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By MARK LONG
AP Sports Writer
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.
UP NEXT
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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For over seven months now, most discussions about LSU football have focused on the ongoing quarterback competition. Everyone wants to know who coach Brian Kelly will start in his first year. Does he choose the dual-threat veteran transfer? Or does he pick the high-upside underclassman with a talented arm?
It certainly matters who receives the first snap, but based on Kelly’s past, the starter Sept. 4 against Florida State may not be set in stone. Kelly has a long history of using multiple quarterbacks, either because of injuries or his own decisions, and LSU might play both Arizona State transfer Jayden Daniels and redshirt freshman Garrett Nussmeier during the season.
“I wouldn't be surprised if they both get the opportunity to play sometime this year,” Kelly said Aug. 20, “but we're going to have to name a starter, and that's going to happen here pretty quickly.”
Kelly said he’ll make a decision this weekend and announce the starter heading into game week. During the spring, he shuddered at the thought of a two-quarterback system he called “difficult to manage,” but if LSU ends up using Daniels and Nussmeier, it wouldn’t be the first time he deployed multiple quarterbacks.
“You have a good chance of seeing both quarterbacks all year,” said Mike Golic Jr., a Notre Dame offensive lineman from 2008-12. “The rare seasons where there was one quarterback starting from Week 1 all the way through conference championship weekend — when Brian's really been at any stop — have been few and far between.”
In 18 years at the Division I level across three schools, Kelly started the same quarterback for an entire season seven times. Five of those happened during his 12 years at Notre Dame. But even within those seasons, he sometimes used the backup in certain situations as a change-of-pace option.
Last fall, graduate transfer Jack Coan rotated with freshman Tyler Buchner, who offered a rushing threat. Coan started every game, but in a close one against Cincinnati, sophomore Drew Pyne entered in the second half.
“After we ran onto the field, coach Kelly came up to me and told me I was going in,” Pyne said after the game.
Shuffling quarterbacks started much earlier in Kelly’s career. In the 2004 season opener — his first game at Central Michigan after jumping from Division II Grand Valley State — Kelly pulled struggling senior Grant Arnoldnik in the second half of a blowout loss. He replaced Arnoldnik with junior Kent Smith, who started through the 2005 season.
The trend continued through Kelly’s stop at Cincinnati and into his tenure at Notre Dame. At the end of a preseason competition in 2011, Kelly gave the job to senior Dayne Crist, who had suffered a torn patellar tendon in his knee the year before. Then Kelly switched to sophomore Tommy Rees at halftime.
Rees started the rest of the season with running quarterback Andrew Hendrix as a situational option behind him. Hendrix received significant snaps, and with Rees struggling in the regular-season finale against Stanford, Hendrix played the entire second half.
Behind the scenes that year, Notre Dame groomed freshman quarterback Everett Golson. Kelly divides quarterback reps in practice more than most coaches, giving about 60% to the starter and 40% to the backups so they can handle a scaled down package.
Golson’s presence complicated the equation. The staff had to find enough snaps to go around during Kelly’s structured practices.
“Coach was very detailed in how many minutes each practice was going to be,” said Charley Molnar, one of Kelly’s top offensive assistants from 2006-11. “We almost never deviated from that. Now we have the same amount of reps, but we're trying to get a third quarterback involved. That took a lot of planning of how we were going to do it.”
Kelly’s strategy worked to varying degrees of success. Golson and Rees both played in 2012, and Notre Dame reached the national championship. Four years later, the Fighting Irish lost the 2016 season opener to Texas in double overtime when Kelly tried to rotate DeShone Kizer and Malik Zaire. Kizer started the rest of a disastrous 4-8 campaign.
But the next two seasons, Notre Dame went 22-4 with an appearance in the 2018 College Football Playoff while Brandon Wimbush and Ian Book split time. Book eventually took over, and he became a rarity by holding onto the position. He’s the only quarterback in Kelly’s 18 seasons on the Division I level to start every game for two straight years.
Despite almost constant change at the position, Kelly won at a high rate. Molnar said he has an innate ability to recognize players’ strengths and weaknesses. His system also helped quarterbacks prepare for their chance.
“We were hard on the quarterbacks during the week, but I think on game day, he has been a calming presence to them,” Molnar said. “He is very, very confident on game day, and that confidence rubs off on the quarterbacks.”
Kelly hasn’t always wanted to juggle quarterbacks. Sometimes injuries forced him to use more than one. Crist had his knee injury. Zaire suffered a broken ankle during the second game of the 2015 season.
The most extreme example came in 2008 at Cincinnati. Five different quarterbacks played because of injuries. Senior Dustin Grutza started two games before suffering a broken leg. Junior Tony Pike entered and broke his forearm two games later. Zach Collaros, who was primarily a running quarterback, got time. So did Jacob Ramsey. Cincinnati also started freshman Chazz Anderson twice before Pike returned.
In those moments, Pike thought Kelly displayed his offensive mind as he tailored schemes to fit the available personnel. Instead of refusing to change on the fly, Kelly understood he needed to fit the system around the quarterbacks’ abilities. With those five players, the Bearcats won their first Big East title.
“He was able to adapt his coaching style to the personnel on the field,” Pike said, “which is one of the hardest things in coaching.”
Cincinnati faced a similar situation the next year. Pike, the unquestioned starter as a senior, broke the same forearm during a win over South Florida midway through the 2009 season. The injury forced Collaros to start the next four games as Cincinnati maintained an undefeated regular season.
When Pike returned against West Virginia, the last game Collaros started, he played with a full cast on his left arm. Collaros handled most of the snaps. Pike entered whenever Cincinnati reached the red zone.
But Pike couldn’t take snaps under center with the cast on his non-throwing arm. So Kelly added a pistol formation to their up-tempo, spread offense to use when he wanted to call certain runs or play-action throws.
In the background, Kelly checked on Pike throughout his rehab process. Pike had visions of the Heisman Trophy and the NFL before the same injury that sidelined him a year earlier happened again. It was tough. Pike appreciated that his head coach communicated with him and his parents while running the program.
“He was instrumental in helping me mentally through that,” Pike said.
Despite typically using multiple quarterbacks, Kelly has navigated uncertainty around the position. He guided Cincinnati into the top 5 and reached back-to-back BCS bowl games. He left Notre Dame as the all-time winningest coach in school history after completing five straight 10-win seasons.
It’s unclear exactly how Kelly will handle the quarterbacks at LSU. He has said he prefers to play one, but he has options with different skill sets and not much separation between them. Daniels has speed and experience. Nussmeier offers the more impressive arm.
“I feel like early on for Brian Kelly, you want that veteran presence when you're coming into a system, when you are trying to implement a new style to a team,” Pike said. “But he also runs himself in a way that he wants to have that versatile quarterback.”
Watching from afar, Golic suspects his former coach will develop packages for both players. He saw Kelly do it often at Notre Dame.
History suggests he may be correct.
“If Brian thinks that there's something with both of these quarterbacks, he is absolutely going to trot them both out here until one shows that they either are heads and tails above the other or one shows that they can't be trusted to hold onto the football and do all those basic things that you need to do out there,” Golic said.
“But they're gonna get a shot in live action. There's no doubt about it.”
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By JUAN A. LOZANO
Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — The faded and weathered construction permits still taped to Houston resident Mal Moses’ front door are reminders of the difficulties he faced in trying to get his mold-infested walls and leaky roof repaired after Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
But living in his neighborhood of Trinity-Houston Gardens has always been hard, Moses said. His family endured racial slurs and harassment as some of the first Black residents to move in during the late 1960s. When white residents left, he said, it seemed resources such as consistent trash collection or a properly working drainage system fled as well.
So after Harvey, Moses, 65, expected to be denied government help. And he certainly wasn’t surprised by federal officials’ conclusion this year that the state had discriminated against minorities, particularly Black residents, in how it distributed flood relief money from the hurricane.
“It was just another example (of discrimination) for me. … I wasn’t shocked that it was being done because I experienced it firsthand growing up,” said Moses, who ultimately got help from local nonprofit West Street Recovery to repair his home.
Texas had faced a Friday deadline to enter into a voluntary agreement to address an investigation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that in March found the state had violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by causing there “to be disproportionately less funding available to benefit minority residents than was available to benefit white residents” in how it distributed more than $2 billion to fund flood mitigation projects after Harvey. That deadline passed without any resolution to the dispute.
The Texas General Land Office, or GLO, which is in charge of distributing the funding, says its actions were not unlawful. In a letter sent Thursday to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said he did not plan to force the GLO to enter into any agreement because HUD had not proven that the state agency had discriminated based on race or national origin.
“HUD should close this case without following through on the threats made in your letter, which would only slow funding for Texans who truly need disaster mitigation,” Abbott said.
HUD has threatened to refer the matter to the Justice Department for possible legal action.
“We are considering our options and have no further comment at this time,” HUD spokesman Michael Burns said in an email Friday.
The deadline passed amid the five-year anniversary of Harvey, which inundated the Houston area with torrential rain for days, flooding more than 150,000 homes and 300,000 vehicles. The storm, which first made landfall more than 200 miles (321 km) southwest of Houston near Corpus Christi on Aug. 25, 2017, killed 68 people and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage in Texas. Many residents still have not recovered.
In an April letter to HUD, the land office’s attorneys defended how the funds were awarded, saying of the 108 projects that received money, 59% served minority-majority populations and of the 1.5 million Texans benefiting from the projects, more than 1 million were Hispanic.
“HUD’s objections are politically motivated and are factually and legally baseless. GLO did not engage in discrimination,” the land office’s attorneys said.
Many Houston-area residents and officials were outraged when they learned the land office’s initial distribution of $1 billion didn’t include one cent for their hard-hit communities. Other cities with large minority populations also flooded by Harvey, including Beaumont, Corpus Christi and Port Arthur along the Texas Gulf Coast, also got no funding.
A Houston Chronicle investigation found the land office’s initial $1 billion distribution disproportionately flowed to inland counties with less damage than coastal communities that bore the brunt of Harvey.
Where the money was spent is “so clearly not where the harm was done and where the risk is for future disasters,” said Ben Martin, research director for Texas Housers, an Austin-based nonprofit that joined Houston group Northeast Action Collective in filing the initial complaint with HUD.
After bipartisan criticism of the lack of funding for the Houston area, the land office awarded $750 million to Harris County, home to the nation’s fourth-largest city, but still nothing for Houston.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Wednesday urged HUD to enforce its ruling against the state, saying the federal agency’s integrity “is on the line.”
Moses, who is part of the Northeast Action Collective, said that after Harvey, he had to live in his home, full of mold and dust, while it was repaired and as he underwent treatment for lung cancer. During the two-year repair process, his mother, who shared the house with him and adored it, had to live elsewhere.
She died four days after she was finally able to return in 2020.
While his house is in fairly good shape now, Moses said many of his neighbors are still struggling to fully restore their homes or recover financially from repairs they paid for themselves. They also worry if enough has been done to protect them from the next storm.
“I’m just holding on, holding on … and I’m hoping that the (federal) government steps in … and makes sure the money gets appropriated correctly,” Moses said.
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thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. East winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ092-282115-
Cooke-
Including the city of Gainesville
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. East winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ091-282115-
Montague-
Including the cities of Bowie and Nocona
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. East winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ102-282115-
Wise-
Including the cities of Decatur and Bridgeport
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs around 90. East winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ101-282115-
Jack-
Including the city of Jacksboro
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs around 90. East winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ100-282115-
Young-
Including the cities of Graham and Olney
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ115-282115-
Stephens-
Including the city of Breckenridge
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs
in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 70. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ116-282115-
Palo Pinto-
Including the city of Mineral Wells
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ117-282115-
Parker-
Including the cities of Weatherford and Briar
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. East winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ131-282115-
Hood-
Including the cities of Granbury and Oak Trail Shores
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly
cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ132-282115-
Somervell-
Including the city of Glen Rose
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs around 90. Southeast winds around 5 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ130-282115-
Erath-
Including the cities of Stephenville and Dublin
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph, becoming
east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ129-282115-
Eastland-
Including the cities of Cisco, Eastland, Ranger, and Gorman
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs around 90. Southeast winds around 5 mph, becoming east in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ141-282115-
Comanche-
Including the cities of Comanche and De Leon
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs around 90. South winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ142-282115-
Mills-
Including the city of Goldthwaite
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the upper 80s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming east
in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ156-282115-
Lampasas-
Including the city of Lampasas
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs around 90. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ157-282115-
Coryell-
Including the cities of Copperas Cove and Gatesville
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs around 90. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ143-282115-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Hico
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs around 90. Temperatures falling into the mid 80s in the
afternoon. South winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ144-282115-
Bosque-
Including the cities of Clifton, Meridian, and Valley Mills
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs around 90. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ133-282115-
Johnson-
Including the cities of Cleburne and Burleson
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ134-282115-
Ellis-
Including the cities of Waxahachie, Ennis, and Midlothian
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ145-282115-
Hill-
Including the city of Hillsboro
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly
cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ146-282115-
Navarro-
Including the city of Corsicana
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ161-282115-
Limestone-
Including the cities of Mexia and Groesbeck
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ160-282115-
Falls-
Including the city of Marlin
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ174-282115-
Milam-
Including the cities of Cameron and Rockdale
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ175-282115-
Robertson-
Including the cities of Hearne, Franklin, and Calvert
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ162-282115-
Leon-
Including the cities of Buffalo, Centerville, Jewett, Normangee,
and Oakwood
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index values
up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs around 90.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ147-282115-
Freestone-
Including the cities of Teague, Fairfield, and Wortham
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ148-282115-
Anderson-
Including the city of Palestine
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs around 90.
Temperatures falling into the mid 80s in the afternoon. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Humid with lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph in
the evening, becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ135-282115-
Henderson-
Including the cities of Athens and Gun Barrel City
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 50 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. South
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ122-282115-
Van Zandt-
Including the cities of Canton, Grand Saline, Wills Point, Van,
and Edgewood
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely. Humid with highs in the
upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ121-282115-
Kaufman-
Including the cities of Terrell, Kaufman, and Forney
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with showers and thunderstorms likely.
Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ120-282115-
Rockwall-
Including the cities of Rockwall and Heath
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. Southeast winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs around 90.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ105-282115-
Hunt-
Including the cities of Greenville and Commerce
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index values
up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. Southeast winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ123-282115-
Rains-
Including the cities of Emory, East Tawakoni, and Point
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ107-282115-
Hopkins-
Including the city of Sulphur Springs
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ106-282115-
Delta-
Including the city of Cooper
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. Southeast winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ095-282115-
Lamar-
Including the city of Paris
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs around 90. Southeast winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ094-282115-
Fannin-
Including the city of Bonham
306 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and perhaps an
isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index values
up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 90.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
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By JOHN WAWROW
AP Sports Writer
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The attorney for a California teenager who has accused a Buffalo Bills rookie and two of his former college teammates of gang rape last fall said Friday the NFL team has not contacted him for details despite saying it had conducted a “thorough investigation.”
Dan Gilleon said he has not heard from team officials since first informing them of the allegations against Bills punter Matt Araiza in late July, when he says he had a phone conversation with team counsel Kathryn D’Angelo.
“She seemed like she was concerned. She says she’ll get back to me, and then she never did,” said Gilleon, who posted and then deleted a screenshot on social media of the email he says he sent to D’Angelo. “I even followed up and said, `Hey, you guys haven’t talked to me and called me back like you said you would.′ And they just ignored that, too.”
The Bills declined multiple requests for comment Friday, a day after issuing a short statement saying they were aware of the allegations and had conducted their own investigation.
The 22-year-old Araiza was with the Bills for their preseason finale at Carolina on Friday night, but was not expected to play.
It was unclear if the Bills investigation was finished before they named him to their opening day roster and the statement provided no details, a familiar lack of transparency that raises fresh scrutiny on how NFL teams conduct internal reviews into allegations of misconduct.
It also comes as the NFL and the Cleveland Browns are reeling from a scandal involving quarterback Deshaun Watson. Cleveland landed Watson from Houston and signed him to a league-record $230 million contract while he faced civil lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct against two dozen women. Watson this season will serve an 11-game unpaid suspension, pay a $5 million fine and undergo professional evaluation. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has also been sharply criticized by members of Congress for not releasing details of an investigation into the Washington Commanders following allegations of workplace misconduct.
The Bills selected Araiza out of San Diego State in the sixth round of the NFL draft in April, and named him their starting punter this week. A person familiar with the case told The Associated Press the Bills were not aware of the allegations against Araiza in April. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team is not commenting publicly about the allegations.
Gilleon filed a lawsuit in San Diego County Superior Court this week accusing Araiza and two other San Diego State football players of raping a then-17-year-old girl at a Halloween party at an off-campus home where Araiza had been living. A San Diego police investigation has been turned over to the district attorney’s office to determine whether to pursue charges. DA spokeswoman Tanya Sierra said Friday there was no timeline as to how long a decision will take.
Araiza’s lawyer, Kerry Armstrong, said the player knew he could be the target of allegations since October. It was unclear if he informed the NFL of the allegations before the draft. Armstrong cited his own investigation’s findings in denying the allegations, saying: “I 100% do not believe that he ever forcibly raped this girl or had sex with her while she was passed out or drunk or anything like that.”
Armstrong said he has shared the findings of his investigation with the Bills over the past month, well before the team awarded Araiza, known as the “Punt God” for his booming kicks in college, the starting job by releasing returning Matt Haack on Monday. He also said he told Araiza six weeks ago, when he was retrained, to tell Bills officials about the allegations.
“I told him, obviously, that any time you try to keep something secret like this, they’re going to find it anyway, so be very honest with them,” he said. “He has been. And I think that’s why he’s on the team right now.”
The NFL declined to comment except to say it was aware of the matter.
At San Diego State, one of the two remaining accused players remains on the roster but the other is not listed. The school said it did not investigate at the request of San Diego police in October.
“After careful consideration, SDSU determined that cooperating with the criminal investigation was the appropriate action to help ensure the highest likelihood of real consequences for anyone found responsible,” the university said. A Title IX investigation launched in July is ongoing.
The Bills appear to be following the same approach they took four years ago when running back LeSean McCoy was accused of having his former girlfriend beaten during a break-in at a home he owned outside Atlanta. Despite calls to cut ties with the player, the Bills stood behind McCoy, who was never charged in the matter and eventually reached an undisclosed settlement in a lawsuit filed against him
Chances of a settlement of the case against Araiza were unclear as Gilleon and Armstrong swapped public accusations.
Armstrong said Araiza was against reaching a settlement, but the lawyer said he was asked by the player’s parents to contact Gilleon regarding the possibility. Armstrong said Gilleon never responded, though Gilleon has posted on his Twitter account several text exchanges he said he had with Armstrong in late July.
He told The AP he did so in response to Armstrong alleging his client was “committing a cash grab because he’s a Buffalo Bill.”
“My client refused to entertain the idea of a monetary settlement,” Gilleon wrote in a text to The AP. “It would have taken an apology, psychological counseling, donation to charity, etc., but once Kerry A. began his clown show, I realized it was useless to try to reason with him and withdrew the offer to speak with a civil defense attorney before filing the lawsuit.”
Gilleon said the decision to file the lawsuit three days after Araiza was awarded the punting job was the result of his growing frustration over the lack of feedback he was receiving from police on the progress of their investigation.
“They’re just blowing us off,” Gilleon said. “By filing a lawsuit, we have the power of subpoena and so I can force them to do what they’re supposed to do.”
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College football player fatally shot in argument with roommate, police say
FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) - A Missouri prosecutor has charged a suspect after the fatal shooting of a senior Central Methodist University football player.
Kundarrius Taylor, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the deadly shooting of his roommate, Torrance Evans, according to online court documents. Evans was an offensive lineman for CMU’s football team.
The team held a moment of silence during Saturday’s football game in honor of Evans. A group of students also held a fundraiser outside the entrance to the game to help raise money for his funeral expenses.
Police responded Thursday night to a home in Fayette on a report of a shooting and found Evans’ body inside the residence’s door.
A witness said Taylor admitted to the shooting.
When Taylor returned to the residence, he was taken into custody, according to a probable cause statement.
In a police interview, Taylor said that he and Evans had not been getting along for over a month and that Taylor felt Evans had been disrespecting him on numerous occasions, the statement said.
Police say an argument turned into a confrontation in which Taylor shot Evans twice.
CMU Vice President for Enrollment Management and Athletics Joe Parisi said Taylor was a former student trying to get readmission to the school. Both he and Evans are from Memphis, Tennessee.
Taylor will be arraigned Tuesday. He is being held without bond.
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In northeast Washington state, a remote region nestled against the Canadian border, the politics lean conservative and wariness of government runs high.
Earlier this year, a Republican-led county commission there made a decision that rippled across Washington — triggering alarm at the secretary of state's office, and now among cybersecurity experts who have worked for the past six years to shore up the security of America's voting systems.
It happened on Valentine's Day during the regular weekly meeting of the three-member commission in Ferry County, where Donald Trump received more than 63% of the vote in the 2020 election.
After an agenda that included an update on the county fair and a discussion about a local water and sewer district, the commissioners took up a proposal to disconnect a recently installed cybersecurity device from the county's computer network.
The device, known as an Albert sensor, was designed to alert local governments to potential hacking attempts against their networks. More than 900 Albert sensors have been deployed across the country, primarily to states and counties, and they have been a key component of the federal government's cybersecurity response following Russian election interference around the 2016 election.
But the commissioners in Ferry County had come to the conclusion that the sensor, which had been provided by the state at no cost, was more of a liability than an asset.
"Let's get rid of it," Commissioner Nathan Davis said before making his motion to remove the device.
The vote in support of the motion was unanimous.
"Bye bye, Albert sensor," one of the commissioners quipped.
Another county in Washington state also disconnected its sensor, and a third decided not to install one. It's an isolated trend in Washington at this point, but one that represents a stark example of how Republican mistrust in elections and government systems more broadly threatens to dismantle bipartisan progress made over the past decade to improve election security.
During the Ferry County meeting, Commissioner Davis quoted from a memo that circulated among Washington state Republicans. That memo, which NPR and the Northwest News Network obtained, raised a number of concerns about Albert sensors and also seemed to allude to the program being part of a left-wing conspiracy.
"Decisions are being made that are hurting the overall security of elections based on lies and untruths," said Matt Masterson, who led election security efforts leading up to 2020 within the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). "It is entirely healthy and appropriate for citizens and elected officials to ask questions about the nature of the technology they use. ... But those conversations have to be based in fact."
An early-warning system
Named after Albert Einstein, the Albert sensor is what's called an "intrusion detection" device that looks out for known bad actors, or malicious IP addresses, on the network it's connected to. When a match is detected, a notification is sent to an around-the-clock security operations center located near Albany, N.Y. There, analysts review the traffic and, if the threat is deemed credible, send an immediate alert to that government warning of a potential hacking attempt.
The program is operated by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), which was founded in 2000 to address emerging cyber threats. While CIS is a nonprofit, it receives federal funding and works closely with CISA, the DHS cybersecurity agency.
The Albert monitoring program first began in 2011 but was ramped up after the 2016 election, following the Russian hacking attempts on a number of different state and local government systems that happened around that time.
It took months for the federal government to notify and distribute information to the relevant local government officials after those attacks.
"There was zero information-sharing going on in the elections realm with relation to cybersecurity until 2016," said Masterson, who added that Albert sensors were a key piece in addressing that problem.
Not only do Albert sensors help individual counties understand the threats they face, they provide a clearer national picture of what's happening online in all the different localities that administer elections in the U.S.
Because of that, Masterson says a county pulling out of the program also hurts that national visibility.
"The less participation, the less broad deployment of Albert sensors — or frankly, to take it out one step further, the less information being shared broadly across the community, the less secure our elections are," he said.
The Albert sensor in Washington's Ferry County was one of hundreds installed on the networks of state and local governments in the runup to the 2020 election.
While voting equipment is not connected to the internet, hackers could still wreak havoc on an election by breaking into a county's network. Once inside, they could freeze or alter websites, affect registration infrastructure, or do other things to harm public confidence in elections.
It's happened before. For example, in October 2020, just before the general election, a ransomware attack on Hall County, Ga., temporarily took down election-related systems, including a voter signature database.
"Hall County was in a precarious spot and you don't want to be in a precarious spot," said David Levine, a former election official who's now with the nonpartisan Alliance For Securing Democracy.
In an average month, CIS says it investigates more than 25,000 Albert sensor alerts.
"The analogy that I often use here is that we don't ask the county sheriff to be responsible for repelling military invasions, but that is really the equivalent of what they're up against on the internet," said Matt Blaze, a cybersecurity expert at Georgetown University who is not associated with the Albert program or CIS.
But in some Republican parts of Washington, the sensor came to be seen not as an insurance policy against hackers, but as a device that should be viewed with suspicion — a form of "big brother" watching over everything on a county's network.
'Didn't do a damn thing'
Directly south of Ferry County is Lincoln County, a deeply conservative wheat farming community.
In late 2021, Lincoln County commissioners terminated their agreement for an Albert sensor, just 13 months after it was signed, deciding the device was more of a liability than a safeguard. Their skepticism was rooted in the fact that shortly after the sensor was installed, the county fell victim to a crippling ransomware attack.
"This Albert sensor didn't do a damn thing about it," said Lincoln County Commissioner Rob Coffman, a Republican. "It didn't function as it was advertised."
CIS said that while Albert sensors can detect ransomware attacks, they're not foolproof because the program only recognizes known hostile addresses in a rapidly shifting threat landscape.
Blaze, of Georgetown University, said the ransomware attack should've been further evidence for the county that the Albert sensor was a good thing to have.
"The fact that state and local networks are often victimized by this type of attack is an example why you need defenses like this," Blaze said.
After the ransomware attack, Lincoln County beefed up its cybersecurity protections, but Coffman also began doing research about the Albert sensor. He said he learned that his county's information technology director had been wary of installing the device, but felt pressure from the state to do so. Coffman said he also talked to the IT director in neighboring Grant County, who had declined to install an Albert sensor out of concern that it could be a point of weakness for his network.
CIS responded that it has specific recommendations about how to deploy an Albert sensor on a network to allay those concerns.
Suspicion catches on
As part of his research, Coffman said he also started looking into CIS and learned that in 2018 the organization briefly partnered with another nonprofit that the conservative website Influence Watch said was connected with "left-leaning social welfare" groups.
It was enough to add fuel to a brewing conspiracy.
Coffman said he shared his findings with members of the Lincoln County Republican Party. Months later, in February 2022, the county GOP chair, Mary Blechschmidt, issued a two-page memo about Albert sensors to her fellow county Republican chairs.
In her memo, Blechschmidt wrote: "I continue to press on this issue because it is hard to imagine why a county would allow a non-profit organization such as this, access to the proprietary data on its network, 24/7 across the internet."
In an interview, Blechschmidt, who said she believes the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, rejected the suggestion that she was spreading misinformation about Albert sensors.
"We're trying to keep outside influences out of our data and we took the time to research it and determined that we don't want it and we don't need it," Blechschmidt said of the Albert sensor.
Also in the memo, Blechschmidt tried to tie CIS to the left by, among other things, citing a CIS co-founder's stints in the Clinton and Obama administrations. But the Albert sensor program was significantly ramped up under the Trump administration.
"We've had a long track record of being nonpartisan and trusted by states and counties all over the country," said Jason Forget, a CIS spokesperson.
Thirteen days after Blechschmidt issued her memo on the Albert sensors, the Ferry County commission voted to remove theirs.
During their discussion, Ferry's commissioners referenced Lincoln County's ransomware event. Davis, the commissioner who led the effort, also voiced concern about what the Albert sensor was capturing and where the county's data was going.
"It's scanning everything we do on our network and it sends it to a third party," Davis said.
Asked to address this concern, Geoff Hale, who leads the election security initiative for CISA, said Albert sensors passively monitor for potential trouble and don't have unfettered access to a client's data.
"It's almost like seeing a license plate to a car," Hale said. "And so this sensor is looking at all the traffic that passes. And if one of those license plates, one of those signatures, matches up to known bad infrastructure, it sends you an alert."
A 'misinformation campaign'
Word of Ferry County's decision to remove its Albert sensor soon reached Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, a Democrat, in Olympia, Wash.
"Immediately it occurred to me this was the start of, perhaps, a misinformation campaign directed at the Albert sensor and I was quite concerned about it," he said.
The secretary of state's office quickly convened a virtual meeting about the Albert sensor program and invited county officials from across the state to attend. Among the speakers at the February meeting was former Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, a Republican who spearheaded the deployment of Albert sensors in the state after the 2016 election. Wyman was appointed to oversee election security efforts for the Biden administration in 2021.
"The Albert sensor program is really a way for us to have one more layer of security and information that we can use to combat people who would do our system harm," Wyman told the counties.
The presentation ended with Hobbs making a direct appeal to skeptical county officials.
"If you do not have an Albert sensor, get the Albert sensor. If you have removed the Albert sensor or are thinking about removing the Albert sensor, please reconsider," Hobbs said.
That plea was not compelling to Ferry County Commissioner Davis, who has a background in IT. He said in an interview that he still has questions about how Albert sensors work, but did not have the time right now to continue researching them.
Davis also said he finds it odd that anyone cares whether his little county, with barely more than 7,000 people, has one or not.
"Why the hard push?" Davis asked. "What are the true motivations to push so hard on something that really doesn't do a lot?"
Davis said he's open to reinstalling the Albert sensor in the future, but would need to have more information before he's willing to do so.
CIS said the counties in Washington are the only ones to disconnect from the Albert program, and Hobbs said he thinks by responding quickly the state succeeded in stopping false narratives about the sensors from spreading.
Nationwide, Albert sensors still seem to have basically unanimous support. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Trump-endorsed Republican, mentioned them during a congressional hearing this summer.
"If you don't have [Albert sensors] at your county boards of elections you should do that," LaRose said. "So that way if something goes wrong on a Saturday night or Sunday morning, you can know about it before everyone comes back to work on Monday and you can mitigate the problem right then and there."
The vast majority of Washington's 39 counties have also embraced the program. In a series of interviews, county auditors, both Democrats and Republicans from small and big counties, praised the program and said they feel better knowing their county has an Albert sensor.
"We put it on and it's been working great," said Charles Ross, the Republican auditor in south central Washington's Yakima County. "It hasn't caused any problems."
Julie Wise, the nonpartisan director of elections in King County, the state's most populous, said the Albert sensor is "another data point" to help keep elections secure. She called efforts to undermine the Albert program part of a concerning pattern.
"This appears to be just another iteration of misinformation to discredit elections, like we've seen with ballot drop boxes, vote by mail and now it's Albert sensors," Wise said.
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By MATTIAS KARÉN
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — After a winless start to the season and a dispiriting loss to its archrival, Liverpool set out to make a statement against Bournemouth on Saturday.
A 9-0 win, equaling the record for the biggest-ever victory in the Premier League, sends a loud message indeed.
Liverpool blew away Bournemouth at Anfield to put its early-season struggles behind it, with Roberto Firmino scoring two goals and setting up three more.
After opening the campaign with two draws and a loss, it was the kind of performance that will erase many of the questions about whether Jurgen Klopp’s team had lost its edge.
