sunscreen, all sorts of hats are on show this weekend to protect from the bright sun
As of Wednesday, the UK had only 46 per cent of the average total rainfall for August and 30 million people are currently living under a hosepipe ban
Going into next week high pressure will hold on with largely settled weather. But the Met Office does forecast more unsettled weather by next weekend coming in from the west. This could result in wetter and windier weather.
Although dry weather is good news for those at Leeds and Reading, it's bad news for the UK's ecosystem.
As of Wednesday, the UK had only 46 per cent of the average total rainfall for August and 30 million people are currently living under a hosepipe ban.
The ongoing dry weather has seen drought declared across swathes of England, with parched grass and struggling crops, streams drying up and river, reservoir and aquifer levels low, and hosepipe bans brought in for millions as heatwaves pushed up demand for water.
Forecasters are yet to spot a sustained period of above-average rainfall, which is needed to end the drought.
Frank Carter, from Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, crowd surfs on the first day of Reading festival yesterday
Popular acts at Leeds include The 1975, who headlined yesterday (Pictured: Matty Healy of The 1975) and the Artic Monkeys, who will perform tomorrow
Revelers faced few problems getting to the festival on Friday, but are being warned to expect delays on travelling back at the end of the weekend
As tens of thousands of people gather at festival stages this weekend, Notting Hill Carnival will also kick off
Local businesses prepare for the first Notting Hill Carnival since the pandemic, which is expected to see two million people attend
Meanwhile motorists are being warned to expect widespread disruption ahead of another weekend of busy travel.
Bank Holiday travellers could face a weekend of chaos as half of drivers take to the roads and rail engineering works affect major routes.
It comes after train stations, airports and motorways were packed yesterday with people trying to make the most of the long weekend.
The AA and RAC last night warned of potential gridlock on some key motorways and major A-roads across the Bank Holiday. Network Rail also warned train passengers to check before they travel as track and signalling upgrades mean several lines will either be closed or have reduced timetables.
Tens of millions are set to be on the move over the next three days due to a bumper weekend of events. Reading and Leeds festivals began yesterday, with Notting Hill Carnival in west London starting today.
The Birmingham Weekender and Cardiff and Manchester Pride events are also taking place.
Of around 15million drivers expected to take to the roads this weekend, an estimated 4.2million set off yesterday. At least another 2.3million are expected to get in their cars today.
Yesterday, huge queues of vehicles built up travelling southbound on the M5 motorway past Bristol, and big waits met getaway traffic on the M25 near the Dartford Crossing in Kent.
The RAC's Rod Dennis said: 'We're expecting busy roads to continue throughout this bank holiday weekend, especially to major holiday destinations with people eager to enjoy some time away before the new school terms begin in England and Wales.'
In a fresh blow for rail travellers after crippling strikes, there will be reduced timetables and bus replacement services on swathes of the network due to the £90million engineering works project.
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A nuclear power plant in eastern Ukraine is at risk of melting down because of attacks on the surrounding electric grid. European officials want international inspectors to visit the plant.
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Ukraine: Russia fires on cities not far from nuclear plant
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces fired missiles and artillery on Ukrainian-held areas across the river from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, authorities said Saturday as concern persisted about safety at the Russian-controlled plant after it was temporarily knocked offline.
Grad missiles and artillery shells hit the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, each about 10 kilometers (6 miles) and across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, said Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russian forces occupied the nuclear plant complex early in the war in Ukraine, and Ukrainian workers have kept it running. Each side has repeatedly accused the other of shelling the complex, raising fears that the fighting could trigger a catastrophe.
Authorities began distributing iodine tablets Friday to residents who live near the plant in case of a radiation leak. The move came a day after the plant was temporarily knocked offline because of what officials said was fire damage to a transmission line.
Recent satellite images from Planet Labs showed fires burning around the complex over the last several days.
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The U.N.’s atomic energy agency has been trying to send a team in to inspect and help secure the plant. Officials said preparations for the visit were underway, but it remained unclear when it might take place.
Ukraine has claimed Russia is using the power plant as a shield by storing weapons there and launching attacks from around it. Moscow, for its part, accuses Ukraine of recklessly firing on the nuclear complex.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, one person was killed and another wounded in Russian firing in the Mykolaiv region, local government officials said. Mykolaiv city is an important Black Sea port and shipbuilding center.
The governor of the eastern Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said Saturday that two people were killed in Russian firing on the city of Bakhmut, a significant target for Russian and separatist forces seeking to take control of the parts of the region they do not already hold.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Yankees reliever Lou Trivino got a tap on his shoulder as he warmed up in the bullpen alerting him he had on the wrong jersey: the No. 50 belonging to Jameson Taillon instead of his own 56.
Trivino had pulled off his sweatshirt to throw his pitches on a cool Friday night at the Coliseum and the problem became clear. He began to warm in case he was needed to replace Wandy Peralta, who surrendered an RBI single to pinch-hitter Dermis García but finished the 2-hour, 50-minute game for his third save as New York beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2.
“I don’t know, it happens,” Trivino said. “… I was warming up, I wasn’t even paying attention.”
A bat boy scurried out with the right jersey and Trivino made a quick change.
Who told him? “I don’t know, it just happened,” said Trivino, traded by the A’s to New York at the deadline along with Frankie Montas.
Trivino laughed it all off, saying, “It wasn’t the first time, it’s probably not the last.”
So he had done it before? “Oh, yeah, who hasn’t?” he cracked.
Maybe pull on Aaron Judge’s No. 99 next time for a little fun? — “yeah,” the right-hander agreed.
Trivino had joked he wanted some attention since he wasn’t playing. He got it all right.
“I didn’t know that,” Judge said, grinning, “I’ll have to get on him.”
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Big Brother provided yet another shocking double eviction on Thursday's episode, which saw Joseph Abdin and Jasmine Davis walk out the door.
Since their exit, Joseph and Jasmine tell ET that there are some regrets over how they played their hand during season 24 that's being described as a surprising, eventful and duplicitous season. And, yes, there very much remains a sense of betrayal, from both parties.
While Jasmine accepted her ouster with grace and hugs, she's got some choice words for Alyssa Snider. Joseph also tells ET he's NOT shocked by the ouster, but yet still feels betrayed.
ET: HOW SHOCKED ARE YOU SITTING HERE RIGHT NOW? WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS THE MAIN REASON YOU ARE SITTING HERE?
Joseph Abdin: To be honest with you, I’m not too shocked. Being at "Dyre Fest" I knew I could pick between the easy and hard route. The hard route is going in with the people I was working with and was loyal to and working to get them out and not just jumping initially into a self-preservation game and self-preservation mode. So, I did take the harder route. I knew I was taking the harder route but being who I am, I’d rather do that before I start betraying.
DID YOU THINK YOU WOULD BE SITTING HERE? WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST REGRET?
JA: I knew that was a huge possibility. I felt I was possibly working the hardest to keep us in a team format, rather than allowing people to start this self-preservation game that we were hoping would happen later on. But my biggest regret was not anticipating or, you know, expecting a change like the one we saw. And I should have tried to factor that in. I’m still in the Big Brother house, so self-preservation is always on everyone's mind. So I was just hoping I could fight against it as long as we can and work as a team.
HOW BETRAYED DO YOU FEEL BY KYLE AND TURNER? DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THEY DID WHAT THEY DID? WAS IT A SMART MOVE OR DO YOU THINK THE REST OF THE LEFTOVERS WILL RETALIATE ONCE THE HOUSE GUESTS MERGE AGAIN?
JA: It is the Big Brother house. I do feel betrayed. I wish Kyle and Turner at least thought a little long-term. If maybe getting rid of Alyssa while we were out there was more feasible and doing that we could have come in and we didn’t have to draw this line and start a war. But I think that The Leftovers might retaliate based on the story that they give coming back into the house, and if so, the remaining Leftovers definitely should because it’s going to be them or the "Dyre Fest" people.
HOW SAD ARE YOU THAT YOU DIDN'T GET TO SAY GOODBYE TO TAYLOR OR SPEND YOUR LAST WEEK IN THE HOUSE WITH HER? HOW SERIOUS ARE YOU ABOUT WANTING HER TO CALL ONCE THE SHOW IS OVER?
JA: Oh my god. I am absolutely devastated. I actually was thinking about it on my walk out the door. I’m 100 percent, you know, I would love to speak with her and get to know her outside of the circumstance where we're playing for $750,000.
YOU WERE ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WHO STOOD UP FOR AND RESPECTED TAYLOR IN THE HOUSE. WHAT WAS IT LIKE SEEING WHAT SHE WENT THROUGH THOSE FIRST FEW WEEKS?
JA: It was upsetting, you know? I, in the real world, have been through what she's been through; watching someone be isolated and ostracized is something that I just don't want to put up with. And, unfortunately, I was playing the game. So, it took me a lot longer to get to her than I normally would have, but I didn't like how things were going. It is the Big Brother house, so there is more incentive for people to check in on two stories or two narratives being pushed. So, I was working quietly and slowly, but I was definitely inching my way toward her when I could.
HOW SHOCKED ARE YOU TO BE SITTING HERE RIGHT NOW? YOU SAID YOU FELT MOST BETRAYED BY ALYSSA. WHY IS THAT AND DO YOU STILL FEEL THIS WAY?
Jasmine Davis: I definitely feel most betrayed by Alyssa because she was my best friend in the house and I think that some things are just understood. She knew I had her back and I was hoping that she had mine, but when I found out that she just openly spilled so many secrets about me, it was very hurtful 'cause I think, if anything, she should've had that in the back of her mind that I should be at least one of the people she's protecting at all costs and that just didn't happen. And I think I'll have to see how the rest of the season plays out in order for me to see if I'll still feel that way, and I definitely want to have a conversation with her when I'm able to have a one-on-one.
WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF MICHAEL AND BRITTANY'S GOODBYE MESSAGES TO YOU AND WHAT THEY REVEALED? HOW SURPRISED ARE YOU BY THE SEVEN-PERSON ALLIANCE?
JD: I'm not super surprised. I obviously didn't account for some people in that alliance, but I definitely felt like Turner, Monte, Michael, and Brittany had something going on; just how they were hanging out. And I definitely felt like Michael and Brittany and Taylor had a final three, so now it makes sense and they just all combine. But I just don't know how well that's gonna work if they just made a seven-person alliance and they knew that double eliminations were coming up, so why would you do that? Y'all would literally have to start attacking each other, but hey, I was I was shocked but not as much as I probably should've been.
WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF TAYLOR'S GOODBYE MESSAGE TO YOU SAYING SHE WOULD NEVER PUT ANOTHER BLACK WOMAN UP, ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU DID PUT HER ON THE BLOCK DURING YOUR HOH WEEK AND YOU NEVER REALLY SEEMED TO LIKE HER. ANY REGRETS?
JD: The only regret that I have is not standing up for Taylor when Daniel said the choice words that he did say to her, but I don't regret any move that I made in the game. I think that, because last season was so monumental, I definitely didn't wanna come in the house showing that a person of color just cannot go on the block with me because I felt like people would've caught on to that. And I also didn't want people to think, "Oh, she's not gonna ever put up a woman." I needed them to think that it was a level playing field when I was in the game. But I will say that the beginning weeks, she wasn't really talkative to the girls or me, and so I felt like she had a different strategy in mind. But going throughout the game, and especially in this last week, I got to learn so much more about Taylor and we got to bond and I spent so much time with her, and I really respect her as a woman. And I hope that we can be friends outside this house 'cause she's freaking awesome.
JASMINE, YOU ARE REALLY INTO YOUR BIRTHDAY. WAS IT THE ULTIMATE PRESENT BEING ABLE TO SPEND YOUR LAST WEEK IN THE HOUSE AWAY FROM TURNER? WHY DID THE TWO OF YOU NEVER GET ALONG? ARE YOU OVER HIM STEALING YOUR MUFFINS?
JD: I'm such a big birthday person. It was my 30th and it doesn't matter if it was my 30th or any other birthday. I'm like an all-month celebrator when it comes to my birthday. So, yes, this is really me all the time or every single year. In regards to Turner, we just never got along because we had different viewpoints on a lot of things. He literally hates one of my favorite actors and it just really burns me up, but I also appreciate his difference of opinion because he kept me on my toes and I love someone who challenges me 'cause [it] makes me better. But it's always a place and a time to get people back and you know Turner's time is coming for sure.
WERE YOU USING YOUR INJURY AS AN ADVANTAGE AND DO YOU THINK IT PAID OFF OR HURT YOU?
JD: I definitely was limping towards the end of the season and it definitely paid off for me, in my mind, because I think that a lot of people didn't want to put me on the block because I couldn’t really fight for myself if it came down. And I just think that that would be a cowardly move if someone did that. Not saying that they couldn’t have made it but I don't think that anybody would’ve really tried to take that shot. But it definitely had its advantages at the end. But in the beginning it was really painful. It was a lot to go through and at the end, I just tried to make it work for me so I could help better my game.
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Rob Manfred’s response to a question last month about minor-league salaries before the All-Star Game took off when the Major League Baseball commissioner said “I reject the premise that they’re not paid a living wage.”
Response on social media was swift.
In 2020, two years after successfully lobbying Congress to exempt minor-leaguers from federal minimum-wage laws through the Save America’s Pastime Act, MLB opted to give players a salary increase. Players at rookie and short-season levels saw their minimum weekly pay raised from $290 to $400, and players at Class A went from $290 to $500, Double A from $350 to $600 and Triple A from $502 to $700.
That same year, former players Raul Jacobson, Ty Kelly, Matt Paré, longtime labor leader Bill Fletcher Jr. and others formed a nonprofit called Advocates for Minor Leaguers to “provide a collective voice” for minor-league players.
“Most minor-league baseball players work second jobs because their annual salaries are insufficient to make ends meet,” the group said in a statement after Manfred’s comments. “The commissioner makes an annual salary of $17.5 million. His suggestion that minor-league pay is acceptable is both callous and false.”
Chicago Cubs third baseman Patrick Wisdom, who was in the organization’s minor-league system in 2020 and 2021, worked multiple jobs to make ends meet. He worked as an umpire and physical therapy aid, and did odd jobs such as clearing backyards for family friends.
Wisdom said he lived in the basement of an 85-year-old woman with five other guys. There weren’t separate rooms, just beds in corners.
“It’s hard, super hard, especially on that salary,” he told the Tribune. “Maybe a couple hundred bucks every two weeks and then you’re paying dues on top of that.
“So part of your paychecks go into the clubhouse staff and you’re trying to just take scraps home with you. You can take some water bottles home from the field and cram as many guys as you can into an apartment or find something like a host family where you can try to save money.
“It is hard, but I understand it was part of learning and stuff like that. You’re chasing your dream. I get that. I mean, I did it too. You’ve got to work in the offseason to offset costs for the season. It’s hard to manage a lot of things while still staying motivated to chase your dreams because sometimes for some guys it’s why they have to stop. They just can’t afford to keep chasing their dream, which is a tough pill to swallow.”
Minor-league players make between $4,800 and $15,400 annually, according to Harry Marino, executive director for Advocates for Minor Leaguers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists the poverty line for a one-person household in the 48 contiguous states and Washington as $13,590.
“Those salaries are paid out only during the regular season and the playoffs,” Marino told the Tribune. “The players don’t get paid during various required periods of work like spring training, extended spring training, fall instructional league and the winter offseason when players are both contractually and practically required to perform work for their teams.
“And as a result, players are often working second jobs just to try to make ends meet and struggling with housing insecurity, food insecurity, things that have been documented over the last year or two.”
MLB in November 2021 announced it would “provide more than 90% of assigned Minor League players across every level with furnished housing accommodations at each Major League club’s expense beginning with the 2022 season.”
But before that, Marino said, “in-season housing had not ever been provided to minor-league players as a result of which players were generally sleeping, five, six, seven, eight guys to a two-bedroom apartment on air mattresses to keep costs down.”
Michael Rivers, creator of the nonprofit Adopt a Minor Leaguer, saw a Twitter thread from former Minnesota Twins prospect Todd Van Steensel in early 2020 about the realities of life as a minor-league player. The season had been paused because of COVID-19, and players often would post on social media about their hardships. Though some teams committed to paying their players a stipend, it didn’t help existing issues. It even might have exacerbated it.
Rivers reached out to Van Steensel to offer to help and asked the player to pick a couple of teammates for whom he could do the same.
Rivers, who was dealing with his father’s recent cancer diagnosis and was looking to do some good, thought more people would be interested, so he tweeted an invitation for others to join him. Response to his call to action was so great that Adopt a Minor Leaguer was born.
“These guys don’t get paid for spring training, and after rent they barely had much left for anything else,” Rivers told the Tribune.
Through Adopt a Minor Leaguer, sponsors commit to sending their designated player $100-$150 a month in groceries, gift cards, money — whatever they and the player deem best.
“I like for the sponsors and players to keep in touch with each other bimonthly at least, so as to make it less of a business transaction and more of a friendship,” Rivers said.
“Sponsorships are one-on-one, which means the money or goods go straight to the player from the sponsor and we don’t touch any of it. I feel this works best because the fans can see exactly where their money goes.”
Adopt a Minor Leaguer has found sponsorships for 850 players since February 2020, raising more than $45,000 in grants. Rivers estimates the group has provided minor-league players almost $500,000 worth of help.
“The reality is the crisis wasn’t new,” Marino said. “This is something that has existed for 40 years. This is how it had always been done.
“What was new was players coming together to speak out about it and raise awareness about it. And that culminated with the last week of the (2021) season. Players in Brooklyn, on the Jersey Shore BlueClaws and Brooklyn Cyclones wore our Fair Ball wristbands demanding fair treatment and released a statement explaining why they were engaged in this on-field collective action, which was really unprecedented.
“And three days later, Major League Baseball owners got together and unanimously approved free furnished housing for all minor-league players starting this season. Now players are living in team-provided housing. It’s free, it’s furnished, and the experience is drastically different than it was last year. It’s important for everyone to understand that happened not because Major League Baseball decided to give housing to players out of the goodness of their hearts but because they were shamed into it by the public because of players coming together to raise awareness.”
With in-season housing now largely addressed, players have shifted their attention to pay.
Marino said they have a steering committee made up of more than 50 players with every team represented. The goal is for players to afford a normal life while playing professional baseball. Players want to be able to negotiate contracts they feel are consistent with the value they deliver.
One way they have started to pursue that is by working with the Senate Judiciary Committee to explore baseball’s antitrust exemption.
In 1998, Congress passed the Curt Flood Act repealing the antitrust exemption with respect to major-leaguers. But players in the minors, most of whom are not represented by a union —other than those on a team’s 40-man roster — weren’t included. Not only does the antitrust exemption result in suppressed wages, it tethers minor-league players to their teams for seven years — longer than their MLB counterparts. This means the antitrust exemption still exists in practical terms for the bulk of professional players, leading right into MLB’s efforts to contract the minor leagues.
The bipartisan Judiciary Committee is chaired by Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. On June 28, the committee sent a letter to Advocates for Minor Leaguers requesting additional information about MLB’s antitrust exemption. The letter included questions about the exemption’s effect on the pay structure for minor-leaguers, MLB’s international amateur system and baseball’s reduction in the number of minor-league affiliates.
The committee also sent a letter to MLB requesting information about the effects of the exemption seeking information about how it affects the “league’s structure and operations, with a focus on the exemption’s impact on competition in the labor market for minor-league ballplayers as well as the operations of minor-league teams.”
In his response to the inquiry, Manfred stated in his letter: “We respectfully submit that the opposite is true — the baseball antitrust exemption has meaningfully improved the lives of Minor League players, including their terms and conditions of employment, and has enabled the operators of Minor League affiliates to offer professional baseball in certain communities that otherwise could not economically support a professional baseball team.”
Durbin told the Los Angeles Times in July that there would be congressional hearings on the matter, though no hearing has been scheduled.
The minor leagues are made up of upward of 5,000 players with a maximum of 5,400 rostered at any one time. Players cycle in and out, so the number varies from team to team, but some players stay as long as seven years.
“Players don’t jump straight to Major League Baseball unlike in the NFL or the NBA,” Marino said.
“You can look at the top stars in the game. They spend time in the minors. They improve their craft. And so it’s important to understand that in baseball, the minor leagues are integral to the ultimate product on the field, and it’s impossible to separate the minor leagues from the major leagues. It’s all part of one big system, and everything you see in terms of the ultimate product on the field at the major-league level is impacted by the work that’s done in the minor leagues.”
Marino said the best long-term outcome is for minor-leaguers to be part of a formal players association with collective bargaining rights recognized by the National Labor Relations Board.
But until hearings on MLB’s antitrust exemption move forward, work continues for minor-leaguers.
Chicago Tribune reporter Meghan Montemurro contributed.
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But they also restore a crucial spiritual component to health care, according to health professionals and patients at Hospital Base San José de Osorno.
“It must be a guarantee – we take charge of the physical part, but without transgressing on the spiritual dimension,” said Cristina Muñoz, the certified nurse-midwife who launched new delivery protocols that Indigenous pregnant women can customize and are believed to be the first in the country.
Cristina Aron, the patient who first inspired Muñoz more than a decade ago, has now become a cultural liaison to Hernández and two dozen other women from pregnancy into early motherhood.
“Childbirth is a spiritual energy event for the mother, the baby and the community,” Aron said.
She had hoped to deliver her daughter in the countryside with a traditional midwife. But Chilean law requires professional health workers to deliver babies because of past high maternal mortality.
So Aron turned to Osorno’s hospital and negotiated her delivery conditions with Muñoz, including being accompanied by a woman conversant in Mapuche practices and taking her placenta to bury ceremonially in her ancestral lands.
Mapuche people see the placenta as holding a twin spirit to the child’s. Its burial, often with a tree planted on top to grow as the newborn does, is believed to create a lifelong connection between children and the natural elements of their family’s territory.
“It’s something very poetic and very revolutionary,” said Alen Colipan, whose son’s placenta was placed by a river near his paternal grandmother’s house. “He will not feel this uprooting from his land.”
Colipan was 17 when she gave birth in Osorno’s intercultural delivery room, with a floor-to-ceiling photo across three walls of the rocky beach that is home to grandfather Huentellao, a protector spirit revered by the Mapuche Huilliche, the region’s Indigenous group.
Colipan said her then-85-year-old midwife, Irma Rohe, who had never entered a hospital, was allowed to receive the infant “without gloves and other imposed things” and ritually clean him.
“We’re going back to wanting to give birth with people with ancestral knowledge,” Colipan said. “Even our way of being born was dominated. We have to begin to liberate it.”
Chilean law now requires hospitals to give the placenta to mothers if requested. For a decade it has also mandated intercultural care in places with a significant Indigenous population. Mapuche people account for one-third of Osorno's inhabitants and eight of 10 in the adjacent province of San Juan de la Costa, said Angélica Levicán, who has been in charge of Indigenous relations for the hospital since 2016.
“Health care among Indigenous people always existed. Then came another system to invalidate our own system,” she said. “Our intention is that they complement each other.”
To join both kinds of medicine is not easy. Many Indigenous people perceive public hospitals as yet another state institution that discriminates against their beliefs.
Mapuche medicine, based on spirituality, is also different from what doctors are trained for, said José Quidel Lincoleo, director of a center for Mapuche health care studies in Temuco, another southern city with a large Indigenous population.
Mapuche healers seek to connect with a patient's spirit to discover the "biological, social, psychological and spiritual root of the problem" that is manifesting as a disease, Quidel added.
“It could be another previous life, or some harm done to you, or a lack of self-knowledge that makes us transgress on our worldview,” he said.
But doctors and traditional healers say they can complement one another’s work by realizing that every expert only knows a fraction of what’s possible, especially when battling new diseases like COVID-19.
“One understands that saving a body needs to be compatible with beliefs,” said Dr. Cristóbal Oyarzun, a rheumatologist and coordinator of internal medicine at Osorno’s hospital. “A patient with inner peace has better opportunities to heal.”
That’s hard to achieve in the aseptic, isolated environment of a hospital, especially during the pandemic. Mapuche healers continued to pray and “spiritually accompany” patients from afar, said Cristóbal Tremigual Lemui, a healer from San Juan de la Costa who has long collaborated with Osorno’s hospital.
“For us that is essential … so patients can receive the energy they need,” he said.
Family members also flocked to the hospital’s prayer space — an outdoor circle of small sacred laurel and cinnamon trees with a firepit next to the parking lot — to hold ceremonies for the dying, Levicán said.
Walk-ins and admitted patients who identify as Indigenous — an average of 50 a day — are welcomed and accompanied by Erica Inalef, the hospital’s intercultural facilitator, so that “they don’t feel so very alone.”
When, as a teen, she took her elderly father to a hospital, doctors would barely talk to them, and “body and spirit were separated.”
Now, doctors can see the enthusiasm with which patients welcome the arrival of consulting traditional healers, and that helps build mutual trust, Inalef said.
Trust can manifest in a traumatologist signing off on a patient’s lawenko — an herbal tea whose exact composition the healers hold secret — or in an obstetrician allowing a woman in labor to wear her munulongko, a headscarf believed to protect her.
Cultural clothing is one section in the labor plan Muñoz developed five years ago, which pregnant women can customize. She hopes more will become aware of this option — only about 20 of the hospital’s 1,500 births each year are intercultural deliveries.
“Indigenous women are doubly timid, discriminated against for being women, Indigenous, poor and rural,” Muñoz said. “We tell her, your body is the first territory you’re going to recover.”
Reclaiming ancestral practices is what drew Angela Quintana Aucapan to have her baby — Namunküra, or “firm step” in Mapudungun — in the special delivery room recently, while relatives played traditional instruments.
“I was able to do it as my ancestors did,” she said. “With a ceremony while we waited for the new addition to the family, I felt supported as I received my baby.”
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Ana Maria Aucapan, left, a Mapuche machi, or spiritual guide, and Ingrid Naipallan, second left, perform Indigenous rites with a percussion instrument called a kultrun as Angela Quintana Aucapan begins her labor accompanied by her partner Cristian Fernandez Ancapan at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. The largest public hospital in Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous health care practices, such as having a machi help with delivery. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Ana Maria Aucapan, left, a Mapuche machi, or spiritual guide, and Ingrid Naipallan, second left, perform Indigenous rites with a percussion instrument called a kultrun as Angela Quintana Aucapan begins her labor accompanied by her partner Cristian Fernandez Ancapan at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. The largest public hospital in Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous health care practices, such as having a machi help with delivery. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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A sign that reads in Spanish “Angela Quintana Aucapan. 38 weeks pregnant. Covid negative. Intercultural birth.” is posted on the door of Angela Quintana Aucapan´s room as she settles in to give birth at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. About 20 of the hospital’s 1,500 births each year are intercultural deliveries. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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A sign that reads in Spanish “Angela Quintana Aucapan. 38 weeks pregnant. Covid negative. Intercultural birth.” is posted on the door of Angela Quintana Aucapan´s room as she settles in to give birth at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. About 20 of the hospital’s 1,500 births each year are intercultural deliveries. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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A midwife tends to Angela Quintana Aucapan and her newborn son, Namunkura, as the child’s father, Cristian Fernandez Ancapan, and Ingrid Naipallan, a machi, or spiritual guide, assist at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. Reclaiming ancestral practices is what drew Quintana Aucapan to have her baby in the special delivery room. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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A midwife tends to Angela Quintana Aucapan and her newborn son, Namunkura, as the child’s father, Cristian Fernandez Ancapan, and Ingrid Naipallan, a machi, or spiritual guide, assist at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. Reclaiming ancestral practices is what drew Quintana Aucapan to have her baby in the special delivery room. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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A midwife, left, tends to Angela Quintana Aucapan and her newborn son, Namunkura, as the child’s father, Cristian Fernandez Ancapan, and Ingrid Naipallan, a machi, or spiritual guide, accompany them at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. The largest public hospital in Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous health care practices, such as having a machi help with delivery. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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A midwife, left, tends to Angela Quintana Aucapan and her newborn son, Namunkura, as the child’s father, Cristian Fernandez Ancapan, and Ingrid Naipallan, a machi, or spiritual guide, accompany them at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. The largest public hospital in Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous health care practices, such as having a machi help with delivery. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Namunkura Fernandez Aucapan is taken by a nurse to be tested after being born at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. The largest public hospital in Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous health care practices, such as having a machi, or Mapuche spiritual guide, help with delivery. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Namunkura Fernandez Aucapan is taken by a nurse to be tested after being born at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. The largest public hospital in Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous health care practices, such as having a machi, or Mapuche spiritual guide, help with delivery. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
Credit: Luis Hidalgo
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View of the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. The largest public hospital in the southern Chilean city of Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous health care practices. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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View of the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. The largest public hospital in the southern Chilean city of Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous health care practices. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Angela Quintana Aucapan holds her newborn son, Namunkura, at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. “I was able to do it as my ancestors did,” she says. “With a ceremony while we waited for the new addition to the family, I felt supported as I received my baby.” (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Angela Quintana Aucapan holds her newborn son, Namunkura, at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. “I was able to do it as my ancestors did,” she says. “With a ceremony while we waited for the new addition to the family, I felt supported as I received my baby.” (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
Credit: Luis Hidalgo
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A midwife tends to Angela Quintana Aucapan and her newborn son, Namunkura, at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. Reclaiming ancestral practices is what drew Quintana Aucapan to have her baby in the special delivery room recently. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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A midwife tends to Angela Quintana Aucapan and her newborn son, Namunkura, at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. Reclaiming ancestral practices is what drew Quintana Aucapan to have her baby in the special delivery room recently. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
Credit: Luis Hidalgo
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Ingrid Naipallan, a Mapuche machi, or spiritual guide, embraces Cristian Fernandez Ancapan after the birth of his son at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. Machis are predominantly women who enter into altered states of consciousness to contact spirits for healing and also mediate and negotiate between different cultural realities. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Ingrid Naipallan, a Mapuche machi, or spiritual guide, embraces Cristian Fernandez Ancapan after the birth of his son at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. Machis are predominantly women who enter into altered states of consciousness to contact spirits for healing and also mediate and negotiate between different cultural realities. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Credit: Luis Hidalgo
Irma Rohe Cardenas, a Mapuche midwife, poses for a photo at her home in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Rohe first assisted a birth in the hospital’s delivery room five years ago. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Irma Rohe Cardenas, a Mapuche midwife, poses for a photo at her home in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Rohe first assisted a birth in the hospital’s delivery room five years ago. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Cristina Aron prepares a birthing room that she built in the backyard of her home in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Aron has served as a cultural liaison for two dozen women from pregnancy into early motherhood. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Cristina Aron prepares a birthing room that she built in the backyard of her home in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Aron has served as a cultural liaison for two dozen women from pregnancy into early motherhood. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Cristina Aron, a Mapuche cultural liaison, poses for a photo in the kitchen of her home in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. “Childbirth is a spiritual energy event for the mother, the baby and the community,” Aron says. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Cristina Aron, a Mapuche cultural liaison, poses for a photo in the kitchen of her home in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. “Childbirth is a spiritual energy event for the mother, the baby and the community,” Aron says. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Pamela Vergara poses for a photo next to a tree that was planted over the placenta of her son Julian in the yard of her home in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Mapuche people see the placenta as holding a twin spirit to the child’s. Its burial, often with a tree planted on top to grow as the newborn does, is believed to create a lifelong connection between children and the natural elements of their family’s territory. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Pamela Vergara poses for a photo next to a tree that was planted over the placenta of her son Julian in the yard of her home in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Mapuche people see the placenta as holding a twin spirit to the child’s. Its burial, often with a tree planted on top to grow as the newborn does, is believed to create a lifelong connection between children and the natural elements of their family’s territory. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Pamela Vergara and son Julian Lagos Vergara sit with Mapuche cultural liaison Cristina Aron next to a tree that was planted over the placenta from Julian´s birth in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Chilean law now requires hospitals to give placentas to mothers if requested. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Pamela Vergara and son Julian Lagos Vergara sit with Mapuche cultural liaison Cristina Aron next to a tree that was planted over the placenta from Julian´s birth in Osorno, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Chilean law now requires hospitals to give placentas to mothers if requested. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A car packed with 16 Syrian migrants crashed while trying to avoid a police roadblock in North Macedonia and four of its occupants were injured, authorities said Friday.