Manchester City also showed that it can never be counted out after the defending champion found itself trailing by two goals for the second straight game. Erling Haaland netted a second-half hat trick as City rallied to beat Crystal Palace 4-2 at home — having only managed to salvage a 3-3 draw at Newcastle last weekend.
Manchester United and Chelsea also won on a good day for the Premier League’s traditional powers.
United made it back-to-back wins in the Premier League for the first time since February by beating Southampton 1-0 away thanks to a second-half goal by Bruno Fernandes.
Chelsea overcame the early sending off of Connor Gallagher to beat Leicester 2-1 at Stamford Bridge behind two goals from Raheem Sterling.
Also, Brighton beat Leeds 1-0 and Brentford drew 1-1 at home against Everton.
Arsenal, the only team to start the season with three wins, had a chance to maintain its perfect record when it played Fulham at home in the late game.
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Here’s what you need to know for the 2022 high school field hockey season in the Baltimore area:
Storylines to watch
How will new coaches at top programs fare?
Several top teams welcome new coaches this season, including Garrison Forest (Mimi Smith), McDonogh (Courtney Rainey), Arundel (Michelle Norr) and Glenelg (Christina Giampalmo), to name a few. How will changes at the top affect these successful programs? The first few weeks of the season should be pretty telling.
Star goalies will be everywhere.
There are some years when it’s difficult to find a standout goalie in the Baltimore area, but not this one. This fall, there’s an embarrassment of riches at the goalie position, led by Severna Park senior Charlotte Kramer (Boston College), Garrison Forest senior Alyssa Klebasko (Maryland), Bryn Mawr senior Alex de Jesus (William and Mary), Archbishop Spalding senior Ruby de Frees (Penn) and Crofton sophomore Ryleigh Osborne. Look for a lot of low-scoring games involving these teams.
Carroll County is up for grabs.
Which team will seize Carroll County? With every contender from last season trying to recover from large graduation classes, it’s truly anybody’s game. Last fall, Westminster (Class 3A), Manchester Valley (2A) and Francis Scott Key (1A) all advanced to the state semifinals. Look for those three, as well as always-tough Century and Liberty, to vie for a county title this season, with plenty of surprises along the way.
St. Paul’s makes the jump.
After claiming the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland B Conference championship last year, St. Paul’s moves up in class to the A Conference for the first time since 2018. Will the Gators be able to compete? A look at last season’s results might hold some clues. A year ago, they played A Conference teams six times, winning games against Maryvale and Notre Dame Prep and taking powerful McDonogh to overtime. St. Paul’s will be looking to win its first A Conference title since 2003.
Anne Arundel County is deep — again.
Anne Arundel County has produced at least one state champion each season since 2011. Last year, it had two, with Severna Park claiming the 4A crown and Arundel the 3A title. That string could very well continue in 2022 with Severna Park, Broadneck and Crofton each considered top state contenders.
Players to watch
Kylie Corcoran, Crofton, midfielder, junior
The key to Crofton’s transition game, Corcoran last season had seven goals — including two game-winners in overtime — and 13 assists. She possesses some of the best stick skills in the area, and also had five defensive saves.
Ava Drexler-Amey, Severna Park, midfielder, senior
The James Madison commit is a playmaker on both sides of the ball, finishing with 11 goals and seven assists last season while also excelling on defense to help lead Severna Park to the 4A state title.
Maya Everett, Broadneck, midfielder, senior
The Maryland commit finished with 11 goals and 11 assists to earn first-team All-Metro honors last season. She played a direct role in 41% of the Bruins’ goals as they advanced to the 4A state quarterfinals.
AJ Eyre, Glenelg, midfielder, junior
Eyre played a starring role as a sophomore, finishing with 21 goals and 13 assists to help lead the Gladiators to the 2A state title. Her efforts earned first-team All-Metro honors.
Natalie Freeman, Marriotts Ridge, midfielder, senior
The Penn State commit is one of the strongest shooters in the area, finishing last season with 21 goals and seven assists. For her efforts, she earned second-team All-Metro honors.
Ally Keith, Archbishop Spalding, forward, senior
Keith led the Cavaliers with 19 goals and six assists as a junior. Her offensive spark helped lead Spalding to its first IAAM A Conference title in six years.
Alyssa Klebasko, Garrison Forest, goalie, senior
The cool-headed Klebasko made 76 saves and recorded eight shutouts to lead Garrison Forest to the IAAM A Conference title game last year. She’s also a member of the 2022 U.S. Rise Women’s National Team.
Charlotte Kramer, Severna Park, goalie, senior
The first-team All-Metro goalie and Boston College commit racked up 107 saves last year at a 92% clip, allowing just nine goals and recording 10 shutouts as the Falcons claimed the 4A state title.
Sarah Mudd, St. Paul’s, forward, junior
Mudd led the Gators to the IAAM B Conference championship last season, finishing with 28 goals and 14 assists despite constantly facing double teams and defenses geared to stop her. Now, she will play a key role as St. Paul’s moves to the A Conference.
Maddie Vasilios, River Hill, midfielder, senior
The Maryland commit finished with 30 goals and 11 assists last season to earn first-team All-Metro honors. Her efforts helped lead the Hawks to the 3A state championship game.
Preseason top 15 teams
1. Archbishop Spalding
Coach: Leslee Brady
Last season: 16-1 overall, No. 1 ranking
Postseason: IAAM A champion
Outlook: A year after averaging nearly five goals a game in rolling to their first conference title since 2015, the Cavaliers are back for an encore. Despite graduating four Division I players, they still return plenty of firepower, led by senior Ally Keith and sophomore forward Skylar Gilman, a member of the 2022 U.S. U-16 Women’s National Team. Senior goalie Ruby de Frees also is back after recording 10 shutouts a year ago, and sophomore Jilly Lawn is a strong defender who also can put the ball in the cage.
2. Severna Park
Coach: Shannon Garden
Last season: 16-2, No. 2
Postseason: Class 4A state champion
Outlook: No team in Maryland can claim more state titles than the Falcons (25), who manage to reload with young talent year after year. This time, however, they’re entering the fall a bit ahead of the game, returning first-team All-Metro goalie Charlotte Kramer (Boston College) and second-team midfielder Ava Drexler-Amey (James Madison). They, along with three other standout seniors and a crop of talented underclassmen, should help Garden’s team continue to roll after the graduation of standout defender Zoe Day.
3. Garrison Forest
Coach: Mimi Smith
Last season: 15-6, No. 3
Postseason: IAAM A finalist
Outlook: The Grizzlies have advanced to the IAAM A Conference final each of the past four seasons and seem to have the requisite talent for a return trip. Maryland-bound goalie Alyssa Klebasko anchors a defense that allowed just four goals during conference play last season, and junior Ella Kokinis (14 goals, two assists) is a force in the front line. Junior Avery McComas and sophomore Dulaney transfer Isabelle Vickery will anchor a strong midfield. Smith, a former All-American at Old Dominion and national team member, takes over the program and plans to stress passionate team play.
4. Broadneck
Coach: Shannon Hanratty
Last season: 12-5, No. 9
Postseason: Class 4A state quarterfinalist
Outlook: The Bruins return a plethora of talent, including first-team All-Metro midfielder Maya Everett, a Maryland commit, and Arden Hunteman. Lexi Dupcak, an athletic senior midfielder, also is headed to Maryland for lacrosse. Those three, who last season combined for 26 goals and 18 assists, will try to propel Broadneck past Anne Arundel County rival Severna Park after losing two of three to the Falcons last season.
5. Glenelg
Coach: Christina Giampalmo
Last season: 16-1, No. 4
Postseason: Class 2A state champion
Outlook: Coming off a 2A state championship, the return of 10 starters puts the Gladiators in a strong position this year. Junior midfielder AJ Eyre (21 goals, 13 assists) leads a squad that should get key offensive contributions from several players, including sophomore midfielder Brinkley Eyre and junior forward Theresa Stiller. Sophomore Sarah Walker also will play a key role on defense. First-team All-Metro midfielder Kamryn Henson will not play this season to focus on lacrosse.
6. River Hill
Coach: Shelly Chamness
Last season: 15-4, No. 8
Postseason: Class 3A state finalist
Outlook: Fresh off a trip to the 3A state final, the Hawks return two of the top midfielders in the state in seniors Maddie Vasilios and Puja Nanjappa. Vasilios (Maryland) finished with 30 goals and 11 assists to earn first-team All-Metro honors, and Nanjappa (Stanford) had a goal and 13 assists to land on second team. Defensively, Chamness gets back senior goalie Jocelyn Baker, a four-year starter, and senior defenders Evelyn Dzubak and Mayzie Connelly.
7. Crofton
Coach: Amy Skrickus
Last season: 9-4, No. 11
Postseason: Class 3A South Region I semifinalist
Outlook: A year ago, with only underclassmen on the roster, the Cardinals were one of the best teams in Anne Arundel County. Now, in their first year with seniors, they will be hard to stop. Skrickus returns all of her starters, including standout sophomore goalie Ryleigh Osborne (84.7 save percentage) and junior midfielder Kylie Corcoran (seven goals, 13 assists), a second-team All-Metro pick last season. Junior Emily Najarian (forward) and sophomores Olivia Feeley (forward) and Bree Riggs (defense) also should make key contributions.
8. Hereford
Coach: Caitlin Duvall
Last season: 13-3, No. 6
Postseason: Class 2A state finalist
Outlook: Hereford returns a core group of starters with built-in chemistry, including senior Lydia Bennett (forward), juniors Kennedy Ziegler (defender) and Riley Hackett (forward) and sophomore Caitlin Meeker (forward-midfield). Duvall will spend the early weeks of the season looking to fill gaps, strengthen the defense, build the midfield and add depth to the front line. The Bulls should again be the class of Baltimore County and have advanced to at least the state semifinals each season since 2012.
9. Marriotts Ridge
Coach: Molly Milani
Last season: 11-5, No. 14
Postseason: Class 3A state semifinalist
Outlook: Talent abounds for the Mustangs, who return seven starters to a team with a strong midfield and a plethora of senior leadership. Senior midfielder Natalie Freeman (21 goals, seven assists) and senior midfielder-defender Sophia Baxter (five goals, 13 assists) were both among the best at their position last year, and senior Maisy Clevenger (17 goals, six assists) is one of Howard County’s top forwards. The question will be whether Milani’s squad has the depth to come out on top in matchups with fellow county powers Glenelg and River Hill.
10. C. Milton Wright
Coach: Kelsey Lovelace
Last season: 10-3, not ranked
Postseason: Class 2A North Region II semifinalist
Outlook: Eight starters return for the Mustangs, including all of a defense that allowed just nine goals last season and was led by seniors Riley Cushman (Towson) and Carys May. Offensively, leading scorer Claire Burrows, a junior who scored seven goals, is back, as is junior Winslow Dipeso (13 assists), the team’s top midfielder. Lovelace’s team has the tools to once again dominate Harford County, where it went unbeaten during the regular season last year.
11. McDonogh
Coach: Courtney Rainey
Last season: 14-3, No. 5
Postseason: IAAM A semifinalist
Outlook: McDonogh graduated 14 seniors from a year ago, but the Eagles always manage to reload with multisport athletes. Among the eight returnees is senior midfielder Piper Borz (15 goals, three assists), a second-team All-Metro pick and Northwestern commit who plays with poise and a high field hockey IQ. Seniors Stewart Allen (defense-midfield) and Natalie Little (defense) and juniors Izzy Wheaton (defense-midfield) and Jaden Dahan (midfield) also should make key contributions for a team looking for players to step up.
12. Bryn Mawr
Coach: Jeanette Budzik
Last season: 13-4, No. 10
Postseason: IAAM A semifinalist
Outlook: The Mawrtians are reloading after graduating seven starters, but still have enough talent up and down the roster to contend in the IAAM A Conference this season. Senior Alex de Jesus (William & Mary), one of the area’s best goalies, anchors a defense that includes four-year varsity midfielders-backs Elaina Bellone and Julia Powell. Junior Bianca Hessler and sophomores Penelope Kousouris and Addie Polakoff bring athleticism and stick skills to the front line.
13. St. Paul’s
Coach: Candice Fisher
Last season: 12-5, not ranked
Postseason: IAAM B champion
Outlook: Moving up to the A Conference will be a challenge for the Gators, who last year showed they can compete on that level with wins over Maryvale, Notre Dame Prep and St. Mary’s, as well as an overtime loss to McDonogh. First-team All-Metro forward Sarah Mudd leads a potent offense after totaling 28 goals and 14 assists last year and should get help from midfielders Megan Frank (junior) and Charlotte Lorden (senior), as well as senior forward Marissa Ey. Senior Sammy Greenstein leads a defense that allowed one goal or fewer eight times last season.
14. South River
Coach: Hope Battista
Last season: 8-6, not ranked
Postseason: Class 4A East Region II semifinalist
Varsity Highlights
Outlook: Despite graduating 12 seniors, the Seahawks feature a mix of proven veterans and talented newcomers. Senior midfielder Gigi Stephan (one goal, four assists) is back from an injury and will pair with sophomore midfielder-forward Kelly Webber (three goals, four assists) to lead an offense that scored at least five goals five times last season. Senior Reagan Beall is also back in goal after saving 93% of opposing shots. Last year, South River twice defeated 3A champion Arundel and lost by a goal each to Anne Arundel County and 4A powers Severna Park and Broadneck.
15. Notre Dame Prep
Coach: Katrina Ross
Last season: 5-8-2, not ranked
Postseason: IAAM A Conference quarterfinalist
Outlook: A strong crop of underclassmen will lead this team on the rise, which hopes to develop and grow stronger as the season moves along. Junior goalie Kerigan Ross (New Hampshire) will be a steadying force in the cage, and juniors Sienna Klein (forward-midfielder) and Kaitlyn Cody (defender) also should be players to watch for a team with just three seniors. Look for a trio of incoming freshmen to make key contributions as well.
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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Curacao didn’t do much at the plate Saturday, knocking out just three hits.
But behind 4 2/3 innings of shutout ball from Reangelo Decaster, a few defensive gems and Jaydion Louisa’s pinch-hit dribbler, the Caribbean team beat Taiwan 1-0 to move on to the Little League World Series championship.
Reangelo was “perfect,” Curacao manager Zaino Everett said. “He kept the ball down and threw good curveballs because they have good bats. A good inside and outside mix helped him get outs.”
Curacao will play Sunday against either Hawaii, which beat Tennessee 5-1 to win the United States bracket.
Reangelo got some help as he worked out of a first inning jam, thanks to a flyout and a groundout with Liao Yuan-Shu on third. In the fourth, left fielder Jaythan Cordilia ran down and snagged a fly ball that was tailing away to the corner. Afterward, he got a hug from center fielder Davey-Jay Rijke for his effort.
“We were working on defense the whole year,” assistant coach Ringemar Raap said. “What you see is no surprise for us. We trust in these guys and know they can do the job.”
In the fifth, Taiwan loaded the bases on singles by Wu Hsuan-Hung, Hsu Ta-Sheng and Liao Yuan-Shu, which ended Reangelo’s day as he surpassed the 85-pitch limit for Little League. Qshondrickson Doran came in with two outs to face Tseng Yi-Che and got him to fly out to left.
“I said ‘You can do it,’” Everett said. “‘I need one out from you. Just throw strikes and we will make the out.’”
Davey-Jay rescued Curacao in the sixth, making a warning-track catch on a deep fly ball off the bat of Wang Yuan-Fu to preserve the lead, a play that resulted in Davey-Jay getting mobbed by his fellow outfielders.
Curacao scored in the bottom of the third. Alexander Provacia led off the inning with a bunt single and advanced to second on a throwing error. Alexander moved to third on a passed ball and scored on Jaydion’s single, a grounder that found a sweet spot between first and second base, to give Curacao a 1-0 lead.
“It means so much,” Jaydion said. “When I got back to the dugout I cried because I knew we were going to win this game and go to the big final.”
An island with just over 150,000 people, Curacao has one tournament title, coming in 2004. But Curacao also was the last international team to play in the LLWS championship, in 2019, when it fell to Louisiana.
“It means so much because everyone believes in us,” Everett said. “During the tournament, they started to believe because we have come out to do our job and come up with a W.”
The 2020 tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus and last year only U.S. teams played because of travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.
Taiwan is historically one of the best international teams in the LLWS, winning 17 titles. But its last championship came in 1996.
Li Fang-Mo was excellent on the mound for Taiwan despite the loss, tossing five innings of one-run, three-hit ball and striking out nine Curacao batters.
“Li performed very well today,” Taiwan manager Chang Tzu-Chien said through an interpreter. “Competing against Curacao, we don’t have room for error. He missed one signal and the base runner advanced and that’s what we believe cost us the game.”
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TX El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM Zone Forecast for Saturday, August 27, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for New Mexico
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
414 AM MDT Sun Aug 28 2022
TXZ418-282300-
Western El Paso County-
Including the cities of Downtown El Paso, West El Paso,
and Upper Valley
414 AM MDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows around 70. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 90s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming north in
the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ419-282300-
Eastern/Central El Paso County-
Including the cities of East and Northeast El Paso, Socorro,
and Fort Bliss
414 AM MDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 90s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming
northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A
slight chance of showers. Lows around 70. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ420-282300-
Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains-
Including the cities of Hueco Tanks and Loma Linda
414 AM MDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 60. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ423-282300-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties-
Including the cities of Fabens, Fort Hancock, and Tornillo
414 AM MDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. A
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper
60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs around
80. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ421-282300-
Salt Basin-
Including the cities of Cornudas, Dell City, and Salt Flat
414 AM MDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs around 90. West winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. Southwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the
upper 70s.
$$
TXZ422-282300-
Southern Hudspeth Highlands-
Including the city of Sierra Blanca
414 AM MDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds around 5 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ424-282300-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County-
Including the city of Indian Hot Springs
414 AM MDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs around 80. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
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We're wrapping up the weekend on a very summery note, hot and muggy! Expect highs in the low 90s with mostly to partly sunny skies Sunday. Isolated showers will develop in the afternoon, much like Saturday. Active weather fires up early in the week with rounds of showers and storms heading our way starting Monday afternoon, peaking overnight and winding down later in the day Tuesday. The severe storm threat is very low but watch for gusty wind and heavy rain. Beautiful days will follow with below normal highs in the low 80s and sunny, dry weather midweek into the weekend.
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On Monday, there was one traveler who got a true bird's-eye view of the Charlotte Douglas Airport.
Clark, a 19-year-old bald eagle, was recorded going through TSA with his handlers for his return flight home to Missouri. The footage and photos caught the attention of Twitter.
Clark is a flying ambassador of World Bird Sanctuary in south St. Louis. The scales on his talons never developed properly, and he would eventually get pneumonia and die if he were to hunt in the wild, the nonprofit's executive director, Dawn Griffard, told NPR over the phone.
Griffard said Clark's job is to spread a message about conservation and raise money to support the sanctuary. He does this by attending events to fly to songs like The Star Spangled Banner or You Raise Me Up.
TSA officers are used to seeing an eagle on their uniform as they look over their shoulder, but I’m sure the team at @CLTAirport Checkpoint A did a double take when they saw a real one earlier this week. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/cxfbqyVok1
— TSA Southeast (@TSA_Southeast) August 25, 2022
Griffard said that Clark, who is named for William Clark – and yes, there is another eagle named Lewis at his sanctuary – is hired to fly between four to six times a year. Over the course of 12 years, this frequent flier has taken more than 100 commercial flights.
Eagles may not have shoes or belts to remove, but they have their own version of being patted down. A TSA search of a bald eagle involves investigating its crate and under the carpet inside it.
People at airports often want to touch or see Clark, and his stewards have to deny their requests to stick their fingers through the window in his crate. But usually they're respectful, Griffard said.
Much to World Bird Sanctuary's appreciation, Southwest Airlines lets Clark travel in the main cabin. Other airlines don't allow this, and Griffard has had to put him in cargo in the past – once, she said, an airline misplaced him this way.
Despite standing 30 inches high and weighing 7.5 pounds, Clark gets two seats and three seat-belt extenders. That's because of his crate, which gets strapped in at the plane's bulkhead. A member of World Bird Sanctuary's eagle team sits beside the crate to keep an eye on him and give him snacks — typically bits of rat, Griffard explained.
In each stage of travel, World Bird Sanctuary's team, the airport staff and often even the Southwest pilots are careful to keep Clark's trip as bump-free as possible. He hates turbulence.
When the group arrives at their destination, Clark gets his own hotel room. They move the furniture and throw a large tarp over the floor. He gets a perch in the middle of the room, from which he watches TV. Griffard said he prefers cartoons and nature shows.
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Grandparents scam suspects showing up at residences
The Windsor Police Service Financial Crimes Unit is investigating several incidents involving the 'grandparents scam' where some individuals are showing up at homes to collect money.
Investigators are urging people to speak with your loved ones about the 'grandparents scam' and other common scams.
Generally, the 'grandparents scam' is where a fraudster poses as a relative in distress needing their grandparents to wire money that will be used for bail money, lawyer's fees, hospital bills, or other fake expenses.
In one case, a family member of the victim showed up prior to the suspect and was able to stop their loved one from turning the money over. A photo of the suspect was captured and investigators are asking for any information that may help in identifying the man in relation to this incident.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Windsor Police Service Financial Crimes Unit at 519-255-6700 ext. 4330, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 519-258-8477 (TIPS) or online at www.catchcrooks.com. | https://www.iheartradio.ca/am800/news/grandparents-scam-suspects-showing-up-at-residences-1.18427300 | 2022-08-28T10:51:11Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/am800/news/grandparents-scam-suspects-showing-up-at-residences-1.18427300 | true |
New York: The MTV Video Music Awards are back Sunday with some of the biggest names in music vying for the network's fabled Moon Person statue.
Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow and Kendrick Lamar are tied for leading nominees with seven apiece. Harlow and Lil Nas X's collaboration ``Industry Baby'' propelled their nominations, landing them in competition for artist of the year along with Drake, Bad Bunny, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and Lizzo.
Closely behind are Harry Styles and Doja Cat, who received six nominations apiece, while Sheeran, Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Tayler Swift and The Weeknd each have five.
Harlow is pulling double duty, joining LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj as the show's emcees. The VMAs are being being held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and will air beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Minaj will perform hits from throughout her career and accept the show's video vanguard award, which MTV has said she's receiving for her artistry, barrier-breaking hip-hop and status as a global superstar. The honor is named after Michael Jackson.
Eminem, Snoop Dogg, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bad Bunny are also set to perform
Madonna, who is the most awarded artist in MTV history with 20 wins, becomes the only artist to receive a nomination in each of the VMAs five decades. She earned her 69th nomination for her 14th studio album ``Madame X.''
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Versatile duo Pat Abernethy and Dave Marsden are among the hardest-working travelling players currently treading the boards.
The founders of the Isosceles Theatre Company have been performing a diverse range of original comedies, musicals and dramas all over the UK since the 1980s, having previously established a fanbase among audiences in Ireland.
Straight acting and Useful Idiots
Kevin Laffan, the creator of long-running TV soap Emmerdale, wrote two new plays for Abernethy and Marsden in the late ’90s, setting them on a path more focused on straight acting roles than the largely sketch-based performances they’d specialised in up to that point.
A successful link-up with the self-deprecating Useful Idiots – writer Patrick Prior and actor-cum-director Jim Dunk – in the wake of the hits Odd Ball Out and The Husband’s Tale has given rise to a turbo-charging of the Isosceles mainstays’ dramatic output since the turn of the century.
Body of work
Guided by Prior’s prolific pen, Belfast-born Abernethy and Marsden, from Dublin, have taken on thought-provoking work that’s taken in such diverse subject matter as the tribulations of a rock tribute outfit in The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Changed My Life Forever, Celtic supporters looking back on how their team overcame the might of Inter Milan to become European champions (On Our Way To Lisbon), and a study of the shipping boss who literally walked away from the most notorious peacetime sinking of all-time (The Man Who Left The Titanic).
Along the way they’ve also impressed with piano-led song and story evenings, as well as such self-penned offerings as a version of Mora Grey’s novel Beckett’s Last Act and Behind You, a poignant production looking at the bleak showbiz underbelly.
Arriving in Dunfermline next Friday, Prior’s take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic 1886 novella of double lives and inner demons, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, was first staged by Isosceles in 2006.
It continues to perfectly fit a powerful strain of the playwright’s output that has also seen him focus on infamous goings-on in the Victorian era via such subjects as serial killer Jack The Ripper, Edinburgh’s infamous Burke and Hare murders, a terrifying haunted house in fog-filled London and repeated foiled attempts to assassinate the monarch.
Classic gothic horror
Still among the most famous works in the history of English literature and one of the defining books of the gothic horror genre, Stevenson’s mad scientist thriller has been given dozens of theatrical reworkings since it was first adapted for the stage in Boston in 1887.
As well as being staged in many of the UK’s most venerated provincial theatres, the Dunk-directed period version has – perhaps uniquely – also been performed in schools for children with language and communication difficulties.
It’s also comparatively rare for just two actors to take on all the roles in the London-set yarn, but that’s exactly what Abernethy and Marsden do in their compact but nuanced telling – as per nearly all of their plays.
The Isosceles team’s forensic examination of man’s addiction to miscreant ways is played out on a minimalist set made up of simple tables and chairs.
Refreshingly gimmick-free, atmosphere, intimacy and imagination are this troupe’s watchwords.
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Almost 1,000 people have been killed and thousands more injured by flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across Pakistan since mid-June.
The new death toll came a day after Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif asked for international help in battling deadly flood damage in the impoverished Islamic nation.
The monsoon season, which began earlier than normal this year, has lashed Pakistan with particularly heavy rains and rescuers have struggled to evacuate thousands of marooned people from flood-hit areas. The crisis forced the government to declare a state of emergency.
In north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, flooding destroyed the gates of a major water control system at the Swat River, leading to flooding in the districts of Charsadda and Nowshera, said Charsadda administrator Sania Safi.
“We pre-empted the situation and warned and forced hesitating residents to leave their homes for safety and move to relief camps established at government buildings in safe places,” she said.
Ms Safi said there were concerns about the Swat and Kabul rivers rising further, adding to the misery of residents who have already suffered the loss of lives and property.
In Nowshera district, local administrator Quratul Ain Wazir said flood waters submerged streets before the gushing waters headed toward low-lying areas.
“Our administration has evacuated many people and taken others to relief camps where government provided beds and food in safe buildings,” she said, adding: “We will use police to force those hesitant to leave their homes.”
Khushal Wahab, who lives in a neighbourhood in Nowshera submerged in water, said residents recalled catastrophic flooding that took place 2010 and many evacuated fearing similar danger. “People are scared,” he said.
Information minister Maryam Aurangzeb said soldiers and rescue organisations were helping people to reach safety in many districts of southern Sindh, north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, eastern Punjab and south-western Baluchistan provinces.
“Government has sanctioned sufficient funds to financially compensate the affected people and we will not leave our people alone in this tough time,” she said.
Ms Aurangzeb asked wealthy people and relief organisations to come forward with aid to help flood-affected Pakistanis.
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Russian rocket and artillery strikes hit areas across the Dnieper River from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday, as fears persisted that fighting in the vicinity could damage the plant and cause a radiation leak.
Russian forces took control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant soon after the war began and hold adjacent territory along the left bank of the wide river.
Ukraine controls the right bank, including the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, each of them about six miles (10km) from the plant.
Heavy firing during the night left parts of Nikopol without electricity, said Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Rocket strikes damaged about a dozen residences in Marhanets, according to Yevhen Yevtushenko, the administration chief for the district that includes the city of about 45,000 people.
The city of Zaporizhzhia, about 25 miles (40km) upriver from the nuclear plant, also came under fire during the night, wounding two people, city council member Anatoliy Kurtev said.
In eastern Ukraine, where Russian and separatist forces are trying to take control, shelling hit the large and strategically significant cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, but no casualties were reported, said Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region.
Much of the Donetsk region is held by Russian and separatist forces. It is one of two Ukrainian regions that Russia has recognised as sovereign states.
Authorities last week began distributing iodine tablets to residents who live near the Zaporizhzhia plant in case of radiation exposure, which can cause health problems.
Much of the concern centres on the cooling systems for the plant’s nuclear reactors. The systems require power to run, and the plant was temporarily knocked offline on Thursday because of what officials said was fire damage to a transmission line. A cooling system failure could cause a nuclear meltdown.
Russian forces occupied the nuclear plant complex early in the six-month-old war, but local Ukrainian workers have kept it running.
The Ukrainian and Russian governments have repeatedly accused each other of shelling the complex and nearby areas, raising fears of a possible catastrophe.
Periodic shelling has damaged the power station’s infrastructure, Ukraine’s nuclear power operator, Energoatom, said on Saturday.
“There are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances, and the fire hazard is high,” it said.
The UN’s atomic energy agency has tried to work out an agreement to send a team in to inspect and help secure the plant.
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Air-conditioning temperature limits and new lighting rules have been introduced for the public sector as global energy prices skyrocket.
According to guidelines issued to all government and public sector entities, air conditioning is to be set at a minimum of 24 degrees Celsius when cooling and no higher than 21 degrees on heating.
An exception has been made for hospitals.
The rules, issued by the Energy Ministry, also call for all façade lighting on public buildings and monuments to be switched off late at night.
MaltaToday reported the new rules on Sunday, with the ministry confirming details of the new policy to Times of Malta.
A spokesperson for the ministry said the new guidelines are a voluntary measure, to encourage efficiency and energy saving across the public sector.
"Whilst Malta has obtained a derogation from a mandatory reduction in gas consumption, it still wants to maintain its ambition towards the national energy targets. This will be done through incentivising energy efficiency and consumption reduction to continue paving the way towards a climate neutral by 2050," the spokesperson said.
"In the case of the public sector, the guidelines issued provide actions to be applied public sector in all public buildings. The action is being carried out in collaboration with the Office of the Principle Permanent Secretary and seeks to minimise energy-wasting habits. The guidelines are applicable for all public buildings, entities and ministries."
The new guidelines call for appliances to be switched off when not being used and encourage the use of more energy-efficient light fittings.
In April, the government committed €200 million to protect consumers from surging energy prices which went through the roof as a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On Friday Times of Malta reported that the funds allocated by the government to subsidise utility bills will have to be topped up by another €50 million to cover rising electricity costs.
Government projections indicate that the situation could be even worse next year.
Enemalta projects that the subsidies could cost the taxpayer something between €300 million and €400 million to keep consumer prices stable throughout 2023.
Malta is currently buying electricity from the European grid for more than five times the price it used to in 2020.
The price Enemalta pays for electricity from the interconnector is determined by a daily auction on the open market.
Malta only partially relies on the interconnector from Italy to meet electricity demand.
The country’s energy supply is a mix of the interconnector cable and the gas-fired power station in Marsaxlokk.
Operation Thermostat - Power-saving drives across the EU
Several European Union nations have launched power-saving drives as they seek to reign in soaring gas and electricity bills and conserve resources.
The EU plans to cut gas consumption by 15 percent between August 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023 to cope with the crisis.
A snapshot of national efforts so far:
- Public buildings - Italy launched earlier this year what it called "Operation Thermostat" to try to lower heating and cut back on air conditioning in schools and public buildings.
France and Germany have also called on their public sectors to lead the way in saving power in the same way. In Germany, public buildings including the Bundestag, or parliament, will have to do without hot water.
- Closed doors, open shops - In France shops that use air conditioning must keep their doors closed or face a fine.
And in Germany shops have launched an advertising campaign to inform customers that they can go inside, even if the doors are closed.
In Spain, since August 10 air conditioning has to be turned down and be set at no lower than 27 degrees Celsius during the warmest months of the year, in rules affecting everything from public transport to shops, offices, theatres and cinemas.
The legislation also affects heating in winter, when temperatures can be set no higher than 19C.
By the end of September, any air-conditioned or heated premises in Spain must have an automatic door-closing mechanism installed to avoid energy waste.
- Illuminated advertising - In France, illuminated advertising screens are banned between 1 am and 6 am, except in airports and railway stations. The ban which could soon be brought forward to 10 pm, mirroring Germany.
A two-square-metre digital LCD screen uses the equivalent of the average annual consumption of a household for lighting and household appliances, except heating.
- Swimming pools and saunas - Germany has banned heating private swimming pools from September.
Several cities have lowered the temperature in their swimming pools and made cuts in urban lighting.
A housing cooperative in the eastern city of Dresden made national headlines when it announced it would limit hot water to certain times of day.
And Vonovia, Germany's largest property group, plans to limit the temperature in its 350,000 homes to 17 degrees Celsius at night.
In Finland people are being urged to spend less time in their beloved saunas.
- Public lighting - In Vienna, there will be no Christmas lights this year on the Ring, the famous boulevard that encircles the centre of the Austrian capital.
And the lights at the Christmas market in the square in front of the city hall will only be switched on at night and not at dusk, about an hour later, on average, every day.
In Spain, from 10 pm shops have to switch off window-display lighting in a move also affecting the illumination of public buildings.
In Germany, the Bavarian city of Augsburg has turned off its fountains, dimmed the facades of public buildings at night and is debating switching off some under-used traffic lights.
- Small daily gestures - Under its "A degree lower" campaign, Finland will from October encourage its citizens to turn down their radiators, take shorter showers and not heat their garages.
Germany's summer campaign involved encouraging buying more water-efficient shower heads.
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At least 32 people have died and 159 have been injured in violent clashes between rival Libyan militias across the country's capital of Tripoli, according to an update from the country's Ministry of Health.
Intense fighting erupted in the capital overnight as rival factions exchanged intense gunfire and several loud explosions resounded across the city. Pictures and videos circulating on social media show the extent of the clashes with dozens of buildings, including residential ones, destroyed and several cars smashed and burned.
Libya has been split between warring factions since 2014, following the 2011 NATO-backed uprising against Moammar Gadhafi.
The UN-backed Government of National Unity (GNU) said on its official Facebook page the clashes "were triggered by a military group firing randomly at a convoy passing in the Zawia Street area, while armed groups were gathering at the 27th gate west of Tripoli and the Jebs Gate south of Tripoli."
The country's interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, the head of the GNU, is based in Tripoli in the western part of Libya. The parliament building in Tobruk in the east of the country is the seat of a rival government led by Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha.
Bashagha has been trying to enter and take over Tripoli as he claims the GNU is illegal and should step aside. The GNU has refused and claimed power should be handed peacefully through elections, not force.
The Libyan Red Crescent in a tweet Saturday called on all parties "to support the Libyan Red Crescent teams to perform their humanitarian tasks within the city."
The municipality of Tripoli held both the UN-recognized Government of National Accord and the Libyan National Army responsible for the deteriorating situation in the capital, according to Libyan News Agency LANA, the official news agency of the internationally recognized government.
It also called on the international community to protect civilians, LANA reported.
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called for an "immediate cessation" to the violence.
"(The secretary-general) urges the Libyan parties to engage in a genuine dialogue to address the ongoing political impasse and not to use force to resolve their differences. He further calls on the parties to protect civilians and refrain from taking any actions that could escalate tensions and deepen divisions," Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the secretary-general said.
"The United Nations remains ready to provide good offices and mediation to help Libyan actors chart a way out of the political deadlock, which is increasingly threatening Libya's hard-won stability," Dujarric said.
US Ambassador to Libya Richard B. Norland urged the importance of "avoiding violent clashes in Tripoli," according to a tweet from the US Embassy in Libya.
Norland said he and Presidential Council President Menfi discussed on Friday the need for de-escalating, the embassy tweeted Saturday.
"We agreed on the urgent need to finalize a constitutional basis and move towards elections, and also on the importance of taking steps to enhance transparency and accountability in the management of Libyan oil revenues," the tweet added.
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya said in a tweet Saturday it is "deeply concerned about ongoing armed clashes including indiscriminate medium and heavy shelling in civilian-populated neighborhoods in Tripoli, reportedly causing civilian casualties and damage to civilian facilities including hospitals."
"The UN calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities and reminds all parties of their obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law to protect civilians and civilian objects," the tweet added.
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‘He kind of reminds me of myself’ Bears teammates give praises to McKinley grad Dominique Robinson
CLEVELAND — Dominique Robinson made his return to Northeast Ohio, but this time in a Chicago Bears uniform. It was his first game at FirstEnergy Stadium as the Bears escaped with the 21-20 victory over the Cleveland Browns in the preseason finale. With the regular season about two weeks away, Robinson’s family came out and supported the rookie before he headed back to Chicago.
“It was just a surreal moment,” Anthony Robinson Jr, Dominique’s older brother said. “We are all extremely happy for him. All the hard work is paying off.”
Unfortunately, Dominique’s homecoming was cut short. In the second quarter, he sustained a leg injury and didn’t return for the rest of the game. Dominique was unavailable after the game.
Dominique was selected in the fifth round of the 2022 NFL draft out of Miami University. In his NFL debut, he recorded a sack in week one against the Kansas City Chiefs. In week two versus the Seattle Seahawks, he registered two total tackles and quarterback hits.
Dominique, who took some first-team snaps during camp, didn’t fill the stat sheet on Saturday, but throughout the preseason, he had shown flashes and was impressive enough that Doug Farrar, NFL editor for USA Today, considered him as a ‘secret superstar’ after his performance in week two against the Seahawks.
Veteran edge rusher and Bears teammate Robert Quinn gave praise to Dominique after the game as he went toe-to-toe with Browns left tackle Jedrick Wills Jr. before going down with a leg injury.
“He’s a quick twitch,” Quinn said. “It’s hard to coach that. It’s usually his God-given ability and to see him constantly work on his craft everyday, trying to get better… you know, (he gives) two cents that coaches give him or I could give him, he just works his craft and tries to become the best player he could be.”
As a former quarterback turned wide receiver turned defensive end, Dominique entered the league raw as he still continues to grow as an NFL pass rusher. Quinn pointed out that one of the things he wants to see more from the Canton native is his finishing. Yet, the ceiling could not get any higher.
“He will beat them guys, he really just needs to finish them,” Quinn said. “D’Line ain’t complicated. It’s just one of them. It’s just finishing no matter if it’s tackles for loss or on the quarterback because he got a lot of good pass rushing and stuff, getting to the backfield. That’s a good sign for sure, disrupting no matter what.”
Quinn also mentioned how straightforward Dominique is. He doesn’t say much unless it's football related and keeps his head down as he continues to work on his game. Quinn could relate.
“He kind of reminds me of myself,” Quinn said. “He’s just very quiet. He chirps in when need be. He’s pretty quiet, comes into work and tries to be the best player he could be. As a man, he’s a stand-up guy. When you ask him something, he just shoots it straight. He doesn't beat around the bush or fluff up an answer. He cuts it straight to the point.”
From an offensive perspective, Bears quarterback Justin Fields spoke about Dominique as he valued his maturity and work ethic. Yet, he was unaware that Robinson was a standout quarterback in high school.
“I think he has really matured as a rookie for sure,” Fields said about Dominique after the game. He is married, so a family man for sure. “He’s a freak of an athlete. He’s fast. He has five or six percent body fat or something like that, so he is just a freak. On the field, he’s a smart guy and he works hard.”
Dominique is currently third-team on the Bears' depth chart, sitting behind Quinn and Al-Quadin Muhammad. It’s no doubt that he will make the 53-man roster as the final cut day is set for Aug. 30. The Bears open the season at home against the San Francisco 49ers on Sept. 11. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/nfl/2022/08/28/chicago-bears-dominique-robinson-canton-mckinley-graduate-nfl-rookie/65419245007/ | 2022-08-28T11:21:33Z | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/nfl/2022/08/28/chicago-bears-dominique-robinson-canton-mckinley-graduate-nfl-rookie/65419245007/ | false |
Cities near Ukrainian nuclear plant shelled
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian rocket and artillery strikes hit areas across the Dnieper River from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, as fears persisted that fighting in the vicinity could damage the plant and cause a radiation leak.
Russian forces took control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant soon after the war began and hold adjacent territory along the left bank of the wide river. Ukraine controls the right bank, including the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, each of them about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the plant.
Heavy firing during the night left parts of Nikopol without electricity, said Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Rocket strikes damaged about a dozen residences in Marhanets, according to Yevhen Yevtushenko, the administration head for the district that includes the city of about 45,000.
The city of Zaporizhzhia, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) upriver from the nuclear plant, also came under fire during the night, wounding two people, city council member Anatoliy Kurtev said.
In eastern Ukraine, where Russian and separatist forces are trying to take control, shelling hit the large and strategically significant cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, but no casualties were reported, said Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region.
Much of the Donetsk region is held by Russian and separatist forces. It is one of two Ukrainian regions that Russia has recognized as sovereign states.
Authorities last week began distributing iodine tablets to residents who live near the Zaporizhzhia plant in case of radiation exposure, which can cause health problems.
Much of the concern centers on the cooling systems for the plant’s nuclear reactors. The systems require power to run, and the plant was temporarily knocked offline Thursday because of what officials said was fire damage to a transmission line. A cooling system failure could cause a nuclear meltdown.
Russian forces occupied the nuclear plant complex early in the 6-month-old war, but local Ukrainian workers have kept it running. The Ukrainian and Russian governments have repeatedly accused the other of shelling the complex and nearby areas, raising fears of a possible catastrophe.
Periodic shelling has damaged the power station’s infrastructure, Ukraine’s nuclear power operator, Energoatom, said Saturday.
“There are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances, and the fire hazard is high,” it said.
The U.N.’s atomic energy agency has tried to work out an agreement 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.
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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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The National Diversity Awards return to the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral next month.
The prestigious black tie event celebrates the excellent achievements of grass-root communities that tackle the issues in today’s society, giving them recognition for their dedication and hard work. This year will be no different as charities, role models and community heroes will be honoured.
The ceremony, which is being held on Friday, September 16, is being hosted by EastEnders star Nina Wadia, who is best known for playing Zainab Masood on the BBC soap. The award-winning Indian-born British actress is said to be “an excellent event host and after dinner speaker” due to her “naturally funny and engaging presence”. The organisers said with “her bubbly personality and confident approach, Nina makes a memorable addition to any event.” Celebrity guests have not been confirmed as yet but with the likes of Mel B, Ashley Walters, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Jake Daniels and Dame Kelly Holmes MBE shortlisted for Celebrity of the Year Award, guests may bump into them on the night.
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Merseyside has its own representation at the awards as Lewis Hancox, from St Helens, is nominated for the Positive Role Model Award for LGBT+ after he retold his journey of self-discovery in a book. Up for the same award but for their age group is Marcus Wilton, a teenager from Warrington who is battling stigma against ADHD after he was excluded from three schools and now travels over 40 miles to attend private independent specialist provision. Isabelle Kirkham, a 25-year-old from St Helens who is fighting to change the care system after being called 'Tracy Beaker', also made the shortlist.
The concept for the event reportedly came about after The Diversity Group “identified an urgent need for more positive role models to be actively promoted, with the aim to empower and inspire the wide breadth of diverse communities across the UK. All those who are shortlisted have “showcased an outstanding devotion to enchanting equality, diversity and inclusion; thus embracing the excellence of all our citizens irrespective of race, faith, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability and culture.”
Last year's event was hosted by comic actress and writer Sally Phillips and included a headline set from nineties music icon Heather Small, as well as appearances from footballing legend John Barnes and one of the country's favourite TV chefs, Ainsley Harriott. Katie Price also made an appearance at the ceremony with her son, Harvey and partner, Carl Woods. At the time, the model was pictured on the red carpet with bandages on her head following her latest cosmetic procedures. Other guests included Love Island Villa finalists Faye Winter and Teddy Soares, along with Hugo Hammond and Aaron Francis.
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Noida twin towers demolition | Last moments of evacuation and a sleeping man!
Seven-member team pulled out evacuation drive
Ahead of Noida twin towers' demolition, a special task force - a core team of seven members – of Emerald Court pulled off the evacuation of all residents of the society in an exercise meticulously planned over a month's time.
The residents of the society, where the illegal twin towers were also located, had started moving out from Friday itself.
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Those who had to leave Noida left earlier while those planning to accommodate themselves in nearby locations waited till Sunday morning.
The Supertech twin towers in Noida were demolished on Sunday, a year after the Supreme Court's direction to raze the illegally built structures to the ground.
Emerald Court has 15 residential towers, each having 44 apartments and total around 2,500 residents and 1,200 vehicles.
The special task force comprised seven members who are resident of the society. Besides the STF, the society also had a 'captain' for each of the 15 towers.
By 7 a.m., almost all of the residents, including children and senior citizens, had vacated the 15 residential premises in a well-coordinated exercise by the society's special task force.
Man remains asleep
Emerald Court's Gaurav Mehrotra headed the task force team that also had Avinash Rai, Amit Arora, Colonel (retd) Rajesh Kashyap, Wing Commander (retd) Mohit Garg, Anil Saxena besides Naresh Keswani.
But a little after 7 a.m., a security guard raised alarm to the special task force about a person being inside a top floor apartment of a tower who appeared to have not vacated! "We got to know about it because of our double verification process for evacuation. It turned out that of all residents of the towers, one had not left. This resident, it turned out was fast asleep inside apartment and totally missed the evacuation deadline,” Naresh Keswani, a member of the special task force, told PTI.
"Somehow, the security guards managed to wake him up and he was also evacuated at just around 7 am," Mr. Keswani said.
Explaining their evacuation strategy, Mr. Keswani said the special task force had it brainstormed over a month's time. They came up with a double verification process. A sticker with all evacuation-related guidelines was to be pasted by every flat resident once they had locked their homes and left.
Then there was also a register of residents' details with the tower captains, who did the second round of verification to check how many people have left and how many were yet to evacuate.
"It was because of this double step verification that this sleeping resident was identified in time and safely moved out," Mr. Keswani said.
The task force also heaped praises on their private security guards who rose to the occasion to ensure smooth evacuation of the residents, their vehicles over two days without any hassle or causing traffic snarls outside the society roads.
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HOUSTON — As Anthony Santander rounded second base after his third-inning home run Saturday, he waved out to the Orioles’ bullpen out behind a fence in left field, a tradition he’s adopted with the relievers not being in the dugout to celebrate with the rest of the team.
“I salute them,” Santander said through team interpreter Brandon Quinones, “because they’re also part of the team.”
Of late, that’s been the only way that group of pitchers has gotten involved in the games’ action that early. The Orioles’ starting rotation has been on an impressive run at a vital time of year, averaging more than six innings per start while posting a 2.25 ERA over the past 11 games.
In the first two contests of their road series against the Houston Astros, Kyle Bradish and Dean Kremer, neither older than 26, combined to allow one run over 15 2/3 innings, providing the second- and third-longest starts from an Oriole in manager Brandon Hyde’s four-season tenure. Add in veteran Jordan Lyles’ seven-inning start in a series-clinching victory against the Chicago White Sox, and the Orioles have three straights of at least that length since 2017.
“So impressed,” Hyde said. “Two deep starts from two guys that haven’t been in the big leagues very long and are showing so much improvement. That’s the biggest thing for me, is the improvement these guys are showing, the confidence, the trust in their stuff.
“You’re watching a couple of young guys really learn up at the big league level in a tight race and important games. It’s a lot of fun.”
As significant as those outings will be for the young starters’ future development, it’s perhaps more important for the weight it takes off a bullpen that has had to carry much of it as the Orioles have surprisingly marched to the cusp of a wild-card spot. They entered Saturday with the fourth-best relief ERA in the majors at 3.18, but they’ve thrown at least six games worth of innings more than any other team in the top six. The Astros, with the game’s best bullpen ERA, have required more than 100 fewer innings from their relievers than Baltimore has.
“Hats off to everybody, our pitching staff, what they’ve been able to do,” Hyde said before Saturday’s game. “Our starting rotation has done the best they possibly can. It’s only going to get better going forward with those young guys, and our bullpen guys have picked up a lot of tough innings out of the bullpen and done well this year.”
That relief excess is partly a byproduct of Baltimore playing close games with regularity. The Orioles have had seven straight games decided by two or fewer runs and 70 overall, the most in the American League. The circumstances have Hyde pushing his key relievers lately, rookie closer Félix Bautista in particular. His four-out save behind Kremer on Saturday marked his third multi-inning outing in six days.
“The bullpen’s carried us up until this point in the season,” Kremer said. “They need a break too sometimes.”
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Baltimore lost ace John Means to Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery two outings into the year, while top pitching prospects Grayson Rodriguez and DL Hall, who were both expected to be impact arms for Baltimore this season, have made one major league start between them. But a group of Bradish, Kremer, Spenser Watkins and Austin Voth — who are either getting their first extended major league opportunities or have generally struggled in previous stints — along with Lyles have continually kept the Orioles in games.
Pitching deep also generally means pitching well, at a time every game means a great deal to Baltimore’s playoff hopes. Neither Bradish nor Kremer had stepped foot on a major league mound in the eighth inning before this weekend. Doing so now might allow it to happen more frequently in the future.
“The more positive experience you can get, the better,” Kremer said. “It’ll help you in the long run. Of course, negative outcomes do happen. But instead of dwelling on them like we may have done in previous years, we’re learning from them and taking them step by step.”
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L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) — Making a pilgrimage in an Italian mountain town, Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the humility of a 13th-century pontiff who resigned to live a hermit's life, and praised him for using his brief papacy to highlight the value of mercy and forgiveness.
Francis made a four-hour visit to L'Aquila in the central Apennine mountains, which was struck by an earthquake in 2009, killing 305 people and destroying much of the town. It is still being rebuilt.
The pontiff came to give a boost to a late summer tradition begun by Pope Celestine V 728 years ago to encourage the faithful to seek forgiveness for sins.
L'Aquila's Collemaggio Basilica contains the remains of Celestine, who resigned in 1294 after only several months in the papacy. As pontiff, Celestine initiated the August practice in which faithful could pass through the basilica's Holy Door. After meeting certain religious requirements, they can receive a plenary indulgence, which removes punishment for sin.
Aides brought Francis in a wheelchair to the basilica's austere, brown wooden door. After Francis, who has a painful knee problem, was helped to stand, he used a sturdy olive tree branch to rap three times on the door, which then was opened. With a ramp put in place, Francis limped into the basilica, then prayed silently before the mausoleum containing the remains of Celestine, whose face is covered with a silver mask.
Celestine was ridiculed by Dante in the “Divine Comedy” for cowardice in abdicating his papal role.
“The humble appear to the eyes of men as weak and losers, but in reality they are the true winners because they are the only ones who trust completely in the Lord and know His will,'' Francis said.
“Humility doesn't consist in devaluating oneself but rather in that healthy realism that makes us recognize our potential and also our misery,” Francis said. He hailed the "courageous' Celestine V because “no logic of power was able to imprison or manage him.”
Celestine reminded all that mercy and forgiveness help people to pass from “anguish and guilt to freedom and joy,'' Francis said.
While the helicopter that flew him from the Vatican to L'Aquila earlier Sunday morning kept circling above the town, with the pilot trying to find a break in cloud over so it could land, Francis said he was inspired to ponder the value of mercy.
“At a certain point, there was a break in the clouds, and the pilot zoomed through," Francis said, encouraging people, when their lives are clouded by troubles, to take advantage of a ”break" when the possibility of mercy presents itself.
Before Francis, the last pope to visit L’Aquila was his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who came to comfort quake survivors in 2009 and paid tribute to Celestine. Benedict would resign in 2013, the first pontiff in nearly 600 years to do so. He now lives in a monastery on Vatican grounds.
Francis, who is 85, has called resignation an acceptable option for pontiffs who feel they no longer can adequately lead the world's more than 1.3 billion Catholics.
He greeted townspeople outside the town's Duomo, or cathedral, which is still being repaired from quake damage, and visited with relatives of some of the victims.
Francis noted that inmates from area prisons were among well-wishers outside the cathedral. “In you, I salute a sign of hope, because in prisons there are so many, too many victims,” Francis said.
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FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) — Chaz Andrews has wanted to join the Army since he was 19, but he has failed the service’s academic test more than 10 times over the past decade.
Now, at age 29, Andrews thinks he has a real shot to pass, thanks to a new Army program that gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards.
“I didn’t want to give up on it,” he said during a recent break in his classroom schedule at Fort Jackson, where he is one of more than 300 recruits who have been allowed to enlist in the new Army prep course. And if Andrews, who is from Brooklyn, New York, is able to raise his test score, he will be allowed to continue on to basic training.
The program, which began in early August, is one way the Army is hoping to fill the ranks as it struggles with recruiting efforts that are expected to fall dramatically short of the goals this year. Army officials have described the situation as dire, with some predicting the service may fall 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers short of its recruiting target on Oct. 1 , or as much as 18% to 25%.
Military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the totals are preliminary and could change, said the initial recruiting goal was as much as 60,000 this year, but more realistic expectations later put it at about 55,000. With one month to go, officials are predicting they will come in about 45,000, though it could get better if there is a surge at the end.
Gen. James McConville, the Army chief, traveled to Fort Jackson on Friday for a firsthand look at the pilot program. He and others have acknowledged the recruiting problems and say they are due to a confluence of events and conditions.
The coronavirus pandemic kept recruiters out of schools, fairs and other public events, limiting their in-person contact with students.
Unemployment has been low, other corporate jobs pay well and offer good benefits, and according to estimates, just 23% of young people ages 17 to 24 are physically, mentally and morally qualified to serve without receiving some type of waiver. Moral behavior issues include drug use, gang ties or a criminal record.
Those academic and physical fitness requirements are the ones the prep course will address.
“We have some young men and women that want to serve, that have some challenges on the academic and physical side here. And what we want to do is give them that opportunity,” McConville said. He added that the Army will not reduce standards to get more recruits into the service, but will do more to help soldiers make the grade.
Inside the classroom, about 30 recruits in Army fatigues are in their first week of the initial three-week session. On the board, “TAXES” is scrawled in large letters, and students are going through math problems tied to the 6% sales tax. Down the hall, others are tackling rates of speed, calculating how long it will take to travel certain distances.
Other classes focus on reading comprehension and vocabulary. Students get study breaks and personal time. Recruits who failed the fitness standard get classes on nutrition, exercise, physical therapy, sleep habits and other health skills leading to safe and healthy weight loss.
The fitness training is for recruits who are between 2% and 6% over the body fat standards for their age and gender. The Army routinely allows recruits to go to basic training if they are up to 2% over because they will automatically lose weight and gain muscle during basic training.
The instructors — some former drill sergeants — are in uniform but wear casual ball caps and have toned down their normal cadence. Noting that the sergeants can often be a bit abrasive, commanders said they instead looked for those who can be mature instructors with good temperaments and communication skills.
Staff Sgt. Jonathan Tenorio, who was a drill sergeant and is now an instructor, said it’s less screaming and directing, and more speaking and teaching.
But this is still the Army.
So students’ days start around 5 a.m. and physical training is first on the schedule. They also are learning how to wear their new uniforms, how to march, and how to figure out ranks and other basics of Army culture. And they are learning to live with less social media time — they get to have their phones only certain parts of the day, not during classes or at night.
Every week they are tested. And every three weeks they can move into basic training if they successfully pass the military’s academic test — which is called the Armed Services Voluntary Aptitude Battery — or if they meet the physical standards. They can stay in the program and keep testing for up to 90 days, but have to leave the Army if they don’t pass by then.
Brig. Gen. Patrick Michaelis, the base commander, said many struggle with test-taking skills. The prep course, he said, doesn’t teach answers to the test, instead it focuses on improving their testing skills.
Outside the classroom building, 2nd Lt. William Paschall, a math instructor, said he’s seen progress. At the start of the week, he asked how many understood a problem on the board and few hands went up. At the end of the week, nearly all raised their hands.
So far the success rate has been high. In the academic program, 75% of the 333 students tested so far improved at least one category, which can allow them to move on to basic training. In the fitness program, 73 of the 152 students who began the program have already met the goal and been able to move to basic training.
A dozen students met with McConville, telling him their individual stories. Most said they’ve been trying to get into the Army for a couple years, but were stalled by the academic test. “This is giving me a second chance,” said one. Others talked about looking for a better life and a good job and, as one said, “my final opportunity to get out of the town I lived in.”
Daysia Holiday, 23, said her goal is to become a Green Beret. She’s taken the academic test and failed three times in the past two years, and sees this as her best chance. Holiday, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said many of her peers didn’t make it out of high school, with some “dead or in jail,” and she wants to set an example for her five younger siblings.
Over time, McConville said he expects the program will expand. Commanders say they believe they can put up to 10,000 through the classes, and it could be set up at three other Army training bases. Other changes could broaden the course so that those who fail both the physical fitness requirements and the scholastic test might be able to get in. Right now, recruits have to meet standards in one of the two.
One week into the course, Andrews is optimistic. “I’ve been trying to do this since I was 19,” he said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to fill for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,”“Minions: Rise of Gru,”“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S.
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Francis praises humility of 13th-century pope who resigned
L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) - Making a pilgrimage in an Italian mountain town, Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the humility of a 13th-century pontiff who resigned to live a hermit's life, and praised him for using his brief papacy to highlight the value of mercy and forgiveness.
Francis made a four-hour visit to L'Aquila in the central Apennine mountains, which was struck by an earthquake in 2009, killing 305 people and destroying much of the town. It is still being rebuilt.
The pontiff came to give a boost to a late summer tradition begun by Pope Celestine V 728 years ago to encourage the faithful to seek forgiveness for sins.
L'Aquila's Collemaggio Basilica contains the remains of Celestine, who resigned in 1294 after only several months in the papacy. As pontiff, Celestine initiated the August practice in which faithful could pass through the basilica's Holy Door. After meeting certain religious requirements, they can receive a plenary indulgence, which removes punishment for sin.
Aides brought Francis in a wheelchair to the basilica's austere, brown wooden door. After Francis, who has a painful knee problem, was helped to stand, he used a sturdy olive tree branch to rap three times on the door, which then was opened. With a ramp put in place, Francis limped into the basilica, then prayed silently before the mausoleum containing the remains of Celestine, whose face is covered with a silver mask.
Celestine was ridiculed by Dante in the "Divine Comedy" for cowardice in abdicating his papal role.
Pope Francis arrives to open the Holy Door of St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica and start the jubilee of forgiveness, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis will be the first pope since Celestine V to open this Holy Door, the first in history, established with the Bull of Forgiveness of 29 September 1294 by Pope Celestine V. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
"The humble appear to the eyes of men as weak and losers, but in reality they are the true winners because they are the only ones who trust completely in the Lord and know His will,'' Francis said.
"Humility doesn't consist in devaluating oneself but rather in that healthy realism that makes us recognize our potential and also our misery," Francis said. He hailed the "courageous' Celestine V because "no logic of power was able to imprison or manage him."
Celestine reminded all that mercy and forgiveness help people to pass from "anguish and guilt to freedom and joy,'' Francis said.
While the helicopter that flew him from the Vatican to L'Aquila earlier Sunday morning kept circling above the town, with the pilot trying to find a break in thick fog so it could land, Francis said he was inspired to ponder the value of mercy.
"Finally, there was a little opening (in the fog), and he zoomed through," Francis said, encouraging people, when their lives are clouded by troubles, to similarly take advantage of an "opening" when the possibility of mercy presents itself.
Before Francis, the last pope to visit L´Aquila was his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who came to comfort quake survivors in 2009 and paid tribute to Celestine. Benedict would resign in 2013, the first pontiff in nearly 600 years to do so. He now lives in a monastery on Vatican grounds.
Francis, who is 85, has called resignation an acceptable option for pontiffs who feel they no longer can adequately lead the world's more than 1.3 billion Catholics.
He greeted townspeople outside the town's Duomo, or cathedral, which is still being repaired from quake damage, and visited with relatives of some of the victims.
Francis noted that inmates from area prisons were among well-wishers outside the cathedral. "In you, I salute a sign of hope, because in prisons there are so many, too many victims," Francis said.
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D'Emilio reported from Rome.
Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with relatives of the victims of the 2009 earthquake, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis is on a one-day visit to L'Aquila to open the Holy Door of St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica and start the jubilee of forgiveness. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
Pope Francis is welcomed by Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, Archbishop of L'Aquila as he arrives for a meeting with relatives of the victims of the 2009 earthquake, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis is on a one-day visit to L'Aquila to open the Holy Door of St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica and start the jubilee of forgiveness. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
Pope Francis delivers his message during a meeting with relatives of the victims of the 2009 earthquake, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis is on a one-day visit to L'Aquila to open the Holy Door of St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica and start the jubilee of forgiveness. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with relatives of the victims of the 2009 earthquake, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis is on a one-day visit to L'Aquila to open the Holy Door of St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica and start the jubilee of forgiveness. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
Pope Francis meets a family as he celebrates mass in front of the St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis will be the first pope since Celestine V to open the St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica Holy Door, the first in history, established with the Bull of Forgiveness of 29 September 1294 by Pope Celestine V, and start the jubilee of forgiveness. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Francis arrives to celebrate mass in front of the St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis will be the first pope since Celestine V to open the St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica Holy Door, the first in history, established with the Bull of Forgiveness of 29 September 1294 by Pope Celestine V, and start the jubilee of forgiveness. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Francis celebrates mass in front of the St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis will be the first pope since Celestine V to open the St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica Holy Door, the first in history, established with the Bull of Forgiveness of 29 September 1294 by Pope Celestine V, and start the jubilee of forgiveness. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica and start the jubilee of forgiveness, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis will be the first pope since Celestine V to open this Holy Door, the first in history, established with the Bull of Forgiveness of 29 September 1294 by Pope Celestine V. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica and start the jubilee of forgiveness, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis will be the first pope since Celestine V to open this Holy Door, the first in history, established with the Bull of Forgiveness of 29 September 1294 by Pope Celestine V. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
Pope Francis arrives to open the Holy Door of St. Mary in Collemaggio Basilica and start the jubilee of forgiveness, in L'Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Pope Francis will be the first pope since Celestine V to open this Holy Door, the first in history, established with the Bull of Forgiveness of 29 September 1294 by Pope Celestine V. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11154093/Francis-praises-humility-13-century-pontiff-resigned.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-28T12:03:04Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11154093/Francis-praises-humility-13-century-pontiff-resigned.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Shortly after Russia's invasion, we heard from a Ukrainian neurologist about how she was able to continue her practice. Over the last 6 months, her work has changed significantly.