A police statement said the accident occurred on a highway near the northern border with Serbia late Thursday. A man from North Macedonia was arrested on suspicion of driving the vehicle.
The four injured migrants were hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries.
North Macedonia, a tiny Balkan country of 1.8 million, is on a major route used by migrants from the Mideast and Asia to reach wealthier European countries — often after paying large sums to smuggling gangs. Most enter illegally from Greece.
Two weeks ago, 35 people were injured when a truck carrying Syrian migrants overturned in North Macedonia.
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More than 130 former civil servants on Saturday wrote an open letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) against the premature release of 11 men who were jailed in the gangrape case of Bilkis Bano and requested him to rectify this "horrendously wrong decision".
They asked the CJI to rescind the order of remission passed by the Gujarat government and send the 11 persons convicted of gangrape and murder back to jail to serve out their life sentence.
"Like the overwhelming majority of people in our country, we are aghast at what happened in Gujarat a few days ago, on the 75th anniversary of India's Independence,” it said.
Former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung, former Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, former foreign secretaries Shivshankar Menon and Sujatha Singh and former Home Secretary GK Pillai were among the 134 signatories to the letter, written under the aegis of the Constitutional Conduct Group.
Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India on Saturday.
On August 25, the Supreme Court issued notice to the Centre and the Gujarat government on a plea challenging the release of the 11 convicts and posted the matter for hearing after two weeks.
The former civil servants said the release of the convicts has "outraged the nation".
"We write to you because we are deeply distressed by this decision of the government of Gujarat and because we believe that it is only the Supreme Court which has the prime jurisdiction, and hence the responsibility, to rectify this horrendously wrong decision," the letter read.
Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gangraped while fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning in 2002. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven killed.
In January 2008, a special CBI court in Mumbai sentenced the 11 to life imprisonment on charges of gangrape and murder of seven members of Bilkis Bano's family. Their conviction was later upheld by the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court.
The former civil servants wrote, "The case was a rare one because not only were the rapists and murderers punished, but so, too, were the policemen and doctors who tried to tamper with and erase the evidence to protect the accused and cover up the crime." After serving 15 years in jail, one of the accused, Radheshyam Shah, approached the Supreme Court with a plea for his premature release, the letter said.
The Gujarat High Court which had earlier been approached for this purpose had dismissed his plea while observing that the "appropriate government" to decide the case was that of Maharashtra and not Gujarat, it said.
Radheshyam Shah then filed a plea in the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court, on Radheshyam Shah's plea, also directed that the application for premature release be considered by the Gujarat government within two months, and in terms of its policy dated 9 July 1992, it said.
"We are puzzled about why the Supreme Court saw the matter as so urgent that a decision had to be taken within two months, as also by the Supreme Court ordering that the case should be examined as per Gujarat's 1992 remission policy and not its current one,” the letter said.
"In view of these glaring deviations from established law, departure from government policy and propriety, and the chilling impact that this release will have, not just on Bilkis Bano and her family and supporters, but also on the safety of all women in India, especially those who belong to minority and vulnerable communities, we urge you to rescind the order of remission passed by the Gujarat government and send the 11 persons convicted of gangrape and murder back to jail to serve out their life sentence,” they wrote. | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/134-ex-bureaucrats-on-bilkis-bano-convicts-release-horrendously-wrong-3292110 | 2022-08-27T14:08:41Z | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/134-ex-bureaucrats-on-bilkis-bano-convicts-release-horrendously-wrong-3292110 | false |
(NEXSTAR) – After months of anticipation, the Biden administration will soon begin forgiving millions of dollars in student loan debt. Up to 43 million borrowers are expected to receive relief, according to estimates from the White House.
How much you’ll receive, and when you’ll see relief, depends on a few factors.
Here’s what we know.
Loan type matters
The type of student loan (or loans) you have is important.
The Biden administration is only able to forgive federal student loans, not any loans from private lenders. Simply, if your loans aren’t “held by the Department of Education” through a federal lender – Nelnet, Great Lakes, and FedLoan are among the most common (you can see a full list here) – you don’t qualify for this forgiveness.
Student loan debt for both undergraduate and graduate education qualify for forgiveness, as long as your loans are held by the Education Department.
While forgiveness will cover federal student loans, including Parent PLUS Loans, some will not be eligible for relief. FFEL loans, or Federal Family Education Loans, that were not eligible for the payment freeze started in 2020 will not qualify for this forgiveness, according to The New York Times.
The income cap
As expected, the Biden administration is limiting student loan forgiveness based on income.
According to the White House, borrowers “with annual income during the pandemic of under $125,000 (for individuals) or under $250,000 (for married couples or heads of households)” will be eligible for relief, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Borrowers under the same income caps who received a Pell Grant in college will be eligible for up to twice as much in debt cancellation.
If your annual income exceeds either income threshold, you won’t qualify for the relief outlined by the Biden administration.
Federal student loans received after June 30, 2022, do not qualify.
How much forgiveness will you get
If you meet previous requirements – having federal student loans and fall under the income cap – you can expect to see debt relief.
The Biden administration says borrowers earning less than $125,000 (for individuals) or $250,000 (for married couples or heads of households), will be eligible for up to $10,000. Pell Grant recipients (here’s how to know if you are one) meeting the same thresholds are eligible for up to $20,000 in cancellation.
But what does that “up to” mean?
It’s pretty simple – your debt forgiveness is limited to how much you still owe. For example, if you’re a Pell Grant recipient making less than $125,000, and you have a balance of $12,000 left, you will only receive $12,000. You don’t get to collect the surplus $8,000.
Interest is included in your overall balance for this relief.
How soon will you see the debt relief?
When and how student loan forgiveness will be distributed hasn’t yet been made clear.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, nearly 8 million borrowers may qualify for relief automatically based on the income data the department already has. If the Education Department doesn’t have your income data, or you’re unsure if the agency has it, there isn’t much to do right now.
Instead, you’ll need to wait for the Biden administration to launch an application process, which will be available “in the coming weeks.” The application will be available before the student loan repayment pause ends on Dec. 31.
You can register to be notified when the application is available through the Department of Education by filling out this form.
What else should I know?
One of the biggest concerns borrowers have had is that this loan forgiveness will be taxable. The White House said Wednesday that, thanks to the American Rescue Plan, that will not be the case. Congress eliminated taxes on loan forgiveness through 2025.
Student loan forgiveness will also have an impact on your credit score. In a statement to Nexstar, the Consumer Data Industry Association – the trade association representing national credit bureaus like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion – said, “Credit scores take many factors associated with a consumer’s credit report into consideration, including the number of accounts, balances, payment history, and amounts paid down, among others. Removing or pausing student loan information from credit reports will impact consumers’ credit scores uniquely, depending on each individual’s credit history related to each of these factors.”
A spokesperson did not immediately respond to Nexstar’s request for additional details.
If your entire loan balance won’t be erased – which is likely for some 23 million borrowers – President Biden has extended the payment pause through the end of the year. But, come Jan. 1, 2023, interest will begin accruing again, and regular payments will resume. He has indicated the pause will not be extended again.
If you’ve voluntarily made payments since March 2020, when payments were paused, you can request a refund for those payments, according to the Federal Office of Student Aid. Contact your loan servicer to request a refund.
The White House could face lawsuits over this forgiveness plan, because Congress has never given the president the explicit authority to cancel debt. The Biden administration is tying its authority to the coronavirus pandemic and to a 2003 law aimed at providing help to members of the military. We don’t know yet how any legal action might impact the timetable for student loan forgiveness.
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MADRID (AP) — Spanish financial authorities are planning to keep a close eye on a major cryptocurrency metaverse event being organized in Madrid this weekend.
The CNMV stock market regulator this week warned that neither the organizers of the event, Mundocrypto, nor the sponsors have authorization to provide investment services or gather funds.
The event Saturday at a Madrid concert arena is expected draw 7,000 people. Spanish authorities and the CNMV say such gatherings are often aimed at luring people, especially youths, into investing in cryptocurrencies without full knowledge of the possible consequences.
Mundocrypto founder Mani Thawani, a Spaniard, has defended the event, arguing that it is for educational purposes and to guide people financially.
Mundocrypto describes itself as “world leader in crypto and blockchain education” and says 55,000 of its students have already become investors.
The CNMV says Mundocrypto is on its grey list of entities suspected of raising funds and providing financial services without permits.
Organizers say the show is aimed unveiling new trends in the sector. Show business personalities and economists are also expected to take part. Two well-known television personalities have pulled out of the event since the market regulator’s warning.
Earlier this year, a number of families complained to authorities that another cryptocurrency academy was brainwashing their children into spending their money on courses with promises they would become wealthy.
Investments in cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoins, have boomed in recent years but in several cases currencies have lost their value quickly and people their investments in what is an unregulated market. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/ap-spanish-market-regulator-warns-about-cryptocurrency-event/ | 2022-08-27T14:11:13Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/ap-spanish-market-regulator-warns-about-cryptocurrency-event/ | false |
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Standing ‘kuruvai’ crop inundated
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A breach on Vennar bank near Poigainallur in the district resulted in the inundation of standing ‘kuruvai’ crop.
According to official sources, the bank suffered a breach on Thursday as the volume of water flowing through the Vennar river in the region suddenly increased due to heavy rain for the past few days at night.
Due to the breach, knee-deep water stagnated in the fields at Poigainallur and adjoining villages on Friday morning. Subsequently, PWD officials reduced the flow into the Vennar at Moonar Head and plugged the breach.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 28, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
808 AM CDT Sat Aug 27 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following river in Texas...
Sabine River Near Mineola affecting Wood and Smith Counties.
For the Sabine River...including Mineola...Minor flooding is
forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive cars through flooded areas.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
For more hydrologic information, copy and paste the following website
address into your favorite web browser URL bar:
water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=shv
The next statement will be issued Sunday morning at 945 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY TOMORROW AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Sabine River Near Mineola.
* WHEN...Until early Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...At 14 feet, expect flooding of secondary roadways with
picnic and recreational areas flooded as well. Also expect
flooded boat ramps as well.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 AM CDT Saturday the stage was 14.8 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 7:15 AM CDT Saturday was 15.2 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
this Saturday evening and continue falling to 1.8 feet
Thursday morning.
- Flood stage is 14 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...
* WHERE...Trinity River At Trinidad.
* WHEN...Until early Tuesday morning.
* IMPACTS...At 37.0 feet, Minor flooding to woodlands and low land
areas will occur on the right bank of the river. At 40.0 feet,
Moderate flooding will occur along the right bank to agricultural
fields and the cattle industry.
- At 7:00 AM CDT Saturday the stage was 39.1 feet.
- Flood stage is 33.0 feet.
Monday afternoon and continue falling to 13.0 feet Thursday
morning.
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Data | 1994 vs 2012: Bihar, M.P. and Odisha had the highest share below poverty line in both years
While more than 40% of people in Bihar, Odisha, and M.P. were under the poverty line in 1993-1994, they remained the poorest States even in 2011-2012
A comparison of development indicators across States shows that they all have progressed over time, though the degree of improvement varies. In general, the eastern States performed poorly. In terms of per capita net State Domestic Product (constant prices) or SDP, all States were below the ₹20,000 mark in 1993-1994. By 2019-2020, all the southern and some western and northern States (except Uttar Pradesh) had crossed the ₹1 lakh mark. With more than 40% under the poverty line, Bihar, Odisha, and M.P. had a high poverty rate in 1993-1994. These States remained among the poorest even in 2011-2012. The share of rural women in the labour force (LFPR) declined across all States between FY94 and 2011-2012. Kerala and Goa were the top States across both periods in the Human Development Index (HDI). Regions: North (light blue), South (lavender), East (lilac), Northeast (green), West (yellow), Central India (grey) and Union Territory (orange)
SDP (in ₹): 1993-1994 vs 2019-2020
The graph shows per capita SDP. In 1993-94, all States were below the ₹20,000 mark. But by 2019-20, all the southern States, western States (except Rajasthan) and northern States (except Uttar Pradesh) had crossed the ₹1 lakh mark. Eastern and central States stayed behind the mark
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Poverty line: 1993-1994 vs 2011-2012
The graph shows the poverty rate. In the mid-1990s, Bihar had the highest poverty rate (55%). By 2011-12, Chhattisgarh (39.9%) had replaced Bihar as the worst performing State. While Punjab (11.8%) had the lowest share in 1993-94, by 2011-12 Goa had the lowest share (5.1%)
Working rural women: 1993-1994 vs 2011-2012
The graph shows the LFPR per 1,000 rural women. The share of women in the labour force declined across all the States between 1993-94 and 2011-12. In 2011-12, more than half the women were part of the rural workforce only in Himachal Pradesh
State-wise HDI: 1990 vs 2019
The graph depicts HDI measured on a scale of 0 (worst) to 1 (best). While only Kerala and Goa had crossed 0.55 in 1990, all the States/UTs had crossed this mark by 2019. Only Bihar and Uttar Pradesh had an HDI of less than 0.6 in 2019. Kerala and Goa remained at the top
Source: RBI Handbook of Statistics on Indian States, Global Data Lab
Also read: Poverty in India is on the rise again
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Drew Lock threw for a touchdown with three interceptions before the Dallas Cowboys rallied to beat the Seahawks 27-26 on Friday night in Seattle’s final preseason game before deciding on Russell Wilson’s replacement.
A pair of long shots for the Dallas roster connected for the winning score when Ben DiNucci found tight end Peyton Hendershot on a 14-yard TD with 4:07 remaining.
Geno Smith, continually noted as the leader in the competition with Lock, played one series, moving the Seahawks (0-3) to the Dallas 19 before a penalty and a 14-yard sack forced them to settle for Jason Myers’ 53-yard field goal.
Lock saw plenty of playing time after missing the second preseason game because of COVID-19. Coach Pete Carroll said it would be a “makeup deal,” but Lock’s picks may have titled the choice even more toward Smith.
Israel Mukuamu intercepted Lock’s second pass before the former Denver starter threw a 35-yard TD to Penny Hart on the first play of his second series following a fourth-down stop by the Seattle defense.
Dallas’ Nahshon Wright came off his man on the outside and stepped in front of Hart on Lock’s second interception, setting up Will Grier’s 1-yard scoring toss to Simi Fehoko to get the Cowboys (2-1) within 13-10 late in the first half.
The third interception from Lock set up another Dallas TD when undrafted rookie safety Markquese Bell corralled a tipped pass and rumbled to the Seattle 13 while star quarterback Dak Prescott stopped his TV interview to celebrate. Brandon Smith made a toe-tapping catch in the end zone for a 20-20 tie.
Lock led another TD drive to start the second half, but running back DeeJay Dallas was the focus. The third-year back had 50 of his 75 yards rushing on the drive, capped by his 1-yard plunge for a 20-10 lead.
Playing into the fourth quarter, Lock finished 13 of 24 for 171 yards and a 51.2 passer rating.
Not much appeared to change in the competition behind Prescott, who sat the entire preseason for the second consecutive year. This time it was by design after a shoulder injury kept him out most of the 2021 preseason. Almost every other projected Dallas starter didn’t play this preseason either.
Incumbent Cooper Rush handled one series that ended in a punt before Grier played the next 2 1/2 quarters, finishing 12 of 22 for 88 yards with two scores and no interceptions.
REPLACING TYRON SMITH
The Cowboys were two days removed from getting the news that eight-time Pro Bowl left tackle Tyron Smith probably will be out until December with a torn hamstring that also resulted in a fracture in his left knee.
His most likely replacement, rookie first-round pick Tyler Smith, didn’t play because of an ankle injury. Second-year man Josh Ball started and saw plenty of action, but doesn’t appear ready to be the starter on Prescott’s blind side.
RETURN MEN
After returning a kickoff and a punt return for touchdowns last weekend, Dallas receiver KaVontae Turpin didn’t see action in the return game and got some work on offense. He had an 8-yard catch on two targets.
Seattle receiver Dee Eskridge returned from a hamstring injury and had an 18-yard punt return and an 8-yard catch on three targets. The Seahawks envision him as the No. 3 receiver, but he’s had trouble staying healthy.
INJURIES
Dallas CB Kelvin Joseph, whose roster spot could be in jeopardy, left after the first play and didn’t return. He was ruled out with a concussion.
UP NEXT
Both teams open the season in prime time. The Cowboys have the first Sunday night game at home against Tom Brady and Tampa Bay on Sept. 11. The Seahawks are home against Denver in the first Monday night game Sept. 12.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (NewsNation) — The Justice Department on Friday made public a heavily redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
Despite being redacted, the affidavit contains details about an ongoing criminal investigation into classified documents being stored at Trump’s Palm Beach property after he left the White House.
Trump called the search of Mar-a-Lago a “weaponization” of the Justice Department and likened it to a “political attack on our country” during an appearance on “The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs.”
“They weaponize at a level that nobody’s ever seen before,” Trump said on the podcast, which was released Friday. “They go after political opponents at a level that nobody’s ever seen before with a raid (on) an ex-president, and a popular ex president.”
According to the affidavit, investigators believed additional classified documents were being held at Mar-a-Lago and that there was “probable cause” to believe that obstruction of evidence — somebody trying either to hide or destroy the documents — would be found.
The affidavit states that 14 of the 15 boxes recovered from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year contained documents with classification markings.
It details “184 unique documents (sic) bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as CONFIDENTIAL, 92 documents marked as SECRET, and 25 documents marked as TOP SECRET.”
Trump asserted he had done nothing wrong “from day one” during his interview with Dobbs.
“Everything was absolutely perfect. It was a perfect, it was perfectly handled,” Trump said. “And they could have come in, and they could have talked to us and they could have taken whatever they needed.”
The former president went on to reinforce the anger his supporters have directed at the FBI and Justice Department in wake of the Mar-a-Lago search, saying “they are furious. I’ve never seen anger like it.”
He also, once again, made a false claim he won the 2020 presidential election.
“They love the country more than they ever have, because they see what we’ve lost,” Trump said. “We’ve lost our country, in my opinion. If this continues, I think just horrible things will happen. And that’s not said as a threat. That said, as somebody that just feels it. I feel it, I think horrible things. They are destroying our country. They’re destroying our system. And they lost an election. They lost an election and they lost it big.”
Late Friday night Trump and his legal team filed a supplemental motion seeking judicial oversight and additional relief in their case against the FBI, essentially alleging the case has not been handled fairly thus far and a “special master” should be appointed to oversee the case.
In their motion, filed in a U.S. District Court, Trump’s legal team laid out why their previous requests for a special master to oversee the case should have been granted and also asked the court to provide them with a more ” sufficiently detailed” account of what was taken from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI and for the return any items that fell outside the scope of the affidavit.
Upon their original request for oversight, a judge ordered them to explain further why they believed a special master would be required. The motion filed by Trump Friday night attempted to do that.
“This Court’s authority to appoint a Special Master to oversee the review of potentially privileged material is well established,” the motion read in part. “The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has appointed Special Masters in two recent (and prominent) cases, in both instances directing the appointments in new dockets.”
Investigators believed documents were being kept in a storage room, the first lady’s residential suite, Pine Hall, the “45 Office” and other spaces on the premises not authorized for storage of classified information or national defense information.
According to the affidavit, several of the documents also contained what appeared to be the former president’s “handwritten notes.”
The Justice Department redacted, or blacked out, the information they want to keep secret to protect details about witnesses and the scope of the investigation.
It was expected that large chunks of the text would be redacted as the DOJ had tried to keep the affidavit sealed, saying the investigation is currently ongoing and releasing it could hamper investigators’ efforts.
View the redacted Mar-a-Lago search affidavit below:
Redacted Mar-a-Lago Search Document by NewsNation Digital on Scribd
Trump reacted to the release of the affidavit on his social media platform Truth Social, saying, “Affidavit heavily redacted!!! Nothing mentioned on “Nuclear,” a total public relations subterfuge by the FBI & DOJ.”
Trump again called the FBI search a “Break-In of my home” and was critical of the judge who signed off on the search warrant.
“Judge Bruce Reinhart should never have allowed the break-in of my home,” Trump said.
The affidavit shows that the DOJ’s investigation began after the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requested help with “serious concerns” in recovering missing documents.
NARA first requested specific missing documents from Trump lawyers back in May of 2021.
It wasn’t until January that NARA said it recovered more than 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from an initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago, according to government correspondence with the Trump legal team newly made public.
What they ended up finding in those boxes were “newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous print-outs, notes, presidential correspondence, personal and post-presidential records, and ‘a lot of classified records.'”
There was speculation that the DOJ may not have been intending to charge anybody with a crime and that they just wanted to get the documents back.
However, the affidavit states that the FBI was opening a criminal investigation to determine how these documents left the White House and who’s responsible.
In May of 2022, it became a criminal matter and the affidavit describes repeated attempts by the government to secure additional materials stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Documents already made public as part of the investigation show that the FBI retrieved from the property 11 sets of classified documents, including information marked at the top secret level.
It is not specifically known what the details of those documents are.
The Aug. 12 release of the search warrant in the investigation helped paint a picture of the possible crimes authorities believe Trump may have committed, including violating the Espionage Act.
Trump has urged the release of the full unredacted affidavit and has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government following what he calls an “un-American break-in.”
Trump and his legal team claim all of the documents were declassified and rightfully in his possession. The affidavit offered some insight into the claim.
It includes a letter from Trump lawyer M. Evan Corcoran in which he asserts that a president has “absolute authority” to declassify documents and that “presidential actions involving classified documents are not subject to criminal sanction.”
In the letter, Corcoran asks that the DOJ investigation into the “leader of the Republican Party” not “involve politics.”
He then says the boxes of classified documents were “unknowingly included among the boxes brought to Mar-a-Lago by the movers.”
The release of the redacted affidavit comes as a new NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll found that most Americans approve of the FBI’s search of Trump’s estate. More than 93% of Democrats and 61% of independents surveyed said they somewhat or strongly approve of the FBI’s search of Trump’s Florida home, compared to just 30% of Republicans who said the same.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark warning Friday about the Fed’s determination to fight inflation with more sharp interest rate hikes: It will likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
The message landed with a thud on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,000 points for the day.
“These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation,” Powell said in a high-profile speech at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole. “But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.”
Investors had been hoping for a signal from Powell that the Fed might soon moderate its rate increases later this year if inflation were to show further signs of easing. But the Fed chair indicated that that time may not be near, and stocks tumbled in response.
Runaway price increases have soured most Americans on the economy, even as the unemployment rate has fallen to a half-century low of 3.5%. It has also created political risks for President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats in this fall’s elections, with Republicans denouncing Biden’s $1.9 trillion financial support package, approved last year, as having fueled inflation.
The Dow Jones average finished down 3% on Friday, its worst day in three months. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite shed nearly 4%. Shorter-term Treasury yields climbed as traders built up bets for the Fed to stay aggressive with rates.
Some on Wall Street expect the economy to fall into recession later this year or early next year, after which they expect the Fed to reverse itself and reduce rates.
A number of Fed officials, though, have pushed back against that notion. Powell’s remarks suggested that the Fed is aiming to raise its benchmark rate — to about 3.75% to 4% by next year — yet not so high as to tank the economy, in hopes of slowing growth long enough to conquer high inflation.
“The idea they are trying to hammer into the market’s head is that their approach makes a rapid pivot to (rate cuts) unlikely,” said Eric Winograd, an economist at asset manager AllianceBernstein. “They are going to stay tight even when it hurts.”
After raising its key short-term rate by a steep three-quarters of a point at each of its past two meetings — part of the Fed’s fastest series of hikes since the early 1980s — Powell said the Fed might ease up on that pace “at some point,” suggesting that any such slowing isn’t near.
Powell said the size of the Fed’s rate increase at its next meeting in late September — whether one-half or three-quarters of a percentage point — will depend on inflation and jobs data. An increase of either size, though, would exceed the Fed’s traditional quarter-point hike, a reflection of how severe inflation has become.
The Fed chair said that while lower inflation readings that have been reported for July have been “welcome,” he added that, “a single month’s improvement falls far short of what (Fed policymakers) will need to see before we are confident that inflation is moving down.”
On Friday, an inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the Fed showed that prices actually declined 0.1% from June to July. Though prices did jump 6.3% in July from 12 months earlier, that was down from a 6.8% year-over-year jump in June, which had been the highest since 1982. The drop largely reflected lower gas prices.
In his speech Friday, Powell noted that the history of high inflation in the 1970s, when the central bank sought to counter high prices with only intermittent rate hikes, shows that the Fed must stay focused.
“The historical record cautions strongly against prematurely” lowering interest rates, he said. “We must keep at it until the job is done.”
What particularly worries Powell and other Fed officials is the prospect that inflation would become entrenched, leading consumers and businesses to change their behavior in ways that would perpetuate higher prices. If, for example, workers began demanding higher pay to match higher inflation, many employers would then pass on those higher labor costs to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Many analysts speculate that Fed officials want to see roughly six months or so of lower monthly inflation readings, similar to July’s, before stopping their rate hikes.
Powell’s speech was the marquee event of the the Fed’s annual economic symposium at Jackson Hole, the first time the conference of central bankers is being held in person since 2019, after it went virtual for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since March, the Fed has implemented its fastest pace of rate increases in decades to try to curb inflation, which has punished households with soaring costs for food, gas, rent and other necessities. The central bank has lifted its benchmark rate by 2 full percentage points in just four meetings, to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.
Those hikes have led to higher costs for mortgages, car loans and other consumer and business borrowing. Home sales have been plunging since the Fed first signaled it would raise borrowing costs.
In June, the Fed’s policymakers signaled that they expected their key rate to end 2022 in a range of 3.25% to 3.5% and then to rise further next year to between 3.75% and 4%. If rates reached their projected level at the end of this year, they would be at the highest point since 2008.
Powell is betting that he can engineer a high-risk outcome: Slow the economy enough to ease inflation pressures yet not so much as to trigger a recession.
His task has been complicated by the economy’s cloudy picture: On Thursday, the government said the economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate in the April-June period, the second straight quarter of contraction. Yet employers are still hiring rapidly, and the number of people seeking unemployment aid, a measure of layoffs, remains relatively low.
At its meeting in July, Fed policymakers expressed two competing concerns that highlighted their delicate task.
According to minutes from that meeting, the officials — who aren’t identified by name — have prioritized their inflation fight. Still, some officials said there was a risk that the Fed would raise borrowing costs more than necessary, risking a recession. If inflation were to fall closer to the Fed’s 2% target and the economy weakened further, those diverging views could become hard to reconcile.
At last year’s Jackson Hole symposium, Powell listed five reasons why he thought inflation would be “transitory.” Yet instead it has persisted, and many economists have noted that those remarks haven’t aged well.
Powell indirectly acknowledged that history at the outset of his remarks Friday, when he said that, “at past Jackson Hole conferences, I have discussed broad topics such as the ever-changing structure of the economy and the challenges of conducting monetary policy.”
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Screening dog Eebbers wins TSA's 'Cutest Canine Contest'
Dog lovers — get ready for your hearts to melt over a hard-working dog named Eebbers.
One of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's (MSP) passenger-screening canines, he has won the Transportation Security Administration's 2022 "Cutest Canine Contest," according to a news release.
The announcement came on National Dog Day, which is was Friday.
The contest is held "to acknowledge the important role TSA's hardworking canines play in protecting the nation's transportation system," the TSA release said.
Adorable Eebbers was chosen out of a field of 92 contenders. TSA held a nationwide social media contest and encouraged members of the public to vote on their favorite.
"Put your paws together for @mspairport's Eebbers - winner of the @TSA's 2022 Cutest K9 Contest!" MSP said in a tweet on Friday. "Congratulations on your win."
Eebbers, an 11-year-old Vizsla-Labrador mix, is a passenger-screening male canine who "works at MSP alongside his handler as they screen travelers and their belongings for explosives at the security checkpoint," the release said.
Eebbers has worked at MSP for nearly 10 years and is the last remaining canine born into TSA's Puppy Program who is still working for TSA.
Eebbers has assisted with security for two Super Bowls, the Special Olympics World Games, a NCAA National Championship Football game, the Indianapolis 500 and a NASCAR event, according to TSA.
Currently, the agency has more than 1,000 canine teams that are deployed nationally. The release reminds travelers that while TSA canines are "cute," they are working dogs and should only be touched and fed by their handlers.
And that's some laudable restraint with a pooch as precious as Eebbers. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/screening-dog-eebbers-wins-tsas-cutest-canine-contest/41006212 | 2022-08-27T14:30:10Z | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/screening-dog-eebbers-wins-tsas-cutest-canine-contest/41006212 | true |
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Dr. Anthony Fauci talks about his career, COVID-19, and the threat of a Republican investigation against him
Dr. Fauci confirmed this week he’s stepping away from his federal role in December.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Dr. Anthony Fauci is reflecting on his long career. He will step down from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the end of December.
He spoke one-on-one with Washington News Bureau reporter Jamie Bittner about the work ahead, COVID-19, and the Republican threat of an investigation against him. Read the full interview below.
Question:
“We’ve been hearing a lot from lawmakers like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and a lot of Republicans are already promising an investigation against you if they would retake power in Congress. How do you respond?”
Answer:
“Well, I mean, I don’t have any idea what they would want to investigate. But, I have always respected oversight authority. I think it’s an important part of government. But, I also would warn people, well not warn them, alert them that there’s a difference between legitimate and well-intentioned oversight to make things better, as opposed to character assassination, which sometimes sneaks into that little bit of oversight. So I always am very willing to cooperate in any way to help anyone understand better what has been going on over the past two and a half years.”
Question:
“When it comes to your critics, how do you think that they have hurt your messaging to the American people throughout the COVID 19 pandemic?”
Answer:
“Well, that’s tough for me to gauge. But, you know, I would think that I have always been if you look at everything I’ve said, try to get the message across, to get the public to do whatever it is best to preserve and protect the health of the American public, be that wearing masks, be that avoiding congregate settings, be that getting vaccinated and boosted. And I think when you have people out there trying to diminish someone’s credibility, the ultimate result of that is to diminish the effectiveness of the public health message. So, it’s really unfortunate that that happens, but it does.”
Question:
“I have to ask you the question everyone always asks, is COVID-19 over?”
Answer:
“No. I think you just look at the numbers and it’s obvious that it’s not. We certainly are much better off now than we were several months ago when we were having 800 to 900,000 new infections and 3000 deaths per day. We are much, much lower than that, but we’re not in a place that we can feel comfortable that it is actually behind us. We want to get it to a low enough level that it doesn’t disrupt the social order. And, that is not where we are. We can get to that much better by getting more people vaccinated and boosted. I mean, if you look at where we are right now, we’re still averaging about 100,000 cases a day, which is likely a rather significant underestimate because many people get... infected, get tested, but don’t report their positive test. The number that you can’t run away from is that we still have approximately 400 deaths per day. And if you do the math on that, that’s close to 150,000 deaths per year. We don’t want that to be the steady state at all for COVID. We’ve got to get much lower than that. And that’s the reason why we continue to encourage people to get vaccinated and those who have been vaccinated to get boosted. It’s really a shame that in our country, which is a rich and enlightened country, that we have only 67% of the entire population vaccinated. And of that, only about half have been boosted. There are so many other countries in the world, including low and middle income countries, that are doing better than we have. But the short answer to your question is no. The outbreak is not yet behind us. I hope we’re going in the right direction to get it behind us, but we’re not there yet.”
Question:
“When could we see something like COVID-19 happen again? Could it happen within our lifetime?”
Answer:
“Absolutely. You know, I have been lecturing and talking about the potential for pandemics literally for the last 40 years. In fact, if you go back and pull out lectures that I’ve given, I predicted that in every administration, and I’ve had the honor of serving and advising seven presidents over the last close to 40 years, that almost inevitably there is some form of emerging infectious disease almost in every administration. Some of them are not globally serious, but others are transforming. Like, the HIV/AIDS pandemic that we began to recognize during the administration of Ronald Reagan. Or, the pandemic flu during the Obama administration. And now spanning two administrations, we’re seeing the historic pandemic of COVID-19.”
Question:
“How do you feel your response to the AIDS epidemic helped prepare you for COVID-19?”
Answer:
“Well, any time you’ve been through the emergence of a new outbreak and realize the extraordinary unpredictability of it, there are a lot of lessons learned. I tried to make that point early on in the outbreak when I was warning that this could really get out of control and others were saying, ‘no, it’s not. It’s going to just go away in a season.’ What you learned from HIV was that you never underestimate the potential of an emerging outbreak because you never know when you first see it what its ultimate potential is. Remember with HIV, we were seeing a number of desperately ill, mostly young gay men in the United States. And, that was before we knew what the pathogen was and before we had a diagnostic test. Once we got a diagnostic test, we realized that the obviously ill people were only the tip of the iceberg of the number of people that had been infected, because, as you know, with HIV you could be infected and go for years without having serious illness that then brings you to the attention of a physician. So one of the big lessons is don’t ever underestimate the potential of a new mysterious outbreak.”
Question:
“You have a few months left on the job. What will you focus on and what is the biggest challenge that lies ahead for whoever is your predecessor?”
Answer:
”Well, I’m going to continue at full speed right up until the last day that I walk out in December. We have a lot of things. We have a lot of challenges. We have COVID. We have monkeypox. And, we have all the other things that we do from a scientific and public health standpoint. So, I’m going to be going very much full speed right until the end on the things that we’re doing now as well as we have a pandemic preparedness plan that we’ve already started on. Obviously, we need a lot more resources to really implement the plan to the extent that we want. You know, the thing that I will hope that my successor appreciates and hopefully will be able to steer this course is to stick with the science and try to the extent possible to stay away from any kind of and, you know, entrapment in the political divisiveness that we have in this country. It is very difficult to do a coherent public health and scientific endeavor when there’s such a profound degree of political divisiveness in this country, which there is.”
Question:
“How much of a say will you have on who your predecessor is?”
Answer:
None. And, I shouldn’t. I don’t think it’s appropriate that I do. What will happen is that there will be a national search by a search committee of peers who will make recommendations to the NIH Director. And the NIH Director will make that decision.”
Question:
“Take me back to your first day on the job. Can you kind of tell me what the emotions you were feeling back then (were) and compare it to now when you’re looking at your place in the history books, how would you want to be remembered?”
Answer:
“Well, I walked on to this campus 54 years ago in June of 1968, just out of my medical residency at the New York hospital Cornell Medical Center. And, this is a place that I absolutely love, every aspect of it. I’ve been fortunate enough to be the director of the Institute for 38 years. So, it really has been an evolving process with me starting off as a young trainee, becoming a senior investigator, getting recognized nationally, internationally for my research and then taking over the institute and being very much involved in building the AIDS program, developing the PEPFAR program with President George W Bush. It’s been a very long and very gratifying journey. You know, I hope that I made an impact on global health both, you know, internationally and in this country. And I hope that I’ll be remembered for that.”
Question:
“What will you do in retirement?”
Answer:
“Well, it’s not retirement. I think that’s a very misleading word. I think it’s more of a rewiring. One of the reasons I’m leaving now is because I still have the energy and the motivation and the good health and the passion to do more for the global health and scientific enterprise. And I think the best way I can do that, given my almost six decades of experience and almost four decades of leading the institute that I hopefully by reading and writing and lecturing and getting involved in different projects that I could serve as an inspiration for the younger generation of scientists and would be scientists to perhaps consider a career in public service, particularly in the arena of public health, medicine and science. So, I have no intention of retiring. So, you’re not going to see me on the golf course or lying on a beach somewhere.”
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Huskers open season against Northwestern in Ireland
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska kicks off its 133rd football season on Saturday when the Huskers take on the Northwestern Wildcats at the Aer Lingus Classic at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. Saturday’s season opener will be the 1,358th game in Nebraska football history but only the second played on foreign soil.
The only other international game in Husker history was Nebraska’s victory over Kansas State at the 1992 Coca-Cola Classic in Tokyo, Japan. One year later, Wisconsin defeated Michigan State at the 1993 Coca-Cola Classic in Tokyo, which to date is the only Big Ten Conference game played outside of the United States. Saturday’s game marks the earliest date of a conference matchup in Big Ten history.
Head Coach Scott Frost begins his fifth season at his alma mater in 2022, while Saturday’s contest will mark Pat Fitzgerald’s 200th game as Northwestern’s head coach. Nebraska won last year’s matchup in Lincoln 56-7, scoring its most points ever in a Big Ten Conference game and posting its largest margin of victory (49 points) in a Big Ten game and in any conference game since 2001.
Before last year’s Husker win, each of the previous four meetings between Nebraska and Northwestern had been decided by one score, including back-to-back overtime wins for the Wildcats in 2017 and 2018. Overall, eight of the first 11 Big Ten meetings between the two programs have been one-score games.
Nebraska returns 46 letter winners from last year’s team, bringing back five full-time defensive starters and four offensive starters plus nine other players (seven on offense and two on defense) who started multiple games in 2021. The Huskers have bolstered their roster with the addition of 44 newcomers, including 22 transfers, 18 of whom have previous playing experience at the FBS or FCS level.
Kickoff between Nebraska and Northwestern on Saturday is set for 11:30 a.m. (Central), with television coverage on FOX and radio coverage on the Huskers Radio Network and Huskers.com.
Nebraska Athletics contributed to this report.
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Afternoon thunderstorms and showers are forecasted to have a 70% coverage across Central Florida on Saturday.
Saturday’s high is 92 with a low of 75.
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“Scattered thunderstorms and showers, they are likely this afternoon and into the evening hours,” Meteorologist Bryan Karrick said. “Locally, heavy rain frequent lightning and some gusty wind.”
Tomorrow’s weather will mimic Saturday’s pattern of afternoon rain, however, the showers are expected to begin slightly earlier.
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JACKSON, Miss. — The rental home that Suzannah Thames owns in Mississippi's capital city was filled with dirty, snake-infested flood water when the Pearl River overflowed its banks in 2020.
On Friday, Thames pointed to a column on the front porch to show how deep the water was then — about up to her waist. She's now getting ready for another inundation, days after storms dumped torrential rainfall in Mississippi and other parts of the Deep South.
Hydrologists predict the Pearl River near Jackson will crest by Tuesday somewhat short of the levels it reached two years ago. Emergency officials are telling people in low-lying areas to prepare for flooding of homes and businesses.
Thames hired a crew to move furniture, appliances and other belongings out of the three-bedroom home that she now rents to a newly married couple — a medical student and engineer who will temporarily stay in a short-term vacation rental.
"We're fortunate that we have two trailers," Thames said as she oversaw the move. "There's people who don't have anything. There's people who are going to lose everything."
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has urged residents in flood zones to pack enough belongings to get them through several days of evacuation. He said law enforcement officers will increase patrols to protect property.
"Don't allow that to be an impediment for you saving your life and saving the lives of those other individuals in your home," Lumumba said during a news conference Friday.
Second-year medical student Emily Davis and her husband, engineer Andrew Bain, rent the white-brick home from Thames in northeast Jackson. Davis said they knew they were moving into a flood zone, but this is the first time she's ever had to prepare for high water.
"I've felt really stressed because there's so much to do — so much more than I realized to do," Davis said as workers hoisted items into moving vans.
Thames said the rental home is covered by flood insurance, and she lives in an elevated house nearby. She said her house is built 4 feet (1.2 meters) above the line of a massive 1979 flood.
Thames said she wants officials to move forward with a long-discussed plan to build another lake near Jackson to control flooding in the metro area. The project has stalled amid funding problems and opposition from people downstream along the Pearl River.
Thames describes her neighborhood as "paradise" because she can watch deer, alligators and other wildlife less than a mile from the Pearl River, even inside the city limits.
"I've lived in the flood zone for 30 years," Thames said. "I'm not crying, 'Oh, poor me, I've been flooded,' because I knew of the potentiality of it and I prepared for it."
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Ford engineers in Europe are testing headlights able to project various shapes on the road as a way to reduce distraction.
Head-up displays already project vital information within the driver’s line of sight, so engineers tried to do the same with a vehicle’s headlights. Ford’s prototype system can cast light to denote directions, speed limits, or weather information onto the road ahead.
This can help drivers keep their eyes on the road instead of glancing at screens, Ford said, adding that even briefly looking away from the road at normal speeds means covering a significant distance blind.
Using headlights to project information rather than simply relying on a head-up display could also benefit other road users. A crosswalk could be projected onto the road visible to both the driver and pedestrians, or the headlights could show a safe path around cyclists, the automaker suggested.
The technology could also be used to warn drivers of snow, fog, or ice ahead, Ford said. The automaker also suggested it could connect the lights to the navigation system to show upcoming turns, like a more advanced version of the augmented reality navigation available in some Mercedes-Benz models, or project the width of the vehicle so drivers can judge whether they’ll fit through a gap or into a parking space.
Ford isn’t the first automaker to experiment with shape-projecting headlights. In 2018, Mercedes demonstrated something similar with the digital headlights in its Maybach S-Class luxury sedan. At the time, Mercedes said these programmable million-pixel lights could project pathways through construction or use arrows to highlight pedestrians, among other things.
The hardware needed to project shapes onto the road was only recently legalized in the U.S. A previous law dating to 1967 required headlights to have separate high-beam and low-beam elements, effectively banning setups like Mercedes’ digital headlights. Use of these headlights was formally approved earlier this year by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which was instructed to do so in the infrastructure law passed in late 2021.
Ford has not discussed plans to commercialize its own shape-projecting headlights for any market, but at least the door is now open to offer the technology for U.S. shoppers.
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Althea Gibson made history by breaking barriers in tennis. Now she is getting a street renamed in her honor.
During a celebration Thursday, Gibson — who was the first Black tennis player to win a Grand Slam title — was honored in her hometown, Harlem, by having a street renamed after her on what would have been her 95th birthday. The intersection of West 143rd Street and Malcolm X Boulevard, where Gibson grew up, is now called Althea Gibson Way.
The ceremony took place in front of Gibson’s old apartment building on 143rd Street and was attended by the tennis star’s family, who received a replica of the new street sign. Gibson’s great niece, Sonia Melvin, spoke about how much Gibson meant to the family.
“She was just auntie to us,” Melvin told NBC News New York. “I mean, she wasn’t this big icon to us — but we loved her.”
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The publisher of a weekly newspaper in New Hampshire is accusing the state attorney general’s office of government overreach after she was arrested on charges that she published advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising.
The six misdemeanor charges allege that Debra Paul, publisher of The Londonderry Times, failed to identify the ads with “appropriate language” indicating that they were ads and saying who paid for them as required by state law, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said in a news release, after reviewing cases that go back to 2019.
“This is clearly a case of a small business needing to defend itself against overreaching government,” Paul, 62, who’s also a member of the town council in Londonderry, responded in a statement.
“I would like to think the attorney generals office has more important matters to deal with than to send press releases out on misdemeanors such as this,” the statement said. “With multiple unsolved homicides over the past year, this seems a bit absurd.”
The attorney general’s office first issued Paul a letter pointing out the language omission in a political ad that ran in the weeks leading up to an election in March 2019, according to a police affidavit. The letter asked her to include the language going forward.
It issued a second letter in March 2021 after receiving a complaint about another political ad that didn’t receive the required “paid for” language, and that an investigator from the office followed up with with a phone call to her, the affidavit said.
The office sent another letter to her in September saying another ad “failed to contain” name and address information, and did not mark it as “political advertising.” She was notified that this was her “second and final warning” and if the law was violated again, the attorney general’s office “may pursue appropriate enforcement action.”
After the attorney general’s office received more complaints this year, the February and March issues of the paper were reviewed, the affidavit said. Two political ads leading up to a local election in March did not contain the “paid for” language and a third had no “political advertisement” designation, it said.
Two candidates who had placed ads during that time told the investigator that they had worked with Paul on them. They said they were not aware of language requirements and that any omissions were unintentional.
Paul, who along with her husband are the only two employees at the paper, was contacted by the investigator in May and said she originally believed the state’s complaint involved advertising rates, the affidavit said. She said she was trying to review the ads and believed that the “paid for by” address information was only required on political signage, not ads, the affidavit said.
The affidavit said altogether, nearly 60 violations in the Times and a related publication were counted between 2020 and this year.
“My understanding is that I’m accused by someone of neglecting to use the phrase, “Political Advertisements,” when it was an obvious political ad,” Paul said in her statement.
The charges carry a maximum penalty of up to a year in jail. Paul, who is not in custody, is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 19.
“The Londonderry Times is among the dwindling numbers of small newspapers in New Hampshire, as well as around the country,” her lawyer, Tony Naro, said in a statement Friday. “The Londonderry Times does their absolute best to put out a quality publication with limited staff and a limited budget. Ms. Paul acted with no criminal intent, denies the allegations, and is presumed innocent.”
A spokesperson for the attorney general’s office said the office could not comment on the case further but said its election law unit receives hundreds of calls or complaints about political advertising each election cycle, and that the overwhelming majority of them are resolved without opening a matter for formal investigation.
As an example of another matter the office investigated, the spokesperson provided a letter dated Aug. 8 and sent to the publisher of a periodical who is running for office regarding a complaint it received about the publisher’s own campaign ad. The letter said the candidate was not complying with campaign finance obligations and didn’t mark ads as political advertising.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday.
Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one of Mexico’s worst human rights scandals, and it came with little fanfare as he made a lengthy defense of the commission’s report released a week earlier.
Last week, despite declaring the abductions and disappearances a “state crime” and saying that the army watched it happen without intervening, Encinas made no mention of six students being turned over to Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.
On Friday, Encinas said authorities were closely monitoring the students from the radical teachers’ college at Ayotzinapa from the time they left their campus through their abduction by local police in the town of Iguala that night. A soldier who had infiltrated the school was among the abducted students, and Encinas asserted the army did not follow its own protocols and try to rescue him.
“There is also information corroborated with emergency 089 telephone calls where allegedly six of the 43 disappeared students were held during several days and alive in what they call the old warehouse and from there were turned over to the colonel,” Encinas said. “Allegedly the six students were alive for as many as four days after the events and were killed and disappeared on orders of the colonel, allegedly the then Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.”
The defense department did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the allegations Friday.
The role of the army in the students’ disappearance has long been a source of tension between the families and the government. From the beginning, there were questions about the military’s knowledge of what happened and its possible involvement. The students’ parents demanded for years that they be allowed to search the army base in Iguala. It was not until 2019 that they were given access along with Encinas and the Truth Commission.
The commission report says the army registered an anonymous emergency call on Sept. 30, 2014, four days after the students’ abduction. The caller reportedly said the students were being held in a large concrete warehouse in a location described as “Pueblo Viejo.” The caller proceeded to describe the location.
That entry was followed by several pages of redacted material, but that section of the report concluded with the following: “As can be seen, obvious collusion existed between agents of the Mexican state with the criminal group Guerreros Unidos that tolerated, allowed and participated in events of violence and disappearance of the students, as well as the government’s attempt to hide the truth about the events.”
Later, in a summary of how the commission’s report differed from the original investigation’s conclusions, there is mention of a colonel.
“On Sept. 30 ‘the colonel’ mentions that they will take care of cleaning everything up and that they had already taken charge of the six students who had remained alive,” the report said.
In a witness statement provided to federal investigators in December 2014, Capt. José Martínez Crespo, who was stationed at the base in Iguala, said the base commander for the 27th Infantry Battalion at the time was Col. José Rodriguez Pérez.
Through a driving rain later Friday, the families of the 43 missing students marched in Mexico City with a couple hundred other people as they have on the 26th of every month for years.
Parents carried posters of their children’s faces and rows of current students from the teachers’ college marched, shouted calls for justice and counted off to 43. Their signs proclaimed that the fight for justice continued and asserted: “It was the State.”
Clemente Rodríguez marched for his son Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, who was a second student identified by a tiny burned bone fragment.
Rodríguez said the families had been told last week before the report was released about the coronel and the six students.
“It’s not by omission anymore. It’s that they participated,” he said of the military. “It was the state, the three levels of government participated.”
He said the families had not been told that any of the arrest orders announced last week for members of armed forces had been carried out yet.
On Sept. 26, 2014, local police took the students off buses they had commandeered in Iguala. The motive for the police action remains unclear eight years later. Their bodies have never been found, though fragments of burned bone have been matched to three of the students.
Last week, federal agents arrested former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam, who oversaw the original investigation. On Wednesday, a judge ordered that he stand trial for forced disappearance, not reporting torture and official misconduct. Prosecutors allege Murillo Karam created a false narrative about what happened to the students to quickly appear to resolve the case.
Authorities also said last week that arrest warrants were issued for 20 soldiers and officers, five local officials, 33 local police officers and 11 state police officers as well as 14 gang members. Neither the army nor prosecutors have said how many of those suspects are in custody.
It was also not immediately clear if Rodríguez Pérez was among those sought.
Rodríguez, the student’s father, said Murillo Karam’s arrest was a positive step.
Murillo Karam “was the one who told us the soldiers couldn’t be touched,” Rodríguez said. “And now it’s being discovered that it was the state that participated.”
In a joint statement, the families said the Truth Commission’s confirmation that it was a “state crime” was significant after elements suggesting that over the years.
However, they said the report still did not satisfactorily answer their most important question.
“Mothers and fathers need indubitable scientific evidence as to the fate of our children,” the statement said. “We can’t go home with preliminary signs that don’t fully clear up where they are and what happened to them.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has given Mexico’s military enormous responsibility. The armed forces are not only at the center of his security strategy, but they have taken over administration of the seaports and been given responsibility for building a new airport for the capital and a tourist train on the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Almost a month has passed since the winning numbers were drawn in the $1.34 billion Mega Millions lottery, but the lucky person who won has yet to come forward and claim the prize.
While you might think that the winner would come forward immediately, lottery officials say it's not unheard of for there to be some time between when the numbers are drawn and when the winner comes forward.
"For a prize of this magnitude, it's not unusual for a winner to take a little bit longer to claim the prize as they may want to seek professional, legal and financial advice prior to claiming," said Meghan Powers, director of communications for the Illinois Lottery, to NBC News.
"I'm sure they're going through a range of emotions," Illinois Lottery Director Harold Mays said earlier this month.
The winner has a year from the drawing date to come forward
Whoever won has some time before they must come forward. Because the winning ticket was purchased in Des Plaines, Ill., the winner must follow the rules of the Illinois Lottery.
Mega Millions winnings in Illinois "must be claimed within one year after the drawing date," so there's not necessarily a rush.
But if the winner does not come forward by the end of next July, the money will be returned to the participating state lotteries where the tickets were originally purchased.
The single ticket winnings for the $1.34 billion jackpot in July ranks as the second-largest in Mega Millions history, behind a $1.54 billion prize won in October 2018. The largest overall jackpot, $1.59 billion in January 2016, was split between three tickets.
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Crystal Palace 3, Aston Villa 1
Everton 1, Nottingham Forest 1
Fulham 3, Brentford 2
Leicester 1, Southampton 2
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Leeds 3, Chelsea 0
West Ham 0, Brighton 2
Newcastle 3, Man City 3
Man United 2, Liverpool 1
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QPR vs. Hull, 2:45 p.m.
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Watford vs. Middlesbrough, 3 p.m.
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Coventry vs. Preston, 2:45 p.m.
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Reading vs. Stoke, 7 a.m.
Huddersfield vs. Blackpool, 10 a.m.
Hull vs. Sheffield United, 10 a.m.
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Barnsley 0, Wycombe 3
Bolton 0, Sheffield Wednesday 2
Burton Albion 0, Port Vale 2
Charlton 1, Cambridge United 1
Exeter 0, Cheltenham 1
Fleetwood Town 0, Derby 0
Forest Green 0, Plymouth 3
Milton Keynes Dons 1, Accrington Stanley 1
Oxford United 1, Morecambe 1
Peterborough 4, Lincoln 0
Portsmouth 3, Bristol Rovers 1
Shrewsbury 0, Ipswich 3
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Sheffield Wednesday vs. Forest Green, 10 a.m.
Wycombe vs. Charlton, 10 a.m.
Accrington Stanley vs. Ipswich, 10 a.m.
Bolton vs. Charlton, 10 a.m.
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Sheffield Wednesday vs. Barnsley, 10 a.m.
Forest Green vs. Accrington Stanley, 2:45 p.m.
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Hartlepool 1, Bradford 3
Barrow 1, Harrogate Town 0
Colchester 1, Leyton Orient 3
Crawley Town 0, AFC Wimbledon 2
Crewe 2, Northampton 2
Doncaster 2, Salford 1
Gillingham 0, Walsall 0
Grimsby Town 0, Sutton United 0
Mansfield Town 2, Stockport County 1
Newport County 2, Tranmere 1
Stevenage 2, Carlisle 1
Swindon 3, Rochdale 0
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Northampton vs. Barrow, 10 a.m.
Salford vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m.
Stockport County vs. AFC Wimbledon, 10 a.m.
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By BHUMIKA SARASWATI
NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of people on Saturday held demonstrations in several parts of India to protest a recent government decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for gang raping a Muslim woman during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots.
The protesters in the country’s capital, New Delhi, chanted slogans and demanded the government in the western state of Gujarat rescind the decision. They also sang songs in solidarity with the victim.
Similar protests were also held in several other states.
The 11 men, released on suspended sentences on Aug. 15 when India celebrated 75 years of independence, were convicted in 2008 of rape, murder and unlawful assembly.
The victim, who is now in her 40s, recently said the decision by the Gujarat state government has left her numb and shaken her faith in justice.
The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify victims of sexual assault.
The victim was pregnant when she was brutally gang raped in communal violence in 2002 in Gujarat, which saw over 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, killed in some of the worst religious riots India has experienced since its independence from Britain in 1947. Seven members of the woman’s family, including her three-year-old daughter, were also killed in the violence.
“The whole country should demand an answer directly from the prime minister of this country,” said Kavita Krishnan, a prominent activist.
Officials in Gujarat, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party holds power, have said that the convicts’ application for remission was granted because they had completed over 14 years in jail. The men were eligible under a 1992 remission policy that was in effect at the time of their conviction, officials said. A newer version of the policy adopted in 2014 by the federal government prohibits remission release for those convicted of certain crimes, including rape and murder.
The riots have long hounded Modi, who was Gujarat’s top elected official at the time, amid allegations that authorities allowed and even encouraged the bloodshed. Modi has repeatedly denied having any role and the Supreme Court has said it found no evidence to prosecute him.
Asiya Qureshi, a young protester in New Delhi, said she participated in the demonstrations to seek justice for the victim.
“Modi gave a speech on 15th August on the safety and protection of women of India and the same day they released the rapists,” Qureshi said. “How am I safe in such a climate?” | https://www.timesleader.com/wire/nation-world/1571963/protests-in-india-against-release-of-11-convicted-rapists | 2022-08-27T15:38:17Z | https://www.timesleader.com/wire/nation-world/1571963/protests-in-india-against-release-of-11-convicted-rapists | false |
Advisory committee alleges ‘conspiracy’ against Brihan Mutt seer
Counter complaint filed against administrator of the mutt
Following an FIR being against Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, seer of Brihan Mutt, Chitradurga, under the POCSO Act on charges of sexual harassment of minor girls, the advisory committee of the mutt held a meeting on Saturday and member N.B. Vishwanath has termed the allegation “baseless”.
Meanwhile, a counter complaint of sexual harassment has been filed against administrator of the mutt, S.K. Basavarajan, and his wife Soubhagya by a woman working for the educational institution run by the mutt.
Speaking to presspersons after the meeting in Chitradurga on Saturday, Mr. Vishwanath termed the allegation as a “conspiracy” to harass the seer and accused Mr. Basavarajan of being behind it
Mr. Vishwanath said that after returning to the mutt after a break, Mr. Basavarajan was expecting full power in administration, but it was subject to conditions. He said that never before were such allegations made against the seer. The seer had always worked for the welfare and upliftment of women and children, he added.
Replying to a query, Mr. Vishwanath said that a team of advocates had met the seer and it had been decided to approach the court for anticipatory bail. “Any action in a hurry would hurt the devotees,” he said.
The complaint against Mr. Basavarajan and his wife has been filed by the woman at Chitradurga Rural police station. The woman alleged that Mr. Basavarajan had tried to rape her and had threatened to kill her when she resisted.
She also claimed that the two minor girls who have spoken against the seer had gone out of the mutt citing personal reasons. However, instead of reaching their homes, they had reached Cottonpet police station in Bengaluru. Without informing the concerned, Mr. Basavarajan had kept them “illegally” at his home, she claimed.