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Shortly after Russia's invasion, we heard from a Ukrainian neurologist about how she was able to continue her practice. Over the last 6 months, her work has changed significantly.
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President John F. Kennedy delivered a famous speech in 1962 outlining his administration's challenge to land Americans on the moon. "We choose to go to the moon," he declared, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
As difficult a technological feat as the Apollo moon program proved, within seven years NASA had met Kennedy's challenge and ultimately sent a dozen astronauts to the surface on six missions between 1969 and 1972 at a cost of about $25 billion — roughly $250 billion in today's dollars.
Sixty years after Kennedy's speech, NASA is again getting ready to send humans to the moon. The uncrewed Artemis I, the first test flight of the hardware that will be used to send astronauts later, is set to lift off Monday, if all goes well.
No doubt, many people are wondering: Why go back?
There's a lot of science to be done on the moon
The rock samples brought back by Apollo astronauts decades ago taught scientists a lot about the geologic history of Earth and the moon.
What can be gathered by today's astronauts could tell us even more, says David Kring, a lunar geologist at the Center for Lunar Science & Exploration in Houston, Texas.
It's easier to set down a spacecraft near the moon's equator, so that's where all six Apollo landings occurred. But now, NASA has more ambitious aims.
Just days ago, NASA announced 13 possible landing sites, each in the south pole region, where water ice has been confirmed deep inside craters that never see sunlight. A crewed lunar flyby, Artemis II, is anticipated for 2024. And the first crewed landing, Artemis III, could come as early as 2025.
The sites "are some of the best places to go for lunar geology and understanding lunar ice and sampling lunar ice," says Bethany Ehlmann, associate director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology.
Kring calls the lunar south pole region "absolutely extraordinary geologic terrain."
"If you really want to understand the origin of the evolution of the solar system, there is no better place ... to go [than] the moon," Kring says. Because the moon has never had an atmosphere or flowing water, it is not subject to weathering and erosion and has thus preserved evidence of its origin, he says.
As technology has steadily improved in the decades since Apollo, the level of detail on the moon's surface revealed by such probes as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter "is so extraordinary that we've already identified rocks on the lunar surface that we want the astronauts to collect," Kring says.
Having astronaut boots on the moon has other advantages, too, says Craig Hardgrove, an associate professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He considers himself "a huge fan of robotic exploration," but nonetheless acknowledges that rovers and landers are limited by the scientific instruments they carry with them. They also have a harder time capturing as much data on the detailed geologic context and landscape as an astronaut trained in geology can.
Humans, by contrast, "are able to collect a large number of samples much quicker than robots," says Hardgrove, who is principal investigator of the Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) mission, set to launch aboard the Artemis I rocket. The shoebox-size probe aims to pinpoint the location of polar ice deposits.
With astronauts selecting the best samples and bringing them home, laboratories and universities can examine them with a wider range of sophisticated tools, he says. "If we can bring them back to Earth, I think we have a much better shot at answering even more questions than we can if we're limited to rovers."
It's a stepping stone to Mars
Mars is at least 200 times farther from Earth than the moon, which means an enormous challenge in keeping astronauts safe from such things as radiation exposure, Hardgrove says.
"The launch windows to get to Mars are once every two years," he says. "So, we would be thinking about keeping our astronauts on the surface of Mars for a long period of time. I personally feel like we would be doing them a service and everyone a service if we test out all these technologies on the moon first."
Apollo was mostly about beating the Soviet Union to the moon. It succeeded, but there was no long-term plan to create a sustainable human presence there.
Artemis could change that, says Clive Neal, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and Earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame. He's especially keen to see a gradual shift toward a permanent human presence on the moon.
Given that SpaceX, a commercial venture, has been chosen to provide the vehicle that will land Artemis astronauts on the lunar surface, that prospect may not be as far off as once thought.
"We need to build an infrastructure that's going to say, 'OK, we're going to have human permanence on the moon and transition to commercial operations there in the future,'" Neal says. "And we can have a blueprint then at the moon of how to do these things sustainably that can be applied to more distant destinations."
It could spur new technologies
Dozens of new technologies created to go into space and to the moon have also brought substantial benefits to people on Earth — spawning everything from hand-held computers to insulin pumps and freeze-dried food.
Artemis could spark similar innovations.
A 2013 study commissioned by NASA estimates that commercial products emerging from the space agency's research return between $100 million and $1 billion annually to the U.S. economy. Many of those "spinoffs" had their origin in the Apollo program.
The Apollo Guidance Computer, for example, was a technological marvel of its day. It was an early demonstration of digital fly-by-wire technology that is used in modern passenger jets and military aircraft.
"We're still reaping the rewards of miniaturization of electronics that happened during Apollo," Neal says. "Think about mobile phones. This is a technology that maybe would not have happened without Apollo."
New flame-retardant fabrics first developed for spacesuits, to withstand very high temperatures and still remain lightweight, are found today in clothing to protect firefighters around the country.
A "super insulation" developed for NASA in the 1960s can now be "found hidden inside the walls and roofs of buildings, in cryogenic tanks and MRI machines, in winter gear, and in cases for electronic devices, among other applications," according to NASA.
It has the potential to inspire a generation of engineers and scientists
It's often said that the Apollo moonshot inspired thousands of new engineers and scientists. While numbers are impossible to quantify, according to a 2009 survey of 800 researchers, "the Moon landings deserve credit for motivating a large fraction of today's scientists ... who have published in Nature in the past three years."
With Artemis, "we're going to get nearly live video from the surface of the moon and people are going to start thinking about the moon as a real place," Hardgrove, of ASU, says.
"I think it can absolutely be inspirational, hopefully not just for people like me, but [also] people who may not be thinking about careers in space exploration or engineering," he says.
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NEW YORK — The MTV Video Music Awards are back Sunday with some of the biggest names in music vying for the network's fabled Moon Person statue.
Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow and Kendrick Lamar are tied for leading nominees with seven apiece. Harlow and Lil Nas X's collaboration "Industry Baby" propelled their nominations, landing them in competition for artist of the year along with Drake, Bad Bunny, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and Lizzo.
Closely behind are Harry Styles and Doja Cat, who received six nominations apiece, while Sheeran, Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Tayler Swift and The Weeknd each have five.
Harlow is pulling double duty, joining LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj as the show's emcees. The VMAs are being being held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and will air beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Minaj will perform hits from throughout her career and accept the show's video vanguard award, which MTV has said she's receiving for her artistry, barrier-breaking hip-hop and status as a global superstar. The honor is named after Michael Jackson.
Eminem, Snoop Dogg, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bad Bunny are also set to perform
Madonna, who is the most awarded artist in MTV history with 20 wins, becomes the only artist to receive a nomination in each of the VMAs five decades. She earned her 69th nomination for her 14th studio album "Madame X."
Lamar returns to the VMAs as a nominee for the first time since 2018, with nods for best hip-hop, direction, visual effects, editing, and a category known as video for good, while his songs "family ties" and "N95" are competing for best cinematography.
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2 high-rise towers in India demolished for violating laws
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Two high-rise apartment towers in India have been leveled to the ground in a controlled demolition after the country’s top court declared them illegal for violating building norms, officials said. They became India’s tallest structures to be razed to the ground. They became India’s tallest structures to be razed to the ground. More than 1,500 families vacated their apartments in the area more than seven hours before the nearly 328-foot-tall towers crumbled inward by the impact of the implosion. The 32-story and 29-story towers, which were being constructed by a private builder on the outskirts of New Delhi, were yet to be occupied. The demolition was completed within seconds but followed a 12-year court battle between residents in the area and the builder, Supertech Limited. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/28/2-high-rise-towers-in-india-demolished-for-violating-laws/ | 2022-08-28T12:18:56Z | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/28/2-high-rise-towers-in-india-demolished-for-violating-laws/ | true |
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28 — The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah have congratulated national men’s badminton doubles pair Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik for becoming the first Malaysians to win the World Badminton Championships.
“Their Majesties have both expressed a sense of joy and pride over the success which has also enhanced Malaysia’s name in world badminton,” read a post on the Istana Negara’s official Fworld bacebook page today.
Aaron and Wooi Yik ended Malaysia’s 45-year wait to win the World Championships as the world number six pair defeated Indonesian duo Mohammad Ahsan-Hendra 21-19, 21-14 in the final at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Japan today.
The post said Aaron and Wooi Yik’s excellent achievements proved that Malaysia was capable of producing world-class athletes.
“It also proves that with dedication, a high fighting spirit and earnest effort, Malaysians are able to compete and succeed at the world level,” read the post.
Al-Sultan Abdullah and Tunku Azizah also expressed hope that the achievement would motivate Aaron-Wooi Yik to train and work harder to face the upcoming tournaments and be a source of inspiration for all Malaysians.
“Their Majesties wish Aaron and Wooi Yik the best of luck and continued success,” added the post. — Bernama | https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/08/28/agong-raja-permaisuri-congratulate-new-world-badminton-champions-aaron-chia-soh-wooi-yik/25240 | 2022-08-28T12:21:41Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/08/28/agong-raja-permaisuri-congratulate-new-world-badminton-champions-aaron-chia-soh-wooi-yik/25240 | true |
LANSING, MI – Michigan Republicans confirmed their slate of nominees for the November election, including top-of-ticket candidates and those for lesser-known statewide positions.
Delegates from every county met Saturday at the Lansing Center to vote for lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, Michigan Supreme Court, state Board of Education and three university boards.
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All of the GOP candidates selected Saturday – except for lieutenant governor – had already been endorsed by different party delegates at an April convention in Grand Rapids.
Michigan Supreme Court
Brian Zahra and Paul Hudson are the Republicans vying for two seats on the state Supreme Court, consisting of seven justices.
Zahra is seeking his second term on the court after being appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder in 2011 to fill a vacancy. He was elected to a full, eight-year term in 2014 and is now up for re-election.
Hudson, an appellate lawyer who has been lead counsel in over 150 cases according to his website, is new.
Justice Richard Bernstein, elected to the court in 2014, and state Rep. Kyra Harris Bolden, D-Southfield, are the Democrats they will face.
State Board of Education
Republicans nominated Linda Lee Tarver and Tamara Carlone for eight-year terms on Michigan’s top education board, which oversees K-12 and higher education statewide.
Tarver, of Lansing, is a former Michigan Civil Rights Commissioner and election integrity liaison with the Michigan Department of State. Her website says she is a businesswoman and community activist for education.
Carlone is an education activist and a founding board member for the Michigan chapter of the conservative group U.S. Parents Involved in Education.
They will face Democrats Pamela Pugh and Mitchell Robinson.
University Governing Boards
Delegates picked Lena Epstein and Sevag Vartanian to run for the University of Michigan Board of Regents. In April, they beat former board member Andrea Fischer Newman and Lauren Hantz.
Epstein is a businessowner from Detroit and was supported in April by Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s former attorney. Vartanian runs an asset management firm.
The Democratic Party endorsed incumbents Kathy White and Mike Behm.
For two seats on the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, delegates selected Travis Menge, an orthopedic surgeon, and Mike Barlow, a former U.S. Navy officer.
They will face Democratic incumbents Renee Knake Jefferson and Dennis Denno.
And for two seats on the Wayne State University Board of Governors, Republicans are running Craig Wilsher and Christa Murphy. They will face Democrats Marilyn Kelly, an incumbent and a former state Supreme Court justice, and Danielle Atkinson, who is seeking her first term.
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They say your hair is the crown you don't take off!
The Hair Doctor Keara Howard is a talented hairdresser with over 20 years experience in the industry. Wexford woman Keara explains how hard water can impact hair health long term and causes hair and scalp problems. Keara's new product, a universal shower filter that will aid and protect your hair health is an innovative design. This filtering device has 20 stages of filtration that filters iron, chlorine, manganese, copper, bacteria and other heavy metals and is easy to attach to your shower at home!
Blonde hair can be more susceptible to the signs of hard water as there can be a yellowing tinge from the chemical reaction. By using a water filter like this one you won't need to be over processing your hair with toners as you will protect your colour and keep it fresher for longer.
Hair that has build up with be duller, more lank and won't have shine and body. Washing your hair in hard water consistently can cause breakage, thinning, dry scalp, tangles, dullness, brassiness or a green hue and frizziness. Hard water can create a film on your hair that will prevent replenishing or moisture from entering the hair so product build up happens. Dandruff and itchiness can be two of the more uncomfortable issues as a result of hard water damage.
Keara, thanks so much for speaking with RSVP Live! Tell us about yourself and how you came up with this innovative idea?
Water problems have always been an issue, but it's worsening and deteriorating more and more every day and playing havoc with clients hair and scalp. With continued use, hard water leads to weakened hair strands and follicles. This means the hair will be more susceptible to damage and breakage. Simple haircare like everyday brushing and hairstyling may cause damage to hair that is already affected by hard water. It can also negatively affect colour both light and dark.
What is your favourite part of your job?
I love chatting with my clients and helping them look and feel the best version of themselves. Haircare and highlights are my passion!
What advice do you have for women who are have hair issues as a result of hard water?
Of course you can purchase The Hair Doctor filter first and foremost, it will really be a game changer for minding your hair and scalp. You can do so here.
Secondly, for 4-6 weeks use colour wow dream filter, Sebastian Reset Anti-residue clarifying shampoo, System professional repair mask, LuxeOil Reconstructive Elixir. Six weeks on, opt for System professional LuxeOil shampoo and conditioning cream.
Why is hard water so common in Ireland?
Because Ireland is a typically wet climate we have a high level of rain fall. Rain water is naturally soft water that contains low level of minerals. The problem occurs when the rain water seeps into the ground and comes into contact with the soil and rock. It then absorbs minerals such as calcium, manganese, iron etc which is detrimental to the health of hair and scalp. The worst counties in Ireland affected by hard water are Meath, Laois, Dublin, Offaly, Waterford, Carlow and Wexford
How do you install the hair Doctor filter in your shower?
It takes about 2 minutes using the instructional leaflet included.
- Detach the shower head or hose
- Attach the filter to the shower
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There’s an instructional video on our website, Facebook and Instagram pages.
Do you have any advice for women who are looking to improve their hair and scalp health in general, in terms of supplements and products?
Arrange a consultation with a professional either in salon or online I’m alway available on info@hairdoc.ie I personally love working with Wella system professional for haircare and Nioxin for scalp and hair thinning.
What is your favourite hair colour and style for Autumn?
The trends this Autumn are chocolate, brunette and auburn shades with subtle free hand and face framing baby lights styled with a soft bouncy blowdry. Very seventies vibes.
Where can we find you on social media?
You can find us on www.hairdoc.ie, Facebook and Instagram.
The Hair Doctor filter costs €60 and the replacement filters are €25 every 3-6 months. It works on all shower types including rain, fixed and handheld showers.
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The 138-year-old Simmons-Wright Company store in Kewanee, Mississippi looks like a relic, almost a museum dedicated to country life.
Its two floors are filled with baskets of cotton, cast-iron skillets and farming plows. But hiding underneath it all is a remarkably nimble business, one that's survived that long by knowing how to adapt.
Country stores are a hallmark of rural life – the kind of places where you can buy fertilizer in one aisle, lotion in the next and crickets for bait in a third.
Many, like Simmons-Wright Company, have survived for more than 100 years by learning to adapt when confronted with every economic challenge that has come its way, from the Great Recession to the Great Depression.
Now, those stores are putting those survival skills to use to deal with the latest challenge: the highest inflation the country has seen in around 40 years.
Simmons-Wright Company owner Gary Pickett says he sees the impact when his suppliers charge him more and his wallet-squeezed customers spend less.
"Normally we'll have people come in here buying 100, 150 dollars' worth of stuff," he says while watching a regular searching through the home repair wall. "Now they're coming in here and maybe they buy about 20 dollars' worth of stuff."
A matter of survival
Surviving in the face of tough economic times is nothing new for Pickett or generations of his family. He inherited the business, just off the interstate, after it was passed down to him by his aunt.
In 2008, the Great Recession was cutting into his business. In order to save the store Pickett created a new niche for the business, selling pork skins and fried catfish in the store while delivering burgers to a truck line across the border in Alabama.
The 1884 Cafe has now become the majority of his business. That makes the old knick-knacks the store is best known more like rustic decorations than actual revenue generators.
That shift helped him keep the doors open and later avoid the fate of other country stores forced to close as dollar stores replaced Walmarts as the low-cost place to shop in rural communities.
"Dollar Generals are everywhere," Pickett says "I don't try to compete with them."
Grappling with high inflation
But Pickett says now even his restaurant is feeling the inflation squeeze, and he's rethinking how to run his over 100 year business to keep the doors open.
Before, Pickett wouldn't mind throwing some extra fries into the styrofoam containers he packs meals in.
But now, to keep up with prices, Pickett's team measures everything – even the hamburger patties get weighed before cooking.
Prices at the store and restaurant have gone up around 15%. Really, he should have taken them up another 15%, Pickett says, but he also knows he can't raise prices too much.
Lauderdale County, where the store is located, is similar to much of the rest of the state with roughly one out of five residents living below the poverty line.
"Well, the beef and the meat has almost doubled in price," he says. "And we've gone up just a little bit, but we haven't gone up the percentage we need to go up."
However, Pickett knows if inflation continues to stay high, he will be forced to raise prices even at his restaurant.
"I know we're going to have to go up. We just don't want to run everybody off it, regular customers," he says.
Yet another pivot?
Just like when he pivoted to his restaurant business, Pickett is considering whether he will need more drastic changes to ensure survival at a time when economists are now also warning about a potential recession.
One idea floated by Pickett's son is to turn the place into an event venue. His son predicts wedding and photo shoots held at the store's old cotton gin could bring in $10,000 per event.
The idea leans into a key part of Pickett's current business model – nostalgia. The old nutcrackers and antique soda bottles might not sell, but they draw in customers.
After all, changing focus yet again wouldn't be anything new for the Simmons-Wright Company.
At one point the whole second floor of the store was dedicated to shoes. In other years, the cotton gin and blacksmith shop were the moneymakers. It has even sold caskets.
It's how generations of his family have ensured the survival of the business.
"They were people that did what it took to survive," Pickett says.
Pickett hopes his son and daughter will have to be the ones to decide on that next pivot when he eventually leaves them the store. But as he confronts the current moment of punishing inflation, it may force him yet again to figure out how to ensure the Simmons-Wright Company survives.
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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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CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, three years before retiring from the U.S. Army, posed in a Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College.
The photo, which Reuters said Friday it obtained after a request under the Freedom of Information Act, shows Mastriano in the uniform in a 2013-14 portrait for the Department of Military Strategy, Plans and Operations, where he worked until he retired in 2017. Reuters said it was told that faculty at the time were given the option of dressing as a historical figure, and while a few did so, only Mastriano is shown wearing a Confederate uniform.
The Army War College said in a statement that a team in 2020 had reviewed all art, text and images displayed at the Carlisle barracks for alignment with Army values and the college’s educational philosophies, but it missed the faculty photo, which “has since been removed because it does not meet AWC values.”
Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator, has spread Donald Trump’s lies about widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential election and was a leading proponent in Pennsylvania of Trump’s drive to overturn the result. He was also in the crowd outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by Trump supporters after attending the “Stop the Steal” rally nearby.
Mastriano did not immediately respond to requests for comment but retweeted a comment by Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to his campaign, who said “Media MELT DOWN that Mastriano apparently once posed as a civil war historical figure for a photo. And? He has a Ph.D in HISTORY.
“The left wants to erase history. Doug Mastriano wants us to learn from it,” Ellis tweeted.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro accused Mastriano of wearing “the uniform of traitors who fought to defend slavery,” calling it “deeply offensive” and saying his opponent was “unfit to be governor.”
Mastriano served for three decades in the Army, retiring as a colonel after serving in Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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LONDON, Ontario (AP) — Calgary Flames forward Nazem Kadri brought the Stanley Cup to his hometown mosque on Saturday.
It was a day filled with pride and joy for the 31-year-old Kadri, who won the title with the Colorado Avalanche this past season.
“That’s the goal, to inspire and motivate the youth. This young generation is looking for role models so I do the best I can and I’m just happy I get to share it with everybody,” he said.
“I didn’t expect this kind of turnout. I’m very grateful for all the supporters.”
Kadri began his day with the Cup at London Muslim Mosque. He said the mosque is part of his background.
“It’s part of my roots, it’s part of who I am,” he said.
“For all these people, I know they’re on my side, (it) just shows they came over here for me — just very grateful for them.”
Hundreds of people, many in Kadri Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys and T-shirts, gathered shortly before noon at the mosque alongside Kadri’s family and loved ones. He was welcomed by a loud ovation.
Munir El-Kassem, the religious director at the Islamic Centre in London, and Faisal Joseph, a lawyer, activist and longtime member of the community, addressed the crowd, sharing stories of Kadri’s character and what he’s meant to the community, especially the Muslims of London.
Mayor Ed Holder also spoke to the crowd, declaring Kadri as “the greatest Londoner.”
After Kadri paused to autograph T-shirts, jerseys and pictures, the celebration moved to Victoria Park, on the Kiwanis Memorial Bandshell stage. A number of Lebanon flags — the country Kadri’s family is from — were held high, along with a couple of Canadian flags.
Holder presented Kadri with the key to the city.
“There’s a reason why I’m not just celebrating this with my family. I wanted to come out here and share with you guys,” Kadri told the crowd. “You’ve been supporters of mine from Day One and I can’t tell you enough how much that means to me.
“I’m hoping that this inspires and motivates kids to pursue your dreams because I never thought this was possible. I had some great support and people made me believe. If you believe, you can achieve. To see everybody come here and support me just inspires and motivates me even more, so we’re going to try to run this thing back (when) I’m going to Calgary.”
Kadri’s message of hope hit home with the Muslim youth in attendance.
“I think it’s really an amazing experience for the Muslim community and it’s really inspiring for us,” said 15-year-old Zayan Khan. “If he can win the Stanley Cup as a Muslim, he inspires more Muslim people to achieve their dreams.”
Kadri’s visit was a welcome celebration in a community that was rocked by tragedy last year. Four members of a Muslim family were run over by a truck and killed in what police described as motivated by anti-Muslim hate.
“It’s difficult. We’re still dealing with the scars and the sorrow that comes from the horrific attack that happened last year to our community,” said Hassan Mostafa, a family friend who sits on the board of directors of Kadri’s foundation.
“Does celebrating this erase all of that? Absolutely not. But it’s great to have something tremendous like this to celebrate. Our community needs something like this, and we’re so excited and so proud.”
Kadri has faced his share of racism and Islamophobia, especially in this past postseason.
After a collision with St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington in Game 3 in the second round that knocked Binnington out of the series with an injury, Kadri was the target of numerous threats and racist comments on social media.
Kadri’s father, Samir, said his son’s strength to push past the noise makes his accomplishment even greater.
“I could say that it’s sweet, but it’s not like revenge or anything like that to be honest with you, I don’t feel that that’s the way it is,” he said. “I feel that it’s definitely unbelievable to be able to experience that, especially when you’re going through the trials and tribulation of race.
“I felt it myself immigrating from Lebanon back in the ’60s and going through the school system here and dealing with that type of stuff. I know my son has dealt with it, but I feel that there is more of a link, you know, where people will realize, ‘Hey, you know, maybe they’re really not any different.’ This kind of helps in that case. We’re blessed for that.”
Kadri set career highs with 59 assists and 87 points in his third and final season with the Avalanche. He had seven goals and eight assists in 16 postseason games during Colorado’s title run.
Kadri signed a $49 million, seven-year contract with the Flames last week.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As a former ski resort executive, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu knows something about navigating slippery slopes. But recent controversy at a county-owned ski area has raised questions about his grip on the Republican Party heading into the November elections.
Sununu, who is seeking his fourth term, recently inserted himself into a power struggle over Gunstock Mountain Resort, siding with staff who quit en masse and forced a two-week shutdown last month. Pushing back against anti-government activists who want to privatize the ski area, Sununu also called for the ouster this fall of three Republican legislators with an oversight role of the resort.
“These individuals have made bad decisions, and until they are removed from their positions and replaced with good people who recognize the wonderful asset that Gunstock is, the county will continue to suffer,” he wrote in an open letter to area residents.
Sununu's intervention was seen by many as a rebuke of the Free State Project, a 20-year-old political experiment that promotes a mass migration of 20,000 libertarians to New Hampshire. Fewer than 6,500 have arrived so far, but they have made inroads everywhere from school boards to the legislature. What that means for Sununu, the Republican Party and the state overall is uncertain. But so-called Free Staters are clearly shaking things up.
“In my view the governor is barely holding on to his party in the lower chamber, and some of the crazy things they have tried to pull have damaged his reputation in the state,” said Linda Fowler, professor emirata of government at Dartmouth College.
In 2003, Fowler dismissed the project as a gimmick, saying it was unlikely that even 20,000 people could have a significant impact. But she also did not foresee Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016 or the coronavirus pandemic.
“Both, I think, have contributed to the fact that the Free Staters are now a negative influence on the state’s politics and that their behavior has become an election issue,” she said.
Conceived by a Yale graduate student in 2001, the Free State Project picked New Hampshire — with its low taxes, easy entry into politics and “Live Free or Die” motto — as its destination two years later. By 2016, 20,000 people had promised to pack their bags within five years. That hasn’t happened, and the group’s past president now says the pledge model has fallen by the wayside.
But it hasn’t taken huge numbers to get results.
About 45 Free Staters have been elected to the legislature since 2008; more than 20 serve now. While that is a small fraction of the 424-member legislature, it's enough to influence policy given the GOP’s slim majority in the House.
The group counts the House majority leader as one of its own, and members often team up with dozens of other lawmakers who make up the wider “freedom caucus,” securing victories on legislation related to school choice, vaccines and limiting the governor’s power during emergencies.
One Free State stronghold is Belknap County, which owns the Gunstock ski area. After months of tension, top managers abruptly resigned last month, then returned after two commissioners were ousted. Sununu’s letter targeted both the commission members and three of the Republican lawmakers who appointed them, saying they had lost the public’s trust.
The governor later described their handling of the ski area as “just the latest episode of their craziness,” noting that one of the three — Rep. Michael Sylvia — supports having New Hampshire secede from the United States. But Sununu said he doesn’t consider them representatives of either the Free State movement or the Republican Party.
“I don’t have any problem with Free Staters,” he said. “These are not Free Staters.”
Sununu also rejected the notion that the rise of the Free State movement poses a long-term problem for his political career or his party, saying voters will reject the most extreme candidates.
“Voters are very smart,” he said. “When they see that kind of extremism, they tend to move it along on both the Republican side and the Democrat side.”
Sununu’s involvement in the Gunstock dispute could signal a turning point, said political consultant Scott Spradling.
“There was, I think, a fine line between Republicans and Free Staters. Now there’s a battle line,” he said. “Gunstock could very well be a high watermark, putting warning lights around the Free State movement for New Hampshire voters who are now going to associate their identity with this controversy.”
Either side could make the other’s lives politically miserable, Spradling said. But Sununu has credibility and popularity on his side.
“Long term, I would put my money on the establishment right, on the Sununu side of the aisle, because his politics appeals to a far broader audience,” Spradling said.
Sununu, who surprised political watchers by seeking reelection instead of running for U.S. Senate, faces five largely unknown opponents in the Sept. 13 primary, and polls show him with a wide lead over the Democratic candidate, state Sen. Tom Sherman. Even Rep. Norm Silber, one of the lawmakers Sununu wants ousted, expects Sununu to be reelected and will vote for him again if he is the nominee. But he contends that it’s Sununu who has strayed from the GOP.
“Running as a Republican with a long family history of supporting the Republican Party, I thought for sure that he would be a real Republican,” Silber said. “And he has, in my view, pandered to non-Republicans in an effort to build a base of support.”
Silber said he is not a Free Stater, but he’s being called one by Democrats hoping to flip seats in November by painting all Republicans with a Free State brush. The ski area controversy has spurred the creation of a political action committee to back candidates from both parties to defeat the “extremist Free State agenda” in Belknap County.
“People on the left, or people who don’t like fiscally conservative Republicans, have a tendency to refer to people they don’t like as Free Staters,” he said.
Carla Gericke, past president of the Free State Project, agreed.
“When there’s something positive, people laud that, but on the flip side, we’ve also become the boogeyman whenever it’s convenient,” she said. “We’re at the stage where we are successful enough that we’re just being used as a pawn between the two parties. And we just do our own thing.”
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As a former ski resort executive, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu knows something about navigating slippery slopes. But recent controversy at a county-owned ski area has raised questions about his grip on the Republican Party heading into the November elections.
Sununu, who is seeking his fourth term, recently inserted himself into a power struggle over Gunstock Mountain Resort, siding with staff who quit en masse and forced a two-week shutdown last month. Pushing back against anti-government activists who want to privatize the ski area, Sununu also called for the ouster this fall of three Republican legislators with an oversight role of the resort.
“These individuals have made bad decisions, and until they are removed from their positions and replaced with good people who recognize the wonderful asset that Gunstock is, the county will continue to suffer,” he wrote in an open letter to area residents.
Sununu's intervention was seen by many as a rebuke of the Free State Project, a 20-year-old political experiment that promotes a mass migration of 20,000 libertarians to New Hampshire. Fewer than 6,500 have arrived so far, but they have made inroads everywhere from school boards to the legislature. What that means for Sununu, the Republican Party and the state overall is uncertain. But so-called Free Staters are clearly shaking things up.
“In my view the governor is barely holding on to his party in the lower chamber, and some of the crazy things they have tried to pull have damaged his reputation in the state,” said Linda Fowler, professor emirata of government at Dartmouth College.
In 2003, Fowler dismissed the project as a gimmick, saying it was unlikely that even 20,000 people could have a significant impact. But she also did not foresee Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016 or the coronavirus pandemic.
“Both, I think, have contributed to the fact that the Free Staters are now a negative influence on the state’s politics and that their behavior has become an election issue,” she said.
Conceived by a Yale graduate student in 2001, the Free State Project picked New Hampshire — with its low taxes, easy entry into politics and “Live Free or Die” motto — as its destination two years later. By 2016, 20,000 people had promised to pack their bags within five years. That hasn’t happened, and the group’s past president now says the pledge model has fallen by the wayside.
But it hasn’t taken huge numbers to get results.
About 45 Free Staters have been elected to the legislature since 2008; more than 20 serve now. While that is a small fraction of the 424-member legislature, it's enough to influence policy given the GOP’s slim majority in the House.
The group counts the House majority leader as one of its own, and members often team up with dozens of other lawmakers who make up the wider “freedom caucus,” securing victories on legislation related to school choice, vaccines and limiting the governor’s power during emergencies.
One Free State stronghold is Belknap County, which owns the Gunstock ski area. After months of tension, top managers abruptly resigned last month, then returned after two commissioners were ousted. Sununu's letter targeted both the commission members and three of the Republican lawmakers who appointed them, saying they had lost the public's trust.
The governor later described their handling of the ski area as “just the latest episode of their craziness,” noting that one of the three — Rep. Michael Sylvia — supports having New Hampshire secede from the United States. But Sununu said he doesn’t consider them representatives of either the Free State movement or the Republican Party.
“I don’t have any problem with Free Staters,” he said. “These are not Free Staters.”
Sununu also rejected the notion that the rise of the Free State movement poses a long-term problem for his political career or his party, saying voters will reject the most extreme candidates.
“Voters are very smart,” he said. “When they see that kind of extremism, they tend to move it along on both the Republican side and the Democrat side.”
Sununu’s involvement in the Gunstock dispute could signal a turning point, said political consultant Scott Spradling.
“There was, I think, a fine line between Republicans and Free Staters. Now there’s a battle line,” he said. “Gunstock could very well be a high watermark, putting warning lights around the Free State movement for New Hampshire voters who are now going to associate their identity with this controversy.”
Either side could make the other’s lives politically miserable, Spradling said. But Sununu has credibility and popularity on his side.
“Long term, I would put my money on the establishment right, on the Sununu side of the aisle, because his politics appeals to a far broader audience,” Spradling said.
Sununu, who surprised political watchers by seeking reelection instead of running for U.S. Senate, faces five largely unknown opponents in the Sept. 13 primary, and polls show him with a wide lead over the Democratic candidate, state Sen. Tom Sherman. Even Rep. Norm Silber, one of the lawmakers Sununu wants ousted, expects Sununu to be reelected and will vote for him again if he is the nominee. But he contends that it's Sununu who has strayed from the GOP.
“Running as a Republican with a long family history of supporting the Republican Party, I thought for sure that he would be a real Republican,” Silber said. “And he has, in my view, pandered to non-Republicans in an effort to build a base of support.”
Silber said he is not a Free Stater, but he’s being called one by Democrats hoping to flip seats in November by painting all Republicans with a Free State brush. The ski area controversy has spurred the creation of a political action committee to back candidates from both parties to defeat the “extremist Free State agenda” in Belknap County.
“People on the left, or people who don’t like fiscally conservative Republicans, have a tendency to refer to people they don’t like as Free Staters,” he said.
Carla Gericke, past president of the Free State Project, agreed.
“When there’s something positive, people laud that, but on the flip side, we’ve also become the boogeyman whenever it’s convenient,” she said. “We’re at the stage where we are successful enough that we’re just being used as a pawn between the two parties. And we just do our own thing.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to fill for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,”“Minions: Rise of Gru,”“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S.
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The Karnataka High Court has ruled that 'bhang' is not declared as a prohibited drug or drink under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, and granted bail to a man who was arrested in the city for possessing 29 kilograms of the concoction.
The Begur police had arrested Roshan Kumar Mishra, a native of Bihar, on June 1 and recovered branded 'bhang' along with 400 grams of ganja from him.
Roshan Mishra's bail petition was rejected by a lower court after which he approached the High Court, and was granted bail by Justice K Natarajan recently.
The High Court said, "There is no scientific evidence before this court to show that Bhang is prepared out of either charas or ganja or ganja leaves." Under the NDPS Act, ganja leaves and seeds are also excluded from the definition of ganja and "nowhere in the NDPS Act is bhang referred as a prohibited drink or prohibited drug," the HC said.
Roshan Mishra's advocate, S Manoj Kumar, argued that "bhang is a drink normally sold in the lassi shops in north India. It is not a prohibitory drug. The said drink is used during the Shivarathri festival and it is not a banned drink and does not fall under the NDPS Act." The government advocate, however, contended that bhang was prepared out of ganja leaves and therefore it comes under the definition of ganja.
The HC referred to two earlier judgements -- Madhukar versus State of Maharashtra and Arjun Singh vs State of Haryana. In both the cases, it was held that bhang was not ganja and did not come under the NDPS Act.
The HC, in its judgement, said that till the forensic science laboratory gives its report, it cannot confirm that bhang is prepared out of charas or ganja. Since Mishra was under custody since arrest, he was therefore eligible for bail.
Mishra also had 400 grams of ganja on him when arrested. Since it was a small quantity, he was eligible for bail. He was directed to execute a personal bond of Rs 2 lakh as bail condition.
"It is worth to mention that bhang is a traditional drink, most of the people used to drink in north India especially near the Shiva temples and it is also available in lassi shops like all other drinks. That apart, the said bhang was sold in the market with branded names," the HC noted in its judgement. | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/karnataka-high-court-on-narcotic-drugs-and-psychotropic-substances-act-bhang-not-prohibited-under-drugs-act-rules-karnataka-high-court-3293840 | 2022-08-28T13:01:53Z | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/karnataka-high-court-on-narcotic-drugs-and-psychotropic-substances-act-bhang-not-prohibited-under-drugs-act-rules-karnataka-high-court-3293840 | true |
LONDON (AP) — A car driven by Princess Diana in the 1980s sold for 650,000 pounds ($764,000) at auction Saturday, just days before the 25th anniversary of her death.
Silverstone Auctions said there was “fierce bidding” for the black Ford Escort RS Turbo before the sale closed. The U.K. buyer, whose name was not disclosed, paid a 12.5% buyer’s premium on top of the selling price, according to the classic car auction house.
Britain and Diana’s admirers worldwide are preparing to mark a quarter century since her death. She died in a high-speed car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997.
Diana drove the Escort from 1985 to 1988. She was photographed with it outside boutique shops in Chelsea and restaurants in Kensington. She preferred to drive her own car, with a member of her security team in the passenger seat.
The RS Turbo Series 1 was typically manufactured in white, but she got it in black to be more discreet. Ford also added features for her security, such as a second rear-view mirror for the protection officer.
The car has just under 25,000 miles on it.
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LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Denise Vaccaro bought her home on the Jersey Shore over 20 years ago, charmed by the little beach at the end of a sandy spit on Barnegat Bay where she could sit and read while listening to the waves and enjoying the cool breezes.
That home was destroyed 10 years ago in Superstorm Sandy, and the beach she loved is also gone, claimed by rising seas that are eroding the shoreline and pushing water to porches.
“It's so sad that this little community has lost its beach,” Vaccaro said. “People are losing their property. My home was totally destroyed. It's a way of life that's being lost.”
It's a story being played out on shorelines all around the world as once idyllic beach communities are washing away, and residents are struggling to adapt.
But a partial solution being tried around the world is also being done here: establishing oyster colonies to form natural barriers that blunt the force of waves and help stabilize eroding shorelines.
Such a project is underway near Vaccaro's rebuilt house, carried out by the American Littoral Society, which received a $1 million grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The group has been building steel wire cages, filling them with rocks and whelk shells and positioning them in rows along the shoreline of Barnegat Bay.
Tiny baby oysters, called spat, are attached to whelk shells and placed in the bay near the existing cages to further stabilize the shoreline.
The shoreline in Vaccaro's neighborhood has lost 150 feet (46 meters) of beach since 1995, according to the Littoral Society.
In much of it, there is no sand at all; waves pound against grassy mounds that are getting smaller all the time. A shuffleboard court that used to be part of a wide beach with plenty of sand between it and the bay is now halfway submerged in water.
“Some of the people along this shoreline have seen the bay swallow their back porches, more than one,” said Julie Schumacher, habitat restoration coordinator for the Littoral Society. “The water is right up against them.”
The rows of oysters appear to be doing their job as effective breakwaters. One recent day, a strong east wind rippled the bay with whitecaps out beyond the oysters. But between the oysters and the shoreline, the water was much calmer, and waves sloped gently onto the shoreline instead of pounding against it.
As an added benefit, the oysters help improve water quality in the bay: A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons (190 liters) of water a day.
Projects like this one are an important part of New Jersey's coastal resilience program — using plants and shellfish beds to create “living shorelines” that complement engineered structures like sea walls and bulkheads to protect homes and people.
A few miles south, a group called ReClam the Bay is building an oyster reef to protect the shoreline of Mordecai Island, an uninhabited patch of land that in turn protects the shoreline of Beach Haven, a popular resort town on Long Beach Island.
Volunteers fill mesh bags with 35 pounds (16 kilograms) of whelk shells, to which millions of baby oysters have been attached, then sail them out to the reef a few hundred yards offshore. They've placed 10,000 bags of oysters and whelk shells there since 2015.
“In the last 100 years, Mordecai Island has lost 35% of its size,” said Jack Duggan, a longtime volunteer with the group. "If we do nothing, in 40 years the island will be gone — just washed over. This island protects Beach Haven from taking the force of all that wave action."
ReClam The Bay has done a similar project establishing an oyster reef in front of a brick wall in Tuckerton, further north in the bay, and the Littoral Society has numerous other oyster projects underway. At the Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown, the NY/NJ Baykeeper organization is growing oysters along the heavily guarded pier and deploying them along the shoreline to protect the coast, which suffered serious erosion during Sandy.
Governments and volunteers in other places are doing the same thing.
In New York, city, state and federal agencies are building “living shorelines” along the southwestern tip of Long Island, using oysters, shells and native plants. A similar project in Delaware used 1,300 bags of shells to extend shoreline protection near Lewes CanalFront Park.
The Oyster Recovery Partnership in Maryland has placed billions of oysters on shells in Chesapeake Bay in a project set to run through 2025. In Florida, volunteers and researchers established oyster colonies along portions of the Peace River in Punta Gorda.
In California, the Wild Oyster Project is establishing reefs in San Francisco Bay for shoreline protection and water quality improvement purposes.
In Argyll, Scotland, a group called Seawilding began restoring an area in 2020 near a coastal inlet that had become degraded. They've restored more than 300,000 oysters there. Also in Scotland, a project aims to restore 30,000 oysters near Edinburgh.
Vaccaro realizes her New Jersey home may well depend on the success of a bunch of tiny oysters.
“If we don't do anything, we're not going to have any of these houses,” Vaccaro said. "In 20 years my house — which I rebuilt on pilings — could be gone again. This is why what we're doing here is so important to me. I saw what happened and I see what can happen again.”
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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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Concern about the potential for a radiation leak at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant persist as Ukrainian authorities said Russian forces had fired on areas nearby, while Russia claimed Ukrainian shelling struck a building where nuclear fuel is stored.
Authorities are distributing iodine tablets to residents who live near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in case of radiation exposure, which can cause health problems depending on the amount a person absorbs.
Much of the concern centres on the cooling systems for the plant’s nuclear reactors. The systems require power to run, and the plant was temporarily knocked offline on Thursday because of what officials said was fire damage to a transmission line.
A cooling system failure could cause a nuclear meltdown.
Russian forces occupied the nuclear plant complex early in the six-month-old war in Ukraine, and Ukrainian workers have kept it running.
The Ukrainian and Russian governments have repeatedly accused the other side of shelling the complex and nearby areas, raising fears of a possible catastrophe.
Periodic shelling has damaged the power station’s infrastructure, Ukraine’s nuclear power operator, Energoatom, said on Saturday.
“There are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances, and the fire hazard is high,” it said.
In the latest conflicting attack reports, the governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Reznichenko, said Grad missiles and artillery shells hit the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, each located about six miles away and across the Dnieper River from the plant.
But Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Ukrainian forces had fired on the plant from Marhanets.
Over the past day, 17 Ukrainian shells struck the plant, with four striking the roof of a building that stores nuclear fuel, he said.
It was not immediately possible to verify either account given restrictions on journalists’ movements and the ongoing fighting.
The UN’s atomic energy agency has tried to work out an agreement to send a team in to inspect and help secure the plant.
Officials said preparations for the visit were under way, but it remained unclear when it might take place.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it was essential for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) representatives to get to the plant as soon as possible and to help keep it “under permanent Ukrainian control”.
“The situation remains precarious and dangerous,” Mr Zelensky said in latest nightly address.
“Any repetition of (Thursday’s) events, ie, any disconnection of the station from the grid or any actions by Russia that could trigger the shut down of the reactors, will once again put the station one step away from disaster.”
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.
The dispute over the plant led Russia to block an agreement on the final document of the four-week-long review of the UN treaty that is considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament.
The draft document of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference criticised Russia’s takeover of the Zaporizhzhia plant.
The deputy head of Russia’s delegation said the conference became “a political hostage” to countries that were trying “to settle scores with Russia by raising issues that are not directly related to the treaty”.
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 centre.
The governor of the eastern Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on 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.
The British government said it is giving Ukraine underwater drones and training sailors to use them to clear mines from the ravaged country’s coastline.
Mines laid in the Black Sea during the war have hampered seaborne exports of Ukrainian grain to world markets, although an agreement reached in July has allowed shipments to resume along a single corridor.
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FRANKFORD, Del. (AP) — Ernest Marvel has a case full of medals in his Frankford home.
He was awarded his most recent addition, the French Legion of Honor, in July — almost 80 years after he helped liberate the country from the Germans in World War II.
Marvel, now 98, has rarely left the Bethany Beach area, save for the war.
“I’m a home boy,” he said.
He speaks fondly of his family. His garden is his pride and joy. He likes to dance and sing karaoke on the weekends at the local VFW and Eagles Club.
But Marvel also holds dark memories of a different time, when heroes had to fight through Europe to free thousands held in concentration camps under Adolf Hitler’s control.
He was one of those heroes.
In 1945, Marvel made his way through French and German villages, across the Rhine River and to the gates of Dachau.
Marvel’s war story
Pfc. Marvel entered the war late, just after the Battle of the Bulge, according to historian Eric Montgomery. A member of U.S. Army Company B, 179th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, 45th Infantry Division, the 20-year-old made his way to Europe aboard the Queen Elizabeth troopship.
One of Marvel’s first missions, according to Montgomery, was to crawl “across an enemy-held field (strewn) with mines and booby traps.”
“We had to climb from foxhole to foxhole to get to our headquarters to let them know where we were,” Marvel said. “Each foxhole had two Germans in it, but they were kids. They were maybe 15 or 16 years old and they were scared to death.”
His division crossed the Rhine River in storm boats as the Germans fired mortars at them.
“About three boats down from me there was a mortar shell landing and it blew it apart,” Marvel said. “We were about halfway across. It could’ve been us.”
At 20 years old, Frankford’s Ernest Marvel was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II.
From there, the soldiers moved into Germany, taking village after village, often house by house.
“I was a bazooka man for a good while, and I would knock out the wheels of a tank so they couldn’t move. I’d shoot a phosphorus grenade into the turret, and it’d get so hot, they’d have to come out. Some would come out fighting, some with their hands up,” Marvel said.
He bombed German soldiers shooting from perches in church steeples, as well.
“I could hear ‘em for ages, screaming as it blew ’em out,” Marvel said.
He became reflective as he spoke.
“It’s not a good feeling,” he said. “I’m doing better.”
Marvel said he has post-traumatic stress disorder. After the war, he’d wake his wife up in the night as he experienced flashbacks. Ultimately, he got help from a psychiatrist.
“He said my trouble was it was all bottled up in me; I wouldn’t let it out. He said, ‘You start letting it out and you’ll feel better.’ And I did. I started telling different people about different things and it started coming around, but it’s still never left my mind,” he said.
Liberating Dachau concentration camp
Part of the trauma he experienced was during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. Marvel’s memories are vivid of the horrific place where thousands of people were killed.
“There was about a half a mile of concrete road, and they had a big German barrack made out of brick on each side of the road. In between was a white-bark tree,” he said.
Marvel and his fellow soldiers moved through the buildings and killed or took prisoner the German soldiers inside.
Elsewhere on the grounds, he opened up a boxcar, only to find it and several others like it full of bodies.
“The smell was terrible. They had … big incinerators that they were burning them with and they couldn’t burn them as fast as they were dying,” he said.
That day, U.S. soldiers found more than 30 railroad cars filled with bodies brought to Dachau, all in an advanced state of decomposition, according to the U.S. National Holocaust Memorial Museum.
He was shocked by the condition of the prisoners still alive inside the camp, who were starving and wracked with diseases.
“You’ve seen ‘The Walking Dead’?” Marvel asked of the zombie apocalypse TV series. “They looked worse than that. They were dying of malnutrition. They were nothing but skin and bones, and their eyes sunk right into their heads.”
Soldiers “tossed candy bars and cigarettes over the barbed wire to the starving prisoners until ordered to stop,” according to the July 2022 National WWII Museum article, “The Last Days of the Dachau Concentration Camp,” but most of them stayed out of the main compound for “fear of disease.”
“Medical staff came, regulated the supply of food and water to those beset with malnutrition and created a typhus ward to respond to the epidemic of that dreaded disease in the camp,” the article states.
U.S. forces liberated 32,000 prisoners at Dachau, according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
A connection to the present
The only injury Marvel said he suffered during the war was from being hit by a piece of shrapnel on his arm. He still has a scar.
“Our general … he wanted us to take this village. He said they had been flying over and reconnaissance planes saw no activity,” he said. “We got out halfway into the field. It was breaking day, and they started shooting at us. ... And the shrapnel was flying everywhere.”
Marvel was one of eight of 28 men to survive the attack, he said.
One of the soldiers who did not survive was Orla Moninger, a man Marvel had become close friends with since arriving in Europe, he said. When they returned to retrieve the bodies the next day, Moninger’s hand was over his heart, holding photos of his family, Marvel said.
Marvel’s grandson, Donnie Carey, knew of Moninger from stories shared by his grandfather. He began wondering if the fallen soldier had any family still alive. The historian he’d been working with, Montgomery, found Moninger did indeed have a living son, and Carey gave him a call.
“He said he heard (his father) was getting off a train in Germany and was shot,” Carey said, recalling the conversation with Moninger’s son. “The hair just stood up on my arm because I knew I had some information he had never heard. … It was right before holidays and he was like, ‘I have a story I can tell now.’ It was a great moment.”
A grandson, a country music singer and the Legion of Honor
Carey said he became interested in learning more about his grandfather’s time in the war about six years ago. That was when his wife read “The Diary of Anne Frank,” the well-known writings of a young Jewish girl who spent two years hiding from Nazis with her family and ultimately died in a concentration camp.
“She said, ‘You know, your grandfather experienced a lot of this stuff at Dachau,’ and I just realized how honored I was to still have the opportunity to help him and learn from him,” Carey said. “He’s my hero.”
Carey and the rest of Marvel’s extended family surprised him last summer when they took him to see country music singer Jamey Johnson at the Freeman Arts Pavilion in Selbyville. Johnson gave Marvel a shout-out before singing “In Color,” a song about a veteran.
The family made their way to the front of the stage and Johnson said, “Thank you for your sacrifice, sir.” He then came down and gave Marvel a handshake, a hug and some guitar pics.
Video of the moment was posted online, and one of those who viewed it reached out to let Carey know Marvel qualified for the Legion of Honor, France’s highest decoration.
“I’m just trying to do everything I can to help him be recognized while he’s still here,” Carey said.
Marvel turned 98 in May.
This summer, he contracted pneumonia on top of COVID-19, but recovered in time for the Legion of Honor ceremony in Washington, D.C. It was held the day before Bastille Day, France’s most notable patriotic holiday, and Marvel and two other American World War II vets were presented the award by French Ambassador Phillipe Etienne.
The award was created in 1802 “to recognize outstanding services rendered to France by military and civilian personnel,” Etienne said.
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Libya´s capital remains tense day after more than 30 killed in violent clashes
Militias patrolled nearly deserted streets in Libya’s capital on Sunday, a day after clashes killed over 30 people and ended months of relative calm in Tripoli.
The fighting broke out early on Saturday and pitted militias loyal to the Tripoli-based government against other armed groups allied with a rival administration that has sought to be seated in the capital over recent months.
Residents fear the fighting, that capped a months-long political deadlock, could explode into a wider war and a return to the peaks of Libya’s long-running conflict.
At least 32 people were killed and 159 wounded in Saturday´s clashes (Yousef Murad/AP)
Libya has been plunged into chaos since a Nato-backed uprising toppled and killed long-time dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The oil-rich county has been split between rival administrations, each backed by rogue militias and foreign governments, for years.
The current stalemate grew out of the failure to hold elections in December and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah’s refusal to step down.
In response, the country’s east-based parliament appointed a rival prime minister, Fathy Bashagha, who has sought to install his government in Tripoli for months.
Saturday’s fighting was focused in the densely populated city centre and involved heavy artillery. Hundreds were trapped and hospitals, government and residential buildings were damaged.
Tripoli residents fear the fighting could explode into a wider war (Yousef Murad/AP)
The health ministry said at least 32 people were killed and 159 wounded in the clashes.
Among the dead was Mustafa Baraka, a comedian known for his social media videos mocking militias and corruption. He was shot reportedly while live-streaming on social media. It was not clear whether he was targeted.
One woman who was trapped along with many families in a residential apartment told The Associated Press: “We see death before our eyes and in the eyes of our children.
“The world should protect those innocent children like they did at the time of Gadhafi.”
Several businesses in the city were closed on Sunday (Yousef Murad/AP)
Militias allied with Tripoli-based Mr Dbeibah were seen roaming the streets in the capital early on Sunday. Their rivals were stationed at their positions in the outskirts of the city, according to local media.
Much of the city has suffered nightly power cuts. Several businesses were closed on Sunday and the state-run National Oil Corp ordered its employees to work remotely on Sunday.
Residents were still weary of potential violence and most stayed in their homes on Sunday. Many rushed to supermarkets when the clashes subsided late on Saturday to stock up on food and other necessities.
“It could be triggered in a flash. They (the militias) are uncontrolled,” one Tripoli school teacher said.
“Our demand is very simple: a normal life.”
Militia clashes are not uncommon in Tripoli (Yousef Murad/AP)
Mr Dbeibah’s government claimed the fighting began when a member of a rival militia fired at a patrol of another militia in Tripoli’s Zawiya Street.
It said the shots came amid a mobilisation of Bashagha-allied groups around the capital. The claim could not be independently verified.
Militia clashes are not uncommon in Tripoli. Last month, at least 13 people were killed in militia fighting. And in May, Mr Bashagha attempted to install his government in Tripoli, triggering clashes that ended with his withdrawal from the city. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11154231/Libya-s-capital-remains-tense-day-30-killed-violent-clashes.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-28T13:38:04Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11154231/Libya-s-capital-remains-tense-day-30-killed-violent-clashes.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Coming to a theater near you: $3 movie tickets for one day
NEW YORK (AP) — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,””Minions: Rise of Gru,“”Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S.
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“The 2022 VMAs” are airing on Sunday, Aug. 28 at 8 p.m., with a pre-show event starting at 6:30 p.m. The event will be hosted by LL Cool J, Nicki Minaj, and Jack Harlow, with performances and appearances from Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Lizzo.
Here’s the information you’ll need to watch a free live stream of “The 2022 VMAs” online without cable.
How to watch ‘The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards’ without cable
If you’re a cord-cutter or don’t have cable, you can watch a live stream of “The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards” on DIRECTV Stream (free trial), Fubo TV (free trial), or Philo (free trial). Each of these streaming services offer seven-day free trials.
When are ‘The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards’ on?
“The MTV Video Music Awards” will air on Sunday, Aug. 28 at 8 p.m. on MTV, with a pre-show event beginning at 6:30 p.m. The event will be followed by a repeat of the ceremony at 11 p.m.
What channel is MTV?
You can use the channel finder on your provider’s website to locate it: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV, Dish.
The event will also air on The CW, BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV 2, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Pop, TV Land, and VH1.
How to watch ‘The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards’ online on-demand
If you missed “The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards” or want to binge watch other MTV events and series online as they become available, check out DIRECTV Stream (free trial), Fubo TV (free trial), or Philo (free trial). Each of these streaming services offer seven-day free trials.
What are ‘The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards’?
According to the official MTV description of the event: The MTV VMAs 2022 celebrates the best music videos of the past year and features unforgettable performances, tributes and appearances from the biggest stars in music.
Here’s a look at “The VMAs,” courtesy of MTV’s official YouTube channel:
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EASTON, Pa. -- A festival in Easton has a message for kids: "Just be you."
The "Just Be You Children's Festival" is happening August 27 to 28 at the Riverside Park and Ampitheater.
The goal of the event is to raise awareness on wellness and promote creativity.
It includes interactive activities designed to be fun and educational.
The festival has wrapped up for Saturday, but it continues on Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/childrens-festival-in-easton-promotes-creativity-and-wellness/article_68dc6058-26ba-11ed-8d10-436edb871311.html | 2022-08-28T13:53:41Z | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/childrens-festival-in-easton-promotes-creativity-and-wellness/article_68dc6058-26ba-11ed-8d10-436edb871311.html | true |
Our relationships counsellor answers your problems: I'm worried my son's new wife is a gold-digger
- An anonymous parent has expressed concern about their son's new wife
- They say that he was devastated when his previous ten-year relationship ended
- Although his new wife seemed charming at first, they worry she is a gold-digger
Q Our son got married eight months ago after a whirlwind romance, but his marriage already seems to be in trouble. He was devastated when his previous ten-year relationship ended and I had feared he might be on the rebound.
Although his new wife seemed charming at first, I was concerned that she might turn out to be a gold-digger. Now, unfortunately, that seems to be the case.
Our son was made redundant from his well-paid job two months ago. He is 35 (she’s 33) and has had a lot of success.
An anonymous parent has expressed concern about their son's new wife. They say that he was devastated when his previous ten-year relationship ended
But he hates the City treadmill and wants to use his payoff for a career change. That would mean tightening their belts – fewer holidays, no new cars.
His wife is fuming, saying it’s not what she expected and that he must get a new job. She points out that they couldn’t afford to have children if he’s not earning as much (he’s really keen to be a dad).
I think he needs to end it, but our son keeps making excuses for her and says she’s in shock and will calm down. I think he’s only staying because his previous break-up was so painful and he doesn’t want to go through it again. How can I help him see sense?
A Unfortunately, it does sound as though your son went into this marriage a little hastily. As you rightly suggest, perhaps he was so keen to have a new relationship after the pain of his previous one that he saw only what he wanted to see in his new bride.
You could possibly give her the benefit of the doubt and believe that, underneath her rage, is the real fear that bringing up a child would indeed be difficult without a more reliable income. At 33, her body clock may well be screaming at her to have children.
However, that might be showing more kindness than she deserves. Because I agree that it does sound as if she was partly (at least) attracted by your son’s success and the lifestyle it would buy.
While practicalities do matter on one level – it might not be the ideal time to retrain – ultimately marriage is meant to be a partnership. If he hated his job so much, she shouldn’t be so keen for him to do a similar one.
Instead, she should be helping him to find a compromise. A little more understanding might not go amiss either, as redundancy can be a huge blow to self-esteem.
If this relationship is so rocky early on, it doesn’t bode well for the future. So talk to your son and ask him very gently and subtly if he really thinks he would be happy in the long-term and if breaking up now, however painful, might be better than doing it a few years down the line.
If she really is a gold-digger, then the chances are she will make the decision for him and leave before too long if she doesn’t like the changes to her lifestyle.
SHOULD I TELL MY COLLEAGUE HE'S A LIAR?
Q A new employee, a young man, recently joined the small company where I’ve worked for many years. He seems pleasant enough, perhaps a bit anxious, and has fitted in well.
However, recently he made a small administrative mistake and when our boss came round to check what had gone wrong, he didn’t own up that he was responsible but implied it was one of our other colleagues (who wasn’t in that day) – someone with whom I’m really friendly.
Luckily, it was nothing major and our boss is a reasonable woman so we just corrected it – and nothing more was said. However, I feel really bad for not speaking up for my friend – she has no idea that the new guy blamed her. Should I let her know what happened or say something to our new colleague? I hate confrontation.
A I know you feel bad for your friend, but telling her may make the situation worse. She could be upset, and it might sour relations between her and your new colleague, which would create an uncomfortable working environment for them – and you – in the future.
However, you do need to say something to him. Don’t think of it as confrontation but an opportunity for him to learn an important life lesson.
So explain kindly that you know he was probably anxious about making a mistake in his new job, you understand that and don’t intend to tell anyone. But make it clear that he can’t blame someone else.
Tell him that it’s OK to make mistakes every now and then – everyone does – but that people will respect him more if he owns up to them. Also let him know that you would have to say something if he does it again.
- If you have a problem, write to Caroline West-Meads at: YOU, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TS, or email c.west-meads@mailonsunday.co.uk. Caroline reads all your letters but regrets she cannot answer each one personally | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11146039/Our-relationships-counsellor-answers-problems-Im-worried-sons-new-wife-gold-digger.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-28T13:58:39Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11146039/Our-relationships-counsellor-answers-problems-Im-worried-sons-new-wife-gold-digger.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
NEW YORK — A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.
The rare Mantle card eclipsed the record just posted a few months ago — $9.3 million for the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the contentious "Hand of God" goal in soccer's 1986 World Cup.
It easily surpassed the $7.25 million for a century-old Honus Wagner baseball card recently sold in a private sale.
And just last month, the heavyweight boxing belt reclaimed by Muhammad Ali during 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle" sold for nearly $6.2 million.
All are part of a booming market for sports collectibles.
Prices have risen not just for the rarest items, but also for pieces that might have been collecting dust in garages and attics. Many of those items make it onto consumer auction sites like eBay, while others are put up for bidding by auction houses.
Because of its near-perfect condition and its legendary subject, the Mantle card was destined to be a top seller, said Chris Ivy, the director of sports auctions at Heritage Auctions, which ran the bidding.
Some saw collectibles as a hedge against inflation over the past couple years, he said, while others rekindled childhood passions.
Ivy said savvy investors saw inflation coming down the road — as it has. As a result, sports memorabilia became an alternative to traditional Wall Street investments or real estate — particularly among members of Generation X and older millennials.
"There's only so much Netflix and 'Tiger King' people could watch (during the pandemic). So, you know, they were getting back into hobbies, and clearly sports collecting was a part of that," said Ivy, who noted an uptick in calls among potential sellers.
Add to that interest from wealthy overseas collectors and you have a confluence of factors that made sports collectibles especially attractive, Ivy said.
"We've kind of started seeing some growth and some rise in the prices that led to some media coverage. And I think it all it all just kind of built upon itself," he said. "I would say the beginning of the pandemic really added gasoline to that fire."
Before the pandemic, the sports memorabilia market was estimated at more than $5.4 billion, according to a 2018 Forbes interview with David Yoken, the founder of Collectable.com.
By 2021, that market had grown to $26 billion, according to the research firm Market Decipher, which predicts the market will grow astronomically to $227 billion within a decade — partly fueled by the rise of so-called NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, which are digital collectibles with unique data-encrypted fingerprints.
Sports cards have been especially in demand, as people spent more time at home and an opportunity arose to rummage through potential treasure troves of childhood memories, including old comic books and small stacks of bubble gum cards featuring marquee sports stars.
That lure of making money on something that might be sitting in one's childhood basement has been irresistible, according to Stephen Fishler, founder of ComicConnect, who has watched the growing rise — and profitability — of collectibles being traded across auction houses.