Inquiry sought
Several women’s groups have, meanwhile, sought a thorough inquiry into the allegations. Akhila Bharata Janawadi Mahila Sanghatane and All India Mahila Samskrutika Sanghatane have urged the authorities to investigate without bowing to political pressure, given the clout the mutt enjoys.
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Russia’s attack on a Ukrainian train station that killed more than 20 people this week is the latest in a series of strikes on the country’s railway system that some international legal scholars say may be war crimes.
While Russia claimed that it had targeted the train because it was carrying Ukrainian troops and equipment on Wednesday, an Associated Press reporter on the ground said there was no visible indication that Ukrainian troops were among the dead, who included children. If civilians were the target, experts said Thursday, the attack could be considered a war crime.
“A train station is generally a civilian object and should not be a target of attack,” said Jennifer Trahan, a clinical professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs.
Wednesday’s attack in Chaplyne, a small village in southeastern Ukraine, was one of the deadliest in months on the country’s extensive railway system. In the more than six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the AP and the PBS series “Frontline” have independently verified more than 40 attacks on civilian infrastructure that could be considered war crimes. Three of those hit the country’s railway infrastructure and seven have involved local bus stops, killing more than 100 civilians. In these attacks, there has been little evidence to back up Moscow’s claims that Ukrainian troops were the target.
The deadly strike Wednesday came as Ukrainians were defiantly celebrating their Independence Day while remaining on high alert because of threats that Russia would use the occasion to mount attacks.
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This story is part of an ongoing investigation from The Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline” that includes the War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience and an upcoming documentary.
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More than 50 people, including children, were on their way to flee Donbas when they were killed in a Russian attack on a train station in Kramatorsk in April. Photos from the aftermath showed dead bodies and abandoned luggage strewn around the station. Rail cars were crushed and hollowed out by fire.
Mykola Lukashuk, chair of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, said during a press briefing Friday that the shelling in Chaplyne led to a fire in five carriages of the train. A family, including a 17-year-old daughter, was killed when its car was struck as it was traveling from Donetsk.
“People were being evacuated from Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, and a train was leaving from there to Lviv,” Lukashuk said.
The deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said Thursday that an 11-year-old boy died under the rubble of a nearby house and a 6-year-old died in a car fire by the station.
Tetyana Kvitnytska, deputy head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional health department, told the AP that those in Wednesday’s attack had suffered head injuries, broken limbs, burns and shrapnel wounds.
“There is no such war crime that the Russian occupiers have not yet committed on the territory of Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that an Iskander missile was used to carry out the attack and that 200 reservists “were destroyed on their way to the combat zone.” An AP reporter who went to the scene said no Ukrainian troops were visible among the dead.
Even if some members of the military were among the dead, the attack could still violate the laws of war if it disproportionately harmed civilians.
“If you’re going to kill a small number of troops as opposed to a large number of civilians, that’s a war crime,” said Michael Newton, a professor at Vanderbilt University’s law school and director of the international legal studies program.
Iskander missiles are expensive precision guided missiles and are not used for trivial missions, said Frank Ledwidge, visiting fellow at the Transatlantic Dialogue Center in Kyiv and a former British military intelligence officer.
“The takeaway is a deliberate strike on a civilian target to cause civilian casualties for the purpose of disrupting rail traffic of civilians throughout Ukraine,” he said.
In May, Russia used sea- and air-launched precision missiles to strike power facilities at five railway stations mostly in Lviv after claiming that the West was using the rail lines to deliver weapons to Ukraine.
It’s not only the train stations that have become targets. Dozens of civilians waiting for buses have been killed in similar attacks. The AP has counted seven incidents where civilians waiting for a bus were killed. Photos of their bodies lying in pools of blood were shared across Telegram after the fact. In Mykolaiv, five people were killed and a dozen were injured at a bus stop during a Russian attack on July 29. Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said on Telegram at the time that Russian forces had fired cluster munitions at a crowded intersection around 10 a.m.
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Editor’s Note: The AP and “Frontline” are gathering information from organizations including the Centre for Information Resilience, Bellingcat, the International Partnership on Human Rights, the Ukrainian Healthcare Center and Physicians for Human Rights to inform the War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience.
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Which maternity belt is best?
Carrying a child isn’t easy for many reasons, but a big one is the immense strain it puts on the body. It only becomes more challenging as you grow. A maternity belt can’t eliminate all the pain and discomfort, but it can provide enough support to make a noticeable difference in your daily life.
The best maternity belt is the Belly Bandit Upsie Belly Pregnancy Support Band. It’s soft and provides support to the back, hips and abdomen.
What to know before you buy a maternity belt
Maternity belt types
Maternity belts come in three types.
- Single-strap belts are the most common. They’re just one band that wraps around the lower back and below the abdomen.
- Multi-strap belts offer more support than single-strap ones. They still wrap around the lower back and below the abdomen, but they have an extra strap that goes on top of the abdomen for said extra support.
- Prenatal cradle belts also have the same band that wraps around the lower body, but their extra support comes from suspenders that get your shoulders to take on some of the strain.
Size
Most maternity belts come in various sizes, so you can get one that fits you perfectly. Others are one-size-fits-all, though you likely won’t get the same quality of support from these options.
Color
Maternity belts usually come in black, white or tan, though other colors are possible. Black is the easiest to pair with your clothes and the easiest to clean, while white and tan are less noticeable, making them better for wearing underneath clothing.
What to look for in a quality maternity belt
Machine-washable
Maternity belts aren’t hard to wash by hand, but it’s always easier to toss them in your washing machine. However, not all belts are machine-washable. Double-check the product description before buying one to ensure you won’t need to wash it by hand.
Adjustability
Most maternity belts use one hook-and-loop strap so you can tweak the fit as your pregnancy progresses. The best belts use two or three straps in different areas, giving you a much wider range of adjustability.
Elastic
Most maternity belts use elastic so they can better conform to your body. Basic belts only have one elastic panel, while better belts have multiple.
Padding
If you want to wear your maternity belt against your skin, make sure the one you buy has padding. Padding is especially beneficial to those with sensitive skin.
Back brace
Some maternity belts have a built-in back brace to increase their back support. These are a must-buy for those who struggled with back pain before becoming pregnant.
How much you can expect to spend on a maternity belt
Basic maternity belts typically cost $20-$30, while most cost $40-$50. More complex belts can cost as much as $70 or more.
Maternity belt FAQ
Is there a difference between a maternity belt and a maternity band?
A. Yes, though the terms are often used interchangeably. Maternity belts are designed to provide as much support as possible and tend to be larger and bulkier. Maternity bands are thin and are mostly used to hide your belly if your clothes aren’t able to cover it fully, but some also offer a little support.
Are you supposed to wear a maternity belt below or on top of your clothes?
A. You can usually wear it either way. However, some belts are too bulky to be worn comfortably below your clothes.
Can I go to the bathroom with a maternity belt on?
A. That depends on the belt, but most should let you use the bathroom without issue. Belts that can’t be left on while using the bathroom are usually designed to be quick and easy to take off and put back on, so there’s no need to worry.
What’s the best maternity belt to buy?
Top maternity belt
Belly Bandit Upsie Belly Pregnancy Support Band
What you need to know: This premium belt will give you plenty of relief.
What you’ll love: It sits below the belly to support the abdomen while being as inconspicuous as possible. There’s a pouch in the back for gel packs so you can use temperature therapy for extra relief, and it even includes a pack.
What you should consider: A few consumers had issues with the hook-and-loop straps wearing out. Others felt it was too bulky to wear out of the house.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Buy Buy Baby
Top maternity belt for the money
NeoTech Care Pregnancy Support Maternity Belt
What you need to know: Raising children is expensive. You can save some money by choosing this affordable but no less effective belt.
What you’ll love: The fabric is breathable but still strong, thanks to multiple reinforced slits on the sides. It supports the pelvis, abdomen and back and includes an abdominal lift attachment for greater support. It comes in five sizes and in beige, black and white.
What you should consider: It’s meant for use while standing. If you want to sit, you need to remove or adjust it. Some customers found the hook-and-loop straps didn’t last for their full pregnancy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Gabrialla Strong Back and Belly Support Belt for Twin Pregnancy
What you need to know: This belt supports those carrying two or more children.
What you’ll love: It’s built extra strong to ease back pain and reduce the stretch marks that carrying multiple children is prone to causing, plus it helps maintain balance and a good posture. It has a pouch in the back for gel packs and it’s made in the U.S.
What you should consider: Some purchasers struggled to sit down or bend while wearing it. Others found it too bulky to be comfortable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Green push yields increased orders for Triveni Turbines
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Industrial steam turbine manufacturer Triveni Turbines Ltd.’s orderbook position is seeing a sharp rise due to the renewable energy push in Europe and on account of incremental demand from the home market, said vice chairman and MD Nikhil Sawhney.
“All industries are in some manner or the other have been asked to move to more renewable fuels in advanced countries, such as Europe, which were initially using coal in the boilers,” said Mr. Sawhney. “They moved from coal to gas, and now moving from gas to palletized biomass,” he added.
“Though we are agnostic to fuel, our applications are becoming much more renewable in terms of end use. And so, therefore as of last year, 75% of our final products were in the thermal renewable segment,” he added.
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In line with the demand, the company’s carry forward order book, as on June 30, 2022, stood at ₹1,070 crore, including a ₹360-crore worth order bagged in the June quarter itself.
“Ultimately, we are finding much greater acceptance in those markets [renewable sector] and those markets will include segments such as biomass based independent power production, biogas base cogeneration, municipal solid waste incineration and waste heat recovery,” Mr. Sawhney said.
Waste heat recovery is a process to capture industrial heat from processes at cement kilns, blast furnaces, steel plants, metallurgical facilities or any other industrial processes. “All of these combined gave us a market share of over 1GW,” he added.
Stating that the company was focusing on R&D, he said going forward it would continue to work in areas such as supercritical carbon dioxide.
In the domestic market, demand is coming from everywhere, including renewable based applications such as ethanol, especially from the distillery segment following government push.
“Blending is a very large driver, so is waste to energy which is solid municipal waste incineration. But there is also demand from industries segment such as pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, textiles, petrochemicals and cement, for waste heat recovery,” he said.
“We continue to see robust demand, in the domestic market from the distillery segment, from other renewable based projects such as paper and paper recycling, as well as some projects in the municipal solid waste,” he added.
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Stockton University selects PageUp to overhaul its approach to talent management with PageUp Recruitment Management, Onboarding and Marketplace integrations.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PageUp [https://www.pageuppeople.com], a leading provider of talent management software, today announced that Stockton University has selected PageUp Recruitment Management, Onboarding and Marketplace integrations to streamline its hiring strategy.
Stockton University is a public university in Galloway Township, New Jersey, and is ranked among the top public universities in the Northeast. With more than 160 undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as continuing education opportunities, Stockton University welcomes students from around the globe.
To maintain its reputation as a leading public university, Stockton needs to hire the best talent. To do that, Stockton will rely on PageUp Recruitment Management, Onboarding and seamless Marketplace integrations to attract the best faculty and support staff.
PageUp will help Stockton automate and streamline the hiring lifecycle, breaking down silos and providing a transparent, cloud-based hiring solution that recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates can enjoy.
Behind the scenes, PageUp will drive greater efficiency, automation and transparency in these critical talent management processes, allowing the institution to increase the quality and diversity of hires while delivering an outstanding candidate to employee experience.
PageUp was ultimately selected for its customer support, configurability, user experience, and proven track record in the higher education industry, with over 160 campuses using PageUp solutions globally.
PageUp will provide Stockton with:
- A highly configurable Recruitment Management solution to streamline the hiring process
- Sophisticated talent pipelining functionality to keep valuable candidate information on hand
- Streamlined reporting with visibility into EEO and diversity data
- Features built specifically for higher education institutions
- Engaging onboarding functionality including video content
- Intuitive, easy to configure workflows and dashboards
- Seamless 2-way integration with Banner and SSO
"We look forward to working with PageUp. Their track record with institutions of higher education will help streamline the hiring process and support Stockton's commitment to a diverse workforce that supports our student-centered mission," said Mamta Patel, Associate Vice President for Human Resources at Stockton University. "As the University continues to grow, PageUp will help us better serve our employees and expand our outreach efforts to attract top talent."
Mark Rice, PageUp CEO, says, "We are excited to support Stockton University on its mission to modernize hiring. By adopting a reliable, higher education-focused hiring solution, Stockton can now deliver a wonderful candidate and employee experience."
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Customers love PageUp for its deep functionality and ability to be configured for a range of workflows and industries, all accompanied by outstanding customer service. Used in over 190 countries, PageUp is a truly global solution. PageUp has offices in Melbourne, Sydney, New York, London and Dublin.
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Leopard found dead near Gudiyatham in Vellore
Autopsy reveals that the animal could have died of starvation
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A five-year-old male leopard was found dead on a lemon farm at Sarangal village near Gudiyatham on Friday.
Vellore Forest Division officials said an autopsy revealed that starvation might be the cause of death and it found no traces of poison. The carcass bore no injuries. The animal might have strayed into human habitations from the neighbouring Koundinya wildlife sanctuary in Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh).
“The animal might have died at least 3-4 days ago because the carcass was highly decomposed. Poisoning was ruled out as there was no trace of food in the stomach,” Naga Sathish Gidijala, District Forest Officer (DFO) in charge, Vellore, told The Hindu.
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Officials said S. Venumurthy, 52, went to his farmland around 5.45 p.m. on Friday and found the carcass. He alerted the Pernambut forest range. A team of veterinarians, revenue officials and the police reached the spot around 8.30 p.m. and recovered the carcass for the preliminary post-mortem.
Under the norms laid down by the National Tiger Conservation Authority, post-mortem should be done only during the day. Hence, the autopsy was done by two assistant veterinary surgeons from Vellore on Saturday. Samples were sent to the taxonomy laboratory in Vellore. The report is expected in a few days.
Officials said the thickly wooded areas between the sanctuary and Jawadhu Hills — such as Pernambut, Gudiyatham, Natrampalli and the Mordhana dam — have a sizeable number of leopards, thanks to the presence of a large number of spotted deer. In April 2021, three members of a family, including two women, were attacked by a leopard that entered their home near Gudiyatham. The animal was caught and released at Sarangal.
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Crews detonate suspicious package found outside grocery store in West Plains, Mo.
Published: Aug. 26, 2022 at 11:14 AM CDT|Updated: 16 hours ago
WEST PLAINS, Mo. (KY3) - Police in West Plains say no explosives were found with a suspicious package in West Plains.
Officers on Friday morning responded to the report at 705 Kentucky Avenue. Someone left it outside the 10 Box Cost Plus grocery store.
The building was evacuated, and the road in front of it sealed off.
Specialists detonated the package, and say there were no explosives associated with it.
The store and road have reopened.
Police say the investigation is still ongoing.
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Enjoy resort-like living with incredible water views and soothing ocean breezes
Island Crowne is the lovely condominium community where you’ll find this three-bedroom, three-bathroom oceanfront jewel. Wall-to-wall sliding doors maximize the amazing views in the open and ample living space, covered in 24-inch tile flooring and topped by crown molding and tray ceilings. The kitchen boasts beautiful wood cabinets, granite countertops, a breakfast bar and an eat-in area that overlooks the ocean. The split floor plan delivers privacy to the owner’s suite, featuring balcony access, two large walk-in closets with built-ins and a bath with a huge tiled walk-in shower, a jetted tub, double sinks, tray ceilings and crown molding. In addition to private baths for the two additional bedrooms, this spacious condo has tons of storage space. Island Crowne offers on-site management, oceanfront and indoor swimming pools and spa. There is also an exercise room, social room, private access to the beach and underground parking.
ADDRESS: 1900 N. Atlantic Ave., Unit 1504, Daytona Beach
TOTAL LIVING SQUARE FEET: 2,595
BEDROOMS: 3
BATHROOMS: 3
STORIES: 1
YEAR BUILT: 2007
PRICE: $899,900
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Clements won a crash-filled Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway early Saturday for his second career victory and first since 2017.
No. 2 came in race No. 421 for the 37-year-old driver/team owner.
“I’m speechless, man,” Clements said near the start-finish line. “I don’t even know what to say.”
No one did.
His win came after two multicar melees in overtime and gave Clements an automatic — and unexpected — berth in the postseason.
“We have nothing to lose, man,” he said. “We’re going to give these big teams all they can stand.”
Clements passed sluggish Austin Hill on the final restart thanks to a big push from Sage Karam and cruised to the checkered flag. Hill looked poised to sweep both Xfinity races at Daytona, but his car seemed to have fuel and electrical issues during the final caution.
When the green flag dropped, Hill did, too. Clements and Karam flew by on the outside.
Timmy Hill finished second, followed by series points leader AJ Allmendinger, Brandon Brown and Karam.
Clements’ first win in 164 races was about being in the right place at the right time. He avoided four big ones in the closing laps. The first involved seven cars with nine laps to go in regulation. The second included eight cars with three to go. The third and biggest of the night came in overtime, with Hill and Noah Gragson just ahead of a 13-car cluster.
Gragson started the fourth one when Clements and Allmendinger pushed him at nearly 190 mph. Gragson slammed into the outside wall and then got spun helicopter style when broadsided by Landon Cassill. When the dust settled, eight more cars were involved.
The grand total: 36 cars involved, some of them several times.
Allmendinger looked like he would challenge Hill and Clements during the final two-lap shootout, but he ran out of fuel just before the final restart and had to pit.
“We survived that big wreck somehow,” Clements said. “I thought if we can just keep up with these guys, it will be a good day. Top five and bring this car home in one piece and that’s a good day.”
It ended up being much better, a playoff-clinching performance.
“Wow, this is incredible,” he said before thanking the fans who stuck around following a three-hour rain delay. “Now let’s go drink a beer.”
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Riley Herbst was running fourth early in the final stage when he lost control because of a flat right rear tire. Herbst’s No. 98 Ford slid through the backstretch grass, bringing out a caution and going a lap down.
It was a bad break for the driver who started the day eighth in points and was looking to make up ground with four races to go before the playoffs.
Herbst rallied to finish 15th and found company in the unlucky club.
Sheldon Creed, vying to make the postseason, was involved in a multicar accident on lap 83 and knocked out of the race. John Hunter Nemechek got sideways in the middle of a three-wide pack and turned into Creed, who ended up sliding back across the track and got T-boned by Joe Graf Jr.
Creed finished 36th in the 38-car field.
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The series moves to Darlington Raceway next Saturday. Justin Allgaier won there in May in the No. 7 Chevrolet for JR Motorsports.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
2-0-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(two, zero, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
2-0-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
9-1-4, FIREBALL: 7
(nine, one, four; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
9-1-4, FIREBALL: 7
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(The Conversation) – Have you ever listened to a talk by somebody who came across as an expert, only to find that they had no clue after all? Or perhaps you’ve been annoyed by a colleague who explains the obvious in a condescending way. The way expertise is expressed is very similar to how confidence is expressed. And despite the trope of mansplaining, this happens independent of gender, although communicative styles do tend to differ between the genders.
When someone states their thoughts with high confidence, we assume they know what they are talking about and we are inclined to believe them. Often enough, we are correct: there are various indications in the way they talk that reflect their knowledge. However, it’s relatively easy to express certainty in language without having any sort of expertise to back it up. For more than 20 years, I’ve studied how people communicate their thoughts through language – including how they demonstrate expertise and confidence in their discourse.
Experts may know exactly what they cannot be sure about, while non-experts may confidently claim pure nonsense, if they believe in it. Some may even be skilled at claiming nonsense even if they don’t believe in it – this might help their political career or other interests that can be served by misleading people.
Actual expertise is important in a world where misinformation spreads easily. Here are five questions to ask yourself to determine whether the person you’re listening to is an expert, or just a confident speaker:
1. How likely is it that this person is an expert?
Consider their background, their possible motivation, their skills and goals in the present conversation. People may have true expertise and knowledge in areas you wouldn’t expect. But seeing no relation between what you know about this person and their proclaimed expertise is an indication that they’re just overconfident in a topic they actually know little about.
In research, actual expertise can be identified by objective measures such as facts about a person’s life history, or performance assessments. For instance, experts differ from novices in memory as well as perception and categorisation of complex facts. In daily life, awareness of someone’s background can help you treat their statements with appropriate caution.
2. How does this person communicate in general?
People differ in their communicative styles. Some tend to talk over others as a habit, needing to dominate a conversation. Others listen more, offering opinions and views only when they’re well-founded.
In a medical setting, an attentive style – one that prioritises listening over talking – can lead to better collaboration between physicians and nurses and improve the quality of care for the patient.
Sometimes it is wise to listen to the quieter voices: they might have more value to add than non-stop talkers.
3. Does the person go into depth?
Sweeping statements are easy to make. While experts know more details and will be ready to provide them, people without true knowledge have to stay on a superficial level. They might repeat the same general message over again, unable to elaborate. This presents another problem: If a message is repeated often enough, we will eventually believe it – that’s only natural. When it comes to COVID-19, research shows people believe repeated false information, especially about less known aspects.
4. Is anybody actually certain about the topic?
Events that we have not observed with our own eyes, that cannot be repeated in a scientific experiment, that happened long ago in the past or in the future – all of these naturally come with a certain amount of uncertainty. An expert will adequately acknowledge the limits to certainty. Their statements will contain uncertainty markers (words such as “maybe” or “could”) where appropriate.
Here, a crucial difference is that between “I am uncertain” and “It is uncertain”. A non-expert simply doesn’t know the available facts. But an expert knows whatever can be known about the matter at hand. In some cases, this goes as far as stating explicitly what the likelihood of a certain event is. Climate experts, for instance, will not be able to predict extreme weather events with certainty, beyond what immediate weather forecasts can provide. However, they can demonstrate how the occurrence of such events has increased in the past, and based on this they can provide the statistical likelihood of events such as flooding for the future.
5. Can they provide information flexibly?
Consider the difference between automatic route navigation systems (such as Google Maps) and the kind of directions you would get from a friend. The friend would be able to give you just the information you need, providing more details at tricky decision points, but skipping over those parts of the route that they know you’re already familiar with. Automatic systems are unable to do that. They’re not “experts” – they’re simply pulling information from a database, without actual insight or intelligence, using the same phrases over and over again.
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Everton fans send clear message to Chelsea as Anthony Gordon scores against Brentford
Everton took the lead against Brentford on Saturday afternoon, and it’s Chelsea-linked Anthony Gordon who was on target.
Everton fans have been reacting to Anthony Gordon’s fine finish on Saturday afternoon.
The Toffees made the tip to West London looking for their first win of the season after a disappointing start.
And at time of writing, they are off to a good start, leading 1-0 thanks to Gordon’s brilliant finish in the 24th minute.
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Gordon has been linked with a move away recently, with Chelsea reportedly chasing the talented youngster.
Like Everton as a whole, Gordon has had a frsutrating start to the season, but he is now off the mark, scoring his first goal of the campaign in West London.
Gordon raced away and produced a fine finish into the bottom corner under pressure.
Here’s how Everton fans have reacted to the goal on Twitter.
@3ripplex - “Price went up”
@YosserHughes95 - “Cough up Chelsea!”
@John_efc1878 - “That will be 70 @ChelseaFC.”
@Kuioha - “That will be at least 80M for Anthony Gordon (English tax, PL proven, talented young winger).”
@DMC_88 - “Yo @ChelseaFC make that 75m now , cash!!”
@TomHenwood94 - “He’s not going anywhere!”
@Oliver1878 - “Don’t sell him, everton through and through.”
@adxm1878 - “£100m now Chelsea.”
Everton boss Frank Lampard recently spoke about Gordon and his future amid those Chelsea links.
“We have drawn a red line,” he said. “It is very difficult. I got asked last week, ‘Will he be here at the end of the window’. It was an impossible question to answer, really. But I am working to try and put a squad together.
“There absolutely has to come a time where we understand what the squad is going to be, especially a player of the level of Anthony.
“I have to know he is going be here and the good thing is here at the club, myself and everybody involved upstairs has the same kind of thinking.
“I won’t say where it (the cut-off point) is, but I think you understand I am getting very close to it.” | https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/sport/football/everton/everton-fans-send-clear-message-to-chelsea-as-anthony-gordon-scores-against-brentford-3821930 | 2022-08-27T16:28:12Z | https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/sport/football/everton/everton-fans-send-clear-message-to-chelsea-as-anthony-gordon-scores-against-brentford-3821930 | false |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Fire Department responded to two fires on Saturday morning.
The first was a two-alarm structure fire around midnight at the 2000 block of W. Anderson Lane in North Austin. Two adjacent single-story commercial buildings were involved.
The second was an apartment fire on Douglas Street in southeast Austin.
That fire started in a water heater vent and was mostly limited to the outside of the building. No injuries were reported.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis elevated 20 more churchmen to the rank of cardinal on Saturday, formally expanding those now eligible to vote for his successor in case he dies or resigns — the latter a step he has said he’d consider if the need arises.
Of the churchmen being named new cardinals in the consistory ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica, 16 are younger than 80 and thus eligible to participate in a conclave — the ritual-shrouded, locked-door assembly of cardinals who cast paper ballots to elect a new pontiff.
The 85-year-old Francis has now named 83 of the 132 cardinals currently young enough to join a conclave. The others were appointed by the previous two popes, St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, whose unexpected retirement in 2013 paved the way for Francis to be elected.
With the eight batches of cardinals Francis has named, prospects are boosted that whoever becomes the next pontiff will share his vision for the future of the church.
Francis reminded the cardinals of their mission, which he said includes “an openness to all peoples, to the horizons of the world, to the peripheries as yet unknown.”
Underlining Francis’ attention to those on society’s margins, among the new cardinals is Archbishop Anthony Poola of Hyderabad, India. The prelate, 60, is the first member of the Dalit community, considered the lowest rung of India’s caste system, to become a cardinal.
One by one, the cardinals, whose red cassocks and headgear symbolizes the blood they must be prepared to shed if necessary in their mission, knelt before Francis, who placed on their head the prestigious biretta, as the three-peaked hat is known.
That intimate moment was a chance to exchange a few words with Francis, who smiled to put them at ease. At times, the seated Francis, himself hobbled by mobility problems, lent his own arms to help kneeling cardinals stand up.
In choosing San Diego Bishop Robert Walter McElroy, Francis passed over U.S. churchmen leading traditionally more prestigious dioceses, including San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.
McElroy has been among a minority of American bishops who opposed to a campaign to deny Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. Cordileone has said he’d no long allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion for her defense of abortion rights.
While staunchly against abortion as a grave sin, Francis has also decried what he calls the weaponization of Communion.
McElroy last year was also among a small group of U.S. bishops signing a statement denouncing the bullying that is often directed at LGBTQ youth.
Francis has tried to make gay Catholics feel welcome in the church, whose teaching holds that same-sex intercourse is a sin.
Among the newest cardinals is Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr from Wa, Ghana, who has spoken out against LGBTQ rights.
Asked by The Associated Press about such contrasting views among church leaders, McElroy replied that “there are always cultural differences within the life of the church as there is within in the human family. And different cultures approach these questions in different ways.”
McElroy added: “My own view is that we have an obligation in the church to make the LGBT persons feel equally welcome in the life of the church, as everyone else.”
With electing future pontiffs a key role for cardinals, McElroy, 68, was asked what he thought of Francis’ saying that resignation for popes is a valid option.
“In principle, I think it is a good idea at a particular moment when they feel they can no longer carry the burdens of that office, but I think this pope is far from that moment,” the U.S. prelate said. “I believe he sees himself as far from that moment. What he has is a mobility issue, but it has not affected his mind. I can tell you he is still on top of things.”
Archbishop Ulrich Steiner of Manaus, Brazil, became the first cardinal from the Amazon, the vast, environmentally-vulnerable region in South America on the Argentine-born pontiff’s home continent. In remarks to The AP, Steiner expressed concern about increasing violence in the Amazon.
“But this violence was not born there, it came from outside,” Steiner, 71, said. ”It is always violence related to money. Concessions, deforestation, also with the mines, also with the fishing.”
At 48, the youngest member among the cardinals’ ranks is an Italian missionary in Mongolia, where Catholics number some 1,300. Francis “knows how important it is supporting these little communities,” said the new cardinal, Giorgio Marengo.
Originally, the pope had picked 21 new cardinals. But retired Belgian Bishop Luc Van Looy declined the honor, citing his own inadequate handling of cases of sexually abusive priests while he led the Ghent diocese from 2004-2020.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Clements won a crash-filled Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway early Saturday for his second career victory and first since 2017.
No. 2 came in race No. 421 for the 37-year-old driver/team owner.
“I’m speechless, man,” Clements said near the start-finish line. “I don’t even know what to say.”
No one did.
His win came after two multicar melees in overtime and gave Clements an automatic — and unexpected — berth in the postseason.
“We have nothing to lose, man,” he said. “We’re going to give these big teams all they can stand.”
Clements passed sluggish Austin Hill on the final restart thanks to a big push from Sage Karam and cruised to the checkered flag. Hill looked poised to sweep both Xfinity races at Daytona, but his car seemed to have fuel and electrical issues during the final caution.
When the green flag dropped, Hill did, too. Clements and Karam flew by on the outside.
Timmy Hill finished second, followed by series points leader AJ Allmendinger, Brandon Brown and Karam.
Clements’ first win in 164 races was about being in the right place at the right time. He avoided four big ones in the closing laps. The first involved seven cars with nine laps to go in regulation. The second included eight cars with three to go. The third and biggest of the night came in overtime, with Hill and Noah Gragson just ahead of a 13-car cluster.
Gragson started the fourth one when Clements and Allmendinger pushed him at nearly 190 mph. Gragson slammed into the outside wall and then got spun helicopter style when broadsided by Landon Cassill. When the dust settled, eight more cars were involved.
The grand total: 36 cars involved, some of them several times.
Allmendinger looked like he would challenge Hill and Clements during the final two-lap shootout, but he ran out of fuel just before the final restart and had to pit.
“We survived that big wreck somehow,” Clements said. “I thought if we can just keep up with these guys, it will be a good day. Top five and bring this car home in one piece and that’s a good day.”
It ended up being much better, a playoff-clinching performance.
“Wow, this is incredible,” he said before thanking the fans who stuck around following a three-hour rain delay. “Now let’s go drink a beer.”
MORE BAD BREAKS
Riley Herbst was running fourth early in the final stage when he lost control because of a flat right rear tire. Herbst’s No. 98 Ford slid through the backstretch grass, bringing out a caution and going a lap down.
It was a bad break for the driver who started the day eighth in points and was looking to make up ground with four races to go before the playoffs.
Herbst rallied to finish 15th and found company in the unlucky club.
Sheldon Creed, vying to make the postseason, was involved in a multicar accident on lap 83 and knocked out of the race. John Hunter Nemechek got sideways in the middle of a three-wide pack and turned into Creed, who ended up sliding back across the track and got T-boned by Joe Graf Jr.
Creed finished 36th in the 38-car field.
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The series moves to Darlington Raceway next Saturday. Justin Allgaier won there in May in the No. 7 Chevrolet for JR Motorsports.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Julio Rodríguez and the Seattle Mariners are set on a long-term relationship in the Pacific Northwest, agreeing to a $209.3 million, 12-year contract starting next season that would be worth $469.6 million over 17 years if he wins two MVP awards.
The deal announced Friday for the 21-year-old All-Star outfielder includes seven seasons. a five-year player option, an eight-year club option with award escalators and the possibility the option could extend to 10 years.
If the club option is execised, the deal would be worth $309.3 million for 12 years. If Rodríguez earns two MVP awards by 2028 or finishes among the top five in voting four times, the deal would boost to $469.6 million, including postseason award bonuses.
If Seattle turns down a one-time team option for 2030-37 — which must be exercised after the 2028 World Series — there is a mutual option that could be exercised after the 2029 Series calling for $168 million from 2030-36. There also is a player option that guarantees $90 million from 2030-34.
“Julio is among the most exciting players in the game and has only scratched the surface of what’s to come,” Seattle president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto said in a statement.
“We feel the uniqueness of this deal befits the person. His infectious personality and ability on the field are only surpassed by his character away from it. We are thrilled that generations of Mariners fans will have the privilege of watching him play in T-Mobile Park for many years to come.”
Rodríguez’s contract is baseball’s 26th for $200 million or more. The deal for the All-Star rookie includes a $15.3 million signing bonus payable within 60 days and salaries of $4 million next year, $10 million and $18 million annually from 2025-29. He gets a full no-trade provision.
Seattle’s option calls for $25 million annual salaries from 2030-37. Rodríguez has a player option that could be exercised after the 2029 World Series, a provision calling for $18 million annually from 2030-34. There is a mutual option that could add $168 million from 2030-36.
His salary as a rookie is the $700,000 minimum.
“He’s learned a lot over the last 4 1/2, five months about Major League Baseball and things he needed to work on and continue to improve upon,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said Friday. “Really good teammate. I mean, you can go on and on describing where he’s at. But there’s a lot of baseball, really good baseball ahead of him and I know that’s what excites me and the organization.”
Rodríguez has become a star in his first season with the Mariners. He blossomed from starting spring training as the possible opening day starter in center field to an All-Star in his first season.
Rodríguez is hitting .267 with 20 home runs, 64 RBIs, 23 stolen bases and an OPS of .793. When he homered on Wednesday, Rodríguez became the fastest player in American League history to reach the mark of 20 homers and 20 stolen bases, surpassing Mike Trout.
Rodríguez is the leading candidate for the AL Rookie of the Year and has helped Seattle be in playoff position entering the final stretch of the regular season with a chance to end the longest postseason drought in major pro spots
“I was fortunate enough, I worked for the Angels a little bit when Mike Trout was coming on board there and Mike’s the greatest player in the last decade without a doubt,” Servais said.
“Julio has got a lot ahead of him, but they’re similar. Personalities are much different but on the field they’re very similar talents They’re five-tool players. They can run, throw. They have power. … I’m just looking forward to having him as part of the organization for a long, long time.”
If Rodríguez wins two or more MVP awards and finishes among the top five in MVP voting in four years, the salaries for the club option years would increase to $35 million and the option would extend to cover the 2038 and 2039 seasons. For one MVP award along with one additional top five finish or three top five finishes, the option salaries would increase to $35 million without the 2038 and ’39 seasons triggered.
For four top 10 MVP finishes, the option prices would increase to $32.5 million and the for two top 10 finishes, the option price would go up to $30 million.
If the club option is declined, the deal includes a mutual option that could be exercised after the 2029 World Series and call for $24 million annially from 2030-36.
If both the team option and mutual option are turned down, Rodríguez has a player option that could be exercised after the 2029 World Series, a provision callng for $18 million annually from 2030-34.
The player option salaries would escalate to $25 million annually for one MVP award and two All-Star selections or elections, $22 million for 10 combined All-Star elections or selections and Silver Slugger wins, and $20 million for eight combined All-Star elections or selections and Silver Slugger wins.
Rodríguez has yearly award bonuses of $150,000 for MVP, $100,000 for World Series MVP, $50,000 each for League Championship Series MVP, Silver Slugger and Gold Glove, $50,000 for All-Star election and $25,000 for All-Star selection.
Rodríguez already was a burgeoning star with his performance in the first half of the season, but broke out on a national stage during the Home Run Derby at the All-Star Game in Los Angeles. Rodríguez reached the final where he lost to Juan Soto, but had a memorable first two rounds where he hit 63 total home runs and beat Corey Seager and Pete Alonso.
On top of his pure talent, Rodríguez’s demeanor and charisma on the field have only added to what’s could be a special season for the Mariners. His smile and joy for the game has been reminiscent of a past center fielder for the Mariners and some of the same characteristics Ken Griffey Jr. showed early in his career.
Rodríguez was part of some controversial comments made by former Mariners team president Kevin Mather that came to light in early 2021. Mather’s comments were made to the Bellevue, Washington, Breakfast Rotary Club in February 2021 and included disparaging comments about the English of Rodriguez and former Seattle pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma. Mather resigned within days of his comments becoming public.
Servais praised Rodríguez’s English on Friday as part of handling the attention that’s come his way at age 21.
“I’ve said this often, his ability to command the English language at such an early age has really helped,” Servais said. “It’s not easy. If any of you have gone to a foreign country and tried to pick up the language there, it’s really challenging. For him to do that at such an early age, it’s really helped him. It’s helped him on the field. It’s helped him off the field and in relationship building and everything else.”
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'It's embarrassing us on an international scale!': Disgust as Edinburgh bin strike rumbles on for ninth day and becomes 'public health risk' - as Nicola Sturgeon's deputy admits it is 'deeply concerning' while residents put rubbish in their BATHS
- Public Health Scotland warned Edinburgh's bin strike poses a health risk as waste builds up across the city
- Refuse workers are nearing the end of the strike from August 18 to 30, which has targeted the Fringe Festival
- Nicola Sturgeon said the government does not have a 'bottomless pit of money' to resolve the dispute
- Edinburgh residents have put rubbish in their baths and paid £200 for skips in their desperation
Health bosses have said the Edinburgh bin strike poses a 'risk to public health' as Nicola Sturgeon's deputy admits the situation is 'deeply concerning'.
Public Health Scotland said people could be at risk as the bin strikes cause food, animal waste (from food or excrement) and human waste (such as nappies) to build up.
They also recommended councils to 'decontaminate' overflowing bins in public areas to reduce the health risk.
Refuse workers are striking from August 18 to August 30 - targeting the Scottish capital during the Fringe Festival.
Refuse workers in Edinburgh are striking from August 18 to 30, causing piles of rubbish to build up in the city. Pictured: overflowing bins in the Grassmarket are joined by wheelie bins from disaster charity Rapid Relief Team
Public Health Scotland said people could be at risk as the bin strikes cause food, animal waste (from food or excrement) and human waste (such as nappies) to build up. Pictured: rubbish next to the Forth Bridge in Queensferry
Public Health Scotland also recommended councils to 'decontaminate' overflowing bins in public areas to reduce the health risk. Pictured: bins in the Calton area of Edinburgh, off Leith Walk, yesterday
They are now over halfway through the 'embarrassing on an international scale' strike that has left bins overflowing throughout the city.
Nicola Sturgeon's deputy, John Swinney admitted the piles of rubbish are 'deeply concerning' as the city overflows with filth.
Mr Swinney said: 'I think the condition of the city of Edinburgh just now is deeply concerning on a host of levels, not least in relation to public health.
Nicola Sturgeon's deputy, John Swinney admitted the piles of rubbish are 'deeply concerning' as the city overflows with filth
'So I acknowledge the significance of the issue, which is why I want to see the industrial action resolved, why I would prefer it didn't spread to other parts of the country.'
He went on to insist the government are doing 'all they can within the resources available', including providing £140million to council to help fund a deal.
Conservative local government spokesman Miles Briggs said the strikes are down to Nicola Sturgeon's underfunding of local councils and stripping money from essential services since coming to power.
He said: 'The SNP have been underfunding local councils and stripping money from essential services since they came to power, yet they have the brass neck to try and dodge responsibility for this shambles.
'In the middle of summer, with the Edinburgh Festival in full swing and tourists visiting all corners of the country, the SNP's inaction and deflection risks embarrassing us on an international scale.'
Staff in a further 20 council areas have now joined in with the strike after talks on Thursday met with no resolution.
Unions rejected a five per cent wage increase earlier this week, which they called 'insulting'.
Wendy Dunsmore, from the union Unite, said it needed to match the £1,925 rise given to government workers in other parts of the UK.
Edinburgh residents have had to put rubbish in their baths and pay £200 for skips to help them get rid of their rubbish.
Helen Sikora, 87, from the Old Town in Edinburgh, told The BBC that she has had to start putting her rubbish in her own bath.
She said: 'I came up with the idea myself as it's the safest place to put rubbish. If it then leaks then it's easy to clean my bath. I use the local health club every day to go swimming, so I don't need to use my shower.
'It's absolutely disgusting going out shopping now and seeing the rubbish all over the pavements, it's just dreadful.
'I don't accumulate a lot of rubbish, but I've had this in my bath for six days. it's going to be a health hazard soon.'
One rubbish pile is so large it is thought to stretch 100 feet down Montgomery street in Edinburgh.
Ms Sturgeon said the government does not have a 'bottomless pit of money' to resolve the dispute.
Helen Sikora (pictured), 87, has said that she has been putting her rubbish in the bath for a week
Staff in a further 20 council areas have now joined in with the strike after talks on Thursday met with no resolution. Pictured: Overflowing bins in Castlehill, a stone's throw away from Edinburgh castle
Unions rejected a five per cent wage increase earlier this week, which they called 'insulting'. Pictured is a picket line outside Bankhead waste and cleansing depot in Edinburgh
Wendy Dunsmore, from the union Unite, said it needed to match the £1,925 rise given to government workers in other parts of the UK
A 100ft line of bins and piles of rubbish were seen in the Calton area of Edinburgh, off Leith Walk yesterday
Rubbish sitting on the top of a bin near Edinburgh castle on August 24. The strikers are now in their tenth day
Other cities have also been affected by the bin strikes. Pictured are overflowing bins on Buchanan Street in Glasgow
Ms Sturgeon said the government does not have a 'bottomless pit of money' to resolve the dispute. Pictured is more rubbish building up in the city today
The rubbish piled high in Edinburgh has been an 'international embarrassment' as the city hosts the annual Fringe Festival. Pictured: A bin in Edinburgh on August 23
The strike in Edinburgh began after workers were offered a 3.5% pay rise, which is less than what refuse collectors in England receive
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One person killed in wrong-way crash on US-1 in Flagler County
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One person killed in wrong-way crash on US-1 in Flagler County
FHP is investigating a wrong-way, head-on crash on US-1 in Flagler County that killed one person early Saturday morning.According to FHP, the crash happened shortly before 4 a.m. on US-1 at Eagle Rock Road. A sedan traveling south in the northbound lanes collided head-on with a sedan traveling north.The wrong-way driver was transported to Halifax Health Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, according to FHP.The sole occupant of the other car suffered minor injuries during the crash.The section of US-1 where the crash occurred is a divided highway with a grass median and two travel lanes heading in either direction.
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. —
FHP is investigating a wrong-way, head-on crash on US-1 in Flagler County that killed one person early Saturday morning.
According to FHP, the crash happened shortly before 4 a.m. on US-1 at Eagle Rock Road. A sedan traveling south in the northbound lanes collided head-on with a sedan traveling north.
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The wrong-way driver was transported to Halifax Health Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, according to FHP.
The sole occupant of the other car suffered minor injuries during the crash.
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Pentagon announces new plan to reduce number of civilians killed in military operations
The Pentagon announced a new plan of action Thursday which it says will help reduce the number of civilians killed and injured by U.S. military operations, particularly drone strikes, and better deal with the aftermath of such incidents.
The U.S. military has been criticized for years for killing civilians in drone strikes but came under increased scrutiny after the military conducted a botched strike during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last August that killed 10 civilians, seven of them children.
The department also faced criticism over a 2019 airstrike in Syria that killed multiple civilians. The military acknowledged the deaths in that strike in November 2021, after the New York Times reported them. The department ultimately held no one accountable for the 2019 strike.
In response to these criticisms, in January Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered a 90-day review of the military's handling of civilian casualty incidents and a subsequent 90-day implementation period to make changes to how the military handles them.
The "Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan" announced Thursday will build a framework that will put people who are trained and have an understanding of civilian harm issues throughout the military, both in combatant commands and at more senior levels of the Defense Department. Those individuals, who will work for the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, established and created by the new plan, will be able to give input on how certain military actions and decisions will impact civilians, Pentagon Spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder told reporters during a briefing on Thursday.
The Center of Excellence will be made up of about 150 individuals, Ryder said.
"So, the Center of Excellence will be sort of the hub that will provide expertise at a centralized location, but then that will be dispersed throughout the Department of Defense at the co-com level, at the component level," Ryder said.
The plan will also ensure that better civilian harm mitigation and response practices are incorporated into Department of Defense and U.S. military doctrine, "into instructions, into operational planning as a factor, that will eventually inculcate itself into the force," Ryder added.
This plan is meant to be implemented throughout all parts of the U.S. military, both in battlefields and combatant commands across the globe and in other kinds of warfare, like cyberspace, a senior defense official told reporters Thursday.
"It's meant to be across all domains that the Department of Defense is engaged in," the official said.
The plan would establish policies and procedures for how to deal with civilian harm incidents. Surviving family members of those killed in the botched U.S. airstrike that killed ten civilians in Kabul last year were promised help from the U.S. government in relocating outside of Afghanistan, but the Department has not provided updates on if the family was able to be relocated or if ex parte payments were made to the family for their losses.
"I think how we would assist in those cases; the plan lays out a number of additional and more tailorable options," the official said, speaking of that case. "Obviously moving individuals out of Afghanistan after the Taliban took over is a degree of complexity that requires a lot of tailorable options, so I think we are very much educated by that experience to look at what additional tools we might need besides some of what has traditionally been in the commander's toolbox."
Austin also designated the Secretary of the Army to be the "joint proponent" of implementing the plan, his memo notes. This means the U.S. Army will be heavily involved in creating the infrastructure and executing the plan's directions, the senior defense official said.
"We envision working with the army now as a joint proponent to actually have this up and operating at initial capacity pretty quickly here even as it may take one or two fiscal years to actually build it out to its full operating capacity," the official said. | https://www.wesh.com/article/pentagon-new-plan-reduce-civilians-killed-military-operations/40993660 | 2022-08-27T16:37:04Z | https://www.wesh.com/article/pentagon-new-plan-reduce-civilians-killed-military-operations/40993660 | false |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Oneil Cruz’s bat slipped out of his hands and went flying into the stands after the Pittsburgh Pirates rookie struck out in the third inning Friday night against Philadelphia.
That’s when things got sticky.
The lumber landed in Jen Mehall’s lap behind the Phillies dugout. Mehall, a Pirates fan, was thrilled to get the souvenir — especially after it dinged her in the leg and lip. An inning later, though, a Pirates official came to request the bat back and offered another one in a trade.
Mehall and her friend, Kathie Koller, who were in town from Reading to celebrate Koller’s birthday, didn’t want to give up their rare keepsake.
“We wanted to keep it, but security said we couldn’t,” said Mehall, who is originally from Western Pennsylvania.
Fans in the sections around the two women booed loudly.
Although they were disappointed, Mehall and Koller did have the good fortune of sitting in front of former Phillies infielder and team ambassador Mickey Morandini. He got the women a bat bearing the signature of Phillies star slugger Bryce Harper.
It was a nice gesture by Morandini, though the women seemed genuinely upset about not being able to hang onto the bat they caught.
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A millennia-old Egyptian artifact was found in a shipment to the port at Memphis, Tennessee, officials say.
US Customs and Border Protection officers discovered the artifact on August 17, according to a news release published Thursday. It had been shipped to Memphis, Tennessee from Europe, officials confirmed.
Customs officers collaborated with experts at the University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology to assess the item. They determined it is the lid of a canopic jar, which were used to hold mummies' internal organs. The lid was sculpted in the likeness of the funeral deity, Imsety, who helped protect the deceased's liver after their death.
Experts dated the lid back to the Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, according to the release. The period fell between 1069 BC and 653 BC, so the lid is potentially as old as 3,000 years.
The lid is protected under the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act of 1983, which restricts the import of certain archaeological and ethnological materials into the US.
Customs officials seized the artifact after the shipper made conflicting statements about its value, the release explained.
The lid was then turned over to Homeland Security Investigations for further examination.
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Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech for Covid-19 vaccine patent infringement
Saturday August 27 2022
Moderna said Friday it is suing rival vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging the partners infringed on its patents in developing their Covid-19 shot administered to hundreds of millions around the world.
The lawsuits set up a high-stakes showdown between the leading manufacturers of Covid-19 shots that are a key tool in the fight against the disease.
"Moderna believes that Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty infringes patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016 covering Moderna's foundational mRNA technology," the US-based biotech firm said in a statement.
"Pfizer and BioNTech copied this technology, without Moderna's permission, to make Comirnaty," Moderna said.
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Pfizer and BioNTech said they have not fully reviewed the complaint, but expressed surprise over the litigation.
"The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine was based on BioNTech's proprietary mRNA technology," a statement said. "We will vigorously defend against the allegations of the lawsuit."
The mRNA technology used in the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech shots differs from that in traditional vaccines, which rely on injecting weakened or dead forms of a virus to allow the immune system to recognize it and build antibodies.
Instead, mRNA vaccines deliver instructions to cells to build a harmless piece of the spike protein found on the surface of the virus that causes Covid-19.
After creating this spike protein, cells can recognize and fight the real virus, hailed as a major advancement in development of vaccines.
The shots have repeatedly been the subject of inaccurate claims that they are dangerous, but health authorities say they are both safe and effective.
The lawsuits -- in US district court in Massachusetts, and in regional court in Dusseldorf, Germany -- are not seeking the removal of the rival vaccine or an injunction on future sales.
Also Read: Pfizer earnings jump on sales of Covid products
Moderna said it had begun building up the technology in 2010 and patented work on coronaviruses in 2015 and 2016, which allowed for rollout of its shots in "record time" after the pandemic struck.
The virus has killed at least 6.48 million people worldwide since 2020 and made nearly 600 million ill, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.
In addition to death and suffering, the disease has led to a re-shaping of life ranging from a change in norms on working from home to a scrambling of supply chains and workforces.
Moderna said it pledged in October 2020 not to enforce its Covid-19-related patents while the pandemic continued, but less than two years later changed that stance as the fight shifted gears.
"Moderna expected companies such as Pfizer and BioNTech to respect its intellectual property rights and would consider a commercially reasonable license should they request one for other markets," it said.
"Pfizer and BioNTech have failed to do so," the firm added.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
9-1-4, FIREBALL: 7
(nine, one, four; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
9-1-4, FIREBALL: 7
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SAN FRANCISCO — While Americans from Seattle to Memphis, Tennessee, to New York sweated their way through the swampy summer of 2022, here was the scene on an August afternoon at Fisherman’s Wharf, on the northern tip of San Francisco: Among a group of friends from Germany gawking at dozens of barking sea lions splayed on floating docks, one was bundled in a down jacket and another in a sweatshirt, and a third was shivering despite a red checkered scarf worn like a shawl.
“No one told us about how windy it is,” said Matthias Schilli, a doctoral student from Hamburg, as the temperature dipped into the 50s and a thick bank of fog began to roll in from the Golden Gate under the orange sky of a setting sun.
Nearby, Riley Carvalis, a recruiter for a construction company in Florida, dashed into a shop to buy a gray and white hoodie emblazoned with “San Francisco” across the chest — one of many stacked up in trinket shops for visitors who are caught unprepared.
Then there were Anders Westlund and Lilian Howell, college students visiting from Southern California, reveling in the notion that they could comfortably wear pants, long-sleeve shirts and chunky boots.
“A lot of people escape to the heat,” said Westlund, who studies management. “We’re escaping to the cool.”
Longtime residents of San Francisco have grown weary of explaining to out-of-town visitors that July and August can be fairly cold in the city. Some San Franciscans live in dread of hearing, again, the apocryphal Mark Twain quotation about the coldest winter of the author’s life being a summer in San Francisco.
Now, though, in a time of punishing summer heat waves, when weather maps urgently flash red across the country, the city is reassessing what was once seen as a liability: its chilly Pacific breezes and fog.
“Merry Fogust, to all who celebrate,” wrote one of the many San Franciscans who joined the anonymous Twitter personality Karl the Fog in promoting #FogAppreciationDay online.
San Francisco’s summer fog and cool breezes are created by a complex interaction between the atmosphere and ocean, a process that pumps cold water from the depths to the surface and acts as an air conditioner, according to Patrick Brown, a Bay Area climate scientist at the Breakthrough Institute, a nonprofit organization.
The long-term effects of climate change on San Francisco’s cool summers are unclear, Brown said, but there is little evidence that the weather systems that keep the city cooler than inland areas will radically change anytime soon. In other words, summers in San Francisco are likely to remain crisp and refreshing for many years to come.
“That may be part of our significant future messaging about what San Francisco is all about,” said Joe D’Alessandro, CEO of the San Francisco tourism bureau. “We never shy away from pictures of the fog coming into San Francisco or people with jackets on — that is who we are.”
D’Alessandro said he is considering marketing the summer shivers with tourist slogans along the lines of, “Come cool down.”
A page devoted to the San Francisco weather on the city’s tourism website describes an “eternally springlike climate.” That may be a charitable description of the hold-your-hat winds and zip-up-your-puffy-jacket evenings in the city, when the dankness of the fog can make it feel colder than the official temperature readings. “San Francisco residents save on wardrobe costs,” the tourist office says, “because the same clothes suffice year round — knits, light wools, long sleeves and pants.”
The steady, cold winds that sweep in from the ocean seem more essential to the character of San Francisco than the city’s transitory political squabbles and scandals, or its current role as a favorite punching bag of conservative pundits for its decidedly liberal politics.
Candlestick Park, where the San Francisco Giants played home games until 2000, was nationally notorious for its swirling winds and bone-chilling temperatures in the summer. The Giants gave out “Croix de Candlestick” pins, complete with snow atop the team’s logo, to the rare die-hards who dared to sit through extra-inning games at night.
San Franciscans have learned to mistrust even the most promising of sunny days. It is not a question of when the damp bank of fog will arrive to chill your bones, but whether you will be caught in it without your extra layers.
Warren Blier, a weather scientist with the Bay Area office of the National Weather Service, said the average temperature in downtown San Francisco hovers around 60 degrees in July and August. The average has increased by a little less than 2 degrees over the past half-century.
“There’s a hint of a slight warming over the years, but we can’t say for certain that it’s a real trend,” Blier said.
One climate change model shows the San Francisco area warming on average by 2.2 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. By contrast, Sacramento, about 90 miles inland, is projected to warm more quickly, by 2.9 to 8.6 degrees in the same period. New York, governed by an entirely different weather system, is projected to warm by 3.1 to 9.7 degrees, and Chicago 3.2 to 10.8 degrees, in that time.
The bottom line for San Francisco, according to the model, is not only that the city will stay relatively cool in the summer, but also that it may be less affected by climate change-induced temperature increases than cities farther east will be.
Unlike other parts of the country, where every summer seems to come with new heat records, the very hottest summer days on record in San Francisco happened early in the last century: The high for July is 99 degrees, set on July 3, 1931. The second highest was set in 1905.San Francisco residents, Blier said, can count on keeping their wardrobes, at least for the summer months.
“Maybe decades into the future, maybe it’s not a puffy jacket, it’s a decent sweater,” he said. “But we’re not saying it’s going to be a T-shirt and shorts. I can’t see anything that points in that direction.” On the edge of San Francisco Bay, Brooke and Jamie Burnie, a couple from Ontario, Canada, were taking pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge framed by a pink-hued sunset. Their two boys put their hoods up.
“It’s colder here than home,” Jamie Burnie said.
It says something about San Francisco that even Canadians remark on the chilliness.
Yet locals know that the city’s real summer is just around the corner. September and October are, on average, the warmest months of the year in San Francisco, when the sea breezes die down, the fog makes its retreat and the average temperature reaches a balmy 70 degrees, sometimes going higher.
There have been only 15 days across the past century and a half when the temperature in downtown San Francisco was 100 degrees or hotter, according to Golden Gate Weather Services, a website that compiles weather data. All but four of those days occurred in September or October. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/come-for-the-golden-gate-bridge-and-cable-cars-stay-for-the-summer-shivers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-27T16:55:24Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/come-for-the-golden-gate-bridge-and-cable-cars-stay-for-the-summer-shivers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont sheriff's office captain and candidate for sheriff has been fired after a video showed him kicking a handcuffed and shackled detainee in the groin.
Franklin County Sheriff Roger Langevin on Thursday called Capt. John Grismore's actions “egregious" in a statement.
According to a video of the incident released by the sheriff's, a man who's handcuffed and shackled refused to stay seated on a bench while being detained at the sheriff's office. Grismore, dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, kicked the man in the groin and then kicked him a second time when the man stood up again.
Grismore was initially placed on administrative leave and state police are investigating, the sheriff's office said. Langevin, who said he was notified of Grismore's actions by deputies, referred the case to the Franklin County State’s Attorney’s Office, which requested the state police review. It was not immediately known if Grismore is being represented by an attorney. He could not be reached for comment.
Grismore was the sole candidate for the Republican nomination for sheriff in the Aug. 9 primary. Langevin, who is not running for reelection, said he no longer supports Grismore for sheriff. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Sheriff-s-captain-and-candidate-fired-for-kicking-17402203.php | 2022-08-27T16:58:07Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Sheriff-s-captain-and-candidate-fired-for-kicking-17402203.php | false |
(The Hill) – A Republican super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is canceling advertisements in Arizona less than three months out from the midterm elections, a possible sign of problems for the Trump-backed GOP candidate challenging Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).
The Senate Leadership Fund called off its advertisement reservations that were set to air in Arizona between Sept. 6 and Oct. 3, according to AdImpact.
The cancellation totaled about $8 million, according to Politico, which is roughly half of what the PAC had initially planned to run in the Grand Canyon State. Advertisements from the group are now set to begin in the beginning of October instead of early fall.
The decrease in advertising money comes as Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters continues to struggle in his bid against Kelly, who remains ahead in FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls, 50.3% to 42%.
Former President Trump and GOP mega-donor Peter Thiel both support Masters’ candidacy, but other Republicans feared he would be a weaker opponent to Kelly.
Senate Leadership Fund President Steven Law said the change was in part due to the $28 million ad buy the PAC made in Ohio last week to bolster Republican nominee J.D. Vance, who is running against Rep. Tim Ryan (D) for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R).
Ryan and Vance appear to be in a close race in Ohio, a state the GOP had hoped would be more safely in its grasp.
“We’re leaving the door wide open in Arizona, but we want to move additional resources to other offensive opportunities that have become increasingly competitive, as well as an unexpected expense in Ohio,” Law told Politico.
“We think the fundamentals of this election strongly favor Republicans, we see multiple paths to winning the majority, and we are going to invest heavily and strategically to achieve that goal,” he added.
The super PAC is also slashing advertising in Alaska, where Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is running for reelection, according to Politico. The incumbent advanced to the general election, along with Trump-backed candidate Kelly Tshibaka.
Murkowski secured roughly 44% of the vote, while Tshibaka won 39% support.
The advertising dollar decrease in Alaska — roughly $1.7 million, according to Politico — is a sign that the party is confident with the incumbent’s odds, Law said. The super PAC’s ads supporting the candidate are set to begin on Sept. 20.
“We are all-in for Senator Murkowski. Senator Murkowski is in a very strong position and based on that decided to push back our start date,” Law told Politico.
The shift in advertisement funding comes as odds of flipping the Senate red in November appear to be diminishing.
In Kentucky last week, McConnell told reporters Republicans had a better chance of winning control of the House than the Senate, pointing to “candidate quality” — a veiled reference to Masters, Vance and Trump-backed nominees in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” McConnell said when asked about his midterm expectations.