"In a nutshell, the world of modern sports cards has been going bonkers," he said.
The Mantle baseball card dates from 1952 and is widely regarded as one of just a handful of the baseball legend in near-perfect condition.
The auction netted a handsome profit for Anthony Giordano, a New Jersey waste management entrepreneur who bought it for $50,000 at a New York City show in 1991.
The switch-hitting Mantle was a Triple Crown winner in 1956, a three-time American League MVP and a seven-time World Series champion. The Hall of Famer died in 1995.
"Some people might say it's just a baseball card. Who cares? It's just a Picasso. It's just a Rembrandt to other people. It's a thing of art for some people," said John Holden, a professor in sports management law at Oklahoma State and amateur sports card collector.
Like pieces of art that have no intrinsic value, he said, when it comes to sports cards, the worth is in the eye of the beholder — or the pocketbook of the potential bidder.
"The value," Holden said, "is whatever the market's willing to support."
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PHOENIX — The chance for monsoon storms drops off this week for the Valley but can't be ruled out for northern Arizona.
There's a slight chance for isolated storms just north and south of the Valley today that may still pack a punch, producing high winds, blowing dust, and heavy rain.
Up north, scattered storms will develop across the higher terrain and communities near wildfire burn scars are at risk of seeing flooding.
Valley temperatures will continue to hit the low 100s today and then we really crank up the heat next week.
Valley highs could hit 110 degrees by Tuesday, marking our first 110s in August this year just in time to wrap up the month. The record high for that day is 113 degrees.
Ozone High Pollution Watches have also been issued for Monday and Tuesday. Limit your time outside if you have asthma or COPD, or you may have difficulty breathing.
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2022 Rainfall totals:
Sky Harbor Official Rainfall: 1.99" (-2.67" from average)
Valley Average (Phoenix Rainfall Index): 3.59"
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Daily rainfall reports from all across the Valley can be found here.
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PHOENIX IS GETTING DRIER - LOWER RAINFALL AVERAGES NOW
Average Monsoon Rainfall in Phoenix (1981-2010): 2.71" of rain
NEW Average Monsoon Rainfall in Phoenix (1991-2020): 2.43" of rain
Average Yearly Rainfall in Phoenix (1981-2010): 8:03" of rain
NEW Average Yearly Rainfall in Phoenix (1991-2020): 7.22" of rain
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CAIRO (AP) — Militias patrolled nearly deserted streets in Libya’s capital Sunday, a day after clashes killed over 30 people and ended Tripoli’s monthslong stretch of relative calm.
The fighting broke out early Saturday and pitted militias loyal to the Tripoli-based government against other armed groups allied with a rival administration that has for months sought to be seated in the capital.
Residents fear the fighting that capped a monthslong political deadlock could explode into a wider war and a return to the peaks of Libya’s long-running conflict.
Libya has plunged into chaos since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The oil-rich county has for years been split between rival administrations, each backed by rogue militias and foreign governments.
The current stalemate grew out of the failure to hold elections in December and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah’s refusal to step down. In response, the country’s east-based parliament appointed a rival prime minister, Fathy Bashagha, who has for months sought to install his government in Tripoli.
Saturday’s fighting centered in the densely populated city center and involved heavy artillery. Hundreds were trapped and hospitals, government and residential buildings were damaged.
The Health Ministry said at least 32 people were killed and 159 wounded in the clashes.
Among the dead was Mustafa Baraka, a comedian known for his social media videos mocking militias and corruption. He was shot reportedly while live-streaming on social media. It was not clear whether he was targeted.
The Associated Press spoke to dozens of residents and witnesses. They recounted horrific scenes of people, including women and children, trapped in their homes, government buildings and hospitals. They also spoke of at least three motionless bodies that remained for hours in the street before an ambulance was able to reach the area. They asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal from the militias.
“We see death before our eyes and in the eyes of our children,” said a woman who was trapped along with many families in a residential apartment. “The world should protect those innocent children like they did at the time of Gadhafi.”
Militias allied with Tripoli-based Dbeibah were seen roaming the streets in the capital early Sunday. Their rivals were stationed at their positions in the outskirts of the city, according to local media.
Much of the city has suffered nightly power outages. Several businesses were closed Sunday and he state-run National Oil Corp. ordered its employees to work remotely Sunday.
Residents were still weary of potential violence and most stayed in their homes Sunday. Many rushed to supermarkets when the clashes subsided late Saturday to stock up on food and other necessities.
“It could be triggered in a flash. They (the militias) are uncontrolled,” said a Tripoli school teacher who only gave a partial name, Abu Salim. “Our demand is very simple: a normal life.”
Dbeibah’s government claimed the fighting began when a member of a rival militia fired at a patrol of another militia in Tripoli’s Zawiya Street. It said the shots came amid a mobilization of Bashagha-allied groups around the capital. The claim couldn’t be independently verified.
Militia clashes are not uncommon in Tripoli. Last month, at least 13 people were killed in militia fighting. In May, Bashagha attempted to install his government in Tripoli, triggering clashes that ended with his withdrawal from the city. | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-libya-capital-remains-tense-a-day-after-clashes-kill-over-30/ | 2022-08-28T14:06:34Z | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-libya-capital-remains-tense-a-day-after-clashes-kill-over-30/ | true |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A distinct chill is in the air early Sunday before we start to warm up this afternoon.
A departing trough will allow for temperatures to warm more on Sunday than our cool mid-70s from Saturday. Before that dip in the jet stream exits, we will still have a bit of an onshore flow and marine layer early. We can’t rule out some morning clouds for the first few hours of the day (fewer clouds late morning into mid-day). Expect temperatures to start in the upper-50s for Portland, with some in the lower- to mid-50s to the south. You may need a sweatshirt or even a jacket in the morning hours.
Swipe through the slide show below to see the forecast in your area.
Temperatures will hit around 80 degrees on Sunday afternoon. It’s plausible that we just end up with temperatures in the upper 70s if the clouds hang around longer. If you have a park date or just an afternoon stroll down Hawthorne Street, you will get some blue sky. Another day to get outdoors and enjoy some of the wonderful parks around the region.
This isn’t going to be a day where it’s cooler here and scorching east of the mountains. Temperatures have cooled for central and eastern Oregon as well. Expect your high temperature to be in the lower to mid 80s. Warmest temperatures coming out of The Dalles area. | https://www.koin.com/weather/sundays-forecast-cool-cloudy-start-turns-into-warm-sunny-day/ | 2022-08-28T14:08:25Z | https://www.koin.com/weather/sundays-forecast-cool-cloudy-start-turns-into-warm-sunny-day/ | false |
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Coming to a theater near you: $3 movie tickets for one day
Updated: 10:04 AM EDT Aug 28, 2022
For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched "National Cinema Day" to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office. The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format. Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to fill for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros. "After this summer's record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing," said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. "We're doing it by offering a 'thank you' to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven't made it back yet." After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like "Top Gun: Maverick,""Minions: Rise of Gru,""Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" and "Jurassic World Dominion" pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year. Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S. ___Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP
NEW YORK — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched "National Cinema Day" to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to fill for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros.
"After this summer's record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing," said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. "We're doing it by offering a 'thank you' to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven't made it back yet."
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like "Top Gun: Maverick,""Minions: Rise of Gru,""Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" and "Jurassic World Dominion" pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Calvin University is planning to welcome more than 1,000 incoming undergraduate and graduate students this fall, the largest incoming class the university has reported in the last four years.
This year’s incoming class is up from 983 students in 2021, and 805 students in 2020, university spokesperson Matt Kucinski told MLive/The Grand Rapids Press.
Calvin is also welcoming its most diverse incoming class yet, with 182 students who are Black and Indigenous people of color (BIPOC), representing 18% of the 2022 incoming class, an institutional high. That number includes Asian, Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaskan, and students with more than one ethnicity.
“Students and families from around the corner and across the globe are choosing Calvin because we offer both an academically excellent and distinctively Christian education,” said Lauren Jensen, vice president for enrollment strategy at Calvin, in a prepared statement.
“We are thrilled to welcome such a diverse group of students to our community this year, and we are anticipating an ever more vibrant learning community because of this rich diversity.”
Fall semester classes will begin on Monday, Aug. 29. Residential students began moving onto campus last week. The Opening Convocation was Friday, Aug. 26, at Van Noord Arena.
More than 17% of this year’s incoming class comes from outside of the United States, which is another record for the university, according to a news release. Calvin plans to welcome 173 students from 38 countries outside of the U.S.
The university also experienced growth in first-generation students, with more than a 20% increase year-over-year, the university announced.
Calvin has been working hard in recent years to improve retention rates for all students, including BIPOC and first-generation students, Kucinski said. The university has implemented a more coordinated care model through its Center for Student Success, which has led to higher retention rates among BIPOC students.
Calvin’s BIPOC student retention rate has improved to match the university’s overall retention rate, at 86%. The university’s retention rate for first-time students is also 86%.
Calvin has also diversified the way it educates students in recent years. In addition to serving traditional undergraduate and graduate students, the university today serves adult learners seeking certificates, transfer students, online learners, and students at the Handlon Campus through the Calvin Prison Initiative program.
“We are excited to reach new learning communities with Calvin’s mission,” said Kevin den Dulk, associate provost of Calvin University, in a prepared statement. “Over the past few years, we’ve surveyed the market for new learners and have introduced several new graduate-level and certificate programs that are both in-demand and come out of our mission.”
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Here’s what the first morning of second grade looked like for a Grand Rapids classroom | https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2022/08/calvin-university-welcomes-largest-incoming-class-in-last-four-years.html | 2022-08-28T14:11:48Z | https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2022/08/calvin-university-welcomes-largest-incoming-class-in-last-four-years.html | true |
Massive change to Covid rules could FINALLY see the hated isolation period slashed from seven days - as the unusual way footy tragic Anthony Albanese 'leaked the news' is revealed
- Anthony Albanese tells Souths Covid isolation period is set to be cut to five days
- This would let Souths star Damien Cook, who tested positive, play next game
- National Cabinet will have to approve reduction from seven days on Wednesday
- NSW is pushing hard for the change and eventually want isolation scrapped
Covid sufferers are set to see their enforced isolation period cut from seven days to five, according to an inside tip the prime minister gave his footy side.
Under the current seven-day isolation rule South Sydney hooker Damien Cook was set to miss Friday's NRL grudge match against the Sydney Roosters having tested positive to Covid on Saturday.
However, Rabbitohs fanatic Anthony Albanese revealed to the club the isolation period is likely to be reduced to five days when National Cabinet hold talks on Wednesday - making him free to take the field.
Anthony Albanese (pictured at a Rabbitohs match) told his NRL club South Sydney that the Covid isolation period is likely to be reduced from seven to five days this week
If the Covid isolation period is reduced to five days, it will allow Souths hooker Damien Cook, who tested positive to the virus on Saturday, to play against arch rivals the Roosters on Friday
Mr Albanese attended the South Sydney game against the North Queensland Cowboys at Accor Stadium on Saturday night where he informed the club of the likely change.
At this stage however nothing has been finalised.
The move to reduce the isolation period has been most vocally pushed by New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet - as the state struggles with workforce shortages that are putting a dent in the economy.
It is understood other state premiers are also in agreement and are likely to rubber stamp the move.
Elsewhere the UK and many European nations have scrapped mandatory isolation periods altogether.
The USA's Centre for Disease Control recommends a five day period of quarantine, but sufferers are no longer forced by law to stay home.
Mr Perrottet has also argued for the isolation period to be abolished but at this stage that appears unlikely with health officials strongly opposed to the proposal.
Most Australian states and territories relaxed isolation requirements from 14 to seven days at the end of last year (pictured, Sydneysiders in August, 2021)
At the moment, Australians can still be fined up to $11,000 for breaching seven-day isolation rules.
Most Australian states and territories relaxed isolation requirements from 14 to seven days at the end of last year as the first Omicron wave increasingly sidelined workers, constraining services, businesses and supply chains.
University of South Australia epidemiologist Adrian Esterman said it's too early to shorten mandatory isolation.
'Two-thirds of people are still infectious after five days,' he told AAP.
But Mr Perrottet said Australia's pandemic response must evolve along with the virus and that he doesn't not oppose scrapping pandemic leave payments for workers who are struck down by the virus.
'If the state government, federal government, mandate isolation and deprive people of their living, the (government) should compensate them, and I'm not resiling from that point,' he said.
Reducing the isolation period was raised at a national cabinet meeting last month but wasn't backed by medical experts as the BA.4/5 Omicron variant wave's was continuing to wreak havoc.
'The advice that is there from the Chief Medical Officer, Professor (Paul) Kelly, was that now is certainly not the time for that to be reconsidered,' Mr Albanese told Adelaide radio station FIVEaa on July 18.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews agreed, declaring mandatory isolation would be abolished at some stage but it wasn't the 'right thing to do' in the middle of winter.
In a statement to AAP, a Victorian government spokesman said: 'We will consider the advice from AHPPC (Australian Health Protection Principal Committee) on isolation periods and consider any changes they recommend.'
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has been a vocal proponent of reducting the Covid isolation period
Meanwhile, the inclusion of the fleet-footed Cook will bolster Souths' chances against their most bitter rivals at Allianz Stadium on Friday night in the last round of the regular season.
Although both teams are set to make the finals and can't much improve their respective positions on Friday the two clubs have the most storied, and perhaps most fierce, rivalry in the NRL.
The clubs which have territory butting up against each other in Sydney's inner south and east are foundation clubs of the league competition.
Having been bought up not far from South Sydney's spiritual home of Redfern Oval Mr Albanese has often spoken about his lifelong devotion to the team.
'I was raised with three great faiths - the Catholic Church, the Labor party and South Sydney Football Club,' is a favourite quote of the prime minister.
Souths versus Easts, now called Sydney City Roosters, is one of the longest and most bitterly contested rivalries in the NRL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11154155/Anthony-Albanese-tells-South-Sydney-Covid-isolation-set-cut-five-days-National-Cabinet.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-28T14:14:20Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11154155/Anthony-Albanese-tells-South-Sydney-Covid-isolation-set-cut-five-days-National-Cabinet.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Saturday:
3-9-6
(three, nine, six)
04-07-10-19-37
(four, seven, ten, nineteen, thirty-seven)
02-11-16-26-31-35
(two, eleven, sixteen, twenty-six, thirty-one, thirty-five)
08-18-29-32-37-38
(eight, eighteen, twenty-nine, thirty-two, thirty-seven, thirty-eight)
1-3-6
(one, three, six)
7-0-3
(seven, zero, three)
8-8-5-6
(eight, eight, five, six)
7-2-7-3
(seven, two, seven, three)
01-04-08-20-24
(one, four, eight, twenty, twenty-four)
8-4-5
(eight, four, five)
0-7-8
(zero, seven, eight)
6-0-9-1
(six, zero, nine, one)
1st:4 Big Ben-2nd:3 Hot Shot-3rd:7 Eureka, Race Time: 1:42.54
(1st: 4 Big Ben, 2nd: 3 Hot Shot, 3rd: 7 Eureka; Race Time: one: 42.54)
08-09-28-34-39
(eight, nine, twenty-eight, thirty-four, thirty-nine)
16-17-25-43-45, Mega Ball: 9
(sixteen, seventeen, twenty-five, forty-three, forty-five; Mega Ball: nine)
04-11-23-25-29
(four, eleven, twenty-three, twenty-five, twenty-nine)
07-18-30-36-37-38
(seven, eighteen, thirty, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight)
01-11-15-28-34-36
(one, eleven, fifteen, twenty-eight, thirty-four, thirty-six)
3-5-4
(three, five, four)
5-0-0
(five, zero, zero)
10-14-24-30-35
(ten, fourteen, twenty-four, thirty, thirty-five)
8-3-4, WB: 6
(eight, three, four; WB: six)
6-3-9, WB: 1
(six, three, nine; WB: one)
2-1-2-4, WB: 3
(two, one, two, four; WB: three)
9-1-4-2, WB: 9
(nine, one, four, two; WB: nine)
1-4-0
(one, four, zero)
3-5-1
(three, five, one)
5-4-4-1
(five, four, four, one)
4-8-1-1
(four, eight, one, one)
1-1
(one, one)
3-2
(three, two)
8-6-8
(eight, six, eight)
8-4-6
(eight, four, six)
6-7-8-3
(six, seven, eight, three)
7-0-3-2
(seven, zero, three, two)
7-6-1-8-3
(seven, six, one, eight, three)
8-9-8-8-2
(eight, nine, eight, eight, two)
01-18-29-38-43-44
(one, eighteen, twenty-nine, thirty-eight, forty-three, forty-four)
05-15-23-28-36
(five, fifteen, twenty-three, twenty-eight, thirty-six)
06-18-28-30-41-44
(six, eighteen, twenty-eight, thirty, forty-one, forty-four)
3-9, FB: 4
(three, nine; FB: four)
6-3, FB: 9
(six, three; FB: nine)
7-3-5, FB: 4
(seven, three, five; FB: four)
2-1-1, FB: 9
(two, one, one; FB: nine)
8-2-9-7, FB: 4
(eight, two, nine, seven; FB: four)
1-0-4-8, FB: 9
(one, zero, four, eight; FB: nine)
9-1-8-2-0, FB: 4
(nine, one, eight, two, zero; FB: four)
1-8-9-4-2, FB: 9
(one, eight, nine, four, two; FB: nine)
5-6-1
(five, six, one)
2-7-9
(two, seven, nine)
5-9-3
(five, nine, three)
7-1-2-5
(seven, one, two, five)
5-8-1-1
(five, eight, one, one)
4-0-1-1
(four, zero, one, one)
12-20-22-31-42
(twelve, twenty, twenty-two, thirty-one, forty-two)
9-4-8-3-7
(nine, four, eight, three, seven)
8-2-2-4-8
(eight, two, two, four, eight)
02-16-18-37-45
(two, sixteen, eighteen, thirty-seven, forty-five)
9-3-9
(nine, three, nine)
0-1-7
(zero, one, seven)
5-1-1-5
(five, one, one, five)
7-6-1-3
(seven, six, one, three)
08-09-14-20-32
(eight, nine, fourteen, twenty, thirty-two)
13-19-28-29-38-43, Extra Shot: 9
(thirteen, nineteen, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-eight, forty-three; Extra Shot: nine)
01-02-15-22-31
(one, two, fifteen, twenty-two, thirty-one)
06-14-17-28-44
(six, fourteen, seventeen, twenty-eight, forty-four)
08-16-23-28-39
(eight, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-eight, thirty-nine)
08-12-25-26-28-46
(eight, twelve, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-eight, forty-six)
04-10-29-32-38-39-41-44-55-58-62-64-65-66-69-71-74-77-78-80, BE: 71
(four, ten, twenty-nine, thirty-two, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty-one, forty-four, fifty-five, fifty-eight, sixty-two, sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-nine, seventy-one, seventy-four, seventy-seven, seventy-eight, eighty; BE: seventy-one)
7-3-2, SB: 3
(seven, three, two; SB: three)
7-2-6, SB: 5
(seven, two, six; SB: five)
1-7-2-8, SB: 3
(one, seven, two, eight; SB: three)
7-0-8-2, SB: 5
(seven, zero, eight, two; SB: five)
04-11-12-14-15-23-24-26-31-34-36-37-39-44-53-55-58-62-65-76, BE: 24
(four, eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-six, thirty-one, thirty-four, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-nine, forty-four, fifty-three, fifty-five, fifty-eight, sixty-two, sixty-five, seventy-six; BE: twenty-four)
07-14-16-27-36-44
(seven, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-seven, thirty-six, forty-four)
7-2-6
(seven, two, six)
7-3-2
(seven, three, two)
7-0-8-2
(seven, zero, eight, two)
1-7-2-8
(one, seven, two, eight)
7-4-4
(seven, four, four)
6-1-2
(six, one, two)
09-10-14-15-25, Cash Ball: 25
(nine, ten, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-five; Cash Ball: twenty-five)
08-20-21-23, Cash Ball: 7
(eight, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three; Cash Ball: seven)
2-9-2
(two, nine, two)
4-1-0
(four, one, zero)
7-6-5-6
(seven, six, five, six)
1-1-5-5
(one, one, five, five)
01-02-07-13-20
(one, two, seven, thirteen, twenty)
09-18-21-35-39-41
(nine, eighteen, twenty-one, thirty-five, thirty-nine, forty-one)
4-5-2
(four, five, two)
6-4-8-1
(six, four, eight, one)
4-9-1-8-9
(four, nine, one, eight, nine)
AC-QD-QH-6C-8C
(AC, QD, QH, 6C, 8C)
06-09-14-30-32, Bonus: 34
(six, nine, fourteen, thirty, thirty-two; Bonus: thirty-four)
3-5-7
(three, five, seven)
9-9-5
(nine, nine, five)
7-6-6-2
(seven, six, six, two)
0-8-4-5
(zero, eight, four, five)
0-7-9-4-4
(zero, seven, nine, four, four)
1-0-9-1-6
(one, zero, nine, one, six)
01-09-16-24-35
(one, nine, sixteen, twenty-four, thirty-five)
14-20-21-24-44-48, ST: 5
(fourteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-four, forty-four, forty-eight; ST: five)
2-7-4-4
(two, seven, four, four)
7-9-0-5
(seven, nine, zero, five)
07-11-12-26-27-42
(seven, eleven, twelve, twenty-six, twenty-seven, forty-two)
13-15-20-22-34
(thirteen, fifteen, twenty, twenty-two, thirty-four)
01-05-18-26-32-41
(one, five, eighteen, twenty-six, thirty-two, forty-one)
JC-AD-KH-6D-9H
(JC, AD, KH, 6D, 9H)
7-3-5
(seven, three, five)
7-1-5-1
(seven, one, five, one)
8-2-7
(eight, two, seven)
5-5-2-5
(five, five, two, five)
05-13-30-34-37
(five, thirteen, thirty, thirty-four, thirty-seven)
06-07-08-10-13-19-37-39-41-42-46-47-50-57-62-64-65-67-68-71-75-79
(six, seven, eight, ten, thirteen, nineteen, thirty-seven, thirty-nine, forty-one, forty-two, forty-six, forty-seven, fifty, fifty-seven, sixty-two, sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, seventy-one, seventy-five, seventy-nine)
03-06-11-14-30
(three, six, eleven, fourteen, thirty)
4-8-6
(four, eight, six)
03-05-18-21-32-36
(three, five, eighteen, twenty-one, thirty-two, thirty-six)
5-3-5
(five, three, five)
8-5-3
(eight, five, three)
8-5-2-1
(eight, five, two, one)
7-4-1-6
(seven, four, one, six)
01-23-25-29-37
(one, twenty-three, twenty-five, twenty-nine, thirty-seven)
04-08-20-24, Bonus: 9
(four, eight, twenty, twenty-four; Bonus: nine)
02-06-19-30-35
(two, six, nineteen, thirty, thirty-five)
Month: 4, Day: 14, Year: 54
(Month: four; Day: fourteen; Year: fifty-four)
2-0-8
(two, zero, eight)
03-14-15-35-38
(three, fourteen, fifteen, thirty-five, thirty-eight)
8-1-4, Fireball: 7
(eight, one, four; Fireball: seven)
4-6-5-4, Fireball: 7
(four, six, five, four; Fireball: seven)
02-26-28-29-36, Xtra: 4
(two, twenty-six, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-six; Xtra: four)
2-5-7, Fireball: 3
(two, five, seven; Fireball: three)
3-8-0-3, Fireball: 3
(three, eight, zero, three; Fireball: three)
3-7-3
(three, seven, three)
1-4-3
(one, four, three)
8-6-9-8
(eight, six, nine, eight)
9-8-0-6
(nine, eight, zero, six)
04-10-16-18-19
(four, ten, sixteen, eighteen, nineteen)
03-09-17-28-37
(three, nine, seventeen, twenty-eight, thirty-seven)
3-1-7
(three, one, seven)
5-5-8-8
(five, five, eight, eight)
0-0-1
(zero, zero, one)
9-9-7-6
(nine, nine, seven, six)
11-16-28-35-39
(eleven, sixteen, twenty-eight, thirty-five, thirty-nine)
08-09-11-19-21-27-29-31-32-35-37-42-45-46-47-53-60-63-76-79
(eight, nine, eleven, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-five, thirty-seven, forty-two, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, fifty-three, sixty, sixty-three, seventy-six, seventy-nine)
12-19-30-31-47-57, Bonus: 53
(twelve, nineteen, thirty, thirty-one, forty-seven, fifty-seven; Bonus: fifty-three)
06-17-22-36-42
(six, seventeen, twenty-two, thirty-six, forty-two)
5-5-5, Lucky Sum: 15
(five, five, five; Lucky Sum: fifteen)
2-7-7, Lucky Sum: 16
(two, seven, seven; Lucky Sum: sixteen)
2-0-9-0, Lucky Sum: 11
(two, zero, nine, zero; Lucky Sum: eleven)
0-8-2-0, Lucky Sum: 10
(zero, eight, two, zero; Lucky Sum: ten)
06-08-11-13-22-34, Kicker: 5-0-3-1-3-2
(six, eight, eleven, thirteen, twenty-two, thirty-four; Kicker: five, zero, three, one, three, two)
8-6-2
(eight, six, two)
3-0-9
(three, zero, nine)
2-4-2-5
(two, four, two, five)
8-4-3-4
(eight, four, three, four)
4-4-1-0-3
(four, four, one, zero, three)
3-3-7-2-0
(three, three, seven, two, zero)
04-12-18-33-36
(four, twelve, eighteen, thirty-three, thirty-six)
06-08-13-30-35
(six, eight, thirteen, thirty, thirty-five)
2-5-9
(two, five, nine)
02-08-10-16-17-22-25-31
(two, eight, ten, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-two, twenty-five, thirty-one)
01-08-14-25-27-35
(one, eight, fourteen, twenty-five, twenty-seven, thirty-five)
1-3-7-3
(one, three, seven, three)
3-3-7-2
(three, three, seven, two)
0-8-2-0
(zero, eight, two, zero)
5-7-9-4
(five, seven, nine, four)
14-15-35-69
(fourteen, fifteen, thirty-five, sixty-nine)
09-17-24-37-40
(nine, seventeen, twenty-four, thirty-seven, forty)
11-14-20-26-29-37
(eleven, fourteen, twenty, twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty-seven)
0-9, Wild: 1
(zero, nine; Wild: one)
6-5, Wild: 2
(six, five; Wild: two)
4-9-2, Wild: 1
(four, nine, two; Wild: one)
2-9-8, Wild: 2
(two, nine, eight; Wild: two)
5-1-8-1, Wild: 1
(five, one, eight, one; Wild: one)
0-4-2-4, Wild: 2
(zero, four, two, four; Wild: two)
5-5-1-9-9, Wild: 1
(five, five, one, nine, nine; Wild: one)
0-0-3-4-4, Wild: 2
(zero, zero, three, four, four; Wild: two)
05-10-14-17-18
(five, ten, fourteen, seventeen, eighteen)
5-1-5-8
(five, one, five, eight)
5-6-4-9
(five, six, four, nine)
01-02-19-23-26, Extra: 36
(one, two, nineteen, twenty-three, twenty-six; Extra: thirty-six)
06-12-25-31-35, Power-Up: 3
(six, twelve, twenty-five, thirty-one, thirty-five; Power, Up: three)
7-6-2, FB: 6
(seven, six, two; FB: six)
3-2-5, FB: 5
(three, two, five; FB: five)
1-3-8-6, FB: 6
(one, three, eight, six; FB: six)
9-0-5-0, FB: 5
(nine, zero, five, zero; FB: five)
03-15-17-20-34
(three, fifteen, seventeen, twenty, thirty-four)
0-6-8, Wild: 9
(zero, six, eight; Wild: nine)
1-8-9, Wild: 7
(one, eight, nine; Wild: seven)
2-2-3, Wild: 4
(two, two, three; Wild: four)
3-9-0-2, Wild: 2
(three, nine, zero, two; Wild: two)
3-5-7-6, Wild: 3
(three, five, seven, six; Wild: three)
4-4-0-6, Wild: 2
(four, four, zero, six; Wild: two)
01-02-03-05-07-09-11-15-17-18-22-24
(one, two, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-two, twenty-four)
03-04-06-08-09-11-12-13-16-18-19-24
(three, four, six, eight, nine, eleven, twelve, thirteen, sixteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-four)
01-03-06-07-15-16-17-19-21-22-23-24
(one, three, six, seven, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four)
03-04-08-09-10-11-13-14-15-18-21-23
(three, four, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-three)
03-10-12-14-26
(three, ten, twelve, fourteen, twenty-six)
4-0-3-7, FIREBALL: 9
(four, zero, three, seven; FIREBALL: nine)
3-7-4-8, FIREBALL: 3
(three, seven, four, eight; FIREBALL: three)
2-0-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(two, zero, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
7-1-2-4, FIREBALL: 8
(seven, one, two, four; FIREBALL: eight)
15-18-20-32-37-51
(fifteen, eighteen, twenty, thirty-two, thirty-seven, fifty-one)
7-2-0, FIREBALL: 1
(seven, two, zero; FIREBALL: one)
7-6-9, FIREBALL: 9
(seven, six, nine; FIREBALL: nine)
9-1-4, FIREBALL: 7
(nine, one, four; FIREBALL: seven)
8-7-8, FIREBALL: 4
(eight, seven, eight; FIREBALL: four)
07-08-10-17-32-39, Bonus: 21
(seven, eight, ten, seventeen, thirty-two, thirty-nine; Bonus: twenty-one)
06-08-20-28-33
(six, eight, twenty, twenty-eight, thirty-three)
0-0-0, FB: 9
(zero, zero, zero; FB: nine)
8-0-2, FB: 2
(eight, zero, two; FB: two)
6-7-9-6, FB: 5
(six, seven, nine, six; FB: five)
0-0-9-9, FB: 5
(zero, zero, nine, nine; FB: five)
2-6-4
(two, six, four)
03-13-25-26-35
(three, thirteen, twenty-five, twenty-six, thirty-five)
01-02-08-09-18-19-24-25-27-43-47-49-52-55-61-62-74-75-79-80
(one, two, eight, nine, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven, forty-three, forty-seven, forty-nine, fifty-two, fifty-five, sixty-one, sixty-two, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-nine, eighty)
02-09-17-21-22-31
(two, nine, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-one)
08-14-15-16
(eight, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen)
8-5-6
(eight, five, six)
1-6-6-7
(one, six, six, seven)
01-04-06-08-09-11-14-18-19-20-21
(one, four, six, eight, nine, eleven, fourteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one)
01-07-08-10-11-12-13-15-16-20-22
(one, seven, eight, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-two)
7-3-1
(seven, three, one)
3-7-7-6
(three, seven, seven, six)
03-18-20-22-33-37
(three, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, thirty-three, thirty-seven)
05-08-27-29-35-37, Doubler: N
(five, eight, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty-five, thirty-seven; Doubler: N)
02-06-23-25-26
(two, six, twenty-three, twenty-five, twenty-six)
5-6-0
(five, six, zero)
2-1-9-2
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Saudi-funded LIV Golf has joined the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour in an amended complaint in which four players have removed their names.