“Right now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think when all is said and done this fall, we’re likely to have an extremely close Senate, either our side up slightly or their side up slightly,” he added.
The statement came in stark contrast to McConnell’s comments in November, when he said the midterm races would be “very good” for Republicans.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis elevated 20 more churchmen to the rank of cardinal on Saturday, formally expanding those now eligible to vote for his successor in case he dies or resigns — the latter a step he has said he’d consider if the need arises.
Of the churchmen being named new cardinals in the consistory ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, 16 are younger than 80 and thus eligible to participate in a conclave — the ritual-shrouded, locked-door assembly of cardinals who cast paper ballots to elect a new pontiff.
The 85-year-old Francis has now named 83 of the 132 cardinals currently young enough to join a conclave. The others were appointed by the previous two popes, St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, whose unexpected retirement in 2013 paved the way for Francis to be elected.
With the eight batches of cardinals Francis has named, prospects are boosted that whoever becomes the next pontiff will share his vision for the future of the church.
Francis reminded the cardinals of their mission, which he said includes “an openness to all peoples, to the horizons of the world, to the peripheries as yet unknown.”
Underlining Francis' attention to those on society's margins, among the new cardinals is Archbishop Anthony Poola of Hyderabad, India. The prelate, 60, is the first member of the Dalit community, considered the lowest rung of India's caste system, to become a cardinal.
One by one, the newest cardinals, whose red cassocks and headgear symbolizes the blood they must be prepared to shed if necessary in their mission, knelt before Francis, who placed on their head the prestigious biretta, as the three-peaked hat is known.
That intimate moment was a chance to exchange a few words with Francis, who smiled to put them at ease. At times, the seated Francis, himself hobbled by mobility problems, lent his own arms to help kneeling cardinals stand up.
In choosing San Diego Bishop Robert Walter McElroy, Francis passed over U.S. churchmen leading traditionally more prestigious dioceses, including San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.
McElroy has been among a minority of American bishops who opposed to a campaign to deny Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. Cordileone has said he'd no long allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion for her defense of abortion rights.
While staunchly against abortion as a grave sin, Francis has also decried what he calls the weaponization of Communion.
McElroy last year was also among a small group of U.S. bishops signing a statement denouncing the bullying that is often directed at LGBTQ youth.
Francis has tried to make gay Catholics feel welcome in the church, whose teaching holds that same-sex intercourse is a sin.
Among the newest cardinals is Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr from Wa, Ghana, who has spoken out against LGBTQ rights. The African prelate felt ill when he arrived in Rome on Friday and was hospitalized for a heart problem, the pope told the other cardinals, asking them to pray “for this brother who should have been here.”
Asked by The Associated Press about such contrasting views among church leaders, McElroy replied that “there are always cultural differences within the life of the church as there is within in the human family. And different cultures approach these questions in different ways.”
McElroy added: "My own view is that we have an obligation in the church to make the LGBT persons feel equally welcome in the life of the church, as everyone else.”
With electing future pontiffs a key role for cardinals, McElroy, 68, was asked what he thought of Francis' saying that resignation for popes is a valid option.
“In principle, I think it is a good idea at a particular moment when they feel they can no longer carry the burdens of that office, but I think this pope is far from that moment," the U.S. prelate said. “I believe he sees himself as far from that moment. What he has is a mobility issue, but it has not affected his mind. I can tell you he is still on top of things."
Archbishop Ulrich Steiner of Manaus, Brazil, became the first cardinal from the Amazon, the vast, environmentally-vulnerable region in South America on the Argentine-born pontiff’s home continent. In remarks to The AP, Steiner expressed concern about increasing violence in the Amazon.
“But this violence was not born there, it came from outside,'' Steiner, 71, said. ”It is always violence related to money. Concessions, deforestation, also with the mines, also with the fishing."
At 48, the youngest member among the cardinals' ranks is an Italian missionary in Mongolia, where Catholics number some 1,300. Francis "knows how important it is supporting these little communities,'' said the new cardinal, Giorgio Marengo.
Originally, the pope had picked 21 new cardinals. But retired Belgian Bishop Luc Van Looy declined the honor, citing his own inadequate handling of cases of sexually abusive priests while he led the Ghent diocese from 2004-2020.
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Sabrina Sergi and Fanuel Morelli contributed to this report.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An autopsy report in the death of country singer Naomi Judd that was obtained Friday by The Associated Press confirmed what family members have already said about how she died. Judd, 76, killed herself with a gun on April 30 at her home in Tennessee.
“We have always shared openly both the joys of being family as well its sorrows, too. One part of our story is that our matriarch was dogged by an unfair foe,” a statement from the family released on Friday read. “She was treated for PTSD and bipolar disorder, to which millions of Americans can relate.”
The autopsy, which is considered a public record in Tennessee, showed several prescription drugs in Judd’s system that are used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.
Naomi and her daughter Wynonna Judd scored 14 No. 1 songs in a career that spanned nearly three decades. Naomi Judd died the day before she and Wynonna were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The family has asked for privacy as they mourn and encouraged anyone in a similar crisis to seek help. The national suicide and crisis lifeline is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org. | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/ap-naomi-judd-autopsy-confirms-country-singers-cause-of-death/ | 2022-08-27T17:18:03Z | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/ap-naomi-judd-autopsy-confirms-country-singers-cause-of-death/ | false |
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A pipeline operator and two subsidiaries agreed Friday to plead guilty to negligently discharging oil off the Southern California coast in connection with a pipeline break that covered beaches with blobs of crude.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said in a statement that Houston-based Amplify Energy and two subsidiaries agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $7 million fine and nearly $6 million in expenses incurred by government entities, including the U.S. Coast Guard. The companies would also install a new leak detection system for pipeline and train employees to identify and respond to potential leaks, the statement said.
“Our nation’s environmental laws are designed to protect our communities and oceans from hazardous pollutants, including oil,” said Scot Adair, special agent in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal investigation division in California. “Amplify Energy’s agreement to plead guilty today demonstrates that companies that negligently violate those laws will be held responsible for their crimes.”
The plea agreements still need to be approved by U.S. District Judge David Carter.
Amplify Energy, which owns the pipeline that ruptured, said the company has been cooperating with the investigation into the spill and is committed to operating safely.
“We believe this resolution, which is subject to court review and approval, reflects the commitments we made immediately following the incident to impacted parties,” Martyn Willsher, Amplify’s president, said in a statement.
The October 2021 leak in a pipeline that ferried crude oil from offshore platforms to the Southern California coast spilled about 25,000 gallons (94,600 liters) of oil into the Pacific Ocean.
While less severe than initially feared, the spill about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) offshore shuttered beaches in surf-friendly Huntington Beach and nearby communities for a week and fisheries for more than a month, oiled birds and threatened wetlands the region has been striving to restore.
“The Orange County oil spill was devastating for our environment, our community and our local businesses,” said state Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, who represents the area, in a statement.
U.S. prosecutors charged the companies late last year with the illegal discharge of oil and failure to respond to eight leak detection alarms over a 13-hour period that should have alerted them to the spill. The leak detection system alarm first sounded late in the afternoon on Oct. 1, but workers believed it was triggered by a change in the concentration of produced water in the pipeline earlier in the day, according to a copy of the plea agreement.
The alarm sounded repeatedly throughout the night and workers shut down the pipeline to investigate, then restarted it again. Before dawn on Oct. 2, a boat went out and traveled along the course of the undersea pipeline with flashlights but didn’t see signs of a leak, according to the agreement.
It wasn’t until a boat went out after daybreak that the spill was identified, the papers said.
In the plea agreement, Amplify contends that two ships dragged their anchors across the pipeline and damaged it during a January 2021 storm, but they weren’t notified until after the October 2021 spill. Without this damage, Amplify, which has filed a civil claim against the ships, has argued that the spill would not have happened. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-pipeline-operator-agrees-to-guilty-plea-in-california-spill/ | 2022-08-27T17:18:17Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-pipeline-operator-agrees-to-guilty-plea-in-california-spill/ | false |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Bryce Harper hit a two-run single in his first at-bat after a 52-game absence due to a broken left thumb, helping the streaking Philadelphia Phillies to a 7-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.
Harper grounded out twice and lined out sharply in his three other at-bats in his first action since being hit on the hand by San Diego Padres left-hander Blake Snell on June 25. The reigning NL MVP batted cleanup as the designated hitter and helped the Phillies win their fifth straight game.
“I’m just happy to be back, get in there and help this team win,” Harper said.
Philadelphia, which went 32-20 without Harper, began play in second place in the NL wild-card race.
“I’m just trying to come in here and not screw it up; they’re playing so well,” Harper said. “It’s been fun to be able to watch and even more fun to go out there and be around them.”
Rhys Hoskins singled, doubled and drove in a run for the Phillies.
Bryan Reynolds, Ben Gamel and Rodolfo Castro homered for the Pirates, who have lost six straight and 12 of 14. Pittsburgh dropped to 47-78.
Harper jogged out for warmups to loud cheers and “Let’s Go Harper!” chants 25 minutes before first pitch. The ovation from the announced crowd of 30,546 was deafening when Harper was introduced 20 minutes later. The cheers grew even louder, accompanied by a standing ovation and “M-V-P!” chants, when he stepped to the plate with no outs and the bases loaded in the first.
“I started laughing because it’s awesome,” Harper said of the reception. “I love those types of moments, I love those opportunities, I love jam-packed crowds and being able to play in front of 40,000 people. That’s what it’s all about.”
With a 2-2 count against Bryse Wilson (2-8), Harper lined a hard two-run single into right field.
“My teammates set me up for a perfect opportunity right there, and I was able to come through,” he said.
Harper went 5 for 8 with two homers, two doubles and six RBIs in a pair of rehab starts at Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Phillies had planned to keep Harper in Triple-A through Saturday, but his return to the big leagues was moved up after his walk-off double for the IronPigs on Wednesday night.
“I just want to get back, I just want to play, I just want to help,” he said. “We have a team with an opportunity to go to the playoffs and go deep in the playoffs.”
The fans weren’t the only ones happy to see Harper back in Philadelphia. His wife, Kayla, posted a photo on social media of her seated at Citizens Bank Park wearing a shirt with multiple images of Harper on it. She captioned the post, “wearing my heart on my sleeve.”
Pirates manager Derek Shelton said Harper’s presence makes a good team even better.
“We’re talking about one of the best players in the game,” Shelton said. “Anytime you add a player of that caliber back to their lineup, it lengthens it out. He’s such a special hitter. He does a lot of different things. And when you put him there in the middle, it makes a really good lineup even better.”
Phillies starter Bailey Falter (2-3), filling in for injured right-hander Zack Wheeler, gave up three runs on five hits in six innings with six strikeouts and no walks. Brad Hand pitched a scoreless ninth for his fifth save.
Harper’s two-run single was part of Philadelphia’s four-run first that was helped by second baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes’ throwing error on Kyle Schwarber’s grounder to lead off the game. After Harper’s hit, J.T. Realmuto’s grounder and Nick Castellanos’ single scored two more runs.
Wilson didn’t return after the first after allowing four runs, three earned, on five hits.
Philadelphia went up 6-0 in the second on Hoskins’ RBI single, and he later scored in the frame when shortstop Newman mishandled Realmuto’s grounder.
“We didn’t play great defensively and put ourselves in a hole,” Shelton said. “Against a club like this, we cannot give away extra outs.”
Newman’s two-run homer in the fourth and solo shots by Castro in the fifth and Gamel in the seventh, both leading off the innings, pulled Pittsburgh within 6-4 before Bryson Stott’s RBI single in the bottom of the eighth.
“I give our guys credit to continue to go,” Shelton said.
FANS IN THE STANDS
With Harper back, the Phillies drew about 10,000 more fans than they averaged in their four-game home sweep of the Reds this week. They averaged 21,227 during that series.
BAT IN THE STANDS
Oneil Cruz’s bat slipped out of his hands and went flying into the stands after the Pittsburgh Pirates’ rookie struck out in the third inning. The lumber landed in Jen Mehall’s lap behind the Phillies dugout. Mehall, a Pirates fan, was thrilled to get the souvenir — especially after it dinged her in the leg and lip. An inning later, though, a Pirates official came to request the bat back and offered another one in a trade.
Mehall and her friend, Kathie Koller, who were in town from Reading to celebrate Koller’s birthday, didn’t want to give up their rare keepsake.
“We wanted to keep it, but security said we couldn’t,” said Mehall, who is originally from Western Pennsylvania.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Pirates: Rookie RHP Colin Holderman was placed on the 15-day IL with right shoulder soreness after giving up five runs on three hits without getting an out in his last start on Wednesday. RHP Yohan Ramirez was recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis to take Holderman’s place.
Phillies: CF Brandon Marsh (sprained right ankle) had three hits and drove in three runs in his second rehab start with Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Friday night. Marsh, who was injured on Aug. 16, could return to Philadelphia’s lineup on Saturday. … Wheeler is expected to miss two starts with right forearm tendinitis.
UP NEXT
Pirates RHP Tyler Beede (1-3, 4.13) opposes Phillies RHP Kyle Gibson (8-5, 4.30) on Saturday night in the second contest of the three-game set.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday.
Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one of Mexico’s worst human rights scandals, and it came with little fanfare as he made a lengthy defense of the commission’s report released a week earlier.
Last week, despite declaring the abductions and disappearances a “state crime” and saying that the army watched it happen without intervening, Encinas made no mention of six students being turned over to Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.
On Friday, Encinas said authorities were closely monitoring the students from the radical teachers’ college at Ayotzinapa from the time they left their campus through their abduction by local police in the town of Iguala that night. A soldier who had infiltrated the school was among the abducted students, and Encinas asserted the army did not follow its own protocols and try to rescue him.
“There is also information corroborated with emergency 089 telephone calls where allegedly six of the 43 disappeared students were held during several days and alive in what they call the old warehouse and from there were turned over to the colonel,” Encinas said. “Allegedly the six students were alive for as many as four days after the events and were killed and disappeared on orders of the colonel, allegedly the then Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.”
The defense department did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the allegations Friday.
The role of the army in the students’ disappearance has long been a source of tension between the families and the government. From the beginning, there were questions about the military’s knowledge of what happened and its possible involvement. The students’ parents demanded for years that they be allowed to search the army base in Iguala. It was not until 2019 that they were given access along with Encinas and the Truth Commission.
The commission report says the army registered an anonymous emergency call on Sept. 30, 2014, four days after the students’ abduction. The caller reportedly said the students were being held in a large concrete warehouse in a location described as “Pueblo Viejo.” The caller proceeded to describe the location.
That entry was followed by several pages of redacted material, but that section of the report concluded with the following: “As can be seen, obvious collusion existed between agents of the Mexican state with the criminal group Guerreros Unidos that tolerated, allowed and participated in events of violence and disappearance of the students, as well as the government’s attempt to hide the truth about the events.”
Later, in a summary of how the commission’s report differed from the original investigation’s conclusions, there is mention of a colonel.
“On Sept. 30 ‘the colonel’ mentions that they will take care of cleaning everything up and that they had already taken charge of the six students who had remained alive,” the report said.
In a witness statement provided to federal investigators in December 2014, Capt. José Martínez Crespo, who was stationed at the base in Iguala, said the base commander for the 27th Infantry Battalion at the time was Col. José Rodriguez Pérez.
Through a driving rain later Friday, the families of the 43 missing students marched in Mexico City with a couple hundred other people as they have on the 26th of every month for years.
Parents carried posters of their children’s faces and rows of current students from the teachers’ college marched, shouted calls for justice and counted off to 43. Their signs proclaimed that the fight for justice continued and asserted: “It was the State.”
Clemente Rodríguez marched for his son Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, who was a second student identified by a tiny burned bone fragment.
Rodríguez said the families had been told last week before the report was released about the coronel and the six students.
“It’s not by omission anymore. It’s that they participated,” he said of the military. “It was the state, the three levels of government participated.”
He said the families had not been told that any of the arrest orders announced last week for members of armed forces had been carried out yet.
On Sept. 26, 2014, local police took the students off buses they had commandeered in Iguala. The motive for the police action remains unclear eight years later. Their bodies have never been found, though fragments of burned bone have been matched to three of the students.
Last week, federal agents arrested former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam, who oversaw the original investigation. On Wednesday, a judge ordered that he stand trial for forced disappearance, not reporting torture and official misconduct. Prosecutors allege Murillo Karam created a false narrative about what happened to the students to quickly appear to resolve the case.
Authorities also said last week that arrest warrants were issued for 20 soldiers and officers, five local officials, 33 local police officers and 11 state police officers as well as 14 gang members. Neither the army nor prosecutors have said how many of those suspects are in custody.
It was also not immediately clear if Rodríguez Pérez was among those sought.
Rodríguez, the student’s father, said Murillo Karam’s arrest was a positive step.
Murillo Karam “was the one who told us the soldiers couldn’t be touched,” Rodríguez said. “And now it’s being discovered that it was the state that participated.”
In a joint statement, the families said the Truth Commission’s confirmation that it was a “state crime” was significant after elements suggesting that over the years.
However, they said the report still did not satisfactorily answer their most important question.
“Mothers and fathers need indubitable scientific evidence as to the fate of our children,” the statement said. “We can’t go home with preliminary signs that don’t fully clear up where they are and what happened to them.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has given Mexico’s military enormous responsibility. The armed forces are not only at the center of his security strategy, but they have taken over administration of the seaports and been given responsibility for building a new airport for the capital and a tourist train on the Yucatan Peninsula.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina authorities have made 189 arrests in a statewide crackdown led by the state's Alcohol Law Enforcement agents.
The agency announced 449 charges, including 20 felonies, 261 alcohol-related charges and 80 drug-related charges.
Throughout the agency’s eight districts, special agents executed four search warrants, seized six firearms, 78 fraudulent identifications, U.S. currency and various types of illegal controlled substances.
During the operation on Thursday, 21 ABC-permitted businesses were found to be in violation of state laws and regulations.
ALE special agents will submit violation reports to the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission documenting the criminal and regulatory violations at these businesses, which could result in fines, suspensions or revocations of ABC permits.
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‘Find of a lifetime’: 8-year-old discovers giant prehistoric shark tooth
(WGAL) - A young archaeologist made quite a find while vacationing with his family.
Riley Gracely, 8, recently unearthed a prehistoric shark tooth when the family stopped by an educational fossil-hunting expedition with Palmetto Fossil Excursions.
The 8-year-old and his family have collected hundreds of shark teeth during their annual trips.
And while the family has found some impressive artifacts in the past, Riley was on the lookout.
“When this year came along, he was thinking, ‘OK, it’s my turn, I got to get something this time,’” said Justin Gracely, Riley’s father.
And he did. Riley said he spotted a fossilized shark tooth stuck in a pile of dirt.
“As soon as I saw it, I was like, ‘I’m going to wait until everybody comes around,” Riley said.
The tooth measured nearly 5 inches, and the family believes the giant tooth is from a pretty large and ancient shark, likely dating back more than 22 million years.
“I think it predates the megalodon. It’s called an angustiden,” Justin Gracely said.
The tooth can be identified by the matching cups on each side and is likely worth around $2,000.
Palmetto Fossil Excursions congratulated Riley on its social media, calling it a “find of a lifetime.”
Riley said he’s not done yet in his fossil excursions, even after such a find.
‘I want to go back to find more big teeth so I can add them to my collection,” Riley said.
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Airdrieonians stay top after draw with Dunfermline
By PA Staff published
Adam Frizzell’s late equaliser ensured Airdrieonians remain top of the cinch Scottish League One table.
Frizzell struck with 12 minutes remaining to secure a 1-1 draw with Dunfermline at East End Park as the top-two battle ended all square.
His intervention came 10 minutes after Nikolay Todorov had given the home side the lead in a hard-fought encounter.
Callumn Morrison’s third goal in as many games set Falkirk on their way to a 3-1 home victory over Queen of the South as they climbed into third place.
Morrison got the Bairns off to the perfect start with just 12 minutes played, and they increased their lead before the break through Juan Alegria’s finish.
Ruari Paton gave the visitors hope when he converted a 61st-minute penalty, but Ola Lawal restored the home side’s two-goal advantage with an 83rd-minute header. The Doonhamers ended the game with 10 men after Paul McKay was sent off.
Conor Sammon scored twice as Alloa dumped Peterhead to the foot of the table after a 5-0 rout.
Sammon opened his account with less than a minute played and after George Stanger and Bradley Rodden had got in on the act, doubled his tally before substitute Luke Rankin completed the scoring in added time.
Martin Rennie also scored after coming off the bench to round off Montrose’s 3-0 home win over Kelty Hearts.
The home side took charge with two goals either side of half-time, Kerr Waddell’s header starting the ball rolling before Rory McAllister made it 2-0, and Rennie’s late third rounded off a good afternoon’s work.
Ouzy See scored one goal and made the other as Edinburgh City ground out a 2-0 victory over Clyde.
Edinburgh took a 15th-minute lead somewhat against the run of play when See struck from distance, and it was he who set up John Robertson for the second just after the hour mark to kill off the visitors’ hopes of a fightback.
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Disturbance halts Wiz Khalifa concert in Indiana, 3 injured
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Rapper Wiz Khalifa cut short a concert in suburban Indianapolis as people began fleeing the outdoor venue, leaving three with minor injuries, following a disturbance, police said.
People started exiting the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville about 10:30 p.m. Friday after a reported disturbance on part of the amphitheater’s lawn, with some of them shouting about a possible shooting, The Indianapolis Star reported.
Police said in a news release early Saturday that no weapon was found following a sweep of the area at the venue about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Indianapolis.
The disturbance happened about 45 minutes into Wiz Khalifa’s show that was part of the Vinyl Verse co-headlining tour with fellow rapper Logic, according to The Indianapolis Star. The music stopped and Wiz Khalifa and his band left the stage immediately.
Three people reported minor injuries and were taken to hospitals for treatment after concertgoers “self-evacuated” the amphitheater, where all exits were opened in accordance with the venue’s emergency procedures, police said.
In a parking lot outside, some audience members were making cellphone calls as others wept and held each other, the newspaper reported.
Live Nation, the concert promotion company that owns and operates Ruoff, released a statement Saturday thanking “staff and local authorities for acting quickly to support everyone in attendance.”
Police did not immediately reply to a message seeking details on the nature of the disturbance.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City-owned golf course managed by former President Donald Trump’s business is expected to host a Saudi Arabia-supported women’s tournament in October, city officials said Friday.
The plan to host the Aramco Team Series at the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx comes after New York City’s attempt to cancel Trump’s contract to run the course was thrown out by a judge in April.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio said shortly after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that he was canceling Trump’s contracts to run the golf course and several Central Park concessions. The Democratic mayor said the city had the legal right terminate a contract with a company whose leaders are engaged in criminal activity such as inciting an insurrection.
Manhattan state court Judge Debra James ruled that city’s claim that the Trump Organization had breached the contracts lacked any legal foundation.
The Aramco Team Series, first played in 2020 as the Saudi Ladies Team International, is financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
The Saudi fund is also backing the LIV Golf tour, set up as a rival to the PGA Tour, which played a tournament at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey course last month.
Some family members of Sept. 11 victims who blame Saudi Arabia for the 2001 terror attacks criticized Trump for hosting the Saudi-backed tour.
The Saudi government has denied any involvement in the attacks.
Messages seeking comment about Aramco’s Oct. 13-15 tournament in New York City were sent to the Trump Organization and the Aramco Team Series.
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Kudumbashree Mission set to scale up entrepreneurial ventures
Sevika Garments at Vadavucode sets the stage for more ambitious programmes
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The Kudumbashree Mission proposes to set up a sustainable entrepreneurship model in the State by scaling up the existing enterprises with greater growth potential.
Sevika Garments, which was launched by an eight-member group of Micro Enterprises Consultants (MECs) in Vadavucode block panchayat in Ernakulam under the Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) on Saturday, is expected to be a harbinger of the Kudumbashree’s more ambitious entrepreneurship plans.
SVEP was launched on a pilot basis in Vadavucode block and Parakkod block in Pathanamthitta under the National Rural Livelihoods Mission with the combined Central and State assistance running into ₹5.50 crore in 2017. The aim was to eradicate rural poverty by harnessing entrepreneurial skills. Since then, the programme has been rolled out in 23 more blocks across the State with an average number of MECs of 25 in each block
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“The programme was supposed to run for only four years by which time 2,134 enterprises were created at Vadavucode. Thereafter, to keep the entrepreneurial culture thriving, a feasibility study was conducted to identify enterprises with greater growth potential. It was found that there were around 200 stitching and garment units in the block, and eight out of the 17 MECs evinced interest in setting up a garment unit for doing both wholesale and retail businesses on a large scale by procuring dress and cloth materials in bulk from outside the State without intermediaries,” said Anishkumar M.S., State programme manager, SVEP, Kudumbashree Mission.
The project received the approval of the State government under a special livelihood package entailing a financial assistance of ₹2.50 crore of which ₹50 lakh has been granted as working capital advance to the MEC group. The garment unit, christened Sevika Garments, has been set up in a space allocated by the local body near the Puthencruz bus stand. It is likely to help small stitching and garment units in the block through procurement at a reasonable price, while the volume of sale and margins is supposed to keep Sevika Garments going as well.
It has been introduced as an emulative model for entrepreneurs from other blocks where SVEP is under way, and that has thrown up a variety of ideas since then. “MECs from other blocks can come up with similar business plans. It is also in tune with the Kudumbashree’s goal of scaling up enterprises to a bigger level,” said Myna Umaiban, public relations officer, Kudumbashree.
The State government may further enhance assistance for such initiatives under the special livelihood package in the future depending on the feasibility of the proposals.
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Azad Foundation, the Delhi-based non-profit that empowers resource-poor women to become self-sustaining professional drivers, has started its operations in Chennai.
The pandemic delayed its plans to roll out the ‘Women with Wheels’ programme in 2020 but they used the period to upskill women drivers, who had lost their jobs, in digital technology.
“We worked with 20 autorickshaw drivers, tying them with BigBasket so that they can earn a livelihood,” says Shrinivas Rao, national lead, Azad Foundation.
The first batch of women who graduated from the two-wheeler programme are from the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board tenements in Athipet, where they also undergo training in spoken English, digital skills and self-defence.
Finding women to enrol in these programmes has not been easy, so the Foundation is also exploring starting similar programmes at other neighbourhoods such as Kannagi Nagar and Perumbakkam where there is a scope and need to empower the community.
“We have been working with market players to make them understand how they need to relook at their policies to attract women,” says Rao.
Currently, the Foundation has an MoU with Jubilant FoodWorks where women trained under them are placed as delivery executives.
The Foundation is also working on starting a few other programmes like ‘Feminist leadership programme’. Here, 30-40 women are selected for a fellowship where they are trained in feminist principles. “These women help other women to face issues of violence, get access to government schemes, gain access to civic facilities and create an ecosystem where they support each other,” says Rao. Another campaign that they carried out recently in Chennai was “masculinity and household work”.
“Patriarchy here is subtle, but the burden that women face here is the same as what is encountered in any other part of India and our programmes,” he says.
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California weighs rules giving fast food workers more power
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Since she came to California from Mexico 24 years ago, Maria Bernal has been supporting her family by often working two jobs at fast food restaurants.
But she says she wound up living in a small Kia with her two youngest children, then ages 3 and 15, for six months after she lost her housing in 2019 when one of her employers began paying her minimum wage for eight hours even when she worked a 16-hour double shift.
Union organizers and other advocates say such wage theft and other exploitation is common in the fast food industry, particularly for women and racial minorities who make up many of California's more than half-million fast food workers. The industry denies such abuses are widespread.
Bernal and more than 100 others who recently rallied outside the state Capitol are pinning their hopes on groundbreaking legislation that would give fast food workers increased power and protections.
The proposal awaiting final action before the California Legislature adjourns Wednesday would create a new Fast Food Council made up of four workers´ delegates alongside four employers´ representatives and two state officials that would set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.
Bernal said she hopes the council would give workers like herself "a seat at the table where they will respect us more and not allow wage theft to happen, and also importantly that we won´t be afraid of retaliation."
Pedestrians walk below an In-N-Out Burger restaurant sign in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. More than a half-million California fast food workers are pinning their hopes on a groundbreaking proposal that would give them increased power and protections. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Restaurant owners and franchisers say the proposal would drive up the price of fast food. They cite an analysis they commissioned by the UC Riverside Center for Economic Forecast and Development that puts the price increase at 7% to 20%.
A late wage cap added to the bill would keep the increase on the low end of that range. Late amendments limit any minimum wage bump to $22 an hour next year, with cost of living increases thereafter, while the statewide minimum will be $15.50 an hour.
Other late amendments mean the council would also have to be approved by a petition signed by 10,000 fast food workers, and the council would now disappear after six years unless it is renewed.
Matthew Haller, president & CEO of the International Franchise Association, dismissed the last-minute revisions as "an attempt to put lipstick on a pig."
An earlier version cleared the Assembly in January with no votes to spare after falling short last year, and the revised bill is awaiting consideration in the Senate.
Though California's effort would be broader, a wage board created by New York's governor in 2015 led to an increase in fast food wages there, and similar efforts have been tried by some cities. The left-leaning Center for American Progress says that what also are known as workers´ boards, worker standards boards or industry committees could combat economic inequality along with racial and gender pay gaps.
"If we are successful here, workers in Florida, Texas, New York, even Idaho will be heartened and they can replicate our successes," Democratic Assemblyman Alex Lee said at the workers´ rally.
California's measure would cover fast food restaurants with at least 100 establishments nationally.
It grew out of the decade-long Fight for $15 and a Union minimum wage movement and efforts by labor unions to organize fast food workers in California and nationwide.
"This is more than just a labor fight. This is a fight about racial justice, this is a fight about gender justice," said Joseph Bryant, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union behind the drive. "Eighty percent of the workers are people of color who work in fast food. Two-thirds of the workers are women who work in fast food, and these workers are being exploited."
Fast food workers in California are paid nearly $3 an hour less than comparable workers in other service sector jobs, according to a joint study released this month by Harvard and UC San Francisco.
Bernal hopes the California law and the ongoing effort to unionize fast food establishments will one day lead to benefits like paid vacations, medical coverage and a retirement plan. She filed a wage claim earlier this year with state regulators seeking $160,000 in back wages and penalties, while her son is alleging child labor law violations and threats by a restaurant manager.
Employees "are still fighting for some of the basic things that should have been happening a long time ago for the fast food workers who serve our community every day, even through a pandemic," said Democratic Assemblyman Chris Holden, the bill's author.
But Jesse Lara, whose family-owned business operates 34 El Pollo Loco franchises in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, said the bill is unnecessary and would harm the company's more than 1,000 employees.
It unfairly assumes "that we have to rip off our employees to make a profit," when many of the firms' managers have promoted from within, he said. Inflation is "killing us," he said, and higher wages and benefits would force restaurant owners to raise prices and cut workers' hours to make ends meet.
The pending bill targets bona fide abuses, but also furthers unions´ goals of collective bargaining with the entire industry instead of attempting to organize fast food chains one restaurant at a time, said Janice Fine, a professor of labor studies and employment relations who directs Rutgers University´s workplace justice lab.
Such sector-wide negotiations are common in Europe, she said, but rare in the U.S.
California already has some of the strongest worker protection laws and regulations in the U.S. if not the world, said Matt Sutton, the California Restaurant Association's senior vice president for government affairs and public policy.
He disputed claims that the fast food sector has a higher rate of labor, unemployment, health and safety incidents, but said the answer regardless should be for lawmakers to put more money into enforcing labor standards instead of creating a new council with unique regulatory power over one industry.
"There are avenues to punish employers when it´s appropriate," Sutton said.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's Department of Finance also opposed the bill in June, citing its potential costs and what it said could be "a fragmented regulatory and legal environment."
"It is not clear that this bill will accomplish its goal, as it attempts to address delayed enforcement by creating stricter standards for certain sectors, which could exacerbate existing delays," the administration warned.
A worker cleans outside of an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. More than a half-million California fast food workers are pinning their hopes on a groundbreaking proposal that would give them increased power and protections. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Cars wait in the drive-thru line at a McDonald's restaurant in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. More than a half-million California fast food workers are pinning their hopes on a groundbreaking proposal that would give them increased power and protections. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Los Angeles, center, speaks about his bill to provide increased power to fast-food workers during a rally in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. If approved by lawmakers and signed by the governor, California's more than half-million fast food workers would get increased power and protections under Holden's first-in-the-nation measure. Holden was flanked by Democratic Assembly members Mia Bonta, of Oakland, left and Alex Lee of San Francisco, right. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Fast food workers and their supporters march past the state Capitol calling on passage of a bill to provide increased power to fast-food workers, in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. If approved by lawmakers and signed by the governor, AB257 would give California's more than half-million fast food workers would get increased power and protections under the first-in-the-nation measure. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11152493/California-weighs-rules-giving-fast-food-workers-power.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-27T17:42:22Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11152493/California-weighs-rules-giving-fast-food-workers-power.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Raheem Sterling bags first goals for 10-man Chelsea with brace in Leicester win
Raheem Sterling’s first goals for Chelsea gave the 10-man Blues a 2-1 victory over winless Leicester in the Premier League.
Sterling’s second-half double proved decisive at Stamford Bridge as the hosts overcame the loss of manager Thomas Tuchel and England midfielder Conor Gallagher.
Tuchel was serving a touchline ban following his touchline confrontation with Antonio Conte in the opening home match of the season against Tottenham, while Gallagher was dismissed after being penalised for two yellow card offences on Harvey Barnes.
The Blues started brightly and – after Ruben Loftus-Cheek had seen a shot saved by goalkeeper Danny Ward – they were awarded a penalty when Loftus-Cheek went down in the box.
However, referee Paul Tierney overturned his decision after Kai Havertz was adjudged to have been offside in the build-up.
The Blues were reduced to 10 men when Gallagher, booked for an early challenge on Barnes, was dismissed in the 28th minute after receiving another one for fouling the same player as the Foxes counter-attacked.
Raheem Sterling (right) bagged a brace in the second half (David Cliff/AP)
Seven minutes before the break, the visitors thought they had taken the lead when Barnes headed home, but the effort was ruled out for a foul on Blues goalkeeper Edouard Mendy.
The hosts came close to breaking the deadlock four minutes later when Reece James struck the post with an effort from Sterling’s cross, before Jamie Vardy shot wide at the other end after good work by Youri Tielemans.
A little more than a minute after the restart, Sterling broke the deadlock with a shot from the edge of the area, after being found by Marc Cucurella.
The Blues, who introduced Cesar Azpilicueta at half-time, went from four at the back to three and looked more threatening.
They doubled their lead in the 63rd minute when Sterling tapped in James’ cross at the far post, however, the Foxes had hope three minutes later when Barnes beat Mendy at his near post to pull a goal back.
Vardy fired a shot into the side-netting and Ayoze Perez came close as the visitors sought a leveller.
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KSI makes his return to the ring tonight almost three years after his last outing, his points win over Logan Paul in their Los Angeles rematch.
KSI should be preparing to take on Alex Wassabi in a revenge mission following the American's win over KSI's brother Deji earlier this year. But Wassabi pulled out with two weeks to go after suffering concussion in training and was replaced by rapper Swarmz.
But a public outcry followed when it was revealed the former semi-professional footballer had never laced up a pair of gloves, and KSI was forced to draft in a second opponent. The drama wasn't over there, however, with Ivan Nikolov soon exposed as having Neo-Nazi tattoos, forcing KSI to instead draft in Luis Pineda.
KSI will take on Swarmz first, at around 7.10pm UK time, before, all being well, touching gloves with Pineda at 10pm. In between, there is a stacked undercard featuring Deji, Sam Hyde and two members of the FaZe clan.
You can stream the fights on DAZN, or follow all the action right here...
Or maybe we're not...
Hearing there are huge crowds outside The O2 as fans stream in for the first fight of the night. Looks like there will be a delay to the start time.
Just over half an hour away
KSI and Swarmz will walk to the ring at 7.10pm which feels really weird since it's probably the fight people want to see tonight, and it'll be over before we know it.
KSI vs Luis Alcaraz Pineda
In the main event of the evening, KSI will return to the ring, assuming he beats Swarmz, for a second fight against 2-5 professional boxer Pineda. The tall, tricky youngster will prove a challenge at times in this one if he can utilise the skills he's built up in seven legitimate fights.
KSI will pull a brilliant troll tactic on long-time rival Jake Paul when he steps between the ropes with Pineda, given that he will be the first "legitimate" professional boxer either man has faced. Paul is 5-0 as a professional, but none of his opponents had ever competed, let alone won, when he first fought them.
Faze Temperrr vs Slim Albaher
Just three weeks ago, Faze Clan leader Temperrr was scheduled to fight a much different opponent in the tall rapper BlueFace. Unfortunately, issues outside of the ring cost him that fight and Slim, one of YouTube boxing's most dangerous men, was drafted into the fray instead.
Albaher is 3-0 and has stopped every one of his opponents, including Fousey who competes on this card. But due to a combination of his impressive skillset and his smaller social media following, he has been avoided by the big names in the scene, until now when he finally gets his chance in the co-main event.
Deji vs Fousey
Somebody's 0 has got to go, as the old saying went. After going a collective 0-4, one of Fousey or Deji will be walking out of the arena tomorrow night with a victory regardless of their history in the ring.
Deji has been beaten by Jake Paul, Vinnie Hacker and Alex Wassabi thus far since making his debut in 2018, and could be heading towards a disaster fourth loss or an iconic entry into the win column. Meanwhile, Fousey was viciously beaten in his debut against Slim in 2019 before turning his life around and getting in tremendous shape three years later for his return.
Faze Sensei vs King Kenny
There must be a great deal of admiration given to London's own King Kenny when it comes to his boxing journey. After winning a split decision in his debut against Faze Temperrr, the judges were brought back together days later to perform an unprecedented re-score, due to safety concerns at the venue, and the result was overturned.
So when he was offered a spot on tonight's card, Kenny could very easily have taken a handy challenger and got himself a win to announce himself on the scene again. Instead, he took on one of YouTube's most skilled combat athletes in Faze Sensei, who is 1-0 in the scene as well as competing multiple times in MMA and kick-boxing.
This will be a fascinating contest between two men who are really skilled between the ropes. No matter the result, you're looking at technically the best boxers on the undercard in this one.
Salt Papi vs Andy Warski
When he made his debut against Halal Ham back in March on the debut Showstar Boxing event, Tik Tok star Salt Papi's support went through the roof. It turns out the comical dancer was also a pretty impressive boxer, as he took a win over the previously 1-0 Ham and earned thousands of new fans.
Now signed to Daniel 'Keemstar' Keem's Happy Punch Promotions, Salt Papi could end up being a massive star in the social media boxing world, assuming he can get past controversial streamer Warski. The Canadian has battled back from drug addiction to get to this point, and will prove a difficult test for the fan favourite.
Sam Hyde vs IAMTHMPSN
The heaviest fight in YouTube boxing history has stolen the show during media week as comedian Hyde and Tik Tok star THMPSN have gone back-and-forth. The American has adopted a persona as 'The Irish Candyman', and if he can back up his antics in the ring then we could have another star on our hands.
But he faces a tough and fit challenge in Australian violinist Jordan 'THMPSN' Thompson, who has been training at Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym in California. The pair weighed in over 500lb collectively, and there's next to no chance that this fight will go the distance on the scorecards.
Deen The Great vs Evil Hero
Generally the 2-0 veteran of boxing at this low of a level would be the favourite against a debuting fighter, but not in the case of Evil Hero when he faces Deen The Great this weekend. Deen has been signed to Happy Punch Promotions after making a name for himself with street boxing videos, and is believed to be a future legitimate prospect in the sport.
He's set himself up with JackRabbit boxing in Long Beach, California and is one of the biggest favourites on the card with fans. However, Evil Hero has been training for a long time, and competed first when BKFC brought influencers in and then Celebrity Boxing, and will be far from a pushover as he looks in the shape of his life.
KSI vs Swarmz
Mirror Fighting understands that KSI has a party atmosphere planned for his two fights at The O2 arena tonight, and it's up to Swarmz to spoil it. The rapper was once pals with KSI, but they fell out over promotional issues around their top ten single Houdini in 2020.
KSI was initially supposed to face Alex Wassabi, but the American pulled out with an injury and has been replaced by Swarmz. The Brit has just about made the cruiserweight limit after a gnarly weight cut and only has a few weeks of boxing training, but he is confident that he can provide a monstrous upset.
Full fight card and running order
7.10pm: KSI vs Swarmz
Deen The Great vs Evil Hero
Sam Hyde vs IAMTHMPSN
Salt Papi vs Andy Warski
FaZe Sensei vs King Kenny
Deji vs Fousey
FaZe Temperrr vs Slim Albaher
KSI vs Luis Pineda
KSI is back...
Hello and welcome to Mirror Fighting's coverage of YouTube star KSI's return to the ring against not one, but two opponents tonight. Don't get too excited though, one is a rapper who has never boxed before and one is a questionable professional who has won two of his seven fights.
However, KSI had little option when Alex Wassabi pulled out two weeks ago and we can only imagine he'll be looking for two quick-fire KOs to silence his critics. There is also plenty of action on the undercard as KSI's brother Deji looks to earn victory at the fourth time of asking. We politely suggest he gives up if he fails to do so. | https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/ksi-fight-live-stream-time-27847690 | 2022-08-27T17:52:53Z | https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/ksi-fight-live-stream-time-27847690 | false |
In pictures: Strathaven Balloon Festival brightens skies
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Thousands of people have been treated to the sight of hot air balloons drifting across South Lanarkshire.
People have been gathering at Strathaven Park for the town's annual ballooning festival.
Strathaven Balloon Festival is the only one of its kind in Scotland.
Flights on Friday evening were called off after "unprecedented rain" earlier in the day made landing sites unusable, but perfect weather on Saturday saw launches begin at 06:30.
The free festival, which finishes on Sunday, includes skydiving, live music, a funfair and an "evening glow" display of lit balloons as the sun sets.
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CHESTER, Iowa – An investigation is underway into a dead body discovered Friday in rural Howard County.
The Sheriff’s Office says a 911 call resulted in deputies going to a home on River Road near Chester. They found a dead male inside the home.
The Howard County Sheriff’s Office says it and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are looking into this death.
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Indigenous South Americans study artefacts in the British Museum taken by early colonists including Captain Cook in Chile - and hope to return them to their country
- Many objects from Tierra del Fuego were taken by early British settlers
- Robert Fitzroy, who voyaged with Charles Darwin, took some of the artefacts
- The British Museum is facing pressure to return some of the artefacts
- Chile's new constitution guarantees indigenous communities the right to repatriate objects and human remains
The British Museum has invited indigenous South Americans to examine artefacts taken during the colonial period, some by the crew of 18th-century explorer Captain Cook.
Colonialist explorers looted the artefacts more than 150 years ago from the the tip of the Americas in Tierra del Fuego. Now, the visitors hope to return them to their place of origin — though the British Museums said repatriation is not the purpose of the visit.
Delegates from the Yahgan and Kawésqar Atap communities — which originate from the tip of the Americas — visited London to study the artefacts for the first time.
They include the first Yahgan-to-English dictionary, test tubes used for holding indigenous paint, and a canoe built by the nomadic people to travel to different islands for food.
The visit comes as the British Museum faces pressure to return artefacts after the Horniman Museum agreed to return 72 objects to Nigeria.
Chile's new constitution, which its citizens will vote on next week, guarantees indigenous communities the right to repatriate objects and human remains.
Yahgan artist Claudia González Vidal presents her contemporary woven baskets next to those that have been in the British Museum's collections for more than 150 years
Indigenous representatives from Tierra del Fuego have begun a partnership with the British Museum to study objects taken by early colonists and explorers with the hope of them eventually being returned
A portrait painting of Captain James Cook is shown
The map shows the route Captain Cook and his crew took across the world
Because of the insepction, Yahgan artist Claudia González Vidal was able to compare her own woven baskets with some of those made by her ancestors which have been in British hands for a century and a half.
Alberto Serrano Fillol, director of the Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum in Chile's southernmost territory of Tierra del Fuego, led the delegation.
He said: 'The issue of repatriation or restitution is always present.
'Anyone would wish that all the objects in all the museums in Europe or elsewhere could be returned, especially those that are symbolic. And this has been coming up a lot lately.
'But we know that it's not that simple. So firstly, we are hoping to begin working with the British Museum to explore alternatives in order to give access to the communities and people of Tierra del Fuego.
'It is a unique heritage, that of the people of Tierra del Fuego, and the objects and collections are amazing but there are more of them than what a lot of European museums think.
From left to right: Claudia González Vidal; Magdalena Araus Sieber, of the Santo Domingo Centre for Excellence for Latin America at the British Museum; Verónica Balfor Clemente; Haydee Aguila Caro of the Kawéskar At'ap community, analysing the cultural collections of Tierra del Fuego, currently stored in the British Museum
From left to right: Haydee Aguila Caro; Claudia González Vidal; Verónica Balfor Clemente; Alberto Serrano Fillol, next to a full-size canoe taken from Tierra del Fuego
'So it was very important they could be there, not just the researchers but also the great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren of the people who made these objects that are kept there.'
Among the collections at the British Museum are shell necklaces knitted together with animal fibres, fishing equipment, arrow heads, spoon instruments made of muscle and test tubes containing pigments with which indigenous people used to paint themselves.
There is also a full-size canoe taken by the Anglican missionary Waite Stirling in the mid-19th Century, an artefact that no longer exists in Chile itself.
Mr Serrano Fillol said that aside from reconnecting with long-lost objects from their own culture, the Yahgans and Kawésqar Atap can also help the museum build a more detailed picture of their history and meaning.
He added: 'Ultimately, they themselves don't have all the information about these objects and collections which is something we provided.
'From that arose the idea of this project to study and learn, because you can't even find these objects in Patagonia.'
The delegation also visited the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University and the British Library, where Yahgan author Cristina Zárraga Riquelme was able to study the original manuscript of a Yahgan-English dictionary made by the missionary and linguist Thomas Bridges.
Mr Serrano Fillol said: 'He was an Anglican and he was the first white person to learn Yahgan. He made a Yahgan-English dictionary which has been published.
'But the original manuscript is in the British Library. We went to see it with a woman from the Yahgan community who is dedicated to rescuing the language. She had never had the chance to see it.'
Many objects from Tierra del Fuego are in London because they were taken by early British settlers, who were the first Europeans to colonise the region.
Some also came from explorers such as Captain Cook and Robert Fitzroy, who captained the HMS Beagle on its famous voyage with Charles Darwin.
The Horniman Museum agreed to return 72 objects to Nigeria that were looted from Benin City during a military invasion in 1897, and the British Museum is facing pressure to return the Elgin Marbles taken in the 19th Century from the Parthenon in Athens.
But Laura Osorio Sunnucks, a researcher at the British Museum's Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research, said the purpose of the current visit was not to begin a process of repatriation but to build a connection between the museum, its collections and the communities from which they came.
From left to right: Verónica Balfor Clemente; Claudia González Vidal; Cristina Zárraga Riquelme, of the Yahgan community, in the British library examining the original manuscript of the Yahgan-English dictionary created by Thomas Bridges
From left to right: Alberto Serrano Fillol, director of the Martin Gusinde Museum, Chile; Claudia González Vidal; Verónica Balfor Clemente; Haydee Aguila Caro, in the British Museum to see the collections from Tierra del Fuego
She added: 'We reached out to Alberto because of all the excellent work he does with communities in Chile.
'It is about figuring out what they need and what they want and thinking about a project that has a really far-reaching impact.
'Some of the calls about repatriation are about colonial dominance, the museum and its ownership and the narrative around those things but what we are trying to do is create a project which is looking beyond the collections, beyond the objects themselves and looking at contemporary relationships.
'We aim to make sure that any of the projects we fund and support are ultimately more relevant to local communities than they are to the museum.'
Part of the work of the Martin Gusinde Museum in Chile is to repatriate items from the Chilean government back to indigenous communities.
Mr Serrano Fillol said he hopes it will become easier now that a new, progressive government has been elected.
It has written a new constitution that, if approved by the electorate in September, will guarantee indigenous communities the right to repatriate objects and human remains.
The museum director added: 'I hope so but at the moment in Chile, since the pandemic, the culture and museum sector has been left in very bad shape.
'There were massive cuts. It was the most affected sector in the whole country, our budget was cut in half.
'But it's important for us to be able to develop this work. This heritage is very important.
'Sometimes the objects of these ancient people are not given that much value or importance, sometimes they are seen as secondary, but they really are remarkable.'
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Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s baby rhinoceros doing ‘zoomies’ might be best video you’ll see today
Published: Aug. 27, 2022 at 1:44 PM EDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A video shared by the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo on Saturday morning was already viewed more than 10,000 times in the hours since it was posted.
The video shows the zoo’s baby rhinoceros Dalia doing the “zoomies,” or energetically running around, it’s pen.
Dalia, meaning “gentle,” was born on July 9 to rhinoceros mother Kibibbi.
The public can regularly view her at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s outdoor rhinoceros habitat.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook’s corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social network service allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016.
Terms of the settlement reached by Meta Platforms, the holding company for Facebook and Instagram, weren’t disclosed in court documents filed late Friday. The filing in San Francisco federal court requested a 60-day stay of the action while lawyers finalize the settlement. That timeline suggested further details could be disclosed by late October.
The accord was reached just a few weeks before a Sept. 20 deadline for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his long-time chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, to submit to depositions during the final phases of pre-trial evidence gathering, according to court documents.
Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in 2004 as a Harvard University student, could have been deposed for up to six hours. Sandberg, who is stepping down as chief operating officer after a 14-year stint, could have been questioned for up to five hours.
The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Stephen Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in Trump’s election as the 45th president.
The ensuring uproar led to a contrite Zuckerberg being grilled by lawmakers during a high-profile congressional hearing and spurred calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts. Even though Facebook’s growth has stalled as more people connect and entertain themselves on rival services such as TikTok, the social network still boasts about 2 billion users worldwide, including nearly 200 million in the U.S. and Canada.
The lawsuit, which had been seeking to be certified as a class action representing Facebook users, had asserted the privacy breach proved Facebook is a “data broker and surveillance firm,” as well as a social network. | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/ap-facebook-parent-settles-suit-in-cambridge-analytica-scandal/ | 2022-08-27T18:13:18Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/ap-facebook-parent-settles-suit-in-cambridge-analytica-scandal/ | true |
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi warned Saturday that the political crisis in the country is threatening security achievements made in past years.
Al-Kadhimi’s warning is a clear indication of the dangers of one of Iraq’s worst political crises since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. It is the result of disagreements between followers of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and rival Iran-backed groups since last year’s parliamentary elections.
Al-Sadr won the largest share of seats in the October elections but failed to form a majority government, leading to what has become one of the worst political crises in Iraq in recent years.
His bloc later resigned from parliament and his supporters last month stormed the parliament building in Baghdad. Al-Sadr has demanded that parliament be dissolved and early elections held.
“This political crisis threatens the security achievements and the nation’s stability,” al-Kadhimi said in a speech marking Islamic Day of Combatting Violence against Women in Baghdad.
“Now, the solution is for all political parties to make concessions for the interests of Iraq and Iraqis,” said al-Kadhimi.
Last week, al-Kadhimi called for a meeting of senior political leaders and party representatives to find a solution. He warned that if “fighting erupts, the shootings will not stop and will remain for years.”
Earlier this month, al-Sadr called on his followers to be ready to hold massive protests all over Iraq but then indefinitely postponed them after Iran-backed groups called for similar rallies the same day, saying he wants to preserve peace and that “Iraqi blood is invaluable” to him.
Iraq has witnessed relative stability since the Islamic State group was largely defeated in the country in 2017. But militants have continued to wage attacks, frequently hitting security forces and military targets with roadside bombs and firing on convoys or checkpoints.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Sen. Patty Murray said breaching the lower Snake River dams is not immediately feasible, but the state, region and nation must work to make implementation of the salmon-saving measure a future possibility.
Their much-anticipated report on the issue, released Thursday, says saving the fish is imperative and calls for investments in clean energy development and transportation infrastructure to replace the low-carbon electricity generated at the dams and the tug-and-barge system farmers rely on to get inland crops to West Coast ports.
“We must recognize that breaching the dams does in fact offer us the best chance at protecting endangered salmon and other iconic species that run through these waters. But the hydropower and economic benefits of the dams are significant, and breaching them before we have other systems in place to replace those benefits would be disastrous,” Inslee said in a prepared statement.
He told the Tribune that closing the gap is feasible and touted recent federal infrastructure and climate legislation as positive steps.
“First thing is we have to do all of this work, not just one part of it. It’s not just energy. It’s not just transportation. It’s not just access to irrigation. It’s all of these things,” he said. “And we have to have a comprehensive plan to replace them all. So what we propose is to engage all of our multiple tools in the toolbox to develop the plans and implementation policies to get those things done. It’s a lot of work and this is pushing the go button on that work.”
Murray said in a statement that the region needs to move with some speed. Both of them called on the federal government to lead the effort and to include input from states and tribes.
“Sustaining or replacing the benefits of the dams will require several urgent undertakings: we need to do a lot more to transition to clean and renewable energy sources, we have to invest in the region’s infrastructure to lower the cost of shipping goods to market, and we have to invest in water infrastructure and irrigation to support our producers in the face of a worsening climate crisis,” Murray said.
The report, much like its draft released in June, says replacing the services of the dams will cost between $10.3 billion and $27.2 billion at a minimum over the next 50 years. In the past three decades, the region has spent about $18 billion trying to save the fish with the dams in place. Much of that effort has focused on restoring inland spawning habitat and spilling water at Snake and Columbia river dams during the months juvenile fish are migrating to the ocean.
Breaching the four dams that turned the river between Lewiston and the Tri-Cities into slackwater and slowed the annual migration of salmon and steelhead has been debated for more than three decades. According to fisheries scientists, restoring the river would increase survival of juvenile and adult salmon. But it would also eliminate the generation of electricity at the dams, make tug-and-barge transportation between Lewiston and the Tri-Cities impossible, and reduce irrigation capacity near the Tri-Cities.
Last month, the Biden administration said in a draft report that climate change is a grave threat and the dams must be breached if Snake River salmon and steelhead runs are to be restored to levels that allow for the sustainable harvest of wild fish. The federal government and plaintiffs in a long-running lawsuit over Snake River salmon and operation of the federal Columbia Hydropower System are in settlement talks that were recently extended for a year.
Key stakeholders from both sides of the salmon-versus-dams debate found positives in the report and the statements issued by Inslee and Murray.
Supporters of the dams were relieved that Inslee and Murray did not emphatically endorse dam removal. Kurt Miller, executive director of the Northwest River Partners said the nuanced position they took shows they listened to stakeholders like his members, who depend on hydropower produced at the many dams along the lower Snake and Columbia rivers.
“We have been saying the technology doesn’t exist yet to achieve the regions’ decarbonization requirement without the dams. I think their statement confirms that. It confirms they recognize that,” he said. “It sounds like they really listened to the experts on these issues and came away with what I think is a responsible answer that really we just can’t do it right now.”
Samuel N. Penney, chairperson of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee, said the report goes in the right direction.
“We appreciate Senator Murray and Gov. Inslee’s recognition that salmon extinction is unacceptable, and that restoring the lower Snake River can be done in a way that not only addresses affected sectors but also ensures a better future for the Northwest,” he said in a statement.
Mitch Cutter, of the Idaho Conservation League at Boise, said recommendations made by Inslee and Murray, including their push for rapid development of renewable energy, a study of Washington’s transportation infrastructure and revamping regional salmon restoration funding by shifting authority away from the Bonneville Power Administration and toward states and tribes show they are committed to making dam breaching possible in the future. He said he does wish the recommendations came with a timeline that would make breaching possible by 2030.
“That sort of urgency was a little lacking from their recommendations,” he said. “That is something we are asking of them.”
Officials at the Ports of Lewiston and Clarkston were still studying the report Thursday and were not able to make immediate comments.
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Just Sam is on the road to healing after a harrowing week.
The former American Idol winner, whose real name is Samantha Diaz, recently documented what appeared to be at least one hospital stay this week on her Instagram Story. The 23-year-old singer did not disclose her ailment.
On Aug. 26, Sam shared a photo of what appears to be a medical exam room or hospital room. She captioned the pic, "I'm grateful for the prayers everyone. I'm doing much better now." The singer also posted a photo of a scale resting next to a red fridge, writing, "100lbs is crazyyy [two crying emojis]...I seriously need help."
The New York-based performer started documenting her medical scare earlier in the week. On Aug. 24, Sam wrote on her Instagram Story, "Thank you to everyone that checked on me. I am ALIVE and out of the hospital," according to Heavy.
The outlet also reported that Sam later shared a video of a gift she received, saying, "Guys, look at what my baby got me. Awwww! After such a horrible day, oh my gosh!"
But the following day, Sam posted a video of herself wearing a mask, while the sounds of other patients and a beeping sound were heard in the background, according to Heavy. The outlet reported that she captioned the clip, "I need a better hospital bruh. I hate it here tbh."
Sam rose to fame competing on season three of ABC's American Idol in 2020 and winning what would become the first remote finale in the franchise's 20-year history.
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Wildfire in Angeles National Forest is 75% contained, officials say
A wildfire in the San Gabriel Mountains that has been fueled by hot and dry weather was 75% contained as of Saturday morning, officials said.
The East Fire remains at 149 acres, according to a tweet from the U.S. Forest Service’s Angeles National Forest. The agency said that firefighters are increasing containment lines and working on extinguishing hot spots.
Water drops are also being used to battle the blaze, which is chewing through brush, chaparral and short grass. Wind gusts were a concern Friday, the agency said.
Several roads remain closed, including East Fork Road from Highway 39 to Glendora Mountain Road; Glendora Mountain Road from Glendora to the East Fork; and Glendora Ridge Road from Mt. Baldy to Glendora Mountain Road.
The fire was reported Thursday near East Fork and Glendora Mountain roads northeast of Glendora, according to officials.
Officials are investigating the cause.
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One of the first things Southern coach Eric Dooley noted upon taking over the program in December was the dearth of wide receivers.
Dooley knew he needed more, a lot more, and the fact that 19 different players caught passes in last Saturday’s scrimmage is a testament to the workload of Dooley’s hurry-up offense. Five running backs, four tight ends and 10 wide receivers made at least one catch while four quarterbacks combined to complete 24 throws.
The Southern wideouts now are of two main sizes. There are the tall and rangy like Cassius Allen, Isaiah Taylor and August Pitre and the short and shifty slot receivers like Chandler Whitefield, Kendrick Jones and Corey Williams.
There are also the heavier tight ends like Ethan Howard, Greg Perkins and Dupree Fuller, who might split out wide.
Because of the fast-paced offense, Dooley wants to have multiple sets of receivers ready to enter the game at any time. A good rotation of fresh legs increases the chances of wearing down opposing defensive backs in the latter stages of the game.