That leaves seven players, most notably Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau, along with LIV Golf as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The four who withdrew their names are Carlos Ortiz, Abraham Ancer, Pat Perez and Jason Kokrak.
The amended complaint was filed Friday afternoon in the U.S. District Court in Northern California. Three players still on the lawsuit — Matt Jones, Talor Gooch and Hudson Swafford — previously sought a temporary restraining order to played in the FedEx Cup playoffs.
The judge denied their request two weeks ago.
The lawsuit claims the PGA Tour has used monopoly power to try to squash competition and has unfairly suspended players.
Greg Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf, has said the league would fully support the players in any legal action they pursued. LIV Golf, backed by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund, now is directly involved.
In the amended complaint, LIV Golf argues that without a favorable ruling, its “ability to maintain a meaningful competitive presence in the markets will be destroyed.”
LIV Golf alleges the PGA Tour’s restraints forced it to raise its costs to sign players and kept it from recruiting others who fear the threat of being punished. It also claims the tour forced LIV Golf to delay its launch for 2022 and have a smaller schedule in its first year.
LIV Golf has offered several big names signing fees that are reported to be worth $150 million or more, in addition to the $25 million in prize money at each event. LIV Golf has staged three tournaments so far. The fourth is next weekend outside Boston.
The amended complaint says while LIV Golf has launched its tour despite “supracompetitive costs” and reduced access to players, “facing headwinds of this nature is not sustainable.”
The PGA Tour has leaned on its right that its members require a conflicting event release to play overseas, and no releases are granted for North American events. Five such LIV events are on the schedule this year.
The tour has suspended players who complete in LIV Golf without a release — none were granted — and most of those suspensions are through March 2024.
U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled in denying the temporary restraining order that LIV Golf did not show irreparable harm because of how much money the players were making to sign and from prize money, and that PGA Tour regulations to suspend players in this case was not unreasonable.
Freeman set a summary judgment hearing for July 23, 2023, and a tentative trial date for Jan. 8, 2024.
LIV Golf already has signed some two dozen PGA Tour players and is likely to add as many as six more after the PGA Tour ends its season Sunday in Atlanta at the Tour Championship.
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On Monday, there was one traveler who got a true bird's-eye view of the Charlotte Douglas Airport.
Clark, a 19-year-old bald eagle, was recorded going through TSA with his handlers for his return flight home to Missouri. The footage and photos caught the attention of Twitter.
Clark is a flying ambassador of World Bird Sanctuary in south St. Louis. The scales on his talons never developed properly, and he would eventually get pneumonia and die if he were to hunt in the wild, the nonprofit's executive director, Dawn Griffard, told NPR over the phone.
Griffard said Clark's job is to spread a message about conservation and raise money to support the sanctuary. He does this by attending events to fly to songs like The Star Spangled Banner or You Raise Me Up.
TSA officers are used to seeing an eagle on their uniform as they look over their shoulder, but I’m sure the team at @CLTAirport Checkpoint A did a double take when they saw a real one earlier this week. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/cxfbqyVok1
— TSA Southeast (@TSA_Southeast) August 25, 2022
Griffard said that Clark, who is named for William Clark – and yes, there is another eagle named Lewis at his sanctuary – is hired to fly between four to six times a year. Over the course of 12 years, this frequent flier has taken more than 100 commercial flights.
Eagles may not have shoes or belts to remove, but they have their own version of being patted down. A TSA search of a bald eagle involves investigating its crate and under the carpet inside it.
People at airports often want to touch or see Clark, and his stewards have to deny their requests to stick their fingers through the window in his crate. But usually they're respectful, Griffard said.
Much to World Bird Sanctuary's appreciation, Southwest Airlines lets Clark travel in the main cabin. Other airlines don't allow this, and Griffard has had to put him in cargo in the past – once, she said, an airline misplaced him this way.
Despite standing 30 inches high and weighing 7.5 pounds, Clark gets two seats and three seat-belt extenders. That's because of his crate, which gets strapped in at the plane's bulkhead. A member of World Bird Sanctuary's eagle team sits beside the crate to keep an eye on him and give him snacks — typically bits of rat, Griffard explained.
In each stage of travel, World Bird Sanctuary's team, the airport staff and often even the Southwest pilots are careful to keep Clark's trip as bump-free as possible. He hates turbulence.
When the group arrives at their destination, Clark gets his own hotel room. They move the furniture and throw a large tarp over the floor. He gets a perch in the middle of the room, from which he watches TV. Griffard said he prefers cartoons and nature shows.
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Classic style, timeless elegance and extreme functionality were Jennifer Ferson’s goals when she set out to create a dream kitchen for these homeowners.
Adding 10 more feet onto the existing home gave her plenty of space to work her magic, which also included a butler’s pantry, mudroom and laundry room.
There is no wasted space, said Ferson, owner of Ferson Kitchen and Bath Design in Cedar Falls. It took some time to track down sources and materials that the homeowner wanted, but the result is an impeccably designed and well-appointed kitchen.
“We didn’t rush. We took the time to research, to find the things that she wanted and to make the right choices. We planned out every detail in advance,” Ferson said.
The homeowner wanted the style of the kitchen “to fit the style of the existing house, to look like it belongs, and it does. It flows together really well. My style, well, I like elegance and some traditional, so I guess that makes it transitional,” the owner said.
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First on her list was a bigger island. “The kids are getting older, and we were getting crunched at the old island. I’d sometimes have to sit on the edge of the corner. I wanted more space so we could sit down and eat as a family.”
The kitchen’s foundation began with wire-brushed “Juliet” French oak engineered wood flooring from Aayres Flooring. “It’s a lived-in look without a lot of shine,” Ferson noted.
Then Ferson gave the owner the island she dreamed of, topped with a broad slab of “Calacatta Laza.” This quartz is milky white with veining that is distinct but not busy. Six comfortable bar stools with diamond-patterned neutral upholstery fit easily beneath the extended counter top. There’s also plenty of room to prep food and a sink for produce, and a built-in trash bin that opens with a simple knee press. The DuraSurpreme island base is a soft gray called “Mist.”
Throughout the kitchen, the glimmer of gold hardware dresses up the “Linen” DuraSupreme cabinetry. A pair of curvaceous gold pendants are a classic, almost French Provincial touch above the island. “I like the warmth of gold,” she said. Stacked stone is used for the backsplash on the range-and-hood wall, inspired by the home’s fireplace surround.
“Calacatta Laza” quartz is used on remaining kitchen counter tops. Ferson’s process includes mapping out exactly where everything in the kitchen would be stored, based on where and how it is used. There is useful storage for every day-use items, including a pull-out near the range that holds canisters filled with spatulas, in the “Linen” DuraSupreme cabinets.
“I like to keep clutter out of site,” the owner said. “I like being organized. When I’m at the stove, I don’t want to walk across the kitchen to get an item I need.”
One set of cabinets with mullioned glass doors displays heirloom gold-and-white china and milk glass inherited from her grandmother. A storage console in the mudroom echoes the design.
The main kitchen is always sparkling because the butler’s pantry functions as the coffee bar and breakfast-toast-and-peanut-butter station, as well as the baking center where her kids love to make cookies. “There is everything you need right here, so it keeps the kitchen clean, and it’s also a great staging area” for entertaining, the owner said.
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Saudi-funded LIV Golf has joined the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour in an amended complaint in which four players have removed their names.
That leaves seven players, most notably Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau, along with LIV Golf as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The four who withdrew their names are Carlos Ortiz, Abraham Ancer, Pat Perez and Jason Kokrak.
The amended complaint was filed Friday afternoon in the U.S. District Court in Northern California. Three players still on the lawsuit — Matt Jones, Talor Gooch and Hudson Swafford — previously sought a temporary restraining order to played in the FedEx Cup playoffs.
The judge denied their request two weeks ago.
The lawsuit claims the PGA Tour has used monopoly power to try to squash competition and has unfairly suspended players.
Greg Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf, has said the league would fully support the players in any legal action they pursued. LIV Golf, backed by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund, now is directly involved.
In the amended complaint, LIV Golf argues that without a favorable ruling, its “ability to maintain a meaningful competitive presence in the markets will be destroyed.”
LIV Golf alleges the PGA Tour’s restraints forced it to raise its costs to sign players and kept it from recruiting others who fear the threat of being punished. It also claims the tour forced LIV Golf to delay its launch for 2022 and have a smaller schedule in its first year.
LIV Golf has offered several big names signing fees that are reported to be worth $150 million or more, in addition to the $25 million in prize money at each event. LIV Golf has staged three tournaments so far. The fourth is next weekend outside Boston.
The amended complaint says while LIV Golf has launched its tour despite “supracompetitive costs” and reduced access to players, “facing headwinds of this nature is not sustainable.”
The PGA Tour has leaned on its right that its members require a conflicting event release to play overseas, and no releases are granted for North American events. Five such LIV events are on the schedule this year.
The tour has suspended players who complete in LIV Golf without a release — none were granted — and most of those suspensions are through March 2024.
U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled in denying the temporary restraining order that LIV Golf did not show irreparable harm because of how much money the players were making to sign and from prize money, and that PGA Tour regulations to suspend players in this case was not unreasonable.
Freeman set a summary judgment hearing for July 23, 2023, and a tentative trial date for Jan. 8, 2024.
LIV Golf already has signed some two dozen PGA Tour players and is likely to add as many as six more after the PGA Tour ends its season Sunday in Atlanta at the Tour Championship.
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CAIRO — Militias patrolled nearly deserted streets in Libya's capital Sunday, a day after clashes killed over 30 people and ended Tripoli's monthslong stretch of relative calm.
The fighting broke out early Saturday and pitted militias loyal to the Tripoli-based government against other armed groups allied with a rival administration that has for months sought to be seated in the capital.
Residents fear the fighting that capped a monthslong political deadlock could explode into a wider war and a return to the peaks of Libya's long-running conflict.
Libya has plunged into chaos since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The oil-rich county has for years been split between rival administrations, each backed by rogue militias and foreign governments.
The current stalemate grew out of the failure to hold elections in December and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah's refusal to step down. In response, the country's east-based parliament appointed a rival prime minister, Fathy Bashagha, who has for months sought to install his government in Tripoli.
Saturday's fighting centered in the densely populated city center and involved heavy artillery. Hundreds were trapped and hospitals, government and residential buildings were damaged.
The Health Ministry said at least 32 people were killed and 159 wounded in the clashes.
Among the dead was Mustafa Baraka, a comedian known for his social media videos mocking militias and corruption. He was shot reportedly while live-streaming on social media. It was not clear whether he was targeted.
The Associated Press spoke to dozens of residents and witnesses. They recounted horrific scenes of people, including women and children, trapped in their homes, government buildings and hospitals. They also spoke of at least three motionless bodies that remained for hours in the street before an ambulance was able to reach the area. They asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal from the militias.
"We see death before our eyes and in the eyes of our children," said a woman who was trapped along with many families in a residential apartment. "The world should protect those innocent children like they did at the time of Gadhafi."
Militias allied with Tripoli-based Dbeibah were seen roaming the streets in the capital early Sunday. Their rivals were stationed at their positions in the outskirts of the city, according to local media.
Much of the city has suffered nightly power outages. Several businesses were closed Sunday and he state-run National Oil Corp. ordered its employees to work remotely Sunday.
Residents were still weary of potential violence and most stayed in their homes Sunday. Many rushed to supermarkets when the clashes subsided late Saturday to stock up on food and other necessities.
"It could be triggered in a flash. They (the militias) are uncontrolled," said a Tripoli school teacher who only gave a partial name, Abu Salim. "Our demand is very simple: a normal life."
Dbeibah's government claimed the fighting began when a member of a rival militia fired at a patrol of another militia in Tripoli's Zawiya Street. It said the shots came amid a mobilization of Bashagha-allied groups around the capital. The claim couldn't be independently verified.
Militia clashes are not uncommon in Tripoli. Last month, at least 13 people were killed in militia fighting. In May, Bashagha attempted to install his government in Tripoli, triggering clashes that ended with his withdrawal from the city.
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This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve the world’s most pressing policy challenges. It has been edited for length and clarity.Amanda Little: Demand for farmed fish has been soaring in recent years as wild fish populations decline. This might be a good thing in a world where seafood is the dominant source of protein for nearly half of humanity, and a low-carbon alternative to beef. Yet the aquaculture industry – and, in particular, salmon farming – has come under scrutiny for problems including waste, fish escapes, disease, and chemical use.
In “Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish” you examine Atlantic salmon farming and the risks associated with eating the fish the industry produces. The two of you have enjoyed varied careers in journalism, government and the field of private investigations. You now live in a small coastal town in Nova Scotia. What are you having for lunch?
Douglas Frantz, co-author, “Salmon Wars”: Fresh vegetables from our garden, cheese and crackers, homemade kombucha, and wild blueberries from our front yard. We can also get fresh Atlantic salmon that was grown in land-based facilities here in Nova Scotia, which we believe is the future of farmed Atlantic salmon: they’re on land, they’re chemical free and they don’t damage the environment.
AL : Why publish this book now?
Catherine Collins, co-author, “Salmon Wars”: A couple of years ago, we heard from a neighbor here in Nova Scotia that one of the largest fish-farming companies in the world, Cermaq, was considering expanding into Nova Scotia with potentially 20 fish farms. It prompted a whole series of public meetings called “Hello, Nova Scotia,” in which they tried to get feedback from the community and support from the government for this investment in the province.
DF: Those meetings turned out to be “Goodbye, Nova Scotia.” In the areas where they planned these farms, the public rose up almost unanimously, because of their fears of the impact on the environment, on the lobster industry, and on tourism, because these farms are kind of ugly and make a lot of noise. There was this groundswell of public opposition here. And we used that as a vehicle to look at the larger global problem coming from open-net pen salmon farms all around the world.
AL: The growth of the salmon industry has been meteoric. Can describe the arc of that growth?
DF: Demand for farmed salmon has tripled in the last decade. When commercial salmon farming on the ocean began in Norway, in the 1970s, it was a series of small farms that grew at a reasonable pace. Small farms don’t produce the pathogens and parasites that the big ones do. But you know, over time, as with many businesses, the industry grew. The seminal moment for salmon farming came in 2006, when the richest man in Norway, John Fredriksen — who had become a billionaire by grabbing a monopoly on oil tankers in the Middle East — took that idea to salmon farming and started buying up small farms. At the same time, here in eastern Canada, there was an outfit in New Brunswick called Cooke Aquaculture that was doing the same thing. There are now only 10 big salmon farmers globally; four of the biggest ones are Norwegian, a couple others are in Chile. It’s become a $20 billion global industry.
Ninety percent of the farmed Atlantic salmon eaten in the US is imported. More than half of it comes from Chile — a place where they use a lot of chemicals, a lot of pesticides and a lot of antibiotics because of conditions in the water there.
AL: You walk through a lot of problems with salmon farming in this book: the waste, the fish escapes, the parasites, the pathogens, the chemical use, among others. Which of these concern you the most, and why?
DF: First and foremost are the health risks from eating farmed Atlantic salmon — particularly for women who are pregnant, for infants, for children, and for anyone who has a history of cancer in their families because of the way these toxins, particularly polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), remain in the salmon flesh, and are therefore transferred to our flesh. That’s our number one concern.
Number two is the impact on the environment. And that breaks down two ways: first, the impact on the few remaining wild salmon. These farms are petri dishes for pathogens and viruses and parasites, which inevitably spread through the nets to the wild salmon. Many of these farms are located on salmon migration routes. Salmon come down from freshwater rivers on the way to maturing in the open ocean and have to pass by these open pen salmon farms which are steaming out columns of pathogens and parasites. It’s particularly dangerous in that early stage of migration, when you have young salmon that are no more than four or five inches long. They get attacked by sea lice, which clamp their jaws on the fish and kill them.
CC: And then there’s the impact on marine life. We found a photograph of a salmon farm on the south shore of Nova Scotia that shows a yardstick buried in the seabed, 32 inches deep in muck — muck left by excess feed, by feces and the various chemicals and things that were used on the salmon. And these are grounds that are used by other fish, by lobsters, by lots of bottom feeding fish. It’s not a good thing.
AL: You also show how the operations themselves are creating sort of natural feedback loops that are really cutting into fisheries’ production. Can you describe this phenomenon of nature fighting back against the industry?
CC: Worldwide, the mortality rate for farmed Atlantic salmon is 15%, maybe 20%. This is a lot of fish. Compare that to chicken and cows, which see about 3-5% loss every year. But it doesn’t stop there. In Newfoundland, not far from here, one company in the summer of 2019 lost 2.6 million salmon in a couple of weeks. That’s an astonishing amount of fish. The photographs showed the salvage boats taking these dead creatures out of these massive pens and shooting rotting salmon flesh out of huge pipes. It coated the coastline for thousands of meters, the impact was terrible. Newfoundland that year lost more fish than it harvested. And in the years since then, it’s lost between 40-50% of its fish each year. That is the definition of an unsustainable business.
AL: So on top of the fact that it’s not good for the environment, losing that amount of product is a problem for the companies’ bottom line. My understanding is that the seafood giant Mowi, among others, have collaborated with environmental groups to try to address some of these problems. Do you see any hopeful signs of change and progress in the industry?
DF: I think that the industry’s changes have been primarily lip service. For example, some companies have reduced the amount of forage fish in salmon feed. Forage fish are collected by huge trawlers off the coast of West Africa. The local fisheries there are collapsing because of the demand for forage fish, which are then ground into fish meal and fish oil for aquaculture feed and for pet food. The salmon industry has reduced the amount of fish meal in its feed, but they’ve done it not to protect the forage fish, which they call trash fish, but because the demand has pushed the price of these forage fish up. So they’re responding to the economics of the situation and they’re trying to put this gloss on it. They’ve taken words like “sustainable,” “naturally raised,” “organic,” and applied them to a product that is in no way sustainable, and no way naturally raised. There’s nothing natural about the iconic salmon swimming around for more than two years in its own feces.
AL: So when you’re in Whole Foods and see the seal of approval from a marine organization that the fish you’re buying is sustainably farmed, is that a thing? Can we trust labels like “sustainably farmed salmon?”
DF: I don’t think you can. Our research shows that farmed salmon is inherently unsustainable, because salmon are carnivores and you have to feed them other fish to get the protein.
We were just in Costco yesterday. We looked at the labels on their salmon, as we often do, and they say, “Fresh Atlantic salmon farmed.” Now, that’s even more disclosure than you often get in a supermarket, because often you’ll just go in and see “fresh Atlantic salmon.” And if you ask the person behind the seafood counter, what does that mean? Where did this come from? Chances are they won’t know.
AL: You explore ways that the industry can be reined in through appropriate regulations. Can you walk me through some of them?
DF: Some have been more radical than others. In August of 2017, an entire salmon farm collapsed in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington state and more than 250,000 alien Atlantic salmon were released into the waters of the Pacific salmon. In the aftermath of that, Washington state passed a law banning all open-net pen Atlantic salmon farms from its waters, because they’re non-native fish. If you want to still have locally raised, farmed Atlantic salmon [in Washington], you’re going to have to do it on land.
Norway has also done something interesting: they’ve made salmon farm leases on the water far more expensive. You pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to lease public land on the water for an open-net pen salmon farm, encouraging them to move on to land where the government gives licenses for free.
Unfortunately, the profit margins are so high for the open-net pen salmon farmers that they haven’t taken advantage of this. They’re freeloaders. They’re using the public commons for their business. They’re paying very little money; they don’t have to treat their waste, they just let it flow into the ocean. Their overhead is very small, since they have only a handful of workers for every one of these sites. And so they can sustain mortality losses of 15-20% per year, or even sometimes 50% per year, because the margins are so high. The families that control the four largest salmon producers in Norway made $2.2 billion net profit in the first quarter of 2022. It’s a highly profitable industry right now.
AL: So walk me through the growth of on-land salmon production. I’m guessing it’s expensive, and so it’s been slow to displace the open-net pen farming. How does it work?
CC: Superior Fresh, in landlocked Wisconsin, has a really interesting facility where they raise their salmon in freshwater. Recirculating aquaculture systems pump the water through special filters in order to prevent disease and contamination and then treat the water with an ultraviolet light. So the fish are not swimming in excess feed, they’re not swimming in their own feces, and the systems recirculate about 99% of the water. But it’s very capital intensive. It takes financing, planning, permitting and construction. It’s not a plug and go system.
DF: The biggest on-land facility in the world, Atlantic Sapphire, is in Homestead, Florida, just outside Miami, and they tap into the Florida aquifer to get both their sea water and their freshwater. Then they recirculate it down to that aquifer, where it’s cleaned and shipped back out in the ocean. They want to produce up to 20% of the salmon eaten in the United States. You can buy their salmon in many places in the US now and it’s very good. We hope that eventually, with help from consumers and from governments, land-based farms will replace the open-net salmon pens in the ocean and force these companies to pull their operations out of the water. That’s a much better alternative for the environment, for the climate, for the health of the fish and the health of consumers.
AL: What’s the best-case scenario, in your mind, of the fish-farming industry in 30 years, in terms of its size and its practices and its volume of production?
DF: We hope that the volume of aquaculture increases, particularly vegetarian aquaculture. There are plenty of fish that just eat plants and grains, tilapia being one of them. So what we would hope to see in 30 years is open-net pen salmon farms out of the water and on land, or in closed-containment systems, if they can be developed. We don’t want people to stop getting this wonderful source of protein. But it has to be raised in a sustainable way that doesn’t damage the environment and protects our health.
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NEW YORK — A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.
The rare Mantle card eclipsed the record just posted a few months ago — $9.3 million for the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the contentious “Hand of God” goal in soccer’s 1986 World Cup.
It easily surpassed the $7.25 million for a century-old Honus Wagner baseball card recently sold in a private sale.
And just last month, the heavyweight boxing belt reclaimed by Muhammad Ali during 1974′s “Rumble in the Jungle” sold for nearly $6.2 million.
All are part of a booming market for sports collectibles.
Prices have risen not just for the rarest items, but also for pieces that might have been collecting dust in garages and attics. Many of those items make it onto consumer auction sites like eBay, while others are put up for bidding by auction houses.
Because of its near-perfect condition and its legendary subject, the Mantle card was destined to be a top seller, said Chris Ivy, the director of sports auctions at Heritage Auctions, which ran the bidding.
Some saw collectibles as a hedge against inflation over the past couple years, he said, while others rekindled childhood passions.
Ivy said savvy investors saw inflation coming down the road — as it has. As a result, sports memorabilia became an alternative to traditional Wall Street investments or real estate — particularly among members of Generation X and older millennials.
“There’s only so much Netflix and ‘Tiger King’ people could watch (during the pandemic). So, you know, they were getting back into hobbies, and clearly sports collecting was a part of that,” said Ivy, who noted an uptick in calls among potential sellers.
Add to that interest from wealthy overseas collectors and you have a confluence of factors that made sports collectibles especially attractive, Ivy said.
“We’ve kind of started seeing some growth and some rise in the prices that led to some media coverage. And I think it all it all just kind of built upon itself,” he said. “I would say the beginning of the pandemic really added gasoline to that fire.”
Before the pandemic, the sports memorabilia market was estimated at more than $5.4 billion, according to a 2018 Forbes interview with David Yoken, the founder of Collectable.com.
By 2021, that market had grown to $26 billion, according to the research firm Market Decipher, which predicts the market will grow astronomically to $227 billion within a decade — partly fueled by the rise of so-called NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, which are digital collectibles with unique data-encrypted fingerprints.
Sports cards have been especially in demand, as people spent more time at home and an opportunity arose to rummage through potential treasure troves of childhood memories, including old comic books and small stacks of bubble gum cards featuring marquee sports stars.
That lure of making money on something that might be sitting in one’s childhood basement has been irresistible, according to Stephen Fishler, founder of ComicConnect, who has watched the growing rise — and profitability — of collectibles being traded across auction houses.
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“In a nutshell, the world of modern sports cards has been going bonkers,” he said.
The Mantle baseball card dates from 1952 and is widely regarded as one of just a handful of the baseball legend in near-perfect condition.
The auction netted a handsome profit for Anthony Giordano, a New Jersey waste management entrepreneur who bought it for $50,000 at a New York City show in 1991.
The switch-hitting Mantle was a Triple Crown winner in 1956, a three-time American League MVP and a seven-time World Series champion. The Hall of Famer died in 1995.
“Some people might say it’s just a baseball card. Who cares? It’s just a Picasso. It’s just a Rembrandt to other people. It’s a thing of art for some people,” said John Holden, a professor in sports management law at Oklahoma State and amateur sports card collector.
Like pieces of art that have no intrinsic value, he said, when it comes to sports cards, the worth is in the eye of the beholder — or the pocketbook of the potential bidder.
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NEW YORK — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to fill for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros.
"After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Minions: Rise of Gru,” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" and “Jurassic World Dominion" pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year.
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What is a dumpling?
That’s the question I posed to dozens of chefs and other experts over the last year on my quest to understand one of the world’s most beloved, pervasive foods.
“Technically, a spring roll is a dumpling,” chef Shirley Chung says during a recent visit to her Ms. Chi restaurant in Culver City. Seated next to her at a table are food writer Andy Wang and culinary consultant and event producer Caryl Chinn. I sought counsel from these three because they are known for their dumpling expertise — after all, they refer to themselves as the Dumpling Mafia. “The definition is [it] has a wrapper and has a filling. ‘Dumpling’ is a big umbrella.”
Also on her list of dumplings: cabbage rolls, empanadas, even calzones, which she refers to as “giant dumplings.”
“So based on this, then, a chimichanga is a dumpling,” Wang adds.
“A taquito is a dumpling because it’s a Mexican spring roll,” Chung says.
I chime in to ask if Uncrustables, the crustless, sealed white bread pockets filled with peanut butter and jelly found in the frozen aisle at most grocery stores, are a dumpling. I’m half kidding.
“Yes, oh my God,” Chung says, “that’s totally a dumpling.”
And we all descend into the dumpling rabbit hole. Indeed, my notion of a dumpling expanded exponentially as I filmed Season 2 of “The Bucket List” video series, which premieres today with 11 episodes devoted to filled and wrapped, steamed, grilled, fried and boiled delicacies.
In our first episode of “The Bucket List: Dumplings,” we explore where to find the best soup dumplings in Los Angeles and Orange County. This is the Bucket List: Dumplings.
According to cookbook author Andrea Nguyen, there is no right answer about what makes a dumpling a dumpling.
“I think the problem is people always want a narrow answer, and when you think of the breadth of what a dumpling is you have to really be flexible,” she says during a recent call. “When you realize that every single cuisine has a dumpling ... food is a way to unite us, not divide us, so be generous with the answer.”
At first I thought the history of the dumpling might shed some light on a definition. Turns out, there is no single, widely agreed-upon origin for dumplings. Author Barbara Gallani traces their evolution in her 2015 book, “Dumplings: A Global History,” citing variations in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe dating back centuries. Gallani’s book recognizes dumplings that are filled and wrapped, unwrapped and unfilled, roughly cut, precisely folded and everything in between.
“The dumpling has developed independently in many different parts of the world through the use of common ingredients,” she writes. “Travel and commercial exchanges have contributed to the transfer of certain shapes and combinations of tastes from country to country and across continents.”
Depending on who you ask, tamales and humitas in Latin America, fermented corn kenkey in West Africa, cinnamon-sauced souskluitjies in South Africa, Turkey’s tatar boregi (also known as manti) and spatzle in Austria are all dumplings.
There are just as many terms used for dumplings around the world as there are variations. The etymology of many relates to their shape or filling.
“The English word dumpling, for example, has been traced back to the sixteenth or seventeenth century when the now-obsolete noun ‘dump,’ which probably meant ‘lump,’ was given a diminutive suffix,” writes Gallani.
In Cantonese, the word “wonton” can be translated to “swallowing clouds,” which can reference the shape of dumplings floating in soup. Jiaozi, Chinese crescent dumplings, derive their name from both their shape (“jiao” can mean “horn”) and backstory. It is widely believed that a Chinese medical practitioner named Zhang Zhongjing invented jiaozi during the Han Dynasty, looking for a way to help villagers suffering from frostbite, mainly around the ears, during the bitterly cold winters. He wrapped mutton and healing herbs in scraps of dough and served them in hot broth.
It’s easy to associate dumplings with Asian cuisine. In her 2009 book “Asian Dumplings,” Nguyen purposely included dishes that would challenge most people’s understanding of Asian dumplings. There are recipes in her book for spicy potato samosas; beef, sweet potato and raisin turnovers; Shanghai and Filipino spring rolls; sticky rice and chicken in lotus leaf; dried shrimp and scallion rice rolls; Nepalese vegetable and cheese dumplings; steamed filled buns and baked buns.
“The thing with Asian dumplings is people think that they just boil down to dim sum, and even in the world of dim sum, there are all kinds. They are not all potstickers and soup dumplings,” says Nguyen. “When I was considering what dumplings to include, I went to the crux of what a dumpling is, and they are inherently made with common ingredients you have on hand, and that’s why they comfort us so much.”
The correct way to eat a soup dumpling (according to columnist Jenn Harris). Is she wrong?
I grew up sampling a multitude of dumplings at grand Chinese shopping centers in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley, well-lighted, colorful mazes full of restaurants touting dense and wheaty boiled fish dumplings, steamer baskets full of thin-skinned xiao long bao, translucent-skinned har gao, wontons that looked like fish tails floating in chile oil, pan-fried potstickers and golden half-moons swollen with chopped greens and glass noodles.
When traveling, I visit the Chinatown of any major city in search of dumplings.
I started taking friends on dumpling crawls about a decade ago, eager to introduce any interested party to the wide swaths available in my beloved shopping malls. Although the crawls primarily took place in the San Gabriel Valley, I knew there was so much more to explore. (Next month, I’m hosting a version of my dumpling crawl on Sept. 24 at Night Market during the L.A. Times Food Bowl.)
In Los Angeles, we’re lucky enough to find dumplings from all over the world. There are king dumplings as big as softballs, buoyant and teeming with bits of chopped pork and kimchi, glass noodles and chives in Koreatown. Plates of gyoza connected by a thin, crispy layer of lacy starch are never hard to find. Glendale is home to trays of manti doused in a savory tomato sauce and thick yogurt.
Who makes the best dumplings in L.A.? Jenn Harris explores soup dumplings, gyoza, mandu and more from around the world.
“The Bucket List’s” second season is devoted to everyone’s definition of a dumpling. Over the course of the season, you’ll hear from dumpling makers from Armenia, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Italy and Eastern Europe. There isn’t just one definition, and no one is wrong — even when they call an Uncrustables sandwich a dumpling.
“Chinese families, we fold dumplings together for Chinese New Year; … Mexican families, they get together Christmas Eve to make tamales together,” Chung says. “It’s exactly the same culture. It’s all about love and family.”
Find “The Bucket List: Dumplings” video series at youtube.com/latimesfood. And get tickets for Jenn Harris’ dumpling event during the L.A. Times Food Bowl Night Market at lafoodbowl.com/night-market.