The theme is that even with 14 receivers on the roster, there will be plenty of work for everybody.
“There’s a lot of opportunity, so there’s no reason for anybody to be selfish,” said Allen, a transfer from UL who caught two passes for 32 yards in the scrimmage. “We run our routes to the fullest. Whoever gets it, gets it. We may throw a couple blocks and score. That’s what we do.
“The competition level is very high. Every day we push each other. At my position, Isaiah Taylor makes me stay on top of my game. We love to compete.”
Allen, who is 6-foot-4 and 200 pounds, is among a group that figures to be good targets in the red zone because of their height. Pitre (6-1), Taylor (6-1), Ed Magee (6-1), Kobe Hartman (6-3), Tyler Kirkwood (6-1) and Darren Morris (6-2) all specialize in fade patterns and jump-ball throws.
“I don’t mean to sound cocky, but throw it up, that’s what we do,” Allen said. “We try to make a play every time. I agree we can be the best wide receiver group in the nation.”
Mixing and matching
Southern played even more defensive backs than wide receivers, mixing and matching groups. Joshua Short got significant playing time as a nickel corner, which is a more specialized position than the outside corners, lining up primarily in the slot.
The defensive back room there’s a lot of competition battling for different spots," said Short, a Mississippi State transfer. "Iron sharpens iron. That’s what the coaches preach.”
The secondary came up with eight pass breakups and while it was hard to judge the tackling with self-imposed limits to prevent injuries, this year’s group looked more aggressive than last year.
“We got to get better every day,” Short said. “We couldn’t have done it without our front, our D-line getting the pressure. It made our job easier.”
Return men
Southern didn’t go full speed and contact on special teams but Dooley has decided on Whitfield as punt returner, backed up by Reginald King, Taj Colon and Kendric Rhymes. Those four plus Braelen Morgan have been working on kickoff returns.
Another watch list
Southern defensive end Jordan Lewis was added to the Senior Bowl watch list for the annual all-star game set Feb. 4 in Mobile, Alabama and broadcast on the NFL Network.
Lewis, the 2020 FCS Buck Buchanan Defensive Player of the Year award winner, has 34 career sacks and 47½ tackles for loss. Lewis has already been named to the Buchanan and Black College Player of the Year watch lists. | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/southern/article_45e6a6c8-257d-11ed-8784-ab70e9dbb397.html | 2022-08-27T18:23:53Z | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/southern/article_45e6a6c8-257d-11ed-8784-ab70e9dbb397.html | false |
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado mother accused of plotting to kidnap her son from foster care after her teen daughter said she started associating with supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory was found guilty of conspiracy to commit second-degree kidnapping on Friday.
Cynthia Abcug, 53, denied she was involved in planning a raid on the foster home where her then 7-year-old son lived in the fall of 2019. She had lost custody of him earlier that year after being accused of medical child abuse — lying about him having seizures and other health problems in order to trick doctors into providing unnecessary care.
Jurors also found Abcug guilty of a misdemeanor count of child abuse. She is scheduled to be sentenced in October.
Her son, now 10, is still in foster care and has not had serious health problems since being removed from Abcug, according to prosecutors.
Abcug’s lawyers suggested that a drug prescribed to treat the seizures was responsible for at least some of the boy’s health problems. Doctors had begun weaning him from the medication before he was removed from Abcug’s custody.
Abcug moved her family to Colorado in the fall of 2017 at the suggestion of a doctor in Florida in hopes that neurologists at Children’s Hospital Colorado could find out what the cause of his health problems were.
Abcug testified that after her son was removed in May 2019 she was extremely anxious and reached out on social media for help getting her son back. She told jurors she ended up meeting members of a group that said it was working on reforming the family court system and offered to help her get her son back legally. She said it turned out to be a scam with members interested in stealing money raised online to help parents who had lost custody of their children.
She did not describe the group as being involved with QAnon but said she heard references to the conspiracy theory by people she met through her activism online.
Many QAnon supporters believe former President Donald Trump was fighting enemies in the so-called deep state to expose a group of satanic, cannibalistic child molesters they believe secretly runs the globe.
Around this time, Abcug posted on social media that social workers took children to sell them and sent them to other countries for adoption.
The conspiracy theory was not a main issue in the trial, which focused more on detailed testimony from medical providers and educators about Abcug’s medical history.
Abcug said she heard references to QAnon in passing in talking to people she met online. Rubber bracelets with a phrase used by QAnon supporters, Storm Is Upon Us, as well as a website known for posts about QAnon printed on them were found in Abcug’s home, according to police.
Abcug’s daughter, who was 16 at the time, told authorities she was concerned because her mother had been talking about a raid on the foster home for several months and that she believed people were going to be hurt because those involved believed her brother was wrongfully taken from his home, according to Abcug’s arrest affidavit. Her daughter also told them her mother had allowed a military veteran she believed to be armed to sleep on their couch to provide security, it said.
Abcug said the group she was working with arranged to send the man to protect her after the lock of her back sliding door was found broken. He has been been identified by police but has not been charged. In response to a question from the jury, she acknowledged she had never met him before she allowed him to stay with her.
Abcug said she bought a gun around this time because she feared for her safety but never made it to an appointment for a training class and has never fired it. Police found the appointment listed on the house’s whiteboard calendar when Abcug’s daughter was also removed from the home after reporting her concerns.
After her daughter was removed, Abcug said the man providing security coordinated with others to take her to a “safe house” and implied that she was held against her will. Abcug said her phone was taken from her and she was held for three months in a hotel.
Abcug was arrested in Montana on Dec. 30, 2019. | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-colorado-mom-guilty-of-qanon-kidnapping-conspiracy/ | 2022-08-27T18:24:27Z | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-colorado-mom-guilty-of-qanon-kidnapping-conspiracy/ | false |
Don't look down! Dramatic clifftop home with full width infinity terrace that makes you feel as though you are on the edge of the world is for sale for £1.95m
- The contemporary mansion is set 100ft above sea level, looking out over St Austell Bay in Cornwall
- The property, built in 2014, includes three double bedrooms - all with full-width balconies overlooking the sea
- Boasting a 2,599 sq ft space, there is an open plan kitchen/dining/living room and office on the ground floor
A dramatic clifftop home with 'world class' sea views has gone on the market for offers over £1.95million.
Compass Point is an impressive contemporary home about 100ft above sea level that looks out over St Austell Bay in Cornwall.
It has a full width 'infinity terrace' that will make its owners feel like they are standing on the edge of the world.
The sleek architect-designed home is on the outskirts of the picturesque fishing village of Mevagissey.
A dramatic clifftop home with 'world class' sea views has gone on the market for offers over £1.95million
Th exceptional architect-designed house was built in 2014 and designed to maximise the spectacular sea views with floor to ceiling glazed windows and doors throughout.
All the bedrooms have sea views, as does the main living space, and there is a full-width balcony accessible from all the bedrooms.
The property has 2,599 sq ft with an open plan kitchen/dining/living room and an office on the ground floor and three double bedrooms all with en suite bathrooms on the first floor.
Outside the property has the 'infinity terrace' as well as a second terrace on a higher level with a glazed dining pod and a timber summer house.
The impressive contemporary home is about 100ft above sea level that looks out over St Austell Bay in Cornwall
It has a full width 'infinity terrace' that will make its owners feel like they are standing on the edge of the world
The sleek architect-designed home is on the outskirts of the picturesque fishing village of Mevagissey
Th exceptional architect-designed house was built in 2014 and designed to maximise the spectacular sea views
It is less than half a mile from Portmellon beach, a picturesque cove that offers safe bathing and a public slipway for launching boats, which is easily accessible, and there are several other stunning beaches within easy reach.
Martyn Rohrs, from agents Rohrs and Rowe, said: 'The clifftop setting is simply breathtaking and the sea views are truly world class.
'It's like you're standing on the edge of the world or the other thing I would describe it feels like is being on the bow of a large ship - it's incredible.
All the bedrooms have sea views, as does the main living space, with a full-width balcony accessible from all the bedrooms
The property has 2,599 sq ft with an open plan kitchen/dining/living room and an office on the ground floor and three double bedrooms all with en suite bathrooms on the first floor
Martyn Rohrs, from agents Rohrs and Rowe, said: 'The clifftop setting is simply breathtaking and the sea views are truly world class'
Outside the property has the 'infinity terrace' as well as a second terrace on a higher level with a glazed dining pod and a timber summer house
'The outstanding sea views are amongst the best you will find anywhere in Cornwall, or even the world.
'It is our clients' main home and it has worked very well for their requirements, but it would appeal to many different demographics. It would make a spectacular second home as it has been designed to require minimal maintenance.
'It also has the ability to create a very lucrative income - £100-125,000 - from the exclusive holiday rental market.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11152495/Dramatic-clifftop-home-makes-feel-edge-world-sale-1-95m.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-27T18:25:27Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11152495/Dramatic-clifftop-home-makes-feel-edge-world-sale-1-95m.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
It’s Tuesday, and it’s almost time to start supper. I am not sure yet what I’ll make besides sweet corn, cucumber salad, and sliced tomatoes. For me, that is enough. I love the fresh veggies from the garden.
Last week daughter Loretta and I canned peaches for her and Dustin.
I also want to can pickled beets for her. Her mother-in-law is canning corn and green beans for them. That will all help them to have vegetables in jars for future use.
Loretta and 5-and-a-half-week-old baby Denzel are here right now. She’s elevating her legs and feeding the little sweetie. He weighs 8 pounds 2 ounces now, so he’s gaining well. It is so fun to get him smiling that sweet little smile.
Dustin is mowing hay. It’s nice weather for that right now.
Today, I went to help with preparations for niece Leanna and Alvin’s wedding. It will be at her parent’s (my brother Albert and Sarah Irene) house. Sisters Verena and Emma also went with me to help.
My job was to roll out dough for pie crusts. Two of Alvin’s aunts were also helping me. We rolled out around 70 pie crusts. Some were baked empty, and some were put in the cooler to have ready-to-bake pecan pies tomorrow.
Sisters Liz, Emma, and I will have to make gravy at the wedding.
The tables are all set, and everything looks like it’s coming into place for the wedding Aug. 18.
Aug. 18 is also daughter Susan’s friend Ervin’s daughter Kaitlyn’s sixth birthday. We will go to Ervin’s house for a birthday party for her on Friday night. Kaitlyn is such a sweetheart. She’ll come hug me when she sees me and say, “Grandma — I love you, and I missed you.”
I haven’t met Kaitlyn’s mother’s family yet, but they are planning to be at her birthday party too.
Granddaughter Abigail and Kaitlyn will start kindergarten next week. They are excited about it. Nephew Benjamin and Crystal’s son Isaiah will also be in their class.
They all get along really well, so I’m sure they will have fun together.
Sunday, Aug. 14, was daughter Elizabeth and Tim’s seventh anniversary. Our family went there for lunch in their honor. Tim made fish and fries in the deep fryer outside. Along with that, we also had coleslaw, cheese, watermelon, peaches, chocolate pie, brownies and ice cream. Everything was delicious!
It is now past my bedtime. Dustin and Loretta left for home. They were here for supper. Daughter Verena also surprised us and came home for supper and will stay here for the night. It’s always good to have her home.
Son Joseph went over to help son-in-law Tim with his hay. Son Benjamin left with his horse and buggy to pick Joseph up and bring him home. I always feel like I need to wait up until everyone is home and in bed.
Daughter Loretta had another stack of cards from readers. This means so much to her. Thank you for all the cards and gifts being sent to her. It is greatly appreciated! May God bless you!
I wanted to get this column written tonight, so I can start sewing in the morning. I still need to sew Lovina’s dress, cape, and apron for the wedding on Thursday.
God’s blessings to all!
Zucchini Pie
3 C. finely chopped or grated zucchini
1 C. sugar
1 t. cinnamon
3 T. flour
3 t. lemon juice
pat of butter
9-in. pie shell, double crust
Mix all ingredients and put in an unbaked pie shell. Place crust on top and bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. It tastes like apple pie. | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/food/lovinas-amish-kitchen-lovina-helps-prepare-pies-for-a-wedding/article_bb16d0f4-1fc3-11ed-998c-d79615ab9e61.html | 2022-08-27T18:28:56Z | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/food/lovinas-amish-kitchen-lovina-helps-prepare-pies-for-a-wedding/article_bb16d0f4-1fc3-11ed-998c-d79615ab9e61.html | true |
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(The Hill) – The primaries in Florida and New York this week marked the final major nominating contests of 2022, and the country’s attention is now poised to shift to the general elections that will determine control of Congress for the next two years.
Primaries for both parties stretching from March through this week offered up some key hints about the two main parties and their voters, as well as what the coming fall campaign season could look like.
Here are five takeaways from the 2022 primaries:
The GOP is still Trump’s party — and 2020 is still top of mind
Former President Trump may have left the White House more than a year and a half ago, but this year’s GOP primaries proved that he remains the most influential Republican in the country.
The impact of Trump’s endorsements was clear: He shaped Republican messaging, scrambled primary contests and elevated to victory candidates that even some top GOP officials had concerns about.
Perhaps no issue was more important in obtaining Trump’s endorsement than the 2020 presidential election and his false claim that it was rigged against him. Republican candidates frequently echoed that talking point on the campaign trail — with some centering their races around it — hoping to win the former president’s favor.
The end result: In most of the nation’s high-profile Republican primaries, voters sided with Trump.
All of the GOP nominees in the most competitive Senate races were backed by the former president ahead of their primaries. Of the six House Republicans who ran for reelection after voting last year to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, only two won renomination.
And candidates who have questioned or flat-out denied the results of the 2020 election will be on ballots across the country in November, having secured nominations for governor, Senate, House and secretary of state.
Of course, there are a few exceptions. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, for instance, won in a landslide against his Trump-backed primary opponent, former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.). And in South Carolina, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) made it through her primary against Trump-endorsed Katie Arrington.
Still, if the 2022 Republican primaries made one thing clear, it’s that GOP voters are still overwhelmingly aligned with Trump.
Democrats largely played it safe, but progressives scored some key wins
Despite ongoing debates over the direction of the Democratic Party, voters across the country largely sided with more moderate or establishment-backed candidates in their primaries, apparently seeing them as their best bets for winning in an otherwise punishing political environment for Democrats.
In Ohio, for example, former state Sen. Nina Turner, a progressive former co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) presidential campaign, lost for a second time to Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio), who had the support of the party establishment.
Likewise, Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas), a conservative South Texas Democrat, narrowly defeated progressive Jessica Cisneros in a race that drew intense national attention.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t all bad for the party’s left flank.
Progressives won Senate nominations in two key swing states. In Pennsylvania, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman beat out Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), a moderate who cast himself as the candidate better able to court suburban and rural voters, while Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes won the chance to challenge Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). And just this week, Central Florida Democrats tapped Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Sanders-backed gun control activist, to succeed Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) in the House.
Still, this year’s primaries were far from the ideological turning point that progressives were hoping for.
It was a tough season for a lot of House incumbents
There are still a few primaries left, but 2022 is already on track to see the most U.S. House incumbents lose renomination in more than two decades.
So far this year, 15 House members — nine Republicans and six Democrats — have lost their bids to return to Capitol Hill, according to Ballotpedia, which has been tracking the losses.
In some cases, the circumstances were simply out of members’ control, mostly because of the decennial redistricting process.
This week, for example, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), a 30-year veteran of the House, lost her primary to fellow longtime incumbent Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) after redistricting combined their Manhattan congressional districts. From the get-go, one of them was bound to lose.
But in other races, incumbents suffered from their political choices, most notably, their votes to impeach Trump. That decision spelled the end for Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Tom Rice (R-S.C.), Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), all of whom were defeated by Trump-backed primary challengers who hammered them for their impeachment votes.
Others, like Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), found themselves on the losing end of their primaries after becoming the subject of various controversies.
Democrats found their footing
For the first half of the year, Democrats were staring down some daunting problems. Their legislative agenda in Congress had largely stalled out, inflation was reaching its highest levels in decades and their main political foil was no longer in the Oval Office.
To make matters worse for Democrats, they were also contending with the reality that the party in power almost always loses ground in Congress in midterm elections.
That fact may still hold true. But things have notably shifted for Democrats in the months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. That decision gave the party a powerful message with which to rally voters fearing an erosion of protections for reproductive rights and helped reenergize Democrats amid concerns over complacency.
Perhaps the biggest turning point for Democrats came in Kansas, when voters rejected by a wide margin a proposed amendment that would have stripped abortion rights from the state constitution.
Since then, Democrats have homed in on a clearer messaging strategy: They’ve warned what GOP congressional majorities would mean for reproductive rights, touted the passage of a massive tax and climate bill, and sought to cast themselves as a steady hand in government.
Of course, while Democrats’ midterm prospects appear to have brightened somewhat, they’re still facing a brutal political landscape and strong historical headwinds that could give an edge to Republicans.
But Republican voters are still energized
The outlook may be brightening for Democrats. But this year’s primaries have still given credence to what Republican leaders have been claiming for over a year: GOP voters are motivated.
In top-of-the-ticket races across key battleground states, Republican primary turnout repeatedly outpaced Democratic turnout, a sign that GOP voters are eager to cast their ballots this year.
In Georgia, nearly a half million more Republicans voted in the Senate primary than Democrats. In Arizona, over 200,000 more voters cast ballots in the top Republican primaries. The turnout advantage also holds true in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nevada and Florida.
To be sure, the higher Republican turnout may not have been due to voter enthusiasm alone. In Georgia, for example, Republicans saw a hotly contested gubernatorial primary, while the Democratic candidate, Stacey Abrams, went unchallenged for the nomination.
The same is true is North Carolina, where Republicans were faced with a choice between Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and former Gov. Pat McCrory in the primary to succeed retiring Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.). Democrats, meanwhile, had already largely coalesced behind Cheri Beasley as their nominee.
But Florida’s most competitive race was on the Democratic side, and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin had hotly contested contests on both sides of the aisle.
And for much of the year, public polling has shown that Republicans are more enthusiastic to vote in November than Democrats are. But as Democrats’ prospects have improved, they’ve also begun to close that enthusiasm gap.
A Morning Consult poll released last week showed that 65% of Republican voters are either “extremely” or “very” enthusiastic to cast their ballots in the midterm elections. Meanwhile, 62% of Democrats said the same. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national-news/5-takeaways-from-a-bruising-primary-season/ | 2022-08-27T18:33:36Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national-news/5-takeaways-from-a-bruising-primary-season/ | false |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A pregnant Louisiana woman who was denied an abortion — even though her fetus has a rare and fatal condition — demanded on Friday that Gov. John Bel Edwards and the legislature call a special session to clarify the state’s restrictions on the procedure.
Nancy Davis, who is 15 weeks pregnant, said she will travel out of state next week for a “medically necessary” abortion. A state law currently in effect bans all abortions except if there is substantial risk of death or impairment to the woman if she continues her pregnancy and in the case of “medically futile” pregnancies. Davis, 36, and abortion-rights advocates for months have criticized the legislation as vague and confusing.
Their concerns are being echoed in numerous other states that, like Louisiana, passed so-called trigger laws when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion. Roughly a dozen states currently ban abortions at all stages of pregnancy, with some allowing for narrow exceptions such as in cases of rape, incest or when the pregnant woman’s life is in danger.
“Ms. Davis was among the first women to be caught in the crosshairs of confusion due to Louisiana’s rush to restrict abortion, but she will hardly be the last,” Ben Crump, an attorney for Davis, said during a news conference held on the state’s Capitol steps Friday.
Ten weeks into Davis’ pregnancy, doctors at Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge diagnosed the fetus she is carrying with acrania, a rare and fatal condition in which the baby’s skull fails to form in the womb. Davis was told that if she brought the pregnancy to full term and gave birth, the baby would likely survive for a very short amount of time — anywhere from several minutes to a week. The physicians advised Davis to get an abortion, but said they could not perform the procedure.
“Basically, they said I had to carry my baby to bury my baby,” Davis said. “They seemed confused about the law and afraid of what would happen to them.”
If a doctor performs an illegal abortion in Louisiana, they could face up to 15 years in prison.
In a statement last week to news outlets, spokesperson Caroline Isemann said Woman’s Hospital was not able to comment on a specific patient, but reiterated that it is the hospital’s mission to provide the “best possible care for women” while complying with state laws and policies.
Since then, the law’s author, Sen. Katrina Jackson, and other legislators have said that Davis qualifies for an abortion and that the hospital “grossly misinterpreted” the statute. Yet in a written statement Tuesday signed by Jackson and 35 others, including nine other women, they indicated that many of them share a religious faith that would “compel us to carry this child to term.”
Davis and her attorneys said they don’t blame the doctors, but the vagueness of the law.
“The law is clear as mud,” Crump said. “Every women’s situation is different and subject to interpretation, so of course medical professionals don’t want to risk prison or to have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines for making the wrong call. Who would just take somebody’s word for it when their liberty is in jeopardy?”
A lawsuit filed by an abortion clinic in Shreveport and others has been in process since the new law took effect. The legislation has by turns been blocked and then enforced as the suit makes its way through the courts. The most recent ruling allowed enforcement of the law. Plaintiffs challenging the ban don’t deny the state can now prohibit abortions; they argue that the law’s provisions are contradictory and unconstitutionally vague.
While Davis has not filed a complaint or lawsuit, she wants Louisiana legislators to hold a special session to clarify the law. Their next regular session is scheduled for April 2023.
“Imagine how many women may be affected before (lawmakers) come back into session,” Crump said. “How many more Nancy Davises will have to endure the mental anguish and mental cruelty before the legislators clear up these vague and ambiguous laws.” | https://phl17.com/health/ap-health/ap-louisiana-woman-denied-abortion-wants-vague-ban-clarified/ | 2022-08-27T18:40:09Z | https://phl17.com/health/ap-health/ap-louisiana-woman-denied-abortion-wants-vague-ban-clarified/ | true |
(The Hill) – The primaries in Florida and New York this week marked the final major nominating contests of 2022, and the country’s attention is now poised to shift to the general elections that will determine control of Congress for the next two years.
Primaries for both parties stretching from March through this week offered up some key hints about the two main parties and their voters, as well as what the coming fall campaign season could look like.
Here are five takeaways from the 2022 primaries:
The GOP is still Trump’s party — and 2020 is still top of mind
Former President Trump may have left the White House more than a year and a half ago, but this year’s GOP primaries proved that he remains the most influential Republican in the country.
The impact of Trump’s endorsements was clear: He shaped Republican messaging, scrambled primary contests and elevated to victory candidates that even some top GOP officials had concerns about.
Perhaps no issue was more important in obtaining Trump’s endorsement than the 2020 presidential election and his false claim that it was rigged against him. Republican candidates frequently echoed that talking point on the campaign trail — with some centering their races around it — hoping to win the former president’s favor.
The end result: In most of the nation’s high-profile Republican primaries, voters sided with Trump.
All of the GOP nominees in the most competitive Senate races were backed by the former president ahead of their primaries. Of the six House Republicans who ran for reelection after voting last year to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, only two won renomination.
And candidates who have questioned or flat-out denied the results of the 2020 election will be on ballots across the country in November, having secured nominations for governor, Senate, House and secretary of state.
Of course, there are a few exceptions. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, for instance, won in a landslide against his Trump-backed primary opponent, former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.). And in South Carolina, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) made it through her primary against Trump-endorsed Katie Arrington.
Still, if the 2022 Republican primaries made one thing clear, it’s that GOP voters are still overwhelmingly aligned with Trump.
Democrats largely played it safe, but progressives scored some key wins
Despite ongoing debates over the direction of the Democratic Party, voters across the country largely sided with more moderate or establishment-backed candidates in their primaries, apparently seeing them as their best bets for winning in an otherwise punishing political environment for Democrats.
In Ohio, for example, former state Sen. Nina Turner, a progressive former co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) presidential campaign, lost for a second time to Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio), who had the support of the party establishment.
Likewise, Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas), a conservative South Texas Democrat, narrowly defeated progressive Jessica Cisneros in a race that drew intense national attention.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t all bad for the party’s left flank.
Progressives won Senate nominations in two key swing states. In Pennsylvania, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman beat out Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), a moderate who cast himself as the candidate better able to court suburban and rural voters, while Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes won the chance to challenge Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). And just this week, Central Florida Democrats tapped Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Sanders-backed gun control activist, to succeed Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) in the House.
Still, this year’s primaries were far from the ideological turning point that progressives were hoping for.
It was a tough season for a lot of House incumbents
There are still a few primaries left, but 2022 is already on track to see the most U.S. House incumbents lose renomination in more than two decades.
So far this year, 15 House members — nine Republicans and six Democrats — have lost their bids to return to Capitol Hill, according to Ballotpedia, which has been tracking the losses.
In some cases, the circumstances were simply out of members’ control, mostly because of the decennial redistricting process.
This week, for example, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), a 30-year veteran of the House, lost her primary to fellow longtime incumbent Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) after redistricting combined their Manhattan congressional districts. From the get-go, one of them was bound to lose.
But in other races, incumbents suffered from their political choices, most notably, their votes to impeach Trump. That decision spelled the end for Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Tom Rice (R-S.C.), Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), all of whom were defeated by Trump-backed primary challengers who hammered them for their impeachment votes.
Others, like Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), found themselves on the losing end of their primaries after becoming the subject of various controversies.
Democrats found their footing
For the first half of the year, Democrats were staring down some daunting problems. Their legislative agenda in Congress had largely stalled out, inflation was reaching its highest levels in decades and their main political foil was no longer in the Oval Office.
To make matters worse for Democrats, they were also contending with the reality that the party in power almost always loses ground in Congress in midterm elections.
That fact may still hold true. But things have notably shifted for Democrats in the months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. That decision gave the party a powerful message with which to rally voters fearing an erosion of protections for reproductive rights and helped reenergize Democrats amid concerns over complacency.
Perhaps the biggest turning point for Democrats came in Kansas, when voters rejected by a wide margin a proposed amendment that would have stripped abortion rights from the state constitution.
Since then, Democrats have homed in on a clearer messaging strategy: They’ve warned what GOP congressional majorities would mean for reproductive rights, touted the passage of a massive tax and climate bill, and sought to cast themselves as a steady hand in government.
Of course, while Democrats’ midterm prospects appear to have brightened somewhat, they’re still facing a brutal political landscape and strong historical headwinds that could give an edge to Republicans.
But Republican voters are still energized
The outlook may be brightening for Democrats. But this year’s primaries have still given credence to what Republican leaders have been claiming for over a year: GOP voters are motivated.
In top-of-the-ticket races across key battleground states, Republican primary turnout repeatedly outpaced Democratic turnout, a sign that GOP voters are eager to cast their ballots this year.
In Georgia, nearly a half million more Republicans voted in the Senate primary than Democrats. In Arizona, over 200,000 more voters cast ballots in the top Republican primaries. The turnout advantage also holds true in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nevada and Florida.
To be sure, the higher Republican turnout may not have been due to voter enthusiasm alone. In Georgia, for example, Republicans saw a hotly contested gubernatorial primary, while the Democratic candidate, Stacey Abrams, went unchallenged for the nomination.
The same is true is North Carolina, where Republicans were faced with a choice between Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and former Gov. Pat McCrory in the primary to succeed retiring Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.). Democrats, meanwhile, had already largely coalesced behind Cheri Beasley as their nominee.
But Florida’s most competitive race was on the Democratic side, and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin had hotly contested contests on both sides of the aisle.
And for much of the year, public polling has shown that Republicans are more enthusiastic to vote in November than Democrats are. But as Democrats’ prospects have improved, they’ve also begun to close that enthusiasm gap.
A Morning Consult poll released last week showed that 65% of Republican voters are either “extremely” or “very” enthusiastic to cast their ballots in the midterm elections. Meanwhile, 62% of Democrats said the same. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/5-takeaways-from-a-bruising-primary-season/ | 2022-08-27T18:41:06Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/5-takeaways-from-a-bruising-primary-season/ | false |
(Reuters) – Argentine police seized some 1.6 tons of cocaine with a street value of $450 million dollars, local media reported on Friday.
Police suspect the drugs were destined for Dubai.
Footage released by the federal police, showed rows of packages displaying luxury brand logos on them, buried inside corn fodder bags in the city of Rosario.
Local media reported the drugs cargo was going to be sent to the Middle East ahead of the Qatar World Cup. | https://www.wane.com/news/1-6-million-tons-of-cocaine-found-in-argentina/ | 2022-08-27T18:41:46Z | https://www.wane.com/news/1-6-million-tons-of-cocaine-found-in-argentina/ | true |
Rangers add Dallas Keuchel, scheduled to start Saturday
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Former AL Cy Young Award winner Dallas Keuchel was added to the Texas Rangers' taxi squad on Friday and is scheduled to start Saturday at home against the Detroit Tigers.
The 34-year-old Keuchel was signed to a minor league contract on July 25, five days after the Arizona Diamondbacks designated him for assignment. He went 0-2 in four starts for Arizona after beginning the year 2-5 in eight starts for the Chicago White Sox.
A free agent after this season, Keuchel had a 2.31 ERA in four starts for Triple-A Round Rock.
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Over his 11-year career in the majors, he’s 101-89 with a 3.92 ERA. Keuchel was the 2015 Cy Young winner with Houston after posting a 20-8 record.
"It’s been a little bit of a roller-coaster ride, not something I foresaw a few years ago," Keuchel said before Friday night’s game. "Just took a step back and realized what’s made my career so far and that’s just being me and not worrying about anything." | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/dallas-keuchel-texas-rangers | 2022-08-27T18:42:45Z | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/dallas-keuchel-texas-rangers | true |
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