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Sessions judge sues HC against his transfer
He terms transfer illegal, says punitive action will lower morale of judicial officers
S. Krishnakumar, the former Kozhikode Principal District and Sessions judge, has sued the Kerala High Court against what he termed his illegal transfer from the post apparently over a controversial remark about the dressing of a sexual assault survivor in a judicial order.
The reference about the dressing of the survivor in a sexual assault case booked against writer Civic Chandran had stirred a controversy. The officer was subsequently transferred and posted as the presiding officer of the labour court in Kollam. However, he has not assumed the new post.
In his petition, Mr. Krishnakumar has listed the Kerala High Court, to be represented by the Registrar General, as a respondent in the case.
Terming his transfer as illegal, Mr. Krishnakumar contended that he was entitled to continue in the post till his retirement on May 31 next year.
A judicial officer can be transferred before completing the three-year term in a post only if it is necessary in the interest of administration or under special circumstances. A wrong order passed while discharging judicial duty cannot be a ground for transfer, he claims in the plea.
As the post of presiding officer of a labour court is a deputation post, the prior consent of the official needs to be obtained. However, no consent has been obtained and, hence, the transfer is illegal, says Mr. Krishnakumar in his petition, which may come up before the court this week.
The judge contends that no officer can be transferred by an administrative order for a judicial order passed as part of his official duty. The action taken on the administrative side against a judicial officer for a decision taken on the judicial side will impede the freedom of the judiciary and demoralise officers. The fear of punitive action for a decision taken while discharging the official responsibilities will deter officials from taking free and fair decisions in cases that come up before them, he claims.
The State government and the survivor in the case had moved the High Court against the order and for cancelling the anticipatory bail.
In his petition, the judge says he had an unblemished service of 27 years and the transfer that came at the fag end of his carrier “will tell upon his dedication and sacrifice made by him while discharging duty as a judicial officer”.
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T.N. Cabinet to discuss report on Jayalalithaa’s death
The Arumughaswamy Commission submitted the report to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday
The Tamil Nadu Cabinet will meet on Monday to discuss the report submitted by the Justice A. Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances that led to the death of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in December 2016.
Mr. Arumughaswamy, a retired judge of the Madras High Court, was appointed as the one-man commission in September 2017. He submitted his report to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at the Secretariat on Saturday in the presence of Law Minister S. Regupathy and Chief Secretary V. Irai Anbu.
In a press release issued on Saturday, the government said Mr. Stalin had ordered that the report be placed before the Cabinet at its meeting scheduled for Monday for appropriate action.
After Jayalalithaa died on December 5, 2016, following a long period of hospitalisation, the AIADMK government, led by Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, constituted the commission.
A notification from the Public Department in September 2017 said the government was of the opinion that it was "necessary" to appoint a commission, headed by a retired judge of Madras High Court, for making an independent inquiry into the death of the former Chief Minister.
A few days later, the Public Department issued another notification, setting forth the terms of reference for the commission, according to which it was to “inquire into the circumstances and situation leading to the hospitalisation of the late CM on September 22, 2016, and subsequent treatment provided till her unfortunate demise on December 5, 2016”.
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Asia Cup: India wins toss, elects to field against Pakistan
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - India won the toss and elected to field against archrival Pakistan in the Asia Cup on Sunday as Virat Kohli returned for his landmark 100th T20 international.
The focus will be on how well Kohli bats after taking a rest of more than six weeks from international cricket. Kohli is only the second player after Ross Taylor of New Zealand to have played 100 matches in all three formats.
However, the iconic Indian batter hasn´t scored a century for more than 1000 days and was rested for India´s last two tours of the West Indies and Zimbabwe.
India preferred the power-hitting of Dinesh Karthik over Rishabh Pant to accommodate Kohli upfront. Karthik had played some impressive knocks in the latter half of the innings in India´s recent T20s.
India also included fast bowlers Avesh Khan and Arshdeep Singh to supplement experienced seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar as paceman Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel were both ruled out of the Asia Cup due to injuries.
Pakistan has happy memories at the Dubai International Stadium where it routed India by 10 wickets in last year´s T20 World Cup.
But Pakistan is also without its key paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi, who is nursing a knee injury and has been advised to rest for 4-6 weeks.
In the absence of Afridi, Pakistan gave a debut to fast bowler Naseem Shah and also preferred Shahnawaz Dahani over fast bowler Mohammad Hasnain in the starting XI.
Pakistan and India are both in Group A, which also features Hong Kong. The top two teams from both groups qualify for the Super 4 stage.
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Pakistan: Babar Azam (captain), Mohammad Rizwan, Fakhar Zaman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Shahnawaz Dahani
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh
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Mettur dam inflow increases to 1.20 lakh cusecs
The same quantum discharged into the Cauvery
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The flow into the Stanley Reservoir at Mettur increased to 1.20 lakh cusecs on Sunday. As the same amount was discharged into the Cauvery, the floodwater entered the homes near the river at Komarapalayam in Namakkal district and Bhavani in Erode district.
The dam had water to its full capacity of 120 feet for the 44th consecutive day. The storage was 93.47 tmc. At 8 a.m., the inflow increased to 1.10 lakh cusecs from Saturday’s 95,000 cusecs. And, at 11 a.m., it went up to 1.20 lakh cusecs. The quantum held at 4 p.m.
As many as 97,000 cusecs was let out through the 16-vent surplus sluices and 23,000 cusecs through the dam and power house tunnel. For canal irrigation, 400 cusecs was discharged through the East-West Bank Canal.
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On Sunday, Namakkal Collector Shreya P. Singh visited Manimegalai Street, Kalaimagal Street, Indira Nagar and Anna Nagar in the Komarapalayam municipality. The district administration shifted 77 persons from these areas to a marriage hall. The Collector interacted with them at the camp about the food and facilities provided to them.
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Andhra Pradesh: withdraw restrictions on establishment of Ganesh pandals, BJP urges State govt.
‘Vinayaka Chavithi is being celebrated in public places from 1893’
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Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) Vizianagaram city president Kusumanchi Subba Rao on Sunday asked the State government to withdraw stringent rules and regulations imposed on the establishment of Ganesh pandals for Vinayaka Chavithi festival to be celebrated on August 31.
Along with party leaders Imandi Sudheer, Baggam Rajesh and Pilla Naveen Kumar, he staged a protest at the Clock Tower.
Speaking to the media on the occasion, he said that Vinayaka Chavithi was being celebrated in public places from 1893 itself with the suggestion from freedom fighter Bala Gangadhar Tilak who wanted to involve public in religious and cultural activities which would pave the way for strong unity among people.
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“Too many restrictions such as permissions from revenue, electricity and police were aimed at discouraging organisers to set up Ganesh pandals in public places. It is highly deplorable. The government should relax norms since the Article 25 of Indian Constitution provided an opportunity for all people to preach and propagate their religion,” said Mr. Subba Rao.
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J&J continues to sell talc-based baby powder in India, despite discontinuing in U.S. and Canada
Company says India is part of global transition to cornstarch-based powder
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India is a part of the pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) “worldwide portfolio assessment and commercial decision to transition to an all cornstarch-based baby powder portfolio.’’
In its statement the Company said that as a result of this transition, talc-based Johnson’s baby powder will be discontinued globally in 2023.
The announcement earlier this month comes two years after J&J discontinued the product in the U.S. and Canada.
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Child rights groups, parents and doctors have been questioning the continued availability of the product here in India. Indian drug regulators have been silent on this issue; allowing wide availability and sale of this product in the country.
The Company has said that “In India there is no plan to withdraw this talc and that there will be no recall. The product is safe and will be available till manufacturing stops.’’
“Product caused ovarian cancer”
The Company’s decision to stop production comes following multiple lawsuits from women who claim that the product caused them to have ovarian cancer, due to the alleged contamination of asbestos, a known carcinogen.
The Company has maintained that their older (which is not corn-starch-based) product is safe.
“Our position on the safety of our cosmetic talc remains unchanged. We stand firmly behind the decades of independent scientific analysis by medical experts around the world that confirms that talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder is safe, does not contain asbestos, and does not cause cancer,” the Company said in its statement.
“In India, the Company is late in implementing the strategy which has been adapted in the western part of the world. If a product is being discontinued for manufacturing, why should it be sold and why not recall it?”questioned Dr. Suresh Kumar Panuganti, lead consultant-Pediatric Critical Care, Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad.
“Inhaling talc leads to respiratory illnesses”
For decades now doctors have advised parents not to use talcum powder on babies, even if it does not contain asbestos, cautioning that inhaling the talc can lead to respiratory illnesses.
Dr. Syed Mustafa Hasan, director and senior consultant, Paediatrics and Neonatology, Aakash Healthcare said that we already know the harmful effects of asbestos, which has been found in their talc-based baby powder, on respiratory health. Asbestos is primarily a building material commonly used in India during the 1980s, often in fireproofing and insulation.
“When talc is contaminated with asbestos, it is more likely to contain highly carcinogenic tremolite or anthophyllite. They are considered more carcinogenic than chrysotile, the most-used type of asbestos. Prolonged breathing of asbestos increases the risk of multiple cancers, including lung and colon cancer. Infants and children below the age group of 5 are five times more likely to get affected than a 30-year-old adult to develop mesothelioma, a type of cancer linked to asbestos if they are exposed to it at the same time. This is because a child’s organs are more tender than an adult’s. Talcum powders are harmful for both the mother and baby,’’ he explained.
In India the National Commission of Protection for Child Rights (NCPCR) had raised questions with the drug regulator over the lack of uniformity in the testing methods for detecting the presence of formaldehyde and asbestos (both identified as substances that promote the formation of cancer in humans) in J&J’s baby shampoo and talcum powder. A final decision on the matter is pending, noted a senior Health Ministry official.
The Company has explained its transition to cornstarch-based baby powder stating that they continuously evaluate and optimize their portfolio to best position the business for long-term growth.
“Already sold in other countries”
“This transition will help simplify our product offerings, deliver sustainable innovation, and meet the needs of our consumers, customers and evolving global trends,’’ it maintained while admitting that the cornstarch-based Johnson’s Baby Powder was already sold in countries around the world.
Dr. Sumit Chakravarty, senior consultant Neonatologist, Asian Hospital explained that asbestos—a potential carcinogen—is certainly the culprit in one of the brands, but the others need to check their level as well. He reiterated that in children the use of talc is not recommended as the particles can reach the lungs through the nose and cause acute respiratory illnesses, sometimes severe enough to get the child admitted.
The Indian baby care products market is highly competitive, with various regional and global players holding major shares and involved in their growth. The major players expanding their business are Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé SA, The Procter & Gamble Company, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and Himalaya Global Holdings Ltd., collectively holding the majority share of the overall market, said a report by Mordor Intelligence, a market intelligence and advisory firm.
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90 years of being a portal of education
Governor inaugurates anniversary celebration of the Higher Secondary School (HSS), Chettikulangara
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The people of the country have a big responsibility to transform India into a developed nation, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has said.
He was inaugurating the Navati (90th anniversary) celebration of the Higher Secondary School (HSS), Chettikulangara, on Sunday.
"We have completed 75 years of Independence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that in the next 25 years we must make renewed efforts with full dedication and commitment to realise the dreams of our great freedom fighters—both known and unknown—who made innumerable sacrifices. They sacrificed everything so that future generations of India live with respect and dignity. We have this duty, the great responsibility to transform India into a developed country. A country where education and other basic amenities are available to everyone," Mr. Khan said.
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The Governor said education was the real game changer. "It is the key to freedom, human dignity and respect. We should internalise what we learn and use the knowledge to enlighten others. Long before the renaissance in Europe, India had the reputation of being the knowledge centre of the world. When the knowledge tradition weakened, our society got weakened. As a result, we became prone to all kinds of threats and India lost its freedom. Education is so important that it is called second birth. We must realise how important education is," he said.
Mr. Khan called to transform knowledge into wisdom. "After receiving education, if we do not become different from what we were before when we got into school or university, then our education could not be called a success. Literacy and knowledge are not education. Education means developing the knowledge that we acquire into wisdom. With wisdom, we should be able to develop capability where we can see our own self in others and others in our own self. It gives rise to a sense of compassion and humaneness," the Governor said.
The HSS Chettikulangara was founded by social worker and educationist A.N.P. Nair in 1932. MLAs Ramesh Chennithala and U. Prathibha, former ambassador T.P. Sreenivasan, and others spoke.
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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Curacao didn’t do much at the plate Saturday, knocking out just three hits.
But behind 4 2/3 innings of shutout ball from Reangelo Decaster, a few defensive gems and Jaydion Louisa’s pinch-hit dribbler, the Caribbean team beat Taiwan 1-0 to move on to the Little League World Series championship.
Reangelo was “perfect,” Curacao manager Zaino Everett said. “He kept the ball down and threw good curveballs because they have good bats. A good inside and outside mix helped him get outs.”
Curacao will play Sunday against either Hawaii, which beat Tennessee 5-1 to win the United States bracket.
Reangelo got some help as he worked out of a first inning jam, thanks to a flyout and a groundout with Liao Yuan-Shu on third. In the fourth, left fielder Jaythan Cordilia ran down and snagged a fly ball that was tailing away to the corner. Afterward, he got a hug from center fielder Davey-Jay Rijke for his effort.
“We were working on defense the whole year,” assistant coach Ringemar Raap said. “What you see is no surprise for us. We trust in these guys and know they can do the job.”
In the fifth, Taiwan loaded the bases on singles by Wu Hsuan-Hung, Hsu Ta-Sheng and Liao Yuan-Shu, which ended Reangelo’s day as he surpassed the 85-pitch limit for Little League. Qshondrickson Doran came in with two outs to face Tseng Yi-Che and got him to fly out to left.
“I said ‘You can do it,’” Everett said. “‘I need one out from you. Just throw strikes and we will make the out.’”
Davey-Jay rescued Curacao in the sixth, making a warning-track catch on a deep fly ball off the bat of Wang Yuan-Fu to preserve the lead, a play that resulted in Davey-Jay getting mobbed by his fellow outfielders.
Curacao scored in the bottom of the third. Alexander Provacia led off the inning with a bunt single and advanced to second on a throwing error. Alexander moved to third on a passed ball and scored on Jaydion’s single, a grounder that found a sweet spot between first and second base, to give Curacao a 1-0 lead.
“It means so much,” Jaydion said. “When I got back to the dugout I cried because I knew we were going to win this game and go to the big final.”
An island with just over 150,000 people, Curacao has one tournament title, coming in 2004. But Curacao also was the last international team to play in the LLWS championship, in 2019, when it fell to Louisiana.
“It means so much because everyone believes in us,” Everett said. “During the tournament, they started to believe because we have come out to do our job and come up with a W.”
The 2020 tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus and last year only U.S. teams played because of travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.
Taiwan is historically one of the best international teams in the LLWS, winning 17 titles. But its last championship came in 1996.
Li Fang-Mo was excellent on the mound for Taiwan despite the loss, tossing five innings of one-run, three-hit ball and striking out nine Curacao batters.
“Li performed very well today,” Taiwan manager Chang Tzu-Chien said through an interpreter. “Competing against Curacao, we don’t have room for error. He missed one signal and the base runner advanced and that’s what we believe cost us the game.”
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — If there were any questions about Epicenter after his runner-up finishes in the first two legs of the Triple Crown, they’ve likely disappeared.
The favorite Saturday for the 153rd running of the $1.25 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, Epicenter left his rivals in his dusty wake with a riveting stretch run, beating Cyberknife by 5 1/4 lengths for his first Grade 1 triumph.
“He looked like he was going one speed and then he kept building and building and building and I felt pretty good turning for home,” jockey Joel Rosario said after his record 12th graded stakes victory of the Saratoga meet. “He had a helluva nice closing speed.”
Epicenter, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, covered the 1 1/4 miles in 2 minutes, 0.72 seconds and paid $4.00 to win, $2.80 to place and $2.30 for show. Cyberknife paid $4.10 and $3.30, and Zandon was $2.90 to show.
It was the second stakes victory for Epicenter at Saratoga in a month.
“It looked like he had a chance to show who he was and I believe that he did,” said trainer Steve Asmussen, who won the Travers for the first time. “I thought that answered a lot of questions. For Epicenter to have competed in the Derby, in the Preakness and still have this much horse now, we’re extremely proud of that. His résumé looks very good and we’re willing to run against them again.”
Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike was fourth. Gilded Age, Artorius, Ain’t Life Grand, and Early Voting completed the order of finish.
Epicenter was fourth and began to close on leader Cyberknife as the field neared the top of the stretch, then took control.
“You could tell he was getting away from us a little bit,” Cyberknife’s trainer Brad Cox said. “He’s a very good horse.”
The eight-horse field was stacked with Preakness winner Early Voting and Haskell winner Cyberknife, who set the early pace. Chad Brown, leading trainer at Saratoga with 34 wins entering the day, saddled three horses — Early Voting, Zandon, and Artorius — in his bid to win the Travers for the first time.
This was the first race for Rich Strike, the stunning Kentucky Derby winner at 80-1 odds with jockey Sonny Leon, since he finished sixth in the Belmont Stakes in June.
“He did a good job coming back after the layoff,” Leon said. “I think, mentally, he’s growing up.”
Early Voting did not run in the Derby and skipped the Belmont, making the Travers the first time he had raced against Rich Strike. Both were far behind the winner, who staked his claim as the top 3-year-old in the country.
A month ago Epicenter, owned by Winchell Thoroughbreds, won a four-horse stretch duel that included Early Voting and Zandon in the 1 1/8-mile Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes, the traditional prep race for the Travers. Epicenter charged along the outside as the field of four was bunched together across the track at the top of the stretch, then pulled away to hold off Zandon by 1 1/2 lengths.
“I thought his Jim Dandy was considerably his most professional race until today,” Asmussen said. ”After the Derby and the Preakness, you’re the Derby favorite and he’s still not a Grade 1 winner. That made the Travers that important to us.”
The Travers culminated a customary big day of racing at the venerable track in upstate New York. In other stakes races: even-money favorite Technical Analysis led the entire way and held off Fluffy Socks by a half-length to win the Grade 2 Ballston Spa for fillies and mares 4 years old and upward on the turf; Cody’s Wish overtook overwhelming favorite Jackie’s Warrior in the final strides to capture the Forego by 1 1/4 lengths, handing runner-up Jackie’s Warrior his first loss in five starts this year and depriving him of his fourth Grade 1 triumph at Saratoga in his final race at the track; Jack Christopher held off Gunite to take the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial; Malathaat charged past Search Results to win the Grade 1 Personal Ensign for fillies and mares 4 years old and up; and Gufo came from far back to beat Mira Mission in the 1 1/2-mile Grade 1 Sword Dancer on the inner turf course.
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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) — Carlos Sainz Jr. will start from the pole Sunday at the Belgian Grand Prix because runaway Formula One points leader Max Verstappen was among the many drivers to be hit with grid penalties.
Sainz was actually second fastest to Verstappen in Saturday qualifying but the reigning world champion will drop to 15th ahead of the start. Verstappen otherwise would have won his fourth pole of the season and 17th of his career.
The Red Bull driver still liked his chances based on his qualifying speed.
“With a car like this it would be a shame not to be on the podium,” a confident Verstappen said.
Sainz was pleased with his starting position but his Ferrari was an unsettling .632-seconds slower than Verstappen in qualifying.
“I’m happy to be starting on pole; obviously not so happy to see the gap to Max this weekend,” said the Spaniard. “But to start from pole is a good start.”
Sainz, who took his first career pole this season at the British GP, didn’t dismiss the possibility of Verstappen coming through the field and winning for the ninth time this season.
“A safety car can help him and if you translate the pace he has over 44 laps, he can come back,” Sainz said.
Sainz got a tow from his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc on his last attempt. Although Sainz lost a bit of pace misreading turns 5, 6, and 7, he said even a perfect lap would only have shaved a tenth off of Verstappen’s time.
“When you see the gap to Max it makes you wonder. It has been there all weekend, more than half a second ahead of us in every situation,” Sainz said. “I do believe in race trim we can be a bit more competitive.”
And, Verstappen noted he won from 10th in Hungary.
“Survive Lap 1 and then I need to pass a few cars,” Verstappen said. “It’s a bit like Hungary, a bit further back but the basics are the same.”
Verstappen will start alongside Leclerc, who trails the Dutchman by 80 points as F1 resumes competition following its summer break. Leclerc was fourth fastest in qualifying but, like Verstappen, received a grid penalty for changing engine parts and will drop to 16th.
Seven drivers in total received grid penalties in Belgium ahead of the 14th race of the season. Also forced to drop to the back are: Lando Norris of McLaren, Esteban Ocon of Alpine, Zhou Guanyu of Alfa Romeo, Mick Schumacher of Haas and Valtteri Bottas of Alfa Romeo.
Bottas had earlier failed to advance out of the first group for the first time since Monaco in 2015, when he drove for Williams.
With all the penalties, Red Bull driver Sergio Perez (third-fastest in qualifying) will start second ahead of Fernando Alonso of Alpine. Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will start fourth and fifth once they move up the grid following the penalties.
Hamilton is aiming for a sixth straight podium finish and a first win of the year. But the seven-time F1 champion sounded dejected when told of his gap to Verstappen.
“1.8 seconds?” he mumbled.
But Williams was upbeat as Alex Albon — driving with renewed confidence following a multi-year contract extension — advanced to the third round of qualifying for the first time this season. It means every driver on the F1 grid has now made it to the final round at least once this year.
The 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) circuit, nestled in the Ardennes forest, is the longest in F1 and among the best for overtaking — which could make it easier for Verstappen and the other fast cars to make it through traffic to the front.
“It should be a very exciting race for the fans,” Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said.
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Leg injury as fugitive BMW hits officer
A police man was hit in the leg by a BMW before it drive onto the pavement to escape police pursuit yesterday.
Police in Derry are appealing for information following the vehicle pursuit which began in the Waterside.
At 8.45am, officers on duty on Spencer Road were alerted to a grey BMW 3 Series.
An officer signalled for the vehicle to stop, however, the driver made off at speed, mounting a footpath, in the direction of Simpson's Brae.
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Police said that a number of people were in the area at this time, but, fortunately there have been no reports of any injuries.
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 number to call with information is 101, quoting reference number 487 27/08/22. You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at www.crimestoppers-uk.org/
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As a former ski resort executive, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu knows something about navigating slippery slopes. But recent controversy at a county-owned ski area has raised questions about his grip on the Republican Party heading into the November elections.
Sununu, who is seeking his fourth term, recently inserted himself into a power struggle over Gunstock Mountain Resort, siding with staff who quit en masse and forced a two-week shutdown last month. Pushing back against anti-government activists who want to privatize the ski area, Sununu also called for the ouster this fall of three Republican legislators with an oversight role of the resort.
“These individuals have made bad decisions, and until they are removed from their positions and replaced with good people who recognize the wonderful asset that Gunstock is, the county will continue to suffer,” he wrote in an open letter to area residents.
Sununu’s intervention was seen by many as a rebuke of the Free State Project, a 20-year-old political experiment that promotes a mass migration of 20,000 libertarians to New Hampshire. Fewer than 6,500 have arrived so far, but they have made inroads everywhere from school boards to the legislature. What that means for Sununu, the Republican Party and the state overall is uncertain. But so-called Free Staters are clearly shaking things up.
“In my view the governor is barely holding on to his party in the lower chamber, and some of the crazy things they have tried to pull have damaged his reputation in the state,” said Linda Fowler, professor emirata of government at Dartmouth College.
In 2003, Fowler dismissed the project as a gimmick, saying it was unlikely that even 20,000 people could have a significant impact. But she also did not foresee Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016 or the coronavirus pandemic.
“Both, I think, have contributed to the fact that the Free Staters are now a negative influence on the state’s politics and that their behavior has become an election issue,” she said.
Conceived by a Yale graduate student in 2001, the Free State Project picked New Hampshire — with its low taxes, easy entry into politics and “Live Free or Die” motto — as its destination two years later. By 2016, 20,000 people had promised to pack their bags within five years. That hasn’t happened, and the group’s past president now says the pledge model has fallen by the wayside.
But it hasn’t taken huge numbers to get results.
About 45 Free Staters have been elected to the legislature since 2008; more than 20 serve now. While that is a small fraction of the 424-member legislature, it’s enough to influence policy given the GOP’s slim majority in the House.
The group counts the House majority leader as one of its own, and members often team up with dozens of other lawmakers who make up the wider “freedom caucus,” securing victories on legislation related to school choice, vaccines and limiting the governor’s power during emergencies.
One Free State stronghold is Belknap County, which owns the Gunstock ski area. After months of tension, top managers abruptly resigned last month, then returned after two commissioners were ousted. Sununu’s letter targeted both the commission members and three of the Republican lawmakers who appointed them, saying they had lost the public’s trust.
The governor later described their handling of the ski area as “just the latest episode of their craziness,” noting that one of the three — Rep. Michael Sylvia — supports having New Hampshire secede from the United States. But Sununu said he doesn’t consider them representatives of either the Free State movement or the Republican Party.
“I don’t have any problem with Free Staters,” he said. “These are not Free Staters.”
Sununu also rejected the notion that the rise of the Free State movement poses a long-term problem for his political career or his party, saying voters will reject the most extreme candidates.
“Voters are very smart,” he said. “When they see that kind of extremism, they tend to move it along on both the Republican side and the Democrat side.”
Sununu’s involvement in the Gunstock dispute could signal a turning point, said political consultant Scott Spradling.
“There was, I think, a fine line between Republicans and Free Staters. Now there’s a battle line,” he said. “Gunstock could very well be a high watermark, putting warning lights around the Free State movement for New Hampshire voters who are now going to associate their identity with this controversy.”
Either side could make the other’s lives politically miserable, Spradling said. But Sununu has credibility and popularity on his side.
“Long term, I would put my money on the establishment right, on the Sununu side of the aisle, because his politics appeals to a far broader audience,” Spradling said.
Sununu, who surprised political watchers by seeking reelection instead of running for U.S. Senate, faces five largely unknown opponents in the Sept. 13 primary, and polls show him with a wide lead over the Democratic candidate, state Sen. Tom Sherman. Even Rep. Norm Silber, one of the lawmakers Sununu wants ousted, expects Sununu to be reelected and will vote for him again if he is the nominee. But he contends that it’s Sununu who has strayed from the GOP.
“Running as a Republican with a long family history of supporting the Republican Party, I thought for sure that he would be a real Republican,” Silber said. “And he has, in my view, pandered to non-Republicans in an effort to build a base of support.”
Silber said he is not a Free Stater, but he’s being called one by Democrats hoping to flip seats in November by painting all Republicans with a Free State brush. The ski area controversy has spurred the creation of a political action committee to back candidates from both parties to defeat the “extremist Free State agenda” in Belknap County.
“People on the left, or people who don’t like fiscally conservative Republicans, have a tendency to refer to people they don’t like as Free Staters,” he said.
Carla Gericke, past president of the Free State Project, agreed.
“When there’s something positive, people laud that, but on the flip side, we’ve also become the boogeyman whenever it’s convenient,” she said. “We’re at the stage where we are successful enough that we’re just being used as a pawn between the two parties. And we just do our own thing.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.
The rare Mantle card eclipsed the record just posted a few months ago — $9.3 million for the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the contentious “Hand of God” goal in soccer’s 1986 World Cup.
It easily surpassed the $7.25 million for a century-old Honus Wagner baseball card recently sold in a private sale.
And just last month, the heavyweight boxing belt reclaimed by Muhammad Ali during 1974’s “Rumble in the Jungle” sold for nearly $6.2 million.
All are part of a booming market for sports collectibles.
Prices have risen not just for the rarest items, but also for pieces that might have been collecting dust in garages and attics. Many of those items make it onto consumer auction sites like eBay, while others are put up for bidding by auction houses.
Because of its near-perfect condition and its legendary subject, the Mantle card was destined to be a top seller, said Chris Ivy, the director of sports auctions at Heritage Auctions, which ran the bidding.
Some saw collectibles as a hedge against inflation over the past couple years, he said, while others rekindled childhood passions.
Ivy said savvy investors saw inflation coming down the road — as it has. As a result, sports memorabilia became an alternative to traditional Wall Street investments or real estate — particularly among members of Generation X and older millennials.
“There’s only so much Netflix and ‘Tiger King’ people could watch (during the pandemic). So, you know, they were getting back into hobbies, and clearly sports collecting was a part of that,” said Ivy, who noted an uptick in calls among potential sellers.
Add to that interest from wealthy overseas collectors and you have a confluence of factors that made sports collectibles especially attractive, Ivy said.
“We’ve kind of started seeing some growth and some rise in the prices that led to some media coverage. And I think it all it all just kind of built upon itself,” he said. “I would say the beginning of the pandemic really added gasoline to that fire.”
Before the pandemic, the sports memorabilia market was estimated at more than $5.4 billion, according to a 2018 Forbes interview with David Yoken, the founder of Collectable.com.
By 2021, that market had grown to $26 billion, according to the research firm Market Decipher, which predicts the market will grow astronomically to $227 billion within a decade — partly fueled by the rise of so-called NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, which are digital collectibles with unique data-encrypted fingerprints.
Sports cards have been especially in demand, as people spent more time at home and an opportunity arose to rummage through potential treasure troves of childhood memories, including old comic books and small stacks of bubble gum cards featuring marquee sports stars.
That lure of making money on something that might be sitting in one’s childhood basement has been irresistible, according to Stephen Fishler, founder of ComicConnect, who has watched the growing rise — and profitability — of collectibles being traded across auction houses.
“In a nutshell, the world of modern sports cards has been going bonkers,” he said.
The Mantle baseball card dates from 1952 and is widely regarded as one of just a handful of the baseball legend in near-perfect condition.
The auction netted a handsome profit for Anthony Giordano, a New Jersey waste management entrepreneur who bought it for $50,000 at a New York City show in 1991.
“As soon as it hit 10 million I just turned in. I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore,” Giordano, 75, said Sunday morning. His sons monitored the auction for him. “They stayed up and called me this morning bright and early to tell me that it reached where it reached.”
The card was one of dozens of sports collectibles up for auction. In all, the items raked in some $28 million, according to Derek Grady, the executive vice president of sports auctions for Heritage Auctions.
“Sports collectibles are finally getting their due as an investment,” Grady said. “The best sports items are now starting to rival artwork, rare coins and rare artifacts as a great investment vehicle.”
The switch-hitting Mantle was a Triple Crown winner in 1956, a three-time American League MVP and a seven-time World Series champion. The Hall of Famer died in 1995.
“Some people might say it’s just a baseball card. Who cares? It’s just a Picasso. It’s just a Rembrandt to other people. It’s a thing of art for some people,” said John Holden, a professor in sports management law at Oklahoma State and amateur sports card collector.
Like pieces of art that have no intrinsic value, he said, when it comes to sports cards, the worth is in the eye of the beholder — or the pocketbook of the potential bidder.
“The value,” Holden said, “is whatever the market’s willing to support.”
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